Palo Alto Weekly June 28, 2019

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Vol. XL, Number 39 Q June 28, 2019

Police make arrest in Buena Vista homicide Page 5

Where to have fun on the Fourth The Weekly's picks for Independence Day celebrations on the Peninsula Page 15

Pulse 12 Transitions 13 Eating Out 17 Movies 21 Home 25 Puzzles 34 Q Shop Talk After two years, a bigger Mike’s Cafe re-opens Page 20 Q Title Pages Summer kids’ books: mysterious, historical, fun Page 22 Q Sports Stanford Olympian Simone Manuel talks swimming Page 33

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Local news, information and analysis

Police make arrest in Buena Vista homicide Victim was stabbed, died at hospital; second man was punched by same person

by Sue Dremann and Jamey Padojino

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31-year-old man has been arrested in Monday’s stabbing death of a Buena Vista Mobile Home Park resident in Palo Alto — just three days after he was also arrested for punching another man in the residential community as police were investigating the homicide, police said Thursday.

Isadore Christopher Diaz, himself a resident of the mobile home

park at 3980 El Camino Real, is in custody on suspicion of homicide, battery causing serious injury and being under the influence of a controlled substance, police said in a press release issued Thursday.

Diaz allegedly mortally wounded a man in his 60s, whose roommate found him with stab wounds to his chest in their home and notified police shortly before 7 p.m.

Monday, police said. The injured

man was transported to a hospital, where he died. His name wasn’t publicly available as of Thursday afternoon, according to the Santa Clara County Medical ExaminerCoroner’s Office.

At about 9 p.m. Monday, as police were investigating the stabbing death, an officer was approached by another man who reported he had just been punched and knocked down by a person, later identified as Diaz, while walking through the mobile home park, police said. The man’s mouth was moderately injured, and he was treated at a hospital.

Officers found Diaz in his home and arrested him without incident for the battery, police said.

Detectives and crime-scene investigators later connected Diaz to the stabbing and arrested him on a warrant while he remained booked in Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose around 4:30 a.m. Thursday, police said.

Diaz has been living with his grandmother, Rosemary, in one of the park’s cabin units for the past two years, Rosemary said. He’s been her caretaker and aide and has never been violent, she said.

The charges against him came as

a complete surprise.

On Monday evening, Diaz had been hanging out with friends in Buena Vista. Rosemary said she told him she was going to get antifreeze for her car and was gone for about 1 1/2 hours. When she returned, she made dinner while he was outside.

Rosemary had gone to bed when the police knocked on her door. She said she heard them tell Diaz, who was in the home, “We heard you did this,” referring to the alleged punching. Police told (continued on page 10)

UTILITIES

City banks on fiber to transform utilities Focus shifts to ‘smart meters’ and electric operations in expanding fiber-optic ring

by Gennady Sheyner

A Sinead Chang

From left, Gunn High School students Vardaan Shah, Hanna Suh and Sophia Lu record an episode of their podcast, Project Oyster, which focuses on peers’ stories about mental health.

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Teen podcast offers up pearls of wisdom Student-run podcast ‘Project Oyster’ aims to share peers’ experiences with mental health issues

by Elena Kadvany

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ost teenagers spend their high school years fervently concealing the most vulnerable parts of themselves.

Three Gunn High School students are challenging that reality with a new podcast that features intimate interviews with classmates about depression, suicide, loss and identity. Dubbed “Project Oyster,” their goal is to get

guests to open up about difficult, oft-taboo topics and to encourage their peers to do the same.

The podcast’s tagline is “relatable stories that create emotional connections.”

Rising seniors Hanna Suh, Sophia Liu and Vardaan Shah started the podcast through their school’s Business, Entrepreneurship and Math (BEAM) class, which offers students real-life

applications of mathematics through internships and guidance launching their own businesses.

The three students, who met on Gunn’s cross country team but didn’t know each other well, decided to focus on mental health topics, spurred by the memory of a student’s death by suicide their sophomore year and their friends’ struggles with mental health issues. They wanted to tackle the

stigma that still makes broaching conversations about mental illness difficult on their campus — a pressure that they felt themselves.

“We were scared at first of being stigmatized, or people being like, ‘I don’t like that,’” Liu said.

They started instead a podcast about high school life.

Early episodes released in February were light slices of teenage life: Liu interviewing a student embarrassed by his grandfather hoarding coupons to pay for a family dinner and another who recounted her grandfather mistakenly throwing her pet turtle in the garbage. They produced the podcast in a recording studio in (continued on page 9)

fter nearly 20 years of trying — and failing — to expand the city’s fiber-optic ring to connect to every home and business in the city, Palo Alto leaders are now flirting with a new vision for the underground network: using it to launch a transformed and cutting-edge local utilities system.

The vision, which the City Council endorsed Monday night, calls for expanding the existing 48-mile fiber-optic ring and integrating it with the municipal electric network as well as other city-owned utilities. The fiber system would served as a key component for the Utilities Department’s long-planned installation of advanced metering infrastructure (commonly known as “smart meters”).

With a smart-meter system, the city anticipates a range of benefits, including providing customers with daily information about their utilities usage, improving electricmeter accuracy, cutting staffing costs by eliminating on-site meter reading, detecting water leaks using strategically placed remote devices, identifying when water or electricity is being stolen through (continued on page 10)

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TAKING A STAND ... About 70 demonstrators spoke out against the alleged mistreatment and separation of undocumented families at U.S. detention facilities, specifically in Clint, Texas, on Tuesday evening in Palo Alto. They gathered at El Camino Real and Embarcadero Road, just outside of Town & Country Village shopping center where they held signs and cheered as passing cars honked in solidarity. The event was organized

by Pastor Danielle Parish of Spark Church and Rabbi Chaim Koritzinksy of Congregation Etz Chayim of Palo Alto, who share a space of worship in the city. “In both of our religious traditions, as a Christian pastor and a Jewish rabbi, we are commanded to welcome the stranger, care for the orphan, care for the widow — it doesn’t matter where someone’s from, it doesn’t matter their legal status,” Parish said. The crowd consisted of members of the faith-based community, families with children and other residents who caught wind of the event through social media and word of mouth. “I’ve been feeling that this is actually quite wrong for a long time,” said Ian Shou, who had never attended any type of protest before but brought his kids, ages 9 and 11, to Tuesday night’s vigil after seeing a post from Parish on Facebook. “I felt kind of shallow to just comment on Facebook with no action,” he said, adding that he hopes that by bringing his children to the event, they will be inspired to be vocal and involved in social issues throughout their lives. View more photos from the event on our Facebook page: bit.ly/2JeSU7E. BAKING LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW ... Eric Keppler, executive pastry chef at the Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley in East Palo Alto, was declared the “Best Baker in America” on Monday night. Keppler earned the title after seven intensive episodes on the Food Network

competition show. The three contestants brought out the chops for the finals under the theme “chocolate birthday bash.” They first had to create an upgraded birthday brownie sundae in two hours. Keppler presented a double chocolate brownie with banana cocoa nib ice cream.

The judges raved about the dessert, calling it “gorgeous,” “impeccably incredible” and “elegant.” They were particularly impressed by Keppler’s use of white miso in his butterscotch.

“Miso want some more!” judge Jason Smith said. For the final challenge, the competitors had six hours to deliver a happy birthday USA chocolate fireworks cake.

Keppler recreated his nana’s dark chocolate fudge cake and fulfilled the salty snack requirement with a chocolate and pretzel streusel inside. The three-tier creation was covered in a white chocolate mirror glaze; surrounded by passion fruit chocolate and strawberry chocolate mararons; and topped off with sugar decorations and bottle rockets made out of balloons covered in chocolate. “I love nana’s cake!” judge Marcela Valladolid said during the judging panel’s deliberations. Along with the title, Keppler walked away with the coveted prize of $25,000.

MAKINGS OF A CITY ... For one day, the Palo Alto community will have a chance to get up close with bucket trucks, learn what’s inside a transformer, say hello to Sequoia the Bald Eagle and learn about other “behind-the-scenes” work at the city during the Municipal Service Center open house on Friday, July 5. The family event will give attendees chance to talk to representatives from several city departments and partners including Palo Alto Utilities, the Police and Fire departments, Pets In Need and Zero Waste program.

There also will be information on electric safety, water, wastewater and gas operations; where city utilities come from; facilities systems; EcoHome and efficiency programs; cybersecurity and watershed protection. The open house is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Municipal Service Center, 3201 E. Bayshore Road. To RSVP, visit paloaltomunicipalservices centeropenhouse.bpt.me. Q

Upfront

Neighborhoods

A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

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VENTURA NEIGHBORHOOD SURVEY ... Preliminary results for the Ventura Neighborhood Association’s North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan survey are ongoing, but neighbors have strong feelings about the proposed redevelopment — Housing: 49% support using some commercial lots near the train track and other areas for R-30 housing; 30.6% said “no”; 90% support setting aside 20% or more of residences for affordable housing for teachers, nurses and workers; 77.6% want 20% or more of housing for low-income people.

Parking and transportation: 75% support public transportation; 84% want ample parking and in locations that don’t impact residents. Open spaces: 86.3% want 20% of the land reserved for green space; 91.8% want a bike-pedestrian pathway along Matadero Creek; 47.95 are against and 41.7% are for adding an off-leash dog area to Boulware Park.

Retail versus offices: 100% want mixed-use development that includes community-serving businesses; 60.4% said “no” to new office space, but 20.8% support offices. Services: 80% want community services such as a health clinic or art center. The complete survey results and the ongoing survey can be accessed at venturapaloalto.org.

BOL PARK PATH SURVEY ... The Barron Park Association’s Bol Park Pathway survey found 75% of respondents are ages 50 to 70; 75% use the path for exercise or leisure; 25% commute and less than 10% go to school. Safety: Out of 483 responses regarding safety issues, 90 people said bikers ride too fast; 41 said bikes pass pedestrians too closely/don’t give a warning; 18 observed bike crashes in recent years; of those, seven saw a pedestrian being struck and two saw bikes hitting cars; 56 people encountered off-leash dogs and 14 said leashed dogs were on leashes that didn’t adequately control them. The results have been shared with Palo Alto’s Public Works Department to inform a traffic study. Q

Launched in a garage, Palo Alto ‘Late Show’ hits 50th performance Identical twins’ neighborhood performances inspired by David Letterman

by Daniel Li

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t’s a classic Palo Alto story: A group of like-minded friends, fueled by passion, start something incredible in their home garage. That’s exactly how 21-year-old identical twin brothers David and Robbie King ended up launching a talk show in their Palo Alto neighborhood that has been attracting a crowd ever since.

For almost four years, the twins, along with some of their friends, have hosted “Late Night with David King featuring Don Schaefer and the PA Orchestra,” in their Barron Park garage on La Selva Drive for their neighbors. The show runs every two weeks and regularly attracts 25 to 30 people. On July 12, the group will host its 50th show.

Currently the show includes six members: host David King, singer Robbie King, co-host and rapper Don Schaefer, drummer Roger Poon, guitarist Michael Smith and tambourine player Jamal Gage. Robbie, Schaefer, Poon, Smith and Gage also comprise the show’s house band, PA Orchestra.

The King brothers had been fans of the “Late Show with David Letterman” since they were in elementary school. Once Letterman officially retired in May 2015, the two were inspired to start their own talk show, David said.

“We both grew up on David Letterman, and I used to stand in front of the TV acting like him.

That summer of 2015, Robbie was on the swings listening to a David Letterman intro and was reciting it. He asked me, ‘Hey David, why don’t we do a show just like Letterman?’ And now, the rest is history.”

The group’s first show took place on Aug. 25, 2015 — a sticky affair that consisted of an experiment with Mentos candy and soda that shot a sugary geyser into the air. The show was disorganized, as they were missing equipment and still getting the logistics figured out, he recalled.

“The garage was very dark, and we didn’t have projection lights. I also didn’t have a suit on and was just wearing my regular

Barron Park resident David King, host of “Late Night with David King featuring Don Schaefer and the PA Orchestra,” chats with guest Ramsey Khasho, chief clinical officer of Children’s Health Council.

Photos courtesy of Jere King

HONEY SALE ... College Terrace residents will get a sweet deal this Saturday when the neighborhood will be treated to a honey sale. Resident Tom Jack said he hosts spring and fall sales. The Midpeninsula is “paradise” for beekeeping because the area is highly productive with well-watered gardens and relative freedom from commercial farm sprays, he said. The sale takes place at 2216 Amherst St. from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Barron Park resident David King, host of “Late Night with David King featuring Don Schaefer and the PA Orchestra,” chats with guest Nick Larsen, a neighbor who has known King and his brother since their birth. clothes,” he said.

Since then, he has become more confident in hosting and more creative in coming up with acts. Although the show was inspired by Letterman and shares some similarities, he emphasized that his show is different.

“We are not doing exactly what Letterman is doing. Just because it’s similar doesn’t mean that it is the same. I always put on different performances and acts. I also don’t talk about politics; instead, I talk about life and tell jokes,” he said.

The show lasts for roughly 45 minutes and is divided into three segments: a monologue, musical performance and guest appearance. According to the twins’ mom, Jere King, the show sometimes revolves around a given holiday season.

“We have had shows around Cinco de Mayo, Christmas, Halloween and Thanksgiving. Other times, it is just a topic like graduation or the start of summer,” she said.

Guests who appear on the show come from a variety of backgrounds, ranging from friends to physicians, Jere said.

Several of the twins’ past teachers also have appeared as guests.

“We try to think of people we know who might be a good guest and would talk about things the audience would be interested in.

A number of times those have just been friends. Sometimes David interviews members of the PA Orchestra. In other cases, it’s neighbors who have a special area of expertise,” she said.

One past guest is Nick Larsen, a neighbor who has known the twins since birth and regularly attends the show. Larsen is a retiree and was previously an

engineering manager.

“I have been a guest twice over the last few years. The first time I enjoyed discussing our airplane flying days, in that I owned a small, Cessna-type, two-seat aircraft and I would take one twin at a time to local airports. They were fearless and eager to take the controls and claim they were indeed doing all the piloting. It was definitely a bonding experience,” Larsen said.

Ramsey Khasho, chief clinical officer of the Children’s Health Council in Palo Alto and past guest of the show, said he appreciates how the show brings the neighborhood closer together.

“As a psychologist, I often worry that we are losing a sense of good, old-fashioned raw talent and creativity within our families and neighborhoods.

‘The Late Show’ is just that: raw creative talent in our own backyards. The show allows young people to showcase that talent and brings the community together to experience laughter, joy and community connectedness. This is what we all need in our communities today,” Khasho said.

The camaraderie of members is Robbie King’s favorite part of the show, he said. In the future, he and his brother hope to turn “Late Night with David King featuring Don Schaefer and the PA Orchestra” into a business.

“It is going to be a lot of work and will take some time. This year, my brother will be taking a lot of theater classes at Foothill (College), and I’m going to take as many music classes as possible,” he said. Q Editorial Intern Daniel Li can be emailed at dli@ paweekly.com.

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County planners reject $4.7B Stanford offer University continues to call for development agreement to govern future growth, but county supervisor says Stanford offer is ‘not in the public interest’

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he tug-of-war between Stanford University and the County of Santa Clara over requirements that will be made of the university in exchange for permission to further develop its campus continued this week, with Stanford offering on Monday to commit $4.7 billion toward housing, transportation projects and public schools and the county’s planning staff summarily rejecting the proposal.

Stanford’s offer, which comes at a critical time in its bid for a new “general use permit” was immediately met with criticism from county Board of Supervisors President Joe Simitian, who was one of two supervisors authorized last fall to negotiate with the university. Simitian dismissed the proposal as a “Hail Mary” pass thrown by Stanford just days before the Thursday, June 27, meeting of the Planning Commission, which found itself weighing the recommendation of the county’s planning staff against Stanford’s new proposal.

At the meeting, county staff similarly pushed back against Stanford’s offer, which the university

by Gennady Sheyner claimed includes $3.4 billion for housing alone. County staff have vehemently rejected these numbers and argued that most of the “benefits” are in fact legally mandated mitigations or, in some cases, part of the proposed development itself.

Deputy County Executive Sylvia Gallegos pointed to the 2,600 student beds, which Stanford is including in its package of benefits and which comprises a $1.4 billion investment.

“Those aren’t community benefits — that’s the project application. It’s what they’re proposing to develop,” Gallegos said.

The real value of Stanford’s “community benefits” is $166 million, Gallegos said, which includes $138 million that Stanfod had previously offered to the Palo Alto Unified School District under a tentative deal that was never adopted.

Gallegos recommended that the commission reject Stanford’s proposed “development agreement,” which conflicts with numerous conditions of approval that county planners and consultants proposed in May as part of Stanford’s new

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general use permit (GUP).

If approved by the Board of Supervisors, the permit will allow Stanford to build about 2.275 million square feet of new academic space, 40,000 square feet of child care facilities and transportation hubs and 2,600 student beds by 2035.

To win approval, the county is proposing that Stanford provide 2,600 student beds and 2,172 “workforce housing” units. The university, for its part, has requested that the county give it credit for 865 units for the Escondido Village housing development on campus and Middle Plaza project in Menlo Park, which would leave 1,307 units still to build. (According to Stanford, the Escondido and Middle Plaza housing total $1.26 billion of the $4.7 billion offer.)

Stanford also had offered to include 575 affordable-housing units of “workforce” housing, which the university would construct or fund in the first five-year phase of the campus expansion.

Of these 575 units, 400 would be built on campus. Another 87 would be funded through an immediate

and one-time contribution of $27.6 million to Santa Clara County. The remaining 88 would be either subsidized through fees or provided on Stanford land (at least 47 of these would be in San Mateo County communities).

When it comes to addressing traffic problems, Stanford is proposing a contribution of $15 million to Palo Alto and $15 million to San Mateo County cities for bicycle, pedestrian and transit improvements. Stanford is also preparing to invest $1.1 billion in its own transportation system to maintain its “no net new commute trips” standard, which applies to peak commute hours.

Yet the transportation proposal also met resistance from county staff. Rather than accept Stanford’s offer, county planners reiterated their call for new and more stringent requirements for measuring traffic impacts, including consideration of reverse commutes and average daily traffic.

The county and Stanford are also at odds over a potential development agreement. Last year, the board authorized the use of a development agreement as a potential tool for approving the general use permit. But the county halted the process after a negotiation period expired in April, immediately after Stanford announced a side deal that it had made with the Palo Alto Unified School District.

At the commission’s June 13 meeting, Gallegos re-emphasized

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that the county’s negotiations with Stanford are “suspended at the moment.”

“If and when the county re-enters negotiations, it will be done at a time that’s most strategically advantageous to the county,” Gallegos said at the meeting.

On Thursday, she similarly recommended that the Planning Commission reject Stanford’s new offer.

Pushing back against county requirements Along with its offer to invest billions of dollars, the university would also require the county to significantly revise its proposed conditions of approval, including ones calling for Stanford to build 2,172 units of workforce housing and ones that would revise how Stanford measures its traffic volumes.

While Stanford maintains that it would meet the 2,172-unit requirement, it is relying partially on two housing developments that were proposed and approved before the current general use permit application. Catherine Palter, Stanford’s associate vice president, told the Planning Commission on Thursday that the Escondido Village development “will open up hundreds of rental units in the community for future workers.”

“The current base of graduate students is occupying off-campus workforce housing units today, and 75% are living within six miles of

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Gunn’s library and this summer are recording at the Mitchell Park library. Liu typically conducts the interviews and Suh or Shah edit and post them. None had any previous podcast or audio experience.

As the year went on, episodes got progressively more raw and candid.

In episode four, graduating senior Jimmy Farley, known on campus as an extroverted, gregarious student, opened up about his struggles with depression and social anxiety. He referred to the podcast in his graduation speech in May and said he received almost 100 messages in the days after the episode was released from peers who said they had gone through something similar.

“A lot of people after that episode started reaching out to us telling us that they had a story to tell,” Suh said, “and they wanted to encourage others to seek help, too. I think that was a really big turning point for all of us.”

Graduating senior Rina Newhouse came on the podcast in April to talk about her childhood autism diagnosis. Joey Marcacci shared what it’s like to be openly gay and an athlete in Palo Alto. Anna Reitman talked to Liu about her grieving process after the death of her mother, who struggled with depression and alcohol dependency after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

The three podcast creators

Staff opposes the developmentagreement proposal, she said, “because it asks us to pay a very significant price on behalf of the public.”

In addition, Stanford is recommending that it continue to abide by the current method of monitoring campus traffic and that the county desist from adding new requirements. The county’s proposed additional monitoring of traffic during daily peak commute periods (longer than the current one hour during the morning and afternoon), reverse-commute trips and of average daily traffic.

But Stanford staff have said the university cannot simultaneously build workforce housing on campus and reduce the car trips associated with this housing. The university has instead offered to mitigate its transportation impacts by paying a “fair share” contribution toward various transportation projects in and around the campus.

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Any person who is feeling depressed, troubled or suicidal can call 1-800-7842433 to speak with a crisis counselor. People in Santa Clara County can call 1-855278-4204. Spanish speakers can call 1-888-628-9454.

People can reach trained counselors at Crisis Text Line by texting 741741.

initially chose the name “Project Oyster” because it sounded interesting, but it took on new meaning as the show evolved. Just as oysters form pearls around an initial irritation, interviewees’ “pearls” have been born of experiences or hardships that the outwardly successful, happy teens hadn’t shared publicly before they went on the podcast.

Newhouse said by revealing parts of herself that she had mostly kept hidden at school, including in a piece for student newspaper The Oracle’s Changing the Narrative series, she “felt so free.

“I felt like I was being let out of a jail cell,” she told Liu. “It was liberating and almost addicting to just open up.”

Liu said they hope to destigmatize mental health specifically in Palo Alto, where the topic feels like “something that’s always in the atmosphere” but that people are reluctant to address.

They also wanted to illustrate stories of people who sought mental health services, either on or

Off campus

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312

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Stanford is recommending that under-construction housing be counted toward the requirement (Escondido Village on campus and Middle Plaza in Menlo Park)

campus,” Palter said. “When they move onto campus in 2020, their vacated off-campus units will be available to serve future growth in the workforce population.”

The county, however, has rejected that argument. Both Gallegos and Geoff Bradley, a consultant who is managing the project for the county, argued earlier this month that Stanford is simply offering fewer units than the county is recommending.

“The Stanford proposal as currently envisioned is 40% less than the documented demand,” Bradley told the Planning Commission on June 13.

County staff on Thursday reasserted their position that the Stanford offer falls far short of what’s required to mitigate growth. In exchange for the purported benefits in Stanford’s development proposal, the university is seeking a “loss of important community protections,” Gallegos said.

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proposed its terms for a development agreement with Santa Clara County on Monday, which differed from the county’s conditions of approval for the university’s general use permit application.

Sources: Stanford University, County of Santa Clara

development agreement negotiations last month, county leaders stated that they would return to the table if the negotiations process were open to the public, a condition that Stanford is rejecting.

That’s not to say that the public would not be part of the overall approval process, noted Jean McCown, Stanford’s associate vice president for government and community relations.

“The county has stated if there is a development agreement proposal ... they would want to bring it back to the Planning Commission first, and then eventually it would go into the Board of Supervisors. And, you know, nothing is final until it’s all in public view.

“Hopefully, as we did with the school district, (there will be) a mutually supportive package that gets revealed to the public, and the public can react to that and comment on it before any decisions are made about it,” she said.

But Simitian rejected the notion that Stanford is interested in negotiating in a transparent fashion.

“I understand why they want to do it (this way), but it’s not in the public interest, “Simitian told the Weekly.

Dozens of speakers turned out Thursday to address the commission, with business leaders, union workers and various members of the Stanford community urging the commission to back Stanford’s proposal and elected officials from neighboring communities voicing support for the county’s conditions.

Palo Alto Councilman Tom DuBois pointed to a new analysis from Palo Alto’s transportation consultants indicating that Stanford would need to provide about $260 million in “fair share” contributions for transportation, far more than Stanford has proposed.

The conditions of approval proposed by staff are “a critical

baseline to which any further agreements should be based.”

“It’s important to establish that baseline,” he said.

East Palo Alto Councilman Larry Moody similarly favored the county planners’ position and suggested that Stanford should have done more to engage with his city, which already suffers from heavy traffic jams and which remains vulnerable to gentrification from the proposed influx of students and faculty.

Stanford’s development “will significantly exacerbate the housing crisis associated with the traffic gridlock,” Moody said.

“For them to believe they can move forward with the project without having consultation with East Palo Alto is something that they shouldn’t be proud of,” Moody said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

off campus. They said they often hear peers who are struggling ask, “What happens when I get help?”

“Personally, just walking into the wellness center — which I know is publicized by Gunn as ‘You can come here if you need help’ — is something that’s really hard for people to do. It could take them days, weeks, months to finally get the courage to even go in there,” Liu said. “I think that judgment or that the fear of walking into that establishment, it kind of blocks out what the end goal (is) of seeking help. After you seek help, things will get better. But people don’t see that because they’re scared.

“I think the podcast also helps people because you hear stories (of) people who were able to build up the courage to do that and what happened to them afterward.”

In most episodes, which run about 20 minutes, guests urge anyone who might want to talk or need help to message them on social media or to seek resources that have been helpful to them.

Through partnerships with the YMCA and youth well-being collaborative Project Safety Net, the podcast creators have spread the mission of “Project Oyster” beyond Gunn, including by talking to younger students about mental health through YMCA events.

“All of us are going through stuff as a high schooler and we think that we’re the only ones going through it,” Shah said.

They hope their podcast helps

listeners feel less alone.

The students are continuing to record episodes this summer and through the next school year. The podcast is available on iTunes and Spotify. They invite any students interested in sharing a story on

“Project Oyster” to email them (studio.projectoyster@gmail.com) or go to projectoyster.wixsite.com/ website. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com

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meter tampering, and more.

Utilities staff also believe the fiber ring could help encourage customers to switch from natural gas to carbon-free electricity — and the eventual termination of natural gas service altogether. The fiber-optic ring could also help the city build infrastructure for neighborhood blocks — or even entire neighborhoods — that would facilitate the installation of electric-vehicle chargers, according to staff.

And it could fortify the Utilities Department’s supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, which gather and analyze data in real time to help the utility monitor and regulate its electric, gas and other services.

“For SCADA in particular, fiber is the optimal communication medium because of information security, reliability, transmission speed and bandwidth capacity,” a new report from the Information Technology Department states.

The report also makes the case for leveraging the fiber network to support various Smart City initiatives, including traffic management, smart streetlights and parking garage sensors.

The approach represents a sharp break with how the council has historically viewed the expansion of the fiber network: as a risky but transformative opportunity to bring ultra-high-speed internet to every home and business in the

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her not to let him out of the residence while they investigated. But Diaz did leave the home, and when he returned, police arrested him for the assault, she said.

“They say he was under the influence of drugs. I don’t even know what to look for in a person to tell what that’s like,” she said.

Diaz previously lived in Stockton and in Merced and had an episode of homelessness before moving in with her, Rosemary said.

Diaz had some scrapes with the law in the past, although Rosemary said family never discussed the circumstances with her. He was not on parole as far as she knew, and he had turned his life around.

“He really wanted to get into a church,” she said, noting that he joined one on Middlefield Road.

“He would help feed the homeless. The church even gave him a part-time job. He would get up early and set up the table and chairs, and on Sundays he would set up for brunch. He would make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and gave them to the homeless on buses. Every time he would see someone in need, he gave them money. He was very caring.”

But he also had nagging medical issues stemming from a gunshot wound to his head several years ago.

Police tape surrounds a house at the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto where a man was found mortally stabbed on June 24. He died later at a hospital.

Rosemary said police took one of her cars, which Diaz drove, to look for evidence. They also confiscated her trash.

As news broke of Diaz’s arrest for the homicide, residents said they were surprised by Diaz’s alleged actions and that anyone would kill the man in his 60s. Both were friendly to their neighbors and both were generally quiet.

“We never saw any problems from both of them,” Pedro Landarellano said.

“Knowing (Diaz) lived here, it’s kind of scary. You don’t know what else someone would do. It makes you think who else would do something like that. We just used to see him outside drinking a beer,” Melanie Garcia said.

Both Landarellano and Garcia said that they suspected Diaz may have been involved in the stabbing after his arrest for the assault.

“It all happened on the same

day. It’s an easy connection to make,” Garcia said.

Alan Cochran, the resident who was allegedly assaulted by Diaz, said the beating was “totally unprovoked.”

Cochran was talking to a group of people when Diaz suddenly emerged from his home and approached Cochran. The two had never met, he said.

“I was standing in front of a unit and he hits me so hard that I fell to the ground. Then he kicked me,” Cochran said. “I don’t even remember. An eyewitness saw him, and then he went back to (his unit).”

city, with no connection to the city’s utilities system. Commonly known as “Fiber to the Home” or “Fiber to the Premises,” the effort promised to enable movie streaming, video conferencing, intensive cloud computing and even telemedicine, among other uses.

But despite its lofty goals, the project has been under discussion at City Hall for nearly two decades, with little to show aside from a library of obsolete studies.

Palo Alto came closest to accomplishing the initial vision in 2008, when the council struck a deal with a consortium of companies led

by Canadian firm Axia Net Media Corporation. The consortium pulled out of the agreement in March 2009, citing “deteriorating” economic conditions and the city’s unwillingness to contribute up to $5 million in annual funds for the project.

Some in the community and on council remain hopeful that the vision can still be realized.

Councilwoman Liz Kniss, who was also on the council in the late 1990s when it began considering expanding its then-new fiber network, noted on Monday that the project has been under consideration for more years than she’d care to admit.

“We have this nice cushion,” she said, referring to the fiber ring, which generates about $2 million in annual revenues from the city.

“But we’ve certainly worked a long time to make something happen, especially with Fiber to the Home. ... My goal is really to, at

some point in my lifetime, get Fiber to the Home.”

Jeff Hoel, a resident who has long advocated for Fiber to the Home, shares her sentiment about wanting to see the fiber expansion.

Unlike Kniss, however, Hoel argued on Monday that the staff’s approach of integrating utilities is a mistake that would, in fact, impede the type of fiber expansion that he and others have long hoped for.

Hoel likened the staff’s approach to spending about $15 million without getting anything of value. Some of the uses that staff is proposing — including expanding fiber as part of the undergrounding of local utilities and as part of the effort to get customers to ditch natural gas in favor of electricity — effectively tethers the fiber project to unrelated efforts that could take decades to develop, he argued.

The council, for its part, embraced staff’s new utility-focused approach, which in some ways is already being implemented (the city’s recently completed “Upgrade Downtown” project, which included replacement of aged gas and water mains, added a fiber conduit on University Avenue).

Councilman Tom DuBois made the motion to support the staff proposal, though he also said he would like to see the city accelerate the future phase, which would bring fiber to businesses and residences.

With its vote, the council authorized staff to issue a request for

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‘An adventurous life’ Buena Vista residents this week reacted with shock at the homicide. People living nearest to the victim’s trailer said they hadn’t heard any noise or altercations before his body was found.

Buena Vista resident Jennifer Havens, who lives with her son, said she’d known the victim for over 10 years and called him a friend. He was “really ornery when I first met him, but he has a good heart. We had kind of a love-hate relationship,” Havens said.

She gave him a stray cat named Ebony, with whom he developed a close relationship. However, he had to put down the cat on Sunday because the animal had cancer.

Multiple residents said the man was a good person who was distraught over losing his cat. One neighbor who lives a few spaces away had given a photograph of the cat to the man on Sunday.

Two men in their 20s who also live down the lane said they were saddened by the man’s death.

The mobile home park is a place where people help each other and accept each other’s quirks and differences, they said, adding they’ve never felt unsafe in the community.

“He was a good person. He never disrespected anyone. He never attacked,” said one young man, adding that he was wellknown in the park.

The two were among the neighbors who would visit with the man in his trailer. He would regale them with stories about his adventures in the 1960s and 1970s.

“He went to Woodstock. I proposals for yet another study — this time with a focus on using fiber in conjunction with smart meters, SCADA systems and wireless communication for city staff. The consulting firm would also create a business plan for future fiber services, including the Smart City programs, Fiber to the Node (the expansion of the ring into neighborhood hubs) and, ultimately Fiber to the Premises (the “last mile” extension between the node and the home).

Mayor Eric Filseth called the staff’s phased approach “pragmatic,” even as he alluded to the typically short shelf life of prior business plans.

think he had kind of an adventurous life when he was younger. He really liked sports. He had a collection of baseball caps. He used to have barbecues. One thing he liked a lot were Hawaiian shirts.

He would wear them every day,” one young man said.

He shook his head. “I’ve known him practically my whole life. Every day I would walk to the store and pass his trailer,” he said.

The man had siblings, but they never saw them visit.

“He was really lonely,” the young man said.

The second young man used to bring over auto parts for the deceased man’s Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.

“He was a good guy. He was relaxed. We would talk sometimes and share a beer,” he said.

“He never had problems with anybody that I knew of.”

The neighbor who gave the photograph said the man did have friends who frequently came to the home, usually by bicycle from other parts of the Bay Area and Palo Alto.

“He was in contact with his mom, and she provided for him to live on his own,” the neighbor said.

Neighbors thought there would likely be some sort of memorial at Buena Vista for the victim. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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“If you build a detailed case for FTTP today, pretty good chance it will be obsolete by the time it comes to actually building it because there’s still technology changing,” Filseth said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

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El Camino Real, 6/22, 10:58 a.m.; domestic violence.

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MENLO PARK Fourth of July parade and celebration 11:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Burgess Park, 701 Laurel St., Menlo Park; menlopark.org/1370/ Fourth-of-July Menlo Park’s annual Fourth of July parade will begin at 11:45 a.m. at Santa Cruz Avenue and Chestnut Street. Attendees are invited to decorate bikes and

Local children’s musician Andy Z will offer a familyfriendly concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre before a performance by the San Francisco Symphony.

PALO ALTO Chili Cook-off and Summer Festival Noon to 5 p.m. at Mitchell Park, 600 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto; paloaltochilicookoff. com The City of Palo Alto is hosting the 38th annual Chili Cookoff at Mitchell Park Community Center. (See sidebar on next page).

REDWOOD CITY The fireworks show will commence at the end of the concert, starting around 9:50 p.m. Tickets to the concert are $15-$30, plus a $20 parking fee.

MOUNTAIN VIEW Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular 5-10 p.m. at Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View; mountainview. gov Local children’s musician Andy Z will be partnering with the San Francisco Symphony to give a family-friendly performance at the Shoreline Amphitheatre for the 33rd annual Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular. He will perform at 5 p.m., followed by the symphony’s performance.

“I write and perform my own songs,” the Redwood City native said. “I’m going to be

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LOS ALTOS HILLS Fourth of July Parade 9:30-11 a.m. starting at 26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills; tinyurl.com/yypztqxm The 11th annual Fourth of July parade will start with a gathering of participants at the Los Altos Hills Town Hall before marching down Fremont Road dressed in red, white and blue (no horses or fossil-fueled vehicles permitted).

The parade will end at Gardner Bullis School, where families and friends can gather for cool drinks and watermelon slices.

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LOS ALTOS ‘Glorious Fourth’ festival 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Shoup Park, 400 University Ave., Los Altos; losaltosca.gov Los Altos’ free annual celebration, the “Glorious Fourth” festival, features live performances from musical groups, including the Ye Olde Towne Band and The Unicorns, along with games, food and other activities.

Clockwise from top left, Fourth of July events on the Midpeninsula range from fireworks and music in Mountain View to a rodeo in Woodside.

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mixing them into some traditional American songs like ‘This Land is Your Land.’”

While this is Andy Z’s first time performing for the Fourth of July at Shoreline, he has been performing at Foster City’s annual Fourth of July celebration for the past decade. This year he is planning on doing both performances in the same day, with a set starting at noon in Foster City. In previous years, his other traditions included participating in Redwood City’s ParadeRun and downtown parade.

“Now my tradition is basically performing, and in the afternoon I’ll spend time with my family,” he said.

The San Francisco Symphony’s performance will begin at 8 p.m. This year’s theme is “To the moon and back,” celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The symphony will be led by conductor Edwin Outwater with performances from vocalists Capathia Jenkins and Constantine Maroulis. The genres range from classical to pop, and include chart-topping hits as well as songs from movie scores and soundtracks.

wagons but no motor vehicles are allowed. In addition to the parade, the celebration also will include live music from the local band Hella Good, climbing walls, bouncy castles, arts and crafts stations, mini golf and more. The event is free but $10 wristbands are required for some activities.

ocals can explore numerous Fourth of July festivities next week, including a foodbased tradition in Palo Alto, an art festival in Redwood City, a concert in Mountain View and a rodeo in Woodside. And yes, there will be some fireworks.

Parades? But of course. Check out the Weekly’s guide to some of the most popular and patriotic local events and activities below.

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Redwood City’s Independence Day parade is one of the biggest in Northern California.

Pancake Breakfast 7:30-10:30 a.m. at Redwood City Fire Department Station 9, 755 Marshall St., Redwood City The Redwood City Fire Department is home to the annual Fourth of July pancake breakfast at the main Marshall Street fire station. Breakfast is 7:30-10:30 a.m. and will benefit the Redwood City Firefighters Association.

Parade Run 5K 8-10 a.m., downtown Redwood City; paraderun.org This family-friendly 5K race along the downtown Redwood City parade route raises money for the Redwood City Education Foundation and Redwood City School District. The race begins at 8 a.m. and is open to people of all ages and ability levels.

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parade route three times. Adult tickets are $45 and youth tickets are $35. All children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult, and no pets are allowed.

Participants can register for the race at sweattracker.com/ Registration/ParadeRun.

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n the Fourth of July, 11 teams will compete for the title of best chili in Palo Alto at the city’s’s 38th annual Chili Cook-off at Mitchell Park.

Unlike previous years, this year’s cook-off will be approved and sanctioned by the International Chili Society, which is hosting the World Championship Chili Cook-off in Iowa in September, according to the event website. All cooks will be required to be ICS members; however, the city of Palo Alto will provide competing cooks a one-time membership. According to Stephanie Douglas, the city’s superintendent of recreation services, the annual event is a great way for neighbors to gather, get to know one another and celebrate the community they live in.

Of the 11 teams that have registered for the competition, three are new this year: Sound Bites, The Musical Fruit and MB’s Place. The seven returning teams include Super Shounak’s Super Sonic Tonic, El Viaje Misterioso, Hung Over Chili, Karate Kids, Lounge Lizard, Chili Chili Bang Bang, Ratrod Chili and the Klemens Family. All teams are restricted to cooking traditional red chili, homestyle chili, chili verde or veggie chili. According to Douglas, the best approach going into the cook-off is to “have fun and stick to your family’s recipe.”

David Chase, a member of last year’s winning team California Red, said he enjoyed his experience competing in the cook-off.

His team prepared beef chili with top sirloin cut into cubes, green poblano peppers, jalapeno, fresh cilantro, fresh onions and fresh ground pepper.

“It’s a very, very busy day for the cook teams,” Chase said.

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and wine booths, and information booths from community groups, along with a battle of the bands performance between the marching bands of Stanford University and the University of California at Davis.

Chalk Full of Fun on the Square Festival 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway; rwcpaf.org Sponsored by University Art, the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission and the Peninsula Celebration Association, the fifth annual chalk-art festival will be held at the Courthouse Square in downtown Redwood City on July 3 and 4. Artist teams will be assigned a section of concrete ranging from 9 to 144 square feet depending on skill level and experience. Participants are provided with materials, including chalk, shade, lunch, snacks and water. The finished designs range from simple shapes to pop culture references to intricate designs and optical illusions.

Fireworks 9:30 p.m., Port of Redwood City The annual fireworks display over the Port of Redwood City will start around 9:30 p.m.

WOODSIDE Junior Rodeo and Parade 7:30 a.m. at Mounted Patrol Grounds, 521 Kings Mountain Road; mpsmc.org/rodeo/ The Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County hosts this annual family-friendly tradition, where more than 100 people will participate in events including roping, women’s barrel racing, and bull riding at the Mounted Patrol Grounds in Woodside. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for children ages 5 to 18 and free for children under the age of 5. Q Editorial Intern Maya Homan can be emailed at mhoman@paweekly.com.

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“Chatting with the customers is always fun, and we try to answer all their questions.”

Chase has 19 years of chili cook-offs under his belt but has only competed with California Red at the Palo Alto Chili Cookoff since 2017. However, due to prior commitments, he and the team will not be attending the event this year.

“Never experiment at a cookoff,” Chase said, offering a word of advice to the new teams.

“Don’t let your chili burn — have someone watching it all the time. Read the rules and guidelines multiple times and incorporate them into your plan.”

In addition to the top honor of best overall chili, awards will be given for second and third place, plus “People’s Choice,” “Best Spirit” and “Best Decorated Booth.”

There will be 2,000 tasting tickets sold for $5 each, Douglas said. Each ticket will include five tastings and a ballot to vote.

She expects the event to attract around 5,000 to 6,000 people.

In addition to chili, there will be live music, a kids area with bouncy houses, outdoor lawn games, face painting and food trucks.

The cook-off will be held at Mitchell Park, located at 600 East Meadow Drive. There will be a shuttle provided for those who park at the nearby Cubberley Community Center at 4000 Middlefield Road. The event will start at noon, and the chili tasting is slated to begin at 1:30 p.m.

All proceeds from the 2019 Chili Cook-Off tasting tickets will benefit the Palo Alto Recreation Foundation. More information about the event is posted at paloaltochilicookoff.com. Q Editorial Intern Daniel Li can be emailed at dli@ paweekly.com.

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Independence Day Parade and Festival 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., downtown Redwood City Redwood City is home to the largest Independence Day parade in Northern California, attracting hundreds of entries and thousands of spectators each year. The parade will begin at the corner of Brewster Avenue and Winslow Street, and the 1.3-mile route circles through the historic downtown area.

The parade will include about 200 groups sorted into different classes including categories for

11 teams to compete for the city’s best chili at Mitchell Park

At Palo Alto’s Chili Cook-off, teams try out their tastiest recipes and compete for prizes and glory.

Eating Out Inside The Midwife and the Baker’s devotion to fresh-milled, whole-grain breads Story by Elena Kadvany | Photos by Magali Gauthier

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lour is everywhere at The Midwife and the Baker in Mountain View.

It dusts the tiled floor and baker Mac McConnell’s Birkenstock sandals. Pounds of fresh-milled whole-grain flour sit in bags and trash cans repurposed into storage bins, awaiting their next life phase: dough for the bakery’s insanely popular sourdough breads and pastries.

Flour — specifically, freshmilled whole-grain flour — is the heart and soul of The Midwife and the Baker, where McConnell is working to elevate grains like kamut, rye, wheat berry, spelt and Khorasan by proving they can taste just as good, if not better, than their white wheat flour counterparts. He sneaks whole grains into everything he makes, from baguettes and ciabatta to even the croissants.

“We want our whole grains to eat like white bread — fluffier, lighter,” McConnell said.

The Midwife and the Baker started with McConnell selling loaves out of his wife Jaime’s midwife practice in San Francisco. A West Virginia native and former mechanical engineer, he “ended up out here because of bread” — namely, to attend the San Francisco Baking Institute. After graduating he worked at a Massachusetts

bakery that specializes in wholegrain sourdough breads. He then returned to the West Coast to become a bread instructor at the San Francisco Baking Institute.

McConnell eventually left his teaching post to focus on The Midwife and the Baker full time.

They drew a loyal following at Bay Area farmers markets before moving in 2018 into the large Mountain View baking facility at 846 Independence Ave., which they took over from Acme Bread.

Shortly after, Blue Bottle Coffee started selling The Midwife and the Baker’s pastries in all of its Bay Area cafes, a major coup for a mom-and-pop baking operation. Other cafes, restaurants and grocery stores steadily followed.

McConnell now employs a staff of 35 that mills 3,000 pounds of flour every week in Mountain View, delivering loaves and pastries throughout the Bay Area.

The bakery kicks into gear at 3 a.m., when McConnell arrives to fold dough around sheets of butter for croissant dough while William Van Dusen weighs out flours for that day’s dough, following a color-coded spreadsheet detailed down to the gram for every single loaf they sell.

Nearby, a 40-inch stone mill the bakery acquired last fall processes fresh grains. Made by a baker in

Mac McConnell sprinkles flour onto baguette dough, which is 25% kamut, an ancient grain grown in Montana.

Vermont, the massive mill is more than twice the size of their old one. It’s producing whole-grain flour as fine as pastry flour, making their breads loftier and lighter than ever before, McConnell said, sifting the almost ethereal flour through his palms.

The “whitest” bread they make is the baguette, whose dough is 25% kamut, an ancient grain grown in Montana. Their most popular breads are 100% whole wheat. Madera, a Michelinstarred restaurant in Menlo Park, recently changed its account with the bakery from both country white bread (which is still nearly half whole grain) and 100% whole wheat bread to solely the latter, McConnell said.

Other staff arrive around 5 a.m. and the facility becomes a flourdusted hive of activity. Some staff prep hundreds of twicebaked almond croissants — slicing already baked croissants in half, adding a layer of frangipane

inside, a dollop on top and a flurry of sliced almonds — while others roll refrigerated dough for plain croissants. They have to shape it quickly before the dough warms up too much but with careful finesse to preserve the “shoulders,”

or edges of the dough that give croissants their trademark layers. Beyond the classic viennoiserie, bakers get creative with pastries like cardamom snails, (continued on page 20)

The Midwife and the Baker mills about 3,000 pounds of flour each week, making whole-grain flour that’s milled as fine as pastry flour.

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RENOWNED INDIAN RESTAURANT EXPANDING ... Anu and Vikram Bhambri operate modern Indian restaurants in San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, New Delhi — and come this fall, downtown Palo Alto. They’re opening a new restaurant at 473 University Ave. The space was last occupied by Arte Ristorante, which closed temporarily last January and never reopened. The Bhambris, originally from Delhi, started their careers in the tech industry. Both worked at Microsoft in Seattle. Anu said she was always dissatisfied with the Indian dining scene in the United States, which felt unrepresentative of the full breadth and depth of the cuisine. “Most of the restaurants in the U.S. were doing heavy curries.

That is not what Indian cuisine is about,” she said. “We want to change the perception of Indian food.” The Palo Alto restaurant will have a distinct focus on Indian grilling and kebabs, Anu said.

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SF PILATES STUDIO COMING DOWNTOWN ... MNTStudio, the pilates and barre fitness center founded by San Francisco ballerinaturned-pilates-pro Elain Hayes, is opening a new studio in downtown Palo Alto directly across the street from YogaSource. The studio submitted a building permit in May to remodel a 1,447-square-foot space at 145 Hamilton Ave. MNT opened in San Francisco’s SOMA district in 2013 after Hayes reportedly developed her own special program that incorporates athletic techniques with traditional pilates moves for workouts that achieve faster changes in the body. She personally teaches all of MNTStudio’s instructors. In addition to its fast-paced workouts, the studio also provides onsite childcare and an in-store boutique, according to the MNT website. —L.T. MIKE’S CAFE IS BACK ... The return of Mike’s Cafe, a humble, longtime neighborhood eatery, might be one of Palo Alto’s most anticipated restaurant openings of the year. Customers and neighbors stopped by the 2680 Middlefield Road space in Midtown for weeks as it visibly neared opening and

called owner Mike Wallau and his other restaurant in Portola Valley, desperate for news. After shuttering for a year and a half for a major renovation and expansion, Mike’s reopened for dinner last Thursday, June 20. Two years ago, Wallau took over the former Peninsula Hardware space with plans to expand. He tore down the wall between the old Mike’s and the hardware store, adding new bathrooms, an open kitchen, pizza ovens, a communal dining table and a gleaming 18-seat bar made from 100-year-old Douglas fir wood. The former Mike’s space seats 40 and the new dining room, 50. “I made a big decision,” Wallau said, standing in his restaurant’s brand-new dining room. “I did this because I really felt ... Midtown has always needed a place where neighbors can say ‘hi,’” where staff and diners know each other by name and gather often over comfort food. —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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TRAFFIC NOTICE: On Saturday, June 29, 2019 at 6:30 p.m., the San Jose Earthquakes will play the LA Galaxy at Stanford Stadium. With an estimated attendance of 50,000, the match will generate traffic that may be heavy from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. along Embarcadero Road, University Avenue and Oregon Expressway between Highway 101 and the campus, and along El Camino Real from University Avenue to Oregon Expressway.

Increased traffic may also be experienced along: Sand Hill Road and Page Mill Road between Interstate 280 and the campus, and along Junipero Serra between Page Mill Road and Sand Hill Road.

A post-match fireworks show will take place from approximately 9:10 p.m. until 9:30 p.m.

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currant-orange scones and caramelized shallot danishes.

The bakers have been experimenting with a whole grain croissant, playing around with lamination, leavening and yeast to create an equivalent pastry.

(A recent picture on Instagram of its honeycomb-like interior elicited an enthusiastic “yaaaaassssssssssss” from none other than Josey Baker, who also mills his own grains at Josey Baker Bread in San Francisco.) The challenge, McConnell said, is that the whole-grain version can turn out tough, and whole-grain flour has less leeway than white flour.

“It’s a tighter band for perfection,” he said.

It’s no secret that you can go into the Mountain View facility to buy fresh bread and pastries Monday through Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., but it would not be obvious to anyone passing by the industrial, warehouse-like building that has no signage or seating.

(An employee once likened it to going to a speakeasy.) McConnell intends to open a full-fledged retail bakery there at some point, serving coffee and other items, but likely not until next year.

For a full list of where to find The Midwife and the Baker’s goods, go to themidwifeandthebaker. com/where. Q Staff writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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of existence, except in the mind of one man — 27-year-old Jack Malik (Himesh Patel), a singer-songwriter languishing in obscurity. Before his windfall, Jack complains to his lifelong friend and faithful manager Ellie (Lily James), “You’ve got to stop

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There’s situation comedy in the indignities that face an unknown musician, but it’s not long before smirky songsmith Ed Sheeran (playing himself) turns up to hire Jack as an opening act. Sheeran’s fictional manager Debra Hammer (Kate McKinnon, stealing the show again) swiftly poaches Jack from Ellie, who won’t abandon her day job as a Suffolk schoolteacher.

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Book Talk TERRORISM AND CYBERWARS ... Richard Clarke, who served as a key advisor on intelligence and counterterrorism to three U.S. presidents, will be at Kepler’s Books 7:30-9 p.m., Wednesday, July 24, to talk about his latest book, “The Fifth Domain: Defending our Country, Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats.” In his book, Clarke warns readers that multiple cyberwars are already underway. The battlefronts range from simple identity theft to the disruption of nuclear programs and medical care. The Pentagon even has a word for this new front line: the fifth domain. Kepler’s Books is located at 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park.

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APOLLO MISSION REVISITED ... To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moonwalk, Brandon R. Brown, professor of physics at the University of San Francisco, will be at Books Inc in Mountain View at 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 9, to talk about his book “The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions.” Brown, the son of an Apollo engineer, revisits the men and women who toiled behind the lights to help send the astronauts to the moon. Set against the backdrop of a turbulent American decade, the book whisks audiences through tense deadlines and technical miracles, from President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 challenge to NASA’s 1969 lunar triumph, as engineers confronted wave after wave of previously unthinkable challenges. Books Inc. is located at 317 Castro St. For more information, go to booksinc.net.

BOOKS AND MORE FOR SALE ... Books, magazines, records, videos and other items are for sale Saturday (July 13) and Sunday (July 14) at the monthly sale held by the Friends of the Palo Alto Library. The event goes from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days (except for the children’s and bargain rooms, which open at 10 a.m. Saturday, and the outdoor $1 sale, which starts at 9 a.m. Saturday) at Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Some folks come early on Saturday; tickets for the main room are available at 8 a.m. For more information, call 650-213-8755 or go to friendspaloaltolib.org/ booksale.htm.

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Trade your school books for these

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Seven new children’s releases that are mysterious, historical, fun

by Debbie Duncan

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t’s summer reading time! This season’s new books for young readers shed light on everything from little ones stepping out into the big, wide, wonderful world to older kids discovering who they are and how and where they fit in. An important biography of a local hero rounds out this year’s summer reading list aimed at those between ages 2 and 14. Look for these new books and more at the library or local bookstores.

“How to Two,” by David Soman; $18; Dial; ages 2 and up.

This big, colorful, lapworthy picture book counts up, counts down and encourages playing with others as well as reading aloud. A young child goes to the city park by himself and soon he is joined by girls and boys of many colors and sizes, one at a time, until there are 10 playing together at the p l a yg r o u n d .

Then they’re picked up by their adults, among them one mom, two dads, a grandma and a stroller-pushing, hijab-wearing mother. At the end of the day, only two — child and adult — are needed to read a book before bed. Brilliant.

“Hey, Water!” by Antoinette Portis; $18; Porter/Holiday House; ages 4 and up.

Just as water comes in many forms (liquid, solid, gas), this engaging picture book would be just as appealing to a 10-year-old budding scientist as it might be to her 2-year-old brother who’s attracted by enticing illustrations of water in all its permutations. Lyrical prose describe and pictures show where a little girl finds water — everywhere! — and how she interacts with it. An appendix explains water forms, the water cycle and how to conserve water, plus a bibliography for further exploration. “Hey, Water!” is a virtual waterfall of information and inspiration.

“Camp,” by Kayla Miller; $11 paperback; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; ages 9-14.

Every summer needs a camp book, and every season calls for new and engaging graphic novels. “Camp” fills both of those needs beautifully with the story of Olive and her best (though very different) friend,

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Willow, and the two weeks they spend at summer camp.

While Olive is outgoing and eager to meet new people, Willow is content to stick with Olive, and wants Olive all to herself.

Conflict ensues when Olive begins making new friends. She doesn’t want to lose Willow, but she also wants to take advantage of new opportunities. “Camp” shows how two girls figure out how to resolve differences while staying true to themselves.

Readers who enjoy this book will be pleased to get their hands and eyes on the companion graphic novel, “Click,” about Olive and the role she plays in the fifth grade variety show.

“The Last Last-Day-of-Summer,” by Lamar Giles, illustrations by Dapo Adeola; $17; Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; ages 9-14.

This time-meddling fantasy stars the Legendary Alston Boys, cousins Otto and Sheed, who manage to stop time (accidentally, of course) when they wish for one more day of summer vacation. And what a day it is! Most of the townsfolk are frozen in time while all sorts of beings from another dimension join the boys in their quest to solve mysteries that keep flying at them. (This is a novel worth reading more than once.)

The evil Mr. Flux begins the chaos with a magical camera. Before long, readers meet characters such as Clock Wa t ch e r s, Time Sucks, Witching Hour, and Otto as an older version of himself. Petey, a fellow who works at the hardware store, is actually a genius who’d given up on his dreams after being bullied in high school. If Otto wants to change the past to save the future, he’s going to need Petey’s help, along with assistance from his rival twin girl adventurers. It’s worth it.

“The Moon Within,” by Aida Salazar; $18; Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic; ages 9-14.

Ceci initially objects vehemently to her

mother’s plans for observing Ceci’s first period. A public celebration? That includes her little brother? “It’s my body!” Meanwhile, Ceci needs to learn how not to betray her best friend as he establishes himself as a he — something that leads to far more preteen bullying than a moon ceremony.

The boy Ceci likes acts like a jerk about it, and the Queen Bee/Science Fair star of East Oakland is mean to Ceci and her best friend, now called Marco. In the end, Ceci embraces her herbalist Mexican-American mother’s moon ceremony, which becomes something personally and culturally significant for both Ceci and Marco.

As he says at the end of this luminous novel in verse, “I just want my family/and friends to understand me/to accept me for who I am/and who I will be.”

“Where the Heart Is,” by Jo Knowles; $17; Candlewick Press; ages 10-14.

This book will break readers’ hearts in the best possible way. It’s the story of a resilient 13-year-old living with distracted parents, a spirited little sister, food insecurity and possible loss of her family’s home, while also trying to figure out who she is and where she stands among her peers and potential romantic interests. Not only that, Rachel’s summer job involves feeding farm animals twice a day, and not all of them appreciate her dedication.

At least she has a best friend from forever, Micah. But Micah now wants to be more than buddies with Rachel, and she isn’t sure she can have feelings like that for any boy.

Or can she? That’s one of the aspects of this book that make it so appealing to middlegrade readers, especially those who question their own personalities and orientation.

“Where the Heart Is” is set in rural Vermont, but Rachel’s internal and external conflicts are all too familiar to Peninsula young teens: Food and housing are a daily challenge for many youth. I hope they, and those who know kids like them, find this book.

“Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II,” by Andrea Warren; $23; Ferguson/Holiday House; ages 9 and up. (continued on page 23)

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This is the first biography of local hero and San Jose native Norm Mineta, now 87. He was an ordinary city kid who liked baseball, Cub Scouts and going to movies and goofing off with his best friend when the Japanese military bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Soon, the American government declared all Japanese Americans living on the west coast to be enemies — including U.S. citizens, such as Norm and his siblings.

Norm’s family was forcibly relocated to Santa Anita racetrack in southern California, then to Heart Mountain Internment Camp near Cody, Wyoming: Californians with no winter coats were sent where the wind chill was below zero. Like all detention centers, the conditions were wretched.

Norm remembers living with his family in a community of 10,000 detainees held behind barbed wire in a one-room barrack, the communal bathroom half a block away, and wringing out laundry by hand for his mother every Saturday. Yet Norm’s family had certain advantages other detainees did not, including money to buy warm clothes from mailorder catalogs.

Norm’s siblings and eventually his father found legal ways to leave the camp and work or attend

college. A compassionate Quaker teacher helped Norm, who probably had dyslexia, learn to read. He fought boredom by playing baseball, ice skating, Scouting and making friends.

One of his Scouting buddies, Alan Simpson, was a boy from Cody, Wyoming, who decades later served in Congress with Norman Mineta. Together they advocated year after year for an apology and some form of restitution from the U.S. government

for unjustly imprisoning Japanese-Americans. The result of their efforts was the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which granted $20,000 to surviving internees. It was the least the government could do.

“Enemy Child” tells a compelling, detailed story — historical but also local and eerily relevant to the civil rights violations being waged on immigrants at our southern border. Q Debbie Duncan is a Stanford writer and author of books for children and adults.

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The concert will also include music by Handel, Haydn, Brahms, Weber, and favorite arias from Mozart’s Cosi Maria Bengtsson Fan Tutte and The Marriage of Figaro. Accompanying Ms. Bengtsson are celebrated pianist Tamami Honma as well as the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra All-Stars String Quartet.

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Home Front UPCYCLED GARDEN LIGHTS ... Give your garden a special glow with a light you make from upcycled materials at a workshop held at the Menlo Park Library from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 2. Artist Christie Inocencio leads this free program for adults, where you’ll learn how to transform a jar into a garden light. Extra “green” credit if you bring your own jar. The library is located at 800 Alma St, Menlo Park.

Call 650-330-2501 or register at menlopark.org (search “upcycled garden lights”).

HEALTHY VEGETABLE GARDENS ... How can you keep your vegetable garden robust? And how do you defend veggies from pests and diseases? Learn practices that will help summer vegetables thrive at a free workshop held at the UCCE Master Gardener Demonstration Garden on Saturday, July 6, 10-11:30 a.m.

Master Gardener Candace Simpson will also discuss strategies to manage pests and diseases while minimizing environmental impacts. You can bring samples of pests and damage for diagnosis.

The Demonstration Garden is located at Eleanor Pardee Park, 851 Center Drive, Palo Alto. For more information, call 408-282-3105.

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From finance to construction, Palo Alto startups help homeowners navigate the process

by Cierra Bailey

T

erri Brown never thought much about “granny units” until she purchased a home that came with one on the property in 1987. Now, the Palo Alto real estate associate said she’s a big fan of the small accessory dwelling units, known as ADUs, that often are used as rental units, guest houses, offices or art studios.

By renting out the space, she was able to offset the cost of her mortgage.

“I wouldn’t have been able to afford my home at that time with a 12% interest rate on the mortgage if it wasn’t for the rental income,” said Brown, who recently hosted an educational seminar for Palo Alto residents looking to add these units on their properties.

Since Palo Alto loosened its ADU restrictions nearly two years ago, interest in these units has surged, but financial roadblocks and a general lack of awareness on how to navigate the process have kept the construction of new units to a minimum, according to local housing experts, who like Brown, hope to kick-start what they see as an ADU building boom on the horizon.

“Before ... you couldn’t get 10 people in a room to talk about ADUs,” said Eoin Matthews, who co-founded the Palo Alto startup Point, which provides financing options for home improvement projects, including ADUs. In recent years, that’s changed, Matthews said.

Following the passing of Senate Bill 1069 in 2016, which loosened land-use restrictions around ADUs, the entire state saw an uptick in homeowners interested in building ADUs on

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PALO ALTO RENT THIRD HIGHEST ... Palo Alto rent is the Bay Area’s third most expensive, according to the June 2019 San Francisco Bay Area Metro Report from rental marketplace Zumper. The report found that the median price for one- bedroom apartments in Palo Alto is $3,150, behind Mountain View ($3,450) and San Francisco ($3,700). In May, the California median rent for a one bedroom was $1,766. Palo Alto has held steady in the No. 3 spot for the last six months, even as it’s had the fastest-growing annual rent in the Bay Area overall, with an increase of 11.7% over the same time last year.

Many homeowners want to build granny units to house adult children, aging parents or other relatives.

their properties, Matthews said.

On a local level, Palo Alto started seeing interest grow in 2017 after the city council changed its policies to align with the state’s, adopting a new ADU ordinance that relaxed zoning standards and eliminated the minimum lot size regulation of 5,000 square feet.

According to the Department of Planning and Community Environment, the city received 54 permit applications from residents for new ADUs in 2018, up from 28 in 2017. To date, planning manager Russ Reich said the department has received a total of 133 applications since Jan. 1, 2017, when the state’s new law became effective.

Brown, whose May seminar attracted approximately 100 people, said ADUs are appealing for many reasons, especially the multigenerational use that owners can leverage. She said 50% of the people who come to her to inquire about ADUs express interest in using them to house adult children, aging parents or relatives with young families.

Tony Chan, founder of the Palo Alto startup ADU Builder, a fullservice real estate company that helps clients navigate the entire ADU process, from filing paperwork with the city to installing turn-key granny units on the property, said most of his clients fit into this demographic.

Caitlin Bigelow, founder of San Diego-based ADU resource and consulting firm Maxable who spoke at Brown’s seminar last month, told the Weekly that there also tends to be much less community pushback against ADUs than other types of multifamily housing projects. They

are a middle ground that allows for “more single-family housing in established neighborhoods without changing the character of the neighborhood in any way,” she added.

Despite the benefits of having an ADU, building one can be quite expensive, and complicated, for many homeowners, Matthews said.

“You actually are just building another house, but it’s small,” Matthews said, noting that building an ADU requires the same construction work as building a regular home, including laying the foundation and installing plumbing.

On average, building an ADU can cost between $400-$550 per square foot. The amount varies based on the method of construction the homeowner plans to use, Bigelow said. Certain methods can help cut down costs such as panelized modular construction, which is when the framing is done in a factory and shipped to the project site to be assembled on a built foundation.

Securing financing is another challenge, Matthews said.

“I think banks don’t like doing construction in general, and so these types of projects are scary.

What we’re seeing is that banks don’t really want to finance the homeowners until the job is complete,” Matthews said.

Additionally, projected rental income is not considered when a homeowner applies for a loan to build an ADU. “Banks don’t factor in that income until a tenant has been in the unit for about six months or maybe even a year or two years,” Matthews said.

Matthews hopes to make the financial side of the ADU building process a bit easier with his company Point, which offers homeowners flexibility in how they finance their projects, he said. The 4-year-old startup, which is backed by angel investors, including Menlo Park-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, provides financing to homeowners in return for an investment in the ADU. For a share in their home’s equity, Point gives homeowners cash that they can use for various purposes, including making home improvements. Unlike traditional loans, the cost is tied to how a home is appreciating or depreciating. The cash amounts that Point loans — up to $250,000 — fit with what homeowners are typically looking to spend on ADUs, according to Matthews.

“Our program allows homeowners to use our money without a monthly payment and they can wipe us out in the form of a normal cash-out refinance, but at the end of the project as opposed to the start,” he said.

Similarly, Chan is working to ease some of the building barriers associated with ADUs through his startup, which he founded in 2017. He helps clients install units on their properties from start to finish for no down cost. According to the company, homeowners pay a portion of the rental income from the ADU to the company over a set number of years. Q Editorial Assistant Cierra Bailey can be reached at cbailey@paweekly.com.

For more information, visit cityofpaloalto.org and search for “Accessory Dwelling Units.”

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Sports Shorts

MEDAL COUNT … The Pac-12 Conference announced Stanford’s Harrison Williams (men’s track and field) and Ella Eastin (women’s swimming) were selected to receive the Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal, which is awarded annually to each institution’s outstanding senior male and female studentathlete based on the combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership.

Williams capped his collegiate track and field career with a runner-up finish in the decathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, earning his sixth first-team All-America honor. Eastin earned six All-America honorsand led Stanford to its third straight Pac-12 and NCAA championship. She won national titles in the 400 IM and 800 free relay FOOTBALL TRANSACTION …

Stanford Director of Football David Shaw announced Tuesday that Cullen Carroll has been named the Director of Football Sports Performance. Carroll is entering his sixth season working with Stanford football.

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Former Stanford standout and Olympic gold medalist Simone Manuel is focused on the FINA World Championships in South Korea, which begin July 12.

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Olympian Simone Manuel ready for world meet Six-time NCAA champion will also be at Stanford for U.S. championships

by Glenn Reeves ith the Phillips 66 National Swimming Championships approaching, hosted by Stanford beginning July 31, Olympic gold medalist, American record holder and former Cardinal star Simone Manuel sat down recently for a media luncheon at the Palo Alto Sheraton to discuss her immediate future.

Manuel’s competitive focus is on the world championships in South Korea, which take place right before the nationals, from July 1228. So she is uncertain as to whether or not she will compete at Stanford. But either way she will be on hand, if not swimming then to watch and cheer on friends and former teammates.

Manuel, a 2016 Olympic gold medalist and national record holder in the 50 and 100 freestyle, was asked if she felt she was ready for a fast time at the world championships.

“Well, I haven’t tapered yet,’’ she said with a laugh. “But I think the competition in South Korea will help me swim fast.’’

Last July Manuel made the decision to turn professional to give herself two years to

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prepare for the 2020 Olympics. There was also a question of how much more she could accomplish as a Stanford swimmer. She had already become a six-time NCAA champion and set school records in the 50, 100 and 200 free as well as breaking the NCAA and American record in the 100 free.

She looks back on her time at Stanford fondly, about going to Stanford football games.

“I enjoyed them when we won,’’ she said.

So now she’s a 22-year-old dealing with adult life, such as having noisy upstairs neighbors at her Mountain View apartment complex.

“At Stanford, four years of student housing, was like living in a little bubble,’’ Manuel said, “I love California, but the cost of living ... Coming from Texas and being used to going to a restaurant and spending $12. Coming here it’s $30.’’

In her first year as a professional she no longer finds her training time constrained by classwork. But it’s been a big adjustment.

“The first year has been bittersweet,’’ she (continued on page 34)

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A GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION …

Former Stanford star Brandon Wulff, drafted in the 17th round of this year’s Major League First-Year Player Draft, hit a grand slam on Wednesday for his first professional hit. Wulff, appearing in his second game with the Ogden Raptors, came up with the bases loaded in the top of the first inning and drove an 0-1 delivery over the center field fence at UCHealth Park in Colorado Springs. The drive, estimated at 452 feet, helped the Raptors beat Rocky Mountain 12-5.

Simone Manuel is a six-time NCAA champion and set school records in the 50, 100 and 200 free as well as breaking the NCAA and American record in the 100 free.

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by Rick Chandler o matter what happened Thursday evening, both the Alpine-West Menlo and Palo Alto Little League 11-12 all-star teams will be in action Saturday or Sunday.

That’s because both teams won their first game of the District 52 All-Star Tournament, hosted by Palo Alto at Middlefield Park.

Palo Alto topped Hillsborough 11-3 and Alpine-West Menlo downed Foster City 2-0.

Details about Thursday night results and future games can be found online at www. paloaltoonline.com/sports/. Palo Alto played San Mateo National and Alpine-West Menlo played San Mateo American.

Luke Sousa had a triple, single, an RBI and scored three runs as Palo Alto handed

Palo Alto’s Luke Sousa beats out one of his hits against Hillsborough.

Hillsborough its first District 52 all-star loss ever. That’s right. The current group of Hillsborough players won District 52 titles in both the 10-under and 11-under divisions the past two seasons -- and as 11-U’s went undefeated in winning the NorCal State title.

Joshua Kao had two singles for Palo Alto and also pitched 4 2/3 innings to get the win.

Sousa threw the final 1 1/3 innings, striking out three, for the save.

Palo Alto had control from the start, taking a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Coco VonderHaar doubled, went to third on an infield out and scored on a wild pitch.

Paly made it 4-0 in the third on Sousa’s (continued on page 34)

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BABE RUTH BASEBALL

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Experience and a little luck help win a title Sundance flips the switch in league tournament 12-2-1 during the regular season, in this year’s championship game at Baylands.

Sundance brought a 7-8 regularseason record to the post-season.

“We were a very inconsistent team during the regular season,” Sundance coach Ron Fried said.

“At times we looked like the best team in the league, at other times the worst. We also played in a number of close games (five one-run games), so I guess we were used to being in close, pressure games.”

After Sundance’s 3-2 win on Saturday, Dutch Goose was forced into the loser’s side of the bracket and beat Old Pro 7-4 on

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could make it to third,” said Sousa, an eighth-grader at Fletcher Middle School.

VonderHaar was two-for-four with two RBI, and teammate Kanghee Cho had a double and a single. Palo Alto’s Dexter Cleveringa made a great play at second base in the sixth, ranging far to his left and pivoting to throw out the runner on a ground ball.

Max Courson threw a complete-game shutout, striking out

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run-scoring triple (scoring Cameron Owen), Joey Kessler’s groundout and an error.

Sousa’s triple was a rare feat: a scorching ground ball through the right side that rolled all the way to the fence.

“Their outfielder took kind of a bad angle to the ball and I knew I

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by Glenn Reeves fter four consecutive trips to the Palo Alto Babe Ruth League tournament championship game, Sundance players knew what it took to finish strong.

Sundance had to score the winning run in its final at-bat in the seventh inning in the team’s last matchup with regular-season champion Dutch Goose.

Not this time.

Sundance came out swinging Tuesday and didn’t stop until the game was decided, scoring two runs in each of the first four innings and going on to a 9-3 victory over the Goose, which finished

Sundance played its best baseball during the Palo Alto Babe Ruth League Tournament to defend its title.

Monday to stay alive and advance to Tuesday’s championship round with Sundance. Dutch Goose needed to beat Sundance twice to win the league tournament. The second game never happened.

“In some ways we were a lot like the Warriors as defending champions with an attitude of ‘hey,

let’s just get through the regular season, do enough to get into the playoffs, and then flip the switch to go to the next level,’” Fried said.

“That’s often hard to do but this team has gone to four PABR 15U League City Championship games in a row, so they know how to win and how to finish.” Q

13, and singled home the eventual winning run in Alpine’s victory over Foster City.

The 13 strikeouts were a season-high for Courson, who singled home Matt Wolf in the third for all the offense he would need.

Isaac Hutchinson then scored on a sacrifice fly by Ronan Cutright to provide the final margin.

“My fastball was working well,” said Courson, whose dad, Mike Courson, played high school

baseball for Menlo-Atherton. “I got two strikeouts on curves, though.”

Courson credits a new attitude of sorts for his recent success.

“My dad and my coaches have taught me not to let things get to me,” he said. “When you don’t let situations bother you emotionally, then things work out a lot better.”

Courson only needed four outs from his defense: the rest were strikeouts, including striking out the side in the fifth. Q

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said. “I’ve learned so much about myself in good ways and not-sogood ways. I’m very impatient.

I’ve got to learn to slow things down and not get so wrapped up in a fast-paced lifestyle.’’

Manuel’s accomplishments take on additional meaning due to the continued infrequency of AfricanAmerican athletes in the world of swimming. She became the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event when she tied for first place with Penny Oleksiak of Canada in the 100 free at the Rio Olympics, setting an Olympic record of 52.70 in the process.

“Yes, I have,’’ she answered when asked if she had received much feedback in the form of interest from the black community.

“I hear from a lot of people on social media, people telling me they’ve put their children in swim programs after watching my performance in Rio. I continue to be grateful to be in this position. Obviously there’s still a ways to go.’’

She’s also become a big advocate of water safety training to prevent children of all races from drowning.

“It’s nice if going 52 seconds is going to get people in the water,’’ she said. “Save their lives, challenge stereotypes, think outside the box.’’ Q

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Sophistication In Menlo Park A F L O O R P L A N T H AT P R O V I D E S D R A M A A N D L I VA B I L I T Y Off the beaten path, this updated 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath townhome has quality features and finishes.

The floor plan boasts 14 ft. ceilings in a 348 sq. ft. living room with fireplace, and a wall of glass looking into the serene, private patio. Over 2,500 sq ft of living space, plus an attached 2-car garage.

Community pool and park-like grounds.

Enjoy casual and fine dining at first-class restaurants in nearby Menlo Park, Redwood City and Palo Alto; shopping in downtown Menlo Park or at Northern California’s premier open-air Stanford Shopping Center; select from two international airports for travel; live near the world-class medical facilities and highly rated public and private schools.

List price: $2,195,000.

1611 STONE PINE LANE MENLO PARK

Nancy Goldcamp

OPEN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 1:30 – 4:30PM Buyer to verify dimensions. From sources deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

Direct: (650) 400-5800

Listing Agent: Nancy Goldcamp, DRE#00787851

nancy@nancygoldcamp.com www.nancygoldcamp.com

WWW.1611STONEPINE.COM

CAL BRE# 00787851

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