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When Terenia lost her ability to hold a paintbrush or a cup of tea, she knew it was time to get help. “I didn’t know what was happening to me,” said Terenia. “I was dropping everything. My hands were totally numb. I had totally given up painting portraits.” The Stanford Health Care’s Neurological Spine Disorders Clinic gave Terenia back the ability to paint pain-free. Neurosurgeon Anand Veeravagu, MD, utilized advanced robotic computer assistance and minimal access surgery to reconstruct both her neck and lower back. “The integration of advanced computer guidance and robotic assistance has transformed complex surgical cases by increasing safety and efficacy – patients do better and recover faster,” he said. Stanford Health Care is the first hospital in the Bay Area to use robotics for complex spine surgery. Months later, Terenia was painting again; her first piece, a painting for Dr. Veeravagu. “Being able to go back to work, it’s amazing,” she said. “I’m very grateful.” Page 2 • September 13, 2019 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
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City to lean on churches for help with car campers City Council committee supports relaxing rules for churches that want to host ‘safe parking,’ exploring city-owned sites by Gennady Sheyner ob Schulze, a pastor at Peninsula Bible Church on Middlefield Road, is well acquainted with Palo Alto’s growing homelessness population.
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In August, his church hosted Hotel de Zink, a homeless shelter than rotates among congregations in the area every 30 days. The prior winter, it hosted Heart and Home, a program that provided
shelter to women over a 45-day period. Schulze said he was a bit surprised to learn during the recent Hotel de Zink experience that several residents grew up in the city and graduated from Palo Alto schools. “Many have moved into the Palo Alto community over the last few years and many have grown up here, and that’s where they are in their life stage right now,”
Schulze told the City Council’s Policy and Services Committee on Tuesday night. The committee was deliberating on the latest proposal to address the city’s growing homeless population: a “safe parking” program that would allow people who live in vehicles to park overnight night in designated lots equipped with bathrooms and other amenities. The committee agreed Tuesday that the city
should continue exploring such a service, both for public or private lots. The program would borrow elements from recently adopted initiatives in Mountain View and in East Palo Alto. In each case, the city is working with nonprofits to offer services and case management to the vehicle dwellers. While hashing out the rules and identifying the proper site are (continued on page 10)
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Neighborhood fights to keep utilities underground
Green Acres I residents push back against proposal to place transformers above ground
from it every time” — Clavel felt increasingly disillusioned by the state of the school district. Her feelings intensified throughout the school year as leadership frequently turned over and pervasive technology use at school created conflict at home. For some parents, this might be their sole educational experience. But Clavel was comparing her children’s schools to those they attended in Japan and China before moving to Palo Alto in 2016. And Palo Alto’s fell short. “My children were getting lost in a district I came to believe was struggling with a systemic lack of oversight, where students’ academic — let alone social and emotional
by Gennady Sheyner tility wires may be out of sight in Green Acres I, where they are tucked away in underground vaults, but they are hardly out of mind for the residents in the quiet south Palo Alto neighborhood. The city has been talking for more than a year about the need to replace the neighborhood’s aged electric system, which has been buried in underground vaults since its installation in 1973. As part of the project, Palo Alto Utilities is proposing to take transformers out of their vaults and mount them on concrete pads while leaving all the wires and conduits underground. The proposal has triggered heated opposition from Green Acre I’s homeowners, who are arguing that their financial contributions to an underground system more than four decades ago effectively entitles them to keep the entire system underground in perpetuity. Under that 1972 deal, the city and the property owners agreed to an arrangement in which all the utilities were placed underground, with the city paying 75% of the costs and the owners paying the remaining 25%. The property owners’ share totaled about $43,000, roughly the equivalent of $265,000 in today’s money. The dispute between City of
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Gloria Williams, whose brother-in-law Vernon Paul Cherry was a firefighter and was killed on Sept. 11, 2001, talks about her loss and the memories of that day during the September 11 Multifaith Peace Picnic and Prayers event at City Hall Wednesday night. Williams is a member of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. To see more photos from the event, go to the Weekly’s Facebook page at facebook.com/paloaltoonline.
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Top-ranked but ‘viscerally’ disappointing: Book details a year in Palo Alto schools
Mother with degree in comparative international education writes that family experienced more culture shock with schooling in Palo Alto than in China and Japan by Elena Kadvany It felt like chaos.” Teru Clavel is not talking about the bare-bones school, nicknamed “The Prison,” that her son attended in Hong Kong or the rigorous preschool selection process for her young daughter in Tokyo, nor her family’s rocky cultural adjustment to school and
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life in Shanghai. She’s talking about one of the most sought-after and highly ranked public school districts in America: the Palo Alto Unified School District. From her family’s first moments in Palo Alto in 2016 — meeting a very pregnant teacher with no
planned replacement, being on the receiving end of a casual suggestion that she donate $3,000 to the school PTA, hearing that seventh-graders were told to pick just three free reading books all year and that they could read the same book three times “because they’ll learn something different
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KIND OF BLUE ... In May 2018, Palo Alto invited local residents to help create a public art installation called “The Blue Trees.” Prominently displayed at King Plaza in front of City Hall, the art consists of eight existing magnolia trees, each painted cobalt blue. At the time, the colorant was expected to stay on the tree trunks and branches for between nine months to a year before fading. But since then, 16 months has passed and the blue remains bright and distinct. Councilwoman Alison Cormack brought up “The Blue Trees,” a brainchild of the artist Konstantin Dimopoulos, during the Sept. 9 meeting between the council and the city’s Public Art Commission. Cormack wondered why the blue hasn’t dissolved by now. “I love the blue trees — my favorite color. But as I recall they were supposed to sort of dissolve. It is taking longer than expected? I’m not unhappy, just curious. ... Are they going to be there for a while?” she asked. Elise DeMarzo, director of the city’s public art program, suggested the public’s enthusiasm is to blame for the persistence of blue. “We had so many community volunteers who came out to help out with ‘The Blue Trees’ that layering was much thicker than it would normally be applied.” She noted that the coloring is starting to pigment and that she expects the upcoming rain season will help the art exhibit make its exit. COURT DECISION ... Former Santa Clara County Superior Court judge Aaron Persky, who was recalled last summer after widespread outrage at his 2016 sentencing in the Brock Turner sexual assault case, got a new job — but it didn’t last long. After media reports publicized that he was hired to coach the junior varsity girls tennis team at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, the school district swiftly fired him. On Tuesday, the district said that Persky met all of the district’s hiring requirements
and “was a qualified applicant for this position, having attended several tennis coaching clinics for youth, and holds a high rating from the United States Tennis Association.” By Wednesday, facing backlash and an online petition calling for his removal, the district announced that his employment had ended “in the best interest of our students and school community.” Persky told the Mercury News that Superintendent Polly Bove “was motivated by a desire to protect the players from the potentially intrusive media attention related to my hiring.” The former judge’s ousting was spurred by Persky’s decision to sentence Turner to six months in county jail after a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious and intoxicated young woman outside a Stanford University frat party. Last week, that young woman publicly identified herself as Chanel Miller, a Palo Alto native, in advance of a forthcoming memoir she wrote about the assault, trial and aftermath. A TALE OF TWO CITIES ... A slice of local life is on display for the world at the Visa Pour L’Image , an international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France. San Francisco-based photographer Laura Morton’s “University Avenue” shows the stark differences between Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. “On one side Palo Alto has the massive fortunes created by Silicon Valley’s technology industry, while in East Palo Alto, mostly on the other side of Highway 101, the community has been squeezed out, away from these fortunes,” Morton wrote on the festival website. “One street, University Avenue, runs through the heart of both communities.” Morton produced the project through an over $8,000 grant than came with her 2018 Canon Female Photojournalist Award. The festival started on Aug. 31 and wraps up this weekend. “This is a documentary record of residents of both communities who are, in their own way, working and going about their daily lives while living in the shadow of the technology giants,” Morton wrote in a description for the project. To view Morton’s work, visit visapourlimage.com. Q
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Board questions historic analysis of Castilleja expansion
Paly grad among Conception boat fire victims
Members of Historical Resources Board demand further evaluation of home slated for demolition by Gennady Sheyner
s Castilleja School moves ahead with its divisive expansion plan, project proponents often cite the long and accomplished history of the Palo Alto institution, which opened its Bryant Street campus in 1910 and which is now looking to rebuild it. But on Thursday, it was the project’s opponents who were touting the historical significance of Castilleja and its founder, Mary Lockey. The school’s expansion plan calls for demolishing a home on Bryant Street that is named after Lockey. And though the home at 1263 Emerson St. has undergone numerous additions and modifications in recent decades and has not been deemed “historically significant” (Mary Lockey never actually lived there), several residents argued at the hearing of the Historic Resources Board that its removal could diminish the historic character of the school and the neighborhood. Some argued that the recently released draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the school’s expansion should have included a full historic analysis of the home, as well of the neighborhood around the school. The board largely shared these concerns and, in doing so, added another wrinkle to the tense approval process that’s been slowly making its way through city review. Though board members didn’t take a vote, they agreed that the Environmental Impact Report should further evaluate the Lockey house and the broader neighborhood for historic significance. As such, they requested that the analysis be revised. The board’s comments came less than a month after the city’s Planning and Transportation Commission discussed the draft report and similarly found the document to be lacking. At its Aug. 14 meeting, the commission requested more information about traffic counts, bike routes and other design alternatives, including one that would not require the construction of an underground garage. Thursday’s hearing on the environmental analysis was far more subdued than the one last month, which brought hundreds of supporters and opponents of the Castilleja plan to City Hall. But much like at the first meeting, project proponents highlighted Castilleja’s laudable mission of educating young women while opponents focused on potentially harmful impacts to the neighborhood. Kimberley Wong, who lives on Emerson Street, was one of several speakers who brought up the Lockey Alumnae House and suggested
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that the structure should be preserved. The fact that this house is associated with a person of significance should qualify it for the National Historic Register, Wong said. Andie Reed, who lives on Melville Avenue, argued that the report also failed to consider the historical significance of the residential neighborhood around Castilleja. The school’s proposal would lead to both a change in land use and to changing traffic patterns — factors
that she argued would alter the character of the neighborhood. “Please recommend retaining the residential feel of our neighborhood and leaving this house intact,” Reed said. City staff, however, has taken the position that the house is not eligible for the California Register because of a “lack of integrity.” A report from Planning Director Jonathan Lait notes that Castilleja had (continued on page 12)
Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a study session with the city’s federal lobbyist, go into closed session to discuss existing litigation, Jay Greer v. City of Palo Alto, consider a resolution allowing neighborhood self-funding of certain subsurface utilities equipment, discuss potential revenue generating ballot measures for November 2020, consider the Caltrain business plan and designate a voting delegate and alternate for the League of California Cities Annual 2019 Conference. The study session is scheduled for 5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 16, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The closed session is scheduled for 6 p.m. The rest of the meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. or as soon as possible after the closed session. CITY COUNCIL ... The council will hold a closed session to discuss the performance evaluation of the city attorney and the city manager. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 17, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY/SCHOOL LIAISON COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to recap recent school board and City Council meetings, discuss next steps for Cubberley Community Center lease agreement negotiations, and hear updates on the city’s plans for grade separation and on Stanford University’s General Use Permit application. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The commission plans to review proposed art for a mixed-use development at 565 Hamilton Ave., discuss a public art plan for the California Avenue corridor; adopt priorities for the coming year; and hear an update about temporary art on the California Avenue garage construction fence. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE ... The school board’s policy review committee will meet at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave., Room A. An agenda was not available by the Weekly’s press deadline.
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The intersection of Emerson Street and Melville Avenue would be the site of the exit from an underground garage proposed by Castilleja School. Neighbors are now fighting the expansion plan by asking for a historical review of the neighborhood.
A Palo Alto High School graduate is among the 34 people who died in the Conception boat fire on Labor Day in southern California. A Stanford University alumnus is also feared to be among the dead. Caroline McLaughlin, 35, was one of the people the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office named during a press conference on Sept. 6. She was aboard the 75-foot commercial diving boat that caught fire at around 3:30 a.m. early Sept. 2 near Santa Cruz Island and sank about four hours later. McLaughlin, who was known to her family and friends as Carrie, graduated from Paly in 2001 and the University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts in 2005. She pursued a career in web design in the Bay Area, most recently as a senior software engineer at San Francisco-based Brilliant.org, a website and online community that offers math, science and engineering courses. It was a job she loved, according to her father, Don McLaughlin. Don McLaughlin said his daughter would have turned 36 on Sept. 16. She attended Addison Elementary and Jordan Middle School in Palo Alto. Her classmates voted her as the student who would “most likely to succeed in computers” when she was in her senior year at Paly, he said. Sunil Singh Sandhu, 46, a Stanford University graduate who lived in Palo Alto and Half Moon Bay, also apparently died in the blaze, his father Sojit Singh said in an interview with Singaporean newspaper The New Paper. Of the 39 passengers on board, five people were rescued and 34 bodies were found, sheriff’s officials said. Also in the group was Raymond Scott Chan, a 59-year-old resident of Los Altos. He was a physics teacher at American High School in Fremont, the Fremont Unified School District said in a tweet on Tuesday. Chan’s daughter Kendra Chan, 26, of Los Altos, also perished in the fire, according to Palo Alto Online’s sister newspaper the Mountain View Voice. She graduated from Mountain View High School in 2011. While the investigation is ongoing, Brown said that early indications suggest that all the victims died from smoke inhalation. Q —Palo Alto Weekly staff
Push for housing spreads to San Antonio
For years, Palo Alto’s elected leaders have focused their housing efforts on downtown and around California Avenue, the two parts in the city with the most transportation options and retail opportunities. But with the city’s housing efforts falling well short of the City Council’s goals, officials are now considering an option that would be almost unthinkable a few years ago: encouraging housing density along San Antonio Road, the very area that they previously deemed unsuitable for residential construction. On Wednesday, the Planning and Transportation Commission discussed and generally supported the idea of extending the city’s Housing Incentive Program — which offers density bonuses for residential projects and which currently applies only to downtown, California Avenue and El Camino Real — to San Antonio Road. The change was proposed by a developer who is looking to build a four-story, mixed-use building with 102 apartments at 788 San Antonio Road. The commission didn’t take any votes on the project, which will face reviews from the Architectural Review Board before returning to the commission and ultimately the council. Q —Gennady Sheyner
Council gives group more say on rail redesign
Seeking to bring some order and clarity to the city’s convoluted debate over the future of its rail corridor, the Palo Alto City Council agreed on Monday to expand the powers of a citizens committee that is charged with guiding the city toward the finish line. By unanimously voting to change the rules, the council acknowledged that its process for selecting the preferred alternative for grade separation — the physical separation of the railroad tracks from local streets — hasn’t gone as smoothly as anyone has expected. They also largely agreed with criticism from members of the Expanded Community Advisory Committee (known as XCAP), who argued Monday that the existing process is marred by fuzzy goals and insufficient attention from council members. To address the group’s concerns, the council agreed to empower the 14-member group to make votes and to appoint a chair and a co-chair to lead the group meetings. It also charged the group to report to the council at least once every two months — a departure from the present practice, in which XCAP deals mostly with city staff and consultants. The city is looking to modify these crossings in response to Caltrain’s ongoing electrification project, which is expected to increase train service and potentially cause congestion around the rail crossings. Q —Gennady Sheyner
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In split decision, school board shuts down proposed change to two-meeting rule Parents, board members defend decadeslong practice as essential to promoting transparency and public engagement by Elena Kadvany t appeared that the majority of the Palo Alto school board supported making it the exception rather than the norm to require two meetings on an issue before taking a vote — until the board member who proposed the shift changed his position on Tuesday night. “I thought that this proposed language would potentially provide clarity to achieve the purpose of the rule better than it’s being achieved now,” board member Shounak Dharap said. “I think it’s safe to say I was wrong.” Despite maintaining that the existing rule lacks clarity, Dharap decided against supporting the policy change he had drafted four months ago, noting there now seems to be “broad, unanimous” opposition from community members. He had proposed that instead of the current practice — requiring
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that the board discuss items over two public meetings before taking a vote — that all non-routine agenda items be designated initially for the vote unless two board members request that action on an item be postponed. Several parents and community members, including former school board members, have spoken out against his proposal, defending the rule as an effective, longtime practice that protects transparency and encourages public engagement. “The proposal to do away with the two-meeting rule represents a step in the direction of less transparency, less accountability and with it a less democratic school board,” parent Michelle Higgins told the board on Tuesday. “Anybody who has attended the public-comment portion of a board meeting during the past year would recognize that there is already justifiable community
concern for lack of transparency in district decision-making, and that includes concern that the school board has fallen down on more than one occasion in conducting reasonable oversight of key district decisions.” Dana Tom, who served on the board from 2005 to 2014, cautioned that it takes time for the community to become aware of issues, often after an item has already been discussed once. “If the standard becomes one meeting for items, there will be many more times the public will feel blindsided and shut out,” he wrote in an email to the board. “The public deserves better than that.” Board President Jennifer DiBrienza and member Melissa Baten Caswell also opposed the policy change. They cited examples of major board decisions that benefited from new information that came out between
the first and subsequent meetings, including the recent renaming of two middle schools and, in 2012, when a citizens committee stopped the district from issuing a particular kind of bond, saving taxpayers $850 million. “Maybe we do things a little differently from other communities, but clearly this community needs to know what their elected officials are talking about,” Baten Caswell said. DiBrienza said the board has become “more efficient than I ever thought we would become” in recent years, with more orderly, shorter meetings. The district should focus on improving communication about upcoming board items with the public rather than reducing the number of times they’re discussed, she said. Vice President Todd Collins and board member Ken Dauber were in the minority in their support of the proposed change. Dauber said he was disappointed that Dharap, with whom he serves on the board’s policy review committee, withdrew his support. “I’m disappointed that he has stepped back from that because I think he was right then and I think he’s wrong now,” Dauber said. Dauber has long criticized the
two-meeting rule as an anomaly among public agencies and a practice that makes the board less efficient and effective. (The Palo Alto City Council has a “second reading” ordinance, which is distinct from the school board’s two-meeting rule. Agenda items that the council has voted on return to a future meeting on the consent calendar for final approval and can only be removed by a majority vote.) “Doing things two times doesn’t somehow make them more transparent,” Dauber said. “If this practice is so critical to transparency and democracy, why are we the only ones that find it necessary to do it?” Dharap suggested two new amendments that he said would preserve the rule but make it clearer: directing staff to draft definitions of routine and nonroutine agenda items and creating an exemption that the twomeeting requirement would not apply to any agenda items that are made publicly available 14 days before a board meeting. He requested that the board’s policy review committee take these up for further study, but not enough of his colleagues supported doing so. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
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Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU) and the homeowners bubbled up this week, when residents persuaded the city to defer revising some regulations in the utilities code pertaining to special facilities. And it will take center stage next Monday, when the City Council considers a new rule that would allow property owners to request special accommodations, provided they are willing to foot the bill for installing and maintaining the new equipment. The council hearing will be the culmination of more than a year of debate, revised plans and threats of litigation. Kent Mitchell, an attorney representing the Green Acres I residents, argued in an April letter that when the installation of the underground equipment was approved, there was no indication that the undergrounding would not be permanent. Instead, the council’s actions created the reasonable expectation that the city would maintain and repair the equipment and, as owner of the facilities, spread the cost evenly to all property owners much in the same way it does for road maintenance and drainage facilities, Mitchell argued. “It was eminently reasonable for Green Acres I owners to expect the same for their undergrounded facilities, given that they paid a substantial sum for such undergrounding privileges and property benefits in the first instance,” Mitchell wrote. Mitchell argued that because the property owners bought the right to have underground utilities, it would be “unlawful and a violation of their rights for the city to charge them for the perceived extra cost of maintaining underground facilities as compared to above ground facilities.” “It would also be a breach of good faith and fair dealing for the city to do so because of its desire to save maintained money, and thereby deny our clients the
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expected to take months, the committee also recommended a more immediate fix: leaning on churches like Peninsula Bible Church to provide overnight parking space. By a unanimous vote, the committee directed staff to take a tiered approach to the creation of a “safe parking” program. First, the city will modify zoning rules to make it easier for local congregations to host up to four vehicles during the night. Concurrently, the city will discuss with large landowners (such as Stanford University) about using their parking lots — including ones at Stanford Research Park — for overnight parking. The city will also continue to
financial and aesthetic benefits of undergrounding they contracted and paid for in full.” But the city’s utilities staff are arguing that keeping transformers underground would make the system both more expensive and less reliable than having a standard pad-mounted installation. Greg McKernan, a senior engineer at Utilities Department, said at the April 9 meeting of the Utilities Advisory Commission that two districts have already seen their underground utilities rebuilt, with transformers moved above ground. About seven neighborhoods currently have fully underground equipment, he said. One advantage of having padmounted equipment, he said, is that it makes it easier to locate the source of a power outage. Underground vaults are sometimes filled with water, which needs to be pumped out before equipment can be inspected. Above-ground equipment does not fill with water, he said. “While it may sometimes be technically feasible to install equipment in underground vaults, this sort of fully subsurface installation is substantially more expensive than a standard pad-mounted installation, and — in the view of CPAU staff — is likely to be less reliable and more costly to maintain and operate than a standard installation,” a new report from Utilities Department states. Debra Lloyd, assistant director of the engineering division, said utilities staff have tried to address residents’ concerns by considering less visible places for the pad-mounted equipment. An April staff report indicated there could be up to 11 such pads in Green Acres I. Each cubical equipment box would rise to about the waist of an average adult standing next to it, according to a city photo. “What we heard back was, ‘We don’t want to talk about padmounts; we want to talk about fully undergrounded,’” Lloyd said. The Utilities Advisory
Commission recommended on April 9 allowing the residents to have a say in whether their utilities should remain fully undergrounded. If the council approves a new proposal from Utilities Department, each neighborhood where the utilities are being rebuilt will have a chance to request a fully undergrounded system, provided they pay the extra costs. In Green Acres I, that extra expense could amount to more than $31,000 per property owner. The proposal is facing a rough reception in Green Acres I, where residents are characterizing it as a bait-and-switch by the Utilities Department. Several residents addressed the council on the topic this week and many more sent emails to the council, protesting the plan to either replace the underground transformers with pad-mounted ones or make the neighbors foot the bill for a fully undergrounded system. Michael Maurier, who lives in the neighborhood, called the utilities plan “entirely unrealistic, wholly unworkable and unacceptable.” “Green Acres I property owners paid to have their wiring, transformers and switches all placed fully underground,” Maurier wrote. “They are invested in our system and thus are partial owners. This is a documented fact. The CPAU and those that support their position are taking away something that Green Acres I residents own.” Resident Ning Mosberger-Tan said the neighbors are “strongly against CPAU’s plan to move the switches and transformers above the ground in our neighborhood.” “It’ll be aesthetically devastating with potential negative impact on the property value,” Mosberger-Tan wrote. Under the proposed rule change, neighborhoods where utilities are getting upgraded will have 45 days after notification from the city to submit a petition showing at least 60% of the parcels in the utility undergrounding district support a fully undergrounded system. They
explore two publicly owned sites that staff had identified as potentially viable: an 0.9-acre lot at 2000 Geng Road, in the Baylands Athletic Center, and the former Los Altos Sewage Treatment Plant parcel at 1237 San Antonio Road. Each site has its challenges. The 13.27 acres on San Antonio include marshland, elevated fill and a 2.6-acre area that is currently used for storage by the city’s trash hauler, GreenWaste. Given the presence of protected wetlands, staff deemed only 0.9 acres in the middle of the site, which also include six former wastewater treatment ponds, to be available for the program. The Geng Road parcel, meanwhile, is adjacent to the Baylands Athletic Fields, and local sports teams have been looking forward
to seeing the plot converted to sports fields. Neal Aronson, operations director for Palo Alto Soccer Club, told the committee that while his group wholeheartedly supports the “safe parking” effort, it would prefer to see the lot established elsewhere. “We just don’t think Geng Road is the right site,” Aronson said. “There’s a competing use that’s been in planning for quite a while and we’d like to see ... the area dedicated to youth sports and youth playing fields.” With the debate over whether to use public land expected to extend well into next year, the committee urged staff to move quickly on granting local congregations leeway to launch their own programs. This could be achieved by changing the zoning code to designate parking lots for up to
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A utility worker stands by a padmounted utility box, which the city of Palo Alto is proposing to use in local neighborhoods to replace aging underground transformer vaults. Courtesy city of Palo Alto
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will also have to submit a payment to cover engineering costs for developing the underground system. After the city receives the petition and the payments, it would provide the neighborhood with either a written estimate for the underground installation or a finding that such an installation is not practicable. The neighborhood will then have 90 days to provide the city a full payment for the cost difference between underground installation and the standard type. In the case of Green Acres I, staff estimates that an underground installation would cost about $200,000 more than a standard installation. Ongoing costs of ownership are estimated to add another $275,000 over the 30year life of the equipment. Under the staff proposal, the 15 property owners in the Green Acres I district would pay the full $475,000 in incremental costs. The remaining $420,000 (the cost of a standard installation) would be covered by the broader base of City of Palo Alto Utilities ratepayers. The commission generally supported staff’s recommended approach, with Commissioner A.C. Johnston noting that a fully underground system is a “specific
benefit to your neighborhood.” “The rest of the ratepayers don’t share in that benefit,” Johnston said. “So I think it’s fair to have the neighborhood share the additional cost of undergrounding — if that’s their choice.” Former Commissioner Judith Schwartz disagreed and said allowing neighbors to dictate what their utility system will look like would set a bad precedent — one that will go beyond Green Acres I and that could apply to other types of utilities equipment. The debate isn’t about underground equipment, she said. It’s about whether neighborhoods “get to dictate to the utilities how to do it. “I think the idea of having individual neighborhoods decide — make engineering decisions — strikes me as problematic,” Schwartz said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
four vehicles as “incidental use” for local congregations. By focusing on churches, Palo Alto is following in the footsteps of Mountain View, which has two churches currently participating in a program called Lots of Love. Dave Arnone, a board member at Move Mountain View (MV), a nonprofit that has helped churches set up the program in that city and in Sunnyvale, told the committee that his organization is ready to help Palo Alto launch its own program. Move MV has the needed funding and insurance to work with the city, he said. All it needs is to find a case-management provider that can operate in Palo Alto. Arnone urged Palo Alto leaders Tuesday to make it clear to local congregations that parking lots are an allowed use for housing
vehicle dwellers overnight. “I’d love to see safe parking happen in the churches,” Arnone said. “The churches that are doing it feel like it’s a pretty easy thing for them to do. Once the lots get up and operating, there’s very little that’s required of them.” Palo Alto’s elected leaders agreed on Tuesday that relaxing rules for churches is the easiest thing to do in the near term. They also agreed that for the program to succeed, the city will need to do extensive outreach to residents in areas where the program would be established. Neighbors should be sufficiently notified so that they won’t be surprised by an RV parking lot near their homes, Councilman Greg Tanaka said. This isn’t the first time Palo
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Alto’s elected officials have looked to churches for answers. In 2012, the city reached out to dozens of local religious congregations to explore a possible vehicle-dwelling program, and only First Presbyterian Church agreed to participate. Committee Chair Liz Kniss recalled Tuesday that the program quickly fizzled under opposition from neighbors of the churches. “I think we’ll have to get very creative with finding a parking lot that doesn’t in some way impact the neighbors,” Kniss said. “That’s what happened previously. The neighbors began by being comfortable and after a few weeks of it — it didn’t work for that particular situation.” The idea of exploring a “safe parking” program came out of a June memo from council members Tom DuBois and Lydia Kou. The memo notes the recent rise in Santa Clara County’s homeless population, which according to a recent census increased by 31% between January 2017 and January 2019. “We don’t know who lives in the vehicles now, but certainly we want to make sure families are addressed, especially people with children. And of course, there are people who are sick and (there are) seniors,” Kou said Tuesday. “But the goal is to move them toward more stable housing.” The council is also hoping to address a barrage of citizen complaints about RVs parking along El Camino Real and in the neighborhoods. The city’s Police Department has logged 1,500 complaints annually for abandoned vehicles, with the list of concerns including
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remodeled the home after acquiring it in the 1990s. The city’s 19982000 historic surveyed found the home to be “potentially eligible” for the state register but not for the National Register. Kathy Layendecker, associate head of school at Castilleja, said the all-girls school is “steeped in tradition” and that it has “created a clear and concise proposal that protects the historic elements of our campus through our project.” “The buildings we hope to replace have serve Castilleja well for 60 years,” Layendecker said. “We want to create new places that will last even longer.” The project calls for reconfiguring about 84,000 square feet of academic space by demolishing seven existing buildings and building a three-story building with an underground level. The new campus would also have a 50,000-square-foot underground garage. As part of the project, the school is also proposing to increase its maximum enrollment from 415 to 540 students, with no more than
sanitation, safety, parking impacts, blight and impaired visibility due to RVs. Individuals and families may be living in some of these vehicles, a report from the Department of Planning and Community Environment states. The police department also surveyed the streets on Aug. 13 and saw 126 motor homes, recreational vehicles or converted vans on city streets, the report states. Staff noted that people live in vehicles for a variety of reasons, including rent increases, sudden life events that lead to financial challenges or job opportunities that prompt people who live far from the area to sleep in their cars rather than make the long commute home. Despite the city’s shaky record with proposed “safe parking” efforts, some residents urged the committee to give the program another shot. Resident Winter Dellenbach noted that even if the city is able to identify space for several dozen vehicles, that would amount to helping about a quarter of the city’s vehicle dwellers, based on the police survey. “This isn’t just another thing we can do. This is another thing we desperately need to do because these people desperately need to have safe harbor for them to live in their dwellings,” Dellenbach said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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27 new students added each year. But members of the board suggested that in evaluating future impacts, the consultants who studied Castilleja’s expansion plan did not sufficiently consider the school’s past. Board member Deborah Shepherd pointed to the “unique relationship historically between the school and the community. “It’s a very delicate balance. But it’s a story worth telling, and we should be careful not to lose it,” Shepherd said. Board member Michael Makinen agreed. The school’s contributions to education in the city constituted a significant “event” by state standards, potentially making the area worthy of recognition as a historic district, he said. “All these things should be considered in the historic report. I don’t think they’re adequately addressed here,” Makinen said. The 60-day comment period on the EIR will conclude Monday. Comments can be submitted to Castilleja.expansion@cityofpalo alto.org. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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She came to see this kind of standardized, rigorous approach as a benefit rather than a drawback. (In the introduction to “World Class,” Clavel asks readers to stay open-minded to unfamiliar or provocative practices.) “The common theme I found in Asia was a reverence for education that is cemented by a unified team of teachers, parents and students. I learned to appreciate seeing preschoolers sitting at desks, engrossed in academic puzzles. I grew to find joy seeing my children following the opposite of a personalized learning curriculum; instead, every student in the entire nation in the same grade learned the same material at the same time,” Clavel writes. “Children’s success is not left to chance, corporate interests, or the socioeconomic backgrounds of their parents.” By contrast, she likens the American school system to Swiss cheese, with gaping holes filled only by those with the means to do so. Those holes, she said, are glaring in Palo Alto, where privilege pays for private tutors, college counseling, extracurriculars and the like. (Clavel is guilty of this herself, signing her children up for an after-school math program, Mandarin and Japanese tutors and a Stanford Model UN program when she was dissatisfied with what she felt were low academic expectations in Palo Alto schools.) Privileged, vocal parents in Palo Alto also more often demand — and get — a seat at the table for important decisions affecting the schools, Clavel observed. “For PAUSD parents and educators, many families seem to be going around the system — imposing high standards at home and giving up on the school,” she said. “It’s the ‘broken feedback loop,’ as one PAUSD board member explained to me. Parents and teachers need to work together for transparency, alignment (collaborative and curricular), accountability and higher expectations at school.” Inequities in U.S. schools are also exacerbated by uneven funding models. School funding in Japan is top-down, compared to in California, where wealthy,
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Rail: The council agreed to expand the powers and responsibilities of the Expanded Community Advisory Committee, which will have until April 30 to conclude its work, and directed staff to return in December with more information about a proposed Rail Blue Ribbon Committee. Yes: Unanimous Catalina Ulczar/Courtesy Teru Clavel
— needs were getting lost in bureaucratic failures,” she writes in a new book that documents her family’s journey through sharply contrasting school systems across the world. “World Class: One Mother’s Journey Halfway Around the Globe in Search of the Best Education for Her Children” is a sharp critique of Palo Alto Unified, where her children attended elementary and middle school for a year before the family, dissatisfied with the quality of public education here, decamped to New York City. But it’s also part family autobiography and part advocacy guide for reform in the U.S. public school system through the lens of schools in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tokyo. The book draws on her personal experience as well as also education research, interviews with experts, conferences and visits to public, charter and private schools across the country. “I felt like I had this social responsibility to write (the book) because I saw and experienced through my children something that I think most parents will never experience,” Clavel said in an interview. “Although we were expatriates overseas, I did choose to enroll my kids in local public schools that were achieving really high standards and educational outcomes — higher than those in the U.S. on average.” Clavel had the idea for “World Class” in 2013, when she started writing articles about education while the family was living in Tokyo. She had just finished a master’s degree in comparative international education and had seen her children through public schools — rather than international schools for English-speaking transplants — in Shanghai and Hong Kong. But it wasn’t until they moved to Palo Alto that the book crystallized for her as something that should be broadly relatable to the needs of American parents, teachers and policymakers. Her goal is to two-fold: to inspire parents to import or at least learn from educational philosophies that work well in China and Japan and to empower them to advocate for a better education for their children. Clavel describes how practices in China and Japan that Western schools chafe at — rote memorization, academic drills, standardization, “unapologetically” competitive academics — actually gave her children “an unparalleled knowledge base.” In Shanghai, for example, schools are focused on mastery; every student is expected to learn the material and failure is not an option, Clavel said. Her son, then 6 years old, was reduced to tears after being forced to stay after school there one day because he got lower than a 95 on a math quiz. In Japan, textbooks are shorter, change less frequently and are taught cover to cover, rather than piecemeal.
Teru Clavel, a mother with a master’s degree in comparative international education, has sharp criticism for the Palo Alto Unified School District after also sending her children to schools in China and Japan. high-performing districts like Palo Alto benefit from local property taxes, and struggling districts must rely on state funding — a “legal form of educational gerrymandering,” Clavel has said. And while the Asian schools Clavel experienced were no-frills to the extreme (including no running toilets or heat), she was confident it was because dollars were being spent where they mattered most: on teacher training and salaries, professional development and student supports. In Palo Alto, by contrast, she balked at a $30,000 budget line item for ergonomic chairs for fifth-graders. Clavel was also shocked by “technology run amok” in Palo Alto schools, including her son’s fifth-grade class receiving PTAfunded iPads without her or the school principal’s knowledge. She advocates for a more balanced approach to incorporating technology into the classroom. “Tech — it’s not the savior, and it’s causing all kinds of strife in families at home,” Clavel said, suggesting that all public schools be mandated to develop partnerships between schools and home on technology use. After leaving Palo Alto for New York City, Clavel reluctantly enrolled her children in private schools, for a variety of reasons. But their experience in Palo Alto lit a fire under her to advocate for reform in the public school system. Parents who share this fire, she said, should educate themselves on school funding models and curricular standards, go to their local school board meetings and lobby their elected officials, including at the state level, for change. “In the U.S. especially, you really have to roll your sleeves up,” she said. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
Board of Education (Sept. 10)
Fletcher project: The board approved an addendum to the SVA Architects contract to provide conceptual design services for the Fletcher Middle School project in the amount of $25,000. Yes: Unanimous Walter Hays project: The board approved an addendum to the LPA Architects contract to provide conceptual design services for the Walter Hays Elementary School project in the amount of $29,000. Yes: Unanimous Two-meeting rule: The board discussed a proposal to amend its two-meeting rule. Action: None Budget: The board heard an update on the 2019-20 budget. Action: None
Council Policy and Services Committee (Sept. 10)
Nonprofits: The committee recommended accepting an audit of the city’s management of its contracts with nonprofits. Yes: Unanimous Audits: The committee approved the quarterly report from the city auditor. Yes: Kniss, Kou No: Tanaka Safe parking: The committee directed staff to pursue a tiered approach on establishing a “safe parking” program for vehicle dwellers. This includes revising the zoning code to enable local congregations to host up to four vehicles on their lots and continuing to evaluate larger sites. Yes: Unanimous
Planning and Transportation Commission (Sept. 11) 788 San Antonio Road: The commission held a scoping session on an Environmental Impact Report for a proposed development that includes 102 residential units at 788 San Antonio Road. Action: None
Historic Resources Board (Sept. 12)
Castilleja: The board held a public hearing on the Environmental Impact Report for Castilleja School’s proposed expansion project. Action: None
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Edward T. (Terry) Hogan August 7, 1939 - August 19, 2019 Edward Teryl Hogan, known to all as Terry, passed away on August 19 in Palo Alto, twelve days after his 80th birthday. He was born on August 7, 1939 in Waukegan, Illinois, to John and Jewell Hogan. He graduated in 1957 from Waukegan Township High School and in 1961 from Northwestern University. Terry joined the Coast Guard Reserve in 1961 and was stationed at Base Alameda in California for six months. He then began working in the management trainee program of Allstate Insurance Company’s Menlo Park regional office. In 1960 Terry met his lifetime soulmate and partner, Elizabeth Livingston, on a blind date. Terry took Liz to Riverview Amusement Park in Chicago, then to a drive-in for a hamburger and a root beer. Terry and Liz married in 1963 and settled into an apartment in San Francisco, near Golden Gate Park. In 1965 they moved down the Peninsula to Menlo Park, where they lived until buying their home in Palo Alto in 1973. In the mid 1970s, Terry transferred to Allstate’s Research and Planning Center on Middlefield Road in Menlo Park as personnel, facilities, and budget manager. He worked there until taking early retirement in December of 1994. Terry said he was born to be retired, and he looked forward to every day as an adventure. He liked to golf, enjoyed playing on various courses, and was a member of and had once served as tournament director of the Palo Alto Golf Club. He discovered lawn bowling and was a natural, serving as a designated coach, tournament chair, and president of the Palo Alto Lawn Bowls Club. He was also a member of Fellowship Forum in Palo Alto, having served as treasurer and president, and a life member of the Palo Alto Historical Association. Terry appreciated and supported the arts and culture and was a past president of the Pacific Musical Society. In retirement, Terry and Liz had time to travel, with Terry as trip planner as they explored Europe on their own. Much to his surprise, he found that he liked cruising, and they traveled to many out-of-the-way places by ship. Closer to home were regular outings to Plumas National Forest, the coast, and San Francisco. Around town it was out for a cup of coffee, a movie, a walk at the Baylands, or dinner at a favorite restaurant—if he wasn’t firing up the Big Green Egg to barbecue at home. Known for his dry sense of humor, he liked to go into the card store and ask, “Do you have any cards?� He enjoyed walking around town wearing his John Deere cap, always getting a reaction from someone. He was a natural storyteller. Terry was someone who was completely comfortable with who he was, at ease in any situation. He was generous. He saw positives rather than negatives. Family was important to Terry, and he was sure to attend all family events. He was a friend to all, young and old, in all walks of life. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Terry is survived by Liz, his wife of 56 years; two sisters, Patricia K. Hogan of Waukegan, IL and Mary Loretta Knight of Santa Rosa, CA; many loving nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews, and even great great nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, brother John “Jackie� J. Hogan Jr., sister Kathryn Schueneman, and loving aunts and uncles. A service of remembrance for Terry will be held in Waukegan, IL on September 21. A local remembrance is pending. Donations may be made in Terry’s memory to the American Cancer Society, to the California State Parks Foundation, or to Mills College. PAID
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The County of Santa Clara Board of Supervisors will hold one study session on the Stanford General Use Permit. Study session relating to background information on the Stanford University Community Plan (SCP), the General Use Permit (GUP), the Sustainable Development Study and Supplement, and the L_PZ[PUN YLN\SH[VY` ZL[[PUN P L HŃ&#x153;VYKHISL OV\ZPUN VYKPUHUJLZ \ZL WLYTP[ Ă&#x201E;UKPUNZ Project Location: Stanford University Community Plan Area consisting of approximately 4,017 acres located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County adjacent to San Mateo County (see diagram below). Supervisorial District: 5. File Nos. PLN98-7165 (7165-98P-99GP-99EIR) and PLN16-7165 (7165-16P-16GP-16Z-16EIR).
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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Sept. 5-11
Violence related Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Strong arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Burglary attempt from auto. . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 5 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . 7 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 3 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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WHEN AND WHERE: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 No earlier than 1:30 p.m. Board of Supervisorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Chambers County Government Center 70 West Hedding Street, 1st Floor San JosĂŠ, CA 95110 CONTACTS: County of Santa Clara Planning Department Sylvia Gallegos, Deputy County Executive Jacqueline R. Onciano, Director of Planning & Development .LVŃ&#x153; )YHKSL` *VUZ\S[PUN 7YVQLJ[ 4HUHNLY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION relating to the above project, WSLHZL JVU[HJ[! .LVŃ&#x153; )YHKSL` *VUZ\S[PUN 7YVQLJ[ 4HUHNLY (408) 340-5642, gbradley@m-group.us
Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Indecent exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto
Arastradero Road, 9/7, 4:25 a.m.; domestic violence/battery. 400 block Florence St., 9/9, 4:56 p.m.; attempted strong arm robbery.
Menlo Park
1100 block Pine St., 9/7, 9:05 p.m.; battery.
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Adele C. Porcella
Adele C. Porcella, 88, died at her daughter’s home in Palo Alto on June 23 after a years-long battle with heart disease. A f fectionately known as “Addi,” she was a 62-year resident of Palo Alto. She was born on July 5, 1930, in Genoa, Italy, at her family home and was the third of nine children. In Italy, she studied accounting but had a passion for medicine. She began studying nursing but was called to work in the family business, where she was working when her older brother’s former tutor returned to Genoa from America to ask for her hand in marriage. She married Rinaldo Porcella on May 18, 1957, in Genoa, and later moved with her husband to Palo Alto where Rinaldo worked as a librarian at Stanford University. Initially, she stayed home with her four children and in the evenings would walk to Palo Alto Adult School to learn English. She baked bread, made fresh pasta, canned homemade sauces, jams and much more. She also sewed clothes for her children, curtains, drapes and slip covers all while taking adult school courses. As her children grew older and started elementary school, she attended classes at Foothill College, earning an associate degree and successfully completing a three-year radiology program to become an X-ray technologist. She then worked for 22 years at the Mountain View Medical Clinic. She and her husband were longtime parishioners of Saint Thomas Aquinas Parish. She enjoyed traveling, politics, cooking shows, mystery dramas, old movies and especially cooking for her family. Family was important to her and she enjoyed seeing her grandchildren grow up. She spearheaded many family trips to different parts of California and beyond. She thought it was important to expose her children to new places and experiences, including a long drive to the World’s Fair in Spokane, Washington, and driving
to Yellowstone National Park. She was a political junkie and stayed interested and informed about national and global politics until the end of her life. She was preceded in death by her husband of 36 years, Rinaldo; her older sister; and two brothers. She is survived by three sisters and two brothers; her four children, Francesco (Becky), John (Ann), Clara (Finbarr) and Caterina (Jack); her six grandchildren and future granddaughter-in-law; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins in Italy. A memorial mass in her honor will be held on Sept. 28 at 2 p.m. at Saint Thomas Aquinas Church, 751 Waverley St., Palo Alto. Messages to the family may be submitted at crippenandflynnchapels. com/obituary/adele-porcella.
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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions
Letters Program is a life changer
Editor, Thank you, Chris Kenrick, for your thoughtful description of a cardiac program that has made a difference in thousands of people’s lives in this area. A few years ago, I had the privilege of hearing about the program’s founding from Gary Fry, a cardiologist at the Palo Alto Clinic. As the article stated, in 1970 Dr. Gary Fry started the program as YMCA Cardiac Therapy. At that time, he had to fight to have it recognized by the insurance companies. He had patients getting out of bed the day after surgery and into the program. Thanks to Gary Fry, it was a life changer for so many. Pat Irish Webster Street, Palo Alto
Protect residents first
Editor, Castilleja School’s 2000 conditional-use permit application to increase from 385 to 415 students was approved based on these conditions: “The proposed use ... will not be detrimental to the public health, safety, general welfare or convenience” and it “will also be consistent with goals ... of the Comprehensive Plan in that access for pedestrians, bicyclists and automobiles will be improved.” In 2016, Castilleja submitted a new application for an increase to 540 students, dependent on whether the school can keep “conditions equivalent to those experienced by neighbors since Castilleja implemented our traffic demand management (TDM) program in 2013.” The editorial, “With Castilleja project now in the public review process, can both sides work toward solution?” published in the Weekly on Aug. 23, suggests there will be a “major impact on only a few property owners on Emerson Street and Melville Avenue.” What about the Embarcadero Road residents living along the major thoroughfare? What about residents heading to Palo Alto High School, Stanford University, Town and Country Village and neighborhoods experiencing overflow traffic? What about the countless young students and commuters who traverse the Bryant Street Bicycle Boulevard every day? The proposed use with an
increased threat of cars driving onto this “safe route” will be of great detriment to many citizens of Palo Alto, not just a few. How can Castilleja maintain its 2013 TDM when Dudek already concluded that the garage flow will cause “significant but unavoidable impacts” that can’t be mitigated? The editorial suggests that “we work on a compromise.” In fact, for three years neighbors have been providing feedback, but Castilleja has yet to incorporate any of it into its plans. Should a city compromise the safety of its citizens at the cost of a private entity’s expansion? Kimberley Wong Emerson Street, Palo Alto
Stanford buy-up of College Terrace
Editor, I am pleased that Sue Dremann covered the recent meeting of College Terrace Residents’ Association (CTRA) regarding Stanford University’s buy-up of our neighborhood. I am disturbed, however, that she also included an extensive email from Stanford spokesperson EJ Miranda without any follow-up. Some of his remarks are frankly misleading. Miranda is quoted as saying the university “continue(s) to work with residents and the CTRA.” Yes, they have met with the CTRA board to discuss their plans, but the most recent meeting was more than 15 months ago. And, their “outreach” meetings with neighbors have consisted of Stanford telling neighbors of the plans, not soliciting input. Stanford’s properties remain empty for years at a time, eroding our community. We have repeatedly asked Stanford to renovate rather than replace the houses they own — we were told it was not “cost effective.” Instead, they are trashing perfectly livable homes and replacing them with larger houses that do not suit the neighborhood, and many still remain empty. It has also proven difficult to ascertain which properties the university actually owns. Title is held under a number of different names, and the university keeps gift properties confidential, leaving us with an incomplete picture. Although Stanford faculty members have always lived in College Terrace, their numbers have not been restricted to senior faculty. We have also had students, junior faculty members and other staff amongst us. None of these people will ever be able
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to live in the houses Stanford is currently acquiring. Senior faculty can choose to live on campus, but if they don’t, why should they want Stanford to create a “faculty ghetto annex” in College Terrace? Finally, CTRA has never supported Stanford buying up our neighborhood. We treasure our eclectic and diverse little bit of Palo Alto and want to keep it that way. Pria Graves Yale Street, Palo Alto
Mandatory Castilleja shuttles?
Editor, As we debate the expected impacts of Castilleja School’s hoped-for growth, I cannot help but recall some years ago when I made plans to visit Doris Duke’s fabled “Shangri-La” Estate, now a museum dedicated to Islamic art and architecture located in a quiet residential neighborhood 30 minutes outside Honolulu. We bought tickets online, Googled the location and drove there. But when we arrived, there was no way to enter. None. Puzzled, we called the box office. We were instructed to drive back to Honolulu and get on a shuttle bus. “But we are already here!” we protested. Nope. The nice receptionist patiently explained that the only way in or out of this beautiful museum was via shuttle. So, we drove back to the city, boarded the bus and returned to the site. We had clearly missed the website warning: “There are no exceptions to how guests can visit Shangri-La.” That museum is not alone; other schools and institutions in residential settings have the same requirement. When Saratoga’s beautiful Montalvo Arts Center hosts any large event, guests park at nearby West Valley College, from which they are shuttled through the quiet residential neighborhood to Montalvo. The 175-acre site, which hosts events, exhibits, concerts and more, is committed to preserving quality of life for its neighbors, and makes it clear to patrons they will not be allowed to drop off or park on site. Why can’t Castilleja follow suit? Rather than digging a multi-million dollar underground garage, streaming additional cars into Palo Alto’s already clogged arteries, wouldn’t it be less costly and more environmentally sound to locate a
plot of land on the outskirts, perhaps one unsuited for development, and create a parking lot where students, staff and visitors could transfer to mandatory shuttles. In meetings, the school has repeatedly rebuffed this suggestion. Why? Carla Befera W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto
Alcheck should resign
Editor, If there is a suspicion of impropriety on the part of any appointee by city government, it should be addressed, and in a timely way. It creates distrust when City Council turns a blind eye to unethical or illegal conduct or abuse of influence. Planning Commissioner Michael Alcheck’s outrageous conduct alone, including bullying, grandstanding and disrespecting speakers and fellow commissioners, should have been enough to unseat him long ago. I could not believe what I witnessed at two particular planning meetings I attended. Much, much worse are the facts of Alcheck’s carport debacle. These have been repeatedly publicized for two years and yet he has remained in office and was, incredibly, reappointed. Fred Balin’s report reveals all. How sad it is for Palo Altans that Alcheck still remains in office. The council members who voted him in the second time showed their true colors. Alcheck should do the right thing. He should resign from office — ashamed by the facts of Balin’s report. Our city government should
appoint honorable persons of high integrity to public posts, nothing less is expected by those who call Palo Alto home. CeCi Kettendorf Grove Avenue, Palo Alto
Housing and jobs
Editor, I write in response to Stuart Hansen’s “Fixing the Housing-Jobs Imbalance” and Joe Hirsch’s “Stance on SB 50” letters published in the Weekly on Sept. 6. The answer to affordable housing seems to be to: Stop the flow of people coming into the Bay Area for enticing jobs, hire locally, support family planning and discourage people from getting into debt. People need to think ahead — not assume there will be no surprises. Life is always changing. SB 50 encourages cramped, tightly picked together living environments. Will this help people to be more healthy and alive, or will it contribute to more frustration, fear, depression, mental illness and even more thoughts of suicide? People need a quiet, peaceful place to call their own. How can we say cities on the Peninsula are demonstrating sustainability when housing is packed close together and tall, preventing the sun from shining in and being utilized for our daily needs, including growing food? If there is any form of a disaster, more people are affected and may not be able to get out. We do not need to live like packed sardines. We reap what we sow. Jackie Leonard-Dimmick Walnut Avenue, Atherton
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DRE # 01360103, 01973120
PALO ALTO $4,500,000
PALO ALTO CALL FOR PRICE
Coming Soon! Absolutely beautiful - 5 years new - 4 bed, 3.5 bath, 2,733+/- sf on a spacious 7,370+/- lot in prime Midtown location.
Sold! Quiet cul-de-sac, completely updated in recent years. High ceilings and large chef’s kitchen. Walking distance to all 3 excellent schools. Professional landscaped large back yard. Cottage in backyard for guests. Represented buyers.
Christy Giuliacci
sophie@compass.com DRE # 01399145
Xin Jiang
650.380.5989
650.283.8379
christyg@compass.com DRE # 01506761
LOS ALTOS $4,200,000
PALO ALTO $4,198,000
Sold with multiple offers in 5 days! Spectacular single level home offers the best of California living in a premier north Los Altos neighborhood.
Completely updated Mid-Century Modern in the best location of the prestigious Crescent Park.
xin.jiang@compass.com DRE # 01961451
compass.com Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01079009. All material presented herein is intended for informational ltoldpOp db_| BbM Wp KdalW_OM Toda pdtoKOp MOOaOM oO_WBJ_O Jts VBp bds JOOb yOoW OMà VBbUOp Wb loWKOÛ KdbMWsWdbÛ pB_O do zWsVMoBzB_ aB| JO aBMO zWsVdts bdsWKOà !d psBsOaObs Wp aBMO Bp sd accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footage are approximate.
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Compass Fall Campaign
Carol Li
Michael Johnston 650.533.5102
650.281.8368
Michael@ MichaelJohnston.com DRE # 01131203
REDWOOD CITY $4,100,000
LOS ALTOS HILLS $4,000,000
Sold! 6-unit apartment building near Downtown. Beautifully remodeled. Represented 1031 Exchange-buyers.
Views, Privacy and Luxury! 13 years old Well-crafted home of Û pT zWsV BKoOp dT _BbMà æ à Û l_tp VdaO dT KOà minutes scenic drive to Stanford/Palo Alto.
Carol Carnevale & Nicole Aron
Greg Celotti & Candi Athens 650.740.1580, 650.504.2824
DRE # 01360103, 01973120
PALO ALTO $3,998,000
PALO ALTO $3,988,000
Coming Soon! Outstanding multi-unit property on a quiet court in prime College Terrace location/neighborhood.
Lovely Craftsman style home w/ 3 beds & 3 baths. A sensory delight!
Harry Chang
DRE # 01353594
DRE # 01506761
HILLSBOROUGH $3,800,000
PALO ALTO $3,750,000
Coming Soon! Panoramic Bay and SF views! Lovingly maintained. Great remodeling opportunity. 4 BR, 3.5 baths, 4250 sq ft. OffMLS listing. www.30Eugenia.com.
Sold! Beautifully upgraded, this iconic atrium style 4 bd/2.5 ba Eichler is set in the sought after Community Center neighborhood. SOLD over list price!
Christy Giuliacci
DRE # 00613242
650.207.9909
DRE # 00613242
650.245.4490
DRE # 01506761
650.207.9909
Sherry Bucolo
Jenny Teng
650.380.5989
Sherry Bucolo
DRE # 00946687, 00952657
650.380.5989
DRE # 02025481
650.814.2913
650.465.5958, 650.740.7954
Christy Giuliacci
415.699.9092
Charlene Chang
cli@compass.com DRE # 01227755
DRE # 01506761
PALO ALTO $3,628,000
PALO ALTO CALL FOR PRICE
Sold! Charming updated Spanish classic in coveted Southgate bOWUVJdoVddMà B__ sd bM dts Vdz dto dbKWOoUO pOoyWKOp VO_lOM achieve top price for our seller!
Coming Soon! Just completed New construction. 4 Bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. Convenient location close to Stanford University, Caltrain, and shopping at Town and Country, California Avenue and University Avenue.
compass.com Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01079009. All material presented herein is intended for informational ltoldpOp db_| BbM Wp KdalW_OM Toda pdtoKOp MOOaOM oO_WBJ_O Jts VBp bds JOOb yOoW OMà VBbUOp Wb loWKOÛ KdbMWsWdbÛ pB_O do zWsVMoBzB_ aB| JO aBMO zWsVdts bdsWKOà !d psBsOaObs Wp aBMO Bp sd accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footage are approximate.
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Sophie Tsang
650.687.7388
DRE # 01399145
Os B VOBM psBos  bMWbU |dto VdaO Bs KdalBppà Kda
Denise Simons
Arti Miglani
650.269.0210
650.804.6942
denise.simons@compass. com DRE # 01376733
PALO ALTO $3,330,000
PALO ALTO CALL FOR PRICE
Sold! Stunningly remodeled 3+ bed, 2.5 bath home in the heart of Midtown with Chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen, luxurious master suite and beautiful _BbMpKBlOM |BoMpĂ Ä&#x2122; /d_M zWsV at_sWl_O dTTOop.
Coming Soon! Welcome to this rare offering, on the market for sVO Â ops sWaO Wb B_adps Â&#x2DC;Â&#x201C; |OBopĂ&#x203A; bOps_OM db B _ds dT Bllod{WaBsO_| 0.44 acres(18,974 sq. ft. per recent survey). A MUST SEE!
Stephanie Hewitt
Umang Sanchorawala 650.960.5363
650.619.7885
stephanie.hewitt@ compass.com DRE # 00967034
Arti@ArtiMiglani.com DRE # 01150085
PALO ALTO $3,198,000
PALO ALTO $3,080,000
Sold! bKVBbsWbU ptbø __OM pWbU_O TBaW_| oOpWMObKO pWstBsOM in vibrant downtown Palo Alto, and steps away from storied Professorville neighborhood.
Sold! Tucked away on a peaceful cul-de-sac, embracing its expansive and private, park-like aesthetic, this renovated home is impressive indoors as it is outdoors.
usanchor@compass.com DRE # 01471341
Umang Sanchorawala 650.960.5363
Shelly Roberson
usanchor@compass.com DRE # 01471341
shelly.roberson@ compass.com DRE # 01143296
650.464.3797
PALO ALTO $3,050,000 Sold! Charming house in Professorville neighborhood. The house is full of light, with several outside upper-level decks to enjoy the outdoor space. Represented buyer.
PORTOLA VALLEY $3,025,000 Sold! 5 bedroom, 3 Bath home in Portola Valley Ranch.
Shelly Roberson
Desiree Docktor
650.464.3797
650.291.8487
shelly.roberson@ compass.com DRE # 01143296
MENLO PARK CALL FOR PRICE
PALO ALTO $2,998,000
Coming Soon! Spacious 4 bedroom 3 bath home with over 3,040 SF living area on a beautifully landscaped 10,200 SF lot.
Gorgeous atrium style Eichler in the sought after Los Arboles neighborhood. Excellent Palo Alto schools.
desiree.docktor@ compass.com DRE # 01808874
compass.com Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01079009. All material presented herein is intended for informational ltoldpOp db_| BbM Wp KdalW_OM Toda pdtoKOp MOOaOM oO_WBJ_O Jts VBp bds JOOb yOoWÂ OMĂ VBbUOp Wb loWKOĂ&#x203A; KdbMWsWdbĂ&#x203A; pB_O do zWsVMoBzB_ aB| JO aBMO zWsVdts bdsWKOĂ !d psBsOaObs Wp aBMO Bp sd accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footage are approximate.
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Compass Fall Campaign
Kathleen Wilson 650.207.2017
DRE # 00902501
Grace Wu 650.208.3668
Claire Zhou 650.245.5698
DRE # 01440807
PALO ALTO $2,788,000
PALO ALTO $2,758,888
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Sold! oWUVs BbM KVOOo| oOToOpVOM JtbUB_dzà !Oz_| oO bWpVOM VBoMzddM ddopÛ ToOpV MOpWUbOo lBWbs Kd_dop BbM MOKd ^WsKVObÝ KKOppdo| plBKO Tdo TBaW_| Ob]d|aObsà bpWMO tsW_Ws| oddaà
UoBKOàztŒKdalBppàKda DRE # 00886757
Derk Brill
650.814.0478 DRE # 01256035
Sophie Tsang
650.687.7388
Michael Johnston 650.533.5102
PALO ALTO $2,750,000
SUNNYVALE $2,798,000
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+oWaO /tbb|yB_O _dKBsWdb zWsV tlOosWbd pKVdd_p BbM daOpsOBM VWUV pKVdd_à MOB_ tbWs aW{Û JMæ JBÛ JMæ à JBÛ JMæ JBÛ JMæ JBà oOBs Tdo dzbOo dKKtlWOM WbyOpsdopà dal_OsO_| tlMBsOM zWsVWb sVO _Bps |OBo BbM Tt__| dKKtlWOMà
DRE # 01131203
Anna Park
pdlVWOŒKdalBppàKda DRE # 01399145
Ted Paulin
650.387.6159
650.766.6325
BbbBàlBo^ŒKdalBppà Kda DRE # 01473188
PALO ALTO $2,600,000
PALO ALTO $2,560,000
Sold! 2VWp TBJt_dtp dlldostbWs| sd dzb B aWMøKObsto| UOa Wb +B_d _sdÝ 9VOb ObsOoWbU sVO VdaO Toda sVO _BbMpKBlOM TObKOM Wb Todbs |BoM |dt BoO UoOOsOM zWsV pdBoWbU KOW_WbUp BbM dlOb _WyWbU plBKOà
Sold! dyO Wb KdbMWsWdb JOModda BbM JBsVodda VdaO Wb /sOo_WbU BoMObpÛ /dtsV +B_d _sdà !OBo /OB_O +Bo^Û WMsdzb pVdllWbU œ WUVzB| .
Anna Park
sOMàlBt_WbŒKdalBppàKda DRE # 01435455
Nadr Essabhoy
650.387.6159
650.248.5898
BbbBàlBo^ŒKdalBppà Kda DRE # 01473188
PALO ALTO $2,550,000
BELMONT $2,498,000
Sold! 3lMBsOM B_WTdobWB JtbUB_dz db B soOOø_WbOM psoOOs Wb loOpsWUWdtp #_M +B_d _sdà zB_^zB| _OBMp lBps bOz_| l_BbsOM _Bzb BbM UBoMObp sd B KdyOoOM ldoKV dts_WbOM zWsV Wodb oBW_WbUpà
/WstBsOM db dyOo B sVWoM dT Bb BKoOÛ sVWp KtpsdaøJtW_s VdaO zWsV pstbbWbU lBbdoBaWK yWOzp Toda / sd /Bb dpOà JOModdapÛ à JBsVpÛ İ dT KO æ sV JMoà
compass.com Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01079009. All material presented herein is intended for informational ltoldpOp db_| BbM Wp KdalW_OM Toda pdtoKOp MOOaOM oO_WBJ_O Jts VBp bds JOOb yOoW OMà VBbUOp Wb loWKOÛ KdbMWsWdbÛ pB_O do zWsVMoBzB_ aB| JO aBMO zWsVdts bdsWKOà !d psBsOaObs Wp aBMO Bp sd accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footage are approximate.
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bBMoàOppBJVd|ŒKdalBpp DRE # 01085354
Os B VOBM psBos  bMWbU |dto VdaO Bs KdalBppà Kda
Ted Paulin
Derk Brill
650.766.6325
650.814.0478
sOMĂ lBt_WbĹ&#x2019;KdalBppĂ Kda DRE # 01435455
MENLO PARK $2,498,000
MENLO PARK CALL FOR PRICE
dyO Wbsd sVWp 9Ops Ob_d +Bo^ Â&#x2014; JOM Ĺ&#x201C; Â&#x2022; JBsV Â&#x201D;Â&#x2122;Â&#x201C;Â&#x201C; pnTsĂ VdaO db B Â&#x161;Â&#x201C;Â&#x2022;Â&#x2014; _dsĂ BoMzddMĂ&#x203A; oObdyBsOM ^WsKVOb BbM JBsVpĂ&#x203A; TObKOM |BoM Ĺ&#x201C; B bOzOo oddTĂ
Coming Soon! VBoaWbUĂ&#x203A; sdsB__| tlMBsOM Â&#x2013; .ĂŚÂ&#x2022; JtbUB_dz db lBo^ø_W^O _ds Wb sVO Bp daWsBp bOWUVJdoVddMĂ
MOo^Ĺ&#x2019;MOo^JoW__Ă Kda DRE # 01256035
Adela Gildo-Mazzon
Ted Paulin
BaB dbĹ&#x2019;KdalBppĂ Kda DRE # 01371327
sOMĂ lBt_WbĹ&#x2019;KdalBppĂ Kda DRE # 01435455
650.714.0537
650.766.6325
LOS ALTOS $2,398,000
MENLO PARK $2,360,000
VBoaWbU TBoaVdtpOøps|_O VdaOĂ Â&#x2013; JOModdapĂ&#x203A; Â&#x2013; Tt__ JBsVp l_tp Bb dT KOĂ /lBKWdtp JBK^|BoM WMOB_ Tdo dtsMddo ObsOosBWbWbUĂ
Sold! VBoaWbU Â&#x2013; JOModda BbM Â&#x2022; JBsVodda VdaO Wb 2VO 9W__dzpĂ WUVs BbM dlOb Â&#x201A;ddo l_Bb zWsV JBaJdd Â&#x201A;ddop BbM p^|_WUVspĂ oOBs VdaO BbM UoOBs pKVdd_p.
Lynne Mercer
Janie Barman & John Barman
650.906.0162
aOoKOoĹ&#x2019;KdalBppĂ Kda DRE # 00796211
MOUNTAIN VIEW $2,250,000
LA HONDA $2,250,000
Sold! {sObpWyO_| oOadMO_OM Â&#x2013; .ĂŚÂ&#x2022; zWsV Â&#x201D; .ĂŚÂ&#x201D; MOsBKVOM UtOps ntBosOopĂ&#x203A; l_tp MOsBKVOM VdJJ| pVdlĂ {soBø_BoUO _dsĂ&#x203A; UoOBs Kt_øMOøpBK _dKBsWdbĂ
-tWOs BbM _t{toWdtp dBpWp db Â&#x2022;Â&#x201C; yOo| loWyBsO BKoOpĂ #b_| Â&#x2013;Â&#x201C; aWbtsOp sd Â&#x2022;Â&#x203A;Â&#x201C; |Os B zdo_M BlBosĂ !OzOo Â&#x2014; JOModda VdaO Ä° _BoUO UtOps pstMWdĂ pKBlOĂ?
Dana McCue
Â&#x2122;Â&#x2DC;Â&#x201C;Ă Â&#x161;Â&#x2DC;Â&#x153;Ă Â&#x201D;Â&#x201D;Â&#x203A;Â&#x2022;Ă&#x203A; 650.380.8440 . Ă&#x; Â&#x201C;Â&#x201D;Â&#x2022;Â&#x161;Â&#x201C;Â&#x2022;Â&#x2022;Â&#x2013;Ă&#x203A; 01281597
Dante Drummond
650.248.3950
650.400.9390
MBbBĂ aKKtOĹ&#x2019;KdalBppĂ Kda DRE # 01749772
MENLO PARK $2,198,000
MENLO PARK $2,188,000
.BoO Mdzbsdzb Ob_d +Bo^ _t{to| KdbMdaWbWtaĂ +oWyBsO_| VO_M pWbKO Â&#x201D;Â&#x153;Â&#x161;Â&#x2013;Ă {ntWpWsO Â&#x201D;Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC;Â&#x2014; / tbWs zWsV pdBoWbU Â&#x201D;Â&#x201C;Ä° 2 KOW_WbUp BbM zoBl BodtbM JB_KdbWOp _dKBsOM Wb B JOBtsWTt_ lBo^ _W^O pOssWbU ]tps aWbtsOp Toda Mdzbsdzb Ob_d +Bo^Ă
Sold! /OoObWs| BzBWsp zWsV sVWp TBJt_dtp Â&#x2013;øJOModdaĂ&#x203A; Â&#x2013; Â&#x201D;ĂŚÂ&#x2022;øJBsVoddaĂ&#x203A; ObMøtbWs KdbMdaWbWta ]tps J_dK^p BzB| Toda BzBoMøzWbbWbU Ob_d +Bo^ pKVdd_pĂ&#x203A; lBo^pĂ&#x203A; pVdllWbUĂ&#x203A; oOpsBtoBbsp BbM /sBbTdoM 3bWyOopWs|Ă
BbsOĂ otaadbMĹ&#x2019; KdalBppĂ Kda DRE # 00656636
compass.com Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01079009. All material presented herein is intended for informational ltoldpOp db_| BbM Wp KdalW_OM Toda pdtoKOp MOOaOM oO_WBJ_O Jts VBp bds JOOb yOoWÂ OMĂ VBbUOp Wb loWKOĂ&#x203A; KdbMWsWdbĂ&#x203A; pB_O do zWsVMoBzB_ aB| JO aBMO zWsVdts bdsWKOĂ !d psBsOaObs Wp aBMO Bp sd accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footage are approximate.
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Compass Fall Campaign
Darcy Gamble
Andrea Schultz 650.575.3632 andrea.schultz@ compass.com DRE #01196243
650.380.9415
BELMONT $2,150,000
PALO ALTO CALL FOR PRICE
Sold! Delightful property. Remodeled thruout. 4Bd, 3Ba home located on quiet street. Located in a desirable Belmont neighborhood.
Coming Soon! /ObpBsWdbB_ Mdzbsdzb +B_d _sdę VdaOà t__ JMapÛ JBsVp BbM B _dTsà O_WUVsTt_ ^WsKVOb œ . zWsV psBUUOoWbU KOW_WbUpÛ pOKtoO lBo^WbUàę B__ bdzà
darcy.gamble@compass. com DRE # 01956441
Kathleen Wilson 650.207.2017
DRE #00902501
Denise Simons 650.269.0210
denise.simons@compass. com DRE # 01376733
PALO ALTO CALL FOR PRICE
PALO ALTO $1,998,000
Coming Soon! dyO oWUVs Wbsd sVWp KVBoaWbU JOMÛ JBsV VdaO Wb sVO tyObOK^ pKVdd_ MWpsoWKsàę .OadMO_OM ^WsKVOb BbM JBsVpÛ VBoMzddM ddop BbM KObsoB_ æ à
Quality built in 1940’s with Large courtyard patio perfect for indoor outdoor entertaining. Large rooms, third room doubles as B lOoTOKs pOlBoBsO VdaO dT KO zWsV loWyBsO Obso|à
Denise Simons
Claire Zhou 650.245.5698
DRE # 01440807
Janie Barman & John Barman
650.269.0210
denise.simons@compass. com DRE # 01376733
MENLO PARK $1,998,000
TRINITY CENTER $1,950,000
Sold! Charming 3 bedroom, 3 bath home with lots of natural light BbM Bb dlOb ddo l_Bbàę oOBs _dKBsWdb Wb sVO !dosV BWo #B^p bOWUVJdoVddMàęę/d_M zWsV at_sWl_O dTTOopà
dtsWntO oOpdos db lWKstoOpntO dTTOO oOO^ bOBo .OMMWbUà WyWbO dzbOoĆp VdaO BbM KBJWbpà 2VWb^ oOpdosÛ TBaW_|æKdolà oOsoOBs do quiet escape!
650.759.1182, 650.380.8440
DRE # 01270223, 01281597
Stacy Jamison
Pamela Rummage Culp
stacey@ staceyjamisonrealestate. com DRE # 01996000
pamela.culp@compass. com DRE # 00896337
650.867.7976
415.640.3293
MENLO PARK CALL FOR PRICE
SOLEDAD $1,898,000
Sold! /d_M #TT Bo^Os ø OBtsWTt_ JOModda JBsV VdaO Wb pdtUVsøBTsOo /tJtoJBb +Bo^à
9dbMOoTt_ / VdaO db KoOp zWsV B 8WbO|BoM BbM Bb #_WyO #oKVBoM sVBs Wp lOoTOKs Tdo B zOO^ObM oOsoOBs do WbyOpsaObs income.
compass.com Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01079009. All material presented herein is intended for informational ltoldpOp db_| BbM Wp KdalW_OM Toda pdtoKOp MOOaOM oO_WBJ_O Jts VBp bds JOOb yOoW OMà VBbUOp Wb loWKOÛ KdbMWsWdbÛ pB_O do zWsVMoBzB_ aB| JO aBMO zWsVdts bdsWKOà !d psBsOaObs Wp aBMO Bp sd accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footage are approximate.
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Os B VOBM psBos  bMWbU |dto VdaO Bs KdalBppà Kda
Shelly Roberson
Pam Page
650.464.3797
650.400.5061
shelly.roberson@ compass.com DRE # 01143296
LOS ALTOS $1,698,000 /stbbWbU Â&#x2013; JOModda Â&#x2022; JBsV bdosV dp _sdp KdbMdĂ
PALO ALTO $1,680,000 Sold! Â&#x201D;Â&#x2013;Â&#x2014;Â&#x201D; _aB /s pd_M zWsV Â&#x2DC; dTTOopĂ? +OoTOKs Â&#x2022;ĂŚÂ&#x2022; sdzbVdaO bOBo dzbsdzb BbM B_WTdobWB /soOOsĂ Â&#x201D;Â&#x2013;Â&#x2022;Â&#x153; _aB KdaWbU db aBo^Os aWMø#KsdJOoĂ
Lori Buecheler
Ling Lau
650.387.2716
650.269.6809
lorib@compass.com DRE # 01859485
REDWOOD CITY $1,575,000
SARATOGA $1,488,000
Sold! TThis beautiful home nestled on a quiet, tree lined street VBp JOOb Kdal_OsO_| oOToOpVOM BbM tlMBsOM zWsV Bb dlOb Â&#x201A;ddo plan.
3lMBsOM adyOøWb oOBM| ++; # Ă? {KO__Obs paB__ Kdal_O{Ă !d oObsB_ oOpsoWKsWdbpĂ 2dl pKVdd_pĂ Bp| KdaatsO Ĺ&#x201C; BKKOp ll_OĂ&#x203A; /OBUBsOĂ&#x203A; BbM sd ltJ_WK ldd_p Ĺ&#x201C; lBo^p zĂŚB KBoOøToOO _WTO ps|_O.
ling.lau@compass.com DRE # 01177889
Michele Harkov & Liz Rhodes
John Forsyth James 650.218.4337
dVbĹ&#x2019; dVb dop|sV BaOpĂ Kda
DRE # 01138400
SUNNYVALE $1,348,000
EMERALD HILLS $1,300,000
b sVO VOBos dT /W_WKdb 8B__O| bOBo aB]do sOKV Oal_d|OopĂ&#x203A; sVWp Â&#x2013;JOMĂŚÂ&#x2022;JB Â&#x201D;Ă&#x203A;Â&#x201D;Â&#x2022;Â&#x2DC; /nĂ s _WyWbU plBKO Ĺ&#x201C; Â&#x2122;Ă&#x203A;Â&#x2022;Â&#x201D;Â&#x2DC; /nĂ sĂ _ds aWMøKObsto| adMOob VdaO zBp oOWaBUWbOM BbM O{sObpWyO_| oOadMO_OM Wb Â&#x2022;Â&#x201C;Â&#x201D;Â&#x153; for todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s California lifestyle.
BJt_dtp Â&#x2013;JMĂŚÂ&#x2022;JB VdaO Wb O{KO__Obs _dKBsWdbĂ? dsV JBsVp oOKObs_| oOadMO_OMĂ&#x203A; ToOpV_| lBWbsOMĂ&#x203A; K_dpO sd Â&#x2022;Â&#x203A;Â&#x201C;Ă atps pOOĂ?
Michele Harkov & Liz Rhodes
650.773.1332, 650.722.3000
DRE # 01838875, 01179852
Michele Harkov & Liz Rhodes
650.773.1332, 650.722.3000
DRE # 01838875, 01179852
pam.page@compass. com DRE # 00858214
REDWOOD CITY $1,300,000
MENLO PARK $1,250,000
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A hospital
Stanford’s new $2 billion
for the future
hospital launches with a two-day open house BY SUE DREMANN PHOTOS BY VERONICA WEBER
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At top: The new Stanford Hospital’s main atrium rises several floors under a glass dome and is surrounded by four towers in which patients recuperate in private rooms. Above: In the operating rooms at the new Stanford Hospital, computer monitors and surgical lighting fixtures are attached to the ceiling on arms for easy movement. Page 32 • September 13, 2019 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
n the cramped yet bustling waiting room of Stanford Hospital’s emergency department, dozens of people sit in blue vinyl chairs waiting to see a doctor. Some are engrossed in their smartphones; others don masks to protect the roomful of visitors from their respiratory illnesses. A few arrive in wheelchairs, too injured, nauseous or dizzy to stand. When this 1,142-square-foot room overflows, people wait on benches in the hall. There’s little privacy when the patient finally gets to see a physician in one of the emergency department’s 54 treatment bays. A thin curtain separating each bed doesn’t mask conversations or the sound of someone’s rattling cough or the moans of an accident victim. Nurses squeeze past each other in the examination bays. Medical staff navigate through labyrinthine spaces in which EKG machines and saline-drip stands co-mingle. The emergency room, or ER, is a hectic place. Every square inch of the 18,069-square-foot space has been claimed by patients, equipment or staff. “In the current ER, we’re like a tight-knit family,” Samuel Snell, emergency department assistant patient care manager, quipped during a recent August morning. For Snell and other hospital personnel, the Stanford emergency room capacity has been outpaced by the region’s rapidly growing population. It outgrew its space long ago. But in less than two months, the new Stanford Hospital will be opening and with it a 42,692-square-foot ER and regional trauma center with a shiny, cavernous hallway and 66 private treatment rooms. (See side bar on page 34.)
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Features of the private patient rooms in the new Stanford Hospital are large windows, fold-out beds, a private bathroom, TV, patient lifts and personal technology devices, like iPads. “The new emergency department is the full length of a football field from goal post to goal post,” Snell said. Snell toured the command center/nurses station, from which staff can see through the glass walls of the ER’s individual patient rooms to monitor the ill. In one ER room, doctors and staff can consult and strategize in complex cases using mannequins and computer models to simulate medical conditions. They can also video-conference with specialists on the other side of the world. The new ER and trauma center is part of a $2 billion expansion a decade in the making. After receiving approvals in 2011, the project broke ground at 500 Pasteur Drive in May 2013. Stanford built the new hospital in part to fulfill a state seismic mandate for all hospitals by 2030 — a major impetus for the new hospital and retrofitting the old one. (The renovations inside the existing hospital at 300 Pasteur Drive are scheduled to be complete in 2025.) The 824,000-square-foot new hospital adds 368 private rooms, for a total of 600 beds on the whole hospital campus, three acres of surgical floor space, 20 operating rooms, specialized diagnostic equipment to scan
patients adjacent to the operating room and more than four acres of gardens. The public will have a chance to tour the hospital during two community days this weekend, Sept. 14-15. Though pre-registration for tours on both days is full, there will be a limited number of tour openings each day for walkins; those interested can go to the on-site registration booth. Aside from taking the tour, the public can attend the community fair on the hospital’s grounds on both days, but pre-registration is required. (See information box on page 35.) Events will include a photo booth, opportunities to ask an expert questions, a teddybear triage center where kids can make a take-home bear, a largerthan-life game of Operation, face painting, a treasure hunt, music, food trucks and more. The prospect of the hospital’s opening stirred palpable excitement among nurses walking through the new ER on the morning of Snell’s tour. “When I came to Stanford 30 years ago, they said they were going to build a new hospital. Now, it’s finally happened,” Patrice Callagy, executive director of emergency services, said as she
The emergency room at the new Stanford Hospital includes this large trauma room as well as triage space and individual patient rooms.
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The four towers of the new Stanford Hospital are arranged in the shape of a cross, with an atrium at the center. A parking garage, garden, outdoor seating and meeting rooms extend from the hospital to Welch Road.
any new technologies have been built In the basement, robots control the flow and into the new Stanford Hospital at 500 delivery of materials, equipment and medicines. Pasteur Drive to make care more effi- The robotic carts — “tugs” — are programmed cient than at the old hospital. to transport hospital equipment and supplies If a big earthquake or a pandemic strikes, staff from the pharmacy to elevators and even to locan add a second bed in each of the emergency cations around the hospital. department’s 66-single-patient rooms, and the The building is also wired with a 3,000-beaambulance bay can be converted into a triage con real-time locating system, which electronicenter. The new 900-space employee garage can cally tracks equipment. Staff can quickly locate also be converted for triage, emergency depart- machines, IV stands and other devices from an ment staff said during a recent tour. iPad or mobile computer screen. Intensive-care unit rooms, equipped with As in the old hospital, pneumatic tubes snake medical gases, can be used through the ceilings, transas operating rooms so that porting medications mixed in patients in critical condition Deep beneath the the basement pharmacy. Blood don’t have to be moved, Jensamples, medications, lab basement, steel nifer Winder, public relations specimens or anything small manager for planning design plates on metal and packaged travel quickly and construction, said during bearings allow the to their locations through the a recent tour. tubes, Reeder said. At 700 to 800 square feet rigid building to Deep beneath the basement, each, the 20 operating rooms sway three feet in a sophisticated roller system are nearly twice the size of 2.5- to 4-ton steel plates on any direction during of the old ones. Video screens metal bearings allow the rigid are a common fixture, use- an earthquake up to building to sway three feet in ful for surgeons who need to magnitude 8. any direction without concern view their operations close of a collapse during an earthup or communicate with specialists and staff. quake up to magnitude 8. The operating suites are set as pods around a The California legislature passed the law mancentral sterile core where staff prepare for sur- dating that hospitals meet seismic standards afgeries. Green lighting enhances image-guided ter the 6.7- magnitude Northridge earthquake surgery to reduce the glare from video screens, in 1994 did more than $3 billion in damage to said Chad Reeder, controls manager at the new southern California hospitals. hospital. Crews will begin seismic retrofitting and renoA hybrid operating suite, with an adjacent vations at the old hospital, located at 300 PasMRI room, allows doctors to wheel the patient teur Drive, after the new hospital opens. The two directly from the surgery to MRI machine to hospitals are connected by an enclosed bridge. scan the patient and see the results of the operaThe old hospital’s renovations are scheduled tion thus far. for completion by 2025. Staff will use the old In keeping with Stanford’s role as a teaching hospital largely for cancer patients. The old hospital, surgeries can be streamed using cam- emergency room, which is currently used by eras in each operating room to anywhere in the adults and children, will be used as a dedicated world for consulting and teaching purposes. Sur- pediatric emergency room. gery at Stanford on conjoined twins could be “It’s been long in coming,” said Patrice Calviewed simultaneously in China, Reeder said by lagy, executive director of emergency services. Q — Sue Dremann way of example. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 13, 2019 • Page 33
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Readying for any disaster The Stanford ER is poised to handle mass injuries, staff say
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hen an Asiana Airlines flight crashed at San Francisco International Airport in 2013, Stanford Hospital received more patients than any other, staff said at the time. The hospital saw 55 patients and admitted 18. Stanford staff were put to the test that day, taking on the usual caseload of emergency room (ER) patients in addition to the accident victims. The hospital staff scrambled to accommodate everyone, freeing up beds by sending home patients when possible. The incident was small compared to other potential disasters. A devastating earthquake could send hundreds if not thousands of people to the ER. If just one local hospital is damaged or destroyed, the area’s first responders would rely even more heavily on Stanford. (After the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, for example, the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Medical Center, just four miles away, sustained $30 million in damage and was uninhabitable.) But after 10 years of development, the new Stanford ER at 500 Pasteur Drive, which will open in late October, is equipped to handle a magnitude-8 earthquake and any other mass-casualty incident, as well as heart attacks and broken bones, Jennifer Winder, a hospital spokeswoman, said. The new 42,692-square-foot ER and trauma center is part of a $2 billion hospital expansion. The 66 rooms in the emergency department, while designed to accommodate one patient per room, can handle two patients per room in a pinch, said Patrice Callagy, executive director of emergency services. As the only regional Level-1 trauma center between San Francisco and San Jose, Stanford’s emergency room is already one of the busiest in the country, according to a 2017 ProPublica report on hospital emergency rooms. From the minute patients arrive at the new ER’s security station, nurses inside will be able to look out the door and identify extremely ill patients. “If someone is looking pale, they can be seen quickly from where the nurses are situated for triage,” Callagy said. Patients with suspected infectious diseases can be led to four infectious-disease isolation rooms with outside entrances so they don’t expose others in the waiting room.
Chair gurneys that convert into flat stretchers can be wheeled to the lobby for patients who need escalated care within seconds, she said. In a mass-injury situation or during peak seasons of infectious diseases, the covered ambulance bay can accommodate overflow patients. The bay is built to house five ambulances — six if they are narrow — but outside of the covered area there’s room for up to 20 vehicles. At the old ER, there’s room for three ambulances, and including the area outside, up to six, said Vasily Rodin, the operations project manager leading the emergency room transition. The new building also has a six-foot “floating wall” between the adjacent parking garage and the trauma center. The parking structure, large enough to accommodate 900 cars, can be converted into a triage center that connects directly to the emergency room. There’s also one important, recent change that staff made after the ER was built. The hospital planned to have 76 treatment rooms in the ER, but after assessing the large numbers of patients and their demographics, the hospital decided to create two ERs. The new ER at 500 Pasteur Drive is for adults; the old ER at 900 Quarry Road Extension will become a dedicated pediatric emergency room with 15 private rooms. The pediatric emergency department will open when the new ER opens this fall. The pediatric ER will be renovated to make it a more child-friendly environment; the work will be done in phases so the ER can remain operational throughout, hospital spokeswoman Courtney Lodato said. Rodin said all trauma patients will be sent to the new ER.
“Having a dedicated ED (emergency department) for pediatric patients helps to create a more supportive care environments for pediatric patients and their families. Visiting an emergency department can be a stressful experience for children and families, and this will help to streamline care and reduce waiting in a more kid-friendly setting,” Lodato said in an email. “It also allows more space for childsized equipment, beds and pediatric specialists.” Rodin has a personal reason for valuing the separation of the two ERs. When his child needed to go to the ER, Rodin feared his child would be exposed to disturbing circumstances involving other patients and suffer lingering emotional trauma. But the new, separate pediatric ER will have childfriendly amenities such as colorful tilework and games to distract from the hospital setting. Currently, there are seven rooms in the pediatric section of the old ER. When children and their parents arrive, they follow a blue river pattern in the floor from the adult emergency room to the pediatric area. Games and movies help to reduce anxiety and fear in the pediatric waiting room and there is free wireless internet access. A big-screen television in the waiting room shows cartoons and information. In the new pediatric ER, each exam room will have a television and a computer with children’s games, music, movies and internet access. Nurses will have monitors at the central nursing station to constantly observe patients’ vital signs. The private rooms will make it easier for multiple visitors to be at each child’s bedside, Lodato said. Q — Sue Dremann
In the new Stanford Hospital, a triage room is located adjacent to the waiting room, enabling medical staff to assess patients quickly.
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David Entwistle, president and CEO of Stanford Hospital, stands outside of the new facility. accompanied staff through the hotel or museum than a hospital. new ER. Comfortable seating, internet The expansion is long overdue, stations, coffee and magazines Callagy said. The Stanford ER have replaced the old hospital’s receives 210 patients per day on long, polished entry hallways average in a facility built in 1959 with patients in wheelchairs and to handle only 70. During influ- on gurneys. enza season, that number rises to Two wings on the new hospi250. Annually, the ER handles tal’s ground floor contain a main more than 78,000 patients; by cafeteria with floor-to-ceiling the end of next year, staff esti- windows and outdoor seating, a mate they’ll gift shop and be handling patient-disup to 90,000 ‘If you can take the charge lounge. patients, said technology we use on Visitors who Courtney Loenter the atridato, director a daily basis and use um won’t see of communi- it for patient care, sick patients cations for the being wheeled renewal proj- that’s exciting.’ around. Imagect. The lack —David Entwistle, ing rooms lie of space causes president and CEO, behind walls the current ER Stanford Health Care off of the atristaff to triage um; the second flu patients in a tent in the park- floor is dedicated to operating ing lot. rooms. The overcrowding isn’t conFour floors of patient rooms fined to the ER. As recently as surround the atrium in four two weeks ago, all of the old buildings laid out in a cross pathospital’s beds were full, Cal- tern. Through a patient room lagy said. Annually, the exist- window on the fourth floor, the ing hospital has nearly 27,000 Santa Cruz Mountains stretch inpatients, who stay overnight or out in an expanse of greenery. longer. On summer afternoons, fog Staff refer to the old and new drapes over the conifer forest in hospital buildings by their ad- cottony folds. dresses: 300 Pasteur and 500 Patients in all rooms have Pasteur drives, respectively. Lo- views of the mountains, the Stancated a stone’s throw from the ford campus and foothills or the old hospital’s iconic fountains San Francisco Bay through picand pool, 500 Pasteur is envi- ture windows, and each room is sioned as a healing community, private. the “new model” of patient care, Jennifer Winder, public relaaccording to staff: inclusive tions manager for planning deof family; using technology to sign and construction, admired give patients a greater ability to the views on a recent Thursday. communicate with their medi“There’s not a bad room in the cal team and more control over house,” she said. their care; designed with flexible Scientific evidence has shown spaces so the hospital can be ad- that nature positively affects justed to meet changing needs; healing, she noted. and incorporating nature and art According to groundbreaking to aid healing. scientific studies by environmental psychologist Roger Ulrich, patients who had window views of Creating calm and greenery or who viewed murals beautiful spaces of natural scenes experienced isitors to 500 Pasteur walk more positive emotional feelinto a soaring, three-story ings, had less stress, fear, anger atrium. The glass-domed, and sadness and had lower blood light-infused entry in travertine, pressure, better heart activity, terrazzo and sand-colored tones less muscle tension and more and wood looks more like a posh positive brain electrical activity.
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Cover Story New Stanford Hospital tour and Community Days When: Sept. 14, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sept. 15, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Where: 500 Pasteur Drive, Stanford Pre-registration: Required, at stanfordhealthcares.com Cost: Free Activities: Events will include a photo booth, ask-an-expert opportunities, a teddy-bear triage center where children can make and take home a bear, a larger-than-life game of Operation, face painting, a treasure hunt, music, food trucks and more. Online registration for the walking tour
The power of simple places of respite isn’t lost on Chad Reeder, controls manager at the new hospital. “I asked a mom what she likes best about Stanford Hospital, and she said, ‘Starbucks — that’s the one time of day I can grab coffee’” and have time to herself, he said. The new hospital’s patient-care model also focuses on integrating the family into the patient’s care and supports families’ needs, Winder added. “There’s no more visiting hours. Family can stay overnight,” she said. Each room has a comfortable nook with a table and sofa that converts into a bed for a family member. Patients will also experience a bit more quiet on the hospital floor. Sound buffering at the nurses stations helps reduce noise, she said. David Entwistle, president and CEO of Stanford Health Care, said the features he finds most compelling for patients include the private room and bedside technology. The latter empowers patients to have more control over their care. Each room has a 55-inch television screen and an iPad at the bedside. The patient can see his or her care team’s information,
The new waiting area in the emergency room (ER) at the new Stanford Hospital is much larger than in the current ER. Some research has found these positive outcomes occurred in as little as three to five minutes, Ulrich, of the Center for Health Systems and Design at Texas A & M University, noted in a 2002 paper. Art has been used as a healing influence at Stanford for decades, and the new building will feature 400 works of art. In the early 1980s, a volunteer group began acquiring and hanging art on Stanford Hospital’s walls with the idea that art could enhance recovery — something that Ulrich later proved. Ulrich’s studies also showed patients healed faster when they
viewed photographs of nature rather than artwork of other kinds. The new hospital has mural-sized photographs of forests and trees to reinforce the presence of a soothing outer world, Winder said. Stanford has gone even further to incorporate the healing power of nature into its hospital setting. The hospital’s thirdlevel garden floor contains four acres of gardens, walking trails, a meditation room, family resource center, a dining room and an assembly hall for lectures and all-staff meetings. It is designed to be a respite from the clinical setting for patients, families and
employees. The five gardens are filled with native California and other flowering plants. On the ground level outside the emergency room, there are more verdant spaces to soothe the visitor. Crews have planted an 85tree orchard that includes fruit, nuts and flowering trees. Gingko, loquat, apricot, olive buckeye and live oaks were selected for fruit-bearing or medicinal properties in eastern, western and native cultures. The orchard has a shady retreat for patients, families and staff and a dog park with a water fountain and a fire hydrant for visiting pets.
Parking: Parking is available at a lot and a garage at Stock Farm and Oak roads, a short walk or shuttle ride to the hospital. A map is located on the website stanfordhealthcares.com. Other info: Stanford will post the virtual tour after the event on the website stanfordhealthcares.com. Q
and there are apps on the iPad to order food from the cafe. Patients can operate the lighting and stream video conferences with their doctors and families. Patients often have a sense of losing control over their care and lack the ability to connect with the outer world in the hospital setting, Entwistle said. “If you can take the technology we use on a daily basis and use it for patient care, that’s exciting,” he said. A grand opening with ribbon cutting is scheduled for late October. More information is available at stanfordhealthcares.com. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com. About the cover: A sculpture marks the entrance to the new Stanford Hospital. Photo by Veronica Weber.
THERE’S MORE ONLINE PaloAltoOnline.com A Q&A video with CEO David Entwistle is posted at PaloAltoOnline. com and YouTube.com/paweekly/ videos. By Friday evening, an interview about the new Stanford Hospital with Dr. George Tingwald, director of medical planning at Stanford Health Care, will be posted on the Weekly’s YouTube channel and also as a podcast at PaloAltoOnline. com/podcasts.
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This bird’s eye view of the new Stanford Hospital shows the four towers where patients stay, a new parking garage structure with gardens and the emergency department (ED) entrance, among other features. The old hospital will remain; it is at the right and will be retrofitted for seismic safety.
of the hospital is closed, but a limited number of spaces are expected to be available each day through on-site registration. The event will also include a digital virtual walking tour of the hospital with limited seating.
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Arts & Entertainment A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Karla Kane
Library’s free drop-in ukulele lessons draw devoted fans by Nisha Malley { photos by Federica Armstrong
Songbooks and instruments for the monthly Ukulele Play and Sing Along are funded by the Friends of the Mountain View Library, with song selections ranging from the 1950s to the present.
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From top to bottom: Gary Guiffre, Angela Brough, Amy Zhou, Mark Rosenberg and others take part in the August ukulele event at the Mountain View Library.
he sound of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” originating from 30 strumming ukuleles and singing voices, carried into the main halls of the Mountain View Public Library in the early evening Aug. 26, during the monthly Ukulele Play and Sing Along event. Roughly 15 regulars, along with eager first-timers and curious passersby, filled the room, grabbing instruments and guidebooks with sheet music and instructions for playing chords, which are funded by the Friends of the Mountain View Library. The program, which got its start five years ago, primarily caters to beginners of all ages, using simple lesson plans and offering over 400 songs from the 1950s to the 2000s. However, librarian and program coordinator Kyle Hval said he has seen a cohort of people return year after year, whether for the family bonding, community of musical enthusiasts or the opportunity to get out and relax on a weekday. “People always leave with a smile on their face,” Hval said. “It’s rare to have an environment where you can bring together people from such different ages and backgrounds toward a common purpose.” The first 90 minutes of the class are devoted to structured learning, during which teacher Chuck Monahan guides the group in song and shows them proper fingering techniques. In the last half hour, attendees request their favorite songs. Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off,” the Eagles’ “Hotel California,” and Benny Bell’s “Shaving Cream” consistently make an appearance, Hval said. Palo Alto resident Sabrina Johnson said she bought a ukulele after a trip to Hawaii, but despite good intentions, it sat in her closet for a year until she began attending the library’s program. Johnson, who works as a lawyer, said the event has helped her to “shift gears and de-stress” and nurture her love of music. For a little over a year, Gary Guiffre has brought his grandkids to the class, using his time to keep up his ukulele skills and meet new people. Guiffre said he has also learned to play the mandolin, guitar and bass in his spare time. According to Monahan, the ukulele is an ideal starting instrument for those wishing to become more musically capable, adding that the low learning curve allows students to pick up several songs in
Teacher Chuck Monahan leads the group in song. just an hour of instruction. Monahan noted that the library program offers a welcoming and pressure-free environment to learn the instrument. “The beauty of playing in a large group is you can play the wrong chords. You can sing in the wrong key,” Monahan said. “Some people will stress out (but) if you get a single chord, you’re doing great.” The Ukulele Play and Sing Along program is free and open to the public. The class is usually held on the fourth Monday of every month, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the program room of the Mountain View Public Library. For more information visit the library’s event calendar mountainview.gov/depts/library/. Q Nisha Malley is an editorial intern at the Weekly’s sister paper, the Mountain View Voice.
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Making time for ‘Hickorydickory’
Dragon play is a family dramedy and quirky fantasy by Karla Kane he term “biological clock” is a common one, both in scientific and symbolic terms. In the imaginative world of Marisa’s Wegrzyn’s “Hickorydickory,” on stage now at the Dragon Theatre, though, human bodies are hosts to actual, physical “mortal clocks” — looking and working much like mechanical pocket watches — that count down the days to each person’s death. These fateful timepieces are generally housed near the heart and unknown to the majority of the population, but an unlucky few are born with them lodged in their brains, where they can feel and hear them tick-tocking away their mortal minutes. This, understandably,
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THEATER REVIEW is depressing at best, maddening at worst. The mortal clocks can, with the help of a clock expert and a delicate operation involving esoteric potions, be removed, seemingly without harming either the body or the clock. They can also, although it is not advised, be tinkered with externally, but this can come with some devastating side effects. Within the aforementioned, mortal-clock-existing world, “Hickorydickory” is set in a suburban Chicago clock shop, owned and operated for generations by the Wicker family. The play takes place, according to the program, in
two time periods: 1992 (acts one and three) and 1974 (act two). In the ‘90s, 17-year-old Dale (Zoey Lytle) lives with her clockrepairing, doting dad Jimmy (Troy Johnson) and her responsible and loving stepmother Kate (Allie Bailey). Dale has never known her biological mother, Cari Lee (Sarah Haas), Jimmy’s high school sweetheart and local wild child, who left newborn Dale with Jimmy and fled. Capable Kate stepped in to raise her as her own. Innocent and bright, Dale sees no future for herself thanks to the mortal clock in her head, reminding her she is doomed to an early death. Despite this, she develops a crush on Rowan (Jonathan Covey), the young Irish apprentice working in the clock shop. One day, she asks for his help repairing a mysterious pocket watch engraved with her mother’s name. He tries, and the thing starts bleeding. Yep, turns out it’s actually her long-lost mom’s mortal clock, removed and squirreled away by Jimmy 18 years
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Allie Bailey and Zoey Lytle play a stepmother and daughter living above an unusual clock shop in Dragon Productions Theatre Company’s “Hickorydickory.” earlier. Tinkering with it summons Cari Lee back to the shop. Oh, and she’s still only 17 years old. What happened, it transpires, is
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that young Jimmy, in a desperate attempt to prevent Cari Lee’s death (presumably in childbirth), tried to manually add time to her mortal clock — ostensibly a big, cosmic no-no. This went terribly awry, leading to, among other unintended consequences, stopping Cari Lee’s clock altogether, leaving her stuck as a perpetual teen. Cari Lee wants her clock restarted, Dale wants the maddening mortal clock removed from her head ASAP, and Jimmy and Kate are desperate to find a way to add time to Dale’s shortened lifespan. Back in 1974, we see young Jimmy (now played by Covey) and Cari Lee, as well as his parents, Richard (played by Johnson) and Helen (played by Bailey). Young Kate in this era, nursing a crush on pal Jimmy, is played by Lytle. Here, we learn a bit more about the workings of the mortal clocks, and that Helen, too, used to have a stopped one, which Richard repaired. Their relationship is tumultuous and intriguing, with Helen having led a long (like, really long) life worthy of a prequel. I’d quite like to know more of the backstory there. The show returns to the ‘90s to catch back up with the players and their conundrums. We learn, among other things, that maybe mortal clocks are not “tethered” entirely by genetics, fate or blood but by, to quote Huey Lewis in a classic time-centric tale, the “Power of Love.” “Hickorydickory,” clocking in at around three hours, is a long play. Too long. Though the openingnight audience was enthused and invested, you could feel the energy getting restless after the second intermission. There also seem to be some distracting anachronistic references in Wegrzyn’s script (renting home movies in 1974? Downloading songs, burning CDs and seemingly making “Harry Potter” nods in 1992?). Maybe they’re meant to establish the alternate universe/timeline, but cutting those out, among other superfluous bits, would save a welcome bit of time. And its internal logic didn’t always add up for (continued on page 39)
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“The Dream” will be on view through Oct. 6. For more information, go to fungcollaboratives.org.
Exhibition ‘Immigrants are US: Photography and Stories of Courage and Resilience’
Colorful ‘Dream’ arrives in Redwood City
Vistors to downtown Redwood City’s Courthouse Square this month will notice some new inhabitants — large, colorful creatures perched on the roof and hanging within the corner Art Kiosk. They belong to “The Dream” by local artist Fernando Escartiz, the latest in the Art Kiosk public-art installation series. The dreamer, in this case, is the innocent chihuahua sleeping on a cozy bed on the interior of the kiosk. As he slumbers peacefully, the dreaming world around him takes on fantastical shapes and colors and it’s up to the viewer to interpret whether the dream creatures are friendly, ominous or both. Escartiz, who works in multiple mediums including paint and sculpture, took his inspiration for the installation from the Mexican folk-art tradition of alebrijes, first created by artist Pedro Linares in 1936 after visions of fantastical animals and plants came to him during a fever dream. The giant alebrije perched on top of the roof “looks defiantly at all ... and dares them to step forward, peek in, and dig deep into their own emotions and dreams,” according to a statement from Fung Collaboratives, which curates and presents the monthly art installations. At the packed opening reception for “The Dream,” representatives from the Redwood City Public Library announced a story contest for children, inspired by the art. The winner will receive movie passes — plus an alebrije by Escartiz.
‘Hickorydickory’ (continued from page 38)
me. Why does monkeying around with the clocks sometimes lead to immortality and sometimes death? It’s best to think about it all on an allegorical rather than literal level. While I like the wide array of clocks on stage as part of Tom Shamrell’s scenic design, from my seat in the house-right section, the barrier bifurcating the set and separating the clock shop from the outdoors (as well as serving as furniture later on) made for an awkward transition space for the actors
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A giant alebrije figure crowns the roof of the Art Kiosk in Redwood City, part of “The Dream” by artist Fernando Escartiz.
Local photographer Mark Tuschman’s project “Immigrants are US: Photography and Stories of Courage and Resilience” will be displayed Sept. 13 (5:30-8 p.m.) and Sept. 14-15 (noon to 2 p.m.) at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 555 Waverly St., Palo Alto. Tuschman interviewed and photographed more than 100 immigrants (ranging from the undocumented to full citizens) with a focus on communities being discriminated against by the current administration. At Friday’s opening reception, Tuschman and some of the participants will speak about their experiences. “This project came about from my sense of the dire need to increase understanding of and empathy towards immigrants and to move us, as a country, towards a more humane, compassionate, and integrated society,” according to Tuschman’s press release. “Knowing that those who succumb to negative narratives about immigrants may have had few opportunities to engage, in proximity, with them, I wanted to bring the breadth, depth, and complexity of immigrant experiences and contributions forward through photographs and stories, giving people access in a way that they may not have otherwise had. After all, one can argue about politics or even disregard facts but one cannot argue a person’s story.” “Immigrants are US” has previously been displayed in Menlo Park and Hayward. Tuschman plans to bring the exhibition on tour across the nation. For more information, go to immigrantsareus.org. Q Arts and Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be reached at kkane@paweekly.com.
Local photographer Mark Tuschman’s “Immigrants Are US” exhibition includes the stories of immigrants from diverse backgrounds, including Rosario, an immigrant from El Salvador (pictured with her young daughter).
to make their way around. Nitpicks aside, it’s another mindbending and clever choice by the Dragon, directed by Kimberly Ridgeway and with good work by the cast. Despite the sci-fi themes and some dark moments, it’s also a comedy, with Haas given the most humorous lines as bad girl Cari Lee. Cari Lee is an extremely irritating character but Haas is talented enough to make her bearable. It’s a nice touch that Lytle, in the ‘70s sequences, plays the younger version of her stepmother Kate, underscoring the idea that the maternal ties that bind are not necessarily the biological ones; that nurture may
be just as important as nature. Ultimately, the thought-provoking, preposterous and sometimesfrustrating “Hickorydickory” proves time well spent. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com. What: “Hickorydickory.” Where: Dragon Productions Theatre Company, 2120 Broadway St., Redwood City. When: Through. Sept. 29. Thursday-Saturday at 8 p.m. Sunday at 2 p.m. Cost: $29-$37. Info: dragonproductions.net.
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THE PENINSULA RESTAURANTS THAT OPENED, CLOSED THIS SUMMER
Palo Alto
This year will go down as the year Palo Alto lost two of its longer-standing food businesses, The Prolific Oven and Round Table Pizza. The beloved Waverley Street bakery closed in August after 39 years due to a “severe” labor shortage and increasing cost of doing business in the Bay Area, the owner said (but not before people overwhelmed the bakery with last-minute cake orders). Round Table, which one diner called “one of the last bastions for blue collar lunch” in downtown Palo Alto, also shuttered. Also in August, Italian wine shop Biondivino closed after four years at Town & Country Village. Meanwhile, Palo Alto got several new food and drink options this summer. Morsey’s Creamery, a spinoff concept from the owners of Morsey’s Farmhouse in Los Altos, is now scooping ultra-creamy gelato made from buffalo milk at 125 University Ave. Stanford Shopping Center got a new caffeine option in Blue Bottle Coffee, serving drip coffee and espresso drinks plus liège waffles, sandwiches and savory and sweet toasts. Anyone who can’t decide between satisfying their cravings for pizza and Indian food no longer has to choose; Curry Pizza House is now slinging chili paneer pizzas, desi pesto bread sticks and other fusion food at 320 University Ave.
Mountain View
Silicon Valley references abound at Fairchilds Public House, the Peninsula’s newest hotel-restaurant inside the Hyatt at 409 San Antonio Road. The restaurant uses as decor interactive QR codes, old Atari game cartridges and the periodic table symbol for
Los Altos
Australian-inspired cafe chain Bluestone Lane opened its first sit-down Bay Area location at 288 1st St., the historic train station that last housed Voyageur du Temps. There’s avocado toast, vegemite, flat whites, “wellness” spritzes and plenty of beachy Australian vibes. After losing Honcho Bar, Los Altos gained a new watering hole this summer: Amandine Project, a Japanese-style cocktail bar at 235 1st St. Jean-Luc Kayigire, a Los Altos resident and former bar and restaurant owner, opened the bar to encourage Los Altans to spend more time in Los Altos proper rather than going to neighboring cities for quality drinks.
Menlo Park
San Francisco third-wave coffee shop Saint Frank Coffee is now pouring singleorigin espressos from a 250-square-foot outdoor kiosk in Menlo Park. Saint Frank, which sources beans from small growers in lesser-known regions around the world, is located at 1018 Alma St., across the street from the Caltrain station. A new kind of business for downtown Menlo Park: Green Bubble Cafe opened at 604 Santa Cruz Ave. in late August, serving Taiwanese milk tea as well as Hong Kong egg waffles, mochi waffles and savory rice bowls with teriyaki chicken, chicken curry, unagi and beef.
August marked the much-anticipated return of Portola Valley’s Alpine Inn, better known to locals as Zott’s. New owners refurbished the 167-year-old institution, rebuilding the floor, removing asbestos, cleaning old license plates and beer bottles that decorated the walls and adding woodfired pizza to the menu while still working to retain the treasured restaurant’s spirit. Zott’s is now open for lunch and dinner every day except Monday.
Redwood City
Coffeebar is enjoying enormous success after opening its first Peninsula location in Menlo Park in January 2018. The Truckee-based coffee company is set to open at 2020 Broadway St. in downtown Redwood City next week, followed by a third outpost in November on the Facebook campus (it will be a public cafe). The Redwood City Coffeebar will have the same core menu items as Menlo Park — coffee and espresso, avocado toast, baguette sandwiches — but will also serve fresh handmade pasta and tasca, or ciabatta stuffed with fillings like meatballs, chicken or tomato, basil and mozzarella. More coffee for downtown: Coupa Cafe opened its 10th cafe in August at 695 Main St., in the ground floor of the new Marston Building apartment complex. Beyond Coupa’s popular Venezuelan coffee and espresso, tea and other drinks, the Redwood City location serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus beer and wine. After nearly four decades of serving frozen yogurt and ice cream, Yumi Yogurt announced this week that the 947 El Camino Real shop will close on Sunday, Sept. 15. “Our ultimate goal was to provide a service, experience and product that was unique, memorable and unlike anything else,” an announcement reads on Facebook. “It is through our great team here and loyal customers that we have had such a tremendous run.” Disappointed Yumi Yogurt fans can still visit the San Mateo and Santa Clara locations. Q Staff writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@paweekly.com.
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Top: James Ashe, bar director at Amandine Project, makes a cocktail at the new Los Altos bar. Above: Inside the renovated Alpine Inn in Portola Valley.
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ummer saw a flurry of closures and arrivals on the Peninsula. While local diners mourned the departure of Palo Alto bakery stalwart Prolific Oven, Portola Valley regained an institution with the reopening of the historic Alpine Inn. Other local cities now have new, exciting options for sweets, coffee and cocktails, with more on their way this fall. Read on to catch up on what opened and closed this summer.
silicon; cocktails have names like “the gigabit” and “encryption margarita.” Mountain View this summer also got its own Ike’s, the Bay Area cult favorite sandwich shop, at 1020 N. Rengstorff Ave., Suite F. Exclusive to this location is a new, cheekily named roast beef sandwich: “Larry Page & I Have The Same Birthday, So Basically I Invented Google Too.” Taiwanese shaved snow, milk tea and baked goods are on the menu at the newly opened Oh! Honey Snow Ice at 1030 Castro St. Suite A, next to Le’s Alterations at the Elan building. Look for several flavors of shaved snow, including strawberry, mango, banana-Oreo, dragonfruit and taro, plus cream-filled choux pastries, madeleines and cookies shaped like ice cream scoops.
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Above: Avocado toast served at Fairchilds, a new hotel restaurant in Mountain View. Below: Palo Alto wine shop Biondivino closed this summer.
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A brilliant career
‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice’ profiles the beloved songster
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The story of singer Linda Ronstadt cannot help but be the story of her voice. In literal terms, Ronstadt’s powerful, pure singing voice launched her to prominence and then stardom before leaving her too soon. But as an accounting of the person behind the music and the fame, the appropriately named new documentary “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice” affords Ronstadt the opportunity to tell much of her own story, including how she found her “voice” as an individual, an artist, a social-justice advocate and a treasured friend. One of the great song stylists of the 20th century, Ronstadt broke through in the mid-1960s as the lead singing teenage ingenue of the Stone Poneys. She elevated the band’s hit single “Different Drum” to anthem-like status before moving on to an astonishing solo career marked by 38 Billboard Hot 100 singles and countless honors (including 10 Grammy Awards, Grammy and Latin Grammy
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reaffirms Ronstadt’s unerring instincts: against the advice of record labels, agents and producers, Ronstadt followed her musical muse and, by doing so, found commercial success wherever she went. When rock stardom with hits like “You’re No Good” and “Blue Bayou” began to bore her, Ronstadt found new challenges on Broadway, an album of traditional Mexican folk songs, and collaborations with jazz-standard orchestrator Nelson Riddle, Harris and Parton (the “Trio” recordings), and Neville. The filmmakers tread lightly when it comes to Ronstadt’s love life and her politics, although they cannot avoid a passage on her high-profile relationship with Jerry Brown, then both California Governor and Democratic presidential candidate. By the time we return to new footage of Ronstadt at film’s end, her powerful voice cruelly compromised by Parkinson’s disease in her twilight years, “The Sound of My Voice” has become a deeply moving story of a remarkable woman, its only real fault an arguable virtue: adhering to the old showbiz adage of leaving the audience wanting more. Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and drug material. One hour, 35 minutes. — Peter Canavese
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Lifetime Achievement Awards, an Emmy, and induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame). Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (“The Times of Harvey Milk”) move us through Ronstadt’s career more or less chronologically, after a present-day glimpse of Ronstadt in retirement. Along with Ronstadt’s narration (echoing her 2013 autobiography “Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir”), Epstein and Friedman tell her story through a wealth of archival materials and new interviews with family members, former bandmates and music luminaries, such as Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Don Henley, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Cameron Crowe, David Geffen, Kevin Kline and Aaron Neville. While acknowledging Ronstadt’s struggles with self confidence and substance abuse, these witnesses testify to a woman devoted to family, one who knew what she wanted artistically and fought for it, and one who showed selfless generosity as a friend. Their descriptions of Ronstadt as a singer and as a person reflect an awe in her talent and career chutzpah and, in some cases, a deep and abiding love. The friendship of Ronstadt and Harris seems especially emblematic of Ronstadt’s commitment to doing it her way; she recalls the turning point when she decided to befriend the people who others might view as competition. “The Sound of My Voice”
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BOTANICAL BLOCK PRINTS ... Create a work of art inspired by nature at a botanical printmaking workshop on Saturday, Sept. 14, 9:3011:30 a.m. at Gamble Garden. Learn how to draw simple botanical shapes and transform them into stamps to create prints in this class led by artist Charles Woodruff Coates. To spark your imagination, the class begins with a tour of the gardens. For ages 18 and up. Cost is $40 garden members/$50 non members. Gamble Gardens is located at 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. For more information, call 650-329-1356 or go to gamblegarden.org.
WOOD STAINING ... Find out how to get that perfect finish on furniture and woodworking projects at a free workshop offered Saturday, Sept. 14, 10-11:30 a.m. at Home Depot. The class covers prepping wood, staining it and adding a top coat, plus how to use products that give wood a rustic, lived-in look. Home Depot is located at 1781 E. Bayshore Road, East Palo Alto. For more information, call 650-462-6800 or go to home depot.com. Q Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email editor@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.
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California Native Plant Society Going Native Tour
GLASS PUMPKINS ... Find beautiful and whimsical decor for your home and garden at Palo Alto High School’s annual Fall Glass Sale taking place Friday, Sept. 13, 3-6 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 14, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.. Among over 1,000 unique decorative and functional items for sale are pumpkins and other fall “produce,” flowers and animals, cups and candleholders, all crafted from glass. The event also features glass-blowing demonstrations. All proceeds fund the school’s sculpture classes and glass studio. The sale takes place next to the Palo Alto High School Performing Arts Center, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. For more information, visit facebook.com/PalyFieryArts/ or contact PalyFieryArts@ gmail.com.
California Native Plant Society event explores gardens that cater to native insects — and draw more wildlife
reating a habitat sounds like a complex, daunting task — a job for Mother Nature or perhaps even the local zoo — but it’s something that can be accomplished on as small a scale as a home garden. And it starts with native plants. “(Native plants) are not only a wonderful source for butterflies but flies, wasps, moths, a lot of things will come to your garden. So it’s not just a pretty garden that’s eye candy for humans, it’s actually habitat for the plants that females will put (their) eggs on. And let your plants be eaten by creatures in your garden — think of it more as a habitat than as a botanical garden,” said Liam O’Brien, a Bay Area lepidopterist (a person who studies butterflies and moths). O’Brien is one of five speakers who will be featured at the California Native Plant Society’s (CNPS) “Gardening for Biodiversity in a Climate Crisis” symposium on Sept. 21 at Foothill College. The event focuses on creating gardens that draw local wildlife, and in particular, attract pollinators. Many of the speakers are experts on insects, including Doug Tallamy, professor of entomology at the University of Delaware and author of “Bringing Nature Home,” who will be the keynote speaker. “Simply put, (gardening for biodiversity) is trying to get as many bugs and creatures into your yard, really. It’s creating a garden that really welcomes wildlife,” said Sherri Osaka, chair of CNPS Santa Clara Valley Chapter’s Gardening with Natives group. She said that the event’s emphasis on pollinators was inspired by society members. CNPS hosts many free educational talks in the Bay Area throughout the year, and the subject came up a lot in the course of organizing those events. “We kept noticing that pollinators were a real focus for our members. That’s why we decided: The time is now.” Osaka said. Creating a garden for biodiversity means
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Above: A bee gathers pollen from a flower in an image captured by Kim Chacon as part of her research. Left: This garden of native plants offers plenty of blooms for pollinators plus some colorful eye candy for humans.
thinking about building a chain reaction, with native plants drawing insects, which then also attract other wildlife, Osaka said. “If you have an oak tree or a willow — those are two of the best trees in our area — you’re going to attract hundreds of insects and because of that, you’re going to have lots and lots of birds feeding those insects to their babies,” Osaka, who’s also a landscape designer, said. “It just propagates this whole cycle. If you don’t have them, the babies may starve or the birds just won’t nest in your yard. That’s why we’re seeing such a demise of both insects and birds. Birds are really suffering too.” Speaker Kim Chacon, a PhD student at University of California, Davis concentrating on bee habitat analysis and landscape design, will share her research at the symposium. “The key to a lot of biodiversity requires having these plants pollinated and then the plants play other roles as far as providing habitat for other organisms. Bees are a really important group of species as far as supporting a lot of other species,” she said. Chacon has mapped the activity of various native bees in California and shares the results on her website, beelandscapes.com. She has found among other things that bee habitat is very fragmented — in other words, there are figurative “islands” planted with the resources that bees need, but they’re isolated areas. “Little bee gardens that are planted far apart from each other and should be more strategically placed in order to have a better function in the landscape,” she said. Choosing plants for the garden that native bees need for food, as well as reproduction, helps bridge islands of bee-friendly areas, offering more potential habitat. “It creates a network for them in terms of genetic diversity and genetic exchange and not becoming inbred and in being able to move across the landscape in case of climate change, for example,” she said. Similarly, O’Brien is working on preserving and rebuilding habitat for butterflies. He got his start studying butterflies while helping the Green Hairstreak butterfly regain some ground in San Francisco, leading an effort to plant the insect’s preferred “host” plant, coast buckwheat, and other nectar-producing plants in neighborhoods, which expanded the habitat for the butterfly. At the symposium, he’ll discuss the Green Hairstreak Project’s origins and share ideas on how to create similar grassroots — or “citizen science” projects. “(I’ll discuss) what people can do with single species-driven projects and how they can get involved, using it almost as a template if they
have an idea for something they want to help maintain and survive,” O’Brien said. He noted that recent efforts to support the monarch butterfly population, with more gardeners planting the milkweed that monarchs rely on, is one of the better known examples of this type of work. “It’s almost like some of us are in triage trying to help many of these things still hang on,” he said. Though O’Brien acknowledged that not all efforts are going to succeed in the face of climate change, he said that his efforts are also meant to inspire the next generation. “I think more than anything, if the next Jane Goodall is 4 years old and their parents bring them on a Green Hairstreak walk to go see this butterfly, maybe that little 4-year-old will figure out better things after I’m gone. Right now it’s just triage to keep it around so 4-year-olds can still see it.” Q Home & Real Estate Editor Heather Zimmerman can be emailed at hzimmerman@ paweekly.com.
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The California Native Plant Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter, presents Gardening for Biodiversity in a Climate Crisis, Sept. 21, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. Admission is $125 general/$100 CNPS members/$50 students. For more information, or to register, visit cnps-scv. org/symposium
Gardening for biodiversity tips Get local native plant recommendations right down to a specific address from the California Native Plant Society database at calscape.org. The site features photos of recommended plants, shows which butterflies and moths eat the plants and lists nurseries that stock the plants. Q Plant native trees, such as coast live oaks, and instead of lawn, opt for low-growing native shrubs and ground covers, which attract pollinators and save water. Q Put out bee boxes and provide small areas of bare, unmulched ground for some bees that primarily live underground. Q Learn more about native plants with CNPS website, cnps-scv.org. The society also offers a listserv and a YouTube channel with instructional videos. Q
Sources: Sherri Osaka, Kim Chacon, Liam O’Brien
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Morgan Lashley Broker, MBA 650.387.5224 morgan@morganlashley.com www.morganlashley.com
Palo Alto Office 228 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 DRE# 01340271
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1124 Werth Avenue, Menlo Park
Masterfully remodeled with designer flair in 2017, this spacious home of 2,210 sq. ft. (per county) rests on a lot of 10,103 sq. ft. (per city parcel map) and offers 3 bedrooms and 3.5 baths on a peaceful street in the Central Menlo neighborhood. Ideally structured for a modern lifestyle, the home’s open-concept floorplan features fireplaces warming the comfortable living and family rooms, plus an inviting dining area catered by a kitchen perfectly suited for the ambitious chef. An expansive master suite includes a separate office for all work-from-home needs, while a second bedroom suite provides space for overnight guests. Light, airy interiors are brightened by glass doors leading to the private backyard, with ample space for outdoor enjoyment and towering redwoods offering a shady respite. Adding the finishing touch, this home is close to downtown Menlo Park and Palo Alto, is a short walk to Jack W. Lyle Park, and offers access to acclaimed schools Oak Knoll Elementary, Hillview Middle, and Menlo-Atherton High (buyer to confirm enrollment).
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TWO DISTINCT VIEW PROPERTIES IN PORTOLA VALLEY 0 Palmer Lane
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This 4 bed, 2 bath, 2,690 sf home enjoys a stunning Windy Hill view and is nestled on a level 1 acre lot on a cul-de-sac in prime Central Portola Valley! Convenient to local shopping, restaurants, multiple recreational opportunities, commute routes and highly rated Portola Valley schools.
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This bright upper condo is located in desirable Sharon Heights. The quiet home boasts updated kitchen, open living and dining rooms, master bedroom suite, A/C, and a private balcony overlooking the pool and serene mature landscaping. Outstanding amenities include a pool, clubhouse, storage closet, covered 1 car parking, guest parking, close laundry room, and lush grounds. Close to excellent schools, Sand Hill Rd., easy 280 commute, Stanford University, shopping, parks, and hiking trails; this home is walking distance to Sharon Heights shopping center.
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Quintessential Mid-Century Modern 3512 ROSS ROAD, PALO ALTO Featuring a home designed by Aaron Green, a man who strove to make buildings that enhanced their sites, this custom-crafted property is offered for sale by the original owner. Refreshed for sale, the home has not been remodeled or expanded since its completion in 1966. Taught and inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, architect Aaron Green employed the philosophy of organic architecture and built places not just to go to, but to be in. The home was constructed by the Eichler Homes Company. At the end of a long driveway, the home is situated on nearly 13,000 sq. ft lot of terrain modified to form a mini valley and berms for architectural interest and privacy. List price: $2,650,000.
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$4,995,000 3 BD/3 BA 400-5855 $4,298,000 4 BD/3 BA 465-7459 $9,200,000 4 BD/4.5 BA 543-1182 $6,998,000 5 BD/3.5 BA 888-0707 $7,495,000 5 BD/5.5 BA 888-4898 $4,988,000 6 BD/5 BA 743-0734 $11,800,000 6 BD/7.5 BA 207-0781
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EAST PALO ALTO 2387 Dumbarton Av Sat 1-4/Sun 1:30-4:30 Keller Williams Realty 112 Holland St Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 2772 Georgetown St Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker
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400 Orange Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group Realtors 154 Bridgton Ct Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Sereno Group Realtors
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$3,699,000 4 BD/3.5 BA 947-2903 $7,998,000 5 BD/6.5+ BA 408-391-7582
614 College Av Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Morgan Lashley
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1175 Hermosa St Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass
$3,998,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 207-0781
933 Hermosa Way Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker
$4,250,000 3 BD/3 BA 855-9700
839 Paulson Cir Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass
$2,998,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 415-533-7270
1124 Werth Av Sat/Sun 1-5 DeLeon Realty
$3,488,000 3 BD/3.5 BA 900-7000
994 Menlo Av #10 (C) Sat/Sun 1-4 Compass
$2,300,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 336-8530
156 Hedge Rd Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass
$1,925,000 4 BD/2 BA 862-3266
1080 Klamath Dr Sat/Sun 2-4 Keller Williams Realty
$4,298,000 4 BD/4.5 BA 703-6948
16 Nancy Way Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass
$3,295,000 4 BD/2 BA 862-3266
1206 North Lemon Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Compass
$5,495,000 4 BD/3.5 BA 279-8892
390 Ringwood Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker
$2,900,000 4 BD/3.5 BA 415-317-3036
1165 Klamath Dr Sat/Sun 2-4 Compass
$6,989,000 5 BD/4.5 BA 255-6987
4 Palm Ct Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker
$5,725,000 5 BD/4 BA 566-5353
1131 Hobart St Sat/Sun 1:30-4 Compass
$5,998,000 6 BD/6.5 BA 799-3130
MOUNTAIN VIEW 1909 Aberdeen Ln Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group Realtors
$1,498,000 3 BD/3.5 BA 207-0226
2524 Alvin St Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group Realtors
$1,600,000 3 BD/2 BA 575-8300
11564 Arroyo Oaks Dr $5,395,000 Sun 2-4 4 BD/4.5 BA Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 575-0991 27500 La Vida Real $49,990,000 By Appointment 5 BD/7+5 Half BA DeLeon Realty 900-7000 24595 Voorhees Dr $5,988,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 5 BD/5.5 BA DeLeon Realty 900-7000 12004 Adobe Creek Lodge Rd $65,000,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 6 BD/5 BA Compass 740-9694
1846 Limetree Ln Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass
$2,688,888 3 BD/2 BA 799-8888
138 Coleridge Av Sat 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty
$2,488,000 2 BD/2 BA 900-7000
MENLO PARK
165 Forest Av #2A Sun 2-4 Compass
$1,699,000 2 BD/2 BA 814-0374
949 Scott St Sun 1:30-4:30 Keller Williams Realty
$2,195,000 2 BD/1 BA 400-1001
537 Thain Way Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Sereno Group Realtors
$1,598,000 2 BD/2 BA 796-9580
555 Byron St #309 (C) Sun 2-4 Compass
$2,395,000 2 BD/3 BA 823-8212
5100 El Camino Real #102 Sun 2-4 Compass
$1,698,000 3 BD/2 BA 464-3797
240 Kellogg Av Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass
$3,988,000 3 BD/3 BA 740-7954
LOS ALTOS HILLS
1326 Hoover St #2 $1,998,000 Sun 1:30-4:30 2 BD/2 BA Compass 207-0781 2140 Santa Cruz Av #B108 (C) $995,000 Sat 2-4 2 BD/2 BA Coldwell Banker 302-2449 675 Sharon Park Dr (C) $995,000 Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 2 BD/2 BA Compass 400-2543 770 15th Av $1,950,000 Sun 1:30-4:30 3 BD/2.5 BA DeLeon Realty 900-7000 8 Artisan Way $1,825,000 Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 3 BD/3 BA Compass 384-5392 1321 Carlton Av $1,288,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 3 BD/2 BA DeLeon Realty 900-7000 612 College Av $2,425,000 Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 3 BD/2+2 H BA Morgan Lashley 387-5224
910 San Marcos Cir Sat 1:30-4 Coldwell Banker
PALO ALTO
$1,899,000 4 BD/2 BA 415-572-1595
4250 El Camino Real #D129 (C) Sat/Sun 1-5 HengSeroff Group
$788,000 1 BD/1 BA 516-7506
496 W Charleston Rd #102 (C) $1,295,000 Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 3 BD/2 BA Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 408-506-8445
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4173 El Camino Real #36 (T) Sat/Sun 1-5 DeLeon Realty
$1,988,000 3 BD/3.5 BA 900-7000
2951 Bryant St Call for Price Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 4 BD/4.5 BA Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 208-8824 886 Chimalus Dr Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass
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Junacio Henley is a key player on both sides of the ball and as a kick returner for Palo Alto.
PREP FOOTBALL
Palo Alto looking to continue steady sailing Gunn aims high; SHP heading for the coast
by Glenn Reeves he ship righted itself last week. The hope is for smooth sailing from here on out. After having its offense held scoreless in the season opener at St. Ignatius, the Palo Alto football team exploded in a 47-8 win Friday over Overfelt in the team’s home opener. Sophomore Danny Peters got his first start at quarterback and responded by throwing six touchdown passes. “Everyone kind of rallied around him and gave him the support he needed,’’ Palo Alto coach Nelson Gifford said. Paly will take on another San Jose public school when it travels to Pioneer for a 7 p.m. game on Friday. Pioneer (1-1) lost to Branham and beat Gunderson in its first two games. The Mustangs are a predominant running team with 247 yards rushing and 86 passing over their first two games. “We just have to focus on doing our job,’’ Gifford said. “If we execute our assignments we’ll have the opportunity to do good things.’’
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Against St. Ignatius the Vikings were held to negative yards rushing. Against Overfelt sophomore Josh Butler rushed for 121 yards on 17 carries. “He had a 60 and a 40 called back,’’ Gifford said. “He probably could have rushed for 250. We moved Alberto Ruiz from guard to right tackle and I think that made a
big difference.’’ With Peters taking most of the snaps at quarterback, game one starter Kevin Cullen was able to focus his energy on playing safety. “He must’ve had 10 tackles and a pick and he still played quarterback in our run-oriented sets,’’ Gifford said. “He was just all over the field.’’
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PREP REPORT ... Sacred Heart Prep’s Luke Weigle scored three goals, including the go-ahead goal, as the Gators opened their West Catholic Athletic League season with a 10-5 victory over visiting Menlo School. Luke Johnston and Isaac Rotenberg each added a pair of goals for the Gators (1-0, 1-0), who host Pioneer at 1 p.m. Friday as part of the St. Francis Invitational Tournament. Noah Housenbold scored three goals to pace Menlo (5-1, 0-1), which played its first-ever WCAL contest after being voted out of the Peninsula Athletic League. The Knights host Sir Francis Drake in a nonleague contest at 5 p.m. Friday ... In a Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division contest, senior Olivia French scored three goals and Castilleja beat visiting Half Moon Bay 15-1. Elsa McElhinney, Georgia Hutchins, Minhee Chung and Anjali Kambham each added two goals for the four-time defending league champion Gators (3-3, 2-0), who travel to Menlo-Atherton to meet the Bears in a league contest Tuesday at 5 p.m. M-A (1-1, 1-0) downed Carlmont 11-5 ... Menlo School beat Notre Dame Belmont 216-291 in a West Bay Athletic League girls golf match at Baylands Golf Links. Vikki Xu and Gianna Inguagiato each shot a 36 to pace the Knights (3-0), who meet Castilleja at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, also at Baylands. Taylor Baik shot a 41 for Menlo. Sacred Heart Prep squeaked past Notre Dame Belmont 287-290 in a league match at Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club. The Gators received steady efforts from Hannah Lesti (52), Alexandra Hull (53) and Hannah Lindquist (55) to lead the way. Kelly Yu shot a 44 but Castilleja fell to Mercy Burlingame at Crystal Springs Golf Course 248-290 ... In girls volleyball action, Castilleja beat visiting Design Tech 25-9, 25-17, 25-11 as Suzzy Wang and Sawyer Ranzetta combined for 27 digs. Hadley Nunn added six kills and Lila Morrill added 23 assists and eight digs for the Gators (4-3), who host The King’s Academy on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. Sacred Heart Prep opened West Bay Athletic League play with a 25-17, 22-25, 25-20, 25-14 victory over host Notre Dame San Jose ... Ella Sheehan won at No. 4 singles and Alexa Schlotter and Ciara Moses won at No. 3 doubles but visiting Sacred Heart Prep fell to Cupertino 5-2 in a nonleague girls tennis match. Kamila Wong, Iris Li and Claire Li each won singles matches in Palo Alto’s 5-2 win over Mountain View.
Sacred Heart Prep at Half Moon Bay, 7 p.m.: Both teams are 2-0. The Gators are coming off a hard-fought comeback win over St. Ignatius. Half Moon Bay, which dropped down from the Peninsula Athletic League’s Bay Division to the Ocean Division after a 3-7 season, is coming off a big win over Bay contender Burlingame. “I think they’re good, a disciplined team,’’ SHP coach Mark Grieb said. “They’re tough. They’re small by numbers but they play real hard. We’ll have a real challenge. We’ll have to be ready for a team that is not afraid to use all four downs.’’ SHP trailed 14-7 at halftime against St. Ignatius and 21-14 in the fourth quarter. The Gators went heavy to Tevita Moimoi, who carried 29 times for 149 yards, with the game on the line. He scored two touchdowns, including the game-winner with 1:16 left. Teddy Purcell was efficient in the passing game, completing 11 of 14 passes for 113 yards. Half Moon Bay can be a difficult team to prepare for because of the different looks they show on offense, from the triple option, spread, to a scrum used as a change of pace. “One of the things we do well defensively is always being prepared for what we’re going to see,’’ Grieb said. “But we still have to go out and execute.’’ Yerba Buena at Gunn, 7 p.m.: Gunn will try to get to 3-0 for the first time since . . . Are you ready for this? 2002. Talk about making your mark on the historical time line. The Titans are aiming high. “I challenged the team this week,’’ second-year coach Jason Miller said. “To play championship level ball you have to practice like a championship level team. We want to put on a performance like ballet.’’ Gunn has scored 101 points over the first two games in wins over Prospect and James Lick. Yerba Buena is 0-1. The Titans have rushed for 742 yards and are averaging 10.0 yards per carry. Quarterback Aidan Everett isn’t asked to throw the ball very often, but when he does he’s had a lot of success. Four of his five completions have gone for touchdowns. “Teams have been daring us to (continued on page 59)
Youngest Neushul puts her own twist on water polo Cardinal sophomore helps USA reach quarterfinal of FINA Junior Worlds
by Rick Eymer tanford sophomore Ryann Neushul continues to make her own mark in a family synonymous with the sport of water polo. Neushul, who played on Stanford’s national championship team in the spring, scored three goals Wednesday in helping the United States’ women’s junior national water polo team rally from behind to beat Australia 9-8 and win Group A, which means an automatic berth into Friday’s quarterfinals of the FINA Junior World Championships in Funchal, Portugal. The Americans went 2-0-1 during group play, with the key win an 8-7 victory over Hungary on Tuesday. They tied Japan 11-11 to open the tournament. Neushul is the youngest of three sisters who have
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helped Stanford remain a powerhouse in college water polo. Kiley Neushul inspired Ryann with her play during the 2015 NCAA title game played at Stanford, which included a penalty shot with no time left that gave the Cardinal the championship. Kiley Neushul is also a two-time Peter J. Cutino Award winner (2012, 2015) and, along with Jamie Neushul, an Olympic gold medalist. A Neushul has been on the roster of the last five Stanford national championship teams. In Portugal, Ryann Neushul scored three goals in each of USA’s first three contests. Cardinal junior Sarah Klass has three goals in three games. (continued on page 58)
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front at 5-4 with 3:21 to play in the quarter. Leland High’s Jenna Flynn scored two of the next three goals and that left the match all even at 6-6 going to the fourth. Team USA took their first lead of the match early in the fourth on a Neushul goal for a 7-6 lead. Australia responded scoring two of the next three goals to even the match at 8-8 with 3:17 to play and setting the stage for Roemer’s goal. “We missed some open looks early,” said Flynn. “But we came together and started putting away our shots. Now we’re going to the quarterfinals and I’m super excited about it.” Klass also scored for the Americans, who are joined by The Netherlands, Russia and Greece in the quarterfinal round. Their opponent
will be determined from of pool of eight teams: Hungary, Australia, Spain, Brazil, Italy, South Africa, China and Canada. Neushul was named Player of the Match against Hungary. “We knew that in order to advance we needed to win these two games,” said Neushul. “We knew Hungary would be a really tough opponent, with a different style. We adapted well, for sure. Australia is a great opponent as well.” Stanford incoming freshman Floranne Carroll, playing with Canada, has recorded consecutive hat tricks for the Canadians, who lost to Italy in its final group play match and will play for ninth place. Russia is the defending champion. The U.S. won in 2001, 2005, 2013 and 2015. Q
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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Megan Norris
Danny Peters
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PALO ALTO FOOTBALL
The junior recorded 38 saves during Sacred Heart Prep’s run to the St. Francis Invitational title on Saturday. She averaged 9.5 saves a match, including nine in the title game against the Lancers.
The sophomore quarterback made an impressive starting debut, completing 13 of 21 passes for 309 yards and six touchdowns in Palo Alto’s nonleague victory over Overfelt on Friday night.
Honorable mention Natalie Grover
Menlo-Atherton volleyball
Emma Holland
Menlo volleyball
Ashley Penner
Sacred Heart Prep water polo
Elena Radeff
Sacred Heart Prep volleyball
Charlotte Tomkinson
Menlo cross country
Tricia Zhang
Menlo tennis
Connor Enright
Menlo water polo
Saia Faasisila
Gunn football
Greg Hilderbrand
Menlo water polo
Tevita Moimoi
Sacred Heart Prep football
Kai Seed
Woodside water polo
Jamir Shepard
Palo Alto football
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Menlo-Atherton at East (Salt Lake City), 7 p.m.: The Bears have hit a high (51-14 win over Bellarmine) and a low (38-13 loss to Serra) in their first two games and now face a challenge with an outof-state trip to play a Utah power. The team’s travel schedule called for a Thursday departure, a tour of the University of Utah on Friday before the game and a return on Saturday. East is the Saia Faasisila team that came out here to play De La Salle in 2016 and won 23-21. The team that beat De La Salle went 14-0. The current team is off to a 2-2 start with one of its losses to a California team, JSerra Catholic
Colin Giffen caught this touchdown pass from Danny Peters to open the scoring last week. of San Juan Capistrano, 24-14. East is a running team with 909 yards rushing and 89 passing through the first three games. “They run veer option and their linemen are all about 6-1, 250,’’ M-A coach Steve Papin said. Papin and his staff watched the film of the team’s loss last Friday to Serra and tried to come up with a plan to resolve some of the issues the team encountered. “We watched the tape and saw all the mistakes,’’ Papin said. “We counted 11 illegal procedure penalties, three in one series. We had a chance to go into halftime down 17-13, but we threw a pick.’’ Instead, Serra had a commanding 24-6 lead at the break.
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“I don’t want to take anything away from Serra,’’ Papin said. “But I don’t think they beat us, we beat ourselves. They were double- and triple-teaming Troy Franklin, playing a four-man box, and we still couldn’t run the ball.’’ So it’s a familiar mantra on what it’s going to take to come out of Utah with a win: “Focus on the little things and get better,’’ Papin said. Santa Clara at Menlo School, 3:15 p.m.: Menlo (1-1) hopes to get back on the winning track this week when it hosts Santa Clara. After breezing past an outmanned Fremont of Oakland team 65-0 in their season opener, the Knights lost
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pass,’’ Miller said. “James Lick had a 10-man front with one safety back deep. The way our offense is set up we should be able to run the pitch against anything. But I’m not going to be so arrogant to not put it up in the air if they give it to us.’’ Getting a shutout last week in the 42-0 win over Lick was a big step forward for the team’s defense. Gunn allowed 52 to the same team last year. Miller singled out linebacker Javier Barrera and linemen Leo Ye and Saia Faasisila for praise.
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Danny Peters rolls out to find an open receiver. He threw for 309 yards against Overfelt. at Piedmont 31-6. “That was our first opportunity to play a real four-quarter football game,’’ Menlo coach Josh Bowie said. “Sacks and penalties were the story of the game. We hurt ourselves. We’ve got to make sure we’re efficient on offense and play for a full four quarters on defense. We need to do a better job of responding when things don’t go our way.’’ Santa Clara is also 1-1 with a win over Mission of San Francisco and a loss to Soquel. “We had a tough game with them last year, back and forth,’’ Bowie said of a 35-26 Menlo victory.
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Bowie said he was pleased with the running of Samson Axe against Piedmont and the play of defensive end Miles Hester. But quarterbacks, Kevin Alarcon and Justin Sellers both had a difficult time. “Menlo has always been known for the passing game, but last week we really struggled moving the ball through the air,’’ Bowie said. “We can’t have second and 10 and a dropped pass, can’t have sacks on first down.’’ The plan is to continue to use both quarterbacks. “The first game they both looked sharp,’’ Bowie said. “The second game they both struggled.’’ Q
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