Palo Alto Weekly October 25, 2019

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Local news, information and analysis

Community pressures Stanford over growth plan Funding for public schools remains a wild card as university’s permit application approaches decision point

by Gennady Sheyner ith Stanford University’s ambitious expansion proposal nearing the decision point, hundreds of Stanford students, public school advocates and elected leaders from surrounding communities turned out on Tuesday to demand

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that the university do more to address the impacts of its increasingly divisive proposal.

The day featured more than 150 students chanting at Palo Alto’s King Plaza, about 400 spectators cramming into City Hall and roughly 140 speakers addressing

the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors during its rare meeting in Palo Alto.

The meeting was preceded by a boisterous rally in which speakers urged the university to do more for its workers and graduate students. Armed with signs declaring “Housing for All,” “We stand with workers” and “Maximum Affordable Housing Now” and a bullhorn, the university students chanted and spoke about the need

to hold Stanford accountable.

“Student pressure is absolutely vital in forcing Stanford to create decisions that are inclusive in their scope and make sure to take into account repercussions that go beyond the Stanford campus,” Erica Scott, president of the Associated Students of Stanford University, told a cheering crowd, which minutes later broke into chants of, “Hey hey, ho ho / Exploitation’s got to go!” and “Housing is

a right! That is why we have to fight!”

With a standing-room-only crowd packed into the Council Chambers and many other people watching the televised meeting in the City Hall lobby, the board heard area residents, Stanford students and elected officials request that Stanford be required to fully mitigate the expected impacts of (continued on page 12)

TRANSPORTATION

City to reintroduce paid parking to downtown

Council may commission Dixon Resources to abolish existing color zones

Mixon said the church has tried numerous initiatives to revitalize its operations. When he came to First Baptist, there was talk about a possible federation with another local church — a partnership in which the institutions would share resources — and even a

by Gennady Sheyner arking in downtown Palo Alto can be a befuddling experience, requiring visitors to negotiate confusing color zones, residential parking-permit districts and garages that — depending on location — might be filled to capacity.

The only consolation to drivers is the fact that parking remains free for those who only need to visit for two or three hours.

That, however, is about change.

In an effort to create some order and bring in some revenue, the City Council is preparing to approve a contract on Monday to revamp downtown’s parking system and switch to paid parking.

The $285,126 contract with the firm Dixon Resources will require Dixon to orchestrate the city’s switch to paid parking, a transition that has been recommended by several studies and at the same time criticized by some downtown merchants.

The council, for its part, has been generally supportive of the change.

Earlier this year, it enthusiastically endorsed a report from Wayne Tanda, a consultant with the firm Municipal Resources Group, that included 35 recommendations for improving parking downtown, including asking drivers to pay.

Dixon, which in 2016 conducted its own review of downtown’s parking system, similarly

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For new hospital, a red-letter day

Stanford Health Care celebrated the ribbon-cutting for its new hospital, at 500 Pasteur Drive, on Wednesday. It will welcome its first patient on Nov. 17. Read an article on Palo Alto Online about hospital architect Rafael Viñoly, who spent time observing groups of Stanford Hospital employees in order to come up with the complex design of the new $2 billion facility.

RELIGION

First Baptist Church prepares to shut down, sell assets With its congregation dwindling, one of Palo Alto’s oldest churches prepares for final chapter

by Gennady Sheyner alling it a “death with dignity,” parishioners and leaders at the First Baptist Church in Palo Alto are preparing to close one of the city’s oldest churches and sell its steepled North California Avenue building.

The pending closure of First Baptist Church, which has been

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in existence for 126 years, follows decades of steady decline in the size of the congregation, according to Rev. Randall Mixon, the church’s pastor. In its heyday, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the church had a congregation of 600 to 700 people, Mixon said. By the time Mixon joined the church 13 years ago, the average attendance

for services was close to 60. Today, it’s about 25.

“We just aged out,” Mixon told the Weekly. “The congregation has continued to shrink to a relatively small number of people.

Most of the people are older and we don’t really have a strong leadership pool to draw from to lead the church in the future.”

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We just aged out.

—Rev. Randall Mixon, pastor at First Baptist Church, on the church’s pending closure.

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PAVING THE WAY ... Runners and soccer players will be delighted to find a new synthetic turf field at the Cubberley Community Center’s track and field which reopened on Oct. 16. Workers spent about three months adding the rubberized material over the previous granite track that had decomposed. The city held a noon ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 18 to celebrate the completed project attended by about 40 residents, including Mayor Eric Filseth, city staff and commissioners from the Parks and Recreation Commission. The new track is next to a memorial bench added in honor of the late Bill Green Jr., a nationally known track and field athlete who grew up in Palo Alto and is a member of Cubberley High School’s Class of 1979, the final class before the school shut down and turned into the present-day community center.

Green’s parents, Bill Green Sr. and Loretta Green, made remarks at the ceremony and were joined by his grandmother, Elise.

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DESIGNING INTO THE ‘DNA’ ...

Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly has designed iconic structures around the world that have earned him international recognition: including the Jazz at Lincoln Center facility in Manhattan, the sweeping Tokyo International Forum in Japan and the 38-story “Walkie Talkie” building in London.

These monumental structures might dwarf the new Stanford Hospital, but the $2 billion facility is arguably one of his most ambitious hospital projects. He was among the 300 attendees of Wednesday morning’s ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony at the new facility located at 500 Pasteur Drive. The $2 billion facility includes 3 acres of surgical floor space, a community friendly atrium and five healing gardens. The building was designed on a horizontal plane so it can almost “breathe” with its surroundings, Viñoly said

in an interview with the Weekly.

The spaces can be reconfigured to add additional structures as the hospital’s needs and technology change in the future, he said. At the ceremony, Stanford Health Care CEO and President David Entwistle manned giant scissors to slice the Cardinal-red ribbon in the hospital atrium, a moment he said was “surreal” after 10 long years of planning and construction. “For so long, Stanford Hospital has been a distant dream. It’s exciting, it’s innovative, it’s peaceful,” he said.

THE NEXT CHAPTER ... Monique le Conge Ziesenhenne, who in 2011 was hired to serve as Palo Alto’s library director, is moving on up at City Hall. City Manager Ed Shikada has tapped Ziesenhenne to be the new assistant city manager, a position that was last held by Shikada himself and that has remained vacant since December 2018. The promotion, which the City Council is set to approve on Nov. 4, is the latest in a series of transitions for Ziesenhenne, who in March 2017 was temporarily assigned to oversee the Community Services Department even as she remained in charge of the library system. In May, Shikada appointed her as interim assistant city manager.

Now, she is preparing to lose the “interim” tag and officially take over the second-highest position at City Hall. Before coming to Palo Alto, she served as director of library and cultural services in the city of Richmond. She has 31 years of experience in local government.

According to a report from the Human Resources Department, she was selected as a finalist after a “comprehensive and competitive nationwide executive recruitment” that was completed in September.

Ziesenhenne, who in 2017 earned a doctorate in managerial leadership in information professions from Simmons University, will receive an annual salary of $258,554. Q

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Neighborhoods

A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

Around the Block

EAST PALO ALTO’S FIRST HALLOWEEN ... The inaugural Halloween in the Park! celebration in East Palo Alto takes place on Oct. 31 from 5-7 p.m. at Joel M. Davis Memorial Park, between Tate and McNair streets. The free event, which is hosted by residents, is a social gathering with free candy, games, a costume parade with prizes for best children’s, adult’s, group and pet costume in the park, followed by a safe and supervised trick-ortreat train walk around neighboring houses. The event is open to all.

Volunteers can email Carly Lodge at carlylane@gmail.com.

BE EMBER AWARE ... October is the season for wildfires in California, and the current blazes in Sonoma County are a good reminder that Palo Alto neighborhoods are as vulnerable as anyplace else.

The Palo Alto Fire Department has posted tips on how to be ember aware to keep homes and neighborhoods safe. The tip sheet is available at tinyurl.com/y47sytfy. The fire department also has a blog with fire-safety tips and how to plan an escape route in a wildfire at tinyurl. com/yyhou5nh.

Got a good neighborhood story, news, upcoming meeting or event? Email Sue Dremann, Neighborhoods editor, at sdremann@paweekly.com.

Mobile networking app brings residents together in real time

by Sue Dremann

hen Elodie Bottine lived in Paris as a young woman, she learned of a 93-year-old neighbor had who lived alone in the same apartment building since 1935. The neighbor had no one to look after her, so Bottine looked in, then took care of her until she died at age 102.

Now a mother of two and an entrepreneur living in Menlo Park’s Menlo Oaks neighborhood, Bottine longed for similar intergenerational connections.

In fast-paced and overscheduled Silicon Valley, she found them lacking.

She and a friend, Raluca Perkins, a resident of Palo Alto’s Crescent Park neighborhood, have launched a smartphone application to help their neighbors build community. MyNabes links people together in real time without the bother of annoying advertising and negative comments found on other social-networking sites, she said.

Two years ago, Bottine set out to build her own neighborhood social-networking mobile

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application. The free app lets people connect in 19 categories, from sports to playdates, volunteer opportunities and tool sharing to “need it now” for immediate needs, such as a cup of sugar.

The new app launched on Oct. 16.

Bottine was put off by the negativity she found on other sites, she said. On a French-cooking networking site she belongs to, what should have been a pleasant exchange between people was frequently negative. A woman seeking ingredients for a traditional recipes was bombarded with unflattering comments criticizing the recipe as too fattening or too sugary.

“All she wanted was to find out where she could buy the ingredients,” Bottine said.

Perkins agreed.

“We wanted a tool to connect neighbors to each other, one where people can’t bash each other. When communities work together and help each other out, it is the best way to create a social bond for all generations, and that is our future,” she said.

On MyNabes, users reply to a

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VENTURA TREE PLANTING ...

Palo Alto urban forest advocates Canopy will host a neighborhood tree planting in the Ventura neighborhood on Oct. 26, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The group will meet at the Palo Alto Community Child Care building, 3990 Ventura Court, Palo Alto. Planting leaders and volunteers will plant trees around residents’ homes. No experience is needed and all ages are welcome. To register, visit canopy.org or call Elise Willis at elise@canopy.org for more information. Q

Two residents launch MyNabes neighborhood app

WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE? Where: 3585 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (at Matadero Avenue) What: Demolition of an 800-squarefoot Quonset hut that has been vacant for 27 years to construct a new 6,691-square-foot, three-story mixed-use building, which includes commercial space on the first floor, an office and a two-bedroom residential unit on the second floor and two one-bedroom residential units on the third floor. The building will be composed of sustainable

building materials. The development will have 14 parking spaces on site.

Eleven of the cars would be parked in a two-tiered mechanical car-lift system. The project will have five parking spaces for bicycles: two short-term and three long-term.

Who: Developer is KSS Management LLC; architect is Joseph Bellomo Architects; project architect is Pratima Shah When: Estimated completion March 2021

Created by two friends who live in Menlo Park and Palo Alto’s Crescent Park, the new mobile app MyNabes lets neighbors post requests for everything from sport partners to the loan of tools. posting by sending a private message to a neighbor.

Those making a request post what they want under one of the app’s categories: Loan of tools or objects, Playdates, Need a hand/ DIY, Sport partners, Pets, Groceries, Donate/exchange, Meeting with neighbors, Babysitters, Carpool, Request advice, Events and celebrations, Teaching/coaching, Volunteers, Courtesy visits, Garage sale, Computer and web, Daily help/work and Need it now.

After making a request through a short post, a user can also decide the urgency of his or her request by choosing either “now,” “whenever” or by a specified date. Users can also choose who will see the post by selecting “just your street,” “your neighborhood” or “your nearby neighborhood.”

Lastly, posters choose how they want to compensate someone for the favor by selecting one of six reward categories. Compensation can be a simple thank you, sharing fruits or vegetables, exchanges of items or errands, a drink, homemade cooking or money.

Bottine said her children were in French school where they didn’t have the opportunity for many playdates. She also likes to run and could have used such an app to plan get-togethers for her children and herself, she said.

The “need it now” category is kind of an SOS catch-all, and one to which Perkins said she relates.

“I was at home and the fire alarm started ringing,” Perkins said, recalling a frantic moment when the children were at home and she couldn’t leave the house.

Using the app, she could have quickly borrowed a battery from a neighbor to end the noise, she said.

The same goes for a badly needed wrench while in the midst of a plumbing project or those two eggs that are so desperately

needed while in the middle of a recipe. One post under the groceries category could save a trip to the store if a neighbor is already there.

Perkins and Bottine said the app can help save on trips, thus benefiting the environment. Instead of purchasing a tool one only needs to use a couple of times a year, the app lets neighbors share with each other.

The categories also offer opportunities to check on an elderly or sick neighbor. Retired neighbors can connect with younger ones when they volunteer skills, such as tutoring or woodworking, Bottine said. Perkins said she met with some of her neighbors on her street to discuss what they’d like to see in a neighborhoods app. The categories align with their suggestions.

“Our goal is to bring a social bond between all generations,” Bottine added.

Bottine and Perkins said they chose to launch the app around Halloween, which is one of the few times of the year when people get out to mingle with their neighbors.

How to engage the new population of immigrants is a frequent lament among neighborhood associations. Perkins, a native of Romania, said MyNabes helps new eliminate social and cultural differences for new immigrants and could make it easier to connect.

“Everybody comes from a different way to approach people.

This app offers a way for people who don’t connect by knocking on doors and who don’t want to bother other people to reach people. It’s bringing knocking on neighbor’s doors back into the modern age.”

The MyNabes app is downloadable on GooglePlay and the App Store. Q

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ALLERGY-FREE TREATS ... Parents of trick-or-treaters won’t have to paw through treat bags or read candy wrappers for harmful ingredients this Halloween. The Nextdoor Treat Map lists homes in Palo Alto where children with allergies can collect allergen-free candy and other spooky treats. The maps, which cover neighborhoods surrounding a registered user’s address, have blue-green pumpkin icons marking addresses where the safe treats are offered. Candy-corn icons represent treats in general and purple houses mark a haunted house.

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Firing of Paly water polo coach prompts team protest

Citing lack of respect and communication, players don pink caps to signal their criticism of the school district

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Members of the Palo Alto High School varsity girls water polo team wear pink caps instead of their green school caps in protest Tuesday of the school district’s handling of their coach’s termination. Former Coach Doug Stotland is seated in top row of the bleachers, to the right.

Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit in Mountain View that provides resources to coaches and studentathletes. Emmanuel called the complaint “frivolous” and said Stotland appealed it out of concern that the player’s parent would continue to push for his firing.

Under what Emmanuel described as a “side agreement” crafted by the Paly administration, Stotland was also not permitted to address the player directly, and she was allowed to leave any team meeting or event if she became uncomfortable. Hendricks would not comment on this agreement or whether the district was involved in creating it.

But following the player’s alleged behavior at the Oct. 15 game, Stotland decided to suspend her for two games.

“My expectations for everyone on the team are that they will treat their teammates and the coaches with respect,” he wrote in an email to her late that evening, copying his assistant coaches, the Paly athletic director and her parent on the message. “I hope you will rejoin the team on Friday, be supportive of your teammates and coaches and play a big role in making the team successful, enjoy the rest of the season and be a positive contributor to our team mojo through the rest of the year.”

According to the other players’ statements from Tuesday night, there were “multiple occurrences of open conflict between select players and the coach” during the Oct. 15 game against Gunn High School, which Paly lost.

Paly Athletic Director Nelson Gifford and Assistant Principal Wendy Stratton informed Stotland on Oct. 16 that he was suspended for one game, according to Emmanuel. On Oct. 17, the district

said it was investigating a new complaint filed against him and that he couldn’t continue coaching while under investigation, his lawyer said. He was notified of his termination on Friday, Oct. 18.

Emmanuel called Paly’s decision to fire him “hasty and immoral” and laid the blame on the school’s staff.

“This is not a situation where a teenage player should be blamed for the coach’s termination,” Emmanuel said. “That’s not where accountability lies.”

The district defended its actions and insisted that Stotland’s termination was based strictly on his performance rather than concerns from any specific player or family. The decision to fire him — which was made by the Paly administration rather than the district office, Hendricks said — was “squarely not based on any complaints.”

“The district oversaw the decision and concurred with it,” she said. “Anytime we end an employment relationship there is always going to be cause involved and that’s not something that’s taken lightly or without deliberation or without facts and evidence.”

Hendricks declined to explain the reasons for Stotland’s termination, citing confidentiality of personnel issues. As an athletic coach, Stotland was a seasonal employee of the district.

Players expressed frustration that they were not informed in a timely manner about their coach’s employment status. They said they were unaware of his one-game suspension until the start of the Oct. 16 evening game and that they learned of his firing through a text message that (continued on page 14)

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OPEN HOUSE EVENTS

he sudden termination of Palo Alto High School’s varsity girls water polo coach has sparked questions and criticism from some players and their parents about the school district’s handling of his firing.

Doug Stotland, who has been a coach at Paly since 2017, was fired on Oct. 18 due to his “performance,” Deputy Superintendent Karen Hendricks said in an interview. At the team’s final regular season game on Tuesday night, players protested what they have described as the district’s lack of communication and respect for the team members by wearing pink caps instead of their school caps. In a statement, the student-athletes criticized the district for conducting a “complicated and muddled investigation” that left them with more questions than answers about how and why their coach was fired days before playoffs are to start.

“The focus of the district should always be on its students, and on how to maximize their opportunity and well-being in and out of the classroom,” players wrote in a statement handed out at Tuesday’s game. “We have seen (the) administration fall short of this expectation, as we feel the district has failed to consider the impact of this change on the players (and) on the team as a whole and instead catered only to the opinions of a few.”

Stotland was fired three days after he suspended a player for “speaking disrespectfully” to him, “berating” her teammates and walking out of a team meeting on Oct. 15, he wrote to her in an email provided to the Weekly.

This player, whom the Weekly is not identifying to protect her privacy, had this summer filed a formal complaint against Stotland, the district confirmed.

Her family, who did not respond to interview requests, filed the report under the district’s Uniform Complaint Procedure after a preseason meeting between Stotland and the player. According to Stotland’s lawyer, he suggested to her, as part of a conversation about how she could improve as a player and teammate, that she join his club water polo team. Stotland’s attorney Todd Emmanuel said the student became visibly upset during the meeting. Stotland asked whether she wanted to end the conversation, but she declined and they continued, Emmanuel said.

According to Emmanuel, the district determined that Stotland should have ended the meeting with the player sooner and required Stotland to attend educational courses at Positive

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At long last, Palo Alto to get a mental health center where teens can just walk in Clinic expected to open with psychiatric, other wellness services in May 2020

by Elena Kadvany yearslong effort to open a first-of-its-kind youth mental health center in Palo Alto reached a major milestone on Tuesday: approval of a lease for space in the Midtown Shopping Center.

The Board of Supervisors approved a five-year lease for about 5,200 square feet of office space at 2741 Middlefield Road, near Colorado Avenue. The groundfloor space is part of the building that once housed Bergmann’s department store and more recently The Territory Ahead Outlet and NoXcuses Fitness.

This will be the future home of Allcove, a walk-in mental health clinic inspired by Australian centers that provide support services, education and other wellness resources at little to no cost to youth ages 12 to 25. It’s expected to open by May. “These innovative services, developed in consultation with the youth of our community, are important components of a continuum of mental health care that will hopefully bring critical

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early interventions services to our community,� Steven Adelsheim, director of the Stanford University Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing, said in an announcement.

Adelsheim has been working with local mental health professionals, county staff and youth advocates to bring Allcove to life since 2016, spurred in part by a string of teenage deaths by suicide in Palo Alto. The county is also opening an Allcove site in San Jose, which it expects to be a “national prototype for international visitors, funders and elected officials to tour.�

The centers are meant to be one-stop shops for young people with mild to moderate mental health issues, from breakups, anxiety and academic stress to more severe mental illness. Substance abuse treatment, peer support and employment and educational support will also be available to teens.

The organizers describe Allcove as the first youth mental health center of its kind in the

United States. “Time after time, the saddest part of the story is that a kid didn’t reach out earlier, didn’t have the opportunity to get help when they really needed it,� Board of Supervisors President Joe Simitian said. “The appeal of programs like Allcove is that they’re designed to engage youngsters who are struggling long before they hit a crisis point.�

Stanford Medicine will provide psychiatric services at both the Palo Alto and San Jose locations, and Stanford will also provide primary care services in Palo Alto.

Jake Carreno, a Gunn High School senior who serves on a youth advisory group for Allcove, said he’s hopeful the center will help alleviate the stigma teenagers feel in reaching out for help when they’re struggling. “It’s really important for youth to know Allcove is a space where no matter what you’re dealing with, you can drop in and talk to someone,� he said. “You don’t necessarily have to be diagnosed

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Oct. 21)

Old Palo Alto: The council approved the creation of a Residential Preferential Parking program in a section of Old Palo Alto near the California Avenue Caltrain station. Yes: Cormack, DuBois, Fine, Filseth, Kou, Tanaka Absent: Kniss

Parks and Recreation Commission (Oct. 22)

Urban Forest: The commission discussed the city’s Urban Forest program. Action: None Community Gardens: The commission discussed revisions to program guidelines for the Community Garden program. Action: None

with something or know exactly what’s going on. You can ... seek help no matter how big or small what you’re dealing with is.�

Carreno struggled to find mental health support as a sophomore when he fell into a depression after his parents got divorced. He went to Gunn’s wellness center but had to recount his story to several different counselors due to turnover. He eventually found a therapist through his doctor. “It would have been nice to know there was one place I could go to that would handle it properly,� Carreno said. “I remember not really knowing where to go.�

The Board of Supervisors allocated $2.1 million for the Palo Alto lease and related improvements. Finding a suitable site that met the space requirements

for the clinic in Palo Alto proved difficult; the county reviewed 30 potential sites and toured eight.

The Middlefield Road site is centrally located, near public transportation and offered a “competitive� rent for Palo Alto, according to a staff report. The first year of rent at the space will cost just under $268,000. The lease will run through October 2024 and includes two five-year extension options.

The clinic will be designed and operated with strong input from youth, including from the 24-member youth advisory group (which selected the name Allcove).

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DID YOU KNOW? Stanford University is proposing to add more than 3.5 million square feet of new development and 9,600 people to its campus. The project is the largest ever to be reviewed by the County of Santa Clara in its 169-year history.

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recommended paid parking as “more efficient and convenient for drivers.” The new system would also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the amount of time drivers have to cruise to look for parking spots. The parking revenues would support the Palo Alto Transportation Management Association, the nonprofit charged with getting people to stop driving solo.

This wouldn’t be downtown Palo Alto’s first experience with parking meters. Downtown had parking meters for about 30 years before abandoning them in the 1970s out of concern about competition from Stanford Shopping Center and other shopping areas where parking is free.

The 2016 study acknowledged concerns that installing parking meters would discourage people from visiting downtown but argued that a segment of the population will be more likely to visit because parking will be easier and quicker to find.

Dixon’s earlier report recommended a tiered structure with higher rates at the more centrally located garages. Rates would vary from $1.50 to $2.50 per hour under the proposed scheme.

Under the new contract, Dixon would shepherd the installation of garage equipment that would enable the city to collect revenues and track occupancy rates. Dixon would then evaluate the performance of the new downtown system and potentially expand it to other parts of the city.

Dixon will also put together a “Parking Action Plan” that incorporates the 35 suggestions from the Tanda report and make recommendations on enforcement, parking-district boundaries and a new “wayfinding program” aimed at directing drivers toward vacant parking spaces.

The action plan will also consider strategies to encourage people to use alternate modes of transportation, including walking, biking, public transit and ride-sharing services, according to the contract.

It will also entail the creation of an advisory body to help improve long-term management of parking strategies and support the transportation-demand-management programs.

“The success of a parking program is often dependent on the supporting alternative modes of transportation being available, accessible and affordable,” the contract states.

The proposed switch is part of Palo Alto’s broader push to streamline parking strategies. Palo Alto’s newly established Office of Transportation is also planning to standardize and simplify the city’s five neighborhood parking-permit programs, making it easier for residents and, in some cases, employees, to buy permits. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

News Digest AJ Capital renews push to convert hotel

Adventurous Journeys Capital Partners, the Chicago-based developer that last year purchased the President Hotel building in Palo Alto, is renewing its effort to convert the apartment building into a hotel with an offer to contribute $2.4 million to local nonprofits, according to a new promotional booklet released by company.

AJ Capital, which earlier this year completed the eviction of residents from the building’s 75 apartments, still faces significant zoning hurdles before it can move ahead with its plan to turn the University Avenue building into a boutique hotel with 100 rooms. This includes a law that the City Council passed in April that specified that conversion of “grandfathered” downtown buildings like President Hotel (those that don’t comply with current development standards) must not result in the loss of housing units. The law does, however, include a waiver process that developers can use to circumvent this restriction.

AJ Capital will also need to get the city’s approval for its parking and transportation-management plans and permits for its proposed roof garden and for alcohol sales. It will also need to undergo an architectural review for the restoration of the building, which the company estimates will cost about $50 million and will include a seismic retrofit, a refurbished lobby and restoration of storefront details at the prominent building at 488 University Ave. To sweeten the deal for the city and make the project more palatable politically, AJ Capital has also agreed to contribute $1 million to Palo Alto Housing, the nonprofit that develops and manages affordable-housing developments, and $1.4 million to other local organizations. Q —Gennady Sheyner

Old Palo Alto gets new parking restrictions

In a bid to drive Caltrain commuters out of Old Palo Alto’s residential streets, the City Council approved on Monday a new permit program that will limit all-day parking to those who live in the neighborhood.

The City Council swiftly and unanimously approved a proposal to add the neighborhood just east of the California Avenue underpass to the city’s expanding list of Residential Preferential Parking (RPP) districts. Once the program takes effect, only cars displaying RPP permits will be able to park on residential streets for more than two hours. And unlike in similar programs in downtown and Evergreen Park, permits in Old Palo Alto will only be sold to residents. The new district would be roughly bounded by Alma Street on the west and Bryant Street on the east, between Washington Avenue and Oregon Avenue. Several blocks just north of the proposed district, along Santa Rita Avenue and between Santa Rita and Washington, would become eligible to quickly enter the RPP district once traffic spills over to their blocks.

The program will require residents in the district to pay $50 for residential permits and allow them to buy up to five permits. And even though some aren’t thrilled about having to pay to park in front of their homes, the vast majority strongly support creating the new restrictions. Of the 55 households that responded to city surveys, 49 said they support the new RPP — an approval rate of 89%. Q —Gennady Sheyner

District reaches agreements on raises

The Palo Alto school district has reached tentative agreements on raises for its teachers and classified employee unions, far earlier in the year than has historically happened in the city.

Under the tentative agreements, teachers and classified staff would receive a 1% retroactive salary increase for this year, a onetime 1.5% bonus and contingency language that provides for additional ongoing raises if the district’s final annual property tax revenues exceed current growth projections of 5.93%. The district has also tentatively agreed to contribute slightly more to health care benefits for full-time employees, from $13,570 to $14,099 per year.

The district and its unions are typically negotiating compensation and benefits through the spring. Teri Baldwin, president of the Palo Alto Educators Association, said that in the decade she’s been involved in negotiations, this is the earliest they’ve ever come to an agreement (except when there were no raises).

Superintendent Don Austin called the timing of the agreements “historic.”

“The shift in negotiations timing puts PAUSD on a more traditional schedule, allowing for substantive contract language discussions to occur throughout the remainder of the year void of distractions,” he said. Q —Elena Kadvany LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com/square

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What comes next?

Now that the decision to close the church has been made, First Baptist leaders are exploring their options for selling church assets and giving away the proceeds from the sale. A church committee has been working on putting together a list of “legacy recipients” who would get contributions ranging from $5,000 to $100,000 each. Those on the higher end of the range include the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, the Ecumenical Hunger Program in East Palo Alto, Kids in Need of Defense (which offers legal services to immigrant children) and Habitat for Humanity, according to the list compiled by the church committee.

Mixon said the church will try to give away as much funding as possible to organizations it has supported in the past. The remainder, he said, will be placed into a foundation and disbursed in the future according to the church’s instructions.

The congregation of 126-year-old First Baptist Church, located at 305 N. California Avenue in Palo Alto, is in negotiations to sell its property to an as-yet-unnamed buyer. A religious community from North Carolina is considering renting the space after the sale, according to church meeting minutes from this summer. The church is trying to ensure that current tenants will be allowed to remain.

First, however, the church needs to close the sale of the property.

Mixon declined to discuss the potential selling price or possible buyers, citing the sensitive nature of pending negotiations. He said the church is looking at a “variety of proposals,” all of which would preserve the building as a religious institution.

While Mixon declined to discuss the status of negotiations, minutes from church meetings obtained by the Weekly indicate that one interested prospect is Sympara, a North Carolina-based community with a mission of “healing the world.”

Under terms that church leaders considered over the summer, Sympara would rent the church from a foundation that would be set up by the buyer of the property. It would then work with neighbors to establish a “sacred/civic space ministering to the neighborhood.”

In recent months, the church has been evaluating business proposals from Daniel Pryfogle, a Baptist minister and marketer who heads the North Carolina-based consulting firm Signal Hill and who founded Sympara. After submitting several business plans earlier this year, Pryfogle has reportedly been trying to negotiate a sale with the potential unnamed buyer. The church also allocated $90,000 to

Sympara in July so that Sympara can develop its programming for the church, which would be its first physical location. Parishioners agreed to reassess Sympara’s proposal in December, at which time they will consider providing an additional $410,000 (the minutes did not specify what those funds would be used for).

According to the church minutes, negotiations between Pryfogle and the potential buyer slowed down in September but were set to resume in early October. (Pryfogle declined to comment for this article, also citing pending negotiations.)

Mixon told the Weekly on Thursday that the church is seeking to ensure that the various nonprofits, therapists and community groups that currently rent space at First Baptist will be able to remain. The tenants include the girls chorus iSing, as well as therapists, counselors, dance groups and a Persian-language instructor.

“We’re trying to figure out a way where current partners who love being in the building and make use of the space will be able to stay,” Mixon said.

The topic of who can rent space at the church became a community flashpoint about two years ago, when the city was besieged

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potential merger. That plan failed to advance.

More recently, the church had ramped up its outreach to the broader community, sending people out to talk to residents “where they are,” rather than inviting them to come to the church, Mixon said.

While this program introduced the church to more people, the congregation didn’t grow. (It didn’t help that the outreach worker, Gregory Stevens, was fired last year after sending out a series of vulgar tweets, some of which called Palo Alto “disgusting” and “elitist.”)

Facing an existential challenge, the church hired a consultant a year ago to assess its prospects.

After talking to dozens of community members and leaders of other churches, the consultant determined that while First Baptist could function for several more years, the church would not be sustainable — both in terms of people power and financial resources — in the long term, Mixon said.

The problem facing the congregation, he said, are not unique to First Baptist.

“I believe we’re in an age and a place where fewer and fewer people are looking for a traditional church,” Mixon said. “And while we may be one of the first of the mainstream churches in Palo Alto to fold our tent, I’d say other churches are wrestling with what we’re wrestling with.”

In mid-20th century, the church was where the community gathered, people came to network and children went for activities.

“We now live in an age and place where there are so many different things that in a sense we compete with — from soccer to music to all kinds of groups and activities — that the church generally is no longer seen as the community center.

It’s not the principle place where people gather like it used to be.”

by complaints from neighborhood residents concerned about the noise and traffic created by church activities. One prior tenant, the New Mozart School of Music, left the church after the city’s codeenforcement staff deemed it to be in violation with local zoning law, which they argued does not allow music schools in residential neighborhoods. (The school moved to another location in Palo Alto, the College Terrace Centre.)

The conflict was largely resolved in May 2018, when the council approved a conditionaluse permit that designates the church as a “community center.” While the permit allows the church to continue to rent out its space for secular uses, it also established hours of operation (10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.) and created an occupancy limit of 70 people with exceptions for special events, up to six of which can be held annually.

Mixon called the restrictions “illconceived” and “unreasonable.”

“It curtails what can happen at the church in ways that are just ridiculous,” he said, citing a requirement that tenants be nonprofits (the permit does carve out an exception for up to five therapists).

But while the church’s recent battle with the neighbors and the city over permitted uses was a factor in its decision to close, it was not a determinative factor, Mixon said.

“We had to face the writing on

the wall,” he said.

With the church’s operation winding down, leaders of other congregations and parishioners expressed their sadness and gratitude in letters to the First Baptist.

Cindy Sojourner, a former church member, wrote that she hopes the congregants find “new spiritual homes to nourish you up and lift you up,” according to excerpts printed in the August edition of “The Spire,” a First Baptist Church newsletter. Doug Donley, a pastor in Minneapolis, offered his thanks for the “impacts this great church has had in Palo Alto and across the world.”

The process of closing has been “emotional,” Mixon said.

“There’s a whole range of feelings. We’ve had people for whom this congregation has been central to their lives for 60 years or more.

To let that go is enormous,” Mixon said.

Even so, people have accepted that closing the church is the rational thing to do, particularly in light of the report’s conclusion.

While the transition has inspired a wide range of feelings, including sadness and anger, there was also a wide sense of relief after the parish decided to start winding down the church’s operations.

“People have been feeling the burden of trying to keep it going for some time,” Mixon said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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its expansion on housing, schools and traffic. Supervisors also heard from several advocates of Stanford’s expansion plan, who emphasized the value that the university brings to the region.

One issue that remained unresolved by the end of the meeting was Stanford’s commitment to the Palo Alto Unified School District.

Last month, the district’s Board of Education celebrated a letter that it had received from Robert Reidy, Stanford’s vice president for land, buildings and real estate, stating that the university remains “unequivocally committed� to the $138 million agreement that it reached with the school board last spring. That tentative agreement hinged, however, on Stanford negotiating a development agreement with the county, a condition that prompted the county to back away from its own negotiations with Stanford.

At its Sept. 24 meeting, school board members and Superintendent Don Austin lauded Stanford for remaining committed to providing funding for schools, with the understanding that it no longer depends on a development agreement. At that time, board member Ken Dauber called Reidy’s Sept.

23 letter a “rock solid commitment� that is “as clear as can be,� while board member Shounak Dharap celebrated it as a “great agreement� that is “not conditional on a development agreement.�

On Tuesday, however, school district leaders learned that their celebrations may have been premature and that Stanford’s commitment isn’t as unequivocal as they had believed it to be. Rather, it remains dependent on there being a development agreement between Stanford and the county, the very condition that doomed the prior deal between the two educational institutions.

Reidy confirmed that fact under direct questioning by Board of Supervisors President Joe Simitian, who asked him whether Stanford’s commitment is “rock solid.� “We made it very clear that those funds will be delivered provided — and appropriately provided — that we have predictability for the future in the form of a development agreement,� Reidy told the board.

Simitian noted a recent analysis by the county showing that Stanford’s tax-exempt status resulted in a revenue reduction during the 2018-19 fiscal year of $95.9 million for all local jurisdictions in

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mental health center like Allcove. One in five adolescents has a diagnosable mental disorder but less than half of adolescents with such disorders received any kind of treatment in the last year, according to the U.S. Department of Health and

the county, including $44.5 million for the Palo Alto Unified School District. Simitian noted that anytime more students are added to the district without additional revenues, the per-pupil amount available for instruction goes down. This particularly holds true for districts like Palo Alto, which rely largely on local property taxes to pay for education. “By virtue of that status, it’s always going to mean that you’ll have fewer dollars per kid,� Simitian said.

Simitian told Reidy that absent Stanford’s contributions to the school district, the Board of Supervisors might struggle to make a certain required legal finding that the Stanford project is not harmful. “I don’t know how we can possibly make the finding that the proposed use will not be detrimental to public health, safety and general welfare if it means every student in the Palo Alto Unified School District will receive $5,000 less in the way of instruction and a 10% reduction (in funding).�

Stanford students push for affordable housing

The Tuesday meeting was the penultimate scheduled hearing on Stanford’s application for a general use permit that would allow the university to build 3.5 million square feet of new development by 2035. Often referred to as the largest project in the county’s history, the general use permit, or GUP, calls for 2.275 million square feet of new academic space and 2,600 student beds. The university has also proposed building 550 housing units for faculty and staff and 40,000 square feet for child care facilities. The county has included in its conditions of approval a requirement for Stanford to build at least 2,172 housing units for staff, a requirement that Stanford has steadfastly opposed.

Stanford students brought their own concerns to Tuesday’s hearings. About 200 undergraduate students, many affiliated with the group Scope 2035 (Stanford Coalition for Planning an Equitable 2035), came to the meeting to insist that Stanford offer more housing and transportation services for employees.

Graduate students, many affiliated with the group Stanford Solidarity Network, similarly called on the university to do more to support its workforce by providing more affordable housing and child care services. Members of the group argued Tuesday that Stanford’s graduate students face a significantly higher financial

Human Services’ Office of Adolescent Health. A National Center for Children in Poverty report found that there are only about 8,000 people under the age of 25 years old using mental health services in Santa Clara County, while data suggests that among youth aged 11 to 17 alone, over 30,000 youth should be accessing services. “Local teens need these

burden than their counterparts at other elite universities.

The group estimated that only about 15% of existing graduatestudent housing at Stanford can be considered as “affordable,� which they define as costing no more than 30% of the resident’s income. “This crisis is exacerbated for students with significant child care and dependent health care expenses, as well as international students with visa stipulations prohibiting their families from receiving public benefits and barring dependents from working,� Stanford Solidarity Network stated in a news release. “Though the Stanford University administration emphasizes that ‘affordability’ is one of its key concerns at present, current development, as well as future construction under the GUP, is projected at rent levels that will only further intensify the crisis of affordability for graduate students.�

Graduate student Justine Modica suggested that Stanford should devote a greater share of its $27-billion endowment to assist its graduate students. “Stanford cuts its graduate students no deals for child care.

Even the most affordable options are 130% of our yearly stipend,�

Modica told the crowd at the rally.

The board also heard from supporters of Stanford’s expansion, most of them faculty members.

Jonathan Levin, dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business, said Stanford’s growth is “intrinsically tied up with the excellence of the university.� He urged the board to negotiate with Stanford. “I’d really urge you all as supervisors to at least enter into discussions with Stanford and explore some of the possibilities,� Levin said.

Stanford has refused to budge from its position that a development agreement is the best — and potentially the only — way to give Stanford the regulatory certainty it needs before it can offer community benefits.

In June, Stanford offered to commit $4.7 billion toward housing, transportation projects and public schools, some of which would be funded immediately following the county’s approval of the permit.

Reidy argued in an Oct. 7 letter to the Board of Supervisors that because Stanford is offering significant public benefits upfront, a development agreement is needed to assure the university that it would be able to proceed with its expansion. “The university needs to be able (continued on next page)

services now; we can’t get it done soon enough,� Simitian said.

The county is also working to build an adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose to address a longtime dearth of hospitalization options for local teens in mental health crisis, who are most often sent beyond the county’s borders for inpatient psychiatric treatment. Q

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Cities advocate for compensation

Students weren’t the only speakers to offer reservations about Stanford’s growth plan this past week.

On Oct. 18, a coalition of cities in San Mateo County issued a public statement criticizing Stanford for rejecting their requests for funding to address the impacts of its dramatic campus expansion on traffic and housing.

East Palo Alto City Councilman Larry Moody expresses his concerns to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 22 about the impact of Stanford University’s proposed growth. About 400 people attended the board’s hearing at Palo Alto City Hall.

The cities have pointed at the environmental analysis for Stanford’s expansion, which concluded that about 27% of the new households associated with Stanford’s growth would be located in San Mateo County, requiring about 655 new housing units. As such, they requested that Stanford contribute $196 million for an affordablehousing fund.

The cities had also requested $4.62 million for roadway and intersection improvements, $15 million for bike and pedestrian connections between Stanford and surrounding communities; $5 million for stormwater management and flood prevention; and $6.78 million in “in-lieu property taxes” to compensate communities where

Stanford, which enjoys propertytax exemptions, owns properties.

The letter from the Coalition for Stanford GUP Accountability — a group of elected representatives and staff members from San Mateo County, Atherton, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Redwood City and Woodside — states that Stanford “flatly refuses” to negotiate with the cities when it comes to mitigations, despite the fact that the proposed expansion is expected to add 9,600 people to the campus population. The message also states that Stanford has informed the coalition that it will only negotiate if the coalition lobbies Santa Clara County to enter into a “development agreement” with Stanford.

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to predict the costs associated with future regulations, and its ability to comply with those regulations, in order to commit land and financial resources toward housing, transportation, schools and other benefits,” Reidy wrote.

But county leaders have rejected this position in the past, noting that the county has never approved any project (including Stanford’s last GUP in 2000) using a development agreement, a tool that didn’t even exist before the county agreed to make it available in October 2018.

County staff had also argued that Stanford’s offer counts as “benefits” many aspects of the project itself, including graduatestudent beds. Actual benefits, according to the county, total only about $168 million, roughly 3% of what Stanford claims, Deputy County Executive Sylvia Gallegos told the board at a prior hearing.

The letter also details the financial implications of Stanford’s tax-exempt status. Nearly 70% of Stanford’s property in San Mateo County (an estimated $1.2 billion in holdings) is tax-free, according to the coalition. Even without Stanford’s expansion, San Mateo County public agencies stand to lose $200 million in property taxes over the 18-year life of the proposed GUP. Melissa Stevenson Diaz, city manager of Redwood City, told the Board of Supervisors earlier this month that property taxes are the top revenue source in her city. She said Stanford staff has informed her that the university intends to buy a newly built apartment building in Redwood City. Because of its property-tax exemption, Redwood City stands to lose about $100,000 in tax revenues from that building in the first year alone.

“The roads, bridges and pathways Stanford employees use daily receive no funds for repairs or upgrades from Stanford. Likewise, nothing for parks, 9-1-1 dispatch and first responders. Nothing,” the letter states. “The time has come for Stanford to pay its fair share. ...

We call on the university to work on a deal that would fully compensate our communities for the impacts of Stanford’s growth.”

On Tuesday, council members from various cities close to Stanford also pushed for “full mitigation.” East Palo Alto City Councilman Carlos Romero urged

Stanford to expand its network of Marguerite shuttles to serve workers in nearby commuters.

“It is critical that the low-income workers in East Palo Alto who work and staff the various areas at Stanford should have the ability to get to Palo Alto through that service,” Romero said. “It’s a type of TDM (transportation-demand management) that both the cities and Stanford can benefit from.”

Menlo Park Councilwoman Betsy Nash also requested more transportation services from Stanford, which she said are necessary to address the city’s traffic and housing challenges.

“It’s hard to overstate how serious the adverse impacts of that expansion will be,” Nash said.

With public comments stretching for nearly four hours, the supervisors didn’t deliberate on the general use permit, opting to continue the hearing to Nov. 5, the final scheduled meeting on the Stanford application. That meeting is set to begin at 1:30 p.m. at the County Government Building, 70 W. Hedding St., San Jose. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

About the cover: Olivia Lamberti, a freshman at Stanford University, cheers with protesters at a rally on the Stanford general-use-permit application outside Palo Alto City Hall on Oct. 22. Photo by Magali Gauthier.

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said the assistant coach would be filling in as head coach. They said they lost two practices due

to the interruption.

Paly Principal Adam Paulson notified all team parents in an email on Monday, Oct. 21, writing that the school had made “a very difficult decision” regarding a change in the coaching staff.

“A school does not take such a step, particularly prior to the end of the season, without significant deliberation,” he wrote “District coaches are held to a high standard for their behavior. Staffing changes such as this must be based on evidence of performance, and not on perceptions or parental recommendations.”

He noted that “coaches are expected to work cooperatively with the athletic director in all aspects of the coaching assignment, including appropriate communication with all student athletes.”

Gifford did not respond to a request for comment by the Weekly’s press deadline.

One water polo player’s parent, who asked to remain anonymous, said that she understands the frustration of students and parents who feel like the district made an abrupt decision without appropriate public communication but argued that the district’s hands are tied in personnel matters.

She said, however, that Paly should have immediately notified the team about Stotland’s termination and should have clearly stated that the school would not tolerate retribution against the player who had been involved.

“I would have rather seen the school tell everyone, ‘It’s not their fault. ... Let’s stand together as a team,’” she said. “I wish the administration would have said that to the team because now, instead, they’re divided.”

The student-players said some of their parents are considering legal action against the district. Emmanuel said that his client doesn’t wish to take legal action but that he “cannot rule that out entirely.” Q Sports Editor Rick Eymer contributed to this report.

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Oct. 17-23

Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sex crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Credit card forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Burglary attempt from auto. . . . . . . . . . 4 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 3 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . 10 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Animal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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Editorial A quick agreement

Teachers, aides and other employees set to receive salary bumps after quick negotiation

hen school employee unions and their districts quickly arrive at agreements over compensation and benefits during contract negotiations, it’s a signal that either the district was overly generous or that both sides put a priority on finding common ground and avoiding a public controversy.

The Palo Alto Unified School District and its unionized employees and non-union managers made the surprising announcement last week that they had arrived at a tentative salary agreement for the current school year, months ahead of the usual time in the spring.

Credit goes largely to the fact that the district’s financial condition is stable due to conservative budgeting and continued robust growth in property tax revenue. But it’s also a sign that stability and normalcy is returning after years of tumultuous management and an ill-fated decision in 2016 to enter into a three-year agreement that led to a mistake that cost the district $4.4 million in unintended employee increases.

While some important details of the new tentative agreement haven’t yet been released, it will give employees a 1% salary increase retroactive to the beginning of the school year, a 1.5% one-time bonus and an additional ongoing unspecified increase if property tax revenues for this year exceed the district’s current projection of 6%.

These increases are in addition to the so-called “step” increases that teachers automatically receive due to their years of experience and the number of academic units they obtain after attaining a bachelor’s degree. It also doesn’t include extra pay to those who have earned advanced degrees. In other words, the total salary increase for most teachers is more than what is publicized each year when the union contract is finalized.

Last school year, school district employees received a 2% raise and a 2% bonus. (One-time bonuses are used to avoid increases that carry-forward, providing a school district with some protection against unpredictable or inconsistent revenue sources, but they have become a standard practice almost every year.)

The school board, which has advised Superintendent Don Austin and Deputy Superintendent Karen Hendricks in closed sessions during the last two months of negotiations with the unions, will discuss the tentative agreement and hear public comment at its meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 5. The district has not yet released details of the potential increase tied to a greater-than-budgeted property tax revenue increase or any analysis of the impacts of any of the increases in future years’ budgets, so the potential magnitude of total compensation increase isn’t yet clear.

But based on what is known, in his second Palo Alto district contract negotiation Austin appears to have not only achieved a reasonable deal with the unions but also brought a small amount of transparency to the process.

Unlike in past years, the district is willing to settle the compensation aspects of the contract before other elements under negotiation are resolved. Austin said the resolution of the financial issues would allow for “substantive contract language discussions to occur throughout the remainder of the year void of distractions.”

Typical of opaque union negotiations in Palo Alto, the public has virtually no idea what “substantive” issues remain to be negotiated.

Last April, when the prior year’s contract was finally adopted, the district and teacher’s union identified three items they had agreed to negotiate in addition to compensation and benefits: hours, leave provisions and working conditions. By resolving the compensation and benefit issues now, both sides give up potential negotiating leverage on the other issues.

Also unaddressed publicly is the status of revisions to the teacherevaluation process, a requirement of the current union contract. A committee of administrators and teachers was to have begun work by the end of last school year with the intent of implementing a new pilot evaluation system for the 2020-21 school year. An earlier contract had established a two-year trial, which was extended for a third year, in which students were able to provide feedback as part of the teacher-evaluation process. That practice was halted at the end of the trial in 2018 without explanation.

One important positive development in this year’s negotiations is Austin’s decision to post a summary of the compensation and benefit proposals and counterproposals on the district’s website during the negotiations. While these updates didn’t provide much insight into the actual discussions, they did show how each side responded to the other’s proposals.

It’s a small but significant step, and as negotiations continue on the non-compensation issues to be covered in the union contracts, we hope Austin will continue and expand this practice so the public can follow along instead of being kept in the dark until a final deal is struck. Q

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Guest Opinion In search of a Cubberley champion

by Alison Cormack he was knitting quietly during a meeting. Then she remarked that someone was going to need to step forward to lead the charge. It turns out that I was the one and now we have wonderful new and improved libraries in Palo Alto, despite all the people who said we couldn’t get it done.

When I delivered a petition with over a thousand names on it to the mayor, she said my elementary school kids would be in college before we solved our library problem. When the polling said we didn’t have enough votes, I practically begged the City Council to give our team a chance. When the Great Recession started, I looked on the brightest side I could find and said we’d pay a lower interest rate on the bond. And now I spend time on Thursday mornings at Ada’s Cafe, looking at Mitchell Park Library which gets thousands of visitors every week. So Margaret Mead was right: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

It’s time for another person to step forward, build a team, and lead the charge: this time, on behalf of Cubberley Community Center.

Because the only thing that’s going to force the school district and the city to keep working together to rebuild Cubberley and figure out how to pay for it is another positive, grassroots effort.

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What’s the problem we are trying to solve?

The problem is that the building, vintage 1955 and 64 years old, is in unacceptable condition. It simply does not meet the standards we expect in Palo Alto. We’ve rebuilt libraries and fire stations and upgraded Lucie Stern; we improve parks and repave roads every year; and we will build a new police station next year. But the city doesn’t own most of the Cubberley site, so we can’t redevelop it without the school district’s participation. And while the school district recently passed a bond to continue to rebuild schools (which I supported), Cubberley was unfortunately not part of that plan.

Three years ago, then-City Manager Jim Keene and then-school district Superintendent Max McGee signed a Cubberley Futures Compact. You can practically hear the music swelling when you read their inspirational words: “We simply must get there. We must take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity.” We have made excellent progress — the city and the school district split the funding for a talented and creative consultant, Concordia, who ran a collaborative and iterative process to co-create a new master plan using the input from hundreds of people — but there are many decisions to be made and hurdles to overcome. The five-year lease agreement the City Council recommended earlier this month (on a 6 to 1 vote with me opposed) unfortunately extends the time for making any real decisions by years.

Somewhere in Palo Alto, right now, there’s a person or perhaps a small group of people, who can look at that beautiful master plan, with 70% more green space and almost double the amount of program space, and know how wonderful the new Cubberley will be for our whole community. I don’t know who they are, but I am asking them to step forward and take on this challenge. Is this a big challenge? Absolutely. Is the status quo OK? Absolutely not.

What makes this complicated?

First, physical ownership is split between the school district and the city. Then the school district leases its space to the city, which subleases to all the tenants whom residents know and love. Second, rebuilding the site will need to happen in stages, accommodating current tenants and programs as we go. Third, this is going to be expensive. It’s time to start figuring out the funding options, which might include some private sources.

Fourth, there’s an important decision to be made about providing housing on the site. Should it be there? I say yes. And for whom?

Teachers make sense, as many of the teachers who lived in Palo Alto and taught my children have retired and new teachers simply cannot afford to live here, even if they are

partnered with someone in the tech industry.

Seniors who qualify for affordable housing would benefit from the amazing array of possible services and programs at this site — including those provided by the nonprofit Avenidas, Heart Fit for Life cardiac therapy and art studios and at the therapeutic swimming pool. Seniors would also have the opportunity to volunteer at a preschool or for the Friends of the Palo Alto Library, plus they’d have access to a grocery store and public transportation, So, what’s the path forward?

Find a small group of people and band together. Read the citizens’ report from 2012 and the robust, proposed master plan. Learn about the current tenants and think about who might be motivated to help them get wonderful new spaces.

Start writing up FAQs (e.g., Is there space for a new school?

Yes!). Come to council meetings and school board meetings to demand that decisions be made. We cannot make meaningful progress until and unless Palo Alto Unified decides the community can rebuild this space that the school district hasn’t used in 40 years.

When we first walked into the new Mitchell Park Library, the library director said to me, “You know, when you die, they are going to name this after you.” I said, “That’s fine, but from now until then I’m going to enjoy it.”

Honestly, if I die tomorrow, I will know that I have left something for the next generation (aside from two wonderful young adults and one friendly but badly trained dog). So I am telling you, whoever you are, that this will be the most meaningful work you have ever done. It will require a relentlessly positive attitude, a willingness to dig into the details, the ability to keep twisting the Rubik’s cube until all the colors line up for everyone, the knack for getting people to join you, and a refusal to take “no” for an answer.

Someone has to get up every day and look at their list and figure out what has to be done next so we can get this place rebuilt. Is it you? Q Alison Cormack serves on the Palo Alto City Council and chaired the successful 2008 library bond measure. If you want to step forward to rebuild Cubberley, she can be reached at alisonlcormack@gmail.com.

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It’s been a staple of radio station KFJC’s weekend programming for decades, broadcasting the mostly underground genre of surf music that has proliferated in the Bay Area. The region remains one of the preeminent places in the world to hear the twangy, echoing sounds reminiscent of beaches, bikinis and surfboards.

Celebrating that rich history, KFJC will be hosting a high-profile surf show Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Foothill College campus in Los Altos Hills, bringing together some of the biggest names in Bay Area surf and drawing fans from California and beyond.

“Like most people who like surf music, there’s just something about it that grabs you,” said DJ Cousin Mary, who has been curating and playing surf music for more than a decade for KFJC’s “Reverb Hour.”

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By her tally, there are somewhere between 30 and 40 surf bands here in the Bay Area, making it a hotbed for the genre. But there are plenty more across the globe, she said.

“The thing a lot of people don’t realize is how much new surf music is going on — there are a lot of bands,” she said. “We just got a compilation that has more than 60 bands from Brazil. I’ve gotten compilations from bands in Greece, there are bands in Eastern Europe, some in Japan, and it’s constantly evolving.”

What unites these disparate bands is that they’re typically instrumental — very little vocals, if any — and the wave-like reverberation of the guitar.

The style was popularized in the early 1960s by bands aptly called the “first wave” of surf music, particularly Dick Dale and the Del-Tones. Dale relied heavily on Fender amplification and a single-coil pickup to give him that unique sound, and would frequently blow up his amps and speakers trying to bring the volume up above boisterous crowds.

It was a case of Leo Fender trying to build equipment powerful enough that Dale wouldn’t destroy it, said Bruce Brewington, a guitarist for The Reefriders currently living in Pacifica.

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“Dick wanted to play powerfully and he wanted to recreate the sound of surf, what he felt out surfing, and the power inherent in surfing,” Brewington said. “He wanted to translate that into music.”

Some of Dale’s most well-known hits including “Miserlou,” which Brewington described as a Lebanese folk song-turned surf music anthem. The song, along with many other surf tracks, surged in popularity after the release of “Pulp Fiction” in 1994, which played “Miserlou” at the beginning of the movie.

Another early influence was The Surfaris, a southern California band best known for hits including “Wipe Out.” In a recent interview on KFJC, Surfaris guitarist Bob Berryhill said the breakout hit was actually completely improvised, done on the spot after the recording engineer — whom Berryhill described as an ex-marine who looked like a leprachaun — told the band of 15-year-old kids that they needed to figure out a B-side song on the spot. The song was essentially a drum solo with a marching band cadence.

The Bay Area surf scene bloomed in the years following the “second wave” starting in 1979 with early bands like The Mermen, based in Santa Cruz. Bands that followed include The Phantom Surfers, The Trashwomen, The Berzerkers, the (continued on page 19)

Arts & Entertainment

‘Sweat’ is one to savor at The Pear

by John Orr weat,” at The Pear in Mountain View, is a play to treasure and savor, not only for the brilliance of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prizewinning script but also for the stunning excellence of most of the performances.

The story begins with two men — one white, one black — recently released from prison and meeting with their parole officer.

The white man, full of anger, has Nazi tattoos on his face and neck, received, apparently, when he was in prison. The black man is emotionally confused but seems nice enough, and talks about having run into the white man and giving him a hug.

That scene is set in 2008. Then a couple of walls are winged out on Kevin Davies’ flexible set and we are in 2000, in a bar, for a birthday party. Televisions mounted behind the bar tell us the date.

Devin Cunningham, as the young black man, Chris, and Jonathan Covey, as the young white man, Jason, are best friends. No tattoos (Covey must have spent a lot of time in front of a mirror between scenes, with the help of costume and makeup designer Kathleen Qiu). Diamonds in Chris’ ears, Air Jordans on his feet. He’s hoping to go to college and his friends tell him to stay in Reading, Pennsylvania, and work in the plant, like everyone else.

It’s party for Jessie, played by the always appealing Kristin Walter.

Bartender Stan (Tom Gough) warns Jessie’s girlfriends — Alicia Stamps

“S

Surf music (continued from page 18)

Shockwaves and the Torpedos.

Largely credited for keeping the surf scene thriving in the Bay Area is Ferenc Dobronyi, who plays an integral role supporting and promoting surf shows and putting on major events like the International Surf Classic at The Ritz in San Jose. There, bands from all over the world — including Spain, Argentina, Canada, Russia, Germany and Italy — bring rarefied surf sounds to the south bay that frequently diverge from the classics.

Events like Battle of the Surf Bands are more locally focused, bringing more than a dozen bands from the area all together under one roof for a fast-paced show that rapidly switches between acts, Dobronyi said. Past battles have been held at Menlo Park’s British Banker’s Club and more recently San Jose’s Art Boutiki.

Back in the early 1990s when Dobronyi put together his first surf band, Pollo Del Mar, he said nobody was really putting in the effort to support surf shows and

as Cynthia and Kristin Brownstone as Tracey — they shouldn’t drink anymore, but they say it’s OK, because Jessie is their designated driver. Trouble is, Jessie is already passed out, her “happy birthday” tiara barely holding on.

The play advances through the year 2000, as Cynthia and Tracey, exhausted by years of working on the floor of the mill, both apply for a management job.

Cynthia’s ex, Brucie (Fred Pitts), has already been walking a picket line where he used to work, but was locked out when he took the union’s side. Everybody else plans their lives around the money they think will always be theirs because of their union jobs at the mill.

But then management moves half the mill’s equipment to Mexico, and demands pay cuts for the workers left behind. A strike and a lockout happen, and misery becomes the norm. When Cynthia gets the management job, her old friends hate her. When the bar’s busboy, Oscar (Armando Torres), crosses the picket line for a mill job that pays a little better than his bar job, real trouble happens.

Massive kudos to Caroline Clark, who has done a brilliant job directing this very difficult play, which bounces between years, as the story develops emotionally, not historically. And Clark works magic in getting everyone in the cast to find their way with their characterizations.

Pitts is amazing to watch as Brucie, a man who walked a union promote bands. Venues are only going to stay interested in hosting surf events if enough people show up, which is dependent on promotions online and through KFJC. “You really gotta fill the club, otherwise they won’t want to do it,” he said.

Dobronyi said he got into surf music after deciding in 1989 that he didn’t want to be in a band with a singer anymore — a useful way of avoiding drama and relieving the worry of playing over the singer. He got into KFJC’s surf show, then hosted by DJ Phil Dirt, building a relationship that started with trading tapes and eventually led to big surf shows hosted in lecture halls at Foothill College. KFJC’s upcoming event on Oct. 26 is intended to be a throwback to those old shows.

Phil Dirt, now retired from the station and living a reclusive life in Felton, has legendary status for playing two solid hours of surf music each week over 25 years on the station. His website, Reverb Central (reverbcentral.com), contains thousands of his album reviews, including song-by-song comments. Cousin Mary joined the station in 2007 and, after a

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Excellent cast delivers Lynn Nottage’s play with power

Fred Pitts, left, plays Brucie, who tries to convince Alicia Stamps, as his ex-wife Cynthia, that he is cleaning up his act. In back are Tom Gough, Kristin Brownstone, and Kristin Walter, in “Sweat,” at the Pear Theatre. line for way too long, and who is so broken and drug-dependent that he pitifully bows and scrapes to his grown son to beg for money. It’s like a symphony of emotions in Pitts’ expressions and body movement.

There must be a thousand things he does with his eyes, his face, his body, to make Brucie come alive. It is a stunning performance, perhaps the best in a non-musical I’ve seen this year.

James “G” Glass is wonderful as Evan, the parole officer. A sergeant first class in the U.S. Army, stationed in Mountain View, Glass only started acting this year. He only has a few scenes but is very impressive in all that he does. He is physically imposing and threatening when talking to Jason but has sincere kindness in his eyes when talking with Chris, who is just trying to figure out how he can get his

life back together.

Brownstone is intimidating as Tracey, who becomes more angry and embittered as the show goes on.

The last scene in 2000 shows us what put Jason and Chris in prison.

The final, heart-breaking, scene in 2008 shows us the tragic truth of what can happen when broken people fight, instead of finding a way to survive together.

“Sweat” is a powerful tragedy about the American blue-collar worker, used up and abandoned by companies that increased their profits by taking jobs away from American factory workers. These workers just want to do their jobs and live their lives and are shocked as they learn how little their bosses care about them. Nottage’s play brilliantly explores human dynamics of American workers, touching on desperation, poverty and racism.

It completely earned its Pulitzer Prize. The Pear’s production should be in line for plenty of Bay Area theater awards itself. Q Freelance writer John Orr can be emailed at johnorr@ regardingarts.com.

What: “Sweat.”

Where: The Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View.

When: Through Nov. 10.

Showtimes vary.

Cost: $30-$34.

Info: thepear.org.

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Ferenc Dobronyi plays his Fender Jazzmaster in his home studio. two-year lapse, brought back the reliable reverb sounds the station is famous for.

Surf music has always been an underground genre, and probably always will be, Dobronyi said. The genre is instrumental in nature which turns a lot of people off.

“I don’t think it ever will appeal to a larger audience because

it doesn’t have vocals,” he said.

“People who like it will (often) like classical music and jazz or progressive rock.”

Still, surf music seems to have lasting power. Bruce Brewington said he continues to perform with the Reefriders, and at a recent show got the nod from millennials reaffirming that their sound is cool.

“The melodies are great, it has such a great beat and you can certainly dance to it,” he said. “Nobody doesn’t like it once they hear it, but many don’t know it exists.” Q Kevin Forestieri is a staff writer with the Weekly’s sister paper, the Mountain View Voice. He can be emailed at kforestieri@ mv-voice.com.

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Eating Out Falling for

Selby’s apple tart has Granny Smith and Hawaiian apples sitting on top of pastry cream in a semolina crust. Caramel mascarpone, salted caramel, micro greens and edible flowers decorate the dish.

Photo by Magali Gauthier

APPLES

Savory, sweet and cocktail recipes that make the most of autumn apples

W

by Nisha Malley ith the start of a new season, local restaurants have begun redesigning their menus to make room for fall favorites. For chefs Janina O’Leary of Bacchus Management and Pako Guzman of Steins Beer Garden, an autumn menu is incomplete without a dish featuring apples, whether Granny Smith or Hawaiian.

For hungry cooks eager to incorporate the season’s offerings into a dish of their own, O’Leary and Guzman have each prepared recipes that are tangy, sweet and easy to recreate at home. The Post in Los Altos has also shared an apple cocktail recipe to round out the meal.

Originally from Texas, O’Leary moved to New York to study at the French Culinary Institute and work at fine dining restaurants there. She also served as the executive chef at LaV, an upscale restaurant in Austin, Texas, before coming to the Bay Area to work as the executive pastry chef at Bacchus Management. She develops desserts for the group’s restaurants, including Selby’s in Redwood City and The Village Pub in Woodside.

Her caramel apple tart recipe celebrates the “simple but beautiful” apple, which Bacchus sources from K&J Orchards in Solano County. The tart has a simple semolina crust, a cream layer and “juicy but crisp” filling, she said.

Unlike many tarts, which can be overpowered by sweetness, O’Leary said her recipe is a balanced marriage between sweet and savory. The tart turns out the best when the apples are just lightly caramelized, so they don’t lose their bite and flavor. She advised home cooks not to over-mix the semolina dough, so it will maintain a somewhat sandy texture.

She recommended serving the dessert with bourbon or vanilla bean ice cream, or playing with the combination of fruit and cheese — perhaps with cheddar or mascarpone to bring out the caramelization of the apples or topping it with a ricotta ice cream.

Guzman’s dish, inspired by the contrast present in cheese and fruit platters, places that flavor profile center-stage. His apple mostarda crostini is a savory appetizer perfect for entertaining.

Guzman, who got his first job at a restaurant as a dishwasher over 16 years ago, has worked as a chef for Silicon Valley corporations such as Apple, Google and Pixar Animations studios, making dishes from a variety of cultures and cuisines. He said he shies away from “fancy food” in favor of a strong flavor profile.

“You want to put your soul where your

dish is,” Guzman said.

His crostini recipe is made with ciabatta bread and soft brie cheese. For those looking to experiment, Guzman also suggested swapping in brioche or a baguette for the bread, or sharp cheddar for the cheese. Any combination pairs well with red wine, he said.

He likes to follow the appetizer with a meat dish, such as braised short ribs or steak, adding that the dry and sweet flavors of the mostarda prepare the palate well for a heavier dish.

For home cooks trying their hand at the recipe, he advised patience: “Let all the flavors incorporate into the apples.”

For an apple-forward cocktail, try The Post’s “Them Apples,” a shaken drink with a base of apple-flavored whiskey.

“The cocktail is refreshing with a little spice — perfect for fall in California,” owner Vickie Breslin said.

Caramel apple tart Yields 6 individual tarts CRUST

2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling out the dough 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons granulated sugar 14 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small pieces 3-4 tablespoons cold water 2 tablespoons raw sugar Six 3.5-inch tart rings Heat oven to 350 F. In a food processor, combine the flour, salt, sugar and butter, and pulse until the mixture has a sandy texture. Add cold water, one tablespoon at a time, and pulse until the dough comes together but is still slightly crumbly.

Remove the dough from the food processor and knead gently on a lightly floured surface. Shape the dough into a flattened ball and wrap with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 20 minutes. Divide the dough into six equal portions and using a rolling pin, roll the dough so the pieces are slightly larger than the tart rings.

Place the dough into the mold and allow the excess to hang over the edge. Refrigerate for 15 minutes, then carefully trim the excess dough with a small knife.

Freeze the dough for about 15 minutes. Bake for 12-16 minutes, until the edges turn golden brown.

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APPLE FILLING

4 tablespoons butter 3-4 Granny Smith apples peeled, cored and thinly sliced 6 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg In a medium-size saucepan over mediumlow heat, melt the butter. Add the apples and saute until tender, about 10 minutes.

Using a slotted spoon, transfer apples to a bowl. Combine the apples, sugar, cornstarch and spices. Mix until apples are thoroughly coated.

VANILLA CUSTARD

2 cups heavy cream 1 cup whole milk 1 vanilla bean 4 egg yolks 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt

In a medium-sized sauté pan over medium heat, heat the heavy cream and milk. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean into the cream. Bring to a boil.

In another saucepan, beat egg yolks and sugar together. Gradually whisk in the hot cream mixture. Stir over low heat until the mixture thickens slightly and coats the back of a spoon, about 7 minutes. Do not boil.

Pour custard into metal bowl to cool, place plastic over the top to avoid a skin. Chill for at least an hour.

ASSEMBLING THE TART

Using a pastry bag with a plain-edge tip, pipe the custard into each tart shell halfway to the top. Fan the apples over the custard. Serve with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.

Apple mostarda Serves about 10 people

INGREDIENTS

10 Granny Smith apples 3 cups sugar Juice of 6 whole lemons 1 bunch of thyme tied with string 1 cup pickled mustard seed 2 cups white wine Brie cheese Ciabatta loaf Fresh chives, snipped

PICKLED MUSTARD SEED

1 cup yellow mustard seeds 1/2 cup white rice vinegar 1/2 cup organic sugar 1/2 tsp salt

Combine all of the ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a simmer over low heat.

Cook mustard seeds until soft, about 15 minutes. Stir frequently and cook on very low heat to avoid burning.

APPLE MOSTARDA

Combine the apples, sugar, lemon juice, pickle mustard seed, white wine and thyme in a large rondeau or Dutch oven and stir.

Bring to a simmer and cook until apples become tender and translucent, about 10-15 minutes.

ASSEMBLING THE CROSTINI

Slice the ciabatta loaf, and place a single layer on a baking sheet. Put a piece of brie cheese on top of each slice. Heat in the oven at 375 F until the cheese begins to melt. Top crostini with spoonfuls of apple mostarda and garnish with fresh chives.

Them Apples INGREDIENTS

2 oz. Crown Royal Apple 1 oz. fresh lime juice .5 oz The Post’s BAMF grenadine (or store-bought) Shake and serve with an apple slice garnish.

BAMF GRENADINE:

2 cups pomegranate juice 4-5 star anise pod 3 allspice berries 4 whole cloves 2 cinnamon sticks 1 tablespoon Szechuan peppercorns 1-2 dried chiles 1 1/2 cups sugar In a small pot combine juice with spices and bring to boil. Cover the pot, remove from heat and let spices infuse for at least 15 minutes.

Strain juice through fine sieve into a measuring cup. Return the juice and equal parts sugar to pot and heat until sugar dissolves.

Allow to cool then transfer to container and store in the refrigerator. Q Nisha Malley is a former editorial intern with the Mountain View Voice.

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Historical drama ‘The Current War’ pits Edison against Westinghouse 001/2 (Century 20, Icon) What does it take to get a big idea from concept to execution? In a real sense, it takes a village, from laboratory laborers to inglorious investors, but nothing happens without first the spark of inspiration. Even as Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s “The Current War: Director’s Cut” turns the complicated story of American electricity into a digestible drama, its commentary reminds us of the slipperiness of history in assigning credit for monumental innovation.

Inspired by True Events, “The Current War” spans from roughly 1880 — and the launch of the light bulb— to 1893, with the Chicago World’s Fair as the testing ground and showcase for an electrical grid able to power a city. In between, entrepreneurial inventor Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and shrewd industrialist George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) battle — or, perhaps more accurately, race — to establish the electricalcurrent standard: Edison backing the inefficient direct current and Westinghouse the smarter, cheaper alternating current endorsed by then-anonymous inventor Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult).

Originally conceived as a stage musical, Michael Mitnick’s screenplay has come a long way, as evidenced by the “Director’s Cut” subtitle appended to “The Current War.” Under the auspices of the Weinstein Company, Gomez-Rejon premiered a rushed-to-market cut two years ago. After a poor reception and a very public implosion for former film producer Harvey Weinstein and the company that bore his name, “The Current War” found its release postponed, allowing Gomez-Rejon to get back to work. The newly released “Current War” includes footage from reshoots, five newly added scenes and an overall running time trimmed by 10 minutes.

What remains is far from perfect, but a decent primer on the broad strokes of the AC/DC conflict. The

arrogance, obsessiveness and sheer industriousness of Edison play against the frustrated horse sense of a well-mannered Westinghouse. As Cumberbatch flop-sweats to show Edison’s maniacal tunnel vision, Shannon quietly walks off with the picture, confidently holding the screen with radiant intelligence and subtle comic reactions to the absurdities and indignities Westinghouse encounters. As ever, Tesla gets short shrift, his role acknowledged but strictly supporting while the “great men” fight over dollars and access.

The filmmakers capture something about the egotism and toxic masculinity that shaped this particular history, as well as the second guesses and ethical compromises that haunt progress. This is Hollywood history, so accurate chronology takes a backseat to dramatic impact, character becomes caricatured and developments get simplified. In the most egregious example—coming as it does from filmmakers who clearly know better — “The Current War” implies that Edison single-handedly invented the cinema.

Though less than the sum of its parts, “The Current War” proves anecdotally fascinating, enough to hold dramatic interest. Gomez-Rejon manages some impressive period recreations — most notably the Chicago World’s Fair — and revels in the strange stories along the way, like the ill-fated elephant (and too-credulous press corps) ruthlessly exploited in Edison’s attempt to discredit his competition. After two hours spent apart, Edison and Westinghouse stand face to face for a truce-like discussion, civil at last.

It’s a dramatically satisfying exhale after a sprint through history that’s sometimes dumbed-down and sometimes reflective on the ways money talks and reason walks on the road to progress. Rated PG-13 for some disturbing/violent images, and thematic elements. One hour, 47 minutes.

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Book Talk AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS ... Authors and illustrators of children’s books for all ages will come together at Orion Alternative School in Redwood City for the Author & Illustrator Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16. The community is welcome to the family event, which will give guests the opportunity to attend a talk or art workshop, meet the authors and have books signed. Food trucks, desserts and snacks will be available.

Guest authors and illustrators include: Oliver Chin, Kate DePalma, Cindy Derby, Susan Gall, Francisco Jimenez, Elisa Kleven, Tim McCanna, Daria Peoples-Riley, Annemarie O’Brien and Emma Balnd Smith. Orion is located at 555 Ave Del Ora, Redwood City.

For more information, go to starshiporion.org/ai-fair/.

JERRY RICE BRINGS HIS ‘GAME’ ... Former NFL wide receiver Jerry Rice, who won three Super Bowl rings with the San Francisco 49ers during his 20-year career before being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, will be at Kepler’s from 4-6 p.m., on Saturday, Nov. 9, to sign his new book “America’s Game: The NFL at 100.” Celebrating 100 years of the National Football League, the book includes compiled his list of football’s fiercest rivalries, most iconic games and towering heroes, including personalized lists of “all-star” players and teams form each quarter century.

Writer Randy O. Williams, coauthored the book. Tickets are $35 and include a copy of the book and access to the event. For more information, go to keplers.org. Q

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An immigrant’s

American dreams

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M EMOIR PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON JOURNALIST’S OWN STRUGGLES

by Michael Berry ational Public Radio tech correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani regularly covers Silicon Valley’s thorniest news topics and its most influential and intimidating personalities. With her new memoir, “Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares,” however, Shahani focuses her journalistic gaze upon her own family, Indian immigrants who came to America with expectations of prosperity and discovered how easy it is to run disastrously afoul of the authorities.

Shahani now resides in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood.

Reached by phone, she said it was partly the 2016 election that made her want to tackle a writing project she had been avoiding — a nonfiction account of her immediate family’s decades-long struggle with immigration authorities.

“I kind of lifted my head up from my (tech) beat and saw we have a president who is trying to tell a version of my family’s story that is simply not true,” Shahani said. “It’s ugly. It’s hateful, and it’s a lie. I wanted to tell our story, and the time was now.”

She said, “My father was one of those people uprooted by colonialism and searching for home his entire life. That was his fate.”

Of Indian heritage, Shahani’s father Namdev and his family were displaced following the British Partition in 1947. Working as a film distributor, he eventually made it to Casablanca in Morocco, where he married Shahani’s mother and had three children.

The family moved to the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, New York, in 1981.

Shahani asked, “Why would two people living in relative economic stability decide to leave a stable life in one country and take three little kids across the Atlantic Ocean and choose to live undocumented in another country?

It seemed like an incredibly risky

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Aarti Namdev Shahani has released the new memoir “Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares,” which focuses on her own family, Indian immigrants who came to America with expectations of prosperity and discovered how easy it is to run disastrously afoul of the authorities.

thing to do.”

Namdev Shahani expected that his facility with languages and mathematics would guarantee him a job as soon as he arrived in America. For a long while, he was unable to secure any employment beyond manual labor. Just as he was about to give up, he and a brother opened a successful electronics store.

As a cultural melting pot, the Flushing neighborhood suited the Shahanis. “I grew up in a working-class United Nations,” Shahani said. “Every continent was represented in my building.

What is really eye-opening about where I grew up is that you see America’s capacity for diversity in everyday life.”

The good times were shortlived. When Shahani was in high school, her father and uncle were arrested, accused of selling merchandise on behalf of the Cali Colombian drug cartel.

Having accepted a plea bargain based on a lawyer’s advice, Namdev Shahani ended up spending

Photo courtesy of Aarti Namdev Shahani.

SILICON VALLEY’S REMAKING OF AMERICA ...

While working in the White House, Margaret O’Mara, professor and historian at University of Washington, witnessed firsthand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal government and how shallow the common understanding of the secrets of the Valley’s success actually was. O’Mara will talk about her book “The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America” with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Kornblut at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 13, at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. Tickets are $22 (general admission); $30 (book and general admission); and $18 for members.

For more information, go to paloaltojcc.org/Events/thecode-silicon-valley-and-theremaking-of-america.

Title Pages eight months at Rikers Island for a crime that Aarti Shahani would later learn probably should not have been prosecuted. Worse, the family learned that Namdev, a green card holder but not a U.S. citizen, could be deported back to India after taking a plea deal.

And 9/11 happened. Suddenly brown-skinned men, even if they were Hindu or Sikh, were under suspicion of being terrorists.

“It took quite a while in my early 20s to realize what a political game-changer 9/11 was,” Shahani said. “In my head I kept thinking, ‘Well, obviously my family and others have absolutely nothing to do with this. Of course we’re going to be able to reform the laws.

Of course things will tend toward justice.’”

But that wasn’t what happened.

Shahani said, “It was a real lesson for me, because I was mourning my city. But in news headlines, my communities and I were suddenly the enemies.”

Especially appalling to Shahani were the rules for immediate deportation.

“To have a deportation system that is automatic — meaning a judge literally is not allowed to consider the impact to American children, spouses and family — that’s wrong.”

Shahani was ultimately able to stop Namdev’s deportation.

Shahani became a U.S. citizen in the gap year she took between her junior and senior years at the University of Chicago. She also established Families for Freedom, which works on behalf of immigrants threatened with deportation. Her activism has been honored by the Union Square Awards and Legal Aid Society.

Eventually Shahani took a break from activism and enrolled in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Master’s in Public Policy program. An NPR Kroc Fellowship encouraged her to try her hand at journalism, which led to an internship with KQED and

then to her position with NPR. Asked how she handles interviewing tech business elite, Shahani said, “I think the thing to do is try not be preoccupied with sounding smart. I remember when I first moved to Silicon Valley — you meet some of the most brilliant people on earth here.

There’s a high concentration of smart. One reaction that I had at first was massive insecurity. ‘Oh my God, how do I wrap my head around these complicated things people were doing?”

In terms of tech’s view of immigration, Shahani said she thinks Silicon Valley is “misguided” in its emphasis on “merit.”

“America is about giving families the chance to leap from where they started to where they can go.

It’s not just a place where people who come from very privileged backgrounds can amass wealth.”

Shohani explained, “Immigrants are not the enemy. Immigrants are distinctly American.

This country does not survive without the constant infusion of other cultures and other people.”

She also said, “The way tech companies are re-organizing the labor market to distance workers from each other has weakened the power of labor, and I find that very troubling.”

Namdev Shahani won his deportation case, but his health deteriorated soon after his release from prison. He died in 2015.

Asked about her feelings about her own citizenship, Shahani said, “Americans really believe in justice, that justice should exist and it’s something that we strive for.

Many parts of the world are OK with gross inequality, with different forms of tribalism.”

She concluded, “Thankfully, I’ve grown up in a culture that seeks constant growth in striving toward a fair society. Whether we have it not, the fact that we hunger for it is distinctly American.” Q Michael Berry can be emailed at mikeberry@mindspring.com.

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The Los Altos History Museum is hosting two events on Saturday, Oct. 26, celebrating the apricot tree, a local mainstay back when Silicon Valley was still the Valley of Heart’s Delight. First off, Robin Chapman, author of “California Apricots: The Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley” will lead a guided orchard heritage walk, 11 a.m. to noon. She’ll share historical insights on the walk. In the evening, 5-7 p.m., orchardist Phil Doetsch and Foothill College horticulturalist Frank Niccoli will demonstrate the art of pruning on apricot trees in the Museum’s Heritage Orchard. The demo will be followed by a marshmallow roast using pruned apricot twigs.

The Los Altos History Museum is located at 51 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. For more information, visit: losaltoshistory. org, or call 650-948-9427 x14.

REPAIR CAFE ... Before you toss a household item, it may be possible to give it a new lease on life at the Repair Cafe on Sunday, Oct. 27, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Museum of American Heritage.

This volunteer, community-run service offers quarterly events to help you repair small appliances and electronics. The service’s aim is to encourage the repair and reuse of items and keep them out of the landfill. The Museum of American Heritage is located at 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. For more information, visit repaircafe-paloalto.org.

GROWING MICROGREENS ... UC Master Gardener Beth McGuire leads a free workshop on growing microgreens on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 7-8:30 p.m. at the Los Altos Library.

Microgreens are essentially the seedlings of plants such as radishes, kale or mustard greens, and are packed with flavor and nutrients. The class will demonstrate how to plant a tray of microgreens and complete the growing cycle at home. The Los Altos Library is located at 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. For more information, call 408-282-3105 or visit mgsantaclara.ucanr.edu/ 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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ELECTRIFYING POSSIBILITIES Early adopters lead the way in regional effort to cut emissions by swapping gas appliances for electric ones

by Heather Zimmerman photos by Magali Gauthier

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hile serving on the Mountain View Environmental Sustainability Task Force, Hala Alshahwany’s research convinced her of the difference that converting appliances from natural gas to electric could make in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, when electricity comes from a renewable source. So when she and her husband, Nabeel Al-Shamma, remodeled their Mountain View home a couple years ago, it was a good opportunity to go “all-electric.” Even so, Alshahwany had slight misgivings about cooking on an electric stove — though that didn’t stop her from switching.

“A lot of people are hesitant to convert their stovetops from natural gas to electric. They like the method of cooking over a flame. I was a bit worried about that because I cook a lot,” Alshahwany said. “I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised. The electric stove that we have works very well. It cools off very quickly.”

In addition to replacing the gas stove, during the remodel, the couple switched out their gas-burning clothes dryer, water heater and HVAC (heating, ventilation, air-conditioning) for electric replacements. To complement their electric conversion, the couple also installed energy-efficient windows and insulation, and replaced their lawn and sprinkler system with a garden of native plants.

Their electricity provider, Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE), recently recognized Alshahwany and Al-Shamma’s home conversion with a $3,000 prize in their All Electric Showcase Awards.

Alshahwany and Al-Shamma are among the early adopters leading the way in a regional effort aimed at cutting emissions. Bay Area cities, including Menlo Park, Berkeley and San Jose have all passed bans on the use of natural gas in most new buildings. Palo Alto is currently exploring the issue.

“City staff is finalizing energy code recommendations for council consideration,” Meghan Horrigan-Taylor, Chief Communications Officer for the City of Palo Alto, said in an email.

The issue is expected to go before the city council on Nov. 4.

According to SVCE Communications Manager Pamela Leonard, in highlighting the successes of early adopters like Alshahwany and Al-Shamma, the awards aim to raise awareness about the advantages of converting to electric (often referred to as “home electrification”). But the awards also try to help dispel the reputation that has dogged electric appliances in recent decades, she said.

“There’s this legacy idea of these electric technologies — they’re terrible, they’re slower, they’re not as efficient,” Leonard said. “The technologies have changed and come a really long way ... A lot of European countries are using induction (cooktops), they’re using heat pumps for their heating and cooling needs, because they’re more efficient.”

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Above: Hala Alshahwany and Nabeel Al-Shamma converted all of their gas appliances to electric during a recent remodel of their Mountain View home. They also charge their electric car at home. Below: Alshahwany turns on the new electric cooktop.

The benefits of going all-electric were touted earlier this month at two Bay Area Home Electrification Expos hosted by SVCE, the City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU), Climate Smart San Jose and Menlo Spark. The events, one of which was held in Palo Alto, featured speakers on various aspects of electrification and representatives from manufacturers of electric appliances.

Both CPAU, the electric utility for Palo Alto residents, and SVCE, which serves 13 local communities including the Midpeninsula cities of Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Sunnyvale, offer electricity from renewable sources. And both providers offer incentives to customers considering electrification.

“By continuing to burn fossil fuels in the home, when you’re trying to phase out the use of fossil fuels in your power supply, it doesn’t really make sense anymore,” Leonard said.

SVCE offers credits to customers who install rooftop solar and both CPAU and SVCE have rebate programs for a heat pump water heater to replace gas water heaters.

CPAU is ramping up other programs to promote electrification, according to Horrigan-Taylor.

“CPAU will be launching a Home Electrification Readiness assessment at the end of 2019 to help homeowners evaluate their energy use and assess the master electric panel for home electrification,” she said, noting that the service will be offered as part of the utility’s Home Efficiency Genie program.

Horrigan-Taylor said the city also plans to offer rebates for homeowners who install electric vehicle chargers and upgrade their electric panels at the same time. The panel upgrade,

she said, paves the way for future electrification measures.

“Offering a menu of home electrification incentives gives homeowners the option to either replace home appliances one at a time as appliances reach the end of useful life, or do it more comprehensively as part of a remodeling project to fully electrify the house and disconnect the gas meter,” Horrigan-Taylor said.

Making an overall switch during a remodel, as Alshahwany and Al-Shamma did, can make sense for those planning for a significant project. Alshahwany said they spent about $22,000 to convert all four of their gas-burning appliances. Actually making the conversion, she said, took only about two weeks out of the four-month remodel.

Converting gradually may help some overcome hurdles in both expense, as well as attitude.

“With cooking, people feel the most emotional connection to that,” Leonard said, noting that switching out a stove may be a tougher ask than other appliances. “There’s less of an emotional attachment with your water heater, you just want it to work.”

Alshahwany expressed satisfaction with the effectiveness of all her home’s new electric appliances, stove included. In particular, the heat pump installed for climate control has proved very efficient at both heating and cooling, even with the home’s open-plan layout.

“In the summertime, we ended up using the cooling quite a bit, which I didn’t expect. We had fairly hot days this summer. ... I was surprised by how much we used it,” Alshahwany said. Q Home & Real Estate Editor Heather Zimmerman can be emailed at hzimmerman@ paweekly.com.

If you’re interested For those considering electrification, Alshahwany recommends doing some homework, from online research to asking for advice at local stores to get practical feedback on appliances. Among the sites she consulted was carbonfreepaloalto.org.

Palo Alto residents can learn more about electrification on the city website at: cityofpaloalto. org/electrification.

For information about the city’s water heater heatpump rebate: cityofpaloalto.org/hpwh.

Silicon Valley Clean Energy customers can learn about their programs at: svcleanenergy.org/.

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575 Everett Av Sun 1:30-4:30 Keller Williams Realty

$3,875,000 5 BD/3.5 BA 278-1249

741 Homer Av Sat/Sun 1:40-4:30 Compass

$6,550,000 5 BD/5.5 BA 906-8008

2350 Tasso St Sun 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

$4,498,000 5 BD/4.5 BA 900-7000

3513 Waverley St Sun 2-4 Compass

$5,298,000 5 BD/5 BA 269-8556

2001 Webster St Sun 1:30-4:30 Keller Williams Realty

$9,980,000 5 BD/4 BA 269-7538

142 Kellogg Av Sat 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

$4,988,000 6 BD/5 BA 900-7000

1436 Harker Av Sat/Sun 2-4 Intero

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$2,395,000 3 BD/2 BA 400-8076

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627 Spring St $1,300,000 Sun 2-4 4 BD/3 BA Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 868-2902

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205 Eleanor Dr Sat 2-4/Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass

$5,495,000 5 BD/4 BA 740-2970

Sports Shorts

ON THE AIR Saturday

College football: Arizona at Stanford, 12:30 p.m., Pac-12 Network

Sunday

College women’s soccer: Stanford at Utah, 11 a.m., Pac-12 Network College women’s volleyball: Stanford at USC, 3 p.m., Pac-12 Network

Sports Menlo-Atherton’s Justin Anderson is a threat to score every time he touches the ball.

PREP FOOTBALL

Palo Alto travels for big game at SCVAL rival Los Gatos Sacred Heart Prep hosts former coach, unbeaten TKA

by Glenn Reeves he Palo Alto football team is coming off a bye week and made good use of the time off, allowing some players to get healthy and providing the coaching staff extra time to prepare for one of the most important games of the season.

Palo Alto (5-2, 2-1) plays at Los Gatos on Friday at 7 p.m.

Paly beat Los Gatos twice last year, but the Wildcats are much better this time around. They are 7-1 overall, 3-1 in the SCVAL De Anza Division, and have scored three times as many points as their opponents, 324-107.

“They’ve been tremendous,’’ Palo Alto coach Nelson Gifford said. “Absolutely on a tear offensively and they play good defense.’’

Both teams have lost to Wilcox, so this shapes up as a battle for second place in the De Anza Division. Los Gatos got hammered by Wilcox 37-0 while Paly played the Chargers tough in a 26-15 loss. But the Wildcats have won their two games since losing to Wilcox by scores of 54-0 and 48-0. They’re averaging 40 points, 257 yards rushing and 144 yards passing per game on the season.

“We’ve got to stop the run first and foremost,’’ Gifford said. “That is primarily our biggest task.’’

Paly’s offense has come a long way since getting blanked in the season opener against St. Ignatius.

(The final score was 23-7 with the Paly touchdown scored by the defense). The Vikings have scored 213 points in their five wins, an average of 42.6 per game. And it’s a young

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team at the skill positions with a sophomore quarterback in Danny Peters and a sophomore running back in Josh Butler.

“I’m really excited by how they’ve developed,’’ Gifford said.

“Even looking back at the Wilcox game when we got shut out in the second half we only got the ball three times. They had a drive with 20 snaps. They kept our offense off the field. Teams know that’s the way to hold us down. Carlmont slowed the game down to a crawl.

SI did that, Wilcox did that.’’

The King’s Academy at Sacred Heart Prep, 7 p.m.: The Gators (5-2, 2-1) might be coming off a hard-fought and emotional 2620 loss to Menlo-Atherton. But no letdown can be allowed this week with another highly significant game on tap.

Not only is it the one night game of the season allowed on the Sacred Heart Prep campus with an undefeated team as the opponent, but the game marks the return of TKA coach Pete Lavorato, the longtime coach at Sacred Heart Prep, the man who built SHP into a prep football power.

“I don’t think there will be any problem getting the guys up for the game on Friday,’’ SHP coach Mark Grieb said on Monday. “The concern is getting them up for practice.’’

In Lavorato’s second year at TKA he took the team to a Central Coast Section Division V championship. This year the Knights (7-0, 2-0) were promoted from the Peninsula Athletic League’s Ocean

Division to the Bay Division. They beat Burlingame 27-20 in the only close game they’ve had so far.

Grieb spent two years on Lavorato’s staff before taking over as head coach. He has continued running the fly option offense Lavorato installed.

“Pete always has a few wrinkles up his sleeve,’’ Grieb said. “But how the game will be won or lost comes down to how the guys perform, how they execute assignments on both sides of the ball.’’

Menlo-Atherton at Burlingame, 7 p.m.: First-year M-A coach Steve Papin might be new to the PAL, but he knows all about the Burlingame program and veteran coach John Philipopoulos.

“My first year at Gunderson they came down and played us and gave us a butt-whipping,’’ Papin said.

“He runs a great program.’’

Burlingame is 3-4 overall and 1-2 in the Bay, but three of its four losses have been by seven points or less. Fullback Lucas Meredith is the focal point of the team’s Wing-T offense. He has rushed for more than 100 yards in every game and has 932 yards on the season.

“He runs very hard and physical,’’ Papin said. “It’s very rare when he gets taken down by one guy. It will be a tough task for our guys.’’

After a 1-3 start, M-A has won three in a row. Sophomore Thomas Taufui was a revelation at running back against Sacred Heart Prep, gaining 136 yards on 15 carries. After the game he credited the holes opened up by lineman Uate Uhila,

Bob Dahlberg

PREP REPORT ... The Sacred Heart Prep boys and girls water polo teams finished their West Catholic Athletic League season undefeated. Isaac Rotenberg scored four goals in SHP’s 10-6 victory over host St. Francis.

The Gators (15-5, 7-0), who play Long Beach Wilson in the first round of the Bellarmine Memorial Cup Tournament on Friday at 10:10 a.m. at Valley Christian. ... Isabella Bachler scored four goals in helping Sacred Heart Prep turn a close game into an 11-5 rout over host St. Francis. Bachler also recorded six assists, drew two exclusions and made two steals for the Gators (17-2, 6-0), who host the NorCal Invitational this weekend. The Lancers (16-3, 5-1) drew within 4-3 with 5:39 remaining to play in the first half. SHP scored seven goals in seven minutes and keeping St. Francis scoreless for 16 minutes. The Lancers finally snapped the streak with 3:28 left to play in the game. Annabel Facey also had a big game, scoring twice, assisting on three others and recording a steal. Eleanor Facey and Brienz Lang each scored twice. Goalie Megan Norris had 11 saves and a save percentage of .688. She also added a steal ... Woodside completed an undefeated run through the Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division, beating host Carlmont 17-7 as Jake Escobar and Andrew Mills each scored five goals. The Wildcats (18-6, 10-0) await their postseason fate, which will be decided on Sunday, November 3 by the Seeding Committee at the CCS office ... Menlo School eased past host Serra 19-1 and finished alone in second place in the WCAL. Last year’s PAL Bay Division champion more than held its own in the tougher league. Noah Housenbold scored six goals to lead Menlo (16-7, 5-2) past the Padres. Greg Hilderbrand, Chris Ponterio and Connor MacMitchell each added three ... Castilleja won its fifth consecutive PAL Bay Division, beating Notre Dame Belmont 14-5 in game played at Serra High. Gabby Lewis scored six goals and recorded a pair of assists for Castilleja (15-5, 12-0). The Gators played half the season without Olympian and Hall of Fame coach Brenda Villa, out on maternity leave. Stanford grad Kelsey Holshouser stepped in and the team hasn’t missed a beat. Anjali Kambham scored four times and added a pair of assists ... Menlo School beat last year’s CCS girls tennis finalist Cupertino 5-2 in a non-league match. The Knights (17-3) played Thursday against Castilleja with a chance to secure the outright league title ... Pinewood senior Megan Chou finished third at the WBAL girls golf tournament and Castilleja’s Kelly Yu placed fifth. Harker won the team title ... The Palo Alto girls won the SCVAL tournament with Katherine Sung and Marina Mata tying for third.

who recently returned from injury.

“Uate is a leader on the offensive line,’’ Papin said. “Now that he’s back everything flows through him. And with Thomas, he was such a great player on defense that we spared him on offense. I think we’ll use him more at running back now. He gave us a spark.’’

Sophomore Matt MacLeod and junior Raymond Price III shared time at quarterback against SHP in the third game since Price became eligible.

“Both are great quarterbacks and great leaders,’’ Papin said. “But I’d like to have one be the clear-cut starter. Hopefully we’ll make that decision over the next couple of weeks.’’

Gunn at Lynbrook, 6 p.m.: With a 56-32 win over Los Altos last week Gunn (6-1, 2-1) clinched just its third winning season since 2002. And by winning their final three regular-season games the Titans would capture the SCVAL El Camino Division title and a berth in the CCS playoffs.

“When you start to turn things around and start doing the right things the failures of yesteryear get erased,’’ Gunn coach Jason Miller said.

Lynbrook (1-6, 0-3) is by any measurement the weakest team in the league, having been outscored 127-0 in its first three divisional games. But Miller is well aware of the danger in overlooking anybody.

“For us we’ve got to concentrate on ourselves and work hard on preparation like every other week,’’ he said. “We’ve got to win every game to win league and make the playoffs. If we lose a game we finish anywhere from second to fifth.

We need to take care of business and control our own destiny.’’

Gunn has put up big numbers on the ground out of its double-wing offense. But Miller gave a shoutout to safety Kylen Liu for his play in the win over Los Altos.

“He did a good job all game coming up from safety to make tackles,’’ Miller said. “He’s a catcher in baseball and he plays safety like a catcher, controlling the game.’’

Menlo School at San Mateo, 7 p.m.: You wouldn’t know it by the final score, but Menlo was competitive for two quarters in last Friday’s 54-14 loss to Half Moon Bay. “Half Moon Bay is really good, that was one of the best offensive line performances I’ve seen at the high school level,’’ Menlo coach Josh Bowie said. “We couldn’t find an answer defensively. Four- or five-yard gains turned into 10- or 15- or 60-yard gains as the game went on.’’

San Mateo (6-1, 2-1) is having one of its best seasons in a number of years. Defense has been a strength as the Bearcats have allowed only 75 points in seven games. On offense they’re running a flexbone system similar to Half Moon Bay. “They’ll run right at you, run power,’’ Bowie said. “I expect a good hard-fought battle. We’ve already moved on from Half Moon Bay and are looking to bounce back.’’ (continued on page 42)

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Public Notices

995 Fictitious Name Statement

A+ COMMERCIAL SERVICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN659500 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: A+ Commercial Services, located at 2526 Qume Drive, Suite 25, San Jose, CA 95131, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): YAYAKK, INC. 2526 Qume Drive, Suite 25 San Jose, CA 95131 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/27/2019.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 7, 2019.

(PAW Oct. 18, 25; Nov. 1, 8, 2019) JANO HINDI FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN659496 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Jano Hindi, located at 4177 Hubbartt Dr., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): US HINDI FOUNDATION (USHF) 4177 Hubbartt Dr. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2011.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 7, 2019.

(PAW Oct. 18, 25; Nov. 1, 8, 2019) JANO INDIA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN659499 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Jano India, located at 4177 Hubbartt Dr., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): US HINDI FOUNDATION (USHF) 4177 Hubbartt Dr. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2011.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 7, 2019.

(PAW Oct. 18, 25; Nov. 1, 8, 2019) SONATA APARTMENTS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN659348 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Sonata Apartments, located at 8101 Kelton Dr. Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): EDUARDO CERNA 2105 S. Bascom Ave., Ste. 230 Campbell, CA 95008 Registrant began transacting business

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SHIRLEY C. SAMUELS, aka SHIRLEY CHASINS SAMUELS, SHIRLEY SAMUELS Case No.: 19PR186873 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of SHIRLEY C. SAMUELS, aka SHIRLEY CHASINS SAMUELS, SHIRLEY SAMUELS. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JEFFREY VERN SAMUELS in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: JEFFREY VERN SAMUELS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on November 14, 2019 at 9:01 a.m. in Dept.: 13 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court.

If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Francis A. La Poll Gilfix & La Poll Associates LLP 2479 E. Bayshore Rd., Suite 220, Palo Alto, CA 94303 (650) 493-8070 (PAW Oct. 11, 18, 25, 2019) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 19CV354324 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: JOHN JUNIOR ANTIONETTE FERANDIN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: JOHN JUNIOR ANTIONETTE FERANDIN to JOHN ANTHONY FERANDIN. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PAIGE YVONNE SIMPSON Case No.: 19PR186040 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of PAIGE YVONNE SIMPSON. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DONNA NOEL JELLISON in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: DONNA NOEL JELLISON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on October 28, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 13 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court.

If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: Donna Noel Jellison 236 N 1A St. E, Box 974 Magrath, Alberta Canada, T0K1J 0 (403) 331-1470 (PAW Oct. 11, 18, 25, 2019)

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ACAMAN ENGINEERING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN658787 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Acaman Engineering, located at 887 Franklin Street, Santa Clara, CA 95050, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ROMAN MARCOS REYES 887 Franklin Street Santa Clara, CA 95050 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/09/2019.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 13, 2019.

(PAW Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019)

under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/1/19.

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

(PAW Oct. 18, 25; Nov. 1, 8, 2019)

interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: January 21, 2020, 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113.

A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Date: September 6, 2019 /s/ JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW Oct. 11, 18, 25; Nov. 1, 2019)

Palo Alto’s Louis Passarello is a two-way threat as tight end and defensive end.

Football (continued from page 41)

Kevin Alarcon missed the HMB game after injuring an ankle against Carlmont. Junior Elliot Kinder started at quarterback and passed for 271 yards. Menlo’s ground game, however, got bottled up by the HMB defense and Bowie said he was looking for improvement in that area this week.

Woodside at Capuchino, 7 p.m.: Woodside (1-6, 1-1 PAL Lake) beat El Camino two weeks ago 36-16 while last week Capuchino (3-4, 1-1) lost to that same El Camino team, 12-6 in overtime. So on the basis of those comparative scores the Wildcats should have a pretty good shot at picking up their

second win of the season.

Right?

“At first glance, yeah,’’ Woodside coach Justin Andrews said. “But based on Capuchino’s overall track record I’m not so sure.’’

At any rate, there’s the potential for a competitive contest.

“At this point that’s all we can hope for,’’ Andrews said.

Injuries reared their ugly head again last week for Woodside, which lost all three starting linebackers in a 27-8 loss to Mills.

“We couldn’t get stops at the end,’’ Andrews said. “Mills’ front seven was pretty tough. We were barely able to eke out something of a ground game, but we’d get into the red zone and come out with no points because of our failure to execute and get out of our own way.’’ Q

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Cooper McKenna

Phillip Doan

GUNN WATER POLO

GUNN FOOTBALL

The senior scored 11 goals, had four steals and four assists last week in helping Gunn remain in a first place tie in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division.

The senior running back gained 193 yards and scored three TDs in a key victory over Los Altos on Friday night. The Titans are in contention for the SCVAL El Camino title.

Honorable mention Addie Ahlstrom*

Menlo tennis

Sophie Golub

Menlo water polo

Kyra Pretre

Menlo cross country

Odeya Russo

Gunn volleyball

Emma Spindt

Menlo-Atherton volleyball

Amelia Vugrincic

Palo Alto volleyball

Greg Hilderbrand

Menlo water polo

Tau Latu

Woodside football

Kamran Murray

Menlo cross country

Isaac Rotenberg

Sacred Heart Prep water polo

Kai Seed

Woodside water polo

Thomas Taufui

Menlo-Atherton football

*Previous winner Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com

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Sports STANFORD VOLLEYBALL

Cardinal adjusts quickly without Plummer he second-ranked Stanford women’s volleyball team has played without two-time national Player of the Year Kathryn Plummer the past six games and won all of them, the latest a five-set thriller at home against Utah.

The Cardinal (13-3, 7-1) would prefer seeing her back on the court.

“How could it be as easy,” Stanford coach Kevin Hambly said. “We miss her but we have to keep playing. We have to reinvent ourselves on the fly and play a different style.”

The good news for Stanford, which travels to play UCLA (10-7, 5-3) at 7 p.m. Friday and USC (11-7, 5-3) on Sunday at 1 p.m., is it can rely on senior All-Americans to pick up the slack.

Senior Audriana Fitzmorris scored three of Stanford’s final four points in the win over the Utes. Sophomore Holly Campbell added four kills in the fifth set and recorded a career-high nine blocks.

“These guys know how to play,” Hambly said. “The seniors are used to playing with Plummer and are

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getting used to playing with Kendall (Kipp). Everybody is adjusting and I like how they’re responding.”

Against Utah it meant four players reaching double figures in kills and five with double-digit attacks.

It also meant getting solid serving from Kate Formico and effective back row play from Formico and Caitlin Keefe.

“I’d like to have this kind of balance when she gets back,” Hambly said. “Injuries happen. Last year didn’t feel easy while we were in it.

But if we can be healthy and play our best in the end, we’re capable of that.”

This weekend completes the first half of the conference season.

Stanford’s Madeleine Gates played for the Bruins her first three years, earning All-American honors. She graduated early and is at Stanford working on an advanced degree. Her younger brother Nathaniel Gates is a freshman with the Cardinal men’s volleyball team.

UCLA and USC are in a fourway tie for fourth place, two games behind co-leaders Stanford and

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Second-ranked Stanford heads to UCLA, USC

Kendall Kipp (left) has helped the Stanford volleyball team adjust without Kathryn Plummer (far right), who has missed six games with an undisclosed injury.

California and a game behind thirdplace Washington. The top seven teams are within two games of each other and nothing can be taken for granted. Colorado (8-10, 0-8) took the Golden Bears to five sets, Arizona State is coming off a win at Washington State and Oregon has wins over UCLA and Utah.

California (17-1, 7-1) has already matched last year’s conference victory totals and surpassed its overall wins from last year. Cal’s only loss of the year came at home against then No. 1 Stanford.

“They were good last year but couldn’t get that one big win to get that confidence,” Hambly said. “They battled with everybody. There’s a lot of talent in the conference.”Q

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