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Vol. XLI, Number 20 Q February 21, 2020

Search continues for missing Palo Alto couple Page 5

T R A E THOF THE L A E R ARBO Art Center branches out with tribute to trees Page 16 Pulse 13

Spectrum 14

Eating Out 21

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Q News Patrons of closed tailor shop want their clothes back Page 9 Q Home Got chickens? Classes teach how to care for a ock Page 28 Q Sports Prep wrestlers look to take down a CCS title Page 41

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Looking ‘beyond everywhere’: Couple remains missing Case mystifies locals as Marin County Sheriff’s Office extends search to Tomales Bay

by Lloyd Lee s time ticks on in the effort to locate Palo Alto residents Carol Kiparsky and Ian Irwin, who have been missing for nearly a week in the small Marin County community of

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Inverness, the number of searchers has waned.

On Wednesday, the dive team from the Marin County Sheriff’s Office spent hours looking for the couple in the high tide waters of

Tomales Bay and found nothing, according to a deputy.

“There’s not gonna be much going on out here,” Sgt. Brad Kashack told the Palo Alto Weekly on Wednesday morning, after he’d spent an exhausting Tuesday searching for the couple. Kashack said he didn’t go home to sleep until 1 a.m.

It was the fourth day of search

operations in Inverness, a small unincorporated town 3.5 miles northwest of Point Reyes Station.

Kiparsky, 77, and Irwin, 72, had rented a shingle-sided cottage on Via De La Vista, nestled in the woods of a ridgetop with a few homes widely spaced out from each other. Their car was still parked at the property.

They were last heard from

on Friday, and they were due to check out on Saturday. The couple missed an appointment on Sunday, according to the sheriff’s office.

The missing-persons search started off strong on Sunday afternoon when the sheriff’s office canvassed the area by ground and (continued on page 10)

EDUCATION

District to pay $1.5M for potato-gun injury?

Teen’s retina permanently damaged by science experiment

by Elena Kadvany he Palo Alto school board will consider approving in closed session next Tuesday a $1.5 million settlement with a former student whose eye was permanently damaged during a potato-gun science experiment at JLS Middle School in 2017.

Lawyers for the school district filed a settlement notice in December and a judge heard the proposed amounts at a hearing in early January, court records show. The school board discussed the case in closed session on Feb. 11 but took no reportable action.

If the board approves the settlement agreement, the district will pay its maximum exposure of $50,000 and the remainder will be covered by insurance, Superintendent Don Austin said. He declined to comment further.

In a claim filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court in 2018, the parents of the then-13-year-old student alleged that the district and teachers breached their duty to conduct the experiment “with reasonable care” and to protect the student from “foreseeable dangers.” They also alleged that the adults in the classroom — two math teachers and a volunteer, named as defendants in the lawsuit — failed to provide proper supervision and adequate safety training for the experiment.

The school experiment with homemade potato guns was intended to teach mathematical calculations based on the distance the potato traveled. When it was the

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TRANSPORTATION

After blowback, city aims to shift gears on bike boulevards

Council considers changes to Ross Road, including modifying the roundabout on East Meadow hastened by the outpouring of residents’ complaints about the city’s new “bike boulevard” on Ross Road and recent collisions of cars and bicyclists, Palo Alto’s transportation planners are preparing to make some major changes to the controversial corridor, as well as to the city’s process for redesigning roadways.

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by Gennady Sheyner The new approach, which the City Council plans to discuss Monday night, aims to regain the community’s trust and restore some momentum to the city’s multiyear effort to enhance its bike facilities.

The city has no plans to remove the most contentious feature of the Ross redesign — a roundabout at the intersection with

East Meadow Drive — but planners are now proposing to add new stop signs on East Meadow to give drivers more clarity when entering the roundabout.

On the Ross and East Meadow, planners are also recommending the addition of red to the curbs near the roundabout to prevent cars from parking and interfering with traffic flow.

The city’s effort to build more bike boulevards kicked off in earnest in 2014, when the council signed a contract to enhance biking amenities on Ross, Greer Road, Amarillo Avenue and Moreno Avenue. But it began to veer off tracks in late 2017, when construction crews began adding the new features to Ross, including speed humps, road markings and the roundabout.

The features divided neighborhood residents and local bicyclists. While some lauded the biking amenities, many others argued in letters to the council and in public comments at community meetings that the features made biking more dangerous and driving more confusing. Facing (continued on page 12)

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Cars and bicyclists — and this man using his pirate-flag bedecked scooter to transport a cage with two dogs — travel around the roundabout on Ross Road and East Meadow Drive in Palo Alto, which was installed in 2018.

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WOAH BABY! ... It’s been a roller coaster few weeks for Baby, a 1-year-old bulldog-pitbull mix who was abandoned outside Palo Alto’s animal shelter on Jan. 24 full of deep lacerations and puncture wounds. Staff from Pets In Need, the nonprofit now managing the shelter on East Bayshore Road, rushed Baby to an emergency veterinary clinic for treatment of what employees deemed to be “grave� injuries, possibly associated with Baby being used as “bait� in a dog-fighting ring.

Despite the many stitches and fluid-draining tubes, the gentle canine went through recovery in good spirits, according to staff.

And on Feb. 15, Pets In Need announced in a jubilant tweet that Baby has been adopted: “Baby went home! In just a matter of weeks he went from being injured, to recovery to being adopted.

We are thrilled that he now has a family to dote on him. Thank you all those who sent messages of love and support for Baby during his journey with us. Happy tails, Baby!� Palo Alto Animal Control officers are looking into who left Baby behind. Last month, Lead Animal Control Officer Cody Macartney told the Weekly that Baby’s case was one of them most severe cases has seen in his 18 years with the city.

WHEN YOU GOTTA GO ... Park bathrooms may be a precious commodity for visiting families but they aren’t always an easy sell in Palo Alto, where immediate neighbors have been known to oppose them on the grounds of security and cleanliness. But things appear to be different at Ramos Park, a 4.4-acre park near the intersection of Ross Road and East Meadow Drive, where a proposal

to install a permanent restroom is winning supporters and gaining momentum. According to a report from Peter Jensen, the city’s landscape architect, Palo Alto recently held a community meeting to discuss the park’s renovation, which is set to kick off at the end of the year. Of those who attended, 21 people said they would support a park restroom, while only four said they oppose it. When asked about the potential location of the bathroom, participants generally agreed that it should be close to the East Meadow Drive (though the crowd was divided between two locations along East Meadow).

An online survey issued by the city after the meeting also showed more support for having a park restroom than for not having one, though the margin was closer, with 58% favoring the facility and 42% opposing it. The installation of the bathroom would be consistent with the city’s recently adopted master plan for parks, which recommends more dog parks and bathrooms. Palo Alto’s capital improvement plan provides a budget of $350,000 every other year for restroom facilities at parks.

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alo Alto’s long-standing system of commissions could be heading for big changes in the coming months, as the City Council weighs adding new advisory boards for seniors and sustainability, disbanding one for libraries and splitting its most influential — and controversial — commission into two.

These are some of the changes proposed by Vice Mayor Tom DuBois and Councilwoman Alison Cormack, who as a council ad hoc committee were tasked with evaluating the commissions and addressing perceived flaws in the system, including a lack of guidelines for removing commissioners. The pair released a report last week, which the City Council is set to consider on Feb. 24.

While DuBois and Cormack framed the proposed changes as “concepts” and not as recommendations, the adoption of these ideas would significantly alter a system that has been largely static for decades. The Library Advisory Commission would be disbanded, consistent with the recommendations of some of the commission’s own members. And taking a cue from other cities, Palo Alto could add a Senior Commission and a Sustainability Commission, the latter of which would focus on climate and environmental initiatives.

Another proposed concept calls for turning the Planning and Transportation Commission into two commissions. This, the committee notes in the report, would

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align them with the city’s two departments; a new Office of Transportation was recently pulled out of the Department of Planning and Community Environment.

DuBois and Cormack, who were appointed to the ad hoc committee by former Mayor Eric Filseth in December, have spent the past two months surveying current and former board members and commissioners, comparing Palo Alto’s laws and procedures for commissions with those in other cities, and interviewing staff who work with commissions.

The feedback was a mixed bag.

Of the 66 current and former commissioners who responded to the survey, most said they would recommend serving on a local commission (the average score on

this question was 8 out of 10). But while they offered positive comments about the gratification of giving back to the community and working with staff, they also expressed concerns about the process for setting agendas, public reaction to unpopular decisions and working with other commissioners, according to the memo from DuBois and Cormack.

“Regrettably, there is concern about how a few board members and commissioners have treated staff and their colleagues over the years,” the report states.

“While this behavior appears to be quite rare, the ad hoc committee is concerned about the impact on our professional staff and the (continued on page 12)

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An ad hoc City Council committee has suggested the council discuss splitting the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission into two boards, one focused on development projects and the other on transportation issues.

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ENGINEERING. VARIOUS LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE

Annual report highlights department’s trends, accomplishments

espite a year marred by a rash of car break-ins and two high-profile claims of police brutality, the Palo Alto Police Department saw several positive trends in 2019, including drops in assaults, burglaries and traffic collisions, according to its newly released annual report.

The Palo Alto Police Department’s 2019 Annual Report highlights some of the crime trends and the initiatives that officers have been dealing with, including an increased focus on traffic enforcement and public engagement. The report also indicates that the department made fewer arrests and issued fewer citations in 2019 than it had in 2018, trends that the report attributes to “a decrease in calls for service compared to 2018, staffing and the cyclical nature of crime.”

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According to the report, the department responded to 29 assaults in 2019, the fewest number since 2015. That’s down from 38 assaults in 2018 and 40 in 2017. The number of reported commercial and residential burglaries (not including car break-ins) hit its lowest point in at least a decade. The department responded to 179 burglary incidents in 2019, the only year in the decade when the number was below 200. In 2018, the city saw 234

burglaries, according to the report (the highest number was 332, in 2012).

At the same time, the number of larceny cases has surged, largely because of a recent spike in car burglaries. There were 1,724 incidents of larceny in 2019, up from 1,197 in 2018 and nearly twice as many as occurred in 2011, when 937 were reported. The number of

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Palo Alto Police Department statistics show that larceny cases, which include car break-ins, soared in 2019 to the highest annual total in the past 10 years.

The council also discussed in a closed session last week a complaint from Julio Arevalo, who also alleged that he was beaten by a Palo Alto officer near Happy Donuts on the night of July 9. A surveillance video from the donut shop shows police Agent Thomas DeStefano arresting Arevalo by pinning him against a railing and then bringing him to the ground before handcuffing him, fracturing his orbital bone (surrounding the eyeball) in the process. The council didn’t take any reportable actions.

While the annual report makes no mention of the two cases, it notes that out of more than 2,000 arrests, Palo Alto police used force in only 18 incidents.

“This is a testament to the

professionalism of our officers and their ability to de-escalate tense situations and gain compliance without using force,” the report states.

The annual report also includes a section on the independent police auditor, who is charged with reviewing all cases in which a Taser is used, as well as complaints reported by citizens or generated by the department itself. The auditor, the report states, is in place “to ensure that the Department’s investigations are conducted thoroughly and objectively.”

The report neglected to mention, however, that 2019 was the first year since at least 2012 in which the city didn’t publish a single audit. Historically, the city’s police auditing firm, OIR Group, has been

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PROPOSED LAND USE COVENANT 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and the Board of Trustees for the Leland Stanford Junior University plan to enter into a Land Use Covenant (LUC) for a portion of the property located at 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 (Site). The 1.07-acre portion is a residential park bounded by Bowdoin Street and Bowdoin Court to the northeast and Amherst Street to the southwest. LUCs restrict certain land uses and activities to protect human health and the environment. The LUC is necessary based on the results of a Preliminary Environmental Assessment (PEA) report. Findings from the PEA determine whether a release of hazardous substances has occurred on a site that may pose a significant risk to human health or the environment.

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robberies also went up from 30 in 2018 to 46 in 2019.

“While crime tends to be cyclical in nature ... one thing that remains constant is that Palo Alto is a safe city that continues to have a very low rate of violent crime per capita,” the report states.

The annual report also showed a significant drop in both arrests and citations from the prior year.

The number of citations, which spiked from 5,807 in 2017 to 8,245 in 2018, went down to 6,578 last year, according to the report. The number of arrests dropped from 2,602 in 2018 to 2,185 in 2019.

While the report provides an overview of each department division, it doesn’t mention two recent complaints that the department received, alleging excessive force by officers. In November, the City Council approved a $572,500 settlement to Gustavo Alvarez, resident of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, after his surveillance camera showed a police sergeant slamming him into a car windshield during the arrest and later mocking Alvarez’s speech.

The sergeant, who retired shortly after the incident, was required as part of the settlement to write a letter of apology to Alvarez. The terms also required the department to undergo two hours of LGBTQ sensitivity training.

releasing two reports per year. And in December, the City Council voted to approve a new contract with OIG Group that explicitly excludes internal conflicts within the department from the auditors’ review.

The report also underscores Police Chief’s Robert Jonsen’s recent efforts to engage the community.

This includes the launch in 2019 of Advanced Police Academy, a course for residents who had completed the Basic Citizens Academy, an eight-week program for community members wishing to learn more about police work. In addition, Jonsen’s advisory group made up of neighborhood representatives with whom he meets every other month helped the department’s traffic team identify the locations where enforcement should be prioritized, according to the report.

“They discussed community concerns, specific locations, and the types of driving violations being observed,” the report states.

“This collaboration allowed for direct community input to the team’s enforcement locations. The team provided feedback to the Chief’s Advisory Group on observations, challenges and recommendations

for each location.”

From August through December 2019, the team visited six target locations 198 times and issued 651 citations, the report states. It also notes that the number of collision reports in all categories (which includes fatalities, injury, non-injury, bicycles and pedestrians) went down from 993 in 2018 to 836 last year.

“As we hire more officers to the Department’s ranks, we intend to increase the size of the Traffic Team to more efficiently address traffic concerns from our community,” the report states.

In his introduction to the report, Jonsen wrote that he expects the department to be “excellent in everything we do.”

“I expect us to proactively enforce the law and to serve this special community with professionalism and respect,” Jonsen wrote. “I expect us to positively engage our residents, business owners, and visitors whenever we can. I value accountability and take full responsibility to ensure these expectations are met.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Woman escapes kidnapper

A man who allegedly burst into a Mountain View home near the Palo Alto border Monday night and tried to drag a woman by the neck out to her car was arrested hours later, according to Mountain View police. (Posted Feb. 18, 2020, 1:35 p.m.)

Woman in car during attempted break in

Two men allegedly linked to 10 car burglaries in Palo Alto were arrested after a woman alerted authorities that they were breaking into her car at a downtown parking garage while she was sitting inside of it, Palo Alto police said Wednesday. (Posted Feb 19, 2020, 6:26 p.m.)

Collision kills man near freeway

A man died in a collision with a car in an East Palo Alto neighborhood just north of U.S. Highway 101 on Friday night, police said in a community update issued Wednesday. (Posted Feb. 20, 9:44 a.m.)

‘Sunny Day’ defendant sentenced

Six years after San Mateo County prosecutors announced indictments against 16 gang members for four murders and multiple attempted murders and shootings in what became known as “Operation Sunny Day,” the last defendant was sentenced on Tuesday to eight years in prison, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.

(Posted Feb. 19, 9:44 a.m.)

Commissioner quits seeking chairmanship

In a stunning move to avoid a potentially divisive and deadlocked election for the Palo Alto Human Relations Commissioner chairmanship, one of the two contenders, Steven Lee, on Thursday asked his colleagues to vote for the other nominee, the Rev. Kaloma Smith. (Posted Feb. 14, 5:27 p.m.)

Buttigieg campaigns in Palo Alto

Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg visited Palo Alto on Friday, Feb. 14, at what he called a “pivotal” moment in his campaign, coming off strong performances in the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary and with the Democratic field continuing to narrow.

(Posted Feb. 14, 4:23 p.m.)

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NORTH VENTURA OPEN HOUSE ... An open house and workshop to share ideas on how to create the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan, a walkable, mixeduse neighborhood, will take place on Thursday, Feb. 27, 6-9 p.m. at Gunn High School, 780 Arastradero Road, rooms P115 and P116. City staff will present three draft plan options.

ARBOR DAY FESTIVAL ... If you love trees and value their importance in reducing carbon and beautifying neighborhoods, Palo Alto nonprofit organization Canopy and the Palo Alto Art Center are hosting an interactive Arbor Day Festival.

The family-oriented free event includes hands-on art-making projects, dance performances, a scavenger hunt, roped tree climbing, the art of bonsai, an Ask-the-Arborist table, family tree walks, fruit tree workshops, food and more. The event takes place Sunday, March 15, 1-5 p.m. at the Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto. To sign up, visit canopy.org/eventcalendar/.

HEADS UP, COLLEGE TERRACE ... The College Terrace Residents Association will host its annual meeting on March 21, 10-11:30 a.m. at University Lutheran Church, 1611 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto. Hot topics in the neighborhood include Caltrain grade separation, development, parking and Stanford University. Q

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Palo Alto Tailoring closed three years ago.

Customers want their clothes back.

Owner goes silent after shop shutters, leaving patrons puzzled

by Sue Dremann ustomers of a Palo Alto tailoring business say they have been trying to get their clothing back for nearly three years, but the doors of Palo Alto Tailoring remain tightly shut, leaving them staring longingly through the glass doors.

The little white stucco shop with blue lettering at 3700 El Camino Real and Barron Avenue closed in summer 2017, three customers told the Weekly. But despite their notes on and under the door, calls to the business owner and threats of a lawsuit, shop owner Sep Hines has not given their clothing back, they said.

The shop was a fixture in the Barron Park neigborhood for nearly 20 years. The three customers, two of whom patronized the business for nearly all of that time, said they are baffled by the mystery of why they can’t get their clothing and drapery. Frustrated by the lack of communication, they are now considering small claims lawsuits, they said.

Alexis Davis had frequented Palo Alto Tailoring since 1999, she said.

“I even had a set of curtains hemmed in about 2005. When these got old and in need of replacement, I dropped off two sets of curtains in August 2016: a set of sheers and a set of silk curtains from Pottery Barn,” she said in an email to the Weekly.

Hines never notified her that her curtains were done, however. On several occasions, Davis stopped to inquire about her curtains, she said.

“The first time (Sep) needed clarification on what needed to be done — despite me telling her when I dropped them off and giving her my old curtain for measurement. Then she was mostly closed, but I managed to find her open about a year later (in August 2017), when I picked up my sheers. I have never recovered my very expensive silk blackout curtains from her,” Davis said.

The phone number listed on the ticket went to a fax machine.

Beginning in summer 2018, Davis started to drop off notes at the store. She called Palo Alto Police Department, which said it was a civil matter and declined to help. She called the Better

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BARRON PARK CENTENNIAL ... The Barron Park Association is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its neighborhood.

During its annual meeting on Sunday, March 8, 2-4 p.m., the neighborhood will celebrate with a presentation about the history of Barron Park by neighborhood historian Doug Graham. Also on the agenda: an update on the Bol Park Pathway, the Native Habitat Garden and the upcoming events for the year. The meeting takes place at Barron Park Elementary School Multi-Purpose Room, 800 Barron Ave., Palo Alto.

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Wendy Harrison, left, and Monica Cappuccini stand outside Palo Alto Tailoring, which took their clothes in for tailoring but then closed nearly three years ago, shuttering with customers’ garments still inside.

The El Camino Real shop has yet to give Harrison, Cappuccini and many others their clothes back.

Business Bureau, which said they couldn’t help. She sought information from Santa Clara County through the store’s fictitious business name license and found the business was listed at what appeared to be an abandoned home in Los Altos.

Davis sent letters to the Los Altos address and dropped off letters at the storefront. Her certified letters were returned.

Finally, Hines contacted Davis in August 2018 after receiving a letter Davis had placed under the store’s door threatening to sue Hines.

“She called and apologized profusely, said she had been through a lot and promised that her shop was going to re-open in September 2018. As she is a small-business owner, I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt and said ‘OK, I’ll wait to pick them up when your store re-opens.’ But that never happened,” Davis said.

She created a Yahoo email account and posted a message on the business door asking if anyone wanted to join her in her efforts to reclaim goods. That’s how she found Monica Cappuccini and Wendy Harrison,

other customers who were working through their own process to get their items back by leaving notes at the storefront, she said.

Davis said she doesn’t know how many other people might also be waiting for their items.

“Looking through the windows, there are all sorts of items left abandoned in the store,” Davis said.

Cappuccini, who also was a customer from the beginning, said she lives nearby the tailoring shop and noticed right away when the store closed. There was no message on the door. Three of her favorite T-shirts are locked inside.

After the initial closure, Hines reopened after about six months and then promptly closed for good three weeks later — before Cappuccini had a chance to pick up her shirts, which Hines had promised to find, she said. She left many notes for Hines and called the business until the line was disconnected, she said.

Harrison, a customer for four years, had a similar experience.

Her jacket and a dress remain inside the shop.

“I called the number, but it

became disconnected. I’ve left messages in writing, either taped to the door or slipped through the crack under it about every two weeks since July 2017,” she said in an email.

On Nov. 22, 2019, Harrison sent a letter by certified mail explaining her intent to sue in Santa Clara County Small Claims Court.

“An attempt to deliver the letter was made twice and then returned to me as undeliverable. I also put a copy of the letter under the door, so I believe she knows of my intent to sue,” she said.

Reached by phone on Wednesday, Barry Hines, Sep Hines’ husband, said that he relayed a request for comment to his wife.

He said she didn’t want to return the Weekly’s call but that she said something might happen in early March. She has had different plans regarding the shop, but he doesn’t know what they might be. In March, she might find a solution, he added. A call to the property owner, KSS Investment, LLC, was not immediately returned. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Missing

Injury student’s turn to operate the gun, he turned a valve to release pressurized air and “nothing happened,� the claim states. “After several seconds, the gun suddenly discharged striking (the student) in his face and causing significant permanent injuries,� the claim states.

The incident permanently damaged the student’s retina, attorney Paul Van Der Walde said, and caused an orbital fracture, or a traumatic injury to the bone of the eye socket. The student was reportedly homebound for several months after the accident and has since left the school district.

Van Der Walde did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the settlement.

The total settlement includes attorney’s fees and reimbursement for medical expenses. It is also comprised of $475,000 in a series of payments to the former student over the next three decades, starting in 2021. The payments include $30,000 annually for the next five years; $500 monthly for 13 years; $1,000 monthly for 30 years; and a lump sum payment of $177,000 in 2033.

A hearing to formally dismiss the case is set for April. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

air with help from several agencies. On Monday, 136 search and rescue members from all over the Bay Area traveled to Inverness, where many combed trails in the area.

Sheriff’s deputies and Point Reyes National Seashore rangers set their sights on the water on Wednesday. They deployed a K9 team and the sheriff’s dive team, which used a remotely operated underwater vehicle and a side scan sonar, according to a tweet from the sheriff’s office.

The dive team started its search at the pier of Inverness Yacht Club around 9:15 a.m. and headed about a mile up north, closer to the couple’s rental vacation home.

By noon, the sheriff’s crew halted its search with no updates, while the park rangers continued looking on boat with the sonar, according to Sgt. Brenton Schneider.

The sheriff’s office sent another team of divers and its underwater robot during low tide Wednesday evening. “I’m losing a little hope to be honest,� said Burton Eubank, a longtime volunteer firefighter for the Inverness Fire Department who aided the search earlier in the week. “When they switched from tracking dogs to cadaver dogs — well, I’m thinking we’re going to be expecting something bad.�

The Marin County Sheriff’s Office’s dive team heads out to search the waters of Tomales Bay in Inverness on Feb. 19 for Palo Altans Carol Kiparsky and Ian Irwin. Authorities began the search on Wednesday about a mile north of the Inverness Yacht Club. “We’ve covered a lot,� Eubank said of the extensive search. “We’ve gone beyond everywhere.�

Eubank said his sister, a housekeeper for the couple’s rental home, told him the couple left behind several items, including cellphones, wallets, hiking gear and walking sticks.

Authorities said no foul play is suspected.

But according to KGO-TV news, Irwin’s son, Jonas, told search and rescue teams on Tuesday, “They wouldn’t leave all their stuff, leave their car and just vanish. “This is a really weird time for our family. There is no playbook for something like this,� he said.

“My dad was somebody, who when he was really into the backpacking thing, would do snow camping and cut into ice and make fire. He is super resourceful.�

Kiparsky and Irwin’s Palo Alto neighbor Connie Cotton said that the pair are an active couple who enjoy hiking and walking. “He’s been working on a project in his backyard recently,� she said of his University South neighborhood home.

The missing-persons case is highly uncommon for the normally peaceful Inverness, which has clearly paved trails mostly surrounded by impenetrable thicket. Eubank described the community as one with an “open

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door policy� and very few crimes, leaving many locals perplexed by what could have happened to the couple. The volunteer firefighter recalled the last missing-persons case in the town was about four decades ago and involved two girls who were later found. “It’s not that easy to get off trail,� said Richard Blair, an Inverness resident of 30 years. His wife, Kathleen Goodwin, agreed. “You can’t just casually go through the woods,� she said.

The two-story home where Irwin and Kiparsky had stayed, surrounded by wooden decks, an expanse of green lawn and tall evergreens, was quiet on Wednesday, aside from the hum of nearby construction and wildlife. There were no traces of an active investigation or the media firestorm that had invaded the secluded neighborhood earlier in the week when news surfaced of the missing couple.

Sgt. Schneider said searches will continue at least through Monday, Feb. 24. Q Editorial Assistant Lloyd Lee can be emailed at llee@ paweekly.com. Chief Visual Journalist Magali Gauthier contributed to this report.

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a flurry of concerns, the council halted construction in the fall of 2018, having completed five of the nine planned phases and spending $6.4 million in the process.

Since then, the city’s newly created Office of Transportation has been gathering data, surveying residents and considering ways to address residents’ concerns. The data, which the office released last week, offers both sides some ammunition. On the one hand, bicycle traffic has gone up from about 150 per weekday before the project to about 230 after, a 50% increase. The new report, however, does not specify whether these are new bicyclists or people who used to bike on other streets. The ratio of bicycles to total vehicle volume grew from 6.7% before the project to 11% after, a rate that the report described as “remarkable.”

But the rate of collisions has also increased: Ross averaged about 3.6 collisions per year before the

construction and 5.3 after the project was implemented. The hot spot, according to the report, is the intersection of Ross and East Meadow, where there have been four collisions, three involving bicyclists. In all cases, a motorist did not yield to a bicyclist (or, in one case, to another vehicle) at the roundabout.

Given these collisions, staff determined that East Meadow needs a two-way stop. Though typically, stop signs are reserved for the roads with fewer vehicles — in this case, Ross — the report notes: “Another stop on Ross Road, however, would negatively impact the attractiveness of the street as a bicycle boulevard.”

The city’s decision to modify the intersection was informed by recent surveys of residents.

Among those whose homes front onto the bike boulevards, 47% of the respondents said they believe the safety of bicyclists and pedestrians has decreased, while 31% said it had increased (the remainder said they saw no change or weren’t sure). And 53% of the 83 respondents said they would like

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to see modifications to the recently redesigned streets, while only 24% said “keep as is.”

The skepticism about the recent modifications isn’t limited to those living next to them. Of the other 255 survey respondents, 41% said they believed that safety has decreased for bicyclists and pedestrians, while 31% said it has increased.

Many concerns were also aired during a July 2018 community meeting on the Ross Road bike boulevard, which brought more than 100 people. Some, like Louis Road resident Bill Higgins, lauded the improvements and urged the city to extend these to other parts of the city. Others, like neighbor Terry Martin, claimed the changes made conditions less safe. Martin called the Ross Road project “an epitome of incompetence.”

In addition to modifying the roundabout, the new plan suggests adding a speed hump on Ross, south of Mayview Avenue (which is parallel to East Meadow, one block over), to account for the relatively high volume of traffic and proximity to Ramos Park. It also proposes restoring signage

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important work that they do with the boards and commissions.”

The council agreed to take a fresh look at the commission system last December after concluding that the existing system is riddled with inconsistencies and that the city has no clear rules for removing members.

Currently, different commissions have different processes for using subcommittees and varying expectations for having a council liaison attend their meetings.

The ad hoc committee recommended creating a handbook that

on three T-shaped intersections on Louis Road (at Amarillo Avenue, Fielding Drive and Moreno Avenue) to the way it was before the roads in this area were equipped with raised intersections, widened sidewalks and decorative paving.

The changes were based on concerns from residents and other roadway users, including the Ohlone Elementary School administration, that the new intersection controls “are unclear as to who has the right-of-way,” according to the report.

The city’s Chief Transportation Official Philip Kamhi, who heads the Office of Transportation, is also proposing a new process for future bike-boulevard projects: clearly defining the performance metrics for new projects; creating guidelines for installation of various design features (including roundabouts, speed humps, stop signs and crosswalks); improving the community-engagement process; and developing the “technical capacity” of the Office of Transportation, an effort that is currently underway, according to the report.

Kamhi, who was hired last year, is also holding “Word on the

Street” events — open-house style discussions aimed at gathering residents’ ideas about traffic improvements. The next two are planned for March 19 (6 p.m. at JLS Middle School) and for April 16 (3 p.m. at Gunn High School).

Kamhi also told the Weekly in an October 2019 episode of the “Behind the Headlines” webcast that his department is also considering installing “temporary treatments” for future projects to give residents a chance to react before the changes are made permanent.

“By putting it out there and letting them react to it, as opposed to installing something permanent and having it be there and having them react to it, I see as an opportunity to have discussions,” Kamhi said. “And, more broadly, I want to go out to the community, not just when we have projects that are resident-driven, but go out and hear about potential issues that may be unreported or undiscussed or have not come to the point of a petition yet.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

“outlines roles and responsibilities for board members and commissioners, including expectations for professional conduct, conflicts of interest and recusals, attendance policies, how and when appointees can be removed, and roles of the staff, chair and council liaison.”

The committee also recommended two types of training for new commissioners: an “onboarding training” for all commissioners that would familiarize them with the state’s open-meetings law (known as the Brown Act) and offer information about how to be a “good” commissioner, and a special training for new chairs and vice chairs to help

them transition into their roles.

Another recommendation is to create “annual workplans” for each commission, which the City Council would then approve.

Such workplans, the ad hoc committee argued, “will improve the coordination and communication between council and boards and commissions.”

The council is set to consider all of these recommendations on Feb. 24, along with the ideas of moving to a single interview period for new commissioners in the spring and of establishing term limits.

The issue of commissioner conduct has been increasingly in the public eye in recent years, with numerous residents raising concerns about the conduct of Michael Alcheck, a planning commissioner who had been in dispute with the city over rules for constructing carports and garages and who had failed to disclose his own two garage projects at the time the commission was taking up the subject.

During the council’s Dec. 10 discussion, several members noted that the existing code empowers the council to remove commissioners but does not lay out a process for doing so. Cormack underscored at the time, however, that the discussion about clarifying the rules “is not about any one individual or board.”

“I think it’s about our responsibility as a council to provide a clear structure for all this work,” Cormack said.

While the ad hoc committee was expected to conclude its work by the end of February, DuBois and Cormack are requesting in the update that they be allowed to continue to work with staff to draft the proposed documents and bring them back to the council. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss the status of the city’s labor negotiations with the Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto. The council will then hold a study session on community policing, discuss potential changes to the first phase of the city’s bicycle boulevard project, including modifications to Ross Road, and hear an update from an ad hoc committee on boards and commissions. The closed session will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 24, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The rest of the meeting will begin at 6 p.m. or as soon as possible after the closed session in the Council Chambers.

BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The school board will hear a report on A-G eligibility and steps schools have taken to address the achievement gap; and discuss budget assumptions, new middle school science materials and a Magical Bridge playground project at Addison Elementary School, among other items. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave.

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PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear an update about the Ramos Park renovation project, review the draft guidelines for community gardens, and discuss the horizontal levee pilot project. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

Feb. 13-Feb.20

Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft related Attempted residential burglaries . . . . . . 1 Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Attempted theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . 9 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 7 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . 7 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 4 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 3 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 3 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Menlo Park

995 Fictitious Name Statement

Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of open container . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 4 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Court order violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of deadly weapon . . . . . . . 2 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

San Antonio Road, 2/12, 2:30 p.m.; adult suicide.

Arastradero Road, 2/12, 12:09 p.m.; battery/felony.

Forest Avenue, 2/17, 11:32 a.m.; adult suicide.

Menlo Park

100 block El Camino Real, 2/13, 2:41 p.m.; spousal abuse.

300 block Terminal Ave., 2/14, 1:35 a.m.; spousal abuse.

100 block Independence Drive, 2/15, 1:09 a.m.; spousal abuse.

200 block Van Buren Road, 2/16, 4:26 a.m.; assault w/ a deadly weapon.

Feb. 12-Feb. 19

Violence related Assault w/ a deadly weapon. . . . . . . . . 1 Spousal abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft related Attempted burglary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Attempted commercial burglary . . . . . . 1 Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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Edward F. O’Day III April 12, 1944 - January 25, 2020 O’Day III, Edward F., A.K.A Ron, Rex, Ron Machine, El Machino, third generation native-born San Franciscan, born April 12, 1944 and died January 25, 2020. Son of Edward F. O’Day Jr. and Beatrice (Midge) Keenan.

Survived by his sister Diane O’Day Cantor and her family in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and cousins Chop Keenan, Judith Keenan, Bob Keenan, Doug Mitchel, and Mia Mitchel.

Growing up in Menlo Park, Ron attended Bellarmine High School, became an Eagle Scout, and went on to graduate from Sacramento State University with a degree in dramatic and fine arts. He served in the Marine Corp Reserves. Ron became a successful sculptor while living in Houston, Texas. He also worked in the securities industry for over 20 years. He loved sailing, keeping his Venture 21 in San Francisco Bay. Ron retired to Huntington Beach, California where he spent the remainder of his life writing and painting. He was a voracious reader, the heavier the better, War and Peace for example. Ron was appreciated by his friends for his wit and intellect.

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OBITUARY

WILD COAST QIGONG FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN662793 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Wild Coast Qigong, located at 174 Archer Way, Ben Lomond, CA 95005, Santa Cruz County.

The principal place of Business is in Santa Cruz County and a current Fictitious Business name statement is on file at the County Clerk-Recorder’s office of said County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MARCY LYNN REYNOLDS 174 Archer Way Ben Lomond, CA 95005 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/22/2020.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 22, 2020.

(PAW Jan. 31; Feb. 7, 14, 21, 2020) JUST4KIDS CHILD CARE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN662765 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Just4Kids Child Care, located at 4350 Miller Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SORINA PRISACARU 4350 Miller Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 22, 2020.

(PAW Jan. 31; Feb. 7, 14, 21, 2020) KOKORONORO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN663362 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Kokoronoro, located at 2361 Tasso St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): RIKI MORITA 2361 Tasso St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/07/2020.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 7, 2020.

(PAW Feb. 14, 21, 28; Mar. 6, 2020) FAULTLINE MOTORS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN663477 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Faultline Motors, located at 841 Sycamore Dr., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ROBERT MORI 841 Sycamore Dr. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/11/2020.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 11, 2020.

(PAW Feb. 21, 28; Mar. 6, 13, 2020)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No.: 19-2961 Loan No.: ******8647 APN: 12413-054 NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 10/17/2016.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor: JUDITH S. DECKER AN UNMARRIED WOMAN Duly Appointed Trustee: PRESTIGE DEFAULT SERVICES Recorded 10/25/2016 as Instrument No. 23475869 in book , page of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, Date of Sale: 3/11/2020 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Gated North Market Street entrance of the Superior Courthouse, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $1,027,750.31 Street Address or other common designation of real property: 1851 BRYANT STREET PALO ALTO California 94301 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction.

You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

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

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. All checks payable to Prestige Default Services. NOTICE TO

PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code.

The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale.

If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (714) 730-2727 or visit this Internet Web site https://www. servicelinkasap.com/default.aspx, using the file number assigned to this case 19-2961.

Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site.

The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: 2/4/2020 PRESTIGE DEFAULT SERVICES 1920 Old Tustin Ave. Santa Ana, California 92705 Sale Line: (714) 7302727 Briana Young, Trustee Sale Officer A-4717741 02/14/2020, 02/21/2020, 02/28/2020 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (U.C.C. §6104, 6105) ESCROW #: 0126013993-PC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to creditors of the within named seller that a bulk sale is about to be made of the assets described below.

The names and business address of the Seller(s) is/are: Spice Kit Inc. 340 California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306 The location in California of the Chief Executive Office of the seller is: same as above As listed by the seller, all other business names and addresses used by the seller within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the buyer are: None The names and business address of the Buyer(s) is/are: BF Business Ventures Corp.

340 California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306 The assets to be sold are described in general as: All stock in trade, furniture, fixtures, equipment and other property And are located at: 340 California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306 The business name used by the Seller(s) at those locations is: Spice Kit The anticipated date of the bulk sale is: March 10, 2020 At the office of Old Republic Title Company @ 1000 Burnett Avenue, Suite 400, Concord, CA 94520.

The bulk sale IS subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2.

If so subject, the name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is as follows: Old Republic Title Company @ 1000 Burnett Avenue, Suite 400, Concord, CA 94520 or E-Fax to 925-265-9040 or Fax 925-363-2276.

The last day for filing claims shall be March 9, 2020 which is the business day before the sale date specified herein.

Dated: 2/12/2020 Buyer(s): BF Business Ventures Corp.

By: Sameer Parvez, Director By: Adeel Ahmed Siddqui, Director By: Nazia F. Akil, Director By: Asfar Longi, Director 2/21/20 CNS-3343719# PALO ALTO WEEKLY

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Editorial Yes on community college measures G, H Investment in Foothill and De Anza colleges is essential to maintaining affordable educational opportunities

ver the last decade California’s community college system has become more important than ever in offering an affordable college education and vocational training option.

As tuition costs for the state’s two university systems have steadily risen, out of reach of lower and many middle income families, community colleges offer both an educational safety net and an automatic path after two years to a UC or CSU campus. Specialty job training programs in fields such as nursing, science, technology and emergency medical services allow those unable to afford universities to obtain the job skills and certifications necessary to compete for well-paying jobs.

We are fortunate to have two outstanding community college districts on the Peninsula, and much of their success stems from the investment taxpayers have made through past bond measures and parcel taxes. These have allowed colleges to maintain, improve and build needed facilities, attract outstanding faculty and staff and maintain affordability for students.

Through six campuses, the Foothill-De Anza Community College District and the San Mateo County Community College District together serve about 100,000 students, many who hold full- or part-time jobs while attending school.

Measures G and H on the March 3 ballot ask for voter approval of a nearly $900 million bond measure (G) and a $48 per year parcel tax (H) for the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, which includes Palo Alto, Stanford, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Cupertino and parts of Saratoga.

Measure G, which would be the largest school bond in county history, is estimated to cost property owners approximately $16 per $100,000 of assessed valuation for the next 34 years, or $400 per year on a parcel with an assessed valuation (not market value) of $2.5 million. It requires 55% of the vote to pass, and funds can only be used for new facilities or major upgrades to the existing infrastructure. No money can be spent on personnel or operations. The Foothill-De Anza trustees have developed a list of potential projects that range from important maintenance of existing facilities, such as new roofs and upgrades to ventilation and heating systems, to the possibility of developing badly needed student and faculty housing.

Measure H is a flat-rate $48 parcel tax that would generate about $5.5 million annually to be used for operations, including the expansion of programs serving students, compensation of faculty and staff in order to retain and attract them in the Peninsula’s challenging housing and employment market and to fund mental health and other services for struggling students. Measure H needs a two-thirds vote to pass and will last for five years.

Critics of these measures argue that because enrollment in community colleges has steadily declined as the economy has recovered from the Great Recession, the focus should be on cutting programs and closing facilities, not improving them.

They ignore the fact that the number of students moving on to the UC or CSU system to obtain university degrees has steadily increased, as has the number of certificates and degrees awarded by the community colleges. The reasons for this disparity may be that housing costs have driven some to leave the area and that the need to support themselves or family has led some part-time students to set aside education plans in order to work two jobs.

The size of the bond measure is ambitious and asking a lot of voters given the number of other tax measures that will be appearing on local ballots in elections this year. But local voters have a strong history of supporting bond measures and parcel taxes for education, and polls indicate both of these measures should be able to gain the needed support.

In 1999, Foothill-De Anza district voters approved a $248 bond measure by a 72% margin and in 2006 they approved a $491 million bond with 66% vote.

The cost of living, income inequality and the high cost of a university education have created huge obstacles to young people launching successful lives, especially in a Bay Area economy so driven by high tech and dominated by a highly educated workforce. A vibrant community college system is an essential safety net and path to opportunity for those whose options are limited, and voters should ensure it continues to thrive. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

An excellent path forward

Editor, We are writing in response to the article about the compromise Castilleja School has proposed.

For the last nine years, our family has lived near Castilleja on Emerson Street, and we think the recent alternative that the school put forward is an excellent path forward that addresses neighbors’ concerns, mitigates the impacts outlined in the Draft Environmental Impact Report and allows the school to increase educational opportunity.

When we moved to Palo Alto from Washington D.C., we chose our neighborhood partly because our children could walk to Walter Hays Elementary School. Now as both neighbors to and parents at Castilleja, we want to express our support for Castilleja’s thoughtful revision. The smaller garage conserves trees and maintains two homes for affordable housing for educators; both of these are priorities in Palo Alto. The school has addressed the traffic impacts with distributed drop-offs, and the terms of the new conditionaluse permit will not permit any new car trips to campus, so concerns about increased traffic are unfounded.

We truly hope that this significant change is met with appreciation and respect. All of these processes of change in communities involve give and take, and Castilleja has just given a great deal in response to valid concerns.

Now we hope this can begin a new conversation that allows the school to move forward with adjusted goals.

These investments, and reinvestments, in our community reflect confidence in Palo Alto’s capacity to evolve and embrace the future. People want to work, play, learn, and raise families here. Castilleja’s desire to invest in a state-of-the-art place to teach and learn is similar to what other Palo Alto schools and the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo have done.

Cindy Chen and Bob Kocher Emerson Street, Palo Alto

Traffic is the issue, not parking

Editor, On Feb. 6, the Valley Transportation Board (VTA) declared a “climate emergency” in Silicon Valley to bring an urgency to combatting greenhouse gas emissions and working toward more sustainable transportation in the South Bay. This call to action is a great opportunity for

businesses and schools to work with VTA to solve this problem together.

Unfortunately Castilleja School’s newest plans still miss the mark by exacerbating the traffic problem with the school’s insistence on building a garage, which has faced more than three years of opposition. The comments from the neighbors during the Castilleja Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) hearings to nix the garage completely have fallen on deaf ears with a “reduced garage” in their alternative proposal. The DEIR substantiated the countless public comments that a garage would cause “significant and unavoidable” traffic impact to the area.

If Castilleja is really committed to long-term transportation-demand management, why is there a need for a garage at all? As a great alternative, the school should redirect the garage construction funds towards working with VTA to create more services throughout Silicon Valley and Palo Alto to shuttle their students, 75% who commute into Palo Alto. These services as a result may help other students and commuters impacted by reduced bus services.

As a school aspiring leaders of tomorrow, Castilleja should lead by example to create more sustainable transportation and provide a catalyst to others to contribute transportation solutions throughout the Bay Area.

Kimberley Wong Emerson Street, Palo Alto

The solution’s here

Editor, I noticed that state Senate candidate Josh Becker proposes “the state could offer a contract to the first company to produce ‘carbon-negative’ cement, or cement made using carbon dioxide.”

In June 2018, CNN reported a story on money.cnn.com, “This concrete traps CO2 emissions forever.” According to the article and video, it pencils out financially and structurally. “A new mixed-use (360,000 square foot) development in one of Atlanta’s trendiest neighborhoods, called 725 Ponce, is a real-life example of the impact of building with greener concrete.”

CO2-trapping cement exists.

Let’s encourage our developers and builders to use it.

Esther Nigenda Garland Drive, Palo Alto

Endorsing Eshoo

Editor, I am strongly supporting Anna Eshoo for Congress. Eshoo is an experienced leader and an effective legislator whose tenure benefits our region. Her knowledge and relationships in Congress produce results at home. For instance, she played a key role in securing a $647 million federal grant for Caltrain electrification.

When the U.S. Navy threatened to demolish the historical Hangar One at Moffett Field, she was successful in persuading the Navy to change its plans.

She also helped keep NASA at Moffett Field. She has authored groundbreaking legislation in multiple policy areas, such as a digital signature bill that revolutionized e-commerce and a bill to eliminate lead in drinking water.

Eshoo stays close to and listens to her constituents. She keeps us well-informed of her work in Congress, and her values as a legislator are aligned with the values of people in the Bay Area.

She represents us well in Washington, D.C. Claude Ezran Seale Avenue, Palo Alto

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Guest Opinion

To solve housing crisis, decrease demand

by Andy Robin ousing is in short supply in Silicon Valley, especially affordable housing.

Unfor tunately, no amount of the current sort of government efforts in this area will change the situation. As an article in the Weekly recently noted, there are builders who have permits ready to go for residential multi-unit developments — and they’re not building them because the numbers “don’t pencil out.”

The market forces at work were first understood when McKinsey studied the paint industry decades ago. They found that when there’s a couple percent too little supply to meet demand, market prices jump up to where the highest-cost producer makes good money, and all the lowercost producers go to the bank. Conversely, when there’s a couple percent too much supply, the market price drops to where the lowest-cost producer barely scrapes by and everyone else loses lots of money.

This reality about markets has now been shown to be true for many, many industries, commodities and situations and — it’s just a fact.

Here’s how that is working here in Silicon Valley where there’s more than a few percentage points difference between housing supply and demand: market prices

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escalate to the maximum that the market will bear. And this maximum is determined by how much of a mortgage loan can be secured by a potential buyer, in the context of their income and other debts.

With that being the case, a developer would need to have rocks in their heads (or be related to Mother Teresa) to build affordable residential. Oh, and they can also develop office space that’s much more lucrative. So, again, ain’t gonna be affordable housing.

This is clear from the empirical results we see in how little affordable housing has been built despite governmental requirements to include such units. Developers avoid building these units any way they can, via so-called community benefit negotiations and such.

Many years ago, I wrote a guest opinion about how it was quixotic to continue to harp on the jobs-housing imbalance in Palo Alto — because when you study the numbers, as my article did, you find that several dozens of 50-story buildings would need to be built to get the balance right. And that obviously isn’t going to happen.

This time I’m writing to note that even if it did, if in 2021 a tweaked SB50 shows back up and passes and 4-5 story buildings are allowed helter-skelter in heretofore low-density residential neighborhoods, the outcome still wouldn’t solve the problem. Developers still won’t develop units on which they can’t make money, given the land and construction costs (which of course would escalate further if there were

to be more building projects) in the area.

And if developers could/did build, it would absolutely destroy any quality of life that any of us has. Traffic and pollution would be awful, schools and parks would be overwhelmed. The next step you’re seeing in this is the fact that soon we’ll have to pay tolls just to use what’s currently still the commuter lane — and all day long, not just at commute hours.

Unlike in many geographies, we don’t have any land into which to expand our footprint. So if we just densify maximally, we can all look forward to multi-hour traffic jams at least twice a day. I suppose our governments could eat up open-space districts for housing, if they can figure out a way to do it legally. This, too, would overwhelm schools and parks and services, as well as taking a hammer to quality of life.

And even then, as noted, what would get built wouldn’t be affordable housing.

Do any of us want this other than governments seeking to continue growth in tax revenues and builders seeking to build?

As a human being and citizen, I don’t want any of this and suspect many readers don’t either. For years, I fully supported all the growth — but now that quality of life is being reduced more and more, we need a solution. And there is a solution.

The people who brought us this situation, the burgeoning tech industry who hired all these employees to the area, for which many are for sure grateful, is at the heart of the solution. They now need to embrace hiring elsewhere, expanding

their campuses into more and more of the country’s cities of 500,000 to 1 million or more people. And they’ll be able to offer many existing employees the option of moving to those places, affording much bigger homes and enjoying much lower costs of living. And the tech giants will be able to hire people more economically in those locations — so it benefits them, too.

Eventually, this will take pricing pressure out of the system, or at least stop it from growing and possibly substantially reduce it. It’s simple: It’s demand reduction rather than supply expansion.

You may have seen announcements this month that Google is planning to triple its Canadian headcount and that Amazon is planning a huge expansion in the northwest. What about cities in mid-America that have good universities, services, and land aplenty? It’s good to see Microsoft adding heads in Charlotte and San Antonio. Getting these companies to expand elsewhere is, in fact, the only real solution — and one they seem to be starting to see themselves. The proposed headcountbased business tax (I hope it gets set really high!) is but one useful tool that governments can use to accelerate these huge companies’ desire to expand elsewhere rather than here.

Over time, that’s the solution. The only solution.

It’s that, or increasingly lousy quality of life. Q Palo Alto resident Andy Robin likes facts. He can be reached at werdna39@ aol.com.

This week on Town Square

Town Square is an online discussion forum at PaloAltoOnline.com/square In response to ‘Spreading Magic’

Posted Feb. 15 at 10:45 p.m. by Charles Ng, a resident of Community Center: “Such a great story, and please do more upbeat ones like this, Weekly. Profile people doing good — our souls need it.

We are very lucky to have Magical Bridge in our city, and I hope the city is consulting with these ladies before they ever build another park. My teen kids even love that place. Our other city playgrounds seem unused, while this one, tucked way in back, is getting hundreds of visitors. Kudos to the whole team who is really spreading the kindness we all need!”

Posted Feb. 14 at 4:49 p.m. by Jill Asher from Magical Bridge, a resident of Crescent Park: “I’d like to address a comment from above about that the playground is ‘grossly over-filled with children.’ The reality is that our playground is enjoyed by children, teens and even adults and seniors. Our biggest challenge is that the playground is used by 25K+ visitors every month — making it one of the busiest and most loved playgrounds in the country — which to us, underscores the urgent need that more playgrounds need to get designed and built for everyone. When you design and build for all, everyone actually comes out.

This is what has ignited and fired us up to build

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We hope you will continue to join us on the journey to give all a place to play, regardless of age, ability, disability or size.”

‘Wait, wait — we’re working on it’

Posted Feb. 18 by Diana Diamond, “An Alternate View” blogger: “This week I came across a lengthy city staff report: ‘Evaluating the Neighborhood Traffic Safety and Bicycle Boulevard Phase I Project.’

The most amazing things to me were the costs associated with these bike boulevards and striping.

For example, it cost $7 million to complete parts one-to-four out of nine sections of Phase 1, which in itself is a four-phase project; Phases II, III and IV still are needed.

A look at the expenditures shows a $240,861 design error on one street, $281,861 in city design changes, $164,020 in unforeseen costs and $12,000 for quantity adjustments.

Staff has been diligent, but the delays have been bad, and too many mistakes were made. The costs are significant, so I am not sure whether Phases II, III and IV will even be started. It will be interesting to see on Monday night how the council is going to handle this report.”

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by Karla Kane ollowing in the footsteps of last year’s nature-themed exhibitions that focused on the sky and encounters between humans and non-human animals, the Palo Alto Art Center is currently making like the Lorax and speaking for the trees.

“This community cares deeply about its trees,” Art Center Curator Selene Foster pointed out at the opening celebration for “Rooted: Trees in Contemporary Art.” After all, she said, “We are named after El Palo Alto, a tall tree.”

Through a variety of works by 20 artists, “Rooted” explores trees as subjects, materials

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Palo Alto Art Center Director Karen Kienzle takes in the exhibition “Rooted: Trees in Contemporary Art,” on display through April 5. Photo by Sammy Dallal.

and symbols, from fairy-tale whimsy to scientific accuracy.

“The Woulds,” by Andy Diaz Hope and Laurel Roth Hope, is a multimedia installation that invites visitors into an enchanted and enchanting geometric forest of colors, wood, mirrors and glass, and a soundscape of bird song.

The woods are a common fairy-tale theme, often representing a transformative experience or journey, Roth Hope said at the opening gala. “We wanted to create a mythological forest someone can travel through and possibly be changed (by).”

Originally commissioned by San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum, “The

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“UV Celltree” by Scott Greene, part of the “Rooted” exhibition, depicts a phone tower disguised as a tree, which has become an ecological “snag” (habitat for new life).

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Woulds” takes inspiration, according to Diaz Hope, from a Jewish folktale in which multidimensional-perceiving sparrows sing to souls as they come down to Earth from the tree of life in Heaven.

“We tried to envision a forest seen through the eyes of these sparrows,” he said.

In Azucena Hernandez’s pyrographic “Ember” series, on view in the Glass Gallery, wood also serves a soulful — and poignantly somber — purpose. Begun in 2015 in honor of Dia de los Muertos, the series depicts the victims of institutional violence and racism, their portraits burned into slices of wood. It is a series that, to Hernandez’s chagrin, continues to expand.

“As long as you feel anything, if you look at the portraits and you remember the faces, remember the names, that’s my goal,” she said at the opening event, noting that it’s important that her subjects are seen as real people, not merely statistics or names in the media.

“I think it’s very symbolic, the fact that they are on wood,” she said, “because they were cut down too soon.”

Jamie Vasta uses glitter — which she noted is commonly associated with messy children’s projects and thought of as a “cheap, throwaway thing” — to create powerfully compelling imagery, including “Inferno,” which depicts a raging wildfire, creating an interesting contrast between the festive, sparkly material and the traumatic subject matter.

James Chronister’s oil-on-canvas paintings of thick woodlands, “Summer 8” and “Deinze,” are difficult to distinguish from photographs at first glance, so meticulous is the detail in the black paint/white background

landscapes based on photos taken while hiking with family in his native Montana.

“It’s kind of like California is the place I came to remember what Montana was like,” Chronister, who’s now based in San Francisco, mused.

New Mexico artist Scott Greene’s “UV Celltree” and “Fake News” take a humorous look at the “new invasive species” of phone towers disguised as trees, made to blend in with the natural environment (with questionable results). In some of his paintings, the towers have become ecological “snags,” or dead trees that become habitat for new life.

Maria Elena Gonzalez’s “T2 23-33” was created by using rubbings of the bark of birch trees as musical notation, capturing, as it were, the language and music of the trees (sadly, there’s no way to play it at the Art Center).

“When people would ask me if I was a composer I’d say, ‘No, it’s the tree that’s the composer.’ I facilitate that tree to sing to us,” Gonzalez told the opening-night crowd.

“You’re looking at the composer: nature.”

Stephen Galloway’s large-scale “The Royal What: “Rooted: Trees in Contemporary Art.” Where: Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road.

When: Through April 5, Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday open until 9 p.m. An Arbor Day celebration will be held on Sunday, March 15, 1-5 p.m.

Cost: Free.

Info: tinyurl.com/y8ppz5z8.

Arts & Entertainment Right: Meridel Rubenstein’s “Brocade” was created using vegetable inks on bark paper coated with mica and gum Arabic. Image courtesy of Brian Gross Fine Art. Below: Esther Rubin and her grandson check out the work of Tamara Kostianovsky, whose treestump shaped sculptures were made from scraps of her late father’s clothing. Photo by Sammy Dallal.

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Laurel Roth Hope and Andy Diaz Hope’s “The Woulds” is a multimedia installation inspired by a Jewish folktale. Photo by Karla Kane.

alo Alto is not the only Peninsula city named after a tree, nor is it the only one with arboreal art on display this month.

“You are the Tree,” a new installation in the Art Kiosk space on downtown Redwood City’s Courthouse Square, considers how the flourishing city, for better and worse, was built on demand for lumber from the coast redwood trees growing nearby.

Spearheaded by artists Kent Manske and Nanette Wylde, “You are the Tree” includes a 7-foot-diameter replica of an old-growth coast redwood stump, with a living redwood sapling at its center (donated by Wegman’s Nursery, eventually to be planted in Red Morton Park). The top of the stump bears flags indicating events of historical importance over the past 400 years (the lifespan of a tree of that size).

“The project juxtaposes the historical facts of the 19th-century clear cutting of old growth redwoods from the Santa Cruz Mountains with the resultant development of Redwood City, both historically and currently,

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with emphasis on the contrast of disruptive innovations and resurgent interests in slow/by hand/craft industries,” according to Manske and Wylde’s artist statement.

The work’s title is not merely symbolic: This tree truly is made up of pieces of the community. The colorful, textured “bark” of the stump was made by contributions from 25 local organizations, business and laborers, including costume fabric and prop scraps from Dragon Productions Theatre Company, beeswax from the Redwood City Public Library’s rooftop hives, water from Redwood Creek, beer grains from local breweries, coffee grounds from the city’s cafes, kitchen scraps from restaurants, plants from nurseries, hair from salons and numerous other industry byproducts (an extensive downloadable guide as well as detailed process photos are available at preneo.org/youarethetree). The collected bits and pieces were painstakingly turned into pulp, then applied to a paper mache and hardware cloth frame. By proudly

displaying this patchwork quilt-like mix of source material, “You are the Tree” means to celebrate the community’s cultural diversity and labor force, Manske said.

The installation, on view through March 8, also aims to inspire viewers to think critically about what resources are worth sacrificing for others and to consider the environmental cost of human expansion and development.

“The green triangle on the stump’s surface represents the remaining 5% of coast redwood trees. Ninety-five percent have been harvested,” Manske pointed out to the Weekly.

“You are the Tree” asks the community to consider its role in maintaining a sustainable ecosystem, and how the damage from our byproducts might be creatively mitigated. In this city, as in others built on exploitation of natural resources, the human community is inseparable from the landscape it was named after.

You — we — are the tree, and we all bear responsibility for its fate. Q —Karla Kane

Courtesy of PreNeo Press.

Oak and Other Stories” is installed in the window spaces in front of the Art Center and in its courtyard. At the opening gala, he said he tries to create unexpected encounters “where there is natural imagery in places where you wouldn’t expect it but also being portrayed in ways you don’t quite understand, or are not familiar to you straight off.” He said he hopes his work helps generate questions and results in viewers becoming more engaged when looking at the natural world.

For all the intriguing works of art on display, the goal of “Rooted” is indeed also to help people appreciate the diversity and beauty of the real, live trees around them and the importance of a healthy urban canopy.

Local oak trees, in all their acorn-dropping glory, receive special attention thanks to the work of artist and educator Ann McMillan, whose oak depictions not only line the wall near the adult studios and in the lobby “nook” but are also contained in a free booklet offered to exhibition goers. In “Oaks of Palo Alto,” produced by the Art Center in partnership with Canopy, the Palo Alto-based urban-tree nonprofit, McMillan’s illustrations cover both the native California oaks (valley and coast live oaks are

endemic to Palo Alto) and the cultivated species found in the city.

“Native oaks are adapted to our climate, critical for wildlife, hold historic and cultural significance and are one of the key components of establishing resilient landscapes in the mid-peninsula,” according to the booklet. One of Canopy’s major endeavors is its Great Oak Count, which surveys the local native-oak population.

“I was really honored to do this project,” said McMillan, who’s also a Palo Alto Art Center instructor. “I started out my art life as a scientific illustrator and it was such a pleasure to do it again.”

Other tree-appreciation tools include a planned March 15 Arbor Day celebration for families, and Canopy’s printed Tree Walk guide to the Art Center’s grounds and its surrounding area, with which visitors can take a self-directed stroll and learn more about the trees they may pass everyday and yet know little about (fun fact: The most common street tree in Palo Alto is the southern magnolia). As the ancient proverb quoted on the back of the guide states, “No shade tree? Blame not the sun but yourself.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

“Y are the Tree” is a community-focused installation in “You ddo o downtown Redwood City’s Art Kiosk, on display through March 8.

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Sound and fury of ‘Macbeth’ roil West Bay Opera stage

Strong cast, high drama and impressive musical direction make show a must-see

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human nature can be transformed into great art, a feat accomplished on a historical scale by Shakespeare and Verdi, and on a more transitory but nevertheless grand scale by our local opera company, which is staging its gripping production at the Lucie Stern Theatre through Sunday.

While the tale of the Macbeths and their evil deeds is anything but uplifting, the telling of it soars in this production, thanks to a stellar lead cast and the skilled stage and music direction that local opera goers have come to expect.

Verdi’s “Macbeth,” which premiered in 1847 in Florence, Italy, was the first of three operas the composer wrote based on Shakespeare’s plays. Like the original

play, it contains riches of witches, the unwelcome ghost of the murdered Banquo at a banquet, and, of course, that damned spot.

Taking the lead roles are singers now familiar to West Bay audiences: baritone Krassen Karagiozov and soprano Christina Major.

They are both huge talents who command an equally huge stage presence.

Major made her debut with West Bay as Donna Anna in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and went on to perform the challenging role of Norma in Bellini’s opera of the same name. Earlier this season, she performed the role of Lucrezia Contarini in Verdi’s “I due Foscari.” With each performance, her star quality shone, and her portrayal of Lady Macbeth is no exception.

Verdi was said to dismiss the notion of beautiful vocalization in the character of Lady Macbeth.

He was after a voice that signaled a brutality, a window into the heart of evil.

It’s hard to imagine that any great singer of Major’s caliber would intentionally sing in a “hoarse, stifled, hollow voice,” as Verdi desired. But his call for a

Krassen Karagiozov as Macbeth and Christina Major as Lady Macbeth, whose evil deeds eventually do them in. voice capable of expressing even the ugliest aspects of human nature is answered magnificently in her performance.

And it is fitting that the loveliest expression of her great vocal gift floats ethereally from the stage in her aria, “I Una macchia e’ qui tuttora” (“The spot is still here”). Lady Macbeth is guilty of hideous acts, but it is only toward the end of this story that she feels piercing guilt; it is remorse, conveyed in wrenching but exquisite music and singing, that reveals Lady Macbeth as human, flawed though she is. Karagiozov’s tremendous vocal gifts are on full

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display in his portrayal of Macbeth. Near the conclusion of the opera, his deeply moving lamentations “I Pieta’, rispetto, amore” and “I La vita! ... che importa?” showcase aspects of his skills — a range of expression — that earlier scenes of arrogance and belligerence kept hidden.

This production is but the latest feather in Karagiozov’s West Bay cap: Other roles he has memorably performed are Enrico in “Lucia di Lammermoor,” the title role in “Rigoletto,” and Escamillo in “Carmen.”

The only problem with baritone Benjamin Brady’s portrayal of Banquo is that it is too brief.

Banquo, alas, is murdered early on. Brady’s stage presence is commanding — even as a ghost — but his is a sonorous and expressive voice we want to hear more of.

Tenor Dane Suarez as Macduff also turns in an impressive performance, both in his singing and commanding presence on the stage.

This production also features dancers, in scenes choreographed

by Kara Davis, who enhance the menacing tone of the story. They are witches and spirits, a trio of which slither their way into the banquet in which the ghost of Banquo appears to Macbeth, giving it an added dimension of foulness and creepiness.

Also worthy of applause are a robust performance by an orchestra powerfully conducted

by Jose Luis Moscovich, West Bay’s general director; the stage direction of Ragnar Conde; set and projection design by Peter Crompton; costumes by Callie Floor; and lighting by Steve Mannshardt. Q Renee Batti is the editor of the Weekly’s sister paper, The Almanac. She can be emailed at rbatti@almanacnews.com.

What: “Macbeth.”

Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

When: Saturday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 23, at 2 p.m.

Cost: $35-$85.

Info: wbopera.org.

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Eating Out Japanese

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K muri’s salmon aburi is served with Kemuri’s c trus wasabi butter sauce. citrus

Redwood City’s Kemuri tweaks tradition ditiion on c with modern Japanese tapas and cocktails Story by Edward Gerard Fike Photos by Sammy Dallal anuary is a reliable dead zone in the hospitality industry.

With diners resolving to get back on track after gorging their way through the holiday season, many bars and restaurants remain stubbornly quiet for the first few weeks of the new year.

This axiom seemed to hold as I walked down Redwood City’s Broadway Street on a dreary winter evening last month, passing over a dozen nearly empty eateries. Yet when I pulled open the door to my assigned destination — Kemuri Barú, a 5-year-old Japanese tapas eatery — I discovered a packed restaurant that somehow managed to skip the holiday hangover and keep the party going (on a Tuesday night, no less).

Kemuri’s design is austere and industrial. Tables with chunky wood tops and legs made from metal plumbing fixtures are spaced tightly throughout the dining room. The taupe textured walls are largely unadorned. A string of backlit bottles behind the bar near the entrance offers the sole hint of color. A thin film of smoke from the open kitchen creates a moody haze.

If this sounds overly dark and

brooding, it’s not. Kemuri is modeled after Japan’s izakayas, gastropubs that serve drinks and light snacks. The communal style of shared plates encourages socializing, ensuring that the room gets a lively lift from an energetic, mostly younger crowd. (And, yes, that means that the decibel reading heads skyward during peak hours.)

The restaurant offers its share of trendy cocktails, like the sultry hickory-smoked Manhattan ($14), but it’s Kemuri’s Japanese-influenced libations that rise to the top. Notable entries from co-owner Katsu Tozawa’s list include the Tokyo mule ($12), which injects yuzu, a tart and aromatic Asian citrus fruit, into the standard vodka and ginger beer recipe, and the ume gimlet ($12), a refreshing blend of gin, lime, Japanese plum and sugar cane syrup.

I was particularly fond of the shisho wasabi margarita ($12), which spiked traditional margarita ingredients — Julio Blanco tequila, agave and lime juice — with wasabi paste and powder.

Served in a wasabi salt-rimmed glass, the drink had a pleasant, mild kick — not the bracing burn I anticipated — and scored points for originality.

Beer lovers won’t be disappointed by a rotating lineup that

staggers standbys like Asahi and Sapporo with less familiar brews like Harajuku Girl. There’s also an impressive array of sake — some quite rare — and Japanese whiskies.

Kemuri co-owner and head chef Takeo Moriyama is influenced by both traditional Japanese and contemporary California cooking. There is much to discover on the extensive small plates menu that blends these complementary styles.

During my inaugural visit, my guests and I were deep in conversation when we absent-mindedly took our initial bites of the first small plate to arrive: corn tempura with seaweed salt ($10). As dueling sweet and salty flavors tap danced across my tongue, one of my companions squared her shoulders, widened her eyes and uttered an emphatic “Wow!” This was a promising start. Additional wow-worthy dishes would follow.

After consuming every stray kernel of corn tempura, we moved on to salads and starters.

The skewered mini heirloom tomatoes ($8) were delightful.

Served at the peak of ripeness, they were placed atop delicate bits of prosciutto and drizzled with a top-notch white truffle oil.

The Kemuri garlic pizza ($7) delivered a clever and tasty twist on

traditional pie. Mozzarella, scallions, garlic and bonito flakes were layered over a crust made from golden fried wontons.

Atsuage ($8) featured a hearty portion of deep fried tofu and vegetable tempura served with a smoked soy dipping sauce. I became a cauliflower convert after sampling crisped florets topped with a tempting combination of olive oil, umami garlic sauce and pine nuts ($8). The beef tataki and kale salad ($15), by contrast, was a disappointment. While the greens were fresh and crunchy, a spicy wasabi dressing overpowered the bland slices of washu beef carpaccio.

Kemuri spotlights items from its binchotan grill. Binchotan, a type of white charcoal made from oak, burns at extremely high temperatures (about 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the menu). The coals are clean burning and additive free, allowing items to preserve their natural juices and enabling quick sears for fish and meat. If there’s any hesitation where to focus on Kemuri’s menu, stick to the grilled dishes, rightfully positioned at the top of the first page.

Moriyama enhances the flavor of grilled fare with inventive sauces and seasonings.

Kobe-style beef ($19.50), served

medium with ponzu and wasabi, was tender and succulent, while jalapeño miso and smoked butter added a rich dimension to the gindara saikyo-yaki (black cod, $18). My reviewer’s choice award went to salmon aburi ($16), a moist, perfectly seared filet elevated by a luscious citrus wasabi butter sauce ($16). Duck breast with satsuma tangerine ($18) was not in the same orbit, lacking the complexity and bold flavors of the other grilled selections.

The staff hustled but struggled to keep up at times, underscoring the need for the prominently posted “help wanted” sign. While servers attempted to identify the dishes that would take additional time to prepare, several estimates were well off the mark.

The grilled pork chop that was supposed to take 20 minutes arrived at our table 45 minutes later.

Some lengthy lags aside, employees were eager and upbeat, boosting the good-time vibe.

Japanese cuisine is often pigeonholed into sushi and ramen. Kemuri explores Japan’s vast culinary heritage through a modern lens, providing a dining experience that’s fresh and deeply satisfying. Q Freelance writer Edward Gerard Fike can be reached at egfike@gmail.com.

Kemuri Japanese Barú 2616 Broadway St., Redwood City 650-257-7653 kemuri-baru.com Hours: Tuesday-Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 5:30-10 p.m. Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 5:30-11 p.m.

Saturday, 5-10:30 p.m. Sunday, 5-9 p.m.

Chef and co-owner Takeo Moriyama prepares a smoked kurobuta pork chop with ginger butter sauce and miso mustard.

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Children: No

Reservations

Corkage: $20 per bottle

Catering Takeout Outdoor seating

Bathroom: Good Noise level: Loud

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Eating Out

ShopTalk

Local food & retail happenings SEPHORA EXPANDS DOWNTOWN ...

Sephora is expanding into downtown Palo Alto as part of the French beauty retailer’s aggresive plan to open 100 new locations across the country by the end of 2020. The company is currently revamping the vacant storefront at 597 Emerson St., which Friache frozen yogurt occupied until last December. This will be Sephora’s second Palo Alto location: The company already operates a store at Stanford Shopping Center.

The downtown Palo Alto site will be powered by 100% renewable energy, like all of the other new stores, according to a company announcement on Feb. 4. — L.T. NEW YORK-STYLE PIZZA COMING ... Inspired by the many slice shops of New York City, the owners of State of Mind Public House and Pizzeria in Los Altos are opening their own take in Palo Alto. State of Mind Slice House will open later this year at 3850 El Camino Real, where Fowl Play Roadside Chicken closed in December. The location is meaningful for co-owners and brothers Lars and Andrew Smith, who grew up in the surrounding Barron Park neighborhood. The Smiths and coowner Amy Betz opened State of Mind in 2018 with slow-proofed pizza, ‘90s arcade machines and California beer on tap. They always planned have more than one location, Lars said, and started looking more seriously in the last six months. They were particularly inspired after a trip to New York City last fall to recreate the city’s “slice shop culture.” There will be round and square pizzas available by the slice, whole, grab-and-go salads and hopefully, beer and wine. The owners will import some State of Mind dishes and introduce some new ones as well.

The owners hope to be open in Palo Alto later this year after a remodel of the building. — E.K. UMAMI BURGER CLOSING ...

Umami Burger has closed after nearly seven years in Palo Alto. The 452 University Ave. burger eatery “closed due lease expiration,” a PR representative said. A sign in the window said the closure was effective Feb. 7. The Los Angeles-born burger chain expanded to Palo Alto in March 2013. The burger competition has heated up in Palo Alto since then, with the opening of Gott’s Roadside at Town & Country in 2013, Wahlburger’s down the street in 2017 and Shake Shack at Stanford Shopping Center last year — not to mention the meteoric rise of the plant-based Impossible burger from Impossible Meats in Redwood City, which Umami served. Two Umami Burgers remain in the Bay Area, in San Francisco and Oakland. A second San Francisco location closed last year. All but one New York City location also closed last year. — E.K. Compiled by the Weekly staff; this week written by Linda Taaffe and Elena Kadvany. Got leads on interesting and news-worthy retail developments? The Weekly will check them out. Email shoptalk@ paweekly.com.

Movies Fantasy Island (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

The Lodge (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

1917 (R) ++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

The Gentlemen (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

My Boyfriend’s Meds (Las Pildoras De Mi Novio) (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

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Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (R) +++ Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

Bad Boys for Life (R) ++ Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Bheeshma (Not Rated) Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

JoJo Rabbit (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun.

Brahms: The Boy II (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) +++ Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

The Call of the Wild (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Dolittle (PG)

Just Mercy (PG-13) ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Downhill (R) ++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

Knives Out (Not Rated) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Little Women (2019) (PG) +++1/2 Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

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Parasite (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. The Photograph (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Rashomon (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Sonic the Hedgehog (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

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Stray Dog (1949) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun.

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LEARN TO WRITE YOUR MEMOIR ... Best-selling author Julie Lythcott-Haims will be at Kepler’s Books for a 90-minute Masterclass on memoir writing.

The event, sponsored by Kepler’s Literary Foundation in collaboration with the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, offers pointers for crafting a compelling narrative from your own experiences. Lythcott-Haims is the best-selling author of “Real American: A Memoir,” and “How to Raise an Adult.” She served as Dean of Freshman at Stanford University andis a member of the Writers’ Grotto. For more information, go keplers.org.

HOW TO WORK A SHORTER WEEK ... Silicon Valley futurist and consultant Alex SoojungKim Pang, Ph.D. will talk about his new work, “Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less — Here’s How” at Books Inc. in Mountain View at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 10. “Shorter” tells the story of entrepreneurs and leaders all over the world who have discovered how to shrink the work week without cutting salaries or sacrificing productivity or revenues.

They show that by reducing distractions, eliminating inefficiencies and creating time for high-quality focus and collaboration, four-day work weeks can boost recruitment and retention, make leaders more thoughtful and companies more sustainable and improve work-life balance. Using design thinking, a business and product development process pioneered in Silicon Valley, Pang creates a step-by-step guide for readers to redesign their workdays.

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Leland’s legacy: How a robber baron built Stanford and transformed America New biography looks at the ‘scandalous life’ of Leland Stanford

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new biography from Bay Area journalist Roland De Wolk says Leland Stanford was a ruthless capitalist who cheated taxpayers — and became the godfather of modern tech.

How much do you really know about the founder to one of the nation’s most sought-after universities? Was he truly the godfather of Silicon Valley or just a cutthroat capitalist with an interest in new technology? (Better yet ... could he be both?)

De Wolk brings that polarity into focus in “American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford.”

Stanford’s legacy is far more complex than onenote historical takes and juggernaut PR machines would have you believe: He was an uneducated antiintellectual, yet defined himself as “a technologist” and wanted Stanford University to thrive as a trade school.

He played a major role in vaulting America into peak ascendancy, yet had few qualms bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars in the process (before going on to be a U.S. Senator). And those are just a few of the threads that De Wolk pulls to weave an engaging and highly relevant portrait of a profoundly influential, turbulent and “scandalous” life.

Earlier this month, De Wolk spoke to the Weekly’s sister publication, The Six Fifty, about his new biography for further insight into some of the many facets of Leland’s legacy, and the nuance for connecting him to modern Silicon Valley.

Tell me about your initial spark of interest that motivated you to write a new biography of Leland Stanford?

I’m a history grad of UC Berkeley, and my interests have been pretty wide ranging. I have spent my entire adult life being a reporter, oftentimes down in Silicon Valley. I was at Stanford about five years ago working on a story

... and I was thinking about Leland Stanford, who I realized that I knew very, very little about for some reason. I understood that he was the principal player in the university and had something to do with railroads, but I thought, “I don’t know anything about this guy.” And I started poking around and found that there is very little written about him. So that was sort of the first spark because even though I was engaged in another project at the time, I was thinking, “maybe there’s a book in there.”

But what would be the hook? What would be the way to get people interested? Because the rub on Leland Stanford is that he was boring, stupid, inconsequential and that didn’t ring right to me — my news nose told me that there was something very wrong about that perception.

I think I very much had that particular viewpoint. But now, in getting through your book, I would say that his life was really quite the roller coaster and that it reads like a multiple-act Shakespearean tragedy.

Yes, I couldn’t agree with you more. And as I was researching it was almost revelatory, I thought: “What a life!” And a life of some significance, not just to California and the West, but to the United States and arguably the world.

It made me wonder why he didn’t get this kind of attention before. You have the Vanderbilts, Carnegie, the Rockefellers ... and I think I could argue pretty convincingly that they were not as consequential and perhaps even of less significance than Leland Stanford.

Without a Leland Stanford there would have been no Carnegie, because that steel fortune was based on the railroads. There would be no Rockefeller because he wouldn’t have been able to move his oil around. Stanford employed thousands and thousands of more people. The effect of the

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UBER WHISTLEBLOWER SPEAKS OUT ... Susan Fowler, the whistleblower and advocate who in 2017 published an expose on sexism at Uber, will be at Kepler’s Books at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 26, to talk about her new memoir “Whistleblower.” From a life of childhood poverty, Fowler pushed her way to an Ivy League school. She swam upstream against misogynist Silicon Valley culture to land jobs in line with her energy and intellect. Then she blew it all wide open with a blog post in 2017, detailing the day-to-day sexism she’d had to confront as an engineer at Uber. That viral post, coupled with #MeToo, transformed both her own life and the halls of misogynist power. Fowler has capitalized on the phenomenon to advocate for equality, support and fairness in Silicon Valley.

Kepler’s Books is located at 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Tickets are $15. For more information, go keplers.org.

Roland De Wolk

Transcontinental Railroad can’t even possibly be gauged compared to a guy who had an oil company, or a guy who made some steel.

Can you touch on a place where you believe your book breaks new ground on his life and legacy?

Absolutely, and if I had to choose one it would be when the federal government finally got fed up with Stanford’s increasing announcements saying that not only did he think he shouldn’t have to repay the American taxpayers for what would be the billions of dollars of loans he signed for and had agreed to pay back, but that the taxpayers owed him more money. To me, there’s no question that this was one of the greatest scandals in American history.

This is a very contemporary issue today: We keep making these same stupid mistakes over and over again as Americans because we don’t seem to appreciate history the way that other countries do.

You make the case for Stanford as a godfather of Information Age innovation ... yet you’ve also received some criticism for drawing too straight of a line from Stanford to modern Silicon Valley, and I would like to get your response on that?

Stanford is very much the unwitting godfather of Silicon Valley. Obviously, I’m not saying that Stanford is Robert Noyce or Frederick Terman. What I’m saying

very clearly is that without Leland Stanford our history in America would be significantly different as far as tech is concerned. There are multiple reasons that Silicon Valley is located where it is, but one of the major reasons is Stanford University. And if there is no Leland Stanford, there is no Stanford University.

Where do you think American history should land when it comes to Leland Stanford and his legacy?

I think he ought to be paramount with those other celebrity names (Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt) that the East Coast folks think are so important.

These guys pale in comparison to Leland Stanford, so at the very, very least, he deserves that same sort of scrutiny and respect. I could argue that he can be first among them, but he at least needs to be on the same bookshelf. He needs to have the same kind of attention. The consequences of his life should not be lost.

I hope this book will start not only the recognition of Leland Stanford, but the understanding that the weight of history was tilted to the west and we need to recognize its importance and what it means for our future.

Read the full story at TheSix Fifty.com.

Editor’s Note: This interview was edited for length and clarity. Q Charles Russo, editor of The Six Fifty, can be reached at crusso@thesixfifty.com.

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MICROSOFT CO-FOUNDER’S ATHERTON HOME SELLS ... A home in West Atherton tied to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen recently sold for $35.25 million.

The seven-bedroom custom home, which was built in 2013, was purchased that year by a trust tied to Allen, according to the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the sale. The home, on Camino Al Lago, was listed last fall for $41.48 million.

Courtney Charney of Parc Agency confirmed to the Weekly that she was the listing agent for a property located at a Camino Al Lago address that sold for $35.25 million, but said that she could not confirm the identity of the seller.

HABITAT RESTORATION ...

Help remove invasive plants and restore the ecosystem at Arastradero Preserve at a volunteer event hosted by Grassroots Ecology on Saturday, Feb. 22, 9 a.m. to noon. Learn restoration skills such as planting, weeding, watering, or mulching, observe local flora and fauna and enjoy teamwork with other volunteers. This event is open to all ages but volunteers under the age of 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Pearson-Arastradero Preserve, 1530 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto. Register at grassrootsecology.org/volunteer.

ELECTRIC VEHICLE WORKSHOP ... Here’s the chance to kick the tires on an electric vehicle and learn more about what it’s like to own and drive one.

Environmental nonprofit Acterra hosts an educational event about electric vehicles (EVs) on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2-4 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Sunnyvale. Learn about the benefits of EVs, government rebates, battery range and charging, the pros and cons of leasing and buying and what’s on the horizon for EVs. Following the presentation, EV owners will display their vehicles and answer questions. Admission is free. The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is located at 1112 S. Bernardo Ave., Sunnyvale. Register at acterra.org 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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A local nonprofit offers classes to help home hen keepers tend their flocks

by Heather Zimmerman

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bit more than 10 years ago, Isabelle Cnudde bought a small flock of chickens for her backyard to ensure that she had a humane source of eggs. Little did she know that within a few years, she would be helping to educate others about keeping chickens — and even teaching some of her own hens a card trick.

Through Clorofil, the nonprofit animal “micro-sanctuary” she founded, Cnudde regularly offers chicken care classes for newbies and those considering backyard chickens, as well as people who already have chickens at home.

The sustained popularity of backyard chicken coops in Silicon Valley over roughly the past decade is a phenomenon that’s garnered national attention in the New Yorker and Washington Post (though mostly for flashier aspects, such as ornately decorated coops or the fancy meals served to some birds).

By now, most local cities have some provision on the books for keeping a small number of hens — but no roosters — in backyard coops. Palo Alto and Mountain View, for example, both require permits to keep chickens According to Palo Alto’s animal control department, between 40 and 60 households apply for permits each year — the number fluctuates, staff said.

In any case, our region is home to enough unique urban chicken-raisers to support the Tour de Coop — an annual self-guided bike ride/tour of area chicken coops aimed at inspiring others to keep chickens. The 2020 tour will take place in May. Despite Cnudde’s training prowess, Clorofil’s chicken-focused classes won’t turn backyard birds into little avian card counters, (though Cnudde has posted a step-by-step card trick how-to on YouTube). However, her trick — in which a hen learns to identify a specific card, like the Queen of Hearts, from a lineup of cards — highlights what Cnudde suggets might be a lesser known aspect of keeping chickens: The birds are smarter than people might think, and are entertaining pets with personalities all their own.

“They really are companion animals.

They’re very fun little creatures and pretty smart. You don’t know until you are living with them,” she said.

The Clorofil micro-sanctuary at Cnudde’s home in Los Altos’ Loyola Corners neighborhood currently has eight chickens in residence.

In addition to experience with her own birds, Cnudde acquired her knowledge about chicken well-being as a volunteer helping to rescue hens from industrial farms with the organization Animal Place. In fact, that’s how she expanded her own home flock, adopting rescue chickens.

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Isabelle Cnudde spends time with some hens from her flock at the Clorofil micro-sanctuary.

She now encourages those interested in keeping chickens to adopt rescue birds, rather than buy chicks.

Cnudde’s own original flock was made up of three chickens she purchased at a hatchery, but when one hen was killed by a hawk and she needed to bring in another bird to fill out the flock, she said she began to wonder about chicken adoption. Online research on that topic led her to Animal Place. Her now-substantial experience with chickens has given her a great appreciation for the creatures.

“I realized they are amazing animals. I was vegetarian when I started to have chickens and that was part of why I wanted them. They have taught me a lot,” she said, noting that she’s now a vegan because of her experiences.

Clorofil offers two chicken care classes.

“Gearing Up for Pet Chickens” is for beginners, as well as those who are trying to decide if keeping chickens is a good fit for them. The class covers the very basics: how to house, feed and care for chickens.

“I’m trying to be really down-to-earth, realistic, not sugarcoat anything. Having chickens in the backyard always seems very idyllic, because they are fun and they are very social animals, but they are also work. They can live up to 10 years. So it’s a long-term commitment, having chickens. I’m trying to address all of that so people can make the right decision,” Cnudde said.

The second, more advanced class, “Happy & Healthy Pet Chickens” focuses on maintaining a flock, and is aimed at people who already keep chickens.

“We really spend half of the class just talking about health: how to detect injuries, illnesses and learning all the skills so that you can do things yourself at home. Some of the issues, you have to go to the vet, but there are things you can do yourself, and that’s what I’m trying to get people to learn.”

This class also explores managing coop dynamics, including how to introduce new chickens to the flock, understanding the “pecking order” (which is a real thing), and coop “enrichment,” which aims to keep chickens busy and

entertained. That will help them avoid problem behaviors, such as pecking at each other.

“They are smart, so they want to be busy and do things, and oftentimes, they end up cooped up, in a run, with basically bare soil because they have eaten everything and they get bored.

And when they are bored, they are like us: They start making mischief,” Cnudde said.

“I always tell people: ‘Think of your chickens like 2-year-old kids in your backyard. You have to keep them busy. Give them fun stuff to find and (opportunities to) climb and scratch, things like that,’” she added.

Cnudde frequently leads the classes at local community or recreation centers and when the classes are close enough to home, she may bring one of her hens to class to demonstrate the finer points of performing a chicken health check. When the class is more far-flung, such as a recent session she offered in Aptos, she brings a stuffed chicken model instead. She also relied on the model for demonstration during a statewide outbreak of a poultry disease in 2019, leaving her hens at home.

“Basically it was a strict quarantine for all the birds.” Cnudde said.

She also is available by appointment to do home consultations.

For anyone considering chickens, she said, it’s important to think about the time and work they will likely require.

“Consider the long-term commitment: it’s 10 years average. Ginger, my very first hen, is about 11 now. You don’t get hens to get cheap eggs. You do it because you enjoy it. It really takes time and resources,” Cnudde said. Q Home & Real Estate Editor Heather Zimmerman can be emailed at hzimmerman@paweekly.com

If you’re interested

Clorofil’s next local classes take place in April and May at the Los Altos Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. For more information about classes or to find chicken resources, visit clorofil.org.

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ON THE GREEN ... Sophomore Daulet Tuleubayev recorded a career-high finish of sixth place and the Stanford men’s golf team finished eighth at The Prestige presented by Charles Schwab in La Quinta. The Cardinal shot a 5-under 279 in the final round and finished with a 2-under 850 on the Greg Norman Course at PGA West. Tuleubayev was steady all week, shooting under par in all three rounds.

He shot a first- and third-round 69 with a second round at 1-under 70, bettering his seventh-place finish at the Pac-12 Championship last season.

Senior David Snyder fired a 3-under 68 Wednesday while fellow senior Henry Shimp was 1-over 72 but placed 17th overall with a three-day total of 211. Ethan Ng and Freddie Lee each posted an even par 72 in the final round ... At the Prestige Individual Tournament at Coral Mountain GC, Barclay Brown finished third with his tournament total of 204. Ashwin Arasu was seventh (209) and David Leede (232) placed 28th ... Aline Krauter shot her way into a top 10 finish at the IJGA Collegiate Invitational, firing a final round 69 to complete a turnaround at the Guadalajara Country Club.

Krauter, a sophomore, recorded her second top 10 finish of the season and the fourth of her career. Brooke Seay moved up 10 spots after finishing with a final round of 73. The Cardinal moved up into a tie for fifth, finishing with a 7-over 871 for the tournament.

A GRAND FEELING ... Freshman Sydney Steele gave Stanford the lead twice in its nonconference softball game against visiting Fresno State.

She doubled home a run in her first at bat and then hit a grand slam in her final at bat, a blast to centerfield in the bottom of the ninth that snapped a tie and gave the Cardinal another dramatic victory, this one a 7-3 win over the Bulldogs. The Cardinal (11-2) has already won six times in its last at bat, won its fourth by way of a walk-off hit and its third with a walk-off homer. Q

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Sports Local sports news and schedules, edited by Rick Eymer Menlo Athert Menlo-Atherton’s rton’’s A Anna nna SSmith miith ith is is competing competing in her fourth Central Coast Section girls ls wrestling wrestli tli ling tournament tou urnamentt this thi th his weekend. weekend She’s never finished lower than third. Photo by Bob Dahlberg. other occasions. Silverman won a round-robin tournament to earn her league title.

“I’m hoping to make it to state and I’m going to work hard this week,” said Jauregui, who won four of six matches at last year’s tournament, just missing going to state.

“Hopefully I can place at state. I’m still looking at it one match at a time and I’m always looking to improve.”

Paly’s Alexandra Lee was bumped up a weight class and is seeded sixth at 131 pounds. Paly’s Amelia Clough is seeded third at 189 and Zoe Wong-Van Haren is an alternate at 116.

Smith came on board at M-A just as the program was developing into a powerhouse. Then senior Chelsea Wilson won a state title in 2017 and current Menlo College freshman Folashade Akinola won a state title last year. Smith is an integral part of that development.

“Anna leads by example,” M-A coach Phil Hoang said. “You look at her and she’s goofy and funny and belongs to 4-H. Her personality off the mat doesn’t translate to what she does on the mat.”

Hendrickson also started as a freshman, joining the wrestling team from water polo at Smith’s

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Making her final round M-A’s Smith leads a large group into CCS championships

by Rick Eymer nna Smith remembers being out of control as a freshman, when she finished third at 113 pounds in the Central Coast Section girls wrestling championships. These days, her approach to meets is much more cerebral, far more calculating and a lot more fun.

This is Smith’s last go-around and she wants to finish her decorated career at Menlo-Atherton with a flourish by placing at the state meet.

To qualify for state, Smith has to do well this weekend at the CCS championships in San Jose and that’s where her focus lies.

“I’m much calmer and under control,” Smith said after winning the Peninsula Athletic League title at 131 pounds last weekend. “As a freshman I was scrappy and out of control. I wasn’t sure I knew what I was doing.”

Smith has been to the state meet, even won a few matches. This year is a little different. As a senior, she understands it’s supposed to be fun.

“I only have a couple of weeks left but I’m not stressing about anything anymore,” Smith said. “I’m just going to have fun and enjoy what I have left. I’m not going to over analyze.”

Smith is the top seed at 131 pounds, where she placed second last year. Smith won the CCS title at 116 as a sophomore.

The CCS tournament is scheduled to begin Friday at 6 p.m. at Independence High (617 North Jackson Avenue, San Jose). The boys open at 10 a.m.

On Saturday, nine mats will be used for the boys and girls session at 10 a.m. Finals will feature one mat for boys, one for girls and run concurrently beginning at 7 p.m.

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Menlo-Atherton is the three-time defending CCS champion and will bring a full complement into the weekend’s proceedings. Each year has been more competitive than the last and M-A will have to compete with Half Moon Bay and Silver Creek, among other schools, to finish among the top three.

M-A has six other wrestlers seeded among the top six, including junior Hanna Hendrickson (170) and freshman Kiely Tabaldo (101), who are seeded second.

Sophomore Alexia Bensoussan (121), Alex Lujan (150), Isabella Episendio (189) are seeded fifth and Alejha Broussard is seeded sixth at 111. Zoe Zehnder is an alternate at 137.

Palo Alto’s Ella Jauregui at 121 and Gunn’s Mikayla Silverman at 150, are also top seeds. Jauregui won the SCVAL title by beating a wrestler she had lost to on three

invitation.

“I look up to Anna and her work ethic,” Hendrickson said. “Her and all the graduated seniors really pushed me.”

After winning three of her five matches at last year’s CCS meet and just missing the podium, she’s set herself a goal of qualifying for the state meet.

Hendrickson and Bensoussan serve as co-captains. Their main concern is to keep the team focused and give maximum effort. It’s a successful formula.

“We want to keep a positive attitude in practice and give 100% to everything.”

Tabaldo has been invited to compete with the Junior Olympic team and has set high expectations for herself. She’s been tutored by the U.S. Olympic coach.

“Her family, her mom, has put in a lot of time and energy in supporting her,” Hoang said. “She’d probably tell you this part of the year is her offseason. She considers it getting ready for the real season (which extends into the summer and beyond).”

Woodside’s Hali Newman at 152 and Alison Richter at 162 also qualified for the CCS tournament. Q

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Paly’s Schwarzbach draws motivation as No. 1 seed

by Rick Eymer alo Alto’s Adar Schwarzbach loves being the frontrunner. He wants all eyes on him. It’s invigorating and motivating. Being the top seed at 145 pounds for the Central Coast Section boys wrestling championships works into his mindset.

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“I like having a target on my back,” Schwarzbach said after beating Gunn’s Calvin Cai (seeded third at 145) for the SCVAL title. “I want everybody to know I’m the

No. 1 guy and everybody is gearing for me.”

Palo Alto has a good chance to finish among the top five at CCS, which gets underway Friday at 10 a.m. (the girls first session is 6 p.m.) at Independence High in San Jose, thanks to Schwarzbach, Dara

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Haydarpour (seeded third at 152), Cade Creighton (No. 2 seed at 160) and Halo Lynch (No. 5 at 170).

Macguire Ferrell (195), Sacha Williams (120), Dean Hall (182), and Max Felter (132) are also competing for the Vikings.

Haydarpour, Creighton and Ferrell each won league titles. Williams finished second, Hall was third and Felter fifth.

Creighton pinned his opponent in the third period and Ferrell, just returning from injury, recorded a first-period pin.

“I came here to win but I am training through this tournament,” Creighton said. “I’m still testing out moves I’d like to hit at CCS. It’s still important to stay in the moment.”

Ferrell made his season debut against Wilcox on January 30. He’s been working on his stamina over the past two weeks and was able to avenge a loss during the dual meet season en route to winning his title.

Gunn’s Phillip Doan is seeded sixth at 152. Teammates Armin Abolhassani (170), Neil Hanson (220) and Justin Lin (120) are also competing.

Menlo-Atherton’s Miseteni Eke is seeded fifth at 220 pounds and will be joined by Cyrus Durham (172), Bryan Bekemeyer, Caleb Prouty (147), Davud Khalilov (115), Joshua Jimenez (122), Julian Kim (128), and Francisco Causor (140).

Woodside’s Quinton Verkler (184), Jonathan Ureel (140) and Reilly Duncan (154) also qualified for the CCS tournament. Q

Ana Schremp GUNN SOCCER

PALO ALTO BASKETBALL

The sophomore contributed five goals and two assists in a pair of wins last week that clinched the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League El Camino Division title as the Titans qualified for their first CCS appearance in four years.

The senior scored 48 points in two games last week to help the Vikings clinch the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division title. He scored 21 against Los Altos in the clinching game. He scored 27 against Milpitas.

Honorable mention Catharine Chai

Menlo-Atherton basketball

Alexandra Lee, Ella Jauregui

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Carolina Espinosa

Menlo soccer

Alexia Bensoussan, Hannah Hendrikson

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Palo Alto wrestling

Adar Schwarzbach*, Dara Haydarpour

Palo Alto wrestling

Bryan Bekemeyer, Cyrus Durham

Anna Smith*

Menlo-Atherton wrestling

Misiteni Eke

Raymond Reece Menlo-Atherton wrestling Eastside Prep basketball *Previous winner Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com

Answers on page 25.

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Macguire Ferrell, Cade Creighton*

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This week’s SUDOKU

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Kevin Box

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Alex Lujan, Kiely Tabaldo

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“I’m No Saint”--shot out of the canon. By Matt Jones

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