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Features
Departments
10 Beautiful Brawlers
DayTripper
Gym for women is for fighters, family. BY CAT CUTILLO
14 A peek into the park San Pedro Valley Park’s flora and fauna. BY VANITHA SANKARAN
30 Doing Well
Q&A | Terra Nova wellness counselor helps students know they are heard. BY CLAY LAMBERT
Pedro Point Headlands and garlic prawns. 26
CoastalCanine
Crash the Labrador retriever. 28
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Resources and Services. 20
Publisher’s Note 4 Flashback 6 Upcoming 8 Real Estate 30
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his place is incredible,” says my wife. “Look at that view. The wildflowers are just outrageous! Why have we never been here before?” We were not in some exotic location. We were literally within 3 miles of our home, visiting the Pedro Point Headlands. I admit to being one of those who have passed the trailhead along Highway 1 hundreds, if not thousands, of times without stopping. “We should check that place out sometime,” we would say on occassion. We finally did — and we’ll certainly be back. That’s one of the things I love about living on the San Mateo County coast. There are so many hidden gems to visit if you know where to look. Redwoods, pocket beaches, fields of wildflowers, or, in this case, a wide-open trail at the edge of the world. On our recent Sunday afternoon visit, we were the only people on the 255-acre promintory. The recent rains left the trails lush with native plants punctuated by a variety of wildflowers. Yellow lupine, purple iris, orange sticky monkeyflowers. Gnarled pine trees give way to expansive views of the Farallon Islands, Point Reyes and the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s an excellent place to put our little neck of the woods in perspective. The next time you are stuck in traffic or in line at the supermarket or frustrated looking for a parking spot, know that there are places, even within the city limits, where you can catch your breath and be reminded of why you live here. This place is indeed incredible. You just need to take time to look around a bit.
Speaking of beautiful spots, take a look at Vanitha Sankaran’s story on the headlands’ neighbor to the east: San Pedro Valley Park.
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n 1950, the narrow, isolated strip of coastline south of the Daly City bluffs and north of Montara Mountain wedged between the coastal ridge and the ocean, remained much as it had been for many years. A few, small, separate neighborhoods were strung along the route of the long-defunct Ocean Shore Railroad. They were surrounded by sand dunes and artichoke fields, with a few lonely beach cabins and rowdy roadhouses scattered around. It was home to about 3,000 people, but that was about to change. In the previous decade, the population of San Mateo County more than doubled, from 111,782 in 1940 to 235,659 in 1950. Most of the growth was on the bayside of the Peninsula. But as building space grew scarce and more expensive, developers looked to the thinly settled coast. Smaller contractors began building individual houses around existing neighborhoods, while large-scale developers like Henry Doelger and Andrus Oddstad constructed whole new neighborhoods. There were rows upon rows of similar, single-family homes. They built houses the way Henry Ford built cars, and they were just as popular and reasonably priced. The postwar population explosion demanded the new developments, and by 1960 the newly incorporated city of Pacifica had more than 20,000 residents.
But numbers alone don’t make a community. Many of the newcomers — young families leaving behind rented apartments in crowded cities — realized they would have to work together to build a new city, almost from scratch. Hundreds of volunteers took up the challenge, devoting the time and effort to develop the civic and social structures necessary to support their new lives. One such family was that of Christopher and Shirlee Gibbs. With two young daughters, they left San Francisco and bought their first home in West Sharp Park in 1956. The Gibbs’ home was brand-new, built by a private contractor. There were three bedrooms and one bath. They paid $13,500 for it and worried about the payments. Brighton Road was as yet unpaved, and the hills above the house were bare and treeless. With the girls in school and a son born in 1961, Shirlee joined the PTA and Chris joined the Lions Club. It was the beginning of a lifetime of civic involvement for both of them. It would take another full page to list their contributions and accomplishments. This is how communities are built. Paul Slavin is the president of the Pacifica Historical Society.
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World Featherweight Champion Melissa McMorrow (right) throws a punch at Beki Light on Saturday morning while coach Ed Clemens watches from the ring.
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Againstthetide Female boxers of all ages come from all over the Bay Area and beyond to spar on Saturday morning.
“I DID IT BECAUSE EVERYBODY WAS TAUNTING ME, SO I BEAT THE HELL OUT OF HIM.”
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BLANCA GUTIERREZ, RECALLING AN EARLY FIGHT
lanca Gutierrez is drinking coffee and getting ready to spend another Saturday filled with blood, sweat and maybe even some tears. She runs a weekly sparring session at her Baby Face Gym in Pacifica, a facility that focuses on bringing female boxers together to train. Through her gym she also created Beautiful Brawlers, an event that showcases female boxing. She named the gym in tribute to her late father, Javier “Baby Face” Gutierrez, a Pacifica boxing pioneer. “I grew up watching him jump rope and eating raw eggs,” says Gutierrez. “When your father has a busted nose that’s been busted 20 times and you’re looking at him, you study his face.” And what Gutierrez saw behind the scars from razor blade cuts to open swollen eyes was something she recognized within herself. “I lived that life with him and I saw a lot of commitment and glory. And I heard all his stories. And he’d cry,” says Gutierrez. Despite her passion, she says her parents never let her play sports growing up. “I never got to do anything because he thought that sports were for boys,” she says. So Gutierrez started fighting secretly when she was 12, in a garage, against her brother’s karate friends. “It was such a sideshow,” she says. “Just a little funny thing that some girl wanted to fight. I actually beat up people in the garage. There’s one kid that I gave his first beating,” she says. “I did it because everybody was taunting me, so I beat the hell out of him,” she recalls. And boxing is not the only place where Gutierrez found herself
Heavyweight World Champion Martha “The Shadow” Salazar throws a punch on a Saturday morning during sparring hours while coach Ed Clemens smiles on. fighting her way to the top. After Gutierrez graduated from high school in Pacifica, she quickly found work at a brokerage firm as a file clerk. She eventually worked her way up to be a trader and is now one of the senior people there. “I was really aggressive. Probably more like a New Yorker-type aggressive,” says Gutierrez. By her mid-20s, she had saved enough money to put herself through college. She enrolled in Skyline College and pursued classes in Women’s Studies and for the first time she had the opportunity to play sports. She played softball, ran track and set her sights on wrestling. But a traumatic leg injury from a wrestling accident halted things. She had broken her leg in three places. After six months on crutches and many months more of recovery, she went into a kickboxing gym to lose weight. “I’m there 30 minutes in this class and I go, ‘I want to be a fighter. This is me.’ The teacher looks at me and says, ‘How long have you been doing this for?’ I say, ’Thirty minutes.’ “He looks at me and says, ‘You’re out of your mind.’” Quite the opposite. After six months of training, Gutierrez had her first kickboxing fight and soon made her way onto ESPN’s show “Strike Force,” where she fought against one of her friends. She says she lost that fight in a split decision, but what hurt more was her coach’s reaction while she was waiting to be interviewed by the cameras. “My coach says, ‘You’re an embarrassment to yourself, to the gym.’ It was a joke,” she
Blanca Gutierrez gives some encouragement before a Saturday morning sparring fight.
World Featherweight Champion Melissa McMorrow spars with Beki Light of San Francisco.
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recalls. “And he walks away from me.” She remembers the cameraman stepped up for an interview and that she felt a hand on her shoulder. It was her bucket man. “And he grabbed my shoulder and he goes, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m her coach.’ ” So she had a new coach. “A lot of times, when you’re a fighter, you see the fighters with their coaches holding the back of them when they come in because it’s a lonely sport. It’s all you. And to have hands on you … That means something,” she says. Gutierrez’s kickboxing career ended at age 40 after she found out she was pregnant. She now has a daughter and a son, 14 and 13 respectively. She created the gym in 2007 with the needs of women in mind. “There needed to be some kind of sisterhood or some kind of thing where you bring in the women so we could all spar,” she says. “This is a women’s gym and being a woman fighter is a little different. Kids are allowed in here.” The gym also trains kids, both boys and girls. “I get the kids that are either bullied or are loners. And they fit in here so well and they come out of their shell and they’re really good boxers,” she says. “We put them in the ring and they learn how to fight and they feel so much better.” Eleven-year-old Sativa James and her 17-year-old brother, Jeshon, have been driving the 80-mile commute from Dixon with their parents for two years now to train at the gym. “It’s an environment where my daughter thrives being around great champions and female role models,” says father Michael James. “Blanca is the biggest ambassador to female boxing. No matter what level the fighters were on, everybody worked together. You don’t find that in gyms. This is a gym where everybody supports everybody and they grow together.” In fact, the gym has all levels from champions, like heavyweight world champion Martha “The Shadow” Salazar and featherweight world champion Melissa McMorrow to kids who are just putting on gloves for the first time. And perhaps what’s
Blanca Gutierrez (left) holds a Saturday morning sparring session every week which help female boxers train against other women.
more unusual is they are all sparring with each other. Gutierrez says that women might have a different approach to fighting than men. “If you ask a man who spars with their friend in the ring, a lot of times they’ll say they don’t want to fight him because that’s my sparring partner. That’s where women step up,” says Gutierrez. “We’re going to fight because the best have to fight the best. And I don’t think there’s a difference in fighting your friends other than you get bigger hugs at the end of the fight.” She says many of the fighters have excelled in other sports and are looking for a fresh athletic outlet. Others, she believes, have experienced abuse. “There are a number of women who have either been sexually abused or physically abused in some manner,” she says. “So it’s a good outlet for them. It makes you feel empowered. “I think that the fighters have been fighting their whole lives,” she says, explaining that others who grew up disciplined with corporal punishment are also drawn to the sport. “If you’ve already been slapped or punched or hit with a belt, I mean getting in the ring is really not anything different than that.” She says currently there is a big struggle to get women’s boxing on television and an enormous disparity between what men and women champion boxers are paid. “A male champion will make upward of $100,000 plus. And you have females in here that are risking their lives, training just as hard, and they’re making $5,000, $6,000.” Despite the uphill battle, Gutierrez says she’ll keep fighting for equality for her boxing family. “It’s more than coaching. It’s knowing that people believe in you and people are behind you,” she says. “We give a thousand percent to their cause if they’re worth it. If they believe in themselves then we believe in them more.” PACIFICA MAY
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A PEEK INTO THE PARK
San Pedro Valley Park’s flora and fauna By Vanitha Sankaran
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a bright spring day at San Pedro Valley Park. Tucked past the local schools and away from residential areas, the park is cool and quiet, shielded from the bustle of cars and regular life. Here, the creek dogwoods rustle among the chatter of brush rabbits and chipmunks and the twitter of songbirds. Trails lead to picnic areas, ocean views, and even a waterfall.
San Pedro Valley Park is a treasure in the San Mateo County park system, and there’s something for everyone out here.
Volunteer with the Friends of San Pedro Valley Park The Friends of San Pedro Valley Park are always looking for people who have a love of nature and an interest in being a caretaker of one of Pacifica’s gems. Members can help in native plant restoration, trail maintenance, hosting the Visitor Center, leading natural history hikes and lectures, and engaging in various social functions. To learn more about volunteering, or to check out species guides and other resources the Friends offer, drop by the Visitor Center. You can also look for details at http://friendsofsanpedrovalleypark.org/.
San Pedro Valley was discovered in 1769 by Spanish explorer Capt. Gaspar de Portola. Actually in search of Monterey Bay, Portola realized that San Pedro Valley offered resources, such as grazing land for cattle, rich soil and regular sunshine other coastal areas lacked. The valley became an outpost in the Spanish Mission system and, with native peoples working the land, produced wheat crops as well as fruits and vegetables. In more recent years, parts of the land have been used for hillside grazing and the commercial farming of pumpkins and artichokes. A steelhead trout farm operated off the south fork of San Pedro Creek until 1962, when rains washed out the farms. Today, San Pedro Valley Park is a 1,052-acre parcel that has three freshwater creeks — the south and middle forks of San Pedro Creek, and Brooks Creek —
all of which act as spawning grounds for migrating trout. In the rainy months, Brooks Falls drops 175 feet in three separate tiers and is a popular attraction. The park offers a wide range of terrain, from coastal chaparral and coastal scrub to wet river lands and even grassland meadows, complete with wildflowers. Creek dogwood, arroyo willow, and trillium are commonly found here, alongside the more exotic Montara manzanita, fetid adder’s tongue, and giant golden chinquapin. Blacktailed deer, bobcats, bats, and hawks make frequent appearances in the area, while gray foxes, gopher snakes and even raccoons can be found from time to time. A visitor center stands at the park entrance and offers exhibits that outline the park’s history, plant and animal life, and the area geology. Visitors can expect to come face to face with a stuffed coyote, or check out a reading library that has books on the local flowers and trees alongside guides to American birds. The center also features a small bookstore and a meeting room that can be reserved for events with up to 30 people. The room is often used by the Friends of San Pedro Valley Park, a local volunteer organization, for regular lectures on natural history. The information desk is also staffed by the Friends, who can offer trail maps, bird guides and a keen understanding of where to go if you are looking to find a particular type of wildflower, or how to get to the most scenic ocean vistas. A self-
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San Pedro Valley Park San Pedro Valley Park opens every day at 8 a.m. and closes before sunset. Day-use picnic facilities are available on a drop-in basis or can be reserved in advance for larger parties. Dogs and other pets are not allowed, but horses can be taken on designated trails. A full list of rules and other information can be found at http://parks.smcgov.org/san-pedro-valley-park. 16
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guided nature tour is a great way to learn about the diverse plant life in the park. Jim Steele, current president of the Friends of San Pedro Valley Park, points out that the Friends are a valuable resource many people don’t know about. “There’s no time for rangers to staff the center on weekends,” he says, “so the Friends do that.” The Friends also put on one or two programs a month on the ecology and biology of the area, help with trail maintenance and engage the public on topical debates. For example, Steele is prepared to discuss the line between keeping as much native habitat as possible and allowing nonnative species, such as the Monterey pine and the Monterey cypress, to co-exist at the park. Asked what trails a newbie should check out, Steele easily answers, “Wheeler Ranch Road. It’s only one mile out and you can do it with your whole family.” Plus, he says, it’s a great first exposure to wildlife. A more challenging hike on the Montara Mountain Trail offers gorgeous views of the ocean and Brooks Falls. “In a three-hour walk, you can expect to see deer, maybe even foxes or a horn-tailed owl. Bobcats are also out in that range.” The peak flowering season is also happening right now and is a good chance to catch eye-popping clusters of California poppies, suncups and buttercups, and wild radish and mustard. Whatever activity you choose, whether hiking, bikeriding or improving your wildlife photography skills, the goal, as Steele says, is to unwind and connect — with the trails, nature and yourself. PACIFICA
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Cielo Calpotura, Wellness Counselor at Terra Nova High School, stands in the dramatically lit outdoor hallway of the area the kids call the ‘Jungle’ at Terra Nova. Calpotura says if a child is struggling with anxiety she’ll sometimes take a step out of the office and take a walk around the campus with them to help alleviate anxiety.
Pacifica: I don’t think we had wellness counselors when I was in high school. What is your mission at Terra Nova? Cielo Calpotura: I came to Terra Nova to make a difference in a student’s life, no matter how small. I would like all students to know that they matter and that there is someone on their side rooting for them. I think this gets lost sometimes when life challenges them, or if they had an unpleasant encounter with someone. I try to get through to the students by being genuine and real. I would never want anything to come across artificial, so I make sure I am present in every meeting with a kid and really hear what he or she is saying. I want each and every student who leaves my office to feel like they have a voice and a purpose in their own story and life. My job is solely to help children who are having a difficult time get through the day, week or year, and hopefully build tools to help them be healthy, independent adults.
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Pacifica: Is social life more challenging for teenagers today than, say, 10 or 20 years ago? Calpotura: I find that it is hard for high school students to connect with one another in person. The influence of technology spearheads their lives, so they must realize how to balance their social lives online as well as in person. This can cause a lot of stress and anxiety for the teens because their every move is being recorded and posted for the world to see. Due to this, there are a lot of issues that come up with relationships with their significant others as well as their friends. I would say that it is a lot more challenging to be a teenager with this constant pressure of always having to be aware of what you are projecting. I also think it takes away from the basic connection of speaking to someone, one on one, while looking into his eyes. These are basic life skills that lead to people feeling connected to one another, as well as good tools to take into a workplace. Pacifica: How do you counsel teenagers to stay healthy? Calpotura: It depends on the teen. The bottom line for me is that they find something that they believe in and find a purpose doing it. Every kid is different, so we have to acknowledge them for who they are and have an open, honest conversation about it. Healthy can mean they wake up every day looking forward to that basketball game that they are playing in on Friday, or it can mean getting an A on that math test. It can also mean, just getting through the day for that individual and recognizing that she got through another day. Pacifica: Does Terra Nova differ from other schools in the area, in terms of wellness challenges? Calpotura: All teenagers have their crisis and it can have a huge range. I’m sure the other wellness counselors experience the same crisis that I see here while working at Terra Nova, depending on the day. I see a lot of students who suffer from anxiety, not feeling like they belong, depression and much more. There seems to be a spotlight on wellness within the Bay Area and it is needed. How do we expect a student to perform well on a test or at a baseball game when he or she hasn’t eaten in 24 hours because of financial
Pacifica: I assume parents and other adult mentors have a role to play. What advice would you give to those of us whose teenagers seem a bit distant? Calpotura: If a teenager is seeming distant, I would say to talk to them even if it seems as though they don’t care. You’d be surprised to hear how many teenagers just want to know that their guardian cares for them. Unconditional love while setting boundaries is the most important factor in dealing with teenagers. They need to know that they can “mess up” and still be loved afterward. They need to know that they can be independent, but still have to stay within a certain boundary so that they can feel safe. It also proves to them that someone is paying attention to their behaviors and feelings. Don’t get me wrong, this is very difficult to do and you will be met with some resistance. You will also be surprised about how much a teenager does pay attention to a parent or mentor’s words and actions. Pacifica: What have you learned from the students in your time on the job? Calpotura: I’ve learned so much over these past two years that it’s hard to put into words. I learned that the students want to be heard, that they want to find a place in the world just like everyone else. I learned that just because someone seems to be happy on the outside doesn’t mean that he isn’t fighting his own battle inside. I learned to approach every situation fresh and with an open heart. I honestly have found out that they do just as much for me as I do for them. I look forward to coming to work and interacting with the student body at Terra Nova. I get to know these students at such a personal level that I love seeing them succeed in their after-school activities or whatever they choose to put their passion into. It lets me walk out of the doors knowing that I did my best to make a difference. And that is the whole reason why I got into this profession. PACIFICA
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Tucked between the newer parking area for the northern access point of the Devil’s Slide Trail and the Linda Mar Shopping Center is a small turnout with a green gate. There are no parking spots to speak of, but you can leave your car there if there is room. The other option is to use the Devil’s Slide parking area and walk north to the start of the trail. The wide trail climbs quickly and provides immediate sweeping views of the Lantos Tunnel and bridges. Within a quartermile, the trail splits. To the left is the South Ridge Trail and to the right is the Arroyo Trail. The South Ridge Trail is quite steep, but the payoff is 360-degree views of Point Reyes to the Golden Gate Bridge down to Devil’s Slide. The Arroyo Trail follows the base of the ridge. Both trails meet up below the summit. Whichever you pick first, try the other trail for the return for a good loop. The impressive summit provides a unique view of Shelter Cove and Linda Mar. Geocache fans may find a box there to add your name to the log. The hike to the summit and back can be done in an hour, but plan to spend some time taking pictures and enjoying the scenery. Wildflowers of every color will greet you in the springtime. There are no facilities. Dogs allowed on leash. The area is undergoing restoration, so please stay on designated trails.
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