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W ith all precincts report-ing, Ken Dauber has been elected to the Palo

Alto school board, but the second seat remains too close to call, with Terry Godfrey 71 votes ahead of Catherine Crystal Foster.

Dauber, two years after a first unsuccessful run for a seat on the Board of Education, had 29.53 percent of the vote, with 6,629 of the 22,445 votes counted as of Thursday morning.

“I’m pleased about the results,” Dauber said Wednesday morn-ing. “I’m really looking forward to working with other board members to get to work on the important issues that are facing the district.”

Though Godfrey and Foster were neck and neck for much of Tuesday evening, Godfrey has pulled slightly ahead with 6,026 votes (26.85 percent of the vote). Foster has drawn 26.53 percent with 5,955 votes. Thousands of mail-in and provisional ballots are still to be counted, however, so the second board seat is too close to call.

Candidate Gina Dalma received 14.22 percent of the vote, or 3,191. Jay Blas Cabrera has a reported 644 votes, or 2.87 percent.

Foster, reached by phone over the din of an election party at her home early Tuesday evening, wasn’t surprised by the dead heat.

“There are some great people running for school board. I never expected it to be anything other than a close race,” she said.

Terry Godfrey said the same Wednesday morning.

“It’s a close race. I guess I knew

it was going to be ... but having never been in a campaign before, I didn’t quite think that I wouldn’t know yet,” she said.

A group of more than 30 sup-porters for Dauber and Dalma gathered at Dalma’s house Tues-day evening, many crowding around a large flat-screen TV, an-alyzing the early batch of results from the registrar.

“I feel a tremendous sense of gratitude and camaraderie and hope. ... Look at all of us together here,” Dauber told the supporters, gathered in Dalma’s living room. “We’re all here for our students. We’re all here for our community.”

In a somber moment, he refer-enced the early morning death Tuesday of a Gunn High School junior.

“We have suffered a loss to-day, and it’s a loss that we are too familiar with,” he said. “I think our hearts and our thoughts are with the student, the parents, the staff, the teachers of Gunn, and they’re going to continue to be with them.”

Dalma and Dauber thanked lists of people who made their campaigns possible, from spouses and children to friends and volun-teers — and even each other.

“Back in February, I decided to write an article that was published in the Palo Alto Weekly because something had happened in a high school that I did not agree with,” Dalma said, referring to a guest-opinion piece she wrote on de-laning of English classes at Palo

P alo Alto voters agreed to reduce the size of their City Council from nine

to seven members when they passed Measure D this week. With 11,883 votes counted as of late Wednesday, 6,416 were in support of the measure and 5,467 were against it.

The change will take effect in 2018.

The idea of shrinking the coun-cil size had been floating around for years before it finally landed on the ballot thanks to a 5-4 coun-cil vote in June. Championed by longtime community volunteer Roger Smith, it had won the sup-port of dozens of past council

members, neighborhood leaders and state representatives. For-mer mayors Sid Espinosa, Peter Drekmeier, Judy Kleinberg and Joe Simitian all endorsed it, as did Councilman Larry Klein and Vice Mayor Liz Kniss.

Reducing the size, proponents maintained, would bring efficien-cy to council meetings and align Palo Alto’s council size with the governing bodies in communi-ties of similar size. Menlo Park and San Mateo, for example, have five council seats, while Mountain View and Sunnyvale have seven.

Smith told the Weekly he was “very pleased” with the results, even as he acknowledged that

there are many votes left to count.“People understand that this

will save time, effort and money,” Smith said. “My hope is it will make staff more effective. I’ve never talked to someone who pre-fers to have nine bosses to seven bosses.”

John Fredrich, a council can-didate who opposed Measure D, said Tuesday he was on the “side that promotes representation and democracy.”

“I wonder if Roger Smith and proponents will move on to the Supreme Court, where there’s nine people and they seem to be

Smaller Palo Alto council? Voters say ‘yes’Measure D approved, reducing number of members from nine to seven

by Gennady Sheyner

ELECTION 2014

I n a sweeping victory for critics of recent development trends, Palo Alto voters elected on

Tuesday three City Council can-didates backed by a slow-growth citizens group — Tom DuBois, Eric Filseth and Karen Holman — plus incumbent Councilman Greg Scharff. For the fifth and final seat, another “residentialist”

candidate enjoyed a razor-thin lead in a race that on Wednesday was still too close to call.

DuBois and Filseth, two Mid-west natives, became involved in Palo Alto politics last year out of frustration with the council’s policies on growth and develop-ment. Incumbent Councilwoman and residentialist Karen Holman

cruised to re-election victory with the most votes in a 12-can-didate field. Scharff, who was not backed by the citizens group, also coasted to a second term, but Mayor Nancy Shepherd fell short in her bid for re-election.

The race for the fifth seat was a dead heat as of Wednesday after-noon, with Lydia Kou and Cory Wolbach locked in a tight battle. While Wolbach, who is a legisla-tive aide for state Sen. Jerry Hill, led by nearly a hundred votes on

Tuesday night, Kou had a lead of 33 votes by Wednesday at 5 p.m., with hand-delivered absentee and provisional votes yet to be count-ed by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.

Like DuBois and Filseth, Kou is affiliated with the group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, which formed last year in oppo-sition to a housing development on Maybell Avenue.

Election night was less jubilant for candidates backed by the city’s

political establishment, aside from Scharff’s victory. Shepherd and attorney A.C. Johnston finished seventh and eighth, according to early results. Each enjoyed a long list of endorsements from past mayors, commissioners, school trustees and community activists. Of the four candidates endorsed by “Palo Altans for Good Govern-ment,” only Scharff emerged vic-torious, with Wolbach (who also

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Slow-growth proponents win seats; Kou and Wolbach vie for final spot

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Dauber elected; second seat too close to call

As of early Thursday, Foster trails Godfrey by a mere 71 votes in school board race

by Elena Kadvany

Palo Alto school board candidate Ken Dauber shakes hands with Betsy Bechtel, far right, as Bechtel congratulates Dauber for his lead in the polls, and fellow candidate Gina Dalma, far left, speaks with Joan Polinsky at an election party on Nov. 4.

ELECTION 2014

Residentialists claim victory in City Council race

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Around TownFIND PRIDE ... A coalition of local nonprofits, lead by the Palo Alto Family YMCA, are teaming up to host a free community festival this Saturday, Nov. 8. The festival will feature a range of activities and performances designed to help children and youth find pride in the things that make them unique, such as ethnicity, faith, religion, family status, gender, language, sexual orientation and/or a disabil-ity. A new art exhibit showcasing work submitted through the Palo Alto Art Center’s youth challenge will be unveiled at the festival. A youth fashion show will feature cultural-heritage apparel, and all youth are invited to wear clothes that showcase their cultural iden-tity. Even the food will “reflect and celebrate the rich cultural ethnic diversity” in the community, ac-cording to a YMCA press release. Positive cultural identity is one of the 41 developmental assets that the YMCA of Silicon Valley has identified as critical to ensuring children and teens thrive socially and emotionally. “Ensuring that youth feel comfortable with and proud of their unique identities is absolutely critical to helping them build self-confidence and develop a strong sense of be-longing, which will ultimately help them succeed in school and life,” Palo Alto Family YMCA Executive Director Lee Pfab said in the re-lease. This first community festival is being organized by Abilities United, Castilleja School, Midpen-insula Community Media Center, Outlet Adolescent Counseling Services, Palo Alto Adult School, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto Family YMCA, Palo Alto University and the YMCA of Silicon Valley’s Project Cornerstone.

STREET QUALITY ... Palo Alto streets are in good condition, ac-cording to a recent state report. The city received an overall Pave-ment Condition Index (PCI) score of 78 (“good”), according to the California Statewide Local Streets and Roads Needs Assessment 2014 report from the California State Association of Coun-ties. The statewide average PCI stands at 66 (“at risk”). Palo Alto is praised for “proactively manag-ing and investing in its streets maintenance program,” according to a press release. Annual funding for street maintenance increased from $1.7 million to $5.1 million since fiscal year 2009, according to the statement. “The focus on

improving our street conditions is having an impact, and with the increased funding approved by the City Council, we will meet our goal of citywide excellent streets two years earlier than first pro-jected,” Palo Alto Public Works Director Mike Sartor said.

SELF SERVICE ... The new Mitch-ell Park Library will officially open on Dec. 6, but the automated materials return machine is al-ready up and running. Items from Palo Alto’s five library locations are processed with an RFID tag, which means the new machines are able to “read” the tag and provide a receipt to confirm the return. The machines are open 24 hours, seven days a week.

SHAPE THE CITY’S FUTURE ... East Palo Alto leaders are inviting the community to help shape the city’s future this weekend and throughout the fall and winter through a series of workshops on its “Vista 2035” general plan update. The city will host seven workshops on critical community topics ranging from neighbor-hood traffic and parking to parks and recreation facilities and land use and economic development. The city is also encouraging the public to take a short survey about their ideas and priorities for the future of East Palo Alto. The general plan update will be the city’s guiding vision through the year 2035. It is expected to be completed in late 2015. The docu-ment establishes policies, goals and programs for the long-term physical development of the com-munity; it will serve as a blueprint for implementing the community’s vision for what residents and other stakeholders want the city to be for future generations. Vista 2035 will replace the 1999 General Plan, which was adopted as an update to the city’s first general plan that was completed in 1986. “We’ve seen great participation at our general plan workshops so far, and we’re counting on that level of involvement continuing and expanding as we enter this critical phase of the process,” East Palo Alto Mayor Laura Martinez said. “Now is the time for every com-munity member to think about the future of our city, to reflect on their concerns as well as the opportu-nities that can make our city bet-ter, and to share their thoughts on what they want our city to be for the generations to come.”

We need to grow up and not pretend that everything is OK.

— Karen Holman, just re-elected Palo Alto City Council member, on moving forward as a community. See story on page 5.

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D onna Rutherford and Ru-ben Abrica have been re-elected to the East Palo

Alto City Council, according to the San Mateo County Registrar of Voters.

The third City Council can-didate, Kimberly Carlton, ran a strong race with 29.3 percent of the vote — 711 — but could not overcome the incumbents. Ruth-erford garnered 36.1 percent, or 877 votes, and Abrica 34.6 per-cent, or 841, as of the registrar’s unofficial Thursday morning re-sults.

Abrica said Wednesday morn-ing that public safety continues to be one of his top priorities, and he was particularly pleased that the city announced on Election Day the hiring of a new police chief following a nearly one-year vacancy. Abrica had pushed for a quick replacement to maintain stability, but controversy over for-mer city manager Magda Gonza-lez slowed the process down, he said.

“I’m happy that we have a new police chief,” Abrica said. “This year has been challenging in that area. I feel strongly about keeping our own police force.”

The City Council and the city manager will be tasked with mak-ing sure the department improves and public safety is addressed, he said.

Abrica and Rutherford both stressed that crime cannot be ful-ly addressed without eliminating school truancy. He and Ruther-ford are on a council subcommit-tee that will try to eliminate tru-ancy “once and for all,” he said.

“It’s just unconscionable,” he said of the ongoing truancy.

Students who habitually miss school “either become victims of crime or they themselves become involved in crime,” Abrica said.

Rutherford echoed that senti-

ment. She said she will work col-laboratively with the Ravenswood City School District to continue to reduce truancy rates.

“Thirty percent of our popula-tion is under 18,” she said, noting that among her priorities will be programs for youth and seniors using Measure C funds and work-ing with the city’s nonprofit orga-nizations.

For older residents, there was talk at one point of closing the East Palo Alto Senior Center and merging it with Belle Haven’s, but Rutherford said she has heard “loud and clear” that seniors love their center, and they want to keep it open.

“We will continue to chip off and get to be the city we’ve always wanted to be,” she said of its long-standing problems. “East Palo Alto is a beautiful place, and I’ve always known that. That’s why I’ve continued and wanted to be involved.”

The city will also face afford-able-housing challenges, which Rutherford called “a really big issue.” About 60 percent of East Palo Alto residents are renters, and making sure that low-income residents and renters can remain in the city will be a top priority, she said.

Rutherford also wants to hire more code-enforcement officers. The illegal conversion of garages to living spaces is another balanc-ing act, she said.

“We certainly don’t want to have tragic accidents,” she said.

Rutherford also said she is con-cerned about water issues.

“To have development we need

to have enough water for every-one,” she said.

Both Rutherford and Abrica said the city has recently discov-ered an additional source of water beneath IKEA. That underground water appears to be potable and will allow the city to build ad-ditional development, which is needed for residences and to bring in commercial revenue for its parched coffers.

Abrica, who has spearheaded flood control and levee rebuild-

ing along San Francisqu ito Creek, saw another vic-tory this past week when the Regional Water Quality Control Board announced it would grant a permit for the San Francis-

quito Creek Restoration Project, following a one-year delay.

Abrica hailed the breakthrough as an example of successful re-gional collaboration among East Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Palo Alto on a project that will benefit people across counties and city borders.

“We’ve worked very hard. I think we’ve finally managed to get our message across,” he said of the regional board’s decision.

Third-place candidate Kim-berly Carlton, the former head of an East Palo Alto nonprofit and product of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, said on Elec-tion Night that she is pleased with the results despite not winning.

“I have no regrets about run-ning. It’s not a bad showing. I’ll be back,” she said.

Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at [email protected].

Incumbents re-elected to East Palo Alto City Council

Challenger vows to run againby Sue Dremann

P alo Alto voters gave their leaders a boost in solving the city’s infrastructure

problems on Election Day, over-whelmingly supporting a propos-al to raise the city’s hotel tax rate from 12 percent to 14 percent.

The change snagged an em-phatic victory, with more than 75 percent of the 12,334 voters

supporting it, according to re-sults released Wednesday by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.

Though the tax hike garnered opposition from the local Cham-ber of Commerce, it also had the endorsement of the entire City Council, which sees Measure B as a major component of a

recently approved plan to fund infrastructure.

The city expects the tax in-crease to generate additional revenues of about $2.2 million a year, with the proceeds ear-marked for infrastructure proj-ects and repairs. When added to revenue expected from new hotels, the city is expected to

get about $4.6 million annually, which would be leveraged to get $64.6 million for projects that include a new bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101, rebuilt fire stations near Rinconada and Mitchell parks and new garages downtown and near California Avenue.

The proposal to raise the tax rate did not stirred much com-munity debate in the weeks leading up to Election Day. Council members had quibbled in May over whether the new rate should be 14 percent or 15 percent, but after the lower hike prevailed, the council unani-mously voted to place the mea-sure on the ballot.

Palo Alto’s hotel-tax rate will now be on par with rates in San Francisco and Oakland.

The city last raised its hotel-tax rate in 2007, when voters approved changing it from 10 percent to its current level of 12 percent.

In addition to the hotel-tax measure, voters approved Mea-sure C, which eliminates a dis-counted utility users tax rate for large commercial users. The measure also specifies that the tax applies to a broader range of telecommunication technologies and reduces the tax rate from 5 percent to 4.75 percent. Eighty-four percent of the voters backed Measure C.

Palo Alto voters pass hotel-tax hikeCity Council plans to use new revenues to pay for infrastructure improvements

by Gennady Sheyner

ELECTION 2014

ELECTION 2014

A na Pulido, Charlie Mae Knight and Marcelino Lopez — all veterans

of the Ravenswood City School District — were elected to the school board representing East Palo Alto and east Menlo Park public schools Tuesday.

Pulido had 27.05 percent of the vote, Knight had 20.95 percent and Lopez garnered 20.30 percent, according to re-sults released by the San Mateo County Registrar of Voters as of Thursday morning. Candi-date Nicholas Valdes won 15.9 percent of the vote, while Isaiah Vi came in close behind with 15.81 percent.

Pulido is the current school board president, and Lopez is a member. Knight is the district’s former superintendent.

Pulido, a product of East Palo Alto schools, said during a candidates’ forum that since joining the board, she and other members have hired a new su-perintendent to increase aca-demic success, and revamped courses and services.

The school district has de-veloped a more well-rounded curriculum, adding more sci-ence, arts and other programs to engage students. It is also developing a master plan of its facilities, Pulido said.

The board has expanded early literacy to kindergarten through second grade. It is looking at expanding early-literacy programs through the eighth grade, Pulido said.

District improvements are still a work in progress, she said.

Lopez agreed the district “is

improving a lot, but it is not enough.” He vowed to continue making progress with mandat-ed Common Core State Stan-dards for education.

During Pulido’s next term, she wants to create interven-tions that will help address is-sues students have outside of the classroom that affect learning.

Lopez said he supports more parent involvement to help ad-dress student stress and to im-prove learning.

Knight, who was the district’s superintendent for more than 17 years, said her re-election rep-resents a vindication after years of bad press and surviving con-flict-of-interest charges after she tried to help teachers get housing using private funding.

She authored the Raven-swood School Improvement Plan, the district’s response to a 2000 court settlement over special education, and said she would be in the best position to assist in orchestrating its achievements.

Knight said she is not satis-fied with progress of still-fail-ing students in core subjects such as math and English, which is what sparked her to seek a seat on the board again.

Pulido said the improvement plan has cost the district mil-lions of dollars that could have been used for education. Those funds went to court-appointed federal monitors.

“We’ve had the best report of compliance in the last 17 years. ... We’re looking at getting rid of the existing monitoring mandate by the government,” Pulido said.

Three veterans of education elected to

Ravenswood school boardCurrent board members, former superintendent

win in East Palo Alto area electionby Sue Dremann

ELECTION 2014

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T hose fascinated by the his-tory of Palo Alto are for-tunate to have a historical

society with an archive of 13,000-plus photographs depicting life in Palo Alto and historians who can talk about the backstory of local neighborhoods and streets.

The Palo Alto Historical Asso-ciation, a nonprofit organization established in 1948 as a succes-sor to an earlier group founded in 1913, is dedicated to recognizing and preserving the city’s history.

In its efforts to collect and make available the history of Palo Alto, the organization financed — with the help of a $5,000 grant from the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund — the “Out of the File Cabi-net, Into the Classroom” project to provide third-grade students and teachers primary sources to study local history. One goal was the creation of lessons that align with the Common Core Standards’ emphasis on a strong knowledge base, incorporation of evidence and critical thinking, according to a Palo Alto Historical Association (PAHA) newsletter.

Four students — Julian Mo-ran and Maya Miklos from Gunn High School and Zofia Amad and Kenton Kwok from Palo Alto High School — spent the summer work-ing on the project under the direc-tion of Gunn teacher Brian Tuomy and PAHA historian Steve Staiger.

Moran, Miklos, Amad and Kwok collected old maps, pho-tographs, newspaper articles and other documents to develop a cur-riculum surrounding four themes: early Palo Alto, the Stanford fam-ily, childhood and schools.

The idea was to use primary sources, such as documents and physical objects that were written or created during the time under study, including photographs,

official records and interviews, Staiger said.

Moran got involved with the project after Tuomy recommend-ed it to him.

“I was thrilled not only by the possibility of gaining further un-derstanding of local history but also the work experience I would gain by participating,” he said.

The history interns explored a PAHA collection known as the Guy Miller Archives and were tasked with choosing inter-esting primary sources — or “artifacts” as the students called them — that would entice third-grade students to learn and care about Palo Alto history.

“Both Mr. Tuomy and Mr. Staiger were invaluable resources throughout the entire process,” Moran said. “Mr. Tuomy was there whenever I needed to bounce an idea off but also whenever I need-ed confirmation that I was work-ing toward the right direction. Mr. Staiger’s seemingly limitless knowledge of Palo Alto history often helped expedite research.”

Moran, whose focus was local schools, concentrated on the his-tory and evolution of institutions.

“While we each worked inde-pendently on a theme, almost all of our themes overlapped at least a little,” Moran said. “When one of us felt that we had information that would benefit another we were more than willing to share it with each other. Some of the artifacts that I used were maps of early Palo Alto school districts, a series of report cards from 1917, photos of early schools and photos of gradu-ating classes from long ago.”

The interns spent the major-ity of the time working at the archives, “sifting through the dozens of cabinets looking for something (they) felt would inter-est third-grade students,” but a lot of the writing took place at their homes, Moran said.

Moran said he is proud of what the team accomplished and be-lieves the crafted lessons will “help teachers ground many as-pects of local history for the stu-dents.

“While many students have dif-ficulty understanding an abstract theme such as history, the arti-facts and accompanying writing should help make these concepts more approachable,” he said. “The most important outcome, howev-er, would be that the artifacts will ignite the same passion for history that I have developed.”

Tuomy reflected on his work with the four students in a PAHA newsletter, saying, “I am proud as an educator, Palo Alto native, and community member to be a part of this effort, and to see that kids can be passionate about this com-munity.”

“Because of the work of these high school students, the third graders in this town are able to have some knowledge of what was literally beneath their feet many generations ago,” he added.

Staiger said the next step is get-ting the sources into a format for teachers to access, including put-ting it on the PAHA website and/or the Palo Alto school district’s website.

“It’s something we are working toward,” he said.

See page 36 for more informa-tion.

Digital Editor My Nguyen can be emailed at [email protected].

E ach year since 1994, the Palo Alto Weekly Holi-day Fund has helped local

nonprofit organizations serving children and families through generous donations from the Palo Alto community. This year’s fundraiser is launching Nov. 7 with a goal of $350,000.

Since its inception, the fund has given more than $5 million in grants to local organizations.

The holiday fund strives to reach out into corners of the com-munity that often go unnoticed. It has supported DreamCatchers’ tutoring program in expanding a healthy-eating program for low-income Palo Alto middle school

students and groups like East Palo Alto Kids Foundation, which gives microgrants to teachers in the low-income Ravenswood City School District for special proj-ects and classroom needs.

“The donations by residents and businesses help foster positive change to make the Palo Alto area a better place for all,” said Bill Johnson, founder and publisher of the Palo Alto Weekly.

Grants ranging from $2,500 to $20,000 were awarded to 52 organizations in 2014.

The fund is a partnership with Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

The money raised last year in-

cluded an anonymous $100,000 donation from a Palo Alto fam-ily foundation for the third year in a row.

Each tax-deductible gift that the Weekly’s readers make is doubled due to matching grants from local foundations, including the Packard and Hewlett founda-tions and the Peery and Arrillaga family foundations. Administra-tive costs are absorbed by the Weekly, so 100 percent of each donation goes to the nonprofit organizations, which will be chosen early next year.

People may donate to this year’s Holiday Fund online through PaloAltoOnline.com/holidayfund.

The campaign runs through early January 2015.

Palo Alto Historical Association project aims to ‘ignite passion for history’Students learn local history while preparing curriculum to teach it

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Alto High School. “I received this random call from a guy (Dauber) who said, ‘Let’s go have coffee.’”

“It’s been a campaign of issues. It’s been a campaign of ideas,” Dauber said, “and the first person I want to honor in that is Gina Dalma. ... Gina has really elevated the tone of this campaign. She’s elevated the content of this cam-paign. For me, she’s given me an example of someone to aspire to in terms of commitment and intel-ligence and thinking about what we need in our schools.”

Dalma told the Weekly that de-

spite the loss — she later joked that she had been telling her children she was “winning fourth place” — she was excited to have participated in what’s been an “incredible race.”

“I came into the race late and I came in (without) a built-in net-work in the community, so I’m incredibly proud of the campaign I ran,” she said.

“The level of debate was in-credibly high,” Dalma added. “I think there was an overlap in most of the candidates’ views on key issues. Now it’s just a matter of making sure that the candi-dates that win really implement and take it on.”

Dauber told the Weekly that he felt like the community con-

versation has shifted since he ran for a board seat in 2012, and he commended all the candidates for campaigns that kept the elec-tion focused on key issues, such as a need for strong, data-driven decision-making; the expansion of foreign language instruction; students’ social-emotional well-being; and the Common Core State Standards.

“I think the voters clearly re-sponded to this message that I brought to put students first,” he said Wednesday. “I think they want a school board that’s fo-cused on the issues that really matter to students well-being and to their learning and to their so-cial and emotional health. I also

think that it was a campaign that let the voters focus on the issues that really matter.

“I really want to compliment all the candidates in the race for very well-run campaigns that I think gave voters a clear sense about what their options were and how people felt about the direction of the district.”

Later Tuesday evening, four of the five candidates — Dalma, Dauber, Foster and Cabrera — gathered at City Hall for an inter-view with former Palo Alto Mayor Peter Drekmeier and current Vice Mayor Liz Kniss.

Kniss called Cabrera the “dark horse” of the campaign.

“I certainly was running an alternative campaign,” he said. “I felt like my goal of being a valid choice, but not necessarily people’s first choice, was fully successful.”

Dauber and the second new board member will join Camille Townsend, Heidi Emberling and Melissa Baten Caswell at the dais, serving four-year terms starting Dec. 9.

Board President Barb Mitchell and member Dana Tom, who both won their seats in 2005, did not run for re-election.

The two new board members will also join new Superintendent Max McGee, who within the first 100 days on the job has taken a fresh tack on communication, cre-ated a committee to address the district’s achievement gap and re-solved in less than two weeks the most recent complaint filed with the federal Office for Civil Rights against Palo Alto Unified School District.

Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at [email protected].

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A s voters await the final count that will determine whether Catherine Crystal

Foster or Terry Godfrey becomes the school district’s second new Palo Alto school board member, election results point to just how evenly divided voter support has been in some areas of town.

Foster and Godfrey have each tentatively won the majority in three out of six precincts in the city’s northeast — the area

stretching from the Crescent Park neighborhood to Triple El and St. Francis, according to data re-leased by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters as of Wednes-day at 5 p.m.

In two of those, the leads are razor-thin. Foster has 140 votes in precinct 2090 -- a portion bound-ed by Oregon Expressway and Embarcadero Road — closely fol-lowed by Godfrey’s 136 votes. In precinct 2078, which is in Foster’s

home neighborhood of Duveneck/St. Francis, Godfrey has pulled only one more vote than Foster. Godfrey won her home precinct in Evergreen Park by a comfortable margin (206 votes to Dauber’s 135 and Foster’s 133).

Godfrey overall retained a 71-vote lead as of Wednesday eve-ning, but scores of mail-in and provisional ballots that the county registrar’s office is still counting this and possibly even next week

could tip the results.Newly elected school board

member Ken Dauber’s support was spread throughout Palo Alto, with strong vote counts in most neighborhoods west of Alma Street, including College Ter-race, Barron Park, Green Acres and Charleston Meadows. He also dominated in southeast Palo Alto, winning five out of the Midtown and Palo Verde seven precincts, although in a few Midtown pre-

cincts, Godfrey’s vote totals ri-valed his.

Los Altos Hills voters, though few, also backed Dauber.

Dauber won none of the pre-cincts in northeast Palo Alto, which included voter turnout that was among the city’s largest in percentages.

Candidate Gina Dalma topped the others in a single precinct, winning 32 votes from a small sector of Stanford University.

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Precinct 2009 (California Avenue): spread of 5 votes among three top candidates

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Precinct 2019 (Fairmeadow): spread of 10 votes

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City Council (Nov. 3)Fees: The council agreed not to adopt new development-impact fees for public-safety and government facilities and directed its Finance Committee to perform further analysis on the fees. Yes: UnanimousComprehensive Plan: The council discussed potential near-term zoning chang-es it can pursue in advance of completing the Comprehensive Plan update. Action: None

Historic Resources Board (Nov. 4)Avenidas: The board toured Avenidas Senior Center at 450 Bryant St. to see the site in advance of a proposal to remodel the building. Action: None

Architectural Review Board (Nov. 5)180 El Camino Real: The board approved a proposal by Simon Property Group to build four new retail buildings in the location of the former Blooming-dales. Yes: Gooyer, Lew, Popp No: Lippert Recused: Malone Prichard430 Forest Ave: The board discussed a request by David Solnick on behalf of Sageleaf Forest, LLC, for a 13-unit development that would replace an existing commercial building and that would include one two-story building and one three-story building. Action: None

CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week

Precincts split in votes for top three school board candidatesTight race shows near-even support in some neighborhoods

by Elena Kadvany

CorrectionsIn the Oct. 31 story about California Avenue merchants, the story incorrectly stated that all construction would halt from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day. The contractor will be working on the east end of the street, at Park Boulevard and the plaza, during the holidays. The Weekly regrets the error. To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, [email protected] or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.


T he founder of Match.com, Gary Kremen, has won a seat on the Santa Clara

Valley Water District board, with 51.3 percent of the vote to incumbent Brian Schmidt’s 48.7 percent, with all 212 precincts reporting. The seat represents the cities of Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Gatos.

While provisional and hand-delivered absentee ballots are still being counted by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, Kremen led all Tuesday night as votes were tallied. He had gar-nered 19,339 votes as of Thursday morning to Schmidt’s 18,361.

On Wednesday morning, Schmidt said he had provisionally congratulated Kremen.

“It’s highly likely he’s won,” he said. With 20 percent of absentee ballots uncounted, the election re-sult could change, but he thought it unlikely. Schmidt said he does not have plans to run again.

“It’s a very different campaign from the one I ran four years ago. And quite frankly, I need to earn more than $32,000 a year. This was a significant pay cut from doing environmental nonprofit work,” he said.

In a race that no one would have predicted would be so con-tentious, both candidates said the personal nature of the attacks was wounding and detracted from the issues.

“It’s been brutal,” Kremen said on Tuesday night. “I guess I’m an idiot to do this. All I wanted was to do something about the drought and about water. I didn’t think it would get so personal with all of the campaign finance stuff. I got pummeled.”

The huge discrepancy in cam-paign funding between the two candidates made headlines.

Kremen, a serial entrepreneur, outspent Schmidt 22 to 1 during the race. As of Oct. 18, Kremen had spent $397,993 to Schmidt’s $17,229.

Schmidt predicted that big money will play an increasing role in special-district races.

“I think it’s a significant prob-lem,” he said. That amount of money detracts from voters get-ting fair representation of the is-sues and amplifies the impact of misleading messages, he added.

“It’s not going to be the last time, especially as we see an in-crease in (economic) inequality,” he said.

Campaign spending is particu-larly bad for special districts be-

cause they don’t have the spending limits seen in some other races, such as for county supervisor, he said. A month ago, Schmidt sub-mitted a request for the board to look at spending limits and at the best models it could implement.

Schmidt said he took pride in the campaign and in his wife, who was his campaign manager, and his volunteers.

“I’m proud of what I did, run-ning it to a near draw while being outspent 22-to-1,” he said.

But he didn’t entirely blame los-ing the election on money. Low voter turnout meant that about half as many people cast ballots for the race as when he ran four years ago. And he would not choose to put a maximum cap of $500 on contri-butions to his campaign. He could have done another mailing with the extra money, he said.

“I wish I’d had more time to do more outreach,” he added.

Schmidt, an environmental at-torney, served on the board since 2010 and is its current vice presi-dent.

Kremen, board president of the Purissima Hills Water District in Los Altos Hills, said on Wednes-day that he will focus on four main issues: making sure the water dis-trict is fully supportive of getting San Francisquito Creek fixed in a way that serves all constituents; creating a short-, medium- and long-term plan for the drought and securing a stable water sup-ply; working to make the Califor-nia State Water Project tax fair to districts that don’t get any benefits and receive equity; and bringing business sense and innovation to the board’s $4 million budget.

As he looks forward to his new role, Kremen said of Schmidt, “I want to thank my opponent for his service.”

Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at [email protected].

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Community Garden Water Main Line Project(Rinconada, Eleanor Pardee and Johnson Park)

The Community is invited to review and discuss the scope of work and schedule for this project

Wednesday, November 19, 20146 PM – 8 PM

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7:30 PMPalo Alto Chamber OrchestraBenjamin Simon: ConductorMayumi Hama: Marimba

International FareWe welcome to our first PACO concert a world famous marimba virtuosa, Japan’s Mayumi Hama, to perform Rosauro’s sizzling Brazilian Concerto for marimba and strings. From 18th century Austria, a brilliant divertimento from young Mozart and from the Soviet Union of the mid-20th century, Shostakovich’s powerful and deeply personal String Symphony (Eighth String Quartet).

Kremen wins Santa Clara Valley Water District seat

Match.com founder to join board that will address droughts, flooding in coming years

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Palo Alto teen killed on tracks TuesdayCameron Lee, a 16-year-old Gunn High School student, died on

the train tracks early Tuesday morning.He was struck by the last southbound train just south of the Cali-

fornia Avenue station at about 1 a.m., Caltrain spokeswoman Chris-tine Dunn said.

Superintendent Max McGee sent an email alerting parents at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday that “a junior from Gunn High School had just lost their life to suicide.”

“We have informed all of our schools and our entire staff will be watching for any signs of students who may need support and care following this tragedy,” he wrote. “Our counselors are prepared to work with any student or family at a moment’s notice, and we ask that you inform your school’s principal or psychologist if you believe any child you know is at risk.”

Counseling support from the school district’s Project Safety Net partners — nonprofit Adolescent Counseling Services, grief counsel-ing organization Kara and Stanford University Medical Center’s Dr. Shashank Joshi — was provided at Gunn as well as the schools of the young man’s siblings, McGee said.

Palo Alto High School Principal Kim Diorio also sent a message to parents and students, offering on-campus support and resources. Members of Paly’s Crisis Response Team are available to meet with individual or groups of students in the coming weeks, she said.

Mayor Nancy Shepherd said the city immediately extended the hours for track guards at crossings along the Caltrain right-of-way from the first train in the morning at approximately 5 a.m. to the last train in the evening at approximately 1:15 a.m. The extended hours will include rail crossings at Churchill Avenue, Charleston Road and East Meadow Drive.

— Elena Kadvany

Cal Ave train station robbery injures onePolice are looking for a man who allegedly punched a commuter in

the face and robbed him as he waited for a train on Sunday, Nov. 2, ac-cording to a joint statement by the Palo Alto Police Department, Transit Police Bureau of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office and Caltrain.

The robber approached the male victim who was at the California Avenue Caltrain station at about 1:27 p.m., assaulted him, took his wallet and escaped on a non-motorized scooter, police said. The victim sustained minor injuries.

Officers responded to the incident, but were not able to locate the robber.

The victim received a small cut and swelling around his left eye. He was treated at the scene by the Palo Alto Fire Department and released.

A witness described the robber as a black male, about 25 years old, wearing a white shirt and light-colored blue jeans. The man was unshaven and had dreadlocks. He was riding a silver scooter with electric-blue wheels. The victim and witnesses last saw the suspect on the train platform headed south.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office anonymous tip line at 800-547-2700. Anonymous tips can be emailed to [email protected] or sent via text message or voice mail to 650-383-8984.

— Sue Dremann

East Palo Alto appoints new police chiefAlbert Pardini is the new police chief of the East Palo Alto Police

Department, city officials announced this week.Pardini, who comes to East Palo Alto from the San Francisco Po-

lice Department where he served for 32 years, will start on Wednes-day, Nov. 12.

“East Palo Alto’s new Chief Albert Pardini brings a remarkably wide range of law enforcement experience to the community,” In-terim City Manager Carlos Martinez said in a press release. “We’re confident that with his proven leadership and outstanding record of success, he’ll generate new and effective solutions to the challenges we face.”

Pardini said “as a law enforcement professional, reaching out and engaging youth has always been a priority for me.”

“Such early intervention can have dramatic positive effects — that’s an area of focus that will get long-term results,” Pardini said in the release. “I’m excited to join this great team, to build upon the impressive reputation of the East Palo Alto Police Department, and to work with the people of this city to reach our shared objectives for a safer, more secure and healthy community.

Pardini has held several leadership roles including his present as-signment as the commanding officer of the patrol division at San Francisco International Airport Bureau, according to the release.

In 2010, Pardini served as the interim assistant chief of police in San Francisco.

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bloviating quite a bit,” Fredrich said at a special election event hosted by the Midpeninsula Me-dia Center at City Hall on Tuesday night.

The proposal had split both the community and the council, with four members opposing even plac-ing the issue on the ballot. Marc

Berman was the swing vote.During the campaign, oppo-

nents of Measure D argued that Palo Alto benefits from having ex-tra seats because it allows a great-er diversity of views and makes it easier for council members to re-cuse themselves if they have con-nections with Stanford University and the council is discussing an item that has to do with Stanford. Council members Greg Schmid, Karen Holman, Greg Scharff and

Pat Burt had all opposed placing the measure on the ballot. Mayor Nancy Shepherd supported send-ing the item to the voters but said she has no strong opinion on what the size of the council should be.

Palo Alto last changed its coun-cil size in 1972, when the number of seats was reduced from 15 to nine.

Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at [email protected].

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W ith the dust still settling on Election Day and scores of provisional

and hand-delivered absentee bal-lots still being tallied, the com-position of Palo Alto’s next City Council remained to some degree uncertain Thursday. The major question that remains hanging with Lydia Kou and Cory Wol-bach running neck-in-neck for the fifth open seat, is whether slow-growth “residentialist” can-didates will have a mere majority or downright dominance of the council.

But whoever wins (Kou was up by 33 votes on Thursday morn-ing), the Nov. 4 vote signaled a political shift in Palo Alto, with Karen Holman and Greg Schmid poised to give up their long-held status as members of the council minority. A precinct-by-precinct analysis of the election results (based on numbers that were available Wednesday), helps ex-plain how this shift occurred and which neighborhoods contributed the most to the changing of the guard at City Hall.

How did the “residen-tialists” triumph?

The slow-growth revolt may have launched near Maybell Ave-nue last year, but as the geograph-ical election results make clear, its ramifications continue to play out in just about every corner of the city. Holman, the only incumbent endorsed by the citizens group Palo Altans for Sensible Zon-ing, emerged victorious in every neighborhood and finished either first or second in almost every precinct, from Downtown North to Adobe Meadow.

Tom DuBois and Eric Filseth, who were both involved in last year’s Measure D battle, also demonstrated on Election Day that their campaigns weren’t rooted in NIMBY support (unless the “backyard” in the acronym refers to most of Palo Alto). Both did exceptionally well in Barron

Park, where opposition to Mea-sure D was based, but they didn’t stop there.

First-time candidate DuBois, who lives in Midtown, won in his neighborhood — in one pre-cinct with 210 votes, two more than Holman and significantly more than anyone else. Filseth, who lives in Downtown North, outperformed DuBois and most of the field in several downtown precincts (though Holman and fellow incumbent Greg Scharff at times did as well or better). In one precinct in the Duveneck area, along Embarcadero Road, Filseth received 213 votes, the same as Scharff and one behind Holman. He also performed well in his own precinct, trailing only Holman and finishing ahead of Scharff and DuBois. Though he didn’t fare as well as DuBois in Midtown, he edged him out in some parts of north Palo Alto, in-cluding Crescent Park.

Holman, meanwhile, did equal-ly well in the mansions of Old Palo Alto and the Eichlers of Palo Verde. She led the entire field in more precincts than any other candidate. Though she trailed Scharff or DuBois by a few dozen votes in one precinct or another, her base of support is disparate and extends even to the energized skeptics of Barron Park, where other incumbents were generally frowned upon.

The precinct data underscores, however, that the wave of criti-cism of the council is broader than Maybell. Significantly, all three “residentialists” who triumphed on Election Day — Holman, Fils-eth and DuBois — live outside of Barron Park.

Certainly, Tuesday evening was a triumph for Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, the city’s newly energized critics of development. The results confirmed that the citizen movement, like the defeat last year of the Maybell Avenue project, isn’t so much “not in my backyard” as “not in my city.”

What went wrong for the mayor?

Nancy Shepherd did reasonably well downtown and in some of the Midtown precincts. Though she wasn’t the top vote-getter in any of these precincts, she consistently competed for the fourth and fifth spots and in some cases edged out Kou. In one Crescent Park pre-cinct, for instance (2065), she had 168 votes compared to Kou’s 145. In another one, she finished with 161 votes, compared to Kou’s 129.

Around Midtown, she picked up numbers on par with Wolbach’s and Kou’s, even though she con-sistently lagged behind winners Holman, Scharff, DuBois and Filseth.

But her fortunes soured in the southwest quadrant of the city, particularly in the Barron Park and and Greenmeadow neigh-borhoods that spearheaded op-position to Measure D last year. She was trounced in the precincts west of El Camino Real and just north of Arastradero Road, where anxieties about new developments have been particularly acute.

In one Barron Park precinct she picked up just 98 votes, al-most three times fewer than Kou, who lives in the area and who led all candidates there with 277 votes (this was Kou’s strongest precinct). Though the public’s an-ger over Maybell extended to the entire council (with the possible exceptions of Holman and Greg Schmid), Shepherd fared particu-larly poorly. DuBois, Holman and Filseth all cleaned up in this Bar-ron Park precinct (with 270, 266 and 248 votes, respectively), while Scharff received a more modest 183. Both he and Shepherd were characterized by Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning as casting votes that were “resident-unfavorable” (each received a score of 30 per-cent on the group’s scorecard, far below Holman’s 85 percent).

A similar storyline held in other Barron Park area precincts, where Shepherd consistently trailed the

frontrunners by a sizable margin. In one, Holman received more than twice as many votes as Shep-herd. In another, the mayor was decisively defeated by Wolbach (who is in not affiliated with the Barron Park “residentialists”), 193 to 109. In yet another, Shepherd received just 54 votes, while each of the four PASZ-endorsed can-didates received more than 150.

Whether this was Barron Park’s way of signaling a disagreement with Shepherd’s policies on devel-opment or its response to Shep-herd saying at one memorable council meeting last year that she would not be “bullied” by critics, the neighborhood’s overwhelming rejection of Shepherd turned what could have been a competitive bid for re-election into a Tuesday night rout.

What went right for Greg Scharff?

Scharff had a fairly pleasant Election Night, his place on the next council nearly assured when the early results came out show-ing him in second place (he later slipped to third, just behind Du-Bois). For his strong showing, he has the affluent neighborhoods of Crescent Park and Old Palo Alto to thank.

Crescent Park, along with the Duveneck/St. Francis neighbor-hoods east of downtown, came out strong for Scharff, who led the entire field in one Crescent Park precinct and finished second only to Holman in another.

Though Holman also did well in these neighborhoods, at times leading the field, Scharff consis-tently outperformed DuBois, Fils-eth and Kou here. In his strongest precinct, just west of U.S. High-way 101, Scharff received 297 votes, three more than Holman and about 50 more than either DuBois or Filseth.

In one St. Francis precinct, Scharff edged out Holman for first place, 184 votes to 175, with the DuBois and Filseth taking third and fourth place, respec-tively.

Old Palo Alto was particularly kind to Scharff. He finished first in several precincts and, in one case, received 261 votes to Hol-man’s 207 and DuBois’ 201 (no one else was close).

The heavy support he received

from Palo Altans with mansions and manicured lawns largely compensated for his less-than-stellar showings in the Eichler-dominated neighborhoods of south Palo Alto and Barron Park. These votes helped him stay on par with DuBois in this year’s election, though as of Wednesday he was in third place, to DuBois’ second.

Whose votes will decide the battle for fifth?

Lydia Kou and Cory Wolbach in some ways perfectly epitomize Palo Alto’s battle over City Hall. Kou, a longtime neighborhood ac-tivist, worked her way to politics from the grassroots level and took part in last year’s “No on Measure D” campaign. She lives in Barron Park, where passions about high-density developments run partic-ularly deep, and ran a campaign that focused on slowing down growth and restoring the people’s trust in their government. She draws her strongest support from south Palo Alto, including the area’s growing Asian population.

While she, like the other resi-dentialist candidates occasion-ally sounded angry and frustrated in talking about the council’s recent land-use decisions dur-ing the campaign, Wolbach is at his most passionate, strangely enough, when talking about civil-ity. Though he lives south of Or-egon Expressway in Midtown, he received broad support from Palo Alto’s political scions and elected leaders, including Anna Eshoo, Rich Gordon and Joe Simitian. While Kou is affiliated with Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, Wol-bach is part of Palo Alto Forward, a new group that advocates for more housing and transportation options. If there is such a thing as “the establishment” in Palo Alto, Wolbach is its last hope to avoid a sweep from the PASZ candidates.

The two candidates have been locked in a razor-thin race since the first results were released. Ab-sentee returns and early in-person voting showed Wolbach enjoying a lead of fewer than 100 votes heading into late Tuesday night. By Wednesday morning, Kou was up by 34 votes. By evening, her

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has broad establishment support) still awaiting the final vote count.

Tuesday culminated in victory speeches from all three slow-growth candidates whose elec-tions were all but secured shortly after 8 p.m., when results from mail-in ballots were released by Santa Clara County. Holman, who has been one of the council’s lead-ing critics of new developments, will have new council colleagues in January who share her skepti-cism. At a campaign party at the home of Janet Dafoe, Holman said she felt “gratified” and tired. She also said she felt “really like the people’s voices have been heard.”

“This is where the community has been for a number of years,” Holman said, “but there hasn’t been an issue that galvanized people to change the council majority.”

In the future, she said, she wants people’s differences to “in-spire us and inform us rather than divide us.

“It’s time to heal and bring people together and learn from our mistakes, learn from our dif-ferences and bring the community together,” she said.

Filseth, a retired semiconductor executive who lives in Downtown North, called the results “a reality check” for the current council — but said he wasn’t too surprised.

“To me, the best part of the campaign is that when we talked to people, most of them agreed with us,” Filseth said.

DuBois, a business consultant who lives in Midtown, was upbeat and said that in terms of dollars per vote, “We did pretty well.”

His campaign revolved around increasing council efficiency, im-proving transparency and (along with the rest of the residentialist group) curbing the impacts of new development.

“I campaigned pretty clearly on these issues, and I see this as a mandate for me to govern on these issues,” DuBois said.

Scharff, a local attorney who served as mayor last year, had to withstand criticism from the com-munity during the campaign for not being as strident in his opposi-tion to new developments as Hol-man and Schmid.

Scharff said the council has worked hard to address all of the issues that citizens had long been complaining about, particularly parking and traffic. The council “pivoted” after last year’s Measure D election and has launched nu-merous initiatives to address these issues, he said. He finished third, just 28 votes behind DuBois, as of Wednesday’s release of unofficial election results. Filseth finished fourth, 502 votes behind Scharff.

Scharff said he was “honored” to be re-elected.

Shepherd was more subdued af-ter the early results came in show-ing her out of the top five spots. Shepherd told the Weekly she is proud of her accomplishments on the council, which she said help protect the community from high-

speed rail and have helped to get the city “working well.” She said that she has worked hard to do what the public asked the council to do.

“I’m very grateful for the time I have spent on the City Council,” Shepherd said. “I think there’s clearly something that’s not al-lowing people to see the activity that the City Council is doing.”

Kou, whose team gathered at the Elks Lodge, said she was proud of her campaign, whatever happens.

“I’m very optimistic,” she said. “No matter if I win or lose, the whole point is that so many people stepped up for me in the commu-nity. They believed in me.”

Wolbach said Tuesday that he, too, was proud of his campaign, which he said has “tried to exer-cise civil discourse.”

“Win or lose, I feel we had a positive impact on the discourse, not only in tone, but in content,” Wolbach said. “There’s a need for the council to creatively find solutions to the jobs and housing imbalance that is recognized by all the candidates and it must be addressed by all on the council in a creative and collaborative way.”

The field also included retired teacher John Fredrich, three-time candidate Mark Weiss, retired Boeing engineer Seelam Reddy and Ventura resident Wayne Dou-glass, whose campaign focused on bringing more attention to the issue of homelessness. All four trailed the rest of the field by a considerable margin, with none receiving more than 1,500 votes.

Voter turnout in Palo Alto was about 36 percent Tuesday, with more than 13,000 registered vot-ers participating.

Staff Writer Sue Dremann con-tributed to this report.

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On the cover: City Council can-didates Karen Holman, left, Eric Filseth and Tom DuBois smile as election results start coming in showing them in the top five open slots on election day, Nov. 4. Photo by Veronica Weber.


W ith the new City Coun-cil preparing to take the helm in Palo Alto come

January, the existing one will have a chance Monday to leave a lasting imprint on the city’s future when it appoints new members to all three boards that review new developments.

Commission appointments, which are generally a humdrum affair, have special significance this year, with residents’ anxieties about growth on the rise and all three commissions experiencing turnover at the same time thanks to the council’s recent decision to bring the terms into align-ment. On Monday, the council will make two appointments to the Planning and Transportation Commission, two to the Archi-tectural Review Board and four to the Historic Resources Board.

The historic board is unlikely to see much turnover, with four incumbents — Martin Bern-stein, Roger Kohler, Michael Makinen and Margaret Wimmer — dominating the five-member field, along with architect Iqbal Serang. But things could get more interesting on the plan-ning commission, where just one incumbent is looking for re-appointment. Carl King is not seeking a second term, and Vice Chair Arthur Keller, a wonky and deeply skeptical number-cruncher who is known for ques-tioning planners’ assumptions and finding flaws in develop-ers’ proposals, barely survived his re-appointment the last time around, squeaking by with a 5-4 vote in 2010. Keller joined the commission in 2006 and is by far its longest serving member.

On Monday, he will be one of eight residents seeking a seat on the planning commission, which is responsible for issuing recommendations on new de-velopments, parking programs and traffic initiatives. The field also includes Asher Waldfogel, a tech entrepreneur who has been serving on the city’s Utilities Advisory Commission for the past six years; Claude Ezran, a former member of the Human Relations Commission; Kate Downing, an attorney who until recently worked at VMWare and is affiliated with Palo Alto For-ward, a nascent citizens group advocating for more housing and transportation options; and James Schmidt, former president of Friends of the Library and member of the 2010 citizen com-mission that analyzed the city’s infrastructure needs.

Downing has been a passion-ate speaker at recent meetings on the topic of development, telling

the council at an August meeting that if we “don’t allow for growth, Silicon Valley as we know it today will cease to exist.”

Downing told the commission during her interview that she has been busy in recent months meet-ing community residents and talking about their visions for the city’s future. At times they have been surprising. She cited a recent meeting in which several residents in their mid-50s complained about the fact that there’s not enough live music in Palo Alto.

“So much of our conversation lately has been problem-focused,” Downing said. “We have traffic issues, parking issues. But some of this is opportunities: Here is something we can do for our culture, our city, our community. Something that can bring people together.”

Also on the list are Lyn Tillery, a health care worker who noted in her interview that she has no problem with taller buildings and denser construction down-town; Adrian Fine, a Nextdoor employee and College Terrace resident with a master’s degree in regional planning; and Jeff Schnebble, an investor at Silver Lake Partners with a doctorate in engineering.

The appointments to the com-mission come at a time when residents seem to be paying more attention to the bodies. The de-cision by the council in 2012 to replace the skeptic Susan Fine-berg with Michael Alcheck, who is far more lenient on the subjects of building height and density, on the planning commission has been cited by the slow-growth citizens group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning as an example of the council members’ “resident-unfriendly” leanings. Tom Du-Bois, a member of the group who was elected to the City Council this week, concluded his victory speech Tuesday by asking sup-porters to run for boards and commissions.

The different styles of the can-didates were on full display dur-ing the interview process, with Keller providing large pockets filled with transportation, census and jobs data and peppering his introductory comments with sta-tistics about transit ridership. He cited his “powerful combination of decision-making based on data and creative problem-solving” and reiterated his often-made argument that placing jobs near transit encourages transit use much more effectively than hous-ing near transit.

Waldfogel also touted his data-analysis skills, which he’s exem-plified at meetings of the city’s

utility commission (Councilman Greg Scharff called Waldfogel during the interview “the most data-driven member” on the com-mission). He also shared the com-monly voiced frustration about the less-than-stellar quality of new buildings.

“I don’t really have style biases. I have quality biases,” Waldfogel said in response to a question from Vice Mayor Liz Kniss. “We get projects that are less good than we deserve.”

Fairly or not, some of the blame for this trend has fallen on the Ar-chitectural Review Board, which is saying farewell to two veterans. Past Chair Clare Malone Prichard and current Chair Lee Lippert are both concluding their terms this year and not seeking re-appoint-ment.

The board has been at times embattled in recent years, with many critics accusing it of being too lenient about approving de-sign exceptions and supporting boxy, modernist designs. On Oct. 20, as the council was interview-ing candidates for the board, Lip-pert noted in his public comments that in recent months the “thanks have been coming fewer and few-er” from the council. He called the council’s decision on new board members “probably one of the most important appointments you’ll be making.”

Vying for the two open seats are eight candidates, only one of whom has a name familiar to observers of local politics. Mark Weiss, who has just concluded his third run for the City Council (he finished ninth in a 12-candi-date field), is seeking a seat. Also running are Catherine Ballan-tyne, principal at the firm Eco-logical Design and member of a leadership committee charged with facilitating public outreach on the city’s Comprehensive Plan update; architect Matthew Har-ris, who wrote in his application that the board should promote a “fairly liberal environment for architectural expression”; Qim-ing Huang, whose background is in computer science and has built several houses in Palo Alto; Ken-neth Huo, an architect who has worked for the city; Kyu Young Kim, a member of Palo Alto Forward who wants to bring in “a younger point of view” to the board; Flore Schmidt, an archi-tect who recently arrived to the city from France; and Richard Schoelerman, a Realtor and ar-chitect who told the council he’d like to navigate “the middle ground between the concerns of residents and property owners who want to develop their prop-erties.”

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8:30 A.M., Thursday, November 20, 2014, Palo Alto Council Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue. Plans may be reviewed at the Development Center at 285 Hamilton Avenue or online at: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/planningprojects; contact Diana Tamale for additional information during business hours at 650.329.2144.

429 University Avenue [14PLN-00222]: Request by Ken Hayes Architects, Inc. on behalf of Kipling Post LP for Architectural Review of a proposal to demolish two existing one-story commercial/retail buildings containing a total of 11,633 square

use building with two levels of underground parking providing 41 on-site spaces on a 11,000 sf site in the Downtown Commercial (CD-C (GF)(P)) zoning district. Environmental Assessment: The draft Initial Study and draft Mitigated Negative Declaration is

December 12, 2014, in accordance with California Environment Quality Act (CEQA) requirements.

2515-2585 ElCamino Real [14PLN- 00321]: Request by the Hayes Group Architects on behalf of ECRPA, LLCfor Preliminary Architectural Review of a new 39,858 sf, three-story, mixed use development, with one level of underground parking on a 39,638 sf lot, to replace an existing 9,694 square foot restaurant (Olive Garden). Zone Districts: CC (2) and CN.

additional review will be done with the formal application.

1050 Page Mill Road [14PLN-00074]: Request by Allison Koo, 1050 Page Mill Road Property, LLC, on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, for a Community Scoping Meeting to take verbal comments regarding the scope and content of the Draft EIR. The proposed discretionary Architectural Review application is for the demolition of existing structures and construction

Assessment: Pending EIR. Zoning District: RP (Research Park). This item appeared on the November 6, 2014 ARB hearing agenda but was postponed.

1450 Page Mill Road [14PLN-00335]: Request by Jim Inglis for Preliminary Architectural Review (ARB) for the demolition of the two existing buildings on site, totaling 59,539 sf and

additional review will be done with the formal application. Zoning District: RP (Research Park).

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T he convoluted evolution of the College Terrace Centre and the market that will

replace the beloved JJ&F Market took another turn on Wednesday night when the property’s manag-er named a member of the Chavez family as the potential grocer.

Miki Werness, owner of the now-defunct Miki’s Farm Fresh Market at Alma Village, previously had announced that he was planning to run the market when it is built. But on Thursday he confirmed he has pulled out of the project.

Uriel Chavez, a member of the Chavez family of grocers, is being brought on board, property man-ager James Smailey told members of the College Terrace Residents Association Wednesday night. Chavez has more than 25 years of experience operating his family’s markets, including Chavez Family Markets, La Hacienda, Mi Ran-cho, Artegas and Mi Pueblo mar-kets throughout northern Califor-nia and the Peninsula.

The new store will be called College Terrace Market.

College Terrace Centre includes 40,000 square feet of office space, 13,000 square feet of retail and eight below-market-rate housing units. About 8,000 square feet of retail is reserved for a market. Construction is contingent upon securing a market comparable to JJ&F, which was part of the 2009 approval of the site’s planned com-munity (PC) zone. The agreement guaranteed the store would be a “public benefit” in exchange for denser development.

Chavez said he will have a 20-year contract to operate the store, which will be owned by Smailey, who does not have experience running a market. Chavez’s fam-ily owns 40 stores with an esti-mated gross revenue of more than $200 million per year, he said. The sizes range from 8,000 to 30,000 square feet, he said. The College Terrace Market will have a delicatessen, grab-and-go meals, a kitchen for freshly made foods and an outdoor seating area.

“It would have more of a Drae-ger’s selection with a limited size,” he said.

College Terrace residents at the meeting urged him to consider a price structure that would not be as high-end as Draeger’s, noting that many college students and workers would be coming to the market, as well as local families.

“It’s definitely not a Draeger’s,” Chavez said of the price points. The store would offer household products such as paper towels and toilet paper along with comes-tibles, he said. Chavez said he has geared his community markets to-ward customers’ needs. A market in Menlo Park on Menalto Avenue includes more organic items and a taqueria and items for the Latino clientele who frequent the store, he

said. He said his stores are clean and service-oriented.

Reached by phone on Thursday morning, Werness said he chose not to be part of the project about two weeks ago.

“I have my reasons,” he said, without much elaboration. “I think it will be a wonderful mar-ket. I love the location; I love Palo Alto. It just has to be made a total shop. There’s a lot of good foot traffic. ... I just didn’t feel I would fit in with the group.”

The City Council must approve the new grocer before construc-tion can begin.

On Wednesday, Smailey brought in well-known developer Jim Baer as a project consultant. Baer said he would be assisting with the ap-proval process, but he did not have a financial stake in the project.

Residents were skeptical at the

College Terrace meeting. The 13-page “vision and values” handout Baer and Smailey brought to the meeting was the equivalent of a public relations piece that did not detail the actual lease agreement or how the project would ensure the grocery store would be there “in perpetuity.” Residents and board members said they do not want to see the grocery store fold in six months after the center’s construction is completed and for the Smaileys and the developer, Brian Spiers, to walk away.

Neighborhood association board members’ and residents’ concern over the project have been ampli-fied by a confusing chain of own-ership and responsibility related to the development. Smailey’s father, Patrick Smailey, was the on-record

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To be held at 3:00P.M., Thursday November 20, 2014, in the Palo Alto City Council Conference Room, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. Go to the

documents; contact Alicia Spotwood for information regard-ing business hours at 650-617-3168.

3421 Waverley Street [14PLN-00177]: Request by Jerry

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Historic Resources Board [HRB]8:00 A.M., Wednesday, November 19, 2014, Palo Alto Council Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue. Plans may be reviewed at the Development Center at 285 Hamilton Avenue or online at: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/planningprojects; contact Diana Tamale for additional information during business hours at 650.329.2144.

251 Lincoln Avenue [14PLN-00301]: Request by Margaret Wimmer, on behalf of Donna and Harry Schmidt, for Historic Resources Board review and recommendation regarding proposed alternations and additions to a residence, initially constructed in 1903, that is listed on the City’s Historic Inventory in Category 4 and located in the Professorville Historic District. The project would include relocation of the house on the site seven feet from Ramona Street. The project is subject to the regulations of the Single Family Individual review (IR) program. Environmental Assessment: Categorically Exempt from the provision of CEQA, Section 15331. Zoning District R-1.

2555 Park Boulevard [13PLN-00381]: Request for Historic Resources Board Review of a Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) Prepared Regarding a Request by FGY Architects on Behalf of Campbell Avenue Portfolio LLC for Architectural Review of a Proposal to Demolish an

One Level of Below Grade Parking and a Roof Terrace in the Community Commercial (CC(2)) Zone District. The Architectural Review Board has Recommended Approval of the Application, Which Includes a Design Enhancement Exception Request to Allow Two Stair Towers and a Roof Top Canopy Structure to Exceed the Height Limit by 10 Feet and 13 Feet Respectively. Environmental Assessment: The Initial Study and Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) Were Published on September 5, 2014 for a 45 Day Initial Public Comment Period. The Initial Comment Period on the DEIR has Been Extended Through November 19, 2014, to Allow Input by the PTC and Historic Resources Board.

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CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a joint session with the Parks and Recreation Commission; appoint candidates to the Architec-tural Review Board, the Historic Resources Board and the Planning and Transportation Commission; consider adopting the 2015-23 Housing Element; approve a letter of intent with Friends of the Junior Museum & Zoo for construction of a new building; and review the City Hall remodel-ing project. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 10, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will hold a special meeting to dis-cuss the district’s lease of Cubberley Community Center. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m., with 30 minutes of closed session and 30 minutes of open session, on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. The board, a facilitator and Superintendent Max McGee will also meet at the Garden Court Hotel from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in closed session for the superintendent’s mid-year evaluation on Wednesday. The Board Policy Review Committee will also meet Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. at district headquarters to discuss the Conflict of Interest code.

PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear an update on the East Palo Alto and Menlo Park General Plans; hear an update on the city’s bicycle-boulevard program; and con-sider the proposed residential-parking-permit program for downtown. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 12, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss an inventory of city-owned properties and consider the city’s policies about unsolicited offers to lease or purchase city land. The committee also plans to review the Draft Legislative Program Manu-al. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to dis-cuss priorities for the Community Development Block Grant five-year strategic plan; continue its discussion on the Low Income Housing Study; and review its work plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Downtown Library, 270 Forest Ave.

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two candidates vying for the fifth seat are accentuated by the city’s map of precincts. Kou’s council bid received a huge swell of sup-port from south Palo Alto, where she bested Wolbach and most of the other candidates. In one Bar-ron Park precinct, she received 277 votes while Wolbach received 170. In another, Kou received 235 votes to Wolbach’s 193.

Her success in some ways makes sense. South Palo Alto saw a boom of residential con-struction in the years before the Great Recession and now enjoys a greater share of the city’s Asian population than the north and a greater number of new residents. In one such precinct, an area west of Middlefield Road and north of Charleston Road, Kou had 173 votes to Wolbach’s 116.

Wolbach, by contrast, did fairly well in just about every part of the city and did not have one particu-lar area that came out strongly in his favor over all other candidates. In most precincts, he did better than Kou and finished in the top five. He did well downtown and in Crescent Park, winning 217 votes in a precinct on the eastern end of University Avenue compared to Kou’s 129. He also had significant leads over Kou in Old Palo Alto and in the Duveneck area, where one precinct gave Wolbach 205 votes to Kou’s 145.

In Midtown, it was a mixed bag. Kou received 173 votes in a pre-cinct west of Middlefield, while Wolbach received 116. In another Midtown precinct, Wolbach held a slim edge, 113 votes to Kou’s 94. In his own neighborhood, Wol-bach’s lead over Kou was more substantial: 151 votes to 109 in one precinct; 145 to 109 in another. Overall, Wolbach edged out Kou in more precincts than she did him, but when Kou won, she won big.

The precinct map is some ways highlights the two candidates’ dif-ferences. Kou’s campaign tended to stoke passions, particularly among neighborhoods most criti-cal of the current council. Wol-bach’s tended to reach far and wide, with broad appeal but less sizzle.

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developer under the company name Twenty-One Hundred Ventures, LLC (also called Adventera Inc.). But the younger Smailey revealed on Wednesday that he and his fa-ther are no longer the developers.

Funding for the project was in jeopardy in March 2013, with the project receiving a one-year exten-sion for its planning entitlement permit. A $40 million construc-tion loan was eventually secured, but the lender wanted a different developer, Smailey said. Spiers

was chosen, and the Smaileys are to become the center’s managers after it is built, he said. The prop-erty is owned by Joseph Oeschger and Eldora Miller under The Chil-cote Trust, which has held title since the 1920s. The owners are now in their 80s, he said.

Smailey said the landlords have guaranteed the payment of leases if the grocer should not be able to make payments, so the lease can-not be defaulted. The lease would be $22,500 a month with the first three months free and the next three at half the rental cost, he said. After the current landowners die, the family trust would take

over the lease-payment guarantee.But resident Bill Ross wanted to

know if the lease guarantee stipu-lates the use and occupancy of a grocery store. Without a letter of credit or a performance security, the agreement would be mean-ingless, he said. Smailey did not confirm if such a provision exists.

Ross also questioned if a fund could be set up that would have cash available for maintaining a grocery store in the same way a city has funding to maintain a park.

Baer called the lack of such a guarantee a recurring flaw in the city’s drafting of planned-com-munity zoning ordinances.

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A n effort by Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park to improve flood protection

around the volatile San Francis-quito Creek earned a hard-fought victory on Oct. 31, when officials learned that the project is on the verge of earning a permit from a state agency that has been with-holding it for more than a year.

The determination by the Bay Area Regional Water Quality Control Board was announced at a special meeting at Stanford Uni-versity, which brought together top staff from the water board and the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority, the agency that is spearheading the $37 million flood-control project.

Though the project still has to receive the approval from several federal regulatory agencies, most notably the Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice and National Marine Fisher-ies Service, the certificate from the water board removes what so far has been the steepest obstacle for the project and clears the way for other agencies to issue their own permits.

The project includes rebuild-ing and modifying levees near the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course, installing new flood walls and removing sediment from the

creek channel to improve water flow. The project aims to protect the particularly vulnerable areas downstream of the creek, between U.S. Highway 101 and the San Francisco Bay, including a portion of East Palo Alto and Palo Alto’s Crescent Park neighborhood.

When the water board issues the certificate, as the board’s Execu-tive Officer Bruce Wolfe assured the three cities it would, it will end a process that was launched in March 2013 and continuously surprised and frustrated council members and residents from the affected cities.

In March of this year, after months of negotiations and re-peated requests for new infor-mation and further analysis, the water board rejected without prejudice the application for the flood-control project. Officials from the three cities have long maintained that many of the re-quests fall far beyond the scope of the water agency and that the water board’s actions are endan-gering the lives and property of thousands of residents who live near the volatile creek.

The creek authority made some design modifications in response to the water board, including raising the flood walls to protect the Faber

Tract from flood runoff (thus pro-tecting endangered species living in the tract), and submitted a new application on July 31.

Dozens of East Palo Alto resi-dents, including those whose homes suffered massive flood damage in the February 1998 flood, made a trip to Oakland in August to make their case for the project to the regional water board. At that meeting, the board of di-rectors of the state agency agreed that the project should move for-ward as soon as possible and af-firmed that the decision to issue the certificate would be made by Wolfe rather than by the board.

Two weeks after that meet-ing, Wolfe issued another let-ter finding the latest application incomplete and requesting more information. The board’s August letter brought up dozens of new questions and demanded more in-formation, including details about monitoring methods, flood-wall designs and assurance that the proposed levee would not provide inferior protection to East Palo Alto than to Palo Alto, as some critics have maintained.

It also proposed splitting the project into two phases, with the bulk of the work on the East Palo Alto side taking priority, a sug-

gestion that the creek authority deemed as infeasible because it would substantially change the project and require the agency to redo much of its work.

On Oct. 31, Wolfe acknowl-edged that while some of the questions in the August letter of incompletion pertained to issues that needed to be resolved for certification, others were there mainly to help the water board answer questions from the public. He said five different staff mem-bers worked on putting together the letter and explained that this is why it seems like it was written “by committee.”

Most importantly, Wolfe made it clear that he now has all the information he needs to give the creek authority the certification it has long been seeking. The certi-fication is to be issued as soon as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers releases its official public descrip-tion, which is expected to happen in the coming weeks.

The built-up tension between the water board and the creek authority was on full display at the meeting, with staff from the two agencies offering their own histories of the project and ex-planations for the delays. Water-board staff also fielded repeated

accusations from local officials about the lack of transparency in the process, with Palo Alto City Manager James Keene and creek authority Executive Director Len Materman taking the lead.

Materman and Kevin Murray, project manager at the creek au-thority, argued that the entire pro-cess was marred by secret meetings between the water board, project opponents and other regulatory agencies — meetings from which the creek authority was explicitly barred. This, they maintained, led to great confusion, unacceptable delays and unexpected denials and requests. In many cases, previously answered questions and analyzed design options re-emerged time and time again as obstacles to ap-proval. This included proposals to use more land from the Palo Alto golf course and Palo Alto Airport for the flood-control project.

Greg Stepanicich, attorney for the creek authority, argued that the water board’s denial of the application should never have occurred. If the water board had concerns, it should have raised them and the creek authority would have dealt with them, Ste-panicich said.

Wolfe had explained that the denial was dictated largely by the calendar and board’s determi-nation that the permit could not be granted within the required one-year timeframe. But both Stepanicich and Materman main-tained that the surprising denial in March prompted all the other federal regulatory agencies to halt their work on the project, signifi-cantly setting the project back.

“Simply, it makes no sense to us when the denial comes out of

ENVIRONMENT

W ith protecting retail now a pressing priority in Palo Alto, members

of the City Council wrestled on Monday with the questions of what exactly constitutes “retail” and how exactly to preserve it.

The discussion took place dur-ing the council’s consideration of its update to the Comprehensive Plan, the broad land-use docu-ment that establishes the city’s goals and policies for future de-velopment. Though typically the Comprehensive Plan (commonly known in other communities as the General Plan) serves as the ba-sis for new zoning changes, Palo Alto’s update has taken so long that officials are now thinking of changing some zoning rules in ad-vance of the update.

On Monday, in the first of two meetings on the subject, council members considered what these near-terms changes should be. Though there was no clear con-sensus, and no votes were taken, much of the discussion centered on the retail sector, particularly

in the city’s two primary com-mercial districts: downtown and California Avenue. Planning Director Hillary Gitelman had identified retail preservation and the elimination of remaining parking exemptions as two areas where changes can be made in ad-vance of the Comprehensive Plan update, which the council first agreed to undertake in 2006 and is now scheduled to be completed in early 2016.

Much of the heavy lifting on the new document will begin in January, when planning staff kicks off a series of public meet-ings on the subjects of growth and development. These meet-ings will help the city formulate a land-use vision that will be in place until 2030 and guide Palo Alto’s policy. In addition to ex-ploring various growth scenarios, Gitelman recommended using this time to consider the city’s policies on major infrastructure projects such as Santa Clara County’s plan to expand express-way capacity and the possible

trenching of the Caltrain tracks.But as Monday’s conversation

indicated, even the low-hanging fruit of retail protections and parking exemptions won’t be all that easy to pluck. While coun-cil members Karen Holman and Greg Scharff continued to advo-cate for new policies to encourage retail, Councilman Larry Klein wasn’t convinced.

“I don’t see the evidence yet that there is a problem,” Klein said. “Maybe there is; maybe there isn’t.”

Klein also sought more clar-ity on the word “retail.” Does it include, he asked, establishments like restaurants and banks?

“What are we really talking about when we talk about ‘retail preservation’?” Klein asked.

The answer to the question of what is “retail” came from coun-cil watchdog Herb Borock, who read to the council a section of the zoning code that explicitly describes the types of establish-ments that fall into that category (the long list, as defined, includes

food, apparel, jewelry and many other consumer items). Borock also noted that one of the prob-lems that the city’s land-use crit-ics are concerned about isn’t that the city’s Comprehensive Plan is outdated but that it’s not being fol-lowed by the council.

“It doesn’t make much sense for the council that’s going to be elected tomorrow to go to a lot of trouble in creating a new Compre-hensive Plan if it’s going to ignore it,” said Borock, speaking one day before Election Day.

Holman argued that the city should zone for what it wants,

which means more retail. She cited a number of businesses on California Avenue that have re-cently left after being priced out by high rents. In addition, sev-eral downtown restaurants have recently closed and their spaces have been converted to offices, which fetch higher rents (Zibibbo and Rudy’s Pub are two such ex-amples). Scharff advocated for expanding the ground-floor retail zone in downtown and for amor-tization of buildings that don’t have retail tenants, including the Wells Fargo building.

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San Francisquito Creek project sees breakthrough on much-delayed permit

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how to protect existing retail but how to expand retail downtown and have more choices,” Scharff said.

One proposal that staff will ex-plore is a new restriction on chain stores on California Avenue, a proposal that has become popular in recent months. A petition by area merchants to create a limit on chain stores has gathered more than 100 signatures and has won the support of Mayor Nancy Shep-herd and most of the candidates running for council.

While most council members talked about retail policy and reducing density in commercial areas, Councilman Greg Schmid suggested focusing the city’s ener-gy on the big issue of growth and determining how much develop-ment the city should allow.

“It seems to me we ought to deal with the base issue,” Schmid said. “The base issue that is on everybody’s mind in the city is growth. We should start with the guidelines for growth.”

That topic will come up in January, when the council holds a special work session to consider the city’s growth management program for commercial devel-opment. The broader public con-versation about the Comprehen-sive Plan will stretch throughout

spring and will consider future housing sites, new goals and poli-cies to be included in the docu-ment and a series of planning scenarios, some of which include building a trench for the train tracks and increasing the capac-ity of the city’s expressways.

Klein argued against study-ing the trench alternative, noting that the price tag for this design would be between $500 mil-lion and $1 billion. He said that the city isn’t likely to get this kind of funding any time soon. Council members Pat Burt and Gail Price strongly rejected this logic, with Burt noting that some of the funding could come from a tax increase that Santa Clara County’s business leaders are contemplating to fund a broad range of transportation improve-ments. Price also said the option should be studied.

“If we were not to do it, we’d be limiting our options and we’d not be doing the city and the commu-

nity members a favor or the busi-nesses a favor, because it is in fact our responsibility to look at these scenarios,” Price said.

The Comprehensive Plan up-date was originally intended as a modest revision of the current plan, but the process morphed into a far broader overhaul in the past two years, with plan-ning commissioners editing the plan’s list of goals, policies and programs and planning staff pro-posing four different growth sce-narios to explore. In September, several council members rejected the scenarios and suggested less significant revisions to the land-use document.

Though the Comprehensive Plan update gained some momen-tum earlier this year, when the city hosted a series of community meetings as part of an outreach initiative called Our Palo Alto, Monday’s discussion was a sub-dued affair. Vice Mayor Liz Kniss said she found it “disappointing” that so few people are engaged in the process, as witnessed by the sparse attendance.

“We’re talking about no dra-matic changes, but we are talking about some,” Kniss said. “I just find it puzzling that there isn’t a group that’s here, and for far lesser reasons we’d fill the Chambers.”

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the blue,” Stepanicich said. “It changed the whole ballgame here when we had a denied application. That is what disrupted the process with the federal agencies.”

Wolfe disagreed and maintained that because of “streamlining re-quirements,” the water board had 30 days to respond to the city and because it determined that it could not issue its ruling within this time frame, he felt denying the applica-tion was the best way to keep the process moving along.

“I stand by that action,” Wolfe said.

After Wolfe declared that he now has everything he needs to deem the application complete, Stepanicich asked if he can have a letter putting that in writing this week. Wolfe agreed.

The U.S. Army Corps had also indicated last month that it deems the creek authority’s recent ap-plication to the Corps to be com-plete, Wolfe said. Once the Corps issues its official description of the project, which it is expected to do in the next two weeks, the certification from the state board will be issued.

Wolfe said the water board’s con-cerns about protecting the endan-gered species — clapper rail and salt marsh harvest mouse — in the Faber Tract have been “large-ly resolved,” not 100 percent but “close enough that we can move forward.” He noted, however, that the National Marine and Fisheries Service has indicated that it has its own concerns about protecting species in the upper portion of the creek channel and that it could take months to resolve those issues.

The meeting included three board members from the water

board, including board Chair Terry Young, who led the meet-ing and reminded the public that “we’re not here to talk about the past” but to “get through to the future.” Board members Newsha Ajami and Margaret Abe-Koga, a Mountain View city council-woman, also participated in the roundtable meeting. Represent-ing the creek authority’s board of directors were Palo Alto City Councilman Pat Burt and East Palo Alto City Councilman Ru-ben Abrica.

Both Burt and Abrica spoke about the re-emerging question of whether East Palo Alto and Palo Alto would get equal flood protec-tion from the project. The levee on the Palo Alto side would be larger by a few inches because it would be a new structure and would need to settle, while the one on the East Palo Alto side is built on top of an existing levee, Burt explained.

He noted that the explanation has been offered time and time again over the past eight months, but the question keeps returning, most recently in the August let-ter from the water board that asks

whether the project is sufficient to protect the health and safety of the two communities. Burt noted that it would offer protection to the area from a 100-year flood, a goal that the communities have been pursuing for more than 15 years.

“The implication is that this is still a concern, and it’s still confus-ing, despite the amount of times that the settling of levees (question) has been asked and re-asked,” Burt said. “I want to put that to rest.”

Abrica agreed and said that re-cent back-door insinuations that East Palo Alto isn’t getting as much protection as its neighbor is based on bad information and has “revived some very strong re-actions in our community.” East Palo Alto council members, he said, have been working with their partner cities for more than five years to finalize this project, and they fully support it.

Wolfe said later in the meeting that he feels the issue of adequate protection for East Palo Alto “has been addressed” and called it a “local issue.”

Keene focused on the board’s transparency of deliberations and urged that the “bias should be to-ward completion as opposed to de-lay.” The water board should focus only on its own purview, he said, rather than anticipate the concerns of other agencies and delay its ap-proval based on those concerns.

Materman made a similar point in his presentation.

“We believe the quickest way to complete all the permits is if each agency completes its permit,” Ma-terman said.

Staff Writer Gennady Sheyne can be emailed at [email protected].

‘It changed the whole ballgame here when we had a denied application. That is what disrupted the process with the federal agencies.’

— Greg Stepanicich, attorney, San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority

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POLICE CALLSPalo AltoOct. 29-Nov. 4Violence relatedBattery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Theft relatedCredit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle relatedAbandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 5Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 3Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 5Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle tampering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Alcohol or drug relatedAlcohol transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2MiscellaneousDisobeying court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Disturbing the peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 1Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Public incident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Sick and cared for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 5Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Menlo ParkOct. 29-Nov. 4Violence relatedBattery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Sexual assault attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Theft relatedPetty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Vehicle relatedBicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 7Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 3Vehicle accident/undefined . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Alcohol or drug relatedDriving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Narcotics investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1

MiscellaneousFound property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Graffiti abatement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

VIOLENT CRIMESPalo AltoEl Camino Real, 10/29, 5:15 p.m.; do-mestic violence/violation of court order.Redwood Circle, 10/31, 9:29 p.m.; do-mestic violence/battery.185 University Ave., 11/1, 2:38 p.m.; battery/simple.Allen Court, 11/3, 10:31 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Menlo Park400 block Ivy Drive, 10/29, 1:25 p.m.; battery.100 block El Camino Real, 10/30, 12:47 a.m.; attempted sexual assault.Hamilton Avenue and Hazel Street, 11/3, 4:48 p.m.; battery.

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Charles (Chuck) Whitcher, MD, who trained a generation of anesthesiologists at Stanford School of Medicine for 29 years, died at Stanford Hospital on October 13, following a stroke. An emeritus professor of anesthesia, he was 91.

Born on March 28, 1923 in Santa Barbara, he attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate and then earned an MD from the University of Buffalo in 1949. After a two-year stint in the Army, he completed residencies in anesthesia at the University of North Carolina and Duke University.

With the opening of the new medical school on the Stanford campus in 1961, he joined the faculty as an assistant professor of anesthesia as the fourth member of the department. At that time, there were four ECG machines for fourteen operating rooms, and those four machines were infrequently used. Precordial stethoscopes were commonly used, a new monitoring device for him at the time. His early work in physiologic measurement and recording in anesthetized patients inspired others to become anesthesiologists and later join the faculty. He was devoted to resident education and highly regarded as an educator and mentor, receiving the Resident Teacher of the Year Award in 1978.

When he was promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesia in 1966 he became the first clinical professor in the department, in recognition of his dedication as a clinician. He provided anesthesia for Norman Shumway’s patients on many occasions.

Early in his career at Stanford, he conducted research including a spectral analysis of Kortkoff sounds and distortion of sounds by stethoscopes during blood pressure measurement. He recruited engineering students to assist with the development of innovative methods of patient monitoring. He developed a special interest in pulse oximetry, an innovative monitoring

technique at the time. The pulse oximeter – much smaller and lighter – is now used worldwide and changed patient care. During the 1970’s he served as part of a multidisciplinary team that conducted pioneering work on the effects of occupational exposure to anesthetics.

Towards the end of his career, he became a fervent advocate of compassionate end-of-

life care and was active in the Death with Dignity movement. Following his retirement in 1990, he became active as a member of Stanford residential community, serving on the Board of Directors of Stanford Campus Residential Leaseholders and developed a keen interest in community emergency preparedness.

He was able to devote time to his extensive collection of antique farm machinery that he maintained at his campus home, including numerous

antique tractors and a horse drawn grader said to have been used on Leland Stanford’s Horse farm. He, together with close friends in the “old iron” community, set a new standard for the restoration of old farm equipment and raised the bar for all sharing his passion.

He had a respect for the dignity of life, and a strong belief in independence, self-sufficiency, and hard work. He was able to create rapport with people from all different walks of life, and to give them support and encouragement whenever they needed it. He will be missed.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Lue Eiche Whitcher; his children Bruce Whitcher, DDS, of Templeton, California, Sarah Chenkin, PhD, of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and Douglas Whitcher, PhD, of Winterthur, Switzerland; stepchildren Greg Aitken of Eugene, Oregon, and Katy Eiche, of British Columbia, Canada; and eight grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his son, David.

A celebration of his life will be held in November. If desired, memorial donations may be made to “Compassion and Choices”.

Charles (Chuck) Whitcher, MD

Passed away October 28, 2014 in Sunnyvale, CA.Services will be held Friday, November 7th at 10AM at Grace

Lutheran Church, 3149 Waverly St. in Palo Alto. Interment at Alta Mesa Memorial Park, 695 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto.

Celebration of life to follow at the Sheridan Hotel, 625 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.

In Lieu of flowers, donations can be made in memory of Chris to www.oceanconservancy.org/support-us/ or peninsula openspacetrust.org.

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Christopher JarvisJuly 30, 1963 – October 29, 2014

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Albin “Al” Slakis, a resident of Palo Alto and Mountain View and formerly of Illinois, died on October 30 in Palo Alto, California. He was 89.

Al was born on July 5, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois. He served in the US Navy during World War II as a hospital corpsman. Al later graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in Food Technology and worked in both the pharmaceutical and food industries, including Abbott Labs and US Army Natick Labs. After his retirement, he and his wife moved to Mountain View, California to be close to their grandchildren.

He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Ann Slakis, and his children Susan (Slakis) Paul of Palo Alto and her husband John, his son Tom Slakis of Danbury Connecticut, and his two grandchildren, Emily Paul and John Michael Paul.

A Memorial Mass in celebration of his life will be held on Saturday, November 8th at 11 am at St. Joseph’s Church, 582 Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to Catholic Charities of San Jose http://www.catholiccharitiesscc.org/how-to-donate

Albin Joseph SlakisJuly 5, 1925-October 30, 2014



Reuben SchadlerReuben Schadler, a longtime

resident and teacher in Palo Alto, died on Oct. 9 in Merced, Cali-fornia. He was 75.

He was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, on April 9, 1939. He grew up in Tacoma, Wash i ng ton, and he met his future wife, Jolene McRo-rie, in high school there. They married in 1958.

He went on to study at the Col-lege of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, playing basketball there his first year. He studied chemistry and German and grad-uated in 1962, with plans to be-come a teacher. He taught those subjects and some mathematics in Washington for a few years.

Later, he enrolled in a National Science Foundation program at San Jose State University to be trained to teach math over three summers. He got a job teach-ing math at Jordan Junior High (now Middle) School, moving to Palo Alto in 1967. In the fol-lowing decades he also taught at Cubberley, Gunn and Palo Alto high schools. He also coached golf at Gunn and Palo Alto high schools.

At Jordan, he was given the nickname of “Shades” for his somewhat alternative appear-ance inspired by the ‘70s, which included long hair and a beard. For one yearbook at the school, the students placed him on the centerfold wearing his signature “hot pants,” or short shorts.

Following the urging of his friend Dale Seymour, he also wrote a number of math books that were published by Creative Publications in Palo Alto and Dale Seymour Publications in Menlo Park.

After his retirement in 1995, he moved to Merced. There he joined the Merced Golf and Country Club, for which he served on the board of direc-tors. Throughout his life, he en-joyed attending teachers’ parties and playing recreational league

sports, his guitar and bridge.He is survived by his wife

of more than 50 years, Jolene Schadler of Merced; two daugh-ters, Shannon Schadler of San Mateo and April Bishop of Fre-mont; four grandchildren; two sons-in-law; one great-son-in-law; and many friends.

The family chooses to mourn privately. Per his request, his ashes were scattered near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fran-cisco.

Jim HildebrandJames “Jim” A. Hildebrand died

on Oct. 20 due to complications from brain cancer, at home with his wife by his side. He was 84.

Born in Bay City, Michigan, on Jan. 8, 1930, he grew up in Sagi-naw, Michi-gan. He grad-uated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1954 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and was inducted as a ju-nior into the Order of the Barris-ters, a Senior Honorary Society.

At the end of the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Army as a personnel specialist in a medical laboratory in Tokyo. He gave de-tailed tours of the city to fellow soldiers and visitors, and he also worked briefly for an American attorney there.

After the war, he moved to California, living on the San Francisco Peninsula. He served as the city attorney for Palo Alto throughout the Vietnam War protests and for Sunnyvale during a boom of Silicon Val-ley development. He enjoyed his public service and was rec-ognized by attorney groups for this legal work. He lived in Palo Alto while working here, as well as Sunnyvale and Foster City, where he was living when he died.

Outside of work, he loved to spend time in nature and observe birds. He took part in efforts to save the butterflies on San Bruno Mountain and supported efforts to help California sea otters, as

well as the Monterey Bay Aquar-ium. His other pastimes included spending time with family, trav-eling, playing golf and pulling pranks.

He was predeceased by his brothers, Max and Tom; his sis-ter, Salle; and his former wife, Jackie. He is survived by his wife of 21 years, June Hildeb-rand of Foster City; her fam-ily; his nieces and nephews; and by Jackie’s sister, Francine Bearden.

A memorial service will be held on Nov. 22 at 2 p.m. at First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto. In lieu of flowers, memo-rial donations may be made in his honor to the First Congrega-tional Church Capital Fund or to the American Cancer Society.

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Lasting MemoriesVisit

Born in Cape Neddick, Maine on October 29, 1949, Sarah Atwood Henderson Wiehe died from a heart attack on October 20, 2014 while at her home in Palo Alto. Sarah was the daughter of artist and musician Elyot Henderson and community volunteer Sydney Elliot Henderson, and was raised with her elder brother Peter and younger sister Anne at their family’s farmhouse in Cape Neddick, Maine. Sarah graduated with honors from York High School in 1967, proceeding to Goucher College, a women’s college in Baltimore, Maryland.

While working on a theatrical co-production between Goucher College and Johns Hopkins University in the fall of 1967, Sarah met her future husband, Philip Wiehe. She graduated in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in music theory and composition. An accomplished musician, composer and arranger, she was proficient on piano, flute, piccolo, recorder, and electric bass, and throughout her life maintained a keen ear that could discern nearly imperceptible variations in pitch and tempo.

Married in 1970 and living in New Haven while Philip studied at Yale Divinity School, Sarah composed many short pieces for her church and local community, as well as a full-length rock opera that was performed across New England. In New Haven she also began a career as a registered nurse and later embarked with Philip on exotic travels to Fiji, Tahiti, Jamaica, Panama and New Zealand. Sarah and Philip twice crossed the USA by open Jeep – often rising at 4am before it was too hot in the desert – and sailed an Able 20 sloop along the New England and Southern California coasts, with their golden retriever aboard.

Upon moving from the East Coast to Los Angeles in 1976, Sarah worked in pediatrics at Pacoima Hospital before moving to Palo Alto, where the light of her life, Kristin Elisabeth, was born in 1981. Sarah became an active single mom after she and Philip divorced, finding time to coach her daughter’s softball team and serve as a frequent volunteer in her daughter’s

classrooms in Palo Alto. In 2001, Sarah began enrichment studies at

Foothill Community College. It was there that an astronomy class led to her participation for over a decade with the Peninsula Astronomical Society (PAS). As a student representative to the Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees, Sarah was active in the expansion of the college’s infrastructure, especially in conjunction with the activities at Foothill led by PAS.

Starting in March of 2003, Sarah served for many years on the PAS Board of Directors, including several years as Vice President of the

Board and liaison with Foothill College. She was instrumental in working with the college during the transition to the new modern 16” Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope now being used at the Foothill Observatory. The remake of the Board Room downstairs at Foothill Observatory, as well as the purchase of computers, eyepieces, and the H-alpha Solar Telescope were very much due to her labors. Sarah adored astronomy and its ability to bring

together people from disparate backgrounds – “From researcher to backyard observer, there is wonder beyond our horizons, if we just look!”

Unfailingly quick-witted and passionate, Sarah’s loves were music, flowers, sports, travel, art and astronomy, and most of all, her daughter Kristy. She was looking forward to attending the World Series on her 65th birthday (October 29) with Kristy. Together, they were planning a trip this autumn to Alaska to see the Aurora Borealis and another trip to Italy at Easter to see the early Christian mosaics in Ravenna.

Sarah gained strength and acceptance through her abiding faith and from her church, St. Mark’s Episcopal, as well as from the communities of the Unity Community Church chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Peninsula Astronomical Society.

Contributions in memory of Sarah would be welcomed at the Peninsula Astronomical Society, P.O. Box 4542, Mountain View, CA 94040.


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Residents objectEditor,

Residents demand relief from commercial parking intrusion into their neighborhoods as they desire to park in front of their own homes. The City Council or-dered staff to implement a Resi-dential Parking Program with “poles in the ground” by January 2015. The city spent six months designing a Residential Parking Program residents do not want.

Another successful city project.Paul Machado

Stanford Avenue, Palo Alto

A comparisonEditor,

I read with interest the re-marks by Palo Alto City Council members of trenching versus un-derpasses for Caltrain. The city would need to “take” 32 homes from owners to acquire land for underpasses.

Councilman Marc Berman called the idea an absolute non-starter and devastating to any community. His views were widely shared by colleagues. (Liz) Kniss and (Karen) Hol-man stressed that when a huge project like underpasses comes up, money is just one concern to be factored in. Vice Mayor Kniss said, “There’s a monetary cost but there’s also going to be a neighbors-screaming cost and I think that’s very real.” Holman said, “There’s the cost, and the emotional cost and the commu-nity cost. Those need to be fully integrated.”

As part of Friends of Buena Vista, I couldn’t help but compare the views above, regarding taking of 32 homes, to the possible loss of Buena Vista’s 125 homes (four times as many).

When the City Council holds its hearing on Buena Vista, will members be as concerned, vocif-erous and determined that Buena Vista Palo Altans should not have their homes taken from them? Will Council find it as “devastat-ing to any community” and an “absolute nonstarter”? Will the cost to our community “be fully integrated” before decisions are made? We shall see. As Vice Mayor Kniss says above, there is the “neighbors-screaming cost” to consider.

Winter DellenbachLa Para Avenue, Palo Alto

Granny mattersEditor,

I read with interest the article about granny units. We have one, which was built in 1947 when our home was in unincorporated Santa Clara County. It’s an af-fordable-housing unit giving us income and our tenants a great

place to live.A few years back someone

in our neighborhood tried to build a 900-square-foot cottage with a 900-square-foot garage that included a full bath and an 1,800-square-foot attic that had 8-foot ceilings. Not quite the spirit of the granny-unit ordi-nance, and the city managed to turn down the plans on technical grounds.

But, I was sorry to read about the Whittons backflow device. Unfortunately, those who regular-ly install these devices like to put them in the middle of the front lawn. The actual requirement is that they have to be between the city meter and the house main shut-off valve. When ours was put in I told them I wanted it right up against the house. They acted like they’d never done anything like that, but realized there was no reason not to honor my request. So, it tucks in nicely behind a big plant about 6 inches out from the house, and no one knows it’s there except the man to whom we are required to pay $80 every year to inspect it.

Sue AllenGrove Avenue, Palo Alto

Losing characterEditor,

The City Council is ignoring the issue that is cropping up in neighborhoods now. Businesses are buying homes, as it is cheaper than renting, and using the homes as a place of business. There is no one occupying the home in the evenings or weekends and lots of folks during the day, as well as parking issues. What does the city want to attract? Does it care about keeping the residential neighbor-hoods safe and quiet? Feels like pretty soon our downtown neigh-borhood North Palo Alto will be all office buildings because the rent is pricing companies out of the area and retail is going away. I went to Oakland last week and it was so refreshing to see so many fun, ingenious shops compared to our boring selection.

Janine BisharatHawthorne Avenue, Palo Alto

What you voted forEditor,

Congratulations to those who defeated Measure M. Now all the

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A yearning for changeElection results signify an inflection

point in local politics

I n a shifting of the power dynamic in our community not seen for more than 40 years, Palo Alto’s traditional political movers and shakers suffered a humiliating defeat this week as un-

happy voters expressed their desire for change, more transparency, broader representation, less arrogance and greater accountability.

The realization that voters would opt for a new direction set in among political insiders during the final days of the campaign, mostly as a result of feedback candidates were getting as they talked to voters door-to-door.

Incumbent Karen Holman, whose strong concern about growth and development has put her on the losing side of many council votes and who is often marginalized by her colleagues, was the big winner.

She was not only the top vote-getter among the 12 candidates, but substantially out-polled her colleagues Greg Scharff (currently in third place) and Mayor Nancy Shepherd (seventh).

With the election of neighborhood activists Tom DuBois (cur-rently second) and Eric Filseth (fourth), those who favor tougher restrictions on development will make up a majority of the new council come January.

The fifth seat is currently too close to call and may take days to settle. Lydia Kou, a Barron Park resident and Realtor who has been active in emergency-preparedness efforts and opposed the Maybell development proposal last year, is about 30 votes ahead of Cory Wolbach, a Palo Alto native who is an aide to state Sen. Jerry Hill and whose campaign focused on bridging political divides in the community and moving forward with greater civility in address-ing issues.

The election results were an embarrassing blow to two officials who weren’t on the ballot: Vice Mayor Liz Kniss and Councilman Larry Klein.

Each of them worked hard to recruit and campaign for candi-dates they felt would most closely replicate the political perspec-tives of the current council.

Klein, who is termed-out and will leave the council, even spear-headed an independent campaign committee of previous council members and other well-known city leaders to support a slate of four “independent” candidates: Scharff, Shepherd, Wolbach and attorney A.C. Johnston (who finished eighth).

Ads placed by the group, calling itself Palo Altans for Good Gov-ernment, criticized the use of political labels such as “establish-ment” and then attacked the “slate” of candidates (DuBois, Filseth and Kou) as advocating no-growth and asserted that, if they were elected, it would mean no new public-safety building, fewer new housing opportunities and a “serious hit to our economic vitality.”

Kniss similarly attempted to energize her political boosters to support these same four candidates, in part because her ambition to be elected mayor in January hung in the balance. Now, in a re-markable turnaround, it is likely that Karen Holman will be elected mayor and lead the newly constituted council majority.

Perhaps the most interesting and surprising result from the elec-tion is the decisive passage of a measure reducing the size of the City Council from nine to seven beginning in 2018.

The proposal hadn’t generated much interest nor was there any opposition campaign, but civic activist and former Silicon Valley Bank founder Roger Smith single-handedly (and at his own ex-pense) waged an effort first to get it on the ballot and then to con-vince voters the reduction would save the city money and improve the efficiency of city government decision-making.

The measure’s passage is especially surprising given the con-cerns raised during the council campaign that Palo Alto politics is overly dominated by a relatively small and insular group of insid-ers. Some viewed the council-size-reduction measure as designed to preserve this structure.

But voters seemed to be more motivated by their unhappiness with the inefficiencies of having a nine-member council, long-winded discussions and meetings that go late into the night. The reduction will directly affect the five candidates elected this week because when they reach the end of their terms in 2018, only three seats will be available.

Palo Alto elections rarely center around meaningful differences on issues, instead tending to focus on the touting of resumes and endorsement lists. This year, voters seem to be emphatically say-ing they want more than well-meaning, likable candidates. They want people who are running to fix problems, broaden community engagement and transparency, and preserve the qualities that make Palo Alto unique.

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Should more residents participate in stakeholders’ groups?



What was the most memorable election you recall voting in?Asked at Palo Alto High School. Interviews and photos by Jennah Feeley.

Mike ForsterStanford Avenue, Palo AltoRetired

“The first I think of is 2008 because

that was the first black president.”

Shelley Chryst Hamilton Avenue, Palo AltoStay-at-home mom

“I can’t remember the exact election,

but the lines were forever long.”

Susan ColeStanford Avenue, Palo AltoTeacher

“The one that comes to mind is 2000

because it was such a disaster. ... I lost

a lot of faith in the system.”

Michael EagerPark Boulevard, Palo AltoComputer consultant

“I’ve worked a lot of elections — one

I remember where I was a precinct in-

spector here and had to set up all the

machines here in the morning.”

Karen McnaySouthgate neighborhood, Palo AltoRetired

“I guess each one is important for its

own reasons. This one was the most

important because it is current.”

by John Guislin

A t the end of October I completed

six months as a member of the RPP Stakehold-ers’ Group — a group of residents and business own-ers tasked with recommending a model for a Resi-dential Permit Parking program for the neighborhoods surrounding the downtown commercial core.

We will not fully understand the results of our efforts until the new regulations are adopted by the City Council late this year, the completion of a six-month trial begin-ning in early 2015, and then full implemen-tation in mid-2015.

I applaud the city for bringing together interested parties to address complicated local issues, and I hope more people will consider serving in these groups. Local knowledge and insight are invaluable in creating solutions to local issues.

However, based on my experience, there is much we can do to improve the process. Below are recommendations to strengthen and accelerate the impact of citizen-guided solutions.

First, stakeholder groups would benefit from independent and competent group fa-cilitation. The city hired Circlepoint Con-sultants to support our group, but it quickly became clear that the Circlepoint facilitator

was not up to the job, and the role was elim-inated. This put an extra burden on Palo Alto’s parking manager to both moderate and participate in the discussions, slowing our progress.

Recommendation No. 1: Ensure that competent, independent group facilitation is offered to future groups.

Second, after generating a list of issues to be addressed, members were assigned to groups, each to propose solutions for a sub-set of issues. All groups included both resi-dent and business representatives, ensuring multiple points of view. I found this to be the most productive group exercise and a powerful tool to create consensus from di-vergent views. Unfortunately, this process was abandoned after four meetings, result-ing in the loss of much of the collaborative spirit that had been created.

Recommendation No. 2: Get opposing sides talking quickly and task them with proposing solutions that could be accept-able to the entire community.

Third, at our July meeting, city staff pro-posed a survey of residents and businesses near the commercial core to collect data on how people view the permit parking pro-posal. The concept is fine but the execu-tion was terrible. The city lacks surveying expertise. At the launch of the survey, the permit proposal was incomplete, the ques-tions failed to address the complexity of the issues and the city used a mailed, paper survey that, to many, looked like junk mail. When questioned about their expertise in survey use, staff simply said that they do surveys all the time but admitted lacking

specific training or expertise.Recommendation No. 3: The city needs

to acquire expertise in survey design, im-plementation and analysis in order to more accurately understand resident opinions.

Lastly, at our initial meeting the city asked the stakeholder group members to comply with the “spirit of the Brown Act” (a 1953 law mandating the public’s right to participate in legislative meetings). A stake-holder group is advisory and has no leg-islative authority. It’s both unrealistic and counterproductive to discourage stakehold-er participants from talking about issues with as many people as possible outside of the meetings.

Recommendation No. 4: Encourage more dialogue, not less.

Our group has just been shown a revised draft of the RPP Ordinance and it is clear that, for the most part, staff listened to our guidance and priorities. However, there is one key area where the proposal utterly fails. Section 4C, b, ii states:

“The Director (of Planning and Com-munity Environment) will limit commuter permit sales according to a threshold listed in the Administrative Regulations ...”

The Administrative Regulations are yet-to-be-written rules for administering the parking district. Giving a city staffer authority to set the number of commercial parking spaces allowed in residential neigh-borhoods is not an acceptable model. Pro-posing a model that’s unlike most residen-tial permit parking programs, Palo Alto’s stakeholder residents have recommended allocating up to 20 percent of parking ca-

pacity to commercial parking in residential areas in order to support a vibrant down-town core while other solutions are devel-oped. This is a generous offer, and an al-location must be reduced over time.

After months of difficult discussions, it is unrealistic and unfair to grant a city staffer the power to determine the acceptable vol-ume of commercial parking intrusion into residential neighborhoods. Staff has missed the mark on this issue.

If you are a Palo Alto resident, then you are by default a stakeholder in the regu-lations and ordinances that govern our community life. If asked to participate in a stakeholders’ group, I encourage you to accept. If you do, please remember that speaking out for what you believe is fair is your right and obligation.

In the group, you’ll get a glimpse of the sau-sage-making that is local government, work with other concerned citizens and perhaps make some surprising new friends from the “other side” of whatever issue you tackle.

John Guislin is a resident of Palo Alto. He can be reached at [email protected].

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SpectrumPALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL

CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUEBROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1

CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26*****************************************

THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED

AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE:http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/knowzone/agendas/council.asp

(TENTATIVE) AGENDA–REGULAR MEETING – COUNCIL CHAMBERSNOVEMBER 10, 2014 - 6:00 PM

STUDY SESSION1. Joint meeting with the PARC SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY2. Partner Presentation on Veterans in the Arts 3. Appointment of Candidates to the Architectural Review Board, Historic Resources Board and Plan-

ning and Transportation Commission CONSENT CALENDAR4. Policy & Services Recommendations Regarding Early Release of Council Agenda Packets 5. Finance Committee Recommendation to Adopt Design Guidelines for the 2014 Water Utility Drought

Rate Cost-of-Service Study

7. Adoption of a Resolution Summarily Vacating Public Easement which has been Relocated at 1050 Page Mill Road

9. Approval of a Resolution in Concurrence with the City of Menlo Park to name the Mike Harding Bridge 10. Approval of Contract with Concern EAP 11. Approval of the Renewal of a Public-Private Partnership Agreement between the City of Palo Alto and

the Palo Alto Players for the Cooperative Use of the Lucie Stern Community Theatre 12. Approval of the Renewal of the Public-Private Partnership Agreement Between the City of Palo Alto

and West Bay Opera for the cooperative use of the Lucie Stern Community Theatre

Sidewalks and Alleys, Lytton and Cogswell Plaza, the Stanford/Palo Alto Playing Fields, and the Old Community Garden, and Provide Outreach Case Management Services to the Downtown Core with

of $2,009,085 to be the Primary Supplier of Construction Materials and Hauler of Construction Debris -

vices and Public Works Department for a Three Year Period from October 27, 2014 through October 26, 2014

11001

Caltrain Go Pass Program

$291,335 to Provide Design Services for Old Pumping Plant (OPP) Rehabilitation at Regional Water

ACTION ITEMS

Housing Element for the Period 2015-2023 in Compliance with State Law

22. Approval of a Two-Year Contract with Flint Strategies For a Communications and Outreach Contract

CLOSED SESSION24. Mitchell Park Library and Community Center

STANDING COMMITTEE MEETINGS

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Transfer of, and Surplus City-Owned Real Property, Leased Use of City Land/Facilities, 2) Legislative Program Manual Addendum.

FOR CITY OWNED PROPERTY LOCATED AT 450 BRYANT STREET, PALO ALTONotice is hereby given that the Palo Alto City Council will consider entering into a new lease for a City owned building at 450 Bryant Street with Avenidas, a provider of senior services to the community. Avenidas has been providing senior services at this location for the past thirty seven (37) years. This public notice is required according to City’s Policy and Procedure Section 1-11/ASD – Leased Use of City Land/Facilities. A copy of this notice will be mailed to property owners and tenants within 300 feet of the subject property in accordance with Section 18.77.080(d) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code (PAMC). The City Council will

meeting on December 15, 2014.

The terms of the lease will be similar to the current ones

one ($1.00) a year. Avenidas will be responsible for the maintenance and operation of the property as well as their allocated utility costs. The City will grant a nonexclusive

For additional information, please contact Hamid Ghaemmaghami, Manager of Real Property, City of Palo Alto at (650) 329-2264, or email: [email protected]

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A LONG TERM LEASE TO AVENIDAS

Menlo Park City Council has to do is to figure out how to ease the inevitable increase in traffic on Middle and Santa Cruz avenues. Those who have to use either of these roads to go anywhere are going to be in a traffic pickle leaving no easy egress from their homes. And what about the exit from Safeway onto Middle? It’s already a bit of a muddle. Oh, and how is El Camino Real going to be able to handle this? Thanks (all sarcasm meant).

Mimi KugushevSan Mateo Drive, Menlo Park

Happy fruitEditor,

It’s challenging to find the right words to capture the fairytale that was Page Mill YMCA. Before be-ing a gym, it was our home, our “University,” a place of healing.

Such a magical house! It was natural to develop best friend-ships and encounter mentors there. A distraught parent could bring in their teen struggling with substance abuse. We could call a trainer still in sleep at 5 a.m., and they would show up immediately on their own personal time to provide encouragement and ad-vice. People without shelter heard about Page Mill. They often came in tired, hungry — and sometimes in tears. We (as staff) would give

them our personal money, packed lunches and friendship. We felt gratified to see the same people leave rested and cheerful.

The variety of membership and culture provided a potent educa-tion. My managers Matt, Cait, Kelly and Nichelle were patient and consistent in teaching me to be a better person. They were compassionate leaders that dem-onstrated active understanding. With humor, positive expecta-tion and honesty, they provided a foundation for self-improvement that I applied to my other jobs, and also in my personal life.

People opened up to each other: doctors, interns, Stanford profes-sors, single parents working to see their kids through school — this diverse family brought together eclectic lessons. From one perspective, its closure is a significant, profound loss. Analy-sis should be made to define the factors that created Page Mill, this “community home” that is essential to maintain balance and provide humanity in any thriving, evolving community.

Another perspective is that those who experienced and felt Page Mill’s magic have the oppor-tunity now to ignite this in the oth-er places. We were a happy, bright fruit in a crowded, noisy tree. A storm came and shook us out. But now we will grow more fruit trees.

Clif ChungSouth California Avenue,

Palo Alto

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by Elizabeth Schwyzer

Found intranslation

Theatre Flamenco speaks the international language of dance

It’s no secret that San Francisco in the mid-1960s was a hub of counterculture. Yet

the flower children of Haight-Ashbury were just one example of a massive shift in American society. Out of that same era emerged many forms of creative expression that had hitherto been virtually invisible to the Ameri-can mainstream — among them the Hispanic arts.

In 1966, a group of artists began to offer flamenco performances in San Francisco. They were the first American company to stage full productions of Spanish dance in the U.S. They called them-selves Theatre Flamenco. Today, the company is one of the oldest dance troupes in California. On

Saturday, Nov. 8, Theatre Fla-menco comes to Mountain View.

Their latest show is “Solo Fla-menco,” a production that draws together some of the best-known flamenco dancers (“bailaores” and “bailaoras”), singers (“can-taores”) and guitar players (“to-caores”) from the U.S. and Spain. Artistic Director Carola Zertuche, who also dances in the produc-tion, explained that though fla-menco originates in the gypsy culture of Andalusia, it is an art form that speaks to artists and au-diences across the world.

Born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, Zertuche studied flamen-co in Mexico City and in Spain and toured internationally before settling in San Francisco and tak-ing the helm of Theatre Flamenco

Carola Zertuche, the artistic director of Theatre Flamenco, says her art form transcends cultural and linguistic borders.

Singer José Méndez hails from a famous Gypsy flamenco family.

Manuela Ríos is an internationally acclaimed flamenco dancer.

in 2007.“Flamenco is a very strong art

form — it’s emotional and per-sonal — so even if people don’t understand the lyrics of the songs, they feel the language of the mu-sic and the dance,” she said.

In selecting artists from across the world to collaborate on a single production, Zertuche has relied on new technology: Digital video footage helps dancers see the choreography and helps mu-sicians know how to complement the energy and expression of the dancers. Real-time video confer-encing lets Zertuche talk with the cast across oceans and time zones.

“That’s the good thing about this era,” she noted, adding that though there is a lot to coordinate in advance, flamenco also relies on improvisation, and each artist will be given the space to respond spontaneously in the moment.

The name of the show, “Solo Flamenco,” indicates Zertuche’s focus on traditional flamenco as well as her vision of presenting each dancer in the show as a solo artist. The lineup of international talent is one of the most extensive Theatre Flamenco has yet pre-sented. Among the performers Zertuche will bring to the Penin-sula is internationally celebrated Sevillan dancer Manuela Ríos, who is also Zertuche’s former flamenco teacher and one of her artistic role models.

“To me, she is the best represen-tation of a female flamenco danc-

er,” said Zertuche of Ríos. “She is super-feminine; she’s strong and she’s very expressive. When she dances, you can tell she’s tell-ing you a story. She stands on the stage, and her presence is so strong that you get goosebumps — and she hasn’t even moved.”

Joining Ríos and Zertuche on-stage will be performer, choreog-rapher and teacher Alfonso Losa, whom Zertuche describes as “an elegant dancer with exquisite footwork,” and Cristina Hall, a San Francisco native now based in Spain who’s a regular Theatre Flamenco collaborator.

In addition to the world-class cast of dancers, Zertuche is bringing to the Bay Area Is-mael Fernández and José Mén-dez, singers from two of Spain’s most famous flamenco families. Fernández is the nephew of Curro Fernández, a patriarch of a fla-menco dynasty in Seville, while Méndez hails from the legendary Méndez clan of Gypsy flamenco singers from Jerez de la Frontera. They will be joined by guitarist José Luis Rodríguez, who is con-sidered one of the best flamenco musicians and composers of his generation. Zertuche spoke in glowing terms about Rodríguez’s contribution to the show.

“I have been working with him for three years, and every time he plays a note it’s like you want to cry,” she said, adding that Rodrí-

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San Francisco native Cristina Hall will travel from Spain for the production.

guez also has an unusual ability to interpret a dancer’s movements and deliver just the right musical tone.

“As a dancer, when you have that support you feel like fly-ing,” she said, struggling to find the right word in English before resorting to her native language. “The word in Spanish is ‘arropa-do,’ or blanketed, like when you pull up the covers in bed.”

That sensation of being sur-rounded by the music — or filled with it — has a special term in flamenco: “duende.” Ask a fla-menco artist to define the word, and you’ll get poetic descriptions of connection and focus, a sense of soaring or oneness of spirit.

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What: Theatre Flamenco presents “Solo Flamenco”

Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View

When: Saturday, Nov. 8, at 8 p.m.

Cost: $45

Info: Go to mvcpa.com or call 650-903-6000. For information on workshops, go to theatreflamenco.org.

years ago. “If he’s still involved, then I know I need to do better, to keep it going.”

As part of “Solo Flamenco,” Losa and Ríos will teach work-shops at Zertuche’s San Francisco school, La Solea. Santos, who still teaches classes himself, plans to attend the workshops.

“I’m almost 90, but I don’t feel that old,” he said proudly. “I’m still jumping around. I can out-dance my dancers.”

Luckily for prospective audi-ence members, neither Santos’ dance ability nor his intimate knowledge of flamenco are re-quired in order to enjoy the per-formance — or even, if you’re lucky, to experience duende.

Arts & Entertainment Edi-tor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at [email protected].

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Dancer Alfonso Losa will also teach a flamenco workshop as part of his U.S. visit.

“Duende is a magic that hap-pens on the stage,” Zertuche said. “It’s when you feel something you’ve never felt before. You are there in your own world with the music and the singing, and then when you finish it’s like you come back to reality.”

Flamenco audience members report a comparable experience of being transported — it’s one of the reasons spectators often cry “Olé!” in the midst of a per-formance.

According to Theatre Flamen-co’s board president and former artistic director Miguel Santos, who at 89 years old remains inti-mately involved in the company, duende isn’t limited to flamenco.

“Duende is experienced by all kinds of artists,” he said. “It’s a deep feeling that comes from the soul.”

Santos has been with Theatre Flamenco since 1968, two years after its inception. He spoke of his performing career, when he toured internationally, danced in films and even performed in Spain for then-dictator Francisco Franco (“They told us to stop dancing when he walked into the room, so that’s what we did,” San-tos recalled).

As Zertuche sees it, having Santos’ institutional memory is a great benefit to Theatre Fla-menco.

“It’s motivating,” she said of Santos’ energy and dedication to the company he joined nearly 50


tive shell encasing her despair. And while Kim sees straight through the childishness of her adult role models, it’s Jeff who of-fers actual alternatives: studying, Dungeons and Dragons and a visit to the safari park. Jeff’s antidote to a dead-end life lies in playful-ness, fantasy and the lesson of the anagram: Even one’s very identity can be rearranged to form some-thing new.

In a poignant scene halfway through the play, the Levacos gather in Kim’s bedroom to cel-ebrate her birthday, albeit belated-ly and in their own dysfunctional way. It’s an oasis of near-normal family warmth.

The real wounds in this play have little to do with Kim’s ill-ness or her impending death; they come from the absence of healthy family bonds, and ulti-mately, from Pattie’s rejection of her firstborn child whose unusual condition is too stark a reminder of her own mortality.

There’s no question this is dark material, but zinging one-liners keep the dialogue zipping along, and though love may not exactly conquer all, like the headlights of the car that finally carries Kim and Jeff into the night, it banishes the darkness.

Arts & Entertainment Edi-tor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at [email protected].


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Beyond her years‘Kimberly Akimbo’ brings black comedy to aging and identity

by Elizabeth Schwyzer

At the drive-thru, Kimberly (Patricia Tyler) is embarrassed by her father, Buddy (James Kopp), as classmate Jeff (Anthony Stephens) looks on.

U ber-nerd Jeff McCracken likes to play word games. Take Kimberly Levaco,

his high school classmate with a rare genetic disorder causing her to age prematurely. Scramble the letters of her name; rear-range them and you get “Cleverly Akimbo.”

Jeff is the unlikely hero of Da-vid Lindsay-Abaire’s 2001 play: a social outcast whose disregard for the superficial and interest in the heart of the matter offer an alternative to suffering and self-involvement.

In the Pear Avenue Theatre’s production, directed by Caroline Clark, it’s clear the real dysfunc-tion is in the Levaco family — not in Kimberly’s cells. Gas-station employee Buddy (James Kopp) and pregnant Pattie (Gretta Stim-son) hurl insults across the kitchen table of their New Jersey apart-ment. Wedged between them sits their teenage daughter, Kimberly (Patricia Tyler).

Lindsay-Abaire wrote “Kim-berly Akimbo” shortly before the birth of his first child, and the play has the feel of an extended prenatal anxiety dream — a nightmare spun by a catastroph-izing mind. A century after Oscar Wilde’s cautionary tale “The Pic-ture of Dorian Gray” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s equally disturbing “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” this dark comedy offers a new angle on timelessly troubling questions: Does old age render us unlovable? What happens when the ordinary laws of aging and mortality no longer apply?

Subsisting on a diet of takeout, breakfast cereal and beer, the Le-vacos are too preoccupied with their own struggles to take much notice of Kimberly, their smart, sarcastic teenager who looks (and often acts) more like their mother than their daughter. Buddy (“I’m a good guy”) is trying his best to

care for Kim; sadly, his best con-sists of forgetting her 16th birth-day and making up for it by stum-bling home drunk at 3 a.m. with a half-squashed cake. Meanwhile, Pattie’s hyperactive hypochondria has her convinced she’s dying of cancer, and recent carpal-tunnel surgery has left her with two ban-daged paws and a victim’s attitude. She has to be spoon-fed and have her ass wiped — visceral meta-phors for a woman who has aban-doned her adult responsibilities. Then there’s Aunt Debra (Kristin Walter), the law-flouting drifter who pops up “like a bad rash” to draw Kim into her latest scheme.

In the midst of this emotional and domestic squalor, Jeff (An-thony Stephens in his debut ap-pearance) is a balm: a dorky boy whose origins are no less grim than Kim’s but who sees her for who she is — and likes her for it.

Under Clark’s direction, the ten-sion in the Levaco household hiss-es and pops like a downed power line, though at its climax (con-veniently punctuated by Pattie’s screaming contractions), all that coiled anger seems to fizzle out rather than ignite. Tyler tackles a tough role and conjures up mo-ments of gut-wrenching pathos, particularly when she emerges in an “old woman” disguise yet with the body language of a teen: eyes rolled heavenward, knees hugging each other apologetically.

In addition to directing, Clark does the scenic design, offering up a cramped apartment with nauseatingly bold plaid wallpa-per (“It’s like you live in a giant thermos,” sniffs Aunt Debra, who herself has spent the past 10 days camping out in the public library). Walter’s Debra is all swaggering nervous energy and grandiose plans of escape — a thin protec-

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Storytelling‘ Foreign Correspondents: Immigrant Odysseys’Between its status as an international technology

hub, the pull of Stanford University and the attrac-tion of year-round sunshine, Silicon Valley draws immigrants from around the world. That makes it a container for some incredible stories. This Sunday, Nov. 9, from 3 to 5 p.m., the Midpeninsula Com-munity Media Center will host “Foreign Correspon-dents: Immigrant Odysseys,” an afternoon of true, dramatic tales told live by six community members who immigrated to the region.

Among this month’s storytellers are a dentist, a submarine engineer, a nonprofit founder and a sep-tic-tank installer. They’ll be bringing stories from as far away as Bolivia, Turkey and Ethiopia.

The free afternoon event includes a reception and will be filmed as part of a nationwide online archive project, “Made Into America,” which collects the stories of U.S. immigrants in order to document an integral part of our nation’s history.

The Media Center is located at 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. To reserve a seat, go to tinyurl.com/ob3rdko or email [email protected]. To learn more about Made Into America, go to madein-toamerica.org.

Watch a YouTube video of “Foreign Correspondents: Immigrant Odysseys” in the online version of this story at PaloAltoOnline.com.

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At “Immigrant Stories,” Kim Le speaks about her childhood escape from Vietnam and her time in a refugee camp.

Artist Scotty Gorham created “Pulse:” a sculptural light array that flashes rhythmically to the viewer’s heartbeat.

Oskar Soderberg, left, as Pantalone and William Kast as Truffaldino in Paly’s production of “Server of Two Masters.”

Theater‘Server of Two Masters’

Yes, you read that right: It’s “server,” as in comput-er software. This week, Palo Alto High School’s the-ater department opens a farcical production based on Carlo Goldoni’s 18th-century Commedia dell’Arte play, “The Servant of Two Masters.” Set in Silicon Valley, Paly’s “Server” spoofs the high-tech culture of our region. Director Kathleen Woods says she saw an obvious connection between the chronically overworked and underfed Truffaldino of Goldoni’s original and today’s young computer programmers as they struggle to secure jobs. Writer Tony Kienitz (who last year co-founded the Palo Alto-based youth film and theater academy A Theatre Near U) wrote the adaptation, while Paly’s theater students helped supply many of the icons of Silicon Valley culture referenced in the play.

“Server of Two Masters” runs Nov. 7 and 13-15, at 7:30 p.m. at Palo Alto High School’s Haymarket Theatre, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors. For tickets, go to palytheatre.seatyourself.biz, email [email protected] or call 650-329-3857.

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Art‘ Science, Technology and the Future of Art’Where does art end and science begin? That’s one

of the questions posed by the Pacific Art League’s

new exhibition. Opening Friday, Nov. 7, “Science, Technology and the Future of Art” explores the in-tersections between the two disciplines. Take for ex-ample Scotty Gorham’s “Pulse,” an interactive light installation that responds to the viewer’s heartbeat by flashing in sync, or his “Pink Clouds,” which offers passersby a chance to watch digital videos by scan-ning bar codes with their smartphones.

The show is curated by Gail Wight, an associate professor of art at Stanford who specializes in ex-perimental media. Though many of the more than 50 works rely on digital media, the show also includes pieces in more traditional genres, including painting, drawing and sculpture.

The Pacific Art League is located at 668 Ramona St., Palo Alto. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Nov. 7, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. The show then runs through Nov. 28. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, go to pacificartleague.org or call 650-321-3891.

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Top: The Chocolate Garage carries more than 175 varieties from artisan makers around the world.Right: Timothy Adams makes all of their chocolate truffles by hand daily.

By Sheila Himmel

Y ou might think three ar-tisan chocolate shops in downtown Palo Alto is at

least one too many. Think again. Alegio Chocolaté, the Choco-late Garage and Timothy Adams Chocolates offer a wide variety of products and experiences.

In other good news for choco-late lovers, scientists recently boosted the belief that dark choc-olate may be a health food. They found that memory skills among older individuals were 25 per-cent higher for those who drank a mixture high in cocoa flavanols, which have antioxidant qualities.

The happy finding comes just in time for the holiday shopping season. Here is a primer on where to go based on the kind of choco-late available, the ambiance and

the price. For the most cinematic, biody-

namic, plantation-to-bar storyline, go to Alegio Chocolaté on Bryant Street. This is the second Alegio shop. Panos Panagos, from the broadcasting world, and Robbin Everson, from high tech, started this business in Berkeley.

They get their chocolate from Claudio Corallo, who moved his family from Tuscany to São Tomé and Príncipe, an island nation off the coast of West Africa that is one of the poorest countries in the world. A tropical agronomist, Corallo previously ran a coffee plantation in Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo. He left Zaire in the grim 1990s, and bought an abandoned plantation in the island rainfor-est. Today he has several hun-

dred employees there, sustainably tending the heirloom cacao trees (descended from seeds brought from Brazil in 1819) and produc-ing some of the purest chocolate in the world.

News outlets from National Geographic to the BBC have fea-tured Corallo.

Alegio is a shrine to Corallo, with photos and stories, but also a tasting experience for up to 28 people. They’ve had team-build-ing and family events nestled around a marble tabletop in the warmly painted Palo Alto store.

The chocolate comes in a few varieties, but only cane sugar is added. It can be bought in bars and boxes. For the holidays, Ale-gio will also feature chocolate truffles. Prices for the bars start at $12.50. The truffles will be

$34.50 for nine, $49.50 for 18. Tasting notes: This is like tast-

ing wine. First you notice the aroma. Let the chocolate melt on your tongue, and it gives off different flavors, from savory to nutty. It is never bitter, waxy nor too sweet.

Alegio Chocolaté522 Bryant St., Palo Alto

650-324-4500Hours: Tuesday-Saturday,

noon-8 p.m.alegio.com/home

The Chocolate Garage is a convivial, closet-size tasting room with couches and a coffee table. Out front are picnic tables provided by the neighboring non-profit collective, UnaMesa. It is open only Wednesday evenings

and Saturday mornings. Sunita de Tourreil credits her

parents with instilling a need to know where food comes from, and how much the farmer gets paid. She grew up near Montreal, though her father is from Switzerland and her mother is from India. She has a master’s degree in molecular biol-ogy and human genetics.

The Chocolate Garage stocks more than 175 chocolate bars from artisan makers all over the world. The brands include Askinosie, Åkesson, Bar au Chocolat, Bonnat, Dandelion, Dick Taylor, Domori, Francois Pralus, Fresco, Fruition, Grenada, Madre, Momotombo, Pacari, Patric and Rogue.

Besides offering the widest se-lection, the Chocolate Garage’s distinguishing feature is the Future Chocolate account. Buying into

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Taking the place of Monique’s Chocolates on Bryant Street, forming a chocolate power center with Alegio, is Timothy Adams Chocolates. Don’t try scoring a freebie by saying you’re a friend of Timothy Adams. The name is a mashup of co-owners Timothy Woods and Adams Holland, who live in Sausalito and had been selling their homemade chocolate at farmers markets.

An interior designer, Holland remade the shop in bright sky-blue, pink and white. Jewel-toned candy boxes line the walls like Pop art. There are tables for two, and tables for six.

Timothy Adams offers classes in hands-on chocolate making as well as tasting parties.

All truffles ($2.25 each) are made by hand every day. Each looks a little different. There are about 20 varieties at any one time. Some are seasonal, such as the fall-flavored poached quince and apple, covered in dark chocolate and dusted with pistachio. Milk chocolate crème fraîche is a pe-rennial favorite, as is salted cara-mel. Not to mention mint.

Timothy Adams also has dairy-free and gluten-free chocolate can-dies called mendicants, and will stock candy bars for the holidays.

Befitting its seating arrange-ments, Timothy Adams also serves coffee and tea. Rusty’s Hawaiian coffee comes in me-dium roast ($3.50) and dark roast ($4.50). The decaf ($3.50) comes from Chromatic Coffee. Tea Forte supplies Earl Grey, chamomile citron and two other teas ($2.50).

Have-it-your-way hot chocolate is a special treat, with five choices in the milk department, six vari-eties of Guittard chocolate, and marshmallows made in-house.

Tasting notes: My in-house hot chocolate fanatic fell into a swoon over his sipping chocolate ($4.50). He chose 2 percent milk and the Coucher du Soleil choco-late. I also recommend the crème fraîche truffle.

Timothy Adams Chocolates539 Bryant St., Palo Alto

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Referring to the distinction between time spent on Earth and during intergalactic travel, a NASA scientist in “Interstellar” cracks (with no apologies to Por-ky Pig), “That’s relativity, folks!” The same could well be said of audience reactions to the latest from Christopher Nolan. Your space-time mileage may vary.

The darling of Warner Bros. Pictures since shepherding a tril-ogy of hugely popular Batman films, Nolan has won himself carte blanche as a director and co-writer (with brother Jonathan) of big-budget mainstream fare. Nolan expends his post-Batman cachet on this apparently mega-expensive space epic.

Die-hard Nolan fans should definitely plan a day-trip to San Francisco’s authentic IMAX screen at the Metreon, but the unconvinced may wish to avoid “Interstellar” entirely. Even the former group may stumble out wondering if their emperor has no clothes or, at least, fewer than once assumed. For the admittedly eye-popping “Interstellar” proves heady and hokey in something close to equal measure as the Nolan brothers nakedly attempt a foolhardy hybrid of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encoun-ters of the Third Kind” and No-lan’s own “Inception.”

Matthew McConaughey plays Cooper, a widowed former NASA pilot and engineer who now works as a farmer in a near-apocalyptic America. Earth’s ability to sustain life is rapidly waning, so when Cooper stumbles into a secret

NASA program to save human-ity by relocating it elsewhere in the universe, he has little choice but to submit to the overtures of astrophysicist Professor Brand (Michael Caine). The Hobson’s choice means leaving behind his own family to play nice in space with Brand’s daughter, also a Dr. Brand (Anne Hathaway).

In the early going, “Interstel-lar” compellingly posits what life could look like in the last days of the American Empire, and how, if we’re lucky, a space program could provide hope. But when Ha-thaway shows up in her designer pixie cut, it’s the first in a series of false notes that tediously erode “Interstellar”’s proud scientific verisimilitude and capacity for wonder. Shortly thereafter, Nolan stages a scene in which Cooper’s agonized goodbye includes the line, “Once you’re a parent, you’re the ghost of your children’s fu-ture.” Yeah, that’s exactly the kind

of comforting sentiment that trips right off a father’s tongue in a mo-ment of emotional duress.

Unfortunately, the female char-acters are even more poorly writ-ten than the male ones (Hathaway gets the gloppier end of an absurd philosophical discussion of love), and Nolan seems less desirous of a coherent thematic point than that critics and audiences will be-lieve, at last, that he’s not modern cinema’s heartless Tin Man.

Technically speaking, Nolan swings for the fences here, and his ambition is to be applauded. Yet his blithering message for humanity stands poised some-where between Dylan Thomas and the Beatles: go ahead and “rage, rage against the dying of the light,” but in the end, “all you need is love.” There you have it, folks: Love is what’s really be-tween the stars.

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Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and David Oyelowo undertake a mission to save humanity in “Interstellar.”

Anne Hathaway plays Dr. Amelia Brand in “Interstellar.”

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As a music teacher and residential faculty for boarding students, Amanda gets her inspiration from seeing the “a-ha” moments with students; like when they realize that they can play their favorite song on guitar, or after a great performance in the Performing Arts Center, or when they solve a challenging problem during study hall in the dorms. When Amanda isn’t teaching, she loves playing volleyball, hiking, rock climbing, and getting out on the water. She also loves playing and listening to music, playing her guitar or clarinet, attending concerts, symphonies, or musicals, and learning new music. Amanda hopes that her students learn to foster a true commitment and love for music.

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Late bloomerRom com ‘Laggies’ is surprisingly satisfying

In “Laggies,” Keira Knightley’s Megan is a reluctant bridesmaid to a judgmental friend.

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be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!” As per that musical manifesto, perhaps no modern myth reso-nates more with contemporary America than that of “Peter Pan.” And “Peter Pan Syndrome” isn’t just for boys anymore, as proven by the new Lynn Shelton film, “Laggies.”

Directed by Shelton (“Your Sis-ter’s Sister”) but scripted by first-timer Andrea Seigel, “Laggies” offers Keira Knightley a choice role that the ever-waifish actress surprisingly nails. Knightley usu-ally comes across on screen as some kind of photo-ready super-model wet blanket, a bit of a bore who’s typically relegated to dully unimaginative period pieces. But in “Laggies,” Knightley plays a modern American underdog: a loser, but our loser, who laments how much the world sucks but hasn’t yet committed to making it — or even her own life — better.

Knightley’s 28-year-old Megan is trying not to feel the burn of a

quarter-life crisis. Despite holding an advanced degree, she’s reduced to spinning an advertising sign for her CPA father (Jeff Garlin) and playing reluctant bridesmaid to a judgmental friend (Ellie Kem-per). But on the wedding night, a proposal from her uninspiring boyfriend (Mark Webber) sends Megan dashing into the night for a breather.

There, she’s plied by teenagers who want her to buy them booze, and before you can say, “I think this is the beginning of a beauti-ful friendship,” Megan bonds with the equally needy 16-year-old An-nika (Chloë Grace Moretz). After doing Annika a couple of big solids, Megan earns the right to her own big ask: a place to “lay low” for a week to avoid her re-sponsibilities, including facing up to the reality of that marriage proposal. And so it is that Megan begins bunking out on Annika’s bedroom floor.

Megan’s “laggie” lifestyle and hijinks with Annika make for some drily funny scenes and an intriguing premise based around an unusual female friendship.

Simply running with that might have made “Laggies” more inter-esting than what it turns out to be, which is, in large part, a rom com. Still, that the romantic comedy pairs a suddenly likeable Knight-ley with the always likeable Sam Rockwell (as Annika’s bemused single dad) means that even the film’s turn toward convention satisfies, goosed as it is by Rock-well’s spontaneous acting style.

Throw in an anorexic tortoise (that Megan also bonds with), and “Laggies” quickly takes on a “what’s not to like?” air. Though hardly profound in its implica-tions, the picture proves different enough — in content and verbal style — to be quirky. While the borderline silly material could

easily have sunk like a lead bal-loon, Shelton and her actors sprin-kle enough pixie dust to make “Laggies” fly.

Rated R for language, some sexual material and teen party-ing. One hour, 39 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

The following is a sampling of movies recently reviewed in the Weekly:

Birdman Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Bird-man or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” may be something less than the sum of its dazzling parts, but it is an entertaining farce of life as an actor in the time of Marvel Studios. In a role that holds a funhouse mirror up to his own life, the idiosyncratic Mi-chael Keaton plays Riggan Thomson, a faded movie star looking for artistic redemption by adapting, directing and starring in a Broadway play based on Raymond Carver story. Thomson’s fall from Hollywood grace corresponded with his abandonment of the “Bird-man” superhero franchise, which (like Keaton’s “Batman” collaborations with Tim Burton) predated the genre’s peak in the escalating civil war between Disney-aligned Marvel and Warner Brothers-owned D.C. The absurdity of this genre of cinematic art, the preten-tiousness of actors and the way the former has threatened to swallow the latter whole fuels “Birdman”’s fire. While occasionally scintillating, the screenplay feels strangely secondary to the jazzy style born of Iñárritu’s fertile imagina-tion and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki’s wizardry in capturing and stitching together long takes into a film that appears to be one unbroken shot.



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Citizenfour 1/2Just about everyone has heard of Ed-ward Snowden, the 29-year-old NSA consultant infrastructure analyst who blew the whistle on the U.S. govern-ment’s program of warrantless mass spying on its own citizens. But Laura Poitras’ exemplary documentary “Citi-zenfour” shares with us the privileged access Snowden (“I go by Ed”) granted to her and Guardian reporters Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill. That we’re seeing this footage only now is partly due to Snowden’s concern that he would become the story, distract-ing from the incendiary revelations he enabled out of his own idealistic sense of duty — and at great personal cost. Snowden unceremoniously holds court in a Hong Kong hotel room over what Poitras calls an eight-day “encounter,” beginning on June 3, 2013. Perhaps the most striking element of “Citizenfour” is

language that sounds like hyperbole but isn’t, like Snowden’s assertion that the NSA is “building the greatest weapon of oppression in the history of man ... a system whose reach is unlimited but whose safeguards are not.” The film’s centerpiece is its footage of Snowden’s testimony and consideration of how best to share it, but Poitras also in-cludes select footage of legal actions and public forums that offer contextual (and Snowden-friendly) perspectives on NSA overreach. Her approach can be assailed for not being fair and balanced, though it includes a few passing govern-ment “defenses” in PR and legal situa-tions. But it’s just as true that the facts Snowden revealed are cause for outrage and were issued with a convincingly sincere intent of exposing and opposing the clandestine misuse of state power. As such, “Citizenfour” is a film every single American — and, indeed, every

world citizen — should see. Rated R for language. One hour, 54 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed Oct. 31, 2014)

Whiplash 1/2What does it take to be “one of the greats?” This is the question at the dark heart of “Whiplash,” an indie “Ama-deus” set in a New York City music conservatory. Fearsome instructor Ter-ence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) makes it his mission to inflict punishment on students, doling out emotional and physical injury in order to help them achieve greatness as musicians (and, by extension, to secure his own legacy). One of the Shaffer Conservatory of Music’s most brilliant students, Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller) quickly learns to want precisely what he can’t have from Fletcher: Respect. Fletcher lays psycho-logical traps for Andrew as he draws the student into the complex web that is the

competitive studio band, where students live in a constant struggle for “first chair.” Andrew begins as a devoted player and an intent studier of Buddy Rich record-ings, but under Fletcher these practices become obsessions that drive out all hu-man connections. Seduced and abused by his new spiritual father, Andrew comes more deeply to resent his own father (Paul Reiser) for his lack of “suc-cess,” and determines that new girlfriend Nicole (Melissa Benoist) isn’t worth the time and head space she takes up. The theater-of-cruelty narrative culminates in a wildly intense capper to the film’s series of increasingly taut confrontations (including a family-and-friends dinner at which Andrew blows up in frustration over cultural definitions of success). Writer-director Damien Chazelle estab-lishes himself as an intelligent new voice

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in film with this bracing draft of cold air in what’s thus far been a largely airless year at the movies. Rated R for strong language including some sexual refer-ences. One hour, 46 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed Oct. 24, 2014)

Dear White People At this point in American history, we’d like to believe we’ve come a long way on the subject of race. But as “Dear White People” wades into those still roiling waters, viewers will have to con-fess we’ve still got a long way to go. Set in fictional Ivy League college Win-chester University, writer-director Justin Simien’s debut presents a believable school setting (and American micro-cosm) peopled with colorful characters. Among them is Sam White (Tessa Thompson), the DJ/blogger flogging the titular gimmick “Dear White People” (e.g. “Dear white people: The minimum requirement of black friends required to not seem racist has just been raised to two...”). By doling out wisdom to whites

about their racial and cultural presump-tions, Sam becomes a campus hero to some and a pariah to others. Mean-while, plans are afoot among some of the school’s white students — repre-sented by Kurt Fletcher (Kyle Gallner), son of the school president — for a black-themed Halloween party predi-cated on mocking racial stereotypes. This hotbed of tension sets the stage for political, journalistic, romantic and domestic dramas to play out amongst the students and, in some cases, their parents. The power struggles allow Simien opportunity for satire, but also for sincere attempts at understand-ing between characters and improved self-knowledge. Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams) exemplifies this in shyly exploring his own homosexuality as he attempts to find his place in campus life. For her part, Sam is carrying on a romance on the down-low with a white student (Justin Dobies’ Gabe), race giv-ing both of them unnecessary pause due to their own hang-ups and the school’s charged environment. Rated R for language, sexual content and drug use. One hour, 40 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed Oct. 24, 2014)

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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (PG) Century 16: 10 a.m., 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7 & 9:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 5:55 & 8:05 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:25 & 3:45 p.m.

Big Apple Circus: Metamorphosis (Not Rated) Century 20: Sat 12:30 p.m.

Big Hero 6 (PG) Century 16: 9:50 & 11:50 a.m., 12:40, 2:40, 5:30, 6:15, 8:20 & 9:05 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:10 p.m. In 3-D at 9 & 10:40 a.m., 1:30, 3:30, 4:20, 7:10 & 10 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:45 p.m. Century 20: 9:40 & 10:45 a.m., 12;20, 2, 3, 4:45, 7:05 & 9:10 p.m. In 3-D at 10:10, 11:15 & 11:45 a.m., 12:55, 1:35, 2:30, 3:35, 4:15, 5:10, 5:50, 6:25, 7:30, 8, 8:35, 9:55, 10:20, 10:45 & 11:10 p.m.

Birdman (R) Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:45 & 10:30 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1, 2:30, 4, 5:30, 7 & 8:30 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m.

The Book of Life (PG) Century 16: 10:55 a.m., 1:40, 4:10, 7:05 & 9:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:50, 4:20, 6:45 & 9:25 p.m.

Citizenfour (R) 1/2 Guild Theatre: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 & 9:45 p.m.

Dear White People (R) Century 16: 8 & 10:40 p.m., Sat & Sun 9:10 & 11:55 a.m., 2:35 & 5:20 p.m. Century 20: 10:15 p.m.

Fury (R) Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:35, 4:40, 7:45 & 10:50 p.m. Century 20: 1, 4:05, 7:20 & 10:25 p.m.

Gone Girl (R) 1/2 Century 16: 9 a.m., 12:20, 3:55, 7:15 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 4, 7:20 & 10:35 p.m., Fri 12:40 p.m., Sat & Sun 12:30 p.m.

Gone With the Wind (1939) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 2 p.m.

Interstellar (PG-13) 1/2 Century 16: 9, 10 & 11 a.m., noon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6:10, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 10:50 p.m. Century 20: 9:50, 10:30 & 11:30 a.m., 12:10, 1:30, 2:15, 3:15, 3:55, 5:20, 6, 7, 7:40, 9:05, 9:45 & 10:35 p.m. In X-D at 12:45, 4:30 & 8:15 p.m.

John Wick (R) Century 16: 9:05 & 11:40 a.m., 2:25, 5:10, 7:50 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m.

The Judge (R) 1/2 Century 20: 7:10 p.m., Sun 1:10 p.m.

Laggies (R) Aquarius Theatre: 2:30, 5, 7:30 & 9:55 p.m.

The Maze Runner (PG-13) 1/2 Century 20: 10:20 p.m., Fri & Sun 10:25 a.m., Sat & Sun 4:25 p.m.

Nightcrawler (R) Century 16: 11:05 a.m., 1:55, 4:45, 7:40 & 10:30 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:50 & 10:40 p.m.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) (R) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m.

Ouija (PG-13) Century 16: 9:30 a.m., 7:30 & 9:50 p.m., Sat & Sun 12:05, 2:25 & 4:55 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:20, 3:40, 6, 8:20 & 10:40 p.m.

St. Vincent (PG-13) Aquarius Theatre: 2:15, 4:45, 7:10 & 9:25 p.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7:15 & 10 p.m.

Whiplash (R) 1/2 Century 16: 5:05, 7:50 & 10:30 p.m., Fri & Sat 2:25 p.m., Sat & Sun 9:05 a.m., Sat 11:45 a.m.

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Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)

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NOVEMBER 2014

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R etired from the computer in-dustry, Palo Alto resident Mary Ahrens was scouting

for new activities when she stum-bled on an unusual way to share her talents and meet new people.

A friend told her about linkAg-es, an online time-banking net-work sponsored by the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, in which participants can offer a “neigh-borly service” — say a ride to the airport, knitting lessons or help with gardening — and later can

receive a service of their choice from other time-bank members.

Ahrens joined the online ex-change and soon found herself imparting Sudoku tips to a much younger member. Taking up the offer of a different time-bank member, she began playing Euro-pean board games with a group of women at the Sunnyvale Senior Center.

“I’ve just found it kind of fasci-nating,” Ahrens said. “Ruby (the time-bank member who origi-nally posted the board-game of-fer) and I have finally gotten past

the point where we meet at the Sunnyvale Senior Center, and af-ter a couple of months she invited me to come play board games at her house.

“Now we’re just a group of people who like doing the same things,” she said.

Recently Ahrens, who is a cat owner, posted a new offer on the time bank: She’ll take care of your cat while you’re away.

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if I could find someone else who’d like cat-sitting,” she said. “Not only is it difficult to find people, but it would be nice to pay with

time instead of with dollars. So I’ve posted an offer to do cat-sitting.”

Ahrens was among the first members of the time bank, launched by PAMF last year as part of a larger initiative to support older adults and family caregivers in the com-munity.

The time bank emerged from research and brainstorming by officials at PAMF’s David Druker Center for Health Systems Innovation, which aims to “leverage tech-nology to create scalable solutions that ad-dress the pressing health challenges of our time.”

The group focused on addressing issues raised by the aging of the population be-cause of the huge number of people, local-ly and nationally, turning age 65 over the next few years, said Vandana Pant, senior director of strategic initiatives for the cen-ter. A medical ethnographer led the design process, observing and interviewing local seniors and family caregivers.

“We heard again and again from seniors that the issue becomes isolation,” Pant said.

“We heard a very poignant phrase from one person in particular — ‘the world starts to close in’ — which we felt encap-sulated the problem. They’re here, but be-coming invisible and no longer in a place where they’re able to give back. People feel like a burden on an ongoing basis. One said, ‘I’m tired of being the recipi-ent of volunteer services because all I do is receive,” contributing to that sense of lack of value.”

They chose the name linkAges in hopes that the project would attract users of all ages.

The time bank creates opportunities for seniors to contribute in ways that work for them, Pant said. For example, her own 84-year-old mother offered to knit scarves. On behalf of her mother, Pant asked a 28-year-old time-bank member who recent-ly moved to the area from India to come play Scrabble with her.

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Nov 3UNA Film Festival: “The March of the Bonus Army”2-4@ Avenidas. Free.

Nov 4Avenidas Walkers10am. Call 650-387-5256 for trailhead info or to schedule. Free.

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Nov 6Free Family Caregiver 101 Workshop“Using Music to Engage People With Memory Loss”@Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center in Mountain View7-8:30pm. To RSVP and for directions, call (650) 289-5499

Nov 7Oral health lecture & screening10am-12pm @Avenidas. Free

Nov 1016mm Film Screening: “April in Paris”2:30-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Free.

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Nov 20Book Club: “Founding Mothers” by Cokie Roberts3-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Free.

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Robert Brown, center, instructor at the Taijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto, leads a beginner lesson in Tai Chi at Rinconada Park for members of PAMF’s linkAges TimeBank.

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The group focused on addressing issuesraised by the aging of the population be-cause of the huge number of people, local-ly and nationally, turning age 65 over the

r next ffew years, saidid Vanddana Pant, seniiordirector of strategic initiatives for the cen-ter. A medical ethnographer led the design process, observing and interviewing localseniors and family caregivers.

“We heard again and again from seniorsthat the issue becomes isolation,” Pant said.

“We heard a very poignant phrase from one person in particular — ‘the world starts to close in’ — which we felt encap-sulated the problem. They’re here, but be-coming invisible and no longer in a place

where they’re able to give back. People feel like a burden on an ongoing basis.

One said, ‘I’m tired of being the recipi- ent of volunteer services because all I do

f is receive,” contributing to that sense oflack of value.”

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together for two hours,” Pant said. “It was an opportunity for the young woman, who had just moved here because of her hus-band’s tech job, to start to get to know her community.”

Time-bank members also may donate earned hours to a “com-munity pool” to make services available for frail seniors who need someone to check in on them or help with errands.

In its second year of a three- to five-year pilot, the time bank has about 260 members, aged 18 to 92, who have completed more than 600 hours of exchanges. About 40 percent of members are older than 65.

Now the push is on to attract more members to the free net-work.

A recent orientation meeting for prospective time bankers at the Red Rock cafe in Mountain View drew about 15, including some young time-bank staff members. Several newcomers said they’d recently retired and were looking for new ways to meet people.

“When you retire, you have a group of friends that are still working and you need to find a bunch of people who now have the day open,” Ahrens said.

When she signed on last year, the time bank was just getting started and had few members.

“You really do need a critical mass of people in order to find the cross-section of what people offer to do and what people want to request, and I think they’re just getting to that point,” she said.

Though prospective members are subject to background checks, guidelines advise time bankers to exercise the same caution they would use when interacting with a new friend or neighbor for the first time.

“No one has access to your phone number or address unless you give it to them,” said Chris-tina Araiza, community engage-ment manager for the PAMF cen-ter for health systems innovation. “The only geographic indicator is your city.”

The linkAges TimeBank also schedules monthly activities for members, which recently included a free tai chi session for beginners at Rinconada Park that attracted several dozen participants.

“We want our members to get to know each other and to feel comfortable calling on each other if they need help and support,” Araiza said.

The PAMF team also has made its time-bank software available to other groups, including the El Camino YMCA in Mountain View and Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills.

In late September, Beth Am launched “LinkAges Beth Am,” a private time bank limited to congregation members.

“We’re a big congregation and people don’t necessarily know each other,” Beth Am board member Stephanie Hannaford said. “There are so many really talented people but nobody knows what their talents are, who’s got

some free time, who doesn’t — everybody’s so busy. This is a really nice way for people to get introduced to each other, and they have something in common from the get-go.

“We just started and we’re not really booming yet, but I think over time we may be able to help our elders more and also utilize the talents of our teenagers and the in-between people, so that’s my dream.”

The PAMF LinkAges Time-Bank will hold an orientation session for prospective mem-bers on Thursday, Nov. 13, from 6 to 7 p.m. at Hobee’s, 4224 El Camino Real in Palo Alto. To register for the session visit timebank.linkages.org/compo-nent/dtregister.

More information about the program is available at timebank/linkages.org and 650-934-3556.

Contributing Writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at [email protected].

NEW AT CHANNING HOUSE ... Channing House today, Nov. 7, is holding a dedication ceremony for its new, 47,000-square-foot health center. The new center, with under-ground parking, will have space for 27 assisted-living residents on its ground floor and 26 skilled-nursing residents on its second floor, mostly in private apartments. Both floors will have full-time nursing staff. Phy-sicians from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation are scheduled to visit patients four mornings a week. The new center will replace the assisted-living and skilled-nursing services that currently exist on the second floor of the facility’s main building. Occupancy is tentatively set for De-cember, pending licensing approvals from the California Department of Social Services and the California Department of Public Health, ac-cording to administrator Julie Jones.

VETERANS DAY TRIBUTE ... Join Avenidas for a free Veterans Day

screening of the documentary “Remembering World War II: First Person Account” on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 450 Bryant St., from 2:30 to 5 p.m. You will hear stories of people who experienced the war more than a half-century ago. This project was born out of the need to help the war come to life for high school students. The film honors members of the generation who worked and fought to preserve the freedom Americans enjoy today.

‘BRAIN GAME’ BUYER BEWARE ... Six Stanford University neuroscien-tists and cognitive psychologists were among 69 scholars from around the world to sign a statement expressing skepticism about the effectiveness of so-called “brain game” products. The statement was issued jointly by the Stanford Center on Longevity and the Berlin-based Max Planck Institute for Human Development. As Baby Boomers enter their golden years, companies are all too often promising quick fixes for cognition problems through products that are unlikely to produce broad improve-

ments in everyday functioning, said Laura Carstensen, Stanford profes-sor of psychology and director of the longevity center. “It is customary for advertising to highlight the benefits and overstate potential advantages of their products,” she said. “But in the case of brain games, companies also assert that the products are based on solid scientific evidence developed by cogni-tive scientists and neuroscientists. So we felt compelled to issue a statement directly to the public.” Also signing from Stanford were psychology professors Gordon H. Bower and Anthony D. Wagner, neurologist Michael D. Gre-cius, education professor Richard J. Shavelson and psychiatrist Jerome Yesavage. NEW RELATIONS? ... Palo Alto’s Lytton Gardens and Portola Valley’s The Sequoias may soon become sis-ters. The parent organizations of the two senior living facilities, Episcopal Senior Communities and Northern California Presbyterian Homes and

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Services, respectively, announced Oct. 29 that they are in talks regard-ing a planned affiliation. “A shared governance structure and co-mingled management will work collabora-tively to integrate staff, policies, best practices and procedures for the organization,” the boards of the two organizations said in an announce-ment. Together the two organizations currently provide housing for more than 4,500 seniors in the Bay Area and employ more than 2,000 people. The boards’ announcement said they expect to complete the merger by March 31, 2015.

CAREGIVING REFRAMED ... Mul-tiple losses are part of the landscape caregivers navigate. Avenidas Care Partners Manager Paula Wolfson will help reframe the language used to describe this complicated role in a free workshop Thursday, Nov. 13. How does caregiving add mean-ing to one’s life? How does being a caregiver reflect values, strength and family legacy? Call 650-289-5400 to RSVP for the workshop, which will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto.

FREE PRE-HOLIDAY RIDES ... The local office of home-care service provider Home Care Assistance is offering free rides to Avenidas members on Wednesday, Nov. 26, the day before Thanksgiving, to help with shopping and errands. The offer is in support of Avenidas’ campaign to encourage discussions about senior driving safety. Rides will be available between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. and can be scheduled by visiting homecareassistance.com, calling 650-462-6900 or visiting the com-pany’s office at 148 Hawthorne Ave., Palo Alto.

MOBILITY ‘DESIGN CHALLENGE’ ... The Stanford Center on Longevity has issued its second annual “de-sign challenge” to students around the world: Design a product or ser-vice to improve the mobility of older adults. Initial submissions of ideas are due Dec. 5 and “a small number of finalists” will be announced in mid-January. Finalists will be given $1,000 toward their research costs plus $1,500 in travel expenses to at-tend a Stanford conference in April, where they’ll be judged on their presentations. First-, second- and third-place teams will win $10,000, $5,000 and $2,000 respectively. Last year’s design challenge, seek-ing products or services for older adults with cognitive impairment, attracted 52 teams from 31 univer-sities in 15 countries. Taking first place was Sha Yao of San Fran-cisco’s Academy of Art University for “Eatwell,” specially designed and colored tableware to make it easier for Alzheimer’s patients to eat with-out spilling.

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PRUNE THE SOUNDWALL ... Canopy is recruiting volunteers to prune and re-plant the sound-wall along Highway 101, from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. 8, meeting at the corner of Ralmar Avenue and East Bay-shore Road in East Palo Alto. Info: Trained pruning volunteers can RSVP by email to Natalia at [email protected]; to learn how to become a trained pruning volunteer, email Maika at [email protected]. TREE WALK ... Arborist Deborah Ellis will lead a free tree walk from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. 8, through the West Bay-shore neighborhood, meeting at Ohlone School, 950 Amarillo Ave., Palo Alto. Expect to see White Mulberry, Red Ironbark, Carob, Patmore Ash, Briottii Red Horse Chestnut, River She-oak and more. Info: Canopy at 650-964-6110 or canopy.org

THE DIRT ON DIRT ... UC Mas-ter Gardener David Peterson will give a free talk called “All About Garden Soil Basics” from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8, at Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. He will cover the properties of garden soils, how to diagnose kinds of soil, dealing with problematic soils and water-ing during the drought. He’ll also deal with compost and mulch. Info: Master Gardeners at 408-282-3105, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, or mastergardeners.org

WINTER IN THE GARDEN ... UC Master Gardener volunteers will offer a three-session class, “Win-ter in the Vegetable Garden,” from 7 to 9 p.m. on Mondays, Nov. 10, Dec. 8 and Jan. 12, at Palo Alto High School, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. The class is recommended for those who have already taken the “Sustainable Vegetable Gar-dening” class. Each session will include a one-hour talk, followed by a Q&A. Cost is $60. Info: 650-329-3752 or paadultschool.org

KUDOS TO COLDWELL ... Cold-well Banker Residential Broker-age agents, managers and staff volunteered 600 hours between April and July for Habitat for Humanity, earning the firm hon-ors for winning the 2014 Build It Challenge, according to a press release. That was six times the goal set by the company. Projects included new home

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T he trick to creating in-teresting holiday flower arrangements is to walk

around your garden and see what you’ve got, UC Master Gardener Roberta Barnes advised during a recent stroll through the Palo Alto Demonstration Garden, ad-jacent to Eleanor Pardee Park.

“Don’t be so eager to clean up your garden. There might be something you can use here,” she said.

Barnes will offer a free work-shop on “Holiday Flower Ar-rangements” next Friday at Ave-nidas and will bring samples to show just how one can “think beyond the box” and choose more than holly and pine.

While not much is at the peak of blooming season in November and December, many plants offer intriguing textures and shapes, as well as a whole gamut of greens.

“The last of the lavender would look good in a fall arrangement,” she said, as would many of the Australian plants shown in the waterwise garden. Grevillea la-nigera boasts dark pink blooms, and leucadendron salignum offers beautiful foliage, she said.

“Rosemary looks good as a hol-iday green,” she added, pointing to a low-growing ‘Mozart’ plant with lilac blossoms in early No-vember.

One of her favorite table cen-

terpieces begins with a medium-sized uncut pumpkin. She then chooses a variety of succulents, and uses a hot-glue gun to attach them to the top.

One could also add succulents with blooms, dried flowers or dried chili peppers, she said.

“These will last quite a long time” without any water, she added.

“Last year, for the Western Horticultural Society, we used white pumpkins. These lasted for months,” she said, noting that eventually they used pieces of the centerpieces to start new plants. And the pumpkins could be cooked and eaten.

If they had cut a hole in the pumpkin they wouldn’t have last-ed more than a week, she said.

For the Avenidas class, Barnes said she’ll focus on creating low and wide centerpieces. “We want people to be able to look over it,”

she said, and it needs to be attrac-tive all the way around.

As an example, she began with a low basket, added a plastic liner (these are available at nurseries, but one could use any plastic con-tainer that fits the basket, she said) and then dropped in Oasis floral foam. The foam is moistened and helps to both support and hydrate the plants that will be inserted.

A base of greens “covers the mechanics,” then flowers and dried materials from the yard are tucked into the foam.

Attractive greens to tuck in could include Pennisetum ‘ru-brum,’ a red grass; breadseed poppies, which she called “big, unique, really beautiful”; cone flowers, with the dried petals picked off; crocosmia blooms that have gone to seed; pepper berries; eucalyptus foliage and seed pods; and even rose hips.

Barnes, who started out as a

home gardener who was hired by neighbors to tidy up their gardens, went on to become a “fine garden-er” specializing in light pruning, a “little design” and maintenance. She took some courses at Foothill College, but mostly, she said, she learned by doing research and be-ing hands-on.

Twelve years ago she completed training through the University of California Master Gardener Program, which is committed to passing on home-horticulture and pest-management information to the public. The Avenidas class is part of Barnes’ volunteer duties that encourage sustainable, or-ganic gardening practices.

The Los Altos resident has been very involved in Palo Alto’s waterwise garden and proudly pointed to the plants that were thriving, despite current drought conditions.

“This may not be a great year for leaf color, because it’s been so dry,” she remarked.

“The point of the talk isn’t to teach how to be florists, but how

Clockwise, from top left: A charming centerpiece can be made from an uncut pumpkin, using a hot-glue gun to attach succulents; various dried greenery, including red and pampas grass, breadseed poppies, cone flowers and grape leaves can be used in holiday arrangements; UC Master Gardener Roberta Barnes will be demonstrating how to make holiday flower arrangements using materials from one’s yard on Nov. 14 at Avenidas.

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I am a late bloomer. I didn’t know

Gary Snyder had gone to Kyoto until just this morning. I also didn’t start collecting unique plants until a cou-ple of years ago. I never appreciated Rothko or Pollock until a few years ago when a girl

friend said it would be good to know about these guys. I went to the new Anderson col-lection over at Stanford last week and was amazed. The landscape is nothing to write home about but for the Goldsworthy sculp-ture on the Palm Drive side of the Cantor Museum. Be careful as you approach, you could fall into it.

Gary Snyder wrote about observations like how trees were cut in Japan just like here, how people are in ways like they have always been and how they can wake up. For me, finding new plants to cultivate in my small forest container garden on my deck is as ex-citing as the estates around the Bay Area that I walk through for my work.

Size really doesn’t matter. Attention does. And when it comes to art, in the museum

or in the garden, the beauty is only partially in the object itself. How we look at it is so important. The questions we ask when we meet a new (to us) design or creation can take us many places we never knew existed. This month’s garden tips will be some of my observations. If they inspire you to ask ques-tions of your own, then I have done my job.

1. I have noticed that depth in art and in a landscape is quite important. To notice the contour of the ground where there is a berm adjacent to a swale, while subtle, makes a big difference in the quality of the design.

2. Layers of paint on a canvas make one think differently than if it is all on one plane.

The same goes for how plantings are placed, even in a small bed near a window. Windows are to be looked out more than in. They also provide a frame for the view.

3. Color contrasts and complements create movement even when everything is still. To

study color theory even just a little, we learn that placing secondary colors like orange, green and purple next to primary colors red, yellow and blue causes a vibration. It reads as more alive.

4. Pink camellia sasanquas are one of few fragrant camellias. Because of that, for me, the fragrance is all the more special.

5. It is important to have comfortable fur-niture in your garden.

6. Over-watering creates the same symp-toms as under-watering. Knowing how much to give your plants demonstrates how much you care.

7. Shopping for plants is different than buying plants. Try leaving the checkbook in the car. Loving without wanting is heaven; wanting without loving is hell.

8. Walking in a garden with someone else shows us a different garden. Depending on the person we are walking with, we can have a life-changing experience.

9. Everything can be explained mathemati-cally — not necessarily by me.

10. My parents said, at least a thousand times, “Look it up.” Now I find myself saying it all the time. Look it up. Develop the skill of asking questions, then find the answers.

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And if there just isn’t enough color in the garden to create a centerpiece, one can slip out to Trader Joe’s or a nursery and pick up a few contrasting blooms.

Associate Editor Carol Blitzer can be emailed at [email protected].

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What: Holiday Flower ArrangementsWhen: Friday, Nov. 14, 1 to 2:30 p.m.Where: Avenidas, 450 Bryant St., Palo AltoCost: FreeInfo: Master Gardeners at 408-282-3105, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, or mastergardeners.org

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C. Xie for $1,100,000 on 9/30/14; previous sale 10/13, $855,0002014 Hastings Shore Lane #212 V. March to J. Cohn for $702,000 on 9/30/14; previous sale 3/04, $475,500

BUILDING PERMITSPalo Alto

3064 Middlefield Road reinforce kitchen ceiling frame during con-struction, $n/a432 Webster St. remodel kitch-en, $15,907.38834 E. Meadow Drive install roof-mounted PV system, $n/a4131 Thain Way re-roof, $24,207522 Thain Way re-roof, $20,591542 Thain Way re-roof, $27,302925 Waverley St. replace rail at all units due to dry rot, $24,000502 Thain Way re-roof, $14,640202 Emerson St. re-roof, $n/a1300 Cowper St. re-roof, $15,7503473 Rambow Drive electrical, rewire patio room, $n/a2075 Tasso St. re-roof, $3,1722764 Byron St. re-roof, $17,000

250 Walter Hays Drive re-roof, $14,271787 Florales Drive remodel, including kitchen, convert two bedrooms into master bedroom suite with bathroom and study, remodel bathroom, $58,1923264 Ross Road install R-6 wireflex duct to supply registers, $n/a3355 Waverley St. add two spread footings below house, $2,000715 Torreya Court re-roof, $21,6963645 Ramona St. add overhang in guest room, $n/a3157 Louis Road remodel kitchen, $17,0002137 Bowdoin St. re-roof ga-rage, $2,5001568 Channing Ave. re-roof, $14,0724307 Miranda Ave. install roof-mounted PV system, $n/a2293 Santa Ana St. remodel kitchen, widen doorway to living room, move wall, $18,192540 Guinda St. remodel condo, including kitchen and bath, add

washer/dryer, $55,000467 Everett Ave. structural changes to four piers at front porch, $n/a991 Loma Verde Ave. install roof-mounted PV system, $n/a925 Moraga Court remove foot-ing, repair beam, coffer in master bedroom, $n/a875 Blake Wilbur Drive reroute cyberknife, other electrical, $n/a2400 Hanover St. floating ceiling to deck, $n/a1302 Forest Ave. change of shed roof line to gable, $n/a1881 Page Mill Road owner site-accessible improvements, $28,700967 Dennis Drive re-roof, $17,000796 Greer Road vehicle damage repairs in garage, including gas line and replacing water heater, $n/a301 High St. add foundation for future flexibility, add rough plumbing to facilitate future ten-ant improvement, $n/a1530 Hamilton Ave. install roof-mounted PV system, $n/a518 Bryant St. re-roof, $36,2722230 Webster St. replace wall at rear; add sliding door, $7,000440 Coleridge Ave. re-roof, $24,9993495 Deer Creek Road revise plans to include new shower rooms, electrical work, $n/a840 Melville Ave. re-roof, $15,800467 Lincoln Ave. revise shear wall lengths at new bedroom and master bedroom, revise holdown at mud room, new beam and piers to support attic dormer, re-vise rafter and hip at porch, $n/a763 Florales Drive remodel kitchen, $56,0003165 Porter Drive Stanford School of Medicine: tenant im-provement, relocate restroom door, $4,5001854 Bryant St. install second-story bay window in master bedroom, revise window on first floor, revise sloped roof to flat roof over bay window on first

floor, $n/a1734 Webster St. convert garage into carport, garage, $24,000415 California Ave. addition of seating plan, $n/a3412 Ross Road install supple-mental cooling, replace roof con-densing units, install fan coil units above ceiling, $56,000700 Clark Way install roof-mounted PV system, $n/a1441 Hamilton Ave. re-roof pool house, $1,0001176 Palo Alto Ave. remodel, including master bath, add sky-lights, convert wood-burning fireplace with gas insert, upgrade lighting, $74,0001445 Alma St. install three win-dows, $2,6771411 Tasso St. install Level 2 electrical-vehicle charging station in garage, $n/a2896 Waverley St. install roof-mounted PV system, $n/a1030 Hamilton Ave. new in-ground spa, $24,5004162 Thain Way re-roof, $21,621826 Wintergreen Way remodel guest bathroom, $7,883323 Manzanita Ave. install new mini split system with one con-denser and two fan coils, $n/a852 La Para Ave. install new mini split system with one con-denser and two fan coils, $n/a566 Hawthorne Ave. add ad-ditional A/C unit outside dining room, $n/a330 Melville Ave. Professorville: re-roof, $10,978180 El Camino Real, Suite 705 revise plans for Health Dept. requirements, revise seating and add low wall, $n/a3225 Kipling St. remodel kitchen, two bathrooms, replace furnace, $30,0003056 Greer Road install heat pump on roof, $n/a2355 Louis Road remodel kitchen, $12,0004332 Silva Ave. remodel kitchen, bathroom, dining room, including new exterior door and front door, $20,000

HOME SALESHome sales are provided by Cali-fornia REsource, a real estate in-formation company that obtains the information from the County Recorder’s Office. Information is recorded from deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to eight weeks.

East Palo Alto480 E. O’keefe St. #302 A. West to S. Dzotsenidze for $301,000 on 9/30/14; previous sale 3/09, $199,000

Los Altos766 Arroyo Road Conn Trust to K. & M. Kozo for $2,411,000 on 10/10/14170 Frederick Court C. Pfister to H. Hou for $2,413,500 on 10/10/14659 Tomi Lea St. Kong Trust to J. & T. Lee for $3,000,000 on 10/9/14; previous sale 4/87, $312,000539 Valencia Drive Caron Trust to Y. Dai for $2,475,000 on 10/15/14; previous sale 1/00, $1,050,000

Los Altos Hills13521 Wildcrest Drive Naz-ari Trust to R. & D. Jaros for $2,700,000 on 10/10/14

Menlo Park211 Chester St. W. & D. McLennan to C. & C. Seeber for $1,485,000 on 9/30/14; previous sale 7/12, $830,000260 Hedge Road J. & J. Whitlinger to Francis Trust for $1,300,000 on 9/30/14; previous sale 5/88, $267,000675 Sharon Park Drive #314 Kawas-Moradian Trust to J. Snell for $785,000 on 9/30/14; previ-ous sale 7/07, $590,000

Mountain View137 Avellino Way Tri Pointe Homes to O. & Y. Rodeh for $1,170,000 on 10/14/14505 Cypress Point Drive #74 Pam Trust to J. Chan for $429,000 on 10/10/14; previous sale 5/02, $215,000505 Cypress Point Drive #92 Y. Clearwater to S. & J. Yang for $445,000 on 10/10/14; previous sale 8/05, $330,000181 Del Medio Ave. #114 Leong Trust to Wei Trust for $420,000 on 10/15/141864 Doane Ave. S. Navarette to Payman Trust for $905,000 on 10/15/14835 Warner Court Warner Lim-ited to A. Li for $1,150,000 on 10/15/14; previous sale 9/00, $2,100,0001042 Williams Way Rooker Trust to P. Chiang for $1,598,000 on 10/14/14; previous sale 9/06, $906,000

Palo Alto908 Colorado Ave. Takaoka Trust to Y. Wang for $2,200,000 on 10/14/14422 Deodar St. N. Phan to D. & J. Turner for $2,200,000 on 10/10/14; previous sale 4/11, $1,301,000

East Palo AltoTotal sales reported: 1Lowest sales price: $301,000Highest sales price: $301,000

Los AltosTotal sales reported: 4Lowest sales price: $2,411,000Highest sales price: $3,000,000

Los Altos HillsTotal sales reported: 1Lowest sales price: $2,700,000Highest sales price: $2,700,000

Menlo ParkTotal sales reported: 3Lowest sales price: $785,000Highest sales price: $1,485,000

Mountain ViewTotal sales reported: 7Lowest sales price: $420,000Highest sales price: $1,598,000

Palo AltoTotal sales reported: 10Lowest sales price: $905,000Highest sales price: $2,600,000

Redwood CityTotal sales reported: 2Lowest sales price: $702,000Highest sales price: $1,100,000

Source: California REsource

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1266 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto

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• Dining Room accommodates up to fourteen guests and features french doors opening to the backyard with views over-looking the beautiful gardens.

• Living Room is 15 x 25 and features designer lighting for artwork, hand-hewed beam ceilings,

• Fourth bedroom is en-suite and accessed by a

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Holmes RanchDavenport, CA

Surrounded by Open Space and California State Parks, these seven parcels overlook Ano Nuevo State Park.

Rare, old growth Redwood trees inhabit a beautiful section of the land and constitute

nearly 8 million board feet of wood. Perfect for a private residence, a few homesites, a

retreat center or a donation to the state which would create the largest coastal trail in

California. A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity to own approximately 658 pristine acres on

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Presenting: 1348 Oxford Street, Redwood CityCharming traditional-style 2-bedroom home with an open floor plan and a beautiful park-like rear yard ideal for entertaining. The home boasts oak hardwood floors, dual-pane windows, ample storage space, inside laundry room, wood-burning fireplace, a remodeled bathroom, and a close proximity to beautiful downtown Redwood City. Home: 1,010 sq. ft.; Lot: 6,200 sq. ft. Schools: Hawes Elementary School, John F. Kennedy Middle School, Woodside High School.

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Presenting: 848 Nash Road, Los AltosThis masterfully-designed contemporary home by Brocchini Architects blends comfort, elegance, and exquisite architecture in captivating ways. Details both large and small add up to a space exceptional in how it joins art, movement, and a sense of resort-like peace. Built for ease in both everyday living and entertaining, the home offers an open floor plan, two master suites, a custom gym & an office (could be used as bedrooms), a state of the art chef’s kitchen, a lush yard with a covered heated terrace and outdoor kitchen, and a detached four-car garage (could fit 6 cars with lift). Completing the appeal of this fun and unique home is its close proximity to all downtown Los Altos has to offer. Living space: 2,845 sq.ft. Garage: 1,018 sq.ft. Lot size: 19,166 sq.ft. Top-rated Los Altos Schools.

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Palo Alto Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $4,398,0002620 Marshall Dr Stunning, Brand New, Custom Built Home to fill every need. 5 bedrooms with 2 suites. 5 BR/3.5 BA Judy Shen CalBRE #01272874 650.325.6161

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San Carlos Sun 1 - 4 $1,299,0001120 Royal Ln Sparkling, updated Mediterranean townhm. LR, DR, FR. Great views! 1120royallane.cbrb.com 3 BR/2.5 BA Elaine White CalBRE #01182467 650.324.4456

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APTOS4 Bedrooms757 Via Palo Alto $1,725,000Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker (813) 662-6522

CUPERTINO4 Bedrooms22003 Rae Ln $2,950,000Sat/Sun 2-4 Sereno Group 947-2900

LOS ALTOS2 Bedrooms24 Los Alto Sq Call for priceSat/Sun Sereno Group (408) 295-3111

6 Bedrooms789 Manor Wy $4,590,000Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161

MENLO PARK2 Bedrooms - Condominium 2140 Santa Cruz Av #C109 $599,000Sat 1-4/Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 324-4456

3 Bedrooms 1255 Trinity Dr $1,688,000Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 851-19611000 Middle Av $1,795,000Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456

4 Bedrooms 204 University Dr $3,498,000Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-616132 Palm Ct $3,600,000Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-11112355 Tioga Dr $2,573,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111135 O’Connor St $2,498,000Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

MOUNTAIN VIEW1 Bedroom - Condominium

50 E. Middlefield Rd. #20 $399,000

Sun 1-4 Sereno Group (408) 335-1400

PALO ALTO2 Bedrooms 612 Palo Alto Av $998,000Sun Deleon Realty 543-8500770 Bryant St $1,295,000Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 851-1961

3 Bedrooms 4011 El Cerrito Rd $2,750,000Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456

4 Bedrooms115 Embarcadero Rd $1,698,000Sat/Sun 12-4:30 Zane Macgregor & Co 324-99003178 Fallen Leaf St $1,830,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

5 Bedrooms 2620 Marshall Dr $4,398,000Sun Coldwell Banker 325-61613190 Waverly St $4,198,000Sun Keller Williams Palo Alto 454-8500

6 Bedrooms220 Tennyson Av $5,998,000Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161

PORTOLA VALLEY2 Bedrooms 377 Wayside Rd $1,895,000Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666

3 Bedrooms 140 Durazno Wy $2,295,000Sun Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200445 Portola Rd $2,300,000Sat/Sun 12-5 Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200

REDWOOD CITY2 Bedrooms 1345 Norman St $695,000Sat Coldwell Banker 851-2666

1348 Oxford St $800,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group 323-1900

5 Bedrooms 626 Lombardy Wy $3,088,000Sun 1-4 Stafford & Haight Realty, Inc. 275-3307

SAN CARLOS3 Bedrooms 1120 Royal Ln $1,299,000Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456

SUNNYVALE2 Bedrooms 646 S Ahwanee Te $599,000Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161

WOODSIDE2 Bedrooms 515 Moore Rd $3,475,000Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666

3 Bedrooms 560/562 California $2,400,000Sun Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200636 Southdale Wy $4,450,000Sun Kerwin & Associates 473-1500

4 Bedrooms 95 Roan Pl $2,249,000Sun Intero Real Estate Services 206-620017125 Skyline Bl $2,395,000Sun 1-4 Stafford & Haight Realty, Inc. 275-3307

5 Bedrooms 128 Audiffred Ln $3,295,000Sun Coldwell Banker 851-266637 Upenuf Rd $1,748,000Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200

6 Bedrooms 38 Hacienda Dr $4,495,000Sat Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200

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At the Silicon Valley Association of RE-ALTORS® (SILVAR) Economic Seminar and General Membership Meeting on Oct. 29, California Association of REAL-TORS® Vice President and Chief Econo-mist Leslie Appleton-Young told SILVAR members that the U.S. economy is doing well, having recovered the 8.8 million jobs the country lost during the downturn. She said Silicon Valley continues to lead job growth in California, and is truly the “gem of California.”

All economic indicators, though not stellar, are positive. “The economy is not yet quite in gear, but we’ll take it. It’s definitely an improvement,’ said Appleton-Young.

California has come a long way since 2009, when distressed sales made up most of total home sales; today, equity sales account for 91 percent of total sales. In Palo Alto, which has seen home prices skyrocket, data from PropertyRadar.com indicates as of Oct. 14, there was only one home in the pre-foreclosure stage, two homes scheduled for auction, and no bank-owned properties (REOs).

Even a gem has its repercussions, said Appleton-Young, because higher home prices are impacting affordability for first-time home buyers. She explained inventory is a major driver of California’s

housing market and right now, there isn’t much of it, especially in Silicon Valley. Home sales have been flat since the spring of 2014 because inventory is so tight that the strong demand has caused prices to rise higher than they should be, making it near impossible for first-time buyers to enter the marketplace.

Appleton-Young cautioned that the market cannot stay healthy if first-time

buyers cannot get into homes. “They are being priced out of the opportunity to grow wealth in their lifetime,” she lamented.

California needs 165,000 new units a year to meet the state’s demographic demand, she added.

Appleton-Young forecasts next year will be more of the same. While forecasters have been expecting interest rates to rise, she believes if they do rise, they won’t rise by much; in fact, she won’t be surprised if they drop a bit. There will be more sales growth, but she repeated that much will depend on inventory.

“It’s all going to be about inventory,” said Appleton-Young.

Information provided in this column is presented by the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®. Send questions to Rose Meily at [email protected].

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Allied Arts GuildBay Area Lyme FoundationBayshore Christian MinistriesBridgemont SchoolBring Me a Book FoundationChildren’s Health CouncilCity Team MinistrieisCollective RootsCostano SchoolDeborah’s PalmEastside College Preparatory School

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32 PALM COURT, MENLO PARKRarely available four bedroom and four bath single-level home on quiet west Menlo cul-de-sac. Beautifully remodeled and updated with very large living room, generous master suite, inviting and well-equipped kitchen with breakfast nook, comfortable family room, well designed office, and three additional bedroom/bath suites with doors to a private, sunny garden. The well-landscaped garden has a sparkling pool and fine patio for outdoor entertaining. Close to the elementary and middle schools.



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For many reasons, the Midpeninsula area has been the most sought-after address to call home and to locate a business. Communities like Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley, Woodside, Los Altos and Mountain View lead the way by maintaining some of the best schools in the nation, by providing superior community services and infrastructure, and by helping establish the Bay Area as the center of innovation and technology.

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As a Realtor serving Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Atherton, Portola Valley and Woodside, I do my utmost to provide extraordinary service to my clients.

because I like the home delivery, editorial focus, and it is a great value. I have always had great results promoting open homes in the Palo Alto Weekly and The Almanac, and I also run in special publications like Spring and Fall Real Estate, Neighborhoods and Info Menlo because of the great coverage and online presence. I am also a big believer in the Palo Alto Weekly’s Open Home Guide, which is by far the most accurate and comprehensive. I’ve had many buyers bring in the guide to my ‘Open Homes’ to see what I have listed.”

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115 AnnouncementsPregnant? Considering Adoption? Call us first. Living expenses, housing, medical, and continued support afterwards. Choose adoptive family of your choice. Call 24/7. 1-877-879-4709 (CalSCAN)

Pregnant? Thinking of Adoption? Talk with car-ing agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293. Void in Illinois/New Mexico/Indiana (AAN CAN)

Author Event: Ty Cobb’s grandson

Dance Expressions Ages 3 - 18

Foothill College Fall Plant Sale

FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY AFTER SALE

new Holiday music

Open Studios, Allied Arts Guild

original ringtones

Part 2 vaccination webinar

Priory’s David Copperfield

Restaurant Job Fair Nov 3rd

Stanford music tutoring

substitute pianist available

To vaccinate or not?

130 Classes & InstructionAirline Careers begin here - Get trained as FAA certi-fied Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN)

German Language Classes

Instruction for Hebrew Bar and Bat Mitzvah. For Affiliated and Unaffiliated. George Rubin, M.A. in Hebrew/Jewish Education 650/424-1940

133 Music LessonsChristina Conti Private Piano Instruction (650) 493-6950

Hope Street Music Studios In downtown Mtn.View. Most Instruments voice. All ages & levels 650-961-2192 www.HopeStreetMusicStudios.com

Piano lessons in Menlo Park Experienced piano teacher. Reasonable rates. All levels, all ages welcome. (650)838-9772

Piano lessons in Menlo Park

135 Group ActivitiesDid You Know newspaper-generated content is so valuable it’s taken and repeated, condensed, broadcast, tweeted, dis-cussed, posted, copied, edited, and emailed countless times throughout the day by others? Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email [email protected] (Cal-SCAN)

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140 Lost & FoundFound Leatherman on Middlefield Found a Leatherman multitool on Middlefield Road on 10/22 near Hamilton Ave.

Found light colored cat

Found Orange Cat near Gunn High

Found: Light Orange Kitty Youngish stray blonde/orange tabby found in the Crescent Park - Woodland Triangle area. Traumatized and skittish by whatever his ordeal has been and still somewhat undernourished but seems otherwise healthy. Awkward with other cats. VERY affec-tionate! Tends to be vocal about missing his people. Smart. Knows how to open an unlatched screen door. Responds to several voice commands such as “stop” and “no” and will walk along side you like a dog if allowed. Is he yours? If so, please call 650-575-1529 and leave a message - include some identifier unique to your cat along with how best to reach you.

145 Non-Profits NeedsDancers Needed

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150 VolunteersFosterers Needed for Moffet Cats

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For Sale201 Autos/Trucks/PartsFord 2004 Mustang - 2000

202 Vehicles WantedCash for Cars Wanted: Vintage convertibles, Mercedes, Porsche 356 Speedster 912 911 Carrera, Jaguar, Alfa, Lancia, Ferrari, Corvettes, Mustangs, early Japanese Cars, Contact 714-267-3436 or [email protected] Finders fees gladly paid. (CalSCAN)

Cash for Cars Any Car/Truck. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3808 www.cash4car.com (AAN CAN)

Donate Your Car, Truck, Boat to HERITAGE FOR THE BLIND. FREE 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care of. 800-731-5042 (Cal-SCAN)

210 Garage/Estate Sales

Mountain View, 3436 Churin Drive, November 8, 10-3 Moving Sale will include bedroom furniture, bedding, entertainment center, kitchen supplies, vacuumn cleaner, golf training equipment, possibly a washer and dryer, jewelry and many other miscellaneous items. If interested in the furniture, you will need to bring a furniture dolly and a truck!! All items must be bought,sold and taken that day. Only cash will be accepted. All sales are final!!

Mountain View, Flea Market 433 Sylvan Ave., Saturday Nov. 8th, 8-2

Palo Alto, 2670 Cowper St., Nov. 7, 12-6; Nov. 8, 10-4

Palo Alto, 50 Embarcadero Rd., Nov. 8, 9-3

Stanford, 285 Santa Teresa St, Nov 8th, 10am-1pm

215 Collectibles & AntiquesEdelstein Bavarian China - $500.00

Green Glass Dishes from the 50’s - $175.00

Hey!, Meet The Swinger Camera! - $45.00 or

Open Studios Allied Arts Guild

230 FreebiesClay Pots - FREE

Compost Bin - FREE

Platform (or stage) - FREE

Used Red Bricks - FREE

240 Furnishings/Household items

4 Designer Michael Taylor Chairs 4 Stunning Designer Michael Taylor Chairs in great condition! Michael Taylor, as quoted, ““Michael Taylor made decorating history. Whatever he did or didn’t do made news. He changed the way we live. Opened it all up. Aired it out. Declined rever-ence. Scorned pretense. He gave himself to design with intensity and passion.” Paige Rense, Former Editor-in- Chief Architectural Digest - Will Deliver within 150 miles.

Bookcase - $20

Screen Door - $60

245 MiscellaneousDirecTV starting at $24.95/mo. Free 3-Months of HBO, starz, SHOWTIME and CINEMAX. FREE RECEIVER Upgrade! 2014 NFL Sunday Ticket Included with Select Packages. Some exclusions apply - Call for details 1-800-385-9017. (Cal-SCAN)

DISH TV Retailer Starting at $19.99/month (for 12 mos.) & High Speed Internet starting at $14.95/month (where available.) SAVE! Ask About SAME DAY Installation! CALL Now! 1-800-357-0810. (Cal-SCAN)

Beautiful ExTra Tiny little baby Beautiful ExTra Tiny little baby-Doll Face Female Yorkie... She is Full of herself... Great Personality, with that short little nose, short legs , cobby little body, & heavy Black & Gold non-shedding coat... Dad is Only 2 1/2 lbs. Started on Crate Training.... $850 Cash...

HACHIYA PERSIMMONS - $0.25 each

Seasoned, Split Hard Firewood Oak Firewood for sale Cut, split and seasoned $250/cord Please call (650)533-7997 Pick-up and cash only

SoleusAir Halogen Heater + More - $39

270 TicketsDid You Know that not only does newspaper media reach a HUGE Audience, they also reach an ENGAGED AUDIENCE. Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email [email protected] (Cal-SCAN)

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330 Child Care OfferedBright Start Child Care!!!

Mind& Body

403 Acupuncture

Treatments for Alzheimers Acupuncturist Jay Wang PhD, special-ized in chronical illness for seniors. Call 650-485-3293 for a free consulta-tion. 747 Altos Oaks Dr., Los Altos

415 ClassesMixed-Level Belly Dance Classes

425 Health ServicesAloe Vera of America Customers! If you Have Used FOREVER LIVING Dietary Supplement Products Please Call Environmental Research Center Now for Information. www.ERC501C3.org CALL 619-500-3090 NOW! (Cal-SCAN)

ARDYSS Dietary Supplement ATTENTION: ARDYSS INTERNATIONAL Customers! If you Have Used ARDYSS Dietary Supplement Products Please Call Environmental Research Center Now for Information. www.ERC501C3.org CALL 619-500-3090 NOW! (Cal-SCAN)

HealthForce Dietary Supplement HEALTHFORCE NUTRITIONAL Customers! If you Have Used Products Please Call Environmental Research Center Now for Information. www.ERC501C3.org CALL 619-500-3090 NOW! (Cal-SCAN)

Safe Step Walk-in Tub Alert for Seniors. Bathroom falls can be fatal. Approved by Arthritis Foundation. Therapeutic Jets. Less Than 4 Inch Step-In. Wide Door. Anti-Slip Floors. American Made. Installation Included. Call 800-799-4811 for $750 Off. (Cal-SCAN)

Struggling with Drugs or alcohol? Addicted to pills? Talk to someone who cares. Call The Addiction Hope & Help Line for a free assessment. 800-978-6674 (AAN CAN)

Software Engineer /Java Polaris Wireless, Inc. has openings for the position Software Engineer /Java with Master’s degree in Computer, Science, Engineering (any), Technology or related and 1 yr of relevant exp to develop, create and modify general computer applications software or specialized utility programs. Analyze user needs and develop software solu-tions. Design software or customize software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency using Java based platform and other relevant technologies. Work location is Mountain View, CA with required travel to client locations throughout USA. Please mail resumes to 301 North Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA-94043, USA or email to [email protected].

Jobs500 Help WantedAdministrative/Clerical Assistant We are seeking an Administrative Assistant for general support for the office staff. The Administrative Assistant will be required to file documents, run errands, create spreadsheets, scan, orga-nize etc. [email protected]

Pet Sitter/Dog Walker Well Established Business, 18 Years. PT to start, becoming FT. $15 per visit. Must have reliable vehicle and be able to work most any time OR day, weekends and holidays. Email resume only. Must live in my service area, Sunnyvale, Mt. View, and Los Altos or very close by.

Technology Hewlett-Packard Company is accept-ing resumes for the position of Research Engineer in Palo Alto, CA (Ref. #PALFBAL1). Investigate, design, develop, execute and imple-ment scientific research projects. Design mechanisms for deployment of cloud services. Mail resume to Hewlett-Packard Company, 3000 Hanover Street, MS 1117, Palo Alto, CA 94304. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address and mail-ing address. No phone calls please. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.

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9 WWII general ___ Arnold

12 Bottom of a parking garage

15 Spare parts?

16 1998 Bryan Adams album

18 Dinner ingredient?

19 Home to Hercules’s lion

20 OB/___

21 Competitions like those in “8 Mile”

26 “His Master’s Voice” label

27 “Just let me finish”

30 Round body

31 Cop’s request before “I’m going in”

32 Get the bad guy

33 You, to Christoph Waltz

34 One who’ll leave a mark

35 “La la la can’t hear you,” for short

36 Punctured tire sound

37 Desert after an Italian meal

38 ___ Majesty

39 One side of a bilingual store sign

41 Former “Tonight Show” announc-er Hall

42 He pitched the only World Series perfect game

43 Pit stop stuff

44 Mercredi preceder

45 “Who’s a good boy?” response

46 It’s sometimes added to table salt

53 Like scuffed CDs

54 Secure locales

55 A degree of success?

56 Singer/songwriter Jones

57 Freshmen-to-be, perhaps: abbr.

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2 Apple variety created in Minnesota

3 Song that starts “Twenty, twenty, twenty-four hours to go”

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5 Actress Michalka

6 ___ Paese (semisoft cheese)

7 2022’s Super Bowl (if they keep using Roman numerals)

8 “Mouse!”

9 Is stealthy like a snake

10 Quatrain rhyme scheme

11 Korean sensation

13 Mag VIPs

14 Slowly, on sheet music

15 “Star-crossed” lover

17 Laurelin’s partner in Tolkien’s Two Trees of Valinor

20 Brazil’s Mato ___

21 Stand-up comedians’ supporters

22 1980s Hostess product

23 Oktoberfest locale

24 Thwarting type

25 Nightmare visions

28 Called in honor of, as a relative

29 Famed Fords

40 Missile-warning gp.

44 Dance in a pit

45 Freddy formerly of D.C. United

46 Baby seal

47 Singer Janis

48 Ship passing in the night?

49 Cousteau’s sea

50 Ex-Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James

51 “Well, look at you!”

52 Count follower

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550 Business OpportunitiesAVON Earn extra income with a new career! Sell from home, work, online. $15 startup. For information, call: 877-830-2916. (CalSCAN)

560 Employment Information$1,000 Weekly!! mailing brochures from home. Helping home workers since 2001. Genuine Opportunity. No Experience required. Start Immediately www.mailingmembers.com (AAN CAN)

Africa, Brazil Work/Study! Change the lives of others and create a sustainable future. 1, 6, 9, 18 month programs available. Apply now! www.OneWorldCenter.org 269.591.0518 [email protected] (AAN CAN)

Drivers: Attn: Drivers Average $1000+ p/wk. KW 680’s Arriving. BCBS + 401k + Pet & Rider. Home For Christmas! Spanish/English Orientation Available. CDL-A Req - (877) 258-8782 meltontruck.com/drivers (Cal-SCAN)

Drivers: No Experience? Some or LOTS of experience? Let’s Talk! No matter what stage in your career, it’s time, call Central Refrigerated Home. 888-891-2195 www.CentralTruckDrivingjobs.com (CalSCAN)

Drivers: Truck Drivers Obtain Class A CDL in 2 ½ weeks. Company Sponsored Training. Also Hiring Recent Truck School Graduates, Experienced Drivers. Must be 21 or Older. Call: (866) 275-2349. (Cal-SCAN)

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624 FinancialDo You Owe $10,000 to the IRS or State in back taxes? Get tax relief now! Call BlueTax, the nation’s full service tax solution firm. 800-393-6403. (Cal-SCAN)

Identity Protected? Is Your Identity Protected? It is our promise to provide the most compre-hensive identity theft prevention and response products available! Call Today for 30-Day FREE TRIAL 1-800-908-5194. (Cal-SCAN)

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628 Graphics/WebdesignDid You Know 7 IN 10 Americans or 158 million U.S. Adults read content from newspaper media each week? Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email [email protected] (Cal-SCAN)

636 InsuranceHealth and Dental Insurance Lowest Prices on Health and Dental Insurance. We have the best rates from top companies! Call Now! 888-989-4807. (CalSCAN)

HomeServices

715 Cleaning ServicesIsabel and Elbi’s Housecleaning Apartments and homes. Excellent references. Great rates. 650/670-7287 or 650/771-8281

748 Gardening/Landscaping

J. Garcia Garden Maintenance Service Free est. 21 years exp. 650/366-4301 or 650/346-6781

LANDA’S GARDENING & LANDSCAPING *Yard Maint. *New Lawns. *Rototil *Clean Ups *Tree Trim *Power Wash *Irrigation timer programming. 18 yrs exp. Ramon, 650/576-6242 [email protected]

Orozco Landscapes All Outdoor Garden Needs Landscape Design/Maintenance Call Lalo (650)387-3981

R.G. Landscape Yard Clean-ups, debris removal, maintenance, installations. Free est. 650/468-8859

Tired of Mow, Blow and Go? Owner operated, 40 years exp. All phases of gardening/landscaping. Ref. Call Eric, 408/356-1350

751 General Contracting

A NOTICE TO READERS: It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform contracting work on any project valued at $500.00 or more in labor and materials. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertis-ing. Check your contractor’s status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500.00 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

759 Hauling J & G HAULING SERVICE Misc. junk, office, gar., furn., mattresses, green waste, more. Lic./ins. Free est. 650/743-8852 (see my Yelp reviews)

767 MoversSunny Express Moving Co. Afforable, Reliable, References. Lic. CalT #191198. 650/722-6586 or 408/904-9688

771 Painting/Wallpaper

DAVID AND MARTIN PAINTINGQuality work

Good references Low price

Lic. #52643 (650) 575-2022Glen Hodges Painting Call me first! Senior discount. 45 yrs. #351738. 650/322-8325

H.D.A. Painting and Drywall Interior/exterior painting, drywall installed. Mud, tape all textures. Free est. 650/207-7703

STYLE PAINTING Full service painting. Insured. Lic. 903303. 650/388-8577

775 Asphalt/Concrete

Mtn. View Asphalt Sealing Driveway, parking lot seal coating. Asphalt repair, striping, 30+ years. Family owned. Free est. Lic. 507814. 650/967-1129

Roe General Engineering Asphalt, concrete, pavers, tiles, sealing, artificial turf. 36 yrs exp. No job too small. Lic #663703. 650/814-5572

779 Organizing ServicesEnd the Clutter & Get Organized Residential Organizing by Debra Robinson (650)390-0125

789 Plaster/StuccoStucco Patch and crack repair, texture match, windows, doors. 30 years exp. Refs. avail. Small jobs only. 650/248-4205

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801 Apartments/Condos/StudiosMenlo Park - $4,500

Portola Valley, Studio - $1400/mont

805 Homes for Rent

Castro Valley Mid Century Modern Beauty! Loads of light and loads of privacy! Maple floors, skylights, gourmet kitchen with granite counters, upgraded stainless appliances (refrigerator, dishwasher, cook top), for-mal dining area, living room with wood burning fireplace, family room, redone bathrooms, two car attached garage, lush atrium and lovely yard with the tastiest persimmons ever! Did I mention the views of the hills are breathtaking? Two year lease with one month security deposit. Available immedi-ately. Lynn Levin, Prudential Ca. Realty, BRE#00885447, 510-593-7377

Mt. View, 3 BR/2.5 BA - 3800

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ACME LEARNING CENTER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 596977 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Acme Learning Center, located at 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): ACME EDUCATION GROUP, INC. P.O. Box 700189 San Jose, CA 95170 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 29, 2014. (PAW Oct. 17, 24, 31, Nov. 7, 2014)

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: KATHLEEN M. O’FARRELL Case No.: 1-14-PR 175320 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of KATHLEEN M. O’FARRELL. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: BRENDA MARIE STELLE in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA

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Sacred Heart Prep freshman Sara Choy returns a shot during her 6-1, 6-1 tennis win over Menlo School senior Elizabeth Yao in the singles final of the WBAL Individual Tournament on Tuesday.

PREP TENNIS

Menlo-Atherton freshman Lanie Van Linge reached the singles finale at the PAL Individual Tournament on Thursday.

Freshmandeliversa TKO

SHP’s Choy wins WBAL title; M-A is double

trouble in PAL finalsby Keith Peters

T he singles finale of the West Bay Athletic League Individual Tournament was

like a boxing match on Tuesday at Menlo School.

In one corner was Elizabeth Yao, whose heavyweight tennis credentials included winning last year’s Central Coast Section sin-gles crown.

In the other corner was a relative flyweight in terms of size and high school experience, Sacred Heart Prep freshman Sara Choy.

While the size differential was significant — Choy stands only 4-foot-10 and Yao seemed at least a foot taller — the title match proved to be style over substance. Think butterfly stings like a bee.

“I’ve played in a lot of tourna-ments,” said Choy, who is ranked No. 13 in the nation in the 14-un-der division. “I play girls who are older and bigger than me. The big-ger they are, the more power they have.”

And, as they say, the bigger they are the harder they fall.

That loud thunk at Menlo School was Yao falling to Choy, 6-1, 6-1, as the diminutive Choy registered her third TKO over Yao this season.

“My type of game is counter-punches,” explained the 14-year-old Choy, who started playing ten-

nis at age 7. “I don’t let the other player dictate how I play.”

Instead, it was Choy’s patience over Yao’s power that ultimately decided the match as Choy re-mained unbeaten this season and became the first Sacred Heart Prep player to win the WBAL


STANFORD ROUNDUP

A No. 1ranking

isn’t goalCardinal men’s soccer

looks to crucial Pac-12 home matches

By Rick Eymer

S tanford men’s soccer coach Jeremy Gunn and his group of hard-working

players won’t be letting Soccer America’s latest poll go to their collective heads. There’s still too much at stake.

Soccer America had Stanford ranked first in the nation follow-ing UCLA’s loss against Cali-fornia. The Cardinal and Bruins tied, 2-2, two days earlier in West-wood. Freshman Corey Baird scored twice in the match and was named Pac-12 Player of the Week.

Stanford also beat San Diego State, 1-0, on Austin Meyer’s overtime goal. The redshirt senior recorded his second career goal, and his first in two years.

For Stanford’s purposes, Soccer America’s rankings are secondary to the NSCAA, a coaches’ poll. Stanford (10-2-3 overall, 3-1-3 Pac-12) ranks 10th there.

Perhaps most importantly, the Cardinal ranks sixth in the NCAA RPI, which figures to guide the selection committee when it comes to the postseason.

Being among the top 10 is rare in itself for the Cardinal, which last appeared in the upper echelon in December of 2002.

What Cal’s win did was open a door for Stanford to compete for the Pac-12 title. The Cardinal needs to take care of business this weekend with its final two home matches of the regular season, beginning with Friday’s 5 p.m. match, to be televised by the Pac-12 Networks, with Washington (11-3-1, 4-2-1), currently ranked third by the NSCAA and fifth by Soccer America.

The Cardinal has not beaten the Huskies in six years. The last Stanford victory in the series was on Nov. 7, 2008, perhaps a portent for good things Friday.

Stanford, unbeaten in six matches since losing at Washing-ton in early October, can win the conference title by successfully navigating its last three matches.

That’s also the scenario for both the Huskies and Golden Bears. UCLA, with one match remain-ing, benefits if the three teams beat each other.

Oregon State (9-6-1, 2-4-1) comes to town for a 3 p.m. match Sunday, when the Cardinal hon-ors its five seniors — Zach Bat-teer, Matt Taylor, Jimmy Callinan, Bobby Edwards and Meyer — be-fore the contest.

Stanford completes the regular season with a conference match at


OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Pomona-Pitzer senior outside hitter Allie Frappier of Atherton earned the SCIAC Vol-leyball Athlete of the Year Award for the second year in a row, it was an-nounced Wednesday by the league office. Frappier, who was a first-team American Volleyball Coaches Asso-ciation (AVCA) Division III All-Ameri-can last season, is currently leading the nation in kills per set at 5.39. A year ago, she led the nation (all divi-sions) with 5.96 kills per set, includ-ing a school-record 40 in a four-set win over CMS, which tied the Divi-sion III record for kills in a four-set match during the 25-point era. A native of Atherton and a graduate of Menlo School, Frappier attended Yale for two years before transferring to Pomona. She was a second-team All-Ivy League selection as a freshman in 2011, but did not play as a sophomore due to injury. Also named to the All-SCIAC team was Palo Alto High grad Megan Coleman of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. The senior setter made the first team. Two weeks ago, Coleman was se-lected by the AVCA as the Sports Imports/AVCA Division III Women’s Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 20-26 . . . Macalester College placekicker Michael Abramson from Menlo-Atherton High has been named Midwest Conference Special Teams Performer of the Week for his role in the Scots’ 34-17 win over 24th-ranked Carroll University on Saturday. Abramson was perfect in the win over Carroll as he connected on four extra-point attempts and a pair of field goals, accounting for 10 of Macalester’s 34 points. Both of his field goals gave the Scots 10-point leads, including a 19-yarder with 4:40 to play in the, making the score 27-17 to give his team a two-score lead . . . Middlebury College’s Katherine Hobbs of Menlo Park has been named the NESCAC Player of the Week. Hobbs, a graduate of Castilleja, picked an opportune time to score her first career goal. The sophomore’s tally in the 39th minute against Amherst proved to be the game-winning goal as Middlebury knocked off the Jeffs by a 1-0 score in a NESCAC quarterfinal playoff match.


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singles title since Sam Rosekrans accomplished the feat nine years ago.

Choy’s goal was simple in the final.

“I wanted to qualify for CCS,” she said.

And?“I wanted to win it,” Choy add-

ed, with a big smile.The key to the match was “re-

turning her serves,” Choy said. “Her serve is one of her strong points.”

Choy kept returning shots while Yao got frustrated and tried to force the issue, which usually re-sulted in forced errors.

“”It’s frustrating when you play someone who gets everything back,” said Menlo coach Bill Shine. “She (Choy) doesn’t miss. She gets to everything. It’s frus-trating (to opponents). She’s really a good player. She’s not afraid to win. She’s not intimidated. Here’s a freshman playing a senior, the defending CCS champ, twice her size.”

It made no difference to Choy, who swept through all four tour-nament matches while dropping only four games combined.

“She’s probably the best player ever to come through Sacred Heart Prep,” said veteran SHP coach Losaline Mafileo, who can’t remember any previous player finishing the regular season unde-feated — certainly not a freshman.

Choy’s third win over Yao, the two-time defending WBAL singles champ, was the most im-pressive.

“This is probably the only match in league that challenges her,” said Mafileo. “The confi-dence is there.”

Choy’s victory gives her an au-tomatic berth into the CCS Indi-vidual Tournament, which runs Nov. 24-25. Yao will have to re-ceive an at-large bid in order to defend her title.

Also qualifying for CCS was Menlo’s doubles team of sopho-more Alice Yao and freshman Kathryn Wilson, who bounced teammates Mia McConnell and Sadie Bronk in the title match, 6-3,

7-6 (8-6). McConnell and Bronk also will have to receive an at-large bid to qualify for CCS.

Yao normally plays No. 2 sin-gles for Menlo while Wilson is a member of the No. 3 doubles tandem. McConnell and Bronk, meanwhile, make up the Knights’ No. 1 doubles duo.

In the third-place singles match, Julia Owens of Pinewood dropped a 6-1, 6-1 decision to Vi-Van Nguyen of Notre Dame-San Jose.

At the SCVAL El Camino Di-vision Individual Tournament at Mountain View High, Palo Alto’s Avanika Narayan was second in singles while teammates Mad-die Lee and Halle Biorn finished fourth in doubles.

At the Peninsula Athletic League Individual Tournament at Burlingame High, Menlo-Atherton was well-represented in the finals on Thursday. Fresh-man Lanie Van Linge reached the singles finals following a pair of 6-0, 6-0 wins on Wednesday. In the doubles, it was an all-Bears af-fair with Sami Andrew and Julia Marks taking on teammates Julia Chang and Taylor Noble.

The winners will advance to the CCS Individual Tournament. Be-fore that happens, the team event will take place starting next week.

The CCS seeding meeting will be Saturday, which may be as competitive as the tournament.

“Saratoga is unbeaten and has to be the favorite,” said Shine. “After that, there are six teams that have a chance. We could be seeded No. 2 or seeded sixth.”

Menlo compiled a 16-4 record this season while winning its 19th straight league title under Shine. Palo Alto, however, also went 16-4 while winning the SCVAL El Camino Division crown and Men-lo-Atherton put together a 16-6 mark and won the PAL Bay Di-vision with a 14-0 record. Sacred Heart Prep also has a shot at mak-ing the field with a 15-6 record.

“This tournament is going to be exciting,” said Shine, whose team reached the CCS and NorCal fi-nals last season before losing to Monta Vista. “It’s the first time in a long while that more than two teams have a chance. I predict there will be a lot of 4-3 matches, mark my word.”

SHP freshman Sara Choy (right) is congratulated by Menlo School senior Elizabeth Yao following their WBAL singles final.

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Emma CockerellPalo Alto tennis

Kirby Knapp*Menlo-Atherton volleyball

Maddy Johnston Sacred Heart Prep water polo

Malaika Koshy*Sacred Heart Prep water polo

Erica WatkinsGunn water polo

Michelle XiePalo Alto golf

Ben Burr-Kirven*Sacred Heart Prep football

Eli GivensPalo Alto football

Mason Randall*Sacred Heart Prep football

Noah RileyGunn football

Michael Swart*Sacred Heart Prep water polo

Ari WayneGunn water polo

* previous winner

Honorable mention

Anna ZhouGUNN HIGH

The senior golfer fired a 5-under-par 68 while regis-tering seven birdies to earn medalist honors by one stroke and lead the Titans to a four-stroke victory over rival Palo Alto in the SCVAL Tournament.

Aidan LuceroPINEWOOD SCHOOL

The junior running back car-ried 17 times for 312 yards and scored five touchdowns (and produced 32 points) in a 78-38 victory in a MTAL eight-man football game that moved the Panthers into a tie for third place.

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

PREP ROUNDUP

Gunn, Palygolfers advance

Paly senior Xie heads to NorCals after

defending her CCS titleby Keith Peters

T he golf season continues for the Palo Alto and Gunn girls, which is a very good

thing with two championships re-maining on the schedule.

Both squads will be compet-ing at the 15th annual NCGA/CIF Girls Golf Championship on Monday at The Club at Cra-zy Horse Ranch in Salinas after highly successful efforts at the Central Coast Section finals on Tuesday as Rancho Canada (East Course) in Carmel Valley.

Palo Alto senior Michelle Xie successfully defended her in-dividual title while helping her team finish third. Gunn advanced to Monday’s next stop by taking second.

Xie earned medalist honors with a sizzling 5-under-par 67, two shots lower than what she shot last year while helping her team win the title. This time, the Vikings finished third with a 410 total, one stroke behind runner-up Gunn while St. Francis took the team crown with a 385 score.

Xie made the most of her final opportunity in the section finals by holding off Katherine Zhu of Harker (69).

Xie, who started on the 10th hole, was 5-under on the back nine before shooting even-par on the front. On the par-5 18th hole, Xie stuck her approach shot 2-3 feet from the hole and made the putt for an eagle.

“It was going to be tough to beat St Francis, they are just to loaded with good players this year,” said Paly coach Doyle Knight. “I was excited for the girls making it to NorCals again. They have worked really hard this year.”

Gunn senior Anna Zhou, who won the SCVAL Tournament last week, was six shots back of Xie and tied for sixth with a 1-over 73. The Titans also got a 79 from freshman Lydia Tsai, an 80 from Lianna McFarlane-Connelly an 87 from Tiffany Yang, and 90 from Margaret Redfield for a 409 total.

“Tough, windy conditions at Rancho Canada today,” said Gunn coach Chris Redfield. “I am very happy with the way the Gunn girls played. Great poise.”

Palo Alto kept its season alive with a 76 from Emily Hwang, an 82 from freshman Stephanie Yu, an 89 from Elise Kiya and a 96 from Celia Willner.

“Pretty cool to see both Gunn and Palo Alto advancing again to NorCals,” Redfield added. “One of the secrets behind all this suc-

cess is the great junior program at Palo Alto Golf Course. On any given day you’ll find a bunch of kids over there taking lessons and practicing.”

Castilleja just missed a NorCal berth by taking fourth with 421 strokes. Menlo School was fifth with 425 and Menlo-Atherton seventh with 438.

Menlo freshman Sophie Simi-noff was among the leaders with a 72, but missed out by one stroke of advancing to NorCals as an in-dividual. Castilleja senior Chloe Sales shot 75 while Jessica Koenig of Sacred Heart Prep and Jessie Rong of Menlo carded 77s. Ab-bey Pederson led Menlo-Atherton with a 79.

Girls volleyballMenlo-Atherton successfully

defended its PAL Bay Division title with a 25-11, 25-16, 25-11 victory over visiting Sequoia on Tuesday night. The Bears im-proved to 13-0 in league (24-3 overall) with only Thursday’s match against visiting Woodside remaining. M-A went into the Se-quoia match holding a two-game lead over Burlingame, and came away with a relatively easy vic-

tory after the team’s went to five sets in their first meeting. Senior Devin Joos produced 15 kills and 21 digs while hitting .310 for the Bears. Ally Ostrow finished with 16 kills and 11 digs and hit .500. Alexa Roumeliotis had 16 digs, Kaitlin Tavarez 12 and setter Kir-by Knapp had 11 digs plus 47 as-sists. The Bears served up 10 aces and hit .400 as a team with only eight hitting errors.

“My girls knew that they would clinch the league,” said M-A coach Ron Whitmill. “And, since we’ve already beat Burlingame twice, we really clinched it the match before.

“I think the big motivating fac-tor last night was we knew last time we played Sequoia we didn’t have a very good match. And we weren’t playing very good volley-ball by our standards the first half of league play.”

Whitmill said his team’s strug-gles at the Stockton Classic last month provided a spark.

“The team decided before our Presentation match (to conclude the tourney) that we were going to get refocused on playing good



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Palo Alto senior Lucas Matison (far left) and sophomore teammate Kent Slaney (behind Matison) finished first and seventh, respectively, at the SCVAL El Camino Division Championships on Tuesday.

PREP FOOTBALLCROSS COUNTRY

Gunn junior Gillian Meeks won her first league title.

Gunn senior Emily Aiken was second in 18:20.1.

Gunn girls, Paly boys

race to titlesTitans defend team title despite dealing

with death of classmateby Keith Peters

T he Gunn girls successfully defended their title and the Palo Alto boys moved up

two places and claimed a cham-pionship, as well, at the SCVAL El Camino Division Champion-ships in cross country on Tuesday at Crystal Springs in Belmont.

Meanwhile, Gunn junior Gil-lian Meeks won her first individu-al title and Palo Alto senior Lucas Matison won his second straight crown to pace their teams.

All in all, it was a champion-ship day all around for the Gunn and Palo Alto programs, with all four varsity teams qualifying for the Central Coast Section finals on Nov. 15 at Toro Park in Salinas.

The day was especially mean-ingful for all the Gunn teams, which competed despite dealing with the tragic death of a school-mate earlier Tuesday morning.

“It was an extremely difficult and emotional day,” said Gunn coach PattiSue Plumer, “but the kids were simply amazing. I am very, very proud of them and, not just be-cause they ran fast. They ran for each other and supported each other. I really don’t have any other way to describe it.”

Plumer had no idea how her ath-letes were going to perform after they had learned of one of their schoolmates dying early in the morning.

The Titans, how-ever, put the tragedy behind them — at least for the moment — and performed well beyond Plumer’s expecta-tions for the day.

In the girls’ race, Meeks cruised to victory over the rolling 2.95-mile course in 17:32.1. It was her second-fastest time on the course this season. Her 17:30 on Oct. 15 ranks as the fastest girls’ time there this season.

Senior teammate Emily Aiken was second in 18:20.1, sophomore Illi Gardner was seventh (19:27.2), junior Maya Miklos 11th (20:14.5) and freshman Emma Chiao 14th (20:27.1) as the Titans scored 35 points, six less than last year’s title-winning team.

Combining the De Anza and El Camino Divisions, Meeks still ranked No. 1 while the Titans finished behind Monta Vista (74) and Homestead (76). Both teams

will run Division I with Gunn at CCS, with the top three teams ad-vancing to the CIF State Meet.

The Paly girls finished third with 72 points as junior Bryn Carlson finished sixth in 19:16.1 and sophomore Maddie Feld-

meier was ninth in 19:58.1 to pace the Vikings.

In the boys’ race, Matison was just a second slower than his winning time from last year while clocking 15:31.2. His time ranked No. 3 on the day in the com-bined standings, as Chris Foster of Los Gatos won the De Anza Division finals in 15:10.7 and Steve Sum of Saratoga was next in 15:14.0.

Paly sophomore Kent Slaney was seventh in 16:19.6,

sophomore Naveen Pai was 11th in 16:39.0, senior Aaron Chan-dler (16:56.5) was 17th and junior Sam Desre (17:06.4) was 22nd to wrap up the Vikings’ title with 58 points.

The Gunn boys were second with 72 points as Reid Kovacs led the way in 10th (16:37.5). Team-mates Ryan Araghi (16:43.5), Jonas Enders (16:43.8) and Josh Radin (16:47.6) finished 13th, 14th and 15th, respectively, while Dylan Latham-McGraw wrapped up the scoring in 20th (17:05.8).

“It was a great day for the Paly cross-country teams,” said Paly coach Kelsey Feeley, a former standout runner at Gunn. “Both of the boys teams were league winners (frosh/soph and varsity), which was amazing. It has been a

tough season leading up to leagues due in large part to injury. Kent Slaney was out with a broken toe for most of the season, Lucas bat-tled some tendinitis and a few of my other boys dealt with injuries throughout the season. Everyone came ready to run (Tuesday) and there were outstanding perfor-mances across the board.

“Our main goal going into CCS is to continue the trend of running personal-best times and, if we hap-pen to be one of the three teams that makes it on to the state meet, it will be the icing on the cake!”

The West Bay Athletic League Championships will be held Fri-

day, also at Crystal Springs, with varsity races going off at 3 (boys) and 3:30 p.m. (girls). The Sa-cred Heart Prep boys look to be favored for team and individual honors with senior Daniel Hill leading the way.

The Menlo School girls, mean-while, aren’t expected to defend their team title but Lizzie Lacy will take a shot at individual hon-ors after finishing second last year.

The rolling course in Belmont will host the PAL Championships on Saturday, as well, with the Menlo-Atherton boys and girls taking shots at team crowns.

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A win over Burlingame also will send Gators to CCS Open Divisionby Andrew Preimesberger

A lot more will be at stake than just the PAL Bay Di-vision football title when

Sacred Heart Prep visits Burlin-game on Friday night in a show-down between unbeaten teams.

Both squads will bring 8-0 re-cords into the 7 p.m. kickoff, with the winner automatically advanc-ing to the Central Coast Section Open Division playoffs.

The Gators enter the game ranked No. 2 in the Division III North football game rankings, according to CalHiSports. SHP played in that division last year when it reached the state finals.

While playing in the Open Di-vision is quite an undertaking for SHP, players like senior Ben Burr-Kirven welcome the challenge.

“I don’t mind playing with the big boys,” he said.

Sacred Heart Prep has won the past two CCS Division IV titles and is 33-3 since the start of the 2012 season.

SHP is coming off a 31-21 vic-tory over visiting Menlo-Atherton last week as junior quarterback Mason Randall threw for 235 yards.

Menlo-Atherton (1-2, 2-6) will host Terra Nova on Friday at 7 p.m.

In the Mission Trail Athletic League eight-man action, Priory will visit Pinewood on Friday (2:30 p.m.) to wrap up the sea-son. Priory (4-2) is coming off a 52-12 loss to Trinity Christian while Pinewood (4-2) thumped North Valley Baptist, 78-38, as junior running back Aidan Luce-ro rushed 17 times for 312 yards and scored five touchdowns. Lu-cero, however, dislocated his right should in practice on Tuesday and won’t play Friday.

Gunn (1-3, 1-7) will host Moun-tain View on Friday (7 p.m.) for Senior Night after posting its first victory of the season over Lyn-brook, 28-19. Gunn quarterback Noah Riley threw three touch-down passes to Guy Kasnik to lead the victory. Riley was just 4-of-8 for 134 yards, with Kasnik accounting for every one of them. Kasnik caught scoring passes of 18, 37 and 62 yards.

Palo Alto (2-2, 3-5) will host powerhouse Milpitas on Friday (7 p.m.) in a must-win game for the Vikings, who are coming off a 55-26 win over Santa Clara.

Menlo School (1-2, 4-4) will host Sequoia on Friday (2:45 p.m.). The Knights dropped a 56-35 PAL Bay Division decision to host Terra Nova last week.

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volleyball and stop playing good enough to win,” Whitmill said. “So, the team felt like they had a little something to prove to Se-quoia. And gearing up for play-offs, we have stopped looking at scoreboards and our record and started to just focus on playing good volleyball every point. And I think our results since they have changed focus have been great. Hopefully it’s enough to take us deep into the postseason. If noth-ing else, it will get us as far as we’re supposed to go.”

In the West Bay Athletic League (Foothill Division), Menlo School remained tied for first place with Harker following a 25-21, 25-13, 21-25, 25-17 victory over host Mercy-San Francisco on Tuesday. The Knights (8-1, 18-14) got 16 kills from Lida Vandermeer plus 41 assists and nine kills from fel-low senior Elisa Merten. Jessica Houghton produced 20 digs with Kristin Sellers adding 15. Payton Mack and Ashley Dreyer com-bined for seven blocks.

Menlo went after a share of its third straight league title against visiting Castilleja on Thursday. The Knights can win the title out-right if Sacred Heart Prep upsets Harker.

Harker (8-1) was coming off a 25-11, 25-21, 25-23 win over Cas-tilleja (1-8, 13-20) while Sacred Heart Prep (4-5, 17-12) posted a 25-22, 25-21, 25-27, 25-16 victory over visiting Notre Dame-San Jose. Victoria Garrick had 22 kills and 13 digs while fellow senior Natalie Marshall produced 42 as-sists. Kendall Reich had 13 kills with 17 digs and Mamie Caruso added 23 digs.

In Portola Valley, Priory wrapped up its season on Senior Nighty with a 25-17, 19-25, 25-11, 25-21 loss to visiting King’s Acad-emy. Seniors Anna Brett and Jane Ross led the Panthers with 10 kills

and 21 digs, respectively. Ross added five aces. Senior Liz Schil-ling returned to the court after being sidelined seven weeks and produced nine digs and three aces. Setter Nadia Faisal contributed 23 assits and seven digs with Saman-tha Sargent adding eight kills.

In the SCVAL De Anza Divi-sion, Palo Alto avenged its loss to former head coach Dave Winn by beating his Mountain View squad, 25-23, 20-25, 25-23, 23-25, 15-7 on Tuesday. The Vikings im-proved to 3-8 (17-11 overall).

Boys water poloMenlo School got four goals

from Chris Xi while cruising to a 20-8 victory over Sequoia in the PAL playoffs at Burlingame High on Tuesday. The Knights (19-6) had 13 players score, with Eric Luxenberg scoring three times. Menlo played in the semifinals on Thursday, as did host Menlo-Atherton. The playoff finals are Saturday at Burlingame at 6:30 p.m.

The West Catholic Athletic League playoff finale will be Sat-urday at Bellarmine Prep at 7:30 p.m.

Girls water poloCastilleja got six goals from

senior Anna Yu in a 14-2 victory over Sequoia in the second round of the PAL playoffs on Tuesday at Menlo School. The top-seeded Gators (16-5) also got three goals from Celia Aldrete and two from Maddie Macdonald while goalie Maddie Tarr had 10 saves.

In another second-round match, No. 2 seed Menlo-Atherton moved on to Thursday’s semifinals at Woodside with a 10-1 romp over Half Moon Bay. Freshman Nadia Paquin scored six goals and soph-omore Annabelle Paris added two for the Bears (11-12), which got 12 saves from goalie Francesca Gilles. The playoff finals will be Saturday at Burlingame at 5 p.m.

The WCAL title match will be at Bellarmine Prep at 6 p.m.

Prep roundup(continued from page 68)

Castilleja senior Anna Yu poured in six goals to pace the Gators to a 14-2 victory over Sequoia in the second round of the PAL playoffs.

California a week from Sunday.The Cardinal ranks eighth in

the nation in assists per game (2.07) and 16th in total assists (31). Jordan Morris and Eric Ver-so lead the way, each averaging 0.42 per game, among the top 32 in the country.

Morris, who has missed three games because of a commitment to the U.S. national team program, has 12 assists in 33 career games, almost double any other current Cardinal.

Stanford is 7-0-4 in its past 11 games at home dating to last season, and 16-7-5 at home under Gunn.

Batteer has a point in five of his past six matches after recording one point in his first eight games of the season. He’s the Cardinal’s active career leader in both goals scored (19) and points (45).

Women’s volleyball Top-ranked and undefeated

Stanford hosts Arizona on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in another Pac-12 Conference test.

The Cardinal (23-0 overall, 13-0 Pac-12) took care of business Wednesday night with a victory over Arizona State and is four matches short of matching the program’s best start (27-0 in 1991).

The Wildcats (18-6, 7-5) won 14 of their first 15 matches, including their first three conference match-es. They own road victories over Kansas State, UCLA and Utah.

Arizona, which has not beaten Stanford in seven years, is hitting .244 as a team and lead the con-ference in digs (16.52).

Stanford and Washington ap-pear to be headed for a showdown in Seattle on Nov. 26, the only meeting of the season for the two powerhouses.

The Huskies are also undefeat-ed this year and ranked second behind the Cardinal.

Even before that match, though, Stanford goes on the road to play at USC and UCLA in a rare Wednesday-Thursday schedule next week. Stanford is in the midst of playing five matches within 11 days.

J u n i o r setter Madi Bugg, sixth on Stan-ford’s all-time assists list, leads the nation with 12.07 as-sists per set while red-shirt fresh-man middle

blocker Merete Lutz leads the country with a .468 hitting per-centage. Junior middle blocker Inky Ajanaku is No. 3 nationally with a .462 attack percentage.

Swimming and divingBoth the men’s and women’s

programs host Wisconsin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, and both teams have a lot of newcomers ready to

make waves this year.The men enter the meet ranked

10th by collegeswimming.com, while the Badgers are 16th. The women are ninth, while Wiscon-sin is No. 23.

Palo Alto grad Andrew Liang heads the list of rookie for the men’s side. He is joined by fellow CCS champion Curtis Ogren, Pat-rick Conaton, who participated in the Youth Olympics over the sum-mer in China, Liam Egan, Sam Perry, Wesley Olmstead, Brock Turner and diver Ted Miclau.

The women loaded up on tal-ented, highly decorated freshmen with the likes of Sacred Heart Prep grad Ally Howe, Simone Manuel, who can boast of wins over Olympic gold medalist Missy Franklin, Janet Hu, Lindsey En-gel, Gracia Leydon-Maloney, Al-exandra Meyers, Heidi Poppe and diver Sammy Gallagher.

Field hockeyNo. 4 Stanford looks to extend

its 11-game winning-steak and claim the conference tournament title this weekend at the NorPac Championship, hosted by Pacific.

The Cardinal (17-1, 4-0 NorPac West) will be pursuing a single-season best at the tournament after matching the program-high of 17 over the weekend with a 2-1 victory against UC Davis.

Stanford’s defense has been dominant, limiting opponents to one or fewer goals in 17 of 18 games. Dulcie Davies has been terrific in goal and is ranked first in the NCAA with a 0.67 GAA and .836 save percentage.

Stanford’s offense has produced three or more goals in 11 of 18 games. Alex McCawley leads the team offensively with 32 points and 14 goals, while Maddie Secco boasts a team-high eight assists. The Cardinal attack has been bal-anced with 11 players registering

at least one goal.Jessica Chisholm scored the

game-winning goal against the Tigers, with a hard shot off a pen-alty corner in the 48th minute. Fran Tew scored the first goal of the game. It was Tew’s fifth score on the year, matching her career high from a year ago.

The Cardinal improved to 26-2 in NorPac regular-season play un-der head coach Tara Danielson.

Stanford plays the winner of Thursday’s match between UC Davis and Pacific. The champi-onship game will take place Sat-urday at 1:30 p.m.

Men’s water poloNationally No. 2 Stanford (19-3,

5-1 MPSF) heads to Berkeley for the Big Splash against No. 5 Cali-fornia (20-4, 4-2 MPSF) on Satur-day at 10:30 a.m., in a match tele-vised on the Pac-12 Networks.0

Stanford is off to its best start since starting 20-2 in 2009. A win Saturday would give the Cardinal 20 wins for the 29th time in its history, the eighth time under head coach John Vargas and for the second season in a row.

Stanford’s 11-10 come-from-behind victory in last season’s event ended a two-match Big Splash winning streak for Cal and nudged the Cardinal ahead 8-7 in the series since the Steve Heaston Trophy was established for the winner. Saturday will mark the third meeting of the season between Stanford and California, with the Bears hold-ing a 2-1 edge.

Stanford junior Bret Bonanni was named MPSF/Kap7 Player of the Week for the Cardinal’s victory over Long Beach State. The first of his five goals was the 236th goal of his career, moving him past James Bergeson (1979-82) and alone into second place on Stanford’s career goals list.

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Inky Ajanaku recorded three of Stanford’s final five points as the top-ranked Cardinal staved off visiting Arizona State’s upset bid Wednesday.

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