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Vol. XL, Number 19 Q February 8, 2019
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CUBBERLEY Redevelopment planning speeds up for south Palo Alto campus
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Pulse 14 Spectrum 16 Eating Out 33 Shop Talk 34 Puzzles 51 Q Arts Stanford Live hosts bittersweet ‘Ghost Rings’ Q Home Growing ‘microgreens’ is as easy as 1-2-3 Q Sports Big weekend for Stanford women’s basketball
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Upfront
Local news, information and analysis
Will Ravenswood push against charter expansion? Parents, residents urge board against displacing district-run school by Elena Kadvany t a packed community meeting Tuesday night, Belle Haven Elementary School parents, staff and residents urged the Ravenswood City School District Board of Education against disbanding any district-run school in order to provide space for an expanding
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public charter school — and in response, some board members indicated a desire to “fight” the charter’s request. The meeting at Belle Haven, located in east Menlo Park, was the third of six meetings the board is holding to solicit community input on KIPP Valiant Community
Prep’s request for a long-term site to accommodate its growing enrollment. Public school districts are required under state Proposition 39 to make facilities available to charter schools to ensure all students have equal access. Speakers Tuesday defended Belle Haven and urged the board to keep KIPP at its current location at the contiguous Brentwood and Los Robles/McNair campuses, where the charter school has shared space since it opened in
2017. They also pressed for more concrete data about the various options and voiced frustration that no specific proposals have been offered yet, limiting the specific feedback they can provide. “It really seems like we’re uprooting a flowering plant and putting we-don’t-quite-know-what ... in its place,” said Andy Westhall, the father of two Belle Haven students. Board President Tamara Sobomehin emphasized the
importance of the community meetings as a source of information for the five board members. The trustees will decide whether Belle Haven, Brentwood, Costaño or Willow Oaks will house KIPP starting this fall — unless they agree to pursue another path. “I am gathering information so when we come together we can look at the facts ... and see what we can fight,” Sobomehin said, (continued on page 13)
CITY HALL
New priorities: Climate, traffic, finances, rail City Council eyes expanded shuttle, rail redesign decision by Gennady Sheyner alo Alto’s elected leaders will devote extra energy in 2019 toward addressing the city’s transportation challenges, getting local finances in order, picking new designs for the rail crossings and take more aggressive action on addressing climate change, the City Council decided at its annual retreat on Feb. 2. The council also agreed to put more effort this year into engaging the community and regaining public trust, which a new survey shows has been gradually eroding. After a spirited discussion, the council voted unanimously to adopt four priorities for 2019: the climate action plan, grade separations, transportation and traffic, and fiscal sustainability. The four were chosen from a list of 11 that were submitted by council members — a list that also included the reconstruction of Cubberley Community Center, improving communications with the public and pursuing a business tax. The most popular idea that did not make the list of official priorities was “regaining public trust,” an item that was championed by Councilwoman Lydia Kou and that all her colleagues generally agreed is an important goal. The idea grew out of a new National Citizens Survey, which showed that only 42 percent of the residents gave the city a rating of “excellent” or “good” when asked about the “overall direction that the city is taking.” The survey also showed the percentage of people who reported that
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Aaron Ragsdale, center, East Palo Alto Academy’s STEM director, guides students Alejandro Gonzalez, left, and José Alcantar, right, in designing a prototype housing for the Arduino board and sensors they are programming in the school’s afterschool STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) program.
EDUCATION
Designing a difference East Palo Alto students learn engineering in the service of others by Elena Kadvany nce a week after school, a group of East Palo Alto Academy students descend upon a makerspace to work on an engineering project with real-world impact. They’re designing, coding and building from scratch a proximity sensor that will beep when an object comes within a certain distance. The sensor is for Abigayil Tamara, a mobility-impaired Mountain View resident
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who needs an eight-foot wheelchair ramp to get in and out of her Toyota van. When cars park too close to that side of her van, they block her exit, and she’s often left with no choice but to wait for the driver of the parked car to return. The project is being spearheaded by a Stanford University student and a former teacher who believe fervently in engineering as a vehicle for
project-based learning and student empowerment. James Wang, a Stanford mechanical engineering student and Palo Alto High School graduate, started working several years ago with East Palo Alto’s Streetcode Academy, which provides free coding classes and other tech resources to youth of color. He suggested the program could draw more students by moving beyond software instruction; as a result, the nonprofit created local makerspaces, including at East Palo Alto Academy, a public charter high school that serves primarily minority, first-generation college-bound students. Dubbed the “Dream Lab,” the high school’s second-story makerspace is stocked with computers, beakers, a 3D printer, a laser cutter and the like.
It was at Streetcode that Wang met Connie Liu, a former Nueva School teacher who founded Project Invent, a nonprofit that partners with local high schools to bring their students socialimpact programs. Project Invent advocates for “getting that experience of going out into the real world and actually tackling problems rather than always being in this bubble of only solving already solved problems and problems with an answer in the back of the book,” Liu said. She recruits local “community partners” like Tamara to work with students. Together, Wang and Liu piloted the program last summer at East Palo Alto Academy. A group of students created for a (continued on page 10)
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WINTER WONDERLAND ... Snow in Palo Alto?! It was a strange, but true weather event that struck the city and Bay Area on Tuesday morning. The white dusting was enough for the Police Department to block Page Mill Road between Foothills Park Gate 1 and Skyline Boulevard, which also had ice, from about 5 a.m. to around noon. “Wow! I am going to have to get out my snow boots, gloves, coat, etc.,� wrote one Twitter user in response to the police tweet on the closure. A Bobcat loader was brought in to clear the roadway. Police officers and Open Space staff relished the opportunity to collect a snowball to remember the spectacle. Park rangers kept a snowball in the staff room freezer that they intend to bring out during a heat wave this summer. MOTION SICKNESS ... At City Council retreats in Palo Alto, it is an unwritten rule that at some point, elected leaders will talk about the need to talk less. Council members bring up horror stories of marathon meetings and critical decisions made past midnight. They propose new procedures and vow to be more concise (these vows typically last about as long as the average New Year’s resolution). As City Manager Ed Shikada diplomatically explained during this year’s annual retreat, which took place on Feb. 2: “Palo Alto has an extreme propensity to talk things out at the dais.� This year, the council is trying something new. Councilwoman Liz Kniss noted during the discussion that conversations about limiting council members’ speaking time take place every year, to no avail. At one point, she said, the council set timers that went off after a few minutes. Members generally didn’t take the hint, she said. “Most of the council just speak their way through it and pay little attention to it.� The council did, however, agree to try a few new procedures.
Rather than leading with wideranging question rounds, council members will try to start their discussion with motions — a move that they hope will prompt a more focused discussion. Members also agreed that they aren’t at their sharpest after 11 p.m. “Unless we only want late-night people to be on the council, we have got to come up with some way to make the hardest decisions before 11 or 11:30,� Councilwoman Alison Cormack said. To address that, the council agreed to stop discussions at 11 p.m., unless members pass a motion for an additional 15 minutes. The council (which was reduced from nine to seven seats last year in a bid to make meetings more efficient) agreed to try both new procedures for a month and then re-evaluate. Council members also generally agreed that each of them should try to limit his or her comments to five minutes at a time, though without formality and annoyance of an actual clock. Mayor Eric Filseth proposed a less formal bit of encouragement: a “glaring look from the mayor.� TAKING IT TO THE STREETS ... Eight years after they tripled the city’s annual spending on street repairs, Palo Alto officials are stoked about the results. To demonstrate its joy about pavement condition, the City Council will pass on Monday a special proclamation celebrating the city’s “pavement condition index,� which went from 72 (well below neighboring cities) to 85, the goal that the council established in 2011. The proclamation credits employees from the Public Works Engineering Streets Group who “rolled up their sleeves, worked tirelessly and met the goal one year early.� Thanks to the group’s hard work (and about $45 million in spending since 2012), Palo Alto “now has the best streets in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties,� the proclamation states. Q
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— either “agreed” or “strongly agreed” with the city’s goal to create in Ventura “walkable neighborhoods with multifamily housing, ground-floor retail, a public park, creek improvements and an interconnected street grid.” A somewhat smaller majority of 75 percent also approved of the idea of raising the height limit to accommodate the new apartment complexes, with varying levels of enthusiasm. When polled, 33 percent said they support raising the height limit for the area, while 42 percent said they would be willing to increase the limit while expressing concern about buildings taller than three stories. Twenty-one percent said they oppose allowing buildings to exceed the height barrier. The residents’ acceptance of taller buildings was by no means unconditional. Throughout the meeting, residents repeatedly expressed support for providing affordable housing for residents making 80 percent of area median income or less, while making clear they don’t want to see much more market-rate housing. Attendees advised that tall buildings should be spaced out to avoid creating a “canyon” effect. The sentiment was widely shared among participants, who first offered their opinions through real-time electronic votes and later discussed their positions with their tablemates. Cedric de La Beaujardiere, representing one of the tables, spoke
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course of three meetings. The Tuesday community meeting was an opportunity for the greater community to weigh in. About three dozen people, many of them Ventura residents and members of the Working Group, came to Mitchell Park Community Center. Most voiced supported for improving bike paths, supporting retail, revitalizing Matadero Creek and creating more affordable housing, even if it means relaxing the city’s 50-foot height limit. But while residents broadly supported pedestrian and bike improvements, they were far less enthusiastic about cars. When polled, 69 percent of the attendees said they would support a plan that creates more pathways for pedestrian and bikes to take but not for cars; while only 12 percent said they would like to see more routes for all three modes. Many in attendance said they prefer a layout in which cars primarily use roads on the periphery of the area, namely Park Boulevard, El Camino Real and Page Mill. Residents also supported adding more park amenities, with the restoration of Matadero Creek, which is currently a concrete channel, proving particularly popular. Attendees also made a case for more rooftop gardens and community gardens, particularly if new multifamily housing is approved in the neighborhood. Overall, the vast majority of those in attendance — 89 percent
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by Gennady Sheyner alo Alto’s effort to redesign and ultimately redevelop a large portion of the Ventura neighborhood is stoking hopes among local residents about new parks, bikeways and housing developments, as well as anxieties about more cars cutting through the eclectic neighborhood just south of Oregon Expressway. These sentiments were aired during a Tuesday community meeting on the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan, an effort that the city launched last year. For the City Council and staff, the 60- acre area represents a rare opportunity: a place close to transit services that has large, underdeveloped parcels — most notably, the sprawling complex anchored by Fry’s Electronics. As such, the site is identified in the city’s Housing Element plan as one particularly ripe for new housing. In addition to bringing more housing to the neighborhood, the main goals of the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan are to create better transportation options and add public amenities, including retail and open spaces. The area under study is bounded by El Camino Real on the west, the Caltrain corridor on the east, Page Mill Road on the north and Lambert Avenue on the south. So far, most of the work has occurred behind the scenes, with a 14-member Working Group composed of residents, business owners and property owners discussing the possibilities over the
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The 60-acre North Ventura area in Palo Alto, bounded by the dotted line, is currently the subject of a coordinated planning effort. City leaders and residents hope the plan will make it possible to revitalize the area with new housing, parks, bikeways, retail and more. for many in attendance when he shared his group’s views on building heights. “If heights are increased, it should be stepped up — not just big canyons,” de La Beaujardiere said. “If we have affordable housing, it should be nice designs, not cheap and ugly and dehumanizing.” There was far less consensus on what types of new retail and services the city should attract to Ventura. When asked, 26 percent gave top preference to “neighborhood-serving retail” (hardware stores, pharmacies, grocery stores and the like) and 30 percent said they would like to see more restaurants and cafes. Rebecca Parker Mankey, a Ventura resident who is on the Working Group, said she would like to see a place where local teenagers can have coffee and hang out with friends so that they “won’t have to leave town to have fun.” Another 26 percent supported the idea of creating “artist and maker spaces,” or other places where people can gather, create, invent and learn. There was one point of complete consensus: The idea of attracting a boutique hotel to Ventura didn’t get a single vote. The Ventura neighborhood is only the second in Palo Alto to be selected for a “coordinated area plan” — a process that includes intensive collaboration by area stakeholders and that results in zone changes and, presumably, redevelopment. The other neighborhood to undergo such a plan was the South of Forest Avenue area in downtown. That multiyear process occurred in two phases and was completed in 2003. In addition to the Ventura plan, Palo Alto leaders are preparing to undertake a coordinated area plan in the downtown area, an ambitious effort that will consider — among many other efforts
— the reconstruction of the Transit Center and the separation of Palo Alto Avenue from the rail corridor. While the turnout at Tuesday’s meeting was somewhat modest, city leaders hope to get more residents involved as the process moves along. The city plans to hold a Town Hall meeting on March 11 dedicated completely to Ventura. The council and the Working Group will both partake in the meeting, and residents will have another chance to offer their views on the neighborhood’s future. Planning Director Jonathan Lait said the goal of the meetings is to gauge residents’ interest in new housing, additional services and the realignment of roads. Some sections of Ventura are intended to be preserved or enhanced, he said. Others would be redeveloped for new purposes. “We’re going into this with the expectation that there will be some changes in the neighborhood,” Lait said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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Corrections
In the Feb. 1 article “Compassionate Deception,” the caption for a photo of Wah Ho Chan and his wife, Martha Chan, incorrectly stated the year he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. It was in 2008. The Weekly regrets the error. To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, editor@ paweekly.com or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.
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News Digest City seeks millions from Stanford expansion
With Santa Clara County and Stanford University now ramping up their negotiations over the university’s ambitious growth plan, Palo Alto is asking the county to require Stanford to contribute significant funding for improvements to local rail crossings, bike paths, parks and planning efforts for the downtown area. The laundry list of requests, which will be included in a letter to the county Board of Supervisors, includes a provision that Stanford pay the city affordable-housing fees based on its academic growth (in addition to the fees that the university already must pay to the county), that it help create a new pathway connecting Bol Park to Stanford Research Park and that it consider expanding its successful Marguerite shuttle system to serve a greater portion of the city. The city is making its request at a pivotal time for Stanford’s multiyear effort to secure the county’s approval for a new General Use Permit (GUP). If approved, the GUP would empower Stanford to add about 2.275 million square feet of academic space, 3,150 new dwelling units or student beds and 40,000 square feet of child care and support facilities by 2035. Q — Gennady Sheyner
President Hotel applies for conversion
The owner of President Hotel Apartments submitted plans this week to convert the historic apartment building in downtown Palo Alto back to its original use as a hotel — a controversial project that continues to face significant zoning hurdles. Among the biggest obstacles standing in the way of Adventurous Journeys Capital Partners, the Chicago-based firm that bought the six-story building at 488 University Ave. last June, is a downtown cap on non-residential development that the city approved in 1986 to limit new commercial development to 350,000 square feet. The conversion of the 56,603-square-foot building would puncture the cap. That, however, can change on Monday night, when the City Council considers the divisive proposition of eliminating the downtown cap altogether. Last week, when the Planning and Transportation Commission recommended scrapping an ordinance that requires “grandfathered” buildings (those not complying with current zoning rules) like President Hotel, to retain their same use when undergoing renovation. In doing so, however, it expressly prohibited the conversions of such buildings from residential to non-residential uses — a restriction that AJ Capital is expected to challenge in court. AJ Capital’s formal application for the hotel conversion calls for preserving existing ground-floor retail and creating a hotel lobby and a lounge in the existing apartment lobby and vacant retail spaces. The 75 apartments in the building would be converted to 100 hotel guest rooms and existing roof gardens would remain. The submitted plans don’t include parking. Interim Planning Director Jonathan Lait said the city is still analyzing the application, though it has already identified several areas in which it fails to meet the city’s codes. “The way it’s set up now, the application does not meet our current regulations,” Lait said. Q — Gennady Sheyner
Unsatisfying compromise on wireless equipment
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Palo Alto to see fewer buses under new VTA plan Veterans, commuters could be most affected by Sue Dremann plan to reduce bus service in Palo Alto has some veterans concerned that their travel to and from the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs hospital will become more burdensome. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is proposing to modify schedules and eliminate routes throughout its system as it seeks to pare back costs. The 2019 New Transit Plan covers all routes, including Express, frequent, local and school transportation routes throughout Santa Clara County. Service to the VA Palo Alto Health Care System’s Palo Alto campus — which is near Gunn High School — would be cut back and only run at the start and end of Gunn’s school day. (Palo Alto’s service to Gunn High School would remain.) Veterans who awaited buses outside the VA on Tuesday said that limiting service will add hardship. Many of the veterans come from San Jose to Palo Alto and then use the VTA Line 88 bus within the city to take them to the VA. “It would affect me a lot. Sometimes my appointments are not during school times,” Wesley Stanley said. Stanley and Joseph Bernal, another veteran who visits Palo Alto VA, said the VA does operate a shuttle to and from San Jose, but it runs infrequently — just once a day round trip. Veterans often wait for hours for a return ride, Bernal added. In comparison, the current VTA Line 88 has 12 arrival and departure times in each direction, roughly between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m., on weekdays,
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according to the schedule. Additional changes to the bus system could significantly affect commuters who use the VTA Express routes — which would either be eliminated or see reduced service — and late-night riders who use Line 22, which runs along El Camino Real. VTA operates 13 bus lines in Palo Alto, including to and from the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs hospital, Gunn and the Stanford Research Park. The proposals in the New Transit Plan modify a previous route redesign, the Next Network Plan, which was refined after public input in 2016-17 but not rolled out. A changing financial outlook made it clear that Next Network, which was to be implemented when BART service enters Santa Clara County, is not financially sustainable, the agency stated on its web site. The New Transit Plan would cost about 4 percent less to operate than Next Network and would place a greater emphasis on increasing ridership, according to VTA. The transit agency is basing its proposed schedule and cuts on a number of factors, including the number of boardings per hour and the costs to run the route, including labor for drivers, dispatch staff, and sheriff’s deputies and security personnel at the Palo Alto Transit Center and at endpoint transit centers. Some lines, while meeting or exceeding the minimum thresholds for ridership, still don’t make the cut due to the labor costs, according to VTA. Weekday lines 88L and 88M, which serve Gunn students, would continue the current schedule with
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Seeking to balance the legal rights of telecommunication companies and residents’ aversion to clunky cell equipment occupying city property, Palo Alto officials narrowly approved on Monday a compromise on a wireless proposal that left both sides feeling unsatisfied. The City Council voted 4-3, with council members Tom DuBois, Lydia Kou and Greg Tanaka dissenting, to reject two appeals pertaining to Crown Castle’s application for seven wireless communication facilities in the downtown area. The condition calls for five of the nodes — near 275 Forest Ave., 248 Homer Ave., 385 Homer Ave., 845 Ramona St., and 190 Channing Ave. — to be mounted on streetlights and concealed by shrouds. Interim Planning Director Jonathan Lait rejected a proposed node near 345 Forest Ave., which would have required a replacement streetlight next to the historic Laning Chateau Apartments building, and near 905 Waverley Ave., which would have required a new pole. Lait said both nodes could be accommodated by other street poles in the area. Though the plan deviated from the Architectural Review Board’s decision on Dec. 6 to require that all equipment be placed in underground vaults (or otherwise installed “out of sight”), Lait said the option isn’t feasible because the city has underground utilities in the downtown area, leaving little space for the equipment. But while his argument swayed the bare majority of the council, it enraged some of the residents, who insisted that his approval of the streetlight design without any hearings effectively deprived the public of its right to review the design. Q — Gennady Sheyner
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Alto to IBM/Bailey Avenue). VTA said multiple factors are prompting the cuts. Express buses only operate during commute hours but carry the same costs as an all-day bus to buy, maintain and store. Also, about 40 percent of an Express bus’s operating hours each week are spent going from the depot to the start of the route (and back) without any passengers, while all-day buses spend about 8 percent of their total hours without paying riders, according to VTA. Express-route drivers are also only driving part time but are paid for hours they aren’t operating the buses, VTA said. Furthermore, riders on all-day buses generally only travel 2 to 4 miles, which means the buses are able to pick up multiple passengers per bus seat. But Express passengers ride for more miles, and the buses pick up fewer riders. “The decision that VTA faces is not whether Express buses are good or desired, but whether they maximize the public benefit per dollar spent. The inefficiencies of commute-peak-period service means that VTA pays about four or five times more for an Express bus boarding than an all-day route boarding,” the agency stated in a Jan. 31 press release. One rider of the Line 103 who waited at Hansen Way near El
Camino Real on Tuesday said reduced service on that route would likely not affect him. At 4:30 p.m., his usual time of departure, the bus is nearly full, and thus the service is unlikely to be cut. On later 103 buses, there are few passengers. “They have to do what they have to do,” he said of VTA’s choices. Among other changes to Palo Alto’s service: • Line 35 (Stanford Shopping Center, through Palo Alto to Downtown Mountain View), which serves Midtown Palo Alto, would merge with Line 32 (San Antonio Shopping Center to Santa Clara Transit Center) to form a new single route, Line 21. Service hours and frequency would largely remain the same as the existing lines, with some exceptions. • Line 522 (Palo Alto Transit Center to Eastridge Transit Center), an express version of Line 22, would see improved service, making stops every 15 minutes or less on weekdays and every 15 minutes on weekends. The transit agency will hold a public online meeting on Feb. 12 from 1-2 p.m. to unveil its proposed 2019 New Transit Plan. The plan and a schedule of additional community meetings are posted at newtransitplan.vta.org. The public can also submit comments on the plan, which are due by Feb. 28, at that web site. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
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they believe the city is “generally acting in the best interests of the community” slipped from 51 percent in 2017 to 45 percent in 2018. The council did, however, add “climate change” to its official list of priorities, a move that was urged in a raft of public letters and comments. One letter, co-signed by more than a dozen residents including former Mayors Pat Burt and Peter Drekmeier and representatives of various nonprofits (including Acterra, Palo Alto Forward, Sierra Club, and Cool Block Palo Alto), urged the council to keep climatechange goals “front and center” in the coming year. The city should incorporate greenhouse-gas impacts into all discussion of new policies and developments under consideration, the letter stated. “The climate crisis is ever more present, and we’re feeling its effects here in Palo Alto already (drought, smoke from fires and even a drastic reduction in Monarchs and beneficial insects),” the letter states. The city, according to the letter, has already committed to reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 — and approved a Sustainability Implementation Plan in 2016 to spur the effort forward. “We need to redouble our efforts in delivering a robust transit system and deal with our
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affordable-housing inventory, get serious about electrification of our homes and businesses and promote EV (electric vehicle) uptake among other pro-sustainability measures,” the letter stated. Councilwoman Liz Kniss formally proposed that the city prioritize climate change. “I very much am in favor of attacking the climate issue,” Kniss said. “This is a dramatic problem. Whether you live in a seacoast community or a mountain town, you are going to be affected.” While climate change is a new priority, transportation and grade separation are both carry-overs from the prior year. In the National Citizens Survey, traffic solicited more comments than any other topic (housing was a close second) when residents were asked to name an area in which the city could do a better job. Some ideas that council members proposed on this topic included expanding the city’s small shuttle system and promoting alternatives to solo driving. In choosing grade separation as a priority, the council underscored the urgency of separating the rail corridor from local streets to account for an expected increase in Caltrain service. The council set a goal a year ago of reaching a decision on preferred grade-separation designs at the four crossings by the end of 2018. Since then, it has winnowed down its list of alternatives for Palo Alto Avenue, Churchill Avenue, Meadow
Drive and Charleston Road from 34 to six. “This is the year we’re going make all the hard decisions on grade separation and figure out how to pay for it,” Mayor Eric Filseth said. While the council ultimately reached a consensus on its annual priorities, members had slightly different ideas about what these priorities should focus on specifically. Councilman Greg Tanaka, the council’s leading fiscal hawk, said the city should prioritize its infrastructure projects. Filseth focused on attaining long-term financial sustainability, wherein revenues and costs are aligned. Vice Mayor Adrian Fine said the city should work on “economic diversity,” which includes ensuring that local retailers aren’t unduly burdened by regulations. Filseth also emphasized that many of the issues that were brought up by the public and by his colleagues — including airplane noise and improving communication with the public — will remain important areas of attention, even if they’re not official council priorities. The priority list, he said, “doesn’t mean everything else is not important.” “Most of the things that are important will not make our list,” Filseth said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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blind community member a digitally enhanced cane that lights up at night and vibrates to let the user know when the lights are in use. The students presented their prototype at a Design for Social Good Showcase at the Stanford d.school, where they competed against students from well-resourced private schools like Nueva. They were selected as a finalist and won $1,000 to continue working on the project. For this year’s project, the East Palo Alto Academy students met Tamara at her home to see how she gets out of bed, what it takes to get into the shower, how she picks up heavy objects, how she interacts with her service dog, how she gets in and out of her van — essentially, “what it feels like to be in her shoes,” student Gilberto Zuniga said. Then, brainstorming ensued (including a sticky note-covered workshop at renowned design firm IDEO in Palo Alto), and the students eventually settled on the van as the problem they wanted to solve for her. On a recent afternoon in East Palo Alto Academy’s “Dream Lab,” students, mostly sophomores, worked on different aspects of the project. While one group of students designed a caution sign that could be posted on Tamara’s van to alert nearby cars to her ramp, three others bent their heads over a circuit board as they coded the sensor. Through an introductory project, they had already learned about 3D printing, laser cutting and Arduino, an open-source platform that allows users to create interactive electronic objects. They made laser-engraved signs with LED lights to illuminate the engravings (their names or favorite logos). More recently, Wang talked with the students about prototyping, encouraging them to start designing with low-stakes materials like cardboard and pipe cleaners and then iterate as necessary. “Mess around and have fun,” he told them. Wang, a junior, said he is driven by an intense dissatisfaction with his own high school education. He chafed against what he described as a rigid academic culture at Paly, which he felt lacked true projectbased learning at a serious cost to student engagement and mental health. He was part of a group of local high schoolers who started MakeX, a student-run makerspace at Cubberley Community Center. He hopes to replicate that model with the East Palo Alto students. Araceli Lopez, now a sophomore at East Palo Alto Academy, participated in the pilot project last summer. She said she’s always been fascinated by technology, particularly smartphones, and helps her technologically challenged mother run her business. The program has become a source of encouragement and support for her, she said. “If I didn’t know something,
they would always help me out. ... ‘This is how you do this,’ or they’d help me help myself figure it out,” she said. Several students said they were motivated to participate — giving up precious after-school time once a week — because it wasn’t a program just for learning coding but one making a tangible impact. “I initially saw it as an opportunity to just come here and make stuff, then I heard it’s helping out the community, which makes it even better,” said Rogelio Vasquez, who uses the Dream Lab during lunch and after school for woodworking projects. Aaron Ragsdale, the high school’s STEM director, said the program has exposed the students to an industry in which minorities
and women are woefully underrepresented. And for students who struggle academically, it’s an opportunity to restore their confidence and their connection to school. Ragsdale added that he was once that struggling high school student in Chicago who had wanted to become an engineer but lacked an avenue to pursue that goal. The social-impact program gives all of the students “a sense of empowerment and confidence, (a) sense of agency,” Ragsdale said. As they’ve progressed, he’s seen a shift occur in their thinking: “’I’m not just a consumer; I can actually produce things that can change the world.’” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
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City Council Retreat (Feb. 2)
Priorities: The council adopted four priorities for 2019: climate change, grade separation, transportation and fiscal sustainability. Yes: Unanimous
City Council (Feb. 4)
Stanford GUP: The council directed staff to submit a letter to Santa Clara County listing the items the city would like to see considered as part of a development agreement for Stanford University’s proposed expansion. Yes: Unanimous Wireless: The council rejected two appeals and affirmed the director’s approval of five nodes and rejection of two nodes as part of the Crown Castle application for wireless communication facilities in the downtown area. Yes: Cormack, Filseth, Fine, Kniss No: DuBois, Kou, Tanaka
Utilities Advisory Committee (Feb. 6)
Staffing: The commission heard a presentation about succession planning, recruitments and vacancies in the Utilities Department. Action: None Rates: The commission heard preliminary proposals about rates changes to electric, gas, water and wastewater-collection services. Action: None
Architectural Review Board (Feb. 7)
190 Channing Ave: The board approved a proposal to demolish an existing 1,951-square-foot office building and construct a three-story 8,769-square-foot building with offices and three residential units. Yes: Baltay, Furth, Hirsch, Lew Absent: Thompson Stanford Shopping Center: The board discussed a proposal to demolish the existing 94,337-square-foot Macy’s Men’s building at Stanford Shopping Center and replace it with stand-alone retail buildings. Action: None
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Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to recognize students who made posters for Fire Safety Month and pass a resolution celebrating the city progress on improving street conditions. The council will then hold a study session on the Cubberley Community Center master plan, consider approving the environmental analysis for the new downtown garage, and consider repealing an existing ordinance limiting non-residential development in the downto wn area. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 11, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will hear a progress report on the Cubberley Community Center master plan, discuss submitting a Hoover Elementary School modernization project to the state architect and vote on a staff proposal to rebid a Palo Alto High School science addition project, among other items. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 12, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hold a study session on the Cubberley Community Center master plan and hear an annual report on Comprehensive Plan implementation. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to hold a study session on 840 Kipling St., a proposal to make modifications to a Craftsman bungalow in the South of Forest Avenue area. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 14, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 14, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The agenda was not available by press time.
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“so we can give them a proposal that truly supports our students across our entire district. “If you give them seven classrooms, if you give them 11, if you close a school — that’s all displacing our students, and I don’t want to do that,” she said. “I want to fight but also know there’s a risk. Do we go to court?” Trustee Sharifa Wilson was more openly critical of KIPP, which along with other charters, private schools and the Voluntary Transfer Program have drawn students — and funding — away from Ravenswood-run schools. Fewer than 2,400 students are currently enrolled in the district, down by more than 1,000 from seven years ago. Wilson urged parents to “organize against the expansion of charter schools.” She alleged that charters “see this district as a great opportunity for them to wipe out the entire public school system.” At the suggestion of a communi-
ty member, Vice President Stephanie Fitch said she has reached out to the school board in the Ross Valley School District. The K-8 Marin County district last year offered a charter school fewer facilities than requested, prompting a lawsuit from the charter and bitter public controversy. A request for more space from Bullis Charter School in the nearby Los Altos school district also sparked tensions, and the school board there reluctantly provided the charter room at a third elementary school. The tension between host school districts and charter schools is playing out across the state. On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom called on State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond to create a panel to study the impact of charter-school growth on districts’ finances. Two current Ravenswood trustees, Wilson and Ana Maria Pulido, served on the board that approved KIPP’s charter in 2016. Pulido cast the sole dissenting vote. Wilson reluctantly supported the charter at the time given that the school’s
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A new chapter begins at Paly library
There was visible awe and excitement on the faces of Palo Alto High School students as they flooded into their brand-new library for the first time on Wednesday. (Posted Feb. 7, 9:28 a.m.)
District seeks mediation in harassment case
The Palo Alto school board has directed staff to pursue mediation in a student sexual-harassment case that has put the district in the “untenable position of weighing conflicting and complex points of law,” according to a statement released Wednesday.
(Posted Feb. 6, 1:37 p.m.)
Planning director sheds ‘interim’ status
Jonathan Lait, who has been serving as Palo Alto’s interim planning director since April, will remain in the position on a permanent basis, City Manager Ed Shikada announced Wednesday.
(Posted Feb.6, 1:23 p.m.)
Suspected car burglar arrested
A suspected car burglar who sped away from Palo Alto police on Feb. 1 was tracked down an hour-and-a-half later in Daly City, nearly 30 miles away, and arrested, police said Tuesday. (Posted
Feb. 5, 3:20 p.m.)
Robber strikes Wells Fargo bank
Palo Alto police officers rushed to the scene of a bank robbery and engaged in a manhunt after a man in his 40s robbed a Wells Fargo bank on Monday evening, according to a department press release. (Posted Feb. 4, 5:58 p.m.)
Bike exchange back in the saddle
The nonprofit Silicon Valley Bike Exchange has moved into its new digs in Palo Alto. For years, the scrappy club of bicyclists and tinkerers had been operating out of a small garage space off Leghorn Street in Mountain View, which members used to fix up bikes for the poor. (Posted Feb. 4, 12:28 p.m.)
Children’s Health Council expands
Youth mental health nonprofit Children’s Health Council has opened a new location in East Palo Alto with the ambitious goal of serving five times as many children as the organization currently does in that community. (Posted Feb. 4, 11:24 a.m.)
President Hotel tenants get reprieve
The few remaining residents of President Hotel Apartments in downtown Palo Alto will now have until the end of February to pack up their belongings and vacate their apartments. (Posted Feb.
1, 5:29 p.m.)
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petition met all the necessary legal requirements, warning that “the only way that we’re going to prevent the district from being eaten alive by every charter school ... is to keep moving forward, which we’re doing under this new superintendent,” referring to Superintendent Gloria Hernandez-Goff. KIPP, which serves both East Palo Alto and Belle Haven students, anticipates enrolling 558 students this fall. Since securing its charter three years ago, KIPP has intended to grow each year and to include eighth grade by 2021. Maria Krauter, communications director for KIPP Bay Area Public Schools, said in a previous
interview that the charter’s “No. 1 preference” is for a long-term, single site where elementary and middle school students, many of them siblings, can attend school together. Hernandez-Goff said district staff are still gathering more detailed information about schoolby-school enrollment and capacity in advance of a board study session on the KIPP request scheduled for this Monday, Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. The board is set to vote on a preliminary facilities proposal at its Thursday, Feb. 14, meeting in order to meet a mandated Feb. 15 deadline. Both meetings will take place at the district office, 2120 Euclid Ave., East Palo Alto.
Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement SALVAJE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN649973 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Salvaje, located at 369 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): COPPERSMITH PALO ALTO LLC 2707 Louis Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on January 7, 2019. (PAW Jan. 25; Feb. 1, 8, 15, 2019) PALO ALTO TENNIS SHOP FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650248 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Palo Alto Tennis Shop, located at 855 El Camino Real 99B, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): TIMEA TERESTYAK 12 Country Ln Redwood City, CA 94061 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2019. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on January 15, 2019. (PAW Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 8, 15, 2019) SPRINGBOARD SOLUTIONS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650377 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Springboard Solutions, located at 725 Loma Verde Ave., Suite E, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SPRINGBOARD IN LLC 725 Loma Verde Ave., Suite E Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/27/2016. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on January 18, 2019. (PAW Jan. 25; Feb. 1, 8, 15, 2019) VITALITY BOWLS #013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650399 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Vitality Bowls #013, located at 209 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): PAMD LLC 209 S. California Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on
01/18/2019. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on January 18, 2019. (PAW Jan. 25; Feb. 1, 8, 15, 2019) THE CAR DOCTOR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650609 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: The Car Doctor, located at 710 San Antonio Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SCHALLER AUTOMOTIVE INC. 710 San Antonio Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/21/2009. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on January 25, 2019. (PAW Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, 2019) DEL REY PLAZA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650819 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Del Rey Plaza, located at 2105 South Bascom Ave., Suite 230, Campbell, CA 95008, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): DEL REY PLAZA INVESTORS LLC 2105 South Bascom Ave., Suite 230 Campbell, CA 95008 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/29/2019. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on January 30, 2019. (PAW Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, 2019) AUTO DETAILING CONCEPTS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650826 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Auto Detailing Concepts, located at 3980 El Camino Real #104, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MAURICIO NARANJO 3980 El Camino Real #104 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/04/2019. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on January 30, 2019. (PAW Feb. 8, 15, 22; Mar. 1, 2019) NEW WEST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650988 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: New West, located at 555 Bryant Street No. 140, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): WOWA WEST LLC 555 Bryant Street No. 140 Palo Alto, CA 94301
KIPP can respond to the preliminary proposal. The district is required to make a final facilities offer to KIPP on or before April 1. The final community meeting is scheduled for Saturday, Feb 9, at 1 p.m. at the district office. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
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997 All Other Legals SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA In re: THE JAMES H. INGLIS TRUST DATED OCTOBER 20, 1994 Case No. 19PR185253 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF JAMES H. INGLIS, DECEASED NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF JAMES H. INGLIS, DECEASED CASE NO. 19PR185253 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Notice is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above-named decedent, that all persons having claims against the decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court, at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113, and deliver a copy to SUE E. SARTOR and THOMAS H. INGLIS, Trustees of THE JAMES H. INGLIS TRUST dated October 20, 1994, of which the decedent was the settlor, at c/o ROBERTA A. BIORN, 2479 East Bayshore Road, #155, Palo Alto, California 94303, as provided in Probate Code Section 1215 within the later of four months after February 1, 2019 (the date of the first publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, or you must petition to file a late claim as provided in Probate Code Section 19103. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. Crist, Biorn, Shepherd & Roskoph /s/________________ Robert A. Biorn (PAW Feb. 1, 8, 15, 2019) NOTICE OF BULK SALE (A.B.C. License) The following definitions and designations shall apply in this Notice without regard to number or gender: SELLER: William Edward Bohne & Huong Thien Huynh 2363 Birch Street, Ste. B, Palo Alto, CA 94306 BUYER: Kitaru LLC 56 N. Ellsworth Ave., San Mateo, CA 94401 BUSINESS: HIDDEN GARDEN SUSHI 2363 Birch Street, Ste. B, Palo Alto, CA 94306 A.B.C. LICENSE: California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control license issued to Transferor for Business. Notice is hereby given that Seller intends to make a bulk sale of the assets of the above described Business to Buyer, including the A.B.C. License, stock in trade, furniture, and equipment used in the Business, to be consummated at the office of WILLIAM DUNN ESCROW, INC., 1350 Dell Avenue, #204, Campbell, CA 95008, on or after the date the A.B.C. License is transferred by the A.B.C. to Buyer (estimated to be March 15, 2019). This transfer is not subject to California Commercial Code Sec. 6106.2. Seller has used the following other business names and addresses within the last three years so far as known to Buyer: None Kitaru LLC BY: WILLIAM DUNN ESCROW, INC. Agent for Buyer - Susan Berry, Pres. 2/8/19 CNS-3218653# PALO ALTO WEEKLY
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Susan (Sue) Jacques Pines May 26, 1925 - January 28, 2019 Susan (Sue) Jacques Pines died on January 28, 2019, age 93, in Palo Alto, California. Sue was the ninth of the eleven children of Lancelot Jacques and Margaret Nicodemus Jacques of Smithsburg, Maryland. She is survived by her son Jack, daughter in law Susan, six grandchildren (Karen Day, Jason Blaisdell, James Blaisdell, Merrick Blaisdell, Margaret Porto, Stephen Pines and Julia Garapon) and eight great grandchildren. Sue trained as a nurse at the Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown, Maryland, and had advanced training at Columbia University. She met her husband, Dr. Philip Pines at the Washington County Hospital. In 1952, Dr. Pines set up his medical practice in Limestone, Maine, where they lived and raised their children, Jack and Judith; Sue was the office nurse. Dr. Pines died in 1975 and their daughter Judith Pines Blaisdell died in 2014. Sue was active in civic affairs in Limestone and in Aroostook County. She was the first female member of the Limestone Rotary, and the first female state legislator elected from Limestone. Her activities included the Limestone Historical Society, the Girl Scouts, the Limestone Library, and the Limestone Republican Committee. When Loring AFB closed, Sue was a leader of the group planning for the future of Limestone and setting up the Loring Development Authority. She was an early supporter of the Maine School of Science and Mathematics, both with funding, legislative support and even hosting some of the first students. Sue was instrumental in helping to set up the Pines Health Services, now a large Federally Qualified Health Center in Northern Maine with some 150 employees which was named after the late Dr. Pines. She was on the Board of Cary Medical Center, Caribou, from 1995-2000. After retiring from the legislature, Sue lived at the Granite Hill Estates in Hallowell, Maine, until moving to Palo Alto in 2016 to be closer to her son Jack. At Granite Hill, she had many wonderful friends and participated in church and social activities, as well as keeping up with her grandchildren. A celebration of her life will be held at Cox Memorial United Methodist Church, Hallowell, Maine, on Saturday, May 4th. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Sue’s memory to either Cox Memorial, the Limestone United Methodist Church, the Robert A. Frost Memorial Library in Limestone or the Maine PAID OBITUARY School of Science and Mathematics. Page 14 • February 8, 2019 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
Fred Dietrich (81) of Palo Alto California passed away peacefully on January 1, 2019. Born on April 14, 1937, in Hannibal Missouri, to Fred and Esther Dietrich. Fred is survived by his loving wife of fifty-seven years, Patricia. He is also survived by four daughters; Debra, Michelle, Karen and Kristine, their husbands and eleven grandchildren. Fred, aka “Curly”, had a brilliant, creative mind. He got a Ham Radio license at 12 years old and designed handmade games for young children at an annual neighborhood carnival in Hannibal. He graduated from high school at 16 and then went on to earn his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering. He earned a PHD in electrical engineering from Ohio State University in 1969, and then moved to Palo Alto to begin his career in the Aerospace industry. He worked for Ford Aerospace, and Space Systems Loral before retiring. Fred kept busy with his consulting business and obtained several patents related to his work. He loved to travel. He and his wife traveled to several continents and countries. Month-long family cross country road trips facilitated exploration in nearly every National park. In retirement Fred spent time volunteering for organizations mostly related to feeding and caring for people less fortunate. A funeral mass to celebrate his life will be held Saturday February 16 at 2:00 PM, at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 751 Waverley St. Palo Alto, 94301. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Catholic Charities USA https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/ or Ecumenical Hunger http://www.ehpcares.org/ PAID
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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto
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Lois Lee Ciapponi Lois Lee Ciapponi was born in Denver, Colorado on August 1st, 1932 to Clyde and Mary Jane Sunnergren. After the family moved to Menlo Park, Lois followed in the footsteps of her mother and got her nursing credentials studying and working at San Jose State, UC San Francisco, and Stanford. She worked her entire career and retired as the head nurse of her wing at Stanford Children’s Hospital. Lois had two boys, David and Steven, and two grandchildren, Keaton and Braeden. Lois was the most kind and loving person and also had many talents and passions. Lois devoted most of her life to the care of children at Stanford, and to the raising of her two boys. She also reveled in being a grandmother to Keaton and Braeden. Lois was a talented chef and she and her loving husband, Dick, were avid dancers in both Square Dance and Ballroom Dance clubs. Lois was a formidable seamstress who loved to design and fabricate both her and Dick’s beautiful and ornate dance attire. We celebrate Lois’ love, devotion and contribution to the care of others and to our world. Lois only ever worked to help our world be a better place and she certainly accomplished that. Today Lois is not gone; she has only become free from the constraints of our physical world. Lois is with us in our hearts, her love surrounds us and watches over us and gently helps guide us. We love you Lois– Wife, Mom, Grandma– Always and Forever. Lois will be laid to rest at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, California. PAID
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El Camino Real, 1/31, 12:45 p.m.; elder abuse/sexual. El Camino Real, 2/1, 11:20 a.m.; domestic violence/violate court order. El Camino Real, 2/3, 5:31 a.m.; domestic violence/battery. California Avenue, 2/4, 5:28 p.m.; robbery/misc. Welch Road, 2/4, 5:30 a.m.; domestic violence/assault. Industrial Avenue, 2/4, 9:26 p.m.; assault with deadly weapon. Starr King Circle, 2/5, 7:22 p.m.; battery/simple.
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Ivy Drive/Willow Road, 2/1, 11:47 a.m.; violation/domestic violence. 100 blk. E. Okeefe St., 2/5, 10:38 a.m.; assault with deadly weapon.
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Protect our schools — Speak up now by Teri Baldwin, Nancy Krop and Meb Steiner tanford University and Santa Clara County are now negotiating the next 17-year Stanford general use permit (“GUP”). Stanford’s proposal is the largest land development application in County history. Unless Stanford fully mitigates the impacts on Palo Alto schools of such massive development, PAUSD faces annual budget shortfalls in the millions of dollars, forcing increased classroom sizes, program reductions and staff layoffs. In the new GUP, Stanford could add up to 1,445 new students to Palo Alto schools. To the extent Stanford builds taxexempt rental properties for these students’ families, PAUSD receives no property-tax revenues to cover the cost of educating the new students. Adding hundreds of students, without adding revenues, means irreparable harm to PAUSD schools. We welcome every new student. All we ask is Stanford fully mitigate the impacts of any approved development. Historically, Stanford and PAUSD worked together to accomplish their common goal of maintaining excellent PAUSD schools when Stanford added students living in Stanford taxexempt rental homes. Your voice is needed now. At the end of this column are quick and easy ways to message Stanford and the County to continue this long-term partnership and protect our schools.
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Stanford’s 100-Year financial partnership with PAUSD As a valued partner of PAUSD, Stanford has • Contributed $10 million to PAUSD in the last GUP (2000 GUP) for the cost of educating new Stanford students • Paid about $460K annually for Stanford West residential property tax (covers 7 percent the cost of educating those students, according to PAUSD) • Sold land to PAUSD — at full market value — for four schools when Stanford created neighborhoods • Paid property taxes on its non-exempt commercial properties (less than $2 million a year, covering less
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than 10 percent of the PAUSD cost of educating Stanford students living in tax-exempt rental housing, according to PAUSD) Stanford’s proposed GUP Stanford proposes to build 550 tax-exempt rental homes on Quarry Road, generating 275 students. Because Stanford is exempt from paying property taxes on its rental properties, these students generate no property tax revenues to cover the cost of their education. Stanford also proposes to develop 2,275,000 square feet of academic facilities. Estimates range up to 1,445 new students (generated by this new workforce), adding no property tax revenues if Stanford builds them tax-exempt rental homes. PAUSD costs PAUSD spends about $20,000 per student. The district currently absorbs $8 million annually to educate students living in taxexempt Stanford-owned rental properties. When the GUP is approved, for the next 17 years, PAUSD will face annual additional budget shortages ranging from $5.5 million (275 new students) to $28 million plus (1,445 new students). A PAUSD brief on the GUP states: “Adding hundreds of students with little or no additional property tax revenue would result in significant and permanent PAUSD budget shortfalls, class size increases, and program reductions which would irreparably damage the quality of education for all PAUSD students, including those coming from Stanford.” In addition to the GUP students, more students are coming to PAUSD. After 25 years of continuous growth, PAUSD enrollment declined about 4 percent over the past five
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years. Going forward, PAUSD anticipates increased enrollment as the city, county and state address our acute housing-to-jobs imbalance. The Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan sets a goal of at least 300 new housing units a year for the next 12 years. Other private universities financially contribute to their local school districts. As Stanford did in the prior GUP, Stanford could contribute revenue for PAUSD to educate students living in Stanford tax-exempt rental homes. New elementary school precedent Stanford’s proposed Quarry Road homes are miles from any PAUSD school site. Plus, almost 300 elementary school students currently live along the Sand Hill corridor, primarily at the Stanford West rental community. These nearly 500 Sand Hill/ Quarry Road students live 2 to 5 miles from the nearest school. Historically, when Stanford created a new neighborhood, PAUSD purchased Stanford land at full market value and built a school for the additional children. In 1958, when Stanford built Escondido Village, PAUSD built Escondido School across the street. When Stanford developed Frenchman’s Hill in 1968, PAUSD built Nixon in the middle of the new neighborhood. PAUSD identified 42 potential sites for a new elementary school on Stanford land. Stanford could sell land to PAUSD for a school for the 500 Sand Hill/Quarry Road students. Common-interest solutions Fortunately, PAUSD and Stanford share a common interest in Stanford fully mitigating its impacts, and have a history of working together to maintain excellent public schools.
To further our common interest in maintaining excellent schools, there are several ways Stanford and PAUSD can partner up. Possible full mitigation solutions include • Stanford mitigating the annual PAUSD budget shortfalls via annual payments to PAUSD, based on the number of students residing in tax-exempt Stanfordrental properties • Stanford selling a 4-acre parcel to PAUSD to build a neighborhood school • Stanford mitigating the PAUSD cost of building the school • Stanford mitigating the City Safe Routes to Schools costs • Stanford allocating some new housing for PAUSD teachers and staff, many facing incredibly long commutes to serve our children • Stanford funding the expansion of oversubscribed afterschool childcare on PAUSD campuses for additional students Be part of the solution Your voice is needed. Speak up now and be part of the solution. Message the County and Stanford for full mitigation, necessary to protect PAUSD schools, teachers, staff and programs. • iPhone users: speak up with a tap on your phone. Download the free Click My Cause TwoTap App, select Palo Alto PTA Council, and tap on any “Act Now” button. • Android users, sign a petition at clickmycause.com/2019/01/13/ protect-pausd-schools • Learn more at the PTA Council website: ptac.paloaltopta.org. Read the School Board Resolution, PAUSD Briefing Book, PTAC Fact Sheet, and Safe Routes to School Letter. Q Nancy Krop is a PAUSD parent and advocacy consultant for the Palo Alto PTA Council and can be contacted at nancypta@kroplaw.com. Teri Baldwin is a teacher and the president of the Palo Alto Educators Association and can be contacted at tbaldwin@ pausd.org. Meb Steiner is a special education instructional aide and president of California State Employees Association Palo Alto Chapter 301 and can be contacted at mrsteiner@ pausd.org.
City should look into vaulting
Editor, Monday’s City Council meeting regarding wireless communication-device placement and design was quite a disappointment. While the city’s Architectural Review Board, the resident-driven United Neighbors group and a lawyer for residents whose property will be impacted all favored underground vaulting, city staff opted instead to approve the (less expensive) above-ground placement desired by the applicant, Crown Castle. Kniss immediately made a motion to approve the item, stating residents like cell phone coverage (which was not the issue at hand); Mayor Filseth quickly seconded the motion. Other council members, notably DuBois and Kou, asked multiple relevant and important questions — and received nebulous answers from the city staff. One example was Kou’s question, “How loud will these be?” The city staff responded with multiple answers: “Perhaps 40-45 dB’s”; “Depends on the device”; “They are silent”; followed by “Some might require a fan” and ultimately “They must abide by the city’s noise ordinance” without naming that requirement. Ordinance 9.10.050 (Public Property Noise Limits), which I found online, states the noise level be “no more than 15 dB above the local ambient at a distance of 25 feet or more...” Another example was when city staff could not identify the equipment in existing underground vaults but didn’t hesitate to state there would not be any room to add these devices. The city staff’s non-specific answers were hardly gratifying to the attending residents who wanted to see the city staff research options other than cluttering our streets with ugly, potentially noisy devices. The city stated it will likely receive many more such requests from Crown Castle and other applicants. I wish our city staff had done more to determine if underground vaulting might be feasible, especially in a case-bycase situation. One device will be placed in front of a residence (where noise requirements are lower). Ann Protter N. California Avenue Palo Alto
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Veronica Weber
Redevelopment planning speeds up for south Palo Alto campus by Gennady Sheyner e are here for upholstery!” Susan Moskowitz’s declaration rose above the murmur of a hundred competing voices at the pavilion of Cubberley Community Center on Jan. 24, where more than 150 residents convened to give their ideas about the future of the sprawling 35-acre campus in south Palo Alto, which is set for redevelopment. Moskowitz and her small crew of upholstery enthusiasts — determined that space be carved out at the redeveloped Cubberley for their passion — took up one of about 20 tables that were equipped with maps, graphics, sticky notes, markers, specially appointed “facilitators” and six to eight residents, most of them brimming with opinions. Taking a pause from a group
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exercise, Moskowitz told the Weekly that her twice-a-week upholstery class, offered by Palo Alto Adult Education, currently occupies a pre-World War II building next to the auto shop at Palo Alto High School. The class, she said, takes discarded furniture, tears it down to the studs and then restores it. These days, she and her classmates are concerned that their hobby could find itself homeless, as a proposal’s been floated for the building to be torn down to make way for a proposed Career Technical Education building, focused on robotics. Moskowitz and others believe Cubberley could be the ideal place at which to consolidate all of the district’s adult-education classes, which are currently scattered throughout the city.
Harlon Lee gets to work deconstructing a chair that he will then reupholster during Palo Alto Adult School’s upholstery class, which has been offered for more than 60 years. Students are concerned that planned changes to the Palo Alto High School campus, which currently hosts the course, will force the class to find a new home. Some are lobbying for that home to be Cubberley Community Center.
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Participants at the Jan. 24 community meeting on redesigning Cubberley Community Center discuss architectural styles as well as the activities they hope to see in the redeveloped south Palo Alto campus, such as tennis courts and space for arts and crafts. Page 28 • February 8, 2019 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
“The reason we are here and are so well-represented is because we love our class. ... They want to tear (the Paly building) down, and we don’t want it to be torn down until we have another place to go,” Moskowitz said. Over the course of 90 minutes, she and her tablemates debated issues having to do with the broader redevelopment of 4000 Middlefield Road: the best way to lay out space for the different activities, the best methods for improving traffic circulation and the most suitable architectural styles for the 64-year-old campus. Similar debates took place at every other table, where a facilitator tallied votes and tried to corral residents — with mixed success — into some form of consensus. Across the room from Moskowitz’s table, facilitator Megan Cole asked her table group to look at proposed locations for all of the new gyms, pools and other facilities and to consider other alternatives. Participants largely agreed with the proposed layout, with one notable exception: One resident said he would oppose against any proposal that did not include an expansive tennis center as part of Cubberley’s new proposed Health and Wellness Center. Cole noted his dissent and tallied the votes on the giant, marked up sheet. “Are we doing doing a good job with the property we have or should we be doing something different?” Cole asked her group. Palo Alto’s city and school district have been asking that question for nearly a decade, with few answers forthcoming. In 2013, with the lease between the school district and the city approaching its expiration date, a specially appointed citizen committee released an 800-page report arguing that the site should become a true “shared-use” facility between the two entities. The following year, then-City Manager James Keene and then-school Superintendent Max McGee signed a new fiveyear lease in 2014 to plan for Cubberley’s future, a process that after
years of inertia is now kicking into high gear. Last month, the consulting firm leading the current master planning effort, which has included the Jan. 24 meeting and two other community meetings, released the newest plan for Cubberley. Concordia’s document largely comports with the vision of the citizen advisory group and captures the ideas of roughly 400 residents who attended the first three meetings (a fourth and final meeting is scheduled for May 7). Under the current proposal, the community center will become a “shared village,” with a school occupying the portion of Cubberley closest to Greendell School, a Health and Wellness Center situated at the opposite end near the Charleston Shopping Center, and an assortment of shared gyms, studios, classrooms and theater spaces filling in the space in between. Bobbie Hill, a principal at Concordia, told the crowd at the Jan. 24 meeting that the goal is to come up with a vision that is “innovative, flexible and adaptable.” After years of almost complete inertia on the part of the city, Concordia’s planning method looks like democracy on steroids. In the first meeting, more than 200 residents used building blocks to construct a model of the new Cubberley, an exercise that Concordia hoped would reveal the community’s desire, and tolerance, for how densely built the campus should be. The residents also offered about 600 ideas about what the new Cubberley should include, ideas that residents then ranked and expounded on in the second meeting. Then, in the third meeting, participants tackled Cubberley’s proposed layout, traffic circulation and architectural styles. In just four months — warp speed by Palo Alto’s standards — Concordia has come up with a plan that preserves community spaces, makes room for a school, modernizes outdated buildings and expands green space at the center by nearly 60 percent. Just
as critically, the group managed to bridge the gap between the city and the school district — two sides with competing interests and different timelines when it comes to Cubberley. Now, they aren’t just in the same room, they are literally at the same table. On Jan. 24, Councilwoman Alison Cormack, a long-time proponent of redeveloping Cubberley, and Bob Golton, the school district’s bond program manager, were in the same group group during the building-block exercise, while school district Superintendent Don Austin walked around the room, city Deputy City Manager Rob de Geus chatted up community members and schoolboard member Todd Collins observed from the side. “What we’re planning now is to ensure that 20, 30, 40 years down the road this place is flexible and adaptable so that it can be what it needs to be in the future, to meet future needs,” Hill told the audience at the onset of the meeting. The pace of progress has astonished some officials in a city where it took nearly a decade to update the city’s guiding land-use document, the Comprehensive Plan, and two decades (and counting) to come up with a plan for expanding the municipal fiber-optic network. Kristen O’Kane, assistant director of the Community Services Department, called the Cubberley process a “whirlwind” at a recent Parks and Recreation Commission. Palo Alto City Manager Ed Shikada told the Weekly he is “really impressed with the number of residents actively engaged in co-designing this valuable community asset.” “As you know, hundreds of community members have come out to develop a collective vision for the site,” Shikada said in an email. “The community meetings have been designed to encourage community conversations and exchange thinking with the goal of planning a site that will be a destination for generations to come.” Cormack, who has participated in all three meetings and who
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articipants largely agree. Annie Tsui, a Palo Alto High senior who volunteered to be a table facilitator, lauded both the process and the results. Prior to every meeting, Concordia consultants train facilitators on the upcoming activities and simulate the exercises. The meetings themselves give Tsui a chance to learn more about her community and to meet residents of all ages — a wonderful break from Paly life, where she’s mostly surrounded by peers, Tsui said. She is also learning about her school. Prior to the Jan. 24 meeting and Moskowitz’s strong position, Tsui didn’t know that Paly even housed an upholstery program. And the results, she said, have been impressive. “It’s insane how fast Concordia seem to be moving,” Tsui said. “They definitely seem to be getting things done.” Raj Shetty, who was facilitating at another table, said the tenor of the conversation has improved since the first meeting, when he found himself in the middle of a heated debate between those arguing for less density at Cubberley and those arguing for more. In subsequent meetings, as more details were presented, the level of dissent has noticeably dropped, Shetty said. “It feels like we’re accommodating at least most people’s needs,” said Shetty, a Gunn High junior. “That’s the goal. And that’s why
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spearheaded Palo Alto’s successful drive in 2008 to rebuild the library system, said she has been pleased with both the high number of participants and Concordia’s product, which she likened to “rapid-fire prototyping.” She said she has never seen this many people participate in a Palo Alto meeting. “It certainly seems like we’re making really rapid progress,” Cormack told the Weekly. She also lauded Concordia for offering participants a roughly “80 percent draft,” enough to understand what’s being contemplated but no so much that it feels like anything is set in stone. Cubberley Community Center, which opened in 1955, used to be a high school and is jointly owned by the Palo Alto Unified School District and the city of Palo Alto. the project is moving in the right direction.” Not everyone is as thrilled about the speed of progress. Several attendees on Jan. 24 said they were somewhat concerned about Concordia effectively taking the input from a few hundred people in a city of 67,000 and framing it as community consensus. At the onset of the meeting, one man interrupted the Concordia presentation to ask, repeatedly, how many people had participated in the early meetings. Was the list of preferred uses ranked based on feedback from Palo Alto at large, he asked, or just from the people who attended? When Hill noted that it was ranked the among those who attended, the audience member pointed out there there are only “about 200 people here, maybe.” And when Hill countered that residents who didn’t attend the meetings have a chance to respond online, another audience member interrupted to say the project website isn’t easy to use. Those who haven’t had a chance to weigh in thus far will have plenty of opportunities to do so in the coming week, when Concordia presents its plan to the City Council (on Feb. 11), the school board (Feb. 12) and the Planning and Transportation Commission (Feb. 13). After these bodies offer their
feedback, Concordia plans to hold its final meeting on May 7 on the revised document, which will include a “phasing” plan to accommodate an eventual construction of a school. The expedited timeline pleased and stunned the Parks and Recreation Commission, which on Jan. 22 lauded the recent progress. “We’ve been talking for I think a very long while, certainly longer than I’ve lived in Palo Alto, about what to do with Cubberley, and it’s been a big conundrum,” Commissioner Ryan McCauley said. “And this is a huge step forward.” O’Kane, while noting the suddenly fast progress, expressed confidence in Concordia, which spearheaded the construction of a multi-use center in Emeryville and which helped craft the plan for rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina — a plan that took nine months to put together. “The efficiency is having everybody in the room doing this, instead of having a lot of subcommittees,” Hill told the commission. “We’ve learned that over the years.” he new Cubberley Community Center is intended to be a mix of old and new. Most of the activity spaces that are on the site today, including
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the theaters, the studios and classroom spaces will remain, though they will likely look nothing like they do today. In fact, one of the areas on which the consultant and the residents have reached an overwhelming consensus is the need to demolish every existing building at Cubberley and start redevelopment from scratch. Another area of consensus is that the new Cubberley should be neither the sprawling, single-story center it is today nor a dense cluster in which all critical functions are jammed in the center’s interior, leaving the rest of the center open for playing fields and landscaped open spaces. During the second community meeting, residents considered three different concepts for how the new center could be laid out. The most popular option, according to Concordia, was the “shared village” model in which most community facilities would be housed in the north part of Cubberley, toward Charleston Road, and the school facilities would be in the south, toward San Antonio Road. Between them would be a host of shared facilities: three gyms, art classrooms, a culinary kitchen, a gallery, a makerspace and a large, flexible event venue, according to Concordia’s document. The shared-village model won by a “big margin” among attendees of the second community meeting, said Steven Bingler, a principal at Concordia. “You said you had a tolerance for adding buildings of maybe two-to-four stories, but not five or six stories, not high-rises,” Bingler said on Jan. 24 as he recapped participants’ views. “But it also made sense that one-story is probably not the best use of the properties.” The program document makes a case for the wholesale reconstruction, noting that the single-story 1955 buildings scattered throughout the complex have reached the “end of their functional lifespan” and lack basic amenities such as air conditioning and do not meet the modern energy requirements. They are also laid out in an inefficient manner, “especially given the value of land in Palo Alto,” the
document states. “Most buildings on site are single rows of classrooms that open to the outside in underutilized paved gaps between buildings,” the document states. “All but one of the buildings are single-story.” It also doesn’t help that a huge portion of the center is occupied by parking lots and “underutilized paved areas,” a layout that Concordia is proposing to change by increasing green space by 60 percent and switching to garage parking. How will these new buildings be used? According to the program document, much like they are today. Adult education and performing arts programs, which already have a strong foothold in Cubberley, were among the top vote-getters at the community meetings and are very likely to remain in the center. Green spaces, makerspace and health-andwellness facilities are also very like to remain and, in may cases, expanded. There would also be new uses, all of which are integrated into the site. The truly new additions, according to Concordia’s program document, include “a cafe, pickleball courts, a wood workshop, media center, art classrooms, gallery, a skate spot, a biking and walking track, a culinary kitchen and a playground.” Under the plan, existing softball and soccer fields would be preserved and a new swimming pool would be installed. Parks and Recreation Commission David Moss, who lives in the adjacent Greendell neighborhood and attended the Jan. 24 community meeting, told the Weekly that he was “amazed at the sheer number of things they want to put in here and the fact that they still have the fields.” “They’re not touching my tracks, which I use everyday, and they’re going to put in pools and gyms,” Moss said. “Rinconada (Pool in north Palo Alto) is filled to overflowing, so we need a second pool, and the gyms are all owned by the school.” (continued on page 30)
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Cultural programs currently lease space at Cubberley Community Center. In this 2017 photograph, Louise Ma, left, Harriet Lu, right, and fellow knitters chat in the reading room at the Hua Kuang Reading Room, a Chinese-language library that offers tutoring and classes in calligraphy, ESL and citizenship.
Kris Yenner, director of the Preparatory Orchestra for the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra (PACO), leads rehearsal at the organization’s space at Cubberley Community Center in 2016. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 8, 2019 • Page 29
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Cubberley (continued from page 29)
For others at the meeting, including resident Michael Bein, the main objective was to make sure the new Cubberley wouldn’t overwhelm the surrounding neighborhoods, many of which are dominated by one-story Eichler-style homes. Bein lauded Concordia’s presentation but said he found the consultant’s process “not quite kosher,� given that it was based in large part on the views of earlymeeting attendees. Bein also suggested that the consultant use 3D models so that he and his Greendell neighbors would have a feel for what the area would look like in the context of the new Cubberley. “We’re trying to keep this neighborhood the way it is,� Bein said.
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Some of the facilities at Cubberley Community Center, which is 64 years old, are in need of repair. Residents who have been taking part in redevelopment planning overwhelmingly favor demolishing the current buildings to make way for new ones. and shared facilities) and pursue the educational facilities (which in addition to the new school could include a new district headquarters and teacher housing). Hill said she believes if the city and the district collaborate, “that’s something outside funders would find very attractive.� “You wanna be as creative as you possible can and have the biggest vision you possibly can in order to get people excited and really
want to do it — and at the same time with not a blank check book,� Hill told the Parks and Recreation Commission. “It’s really a balance of trying to put those two things together. And I think you can create these spaces in a way that can be super-exciting.� Q More information about the Cubberley master plan, including the online survey, is available at pausd.org/business-services/ cubberley-co-design.
About the cover: Clockwise from top left: The Palo Alto Soccer Club does drills at Cubberley Community Center; the Anjali Natya dance school of Saratoga rehearses at Cubberley; members of the Palo Alto Senior Table Tennis practice; fourthgraders in Mrs. Meinke’s class at Duveneck Elementary School work on a classroom exercise (a new school is planned for Cubberley); and Kai Gallagher works at the Make X studio at Cubberley in 2015. Photographs by Veronica Weber.
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Austin said he feels the city and the district have been working well together thus far, though he expects the converations to get more concrete in the weeks and months ahead, as more details emerge about the Cubberley plan. Like Cormack, he said he’s been impressed by the high level of enthusiasm among participants at the meetings. “I think it’s really exciting for everyone involved,� Austin said. That said, Austin said it would be premature to talk about funding before the plans are out. The school district will have consider the proposal and potential benefits before determining if they’re high enough to warrant going after funding sources, he said. Those involved in the Cubberley master plan believe that at least some financial assistance may come from private sources. When Bobbie Hill was asked at the Jan. 22 meeting of the Parks and Recreation Commission about funding constraints, she suggested that a collaboration between the city and the school district could create great opportunities to “attract additional resources to the table.� It helps that both the city and the district have plenty of precedent for private funders stepping up, with projects like the new Paly gym and the soon-to-be-reconstructed Junior Museum and Zoo both benefiting from millions in donations. The Cubberley Community Advisory Committee also noted that Stanford University can have a big role “in informing the designing, constructing and equipping school facilities� at Cubberley. Stanford Hospital can also partner with the city on the Health and Wellness Center, which can include programs for patient recovery. The report cites as an example the partnership between Cardiac Therapy Foundation, a Cubberley tenant, and Stanford researchers on a program to reduce stress through mindfulness. Ideas for funding the needed improvements will be included in the final Cubberley master plan. The document will also include a phasing plan, which will allow the city and the school district to construct some buildings in the near term (mostly likely the community
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or Palo Alto, the completion of the Cubberley master plan will be a major milestone, both in terms of determining the site’s future and for addressing the goals of its recently completed parks master plan. Then, the city and the school district will embark on a far trickier endeavor: turning the plans into action. Funding promises to be a major challenge. Though the cost estimate has not yet been formulated, the city’s existing infrastructure projects suggest it would easily top $300 million (consider that the city’s soon-to-be-constructed police headquarters — which is just one building — has a price tag of $106 million). During the Parks and Recommendation Commission discussion, McCauley was one of several commissioners who wondered if the proposed vision is too good to be true. “How do you get from this vision, with the price tag that’s probably really large at the moment and only going up? How do you get there in view of the different constituencies in play between the school district and the city of Palo Alto and the recognition of limited sources?� When asked about funding Cubberley, Shikada told the Weekly that it will likely take “a
combination of sources.� “This could include public financing such as a bond measure, private fundraising and grants,� Shikada said. So far, the most likely scenario would be a bond measure undertaken by the school district, the city or both. In 2012, the appointed Cubberley Community Advisory Committee put together a 823-page report that identifies several funding scenarios for redeveloping Cubberley. Under one scenario, a city bond would pay for the new community centers, including shared studios and the Health and Wellness Center, while a school bond would fund the new educational facilities, including the new school. In another scenario, the school district would spearhead the bond campaign for all the educational and shared facilities, with the city’s cooperation and support. “If the city and district are collaborating on design, construction and joint use, funding scenarios are much more flexible,� the Community Advisory Committee’s Finance Subcommittee concluded in its report. “There seems to be some precedent in California that funds raised by schools through general obligation bonds can be used to build joint-use facilities including child care, libraries, gymnasiums, fields and performing- and visual-arts buildings. Therefore it is perhaps the case that bonds can be issued by the district for capital improvements to build most of the community-center uses.� A school bond has one additional benefit: It requires support from only 55 percent of the voters to pass, a far lower threshold than the two-thirds majority that a city bond would need. Cormack, who this year will serve on the City/School Liaison Committee, said that a bond is “the logical solution to how we make this project happen for the whole community.� “What form that takes and how the city and the school district work together and the choices they make remains to be seen,� Cormack said. There are, however, some positive signs. Just five years ago, the city was accusing the district of dragging its feet on Cubberley (the district, for its part, was understandably reluctant to relinquish up any rights to its valuable land). Now, the conversations appear to be more amicable. Cormack cited the school district’s decision last fall to include the Greendell site and its property at 525 San Antonio Road in the master plan — which expanded the planning area from 35 acres to 43.1 acres — as a signifier that “the district understands that this is a real long-term decision we’re making.� Austin, who has attended all the community meetings, said the district’s main priority has been to “preserve opportunities for a school in the future, shall the need arise. “Beyond that, I think there’s a lot of potential for other uses of the site,� Austin said.
Players in the Palo Alto Soccer Club do drills at the fields in the rear of Cubberley Community Center in 2017. The center has tennis courts, softball fields, soccer fields, a football field and a running track.
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or playwright/director Tina Satter, a successful collaboration involves a generosity of spirit, an appreciation for the absurd and surreal, a shared sense of dark humor and a certain amount of intangible chemistry. The theatrical song cycle “Ghost Rings,” created by Satter’s New York-based group Half Straddle, is not only itself a collaboration but also celebrates creative partnerships, both real and fictional, in the form of an imaginary rock band. The feminist, funny and fantastical show, which comes to Stanford Feb. 14-16, is a musical tale of the passionate connection between best friends and bandmates Samantha and Shawna, who share a cosmically close bond. So close, in fact, that Shawna “wills the universe to make her pregnant with Samantha’s baby.” Their glitter-and-spandex bedazzled story is contrasted with memories of Satter’s relationship with her own estranged, real-life sister, with whom Satter once shared childhood dreams of playing in a rock band and of their lives being forever intertwined. These dual narratives are interwoven
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within the framework of a live pop-rock concert, with Satter playing drums on stage, Chris Giarmo playing keyboards and Erin Markey and Kristen Sieh singing lead as Samantha and Shawna. They’re joined in Satter’s “special alt-world” by whimsical seal and deer puppets representing Samantha and Shawna’s alter egos/inner selves/spirit animals. “When we were younger we had imagined being in this rock band together,” Satter said. “The show is a fractured container for this remembered band.” Calling the interludes she delivers about her sister “biographical pinpricks to fill out the tapestry of this play,” Satter said she did not set out to write an autobiographical piece. “For the nature of this show I wanted some elusiveness and mystery and poetics. I never intended to stand up and tell this
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“Ghost Rings” was created by the New York ensemble Half Straddle, headed by writer/director Tina Satter, who also plays drums in the show.
one-woman show,” she said. But as she continued exploring Samantha and Shawna’s relationship, Satter’s memories and feelings surrounding her once-close, now-severed ties to her sister couldn’t help but surface. “The main story of these two young women, this loaded friendship, wondering, ‘Could we have our whole lives together?’ — dealing with this personal stuff was huge to be grappling with for me,” Satter said. “I would just start writing stuff about my sister. I couldn’t not write about it then,” she said, especially after discussing it with co-creators Giarmo, who also serves as the project’s musical director, and comedian/ writer/musician Markey. “I said, ‘This is where I’m heading with this; let’s start playing with it and let’s see,’” she said. “They, being friends of mine, also knew there were darker roots to some of that stuff.” Collaborators for many years, Giarmo and Markey composed the music (accompanying Satter’s lyrics) as well as performing in the “Ghost Rings” cast. “I really tried to physically and vocally own her lyrics as my own point of view,” Markey told the Weekly in an email interview. “The goal for me was full sonic embodiment of the show’s aesthetic values. That’s what we all wanted so there was a lot of permission there for that.” The harmony and power-ballad-rich music of “Ghost Rings” comes with a variety of influences, from Simon and Garfunkel to Bikini Kill to Enya. “I’m always influenced by ‘90s country, ‘90s R&B and the Indigo Girls. I am complicatedly very influenced by R. Kelly’s music, but who isn’t?” Markey said. Originally, Satter was not planning on performing in “Ghost Rings,” thinking that Sieh and Markey would recite the interludes about her sister. “Erin said, ‘I think you need to try saying it, Tina,’” Satter recalled. “And yep, that’s what makes sense; what feels artistically correct.”
“Ghost Rings,” a pop-rock song cycle about sisterhood, friendship and a fictional band, comes to Stanford Feb. 14-16. The show also gave Satter the challenging opportunity to become something new, at the suggestion of Giarmo: a rock drummer. “Chris had this idea that I should be in the band. I am not a drummer at all, I learned very specifically to do this. I can basically drum the songs we had in the show,” she said. “It felt very vulnerable because I’m not normally a performer in my work and I never write that explicitly about personal stuff in my shows. Usually the drummer is the beat of the show but I was the least talented musician,” she said, laughing. “I had to rely back on these other incredibly talented musicians.” A mix of childhood fantasy and the melancholy nostalgia of adulthood, “Ghost Rings” seems likely to resonate with anyone who has experienced the close bond between best friends, sisters or artistic collaborators (or perhaps all three), and the deeply felt loss if and when that bond is weakened. “Almost all my plays are about young women having shared codes ... sisters have that, theater makers have that,” Satter mused. “A band totally has that — making music together, singing together, finding each other in that live space, it’s such an amazing connection.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.
What: “Ghost Rings.” Where: Bing Studio, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford. When: Thursday, Feb. 14, Wednesday, Feb. 15 and Sat., Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. Cost: $35-$45. Info: Go to live.stanford.edu/calendar/ february-2019/ghost-rings.
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An American dream
‘American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose’ is an immigrant’s surreal journey through U.S. history by Karla Kane
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THEATER REVIEW achieve full citizenship, then reunite with his beloved wife, Lydia (Alycia Adame, who also delivers a few lovely musical interludes), and his infant son, whom he has yet to meet. With the test first thing in the morning, Juan Jose falls asleep and enters a feverish, rapid-fire dream that takes him through a variety of surreal encounters. He meets a cavalcade of figures (real and imagined) from throughout American history, played by the eight other cast members, billed only as Ensemble: Adame, Dan Cardenas, Nique Eagen, Ron Johnson, John Stephen King, Paul Lee, Dana Cordelia Morgan and Adrian Torres. Each takes on a variety of roles, from Sacajawea to Jackie Robinson. Much of the content involves America’s often-shabby treatment of its immigrant and non-white populations. On his adventure through time and space, the goodnatured, optimistic Juan Jose learns about the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which transferred a large portion of land from
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n fifth grade, my class was tasked with writing and producing our own play. What we came up with was a time-traveling sketch-comedy tale of aliens visiting Earth and bearing witness to important moments in history (shout-out to my fellow “Spaced Out” cast and crew!). As a skitfilled, laugh-packed, madcap trip through U.S. History, Los Altos Stage Company’s “American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose” reminds me — fondly — of that experience, albeit with a healthy helping of sharp, adult humor and insights about a few of the darker aspects of America’s past. Think Mel Brooks and Monty Pythonstyle humor mixed with Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.” The show, written by Richard Montoya, centers on the titular Juan Jose (Carlos Diego Mendoza), a Mexican immigrant frantically preparing to take his U.S. citizenship examination. Juan Jose was a police officer back in Mexico and fled Sinaloa after he refused to partake in drug-war corruption and became a target of a dangerous cartel. A green-card holder, his goal is to
Juan Jose (Carlos Diego Mendoza, center right) meets Lewis (John Stephen King, far left), Sacajawea (Alycia Adame, center left) and Clark (Dana Cordelia Morgan, far right) in “American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose” by Los Altos Stage Company. Mexico to the U.S.; AustralianAmerican labor leader Harry Bridges; the Kent State killings and much more. He meets people acting bravely, heroes he has not learned about in his mainstream history books, such as Viola Pettus, an African-American nurse who treats children
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from all backgrounds — including kids whose parents are Mexican, Native-American or even Ku Klux Klan members — during the 1918 influenza pandemic, and Latino and Japanese-Americans creating community and representing true patriotism in WWII internment camps. Voices and faces from different eras mix and mingle and Juan Jose is confronted by rampant racism and anti-immigrant rhetoric still present in society today. There are also some “Back to the Future” moments in which Juan Jose meets his own ancestors and movingly recognizes the threads tying their worlds to his own. Though the themes are serious, the vast majority of the play is delivered in the broadest possible comic strokes, including groanworthy puns, stereotypical accents and over-the-top caricatures, offered with knowing nods and parodic self-awareness. The actors attack their lines full throttle, which is often successfully funny but, in some cases, feels like they’re desperately hamming it up and unnecessarily screaming at each other and the audience (the painful Teddy Roosevelt and Sheriff Joe Arpaio scenes come to mind). After a while, the frantic pace of the 90-minute one-act does get a bit exhausting, but kudos to director Rodrigo Garcia for keeping it all flowing smoothly and quickly. The jokes are sometimes quite clever, sometimes gleefully stupid, and with so much packed in, if you
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don’t like a particular joke or scene, there’s always another one ready in the wings. At some points, the Los Altos audience at the performance I attended seemed fairly baffled. Do you find delight in the moment when ye olde explorers dub Juan Jose “Trader Joe?” How about a finale that includes a Neil Diamond sing-and-dance-along and a pair of baby dolls dressed, respectively, in KKK and Pancho Villa garb? If so, you’re in the right place. Ting-Na Wang’s set design, lighting by Sean Kramer and sound by Stephen Davies is up to Los Altos Stage Company’s usual high standards, setting locations and moods intensely. While the show is most definitely an outrageous, irreverent comedy, Mendoza’s sweet and smart performance in the lead role helps keep the play grounded and provides heart. I also love how his subconscious mind continually seeks out Adame’s Lydia, always finding her in even the most unlikely places and characters. We root for Juan Jose to achieve his dreams, reunite with his family and, one hopes, take the lessons he’s gleaned from his epic dream and help build a more decent United States. “American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose” will very likely make you laugh, may make you sometimes groan and will definitely make you think. It’s a wild, wacky, worthwhile trip through an American dreamland. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com. What: “American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose.” Where: Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. When: Through Feb. 17, Wednesday-Saturday at 8 p.m. Sunday at 3 p.m. Cost: $20-$38. Info: Go to losaltosstage.org/.
Eating Out Ayélet Nuchi turns her craving for filled, sweet swirled loaves into a new bakery Above, from left: raspberry-cheese, cinnamon, halva and chocolate babkas from Babka by Ayélet. by Elena Kadvany Photos by Veronica Weber abka was so ubiquitous during Ayélet Nuchi’s childhood in Tel Aviv — in her mother’s kitchen, on the shabbat table, at any Jewish celebration or event — that she almost took the pastry for granted. Then, in 2000, she moved to the United States. Good babka was nowhere to be found, she said. She craved homemade, quality babka; procuring some from her favorite Tel Aviv bakery was always her first stop after landing at the airport for visits home. In December, she opened Babka by Ayélet, a dedicated babka bakery at Town & Country Village in Palo Alto that pays homage to the tastes and traditions of her homeland, with her own twists. Nuchi wasn’t always a baker. She started baking out of boredom in a kitchen in New York City. Alone for her first Christmas in the United States, she started flipping through her roommate’s copy of Rose Levy Beranbaum’s “The Pie and Pastry Bible” and decided to tackle tarts. She said she was “obsessed” with tarts, particularly one from a now-closed SoHo bakery made from chocolate ganache with pears and almonds on top. She recreated that tart, then brownies (another obsession of hers to this day) and was overtaken by a baking bug. In 2002, Nuchi attended the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. She was constantly baking, sharing her goods with anyone who would take them — at baby showers, weddings, birthdays — which eventually grew into a catering company. Her most popular item was always babka. Nuchi’s babka incorporates different sources of inspiration. She adds vanilla bean and orange zest to the dough, like her mother did, and has a heavier hand with butter than is traditional, like her favorite Tel Aviv bakery does. Her raspberry-cheese babka is inspired by a French clafloutis. She also riffs on the classic flavors, like adding homemade apricot jam and walnuts to the cinnamon babka. Nuchi takes pride in a babka that is indulgently moist and cake-like, unlike the dry and crumbly more traditional version. She lets her butter-laden dough — a combination of challah and babka
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dough — rest overnight in a refrigerator for at least eight hours. She also brushes the top of the finished babka with a sugar-water glaze to add even more moisture. On a recent morning, Nuchi took out a large, rectangular tray of rested dough and methodically rolled it out until it was thin enough to her liking. The thinner the dough, the more layers there will be — one of the markers of a good babka, she believes. When you slice into a loaf of chocolate babka, for example, there should be ample swirls of chocolate throughout — it shouldn’t be mostly dough with a small amount of chocolate, she said. For the raspberry-cheese babka, Nuchi spread a mixture of crème fraîche, yogurt and cream cheese over the dough, sprinkled raspberries on top and then rolled it and cut it in half. She crossed the long stretches of dough over each other in an “X” shape and then twisted the dough onto itself several times to create more layers. To keep up with demand — the bakery sells out daily by 2 p.m. — Nuchi has switched to making fewer flavors of small, single-serving babka ($6 each) and taking special orders for full-sized loaves ($25 each). Babka by Ayélet sells chocolate, cinnamon, Nutella, raspberrycheese and halva babka (using halva from Tel Aviv). Daily specials have recently included blackberry-almond and pistachio-strawberry. Chocolate is the most popular flavor, followed closely by halva, which Nuchi said surprised her. While Nuchi is going to sell her babka at Four Barrel cafes and The Mill in San Francisco (she serves Four Barrel coffee at the bakery), expansion is not a priority. She turns her nose up at the thought of selling her babka to grocery stores because of its short shelf-life. A large commercial mixer sits unused in a corner of the bakery’s small, open kitchen. After some early batches of dough came out tasting differently, she abandoned it in favor of two stand mixers, like the ones she’s used at home for years. Dozens of times throughout the day, customers of all ages, from 8 to 107 years old, tell her that her babka “reminds me of my grandma.” That, Nuchi says, is the ultimate compliment. Q Staff writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@paweekly.com.
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GYMBOREE FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY... Children’s clothing retailer Gymboree is closing its Stanford Shopping Center store as part of a companywide shutdown of all its Gymboree stores over the next few months. The San Franciscobased company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Jan. 17, according to an announcement from Gymboree Group. This is the second time since June 2017 the company has filed for bankruptcy. The shutdown will include all 534 of its Gymboree
stores, as well as its Gymboree Outlet and Crazy 8 stores. Its Janie and Jack branded stores are expected to be sold through bankruptcy court auction, according to the company’s website.”We intend to use these proceedings to facilitate an orderly wind-down of all of our Gymboree, Gymboree Outlet and Crazy 8 store locations and operations,” CEO Shaz Kahng said in a prepared statement on the company website. All Gymboree sites launched going-out-of-business sales at the end of January and
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UNTUCKIT OPENS ITS DOORS... UNTUCKit, the men’s clothing brand known for its button-down dress shirts designed to be worn untucked, opened its long-anticipated storefront at Stanford Shopping Center (next to Macy’s) on Wednesday, Feb. 6, eight months after announcing its plan to expand into Palo Alto. The Stanford store is among 25 new sites the company has planned to open over the past year. According to Reuters, UNTUCKit got some local assistance from Menlo Park VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, who invested $30 million in the company’s first major round of fundraising in 2017 to help it expand its physical presence with new stores nationwide. Since launching the company in a spare bedroom in his apartment in 2011, founder Chris Riccobono has pushed to expand UNTUCKit’s physical presence as well as its clothing line. The new Stanford store features the company’s full assortment, including men’s jackets, polos, sweatshirts and T-shirts, which customers can purchase on site or have shipped directly to their homes. — L.T.
raw egg. Chinese donuts. Bean curd knots. Tom yum soup. Beef bulgogi. The all-you-can-eat restaurant at 210 Hope St. in downtown Mountain View, which soft opened in late January, serves not just hot pot but also Korean BBQ and dim sum. For $29.95 per person, diners can order up to 10 items, but the entire party must order the same menu. Don’t linger over a long lunch; the restaurant limits meals to 90 minutes and charges $10 per person for every additional half hour. No leftovers allowed. Children who are shorter than 30 inches, however, only cost $5, the menu states. Children under 45 inches can eat for $14.95. For hot pot, diners can choose their soup base and then add meats, seafood, vegetables and other toppings. Photos on Yelp also show a long self-serve bar with several kinds of sauces. — E.K.
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Home Front DESIGN YOUR OWN GARDEN ... Bay Area garden designer Katsy Swan will discuss ways to enjoy your garden regardless of the season during a presentation at Gamble Garden on Thursday, Feb. 14, from 1 to 3 p.m. Swan has been designing private and public gardens throughout the Bay Area for the past 30 years. Several of her Palo Alto gardens have been featured in Gamble Garden’s Spring Tour. She also designed the Earth Sciences Courtyard at Stanford, as well as the Stanford Hospital gardens. The cost for the talk is $35 for members and $45 for nonmembers. To register, go to gamblegarden.org.
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THE RIGHT FRUIT TREE ... Now is the time to plant dormant fruit trees from bareroot stock. Bare-root trees are more vigorous and healthy and less expensive than ones already planted in containers. Learn how to find the best tree, as well as how to plant and prune it, during a free talk from 7 to 8:15 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 21, by Master Gardener Kalpana Jain. The event will be at Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road, Palo Alto. For more master gardener events, go to mgsantaclara.ucanr.edu.
f you’ve ever seen or ordered a salad with microgreens from an upscale restaurant with a famed chef and figured these tender vegetable shoots came from a farmer somewhere, they might have. But gardening expert and master gardener Beth McGuire said it’s easy enough for anyone to grow microgreens — small versions of mature plants that are picked before they’re fully grown — Above, daikon radish seeds start to sprout. At left, Master Gardener Beth on their own windowsills. McGuire grows a variety of microgreens in large trays in her home. “They’re sort of half way between the (alfalfa) sprouts we grew in the ‘70s and baby greens,” McGuire said. To sum up the difference: Uncover the tray after that and most of the seeds should Microgreens have a longer growth cycle than sprouts and have germinated. Mist every day so the soil stays moist a shorter growth cycle than baby greens. (not wet) until the seeds are ready to harvest — typically Microgreens are usually harvested just before “the true between six and 12 days. leaf stage,” McGuire said, at about 1 inch tall, and look When harvesting, use kitchen scissors to cut at the more generic than when the plant becomes distinguish- soil line. able as baby lettuce, radish or sunflowers. Part of your “The stems are as much a part of your crop as the harvest, McGuire said, is the stem. She encourages gar- leaves,” McGuire said. deners to pinch off the stem and taste it. McGuire washes her microgreens in a salad spinner, “If you like it, go ahead and harvest. If not, let them draining and soaking them twice. The idea is to remove grow a bit more to develop flavor (bitter notes, refresh- any seed coats or soil still clinging to the stems. She ing sweetness) and pick again,” she said. “Grow it. Test keeps the microgreens in a lidded plastic container with it along the way. You’ll know when it’s right for you.” a paper towel on the bottom to absorb moisture. McGuire, who teaches beginners how to grow micro“They are delicious. When they’re that small the flavor greens, often uses organic mustard or fenugreek (also is concentrated,” McGuire said. known as methi) in her classes. The seeds, which can Some of her favorite plants to grow as microgreens be found at Indian or East Asian grocery stores, reliably include cilantro (chop it into salsa), daikon radish (for germinate, she said. tacos), basil (which is usually a summer plant), and red Mustard, she said, gives a wasabi-like “nose kick.” The cabbage or lettuce. Generally anything that has edible fenugreek is slightly bitter. leaves will work as microgreens, she said. Black oil sunflower seeds (found at pet stores in the She does not recommend peppers or tomatoes. bird feed section) work great as well, she said, as long as The process enables gardeners to watch the germinayou don’t get the striped ones. tion process up close, McGuire said, especially if you The seeds can be planted in whatever kind of tray you place the tray near a breakfast table or an area where want, even a shallow, clear takeout food container with you’re walking by or plugging in your cell phone. Q Elizabeth Lorenz is the Home and Real Estate an attached lid, she said. McGuire has big 10-by-20-inch trays she gets from Editor at the Palo Alto Weekly. She can be emailed at nurseries, and also 4-inch pots with holes in the bottom. elorenz@embarcaderopublishing.com. “It’s a fun indoor thing,” she said, especially for the gardener itching to get outside when everything is wilted and dormant in winter. Some people build elaborate shelving, or buy LED lights — not needed, McGuire said. A mister or spray bottle and a sunny windowsill is all you need. And of course, some potting soil. Pour between one-half inch to 1 inch of potting soil in a tray, sprinkle with water, scatter seeds with a plastic spoon, and mist again. Make sure the water doesn’t create channels in the soil, she advised. The seeds can just sit visibly above the soil. Cover with a lid, or dampen a layer of newspaper, and put that over the top of the tray. “What you want is something to create a greenhouse Microgreens add greenery and a nice bite to citrus and effect for the first three days,” she said. pomegranate seeds in a salad. Elizabeth Lorenz
FREE FAUCET CLASS ... The Home Depot in East Palo Alto will host a free workshop on how to install bathroom faucets from 10 to 11:30 a.m., on Saturday, Feb. 16. Store associates will lead this interactive workshop that covers everything you need to know about identifying the kind of faucet you have, shopping for a new fixture and learning about replacement options. An instructor will demonstrate the entire installation process, from turning off your water to setting the new faucet in place and everything in between. Home Depot is located at 1781 East Bayshore Road, East Palo Alto. To register, go to homedepot. com/workshops/#store/6603.
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Sports Shorts REACHING A MILESTONE ... Pinewood girls basketball teammates Klara Astrom and Hannah Jump, both of whom will play at NCAA Division I colleges next year, will likely reach a milestone during Friday night’s 6:30 p.m. West Bay Athletic League contest at Menlo School. The fouryear varsity players have scored a combined 2,982 points over their prep careers, 18 shy of 3,000. In the same game, Jump needs 14 points to reach 1,700 and Astrom needs four to reach 1,300. Both players went a long time to reaching the 3,000-point plateau with big offensive efforts in a 74-40 victory over Priory earlier in the week. Astrom scored a career-high 38 points on 12 of 18 shooting, including 8 of 12 from 3-point range, and Jump, who is headed to Stanford, added 24 points, all on 3-pointers, for the Panthers (20-2, 10-0), who have won 63 consecutive WBAL regular-season games. The Yale-bound Astrom, who was also 6 of 7 from the foul line, scored over 30 points in a game for the second time in her career. She netted 31 against Menlo last year. COURTING A TITLE ... The Eastside boys basketball team scored the final nine points of its WBAL showdown with host The King’s Academy to win 49-45 and take over first place in the competitive league. Isaiah Saams-Hoy scored 26 points to lead the Panthers (14-6, 11-1), who have a one-game lead and the tiebreaker over TKA with two games to play. Raymond Reece and Will Mustain, along with SaamsHoy, scored during the winning rally. GETTING THEIR KICKS ... The Menlo School girls’ soccer team has a chance to earn its first outright West Bay Athletic League title in five years when it hosts rival Sacred Heart Prep at 2:45 p.m. Friday. Senior Sophie Jones, a member of the United States U-17 FIFA Women’s World Cup team in the fall, scored the game’s only goal just before halftime and the Knights clinched at least a tie for the title with a 1-0 victory over Priory on Tuesday. Junior goalkeeper Talia Grossman turned in another outstanding effort in the net for Menlo (16-1-1, 7-0-1). STAYING ON COURSE ... Competing just down the coast from her family home in Hermosa Beach, Stanford junior Andrea Lee wanted desperately to claim her seventh collegiate golf victory in front of family and friends on Tuesday at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge at Palos Verdes Golf Club. Playing in cold, wet and windy conditions, she emerged with a pressure-packed one-stroke triumph and led No. 5 Cardinal to a two-shot win against a stellar field in the first tournament of the spring season. Paced by Lee (nine) and junior Albane Valenzuela (eight), Stanford led the 16team field in birdies with 40.
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by Rick Eymer Photos by Karen Hickey Ambrose very weekend of the Pac-12 Conference women’s basketball race is another opportunity to up the ante and this week in the Bay Area is about being all in or folding your hand for the winter. No. 11 Stanford (18-3, 8-2) sits down at the table with No. 7 Oregon State (19-3, 9-1) on Friday night at 6 p.m. and with No. 3 Oregon (21-1, 10-0) at 1 p.m. Sunday. At stake are a myriad of situations that range from a possible No. 1 seed all the way to losing out on a first postseason weekend at home. Stanford thumped visiting California, 75-50, last weekend in response to losing consecutive conference road games. The victory relieved the angst of slipping out of the top 10 and no longer being able to control its own destiny but that is of little solace entering this weekend. “It’s exciting,” Stanford junior DiJonai Carrington said. “We owe Oregon one. We had them in the Pac-12 tournament and let that one slip away. And we always want to defend our home court. We know we have the capability of beating both teams but we can’t do it by ourselves.” Carrington meant that one player, not even if her name is Alanna Smith, will be able to carry the team single-highhandedly. Stanford needs every ace in the deck and the wild cards to fall its way. Smith is, however, a great place to start. The senior forward from Australia continues to enjoy a wildly successful season. She’s shooting 53.6 percent from the field (163-of-304), 45.0 percent from behind the arc (54-of-120) and averaging a team-high 20.9 points per game to go with 8.1 rebounds. Smith, who has double-doubles in six of her last 12 games, is the only player in the country averaging 20.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.0 blocks per game this season and one of five shooting 45 percent both overall and from deep. Smith is on track to join Elena Delle Donne as
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the only players 6-foot-4 and taller over the past 20 years to shoot better than 40 percent from 3-point range for an entire season. Delle Donne made 41.3 percent as a freshman at Delaware in 2009-10 (NCAA minimum of two made 3-pointers per game). Smith ranks 20th on the all-time scoring list (1,443) and is 10 points shy of Jeanette Pohlen, who ranks 17th. She’s also three blocked shots short of 200 and five from matching Chiney Ogwumike for second on the all-time list. Stanford has already played a pair of top 10 teams back-to-back and delivered victories over then No. 3 Baylor at home and at No. 9 Tennessee on the road. Carrington scored 33 points and had 13 rebounds in the victory over the Lady Vols. She’s averaging 16.3 points and 9.2 rebounds over the past 13 games, which includes five double-doubles. Sophomore point guard Kiana Williams is another key to the week. The sophomore is second on the team in scoring (14.6 points per game)
and four of her five 20-point games this season have come in conference. “It’s a new month. We’re heading into tournament in February and March,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. “We want to keep improving.” Oregon, Oregon State and Stanford, in that order, are the top three scoring teams in the conference. The Ducks average 89.6 points, the Beavers score at an 80.1 pace and the Cardinal net 79.8 points. Oregon State is second in the Pac-12 in scoring defense, averaging 58 points allowed per contest. “It’s going to be a tough weekend,” Stanford’s Maya Dodson said. “If we play Stanford basketball, we can win.” Dodson returned to the lineup after missing a month to injury. Lexie Hull, who started the first three games, has also playing herself back into shape as Lacie Hill continues to get better. Stanford is 9-1 in its past 10 games against top five opponents.Q
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Sports ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Sharon Nejad
Andrew Wang
MENLO BASKETBALL
PALO ALTO WRESTLING
The freshman averaged 18.7 points and 11.0 rebounds over three games last week that clinched second place in the WBAL for the Knights. She scored 23 points and had 12 rebounds against Eastside Prep.
The senior won the 128-pound weight class at the Colt Invitational in South San Francisco over the weekend, helping the Vikings finish third as a team. He recorded three pins and a decision en route to the title.
Honorable mention Zion Gabriel
Max Colowick
Eastside Prep basketball
Palo Alto’s Andrew Wang ranks second in the Central Coast Section at 126 pounds.
PREP WRESTLING
Championship season begins this weekend M-A, Palo Alto, Gunn prepare for league championships
Menlo soccer
Yara Gomez Zavala
Menlo-Atherton soccer
Chloe Jedwood
Jai Deshpande
Sacred Heart Prep basketball
Misiteni Eke
Kehillah Jewish basketball
Menlo-Atherton wrestling
Avery Lee*
Aidan Gans
Menlo basketball
Palo Alto wrestling
Annika Shah*
Isaiah Saams-Hoy*
Palo Alto basketball
Eastside Prep basketball
Mina Tameilau*
Nate Solomon
Eastside Prep basketball
Menlo basketball
*Previous winner
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by Rick Eymer Photos by Keith Ferrell he wrestling postseason officially gets underway Friday with the Peninsula Athletic League and Santa Clara Clara Valley Athletic League each hosting championships. Palo Alto and Gunn wrestlers compete at Lynbrook in San Jose while Menlo-Atherton wrestles at Oceana High in Pacifica. The M-A girls are overwhelming favorites to repeat as PAL champions. After all, the Bears are also the defending Central Coast Section champions. Half Moon Bay and Terra Nova are other top programs in the league. The M-A boys went undefeated in the regular season and will be up against Half Moon Bay at the league tournament. The Palo Alto and Gunn boys will be competing for the SCVAL title with Los Gatos and Cupertino. The Paly and Gunn girls teams are up against Fremont, among others, in their quest for a league title. All three schools should have a quarterfinalist at least and a league champion at best. Menlo-Atherton has five girls ranked No. 1 in the CCS by the California Wrestler, the best resource for comparing athletes at their projected weight classes. There will likely be differences in many divisions. Fola Akinola is at the top of the list. She’s a three-time CCS champion and finished second at last year’s state meet. Akinola is also nationally ranked in her division. Anna Smith is the defending CCS
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champion at 116 pounds and qualified for state her first two years. Lauren McDonnell is the defending CCS champion at 137 and placed fifth in last year’s state meet. She withdraw in the placement round of her last tournament and her status is not known. Abby Ericson has never finished lower than third in the CCS and is a defending CCS champion at 160. She’s qualified for the state meet the previous three years and placed sixth last year. Evelyn Calhoon, who signed a letter-of-intent to play soccer at Brown on Wednesday, finish second in the CCS at 121 and won three of her five bouts at the state meet. Angie Bautista, ranked second at 126, was a CCS runnerup last year and has qualified for the CCS
tournament in her first three years. Fourth-ranked Paola Ramirez is a three-time CCS qualifier and reached the quarterfinals last year. Lauren Fuller will also contend for a spot in the CCS tournament. The Bears’ program began with a single wrestler five years ago and has blossomed into a regional powerhouse with nearly 25 team members. The Palo Alto boys are at the top of their game and will battle Los Gatos and Cupertino for the league team title. Andrew Wang is the heart and soul of the team, though he’ll disagree and add most of his teammates to the definition. He ranks second in the CCS at 126, is a threetime CCS qualifier, a state qualifier and the defending league champion. What Wang likes is the way the Vikings have formed a bond and he credits the M-A coaching staff for creating an atmosphere where that can happen. Wang certainly won’t be the lone Paly wrestler to compete for a league title. The Vikings have a pair if freshman in Max Felter and Cade Creighton who are capable of reaching the
Palo Alto’s Adar Schwarzbach will be competing for a league title this weeekend.
Sports ON THE AIR Friday
College softball: Stanford vs. Bradley at Tempe, 8 a.m., Pac-12 Networks College softball: Stanford vs. Kansas at Tempe, 1 p.m., Pac-12 Networks College men’s volleyball: Stanford at Pepperdine, 6 p.m., watchstadium.com College women’s basketball: Oregon State at Stanford, 6 p.m., Pac-12 Networks College lacrosse: Denver at Stanford, 6 p.m., Stanford Live Stream 2
Saturday
College men’s swimming: USC at Stanford, noon., Stanford Live Stream
Sunday
Menlo-Atherton senior Fola Akinola (right) is a three-time CCS champion. championship round at Lynbrook. Adar Schwarzbach, Dara Heydarpour, who missed the Colt Invitational, Aidan Gans and Charlie Williams are also candidates to finish among the top three or four in the SCVAL. Maguire Ferrell, Halo Lynch, Tyler Weaver-Escobar and Peter Graham have the potential to qualify for the CCS tournament. Gunn won’t be left empty-handed when it comes to the CCS as Timothy Waymouth, Dash Lee, Phillip Doan and Koh Suzuki are all championship material. Lee is the defending 182-pound league champion and is a threetime CCS qualifier. Waymouth was the league runnerup at 145 pounds and placed fifth in the CCS. Suzuki
has improved his league status every year and was third at 138 last year. Doan was fifth at 138. For Menlo-Atherton, Joshua Meyers, Anthony Waller and Miseteni Eke will compete for a league title while Julian Garza, Liam Dunn and Nicholas Wang are also in the conversation. Palo Alto’s Ashley Wang would have been a favorite to win a girls league title but she’s out with an injury. The second-ranked Wang expects to return for the CCS tournament next weekend. The Vikings do have other potential winners in Zoe Wong-VanHaren and Alexandra Lee. Salma Montana, freshman Ella Jauregui and Mikaela Fedder could also produce results.
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College softball: Stanford vs. Weber State at Tempe, 10:30 a.m., Pac-12 Networks College women’s basketball: Oregon at Stanford, 1 p.m., ESPN2 College women’s gymnastics: Stanford at Arizona State, 3 p.m., Pac12 Networks College men’s basketball: Stanford at Oregon, 5 p.m., ESPN2
Wednesday
College men’s basketball: USC at Stanford, 8 p.m., ESPNU
Lola Robinson, Natalie Cai and Kalya Lin are Gunn’s top candidates for a league title. Cai went 3-2 at last year CCS tournament and Lin reached the quarterfinals. Watch for Gunn’s Mikayla Silverman to make a run. The CCS boys and girls tournaments are scheduled for Independence High on Feb. 15-16 and the state meets are slated for Bakersfield on Feb. 22-23. Q
“Shore Thing” — from one side to another.
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