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County halts negotiations over Stanford expansion Simitian: Students could be used as ‘bargaining chips’ under university’s proposed agreement with Palo Alto Unified by Gennady Sheyner
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iting significant concerns about Stanford University’s newly announced deal with the Palo Alto Unified School District, Santa Clara County on Tuesday suspended indefinitely
its negotiations with the university over a development agreement that would have governed Stanford’s proposed expansion. The county’s decision to suspend the negotiations came just
hours after the university and the school district administration announced a “school funding and mitigation agreement” under which Stanford would pay the district more than $120 million to account for the university’s expansion and its projected impact on Palo Alto Unified enrollment. The agreement also called for Stanford to invest $15 million in a shared facility on district property and obligated the school district not
to oppose any development that Stanford is proposing under the 2018 General Use Permit, a document that the county is now in the midst of evaluating. Both district Superintendent Don Austin and Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne lauded the agreement on Monday, with Austin calling it a “model of what is possible” and Tessier-Lavigne praising it for making Stanford’s engagement in the Palo Alto
school system “more systematic and organized.” At the same time, all the benefits in the proposed deal come with a critical condition that Simitian sees as a poison pill. It hinges on the county’s approval of a development agreement with Stanford — a broad and wide-ranging contract that is expected to require Stanford to mitigate traffic (continued on page 10)
DEVELOPMENT
City: Cell antennas should be far from homes, schools By pursuing new restrictions, council tries to allay residents’ fears about wireless-communication facilities by Gennady Sheyner
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Hare’s looking at you Rabbits outside of the Lou Henry Hoover Building at Stanford University graze late in the evening earlier this year.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Palo Alto couple asks court to dismiss second indictment in college bribery scam Others Midpeninsula parents involved plead not guilty by Sue Dremann
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wo Bay Area parents accused in the nationwide college-admissions bribery scandal pleaded not guilty to charges on Monday while a Palo Alto couple has asked the federal court to dismiss the same charges against them in the case, according to court documents. Marci Palatella, 63, of Hillsborough and former Palo Altan William McGlashan, 55, now of Mill Valley, filed a waiver to appear in federal court in Massachusetts. They also pleaded not guilty to charges of money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud.
An attorney for Dr. Gregory Colburn, 61, and Amy Colburn, 59, of Palo Alto, filed a motion to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that it “fails to state an offense.” The couple had already pleaded not guilty on April 3 to the sames charges Palatella and McGlashan face. The four locals are among 33 parents caught up in the nationwide $25-million scandal, which involved alleged bribes to coaches at top-tier universities and colleges to designate ordinary students as star athletic recruits and payments to ACT and SAT proctors and administrators to help students cheat on the exams. The alleged
scam was orchestrated by college preparatory counselor William “Rick” Singer of Newport Beach and others, according to federal prosecutors. On April 8, 14 of the 33 parents filed papers with the court agreeing to plead guilty to related charges in the case, including Menlo Park residents Marjorie Klapper, 50 and Peter Jan Sartorius, 55; Hillsborough residents Bruce Isackson, 61, and Davina Isackson, 55; and actress Felicity Huffman, 56, of Los Angeles. The Colburns’ attorney David Schumacher claimed that (continued on page 8)
eeking to strike a balance between federal requirements and residents’ concerns, Palo Alto approved on Monday night new rules for reviewing the dozens of applications that the city has been receiving from telecommunication companies seeking to install antennas on local streetlights and utility poles. By a 6-0 vote, with Councilman Greg Tanaka absent, the council adopted a set of “objective standards” for wireless-communication facilities, including a menu of preferred designs for radio equipment and antennas. And in a nod to the dozens of residents who have raised alarms about the proliferation of cellular facilities on their blocks, the council launched a new effort both to further restrict where such technology can be installed and to explore “minimum distance” requirements for wireless equipment in relation to local schools and homes. With Councilman Tom DuBois taking the lead, the council instructed staff to return within a year with a list of preferred locations and minimum-distance requirements, which will consider zoning (a preference for commercial and industrial zones over residential ones), local context (choosing heavily traveled main streets over neighborhood blocks) and types of installation. DuBois’ motion, which the council pared down before ultimately endorsing, also called for staff to clearly define the conditions under which an applicant can deem conformity with the city’s requirement “infeasible” and request exceptions.
Palo Alto has received three applications for the facilities this year with a total of 24 nodes, Planning Director Jonathan Lait told the council Monday night. It expects applications for up to an additional 100 nodes, he said. For the council, the direction came with a sense of urgency. The Federal Communications Commission issued an order last September requiring cities to adopt “objective” criteria for reviewing wireless-communication facilities applications and to make a decision on “small wireless facilities” proposals within 60 to 90 days. While the FCC ruling is facing challenges both in courts and on Capitol Hill, where U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo authored a bill to repeal it, it remains the law of the land. And it gave cities until April 15, 2019, to come up with new regulations, which the city must be able to apply “without exercise of personal judgment.” Staff confirmed that after April 15, the city would no longer have the power to deny wireless applications based on the city’s existing set of aesthetic findings, which apply to all types of new developments. “If we don’t do it tonight, tomorrow it’s the wild, wild west,” Mayor Eric Filseth said, citing the importance of passing the new standards and updating the city’s rules without delay. His colleagues agreed and voted 6-0 to approve the criteria, which includes the city’s four preferred designs: underground vaults; cylindrical pole-mounted “shrouds”; (continued on page 8)
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This is becoming our war cry at this point. —Liz Kniss, Palo Alto councilwoman, on the city’s opposition to housing bills. See story on page 7.
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STANDING THE TEST OF TIME ... Palo Alto resident Christine Blasey Ford, who has become known for her sexual-assault accusations against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, is among Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People for 2019. Ford was placed in the “Icons” category of the list released Wednesday. In a short piece for the publication, U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris commended the Palo Alto University professor for her courage in coming out with the allegations that emerged in September while Kavanaugh (also on this year’s list) was a nominee for the nation’s highest court. Time stood still as she testified later that month before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a moment that captivated the nation. “Her story, spoken while holding back tears, shook Washington and the country. Her courage, in the face of those who wished to silence her, galvanized Americans. And her unfathomable sacrifice, out of a sense of civic duty, shined a spotlight on the way we treat survivors of sexual violence,” Harris wrote. “Christine Blasey Ford’s ambition wasn’t to become a household name or make it onto this list. She had a good life and a successful career — and risked everything to send a warning in a moment of grave consequence.” UNDERCROSSING REOPENED — FOR NOW ... After a long winter break, the Adobe Creek bike and pedestrian underpass reopened to the public on April 12, three days ahead of schedule. The passageway had been closed during the winter months as rainy weather brought in silt and debris that built up inside. Roger Nguy, maintenance operations manager for the Public Works Department, said a record amount of the material was removed by crews before the public was allowed to use the connection, which is typically opened between April and October. The undercrossing, often flooded, won’t stay open for long. The city plans to replace the structure by 2020 with a new bicycle and pedestrian overcrossing that will be opened throughout the year, bridging residents over U.S. Highway 101 from where Adobe Creek meets
the freeway to the city’s border with Mountain View. A TAXING JOURNEY ... Nearly two years after Palo Alto halted its plan for a new business tax, the city is preparing to try again, with an eye on the 2020 general election. On Monday, the City Council will consider its path toward a tax measure, a journey that promises to include surveys, stakeholder groups, copious discussion by the council’s Finance Committee and, ultimately, a council decision. Based on the council’s prior discussions, revenues from the new tax will likely be used to support the city’s effort on “grade separation,” the redesign of local rail crossings so that railroad tracks and streets no longer intersect. Yet, as council members know all too well, it’s far too early to bank on the new revenue stream. Palo Alto’s last attempt to create a business tax faltered in 2009, when voters rejected a general tax. The city has had better luck in its recent efforts to raise the hotel tax rate, with voters approving hotel tax hikes in 2014 and 2018 (in both cases, proceeds from the tax were allocated for infrastructure). For Palo Alto, one key challenge will be engaging the business community, which strongly opposed the 2009 measure. Last month, during a discussion of grade separation alternatives, Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce President Judy Kleinberg complained that members of the city’s business community “have not been asked to participate” in discussions of how to fund grade separations. Under staff’s proposed schedule, the city will hire a consultant in May to assist in putting a revenuegenerating proposal together. The city would then spend the next year refining the analysis, polling residents and conducting stakeholder outreach. If things go as planned, the council would finalize the ballot measure in June 2020. The city’s debate over revenue sources is expected to have a major impact on its gradeseparation decision, with residents more likely to support ambitious proposals such as tunnels and viaducts if the projects are funded through county grants or employer taxes. As City Manager Ed Shikada told the council on March 18, “we’d get great polling results if someone else is picking up the tab.” Q
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HOUSING
City opposes bills’ ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to housing
A round-up
City Council (April 15)
Palo Alto backs Cities Association paper, which calls for more local control by Gennady Sheyner
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esponding to a flurry of housing bills moving through Sacramento, Palo Alto’s elected leaders took a stance on Monday night against any legislation that proposes a “onesize-fits-all” approach to land-use decision-making. By a 4-2 vote, with Vice Mayor Adrian Fine and Councilwoman Liz Kniss dissenting and Councilman Greg Tanaka absent, the city aligned itself with a position paper that was recently adopted by the Cities Association of Santa Clara County, of which Palo Alto is a member. While the paper doesn’t take a position on any specific bill, some of its principles echo the most common criticisms levied at proposals like Senate Bill 50, which would increase housing density in transit- and jobs-rich areas. SB 50, which was authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, is set for a hearing in front of the Senate Finance and Governance Committee on April 24. While it has energized many housing advocates throughout the state, it also has triggered intense opposition from mayors and council members throughout the Peninsula, who have characterized it as an affront to local control. The council backed the association’s position at the behest of Mayor Eric Filseth, an outspoken opponent of SB 50, and Councilman Tom DuBois. The two councilmen co-authored a memo last week urging their colleagues to adopt the association’s principles, which they argued will make it easier for the city to determine its positions on particular bills. The memo explains that the action is particularly timely right now, with various major housing bills moving toward public hearings. “Since some of these bills may have large impacts on Palo Alto’s future evolution, and its residents’ ability to define that evolution, it makes sense that Palo Alto should provide input,” the memo from Filseth and DuBois states. The position paper adopted by the association states that it fully endorses “local and regional efforts to encourage the production of more housing, preserve and increase subsidized below market rate housing at moderate- and below-income levels, and provide benefits to minimize the impact for current residents in rapidly changing neighborhoods.” It takes issue, however, with the Casa Compact, a broad document that was cobbled together by a 21-member committee consisting of mayors, large employers, housing advocates and other stakeholders. The document includes 10 different concepts for addressing the state’s housing crisis, including zoning reforms, rent stabilization and streamlined approval
processes for residential projects. While the association paper explicitly endorses some of the key ideas proposed by Casa, it also notes that small and medium-sized cities “were not well represented” in the creation of the compact, even though they represent 66 percent of the Bay Area’s population. It urges the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments — both of which had approved the Casa Compact — and state legislators to “collaborate with all cities on the ideas contained within the Casa Compact so that we can collectively formulate workable solutions to address the Bay Area housing need.” The association endorses nu-
of Palo Alto government action this week
merous state initiatives, including Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed investment in affordable and workforce housing, incentives for construction of accessorydwelling units, tenant-protection measures and investment in transportation that connects job centers and existing housing. It also expresses support for “maintaining local control of the entitlement process” and opposition to a “one-size-fits-all approach to housing densities and land-use decision-making,” as well as “any diversion of existing revenue sources from cities.” Filseth said the council’s
190 Channing Ave.: The council approved a tentative map at 190 Channing Ave. to allow for four residential condominium units and two office units. Yes: Unanimous Wireless: The council approved objective standards for wireless communication facility applications and directed staff to return within a year with proposed “minimal distance” between new wireless equipment and local schools and homes, as well as a hierarchy of preferences for preferred locations and zoning districts for wireless equipment. Yes: Cormack, DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Kniss, Kou Absent: Tanaka Housing: The council voted to endorse a position paper on housing bills recently adopted by the Cities Association of Santa Clara County. Yes: Cormack, DuBois, Filseth, Kou No: Fine, Kniss Absent: Tanaka
Board of Education (April 16)
Stanford: The committee discussed and expressed general support for a proposed agreement recently negotiated by Palo Alto Unified staff with Stanford University, which includes per-pupil contributions from Stanford to the district and $15 million for an “innovative space” that would be shared by the university and the district. Action: None
Council Finance Committee (April 16)
Water rates: The committee approved the financial plan and proposed rate changes for the water utility. Yes: Unanimous Wastewater rates: The committee approved the financial plan and proposed rate changes for the wastewater utility. Yes: Unanimous
Architectural Review Board (April 18)
525 Hamilton Ave. The board reviewed a proposed three-story mixed-use project at 525 Hamilton Ave., which includes 19 apartments and 7,450 square feet of office space. It continued its discussion to a future date. Action: None
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endorsement offers a “more general approach” to expressing the city’s position, in contrast to adopting positions on specific bills. He called the paper “thoughtful and balanced.” “I think one-size-fits-all is not good for our community, which is one of the things in this position,” Filseth said. DuBois agreed and called local control “really fundamental to our democracy.” Not everyone felt that way. Kniss argued that the city should take more time to consider the principles in the paper before signing on as supporters. She also rejected the notion in the paper that the cities are already “actively addressing the housing shortage.” Palo Alto, she noted, has come nowhere near meeting its housing allocation. Even though the city has loosened some of its zoning regulations to encourage the construction of more housing, very little is actually
getting built. Kniss suggested that the city take more time in developing positions on housing bills, many of which are still undergoing changes. “This is becoming our war cry at this point,” Kniss said of the association’s paper. “I hope we are more thoughtful than that.” Fine, who supports SB 50, found some irony in the fact that the city, in its effort to support local control, is effectively letting another regional group to drive its positions on housing. “We’re essentially allowing an unelected regional body make the decision, like much of the criticism of Casa,” Fine said. Council members Alison Cormack and Lydia Kou joined Filseth and DuBois in supporting the association’s paper, calling it a “pretty reasonable approach” for declaring the city’s positions on housing legislation. “I’m convinced that there is strength in numbers and that by working together we can accomplish more than separately,” Cormack said. Q
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prosecutors erred in pursuing conspiracy prosecutions, relying on a statute that casts too wide a net, which case law and some Supreme Court decisions have reined in, according to the motion. The court should dismiss the indictment against the Colburns because it doesn’t allege sufficient facts or legal grounds to treat the Colburns as members of a single conspiracy that includes all of the other alleged co-conspirators, according to Schumacher. The government’s claim that the 19 parents who didn’t plead guilty are part of a single conspiracy doesn’t hold up because the parents didn’t know each other nor did they have any interest in children outside of their own, according to the motion. The parents
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boxy “sunshields” for radio equipment attached to the side of poles; and equipment that can hide behind existing street signs. They also approved an ordinance updating existing laws on wireless-communication facilities to account for recent changes in federal laws. The council’s vote followed an extensive debate over how far the council should go in regulating the technology. DuBois and Councilwoman Lydia Kou both favored more regulation, with Kou advocating for regular inspections of wireless equipment and DuBois suggesting that the city create objective standards for underground vaults, identify private properties that could be suitable hosts for wireless facilities, explore city buildings that could be suitable locations for the new technology and add clauses pertaining to maintenance and
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live in various cities and allegedly engaged in different fraudulent schemes and their activities were separated by years. “The only thing the defendant parents have in common is their common relationship with William ‘Rick’ Singer, who the government alleges was at the center of the conspiracy,” wrote Schumacher, a partner at the Boston law firm Hooper, Lundy & Bookman PC. Citing a 1946 Supreme Court decision, Schumacher noted the justices had referred to a Court of Appeals analogy that thieves using a single “fence” to dispose of their loot do not become “confederates” and lumping all of the defendants into a single trial went too far. Palatella allegedly paid $75,000 to improve her son’s SAT score and $500,000 to have her son misrepresented as a football recruit to the University of Southern California. McGlashan allegedly paid
Singer $50,000 to improve his son’s ACT score and $250,000 to facilitate his son’s admission as a football recruit to USC, according to the grand jury indictment. Each parent faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater, for the conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud. They each face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $500,000 or twice the value of the property involved if convicted on the money laundering charge. Two other parents, Elizabeth Henriquez, 56, and Manuel Henriquez, 56, of Atherton, did not enter pleas Monday. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
repairs of wireless equipment. While the council ultimately did not move ahead with these proposals, it supported DuBois’ suggestion that the city consider minimum-distance requirements, as requested by many of the roughly two dozen residents who addressed the council on the topic. “For me, the main issue is really aesthetics citywide but particularly when near homes and schools,” DuBois said. “We want to make sure it doesn’t impact the public right-of-way.” Kou urged her colleagues to “maintain control of what can and cannot happen in our town.” Under her urging, the council voted 5-1, with Councilwoman Liz Kniss dissenting, to direct staff to explore best practices for inspecting wireless facilities for compliance with noise rules and other laws. Almost every resident that spoke urged more regulations, including a role for the city’s Architectural Review Board in evaluating all
proposals. The new rules split applications into three tiers and give the planning director the sole authority for approving the least intrusive projects (classified as “Tier 1”). For Tier 2 and Tier 3 equipment, the planning director has the option of referring the application to the Architectural Review Board, though he is under no obligation to accept the board’s recommendation. Jeanne Fleming, whose grassroots group United Neighbors unsuccessfully appealed an application from Verizon earlier this year, was one of many residents who stressed the need to have a public review process for wireless applications. “United Neighbors is firmly in favor of improved cell service,” Fleming said. “What we’re asking you to do tonight is to make sure that upgrading our wireless infrastructure is done responsibly, safely and in a way that doesn’t compromise the quality of life in our neighborhoods. “The first step is to strengthen, not weaken, our wireless ordinance.” Dozens of residents had emailed the council in recent weeks voicing similar sentiments. Parris Schmidt, a Barron Park resident, wrote to the council that “residents of Palo Alto do not want hundreds of pounds of unsightly, noisy, unsafe equipment on utility poles right next to our homes or our schools.” Representatives from telecom companies also took issue with the new rules and argued — both in person and in written correspondence — that the city’s proposed rules are too restrictive. Jeffrey Slade, assistant vice president and senior legal counsel at AT&T, submitted a letter calling
Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss existing litigation, Miriam Green v. City of Palo Alto. The council then plans to hear a presentation of the city manager’s proposed fiscal year 2020 budget; consider modifications to the city’s citywide transportation-impact fees; discuss a workplan for revenue-generating proposals, including a ballot measure in November 2020; and consider a work plan for identifying preferred solutions for grade separations. The closed session will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, April 22, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Regular meeting will follow at 6 p.m. or as soon as possible after the closed session. COUNCIL APPOINTED OFFICERS COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss organizational and resource options for the City Auditor’s Office. The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, April 23, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The agenda wasn’t available by press time. HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to discuss follow-up items from its March 14 retreat. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 25, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 25, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The agenda wasn’t available by press time.
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He said the county has no issues with the district and Stanford reaching bilateral agreements over mitigations. But by tying the benimpacts, preserve open space and efits to the county’s approval of a provide other community benefits. development agreement, Stanford In exchange, the county would al- is effectively forcing the county low Stanford to move ahead with to go into development-agreement its expansion plan, which includes negotiations “with a gun to our 2.275 million new square feet of heads,” something that Simitian academic space and 40,000 square said neither he nor his colleagues feet of child care space and other are prepared to do. “What we’re faced with now is, support facilities by 2035. Stanford also had proposed in- in what purports to be an agreecluding 2,600 student beds and 550 ment, is a pretty explicit threat: faculty- and staff-housing units in ‘If you don’t back off on expecits plan, though the county indi- tations of traffic mitigations and cated last month that it wants the open space protections, we won’t university to provide at least 2,172 honor our commitment that we units of faculty and staff housing, made to the school kids in Palo Alto.’ That’s not a good-faith along with 2,600 student beds. Simitian told the Weekly that effort.” Simitian said he had discussed county staff was finalizing its “conditions of approval” for Stan- his concerns two weeks ago with ford’s proposed expansion, which Austin, who had assured him that are due on April 30 and which the district’s deal with Stanford were supposed to pave the way would not be contingent on the for development-agreement nego- county’s approval of the Stanford tiations between the county and development agreement. But Simitian, a former Palo Alto Unified Stanford. board member, The Monday also said he beannouncement of lieves everyone in a separate deal between Stanford ‘What they got now the school district was “well-intendand the school dis- is not a deal. It’s a ed and doing the trict upended that pretense of a deal.’ best they could plan by creating a — Joe Simitian, president, under difficult situation in which Santa Clara County circumstances.” Palo Alto students Board of Supervisors “I get the anxiare used as “barety,” Simitian gaining chips” by said. “I think they were so anxStanford, Simitian said. He called the newly announced ious to get a deal that they took a deal “regrettable.” Because the non-deal and thought it was a deal. agreement depends on the county’s What they got now is not a deal. approval of the development agree- It’s a pretense of a deal.” Simitian said that at this point ment, which is now “suspended indefinitely,” it effectively offers the county has no plans to start up no benefits to the district, Simitian conversations over a development said. He also said the tentative deal, agreement. Jean McCown, Stanford’s assowhich the school board has not yet approved, violates the ground rules ciate vice president for government that the county and Stanford had and community relations, told the established for their development- Weekly on Tuesday that the uniagreement negotiations. The rules versity has not been informed by specified that negotiations pertain- the county or by Simitian about ing to the development agreement the suspension of negotiations. “We are surprised by such a dewould only take place between the county’s negotiating committee cision because Supervisor Simi(Simitian and Supervisor Cindy tian and the county had actively Chavez) and negotiating team and encouraged us to engage with Stanford’s negotiating committee PAUSD as part of these negotiations, and we believe this disand negotiating team. “Unfortunately, the school dis- cussion is not in violation of the trict thinks it actually got some- ground rules for the developmentthing when it didn’t — that’s the agreement process,” McCown said crux of the matter,” Simitian said. in an email. Stanford, she said, “has long “Not only is there really no benefit to the board as it is structured, but maintained that a development it raises the potential concern about agreement is essential to support school kids in Palo Alto being used the provision of community benas a bargaining chip in respect to efits such as those proposed to the other important issues like housing, school district in our agreement.” “In exchange for those comtraffic and open space protection.” munity benefits, the development agreement provides Stanford with long-term certainty in support of its future plans,” McCown wrote. “We look forward to entering into substantive negotiations to reach a mutually agreed upon project and Memorial services package of community benefits.”Q George Comstock, 95, died on March 11. A memorial Read the Weekly’s editorial service will be held Saturday, opinion on this subject on page 17. April 27, at 10 a.m. at ValStaff Writer Gennady Sheyner ley Presbyterian Church, 945 can be emailed at gsheyner@ Portola Road, Portola Valley. paweekly.com.
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Over Simitian’s objections, school board voices support for Stanford agreement Despite county concerns, Palo Alto Unified officials praise university for agreeing to provide more than $140M in benefits by Gennady Sheyner
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alo Alto Unified School District leaders on Tuesday lauded a proposed agreement between the district and Stanford University — a deal that includes an estimated $140 million in benefits from Stanford as well as a provision that threatens to upend the entire approval process for the university’s expansion plan, rendering the benefits package moot. The agreement, which the district and Stanford released Monday night following months of on-again, off-again talks, commits the university to paying between $5,800 and $8,450 for each new student that Stanford’s growth plan would bring to the local school system, as well as $15 million for a new “innovative space” that would be shared by the two groups and a $500,000 contribution for transportation improvements near schools. These benefits, however, are conditioned on Santa Clara County approving a development agreement with Stanford — a condition that county Supervisor Joe Simitian said violates the county’s ground rules for negotiations with Stanford. The provision prompted Simitian and county staff to immediately suspend its planned talks with Stanford over a development agreement, a document that was intended to spell out the conditions that Stanford would have to meet and the community benefits it would have to provide to secure the county’s approval of a new General Use Permit (GUP). But while the county’s position on the school agreement creates a new obstacle for Stanford in its quest to win approval for its expansion plan, Palo Alto’s school officials had few reservations and many words of praise for the university’s proposal, which followed a two-day negotiation session. Superintendent Don Austin told the Board of Education on
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for the council to strike from the ordinance all requirements for public notice and community meetings, calling them “burdensome,” “unreasonable” and problematic when it comes to meeting the timelines for application reviews. Slade also took issue with the
Tuesday that he is excited about the agreement, despite “some bumps and some challenges.” He also said he was surprised by the county’s decision to suspend negotiations with Stanford. “That would be unfortunate,” Austin said. “Personally, I would hope that everyone would have opportunities to have conversations — that conversations wouldn’t be stopped before they started. “If that was the case, we wouldn’t be here today,” he said, alluding to the school district’s own talks with Stanford, which resurged in recent weeks after a protracted stalemate. Jean McCown, Stanford’s associate vice president for government and community relations, said the provision that ties school benefits to the county’s approval of the development agreement is necessary to provide long-term consistency and certainty for Stanford over the duration of the GUP’s term. The university, she said, is prepared to provide benefits to the school district well in advance of Stanford’s academic build-out. In exchange, Stanford requires the “financial and regulatory certainty” that would be created by the county’s development agreement. McCown also stressed that Stanford remains committed to negotiating an agreement with the county. “We have not taken any issues off the table, including open space, traffic and affordable housing,” McCown said, adding that the university intends to abide by all the mitigation measures recommended by final Environmental Impact Report for the proposed expansion. “We remain confident we will reach an agreement with the county that will be beneficial to all involved, including our neighboring community,” she said. While board members had some questions about the condition that ties school benefits to
city’s design guidelines, including its preference for underground vaults for radio equipment. “AT&T has the right to place facilities in the public rights-of-way, and this prohibition may violate that right,” Slade wrote. “In addition, this prohibition is unlawful to the extent it is more burdensome than restrictions imposed on other infrastructure deployments.” DuBois had initially proposed
county approval, their concerns were outweighed by excitement over Stanford’s proposed benefits. Austin noted that under state law, the district would only be entitled to $4.2 million in school-mitigation fees from Stanford, an amount that is well below the $138 million in total benefits that Stanford is now offering. He called the new deal “a very strong proposal,” an assessment that the school board broadly shared. “It seems to me the agreement really results in benefits of great value to our students,” board member Shounak Dharap said. Board President Jennifer DiBrienza said she was “very grateful” to Stanford for considering the impact of its growth. While she said she would be interested in learning more about the county’s concerns, she lauded Stanford for coming to the table and proposing mitigations for its expansion plans. “I’m really optimistic Stanford is going to do the same thing for the rest of the community — laying out what is fair for traffic, and housing and everything else,” DiBrienza said. Board member Melissa Baten Caswell also said she was optimistic that all parties can “work together and come to a conclusion and agreements that work for all of us.” “Our hope is that the county will open up discussion again with Stanford because it seems to me that’s the only way we’re going to move forward here,” Caswell said. The three participating board members did not vote on the agreement, which they plan to discuss further at a future meeting before potentially approving it. Board member Ken Dauber and Vice President Todd Collins were both recused from deliberations because each has a spouse who works at Stanford. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@paweekly.com.
that staff return with the new criteria for preferred locations within six months, though Vice Mayor Adrian Fine successfully lobbied his colleagues to expand the timeline to a year. Fine’s proposal for the time extension passed by a 4-2 vote, with DuBois and Kou dissenting. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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Finding a home for youth mental health clinic County facing uphill battle for rental space in North County by Kevin Forestieri
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n ambitious plan to open a North County youth mental health center is proving to be a challenge, beset by delays and escalating costs as Santa Clara County officials scour Palo Alto for a location. The project, called Headspace, proposes creating two clinics in Santa Clara County that would serve as one-stop shops for youth ages 12 to 25 in need of mental health services. Psychiatrists, psychologists, clinicians and primary care doctors will all play a part. The hope is that local teens will feel a sense of ownership in order to quash the stigma of seeking help. County officials have already found a suitable site for one Headspace center in San Jose and are working on the design. But the search has been difficult in the North County, with dozens of locations considered and ultimately rejected. County staff, partnering with the Stanford Center for Youth Mental Health and
Wellbeing, looked at 30 properties — all in Palo Alto — and toured eight of them. Only one met the standards for the clinic, but the property owner rejected the county’s inquiry last August. The Peninsula’s hot real estate market doesn’t help. Headspace needs a whole lot of space — 6,000 square feet — and to be located near public transit. It’s not clear why only Palo Alto is being considered, since the city’s restrictive ordinances are compounding the challenge, according to a county staff report. For example, vacant first-floor retail space can only house retail services and can’t be converted to a clinic use. The first setback came quickly when county staffers concluded they had no chance of owning the Headspace centers and would instead need to lease space for both locations. The original budget to fund the leasing costs and facilities improvement, projected to be $964,000, is now expected to be closer to $4 million.
A real estate broker working on behalf of the county sent a letter of interest for a property at 2741 Middlefield Road on March 29. If the latest effort leads to a lease agreement, county officials expect to make improvements and have it operating sometime in the 2019-20 fiscal year. County Supervisor Joe Simitian said Midtown Palo Alto would be a great location for Headspace, centrally located and a popular hangout spot for teenagers going back decades. But he said progress has been sluggish for turning Headspace into a reality despite an urgent need for the services, and he is “beyond frustrated” that there has yet to be a site secured for the North County location. “It’s been three years since I sat down with people from Headspace in my office,” Simitian said at a recent Health and Hospital Committee meeting. “That’s a long time to still not have a site under contract.” The delays could be partly due
to the challenge of coordinating with three county departments involved in the real estate search, but Simitian wondered if Headspace faces an additional hurdle because the county can’t find a contractor in the North County to actually provide the mental health services. The county’s behavioral health director, Toni Tullys, confirmed that finding an outside provider is still a work in progress. Headspace has been in the works since 2016 as a partnership between Stanford University and Santa Clara County that aims to transform the way children and young adults receive mental health care. The goal is to provide integrated mental health and primary care services all under one roof, which can help identify the early warning signs of mental illness and suicide, according to a description of the program. Patients will receive services regardless of whether they are on Medi-Cal or private insurance, uninsured or underinsured. Although Headspace is based on a network of mental health centers with the same name in Australia, the county is expecting to adopt a new name — Allcove — in the coming months. Santa Clara County is the first to try out the Headspace model in the United States, but not in North America — there’s a similar program in British Columbia called Foundry that’s based
on the Headspace model. Launching the two mental health centers relies heavily on funding from California’s Mental Health Services Act, a 1% income tax on those making in excess of $1 million each year. So far, much of the tax’s revenues have yet to be spent. A portion of the funding is set aside specifically for “innovation” programs like Headspace. Santa Clara County officials are planning to spend just under $15 million in those innovation funds on Headspace over the course of four years, which had to receive formal approval from the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission in August last year. Commissioners at the time praised the concept for having the potential to reach people at a young age and address mental health problems before they become more severe, more difficult and more expensive to treat. There is significant interest in seeing how the model works in the U.S., with neighboring counties and jurisdictions as far away as New York, Michigan and Illinois all expressing interest in whether the Headspace model can survive and thrive in America’s more challenging health care environment. Q Mountain View Voice staff writer Kevin Forestieri can be emailed at kforestieri@ mv-voice.com.
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The health care provider that operates Palo Alto Medical Foundation has agreed to pay the federal government $30 million to settle a major lawsuit for allegedly submitting false information about the health status of Medicare Advantage Plan beneficiaries, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday, April 12. Sutter Health LLC, a California-based health care services provider headquartered in Sacramento, and several of its affiliated entities were sued for allegedly violating the federal False Claims Act by submitting inaccurate billing codes related to the health status of patients. The false claims allegedly netted Sutter millions of dollars in overpayments. The DOJ filed a separate federal complaint in March in support of a whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2015 against Sutter and Palo Alto Medical Foundation alleging the same practices. Sutter contracted with Medicare Advantage organizations and received a share of the payments the organizations received from Medicare for health services provided to patients. Sutter allegedly submitted diagnoses codes for more serious diagnoses than patients had, which resulted in higher reimbursements from the federal government, according to the Department of Justice. Sutter didn’t respond to the Weekly’s questions on how or if the $30-million payout might affect patient services at Sutter facilities. Q —Sue Dremann
City offers raises to labor union Citing significant recruitment and retention challenges, Palo Alto is preparing to approve a new three-year contract with the city’s largest labor union that would include an immediate 3.5% salary hike and raises as high as 20% for critical utilities positions that have been particularly difficult to fill. The city’s contract with the Service Employees International Union, Local 521, also will give the union’s 580 employees a 3.5% raise on Dec. 1 and a 3% raise on Dec. 1, 2020, while requiring them to add an additional 1% of their salaries toward
the “employer paid” portion of pension contributions. The city had traditionally footed the entire employer-paid portion but has recently required workers to contribute 1%, which would be raised to 2% starting in Dec. 1, 2020. Some of the biggest salary increases will be in the Utilities Department, where recruiting challenges have been most acute. The city’s electric operation, which has 68 positions, has 18 vacancies, including all three electrical assistant positions, according to a Feb. 6 presentation that utility staff gave to the Utilities Advisory Commission. And five of the department’s 15 electrical lineperson positions were vacant, requiring the city to increasingly rely on contractors to maintain transmission lines. Tomm Marshall, assistant director of utilities, told the commission at the meeting that the city is also likely to see “a large number of people” leaving the city at the end of the year, in many cases because of retirement. Currently, some utilities employees commute from as far as Lodi and at least one lives in a car throughout the week, he said. “After a while, they look for closer jobs so that they don’t have to make the two-to-three-hour commute each way to get here,” Marshall told the commission. According to city data, in 2017 the lineperson position had a pay rate of between $46.90 and $61.51 per hour, with the highest paid lineperson earning $161,672 in total compensation that year (which included $37,160 in overtime). The new contract tries to make these positions more lucrative by adding a 20% salary increase in addition to the across-the-board increases every union member will receive. When coupled with the two subsequent across-the-board salary increases granted to all SEIU employees, workers in these and other hard-to-fill positions would get a 30% raise over the contract’s three-year term. The proposed contract, which the City Council is scheduled to approve on April 22, is estimated to increase city costs by $3.7 million in fiscal year 2020 (which begins on July 1, 2019), and by $4.4 million and $4.8 million in the two subsequent years. Despite the increased expenditures, top management believes the adjustments are necessary to bring stability to a workforce beset with vacancies — a trend that staff attributes largely to the high cost of housing. Q —Gennady Sheyner
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April 10-April 15 Violence related Suicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Animal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 3 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 3 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto
Walter Hays Drive, 4/10, 6:09 p.m.; suicide.
Menlo Park
300 block Grayson Court, 4/11, 9:27 a.m.; battery. 700 block Hamilton Avenue, 4/11, 5:17 p.m.; assault.
Menlo Park
April 10-April 15 Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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Stanford Continuing Studies and the Stanford Humanities Center present:
A Company of Authors Please join us for the sixteenth annual A Company of Authors, Stanford’s premier book event at the Stanford Humanities Center. Drop in or indulge yourself by spending the entire afternoon in the company of bright, entertaining, and stimulating writers.
Featuring many authors and editors, including:
“PHENOMENAL!” BroadwayWorld
HERSHEY FELDER
A Paris Love Story FEATURING THE MUSIC OF
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
TheatreWorks
Lisa Nguyen John L. Hennessy Ana Raquel Minian Francis Fukuyama Daniel Mason and more...
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Editorial
Deal, or no deal? ‘Agreement’ between Stanford and school district triggers strong objections from Simitian
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he self-congratulatory press release issued late Monday by Stanford University and Palo Alto school Superintendent Don Austin brought the intended headlines, leading the public to believe that an actual deal had been reached to mitigate Stanford’s future development impacts on the schools. It boldly celebrated a tentative agreement, not yet approved by the school board, in which the university would pay an estimated $140 million over the next 40 years to mitigate the costs of the school district educating hundreds of students living in any newly built tax-exempt Stanford housing. Most of this would come from annual payments of about $6,000 for every additional student who enrolls in Palo Alto schools, a fraction of the actual $20,000 per pupil cost of operating the district. To be sure, this is a positive development after many months of Stanford signaling no willingness to do anything like what they have now agreed to do. But buried at the bottom of the press release was a zinger: The agreement was contingent on the county approving a development agreement governing Stanford’s growth over the next 25 years that is acceptable to the university. In other words, by entering into a side agreement with the school district, Stanford bought itself not only a badly needed shot of good PR but a powerful bargaining chip to use in upcoming talks with the county over a development agreement. Stanford obtained two other concessions from the school district in the agreement: The district is precluded from participating in or taking any position on any other matters involving Stanford’s general-use permit application and it must resolve any disputes through binding arbitration instead of the courts. It also fended off the district’s request for a site on campus for a new elementary school. The release of the tentative agreement brought an unusually strong reaction from Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President Joe Simitian (a former Palo Alto school board member), who said it wasn’t actually an agreement at all since it was conditioned on the outcome of the county’s own negotiations with Stanford, which have not yet begun. Simitian, who enjoys strong political support among the Palo Alto school community, told the Weekly the agreement was “unfortunate” and “regrettable” because it set the stage for Stanford using kids and schools as a political weapon in county-development agreement negotiations. On Tuesday, he suspended talks between the county and Stanford on the development agreement and announced that negotiations would only resume if Stanford modified its deal with the school district to remove all conditions relating to the county’s approval of Stanford’s development application. Simitian’s strong rebuke of Stanford and the school board caught both by surprise, or so it seems. But Simitian says he had been very clear in discussions with school board members and Superintendent Austin that any deal between the district and Stanford had to be a bilateral agreement completely independent of the development agreement between the county and Stanford. Otherwise, he said, the county would be negotiating with Stanford on other important issues, such as housing and transportation, with a gun at its head. Simitian’s public ire is out of character for the supervisor, who is normally adept at bringing parties together to achieve successful outcomes, often through personal diplomacy and quiet pressure. And that may yet happen. The school district brought much of the drama upon itself. The board held a closed meeting on Wednesday, April 10, which was listed on the agenda as “anticipated litigation” against Santa Clara County regarding the adequacy of the EIR on Stanford’s development application. In fact, it appears clear that the closed session was to hear Austin describe the status of his negotiations with Stanford and obtain the board’s advice and direction, with no public input. Then on Monday afternoon, Stanford and the school district released a ready-for-signature formal agreement and press release announcing the deal and rushed to hold a special meeting on Tuesday night. Austin and the board’s actions unwisely and improperly kept the public in the dark. There is no rush to approving a deal with Stanford, and the school board should slow down its process, hear Simitian’s concerns at a public meeting and give the proposed deal with Stanford the careful public airing that a $140-million, 40-year agreement deserves. The community deserves to see its elected officials working on the same team to ensure proper mitigation of Stanford’s desired development over the next 25 years. And Stanford should be doing the right and fair thing to financially support the school district independent of the other issues that it must negotiate with the county, and without strings attached. Q
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Bringing real-world humanity to the Great Immigration Debate by Jay Thorwaldson
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s the Great Immigration Debate rages in America and other countries, there’s a modest bit of sanity — and humanity — happening in Palo Alto that brings people virtually face to face with real immigrants. It is a resource that enables people to judge for themselves what is real versus fake in the exchange of views and epithets. The source is a website (madeintoamerica.org) that has built an archive of about 500 immigrant stories, some of which reach back generations. It is the product of soft-spoken but visionary Elliot Margolies, who has been affiliated with the Media Center in Palo Alto since its inception in 1990, when it was part of Cable Co-op, the original operator of local cable television, later bought out by AT&T. Margolies served as the center’s executive director for 11 years before stepping down to focus on special projects. One such project, he said, set the stage for a partnership with the Day Workers Center in Mountain View that led to the development of the “Made into America” database. “My first entrance to the immigration projects on media was when I was a volunteer at the Day Workers Center in Mountain View (circa 2010) and I asked Maria Marroquin, the director, if I could write a grant proposal to train some workers on video production — and we jointly made a documentary about their lives,” Margolies said. “Borderless Dreams” is now used at community meetings when the workers center is trying to tell people about who they are. “There were eight of them who went through the training and did the recording. They all came from different countries and found the Day Workers Center, which supports them with (English) classes and helps them find work,” he said. Marroquin herself is an immigrant who came from Mexico with her son and has been widely recognized for her work with immigrants. Margolies said the $20,000 grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation was pivotal: “That grant enabled me not just to work
with the day workers, but the foundation connected me with eight other organizations that provide services to new immigrants. So I learned a lot and was inspired by a variety of different groups.” Margolies also had a realization that impacted his life: “I thought that part of the problem with immigrant groups that are trying to build bridges with the community at large is the fact that nobody has the time to pay attention beyond a narrow range — and I include myself. ... It’s hard to find the bandwidth to connect with people who are not in your immediate vision. “So that’s when I thought about starting a website that celebrated almost every American’s background from another country. And that became the website archive of immigration stories called ‘Made Into America.’ “At this point we have more than 500 stories of people who have come from every corner of the world, and from many different eras. “We’ve got wonderful stories. It gives you an appreciation of the commonality, of the common experiences many people face when they start all over again from scratch in this amazing country.” Margolies said his basic inspiration “was to create an archive that would bring people together ... regardless of what country or what era they trace their immigration to,” while “being under this common umbrella of families who are proud of their heritage” as they start a new life. “It takes a lot of guts to start all over. Most people do not have a job waiting for them, and do not have command of English. And they’re adults. “I remember when I found my own grandfather’s report card, from an English class, after work — he worked in the stockyards in Chicago. And you just feel a sense of appreciation and pride that they were able to do it. And usually a couple of generations later, the family has found its footing. His name was Usher Dushnitzer. He came in 1929, from Lithuania.” Margolies emphasizes that the immigrant-stories project was only
possible due to significant support from others, such as the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, from Cal Humanities (formerly the Humanities Council for California), and the Bay Area-based Acton Family Giving fund. There have been individuals who have had — and are still having — a huge impact on the stories project and on the topic of immigration as a whole, Margolies said. One of those is Susan Chamberlain of the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto, who in February visited the Mexican border town of Nogales to observe the situation there. She and seven others from the church and 13 from the Presbyterian Church of San Jose spent six days seeing firsthand the high wall through Nogales that cut off community ties and access across the border. They hiked on a desert trail, interviewed asylum seekers and even a Border Patrol official, and witnessed court hearings where people were brought in shackled in groups of eight with no chance to tell their individual stories. Members of the group are now working on how best to share their story of the soul-shaking tour. As for the future of the immigrants-stories project, Margolies said there are community presentations and videos by the original eight day worker trainees — from Mexico, Central America and one from Peru — and others. There’s an open invitation to anyone to share a personal or family immigration story, in writing or on video or online. Hostility to immigrants is historic, but there is a true crisis today, Margolies said. “Although Trump is the one who leads the charge visibly in our country, it’s in other countries, too. There seems to be a wave of us-and-them feelings ... and it’s crazy because we’re facing, at the same time, more displacement through war than at any other time in world history. “There are 65 million people who are out of their homes due to violence, and there are 22 million who are out of their countries looking for a place to live, like in refugee camps and whatnot.” Millions of stories. Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be e-mailed at jaythor@well.com.
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ACADEMICS Harker Summer Programs
ARTS, CULTURE, OTHER CAMPS San Jose
The Harker School’s summer programs for children K - grade 12 offer the perfect balance of learning and fun! Programs are led by dedicated faculty and staff who are experts at combining summer fun and learning. Strong academics and inspiring enrichment programs are offered in full day, partial and morning only sessions.
www.harker.org/summer
(408) 553-5737
i2 Camp at Castilleja School
Palo Alto
i2 Camp offers week-long immersion programs that engage middle school girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The fun and intimate hands-on activities of the courses strive to excite and inspire participants about STEM, creating enthusiasm that will hopefully spill over to their schoolwork and school choices in future years.
www.castilleja.org/i2camp
(650) 470-7833
iD Tech
Stanford/Bay Area
The world’s #1 summer STEM program held at Stanford, Palo Alto High School, and 150+ locations nationwide. With innovative courses in coding, game development, robotics, and design, our programs instill in-demand skills that embolden students to shape the future. iD Tech Camps (weeklong, 7-17), Alexa Café (weeklong, all-girls, 10-15), iD Tech Academies (2-week, 13-18).
idtech.com/locations/california-summer-camps/ stanford-university (844) 788-1858
STANFORD EXPLORE: A Lecture Series on Biomedical Research Stanford EXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford. Stanford EXPLORE offers high school students the unique opportunity to learn from Stanford professors and graduate students about diverse topics in biomedical science, including bioengineering, neurobiology, immunology and many others.
explore.stanford.edu
explore-series@stanford.edu
Summer at Sand Hill School
Palo Alto
June 26 to July 23. If you’re looking for a great summer learning plus fun option for your child and you want them to be ready for fall, please join us at Sand Hill. The morning Literacy Program (8:30 to noon) provides structured, systematic instruction for students with learning challenges entering grades 1-8 in the fall. The afternoon Enrichment Camp (Noon to 4) focuses on performing arts, social skills and fun. Choose morning, afternoon or full day.
www.sandhillschool.org/summer
Summer@Stratford
(650) 688-3605
Palo Alto/Bay Area
Stratford infuses its STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) curriculum into an innovative and enriching summer camp experience. Younger campers learn, explore, and engage in hands-on learning projects, while Elementary-age students collaborate to tackle real-world problems by utilizing academic principles and concepts in a fun and engaging way. At the Middle School level, individual subject-based enrichment classes are offered and tailored for each grade level.
stratfordschools.com/summer
Write Now! Summer Writing Camps
(650) 493-1141
Palo Alto Pleasanton
Castilleja Summer Camp for Girls Palo Alto
Palo Alto
Casti Camp offers girls entering gr. 2-6 a range of age-appropriate activities including athletics, art, science, computers, writing, crafts, cooking, drama and music classes each day along with weekly field trips. Leadership program available for girls entering gr. 7-9.
www.castilleja.org/summercamp
City of Mountain View Recreation
(650) 470-7833
Mountain View
Come have a blast with us this summer! We have something for everyone – Recreation Camps, Specialty Camps, Sports Camps, Swim Lessons, and more! Programs begin June 4 – register early!
www.mountainview.gov/register
City of Palo Alto Summer Camps
(650) 903-6331
Palo Alto
A wide array of camps, from theater and tennis to ceramics and coding. Kids in kindergarten through high school can participate in camps during week-long sessions from June 3 to Aug 9.
www.cityofpaloalto.org/summercamps (650) 463-4949
Community School of Music
Mountain View
Community School of Mountain View Music and Arts (CSMA) Mountain View 50+ creative camps for Gr. K-8! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Musical Theater, Summer Music Workshops, more! One and two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment. Extended care from 8:30am-5:30pm. Financial aid offered.
www.arts4all.org
(650) 917-6800 ext. 0
Oshman Family JCC Camps
Palo Alto
Camps at the OFJCC introduce your child to new experiences while creating friendships in a fun and safe environment. We work to build confidence, stretch imaginations and teach new skills.
www.paloaltojcc.org/Camps
Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC)
(650) 223-8622
Palo Alto
PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of engaging opportunities. We are excited to announce all of your returning favorites: Leaders in Training (L.I.T.), PACCC Special Interest Units (S.I.U.), F.A.M.E. (Fine Arts, Music and Entertainment), J.V. Sports and Operation: Chef! Periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the variety of offerings at PACCC Summer Camps. Open to campers from all communities. Register online.
www.paccc.org
Stanford Jazz Workshop
(650) 493-2361
Stanford
World-renowned jazz camps at Stanford. Week-long jazz immersion programs for middle school musicians (July 8-12), high school (July 14-19 and and July 21-26), and adults (July 28-Aug. 2). All instruments and vocals. No jazz experience necessary!
Improve your student’s writing skills this summer at Emerson School of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton. Courses this year are Expository Writing, Creative Writing and Presentation Skills. Visit our website for more information.
www.stanfordjazz.org
www.headsup.org
Art, cooking, tinkering, yoga and mindfulness. We celebrate multiple perspectives and recognize the many ways for our children to interpret their world. Summer Unplugged! is appropriate for ages 6-11 years. Located at Walter Hays School.
April 1 - 5, June 3 - August 2. Kids have fun, create a character, and learn lifelong performance skills at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Theatre Camps. TheatreWorks offers camps during spring break (offered in Palo and Menlo Park, April 1 - 5) and summer camps (six sessions offered in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Los Altos between June 3 - August 2) for children and youth in grades K-6. Professional teaching artists lead students in activities including acting, dance, play writing, and stagecraft skills. Sibling discounts and extended care available.
www.artandsoulpa.com
www.theatreworks.org/education
Emerson: (650) 424-1267 Hacienda: (925) 485-5750
ARTS, CULTURE, OTHER CAMPS Art and Soul Camp
Palo Alto
(650) 269-0423
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
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(650) 736-0324
Palo Alto Menlo Park
(650) 463-7146
Palo Alto
Share the joy of dance with us! Our studio is an extended family and a “home away from home” for our community of children and teens. At Dance Connection, we value the positive energy and atmosphere that we continuously strive to provide. Summer Dance Camps include all styles of dance for ages 4 and up and features our new “This is Me!” Empowerment Camp along with Teen Jazz and Hip Hop Camps. A Summer Session for ages 3 to adults will be offered from June 3-August 2.
www.danceconnectionpaloalto.com/danceconnection-event-calendar/summer-dance-camps (650) 852-0418 or (650) 322-7032
Kim Grant Tennis Summer Camps
Palo Alto Monterey Bay
Fun and specialized Junior Camps for Mini (3-5), Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, High Performance and Elite tennis levels. Weekly programs designed by Kim Grant to improve player technique, fitness, agility, mental toughness and all around game. Weekly camps in Palo Alto and Sleep-Away Camps in Monterey Bay. SO MUCH FUN!
www.KimGrantTennis.com
Text: (650) 690-0678 Call: (650) 752-8061
Nike Tennis Camps
Bay Area
Junior overnight and day tennis camps for boys and girls, ages 9-18 offered throughout June, July and August. Adult weekend clinics available June and August. Camps directed by head men’s coach, Paul Goldstein, head women’s coach, Lele Forood, and associate men’s and women’s coaches, Brandon Coupe and Frankie Brennan. Join the fun and get better at tennis this summer.
www.ussportscamps.com
(800) NIKE-CAMP (800) 645-3226
Run for Fun Camps
Bay Area
Run for Fun’s mission is to provide creative and engaging play for all youth by getting kids active in an inclusive community centered around outdoor fun! We pride ourselves on hiring an enthusiastic, highly trained staff who love what they do. Summer 2019 features four weeks of Adventure Day Camp and two weeks of Overnight Camp High Five. Adventure Day Camp is a new discovery every day filled with sports, crafts and nature, including explorations to Camp Jones Gulch, Capitola Beach, Foothills Park, Shoreline Lake and Great America. Camp High Five is six days and five nights of traditional overnight camp mixed with challenge-by-choice activities, campfires, friendships and lots of laughter.
www.runforfuncamps.com/summer-camps-andschool-holiday-camps/camp-overview (650) 823-5167
Stanford Athletics & Youth
Stanford
Stanford Youth Programs brings you Camp Cardinal! Week-long day camp programs on campus for kids (grades K – 10) from June 3 – August 9. Space is limited so register online now.
campcardinal.org
(650) 736-5436
Stanford Baseball Camps
Stanford
At Sunken Diamond on the campus of Stanford University. A variety of camps are offered to benefit a wide range of age groups and skill sets. Campers will gain instruction in several baseball skills, fundamentals, team concepts, and game play.
www.stanfordbaseballcamp.com
Stanford Water Polo Camps
(650) 725-2054
Stanford
New to water polo or have experience, we have a camp for you. Half day or full day options for boys and girls ages 7 and up. All camps provide fundamental skills, scrimmages and games.
www.stanfordwaterpolocamps.com
Wheel Kids Bike Camps
(650) 725-9016
Addison Elementary, Palo Alto
Adventure Riding Camp for rising 1st - 8th gr, Two Wheelers Club for rising K - 3rd gr. Week-long programs from 8:30 - 4, starting June 3rd. Join us as we embark on bicycling adventures for the more experienced rider or help those just learning to ride.
www.wheelkids.com/palo-alto
(650) 646-5435
YMCA of Silicon Valley Summer Camps
Silicon Valley
At the Y, children and teens of all abilities acquire new skills, make friends, and feel that they belong. With hundreds of Summer Day Camps plus Overnight Camps, you will find a camp that’s right for your family. Sign up today, camps are filling up! Financial assistance is available.
www.ymcasv.org/summercamp
(408) 351-6473
Arts & Entertainment A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Karla Kane
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by Sheryl Nonnenberg
Photo courtesy of Oliver Klink
Pacific Art League’s juried photography exhibition celebrates the art form’s ‘timeless quality’
Photo courtesy of Teri Vershil
Narratives in black and white
Photo courtesy of Richard Man
“Striped Calf” (top), “The Story Teller” (center) and “American” are among the 65 black-and-white photos that are on display at the Pacific Art League’s exhibit “Noir.”
e live in an image-driven society and, thanks to cell-phone technology, most of us have the ability to document our every encounter, action and meal. But when one thinks of photography as an art form, the black-and-white print is a dominant image. Since its invention in the mid-1800s, blackand-white photographs have had the ability to distill a scene to its essence, while still evoking drama and mystery. “Noir,” a juried exhibition at the Pacific Art League (on view until April 25), demonstrates that contemporary photographers still find aesthetic challenges in this historic medium. “Noir” is the venerable art league’s first show devoted solely to black-and-white photography. It certainly attracted the interest of regional photographers, according to marketing director Aly Gould. “Our call to artists for this show was sent to many local artists and photography groups in the Bay Area and attracted 185 submissions from professional and amateur photographers. Our submissions came from not only the local area but also from San Francisco, Oakland, Sonoma, Half Moon Bay and Aptos,” she said. The entries, culled down to a total of 65 in the exhibition, were judged by Daniel Garcia, photographer and creative director of Content Magazine. “It was difficult to pare down the submissions to fit the limited show space,” said Garcia. “There were many strong images, with a nice variety of styles.” In the end, what he was looking for was, “that ‘something’ that grabs me, that conveys a feeling, an aesthetic, while also considering technical or craftsmanship standards. Then, it is a weighing between the aesthetics and craft.” The exhibition includes every manner of styles, from landscape to still life to portrait. There are also numerous techniques represented, including archival pigment prints, digital prints, inkjet prints and, of course, “iPhoneography.” Garcia said that like many artists working in the medium, he began as a street photographer and that he remains a fan of this particularly spontaneous style. His choice for first place in the show, Terri Vershel’s “Striped Calf,” was notable for “conveying the skill of capturing the ‘decisive moment’ and was technically excellent and aesthetically striking.” In the image, we see the legs of a woman and boy in midstride. It’s a prosaic scene that is made interesting by the geometry of lines created in the pavement, from the shadows of chairs and the dappled sunlight on the ground. The recognizable shapes of the legs and feet anchor the image, while the contrasting tones of dark and light evoke the enigmatic quality of film noir: Who are these people; are they together and where are they going? The award for second place was given to Oliver Klink for his dramatic “The Story Teller.” This print, a portrait of an old man and a young girl, is a study in chiaroscuro. We can barely make out the figures, who emerge from darkness and are seen in profile. The child is gazing up at the old man, whose head is surrounded by billows of smoke from his pipe. His head is bathed in soft light from a nearby window and he leans down to address the girl in such a way that we instinctively know the narrative of this tableau — an ancient sharing his wisdom. The image is laden with emotion that could only be conveyed in black and white.
Several prints exemplify how even the most quotidian objects can lend themselves to artistic analysis. In Jim Beck’s “Coffee Service,” cups, milk pitchers and a silver coffee pot inspire a study of light and its reflective qualities. Dan McLean’s “Three Urns” is a meditative experience, both due to the beauty found in the classical form of the urns and the way the light caresses just one side of each object. The result is both simple and elegant. Notable in the exhibition, and represented by numerous prints, is the work of Tom and Marj Green. The duo started taking photographs as a retirement hobby but found, as they spent more time shooting, that it had become a serious pursuit. “We are inspired by old black-and-white movies, Ansel Adams and other early 20thcentury black-and-white photographers,” explained Green. “There are many challenges — early morning shadows on a lonely street, discarded toys in a play yard, an array of pots and pans ... it never ends.” Their prints are textbook examples of how the effects of shadow, contrast, tone, shape and texture can create emotion. In Marj’s “Pitchfork, Manzanor, CA” the composition consists of the simple farming tool left on a barn floor under an overhead window, creating a perfect square of light and the shadows of the tines under the fork. Gray tones evoke a feeling of abandonment and melancholy. In other prints, the Greens consider the strong lines and sharp contrasts of architectural subject matter (parking garages, stairways, etc.) that result in compositions that are studies in abstraction. There are prints that seem to pay homage to photographic masters from the past. Robert Zucker’s “Beau Tie Nude” shows a nude woman lying on a bed with layers of crumpled sheets and blankets gathered around her. This very traditional subject is one that also was captured by Eugene Atget in his “Femme,” dated 1925. Richard Man channels the work of Robert Frank in “American,” a portrait of a man draped with American flags, which he also holds in his hands. His intense gaze seems to challenge onlookers to react to his patriotism. Judy Kramer’s “Mesquite Dunes West” tackles landscape photography in the tradition of Edward Weston, focusing on zig-zagpatterns on sand dunes that lead the eye towards a mountain range in the background, while overhead the sky is etched with fluffy clouds. Finally, Linda Degastaldi (“Looking Down”) demonstrates how an iPhone shot of water collected in fractured asphalt can be a fascinating landscape of pattern and texture. The exhibition is proof positive of the enduring quality of black-and-white photography. Explained Garcia, “It continues to have an impact because it has a subconscious nostalgia that draws from the roots of photography — a timeless quality.” Q Freelance writer Sheryl Nonnenberg can be emailed at nonnenberg@aol.com. What: “Noir.” Where: Pacific Art League, 668 Ramona St., Palo Alto. When: Through April 25, Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Info: pacificartleague.org.
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Clockwise from the top: Fowl Play Roadside Chicken sells tangerine and sage whole-roasted chickens served with mashed potatoes and gravy. The restaurant’s “Hot Mess� sandwich is made of onion rings, fried chicken tossed in buffalo sauce, lettuce, tomato and Roquefort cheese stacked between a corn-dusted bun. The chicken wings are tossed in a buffalo bleu sauce.
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I was elated with my order of elote ($3.25), Mexican street corn with mayonnaise, Parmesan and zingy Tajin seasoning. I was less enamored with the “cordon bleu mac ‘n’ cheese� ($3.25 small/$4.95 large), a bland melange of chicken, ham, bacon, melted swiss and cheddar cheeses, soggy noodles and a dusting of cornbread crumb topping that was too granulated to make an impression. From the out-of-the-box dessert menu, which includes churros and a house-made waffle cone with seasonal pie filling, I chose loukoumades ($4.95), warm Greek donuts topped with honey and pecans. The exquisite pastries were surprisingly light and airy. Try to save room for these doughy delights. Fowl Play’s service is genuine, attentive and seems, at times, like a one-woman show. During each of my visits, Leslie guided me and other patrons through the menu, highlighted her favorites and checked in multiple times. The restaurant takes a novel and heartwarming approach to community outreach. The Fowl Play Bucks program invites customers to leave donations for less-privileged diners in a jar by the ordering counter. The cash is then converted to paper “bucks� and pinned to a half wall Fowl Play Roadside Chicken, 3850 El Camino Real, Palo Alto; 650-384-651; fowlplayeats.com Hours: Monday-Thursday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Closed Sunday. Reservations
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ast April, Andrea Leslie was nearly ready to debut her chicken restaurant — slated to be the west coast’s first franchise of Washington, D.C.-based The Chickery — in Palo Alto’s Barron Park neighborhood. Having checked off key milestones including training in Toronto, equipping the kitchen and hiring her opening crew, the Gilroy resident was feeling confident and eager. Then came the bombshell: Leslie received a legal notice informing her of The Chickery’s overnight demise. She was ordered to sever all ties with the chain by a chef who asserted exclusive rights to the concept. “I was shocked,� Leslie said. “Even though I had the option to walk away, I quickly decided that I would completely overhaul the operation and make it my own.� Leslie got to work on a radical revamp, fine-tuning original recipes and creating a restaurant that offered full-service quality in a quick-service format. Less than three months later, Fowl Play Roadside Chicken took flight. Fowl Play is situated on El Camino Real, about a mile south of Page Mill Road. Its sparely decorated, diminutive dining room has space for only two tables and eight stools. (Two outdoor picnic benches boost seating capacity in warmer months.) The small footprint hasn’t yet hindered the mostly takeout eatery, though standing-room only status could come as more diners discover, as I did, the restaurant’s enticing menu. I found both of Fowl Play’s core offerings — tangerine and sageroasted rotisserie chicken and crispy, buttermilk-fried, all-white chicken — to be juicy, flavorful and generously portioned. Choosing which variety to order is a
matter of preference, not quality. Notably, the hand-dipped and battered fried chicken has a light, nongreasy texture. I didn’t experience a fried chicken “hangover� — no need for a post-meal nap or fistful of antacids after indulging. While both styles of bird can be ordered no-frills style from the “Rotisserie,� “Southern Fried� and “Feast� sections of the menu, Fowl Play also incorporates its signature item into an inventive variety of salads, sandwiches and sliders. The first-rate Asian chicken salad ($10.50) featured a crunchy bed of fresh romaine lettuce topped with a heaping serving of roasted chicken, red cabbage, edamame, peanuts and more, tossed in a tangy sesame vinaigrette dressing. The “squawky yaki bowl� ($10.50) — be prepared for the menu’s fondness for poultry puns — was another substantial, healthy option. The bowl’s jasmine rice was suitably soft and sticky. Fresh vegetables and roasted chicken topped with a deep, rich teriyaki sauce completed the savory dish. From the “Sammies� section, I opted for “the ultimate� ($9.50), a hearty combination of lightly breaded fried chicken, choice of cheese, lettuce, pickles, tomatoes and mayonnaise on a corn-dusted bun. The sandwich hit all the right notes except for the paltry slice of pepper jack. The aptly named “hot mess� ($9.50) was a towering fried chicken sandwich stacked with crispy onion rings, lettuce, tomato and Roquefort cheese, all drizzled with spicy buffalo sauce and creamy Roquefort dressing. This bold-flavored behemoth is the restaurant’s top seller, according to Leslie. Standout sides included the crisp, non-oily tater tots and baked beans with bacon drenched in a sweet sautee of molasses and brown sugar (both $3.25 small/$4.95 large).
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would prefer a homegrown concept with a wholesome menu and a personal touch. The ideal candidate? I suspect Fowl Play. Q Freelancer Edward Gerald Fike can be emailed at egfike@ gmail.com.
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Eating Out
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PIZZA CHICAGO RELOCATES ... After nearly three decades of serving deep-dish pizza from its restaurant at 4114 El Camino Real, Palo Alto’s Pizza Chicago is relocating. A threestory mixed-use project has been proposed for the site, so owner Juan Lorenz signed a lease at 2305 El Camino Real (near California Avenue), which has sat empty since Pieology Pizzeria closed in 2017. Lorenz hopes to close the current restaurant and open the new one by June. The new space is currently under construction. The menu will largely remain the same, Lorenz said, with a few new items, including thincrust pizza. He said he hopes to see more business from foot traffic from the nearby California Avenue. Pizza Chicago has been around since the 1990s. The first location opened in Santa Clara in 1991 and then Palo Alto several years later. A San Jose outpost closed last year. Stay tuned on firm closure and opening dates for the Palo Alto pizzeria. — E.K. NEW RETAILERS SET TO MOVE TO CAL AVE. ... Renovation work is winding down at two new tenant spaces along the 200 block of
California Avenue. The longtime FedEx Office Print & Ship Center at 249 S. California Ave. reopened in a smaller space earlier this year after dividing the building into two storefronts. Work on the new FedEx portion of the building, which began in August 2018, is complete and the new, adjoining 6,704-squarefoot space has a lease sign in the window. Another new storefront just a block away at 265 S. California Ave., next to Pilates V, is preparing to open. The 951-square-foot interior at Raw Smoke Shop looks ready for business and a sign has gone up on the exterior. The site has remained vacant since Solid Electric divided the lower-level of the building into two retail storefronts. Pilates V moved in at the end of 2017 shortly after construction work on the building was complete. Raw Smoke Shop had pulled permits in July 2017 to move into the adjoining storefront, but according to city records, the permit wasn’t finalized until this past March. There’s a head shop located in El Cajon with the same name, but it’s unclear if the two businesses are related. — L.T.
Amber Dhara becomes new, casual concept ... Another local restaurant is transitioning from long lunches and white tablecloths to casual service in the face of changing demographics and rising labor costs. Amber Dhara, which opened in downtown Palo Alto in 2011, has been replaced with Gup Shup, still an Indian restaurant but one focused on “superfoods” and a lower price point in an effort to serve younger, health-conscious diners. Owner Vijay Bist, who has long run a string of Indian restaurants in the Bay Area, said the change is being spearheaded by three young chefs: Sri Ram Reddy Punnam, Vivek Desirazu and Hitesh Gauta, who recently joined the team from the Middle East and will lead the Amber Indian San Francisco kitchen. Gup Shup soft opened at 150 University Ave. on April 5 with a new menu that includes ingredients such as jackfruit, farro, barley, kale and chia seeds. Many traditional Indian dishes, however — from tandoori chicken and dosa to pav bhaji and cauliflower bezule — still remain on the menu. Gup Shup is open Tuesday-Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for lunch and happy hour at 4 p.m. Dinner is 5-9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and until 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. — E.K. Compiled by the Weekly staff; this week written by Elena Kadvany and Linda Taaffe. Got leads on interesting and news-worthy retail developments? Email shoptalk@ paweekly.com.
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Become an underwriter and enjoy Gamble’s Spring Tour Preview Party. Tickets are now on sale for the Spring Tour, an annual two-day event that raises funds for the historic Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden in Palo Alto while showcasing some of Palo Alto’s loveliest private gardens. Becoming a Spring Tour underwriter, allows you to celebrate the tour beforehand at Gamble Garden’s Preview Party on Thursday, April 25 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. In addition to cocktails, hors d’oevres and live music, you’ll also enjoy the first opportunity to shop the tour’s highly anticipated “Over the Garden Fence” sale and Plant Sale. Wonderful and unique items donated to the sale include gently used pieces of garden furniture, artwork, ceramics, linens, silver and other décor and houseware. The preview party will also feature a tasting of Heaven’s Door bourbons and a fun Wine Grab fundraiser. Spring Tour underwriting starts at $250 and includes tickets to all five garden tours held April 26 and April 27. To learn more, order tickets or become an underwriter, go to www.gamblegarden.org. 1431 Waverley Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 (650) 329-1356 www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • April 19, 2019 • Page 23
Book Talk
‘ENEMY CHILD’ CHRONICLES LOCAL STATESMAN’S LIFE IN INTERNMENT CAMP ... Most people who have traveled in or out of San Jose by plane are probably familiar with the name Norman Y. Mineta International Airport. Now, a new book tells the story of the man behind the airport’s name. “Enemy Child” is the first biography of San Jose native Norman Mineta, the American statesman and trailblazer who spent his early years in a Japanese internment camp at Heart Mountain, Montana, during World War II. The book takes readers from the Bay Area to an isolated wartime prison camp and finally to the halls of Congress, where Mineta served 10 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mineta is a man of many firsts: the first Asian American mayor of a major city, the first Japanese American from the mainland to be elected to Congress and the first Asian American to serve in a presidential cabinet. He also became the longest-serving U.S. Secretary of Transportation. To coincide with the release of the book on April 30, PBS will premiere the documentary “Norman Mineta and his Legacy: An American Story,” on May 20.
Is Silicon Valley a threat to humanity? In his new book, pioneering environmentalist Bill McKibben sounds the alarm on technology’s role in our extinction by Michael Berry
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ournalist and activist Bill McKibben has been writing about climate change longer than the vast majority of inhabitants of the planet have been aware of the issue. In 1989, McKibben’s “The End of Nature” was the first book for a popular audience to address the topic of what was then called “the greenhouse effect.” Since then, the former New Yorker staff writer has written more than a dozen books (including one novel), and helped found the grassroots climate activist organization 350. org. McKibben’s new book, “Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?,” takes stock of how well humankind is coping with the effects of climate change. The resulting picture is far from encouraging. Arctic ice keeps melting, the oceans continue to rise and extreme weather — from firestorms to hurricanes — still spreads across the globe. Meanwhile, powerful new technologies threaten to strip people of their jobs and perhaps their humanity. McKibben places blame for the sad state of affairs in many directions. McKibben takes aim at the climate change denialists, such as the Koch brothers and their libertarian networks that are known for lobbying against efforts to expand government’s role in health care and combating global warming. He shows how the Koch brothers aren’t shy about funneling billions of dollars into
HIGH SCHOOL HOUSING CRISIS ... Five students from local high schools will be at Kepler’s Books to share their reflections on the impact of the housing crisis on young people in the community. The Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County partnered with local teachers and high schools asking students to share how they experience and view the issue of housing in Silicon Valley through their writing and their art. The event will kick off on Monday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m. with refreshments. At 7 p.m., each student will take to the stage to share their work. Kepler’s is located at 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park.
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INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY ... Local indie bookstore chain Books Inc. will be hosting special events featuring exclusive literary items at their shops on Saturday, April 27, in celebration of Independent Bookstore Day. The nationwide event first launched in book shops across California in 2014 to recognize the importance of independent bookstores as community gathering places. Books Inc. in Palo Alto and Mountain View will be offering exclusive in-store items created for the event and available for purcahse in limited quantities. Customers with Libro. fm audiobook memberships also will receive free audiobooks. Titles include “The Black House” by Peter May, “Mothers’ Group” by Liane Moriarty, “Missing Pieces: Hello Neighbor #1” by Carly Anne West and “Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life ... and Maybe the World” by Admiral William H. McRaven. For more information, go to Books Inc.
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Bill McKibben campaigns to convince people to vote against their own interests, especially when it comes to climate change. But in “Falter,” he concentrates some of his disdain for one author in particular, Ayn Rand, author of “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged.” A fanatical believer in the libertarian “rugged individualist” and an opponent of anything that could be construed as altruism, Rand espoused a system wherein kindness and compassion were for chumps. He writes, “You could argue that the most important political philosopher of our time is the novelist Ayn Rand. Indeed, given the leverage of the present moment, leverage that is threatening to end the human game, you could argue that she’s the most important philosopher of all time.” McKibben also turns his attention to artificial intelligence and bioengineering, not for what they might do to the environment, but how they might change the soul of humanity. For example, in “Falter,” he writes about Ray Kurzweil, a “director of engineering” at Google, whose transhumanist beliefs offer the possibility of uploading consciousness to a digital storage site. Assuming such cyberpunkish aspirations ever come to fruition, McKibben asks what happens
when smarter-than-human, disembodied intelligences become divorced from mortal concerns. On top of that scenario, McKibben also considers what might occur if the cheap and easy geneediting technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 suddenly begins to allow doctors to alter genes before birth to create physically superior offspring. After doling out a heaping portion of doom and gloom, McKibben, a Gandhi Peace Prize Laureate, takes care in “Falter” to offer some hope for anyone who would like to see humanity survive for another century or more. “Falter” is a bracing call to arms, one that concerned readers ignore at their peril. Asked what we’ve done to combat climate change in the three decades since the publication of “The End of Nature,” McKibben said succinctly, “We’ve pretty much wasted them.” Readers will be happy to know that McKibben does perceive two possible escape hatches from our collective folly — solar energy and nonviolent resistance. Solar panels offer the rapid spread of renewable energy across the developing world, he argues. As for resistance, he notes that 350.org has organized thousands of rallies around the world, demonstrating particular resistance to the Keystone Pipeline and facilitating the launch of a fossil fuel divestment movement. The organization is named for climate scientist James E. Hansen’s contention that any atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide above 350 parts per million is unsafe. Concentration levels are now estimated to exceed 400 parts per million. McKibben is a Methodist who especially appreciates the teachings of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. He writes, “I believe, as I’ve said before, that nonviolence is one of the signal inventions of our time — perhaps, if we are lucky, the innovation for which historians will most revere the twentieth century.” McKibben emphasizes that he operates as both an organizer and a reporter.
“I’ve ended up in a lot of places the last few years that let me tell stories, from Greenland to Africa and from all the places where I’ve been organizing. When I’m doing that, I always keep a notebook in my back pocket so I can do some reporting, too.” Some of that writing will likely emphasize the need for rapid, thoughtful responses to the monumental challenges ahead, a response not likely to come from the current Executive Branch in Washington. “I’ve said before that climate change is a timed test, and we’re running out of presidential cycles,” McKibben said. “The idea that we would waste another four years in Trump World is almost too painful to imagine.” McKibben will appear at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park on Sunday, April 28, at 4 p.m. The event is a homecoming of sorts. McKibben is a Palo Alto native, who now resides in Vermont. He spent many of his formative years in the Northeast, attending high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, and graduating from Harvard University. But his roots are in the West. His father, Gordon, a former business editor of the Boston Globe, had gone to Stanford and was editor-in-chief of the Stanford Daily. McKibben has few memories of his early years in Palo Alto, given his young age. “My main memories of Palo Alto are my father (being) sad at the fact that the house he sold would’ve sold for 80 times as much 30 years later,” he said. Q Freelance writer Michael Berry can be emailed at mikeberry@ mindspring.com. What: Bill McKibben will speak about his new book “Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?” Where: Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. When: 4-5:30 p.m., Sunday, April 28. Cost: $15-$45. Info: For more information, go to keplers.org.
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Home Front ORCHARD WALKS ... Scientist Jane Packard will talk about the urban green space and the creatures, plants and pollinators that thrive there during a guided walk through the Los Altos Civic Center Apricot Orchard and surrounding museum gardens on Saturday, April 27, from 11a.m. to noon. The free event is part of the museum’s Saturday Orchard Walks program that focuses on a different topic each week. All ages are welcome. Meet at the back door of the Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. For more information, go to losaltoshistory.org. HARVEST TIME AT COMMUNITY GARDEN ... Soil&Water Garden in Mountain View is looking for volunteers to help harvest and tend to the community plot at Heritage Park at 771 Rengstorff Ave. Two-hour work shifts are available on Wednesdays and Saturdays between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for volunteers of all skill levels. Volunteers are rotated to different jobs each week to learn a variety of gardening skills through hands-on work, including everything from planting edibles and pulling weeds to picking produce and making organic bug repellant. Volunteers receive a portion of each harvest to take home, and teens also can earn community service credits for school. The garden is a project of the Los Altos Community Foundation. For more information, go to soilandwater.org. WATERWISE GARDENING... Richard Hayden, garden director for Gamble Garden, will teach basic techniques for establishing and maintaining a low-water garden during a twohour presentation on Saturday, May 4, at the Palo Alto garden, 1431 Waverley St.. The class will focus on the importance of plant selection, healthy soil, irrigation techniques and mulch that can help reduce landscaping water usage. The class is $25 for Palo Alto residents; $35 for nonresidents. To register, go to bit.ly/ WaterwiseGardening. Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email editor@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.
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ot long after Sabrina and Laurence Braham moved into their Crescent Park home 10 years ago, Sabrina started developing a wish list of what she’d like to change. It took awhile, but this year’s Gamble Garden Spring Tour, on Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27 — which features five Palo Alto gardens — will let visitors see how a vast, grassy space can be turned The newly renovated backyard at Sabrina and Laurence Braham’s Crescent Park home is among the five into a series of garden rooms, with Palo Alto gardens that will be open to the public on this month’s Gamble Garden Spring Tour. The renovation plenty of space for child’s play, en- included added French doors to create backyard access to an expanded brick patio from the dining room. tertaining or just enjoying the Calitree, as well as built-in trellises. fornia weather. interest in Ikebana (Jarrod Baumann, designer); Q East Meets West in a Professorville garden “We like to entertain and love having the The garden redo was an adjunct to a major remodel of the 1936 home, which was completed house full in summer and spring out here. We designed by the owner, with orchids and bamboo last year. A key piece was creating a way to en- needed places to sit, to spread out,” Sabrina paying homage to the owner’s native Vietnam; Q Paradise in a Meadow, inspired by New ter the backyard from the dining room, turning added. To enhance that entertaining, they added windows into French doors that open onto an an outdoor room with seating around a fireplace, York City’s High Line Garden, featuring 500 as well as heating elements suspended from the plant varieties (team of Kim Raftery, designer; expanded brick patio. Keystones of the backyard space are three ceiling. Kevin Raftery, arborist; John Greenlee, grass Given Sabrina’s love of cooking, the new plan expert; Larick Alan Hill, architect). huge redwood trees, offering shade under their majestic canopies as well as planting challenges. also included a row of citrus trees, including an This year’s plant sale features specimens Landscape designer Dorrit Kingsbury replaced orange and two lemons, in front of the mani- grown at Gamble Garden, including bearded the huge lawn cured Thuja trees that line the side fence. In the and Pacific Coast iris, succulents (some in decowith functional front yard, herbs are planted in two white planter rative pots), roses, summer vegetables and herbs. boxes. artificial turf. A list of award-winning tomatoes can be found Collaborating with Kingsbury, Sabrina ex- on the website: gamblegarden.org. From the new “It’s nice looking, and pressed her need for structure and texture, with pollinator garden are yarrows, as well as sages it doesn’t get layers of green and not a lot of flowery color. that attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. muddy,” Sa- Today, a few hot- and pale-pink camellias thrive As in past years, the spring event will include brina said. Plus under the redwoods, and white tree roses line Over the Garden Fence, a sale of donated garit’s great for the the entryway. den furniture, antiques, china, crystal, linens and Defining all those spaces are low boxwood more, located in the Carriage House. Master three kids, who range from 9 hedges, complemented by ball-shaped topiar- Gardeners will be on hand to answer horticulto 13, and the ies (Kingsbury also managed to relocate a pair tural questions. Labradoodle, of boxwood topiaries — which survived the No tickets are required to shop the Markethouse remodel — from the front to the side of place, located on the grounds of Gamble Garden Brisket. With those the house). (10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and Saturday). VenThe front yard retains a sense of formality, dors range from biscotti and other goodies to kids in mind, a space was with its boxwood hedges and white tree roses. textiles and plant-related items. There also will carved out for a But, a pair of white Adirondack porch swings be live music and a silent auction. Q pingpong table softens the front of the house. And then there’s Freelance writer Carol Blitzer can be Pink camellias add accent and another for the whimsical fiberglass black sheep, which can emailed at carolgblitzer@gmail.com. to the Braham’s garden, a trampoline. be seen from the living room. which features mostly The Braham’s garden is among those that will At one side, layers of green. they added a be showcased during this year’s Gamble Garden What: Enter the Garden — Gamble Garden 2 0 0 - s q u a r e - Spring Tour, which includes everything from Spring Tour. foot little house, complete with bathroom and places of tranquility and retreat to the exotic and When: Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27, the whimsical. sofa bed; right outside is a built-in barbecue. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. “The house required a lot of maneuvering. We Where: Five gardens in Palo Alto, plus Gamble had to make sure the trees were not impacted,” Other gardens on tour include: Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. Q A Feast for the Senses — sound, smell, sight Sabrina said. Cost: $35 general admission, $30 for members Brisket was not left out: Behind the little — was partly originally designed as a demonand volunteers, $40 day of tour; pre-ordered house is a dog run, with drainage and gravel for stration garden for the clients of landscaper/own(by April 19) box lunch tickets are $18 for turkey, days he can’t get his long walks in. er Page Sanders. The result: a small forest, yearham or vegetarian options from Draeger’s Along the other side of the house is another round blooms, a flowering meadow and more; Market; limited lunch available on tour days Q Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication ofstructure, designed to store trash, bikes and extra Info: Register online at gamblegarden.org or chairs. 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HITTING THE FLOOR ... The secondranked Stanford men’s gymnastics team looks for its sixth national title this weekend when the NCAA Championships begins Friday at the State Farm Center in Champaign, Ill. The Cardinal brings the No. 2 seed overall into the championships, entering the meet with a 418.025 qualifying score. Stanford is grouped with No. 3 Michigan (410.863), No. 6 Minnesota (406.525), No. 7 Nebraska (404.638), No. 10 Navy (400.738) and No. 11 California (398.788). The session is slated to begin at 11 a.m. Stanford enters the meet ranked among the nation’s top-10 in every event, including first on floor (70.975) and parallel bars (70.725). The Cardinal is second in still rings (70.200) and high bar (68.863), fourth in pommel horse (67.338) and sixth on vault (71.200). Stanford placed second to Oklahoma at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships. Stanford’s Brody Malone was named MPSF Gymnast of the Year, and Thom Glielmi won MPSF Coach of the Year honors. Malone is one of two gymnasts this year to record an all-around score of 85.000 or better, finishing with a mark of 85.250 on March 30. He enters the championships ranked first in the nation in the all-around, averaging 84.225. Malone also ranks sixth nationally in high bar (14.100), seventh in parallel bars (14.188), eighth in vault (14.588), and top-25 in floor (18th, 14.150), rings (20th, 13.950) and pommel horse (20th, 13.563). A two-time CGA National Gymnast of the Week, Malone is a five-time CGA National Rookie of the Week, and a three-time MPSF Gymnast of the Week. Senior Grant Breckenridge is in the running for the prestigious NissenEmery Award, given annually to the top senior gymnast in the nation. TOP HONORS ... Menlo College freshman Edin Ibrahimovic, who led the Oaks to the championship match of the Golden State Athletic Conference tournament, became the first Menlo men’s volleyball player to be named to the NAIA/AVCA All-America team. Ibrahimovic, from BosniaHerzegovina, finished among the top in several NAIA categories. He ranked third in kills per set (4.91) and seventh in total kills (344), both totals topping the GSAC. His hitting percentage of .321 led all Oaks’ outside hitters. Ibrahimovic was at his best late in the season, leading Menlo to its best season yet. He was named GSAC Attacker of the Week a conferencehigh five times. Ibrahimovic earned allconference recognition as was named Freshman of the Year ... Stanford sophomore Aria Fischer was named Mountain Pacific Sports Federation/ Kap7 Women’s Water Polo Player of the Week for the second time this season. Fischer scored a career-high five goals to lead top-ranked Stanford to its third consecutive one-goal victory, a 13-12 decision at No. 4 Cal ... Senior defender Julia Massaro and sophomore attack Ali Baiocco won the Pac-12 Lacrosse Defensive and Offensive Player of the Week honors, respectively. Q
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Welcome to the ‘Wolfpack’ In her book WOLFPACK (Little, Brown Book Group Limited), Abby Wambach writes that women must let go of old rules of leadership that neither include nor serve them. Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College’s graduates in New York City, the two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup champion and New York Times bestselling author urges women to unleash their individual power, unite with their pack and emerge victorious together. As the co-captain of Team USA’s 2015 Women’s World Cup Championship team, Wambach created a culture not just of excellence but of honor, commitment, resilience and sisterhood. Wambach and Team USA superstar Brandi Chastain visited Palo Alto High School on Tuesday night to talk about the book and about empowering women. Photo by Karen Ambrose Hickey.
PREP GIRLS SWIMMING
Working hard to stay on top Gunn girls look to defend their CCS title by Rick Eymer unn swimmers Milan Hilde-Jones, Sarah Snyder, Ashley Stahmer, Clara Schulz and Grace Tramack arrived at Gunn and the swimming scene with high expectations and have never disappointed. As freshmen they helped the Titans finish second behind Palo Alto at the Central Coast Section meet. They’re seniors now and also defending CCS champions after ending Paly’s two-year reign. The quintet have made their mark on the swimming community and, instead of resting on their laurels, are even more determined to complete another successful season. Bruce Smith, a co-founder of the Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics Club some 17 years ago, is no ordinary first-year coach. He’s assumed head coaching duties at Gunn and still works with longtime Gunn swim coach Mark Hernandez. Most importantly, he’s worked with most of the seniors at the club level, which made for a smooth tranistion. At the team’s first meeting of the year, Smith said defending its CCS title was at the top of the list as a goal for the season. “Continuing the tradition was important,” Smith said. “Winning a CCS title is hard and its harder
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to stay on top. You have to keep re-inventing yourself. Getting better requires more teamwork. Everybody has to buy in.” That’s where the seniors come in. “They’re not just five fast swimmers,” Smith said. “As a group of five, they are impressive. They’ve spent four years developing and when they come together, that’s when they are amazing.” Friday’s 3:30 p.m. meet with Los Gatos is Senior Day, their final dual meet (Palo Alto is also honoring its seniors Friday). Smith may have to edit himself a bit. He can talk about all five seniors all day. Four of them will continue swimming in college. Schulz, who has not made a final college choice, said she wants to try different things. “That’s the great thing about them,” Smith said. “They all bring something different.” The five seniors competed in a combined 12 championship finals last year, including all three relays. The 200 medley relay is the defending CCS champion, the 400 free relay finished second and the 200 free relay was third. Hilde-Jones, who will swim at Northwestern in the fall, has been working with former Stanford great Dana Kirk for several years and has developed into a dependable swimmer and leader.
“She’ll be a huge assest at Northwestern,” Smith said. “She’s a great kid with a bright future. She has a great personality. She’s a versatile swimmer.” Tramack, heading to Williams & Mary, keeps Smith organized. “She loves work. She’s labor intensive,” Smith said. “I call her my organization. She’s a hard worker who brings positive energy all the time.” Smith calls Duke-bound Snyder a “goofball,” in the best sense of the word. “When she’s in the pool she’s all business,” Smith said. “She’s awesome. She keeps things light
in times of stress, always cracking jokes. She’s just so good at being level-headed.” Stahmer, on her way to South Carolina, would compete in every event if she were given the choice. “She loves going fast and she wants to race,” Smith said. “She’s a hard worker and a team player.” Schulz, who completed one race last year despite getting injured, is a “great competitor and a great leader by example.” The postseason starts next week with the SCVAL diving finals at Palo Alto on Tuesday and the girls trials on Thursday, also at Palo Alto. The boys trials is Wednesday, with the combined finals next Friday. “We look at leagues as a stepping stone toward CCS,” Smith said. “CCS is the focus but we want to win the league title too.”Q
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Gunn senior Milan Hilde-Jones looks to lead the Titans to another CCS team title.
Sports PREP BASEBALL
ON THE AIR
Menlo marches forward
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Knights climb into second place in PAL Bay Division by Glenn Reeves he Menlo School baseball team has come a long way since getting swept by rival Sacred Heart Prep, 9-0 and 9-3, to begin Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division play back on March 20-22. The Knights havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lost since. They won their eighth in a row Wednesday with an 8-0 victory over Terra Nova. Five of those wins have been in league and Menlo (114, 5-2) is now in second place by itself, 1 1/2 games behind Burlingame with a game at Terra Nova looming Friday at 4 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re clicking at the right time,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said shortstop Justin Nam, who doubled and hit his third home run of the season against Terra Nova. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hitting, pitching ... weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re putting it all together. We
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have good chemistry.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Nam, who is the starting pitcher for Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game, hit a two-run double to highlight a four-run first and then belted a solo homer in the second to spearhead Menloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10hit attack. And Julien Hernandez took care of the pitching part of the equation, throwing a completegame four-hit shutout with six strikeouts and two walks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was just going at every hitter, trying to compete,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said Hernandez, a junior right-hander who threw his second shutout of the season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was throwing primarily fastballs and just letting my defense make plays behind me. If I make a mistake I know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll pick me up. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m learning a lot about myself.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; JC Ng singled and Charlie (continued on page 34)
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Julien Hernandez threw his second shutout of the season for Menlo.
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The sophomore has 13 hits in her last 15 at-bats, including three doubles and three triples. She has driven in 18 runs over the past four games for Gunn and has won twice as a pitcher.
The senior had two hits, including a grand slam, and then came back two days later to pitch a five-hitter over six innings, striking out six, as Menlo swept Carlmont in PAL Bay Division play.
Honorable mention Alexandra Chan Menlo track and field
Jessica Eagle
Jake Andrew Menlo-Atherton tennis
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Sara Osterberg* Menlo-Atherton track and field
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Giesler doubled to get things started in the bottom of the first. Nam doubled them both home. Hernandez singled, a run scored on an error, Luca Espinosa singled and Bennett Norman hit a sacrifice fly. Ng and Giesler hit back-to-back singles in the fourth. Then after pulling off a double steal they both came around to score to make it 7-0. Giesler walked and eventually scored his third run of the game in the bottom of the sixth to close out the scoring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing well together,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Menlo coach Greg Hart said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year was a tough year, we had a lot of sophomores. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re juniors now, our battery today was a junior (Hernandez) and a junior (catcher Adam Kasser). I told them, you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done anything yet. Keep it going, keep focused on the job, keep your eyes on the prize.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; In a non-league game, Sacred Heart Prepâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Enzo Polloni tossed a two-hitter and allowed a single run, but that run stood up in Pacific Groveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1-0 victory over the visiting Gators in a non-league baseball game Wednesday. Ryan Mo and Teddy Purcell each collected two hits for SH Prep (9-10-1), which travels to Pacifica to take on Terra Nova next Wednesday in a PAL Bay Division game at 4 p.m.Q
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997 All Other Legals ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 19CV345267 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: DORIS LORRAINE WITMER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: DORIS LORRAINE WITMER aka DORIS LORRAINE WITMER HILLEMAN aka LORRAINE W. HILLEMAN aka LORRAINE HILLEMAN to LORRAINE WITMER HILLEMAN. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: July, 30, 2019, 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each
week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Date: March 27, 2019 /s/ JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW Apr. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2019) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ISABEL COSTA Case No.: 19PR185558 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ISABEL COSTA. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SCOTT COSTA in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: SCOTT COSTA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on June 24, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 13 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: David J. Lee 983 University Ave., Suite 104C Los Gatos, CA 95032 (408) 356-3000 (PAW PAW Apr. 12, 19, 26, 2019)
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WILLIAM G. OLIVER Case No.: 19PR185389 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of WILLIAM G. OLIVER. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: LAUREN A. OLIVER in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: LAUREN A. OLIVER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on May 29, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 13 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Jennifer H. Friedman 1100 Alma Street, Suite 210 Menlo Park, CA 94025 (650) 324-9300 (PAW Apr. 19, 26; May 3, 2019) PALO ALTO SWIM CLUB NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF ANNUAL REPORT The Palo Alto Swim Club announces availability of the financial report for the calendar year 2018. Copies may be obtained from PASC, P.O. Box 50340, Palo Alto, CA 94303. (PAW Apr. 19, 2019)
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