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County calls for more housing in Stanford plan New conditions of approval nearly quadruple the housing units required as part of Stanford’s expansion by Gennady Sheyner
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tanford University would have to build more than 2,000 housing units for staff and faculty, and offer nearly half of them at below-market rate, to secure permission for its ambitious campus-expansion plan under conditions that Santa Clara County
released Wednesday afternoon and that Stanford is vigorously challenging. The conditions, which will be reviewed by the county’s Planning Commission over the next month, are a critical component of the county’s environmental-review
process for Stanford University’s growth plan. In its application for a general-use permit, Stanford had requested the county’s permission to build 2.275 million square feet of academic space, 3,150 housing units (which includes 2,600 beds for students), and 40,000 square feet of support space, including child care facilities and trip-reducing facilities, by 2035. If the county Board of Supervisors approves the conditions,
Stanford would have to construct roughly four times as many housing units (not including student beds) than the 550 it had proposed. In addition to the 2,600 student beds, the university would also have to construct at least 2,172 housing units, of which 1,239 could be offered at market rates with the remaining 933 units at below-market rate, with a set amount for each income category. Furthermore, at least 70% of the
new housing units would have to be built on campus. The rest would have to go up within 6 miles of the campus, unless the county Planning Commission deems this requirement “infeasible” and agrees to grant Stanford an exception. These housing units would have to be constructed concurrently with new classrooms, labs and other academic facilities. The (continued on page 8)
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Spurned by the FAA, city may sue over noise Council voices frustrations about agency’s failure to respond to city’s concerns by Gennady Sheyner
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At Nathan’s last birthday party, one friend came with so many balloons that they filled the living room ceiling. When Halloween rolled around, the neighbors had the whole yard decorated. In December, there was Secret Santa. “Every morning there was a gift for both kids at the front door,” recalled Raes, referring to Nathan’s twin sister, Isabelle. Nathan died on March 19, 2018, 13 months after he was diagnosed. Now, a year later, his friends are still fighting Nathan’s fight by raising donations for research to
rustrated by the Federal Aviation Administration’s persistent failure to address local concerns about airplane noise, and confronted by a plan that would send more air traffic over Palo Alto, the City Council agreed on Monday to consider filing a lawsuit against the agency. By a unanimous vote, the council directed staff to schedule a closed session in the coming weeks to discuss the move. Since 2014, when the FAA began consolidating flight paths over Palo Alto as part of its NextGen program, the city has been submitting letters, commissioning lobbyists and joining regional groups in an effort to get the FAA’s attention — only to see its concerns about airplane noise fall upon deaf ears. Now Palo Alto is protesting the FAA’s new Star Pirat Two route, which applies to planes coming in from the west over the Pacific Ocean and concludes at what’s known as the ARGGG waypoint near Woodside. From there, some planes bound for San Francisco International Airport would be directed to a newly created waypoint called SIDBY, which is directly over Palo Alto. “You can see Palo Alto is basically a direct bullseye (for planes) coming in from where ARGGG
Making a feline friend Costaño Elementary School student Mohammed Abdel Halim gives Marlowe, a 14-year-old tabby cat, a head scratch this week, while Marlowe’s owner, Jaye Bergen, a longtime volunteer with the Palo Alto Humane Society, teaches students about raising and caring for cats as part of the organization’s Critter Club.
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With bake sales, family and friends of boy who died of cancer seek to fund a cure Fundraisers have been a positive way to heal, says Nathan Carlsen’s mother by Sue Dremann
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hristina Raes and John Carlsen received the kind of news in early 2017 that no parents ever want to hear. Their son, Nathan, an Addison Elementary School fifth-grader, had neurocutaneous melanocytosis, a
rare and terminal form of pediatric brain cancer. But the family, with Nathan and his persistent smile in the lead, didn’t give in to hopelessness. “When Nathan became ill and we understood it was a death
sentence, I made a decision,” Raes said. “If we only get one year to live, then it better be a good one.” Raes started a blog about their journey, which prompted an outpouring of support from neighbors, students and their parents.
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by Sue Dremann blood test that can diag- from experiencing what his famnose chronic fatigue syn- ily has encountered over the years. “It should put a stop to doctors drome and that could potentially help identify treatments telling patients that there is nothfor the baffling illness has been ing wrong with them or that it’s discovered by Stanford University only in their heads or a ‘false illSchool of Medicine and U.C. Ir- ness belief.’ I believe this will be a big step for millions of patients. vine researchers. Using a “nanoelectronics assay” We are working hard to make it they developed, the researchers usable easily and cheaply for docwere able to test how a person’s tors,” Davis said in a email. Tests that would normally immune cells respond to a particular stressor and successfully guide a doctor’s diagnosis — of identified 100% of the patients a patient’s liver, kidneys, heart who had chronic fatigue syndrome function, blood and immune cell during a pilot study. Using blood counts — “for chronic fatigue samples from 40 people, the test syndrome patients, the results accurately flagged all 20 chronic all come back normal,” Davis, a fatigue syndrome patients and genetics researcher who was innone of the 20 healthy individuals strumental in the Human Genome Project, said. in the control group. In their study, the researchers The researchers — senior author Ronald W. Davis, a professor chose patients with moderate-toof biochemistry and of genetics at severe chronic fatigue syndrome. the Stanford School of Medicine; They focused on peripheral blood lead author Rahim Esfandyarpour, mononuclear cells, which are a University of California-Irvine blood cells that are critical for the assistant professor of electrical immune system to fight infection engineering and computer science, and adapt to invasive pathogens. The assay measured changes in and their colleagues — published their breakthrough in a paper on- amounts of energy flowing from line in the “Proceedings of the thousands of sensors in the assay National Academy of Sciences” through the plasma and immune cells they extracted from the in late April. Prior to their assay, no standard chronic fatigue and the healthy test had been devised to diagnose participants’ blood. The scientists myalgic encephalomyelitis/chron- stressed the samples using salt, a ic fatigue syndrome. The disease, commonly used stressor in studwhich is little understood and of- ies on plant, yeast, bacteria, mice ten discounted as a psychological and human cells. They compared condition, causes a constellation of how the blood components from symptoms. The most pronounced the healthy and chronic fatigue aspect is extreme exhaustion exac- patients affected the flow of the erbated by stimuli and mental and electrical current. The blood samphysical activity. The sufferer can- ples from all of the chronic fatigue not recover through normal rest or syndrome patients showed a clear sleep. The disease appears to affect spike in the electric current, a sign multiple organ systems in the body. the cells and plasma are incapable An estimated 836,000 to 2.5 of effectively processing the salt million Americans have chronic stressor. Samples from the healthy fatigue syndrome, according to the patients were relatively even. “We don’t know exactly why the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, but some researchers estimate that cells and plasma are acting this more than 91 percent of patients way, or even what they’re doing. with the illness have not yet been But there is scientific evidence that this disease is not a fabrication of diagnosed. Several studies have found the a patient’s mind. We clearly see a disease might be triggered by a difference in the way healthy and combination of factors such as ma- chronic-fatigue-syndrome immune jor life stressors, viral infection, cells process stress,” Davis said. The researchers are now exstomach viruses, bacterial infections, toxin exposure, immunode- panding their testing with more ficiency, nutritional deficiencies, participants to confirm their genetic susceptibility and several findings. The assay is also being used to other contributors, the researchers test FDA-approved drugs or those noted. Davis, of Palo Alto, has been that will soon be available to the searching for identification mark- public to find potential treatments. ers for the disease since his son, A drug that seems to reduce the Whitney Dafoe, came down with spike in the electrical current a severe case of the disease a de- could indicate it is facilitating the immune cells and plasma to procade ago. The test could also help others cess stress, researchers said. Q
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Left to right, volunteers Lisa Taggart, Petra Mozersky, Marina Correggia, Jessica Lee, Christina Raes, Marion Beach, Marilyn Crystal, Will Gothers, Lorenzo Maino and Zachary Crystal raised more than $1,700 last Sunday through bake sales in Palo Alto to help fund research to cure a rare brain cancer that took the life of Addison Elementary School student Nathan Carlsen last year.
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cure the rare disease. Zachary Crystal, a Greene Middle School sixth-grader, and others of Nathan’s friends and their families are holding a series of bake sales to fund the research. Last Sunday, they braved the rain at three locations in Palo Alto, including in front of Whole Foods Market, Lytton Plaza and the Midtown CVS Pharmacy. At tables laden with cookies, brownies and other sweets, they raised $1,720. This Saturday, May 25, they will host another bake sale near the Palo Alto Downtown farmers market from 10 a.m. to noon. They’ll also join in the citywide garage sale on June 1 with a table on Kipling Street, across from Johnson Park. Zachary, an erudite boy with a mop of dark hair and kind eyes, approached Raes about starting a fundraising website and the bake sales. He recalled the thrill of his first event four weeks ago, when the sale raised $360 plus a $500 donation from a relative. He remembers his friend with pride: Nathan had a passion for collecting Legos, which he loved to build with. Nathan also enjoyed playing tag. “He laughed a lot. (Before his illness) he was always energetic and always had a smile. He was such an enthusiastic person. He never complained — even with his cancer,” Zachary said last week. “I feel really devoted to the fundraiser,” he said. The fundraisers — and a website created by Raes and Zachary — have raised nearly $50,000 since the kickoff on the one-year anniversary of Nathan’s death. But that was just an initial goal. Raes said they want to reach $200,000 to fund a specific project at Pittsburgh Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. There, researcher Dr. Miguel Reyes and his team focus exclusively on melanoma and congenital nevi — large moles in both the skin and the brain that can become cancers. Reyes’ research would try to understand the underlying molecular nature of neurocutaneous melanocytosis, a non-inherited
condition also called centralnervous-system melanoma. He and his team also want to find drugs that would extend life and potentially find a cure. All of the money will go to fund the project and will not be used for overhead expenses, Raes said. Bake sales alone won’t bring in $200,000, but they serve other important purposes, said Marilyn Crystal, Zachary’s mother. They are a way for the students, parents and friends of Nathan to heal. Nathan was “a very special boy ... kind of an old soul. Very mature, deep, strong Nathan Carlsen and so sweet. He loved the planet, people, animals, and plants and trees,” she said. And he had a motto: Love deeply Be kind Learn always Laugh a lot. “It was so hard for all the family friends and school friends, and particularly after seeing his parents fight every fight to save him,” she said. Making a contribution and taking action is a way to create
a positive change in the face of something that can’t be reversed or is devastating, Raes said. The bake sales not only raise money; they raise awareness about childhood brain cancers. About 3,000 children are diagnosed with pediatric brain cancer each year. To honor Nathan, the family donated some of his cancerous tissue to a research bank run by Reyes. The family hopes it will contribute to finding a cure or treatment. In an email, Raes reflected on the kindness of her community after last weekend’s bake sales. “I’m so grateful to all who came, purchased treats and those who donated outright! We met so many caring, compassionate and lovely people,” she wrote. “The kids were awesome, and I think it was a healing experience for all.” Nathan’s quality of life — and his family’s — was greatly enhanced by the generosity and love of their community, she said. “Being held by a village and supported in that way, it is a journey of humanity.” Donations for the research project can be made at givetochildrens.org/nathancarlsen. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
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District eyes charter school moratorium The Ravenswood City School District Board of Education is set to vote Thursday on a resolution that supports a moratorium on new charter schools. (Posted May 22, 6:39 p.m.)
Teens arrested after alleged home invasion Two teenage boys accused of robbing a woman in her Midtown Palo Alto home on Tuesday afternoon and last seen fleeing in her vehicle were arrested in San Jose, police said Wednesday. (Posted May 22, 5:25 p.m.)
Menlo Park dad faces prison time for admission scam Peter Jan Sartorio, the Menlo Park father charged with taking part in a nationwide college-admissions scam to get his daughter into a top-ranked university pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and honest services mail fraud on Wednesday morning and could face a prison term of up to 20 years, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling said. (Posted May 22, 4:44 p.m.)
City set to pull plug on sewage incinerators Palo Alto will celebrate its most significant environmental milestone in years on June 5, when the city retires the two incinerators that have been burning local sewage in the Baylands for nearly half a century. (Posted May 22, 9:54 a.m.)
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City Council (May 20)
Airplanes: The council voted to schedule a closed session on or before June 10 to consider a possible lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration. Yes: Unanimous 788 San Antonio: The council discussed a proposal to amend zoning on San Antonio Road to enable a 64-unit residential development at 788-795 San Antonio Road. Action: None
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Budget: The committee recommended approving changes to the municipal fee schedule. It also recommended approving the budgets for the Police Department, the Fire Department and the Office of Emergency Services Yes: Unanimous
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mitigations that we wanted our community to see.” Instead of proceeding with development-agreement negotiations, however, the county decided to suspend them, saying that the contingency clause would provide Stanford unfair leverage during talks. In a statement provided to the Weekly, Stanford said that “it was understood throughout our discussions with (Palo Alto Unified) that benefits for the school district would be conditional on a development agreement and that Stanford would seek to include the outcome of those talks in the development agreement process with the county. “The university believes a development agreement is needed because it will provide certainty over the long term about the total package of community benefits that will be provided as development occurs on the Stanford campus,” the statement reads. Austin and some board members said they were taken aback by county Supervisor Joe Simitian’s critical comments on April 15 about the deal, in which he called it “regrettable” and a bad-faith effort. Board members said he had encouraged the district and Stanford earlier this year to resume talks. DiBrienza said the first time she heard from Simitian that a conditional agreement would be unacceptable was during a phone call on April 12. Austin said Simitian had communicated to him examples of provisions that the deal shouldn’t be contingent on but did not mention the development agreement. Austin said that the contingency clause was not explicitly discussed during negotiations but that Stanford had expressed that “without a development agreement they didn’t see a path to a project.” “After the better part of the year going back and forth with Stanford and those couple days of very serious, goodfaith negotiations, we felt like the places where we’ve come together and had agreement were worth sharing,” he said. “Signing a non-conditional agreement that is never executed because Stanford can’t reach a development agreement is no more valuable than (continued on page 10)
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hen Palo Alto school district trustees saw the first draft of a much-anticipated agreement with Stanford University related to the university’s proposed expansion, they expressed concern about a provision that, as it turned out, would ultimately spell the undoing of the deal and the suspension of further talks. The benefits Stanford had tentatively agreed to provide were conditional on the approval of a development agreement between the university and Santa Clara County. Board members, who wanted the agreement to be conditional instead on the county’s approval of Stanford’s general-use permit (GUP), directed Superintendent Don Austin on April 10 to counter, they said in interviews with the Weekly. The district communicated to Stanford that it wouldn’t move forward with a conditional agreement, Vice President Todd Collins told the Weekly, throwing the deal into uncertainty. Austin said the district and Stanford’s negotiating teams, who had met for two days in late March to work out the deal, were “working through multiple issues” up until several minutes before publicly releasing the terms of the agreement on April 15. “What had been a fully negotiated deal was at risk for a period of days,” Collins said. Stanford’s response to the district’s request for a nonconditional agreement, Austin told the Weekly, was that “it was not a position that they felt they could bend on.” The district conceded, reasoning that a conditional deal was better than no deal — especially after Stanford had for many months been unwilling to offer any kind of mitigations to the district, Austin said. On April 15 they announced a tentative, conditional agreement to provide the district an estimated $138 million over 40 years. “While it made more sense to me that it be conditional on the GUP itself, if Stanford was unwilling to do that at the time we either could walk away from the whole agreement or accept it as it was,” said board President Jennifer DiBrienza. “It seemed reasonable to me that we accept it as is and continue to support a development agreement and all the other
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Santa Clara County is recommending that Stanford University provide four times as much housing as the university proposed as part of its expansion application. A minimum of 70% of the new housing must be located on campus, according to the county’s conditions of approval, which were issued on May 22.
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conditions call for Stanford’s academic development to be split into four phases, each consisting of 25% of the 2.275-million-squarefoot maximum. In each five-year phase, Stanford would likewise be required to build a quarter of the required proportion of housing for each income category, or else the university can’t move into the next phase of construction of its academic buildings. The vast majority of the 933 below-market-rate housing units would be devoted to moderate- and low-income households (347 and 381 units, respectively). Stanford would also be required to build 133 units in the “very low-income” category and 72 in “extremely lowincome” category. The county would also allow Stanford to avoid constructing some of these units by paying housing-impact fees and earning “credits” from the county to satisfy the affordable-housing requirements. Based on a county ordinance approved last year, for every square foot of academic space, the university must pay an impact fee of about $68. The conditions of approval specify the dollar amounts that would be considered adequate to pay for units of housing in each of the below-market housing categories. County officials see the additional housing as a needed mitigation for the additional 9,610 people that Stanford’s expansion would attract. Last summer, county staff released an environmental analysis of two housing alternatives to the university’s application, each of which included far more units than Stanford had proposed. County Supervisor Joe Simitian noted during a March 14 meeting that Stanford’s proposal falls well short of what’s needed to house the growing Stanford population. The
math, he said, is “pretty simple.” “I don’t think 550 units of housing (proposed by Stanford) is sufficient to address the housing need of those 7,010 folks who are left over, after we remove the (student) beds,” Simitian said. “That has been a source of discussion from almost day one with respect to the proposal.”
New ways to measure traffic The county’s newly released conditions also call for some changes to the “no net new commute trips” program that was introduced in the 2000 general-use permit and that has driven Stanford to greatly reduce the rate of solo commuters arriving and leaving campus during peak hours. In addition to counting traffic during one hour in the morning and afternoon, the proposed program would also consider Stanford’s traffic impacts during a three-hour peak period. Under the county’s proposed program, a violation would occur if the average annual traffic counts for the peak hour — or the peak period — exceed a baseline level by 1% or greater during any year. If this happens, the county would immediately suspend approval of any new development projects until Stanford demonstrates compliance for at least a year. The county also plans to impose a new standard for reverse commutes. Stanford will be required to implement “all feasible measures” to achieve no net increase in reverse-commute trips during peak commute times. And Stanford would get penalized if commute trips exceed the baseline by 2% or more in the second phase of the development plan. Another condition focuses on average daily trips to and from the Stanford campus. During and after the second phase of the campus expansion, Stanford would have to ensure that its average daily trips do not increase by 3% or greater
over two consecutive years. If the standard is violated, the county would not approve the next development phase. The proposed conditions would also require Stanford to make contributions to surrounding communities for transportation and recreation improvements. This includes $450,000 for Clark Avenue and Newell Road connections in East Palo Alto; $250,000 for bicycle improvements at Bol Park in Palo Alto; $250,000 for the Oak Grove Avenue connection in Menlo Park; and $250,000 for improvements at Santa Cruz Avenue and Alameda de Las Pulgas in unincorporated San Mateo County. Under the proposed conditions, Stanford would also contribute $375,000 for park improvements in Palo Alto, including tennis court upgrades at Terman Park and Weisshaar Park and playground improvements in Cameron Park. And if it goes beyond the minimum requirements and builds more than 4,425 housing units, Stanford would be required to pay for the replacement of turfs at Heritage Park in Palo Alto and at Stanford Hills Park in Menlo Park.
Stanford has concerns The proposed changes, released in a 125-page document, are not entirely unexpected. In March, county staff released a one-page summary of its proposed conditions, which included the new number of housing units. Stanford, for its part, has vociferously opposed the conditions and requested earlier this month that the Planning Commission delay its review. Catherine Palter, Stanford’s associate vice president, cited the summary in her May 9 letter to the county, in which she suggested that the conditions are steering the planning process toward “a permit that Stanford cannot accept.” Palter also suggested that the additional housing demanded by the county would result in “significant
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detrimental environmental impacts to our neighbors and would impair Stanford’s use of its academic space.” The summary of conditions, she wrote, “calls for transforming a college campus into an urban apartment complex.” “At the end of the day, a permit will be valid and effective only if the applicant views the comprehensive project as feasible and accepts the permit,” Palter wrote. “An applicant will not elect to build a project under conditions that the applicant considers to be unworkable. Stanford is no different from other applicants in this respect.” Stanford is also still hoping to reach a development agreement with the county — a negotiated contract that would allow each party to go beyond state requirements and propose further community benefits and development conditions. Such an agreement would provide the kinds of community benefits that neighboring jurisdictions and the Palo Alto school district have requested from Stanford, the university reasserted in a statement released Wednesday. “A development agreement is the appropriate tool for providing these benefits, and we believe Santa Clara County should delay taking action on the conditions of approval and engage with Stanford in
A cyclist rides through the Stanford University campus. comprehensive development-agreement discussions,” the statement reads. “The regulatory certainty provided through a development agreement will enable the university to provide additional community benefits. Stanford is ready and willing to engage in talks with the county.” Among the benefits noticeably missing from the conditions of approval are those pertaining to Palo Alto Unified, which on April 15 announced it had negotiated a $138 million deal with Stanford, to last for 40 years, contingent on the approval of a development agreement. That deal has been put on hold following the county’s suspension of development-agreement talks. Instead, the conditions of approval require the university to provide funding for Safe Routes to Schools bicycling improvements as well
as standard district-impact fees. School district Superintendent Don Austin said on April 16 that those impact fees would total about $4.2 million in the same time frame. Despite Stanford’s request that the planning commission delay its review of the conditions of approval until it has a development agreement at hand, county officials on May 10 decided that the hearings on the conditions of approval should proceed as planned. The first of these will be held at 6 p.m. on May 30 in the Council Chambers at City Hall. The second and third will be held on at 1:30 p.m. on June 13 and June 27 in Isaac Newton Senter Auditorium at County Government Center, 70 W. Hedding St., San Jose. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
Santa Clara County’s planning staff is recommending that, as part of Stanford’s proposed campus expansion, the university: • Construct at least 2,171 housing units, including 1,239 marketrate units and 933 below-market-rate units, for faculty and staff • Add 2,600 beds for students • Make sure that 70% of the new housing units are built on campus • Split the development of academic buildings into four phases and construct a proportionate amount of housing during each development phase • Ensure that commuter traffic does not increase during a threehour “peak period” from one year to the next by more than 1% • Ensure reverse-commute trips during peak hours don’t increase by more than 2% from one year to the next • Keep average daily car trips from increasing by more than 3% over two consecutive years • Cap the number of campus parking spaces at 21,651, the same as in the 2000 general-use permit (excluding parking for oncampus housing) • Participate in and provide funding for Residential Preferential Parking programs in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and unincorporated San Mateo County neighborhoods if the planning director determines that Stanford activities are creating parking impacts • Provide $375,000 for park and playground improvements in Palo Alto • Implement bicycle improvements on campus to support routes to Nixon and Escondido elementary schools • Contribute funding to East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, Menlo Park and San Mateo County for off-campus bicycle improvements • Provide fair-share funding for 19 transportation projects, including a new eastbound right-turn lane at Middlefield Road and Charleston Road in Palo Alto; the closure of Castro Street in Mountain View; and the creation of a second northbound rightturn lane at the intersection of Interstate 280 ramp and Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. Source: Santa Clara County’s “Stanford University General Use Permit Conditions of Approval”
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having an agreement that both sides publicly are committed to,” Austin added. Vice President Todd Collins said the board understood the contingency was important and that he anticipated that it could be problematic for the agreement. (Collins, whose spouse works at Stanford, participated in GUP discussions until an April 16 special meeting, when he recused himself.) However, he said, “Part of a negotiation is you don’t always get what you want and the negotiating team’s job is to try to get the best deal they think can be gotten. ... They did a good job working through a process to get a deal on the table for us to consider.” The school district has refused the Weekly’s Public Records Act request for the agreement drafts and other communications between it and Stanford as the deal was negotiated in early April, citing a litany of reasons, including that they were only drafts, that they are subject to deliberative process and attorney-client privileges and that the California and U.S. constitutions granted it authority to withhold the material. Of 21 attachments related to the request, the district fully redacted
about half, including a redlined base document, two drafts of the agreement and a version of the district and Stanford’s joint public statement. The Weekly has objected to the district’s reasoning and is awaiting further response. The board voted last week at Stanford’s request to suspend any further action on the deal. The county this week released its conditions of approval — the requirements that its planning staff has recommended to compensate for the impact of Stanford’s expansion. In addition to providing funding for Palo Alto’s Safe Routes to Schools program for bicycling improvements, it calls for the university to provide standard school-impact fees, which are funds paid to the district to mitigate for new students enrolled as a result of new development. Austin, on April 16, stated that those fees would total about $4.2 million, in contrast to the $138 million over 40 years that had been negotiated by the district. Stanford’s general-use permit application continues to move through the county’s approval process with a series of Santa Clara County Planning Commission hearings starting next Thursday, May 30, in Palo Alto. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
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is,” Palo Alto Assistant City Manager Michelle Poche Flaherty said during a Monday discussion of airplane noise. The FAA did make one promising gesture when it agreed to keep aircraft at an altitude of at least 8,000 feet over sea level at the Woodside waypoint. Even so, Palo Alto is expecting more noise from the agency’s new plan. Flaherty noted that the route — now seldom used and accounting for about 4% of local air traffic — could be used by many more airlines, including those heading to Oakland Airport. “So we have expressed in a couple of letters to the FAA from the city that the Pirat Star route may indeed increase volume, and we are concerned about what the community impacts might be of such volume increases,” Flaherty said. The latest of these letters, sent on May 6, urges the agency to be more transparent in its communications with communities under its flight paths. Signed by Mayor Eric Filseth, the letter lauds the FAA for some of its recent changes but raises concerns about the agency’s latest plans. “In addition to concerns about the lack of outreach, we are concerned that through the publication of Pirat Star Two, air traffic will increase in volume as more airlines will have access to the route,” the
letter states. “Traffic will also increase as aircraft en route to Oakland International Airport will also be able to use the route.” The city has a good reason not to expect a response. The FAA has consistently ignored the city’s letters and requests for information, according to city officials. Last October, the city submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act for background documents, including environmental analysis, justifying the route changes. According to the city, the agency responded with a request that the city pay copying and search fees. When the city agreed to do so, the FAA informed it that the documentation would be made available by March 29, the deadline for comments on the Star Pirat Two proposal (later, the agency delayed its release to a date beyond the March 29 deadline). An in-person meeting in 2017 between three council members and FAA staff also proved to be a futile effort, with the Palo Alto contingent leaving Washington, D.C., exasperated by the agency’s failure to respond. Vice Mayor Adrian Fine, who participated in that meeting, on Tuesday described the city’s work on airplane noise as “tough, tedious and sometimes fruitless.” To buy itself some time to respond to the FAA’s new plans, the council agreed to request that the agency approve a “tolling agreement,” effectively extending the comment period for its latest procedure changes, which the agency announced on April 25. Councilwoman Lydia Kou, who made the motion, said the FAA should delay its final order until the city gets answers on the impacts of Pirat Two on Palo Alto, Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, Mountain View and Stanford University. But mindful of the 60-day comment period, Kou also suggested that the council meet in a closed session with its attorneys by June 10 to discuss possible legal actions against the FAA. The council unanimously supported both of her suggestions. Residents also encouraged the
city to take more aggressive action against the FAA, many complaining at the meeting about the onslaught of noise that they have to endure. Tom Shannon said he tracked 46 planes flying over his house over a five-hour period one morning earlier this month. “That’s nine per hour, or one every six minutes. ... There are people who are no longer able to sit on a deck and enjoy a cup of coffee without being interrupted every six minutes,” Shannon said. Osborne Hardison, a resident of south Palo Alto, observed that the city’s history of writing letters to the FAA has proven to be unproductive. At what point, he aside, will the city actually consider suing the FAA? “It seems like we’re dealing with a fixed game, and they have no incentive at all to listen to our needs,” Hardison said. This will be the second time in a little over a year that the council is considering a lawsuit against the FAA. In April 2018, the council met in a closed session and ultimately opted not to sue, reasoning that it would be more productive to forge partnerships and address the issue as a region. That approach resulted in Palo Alto and other cities in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties forming a roundtable group devoted to the subject of airplane noise. The group is similar to the San Francisco Airport Roundtable, which limits its membership to cities in San Francisco and San Mateo counties. Palo Alto has also collaborated with San Francisco Airport on installing noise monitors around Palo Alto to gauge the level of aircraft noise. To date, however, stronger alliances have not translated to success. Councilwoman Alison Cormack observed on Monday that airplane noise is a difficult problem and the city has few options. “I know people are frustrated and I hear those frustrations,” Cormack said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council has no meetings scheduled this week. COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to hold its third meeting on the proposed fiscal year 2020 budget. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 28, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The school board will vote on a contract for a chief business officer, a tentative agreement with the California School Employees Association (CSEA) and initial negotiation proposals for 201920 with its teachers and classified employees unions; discuss revised contracts and bonuses for senior administrators, approval of projects at Gunn and Palo Alto high schools and the issuance of tax and revenue anticipation notes in the 2019-20 fiscal year, among other items. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 28, at 25 Churchill Ave.
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PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear a presentation on the draft Baylands Comprehensive Conservation Plan; discuss Rinconada Park improvements; get an update on the Cubberley Master Plan update; and consider a colleagues memo regarding housing at Cubberley. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 28 in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
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Genevieve (Holland) Edwards-Price G enevieve (Holland) Edwards-Price, a longtime East Palo Alto resident, died on May 8. She was born Oct. 24, 1934, in Ville Platte, Louisiana, to Milton and Hattie (Celestine) Holland. At 19 years old, she met Audrus (Poncho) Edwards on the church steps of St. Matthew Baptist Church. Three months later they were married and went on to have five daughters. On Sept. 16, 1965, they relocated their family to East Palo Alto. Shortly after, the family joined Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church. She was affectionately known by her family and friends as Gen or Aunt Gen. She was employed as a domestic housekeeper for many years before becoming a restaurant owner in Seaside, where she served many of her signature Creole dishes. Later, she married Hezikiah Price. She enjoyed playing bingo, pitty pat, reading the Bible, singing in the choir and working on the funeral committee at Mount Olive where she remained a member for more than 50 years. She also enjoyed crocheting table doilies, baking sweet potato pies and sharing a meal with family and friends during the holidays.
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She was preceded in death by her daughter Ella Edwards; first husband Audrus Edwards, and second husband, Hezikiah Price. She is survived by her children, Judy Brown (Terral) of East Palo Alto; Jane Theresa Jones of East Palo Alto; Lucy Mae Edwards of Stockton; Joella Cusic (David) of Stockton; five grandchildren; nine greatgrandchildren; four sisters; one brother; and a host of nieces, nephews, many other relatives and dear friends. Celebration of life services were held this week. Memorial donations to have a tree planted in her name may be made to Canopy.org. Flowers may be sent to Jones Mortuary located at 660 Donohoe St., East Palo Alto.
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Surrounded by family, Louis Sloss, Jr. died peacefully at home in Forestville, CA on April 6 at age 96. He came from two San Francisco Jewish pioneer families & remained deeply connected to the city. After a brief time in the army during WW II, Louis returned to Stanford to complete his MBA. He met the love of his life, Jean Elsa Ganz, at a local dance. They married a year later & raised five children in Portola Valley. Louis managed several small businesses, lastly a real estate and investment firm. Louis & Jean traveled extensively, & were especially fond of Paris & the French countryside. Louis also loved backpacking & fly fishing. They were regulars at the SF Symphony for decades. Social justice & spirituality were important themes throughout his life. At Stanford he was moved by the teachings of Harry Rathbun on living a meaningful life, which led to participation in Sequoia Seminars, becoming leaders of human potential groups & later helping to found the retreat center San Francisco Venture. He was a student of eastern philosophy & practiced meditation. In the early 1970s, with 5 other families, Louis & Jean founded Thomas Creek Ranch, an intentional community in Sonoma County, where they’ve lived ever since. Louis and Jean were among the original founding shareholders in Embarcadero Media, publisher of the Palo Alto Weekly and The Almanac, an interest that is now divided among their five children. Louis was widely respected & loved for his calm presence, ethical stance and wise counsel on all matters. He will be remembered for his deep love of family & friends, kindness, intellect, and endearing sense of humor. He was preceded in death by his parents, Louis & Margaret Koshland Sloss, & sisters Margaret (Peggy) Lowe & Katherine Cohn. He is survived by his wife Jean Elsa, his children Karen Sloss, Elizabeth Sloss (Dahveed Rubin), Louis Sloss III (Julie), Jeff Sloss (Susan) and Tony Sloss (Debra), his 8 wonderful grandchildren & a large extended family. Donations in memory of Louis can be made to Memorial Hospice of Santa Rosa.
Louis Bruce Johnson was born in Liberal, Kansas, an only child. He attended local schools. In 1937 he attended the National Boy Jamboree in Washington D.C. followed by the World Boy Scout Jamboree in Holland. The trip included a six-week tour of Europe with other Midwest Scouts. He enrolled in Kansas State University. His schooling was interrupted by four years in the army, where he was a radar officer and battery commander, principally in the Aleutians. Upon returning home he completed his final semester, graduating in 1947 with a degree in electrical engineering. Subsequently, he held positions at Point Mugu Missile Test Center, Oxnard CA (missile testing), Lenkurt Electric in San Carlos CA (telephone equipment) where he became chief engineer. He took a one-year assignment in Frederick Electronics, MD before returning home to participate in a digital radio startup for four years. He started a franchise In the Bay Area of Sonitrol Corporation, which used a unique sound activated system to detect break-ins as well as fire. He retired in 1989 when he sold the company, but remained active in the alarm business, starting a similar operation with a partner in Las Vegas, in 1992. He and his wife Jeane lived in an area of Portola Valley, CA, called Ladera, where their two daughters were born. In 2011 they moved to The Terraces of Los Gatos, a retirement community, in which he participated until his medical problems became acute. Bruce had a multiple of interests. Woodworking was a major pastime. He built furniture and other household items, volunteered for mission and building projects, and later on, restored vintage pump organs. He loved gardening, camping, fishing, and travel. He made more than twenty trips abroad, plus many more in the States, He especially enjoyed theater and musical events. Bruce was active in the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, serving in choir for over thirty years, as well as other capacities. He was active in professional organizations, as well as community ones. He is survived by his wife Jeane of 67 years; daughters Wendy Johnson of Mountain View, AR; and Deanna Foster Godsoe; son-in-law Tom Godsoe, Ben Lomand, CA and Michael Foster, TX.
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Journeys of self discovery First-place winners serendipitously highlight common themes in their unique works
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hile the first-place winners of this year’s Palo Alto Weekly Short Story Contest submitted pieces that were vastly different, one common theme surrounding them is journeys of self discovery. Each story follows a significant moment in the life of a troubled individual, including a 65-year-old cancer patient’s surprisingly pleasant encounter with death, a young adult teaching abroad in Japan who is anxious and conflicted about returning home to the United States and a transgender teen at the beginning of his transition starting at a new school where he’s adopting his new identity for the first time. Each writer creatively and tactfully navigated sensitive and complex subjects to tell the hidden stories of fictional and non-fictional protagonists. Notably, the writers drew upon their personal experiences and those of people
around them to breathe life into their works. The writers also eloquently painted pictures of distinct settings from a cold, dark hospital room to the boys’ locker room of a high school in London, England, to the quaint, rural town of Minakuchi, Shiga, Japan. In their own ways, each story sheds light on the beauty that can be found in the most unconventional places. The Palo Alto Weekly thanks all of the writers who submitted stories for this year’s contest; the judges for the Adult and Young Adult categories, Tom Parker, Nancy Packer and Debbie Duncan; and the Teen category judges Caryn Huberman Yacowitz, Marjorie Sayer and Nancy Etchemendy. Lastly, the Weekly extends its gratitude to the contest cosponsors, Bell’s Books of Palo Alto, Kepler’s Books of Menlo Park and Linden Tree Books of Los Altos. Q
Thank You The following businesses co-sponsored the 33rd Annual Short Story Contest, providing prizes for winners in all categories.
Short Story Contest winners Teen, 12-14 years old 1st place: “Boy” by Sofia Lucas 2nd place: “Skipping Stones” by Sydney Ling 3rd place: “Thank you, Ms. Natalia” by Abigail Milne
Young Adult, 15-17 years old 1st place: “Dancing with Death” by Isabella Madruga 2nd place: “Finding Ordinary” by Manya Zhao 3rd place: “Foxtrot” by Marvin Lin
Adult, 18 years and older 1st place: “Coffee and Cigarettes” by Tyler Dinneen 2nd place: “The Vow” by Monica McHenney 3rd place: “My Sweet Allele” by A. A. Norton
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The stories and biographies of all nine first- through third-place winners can be found at PaloAltoOnline.com/short_story.
Judges for the Adult and Young Adult categories Debbie Duncan
Nancy Packer
Tom Parker
Debbie Duncan has been reviewing children’s books for the Weekly since 1997. She is the author of the Benjamin Franklin Award-winning picture book “When Molly Was in the Hospital,” as well as a book for parents, “Joy of Reading.” She also contributes to the “Perspectives” series of commentaries on KQED radio. When she isn’t finding the best books to share with Weekly readers, she’s writing her own middle-grade novel or hanging out on Twitter @debbieduncan.
Nancy Packer is professor emerita of English at Stanford University, where she taught in the Creative Writing Program. Her short stories have appeared in such journals as Harper’s Magazine, Yale Review and Sewanee Review and have been included in several O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Short Stories. Sixty of her stories have been collected and published in five volumes — “Old Ladies” is her most recent collection.
A well-known, local fiction-writing teacher and coach, memoirist, coauthor and developmental editor, Tom Parker is an O. Henry Prizewinning short-story writer and author of the novels, “Anna, Ann, Annie” and “Small Business.” His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine and has been reviewed in The New Yorker. He has taught at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Foothill and Cañada community colleges. His website is tomparkerwrites.com.
Judges for the Teen category Nancy Etchemendy Nancy Etchemendy’s novels, short fiction and poetry have appeared regularly for the past 40 years, both in the U.S. and abroad. Her work has earned a number of awards, including three Bram Stoker Awards and an International Horror Guild Award. “Cat in Glass and Other Tales of the Unnatural,” her collection of short dark fantasy, was named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults. She lives and works in Palo Alto, where she leads a somewhat schizophrenic life, alternating between unkempt, introverted writer and gracious (she prays) wife of a Stanford professor.
Caryn Huberman Yacowitz
Marjorie Sayer
Caryn Huberman Yacowitz writes fiction and nonfiction books for children and plays for children and adults. Her newest picture book, “I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Dreidel,” a Chanukah book with an art history spin, is a Junior Library Guild Selection. “Jeans! The Musical,” cocreated with Diane Claerbout and Enid Davis, celebrates those famous pants and the pioneers who invented them. Her website is carynyacowitz.com.
Marjorie Sayer writes books with a multicultural and interdisciplinary perspective. Her middle-grade novel, “The Girl Mechanic of Wanzhou,” is a winner of the Scholastic Asia Book Award. Her nonfiction for adults has appeared in O’Reilly Media, and her recreational math books have been used in clubs throughout the country. She enjoys bicycle travel, her family and the friendship of her cats. She blogs about her interests at marjoriesayer.com.
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Tyler Dinneen First-place winner, Adult category
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Judges’ comments ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ captures perfectly the universal sentiment of missing a place and its people when it’s time to leave. What was difficult about living in Japan for a Californian transforms into precious memories of friends, travels and simple things when told by a skillful writer. — Debbie Duncan
Illustration by Amy Levine
yler Dinneen, an aspiring author from Los Altos, has been writing for 10 years, but it was only within the last five that he began to pursue the craft seriously. Starting off as more of a hobby, Dinneen attributes his initial interest in writing to the “awesome teachers� from high school who encouraged him. While he is particularly partial to science fiction, fantasy and semi-biographical works, his biggest inspiration comes from the desire to tell very relatable, human stories about topics that are often left out of everyday media, such as living with anxiety. This interest is ultimately what influenced “Coffee and Cigarettes,� a true story that reflects upon the internal struggle he endured when it came time for him to leave the rural Japanese town he called home for eight months and the last moments spent with his friend and then-colleague, Ito. “I was dealing with lots of conflicting feelings and I wanted to pen a theme and idea around a very real moment that encapsulated the height of fear, questions, longing and anxiety I was feeling,� Dinneen said, adding that his story actually began as a personal journal entry. When he’s not putting pen to paper, or fingertips to keyboard, Dinneen enjoys wrangling his two lovable dogs and indulging in sci-fi films, video games and listening to his collection of “eclectic� music. — Cierra Bailey
‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ by Tyler Dinneen
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ell me about American girls.� I blinked, looking over at Ito. Why did he want to know about American girls? After all, he was my age, fresh out of university, but a foot shorter and a yard smarter. He should have known all about girls. We were sharing cigarettes out in front of the school, hiding from our students during what I was sure was an all-too-short planning period. I’d never smoked before getting to Japan but it was a bad habit that I’d picked up and had stubbornly clung to my shoes like mud. “American girls are ... well, they’re just girls, Ito,� I explained. I looked at him funny and shook my head, shrugging hopelessly and stealing a lungful of smoke. Nearly every day, I spoke with him and we traded language like people traded stories. On Mondays, I’d ask him about Japanese words I could use to impress my new friends. On Tuesdays, I’d work with him and fix his English grammar. Wednesdays? We didn’t talk much on Wednesdays. By Friday, we’d tease each other with tongue twisters and challenge each other to spelling matches. How fast could I write a phrase in Japanese? How perfectly could he utter a sentence in English? We did this throughout the weeks and
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months, trading blows like amateur boxers evenly matched in their inexperience. “But are American girls pretty?� he asked again. “Of course,� I explained. I took a drag from my cigarette, but held the smoke in my mouth. Smoking was bad for you, I knew. And I really should have quit it months ago. But here I was, standing under rare summer cherry blooms, staring at a Coffee Boss vending machine. Off to the right was the small, local bakery in full day’s rush. The smell that poured from those vents was heavenly and it battled with the acrid bite of our smoke. “Are Japanese girls pretty?� I asked, countering his question. That was how I returned most of his questions, the simple act of replacing America with Japan. Are Japanese girls pretty? Is Japanese food good? Do you like Japanese television? It was my way of explaining that our worlds weren’t so different. Of course there were differences in life and style and culture, but things like people and good food and pretty girls weren’t so different most of the time. He shrugged his shoulders and smiled. We stood next to each other, quietly smoking inches off our lives. Over our shoulders the chimes of Westminster echoed out across
the town as the class period came to a close. I felt my anxiety tense for a brief moment. And then it vanished. Right. No classes today. No classes ever again. At least for me. I struggled with something to say. Part of me wanted to smoke in peace with Ito. The other wanted to apologize to him. To thank him. To ask him a dozen more questions. I stole a look, and his eyes were far off and tired. He had exams to grade, and extracurriculars to run. Was this really going to be the last time I saw my friend? Weakly grasping at something to break the silence, I offered, ´.ÄżKÄŚ QRPLWDL ND"Âľ 'R \RX ZDQW to drink some coffee? I nodded to the half-lit Coffee Boss machine in front of us, and loudly smacked the wad that was my wallet invitingly. He blew a laugh full of smoke through his nose and nodded his head. “OK,â€? he said. Coffee probably wasn’t good for my anxiety. Neither were the cigarettes. After the panic attack I’d had a month before and the trip to the hospital I’d undertaken, it seemed just about everything was out to kill me. Fatty foods made my arm spasm, tricking me into thinking I’d have a heart attack. Bland foods made me think of empty calories out to kill my already and once again widening waistband. Vegetables made me hungry and miserable. Sweets made my teeth hurt and my mouth sore. It probably wasn’t anything in particular. In fact, the more I thought about it, it was just the fact that I was going home. Leaving. I pulled my wallet free and snapped the coin pouch open. I’d always been surprised how much physical money I’d used in Japan. In fact, when I’d thought about it, since stepping off the plane, I hadn’t touched my credit card since. I’d always had to fish out sleek-feeling stacks of paper bills or gather up a satisfying handful of cold metal coins. I felt like some turn-of-the century merchant every time I bought something. It felt good, trading the physical for the physical. Whether it was food or fun, it had been refreshing, to say the least. A break from the plastic life I’d lived for so long in the States and the digital prison I’d allowed myself to be contained and defined by. Only problem was, I’d spent or sent the last of my money home. Fumbled off through a bank transfer as I willed away what little wealth I had with a few button presses and a messy signature. It was off into the ether of foreign bank accounts and wireless transactions. Lost in the wireless, disconnected cage that I’d tried to so hard to escape over this last year. For all intents and purposes, I was penniless. Broke. Utterly poor. I had one more meal in my all-too-small fridge in my all-toosmall apartment. Tonight, I’d go to sleep in my all-too-small bed. Tomorrow, I’d take an all-too-small shower and duck under my all-toosmall door for the last time. I didn’t even have enough money
to buy Ito coffee, and he’d bought them for me countless times without more than a second thought. I’d always promised to pay him back, too. It was just another of the little things I’d forgotten. Things that had slipped my mind like the rainwater rushing beneath the grate just behind us. I stood there, pretending to go through my wallet, but I felt my chest thump and my neck tense. Another panic attack? It was a brief, baseless worry. No, you idiot. You’re sad. You’re upset. You’re regretting this. I let the cigarette burn down to the butt, feeling the painful bite of the burn on the knuckles that held it. My eyes felt itchy, but no tears came. I was glad for that. I’d hate to cry in front of my friend on the last day. After he’d saved me during the winter, keeping me alive on deliveries of fruit and soup, when I was too sick to leave my home. Guiding me to the hidden sights of the town that I thought I’d thoroughly scoured for sights. He’d helped me figure out the hell that was rural train schedules when my usual train adjusted time tables early in the year. He’d helped me more than I’d ever helped him and that thought alone crushed me. No, I couldn’t cry. Not now. I could do that alone or on the plane. Instead, I cleared my dry, cottony throat and offered my empty wallet toward him. “Zen zen arimasen,â€? I spoke quietly. Sheepishly. I have nothing. With his eyes full of clarity and understanding, he laughed again and shook his head. “Naru hodo,â€? KH VDLG ´'DLMÄżEX Âľ $K , XQGHUstand. Don’t worry about it. Before I could even speak, he fished out his wallet, stole a fat, golden coin from it and plunked it into the machine. His finger jabbed the button for his drink and then mine. We knew each others’ orders — he drank straight black from the gold and red ones, and I sucked down the blue cafe latte cans like they were going out of style. Cold in summer, hot in winter — just another thing I’d miss. He tossed mine to me, and it sailed through the air. Clumsily, I caught it and thanked him. We tapped our drinks together with a nervous laugh and a half-hearted “Kanpai.â€? And then, we continued to do little more than stand and smoke and drink our heart-spasming, life-shortening vices. A few girls from the school biked by, waving at us as they went, their dark hair blowing wildly in their self-propelled breeze beneath the flowering trees that lined the path. Some of the girls from the school club I’d lead, some of the girls from my classes I’d taught. I’d already forgotten their names, but I still knew their faces. One waved and shouted, “Jaa mata ashita!â€? Hey! See you tomorrow! I fixed what smile I could manage and waved back before looking to Ito with pain in my eyes and a lump in my throat. There really wasn’t a tomorrow. There was only today. And today was over. I realized (continued on page 21)
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Illustration by Paul Llewellyn
‘Dancing with Death’ by Isabella Madruga
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he rain fell gently from the heavens to the asphalt as cars whizzed past. It fell so slowly, in such a feather-like motion that someone who wasn’t paying too much attention would have thought it was snow. Was it called sleet, then? Sleet is such an ugly word. The rain was so beautiful, dusting the grass with only a light layer of dew, not at all heavy or overbearing. Perhaps that is why Ellie woke up with a smile on her face. The rain had fallen all at once the past few nights after the storm clouds hung in the sky for weeks on end, finally letting out all their pent-up tears. Ellie did not perceive this delicate rain as tears but more of gentle nourishment to the plants after being flooded with water. She rose from the hospital bed, the mattress creaking under the sudden weight and tugged her IV stand along with her to the bathroom. No morning nausea today. Today is a good day, thought Ellie. Any day without nausea was a good day. The rain pattered against the windows, getting lighter and lighter as the clouds departed back into the atmosphere after their monthlong temper tantrum. Sunlight streamed through the window and onto the bathroom floor, illuminating the stains that came as a result of Ellie’s cancer that couldn’t quite be cleaned with bleach. It was an aggressive form, one that refused to go away no matter how many rounds of chemotherapy she put her body through. It had metastasized, poisoning every part of her body and making her grow more emaciated by the day. It was not fun. Her family visited as much as they could, but the hospital
bills started to pile up. Her family couldn’t afford to worry about her. Every minute they spent with her was a minute they could spend working toward her hospital bill, and it was Ellie’s choice for them to leave her. They pleaded for her to set up a fundraiser, but Ellie was too proud to accept handouts. She made her own money for 50 years, and if she pulled through from chemotherapy, she would go back to work. “When I pull through,” she always corrected her family and her doctor. She splashed water in her face to refresh herself and her skin, but when she looked at herself in the mirror, the wrinkles only deepened. She was 65, but her crinkled face made her look like a tired centenarian. She smiled through the disappointment, trying to replenish the joy in her eyes that seem to have faded all those months ago. She slinked back into her room, pulling her IV stand with her (the IV was pulling her since it weighed more than she did), but she quickly stopped in her tracks. In her room was Death, with his black robe draped over his shoulders and his head, bathing his face in darkness. He did not carry a scythe as his stereotype did, which puzzled Ellie, but otherwise, she was not shocked in the slightest. He was wan, his hood not large enough to disguise his pale skin reflecting the fluorescent ceiling lights. Ellie felt soothed by his presence, almost as if he were an old friend. After all, she had thought about him every day, begging not to meet him. However, with him almost levitating in front of her, she smiled. “Hello, Death,” she greeted. Death smiled back.
“Not everybody greets me that kindly,” he replied. “Hello, Eleanor Brown.” “Call me Ellie,” she said. “Ok,” Death nodded. “You know why I’m here, Ellie.” “Take off your hood first, then we’ll talk,” she demanded, leaning further on her IV stand. Death obliged, slipping off his hood to reveal an otherworldly, genderless being, nothing Ellie could fathom in human terms. His features were sharp, his skin stretched tight over his bones. His eyes — were those eyes? — were calm, calculating, cool. They must have stricken fear into the heart of anybody he looked at, but with Ellie, she only grinned wider. Death’s appearance compelled her to approach him, the smell of gardenias and vanilla drifting from him. “Come, Ellie,” Death gently commanded, holding out his hand. “It’s your time.” “You know very well it is not my time, honey,” Ellie scoffed, wheeling her IV stand over to the lounge chairs, sitting down to calm the pain pulsating throughout her body. “Get me a water bottle, please.” Death’s shoulders dropped. He looked over to the desk in front of the bed and spotted the mini water bottles, most of them empty. He looked back over at Ellie and asked, “If I get you a bottle, will you come with me?” Ellie smiled coyly and shrugged. “I’ll consider it.” So he glided over, picked up the water bottle, and handed it to Ellie, who chuckled softly. “Thank you, sugar.” She drank the entire bottle and placed it on the windowsill, but the small act of reaching out her arm to place down the bottle blinded her with
pain. “Do me a favor.” Death’s expression turned from surprised to irked, but he obliged. “Yes?” “Get me the pain pills, please,” she asked, pointing to the giant bottle of pain pills with all kinds of medical script decorating the outside. Death huffed. “If I get you the pills, will you come with me?” Ellie grinned. “I’ll consider it.” Death glided back over to the desk, picked up the bottle, and handed it to Ellie. She took the bottle and measured out the number of pills the nurse told her to take and swallowed them easily. “Feeling better?” Death asked with a look of almost worry on his face. Ellie nodded and picked at the hangnails on her fingers. She stared down at her hands adorned with veins and sighed. “Just tired. Old lady things, I suppose.” Death stared at her for a moment before glancing away to the phonograph in front of her bed. Ellie followed his gaze, and her eyes lit up with joy. “Do me one last favor?” she asked, and Death looked at her with feigned annoyance. “Then will you come with me?” he emphasized only to receive a shrug back from Ellie. “I’ll consider it.” Ellie beckoned Death to come near her and reached out her hand for him to take it. Death gently took her hand into his and lifted her up to her feet. Ellie pointed to the phonograph with a trembling finger, the mere feat of standing up fatiguing her entire body. “Put the needle on, honey. And dance with me.” Death made sure Ellie was stable before gliding away and looking at the record on the phonograph. He looked back up at Ellie after pulling down the needle and smiled. “This is one of my favorite songs from that era.” “‘Dream a Little Dream of Me’ by Doris Day...” Ellie said wistfully as Death returned to her, grasping her waist as he led her onto the “dance floor,” which was the more open area in front of her bed. “Could that white lady sing. Mama liked Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald better, but we always made exceptions for Doris. The white woman Mama worked for — Miss Williams was her name — always had her playing while she helped Mama clean the house. Kind, she was. Very kind.” Death gazed only at Ellie as she gave her soliloquy, gingerly tightening his hand against the small of her back to prevent her from falling, the IV stand following closely behind as they danced slowly. Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you But in your dreams whatever they be Dream a little dream of me... “I prefer Vivaldi myself,” Death said after a moment of silence. “He was quite the charmer when I (continued on page 21)
Isabella Madruga First-place winner, Young Adult category
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ueled by a love for classic, dystopian literature, 17-year-old Isabella Madruga finds herself spending most of her free time reading and writing. She said she is particularly drawn to the complete control she has to “create a whole new world at the whim of my fingertips.” The Menlo School junior and Woodside resident discovered her passion for storytelling at a very young age, writing and illustrating her own series of books in the fourth grade. Her contest entry piece, “Dancing with Death,” aims to remind readers that “death is not something to be avoided, it’s something to embrace,” she said. The story’s strong-willed protagonist, Ellie, shares a connection with Madruga’s late grandfather who died of lung cancer. She said she was moved by the fact that he was at peace with death and knew it was his time. “I think he decided to go and death just led him along,” she said. This reallife experience closely mirrors that of Ellie, except she pushed back against death because she knew it was not her time. Apart from her strong affinity for writing, Madruga is much like most teens, enjoying Netflix binge-watching sprees, taking walks with her family’s three dogs, drawing and acting in school plays. Her advice to other young writers is simply to, “just go for it!” She is a firm believer that the only way for one to grow as a writer is by sharing their work with others. — Cierra Bailey
Judges’ comments In this very touching story a dying old woman encounters Death and manages to win the struggle — for a while longer. The writing is elegant and imagistic yet controlled. But it’s the old woman’s pervading humor, her light touch and her gentle acceptance of her fate that make her a delightful instructor for this awesome journey, and the story is a pleasure to read. — Nancy Packer
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Sofia Lucas First-place winner, Teen category
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Judges’ comments A meticulously written story. With great empathy, the writer places us in the life of a young person in transition. The story is well plotted, the characters convincing and the setting beautifully rendered.
Illustration by Rosanna Kuruppu
riginally from London, England, Sofia Lucas is a 14-year-old eighth-grader who is passionate about reading and writing; so much so, that she wants to make a future career of it. She describes writing as a great way to get messages across and an opportunity to put herself in others’ shoes to better understand their perspectives. She loves reading Young Adult novels, which is reflected in her short story “Boy.” It follows the journey of a transgender teen starting at a new school using his new identity for the first time. Set in England, her country of origin, Lucas’s story interweaves themes of fear, acceptance, camraderie and overall teen angst. “A lot of people don’t know much about transgender people and what they go through,” she said, noting that it’s important to write about things that are meaninful to her. “I want to help people understand more about them and the challenges that they face,” she added. Her 11-year-old sister is usually the first allowed to read her work and offer her judgmentfree feedback. “I encourage people to share their work because it could become something much bigger than they thought it would,” Lucas said. — Cierra Bailey
‘Boy’ by Sofia Lucas
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’ve never felt quite right in my own skin. Ever since I was little something’s always felt off. At first it was just when I was swimming and had to wear a skimpy swimsuit, or when my older cousins would use me as their own personal Barbie doll to try new hairstyles and makeup combinations on my long hair and feminine features. But then it grew into something more. This year is my fresh start. When the admin hands me my schedule, I take a quick peek. Lucas Larkin, it reads. My chest fills with excitement as I stare at my name. Lucas. So much better than Lily. I walk through the halls to my first class, and am surprised by how many guys I pass say, “Hi,” or “What’s up?” But then I remember this is how it’s supposed to go. I’m Luke now. I mean, I’ve always been Luke, but this time people can see him when they look at me. I take a seat in the back row of my new English classroom, and adjust my tie, because it’s starting to strangle me. But I’d take it over the skirt I used to have to wear, any day. The teacher, Mrs. Cameron, calls me up to introduce myself. “Class, we have a new student. He’s just transferred from St. George’s.” He. I can’t help but notice how natural it sounds. I clear my throat, and run a nervous hand through my now-short hair. “My name is Lucas Larkin, but you can call me Luke.” “Tell us a little bit about yourself, Luke.” I think for a second. There’s a lot I could tell them. Like how this summer I cut my hair and
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started wearing a chest binder and changed my name and replaced all the dresses and skirts in my closet with sport shorts and baggy t-shirts, all the pinks with blues. But that’s not all that I am, and I’d hate for that one small part of me to become what I’m known for. “I’m a gamer, and I love sports. Rugby’s my favourite, though I also play football and cricket.” My eyes unintentionally shift to the faces of every single boy in the room. “Really, I’m just your average guy. I sleep in till noon, I binge Stranger Things on Netflix, I watch too much YouTube, and if you put one in front of me, I can eat a whole bag of crisps in one sitting.” I don’t know why I said that last bit. It’s not like I have to convince them; they never knew Lily. Maybe it’s to convince me. Because no matter what people see when they look at me now, I will always know what’s underneath these khakis and this jumper. And it doesn’t match what’s truly inside. “Well, welcome to Chelsea Prep, Luke,” Mrs. Cameron says. I take my seat again, and try to push those thoughts out of my head as Mrs. Cameron tells us to take out our “Lord of the Flies” books and turn to chapter one. As I walk towards the cafeteria for lunch, I feel my phone buzz in my pocket. I take it out and look. I smile. It’s from Sam. Sam has been my best friend since basically day one. Most after-schools are spent at either my house or his. I know his top ten favourite Eurovision songs, ranked, and he knows which five athletes I’d meet if I had one wish (well, if it
wasn’t going to be to one day wake up a real boy). Without Sam, I’m not sure if I would know that I’m Luke. Around the time secondary school began, I started paying close attention to him. I noticed the way he walked, the words he used when he talked, his particularly masculine habits ... and I copied them. I tried to hang with him every moment I could, but I didn’t just want to be around him. I wanted to be him. There was a moment when I was 13 where I was overcome by this suffocating feeling that I would never look like Sam, never fit in like Sam, never be a boy like Sam. And that was when I knew. I’d always known I was different from the other girls, but just how I couldn’t put my finger on. In that moment I knew: I was never meant to be a girl. I’m in that less-thanone percent of people whose brains don’t match their bodies. The skin around me isn’t right. Sam was the first person I told. A year after my revelation, he dragged me to Topshop with him. Clothes shopping had never really been my thing, mainly because I was terrified that clothes I wanted to get — the ones labeled boys’ clothes — would give away my secret. But when we were inside, I couldn’t make myself go to the girls’ section; it felt so wrong. So I followed Sam. I’d always envied his style, but whenever I borrowed his clothes they never looked right, not with the curves I hadn’t figured out how to hide. “Oh, hi Lily!” he exclaimed, finally noticing me. “If you wait one sec, I’ll come over with you to your section.” The way he said “your” made my stomach churn. It wasn’t my section — this was. But I couldn’t blame him; he didn’t know any better. “No, Sam.” Something in me snapped, and I just couldn’t keep who I really was locked away any longer. “Sam, ...” I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t look him in the eye and say it. “Sam, I’m a boy.” I slowly moved my head back up, afraid to see Sam’s reaction. I imagined all the possibilities: confusion, disgust, disbelief, concern. His face was stone solid for a moment ... and then he broke out into a huge grin. “Wait, really?” He started bouncing up and down on his toes and talking really fast, like he always does when he’s excited. “Oh my gosh, this is so cool! This is great! Now we can talk about cars, and sports, and ... well, I guess we already kinda do that anyway.” He went on to explain how I was pretty much already a dude to him and this didn’t really change anything. Best. Reaction. Ever. He helped me become the person I saw myself as — he taught me how to be a boy. He told me how to sit and showed me how he greeted his friends. He helped me pick my name, rattling off a list of L’s until I heard Lucas and something clicked. He squeezed my shoulder while I came out to my parents. Sam was the one who convinced
me to switch schools this year, year 11, even though we both knew we’re going to miss each other like heck. He knew it would be best for me, even if it would be hard. Somewhere new, I might be able to pass, because no one would know me from when I lived as a girl. So far, he’s absolutely right. How’s it goin,’ Lukey Pookey? Sam texts. I send him an eye roll emoji, but it feels good to see my name in writing, and I know he knows it. LOL, he responds. But really, how’s it going? Passing? I look around at the unsuspecting students filtering into the cafeteria. Not one of them stops for a second glance at me. Yup. My chest swells with pride as I send it. So proud of youuuuuu. Our chat is silent for a moment. Crap. Miss Sanders saw me. Byeee Lukeyyyyy. I laugh to myself. Breaking the no-phone rule, huh? And in class? Sounds just like Sam O’Leary. I step into the cafeteria with a new air of confidence. I am passing, and I am as much a boy as any of the others here. The parts I have don’t define me. That’s what Sam always says. After I get my food — a limp sausage and gray, cold lump of potatoes — I get to do what I’ve always wanted to do. I slide my tray between two boys. They part and I sit down. “Hey, guys,” I say, hoping my voice sounds as deep in real life as it does in my head. “What’s up?” “You’re that new kid, Luke, right?” the boy to my right asks. I nod, grinning that he knows my name. “Welcome to the team, man. Name’s Louis.” He goes on to introduce me to every boy at our table. All the while my smile reaches my ears, because not once do I notice a suspicious eye on me. For the first time ever, I’m one of them. But then my secret creeps up on me, and my shoulders slump a bit because no matter what, I’ll always be different from them. And maybe one day they’ll find out, and it’ll all be over. But that day doesn’t have to be today. I won’t let it. I get all of the boys’ numbers before heading out, along with promises of hanging out soon that make my heart soar. My next class is maths, which is one of my strengths, and then history, which I was failing miserably at my old school. Final class is gym. In the locker room, it bugs me a little when I see all the boys changing out in the open, because I know I’ll never be able to do that no matter how well I pass with layers of jumpers and hoodies. I hurry with my gym clothes to a stall in the bathroom and change as fast as I can. We’re playing rugby today, and I get to play with the boys for the first time ever, which is amazing in ways I can’t even describe. I’m signed up for the team before heading back to change. (continued on page 21)
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‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ (continued from page 16)
with them biking by, that the bell hadn’t been for the period to end — the school day was over. Half-days in summer, I slowly remembered. I was out of a job. I hadn’t even worked that day, I’d just walked the three minutes to school from the air-conditioned comfort of my apartment to have one last round of cigarettes and coffee with Ito. And in doing so, I’d brought more sadness on me than I could have ever imagined. I’d traveled the country over the course of a year, made friends and saw many sights. Things that I was too unready and mostly afraid to leave behind. Beautiful castles and temples beyond my imagination. Loud, ear-splintering nightclubs. Shinto ceremonies and Buddhist prayer rooms. The quiet rice fields of Minakuchi that hummed with
‘Dancing with Death’ (continued from page 17)
went to guide him. But eventually, he gave in, took my hand, and let me lead him off.” Ellie smiled and chuckled. “If you’re going to talk about me, talk about me to my face, honey.” Death smiled back and lifted his arm to twirl her, and Ellie followed his lead, slowly spinning around, mindful of her IV stand. She returned to Death and grasped his hand again, getting back into their side-stepping rhythm. “Why don’t you want to go to Heaven, Ellie? You pray so much to go there.” “I pray to Jesus, and I know him. I know he knows it isn’t my time to go just yet. I still have some kicks in me, sir. My Heaven is on Earth for the time being.
‘Boy’ (continued from page 20)
I’ve just slipped on my shirt when I hear something thump to the floor, and then a whispered, “Oh, crud,” from the stall next to me. I look at the ground, and see something rolling beneath the divider towards me. Is that what I think it is?! “Hey, um ... Could you hand that back?” the voice asks. “No questions asked. Please.” His voice is strained. I pick the thing up, stare at it for a quick moment to make sure I’m not seeing things, and hand it back, sticking my arm beneath the stall. “Thanks.” And then there’s a whispered, “God, I’m so stupid!” My friends, what he dropped on the floor was indeed a packer. For those of you who don’t know what that is ... I’d rather not explain. Let’s just say people like me put it in their pants to make it look like something’s there. I have yet to get
toads and crickets late at night. The mountains that I’d stumbled up half-drunk, the trains that I’d dozed off in as Japan raced by. The turning seasons worn on each and every tree. It was in that moment I felt the enormity of those moments seize me, doing their best to pin my feet to the earth. Don’t leave, they said. You’re not ready to go. I’d never live another Japanese autumn, with the red nine-pointed leaves and that fog-drenched temple in the hills. The onsen and bakery that had been my favorite day in Japan. I’d never endure through another Japanese winter, or have to walk through the snow on the way home from work or dodge snowballs from the goofy students. I was a kid from California, and I’d been raised in mild weather and a sun-baked life, but I knew I’d miss the cold all the same. Not just the autumn or the winter, or the spring or summer. All of it, I realized. The seasons and students and
even the stars that studded the night sky above the rice fields late at night, all of them were being pulled away from me like two spinning galaxies cast adrift from one another. This was the end of a dream. The ride was over. I’d have to wake up now. And worst and most heartdestroying of all, I had no one to blame. I, and I alone had been the one to make this choice. I had signed my name to the paper, and proclaimed to the world that I’d had enough. I truly thought I had done it all, and I yearned to be back home, in a country where I could read the signs with ease or drive somewhere instead of taking a train. Yet, I’d never accounted for the simplicity of things that I’d miss. I’d never loved the creaking, expensive trains of the Omi-Tetsudo, but now I’d miss their rustic charm. I’d always hated the awkwardness of trying to buy things
in a language I felt I could barely speak, but now I knew I’d miss that daily risk. I’d always loathed the walks through the village and its confusing, winding streets that intermingled with rice paddies and farmland, but I knew that I would miss the wanderlust they’d so encouraged in me. I couldn’t even begin to think about the friends I’d made, those souls like me that had the foresight not to plant their name on the paper. Conversations in a jazz bar. Quiet, intimate talks at an ancient temple. Countless lunches and dinners. Hugs and goodbyes and hellos. I’d miss them, too. Perhaps, most of all. The more I thought about it, the smaller my anxiety seemed in that moment. I’d let my heart explode everyday if it meant I could stay here. I’d battle my worries and fight my body if it meant I didn’t have to leave. Failing that, couldn’t I leave a part of myself here? Just enough to keep my soul tethered
here — a bit of my heart or one of my eyes? Even just a couple of burnt fingers. I sighed and shook my head, draining the rest of my drink and shoving my cigarette into the can, enjoying the finality of it and the closure of my thoughts. There was nothing more I could do here. My fate was writ in stone and locked in the stars. I’d be leaving it all behind, for better or for worse. A few blossoms drifted from the trees above. The bakery vented sweet steam. A couple more students blazed by, caught up in the laughs of a youth that seemed as if it could never die. Bitterly, jealously, I watched smoke curl out of the mouth of the coffee can. Even my smoking habit — just another thing I’d have to leave behind. I’d miss the sights. The sounds. The smoke. The people. But most of all, I’d miss the coffee and cigarettes with Ito. Q
And I’m not leaving yet.” As the song neared its end, the pair slipped into a period of comfortable silence, both of them pondering as they stare off in the distance. Ellie readjusted her grip on Death’s hand, which was soft yet full of little cracks and scars. His hands humanized him in Ellie’s vision, although Death was already human to her; he just glowed a little more than regular people did. His shoulder was bony yet tense, most likely from supporting Ellie’s weight so she didn’t fall down. She looked back at Death’s face and saw a human face staring back at her, not the abstract being that was there before. It seemed as though Ellie broke his spell, one that made him intimidating when, in fact, he looked like a mortal, just like her. The record continued to spin despite the song being over, yet
the pair did not move away from each other. “Ellie,” Death started, but quickly stopped. The wheels in his head seemed to be turning, and he finally said, “Please come with me. It will be alright. You will be happy.” “I still have work to do, sweetheart,” she said, patting his chest. “My family is waiting for me. I won’t be happy if I go up there. Not yet.” Death sighed and put the needle back in its place. He helped Ellie to her bed, lightly laying her down and pulling out a notebook from his pocket. His eyes widened as he looked between Ellie and the notebook. He sheepishly put the notebook away and smiled. “It seems I was mistaken, Ellie. I wish you and your family the best. Have a nice night, Ellie. Goodbye.” And within a blink of an eye, he was gone as quickly as he arrived.
Ellie nodded and pulled the comforter over her body. She looked out of the window, the moon hanging limply from the sky as the surrounding stars supported it. It seemed as though time had also passed in the blink of an eye; she had only spent twenty minutes with him, but that amounted to fourteen hours in Death’s time. She heard a knock at the door and invited the person to come in. It was her family: her husband, her children, her siblings, her nieces and nephews, her grandchildren. The nurse, Rita, followed closely behind with a tray of food. “Hi, Grandma!” her eldest grandchild exclaimed as he ran in. “Jackson, quiet down, boy,” Ellie’s son demanded curtly. “Your grandma’s had a long day.” Rita set down the tray in front of Ellie with a smile, quickly escaping Ellie’s giant family.
“We all had some free time to visit you together!” Ellie’s sister whispered giddily. “Isn’t that a coincidence?” Ellie looked out the window again at the shadow over the moon and smiled softly. “Yes. A coincidence indeed.” “Good news, Eleanor,” Dr. Tam said with a grin. “You’re pulling through your chemo. I won’t promise anything — “You never do, Dr. Tam,” Ellie said with a chuckle. Dr. Tam laughed and nodded. “I won’t promise anything,” she continued, “but the future is looking good. Let’s continue with the last few rounds and see where it takes you. Sounds good?” Ellie nodded. “Sounds good,” she said. She sighed contently and squeezed her husband’s hand. “Sounds good.” Q
one, but it’s definitely on my list. But it means that I may not be alone. When I step out of the stall, there’s a kid waiting for me, and from the way his cheeks are on fire, I think it’s the kid. He pulls me by the arm outside the changing rooms and off to the side. “What you saw back there,” he says, “never happened. Understand?” His grip on my wrist is tight; he’s not letting go any time soon. I nod furiously, trying to hold back my smile. “No, seriously. I need you to swear on your life.” He’s sounding desperate now. “I’ve been going stealth way too long for some new kid to sweep in and ruin it.” He winces at the thought. I lean in. Should I do it? Can I trust him? But I figure he knows how it is, and we can share this secret together. “I won’t tell,” I whisper, “as long as you don’t tell my name used to be Lily.” I take a step back, and look at his expression: It’s one of pure shock. His mouth hangs open, his eyes are
bulging. His pupils dart all every which way, looking me over, before finally fixing his gaze on me. “You — You too?” he stammers. Neither of us need to say the word; we both know we’re thinking it. I nod. “This is my first year going stealth.” I extend my hand. “Luke Larkin.” He shakes it. “Jaxon with an X. Fourth year.” We stand there for a minute, so much to say but not knowing quite what to start with. The bell rings for the end of the day, and boys run by us with their heavy backpacks, desperate to leave after a long first day back. I’m not quite so urgent. “Hey, wanna walk home together?” He nods. This is all too good to be true, only it is true. On the way home, we talk about sports and movies. He likes dramas, and I enjoy them as well, although I’m more of a sci-fi guy. We both bet with our dads on Wales to win Six Nations every year, even though England is of
course our favourite team. We have so much in common, I can see us being friends for life. Then we start talking about being trans. We both have had the same ups and downs, and it’s nice to get to talk to someone who can relate. Sam’s always a good listener, but I can’t help thinking he doesn’t really understand, not really. Not like Jaxon does. Jaxon’s much further along in his journey than I am. He started testosterone last year, I find out. He already has tiny whiskers growing in all over his chin. (I have to admit: I’m totally jealous.) These things that seem so normal to all other boys are huge accomplishments for us. But now I know I’ll have someone to celebrate with. I text Sam at the corner of our block. Come over? New friend. Yuuuhhh. Need to hear all about your first day, he texts back. Plus I’m intrigued by this “new friend.” Though there’s no way he’s as awesome as me. I dunno, the way we met is pretty legendary. I chuckle.
Ooooo, do tell. I stifle a full-on laugh attack. He dropped his packer in the bathroom. There’s a huge pause on Sam’s end. Then finally, OMG. No freaking way. Oh yes freaking way. Okay, maybe this friend is as awesome as me. But definitely not more. I must meet him immediately. Whatever you say. I look over at Jaxon. “Wanna come over? My friend Sam will want to meet you.” I squint, and then my face lights up. “In fact, he does want to meet you.” I point at Sam’s figure dashing towards us, and Jaxon laughs at the urgent expression on his face. I have a good feeling about my future, at Chelsea Prep and even after that. I may very well still be uncomfortable in my own body, maybe for the rest of my days, but for the first time in my life, I feel like I’m in the right skin. Right now, my parts don’t define me. I finally feel like one of the boys. Q
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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.
June 3 - August 2. Kids have fun, create a character, and learn lifelong performance skills at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Theatre Camps. TheatreWorks offers 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, playwriting, and stagecraft skills.
www.artandsoulpa.com
www.theatreworks.org/education
ARTS, CULTURE, OTHER CAMPS Art and Soul Camp
Palo Alto
(650) 269-0423
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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!
Text: (650) 690-0678 Call: (650) 752-8061
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.arts4all.org
www.danceconnectionpaloalto.com/danceconnection-event-calendar/summer-dance-camps (650) 852-0418 or (650) 322-7032
www.KimGrantTennis.com
City of Mountain View Recreation
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.
(650) 463-7146
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
Verdi, Shakespeare and the #MeToo era West Bay Opera has become known for outstanding set design. Shown here is a rendering of Peter Crompton’s “Falstaff” set.
West Bay Opera stages the Bard-based comedy — and Verdi’s ‘ultimate masterpiece’ — ‘Falstaff’ by John Orr done another. There is a freedom, a forward-looking approach in this piece, that truly presages what came after him. It is truly a bundle of fun, but also a very important piece in the evolution of opera.” “Falstaff” premiered in 1893 at La Scala in Milan. Verdi died in 1901. Moscovich likened “Falstaff” to a collaboration between two geniuses, Verdi and William Shakespeare, who 300 years earlier had written the plays on which Arrigo Boito based his libretto: scenes from “Henry IV, parts 1 and 2,” and “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” In the opera, the titular “fat knight” tries to seduce two married women, in an effort to abscond with their husbands’ fortunes. “I programmed ‘Falstaff’ because it is more relevant than ever. An older man tries to take advantage of younger women who are married to rich men. In the era of #MeToo, it is interesting to observe that Shakespeare nailed this topic back in the 1600s, and that the Bard’s collaboration with Verdi produced an even classier result than the original play,” Moscovich explained in an email.
“This is a score that is nothing short of dazzling. It is a whole lifetime of craft, experience and genius poured into a composition that is quintessentially for the stage. The pace and dynamism of the dialogue and the effectiveness of the music in propelling the action forward are a remarkable achievement.” West Bay Opera has built a reputation under Moscovich’s leadership for excellent productions, with good casts, stunning scenic design, and — quite often — orchestras so large they must be split between the pit and the stage. “Our Falstaff, baritone Richard Zeller, has sung the role numerous times and is one of the major Falstaff interpreters today in the country,” Moscovich said. “He has a number of credits at the Met, as well as the Chicago Lyric, the Hamburg Opera and other major houses in the U.S. and Europe.” The cast also includes Taylor Haines as Alice; baritone Krassen Karagiozov as Ford; Anastasia Malliaras as Nannetta; mezzo Veronica Jensen as Meg; contralto Patrice Houston as Quickly; tenors Dane Suarez as Fenton, Michael Orlinsky as Bardolfo and Michael Mendelsohn as Gaius;
Photos courtesy of West Bay Opera
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o, why did West Bay Opera General Director José Luis Moscovich choose Giuseppe Verdi’s “Falstaff” to close the venerable company’s 63rd season? “I guess for the same reason people like to climb Mount Everest,” he said during a recent phone conversation with the Weekly. “I try not to program or conduct anything I don’t love. I love this piece. It’s a musician’s opera; the ultimate masterpiece; a distillation of six decades of Verdi’s genius in one masterpiece. And unlike almost everything else he did, it’s a comedy.” Verdi was in his late 70s when he began work on “Falstaff,” which was to be his last opera. He’d been wanting for decades to write a comedy. His second opera, “Un Giorno di Regno,” which premiered in 1840, was not well received. But after writing another 25 operas, and not writing for a while, he took on this last comedic effort. “In coming back to composing (after) years of not doing anything after ‘Otello,’ he actually went much beyond what he had done in other works,” Moscovich said. “We can only imagine what he might have done if he’d
Richard Zeller sings the title role in the comedic “Falstaff” at West Bay Opera. and baritone Kiril Havezov as Pistola. Moscovich brought in frequent collaborator Ragnar Conde as stage director, a partnership that has worked very well over the years. Conde runs the Escenia Ensamble in Mexico. “It is a piece about women showing the degree to which they are in charge of their own lives and relationship with men in their lives,” Moscovich said. “They are not depicted as victims, not as people who need to rise up and take revenge. They have a sense of humor to put this man in his place for his excesses and lack of respect for women. Yet, none of that is black and white. Verdi finds a way to depict Falstaff in a very human way. He’s a guy who is very flawed, but not a monster.” Q
Freelance writer John Orr can be emailed at johnorr@ regardingarts.com.
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What: “Falstaff.” Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. When: May 24, 26; June 1, 2. The May 26 staging will include a post-performance discussion with the cast and directors on stage. Cost: $35 to $85 (discounts available). Info: wbopera.org.
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Walt Disney Studios
Movies
See ‘Aladdin’ review online
Jimmy Stewart film festival
In the mood for a Western? Thriller? Comedy? Drama? Take your pick at Stanford Theatre’s James Stewart film festival, which runs from Friday, May 24, through Sunday, June 30. The annual festival will showcase 21 of the versatile Hollywood actor’s films over the next five weeks.
Stewart, who starred in at least 56 films during his 62-year career, briefly lived in Mountain View: After being drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, he was stationed at Moffett Field. For a complete movie schedule, go to StanfordTheatre. org or call 650-917-7268.
“Aladdin” 00 (Century 16 & 20, Icon). Director Guy Ritchie tackles his first musical in Walt Disney Pictures’ remake of the animated 1992 classic “Aladdin,” and it shows. paloaltoonline.com/arts/.
MOVIES NOW SHOWING A Dog’s Journey (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Aladdin (PG) ++ Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Avengers: Endgame (PG-13) +++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. The Biggest Little Farm (PG) Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Booksmart (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Brightburn (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Captain Marvel (PG-13) +++
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Long Shot (R) ++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Photograph (PG-13)
Rear Window (1954) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Shazam! (PG-13) +++
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The Sun is Also a Star (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.
The Hustle (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.
UglyDolls (PG)
The Intruder (PG-13)
The White Crow (R)
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Bing Concert Hall Stanford University
Music, theater, dance, and more in the heart of Silicon Valley
Sundays with the St. Lawrence with James Austin Smith, oboe The St. Lawrence String Quartet will mark their 30th anniversary season with stunning Sunday performances in the Stanford Live 2019–20 season S U N, S E P 29 2:30 P M B I N G C O N C E RT H A L L
Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
From the Middle Kingdom to the Wild West
Gravity & Other Myths
A powerful work that explores the origins and impact of Mapplethorpe’s controversial photography through music, projections of Mapplethorpe’s images, and poetry
The Orchestra Now
The backbone in this group of 10 is shared as much as singular, making all things possible, and even some things that don’t seem so. Expect a human extravaganza of grace, humor, and feats that will leave you speechless
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This performance features a mixed chorus, full orchestra, and Chinese traditional instruments to shed light on the laborers that made the transcontinental railroad possible S U N, O C T 6 2:30 P M B I N G C O N C E RT H A L L
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VINTAGE COLLECTIBLES SALE ... The Friends of the Palo Alto Library is holding its Vintage Ephemera and Memorabilia Sale on Saturday, June 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Cubberley Community Center, Room A7, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. The event will feature a variety of unique items, including vintage magazines and periodicals that date back as far as the late 1800s, fiction and poetry chapbooks, pamphlets and small books as well as collectible and non-paper oddities. For more information, go to fopal.org.
‘GRANNY’ FLAT WORKSHOP... Terri Brown, broker associate at Keller Willams in Palo Alto, is hosting a free educational workshop about accessory dwelling units, or Granny flats, on Sunday, May 26, from 12:30-3:30 p.m. at Mitchell Park Community Center. Residents interested in adding a secondary unit to their property will learn how to navigate the permit process, which construction methods are available, how much units cost and what type of financing is common for such projects. To register, email terribrownhomes@gmail.com. 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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Tips for clearing out clutter — and how to dispose of it by Lori Krolik Lori Krolik
TREE TALK BY APPLE’S VISIONARY ARBORIST ... Dave Muffly, the visionary arborist responsible for selecting, locating, and planting 9,000 trees within the 175-acre Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino and bringing to life Steve Jobs’ vision of a tree-rich park resembling the Stanford hills, will share his passion for trees during a benefit event for the nonprofit environmental group Canopy from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, June 2, at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto. Muffly, a Stanford University graduate and Canopy’s first program director, has been growing, planting, researching and stewarding nearly 100,000 trees in numerous cities and communities over the past 30 years. For information about tickets and sponsorship, contact Canopy Development Director Judy Sissener at judy@canopy.org, or Executive Director Catherine Martineau at catherine@canopy.org.
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ummer is the perfect time to take back your garage. According to a UCLA study, only 25% of garages in the typical 21st-century home can be used to store cars because “they are so packed with stuff.” Whether you want to store your car or actually find all your camping gear without tripping over piles, here’s a plan for garage organization success:
Time A typical garage takes anywhere from 4-8 hours to organize. Whether you spend a Saturday or take a day off work, you need enough time to start and finish the project. An unfinished garage organization project just invites more clutter and means you to have to start from scratch the next time you return to it.
Supplies Before starting any garage organization project, be sure to have the following: Q Muscle: You’re going to be lifting and moving a lot of stuff, you cannot do this alone. Find a friend, hire a day laborer or call a hauler. Q Containers: Clear bins in a variety of sizes will help immensely in the sorting and organization process. They’ll also help keep your garage organized once it’s finished. Have more on hand than you need and return what you don’t use. Q Labels: Labeled bins and shelving give a clear indication of where you can find something as well as where it goes after it’s used. You can use a label maker to make easy-to-read labels. But
if you’re more of a bare-bones type, painters tape and a sharpie work really well. Q Trash Bags: You will definitely be getting rid of a lot of junk that cannot be sold or donated. Have a good supply of trash bags on hand.
will keep the items together and allow you to see how much you have of certain types of things. Soon enough you may realize you have 10 tote bags. Do you really need that many or could a few be donated?
Disposal Plan
After you’ve identified what is giveaway and what’s trash and zoned what you’re going to keep, you’re ready to put things back. Place items in the proper size containers or on shelves (if you don’t have garage shelves or
Arrange for a large pickup with your garbage service provider on a date close to your garage organization date. Contact local charities for the same time, so they can take your donated items. If that’s too much prep time for you, hire a hauler or a service like Lugg or 1-800-GotJunk to take everything. This ensures the items are taken away immediately and don’t linger on-site for you to have second thoughts or for them to creep back into your home.
Sort & Zone A garage organization project cannot be done piecemeal. You’ll need to pull everything out so you can see what you have and then make a decision. Designate three areas on your driveway for “trash,” “donate” and “keep.” As you pull things out, if you can easily decide something is trash or donate, then put it in the respective zone. For items you want to keep, create subzones of various categories: camping, holiday, tools, recreation, luggage, mementos, sports gear, etc. As you go through old boxes and random items tossed on shelves, place like items in one of your containers. This does not have to be the final resting place, but it
Put Things Away
your shelves are not adjustable, now is the time to plan what you need to purchase) and label as needed. Once your garage is organized you’ll be amazed at how much space you have and how easy it is to find what you need. Your car might also need a few less washes when it’s parked in its proper home. Q Lori Krolik, a certified productive environm ent specialist and professional organizer, can be emailed at lkrolik@mtfy.net.
Who will take your unwanted clutter? Here are some ways to dispose of your hazardous waste, gently used items or other unwanted clutter. Schedule a free cleanup day: Palo Alto residents can schedule a curbside pickup to dispose of mattresses, appliances, furniture and other unwanted items for free, once per calendar year. To schedule a cleanup day, call GreenWaste of Palo Alto at 650-493-4894. Pickup will be scheduled on one of your normal collection days. Arrange for bulky item pickup: The city will pick up appliances, furniture and other bulky items placed on the curb during your regular service day for a fee. To schedule this service, call GreenWaste of Palo Alto at 650-493-4894 one week in advance of your regular service day. Call a charity: Several local nonprofits will pick up donations curbside, including: Hope Services, hopeservices.org; Ecumenical Hunger program, ehpcares.org; Habitate for Humanity ReStore, restore. habitatebsv.org. For a full list of charities in the area and what items they will pick up, go to donationtown.org. Drop off household hazardous waste: Palo Alto residents can dispose of unwanted or unused toxic household items at the Household Hazardous Waste Station, 2501 Embarcadero Way, on Saturdays, 9-11 a.m., and the first Friday of each month, 3-5 p.m. For more information, call 650-496-5910. Locate a drop-off site: Don’t know where to bring your unwanted items? Go to recyclewhere.org, plug in your Zip code and the database will tell you where to take them.
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PREP BASEBALL
Paly season ends in CCS playoffs
NEW COACH ... Menlo-Atherton High School Athletic Directors Paul Snow and Steven Kryger jointly announced the hiring of David Trujillo as the head coach of the varsity baseball team. He joined the M-A baseball program in 2017 and for the past three years has led the JV team to an overall record of 47-20, finishing among the top two in their division in all three seasons. Trujillo takes over for David Klein, who recorded a 38-42 record over his three seasons and led the Bears to their first Central Coast Section appearance since 2015.
TEE SHOT ... The seventh-seeded Stanford women’s golf team came within an eyelash of advancing into the semifinals of the NCAA Championships at Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark., dropping a 3-2 decision in match play to second-seeded Duke. Tar Heel Virginia Elena Carta edged Stanford’s Emily (Ziyi) Wang on the 24th hole to clinch the Tar Heels’ 3-2 victory over the Cardinal in the quarterfinals of the event that has been delayed three times by weather (including a six-hour delay Tuesday) and shortened to 54 holes of stroke play. Stanford junior Andrea Lee needed a 19th hole to edge Duke’s Jaravee Boonchant and tie the match for the Cardinal. Aline Krauter won her match, edging Duke’s Miranda Wang 2&1 for Stanford’s first point.
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Menlo-Atherton senior Jessica Eagle hopes to secure a spot in the state finals of the 100 meters. The Bears 4x100 relay also qualified for the state meet.
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A chance to finish strong Fourteen local athletes head to the state meet in Clovis by Glenn Reeves he Menlo School girls track team won the West Bay Athletic League title and went on to capture the Central Coast Section title. Knights junior Charlotte Tomkinson has the fastest time of the season in the state in the 800 meters and fellow junior Kyra Pretre hopes to turn the adrenaline from competing at the CIF State Track and Field Championships to turn in a personal best in the 800. So far, the plan has worked better than Menlo coach Jorge Chen
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could have hoped. As the season began to unfold it became apparent that Menlo School had a special group of athletes. This weekend the Knights want to build off their first CCS track and field championship in school history and turn in top times during Saturday’s finals at Veteran’s Memorial Stadium on the campus of Buchanan High in Clovis. “We have some big goals,” Tomkinson said. “I know I want to improve on my sixth-place finish from last year.” The meet starts with Friday’s
trials at 3 p.m. for field events and 4 p.m. for running events. Saturday’s finals begin with field events at 4:30 p.m. and running events at 6 p.m. After running in three events most of the season, Tomkinson is dropping the 400 and will not run the anchor leg of the 4x400 relay, even though she ran an inspired anchor leg, catching the Los Altos anchor at the finish line for second place at Gilroy High last weekend. (continued on page 34)
alo Alto got a taste of just why Valley Christian received the No. 1 seed in the Central Coast Section Open Division baseball playoffs and why the Warriors were so highly ranked in the state and nation. Sophomore shortstop Zander Darby led off the game with a triple but that was it for the Paly offense. Darby was cut down at the plate when the next batter, Aidan Berger, grounded to first base. And host Valley Christian went on for a 4-0 victory. Steven Zobac, a senior headed to Cal, came into the game with a 0.24 ERA and lowered it with six shutout innings. William Kempner, a senior headed to Gonzaga, pitched a 1-2-3 seventh. It was the 13th shutout for Valley Christian (27-4). Palo Alto has qualified for the CCS Open Division playoffs the past five years.The Vikings finished 20-10, were extremely young with a whole bunch of sophomores playing key roles. Darby and Berger hit first and second in the batting order. Ritter Amsbaugh was the starting third baseman and Matthew Caren the DH. Left-hander Ryan Harvey pitched an inning in relief. But it was also the last game for a talented group of seniors, led by Oregon-commit Josh Kasevich, who gave up three runs over the first two innings and then settled down. It was also the last game for first baseman Kyle Mostofizadeh, right fielder Tyler Foug, left fielder Hyunwoo Roh and center fielder Paul Thie. Q
STANFORD BASEBALL
Setting the stage for the postseason Final conference series this weekend by Rick Eymer tanford plays its final two regular-season games in Phoenix at 6 p.m. Friday and noon Saturday against Arizona State. The NCAA Division I Selection Show will be televised Monday at 9 a.m. on ESPNU. The series opened Thursday night (visit paloaltoonline.com/ sports/ for the results) with the Cardinal (39-10, 20-6), which is tied for second place in the Pac-12 with Oregon State. The Sun Devils (36-15, 15-11) opened the season with 20 consecutive victories. Arizona State boasts one of the top offenses in college baseball, leading the Pac-12 in slugging
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percentage (.527) and home runs (88). Palo Alto resident Hunter Bishop, who attended Serra High in San Mateo, leads the Pac-12 in slugging (.792), total bases (160) and home runs (22), ranking second in RBI (61). Spencer Torkelson ranks second in home runs (21), fourth in slugging (.714) and second in total bases (155). Sacred Heart Prep alum Dominic Cacchione has made nine appearances for ASU and allowed one earned run over his first 7 2/3 innings before allowing 12 in 2 1/3 innings. Stanford junior first baseman Andrew Daschbach, the former Sacred Heart Prep standout,
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LACROSSE HONOR ... Stanford senior defender Julia Massaro and sophomore attack Ali Baiocco earned spots on the first-team All-Region by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Association (IWLCA).
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FACES IN THE CROWD ... Menlo College freshman Alleida Martinez is featured in the May 20, 2019 issue of Sports Illustrated in the “Faces in the Crowd” section. This recognition is given namely to student-athletes who have achieved a significant amount of individual achievement and prominence for their school. Martinez helped Menlo College Women’s Wrestling achieve the top ranking in both the WCWA and the NAIA during the course of the season. This culminated with the Oaks winning both the WCWA and NAIA National Championships, the first national titles in the 92-year history of Menlo College.
Five seniors play their final game as Vikings
Stanford junior first baseman Andrew Daschbach, the former Sacred Heart Prep standout, earned Pac-12 Baseball Player of the Week honors. earned Pac-12 Baseball Player of the Week honors as he became the first Stanford player to hit four home runs in a game. He completed the feat in a nonconference game against Cal Poly. He also had three hits, including
a pair of triples, and scored twice in Stanford’s 8-5 win over Oregon State last Friday. Daschbach finished three games last week with 23 total bases, six (continued on page 34)
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Prep track (continued from page 33)
“When I got the baton, we were solidly in third,� Tomkinson said. “So I focused on the runner in front of me. I hate losing so I just went for it and was able to beat her.� Pretre, who ran the third leg and moved up a place, couldn’t quite focus on the finish (trying to catch her breath) until Tomkinson came down the stretch. Michelle Louie and Lauren Hamilton started it for Menlo, which lowered the school record they set earlier this season by three seconds in a time of 3:56.74. Pretre estimated Tomkinson made up about 15 meters on the final leg. Pretre is also dropping the relay and the 1,600, the event where she won the CCS title. Instead both runners will concentrate on the 800, looking for a breakthrough in the trials to reach the finals and then see what happens. “I know I’m going to have to set a PR by two seconds just to reach the finals,�Pretre said. She placed second to Tomkinson in the 800 at CCS. Alexandra Chan and Louie each also qualified in multiple events and each will drop an event to get laser focused on a single event. Reena Kagen and Charlotte Lee will replace Pretre and Tomkinson in the relay. Chan will run the 100 hurdles and Louie will continue in the relay. Menlo’s CCS time ranks 11th among all qualifiers. Roosevelt owns the top seed with a 3:43.98. Five others have gone under 3:50. Chan advanced for the second consecutive year in the 100 hurdles, taking third in 14,71, a faster time than a year ago. Menlo-Atherton’s Jessica Eagle was a repeat winner in the CCS girls 100, taking first place in 12.07. “I’m real happy,’’ she said. “All year that’s what I wanted.’’ Eagle is seeded 10th in the 100 and will have a chance to advance to the finals. The M-A 4x100 team of Autriyana Hardy, Eagle, Malia Latu and Lauren Collinsworth won the CCS in 48.22. Eagle blasted the second leg and gave Latu the baton with the lead. Latu ran an outstanding third leg and maintained the lead. Then it was all up to Collinsworth. “I’ve definitely never run that hard before,’’ she said. “I saw the girl next to me out of the corner of my eye and I thought, we owe it to ourselves to win it. So I gave it everything I had.’’ There’s a chance Eagle could drop the relay to concentrate on her individual event. Deshaya Woods would replace her. Gunn’s Jared Freeman had the top CCS marks in both the shot put and discus all season. He didn’t win either event, but advanced in both to the state meet. Going to state in both sure beats taking fourth in the discus, something Freeman experienced last year, just missing out. “I’m just really excited about
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Kyra Pretre, Charlotte Tomkinson
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The two juniors helped the Knights win their first CCS track and field title. Pretre won the 1,600 and was second in the 800. Tomkinson won the 800 and was third in the 400. Both runners were part of a school record 4x400 relay team.
The junior started and pitched five innings of a combined shutout in the Knights 8-0 victory over Thomas More in the first round of the CCS Division playoffs over the weekend. He also added three hits and drove in a run
Honorable mention Alexandra Chan* Menlo track and field
Jessica Eagle Menlo-Atherton track and field
Lauren Hamilton Menlo track and field
Michelle Louie Menlo track and field
Autriyana Hardy, J. Eagle, Malia Latu, Lauren Collingsworth Menlo-Atherton track and field
Moorea Mitchell
Zander Darby Palo Alto baseball
Jared Freeman* Gunn track and field
JC Ng Menlo baseball
Nishan Rajavasireddy Menlo tennis
Francisco Sanchez Menlo-Atherton track and field
Soren Sutaria Menlo tennis
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getting to experience the state meet,’’ Freeman said. “I’m going to put in a hard week of practice and show I’m worth a spot. I hope to exceed my previous bests on the biggest stage.’’ Castilleja’s Moorea Mitchell, who cracked the 40-foot barrier in the girls shot put for the first time at the CCS trials, went over 41 feet four times at Friday’s finals. Her best mark of 41-5 1/2 gave her third place and a trip to the state meet. Quite an improvement after going into the season with a best of 36-3. “I played soccer for 13 years as a goalkeeper,’’ Mitchell said. “This year I decided to solely pursue track and field. I’m totally with it and now I’m seeing my hard work pay off.’’ M-A’s Francisco Sanchez was another state meet qualifier, taking third in an ultra-competitive boys 100 in 10.93. The fourth- and fifth-place finishers were both timed in 10.94. Sanchez said his ability to relax through the final 50 meters was the key to his thirdplace finish. “Now I need to pair that up with a nice start,’’ Sanchez said. Q
Baseball (continued from page 33)
RBI and six runs to become Stanford’s third Pac-12 Player of the Week in five weeks. Daschbach became the first player in the NCAA to hit four home runs in a game this season and the eighth to do so since 2013. He is the second-ever Pac-12 player to hit four homers in a game, joining UCLA’s Bill Scott (vs. Washington on March 30, 1999). Daschbach’s 16 total bases against Cal Poly are the most of any player in the NCAA this season and the most in the Pac-12 by five. Junior Will Matthiessen has been a standout performer on both sides of the ball as a designated hitter and pitcher, having started in five of Stanford’s last six Pac12 series. Offensively, Matthiessen leads the team in batting average (.320), on-base percentage (.399), hits (57) and RBI (44). In his six starts, Matthiessen is 4-1 with a 4.05 earned-run average, a .232 batting average against and 29 strikeouts in 26.2 innings. Q
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CONGRATS 2019! (From Top to Bottom and Left to Right)
PASA – Rinconada: Aaron Kuo: Purdue, Eric Tran: Wesleyan, Lily Gallagher: LMU, Danielle Carter: Cal Berkeley, Megan Ross: University of San Diego, Ashley Stahmer: University of South Carolina, Brooke Schaffer: UCLA, Nicole Dundas: MIT, Gaby Ma: Swarthmore, Kaia Anderson: Cal Poly, Brooks Taner: University of Arizona, Nicholas Chao: Fordham
PASA – Alpine: Christian Schroeder: University of the Pacific, Annika Khouri: Stanford, Erin Hirsch: Stanford, Olivia Vercruysse: Tulane, Riley Brownfield: Chapman, Neha Tarakad: Carnegie Mellon, Kerri Lyons: Santa Clara University, Alec Vercruysse: Harvey Mudd, Cristy Rosario*: Pace University
PASA – DKS: Sophie Jacquemin: University of Florida, Melanie Hyde: Drexel, Sarah Snyder: Duke, Kolby Pham: University of Texas – Dallas, Joon Choi: Cal Berkeley, Grace Tramack: William & Mary, Christopher Rinard: MIT, Aaron Hsieh: NYU, Milan Hilde-Jones: Northwestern *Not Pictured
PASA is conveniently located all along the peninsula.
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