Palo Alto Weekly July 5, 2019

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I was dropping everything. My hands were totally numb.”

– Terenia

U.S. News & World Report, again, recognizes Stanford Health Care in the top 10 best hospitals in the nation.

When Terenia lost her ability to hold a paintbrush or a cup of tea, she knew it was time to get help.

“I didn’t know what was happening to me,” said Terenia. “I was dropping everything. My hands were totally numb. I had totally given up painting portraits.”

The Stanford Health Care’s Neurological Spine Disorders Clinic gave Terenia back the ability to paint pain-free. Neurosurgeon Anand Veeravagu, MD, utilized advanced robotic computer assistance and minimal access surgery to reconstruct both her neck and lower back.

“The integration of advanced computer guidance and robotic assistance has transformed complex surgical cases by increasing safety and efficacy – patients do better and recover faster,” he said.

Stanford Health Care is the first hospital in the Bay Area to use robotics for complex spine surgery.

Months later, Terenia was painting again; her first piece, a painting for Dr. Veeravagu. “Being able to go back to work, it’s amazing,” she said.

“I’m very grateful.”

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College head cites issues with housing homeless students Foothill College’s Thuy Nguyen says overnight parking program would take $830K and political will

by Elena Kadvany

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early 20 community colleges and districts as well as the Community College League of California and Association of California Community College Administrators have formally come out in opposition to a state bill that would allow homeless students to sleep overnight in campus parking lots.

Locally, the Foothill-De Anza Community College District is remaining publicly neutral but watching closely as Assembly Bill 302, which was proposed by Assemblyman Marc Berman, DPalo Alto, makes its way through the state legislature.

In an interview with the Weekly, Foothill College President

Thuy Nguyen called Berman’s effort “admirable” but said questions remain about the financial and operational challenges created by the bill.

“The question is whether this is a good idea that should be required of all,” she said.

Rolling out safe overnight parking at Foothill would not be as easy as some people think, Nguyen said. The college would have to increase its limited night-time security, potentially by contracting out the work, and consider

how to accommodate students who might have children or families who would sleep in a vehicle with them, she said. The bill would also require community colleges to connect homeless students using the parking facilities with housing, food and financial resources.

“There’s way more complication than one would initially think of something as ... simple as, ‘If they can park during the day, why can’t they park overnight?’”

Nguyen said.

Preliminarily, the Foothill-De Anza Community College District estimates that implementation of the bill could cost its campuses about $830,000 each per year for additional security, custodial support, fencing, signage and, if a parking lot is not available close to bathrooms, portable toilets. This cost could vary greatly depending on the level of infrastructure spending required to support each parking area, (continued on page 12)

CRIME

Accused killer deemed too dangerous for bail Isadore Diaz has a history of convictions for violent felonies

by Sue Dremann Editor’s note: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence.

Santa Clara County Superior Court judge on Monday decided that a man accused of stabbing a fellow Buena Vista Mobile Home Park resident to death and beating another one is too dangerous for release.

Isadore Christopher Diaz, who is charged with the murder of Timothy Wood, remained in a cell at the Palo Alto Courthouse and was not brought up to the courtroom for his initial appearance on that charge before Judge Charles E. Wilson.

The judge continued Diaz’s arraignment to July 12, but he said the facts and substantial evidence showed “a presumption of great bodily harm” and that releasing Diaz would present a “clear threat” of continued great bodily harm to others. The judge also denied bail.

Diaz, 31, has been charged with killing Wood, 63, and the separate assault of Alan Cochran, both of which occurred on the night of June 24. Court records show that Diaz previously served time in prison for assault and other charges stemming from cases in 2007, 2008 and 2012 in Merced County.

He has two prior convictions for assault with a deadly weapon and three convictions for participating in a criminal street gang, among other charges.

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Mitch Sanford, left, who co-teaches Eastside College Preparatory School’s high school prep course with Flor Rogel, back right, as part of the Summer Bridge program, talks with incoming freshmen about data analysis on July 2.

EDUCATION

‘A warm-up before school starts’ In summer program, rising freshmen get ready for Eastside Prep

by Elena Kadvany

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t’s summer, but school is not out for 80 incoming freshmen at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto.

Seven hours a day, Monday through Friday, they’re in classrooms learning pre-algebra, analyzing “Fahrenheit 451,”

playing with data sets on Google sheets and getting to know one another through ice breakers and off-campus hikes.

This is Summer Bridge at Eastside, a six-week program designed to prepare new freshmen for the rigors of collegeprep curriculum and transition

them into high school life. The program has existed since 1997, the first summer after the launch of the tuition-free private school, which serves students who will be the first in their families to go to college.

Unlike most brand-new high schoolers, with Summer Bridge

“students don’t feel uncomfortable when they start high school,” Principal Chris Bischof said. “That puts students at ease a lot.”

The intensive summer program packs in 12 weeks of academic instruction into half the time. Students take math, English, “high school prep” and personal finance classes. In high school prep, they’re immersed in Eastside’s culture and expectations, which can be a big change for the students who come from public middle schools, Bischof (continued on page 12)

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The power of social networking brought together a class of rising fourth-graders and a local boardgame maker at Ohlone Elementary School, where they’re having fun in the classroom while sharpening their math and language-arts skills.

Ohlone co-teachers Michelle Yee and Cathy Harkness understood the importance of stepping away from traditional methods of teaching summer school so that the students learn different subjects through hands-on applications. Through NextDoor. com, a social-networking service for neighborhoods, Harkness found 23-year-old board-game maker Justin Leong. The Mountain View resident spoke to the kids about the various stages of creating a game, including identifying resources for the game and coming up with the rules. The students absorbed his information and spent a week collecting game tokens, spinners, cards and boards from donated games in order to make their own. Through creating the games, the students were able to learn multiplication by having to deal with scores and play money and practice their language arts skills by writing out the rules for their games and reading them to their peers, among other lessons.

“He inspired me to try and make games,” student Genesis Suarez said of Leong. She added that she hopes to see her creation sold at Walmart one day. Leong had the chance to “play test” the students’ games and was blown away by the kids’ imaginations.

ON TO BIGGER THINGS ... Former Palo Alto City Auditor Harriett Richardson is coming out of retirement to become BART’s first inspector general, the regional transit agency announced June 21.

Appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Richardson will be responsible for planning, directing and managing “the independent oversight of all District actives and operations to ensure the effective use of resources and compliance with applicable federal and state laws.”

Richardson retired from the city on Feb. 15 after nearly five years.

Her departure was one of many recent high-profile vacancies at City Hall. The city has yet to name her successor. Before working in Palo Alto, Richardson was San Francisco’s audit director and the audit manager/deputy director at Berkeley’s Auditor’s Office. “The appointment of Ms. Richardson as BART’s new inspector general helps BART reach a new level of transparency and accountability to the riding public and the taxpayers who fund the cost of BART infrastructure and operations,” BART Board District 1 Director Debora Allen said in a statement. The position was approved by voters in June 2018 through Regional Measure 3, which raises tolls at seven state bridges in the Bay Area by three $1 increases (the first hike took place on Jan. 1, the next two raises are set for 2022 and 2025). An estimated $4.5 billion raised from the toll fees have been earmarked for transportation improvements.

Richardson, who was one of three nominees following a nationwide search, will receive an annual salary of $205,000.

STAYING FRESH ... The Peninsula is rapidly turning into a destination for food, a reality that the San Mateo County Silicon Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau is embracing through this year’s “As Fresh As It Gets” awards, which covers establishments in San Mateo County and Palo Alto.

The 2019-20 recipients recognize businesses that deliver local fresh produce and seafood, plus wine and beer. To qualify for the award, applicants were required to buy locally grown or caught items for at least a month and sign a commitment to continue the practice. Palo Alto had four winners on the list: The Sea

by Alexander’s Steakhouse (a traditional award winner) and Dinah’s Poolside Restaurant, St. Michael’s Alley and Vina Enoteca (gold award winners). East Palo Alto’s Quattro Restaurant & Bar was one of 10 establishments to join the platinum award circle.

The winners were recognized at an awards ceremony on June 20.

They each received a certificate, plaque to display in their business, a commemorative polo shirt and commendations from local, state and federal government officials. Q

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Artist seeks to capture the order — and chaos — of emergency response Peter Wegner to create three exhibits for Palo Alto’s new public-safety building

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650.493.6000 www.venturecdi.com License #936070 Peter Wegner/courtesy city of Palo Alto

efore Peter Wegner developed his art concept for Palo Alto’s new publicsafety building, he decided to see the world through the eyes of an emergency responder.

Wegner, an El Cerrito-based artist whose abstract pieces often contemplate the relationship between space and time, joined a police officer for a ride-along.

At a routine traffic stop, he was struck by the speed and multitude of decisions the officer had to make: Should that person who slowed down but didn’t fully stop at the stop sign be pulled over?

Did the violation merit a ticket or a warning? What would be the best way to approach the driver?

What the most appropriate response to what the driver says?

“At each juncture, there is a binary decision that has to be made,” Wegner told the Weekly.

“It felt like any moment involved a judgment call. In the aggregate, I can see the situation was in flux. With anything more complicated than a traffic stop, I can just see how very quickly you have to think through the splitsecond decisions — a blizzard of them.”

This frenetic pace of making these judgment calls is reflected in “100,000 Decisions,” one of three works in the suite of pieces that the City Council last week approved for the longawaited public-safety building, a $115-million project that has been the city’s top infrastructure priority for nearly two decades.

Construction of the three-story structure at 250 Sherman Ave. is set to begin as soon as the city finishes building a new parking garage on an adjacent parcel, 350 Sherman Ave. “100,000 Decisions” is a compilation of vertical black and white strips assembled within a square red frame. Up close, you can see thousands of bars

Artist Peter Wegner says “100,000 Decisions” was inspired by the “quick, reflexive, intuitive decision-making” he observed during a police ride-along. made of ABS plastic, the material used to make police helmets and vests. Stepping back from the piece, the bars turn into a gradient, with gray on the inside dissolving into white in the top right corner and solidifying into black in the bottom left corner.

Wegner also recalled his ride with local firefighters to a medical call at a home where there had been a family tragedy, to which the department also had been called. Wegner said the firefighters’ response was conditioned by prior knowledge of the trauma.

“It was a really nuanced and supple and beautifully gauged quality of response, and at the same time, there was a way of

thinking that was strictly a current of ones and zeroes,” he said.

“That sat with me a bit. It started to feel like they entered into the middle of the frame where most of the values were gray or hard (continued on page 13)

Correction

The June 28 story “Teen podcast offers up pearls of wisdom” incorrectly spelled Sophia Lu’s last name. The Weekly regrets the error.

To request a clarification or correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at jdong@ paweekly.com, 650-326-8210 or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto 94302. Q

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“Street Level” is comprised of about 400 aluminum disks, each featuring imagery from historical, hand-drawn maps of historic Mayfield and Palo Alto. A close-up of those disks is shown above. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • July 5, 2019 • Page 7

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East Palo Altans form tenants union to fight housing crisis Group aims to have clout to protect affordable and low-income housing

by Sue Dremann that advocate for renters, immigrants and seniors, which convened the meeting at Willow Oaks Elementary School in Menlo Park.

The union, the first such entity in the 36-year-old city, will be led by residents.

The group aims to gain influence

and to oppose developers and landlords seeking to redevelop large portions of the city, which until recently has been one of the least expensive areas to live in the ninecounty Bay Area.

The city has at least 27 large commercial and mixed-use developments in the pipeline, which could increase demand for market-rate housing in East Palo Alto by employees working in those buildings.

Projects to provide more market-rate housing are already in the works. The city’s largest landlord of low-income housing, Sand Hill Property Company, proposed in December to demolish 160 rental units and to replace them with 605 apartments, 445 of which would be rented at market rate and 160 that would be below-market rate.

The company said that tenants currently protected under the city’s rent-stabilization ordinance would have first right for return to the new apartments, but residents have expressed concern about whether their units would be protected under state law and where they would be live during construction.

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ore than 60 East Palo Alto residents voted on Saturday to form a tenants union to combat rising housing costs that they say are harming the city’s long-term residents.

The action was brought about by multiple nonprofit organizations

The apartment complexes at 2054 Euclid Ave. and 2033 Manhattan Ave. in East Palo Alto, are some of the buildings that would be replaced with affordable and market-rate housing under a proposal by property owner Sand Hill Property Company.

“We are here with one common interest: We wonder about redevelopment and what that will do to my home,” said Francisca Guzman, an 11-year resident of the Woodland Park Communities and a member of the city’s rent-stabilization board.

Karla Facundo, an East O’Keefe Street resident, said she has seen her rent rise dramatically — to $2,248 a month — and struggles to make ends meet. Her landlord recently started charging her for utilities in addition to rent.

“It is so much money. They are raising my rent by $100 a month.

Garbage, sewer and water are now being added to my rent,” she said.

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the city when “nobody wanted to live here” should not be pushed out of the community, she said.

Tenants unions have been successful in places such as Los Angeles, where government leaders decided to enact “rent pauses,” to prevent rent increases for a period of time in vulnerable communities.

The San Francisco Tenants Union, which formed in the 1970s, pushed to pass rent control and a proposition that gives every tenant facing an eviction a right to an attorney, said Ofelia Bello, executive director of Youth United for Community Action.

Representatives from community groups including Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, Youth United for Community Action, Faith in Action, the city planning commission and Comite de Vecinos del Lado Oeste East Palo Alto, a group of Woodland Park residents, said they are supporting the tenants union because it represents the city’s diverse population.

Even in a city like East Palo Alto, whose elected representatives lean toward the progressive side, a tenants’ union is the only way to have a flexible and responsive voice to the changes, some residents said at Saturday’s meeting.

East Palo Alto is also approving the development of new, affordable housing. The city gave the green light to a proposal in January for 128 new affordable units at Light Tree Apartments at 1805 E. Bayshore Road, 14 of which will be set aside for formerly homeless people, the disabled and/or transitional-age youth. The city also plans to put 120 affordable units at 965 Weeks St. on city-owned land.

The number of units, however, is small compared to the estimated thousands of new workers who theoretically could populate the city as the new office developments come to fruition.

The union plans to have four working groups: governance and leadership structure; membership; programs and activities; and members’ urgent needs. A larger meeting will be scheduled in the future after the organizational committees’ initial meetings, organizers said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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After decades of providing haircuts, Cambridge Barber Shop closes its doors Barber Larry Skarset’s customers have included David Packard Sinead Chang

by Cierra Bailey

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fter more than 50 years of business spanning two generations of his family, Larry Skarset, 72, has closed the doors of his Cambridge Barber Shop at 382 Cambridge Ave. in Palo Alto ahead of a redevelopment project planned for the site.

Skarset started barbering in 1967, joining his father, Raymond Skarset, in his original shop on California Avenue. The father-son duo remained at that location for about 30 years, Skarset said, before moving to Cambridge Avenue in 1997. They worked side by side until Raymond died in 2009.

While Skarset may have closed the doors of his longtime shop,

he doesn’t plan to retire any time soon. On July 3, Skarset moved into Beauty Spa by Ereeda located at 200 S. California Ave. near Mollie Stone’s Markets, where he will continue to cut hair from a rented chair at the shop.

“It’s been very interesting to see how the Silicon Valley’s developed over all these years,” said Skarset, who sat down with the Weekly earlier this week to reminisce about his many decades as a small business owner in Palo Alto. It’s a profession that has included giving haircuts to Hewlett-Packard Co. co-founder David Packard along with countless students and professors from Stanford University.

Among the changes he’s seen: Rents have gone up — way up.

He said the approximately 800-square-foot space on California Avenue where he and his father once worked is now vacant.

When he inquired about possibly moving the shop back into that site, the landlord quoted him $5.50 per square foot.

“That’s about $4,000 or $5,000.

You’d have to really do a lot of business for that,” Skarset said. “It was about $1,800 or $2,000” when he and his father were there.

The project that forced him to leave his Cambridge shop involves demolishing three buildings, with addresses ranging from 378 to 410

DEVELOPMENT

More retail, parking space will come with planned Cambridge Avenue building Current tenants have until end of month to vacate

by Sue Dremann

Cambridge, to make room for a new three-story building that will have retail on the ground floor and office space on the second and third. (See sidebar.) Most of the existing spaces have been occupied for many years by small business owners like Skarset.

“The little small business guys are all out now,” he said referring to the many mom-and-pop businesses that once lined California Avenue.

“It seems like everything’s getting franchised now, but I’ve been staying in business. I’ve been here for 50 years now, and I’d like to stay around. I do good work, I love the business and I like the people.”

In the final days before Skarset moved out of his longtime shop, most of the memorabilia that had covered the walls for generations had been taken down, including all the pennants from various universities that he had accumulated from customers over the decades.

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fter four years on the drawing board, a new retail-and-office building project on Cambridge Avenue in Palo Alto’s California Avenue business district could break ground this fall. Current tenants at 378 through 410 Cambridge have received eviction notices to leave by July 31, and the developer, Cambridge Investments LLC, has submitted a demolition-permit application to the city.

The three-story, 35,000-squarefoot development, called 400 Cambridge Ave., will replace three existing buildings from the late 1950s, which comprise 32,093 square feet of retail and office space.

Current tenants include a barber shop, a real estate developer, a tech-staffing company, a publication, a therapist, a venture capitalist, an artificial intelligence company and a Rolfing practice among others, according to signs on the building.

Some tenants said they have known for a long time they would be moving and received formal eviction letters last month.

The new development will merge three lots into one and include a single structure with 4,274 square feet of ground-floor retail (3,405 square feet more than currently housed), 1,716 square feet of common areas and 29,010 square feet of office space on two floors, according to plans filed with the city. The building will also include a 8,364 squarefoot ground-floor garage.

The proposal has taken four years to gain the city’s approval.

Longtime owner Larry Skarset poses by his chair at his new location on California Avenue.

His collection started when a former customer mentioned he was attending Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, which Skarset had never heard of.

The customer told Skarset more about the school and later brought him a pennant, which he pinned to the wall. Clients carried on the tradition until Skarset’s walls were covered.

“Maybe they’ll let me put Stanford and Cal back up at the new place,” he said.

“And Harvard ... I’ve got all the Ivy Leagues,” he added with pride.

Although he said it’s been difficult coming to terms with the move, he understands that change is inevitable.

“Life is always changing and you gotta go with the changes, I guess,” he said.

He does, however, have some concerns about Palo Alto’s rapid growth.

“There’s too much wealth, and it’s getting to be where if you’re not wealthy, you’re not going to be able to live here,” he said, adding that it may not be long before residents will have to travel outside of Palo Alto to find mechanics, barbers and other service workers.

As for his thoughts about the new development replacing his shop and the adjacent buildings, he said he wishes the developers “the best of luck.” Q Editorial Assistant Cierra Bailey can be emailed at cbailey@ paweekly.com.

A new 35,000-square-foot, three-story building is planned for 400 Cambridge Ave. and will include two floors of offices, ground-floor retail space and a garage.

The initial design was deemed too boxy by the Architectural Review Board. The final version altered the front façade from stucco to brick, which offers more contrasting hues and also fits better into the context of the California Avenue area, where there are other brick structures, the developer noted.

To address concerns about the building’s mass, architects created an 11-foot set back at the front eastern corner, which includes an outdoor seating area beneath steel decks and an area for public art facing the adjoining public parking lot.

The development, initially proposed in 2015, also faced opposition from neighbors and existing small-business owners who worried that it will not serve the neighborhood. Owner representative Steve Pierce of Greenheart Land Co. said on Tuesday that the company worked with neighbors to come up with a proposal that took their concerns into account.

The property is adjacent to condominiums to its west, so the

developer added light wells that provide light, air and setbacks for the condos. The back of the building is set back 10 feet from the rear property line, which has a 7-foot-high fence and landscaping to screen the building from neighbors, according to the plans.

The new development will increase parking from two spots to 15, Pierce noted, including 10 to serve the retailers and five for office use. It will also have 12 bicycle-parking spaces.

The plan removes one street tree at the southwest corner to make way for the garage entrance, but adds another at the southeastern corner.

Pierce said the project is awaiting building permits. A demolition permit is under review by the city. Construction could begin late this year or early next year and would take most of the next year, depending on city approvals for the phases of demolition and construction. The company will also submit a constructionlogistics plan, he said. Q

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Diaz, after being read his MiranHe lived in Palo Alto with his allegedly kicked Cochran, who had grandmother, who told the Weekly fallen, in the face before returning da rights, denied that he had struck last week that Diaz had turned his to his apartment. Cochran said the anyone. But he allegedly told an oflife around, was active in his church two had never met and he did not ficer that he made a mistake.

Asked why he struck Cochran, and helped the homeless. He was know why he was targeted. Coalso once shot in the head and con- chran needed eight stitches to his he said that “he just got that feeling and had to do it,� the court docutinued to suffer medical issues as a lips, he told the Weekly.

As officers talked to Cochran, a ments state. result of his injury, she said.

Police arrested Diaz three days Court documents also show that police report states, Diaz jumped Diaz allegedly attacked a third man into a friend’s car and allegedly told later in connection with Wood’s murder, based on several pieces of on the night of Wood’s death and him, “Let’s get out of here.�

The man drove away and parked evidence, while he was in custody Cochran’s assault; the third man in front of a fence on Los Robles for alleged assault on Cochran, acdeclined to file charges.

Palo Alto police initially re- Avenue, which runs along the edge cording to the court documents.

Police are basing their case in sponded to Wood’s trailer at 3980 of Buena Vista. When he told Diaz El Camino Real at 7:53 p.m. af- to be careful getting out because part on security camera recordings ter his roommate called to report the car was close to the fence, Diaz and blood-stained clothing.

Surveillance recordings show finding him on the floor. Wood allegedly became angry and asked, had left the trailer at about 5 p.m. “Do you think I’m fake?� the police on June 24 a man who appeared to be Diaz walking toward and The roommate left about 10 min- report states.

Diaz was loud and he could not away from Wood’s trailer. Wood is utes later to go for a two-hour bike ride. When he returned, he found keep still, the man told police. The also seen on the video walking to the door to the trailer locked. He two men began walking back to- a dumpster to toss out a large bag entered using his key and found ward the mobile home park when of trash and walking back toward Wood gravely injured. Police lo- Diaz allegedly put his friend in a his trailer. Police believe this was cated two knives with blood in headlock and punched him in the the last time Wood was seen alive.

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The man whom police believe is Diaz was initially wearing a white tank top when he went toward the trailer, but when he left the area he had changed into a black T-shirt with a California logo on the front.

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News Digest Palo Alto Chamber hires new CEO Charlie Weidanz, who has helped lead Abilities United and various other Peninsula nonprofits over the past three decades, will be the new chief executive officer of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, the organization announced last week.

Weidanz, who most recently served as CEO at Abilities United, is leaving that role just as the local nonprofit is merging with Gatepath, a Redwood City-based nonprofit that also focuses on adults and children with disabilities.

Prior to Abilities United, he had served as executive director at the YMCA. In joining the Chamber, Weidanz will work alongside Judy Kleinberg, who had spent the past five years as both the CEO and president of the Chamber. With the addition of Weidenz, Kleinberg will continue to serve as president, with a focus on government affairs, disaster planning, the Leadership Palo Alto program for emerging executives and city leaders, and the new Palo Alto Chamber Foundation.

Weidanz will focus on the nonprofit’s internal operations, including membership development, organizational programs and signature events, according to the Chamber’s announcement. The statement touts the new executive team of Kleinberg and Weidenz as one that combines their “complementary skill sets, creating a dynamic leadership experience focused on organizational mission and vision that matches evolving community and business needs. Q —Gennady Sheyner

Nonprofits Abilities United, Gatepath merge Palo Alto-based Abilities United and Gatepath in Redwood City, two nonprofits serving people with disabilities, have finalized their merging agreement that went into effect on Monday. The move is expected to save costs, improve their position for grants and expand their service area across two counties.

A joint marketing team will look into re-naming the combined organizations in 2020, according to Abilities United’s board of directors President Jenn Wagstaff-Hinton.

Services for both organizations will continue as normal, but Wagstaff-Hinton said that Abilities United will dial back its aquatics and after-school programs.

Abilities earned $5.3 million and had a $222,057 deficit in the 2017-18 fiscal year that ended in June 2018, according to its IRS Form 990 filing. In the same fiscal year, Gatepath had total revenue of $15.6 million and a $566,789 deficit.

Both organizations will continue to serve the public out of their 13 program sites across the Peninsula. The future of Abilities United’s headquarters at 525 E. Charleston Road is uncertain, as the nonprofit’s lease on the property with Santa Clara County expires in four years, according to Wagstaff-Hinton. Q —Christian Trujano

Former CEO of Packard Children’s hospital dies Christopher G. Dawes, former CEO of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, died on Saturday as a result of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was 68 years old.

Dawes stepped down from his post as president and CEO of the hospital in March 2018 to focus on his health.

According to his biography on the hospital website, Dawes was instrumental during its developmental years, building it into the nationally renowned medical institution it is today. “We went from being a very lovely community hospital, nicely designed and family-friendly, to a world-class children’s hospital drawing patients from across the United States and around the world,� said Susan Packard Orr, a longtime member of the hospital’s board of directors, and daughter of its founder, Lucile Packard.

Some of Dawes’ contributions as CEO include directing a $500 million program to build centers of excellence in various medical specialties, including heart and cancer care; brain and behavior; and pulmonary disease. He also developed a network of care for children and mothers, and oversaw the hospital’s expansion into a state-of-theart 361-bed facility in Palo Alto, which opened in 2017.

Born in Great Britain, he and his family moved to California when he was a child. He launched his career in hospital administration after earning a bachelor’s degree in public administration from San Diego State University in 1974. A decade later, he received a master’s degree in business administration from McLaren School of Business at the University of San Francisco.

He took on the role of chief operating officer at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in 1995 after spending 10 years working in senior administrative positions at Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco (which later became the California Pacific Medical Center), Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose and Stanford Health Care. Q —Cierra Bailey

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Foothill College President Thuy Nguyen says that the California Legislature needs to look carefully at the financial and operational challenges associated with Assembly Bill 302. a follow-up survey on student homelessness and release the results by 2022.

The California Faculty Association, California School Employees Association, the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges and Student Senate for California Community Colleges all formally support AB 302.

At a summit on student homelessness at Foothill in June, students, faculty, community leaders and elected officials spent a day brainstorming short- and longterm solutions to the issue. Ideas ranged from the feasible — providing 24-hour study areas and laundry services and expanding necessary for a student to pursue a major in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) in college, the principal said.

Increasing the rigor of math early for students at Eastside has helped students with “entering, persisting and finishing STEM degrees” in college, he said.

They’re also exposed to beginning coding over the summer, in case any students want to take Eastside’s computer science elective. One of those students is Anthony Prado, who stepped away from a Google sheet populated with data on Tuesday to talk about the summer program.

“I like it a lot,” said the incoming ninth-grader, who attended middle school at East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy, a charter school. “It teaches me a lot; a warm-up before school starts.”

In a neighboring math class, students corrected errors on a recent test with the help of teacher Hai Tran. Exams during Summer Bridge also help Eastside teachers to assess where students are academically and to measure youths’ progress.

“Progress isn’t necessarily good or bad,” Tran told the students on Tuesday. “It’s just where you are.”

Several doors down in an English class, 26 focused, engaged students learned about adverbs, played an interactive vocabulary game on Chromebooks and

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students by taking into account the total cost of attendance, including housing. Senate Bill 291, which is co-sponsored by the California Community Colleges and the Community College League of California, is now pending in the Assembly’s Higher Education Committee.

Berman’s bill has brought to the forefront a student homelessness crisis at California community colleges, where nearly one in five students are either homeless or do not have a stable housing, according to a recent survey conducted by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice.

But there is little agreement on whether overnight parking is the right solution to address this segment of the state’s housing crisis.

Supporters see AB 302 as a way to provide fast-acting, much-needed relief for students who live out of their cars and struggle to find somewhere safe to park at night.

“This is not meant to be a longterm solution,” Berman has said, “but the crisis exists today and we can’t pretend like it doesn’t.”

Opponents, however, have criticized the legislation as a onesize-fits-all, temporary fix that will take resources away from long-term solutions, such as more substantial financial aid for community college students. Citing concerns about cost and liability, some community colleges have asked that compliance with the bill be optional.

“We are concerned that this

well-meaning approach masks the deeper issue of lack of resources, such as financial aid for California’s community college students, and instead potentially subjects students to sanitation and safety issues,” the Community College League of California said in an opposition statement. “We are concerned AB 302 perpetuates the structural inequities in California’s higher education system.”

The bill passed the Assembly in May on a 60-8 vote and is set for a July 9 hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The safe overnight lot bill is one of several possible solutions, in Nguyen’s eyes, including giving students Airbnb gift certificates for emergency, short-term housing (which Foothill is working to do) and prioritizing students for affordable housing in the area.

“Quite frankly, the community college leaders accelerated the conversation of food insecurity and housing insecurity well before the bill,” she said, “but this bill has lit a fire of ‘Then, what are we going to do, if it’s not this?’” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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analyzed the book they’re currently reading, “Fahrenheit 451.”

Elizabeth Diaz, a Stanford University student who graduated from Eastside in 2017, returned to her alma mater this summer through an internship with Streetcode Academy, a youth technology nonprofit providing coding instruction during Summer Bridge.

When she was a rising freshman, she considered the summer program as mostly a time to make new friends but also a time to catch up academically. A highlight for her, she said, was a two-day camping trip, which this year’s students are going on at the Presidio in San Francisco next week.

According to Eastside, 100% of its graduates have been admitted to four-year colleges and 76% have either graduated from a four-year college or university or are on track to graduate within six years, compared to a national college completion rate of 11% for first-generation students. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

About the cover: Incoming Eastside College Preparatory School freshmen Natalie Villalon, center, and Brandon Perez, far left, work on solving algebra equations during their Summer Bridge program math class on July 2. Photo by Veronica Weber.

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said. Students write letters to themselves about their goals; the school holds onto the letters and returns them their senior year.

They also hear from alumni and upperclassmen about their experiences at Eastside. Upperclassmen are also on campus over the summer for summer classes or to prepare for the college-application process.

In the finance class, rising freshmen learn about budgeting, credit, investments, the cost of a college education and financial aid. (As seniors, they’ll take another, more advanced personal finance course.)

The academic courses are designed to teach students who arrive with a range of skill levels.

Between 10% and 20% of students require extra support to bring their reading, writing and math skills up to grade level, according to Eastside. Many arrive without a firm understanding of pre-algebra, Bischof said. All Eastside students take the equivalent of two years of math their freshman year to ensure that by senior year, they can progress to pre-calculus, college-level AB or BC calculus or Advanced Placement statistics, Bischof said.

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according to Foothill.

If the Commission on State Mandates determines AB 302’s requirements to be a reimbursable state mandate, the state would reimburse community colleges.

But that determination is not guaranteed.

“One of the challenges with the bill for many community colleges, including Foothill, is the financial one. Where are we going to find the money?” Nguyen asked, suggesting that local tech companies or wealthy donors could potentially contribute.

Senate Committee staff have recommended the bill be amended to allow community colleges to opt out if they show they are addressing student homelessness in other ways, including by providing emergency housing grants, hotel vouchers and rapid re-housing referral services. Exempt colleges would have to report to the Community College Chancellor’s Office on the services provided to homeless students, the number and type of students served and whether they remain in school or graduate.

Other amendments include adding a Dec. 31, 2022 sunset date; moving up the implementation date from July 1, 2020, to April 1, 2020; requiring that students who use the lots be enrolled in at least six units per semester; and requiring the Community College Chancellor’s Office to conduct

a campus food pantry — to the more ambitious, including building student housing and fining owners of vacant “ghost houses.”

During the summit, students who have experienced homelessness urged their campus leaders and elected officials not to shy away from out-of-the-box solutions that will help struggling students in the near term.

As a result of the summit, Nguyen said Foothill plans to pilot a smartphone application that will list available housing and food resources on campus and in the community. She also wants to talk with local cities and the county about prioritizing affordable housing and accessory dwelling units for community college students. She’s working with the Foothill administration as well to make housing assistance and information part of the enrollment and orientation process for new students, just as financial aid and other support programs are.

“When students do not have money because of their family status to be able to pay for books, then we ask them, ‘Do you need financial aid?’ We don’t make the assumption that students have an ability to pay for books,” Nguyen said. “If we go at it from that mindset, then we ask the question, ‘How can we provide information or even actual services to (homeless) students?”

While she won’t take a firm position on AB 302, Nguyen is supportive of another bill that would change the way financial aid is calculated for community college

A student at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto works on algebra equations during the Summer Bridge program.

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to describe at the moment and what was required of them was a quick, reflexive, intuitive decision-making where the pattern was only revealed at a distance.”

This interplay of order and chaos also features prominently in “Chance Impression,” a work of art inspired by Wegner’s experience getting his fingerprints taken by the Police Department’s forensics unit. Fingerprinting, Wegner discovered, is considered the first forensic discipline.

When it was developed a century ago, it was referred to as “lifting of chance impression.”

Both the name and the method are integrated into the piece, which consists of thousands of red thumbtacks impressed on the wall, creating the shape of a giant fingerprint. The piece intends to both represent the “hands-on” work performed in the building and the intersection between the rational scientific method used by officers and the unique, idiosyncratic nature of each human.

“I liked that there was a kind of analytical, rational framework for the forensic discipline,” Wegner said. “You come across a crime scene that’s just the aftermath of mayhem and you impose this rational, analytic, empirical process on the chaos that you

encounter and you extract this information that hopefully allows you to encounter a criminal.”

For Wegner, whose work is featured in world-famous museums such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the public-safety-building presented a different type of challenge. It required collaboration with and buy-in from a diverse set of stakeholders, including emergency responders, members of the Public Art Commission (which unanimously approved his concepts last December) and California Avenue merchants.

He was one of 63 artists who submitted their qualifications for consideration. The selection panel that chose him included — among others — interim Fire Chief Geoffrey Blackshire, architect Mallory Cusenbery, Assistant Police Chief Patty Lum, former city Mayor Yoriko Kishimoto and Michael Ekwall, owner of La Bodeguita del Medio, a restaurant on California Avenue.

Wegner also said he was mindful of the fact that, given the public nature of the new building, the set of stakeholders also includes “every taxpayer in Palo Alto.” At the same time, Wegner made an effort to link the art in the new building with the more immediate setting: the California Avenue

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“Chance Impressions” was inspired by artist Peter Wegner’s experience getting fingerprinted by the Police Department’s forensics unit.

area that today is considered Palo Alto’s “second downtown” and that once formed the heart of Mayfield. (Palo Alto annexed the city of Mayfield in 1925.)

The sense of place is at the heart of “Street Level,” the third exhibit in Wegner’s suite. The piece is comprised of about 400 aluminum disks, each featuring imagery from historical, hand-drawn maps of historic Mayfield and Palo Alto. The blue disks vary in scale — ranging from 3.5 inches to 7.5 inches in diameter. Wegner discovered the maps while going through local archives and talking to area historians.

The maps, Wegner noted, are in themselves “public art projects” — attempts to reconstitute the objects on the street landscape within the intellectual model that is a map. They are drawings created by the culture, even if the maker is usually anonymous. This, Wegner said, makes them “historically rich in meaning.”

Fittingly, “Street Level” will be displayed on the building’s exterior wall, adjacent to Jacaranda Lane and facing Birch Street.

From a distance, a visitor won’t necessarily see all the finely engraved line work, but they would at least see the “galaxy” of locations, he said.

“But because you can get closer as a viewer, I wanted to get a fair amount of detail so that close inspection is rewarded.”

In another nod to the building’s location, Wegner proposed a fourth piece, “94306,” an LED display that would mimic the form of California Avenue structures, as seen from a bird’s eye view. The piece, which referenced both Palo Alto’s tech presence and California Avenue’s eclectic nature, aims to create a “snapshot in time” of California Avenue as it is today, while also allowing for various and slowly-changing color displays based on time of day, the season and specific occasions.

That component, however, was left out of the final package that the council approved. While Wegner said he was “surprised” by the omission, he added that he is happy to see three of his artworks get included in the new structure.

Kristen O’Kane, director of the Community Services Department, said the LED piece was intended to be part of the California Avenue garage project, which went through a different art selection process. The city’s procurement laws, she said, prohibited the city from adding “94306” to the police building project. Incidentally, the garage itself will not have a public art piece, O’Kane said. That’s because the various façade enhancements in the garage, including decorative louvers and reflective tiles, limit the opportunity for art to be integrated there.

The city expects to finish constructing the new public-safety building by fall 2022, according to the city’s recently approved capital budget. But the art is already causing some debate. Mark Weiss, an advocate for public

art, criticized the city for cutting “94306” out of Wegner’s suite and noted that given the police building’s escalating price tag, the $716,000 contract with Wegner falls below the city’s “1% for public art” threshold.

Councilman Greg Tanaka, on the other hand, argued that the budget is too high and voted against the contract. Tanaka cited other community needs, including housing and an improved animal shelter, that should be funded. He was the only dissenter, however, in the 6-1 vote to approve the contract.

Wegner said he plans to start working on the art projects within weeks. He said the experience of developing the concepts for the new building underscored for him the importance of engaging in a public dialogue. He hopes the art itself will have the same effect.

“These are works for the public square and I very much hope that the community will feel ownership of them and feel they are a natural complement,” Wegner 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 is on summer recess until Aug. 4.

HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to continue its work plan development and discussion from its retreat at 7 p.m., on Thursday, July 11, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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Xia Guan February 4, 1970 — June 18, 2019 Xia Guan, beloved mother, wife, and daughter, passed away on June 18, 2019, after 5 years of brave battle with cancer.

She was born February 4, 1970, in Hubei, China. At age 14, she was admitted to the Special Class for Gifted Youth in the best science and technology university in China. After graduating from University of Science and Technology of China in 1989 with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Xia started her graduate school at UC Davis and earned her PhD degree in Genetics in 1997. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University before she moved to IT industry.

She started her career in Pharmaceutical IT Quality industry after joining Roche Palo Alto in 1999. After a short transition with Nektar Therapeutics from 2005 to 2007, she joined Gilead Sciences and took her career to the next level. She was Director of Business IT R&D at Gilead Sciences before passing away at a young age of 49.

She met her love of life on the first day in college. They were married and raised 2 wonderful boys together. She became an avid San Francisco Giants fan after her children started playing baseball in little league which triggered her interests to learn about and understand the sports. Her first priority was always the children and family. “Your Love, Our Lives� was written on the funeral flower ribbons by her children, which truly told

the story of how she loved them. Her love shaped the children to become responsible and loving individuals. In her spare time she enjoyed traveling. She always wanted to see every part of the world, and wanted to show her children how wonderful the world is.

Xia made a lot of friends through out the years, and always enjoyed having a laugh with them. She always brought sunshine to her friends, even when she was vigorously fighting cancer. Xia was a Christian and an incredibly brave fighter.

She had no fear for death, she held her head up high and faced disease and death with smile. She was so strong she never stopped smiling. Evil could destroy her flesh, but could never defeat her heart. She peacefully left the world, leaving for family and friends her smiles, her kindness and love. As a close friend witnessed, she was always positive, willing to help, and never complained or brought negative thoughts to friends.

Even when she was fighting for her life in the past 5 years, she never stopped praying for the church, for the people in need, Christians or not. She had sympathy for people close to her as well as for people she didn’t know. Her love touched lot of people. Love is forever. For the people she loved, her love became a part of their lives and they will love her forever!

She is survived by her husband, John Liu of Palo Alto, her 2 sons, and her parents.

Theft related Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Credit card forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle related Auto Theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Burglary auto attempt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . 6 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in Public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Found Property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 5 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Other/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Menlo Park

June 26-July 2 Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Child abuse referral. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Credit card forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/major injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

California Avenue, 6/11, 10:30 a.m.; battery.

El Camino Real, 6/19, 1:10 p.m.; battery.

El Camino Real, 6/23, 4:31 p.m.; strong arm robbery.

University Avenue, 6/24, 9:07 a.m.; sex crime.

El Camino Real, 6/24, 6:53 p.m.; homicide.

El Camino Real, 6/24, 8:53 p.m.; battery.

Waverley Street, 6/28, 2:43 a.m.; battery.

Middlefield Road, 6/29, 7:45 p.m.; strong arm robbery.

Quarry Road, 6/29, 11:15 p.m.; suicide attempt.

Ventura Avenue, 6/30, 12:06 a.m.; domestic violence.

Stanley Way, 6/30, 12:32 a.m.; domestic violence.

Lowell Avenue, 6/30, 5:39 p.m.; domestic violence.

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1100 block Almanor Ave., 6/29, 2:35 a.m.; domestic violence.

1300 block El Camino Real, 6/29, 12:24 p.m.; battery.

2800 block Sand Hill Road, 6/30, 7:22 p.m.; battery.

400 block Burgess Drive, 6/30, 12:24 p.m.; child abuse referral.

Transitions Births, marriages and deaths

Donald Fitton Donald Fitton, 94, died on June 26. He was born on an orange ranch in Lindsay, California, to Roland and Georgia Fitton.

His father had been an ace fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force in WWI. One of his early aspirations was to follow in his father’s footsteps, so on his 18th birthday in 1942, he joined the U.S. Air Force, training as a fighter pilot.

After his military service, he attended San Jose State University, where he met and fell in love with Virginia Luke in 1948.

They married in 1949 and celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary earlier this year.

He had a 20-year career as an executive in the scientific and technical publishing industry.

However, he decided to make a career change after attending a seminar with Stanford University professor Dr. Harry Rathbun and his wife, Emilia, on the teachings of Jesus in 1954.

In 1962, he became one of the co-founders and first president of Creative Initiative Foundation (CIF), located in Palo Alto.

Working with the Rathbuns and others in the community, he and his wife were instrumental in forming the AMR Institute, which focused on the human condition as influenced by attitude, motivation and response.

With his wife, he also taught a Stanford Senior Colloquium on human maturation and led seminars for the Peace Corps and Vista. In 1982, CIF’s focus shifted to increasing awareness and education to prevent nuclear war.

This led to the genesis of the Beyond War movement, which he and his wife co-founded.

In the 1990s, the couple continued to work with the Foundation for Global Community in Palo Alto.

They lived in the Bay Area for 70 years and in Palo Alto for over 40 years. He is survived by his wife, Virginia; their son, John (Mary Lynn); and three grandchildren. His daughter, Kris, predeceased him.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in his name may be made to The Art of Yoga Project at theartofyogaproject.org.

Robert Therrien Robert Therrien, a sculptor who grew up in Palo Alto, died June 17 after a battle with cancer.

He was born in Chicago on Nov. 17, 1947, according to the Gagosian art gallery website, where his work was recently exhibited.

He moved to Palo Alto at the age of 5 and went to Palo Alto

High School before attending the California College of Arts and Crafts (California College of the Arts). He later received a photography degree from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara followed by a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

He was best known for taking ordinary objects, such as tables and chairs, and making them extraordinary by sculpting enormous replicas of them. He once described himself as falling in between a romantic and realist artist, his online biography states.

His work can be found in museums across the globe, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Museum of Contemporary Art and The Broad, both located in Los Angeles, as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Dorothy Hassett Dorothy Hassett, a longtime former Weekly employee, died on June 6. A fourth generation C a l i fo r n i a n, she was born in Modesto to Lester and Velma Smith on July 2, 1929, the second child of three. She attended Canoga Park High School in the San Fernando Valley, where her mom was a secretary and liberal activist and her dad was an itinerant farmer at first and then a home builder.

She attended San Jose State University and remained in the Santa Clara Valley the rest of her life. She taught physical education at San Mateo High School and married Bob Hassett, who taught shop classes at Sunnyvale High School. The couple raised three children together: Sally, Allan and Carla. When the kids were in school, she took a job at the Los Altos Town Crier newspaper followed by two stints with the Palo Alto Weekly, starting in 1989 and ending in 2015.

As a lifelong athlete, she was a fan of the San Francisco Giants, the San Francisco 49ers and the Golden State Warriors.

Her husband developed dementia early, but she became an advocate and loyal part of his caregiving family at Sunnyside Gardens for over 10 years before he died. She was also predeceased by her daughter, Sally; her son, Allan; her older sister, Mary Lou; and her younger brother, Dale. She is survived by her daughter, Carla (Brian); three grandchildren; her sisterin-law, Nancy; and a host of nieces and nephews.

Dean Ray Lindsay October 17, 1931 – May 1, 2019 Dean Ray Lindsay, a devoted husband, father, grandfather and humble disciple of Christ, passed peacefully from mortality on May 1, 2019. He was surrounded by his family and held tenderly in the arms of his beloved wife, Joan.

As a true disciple of Christ, Dean faithfully kept sacred covenants he had made with God. Hence, the characteristics of Christ were woven into the very fiber of his eternal being. Godliness was his virtue. Faith was his catalyst for action.

Righteousness was his guiding principle.

Kindness was his daily attribute of goodness given freely to everyone he met. Cleanliness in mind and body was his obedience. Dedication to his wife, children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren was his patriarchal passion. Oh, how he loved his family.

Dean was born October 17, 1931, to Ray T. and Mildred Ellison Lindsay of Menlo Park, California. Marilyn Lindsay (decd.) and Ronald K. Lindsay (Avis) surrounded him in deepest sibling love and joviality throughout his life. He married his eternal companion and sweetheart, Joan Lydia Bailey, in the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on March 22, 1957. They are the parents of Andrea Shaffer, Christian Dean Lindsay (Daralee), Charisse Roberts (Rick), and Garrett Ray Lindsay (decd.), 15 grandchildren, Lindsay Shaffer Norris (Joshua), Sydney Shaffer Scott (Jeff), Courtney Shaffer, Cortland Lindsay, McKenna Lindsay, Curtis Cameron (Ashley), Skylar Wing (decd.), Ashley Roberts Roddam (Eric), Abbigail Roberts Eccles (Ty), Logan Roberts, Alissa Lindsay Harlan (Jarom), Jordan Lindsay, Matthew Lindsay, Preston Lindsay, Kyle Lindsay, and 9 great grandchildren.

Dean attended Lowell High School, in San Francisco (head cheerleader), Menlo College, and University of Utah where he was an active member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He graduated from Brigham Young University in banking, finance, and marketing. He loved going to work every day as a partner in The Lindsay Company, sharing duties with his father, Ray, and brother Ron for over 60 years.

Dean served 4 full time missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He answered a call from President David O. Mackay to serve in South Africa (1953-55).

Finding such joy in missionary work, he served 3 more missions with his eternal companion, including New York, New York (1991-92) , Voronezh, Russia (1999-2001), and Canberra, Australia (2005-2007). Dean served in many various church leadership responsibilities throughout his lifetime including Bishop of Stanford Ward, California, numerous stake and high council callings in California and Utah, a MTC bishopric assignment in Provo, Utah, and as a temple worker in the Mount Timpanogos Temple in American Fork, Utah. He loved listening to church conference talks, studying

the scriptures and reading the Book of Mormon with his sweetheart each night before turning out the light.

As family patriarch, Dean honored his priesthood responsibilities with joy as he baptized his children and grandchildren, administered blessings and confirmations, conferred priesthood ordinations to his sons and grandsons, going through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint temples with Joan and each of his 4 children and grandchildren, leading sacred family prayers and directing opportunities for fasting, discussions, and family home evenings, was always eager to participate in gospel discussions with family and friends, and treasured sharing personal testimony of God and gospel truths.

Dean was a kind true friend of many, always eager to care for others and helping them to meet their life’s challenges. He had a gift in remembering the name of everyone he met and taking a keen personal interest in each person.

He loved holding his tiny grandbabies. He exuded gratitude, even for the simplest of acts done to help him. Many were blessed to sit at his side, share and learn from him. He loved swimming (Lake Tahoe, Lake Powell), water and snow skiing, learning, cars (driving at age 14), working at an early age in a logging company, early summers in Nephi with his grandparents on their farm, dinners with friends, riding horses, soaking in a hot tub under the stars, floating in a swimming pool in the cool of the evening, fishing, traveling the world, building houses, ballroom dancing, and playing golf and tennis, especially with Joan and with his brother, Ron. He was known for always giving a line disagreement or out of bounds question to his opponent’s benefit. He cherished and supported Joan’s accomplishments, and was seen playing the honored Rabbi in Fiddler On the Roof, Andrew in On Sacred Ground, Schroeder in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, and singing bass in productions of Handle’s Messiah.

As Dean’s progressive medical disease hampered his physical abilities and mobility, the medical care given to him by his physicians was exemplary and greatly appreciated. Dean’s family would like to extend their deepest gratitude to the medical and nursing staff at Utah Valley hospital for their tender care of him and his sweet wife, Joan, and their family during his last hours on earth. His passing has left a painful deep hole in our hearts and we will miss him dearly. Each of us has been blessed with his kindness, his love, his testimony, his friendship and his example of gratitude and goodness. He made us want to be and do better.

Condolences may be sent to the family at www.olpinmortuary.com.

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Arts & Entertainment A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Karla Kane

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Music@Menlo spans the centuries

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The Korngold piano quintet, which Wu Han is “dying to hear,” is rarely performed.

Both she and Finckel are eager to introduce it to Menlo audiences.

“People don’t know the name Korngold,” said Finckel, but the quintet features “themes that show up later in ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood,’” which Korngold scored.

“This is where that music of Hollywood came from — immigrants from Vienna. Thank God we have them.”

Finally, “Music at the Millennium” blurs classical distinctions with Mark O’Connor’s playful “F.C.’s Jig” (short for “Fiddle Concerto”) for Violin and Viola and John Adams’ “Road Movies” for Violin and Piano. Calling his title “total whimsy,” Adams points to the “swing mode” in the piano part as well as the “tricky cross-hand style” in the final movement.

Multimedia lectures with musicologists illuminate each of the seven key decades, showing historical and cultural influences on music, such as the upheavals and revolutions of the 19th century and the technological innovations of the last century, when radios, record players, and later, the computer, brought music of all genres into the home.

While all festivals have a theme, this year’s Music@Menlo illustrates how “music is created in relation to history,” Wu Han said during a phone interview from New York, where she and Finckel, called classical music’s “power couple,” are artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Although the chamber repertoire is massive, “we’re never at a loss to find interesting ways to present it,” Finckel added, using an analogy to the Grand Canyon, which he and Wu Han visited recently. “Every time you turn a corner, it looks different. There’s no end to the variety of ways the Grand Canyon looks.

The literature of chamber music is kind of like that.”

By concentrating on seven specific decades, it’s far easier to give audiences a clear picture of the evolution of classical music, Finckel

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This year’s Music@Menlo festival highlights seven decades of chamber music, with musicians including (clockwise from left) violinist Arnaud Sussman, festival founders David Finckel and Wu Han, and singer Nikolay Borchev.

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his year’s Music@Menlo festival highlights seven “Incredible Decades,” transporting audiences from the age of Bach through the romantic era to the Roaring ’20s and the new millennium. While last summer’s seven-city “Creative Capitals” journey featured music from seven European cities, this year’s event crosses the ocean into the 20th century, as jazz and popular music coming out of the New World inspired composers worldwide.

Spanning centuries of chamber music, the 17th annual festival runs July 12 to Aug. 3 at the Center for Performing Arts at MenloAtherton High School and Menlo School, both in Atherton.

“Bach Ascending,” the first concert program, opens in the 18th century, with the first “Brandenburg “ Concerto as well as a suite from Handel’s “Water Music.”

Pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel, co-founders and co-artistic directors of the festival, said they are particularly excited about performing those pieces at Menlo for the first time.

Moving through the ages, programs include “Beethoven Launched,” which also includes Haydn and Mozart; “Classical Twilight,” featuring Schubert’s “Winterreise” song cycle, with Wu Han on piano; the “Romantic Revolution,” with the music of Schumann, Chopin and Mendelssohn; and “Moscow to Montmartre,” spanning such disparate composers as Rachmaninoff and Debussy.

“I’ve been drooling over that piece for a long time and finally feel I’m old enough to take the challenge,” Wu Han said of “Winterreise.” Based on 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller, the melancholy song cycle was composed in the year of Beethoven’s death, and just a year before Schubert’s own sad demise at age 31. Finckel translated the libretto from the German to help her get the feeling of the piece, which Russian baritone Nikolay Borchev will sing. “It’s beautiful and heartwrenching,” she said.

The penultimate “Roaring Twenties” concert shatters classical boundaries, with George Gershwin’s “Lullaby” for String Quartet, a Ravel sonata imbued with bluesy Gershwin influences, and a romantic piano quintet by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who left troubled prewar Vienna to score Hollywood

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observed. “It’s not the whole pie, but it’s seven very delicious slices, each one with its own flavor,” he said. “I think these seven decades have contributed to the strength of that house of chamber music that we’re building. Each of these decades has its own room. It just makes the structure itself stronger and more interesting and more enjoyable.”

What sets Music@Menlo apart from other summer festivals is its education component, not only with a lecture series but with master classes, informal Café Conversations and a series of Carte Blanche concerts in which the artists curate their own programs.

In addition, the festival hosts a Chamber Music Institute and international program, training preprofessional musicians as well as talented children, offering them an opportunity to learn and perform with professionals. In the Aug. 2 Overture Concert, 11 students in the festival’s international program will perform pieces by Beethoven, Brahms and César Franck with the festival’s main-stage artists.

Violinist Arnaud Sussmann, who is also associate director of Menlo’s international program, emphasized the festival’s educational component.

“I’ve been going there for 10 years and I can’t tell you how many summers I’ve been blown away by what I’ve learned,” he said. “Most festivals you go, perform and have a wonderful time. At Menlo you really go to learn something extra.”

In terms of performing, Sussmann will fiddle in O’Connor’s “Jig” and play viola, not his usual instrument, in a Mendelssohn string quartet. He will also play second violin in Korngold’s piano quintet, a challenging piece with intricate rhythms he will be performing for the first time.

But beyond performing, he said, “teaching is another huge passion of mine.” He sees his mission as mentoring talented young musicians just as he was mentored when he left France at age 15 to study at Juilliard with Itzhak Perlman, whom he refers to as “my teacher, Mr. Perlman.”

These days, Sussmann is passing those lessons on, not only at Menlo, but at Stony Brook University on Long Island. “One of the most beautiful things about what we do in this music world, or in the art world, is that the skills we learn cannot be just passed on through a book. You need a mentor. You need someone who is going to pass on the information that was passed on to them through their mentor.

“Teaching really helps your own playing, because you have to sit back and analyze things and listen from the outside,” Sussmann said.

“If you’re a great teacher ... hopefully, you can apply (those lessons from listening) in your own playing.”

Acquiring new audiences for classical concerts is a perennial

concern. Sussmann, 34, uses social media to reach out. In addition, running the summer program for young musicians with pianist and educator Gilbert Kalish is heartening.

“Every time I go to Menlo, I feel better about the future of classical music, when you see the level the dedication the artistry of the young musicians we see there,” he said.

“Music@Menlo becomes its own enclave, idealistic world for a few weeks and it’s all because of the genius of David and Wu Han.” Both Wu Han and Finckel said education has been a central part of Menlo’s mission from its inception — not simply through mentoring new generations but by opening audiences to music they may not know.

“If you look back on Music@ Menlo on the internet, you would see 17 years of education-centric and performance-centric programs,” said Wu Han. “We’re not just looking at music that is pleasing but music that is meaningful.” Q Freelance writer Janet Silver Ghent can be emailed at ghentwriter@gmail.com.

What: Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute.

Where: Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, 555 Middlefield Road, Atherton; and Menlo School, 50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton.

When: Friday, July 12, to Saturday, Aug. 3.

Cost: $34-$84 per concert, $15-$35 for patrons under 30, with some free events.

Info: Go to Music@Menlo.org.

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Arts & Entertainment Kathy Aoki’s stone lithograph with watercolor, “(She) Twerkin’,” was printed

by Gruenwald Press and hand-colored by the artist. Aoki’s work is on display as part of the Palo Alto Art Center’s “Local Editions” exhibition.

Start the presses Palo Alto Art Center celebrates a ‘summer of printmaking’ with ‘Local Editions’ and more

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ccording to artist Kathy Aoki, “printmaking is a democratic art form. You can show two identical originals at different exhibitions at the same time. Try doing that with a painting!”

Aoki is one of the numerous artists represented in the “Local Editions: A Celebration of Bay Area Printmaking” exhibition currently on view at the Palo Alto Art Center, part of its summer-long program celebrating the eclectic art of printmaking (following last summer’s focus on collage).

Aoki’s print series “Dance Styles of the 1800’s,” printed by Gruenwald Press, cheekily imagines modern dance styles such as twerking being performed in private and social settings in the 19th century, the juxtaposition of

old-fashioned and new proving humorous and thought-provoking.

“I prefer printmaking methods where there is evidence of the inked plate making contact and pressing into the paper texture (as in intaglio printing), or methods where the artist’s hand is visible, such as linoleum cut or lithography,” Aoki told the Weekly in an email.

Lithography, for example, traditionally involves drawing an image with fat or wax onto a stone or metal plate. It’s an artform that requires some technical trial and error.

“With all printmaking, I enjoy the opportunity to make more than one, to experiment along the way. There are frequent mini-failures in printmaking that must be overcome. I think this resilience to

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technical adversity has made me a better artist in general,” she said.

Other local printing presses featured in “Local Editions” include Arion Press, Crown Point Press, Electric Works, Gallery 16, KALA, Magnolia Editions, Paulson Fontaine Press, Trillium Graphics, Mullowney Printing and Palo Alto’s own Smith Andersen Editions.

“For this show we really wanted to make our community aware of how many incredible printmaking presses and master printers there are in the Bay Area and show work that has been done at each one,” curator Selene Foster said. “(Curatorial assistant) Andrea Antonaccio and I collected work we feel embodies the spirit of what they do.”

For Paul Mullowney of San Francisco’s Mullowney Printing, it’s something of a family tradition.

“Years ago, my father was a newspaper publisher. My grandfather was a commercial printer in the early 1900s; my shop is named after his company,” he said. “I guess graphic arts is kind of in my blood.”

His business does all kinds of printing — photogravure, lithography, screen, letterpress and more — “almost anything but digital reproductions,” he said.

He’s currently especially fond of

photogravure, a process that involves transferring a photographic image to a printing plate.

“Network Paradox Scroll,” a large photogravure etching by Greg Niemeyer and Roger Antonsen, was created with Mullowney Printing and is included in “Local Editions.”

When asked about the future of his chosen medium and keeping a traditional business going in the high-cost-of-living Bay Area, Mullowney said, “print publishing is very expensive. The economics are always a challenge. It’s always a struggle.” Mullowney Printing offers workshops and education in addition to its diverse array of printing capabilities, which helps the business thrive, along with continued interest from the community. “There are a lot of young people who are really into the analogue printing,” he said.

Big-name artists such as the late children’s author/illustrator Maurice Sendak and cartoonist Robert Crumb are represented in the art center’s exhibition thanks to their lithographic work with Trillium Graphics. Stanford University art professor Enrique Chagoya’s “Pyramid Scheme,” digital pigment prints on cans published by Electric Works, are Warhol-esque Campbell’s Soup lookalikes under the name “Cannibulls Soup,” with flavors including “Wall

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The art center’s “summer of printmaking” celebration includes Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordström’s series of color aquatints with etching.

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Street Gumbo” and “Freddie Mac’n’Cheese.”

Marcel Dzama’s whimsical “The Cabin of Count Dracula,” also published by Electric Works, includes not only 20 hand-drawn lithographs but also a little model cabin (home to the vampire family) and a colored vinyl record, “Dracula EP,” by Dzama’s band Albatross Note, which exhibition visitors are invited to play aloud.

Other components of the “Summer of Printmaking” include the free Summer Family Day on Aug. 25, 2-4:30 p.m., with hands-on artmaking and performances; classes for adults in monotyping, etching and collagraph; and the temporary transformation of the Glass Gallery into a primitive printing press, where five local arts will be printing throughout the summer.

Their work will be featured in a celebration on Aug. 22.

“Local Editions” also borrows several prints from Palo Alto’s public art collection, donated by the late Paula and Phillip Kirkeby of Smith Andersen Editions, including David Gilhooly’s etching “First Morning Cup of Paula’s Coffee,” from 1983. Smith Anderson Editions’ former printing press, which the art center now runs from Cubberley Community Center, has been renamed PKP Press in honor of Paula Kirkeby, a former Palo Alto public art commissioner. Works by a selection of artists printing at PKP Press, including Rozanne Hermelyn, Gloria Huet, Anne McGrath Hochberg and Susanne Smith, are on view in the Studio Gallery of the art center through Aug. 25.

“Paula herself was an inspiration to so many, both artists and printers,” Foster said. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

What: “Local Editions: A Celebration of Bay Area Printmaking.”

Where: Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto.

When: Through Aug. 25.

Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Thursday open until 9 p.m.); Sunday 1-5 p.m.

Cost: Free.

Info: tinyurl.com/y3ozclqh.

Eating Out A good catch The Fish Market remains a local institution with seafood classics and modern touches Story by Monica Schreiber | Photos by Sinead Chang

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he Palo Alto Weekly last sent a reviewer to The Fish Market in 1994. The restaurant was a local institution even then. Founders Fred Duckett and Robert Wilson fired up their famous mesquite grill during the Gerald Ford administration, when the term “Silicon Valley” was barely in the lexicon and a gallon of gas cost about 60 cents.

Today, with four other Bay Area locations and two in southern California, as well as its own seafood processing and distribution company, the Palo Alto Fish Market — still in its original location — is one of the true grande dames of the local restaurant scene. Duckett died in 2006; Wilson continues to be involved in the operations.

The shiny and new tend to occupy the attention of critics, but what of those rare places that have managed to transcend trends and withstand the enormous pressures, economic and otherwise, of the industry? I made a few visits to the El Camino Real mainstay for a little nostalgia and to get a sense of how The Fish Market has managed to stay relevant while its hometown barely resembles the sleepy college town it was on opening day in 1976.

The culinary ethos here has always been as no-nonsense as the restaurant’s name: a focus on fresh, lightly seasoned, charbroiled fish served with simple sides and no pretense. The menu changes slightly every day depending on the catch. One thing

that hasn’t changed is the basket of pre-dinner Boudin sourdough bread and butter.

“Many restaurants no longer provide bread as a standard offering, but it is one of our hallmarks,” Vice President of Operations Dwight Colton said in a phone interview. “I think our customers would revolt if we changed that practice.”

Complimentary bread or not, fans of trendy fusion or complex sauces might be feeling a yawn about now. But The Fish Market’s focus on classic, quality seafood has proven an enduring recipe for success. They also have made some smart menu tweaks over the years, such as adding a small sushi menu about a decade ago and, more recently, ahi poke.

Everything about this poke was on point: shimmering cubes of ruby-red yellowfin tuna delicately bathed in sesame oil and soy and served atop a crunchy seaweed salad. A wasabi kick heated things up on the back end. Airy wonton chips, served alongside the generous mound of glistening fish, were light and crunchy. Poke perfection.

The Baja-style crunchy fish tacos ($14.75 for two) also showcase The Fish Market’s more modern side. Corn tortillas enveloped a huge hunk of moist, grilled swordfish, topped with cabbage, cheese, chipotle ranch and pico de gallo. A delicious mesquite grilled artichoke ($9.95), served with a zingy garlic-lemon aioli, rounded out our appetizers.

The linguine with Manila clams

($19.50) has stood the test of time with its classic wine-and-garlic sauce, just a touch of heat from red pepper and a generous serving of sweet, plump clams. The cioppino ($25 small, $36 large), on the menu since the restaurant’s earliest days and described therein as “famous,” is still a solid choice, with two large crab legs, shrimp, mussels, calamari and rockfish in a slightly peppery stew made extra chunky with tomatoes. This signature dish didn’t quite feel “famous” to me (and I daresay Sam’s Chowder House now has the rightful claim to the best cioppino in the area). This one tasted a little flat and was too heavy on the tomato chunks, suggesting a hearty pomodoro pasta sauce more than a seafood stew.

The Fish Market’s cioppino comes with crab legs, shrimp, mussels, calamari and rockfish.

The Ecuadoran seabass ($28.95) initially looked somewhat plain and disappointing, an unadorned piece of fish, a tad on the paltry side with a ho-hum scoop of vegetables and a side of French fries.

But one bite erased any doubt and made clear why The Fish Market still has a lobby full of people waiting for tables on weekend nights. Simple, delicate, moist and smoky, the perfectly grilled piece of fish was a testament to the primordial exquisiteness of open-flame cooking. And those plain-looking, lightly seasoned vegetables turned out to be fresh, crunchy and delicious.

Desserts are old school and comforting, along the lines of key lime pie ($8.50) and warm apple crisp a la mode ($9.50). I happily tucked into a dessert special on offer over Fathers’ Day weekend, a warm upside-down apple pie ($9.50) with a caramelized walnut crust and cinnamon ice cream.

My visits to the restaurant came at peak weekend dinner times and the servers had to move at warp speed through the large dining room. Yet no one missed a beat.

Service was always efficient, friendly and well-timed. Cocktails like the “Mandarin Mule” ($11) were generous and expertly mixed, like in, well, the good old days. No trendy, oversized ice cubes in Lilliputian glasses here.

Still, time marches on, and eventually it is almost always deemed that changes must be made. Colton told me they are planning significant renovations to the restaurant in 2020 to give the place a more modern look. I can’t decide yet if I like that idea, but I suppose you have to trust a restaurant group that seems to have been making smart decisions for more than four decades. Q Freelance writer Monica Schreiber can be emailed at monicahayde@yahoo.com.

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Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever in ‘Spider-Man: Far from Home.’

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With tongue knowingly in cheek, “Spider-Man: Far From Home” plops us firmly into teenmovie territory, even more so than Tom Holland’s first solo Spidey movie, “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” Peter Parker, “a 16-year-old kid from Queens,” just wants to bury his recent pain and focus on winning the heart of classmate MJ (Zendaya), but he’s surrounded by reminders of “the Blip” (the world crisis caused by Thanos and resolved by the Avengers) and fallen heroes.

Peter’s class trip to Europe swiftly goes haywire when “an Avengers-level threat” begins laying waste to Venice. With a plume of green smoke, a new hero arrives

on the scene to fight the extradimensional Elementals: Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal), a.k.a.

Mysterio. Turns out S.H.I.E.L.D. is also on the scene, in the persons of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Maria Hill (Colbie Smulders).

Immediately, Beck sidles up into the mentorship role Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark has left vacant, meaning Parker has three father figures competing for primacy: the sensitive Beck, the angry Fury and the seemingly hapless “Happy” Hogan (Jon Favreau), who has begun seeing Peter’s Aunt May (Marisa Tomei).

Putting aside the teen rom-com and superhero theatrics, “Far From Home” serves above all as

a coming-of-age story for Peter, who bears not only the weight of expectations every teen feels but, much worse, the weight of the world as the potential heir to the world’s greatest hero.

A dastardly villain does emerge, a zeitgeisty one who bellows, “I control the truth!” With at least two fake-news jokes, Peter’s lies to cover his secret identity, and a series of illusions and fake outs, “Far From Home” demands reflection on a post-truth world. Marvel deserves credit for the ways it has so far managed to freshen up the formula, harness genres to its purposes and hold a mirror up to contemporary society.

By my count, the story globetrots through eight countries, often with eye-catching scenery, and director Jon Watts presides over dizzying, acrobatic action sequences that freely explore the possibilities in following around the high-flying Mysterio and webslinging Spidey (performancecapture is also used to good effect).

This action comedy moves with alacrity (super-scored by Michael Giacchino), and if the laughs are often corny, they’re sold well by the cast, including Jacob Batalon, Angourie Rice and Tony Revolori as high schoolers, and Martin Starr and J.B. Smoove as their teacher chaperones — all inadvertently put into harm’s way by the stressed-out Peter. Gyllenhaal’s canny performance goes a long way, and Holland continues to believably channel a teenager who makes mistakes and doubts himself, but finally realizes that he’s the only one with the specialized skills to save this day. (Don’t miss the consequential mid-credits and post-credits scenes, which continue a plot full of surprises and advance the film’s central theme.)

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, some language and brief suggestive comments. Two hours, 9 minutes.

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A monthly special section of news & information for seniors

Eugene and Nadine Wu, who came to Palo Alto in the early 1950s, celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary last month. Photo by Veronica Weber.

A thriving cultural force

The Right Care at The Right Time

Couple recalls ‘amazing’ growth of Palo Alto’s once-fledgling Chinese community

by Chris Kenrick

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Courtesy of Eugene and Nadine Wu

n 1950s Palo Alto, a cup of coffee cost a nickel, an apartment in College Terrace rented for $75 a month and the Chinese community represented a tiny minority of the population: Only 167 residents, or 0.7% of Palo Alto’s residents, were Chinese, according the 1950 U.S. Census.

This is the Palo Alto Eugene and Nadine Wu remember while living in the community as newlyweds. Eugene worked at Stanford University and Nadine at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic. “There was almost no Chinese community. There was no Chinese grocery story. Even buying a bottle of soy sauce was difficult — you had to go to San Francisco to buy those things,� said Eugene, who will turn 97 on July 12. He and Nadine celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary last month.

Today, mainstream Palo Alto grocery stores routinely stock Asian food products, and a house that in the 1950s sold for $13,000 is now valued at $3.4 million. The population of Chinese accounts for 17.5% of the city, according the U.S. Census’ 2017 estimate.

The Wus recently sat down in their Menlo Park home with the Weekly to reflect on the transformation of this minority population, an “unimaginable� change that’s taken place within their lifetimes.

They recalled their early days in Palo

Nadine and Eugene Wu in 1952.

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Eugene was sometimes called upon to receive visitors from Taiwan or Hong Kong who came to Stanford University, and Nadine was invited to Chinatown in San Francisco to celebrate events, such as Chinese National Day, she recalled.

Born in Chengdu, the capital of southwestern China’s Sichuan Province, Eugene came to the United States in 1945 as one of 100 interpreters enlisted to help train Chinese Air Force cadets

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July 1

July 10

Shakespeare Club Every Monday, 10-11:30am, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Current reading: The Tempest. Bring your own book. Drop-in, free.

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Caregiver Support Group 11:30am-1pm – every Wednesday, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Call Paula 650-2895438 for more info. Drop-in, free.

July 4

Avenidas closed. Independence Day.

July 5

First Fridays @Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center Open House – 10-11am, tours; 11am-12pm, caregiver support group. 270 Escuela, Mountain View. Call 650-289-5499 for more info. Free.

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Book Club: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Deckle Edge 2:30-4pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Drop-in, free.

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July 19

Club Aveneedles (Needlework Club) Every Friday, 2-4 pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant.

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July 22

Classical Chinese Mah Jong Every Monday, 1-4pm, Avenidas@459 Bryant.

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Avenidas Village Coffee Chat 2pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Space is limited.

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July 24

Mindfulness Meditation Every Wednesday, 2-3pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Drop-in, free.

July 25

Book Club: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren 2:30-4pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Drop-in, free.

July 26

Senior Adult Legal Assistance appts available for Santa Clara County residents age 60+ Avenidas@450 Bryant. 650-289-5400. Free.

July 29

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Cultural force (continued from page 21)

Courtesy of Eugene and Nadine Wu

to fight against the Japanese in World War II. Eugene had learned English as a young boy in Chengdu — memorizing the Gettysburg Address in high school — studied foreign languages in college and joined the Chinese Army as an interpreter. After the Japanese surrendered, he was able to stay in the United States to attend the University of Washington, where he met Nadine.

He came to Palo Alto in 1951 fresh out of library school after he was hired to help organize the newly acquired Chinese collection at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, which documented China’s political, economic and social developments starting with the 1911 revolution.

Eugene recalled that there were only two Chinese faculty members at Stanford at that time.

While Nadine Wu worked as a lab technician at the old Palo Alto Medical Clinic, Eugene — always formally dressed in pressed shirt and tie — toiled in the basement of Hoover Tower. “We used to boast that we were the ones holding up the tower,” he said.

His job was organizing and cataloging box loads of materials, many of them manuscripts written by leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. “Everything had to be done by hand,” Wu said.

The English in the card catalog could be typewritten, but the Chinese had to be written by hand, he explained.

Living in Palo Alto wasn’t always easy for the Chinese couple.

The Wus said they faced racial discrimination when looking for an apartment in Palo Alto.

“We’d look in the Palo Alto

Eugene Wu was hired to help organize the newly acquired Chinese collection at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 1951.

Times and find vacancies, but when we went and knocked on the door and they saw our faces, they’d say, ‘Sorry, the place has been rented,’” Eugene said.

Nadine said they eventually found a close-knit neighborhood where their son and daughter — born in 1957 and 1960 — spent their early childhood years.

“Our neighbors were wonderful — we were all young mothers,” Nadine said about living on Louis Road. “It was very safe. You could unlock your door, go to the neighbor’s house and nothing happened.”

The Wus felt so secure that they let their 5-year-old son walk unaccompanied to his piano teacher’s house.

In the early 1960s, the Wus moved to Massachusetts, where they spent 33 years while Eugene directed the Harvard-Yenching Library, a major center for East Asian research. When they returned to the Palo Alto area for retirement in the late 1990s, they were astonished by the growth and dynamism of the local

Chinese community.

“We joined a Chinese church, and it has eight branches all over the Bay Area,” Nadine said. The main branch — located in Menlo Park and serving a mix of people from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and even some U.S.-born Chinese — holds multiple services every Sunday.

“It’s amazing how the makeup of the Chinese community changed over time,” Eugene said.

Before World War II, the Chinese community consisted of mainly Cantonese immigrants who ran restaurants and laundries.

After World War II, the influx of new immigrants, mostly nonCantonese, were academics and computer technicians, he said.

“After 1980, mainland Chinese students came to study, and it’s amazing to see how many remained here and became professors at universities, medical doctors, engineers,” Eugene said. “This was just unimaginable before.”

Contributing Writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly.com.

A NEW, LOCAL PLANET ... The senior services agency Avenidas this month inaugurates Senior Planet, an outpost of a New York City-based group that describes itself as a “tech-themed resource for people 60-plus who are living and aging with attitude.” The group, which has a dedicated space inside agency’s newly refurbished headquarters at 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto, will offer classes and resources on topics such as finance and technology tips for seniors, healthy aging, senior dating and sex, and senior travel.

Classes on technology and finance begin this month, and the interests of members will determine future programs, said Senior Planet Regional Director Ryan Kawamoto.

Membership is free. Tuition for a 10week class that meets twice a week is $50. For more information, go to avenidas.org, seniorplanet.org or call Kawamoto at 650-918-5570.

DOCUMENTARY ABOUT TOXINS ... “Stink!” a 2015 documentary exploring why toxins are legally hidden in some American consumer products, will be shown Monday, July 8, at 3 p.m. at the Channing House Auditorium, 850 Webster St., Palo Alto. The 91-minute film, directed by Jon J. Whelan and produced by Whelan and Krista Saponara, is part of the United Nations Association Film Festival. Free and open to the public.

LINE DANCING ... Beginners are welcome and no partner is needed for a class on line dancing, offered

most Tuesdays from July 9 to Sept. 10, 1-2:30 p.m. at Avenidas@ Cubberley, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Line dancing exercises the brain and body while enhancing balance, according to instructors Sandy Hsu and Kent You. Music will include pop from around the world, classics and seasonal songs. Free. For more information, go to avenidas.org.

CAREGIVING ... Social work manager Paula Wolfson will speak on “ the emotional work inherent within caregiving,” on Saturday, Aug. 3. The event is part of a series called the Avenidas Care Partners Forum, featuring topics of interest to caregivers. The free event will be at Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center, 270 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. Space is limited and reservations are required. Call 650-289-5400.

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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman of Menlo Park will screen three of her short documentaries, including “Shattering the Myth of Aging,” on Wednesday, July 31, at Avenidas@450Bryant in Palo Alto.

The screenings will be followed by a conversation with Fadiman moderated by Jasmina Bojic, director of Stanford’s Camera As Witness program and founder of the United Nations Association Film Festival, which holds special screenings for seniors at Channing House and Avenidas. The event is a fundraiser for the United Nations Association Film Festival for Seniors, and a minimum donation of $60 is suggested. For more information, go to unaff.org.

Items for Senior Focus may be emailed to Palo Alto Weekly Contributing Writer Chris Kenrick at ckenrick@ paweekly.com.

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TREE SURVEY ... Help keep Palo Alto’s street trees healthy by volunteering for a street tree survey with Canopy on Saturday, July 6, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

You’ll learn to assess basic tree care needs, and using Canopy’s tree map on your phone, go out in a group of two to five people to locate and survey street trees throughout a neighborhood. This is a flexible volunteer opportunity suitable for all ages (and counts toward high school service hours ). Sign up at canopy.org or for more information, email info@canopy.org.

TOP-SELLING LOCAL REALTORS ... Five teams of local real estate agents and 11 individual local sales people were among the top-selling 250 teams and 250 agents nationwide this past year, according to REAL Trends, a private communications company that annually publishes “The Thousand” list.

Palo Alto Realtor Ken DeLeon took the top spot in the team category: The DeLeon team was No. 1 in volume, with $853,540,013 in annual sales.

At No. 17, Keri Nicholas of Parc Agency Corporation in Menlo Park was the top local individual seller by volume, with sales of $227,009,500. Find a complete listing of top-selling local teams and individuals at paloaltoonline.com.

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ometimes Bob Silverstein rolls his bees in sugar. It’s the gentler approach to removing the parasites that often infest his hives.

When he aims for accuracy though, he can’t be gentle: he grabs a metal measuring cup and a glass mason jar with a small mesh screen for a lid and brings them out to the six beehives in his backyard.

Then he opens a hive, scoops out a half cup of bees and seals them in the jar. Quickly, he pours rubbing alcohol onto the 300 buzzing martyrs and swishes vigorously, drowning them all.

When the body of every bee is soaked, he drains the liquid through the mesh lid and counts the black spots that come out with it — each one is a varroa mite. If he counts too many, Silverstein — a retired orthopedic surgeon — will treat the infected hive with an oxalic acid vapor, which he likens to a doctor treating his patients.

Silverstein is among hundreds of beekeepers along the Peninsula trying to fight off the deadly mites, which are killing 40% of the country’s honey bee colonies each year.

The mite epidemic is one of the first things new beekeepers learn about when they start tending bees on the Midpeninsula. The next thing they learn is that they have to pick a side: Treat the colonies or let nature take its course.

Many beekeepers insist bees can fight off the mites on their own. In order for that to work, they say, every beekeeper has to stop treating because it interferes with natural selection — the ability for bees to evolve their defense mechanisms.

“It’s almost a religious divide among beekeepers,” said Tori Muir, former president of the Beekeepers’ Guild of San Mateo County, who like Silverstein uses strips and sprays to keep mite populations down.

Menlo Park resident David Wuertele — a treatment-free

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by Kali Shiloh

beekeeper — watched all three of his hives die last year, but he doesn’t think it’s because his treatment-free practices “killed” his bees.

“I believe that any attempt to treat mites prevents evolution from improving our gene stock, and interferes with treatment-free beekeepers’ efforts,” he wrote in an email. Wuertele — a software engineer at Tesla — sees initial losses as a part of the process of genetic evolution, which would result in stronger bees if treaters stopped keeping genetically weak bees alive with chemicals.

While locals are still struggling to come to a consensus on how to get rid of the mites, all beekeepers agree that death by varroa is traumatic.

After nesting in brood chambers alongside growing bee pupae, varroa mites hatch and pierce through the abdomen of adult bees to feast on an organ called “fatty tissue,” which helps control the bee’s immune system. This weakens the bees and leaves them highly susceptible to crippling diseases like Deformed Wing Virus.

Guild member Nickie Irvine, who has been beekeeping for 15 years, confronts the scourge without chemicals, but she doesn’t exactly leave the bees to do it on their own, either.

After teaching environmental anthropology at Stanford University for 25 years, Irvine is wellversed in research and the scientific method. She now approaches each of her backyard hives as a genetic experiment to test different ways of reducing varroa numbers without using chemical treatments.

When word spread that some

Russian bees had adapted to better withstand varroa, she bought queens from those colonies.

If she sees good resistance in a hive — from Russian or other strong genes — she’ll split the hive so the strong bees can raise a new queen, which creates two healthy hives from one.

Other times she’ll graft larvae from one hive into another to spread the strength of the gene pool.

There’s no shortage of creative (if not complex) alternatives to treatment, so in the quest for a solution to the varroa epidemic, Irvine would like to see more tolerance of beekeepers who explore unconventional methods.

“We need to let more people experiment to see what works and what doesn’t,” she said.

On the Peninsula, no sentinel hives — colonies that are heavily monitored to detect the presence of varroa — can warn beekeepers, because the mites have been in California since at least 1989.

The question is not if a hive will get varroa, it’s when. Many backyard beekeepers weigh factors like honey production, the bees’ suffering and chemical toxicity when considering treatment options, but those aren’t necessarily in line with the nature of a hive.

“Bees are brutally community minded,” Muir said. “It’s all about what helps us — (the colony) — survive. There’s no cult of personality or anything — with them it’s just about metrics.”

She explained how in winter, when resources are scarce, the colony will push drone bees out of the hive to starve. Or, if a queen is underperforming, how the colony

Burlingame beekeeper Bob Silverstein checks a frame from one of his hives. Local beekeepers disagree on whether or not to treat miteinfected hives.

will raise a new queen and huddle around the old one, beating their wings furiously until she explodes from the heat. It’s a merciless version of altruism that few beekeepers dare simulate.

Irvine said she doesn’t think she could stomach killing an entire colony suffering from high numbers of varroa mites — which some researchers advocate — but she’ll move larvae and buy queens.

Silverstein and Muir prefer the oxalic acid treatment, but every approach has its tradeoffs.

“The people who monitor for mites year round and treat whenever the mite population starts spiking up, they (rarely) lose hives,” Muir said. “But very few people want to keep bees that way, and at some point you have to question — you’re keeping them alive, but at what cost, because you’re constantly treating for mites.” Q Kali Shiloh writes for the Weekly’s sister publication The Six-Fifty. You can reach her at kshiloh@ embarcaderopublishing.com.

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Two local beekeepers’ guilds welcome both new and experienced beekeepers.

Beekeepers’ Guild of San Mateo Meets the first Thursday of the month in San Carlos. sanmateobeeguild.org/ or learnaboutbees@ sanmateobeeguild.org Santa Clara Valley Beekeeping Guild Meets the first Monday of the month in San Jose. beeguild.org or 408-634-BEES

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NAR is very eager to have its members up their professionalism, particularly in this global economy and changing market dynamics of the real estate industry.”

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International Activity in U.S. Residential Real Estate,” foreign buyers purchased $121 billion of residential property from April 2017 to March 2018. The major foreign buyers were China ($30.4B), Canada ($10.5B), the United Kingdom ($7.3B), India ($7.2B), and Mexico ($4.2B).

Five states accounted for 53 percent of total residential property purchases: Florida (19 percent), California (14 percent), Texas (9 percent), New York (5 percent), and Arizona (5 percent). Compared to their shares in the previous 12-month period, the shares of Florida and Texas declined, while the shares of California, New York, and Arizona increased.

The CIPS Institute Sponsors of the Day this year were Anita Rodal, international liaison with AFEX (Associated Foreign Exchange) and president of SBPI Services; Michael Cobb, chair and CEO of ECI Development; Lisa Wendl with General Mortgage Capital Corp.; and Winnie Y. Ho, premier mortgage consultant with HSBC; and First American Exchange Company. ***** Information provided in this column is presented by the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®. Send questions to Rose Meily at rmeily@silvar.org.

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BASEBALL ROUNDUP … Palo Alto will open the Northern California 13-15-year-old Babe Ruth state championships at 4 p.m. Saturday against the District 2 champion Sonoma at the Belmont Sports Complex … Former Sacred Heart Prep star Andrew Daschbach signed with the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday for $250,000 ($125,000 counting against the bonus pool).

He was taken in the 11th round, the 318th overall pick.

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CARDINAL CORNER … Stanford Athletic Director Bernard Muir announced the hiring of Ted Sobolewski as Stanford’s Director of Men’s Rowing and Brian Swingly as head coach of Stanford sailing.

Sobolewski joins the Cardinal after serving as the associate head coach at Northeastern for the previous four seasons. Swingly comes to The Farm after 13 years with the Coast Guard Academy sailing team, including the last 10 as head coach … Stanford head coach Kate Bertko and the women’s lightweight rowing program were honored as the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Coach and Crew of the Year, Stanford has captured the IRA team championship each of the last five years … Stanford athletes continue to gain popularity as Pan American Games rosters are being set across the region. Junior women’s basketball forward Alyssa Jerome is the latest as she was named to Canada’s roster for the Pan American Games that start Aug. 6 in Lima, Peru. Cardinal teammate Kiana Williams will play for the U.S. …

Stanford senior and reigning AVCA National Player of the Year Kathryn Plummer joins 13 others who were named to the United States’ women’s national volleyball team that will compete at the Pan American Cup, which opens Saturday in Peru … Flo Track reported that Stanford Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Chris Miltenberg left The Farm to take over the same positions at North Carolina … Stanford won the 2018-19 Learfield IMG College Directors’ Cup, extending its streak to 25 consecutive seasons of winning the award, presented to the most successful intercollegiate athletic department in the nation.

Former Stanford star Christen Press got the U.S. women’s soccer team off to a roaring start with a goal early on in the team’s 2-1 semifinal win over England.

WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

U.S. team continues dominant run to final Former Stanford standout Christen Press puts U.S. on top with early goal

by Rick Eymer ormer Stanford All-American Christen Press took advantage of her opportunity.

Press and Alex Morgan, celebrating her birthday, each scored in the first half for the Americans, who have won a record 11 consecutive World Cup matches, defeated England 2-1 in the FIFA Women’s World Cup semifinals on Tuesday in Decines-Chappieu, France.

The U.S. advances to its third consecutive final Sunday at 8 a.m. against Netherlands, which edged Sweden 1-0 in overtime.

Press, who started in place of Megan Rapinoe, who sustained

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a slight hamstring strain, put the U.S. ahead 1-0 in the 10th minute on a header off a perfectly placed long crossing pass from former Cardinal teammate Kelley O’Hara.

“I always say we have multiple starters at multiple positions,” coach Jill Ellis said. “I knew and trusted she would be ready for the moment.”

Press was also part of Morgan’s goal as he took a long pass and sent it along to Lindsey Horan, who served it up to Morgan in the box.

The British tied the match in the 19th minute and had a goal in the second half taken off the board

because of an offside call.

Becky Sauerbrunn was issued a yellow card for tripping inside the box and England was awarded a penalty kick in the 84th minute.

Goaalkeeper Alyssa Naeher dove right, smothered the ball to her chest and saved Team USA’s victory.

In an earlier game, Rapinoe scored both goals in a 2-1 victory over host France in the quarterfinals, never backing down from a staunch effort by the French nor from the controversy resulting from her outspoken and unfiltered expression of political views.

“It’s everything you want,” said

Rapinoe. “A good, healthy hostile crowd. Our fans were amazing but they were no match for the blue fans. There was so much energy in the stadium and France had a lot of the ball so that energized their fans. We didn’t have the best night on the ball, but the focus defensively, the discipline to do what we did is tremendous.”

Two members of that defensive unit are Menlo Park resident and Sacred Heart Prep graduate Abby Dahlkemper and former Stanford All-American Kelley O’Hara, the Cardinal’s all-time leading scorer (continued on page 31)

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by Glenn Reeves SA’s Christian Coleman lowered his world lead in winning the men’s 100-meter race in 9.81 at Sunday’s Prefontaine Track and Field Classic as part of the IAAF Diamond League at Stanford’s Cobb Track and Angell Field, which drew a sellout crowd of 8,128, the largest crowd at Stanford since 1962.

“I just try to go out and compete and try to come out with a win, but, obviously, guys are steadily getting better and better and always running faster,” Coleman

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Saturday

Christian Coleman ran a world-best time of 9.80 in winning the 100 at the Prefontaine Classic.

said. “It’s going take some pretty good training to get a gold medal at the end of the year.”

Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei in the men’s two mile and Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot in the men’s mile also took over the world lead while two Diamond League records and four meet records were also set on a thoroughly satisfying afternoon involving the world’s top athletes.

“It was amazing,” Cheptegei said of his 8:07.54. “It was really a big atmosphere … the fans were (continued on page 30)

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement TERRAZO APARTMENTS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN655550 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Terrazo Apartments, located at 2105 South Bascom Ave Suite 230, Campbell, CA 95008, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A limited liability company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): TOWMAN TERRAZO, LLC 2105 South Bascom Ave Suite 230 Campbell, CA 95008 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/04/2019.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 6, 2019.

(PAW June 14, 21, 28; July 5, 2019) EVIA APARTMENTS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN655549 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Evia Apartments, located at 2105 South Bascom Ave Suite 230, Campbell, CA 95008, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A limited liability company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): EVIA CAPITAL LLC 2105 South Bascom Ave Campbell, CA 95008 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/04/2019.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 6, 2019.

(PAW June 14, 21, 28, July 5, 2019)

997 All Other Legals ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.:19CV345264 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: JI YOON CHAI filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: JI YOON CHAI to MARIA JIYOON CHAI. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: July 30, 2019, 8:45 a.m.,Room: PROBATE of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY. Date:March 27, 2019 /s/ Julie A. Emede JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW June 21, 28; July 5, 12 )

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yelling. They were like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Woah, woah!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And it got me a little motivation to win the race.â&#x20AC;?

Paul Chelimo, born in Kenya but competing as an American, was second in 8:07.59.

In all, 13 facility records (of 19 events) were established at Stanford as well as dozens of personal and season bests, which made the meet one of the top track and field events ever contested on Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus.

Coleman held off Justin Gatlin, who finished in 9.87, in a race between Tennessee runners (Gatlin is 14 years older than Coleman).

Great Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Zharnel Hughes, who has trained with Usain Bolt, was third in 9.97. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always good to run on home soil,â&#x20AC;? Coleman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The crowd was hype.â&#x20AC;?

Stanford has played host to important meets throughout its history, including the 1941 NCAA Championships, the 1932 and 1960 Olympic Trials, and the epic 1962 USA-USSR dual that has been described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the greatest track meet of all time.â&#x20AC;?

But there never has been a meet at Stanford with the quality of Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prefontaine Classic. The oldest facility record surpassed was that of Jeff Fishbackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 9:06.8 two-mile from the Pacific Association AAU meet of 1962, which was erased by 59 seconds.

Other top marks included Swedenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Armand Duplantisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 19-5 1/2 in the pole vault, Brazilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Darlan Romaniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 74-7 1/4 and Ukraineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Yuliya Levchenkoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 6-8 1/2 in the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high jump. Those marks exceeded any Jenner Classic meet or U.S. national championship, which were held at Stanford in 2002 and 2003.

The womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 100 meters was just as entertaining as Ivory Coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marie-Josee Ta Lou defended her title from last season with a time of 11.02, the fastest Diamond League mark of the season.

LSUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aleia Hobbs was second on 11.04, followed by Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Teahna Daniels (11.13) and 19-year-old Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Carri Richardson (11.15) in her professional debut. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The race felt good. I noticed some tweaks I could make, even throughout the race,â&#x20AC;? Richardson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t my best race, but I know it was an OK race for it to be my first pro race, but I just noticed some areas of improvement and will only get better.â&#x20AC;? Q

Sports “That’s the most intense match I’ve ever been a part of,” said Ellis, (continued from page 29) who helped recruit Dahlkemper to UCLA but left to join the national when she left The Farm. Tierna team before getting the chance to Davidson, another former Stanford coach her there. “They have superb and Sacred Heart Prep standout, players, coaches, so it was very special. Our whole back also has added to the line was tremendous; stellar defensive showthere was a lot they had ing. She started the to deal with.” match against Chile and C r yst a l Dunn played a strong game, marked French forcontributing two corner ward Kadidiatou Dikicks to the attack. ani, essentially elimiFrance scored its nating her from the goal with just under equation. Julie Ertz, 10 minutes remaining in regulation and Abby Dahlkemper Sauerbrunn, O’Hara, Dahlkemper just missed redirect- Dahlkemper, Samantha Mewis and Naeher were solid against a ing the header to safety.

Notably, it’s what wasn’t seen relentless French attack. Q that made the difference. The hard work, the support system and the unity of the back line clearly helped neutralize an outstanding French offense.

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20 Location of Ball State University 22 Future viewer 23 Farm habitats 24 Not worth a ___ (without value) 27 Classic (and, today, problematic) comic strip character Andy 31 Peevish mood 32 Went on an unfriending spree, maybe 36 “Old MacDonald” sounds 38 It’s equal to the sum of the two before it 42 Made up (for) 43 “A Streetcar Named Desire” shout 44 Sea eagles 46 Leaves town 48 Figure on Fox’s “First Responders Live”, e.g.

49 “... and Bingo was his ___” 51 Remove the rind from 55 Durational patterns in music 60 Gallery showing 61 And your secret ingredient is ...

64 “Why would this even happen?!” cry 65 “___ kleine Nachtmusik” 66 “Red Rocks” city of Arizona 67 Stereotypically Canadian interjections 68 Those things, in Tijuana 69 Setting of Hulu’s “Shrill” Down 1 Gp. that keeps planes from hitting each other

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2 The Great Lakes’ ___ Canals 3 “Let me think ...”

4 “The Stranger” author 5 “Can you carry ___?”

6 Present time, poetically 7 Running speed 8 Trendy berry that will probably outlive its popularity thanks to crosswords 9 Fax cover sheet abbr.

10 Oboists need them 11 Like some goals 12 Sultanate on the South China Sea 13 Orioles’ div.

18 “If memory serves,” in text shorthand

21 “___, Mario!” (Nintendo catchphrase) 24 Abbr. on a sunscreen bottle 25 Yes, to Pierre 26 Snopes debunks them 28 Multiple-choice question choices, perhaps 29 ___ gow poker 30 “Chopped” props 33 Prepped 34 Brian who produced several U2 albums 35 “Aw, shoot!”

37 Cautionary connector 39 Head boss 40 State tree of Massachusetts 41 Sewer rodent

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44 Fill with fury 45 Overtly enthusiastic 47 Made, like cotton candy 50 “Well, golly” 52 ___ forth 53 Kitchen tool for potatoes 54 Chopin practice piece 56 3-D scans 57 College in New Rochelle, N.Y. 58 Pool props 59 City pollution 62 Suffix for a particle 63 Photographer Goldin © 2019 Matt Jones

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