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R esidents who oppose Cas-tilleja School’s proposed expansion and even some

who support the school told Cas-tilleja officials during a Tuesday night neighborhood meeting to hit the reset button on their plans. But in an email to the Weekly on

Wednesday, school officials said they won’t go back to the draw-ing board.

Castilleja parent and neighbor-hood resident Matt Glickman, who supports the expansion, said a “reset” could possibly cut through the morass of accusations and

anger over the project, which has sharply divided the neighborhood.

But exactly what a “reset” means is in itself further polar-izing the school expansion’s sup-porters and opponents.

The 110-year-old school, which educates girls from all economic backgrounds, says it must rebuild much of its 6-acre campus to modernize and continue provid-ing young women with a high-quality education. But it also

wants to expand its student body to 540 students — about 125 more than the maximum allowed under its current city-sanctioned condi-tional-use permit, which caps en-rollment at 415 students.

The school’s proposal, and par-ticularly plans to add an under-ground garage with an entrance and exit onto residential streets, has set off a firestorm of criti-cism among a group of residents who say their voices are not being

heard. Other residents supporting the expansion refute that charac-terization, saying that the school has given ample opportunities for residents to express their views.

Tuesday’s meeting, one of two the school is required to hold annually, was an olive branch of sorts by the school, which al-lowed the opposing residents to set the agenda and format. It

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But school officials, residents who oppose expansion, disagree on the definition of ‘reset’

by Sue Dremann

At Castilleja meeting, a call to ‘reset’ the project

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W hen Anthony Secviar and Dennis Kelly, al-ums of three-Michelin-

starred restaurant The French Laundry in Yountville, decided three years ago to open a “world-class” restaurant on Palo Alto’s California Avenue, they didn’t ex-pect to find themselves ensnared in intense zoning debates.

But that’s exactly what they say has happened in their quest to open their establishment, called Protégé. To accommodate the res-taurant, the developer of the new mixed-use building at 260 Cali-fornia asked the city to modify the building’s plans, which led a resi-dent’s challenge of the proposal, a 10-month process to obtain a permit, a series of public hearings and a bitter dispute over parking spaces, zoning regulations and the nature of public sidewalks.

The debate could conclude on Monday night, when the City Coun-cil is scheduled to consider approv-ing Protégé’s alcohol permit and affirming the recent conclusions of the city’s Planning and Transporta-tion Commission and Architectural Review Board that the project com-plies with a vague zoning provision that deals with “common spaces.” Both bodies voted unanimously last week to move the project ahead.

At the heart of the debate is the switch of the ground-floor space from planned use as general retail (which was in the development’s initial application that the city approved in 2013) to restaurant, which has more stringent parking requirements. In the eyes of Palo

Alto resident Jeff Levinsky, a land-use watchdog, the project no longer complies with requirements for parking; it’s short by one space.

Last week, he argued in front of both the planning commission and the architectural board that the error stemmed from the city staff’s miscalculation of the floor area, which determines how much parking the development needs to provide. City planning staff ac-knowledged as much: It had ini-tially failed to include the outdoor seating areas — tables, chairs and space to access the seating area — as part of the gross floor area of the building. That outdoor space added up to about 150 square feet. While the zoning code is vague on the subject, staff concluded in the revision of the floor area that outdoor areas where customers are not served should not be counted.

Now, staff and the developer maintain that the error has been corrected through several minor revisions. The developer, Mark Conroe, agreed to add two park-ing spaces through installation of “puzzle lifts” for cars in the ga-rage. Levinsky, however, argued that this isn’t enough and that another space is needed because even the revised calculations fail to consider sections of the build-ing that are deemed “common ar-eas.” He said those areas should be counted as part of the restau-rant and thus contribute to the restaurant’s parking requirements.

“We do have a parking crisis in

High-end restaurant sparks debate over

outdoor seatingFrench Laundry alums on the cusp of getting

long-sought permit for California Avenue restaurantby Gennady Sheyner

NEIGHBORHOODS

T he front walls of 16 Eichler homes in Palo Alto’s Greenmeadow neighbor-

hood will become movie screens on June 10, showing films of the indoor activities of residents in an innovative art installation that will debut at sundown.

Titled “California Living Proj-ect II: Palo Alto,” the project en-tails 20 different film loops, all several minutes long, depicting the south Palo Alto neighborhood in a commentary on the paradox of openness and simultaneous isolation, according to its makers, two visual and dance artists.

Developer Joseph Eichler’s icon-ic mid-20th-century tract homes

are known for having private fronts with no windows or very small ones but floor-to-ceiling glass rear windows and doors, allowing resi-dents to interact with the natural environment of their backyards.

For filmmaker Nate Page, this architectural design provided him a window into residents’ inner worlds.

Page’s camera recorded what the residents did within the homes for between 20 and 90 minutes, cap-turing both intimate and creative moments: a woman sitting alone practicing her recorder; a man playing with his dog; a family dancing together in their kitchen; a mother coddling her baby; a teen break dancing while talking on his

cell phone; a woman weaving on a loom while a man strolled in a car-toon-character mask. In the films, dinner parties and game nights are punctuated by voices, chirping crickets or atmospheric music.

Page’s own childhood experi-ences in the Midwest suburbs pro-vided the impetus for the project.

“It was a fairly alienating expe-rience of neighborhood. I would see the lights of the TV flicker-ing in (people’s) windows, and I’d get a glimpse of the psychology of the residents by what they were watching on television,” he said.

Page developed a similar project

Film project highlights Greenmeadow, screens June 10

Art collaboration combines Eichler living, community and danceby Sue Dremann

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Around TownSCHOOL EYES INCLUSIVE PLAYGROUND ... If all goes well, Addison Elementary School could become the site of Palo Alto’s second inclusive Magical Bridge Playground. The school board discussed Tuesday night a staff proposal to apply for a $300,000 grant from Santa Clara County, which would be matched by the Addison Parent Teacher Association, to build the playground, which could accommodate children with varying physical and cognitive abilities. The proposal is part of a major revamp of the Addison campus, to be funded by a private, anonymous donor. (The playground would not be covered by the donor, however.) Board members expressed strong support for the proposal — Todd Collins said he was “wildly in favor” — but said the issue of parity among all elementary schools should be addressed. Will the district plan in its next facilities bond, for example, to build a Magical Bridge Playground at every elementary campus? Board members also raised the question of partnering with the City of Palo Alto to build more playgrounds. The first Magical Bridge Playground opened in Palo Alto’s Mitchell Park in 2015.

POTSHOTS ... Palo Alto’s reputation as a left-leaning leader on all things green will be put to the test next Tuesday, when the City Council’s Policy and Services Committee considers a new law targeting the outdoor cultivation of marijuana. The proposed law would apply to both recreational and medical use. It would also ban commercial cultivation facilities, manufacturing facilities, retailers and warehouses, though delivery of marijuana would still be legal. The new law, if approved, would supplement a similar ordinance that the council passed in October, one week before California voters approved Proposition 64, known as the Adult Use of Marijuana Act. In anticipation of the act’s passage, council members agreed that banning outdoor cultivation (the Act explicitly permits indoor cultivation of up to six plants) is the safest way to navigate through a shifting legal landscape. Councilman Cory Wolbach argued at the time the

ban would allow the council to “buy ourselves a little bit of time to figure out what the appropriate response is, should Prop. 64 pass.” Under his advice, the council also agreed that the ban would sunset in November 2017, when the situation would be less hazy. But now, with legalized marijuana clearly the law of the land, the council will consider removing the sunset clause. And while pot is hardly a burning issue in Palo Alto, staff is moving ahead with a sense of urgency. According to a report from the office of City Attorney Molly Stump, the city’s ability to ban pot cultivation will be curtailed after Jan. 1, 2018, when the state will begin issuing licenses for marijuana dispensaries. The new prohibitions, Stump argued, “will give the City more time to consider which, if any, commercial activities should be permitted in the City, and whether to adopt more permissive regulations.”

NEW COMMISSIONERS ... The Palo Alto Human Relations Commission welcomed two new members last week: Deepali Brahmbhatt and Steven D. Lee. Brahmbhatt, previously an engineer, is an attorney at Palo Alto-based law firm Progress LLP. She’s also an inventor on five patents related to networking, security and multimedia technologies, according to her commission biography. She brings an interest in Palo Alto’s diversity and inclusive policies, including online and cyber-related policies and their impact on seniors, adults and children. She replaces former member and chairman Greer Stone, who has joined the Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission. Brahmbhatt’s term expires May 31, 2019. Lee is corporate counsel at Farmer’s Business Network Inc., a Silicon Valley-based technology startup focused on helping farmers by sharing information, providing unbiased analysis and creating competition for farmers’ business, according to his biography on the city’s website. He has served on seven other commissions, including Santa Clara County’s Housing and Community Development Advisory Committee. He replaces commissioner Daryl Savage, who left for a job with the FBI. Lee’s term expires May 31, 2020.

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Anthony Secviar, whose plans to open a high-end restaurant in Palo Alto have been delayed. See story on page 5.

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P alo Alto High School’s new 91,765-square-foot athletic complex, set to

open this fall, rivals most high schools’ and even some colleges’ athletic facilities.

It has dedicated wrestling and dance rooms, a vast weight room, a training room with a hydrothera-py tub, a golf simulator, numerous coaches’ offices with flat-screen TVs for watching game footage, multiple locker rooms, a large classroom for courses on nutrition and sports medicine and not one but two gyms, among many other bells and whistles. Throughout the building, enormous arched win-dows that match the architecture of the campus let in natural light.

The new complex more than doubles the square footage of Pa-ly’s historic 85-year-old gym, which was demolished in the fall of 2015.

“I’ve never seen a high school have this,” said Tom Hodges, principal of fs3|Hodges,

the construction management company for the project. “Never.”

The $41.6 million project was made possible by a private donation from the Peery family, who in 2013 said they wanted to provide a com-munity space that would “nurture the whole child and provide some balance in the fast-paced, work-obsessed environment we live in.”

The Peery family donated $23.4 million to build the athletic center

— thought to be the single largest gift the Palo Alto school district has ever received. The school dis-trict’s share grew from an original $5.7 million in 2013 to a final $18.2 million, funded entirely through the $378 million “Strong Schools” bond voters passed in 2008.

Jason Peery, son of Paly gradu-ate Richard Peery, told the Week-ly the athletic center has turned out “the way we hoped.”

“It’s not only an awesome facility but also an opportunity for the whole school to gather together, hang out together and support each other in a way they couldn’t before with the previous gym,” he wrote in an email.

While an official grand opening is scheduled for Oct. 21, coaches, athletics staff and physical-edu-cation teachers have been eagerly familiarizing themselves with the space in recent weeks and months, said Palo Alto Unified Bond Pro-gram Manager Bob Golton.

Student-athletes will be able to use some of the new facilities, pri-marily the weight room, as early as July. The weight room, despite be-ing below ground, is large and airy, with rubber flooring that features images of Paly’s mascot, the Vi-king. Next door, a fitness room will soon be filled with rowing, bicy-cling and other aerobics machines that will be accessible to students of all skill levels, said Paly Athletic Director Kathi Bowers.

The new basement level of the complex, which added 50,523 square feet, houses the weight room and fitness room as well as main PE locker rooms, team lock-er rooms, restrooms and showers; a PE classroom with a projector; office space for PE teachers; a break room for coaches and teach-ers; a small, gender-neutral locker room with showers; and a golf room with a simulator so the team can practice even if it’s raining.

The complex is a huge boon not only to the sports teams, Bowers said, but to the PE department and broader school community.

“It’s more than just athletics,” she told the Weekly. “It’s first and foremost an educational building.”

On the ground level is the wres-tling room, dance studio (whose floor is made of wood that has more bounce to it), a lactation room and the main entrance. Previously,

the wrestling and dance teams shared a space about one-third of the size, Bowers said. There’s also a second, small gym, which seats 250 people. A memento from the floor of the old gym — a circular, green piece that reads “Palo Alto Vikings” — is now mounted on one of the small gym’s walls.

Outside, the swimming pool was largely untouched, but the pool’s deck was expanded, outdoor showers were added and dedicated locker rooms built for the students involved in swimming activities.

The crowning feature of the com-plex is the new main gym. It seats 1,640, has a new audio-visual sys-tem, movable seats and can be split into three sections to accommodate three teams simultaneously.

With seats on the court, the space is large enough to accom-modate the entire school for as-semblies, Hodges said on a recent

tour of the space. A traditional trophy case stretch-

ing along one side of the gym above the seats will showcase the history of Paly athletics with trophies, plaques, oil paintings of various sports by an artist and Paly alum and other mem-orabilia, Bowers said.

Just off the gym there’s a small, secondary training room, locker rooms, equipment storage and even a laundry room.

As with Paly’s other facilities, the new athletic center will be rentable for community use and events, tak-ing in $25,000 per year or more.

Bowers said she has led some “very, very excited” groups of stu-dents on early tours of the facility.

“They can’t wait” to take full advantage of the center, she said. “They’re chomping at the bit.”

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

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Palo Alto,” Levinsky said. “We have many under-parked buildings. We’re missing hundreds of parking spaces, and that’s a burden to every-body — commuters, business own-ers, customers and nearby residents.

“And it shifts the cost from the building owner to everyone else.”

Levinsky also argued that the city is trying to have it both ways when it comes to the eating areas located on sidewalks: It treats them as relevant when discussing the restaurant’s encroachment into public space but not when calcu-lating the density of the building.

Levinsky called it a “Schroed-inger’s cafe” — an allusion to the theoretical cat that both is and isn’t alive — and said the paradox makes the city’s laws seem absurd.

“I don’t think it’s a good way to make a law that the same area is both an eating area and not an eat-ing area at the same time,” he said.

But for Secviar and Kelly, the debate has already gone on for far too long and has already been settled by planning staff. After 10 months of delays, Secviar told the planning commission on May 31, “To say I am frustrated and con-fused is but a tip of the iceberg.”

“We should not be held hostage in order to provide a forum to de-bate the city’s policies and how you uphold and enforce the laws,” Secviar told the planning commis-sion. “We should not suffer simply because Mr. Levinsky does not trust the city to do its job.”

Conroe, the developer, also argued that Protégé is being tar-geted for political reasons.

“We’ve been unfairly caught up in a political crossfire between Mr. Levinsky and the city,” he said. “We’re being used by Mr. Levinsky as his whipping boy or battering ram to promote his political agenda.”

The planning commissioners last week agreed that the process has taken too long and that the res-taurant should be approved. Com-missioners Susan Monk and Eric Rosenblum both fully endorsed staff’s interpretation and favored approving the project, which Rosenblum said is “exactly in keeping” with the city’s objective of developing California Avenue. Having an empty space on a street that the city recently spent $7 mil-lion to renovate and revitalize is “exactly anti-public interest.”

“We’re trying to balance these things,” Rosenblum said, refer-ring to parking requirements and the public interest. “It seems to me this is compliant. In addition

to that, there is a strong interest in having vibrant space in a place we’re trying to develop.”

Commissioners Doria Summa and Przemek Gardias were more skeptical and suggested that the de-veloper provide an additional park-ing spot. Gardias said he was con-cerned about a “domino effect” of other restaurants providing insuffi-cient parking. Summa seemed frus-trated after Conroe acknowledged that the building was constructed with grease traps on the ground floor, suggesting that he had always intended to have a restaurant there.

“What that indicates to me is that it was built to be a restaurant, not general retail,” Summa said. “In 2013, I think everybody would’ve been served better if it (provided parking) for restaurant use.”

The Architectural Review Board reached a similar conclu-sion after a vigorous debate about density calculations, parking and the nature of outdoor seating. While the city generally encour-ages more activity on its sidewalks — as evidenced by the council’s decision to widen sidewalks and create new plazas on California Avenue — it also has provisions barring restaurants from intruding into pedestrians’ pathway.

The permit for 260 California specifies that the restaurant needs

to apply for and receive an “en-croachment permit” from the Pub-lic Works Department before it can place tables, chairs and planters in

the public right-of-way. The busi-ness is also required to maintain an 8-foot-wide pedestrian right-of-way clear of all obstructions.

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Man killed train by identifiedThe San Mateo County Coroner’s Office has identified Kirtee

Kapoor, 46, of Menlo Park, as the man who died after being struck by a train near the Watkins Avenue train crossing in Atherton on Monday morning (Posted June 6, 11:35 a.m.) Man arrested for intent to kill doctors

A 58-year-old Central Valley man with stage 4 cancer was ar-rested last week after driving from his home in Visalia to the Bay Area with the alleged intent to kill his doctors, Palo Alto police and prosecutors said Tuesday. (Posted June 6, 8:16 a.m.)

Tennis and tutoring program leaves StanfordAfter providing tennis lessons, tutoring and support to disad-

vantaged youth for more than 20 years on the Stanford University campus, East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoringwill have to find a new home in 2019. The university recently decided against renewing its contract with the youth nonprofit. (Posted June 2, 3:45 p.m.)

New Jordan, Terman principals namedA Campbell Union High School District administrator and San

Jose Unified School District principal will become the new princi-pals of Jordan and Terman middle schools, respectively, the district announced on Friday. (Posted June 2, 12:14 p.m.)

Online This WeekThese and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAlto Online.com/news.


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On Tuesday night, three of five Palo Alto school board members stood by

the district’s selection of a new sexuality-education program, though they acknowledged some missteps in communication and transparency with parents during its implementation.

Board President Terry Godfrey, Vice President Ken Dauber and member Jennifer DiBrienza said that the now-controversial Teen Talk cur-riculum, taught to seventh-graders this spring by Redwood City non-profit Health Connected, is appro-priate, legally compliant and useful.

The district put the program in place to comply with the California Healthy Youth Act, which requires school districts to teach compre-hensive sexuality education at least once in middle school and once in high school. (It requires that districts educate students about different methods by which sexu-ally transmitted infections can be spread and acknowledge different sexual orientations, for example.)

Parents who oppose the new cur-riculum maintain its content is in-appropriate for seventh-graders and have called for a more in-depth, in-clusive review process that would involve parents and look at other available sexual-health programs.

Such a process, some board members said during the discus-sion-only meeting, would not yield a significantly different curricu-lum and would consume already scarce district resources and time.

“As I’ve heard people speak about their concerns with this curriculum, I don’t find the concerns we’ve heard are specific to Health Con-nected,” DiBrienza said. “They’re actually requirements of the law.”

DiBrienza and Dauber noted that many programs students are exposed to in school do not come before the school board for formal approval. Dauber said in his read-ing of board policy, the district can select curricula that have been vet-ted and approved by the state, as Health Connected’s program has.

State education code also per-mits districts to contract with out-side consultants with relevant ex-pertise to provide comprehensive sexual-health and HIV-prevention education, DiBrienza noted.

A full curriculum-review pro-cess would not benefit students, Dauber said.

Board members Melissa Baten Caswell and Todd Collins dis-agreed, arguing the district failed to follow its own policies on cur-riculum selection, particularly by neglecting to include parents in the process. Parents complained that they had difficulty accessing the Health Connected material before it was taught to their children and that their feedback was not sought in the selection of the program.

Collins agreed, stating, “We have effectively shut off commu-nity voice in this decision.”

Collins said he was “taken aback” that his three colleagues took a different position, arguing

that an administrative regulation on selection and evaluation of materials requires the creation of a “curriculum steering committee with community representation” to review supplemental materials be-ing taught at the secondary schools.

Baten Caswell said she does not support a full, years-long curricu-lum-adoption process for sex ed but agreed that the administrative regulation allows for a “light-weight review” that sufficiently involves community input.

“We are never going to satisfy everybody’s needs, so I don’t think that’s the goal, but the goal for me right now is to not have this division,” she said.

More than 30 parents spoke at Tuesday’s meeting, both in pro-test and in support of the curricu-lum. Those in opposition argued against the district’s position that the 10-hour sex-ed program is sup-plemental rather than core curric-ulum. Reiterating their support for sex education in and of itself, they urged the board to launch a review process to promise greater trans-parency and parent involvement.

“In some aspects, sexual-health education is even more impactful to a student’s life than physics or chemistry lessons. ... Given such importance, I would argue (the) sexual-health-ed program should be treated under (the) process of instructional materials instead of supplementary materials, as it is now,” said one father, Han.

One mother urged the board: “Do not take the road of expedience, but take the long road of caution and form an advisory committee.”

Other parents, however, said they support the curriculum as much-needed, well-timed education that goes beyond just reproductive health. Laura Prentiss, the mother of three Palo Alto Unified students, also worried that the creation of a review committee would send the wrong message. She and other par-ents said that research has shown that comprehensive sex education delays rather than expedites the on-set of sexual activity among youth, with other positive outcomes.

Three representatives from lo-cal chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which sponsored the California Healthy Youth Act, attended Tuesday’s meeting and spoke in support of the curriculum.

Phyllida Burlingame, reproduc-tive justice policy director for the ACLU of Northern California, said the law defines “age appro-priate” as when young people are developmentally able to process information taught to them.

“It does not mean have they reached the age at which their

School board majority defends sex-ed process

Trustees, community divided over curriculum selectionby Elena Kadvany

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New Stanford housing would abut College TerraceEyeing future growth, Stanford University is asking for Santa Clara

County’s permission to add 1,600 housing units or beds for students along its border with the College Terrace neighborhood, university of-ficials told members of the College Terrace Residents Association last week. The units would comprise over half of the university’s proposed new housing under its 2018 general use permit (GUP) application.

But residents of College Terrace say they have borne the brunt of traffic and parking generated by Stanford and raised concerns about the proposed housing. They said that despite Stanford’s traffic-management program and a City of Palo Alto-run residential parking permit program, the neighborhood still experiences parking problems and noise late at night from Stanford visitors and residents.

Stanford’s application is requesting permission to build 2.275 million square feet of academic and academic-related facilities and 40,000 square feet of child care or transportation-management facilities. To balance that growth, Stanford proposes to add 2,600 units or new beds of student housing and 550 faculty and staff housing units through the year 2035.

The number of housing units or beds is tied to a ratio of housing units per square feet of academic development, said Catherine Palter, associate vice president of land use and environmental planning. For every 500,000 square feet of academic construction, Stanford must build 605 housing units.

The permit must undergo a county planning commission hearing and recommendation; the county Board of Supervisors will then hold a hearing and vote on approving the permit.

—Sue Dremann

City crafts battle plan to fight climate changePalo Alto renewed its vow to fight climate change last week in re-

pudiation of the White House’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement.

This past Monday night, the City Council began the work of turn-ing that rhetoric into action, considering more than 40 new programs and policies that aim to bring Palo Alto closer to its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2030.

On transportation, ideas included shuttle programs, electric ve-hicles and an expanded bike share program. When it comes to energy, the city would reduce barriers for people looking to switch from natural-gas-powered to electric appliances.

By an 8-0 vote, the council directed staff to refine the plan, con-sider the costs and benefits of each program and come up with a shorter list of programs.

Councilwoman Karen Holman proposed a new list of items that should be considered in the plan, but her proposal faltered by a 3-6 vote, with Lydia Kou and Tom DuBois joining her. The majority fa-vored giving City Manager James Keene the latitude to evaluate the different programs and come up with a priority list.

Otherwise, there was consensus that the city needs to be very de-liberate in how it uses its money and time to lead the way on climate change.

—Gennady Sheyner

City to outsource Rinconada lifeguard dutiesSwimmers at the Rinconada Pool in Palo Alto can look forward to

longer hours, different rates and greater stability in lifeguard staffing this summer as part of the city’s proposal to outsource services at the pool.

The agreement would put the Menlo Park-based company Team Sheeper in charge of the city’s open swimming and lap swimming services. Additionally, the city is negotiating a separate agreement that would give Team Sheeper oversight of Rinconada Masters and Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics.

For the city, the arrangement represents the next step in outsourc-ing pool functions traditionally performed by Community Services Department staff.

The proposed contract will expand Team Sheeper’s responsibilities at Rinconada by entrusting it with operational management of the lap and open swim programs.

Even so, the city is not going so far as to hand over full management of Rinconada to Team Sheeper. Instead, city staff are opting for incre-mental changes to the relationship between the city and the company.

Given the negotiations among Team Sheeper, the city and the two swimming clubs, the commission stopped short of approving the staff’s proposal to have the company oversee the clubs. Instead, it approved the lifeguard contract and directed staff to return at a later date with an update about the negotiations before the Rinconada Masters and Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics contracts go to the council for final approval.

A community services staff member said the city is looking to add into the contract language that guarantees the two competitive swim teams the same pool access that they’ve had in the past.

—Gennady Sheyner

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in the Balboa Highlands, an Eichler tract in Granada Hills, California, in September 2013. In Balboa Hills, the residents at times seemed to stage their behavior. Some dressed up in 1950s outfits and had parties, for example. That got Page and his collaborator, dance artist Chelsea Zeffiro, interested in whether the residents were self-conscious and if they were performing or not during the filming.

Rather than turning Green-meadow residents loose and recording them, the two artists decided to add interactive dance to the project, which blurred the lines between spontaneous behav-ior, self-expression and conscious and deliberate action.

“Each became a unique collab-oration with the individuals, their ideas, temperaments and person-alities,” he said.

Zeffiro sat in kitchens and liv-ing rooms with residents and de-veloped relationships, noting parts of conversations that could lead the people to develop a sense of what they wanted to do. Sometimes it in-volved dance; other times it didn’t.

Zeffiro described how she and dancer Kaitlyn Petrik helped residents Ann and Don Rothblatt through their process of discovery.

“We spent about 30 minutes or more dancing to a Jazz CD by musician Bobby Short. They shared with us that they had just celebrated their 60th anniversary. At first they were reluctant to join myself and Kaitlyn. Once they did, the four of us did very subtle changes in movement that read really well on camera. I think it demonstrates the very sweet inter-action we had with an incredibly sweet couple,” she said.

Ann Rothblatt recalled: “I felt too self-conscious to be part of the film-ing at first. Then, after watching Chelsea and another young woman for awhile, I got up the courage to join in. My husband and I moved separately at first, then together. If I had it to do over, I would have danced with him the whole time!”

Zeffiro and another colleague, dancer Angel Acuña, did two sim-ple and intimate duets with resident Mary Anne Deierlein and a group dance that included Deierlein’s husband, Greg, and a few friends who live in the neighborhood.

“The concept was so intriguing because I spent most of my life in homes featuring ‘front porch’ liv-ing and understood the contrast of Eichler living, where, from the street, (it) is completely private and reclusive,” Mary Anne Dei-erlein said.

“It is a simple concept of film-ing home life and activities, so at first we over-thought the activities needing to be scripted, rather than natural. After meeting with Nate at our house to discuss the scope and reach and possibilities of the project, I was most interested in dance and movement and creative living activities. Chelsea is a de-lightful, creative, intuitive artist and dancer,” she said.

Resident Julie Zerbib’s 15-year-old daughter, Nelly, and their dog also took part in the project.

“For us, our main motivation, aside from taking part of a fun ex-perience, was to immortalize our house that we love so much. Chel-sea and Nate offered us that but also gave us a glimpse into the artistic mind and process, and that was a wonderful experience,” she said.

In the end, Nelly worked with Zeffiro on an improvisational dance piece centered around the dining table and using everyday objects in an alternative ways. The dog also made it in to the film: As the women moved in tandem, the canine stood nearby, looking out the back window.

“My daughter loved the experi-ence. We really appreciated that Chelsea tried something different with her and that was a unique expe-rience for my daughter,” Zerbib said.

Deierlein said participation in the project “definitely reaffirmed” her appreciation of Greenmead-ow. Rothblatt agreed.

“We’ve always loved our house and neighborhood, but this expe-rience made us appreciate both even more,” she said.

Zerbib said she is intrigued to see who else in her neighborhood was willing to participate in the project.

“You can feel it’s people who love their home and the Eichler style,” she said.

For Page, the art installation is about creating community and giv-ing people a chance to experience their environment and each other in ways they hadn’t considered.

“I want this to be a disarm-ing experience of intimacy in a

community,” he said.Recalling the art-installation

night in Granada Hills, he said it exceeded his expectations.

“I thought at first it would be creepy and voyeristic, but it felt like Halloween and block party.”

Page and Zeffiro self-funded the project. They plan to work in other Eichler communities and to find additional ways to inter-act with the residents. The pair is looking at an Eichler com-munity in Sacramento, and they hope to return to another Palo Alto Eichler neighborhood. They are also planning a book on the project, he said.

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

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Palo Alto Municipal Code Section 2.28.070, that the City Council of the City of Palo Alto will conduct a Public Hearing at its Special Meeting on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 5:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California, to consider adoption of the proposed Fiscal Year 2018 Budget. Copies of the budget are available on the City’s website at http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/asd/budget.asp, the City’s library branches, and in the Administrative Services Department, 4th Floor, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. There is a $27.00 per book plus postage or $11.00 per CD-ROM charge for this publication.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, pursuant to Government Code Sections 66016 and 66018, that the City Council of the City of Palo Alto will conduct a Public Hearing at its Special Meeting on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, at 5:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California, to consider changes to the Fiscal Year 2018 Municipal Fee Schedule, including new fees and increases to existing fees. Copies of the fee schedule setting forth any proposed new fees and increases to existing fees are available on the City’s website at http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/asd/budget.asp and in the Administrative Services Department, 4th Floor, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. There is a $7.00 per copy plus postage charge for this publication.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Palo Alto will hold a Special Meeting on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, at 5:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California, to consider adoption of a resolution determining the calculation of the appropriations limit for Fiscal Year 2018. The calculation of the limit and the supporting documentation are available for review in the City’s Office of Management & Budget, 4th floor, 250 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, California. There is a charge of $0.15 per page for copying documentation.

Changes to the City’s Electric and Fiber rates will also be considered during the June 27 Public Hearing, as part of the adoption of the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget. Copies of the proposed water, refuse, electric and fiber rate schedules are available on the City’s website at www.CityofPaloAlto.org/RatesOverview and in the Utilities Customer Service, Ground Floor, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. There is a $3.00 per copy charge for this publication.

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Dancer Chelsea Zeffiro, left, and Greenmeadow resident Nelly Zerbib perform while seated at the dining table as the family dog looks out into the backyard as part of the “California Living Project II: Palo Alto.”

What: “California Living Project II: Palo Alto”

Where: Greenmeadow neighborhood, select streets.Maps are available at Greenmeadow Community Center,303 Parkside Dr., Palo Alto and on the project website.

When: June 10, sundown to midnight

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CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to consider approving two new five-story Marriott hotels at 744-748 San Antonio Road; and review the Introduction, Governance and Implementation sections of the new Comprehensive Plan. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, June 12, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to consider an ordinance banning outdoor cultivation of marijuana; discuss the city’s data collection and privacy policy; discuss a request for proposal for a consultant to assist with master planning for Cubberley Community Center; and consider an audit of contract oversight for trenching and installation of electric substructure. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 13, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

BOARD OF EDUCATION... The board will discuss a request for proposal (RFP) for the Cubberley Community Center master plan; conceptual designs for three elementary schools’ multipurpose rooms; and hear an update from the district’s Learning Design Team. An evaluation of the superintendent is scheduled for closed session. The board will meet at 8-10 a.m., Thursday, June 15, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave.

PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss the city’s Downtown Parking Management Study; and consider zoning changes to enable construction of a four-story, 60-unit building at 2755 El Camino Real. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 14, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

CITY/SCHOOL LIAISON COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to meet at 8 a.m. on Thursday, June 15, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave.

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to review 4115 El Camino Real, a proposed three-story building with ground-floor retail, offices on the second floor and seven units on the third; consider a proposal to demolish Hotel Parmani and construct a new four-story, 97-room hotel at 3200 El Camino Real; consider a proposal to demolish four single-family residences and construct 16 two-story single-family residences at 567 Maybell Ave.; and consider a proposal for a four-story, 60-unit building at 2755 El Camino Real. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.. on Thursday, June 8, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

Public AgendaA preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week


started as a panel discussion with brief presentations by Kathleen Dowdy, a school trustee; Kathy Layendecker, Castilleja chief fi-nancial and operating officer; and seven members of the opposition neighborhood group Protect Our Neighborhood Quality of Life Now (PNQLNow). The presen-tations were followed by a Q&A session in which people were to submit questions on note cards.

But the meeting got off to a rocky start: Some residents -- op-posed to a question-card format that didn’t allow them to speak -- started shouting. Hired facilita-tor Ellen Cross then diffused the situation by letting people speak to the points they made when their question cards were read.

Some PNQLNow members expressed adamant opposition to any expansion, insisting the school should move or split the campus. Residents said they feel the proposal is being forced upon

them without the chance to give meaningful input, which school staff refuted. The administra-tors and neighbors opposing the expansion accused each other of misrepresenting the facts.

The rancor prompted Glick-man to suggest that the only way forward might be to restart the process — this time with full community input — to break the logjam.

“Given all of the work that has gone on, a reset could speed things up. We need to have a comprehensive set of creative solutions” after getting all of the neighbors’ concerns on the table, he said.

While it isn’t likely that every-one would be happy, Glickman said, “I think we could get at something that a large majority can be satisfied with.”

Mary Sylvester, a member of PNQLNow and a panelist, said she agreed that a reset is necessary.

“The neighbors have not had a meaningful role in this process,” she said.

Tom Shannon, a Kellogg Ave-nue resident who was one of four members of a working group that vetted the school’s plans for more than two years, had previously called for a reset during an inter-view last month with the Weekly.

But Castilleja officials said on Wednesday that they don’t plan to restart the process.

“Castilleja followed the (meet-ing) format that was proposed by ... PNQLNow and shortened our own presentation to allow more time for the neighbors to

participate in Q&A. We did this as a good-faith gesture in the hope that we would learn how neighbors would like to move forward,” Layendecker said in a follow-up email to the Weekly.

“They did not offer a clear defi-nition of what is meant by ‘reset,’ and to the extent that definitions were offered, they were inconsis-tent. The interest in a reset in the absence of any sense of a will-ingness to compromise or offer suggestions as to how we move forward feels more like a delay

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Tom Shannon, who lives on Kellogg Street across from Castilleja School, addresses Kathy Layendecker, Castilleja School’s CFO, second from left, during a June 6 neighborhood meeting about Castilleja’s proposal to increase student enrollment and construct an underground parking lot, which has sparked concerns among some residents. Kathleen Tandy, member of the Castilleja School Board of Trustees, far left, and Protect Neighborhood Quality of Life group members Mary Sylvester, center, Vic Befera, Stan Shore and Andie Reed listen.

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parents feel comfortable with them receiving the information,” she said.

Parents have the choice to opt out of any or all of the sex-education lessons, but many said Tuesday that to do so would be to exclude their children.

Superintendent Max McGee said the district has received 400 responses to survey of stu-dents, parents and teachers about Health Connected and will bring those results to a subsequent school board meeting for further discussion.

McGee also made recommen-dations on Tuesday to develop “specific, detailed, information-al” presentations on Health Con-nected for parents and teachers, provide parents with full access to the curriculum materials before they are taught to students and make “clear” opt-out information available in multiple languages to parents.

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tactic than a genuine desire to work toward a compromise.”

Gerry Marshall, a supporter of the Castilleja expansion who lives directly across the street from the current school entrance on Bry-ant Street, praised Glickman’s proposal. If that means resetting the conversation to be open and hearing all sides, she approves. But she and other supporters said they oppose requiring Castilleja to rescind the plans it submitted to the city and to start over.

Marshall called the situation “disappointing.”

The school’s opponents are “so demonstrative they had me back on my haunches (at the meet-ing),” she said of her reticence to speak out Tuesday. “There is no progress, no compromise. I don’t know what it (takes) to take that veil off their hearts to see that we can work together.”

Marshall added that people are jumping too far ahead when they demand for the school to pin down every aspect of the project, including construction staging.

All of those issues will be ad-dressed with the city as the pro-cess moves forward, she said.

Jeannine Marston, a 40-year resident who lives on Waverley Street and also is a Castilleja teacher whose children attended the school, is also opposed to forcing the school to start over because of the time and money already spent on the plans.

But Marston also said she ap-preciates the frustration of people who live in Old Palo Alto, given the constant construction of homes in the neighborhood.

Since traffic and parking are major issues for those opposing the expansion, Marston said that those residents should consider the school’s track record in reducing those problems, which, she said, show the school has been listening.

The biggest disappointment she felt at Tuesday’s meeting was that those opposing the project didn’t recognize those efforts and accom-plishments through the school’s transportation management de-mand program, which has led to

a 23 percent reduction in traffic during peak school arrival and de-parture hours since the program’s inception in 2012, according to a traffic consultant’s report. As an insider, she said the school’s ef-forts have resulted in a shift away from the car culture; she herself no longer drives to campus.

“If even a single speaker said, ‘We want to acknowledge the school’s efforts to make traffic reductions,’ at least it says ‘I’m listening and I’m noticing,’” she said.

To get to a reset of any kind, Marston said that all sides would have to agree to its definition.

Mary Sylvester, on behalf of PNQLNow, said in an email that “reset” means starting over.

“The school met with a very small group from one street only for a couple of years, upon which they base their claim to have reached out to the neighborhood. They didn’t reveal the specifics until plans were completed. In fact, those folks, as you heard Tuesday night, felt they were not listened to and they are opposed to the expansion plans,” she said.

“The school needs to start over, first by making a coordinated effort to involve the immediate neighbors in coming to consen-sus on what the neighborhood can bear and then by being hon-est brokers,” she said.

To illustrate the point that many residents were left out of the pro-cess, PNQLNow member Nelson Ng, whose Emerson Street home would have directly faced the ga-rage exit under a prior proposal, asked at the Tuesday meeting for a show of how many residents were school neighbors. Then he asked how many had been aware of the master plan, which showed the garage plans and the exit on Em-erson Street, prior to the school’s submittal on June 30. About six people remained standing.

But Castilleja fought back against residents’ characteriza-tion that the school hasn’t been forthcoming with the neighbor-hood about a garage. In an email to the Weekly on Wednesday, Layendecker said the school has many documents dating to 1999 with references from neighbors regarding a garage.

Some residents confirmed to the Weekly that they did support

the concept of a garage if it had an entrance and exit on Embar-cadero Road, as initially proposed. But they said the school didn’t tell them it had switched to an Emerson Street garage exit after city offi-cials nixed the Embarcadero Road idea until the Castilleja was ready to submit the plans last June.

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

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“We use one of our pull-out trash cans to collect food scraps, instead of the pail.” — Caryn H.

Board of Education Policy Review Committee (June 2)Class size: The committee discussed a new draft class-size policy, which the full board will discuss at an upcoming workshop. Action: NoneStudent technology use: The committee discussed updates to a policy that oversees student use of technology. Action: None

City Council (June 5)Sustainability: The council discussed the Sustainability Implementation Plan and directed staff to do more analysis and prioritize the top programs the city should pursue. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Holman, Kou, Scharff, Tanaka, Wolbach Absent: Kniss

Board of Education (June 6)SPSAs: The board waived its two-meeting rule and approved the Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) reports for the middle and high schools. Yes: UnanimousBudget: The board approved a budget balancing plan for 2017-18. Yes: UnanimousStaff reduction: The board approved a resolution to send termination notices to five classified staff at Gunn High School. Yes: Baten Caswell, Dauber, DiBrienza, Godfrey No: CollinsBoard calendar: The board approved a calendar for its meetings in the 2017-18 school year. Yes: UnanimousLCAP: The board heard a report on a near-final draft of the district’s Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP). Action: None

Council Rail Committee (June 7)Caltrain: The council heard a presentation from the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board about Caltrain electrification. Action: None

Utilities Advisory Commission (June 7)Electricity: The commission discussed the Utilities Electric Integrated Resource Plan. Action: None

Historic Resources Board (June 8)Mills Act: The board discussed Mills Act, which provides incentives for preservation of historic properties. Action: None

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POLICE CALLSPalo AltoMay 31-June 6Violence relatedAttempted murder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Theft relatedCommercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Vehicle relatedAbandoned Auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 5Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Misc traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 7Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . 13Stored vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Alcohol or drug relatedDriving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2MiscellaneousFound property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Misc penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . 6Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Protective custody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Menlo ParkMay 31-June 6Violence relatedDomestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Theft relatedCommercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Extortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Embezzlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle relatedAbandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 2Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 2Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Alcohol or drug relatedDriving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1Under the influence of drugs . . . . . . . . 1MiscellaneousCPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Civil dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Gang validation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Misc penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . 1Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

VIOLENT CRIMESPalo AltoHellyer Road, 5/31, 9:30 a.m.; murder attempt.University Avenue, 5/31, 10:50 a.m.; battery.Middlefield Road, 6/02, 1:55 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.El Camino Real, 6/03, 6:40 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.Menlo ParkEvergreen Avenue, 6/01, 1:19 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

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Known for her smile and strawberry blonde hair, Barbara Dey White was the second daughter of Halsted and Auda White of Berkeley, CA. Barbara received her AA degree from Univ. of California Berkeley, and later her BA degree in Occupational Therapy from San Jose State University. In her early career years, Barbara was a registered occupational therapist, with a specialty in developing adaptive equipment for people with disabilities.

Barbara married Homer E. “Bill” Menker and the couple had two children, Lois and Robert. Initially the family lived in Berkeley, then briefly in New Jersey before settling in Palo Alto.

Barbara’s children will always remember her as a devoted full-time homemaker and mother who valued harmony and orderliness in her surroundings, her clothing, and her relationships. Family members knew they were loved.

Barbara earned her Master’s in Fine and Applied Arts from San Jose State University. In quiet moments, Barbara enjoyed illustrating, drawing, painting and writing. She also owned her own color analysis business, Color & Beyond.

It was not unusual for Barbara to ponder what she should be doing to be helpful and useful to others. As the kids were growing up, Barbara volunteered in various occupational therapy departments. Later in the 1970s as the senior citizens movement became strong, Barbara worked on the first Survey of Senior Needs in Palo Alto, which led to establishment of the Senior Center. Other volunteer and paid positions followed with the Los Altos Senior Center, and Little House in Menlo Park. Barbara also served as board members for Avenidas Senior Center, and the La Comida Nutrition Program.

Barbara was a member of the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, and the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She is remembered as kind, loving, friendly, helpful, creative, and practical. “O Master Let Me Walk with Thee” was her favorite hymn.

Bill and Barbara downsized to Menlo Commons in Menlo Park in later years, where Bill passed away in 1996. In later years Barbara married Harry L. Browne and the couple lived at Channing House in Palo Alto. They enjoyed their travels and times together.

Barbara enjoyed singing and playing the harmonica. She was a leader of the Channing House Harmonica Players, and she enjoyed frequent Channing House sing-a-longs. “We need to have more fun around here!” was her frequent refrain, and her Channing House friends loved her for this.

Barbara was predeceased by her husband Harry, and her sister, Mildred Anderson of Manhattan Beach, CA. She is survived by her son, daughter and son-in-law, and nieces and nephew.

A memorial service will be held at Channing House, 850 Webster Street, Palo Alto, CA on June 24 at 10AM, with reception following. Memorial contributions may be made in her name to the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto.

P A I D O B I T U A R Y

Barbara Menker BrowneAt rest May 22, 2017 in Palo Alto, CA

PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL

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THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL

DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE:http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/agendas/default.asp

AGENDA- SPECIAL MEETING–COUNCIL CHAMBERSJune 12, 2017, 5:00 PM

Special Orders of the Day1. Appointment of Three Candidates to the Library Advisory Commission for Terms Ending May 31, 2020Consent Calendar3. Approval of a Contract With AECOM in the Amount of $330,000 for the Development of the Baylands

Comprehensive Conservation Plan (PG-17000)4. Approval of Amendment Number 2 to Contract Number S15155738 Between the City of Palo Alto and

American Reprographics Company, LLC for Document Scanning Services to Increase Costs by $414,726 for a Total Amount Not-to-Exceed $847,961 and Amend Other Terms and Conditions

5. Adoption of an Ordinance Requiring Expedited Permitting Procedures for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (AB 1236)

6. Approval of the Renewal of a Public-Private Partnership Agreement Between the City of Palo Alto and TheatreWorks, Palo Alto Players and West Bay Opera for the use of the Lucie Stern Community Theatre

7. Approval of a Contract With Tandem Creative in the Amount of $90,000 for Graphic Design and Printing for the Quarterly Production of the Enjoy! Catalog Classes and Activities Guide and Annual Summer Camp Guide

8. QUASI-JUDICIAL: 260 California Avenue [16PLN-00289]: Request for a Hearing on the Tentative Approval of a Conditional Use Permit to Allow the Sale of Beer, Wine, and Liquor in Conjunction With a Restaurant With an Outdoor Seating Area and Deferral of Director’s Action to the City Council of an Architectural Review Application Pursuant to Palo Alto Municipal Code (PAMC) Section 18.40.170. Environmental Assessment: Exempt From the Provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) per Guideline Section 15301 (Existing Facilities)

Action Items

Business Improvement District Advisory Board and Levying Assessments for Fiscal Year 2018 on Businesses in the Downtown Business Improvement District

10. PUBLIC HEARING / QUASI-JUDICIAL. 744-748 San Antonio Avenue [15PLN-00314]: Review and

(CEQA) Findings Including a Statement of Overriding Considerations, Adoption of a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan, and Consideration of the Applicant’s Request for Approval of a Major Architectural Review to Allow the Demolition of Three Existing Buildings at 744 and 748 San Antonio Avenue and Construction of two Five-Story Hotels (Courtyard by Marriott With 151 Rooms and AC by Marriott With 143 Rooms). The Site Will Include Surface and two Levels of Basement Parking, requiring approval of a parking reduction. A Draft EIR was Circulated for Public Comment From March 27, 2017 to May 10, 2017 and a Final EIR was Provided to Agencies and Commenters on May 31, 2017. On June 1, 2017, the Architectural Review Board Recommended Approval of the Project

11. Comprehensive Plan Update: Review of the Introduction, Governance, and Implementation Sections Recommended by the Citizens Advisory Committee and Referral of the Entire Draft Comprehensive Plan Update to the Planning & Transportation Commission

STANDING COMMITTEE MEETINGSThe Special Policy & Services Committee Meeting will be held in the Community Meeting Room on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 6:00 PM to discuss: 1) Recreational and Medical Marijuana: Review and Discussion of State Law

Commercial Marijuana Activity, Outdoor Cultivation, and Marijuana Dispensaries; 2) Surveillance Consideration of a City Ordinance Protecting Personal Privacy in the Acquisition and Use of Surveillance Technologies by the City; 3)

Master Planning of the Cubberley Community Center; and 4) Audit Status Report: Contract Oversight: Trenching and Installation of Electrical Substructure; and 5) Utilities Department: Cross Bore Inspection Contract Audit.

June 15, 2017 at 8:00 AM to discuss: 1) Discussion and update about Safe Routes to School; 2) Discussion and update City and PAUSD construction updates; and 3) Discussion and Update about Project Safety Net.


Transitions

Henry Matthew Gay III, formerly of Atherton CA, passed away peacefully on May 20, 2017 at his home in Lahaina, HI. He was 92.

Henry’s was born in Minot, North Dakota in 1924, the third of four children born to Henry and Marion Gay. The family moved to Bozeman, MT when Henry was eight.

Henry attended Bozeman Senior High School and Montana State University, where his studies were interrupted by World War II. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army in 1943 and served in Europe until the war’s end.

Henry graduated from M.S.U. in 1949 with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and, in 1950, took a job with International Business Machines in Los Angeles.

At IBM, Henry met his future wife, Jan Craig, in a training class in which she was the instructor. The two were married in 1952 and their only son, Craig, was born in 1955.

Moving with I.B.M. from Los Angeles, to Endicott (New York), Denver, and Salt Lake City, Henry was promoted to Branch Manager of I.B.M.’s San Francisco office in 1960 and the family settled in the mid-peninsula in Atherton.

In 1970, Henry left I.B.M. to found DynaComp, a computer services provider. In 1972, with partners William W. Stevens and Donald J. Ruder, Henry launched Triad Systems Corporation, a technology company that provided business management hardware and software to the automotive aftermarket.

Henry retired from Triad in 1980 to care for Jan, who had contracted Multiple Sclerosis ten years earlier. The two subsequently divided their time between Atherton and Maui, HI.

Henry was an active member and elder of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church and Kumulani Chapel on Maui.

He served on the Board of Governors of Regent College (Vancouver, BC) and was an early board member of the Silicon Valley Bank. He loved dogs, skiing, hiking and the mountains of the West. He lived by the motto “I am Third,” honouring Jesus, then others and lastly himself.

Known for his longstanding devotion to Jan, Henry passed away within 48 hours of her death. They will both be greatly missed. Henry and Jan are survived by their son, Craig (Julie) and their four grandchildren, Andrew (Casey), Elsa, Owen and Nicholas, and Happy the Dog.

A memorial service for them both will be held at Kumulani Chapel, Maui, on Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 2 pm. Donations in honor of Henry can be made to Young Life Maui and/or Kumulani Chapel.


Henry Matthew GayJuly 28, 1924 - May 20, 2017

Born Ruth Logasa on May 30, 1915 in Oakland, California, Ruth grew up in Burlingame and San Francisco. She earned a BA from UC, Berkeley where she majored in French. In 1938 she married Dr. Nathan Wasserman at Stanford Chapel. They lived in San Francisco where Nathan finished his ENT residency then moved to Eureka, CA. In 1948 they returned to the Bay Area, settled in Palo Alto, and raised their three daughters. Ruth returned to college and earned a master degree in school librarianship, following which she was a school librarian and the instructional materials librarian for Cupertino Unified School District. Ruth held many volunteer positions, including Chairman of the American Cancer Society of Santa Clara County, Girl Scout troop leader and a monitor at Recording for the Blind. Throughout Ruth’s life she devoted herself to passing along her love of learning and reading. In addition, she was an avid gardener and an active member of the African Violet Society, as well as a lifetime bridge player. She survived her beloved husband, Nathan, and daughter, Nancy Packer. Ruth died quietly in her sleep (May 19, 2017) at The Sequoias in Portola Valley, where she lived since 1988. She is survived by two daughters - Ellen Balcomb of Brentwood, CA and Judy Wasserman of Watertown, MA - four grandchildren and five great grandchildren.


Ruth L. WassermanMay 30, 1915 – May 19, 2017

Olive Borgsteadt, of Palo

Alto, passed away on May 28,

2017. Born in New York, Olive

grew up in San Francisco, and

graduated from Lowell High

School and San Francisco

State. After their marriage in

1952, Olive and her husband

John called Palo Alto their

home for over 60 years. She

was a dedicated Palo Alto

elementary school teacher

with a lasting impact on her

students, many of whom continued to correspond with her

decades later. Olive was also an accomplished pianist and

organist, studying under Ludwig Altman. As a teenager she

studied ballet and danced with the San Francisco Corps

de Ballet. Fluent in a number of languages, Olive enjoyed

studying Swedish in recent years. She and John, who died

in December 2015, were music-lovers, active Sierra hikers,

mountain climbers, European travelers, and supporters of

numerous marine and Sierra environmental organizations.

They maintained many close international friendships which

grew from their hosting of overseas visitors in connection

with John’s 45-year career at Hewlett Packard. Olive was a

longtime member of the Christian Science church in Palo

Alto. Family members who are lovingly remembering Olive

are her sister, her niece and nephews, and her grand niece

and grand nephews. Contributions may be made in Olive’s

honor to Arden Wood, 445 Wawona St., San Francisco.


Olive BorgsteadtNovember 7, 1929 – May 28, 2017

Jan Craig Gay, formerly of Ather-ton CA, passed away peacefully on May 18, 2017 at her home in Lahaina, HI. She was 89. Jan and her younger sister Carla were born to Harold and Ruth Craig of Altadena, CA. She attended Altadena High School and the University of California Los Angeles where she was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business in 1949. In 1950 Jan was hired by the Electric Accounting Machine Division of International Business Machines. A Systems Instructor, one of her students was Henry M. Gay, who became her husband in September 1952. Their only son, Craig, was born in 1955. Moving with I.B.M. from Los Angeles, to Endicott (New York), Denver, and Salt Lake City, the family eventually settled in Atherton, California where Jan was active in the Red Cross, the P.T.A., the Children’s Hospital Auxiliary, and Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. Jan ran a successful kitchen design business and designed several of their family homes. She was legendary for her creativity and organizational abilities. She loved planning family events, a competitive game of bridge and traveling with Henry. She was good-humoured and unfailingly forthright. Jan’s faith in Christ was her hope and comfort. She battled Multiple Sclerosis for almost 50 years. Her husband and primary caregiver, Henry, passed away within 48 hours of her death. She is survived by her sister, Carla (Dan), her son, Craig (Julie) and her four grandchildren, Andrew (Casey), Elsa, Owen and Nicholas.

A memorial service for Jan (and Henry) will be held at Kumulani Chapel, Maui, on Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 2 pm. Donations in honor of Jan can be made to Young Life Maui and/or Kumulani Chapel.


Jan Craig GayFebruary 2, 1928 - May 18, 2017William Dworsky

William Dworsky, a resident of Palo Alto since 1965, died on April 23. He was 83.

He was born in Iron Mountain, Michigan, on May 12, 1933. Ac-cording to his family, he enjoyed fly fishing, country walks, mush-room hunting and trapping ro-dents and squirrels as a youth.

In his senior year of high school, his parents moved the family to Beverly Hills, Califor-nia. He gradu-ated from Bev-erly Hills High School in 1951 and matriculat-ed to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

At UCLA, he studied premedical sciences for three years before transfer-ring to University of California, Berkeley.

After he received a bachelor’s degree in medical sciences from UC Berkeley in 1955, he attended medical school at what is now the University of California, San Francisco, and graduated in 1958.

In 1959, he was commissioned as captain in the United States Air Force and sent to serve at the 6038th USAF Hospital in Mi-sawa, Japan. His wife, Dorothy Ann Sanders, made the move with him. They honeymooned in rural Japan.

He served in Japan for two years until the end of his service in 1961, after which the family returned to the U.S. with Dorothy carrying their first child, Phil.

They settled in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he served a residen-cy in obstetrics and gynecology at Margaret Hague Maternity Hos-pital from 1961 to 1964. He com-pleted his gynecology residency in Chapel Hill and Lumberton, North Carolina.

In 1965, he and his family moved to Palo Alto, where their daughter Andrea was later born. He worked as a staff gynecolo-gist-obstetrician for eight years at Kaiser Permanente Medical Group before opening his private practice in Palo Alto in 1973.

In addition, he began working as a clinical instructor at Stanford University in 1967. He became an assistant professor in 1975, associ-ate professor in 1985 and clinical professor in 1997.

He enjoyed traveling and at-tending his children and grand-children’s sports and music events.

He is predeceased by his grand-daughter, Maya Howard, and great-granddaughter Kaia. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Dorothy of San Francisco; broth-er, Gene of Playa Vista; sister, Ev-elyn (Dworsky) Weinstein of Re-cida; son, Phil Dworsky (Deanna Hodgin) of San Francisco; daugh-ter, Andrea (Dworsky) Howard (Donald) of Tacoma, Washington; grandchildren, Claire, Malikand, Jaz and Ziquora; and great-grand-children, Jashon Jr. and Ezekiel.

Donations may be made to Coming Home Hospice (cpmc.org/services/chh/donate.html).


Blown awayEditor,

On May 21, Avenidas hosted its 29th Lifetimes of Achievement event, and I am grateful to the Palo Alto Weekly for being our faithful media sponsor. Once again, I was blown away by the caliber of the individuals we honored. We are blessed to have a rich and diverse community shaped by extraor-dinary men and women over the decades, and Avenidas could not ask for a better “signature event” that resonates so deeply with our mission of being a leader in the creation of a community that supports and celebrates its older adults.

I was a young undergraduate student in Dr. Carol Winograd’s (one of this year’s Lifetimes Hon-orees) “Women and Aging” class at Stanford when I first learned about Avenidas 12 years ago. It is not just a local community trea-sure — it is a pioneering institu-tion that is recognized nationally for its long history of developing innovative programs and services for older adults. Avenidas is an integral part of the fabric of Palo Alto and the Midpeninsula.

The local older adult population is projected to increase by 113 per-cent over the next 30 years, and Avenidas is actively preparing to meet its growing and changing needs. With the major expansion and modernization of our facility in downtown Palo Alto, we will set a new national standard for how a vibrant and innovative com-munity center for older adults can help people live longer, healthier, more active and independent lives.

To learn more about this excit-ing project, I encourage you to check out our website avenidas.org/about/build-project. Giving to this project will be a long-term investment in the future of this amazing community, and we hope the whole community will pull to-gether to help us cross the finish line with our campaign!

Amy AndonianBryant Street, Palo Alto

Renaming brouhahaEditor,

I strongly advise the school board to rewrite Board Policy 7310 — Naming of Facility (pausd.org/policies#/browse/document/1314) to disallow naming a school after an individual. Instead, any new school names should be named for a virtue. I suggest choosing from the list at cwu.edu/~warren/Unit1/aristotles_virtues_and_vices.htm.

A previous school board shot itself in the foot by naming sev-eral schools after people who later fell out of favor. This re-sulted in a disruptive episode that could have been prevented

by careful naming.Please don’t the repeat that

mistake! It would be another un-necessary waste of resources to repeat the renaming brouhaha in 50 years.

Stan HutchingsRinconada Avenue, Palo Alto

Flunking Ethics 101Editor,

The sturm and drang surround-ing the expansionist plans of Cas-tilleja School illustrates the dif-ference in style between two Palo Alto private schools. For years Castilleja has been embattled with neighbors who have suffered traf-fic, parking and noise problems who are now vehemently opposing the school’s lavish expansion proj-ect. On the other hand, Bowman International School has enjoyed amicable relations with its neigh-bors and has won the city’s ap-proval allowing a zoning change to build a gymnasium, art center and theater. Its neighbors applaud the additions.

Contrast this with Castilleja; it is locked in a bitter struggle ex-emplified by its flouting a city Conditional Use Permit limiting enrollment to 415 students. For 15 years, it illegally added large

numbers of students for which it was censured and fined. Now, it is proposing to inflate enrollment by a hundred more students, topping at 540. It is asking us to believe it will not add to the worsening turmoil in its congested traffic zone. Bowman School, located in lighter traffic outskirts, has been transparent and forthright with neighbors and city and is not ask-ing for more enrollment.

One font of learning has taken the high road in good commu-nity relations while the other has flunked Ethics 101.

Vic BeferaBryant Street, Palo Alto

Traffic concernsEditor,

Castilleja was founded in 1907. It was a boarding school till 1996. While a boarding school, there was minimal amount of traffic in the area. Now, there are major traffic problems all over Palo Alto and surrounding areas caused by more cars, and people.

Do we really want to disrupt the bike path on Bryant with traffic going into Castilleja’s parking ga-rage proposal?

Neva YarkinChurchill Avenue, Palo Alto

SpectrumEditorials, letters and opinions

The sex-ed tumult Updated school curriculum,

and process for adopting it, draw fire

W ho would have thought that in 2017 Palo Alto parents would find themselves in a debate over sex education?

For the last two months a passionate and persistent group of concerned parents, consisting mostly of Chinese-Amer-icans, has organized a campaign to reverse the school district’s adoption of new sex-education curriculum it believes encourages teen sexual activity and other unhealthy behavior and exposes seventh-graders to information some are not yet ready to hear.

While the parents insist they are supportive of “age-appropriate” sex education, their vocal objections to a program praised and supported by professional educators and reviewed by the state De-partment of Education has surfaced tricky questions about cultural differences within the parent community and how the public school system should handle such diversity of values when adopting dis-trict policy. They also raise legitimate questions about whether the district failed to follow its own procedures, including those that emphasize parent involvement in curriculum adoptions.

The focus of the parent concern is a 10-hour school unit that was implemented this spring for all seventh-graders by educa-tors from Health Connected, a Redwood City-based nonprofit that has a long track record of developing sex-education materi-als and delivering them in school districts throughout the Bay Area. Palo Alto has worked with Health Connected for more than 10 years.

The sex-ed curriculum was revised and strengthened this year to meet the requirements of a new state law that took effect last year. That law, the California Healthy Youth Act, requires more compre-hensive sex education for middle and high school students designed to provide students “with the knowledge and skills necessary to protect their sexual and reproductive health from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and from unintended pregnancy” and to “develop healthy attitudes concerning adolescent growth and development, body image, gender, sexual orientation, relation-ships, marriage and family.”

A Palo Alto parent social-media campaign opposing the use of the curriculum erupted at the end of March after some parents became aware of a similar controversy in the Cupertino school district and began asking questions about the curriculum.

Since then dozens of speakers have used the “open forum” speak-ing opportunity at every recent school board meeting to express their unhappiness, often taking up more than an hour of meeting time and derailing other school business. Email campaigns have flooded the in-boxes of school board members.

In addition to objecting to the age appropriateness of the cur-riculum, parents took aim at the lack of parent involvement as is required by district policy for new major curriculum adoptions such as math or science.

On Tuesday, the school board finally addressed the matter on its agenda by discussing a recommendation by Superintendent Max McGee that the district improve its outreach to parents on the cur-riculum but not undertake the new review process being advocated by the concerned parents.

We agree with board members Terry Godfrey, Ken Dauber and Jennifer DiBrienza that a “reset” is neither necessary nor in the best interest of the community or students. The new curriculum, which was developed by a respected organization to meet the re-quirements of the new law, was found compliant by the state De-partment of Education and appropriate by district teachers. It has now also been the subject of substantially more public discussion than it would ever receive through any new committee process.

Trustees Todd Collins and Melissa Baten Caswell are also cor-rect in pointing out that the issue was mishandled by district ad-ministrators and probably violated the district’s own procedures for involving the public.

School officials should have anticipated some parent concern, publicized the issue and made the materials readily reviewable long ago. They should have held an information session for the board and public at a school board meeting last fall and presented a staff recommendation for approval by the board.

In a classic example of bad district-community communications, even today, after all the controversy, a search on the district website for “sex education” brings up no information. For a district with a full-time communications coordinator, there is no excuse for not making information on a current controversial school issue easily available on the web.

But one failure should not lead to another, and there are far too many more important issues facing our school district than to go through the motions of a months-long review process of 10 hours of curriculum that will add little or nothing to what has already been brought to light.

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What do you do to manage stress or anxiety?Asked at Rinconada Library in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Sophie Pollock.

Darren McBrideUnemployedValenica Avenue, Sunnyvale

“I pray and talk to friends who can

empathize.”

Joyce AlbaTeacher’s AideColorado Avenue, Palo Alto

“I read and eat chocolate.”

Jim MulveyRetiredRhodes Drive, Palo Alto

“Irish whiskey.”

Bejoy ChoudhuryEngineerRoss Road, Palo Alto

“I take a deep breath and then try

to remove myself from the situation

mentally.”

Frances TittertonRetiredHamilton Avenue, Palo Alto

“I do three things: I walk downtown,

read M.C. Beaton and drink coffee at

Philz.”

by Steve Eittreim and Mark Grossman

W hen dis-c u s s i n g the climate

crisis, the question most often asked by concerned citi-zens is “What can I do to help?” Look for the banner hang-ing along the side of Embarcadero Road near Louis Road in Palo Alto for an easy answer.

Although pollsters find that 75 percent of Americans are concerned about cli-mate change, not ev-eryone appreciates the central role that carbon dioxide (CO2) plays in the crisis. It is mainly CO2, derived from our dependence on the burning of fossil fuels, that is the principal villain.

It is true that the climate dynamics that result in overabundance of CO2 pollution is complicated; there are many physical, chemical and biological factors to be tak-en into account, both in the atmosphere and the oceans. But it is clear the over-abundance of CO2 is the primary factor that has stolen the mellow climate that

civilized mankind has enjoyed since we first populated Earth. All of our vehicles that use internal combustion engines and our power plants that burn fossil fuels should be shifted to alternative energy sources. It’s as simple as that.

Even oilman George W. Bush told us a decade ago that we are addicted to oil; this addiction needs to be broken. Our slow adoption of hybrid and electric cars and our conver-sion of power plants away from the worst carbon culprit of all, coal, has led to a small decrease in CO2 emissions over the last decade. We need to accelerate that decrease.

The facts are pretty simple: CO2 concen-tration in the atmo-sphere before the industrial age was 280 parts per million (ppm). It is now above 400 ppm and still rising. The Earth has not experienced this level of atmospheric CO2 since the Mio-cene, 15 million years ago. That was when large mammals began to evolve, millions of years before humans appeared on the Earth. To avoid catastrophic climate changes, we need to stop adding to that CO2 load.

A gallon of gasoline burned produces almost 20 pounds of CO2 (roughly 8 pounds of carbon atoms combined with

12 pounds of oxygen atoms). A modest-sized gas automobile produces about one pound of CO2 per mile driven. In Cali-fornia, cars and trucks are the largest contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere. As citizens and people who care about the future of our planet, we must reduce these emissions drastically and quickly.

In auto sales, and on the streets of Palo Alto, the internal combustion en-gine is still king. Car companies claim their prof-its for hybrids and electric cars are poor. Because of this they do not advertise them aggressively, de-spite a good selec-tion of nicely de-signed cars (many of which were offered for test

drives by their volunteer owners at the re-cent Earth Day celebration in Palo Alto).

Since hybrid and electric cars have now been available for more than a decade, and since most people renew their cars ev-ery decade or less, the small percentage of such vehicles on the streets seems coun-ter to reason if people really care about protecting the planet. What is to be done?

Perhaps we the people need to take mat-ters into our own hands at the local level and work for change. At least we could do the advertising that the car companies

are not doing for themselves. Rather than advertising the size, speed and accelera-tion of cars, let’s advertise the wisdom of a low-emission vehicle in protecting the planet for our grandchildren. As Wikipe-dia points out, because of the relatively constant torque of an electric motor, EVs typically in fact have more powerful ac-celeration than an internal combustion engine with a similar motor-power rating.

Here in Palo Alto we can demonstrate our commitment to drastically reducing CO2 emissions by encouraging our fel-low citizens to phase out high-emission vehicles. To that end, two groups of cli-mate warriors, 350 Silicon Valley and Peninsula Interfaith Climate Action, with the blessing of Palo Alto’s Office of Sustainability, have crafted the banner that is being hung in high-traffic areas to remind us all of what we must do. As Stanford University professor Mark Ja-cobson shows, in his exhaustive study of the economy in all 50 states, making the transition shifting from fossil fuels to re-newables can be done without disruptive effects to our economy.

Let’s do this, folks! Steve Eittreim and Mark Grossman

are Palo Alto residents, parents and grandparents and hence share a strong personal stake in the Earth’s future. They are members of 350.org-Silicon Valley, a national group organized to fight climate disruption, and Peninsula Interfaith Climate Action, a group that meets regularly at the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto.

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The facts are pretty simple: Carbon-dioxide concentration in the atmosphere before the Industrial Age was 280 parts per million. It is now above 400 parts per million and still rising.

Mark Grossman

Steve Eittreim

Nancy PackerNancy Packer is Professor

Emerita of English at Stanford University, where she taught in the Creative Writing Program. Her short stories have appeared in such journals as Harper’s, Yale Review, and Sewanee Re-view and have been included in several O. Henry Prize Stories Awards and Best American Short Stories. Sixty of her stories have been collected and published in five volumes — “Old Ladies” is her most recent collection.

Marjorie SayerMarjorie Sayer writes books

with a multicultural and inter-disciplinary perspective. Her middle-grade novel, “The Girl Mechanic of Wanzhou,” is a winner of the Scholastic Asia Book Award. Her nonfiction for adults has appeared in O’Reilly Media, and her recreational math books have been used in clubs throughout the country. She enjoys bicycle travel, her family and the friendship of her cats. She blogs about her interests at marjoriesayer.com.

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T he short story is a peculiarly delightful form — it’s longer than a poem, shorter than a nov-el and rebelliously shirks the parameters and

conventions other forms might impose. It feels free to dip its toes into poetic lyricism, plays with the structures of “story” as it pleases, but — in the end — is beholden to neither. And so, in its unwilling-ness to conform, it’s a form that has the potential to attract many writers and readers of all ages.

From the poetic musings of a mysterious man, to a whimsical world where the forgotten characters of unfinished stories go to live, to a kid’s quiet observa-tions on the daily bike ride to school — these short stories may be part of the same genre but they offer vastly varying takes on topics like memory, life, love and growing up. They are the winners of this year’s

annual short story contest, and they offer a glimpse into the creativity that abounds in this community.

The Palo Alto Weekly would like to thank the 95 writers who submitted work to this year’s contest; the readers, Danielle Truppi and Sharon Levin, who se-lected the top entries in each category for the judges to consider; the judges for the adult categories, Mike Nagler, Nancy Packer and Nick Taylor; and the Teen category judges, Caryn Huberman Yacowitz, Mar-jorie Sayer and Debbie Duncan. The Weekly also would like to thank the contest co-sponsors, Bell’s Books of Palo Alto, Kepler’s Books of Menlo Park and Linden Tree Books of Los Altos.

The stories of all 10 first- through third-place winners can be found at PaloAltoOnline.com/short_story.

This year’s winning short stories show just how versatile the form can be

Teen, 12-14 years old1st place: “The Walking Man” by Benjamin Stein2nd place: “The Blood Among Shifting Wolves”

by Sienna Larney-Badani3rd places: “Wonderlandia” by Alice Lee and

“Sea Glass Memories” by Sydney Lee

Young Adult, 15-17 years old1st place: “The Forgotten” by Christina Hung2nd place: “Cicada Summers” by Celeste Levy3rd place: “The Golden Disk” by Amrita Bhasin

Adult, 18 years and older1st place: “Petrichor” by David Pablo Cohn 2nd place: “Small Change” by Margaret Young3rd place: “Her Heart’s Desire” by Owen B. Greenwald

Read all the stories at PaloAltoOnline.com/short_story

Mike NaglerMike Nagler has taught film

and fiction writing at Cañada College for more than 30 years. He sits on the Burlingame Li-brary Board and is the co-editor of two short story anthologies about marriage and desire.

Caryn Huberman Yacowitz

Caryn Huberman Yacowitz writes fiction and nonfiction books for children and plays for both children and adults. Her newest picture book, “I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Dreidel,” a Chanukah book with an art-history spin, is a Junior Library Guild Selection. “Jeans! The Musical,” co-created with Diane Claerbout and Enid Davis, celebrates those famous pants and the pioneers who invented them. Her website is carynyacowitz.com.

Judges for Adult and Young Adult categories

Judges for Teen category

Bell’s Books536 Emerson St.

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Linden Tree265 State St.

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Kepler’s Books & Magazines1010 El Camino Real

Menlo Park

Thank YouThe following businesses co-sponsored the 31st Annual Short Story Contest, providing prizes for winners

in all categories.

Nick TaylorNick Taylor is the author of

“The Disagreement” and “Fa-ther Junípero’s Confessor”. Un-der the pseudonym T.T. Monday, he also writes a series of thrillers about the relief pitcher detective Johnny Adcock. The latest book in that series, “Double Switch”, was published by Doubleday in 2016. Taylor is Associate Profes-sor of English at San Jose State University, where he directs the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies.

Debbie DuncanDebbie Duncan has been re-

viewing children’s books for the Weekly since 1997. She is the author of the Benjamin Franklin Award-winning pic-ture book “When Molly Was in the Hospital,” as well as a book for parents, “Joy of Read-ing.” She also contributes to the Perspectives series of commen-taries on KQED radio. When she isn’t reading books to find the best to share with Weekly readers, she’s writing her own middle-grade novel or hanging out on Twitter @debbieduncan.


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I used to be able to quote a couple of his poems pretty well, and I’d re-cite them to Louise back when we

were courting. But now when I try, it all comes out in broken little pieces: sum-mer sidewalk paving stones, something, something, the forgotten ghost of rain rising underfoot. Doesn’t really give you the same feeling, I know. Because when you got to read it all together, you could just feel the storm coming in and smell that smell. And somehow between the words, you knew that poem wasn’t about the rain, but it was really about a woman, about someone he’d lost. All of them were about her.

I’d never been into poetry, or much of any kind of reading for that matter, so maybe it was just having known him that made it special. But it’s been 10 years now and still, whenever it starts to rain after a long dry spell, I catch myself wait-ing for that smell, and I get a little sad for him. Melancholy, I guess, is the word.

H e said his name was Hadley. “As in Richardson,” he said, as if that explained everything. I figured

I’d just nod like I knew what he meant.“And you are?”“Ruben.” I usually told customers once

they’d sat down and settled in. You know: “Good evening, my name is Ruben. Is there anything I can get you to drink while you look over the menus?” But he asked like he really wanted to know, and put his hand out to shake mine when I told him.

“Good to know you, Ruben. It looks like my usual perch is unoccupied.” He wore a sort of wool fedora, like you’d expect of some old time German, and it bobbed just a bit when he cocked his head off toward the round low-top by

the window. “If you don’t mind, that is.” Then he cocked his head back to me to show he knew I wouldn’t mind and shuf-fled over on his own, one corduroyed leg swinging a little wide with each step, as if there was something about his knee that wasn’t right.

I imagined him an old professor, or a sea captain come to shore with some fi-nality. He had the look of someone who’d held a station of some dignity, but who also had lived a bit and not regretted it, even if it had left him somewhat worse for the wear.

He’d been coming into the Mermaid a couple times a week since before I start-ed. For years, they said — Tuesdays and Sundays, sometimes Thursdays too. Al-ways right around eight, after the dinner crowd had mostly cleared out. Always took the same seat, and always ordered the same thing: chicken pot pie and a glass of cognac. But he always insisted on spending a couple of minutes with the menu first. Megan told me that once she’d tried to surprise him, told him his order was already in when she brought the water and silver to his table. Said he struggled up to his feet with that bad leg of his and started to walk out, like she’d insulted him or something. Made it as far as the door before stopping. Shook his head a couple of times, then turned around and shuffled back to his seat and asked for a menu. Ordered the house burger, she said, but didn’t touch it, and spent the evening looking out the win-dow, over the harbor.

So yeah, he was an odd one, but seemed right enough on his own terms. Kept to himself, mostly. And what with him always wanting that table, everybody just assumed that he was the one who’d written all the poems.

I t was Ashley who found them. Some kids who came over on the ferry looking for something different on

a Saturday night got wild and knocked a couple pints of Newcastle off the old, lacquered baby grand that Lydia kept in the corner. They got sent home, of course, but there was beer everywhere: walls, windows, floor. You know how people slide business cards and the like under the glass at tables in a bar, right? Gives them something to read while waiting for their food. A bunch of the cards around the edge on Hadley’s table got soaked, so Ashley figured she’d bet-ter clean them out before it dried and they all got stuck.

She was just going to throw the cards away — no point in saving an old coupon for the Belmont Car Wash, or J. P. Giles, C.P.A., For All Your Accounting Needs. But a couple of the cards had writing on the back. And not just scribbled notes; they were lines of poetry, neat and even, drawn lengthwise across in blue ink.

She found close to fifty poems on the table, all written on the back of different peoples’ business cards in the same even hand. Some were only a couple of lines; others seemed to continue from one card to the next. Ashley put a rubber band around the ones with poems and returned the rest to the table; she figured she’d tell Lydia about them when she opened on Monday.

I had the harborside tables that Sunday. Hadley shuffled in on schedule and slid into his table sideways, the way he always did, bracing himself against the corner to ease the weight on his bum leg. Seemed cheerful enough at first when I brought water and the menu.

“Need a few minutes to decide?”“Yes, please.” He clearly appreciated

that I understood the ritual. “But I’d be obliged if you’d bring me a glass of your worst cognac in the meantime.”

“Certainly. I’ll see what I can scrape out of the sink.” That got a smile.

But something had changed by the time I returned with the Courvoisier. Of course, I didn’t know anything about the poems yet. But there was a hollow look in his eyes, and his voice seemed far away when he spoke, like he was trying very hard to remember something that was enormously important.

I asked if everything was alright.“Yes, yes... no.” His eyes flitted down

to the table, out the window, then back up to meet mine. “Yes, everything is...fine.”

I checked on him more than usual that evening but tried not to hover. I just as-sumed he’d gotten a phone call — some bad news, or something. Maybe a death in the family. He picked tentatively at his pot pie, and held the snifter to the light of the table’s lamp, swirling it and peering into its amber eddy as if it were a crystal ball.

He was still at his table near closing, the pot pie long finished, but a full inch of cognac remaining in his glass. The rain had begun, a fresh spring drizzle, and he looked out on it through the ob-scured dusk with a sort of melancholy.

“Is there anything else I can get you?” That was usually just the polite way to ask someone if they’re ready for their check. But I was worried for him and meant it as a real question. He seemed to take it as such and thought a while, his eyes again tracing an arc from the table to the window and then, slowly, back to me.

by David Pablo Cohn

Palo Alto resident David Pablo Cohn left Silicon Valley’s startup world four years ago to split his time be-

tween fiction writing, working part-time aboard a research icebreaker in Antarcti-ca and restoring a farm in Port Townsend, Washington, which is where he drew the inspiration for his short story, “Petrichor.”

With a background in computer sci-ence and statistics, Cohn isn’t afraid to try something new; He’s what you might call a lifelong learner with insatiable curiosity.

“One of my challenges is that I’m really fascinated by everything, and so I get in-volved in everything,” said Cohen, who is currently head deep in operating the farm on the Olympic Peninsula that he and his wife “accidentally” purchased for reasons that he’s “still trying to explain,”

Cohn, who is the first to say that he “knows nothing about farming,” is work-ing with local organic farmers, Washing-ton’s land trust conservation district, as well as the city and county, to restore a farm that would have otherwise been sold to developers.

“Knowing nothing about anything has rarely stopped me before,” he said.

Living out this mindset, in 2010, Cohn decided to seize the opportunity to go to what he described as the “magnificent desolation” of the South Pole. Since then, he has become a self-described “lifer.”

“They say people go to Antarctica the first time because they’re curious, the second time for the money, the third time because you don’t fit in anywhere else anymore,” he said.

Cohn credits his trips to Antarctica as the catalyst for writing fiction. Prior to Antarctica, he wrote a “Travelogues” blog, and before that, he wrote songs and poetry. It was during his first trip to the South Pole that he had an idea for a story — one that he felt “someone ought to write.” He started to write that story, which he said blossomed into a novel that he hasn’t finished yet. In the meantime, he started writing short stories.

“I like to tell people, stories are an invi-tation to fall in love,” he said, explaining that while sometimes you might want to grow up and grow old with characters in a novel or series, other times, “you just want to dive in, your world turned upside down and kind of find yourself before you know it, watching the tail lights go off into the morning light.”

Cohn’s writing can be found at medi-um.com/@cohn.

— Anna MedinaJudge’s comments on ‘Petrichor’

A young waiter tells of a mysterious old man who comes regularly to the restaurant and places his elegant poems under the glass tabletop. The old man disappears, and to the waiter’s great sense of loss, the poems are destroyed in a torrential rain. A very touching story.

— Nancy Packer


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M uch of the time, they don’t even do it on purpose.

That’s the thing about forget-ting. It’s not a conscious act. It happens over time, something subtle in the mind that isn’t ever noticed until whatever they’ve forgotten is gone. And, by then, it’s already too late.

Once something is forgotten, it is as if it never existed in the first place. It vanishes into the ether, not even a trace to ever show it once was real. Thoughts are not tangible, after all. Neither are ideas, or dreams, or half-formed creatures of imagination that will never gain physical form. Except, just because something is forgotten, that doesn’t mean that it no longer is.

(I think, therefore I am.)We are all sentient. Not all complete,

no, but we exist. Maybe some of us are missing voices or bodies or barely have the outlines of a personality, but that doesn’t mean we’re invalid. We had po-tential, once. We had stories, once. We had characters, once.

We are the Forgotten, and isn’t it the highest form of irony that all we want to be is remembered.

“What’s your name?” I ask. His form is wispy around the edges, his face in-distinct and his clothing a vague blur of dark colors. He’s quite clearly new here, as evidenced by how he’s been wander-ing around with no rhyme or reason for close to an hour.

He blinks. “I... Max? Nathan? I don’t know, I think — I don’t know ...” he trails off, voice hollow and lost.

I heave an internal sigh. Great. “Let me rephrase. What do you want your name to be?”

“Um.” I can’t make out his face, but if

it was defined, I have a feeling his brows would be furrowed in confusion. “I kind of like Nathan?”

“Okay. Nathan it is, then.” I tilt my head at a nearby bench, one that isn’t too rusty or wet from the rain. “Want to sit down? You look like you could use someone to explain what exactly is going on to you.”

“Yeah, that ... that would be good.” He seems more than a little dazed as he wan-ders over and takes a seat, perched on the edge of the bench with hands fisted on his knees. He’s asking questions almost before I can sit down myself, tone edged with the beginnings of panic. “What is this place? Where am I?”

“There’s no specific name for this place. It’s just ... “I let my gaze wander over the sagging buildings, the washed-out sky, the light that casts pale shadows across bland pavement. “It’s a place for the Forgotten. That’s all it’s ever been.”

Nathan still looks confused. “The Forgotten?”

I smile at him, soft and sad. Gentle, I remind myself. “You had a story, didn’t you?”

He hesitates for a bare moment. “Yeah. I was supposed to save the world. She was so excited about it, too. Wrote down all the outlines and everything, but 20 pages in she just ... stopped. What happened?”

Saving the world. How typical. I wish I could have been surprised. Well, I’ve al-ways thought that the best way is the blunt way, and there really isn’t any other easy method to break the news.

‘I’m sorry to tell you this,” I start, and the words make his spine go stiff like a steel rod, “but it sounds like

your story got abandoned, long enough

for her to forget about you completely. That’s why you’re here.”

He stares, and I get the impression that he’s horrified. That’s normal. He’ll get over it eventually. “Then, this place is for abandoned characters? But I’m not — “

“Whether you like it or not, you are. You’ll learn to get used to it,” I say, cut-ting him off. I can already see that if I let him wallow, he’s the type who will stay depressed for an near-indefinite amount of time, and that isn’t fun for anybody. “If you’re lucky, she might come back one day. If you’re not, well. We manage.” I give him a small shrug. “You’re not the first one, you know. This place has exist-ed for as long as humans have told stories. Believe me, you’re not alone.”

Nathan shudders, hunching over himself on the bench. A cold wind swirls around him as the skies darken, clouds rolling in with unnatural speed. “No, no, that can’t be right. She spent hours on my story!”

“And yet, you’re not even a fully fleshed-out character,” I point out, giv-ing up on being nice since he’s clearly not getting it. Sometimes, the hammer is more effective than the knife. “Seriously, just look at yourself. Maybe your story got developed, but it doesn’t look like you did. You do realize you don’t even have a clear face, right?”

Nathan doesn’t reply, only makes a de-spondent groaning sound. I keep an eye on the skies just in case, though. It would figure that he has weather powers. Those are often among the hardest to both con-trol and defend against.

“Look,” I say, hoping to head off a breakdown, “how about this. Let’s go home and you can meet the others, yeah? That sound good?”

He looks up, eyes a pair of vague green shapes. “Others?”

“Weren’t you listening earlier?” I stand up, moving two steps away from the bench and turning back to look at him over my shoulder. “We’re not the only ones who have ever been forgotten, you know. Come on; you need to get your mind off things. Let’s go before you call down a thunderstorm or something.”

Nathan jumps to his feet, almost run-ning in his haste to catch up. “Wait! Could you slow down? Where are we even going?”

“Home!” I call back, striding back through the near-empty streets. The city has always been drab and mostly lifeless, one hair shy of a ghost town. Besides the Forgotten, the only beings that live here are the local wildlife. Which, admittedly, can range from pigeons to manticores, but still.

Navigating the streets with familiar ease, it isn’t long before we come to a massive apartment building

stuck between rows of others that all look exactly the same. Except, not quite, be-cause while the architecture and layouts might be identical, the denizens of our building have added certain ... identify-ing marks over the years.

Nathan gapes, wide-eyed. “Is that an airplane hangar? On top of the building?!”

“Dragon’s den, actually.” I stride up to the front doors, pushing the buzzer.

Almost the moment it sounds, the doors swing open and a veritable horde of children comes barreling through. All of them are covered in some combination of glitter and an unidentifiable pink goop, but their voices are bright with laughter and they bounce around so much that I suspect they must be on sugar high.

by Christina Hung

W hen she was in elementary school, Christina Hung could be found reading in the far re-

cesses of the old Mitchell Park Library.“I remember that the ceiling was really

low, and the lights were a little bit dim, so if you went to the very back of the shelves, it felt really solitary, which was nice,” said Hung, now a junior at Gunn High School.

Reading has been a part of Hung’s life for as long as she’s been able to make meaning out of words.

One of her fondest elementary-school memories was going to the library and to see how many books she could check out at one time.

Hung gravitates toward fantasy adven-ture. The “Fablehaven” series by Brandon Mull is one of her favorites, and in middle school she was “obsessed with everything Rick Riordan wrote,” in particular his “King” chronicles. “Of course, I love Harry Potter,” she said, adding that she also enjoys reading manga, Japanese-style comics.

Hung was inspired to write her short story while watching “Noragami,” an an-ime television series based on a Japanese manga series. Hung explained that the show’s characters include Japanese dei-ties whose existence depend on whether humans believe in them. One of the main character’s biggest fears is that he’ll be forgotten, and he’ll disappear as a god.

This prompted Hung to start thinking about memory and what it means to forget something. She also turned to her “story document,” which she hadn’t looked at in years — remembering characters and ideas she herself had forgotten.

Her story document is where she keeps ideas, character sketches and beginnings of stories. It’s now more than 100 pages long. Hung, who plays violin and viola and is a part of California Youth Sym-phony, said that her writing hobby is squeezed between school work and prac-ticing and “everything else.”

Hung, who plans to pursue a medical degree in college, said that she is “defi-nitely going to keep writing” and hopes to publish a novel someday.

“Words are something that are pretty underestimated in general,” she said. “I think as to how much they can influence thought. Words are the basis of communi-cation and language and culture, so I think reading ... (can) influence people more than they might even realize,” she said.

— Anna Medina

Judge’s comments on ‘The Forgotten’A wonderful imaginative leap into

a world populated with unfinished characters left behind and abandoned by their authors. Witty, thoughtful, and unique, the story is like a visit to a foreign country in which we can’t wait to see what awaits us around the next corner. A very talented piece of writing.

— Mike Nagler


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I first saw the Walking Man in fourth grade. That was the year I got to bike to school alone. I remember the exact

route I took; down Grove Street, left on Lorran, right on Jefferson. At first, my ride to school was uneventful. However, my fourth-grade teacher wanted us to get to school early. She thought we’d drain some of our excess energy before class officially started at 8:05 a.m. Back then it was not difficult to wake up early (or at least not as difficult as it is now), so I started leaving my house earlier and earlier.

My original departure time was 7:55, but soon I was leaving at 7:45. Somewhere in

between those times came a specific de-parture time: 7:48. That meant I would hit Lorran at exactly 7:49. That’s also the exact time the Walking Man turned onto Lorran.

I first saw him on a windy day in late February. As I raced to school, he rounded the corner right in front of me. I swerved to avoid him, paying no attention to who he was or what he looked like, and rode off to school.

The next day, I saw him again. This time, he had already turned the corner and was fast-walking down the street. The thing about him that stood out was the way he walked. He walked considerably faster than

the average person, hunching his shoulders forward and taking long, sweeping strides. I quickly passed him and raced off in the direction of school, trying to steal glances back at him as I went.

The next day was a Saturday. I woke up early to get to a soccer game. As I sat in the backseat of the car driven by my grumpy, tired father, I found myself looking around as we drove down Lorran. I realized that I was subconsciously looking for the Walk-ing Man. After the game, we drove back home on that same street. My father was still grumpy, but at least more awake. We had been beaten badly in our soccer game, and despite the fact that I was disappointed and tired, I still scanned the sidewalk on Lorran, looking once again for that curi-ous man.

Monday rolled around, and I saw the Walking Man again. This time, I noticed something peculiar. He was wearing the exact same thing he wore the previous two days. He wore old khaki pants with black overall straps over his faded yellow and green plaid shirt. His face was barely vis-ible under his large, tortoise shell horned rim glasses, and his gray hair crept back to the edges of his balding head. In his shirt pocket there was a single ballpoint pen. It shone bright against his shirt, reflecting the light that wavered in and out of the shadow of the canopy of leaves overhead. The pen was black with a streak of brilliant gold that shone like so many rainbows, light dancing up and down the lone vein. For the rest of the day, whenever I closed my eyes, I saw light flickering up and down a streak of gold.

F or the rest of the year, I saw him as I biked to school. My imagination ran wild with different theories about

him. Was he was a mad scientist? A trea-sure hunter? A retired superhero?

Slowly but surely, winter turned into spring, spring turned into summer. School ended, and with it, the need to ride down Lorran at such an early hour. I never so much as caught a glimpse of the Walking Man for that whole summer. Between ten-nis and soccer and swimming and reading, there simply was no time to even think about him. When school started up again in fifth grade, I had no recollection of the

man who once occupied all of my thoughts. However, I finally saw the Walking Man again in late October of that year. Suddenly, a tidal wave of memories washed over my brain. That whole day I was unable to fo-cus on anything. My thoughts kept drifting back to the Walking Man.

O ver the course of that school year, I saw him time and time again. I often considered talking to him,

but, to the regret of my later self, I always decided against it. The Walking Man be-came part of my routine, just as eating and sleeping are. It was near the end of fifth grade that I realized I might never see him again. That realization occurred to me on a bright and warm Saturday in early May. I was taking a trial run on the bike route that I would take to my new school for sixth grade. Down Grover Street, right onto Creekview, left onto Utah, and straight to Pierceson Middle School. No Lor-ran Street. No Walking Man. As I biked to school on the last day before summer vacation, I studied the Walking Man one last time. He still walked with his eccentric gait, and he still wore his eccentric clothes. And in the breast pocket of his faded yel-low shirt, he still had the same black pen with a streak of gold.

The Walking Man eventually faded from my memory, and I never thought about him over the next few years. In middle school there was no time to reminisce about the past, no time to relive days that came and went, as ephemeral as sand slipping through your fingers.

I did see the Walking Man one last time. It was the day before a long weekend, and school had ended early, at noon. I

went to a restaurant with some friends to eat lunch, and I biked down Lorran on my way home. There I saw him, walking as usual, except for one difference. He was holding hands with a young girl, perhaps his granddaughter, who was happily walk-ing at his side. Looking closer, I saw an-other thing out of the ordinary. His pen was not in the breast pocket of his shirt. It was in the small hands of the wide-eyed girl, light still engaged in an endless dance up and down its gold streak.

by Benjamin Stein

B enjamin Stein is a reminder that talented writers can be teenag-ers, too. Shortly after graduating

from the eighth grade, Stein met with the Weekly to talk writing and life as a soon-to-be freshman at Palo Alto High School.

With the summer stretching before him, he talked of looking forward to playing soccer, joining the summer swim team and taking a trip to Europe with his family — oh, and entering a New York Times writing contest whose winner gets to write a guest column. We think he has

a pretty good shot.Stein, who said that he wants to be a

lawyer and go into politics someday, is a self-proclaimed “news junkie,” turning to The New York Times and The Washing-ton Post, as well as NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” and “A Prairie Home Companion” (he specified that he’s a fan of Garrison Keillor, the show’s previous longtime host.)

Stein said that before he started writing, he was a “big reader” and has been par-ticularly inspired by J.K. Rowling’s “Har-ry Potter” series, Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson” series, and Trenton Lee Stew-art’s “The Mysterious Benedict Society.” Stein, who also mentioned an interest in history, said that he’s a fan of nonfiction works like Laura Hillenbrand’s book, “Unbroken” and Daniel James Brown’s book, “The Boys in the Boat.”

Stein’s foray into writing for fun first started in the fifth grade, when he read the first paragraph of a story that his friend was writing. They started to work on the story, and a love for writing was born. That story since has been abandoned, but Stein continues to write. In fact, last year

he was awarded third place in the Week-ly’s annual short story contest.

Stein doesn’t have a limit to what in-spires him to write — the world is his muse.

“I draw a lot of inspiration from the world around us. There’s just so much going on — there’s so many places, so many people, so many different things in this world that it’s like you’ll never run out of things to write about,” he said. “If you just look closely to one thing for a while, then a story will just come to you.”

While he usually gravitates toward writing fantasy, “The Walking Man,” (the story that garnered first place in this year’s contest) is realistic.

“This is my first time trying to write a realistic story,” he said, adding that it’s both easier and harder to write realisti-cally. He said the challenge is actually making the story realistic. The easy part is that reality is literally all around you, he added.

“You can take a story from your memo-ry, which is what I did this time,” he said. “ You can take a story that you read some-where and basically go on that and evolve

it into something new that’s also realistic.”Writing fantasy, on the other hand,

“takes a lot of imagination.” While Stein didn’t set out to incorporate

particular themes in the story, upon re-flection he said that “The Walking Man,” which is loosely based on his own bike-riding experiences, includes a message about not judging people, and always be-ing open minded. He added that there’s a “circle of life” element to the story as well.

Stein said that he enjoys writing in part because it calms him down and serves as an escape from the world.

“(Writing) is an opportunity to make your own story. It’s cool — putting your imagination into words,” he said.

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“No, no thank you.” There was a gentle finality in his voice. “I think I’m done here.” And with that, he lifted his glass underhand, cupped in his palm, and drained it in one slow, almost ceremonial draw.

He stopped again on the way out and placed a hand on my shoulder.

“Ruben,” he said. “Please tell everyone thank you. It has been lovely.”

‘H ey, Ruben — you see these?” Lydia had the cards laid out face

down on the tally desk when I got in Monday afternoon. I hadn’t, of course.

“Ashley found them, cleaning up on Saturday. Thinks they’re from your friend Hadley.”

“The old guy?”She nodded.“What are they?”“Looks like poetry.” And she

picked one up and read a few lines. Like I said, I’m not one of those guys who’s into poetry, but even with Lydia’s Boston gravel, there was something in those words, something that painted a picture, made it feel like I was remembering something I’d seen and felt a long time ago.

“Have you asked him about them?”

“Haven’t seen him yet. Sunday and Tuesday, right?”

“Also Thursday sometimes.”“I’m not in on Sundays. Was he

here? Yesterday?”I told her he was. And how

something felt different about him.

“Do you think he knew?”“Knew what?”“That Ashley found his po-

ems. I guess he’d have to notice, wouldn’t he? The cards would have been all moved around. You spend that much time in one place, you’d have to notice some-thing like that.”

I supposed she was right.“You okay asking him, tomor-

row? If he comes in?”“He always comes in on

Tuesdays.”She shook her head a little and

gave me that look, the one older folks give you when they’re sure they know better.

S he was right, though. He didn’t come Tuesday, Thursday, or even Sunday

the next week. He’d missed a day here and there in the past, but only one at a time, and always apolo-gized for the absence, explaining it away as bit of a cold or a fall he’d taken. “Doctor told me that if I didn’t keep my weight off that foot, he’d make sure it was broken next time.” And he’d scrunch up the side of his smile as if to say “You know how doctors are.”

But July was getting up to speed, and with it came all the weekend festivals on the water-front. By the time things slowed in October, we hadn’t seen him in over four months.

Lydia kept the cards in her desk. Said she’d tried Googling a few of the poems to see if he’d just cop-ied them down from somewhere but found nothing.

“I think he just wrote ‘em and left them here.”

It didn’t make any sense to me, either.

“You just going to keep them in your desk?”

“What else am I gonna do?”“Find him? Let him know we’ve

got his poems?”“I think he knows that already.

And I’ve tried. You know who Hadley Richardson is?”

“Isn’t that him?”“Hemingway’s first wife.”“No shit?”She nodded.“Why would he...?”“You tell me.” She grunted out

a little laugh and gave me that older-and-wiser look again. “But yeah, Google’s got nothing on any Hadleys around here. And don’t think I didn’t ask around town.”

Everyone seemed to know who she was talking about, but no one knew anything more about him than we did. Katie out at Hudson Point said he ate breakfast there on Sundays — didn’t talk much, and always got the boatyard hash with white cheddar and black cof-fee. Paid cash and tipped well.

“She find any poetry?”“They’ve got nothing to write

on there, do they? Unless you pull a chart off the wall and use the back of that. But no, she looked when I told her.”

Lydia let me take them out and look at them whenever I wanted. Eventually hung them up on a bit of foam board, first against the filing cabinet, then on the back wall behind the bar, because people kept asking. There was talk around town of putting them all in a book and publishing it but Anna, at the bookstore across the street, said no one would touch something like that without a

clear copyright. So we just read them where they were; sometimes we’d call out a line to each other when it seemed to fit.

T he poems were about all sorts of things — city streets and the open road,

or sunrise over the ocean. Fresh coffee, or a bumblebee resting on the window sill. But in each one there was a shadow of some-thing else: the empty space left by someone he’d lost. Maybe she left him. Or maybe he’d left her and regretted it — there was really no way to tell.

Everyone had their favorite, of course, and the one that always got to me was about the rain. Maybe that’s the thing about a poem — maybe the right one says something you recognize, some-thing you’ve felt, but never found the words to make real. And by finding the words, even if they’re someone else’s, you finally really understand the feelings and can make them your own. At least that’s the way it felt to me.

The irony of it all, of course, was that it was the rain that did everything in. We had a big pour that January — a lot of wind, too. I guess there was enough loose debris to clog the downspouts, and everything just pooled up there on the roof until one of the seams gave way. We came in to a full inch of water on the floor in the morning, with the drywall soaked clean through on three sides. Had to throw out damned near ev-erything that got wet, and there wasn’t much to save from the cards. Hindsight would’ve been to at least put a sheet of plastic over the board, but hindsight’s always

been worth jack shit, hasn’t it?Some folks had a poem or two

they’d memorized or written down — Anna started collect-ing them once it came out that they’d been ruined. And we all got a good scolding for not hav-ing made any copies, just in case. It was all we could do to hang our heads.

T he Mermaid’s still out there, and I keep promising Louise I’ll take her up to

see where it all happened. I kind of owe her that — I mean, he’s the reason we met in the first place. I was pulling cards out from under the glass at the airport diner in Burlington, and Lou spent half her lunch watching before wan-dering over to ask what the hell I was doing. I told her the story, like I’ve told you, and next thing I know we’re going table to table, looking together. Gave her my number, and she promised she’d give a call if she ever found any. Never did — find any poems that is, but we’ve been married five years now and have a Hadley of our own to chase around. Yeah, I know. I’d wanted to name her Katherine, after my mother, but Louise insisted, and who was I to argue? Even if it does sound like a boy’s name.

And I still do think about him whenever it rains. I wait for that smell and let myself feel a little sad, and I get to wondering about all those other things that we don’t notice we’ve got until they’re gone. Maybe it makes me a better person, maybe it makes me a fool. Maybe both; I’m not convinced there’s much difference either way.

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“You’re back! You’re back!” they chorus, exuding a cloud of sparkles with every movement. “And there’s a new guy!”

“This is Nathan,” I inform them, herding the kids a respectful dis-tance away. “Be nice. He isn’t used to you little terrors yet.”

Nathan, meanwhile, is wearing a somewhat dazed, rather shell-shocked expression that looks as if someone slapped him with a fish. A rather large one, at that.

“Um. What?” is all he can man-age. “Why are there kids?”

“Adults aren’t the only char-acters in a story,” I remind him, snagging one of them by the col-lar when she tries to dodge around me. “Watch your pockets, some of them are tiny thieves. Stay here for a minute while I go find today’s designated babysitter.”

“Hold on, what?” Nathan pan-ics. It’s kind of hilarious. “Wait, you can’t just leave me —”

“Only for a few minutes!” I don’t bother to disguise the wicked grin behind my words, laughing when the kids take that as an invitation and swarm him.

He’ll be fine, I’m sure. The main character hero-types always are.

The sun, for once, is shining. The sky, for once, is blue. It’s oddly cheery, to tell the truth. The last time the weather was this nice was ... years ago, perhaps. Maybe longer.

I suppose there are some ben-efits to having a weather mage around.

“Ow, ow, ow. Watch the hair! The hair!” Nathan cringes, head bowed at an awkward angle as he gingerly extricates himself from sticky fingers.

The toddler giggles, patting Na-than’s face and nearly poking out his eye. “Hair!”

Sitting beside me, Wildfire, another of the Forgotten, smirks. “He seems to be

settling in well.”I lean back, grass cool beneath

my fingers and earth faintly moist. “Eh, well enough. He broods if he’s left alone for too long, so I’m pretty much just keeping him busy until he gets over it.”

Wildfire snorts, sparks danc-ing on the ends of her hair. An idle toss of her head makes them swirl like fireflies in the daylight, settling to earth as burnt-out ash. “Isn’t that your solution to everything?”

I let out a short, barking sound of amusement. “What, like the thera-pists worked so much better?”

“Maybe they would if there weren’t so few of them and so many of us,” she points out. “And, y’know. If anyone actually agreed to therapy.”

“Fair enough,” I agree, and she does have a point. Most of the Forgotten, the ones who are self-aware at any rate, are main characters. A few of us might be supporting cast with a relatively large role or characters that our creators were particularly fond of, but on the whole, we’re main char-acters. Everyone else, the generic citizens who live out in the city and are little more than faceless, shapeless automatons ... they’re the background, the civilians, those unnamed villagers the hero saves. Those aren’t people, not re-ally. They don’t think like sentient beings. If anything, they’re closer to robots.

Consequently, as main charac-ters, we’re often more stubborn than is probably good for us. And, depending on what type of story we came from, have a few too many issues that can’t really be handled by any normal therapist.

A little ways away, Nathan turns, trips over a little dog that’s too short to notice but just tall enough to be annoying, and goes down in a mess of flailing limbs. He’s instantly buried under a mass of kids, who seem to think that

once he’s on their level he’s fair game. I would feel sorry for him if it wasn’t so funny.

“Okay, I gotta admit. It’s really nice being able to foist babysitting off on the new guy,” Wildfire ad-mits, sunlight turning her eyes to gold. “Why in the world are there so many kids, anyway? I could’ve sworn there weren’t that many last month.”

I grimace, mood dropping. “I think a bunch of stories got aban-doned, probably around the same time. Maybe by the same author, even. Half of them are all related in some way or another.”

“ ... Ah.” Wildfire goes silent at that. “That really sucks.”

In a sense, this makes the chil-dren the most tragic of the For-gotten. They will never grow up, not here. This place is timeless, a sort of limbo stuck in some end-less cycle of night and day that exists without age. The younger ones will never understand what exactly they had done to be for-gotten, never understand that it wasn’t something they could have controlled.

Sometimes, I think, it would be all too easy to hate our creators for what they have done.

It is months before Nathan comes to terms with things enough to be happy here. He

settles in as the new favorite of the children, spending his days watching them and spending time with the rest of us. He befriends a few others, even, their person-alities and abilities complement-ing his. Just yesterday, the group of them pooled their magic and called up a hurricane, which fol-lowed by what felt like half an ocean’s worth of rain and sleet. The reason, apparently, being “to see if they could.”

(Wildfire ... is not thrilled with him right now. I suspect that’s why he’s been hiding on the out-skirts of the city for the past few hours.)

Still, life continues. The world moves on. Time heals all wounds, or at the very least reduces them to fading scars. Every so often, another newcomer joins the ranks. Sometimes I find them first, sometimes not. Some of them re-main in denial for what feels like forever. Others adapt quickly, al-ready harsh and jaded and having half-expected abandonment long before it really happened.

Inevitably, they will always ask my name. Nathan did, several days into our acquaintanceship. Inevitably, I will smile, shrug, and tell them that I don’t remember.

(I was the first, after all, and it has been a very, very long time since I was created.)

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

What: “Collections from Sundown”When: Through Aug. 27, Tuesday-Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday, 1-5 p.m.Where: Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo AltoCost: FreeInfo: Go to cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/csd/artcenter/default.asp

alo Alto native and artist Kija Lucas’ “Collections from Sundown” exhibition

is a deeply personal one. Each photograph tells a piece of a poi-gnant story about her grandmoth-er, Amelia’s, experience with Al-zheimer’s disease and a related set of symptoms called sundown-er’s syndrome. The collection of images, featuring handwritten notes and piles of cherished pos-sessions, is currently on display at the Palo Alto Art Center, as a part of the center’s “Summer of Photography” series.

“With sundowner’s syndrome, people with Alzheimer’s and dementia, especially in winter time, late afternoon and evening — which is why they call it sun-downer’s — become more con-fused,” Lucas explained. “Some-times my grandmother would say, ‘Someone dropped me off here. I don’t know when they’re coming back to pick me up. I don’t know where my stuff is.’”

Amelia, a Palo Alto resident, often packed or collected per-sonal belongings in preparation for an imagined trip or train ride in the earlier stages of her illness. In an effort to explore the ways that Alzheimer’s has shaped her grandmother’s understanding of the world around her, Lucas has photographed many of Amelia’s

cherished travel items and senti-mental goods, along with various handwritten notes.

“One time she just had nine coats that she was carrying around the house,” Lucas said, pointing to photographs of her grandmother’s coats and a purse. “And it doesn’t make sense, right? She put this photo album in there that my mom makes her every few years just to remind her who her family members are. She packed up her purse and was carrying her wallet around the house, which had a $20 bill, a pin and a hearing-aid battery.”

Once Amelia had caregivers by her side on a daily basis, Lu-cas said she didn’t have as much time to pack for anticipated trips. Lucas then began collecting Ame-lia’s handwritten notes with help from her mother, Esther, who currently lives with Amelia. Es-ther saved the notes in a box un-til Lucas could decide how she wanted to use them in her next art installation.

Lucas, who’s earned two fine-arts degrees, has always been in-terested in how ideas are passed down from generation to gen-eration. A 2013 solo road trip in-fluenced by her family’s history led to a body of work called “In Search of Home,” which captured images of botanicals and rocks

throughout 13 states, including California. The collection, she said, explored the ties of racial taxonomy and her own family’s emigration patterns.

Following her road trip, she captured an index of others’ sen-timental items called “Objects to Remember You By,” which origi-nally included Amelia’s items and notes her mother had set aside. Al-though the project began as one archive of sentimental items, it became two separate chronicles. “Collections from Sundown” be-came its own standalone story.

“It started with these objects ... like what does someone hold onto, that makes it a place of home for them?” Lucas explained. “I think of home more as a concept or idea rather than a place. Our experi-ence has so much to do with how we define that.”

Amelia — who sometimes goes by the nicknames Amy or Mil-lie — grew up in New York and moved to Michigan the year she married her husband, 1943. After their relocation, she complained that she was “bored to tears” and decided to go to school. After obtaining her master’s degree in psychology from the University of Michigan, she obtained her second master’s degree in social work from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967. Lucas described her grandmother as witty, with a sarcastic sense of humor. Daily three-mile walks, writing classes and quilting, Lucas said, were a few of Amelia’s favorite hobbies before she became ill.

“I feel very lucky that I got to know her as an adult, because you have a very different relationship

Photo exhibition offers artistic, intimate perspective on dementia

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Lucas compiled her grandmother’s notes to photograph for her “Collections from Sundown” exhibition.

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“Try to take a bath (or a shower) sometime today,” reads one of artist Lucas’ grandmother’s notes to herself.with parents and grandparents once you become an adult,” Lu-cas said. “I feel lucky that I got to spend that time with her. But then I also see a lot of what’s happened because she never seemed like an old lady until she got sick. She’s in her 80s and people would be like, ‘Your grandma seems so young.’ Then all of the sudden, she got re-ally old.”

While viewing the exhibit, there is a clear progression in the flow of the photos that conveys Amelia’s yearning to organize her thoughts and her inability to do so. Lucas pointed out that a few of the notes are addressed to “Mom,” which is the name Ame-lia occasionally calls her daugh-ter, Esther. Amelia calls Lucas “Selma” (Amelia’s sister’s name), which inspired Lucas to get a tat-too of the name on her right arm. “Try to take a bath (or shower) sometime today,” reads one note.

“There is redundancy, kind of in the same way that there’s re-dundancy in a lot of conversations

with her. With somebody with Al-zheimer’s or dementia, they often have a repeat loop,” she said. “I hope that people can connect with it in one way or another. I hope that people will feel comfortable looking to their loved ones, asking about their lives and talking about difficult things. It’s an important conversation,” she said. “I feel like it’s been a good way to show her story, sort of like from both of our points of view, together.”

Freelance writer Chrissi Angeles can be emailed at [email protected].


Arts & Entertainment

[review of show]Los Altos Stage Company presents the ultimate meta-musical

by Karla Kane

J eff Bowen and Hunter Bell’s “[title of show]” is a musical about a musical called “[title

of show],” by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell, featuring characters called Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell, who are writing a musical called “[title of show].” Yes, it’s a play entirely about its own cre-ation, and Los Altos Stage Com-pany is currently having a blast presenting it for local audiences.

Composer Jeff (played by Derek DeMarco in the Los Altos version) and writer Hunter (Nick Rodrigues) are two “nobodies in New York” spending their days doing freelance web design and temp catering jobs and their nights in front of the TV, all the while dreaming of bringing an original musical to Broadway. The two have an encyclopedic knowl-edge of obscure theater trivia and are bursting with inside jokes and references but have trouble com-ing up with an idea for something new. Pressed by a three-week deadline to submit something to a festival, the two decide to write what they know, and develop a show about the very development of the show itself, starring them-selves, as themselves. They rope in wisecracking Susan (Caroline Clark) and sweet Heidi (Jocelyn Pickett) to help round out the team. Susan is full of zingers but insecure about her talents and has largely backed away from the theater scene, toiling instead as a corporate office manager. Heidi, unlike the rest of the crew, has ac-tually performed in shows on the Great White Way, albeit in bit and off-stage parts. And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention music director/pianist Larry (Katie Coleman, the

Nick Rodrigues, Caroline Clark, Derek DeMarco and Jocelyn Pickett portray artists creating a musical about at hemselves creating a musical in Los Altos Stage Company’s “[title of show].”

Los Altos production’s real musi-cal director and pianist), who is often comically neglected by the rest of the players.

Over the course of the one-act production, we see the team come up with ideas, struggle with doubt, bond, bicker and, eventu-ally, bring the titular titleless show to full fruition.

Shows about show business are nothing new — neither now, nor when “[title of show]” was first created back in 2004. The way “[title of show]” seems to unfold in real time, though, makes it es-pecially clever. When Jeff men-tions that Susan has been quiet,

for instance, she remarks that she didn’t have a line until now. Jeff and Hunter discuss how they’d better make sure each moment of their show is packed with rivet-ing material so that audiences get their money’s worth, then spend several minutes tediously doing not much of anything. One entire number, “Filling out the Form,” is about just that, while “Awkward Photo Shoot” forces the team into a cheesy show of false camara-derie for the camera while their in-fighting is reaching its peak. “Monkeys and Playbills” is a very skillfully done scene involv-ing Jeff rifling through piles of programs from Broadway flops

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Jocelyn Pickett, Derek DeMarco and Katie Coleman (as Larry/Pianist) work on a musical number in Los Altos Stage Company’s “[title of show].”

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while Hunter sketches out stream-of-consciousness ideas about a speedboating monkey. If this all sounds rather silly, it certainly is, and very enjoyably so (and, pa-rental-guidance alert, full of adult language).

Who knows how well such a winking, self-congratulatory, pop-culture heavy show will stand up over the decades. The premise of a show that’s all about making that very show seems like it could be better suited to a single song, perhaps as a jokey opening to a Tony Awards ceremony, and sure, the idea does stretch thin and drag on at times, but such moments are surprisingly few and far between. Director Doug Brook keeps things moving along with high-energy staging. And we actually come to care about these self-absorbed Broadway obsessives, thanks in part to the chemistry and charm of the Los

Altos cast.DeMarco and Rodrigues have

a great rapport as the BFFs and partners-in-creative-crime. Pick-ett’s Heidi is the most sincere and least snarky of the crew, and her “A Way Back to Then” is a wistful look back at her childhood, when she first began to dream of Broad-way, before she became jaded by the cruel and competitive world. Clark as the sometimes-grating Susan delivers one of the standout numbers, “Die Vampire, Die!,” a funny but poignant song about the way self-doubt and impostor syndrome can wreak havoc on one’s creative process and feel-ings of worth. Susan frequently laments that her singing is not up to par with the others, so it per-haps makes sense that the other vocalists tend to drown Clark out. The show has glorious harmonies aplenty, and DeMarco, Rodrigues and Pickett are great and power-ful vocalists, a bit too much so at times, actually. For such a small cast, backed by just a keyboard, I was surprised to find my ears

actually painfully ringing after some of the belted high notes. Special kudos go to Coleman as the deadpan Larry, the show’s “fifth Beatle” and secret weapon.

“[title of show]” is jam packed with many obscure Broadway references, so if you aren’t a true-blue musical aficionado, you may feel the quips are flying over your head. And that’s OK. While the-ater nerds are clearly the target audience and will get the most out of the script, even a casual fan should come away well-enter-tained.

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ACCENT ARTS RETURNS TO CAL. AVE. ... The Keeble & Shuchat Photography building on the corner of California Avenue and Birch Street — the longtime home of one of the Bay Area’s last major camera stores until last September when owner Terry Shuchat shut down the beloved 51-year-old business — will become the new home of another California Avenue icon next month. Accent Arts is scheduled to move out of its temporary pop-up shop in the alley at 421 Jacaranda Lane into half of the ground floor space of the Shuchat building in early July. The independently owned art-supply store had operated at 392 California Ave. just two blocks away from Keeble & Shuchat for decades until last February when a rent increase forced owner Gil McMillon to temporarily relocate the shop to his supply warehouse in the alley behind ZombieRunner. McMillon, said he is happy to be returning to California Avenue. He reportedly signed a lease with building owner Shuchat for a 4,000-square-foot retail space at 290B California Ave. in late May. The property has now been divided into three spaces,

including two, 4,000-square-foot retail spaces on the ground floor and one 8,000-square-foot office space on the second floor, which also has been leased. Shuchat declined to name the upstairs tenant, but expects the company to occupy the space in July. As of last week, the remaining ground-floor space was still available for lease. Shuchat said he approached McMillon about leasing space in the building after Accent Arts vacated its California Avenue location earlier this year. Interior renovations were still under way at the site last week, but Shuchat said the space should be ready by the end of June. — S.M.

FRENCH LAUNDRY ‘PROTEGE’... Protégé Restaurant, the project from a former sommelier and sous chef from the renowned French Laundry in Yountville, has missed its original hoped-for opening in late 2016 (and then early this year), but last week it secured unanimous approvals from the City of Palo Alto’s Planning and Transportation Commission and Architectural Review Board. The duo plans to open the restaurant on the ground

floor of 260 California Ave., a 26,000-square-feet, three-story building with office space on the second and third floors. Despite concerns about some details of the project, the board ultimately shared the applicants’ urgency in moving it forward. The Planning Commission also agreed that the project warrants approval despite various zoning and parking issues associated with it. The next and potentially final step for Protégé is the City Council. The project will be on the council’s June 12 consent calendar. Anthony Secviar worked as sous chef at the three-Michelin-starred French Laundry from 2005 to 2011. Dennis Kelly was the restaurant’s head sommelier for 10 years and was one of only four people to be granted a master sommelier diploma from the Court of Master Sommeliers in 2012. – E.K.

Compiled by the Weekly staff; this week written by Elena Kadvany and Sarah Mason. Got leads on interesting and news-worthy retail developments? Email [email protected].

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Sofia Boutella plays an ancient princess awoken from her crypt in “The Mummy.”

Universal Pictures’ “The Mummy” is the first movie in its planned “Dark Universe” series of films that will revive Franken-stein’s monster, Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Invisible Man, et al. on the theory that what worked be-fore will work again. After all, Universal is the house the mon-sters built back in the Golden Age of Hollywood.

All of these monsters have been revived already umpteen times, of course, but strangely enough, none more successfully than the Mummy, which spawned a 1999-2008 trilogy (not to mention the “Scorpion King” spinoffs). This time, however, Tom Cruise an-chors “The Mummy” with a big budget but a conspicuously hollow script.

It comes as a bit of a shock that the film’s screenwriters include heavyweights David Koepp (“Ju-rassic Park”) and Christopher McQuarrie (Oscar winner for “The Usual Suspects”), along with actor Dylan Kussman and three writers given “story” credit: Jon Spaihts (“Doctor Strange”), Jenny Lumet (“Rachel Getting Married”) and the film’s direc-tor Alex Kurtzman (“Star Trek”). That’s enough writing talent to suggest that the awfully clunky results are the result of too many cooks in the kitchen serving — to mix a metaphor — two masters: Universal and Tom Cruise.

Cruise plays antiquities thief Nick Morton, and oh boy, is he some rascal! He forces his side-kick (Jake Johnson) into insanely dangerous situations (a firefight in Iraq laced with bickering-buddy comedy), beds a woman (Anna-belle Wallis’ ancient-Egypt expert Jenny Halsey) only to sneak off

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there must surely be a cure.”Author Robert Louis Stevenson

wouldn’t recognize this Jekyll, whose secret organization Prodig-ium is in the business of vanquish-ing evil: “Recognize. Examine. Contain. Destroy.”

Very long story short: awak-ened- ev i l -a nc ient-p r i ncess

mummy (Sofia Boutella) wants to give human form to god of death; curses Cruise; wreaks havoc. Very long story shorter: You can keep this “Mummy” under wraps. It’s disposable, and “Dark Universe,” not surprisingly, looks like a very expensive mistake.

Rated PG-13 for violence, ac-tion and scary images, and for some suggestive content and par-tial nudity. One hour, 50 minutes.

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

Wonder Woman Although the origin story of Wonder Woman shifts from World War II to “the war to end all wars” for the new film from Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment, the phrase “why we fight” leaps to mind to describe the hero’s first solo cinematic outing. Wonder Woman’s journey takes her from sheltered idealism through hard-won hard truths about so-called “mankind” to a heroic purpose with promise of future adventures. When American spy Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) crashes his plane in the waters around the “paradise island” of Themyscira, he must answer for mankind to the Amazons who live there. Princess Diana (a.k.a. Wonder Woman) has trained for the contingency of invaders but couldn’t fully prepare for the horror of war. Diana determines to accompany Trevor into the outside world, where he plans to put the kibosh on the chemical weapons program while she intends to put an end to war with a swing of the “Godkiller” sword. The film has its failings — it falls into a few bland narrative stretches, fumbles over its cardboard villains, and ends with the usual dull clash of titans — but the very existence of “Wonder Woman” makes a much-needed feminist statement in the crowded superhero space. Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action, and some suggestive content. Two hours, 21 minutes. — P.C.

Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon’s YA romance novel “Everything, Everything” proffered a canny allegory for teenage girls: parents not letting you do anything resembles having a disease that keeps you housebound. Heroine Madeline Whittier has SCID (Severe Combined Immuno-Deficiency), effectively making her the Girl in the Plastic Bubble, but when love comes knocking, Maddy answers the call. Maddy (Amandla Stenberg) lives with her mother Pauline (Tony winner Anika Noni Rose), who also serves as her doctor (uh oh), in an elaborately tricked-out suburban home that she never gets to leave. Nevertheless, events conspire to give Maddy a great adventure: She turns 18 and a cute boy named Olly Bright moves in next door. His curiosity piqued by the glass-encased beauty next door, Olly (Nick Robinson) begins reaching out, mostly through text messages and pantomime from his window, but eventually more boldly. Suffice it to say, when desire meets with an obstacle, love finds a way. Sadly, pretty much everything, everything else in “Everything, Everything” adheres to clichÈ, and the story fails to deal honestly with its what-if scenarios. Rated PG-13 for thematic elements and brief sensuality. One hour, 36 minutes. — P.C.

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword That most flexible of ancient legends gets a new workout in Guy Ritchie’s “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.” Certainly, this is the first version of the King Arthur story to feature a character referred to as “Kung Fu George,” but let’s just say Ritchie’s take on Arthurian legend isn’t going to surprise anyone who knows what’s up at the multiplex these days. We get a “King Arthur” in which the displaced royal — cast off Moses-like after the murder of his parents — grows up thinking he’s “the bastard son of a prostitute,” raised in a Londinium brothel to become a gangster with a crew. The film, however, feels like a rather desperate attempt — in design, music, and even casting — to score some of that sweet “Game of Thrones” cash. And since “Batman Begins” remains the template for origin-story reboots, “Legend of the Sword” doubles down on traumatized boys and gives Arthur martial-arts training sourced from the Far East. Despite some striking visuals and the occasional evocation of “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” this newfangled “Arthur” comes up short on grandeur or even old-fashioned matinee adventure. Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action, some suggestive content and brief strong language. Two hours, 6 minutes. — P.C.


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the kitchen and living room and expos-ing the wood in the ceiling.

Bringing more light into the home was a bit of a challenge. Marcinik removed the wall separating the galley kitchen from the small living room and enlarged the exterior windows over the sink. Out-side, he added a translucent fence and planters so that light would flow through the fence rather than creating shadows.

While following the basic lines of the old galley kitchen, the new version has gray Caesarstone countertops over white, thermoform plastic cabinets man-ufactured by Gregory Pemberton De-signs in Half Moon Bay. An enormous amount of storage is provided by wide, shallow drawers and roll-out, floor-to-ceiling, vertical cabinets. “This increases usability by 50 percent,” Marcinik said.

Discreetly hidden appliances are all by Miele, including an induction cooktop with a downdraft vent (no hood needed), a new appliance called a “speed oven” that combines microwave and convec-tion and a second oven that combines steam and convection. “It maximizes utility, like getting four appliances in two,” Philipp said. Appliances are hid-den behind a rolling wood tambour door.

“Eichler had zoned areas. We en-hanced the footprint,” Marcinik said.

They continued the tiled living room flooring to the patio, and added a sliding barn door that opens to the adjacent fam-ily room. When the barn door is open, one can not only see into the family room, but out a new window into the garden.

A full bathroom was added to create a junior suite, ideal for overnight guests. And, a powder room, with a Duravit Sc-ola white sink with a round wash basin

replaced the former laundry room.The other three bedrooms march down

a long hall flanked by closets. “Wher-ever you are, you look outside,” Philipp said, pointing to the sliding glass doors with landscaping outside one bedroom.

At the end of the hall is the new master suite. Philipp calls the shower with two heads “our conference room.” There’s also a separate tub and a gray Caesar-stone counter and tile.

The bedroom ceiling was kicked up to 10 feet, with lots of windows and up-lighting over the bed.

“Frank Lloyd Wright used it, but we can do it a lot better than he did,” Mar-cinik said. The room’s large glass door looks out onto the garden.

An added highlight: A wireless switch turns the backyard lights on at sunset; a wall switch next to the bed lets the cou-ple turn off the lights at night.

Four other homes, in Hillsborough, san Carlos, Los Altos Hills and Cuper-tino, are on the tour.

Freelance writer Carol Blitzer can be emailed at [email protected].

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CITIZEN PRUNERS ... Canopy will hold a “Citizen Pruner Training” class on Saturday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for those interested in joining Canopy’s Citizen Pruner Team. In this free, interactive workshop series you’ll learn the art, science and skill of young tree pruning with Program Director Michael Hawkins and other expert arborists. After attending the workshop, you will be prepared to join the group’s Citizen Pruners team that helps maintain young trees throughout the community. No prior pruning experience necessary, and all skill levels are welcome. This workshop is intended for ages 14 and up. For more information, go to canopy.org or email [email protected].

CHILDREN’S PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS ... Parents or grandparents can take a photography class with their children or grandchildren at Gamble Garden, Saturday, June 24, 10 - 11:30 a.m. Students will learn three compositional techniques: portrait vs landscape; leading lines; and photographic grids. Practice your photography skills amidst Gamble Garden’s stunning flowers and plants. At the end of the class, each participant will submit two photos to be posted on Gamble Garden’s website. This class is recommended for children ages 7 - 12. All children must be accompanied by an adult. The fee is $40 for members’ child student (Use code IRIS) / one required adult is free; non-members: $50 for child student /one required adult is free. Register at gamblegarden.org.

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In order to maximize light flowing into the home, the architect added skylights, as well as a translucent fence so the home could maintain privacy while attracting light.

A major challenge in upgrading this 1954 home was replacing all the old windows with double-paned ones.

Step into Nicole and Philipp Skogstad’s Palo Alto Eichler home and you immediately understand what they achieved: updating all of the home’s

major systems, while totally embracing the original indoor/outdoor aesthetic.

“We loved Eichlers because of that California living. We loved the size of the yard and saw the potential,” Philipp said.

But, they didn’t like the large single-paned windows, overhead heating, awkwardly located bathroom and insuf-ficient master suite.

The results of their remodel can be viewed, along with four other modern homes, on the curated, self-guided Sili-con Valley Modern Home Tour, sponsored by the Modern Architecture + Design Society on Saturday, June 17.

Working with architect Mark Marcinik of San Francis-co-based M110 Architecture, the couple remodeled their 1,955-square-foot, four-bedroom, two-bath house, adding one-and-a-half bathrooms.

“We wanted to honor the materials and use materials in their natural state,” Philipp said. That meant stripping the paint off the redwood ceiling (by professionals) and weeks of staining (by Philipp).

A major challenge in upgrading the 1954 home was re-placing all the old windows with double-paned Fleetwood windows and sliding doors. Another was replacing the roof, which is now layered with foam and topped with a white plastic membrane to create a long-lasting “cool roof.”

To add back the radiant heating, the contractor built up the concrete-slab floor by 2 inches, adding flexible plastic tubing and topping with large gray floor tiles (If necessary to repair, one could remove a tile, rather than jack-ham-mering the concrete). Today the home boasts seven heating zones with separate thermostats, insuring no heat loss even with large windows, Marcinik said.

Nicole also wanted a brighter home, which was mainly achieved by adding skylights, removing a wall between

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HOME SALESHome sales are provided by California REsource, a real estate information company that obtains the information from the County Recorder’s Office. Information is recorded from the deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to six weeks.

Atherton390 Greenoaks Drive Johnson Trust to X. Li for $3,330,000 on 05/09/17; built 1955, 3bd, 1,930 sq.ft.

East Palo Alto1028 Alberni St. N. Tun to G. Himelblau for $750,000 on 05/09/17; built 1962, 3bd, 980 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/14/2013, $400,000 308 Donohoe St. J. Manzi to S. Yuen for $1,150,000 on 05/09/17; built 1987, 4bd, 1,800 sq.ft.; previ-ous sale 10/26/2011, $400,000 2355 Dumbarton Ave. R. Agar-wal to E. Chen for $725,000 on 05/03/17; built 1928, 2bd, 1,000 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/28/2016, $595,000 2890 Fordham St. S. Chalfont to Z. Luo for $750,000 on 05/03/17; built 1953, 3bd, 1,010 sq.ft.; previ-ous sale 01/11/2011, $279,000 2531 Hazelwood Way Kaneda Trust to Y. Gan for $870,000 on 05/03/17; built 1956, 3bd, 1,100 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/30/2010, $235,000

Los Altos231 Alicia Way Benes Trust to J. & L. Percy for $3,300,000 on 05/08/17; built 1957, 4bd, 1,880 sq.ft. 1683 Ben Roe Drive Lappin Trust to J. Soong for $2,580,000 on 05/08/17; built 1958, 4bd, 1,744 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/28/1987, $379,000221 Chateau Drive Simmons

Trust to B. Lee for $3,150,000 on 05/11/17; built 1965, 4bd, 2,347 sq.ft. 2038 El Sereno Ave. Appler Trust to C. Tam for $2,750,000 on 05/10/17; built 1950, 4bd, 2,838 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/08/1993, $410,000 698 Hollingsworth Drive N. & J. Vukicevic to B. & J. Meiseles for $3,220,000 on 05/09/17; built 1989, 5bd, 3,436 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/21/1993, $675,000 234 Lyell St. Salmon Trust to Reddy Trust for $3,700,000 on 05/05/17; built 1954, 5bd, 2,784 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/1972, $45,500 1424 Marinovich Way Fisher Trust to X. Guo for $2,750,000 on 05/05/17; built 1970, 5bd, 2,479 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/14/2006, $1,500,000 65 Mayer Court M. McAllister to C. Abhyankar for $2,615,000 on 05/10/17; built 1953, 3bd, 1,998 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/15/1999, $750,000 1721 Penny Way Diaz Trust to Gazzera Trust for $2,220,000 on 05/11/17; built 1953, 3bd, 1,254 sq.ft. 22850 Sequoia Drive Knapp Trust to A. & C. Mahimainathan for $2,800,000 on 05/11/17; built 1953, 3bd, 1,940 sq.ft.Los Altos Hills13415 Country Way M. Page to L. & M. Hartmann for $3,780,000 on 05/09/17; built 1980, 4bd, 3,701 sq.ft.; previous sale 02/06/1981, $545,000

Menlo Park789 17th Ave. S. & S. Finch to G. Chiao for $1,462,000 on 05/03/17; built 1959, 3bd, 1,170 sq.ft.; previ-ous sale 02/01/1994, $240,000 420 6th Ave. A. & K. Gilbert to W. & M. Lim for $1,030,000 on 05/04/17; built 1947, 2bd, 920 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/14/2013, $600,000

445 6th Ave. Breckenridge Prop-erty Fund to D. & J. Stahler for $1,530,000 on 05/08/17; built 1955, 3bd, 1,680 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/28/2016, $900,000 515 Bay Road R. Agarwal to M. Wang for $1,551,000 on 05/05/17; built 1945, 2bd, 950 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/25/2010, $689,000 422 Concord Drive Vrooman Trust to R. Lacasia-Barrios for $1,941,000 on 05/08/17; built 1947, 2bd, 1,380 sq.ft. 532 Hamilton Ave. T. Cuevas to J. Hui for $1,050,000 on 05/05/17; built 1953, 4bd, 1,410 sq.ft.; previ-ous sale 05/25/1994, $165,000 1031 Henderson Ave. Foung Trust to Awland Trust for $2,300,000 on 05/10/17; built 1937, 2bd, 1,040 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/17/2015, $1,400,000 683 Hermosa Way A. Sano to Diebold Trust for $7,500,000 on 05/09/17; built 1998, 4bd, 5,030 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/21/2010, $4,700,000 503 Ivy Drive F. Wallace to N. Zhang for $1,120,000 on 05/04/17; built 1951, 4bd, 1970 sq.ft. 2315 Loma Prieta Lane Schle-ifer Trust to A. & S. Timm for $2,760,000 on 05/10/17; built 1959, 3bd, 2010 sq.ft. 2162 Menalto Ave. S. McCormick to S. & L. Iwata for $1,780,000 on 05/05/17; built 1954, 3bd, 1232 sq.ft. (Previous Sale 02/15/2012, $563,000) 907 Menlo Ave. R. Diamond to M. Jiang for $1,600,000 on 05/05/17; built 1961, 2bd, 1170 sq.ft. (Previ-ous Sale 03/07/2014, $1,225,000) 1023 Menlo Oaks Drive Di-kun Trust to Cheng Trust for $1,480,000 on 05/08/17; built 1939, 2bd, 1080 sq.ft. 1131 Menlo Oaks Drive C. Liang to Bowsher Trust for $1,140,000 on 05/05/17; built 1953, 3bd, 1160 sq.ft. (Previous Sale 09/25/2015, $1,006,000) 2124 Oakley Ave. Kothari-Daryani

Trust to I. Jergovic for $3,175,000 on 05/09/17; built 2008, 4bd, 2800 sq.ft. (Previous Sale 07/01/2009, $2,018,000) 724 Roble Ave. #7 F. Meade to C. Chen for $1,520,000 on 05/04/17; built 1981, 3bd, 1,323 sq.ft.; previ-ous sale 08/05/2011, $700,000 375 Santa Rita Ave. Scacco Trust to Serenity Peninsula for $7,400,000 on 05/05/17; built 2005, 5bd, 5,387 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/27/2005, $4,900,000 2262 Sharon Road Howard Trust to N. Mahilani for $1,495,000 on 05/10/17; built 1967, 3bd, 1,398 sq.ft.; previous sale 03/28/1996, $417,000 1811 Stanford Ave. G. Lencioni to M. Ellman for $3,716,000 on 05/09/17; built 1950, 3bd, 2,100 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/01/2015, $2,960,000

Mountain View858 Avery Drive #15 Chang Trust to J. & N. Yagnik for $1,461,500 on 05/10/17; built 2010, 3bd, 1,634 sq.ft.; previous sale 03/12/2010, $660,000 938 Clark Avenue #47 K. Doherty to H. Kang for $1,060,000 on 05/09/17; built 1978, 2bd, 1,069 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/17/2009, $32,500 1395 Cuernavaca Circulo R. & J. Roach to H. Xu for $1,860,000 on 05/11/17; built 1985, 3bd, 2,022 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/20/2004, $834,000 181 Del Medio Ave. #211 G. No-gales-Alonso to J. Zhu for $510,000 on 05/05/17; built 1962, 576 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/10/2009, $240,000 433 Nicholas Drive B. Wright to A. & A. Faaborg for $1,700,000 on 05/08/17; built 1998, 4bd, 1,925 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/01/2004, $680,000 169 Ortega Ave. Chiamparino Trust to L. Mi for $1,500,000 on 05/11/17; built 1978, 3bd, 1,755

sq.ft.; previous sale 10/01/1980, $93,000 714 Reflection Way P. Jiang to S. Reddy for $1,400,000 on 05/08/17; previous sale 06/25/2015, $1,195,000 675 Rock Court Y. Liann to Sjs Trust for $1,265,000 on 05/09/17; built 1994, 2bd, 1,426 sq.ft.; previ-ous sale 04/09/2010, $611,000 271 Sierra Vista Ave. #11 D. Evan to R. Wedenig for $1,502,000 on 05/11/17; built 1988, 3bd, 1,424 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/15/1990, $290,000 436 Sierra Vista Aven. #9 Mad-sen Trust to L. & A. Rinsky for $1,080,500 on 05/05/17; built 1978, 2bd, 1,272 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/03/2007, $621,000 255 South Rengstorff Ave. #32 N. Colker to M. & I. Benjaminson for $676,000 on 05/08/17; built 1965, 1bd, 812 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/06/2011, $255,000

Palo Alto4177 Cherry Oaks Place Chang Trust to H. Cai for $2,732,000 on 05/09/17; built 1971, 4bd, 2,107 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/05/2006, $1,600,000 521 Colorado Ave. R. Stock to Guo Trust for $4,000,000 on 05/11/17; built 1997, 5bd, 2,579 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/30/1997, $758,000 605 Colorado Ave. C. Bing to Q. Zhou for $2,430,000 on 05/05/17; built 1946, 3bd, 1,300 sq.ft.; previ-ous sale 06/23/2015, $2,350,000 3861 Corina Way Fisher Trust to Ye Trust for $2,605,000 on 05/08/17; built 1955, 4bd, 2,399 sq.ft. 1570 Dana Ave. Dolton Trust to Cao Trust for $3,900,000 on 05/09/17; built 1949, 3bd, 1,763 sq.ft. 223 Edlee Ave. S. Chesters to J. McKinney for $2,398,000 on 05/10/17; built 1951, 3bd, 1,260 sq.ft.; previous sale

12/01/2015, $1,650,000 2717 Gaspar Court Rizza Trust to Liu Trust for $3,517,000 on 05/05/17; built 1993, 4bd, 2,167 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/30/1993, $700,000 3166 Greer Road B. & M. Chen to L. Su for $2,610,000 on 05/10/17; built 1952, 3bd, 1,509 sq.ft.; previ-ous sale 04/04/2006, $1,180,000 818 Los Robles Ave. Los Robles Avenue Limited to P. Mruthyunjaya for $4,024,000 on 05/09/17; built 2014, 5bd, 2,855 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/03/2015, $2,585,000 3341 Louis Road Richter Trust to T. Jog for $2,480,000 on 05/05/17; built 1952, 5bd, 1,722 sq.ft. 161 Lowell Ave. R. & P. Beckstrom to J. Sonneveld for $6,375,000 on 05/05/17; built 1987, 5bd, 4,093 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/12/1995, $1,118,000 760 Moreno Ave. Vail Trust to Moreno Avenue Limited for $2,100,000 on 05/08/17; built 1946, 3bd, 1,752 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/20/1991, $474,000 3042 Price Court Kenny Trust to F. Shi for $2,400,000 on 05/05/17; built 1954, 3bd, 1,505 sq.ft.; previ-ous sale 05/04/1990, $363,000 4244 Ruthelma Ave. Mcguire Trust to S. Ma for $2,463,000 on 05/05/17; built 1950, 4bd, 1,891 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/15/1979, $125,000 906 Van Auken Circle Whitehorn Trust to Y. Zhao for $2,500,000 on 05/09/17; built 1951, 3bd, 1,658 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/14/1994, $345,000

Portola Valley450 Golden Oak Drive Egbert Trust to M. & S. Melville for $3,510,000 on 05/03/17; built 1960, 5bd, 3,450 sq.ft. 155 Willowbrook Drive D. & V. Pis-tilli to Flannery Trust for $3,765,000 on 05/03/17; built 1968, 3bd, 3,090 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/15/2008, $2,450,000


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Located in the most sought after neighborhood in the Palo Alto, this estate property designed by Birge Clark was painstakingly restored in 2009. The 7,200sf floor plan spans three levels, and includes 4 en suite bedrooms. The grounds are designed for entertaining on a grand scale, and include sparkling pool of Murano blue glass and gold tile, outdoor fireplace with conversation area, and an open pavilion. A separate, 990sf detached guest cottage accommodates multigenerational living, or long term guests. Close proximity to tech hubs, the vibrant downtown area, and Stanford University make for an ideal location.

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• Extraordinary Mediterraneanvilla renovated in 2009

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• Lot size of approximately 24k sf(buyer to confirm)

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60 MICHAELS WAY, ATHERTONThis recently constructed Atherton masterpiece strikes a perfect balance between classic styling and contemporary functionality. The three-level floorplan offers open concept living areas, high tech amenities, and spacious private areas, all bathed natural light. Fine millwork, custom finishes, and top of the line materials make for a stunning presentation, and the home is ideally located just blocks from Downtown and top rated Menlo Park Schools. The 29k plus lot offers the capacity for a pool and cabana/guest house, and currently features a custom tennis court.

• A modern interpretation ofa classic Victorian, newlyconstructed in 2009

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• Approximately 6,295 squarefeet of living space

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578 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301

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This Charming Dutch Colonial home has been designed with an eye towards blending the interior

with the surroundings, making it ideal for indoor and outdoor living. Located in the desirable Leland Manor neighborhood of North Palo Alto the home offers 5 bedrooms, plus a den, 3 bathrooms and an oversized 2 car garage. Situated on a large 9380 sq. ft. lot that meets minimum size requirement for a cottage, too. The wrap around yard with mature landscaping and a majestic tree along with a private brick patio makes this a great home for entertaining large families and hosting big gatherings. Stellar Palo Alto schools and an easy walk to Rinconada Park, Lucie Stern Community Center, the Palo Alto Art Center, the Children’s Museum and Zoo, the Main Library, and Children’s Library make this an ideal place to live.


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453 N. Rengstorff Ave, #22, Mountain View Nestled within a popular setting, this spacious 2 bedroom, 2 bath home of 960 sq. ft. (per county) offers an updated kitchen and baths

that lend chic, modern style, and the warm and inviting floorplan boasts a private balcony with exclusive pool views. Community

comforts include a freeform pool and extensive courtyard, perfect for outdoor recreation and relaxing. Merely a stroll away lie Monta

Loma Park and Monta Loma Plaza, while Rengstorff Park and Pool as well as Thaddeus Park are also nearby. Fine schools including

Theuerkauff Elementary, Crittenden Middle, and Mountain View High are also easily accessible (buyer to verify eligibility).

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403 Farley Street, Mountain View This sunny and spacious 4 bedroom, 2 bath home of over 1,700 sq. ft. (per county) resides on over 5,900 sq. ft. (per county) of property. Updated flooring and new colors provide a fresh look to the open-concept areas, which have been outfitted with multiple skylights and thoughtfully designed to encourage large gatherings. Residing in a central location, you will be within biking distance to top companies like LinkedIn and Google, as well as Rengstorff Park and shopping at Bailey Park Plaza. Take an easy stroll to Stevenson and Rex Manor Parks, plus Theuerkauf Elementary, while other fine schools, including Crittenden Middle and Mountain View High, are also close (buyer to verify eligibility).

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777 Bayview Way, Redwood City

3BR/2BA home in desirable Emerald Hills neighborhood. Extraordinary bay view from inside and out. Dining area leads to lovely side patio, whereas living room leads to deck with full bay view. Cook up gourmet meals in the well-appointed kitchen; Enjoy the endless pool swim spa; Grow your own veggies or make your own wine. Enjoy the best California has to offer!

Convenient location and in Roy Cloud school area.


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433 O’Connor Street, Menlo Park Built in 2015, this gorgeous Mediterranean-style home of over 2,500 sq. ft. (per county) boasts 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, an office, and a

property of over 7,800 sq. ft. (per county). Archways and elegant ceiling treatments add drama, while a chef ’s kitchen, built-in speakers,

skylights, and hardwood flooring lend style. The open, light-filled interior and the inviting backyard have been optimally designed for

both easy entertaining and quiet comfort. This lovely home resides within biking distance of Willow Oaks Park, and is a short drive to

Facebook and downtown Palo Alto shops and restaurants along University Avenue. Stanford University and Stanford Shopping Center

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2199 Clayton Drive, Menlo Park• Offered at $6,000,000

• 4 Bedrooms / 3.5 Bathrooms

• Home ±3,196 sf / Lot ±14,620 sf

• Newly built in 2013

• Expansive and private flat yard perfect for entertaining

• Large gourmet kitchen overlooks family room with

fireplace and paneled ceiling

• Luxurious master suite with fireplace and sitting area

• Close to Stanford University, Sand Hill Road,

Stanford Shopping Center, and Interstate 280

• Near award winning Las Lomitas schools

2199CLAYTONDRIVE.COM


Michael Dreyfus

[email protected] 01121795

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JUDY CITRON • [email protected] • JudyCitron.com

License# 01825569

#74 Agent Nationwide, per The Wall Street JournalInformation deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.

A FRESH APPROACH

53 Politzer Drive, Menlo Park

Offered at $6,995,000 www.53Politzer.com

Call Judy for a private showing.

Meticulously Crafted New Contemporary

• Spectacular new construction just one mile to downtown

• Three levels with 6 bedrooms, 5 full baths, and 2 half-baths

• Open concept design with fully stacking glass doors opening to

an outdoor heated living room

• 9- to 9.5-foot ceilings and LED lighting throughout

• Recreation room, fitness center, refrigerated wine cellar, and

media room

• Fully landscaped grounds with large, private backyard;

thoughtful design is integrated at every turn

• Attached 2-car garage wired for electric car charger

• Lot size of approximately 10,000 square feet

• Menlo Park schools

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY


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807 Bay Road, Menlo Park Flexible living infuses with enchanting character in this lovely 2 bedroom, 1 bath home of 900 sq. ft. (per county) which resides on

over 4,900 sq. ft. (per county) of property. A central floorplan outfitted with hardwood flooring and flowing with abundant natural

light showcases seamless style throughout, while the sizable front yard boasts fruit trees. This home also grants easy commuting

access to Interstate 101, as well as top companies like Facebook, and is within close proximity to Flood and Willow Oaks Parks and

excellent nearby schools, including Laurel Elementary (API 927), Hillview Middle (API 950), and Menlo-Atherton High (buyer to verify

eligibility).

www.807BayRoad.com For video tour & more photos, please visit:

Offered at $988,000

CHARMING COMFORT IN CENTRAL LOCATION




HELEN & BRAD MILLER#1 Team in Woodside, 2013 – 2016

HELEN MILLER 650.400.3426 | [email protected] | License# 01142061

BRAD MILLER 650.400.1317 | [email protected] | License# 00917768

www.HelenAndBradHomes.com

• Approximately 6.02 acres with surrounding views of the western hills and the 1,189-acre Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

• The two-story approximately 4,680-square-foot main home has origins as a mid-century hunting lodge and sports several functional upgrades in recent years

• Two guest houses, a pool and cabaña, a two-car carport and a detached three-car garage round out the property and its wide range of heritage trees

The best of both worlds… close to freeway access, Sand Hill Road and Woodside and

Portola Valley Town Centers, yet on a quiet, end of cul-de-sac private knoll. Enjoy all of

4-bedroom, 4.5-bath home.

Open Sunday | June 11, 1:30 – 4:30pm

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For a private showing of these homes, please contact:

Contemporary central Portola Valley retreat situated on one of the most

favored quiet cul-de-sacs.

• 4 bedrooms and 4 baths

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• Private, enclosed pool area

• Walking distance to Portola Valley Town Center and local schools

• World-class hiking and biking trails right out your front door

• Easy access to Highway 280 and close proximity to town dining and shopping

Come See this Spectacular Property!

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To RSVP, please contact 650.543.8500 or by email: [email protected]

VENUE:Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club,Grand Ballroom3000 Alexis Drive, Palo Alto

Gourmet snacks will be provided. This seminar will be presented to DeLeon Realty’s potential clients in English.

Thursday, June 15, 20176:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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Seminar is for prospective clients only, no outside real estate professionals permitted.


To View the Video Tour, Additional Photosand/or Information on This Property,Go to:

www.471Nevada.com

EUROPEAN-INSPIRED RESIDENCE IN PRESTIGIOUS OLD PALO ALTO

SCHOOL OVERVIEWWalter Hayes Elementary (K-5)

Jordan Middle (6-8)Palo Alto High (9-12)

(Buyer to Verify Enrollment Eligibility)

PROPERTY OVERVIEW5 bedrooms, 5 full baths, 2 half bathsApprox. 4,521 sf home over 3 levels

Beautifully landscaped grounds, ±8,985 sf lotUpdated kitchen with maple cabinetry & large islandSpacious living room has cathedral ceilings and gas-

European-inspired exterior features slate tiled roof, turrets, copper gutters and quoin accents

Mosaic-tiled pool and spa with electric safety cover

OFFERED AT $7,878,000

Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of

471 NEVADA AVENUE, PALO ALTOOpen House Saturday, June 10 & Sunday, June 11, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm

[email protected] | License# 01138400

650.218.4337


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Portola Valley Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $5,850,000385 Westridge Dr Stunning home with guesthouse on 3.25 acres with views - 385Westridge.com 4 BR 3 BAGinny Kavanaugh 650.851.1961CalBRE#00884747

Atherton Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $5,495,000399 Atherton Ave Carriage House from the 1900’s restored & updated. Original charm. Private serene acre. 5 BR 4.5 BASue Crawford 650.324.4456CalBRE#00587710

Palo Alto Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $5,300,000996 Laurel Glen Dr Palatial, custom built 2007, almost 7500 sf house on an approx. 1 acre knoll-top lot 8 BR 7 full + 2 half BAJulie Lau 650.325.6161CalBRE#01052924

Menlo Park Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $4,680,0001527 Castilleja Ave Mission-style elegance, modern amenities. Quick walk PA schools, Stanford Center, downtown 6 BR 6.5 BAJudy Shen 650.325.6161CalBRE#01272874

Redwood City Sun 1 - 5 $3,595,0009 Colton Ct Private gated villa on 1/2 ac resort lot w/pool. Huge custom open flrpln. Sep in-law ste. 5 BR 4.5 BASam Anagnostou 650.851.2666CalBRE#00798217

Portola Valley Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,999,00014 Coalmine Vw Stunning Windy Hill views from this beautiful contemporary home in Portola Valley Ranch! 4 BR 3 BAMia Banks 650.851.1961CalBRE#01890669

Portola Valley Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,750,00010 Sandstone St Wide,tranquil views. Rustic setting.Contemporary home in community environment. 3 BR 2 BANancy Goldcamp 650.325.6161CalBRE#00787851

Portola Valley Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,750,00016 Valley Oak St Sophisticated single-level w/premium finishes & spacious outdoor spaces - 16ValleyOak.com 3 BR 2 BAGinny Kavanaugh 650.851.1961CalBRE#00884747

Woodside Sun 1 - 5 $2,395,00017507 Skyline Blvd Gorgeous & updated w/stunning Bay views. Guest cottage. Portola Valley schools. 5 BR 4 BAVeronica Kogler 650.324.4456CalBRE#01788047

Woodside Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,995,000885 Espinosa Rd Serene country living on over 3 acs. Spectacular views of the bay & East Bay hills. 4 BR 3 BAJean & Chris Isaacson 650.851.2666CalBRE#00542342/01754233

Menlo Park Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,595,0001068 Sonoma Ave Remodeled 3 bedroom/2 bath w/ separate family room on large 9,500 sq. ft. lot. MP schools. 3 BR 2 BABilly McNair 650.324.4456CalBRE#01343603

Redwood City Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $1,499,0002673 Ohio Ave Spacious home in Woodside Plaza close to Downtown Woodside, Hwy 280, Stanford University. 4 BR 2 BADiPali Shah 650.851.2666CalBRE#01249165

San Carlos Sat/Sun 1 - 4 Price Upon Request1420 Orange Ave Custom built Craftsman. Wine room, fitness studio, rec room, art studio & separate cottage 6 BR 5.5 BARegan Byers 650.324.4456CalBRE#01034761

Woodside Sat 1 - 4 $5,975,000661 Kings Mountain Road Stunning home, 1.5+ acres. The perfect confluence of high style & timeless architecture. 3 BR 3.5 BAJulie Ray 650.324.4456CalBRE#01881349

Palo Alto Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $4,988,0003452 Cowper Ct Brand-new home on a peaceful cul-de-sac. 6 BR, 5.5 BA plus an office on large lot 6 BR 5.5 BAJudy Shen 650.325.6161CalBRE#01272874

Portola Valley Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,950,00011 Coalmine Vw Contemporary single-level home with quality amenities and stunning views - 11Coalmine.com 4 BR 2.5 BAGinny Kavanaugh 650.851.1961CalBRE#00884747

Menlo Park Sun 1 - 4 $2,195,0002061 Ashton Ave 4 bedroom / 2 bath updated home with open floor. Award winning Las Lomitas School District. 4 BR 2 BAElaine White 650.324.4456CalBRE#01182467/01522106

Redwood Shores Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $1,295,000845 Newport Cir Single Family Home in beautiful Beacon Shores. Sep. den/study. Master bath w/double sinks. 2 BR 2 BAJean & Chris Isaacson 650.851.2666CalBRE#00542342/01754233

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ATHERTON4 Bedrooms84 Edge Rd $4,985,000Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111

5 Bedrooms399 Atherton Ave $5,495,000Sun Coldwell Banker 324-445640 Selby Ln $5,880,000Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456

CAPITOLA4 Bedrooms101 Grove Ln $4,957,000Sat 1-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s Realty 701-7822

LOS ALTOS5 Bedrooms9 Sylvian Way $3,288,000Sat Deleon Realty 543-8500

LOS ALTOS HILLS3 Bedrooms14700 Manuella Rd $3,800,000Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 644-3474

4 Bedrooms12742 Leander Dr $3,450,000Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111

6 Bedrooms28500 Matadero Creek Ln $8,600,000Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111

MENLO PARK2 Bedrooms807 Bay Rd $988,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500

3 Bedrooms1068 Sonoma Av $1,595,000Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456337 Central Av Call for priceSat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456692 Creek Dr $2,198,000Sat/Sun Golden Gate Sotheby’s Realty 776-2828

3 Bedrooms - Condominium300 Sand Hill Cir #205 $1,995,000Sun 1-4 Pacific Union 314-7200

4 Bedrooms2061 Ashton Av $2,195,000Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456508 Pope St $2,295,000Sun Pacific Union 314-7200433 O’Connor St $2,488,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-85002199 Clayton Dr $6,000,000Sat/Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s Realty 575-0991

5 Bedrooms455 San Mateo Dr $6,895,000Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456625 Hobart St $6,800,000Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456

MOUNTAIN VIEW2 Bedrooms - Condominium453 N. Rengstorff Av #22 $798,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500

4 Bedrooms403 Farley St $1,388,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500

PALO ALTO5 Bedrooms152 Melville Av $5,250,000Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s Realty 485-3476

755 Northampton Dr $4,750,000Sat 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111655 Kingsley Av $4,788,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500471 Nevada Av $7,878,000Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

6 Bedrooms

1527 Castilleja Av $4,680,000Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161653 Wildwood Ln $4,250,000Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s Realty 427-9211175 Tennyson Ave $6,588,000Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-11113452 Cowper Ct $4,988,000Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161

8 Bedrooms

996 Laurel Glen Dr $5,300,000Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161

PORTOLA VALLEY3 Bedrooms

10 Sandstone St $2,750,000Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161

5 Bedrooms

1077 Portola Rd $18,000/monthSun 2-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456

REDWOOD CITY2 Bedrooms

279 Sequoia Av $845,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111

3 Bedrooms

777 Bayview Way $1,548,000Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

SAN CARLOS6 Bedrooms1420 Orange Av $3,750,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker 324-4456

SAN JOSE3 Bedrooms2371 Sunny Vista Dr $1,325,000Sat 1-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456

SUNNYVALE2 Bedrooms - Condominium215 Red Oak Dr #Unit G $639,000Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

WOODSIDE3 Bedrooms661 Kings Mountain Rd $5,975,000Sat 1-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456157 Otis Av $2,850,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate 580-8286

4 Bedrooms735 Woodside Dr $3,750,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services-Woodside 206-6200280 Family Farm Rd $8,599,900Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111

5 Bedrooms12 Starwood Dr $3,200,000Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate (415) 264-546417507 Skyline Blvd $2,395,000Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker 324-4456

6 Bedrooms340 Jane Dr $5,750,000Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111

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Decemberists16 Former Fighting Irish coach

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really shows you all she can”34 Author Harper35 By title, though not really38 “Let me know” letters41 ___ Khan42 It shows the order of songs

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a lot9 Chestnut-hued horses10 Original “The Late Late

Show” host Tom11 Award for “Five Easy Pieces”

actress Black?12 Monetary unit of

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capital)28 Maker of the Saturn game

system29 Weighty river triangle?31 Type of bar with pickled

beets32 In the center of

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AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ROBERTA IMMORDINO Case No.: 17PR181156 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ROBERTA IMMORDINO. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: ROBERT GARCIA in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: ROBERT GARCIA be appointed as per-sonal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the per-sonal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The indepen-dent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 3, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 12 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the peti-tion, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledge-able in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Gerrie Miller, Esq. 220 State Street, Suite 9 Los Altos, CA 94022 (650)941-8450 (PAW June 2, 9, 16, 2017)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RUDOLFO ESTRADA Case No.: 17PR181179 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, con-tingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of RUDOLFO ESTRADA. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: COMERICA BANK in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that:

COMERICA BANK be appointed as per-sonal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the per-sonal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The indepen-dent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 2, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 12 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the peti-tion, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent

creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledge-able in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Richard R. Guggenheim 152 North Third Street, Suite 550 (408)998-2700 (PAW June 2, 9, 16, 2017)

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POST-SEASON HONORS . . . Stanford women’s golfers Andrea Lee, Casey Danielson and Albane Valenzuela were named All-Pac-12 first team on Wednesday, the conference announced. Lee, the conference’s Freshman of the Year, produced the best rookie season in program history by winning three individual titles. she broke the school freshman scoring record with an average of 71.62, the second-lowest single-season total at Stanford. Lee posted nine top 10 finishes in 11 starts and placed third or higher seven times. Danieslon and Valenzuela were WGCA Second Team All-Americans for the Cardinal, which reached the final four of the NCAA Championships for the third consecutive season. Danielson, who turned professional last week and qualified for the upcoming U.S. Women’s Open, collected eight top 10 finishes and averaged 72.81, the third-best total by a Stanford senior. Valenzuela overcame injuries to capture the NCAA Albuquerque Regional. She finished with six top 10s and averaged 73.21, the third-lowest figure by a freshman in Cardinal history . . . Stanford senior Ruth Narode was named the Pac-12 Women’s Rowing Athlete of the Year, the conference announced Wednesday. Narode was also one of two members of the Cardinal to be named to the 13-member All-Pac-12 Women’s Rowing Team, joining sophomore Stephanie Grauer . . . Stanford sophomore Brennan Wertz was named the Pac-12 Conference Men’s Rowing Newcomer of the Year, as the conference announced its postseason honors Wednesday. The Cardinal had two representatives on the All-Pac-12 Team, as junior Jovanni Stefani joined Wertz on the conference’s 14-man all-star team.

TRAVELING HOOPS. . . Stanford’s Briana Roberson and Karlie Samuelson will continue their basketall playing careers in Europe. Roberson has signed with PEAC-PÈcs in Hungary and Samuelson has inked a deal with Pallacanestro Vigarano in Italy.

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Stanford grad Azevedo to retire after playing one last game

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G rant Fisher will finally get tested when he lines up for the men’s 5,000 meters Friday at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Champi-

onships at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field.The sophomore opened his Stanford career by fin-

ishing sixth in the NCAA outdoor 5,000 as a fresh-man, placing fifth in the NCAA cross country cham-pionships, and capturing a Pac-12 title in the 1,500.

Freshman Fiona O’Keeffe, who runs in the finals of the women’s 5,000 on Saturday, is a bit of a mys-tery. She raced in one 5,000 during the regular sea-son and won the Cardinal Classic by four seconds, qualifying her for the NCAAs.

Thanks to O’Keeffe, Stanford has a finalist in the women’s 5,000 for the 16th time in 17 years, and the eighth consecutive year.

Six others were expected to compete Thursday, and three of them were hoping to reach Saturday’s finals.

Olivia Baker, a returning first team All-American, is entered in the women’s 800 meters and Rebecca Mehra and Christina Aragon are both running the 1,500.

Returning first-team All-American Mackenzie Little and freshman Jenna Gray in the javelin, and Lena Giger in the shot put, participated in finals on Thursday.

Fisher, also a returning first team All-American, came to Stanford with rare high school credentials, two Foot Locker national cross country champion-ships, a sub-4 mile, and has exceeded expectations.

This spring, Fisher has shown the ability to run any kind of race, fast (13:37.77), or tactical (51-second final lap to win the Pac-12 1,500, 57-second closer at the Cardinal Classic 5,000).

Either way, Fisher has yet to be fully tested, as evidenced by his comfort level upon finishing. He is undefeated at any distance this spring and won his Pac-12 and Cardinal Classic races with a wide smile

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F ive-time Olympian and Stanford grad Tony Azeve-do will play his final game

for Team USA on Sunday at Stan-ford at 3:30 pm, when the United States senior men’s national team meets Croatia.

Azevedo called Stanford’s Av-ery Aquatic Center home during his decorated collegiate career that saw four consecutive Cutino Award honors and two NCAA champion-ships. It will be a fitting venue to send-off the longtime Team USA captain and 2008 Olympic silver medalist who is retiring from in-ternational competition.

The match is part of a four-game series between Team USA and

Croatia taking place June 9-14 in California.

Azevedo offered his thoughts on his retirement and the match on June 11:

“It’s crazy to think that after playing water polo for 27 years I am finally finished. I have of-ten been asked how long I could go and my answer was the same: `When the time comes I will know.’ I still love this sport and will never leave the water polo community. But I’m ready to shift my focus from playing to working outside the pool to grow and in-novate the sport in general. I am starting programs that I hope will


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Public Hearing on Proposed Modification to the Coyote Creek Flood Protection Project

June 13, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. District Headquarters — Board Room5700 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA 95118

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The Coyote Creek Flood Protection Project (Coyote Creek Project), is located in the central portion of the Coyote Watershed on the mainstem of Coyote Creek, within the City of San José. The primary objective of the project is to reduce the risk of flooding to homes, schools, businesses, and highways in the Coyote Creek floodplain.

The current project reach is approximately 6.1 miles between Montague Expressway and Hwy 280. The proposed modification would extend the project reach approximately 2.9 miles upstream to Tully Road to include the Rock Springs neighborhood and incorporate the areas impacted by the February 21, 2017 flood event on Coyote Creek (see map).

In addition to extending the project reach upstream to Tully Road, the proposed modification to the project will change the target protection from 1%, or 100-year, level flood event, to protection from a flood event equivalent to the February 21, 2017 flood (approximately a 20 to 25 year event). The proposed modification also includes identifying short-term flood relief solutions, that are permittable and do not exacerbate flooding elsewhere.

For more information on the public hearing, please contact Afshin Rouhani at (408) 630-2616, or by email at [email protected].

Proposed modifications to Key Performance Indicators:

1. Preferred project with federal, state and local funding: Secure alternative funding sources to construct a flood protection project that provides flood risk reduction from floods up to the level of flooding that occurred on February 21, 2017, approximately a 20 to 25 year flood event, between Montague Expressway and Tully Road.

2. With local funding only: (a) Identify short-term flood relief solutions and begin implementation prior to the 2017-2018 winter season;

(b) Complete the planning and design phases of the preferred project; and

(c) With any remaining funds, identify and construct prioritized elements of the preferred project.

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take water polo to the next level. One thing I’ll miss most from my years as a player will be the team camaraderie. There is nothing bet-ter than the bonds and trust I’ve built with my various teammates.

“I couldn’t be more excited to play my last game at Stanford, because dur-ing my four years at the University I was molded into the per-son /player I am today. I met my wife at Stan-ford, won four Cutino awards as a student, and made best friends for life on campus. To officially retire at Stanford is a dream scenario: with my Team USA boys, in front of USA fans, and playing against Croatia. I lived in Croatia for three years and my son was born there.

“So, on June 11th I will walk away (for good I promise) from playing the game I love. It will be emotional because many of the USA fans watching have stuck with me over the years. They’ve traveled long distances to cheer me on at the Olympics.

Thank you everyone for your support year after year, and know that I am still dedicated to the sport we all love.”

Azevedo’s career leaves him as arguably the greatest men’s water polo player in USA Water Polo history. The all-time leading scorer in FINA World Champion-ship history, Azevedo racked up five Pan-American Games gold medals, two FINA World League Super Final silver medals and was named Pac-12 Conference Men’s Water Polo Player of the Century.

“It’s hard to express the value and impact Tony has made on the sport of water polo,” Stanford coach and 2000 Olympic coach John Vargas said. “He has given us so many wonderful moments, performances and championships. It’s hard to imagine him not being in the USA lineup. Simply put, he is the best player to ever put on a USA or Stanford water polo cap. Having number 8 return to Stan-ford to play his last game just feels right.”

After his time at Stanford, Aze-vedo embarked on a professional water polo career that saw him play with some of the top clubs in the world.

Stanford grad Alex Bowen, Car-dinal senior Drew Holland, Stan-ford sophomore Blake Parrish and Cardinal freshman Ben Hallock will also be playing for Team USA.

The match-up against Croatia, 2012 Olympic champions, will be the second contest in the four-game set.

In addition to the match at Stan-ford, Azevedo will also be host-ing a clinic alongside Team USA Head Coach Dejan Udovicic from 12 pm-1:30 pm.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a Public Hearing at the regular meeting on Monday, June 19, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider, adoption of a Resolution for the creation of a new Residential Preferential Parking (RPP) Program in the Southgate Neighborhood bounded by Churchill Avenue, Caltrain Rail Corridor, Sequoia Avenue, and El

review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations.

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on his face, despite his devastating final laps. He enters with the No. 3 season-best in the field.

Syracuse junior Justyn Knight holds a significant No. 1 from his 13:17.51 at Stanford’s Payton Jordan Invitational with Fisher in the stands. With Oregon’s Edward Cheserek, the reigning champ, go-ing pro, the opportunity to win is even bigger. Fisher and Knight have raced three times, with Knight holding a 2-1 edge. Both came in NCAA cross country, but Fisher has won their only meet-ing on the track (sixth place to Knight’s 10th) in the 2016 NCAA outdoor 5,000.

Stanford, which has a finalist in this event for the ninth consecu-tive year, will be seeking its first victory since Ryan Hall edged teammate Ian Dobson in 2005 in Sacramento.

The women’s 5,000 features two of the biggest names in col-legiate running, reigning NCAA cross country champion Karissa Schweizer and Boise State’s Al-lie Ostrander. O’Keeffe is poised for a strong performance. She is one of two true freshmen in the field, along with Arkansas’ Taylor Werner.

Baker placed second in the 800 last year, and Stanford has had a top-three finisher in the event the past four years, including runner-up finishes (also Claudia Saun-ders, 2014-15) the past three.

Oregon’s Raevyn Rogers has dominated NCAA competition the past two years, indoors and outdoors, but Baker is one of the few who can match, and even ex-ceed, Rogers’ speed and should not be overlooked.

The two know each other well, having roomed together at the NACAC Under-20 Champion-ships in El Salvador last year. With no 4x400 team this year, this is Baker’s first chance to fo-cus fully on the 800 at this meet.

In the women’s 1,500, Stan-ford freshman Christina Aragon races against her sister, Notre Dame senior Danielle Aragon, in Heat 2. This is their first col-legiate meeting on the track, and second overall, with Christina winning by nine seconds and 14 places at the NCAA cross country championships.

Aragon has the fastest per-sonal record in the field, 4:08.71 in earning bronze at the World Under-20 Championships last year, and the speed and power to contend.

Mehra, a fifth-year competitor who already has earned her mas-ter’s in communication (focus on political communication), is much more dangerous than her 4:21 sea-son-best would indicate.

The Pac-12 runner-up in 2016, Mehra was making a move off the final turn at this year’s Pac-12 final when she was tripped, cost-ing her a chance at the title in a race she believed she was going to win. After this meet, Mehra will begin a foreign policy job in the

State Department, with a focus on counter-terrorism.

Though Stanford has come close, with runner-up Elise Cran-ny missing victory by 0.004 last year, the Cardinal is seeking its first NCAA title in this event.

In the shot put, Lena Giger has proven that if she hits a big throw at the right time, she’s capable of big things. Giger, a junior, has powered herself into her first NCAA Championships with a series of lifetime bests this year under first-year throws coach Zeb Sion. If she can place among the top 11, it will mark Stan-ford’s highest finish since 2004. Little and Gray give Stanford NCAA entrants in the women’s javelin for the eighth consecutive year.

Little is a two-time Pac-12 champion and reached the podi-um last year with a seventh-place finish.

Little, an Australian who holds dual U.S.-Aussie citizenship is fa-miliar with top competition. She was the 2013 World Youth cham-pion and competed at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials.

Gray is a three-sport athlete who has thrown the javelin on a limited basis this season, with her role on as part of the No. 1 tandem on Stanford’s beach volleyball team taking priority. Gray was the starting setter on Stanford’s NCAA champion indoor volley-ball team in the fall.

The team’s future looks espe-cially bright considering that four first-team track All-Americans; Valarie Allman (women’s discus), Dylan Duvio (men’s pole vault), Vanessa Fraser (women’s 5,000), and Harrison Williams (men’s decathlon) will be coming off redshirt seasons. Also, two 2016 NCAA outdoor runners-up, Sean McGorty (men’s 5,000) and Elise Cranny (women’s 1,500), will be seniors in eligibility.

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Maggie Steffens was the MVP of the 2012 London Olympics and led Team USA with 17 goals at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Team USA maintains its world dominance

Eight players from Stanford are on the current roster

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as an international power in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, there’s always been a Stanford presence.

This year, there’s a pronounced Cardinal presence as Stanford has developed into one of the nation’s top programs.

Cardinal players have also been prominent in huge situations. Maggie Steffens, the two-time FINA world women’s Player of the Year, has been consistently ranked among the top players in

the world since 2012, when she led the U.S. Olympic team to its first gold medal in water polo by leading the world in scoring.

Steffens was the MVP of the 2012 London Olympics and led Team USA with 17 goals at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Cardinal grad Melissa Seide-mann scored in the final seconds to lift the U.S. past Canada during the Intercontinental tournament in May.

On Thursday, it was Stanford freshman Makenzie Fischer’s turn.

She scored two of her three goals in the final 37 seconds to

help lift the United States to a dramatic 13-12 victory over Rus-sia to complete group play at the FINA World League Super Final on Thursday in Shanghai, China.

In 2000, Brenda Villa and El-len Estes were the lone Stanford players on a team dominated by UCLA and USC players, reflect-ing the state of the sport at the team.

In addition to Steffens, Seide-mann and Fischer, there’s also Ki-ley Neushul, Jamie Neushul, Aria Fischer, Gabby Stone and Jordan Raney with Stanford connections.

Add American coach Adam Krikorian to the mix and you’ve got a combined 11 NCAA cham-pionships and two gold medals.

Team USA (14-1, 3-0) contin-ues its reign as world No. 1 as it advances into the quarterfinal of the Super Final.

The Americans meet Austra-lia in Friday’s quarterfinal. The Aussies gave Team USA its only loss of the year in the FINA In-tercontinental Tournament cham-pionship match at Davis a month ago. The Americans have won nine straight since while the Aus-sie Sharks have dropped four in a row.

Following the World League, the U.S. will try to defend its World Championship in Budapest in July.

Steffens and Seidemann are making their eighth consecutive appearance in the Super World League Final. The Americans have won the competition in six of those years and finished third in 2013.

The Americans won the gold cup at the Kunshan Cup in Chi-na without Steffens and fellow Olympian Rachel Fattal, who were attending the Peter J. Cutino Award ceremonies at the Olympic Club in San Francisco last Friday night. The award went to Princ-eton’s Ashleigh Johnson.


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