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Vol. XXXIX, Number 30 April 27, 2018

Arts New drama explores existentialism and medical ethics Page 25

Home Architects’ tour includes modern home in the hills Page 30

Sports Prep sports are diving into the postseason Page 54

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Neighborhoods 11 Pulse 17 Spectrum 18 Movies 27 Puzzles 52

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ATHLETICS

Dance Connection Palo Alto Palo AltoShare the joy of dance with us! Our studio is an extended family

and a home away from home for many community members, and

we value the positive energy and atmosphere that we strive to

provide. For children and teens. Jazz, Hip Hop, Ballet, Tap, Lyrical/

Contemporary, Children’s Combination. Events/Summer Dance

Camps - Summer Session for ages 3 - adults: June 11-August 4.

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Kim Grant Tennis Academy Palo Alto Summer Camps Monterey BayFun and specialized junior camps for Mini (3-5), Beginner,

Intermediate, Advanced, High Performance and Elite tennis

levels. Weekly programs designed by Kim Grant to improve

player technique, fitness, agility, mental toughness and all around

game. Weekly camps in Palo Alto and sleep-away camps at

Meadowbrook Swim and Tennis.

www.KimGrantTennis.com (650) 752-8061

Mountain View Tennis Summer Camps Mountain ViewChoose from 10 weeks of Tennis Camp – plenty of play time, focus

on fundamentals & sportsmanship, talented coaches, Cuesta

courts. Full day or morning camp for 7 to 14 year olds and new,

morning camp for 5 to 6 year olds. Discounts for residents and

registering by 3/31.

www.mountainviewtennis.net (650) 967-5955

Nike Tennis Camps Bay AreaJunior overnight and day tennis camps for boys and girls, ages

9-18 offered throughout June, July and August. Adult weekend

clinics available June and Aug. Camps directed by head men’s

coach, Paul Goldstein, head women’s coach, Lele Forood, and

associate men’s and women’s coaches, Brandon Coupe and

Frankie Brennan. Join the fun and get better at tennis this summer.

www.ussportscamps.com (800) 645-3226

Run for Fun Camps Palo Alto/La HondaRun for Fun’s mission is to provide creative and engaging play

for all youth by getting kids active in an inclusive community

centered around outdoor fun! We pride ourselves on hiring an

enthusiastic, highly trained staff who love what they do. Summer

2018 features four weeks of Adventure Day Camp and two weeks

of Overnight Camp High Five. Adventure Day Camp is a new

discovery every day filled with sports, crafts and nature, including

explorations to Camp Jones Gulch, Capitola Beach, Foothills Park,

Shoreline Lake and Great America. Camp High Five is six days and

five nights of traditional overnight camp mixed with challenge-

by-choice activities, campfires, friendships and lots of laughter.

www.runforfuncamps.com/summer-camps-and-school-holiday-camps/camp-overview (650) 823-5167

Spartans Sports Camp Mountain ViewSpartans Sports Camp offers multi-sport, week-long sessions

for boys and girls in grades 1-7, sport-specific sessions for grades

2-9, color guard camp for grades 3-9, and cheerleading camp for

grades pre-K – 8. We also offer a hip hop dance camp for grades

1-7. Camp dates are June 4 through July 27 at Mountain View

High School. The camp is run by MVHS coaches and student-

athletes and all proceeds benefit the MVHS Athletic Department.

Lunch and extended care are available.

www.spartanssportscamp.com (650) 479-5906

Stanford Baseball Camps StanfordAt Sunken Diamond on the campus of Stanford University. Four

or five day camps where the morning session includes instruction

in several baseball skills, fundamentals, and team concepts. The

afternoon session will be dedicated to playing coach pitched

games and hitting in the batting cages. Session 1: June 18 - 22

Session 2: June 25-29 Session 3: July 16-20

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Stanford Water Polo Camps StanfordNew to water polo or have experience, we have a camp for you.

Half-day or full-day options for boys and girls ages 7 and up. All

camps provide fundamental skills, scrimmages and games.

www.stanfordwaterpolocamps.com (650) 725-9016

Wheel Kids Bike Camps Palo AltoAt Addison Elem. Adventure Riding Camp for grades 1 - 8, Two

Wheelers Club for grades K - 3. Week long programs from 8:30 - 4,

starting June 4th. Join us as we embark on bicycling adventures

for the more experienced rider or help those just learning to ride.

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YMCA of Silicon Valley Summer Camps Silicon ValleyAt the Y, children and teens of all abilities acquire new skills, make

friends, and feel that they belong. With hundreds of Summer Day

Camps plus Overnight Camps, you will find a camp that’s right for

your family. Financial assistance is available.

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ACADEMICS

Harker Summer Programs San JoseThe Harker School’s summer programs for children K-grade 12

offer the perfect balance of learning and fun! Programs are led by

dedicated faculty and staff who are experts at combining summer

fun and learning. Strong academics and inspiring enrichment

programs are offered in full-day, partial and morning-only sessions.

www.harker.org/summer (408) 553-5737

i2 Camp at Castilleja School Palo Altoi2 Camp offers week-long immersion programs that engage

middle school girls in the fields of science, technology,

engineering and math (STEM). The fun and intimate hands-on

activities of the courses strive to excite and inspire participants

about STEM, creating enthusiasm that will hopefully spill over to

their schoolwork and school choices in future years.

www.castilleja.org/i2camp (650) 470-7833

iD Tech Camps Campbell Stanford/Bay AreaThe world’s #1 summer STEM program held at Stanford, Palo Alto

High School, and 150+ locations nationwide. With innovative

courses in coding, game development, robotics, and design,

our programs instill in-demand skills that embolden students

to shape the future. iD Tech Camps (weeklong, 7-17), Alexa Café

(weeklong, all-girls, 10-15), iD Tech Academies (2-week, 13-18).

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KCI Summer Camp Los Altos HillsStudents ages 11-16 discover endless possibilities as they

design and engineer their own projects. Hands-on learning of

latest technologies including virtual reality, 3D printing, video

production, and more in KCI’s new makerspace.

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Stanford EXPLORE: A Lecture Series on Biomedical Research StanfordEXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford. Stanford EXPLORE

offers high school students the unique opportunity to learn from

Stanford professors and graduate students about diverse topics

in biomedical science, including bioengineering, neurobiology,

immunology and many others.

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Summer at Sand Hill School Palo AltoJune 26 to July 20; If you’re looking for a great summer learning

plus fun option for your child and you want them to be ready for

fall, please join us at Sand Hill. The morning Literacy Program (8:30

to noon) provides structured, systematic instruction for students

with learning challenges entering grades 1-8 in the fall. The

afternoon Enrichment Camp (Noon to 4) focuses on performing

arts, social skills and fun. Choose morning, afternoon or full day.

Visit www.sandhillschool.org for more details and application.

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Write Now! Palo Alto Summer Writing Camps PleasantonImprove your student’s writing skills this summer at Emerson School of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton. Courses this year are Expository Writing, Creative Writing and Presentation Techniques.

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ARTS, CULTURE, OTHER CAMPS

Art and Soul Camp Palo AltoArt, cooking, tinkering, yoga and mindfulness. We celebrate multiple perspectives and recognize the many ways for our children to interpret their world. Summer Unplugged! is appropriate for ages 5-13 years. Located at Walter Hays School.

www.artandsoulpa.com (650) 269-0423

Castilleja Summer Camp for Girls Palo AltoCastilleja Summer Camp for Girls Palo Alto Casti Camp offers girls entering gr. 2-6 a range of age-appropriate activities including athletics, art, science, computers, writing, crafts, cooking, drama and music classes each day along with weekly field trips. Leadership program available for girls entering gr. 7-9.

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City of Mountain View Recreation Mountain ViewCome have a blast with us this summer! We have something for everyone: Recreation Camps, Specialty Camps, Sports Camps, Swim Lessons, and more! Programs begin June 4 – register early!

www.mountainview.gov/register (650) 903-6331

Community School of Music Mountain ViewCommunity School of Mountain View Music and Arts (CSMA) Mountain View 50+ creative camps for Gr. K-8! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Musical Theater, Summer Music Workshops, more! One and two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment. Extended care from 8:30am-5:30pm. Financial aid offered.

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Let’s Go Crafting Palo AltoLet’s Go Crafting’s Studio is where your child will have fun while learning many different fiber related arts. We teach sewing, knitting, crochet, weaving and jewelry making to children ages 8 years to 15 years. AM or PM camps $275/week. Full day camps $550/week. 5 student minimum for all sessions; 10 student maximum. Contact Connie Butner at [email protected].

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Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC) Palo AltoPACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of fun opportunities. We are excited to announce all of your returning favorites: Leaders in Training (L.I.T.), PACCC Special Interest Units (S.I.U.), F.A.M.E. (Fine Arts, Music and Entertainment), J.V. Sports and Operation: Chef! Periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the fun offerings of PACCC Summer Camps. Open to campers from all communities. Register online.

www.paccc.org (650) 493-2361

Stanford Jazz Workshop StanfordOn campus of Stanford University, Week-long jazz immersion programs for young musicians in middle school (starts July 9), high school (July 15 and July 22), and college, as well as adults (July 29). All instruments and vocals.

stanfordjazz.org (650) 736-0324

TheatreWorks Los Altos Silicon Valley Menlo Park, Palo AltoKids can have fun, be a character, and learn lifelong performance skills at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Theatre Camps. Spring Break and Summer camps for K-6.

theatreworks.org/youth-programs/for-youth (650) 463-7146

For more information about these camps visit paloaltoonline.com/camp_connection. To advertise in this weekly directory, call (650) 326-8210.

Camp Connection


T he Palo Alto Weekly dis-tributed its largest-ever Holiday Fund total in its

25-year history on Monday eve-ning at a reception that celebrated community efforts.

Donations from community members of $403,000 were split into grants given to 60 nonprofits serving families and children in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and sur-rounding areas. Nine of the grants were made to child care centers for facility improvements.

“We learned 25 years ago that one of the biggest challenges child care centers have is funding

capital projects,” Weekly Publish-er Bill Johnson said. “We wanted to alleviate some of that financial pressure on these organizations because it draws away from fund-ing salaries of their staff.”

Since 1993, the fund has raised and granted $6.8 million to com-munity nonprofits.

Palo Alto Weekly’s 25th an-nual Holiday Fund kicked off last fall with the newspaper’s annual Moonlight Run, which was sup-ported by seven corporate spon-sors. All the proceeds were allo-cated to the Holiday Fund.

Major Holiday Fund donors

this year included the Hewlett and Packard foundations, which gave $25,000 each; the Peery and Arrillaga foundations, which con-tributed $10,000 each; and anony-mous donations of $100,000 and $25,000. One of the anonymous donors is a Palo Alto family that gave $100,000 for the seventh straight year, Johnson said.

Nine current and former Palo Alto Weekly employees formed the grant committee that se-lected the nonprofit recipients. After a preliminary review of

F or drivers cruising through Palo Alto, the city’s efforts to control traffic are impos-

sible to miss.From new roundabouts and

traffic islands to freshly minted bike lanes and curb extensions,

the city’s push to create “complete streets” for all types of commuting has been proceeding full speed ahead, often to the consternation of construction-weary neighbors.

But while these streetscape projects are all the rage — at

times, literally — a slew of more low-key and high-tech solutions also are being used by the city to alleviate area’s traffic woes. These include installing “adap-tive” traffic signals that adjust their lights based on real-time traffic conditions; “feedback” signs that flash at speeding driv-ers and generate speed-compli-ance reports; and electronic boxes that rely on Bluetooth-enabled

devices such as smartphones to gather data on congestion.

This lattermost effort, using Ve-locity monitors designed by the firm Iteris, are part of Palo Alto’s broader effort to better collect, ana-lyze and display traffic data. Santa Clara County has already installed monitors at four area intersections (along Oregon Expressway, Foot-hill Expressway and Alma Street), and Palo Alto plans to install them

at 10 city intersections. When a Velocity monitor picks

up a Bluetooth signal from a smartphone, it will assign a ran-dom identification number to the phone so that when the phone passes another monitor, the sys-tem can calculate the driver’s travel time. If the driver makes the same trip the next day, the

UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis

Bluetooth sensors, ‘adaptive’ lights part of Palo Alto’s push to fight congestion

by Gennady Sheyner

To ease traffic, city looks to tech

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Welcoming springDogs play on the grass in Heritage Park in Palo Alto on April 25 as people enjoy throwing a Frisbee nearby.

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TRANSPORTATION

P alo Alto’s effort to recon-figure its four rail crossings will reach a critical junc-

ture next month, when the City Council is set to eliminate dozens of options from consideration.

In addition to narrowing the list of 34 design options presented by transportation staff to about 10, the council will also decide whether to officially abandon seemingly the most popular and decidedly the most costly alterna-tive: an underground tunnel for trains stretching along the entire 4-mile rail corridor in Palo Alto.

For city staff, redesigning the rail intersections has become increasingly urgent. Palo Alto is one of three cities — along with Mountain View and Sunnyvale — vying for $700 million in grade-separation funding from Santa Clara County through Measure B, the 2016 sales tax increase.

On April 18, as the council’s Rail Committee debated the virtues and impacts of design options, Palo Alto City Manager James Keene noted that the other cities are far ahead of Palo Alto and likened the city’s position to a “caboose” on a train in a Western movie.

“There is always a scene where they go climbing and they unhitch the caboose and let it go and keep on riding the train,” Keene said, after Councilwoman Lydia Kou suggested that the city continue to study a tunnel option. “Mountain View has half the crossings we have and has already made a decision on what they want to do, and we can’t narrow it down to 10 crossings.

“The rest of the world is unhitch-ing the train for us, and they’ll

happily sit back and watch us study.”

To catch up, it’s critical for Palo Alto to start making decisions, he said. The council’s Rail Com-mittee largely agreed as it voted unanimously to support a list of 10 design options for the city’s four grade crossings — Palo Alto Avenue, Churchill Avenue, Mead-ow Drive and Charleston Road.

At the city’s northern-most crossing, Palo Alto Avenue, plan-ning staff is proposing three dif-ferent concepts: closing Palo Alto Avenue to car traffic (and possi-bly pedestrians and bicycles) and adding amenities elsewhere (such as a new bike undercrossing at Everett Avenue or a widened Uni-versity Avenue undercrossing); a “no build” alternative that leaves it largely as is, with limited upgrades to improve safety; and a “hybrid” option in which the road is sub-merged in a shallow trench and the railroad tracks are slightly raised.

On Churchill, the city is also considering three alternatives: the “no build” option with safety upgrades; the closure of Churchill with more significant improve-ments such as a new bike tunnel or a widened Embarcadero Road; and the hybrid option.

The Meadow crossing also comes with a “no build” alternative.

The final three options pertain to both Meadow and Charleston (the only crossing where “no build” is not considered viable): a train trench in south Palo Alto that would go past these two crossings; and two different hybrid options, one with

City to narrow down redesign options for rail

Lagging behind neighbors, City Council looks to scrap more than 20 possibilities

by Gennady Sheyner


Holiday Fund drive for nonprofits tops $400K

Palo Alto Weekly’s annual reception welcomes donors and recipientsby Christine Lee

COMMUNITY


QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Around TownA GROWING FAMILY ... After more than 16 months at the Palo Alto Animal Shelter, Becca, a pit bull mix, has found a new home with Palo Alto police Chief Robert Jonsen and his wife, Kristie. “The moment she sat on my feet, I knew it was meant to be,” Kristie Jonsen wrote on Instagram. The adopted canine is spending plenty of quality time with her newfound mom as chronicled with daily posts on the social media platform. The mother and daughter had a relaxing first day together walking by the ocean, enjoying spring blooms on a garden tour and sunbathing after a bath — all before bedtime. On Day Six, Becca was captured on video showing off her tricks of sitting and going down on all four paws on command. Becca also sniffed around a bag of sweet potato tortilla chips from Food Should Taste Good (a favorite of Kristie’s) while sitting on the police chief’s lap. On Twitter, Robert Jonsen posted pictures of Becca sticking her head out from the driver’s seat of a city vehicle and a box filled with grain-free biscuits, toys and other goodies from recruiting firm Teri Black & Co. LLC.

THE VENTURIAN CANDIDATES ... Starting in June, a new citizens group that includes developers, architects, property owners and Ventura residents will embark on what promises to be a complex, intriguing and contentious exercise: coming up with a new vision for the dynamic neighborhood just south of California Avenue. First, however, the City Council will have to perform another potentially controversial exercise: figuring out who will serve on the new committee. That’s the task the council plans to accomplish Monday, when it considers the 23 applications it has received for a spot on the commission, which will have an advisory role in creating the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan and chooses 11 members (they will be joined on the panel by representatives from the city’s Planning and Transportation Commission, Architectural Review Board and Parks and Recreation Commission). The list of candidates is a varied bunch: one Ventura resident (Marian Cobb) is a landscape architect; another (Angela Dellaporta) is a former English teacher from Gunn High; a third (Rebecca Parker

Mankey) described herself as a “well-read amateur” with two children at Gunn and a conviction that Palo Alto is at once “the best place on the planet” and a city that has “become generic” because of loss of independent stores. Other applicants have a history of volunteering — among them, former Councilwoman Gail Price, former planning Commissioner Arthur Keller and former Human Relations Commission Chair Lakiba Pittman. On the developer side, the list includes Lund Smith, whose company WSJ Properties owns several parcels in the area; and Tim Steele from The Sobrato Organization, which owns the Fry’s site and which is contributing funding for the planning exercise. The full list of candidates and their applications are available at bit.ly/2Fkieoz.

PAYING IT FORWARD ... A “Match.com for medicine” created by Stanford University graduate students is helping Santa Clara County donate unused, unopened and unexpired prescription drugs to clinics and pharmacies. SIRUM, (Supporting Initiatives to Redistribute Unused Medicine), has helped the county oversee drug donations and distributions to its Better Health Pharmacy, which has handed out more than 31,000 prescriptions and saved county residents $2 million in drug costs. Previously, the medications were disposed into a bucket; mixed in kitty litter and water; and incinerated by a hazardous waste company, according to the county. “We’ve got perfectly good unused medications on one side of town, and we’ve got folks desperately in need on the other side of town. It makes all the sense in the world to connect the two, and given its success, expand the program,” Board of Supervisors President Joe Simitian said in a press release Monday. “It’s saving lives, and saving resources.” SIRUM, based in Palo Alto has sent more than 300,000 prescriptions valued at more than $10 million to patients in California, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa and Ohio. “Better Health Pharmacy is a vital community resource,’” SIRUM co-founder Kiah Williams said in a statement. “It makes sense to provide medication on the front end to avoid emergency room visits and hospitalizations. It’s about prevention.”

The rest of the world is unhitching the train for us.

—James Keene, Palo Alto city manager, on moving forward with rail redesigns. See story on page 5.

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CITY OF PALO ALTONOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a Public Hearing at the regular meeting on Monday, May 7, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider adoption of an Ordinance amending Title 16 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code (PAMC) to modify and increase the Citywide Transportation Impact Fee (Chapter 16.59)

San Antonio/West Bayshore (Chapter 16.46) and Stanford Research Park/El Camino Real CS Zone (Chapter 16.45).

new development and redevelopment throughout Palo Alto to fund transportation improvements to accommodate and mitigate the impacts of future development in the City. This Ordinance is within the scope of the Comprehensive Plan

November 13, 2017 by Council Resolution No. 9720. The

this Ordinance.

BETH D. MINOR City Clerk

Notice is hereby Given that proposals will be received by the Palo

L ast Friday, Tish Loeb’s hus-band was driving behind a white sedan that had stopped

at the intersection of Barron and La Donna avenues in Palo Alto. When the sedan started moving again, Loeb’s husband suddenly saw a girl fly through the air.

“She was fully in the intersec-tion. The sedan had T-boned her back (bicycle) wheel,” Loeb’s hus-band told her.

The sedan driver did not stop to help but instead sped off, Loeb said. Fortunately, the child was not injured, according to Palo Alto po-lice Agent Marianna Villaescusa.

The April 20 incident is just the latest in a string of hit-and-run collisions and near misses along streets and crosswalks in the Bar-ron Park neighborhood, which lies west of El Camino Real and north of Arastradero Road. Now the res-idents’ Barron Park Association has convened a traffic subcommit-tee to try to address the dangers.

The subcommittee is first direct-ing its efforts to problems that are “actionable” in the very near term, association President Jon Affeld said. Four streets and certain inter-sections are particularly dangerous: Maybell Avenue from Baker Ave-nue to Coloumbe Drive; Matadero Avenue from Whitsell Avenue to El Camino Real; Kendall, La Donna and Whitsell avenues’ intersections with Barron Avenue; and the Los Robles Avenue cul-de-sac.

“Maybell is the No. 1 danger zone,” Affeld said, noting that people have been hit by the side-view mirrors of passing cars and at least a dozen parked cars have been damaged.

On Matadero, people come off a speed bump meant to slow traf-fic and race toward El Camino to catch the traffic light while it’s green, he said.

Affeld said residents have com-municated their strong support to him for the reconvened commit-tee. Loeb, who has seen too many incidents, said the speeding from cut-through traffic trying to avoid the major streets and from parents bringing their kids to school has gotten out of hand.

“I know of two other families whose kids were hit and where the people didn’t stop (to help),” she said. “It’s amazing — amazing — how fast people drive.”

She also witnessed a car hit a bicyclist on Barron Avenue.

Traffic is especially dangerous during the morning commute, she said. She and her children were in a crosswalk last year near Barron Park Elementary School and an-other child was walking in front of them when they were all nearly struck by a speeding car. Loeb said she heard the car engine speed up

to get through the crosswalk be-fore they could all get across.

People aren’t the only hit-and-run victims: Garret Sinks and his wife recently nearly lost their cat. When his wife came home from work, she found the feline under a bush in their yard, unable to walk.

“The biggest part of this is even though it cost me $5,200, which I didn’t have, the thing that bothers me is that whoever did it just kept driving. They don’t realize what pain and suffering not only the animal but the owners of the pet go through,” he wrote in an email this week.

“I think the issue now is to deal with the speeding,” he said.

Affeld said his son was also hit at Arastradero Road and Donald Drive, another location residents say is dangerous because of chang-es the city of Palo Alto has made to Arastradero to slow traffic. The city added a “bike box” for cyclists at Donald and Arastradero to wait in, but the box is too narrow and is at an intersection with visibility problems, residents have said. Cars on Arastradero frequently run the light at high speed, they claim.

Speeding isn’t the only issue. Cars parked along the neighbor-hood’s curbs occupy the bike lanes and cause bicyclists to ride in the traffic lane. Construction compa-nies have fences, debris and work-ers’ cars extending into the bike lanes. And bicyclists create danger

by wearing headphones, riding several abreast or not observing traffic laws, he said.

To address the hazards in the four hot spots, the traffic subcom-mittee has already put together a list of nearly 20 problems and po-tential solutions. Affeld said they have identified which group can be responsible for correcting the problem — schools, the city or homeowners.

Schools can give kids a grace pe-riod if they are late to prevent rush-ing to school and use a combination of education and traffic enforce-ment to teach about bicycle laws.

Homeowners can be alerted to overgrown vegetation that inter-feres with roadway visibility, and a city code-enforcement officer can notify residents or construc-tion companies of illegally placed fencing. The city can expand no-parking zones around corners, ad-just traffic lights, add markings, adjust speed bumps and move poles and obstacles that obstruct views or contribute to collisions.

Subcommittee members have taken photographs and videos of notorious intersections, Affeld said. They have reached out to the Palo Alto Unified School District and to city Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello’s office. The next steps will be to follow up with the schools and city and to invite rep-resentatives from both to join the subcommittee, he said.

Barron Park residents warn of traffic ‘danger zones’Four streets rise to the top of list in neighborhood

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One option that staff has recom-mended eliminating from consid-eration is a citywide trench or tun-nel: a popular option that a recent analysis showed could cost be-tween $2.4 billion and $4 billion.

While some residents have argued that the city should con-tinue to study this alternative and to consider creative ways to finance it, possibly through sale of development rights, staff had determined that its cost — mag-nitudes higher than other options — constitutes a “fatal flaw.”

Keene also rejected the notion that the city could receive the needed federal and state funding to make such an option viable, partic-ularly if Palo Alto is acting alone.

“There would have to be as-pects way more regional and our

regional partners would have to be saying what we’re saying now, and they’re not,” Keene said. “They are proceeding on different tracks, and they’re ahead of us.”

Kou wasn’t entirely convinced. The city should continue to study the tunnel option, she said, and staff should provide more evi-dence for why this is impossible. In eliminating the tunnel idea, the council would not be doing a service to the region’s “long-term outlook,” which will inevitably in-clude a larger population in more densely packed cities.

“I’m not willing to settle nor be pushed on this big endeavor,” Kou said.

Though Kou was initially hesi-tant to support the winnowed down list, she ultimately voted along with her three committee colleagues af-ter they agreed to include to keep the tunnel option alive — if for no other reason than due diligence.

“I think a tunnel is completely infeasible, but I think there is a

number of council members who will want to discuss it, so it’s pre-mature to exclude it from the discussion,” Councilman Greg Scharff said shortly before the vote.

Councilman Adrian Fine also said he wasn’t optimistic about the tunnel option. The city, he noted, doesn’t even own the land on which the rail corridor is located. And fi-nancing the tunnel through sale of development rights would require the city to accommodate between 3 million and 4 million square feet of new commercial development.

“That’s two Salesforce Towers,” Fine said. “I don’t think that’s a realistic option for Palo Alto.”

In addition to the 10 options recommended by staff and the un-derground tunnel, the committee also recommended that staff add to the list a possible overhead via-duct for trains over the two south Palo Alto crossings, an addition that was recommended by com-mittee Chair Cory Wolbach.

The committee also proved

sympathetic to requests from neighbors near the Churchill crossing, about 300 of whom had submitted a petition arguing against design options that would necessitate property seizures through eminent domain. Resi-dents, group member David Shen said, don’t want their neighbor-hood “destroyed with a concrete structure in the middle of it that increase traffic, decreases safety.”

The group, Shen said, is more open to “closing Churchill and looking at the system of roads that include Embarcadero and Churchill together to improve traffic circula-tion in the area, not just for cars but also for pedestrians and cyclists.”

The Rail Committee’s recom-mendation carries extra weight in the grade-separation debate be-cause three members of the full council — Mayor Liz Kniss, Vice Mayor Eric Filseth and Council-man Tom DuBois — are recused from the issue because of prop-erty interests near the tracks.

This leaves Greg Tanaka and Karen Holman as the only two council members who are eligible to participate in the discussion, which is tentatively set for May 14.

The goal for the city is to select by June between four and eight op-tions for further analysis — an ex-ercise that staff estimates will cost between $200,000 and $300,000 per alternative, a cost that would come out of the city’s General Fund. The city would then select its preferred solution by December.

Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at [email protected].

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A webcast discussion about the reconfiguration of Palo Alto’s rail intersections with guest David Shen of the North Old Palo Alto group is posted on PaloAltoOnline.com as well as at YouTube.com/paweekly. Search for “Behind the Headlines: Debate over rail redesign.”

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NeighborhoodsA roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

Paul Schulz, center, Emma Grant-Bier, center right, Maddie Yeung, left, Sebastian Herger, far right, and other 12-to-15-year-old swimmers on the Greenmeadow Marlins team, practice at the newly renovated pool at the Greenmeadow Community Center.

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CITY TO COME CALLING ... The city of Palo Alto will step up outreach to residents on neighborhood streets that will be affected by the ongoing Neighborhood Traffic Safety and Bike Boulevard Project. Responding to complaints from residents regarding traffic-calming fixtures installed over the past several months on Ross Road, the city announced it will meet with groups of residents, provide updated information and maps on the project website and do more “knock and talk” at residences regarding construction on Amarillo Avenue, the second leg of the bike boulevard project. More information on the project is available at cityofpaloalto.org/bikepedsafety.BARRON PARK MAY FÊTE ... It’s almost time to ring around the Maypole. The Barron Park Association will host its 40th Annual May Fête on May 20, noon to 4 p.m. at Bol Park, 3590 Laguna Ave., Palo Alto. The celebration includes the colorful ribboned Maypole, flowers, dancers, music, kids’ games, sing-alongs, food and, of course, the Barron Park donkeys, Perry and Jenny.COYOTE SIGHTINGS ... Residents in the College Terrace and Barron Park neighborhoods have had a number of wildlands visitors lately. One resident on Nextdoor.com reported seeing a coyote running down College Terrace streets. A pair of coyotes were spotted the week of April 9 and a single coyote was seen on April 15, all on Peter Coutts Road. A coyote also was observed on Matadero Avenue. Information about urban coyotes and what to do when encountering them can be found at tinyurl.com/y9xyekh6.REPAIR CAFÉ… ... It’s time to dust off that old toaster with the broken plug sitting on the garage shelf. May 12 brings the Repair Café back to the University South neighborhood, where broken things will meet their match in a team of repair volunteers, who give old appliances, small furniture, jewelry, bikes and computers new life. Whatever can be carried to the event is a suitable candidate for repair. The Repair Café will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. More information is posted at repaircafe-paloalto.org.

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T en years after taking the plunge to restore its neigh-borhood pool, the Green-

meadow Community Associa-tion in south Palo Alto reopened the local treasure with a splashy party in early April.

The 4,350-square-foot, six-lane pool cost $750,000 to renovate and is the first part of a $2.5 mil-lion project that includes a new 2,000-square-foot ADA-accessi-ble clubhouse for neighborhood gatherings. The clubhouse is the first structure added to the Green-meadow Community Center at 303 Parkside Drive since developer Jo-seph Eichler built it in 1954. It was designed as the hub for his sur-rounding 300-home development. The center includes a park, the pool and a preschool, and it was intended to fulfill Eichler’s vision of a neighborhood as a community.

The shimmering turquoise pool has been the centerpiece of neigh-borhood activity for decades. It inspires the Greenmeadow Mar-lins swim team, which carries on a friendly rivalry with the Eichler Gators, a swim team at Palo Alto’s Eichler Swim & Tennis Club, an-other community-maintained cen-ter Eichler built, on Louis Road.

On a recent afternoon, sunlight glinted off the rippling water of the new pool as youngsters took long, arching strokes during lap-swim practice. Onlookers watched from new patio tables, chairs and umbrel-las on the renovated concrete deck.

Association President Josh Feira and Lisa Knox, of the

membership committee, admired the colorful tile work edging the steps: blue-toned in the main pool and rainbow-colored in the kiddie section. The shallow children’s area is decorated with aquatic-animal tiles created by associa-tion member Heather Scholl.

“There’s so much pride in this project,” Knox said.

The tiles are one example of res-idents’ dedication to the project. About 15 to 20 volunteers pulled together to make the renovation happen, said Jeff Kametec, an as-sociation member and the project manager.

The pool was last renovated in 1985, Feira said. The new heated pool, on which construction be-gan last October, has an all-new lining, new diving board, diving blocks and inlaid tiles demarcat-ing the various pool depths. There is a dedicated diving area, section for young children and an ADA-compliant lift and ramps. Inset and above-ground lighting allow for evening swims, and a sophis-ticated filtration system reduces chlorine by half compared to the prior filtration system.

Swim coach Rick Gordon is particularly pleased with the new filtration system, which makes the water easier on the skin and eyes.

“It makes a difference in the feel of the water. It’s terrific to have such a nice facility,” he said, adding that it’s now a pleasure to be able to swim in the evenings.

The pool currently has about 150 registered swimmers. There

is room right now for members to join from outside of Greenmead-ow, but Feira anticipates that might change in the coming months.

“Once people see how great the pool looks and our Marlins swim team schedule gets underway, we anticipate that our membership will fill up and we’ll move to a wait list,” he said.

The clubhouse, designed by Kobza Associates, broke ground in mid-January. When completed in October, the new building will have an outdoor barbecue area, ADA-accessible bathrooms and showers, air conditioning, heating and a “great room” for the gather-ings, Feira said.

The building architecture matches that of the surrounding Eichler homes. It has the same floor-to-ceiling glass walls and flat roof, a requirement since the neighborhood is on the National Registry of Historic Neighbor-hoods, Feira noted. He said the project went through a special city Historic Resources Board hearing.

“The board has a reputation for being incredibly rigorous, but we passed the first time,” he noted with a sense of pride.

To make room for the new build-ing, a large wall that separated the park and pool was knocked down

and a full basketball court was converted into a half court. When the project is completed, the as-sociation plans to add events for seniors, to expand luncheons and coffee socials and to hold Friday night community dinners in the indoor-outdoor space, Knox said. Each year they hold a swanky cocktail party. Knox is looking forward to holding the event in the new space. It might even attract a new crowd of volunteers.

“It will be easier to get more peo-ple involved. It got tiresome to dress up the preschool and try to make it look like a nightclub,” she said.

Feira said the association is pay-ing for the renovations from sav-ings that have been collected for over a decade. They also received a loan from First Republic Bank. A $250,000 capital campaign for the clubhouse and pool furnish-ings, appliances, landscaping and other finishing touches has raised $150,000 so far, he added. The association also hopes to recoup costs through more fundraising, such as adding donors’ names to bricks or plaques. They also can pay for costs by renting the new clubhouse, Knox said.

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

Making a splashGreenmeadow Community Association revitalizes

its pool, community centerby Sue Dremann

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The Greenmeadow Community Association in south Palo Alto is building a clubhouse at its community center that will serve the neighborhood. The project is expected to be completed in October.

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Kate Young, director of resident services at Palo Alto Housing, ac-cepted a $4,000 grant for a newly started “Family Reading Club” program, which is run in collabo-ration with the Palo Alto Unified School District for families living in Palo Alto Housing apartments.

The program invites librarians and teachers to the apartment complex and facilitates unique learning experiences. “We’re making interacting with teach-ers cool, giving them tools and a safe place to ask questions ... (and) really nurturing a community of learners,” Young said.

She said that through the grant, the organization has the chance to nurture families that make less than $100,000 a year.

Live in Peace of East Palo Alto accepted its first donation from the Holiday Fund. The $5,000 grant will go toward the group’s “gap-year” program, which helps at-risk teens find their passion and attend college after high school.

Delayzio Amerson, executive director of the East Palo Alto YMCA, said that organization’s $7,500 grant will help alleviate pressures on teens, who often bal-ance many roles at home, including

being caregivers for their younger siblings or being their family’s in-terpreters. The summer academic enrichment program, titled “Full STEAM Ahead,” will allow these teens to explore science, technol-ogy, education and math daily for 10 weeks.

Deborah Farrington Padilla, founder of the new Buena Vista Homework Club in Palo Alto, ac-cepted $10,000 for the organiza-tion, which supports elementary school-aged children living in the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park.

Farrington Padilla said it’s time to support the community there, including helping to close the

achievement gap.About 12 Stanford University

students and local high school stu-dents volunteer with the children through programs like the home-work club. She said the funding will go toward needed furniture, supplies and healthy food snacks.

Other 2018 beneficiaries of the fund are 10 Books A Home, 49ers Academy, Able Works, Acterra, Ada’s Cafe, Adoles-cent Counseling Services, All Students Matter, Art in Action, Art of Yoga, Bayshore Christian Ministries, CASSY, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, Downtown Streets Team, Dream-Catchers, East Palo Alto Kids Foundation, East Palo Alto Ten-nis & Tutoring, Environmental Volunteers, Family Connections, Foundation for a College Educa-tion, Friends of Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo, Get Involved Palo Alto, Health Connected, Hidden Villa, JLS Middle School, Jordan Middle School, Kara, Ma-rine Science Institute, Music in the Schools Foundation, New Creation Home Ministries, New Voices for Youth, Nuestra Casa, One East Palo Alto, Palo Alto Art Center Foundation, Peninsu-la Bridge, Peninsula HealthCare Connection, Project WeHOPE, Quest Learning Center, Raven-swood Education Foundation, Ro-salie Rendu Center, Silicon Valley FACES, Silicon Valley Urban De-bate League, St. Francis of Assisi Youth Club, Stanford Jazz Work-shop, Terman Middle School, YMCA Ross Road, Youth Com-munity Service, Youth Speaks Out, Children’s Center of the Stanford Community, Children’s Pre-School Center, Friends of Preschool Family, Grace Luther-an Preschool, The Learning Cen-ter, Palo Alto Community Child Care, Palo Alto Friends Nursery School, Parents Nursery School and Peninsula Family Service.

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Deborah Farrington Padilla, founder of the new Buena Vista Homework Club, discusses on April 23 how the program supports elementary school kids living in the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park. The club received a Holiday Fund grant for furniture and supplies.

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Board of Education (April 24)Facilities master plan: The board discussed proposed projects for a new 20-year facilities master plan. Action: NoneBond: The board discussed placing a bond measure on the November 2018 ballot. Action: NoneRehabilitation contract: The board waived its two-meeting rule and approved a change of signature requirement for a rehabilitation counselor contract. Yes: Baten Caswell, Collins, Dauber, Godfrey Absent: DiBrienzaPaly speaker system: The board waived its two-meeting rule and authorized staff to solicit bids for the replacement of Palo Alto High School’s speaker system. Yes: Baten Caswell, Collins, Dauber, Godfrey Absent: DiBrienzaClassified staff reduction: The board approved the reduction and/or elimination of certain classified services due to lack of work and/or lack of funds. Yes: Baten Caswell, Collins, Dauber, Godfrey Absent: DiBrienzaBond issuance: The board discussed the sale and issuance of up to $40,000 in bonds from the 2008 Strong Schools Bond. Action: None

Parks and Recreation Commission (April 24)Golf: The commission discussed Baylands Golf Links, the city’s reconfigured golf course and its new operator. Action: NonePickleball: The commission heard an update about staff's plans to set up a dedicated pickleball court at Mitchell Park. Action: None

Planning and Transportation Commission (April 26)Accessory dwelling units: The commission discussed the city’s new ordinance to encourage accessory-dwelling units (ADUs) with several amendments, including provisions prohibiting detached ADUs from encroaching into the required setback and from building basements in the rear-yard setback.Yes: Alcheck, Gardias, Monk, Summa, Waldfogel Absent: Lauing, Riggs

Historic Resources Board (April 26)565 Hamilton Ave.: The board held a study session to discuss a proposed mixed-use development that would replace three homes and associated garages at 565 Hamilton Ave., 571 Hamilton Ave., and 542-548 Webster St. Action: None864 Boyce Ave.: The board held a study session to discuss a proposed subdivision of the property at 874 Boyce Ave. into two parcels and addition of a one-story dwelling on the proposed rear parcel. Action: None

Board of Education (April 26)Superintendent search: The board discussed its superintendent search in closed session. Action: None

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a Public Hearing at the regular meeting on Monday, May 7, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider adoption of the Fiscal Year 2018-19 Annual Ac-tion Plan and associated 2018-19 funding allocations and adoption of a Resolution approving the use of Community Development Block Grant Funds (CDBG) for Fiscal Year 2018-19 consistent with the Human Relations Commission’s Recommendation. The City Council Finance Committee rec-ommended approval.

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superintendent claimed. The Weekly interviewed more

than 30 current and past employees of the district who have separately described a culture of dysfunction and reactive leadership that they say is directly harming the stu-dents of the small K-8 district.

The unrest felt among teachers and staff led last spring to a “vote of no confidence” letter, signed by 143 of the district’s approximate 184 teachers, calling for her res-ignation.

—Elena KadvanyPalo Alto looks to cement office cap

The Palo Alto City Council is scheduled to adopt on Monday an ordinance that would make per-manent the annual office cap it adopted three years ago as a tool for limiting commercial growth in three areas: downtown, California Avenue and El Camino Real.

For those who believe commer-cial growth needs to be curtailed, the cap has been a great success. In each of the past three years, new of-fice growth in the three districts had fallen below the 50,000-square-foot limit established by the cap.

Others believe that the lack of commercial growth is a sign that the cap is no longer necessary. Susan Monk, vice chair of the Planning and Transportation Commission

and two of her colleagues, Michael Alcheck and William Riggs, sup-ported adding a sunset clause to the new ordinance so that the commis-sion would revisit it again in a year.

But the majority of the com-mission recommended adopting the cap on a permanent basis with some revisions. The most signifi-cant option would allow develop-ers to “roll over” unused floor area

from one year to another.The new ordinance would also

scrap the “beauty contest,” a competition that the council had planned to use to judge which projects to approve in years where total development exceeds 50,000 square feet. Instead, the city would evaluate projects on a first-come, first-served basis.

—Gennady Sheyner

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CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss the status of the city’s labor negotiations with its police and fire unions. The council then plans to appoint members of the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan Working Group; and adopt an ordinance perpetuating the annual limit of 50,000 square feet on new office development in downtown, California Avenue and El Camino Real. The closed session will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, April 30, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Regular meeting will follow in the Council Chambers.

BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board is tentatively scheduled to hold a special meeting from 4 to 6 p.m. on Monday, April 30, at the district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. The meeting agenda wasn’t available as of press time.

UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hold a special meeting to discuss the Utilities Department budget. The meeting will begin at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 2, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to conduct a preliminary architectural review for a 29,000-square-foot mixed-use development at 565 Hamilton Ave., and consider approving a request to demolish an existing 62,500-square-foot research-and-development building at 3406 Hillview Ave., and replace it with a two-story 82,030-square-foot building. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 3, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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smartphone will receive a new identification number, ensuring anonymity. The only data that gets stored is the travel time be-tween one monitor and another, Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello told the Weekly.

Mello sees the Velocity devices — as well as other data-gathering technology — as a tool for mak-ing Palo Alto’s traffic data both more accurate and more publicly accessible. Today, the act of con-ducting a traffic survey is “more an art than a science,” Mello said. People (usually consultants) do their best to count all the cars passing along a busy segment. The Bluetooth monitors, he said, will give the city “a more auto-mated way to monitor whether our arterials are functioning the way they are supposed to.”

Other technologies are more conspicuous, even if some of their new functions aren’t immediately apparent. Palo Alto since 2003 has been using electronic speed feedback signs — radar devices that display the speed of pass-ing vehicles and, when needed, urge them to “SLOW DOWN” in rapidly flashing red letters. In recent months, however, the city has updated, repaired and repro-grammed all 15 devices (including six that had been inoperable) and installed two new ones, according to the 2017 Traffic Safety and Op-erations Report, a newly released overview of Palo Alto’s various traffic-management projects.

The feedback signs are now stationed along busy stretches of Alma Street, Arastradero, Em-barcadero and Middlefield roads, as well as along other prominent arteries. And they are, in many ways, a sign of the times in that they both give drivers a cue to slow down and provide the city reams of data about traffic con-ditions. The new report notes that the electronic feedback signs have a “traffic-analyzer feature that collects day, time and speed of vehicles and generates charts and speed compliance reports.”

So far, the city hasn’t been us-ing the data gathered by these signs. But Mello said he’d like to see the city get to a place where it could just pick a road segment and look at all the data collected there without the need for a con-sultant conducting “snapshot in time” counts that may or may not represent the average day.

Ultimately, Mello said, he’d like to see the city create an online “dashboard” for its street network, with publicly available data show-ing the performance of various intersections and road segments.

“We’re moving toward a place where we’re going to have a lot more transparency around data and a better way to visualize the data,” Mello said. “That’s part of what the project is about.”

While a dashboard is a long-term objective, the new technology has a more near-term and practical aim:

ensuring smooth and safe traf-fic flow. The challenge is hard to overstate. The most recent Nation-al Citizens Survey showed only 33 percent of Palo Alto’s respondents giving the city a high grade (either “excellent” or “good”) in 2017, well below the 45 percent who did so in 2007.

To help whisk traffic along, Palo Alto is preparing to expand its use of SynchroGreen, an adap-tive system that tracks real-time traffic conditions and modifies signals accordingly. Synchro-Green made its debut on Sand Hill Road in 2015 and was imple-mented last year on four intersec-tions along San Antonio Road, as well as on East Charleston Road and Fabian Way.

In the coming months, the city plans to bring the adaptive system to Charleston-Arastradero Road, which is also set to undergo a redesign as part of a multi-phase effort launched 15 years ago. The adoption of SynchroGreen on Charleston-Arastradero was one of the conditions that the

city included in its environmen-tal analysis for the ambitious streetscape project.

The SynchroGreen system identifies “platoons” of cars that move along the corridor and looks for gaps between these pla-toons, Mello said. It then strate-gically serves side streets during these gaps.

For example, if westbound drivers on Sand Hill Road are waiting to turn left onto Stan-ford’s Stock Farm Road and the system detects a gap in traffic heading east on Sand Hill, the system will take advantage of the gap and serve the left-turning cars onto Stock Farm as quickly

as possible, Mello said.The system does, however, has

one drawback: It often requires cars to wait longer on side streets.

“We’ve had some emails and phone calls after we implemented SynchroGreen on San Antonio Road, and some of these were con-cerns about increased wait times to get on San Antonio. We’re mak-

ing tweaks to address those.”Like most bits of Palo Alto’s

recently installed technology, the new traffic signals were de-signed to be compatible with the future dashboard. The Traffic Safety and Operations Report cites the emergence of “intel-ligent transportation systems”

with the capability to monitor, evaluate and modify intersection signal-timing parameters using a very detailed data collection and evaluation of detailed metrics.”

Unlike the traditional method, which relies on traffic-simulation models, the new system provides signal-timing recommendations based on actual intersection per-formance, the report states.

Palo Alto is now moving toward adopting such a system. In 2015, when traffic signals citywide were upgraded, the city’s central man-agement system was made com-patible with the various data-anal-ysis programs, the report states. The same holds true for most other new devices, Mello said.

“Every time we add something new or look at a new device or system, we’re ensuring that an API (application programming interface) be made available that would enable us to link the sys-tems together,” he said.

Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at [email protected].

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‘We’re moving toward a place where we’re going to have a lot more transparency around data and a better way to visualize the data.’

—Joshuah Mello, chief transportation official, City of Palo Alto


Rita Mary O’Grady was born in Palo Alto, CA on May 15, 1921, the second child of Tom and Delia O’Grady who hailed from County Roscommon, Ireland. She grew up and lived most of her life in Palo Alto, where she attended Mayfield Elementary, and then Mercy High School in Burlingame. Her parent’s Stanford Ave. house was a gathering point for Irish people, where on many a Saturday night they would have live music and dancing.

In 1939, she met her future husband of 69 years, Bob O’Connor. They married in 1942 at St. Aloysius Church; it was the first Nuptial Mass held in the new church, where, 50 years later, they would renew their vows. Shortly thereafter, Bob left to join the World War II effort for 3 1/2 years, while Rita contributed by working at Westvaco Labs.

When Bob returned from the war in 1945, they moved to San Jose, and then Sacramento, starting their family with five daughters: O’Malley, JoJo, Chris, Patty, and Kellie. By 1952, Rita, always a wonder, had five daughters under the age of 6 ½. In 1954 they moved to Palo Alto. Six years later their son, Rob, was born, completing the family. By 1965, they had a house full of teenaged daughters. She managed through it all.

Affectionately called “O’Grady” by her husband, Rita and Bob together raised their children in Palo Alto, a wonderful time for all. There was always a yearly camping trip, lots of swimming, and all the fruit you could pick. Her siblings lived nearby, so there were many family gatherings, now with Bob providing the music on the piano.

Rita once said there were three things she could never pass up: a fruit stand, a nursery, and a fabric store. Somehow she found time to garden, read and knit, while sewing, cooking, and raising her brood. After the children were gone, she surprised us with her skill and originality as a jewelry maker. She and Bob began to travel; they went to Ireland, Tahiti, New Zealand, Europe, Hawaii, and, of course, anywhere their children lived. When they weren’t traveling, they opened their house to cancer patients and their families from Stanford Hospital. Over 30+ years, they had hosted more than 250 people; those strangers became friends.

In 2011, Rita was preceded in death by her dear husband Bob. She carried on, buoyed by her family and friends. She died peacefully surrounded by family in her home on April 11. She is survived by her 6 children and their spouses, 13 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, you may send a contribution to….Monsignor O’Halloran Scholarship Fund, Mercy High

School, Burlingame: Abilities United, Palo Alto, or a Charity of your choice.

A service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on May 12, at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 751 Waverly St., Palo Alto.

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

Rita Mary O’ConnorMay 15, 1921 – April 11, 2018

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

AGENDA–SPECIAL MEETING–COUNCIL CHAMBERSApril 30, 2018 AT 5:00 PM

Closed Session1. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS, Employee

Study Session

BudgetSpecial Orders of the Day

Resources Board and the Human Relations Commission4. North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan: City Council Appointment

Consent Calendar

Auditor

Action Items11. SECOND READING: Adoption of an Ordinance Authorizing an

Amendment to the Contract Between the City of Palo Alto and

12. PUBLIC HEARING: Adoption of an Ordinance Amending Palo Alto

Process, Unallocated Area Rollover Provisions, and Exemptions.

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POLICE CALLS Palo AltoApril 18-24Violence relatedBattery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Sex crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Sexual assault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Theft relatedCounterfeiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle relatedAuto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Bicycle Theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . . 6Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Misc traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . . 5Vehicle accident/property damage . . . . . 4Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Alcohol or drug relatedDrinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Driving under the influence. . . . . . . . . . . . 4Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . . . 3Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2MiscellaneousCasualty fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Extortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Hate crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Threat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Menlo ParkApril 18-24Theft relatedCommercial burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle relatedAuto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . . 5Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Vehicle accident/ major injury. . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle accident/ minor injury. . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle accident/ no injury . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Alcohol or drug relatedDriving under the influence. . . . . . . . . . . . 1Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1MiscellaneousCoroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Gang violation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Threat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo AltoEl Camino Real, 1/19, 8 p.m.; sexual assault/oral copulation.El Camino Real, 1/24, 9 a.m.; sex crime/unlawful sexual intercourse.University Avenue, 4/6, 4:36 p.m.; sex crime/misc.University Avenue, 4/16, 6:50 p.m.; battery/simple.Forest Avenue, 4/20, 12 p.m.; sex crime/misc.

Pulse


Castilleja should work with neighborsEditor,

How sustainable and flexible can a campus be when confined to a 6-acre parcel placed within a busy artery (Embarcadero Road) and a bike safety boulevard (Bry-ant Street)?

No amount of variances can satisfy the goals of a school that wants to grow for the next 100 years. Castilleja claims they are keeping the same size, but this square footage is grandfathered in above the allowable limits. In or-der to retain this space, they need to merge lots and demolish two livable homes, one being a lovely over 100-year residence dedicated to the founder, Mary Lockey. How can those plans balance the safety and livability of the R-1 neighbor-hood in which the school resides?

If the school is serious about growing to teach more women they need to follow suit of other private schools such as Harker, Nueva and Pinewood, to name a few. They need to split their cam-pus, have satellite drop offs and run mandatory shuttle services.

Castilleja needs to understand that this is an R-1 zoned residen-tial neighborhood and be con-siderate of its neighbors. Ninety events of 50 to 100 or more people is excessive for any school. On the newest March submissions listed on the city website, there are plans to build a garage tunnel under the utility easement for students to en-ter the campus? Building a garage when residents all over Palo Alto are working with the city to ease traffic congestion, not increase it? Funneling cars onto a bike safety boulevard when there were two serious injuries just recently on the Bryant/Embarcadero intersec-tion? Does this make any sense?

The school of tomorrow needs to keep in mind the needs of the city today and work with the neighbors so that residents, stu-dents and staff can exist safely and harmoniously for the next 100 years.

Kimberley WongEmerson Street, Old Palo Alto

Support soda taxEditor,

Sugary drinks are uniquely harmful, and several local cities have adopted policies to make it easier for their residents to make healthy choices.

The website healthyberkeley.com lists the wonderful programs generated by Berkeley residents who supported a soda tax in 2014.

Their monies did not go into a general fund but to a committee of local residents who awarded grants from these dollars to wor-thy causes such as nutritional pro-grams that had not been funded for years.

Oakland’s tax committee estab-lished in 2017 is planning to use $300,000 of these taxes for drink-ing water stations at all Oakland schools. It is not just obesity but other chronic diseases that are af-fected, such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and tooth decay.

The amount spent on sugary-drink advertising is over $1.2 billion and targets our most vul-nerable population, our children. Over 50 percent of our middle and high school students report hav-ing one or more sugary drink per day. The soda industry has under-mined our educational efforts to teach our kids properly. The soda industry understands that sugar is a food addiction, which is why sugary drinks contain a lot of add-ed sugar, including high fructose corn syrup.

Sugary drinks are not filling, so people can easily keep drinking them.

A proposed tax for Palo Alto is a very small tax on distributors of the sugary beverages only. If the supermarkets and grocery stores choose to pass the tax on to the customer, it is 20 cents extra for a 20-ounce soda.

Finally, all of us are paying with increased medical premiums for all the people with these chronic diseases mentioned above.

The tobacco tax is working, and so would a soda tax in Palo Alto. Sugar consumption will go down. We should put a lid on sug-ary drinks.

Kenneth HorowitzHomer Avenue, Palo Alto

No to Cubberley campersEditor,

Chuck Jagoda of Sunnyvale writes (April 20, Letter to the Ed-itor) that Palo Alto should permit homeless people to camp here.

I have little children who play and study at Cubberley. I do not want people camping at Cubberley.

Nathan SzajnbergDuncan Place, Palo Alto

SpectrumEditorials, letters and opinions

Hold firm on office capBeware of last-minute attempts to loosen

office-development restrictions

P alo Altans should take careful note of what City Council members say and how they vote Monday night as they decide once again how much future office development

should be allowed each year in three major commercial areas of the city.

With a City Council election approaching in November, Mon-day’s vote will take on additional significance, especially for the three council members eligible for re-election to a second term: Tom DuBois, Eric Filseth and Cory Wolbach.

Last September, when the same issue came before the council, a 50,000-square-foot annual cap on commercial office develop-ment in downtown Palo Alto, California Avenue and along El Camino Real — originally adopted as a temporary measure in 2015 — was extended through this June while city staff prepared a permanent ordinance.

But on a pair of 5-4 votes, the council also narrowly approved two changes: the addition of a rollover provision that added to the next year any unused allotment from the previous year and the replacement of a competitive review process for selecting from among development proposals with a first-come, first-approved approach.

These votes allowed every council member to take credit for voting for continuing the 50,000-square-feet per year office cap, even as five (Wolbach, Tanaka, Scharff, Kniss and Fine) were voting to dilute the effectiveness of the ordinance. By their vote, the five undid provisions that a previous council had approved and that had not yet even been tested in practice.

The issue now returns to the council as a permanent ordinance containing the two weakening provisions.

Based on recent experience with how some members of the council have chosen to operate, there is no telling what new surprise efforts may be made Monday night to weaken or modify the cap. Significant and sometimes half-baked proposals or amendments have increasingly been offered by council members after public comments have been com-pleted, leaving residents with no opportunity to express their views on them.

It’s a legislative tactic that can appear manipulative and lead to sloppy and unexpected outcomes and that more often than not are inherently divisive. We hope council members with sig-nificant proposed amendments to staff recommendations start announcing them in advance so at least the public has an op-portunity to comment.

Given that the switch of a single vote would change the out-come on the office cap, we also hope that the council revisits the two changes it made last fall. The arguments for those changes are as weak today as they were back then.

There is no constituency other than commercial development interests supporting new office development in Palo Alto, and every square foot of new office development approved in the city makes our housing shortage and road congestion worse.

With the city’s current focus on expanding the number of hous-ing units for low-income individuals, families and seniors, there is no rationale for loosening the 50,000-square-foot office cap, rolling over unused allocations to the next year or eliminating the competitive review process.

Since it took effect in 2016, applications for office develop-ment projects in the three commercial areas haven’t once ex-ceeded the aggregate 50,000-square-foot cap, so the competitive review concept has never even been given a chance.

As conceived, the competitive process was to occur in March and evaluate all submitted proposals based on factors including sustainable design, mitigation of traffic impacts and the inclu-sion of public benefits such as affordable housing. It was an untested concept that was intended to create an incentive for a developer to propose a high-quality project.

Wolbach and then-Vice Mayor Liz Kniss argued last fall that evaluating and ranking proposals would be nearly impossible since everyone’s taste in design is different, to which Council-men DuBois and Filseth responded that there are many qualities besides design that would cause a proposed building to be scored higher than another.

No one in the community is clamoring for more new office buildings. The city is not suffering in any way from having es-tablished the 50,000-square-foot annual cap and not a single de-veloper has come before the council to argue it is having adverse impacts on the market.

The current office cap is working just as intended in the af-fected three commercial districts and should be approved by the City Council Monday night as a permanent ordinance.

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What steps do you take to ensure earthquake preparedness?Asked on California Avenue in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Josh Code.

Jordan CoblinSoftware EngineerVancouver, Canada

“At my family home we have an

earthquake emergency kit. I haven’t

actually looked in there.”

Amaya de la CruzStudentEl Camino Real, Palo Alto

“My grandma has a lot of canned

food in the garage and pantry.”

Tom ThomasRetiredSanta Rita Avenue, Palo Alto

“All we have really done is basically to

make sure our house doesn’t fly off

its foundation. We’ve bit the bullet to

have earthquake insurance.”

Mary ThomasRetiredSanta Rita Avenue, Palo Alto

“We do have water supplies, but

we’re a little bit lax to be honest.”

Angela MendozaBrand AmbassadorMarshall Street, Redwood City

“Making sure our phones are

charged, having water available,

extra batteries.”

S tories of of-ten harrow-ing escapes

from oppressive or dangerous coun-tries will be shared by five immigrants who lived them during a free event titled, “When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Stories of Escape and Refuge” — co-sponsored by the Midpeninsula Community Media Cen-ter and the Palo Alto Library.

The video tales will be debuted publicly May 10, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Mitchell Park Community Center’s El Palo Alto Room.

“We all have immigrant stories, unless you’re Native American,” Elliot Margo-lies, producer of the video recordings and long-affiliated with the Palo Alto-based Midpeninsula Community Media Center, said of the event. Even Native Americans immigrated from Asia to North America in the far-distant past, he noted.

There is a deep connection to today’s world, internationally and locally, he notes, citing the millions who have left “coun-tries too dangerous to live in” bound for unknown lands and futures.

“Basically the storytelling events are a chance for people to meet folks who are their neighbors, people whose lives have been col-ored by very poignant challenges, and very dramatic circumstances,” Margolies said.

Two earlier video events featured “Dreamers,” immigrants who arrived as children with their undocumented parents

— whose fates are now the topic of political give and take nationally.

Margolies said the gathering of the in-terviews is a follow-up to his earlier role in creating a website (madeintoamerica.org) where immigrants share their stories, now with about 400 written stories plus photos and other material.

Margolies said his role in the immigrant-stories project had its own evolution. It started when he volunteered a half dozen years ago to teach English as a second lan-guage (known widely as ESL) at the Day Worker Center of Mountain View.

Margolies received a grant through the Media Center from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to produce a doc-umentary about the Day Workers Center, and trained eight workers how to tell their stories on video.

“I got more and more interested,” he said about the lives of those he interviewed. Bolstered by grants from Facebook, the California Humanities Council and other sources, Margolies began doing storytell-ing and video workshops at schools, places of worship, Stevenson House and Palo Alto Housing Corporation residences.

In many cases, he teaches people how to video-interview parents or relatives, and coaches people “how to tell their stories in front of an audience.”

The website was added several years ago as a place for the written stories and photos of the storytellers.

The experience has had a strong person-al impact on his life, Margolies said in a coffee-shop interview. In addition to “being fun” meeting the immigrants, “it makes me

aware of what incredible energy it takes to start all over in a new place” with a different language, no job and no home initially.

“They just have a lot of hope and faith that you can put something together.”

And something often happens with the second generations of the immigrants. A recent group of five second-generation indi-viduals showed that two had received doc-torate degrees, one was attending college and others were working for nonprofit or-ganizations or schools or teaching, he said.

The May 10 presentation will feature individuals from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Eriotriea and Vietnam, each with sharply divergent backgrounds but interwoven with common threads of courage and hope.

Internationally, those threads are shared by 65½ million people who have been displaced from their homes and more than 25 million who have left their home country, according to a 2016 worldwide survey by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (bit.ly/UNHCRfigures).

“Basically these are people who love their country but couldn’t stay,” Margolies said. He added that “many have a tremen-dous love of family,” common to all but particularly intense in persons from family-oriented cultures such as those in Mexico and Central and South America.

The escapes can be hair-raising. A wom-an from Aleppo, Syria, tells of hiding from snipers on rooftops, in a city once heralded for its diversity and tolerance now a place of immense danger and suffering.

Some tell of being targets of religious discrimination, such as for being Christian

in Iraq after Saddam Hussein took power. One of the tales is by a man from Vietnam

who faced “an extra onus” in that his ances-ters were from China, Margolies noted. He was the eldest of 11 children, and escaped on a large home-built boat with many others.

Margolies has his own immigrant story: “My grandmother was from Lithuania and had come to Chicago to show relatives her new baby when Hitler invaded her coun-try. Her husband and son were killed, with other Jews.” She later married the man who became Margolies’ grandfather.

Today’s immigrants from dangerous countries share that common thread: “They have been through such emotional turmoil” and have made new lives for themselves.

“I’m in awe of them. I feel so privileged,” Margolies said of his coaching and video-ing experiences.

Margolies has been a Palo Alto resident since 1986. He became involved with the Media Center in early 1990, first doing its newsletter then becoming executive director, a position he left in 2001 to develop special projects. He has twin sons in Southern Cali-fornia, and two grandaughters who grew up in Palo Alto and attended Gunn High School.

Margolies said those who attended ear-lier video events “already know you are in for a night of empathy, warmth, and maybe even a tear or two.” Art work from the re-spective countries will be represented at the May 10 event, and snacks will be available.

Online RSVPs are requested to help with preparing the setup, at bit.ly/MadeInAmericaRSVP.

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Meet the women cooking at, running the restaurants of the Midpeninsula

W hen we talk about fe-male chefs, we often default to stereotypes.

She’s a tough-as-nails badass. She’s a rare species, the only wom-an in a sea of men. She’s a victim of sexual harassment, bravely coming forward with her story.

All of those stereotypes have some truth. But the full reality of how women have found success in the restaurant industry is much more nuanced.

The Midpeninsula’s dining scene is home to many of these women: pastry chefs, sous chefs, managers and business owners who are often less publicly cel-ebrated than their male counter-parts — to the point that one local female restaurateur was surprised to hear that there were as many as 10 women being interviewed for this story, which is by no means exhaustive.

The suburbs of the Midpenin-sula have long nurtured female restaurant careers, from farm-to-table pioneer Jesse Cool of Menlo Park’s Flea St. Cafe in the 1970s to Avery Ruzicka, a 32-year-old baker who worked her way up from food runner to head of the bread program at the renowned Manresa in Los Gatos.

There’s also the immigrant who fled Vietnam by boat in 1977 for the Bay Area, where she eventu-ally opened several successful restaurants. There’s the Texas native who graduated from high school two years early to attend pastry school and is now oversee-ing pastry and desserts at nine successful restaurants. There’s

the 17-year-old culinary school student who deftly navigated the pressures of a Michelin-starred kitchen in her first-ever restau-rant job.

And while there are more wom-en in leadership roles in local res-taurants than meets the eye, they are still working in a male-dom-inated industry currently in the spotlight for its historically poor treatment of women. But as work-ing mothers, driven young women and female leaders, they challenge the gender norms that have al-lowed sexual harassment and other misconduct to fester for years.

To provide a more complete narrative of the local dining in-dustry, here are the stories of some, though certainly not all, of the female figures behind the res-taurants that so many of us enjoy.

Serena Chow

S erena Chow, a 29-year-old pastry chef at Bird Dog in Palo Alto, is glad to see

the media spotlight finally shin-ing on problematic kitchen cul-ture and the impact it’s long had on women.

But she agrees with New York chef Amanda Cohen, who in No-vember wrote a piece titled “I’ve Worked in Food for 20 Years. Now You Finally Care About Fe-male Chefs?,” condemning what she describes as “Boys Only” me-dia coverage that pays attention to female chefs as women first, then professionals.

The current #MeToo movement is an extension of that, Cohen

The future is female

wrote: “Women may not have val-ue as chefs, but as victims we’re finally interesting!”

Chow has experienced the feel-ing of being judged for her physi-cal appearance as she’s walked into a kitchen. She’s endured in-appropriate comments from male coworkers. She’s worked on her fair share of almost all-male staffs where she felt like she had to be able to “take a joke” and suppress emotions to advance.

But she also got her start at a female-run dessert and wine bar, worked under a female head pas-try chef at the Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park in New York City and is now at a restau-rant where ownership is shared equally by a husband-and-wife team.

“Overall, it is a great time to be a female in a kitchen, but also I think last year, and the year be-fore, and the year before that were great times to be in the kitchen as well,” Chow said.

Chow, who is from San Mateo, studied advertising and commu-nications at New York Univer-sity. A fateful summer studying abroad in Florence, where she experienced the Italians’ distinct appreciation for food, diverted her career. She graduated from NYU and went straight to pastry school at the French Culinary Institute, then worked for several years be-fore hosting pop-up dinners and opening a restaurant with her boy-friend, also a chef. They now work together at Bird Dog, she as pastry chef and he as a chef de cuisine.

Chow is obsessed with eggs, ice cream and attention to detail. Her desserts are textured, sophis-ticated and comforting, like her version of rocky road, made with Valrhona jivara chocolate mousse, smoked marcona almonds and espresso. She records her recipes neatly, by hand, in alphabetical or-der in a repurposed leather-bound address book. It sat next to her on a recent afternoon in Bird Dog’s open kitchen as she pitted and

soaked dates for a cake.The staff at Bird Dog is almost

50-50 men and women and the kitchen culture is collaborative rather than exclusionary or com-petitive, Chow said. For her, this comes from co-owners Robbie Wilson, the chef, and Emily Per-ry Wilson, who runs the business side of the restaurant.

“On top of being considerate, it really doesn’t matter your gen-der. It doesn’t matter your back-ground; it doesn’t matter even who you vote for,” she said. “I think because Emily and Robbie are very 50-50, it trickles down throughout the company.”

Emily Perry Wilson

M ost diners at Bird Dog in Palo Alto probably know the name Rob-

bie Wilson, the man behind the restaurant’s California-Japanese culinary creations. They are less likely to know the woman who makes the entire operation run smoothly.

Emily Perry Wilson, man-aging partner at Bird Dog and married to Wilson, has overseen Bird Dog’s financials, operations, management, marketing and more since the restaurant opened in 2015. Before Bird Dog opened, she coordinated the difficult city permitting process and was the point person for their architect, general contractor, accountant and attorneys.

She sees herself as the “produc-er” bringing her husband’s ideas to life.

“Whether it’s a dish at 2 a.m. or a new restaurant concept, once he has put that on paper ... then I am pulling everything together and getting a team together and ... thinking about the systems we’re going to put into place.” she said.

Perry Wilson worked as a res-taurant server and bartender in high school and college but it was her food-focused European roots that left a lasting impression

on her. Perry Wilson’s maternal grandparents are Hungarian and her paternal set, Italian.

“I was raised on everything be-ing about food,” she said. “Every holiday, every gathering was all about food and wine and celebra-tions. That really created some-thing in me as far as absolutely loving food culture.”

She met her future husband, fittingly, at a restaurant they both frequented in Aspen, Colorado. After they got married, she said, it made sense for them to work to-gether. In Nashville, she worked as a marketing director at a res-taurant he cooked at. In Santa Barbara, they renovated the ac-claimed Mattei’s Tavern before moving to the Peninsula, where they’re now raising a 3-year-old son while running Bird Dog.

Perry Wilson said she’s endured her share of “mansplaining,” even from staff members about ele-ments of the restaurant that she created before they opened. Oth-er than that, she hasn’t felt treated differently as a female owner.

Along with personality, the gen-der of the person in charge inevi-tably shapes a restaurant, she said. She and Wilson are proud to run a more gender-balanced kitchen — though the breakdown ebbs and flows with hiring availability, she said — and strive to create the culture that Pastry Chef Serena Chow said she experiences. They have spoken with their staff about sexual harassment, including dis-tributing an updated employee handbook that emphasizes their intolerance for misconduct, and offer their managers an annual sexual harassment training run by an outside firm.

Perry Wilson, too, thinks cur-rent media coverage is “skew-ing towards the victimization of women” but ultimately sees it as a force for change.

“It not only validates what some women have truly experi-enced, but also serves as spring-board for long-overdue respect

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and inclusion. If we keep striv-ing to speak of the empower-ment of women and what they’ve achieved, in addition to what some have endured, balance will inevitably prevail,” she said. “But both are important parts of the story.”

Janina O’Leary

B acchus Management Group hired Janina O’Leary in November

as its first-ever executive pastry chef, tasked with overseeing pas-try, bread and dessert at all nine of the company’s restaurants.

It’s no easy feat. Bacchus’ prop-erties range from fine-dining res-taurants to a small pizza chain. On Wednesdays, you’ll usually find her at the bustling Mayfield Bakery & Cafe in Palo Alto and on Fridays at The Village Pub in Woodside, which has one Mi-chelin star. Her vision is guiding an expansion of all the restau-rants’ menus, including adding more viennoiserie and personal, “whimsical” touches.

O’Leary remembers the first item she ever baked: a cinna-mon roll wreath she made with her mother, who gave the dessert to friends and family during the holidays.

But it was from her aunts that O’Leary inherited a deep love of baking while growing up in Del Rio, Texas. One of them dreamed of opening her own bakery. O’Leary remembers having an early epiphany: “You can do this for a living?”

Driven at a young age, O’Leary took summer school classes and was homeschooled so she could graduate early from high school and attend pastry school. At 14 years old, she moved to New York City to attend the French Culinary Institute, now the International Culinary Center, and launched her career.

She worked in some of New York City’s most notable restau-rants: Daniel Boulod’s Restaurant Daniel, Thomas Keller’s Per Se and Mario Batali’s Del Posto.

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Kuniko Ozawa, owner of Sumika and Orenchi Ramen restaurants in Mountain View and Redwood City, opened her first Japanese restaurant along the Peninsula 11 years ago after discovering many of the dishes she grew up eating in Tokyo weren’t available in California.

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and bosses have been male, though there were women in lead roles at some of the restaurants she worked at in New York. The male chefs were always “fair,” she said.

“You never felt gender specif-ic,” O’Leary said.

O’Leary never experienced sex-ual harassment in a restaurant job but witnessed it firsthand. (Batali stepped away from his restaurants in December after four women ac-cused him of sexual misconduct, another crest in the #MeToo wave that hit the restaurant industry last year.)

She said it was hard not to be-come “desensitized” to the inap-propriate conduct that became the norm in some of the city’s most reputable kitchens.

She said she was also “lucky to work around some really amazing women who have pushed back” against that culture. Sometimes, the work environment improved as a result, she said, “or, unfortu-nately, they had to move on.”

After a decade in New York, the birth of O’Leary’s first child

prompted her and her husband, whom she met at Del Posto, to re-turn to her native Texas. In Aus-tin, she went back to work when her son was 2 months old. She helped open The W Austin Hotel and a French restaurant before she became pregnant again.

Later, she applied to a posi-tion at a Bacchus restaurant and eventually moved to the Peninsula when she was hired as the com-pany’s executive pastry chef.

O’Leary’s desserts are often inspired by nostalgic memories or beautiful ingredients. Coming soon to the Mayfield menu is her riff on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich: a glass jar filled with layers of blackberry jam, fresh strawberries, Chantilly whipped cream, salted peanut pastry cream and topped with a white chocolate and peanut butter cookie.

O’Leary said she felt a new pressure as a female chef when she became a mother. It was dif-ficult to take time off — to the point where she felt like it was easier to leave a job and start a new one when she was ready to go back to work. Like many chefs who have children, she has strug-gled to balance the demands of family and work.

“That’s been the hardest part, finding the work-life balance,” she said. “For any working mom in any industry it’s always this hard juggle where you feel like you’re never giving 100 percent percent to either.”

She said she’s hopeful that the combination of more women working in leadership roles and the attention being paid to sex-ual misconduct in kitchens will sustain a long-overdue cultural change in restaurants. A young girl who moves to New York City to attend culinary school in 2018 would be entering a vastly differ-ent industry than O’Leary did, she said.

“I think that there’s been for many years like a brothers club, a chefs’ club, you know what I mean?” she said. “Over the last

few years as women have had larger roles in kitchens, I think so many things have already changed. Now, it’s touching on the bigger issue of women just not accepting it anymore and becom-ing strong leaders in the kitchen ... and not looking past it, too.”

Tammy Huynh

T ammy Huynh comes from a family of female restau-rant owners.

First was her mother, Chac Do, who opened Vung Tau, a 12-table Vietnamese restaurant in San Jose, in 1985. When her mother eventually retired, Huynh’s sister took over.

In 1996, Huynh opened a sec-ond location of Vung Tau, named for the coastal Vietnamese city she was born in, with her brother

in Milpitas. Later came a third Vung Tau, then a Thai restaurant she opened with her youngest sis-ter. Huynh and her niece opened Tamarine in downtown Palo Alto in 2002 and also the now-closed Bong Su in San Francisco.

The family came to the Bay Area in 1977 as part of the wave of Vietnamese refugees who fled the country after the Vietnam War. Huynh was 15 years old at the time. The family stayed in a Malaysian camp for a year, she recalled, waiting to join a relative who lived in Lodi, California.

Do, a former seafood exporter in Vietnam, raised seven children on her own while running the restaurant in San Jose — and ex-perienced the highs and lows of being both chef and mother, as her daughter later would.

Cooking was actually a second career for Huynh. She studied bio-chemistry at University of Cali-fornia, Davis and earned a doctor-ate degree in pharmacy from the University of Pacific in Stockton. She worked as a pharmacist for years, got married and had three children.

When her brother asked if she wanted to open the second Vung Tau with him, she agreed. She worked the front of house at first and started cooking when she opened the nearby Thai restau-rant. She said she learned how to cook from her mother and from traveling, including a two-year stint in Hong Kong that inspired her to open her own restaurant.

In her mid-30s at the time, she said she “found her passion” in cooking.

At Tamarine, she has long melded traditional Vietnamese ingredients and techniques, using her mother’s recipes, with contem-porary flavors. Half of the menu focuses on classic Vietnamese



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Zareen Khan, chef and owner of Zareen’s restaurants in Mountain View and Palo Alto, got her start in the food industry selling frozen kebabs to working mothers who wanted meals they could quickly heat and serve at the end of the day. The kebabs turned into a catering company and then two restaurants.

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food and the other half on more modern, seasonal dishes that change every few months. Most of the classics — the shaking beef, Tamarine prawns, lemongrass sea bass and beef pho — have been on the menu since Tamarine opened.

When Huynh isn’t at Tamarine, she’s at home in her “test kitchen” in Palo Alto coming up with new dishes. She’s constantly reading cookbooks and purchasing un-usual, non-Asian ingredients (re-cently it was Israeli and Moroccan spices) to play around with. She travels several times a year to find inspiration.

“That’s what motivates me,” Huynh said. “I have to keep learning, and not just Vietnamese cuisine.”

Tamarine has been received well over the years, both by cus-tomers and critics. The San Fran-cisco Chronicle’s Michael Bauer gave Tamarine three-out-of-four stars just three months after its opening, praising the food’s “per-fect marriage between tradition and innovation.” (He revisited Tamarine again in 2010 and 2017, dropping the rating to two-and-half stars.)

Despite this accolade, Huynh feels that women in restaurants still don’t get as much recognition as men. When Huynh opened Tamarine, she didn’t know any other female chefs in the area.

“We have to do more” she said. “We have to do more to where it will be recognized. It’s frustrating sometimes, but my satisfaction is coming from my guests who come into the restaurant and love my cooking.

“Give me a star, no star ... I’m here for 16 years and that (says) something,” she said.

Kuniko Ozakawa

A ll of Kuniko Ozakawa’s restaurants are named after Japanese words

that translate to some variation of “house.” Each was inspired by her own desire to recreate food she missed from her home in Japan.

Sumika, her first restaurant in Los Altos, means “charcoal house” and serves yakitori made on a binchotan grill. Her three ra-men shops are named Orenchi, or “my house.” And “Iroriya” in San Jose translates to “robata house,” short for robatayaki, a Japanese grilling method.

“I want to create the world that I want to live in,” Ozakawa said. “If there’s something’s missing then I want to create it.”

She didn’t always have a cre-ative outlet. Ozakawa grew up in Tokyo and moved to the United States at 24 years old, when she married a Japanese-American man from the Bay Area. She was a sales engineer in the high-tech world for many years and then be-came a stay-at-home mother after the birth of her second child.

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back to work, she wanted to do something more meaningful. She thought of the Japanese foods she missed that weren’t done well or even available in California — in particular yakitori, skewered meats grilled over a charcoal fire.

She decided she wanted to bring yakitori to the Peninsula, where Japanese food was mostly limited to sushi, and opened Sumika 11 years ago.

At first, American diners didn’t respond well to $3 skewers of grilled meat, she said. For two years, the restaurant struggled. Ozakawa added a chicken teriyaki sandwich and even a Cobb salad to the menu in an attempt to ap-peal to Western palates.

Then, in 2010, the Michelin res-taurant guide named Sumika one of its “Bib Gourmand” restau-rants, recognized for serving “ex-ceptional good food at moderate prices.” This turned the tide for Ozakawa, who went on to open four more restaurants, each fur-thering her original commitment

to bringing Japanese specialities to the Bay Area.

At Sumika, the chef’s experi-mentation with ramen on a se-cret menu led to the opening of the first Orenchi Ramen in Santa Clara in 2010. Orenchi’s tonkotsu ramen drew long lines and quick-ly became considered one of the best bowls of ramen in the Bay Area. The broth is cooked over two days, made from pork bones, vegetables and a special sauce of soy sauce, sugar and sake. The noodles come from a Japanese vendor.

Ozakawa opened two more Orenchi locations, the first one in San Francisco and last year, the second in Redwood City. In 2013, she added Iroriya to the fleet.

Despite the challenges that fe-male restaurateurs face, she said American culture is far more for-giving of women pursuing their own careers. Ozakawa’s parents, who live in Tokyo, didn’t sup-port her decision to open her own restaurant. They thought it was

“crazy to do non-woman-like things — leaving the kids behind and working that hard,” she said. “They didn’t understand. They don’t even understand now.”

Despite the fact that food was a central part of her childhood — her mother was a good cook, Ozakawa said — most women she knew were stay-at-home mothers or worked “supportive jobs to men.” A woman running her own business was not socially accept-able. (Her Japanese customers still “scold” her sometimes for choosing what they perceive to be a man’s career.)

This hasn’t held Ozakawa back. With five restaurants under her belt, she plans on opening many more. Next on her list will be a restaurant focused entirely on tonkatsu, Japan’s breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet.

Zareen Khan

Z areen Khan got her start with kebabs.

The Pakistani native made them at home, freezing and packaging them to sell to other women — busy mothers who, like her, would turn to the freezer at the end of the long day for an easy meal for their families.

The kebabs turned into a cater-ing company, then a busy brick-and-mortar restaurant, and then another. Khan owns the popular Zareen’s in Mountain View and Palo Alto.

Like other women in the in-dustry, cooking was a second career for Khan. She grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. She obtained a master’s degree in business there before moving to Boston to study economics at Northeastern University.

She and her husband eventually moved to the Bay Area for jobs in the booming technology industry, but Khan wasn’t fulfilled at work.

She considered what else she could do given various “con-straints,” including her three children and a husband who

frequently traveled for work, and settled on offering cooking class-es out of her home. She also sold her kebabs and started catering meals for technology companies, a service that took off.

In 2014, Khan opened her first restaurant in a tiny space in a Mountain View strip mall. Her Pakistani and Indian food, which combines traditional and con-temporary flavors, drew a loyal following of tech workers and lo-cal diners. She quickly outgrew that space and opened a second, larger location on Palo Alto’s California Avenue in 2016. Less than two years later, the kitchen is already bursting at the seams. Khan is considering opening a third location.

Khan serves what she grew up eating, from shami kebabs — patties of ground beef, lentils and spices — to halwa puri, a weekend brunch platter with aloo bhujia (crispy strings of potato), chickpeas, semolina halwa and puri, an Indian fried bread. The menu serves those who are new to Pakistani-Indian food as well as those who grew up eating it, with a section for “gateway cur-ries” for beginners and another called “what makes Desi natives restless.”

She’s dogmatic about quality and insists on making everything in small batches, regardless of the cost in time and resources for the often-packed restaurant. A sign posted at the Palo Alto Zareen’s cautions that the kitchen sells out of some dishes at peak hours and that some items take longer to prepare.

Employees are working at the Palo Alto restaurant around the clock, including an overnight shift, to keep up with demand. Khan is in the kitchen regularly and knows immediately when a dish is off or a recipe hasn’t been properly executed.

“That’s very important as the owner to set the tone that you’re serious about work,” she said.

This commitment sometimes came at a cost for her family. She felt guilty for the hours she spent catering or at the restaurant, away from her children. As a working mother, she felt a social pressure to be everything to everyone — a “superwoman.”

“I’m not a superwoman,” she said.

Khan works to support other women through her business, including by hiring victims of domestic violence from a local nonprofit.

The people at Khan’s restau-rants are clearly a second family to her. She knows customers by name and gets to know people who live in the neighborhood or who drive hours for halwa puri brunch and her homemade chai. People of all genders, ethnicities, ages and backgrounds break bread in the heart of Silicon Valley over her Pakistani-Indian food.

“It’s almost like the barriers, the boundaries are getting dissolved and people are coming together



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over food,” Khan said. “I guess naan knows no boundary.”

Daisy Jasmer

A t 17 years old, Daisy Jas-mer has already checked off a major goal on al-

most every chef’s dream list: cook in a Michelin-starred kitchen.

Jasmer spent the first three months of the year at the fine-dining French restaurant Chez TJ in Mountain View, picking herbs, peeling eggs and plating during dinners. She chose Chez TJ to meet a culinary school require-ment to extern for 200 hours at a local restaurant while studying at the International Culinary Center in Campbell.

On a recent evening, Jasmer — quiet, calm and focused with short hair and glasses, and wear-ing her chef’s whites — moved easily through the tiny, chaotic kitchen, surrounded by the male kitchen staff. Amidst a beehive of action — people prepping in-gredients, frying dishes, servers coming in and out to grab plates — she seemed to pick up on non-verbal cues to anticipate where she was needed most. When plates of bright-red yellowfin tuna with venison were almost ready to leave the kitchen, she used tweezers to carefully top them the pièce de

résistance: delicate gold flakes. Her stint at Chez TJ was her

first time working in a profes-sional kitchen.

Jasmer’s path to cooking wasn’t as obvious as some of her culinary school classmates’, who dreamed of becoming chefs since they were children.

Jasmer, who lives in Santa Clara, was homeschooled and took the California High School Profi-ciency Examination last spring to graduate early. She started com-munity college but struggled to find a passion there — or, as she put it, “anything that stuck.”

Then, one summer, she started baking and cooking. That stuck.

“I was like, ‘Wow. This is the stick I was looking for,’” she re-called. “This is the thing that is enthralling and that I want to do.”

Cooking opened up a whole world to her.

“Cooking has always been an art form to me, and I really en-joy being able to stimulate more senses than just visual,” she said. “The way flavors function to-gether is deeply interesting to me, and how some things just ‘go’ to-gether, while others can clash, is fascinating.”

Culinary school, while invigo-rating, was rigorous. She learned the basics, knife skills and kitchen terms, before more nuanced skills: consistency, flavor, portioning, presentation, pacing.

Working at Chez TJ quickly took her classroom education to

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the next level.“I feel like I was adequately

prepped in school but ... (there are) things you can’t really learn in a classroom environment,” she said. “You have to be there to know what’s going on.”

After her externship ended, Jasmer was hired as a part-time assistant to Chez TJ’s pastry chef.

She didn’t find it unusual to be a young woman entering a male-dominated industry. She said there were five women and two men in her culinary program.

Perhaps a sign of a shifting culture in the next generation of female chefs, she said she never felt “singled out” being the only woman during a shift a Chez TJ and didn’t notice the gender breakdown.

“This is what I want to do,” she said matter-of-factly.

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

About the cover: The Midpeninsula’s dining scene is home to many female pastry chefs, sous chefs, managers and business owners who are often less publicly celebrated than their male counterparts. Here’s a look at seven women making their mark in the industry. Photos by Veronica Weber and Natalia Nazarova.


by Karla Kane

S cientist and esteemed professor Char-lie had it all — a brilliant academic career and a loving relationship with

her wife, Maggie — when a neurodegenera-tive disease struck her down in her prime. For the past six years, Maggie’s taken on the role of caregiver while Charlie’s become increas-ingly incapacitated. When a doctor suggests an experimental brain implant that seems to offer miraculous results, Charlie and Mag-gie seize the chance to get their old life back, only to discover that the treatment leads to personality, identity and behavior changes that neither of them were prepared for, leav-ing Charlie to struggle over which version of herself she ought to be.

This intersection of medicine, ethics and existentialism, which forms the basis for the new play “Homo Ex Machina,” is of keen interest to its author, Stanford University bio-ethicist Karola Kreitmair.

“For me the play is about, ‘how do we choose who we are?’ Do you have a duty to yourself to be exactly as you think you should be or do you have duties to others around you? Is your identity contingent on what you owe others?” Kreitmair said of her work’s central question.

Kreitmair has a background in philosophy and is currently part of Stanford’s Center for Biomedical Ethics, where she assists patients and families with making difficult health care decisions, researches neurotechnology and teaches undergraduates and medical students about ethical issues in patient treatment.

“Usually philosophers don’t spend a lot of time in the ER working with patients who are making life-and-death decisions. I really like that aspect of it; important decisions I make actually have an impact on people’s lives,” Kreitmair said.

Theater has been a passion of hers since she was a teenager, when she began direct-ing and writing. She’s written numerous plays but said “Homo Ex Machina” is the first that directly brings together her interest in the arts with her bioethics career.

In “Homo Ex Machina,” Charlie (played by Stephanie Crowley) is talked into the experimental treatment by her neurologist, Ava (Diana Roman). Post-implantation, Charlie and the devoted Maggie (Stephanie Whigham) struggle to adjust to Charlie’s newfound radical self-reliance and freedom from illness, as well as some major neu-ropsychiatric effects (including impulsive behavior and sexual attraction to a grad student, played by Jake Goldstein). Charlie tries to make up for lost time, while Maggie, whose own career as a filmmaker has been sidelined, finds her identity has become very entwined with Charlie’s dependence on her for most aspects of everyday life.

“When this surgery happens and sudden-ly she gains all of this independence back, I don’t know that I can blame (Charlie) for going a little crazy,” Crowley said. “Espe-cially when her wife, who has become very entrenched in this caretaker role, is kind of pushing back against that, almost like she’s saying, ‘I wanted you to get better but not this much better.’”

Crowley said the play is the most challeng-ing she’s done in years.

“It’s really fascinating because, at least from my perspective, it rides that line be-tween fantasy and reality,” she said of her character’s experience with the brain implant that strongly affects how she feels and thinks.

“We’re seeing glimpses into Charlie’s mind, how she sees the world before and after her experimental surgery,” she said. “There’s a lot of emotion. It goes from these really ten-der, quiet moments to these huge overblown Greek tragedy kinds of things, but it’s all co-hesive at the same time.”

Kreitmair compared the show to the classic story of “Faust,” in which a man makes a pact with the devil in order to improve his earthly life. Some might also find parallels to Daniel Keyes’ “Flowers for Algernon.” And though it’s a tragic story in some ways, it’s also full of comic moments, as Charlie grapples with the manic euphoria (and hypersexuality) that come along with her physical recovery.

“The humor, the drama and the tragedy

are very close to each other. I think that those things in real life aren’t that far apart,” Kreitmair said.

The disease that Charlie receives treatment for in “Homo Ex Machina” is a fictional one, but Kreitmair called the play a “thinly veiled reference” to Parkinson’s disease and deep brain stimulation (DBS), which is now a widely used treatment for a variety of neuro-logical (and other) issues and which functions much as it does in the play.

While the treatment is remarkably effec-tive in reducing the debilitating tremors, stutters and pain many patients suffer, Kreit-mair said the non-physiological effects, such as those experienced by Charlie, have been understudied.

“I think medicine isn’t always equipped to handle these kinds of issues, which is why ethicists like me are so interested,” she said.

“People who undergo DBS often end up becoming more sort-of manic: becoming gamblers, more risk seeking, more sexual-ized, more hyper-actualized, I like to call it,” she said. Problems arise when loved ones are not as accepting of these changes, even when the patient themself embraces them. These effects are often reversible when the device is deactivated, but then the disease’s symptoms return.

“Do you have to go back, because of the other people?” she said, “or do you get to keep this new version of yourself that you kind of like?”

In the play, as in life, there is no easy answer.

Crowley had originally auditioned for the role of Maggie, Charlie’s wife, because her own husband has a neurostimulator implant and she has served as his caretaker on and off for the past seven years (although his is in his spine rather than his brain). She said she’s done a lot of research to prepare for her role as Charlie, including not only working on how to portray the physical symptoms of Charlie’s disease during the early parts of the show but also learning about the field of avian evolu-tion, in which Charlie is an expert.

“There’s a whole lot of words in this script

that I’ve had to look up and write down the pronunciation,” she said with a laugh.

Kreitmair said that in early drafts of the script, she experimented with the genders of the characters, considering how traditional husband and wife roles might be impacted (or subverted) by the situation. After holding au-ditions, however, she realized that by making Charlie and Maggie a same-sex couple, she could remove the question of gender roles in their relationship and accentuate the fact that, pre-illness, their relationship was on extreme-ly equal footing. And, Kreitmair added, by switching the role of Charlie’s grad student/object of attraction to a male, another element of identity confusion for Charlie emerges.

The play, which will make its world pre-miere May 3-6 at Stanford, is funded by a grant Kreitmair received through the uni-versity’s “Medicine and the Muse” program, which this year is celebrating the 200th anni-versary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s seminal sci-fi novel “Frankenstein.” Like in “Frankenstein,” the characters of “Homo Ex Machina” must consider both the wonders and the potential drawbacks of science and technology.

For Kreitmair, the show’s premiere is a chance to explore these major issues, which are at the heart of her professional life, in an entertaining, accessible and profound way.

“I think theater gives us the opportunity to take what might be actual life and distill it down to the most existentially threatening moments and put those on stage,” she said.

Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at [email protected].

What: “Homo Ex Machina”Where: Prosser Studio (in Memorial Auditorium), 551 Serra Mall, Stanford.When: Thursday-Sunday, May 3-6 at 8 p.m.; Sunday, May 6, also at 2 p.m.Cost: $5 students/$20 general admission in advance/$25 at the door.Info: Go to homoexmachina.brownpapertickets.com.

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glimpses of artists at workby Karla Kane

S pringtime means new blossoms, baby animals and, in the Peninsula fine-

art world, the return of Silicon Valley Open Studios (SVOS). The annual free festival offers art lovers the chance to visit more than 375 artists in many media at work and get an up-close glimpse at their headquarters. The event runs for the first three weekends in May, covering studios from South San Francisco down to Gilroy and in towns from the Pa-cific coast to the San Francisco Bay. Artist studios in Palo Alto, Mountain View and many neigh-boring communities will be open May 5-6 and 12-13.

Palo Alto Studios, located at 4030 Transport St., is one of the many locations that will be open-ing its doors to the public. The for-mer printing warehouse is home to 26 artists, including painters, printmakers, sculptors, jewelers photographers and more. Thirteen will be participating in SVOS, in-cluding Mountain View resident Dotti Cichon, who specializes in environmental photography; Rus-sian-born Maria Kazanskaya, who paints, among other things, the

landscapes of coastal California (including incorporating genuine ocean water into the work); Palo Alto resident Laura Jacobson, whose work is inspired by biology and by the human brain in par-ticular; and Ireland native Gertie Mellon, who creates abstract and figurative paintings influenced by the urban landscape.

“It’s my first year participating so it’s a big adventure for me,” Maria Pazos, a Cuban-American artist (and former Mountain View Voice graphic designer) who uses the medium of alcohol ink, said. “I think the community benefits, especially in our digital world, to have the public see artists at work and what it takes to create art that does not use a computer. I think it’s particularly good for kids to see a real studio, see the work. It’s very educational.”

Downtown Palo Alto’s Pacific Art League (668 Ramona St.) will host three SVOS artists: Stepha-nie Han, watercolorist Dasha Ja-kobson, who will also exhibit in Menlo Park and Los Gatos, and photographer Michael Marlow, whose artist statement cheekily boasts, “I’ve never won any prizes and my work has never been dis-played anywhere else in the past.”

Other local organizations par-ticipating in SVOS include Abili-ties United, The Cubberley Artist Studio Program (CASP), Gallery House and many others, including studios in Menlo Park, Redwood City, Stanford, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills.

For a complete list of artists, stu-dios, locations and schedules, go to svos.org.

Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at [email protected].

Kevin Carr

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Stanford Continuing Studies presents

Thursday, May 3 • 7:30 pmCubberley Auditorium, School of Education

Stanford University • Free and open to the public

The Other Bagpipes: Exotic and Lesser-KnownPiping Traditions of the World

For more info:continuingstudies.stanford.edu/events

For a thousand years across Europe, North Africa, and much of the Near

East, rural people danced to, performed rituals with, and treasured the

music of their indigenous bagpipes—once one of the most ubiquitous of

folk instruments. Now, the bagpipe is most often thought of as a uniquely

Scottish instrument, a circumstance largely due to the British Army’s use of

Scottish regiments as the vanguard in their creation of the British Empire.

Musicians Kevin Carr and Brian Rice will introduce listeners to bagpipes

of many cultures, along with a bit of the folklore associated with this

powerful, beguiling, almost shamanic instrument. The piping traditions of

Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia,

Bulgaria, Georgia, Estonia, Sweden, Iran, and Tunisia will be represented.

The pipes of these countries range from grand in size to petite, and in

sound volume and timbre from strident to suave. The pipes themselves are

marvelous cultural icons to look at—each unique, and each chosen to

represent a particular type or family of instruments.

Priya Satia

Tuesday, May 1 • 7:30 pmBishop Auditorium, Lathrop Library

Stanford University • Free and open to the public

Pacif ists Making Guns: The Galton Family and Britain’s Industrial Revolution

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The biggest gun-making firm in 18th-century Britain was owned by a

Quaker family, the Galtons. They were major suppliers of guns to the

slave trade worldwide including the British government, which was at

war almost constantly from 1688 to 1815. But a core principle of the

Quaker faith is belief in the un-Christian nature of war; Quakers do not

participate in war or war training. From the 17th century, they were a

persecuted minority because they refused to swear loyalty to the king

or to arm themselves in the defense of his realm. How do we explain

the Galtons and other Quakers’ quiet tolerance of their business?

For nearly a century, their livelihood attracted no critical notice in their

church. Then, suddenly, in 1795, the Religious Society of Friends

threatened to excommunicate them unless they left the arms trade.

What changed? Stanford professor Priya Satia will reveal how difficult

it was in 18th-century British industrial society to extricate oneself

entirely from participating in warfare, regardless of principles. War was

integral to the Industrial Revolution.

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Photographs of National Parks, including this image of Antelope Canyon, by Dotti Cichon will be among the work shown by 13 artists at Palo Alto Art Studios during Silicon Valley Open Studios.

Cuban-born landscape artist Maria Pazos is participating in Silicon Valley Open Spaces for the first time this year.

For a review of Los Altos Stage Company’s current production of “Distracted,” which Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane calls one of the year’s best so far, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/arts.

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Throwing down the ‘Gauntlet’Marvel pulls out the stops for ‘Avengers: Infinity War’

1/2 (Century 16 & 20)Marvel Studios’ new “Aveng-

ers: Infinity War” shows up DC Entertainment’s “Justice League” in every respect: It’s a truly epic adventure, spectacular and wildly entertaining, with impressive CG characters and a cast stocked with not six beloved superheroes but 20. Marvel’s superhero mov-ies may not run the risk of being called “elegant,” but they’re sure as hell sturdy, well-built popcorn flicks that send audiences out un-equivocally satisfied.

As part one of a two-part cul-mination to Marvel’s decade of movie hits, “Avengers: Infinity War” doesn’t quite reach the sum-mit of the house producer Kevin Feige has built on the foundation of comics legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. No spoilers here, but the movie does end on a big ol’ cliffhanger to be resolved one year from now, making the film feel like the season finale of the

best superhero show ever. But “Infinity War” is a high-water mark for lovers of the hugely popular superhero genre, a fan-gasm comic-book war movie that blows past the thrills of “Captain America: Civil War” by crazy-quilting nearly every Marvel sub-franchise into one movie, with astonishing star power. If you’ve been wondering if the Guardians of the Galaxy’s Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) would ever tango with Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), and Spider-Man (Tom Holland)? Your time has come.

Inspired by the 1991 six-is-sue limited series “The Infin-ity Gauntlet” — written by Jim Starlin and penciled by George Pérez and Ron Lim — “Infinity War” blooms from seeds planted six years ago in “The Avengers.” Thanos (Josh Brolin), a powerful being from Saturn’s moon Titan,

now wears the Infinity Gauntlet on his left hand, and it’s got set-tings for six Infinity Stones: the Mind Gem, the Soul Gem, the Space Gem, the Power Gem, the Time Gem and the Reality Gem. Those stones are scattered through the universe, under the protection of our heroes, but if Thanos has his way, he’ll collect every stone and wield unthinkable power.

Unlike the exasperatingly ge-neric Steppenwolf in “Justice League,” Thanos actually man-ages to be interesting: He’s pow-er-mad about population control, seeking to sustain the universe through halving its denizens one planetary culling at a time. Add the fact that he’s the foster father to one of the heroes and you have to admit, the guy’s got some shad-ing. Certainly, his determination sets off mayhem of the highest or-der. A representative eye-popping action sequence finds some A-list heroes battered around Manhat-tan as they try to protect one of the stones from Thanos’ off-spring. Even at 149 minutes, “In-finity War” is more or less paced like a runaway freight train, and it does a fair job of balancing the dire and the comic (okay, you may have to suspend your disbelief a bit when the heroes get quippy under imminent mortal danger).

This much pure heroes-and-vil-lains sensation is a lot to take in, no question. But that’s also part and parcel of the way Marvel has been obliterating assumptions about what action cinema — and espe-cially action sequels — can be. It’s a trade-off most viewers will gladly make. If you’ve never given a hoot about superhero nonsense, “Avengers: Infinity War” will only further entrench your view that these things are a waste of time, but a lot of children and inner chil-dren will be wondering if their eyes can possibly grow any wider.

Rated PG-13 for intense se-quences of sci-fi violence and action throughout, language and some crude references. Two hours, 29 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

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A LA CARTE ART ... Downtown Mountain View will host an outdoor celebration of the arts on Saturday, May 5 and Sunday, May 6. The juried show will feature home goods among the wares produced by 200 of the West Coast’s top artists showing their latest handcrafted ceramics, glass, fine art, textiles, needlework and wood. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days on Castro Street between Church Street and Evelyn Avenue.

SPRING FLOWERS FOR MOTHER’S DAY ... Come celebrate Mother’s Day at Gamble Garden by creating a beautiful floral “nest” centerpiece. Katherine Glazier, one of the co-leaders of floral design at Filoli, will teach the class on Friday, May 11, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. She will teach participants how to weave branches, greens and mosses to create a botanical nest that they will fill with springtime blooms. Gamble Garden is located at 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. The cost is $99 for members and $129 for nonmembers.

SELL YOUR HOME WITH COLOR ... The home design website Houzz has its take on the colors that will sell your home. The number one interior color is “greige,” a sort of pale gray with a beige undertone, considered “one of the most versatile colors for staging,” according to Houzz contributor Neila Deen.

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“Magic” is the word a Los Altos Hills home site whispered to ar-

chitect Steven Stept, when he first saw its panoramic view of the ridge line and open space.

“The magic of this site was try-ing to tell us we needed to experi-ence this all day long,” said Stept, of Feldman Architecture in San Francisco.

The bold minimalist home he designed will be on display during the fourth annual Silicon Valley Home Tour on Saturday, May 5. Visitors will have the op-portunity to chat up the architects and designers who created the four homes on tour. The event is self-guided, with people choosing to visit as many of the homes in Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Cu-pertino and Saratoga as they wish during the day.

Stept found the owners, who requested anonymity, keen ap-preciators of modern architec-ture. An engineer who spent many weekends touring modern homes, the husband had already accumulated a 98-page document with detailed notes categorizing every piece of art and gathering images of what he liked for exte-rior materials. (He acknowledged that as a kid, when others were watching cartoons, he was tuned into home shows; he even sub-scribed to Architectural Digest as an early teen.)

Stept formed a close work-ing relationship with the couple, mediating between her need for warm and cozy and his desire

to keep everything white and minimalist.

A long, winding driveway leads to a flat courtyard, big enough for a fire truck to turn around, the owner said. The front wall with garage doors is sheathed in the same 1-by-6-foot wood paneling that wraps around the side of the house.

While many modern homes consist of stacked boxes “like pancakes,” Stept broke up that monotony with setbacks, creat-ing “layers of complexity done in very simple ways.”

Visitors go down four broad steps to an outdoor courtyard (with water features and a quiet space), where they first encounter the 2-by-4-foot white porcelain tile that continues throughout the public spaces. The front door is

an oversized 10-foot pivot door that rotates on a pivot box rather than traditional side hinges.

Open the door and what do you see — 180 degrees of lush greenery.

Down three stairs and you enter the great room, faced with a wall of Schuco glass doors, looking out on a patio with outdoor seat-ing. Inside, the ceilings soar to 12 feet. To the left is the kitchen, with a huge island topped with a white Dal Tile counter and faced with Cleaf wood laminate. Sitting at the long table, diners can enjoy the view.

Also on the main level is a media room with dark walls and window coverings, an office (technically a bedroom with its closet and full bath) and powder room.

To the right of the front door is what Stept calls a “slot,” a vertical box housing the stairway to the second floor, with views of both front and back along the way. At the top of the stairs is a library, with a frosted window wall that allows light into the master bath-room while protecting privacy. Down the hall is the master suite (with a private deck), child’s bedroom and guest room (which share another viewing deck). Each bathroom is basically white and gray, with Duravit sinks and wall-hung toilets.

The wife got two things near and dear to her heart — a cozy room for curling up with a good book and a shower that looks out on the great outdoors while being located in the master bathroom. “She got the best of both worlds: an outdoor shower without freez-ing,” the husband said.

She even got hints of color throughout the house, while the husband got mostly white walls and floors.

“We found great moments for both of these to co-exist,” Stept said.

“I was questioning if this gray-ish, bluish wall finish was appro-priate. It turned out phenomenal,” he added.

Every room in the house takes advantage of spectacular views from front and back, partly through use of Schuco 12-foot-tall lift-and-slide doors which must be opened to one side or lifted from the middle. Up to three tracks allow large opening widths.

Outside in the front of the house, Stept created a wooden screen, what he called a Brise So-leil, made of horizontal, stained-cedar boards set in a stucco box. Throughout the day, the light and shadows change. Designed in panels, the screen is oper-able, allowing access for window cleaning.

Stept credits the contractor and the owners with having great commitment to creating a sus-tainable building, and they ulti-mately earned a GreenPoint New Home Platinum Certificate for its 192 points. The town of Los Al-tos Hills only required 50 points. Much was achieved with triple-glazed windows, insulation wrap-ping the building, photovoltaic

Each bedroom has floor-to-ceiling glass windows and doors and has access to a balcony.

What: 2018 Silicon Valley Home Tour, hosted by AIA Silicon ValleyWhen: Saturday, May 5, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Where: Four homes in Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Cupertino and SaratogaCost: $75 general admission, $59 for AIA members before April 30Info: aiasiliconvalley.org/page/2018HomeTours

Annual architects’ tour includes modern home with backdrop of the hillsby Carol Blitzer | photos by Harold Gomes Photography

Rooms with a view

The entire great room space (kitchen, dining area and living room) has a 180-degree view of rolling coastal hills. White dominates — in the wall color, porcelain tile flooring, kitchen countertops — with touches of sapphire and gray.




Home & Real Estate

Spring is absolutely amazing, wheth-er you garden or not, as all of your senses are activated. The majority

of the rains are past, the soil is warming, there’s sun, sun and more sun.

With the combination of sunlight, warmth and the remaining moisture from the rains, seedlings are coming up all over the place. Flowers are bursting open and there’s color everywhere.

If you’re into fragrances this is the best time of year. There are hundreds of differ-ent varieties of roses, some more fragrant than others, and some old roses that are over-the-top with fragrance.

I’ve yet to smell a perfume or cologne that compares to the fragrance of a real flower. For one thing, manmade scents are carried by a solvent like alcohol, whereas flowers’ fragrance is carried in oils warmed by the sun to just the right temperature so that they vaporize slowly, in order to attract pollina-tors like bees or butterflies.

There’s plenty to do in the garden this time of year. There’s planting, maintenance, and irrigation systems to repair and parties to plan. Here are the tips.

Plan on planting a lot of different plants. It won’t cost any more but will make a big-ger show.

Determine the sun-versus-shade areas in your garden. Plan on growing sun-loving plants in the sun and shade-loving plants in the shade.

Learn at least three new plants and pick one to grow, whether it’s beneficial, beauti-ful, edible or just interesting.

Make a design. Start small and then grow your design as you learn more about how to draw and think creatively.

Get a new tool, or if you’re really ambi-tious, make one. Try making a trowel or a hand rake. Even the broom is not really that complex to make.

Garden with a theme. We live in a Mediterranean climate. Your theme isn’t restricted to that though. Mediterranean plantings can span from almost desert to almost Alpine to almost tropical.

If you’re new to gardening or think you have a black thumb, start with easy plants to grow and add to your collection when you’ve had some success. Easy-to-grow plants are anything sold in six packs such as annuals, succulents and geraniums.

If you’re a master gardener, expand your pallet of plants. Take on a new genus and add as many species of that genus as you can. There’s always more to learn. Study a particular fungus or disease that you don’t know much about.

Spend time in your garden in the spring. Look at your plants closely. Clean up around and in them.

Good gardening.Jack McKinnon, a garden coach can

be reached at 650-455-0687 or jack@ JackTheGardenCoach.com

Spring has sprungGo outside and experiment, plant and enjoy your success

by Jack McKinnon

Garden Tips

Nancy Phan Real Estate AdvisorLooking for Investors with different Projects:1/ Project120 units or up next to San Jose State

University2/ 2 projects single home in 95133 : 18 houses

and other 6 houses3/ Luxury hotel 300 to 500 rooms next to Sam

Sung, Apple, and closed by 49's stadium

4/ Project 25 houses ready to build in Sacramento

Contact: Nancy PhanReal Estate Advisor DRE#01512519408 644 [email protected]

panels for solar power, a green roof and drought-tolerant landscaping.

Electricity costs for the 5,100-square-foot home runs only about $10-$15 more per month than the couple’s former 1,900-square-foot Sunny-vale townhouse, the owner said. While they mostly rely on radiant floor heat-ing for winter, they do run the air conditioning in se-lect rooms — at least until

sunset. “We open the win-dows at sundown, and the house cools in about 30 minutes,” the owner said.

Envisioning this as their forever home, the owners invested about $500,000 in 45 piers that extend down to bedrock, securing the house from any future seis-mic activity. And a shaft that can be used as closets on two floors now could house an elevator in future.

Other homes on the tour include:

a modern, remodeled update on a three-story East Coast Colonial (Ana Williamson Architect, Los

Altos); a glass-walled house

that floats in a dense oak grove in the foothills (Craig Steely Architecture, Cupertino);

a highly crafted de-sign with great attention to interior detail, which preserves the site of oak woodland and a seasonal creek (WA Design Archi-tects, Saratoga).

Addresses of the homes for the self-directed tour will be offered after ticket purchase.

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

Home tour(continued from page 30)


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435 SHERIDAN AVENUE #303 - PALO ALTO

408.823.8167 | CalBRE #01925245 | [email protected]

OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY & SUNDAYFROM 1:00-5:00pm

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• Stunning and luxurious, 3 bedroom, 2 bath penthouse condo located in the desirable and upscale Silverwood community. This spacious and light filled home features 1,948 sq. ft. (per county) of elegant living space with high ceilings and rich, custom finishes throughout. Thoughtfully updated with modern touches, the home features custom built-in storage, Sonos wall speakers, marble bathrooms, travertine tiles, and plantation shutters. The flexible and single level floor plan offers ample windows that bring in natural lighting, tree top views, and a chef’s dream kitchen.

• The home is a quick stroll to local amenities including year-round outdoor farmers market, Michelin-rated dining, cafes, and groceries on California Avenue, Stanford/Palo Alto Community Playing Fields, and Caltrain. Top Palo Alto schools include Escondido Elementary (ranted #11 in CA), Jordan Middle (ranked #4 in CA) and Palo Alto High (ranked #5 in CA) (buyer to verify eligibility).

OFFERED AT $1 ,898,000

MODERN AND LUXURIOUS CONDO


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Whether it is the dramatic blanket of fog peeking over the Western Hills at sunset or the morning rays of

sun rising over Jasper Ridge, no two days are ever alike at this quiet, private sanctuary in Central Woodside. Situated on over 6 acres of rolling grounds, mature trees, and a host of birdlife, this compound comprises an updated 4-bedroom, 4.5-bath main home, two guest houses, plus a pool and spa that make coming home the best part of your day.

Excellent location just minutes to Highway 280, restaurants, parks, hiking trails, and open space. Award-winning Portola Valley schools.

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Situated in North Los Altos, this park-like 16,000± sq ft lot sits on a picturesque cul-de-sac less than a mile from the Village. Remodeled in 2013, this single-story home was expanded and updated to a 2,815± sq ft, 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath with bright and open living spaces. A large patio provides year round California-style indoor/outdoor living. The oversized garage offers ample space for car collectors, woodworkers or general hobbyists. Expansive landscaping is grounded with large, mature shade trees including the stately oak tree at the front of the home. Thoughtfully placed conversation nooks and footpaths take advantage of the shady spaces and blend into the landscape. Conveniently located near the many shops and restaurants in the Village with easy access to Foothill Expressway and Highway 280. Excellent Los Altos schools: Gardner Bullis Elementary, Ardis G. Egan Intermediate, Los Altos High.

LARGE LOT (16,000± sqft) ON A CUL-DE-SAC NEAR THE VILLAGE

Offered at $3,500,000www.316BlueOak.com

316 BLUE OAK LANE, LOS ALTOS


2290 Emerson Street, Palo Alto

Enchanting bungalow transformed for today’s lifestyle

Fabulous Old Palo Alto location just a few blocks to California Avenue

2 bedrooms and 1 bath

Approximately 1,064 square feet

Beautiful hardwood floors throughout

Open floor plan with living, dining, and remodeled kitchen

Landscaped with roses and peaceful garden setting

Excellent Palo Alto schools*: Walter Hays Elementary (K-5), Jordan Middle (6-18), Palo Alto High (9-12)

Offered at $2,395,000 | www.2290Emerson.com

Exceeding client

expectations

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TWILIGHT TOUR Friday, 5:30 – 7:30 pmOPEN HOUSE Saturday & Sunday, 1:30 – 4:30 pm

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LIVE SILICON VALLEY

727 Hillcrest Way, Emerald HillsOffered at $2,650,000

Susan Tanner · 650.255.7372

License No. 01736865

1180 Cloud Avenue, Menlo ParkOffered at $4,488,000

Annette Smith · 650.766.9429


1111 Blackfield Way, Mountain ViewOffered at $2,449,000

Dawn Thomas · 650.701.7822


152 Melville Avenue, Palo AltoOffered at $4,500,000

Michael Dreyfus · 650.485.3476


1305 Westridge Drive, Portola ValleyOffered at $6,595,000



Los Altos HillsOffered at $16,000,000

Tom Martin · 408.314.2830


Gary Campi · 650.917.2433


541 San Juan Street, StanfordOffered at $5,500,000

Chris Iverson · 650.450.0450


13830 Page Mill Road, Los Altos HillsOffered at $16,000,000

Gary Campi · 650.917.2433


Gloria Young · 650.380.9918


Omar Kinaan · 650.776.2828


161 Bryant Street, Palo AltoOffered at $6,700,000



Rachel King · 650.485.3007


136 Los Trancos Circle, Portola ValleyOffered at $2,998,000

Chris Iverson · 650.450.0450


Mimi Goh · 650.395.7767


1750 University Avenue, Palo AltoOffered at $4,988,000

Lucy Berman · 650.208.8824


772 University Avenue, Los AltosOffered at $4,888,000

Gloria Young · 650.380.9918


Los Altos HillsPrice Upon Request

Gary Campi · 650.917.2433


Los Altos HillsPrice Upon Request

Gary Campi · 650.917.2433


25721 La Lanne Court, Los Altos HillsOffered at $8,698,000

Todd Zebb · 650.823.3292


191 Reef Point, Moss BeachOffered at $3,600,000

Shena Hurley · 650.575.0991


Marian S. Bennett · 650.678.1108



Arti Miglani

(650) [email protected]# 01150085 578 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301

Designed and built by renowned Stedman and Stedman, this charming Carmel-Style home, in Leland Manor, is reminiscent

of an early California Ranch house. Hand-hewn beamed ceiling throughout the home and steel sash windows, show structure and style. The home is situated on a large rectangular 10,125 sq ft lot with 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a 2 car garage. Close to Rinconada Park and the Community Center. A MUST SEE!

Offered at $4,700,000

727 Northampton Drive, Palo Alto727 Northampton Drive, Palo Alto

Open Saturday & Sunday 1:30-4:30


Midtown Realty, Inc. License #01900986 • 2775 Middlefield Road • Phone: 650.321.1596 • www.MidtownPaloAlto.com

6 0 2 W E L L S B U RY C O U R T, PA L O A LT O

H I G H L I G H T S• 5 spacious bedrooms and 4 bathrooms• Large family room right off kitchen with full bath

allowing for ground floor master suite• Separate living room with bay windows • Quality finishes including:

• Gleaming hardwood floors • Dual pane windows • Central air conditioning• Whole house fan

•Peaceful backyard with mature landscaping • 2,838 sq. ft. of living space, approx. • 7,512 sq. ft. lot, approx.

W O N D E R F U L L O C AT I O N • Quiet, low traffic street near restaurants, parks,

schools, and Midtown shopping plaza• Excellent Palo Alto school including Gunn High

Joann Weber Realtor, Property Manager CalBRE# 01896750 Cell: 650.815.5410 [email protected]

Tim Foy Broker, Realtor CalBRE# 00849721 Cell: 650.387.5078 [email protected]

Spacious and Beautifully Updated Home in the Heart of Midtown

1 2 6 5 D E A LT U R A C O M M O N S , S A N J O S E

H I G H L I G H T S• 3 en suite bedrooms• Large, open living/dining area with convenient

half bath- perfect for entertaining!• Classy kitchen with stainless steel appliances• New paint and carpets throughout• Large laundry room on lower level• Attached two car garage• Ample storage throughout• 1,644 sq. ft. living space, approx.

W O N D E R F U L L O C AT I O N • Centrally located near new planned

Googleplex, Santa Clara University, major employers, stores, and just a short distance from Caltrain!• Complex adjacent to kid-friendly Newhall Park

Chris Taylor Realtor CalBRE#01763999 Cell: 650.804.1938 [email protected]

Well-Appointed Three Level Home in the Heart of Silicon Valley

OFFERED AT $3,890,000

OFFERED AT $950,000


www.1050LouiseSt.com Menlo ParkCustom Brand New Home in Central Menlo Park - 6500 sf, on large level lot, 6 bedrooms, 7 full bathrooms, 2 half baths, 3 levels with amazing 12’ ceilings in lower level...must see!

Offered at $7,998,000

Joe ParsonsAlain Pinel Realtors

cell: [email protected]

OPEN SUN 1:30-4:30

Scenic Lot on California’s Central Coast

1525 Filaree Way, Arroyo Grande, CA

Colleen ClarkeBroker Associate, GRILicense #01267325+1 [email protected]

Enjoy panoramic views of the Edna Valley from this beautiful lot in Varian Ranch! This is one of two remaining undeveloped lots in the prestigious, gated Varian Ranch community

currently leased by the homeowners for cattle grazing. Ideally located just minutes from

School District. The residents also enjoy the equestrian center, clubhouse, pool, spa, and tennis courts that are part of the Varian Ranch neighborhood. There are miles of hiking and

riding trails. Build your dream home in the heart of the wine country!

Listed at $1,195,000www.1525Filaree.com

Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

JUST LISTEDCharming, light-filled bungalow in sought-after Midtown area ...

Asking price $2,395,000

3011 Bryant Street • Palo Alto, CA 94306

Call 650.387.4242www.yarkinrealty.com

• Great bike boulevard location and close proximity to almost everything

• in cozy living/dining area

•planting areas, and patio - ideal for California living!

OPENSat & Sun1:00-4:00

Yarkin Realty • 152 Homer Avenue • Palo Alto, CA 94301 • License #01857154

• April 27, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com728 Emerson Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 · Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated.

Portola Valley Retreat

1305 Westridge Drive, Portola Valley

Offered at $6,595,000 · 5 Beds · 5.5 Baths · Home ±5,542 sf · Lot ±1.1 acres

Newly Constructed Designer Home

in Downtown Palo Alto

161 Bryant Street, Palo Alto

Offered at $6,700,000 · 5 Beds · 5 Baths

Home ±3,416 sf · Lot ± 4,875

Turnkey Home in Old Palo Alto

152 Melville Avenue, Palo Alto

Offered at $4,500,000 · 5 Beds · 4 Baths

Home ±3,487 sf · Lot ±7,500 sf

Michael Dreyfus

650.485.3476

[email protected]


Noelle Queen

650.427.9211

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650.485.3007

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LOS ALTOS3 Bedrooms394 N San Antonio Rd $2,488,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500

4 Bedrooms210 De Anza Ln $2,998,000Sat/Sun Keller Williams - Palo Alto 208-0010316 Blue Oak Ln $3,500,000Sat/Sun 1:30-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

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941-4300

MENLO PARK2 Bedrooms Front/ 2 Bedrooms Back750-800 Menlo Oaks Dr $3,988,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500

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847-1141

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3 Bedrooms - Condominium435 Sheridan Av #303 $1,898,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Condo Connect Realty Inc. 543-8532

4 Bedrooms3032 Greer Rd $2,595,000Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161

727 Northampton Dr $4,700,000Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-11111750 University Ave $4,988,000Sun Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 644-3474

5 Bedrooms820 Bruce Dr $4,998,000Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111602 Wellsbury Ct $3,890,000Sat/Sun Midtown Realty 321-1596

PORTOLA VALLEY3 Bedrooms112 Groveland St $2,750,000Fri 5-7 Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 851-1961260 Dedalera Dr $2,649,000Sun Intero Real Estate 543-7740

4 Bedrooms10 Ohlone St $3,495,000Fri 4:30-7:30 Sat/Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111136 Los Trancos Cir $2,998,000Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 847-1141

5 Bedrooms1305 Westridge Dr $6,595,000Sun Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 644-3474

REDWOOD CITY2 Bedrooms Front/ 3 Bedrooms Back603 Poplar Av $1,495,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500

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727 Hillcrest Way $2,650,000Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 644-3474

4 Bedrooms

2111 Brewster Ave $2,498,000Sat/Sun Deleon Realty 543-8500

6 Bedrooms

7 Colton Ct $4,295,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker 851-2666

WOODSIDEBedroom - Lot

242 Cinnabar Dr $6,988,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500

2 Bedrooms

7 Palm Circle Rd $2,339,000Sat 1-3:30/Sun 1-4 Rossetti Realty 854-4100

3 Bedrooms

1090 Bear Gulch Rd $3,980,000Sun 2-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200

626 Woodside Way $2,498,000Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111

4 Bedrooms

310 Kings Mountain Rd $12,995,000Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111

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280 Family Farm Rd $7,750,000Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111

6 Bedrooms

10691 La Honda Rd $2,250,000Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666

234 Swett Rd $1,995,000Sat/Sun 1:30-5:30 Coldwell Banker 324-4456

307 Olive Hill Ln $9,995,000Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666

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3387 Kenneth Dr., Palo Alto

Opportunity awaits you with this delightful Eichler home in a prime Palo Alto neighborhood! Updated throughout, this home’s kitchen has stainless steel appliances, gas stove top, custom marble and tile counters, with an open floor plan offering a lovely dining area, spacious living room with wood burning fire place oriented to a private patio. Beautifully refinished oak hardwood floors throughout all living areas and hallway leading to the carpeted bedrooms, master bedroom has a very nicely updated bath and walk in closet. Loads of light fills this home, inviting the wonderful outdoors in. Professionally landscaped, the lawn, flower beds and several outdoor living areas make this a great entertainers yard space. Highly regarded Palo Alto schools: Palo Verde Elementary, Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle, and Henry M. Gunn High are “Great Schools” rated 9/10.

• 3 Bedrooms • 2 Full Bathrooms • 1,499 square feet • Lot Size 8,755.0/sqft • Built 1958 • Car Garage • One Story

• Offered at $2,487,000

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4 Ensembles

9 Tarzan creator ___ Rice Burroughs

14 NASDAQ newcomer

15 “Gone With the Wind” surname

16 “___ Doone” (1869 historical novel)

17 Phobic of element #4?

20 Transition

21 ___-majestÈ

22 “Rent” heroine

23 State trees of North Dakota and Massachusetts

25 Feel bad

27 Sign for Daniel Radcliffe and Chris Hemsworth

28 Giant legend Mel

30 Shortened aliases

33 Paddle

35 “Element #33? That’s unlikely!”?

40 “Today” co-anchor Hoda

41 Kennel noise

42 Call

44 The odds that it’s element #102?

49 Genre for the Specials

50 Currency in Colombia

51 Hawaiian instrument, for short

52 “Fear the Walking Dead” network

55 Joule fraction

57 “Lucky Jim” author Kingsley

59 Crucifix symbol

61 ‘80s-’90s cars

64 From Bhutan or Brunei

67 Element #53 knew what was up?

70 Concert venue

71 Bring together

72 Barinholtz of “The Mindy Project”

73 Satchel Paige’s real first name

74 Magnet ends

75 “On the Road” narrator Paradise

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2 Olympic dueling weapon

3 Doesn’t remember, as with a task

4 Gary of “Diff’rent Strokes”

5 Minor league rink org.

6 Cruise

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8 “The Metamorphosis” character Gregor

9 One of the main players in “Gauntlet”

10 School housing

11 Quest object in a Monty Python movie

12 “Dragon Ball Z” genre

13 Part of NPR

18 Brynner of the original “Westworld”

19 List appearing once each in a supervocalic

24 Hit the slopes

26 Statute

28 Bourbon barrel wood

29 1980s Disney film

31 Smoothie berry

32 Dessert bar option

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36 Recedes

37 “For the life ___ ...”

38 It may require antibiotics to treat

39 Break in illegally

43 Author Harper

45 ___ out a profit

46 Fast-food drink size

47 Civil War side, for short

48 Tributes

52 Standard Windows sans serif typeface

53 He played 007 seven times

54 Computer programmer

56 Arise

58 “... or thereabouts”

60 “The Flintstones” pet

62 “That’s a shame!”

63 Garden material

65 “___ silly question ...”

66 Christmas song

68 Dissenting vote

69 Salt Lake City collegian

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995 Fictitious Name StatementYUM TEA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN640016 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Yum Tea, located at 20950 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): YUM TEA INC. 10201 Sterling Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 Registrant Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 15, 2018. (PAW Apr. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018)

TAVERNA EL GRECO CATERING EL GRECO SOUVLAKI TAVERNA EL GRECO TAVERNA PALO ALTO TAVERNA CATERING TAVERNA TO GO TAVERNA RESTAURANT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN640409 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Taverna, 2.) El Greco Catering, 3.) El Greco Souvlaki, 4.) Taverna El Greco, 5.) Taverna Palo Alto, 6.) Taverna Catering, 7.) Taverna To Go, 8.) Taverna Restaurant, located at 800 Emerson St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): TAVERNA EL GRECO LLC 800 Emerson St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/23/2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 26, 2018. (PAW Apr. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018)

TRAVELODGE PALO ALTO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FNB640422 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Travelodge Palo Alto, located at 3255 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, Cali 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): PALO ALTO MOTEL, LLC 3255 El Camino Real Palo Alto, Cali 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 07/01/2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 26, 2018. (PAW Apr. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018)

BLACKBIRD LABS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN640971 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Blackbird Labs, located at 11671 Timber Spring Ct., Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ROHIT KRISHNAN 11671 Timber Spring Ct. Cupertino, CA 95014 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 6, 2018. (PAW Apr. 13, 20, 27; May 4, 2018)

OBLIQUE FITNESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN641233 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Oblique Fitness, located at 4218 Rickey’s Way, Unit C, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the

registrant(s) is(are): RINKU BHATIA 4218 Rickey’s Way, Unit C Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/31/2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 13, 2018. (PAW Apr. 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2018)

LAB 261 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN641199 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Lab 261, located at 2250 Webster St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): CINA CONSULTING LLC 2250 Webster St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 4/12/2018. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 12, 2018. (PAW Apr. 20, 27; May 4, 11, 2018)

THE ENTREPRENEUR’S SOURCE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN641213 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: The Entrepreneur’s Source, located at 300 Loma Verde Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): QUARTEY ENTERPRISES, LLC 300 Loma Verde Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/09/2018. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 13, 2018. (PAW Apr. 20, 27; May 4, 11, 2018)

997 All Other LegalsCASE NUMBER: (Numero del Caso): 16CV301219 SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): R C GAITHER aka ROBIN GAITHER and Does 1 to 5 inclusive. YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): BH FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., A California Corporation. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion

en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov) en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CLARA COUNTY, 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95113, SAN JOSE LIMITED CIVIL DISTRICT. The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): LAW OFFICES OF KENOSIAN & MIELE, LLP, JOHN P. KENOSIAN, Bar #80261, 8581 Santa Monica Blvd., #17, Los Angeles, CA 90069 Tel: (888) 566-7644, Fax: (310) 289-5177 Date: (Fecha) AUG 25, 2016 DAVID H. YAMASAKI, Chief Executive Officer Clerk (Secretario) By: T. MAI, Deputy (Adjunto) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1. as an individual defendant. CN935602 131729 Apr 13,20,27, May 4, 2018

TSG No.: 170421384-CA-MSI TS No.: CA1700282013 FHA/VA/PMI No.: APN: 003-05-006 Property Address: 1039 UNIVERSITY AVENUE PALO ALTO, CA 94301-2237 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 09/29/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 05/10/2018 at 10:00 A.M., First American Title Insurance Company, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 10/04/2006, as Instrument No. 19131346, in book , page , , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, State of California. Executed by: ROBERT S PARISH JR, AN UNMARRIED MAN, AND MILES S MCCORMICK, AND UNMARRIED MAN, ALL AS JOINT TENANTS, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (Payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States) At the Gated North Market Street entrance of the Superior Courthouse, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED DEED OF TRUST APN# 003-05-006 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1039 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, PALO ALTO, CA 94301-2237 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $5,712,756.56. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust has deposited all documents evidencing the obligations secured by

the Deed of Trust and has declared all sums secured thereby immediately due and payable, and has caused a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be executed. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (916)939-0772 or visit this Internet Web http://search.nationwideposting.com/propertySearchTerms.aspx, using the file number assigned to this case CA1700282013 Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Date: First American Title Insurance Company 4795 Regent Blvd, Mail Code 1011-F Irving, TX 75063 First American Title Insurance Company MAY BE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE FOR TRUSTEES SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (916)939-0772NPP0329956 To: PALO ALTO WEEKLY 04/20/2018, 04/27/2018, 05/04/2018

PALO ALTO SWIM CLUB NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF ANNUAL REPORT

The Palo Alto Swim Club announces availability of the financial report for the calendar year 2017. Copies may be obtained from PASC, P.O. Box 50340, Palo Alto, CA 94303. (PAW Apr. 27, 2018)

T.S. No. 17-49808 APN: 127-25-013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 2/11/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

Trustor: HYONG-BUM KIM and YOUNG-

MEE KIM not personally but as Trustees on behalf of HYONG-BUM KIM AND YOUNG MEE KIM 2003 REVOCABLE TRUST DATED JANUARY 22, 2003; and HYONG-BUM KIM and YOUNG-MEE KIM; as Husband and Wife Duly Appointed Trustee: Zieve, Brodnax & Steele, LLP Deed of Trust recorded 4/5/2005 as Instrument No. 18303300 in book , page of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, Date of Sale:5/18/2018 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Gated North Market Street entrance of the Superior Courthouse, 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $150,117.49 Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt owed.

Street Address or other common designation of real property: 823 AMES AVE PALO ALTO, CA 94304-4134 Described as follows: LOT 4, BLOCK 1, AS DELINEATED UPON THAT CERTAIN MAP ENTITLED “TRACT NO. 1317 PALO VISTA”, FILED FOR RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA ON JUNE 29TH, 1954 IN BOOK 50 OF MAPS AT PAGE 45.

A.P.N #.: 127-25-013 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you

are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien

being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (714) 848-9272 or visit this Internet Web site www.elitepostandpub.com, using the file number assigned to this case 17-49808. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

Dated: 4/23/2018 Zieve, Brodnax & Steele, LLP, as Trustee 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450 Irvine, CA 92606 For Non-Automated Sale Information, call: (714) 848-7920 For Sale Information: (714) 848-9272 www.elitepostandpub.com

_______________________________ Andrew Buckelew, Trustee Sale Assistant

THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE EPP 25320 Pub Dates 04/27, 05/04, 05/11/2018

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College women’s lacrosse: Stan-ford at Pac-12 Championships, 3 p.m. Pac-12 Mountain

College beach volleyball: Pac-12 Championships at Stanford, 3 p.m. Pac-12 Bay Area

College softball: California at Stan-ford, 6:45 p.m., Pac-12 Bay Area

College baseball: California at Stanford, 7 p.m. Pac-12 Networks

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College women’s tennis: Stanford at Pac-12 Championships, noon, Pac-12 Los Angeles

College men’s tennis: Stanford at Pac-12 Championships, 3 p.m., Pac-12 Networks

College softball: California at Stan-ford, 5 p.m. Pac-12 Bay Area

College baseball: California at Stanford, 7 p.m. Pac-12 Bay Area

SundayCollege women’s lacrosse: Stan-

ford at Pac-12 Championships, 11 a.m. Pac-12 Mountain

College softball: California at Stan-ford, 1 p.m. Pac-12 Bay Area

TuesdayCollege softball: Santa Clara at

Stanford, 6 p.m. Stanford Live StreamCollege baseball: USF at Stanford,

6:05 p.m., Stanford Live Stream

ON THE AIR

OAKS REPORT . . . The Menlo College softball team landed four plays on the all-Goolden State Athletic Conference teams. Infielders Cassie Grana, Brooke Shigematsu, utility player Brooke Menesini and pitcher Sarah Reyes were recognized by the conference. Menlo (28-20, 12-8) opens the GSAC playoffs Tuesday against Arizona Christian (15-26, 6-12) at Vanguard in Costa Mesa . . . Menlo College junior sprinter Da’Schele Sauls was named GSAC Women’s Track and Field Player of the Week and junior jumper Tommy Wright earned the Men’s honors. Sauls ranks first in the GSACX in both the 200- and 100-meters. Wright ranks fifth in the nation in trhe triple jump . . . Menlo men’s volleyball player Brad Sawin earned Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors. The senior carries a 3.85 PGA with an accounting major.

CARDINAL CORNER . . . Stanford field hockey will host the 2018 America East Conference Championship, with the tournament scheduled for Nov. 1-4 at the Varsity Turf, it was learned Thursday. Stanford, the two-time defending conference champion, will host a postseason conference tournament for the first time since 2011. The Varsity Turf, which has been home to the Cardinal program for the past 20 years, served five times as the host site for the NorPac Conference Championship.

Menlo junior Sophie Scola fires her first of three goals against Sacred Heart Prep amid traffic.

PREP LACROSSE

Knights freshman Tatum Constant (1) congratulates junior Bella Scola after her goal in the first half.

Menlo’s Max Ting looks forward to the WBAL tournament on Tuesday.

The postseason has arrivedSCVAL diving finals kick off championship time

PREP ROUNDUP

by Rick Eymer

T he Palo Alto, Menlo School and Menlo-Atherton boys’ golf teams know they will be included in the

Central Coast Section field when re-gional play begins on Tuesday, May 8. Those schools qualified by winning or sharing a league title.

Yet when the league tournaments roll around, all three teams will be motivat-ed to play well.

That will also be the case for Santa Clara Valley Athletic League swim-mers, who jump into the pool for league finals at Palo Alto on Friday at 4 p.m. The diving championships were held

Tuesday at Palo Alto, with Los Altos’ JP Ditto winning the boys title and Monta Vista’s Demetra Williams winning the girls title.

Palo Alto senior Alice Saparov placed third on the girls side while Paly sopho-more Max Valasek was third on the boys side. PA’s Jack Callaghan finished fifth.

The Peninsula Athletic League is holding its swimming and diving finals at Burlingame High, beginning with the girls trials on Wednesday and the boys trials on Thursday, both at 3:30 p.m. Fi-nals are next Saturday at 1 p.m.

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Sacred Heart Prep boys in good position in WCALby Andrew Preimesberger

P atience and a big defensive stop helped Menlo School in its 9-8 victory over host

Sacred Heart Prep in a West Bay Athletic League girls lacrosse contest earlier this week.

The victory allowed the Knights to slip past SHP into first place with three matches remain-ing to play.

There’s still plenty of time and important matches ahead for both Menlo and the Gators.

On the boys side, Sacred Heart Prep went into Thursday’s game at St. Ignatius with a chance to clinch the regular-season title.

The Gators (12-2, 5-0) held a two-game advantage over Bellar-mine (8-6, 4-2) with two league

games left. The Bells have one league game remaining.

Palo Alto (8-6, 6-1) remains in the hunt for the SCVAL De Anza Division title entering its game with visiting Menlo-Atherton (12-4, 8-1) at 5 p.m. Friday.

M-A handed the Vikings their only league loss, while the Bears dropped a one-goal game to Burlingame.

Junior Sophie Scola scored three goals and added an assist to help Menlo take the inside track on the regular season girls la-crosse title.

Without a Central Coast Sec-tion tournament, league games take on more importance and the season ends in league playoffs.

“Cautiously optimistic is the way that I would look at the rest of the season,” said Menlo coach Liz Shaeffer. “You never want to over-look any opponent. We prep for every single person the same. We look at the film for everyone and really want to make sure we don’t have any hiccups along the way.”

The Knights improved their record to 8-1 while the Gators fell to 7-2. Menlo is now in first place in the WBAL, moving one game ahead of Sacred Heart, who stands in second. Menlo-Atherton and Mitty are tied for third, two games back of Sacred Heart Prep

with three matches remaining.With 31 seconds left in the sec-

ond half, Sacred Heart’s Genna Gibbons drove in for the shot, but sophomore Alyssa Sahami stuck her stick out and made a huge save, sealing the win for the Knights.

“I was really nervous,” said Sahami, about the clutch save. “I just had to focus on the ball. I al-ways watch it through my stick, and that time it worked and I was really happy.”

In the first half, the Gators started hot. Gibbons and Allison

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Sabrina DahlenGunn lacrosse

Girls 4x100 relayMenlo-Atherton track and field

Izzi HenigMenlo-Atherton swimming

Claire LinPalo Alto swimming

Kyra PretreMenlo track and field

Charlotte TomkinsonMenlo track and field

Nick AndersonMenlo-Atherton track and field

Giorgio BacchinSacred Heart Prep volleyball

Tommy BarndsSacred Heart Prep lacrosse

Jared FreemanGunn track and field

Cade GallesMenlo-Atherton baseball

Robert MirandaMenlo track and field

*Previous winner

Honorable mention

Charlotte SwisherMENLO LACROSSE

The junior midfielder went on a scoring spree last week, recording nine goals, three assists and nine draw controls in West Bay Athletic League victories over Castilleja and Mitty as Menlo took over first.

Max TingMENLO GOLF

The senior turned inclement weather into an ally at the Mustang Invitational last week, firing a 1-under 71 to win medalist honors by six strokes and help the Knights win the team championship.

Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com

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The West Bay Athletic League trials are next Friday at Sacred Heart Prep, with finals the next day at 2 p.m.

The PAL tennis championships concluded Thursday at Burlin-game, with M-A represented in both the singles and doubles final. Results are posted online (paloal-toonline.com/sports/).

WBAL tennis champion Menlo (21-0, 14-0) finished the regular season undefeated and will car-ry a 270-match regular-season league winning streak into next year. CCS competition begins next Friday at various sites.

In golf, Menlo-Atherton won the PAL regular season title, its third straight, winning 11 of 12 matches.

Jackson Lee was named PAL’s Golfer of the Year and leads the Bears into the PAL tournament, which began Thursday at Crystal Springs Golf Course. The final round is slated for Monday, also at Crystal Springs.

Palo Alto completed regular season play Wednesday, beating visiting Monta Vista, 178-207, in a SCVAL match.

Paly (10-2) won its sixth straight league title and an automatic spot in the CCS tournament at the La-guna Seca Golf Ranch.

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UC San Diego-bound Sergi Mata fired a 4-under 32 to pace the Vikings. UCLA-bound Ahmed Ali came in with a 2-un-der 34.

Palo Alto and Gunn, with de-fending league champion Andy Zhou, will participate in the SCVAL tournament, which is slated for Tuesday at the Santa Teresa Golf Club at noon.

Menlo and Harker finished the WBAL tied for the top spot, each at 9-1 and a split of the regular season series. Max Ting has been Menlo’s top golfer most of the season.

Sacred Heart Prep downed host

The King’s Academy, 196-219, at Sunnyvale Golf Club on Wednes-day to finish WBAL play at 6-4.

Finn O’Kelly and Brad Oliver each fired a 2-over 37 to lead the Gators. Menlo and Sacred Heart Prep will play in the WBAL tour-nament, which is scheduled for Tuesday at Coyote Creek GC in San Jose. Tee time is 12:50 p.m.

In track and field, Palo Alto hosts the trials and prelims of SCVAL De Anza Division on Tuesday at 3 p.m. and Thursday at 3 p.m. The school also hosts the WBAL trials next Saturday at 3 p.m. Menlo-Atherton hosts the PAL trials next Friday at 4 p.m.

Carter each scored a goal in the first three minutes of the game. Carter had a great game and fin-ished with three goals while Gib-bons cashed in two goals herself.

Later in the first half, Menlo started to have its way with the Gator defense. Scola, Charlotte Swisher, Bella Scola, and Abby Wolfenden each scored a goal in a stretch of seven minutes. The Knights took a 5-3 edge into halftime.

The Knights made it a 9-4 lead with just under 11 minutes left in the game.

The Gators weren’t done. Cart-er, Ingrid Corrigan, and Lauren Hagerty each scored some nifty goals, all within three minutes of each other. It was suddenly 9-7.

With four minutes on the clock, Carter found Corrigan and the ju-nior smashed it home making it a 9-8 deficit. With 31 seconds left in the game, the Gators called a timeout.

“I just told them, ‘try to make it so that the ball was in the goalie’s stick for as long as possible’. We kept Sophie on her for that. I told them to ‘make sure if they do get the ball, we’re doing the right things, nobody is going for a bad check’. It takes footwork, slowing them down and make every single shot take as long as they possibly can,” said Schaeffer.

Menlo will look to keep its five-game win streak alive when it hosts Burlingame (2-6) on Fri-day while Sacred Heart visits Archbishop Mitty (6-4) on Friday as well. Menlo and Sacred Heart defeated both teams already this year.

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