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Upfront
Local news, information and analysis
Plan to limit chain stores gains momentum
With character of California Avenue in mind,
Palo Alto planning commission signals support for
restrictions
by Gennady Sheyner
P
alo Alto’s push to preserve
the California Avenue
shopping area’s funky, arty
charm gained steam Wednesday
night, when the city’s planning
commissioners added their support to limiting chain stores in the
city’s eclectic “second downtown.”
In its first discussion of the
proposed law, the Planning and
Transportation Commission offered many words of praise — as
well as a few of caution — about
the city’s latest attempt to protect
mom-and-pop retailers.
The City Council launched the
effort earlier this year, when it approved the rough framework for the
new law and proposed an expansion of the retail area around California Avenue to adjacent streets.
The council then forwarded the
proposed changes to the planning
commission for further vetting.
The new law is part of broader initiatives that the council has broached
to address a recent surge of office de-
velopment and rapid rent increase.
California Avenue, which is seeing
the bulk of this growth, is at the epicenter of the city’s attention.
The recent departures of longtime establishments Avenue Florist, Bargain Box and Cho’s Mandarin Dim Sum have underscored,
for many people, the negative consequences of California Avenue’s
growing prosperity.
In crafting its chain-store ordinance, Palo Alto is largely fol-
lowing the lead of San Francisco,
which has such limitations in
place in various neighborhoods.
The new ordinance would define “formula retail” as “a retail,
personal or eating-and-drinking
service that, along with 10 or
more other business locations in
the United States, is required by
contractual or other arrangement
to maintain any of the following
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TRAFFIC
Motorists ignoring new
Middlefield restrictions
Police will ticket, but nearby residents
fear accidents will continue
by Sue Dremann
N
Veronica Weber
Getting the fish-eye
Nemo Swift, a camp director for “Camp Oceana” at the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo,
dissects a striped bass as Zara Harwell, top center, Gregory Lee, center, and Ishmael Holz, right,
learn about fish anatomy at the week-long science camp. The program focuses on ocean biology,
geology and chemistry and runs through mid-July.
TRANSPORTATION
Construction to bring flood control,
and possible traffic jams, to Highway 101
Caltrans looks to replace bridge under highway
by Gennady Sheyner
W
hen the San Francisquito
Creek overflowed in February 1998, causing millions of dollars in flood damage to
the downstream neighborhoods in
Palo Alto and East Palo Alto, the list
of affected properties included the
highway separating the two cities.
Water spilled out of the creek
during the heaviest flood in modern
history and submerged U.S. Highway 101, prompting the closure of
the southbound off-ramp to University Avenue. State, local and federal
officials have been discussing ways
to boost flood protection, both on
the highway and in the neighborhoods around the creek, ever since.
The effort to strengthen the
bridge on which the heavily used
stretch of 101 sits and to prevent
future highway flooding is now
officially underway. The state
Department of Transportation last
month launched the three-year
project, which has an estimated
cost of $18 million and is set for
completion in December 2017.
The project involves demolishing the old bridge that supports
the highway and the parallel East
and West Bayshore roads and
replacing it with a larger structure. Initially, the project focused
almost exclusively on making
the structure more resilient. According to the environmental
analysis for the project, inspections showed “large vertical and
horizontal cracks” in the bridge’s
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ew signs to prohibit lefthand turns from Everett
and Hawthorne avenues
onto busy Middlefield Road in
Palo Alto’s Downtown North
neighborhood are supposed to
help reduce accidents, but drivers seem to be ignoring the law
in droves, according to residents
who live along Middlefield.
The signs, which ban cars from
turning left onto Middlefield
and also from crossing it from 7
to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. during
weekdays were installed about
two weeks ago. The Palo Alto police traffic team has issued about
100 warnings to violators during
a break-in period, but scofflaws
will soon have to shell out $200
or more in fines, police Lt. Zach
Perron said.
But some residents said the
turning restrictions won’t be effective enough, and they want
changes made to Middlefield.
Traffic backups and accidents
along the heavily congested
stretch of road have resulted in
cars landing on residents’ front
lawns and careening onto sidewalks. The area is a hodgepodge
of buses and trucks that are too
wide, bicyclists zipping by and
pedestrians trying to cross four
lanes of traffic, residents said.
Vehicles speed during non-peak
times and crawl during rush hour.
Amid all of that mess, cars from
Everett and Hawthorne nose out
onto Middlefield and risk being
broadsided by northbound or
southbound traffic.
From 2002 through 2014, there
were 219 reported accidents on
Middlefield between University
and Palo Alto avenues, according
to California Highway Patrol data.
One-third of the accidents occurred
during commute hours.
“The stretch of Middlefield
north from University to Menlo
Park has really turned into a
nightmare,” said Tim Lindholm,
a resident who has taken to biking
to work because he cannot get out
of his driveway due to the stopped
cars. “In the morning it turns into
a parking lot.”
At other times, cars come blasting through from the side streets
and sometimes seem to view the
intersection at Middlefield as
just another stop sign. Lindholm
said he has seen many crashes on
weekends when the turn restrictions are not in effect.
“We want to be very clear in our
opinion. This is just duct tape,” he
said of the new turning restrictions.
Perron said that police plan on
continuing enforcement in the area.
“At this point, many drivers are
still regularly disregarding the
(new) signs. Our hope is that as
time goes on and drivers continue
to see active enforcement in the
area, their behavior will change
and we will start to see more
compliance with the law. There is
always a break-in period with any
new signage as drivers get used
to them and change their driving
habits accordingly,” he wrote in
an email.
Hal Prince, who lives on Middlefield, has stood on the corner at
Everett during rush hour several
times and noted the compliance
with the new signs.
“It is pretty minimal, less than
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Do we have to wait for someone
to get killed?
Hal Prince, Middlefield Road resident, on traffic
accidents and his doubts about new turn-restriction
signs. See story on page 5.
Around Town
READY, SET, GO ... Stanford University students today, July 10, will
unveil a solar car that will participate in a race across the Australia
outback, university officials said
Wednesday. The public unveiling of the 400-pound car, named
Arctan, will be at 5:30 p.m. at the
university’s Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory, 473
Oak Road, Stanford. By comparison, the average weight for a 2013
model gas- or diesel-powered
vehicle was 4,015 pounds, according to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. Arctan has half
the wind resistance of a cyclist
and can cruise at more than 50
mph, according to the university.
Students will take Arctan to Australia in October for the competitive
2015 Bridgestone World Solar
Challenge, a 2,000-mile race that
involves 47 teams from 25 countries. A team of nearly 50 students
worked on Arctan this year, according to the university.
TRAVELING BLUES ... If life is a
journey not a destination, as Ralph
Waldo Emerson once claimed,
then it’s easy to understand the
frustrations of Palo Alto residents.
While results from the most recent
National Citizens Survey show
Palo Altans give top grades to
parks, schools, neighborhoods
and other local destinations, it’s
the trips to these destinations that
continue to fluster the local population. While more than 90 percent of
respondents to the annual survey
rated the city’s overall quality of life
as “excellent” or “good,” only 14
percent gave high marks to “ease
of travel in Palo Alto” during the
afternoon rush hour. The morning
rush did slightly better, with 25 percent expressing satisfaction. When
asked to rate traffic flow on major
streets, a meager 35 percent gave
it a thumbs-up, while 36 percent
gave good marks to “ease of travel
by public transportation.” City Auditor Harriett Richardson, who presented these results to the Planning
and Transportation Commission
on Wednesday, noted that when it
comes to solving traffic woes, 93
percent of the respondents favored
investing in bicycle and pedestrian
improvements. The second-most
popular fix was more shuttle services and more incentives to use
transit, which 84 percent of the
respondents favored. Both options
fared better than adding driving
lanes or funding other major infrastructure changes, Richardson
said. Not surprisingly, the city also
got a failing grade when it comes to
“affordable housing,” with a mere 11
percent rating availability of housing
as “good” or “excellent.” Commissioner Michael Alcheck struggled
to reconcile these concerns with
the public’s general opposition to
dense new developments. “What
we need to do in the city is accommodate a significant amount
of housing growth, and that is not
a fairly popular idea, despite the
responses,” Alcheck said.
AR-RIGHT! ... Fifteen-year-old
Arushi Agarwal of Palo Alto had
four of her 15 minutes of fame this
past weekend when she was featured on NPR Weekend Edition’s
Sunday Puzzle. She was chosen to
play a game in which two clues are
given: The answer to the first clue is
a word that contains the consecutive letters A-R, and the second answer is found by dropping the A-R
to leave a second word. Arushi said
that playing the Sunday Puzzle at
home is a brain-exercising tradition
for her whole family. After correctly
answering five puzzles Sunday, her
time on air was up. “That was a lot
of fun,” she told the hosts.
A PRESIDENTIAL HONOR ...
Marianne Chowning-Dray, a math
teacher at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, was
one of 108 teachers in the country
who received the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in
Mathematics and Science Teaching from President Barack Obama.
The $10,000 award is given annually to “outstanding” K-12 science
and mathematics teachers who are
selected by a panel of distinguished
scientists, mathematicians and
educators. Chowning-Dray was one
of California’s two winning teachers. On top of presidential bragging
rights, the winners are invited to
Washington, D.C., for an awards
ceremony. Chowning-Dray taught
calculus at Gunn High School for
nine years before joining the Eastside faculty in 2005. She has built a
math sequence that culminates in
Advanced Placement Calculus BC
(more advanced than AB calculus),
and one-third of Eastside students
now take BC calculus. “With an
AP pass rate of at least 80 percent
over the last seven years, the program speaks to the fact that when
students are immersed in high expectations and given the necessary
supports, possibilities are boundless,” the award’s website states. Q
Upfront
EDUCATION
Leadership shuffle at Jordan Middle School
Gunn’s Tom Jacoubowsky to head Jordan on interim basis
O
ne of Tom Jacoubowsky’s
top goals as Gunn High
School’s assistant principal
in charge of guidance counseling
was to make the sometimes rocky
transition from eighth to ninth grade
as smooth as possible. He regularly
attended transition meetings at
Gunn’s feeder middle schools and
consistently pushed the message
that overloading and overreaching
academically freshman year is not
the way to start high school.
Jacoubowsky will now be
working on the other side of that
transition, ending a 14-year career
at Gunn to serve as interim principal at Jordan Middle School this
fall. He’s replacing Greg Barnes,
who is leaving after four years
to become director of secondary
education in the Milpitas Unified
School District (the same position
his predecessor, Mike Milliken,
left for in the Palo Alto Unified
School District in 2011).
While many Jordan parents
describe their experience there as
mostly positive, others report negative interactions with teachers,
issues with bullying and a need to
make the school more inclusive.
Maintaining a positive school
climate, along with differentiating instruction to a greater degree,
addressing the achievement gap
through better use of the district’s
Response to Intervention (RtI)
framework and implementing a
“clearly articulated schoolwide
been a frequent presence at home
and away athletic events, musicals,
plays and other school events.
“Tom’s sense of humor coupled
with his ability to stay level-headed during intense times make him
a great leader,” Horpel added.
A “huge campus presence,”
Jacoubowsky spent much of
this school year hanging out in
the quad in the mornings before
school, during brunch and lunch
connecting with students, said
rising junior Shannon Yang.
“I don’t know why he does it,
but he would watch people and
make sure students were doing
OK, and say ‘hi’ to kids enthusiastically. It’s always really nice
to see that because it shows how
caring adults can make Gunn a
brighter place,” Yang said.
Danny Golovinsky, who
graduated from Gunn this year,
spent “countless hours” with Jacoubowsky through Golovinsky’s
leadership roles in the student group
Reach Out. Care. Know (ROCK).
He called Jacoubowsky a mentor
and a trusted adult on whom he
relied on for both academic and
nonacademic support. Rising junior Chloe Sorensen, however, said
Jacoubowsky was sometimes unresponsive when she approached him
for support for the efforts of the student wellness committee, which she
and three other students formed this
school year in the wake of several
student deaths by suicide.
‘I don’t know why he does it, but he would
watch people and make sure students
were doing OK, and say ‘hi’ to kids
enthusiastically.’
—Shannon Yang, rising junior,
Gunn High School
writing approach with shared expectations across all grade levels”
were identified as the school’s top
four goals for the next three years
by Jordan’s school site council, a
group of students, parents and staff.
Several districtwide areas of
concern and transition will also
demand Jacoubowsky’s attention,
including fuller implementation of
the district’s homework policy, the
rollout of new recommendations
aimed at tackling the achievement
gap from the superintendent’s minority achievement and talent development committee, and continually
rising middle-school enrollment.
Described by Gunn teachers
and students as a positive, empathetic administrator, Jacoubowsky
was also “probably the most visible administrator that we have
had in the last 12 years,” said
teacher and wrestling coach Chris
Horpel, who has worked with Jacoubowsky since 2003. Horpel
said Jacoubowsky has always
Jacoubowsky began his career
in 1995 as a student-teacher at
Sequoia Union High School. He
transferred the next year to Menlo-Atherton High School, where
he taught and coached track and
field for five years. Feeling a “pull
toward more administrative-type
roles,” he moved to Gunn in 2001
to serve as the school’s new athletic director and dean of students, a position he said perfectly
combined his interests.
Jacoubowsky moved up to assistant principal in 2006, charged
with overseeing athletics, facilities and budget. In 2011 his focus
shifted to counseling, the year
before a long-stretching, divisive
community debate over the quality and efficacy of Gunn’s counseling system — particularly
in comparison to the different
“teacher adviser” model at Palo
Alto High School — would begin. In 2013, Jacoubowsky served
on the Gunn Guidance Advisory
Committee (GAC), which later
issued more than 40 recommendations on how to improve the
school’s counseling services.
In an interview in his new office at Jordan this week, he acknowledged that it was mostly
the “low-hanging fruit” in those
recommendations that got accomplished. Other improvements
he hope will come in the next few
years with Gunn’s new bell schedule rolling out this fall, which he
hopes will allow more time and
flexibility in how the school can
deliver its counseling services.
He said he plans to continue to
prioritize the message, now with
middle school parents, about preparing for balance, rather than
stress-inducing rigor, in high school.
He’s a proponent of frequent, transparent communication, and sent a
weekly counseling update email to
Gunn and others in the community
with information about scheduling,
signing up for classes, upcoming
events and college and career news
Cathy Kirkman, the parent of
one graduated and one current
Jordan student, said she hopes Jacoubowsky will tackle three top
issues: the district’s homework
policy, school climate and achievement gap. Though homework is
certainly a more heated topic at
the high school level, Kirkman
said middle school is a good time
to ensure teachers, students and
families understand the policy, “so
then when they get to high school
they’re in better shape in terms of
planning on what classes to take,
what homework will be like ... I
think middle school is a great
place to make sure that we get the
homework policy right.”
Jacoubowsky said he’s eager
to talk to teachers, students and
parents to learn more about what
the homework load and content is
like at Jordan.
School climate at the middleschool level has been a heightened
topic of community debate in Palo
Alto since the U.S. Department
of Education’s Office for Civil
Rights opened multiple investigations into bullying and discrimination, including a case alleging
racial discrimination in a search
at Jordan after $20 went missing
from a teacher’s purse. (The Office for Civil Rights dropped the
case in June 2014, citing insufficient evidence of discrimination.)
The parent of a recently graduated special-education student
at Jordan who wishes to remain
anonymous criticized the school
and district’s handling of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)
for students with special needs.
“All I (saw) was lip service,”
the parent said. She said teachers
provided the necessary services,
but goals laid out in her child’s
IEP were not followed through
on. “They were holding meetings;
Elena Kadvany
by Elena Kadvany
Former Gunn High School administrator Tom Jacoubowsky has
been appointed the interim principal at Jordan Middle School.
they were going through the motions, but not really adhering to
what they put there in writing.”
She said she and other specialeducation parents spent two years
trying to talk to both site and district administrators, but it wasn’t
until staffing changes were made
in her child’s third and final year at
Jordan that the situation improved.
Another Jordan parent said efforts to start a back-to-school
night with staff and the Palo Alto
Community Advisory Committee
(CAC), a special-education parent
advocacy group, were “brushed off.”
The same parent said her son
experienced ongoing bullying last
year, beginning with a physical
incident that had no repercussions
for the student who was bullying
her son. Additionally, no record
was kept of the initial incident.
Her son became depressed as a
result, she said.
“We worked really hard on the
(district’s) anti-bullying policy. ...
I think following the policy that
everyone worked so hard for could
have made a difference,” she said.
Middle school quality emerged
as an issue in an October 2014
forum of school board candidates. Now-elected member Ken
Dauber noted that three of the
four candidates with children all
had at least one child in a private
middle school (himself, Catherine Crystal Foster and Gina
Dalma) — and that they were far
from alone in that choice.
“I think that is because we
have not yet done as well as we
can for providing middle schools
that provide social and emotional
support for kids, that really meet
the needs of all kids ... at that
age,” Dauber said at the forum.
Kirkman, whose older son cofounded Student Equity Action
Network, a nonprofit dedicated
to closing the achievement gap
and supporting students of color
in Palo Alto, recently worked
with Barnes to add a multicultural
representative to Jordan’s student
council. Jordan parent Sara Woodham, who is also co-chair of Parent
Advocates for Student Success, has
worked with Barnes to increase
outreach to families of color at the
school, forming a parent network
specifically for African-American
parents two years ago. She said
she hopes Jacoubowsky will be
intentional in his efforts to create
an inclusive community at Jordan.
Kirkman agreed. “We should
emphasize transparency, accountability and intentionality around all
of these things and how we’re running our public school,” she said.
Equity-related changes at Jordan will also surely come out of
the district’s minority achievement and talent development
committee’s robust recommendations, which were released in
May. At the middle school level
specifically, the group has recommended hiring math-intervention
support personnel, noting that
a subjective process for placing kids in math lane in middle
school “has created a significant
divide among students.” Sixthgrade teachers recommend students for a certain lane based on
a nine-point rubric and placement
test, the results of which can af(continued on page 10)
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CITY HALL
Palo Alto takes aim at state’s conflict-of-interest law
City Council questions FPPC’s regulations on recusals
by Gennady Sheyner
W
hen the Palo Alto City
Council met last month
to consider creating an
annual limit on new office development, one voice was notably
missing from the discussion.
Tom DuBois, a councilman
who has been a leading proponent of protecting residential
neighborhoods from the effects
of new development, recused
himself from the conversation for
reasons some colleagues found
odd. His wife works at Stanford
University, which owns Stanford Research Park, a sprawling
network of high-tech campuses.
Even though the industrial park
is not subject to the proposed
growth limit (which would apply only to areas around down-
town, California Avenue and El
Camino Real), the Federal Political Practice Commission (FPPC)
advised DuBois to refrain from
the discussion because an office
cap in other parts of the city may
positively influence the research
park.
DuBois’ absence proved particularly obvious when the council’s
discussion devolved into a series
of 4-4 votes, pitting the council’s
slow-growth “residentialists”
against members more accepting
of new development. The item
under dispute — whether the
office cap should apply to areas
of the city subject to their own,
specific land-use plans — was
ultimately punted to the Planning
and Transportation Commission
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and will return to the council for
more discussion in the fall.
Though the council followed
the FPPC’s advice, some members appeared puzzled by it and
suggested that the state’s conflict-of-interest rules be re-examined. Councilman Pat Burt in
particular urged on June 22 that
the city advocate for changes.
After debate, the council voted
to instruct the city’s lobbyists to
seek legislative opportunities to
make “materiality” a requirement in conflict-of-interest findings. Thus, a council member
would not be disqualified from
partaking in the discussions unless the policy would have a direct material effect on him or her.
For the Palo Alto council, the
issue is not new. Members who
have jobs at Stanford or spouses
employed by the university have
routinely recused themselves
from discussions that may affect the university, however indirectly. Former councilman Larry
Klein, for instance, had to step
out of the room during conversations about Stanford because
his wife is a professor emeritus
at the school. This included any
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of income is foreseeable and material and the council member
may not participate in the decision,” the FPPC ruled on April
29, in response to an inquiry
from the city.
Some council members found
this interpretation confounding.
Burt noted that DuBois had to recuse himself despite the fact that
the office cap “specifically did
not include Stanford University.”
But because the law could “potentially impact some value of
their property and Tom DuBois’
wife works in mechanical engineering, it is perceived that under
the law there is some conflict-ofinterest here.”
“There is no materiality that
we can construe,” Burt said.
Figuring out whether a council
member or commissioner has to
recuse from a discussion can be
tricky, particularly when there’s
no clear indication that the policy would have a material effect
on the official. The council has
generally taken a conservative
stance, with members recusing
themselves. The council’s discussion of last year’s downtown
new Residential Parking Permit
Program required several council
members and the city manager
to leave the room whenever the
subject arose. In recent weeks,
Vice Mayor Greg Schmid and
Councilman Cory Wolbach have
been leaving the room any time
the council discussed the topic
of single-story overlays, a zoning designation in which twostory homes are banned. That’s
because both live in a neighborhood that is considering seeking
an overlay.
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budget considerations involving
Stanford funds, land-use issues
involving Stanford and the university’s recently approved hospital facilities expansion. Former
Mayor Yiaway Yeh, whose wife
was a Stanford scholar, also had
to leave when university-related
topics came up.
The case of DuBois differed,
however, because the proposed
office cap did not explicitly include Stanford or any of its properties. Nevertheless, because
bans on office development at
other parts of the city could make
Stanford Research Park more lucrative to potential builders, the
FPPC determined the link strong
enough to create a potential conflict of interest for DuBois.
In its letter, the FPPC argued
that the financial effect of the office cap on Stanford “can be recognized as a realistic possibility
and more than hypothetical or
theoretical.” Under the Political
Reform Act, the financial effect
on a parcel of real property by
a government action is deemed
“material” whenever the decision
would “cause a reasonable prudent person, using due care and
consideration under the circumstances, to believe that the governmental decision was of such
nature that its reasonably foreseeable effect would influence
the market value of the official’s
property.”
The fact that the property is
Stanford’s and not DuBois’ didn’t
obviate the FPPC’s determination. In fact, the FPPC stated,
because Stanford would be impacted whether or not the ordinance applies to the Research
Park, the conflict would exist in
either scenario. Thus, “the effect
on the council member’s source
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fect students’ opportunity to
take higher-level classes in high
school. Some committee members described Palo Alto’s laning
process as subjective, potentially
impacted by teachers’ unconscious biases. Parents can fill out
waivers to move their children
into a higher lane class, but many
parents of color are unaware of
the option. Fewer than 10 students of color at all three middle
schools requested parent waivers
in a recent year, according to the
district. The committee suggested
that both middle and high schools
need to communicate more clear,
objective information about how
both laning and waivers work.
Two Jordan students of color
who spoke to the minorityachievement committee about
their experience in the district
in December spoke highly of the
support they received through the
school’s Advanced Via Individual
Determination (AVID) program
(an in-school program designed
to help students “in the middle”
get on a college-bound path) and
an after-school homework center
staffed by volunteer tutors.
Jacoubowsky said one of his priorities will be boosting the achievement of students who have traditionally underperformed academically
at Jordan. He pointed to the success
of Barnes’ Project 45 program,
under which 45 lower-performing
students received more dedicated
time and attention with the goal of
bringing their work above “C” level.
Jacoubowsky is also taking
the helm at a time when Jordan
(as well as JLS Middle School)
is projected to soon reach recordhigh enrollment. Both Jordan and
JLS enroll about 1,100 students,
and Terman Middle School is
close to capacity. Enrollment
growth expected over the next
two years at the middle schools
“will put pressure on classroom
space requiring the use of relocatables and additional classroom
sharing,” Superintendent Max
McGee noted in an enrollment
report in September. A new enrollment management committee
began this spring analyzing the
district’s growing student population, with the option of opening a
fourth middle school on the table.
Jacoubowsky will also be
tasked with overseeing the first
year of a pilot Mandarin-immersion program at Jordan, the first
time such instruction will be offered at the middle-school level
in Palo Alto. The program will
begin this fall with one section
for sixth-graders and increase its
offerings over the next two years.
Though this is an interim position and a search for a permanent
Jordan principal will be reopened
in January or February, McGee
said he expects Jacoubowsky will
be “one of the top candidates for
the permanent position.” Q
Staff Writer Elena Kadvany
can be emailed at ekadvany@
paweekly.com.
News Digest
Citizen panel to help update city’s land-use vision
Housing advocates, land-use watchdogs and three former planning
commissioners were among the 20 residents selected last week by
City Manager James Keene to help Palo Alto revise its land-use bible,
the Comprehensive Plan.
The group, known as the Citizens Advisory Committee, consists
of 17 voting members and three non-voting ones. The update of the
Comprehensive Plan was launched in 2006 and has proceeded at a
glacial pace.
This year, council members made it one of the city’s priorities to
complete the update by late 2016. The latest reset occurred on May
30, when the city held an all-day planning summit at the Mitchell
Park Community Center and began soliciting applications for the
citizens group.
The roster suggests that Palo Alto Forward, a group that advocates
for more housing and transportation options, will have a significant
role in crafting the plan. Three members of the group’s steering committee — Steve Levy, Elaine Uang and Mila Zelkha — were selected
for the new panel. Joining them will be Bonnie Packer, a former city
planning commissioner and board chair at the nonprofit Palo Alto
Housing Corporation, which develops affordable housing.
By contrast, the group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning (PASZ)
— which favors slow-growth policies — has just one of its board
members on the new citizens panel: veteran council watchdog and
former neighborhood association leader Doria Summa.
Other slow-growth policy representatives on the panel include Barron Park resident Lydia Kou and former planning commissioner
Arthur Keller, a resident of Adobe Meadow. Another former planning commissioner, architect Daniel Garber, a resident of Old Palo
Alto, will also serve.
The committee also includes Hamilton Hitchings of Duveneck;
Jared Jacobs of Evergreen Park; Don McDougall of Professorville;
Lisa Peschke-Koedt of Crescent Park; Amy Sung of Green Gables;
Jason Titus of Downtown North; Ellen Uhrbrock of University South;
Alex Van Riesen of Midtown; and Bob Wenzlau of Crescent Park.
Geographically, the roster is weighted toward north Palo Alto, with
12 members living in the north and five in the south.
The three non-voting members of the new panel are Heidi Emberling, vice president of the Palo Alto Unified School District Board of
Education; Adrian Fine, vice chair of the Planning and Transportation Commission; and Whitney McNair, senior associate director at
Stanford University’s Department of Land Use and Environmental
Planning. Q
—Gennady Sheyner
HP’s Bill Veghte to head SurveyMonkey
Palo Alto-based SurveyMonkey announced it is hiring former
Hewlett-Packard Co. executive Bill Veghte as CEO, replacing the
late Dave Goldberg, the company’s founder, who died unexpectedly
in May.
In addition, Goldberg’s widow, Sheryl Sandberg, announced on
her Facebook page that she joined SurveyMonkey’s board of directors on July 6, along with David Ebersman, former Facebook chief
financial officer.
Veghte was executive vice president and general manager of HP’s
Enterprise Group. He worked at Microsoft from 2001 to 2010 prior
to HP, according to his LinkedIn biography.
Veghte will also serve on the company’s board of directors, the
company noted. Q
—Sue Dremann
West Nile mosquitoes found in Palo Alto
Santa Clara County officials announced Wednesday that mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus were found in Palo Alto and Mountain
View. The county’s Vector Control District plans to carry out mosquito fogging between 11 p.m. on Monday, July 13, and 2 a.m., on
Tuesday, July 14, weather permitting.
The area targeted for treatment includes parts of the 94043, 94303
and 94306 ZIP codes, according to county officials. Q
—Andrea Gemmet
30 years to life for woman who crashed into,
killed Menlo Park couple
A woman with a prior DUI conviction who struck and killed a
Menlo Park couple walking their dog in 2013 was sentenced on July
8 to 30 years to life in prison.
In May, a jury found Marjorie Reitzell, 55, guilty of two counts of
second-degree murder, two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter
and drunk driving charges. Q
—Bay City News Service
Upfront
Bridge
support rails, corroded steel and
“spalls and cracks at various locations within the structure.”
“These cracks, spalls and corrosion indicate the poor condition of
the existing bridge which needs to be
replaced to ensure safety of the traveling public,” the document states.
Then, in 2009, Caltrans agreed to
add flood control to its mission. The
agency modified the bridge’s design to make it compatible with the
broader effort by the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority
to rebuild levees and modify creek
channels, with the goal of providing
protection from a 100-year flood.
According to Caltrans, the revised
bridge project will increase the capacity of the creek to contain water
both upstream and downstream of
the bridge. The bridge’s length will
be extended toward the southeast to
improve water flow, according to
the environmental analysis, known
as a negative declaration.
“There will be less obstruction
in the watercourse, allowing more
water to flow at all times and to decrease flooding during high tides
and storms,” the document states.
Most of the work will take
place between June and October
of each year; there are seasonal
Veronica Weber
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Rush-hour traffic packs U.S. Highway 101 near Embarcadero Road on July 8, hours before Caltrans begins closing southbound lanes for
work on the San Francisquito Creek Bridge.
tidal action,” according to the state
agency. Structural inspections
dating back to 2001 have recommended replacement of the bridge.
The long-awaited project is expected to bring plenty of disrup-
‘We’ve been in touch with Caltrans, which is
now well-aware of the need to better manage
traffic and minimize disruption to residential
neighborhoods.’
—James Keene, city manager,
City of Palo Alto
restrictions on work near the San
Francisquito Creek. These restrictions do not, however, apply to
construction outside the creek, including work on traffic switches,
electrical facilities and construction of the median barrier.
According to Caltrans, the existing bridge under 101 was built
in 1931 and then widened in 1957
to include roads east and west of
the highway. Since then, the bridge
has “deteriorated due to wear and
tion to local commuters and neighborhoods near the highway, who
will have to put up with lane closures, ramp closures and detours.
Earlier this week, two left lanes
were closed on a congested stretch
of southbound 101 between University Avenue and Embarcadero
Road during the evening, night
and early morning hours to accommodate striping near the median. As part of the new scheme,
traffic will be directed closer to
trans, which is now well-aware of
the need to better manage traffic
and minimize disruption to residential neighborhoods,” he said.
Last week, Keene said staff is
talking to the City of East Palo
Alto and Caltrans officials about
changing the timing of traffic
signals around the highway interchange with University to improve
the median traffic barrier.
Caltrans also announced its
plans to close alternate lanes on
the same stretch of southbound
101 this weekend (July 10 and
11) from 10 p.m. Friday to 9 a.m.
Saturday. The University Avenue
off-ramp will also be closed between 10 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m.
Saturday. The Embarcadero Road
off-ramp from southbound 101
will be closed from 9 p.m. Friday
to 8 a.m. Saturday. Detours will
be in place for both closures.
While the project has been in
the planning stages for years, its
implementation has caught local
officials off-guard. City Manager
James Keene told the City Council that staff was “surprised by
the schedule” and has launched
conversations with Caltrans about
how to better manage the project’s expected effect on traffic.
The project, Keene said at the
council’s June 15 meeting, has
already triggered “significant
traffic backups on 101, with motorists diverting to local streets.”
“We’ve been in touch with Cal-
traffic flow. Caltrans has already
agreed to postpone a planned restriping project on East Bayshore,
which would reduce the number
of lanes from four to two, he said.
Now the work will be suspended
until at least 2016, Keene said. Q
Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner
can be emailed at gsheyner@
paweekly.com.
Online This Week
These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online
throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAlto
Online.com/news.
Woman booked for attempted robbery in
downtown Palo Alto
A woman who police said tried to rob a pedestrian at knifepoint
in downtown Palo Alto on Tuesday afternoon was arrested later
in the day after she walked into the police station to discuss an
unrelated investigation. (Posted July 7, 11:20 p.m.)
East Palo Alto man in highway hit-and-run ID’d
A 29-year-old East Palo Alto man who died Saturday night after
the motorcycle he was riding was hit on a Milpitas highway was
identified Monday as Maka Langi, according to the Santa Clara
County medical examiner’s office. (Posted July 7, 8:54 a.m.)
End of era as Stanford Medical Center
Auxiliary dissolves
As a parting gift, the recently dissolved Stanford University
Medical Center Auxiliary contributed $525,000 to the Auxiliary
Art Fund in June. The fund will help create an art space in the
atrium of the new hospital, including a sculpture by Israeli artist
Zadok Ben-David. (Posted July 6, 4:12 p.m.)
Elmo & the Old Quackers snags July Fourth
Chili Cook-Off title
Elmo & the Old Quackers bested 15 returning teams and five
new competitors to take the top prize of Best Overall in this year’s
Chili Cook-Off on Saturday at Palo Alto’s Mitchell Park. (Posted
July 6, 11:10 a.m.)
Courtesy Caltrans
This aerial photo shows San Francisquito Creek as it flows under West Bayshore Road, U.S. Highway
101 and East Bayshore. The bridge that supports the roads is undergoing reconstruction.
Caltrain loses bid for exemption from state
environmental law on electrification project
Caltrain must comply with the state’s environmental quality act
in electrifying its rail system between San Francisco and San Jose,
according to a ruling July 2 by the federal Surface Transportation
Board. (Posted July 3, 4:15 p.m.)
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Traffic
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While police stopped the rightturning scofflaws, a block away
on Everett it was business as usual for many of the left-turners,
who ignored the new signs.
Guislin and Lindholm are calling for a reconfiguration of the
traffic lanes on the section of
Middlefield from University Avenue to Willow Road. Changing
to three lanes could create better traffic flow, better sighting
for turns and, potentially, room
for dedicated bike lanes, they
said. The three-lane alternative
could have two southbound lanes
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and Hawthorne and Everett, as
have right-turn restrictions from
Middlefield as part of Downtown
North traffic-calming measures.
On Thursday morning, two traffic officers pulled over one motorist after another as they made illegal turns from Middlefield onto
Hawthorne. One officer said that
some motorists continue to violate
the turn restrictions from Alma and
from Middlefield and then rocket
down the residential streets, and
that it is highly dangerous, despite
other traffic-calming measures in
place, such as traffic circles.
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50 percent. Perhaps this is because the signs are new, but I do
wonder if the current wording is
as clear as it could be. It has a
right arrow, then the word ‘only’
below it, then some times below
that. ‘Only’ is on the sign with the
right arrow, and the times are on a
separate sign, though the signs are
abutting. If you have a few seconds to think about it, of course
you arrive at the correct interpretation, but some distracted drivers
may think, ‘I don’t want to turn
right, so that sign doesn’t apply to
me,’” he said.
The signs might be more effective if they showed the usual red
circle with a slash and then the
restricted times, he said.
“This is the strategy used on
the signs at the other end of Everett, at Alma. I am guessing that
most people would find this sign
clearer,” he said.
Resident John Guislin has also
monitored the cars. In a 15-minute period, he watched 19 drivers
break the law and turn left into
four lanes of traffic, he said.
Guislin and other residents have
serious doubts about the effectiveness of the turning lanes, and their
fears could be borne out when
considering similar restrictions
elsewhere.
Left-turn restrictions have been
Two intersections along Middlefield Road are the sites of numerous
traffic accidents. The city has added new turning restriction signs
(shown as red X’s on map) where Middlefield intersects Hawthorne
and Everett avenues. The restrictions prohibit drivers from making
left or straight-across movements during peak-traffic hours (7-10
a.m. and 4-6 p.m.), but signs may not be enough, residents claim.
the street already narrows into a
single lane near the Menlo Park
border. There also could be a center turn lane on Middlefield that
would help move turning traffic
through rather than backing up.
Driven by their doubts about the
new signs’ effectiveness, residents
said they will continue to work on
the city for road changes.
“I wonder how many accidents
we will have before we decide to
do something effective?” Prince
said. “Do we have to wait for
someone to get killed?” Q
Staff Writer Sue Dremann
can be emailed at sdremann@
paweekly.com.
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Recusals
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lied on advice from the FPPC. In
addition to consulting the commission about DuBois’ participation in the office-cap discussion,
the city made similar inquiries
about council members Marc
Berman, Eric Filseth, Liz Kniss
and Greg Scharff, as well as City
Manager James Keene. Each has
an interest in property at or near
downtown. The question for the
city was whether the office cap’s
potential economic effects on
the economic interests of these
officials are “reasonably foreseeable.” The commission ruled that
all except DuBois can participate
in the discussion of office caps.
The commission also affirmed
the right of Kniss, who owns a
residential property near the California Avenue business district,
to participate in discussions of
limiting chain stores in the district (to be on the safe side, she
had recused in the past). It also
ruled that Berman, Keene and
Scharff are allowed to participate
in the council’s consideration of
429 University Ave., a mixed-use
project that was challenged by a
neighbor and ultimately halted by
the council last month. All three
own properties near the project
site.
Yet in light of the FPPC’s determination that DuBois should
not participate in the office-cap
discussion, the council agreed
on June 22 to take a closer look
at existing conflict-of-interest
rules and explore possible lobbying opportunities. The council
voted 6-3, with Berman, Kniss
and Scharff dissenting, to direct
the city’s Sacramento lobbyist to
investigate opportunities for adding a requirement of “material
impact” to elected officials when
it comes to conflict-of-interest
determinations. The council also
directed City Attorney Molly
Stump’s office to investigate the
regulatory changes happening in
the field of FPPC policies and to
report its findings to the council’s
Policy and Services Committee.
The three members who dissented did so largely because
of the proposed sequence. They
argued that the city attorney and
the council committee should
discuss the subject further and
only later give direction to the
lobbyist. The majority argued
that the lobbyist and the city attorney should work concurrently
and collaborate, with the understanding that the council will still
have a chance to vet any lobbying
opportunities before actual legislation is pursued by the city.
Changing the rules won’t be
easy. As the city attorney’s office knows all too well, the topic
is inherently complicated and is
made more so by the fact that
the FPPC’s regulations are currently in flux. The FPPC is now
in the latter stages of a multi-year
project of reviewing all of these
regulations and revising some,
Stump said.
“They are lengthy and complex
and they have been revising them
in a series of phased actions,”
Stump told the council on June
22. “This is a very, very complex
area of law and there has been
a lot of attention recently to this
review.”
The June discussion wasn’t
the first time that the Palo Alto
council has struggled with state
requirements about how meetings are conducted. Earlier this
year, the council inadvertently
ran afoul of the Brown Act when
five council members found
themselves on the same thread
of emails pertaining to a resident’s appeal of a new home on
Corina Way. After Wolbach,
Filseth, Mayor Karen Holman
and DuBois all agreed that the
item should be pulled, Schmid
joined the conversation and said
he also supports pulling it. Because this meant that five out of
the nine council members were
now privately discussing an item,
the conversation violated the “serial meetings” provision of the
Brown Act. After Stump flagged
the violation, the city made public the email correspondence
concerning the item.
Kniss suggested on June 22
that the Brown Act “serves the
public so poorly.” She noted that
state officials have no similar
prohibitions on talking to one
another behind closed doors to
muster support for legislation.
“We are here tied to the Brown
Act, and if you listen to anyone
in the Senate or the Assembly,
they will tell you that they have
talked to every member there to
get their bill passed,” Kniss said.
“Truly, is that justice? Hardly.”
Burt, for his part, defended
the Brown Act, noting that its
mission is to provide a “greater
transparency to the public” and
foster an open democracy.”
“It’s been a hallmark to open
government in California now
for many decades,” Burt said. “It
may from time to time need to
have modifications to it, but I’m
not in favor of disbanding it or
any other wholesale changes to
it.” Q
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Citizens Watchdog Committee
Report to the Public
2000 Measure A Sales Tax Activities –
Fiscal Year 2014 (7/1/13 – 6/30/14)
Measure A, approved by Santa Clara County voters in 2000, is a
30-year half cent sales tax generating revenue to enhance the
county’s public transit system. Although revenue collection did
not begin until 2006, numerous Measure A Program accomplishments have been achieved during the first eight years, all significantly benefitting county residents and commuters.
A few key Fiscal Year 2014 accomplishments are:
‡ VTA’s Extension of BART to Silicon Valley, which will
provide more transportation options and reduce congestion,
is ahead of schedule and under budget. Service projected to
start late 2017.
‡ Santa Clara/Alum Rock BRT will provide faster, more
frequent service with increased customer convenience and
amenities. Construction initiated during the period.
‡ Eastridge Transit Center renovation initiated to provide
increased capacity, real time information, and enhanced
passenger comfort, safety, and accessibility.
Santa Clara County voters entrusted the Citizens Watchdog Committee (CWC), comprised of fellow community members, with overseeing Measure A expenditures to ensure your sales tax dollars are spent as intended by the ballot. After
thorough and careful consideration:
It is the conclusion of the CWC that, for the period of FY 2014 (7/1/13 – 6/30/14),
2000 Measure A tax dollars were spent in accordance with the intent of the measure.
Additional Measure A information is available on VTA’s website, including:
‡ CWC Measure A FY14 Benefits & Key Achievements Report at
www.vta.org/cwc-reports.
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status on all Measure A projects and the CWC’s responsibilities, at www.vta.org/cwc-reports.
Printed copies of select Measure A and CWC reports are available at libraries and other public
buildings throughout the county, and at the VTA offices at 3331 North First Street, San Jose, CA,
in the Building B Lobby.
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Retail
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standardized characteristics: merchandise, menu, services, decor,
uniforms, architecture, facade,
color scheme, signs, trademark or
service-mark.”
The proposed law would ex-
outcomes, and I hope we will be
able to do the same,” Roth said.
The planning commission, which
was missing three members (Kate
Downing, Adrian Fine and Mark
Michael), did not vote on the proposed ordinance and will resume
its discussion on Aug. 26. But during its deliberations Wednesday,
commissioners largely agreed with
‘We are surrounded by other cities that have
done similar things (restrict chain stores)
with positive outcomes, and I hope we will be
able to do the same.’
—Jessica Roth,
co-owner, European Cobblery
tend some if not all of California
Avenue’s ground-floor retail requirements to Cambridge Avenue,
which runs parallel to California,
and to a stretch of Park Boulevard
from California to Grant Avenue.
Jessica Roth, whose family has
owned the California Avenue business European Cobblery for 75
years, has been at the forefront of
the effort to limit new chain stores.
Roth told the commission Wednesday that small businesses help
“make up the neighborhoods of
our city” and warned that, without
them, the city will lose its character.
“We are surrounded by other
cities that have done similar things
(restrict chain stores) with positive
the council’s direction.
While they acknowledged the
limitation could result in lower
property values and higher vacancies on California Avenue, as
well as potentially higher prices
for consumers, commissioners
generally agreed that these potential consequences are outweighed
by the benefit of preserving the
street’s character.
Commissioner Michael Alcheck, one of the staunchest supporters of the chain-store limitation, said he was “thrilled” about
the new law. He lauded its impact in San Francisco, which has
served as a model for other cities
throughout the Bay Area.
“People refer to San Francisco
retail as the ‘rainforest of retail’
because of the variety,” Alcheck
said. The proposed ordinance
would not affect the few existing chain stores and franchises
that currently make their home
on California Avenue, a list that
includes Benjamin Moore Paints,
The Counter, FedEx, Starbucks
and Subway. Nor would it make
it completely impossible for new
chains to open up shop.
It would, however, require them
to acquire a conditional-use permit.
The council would have the authority to deny permit applications.
New hair and nail salons, which
are ubiquitous around California
Avenue, would have to go through
a similar permit process as well.
Chair Greg Tanaka was more
cautious than Alcheck and Commissioner Eric Rosenblum in
his support for the ordinance.
California Avenue may be thriving during the current period of
economic boom, he reasoned,
but what will happen if the city’s
economic fortunes turn? Will the
restrictions on retail create retail
“dead zones” that would be even
worse than chain stores?
“I want the street to thrive, and
I’m worried that if the economy
turns, will we have bigger problems later on?” Tanaka asked.
Commissioner Przemek Gardias observed that California
Avenue has been “unique” even
since its origin as the main com-
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CityView
A round-up
of Palo Alto government action this week
Architectural Review Board (July 2)
Officers: The board elected Robert Gooyer as its chair and Alex Lew as its
vice chair. Yes: Unanimous
Planning and Transportation Commission
(July 8)
Survey: The commission heard a report from City Auditor Harriett Richardson
about the 2014 National Citizens Survey, with a focus on the report’s land-use
and transportation sections. Action: None
Retail: The commission discussed a proposed ordinance limiting chain stores
on California Avenue and expanding the requirement for ground-floor retail to
Cambridge Avenue and Park Boulevard. The commission voted to continue
the discussion on Aug. 26. Yes: Alcheck, Gardias, Rosenblum, Tanaka Absent: Downing, Fine, Michael
mercial strip in the former town
of Mayfield. The area, he said, is
changing because “the structure
of Palo Alto retail is changing.”
Gardias suggested differentiating between the types of retail
that should be encouraged for
California Avenue and the types
that would be more suitable for
Cambridge and Park. Under this
“structural distinction,” streets peripheral to the main corridor could
feature small spaces for mom-andpop shops and start-up businesses.
California Avenue would be left
for the larger businesses capable
of paying the higher rents.
“Small businesses that we’d like
to protect here with some regulations on formulas — they’re pretty
much being pushed out,” Gardias
said. “Because we don’t have a
structure to accommodate that
changing character, they have no
place to go and they have to ... close
down because there is no other alternative for them in Palo Alto.” Q
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Laura Cline
Wilmer Larsen
Laura Harriet Cline, a longtime
Palo Alto resident, died on June 13
in hospice care at her home. She
was 96.
She was born
Oct. 30, 1918, in
Saginaw, Michigan, to Fred S.
and Laura (Gallagher) Weavers. She went on
to earn a degree
in nursing from
the University
of Michigan and worked at the
university hospital. She soon met
Jack Fribley Cline, an electrical
engineering graduate student. They
married in 1941 and lived in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, for the following
16 years, while Jack worked as a
professor and Laura participated
actively in the League of Women
Voters.
They moved to Palo Alto in
1957, and Jack began work at the
Stanford Research Institute. On
the Peninsula, Laura remained involved with the League of Women
Voters, becoming particularly engaged in fair housing issues during
the 1960s in cooperation with the
Urban League.
She also volunteered for many
years with the Community Committee for International Students at
Stanford University’s International
Center. She hosted arriving foreign
graduate students in the fall through
the “homestay” program and provided English tutoring. In the late
’60s, she helped create a cooking
class at the “I-Center,” during which
foreign students’ wives would demonstrate dishes and take part in discussions about the roles and rights
of women around the world. Laura
visited a number of international
students during her many overseas
trips with Jack.
When at home, Laura made a
habit of swimming a mile three
mornings each week at Rinconada
Pool, which she did for more than
four decades. She was also a skilled
seamstress, a recipe collector and
a passionate gardener. She built a
greenhouse at her Eichler home and
especially enjoyed growing orchids.
She was predeceased by her husband, Jack Cline, in 2008. She is
survived by her daughters, Mary
(Derek Orme) Cline of Portola Valley and Patricia (Benjamin) Cohen
of Goleta, California; two grandsons, Jeremy and Daniel Cohen;
and four great-grandchildren.
A memorial gathering will be
held on Aug. 1 from 2 to 4 p.m. at
Laura’s home. Those interested in
attending should contact Patricia at
805-964-8992.
Wilmer “Wil” Nyholm Larsen,
a longtime Palo Alto resident and
local educator, died on June 28, following a decline due to congestive
heart failure. He was 88.
He was born
on Aug. 7, 1926,
in Junction City,
Oregon, to Lars
and Sigrid Larsen, who were
Danish immigrants. In 1944,
Wil joined the
U.S. Navy at age
18 and served as a radioman during
World War II and the Korean War.
He attended Grand View College in Des Moines, Iowa, where in
1947 he met Inger Jensen, whom
he married in 1950. Wil then studied at the University of Washington School of Education, earning a
bachelor’s degree in 1951. He also
taught in Seattle public schools.
BIRTH
Joshua and Libby Toub of
Menlo Park gave birth on June
22 to a son, Zev Matan Toub.
He is also welcomed to the
family by older brothers Avi
and Eitan, four grandparents
and two great-grandmothers.
Soon Wil and Inger moved their
growing family to Menlo Park, and
he took up a post teaching fourth
grade at Ladera Elementary School
and became principal in 1959. He
also finished a master’s degree at
Stanford University in 1960. In
1969, he became the principal of
Las Lomitas School in Atherton.
In 1964, the family moved to a
home in Palo Alto on Christine
Drive, where Wil and Inger — except for a year at University of Oregon when Wil earned his education
doctorate — remained until 2010.
Wil was often seen in his garage
teaching children woodworking,
playing ping pong or chatting with
neighbors.
After retiring in 1985, he served
as a school administration consultant, worked as a financial planner
for Foothill Financial Services
and was chairman of the Board
of Trustees at the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto. In 2010,
Al Todd
Aug. 1, 1937 – June 14, 2015
Allen “Al” Wayne Todd, a man of
many talents and a longtime Midtown
resident in Palo Alto, peacefully passed
away surrounded by his family. He
will be missed by all who knew him.
Al was born in Ryegate, Montana,
to Marlin and Gladys (Hudson)
Todd. He spent his youth in Ryegate
with grandparents H.G. Todd and
was active in Boy Scouts, the high
school band, and the basketball team
and participated as a delegate to the
American Legion Boys State. After
graduating from Billings Senior High
School, Al moved to Berkeley, California, in 1956, to join his mother
and brothers, Larry and Ken. He enlisted in the United States Army
in 1957, where he served three years, and then remained in the
Reserves for two more years. Although Al worked for many years in
the fields of semi-conductors and nuclear power, he loved having his
own handyman business which he continued with the help of Alex
Espinosa until his death.
Al had many interests. He enjoyed family events, especially
camping trips on the Yuba River, house boating at Englebright Dam,
and attending his children and grandchildren’s special occasions.
He proudly watched three of his grandchildren graduate from
college and attended sports events and performances of his nine
grandchildren. He loved music and listening to his cousin, Bill Todd,
sing and play.
He shared his love of traveling blue highways, birding trails and
southwest ruins with his partner, Lynn Chiapella. At home in Palo
Alto he created a haven for birds by providing food, water and safe
nesting areas. Golf was also shared with Lynn and his many golfing
buddies. No one who played with Al will forget his style of golf, nor
his natty golf outfits. He was also an avid sports fan and watched all
major sporting events.
Al leaves behind his loving partner, Lynn; his four cherished
children and spouses, Kimberly (Rick) Fournier of Brentwood,
Kathryn (Brian) Bothman of Scotts Valley, Terry (Roshan) Todd
of Boulder Creek and Timothy (Margaret) Todd of Salinas; and his
children’s mother, Sharron Kenniston. In addition he leaves nine
grandchildren: Joe Trevaskis; Amy, Alyson, Dylan and Amber
Bothman; Trevor and Troy Fournier; and Rosemary and Heath Todd.
He will be missed by his cousins and many nieces and nephews.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Marlin and Gladys Todd;
three brothers, Larry, Ken and Leslie Todd; and his beloved dog,
Daisy. May they rest in peace together. A celebration of life is planned
on Al’s birthday.
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OBITUARY
Wil and Inger moved to Santa Rosa
to be closer to family.
Over the years, Wil and Inger
hosted many family get-togethers,
including the tradition of a Danish Christmas Eve. Together they
also enjoyed lectures, book clubs,
concerts, volunteer work, hiking,
golfing and travel.
Wil is survived by his wife, Inger Larsen of Santa Rosa, and children, Nancy Chapin of Oceanside,
California; Bruce (Robin) Larsen
of Santa Cruz; Peter Larsen of Se-
attle; Kurt (Karen Pitkin) Larsen of
Bloomington, Indiana; Ronald (Susana Ember) Larsen of Santa Rosa;
and Ellen (John Runge) Larsen of
Minneapolis. He is also survived
by his siblings, Alfred Larsen,
Dorothea Adaskin, Margaret (Don)
Mills and Donald (Carolyn) Larsen; grandchildren, Rondalee, Sophie, Peter, Emily, Riis, Dane, Sam
and Destiny; and great-grandsons,
Logan and Nash.
A private service for the family
will be held in late July.
Marjorie Gleim
Marjorie Gleim, longtime
resident of Palo Alto, died
peacefully June 19 at the age of 97.
She was an instrumental part of
Gleim the Jeweler, the Palo Alto
jewelry store founded in 1931 by
her father-in-law and carried on
by her husband, Arthur Gleim,
and daughter, Georgie Gleim,
providing constant support and
guidance. Although both Marjorie
and Arthur attended Palo Alto
High School, they officially met
when Marjorie was hired to work
at the University Ave jewelry store in November of 1941. Their
first date was December 7, 1941, and they were married the
following February.
Born in North Bend, Oregon, Marjorie was the daughter of
Virgil and Georgia Wilson, who moved to Palo Alto in the late
1920s. After attending San Jose State, she worked for a time at
Roger Reynolds’ yarn shop, before applying to Gleim’s. After her
marriage, she continued working at the jewelry store until their
eldest son, Arthur Jr., was born in 1945; thereafter she remained
home to raise their three children, Art Jr., Bruce and Georgie,
all the while providing advice and insight on the business for
Arthur.
Marjorie was a longtime volunteer Pink Lady at the Stanford
Hospital Auxiliary; she was a member of the Palo Alto Garden
Club, served on the PTA, was a Brownie and Girl Scout Troop
leader, provided flowers for decades to La Comida and was a
fifty-year -plus member of the Needlepoint Ladies, a close-knit
group of five women who saw each other through life’s many ups
and downs. She also gave quiet support to many non-profits and
charities, for many years sending each monthly social security
check to a different group.
Marjorie enjoyed her husband Arthur’s professional success
as he rose to the highest positions in the jewelry industry,
and treasured the longtime friendships with other industry
members. One of these friends characterized her perfectly:
“Mrs. Gleim was the very picture of class and grace. She was a
kind and gentle spirit. She was my hero. And Mrs. Gleim never
missed a chance to challenge me and drill me on my political
beliefs.”
Marjorie was predeceased by both her sons, Art Jr. and Bruce,
and her husband Arthur Sr., as well as her parents, and brother,
Virgil Wilson. She is survived by her daughter, Georgie, and
son-in-law, George Schumann, her grandson Jared Gleim and
wife Emma, of Perth, Australia, as well as great-granddaughter
Georgia Gleim, of Perth, and granddaughter Lisa Gleim, of
Oceanside, CA and fiancé Daniel Rosales. She is also survived
by her sister, Patricia Wilson, of Medford, Oregon, and several
nieces and nephews.
Many thanks to Margarita Cruz, her loving and devoted
caregiver of the past few years, as well as Lavender Halafau
and Ofaloto Vaikona, and her dear friend Dorothy Renn. Your
support and care has meant a great deal. At Marjorie’s request,
there will be no services. Contributions in her memory may be
made to Avenidas, Peninsula Open Space Trust, or Pets In Need,
or the charity of the giver’s choice.
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A weekly compendium of vital statistics
POLICE CALLS
Palo Alto
July 1-7
Violence related
Armed robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Theft related
Check fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
2
1
1
1
1
4
5
8
1
Vehicle related
Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . 10
Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . .11
Vehicle accident/property damage . . . . 10
Alcohol or drug related
Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Driving under influence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Open container. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . . .
Miscellaneous
Casualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Illegal dumping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Misc. muni. code violation . . . . . . . . . . . .
Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . .
Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . . .
Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . .
Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
2
1
5
2
7
1
2
3
2
4
1
5
9
Menlo Park
July 1-7
Violence related
Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Theft related
Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vehicle related
Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1
1
3
4
5
1
Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . .
Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alcohol or drug related
Driving under influence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Miscellaneous
APS referral. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . . .
Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
April 16, 1918-June 18, 2015
Dr. Joseph B. Tanner passed
away peacefully at his Palo Alto,
California, home, early on June
18. Elaine, his wife with whom
he shared an extraordinary life
partnership for 68 years, was at
his side.
Joe, a descendant of Mormon
pioneers was born on April 16,
1918, in Davis County, Utah. His
father, A.Z. Tanner, was the first
full-time physician in Layton,
and with the assistance of Joe’s
mother, Vera, saw patients in
their home clinic. Their example inspired Joe and his three
brothers to become physicians. After college at the University
of Utah and medical training at Stanford, he joined his father
and older brother in general practice in 1943. During wartime,
they served patients throughout Davis County and the local
military bases. The practice later grew into the Tanner Clinic,
a thriving institution to this day.
In 1951, Joe and his growing family moved to Boston where
he completed an orthopedic residency at Massachusetts
General and Boston Children’s hospitals. Following residency
in 1954, he resettled in Palo Alto, California, joining the Palo
Alto Medical Clinic. His career there was remarkable for its
broad scope and included his work as consulting orthopedist
for the Children’s Convalescent Home and team doctor
for Stanford’s sports teams. Later in his career he became a
pioneer in bringing joint replacement surgery, especially the
artificial hip, to the San Francisco Bay Area.
From his start as a country doctor, working out of his
father’s home clinic, to joint replacement specialist, Joe had
been witness to and participant in a remarkable half-century
of medical progress. He retired in 1989.
Since 1954, Joe and Elaine have made their home in Palo
Alto. Their family grew to include six children. Joe and
Elaine balanced career and family life, sharing with their
children their curiosity and drive for learning and their love
of adventure and the outdoors. Their passion for travel led to
extensive international sabbatical trips with their children
-- each one an unforgettable experience. Joe was a dedicated
gardener (and rose lover) -- a pursuit he enjoyed throughout
his life.
Joe was preceded in death by his three physician brothers -Noall, Dean and Ralph -- and his sister, Arlene Ruggeri (a noted
Utah artist). Joe is survived by his wife, Elaine Christensen
Tanner; his six children: Lane (Christine), Terry Merchant
(Michael), Chris (Jean Illingworth), Bill (Susan Heath), Kitzi
(Dan Marchant) and Greg; and 11 grandchildren, as well as
one great-grandchild.
There will be a memorial celebration of Joe’s life in Palo Alto on
Sunday, July 12, at 2 p.m. at the Lucie Stern Community Center.
For more information, go to Altamesafuneralhome.com
In lieu of flowers the family suggests a donation to the
Peninsula Open Space Trust or a medical nonprofit of your
choice.
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Editorial
Fixing conflict-of-interest
rules on Stanford ties
City and Stanford should press for reforms to
address perennial problem
W
ith Stanford University owning substantial commercial
and residential property within Palo Alto city limits, City
Council members with even the most benign affiliations
with the university have for years been advised to recuse themselves
from participating on any issues that could possibly affect Stanford.
The strict adherence to guidelines and advice from the California
Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), the agency responsible
for enforcing state conflict-of-interest laws, has at times resulted in
multiple council members absenting themselves from discussion and
not voting on important issues.
Since it is unusual for the council to have close votes on issues, the
primary impact of the conservative advice from the FPPC and the
city attorney hasn’t been a change in the outcome of a vote but in the
loss of input and perspective of the excluded council members and
the electorate being deprived of the full participation of its elected
representatives.
But with the current council closely divided over development
issues, the consequences of what most believe are inconsequential
technical conflicts of interest could actually change the direction of
city policy.
This was demonstrated last month when, based on a written opinion from the FPPC, Councilman Tom DuBois recused himself from
participating in discussion and votes on adopting a temporary limit on
development in downtown Palo Alto, California Avenue and along El
Camino Real. With DuBois not participating, several motions failed
on 4-4 votes that would have passed had DuBois not recused himself.
DuBois’ wife works for Stanford in an academic department, and
therefore he derives income from Stanford. Under the long-standing
FPPC interpretation of the law, that means DuBois should not participate on any issue which could have a “foreseeable and material
financial impact on Stanford.” In this case, the FPPC argues that the
marketability of Stanford’s properties within the Stanford Research
Park could be affected by approval of a development cap, whether or
not the research park is actually subject to the proposed development
cap (which is not part of the current recommendation.)
Either way, the FPPC says, DuBois may not participate, citing
several ways in which its regulations consider an action that could affect the value of a property to create a conflict because “the effect on
the council member’s source of income is foreseeable and material.”
The same reasoning has tripped up many previous council members in similar situations, including Larry Klein, whose wife is an
emeritus professor in the School of Education.
The possible conflict is easier to see if one looks at a hypothetical
situation in which a council member worked for Hewlett-Packard
Co. and the council was considering a requested zoning change for
property owned by the company. In that case, disallowing participation of the council member makes sense.
But at some point we think the logic falls apart; Stanford has some
similarities to a large company but its education mission and the
detachment between its academic and commercial activity create a
unique set of circumstances worthy of deeper thought from the FPPC
and legislature.
Underscoring the problem, the FPPC recently advised council
members Greg Scharff, Marc Berman, Eric Filseth and Liz Kniss
that the fact they own property downtown or in the California Avenue
area is not a conflict requiring recusal because it is doubtful that the
development cap would have any effect on the value of their property.
That makes little sense.
Why should participation by council members who actually own
property in or near areas subject to the development and could be personally impacted financially be allowed but not by a council member
whose only “conflict” comes from having a spouse who is working
for Stanford?
The council is right to question the FPPC’s advice and to instruct
city lobbyists to explore changes to the state law or regulations, as it
did on Councilman Pat Burt’s urging last month.
The nature of the Stanford-Palo Alto relationship may be unique
in California, where a private university owns, develops and leases
substantial property within the city limits and is subject to city zoning rules.
Conflict-of-interest laws were intended to prevent public officials
from financially benefitting from the decisions they make. While it
is logical to also include indirect financial benefits an official might
receive from an employer or a company in which they have an ownership interest, greater clarity is needed as to when a conflict becomes
of sufficient materiality to warrant a recusal.
After decades of struggling with these Stanford-related conflicts,
it’s time to establish new standards that reflect this unique situation. Q
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Spectrum
Editorials, letters and opinions
Pollution bath
Editor,
Here’s a well-kept secret: Palo
Alto residents bathe their neighborhoods in air pollution. And
they pay money to have it done.
The dirty deed is done weekly by
their gardener. In just 30 minutes,
the gasoline-powered leaf blower
produces as much greenhouse
gas as does driving a Ford Raptor
truck to Alaska.
California has the world’s
toughest vehicle-emission regulations, enforced by annual Department of Motor Vehicles smog
checks. As a result, automobile
engines today emit only a trace of
pollutants. In contrast, the gasoline leaf blower escapes these
regulations.
The respected website edmunds.
com pitted leaf blowers against
automobiles (www.edmunds.com,
search for “Emissions Test: Car
vs. Truck vs. Leaf Blower”) and
measured several gases (carbon
monoxide, non-methane hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen).
The tests were conducted by the
AAA research laboratory. The
results are in: One half-hour of
the tiny gasoline-powered blower
spews out as much pollution as if
you drove a truck to Alaska.
The Palo Alto ordinance mandating that leaf blowers be electric
is widely ignored, and it excuses
commercial property anyway,
so you’ll see gasoline blowers in
use outside restaurants, offices,
schools and hospitals. What ever
happened to rakes?
The only way this will stop
at your home is if you enclose a
two-sentence note in the monthly
payment sent to your gardener:
“At our home please use an electric leaf blower or a rake. If you
cannot, then I must find a new
gardener.”
The problem stems from lack of
awareness. You can change that.
Glenn D. Rennels
Harriet Street, Palo Alto
Alternative spaces
Editor,
As my community recovers
from the recent suicides, the Palo
Alto Unified School District has
begun to pursue programs that
promote teen mental health. The
strategies discussed in the district range from traditional talk
therapy and family-wellness programs to walk-in yoga sessions facilitated by the Palo Alto Medical
Foundation.
Although I commend the district for its immediate response
to the recent events, I believe
long-term solutions to today’s
teen mental health issues aren’t
going to be found in traditional
therapy or new-age yoga lessons.
Our community should tackle
teen depression at its source, by
providing at-risk youth with alternative spaces (outside of school
and away from home) that provide
opportunities for us to recuperate
from the pressures we confront
on a daily basis and serve as creative outlets for stress in ways that
breathing and stretching cannot.
As a student, founder and longtime user of MakeX, a studentrun, public makerspace in Palo
Alto, I’ve experienced the profound relief of having a space
not only to relax in but to train
my mind on projects that are not
school-related. Because MakeX
provides educational tools and resources (lasercutter, 3-D printer,
design software, etc.), visitors naturally gravitate towards hands-on,
creative projects when they visit
our space. The amazing focus and
incredible calm that settles over a
person who is deeply involved in
creating something is an incredible thing to watch unfold and an
amazing antidote to stress.
While traditional therapy may
be effective when individuals
muster up the courage to seek assistance, casual environments like
MakeX that provide shelter from
stress are comparably therapeutic,
easily accessible and don’t carry
the stigma of “getting help.” I
hope Palo Alto continues to fund
similar student-run spaces in the
future.
James Wang
Bryant Street, Palo Alto
All a little nuts
Editor,
The recent news that San Mateo, like Palo Alto, is hospitalizing large numbers of teens with
suicidal thoughts is surely as troubling as reassuring.
What qualifies as “suicidal
thoughts” in this context? Aren’t
they somewhat common to the
normal anguish of adolescence?
What about our students’ pained,
macabre jokes these days to
friends (“I’ve got so many tests
tomorrow I might as well kill myself”)?
Who among us is competent to
select for a mental health “watch
list”? What are the criteria? Might
a substitute teacher, noticing a
girl with her head down, notify
a vice principal out of simple uneasiness? Might the girl’s fear or
resentment, then, under official
questioning be misread as “dark
thoughts”?
We need to be careful. The
Weekly’s May 22 article on teen
hospitalization told the story of a
girl frightened out of her wits by
the ambulance ride but also the
story of a girl who enjoyed her
time on the psych ward because
it was so much happier than her
school!
We have trouble “de-stigmatizing” mental illness because the
concept itself is a stigma. Aren’t
we all a little nuts? We see only
part of reality; we engage in wishful or magical thinking; we wildly
misperceive ourselves.
Mark Twain said: “Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each
other; it will unriddle many riddles.” And “mentally ill” is always
a relative concept — slave-owners
slapped the diagnosis on their
runaways.
To be shadowed by a “watch
list” for having “suicidal
thoughts” is precisely a reason for
a high schooler to want to keep
his mouth shut about what he’s
feeling.
A saner approach would be to
change some of the school conditions that, both for teachers and
students, too much feel like slavery.
For proposals for such change,
see savethe2008.com.
Marc Vincenti
Los Robles Avenue, Palo Alto
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Off Deadline
Neighborhood power meets the Comprehensive Plan
by Jay Thorwaldson
N
ext Tuesday (July
14) a group
of 20 Palo Altans
will meet for the
first time as the
new Citizens’ Advisory Committee
on the Comprehensive Plan update, a
daunting year-long
challenge of tenacity and patience.
The group is heavy on people active in
neighborhood organizations. Three members will be non-voting, representing the
Palo Alto Unified School District, Stanford
University and the city Department of Planning and Community Development.
In the background will echo the voices and
opinions of the approximately 350 people
who attended a “planning summit” May
30, an astoundingly large number for such
an event compared with prior turnouts over
many years, and more than 1,000 residents
who have asked to be notified on Comp Planrelated items.
“We’ve received a lot of input, and we have
a lot going for us,” Planning Director Hillary
Gitelman said of the launch of the update
process, which over the years and under several prior planning directors has been known
for lengthy delays and lack of community
awareness and involvement.
Gitelman, who will complete her second
year as planning director in October, is upbeat, while acknowledging the challenges.
“The existing plan is very good, and the
council has made this a priority, so we’re
poised to make some real progress,” she said.
The first advisory group meeting will
feature a review of the existing plan (available online at cityofpaloalto.org, search for
“Comprehensive Plan.”). Enjoy the read.
Interest in the plan has been fueled by
last year’s City Council election, in which
two members were elected on a strong
slow-growth/no-growth platform, changing the political makeup of the nine-member council. Their election was based on
the earlier rejection by voters of a 60-unit
senior-housing project and 12 market-rate
homes on Maybell Avenue in south Palo
Alto, criticized as too dense and flawed in
the approval process.
That “Maybell” election came on the
heels of several years of growing concern
about an overflow of commuter parking
into residential areas in downtown Palo
Alto and California Avenue, caused by allowing office projects to have fewer parking spaces than normally required under
the zoning.
That concern helped turn a local neighborhood issue in the Maybell area into a
citywide sentiment in the council election, creating a kind of “neo-residentialist”
faction on the council (see Off Deadline
column of Aug. 1, 2014: tinyurl.com/PAWfastrise ).
But there are other echoes that will resonate in the Comp Plan update in the coming
year or so.
One is the echo of many years ago, relating to campus growth intruding into neighboring residential areas, of then-new Planning Director Naphtali Knox — now editor
of a statewide planning magazine.
At the time, the city had a General Plan,
an outline of where zones should go. But
as with many such plans around the state,
it was mostly ignored as specific decisions
were made based on current circumstances
and, yes, negotiations with landowners and
developers.
As I discovered when working for a summer for the Merced Sun-Star, many towns
up and down the state had such general
plans, usually represented by a multi-colored map hung behind the City Council
dais. The plans were often the product
of what I called “Have Plan Will Travel”
teams of consultants. And the plans, as in
Palo Alto, were mostly dust-catchers.
On the city’s website is a section titled
“How the Comprehensive Plan Was Developed.” It notes that the city’s planning
commission was created in 1916, and master plans were prepared “as early as the
1920s.”
One thin plan I stumbled across in the
late 1960s said that now that Palo Alto had
“come of age” it needed a modern civic
center. The plan proposed a Spanish-style
courtyard configuration resembling a
Mexican military fort at University Avenue
and Middlefield Road (current site of the
Lytton Gardens).
The city adopted its first General Plan in
1963 — the era of the traveling planning
consultants and at the end of a massive
1950s growth period in Palo Alto, when
south Palo Alto subdivisions were built and
the Stanford Industrial Park (now Research
Park) was created.
The plan sat there as growth continued
through the 1960s, and the “residentialists” grew in strength as a growth-opposing
force, leading to the famous 6-to-7 split on
the 13-member council in 1965.
But the history does not include mention
of Knox or the revolutionary change he ini-
tiated, leading to the creation of the first
Comprehensive Plan.
Knox’s innovation stemmed from his
perception that general plans were written
in a broad, high-altitude manner, rather
than being based on what local leaders and
residents really wanted. So he turned the
process upside down and started with more
than six months of meetings on identified
real-world issues to be decided.
One such issue was a decision that no
commercial or high-density housing
should be allowed in the city’s extensive
foothills region, echoing findings of a 1972
“Foothills Environmental Design Study.”
Once the major issues were decided, the
results were put into a written document
by professional planning staff members,
resulting in the Comprehensive Plan.
The theory was that if the plan reflected
real-world issues it would be followed.
It was updated in 1981, revised here and
there, with a major update in the early
1990s.
A second echo in this year’s update is the
concept of “the common good,” promoted
by the late Ray Bacchetti, a passionately
committed community volunteer and educator who died May 10 at age 81 after years
of public service on school and community
college boards.
He and I once discussed whether it
would be possible to get more than three
Palo Altans to agree on what such a “common good” would be. Gitelman will be trying hard to achieve that. Q
Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jthorwaldson@
paweekly.com and/or jaythor@well.com.
He also writes periodic blogs at PaloAltoOnline.com.
Streetwise
What is something new that you’re doing to be active this summer?
Asked on El Camino Real at Town & Country Village. Interviews and photos by Jamauri Bowles.
Rod Cella
Hannah Walford
Tracy March
Alex Goodson
Melissa Simmons
Ora Way, San Francisco
Optometrist
Villa Street, Mountain View
Physician
Turnsworth Avenue, Redwood City
Merchandiser
Commonwealth Avenue,
San Francisco
Student
Alvarado Avenue, Los Altos
Retired
“Probably gardening. ... It’s a nice
hobby in terms of making things
more beautiful.”
“I’m about six-and-a-half months
pregnant, so I’m taking up swimming. It’s supposed to be good
during your third trimester.”
“I just bought a Jet Ski. ... So that’s
what I’m doing. Jet Skiing!”
“Different running exercises. I’m
trying to do intervals so I can
increase my speed.”
“I’m putting in a drought garden in
my backyard.”
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Courtesy of the Dafoe/Davis family
y all accounts, Whitney
Dafoe was leading a vibrant life before the mysterious illness overtook him.
He had a promising career as a
photographer; he volunteered to
build villages in Jamaica and a
monastery in India; he lived with a
shaman in the Ecuador rain forest;
and he won a coveted Microsoft
Pro Photo prize in 2005 for his
sensitive photo of light streaming
through a forest.
But in between and during his
adventures — and while he interned in 2009 as a photojournalist at the Palo Alto Weekly — Dafoe was sick, and getting sicker.
He experienced crushing fatigue,
dizziness and gastrointestinal
problems, and the weight peeled
off of his 6-foot-3-inch frame. At
one point, he only weighed 115
pounds, said his mother, Janet
Dafoe.
It would take years to put a
name to the devastating illness
robbing him of all vitality. Even
then, the name fails to adequately
describe what he is experiencing.
Dafoe, now 31, has chronic fatigue
syndrome, also known as myalgic
encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), a
debilitating and complex disorder with a main characteristic of
overwhelming fatigue that does
not improve with rest or sleep and
worsens with physical or mental
activity.
But researchers and patients
said the name, chronic fatigue,
connotes mere laziness to some
people, and it doesn’t take into
account ailments affecting organs and body systems, such as
digestive upsets, joint pain, impaired memory or concentration
and insomnia, according to the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control
(CDC). Exertion and, sometimes,
outside stimulation can cause
“crashes” that can take days or
weeks from which to recover.
Although one of its early monikers, “yuppie flu,” seems to indicate chronic fatigue is a recent
phenomenon, it has been described
since at least the 1800s, with some
scholars stating that a disease with
its symptoms dates to 1750. Florence Nightingale, the founder of
modern nursing, was known to
suffer from a debilitating fatigue
syndrome that often left her bedridden — possibly chronic fatigue
syndrome or fibromyalgia, according to the CDC.
An estimated 836,000 to 2.5
million Americans have chronic
fatigue syndrome, according to
the CDC. But DePaul University
researcher Leonard A. Jason and
a group of researchers found that
many people who have the disease’s defining symptoms have not
been diagnosed as such. They estimated that upward of 91 percent
of people with the illness have not
yet been diagnosed.
Chronic fatigue occurs most
often in people ages 40-59 and is
more common in lower-income
than affluent individuals, Jason
found.
There is little research on mortality from chronic fatigue syndrome. A handful of studies have
found possible correlations between the disease and deaths from
heart failure, cancer and suicide.
The disease is sometimes dismissed by medical professionals
as psychologically based. Its sufferers on average seek help from
about 20 medical professionals before they are diagnosed, according
to Dr. Andreas Kogelnik, founder
and director of the Open Medicine Institute in Mountain View,
who has treated chronic fatigue
patients for more than 10 years,
including Whitney Dafoe.
But the medical profession is
slowly coming around to accepting chronic fatigue as a bona fide
disease. It took a giant leap forward in February with the publication of a 304-page report by the
Institute of Medicine. That report,
based on a review of more than
9,000 scholarly articles, set up
diagnostic protocols and recommended increased funding. It also
proposed a name change to systemic exertion intolerance disease
(SEID), which conveys the disease’s most defining characteristic
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of medications, medical supplies,
vitamins, minerals, amino acids
and food supplements, which she
daily injects into his intravenous
medicine line to supply him with
nutrients. Her son has stopped being able to eat solid food, she said.
Recently the family has tried to
get a particular type of feeding
tube inserted into Dafoe so that
he can take food into his small
intestine, but the gastroenterologist who would perform the surgery refused. Instead, he told Janet
Dafoe that her son needed acute
psychiatric care. It was just the
latest in years of misunderstandings and rejections the family has
faced, she said.
“Most hospitals don’t accommodate CFS patients. They can’t
tolerate noise or human contact or
anyone in the room,” she said.
Janet Dafoe doesn’t sleep much
through the night because her
son’s sleep schedule is often upside down, and she’s all but abandoned a social life.
“I went to Sundance (film festival) every summer,” she said, but
now I can’t go away overnight. It’s
so impactful and sad.”
Whitney Dafoe’s family turned
to Kogelnik about five years ago.
fHe had probably been sick for
one and a half years before they
met, Kogelnik said.
“He had in some ways a very
typical story. He was a young
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Courtesy of the Dafoe/Davis family
At top: Whitney Dafoe and his father, Ron Davis, hug. Above: Whitney Dafoe was a
promising photographer who loved the outdoors.
of unrelenting fatigue and illness
that affects multiple body systems
and organs. The term “chronic fatigue syndrome” should no longer
be used, the report’s authors noted.
Dafoe’s disease has progressed
to the point that he cannot talk,
read or use the Internet. His joint
pain became so severe some time
ago that he could no longer walk
and needed to use a wheel chair.
Now he rarely gets out of bed. On
a good day, he’ll show his gratitude by pointing to his heart, his
mother said.
His parents have stuck a few
brief messages he’s scrawled on
notes to the door frame outside his
room. The yellow squares of paper
are the only way he can communicate these days.
“I don’t know what to say. I
just feel pretty hopeless about all
this. I never get a break from bad
things,” he wrote on one note.
“It’s so hard not being able to
take care of my stuff. The feeling
of helplessness it gives me is so
stressful,” another states.
Janet Dafoe keeps a small collection of paper hearts her son
made when he had the energy,
carefully and accurately torn
from pieces of paper towel. She
has pretty much given up her child
psychology practice to care for
him full time, and her kitchen has
been transformed into a pharmacy.
A table overflows with an arsenal
Ron Davis sits in his kitchen, among medical supplies, and reads a notecard left by his
son, Whitney Dafoe, around 3 a.m. Since Dafoe cannot speak, family members have
to exchange notecards one by one as a means of communicating about Dafoe’s health,
which can take hours at a time.
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Whitney Dafoe is pictured in healthier, happier times, during
overseas travel.
“Two and a half years into
working in Fremont, around Halloween I had a cold with a fever.
I missed a few days and then got
back to work,” he said. But about
three weeks later, he felt increasingly more tired.
“Around Thanksgiving, I got to
the point that I’d get to work and
I’d have trouble following students’ sentences. The doctors call
it brain fog,” he said.
Standard tests didn’t show anything bad. It was also difficult for
Shimshock to measure the progression.
“I don’t know what prompts the
fatigue — emotions, physical or
mental. At the beginning I felt a lot
of guilt and shame. I always was
the type of person who thought I
was faking it if I was sick. I didn’t
think I was sick enough to take
time off from work or school,” he
said.
When fully rested, Shimshock
said he feels pretty much like
his old self. But when he pushes
himself beyond his limits, things
start to happen. His dexterity goes
down; he has difficulty speaking
and structuring thoughts; and he
has trouble chewing.
“As I get more fatigued, I become more sensitive to lights and
sounds,” he said.
Two years ago, he stopped driving.
“I may start the day OK, but
I’m never sure I’d have the energy
when I got to the place I was going to, or if I’d have the energy to
return,” he said.
When his doctors couldn’t heal
him, Shimshock began to seek
ways to cope . He discovered that
he has two or three hours in a day
for activity without going overboard. He can walk two blocks,
but if he pushes to go three or
four, he will experience a “crash,”
which is much like pulling an allnighter and feeling the effects for
days or weeks afterward, he said.
Trying to push through exhaustion the way other people do only
compounds the problem, he said.
It’s like having an envelope with a
particular quantity of energy credits that, when depleted, take a long
time to refill.
“A safe day is scheduling one
hour of activity outside of the
house or interacting with people,”
he said.
He tries to spend the rest of his
time doing passive activities, such
as watching movies or reading,
and recently he started doing some
crafts. He engages in these activities for no more than 30 minutes to
an hour a day.
Shimshock cannot work, so
his parents help him maintain an
independent life. He lives with
roommates with whom he has
light social contact during the day.
But he has learned not to go into
hectic places such as the grocery
store, where there is too much
stimulation and sensory input.
“It feels like every day is a recovery. It’s tricky. I still go to that
place where I still feel like ‘normal Stephen’ sometimes. I have to
hold myself back, and that’s frustrating,” he said. “I’m aware my
environment is not only smaller
but also fills slower.”
Shimshock said he has been fortunate to have a loving family and
supportive, understanding friends.
They have come to know when he
can’t engage anymore in a conversation or can’t eat at a restaurant.
But the hardest thing at times has
been feeling left behind.
“Being aware of all my friends
having to go out of their way to
put me in their lives; knowing that
even if they knew my situation
fully, I couldn’t ask them to be as
big a part of my life as I’d want
because it would hold them back
from living how they want — I
think that was what held me back
from facing this. I didn’t see how
I could fit into anyone’s life in a
positive way, sustainably,” he said.
Staying relevant is important to
the mental health of people with
chronic fatigue. Writing to family
and friends keeps Shimshock connected. He knows having chronic
fatigue syndrome can be devastating emotionally.
“The only other person I knew
who had it a few months ago killed
himself,” he said, visibly upset.
“It can be easy to get lost inside
yourself, to feel isolated. I’ve had
friends who would reach out and
that is stressful in itself.”
Shimshock has an easy, relaxed
way and he often smiles. As much
as anyone can, he’s come to terms
with his illness.
“I have lived long enough to
know that whatever path my life
is going to take I only have so
much say in it. I’m trying to put
more emphasis on little steps of
personal growth. My goal has
been to live life with or without
the fatigue,” he said.
atients with chronic fatigue frequently try multiple treatments to control
their disease. Whitney Dafoe has
taken antibiotics, anti-fungal
and anti-parasite medications,
vitamins, supplements, Chinese
and Tibetan herbs. Both he and
Shimshock have tried acupuncture. Shimshock is currently on
six supplements.
Susan Kreutzer, another of Kogelnik’s patients, who has had the
disease since 1991, had thyroid
surgery and then began taking
high dosage of synthetic thyroid.
She felt energetic, she said, but
her new endocrinologist was not
comfortable continuing with such
a high dosage. Lesser amounts
don’t ease her symptoms.
While doctors and researchers don’t know the exact cause of
chronic fatigue, in many cases,
symptoms have likely been triggered by an infection or other
event, such as immunization, anesthetics, physical trauma, exposure to environmental pollutants,
and blood transfusions, according
to the Institute of Medicine report.
Viruses are one well-documented commonality for at least one
group of patients. The presence of
antibodies against Epstein-Barr
virus — which is associated with
mononucleosis, Q fever, enteroviruses and other viruses — are
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hile Dafoe’s case
is among the most
severe, others with
chronic fatigue syndrome are debilitated such that their productivity is limited to just a few hours
each day.
Sunnyvale resident Stephen
Shimshock, 28, began to experience the same fatigue in 2011. It
took three and a half years for
him to find a structure he could
live within so that he could have
an active life, he said.
Shimshock was just out of
college in 2008 and was testing
life’s waters with a few different
jobs when he became a substitute
teacher at Fremont High School in
Sunnyvale. He hiked, swam, rode
a bike and, in general, liked the
outdoors.
Courtesy of the Dafoe/Davis family
guy, successful, in-the-prime-ofhis-life kind of person, and very
positive but had all of a sudden
been hit after a brief acute illness,
and he hadn’t really recovered
from it. And he continued to kind
of not recover from it for months
and months; and months became
years, and he had no reason functionally to not be healthy,” Kogelnik said.
People who have chronic fatigue
can develop psychological issues
such as depression or anxiety, but
those are not causes of the symptoms, Kogelnik said. It’s the way
chronic fatigue clobbers a life that
can be depressing.
Whitney Dafoe had gotten a
scholarship to travel around the
world as a photographer when he
became very ill, Kogelnik said.
“So imagine just from a psychological perspective already
how devastating it would be. You
know you have this wonderful life
opportunity in front of you, and
all of a sudden have it taken away
from you. You can’t walk down
the street without becoming completely exhausted and having this
post-exertional feeling where you
just are drained,” he said.
Courtesy of the Dafoe/Davis family
Thin and bedridden, Whitney Dafoe is comforted by his sister,
Ashley Davis, in his bedroom.
Janet Dafoe cries into husband Ron Davis’ shoulder around 12:40 a.m. as the couple wait to enter into
their son’s room during a particularly stressful night of caring for him.
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Cover Story
Unraveling the mystery
of chronic fatigue syndrome
Scientists take small steps toward understanding a devastating disease
R
are that the disease is caused by
a pathogen or by an immunesystem reaction to a pathogen,
according to a Stanford research team led by Dr. Jose G.
Montoya, professor of medicine
in the Division of Infectious
Diseases. Montoya has studied
chronic fatigue patients for seven years through the ME/CFS
Initiative.
Focusing on organs and
body systems most likely to be
involved in the disease, Montoya and his team work with
researchers and physicians in
departments such as immunology, brain research, cardiology,
genetics and pathogen discovery
to pursue clues, he said.
In one study, Montoya and
lead researcher Mady Hornig of
Columbia University looked at
298 chronic fatigue patients and
348 people without the disease,
and what they found was surprising: inflammation
Patients in the early stages of
chronic fatigue had elevated levels of certain cytokines — chemical messengers that regulate inflammation. The most prevalent
cytokine was interferon gamma,
which has been associated with
fatigue from viral infections, including mononucleosis.
Patients who had the disease
for three years or less had the
elevated immune molecules,
but persons with the disease for
more than three years showed
low levels of the cytokines,
which could be evidence that the
immune system is exhausted, according to the research.
Finding the cytokines provided proof that chronic fatigue
is biological and not merely psychological, and it offers hope
that early treatment might affect
the outcome of the disease.
In a separate study, Montoya
and Michael Zeineh, Stanford
associate professor of radiology,
found significant differences
between the brains of chronic
fatigue patients and persons
without the disease. Brainimaging studies showed that
overall “white matter” — long
nerves that carry signals to the
“gray matter” parts of the brain,
which process information —
were abnormal. Chronic fatigue
syndrome appeared to involve
chronic inflammation, according to their research.
The abnormality was located
in the right hemisphere of the
brain, which connects to the
frontal and temporal lobes. The
amount of abnormality also correlated to the severity of the patient’s condition, they said.
The gray matter in those areas
of the brain was also thickened,
according to their Oct. 29, 2014,
study, which was published in
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the journal Radiology.
But Montoya said they do not
know if the left side of the brain
is also inflamed, and the rightside aberrations are thickened
because of a compensatory reaction, he said.
There are also two schools
of thought regarding whether
chronic fatigue is caused by a
single disease that causes multiple symptoms or if there are
subsets of patients afflicted by
are variety of agents, he said.
“With AIDS, there are different manifestations of the disease, but they are all caused by a
single virus,” he said by way of
example.
Several infectious diseases
have been associated with the
onset of chronic fatigue in some
patients, including Epstein-Barr
virus (glandular fever), which
is associated with mononucleosis, Coxiella burnett (Q fever),
enteroviruses (which affect the
gastrointestinal tract) and Herpesvirus 6. Montoya said he
has had several patients whose
chronic fatigue started with the
H1N1 influenza.
“There’s no question that different agents have been found,”
he said.
Montoya and Dr. Andreas
Kogelnik of the Open Medicine Institute in Mountain View
have also looked at the use of
anti-viral medications in some
chronic fatigue patients. Their
2012 study of 61 patients given
the anti-viral drug valganciclovir found that 52 percent experienced at least a 30 percent
improvement in physical or cognitive functioning. Among these,
59 percent had physical improvements and 81 percent improved
cognitively.
Their 2013 double-blind study
with valganciclovir against a placebo involved 30 chronic fatigue
patients who had elevated antibodies against human herpesvirus 6 and Epstein-Barr, found
that patients who received the
drug had a greater improvement
in mental fatigue, fatigue severity and cognitive function within
the first three months. The benefits continued for the remaining
nine months. The patients’ white
blood cells and other immunesystem responses also improved,
according to the study, which
was published in the Journal of
Medical Virology.
Davis is working with numerous collaborators across many
fields, hoping the collaborative
effort will attract the best minds
in their fields.
“This is probably one of the
last major diseases we know
nothing about. This is your last
chance to be a pioneer,” he said. Q
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esearchers are making
headway toward finding
evidence of chronic fatigue syndrome and how it may
change the brain.
Ronald W. Davis, a Stanford
University genetics researcher
who was instrumental in the Human Genome Project, is heading
up a new research center at Stanford University, which is rapidly
becoming a nexus for chronic
fatigue research.
Davis — whose son, Whitney
Dafoe, has severe chronic fatigue syndrome — believes the
answers lie in finding molecular
biomarkers, which are characteristics or substances that indicate the person has a particular
biological condition or disease.
A specific marker might lead
to a blood test that can definitively diagnose and potentially
treat chronic fatigue, Davis said.
So far, chronic fatigue has not
shown its face through conventional blood markers that indicate inflammation in the body
or that show the presence of a
specific infection.
Davis and his team plan to
use technologies developed for
the Human Genome Project to
sequence the entire genome of
chronic fatigue patients, including 1,600 mitochondrial genes,
more than 20,000 other genes
and control regions that regulate
genes. They hope to identify proteins that are found in immune
cells, blood and spinal fluid;
search for infectious agents
in blood, bone marrow, spinal
fluid and saliva and changes to
gastrointestinal tract flora; and
find evidence of autoimmune responses. The research could reveal DNA sequences that are altered in chronic fatigue patients.
The detailed approach is more
comprehensive than that of other
research, which has only looked
at a fraction of the genes, according to the center’s website.
The center’s research will also
focus on a large number of the
most severely ill patients, who
often have disruptions to multiple body systems where a pathogen or genetic alteration may be
lurking, Davis said. The research
will look at patients who have responded positively to drug treatments and those who have failed
to respond, he said.
Researchers have known for
many years that the onset of
chronic fatigue is often preceded
by a viral or infection-like illness, according to the Stanford
University School of Medicine’s
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
(ME/CFS) Initiative, another
university research arm.
The disease may have multiple causes. Two main theories
A notecard dated Dec. 20, 2014, from Whitney Dafoe states: “I don’t
know what to say. I just feel pretty hopeless about all this. I never
get a break from bad things.”
Whitney Dafoe:
‘When I crash’
T
hough Whitney Dafoe can
no longer speak and cannot
write long messages, he
wrote a description last December and January of what a “crash”
from over-exertion from chronic
fatigue syndrome is like. Here is
an excerpt.
“I get a rush of some kind, not
sure what chemical it is. The best
way I can describe it is the feeling of ‘embarrassed/ashamed
surprise/panic.’ Like if you stood
up to a presentation in class (at
school) and realized you had no
pants on. That rush in your chest
followed quickly by a flushed feeling in face and head.
“It’s not the feeling of simple
surprise, like if someone jumped
out at you. It’s not like that. It’s the
‘Oh, no’ panic/surprise feeling of
an embarrassed surprise. And I
don’t think it’s because I’m feeling that way at all. It seems to be a
similar chemical release.
“It is then followed by heat. The
heat comes right after the chest
rush and starts in my head, in the
back of my head, and depending
on how bad the crash is, moves
down through (my) body from
head toward feet.
“A mild crash only gets heat in
head. Full crash my whole body
gets really hot. The heat lasts longer the worse the crash. Really hot
for 20 seconds, then warm for up
to an hour, I think.
“Sometimes I’ve had a little
more energy after a crash. Not really wired, just feel the crash pathway is blocked momentarily.
“A crash is also followed by
some mental state that makes
it hard to cope with the idea of
crashing and getting worse. It kind
of feels like I go into a desperation
mode and am impatient. And the
knowledge that I’m going to get
worse now because of (the) crash
is already upsetting but even more
bad to deal with in this state. I often feel extremely desperate.
“Also, every time I crash, I get
more sensitive to crashing once I
come down from the momentary
energy/reprieve after crash.
“I mentioned feeling desperate,
but that may just be a reaction to
the fact I know I was now going
to get worse, and today would be
another day in which I didn’t get
any better despite my profound effort to avoid crashing and sacrifice
all day.
“Because I couldn’t communicate what made me crash to my
caretakers, they constantly made
me crash so no matter how perfect
I was avoiding crashes on my own.
“So after a crash, after the initial
heat flush, I experienced something I call getting ‘white washed.’
“My whole train of thought and
emotional state got wiped ‘clean,’
no matter what I was thinking
and feeling before the crash. Afterwards I couldn’t feel anything
or think at all. It left me (in) this
‘empty’ haze that was awful —
unable to think or feel anything.
Totally numb mentally. Lasted
hours sometimes, slowly faded as
thought and feeling slowly return.
Really awful.” Q
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Living on empty
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Stephen Shimshock writes letters to family and friends in his home. Since Shimshock
has to severely limit the time he spends socializing, he often keeps in touch by writing.
ing and the difficulty in receiving
sizable federal grants. Chronic
fatigue syndrome receives just
$5 million to $6 million annually
from National Institutes of Health
(NIH). Additional funds come
from private donors.
Chronic fatigue has more sufferers than similar diseases, such
as multiple sclerosis and immunedisorder diseases such as AIDS,
researchers said. Yet multiple sclerosis research receives 100 times
the funding of chronic fatigue;
AIDS research receives a thousand times the funding, according
to a March 14, 2014, NIH report.
Davis said that increased, dedicated funding is key to solving the
mystery of chronic fatigue. The
NIH has 27 institutes and centers researching everything from
eyes to hearts and aging. Without
its own dedicated NIH institute,
funding must be pulled out of
other institutes’ research budgets,
and those institutes are unlikely to
want to give up their dollars, he
and other researchers said.
Meanwhile the costs, financial
and emotional, mount for Whitney
Dafoe’s family. His parents spend
$50,000 a year for his care.
“People go bankrupt,” Janet Dafoe said.
For Ashley Davis, Whitney Dafoe’s sister, the loss of her brother
in her daily life is profound.
“We were best friends. We talked on the phone every day. Now
we can’t talk,” she said. He was always more of a powerful figure —
he was confident. I was quiet and
shy. ... He was the one who pushed
me. He shaped what I am today.”
Her brother’s illness got her into
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often found in the blood of chronic
fatigue patients, according to researchers (see sidebar).
Dafoe had mononucleosis;
Shimshock also had a virus before developing chronic fatigue.
Kreutzer, 58, had flu-like symptoms from the Epstein-Barr virus.
But there is some hope in the
form of anti-viral medications,
which can sometimes help patients
significantly.
For Kreutzer, the improvement
has been profound. Ten weeks to
the day after she started anti-viral
treatment, she felt significantly
better. One day she had no energy to stand up and get her hands
above her head, and then the medicine kicked in.
“You’ve just given me oxygen.
It’s like I rise from the dead. Overnight, I’m like, ‘OK, who wants to
go jogging?’” she said.
Shimshock and Dafoe also
received anti-viral medication.
While viral indicators in Shimshock’s blood have improved, his
energy level and other symptoms
haven’t, he said.
It did not help Dafoe’s symptoms, his parents said.
Despite the setbacks, Dafoe has
a powerful ally. His father, Ronald W. Davis, is a renowned ge-
neticist who was instrumental in
the Human Genome Project and
is director of the Stanford Genome
Center. He has a serious emotional
investment in getting to the root
cause of chronic fatigue, he said.
As his son continues to drift
further away, Davis is trying to
ramp up research into the origins
of chronic fatigue. He has formed
the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Research Center at Stanford and is
on the Open Medicine Foundation
science advisory board. The latter
has formed a research consortium,
the End ME/CFS Project, to study
the disease’s origins and the commonalities between severely ill
patients.
Some prominent Palo Altans
are stepping forward to try to help
Davis further his research. Yoriko
Kishimoto, former mayor and director at Midpeninsula Regional
Open Space, current Mayor Karen
Holman, and former City Councilwoman and retired Judge LaDoris
Cordell wrote a letter to rally attendees of an upcoming, July 16
event to raise $1 million of the $25
million Davis and his team need
for research.
“This is a serious request on
a serious topic — a call for help
from our Palo Alto community but
also a chance to break through a
major medical research frontier,”
the trio wrote.
Davis noted the dearth of fund-
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Stephen Shimshock rests outside his Sunnyvale home and listens to music.
Dr. Andreas Kogelnik consults with chronic fatigue syndrome patient
Susan Kreutzer about her treatment with anti-viral medication and
her symptoms at the Open Medicine Institute in Mountain View.
public health. She studied medical anthropology and has worked
in public health environments
around the world: in a hospital in
Kenya and researching in Guatemala. And she raises funds for
CFS.
Now Davis is getting married,
but Dafoe barely knows her fiance. When he needs to be moved
from his bed, Davis’ fiance gently
carries him in his arms while she
cradles her brother’s head in her
hands.
As a little girl, she would often
role play as a bride. Whitney Dafoe would pretend-play with her,
coming up with ideas for the wedding. But it’s pretty much a given
that he won’t be able to attend her
real ceremony, she said.
“Now that I’m planning my own
wedding, I’m trying to incorporate
some of those things,” she said of
their childhood pretend weddings.
Chronic fatigue
syndrome facts
Number of U.S. CFS patients: 836,000 to 2.5 million
Age group with highest incidence of CFS: 40-59
Countries with the highest prevalence of CFS
(cases per 100,000 population): Italy (9,500);
Hong Kong (3,000); Iceland (1,400)
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Ashley Davis, sister of Palo Alto resident Whitney Dafoe, talks about the impact
that chronic fatigue syndrome has had on her family in a documentary by Weekly
Photographer/Videographer Veronica Weber. Watch it online at PaloAltoOnline.
com or YouTube.com/paweekly.
Housebound
and bed-ridden
patients:
25 percent
All figures are estimates. Sources: U.S. Centers for Disease Control;
Institute of Medicine, National Institutes of Health; Jason, L. et al,
DePaul University, CFIDS Chronicle, 2005-2006, “The Face of CFS
in the U.S.,” and citations therein: Lee et al, (2000); Conti et al (1994);
Lindal, Stefansson & Bergmann, (2002)
Davis had to announce their
engagement on one of the little
yellow cards the family now uses
to communicate with Dafoe. Her
grief, she said, is never-ending.
“It’s hard to explain. Most people have experienced loss in the
sense of a death and grieving, and
you are able to grieve and move
on, even if you still feel loss. (But
with chronic fatigue) it’s not a normal grief. It just continues, and it’s
been going on for years,” she said.
As the clock keeps ticking away,
Dafoe’s health recedes further and
further away, Janet Dafoe said.
“I go in there day after day and
watch my son waste away,” she
said. “It’s the worst kind of suffering for a mother to watch her
kid suffering and being so miserable. I sit outside his hall and wait
until he’s ready for me to come in.
I look through his door and wait.
I’ve spent hours in that hall waiting for him to be ready. Sometimes I sit there crying. If there’s
something he needs or he can’t
reach and I can’t figure out what it
is, he’ll put it on a card. Sometimes
he’ll write, ‘Please don’t stop helping me.’” Q
Staff Writer Sue Dremann
can be emailed at sdremann@
paweekly.com.
About the cover: Palo Alto
resident Whitney Dafoe,
center, is lifted by, from left,
Theo Haugen, Ashley Davis
and Ron Davis. Courtesy the
Dafoe/Davis family.
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Among the Italian drawings now on display at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center is
Giacomo Previati’s “The Monatti” (“The Corpse-Bearers”), circa 1895-1899.
Seeing the
world
Cantor exhibits Italian
drawings from Princeton
by Elizabeth Schwyzer
D
anew
Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s “Seated Male Nude,” circa 16181624, exemplifies the artist’s fascination with the human
body.
isegno. The English translation is “drawing” or “design,” but neither word quite captures
it. For Italian artists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, disegno was far more than
simply sketching. It was the intellectual ability to conceive and create a work of art: a
power that lifted the artist to a near godly status.
Princeton University Art Museum
Luca Cambiaso’s “Sibyl Attended by a Genius Seated
on a Cloud,” from the mid-1550s, demonstrates the
energetic quality of his drawing style.
On view now at Stanford’s Cantor
Arts Center, “500 Years of Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum” tracks the development of disegno in Italy from the 16th
to the early 20th century. Encompassing
almost 100 works, most of which are
figurative, the exhibition explores such
themes as the growing interest in anatomical accuracy, the development of
caricature, the role of disegno in other
art forms such as sculpture and architecture, and the sheer variety of drawing
styles exemplified by the masters. Curated by Princeton art historian Laura
M. Giles, who drew entirely from Princeton University Art Museum’s worldrenowned collection of Italian drawings, the show is designed specifically
to illuminate the role of disegno in the
development of Italian art.
Every drawing in the exhibition
has entered the Princeton collection
since 1977 and few are widely known,
though their style is instantly recognizable. For scholars of art history, the exhibition and its accompanying catalog
offer a trove of thorough academic research and exquisite examples of Italian disegno. Yet the collection appeals
just as much to the general public in its
breadth of offerings, fresh perspectives
and inclusion of works by well-known
artists such as Michelangelo, Carracci,
Tiepolo and Modigliani.
Jennifer Carty, curatorial assistant
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at the Cantor, described the exhibition as “breathing new life into older
collections.”
“One of my favorite pieces is a small
drawing by Michelangelo,” explained
Carty, who worked closely with Cantor’s Curator of Prints, Drawings and
Photographs Elizabeth Mitchell to install the works at Stanford. “On the reverse, they found his ground plan for a
chapel. To me, that was about freedom
of invention. It was exciting to see the
artist’s thoughts on paper.”
“Thoughts on paper” is perhaps a better translation of “disegno” than either
“drawing” or “design,” for it captures
the generative quality of these works.
Whether intended as plans for other artistic products or pieces of art in their
own right, the works included in “500
Years of Italian Master Drawings” attest
to the creative powers of their makers.
Among the works that exemplify
the fascination with the human body
is Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s “Seated
Male Nude,” circa 1618-1624. Composed primarily in red chalk with occasional white highlights, the drawing
features a young man sitting crossedlegged, head turned away from the
viewer, hands clasped around a staff.
From the play of light across the muscles of his twisted torso to the detailed
shading around the thighs, knees and
calves, Bernini’s treatment evidences
an intense focus on anatomy and mus-
culature. In art of the Medieval period
(up until about the 15th century), the
human form tended to be concealed
beneath clothing. Not so by the Renaissance, when an interest in classical art, science and visual realism
blossomed, and direct study of the human figure became possible in artists’
studios thanks to human skeletons
and anatomical dissection. In fact, the
exhibition points out, it was said of
16th century Italian artist Bartolomeo
Torri that “he kept so many limbs and
pieces of men under his bed, and all
over his rooms, that they poisoned the
whole house.”
Though artists would have used the
deceased primarily as models for living
figures, the dead themselves sometimes
made an appearance in art.
Gaetano Previati’s “The Monatti,”
circa 1895-1899, belongs to a collection
of illustrations made for a historical
novel centered on the plague of 1630
in Milan. The monatti — literally,
corpse carriers — were those assigned
to carry to the dead to mass graves. In
Previati’s watercolor, two hooded figures stoop under the weight of the pale,
naked body slung over their shoulders.
Together they descend a flight of steps,
their mask-like faces half-hidden, the
strange trio casting a grotesque shadow
against the wall beside them.
If “The Monatti” is haunting, certain
works by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri
(better known as Il Guercino) provide a
contrasting levity. In a series of caricatures from the 1630s and ‘40s, Il Guercino demonstrates his acute observational
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skills and sense of humor. Among
the most memorable of these works
exhibited here are “Woman with Deformed Lips” and “Scowling Elderly
Man with Full Beard.” In the former,
loose, almost hasty lines of ink capture the woman’s dress, cleavage and
headscarf, while her face is realized
with much finer hash marks. Her
physiognomy is both startling and
comical, no less so than her scowling colleague who stares directly at
the viewer, an expression of humorless confrontation eliciting a mixture of amusement and fear. Like
his female counterpart, “Scowling
Elderly Man” is remarkable for the
distinction between body and head,
his roughly outlined waistcoat and
shirt little more than suggestions
above which his face looms, utterly
specific and vivid.
As Carty noted of these works,
“You can see this transition from
looking at the masters and art historical traditions to more of a focus
on nature and the daily experience.”
That transition becomes apparent
in a study of the three “masters of
disegno”: Il Guercino, Luca Cambiaso and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
In this exhibition, Giles presents
their works in close proximity, inviting viewers to compare their stylistic approaches.
The earliest of the three chrono-
have until Aug. 24 to do so.
Fans of Italian drawing will be
glad to know that come Aug. 19,
a new collection of architectural
drawings by Giovanni Battista
Piranesi will arrive at the Cantor. “Piranesi’s Paestum: Master
Drawings Uncovered” examines
15 drawings of the temples of the
ancient Greco-Roman city of Paestum located in southern Italy. Made
in the late 18th century by Piranesi
and published after his death by his
son, these works come to the West
Coast from Sir John Soane’s Museum in London and have never been
shown outside of that venue until
this tour. Together, they represent
logically, Cambiaso, has a kinetic
style that suggests a sculptural interest in the human body and its
weight. In “Sybil Attended by a Genius Seated on a Cloud,” dated to
the mid-1550s, Cambiaso draws the
female prophet in elegant, energetic
lines, making her appear buoyant
in spite of her muscular build. His
emphasis seems to be on placing the
body in space and giving a sense of
physical dynamism, as if he intends
to bring this classical figure to life.
In contrast, Il Guercino’s “Study
for Mucius Scaevola,” circa 16411642, the emphasis appears to be
far more on the model’s facial characteristics and personality. As in Il
Guercino’s caricatures, the helmeted
soldier’s body is far less emphasized
than his head and face; the viewer’s
eye goes immediately to his gaze,
the set of his mouth.
The most modern of the three
masters is Tiepolo, whose “Roman Soldier,” circa 1720-1722,
evidences a new approach again.
Executed with brush and red and
black chalk, the drawing is expressive and painterly, seeming to set its
subject in motion.
Though the exhibition from
Princeton only occupies one room
of the Cantor, it’s worth setting
aside ample time to revel in these
works and reflect on the thoughtful
connections that have been drawn
between them. Those interested
an unusually extensive study of a
single architectural site, an opportunity to compare the drawings to
the completed prints, and a chance
to reflect on the development of
Western architecture.
In the meantime, “500 Years of
Italian Master Drawings” serves as
the perfect precursor, offering scholars and novices alike a new way of
looking at deeply familiar images.
What is disegno, after all, unless a way of seeing — and conceiving — the world anew? Q
Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be
emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly.com.
What: “500 Years of Italian Master
Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum” and “Piranesi’s Paestum: Master Drawings
Uncovered”
Where: Cantor Arts Center, 328
Lomita Drive, Stanford
When: Master drawings: through
Aug. 24. Piranesi: Aug. 19-Jan.
4. Museum hours: WednesdayMonday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Closed Tuesday. Docent-led tours: Thursday,
12:15 p.m., Saturday and Sunday,
2 p.m.
Cost: Free
Info: Go to museum.stanford.edu
or call 650-723-4177.
Princeton University Art Museum
Giovanni
Battista
Tiepolo’s
“Roman
Soldier,” circa
1720-1722,
shows a more
painterly
and dynamic
approach than
that of his
predecessors.
Sir John Soane’s Museum
Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s “Basilica and Temple of Neptune,”
1777, will be among the works visiting the Cantor from Sir John
Soane’s Museum in London.
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This summer, fill your Monday evenings with music
and camaraderie at Schola Cantorum Summer Sings.
Experience the joy of singing great works you love,
and pieces you would like to know better.
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or by phone 650-254-1700
July 13
Haydn Lord Nelson Mass,
Beethoven Mass in C
Gregory Wait
Music Director of Schola Cantorum;
Director of Vocal Studies,
Stanford University
July 20
Fauré Requiem, Vivaldi Gloria
Dr. Scot Hanna-Weir
Director of Choral Activities at
Santa Clara University; Artistic
Director of the Santa Clara Chorale
July 27
Verdi Requiem
Bryan Baker
Artistic Director/Conductor of
Masterworks Chorale; Director of
Music at the Unitarian Universalist
Church of Berkeley; Founder/Director
Serenade Chamber Choir; Assistant
Conductor of the S.F. Choral Society
Theater
‘Freedomland’
How best to tackle the pressing issue of police brutality in America? How about through
performance art? That’s right: San Francisco Mime Troupe’s newest show, “Freedomland,” takes on
the nation’s glorification of violence, police militarization, the dynamics of the drug trade and the
experience of growing up black in America. Don’t think Marcel Marceau; this company uses “mime”
in the sense of mimicry and satire. Packing humor as its weapon, “Freedomland” aims to entertain
as well as to address serious social ills. The show comes to the south field of Palo Alto’s Mitchell
Park, 600 E. Meadow Drive, on Wednesday, July 15, at 7 p.m. and returns on Sunday, Aug. 23, at 4
p.m. Admission is free. For more information, go to sfmt.org or call 415-285-1717.
Art
‘Creative Ecology’
The beauty of nature and the joys of art meet in
Creative Ecology, a new series offered by the Palo Alto
Art Center. On Saturdays, July 11, 18 and 25, from 10
a.m.-noon, artist Linda Gass will lead a free series of
art and science activities for participants of all ages at
Cooley Landing at the end of Bay Road, East Palo Alto.
Go to tinyurl.com/pj4eote or call 650-329-2366.
Concert
Charged Particles
With a sound that incorporates Latin, classical and
funk, electric jazz band Charged Particles aren’t afraid
to cross stylistic barriers. The internationally acclaimed
trio — two of whom are on the faculty at Stanford
University— will give two free concerts this week: one
at Palo Alto’s Rinconada Library, Wednesday, July 15,
at 3:30 and one at the Mountain View Public Library,
Friday, July 16, at 2:30 p.m. Go to chargedparticles.com
or call 650-851-9143.
Opera
‘Lo Speziale’
If you liked “Breaking Bad,” you’ll love “Lo Speziale.”
The 18th-century comedic opera by Joseph Haydn
gets a modern twist in this production at Redwood
City’s Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway St., from July
10-26. Come ready for serious parody; this tale of love
triangles in the drug industry will be sung in the original
Italian with supertitles. Go to dragonproductions.net or
call 650-493-2006.
Theater
‘Puss N’ Boots’
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but he’s got nine
lives. In Peninsula Youth Theatre’s production of this
classic tale, the crafty feline is back, working his wiles
to secure wealth and a princess for his not-so-clever
master. The show runs July 11-19 at the Mountain View
Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St. Tickets
are $16-$20. Go to pytnet.org or call 650-903-6000.
Music
Summer Sings
No audience, no big build-up to a performance, just a
chance to sing great choral works. Starting this week,
Schola Cantorum will offer Summer Sings: six Mondays
when members of the public are invited to join in an
evening of song. Each night features a new score
and conductor. Summer Sings takes place Mondays,
July 13-Aug. 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Los Altos United
Methodist Church, 655 Magdalena Ave., Los Altos.
General admission is $13; students are free. Go to
scholacantorum.org or call 650-254-1700. Q
— Elizabeth Schwyzer
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Watch videos of “Freedomland” and Charged Particles in
the online version of this story at PaloAltoOnline.com.
Above: Michael Gene Sullivan (left) and George P. Scott will perform “Freedomland” at Palo Alto’s
Mitchell Park July 15 and Aug. 23.
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I
t’s hard to imagine a more honorable dessertsbased death than the decadent drowning of
gelato by a strong shot of piping-hot espresso.
I’m talking of course about affogato, the traditional Italian dessert whose name literally
translates to “drowned.” The confection traditionally comes with one or two scoops of vanilla gelato
doused in a single shot of espresso. It can be enjoyed
as a dessert — or really, an invigorating snack at any
time of the day, if that’s your thing.
Affogatos prove that opposites do, indeed, attract.
They bring hot and cold, sweet and bitter together in
holy, delicious matrimony.
Since the dessert itself is so minimal, with typically
only two ingredients, “the secret (which is no secret)
is using high quality ingredients,” explained Craig
Stoll, owner of Pizzeria Delfina in Palo Alto.
Here on the Midpeninsula, you’ll find an affogato
spectrum, with tradition at one end and experimentation at the other. At many Italian restaurants, you’ll
find the frozen treats in their most pure form: vanilla
gelato and espresso, with no toppings. Elsewhere,
purveyors are adding their own spin, whether it’s
candied orange peel on top or soft-serve instead of
gelato. Read on for some of our favorites in Palo Alto,
Mountain View and Los Altos, and know that this list
is far from all-inclusive: We’ve left room for you to
seek out your favorite drowned dessert at numerous
other eateries in the area.
TERUN
448 California Ave., Palo Alto
For Franco Campilongo, native of Italy and owner
of Terun in Palo Alto, affogatos are all about simplicity and quality. Terun’s affogato ($8) comes with a
single scoop of vanilla gelato from the Latest Scoop
in Berkeley drowned in a particularly creamy, foamy
shot of espresso made from beans straight from Naples.
“That’s very important to make right,” Campilongo
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said of the espresso shot. “It has
to be creamy. You can tell the difference.” He’s also against adding
sugar to the espresso, which some
establishments do.
Campilongo noted that when
you say affogato in America,
most people think immediately
of espresso and ice cream. But in
Italy, espresso isn’t the only liquid
used to commit the sweet drowning act.
“It can be drowned in coffee; it
can be drowned in Grand Marnier; it can be drowned in any other
form of liquor,” he said. (A few
Italian customers at Terun sometimes ask to top off their affogatos
with Grand Marnier, he said, but
not many. They’ll oblige.)
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Tin Pot Creamery owner Becky
Sunseri said when she first opened
her small-batch artisan ice cream
shop at Town & Country Village
two years ago, very few customers
would order the affogato. Others
didn’t seem to know what it was.
But she’s seen a recent increase in
popularity.
Tin Pot’s version ($6.25) contains its own ice cream, which
is made in-house with locally
sourced, organic ingredients and
spun in gelato machines (which
churn at a slower pace than ice
cream machines, letting in less
air). The result is dense and cold
enough to withstand not only a
shot of hot espresso, but also the
recent heat wave.
The default flavor is vanilla
bean, but Sunseri gets visibly excited when talking about Tin Pot’s
other potentially complimentary
flavors: toasted almond, coconut,
chocolate — which creates a mocha as it melts — and salted butterscotch. True coffee lovers: Go
all out with Tin Pot’s Four Barrel
coffee, which has cocoa nib toffee
blended in. Don’t miss a special
affogato on the menu this weekend only (July 10-12): the “salty
mocha affogato” with two scoops
of ice cream: one of salted butterscotch, one of rich chocolate with
shards of San Francisco TCHO
chocolate.
Tin Pot uses espresso from Four
Barrel Coffee in San Francisco.
They’ll soon have Four Barrel
cold-brew coffee on tap, and Sunseri is thinking about playing with
that to make an all-cold affogato.
To add texture, Tin Pot tops
its affogatos with either candied
orange peel or almond toffee.
Whipped cream is optional, but
highly recommended by this reporter.
Pro tip: You can also find Tin
Pot ice cream in affogatos at
Dharma Coffee in Mountain View
and Bliss Coffee in Redwood City.
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PIZZERIA DELFINA
Affogato
121 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto
Head to Gelataio in Palo Alto
for the gelato, not the espresso.
Because the gelato shop signed a
A high-quality shot of espresso
is an essential element of an
affogato.
lease for the Lytton Gateway space
back when Blue Bottle Coffee was
planning on moving in, the owners
had to agree not to sell any serious coffee products. So Gelataio’s
affogato ($5.75) is made with luscious, made-from-scratch gelato,
but drowned in espresso from a
Nespresso machine. They may
even offer you decaf, an option
most places can provide if you ask.
If you’re an espresso snob, grab a
pint to go and make your own at
home.
Order any flavor you like, and it
will come elegantly presented in
a clear glass cup on a white plate
with a small waffle cookie on the
side. Like chocolate sauce on top?
Gelataio has two Willy Wonkaesque faucets behind the counter
out of which flow a constant stream
of melted milk and dark chocolate.
GELATO CLASSICO
435 Emerson St., Palo Alto &
241B Castro St., Mountain View
Gelato Classico Palo Alto is likely the only place in town with an
old-school affogato advertisement
poster hanging over its espresso
machine. Go with the regular for
$5.75 or treat yourself with the affogato cioccolato to get hot fudge
on top for $1 extra. For the non-puritans, this reporter highly recommends the silky, subtle chocolate
hazelnut gelato, and saying “yes”
to whipped cream on top.
BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE
456 University Ave., Palo Alto
Grab a seat in one of Palo Alto’s
best outdoor courtyards at Blue
Bottle Coffee in the historic Varsity Theatre building to enjoy the
Bay Area coffee company’s take on
the affogato. It comes with a shot
of Blue Bottle’s own Hayes Valley
espresso paired with San Francisco
ice cream darling Humphry Slocombe’s brown butter ice cream. It
costs $5.50.
Pro tip: Throw your drowning ice cream a life boat — in the
form of a waffle. A San Francisco
Weekly food writer reported in
2013 that some Blue Bottle locations have an off-the-menu “waffle-gato” (affogato served with a
Liège-style waffle). The Palo Alto
cafe serves Belgian, not Liège,
waffles, so they’re larger, but could
certainly serve the same delicious
soaking-up purpose as a Liège.
651 Emerson St., Palo Alto
Pizzeria Delfina sits on the
traditionalist end of the local affogato spectrum. “It’s already
perfection,” owner Craig Stoll
said, so why mess with it? Delfina’s affogato ($5) comes with
vanilla bean gelato from Lush
Gelato in Berkeley, which makes
custom gelati for the restaurant,
and a slightly sweetened shot of
espresso: a Neapolitan blend from
an Oakland-based roaster.
Feeling boozy? Delfina also
serves an “affogato corretto” with
a shot of CioCiaro amaro, an Italian liqueur. “I’d call it our answer
to Irish coffee,” Stoll said.
VASO AZZURRO
RISTORANTE
108 Castro St., Mountain View
Order an affogato at Vaso Azzurro in downtown Mountain
View and you might also get one
of several theatrical origin stories
for dessert, delivered by owner
Michael Sadri himself. At least
one involves a waiter accidentally spilling coffee into a cup of
French military leader Napoleon’s
favorite treat, ice cream and liquor, during his invasion of Italy.
“Serendipity was a big force in a
lot of things ... especially food,”
Sadri will tell you.
The restaurant offers vanilla
and chocolate gelato with espresso
from a coffee company that sources and roasts beans from coffee
farms all over the world, topped
with whipped cream and chocolate sauce ($6.95).
MIDTOWN CAFE
260 Castro St., Mountain View
Midtown Cafe, which opened at
260 Castro St. in April, continues
the tradition of the previous tenant, Yoogl, which served both frozen yogurt and gelato. Grab an affogato ($5.50) with your choice of
gelato and a shot of espresso from
Portland, Oregon’s Stumptown
Coffee Roasters.
RED BERRY COFFEE BAR
145 Main St., Los Altos
Check out Red Berry Coffee
Bar for a non-traditional take on
the affogato, served with housemade vanilla soft-serve ice cream
($4.50). Customers will always
have their pick of three different
espressos, as Red Berry regularly
rotates through more than eight
local artisan roasters, including
Verve Coffee in Santa Cruz, De
La Paz and Ritual Coffee in San
Francisco and Barefoot Coffee
Roasters in Campbell.
“You can pick whichever one
you want, but usually we go for the
one that’s the heaviest and has the
nice dark chocolate-based flavor
profile that tends to do really, really well with ice cream,” said Red
Berry owner Jeff Hanson.
Hanson said that soft serve’s
texture pairs well with espresso
and its temperature holds up
surprisingly well. They’ve been
known to add toppings like hazelnut and pecan. Q
Staff writer Elena Kadvany
can be emailed at ekadvany@
paweekly.com
The following is a sampling of movies
recently reviewed in the Weekly:
OPENINGS
Inside Out 000 1/2
Paul Sakuma/Warner Bros.
In the CGI-animated movie “Inside
Out,” the personified traits of Joy (Amy
Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger
(Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling)
and Fear (Bill Hader) take turns at the
control console in the brain of 12-yearold girl Riley (Kaitlyn Dias). Business
as usual gets thrown for a loop when
Riley’s parents move the family from
Minnesota to San Francisco. Thoughts
begin dislodging, and soon Joy and
Sadness get sucked out of the control
center, beginning a “Wizard of Oz”-like
odyssey for the splintered psyche.
Like most Pixar films, this one comes
crammed with invention and appeals
to the emotions of younger and older
audiences. Rated PG for mild thematic
elements and some action. One hour,
34 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed June
19, 2015)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
00 1/2
High-school senior Greg Gaines
(Thomas Mann) haunts a Pittsburgh indie video store and makes amateur film
parodies with his longtime friend, Earl
(RJ Cyler). He soon finds himself forced
by his mother to hang out with Rachel
Kushner (Olivia Cooke), a witty girl
dimmed by a recent diagnosis of acute
“Batman” (video-game engineer and stunt gymnast Eric Johnston)
calls Miles Scott’s “Batkid” into action.
Local boy makes good
Doc ‘Batkid Begins’ recounts
globally viral Make-A-Wish event
000 (Century 16)
The Make-A-Wish Foundation’s
globally viral Batman-themed
happening, on behalf of a 5-yearold leukemia survivor, recently
became a crowdfunded independent-film documentary, then got
picked up by Warner Brothers for
distribution, and is now scheduled
for a dramatic remake starring
and produced by Julia Roberts.
Inevitably, Dana Nachman’s film
“Batkid Begins” has become part
of the true story it documents, one
defined at least as much by exponentially expanding media and
corporate hoopla as by a boy’s
Make-A-Wish experience.
Los Altos resident Nachman
formed a dynamic duo with her
co-writer and editor Kurt Kuenne
to graft the official Make-A-Wish
footage shot in 2013 by John Crane
Films onto newly created interviews, resulting in a reasonably
definitive, if company-line-toeing,
recounting of Miles Scott’s wish
“to be Batman” for a day. Nachman’s approach lays out a mostly
plain, just-the-heartwarming-facts
account of the grand efforts made
to transform San Francisco into
Batman’s Gotham City — complete with Batman villains the
Riddler (Philip Watt) and the Penguin (Mike Jutan) to thwart.
Nachman steps us through
Miles’ leukemia history (briefly
and by way of a cheeringly superheroic comic-strip animation), the
origins of Miles’ wish, Make-AWish Greater Bay Area Executive
Director Patricia Wilson’s leadership, and the ballooning show of
community support before, during
and after the event. In all, tens of
thousands of people participated
by preparing and/or attending the
event, which constituted Batman
(video-game engineer and stunt
gymnast Eric Johnston) calling
Scott’s “Batkid” into action: a res-
cue of a “damsel in distress” (Johnston’s wife Sue Graham Johnston)
and showdowns with the two
Bat-villains, with a lunch break in
between and a mayoral key-to-thecity send-off at City Hall.
“Batkid Begins” does a good
job of inspiring faith in humanity and deflating cynicism, though
die-hard pessimists will have
cause to ask the implicit philosophical questions that Nachman
all but brushes aside. At what
point does charity become more
self-serving than altruistic? Why
should one child be lavished with
such a sui generis one-off, and
why won’t people mobilize for
more impactful social change?
And what does it say about world
culture that it takes a cosplaying
Batman to draw our attention to
children’s suffering? Taking the
(literally) short view of a cancer fighter’s crime-fighting adventure, Nachman sees only the
urban throng’s milk of human
kindness where others might see
shallow spectating and an insanely out-of-proportion use of time,
energy and resources.
But even this skeptic has two
words for you: lighten up. Yes,
Nachman’s doc (distributed under the auspices of Batman owner
Time Warner) unavoidably serves
as an invaluable advertisement for
contributors and sponsors intrinsic to the behind-the-scenes story
of the event. But more importantly
“Batkid Begins” celebrates a city
united for fun and goodwill, and
the rare, pronounced sense of play
and energy adults are capable of
rediscovering, as do those who
toil excitedly and hopefully to
give Miles “a little bit of his childhood back.”
Rated PG for some mild thematic material. 1 hour, 27 minutes.
— Peter Canavese
myelogenous leukemia. Manipulative
melodrama is the story’s not-so-stealth
current, pulling it along under its goofy
humor. The target audience of white
middle-class teens will likely be satisfied
by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s movie, but
others will have to accept its indulgence
of Greg’s journey to enjoy it as a diverting, skillfully shot and edited comedy
with a kick of near-death tension. Rated
PG-13 for sexual content, drug material, language and some thematic elements. One hour, 45 minutes. — P.C.
(Reviewed June 19, 2015)
MOVIE REVIEWERS
P.C. – Peter Canavese, T.H. – Tyler Hanley,
S.T. – Susan Tavernetti
MOVIE TIMES
All showtimes are for Friday – Sunday only unless otherwise noted.
For reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest.
Amy (R)
Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m.
Baahubali: The Beginning (Not Rated)
Century 16: 6 & 9:30 p.m.
Batkid Begins (PG) Century 16: 2:10, 4:30 & 7:10 p.m.,
Fri 9:10 & 11:30 a.m., Fri & Sat 10:20 p.m., Sat & Sun 9:20 &
11:50 a.m., Sun 9:45 p.m.
Beat the Devil (1953) (Not Rated)
Stanford Theatre: Sat & Sun 5:50 & 9:35 p.m.
The Gallows (R)
Century 16: 10:55 a.m., 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8 & 10:15 p.m.
Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 1:20, 3:30, 5:45, 8:10 & 10:25 p.m.
Green for Danger (1946) (Not Rated)
Stanford Theatre: Fri 5:45 & 9:45 p.m.
Minions (PG) Century 16: 9, 10:20 & 11:40 a.m., 1, 2:20,
3:40, 5, 6:20, 7:40, 9 & 10:20 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:30 p.m. In
3-D at 9:40 & 11 a.m., 12:20, 1:40, 3, 4:20, 7 & 9:40 p.m.,
Fri 11 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:01 a.m., Fri & Sun 5:40 & 8:20 p.m.
Century 20: 9:45 & 10:30 a.m., 12:05, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 6,
7:30, 8:30, 10 & 10:50 p.m. In 3-D at 10 & 11 a.m., 12:30,
1:30, 3, 4, 5:30, 6:30, 7:55, 9 & 10:25 p.m. In X-D at 11:30
a.m. & 4:30 p.m. In X-D 3-D at 2, 7 & 9:30 p.m. In D-BOX at
9:45 a.m., 12:05, 2:30, 5, 7:30 & 10 p.m. In 3-D D-BOX at 10
a.m., 12:30, 3, 5:30, 7:55 & 10:25 p.m.
Sabrina (1954) (Not Rated)
Stanford Theatre: Sat & Sun 3:45 & 7:30 p.m.
San Andreas (PG-13) ++
Century 20: Fri & Sat 1:05 & 6:55 p.m., Sun 7:05 p.m.
Inside Out (PG) +++1/2
Century 16: 9:05, 9:55 & 11:45 a.m., 12:35, 2:25, 3:15, 5:05,
7:05, 7:45, 9:45 & 10:25 p.m. In 3-D at 10:45 a.m., Fri 4:30
p.m., Sat & Sun 1:30 & 4:10 p.m. Century 20: 10:15 &
11:15 a.m., 12:50, 1:50, 3:40, 4:40, 6:20, 7:20, 9:10 & 10 p.m.
In 3-D at noon, 2:40, 5:15, 8:05 & 10:35 p.m.
Self/less (PG-13) Century 16: Fri & Sun 10:30 a.m., 1:20,
4:25, 7:20 & 10:10 p.m., Sat 11:10 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:40 & 10:30
p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 2:10, 4:55, 7:45 & 10:40 p.m.
Spaceballs (1987) (PG)
Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m.
Jurassic World (PG-13) +++
Century 16: 10:25 a.m., 4:25 & 7:30 p.m. In 3-D at 1:25 &
10:35 p.m. Century 20: 10:45 a.m., 1:45, 4:55, 7:50 &
10:45 p.m. In 3-D at 9:55 a.m., 12:55, 3:55, 6:50 & 9:45 p.m.
Spy (R)
Love & Mercy (PG-13) +++1/2
Palo Alto Square: 1:10, 4:10 & 7:10 p.m., Fri & Sat 10:05 p.m.
Terminator Genisys (PG-13) + Century 16: 10:45 a.m.,
1:45, 4:45, 7:45 & 10:40 p.m. In 3-D at 9:15 a.m., 12:15, 3:10,
6:15 & 9:15 p.m. Century 20: 10:10 a.m., 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 &
10:10 p.m. In 3-D at 11:05 a.m., 12:10, 1:55, 3:05, 4:50, 5:55,
7:45, 8:50 & 10:45 p.m.
Mad Max: Fury Road (R) Century 20: 10:05 a.m. & 9:50
p.m., Fri & Sat 3:50 p.m., Sun 4:15 p.m.
Magic Mike XXL (R)
Century 16: 10:15 a.m., 1:10, 4:15, 7:15 & 10:05 p.m.
Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 2, 5:10, 8 & 10:50 p.m.
Century 20: 10:20 a.m., 1:25, 4:15, 7:15 & 10:15 p.m.
Ted 2 (R) Century 16: 10:05 a.m., 1:05, 4:05, 7:05 & 10 p.m.
Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:20, 5:05, 7:55 & 10:45 p.m.
Testament of Youth (PG-13) Century 16: 7:45 & 10:30
p.m., Fri & Sat 3:50 p.m., Sun 4:15 p.m.
Max (PG) + Century 16: 10 a.m., Fri & Sat 12:55 p.m.
Century 20: 10:40 a.m., 1:35, 4:25, 7:05 & 9:55 p.m.
That Hamilton Woman (1941) (Not Rated)
Stanford Theatre: Fri 7:30 p.m.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (PG-13) ++1/2
Guild Theatre: Noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30 & 9:55 p.m.
UFC 189: Mendes vs McGregor (Not Rated)
16: Sat 7 p.m.
Century
+ Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding
Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260)
Currently closed for renovation
Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd.,
Mountain View (800-326-3264)
Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road,
Redwood City (800-326-3264)
CinéArts at Palo Alto Square:
3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128)
Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260)
Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)
Internet address: For show times, plot synopses,
trailers and more information about films playing, go
to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies
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Love & Mercy – 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05
Amy – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00
Love & Mercy – 1:10, 4:10, 7:10; Amy – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00
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Love & Mercy – 1:10, 4:10
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MET Opera Summer Encore, La Fille Du
Regiment – 7:00 PM
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Home Front
YOUTH STEWARDSHIP ... Youth
ages 13-18 who want to learn
more about the care and ecology
of Redwood Grove can join the
nonprofit Acterra on Thursdays,
July 16, July 23 or July 30, from
9:30 a.m. to noon at Redwood
Grove, 482 University Ave., Los
Altos. The group meets in front
of the caretaker house at the
end of the entry driveway. Please
carpool, bike or walk if possible.
Minors under age 18 must bring
a waiver signed by a guardian.
Info: acterra.org
HAZARDOUS ITEMS DROP-OFF
... Household hazardous waste
can be dropped off each Saturday, from 9-11 a.m., and the first
Friday of each month, from 3-5
p.m., at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant, 2501 Embarcadero Way, Palo Alto. Residents
may bring latex and oil-based
paints, gasoline, road flares, propane tanks (used for barbecues
and camp stoves), household or
auto batteries, cooking oil and
more. The list of unacceptable
items includes fireworks and
ammunition, infectious wastes
and controlled substances. Proof
of Palo Alto residency (either a
driver’s license or vehicle registration) is required. Info: 650496-6980 or cityofpaloalto.org
(search for “hazardous waste”)
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home improvement and gardening to
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passion and care
Made with
Local artists hope work at
annual Palo Alto
Clay & Glass Festival
will inspire others
by My Nguyen
S
uccess is often found when
talent is backed by passion,
and when it comes to the
artwork Bruce Pizzichillo and his
wife, Dari Gordon, create, passion
and talent make their work both
exquisite and memorable.
Pizzichillo’s nationally known glasswork,
from blown glass vases and bowls to mixedmedia and glass sculptures, will come to Palo
Alto at the annual Clay & Glass Festival at
the Palo Alto Art Center on Saturday, June 11,
and Sunday, June 12.
The two-day event, hosted by the Association of Clay and Glass Artists, will display
the work of more than 140 juried artists, featuring both fine and functional art. Festivalgoers will have the opportunity to meet with
artists, browse collections, purchase favorite
pieces, attend demonstrations and participate
in hands-on activities.
Pizzichillo, who studied at the California
College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts) in Oakland, opened
Pizzichillo & Gordon Glass in 1984. The studio, which is equipped with a full glass-blowing facility, cold-working space and gallery
showcasing Pizzichillo’s glasswork, is the oldest running glass-blowing studio in the city,
Pizzichillo said.
The studio has allowed him to work with a
challenging, yet mysterious and magical, artistic medium.
“It’s one of the only materials I know that
can do what it does and that is go from a liquid
state into this clear frozen state,” Pizzichillo
said. “Then you have this material that you
Bruce Pizzichillo melts his glass creations in furnaces designed for work of multiple
colors. He achieves a palette of distinctive colors by mixing various metallic oxide
formulations, containing gold, silver, cobalt and others, into the molten glass.
Photo courtesy Association of Clay and Glass Artists
RETHINK THE LAWN ... Gamble
Garden will present its popular
class on how to replace your
front lawn on Saturday, July 25,
from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at 1431 Waverly St., Palo Alto. The course
is taught by Kim Raftery, who
is an 18-year garden designer
and owner of Raftery Garden
Designs. During the class, learn
how to transform a conventional
lawn into a flowering garden with
edible plants, interesting layouts,
low fences, “no mow” meadows,
seating areas and more. The
class costs $25 for members,
$35 for non-members. Sign up
through Gamble Garden’s website. Info: gamblegarden.org
Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com
Photo courtesy Association of Clay and Glass Artists
COMMUNITY TREE CARE ...
Tend to trees on the Cesar
Chavez Academy school campus on Thursday, July 16, from
2:30-5 p.m. at 2450 Ralmar
Ave., East Palo Alto. Through the
nonprofit Canopy, volunteers will
care for young trees surrounding
the school by refilling DriWater
gel packs, as well as mulching,
weeding and adjusting stakes.
Light snacks and tools will be
provided. Info: canopy.org/calendar
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Bruce Pizzichillo’s large, colorful sculptural
vessels are all hand-blown and one-of-a-kind.
can pull, stretch and blow. I mean it’s endless
what you can do with it. And there’s always
room to grow and be better. ... It takes a lifetime to be a master at it, and I love being challenged that way.”
His work, which is inspired by music, dance,
poetry, life and “everything we encounter
around us,” has been featured in collections
at the SAS Institute World Headquarters, the
Museum of American Glass Wheaton Village
and the Bellevue Art Museum, just to name a
few. But nowadays, Pizzichillo is interested
in creating artwork that brings joy and makes
the world a better place.
“I just turned 61 and I really want to be happy and enjoy what I make, and hopefully the
work carries that joy and happiness through,
so when people are living with it it’s something that they can feel inspired by,” he said.
Pizzichillo is meticulous in his style, putting
an extensive amount of energy, effort and care
into his work to ensure every piece is unique.
“We put a lot of time into the decoration, the
color and the forms. When I’m blowing glass
I try to keep forms simple yet modern and
let the colors and decorative elements speak
for the piece rather than having really fancy
forms that interfere with that,” he said.
Pizzichillo chooses bold colors and uses
innovative designs, patterns and elements, including glass shards, strings and pieces that
are applied to the surface.
Blown glass pieces are made from scratch
using the highest quality of raw material, Pizzichillo said, onto which layers of vibrant colored glass are applied using different decorative techniques that demand great precision.
Pizzichillo’s work demonstrates the incalmo
technique, an ancient glass-making process
of fusing two or more blown glass elements.
Pizzichillo said everything he makes is with
“lots of love and passion.”
“I like to take my time. I’m kind of old
school. That’s pretty much the life I’ve lived:
hard work, lots of passion and hopefully a
little bit of magic,” he said.
This year, Pizzichillo will have two spaces
at the art festival, and he will be showing a
little bit of everything, including incalmo wall
platters, big glass sculptures, garden art, as
well as mixed-media and mosaic wall pieces
by Gordon.
Redwood Valley-based artist Gail Rushmore Nidros’ introduction to the art of ceramics was serendipitous. Nidros was taking
a raku pottery class at Mendocino College in
1993 with a friend and was captivated by the
process of creating 3-D forms.
“I had never felt attracted to the medium
before that,” she said.
This discovery opened a whole new world
of possibilities for Nidros, whose previous art
experience had only been two-dimensional.
Nidros, who received a graphic arts degree from the University of Washington, has
worked in a variety of media, including painting and drawing, which gave her a good foundation for her current work in clay sculptures,
she said.
“I still consider myself a designer and feel
that this often shows in my work,” Nidros
said.
Clay is intimate and impressionable, which
allows artists to create “almost any image
from your mind,” she said.
“The possibilities are limitless, though they
say that there is nothing new. ... I prefer to
think that we all put our personal spin or personal story in the art that we create. And that
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What: Palo Alto Clay & Glass Festival
When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, July 11, and
Sunday, July 12
Where: Palo Alto Art Center, at 1313 Newell
Road, Palo Alto
Cost: Free
Information: acga.net
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SALES AT A GLANCE
(continued from page 31)
Menlo Park
Total sales reported: 3
Lowest sales price: $1,925,000
Highest sales price: $4,400,000
Total sales reported: 18
Lowest sales price: $685,000
Highest sales price: $5,495,000
Belmont
Mountain View
Total sales reported: 13
Lowest sales price: $1,070,000
Highest sales price: $2,051,000
Total sales reported: 17
Lowest sales price: $645,000
Highest sales price: $3,220,000
East Palo Alto
Palo Alto
Total sales reported: 2
Lowest sales price: $570,000
Highest sales price: $755,000
Total sales reported: 14
Lowest sales price: $1,100,000
Highest sales price: $6,300,000
Los Altos
Portola Valley
Total sales reported: 10
Lowest sales price: $1,100,000
Highest sales price: $5,500,000
Total sales reported: 2
Lowest sales price: $2,640,000
Highest sales price: $2,670,000
Los Altos Hills
Total sales reported: 3
Lowest sales price: $2,420,000
Highest sales price: $3,790,000
Woodside
Total sales reported: 7
Lowest sales price: $1,400,000
Highest sales price: $21,500,000
Source: California REsource
HOME SALES
Home sales are provided by California REsource, a real estate information company that obtains
the information from the County
Recorder’s Office. Information
is recorded from deeds after the
close of escrow and published
within four to eight weeks.
East Palo Alto
2277 Capitol Ave. E. & G. Solorio to E. Solorio for $290,000 on
4/27/15
453 East O’Keefe St. #107
D. & R. Killmon to T. Peng for
$538,000 on 4/23/15; previous
sale 3/04, $369,000
427 Wisteria Drive D. Julian to S.
Herrick for $515,000 on 4/23/15
Los Altos
100 1st St. #110 Los Altos
Limited to Sarpa Trust for
$1,605,500 on 5/8/15
926 Aura Way Rassai Trust to
Phukan Trust for $3,200,000 on
5/7/15
395 South Gordon Way Best
Trust to A. & A. Faaborg for
$3,900,000 on 5/4/15; previous
sale 7/00, $2,300,000
1220 Monte Verde Court Wu
Trust to T. Huynh for $3,069,000
on 5/4/15; previous sale 2/12,
$1,409,000
404 Traverso Ave. Eggers Trust
to W. Chen for $3,700,000 on
5/4/15; previous sale 6/79,
$198,000
11 View St. Hafner Trust to
R. & K. Gluss for $2,827,000
on 5/8/15; previous sale 9/97,
$730,000
Los Altos Hills
25566 Fernhill Drive Allison
Trust to N. & A. Kelman for
$2,552,000 on 5/5/15; previous
sale 12/06, $1,565,000
Menlo Park
2061 Ashton Ave. M. Haag to
A. Ramanathan for $1,875,000
on 4/24/15; previous sale 9/09,
$973,000
2101 Harkins Ave. Case Trust to
C. Lo for $1,600,000 on 4/24/15;
previous sale 11/77, $109,500
958 Hermosa Way J. & S.
Randall to Sibu Limited for
$8,950,000 on 4/24/15; previous
sale 8/11, $6,100,000
1135 Madera Ave. S. Lin to R.
Hong for $870,500 on 4/27/15
15 Susan Gale Court Castro Trust to Moran Trust for
$3,000,000 on 4/24/15; previous
sale 9/02, $1,300,000
600 Willow Road #22 R. Ross
to S. & A. Collins for $1,425,000
on 4/23/15; previous sale 2/05,
$730,000
Mountain View
1187 Barbara Ave. Correia Trust
to E. & Y. Garten for $2,500,000
on 5/5/15
201 Flynn Ave. #17 J. Stephan
to M. Fong for $925,000 on
5/6/15
1909 Fordham Way L. Shean
to Hannan Trust for $2,700,000
on 5/7/15; previous sale 11/06,
$1,515,000
115 Pacchetti Way Y. Weng to
Green Valley Group Investors for
$890,000 on 5/8/15; previous
sale 7/13, $750,000
11 Paragon Court A. Sodeifi to
J. Tao for $1,430,000 on 5/7/15;
previous sale 7/11, $765,000
255 South Rengstorff Ave. #35
Clyde Trust to J. Nguyen for
$530,000 on 5/5/15
102 Savannah Loop Robson
Homes to D. Trembovetski for
$1,613,000 on 5/8/15
49 Showers Drive #T410 W.
Araujo to Boldrey Trust for
$1,400,000 on 5/7/15; previous
sale 10/92, $234,000
853 Sladky Ave. Battat Trust
to Lee Trust for $2,050,000 on
5/6/15
1857 Villa St. Ced Trust to
L. Choong for $1,500,000 on
5/4/15; previous sale 8/97,
$325,000
332 Whisman Station Drive
Chang Trust to L. Wang for
$1,122,000 on 5/6/15; previous
sale 8/10, $530,000
928 Wright Ave. #506 L. & C.
Walkowiak to J. Simantov for
$950,000 on 5/5/15; previous
sale 4/06, $540,000
Palo Alto
420 Cambridge Ave. #4 Gurle
Trust to A. Himel for $2,100,000
on 5/5/15; previous sale 12/11,
$1,500,000
2535 South Court Ralls Real
Estate to Z. Xia for $2,888,000
on 5/4/15; previous sale 7/91,
$380,000
2815 South Court Tomasevich
Trust to Prime Property Holdings
for $2,550,000 on 5/7/15
3492 Janice Way Sommer Trust
to N. Murugesan for $2,350,000
on 5/6/15
1145 Lincoln Ave. Taylor Trust
to N. Black for $2,310,000 on
5/7/15
426 Matadero Ave. Vincent
Trust to A. Kurich for $1,992,500
on 5/6/15; previous sale 3/97,
$405,000
896 Newell Road Y. & C. Kubba
to A. Banwasi for $2,300,000 on
5/7/15
4133 Park Blvd. Heiman Trust
to Kumar Trust for $1,551,000
on 5/8/15; previous sale 8/02,
$604,000
444 San Antonio Road #2D
Light Trust to S. Krishnamurthy
for $1,550,000 on 5/8/15; previous sale 6/03, $660,000
552 Tennyson Ave. R. Unz to
B. & S. Sihota for $6,000,000
on 5/5/15; previous sale 11/89,
$614,000
644 Wellsbury Way Bateman
Trust to Z. Xia for $2,750,000
on 5/5/15; previous sale 1/86,
$236,000
Portola Valley
31 Aliso Way Kelly Trust to R.
Mahadevan for $2,250,000 on
4/24/15
308 Canyon Drive Margolin Trust
to Mitic Trust for $3,205,000
on 4/24/15; previous sale 9/14,
$2,950,000
56 El Rey Road B. & M. Margetson to Bacvanski-Gong Trust for
$1,681,000 on 4/24/15; previous
sale 6/83, $295,000
BUILDING PERMITS
Palo Alto
827 Chimalus Drive temporary
power, $n/a
744 Ramona St. residential
kitchen remodel with no exterior
changes, $26,500
860 Center Drive install new
tankless water heater and gas
line, can lights, outlets and circuit, $n/a
1331 Alma St. replace furnace
and add air conditioning, $n/a
830 Garland Drive kitchen/bath
remodel and electric service upgrade, $45,000
2724 Ross Road roof-mounted
PV system, $n/a
901 Elsinore Drive roof-mounted PV system, $n/a
813 Cowper St. bathroom remodel, which includes adding a
skylight and pocket door, infilling
a window, and removing chimney
above the roof (existing chimney
previously removed), $9,400
555 Coleridge Ave. landscape
permit to demolish pool and
spa, and add storage area, landscaping walls, barbecue, trellis,
outdoor lighting, fire pit, fountain
and irrigation system, $400,000
1822 Edgewood Drive residential sewer line repair from pipe
burst, $n/a
744 Holly Oak Drive dry rot repair, $4,000
2543 Louis Road electric service
upgrade, $n/a
41 Tevis Place addition, existing
one-story house remodel, new
covered porches, exterior door
and window replacement, and
new bay windows, $103,847
2395 Greer Road replace windows and doors, $15,000
3826 Magnolia Drive new pool,
spa and associated equipment,
$200,000
1501 California Ave. revision
to phase 1 on-site improvements. Work includes changing
the property line at lot 1, and lot
heights at lots 5, 7 and 19 to reduce retaining wall heights; and
relocating gas manifold at multifamily building and utility laterals
going to lot 1, $n/a
makes it new,” she said.
Her artwork starts with a careful thought
process, she explained. When creating her
tall ethnic clay figures, called “robes,” Nidros starts at the top with the head.
“I may have thought that I would make a
specific culture, but when the face is done,
it can change when I see it finished,” she
said. “The body is made from a slab of
clay rolled and stood up to create the robe.
From there it is a lot of detail work to create the designs and embellishments.”
After a week of drying time, the sculpture goes through a bisque firing before it
is glazed and put into a hot kiln and quickly removed at its maximum temperature
and allowed to cool in the open air — a
process known as raku.
A robe will take about two weeks to
complete, although pieces are finished in
various stages of the process, Nidros said.
“It is always interesting to see the results
because there is often a little magic in the
outcome,” she said. “Though you think
you have control, each firing has its own
unique outcome, which continues to keep
it interesting for me.”
This will be Nidros’ first time at the Clay
& Glass Festival, and she is looking forward to showcasing her work as well as
talking to the general public and getting
feedback.
“It’s nice to get out of my quiet studio
and into the real world once in a while,”
she said. Q
Digital Editor My Nguyen can be
emailed at mnguyen@paweekly.com.
Photo courtesy Association of Clay and Glass Artists
Atherton
Artist Gail Rushmore Nidros likes to
tell stories with her clay art, such as
this sculpture titled “African Royalty.”
A designer with an interest in cultural
ornamentation, she raku-fires each piece,
which adds a little bit of “magic” to the
final result, she says.
DELEON REALTY
PALO ALTO
SPECIALISTS
As home to world-renowned Stanford University
and a multitude of high-tech companies, Palo Alto is the
epicenter of Silicon Valley in all regards. From its vibrant
downtown to its architecturally diverse neighborhoods, let
our specialists at DeLeon Realty show you why Palo Alto is
truly a choice place to live.
®
North Palo Alto 650.513.8669 | kevin@deleonrealty.com
South Palo Alto 650.581.9899 | alexander@deleonrealty.com
www.deleonrealty.com | CalBRE #01903224
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1 2 5 9 P I N E S T. , PA L O A LT O
Outstanding Community Center Location
• Three roomy bedrooms
• Two bathrooms
• Spacious eat-in kitchen
• Living room with wood burning fireplace
• Dual pane windows and hardwood flooring
• Large, highly desirable lot
• 1,400 sq. feet living space approx.
• 8,100 sq. foot lot approx.
• Ideally located in the Community Center
neighborhood with close proximity to:
– Rinconada Park and pool
– Walter Hayes Elementary School
– Palo Alto main library
– Palo Alto children’s library
– Junior Museum and Zoo
– Palo Alto children’s theatre
– Prestigious Palo Alto Schools
O F F E R E D AT
$2,498,000
LISTED BY
Timothy Foy calBRE# 00849721
Cell: 650.387.5078 Tim@midtownpaloalto.com
CO-LISTED BY
Jane Volpe calBRE# 01330133
Cell: 650.380.4507 Jane@midtownpaloalto.com
Midtown Realty, Inc. • 2775 Middlefield Road • Phone: 650.321.1596 • WWW.MIDTOWNPALOALTO.COM
O P E N S AT U R D AY & S U N D AY F R O M 1 : 3 0 - 4 : 3 0 P M
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105 WIDEVIEW CT. REDWOOD CITY (EMERALD HILLS)
COMING SOON
O
ne of a kind unobstructed
view! Private and beautifully
situated on a Court lot with
over 200 degree views of the Bay
and City Lights. This is a custom built
contemporary home, first time ever
on the market with 5 bedrooms, 3 full
baths with 4,030 sq.ft. of living space
and 24,390 sq.ft. lot.
Just minutes to Downtown Redwood
City, Whole Foods, Sequoia Station,
Clatrain, highway 280 and 101.
Gil Oraha
BROKER ASSOCIATE
CalBre#01355157
650.889.0889
gil.oraha@cbnorcal.com
www.giloraha.com
OPEN HOUSE
SAT. & SUN. 1:30 - 4:30
560 MENLO OAKS DRIVE
MENLO PARK
E
nchanting French Country style home in
Menlo Park’s beautiful Menlo Oaks neighborhood. This 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom home
has wonderful curb appeal and combines
old-world charm with modern amenities. A
perfect family home in Menlo Park, it has an
ideal floor plan with 4 bedrooms upstairs and
one downstairs, along with a separate office,
eat-in kitchen, family room and playground-like
backyard.
All in close proximity to both downtown Palo
Alto and Menlo Park, Stanford, commuter
routes and excellent Menlo Park schools.
Offered at $2,999,000 | www.560MenloOaks.com
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Monica Corman, Broker
Mandy Montoya
License #01111473
License #01911643
mcorman@apr.com
www.MonicaCorman.com 650.543.1164
mmontoya@apr.com
650-823-8212 www.MandyMontoya.com
Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. Sq. ft. and/or acreage information contained herein has been received from seller, existing reports, appraisals, public records and/or other sources deemed reliable.
Neither seller nor listing agent has verified this information. If this information is important to buyer in determining whether to buy or the purchase price, buyer should conduct buyer’s own investigation.
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Woodside Country Living with Spectacular Views
280 Family Farm Road | Woodside | Price upon request
Just Listed – Open Saturday 7/11 & Sunday 7/12 1:30-4:30pm
G
et the best of both worlds…leave the city behind and
within a short drive come enjoy all of the benefits of
country living in this charming 4 BR / 4.5 BA home with
surrounding views of the Western hills and the 1,189-acre Jasper
Ridge Biological Preserve. Positioned on a private knoll close to
town, the home combines the touches from its origins as a midcentury hunting lodge with the functionality brought through
recent upgrades. In addition to the two-story main home, the
property has two guesthouses, a pool & cabana, a two-car carport
and a three-car garage. On its 6.02 acres, the property plays host to
a wide range of heritage trees and some of the area’s best wildlife.
# 1 Agents 2014
in Woodside/PV office
HELEN & BRAD MILLER
(650) 400-3426 (650) 400-1317
helenhuntermiller@gmail.com
brad.miller@cbnorcal.com
www.HelenAndBradHomes.com
www.280FamilyFarmRoad.net
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CalBRE #01142061, #00917768
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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services Sand Hill Estates, Woodside
Ano Nuevo Scenic Ranch, Davenport
$35,000,000
$19,800,000
$24,800,000
Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello & Cutty Smith Lic.#01343305 & 01444081
Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305
Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Greg Goumas Lic.#01242399, 00709019, 01878208
11627 Dawson Drive, Los Altos Hills
6 Quail Meadow Drive, Woodside
10440 Albertsworth Lane, Los Altos Hills
5 Betty Lane, Atherton
$23,995,000
Call for Price
$11,488,000
Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019
Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#0187820
Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas & John Reece, Lic.#01878208 & 00838479
245 Mountain Wood Lane, Woodside
25 Oakhill Drive, Woodside
669 Hayne Road, Hillsborough
$8,750,000
$8,250,000
$7,950,000
Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019
Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305
Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019,
13195 Glenshire Drive, Truckee
11030 Magdalena Road, Los Altos Hills
138 Bolivar Lane, Portola Valley
$6,900,000
$6,500,000
$6,488,000
Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208
Listing Provided by: David Troyer, Lic.#01234450
Listing Provided by: Irene Reed & Greg Goumas, Lic.# 01879122 & 01878208
1100 Mountain Home Rd.,Woodside
38 Hacienda Drive, Woodside
1250 Miramontes Street, Half Moon Bay
$5,850,000
$5,450,000
$3,200,000
Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019
Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019
Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305
See the complete collection
w w w.InteroPrestigio.com
Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved.
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• www.PaloAltoOnline.com
All information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with another broker.
®
®
11627 Dawson Drive
Los Altos Hills, CA
The Dawson Estate aka Rancho San Antonio sits on 5.7 acres with private western hills exposure. The large estate boasts California living
at its finest. Behind the gates and at the end of a private entrance, one approaches a grand circular driveway. Reminiscent of the Santa
Barbara/Montecito 30’s architecture, Rancho San Antonio shows over 16,000 square feet of living area that includes a main residence
with 4 bedrooms and 8 (4 full/4 half) bathrooms. A grand and spacious living room features old growth clear heart redwood beams.
The bedroom wing has a master bedroom and 3 additional bedrooms. The kitchen and formal dining room wing feature an office/board
room. Below the kitchen is a servants/guest wing that includes a 5000+ bottle wine cellar, 2 bedrooms/1 bathroom, workout room and
kitchen. The open loggia leads to a beautiful courtyard/pool area. There is a 2 bedroom/1 bathroom guest/pool house with a 2 fireplaces.
Just beyond the pool area is a full size tennis court.
Video Tour: www.11627DawsonDrive.com
David Kelsey, REALTOR®
650.223.5588
david@dallaskelsey.com
PeninsulaEstatesGroup.com
Tom Dallas, REALTOR®
650.222.2788
tom@dallaskelsey.com
Lic.#01242399
Lic.#00709019
$23,995,000
®
2015 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned
subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved. All information deemed
reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with
another broker.
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OPEN
Saturday & Sunday 1:30-4:30
Prime Old Palo Alto
Rare 13,200 square foot lot (per city of Palo Alto)
Dimensions 120’ x 110’
546 Washington Avenue
4 bedrooms 3 bath
Offered at $5,895,000
Living area approx. 3,479 (buyer to verify)
Sharon Witte
Cell: 650.269.6700
sharon.witte@cbnorcal.com
www.sharonwitte.com
CalBRE # 00842833
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514 Laurel Avenue, Menlo Park
Offered at $2,498,000
New Home Boasts Designer Finishes
Offering soaring ceilings and designer finishes, this brand-new 4 bedroom,
3 bathroom home of 2,432 sq. ft. (per plans) stands on a lot of 7,000
sq. ft. (per county). Accented by oak hardwood floors and dimmable
lighting, the fine interior also features Andersen dual-pane windows, a
Nest thermostat, Sonos speakers, and quartz countertops. Spacious and
light-filled, the living area flows into a family and dining room ensemble
boasting a Montigo gas fireplace. The sleek, open kitchen enjoys Silestone
countertops and Thermador appliances, and all bathrooms provide
designer sink and shower fixtures. A central hallway links a private
guest bedroom with three more bedrooms, including a grand master
suite with a sky-lit soaking tub. Freshly landscaped lawns, a standingseam metal roof, and a rear-entry garage complete this lovely
property. Located in a beautiful neighborhood with wide, quiet
streets, this home is near Willow Oaks Park, Bayshore Freeway, and
Ravenswood Shopping Center. Excellent nearby schools include
Laurel Elementary (API 927), Hillview Middle (API 950), and
Menlo-Atherton High (buyer to verify eligibility).
For video tour & more photos, please visit:
www.514Laurel.com
OPEN HOUSE
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Sunday, 1:30 - 4:30 pm
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Ken
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CalBRE #01854880
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Just Listed by Sherry Bucolo
Open Sat & Sun
2:00 - 5:00pm
1576 Hamilton Avenue
North Palo Alto
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Offered at $2,975,000
SHERRY BUCOLO
650.207.9909
sbucolo@apr.com
www.SherryBucolo.com
BRE #00613242
Top 1% of Realtors Nationwide
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65 SELBY LANE, ATHERTON | $11,800,000
| WWW.65SELBY.COM
OPEN SUNDAY 1:30- 4:30
OPEN SUNDAY 1:30- 4:30
3 VINEYARD HILL RD, WOODSIDE | $8,495,000
97 MANDARIN WAY, ATHERTON | $7,200,000
www.3vineyardhillroad.com
www.97Mandarin.com
These adjoining properties can be purchased together.
OPEN SUNDAY 1:30- 4:30
OPEN SUNDAY 1:30- 4:30
555 MANZANITA WAY, WOODSIDE | $8,980,000
740 WHISKEY HILL ROAD, WOODSIDE | $4,980,000
www.555manzanita.com
MARY GULLIXSON
650.888.0860
mary@apr.com
License# 00373961
www.740whiskeyhill.com
BRENT GULLIXSON
650.888.4898
brentg@apr.com
License# 01329216
gullixson.com
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Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. Square footage and/or acreage information contained herein has been received from seller, existing
reports, appraisals, public
records
and/or
other• sources
However, neither seller nor listing agent has verified this information. If this information is important to buyer in determining whether to buy or to purchase price, buyer should conduct buyer’s own investigation.
4151 C ON V ER SE S TR EET, F R EMONT
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Remodeled and
Expanded Beauty
5 Bedrooms | 4 Full Bathrooms
2,835 Sq. Ft. | 7,205 Sq. Ft. Lot
Remodeled and expanded in 2007, this beautiful home features five bedrooms and
four full baths. Chef's kitchen with marble counters and backsplash, Wolf range
and breakfast bar. Dining and living area with wood burning fireplace, separate
generous family/media room with double doors leading to concrete stamped patio
and large rear yard. Master bedroom with views of mountains. Two closets, master
bath with white Italian Carrara marble flooring and finishes, shower enclosure and
Jacuzzi tub. Additional bedrooms offer privacy by being on separate sides of home,
office alcove off upstairs landing. Two car garage with laundry area. Home offers
two additional storage sheds/workshops.
Offered at $1,077,000 | www.obeo.com/1036179
Cottage style home with
fresh exterior paint, great
potential for expansion.
Buyers to check expansion
possibilities with City.
Well maintained yards
with fruit trees — peach,
lemon and orange. Located
near schools, public transportation and commuter routes. Spacious
driveway for up to six vehicles. Two car carport/storage. Fully fenced
yards. Offered at $499,000
MARIA DE PRIETO
Realtor Associate
650-387-3484 Direct
mprieto@rwilbur.com
www.prietohomes.com
Cal BRE#01210185
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4 2 0 6 R I C K E Y ’ S W AY, # N
PALO ALTO
ocated in one of the most central areas of
Silicon Valley, this contemporary endunit townhouse is only 7 years old and is
situated in the prestigious Arbor Real community of
Palo Alto. This spectacular 3 bedroom 2.5
bathroom home offers one of the largest living
spaces at approximately 2,081 sq.ft. It is wonderfully
located in the quiet and private interior part of the
complex, overlooking greenbelt view. The grand
living room is accented with a full wall of windows
and warmed by a cozy gas fireplace. The gourmet
kitchen is fully open to the family room and dining
area and it is equipped with chic stainless steel
appliances, breakfast bar and beautiful granite
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countertops. The grand master suite provides a
stunning retreat, complete with his-and-her walk-in
closets. The en-suite master bathroom features a
sunken bathtub perfect for pure relaxation. Light
and bright, the open concept floor plan is
complemented with high ceilings and recessed
lighting throughout the house. There are hardwood
floors in the living areas and berber carpet in the
bedrooms areas, dual paned windows, dual zone
heating, central A/C and inside laundry room (washer
& dryer included). Adding to the appeal is the wraparound patio which is perfect for BBQ and outdoor
enjoyment. A spacious attached side-by-side 2 car
garage offers a large extra storage area.
• The monthly HOA fee is very reasonable at
$315/month and the HOA amenities include
a community swimming pool, club house,
community garden, playground
and car wash area.
• Just moments away from major employers,
shopping, dining, Cal Train station,
and commuter routes.
• Excellent Palo Alto schools - Juana Briones
Elementary, Terman Middle and Gunn High
(buyer to verify)
OFFERED AT $1,749,000
www.4206Rickeys.com
Sunny Kim
David Chung
650.823.5546
skim@apr.com
650.302.6027
dchung@apr.com
DRE#01871036
DRE# 01215151
www.DavidandSunny.com
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Coldwell Banker
#1 IN CALIFORNIA
Palo Alto
$5,795,000
1730 Webster St. Remodeled in Old PA | 10,000 lot | 4 beds, 2.5
ba | Kitchen-family Great Room | PA schools 4 BR/2.5 BA
Palo Alto
Sun 1:30 - 4:30
$5,495,000
1523 Hamilton Ave 2-Level Custom Home Built by Current
Owners in 2012. Amazing Grand Chef ’s Kit. Large Lot 4 BR/3.5 BA
Woodside
$4,549,000
Estate home on 5 acs w/ gorgeous ocean views. Chef ’s kitchen,
spacious decks & tennis ct! 4 BR/3 full BA + 2 half
Billy McNair
Greg Stange
Valerie Trenter
CalBRE #01343603
650.324.4456
CalBRE #01418179
650.325.6161
CalBRE #01367578
650.323.7751
Portola Valley
Sun 1:30 - 4:30
$4,495,000
380 Portola Rd Country charm merges with luxurious English style
equestrian estate. Historic windmill! 4 BR/4 BA
Palo Alto
Sun 1:30 - 5
$4,398,000
2570 Webster Stunning, Bright, Custom Built New Home to fill
every need. 5 bedrooms with 3 suites. 5 BR/4.5 BA
San Mateo County
By appointment
$3,888,000
www.222PortolaStateParkRoad.com 38 Acres with rustic 2BD,2BA
and 4 stall horse barn.
Judy Byrnes
Judy Shen
Jan Strohecker
CalBRE #01178998
650.851.2666
CalBRE #01272874
650.325.6161
CalBRE #00620365
650.325.6161
Portola Valley
Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30
$2,795,000
23 Linaria Way. Ladera – spacious 4/3.5 - over 3,490 sq. ft. Singlelevel/pool/atrium/beamed-ceilings. 4 BR/3.5 BA
Portola Valley
Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30
$2,678,000
149 Corte Madera Rd. Gorgeous remodeled contemporary –
4/2.5 – high ceilings, light-filled on private 1/3 acre. 4 BR/2.5 BA
Redwood City
$2,598,000
105 Wideview Ct One of a kind unobstructed view! Just minutes
to Caltrain, highways 280 & 101. 5 BR/3 BA
Mia Banks
Mia Banks
Gil Oraha
CalBRE #01890669
650.324.4456
Menlo Park
$2,495,000
Tranquil retreat. Chef ’s kitch, DR & spacious FR overlook private
oasis w/ lawn & gardens. 4 BR/2.5 BA
CalBRE #01890669
650.324.4456
CalBRE #01355157
650.325.6161
Menlo Park
$1,999,999
Residence + commercial space! Los Lomitas Schools. Corner lot!
www.1902valparaiso.com 3 BR/2 BA
650.323.7751
Los Altos
Sat & Sun 1-4pm
$2,295,000
Fab Remod 4BD/3BA HM in quiet Cul-de-sac, Lvg Rm, F/dining,
Frplc, Hwd Flr, Family Rm, Remod Kitchen, huge Sun-room, Solar
system, lush landscaped Gdn.
Nina Style
CalBRE #01237737
415.447.8800
Menlo Park
Sat/Sun 2 - 4
$1,995,000
230 Santa Margarita Av Charm & total privacy! Situated on a beautiful wide lot of apprx. 8000 sf. Top MP Schools. 3 BR/2 BA
Redwood City
$779,000
2316 Spring St. New kitchen w/ granite counter top, new stove,
dishwasher, & microwave. 3 BR/2 BA
San Mateo
$699,000
Spacious TH w/patio, secure building, underground garage, two
storage rooms, elevator. 2 BR/2 BA
Barbara Piuma
Amelia Middel
Maha Najjar
John Alexander
CalBRE #00938234
CalBRE #00938609
650.851.2666
CalBRE #01103989
650.324.4456
Jennifer Lovazzano
CalBRE #01230431
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ATHERTON
5 Bedrooms
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Sun
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4 Beds/3Baths. This multi-level
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380 Portola Rd
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180 Escobar Rd
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111 Carmel Wy
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1653 Anamor St
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Sun
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1042 Wilmington Wy
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Sun
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1939 Rock St. #16
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97 Mandarin Way
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5 Bedrooms
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155 Pets
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201 Autos/Trucks/
Parts
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202 Vehicles Wanted
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Call 800-731-5042 (Cal-SCAN)
133 Music Lessons
Christina Conti Private Piano
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203 Bicycles
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210 Garage/Estate
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145 Non-Profits
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215 Collectibles &
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Mind
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425 Health Services
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455 Personal Training
237 Barter
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330 Child Care
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715 Cleaning
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Across
1 “Hey, sailor!”
5 Ambien amount, e.g.
9 Wear away
14 Command represented by an
outdated floppy disk
15 Milky gem
16 Radio tube gas
17 Dairy product used to fill a
pastry?
20 Car ad fig.
21 Abbey recess
22 “2001” hardware
23 Gold amount
25 Agrologist’s study
27 Round figure?
30 One, in Verdun
31 Not as vigorous
33 Sweet statue of Sean Combs in
the late ‘90s?
37 It may be Photoshopped out in
school photos
38 17th Greek letter
39 Strap on a stallion
40 Part of the theme song for
Blossom, Bubbles, or Buttercup?
45 Like reserved seats
46 Whence farm fresh eggs
47 Name in “Talks”
48 Goes pfft
50 In a class by ___
54 Improve, in the wine cellar
55 Brick in the organics section
57 He played Jim in “The Doors”
58 Frivolous article in the middle of
the page?
63 Previous conviction, informally
64 Peas, for a pea shooter
65 “Desperate Housewives” character Van de Kamp
66 Lots of paper
67 Like 7-Eleven, right now
68 1990s puzzle game set in an
island world
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Down
1 Arts acronym
2 Curly-haired Marx brother
3 Hardly in hiding
4 “I approve the motion!”
5 Aural “shift” named for physicist
Christian
6 ___ Dei (“The Da Vinci Code”
group)
7 Strongboxes
8 North Pole laborer
9 Let it out
10 Film spool
11 “___ Crazy Summer” (Cusack/
Moore rom-com)
12 MS-___
13 Reverse of WSW
18 Hawaii’s ___ Kea
19 Boss
24 Hip-hop trio with Lauryn Hill
26 “Get ___ My Cloud” (Rolling
Stones hit)
27 Like some siblings
28 Changed the decor of
29 ___ Mawr, PA
32 Empire builders
33 Make a point
34 Without a hitch?
35 “Oooh, you said a swear!” type
36 “Weird Al” Yankovic cult movie
37 Calendar entry, for short
41 Hammerstein’s musical collaborator
42 Practitioner, as of a trade
43 Sheer fabric
44 In a riled state
49 Ask a tough trivia question
51 Not just some
52 They hold kicks together
53 Armada
54 Lepton’s locale
56 “You want a piece ___?”
58 EMT’s special skill
59 Palindromic poetry preposition
60 “Boyz N the Hood” actress Long
61 Kung ___ shrimp
62 Watson’s creator
R.G. Landscape
Drought tolerant native landscapes and
succulent gardens. Demos, installations,
maint. Free est. 650/468-8859
751 General
Contracting
A NOTICE TO READERS:
It is illegal for an unlicensed person
to perform contracting work on any
project valued at $500.00 or more in
labor and materials. State law also
requires that contractors include
their license numbers on all advertising. Check your contractor’s status
at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB
(2752). Unlicensed persons taking
jobs that total less than $500.00
must state in their advertisements
that they are not licensed by the
Contractors State License Board.
757 Handyman/
Repairs
Handyman Services
Lic. 249558. Plumb, elect., masonry, carpentry, landscape. 40+ years exp. Pete
Rumore, 650/823-0736; 650/851-3078
AAA HANDYMAN & MORE
767 Movers
Sunny Express Moving Co.
Afforable, Reliable, Refs. CalT #191198.
650/722-6586 or 408/904-9688
771 Painting/
Wallpaper
Glen Hodges Painting
Call me first! Senior discount.
45 yrs. #351738. 650/322-8325
H.D.A. Painting and Drywall
Interior/exterior painting, drywall
installed. Mud, tape all textures. Free est.
650/207-7703
Mtn. View Asphalt Sealing
Driveway, parking lot seal coating.
Asphalt repair, striping, 30+ years.
Family owned. Free est. Lic. 507814.
650/967-1129
Roe General Engineering
Asphalt, concrete, pavers, tiles, sealing,
artificial turf. 36 yrs exp. No job too
small. Lic #663703. 650/814-5572
779 Organizing
Services
End the Clutter & Get Organized
Residential Organizing
by Debra Robinson
(650)390-0125
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LEMON TREE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 605202
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Lemon Tree, located at 3427 El Camino
Real, Santa Clara, CA 95051, Santa Clara
County.
This business is owned by: A Limited
Liability Company.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
Page 50 • July 10, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
Menlo Park, 2 BR/2 BA
2 BR/2Ba, 1100 sf mol, ground floor apt.
with private patio in Sharon Heights.
Large pool beyond, 2-car parking +
secure private storage. $3,250/mo. W/12
mo. Lease + security deposit. Includes
Cable TV + water & garbage. Nonsmokers only. Sorry, no pets.
By appointment, 650.561.0005
805 Homes for Rent
811 Office Space
Professional Office
Professional Office Half Time
Professional Office Space
Atherton/Redwood City —Quiet building with other professionals. Ideal for
start-up, agency, or other professional
group. Second floor 333 sq. ft. $1200.
Includes w/w carpet, heating/AC,
off-street parking, janitorial service &
utilities. Remodeled bathrooms.
Requires 6 mo. lease minimum.
Call Tom, 650-208-8624
815 Rentals Wanted
Horse Board Needed
PA/MV: 2BR or Inlaw Unit
in exchange for personal care by CNA.
23 yrs hospital/extended care exp. Local.
650/224-1870
Rental Wanted Aug ‘15 - June ‘16
I will be a fellow at Stan Hum Center,
‘15-16, looking for 1 or 2 br place near
The Loop to bike to work
825 Homes/Condos
for Sale
Belmont, 3 BR/2.5 BA - $1,399,999
Menlo Park , 2 BR/1 BA
Condo. Features: Wool carpet and hardwood, shades and drapes, 1 car garage,
partial utilities, pool, electric kitchen
with refrigerator, cooktop and
convection oven, storage, garbage
disposal, dishwasher, microwave,
balcony, washer and dryer in unit.
Los Altos, 4 BR/3.5 BA - $2,998,000
Redwood City, 3 BR/1.5 BA - $895,950
840 Vacation
Rentals/Time Shares
Share housing
Comments: Very clean, modern kitchen
design, 2nd (top) floor, modern
ceiling fans in bedrooms and living
room, modern electric fireplace/heater,
garage with workbench and storage.
Additional parking space. Please call.
(650) 793-1064 Menlo Park Las Lomitas,
3 BR/2 BA - $4500
850 Acreage/Lots/
Storage
Texas Land Sale
Near El Paso. $0 Down. 20 Acres - $128/mo.
- $16,900. Money Back Guarantee. Beautiful
Mountain Views. No Qualifying - Owner
Financing. 800-343-9444. (Cal-SCAN)
Redwood City (emerald Hills) - $5200
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775 Asphalt/
Concrete
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Full service painting. Insured.
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EAGLE DEEP
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 605242
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Eagle Deep, located at 2225 E. Bayshore
Rd., #200, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: A Limited
Liability Company.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
DEEP EAGLE LLC
2225 E. Bayshore Rd., #200
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on May 26, 2015.
(PAW June 19, 26, July 3, 10, 2015)
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J & G HAULING SERVICE
Misc. junk, office, gar., furn.,
mattresses, green waste, more.
Lic./ins. Free est. 650/743-8852
(see my Yelp reviews)
Since 1985
Repairs • Maintenance • Painting
Carpentry • Plumbing • Electrical
995 Fictitious Name
Statement
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LANDA’S GARDENING &
LANDSCAPING
*Yard Maint. *New Lawns. *Rototil
*Clean Ups *Tree Trim *Power Wash
*Irrigation timer programming.
19 yrs exp. Ramon, 650/576-6242
landaramon@yahoo.com
759 Hauling
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LEMON TREE LLC
3427 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95051
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on May 22, 2015.
(PAW June 19, 26, July 3, 10, 2015)
VINO LOCALE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 606000
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Vino Locale, located at 431 Kipling St.,
Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: A Limited
Liability Company.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
NEW WORLD VINES, LLC
1152 Channing Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 12, 2015.
(PAW June 26, July 3, 10, 17, 2015)
DELEON INTERNATIONAL REALTY, INC.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 605966
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Deleon International Realty, Inc., 2600
El Camino Real, Ste. 110, Palo Alto, CA
94306, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: A
Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
DELEON REALTY, INC.
2600 El Camino Real, Ste. 110
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
809 Shared Housing/
Rooms
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Call Jan 650-796-0357.
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 12, 2015.
(PAW June 26, July 3, 10, 17, 2015)
IVES COLLECTIVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 606239
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Ives Collective, located at 894 Garland
Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94303-3605, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: A Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
IVES STRING QUARTET INC.
894 Garland Drive
Palo Alto, CA 94303-3605
Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s)
listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the County
Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on
June 22, 2015.
(PAW June 26, July 3, 10, 17, 2015)
DREAM HOUSE CLEANING
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 605902
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Dream House Cleaning, located at 1521
Eden Av., San Jose, CA 95117, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
MARIA ALVARADO
1521 Eden Av.
San Jose, CA 95117
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 10, 2015.
(PAW June 26, July 3, 10, 17, 2015)
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MARCELLA CORTLAND
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 606172
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Marcella Cortland, located at 200
Sheridan Ave., Suite 306, Palo Alto, CA
94306, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: A Limited
Liability Company.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
TRILLIUM ENGINEERING, LLC
200 Sheridan Ave., Suite 306
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 18, 2015.
(PAW June 26, July 3, 10, 17, 2015)
SECURITY SPECIAL SERVICES TRAINING
ACADEMY
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 606037
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Security Special Services Training
Academy, located at 2905 Stender Way
#86-A, Santa Clara, CA 95054, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
WILLIE LEE JACKSON
325 Sylvan Ave #111
Mountain View, CA 94041
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 15, 2015.
(PAW June 26, July 3, 10, 17, 2015)
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SECURITY SPECIAL SERVICES
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 606038
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Security Special Services, located at
2905 Stender Way #86-A, Santa Clara, CA
95054, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
WILLIE LEE JACKSON
325 Sylvan Ave #111
Mountain View, CA 94041
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 06/10/15.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 15, 2015.
(PAW June 26, July 3, 10, 17, 2015)
ELITE MEDSPA
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 606326
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Elite Medspa, located at 855 El Camino
Real #95, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: A
Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
JUMPSTARTMD, INC.
350 Lorton Ave.
Burlingame, CA 94010
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 4/20/2015.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 24, 2015.
(PAW July 3, 10, 17, 24, 2015)
prAna
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 606440
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
prAna, located at 855 El Camino Real
Suite #1, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: A Limited
Liability Company.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
prAna Living, LLC
14375 NW Science Park Drive
Portland, OR 97229
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 26, 2015.
(PAW July 3, 10, 17, 24, 2015)
PALO ALTO VENTURE PUBLISHING
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 606400
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Palo Alto Venture Publishing, located
at 685 Encina Grande Dr., Palo Alto, CA
94306, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: Married
Couple.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
PATRICK KREJCIK
685 Encina Grande Dr.
Palo Alto, CA 94306
JENNIFER KREJCIK
685 Encina Grande Dr.
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 25, 2015.
(PAW July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2015)
CRAWFISH FUSION
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 606779
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as: Crawfish Fusion,
located at 423 University Ave., Palo Alto,
CA, 94301, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: A
Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
KJ CRAWFISH INC.
27400 Elena Rd.
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Registrant/Owner 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 July 7, 2015.
(PAW July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2015) 997 All Other Legals
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE
OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY
OF SANTA CLARA
Case No.: 115CV281752
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner:
SHRIKUMAR HARIHARASUBRAHMANIAN
& CHRISTINE ARNOLD filed a petition
with this court for a decree changing
names as follows:
a.) SANJAY AARYAMAN SHRIKUMAR
ARNOLD to SANJAY AARYAMAN
ARNOLD ATMAN
b.) ANDREAS KARTIK ATMAN to
ANDREAS KARTIK ARNOLD ATMAN.
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons
interested in this matter appear before
this court at the hearing indicated
below to show cause, if any, why the
petition for change of name should not
be granted. Any person objecting to the
name changes described above must
file a written objection that includes the
reasons for the objection at least two
court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the
hearing to show cause why the petition
should not be granted. If no written
objection is timely filed, the court may
grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING: September 15,
2015, 8:45 a.m., Room: 107, of the
Superior Court of California, County of
Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose,
CA 95113.
A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
shall be published at least once each
week for four successive weeks prior to
the date set for hearing on the petition
in the following newspaper of general
circulation, printed in this county:
PALO ALTO WEEKLY
Date: June 11, 2015
Thomas E. Kuhnle
JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT
(PAW June 19, 26, July 3, 10, 2015)
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. CA-14649009-AB Order No.: 140150172-CA-VOI
YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED
OF TRUST DATED 8/13/2003. 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 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 to the Financial Code and
authorized to do business in this state,
will be held by duly appointed trustee.
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. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT
TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT
DUE. Trustor(s): WILLIAM R. BECHTOLD
AND VIRGINIA J. BECHTOLD, TRUSTEES
OF THE BECHTOLD FAMILY REVOCABLE
TRUST, DATED FEBRUARY 16, 2001
Recorded: 8/18/2003 as Instrument No.
17276008 of Official Records in the office
of the Recorder of SANTA CLARA County,
California; Date of Sale: 7/17/2015 at
11:00:00 AM Place of Sale: At the North
Market Street entrance to the County
Courthouse, 191 North Market Street,
San Jose, CA 95113 Amount of unpaid
balance and other charges: $636,389.60
The purported property address is: 337
TENNYSON AVENUE, PALO ALTO, CA
94301 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 124-08-048
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 714-730-2727 for information
regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this
Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.
com , using the file number assigned to
this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-14649009-AB. 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. The undersigned
Trustee disclaims any liability for any
incorrectness of the property address or
other common designation, if any, shown
herein. 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. If the Trustee is unable to convey
title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be
the return of monies paid to the Trustee,
and the successful bidder shall have no
further recourse. 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. If you have previously been
discharged through bankruptcy, you may
have been released of personal liability
for this loan in which case this letter is
intended to exercise the note holders
right’s against the real property only. As
required by law, you are hereby notified
that a negative credit report reflecting
on your credit record may be submitted
to a credit report agency if you fail to
fulfill the terms of your credit obligations.
QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT
COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A
DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED
WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Date:
Quality Loan Service Corporation 411
Ivy Street San Diego, CA 92101 619-6457711 For NON SALE information only Sale
Line: 714-730-2727 Or Login to: http://
www.qualityloan.com Reinstatement
Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality
Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-14-649009AB IDSPub #0085349 6/26/2015 7/3/2015
7/10/2015
PAW
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE
OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY
OF SANTA CLARA
Case No.: 115CV281085
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner: ALICE ELIZABETH CARTER
filed a petition with this court for a
decree changing names as follows:
ALICE ELIZABETH CARTER to ALICE
ELIZABETH HAZELGROVE.
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons
interested in this matter appear before
this court at the hearing indicated
below to show cause, if any, why the
petition for change of name should not
be granted. Any person objecting to the
name changes described above must
file a written objection that includes the
reasons for the objection at least two
court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the
hearing to show cause why the petition
should not be granted. If no written
objection is timely filed, the court may
grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING: September 1,
2015, 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate, of the
Superior Court of California, County of
Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose,
CA 95113.
A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
shall be published at least once each
week for four successive weeks prior to
the date set for hearing on the petition
in the following newspaper of general
circulation, printed in this county:
PALO ALTO WEEKLY
Date: May 26, 2015
Thomas E. Kuhnle
JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT
(PAW July 3, 10, 17, 24, 2015)
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF:
PATRICIA M. WEISS, also known as
PATRICIA WEISS
Case No.: 115PR 176799
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,
contingent creditors, and persons who
may otherwise be interested in the will
or estate, or both, of PATRICIA M. WEISS,
also known as PATRICIA WEISS.
A Petition for Probate has been filed
by: DEBORAH EVANS SKIDMORE in the
Superior Court of California, County of
SANTA CLARA.
The Petition for Probate requests
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appointed as personal representative to
administer the estate of the decedent.
The petition requests the decedent’s
will and codicils, if any, be admitted to
probate. The will and any codicils are
available for examination in the file kept
by the court.
The petition requests authority to
administer the estate under the
Independent Administration of
Estates Act. (This authority will allow
the personal representative to take
many actions without obtaining court
approval. Before taking certain very
important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to
give notice to interested persons unless
they have waived notice or consented
to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be
granted unless an interested person files
an objection to the petition and shows
good cause why the court should not
grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held
on August 12, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.:
10 of the Superior Court of California,
County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N.
First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.
If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing
and state your objections or file written
objections with the court before the
hearing. Your appearance may be in
person or by your attorney.
If you are a creditor or a contingent
creditor of the decedent, you must file
your claim with the court and mail a
copy to the personal representative
appointed by the court within the later
of either (1) four months from the date
of first issuance of letters to a general
personal representative, as defined in
section 58 (b) of the California Probate
Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of
mailing or personal delivery to you
of a notice under section 9052 of the
California Probate Code. Other California
statutes and legal authority may affect
your rights as a creditor. You may want
to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
You may examine the file kept by the
court. If you are a person interested in
the estate, you may file with the court
a Request for Special Notice (form
DE-154) of the filing of an inventory
and appraisal of estate assets or of
any petition or account as provided in
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DATED 7/18/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE
ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY,
IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF
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On 7/31/2015 at 10:00 AM At the North
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Courthouse, 190 N. Market Street, San
Jose, California 95113, Old Republic Title
Company, a California corporation, as
the duly appointed Trustee under the
Deed of Trust recorded on 7/23/2007,
as Instrument No. 19521362, of Official
Records in the office of the Recorder of
Santa Clara County, California, executed
by: Bradley L. Ferguson and Virginia
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(payable at time of sale in lawful money
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trusts created by the Deed of Trust, to
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Shorts
JUNIOR GOLF . . . Portola Valley
resident Scout McNealy captured
the Boys’ 10-13 division at the 86th
annual NCGA Junior Championships
on Tuesday at Spyglass Hill Golf
Course in Pebble Beach. McNealy,
the youngest brother of Stanford
All-American Maverick McNealy,
fired rounds of 70-81 for a 151 total
to win by two shots. He finished his
36 holes with one eagle, three birdies, 20 pars and 12 bogeys. He was
2-under on his opening round, which
saw him get to 4-under following a
birdie on the 324-yard, par-4 13th
hole. He followed that, however, with
back-to-back bogeys before getting
pars on the final three holes. In the
boys’ overall competition, Jonathan
Dicks of Menlo Park tied for 23rd
with a 78-78-74-230 effort. Henry
Gordon of Palo Alto tied for 26th
with a 69-81-81-231 showing, Tyson
Dinsmore of Los Altos Hills tied for
28th (75-81-77-233) with Max Ting
of Atherton (80-71-82-233).
ON THE AIR
Monday
Baseball: MLB All-Star Game
Home Run Derby, 5 p.m.; ESPN
Tuesday
Baseball: MLB All-Star Game, 5
p.m.; FOX
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Stanford grads Kelley O’Hara (left) and Christen Press made their debuts at the FIFA World Cup a golden one.
This championship was worth the wait
Denied an NCAA title at Stanford, grads O’Hara and Press help win a World Cup crown
by Rick Eymer
K
elley O’Hara and Christen Press each made four
straight appearances in the
NCAA Tournament during their
soccer days at Stanford. Not once,
however, did either player come
away with a national title.
O’Hara missed from 2006-09
and Press from 2007-10. Stanford won its only NCAA crown
in 2011.
While it may have been disappointing for both players to leave
school without that crowning
achievement, both have some-
thing even better.
For the first time since 1999,
not only has the United States
won the FIFA Women’s World
Cup, but a Stanford player has
lifted the championship trophy.
In 1999, it was Julie Foudy, a
four-time first-team All-Ameri-
ca. On Sunday, it was O’Hara and
Press, former Stanford teammates
who now have captured soccer’s
ultimate prize — a World Cup
title following Team USA’s 5-2
triumph over Japan at BC Place
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PRO BASEBALL
It’s the Home Run Derby
before the All-Star Game
Paly High grad Pederson is selected to both MLB events
by Keith Peters
W
hile most of professional baseball will take a
break next week for
the annual MLB All-Star Game
and festivities, set for Cincinnati,
Palo Alto High grad Joc Pederson
won’t be among those with a few
days off.
Pederson will be in Cincinnati,
along with three of his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates, after being named to the National League
team as a reserve. Pederson is the
first Dodgers rookie All-Star
since pitcher Hideo Nomo in
1995.
Pederson said his first All-Star
nod was “extremely humbling”
and “something I dreamed about
as a kid.”
Pederson was a player selection, fourth among NL outfielders with 365 votes, behind elected
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starters Bryce Harper (680 votes)
and Giancarlo Stanton (626) and
Andrew McCutchen (421).
Pederson said it was an honor to
be selected by the players.
“It shows they respect the way I
play the game,” he said. “It’s a big
honor, that stuff doesn’t go unnoticed. I appreciate everybody that
voted for me.”
Pederson, who was batting just
.231 with 39 RBI and 46 runs
scored after Wednesday’s 5-0 win
over the Philadelphia Phillies, told
True Blue LA that he found out
about his all-star status in an unusual way from LA manager Don
Mattingly.
“Andrew (Friedman, Dodgers president of baseball operations) came up to me and said,
‘Don wants to talk to you in the
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HALL OF FAMERS . . . Two Olympic
champions, two legendary coaches
and two former standout local
athletes will all be honored at the
2015 Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame
Induction Banquet on July 23 at the
San Mateo County Event Center.
Palo Alto High graduates Mark and
Dave Schultz, who won gold medals in wrestling at the 1984 Summer
Olympics in Los Angeles, are among
the 10 inductees who have inspired
others with their leadership skills
and athletic abilities. Former Menlo
School baseball coach and Athletic
Director Craig Schoof and current
Pinewood girls basketball coach
Doc Scheppler also will be inducted,
as will former Menlo-Atherton High
track and field standout Chi Johnson
and former Menlo College and U.S.
National Team wrestler Sara Fulp
Allen. Also on the list of inductees
are Peter Ueberroth, the former MLB
Commissioner and Olympic Games
organizer from Burlingame High; former NFL player Ryan Boschetti from
Carlmont High; Aragon High cross
country and track coach Bill Daskarolis, and former Hillsdale High basketball standout Debbie Dyson. The
evening ceremony will begin with nohost cocktails at 5:30 p.m., followed
by dinner at 6:30 p.m. and then the
induction ceremony. Included will be
a raffle. Paid reservations will receive
complimentary tickets to Stanford’s
home football opener on Sept. 12.
RSVP by Friday, July 10 by calling
348-7600 or e-mail sportshalloffame@smccvb.com.
Palo Alto High grad Joc Pederson will make his debut in the MLB
Home Run Derby and All-Star Game next week.
YOUTH WATER POLO
Stanford WP Club
sends 18 to JOs
Boys will has a program-best 12 teams entered while
the girls have six teams qualified for national tourney
Noyola were with Mexico. All
were teammates on Stanford’s
2009 team that went 25-1, won the
Pac-10, and reached the school’s
first NCAA final.
Meanwhile, it was Carli Lloyd
who took the drama out of the
World Cup final in a rematch of
the 2011 finale that saw the U.S.
fall to Japan in penalty kicks.
As the United States hooped
and hollered, its women’s soccer team was taking no chances.
Japan wasn’t going to come back
this time.
Lloyd, the latest American hero,
recorded a hat trick and helped the
USA leave no doubt ti which was
the superior team as the Americans romped in the championship
match before 53,341 fans.
“I don’t think it has sunk in
yet,” Lloyd said. “I’m so mentally
fried. It was an unbelievable team
performance. We all held together
and stayed the course. What Jill
(Ellis) and the coaching staff did
won us the World Cup.”
Team USA showed it was on a
mission from the opening whistle.
Lloyd, named the World Cup’s
Most Outstanding Player, scored
twice in the first five minutes
and then later added one of the
greatest goals on any stage for a
hat trick less than 16 minutes into
the contest, leaving the Japanese
stunned, bewildered and, in some
cases, in tears.
“I’ve dreamed of scoring on a
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Stadium in Vancouver, B.C. .
“When you go to shower and
you have gold confetti stuck to
your butt, you know it’s been a
good day,” O’Hara happily Tweeted following the victory.
O’Hara entered as a substitute
for Megan Rapinoe in the 61st
minute and helped the U.S. finish out the triumph. O’Hara and
Press, who played four matches,
each scored a goal during the
tournament.
Stanford alumnae have been
part of every major U.S. championship, with at least one player
on teams that won World Cup
titles in 1991, 1999, and 2015,
and Olympic titles in 1996, 2004,
2008, and 2012.
Foudy is regarded among the
U.S. national team’s all-time
greats. She captained the team
during the 1999 World Cup,
which was won on penalty kicks
over China in front of a huge
crowd at the Rose Bowl. Though
the team had great success in the
Olympics, World Cup glory eluded the Americans until Sunday’s
victory over Japan.
The 24-team event included
five former Stanford players. Besides O’Hara and Press, Ali Riley played for New Zealand, and
Alina Garciamendez and Teresa
Sacred Heart Prep grads Will Conner (left) and Michael Swart are back with the Stanford 18A water
polo team, which was the top qualifier out of the Pacific Zone for the Junior Olympics.
(fourth), 12Bs (sixth) and 10U
mixed (fourth).
The Stanford Girls Water Polo
Club, meanwhile, has a lot of
room for improvement at JOs
with no team finishing higher
than 12th in the Platinum Division in ‘14.
The 18A team, which was 14th
last summer, recently finished
third at the Pacific Zone Qualifying. Stanford opened with a 17-0
win over Academy, romped to a
19-1 win over West Valley, lost to
Diablo, 7-6, before bouncing back
to defeat Lamorinda, 10-2.
Head coach Mark Hernandez
has two members from his Gunn
team on the roster — Sam Acker
and Bianca Batista plus Malaika
Koshy from Sacred Heart Prep.
The 18B team, coached by former Stanford University player
Kelsey Holshouser, also qualified
for JOs after finishing seventh. The
squad was 20th at JOs last year.
The Stanford !6A team, which
was 17th a year ago at JOs, finished third in the zone qualifying tournament behind 680A and
Diablo A.
“Our A team is a talented group
of individuals who have come together and are learning how to best
play together,” said head coach
Tatiana Dehned, who coaches
the Menlo-Atherton girls during
the fall. “They all have incredible
skills and now we are working on
bringing out their best qualities
for the greater good of the team.
We are able to hold our own in
competitive games and continue
to fight through while making adjustments and improvements.”
The Stanford 16B team, meanwhile, advanced to JOs after
finishing 10th. The 14A squad
was third and the 14B team was
11th, giving the Stanford girls six
squads for the Junior Olympics.
In other water polo news, Gunn
sophomore Zoe Banks and Sacred Heart Prep junior Maddy
Johnston were recently named to
the USA Water Polo Youth National Team, for players 18 years
of age and under. Banks also will
be playing for the Stanford Girls
Water Polo Club (16A team) in the
upcoming National Junior Olympics while Johnston will play for
the 680 18A squad. Q
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World Cup
T
Keith Peters
“We played well, but they are
still a little rusty at this point,”
head coach Brian Kreutzkamp
said of his players, who went 4-0
and toppled Lamorinda in the finals, 11-5. “I’m looking forward
to them getting in better shape
and making a deep run at the Junior Olympics.”
Kreutzkamp, who has coached
his Sacred Heart Prep boys to four
straight Central Coast Section Division II championships, likes the
roster he has for JOs.
“The roster has as much talent
as we have had in previous years,
possibly more depth this year,” he
said. “Most of them were on the
16U team two years ago that lost
in the championship game of the
JOs in a shootout.”
Kreutzkamp has a handful of
current and former SHP players
in Will Conner, Grant Harvey,
JC Marco, Nelson Perla-Ward
and Michael Swart. He also has
current Gunn standout Christian
Znidarisc plus Gunn grad Ari
Wayne plus Menlo School grad
Nick Bisconti and Menlo returnee
Chris Xi.
Also advancing to JOs for the
Stanford boys are the 18Bs (fifth),
16As (third), 16Bs (fifth), 16Cs
(11th), 16Ds (12th), 14As (second,
14Bs (sixth), 14Cs (18th), 12As
Keith Peters
by Keith Peters
he Stanford Water Polo
Club made some club history a year ago in the boys’
competition at the National Junior
Olympics, which the club hosted
at Stanford University and area
pools. Stanford placed five teams
among the top 12 in the Platinum
Division, more than any other
club in the country.
Now, with more teams (12)
qualified than ever before, the
Stanford boys hope to improve
upon last year’s effort when the
nation’s largest water polo tournament gets under way in Orange
County on July 25.
Following the boys’ competition that concludes July 28, the
girls will take to the pools from
July 29-Aug. 2.
Stanford has lots of room for
improvement with two more
teams qualified than before. Plus,
the club won just one medal last
year — a bronze by the 14&U
A team. The 18A team finished
fourth, the 16A team was fifth, the
12A squad was 10th and the 14B
team was 12th.
The top Stanford team heading
to JOs could be the 18A squad,
which finished first in the recent
Pacific Zone Qualifying Tournament.
The U.S. Senior National Team captured its first FIFA World Cup title since 1999 by defeating Japan on
Sunday, 5-2, in Vancouver, B.C. Stanford grads Kelley O’Hara and Christen Press each played a role.
shot like that,” Lloyd said. “When
you’re feeling good, you’re feeling
crazy.”
The image of Japan goalkeeper
Ayumi Kaihora lying on her back
in front of the net, her hands covering her face, moments after
Lloyd’s third goal tells the whole
story. It’s the heartbreak of knowing, on this day, your best wasn’t
good enough.
Japan managed to end the
Americans scoreless streak at 540
minutes, just shy of a Women’s
World Cup record, but that takes
a backseat to the greatest start to a
World Cup final in history.
It’s fitting that Lloyd, who
scored in each of the last four
matches, and had six in the tournament, becomes the face of such
a triumph. The woman who turns
33 later this month recorded the
fastest hat trick in Women’s World
Cup history.
“We just wrote history today,”
Lloyd said. “To bring this World
Cup home, it’s unbelievable.”
O’Hara and Press got to be part
of the celebration. O’Hara played
the final 30 minutes and was on
the field when the match ended.
Press did not play in the final
two matches but did score a goal
in the Americans 3-1 in over Australia. O’Hara scored against Germany. Q
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contributed to this story.
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Sports
Stanford athletes earn
international medals
by Rick Eymer
S
tanford juniors Lia Neal
and Akash Modi could be
sporting some heavy metal
when they return to school this
fall. That’s metal as in gold and
bronze.
They may not be the only
Cardinal athletes to return from
the World University Games in
Gwangju, South Korea, which
continues through Tuesday, with
a medal collection. Senior golfer
Lauren Kim and junior basketball player Erica McCall are in
position to earn medals in their
respective sports before the closing ceremony.
The Stanford women’s water
polo team, representing the United States, can finish no higher
than fifth place after dropping a
9-8 decision to Russia in Thursday’s quarterfinals.
Incoming freshman Madison
Berggren scored two of her three
goals in the fourth quarter, each
time tying the Russians, who
scored the game with just under
two minutes left.
In track and field, Stanford junior discus thrower Valarie Allman finished fifth on Thursday
with a best of 182-8.
In swimming, recent Stanford
grad Felicia Lee, who also earned
a gold medal along with Neal as
part of the 400 free relay team,
placed sixth in the 100 butterfly
on Wednesday.
After a 59.27 in prelims, Lee
dropped to 58.93 in the semifinals
to earn the sixth qualifying spot.
She took another 0.02 off her time
in the final the next night.
Cardinal grad Drew Cosgarea
added a gold medal to his collection as part of the winning U.S.
800 free relay on Thursday. He
swam the first leg of the relay
that completed the race in a time
of 7:10.82, nearly three seconds
ahead of Australia and Japan.
The USA women’s 400 relay
team set a University Games
record in swimming the race in
3:38.12. Neal swam the anchor leg
during the final. Lee swam in the
preliminary race and is awarded a
medal as a result.
In golf, Kim shot rounds of 73
and 72 on the first two days of the
tournament at Naju Gold Lake
Country Club. She’s fifth overall
heading into Friday’s action. The
U.S. Is tied for third, 11 strokes
behind leader Korea.
In women’s basketball, McCall
scored 14 points and grabbed five
rebounds in USA’s 84-43 victory
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over Hungary in Thursday’s quarterfinals. She’s reached double
figures in scoring in each of the
Americans first four games.
Meanwhile, Modi scored a
bronze medal on the pommel
horse during individual events
competition on Tuesday.
“The experience was amazing,”
Modi said. “I had fun the whole
time and hit routines. It’s probably one of the greatest feelings
I’ve ever had.”
Modi also earned a bronze
medal in the all-around competition on Monday after finishing
fifth during the qualifying round.
“One of the coolest feelings is
going on the podium and seeing
your flag raised during the awards
ceremony,” Modi said.
The NCAA all-around champion finished among the top seven
in three other events: fifth on the
parallel bars, sixth on the horizontal bars and seven on the floor
exercise.
In men’s volleybvall, Stanford
sophomore Kyle Dagostino had
six digs and 11 excellent receptions as the libero, helping the
USA defeat Korea, 21-25, 35-33,
25-18, 13-25, 15-10, in preliminary play Tuesday at the World
University Games.
Fellow sophomore Kevin
Rakestraw added five kills and
three blocks as the Americans improved to 2-3 in the competition.
Pan American Games
Maggie Steffens and Makenzie
Fischer won’t be teammates at
Stanford until the fall, but they
should be close friends by then
after teaming to help the U.S.
Women’s Senior National Water
Polo Team in Toronto, Canada.
Steffens, who’ll be a senior
and Fischer, an incoming freshman, each tallied three goals on
Wednesday to lead Team USA
to an 18-3 romp over Cuba in the
second round. The Americans,
who have scored 43 goals in two
victories, will be idle before returning to action on Saturday
against Argentina to close out
group play.
In men’s water polo action at
the Pan Am Games, Stanford
grad Tony Azevedo and Cardinal
senior Bret Bonanni each scored
three times to lead Team USA
past Cuba, 21-4, on Day 2. Q
Stanford to induct another
top Hall of Fame class
T
he 2015 Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame class
is highlighted by seven
talented All-American and record-breaking performers plus
a legendary veteran coach.
The class includes Matt Gentry (‘05 wrestling), Alex Karakozoff (‘77 football), Ogonna
Nnamani (‘05 women’s volleyball), Kyle Peterson (‘97
baseball), Nicole Powell (‘04
women’s basketball), Dr. Rick
Schavone (diving head coach),
Tara Kirk (‘04 women’s swimming) and Dana Sorensen (‘04
softball).
The eight inductees will be
honored at a private reception
and dinner at Bing Concert
Hall on Friday, Oct. 16. The
class will also be introduced at
halftime of Stanford’s football
game against UCLA on Thursday, Oct. 15 (7:30 p.m., ESPN).
In 2004, Gentry became the
only athlete in the 109-year history of Stanford wrestling to be
crowned an NCAA champion,
going 42-0. He was named the
Pac-10 Wrestler of the Year. A
three-time team captain and
three-time NWCA Academic
All-American, Gentry captured
64 consecutive matches from
2003-05, the longest streak in
school history.
Karakozoff played as a true
freshman and anchored the offensive line at guard, where he
was the school’s first two-time
All-Pac-8 first team selection
at that position and AP/UPI All
West Coast in 1975 and 1976,
as well as an Honorable Mention All-American.
Nnamani was a four-time
All-American and First Team
All-Pac-10 selection, leading
the Cardinal to NCAA titles
in 2001 and 2004. As a senior,
she was named the NCAA
Championship Most Outstanding Player, the ESPN CoSIDA
Academic All-American of the
Year, the AVCA National coPlayer of the Year, the recipient
of the NCAA Top VIII Award
and the Honda-Broderick Cup
for 2004-05 given to the best
college female athlete in the
nation.
Peterson was named the National Freshman of the Year in
1995, recording a 14-1 record
and 2.96 ERA. In 1995 and
1997, he an All-American and
Pac-10 Pitcher of the Year and
led the Cardinal to the College
World Series both seasons.
Powell, a guard/forward, was
a three-time All-American and
three-time finalist for the James
Naismith National Player of the
Year Award. She finished her
career with 2,062 points (seventh all-time). She was named
Pac-12 Freshman of the Year in
2001, and Pac-10 Player of the
Year in 2002 and 2004.
Schavone spent 36 years as
Stanford’s head diving coach
before retiring last April. A
four-time NCAA Diving Coach
of the Year, he also earned nine
Pac-12 Diving Coach of the
Year Awards.
Kirk became the first swimmer in NCAA history to win a
breaststroke event for four consecutive years in the 100 breaststroke. Kirk won 11 NCAA
titles in record-breaking times,
swimming the breaststroke leg
on Stanford’s winning 200 and
400 yard medley relay teams
in 2001 and 2002 in addition
to her seven NCAA individual
crowns from 2001 to 2004.
Kirk also won 14 Pac-10 titles,
was a 17-time All-American.
She held American records in
seven different events while at
Stanford, holding the American
record in the 100-yard breaststroke for 10 years.
Sorensen posted a career
pitching record of 105-34—
second all-time — and a
school-best 1.05 ERA. She
was named a first-team NFCA
All-American in 2001 and
2004 and was a second team
selection in 2000 and threetime All-Pac-10 first-team recipient. Q
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dreamed of as a little kid,” Pederson told Stephen. “You watch
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all the great home run hitters —
Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds —
office,’ and usually that’s not a all these great guys who particigood sign,” Pederson said, laugh- pated, Ken Griffey. I think it’s a
ing. “But when I got in there, the special event.”
Pederson is one of eight players
mood changed real quick.”
Pederson is tied for fifth in the in the Derby. He is the No. 4 seed
NL with 20 home runs, setting a and will go head to head with No.
record for most home runs before 5 Manny Machado. That winner
the All-Star break by a Dodgers will face the winner of Pujols
and rookie Kris Bryrookie. He is also one of
ant. Other first-round
just three NL rookies in
matchups include Todd
history with 20 homers
Frazier vs. Prince Fieldbefore July 1. The other and Josh Donaldson
ers are Wally Berger
against Anthony Rizzo.
(1930) and Albert PuInstead of being givjols (2001), according
en a number of outs per
to Eric Stephen of True
round, each player will
Blue LA.
have five minutes to hit
Not surprisingly, Pedas many home runs as
erson on Wednesday
possible. The clock will
was selected to partici- Joc Pederson
stop after any home run
pate in the Home Run
Derby that will be held Monday balls hit in the final minute land;
night (5 p.m., ESPN). The All- it will resume after the next nonStar Game is Tuesday at 5 p.m. homer lands or after a swing and
miss.
on FOX.
Pederson remarked on the new
“I think that’s the only reason I
was picked for the All-Star team format’s transition to a time limit
because I have some homers,” instead of a 10-out limit.
“Swinging for five minutes,
Pederson said. “I think it would
that’s going to be a really long
be really fun.”
Pederson said he will have time. Really long,” Pederson said.
Players can earn an extra minDodgers Triple-A coach Johnny
Washington pitch to him. Wash- ute if they hit two home runs that
ington was Pederson’s hitting land 420 feet or more and a bonus
coach at rookie-level Ogden in 30 seconds if one of those blasts
lands 475 feet or more. The maxi2011.
“Just to be a part of the Home mum bonus time a player can get
Run Derby, it’s something I is one and half minutes. Q
Pederson
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Game 13 — Game 12 loser vs. Game 11 winner, 7 p.m.
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Game 14 — Game 11 winner vs. Game 13 winner
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following end of firstGame
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