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The year in review
From fortune to fizzle, seren
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by Becky Trout and Arden Pennell
or those who put stock in the propitious power of numbers, 2007 looked
to be lucky. And for good reason.
By the end of 2006, the tension-plagued Palo Alto Unified School
District was anticipating hiring a new superintendent and hopefully getting a
fresh start. Environmental initiatives, championed by both city officials and the
school district, continued to gain momentum, as the mayor’s Green Ribbon Task
Force presented its work to the City Council at year’s end.
And the completion of several development
projects — including the Stanford Stadium, the
Opportunity Center and the Stanford-Palo Alto
Community Playing Fields — had boosted public confidence and morale.
But luck, as it has been observed, is fickle. The
school district did get a new superintendent in
2007 — Kevin Skelly, who by most accounts has
re-energized schools — but the Board of Education’s flip-flop handling of a proposed Mandarin immersion program drew sharp criticism and
left a deeply divided community.
And at the city level, a seasoned council that
for the most part worked well together nonetheless faced questions over its oversight of City
Manager Frank Benest, especially as charges of
staff misconduct surfaced throughout the year.
By December, Benest had announced his retirement, as had a raft of other top city administrators.
To capture what has been a lucky year for
some in the community — and for others unlucky — the Weekly decided to revisit seven of
the top stories of 2007.
City Hall gets a shake-up
Norbert von der Groeben
ed they’d lost confidence in City Manager Frank
Benest and in October convened an unusual
two-evening performance evaluation. Benest’s
announced retirement came in December, with
Benest stating that he is leaving in June of his
own volition. The city plans to hire an executive
search firm and turn to the community to help
define the desired candidate.
In addition, longtime city staff member Richard James, director of community services, announced that he, too, will step down next year. A
dune-buggy accident had left him with a broken
back in October.
Palo Alto is also losing its stalwart Administrative Services Director Carl Yeats, who is
retiring but plans to return as a consultant on the
Stanford Medical Center and Shopping Center
expansion projects. Colleague Lalo Perez is being promoted to that position.
Fire, fire here and there
Palo Alto’s foothills slipped through another
summer without burning up, but the community
didn’t make it through the year unsinged.
Norbert von der Groeben
When 2007 opened, the City of Palo Alto was
making progress on issues such as emergency
preparation, planning for library improvements
and a new public-safety building, combating
greenhouse-gas emissions and excess waste and
supporting staff development.
It had brought in new Utilities Director Valerie Fong to provide leadership to the scandalplagued department.
Financially, the city had stiffened requirements for employee-retirement benefits, dropped
the most expensive health plan and began setting aside money for retirees’ medical expenses,
which promises to be substantial.
In March, however, word leaked out of City
Hall that Assistant City Manager Emily Harrison, the city’s hands-on manager, had been
placed on a three-week unpaid leave. Publicrecords requests exposed years of Harrison’s
harassment of employees, retaliation, favoritism
and other bizarre or bad behavior.
Then in June, devoted meter reader Brandon
Porter was fired after testifying on a co-worker’s
behalf in an internal harassment investigation.
The employees’ union called that fishy, but Fong
and other city leaders denied all wrongdoing —
leaving Porter jobless.
Another top city official was also embroiled
in a mid-year investigation, after three women
filed complaints of harassment, hostile work environment and age discrimination, one of which
has not been resolved. The official was found
innocent of all unlawful activity, city attorneys
have said.
By fall, several City Council members indicat-
Top: Firefighters attempt to contain the three-alarm blaze at the Walgreens building,
310 University Ave., on July 1. Above: Isabella Phillips perches on her mother, Kate
Bundorf, during a school board discussion of the hotly debated Mandarin immersion
program on Jan. 9.
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Welcoming all to church
F
irst Congregational Church in
Palo Alto was nearly full on a
recent Sunday morning when
a small band struck the first notes
of a familiar Christmas carol,
“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.”
A trumpet, electric guitar and piano led the way in a jazzy, rollicking version of the venerable tune.
The congregation wasn’t dancing in the aisles but people were
smiling.
It was a special Sunday service
because the children of the congregation were to present a Christmas
pageant.
A manger scene was set up at the
front of the church while about
three dozen kids, some of them
preschoolers, gathered outside.
Many were dressed in appropriate robes for an acting out of the
Christmas story.
The regular service began. But
halfway through the organist starting playing, “O Come All Ye Faithful,” and the kids filed in.
The congregation rose, singing,
and watched the children enter.
Parents aimed small video cameras to capture the memory of the
delightful pageant.
It is a Christmas service played
out in many churches, and an annual event for First Congregational.
But there was a difference this
year. This Christmas is the first
after the 600-member church announced in November that it will
be an “open and affirming church,”
welcoming gays, lesbians and
transgender people .
“Our denomination was the first
to ordain an openly gay minister,
in 1972,” Senior Pastor Dave Howell said of a sister church, interestingly enough not far away in San
Mateo County.
First Congregational is part of
the United Church of Christ, which
has no bishops telling local churches what to do. Each congregation is
autonomous.
“People in the congregation
raised the issue,” Howell said. “It
had been percolating for some
time.”
The congregation decided the
question by a vote, but only after
a year-long series of discussion forums.
“It seemed to be a very right
thing to do,” Dave Brown, a member of the church group that studied the issue, said. “I always felt
gay people were treated unfairly.”
First Congregational is not the
only Palo Alto church to publicly
welcome gay and lesbian members.
First Presbyterian and First Methodist also do.
Church doors are swinging open
wider, which is a good thing.
But there is a more serious note.
Anna Yee, who headed First
Congregational’s task force on the
issue, said she also runs a youth
group at the church.
“There is a high suicide rate
for young people who question
their sexual orientation,” she said.
“These are very real issues for
young people. We want to make
this a safe place for youth in the
area.”
Howell said that while the congregation has some gay members,
he doesn’t think it has any gay families with children, which he hopes
will be encouraged by the policy.
Gay families often don’t feel welcome in churches, he said.
While almost all members of the
congregation agreed with the idea,
Howell said a few wondered why
the church couldn’t just accept gay
members without an announcement.
“People were anxious to make a
public statement: ‘Jesus didn’t turn
anyone away, and neither do we,’”
Howell said.
“My father taught me fairness
and equality,” Yee said, adding
that the sign on the church will be
changed to reflect the congregation’s new “open and affirming”
policy.
But the children in the recent
Sunday pageant, the parents with
their videocameras and the congregation looking on weren’t thinking
of such matters. Nor was I. When
the organist began playing the majestic strains of, “O Come All Ye
Faithful” and the kids walked in, it
took me back to a snowy night long
ago in Chicago when my family
and I walked to Midnight Mass.
After we were seated, children
from the church school began
singing “Adeste Fideles,” the same
song in Latin, outside. The song
grew slowly louder as the children
entered.
Then, and recently at First Congregational, everything else fell
away except for the young faces,
their sweet voices and the music.
Senior Staff Writer Don Kazak can be e-mailed at dkazak@
paweekly.com.
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With no incumbents, the 2007
race for City Council pitted politically connected novices against
those who lacked community credentials. And, not surprisingly,
those with the endorsements of Palo
Alto’s “who’s who” took the four
open slots, with a slight upset in
fourth place, as former school board
member Greg Schmid displaced the
dapper Dan Dykwel, a businessman
and schools volunteer.
The election’s top vote-getter, Sid
Espinosa, a 35-year-old philanthropy executive at Hewlett-Packard,
tapped into Palo Altans’ desire
for fresh, yet tested, leaders who
genuinely love the city. The witty
Espinosa attracted unprecedented
support with his platform promoting infrastructure, economic development and environmental initiatives.
In second was Pat Burt, a twoterm planning commissioner with
a near encyclopedic knowledge of
local land use who called for more
public participation, infrastructure
investment and efforts to boost city
revenues.
Gunn High School grad Yiaway
Yeh, 29, took third. Earnest and
committed, Yeh credits Palo Alto
with his love of community and
said he wants to give back and encourage intergenerational links. He
also plans to reach out to the city’s
growing Asian population.
With the failure of the race’s
only woman, Stella Marinos — a
nurse and political neophyte — to
gain a seat, the election leaves only
one woman, current Mayor Yoriko
Kishimoto, on the council in 2008.
Voters in the school-board elections voiced a desire for experience, opting for incumbent Camille Townsend, long-time PTA
volunteer Melissa Baten Caswell
and district teacher and consultant
Barbara Klausner.
Yet the race was also marked by
extremes. Klausner dominated the
vote count with 30 percent of ballots, nearly 10 percent more than
Baten Caswell.
And Townsend just barely re-won
her seat, squeezing into third place
with a mere 182 more votes than
Wynn Hausser.
School board gets
immersed in Mandarin
debacle
Sprawling into this year from last,
the debate about whether to start a
Mandarin-immersion language program in schools ballooned into one
of the year’s most divisive issues.
Among other concerns, opponents
accused the limited-enrollment program of flying in the face of equal
public education.
But proponents argued the district
should prepare children to live in a
global world. They also pointed out
that the district already runs plenty
such limited programs, also called
choice programs.
At least, that’s how it started. But
over the course of 20 board meetings and other community forums,
the debate devolved into a tangle of
anger and hurt feelings — even accusations of racism.
The board finally voted not to
start such a program early in the
year — but reversed its decision
Marjan Sadoughi
2007 will be remembered as
the year a Gunn High School student was kidnapped and assaulted
outside her apartment complex by
a troubled Paly grad arrested just
days later.
The brazen crime shocked and
saddened Palo Altans and caused
many high schoolers to ride rather
than walk to school, at least for a
while.
The community was also dismayed by the tale of a fratricide on
July 16, when James Dalton, 52, allegedly stabbed his brother, John,
53, with a kitchen knife.
Behind the headline-grabbing
crimes are mixed trends, Police
Chief Lynne Johnson said.
Auto and residential burglaries
have dropped nearly 50 percent
since 2006, while robberies have
climbed from 29 through most of
2006, to 40 so far this year, she
said.
And drug arrests are skyrocketing, up from 326 in 2006 to 527
so far in 2007, Johnson said. The
biggest drug is methamphetamine,
followed by heroin, cocaine and
marijuana, she said.
2007 started off poorly for East
Palo Alto. Shootings shook the
community throughout December,
igniting street tensions and worries
that violence would escalate.
Throughout 2007, national headlines and YouTube videos chronicled numerous cases of seeming
abuse involving Tasers, an electric
stun gun that shoots two prongs up
to 25 feet, deploying a shock that
leaves its victim writhing on the
ground.
But when Palo Alto police began
carrying Tasers this fall, the weapon’s arrival failed to inflame the
passions of the larger community,
instead infuriating only a small but
vocal group of activists.
Perhaps the community’s acceptance stems from the process — a
five-month task force inquiry — or
the policy. Officers are strongly discouraged from using the weapons,
for example, on a pregnant woman,
someone standing on the edge of a
rooftop, or anyone, such as a protester, passively resisting arrest.
The policy urges officers to zap
suspects for the shortest amount
of time possible. The department’s
Tasers also record audio and video.
Police Chief Lynne Johnson had
done her homework since her last
attempt to purchase Tasers in 2004,
an effort that sparked a heated
backlash. This time, the acquisition
was debated first for five months by
a 12-member group of attorneys,
law-enforcement experts, medical
professionals, a rabbi, human-rights
leaders and a mediator.
The group ploughed through hundreds of pages of reports, and listened to experts on both sides of the
issue, including a controversial presentation by Dr. Jeffrey Ho, whose
research is financed by manufacturer Taser International.
The task force concluded that
Tasers, although unpleasant, are
preferable in most situations to
batons, chemical sprays, dogs or
hands-on combat, the other alternatives available to officers.
In May, the issue split the City
Council 5-4.
Assistant City Attorney Donald
Larkin and Johnson worked together to create a usable policy they believe will prevent the type of abuse
seen in other communities.
And so far it has, Johnson said in
late December.
Tasers have been used infrequently without causing problems, Johnson said. And just by threatening to
use them, officers have been able to
subdue suspects, she said.
Elections bring
newbies into office
Veronica Weber
Crime up, crime down
Tasers introduced —
without community
shock
“That’s just what we wanted.”
Veronica Weber
On the evening of July 1, the
Walgreens building on University
Avenue at Bryant Street burst into
flames, destroying the 100-plusyear-old structure, which housed
Walgreens, Subway sandwiches and
vacant offices on the second floor.
The fire left a gaping hole in the
heart of downtown. Building manager Jim Baer said the property
owner plans to rebuild.
In October, East Palo Alto resident Donald Ray Williams, 45, who
has a history of mental illness, was
charged with the arson in federal
court. Williams had been arrested
in August following a series of
grass fires in Portola Valley, but he
was later released because prosecutors lacked the evidence to charge
him with arson.
Williams lived at home with his
parents and told investigators he
had stopped taking his medicine
because he didn’t like how it made
him feel.
Just days before the Walgreens
fire, juveniles playing with matches
set a blaze that engrossed 170 acres
of Stanford University grassland
along Junipero Serra Boulevard.
The fire left The Dish closed for
weeks. And then on July 5, an additional 20 acres of Stanford grassland burned.
Also in 2007, a house fire killed
a retired Palo Alto Unified School
District employee, Barbara Costello. The fire started in the yard or
at the back of the south Palo Alto
house, which had a lot of debris,
around midday on June 5.
The spate of fires convinced the
City Council to fully staff Foothills
Park’s Station 8, which had been
eyed for savings. Foothills residents
mobilized to fight the proposed
cuts, convincing the council to pay
overtime for three firefighters to
spend 12 hours a day at the station
during the summer.
A long-term, non-overtime solution, is needed, the council said.
The conflict took down 13-yearold Moises Jimenez and Tomas Hernandez, 18, on Jan. 21. They were
killed while standing in the carport
of a small apartment complex.
Hundreds of community members
called for peace in a Feb. 3 march
and rally. The march coincided with
the beginning of an intense partnership between community members
and the Police Department called
Project Safe neighborhood, which
prohibited officers’ leave and
brought in regional, state and federal resources.
In October, Police Chief Ron Davis called the crackdown a success,
although just hours after the press
conference another man was shot in
East Palo Alto.
Toward the end of the year, the
number of shootings again escalated.
Top: School board candidate Barbara Klausner receives a congratulatory hug as the results start flowing in on election night Nov. 6. Middle:
Just before midnight on election night, Sid Espinosa (left), and Pat
Burt (center) lead the council-candidate pack. Above: New Palo Alto
schools superintendent Kevin Skelly sets up shop in his new office on
July 6.
in May after proponents took steps
to launch a charter school, which
would have required more district
funding than an immersion program.
This year Superintendent Kevin
Skelly has called on the community
to move on from the mud-slinging
and focus on future issues.
And while bitterness lingers in
the community, the language program is slated to open at Ohlone
Elementary School next August.
Skelly brings goodwill to
troubled district
Last year left the school district
reeling from complaints from middle managers about distrust and
disrespect.
But things have changed.
With the arrival of new Superintendent Kevin Skelly in June, a new
era of goodwill and cooperation has
begun, school officials said.
“I do definitely feel a different
mood ... that dark cloud has lifted,”
school-board President Dana Tom
said. “We’re able to focus on the
important work with fewer distractions.”
Friendly and frank, Skelly has
earned a reputation for being a good
listener unafraid to share his own
opinions — and for being a bit of
a goofball.
He ended a summer staff meeting
by suggesting everyone go bowling,
then greeted the group in a blowup costume of a sumo wrestler and
asked them to wiggle into other
silly duds.
“He must have had 40, no, probably 50 costumes, and they were all
his!” Paly Principal Jacquie McEvoy said.
But he has a serious side. He’s met
with low-income students from East
Palo Alto to hear their concerns.
And he’s pressed district task forces
to come up with reasonable, rather
than pie-in-the-sky recommendations in an expedient fashion.
The year has exceeded his expectations in all directions, he told the
Weekly recently.
It has been more challenging
than expected — but people have
also been even more welcoming, he
said. ■
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2007’s “news of the incredible” — from a Thunderbird that found its way home after three decades to
toilets that acted more like geysers — provoked amusement,
outrage and sighs of relief. Here are the Weekly’s top 7 things
we can’t believe happened.
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Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital offers classes, seminars and resources
designed to foster good health and enhance the lives of parents and children.
Palo Alto’s namesake redwood trees came under attack in 2007, when
some very determined residents spotted a loophole in the city’s protected-tree
ordinance.
The ordinance tries
to make it tricky to cut
down a healthy tree, but
what if that tree’s very
health is causing human
suffering? Surely a person’s comfort and desire
to breathe trump the
tree’s right to spread its
pollen, or so argued Lauren and Flavio Bonomi,
and Mark Grossman and
Lauren Janov.
By submitting notes
from a doctor, the Bonomis took down two redwoods and Grossman
and Janov removed four.
The city has no expertise
to verify the veracity of
a doctor’s note, planning
officials said, as they allowed the removals.
But in November, the
tree tale took a twist
The Bonomi family stands by one of the redwhen Planning and Comwood trees they petitioned to have removed.
munity Environment
After much controversy, a doctor’s note was
Director Steve Emslie
all it took to fell the giant.
denied Janov and Grossman’s second request to
remove two trees.
Without ruling on the central question, Emslie said one of the two trees was
partially owned by the city, and if it remained, the other might as well.
The loophole inflamed tensions between private property owners and those
advocating community standards. The debate is expected to continue into
2008.
Web site — whoops!
It might be understandable if a place like Enid, Okla., had a less-thanengaging Web site, but Palo Alto? When city officials in the birthplace of the
Silicon Valley introduced a new site in August, local denizens expected it to
be at least as good as the old one.
Not so, critics said. The $240,000 site was slammed for small type, a faulty
search engine, near-nauseating images and cheesy text (“Distinctive in every
way, Palo Alto offers its business community a diverse and exciting environment in which to work and live.”).
City staff members defended the site, which apparently works great for
them, but by year’s end they relented and purchased a $30,000 Google search
bar. The city plans to continue refining the photos, font size and other portions
of the site, Chief Information Officer Glenn Loo has said.
On the bright side, the city this year did manage to replace its aging “Teleminder” system, which notifies residents by phone of emergency situations.
While the old method worked at a snail’s pace, the new dialer is capable of
swiftly contacting cell phones and e-mail accounts. And, it actually works.
Security — or judgment — lapses?
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Not once but twice this year, Stanford University security was breached
when faux students simply showed up and went to class, lived in a dorm and
made coffee for the physics department.
Azia Kim, 18, faked her way as an undergraduate for eight months, slipping
in and out of her dorm through a window — lost her key? — eating in the
dorm, buying textbooks and studying for exams she never took. She claimed
a mix-up in the housing office left her without a roommate.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth Okazaki posed as a physics department grad student
for four years, attending graduate seminars and sometimes living at the Varian Physics Lab. She started as a temporary employee — and just stayed on.
Ultimately, students noted she couldn’t keep up with the high-level physics
Norbert von der Groeben
Imagine former Palo Alto police officer Ronald Leung’s surprise when
the very same 1956 Ford Thunderbird that was stolen in 1976 showed up
in Southern California — more than 30 years later and in better shape than
ever.
The latest owners
had found it
on eBay; the
sellers had
restored it in
Ohio (and
hadn’t a clue
that it was
stolen since
it had been
Thirty years after his 1956 Thunderbird was stolen, Ron legally registered in two
Leung was reunited with his car July 16.
states before
they bought
it). The hard-to-find vehicle identification number (VIN) — and its record of
being stolen — was revealed when the new owners went to register the car.
The SoCal buyers got their money back, and there was even good news
for the restorers: Insurance finally reimbursed them, but not without a fight,
according to a Town Square posting by tbird56. And Leung has his pride
and joy back.
Exploding toilets create messy political upheaval
A 9-year-old girl just out of a shower Aug. 31 ran screaming from the bathroom when the toilet in her grandparents’ Chimalus Drive home exploded in
a geyser of sewage.
The girl’s grandfather did some exploding himself, being longtime critic of
city operations Richard Placone. He wrote city officials, recounting in messy
detail the incident and the city’s equally messy bureaucratic response.
He prefaced his complaint with a reference to his granddaughter’s favorite
literature: “If you have read the Harry Potter books you will be familiar with
the wizard mischief of placing a jinx on a Muggle (a non-magical creature)
toilet so that it flushes in reverse, i.e. becomes a regurgitating toilet.”
The cause of the geysers was no curse but pressure-flushing of city sewer
lines by city crews. Apologies flowed from City Manager Frank Benest and
Utilities Director Valerie Fong, who instituted changes in sewer-line maintenance.
But the story continued with numerous other complaints of exploding toilets on the Town Square online forum and letters to the editor.
One woman was “thrilled” to read the story. She said she thought her family
“was alone in the most horrifying thing a household could experience.”
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Eruv slips in — under the wire
After eight years of controversy, the eruv — a thin wire suspended from
poles around the perimeter of Palo Alto — quietly went up in September, allowing Orthodox Jews to consider the outside community as an extension of
the home. Young parents
now can carry children
who cannot yet walk or
to use a stroller on the
Sabbath, which had been
previously forbidden. The
eruv, which cost an estimated $150,000, became
the subject of a bitter divide in the city when first
proposed. Some residents
argued it violated separation of church and state;
others said its erection
is a matter of freedom
of worship. Some in the
Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon walks with her son
community thought it
Zev and daughter Shira (in stroller) on Oct.
was dead, but proponents
26. The family has new freedom now that
persevered. Its approval
Palo Alto is encircled by an Eruv.
in 2007 became no more
than a bureaucratic hohum.
Romic shuts down
After more than a decade of state-law violations and community protests,
Romic Environmental Technologies’ East Palo Alto headquarters finally was
closed down in late September by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Romic, in East Palo Alto since 1963, had already announced
in August that its hazardous-waste facilities had been purchased by Clean
Harbors, Inc. of Massachusetts, but the East Palo Alto facility was not part of
the sale. Palo Alto was downwind of the Romic during the summer months.
A cleanup of the 14-acre site, which processed much of Silicon Valley’s waste,
is under way and is expected to take as long as seven years. ■
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“Mom, can we stay? — Is there anything we can do to stay?”
— Pedro Ramirez Jr., 15, a United States citizen who
flew out of San Francisco International Airport in April bound
for Mexico, after his parents were ordered deported
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conversations.
While Okazaki’s behavior was deemed annoying, Kim’s was defended
on Town Square when a local parent said, “This girl does not deserve to be
punished, rather to be helped. She could easily be the product of Palo Alto.
She could easily be one of the many very good students in either Gunn or Paly
who feel that they have failed in life by not getting into a top 10 university. Let
this be a lesson to all parents in Palo Alto.”
“I don’t mind looking at a bird, but I don’t want to read
about it.”
— Ron Cooper, chair of the Palo Alto Public Art Commission,
regarding a proposed design that would have combined text
and images of birds on a soundwall along U.S. Highway 101
“I think it’s something younger people use more than old fogies
like me.”
— Palo Alto City Councilman Peter
Drekmeier, the council’s youngest member, of
the Palo Alto-based Web site Facebook
“I’m looking forward to exhaling.”
— Yitzchok Feldman, the Congregation Emek
Beracha rabbi who spearheaded the Palo Alto eruv
effort in 1999, on the eruv’s approval in June
“Jump in your cars and get the hell out.”
— Jan Terry, president of the Palo Alto Hills Neighborhood
Association, describing the foothills residents’ not-sodetailed evacuation plan in the event of a fire
“When someone has taken three-quarters to one
million dollars away from you, when have they ever
given it back?”
— City Councilwoman Dena Mossar, on the Valley
Transportation Authority’s pledge to help fund mass transit
in Palo Alto, after cutting part of bus route 88
“Global warming isn’t just a problem that’s limited to penguins
in Antarctica.”
— Will Travis, executive director of the San
Francisco Bay Conservation and Development
Commission, on expected local flooding ■
Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, December 26, 2007 • Page 7
7 unforgettable people
Their lives included medical miracles and heart-rending tragedy
by Carol Blitzer, Sue Dremann and Jocelyn Dong
D
ebates over high-profile issues such as immigration and housing often take place in a
public arena, but the story of 2007 ultimately unfolded in the lives of individuals and
families.
Here are seven who touched local lives this year.
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The Pedro Ramirez family
Yurelia and Fiorella Rocha-Arias
The Ramirez family — including four children who
are American citizens and their undocumented parents
— brought the immigration issue out of the abstract
for many Palo
Alto residents last
spring.
The children —
Pedro, Jr., Adrian,
Yadira and Adriana Ramirez —
were students in
Palo Alto schools.
They faced placement in foster
care or deportation with their
parents after fedIsabel Ramirez huddles with her eral Immigration
children Adriana and Yadira
and Customs Enoutside the Immigration and
forcement (ICE)
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agents deported
agency offices in San Francisco
their father, Pedro
on April 3.
Ramirez, on Feb.
28. Their mother,
Isabel Aguirre, was to be deported in early April, and
the family did not have the money to leave the country
together.
The Weekly broke their story, igniting a firestorm of
reportage about their plight around the world. Compassionate Palo Alto residents helped the family stay together until they were able to leave together for Mexico
on April 11.
The children returned to California in August and
are attending school and staying with friends at an
undisclosed location, according to family friends.
Siamese twins Yurelia and Fiorella Rocha-Arias are
no longer joined at the hip — or rather, the abdomen
and chest.
Following a nine-hour separation surgery in November — a first for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
— the 2-year-old Costa Ricans were released from the
hospital in mid-December. Both girls are nearly recovered from further surgeries, which dealt with Yurelia’s
congenital heart condition and Fiorella’s chest reconstruction and skin closure.
Before the surgery, the girls could stand but could
not walk. They had arrived at Ronald McDonald
House with their mother in July, brought to Palo Alto
by Mending Kids International. It took several months
to prepare for the surgery.
Over the next six to eight weeks, the girls, now released from the hospital, will do physical therapy to
help build muscle strength. Doctors are pleased. Their
father has already returned home to care for the couple’s other nine children.
David Halberstam
Kevin Jones, a 26-year-old graduate student in U.C.
Berkeley’s School of Journalism, jumped at the chance
to play chauffeur to one of his heroes, Pulitzer Prizewinning author David Halberstam last April.
But instead of relishing the time in the car, Jones
unintentionally caused Halberstam’s death in a fatal
crash near the Dumbarton Bridge in Menlo Park while
en route to an interview with a former New York Giants
quarterback.
The 73-year-old Halberstam will be remembered for
more than 20 books on subjects ranging from the Vietnam War (“The Best and the Brightest”) to sports journalism. His latest book, “The Coldest Winter: America
and the Korean War,” was published posthumously.
Jones was charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter and pleaded no contest. He will be sentenced
in February.
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Henry Evans and Palo Alto High
robotics students
Norbert von der Groeben
On the surface Mengyao “May” Zhou was nearly
perfect: 23, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford University with two degrees from MIT
and three patents
under her belt.
She was among
just 100 students
in the Stanford
Graduate Fellowships Program
in Science and
Engineering. She
had even passed
her qualifying
exams.
But four days
after being reMay Zhou
ported missing
on Jan. 21, Zhou’s
body was found
in the trunk of her silver Toyota Corolla, which had
been parked at Santa Rosa Junior College.
Months later, even after an autopsy confirmed her
death from a drug overdose of over-the-counter sleeping pills, her father insisted she had been murdered.
Even a good-bye note e-mailed to her younger sister,
on the day she was last seen, failed to convince the
grieving father.
With the exception of a couple of conspiracy theorists, most commentators on Town Square (the Palo
Alto Online community forum) simply offered heartfelt sympathy to the San Diego family. Others in the
community revived questions about the unrelenting
pressures that students face.
In 2002, a stroke left then-40-year-old Henry Evans
a quadriplegic. This past June, he accompanied a team
of Palo Alto High School students to MIT, where they
showcased a
robotic device
the students
had created to
help the Los
Altos Hills
resident regain some of
his independence. Called
the LaserfinHenry Evans lights up with enthusi- ger, it attaches
to Evan’s eyeasm as he uses his new laserfinger
glasses and
to control household appliances at
allows him to
his Los Altos Hills home on Aug. 4
turn appliances on and off
using a laser
beam — and one movement of his head.
Evans’ impact at the MIT InvenTeams conference
was so great, the organizers named an award after him:
The Inspiration for Innovation Award.
The teens have been so motivated by the experience
that they created another device that enables Evans to
control a tennis-ball launcher, so he can play with the
family dog. Also in the works are an iPod controller
and a more complex remote control.
Those who’ve heard the story of the Laserfinger say it
is a testament to Evans’ perseverance — and the teens’
ingenuity.
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In early November, Stanford Hospital & Clinics became
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and Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen.
Andreessen is the founder of two billion-dollar companies, including Netscape Communications. ArrillagaAndreessen is a Stanford Graduate School of Business
faculty member. She founded and chairs SV2: Silicon
Valley Social Venture Fund, which invests financial, intellectual and human capital into nonprofits.
The couple, married in 2006, wanted their first gift to
the community to make a difference in many people’s
lives, they said. The new state-of-the-art Stanford emergency room will benefit the entire region. Residents from
as far away as San Benito County are flown in by helicopter to Stanford’s emergency medical facility.
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Willie Branch
Willie Branch, 55, was living proof that you don’t have
to have money to change people’s lives. The former Coop Market checker with the winning smile and cheerful
whistle was known for 30 years as a helpful, caring person who lifted shoppers’ spirits.
When Branch fell on hard times and was forced onto
the streets, residents responded by donating $20,000
to help him get back on his feet. Branch suffered from
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and an enlarged
heart, however.
On Nov. 6, he died doing what he loved best: hanging
out with people. He collapsed in Sunnyvale while playing
pool (he was winning, friends say). He is survived by his
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In a bid for a healthier and greener Palo Alto, a coalition
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neighborhood groups sponsored a weeklong campaign — Palo Alto Walks and Rolls — to promote
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to Sanford Forte, a businessman who helped see the
market through organizational red tape.
How to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta
Scott King? After initial ideas of renaming a street
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7 issues left unresolved
For city and voters, issues of housing, development and education still loom
by Arden Pennell and Becky Trout
Norbert von der Groeben
during the Mandarin-immersion debate, and
a study group of staff, parents and teachers
met this fall. At their last and final meeting,
most agreed that starting younger kids on
short — but interactive — cultural lessons
until third grade would be best, according to
group member Ron Baker. Most of the group
thinks academic training in reading and writing is best in third grade and older, when kids
already know their own language well, he
said. The group will give a formal presentation of finding to the board in January.
Meanwhile, the Mandarin-immersion program is slated to open in the fall at Ohlone
Elementary School. The lottery to gain one
of 20 English-speaking or 20 Mandarinspeaking spots will take place on Feb. 21.
Parents must register at Ohlone by Feb. 18
to participate.
Palo Alto housing future in the
... ABAG?
The mere mention of the Association of
Bay Area Governments’ housing allocation — Palo Alto is to plan for 2,860 units
by 2014 — conjures up notions of massive
multi-family complexes looming over Palo
Altans’ beloved shady streets.
Even if Palo Alto were committed to build
housing galore, footing the subsidy for the
1,875 units that are supposed to be belowmarket-rate could cost the city between $245
million and $320 million.
And school officials are balking, too, given
that they are already hopping to keep up with
the city’s swelling student population.
Palo Alto is appealing the allocation, a
largely for-show motion that will be considered by the ABAG board in early 2008. The
city has until 2009 to amend its Comprehensive Plan to include the additional units. If
it doesn’t, the city risks losing state grant
money or being sued by a nonprofit housing
group. The city could also go on the offensive
and challenge ABAG and the state in court.
Stanford Hospitals and Clinics is looking to expand in 2020.
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he big issues will always be with us — from the fairness of housing allotments to the question of how to manage a changing quality of life.
In 2007, city and school district officials chipped away at several
long-term projects confronting Palo Alto, making their best estimates about
what the future might bring and how to get there in the most beneficial
way.
Here is the Weekly’s To Do list for Palo Alto in 2008 and beyond.
Polling during 2007 found that Palo Alto
voters are ready to open their wallets for
school facilities, and they might pay for library upgrades and a new Mitchell Park
Library and Community Center. But they
aren’t likely at all to approve a bond for a
new public-safety building.
Voters may be asked to vote for a school
bond in June or November and a library bond
in November 2008.
City officials are pressing ahead with library and public-safety building designs, but
they’ve started looking at alternative financing sources, such as dedicating a stream of
current revenue, to pay for the $60 million
public-safety building slated for Park Boulevard.
In a February poll, 63 percent of respondents supported a $45 million library bond
— just shy of the needed two-thirds approval. The public-safety building, which also
needs 66.7 percent approval, garnered only
57 percent support.
Far more respondents to a different survey
— 74 percent — would support a $350 million bond measure for schools.
Many planned projects aim to amp up
schools to meet a new wave of students, including expanding JLS and Jordan middle
schools to fit up to 1,100 kids each and renovating aging high-school buildings.
In search of a new city
manager
City Manager Frank Benest announced
his retirement in November, making public
a move that was long suspected.
He leaves a vacancy at the top without
an apparent successor. Talented but testy
Assistant City Manager Emily Harrison’s
reputation has been bruised by revelations
of harassment and workplace abuse, and
Administrative Services Director Carl Yeats
plans to retire and move to Southern Cali-
fornia.
The city has begun the hunt for an executive search firm. Vice Mayor Larry Klein,
expected to be the next mayor, said the community will also be tapped to describe the
type of city manager it would like.
Councilman-elect Pat Burt, the most outspoken on the subject, has said he would like
a city manager who views an involved, demanding community as an asset.
Benest plans to leave at the end of June,
and some city leaders have said they hope to
appoint a new manager by then.
The shifting Baylands
In 10 years, Palo Alto’s Baylands will probably appear quite different.
This year, the City Council laid some of
the groundwork for how it might look. The
landfill, slated for closure in 2011, will be
converted into the second phase of the pastoral Byxbee Park, with sweeping views re-
Stanford Medical Center and
Shopping Center
redevelopment
The proposed Stanford expansions are
snaking their way through complex regulatory processes. Stanford announced the projects at the end of 2006 and submitted a formal application in August before launching
several community meetings, during which
community members raised questions about
increased traffic and housing.
As the year ends, an in-depth environmental study and preliminary discussions about
a development agreement — which could net
key community benefits — are underway.
The environmental report is expected by July
2008, according to project plans.
Palo Alto’s final approvals are slated for
January 2009, with construction starting by
2010 and lasting until 2020. Stanford and
Lucile Packard Children’s hospitals and the
medical school expect to expand by a net 1.3
million square feet and add about 1,990 new
jobs. The shopping center would add about
240,000 square feet and a 120-room hotel.
Language ed, take two
All students may soon learn foreign languages starting in kindergarten — but the
district is still figuring out the method. The
school board promised to look at the issue
Page 10 • Wednesday, December 26, 2007 • Palo Alto Weekly
What color is your Palo Alto?
Surely when the Palo Alto Public Art
Commission hired Samuel Yates — the artist
responsible for a seven-story-high file cabinet containing a shredded sports car, and for
transporting a grave site, six tons of dirt and
a deed, several hundred miles to display in a
gallery — it knew what it was getting into.
Yates, believe it or not, has been working
on The Color of Palo Alto project for more
than six years. He’s taken photographs of
every property in the city and plans to cover City Hall with the photos on March 20.
The representative color of Palo Alto, and a
snazzy Web site that can be used to find the
color of a street, season or time of day, will
be unveiled on Arbor Day, April 25, 2008,
Yates said.
Yates, who has worked more than 12 hours
a day, seven days a week, for much of the
project, agrees that his method isn’t logical
or efficient — it’s art.
The Color of Palo Alto is like sailing
across the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub using
a spatula, or running a marathon, Yates said.
He is creating a “language of color,” made
more “interesting, meaningful and valuable”
by the amount of hard labor that goes into the
project, Yates wrote in an e-mail.
“We are creating a work of art, not a product to be consumed once and discarded,”
Yates wrote. ■
Norbert von der Groeben
Bonds. City bonds.
placing piles of trash.
The park could have a new entrance, which
may or may not be paved.
At the end of 2008, the Recycling Center
will be drastically downsized to make way
for the landfill, although the center could
move again in a few years.
Swinging a bit north, the Palo Alto Airport
will probably come under the control of the
city, after 40 years of Santa Clara County
administration. There could be more hangars, refurbished pavement and a permanent
administration building.
Plans to curb flooding from San Francisquito Creek might bring significant changes, such as new levees or a realigned golf
course.
And if that weren’t enough, the entire area
could one day be underwater, experts warn,
as the Bay level climbs as a result of global
warming.
The face of the Palo Baylands is likely to change in coming years.
Looking
back
Right, Maya spends the morning at home in Palo
Alto on April 5, 2007. Her parents, Michelle
Teofan and Karl Garcia adopted Maya from
Guatemala in December of 2006.
I
t was quite a challenge to select images that would
capture moments in the community from the past
year that were the most newsworthy, decisive or
visual.
Photographer Marjan Sadoughi discerned a thread
of sound and movement running through her top five.
According to her, “The harmonic rhythm of ballet performed by the dancers of L’ecole de Danse melds into
the high-pitch tone of the Indian singers, drummers and
dancers with their ankle rattles at the Stanford Powwow.
“That music is continued in the melody played on the
Persian zither at Norouz (the Persian new year), a celebration that includes the seven dishes that start with ‘S’
on a spread called ‘Sofreh Haftsin.’
“The beauty is carried on by the sweet and engaging gesture of model Christiana Samani showing off the
(continued on next page)
Norbert von der Groeben
Above, judges observe the junior dancers during
a competition at the opening ceremony for the
Stanford Powwow on May 11, 2007.
Marjan Sadoughi
2007
By Norbert von der Groeben, Marjan Sadoughi & Hardy Wilson
Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, December 26, 2007 • Page 11
Cover Story
Left, Sydney and Toni Loew chat and eat ice
cream sundaes during the Kindergarten Ice
Cream Social at Fairmeadow Elementary
School on Aug. 21, 2007.
Middle, geese and their goslings make their way
across Embarcadero Road on May 30, 2007.
Bottom, Shahriar Almasi of Palo Alto prepared
a homemade bread and herb dish for the
ceremonial Norouz table called ‘Sofreh Haftsin’
(cloth of seven dishes, each beginning with the
Persian letter Seen).
Norbert von der Groeben
Norbert von der Groeben
Marjan Sadoughi
(continued from previous page)
Above, ballet dancers move to the rhythm of
the music during a rehearsal session at L'ecole
de Danse in Palo Alto on May 23, 2007.
Right, “Mother” Oneida Branch, 92, stands
next to the garage in her East Palo Alto home,
which is stacked with boxes of food and other
items that she gives to people in need on Nov.
29, 2007. Mother Branch has been donating to
the needy since 1954.
Marjan Sadoughi
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“I chose this photo because I believe it shows the humility of ‘Mother’ Branch.
“She slowly shuffled out of her house to show me her
garage filled with clothes, food and other items, smiling as
she explained how each little thing would brighten someone’s world. Her entire property is seemingly fully stocked,
purely with items to give away at a moment’s notice.
“Upon stepping into her house, she will shake your hand
in a genuine, hearty manner, offering the food on her table
and a blessing for your presence. She sought not to speak
of herself but rather the people she has helped — and continues to help. Mother Branch has truly dedicated her life
to giving without seeking recognition.” ■
Hardy Wilson
ZenTrend fashion line at Filoli Center. And the flow of
life concludes with the cheers of Palo Alto High School
graduates looking at their tassels flipping in the air and
embarking on a new page in their lives.
“These are some of the aspects that inspired me this
year.”
For Chief Photographer Norbert von der Groeben, one
picture in particular brought him satisfaction in 2007.
“When I was a young photojournalist right out of college,
I wanted to cover wars, have my photos make a difference
and change the world for the better. But after spending time
with a handful of seasoned photojournalist and photo editors, I learned quickly that covering wars was very dangerous and only a few photos will change the world.
“So I needed to set my goals a little more down to earth.
One of those goals was to take a picture of a family geese
traveling down the road.
“This opportunely happened for me in May as I was doing research for a photo essay on the parks of Palo Alto. I
had just finished taking a tour of the Palo Alto Baylands
when the ranger and I came across the geese and goslings
making their way down Embarcadero Road.
“It might not be the greatest photo I have ever taken, but
it had a very special meaning for me.”
Photo intern Hardy Wilson selected a recent photo he
took of a 92-year-old East Palo Alto humanitarian.
Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, December 26, 2007 • Page 13
Cover Story
Norbert von der Groeben
Marjan Sadoughi
Norbert von der Groeben
Top left, Lori Berry of Palo Alto sings "You're a
Grand Old Flag" and other patriotic songs during
a Memorial Day service at Alta Mesa Memorial
Park in Palo Alto on May 28, 2007.
Above, former Microsoft executive Robert Scoble
of Half Moon Bay celebrates as he walks out
of the Palo Alto Apple Store with his
new iPhone on June 29, 2007.
Top right, Palo Alto High School students throw
their mortarboards after receiving their diplomas
at the graduation ceremony on June 13, 2007.
Right, model Christiana Samani shows off the
ZenTrend outfit she wears at a fashion show
organized by the Women Entrepreneurs of Silicon
Valley held at Filoli on March 10, 2007.
Marjan Sadoughi
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Sports
Shorts
CARDINAL CORNER . . . Stanford senior defender Rachel
Buehler and sophomore forward
Kelley O’Hara were named second team All-Americans by the
National Soccer Coaches Association of America last week.
The nomination was Buehler’s
second consecutive after earning
a spot on the second team last
year. Buehler and O’Hara are two
of seven Pac-10 players among
the 40 players listed on the three
teams. With her first such nomination, O’Hara becomes Stanford soccer’s 27th All-American.
O’Hara led the Cardinal with 23
points, tallying nine goals and
five assists to help lead Stanford to a 15-3-5 record and its
second consecutive Sweet 16
appearance. Buehler anchored
a defense that allowed just 0.74
goals per game and recorded
nine shutouts on the year. The
latest accolades are among a
bundle that O’Hara and Buehler
have piled up in the past month.
O’Hara was named a M.A.C.
Hermann Trophy semifinalist,
while Buehler has been named
the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American of the Year,
Soccer Buzz Player of the Year
finalist, the U.S. National Team
training camp roster, Lowe’s Senior Class First Team, and a Toyo
Pac-10 Scholar Athlete of the
Year. Both players were named
US Soccer Young Female Athlete
Finalists.
COLLEGES
Local sports news and schedules, edited by Keith Peters
It was
another
big year
Stanford’s football
resurrection among
the many highlights
The Stanford football seniors enjoyed a once-in-a-lifetime moment on Dec. 1 after they ended a five-year losing streak to Cal in the Big Game, pulling off a shocking 20-13 victory to close out their college careers.
ON THE AIR
Friday
Women’s basketball: Washington St.
at Stanford, 7 p.m.; KZSU (90.1 FM)
Saturday
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Men’s basketball: Fresno St. at Stanford, 2 p.m.; Fox Sports Net Bay Area;
KNBR (1050 AM)
Sunday
Women’s basketball: Washington at
Stanford, 2 p.m., KZSU (90.1 FM)
SPORTS ONLINE
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and prep sports, please see our new site
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by Rick Eymer
t was appropriate, perhaps, that
the worst team of 2006 produced
the best highlights of 2007. We’re
talking Stanford football, which set
all kinds of records for futility a year
ago while finishing a miserable 1-11.
No football team in school history
ever lost as many games.
That team was so bad that it
couldn’t fill a sparkling new $90
million stadium that was reduced to
50,000 seats for the sole purpose of
having every seat filled. The Cardinal didn’t win a single home game
that season. Based on attendance,
not a lot of people cared.
So former NFL quarterback and
Palo Alto High grad Jim Harbaugh
was brought in to shake things up for
2007. Boy, did he ever. While Stanford didn’t even have a .500 record,
Harbaugh did win the two games
that mattered most during the year
— USC and the Big Game — to
make 2007 a season with hope for
the future.
As the sun sets on a year of improbable victories and titles and a
few disappointments, it’s time to
reflect on where we’ve been and,
perhaps, get a glimpse of what’s to
come.
Instead of wading through streams
of chronological highlights now, we
present unofficial awards, honors
and special events that made the year
such a marvel.
First we need to travel back a few
months to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum where the Stanford
football team faced a fourth-down
situation with just under a minute to
play against USC on Oct. 6. What
happens next is our nominee for Moment of the Year.
In plain English, it reads something like “backup quarterback Tavita Pritchard threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Mark Bradford with 49
seconds remaining as The Cardinal
stuns the No. 1/No. 2 ranked Trojans, 24-23.”
Given the fact Stanford was a 40
1/2-point underdog, the victory was
rated as the biggest upset in college
football history.
Let’s add in a few undertones. Just
how improbable was that moment in
time? Consider that Pritchard hadn’t
seen much action (1-for-3 passing for
10 yards) since he came to Stanford,
had never started a game, and, really,
wasn’t even going to play this season
I
David Gonzales/Stanford Photo
PREP ROUNDUP . . . The Eastside Prep girls’ basketball team
tuned up for the Palo Alto Classic that begins Thursday with a
75-28 nonleague romp over visiting Andrew Hill last week. The
Panthers (9-1) got 28 points from
senior Samantha Bunch plus 16
points from freshman Ausjerae
Holland. Eastside Prep will open
the tournament at Palo Alto High
against San Mateo at 2:30 p.m.
Castilleja will play St. Francis at 4
p.m., Pinewood will play at 5:30
p.m. with Paly hosting Menlo at
7 p.m. . . . The Gunn wrestling
team pinned down its second
win in SCVAL De Anza Division action, a 42-24 victory over
visiting Cupertino last Thursday
night. The Titans had five pins
in the match, the fastest coming
when Phil Park won his 285pound division with a pin at 1:37
of the first round.
Sports
THE YEAR
IN REVIEW
Despite a loss to top-ranked Penn State in the NCAA championship match, the Stanford women’s volleyball
team had plenty to cheer about this season with a 32-3 record and another Pac-10 championship.
(continued on page 17)
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Most Valuable Player: Elliott Samuels
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First Team
Elliott Samuels (Los Altos) Sr.; Patrick
Talbott (Bellarmine) Sr.; Matt Bogott (Menlo-Atherton) Sr.; Ryan Brown (Mitty) Sr.; Tim
Wenzlau (Palo Alto) Jr.; Connor Smith (Los
Altos) Sr.; Sean Pezzini (Salinas) Sr.; Will
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Second Team
Spencer Fletcher (Mountain View) Sr.;
Brian Schmidt (Bellarmine) Sr.; Danny Wall
(Bellarmine) Sr.; Richard Hong (MenloAtheton) Jr.; Travis Greco (Serra) Sr.; Michael Fortune (Palo Alto) Sr.; Alex Popp
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Division II
Most Valuable Player: Paul Rudolph
(Sacred Heart Prep) Jr.
First Team
Paul Rudolph (Sacred Heart Prep) Jr.;
Alex Avery (Menlo) Sr.; Tim Norton (Sacred
Heart Prep) Sr.; Miguel Martin De Bustamante (St. Francis) Jr.; Tom Avery (St. Francis) Sr.; Toby Espinosa (Menlo) Sr.; James
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Evan Dellinger (St. Francis) Sr.; Shayne
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(Live Oak) Sr.; Stephan Mosson (Soquel)
Sr.; Joe Herruda (Burlingame) Sr.; Mark
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incomplete)
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Most Valuable Player: Rebecca Dorst
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Pallavi Menon
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First Team
Laura Espinosa (Mountain View) Sr.;
Hallie Kennan (Palo Alto) Sr.; Morgan
Leech (Menlo-Atherton) Jr.; Ruth Milne
(Woodside) Jr.; Jennifer Needham (Mitty)
Sr.; Kelsey Nolan (Leland) So.; Meghan
Pederson (Los Gatos) Sr.; Kristen Simonds (Mitty) Sr.; Hannah Stephens (Mitty)
Sr.; Carey Wong (Los Altos) Sr.
Second Team
Lizzie Abbott (Palo Alto) Sr.; Katie
Bezzutta (San Benito) Sr.; Jenny Coryell
(Homestead) Sr.; Anna Geiduschek (Menlo-Atherton) So.; Vanessa Lane (MenloAtherton) So.; Sarah Safir (Los Gatos) Sr.;
Kylie Sarpa (Leland) Jr.; Allegra Tringali (Los
Altos) Jr.; Amanda Wong (Palo Alto) Sr.
Honorable Mention
Elise Delagnes (Menlo-Atherton) Sr.;
Amy Georgiou (Leland) Jr. goalie; Emily
Dorst (Menlo-Atherton) Fr. Goalie; Kelsea
Ericksen (Mitty) Sr.; Courtney Gold (Leland)
Jr.; Amanda Hui (Monta Vista) Sr.; Beth
Kwoka (San Mateo) Sr.; Sabrina Maisel (Los
Altos) Sr.; Kim McComas (Mitty) Jr.; Kendall
Preston (Mountain View) Jr.; Rachel Rossi
(Mountain View) Sr.; Courtney Sandlin (Los
Altos) Jr.; Jennifer Sandstrom (Independence) Sr.; Mary Sweeney (Los Gatos) Jr.;
Jayme Telles (San Benito) Sr.
Division II
Most Valuable Player: Pallavi Menon
(Sacred Heart Prep) Sr.
First Team
Paul Rudolph
Kimberly Benedetti (St. Francis) Sr.; Kat
Booher (Castilleja) Jr.; Caroline Clark (Sacred Heart Prep) Sr.; Lindsay Dorst (Sacred
Heart Prep) Sr. goalie; Yvonne Dunlevie
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Mary Jayne Mordell (Sacred Heart Prep)
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Putnam-Price (Santa Cruz) Sr.
Second Team
Cayley Bowles (Menlo) Sr.; Elizabeth
Carey (Sacred Heart Prep) Jr.; Laura Child
(Sacred Heart Prep) Sr.; Lauren Padilla (St.
Ignatius) Sr.; Molly Russell (Aragon) Jr.; Allison Silver (St. Francis) Sr.; Rosie Stewart
(Santa Cruz) Sr.; Ericka von Kaeppler (Castilleja) Jr.; Brittany Westerman (Menlo) Sr.;
Katie Zakula (Notre Dame-Belmont) Sr.
Honorable Mention
Kimberly Atala (Pioneer) Jr.; Sarah Bohannon (Sacred Heart Prep) Sr.; Sophie
Calhoun (Santa Cruz) So.; Julie Campbell
(Menlo) Sr.; Shelby Carillo (Live Oak) Sr.;
Emily Davis (Castilleja) Sr.; Courtney Elward
(St. Francis) Jr.; Victoria Gamlen (St. Francis) Sr.; Susannah Groh (St. Ignatius) Jr.;
Rachel Henry (Soquel) So.; Sara Madding
(Menlo) Sr.; Kaitlyn Mansker (Presentation)
Sr.; Audrey Pratt (Burlingame) So.; Michal
Ross (Santa Cruz) Sr.; Elyssa Samson (Pioneer) Sr.; Sara Shapero (Presentation) Sr.;
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unless something happened to Stanford starter T.C. Ostrander.
The Cardinal was coming off
its worst loss of the season, a 41-3
setback to Arizona State in which
Harbaugh said afterward: “The one
thing I am disappointed with is this
is the first time all season I felt we
haven’t gotten better.”
Ostrander and receiver Evan
Moore went to Palo Alto’s Gordon
Biersch restaurant the following
day to watch former Stanford quarterback Trent Edwards make his
starting debut with the NFL Buffalo
Bills. During halftime, Ostrander
suffered a full-body seizure and the
medical staff subsequently declared
him out for the USC game. He didn’t
miss school, returning to classes that
Monday.
A prophetic Moore said of the
looming struggle with the Trojans:
“From the outside looking in, it looks
like a recipe for disaster. You lose
your senior quarterback and captain
and then have to go to USC with a
quarterback whose taken snaps I can
count on my left hand. But there are
enough leaders at other positions and
we’ll all be in there with him. Tavita
is a good athlete. He can throw. He
has a lot of passion out there. I like
watching him play.”
USC won its previous 35 home
games, a national championship, and
sent a quarterback to the NFL while
the Cardinal was in the midst of its
last winning season.
In addition, there was some question whether Bradford and Moore
would even return for their senior
season. Bradford and Moore informed Harbaugh that they would
return on Jan. 9. Nearly nine months
later that decision came to fruition.
Bradford is a Los Angeles native; his father was a passionate fan
of USC and wanted his son to play
there. Bradford had attended his father’s funeral just a few days before
the game. Bradford, who turned 23
on the day after the game, dedicated
his performance to him.
“That’s what made it such a big
win for me,” he said. “It was an awesome feeling.”
When Stanford players arrived
back at Maples Pavilion, thousands
of students were there to greet the
bus in a spontaneous show of support and celebration.
The Moment lives on in the mind’s
eye, on T-shirts and in the hearts of
Stanford fans across the globe.
Stanford carried another big
underdog role into the 110th Big
Game on Dec. 1. Facing long odds
once again, the Cardinal pulled off
a shocking 20-13 triumph to end
a five-game losing streak to Cal.
Moreover, the win truly salvaged the
season for Stanford’s seniors and finally filled Stanford Stadium while
veteran broadcaster Bob Murphy
signed off after a 43-year career of
announcing Cardinal sports.
While those football victories
ignited the most passion, it was really just a part of the overall success
achieved by Stanford athletics.
For four days in late May and early
June, members of the Stanford men’s
golf team were on top of the sporting world in Williamsburg, Va. The
Cardinal took the lead at the NCAA
championships on the first day and
never loosened its grip.
Stanford won its first national title
in the sport since 1994 and Conrad
Marc Abrrams/Stanford Athletics
2007 COLLEGE YEAR IN REVIEW
The Stanford women’s basketball team celebrated another Pac-10 Tournament title after winning the regular-season crown with a 17-1 record on the way to finishing the year 29-5.
Ray was named National Coach of senior Teresa McWalters (who col- 10 and school record in winning the
lapsed near the end of the race and 200 medley relay in February at the
the Year.
The golfers played consistently crawled across the finish line), se- Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool. Fiona
well throughout the tournament. Rob nior Lindsay Allen, and sophomore O’Donnell-McCarthy, Caroline
Bruce, Elaine Breeden and Brooke
Grube finished third overall with a Kate Niehaus.
Lambie, who sat out a season, was Bishop swam 1:37.71 to erase the
6-under-par 274. Zack Miller and
Daniel Lim each shot a 1-under-par involved with four national champi- old mark by six-hundredths of a
279, followed by Joseph Bramlett’s onship teams. She was named the second, also by a Stanford team that
Pac-10 Runner of the Year for a consisted of Olympians Shelly Rip285 and Matt Savage’s 292.
“Life works out in interesting third time and earned All-American ple, Misty Hyman, Gabrielle Rose
ways because all we did all year was honors along with Centrowitz, Har- along with Whitney Leatherwood.
try not to talk about the results,” Ray rington and male runners Neftalem The time was also the best in the
nation by a collegiate team during
Araia and Russell Brown.
said.
The Stanford women’s tennis team the year.
We’d like to honor the golfers as
The Pac-10 men’s swimming
our Men’s Team of the Year, an easy had its NCAA Division I women’s
choice. Just as easy is the Women’s tennis record win streak end at 89 in championships ended exactly how it
Team of the Year, Stanford’s cross early February at the ITA National started — with a Stanford victory in
country team which won its third Team Indoor championships. It was a relay race. When it comes to the
consecutive NCAA title on a chilly Stanford’s first loss since May 18, conference meet, Stanford simply
2003. That did not, however, end cannot be beat. For an unprecedentNovember day.
ed 26 straight year, the nationally
Seniors Arianna Lambie, Lauren Stanford’s standard of excellence.
Stanford opened the Pac-10 wom- No. 2-ranked Cardinal men captured
Centrowitz and Katie Harrington
were Stanford’s top three runners. en’s swimming championships in the conference championship. StanFollowing were freshman Alex Gits, spectacular fashion, setting a Pac(continued on page 19)
Norbert von der Groeben
David Gonzales/Stanford Athletics
Stanford men’s golf coach Conrad Ray was the NCAA Coach of the
Year after his team won the national championship.
Robin Lopez (right) and his Stanford teammates celebrated a 75-68 upset of No. 3 UCLA during the season,
which ended in a first-round loss to Louisville in the NCAA Tournament.
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Ben Wildman-Tobriner set three
U.S. swim records in one race.
and men’s 1,500 meters on Saturday. Lambie ran a personal best of
4:12.29 while finishing third. Her
time moved her to No. 2 on the
school’s all-time list, just ahead of
Olympian Regina Jacobs’ 4:12.3.
In the men’s 1,500, Brown posted
a career best of 3:37.56, also finishing third. He moved to No. 4 on the
school’s all-time list while earning
All-American honors.
As the fall arrived, the women’s
soccer team spent part of the season
ranked first in the nation; the men’s
water polo team came within one
Stanford volleyball junior Foluke Akinradewo was the NCAA Player of
game of qualifying for the NCAA
the Year this past season.
tournament, and the Stanford womeclipsing the 14:37.87 set by Jeff Ko- en’s volleyball team fell a few points
(continued from page 17
stoff in 1986. It was the oldest record shy of the national title.
ford senior Ben Wildman-Tobriner
in the Stanford record book and one
Senior volleyball setter Bryn Keearned Swimmer of the Meet honbelieved to be untouchable.
hoe leaves as the Cardinal’s all-time
ors as he swam to three individual
Stanford’s 800 free relay team assist leader with 5,956 during her
victories.
of senior Andy Grant, junior Dan- distinguished career, and as the allIn late February, seniors Brooke
iel Beal, senior Hongzhe Sun and time leader with 13.32 assists per
Smith, Kristen Newlin, Markisha
Phillips set an American record of game.
Coleman and Clare Bodensteiner
6:17.92 and finished third. SophoWhether teams hold winning rehelped the Stanford women’s basmore Paul Kornfeld set a
cords and championships,
ketball clinch its seventh consecuschool record of 52.19 in
or have losing records,
tive Pac-10 women’s basketball title.
the 100 breast
the risks, the rewards, the
Junior guard Candice Wiggins, who
In the middle of April,
friendships, the passion
missed a portion of the season, still
the Stanford women’s
are part of the journey. As
earned All-American attention and
gymnastics team admuch as seeing the joy of
was named the MVP of the confervanced to the NCAA
winning, there is also a
ence tournament.
championships for the
dignity to painful losses
In mid-March, Cassidy Krug
first time in three years.
and the ends of otherwise
capped her career with national titles
Tabitha Yim won the Allglorious seasons.
and Elaine Breeden began hers with
Around title and the unAs Stanford junior
one. Still, the top-ranked Stanford
even bar title. Liz Tricase
Foluke Akinradewo, the
women’s swimming and diving team
won the vault with a 9.9.
sport’s national Player of
had to settle for a fourth-place finish
In late April, Stanford
the Year, said after Stanat the NCAA Championships. Krug
sophomore Matt Bruch
ford lost in the national
won both the 1-meter and 3-meter
won five straight men’s
women’s volleyball chamdiving titles and Breeden won the
tennis matches at the Pac- Arianna Lambie
200 fly title.
pionship: “It’s all worth it.
10 tournament to earn his
Later in March, the men’s swimThis is why we come to the
second straight conference title.
ming team finished second in the
court every day, and why we practice
The Stanford women’s water polo
nation, as the 2007 championship
hard and work so hard. Sometimes
team reached the NCAA championmeet was the fastest national finals
ships, finishing second for the third you just make mistakes.”
in history. Stanford set a combined
Stanford senior soccer players
time.
15 American/school records and
The Cardinal women’s tennis Rachel Buehler (an All-American
failed to win a single event, finishteam, which reached the NCAA Fi- and national team member) and
ing second 10 times.
nal Four in May, has held serve on Shari Summers answered questions
Wildman-Tobriner broke the
its own court since dropping a 5-4 through uncontrollable tears after
American record in the 50-yard freedecision to California on Feb. 27, the Cardinal lost in the NCAA tourstyle three times. His leadoff leg of
1999, a streak that has reached 121 nament. Their teammates were also
19.03 in the prelims of the 200 free
having trouble leaving the field. It
straight matches.
relay broke the 19.05 shared by Tom
While there were no individual was a heart-tugging, poignant moJager (1990) and Cal’s Anthony Erchampions and no team trophies, ment — and humbling.
vin (2002). Wildman-Tobriner broke
Let’s hope they can also recognize
Stanford didn’t come away from the
his own mark with an 18.98 in the 50
NCAA Track and Field Champion- that if they didn’t feel the pain of losfree prelims and then lowered it to
ships empty-handed. Stanford came ing, they’d never understand the joy
18.87 on his opening leg of the 200
away with two seconds, three thirds, of winning.
free relay finals.
As 2007 ends, Harbaugh’s statea sixth and a handful of personal reSenior Shaun Phillips broke school
cords that will force the Cardinal ment after beating USC offers up
records in the 500 free (4:13.07) and
all-time lists to be redone. Among hope for 2008: “It’s a start and we
1,650 free (14.37.62), the latter mark
the highlights were the women’s haven’t written the finish yet.”■
Kyle Terada/Stanford Athletics
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Wil & Inger Larsen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Mary Lemmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Patricia Levin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Stephen Levy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Harry & Marion Lewenstein . . . . . . . . . . **
Bjorn & Michele Liencres . . . . . . . . . . 1000
Robert & Constance Loarie . . . . . . . . . . . **
Robert & Nancy Lobdell . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Steve & Linda Longstreth . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Gwen Luce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Lorraine Macchello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
John & Claude Madden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Dick & Ellie Mansfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Mimi Marden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Chris & Beth Martin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Jody Maxmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
May Family Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Drew McCalley & Marilyn Green. . . . . . 100
Hugh O. McDevitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Patrick & Nancy McGaraghan . . . . . . . . 250
John McNellis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Joe & Lynnie Melena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
John & Eve Melton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Mona R. Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Ruth B. Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
David & Lynn Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Stephen Monismith & Lani Freeman . . . . **
Diane Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Mark & Elizabeth Moragne . . . . . . . . . . . **
Les Morris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Robb & Timi Most . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Thomas & Isabel Mulcahy . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Aron Murai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
“No Limit” Drag Racing Team . . . . . . . . . 25
Elsbeth Newfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Merrill & Lee Newman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Craig & Sally Nordlund . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Joan B. Norton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Boyce & Peggy Nute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
John & Barbara Pavkovich . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Scott & Sandra Pearson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Enid Pearson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Barbara Peterson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Conney Pfeiffer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Jim & Alma Phillips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Helene Pier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Jeremy Platt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Joe & Marlene Prendergast . . . . . . . . . . 200
Don & Dee Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Nan Prince . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
The Read Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Bill & Carolyn Reller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Amy Renalds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Jerry H. Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Thomas Rindfleisch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Teresa L. Roberts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Dick & Ruth Rosenbaum . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Peter & Beth Rosenthal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Paul & Maureen Roskoph . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Don & Lou Ross. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Steve & Karen Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Norman & Nancy Rossen. . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Don & Ann Rothblatt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Ruth & Kris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Don & Jacquie Rush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Al & JoAnne Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Ferrell & Page Sanders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
George & Dorothy Saxe . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
John & Mary Schaefer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
John & Kathleen Schniedwind. . . . . . . . . **
Ken Schroeder & Fran Codispoti . . . . . . . **
Irving & Naomi Schulman . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Joseph Sciascia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Bill & Eleanor Settle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Hersh & Arna Shefrin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Mark & Nancy Shepherd . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Martha Shirk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Lee & Judy Shulman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Bob & Diane Simoni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Robert & Barbara Simpson . . . . . . . . . . 100
Sandy Sloan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Roger Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Andrea B. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Charles A. Smith & Ann D. Burrell . . . . 650
Alice Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Lew & Joan Southern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Bob & Becky Spitzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Art & Peggy Stauffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Charles & Barbara Stevens. . . . . . . . . . . . **
Doug & Kathy Stevens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Shirley F. Stewart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Blaire & Jacqueline Stewart . . . . . . . . . . 100
Carl Stoffel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Bryan & Bonnie Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Stan & Sue Sucher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Debra Szecsei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Jacqueline S. Thielen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Warren R. Thoits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Tom & Pat Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Carl & Susan Thomsen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Roy Levin & Jan Thomson . . . . . . . . . . . 250
David & Nehama Treves . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Tony & Carolyn Tucher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Daniel & Janis Tuerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Mike & Ellen Turbow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Janis Ulevich. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Jim & Susan Voll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Jerry & Bobbie Wagger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Leonard & Jeanne Ware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Roger & Joan Warnke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Anna Wu Weakland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Mark & Karen Weitzel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2000
George & Lois Wentworth . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Ralph & Jackie Wheeler. . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Wildflower Fund @ SVCF . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Scott Wong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Douglas & Susan Woodman. . . . . . . . . . 200
John E. Woodside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Tom & Ellen Wyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Jia-Ning & Lijun Xiang . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Mark Krusnow & Patti Yanklowitz . . . . . . **
George & Betsy Young. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **
Steve & Grace Zales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Steve Zamek & Jane Borchers . . . . . . . . . **
David Gonzales
Holiday
Fund
(continued)
Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, December 26, 2007 • Page 19
Transitions
Births, marriages and deaths
Deaths
Calvin M. Atkinson
in recent
years He
as Washuntiladvice
he retired
in 1978.
was a
published
in 1970,
up new his
Theodore
Paulopened
Stivers
considered
a resurgence
fellow of
the American
Society of
ways
of thinking
an entire
Theodore
Paul for
Stivers,
85, agen46- ington
power. and chaired the WaCivil Engineers
eration
of civil
year resident
of and
Palostructural
Alto, diedengiOct. nuclear
wife,Section
Elisabeth
Paté-Cornell,
terHis
Affairs
of the
Commonneering
students.
20.
a professor
management sciwealth
Club of in
California.
Cornell’s
earthquake
work
led is
Born in Sterling,
Colo., he
attendengineering
at Stanford.
He and his
family moved
to Palo
to
beingHigh
elected
a fellow
of the ence
ed his
Wilder
School
in Wilder,
have
twoHe
children,
Phillip
and
Alto in
1954.
was active
in Boy
American
Geophysical
Union,
an They
Idaho, and graduated
from
the ColHe the
alsoCivil
has three
Scouts, Cornell.
SIRS and
War
honor
bestowed
on geo-a Ariane
lege ofusually
San Mateo
and received
fromHeanhad
earlier
marriage,
Roundtable.
a love
of the
physicists.
civil engineering degree from UC children
Joancamping
Fazzio and
outdoorsCornell,
and enjoyed
He was aHe
member
the National
Berkeley.
then of
went
to work Robert
Eric interested
Cornell,
fishing. Hegraduate
was always
Academy
of Engineering
for the Kern
County Landand
Co.was
in Stanford
won the
2001
Nobel
in learning
new
things
andPrize
was for
an
the
2003 recipient
George
W. who
Bakersfield,
whereofhethe
met
his wife
avid world traveler. Family trips to
Housner
Medal, the highest honor of physics.
Bonnie Jean.
In addition
to his
wife and there
chiland close
friendships
Earthquake
Engineering
Research
At the beginning
of World
War II, Mexico
heofishis
survived
two He
sisters,
are part
lasting by
legacy.
was
Institute.
he enlisted in the Navy and served dren,
Scheel
of Santa
Rosa,fi Calif.,
also the
organizer
of many
to his building-safety
asIna addition
liaison officer
on the home Joan
R4 Bonnie Bassinger of Edna,
work,
Cornell wasfactories
known for
front converting
forstudywar- and
Kathleen and Todd Ford of Palo
ing
risk to offshore
timethe
production.
Afteroil
theplatforms
war, he Minn.
A public
a son,memorial
Oct. 5 service is befrom
earthquakes,
strong
winds
and Alto,
became
chief engineer
and
superinwaves.
alsoSouth
was San
a consultant
to ing planned for February.
tendentHe
of the
Joaquin Irthe
Nuclear
Regulatory
Commisrigation
District.
He supervised
the
BIRTHS
sion,
and officials
there had
sought
planning
of the district’s
Tri-Dam
irrigation project.
In 1954, he became executive ofAnnie Shiau and Chunhwa
ficer of the California State District
Huang of Palo Alto, a son, Sept.
Securities Commission in
charge ofOF 27
NOTICE
A PUBLIC HEARING
overseeing the funding of state waShanna Burroughs-Lombardi
ter projects. He held that positionof the Palo Alto
and
Steve Lombardi
of Menlo
Planning & Transportation
Commission
Park, a daughter, Sept. 29
BIRTHS
Amy and Daniel Baer of Palo
M-F 6am-9pm Sa/Su 8am-7pm
a daughter,
Sept. 30 shall
Please be advised the Planning and Alto,
Transportation
Commission
1625 N. Shoreline
Blvd. Mt. View, CA 94043
Christine
AnnieaShiau
and meeting
Chunhwaat 7:00Anette
and Shawn January
Winnick
conduct
regular
pm, Wednesday,
Heilman Pendleton
Huang
of Palo
son, Sept.
Stella Fregulia
9, 2008
in theAlto,
CivicaCenter,
Council Chambers,
1st aFloor,
250 Hamilton
WWW.OVERTIMEFITNESS.COM
of Stanford,
daughter,
Sept. 30
27Avenue, Palo Alto, California. An interested persons ma appear and be
Stella Fregulia, 88, a longtime
Christine Heilman Pendleton,
Mary LeGrand-Asel and
Shanna
BurroughsPalo Alto resident, died Oct. 20 af- 77, a resident of Portola Valley,
heard on these items.
Paul Asel of Palo Alto, a son,
Lombardi and Steve Lombardi
ter a long period of dementia and died Oct. 23. She worked for the
correspondence
relating toSept.
any of the agenda
items below or non-agenda
Sept. 30
ofAllMenlo
Park, a daughter,
declining health.
American Red Cross and Macy’s
PM deadline
for inclusion
into
29items, which were not received by the 2:00
A pioneer airline stewardess of department store, and was also
Rocio
and Francisco
Andaluz
Commission
on the Baer
Thursday preceding the meeting date, need to
Amypackets
and Daniel
the 1930s, she grew up on the farm- active in the Junior League. A 50a son,
Sept. 30 to
received
5:00 PMSept.
on the dateofofPalo
the Alto,
meeting
for distribution
lands of northeastern Nebraska. She year resident of the Midpeninsula,
ofbePalo
Alto,before
a daughter,
German
Arcadia
and Conwas the youngest of three children she is survived by her husband of
30staff and Commission members.
cepcion
G.
Leora
of
East Palo
of Swedish/Norwegian immigrants. 50 years, Red Pendleton; four chilAnette
Shawn
Interested
persons and
ma appear
and be heard. Staff reports for agendized
Alto,
a
son,
Sept.
30
She attended Wesleyan University dren; and 14 grandchildren. DonaWinnick
of
Stanford,
a
daughter,
items are available via the Cit ’s main website at www.cityofpaloalto.org
Silva and
Marco
Anin Lincoln, Neb. where she finished tions may be made to the American
Sept.
30Agendas/Minutes/Reports and alsoMonica
under
at the Planning
Division
Front
• State-of-the-art,
new school and moved on to a Red Cross.
Mary
Mary
Helene Dunk brandnursing
Desk, 5th
Floor, LeGrand-Asel
Cit Hall, after 2:00 PM
on the
Thursda preceding
the
tonio
Hernandez
of East Palo
job at United Airlines in 1935.
Maryorthodontic
Helene Dunk,offi
a 36-year
meeting date. Copies will be made available
the Oct.
Development
Center
ce
Alto, aatson,
1
should Cit Hall be closed on the 9/80 Frida .
Natasha Griffil and Trinidad
1. Pepper Avenue Traffic CalmingCeja
Trial of
Evaluation:
Planning
and
East Palo Alto,
a daugh• Directly across the street from
Transportation Commission review of the ter,
Pepper
Avenue
Traffic Calming Trial
Oct.
1
Clark-Knox
Stanford University
project evaluation and recommendations regarding the permanent retention
Karen and Thad Hallock of
Lyndsay Clark and Seth Knox were of the traffic calming measures.
married Sept. 16 at Stanford MemoPalo Alto, a daughter, Oct. 1
Request
for
• Dr. Wu provides the latest
rial Church. The bride is the daughter of 2. 3220, 3230, 3208 Alexis Drive [07PLN-00362]*:
Fitzgerald-Wilcox
Farish Haydel and
Aaron
Site and Design approval of architectural and site plan revisions to a CouncilGary
Clark
of
San
Jose
and
Penny
Clark
Erin
Felicia
Fitzgerald
and
Eric
Strauch of Menlo Park, a son,
innovations in orthodontic
care
Martin Wilcox were married July 15 of Palo Alto. The groom is the son of approved project, including screening vegetation on Foothills Park land and
Oct.and
2 screening landscaping on
to help bring comfortatand
Maryspeed
Star of the Sea Church in La Eirvin Knox of Kuwait and Barbra Nel- the addition of a drivewa , a new pool, spa
Vameghi-Meyers
and
the adjoining vacant parcel. EnvironmentalVida
Assessment:
An Initial Stud
son
of
Menlo
Park.
The
bride,
a
graduate
Jolla.
The
bride
is
the
daughter
of
Rayto his patients, including the high
Negative
Declaration
hasAlto,
been a
Daniel
Meyers
of Palo
mond and Julia Fitzgerald of La Jolla. of Palo Alto High School and UC Davis, has been completed and a Draft Mitigated
the 2California Environmental
tech Damon system bracket.
The groom is the son of John Wilcox works for VERITAS software in Moun- prepared in accordance with the requirements
son, of
Oct.
(OS).
of Squaw Valley and Jean Wilcox of tain View. The groom, a graduate of Palo Qualit Act (CEQA). Zone District: Open Space
Robin and Scott Love of Palo
Alto
High
School
and
Brown
University,
Palo
Alto.
The
bride
is
a
graduate
of
*Quasi-Judicial items subject to CitAlto,
Council
Disclosure
• Complimentary consultation
a son,
Oct. 3 Polic
The Academy of Our Lady of Peace is an account manager for Sygate TechAlejandra
Valencia
Jose
7 andand
Special
and now attends San Diego State Uni- nologies in Fremont. The couple will live APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Regular Meeting of November
Ceja
of
East
Palo
Alto,
a
son,
and
Regular
Meeting
of
December
12,
2007.
versity. She works for the La Jolla His- in San Jose.
Oct.
4
torical Society. The groom is a graduNEXT MEETING: Regular meeting Januar 30, 2007.
ate of Gunn High School and UC San
Emily Evans and Robert
Questions. If interested parties have an questions regarding the above applications,
Diego and is now a graduate student at
Desmond-Shine
Chaffee
of Menlo Park, a daughplease contact the Planning Division at (650) 329-2441. The files relating to these
the Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Denise
Ann Desmond and Wilter, Oct.the4 hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00
items are available for inspection weekda s between
in La Jolla. The couple will live in San
liamPM.Edgar
Shinearewere
married
Audio tapes
available
at 329-2440 and video
tapes of
meetings
available
Berenice
Reyes
andareAbel
MeDiego.
Sept.
23theinCitLake
Tahoe.
The bride
with
Clerk’s
at 329-2571.
This public meeting is televised live on Government
jia of East Palo Alto, a son, Oct.
Channel
is aAccess
graduate
of 26.
Santa Clara Uni4
versity
and works at Alza Corp. in
Gray-McGuire
ADA. The Cit of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. To
Mountain
View. The groom
is the
Christina Ann Gray and Hug Wingfield McGuire were married Aug.
and Todd
Ford of
request accommodations
to access
Cit facilities,Kathleen
services or programs,
to participate
son atofpublic
William
and or
J to learn more about thePalo
26Eric
on theWu,
UC Santa
Barbara campus. The bride is the daughter of Edward
meetings,
Cit ’sAlto,
compliance
the5Americans
a son,with
Oct.
DMD
with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), please contact the Cit ’s ADA Coordinator at
Gray
of Los Angeles
and Shirley
Gray
of Lakeport. The groom is the son
Christine and John Langell
DIPLOMATE,
AMERICAN
BOARD OF
ORTHODONTICS
650.329.2550 (voice) or b e-mailing ada@cit ofpaloalto.org.
of John Wingfield McGuire and Rosemary McGuire of Palo Alto. The
of Stanford, a daughter, Oct. 6
bride
a graduate
of UC Santa
Barbara.
groom, a graduate of www.WUORTHO.com
Palo
ForisFree
Consultation
Please
Call: The
650-322-0288
***
Shelley C. and Stephen J.
Alto High School, Harvard University and Stanford University, is a teacher
1865
El
Camino
Real
bet.
Leland
and
Park
Ave,
Palo
Alto,
CA
94306
offi
ce@wuortho.com
Bonelli
of Stanford, a daughter,
Steve Emslie, Planning
Director
at UC Santa Barbara. The couple will live in Goleta.
Oct. 6
Calvin M. Atkinson, 77, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, died sudAllin
Cornell
denly October
6.
Born
October
19, 1922
BarberC. Allin
Cornell,
69, ainStanford
ton,
Ohio,emeritus
the 12thofofcivil
13 children,
professor
and enhe
moved with
his family died
to San
vironmental
engineering,
of
Francisco
1937, and graduated
cancer Dec.in14.
from
School
in 1940.
He Mission
was bornHigh
in 1938
in Mobridge,
In
joinedthree
the U.S.
Army
S.D.1942
He he
received
degrees
at
and
servedanatundergraduate
HQ Okinawadegree
Base
Stanford:
Command and elsewhere in the Asiatic Pacific Theater for the balance
of World War II, until his discharge
in 1945. In San Francisco in 1948
he met Mary Hartz, and they were
married August 31, 1950. In 1951
they moved to Palo Alto, where they
lived the rest of his life.
He worked as an architectural
draftsman at Michel and Pfeiffer
Ironworks in South San Francisco
for 39 years, and for West Bay Steel
in Menlo Park for 25 years. He retired in 1988, and proceeded to travel the world with his wife and their
families. His family says he left behind a great legacy of laughter and
love of life and family.
He and his wife celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary this year
with many friends and family.
He is survived by his wife Mary
H. Atkinson of Palo Alto; daughter Amy Atkinson of San Leandro;
daughter Jean Beard of Rochester,
N.Y.; sister Constance Krehoff of
Coos Bay, Ore.; and two grandchildren. Donations in his memory
can be made to the American Heart
Association, One Almaden Blvd.,
Suite 5000, San Jose, California,
95113-2214.
His
seismicnight
hazTwowork
yearsdealt
later,with
on a stormy
in architecture,
and aand
master’s
and
resident
of Palo Alto
Los Altos,
and risk,
measured
on a flight
fromusually
Cheyenne,
Wyo. in
to
PhD (1964)
in civil
died
Sept. 27.
Sheengineering.
is survived He
by ards
of the
dollars
lives lost.
He adOmaha,
pilot,orCaptain
Fregulia,
was on theMarlene
faculty atL.MIT
from
daughter
Smith
of 1966
Palo terms
the U.S.
Geological
Survey
on
proposed
marriage.
The couple
soon
to 1983
before
returning to Stanford
Alto;
two
granddaughters;
and four vised
seismic
hazard
which their
have
settled
in Palo
Altomaps,
and turned
as a research professor.
great-grandchildren.
Services have its
for a wide
varietyand
of
attentionguides
to raising
a family
been
held.
may be
made become
With
oneDonations
seminal paper
in 1968,
fromand
prospective
designing
buildinghomebuyers
(by hand)
“Engineering
Seismic
Analy- users,
to
the American
CancerRisk
Society.
urban planners.
a two-story,
four-bedroom home
sis,” his mathematical prowess to
they lived
for moreStatistics,
than 45
His book,
“Probability,
nudged researchers toward quanti- where
years.
Decision for Civil Engineers”,
fying
risks and hazards of earth- and
Carl the
Hanson
withactive
Jack in
Benjamin
and
She was
the Clipped
quakes.
Carl Hanson, 88, a resident of written
Wings stewardess alumnae, and the
Palo Alto, died Oct. 15.
Born in Rochester, N.Y. in 1912, PEO women’s organization, along
he was a longtime resident of with many parent and community
Campbell and South Lake Tahoe activities. Her favorite pastimes inof acluded
large
facility,
sewing,
gardening and travbefore moving to Palo Alto earlier
this year. He had been a 35-year el. She also loved music and played
the piano.
employee of Lockheed before retir- the violin
of aandsmall
club.
She is survived by her husband
ing.
He is survived by two daughters, Richard Fregulia of Redwood City;
Terry Hart of San Jose and Annette two sons, Richard Fregulia, Jr. of
Wen of Palo Alto.; and five grand- Mill Valley and Paul Fregulia of
LIVE. FLEX. GROW. ENGAGE.
children. Donations in his memory Woodside; daughter Gail Stepp of
may be made to the Alzheimer’s San Jose; six grandchildren; and
Association of the Greater San four great-grandchildren. Services
cardiohave
and strength
equipment,
been held.
Memorial contriFrancisco Bay Area, 2065 Latest
West El
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butions
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115 Announcements
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Piano Lessons
Taught in your home.
Member MTAC & NGPT.
Specializing in beginners.
Karen, (650)233-9689
Piano Lessons in Palo Alto
Call Alita (650)838-9772
Violin - all styles, all ages.
MV & Cupertino. MM, Eastman; tchg
credential; former SJ Symphony.
408/446-5744
135 Group Activities
Have Fun and Make Mono Prints
Celebrate family and friends’ creative
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Cadillac 2003 Seville STS Sedan
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out. Loaded with all features, including
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Always garaged. Lives in Woodside.
650-851-1042
140 Lost & Found
LOST EARRING
Small diamond earring lost in West
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Runaway Cat!
145 Non-Profits
Needs
Brand new Condo couches
Pottery Barn- style condo couches, with
slipcovers. Natural. Original receipt
ENTERTAINMENT CENTER-BOOKSHELF
245 Miscellaneous
“GREEN” Contractor
Dee Dee Ranch Daffodils
Great Gift Idea!
A Season of Grandma’s Daffodils.
Weekly delivery Jan-Mar
Area Redwood City south to Mountain
View
Call Deb 650-851-0623 or Email
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Ambitious? Tired of Trading Time 4
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stress. Call 800-470-4876.
Firewood
Cord, 24” $280, 16” $320, mix, 1/2
cord, less avail. 650-328-1058
260 Sports &
Exercise Equipment
EFI Total Gym 11000 - $250
New Women’s K2 Cadence LS Roller
- $111
Ski, Rossignol 9X Pro - $125
Lexus 2002 SC430 - $32,750
Skis, Dynastar Speed SX - $150
Pontiac 1998 Grand Prix GTP
Supercharged - $4,190
Skis, Rossignol 7X - $100
Free Single Travel Party
Bipolar Depression Study
Problems of Work
415 Classes
Bipolar Weight Loss Study
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Public Speaking Jitters? Then..
Children’s Art Docents
Theatre Flamenco at the Mountain
DEPRESSION?
130 Classes &
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Do You Have Bipolar Disorder?
Gallery Shop Volunteer
Read to Children
Adult Spanish Lessons
Readers for Visually Impaired
Discover Mono Print Painting
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Stanford University Research
Instruction for Hebrew
Bar and Bat Mitzvah For Affiliated and
Unaffiliated
George Rubin, M.A. in
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650/424-1940
Hope Street Studios
In Downtown Mountain View
Most Instruments, Voice
All Ages, All Levels
(650) 961-2192
P/T Temporary Bookstore Help
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Stanford Bookstore is hiring:
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ALSJCC Community Day of Service
JKD Self Defense School
Barton-Holding Music Studio
Roger Emanuels, cello and Laura
Barton, vocals. 6 week “singing for
the non-singer” class. Starts 1/15.
650/965-0139
Caregivers / CNAs / HHAs
Visiting Angels (Sunnvyale) has immediate openings! Exp w/elderly requried. Full-time, part-time, overnights
& live-in. Flexible schedule, top pay,
medical benefits & BONUSES!
(408) 735-0983
Support Tropical Reforestation!
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A Piano Teacher
Children & Adults
Ema Currier (650)493-4797
Architect
3-8 yrs experience. Strong verbal,
written, and graphic skills. Portfolio
required. ArchiCAD experience very
highly desired. Architectural degree
required. FGG is a full-service residential
architectural firm and works hard to
match their employee's personal goals
with the firm's.
150 Volunteers
Holiday Helpers
133 Music Lessons
Activity Aide
20 hours/week w/benefits. Work
with frail seniors. Exp. w/Mandarin or
Spanish a plus. Job description at www.
avenidas.org. Resume to lpark@avenidas.org or fax 650/691-1119.
ACTORS-auditions
Firewood - Seasoned
1/2 cord mix $150; full cord mix
$300; 1/2 cord oak $200. full cord
oak $400. Free delivery in local area.
650-630-1077
Chevrolet 1969 Camaro SS
Price 5000 USD, 350 Engine and
Transmission, Ext Blue/Int Black,
Automatic, Clear Title, pictures/
details contact:kevinanderson@live.
com/(651) 222 9603
500 Help Wanted
Collectible Barbie Dolls
and misc. toys. 650/968-7194
LOVE HORSES......?
Kitten Adoption Fair!
Most Saturdays from 1-5pm at Pet
Food Express Palo Alto. For dates or
to preview kitties, visit
www.ibokrescue.org!
Friday Night Chess
Free Personality & IQ Testing
Your IQ, personality and aptitude
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Jobs
Hitch-trailer ball mount & shank - $25
Barbies and toys for sale
Emerson School Open Houses
Donate Your Car
Children’s Cancer Fund! Help Save
A Child’s Life Through Research and
Support! Free Vacation Package. Fast,
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Cable Tire Chains - $15
Associate
Dancer Dejour Retail Store
Donate Vehicle
Running or not accepted! Free Towing.
Tax Deductible. Noahs Arc - Support No
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ZeroOut Your Emitted CO2! $50
Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA)
For Sale
450 Personal Growth
201 Autos/Trucks/
Parts
12/14 Gallery Reception
Christmas Eve Celebration
240 Furnishings/
Household items
155 Pets
Desert Lynx kittens for sale - $200
50 Plus German Shepards
Available - Adopt or Foster
G.S. Rescue of No. CA invites you to its
Redwood City Adoption Day first Sat.
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savegsd.org or call 1-866-SAVEGSD
Toyota 2004 Prius
Commuter Sticker Silver Hybrid 4
door 65,500 mi. one owner, loaded:
nav. system, 5 CD player, tape deck,
ext. wty 7 yr/100,000 mi. $19,888
Woodside (650) 851-9008
220 Computers/
Electronics
FREE Satellite TV
Media & Make-Up Artists
Earn up to $500/day for television,
CD/videos, film, fashion. One week
course in Los Angeles while building
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Reliable Used Car
440 Massage Therapy
Caring Attention to Excellent
Therapeutic Massage
Be Well! Call Lois in San Carlos
(650)906-7000
445 Music Classes
Classified Deadlines:
FRIDAY PAPER: noon, Wednesday
WEDNESDAY PAPER: noon, Monday
Community Association for Rehab
525 E. Charleston Road
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Attn: Human Resources
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Winter Blues?
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Antique dolls
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Or mail to
425 Health Services
230 Freebies
235 Wanted to Buy
Payroll Administrator
Immediate need for F/T or P/T Payroll
Admin w/Pro Business experience.
Music lessons, voice, piano
Performance. Confidence.
Experienced. University
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560 Employment
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628 Graphics/
Webdesign
Driver
Don’t Just Start Your Career, Start It
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Tuition Reimbursement! www.JoinCRST.
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645 Office/Home
Business Services
Driver - CDL Training
$0 down, financing by Central
Refrigerated. Drive for Central, earn up
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Railroad Employment
Prepare for future railroad employment. NARS, in Overland Park, Kansas,
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Average salaries $63k. Tuition assistance available. Conductor- MechanicalWelder- Signal. 1-913-319-2603. www.
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Business
Services
604 Adult Care
Offered
CNA Caregiver, Accute Care/
Hospice Exp.
Warm caring, respons. Will care for
loved ones in your home. Day/nite. Will
drive. Meal prep. Lite hsewk.
510-491-4855 or 650-518-2598 Marge
Geriatric Care Management —Clark Consulting 650-879-9030
620 Domestic Help
Offered
StraightAD
branding, web design
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650 Pet Care/
Grooming/Training
All Animals Happy House
Pet Sitting Services by Susan
Licensed, insured, refs.
650-323-4000
Gates-Wire-Posts-Shelters
and Corrals
Stall Mats
Half Moon Bay Feed & Fuel
“Your Complete Ranch Supply”
650-726-4814
701 AC/Heating
Free Central Heating Unit
Get a FREE Central Heating Unit when
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703 Architecture/
Design
CHEAP Structural Design
CHEAP Structural Engineering
License #C68517 25+Yrs Exp.
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Design/Permits
One Stop Place for Your Remodeling
Design needs. Complete Plans included.
Structural Engineering and Energy
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AV Pros
Custom Home Theater, DirecTV
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Ramos Cleaning Services
Residential & commercial. Free estimates, reasonable prices, 10 yrs. exp.
Weekly, bi-weekly, monthly. Please call
Doris 650-678-4792 Lic: 10929
Rosario’s Housecleaning
Experienced. Good references.
650-703-3026
Rosie’s Housecleaning Service
Res./Comm’l. Service guaranteed,
great refs. Owner supervised work.
408/991-4300; 650/868-3530
This space kept
clean by
Cabinetry-Individual Design
Precise, 3-D Computer Modeling
Mantels, Bookcases, Workplaces
Wall Units, Window Seats
Ned Hollis 650-856-9475
2 person team.
We do the same service as everyone
else-but the difference is: "we love to do
it!" Steam spot clng avail Lic.# 28276,
Call (650)369-7570
www.FlorLauHousecleaning.com
(650) 961-8288
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Live-in nanny needed
Need responsible energetic nanny. San
Carlos-(650)226-3800
Adult French Lessons
Adult French, Spanish
Adult Spanish Lessons
DOMICILE CONSTRUCTION
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
NEW Construction
ROOM Additions
KITCHEN & BATH Remodeling
Cal. Lic. #627843 • Bonded • Insured
650-366-8335
730 Electrical
Alex Electric
Lic #784136. Free Est.
All electrical
Alex, (650)366-6924
JW ELECTRIC
Quality Work / Low Prices
(888) 568-8363
Free Estimates.....Lic# 878406
Stewart Electric
Residential Electric
& Lighting Services.
Lic #745186
(408)745-7115 or (408)368-6622
Bath & Kitchen Tiling
And all home repairs.
Reasonable. Guar. Since 1985
Raymond, 650/815-6114
Classic Tile Company
Tile & grout repairs. Tile instalation,
repair, and grouting. Free estimates.
Bonded, license #378868
(650)969-3914. Leave msg.
Over 40 yrs experience.
Beckys Landscape
Weekly, Biweekly & Periodic Maint.
Annual Rose, Fruit Tree Pruning, Yard
Clean-ups, Demolition, Excavation,
Irrigation, Sod, Planting, Raised Beds,
Ponds, Fountains, Patios, Decks.
650/493-7060
All Math, Spanish, French, Scien
One-to-One Tutoring Service - 363-8799
ART WITH EMILY
Spanish 4 hme schooled
Art:Classes, birthday parties! 6507990235
Spanish for High School Students
College Coach/Tutor
English Tutor/Writing Coach
French & Spanish for Adults
French & Spanish for High School
French Lessons for Home Schooled
French Native Teacher
All levels and ages. SAT, AP, conversation for travelers and business professionals.
Hessen Camille Ghazal, Ph.D.
650/965-9696
French, Spanish for HS students
345 Tutoring/
Lessons
A European Contractor
Additions, Kit/BA, remodels. All interior/
exterior jobs. Lic. #895617.
650/861-2274
Arteaga Enterprises Inc.
Gardening, maintenance, landscaping, irrigation, pressure washer, tree
service, clean up, 650-366-0888 or
415-298-9004
Back 2 School Spanish & French!
www.spnannies.com
719 Remodeling/
Additions
748 Gardening/
Landscaping
Martha’s Housecleaning
Experience and good references. Free
estimates. Call Martha 650-906-1331
650-462-4580
Cell (650) 630-3279 (650) 906-7712
743 Tiling
Let us keep
your space clean!
Jose’s Janitorial Service
Professional House Cleaning, Offices
* Window Washing * Commercial
Residential * Husband & Wife
References (650)322-0294
Start ASAP w/ RWC family
2 girls, 6 months & 2 years
7:30 - 4:00, M/Tu/W, $18/hr.
15 years experience
Reasonable Rates - Guaranteed Work
Move in or Move out - $15/hour
Free Estimates
Fences - Decks - Retaining
Wall Patio Outdoor Construction.
15 yrs Exper. Reasonable prices.
Lic#786158. Al 650-853-0824
(c) 269-7113
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Least toxic. Residential.
15 years exp. 650/329-8021
Down to earth San Mateo family
have an 8 week old baby girl
8:00 - 5:00, Mon-Fri, $800/wk
Yanet’s House Cleaning
737 Fences & Gates
Gloria Godinez House Cleaning
House, Office, Window Cleaning
Phone 1-650-669-3748
On Call
Nannies!
...and more
Get spousal funding 4 child care
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Own transportaton, good refs.
20 years experience.
650/364-4367; 650/771-2915
Francisca Deep Housecleaning
Good refs & exp. 650-771-1414 or
650-298-8212
624 Financial
SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE: 2nd/4th Jan
PILAS Housekeeping
710 Carpentry
Seeking FT Nanny for 2 Children
330 Child Care
OfferedExperienced
Morning Nanny avail.
Merry Maids
Professional Housecleaning. Serving
Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Atherton,
Woodside. Call for discount.
650/369-6243.
704 Audio/Visual
Always Clean
Residential/Commercial. Trusted
since 1991. Excellent Refs. Free
Estimates. Dina or Jose Sandoval
(650)566-8136 or (650)464-0991
Experienced Housekeeper
Need extra hands for holidays? Detailed
cleaning, ironing, laundry, organizing,
errands. English speaking, current CDL,
great refs. 25 years exp.
650/281-8637
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Mendez Cleaning Service
Daily, weekly, monthly. Residential *
Good Refs * Reasonable Rates * 10+
yrs exp. Licensed.
650/630-1566 or 650/364-3149
715 Cleaning
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Cocktail party pianist
Cocktail party pianist and sing-along
leader. Piano bar experienced.
650-329-9831.
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Language Experts
Experienced European French-Spanish
Teacher with degree. Kids, high schoolers, special programs for adults.
(650)691-9863 (650)804-5055
www.languagesexpert.com
350 Preschools/
Schools/Camps
Early Learning Preschool
Ages 3-6. Environment designed for
learning and exploration.
650/857-0655.
www.growingtreepreschool.com
Waldorf preschool
355 Items for Sale
Baby Bjorn Carrier $30 Only!
Graco Snugride inf carseat/base
LOVE HORSES......?
Snugli baby carrier $20
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Ceja’s Home & Garden Landscape
Sprinklers, Sod, tree trimming, Stump
Removal. Cleanups. Maint. Free Est.
15 yrs.
814-1577 or 533-5994
www.cejalandscaping.com
• YARD
• LANDSCAPE
MAINTENANCE
• ESTATE SERVICE
• NEW LAWNS
RENOVATION
• SPRINKLER
SYSTEMS
LIC# 865860
J&G HAULING SERVICE
Misc. junk, office, appliances,
garage, storage, etc, clean-ups. Old
furniture, refrigerators, freezers.
FREE ESTIMATES 650/368-8810
J.L. Gardening Service
Garden/Landscape Maint. Weekly
or biweekly: cleanups, plant, prune,
trim. 20+ yrs exp. 650/988-8694;
650/520-9097
Japanese Gardener
Maintenance * Garden works
Clean ups * Pruning
(650)327-6283, evenings
Jesus Garcia Landscaping
Maintenance - Sprinklers - New Fences.
(650)366-4301 ask for Jesus or
Carmen
Landas Gardening/Landscaping
Service Maintenance
Clean-ups, new lawns, tree cutting/
trimming. Ramon (510) 494-1691,
650/576-6242 Excel. Ref’s!
Leo Garcia Landscape/
Maintenance
Lawn & Irrig. install, retain walls.
Res & Co. maint., tree trim/removal.
Clean-ups, grdn lighting, cust.
arbors. Install: Fences, decks,
flagstone, paver. Free Est. Lic’d.
(650)369-1477
751 General
Contracting
754 Gutters
767 Movers
Gutter & Window Cleaning
Contact Jose at (650)207-7452
757 Handyman/
Repairs
Able Handyman Fred
Complete home repairs,
maintenance, remod., prof.
painting, carpentry, plumbing,
elect. & custom design
cabinets. 7 days.
650.529.1662 • 483.4227
Al Trujillo Handyman Service
Int./Ext. Painting, Kit./BA Improv.,
Dry Rot, Flooring Install, Homes/Apt.
Repairs, Auto Sprinkler, Landscapes,
Fences. 20yrs. 650-207-1306
768 Moving
Assistance
Aarrons Helping Hands
5 strong pros! High end experience!
Emergency OK. 650/669-6684
771 Painting/
Wallpaper
Christine’s Wallpapering
Interior Painting
Removal/Prep * Since 1982
Lic. #757074 * 650-593-1703
Jeffs Handyman & Repair
Free est. 10% SENIOR Disc.
“No Job Too Small”
Call Jeff (650)714-2563
D&M
PAINTING
Interior & Exterior
Great Refs & Low Rates
Lic. 52643 (650) 575-2022
Gary Rossi PAINTING
Residential/Commercial. Wall paper
removal. Licensed (#559953) and
Bonded. Free est. 650/207-5292
Richard Myles Painting
We love to paint
www.remopaints.com
lic. #803250 • info@remopaints.com
Need Your House Painted?
It was Fred who painted it. Call me
again! 650/568-3106
ATLAS HAULING
7 DAYS A WEEK!
(408) 888-0445
No Job Too Big Or Small!
fogster.com
Frank’s Hauling
Commercial, Residential, Garage,
Basement & Yard. Clean-up. Fair prices.
(650)361-8773
Old Palo Alto, 4 BR/3 BA - $5500/Mo
Exterior Stucco Patching
Windows & Doors. Crack Repair.
30 yrs. exp. (650)248-4205
790 Roofing
PA: 4br, 3ba
Lr, Dr, 2 car gr, remodeled, ac/heat,
lrg lot, lots of fruit trees close to YMCA,
shops, library, parks, schools. $4800
Avail. 12/25. 650-856-1610
Calvin’s Repairs
Roofs and Gutters Cleaned and
Repaired. Fences, Gates, Decks.
40+ yrs. exp. 650/520-4922
PA: 4BR/2BA
Furnished, sep ofc, nr schools, park,
ideal for visiting prof. $3800/mo.
6 mo. min. 650-208-8624
795 Tree Care
Palo Alto, 3 BR/1 BA
3bd/1ba; GoodSt; quiet; BigYards;
$2850; 566-8038
Palo Alto Tree Service
Business/Res. Tree Removal
Certified/Ins. 17 yrs exp.
Free estimate. Lic. #819244
650/380-2297; 650/380-5897
Real
Estate
STYLE PAINTING
Interior/exterior. Quality prep to
finish. Owner operated. Reasonable
prices. Lic 903303. 650/388-8577
Wallpapering by Trish
24 years of experience
Free Estimates
949-1820
Roe General Engineering
Asphalt * Paving * Sealing
New Construction and Repairs
30 years exp. No job too small
Lic #663703 * 650/814-5572
Redwood City, 3 BR/1 BA - $1900
San Carlos, 4 BR/2.5 BA - $9000
Woodside, 2 BR/1 BA - $2750/mo.
809 Shared Housing/
Rooms
All Areas - Roommates. com
Browse hundreds of online listings with
photos and maps. Find your roommate
with a click of the mouse! Visit: www.
Roommates.com. (AAN CAN)
Share Quiet Home In Menlo Park Near
Stanford, 2 BR/1 BA - $990
815 Rentals Wanted
$1350 Quiet one or two bedroom
house wanted
Housing Wanted - Exchange
Menlo Park, 2 BR/1 BA - $1,900/mo
Long-Term Rental Wanted
MP: 2BR/2BA
Waverley St. 2nd floor. AEK, $1800
mo. 650/464-0702
Wanted Professional Office Space
MV-PA Vicinity: Studio & 1BR
Two locations. Flex rent. Prof.
residence. Unique features. Studios
$975-1250 & 1BR’s $1250-1450 Call
650/969-1190 or MMhousing@aol.com
MV: 1BR Senior Apts
Waiting list open. Central Park
Apartments, 90 Sierra Vista Ave.
Application dates: Tues. 9-12 only
or Thur. 1-4pm only. 650/964-5600
Section 8 and vouchers OK
MV: 4BR/3BA TH
NEW luxury townhomes, from $3700
w/move in bonus. Furn/unfurn. Near
Castro St. Jim, 650/930-6060.
GREAT LOCATION!
LG. 1BR HARDWOOD FLRS PALO ALTO HS $1,695
OR MODERN 1BR/1BA $1,895 AND UP
BEAUTIFUL 2BR/2BA T/H $2,495 AND UP
A/C, D/W, W/D, IN THE UNIT
NEAR GUNN HS, STANFORD/PAGE MILL
(650) 320-8500
In law wanted
820 Home Exchanges
ARCHITECT on call
825 Homes/Condos
for Sale
Homes for Sale
Roanoke, VA - 1700 acre $5M, Hawaii 2 to 37ac oceanfront view $750k, West
Texas - 6400ac historic ranch $5M,
Chile - 16,000ac island $750/ac. www.
CPLandCo.com call 1-850-278-1000.
(Cal-SCAN)
Los Altos, 3 BR/2 BA - $1,349,000
Menlo Park, 4 BR/3 BA - $1,680,000
Menlo Park, 5+ BR/4+ BA - $2300000
Pa, Mp, Mt. View, Sunnyvale, Los Altos,
2 BR/1 BA - $1400/mont
Palo Alto, 3 BR/2.5 BA - $1,349,000
Palo Alto, 5+ BR/4+ BA - $5,900,000
Redwood City, 2 BR/2 BA - $519000Redwood City, 4 BR/3.5 BA $1,549,950
Sunnyvale, 2 BR/1 BA - $649,800
Sunnyvale, 2 BR/1 BA - $675000
Sunnyvale, 3 BR/1.5 BA - $695000
N Tahoe Holiday Rntl 11/22-12/29
$2100/wk. 3 br, 2.5 ba, fantastic great
room, hot tub, dogs ok. 650-575-6889
klimans@pacbell.net
Pajaro Dunes Condo
2BR/2BA or 1BR/1BA. On beach,
ocean view. Cable TV, VCR, CD, tennis,
W/D. Pvt. deck, BBQ. Owner,
650/424-1747. hherzenber@aol.com
Palo Alto Architect
850 Acreage/Lots/
Storage
Bulk Land Sale - Washington
40 acres - $39,900. Moses Lake,
Washington. Priced for quick sale.
Beautiful land, interesting topography,
good views & setting, abundant wildlife.
Surveyed on maintained road. Financing
available. Call WALR 1-866-585-5687.
(Cal-SCAN)
Closeout Sale
36 AC - $29,900. Price is drastically
reduced by motivated seller. Beautiful
setting with fresh mountain air.
Abundant wildlife. Secluded with good
access. Financing available. Eureka
Springs Ranch is offered by AZLR.
ADWR report avail. Call
1-877-301-5263. (Cal-SCAN)
New Mexico Sacrifice
140 acres was $149,900, Now Only
$69,900. Amazing 6000 ft. elevation.
Incredible mountain views. Mature tree
cover. Power and year round roads.
Excellent financing. Priced for quick
sale. Call NML and R, Inc.
1-888-204-9760. (Cal-SCAN)
Priced for Quick Sale - Nevada
5 acres - $19,900. Beautiful building
site with electric and county maintained roads. 360 degree views. Great
recreational opportunities. Financing
available. Call now! 1-877-349-0822.
(Cal-SCAN)
So. Colorado Ranch
Sale 35 Acres- $39,900. Spectacular
Rocky Mtn. Views Year round access,
elec/ tele included. Excellent Financing
available w/ low down payment. Call
Red Creek Land Co. Today!
1-866-696-5263 x3155. (Cal-SCAN)
Texas Land Liquidation
20-acres, Near Booming El Paso.
Good Road Access. Only $14,900.
$200/down, $145/month. Money Back
Guarantee! No Credit Checks.
1-800-776-1954 www.SunsetRanches.
com (Cal-SCAN)
Utah Ranch Dispersal
1st time offered: 40 AC only $29,900.
Foothills of Uinta Mountains. Gorgeous
views. Beautiful land & setting. Great
recreational area. Accessed by county
roads. Offered by motivated seller.
Limited available. EZ Terms. Call UTLR
1-888-693-5263. (Cal-SCAN)
Washington - 1st Time Offered
Old Farm Liquidation. River access &
views. 6ac. - $69,900. 15ac. old farm
building - $89,900. Gorgeous land &
setting. Limited available. EZ Terms.
Call WALR 1-866-836-9152. (Cal-SCAN)
855 Real Estate
Services
“0” Stress, “0” Cost to You!
Sunnyvale, 3 BR/2 BA - $599000
Woodside, 2 BR/1 BA - $1,095,000
Palo Alto, 2 BR/2 BA - $2550/mo
Sunnyvale, 2 BR/1 BA - $1495
Woodside, 2 BR/1 BA - $2750
775 Asphalt/
Concrete
PV: 3ba/2br
Do you like to live in nature? dr, lr, fam
rm, 2 car gr, hw flr, heat sys in 1.5
acre. Get it for holiday. Very pleasant.
$4200 Avail. 12/21. 650-856-1610
801 Apartments/
Condos/Studios
PA: 2BR/1BA, $1550/mo.
Spacious, bright, vaulted ceiling, skylights, quiet midtown triplex.
650-329-8363
759 Hauling
Commercial & Residential
Reasonable & Reliable
• Free Estimates
• Furniture • Trash
• Appliances
• Wood • Yard Waste
• Construction • Debris
• Rental Clean-Up
Mountain View, 3 BR/2 BA - $3500/mo
PA: 1BR
in 4-plex. Rustic setting. Hardwood
flrs., gardener. $1045 mo., lease.
N/P. Contact Arn Cenedella, Agent,
650/566-5329
Quality Work You Can Trust
Affordable Painter Handyman. Painting,
Electric, Woodwork, Tile, Drywall. Call
650/544-4502 or 650/631-4502
Timeshares
Tired of Fees? Call www.
BuyATimeshare.com to sell, rent or buy
a timeshare. Get free info today and get
cash at closing. Call Now!
1-877-868-1931. (Cal-SCAN)
789 Plaster/Stucco
OZZIES TREE SERVICE:
Certified arborist, 22 yrs exp. Tree
trimming, removals and stump grinding. Free chips and wood. Free est.
Lic. and insured. 650/ 368-8065;
cell 650/704-5588
840 Vacation
Rentals/Time Shares
RedWeek.com
#1 timeshare marketplace. Rent, buy,
sell, reviews, New full-service exchange!
Compare prices at 5000+ resorts.
B4U do anything timeshare, visit www.
RedWeek.com, consider options.
(Cal-SCAN)
Very Reasonable Plumbing
Drains, Repairs and Installation. 20 yrs
exp. Very fast and efficient service.
Jimmy, 968-7187
Maguire Tree Care
(650)814-5523
NOTICE TO READERS
California law requires that contractors taking jobs that total $500 or
more (labor and/or materials) be
licensed by the Contractors State
License Board. State law also
requires that contractors include
their license numbers on all advertising. Check your contractor’s status
at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons
taking jobs that total less than $500
must state in their advertisements
that they are not licensed by the
Contractors State License Board
End the Clutter & Get Organized
Residential organizing
by Debra Robinson
(650)941-5073
David’s Tree Service
Call during storm season! Tree removal,
topping, pruning, shaping, clean up,
stump grind, certificate on power lines.
Free estimates. 650-444-3350 or
650-321-1245
A European Craftsmanship
Kitchen and Bath Remodeling.
For All Your Repair Needs. Plumbing,
Finish Carpentry and More. Licensed.
650/270-7726
Larry’s Handyman Service
Various repairs & install, gutter clean/
repair, assemble anything, plumbing,
electrical, locks, blinds, much more.
12 yrs. quality work. 650-856-0831
Palo Alto
Alka Construction
Remodeling, Additions, Bathrooms,
Kitchen, Tile & Marble Work, Electrical
& Plumbing, Concrete Driveways,
Patios. Lic. #638994. Tel. 704-4224
805 Homes for Rent
Plumbing Service and Repair
Senior citizen discount. New installation
and repair. 650-323-6464 or
877-544-3305 Lic. and insured
#905661
MAINTENANCE
Clean Ups. Trimming. Pruning.
Stump removal. Rototilling. Aerating.
Tree Service. Landscaping. Drip &
Sprinkler. Roger C: (650)776-8666
Pat’s Landscape Service
Rose Care/Specialty Pruning
BS Degree, Horticulture
20 Years Experience
650/218-0592
779 Organizing
Services
783 Plumbing
(650)367-1420
H AND H GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE
Need help with your gardening or
landscaping job.monthly maintenance
and new landscaping We are here to
help. Free estimates. We are licensed
and insured.
paulino 650-537-0804,
paulinovalle@yahoo.com
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803 Duplex
MV: 2BR and 3BR
2BR/1BA w/carport, $1895; 3BR/2BA
w/gar., $2295. Both newly renovated,
incl. appliances. Wood burning frplc., lg
backyard. Avail. 12/17. 408/257-2103
830 Commercial/
Income Property
Hypnotherapy office for share
Palo Alto.$500/ month. Available now.
(650) 996-991.
PA: 744 San Antonio
Garden offices, parking, freeway
access. 300, 800, 915, 2365 sq. ft.
Lease $2.25/sq. ft. Full service.
650-856-6672
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Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, December 26, 2007 • Page 23
Public
Notices
995 Fictitious Name
Statement
KINGSCO
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. 502264
The following individual(s) is (are)
doing business as, Kingsco, 620 Sand
Hill Road, Suite 416B, Palo Alto, CA
94304:
DOROTHY B. LODATO
620 Sand Hill Road, Suite 416B
Palo Alto, CA 94304
JANE B. MILLER
300 Lowell Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
CHARLES H. GUNN TRUST, 1971
KARL ISACSON, TRUSTEE
105 Mantel Ave.
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
This business is being conducted by a
general partnership.
Registrant began transacting business
under the fictitious business name(s)
listed herein on 8/31/1993.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on November 16, 2007.
(PAW Dec. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2007)
RA ERYTHROCYTE VISION
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. 502697
The following individual(s) is (are) doing
business as, RA Erythrocyte Vision,
30 Peter Coutts Circle, Stanford, CA
94305:
SAMI G. TANTAWI
30 Peter Coutts Circle
Stanford, CA 94305
This business is being conducted by
an individual.
Registrant has not yet begun to
transact business under the fictitious
business name(s) listed herein. This
statement was filed with the County
Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County
on December 3, 2007.
(PAW Dec. 14, 21, 28, 2007, Jan. 4,
2008)
SumOpti
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. 503073
The following individual(s) is (are) doing
business as, SumOpti, 742 Moreno
Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94303:
JEAN T. P. GOYAL
742 Moreno Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94303
JAI GOYAL
742 Moreno Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94303
This business is being conducted by a
general partnership.
Registrant began transacting business
under the fictitious business name(s)
listed herein on Nov. 1st., 2007.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on December 12, 2007.
(PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2007, Jan. 2, 9,
2008)
TRAPPINGS OF TIME
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. 503124
The following individual(s) is (are) doing
business as, Trappings of Time, 470
Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301:
KATHERINE WOODWARD MANZINI
35735 Cabrillo Drive
Fremont, CA 94536
This business is being conducted by an
individual. Registrant began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed herein on 12/12/2001.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on December 13, 2007.
(PAW Dec. 21, 28, 2007, Jan. 4, 11,
2008)
ACCOUNTING TECHNOLOGY
SOLUTIONS
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. 503205
The following individual(s) is (are) doing
business as, Accounting Technology
Solutions, 3022 Waverley Street, Palo
Alto, CA 94306:
BEKAH D. STRATTON
3022 Waverley Street
Palo Alto, CA 94306
This business is being conducted by
an individual.
Registrant has not yet begun to
transact business under the fictitious
business name(s) listed herein. This
statement was filed with the County
Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County
on December 17, 2007.
(PAW Dec. 21, 28, 2007, Jan. 4, 11,
2008)
L. L. HOME SERVICE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. 503228
The following individual(s) is (are) doing
business as, L. L. Home Service, 1958
Pulgas Av., East Palo Alto, CA 94303:
LASLO LERINC
36849 Birch St.
Newark, CA 94560
This business is being conducted by
an individual.
Registrant has not yet begun to
transact business under the fictitious
business name(s) listed herein. This
statement was filed with the County
Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County
on December 17, 2007.
(PAW Dec. 21, 28, 2007, Jan. 4, 11,
2008)
GALERIE D’ART SYLVIE PLATINI
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. 503287
The following individual(s) is (are) doing
business as, Galerie D’Art Sylvie Platini,
1625 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
94303:
JEAN-LUC LAMINETTE
1625 Hamilton Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94303
This business is being conducted by
an individual.
Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on December 18, 2007.
(PAW Dec. 26, 2007, Jan. 2, 9, 16,
2008)
997 All Other Legals
OSTAC NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
T.S. No: T346666 CA Unit Code: T
Loan No: 0087329819/KERN Min
No: 100013800873298190 AP #1:
127-41-022 MARIN CON-VEYANCING
CORP., as duly appointed Trustee under
the following described Deed of Trust
WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO
THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (in
the forms which are lawful tender in the
United States) and/or the cashier’s, certified or other checks specified in Civil
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e are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic,
confident, and self-directed professional. Someone
who possesses strong organizational and public interaction
skills. You should have the ability and demonstrated
experience to make public and one-on-one presentations.
You must work well with minimum supervision.
Your responsibility is to develop and present effective
marketing programs that result in sales. You will be
working with a large base of current and prospective
Realtors within a geographic territory.
We value and actively seek to recruit, develop and
retain people with backgrounds and experience reflecting
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For immediate consideration, FAX your resume to:
Neal Fine
email: nfine@almanacnews.com
We offer a competitive compensation & benefits
package including medical, dental, paid vacations,
sicktime, and a 401(k) plan.
Code Section 2924h (payable in full at
the time of sale to T.D. Service Company) all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said
Deed of Trust in the property here-inafter described: Trustor: CHRISTINA D.
KERN, KEITH T. KERN Recorded August
12, 2005 as Instr. No. 18520342 in
Book —- Page —- of Official Records
in the office of the Recorder of SANTA
CLARA County; CALIFORNIA , pursuant
to the Notice of Default and Election
to Sell thereunder recorded August
20, 2007 as Instr. No. 19556158 in
Book —- Page —- of Official Records
in the office of the Recorder of SANTA
CLARA County CALIFORNIA. Said
Deed of Trust describes the following
property: YOU ARE IN DE-FAULT UNDER
A DEED OF TRUST DATED AUGUST
4, 2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION
TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT
MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE.
IF YOU NEED AN EXPLA-NATION OF
THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING
AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT
A LAW-YER. 2460 BAYSHORE ROAD
#3, PALO ALTO, CA 94303 (If a street
address or common designa-tion of
property is shown above, no warranty
is given as to its completeness or
correctness). Said Sale of property
will be made in as is condition without
covenant or war-ranty, express or
implied, regarding title possession, or
encum-brances, to pay the remaining
principal sum of the note(s) secured
by said Deed of Trust, with interest
as in said note provided, advances, if
any, under the terms of said Deed of
Trust, fees, charges and expenses of
the Trustee and of the trusts created
by said Deed of Trust. Said sale will be
held on: JANUARY 2, 2008, AT 10:00
A.M. *AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO
THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 190 N.
MARKET STREET, SAN JOSE, CA At
the time of the initial publication of this
notice, the total amount of the unpaid
balance of the obligation secured by
the above described Deed of Trust
and estimated costs, expenses, and
advances is $399,797.47. It is possible
that at the time of sale the opening bid
may be less than the total indebtedness due. Date: November 29, 2007
MARIN CONVEYANCING CORP. as said
Trustee, by T.D. Service Company, as
agent CRYSTAL ESPINOZA, ASSISTANT
SECRETARY T.D. SERVICE COMPANY
1820 E. FIRST ST., SUITE 210, P.O.
BOX 11988 SANTA ANA, CA 927111988 We are assisting the Beneficiary
to collect a debt and any information
we obtain will be used for that purpose
whether received orally or in writing.
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 available, the
expected opening bid and/or postponement information may be obtained
by calling the following tele-phone
number(s) on the day before the sale:
(714) 480-5690 or you may access
sales information at www.ascentex.
com/websales.
TAC# 763800C
(PAW PUB: 12/12, 12/19, 12/26/07)
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TSG No.:
3447217 TS No.: 20079125600489
You are in Default under a Deed of
Trust, dated 11/1/2005. Unless you
take action to protect your property,
it may be sold at a public sale. If you
need an explanation of the nature of the
proceedings against you, you should
contact a lawyer. On 1/2/2008 at
10:00 A.M., First American LoanStar
Trustee Services, as duly appointed
Trustee under and pursuant to Deed
of Trust recorded 11/8/2005, as
Instrument No. 18668960, of Official
Records in the office of the County
Recorder of Santa Clara County, State
of California. Executed by: Maria L.
Ochoa, an unmarried woman Will sell
at public auction to highest bidder for
cash, cashier's check/cash equivalent
or other form of payment authorized
by 2924h(b). (payable at time of sale
in lawful money of the United States) At
the North Market Street entrance to the
County Courthouse, 190 North Market
Street, San Jose, CA All right, title and
interest conveyed to and now held by
it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State
described as: As more fully described
in the above mentioned Deed of Trust
APN# 154-19-003 The street address
and other common designation, if any,
of the real property described above is
purported to be: 1935 Mount Vernon
Court # 3, Mountain View, CA 94040
The undersigned Trustee disclaims any
liability for any incorrectness of the
street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale
will be made, but without covenant or
warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances,
to pay the remaining principal sum of
the note(s) secured by said Deed of
Trust, with interest thereon, as provided
in said note(s), advances, if any, under
the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees,
charges and expenses of the Trustee
and of the trusts created by said Deed
of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid
balance of the obligation secured by
the property to be sold and reasonable
estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication
of the Notice of Sale is: $389,895.41
The beneficiary under said Deed of
Trust heretofore executed and delivered
to the undersigned a written Declaration
of Default and Demand for Sale, and a
written Notice of Default and Election
to Sell. The undersigned caused said
Notice of Default and Election to Sell
to be recorded in the county where the
real property is located. First American
LoanStar Trustee Services may be
acting as a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information
obtained will be used for that purpose.
Date: 12/12/2007 First American Title
Insurance Company, First American
LoanStar Trustee Services, 3 First
American Way, Santa Ana, CA 92707
Original document signed by Authorized
Agent, Chet Sconyers - For Trustee's
Sale information please call 925-6037342
(RSVP# 97958)
(PAW 12/12, 12/19, 12/26/07)
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Date of Filing Application:
December 4, 2007
To Whom It May Concern:
The Name(s) of Applicant(s) is/are:
ON THE ROCKS ENTERTAINMENT.
The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic
Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 544 EMERSON ST
PALO ALTO, CA 94301-1607
Type of license(s) Applied for:
47 - ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE
(PAW Dec. 12, 19, 26, 2007)
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
Pursuant to the California Self-Service
Storage Facility Act, (B&P Code 21700
et. .seq.), the undersigned will sell at
public auction, on December 31, 2007,
personal property including but not limited to furniture, clothing, tools, and/or
other household items located at:
Public Storage 20114
20565 Valley Green Dr
Cupertino, CA 95014-1701
(408) 996-7884
Time: 12:30PM
Stored by the following person (s):
BAHL, MATTHEW J004
MARSHALL, NICOLLE C001
All sales are subject to prior cancellation. Terms, rules and regulations are
available at sale. Dated on this 19TH
AND 26TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2007,
by PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western
Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201, (818)
244-8080, Bond No. 5857632
(PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2007)
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
Pursuant to the California Self-Service
Storage Facility Act, (B&P Code 21700
et. .seq.), the undersigned will sell at
public auction, on December 31, 2007,
personal property including but not limited to furniture, clothing, tools, and/or
other household items located at:
Public Storage 20902
12299 Saratoga/Sunnyvale Rd.
Saratoga, CA 95070-3060
Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays!
and
A Joyous 2008!
JAN STROHECKER
“Experience Counts”
“20+ years of Local Sales”
Direct (650) 906-6516
janstrohecker@yahoo.com
Page 24 • Wednesday, December 26, 2007 • Palo Alto Weekly
(408) 996-9775
TIME: 11:30AM
Stored by the following person (s):
SHORTRIDGE, NOLA E301
HENNISCH, AMY D095
LUBCHENKO, CHARLES E139
All sales are subject to prior cancellation. Terms, rules and regulations are
available at sale. Dated on this 19TH
AND 26TH OF DECEMBER, 2007,
by PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western
Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201, (818)
244-8080, Bond No. 5857632
(PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2007)
CORRECTED
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF:
EVA A. CLARK
No. 1-07-PR-162424
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,
contingent creditors and persons who
may otherwise be interested in the will
or estate, or both, of EVA A. CLARK.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been
filed by: REBECCA NELSON in the
Superior Court of California, County of
SANTA CLARA.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests
that REBECCA NELSON be appointed
as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority
to administer the estate under the
Independent Administration of Estates
Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions
without obtaining court approval. Before
taking certain very important actions,
however, the 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
January 14, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.
15 of the Superior Court of California,
Santa Clara County, 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 deceased, you must file your claim
with the court and mail a copy to the
personal representative appointed by
the court within four months from the
date of first issuance of letters as provided in section 9100 of the California
Probate Code. The time for filing claims
will not expire before four months
from the hearing date noticed above.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the
court. If you are a person interested in
the estate, you may file with the court
a Request for Special Notice (form
DE-154) of the filing of an inventory
and appraisal of estate assets or of
any petition or account as provided in
Probate Code section 1250. A Request
for Special Notice form is available
from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner:
/s/ Janet L. Brewer
460 So. California Avenue
Suite 306
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1606
(650)325-8276
(PAW Dec. 19, 21, 26, 2007)
AMENDED
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF:
BARBARA F. COSTELLO
No. 1-07-PR-162311
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,
contingent creditors and persons who
may otherwise be interested in the
will or estate, or both, of BARBARA F.
COSTELLO.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been
filed by: GORDON D. COSTELLO in the
Superior Court of California, County of
SANTA CLARA.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests
that GORDON D. COSTELLO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority
to administer the estate under the
Independent Administration of Estates
Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions
without obtaining court approval. Before
taking certain very important actions,
however, the 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
January 7, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.
15 of the Superior Court of California,
Santa Clara County, 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 deceased, you must file your claim
with the court and mail a copy to the
personal representative appointed by
the court within four months from the
date of first issuance of letters as provided in section 9100 of the California
Probate Code. The time for filing claims
will not expire before four months
from the hearing date noticed above.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the
court. If you are a person interested in
the estate, you may file with the court
a Request for Special Notice (form
DE-154) of the filing of an inventory
and appraisal of estate assets or of
any petition or account as provided in
Probate Code section 1250. A Request
for Special Notice form is available
from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner:
/s/ Jeffrey T. Walsh
8372 Calvin Avenue
Northridge, California 91324
(818)667-6027
(PAW Dec. 19, 21, 26, 2007)
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Date of Filing Application:
De December 11, 2007
To Whom It May Concern:
The Name(s) of Applicant(s) is/are:
ST. MICHAELS ALLEY INC.
The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic
Beverage Control to sell alcoholic
beverages at:
140 HOMER AVE
PALO ALTO, CA 94301-2428
Type of license(s) Applied for:
41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE- EATING
PLACE
47 - ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE
(PAW Dec. 21, 28, 2007 Jan. 4, 2008)
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