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Vol. XXXVI, Number 11 Q December 19, 2014
Questions arise
over traffic chief’s
outside job
Page 5
w w w. P a l o A l t o O n l i n e.c o m
Lighting
up the
season
Community
celebrations spread
peace and joy, from
many traditions
Page 22
Donate to the HOLIDAY FUND page 30
Transitions 17 Spectrum 18 Eating Out 27 Movies 29 Puzzles 39
QArts Celebrating the race to space with Pop Art icon
Page 25
QHome Greenmeadow: a community of devoted neighbors Page 35
QSports Crucial juncture for Stanford men’s basketball
Page 45
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Upfront
Local news, information and analysis
Transportation chief’s outside job raises concerns
Critics wonder if Jaime Rodriguez’s consulting company impacts his position as Palo Alto’s chief transportation official
by Gennady Sheyner
ince he became Palo Alto’s chief
transportation official in 2009, Jaime Rodriguez has been an energetic,
assertive and at times polarizing advocate
of bike boulevards, amenities for pedestrians and lane reductions like the one about
to take effect on California Avenue.
But it’s his work outside the city that has
some residents asking questions. Even as
he has been plugging away at about 25 bike
projects and working on a panoply of traffic initiatives, Rodriguez has been heading
his own consulting company called Traffic Patterns, which according to its website
S
specializes in “traffic-operations analysis,
traffic-control plan development, trafficsignal and geometric design, expert-witness services, private-development review
and grant writing.”
Rodriguez has not been secretive about
the private practice, which predates his
2009 hiring at City Hall. At that time, thenPlanning Director Curtis Williams determined that his outside employment was
allowed under city policy and approved it,
current Planning Director Hillary Gitelman
told the Weekly. This month, Gitelman reviewed his outside-employment statement
— a form submitted annually to one’s man-
ager — and gave him her stamp of approval.
Rodriguez also properly lists Traffic
Patterns on his annual Form 700, a staterequired conflict of interest statement.
Described as a limited liability corporation with a fair market value of between
$100,001 and $1 million, his company
brought in a gross income of $10,000 to
$100,000 last year.
But while Traffic Patterns has not been
involved in the city’s traffic projects, several
residents have written letters and contributed
postings on Town Square, the online discussion forum, raising concerns about Rodriguez’s involvement in the consulting firm.
In some cases, these criticisms come from
people who are unhappy about the city’s ongoing bike projects, which often entail road
markings and lane reconfigurations.
In a letter to the council last week, Andrea Smith criticized what she called “ugly
bright yellow street signs being put up
throughout PA” and wrote that Rodriguez
“owns a company that designs and makes
street signs.” (To be accurate, Traffic Patterns does not manufacture signs.)
“Even the semblance of impropriety isn’t
good for the city,” Smith wrote.
(continued on page 12)
EDUCATION
School district settles
construction lawsuit
District pays out half million to Taisei Construction Company
by Elena Kadvany
L
ess than a week before a scheduled
case meeting at which Taisei Construction Company planned to seek
a trial date in its lawsuit against Palo Alto
Unified, the school district announced it
will pay a $570,000 settlement to the construction firm that built two new Palo Alto
High School facilities.
Board President Melissa Baten Caswell
announced the settlement at a special board
meeting Wednesday after meeting in closed
session to discuss the litigation. Taisei, who
was contracted by the district in 2011 to
build the Paly Media Arts Center and a two-
story math and social studies building, had
accused the district of employing a range of
“bad-faith tactics” that delayed the buildings’ openings by nearly a year.
Taisei initially sued Palo Alto Unified for
$3.7 million to compensate for additional
expenses incurred as the district “substantially changed and increased the scope of
the work to be performed” throughout construction, according to the lawsuit.
Taisei also sued construction manager
Gilbane Building Company and architec(continued on page 13)
HOLIDAY FUND
Discovering a ‘newfound
sense of purpose’
Downtown Streets Team helps homeless men
and women rebuild their lives
by Jennah Feeley
S
Veronica Weber
Good cheer to all
Water droplets glisten on poinsettia leaves. The poinsettia, aka “Christmas
star” or “Christmas flower,” symbolizes good cheer and success and is said
to “bring wishes of mirth and celebration,” according to the floral company
Teleflora.
everal years ago Norman Williams
found himself released from a federal penitentiary with nowhere to
turn. He lacked the means and the knowhow to get himself back on his
feet. And he didn’t know anyone
who could help him.
Then he met the Downtown
Streets Team.
“Downtown Streets Team put
me under their wing,” Williams
said. “Since then I’ve been working for them ... volunteering.”
Today, Williams has a whole new direction for his life.
The nonprofit Downtown Streets Team
provides homeless men and women — and
those at-risk of becoming homeless — with
housing, work experience, stipends for food
and clothes and the opportunity to be part
of the community through volunteer work.
A $5,000 grant from the Palo
Alto Weekly Holiday Fund this
year helped the organization purchase Safeway gift cards for the
workers (or “team members,” as
the organization calls them). The
stipend allows team members to
meet their basic needs and to continue with the organization until
they are permanently employed.
Having the independence and the means to
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Now they’re one of the
‘good guys.’
— Eileen Richardson, head of the Downtown
Streets Team, on how formerly homeless team
members feel when they don their yellow team shirts.
See story on page 5.
Around Town
IN FULL SWING ... After the
momentous grand opening of
the Mitchell Park Library and
Community Center in early
December (during which the library
counted at least 5,500 visitors),
Palo Altans of all ages have made
full use of the shiny new space
on Middlefield Road. This week,
the library focused on serving the
city’s teens during finals week,
staying open two hours later than
usual (until 10 p.m.), bringing in
two therapy dogs (a 2-month-old
puppy and a Labrador from the
Palo Alto Humane Society), serving
snacks and planning a game
night to celebrate the end of finals
on Friday night, Library Manager
RuthAnn Garcia said. Next week,
the library will focus on seniors with
a Medicare workshop and other
activities; after that it will focus
on young children, technology
and cultural diversity. “The library
serves everyone from birth through
death,” Library Director Monique
Le Conge said. “As callous as
that might sound, it’s actually
the truth.” Meanwhile, another
renovated branch, Rinconada
Library (formerly the Main Library),
is eyeing a soft opening in January
and grand opening on Valentine’s
Day, Feb. 14.
ROOM FOR COMFORT ... In
its final action in its final meeting of the year, the Palo Alto
City Council turned its focus to
“shared economy” services like
Airbnb, which allows residents to
rent out their rooms to travelers
seeking accommodations. There
was some debate, however, on
whether this problem is really urgent enough to warrant immediate attention from planning staff.
The proposal to consider regulating Airbnb and similar services
came from a colleagues memo
penned by Vice Mayor Liz Kniss
and council members Karen
Holman, Larry Klein and Gail
Price. The quartet argued that
these businesses pose several
questions for the city, including
whether hosts should pay hotel
taxes and whether zoning regulations should allow such rentals in
residential neighborhoods. The
city currently has about 300 to
400 Airbnb listings per night, the
memo states. Klein called services like Airbnb “clearly a problem,”
and the memo recommended
having staff return before the end
of next March with a report on
possible actions. The council,
however, ultimately decided by a
5-4 vote that this urgent deadline
should be eliminated. Councilman Greg Scharff argued that
while the issue “is very important” and should be considered,
it does not warrant diverting
planning staff from myriad landuse, transportation and parking
initiatives currently in the works.
“I would say it’s not on top of the
pile, by any means,” Scharff said.
Nonetheless, the council voted
unanimously to explore the issues. “I think looking at this carefully and seeing what other cities
have done is really important,”
Kniss said. “But we also need
to look at what is really a brandnew business model that is not
benefiting us in many ways and
that may also penalize hotels.”
ED HEAD MOVES SOUTH ... The
Mountain View Whisman school
board is tapping Kevin Skelly,
the former superintendent of Palo
Alto Unified School District, as
its interim superintendent. Skelly
will lead the K-8 district from Jan.
1 through June 30. Skelly only
recently stepped down as Palo
Alto’s superintendent after leading
the district from July 2007 to June
2014. Skelly, joined by his wife
and kids at the Mountain View
district’s Dec. 11 board meeting,
said working in Mountain View
is particularly exciting for him
because the city is changing so
fast. “Mountain View is such an
interesting community,” Skelly
said. “A changing, evolving
community.” Skelly said current
Superintendent Craig Goldman,
whose resignation takes effect
Dec. 30, has been “tremendously
supportive.”
FESTIVE AND FREE ... Caltrain
is offering free service starting
8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 31,
as a way to encourage New
Year’s Eve partygoers to rely
on the train system for latenight transportation needs. The
agency has scheduled four extra
southbound trains after midnight
for revelers ushering in the New
Year. The extra trains will depart
from San Francisco station at
12:45, 1:15, 1:45 and 2:15 a.m., or
when full, making all local stops
to the San Jose Diridon station.
Caltrain doesn’t allow open
alcohol containers on trains after
9 p.m. following special events. Q
Upfront
TRANSPORTATION
Jury takes a bold stance on new Palo Alto bike bridge
Architects favor a prominent arch in a design competition for new span
by Gennady Sheyner
T
hree different design teams
came to Palo Alto City Hall
on Wednesday afternoon,
each with a bridge to sell to the city.
Their goal? To come up with the
winning design for the bike-andpedestrian bridge that will span
U.S. Highway 101 at Adobe Creek,
giving south Palo Alto new access
to the Baylands. Their challenge?
Convincing the city’s Architectural
Review Board, a panel of independent jurors and, ultimately, the City
Council that their particular design
will be functional, sustainable and
iconic enough to satisfy the council’s appetite for a landmark that
makes people say, “Wow!”
The finalists who presented were
selected from a pool of 20 competitors. Each brought a distinct
vision. One team — composed
of engineering and architecture
firms Moffatt and Nichol, Steven
Grover and Associates, Lutsko Associates, JIRI Strasky and Mark
Thomas and Co. — took the most
subdued approach. In presenting
their gently curving bridge, Grover
emphasized its role in connecting
residents to the Baylands and in
staying consistent with the character of Palo Alto. The low-slung
bridge, he said, aims to match the
Baylands and offers “warm rich
overtones, rather than a trumpet
that calls attention to itself.” Plazas
on either side of the bridge offer
pedestrians and bicyclists a chance
to pause and take in the sights.
Its submission earned great
praise from the jury, with nearly
everyone agreeing that its light
touch offers an elegant, if understated, solution to the problem the
designers were asked to solve.
“Subtlety is not something
we’re famous for in this town,”
said Judith Wasserman, a former
longtime member of the architecture board and the chair of
the jury evaluating the bridge. “It
might be a good change of pace.”
By contrast, the submission from HNTB Engineering,
64North, Bionic Landscape Architecture and Ned Kahn went
for the jugular. A prominent arch
strung, harp-like, with a network
of thin cables spans the bridge,
which starts in a counterclockwise
loop west of the highway and then
descends as a broad circle on the
east side. Wil Carson of 64North
described the proposed bridge as
a “cathedral-like place.”
“The gesture is toward the
sky,” Carson said of the proposal,
which ultimately took first place
in the jury’s rankings.
If the Moffatt proposal was the
most minimalist and HNTB’s was
the boldest, the one submitted
by Endrestudio, OLIN, SBP and
Biohabitats was the most poetic.
The design of the bridge mimics a
kayak, with wooden sides that jut
out diagonally and a water-filtration system that ferries water from
the span to a specially designed
eddy, which filters the water and
releases it back into Adobe Creek.
The proposal describes the experience of approaching the bridge
and ascending and descending as
“magical.”
“From the distance, the bridge
is distinct and looks like a floating
kayak,” the proposal states. “The
rhythm of the bridge is informed
by the experience of sky and horizon and derived from the structural system.”
The kayak bridge drew heavy
praise from the architecture
board and the jury, but in the end
Palo Alto’s Architectural Review Board favored the arch bridge — described by its designers as a
“cathedral-like space” — created by the team of HNTB Engineering, 64North, Bionic Landscape
Architecture, and Ned Kahn.
it didn’t get as many votes as the
other two. In choosing the winner,
the jury found itself struggling
over the same question that has
characterized prior debates over
the bridge: Should the city go for
simplicity or boldness? Should the
bridge play a supporting role in
the pedestrians’ and bicyclists’ experience of the Baylands or draw
attention to itself as a prominent
gateway to the marshy preserve?
The five-member jury wrestled
with this question. Sam Lubell, an
editor of The Architects’ Newspaper, at first declared a tie between
the arch and the “cable” bridge
(as the minimalist design was referred to) but after hearing final
arguments from the three teams
went with the former. Wasserman
Jurors of Palo Alto’s Adobe Creek bridge competition chose as a close second the gently curving bridge
designed by Moffatt and Nichol, Steven Grover and Associates, Lutsko Associates, JIRI Strasky, Mark
Thomas and Co.
A kayak-inspired bridge designed by Endrestudio, OLIN, SBP and
Biohabitats was deemed the most poetic, but garnered the fewest
votes from a five-member jury.
went through the same quandary
as she said she was “blown away”
by all three designs.
“You can close your eyes and
throw darts and come out good,”
she said.
Like most of her colleagues,
Wasserman said she was torn between the “iconic business” and
the “Baylands-flowing business.”
She ultimately went for the arch,
as did her jury colleague Steve
Burrows, executive vice president
at WSP, who said the arch design
is “deliverable” and “looks great.”
Juror Susan Chin, executive
director of the nonprofit Design
Trust for Public Space, by contrast, went for minimalism.
“It solved the problem very elegantly, and it was economical,”
Chin said of the Moffatt proposal.
The five members of the architecture board did not get a vote,
though each member commented.
The board generally reached the
same consensus as the jury: All
three designs for the $10 million
project are dazzling, though the
arch and the cable are a notch
above the kayak. Robert Gooyer,
vice chair of the architecture
board, posited that the cable
bridge would be “too subtle” and
too difficult to notice for drivers
passing under it.
“If you’re driving by at 70 mph
on the freeway you’d think, ‘Ooh.
I think this is the new pedestrian
bridge I just went under,’” Gooyer said of the Moffatt proposal.
“What the City of Palo Alto I
think would be interested in is
thinking, ‘Palo Alto is where you
see a big arch across the freeway.’”
The jury’s recommendation
will be reviewed by the Public
Art Commission, the Architectural Review Board, the Parks
and Recreation Commission and
the Planning and Transportation
Commission. The City Council
will review and possibly approve
a design in early February. Q
Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner
can be emailed at gsheyner@
paweekly.com.
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Upfront
NONPROFIT
City OKs more funds
for Palo Alto History Museum
by Gennady Sheyner
H
ow much money should
Palo Alto spend in the present and the future in order
to establish a museum that would
tell the story of the city’s past?
That’s the question that the City
Council agonized over on Monday
night as it considered the latest
request from the nonprofit Palo
Alto History Museum, which for
years has been trying to establish
itself in the historic Roth Building
next to Heritage Park. The downtown project has been in limbo for
years, though now museum staff
believes it can be up and running
in the fall of 2016. Provided, that
is, it gets a little help from the city.
This week, the council considered the museum’s requests for
$1 million in public funds to fix
up the back wall of the 82-yearold Roth Building and for another $1.65 million as a grant
that would be matched by other
donors. The History Museum also
asked the council to designate the
Roth Building at 300 Homer Ave.
as a “sender site,” which would allow the city to raise money for the
building’s rehabilitation through
sales of transfer of development
rights (TDRs). Developers who
purchase these rights effectively
buy themselves density bonuses
at projects elsewhere downtown.
After a long discussion, the
council ultimately agreed to go
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along with two of the three proposals. By a 6-1 vote, with Larry
Klein dissenting and Mayor Nancy Shepherd and Marc Berman
recusing themselves, the council
agreed to begin the process for
selling the TDRs.
Though the museum’s financial plan estimates the sale would
bring in about $1 million for the
historic building’s restoration,
officials expect the figure to be
considerably higher because of
the sizzling real estate market. By
the same vote, the council directed city staff to identify funding
sources to pay for the reconstruction of the damaged back wall.
The request for a grant proved a
tougher sell, with the council ultimately voting 7-0 not to go along
with it at this time. Council members agreed to reconsider it next
year when staff is also scheduled to
provide an update on the TDR sale.
The council majority agreed
that because the Roth Building is
a public facility, it would be appropriate to spend public money
on its rehabilitation.
“This is a city-owned asset,” Councilman Pat Burt said.
“Whether it’s the Historical Museum or otherwise, we own this
building and we’ll own the appreciation of the asset as a result of
improvements to it.”
Councilwoman Karen Holman
— who previously served as a
director at the History Museum,
though her involvement ended
more than two years ago — spoke
in favor of rehabilitating the Birge
Clark-designed building.
Vice Mayor Liz Kniss concurred,
saying, “Regardless of whether this
(museum) actually comes to pass or
not, I think the rehabilitation and
seismic work need to be done.”
Klein vehemently disagreed. He
called requests from the History
Museum “inappropriate” and contrary to the deal that the city had
struck with the nonprofit in 2007,
when it agreed to let the museum
use the building with the proviso
that the organization would take
care of the rest.
After making these arguments,
Klein voted against all three requests. He noted that when the
council adopted its city infrastructure plan in June and surveyed the public about its priorities, the level of support for the
museum was relatively low. Approving public funds for the project would be an “end run around
Veronica Weber
City Council agrees to foot some construction costs, sell
‘transfer of development rights’ to help museum
The Palo Alto City Council agreed to make proceeds from sales
of “transfer of development rights” available for refurbishing the
Roth Building at 300 Homer Ave., the proposed site of the Palo Alto
History Museum.
tory Museum is to “showcase the
the infrastructure plan,” he said.
He also said he was not im- remarkable heritage of Palo Alto
pressed with the museum’s efforts through the careful collection,
to raise funds thus far. Museum preservation and continued social
Board President Rich Green said engagement with precious local
the group has received $400,000 in artifacts and documents,” accordgifts and has $2.5 million in pledg- ing to the nonprofit’s website.
The vision declares that the
es for the rehabilitation, which will
space design “will inspire comcost an estimated $9.1 million.
While Green said the museum munity participation, attracting
has more than 500 donors, Klein the diversity of our local historysaid, the “only big funder I can makers while reaching out to
the next generation of inquisitive
see is the City of Palo Alto.”
“I think this is just a way for the school children.”
The council’s votes on Monday
city to waste money,” Klein said.
Others were more open to con- bring the museum closer to that
tributing city funds to the project, reality, though a considerable gap
which would be built in two phas- remains. Council members species. The first phase would repair fied that the TDRs should be sold
the building to make it functional. at a price no lower than $200 per
The second phase would fund the square foot. With 9,592 square
installation of exhibits, creation of feet of TDRs available, this means
education programs and transfer the sale would fetch at least $1.9
of the city’s historical archives million for the rehabilitation. This
into the building. Green said the would still, however, leave the Hisgoal is to open the museum as tory Museum with a shortfall of
soon as possible after the first more than $3 million for construcphase is complete and to “make it tion in the first phase and a gap of
a community asset as quickly as $9 million for the second phase’s
build out of the exhibits and propossible.”
The vision of the Palo Alto His- grams. Q
EDUCATION
Gunn High wellness center to house all student services, except one
Revised design moves college and career center to separate building
by Elena Kadvany
A
planned comprehensive
wellness center at Gunn
High School will consolidate guidance, counseling,
Adolescent Counseling Services
(ACS) and the school nurse in one
space, but it will not include the
school’s college and career center.
Erwin Lee, principal with the
firm Deems Lewis McKinley
Architecture, and Gunn Principal Denise Herrmann presented
a revised design for the wellness
center as part of an update on the
Central Building Project at the
Dec. 9 Palo Alto Board of Education meeting.
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The proposed center would be
on the second floor of a two-story
building in the middle of campus.
The first floor would contain a
performing-arts center, music and
choral classrooms, and a computer lab. The second floor has ACS
and the school psychologist in one
corner, the nurse down the hall
and eight counseling offices (plus
one that can be used as a conference room or office if necessary).
There would also be two large,
general-purpose classrooms that
could be used for yoga or mindfulness classes.
“It’s all about consolidating
things that really should be together so the services are streamlined,” Herrmann told the board.
The current layout of key student services at Gunn, with school
counselors, Adolescent Counseling Services, the nurse and others
in separate locations, is not only
inconvenient for students but hinders staff communication and col-
laboration, she said.
Rose Weinmann, Gunn High
School’s student board representative, expressed concern at the
meeting that counseling services
are located out of sight on the second floor, making it difficult for
students to know if their counselor is available or not. Board President Melissa Baten Caswell later
suggested implementing some
sort of technology downstairs so
students don’t have to go upstairs
to see who is available.
Herrmann said that they did
map out some options with the
wellness center on the first floor,
but space constraints and the need
to balance accessibility with privacy won out.
Gunn junior Sara Zhang told
the Weekly that she appreciates
the school’s effort to create a more
accessible space for student wellness. Right now, students don’t
know about or can’t find counseling services, she said.
While developing the revised design, Herrmann said, she met with
Gunn’s Student Executive Council
to gather feedback. She said students told her the best way to make
them and their peers feel more
comfortable about taking advantage of the school’s mental health
services is to put them in the same
place as many other services.
“I could be going to get a BandAid from the nurse; I could be
going to have a nutrition session;
I could be going to have a yoga
class,” Herrmann said of students
entering the proposed center. “All
of those services will be out of the
same main hub.”
However, Gunn’s College and
Career Center will not be part
of the center. It’s being moved to
building B — the current location
of the main office and administration building at the front of the
school. The new location will allow
for “room to grow the program, to
expand exploration of other post-
secondary options and make connections with internships, work
study, senior projects, etc.,” Herrmann wrote in a Dec. 15 email.
The revised design will return
to the board on Jan. 13 for approval. If the project moves forward,
construction is projected to be
completed by March 2018.
Zhang said that future senior
classes might be upset to lose the
quad, where many senior traditions and events take place, during
construction, but “having a mental
health support facility for students
who need the specialized support
is more important. If this wellness
center was built and even just one
student benefited from it and felt
that the available resources helped
them, it would be worth it to miss
a couple of small events that probably wouldn’t even make much of
an impact on my life,” she said. Q
Staff Writer Elena Kadvany
can be emailed at ekadvany@
paweekly.com.
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EDUCATION
Minority students speak to challenges
Palo Alto students share their experiences with achievement-gap committee
by Elena Kadvany
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It’s my job to show you the options to consider
when it comes to insuring your assets.
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group of Palo Alto middle
and high school students
of color Tuesday night
shared the good, the bad and the
ugly inherent to their academic
and social experiences in the
school district, from essential
support programs to struggling
with social and cultural stigmas.
The three middle school students and four Gunn High School
students were asked to speak at
the second meeting of Superintendent Max McGee’s Minority
Achievement and Talent Development Committee, which has
been charged with finding ways
to boost opportunities and support
for these students and their peers.
Perhaps most telling were the
high school students’ answers to
one committee member’s question: If you fast-forwarded 30
years, would you send your own
children to Palo Alto schools?
“The way it is right now, absolutely not,” Gunn freshman Hudson Alexander said without a moment of hesitation.
Hudson said life in high school
wasn’t what he thought it would
be — illustrated by the fact that
other Gunn students have a tendency to use the “n” word.
“That’s not appreciated by me
and the rest of the people up here,”
Husdon said, “and nothing is being done (to stop it).”
Senior Chantal Olivier-Winston,
president of Gunn’s Black Student
A group of Palo Alto high school students of color speak on Dec. 16,
including (from left to right) Gunn High School freshman Hudson
Alexander, junior Crystalyn Trevillion, senior Jordan Hardy and senior
Chantel Winston, as Superintendent McGee looks on (far right).
Union, said if things were the same
in 30 years, she wouldn’t send her
children to school here either.
“Palo Alto is a great place for
education, but as a minority, it’s
really hard to fit in,” she said. “I’d
rather have my child feel like they
fit in somewhere.”
But junior Crystalyn Trevillion
said she’s had an overall good experience in the district and would
send her children to Palo Alto
schools.
Senior Jordan Hardy said, “Yes
and no. I think it would just depend on my child.”
Though their responses were
mixed, the four students have had
common experiences related to
feeling left out; feeling pressured
to choose between being smart
and being black; and internalizing the unconscious biases in the
classroom.
“For me, I have never been
afraid to say how smart I was or
been afraid to answer a question,”
Hardy said, “but there are those
people who are scared to just
stand up and say, ‘Yeah, I’m in
this honors course’ or ‘I know the
answer to this’ or ‘I got an A on
this,’ because there’s this stigma
in the black community that being
smart is a white trait.”
Hudson summed up the social
crossroads they face: “Do you
want to fit in with who you look
like, or do you want to be smart
and go places?”
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he interrogations took
place in a Pyongyang hotel room. A North Korean
man known only as “the investigator” sat in silhouette, his face
obscured from retired finance
executive Merrill Newman. Over
and over, sometimes yelling, the
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No smoking in shopping districts
Palo Alto continued its crusade against cigarette
smoke this week by expanding its existing ban to
commercial districts, though the City Council also
decided that it needs more time to consider whether
e-cigarettes should also be covered by the new law.
The ban, which the City Council unanimously
approved early Tuesday, applies to areas zoned “regional commercial,” including Stanford Shopping
Center, Town & Country Village, downtown and
California Avenue. It also includes “neighborhood
commercial” sites such as Alma Village.
Smoking will now be prohibited at all publicly
owned sidewalks, alleys, parking areas, public
places, outdoor dining areas and service areas in
these districts.
The ordinance states that the new restrictions are
intended to “protect the public health, safety and
general welfare” and to “ensure a cleaner and more
hygienic environment within the city, reduce litter,
and protect the city’s natural resources, including
creeks and streams.”
Last year, the council unanimously banned smoking at local parks and open-space preserves, as well
as within 25 feet of entrances or exits to enclosed
public spaces.
The council’s only issue of disagreement came
over e-cigarettes. While members generally agreed
that these devices are harmful, they signaled that
they would like to further explore their effects.
“The evidence seems to show that there is a dangerous trend of more youths thinking that smoking
is cool because of the use of e-cigarettes,” Councilman Marc Berman said. “I think it’s a dangerous
trend.” Q
— Gennady Sheyner
Rash of auto burglaries hits Palo Alto
Seven vehicles were broken into and items stolen
in the span of a little more than an hour in Palo Alto
on Monday, Dec. 15, according to the Palo Alto
Police Department.
The auto burglaries took place in parking lots
along El Camino Real between 1:50 and 3:04 p.m.
The first break-in occurred at the Stanford Shopping Center, at 180 El Camino Real. A second car
was burglarized at the shopping center at 1:58 p.m.
Thieves broke into vehicles at Town & Country
Village (855 El Camino Real) as well as Palo Alto
Square (3128 El Camino Real) and one car near
Chipotle Mexican Grill, at 2675 El Camino Real.
Two more vehicles were burglarized at the Stanford Shopping Center, the last at 3:04 p.m.
In each incident, the criminals smashed the car
windows to gain entry.
In November, burglars broke into 14 vehicles in
and around the restaurant corridor on El Camino
Real between Nov. 6 and Nov. 9, making off with
electronic devices.
To see a map of the auto burglaries, visit www.
umapper.com/maps/view/id/251133/. Police advise
residents and visitors to lock their unattended vehicles and close all windows, as well as take valuables
with them or keep things out of sight. Q
— Palo Alto Weekly staff
Land use tops council’s concerns
Names and faces will change but Palo Alto’s official priorities should remain largely fixed when
the new City Council convenes for its first meeting
in January, with land use and transportation leading the way.
According to a survey of current and future council members, the update of the city’s Comprehensive Plan and progress on a wide array of transportation initiatives should dominate the council’s
agenda in 2015, much as they did this past year. All
council members and members-elect except Councilman Larry Klein (who is termed out this year),
Mayor Nancy Shepherd (who concludes her term
this year after losing in her bid for re-election) and
Vice Mayor Liz Kniss took the survey, which asked
for their top civic concerns.
The submitted lists in many ways reflect the
wide spectrum of opinions and styles that current
and new council members will bring with them to
the dais. Councilman Greg Schmid, an economist
whose musings on development trends often border on the abstract and academic, submitted a list
of priorities that include identifying “big picture”
issues that will influence the city over the next 15
years.
Councilwoman Karen Holman, who last year lobbied to include “healthy city” initiatives on the priorities list, is renewing her request this year. Newly
elected member Cory Wolbach made a pitch for
“social services” as a priority, a term that encompasses new services for the homeless, youth, seniors
and disabled community members. Q
— Gennady Sheyner
City ends legal feud with contractor
Days after Palo Alto celebrated the grand opening of its new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center, the city reached a settlement with
the contractor that officials blame for the years of
delays and myriad mistakes that plagued the highprofile project.
The settlement, which City Manager James
Keene announced Monday night, brings to an end
years of acrimonious wrangling and accusation between the city and Flintco Pacific.
The city has consistently accused Flintco of
mismanaging its subcontractors, submitting faulty
work and inflating costs through change orders.
Flintco alleged that the city breached its contract
and that the plans for the library were “filled with
errors, omissions, conflicts, ambiguities, lack of
coordination and noncompliance with applicable
code requirements.”
The city fired Flintco in January and the two
sides have each filed claims against each other.
The comprehensive agreement settles all these
claims. Under the terms, Flintco will pay all of the
costs incurred by the replacement contractor, Big D,
for completing construction, estimated to be more
than $2 million. The city will also recover about
$700,000 from Flintco, which includes a waiver of
about $150,000 in change orders.
In announcing the settlement, Keene said the city
is “avoiding years of arguing and wrangling and
legal costs.” Q
— Gennady Sheyner
$24 million to launch allergy center
Silicon Valley entrepreneur and philanthropist
Sean Parker has gifted $24 million over the next
two years to establish the Sean N. Parker Center for
Allergy Research at Stanford University, the university announced on Wednesday, Dec. 17.
Parker cofounded the file-sharing computer service Napster and was the first president of Facebook. He also cofounded Plaxo, Causes and Airtime. The gift is one of the largest private donations
to allergy research in the United States to date, university officials said.
The first-of-its-kind center will seek better treatments for children and adults with allergies and
aims to develop a lasting cure. The Center will
be led by Dr. Kari Nadeau, an internationally renowned immunology researcher at Lucile Packard
Children’s Hospital and the School of Medicine.
Allergies, whether they are to food, drugs, the
environment or other triggers, have potentially adverse consequences for millions of people worldwide. Recent estimates conclude that between 30
and 40 percent of the global population suffers
from one or more allergic conditions. About one in
three Americans suffers from some form of allergy.
Parker said his firsthand experience with lifethreatening allergies led him to found the center.
Researchers will focus on understanding immunesystem-mechanism dysfunctions that result in allergic reactions. The research could lead to new, safer
and more lasting therapies for adults and children.
Of the $24 million total, $4 million will be used
to establish a dollar-for-dollar challenge match for
all other new gifts to the center. Q
— Sue Dremann
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Neighborhoods
A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann
Around
the block
COUNCIL’S CALL ... A long-simmering neighborhood battle over
a proposal by Verizon to install a
new pole with telecommunications
equipment at the Palo Alto Little
League ball field on Middlefield
Road came to a conclusion Monday night when the City Council
gave the project a long-awaited
green light by a vote of 8-1, with
Greg Schmid dissenting. The decision came after months of formal
appeals and public hearings in
front of every land-use board in
the city.
MIKI, REDUX ... Miki Werness,
whose well-acclaimed but financially troubled grocery store fizzled
in Alma Village last year, will get
another shot at success in College Terrace after the City Council
agreed early Tuesday morning to
approve him as the new grocer at
2180 El Camino Real, the former
site of the beloved JJ&F Market.
The council voted 8-1, with Karen
Holman dissenting, and included a
condition that would penalize the
developer $2,000 a day if the grocery becomes vacant. Werness’
store is expected to open in early
2016. He said he will “with every
fiber of my being strive to make
the store ... one of the best stores
in Palo Alto.”
CHANUKAH PARADE ... Here’s
an opportunity to watch or join a
parade of cars sporting menorahs
on top as they drive through Palo
Alto neighborhoods spreading
holiday light and joy. The parade
will take place on the fifth night of
Chanukah, Dec. 20, from 7:45 to
8:30 p.m. Cars will head out from
Chabad, located at 3070 Louis
Road in Palo Alto. Q
Veronica Weber
BEST LIGHTS IN THE ‘HOOD
... Palo Alto’s famed Christmas
Tree Lane on Fulton Street south
of Embarcadero Road has made
social-networking site Nextdoor’s
“top 10” list of Bay Area places
to experience holiday lights. But
there are plenty of other festive
discoveries throughout town that
residents have listed on a Holiday Cheer Map on the Nextdoor
website. Among Palo Alto’s listed
displays are: 750 Hamilton Ave.,
703 Addison Ave., 1135 Webster
St., 1142 Harker Ave., 866 Garland
Drive, Yale Street, Maddux Court
and Maddux Drive, and Santa Rita
and California avenues. The map
includes attractions, lights and
displays, places to give back, tree
lots and Santa sightings. More
information can be found at nextdoor.com/cheer.
Barbara Allen opens up the top flap of her poetry post to show how she provides copies of the post’s weekly poem for people to take.
COMMUNITY CENTER
Pure poetry
Resident Barbara Allen creates Palo Alto’s
first ‘poetry post’
by Sue Dremann
P
alo Alto native Barbara
Allen has loved poetry
since childhood. Raised by
an aunt who lived on Coleridge
Avenue, she played along streets
named for some of the world’s
most celebrated poets: Tennyson,
Melville, Coleridge and Emerson.
As a teen, Allen often read poetry to her Aunt Dickie, who lived
down the street, as the elder woman’s sight failed, she said.
Decades later and now retired,
Allen still lives among the famed
poets in a home on Melville Avenue. To share her love of verse
with her neighbors, in August she
created Palo Alto’s first “poetry
post,” a wooden box with a clear
plastic window that is mounted
outside her gate. Each week Allen posts a different poem inside:
works by Billy Collins, Jane Kenyon, Mary Oliver, William Martin, Kaylin Haught and California
native Dana Gioia and others.
Poetry is a way to connect with
universal human experiences and
make them personally relevant,
she said.
“Poems give you the lives of
others and then circle in on your
own inner world,” she said, quoting the author Frances Mayes.
“Poems are so spare. It’s just the
right words in the right order. It
just goes right into my heart,” she
added.
Allen encountered her first poetry box while visiting her daughter in Portland, Oregon, where
such posts are commonplace.
“When I was up there, I thought,
‘I have to do that.’ Then I had a
health alert, and I said, ‘Stop procrastinating,’ and that’s when I
had the box built,” she said.
The idea reflects the spirit of
neighborliness she saw there, she
said.
“People in Portland care a lot
about each other and they care
about community. When people
say, ‘How are you?’ they really
want to know the answer,” she
said.
But in Palo Alto, “There is not
as much connection in neighbor-
hoods. I think Palo Alto has become pretty busy — it’s a busy,
busy place. ... I hope people will
stop just for a moment and slow
down,” she said.
The poetry box is starting to
make an impact, according to Allen. A Channing Avenue neighbor
walks by every day to visit the
box. Friends suggest poems, and
people stop to chat. They often
take home copies of poems Allen
leaves in the box.
Allen keeps a file of the poems
she loves. She posts ones that
are noncontroversial, accessible,
somewhat short — and often uplifting, she said.
One day when she felt like a
particularly “bad mother,” Allen
chose Collins’ “The Lanyard,” a
poem about motherhood and the
gift of a lanyard from a son. The
post struck a nerve with mothers
strolling on Melville Avenue, she
said.
Allen often enjoys peeking
out her back door to see who has
stopped by.
“I noticed a 13-year-old boy
the other day,” she said, clearly
pleased.
Just as reading to Aunt Dickie
instilled in her a love of poetry,
Allen has initiated a love for the
written word in many of her former students. A retired teacher,
she worked for eight years of her
career with students in the Ravenswood City School District in
East Palo Alto. There, her pupils
memorized a simple poem each
week.
Many have come back and said,
“I still have my poetry book,” she
said.
For Allen, poems have become
a kind of daily practice since her
husband’s death 14 years ago. She
took part in an adult-education
poetry group at Cubberley Community Center, and she has gone
to week-long poetry retreats.
Allen does write poetry “for my
own amusement and healing and
journey,” but she has never tried to
publish, she said. She rarely posts
her own verse. But on the anniversary of her husband’s death, she
posted her favorite poem about
him, which came to her in the
garden. She kept it there for just
one day.
On a recent morning, Allen admired the poetry box’s craftsmanship, which she had custom-made.
She looked forward to having her
daughter, an artist, decorate it
when she comes to Palo Alto for
the holidays, she said.
Reflecting on the gift of poetry,
she quoted from a children’s poem
by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, a
20th-century American writer of
children’s picture books:
“Keep a poem in your pocket
And a picture in your head
And you’ll never feel lonely
At night when you’re in bed.” Q
Staff Writer Sue Dremann
can be emailed at sdremann@
paweekly.com.
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Jobs
(continued from page 5)
On Town Square, one person
anonymously wondered if “there
is any link between all the new
green and white street markings
popping up on the pavement all
over town, and Mr. Rodriguez’s
private company” and called it
“suspicious that the town is putting up so many unnecessary and
meaningless street signs.”
The city’s policies permit outside employment, provided an employee meets certain conditions.
For department heads, this entails
permission from the city manager.
Other employees are required to
get authorization from their department heads and fill out an
outside-employment statement.
Approval for outside employment
for non-department heads must be
renewed annually every July.
The city’s policy for outside employment specifies that “when a
person accepts employment with
the City of Palo Alto, it is as-
sumed that the employment is to
be his/her primary job.”
“If the person undertakes supplemental work, such work is assumed to be secondary in importance and is subject to the approval
of the city,” the policy states.
The city’s
policy also offers guidelines
for department heads
to consider in
a ut h o r i z i ng
outside employment, including: Will
requirements
Jaime
of the outside
Rodriguez
employment
interfere with scheduling, work
performance, or on-call status of
the city position? Will the status,
reputation or credentials of a city
position be used as a basis for advertising or soliciting outside employment? Will a conflict of interest likely result between discharge
of official city duties and outside
employment duties?
When asked about Traffic Patterns, Rodriguez told the Weekly
that he keeps his two roles distinct
from each other. He called his
company a “small private practice” and said it allows him to
“see what other communities are
building (both things that work
and don’t work) and bring that
perspective to Palo Alto directly
instead of always having to rely
on private consultants for input.”
Under his agreement with the city,
his company is prohibited from
working on Palo Alto projects,
City Manager James Keene said.
Keene told the Weekly that it’s
not uncommon for employees
to have jobs outside City Hall,
though it is very unusual for
high-level managers to do so. For
employees like firefighters, who
may have 10-day breaks between
shifts, there’s nothing strange
about them doing something else
in the interim, he said.
Rodriguez’s situation is unique
in this regard, Keene said. When
the city was hiring him, his private practice came up during the
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by-case basis, be able to say
negotiations.
“It was very clear he was not whether or not we’d allow this,”
going to come to work for us if he Keene said.
Keene said that in the wake of
could not maintain this practice,”
Keene said. “And he was head and recent concerns, he has had sevshoulders, by far, the best candi- eral discussions with the city’s
executive team on expanding the
date we had.”
Rodriguez has also been work- reporting requirements in outsideing for the company “completely employment statements. The new
on his own time,” Keene said. His details could include such things
outside employment statement, as geographical restrictions and
which the Weekly obtained, lists conditions designed to avoid conhis involvement with Traffic Pat- flicts of interest as well as percepterns as taking up five hours per tions of conflicts.
At least one council member
week, on the weekends. Keene
and Gitelman said they were both disagrees with the need to allow
completely satisfied that his pri- outside employment for managers.
vate practice does not conflict Councilman Greg Scharff told the
Weekly that because managers
with his work for the city.
Rodriguez isn’t the only high- already have a guaranteed salary
profile manager with a venture from the city, it might make more
outside the public realm. Gil economic sense for them to priFriend, who was hired in 2013 oritize their outside-employment
as the city’s first chief sustain- duties over their city work.
He did not criticize Rodriguez
ability officer, is another. Friend
serves as a CEO of the consult- specifically (he concurred with
ing firm Natural Logic, Inc., a Keene’s and Gitelman’s assessment of Rodriguez’s
corporation that
work ethic and acaccording to his
Form 700 has ‘He was head and complishments) but
suggested that it
a fair market
might be time to revalue between shoulders, by far,
$100,001 and the best candidate visit the city’s policy.
“I don’t think a
$1 million. Acmanager should be
cording to the we had.’
form, his gross
—James Keene, allowed to have outincome from
city manager, Palo Alto side employment,”
Scharff told the
the
Natural
Weekly.
Logic was beEven if Rodriguez’s employtween $10,001 and $100,000 in
ment with Traffic Patterns was
the preceding year.
Like Rodriguez, Friend ran his authorized by Williams and is
business before taking on the city disclosed on his Form 700, he ran
job and at the time of his hiring, afoul of the city’s policy in at least
his private practice was discussed, one respect. When the Weekly
Keene said. The parties agreed asked Gitelman in late Novemthat Friend would end his oper- ber to see Rodriguez’s outsideating-executive role in the com- employment statement, she said
pany but that he would maintain he did not submit one this year.
his ownership and be allowed to After the Weekly’s request, Gitelpartake in an occasional speech man said she asked Rodriguez to
provide a statement for her review
or coaching engagement.
During 2014, he coached a few as soon as possible.
“Clearly we are going to have to
clients in the beginning of the
year, taught one course and de- review our policy to ensure everylivered no speeches, Keene said. one is aware of this requirement,”
Friend’s consultancy has taken she said in an email.
Earlier this week, she signed off
between five to 10 days this year,
all on his own time. Keene char- on Rodriguez’s request (which he
acterized Friend’s involvement in submitted over the Thanksgiving
his private company as “minimal.” break) and attached a note that his
“Clearly, he cannot undertake outside employment will be subany activities that would interfere ject to new conditions that ensure
with any of his duties with the there is no conflict. She said she
has reviewed the request and is
City of Palo Alto,” Keene said.
In defending the city’s outside- satisfied that so far there has been
employment policy, Keene cited none. That, she said, is a bigger
Bay Area’s high housing costs. concern than his delay in handing
Without allowing outside employ- in this year’s form.
“To me, it’s more important
ment, there would be “challenges
in attracting talent in a competi- that there is no conflict,” she said.
“I was certainly aware that he had
tive market.”
For high-profile positions, he a company and that he did outside
said, these employments are ap- work and now I know a whole lot
more about it. That’s the main
proved “in a very selective way.”
“We would want to, on a case- thing.” Q
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Minority
Former school board member
Barbara Klausner, who heads the
after-school tutoring nonprofit
Dreamcatchers, asked the high
school students if they felt that
way from the very beginning of
their time in the district, or if they
became aware of it later on.
Hudson said he first felt it in third
grade when his teacher asked him
to keep a journal about his class
performance — perhaps because
he had acted out or said something
she didn’t like, he thought — but no
one else in the class had to.
Hardy said she noticed it in elementary school as social groups
formed along racial lines. Then in
middle school, she said, girls of
color were punished for violating
dress code more than other students. Even if she, for example, was
wearing the same length shorts as
a white student, she would be the
one reprimanded for it.
Olivier-Winston said one practice that particularly angers her
is sending Hispanic and AfricanAmerican students who aren’t
doing well at Gunn to Alta Vista
High School in Mountain View.
Alta Vista — one of the district’s
alternative high school programs,
along with Middle College — is
a continuation program that “emphasizes personalized instruction,
integrated study, and vocational
education and training,” the district website reads.
“It’s really frustrating to see
close friends go through that,”
Olivier-Winston said. “If I were
to get to the point where I had no
motivation ... and I get kicked out,
I’m not going to feel any better
about myself.”
Hardy urged the committee to
think about “getting those kids
help and seeing what is wrong because it might not be the school.
It might not be that they aren’t
doing well because they can’t do
well, it’s because they have other
personal problems or home problems or they’re just too afraid
to go and get help or they don’t
know how to.”
All of the students who spoke
Tuesday night have benefited
from extra academic support or
an after-school program, particularly Advanced Via Individual
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A round-up
Settlement
ture firm Deems Lewis McKinley
(DLM) for negligence and “tortuous interferences with contract
relations.”
The settlement includes both of
them, with DLM and Gilbane also
making payments, according to a
school district press release. The
settlement also includes an agreement that Taisei will indemnify the
district against all potential claims
brought by subcontractors and also
that Taisei will remain responsible
for warranty claims and latent defect claims, the district stated.
“These buildings opened this
past fall and are exceptional additions to the Palo Alto High School
campus,” Superintendent Max
McGee said in the announcement.
“This settlement puts an end to
the legal process and attorney
fees. Even after paying the settlement amount, this project came in
under budget, and the remaining
amount can be put to further improvements on the campus.”
After more than a year of litigation under its belt, the district
had in October spent more than
$300,000 in legal fees on this
case. In the first eight months of
this year, law firm Dannis Woliver Kelley (DWK) billed the district $229,827.
Taisei Operations Risk Manager Jaysen Van told the Weekly
in late October that he intended
to instruct company attorneys to
again push for a trial date at the
upcoming Dec. 23 case meeting.
Van did not immediately return
requests for comment about the
settlement. Q
Determination (AVID) in middle
school and Focus on Success in
high school.
AVID is an in-school program
designed to help students “in the
middle” — neither failing nor
getting all A’s — get on a collegebound path. They are selected
through recommendations and an
interview process. Focus on Success is a similar study and lifeskills elective in which students
can work on homework with tutors. They also must interview to
get into the program.
Kim Bomar, parent and cochair of Parent Advocates for Student Success, asked rhetorically,
“What happens to the kids who
aren’t getting in? Are we just giving up on them?”
Jordan Middle School student
Heilala Finau said the transition
from elementary to middle school
was hard for her, mostly because
of the increased homework load.
“But my teacher from AVID ...
she helped me set my goals and
set my homework for each day,”
Heilala said.
of Palo Alto government action this week
City Council (Dec. 15)
College Terrace Centre: The council approved a a proposal to have Miki Werness be the new grocer at the College Terrace Centre development at 2180 El
Camino Real. Yes: Berman, Burt, Klein, Kniss, Price, Scharff, Schmid, Shepherd No: Holman
History: The council unanimously voted not to approve a $1.6 million grant for
the Palo Alto History Museum at this time. The council also voted 6-1 to sell
“transfer of development rights” to developers to raise money for the rehabilitation of the Roth Building and to spend $1 million to rebuild the back wall of the
building. Yes: Burt, Holman, Kniss, Price, Scharff, Schmid No: Klein Recused:
Berman, Shepherd
Council Policy and Services Committee
(Dec. 16)
Commissions: The committee recommended several modifications to the city’s
policies for recruiting and interviewing candidates for boards and commissions.
The new policies specify that a person can only apply for one commission at a
time and that an interview could be conducted by teleconference only when the
candidate is out of town. Yes: Unanimous
Minutes: The committee recommended switching from “sense” minutes, which
summarize the council’s discussions, to “action” minutes, which list formal
votes. The committee also recommended considering at a later date the addition of verbatim minutes. Yes: Klein, Price, Scharff No: Schmid
Council Finance Committee (Dec. 16)
Finances: The committee discussed and forwarded to the full council the Long
Range Financial Forecast for fiscal years 2015-25. Yes: Unanimous
Utilities: The committee recommended a resolution amending the city’s capand-trade revenue utilization policy. Yes: Unanimous
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One committee member asked
the middle school students whether there was anyone on campus
who communicates to them that
they have potential.
“My AVID teacher,” Heilala
said. “She’s so kind to me. She
tells me I can do anything.”
All three middle school students also take advantage of
an after-school homework club
where teachers are available to
answer their questions.
“I like it because teachers are
there to help you. Sometimes at
home my parents don’t understand
a question, and when I ask teachers at homework club, they help
me,” said Kenia Morales, a Jordan
Middle School eighth-grader. Kenia and her younger brother also
go to Dreamcatchers for tutoring,
which she said helped both of
them boost their test grades.
Most of the students spoke to
the challenge of learning when
and how to ask for help. They said
when they have spoken up, teachers have responded and made
themselves available to help.
The high school students said
they felt prepared for and had
plans to attend four-year colleges. They also said they have had
positive experiences with teachers who assessed them based on
achievement, not their skin color.
Hudson’s mother, Jan Barker
Alexander, who is also Stanford
University’s associate dean of
students and director of its Black
Community Services Center, was
in the audience Tuesday night and
said she didn’t want the meeting
to end with committee members
thinking that “people at Gunn
have not been responsive to us.”
She commended the new leadership at Gunn, as well as Terman
Middle School Principal Pier
Angeli La Place, one of the committee members, for recognizing
these issues and working relentlessly on behalf of her son. Q
The Minority Achievement and
Talent Development committee
will next meet Tuesday, Jan. 6,
from 7 to 9 p.m. at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave., Palo
Alto.
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Max McGee, superintendent of Palo Alto Unified School
District, was the featured speaker at the winter luncheon of
the League of Women Voters of Palo Alto on Dec. 5. He spoke
of the district’s vision and goals, including preparing students
for the jobs of the future and ensuring that youth acquire
the ability to think critically rather than merely memorize
information. To watch the video, or listen to the audio, go
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take care of themselves gives people who were once down-and-out
a newfound sense of purpose, said
Eileen Richardson, the Downtown
Streets Team’s executive director.
“Before you know it they’ve
built their self-confidence ... to a
point where they just start flourishing,” she said.
Downtown Streets Team was
founded nearly a decade ago as a
solution to the panhandling and
filthiness that downtown Palo Alto
business owners deplored. The organization was initially operated
through the downtown Business
Improvement District but became
a separate agency in 2005 when
Richardson took the reins. Today,
the organization serves six communities, including Palo Alto, San
Jose, Sunnyvale and San Rafael.
The 150-member Palo Alto team
reaches out to the homeless downtown while performing various
jobs, including sweeping streets,
cleaning parking garages, handing
out food to low-income and homeless individuals as well as providing
peer-to-peer outreach. Team members work one to five days per week.
The organization also arranges
for team members to live at the
Opportunity Center in Palo Alto,
which keeps them off the streets
and in the workforce, Richardson
said.
Williams resides at the Opportunity Center. When he first
joined the team six years ago, he
didn’t have a place to stay and he
wasn’t able to take care of himself. Downtown Streets Team
gave him a place to call home.
To ensure team members work
through the myriad issues that have
contributed to their homelessness,
each works with a project manager,
a case manager and an employment specialist. Individualized attention rather than general services
is what’s needed, Richardson said.
“Very early on I learned that
we could never be all things to
all people,” she said. “Even if we
had the best clothes closet on the
planet, we would never have a size
8, brown pair of shoes on Feb. 22
when this person needed it. You’re
better off throwing that person in
the car, driving to Walmart and
getting them a new pair of shoes.”
That approach has helped more
than 600 team members “graduate,” which means they hold stable
jobs and maintain housing on their
own. Graduates have moved on to
work at grocery stores, pet-cleaning businesses and even for the
City of Palo Alto, Richardson said.
“There has never been a bridge
between the homeless person and
the resume services or the job
training or the work skills,” she
said. “We are that bridge in the
center that gives you the hope that
you really can do this again.”
Team members are easily recognized in the community with their
yellow work shirts, which Richardson said are a point of pride for
the members because, in their uniforms, they feel like contributing
members of the community.
“They are starting to rebuild
their dignity,” she said. “They
could have been down-and-out for
10 years, homeless on the streets
or panhandling. Now they’re one
of the ‘good guys’ because they
put that T-shirt on.” Q
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North Korea
he was captive, the communist
country’s culture of secrecy and
the United States’ lack of diplomatic relations with North Korea
made it nearly impossible to know
what was happening to Newman.
Then there was the silence of his
distraught family members, who
were advised not to jeopardize his
safety by speaking out and putting
North Korea on the defensive.
When Newman returned to the
U.S., the private octogenarian declined media interviews as he recovered and reintegrated into life
in Palo Alto.
Now, an e-book written by
Mike Chinoy, senior fellow at
the U.S-China Institute at USC
and a foreign correspondent for
CNN for 24 years, tells the tale of
Newman’s captivity and the harrowing behind-the-scenes efforts
to free him. Based on interviews
with Newman, his family and
those who worked to secure Newman’s release, “The Last P.O.W.”
is a straightforward narrative that
describes their rollercoaster of bewilderment, frustration, fear, false
hopes and finally jubilation.
The book reveals that neither
Newman nor his wife, Lee, had
any qualms about the planned
10-day vacation in October 2013,
which he took with his friend Bob
Hamdrla.
“I was perfectly comfortable,”
Lee told Chinoy. “It wasn’t something that had any significance
for me.”
Newman, a lieutenant in the
U.S. Army in the Korean War,
even contacted some former
military comrades, now in Seoul,
South Korea, to ask if they knew
of “anyone special” he could see
in North Korea.
In early 1953, Newman had
been part of a special unit nicknamed the White Tigers, which
trained and coordinated South
Koreans to sabotage communist
forces in North Korea. They operated out of Mount Kuwol, a mountain range, which had become, by
the time of Newman’s vacation, a
“summer getaway for Koreans,”
according to the website of the
London travel agency through
which Newman and Hamdrla
booked their trip. It was possible,
Newman thought, that some former fighters were still alive.
He would soon learn the degree
to which he underestimated the
climate of hostility in North Korea about the war.
“After 60 years, my assumption
was that, like Germany or Japan
or Vietnam, people forget,” he
told Chinoy. “That was my mistake. It’s not true. The North Koreans still think the war is on.”
The book tells of how the men’s
two female tour guides were actually informants. Prior to touring
Mount Kuwol on Sunday, Oct. 20,
Newman asked the guides to help
him contact former soldiers whom
he might have known.
“It was probably a dumb thing
to do. It was clearly my error to
indicate I’d like to make contact
with any North Korean survivors,” he told Chinoy.
After his inquiry, the trip to
Mount Kuwol was suddenly canceled, supposedly because roads
had been washed out.
Another fateful conversation
took place on Thursday, Oct. 24,
the book notes. One guide told
Newman he might be able to help
the government bring North and
South Korean families back together, and, encouraged, Newman
showed his guide the email to former Kuwol comrades in Seoul.
That’s when things took a turn
for the worse.
The next day, Newman was taken to the hotel lobby for a meeting
with two men.
“Almost a year later, this meeting
remains so traumatic that he only
broadly remembers that the North
Koreans questioned him about the
Korean War,” Chinoy writes.
“It was tense. They were yelling at me. I was shaken and upset,” Newman said, adding that
they threatened not to give him or
Hamdrla back their passports.
As news reports later revealed,
Newman was on the plane to
leave Pyongyang on Oct. 26 when
a government official boarded
and removed him — the start of
what would turn into six weeks of
detention and include a coerced
“confession.”
One touching anecdote revealed
in the book: Newman was initially
left alone in a room at the Yanggakdo Hotel and, seeing a phone,
he called Lee. Surprisingly, the
call went through, and the two
were able to speak briefly before
the connection was cut.
On the subject of the interrogations Newman underwent about
the Kuwol Regiment, Chinoy
relates a few of Newman’s own
strategies for getting through the
sessions, including making up
information. He also found ways
to ensure that the “confession” he
made, which was video-recorded
and later broadcast, could not be
seen as being of his own volition.
“The Last P.O.W.” also provides
insight into the tense and frantic
diplomatic efforts going on to gain
Newman’s release, as well as how
the sudden media firestorm about
Newman, sparked by a Nov. 20 San
Jose Mercury News article, frayed
the nerves of those trying to advocate quietly on his behalf. Q
A longer version of this article
is posted on PaloAltoOnline.com.
“The Last P.O.W.” is available
from Amazon.com as a Kindle ebook for 99 cents.
Editor Jocelyn Dong can be
emailed at jdong@paweekly.
com.
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Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Strong arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Theft related
Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 7
Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 8
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Citizen’s Advisory Committee
The City of Palo Alto is looking for 8-12 Palo
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The CAC will meet up to 4 times and advise the
City on The Midtown Connector Project which
seeks to identify routes on and parallel to the
Matadero Creek between Highway 101 and
Alma Street that serve to connect community
facilities for use by bicyclists and pedestrians of
all ages.
CAC meetings are intended to help the project
team further define overall project objectives,
identify several alignment alternatives that
could partially or fully achieve project
objectives, and consider the criteria to be used
in evaluating the alternatives.
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Bernard Elspas died on 11/27/14 after a short illness at
89 years old.
Bernie was an only child, born to Claire and Bernard
Elspas in New York City on July 26, 1925.
At home, Bernie spoke German, and was fascinated by
math and music from a young age.
He finished Bronx High School of Science then
received a BS from City College and an MS from NYU
before driving to California with his new bride Martha
Soffer Elspas. Bernie completed his PhD in Electrical
Engineering at Stanford University in 1955. At SRI he
worked in the areas of switching theory, error correction
and artificial intelligence. One of his earliest projects
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electronic system.
In 1976 Bernie was named a Fellow of the IEEE.
Bernie and Martha had many friends in the Stanford
community, and had a life rich in music, with her
performing and teaching career. They raised Sherman
(Shlomo) and Barbara who gave them 6 grandkids: Alex,
Sam, Raphael, Sarah, Rebecca and Jacob.
Also missing Bernie are his son-in-law Jason Rusoff,
daughter-in-law Janis Brett Elspas, and many nieces and
nephews and friends. Bernie loved recording programs
and sharing VHS and DVD recordings with loved ones.
Til the end he was gracious, a good friend, a devoted
teacher, a doting father and grandfather, an avid
crossword puzzler and a lover of vanilla ice cream. He
was cared for by Vasiti Finau and Ofa Tuita.
Services have been held.
Donations may be made to KQED.
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Miscellaneous
False info to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 1
Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Menlo Park
Dec. 10-16
. . . . . . . related
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Violence
Theft related
Burglary undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Vehicle related
Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 2
Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 2
Vehicle burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Alcohol or drug related
Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Drug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Miscellaneous
Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Probation violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Receive stolen property . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1
Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
VIOLENT CRIMES
Palo Alto
899 E. Charleston Road, 12/13, 3:05
p.m.; robbery/strong arm.
University Avenue, 12/15, 2:25 p.m.;
domestic violence/battery.
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Births, marriages and deaths
Carol Arnold
Esther Pfeiffer
Carol Sarappa Arnold, a longtime resident of the area and employee in Palo Alto, died on Sept.
4 in Tiburon, California, following a 2010 diagnosis of a type of
ovarian cancer. She was 72.
She
wa s
born on Sept.
1, 1942, in
Camden, New
Jersey, to Vincen zo
a nd
Stella Serappa.
She grew up
in Waterford
Works, New
Jersey, and graduated in 1960
from Edgewood High School.
She received a scholarship to attend Douglass College, then the
women’s division of Rutgers University, where she was on the synchronized swimming team. She
graduated in 1964 with a bachelor’s degree in bacteriology and
a minor in chemistry.
After college, she worked in
research labs for major pharmacy
companies in Philadelphia. Soon
she met and married her first husband David Wilson; the couple
later separated. She then worked
at Smith Klein Pharmaceutical
Company (SKP) and was transferred to a new Palo Alto office
in 1972. While there, she took
evening business classes at Santa
Clara University and received an
MBA in 1980. In December 1980,
she married Charles Arnold, an
internist/oncologist at the Palo
Alto Medical Foundation, whom
she had met on a ski trip to Canada.
Later on she took up financial
planning, receiving a license as
a certified financial planner in
1989. When her husband retired
in 1998, they moved from Atherton to Tiburon, and she took her
practice with her.
She and Charles enjoyed attending plays, concerts, ballet and
opera, as well as ballroom dancing, traveling and dining. They
also spent a lot of time outdoors
— fishing, hunting, scuba diving
and skiing on mountain slopes.
She is survived by her husband,
Charles Arnold; her stepchildren,
Gary Arnold, Christopher Arnold
and Lisa (Greg) Maldewin; her
brother, John Sarappa; five nieces
and nephews; and many cousins
and friends.
Her ashes were interred on
Sept. 11 at the Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, and memorial services were held in Tiburon. A memorial website can
be viewed at www.mhww.com/
carol-arnold/.
Memorial donations can be
made to the San Francisco Opera Center, San Francisco Ballet
Endowment, Associate Alumni of
Douglass College for the Douglass Fund and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church of Tiburon.
Esther Marie Pfeiffer, a longtime
resident and piano teacher in Palo
Alto, died after a brief illness at her
home in Palo Alto. She was 83.
She
was
born on June
14, 1931, in
Lincoln, Nebraska, to John
and Clara Pfeiffer. She began
playing piano
proficiently at
a young age
and began teaching lessons at age
14. Having moved to a few places
around the country, including Seattle, she settled in Palo Alto in
the early 1950s. She received her
high school diploma through the
American School of Correspondence in 1952.
For 69 years she taught lessons in piano and music theory,
in some instances teaching three
generations from the same family.
She impressed upon her students
the importance of understanding the historical and political
contexts of the pieces they were
learning. She also taught students
piano at the University of Nebraska in the mid-1980s, following the
request of a faculty member, Beth
Miller Harrod. While there, she
also furthered her own education
through master classes.
She was a member of the Delta
Omicron International Music
Fraternity and the Music Teachers National Association. She also
read often, absorbing texts on music as well as history, art and politics, and loved to attend musical
events at Stanford and around the
Bay Area.
Near the end of her life, she was
cared for by nurses and caregivers from Vitas hospice; the two
daughters of her longtime companion, Denny Kelly; and a few
other close friends.
She was predeceased by her
sister, Helen Pfeiffer, in 1998, and
her friend, Denny Kelly, in 2014.
She is survived by many former
students and friends around the
world.
A memorial service will be held
in early 2015 in Palo Alto. Memorial donations can be made in her
memory to the Vitas Community
Connection, c/o Vitas Innovative
Hospice Care, 670 N. McCarthy
Blvd., Suite 220, Milpitas, CA
95035, or to a charity of the donor’s choice.
Elizabeth “Betty” Swyryd
Elizabeth “Betty” Swyryd of Palo Alto,
CA passed away peacefully on December 11,
2014. Born in Saint Paul, MN on November
28, 1931 to Anna and Michael Swyryd, immigrants of what is now the Czech Republic
and Ukraine, respectively.
Betty earned her BS in Medical Technology from the University of Minnesota—Minneapolis. Over her career
spanning more than 40 years, Betty performed many medical research roles at
the University of Minnesota until 1960 and then at Stanford University. Working with tissue cultures, drosophila, chromatography, enzymology, immunofluorescence, in situ hybridization,
nick translations, gel transfers, and such, Betty performed fundamental experiments in nucleic acid chemistry and biosynthesis in
mammalian systems. She also authored and co-authored dozens
of research publications.
Throughout her life and retirement, Betty pursued her passion
for photography. She was very involved with Mid-Peninsula Photographic Alliance and Palo Alto Camera Club, including spans
as club president and newsletter editor. Betty loved to travel, US
and international. Many of her travels were for photography trips,
including lunar eclipses and hot air balloon festivals. Later in life,
her travels were more inspired by her interest in genealogy and
ancestry, including a research vacation to Prague. Betty was also
closely involved with the Palo Alto Chapter of American Association of University Women (AAUW) as their club photographer.
Betty was preceded in death by her brother Miroslav (and his
wife, Sylvia) and is survived by her niece Lyn (and her husband,
Mike, and their three children).
A private burial service will be held at Alta Mesa Memorial
Park in Palo Alto. An open house to celebrate Betty’s life will be
held on Sunday, December 21. Please contact lynswyrydsmith@
gmail.com for information. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital.
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Virginia R. O’Hagan Herbert
January 3, 1919 – December 4, 2014
Virginia Rezek O’Hagan Herbert,
a longtime Palo Alto resident, died
suddenly but peacefully at home
after a short bout with pneumonia.
She would have been 96 years
old next month. Teaching and
inspiring young people was her
passion, and she dedicated her life
to communicating her vibrant love
of literature, drama and the arts.
Intellectually and emotionally
engaged until the very end, Virginia
is deeply mourned by many friends
and former students for her true gift
for friendship, and the delight with which she pursued life.
She was born in Roanoke, Virgina, and was primarily raised
there as well. In 1938, she and her mother moved to California,
and Virginia finished college by graduating with a major in
English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1940. She
then trained as a teacher, and her first job was teaching English
and drama at Elk Grove High School. About 40 percent of her
students that first year were Nisei whom she sadly watched be
forcibly interned after Pearl Harbor. They brought her boxes of
wonderful strawberries which had to be harvested early before
they left for the camps.
She taught English and humanities for 38 years at various
schools in several states, but primarily in the Sequoia Union High
School District, notably Sequoia and Carlmont High Schools,
before finishing her career at San Carlos High School, teaching
there from 1960 until she retired in June, 1979. Her retirement
was reimagined and celebrated with a special “Realivement
Occasion” attended by many former students. For her sabbatical
year of 1965-1966, she won a John Hay Fellowship in the
Humanities and attended Harvard, where she studied poetry
with Robert Lowell and Robert Fitzgerald.
Virginia was married three times and had two children. Her
first husband, Herschel B. Chipp, was a lieutenant in the U.S.
Navy when they married in 1944, and later became a professor
of art history at U.C. Berkeley and specialist in Pablo Picasso. He
was the father of her son Dennis. Her second husband, Turlogh
O’Hagan, was the father of her daughter Maureen. Both these
early marriages ended in divorce after a few years. She married
her third husband, LeRoy V. Herbert, in 1988 after being single
for many years, and they lived and traveled happily together for
10 years until his death in 1998.
Virginia loved to travel and visited many countries, notably
Japan, Mexico, England, Ireland, France, Italy, China, Indonesia,
Russia, Kenya, Tanzania and Tahiti. After retirement she was
active in the Peninsula Symphony Association, the Radcliffe Club
of the Peninsula and the First Baptist Church of Palo Alto.
She is survived by her daughter, Maureen O’Hagan (Joel) Steed of
Ukiah, California; her nephew, Penn (Nancy) Butler of Atherton;
and her niece, Lynn (Brian) Chichi of San Clemente, California.
Preceding her in death were her sister, Anne Butler of Menlo Park;
her son, Dennis Browning Chipp; and her three husbands.
A memorial service was held on December 13, 2014.
Memorial contributions in Virginia’s honor may be made to
Defenders of Wildlife or Earthjustice.
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Editorial
An elusive history
museum
Hope springs eternal as building decays
T
he Palo Alto City Council once again provided a lifeline
to a nascent Palo Alto History Museum group that has repeatedly been unable to demonstrate sufficient community
support to propel the project forward.
It is a painful approach that isn’t fair to either museum advocates or Palo Alto residents and taxpayers. And worse, the council’s action Monday night to help the museum will likely result in
a yet-to-be determined developer getting the right to substantially
exceed zoning limits in the future on some unknown downtown
building at the very time the city is trying to rein in such development.
This council has followed in the footsteps of its predecessors
in being unable to take decisive action that might be viewed as
wavering in its support for a history-museum dream that has been
percolating for more than a decade without substantial progress.
The journey began 14 years ago when the city purchased the
historic Roth Building at 300 Homer Ave. and adjacent land for
$10 million from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation as it vacated
downtown and moved to its current site on El Camino.
In 2003, some three years after the building had been boarded
up, the city invited proposals from nonprofits interested in renovating the Birge Clark-designed historic building in exchange for
a long-term lease at little or no rent.
As expected, the only proposal submitted was from a group
made up of many well-known community members active in
historic preservation interested in creating a history museum. The
City Council at the time endorsed the plan, which involved private
fundraising of some $7 million.
For the last 10 years the city-owned building has been allowed
to deteriorate as the museum supporters failed to find the needed
major donors to jump-start a capital campaign. The city made
modest investments for repairs to keep the building from completely falling apart, but its condition has steadily eroded, and
of course now needs much more work than if it had been done
immediately.
Museum advocates have kept returning to the city, as they did
this week, looking for major public financial support they say
is critical to raising the estimated $20 million now needed for
renovation, seismic upgrade and museum build-out.
On Monday, without any assurances or confidence that the museum committee will be able to raise the money needed to move
forward with any more success than in the past, the City Council
agreed to sell bonus development rights called TDRs to raise an
estimated $2 million for the project. It also approved $1 million
to repair and fortify the building’s back wall.
TDRs (transferable development rights) are incentives to developers who undertake renovations of historic buildings by allowing them bonus square footage for use on another property.
The city is using the incentives, which will give a developer a
density bonus enabling the construction of almost 10,000 square
feet more than the zoning allows on another project, to raise money for the museum project. The density rights will be sold by the
city in a public bidding process.
This is exactly the same payment-for-zoning process as our
infamous (and currently suspended) planned community (PC)
zoning, where a developer can exceed the zoning rules by providing a public benefit deemed worthy by the City Council. In this
case, the benefit will be cash to help the museum renovate the
Roth Building.
The council’s action, taken on a 6-1 vote with Councilman Larry Klein the only dissenter (Nancy Shepherd and Marc Berman
did not participate due to owning property near the site) is just another poorly conceived idea for propping up the history museum,
only this time making the community pay for it through another
over-sized project that will exceed our zoning rules.
Klein has been right to try and put a stop to these convoluted
attempts at supporting the history museum. The city has already
made substantial contributions, and has now doubled down based
on little more than wishful thinking.
Instead of more gifts from the city, what museum organizers
need are firm fundraising milestones that, if not achieved, will
result in the non-renewal of its lease option next June.
The city has an asset that has been wasting away for the last 14
years. It must treat it like any other city asset, spend the money
to renovate it and move city staff out of expensive nearby leased
space into the building or find a paying tenant.
We would love to see a history museum in that location, but if
supporters can’t raise the money with all the support and patience
shown by the city, it’s time to move forward with another plan.
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Editorials, letters and opinions
Were these asked?
Editor,
When I heard rumors of lacerations on the feet and legs of pedestrians from the new California Avenue
sidewalks, due to embedded glass in
exposed aggregate, I dismissed it,
thinking it was an invention of the
project’s earlier naysayers.
But while scrutinizing the sidewalks this week, I found numerous
sharp edges and loose shards with
dried aggregate, appearing to have
come from the sidewalks. I also observed the glass is slippery, when
wet, potentially a hazard for women wearing stiletto heels, such as
one may wear to nicer restaurants.
These sidewalks collect much
more dirt than others. I noted
grungy-looking areas, and not just
under restaurant tables. The worst
were two huge blotches near the
Christian Science Reading Room,
where there are no restaurants.
I wanted to love the entire
California Avenue Streetscape
that, along with Public Works,
Palo Alto residents tweaked and
changed over four years (2010 to
2014). I spent from 2005 to 2009
helping create the original Concept Plan with the CAADA Board
of Directors.
But another red-flag is the new
parallel parking configuration created a six-car backup towards El
Camino Real, something I never
saw before. The convenient diagonal parking replaced with parallel
takes longer to negotiate. If a bicyclist was there, it would be dangerous; so a suggestion is redirecting
bicyclists to parallel streets, for
their safety, designating easier and
safer flow of traffic for them.
Wider sidewalks were on the
2010-2014 City Council “Wish
List,” and a consultant was retained to oversee the residents’
choices as the original CAADA
Streetscape Plan was changed.
What questions were asked by
council about the impacts of having
sharp, slippery glass in sidewalks
that attracts dirt, the size edging
out bicyclists and forcing them to
compete with backed-up cars, due
to the new parallel parking?
Ronna Devincenzi
Cambridge Avenue, Palo Alto
Protecting local retail
Editor,
It is simply not enough to keep
tearing down older and smaller
buildings in downtown Palo Alto
in exchange for sleek, taller office
buildings. This provides only a
pot of money for developers and
landlords and nothing for the
community at large. To be vital
and of value to residents, retail
of different kinds must be part of
the plan. The council has indicated they realize they should think
about protecting our local retailers. The city of Mountain View
has been brilliant in this area.
Retailers who are to be replaced
by a teardown should be given
assistance both financial and in
finding two-year places to do a
temporary relocation while their
former home is torn down and rebuilt. Since most of the new buildings will provide retail spaces on
the ground floor, the developers
should be obliged to resettle the
former retail tenants back into the
new space at rates commensurate
with what they had been paying.
Developers and landlords make a
pile of money without sacrificing
our small retailers in doing so.
Carol Gilbert
Byron Street, Palo Alto
Anonymity enables
Editor,
I’m writing to urge you to reconsider your policy of allowing
anonymous commenters on your
website.
As the author of a recent OpEd, I feel insulted and almost
assaulted by the often untruthful
and hateful statements made. My
piece was about climate change,
and hopefully you’re well aware
of the scourge of “trolls” that
infest the comment sections on
climate change articles and cast
doubt on perfectly legitimate material. The Los Angeles Times
found this to be such a problem
that they disallow climate trolls
altogether. Kudos to them!
One of the articles posted recently is filled with more of the
same kind of comments, and most
have no factual basis: www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/12/13/
palo-alto-to-explore-incentivesfor-slashing-natural-gas-use.
Certainly a first step for Palo
Alto Online would be to require
commenters to register with their
real name and a legitimate email
address. Readers that suspect the
commenter to be using an alias
should be able to communicate
this to the editorial staff and have
the post (and the registration of
the commenter) removed.
The comment stream could be
a useful tool for public discourse.
Instead it has turned into a sledgehammer of hate and mockery.
Bruce Hodge
Janice Way, Palo Alto
A model of care
Editor,
Thank you for your recent series
of articles (“Coroner releases identity of man killed on train tracks”
on 10/20/14; “In the wake: Teens
respond with messages of hope,
change” on 11/14/14; and “Guest
Opinion: How to help those in crisis” on 10/17/14), which addressed
the community response to the
deaths by suicide of local youth, as
well as the available suicide-prevention resources. This series of
articles was very informative and
careful in its handling of such a
sensitive topic. We appreciate your
willingness to dive in depth into
an issue that is often cast aside in
our society but in actuality affects
numerous families throughout
Palo Alto, the greater San Francisco Bay Area and the nation.
The media plays an important
role in their safe reporting of death
by suicide. Your series of articles
can serve as a model for insightful
and dignified approaches by news
organizations addressing the issue
of suicide and suicide prevention.
Relying on provocation or sensationalism of this important topic
in the media simply serves to continue the stigma against mental
illness and suicide.
Irresponsible reporting that includes references to a suicide note,
methods or a landmark where a
death by suicide took place can be
dangerous, especially in younger
age groups, and can lead to what
is known as “suicide contagion.”
Thoughtful journalism such as
yours reduces the risk of copycat
suicides from improper reporting
and provides important education
and resources for the public.
Thank you for your attention
and thoughtfulness to this issue.
Chapter Board Members
Greater San Francisco
Bay Area Chapter
American Foundation
for Suicide Prevention
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Guest Opinion
A year in Brazil
by Chantal Teixeira
any teens
wouldn’t
consider
taking a year to
go abroad, especially during high
school. Maybe
they’re scared of
starting in a new
school and being
the “new student.”
Maybe they’re terrified of leaving all their friends and family. Or just maybe they’re scared of being
in a completely different country with a
different language.
Yes, it all does sound scary; however, it’s
all these new experiences that make it so
amazing.
Last year as a sophomore, I decided
to live for a year with my dad in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. I continued my studies at
the American School of Rio de Janeiro,
which is almost the same as Palo Alto
High School. During my time there, I also
volunteered to teach English to underprivileged kids in Rocinha, which is the largest
slum in Brazil.
I am currently a junior at Paly, but I was
born in São Paulo, Brazil, and so was my
entire family. When I was 6, my mother
decided to attend Stanford Law School
for her master’s degree. My parents, my
brother and I all came to the United States
with the thought of living here for just the
time that my mom would be studying.
M
Ten years later, we have settled into one
of the most prestigious cities in the world,
with little chance of going back to Brazil. I,
however, have always been extremely committed to my Brazilian roots, and I have
a love for that country that words cannot
describe.
Despite living in this amazing area, I am
always curious to step out of my comfort
zone, try new things and live in a different
country. It is unquestionably nerve-racking
to leave everything you know and enter a
world that you don’t know. The idea of
leaving my lifelong friends and my family was heartbreaking. I was scared of being forgotten. I also knew that being the
“new girl” at school wasn’t going to be a
piece of cake. A year — 365 days — isn’t
that short of a time. I was also terrified of
losing school credits and complicating my
schedule.
Thankfully, at the American School of
Rio de Janeiro all my classes were in English. Also, all my friends here were completely supportive of my decision. Overall,
there were no setbacks for me not to go,
so why not?
My year in Rio de Janeiro was eventful
and unforgettable. I made so many friends
from different countries through my international school. It was a bit strange to practice my Portuguese wherever I went, but I
improved a whole lot. The city was so new
to me, but it was beautiful. It felt like summer year-round; I lost count of how many
times I went to the beach.
Living inside the Brazilian culture was
incredible, as the music, food, people, parties and the way of life in general stood
out from America. The culture in Brazil
is like no other: The people are relaxed,
carefree and just happy. Only in Brazil will
you find people on the beach on a Monday
afternoon getting some sun and drinking
coconut water.
Brazilian people are loud and spontaneous, and can make any situation fun and
exciting. People aren’t stressed about anything, and instead of worrying about small
details, they understand the big picture of
life, just enjoying those moments with the
people they love most. And that’s exactly
what I admire.
By the time I got there, I had realized
that I wanted to make a difference. So I
took the initiative to start a community service project in the largest slum in Brazil,
Rocinha. I began teaching English to children from ages 5 to 12 in a small school
called Oficina do Sucesso, or in English,
“Workshop of Success.” I really wanted to
support Brazilian children’s learning opportunities. I wanted to help change their
lives and give back to the community some
of what I was fortunate to receive over the
years. I had a passion to help them find
their way into the future, and English offers these kids a door to opportunity.
Rocinha is a part of Brazil that not
many people know of apart from the violence and drug trade occurring there that
the media shows. But during those seven
months, I met some of the most warmhearted people. I established an uncondi-
tional connection with each and every one
of those kids. However, I knew that teaching English wasn’t going to be easy, or that
safe. It was a huge commitment. I risked
a lot going up to the slums every week. I
planned all the lessons in advance, and that
would sometimes take hours.
It was a different world, and I was scared
to face the reality of other people’s lives.
It shocked me to see their actual day-today lives; I had never seen such poverty. It
changed my perspective of the world forever. There were 5-year-old kids going to the
brick, windowless houses asking for food
and money. Every corner you turned you
saw trash on the streets, and sewage water
ran down the roads. There were children
without shoes building the brick houses
instead of going to school.
“Poverty” was a somewhat unspoken
word before my journey in Brazil. This volunteer work caused my view of the world to
shift. I came back to Palo Alto a changed
person, as I am more grateful for what I
have and the opportunities before me.
My year in Brazil was a gain in my life,
and there is not a single part I regret. I left
as myself and came back as a better version of that. I encourage other high school
students to spend some time abroad to gain
endless memories and unforgettable experiences. It’s worth it. Q
Chantal Teixeira is a Palo Alto High
School junior. On Dec. 5, she won the
school’s President’s Volunteer Service
Award for her work in Rocinha. She can
be reached at [email protected].
Streetwise
What is your favorite (or least favorite) holiday tradition?
Asked on California Avenue. Interviews and photos by Sam Sciolla.
Georgina Chadwick
Arlene Holloway
Yuma Kennedy
Sam Putney
Linda Gray-Moin
Kingsley Avenue, Palo Alto
Student
Torreya Court, Palo Alto
Retired
Sacramento Street, East Palo Alto
Software analyst
Whitclem Drive, Palo Alto
College student
Esplanada Way, Stanford
Artist
“I like decorating the Christmas tree.
We always do it with the whole family together, and our cats can sleep
under it.”
“I’m from Britain, and I always make a
real Christmas pudding, a plum pudding. ... It’s just absolutely redolent of
my childhood.”
“Favorite holiday tradition is spending time with family to watch the
movie “Elf.” ... Least favorite would be
grandma getting drunk.”
“Every other year I go to South Carolina, or I stay here. It’s good to alternate between grandparents ... both
sides of the family.”
“Attending the Dickens Christmas
Fair at the Cow Palace. ... They turn
it into Victorian London. You walk
through the door, and you’re just
transported.”
Peninsula Christmas Services
Join Us For Christmas
Christmas Eve
Christmas blessings from
St. Bede’s Episcopal Church
Let us celebrate together!
Inspirations
a guide to the
spiritual community
Inspirations is a
resource for ongoing
religious services and
special events.
To inquire about
or to reserve space
in Inspirations,
please contact
Blanca Yoc at
223-6596 or
email
[email protected]
(All services will be about an hour)
4:00 pm Christmas Pageant Service
6:00 & 10:00 pm Christmas Eve Worship with Choir
9:30 pm Carol Sing
Christmas Day
10:00 am Christmas Day Communion with hymns
330 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park (650) 326-2083
www.trinitymenlopark.org
Christmas Eve—Wednesday, 12/24
4PM Children’s Christmas Pageant & Eucharist
5:30PM Community Dinner Free to all; RSVP appreciated
7:30PM Choral Prelude
8PM Festival Eucharist with Choir
Christmas Day—Thursday, 12/25
9AM Holy Eucharist with Carols
First Sunday after Christmas — 12/28
9AM Christmas Lessons & Carols and Eucharist
Please join us after each service for coffee and cookies,
with piñatas following the pageant.
St. Bede’s Episcopal Church
2650 Sand Hill Rd (at Monte Rosa), Menlo Park
650-854-6555
stbedesmenlopark.org
Valley Presbyterian Church
in the Redwoods
945 Portola Road, Portola Valley, CA
650-851-8282
www.valleypreschurch.org
Christmas Eve Worship
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Parish, Palo Alto
Our Lady of the Rosary, 3233 Cowper Street
St. Albert the Great, 1095 Channing Avenue
St. Thomas Aquinas, 751 Waverley Street
CHRISTMAS EVE – WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24TH
5:00 pm Family Mass – Our Lady of the Rosary
(Children’s Christmas Pageant during Mass)
5:00 pm Family Mass – St. Albert the Great
(Children’s Christmas Pageant during Mass)
6:00 pm – St. Thomas Aquinas
7:00 pm – Our Lady of the Rosary (Spanish)
Midnight Mass – St. Thomas Aquinas (Gregorian)
CHRISTMAS DAY – THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25TH
7:30am – St. Thomas Aquinas; 9:00am – St. Albert the Great;
10:30am – Our Lady of the Rosary;
10:30am – St. Thomas Aquinas; 12:00 Noon – St. Thomas Aquinas (Gregorian)
5:00 pm
Family Candlelight Service
10:00 pm
Candlelight Service
Lessons & Carols
Holiday Services at Stanford Memorial Church
Sunday, December 21, 2014
10:00 am University Public Worship
Covenant Presbyterian Church
December 14, 2014
10:30 a.m. Worship
Christmas Cantata- Daniel Pinkham
Choir Cantata with Organ and Brass
4:00 p.m. Chamber Concert Series
Music of the Christmas Season
Harpers Hall Harp Ensemble
10:30 a.m. Worship
One Starry Night in Bethlehem
Children and Youth Pageant
7:30 p.m. Christmas Eve
Candlelight Service
Lessons and Carols
4:30 pm Catholic Mass
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
4:00 pm Christmas Eve Family service (Doors open at 3:00 pm)
Please bring new, unwrapped toys which will be given to children in need.
8:00 pm Christmas Eve Festival Communion service (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Please note: Please arrive early for Christmas Eve services. Attendees must arrive together with their
group. Saving seats will not be allowed.
Thursday, December 25, 2014
12:00 am Catholic Christmas Eve Midnight Mass
December 21, 2014
December 24, 2014
12:00 pm Catholic Christmas Day Mass
More info: religiouslife.stanford.edu/holiday-services
Rev. Dr. Margaret Boles
Covenant Presbyterian Church,
670 E. Meadow Dr., Palo Alto 94306
(650) 494-1760
www.CovenantPresbyterian.net
Memorial Church, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, (650)723-1762
Simply Christmas
Celebrate the true meaning of Christmas
in Scripture and Song!
Wednesday, December 24th
at 6:00 pm
CHRISTMAS EVE AT FIRST PRES
First Baptist Church • 1100 Middle Ave Menlo Park
Choir Singing Carols & Anthems
(650) 323 8544 • www.firstbaptist.com
4:30pm, Sanctuary
CHRISTMAS at FIRST LUTHERAN
600 Homer Avenue, Palo Alto | 650-322-4669
www.flcpa.org
December 24, 5:00 p.m. | Family Service
First Lutheran children dramatize the Christmas story
Carols and Holy Communion
Service of Lessons & Carols
5:00pm, Sanctuary
Festive Reception & Holiday Treats
6:00pm, Fellowship Hall
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December 24, 10:00 p.m. | Pre-service Music
10:30 p.m. | Candlelight Service
Allen Simon, Choir Director | Jin Kyung Lim, Organist
December 25, 10:00 a.m. | Worship | Holy Communion
Lessons and Carols for Christmas | Jin Kyung Lim, Organist
All services include congregational singing of traditional carols
Christmas Eve
Wednesday, December 24
4:00 pm
Christmas Day
6:00 pm
Holy Communion
with Carols
Family Communion Service
with Children’s Pageant
Christmas Eve at Bethany
5:00 p.m. Family Christmas
Children tell the story of Jesus, as shepherds,
angels, wisemen, and the holy family.
Thursday, December 25
10:00 am
Festival Holy Communion
with Choir & Bells
ST. MARK’S
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
PALO ALTO
CHRISTMAS EVE
V4:00 pm Children’s
Christmas Pageant
& Communion
V10:00 pm Festive Choral
Christmas Eve
Holy Communion
beginning with Carols
CHRISTMAS DAY
V10:00 am Holy Communion
with Carols
600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto
(650) 326-3800
www.saint-marks.com
11:00 pm
Communion, Readings
& Carols by Candlelight
Join us between services
for wonderful food and Christmas cheer!
7:00 p.m. Classical Christmas
Classical music and readings tell the story
of joy and hope on Christmas Eve.
10:00 p.m. Candlelight Christmas
A quiet and contemplative time to listen, sing,
and reflect on the birth of Jesus Christ.
BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH
1095 CLOUD AVENUE
MENLO PARK
CHRISTMAS WORSHIP SERVICES
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service & Reception
Wednesday, December 24, 10 p.m
at the corner of Avy & Cloud
www.bethany-mp.org
Woodside Village Church
3154 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA
650.851.1587 www.wvchurch.org
Lighting
season
up the
Community celebrations spread peace and joy, from many traditions
photos by Veronica Weber / story by Carol Blitzer
F
Mezzo soprano Fran Moyer and other members of the First
United Methodist Church Chancel Choir sing carols during the
church’s Advent Procession with Carols service on Dec. 7.
rom a musical Advent procession to the civic lighting
of the Hanukkah menorah,
Palo Alto celebrates the holiday
season this month through gettogethers featuring music, food
and much good will.
Carolers strolled into First
United Methodist Church in
downtown Palo Alto for Advent
Sunday, Dec. 7, then participated
in a service that featured verses,
hymns and songs of the season.
The season called Advent, the
four weeks before Christmas, is a
time of preparation for the birth
of Christ, notes Pastor Linda Holbrook.
She called the Advent Service a “kind of lesson in music.
... The music is about leading up
to Christmas, about expectations,
looking forward,” beginning with
the processional hymn, “Wonder of God’s Glory Bright” and
including the hymn, “To a Maid
Engaged to Joseph.”
The lessons harked back to the
Old Testament, and much of the
music to Old English songs, a tradition that goes back hundreds of
years, she said.
A candle-lighting service is
planned for Christmas Eve at 11
p.m., when it’s almost Christmas
Day, “symbolizing Christ coming
into the world,” Holbrook said.
On the same Sunday evening,
Cover Story
Clockwise, from top left:
Elida Atayde, dressed
as an angel during a
reenactment of Mary
and Joseph’s search
for a place to stay on
Christmas Eve, holds a
candle during the Buena
Vista Mobile Home Park
posada on Dec. 6; Corina
Martinez, left, Helena
Holdstead and Serena
Thomson, dancers from
Raices de Mexico, dance
in the Michoacán style
during the posada; a
home at the Buena Vista
Mobile Home Park is
festively decorated for
the holidays; Karlos
Tapia, far right, and his
wife Siobhan Tapia, and
fellow attendees sing
songs by candlelight
during the posada.
homes in the Buena Vista Mobile
Home Park in the Barron Park
neighborhood were gaily strung
with lights — including a reindeer
on a rooftop — to create a festive
atmosphere for the posada.
Beginning in 2012, according to
Erika Escalante, president of the
Buena Vista Mobile Home Park
Association, the posada was organized as a “way to get to know the
community, share a bit of our culture, make them aware of what’s
happening,” she said.
Close to 500 visitors lined up
at the sidelines, holding batteryoperated candles and singing a
traditional song in a Spanish/
English mashup.
The posada began with a procession of Mary, Joseph, shepherds and angels, all symbolically
seeking shelter, which they are refused until they reached the “sta-
Above: Rabbi Yosef
Levin lights the first
candle on a large
menorah outside of
Palo Alto City Hall on
Dec. 16, the first night
of Hanukkah, during
an event hosted by
Chabad of Palo Alto;
right: Rabbi Zalman
Levin, far left, Mendel
Brownstein, center,
Mendel Oster (dressed
as a dreidel) and
children dance around
in a circle during the
Hanukkah celebration.
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Sonia Raghuram performs on the sitar during the Eid Festival at Lucie Stern Community Center.
Celebrations
ble,” a tent strewn with straw
where they are welcomed.
“Mary and Joseph are looking for shelter, and we’re in
danger of losing our homes,”
Escalante said, referring to the
planned closure and sale of the
mobile home park.
After the procession, guests
at the posada were entertained
by Veracruz, Michoacán and
Jalisco-style dancing by the
group Raices de Mexico. After
breaking the seven-pointed-star
piñata, a feast of ponche (hot
punch), tamales, pozole (hot
soup) and pan dulce was enjoyed by all.
From top: Eli Barasch and friend Simon Illouz, center, and fellow
children who attend religious school at Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo
Alto, light the first Hanukkah candle on Dec. 16; Rachel Lieb, left, and
Haviva Bradski play a game of dreidel during Kol Emeth’s celebration;
Junnat Hameed, 4, pauses for a moment during her dance for the Eid
Festival at the Lucie Stern Community Center on Dec. 12; Moazzam
Chaudry holds his sleepy daughter Punhal Chaudry, 3, during the Eid
Festival. The Arabic calligraphic paintings, reading “Al Hamd O Lilla”
or “Praise be to God,” are by artist Shaz Imran.
The community was welcomed to Congregation Kol
Emeth in Palo Alto on Tuesday,
Dec. 16, to celebrate Hanukkah, aka Chanukah, called the
Festival of Lights. The courtyard glowed with the community candle-lighting (one
candle, called the shamash, is
used to light one other candle
each night for the eight nights
of the festival).
No celebration is complete
without traditional foods —
fried potato latkes (pancakes)
and sufganiyot (fried donuts),
to remind folks of the legend:
When the Maccabees, Jewish
freedom fighters, retook the
Temple in Jerusalem from the
Syrian Greeks in 164 BCE,
they found only enough holy
oil to last a day. Instead, the oil
lasted eight days.
David Booth, senior rabbi of
Congregation Kol Emeth, noted
that although Hanukkah is considered a minor Jewish holiday,
it carries some wonderful imagery: “the external image of
light in the darkness, light that
can overcome depression.
“There’s something very
beautiful about the holiday,” he
said. “It’s closest to the darkest
time of year ... and we remember the hope that light can give
us.
“One of the commandments
for Hanukkah is to publicize
the holiday, often by putting
a menorah in the window. ...
It’s not a message to people to
become Jewish but that God’s
light is in the world,” Booth
said.
Even with rain threatening,
Rabbi Zalman Levin of Chabad
of Palo Alto was determined to
“Light up the Night” at Palo
Alto City Hall on Tuesday evening, Dec. 16.
“It’s a Tiki torch. It burns
even in the rain,” he said.
Sponsored by Chabad, the
event kicked off with the lighting of the 12-foot Hanukkah
candelabra. About 50 people
braved the elements, huddling
under tents without sides while
sampling latkes and sufganiyot as well as participating in
crafts and activities. Lasagne
and a cheesecake bar added to
the attractions.
The message of Hanukkah is
“that even in times of darkness,
we can always spread light, ...
even one little candle to bring
light to the darkness,” Levin
said.
“We want to bring out the
light to the public, light up even
the darkest places. The light
represents goodness and kindness, hope, faith — the triumph
of goodness,” Levin said.
Rounding out the December
festivities was a celebration
that’s usually held at another
season, following Ramadan
(which was in July this year).
Samina Sundas, founding executive director of American
Muslim Voice Foundation, organized an Eid Festival on Dec.
12, with the help of a City of
Palo Alto $1,000 Know Your
Neighbors grant.
Held at the Lucie Stern Community Center ballroom, the
event drew 300 people who enjoyed a Pakistani dinner, shared
desserts from around the world
and participated in Nasheed
spiritual singing. There was
even a photo booth with opportunities to have a photo taken in
ethnic dress.
The event also honored “unsung community heroes,” including Palo Alto Mayor Nancy
Shepherd and Altaf Chaus, the
Muslim Burger King owner
who returned $100,000 cash to
the police because of his faith.
Sundas noted that holding
the Eid Festival now is part of
an initiative dubbed “Share the
joy of Eid,” which she said “is
part of the American Muslim
Voice’s larger goal to move all
Americans ‘from fear to friendship,’ by expanding the sense
of community at a grassroots
level.”
Sundas posited why so many
chose to come during the busy
holiday season: “Given the
state of our nation all Americans are tired of being divided
and being afraid of each other.
And now our message of unity, kindness, love, peace and
friendship is appealing to all,”
she wrote in an email.
“What do we have to lose?
The old ways have created a
culture of despair, division and
violence, and together we can
replace it with a culture of hope
inclusion and peace.” Q
Staff Photographer Veronica Weber can be emailed at
[email protected]; Associate Editor Carol Blitzer
can be emailed at cblitzer@
paweekly.com.
On the cover: Orit Glenn
and her daughter Karen
Glenn light the first candle
on the menorah and sing the
blessings on the first night
of Hanukkah, Dec. 16, at
Congregation Kol Emeth.
Photo by Veronica Weber.
Cantor Arts Center presents rarely seen prints
by Pop Art icon Robert Rauschenberg
flight and a special admiration
for astronauts. So when he was
invited by NASA to be part of
its art program and to document
the launch of Apollo 11 in July of
1969, he leaped at the opportunity.
He was given unrestricted access
to behind-the-scenes preparations
and was in the grandstand at Cape
Canaveral during the historic liftoff. A photograph of the smiling
artist, with the massive rocket
enclosed in its armature behind
him, reveals the obvious delight
and enthusiasm he must have felt
that day.
“The whole project seemed one
of the only things at that time that
was not concerned with war and
destruction,” Rauschenberg said.
Looking back, it is easy to see
his reference points — the Vietnam War, inner-city riots, the
growing awareness of environmental disasters — and how the
launch of a rocket into space (fulfilling John Kennedy’s prediction
about sending a man to the moon)
must have felt like a rare positive,
unifying force.
Inspired by the Apollo mission,
Rauschenberg decided to produce
a major body of work about the
space program. The Stoned Moon
Project (1969-70) was originally
intended to be a book of 20 collages and drawings. The book
never came to fruition, and the
artwork, rarely seen before now,
became part of the holdings of
the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. In addition to images, the
project also included the artist’s
unpublished notes, giving insight
into his choices of subject matter
and media.
Guest Curator James Merle
Thomas explained in an email
interview that the exhibition was
inspired by his own dissertation
research into art in the Cold War
era.
“I was interested in more closely examining the Stoned Moon
Projects as a kind of transitional
moment in the artist’s career,”
Thomas wrote. “During the same
months that he was producing
Stoned Moon, Rauschenberg began making art that was much
more politically explicit and critical.”
The artist’s desire to commemorate the Apollo flight in a new
and technically-advanced manner
led him to Gemini G.E.L. Studios
in Los Angeles. Long known as a
place where artists could experiment and push the boundaries of
traditional print-making, Gemini
was the perfect fit for the project. Working at a hectic pace,
Rauschenberg created 33 prints:
at that time the largest lithographs
produced on a hand-operated
press. Of these, 13 appear in the
exhibition, on loan from a private
collector.
Measuring over seven feet in
height, requiring the use of two
lithography stones laminated together, the Stoned Moon series
utilized photographs obtained
from NASA and images of Florida flora and fauna. The prints are
a big, bright, bold celebration of
technology — both space travel
and printmaking — and creativity.
In “Banner,” the artist has gathered symbols of the space race (the
top stage of a rocket, three smiling, brave astronauts) with images
of Florida (a crate of oranges, the
state seal). Bright blue swaths of
ink surround the images, perhaps
reflective of the sky, space and
the “blue yonder” that men were
about to explore. In “Sky Garden,”
Rauschenberg juxtaposes the outline of a rocket, symbol of man’s
technical prowess, with sea birds
and palm trees. A matrix detailing all the parts of the rocket is
overlaid with now-familiar terminology (command module, heat
shields) clearly delineated.
In most of the prints, there is a
stark contrast between nature and
technology. Rauschenberg lived
for many years in Florida and was
committed to the environmental
movement. His poster, “Earth
Day” (1970), which combined
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In 1969, Robert Rauschenberg accepted an invitation to produce art for
NASA’s Apollo 11 mission. Here, the artist poses at the Kennedy Space
Center with the Apollo 11 launch vehicle assembly in the background.
Stephen Dull/Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
n December 5, 2014, the
Orion space craft traveled
3,600 miles above Earth
testing systems in preparation
for sending astronauts into deep
space. It was reported on television news and on the second page
of newspapers but was hardly the
story of the day.
Go to Mars? Why not? After
all, we have been to the Moon and
back. We have become so inured
to the rapid scientific and technological developments of the space
program that it seems we are not
easily impressed. But Stanford’s
Cantor Arts Center has a cure for
that apathy.
The museum’s latest exhibition
draws together collages, prints
and archival materials that pay
tribute to the historic Apollo 11
mission of 1969, when man first
set foot on the moon. “Loose
in Some Real Tropics: Robert
Rauschenberg’s ‘Stoned Moon
Series’” will be on view from December 20 through March 16. The
display is a visual reminder of a
time when space travel was cause
for unabashed awe and wonder.
It also serves as a record of how
one artist memorialized that era
forever.
Robert Rauschenberg began his career as an important
avant-garde artist in 1950s and
’60s New York. He rejected the
prevailing Abstract Expressionist predilection for angst-driven
paintings on canvas in favor of
a cooler, detached observation
of life. Rauschenberg is credited
with the invention of the “combine,” a collage-like amalgamation of disparate yet symbolic
found objects. His choice of media and technique seemed to obey
no boundaries, and to betray no
fears.
As quoted in Mary Lynn Kotz’s
book “Rauschenberg: Art and
Life,” the artist once explained to
an interviewer, “I had nothing to
start with, so I could try anything
I wanted to.”
One thing Rauschenberg did
have was a life-long interest in
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In “Sky Garden” as in many of his works from the series,
Rauschenberg juxtaposed symbols of nature and technology.
Arts & Entertainment
Comedian Cathy Ladman dishes about food,
family and being Jewish
by Kevin Kirby
Robert Rauschenberg at Kennedy Space Center with Apollo 11 launch vehicle assembly in background, July 15, 1969.
Photograph by James Dean. Courtesy James Dean and NASA Art Collection, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Eve and Christmas Day. The two
cultures that are not busy with religious holiday traditions of their
own on those days have long found
mutual benefit from the situation.”
More recently, a new element
has been creeping into the Jewsand-Chinese-food tradition. In
cities across the country, holiday
events have sprung up combining Chinese cuisine with Jewish
comedy. That’s where Cathy Ladman comes into the picture. She’s
the featured performer at Chopshticks, the OFJCC’s version of
this new cultural mash-up, which
combines comedy with a buffetstyle Chinese dinner from Hunan
Garden Restaurant.
“I’m really looking forward to
it,” Ladman said in a recent telephone interview, “because every
other time I’ve done a show on
Christmas Eve for a room full of
Jews, it’s been great fun.” Ladman has appeared previously at
Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, the
San Francisco equivalent, but this
will be her first Christmas Eve in
Palo Alto.
Ladman considers herself “a comedian who happens to be Jewish,
rather than a Jewish comedian.”
But she notes that shared cultural
Jaime Klein
“W
hat are you doing on Christmas
Eve?”
For a lot of Americans, the answer is easy. Christmas Eve is a
time of traditions, from attending
midnight mass, to sipping eggnog
and singing carols, to sweating
over inscrutable bicycle assembly instructions while a Yule log
crackles on the big-screen TV.
But what about those who, for
religious or cultural reasons, don’t
celebrate Christmas — those who,
in the words of comedian Cathy
Ladman, have “been shut out of
the commercial Christmas season”? It should be no surprise that
these Americans have developed
some traditions of their own.
For decades, the joke among
many Jewish families has been
that Christmas Eve is the night
when everyone goes out for Chinese food. It’s a cliche born from
practical reality, as Amy Snell of
the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center (OFJCC) in Palo
Alto explained: “The tradition
of Jews eating Chinese food at
Christmastime goes back to the
days when Chinese restaurants
were some of the only businesses
that stayed open on Christmas
On Christmas Eve, “Chopshticks” at the JCC will feature comedian
Cathy Ladman as well as a Chinese buffet dinner.
heritage makes these gigs more intimate and more spontaneous than
a typical stand-up performance.
“I’m culturally from a Jewish
family, so there’s things we have in
common,” she explained. “I know
there will be a lot of ad-libbing
and a lot of talking to people in
the audience. There will be a lot of
shorthand because they’re Jewish
... I’m Jewish ... we have a lot of
similar characters in our family.”
And family is where much of
Ladman’s comedy begins. Her
material includes stories about
her marriage and about the daughter she and her husband adopted
when Ladman was nearly 50. With
a studied deadpan, she describes
this as “excellent timing,” then
jokes about being a member not
of the PTA, but of the “PTAARP.”
When asked how many of her
stories are, as she puts it, “merely
reporting,” Ladman chuckled.
“Some of it is. There are times
when I’ve gone back to my family in New York, and some of it
is nearly transcribing. But there’s
a way to craft it too. You have to
have an economy of words and
timing to have the story land a
laugh.”
It’s a craft that Ladman has been
honing for 33 years, perfecting her
timing and landing laughs in clubs
across the country, making numerous appearances on “The Tonight
Show” and “The Late Late Show
with Craig Ferguson,” and taping
her own HBO “One Night Stand”
special.
In the early days, she admits,
stand-up was a way of getting attention. “It was just, ‘What can
I do to get a laugh?’ But I think
it’s become increasingly personal
as I’ve gotten older. It’s about my
family, about my personal growth.
I think it reflects where I am in my
life and what my perspective is.”
With an act that trades heavily
on the realities of everyday life
and of growing older, Ladman’s
perspective sometimes leans toward the dark side. “I like to talk
Rauschenberg
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Robert Rauschenberg’s
“Stoned Moon”
Projects, 1969–70
December 20–March 16
Discover an iconic artist’s depiction of the
Apollo 11 Mission, the launch that put the
first man on the moon. Rarely seen art is
accompanied by photographic documentation
and artist’s notes never before on view.
CANTOR ARTS CENTER AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY
328 LOMITA DRIVE STANFORD, CA 94305 0 8 6 ( 8 0 6 7 $ 1 ) 2 5 ' ( ' 8
This exhibition is organized by the Cantor Arts Center in close collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Works in this exhibition
are on loan from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, Special Collections at the Getty Research Institute, and a private collection.
We gratefully acknowledge support for the exhibition from the Cantor Arts Center’s Halperin Exhibitions Fund and the Contemporary Collectors Circle.
images of man-made destruction
(pollution, deforestation) and endangered species (a bald eagle
and a gorilla), is considered an
iconic representation of its time.
The artist felt, however, that the
space movement was a “responsive, responsible collaboration
between man and technology.”
Critics loved the Stoned Moon
series; arts writer Lawrence Alloway noted that Rauschenberg
“produced the first persuasive
public art of the early space age.”
The exhibition is part of the
Cantor’s new focus on interdisciplinary programming, which will
encompass collaborations with
the departments of Physics, Music, and the Center for Computer
Research in Music and Acoustics. The year-long effort, called
“Imagining the Universe,” will include lectures by NASA astronaut
Dr. Mae Jemison and artists Alyson Shotz and Matthew Ritchie
(dates to be announced).
Rauschenberg once wrote of his
about things that might make
people uncomfortable, but then
you take the air out of it with comedy, and all of a sudden it’s not so
verboten and not so scary. It’s just
another thing. It can’t hurt us.”
As a prime example, Ladman
has recently been workshopping a
one-woman act, “Does This Show
Make Me Look Fat?,” in which
she speaks candidly about her decades-long struggle with anorexia.
But she was quick to point out that
this project is “very different”
from the stand-up comedy she’ll
be performing at Chopshticks. “I
don’t want people to think they’re
going to come to the JCC and hear
about the awful details of my eating disorder.”
She paused for a moment, then
added, “But I know I’ll be talking
about food, because there’ll be
Jews there.”
Of course, the event won’t be
exclusively Jewish. Christmas Eve
comedy gigs have begun drawing diverse audiences, as Americans of all backgrounds discover
that a good laugh and some nice
moo shu are a great remedy for
seasonal stress. As Ladman put
it, “We all know why we’re there,
and we’re definitely going to have
fun.” Q
Freelance writer Kevin Kirby
can be emailed at penlyon@
gmail.com.
What: “Chopshticks” with Comedian Cathy Ladman
Where: Schultz Cultural Arts
Hall, Oshman Family Jewish
Community Center, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto
When: Wednesday, Dec. 24, at
7:30 p.m.
Cost: $55-$65
Info: Go to tinyurl.com/l2tquga
or call 650-223-8609
desire to “integrate the creative
mind with the new super technology.” He died in 2008 and would,
no doubt, be amazed at the innovations and inventions that have
found their start right here in Silicon Valley. As he proved in his
Stoned Moon Projects, the talents
of artist and scientist are not mutually exclusive; at best, they can
enhance and affirm each other. Q
Freelance writer Sheryl
Nonnenberg can be emailed at
[email protected].
What: Loose in Some
Real Tropics: Robert
Rauschenberg’s “Stoned
Moon” Projects, 1969-70
Where: Cantor Arts Center, 328
Lomita Drive, Stanford
When: Dec 20-March 16,
Wednesday-Monday 11 a.m.-5
p.m., Thursday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
See website for holiday hours
and closures.
Cost: Free
Info: Go to museum.stanford.
edu or call 650-723-4177
Eating Out
Michelle Le
Sundance The Steakhouse serves up succulent New York strip steak.
A mecca
for
meat
After 40 years, Sundance retains
its high standards and charm
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school charm.
In these days of celebrity
chefs, restaurant empires, glitzy
chains and often unintelligible
menus, Sundance stays with Longtime customer Bob Siegmann, left, catches up with waiter James during the
one location, keeps the facility lunch hour at Sundance.
in tip-top condition, trains the
staff in fine-dining details, ensures the kitchen maintains the highest standards and building and opening Hungry Hunter restaurants, while
uses the finest ingredients — and the menu needs no Hamner was a regional manager for Jack in the Box.
After the successful launch of their Sundance Mintranslation.
Robert Fletcher and partner Richard Hamner ac- ing Co. steakhouse, the pair founded four Pacific Fresh
quired the Stanford View restaurant when the prop- restaurants, which they sold in 1991 to a Japanese comerty became available in 1974. Both had worked for
corporate restaurant chains: Fletcher was in charge of
Michelle Le
by Dale F. Bentson
974 was a momentous year. Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, the Oakland A’s beat the
Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series, “The
Sting” won best picture, the price of a first-class stamp
rose to 10 cents, Robert M. Pirsig published “Zen and
the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” — and in Palo
Alto, restaurateur Robert Fletcher opened Sundance
Mining Co.
The rest is history. Sundance Mining Co. morphed
into Sundance The Steakhouse and is thriving in its
40th year. Sons Aron and Galen Fletcher are now running the classic American steakhouse on El Camino
Real in Palo Alto with topnotch food, attentive service, an excellent wine list and decor that exudes old-
Eating Out
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1921 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
650-321-6798
sundancethesteakhouse.com
Hours: Lunch: Monday-Friday,
11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Dinner: Sunday-Monday,
5-9 p.m.;
Tuesday-Saturday, 5-10 p.m.
Reservations
Lot Parking
Alcohol:
full bar
Noise level:
moderate
Happy Hours
Children
Bathroom
cleanliness:
excellent
Tidbits
by Elena Kadvany
Outdoor
dining
Credit cards
Private
parties
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Takeout
The menu at Sundance features Dungeness crab cakes with sherry
cayenne aioli.
pany. After an amicable separation, Hamner went on to found
the Una Mas chain of Mexican
eateries.
Fletcher mined Sundance. His
sons grew up in the restaurant
business but chose different career routes. Galen became a certified public accountant with Ernst
& Young while Aron charted
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a course at Smith Barney (now
Morgan Stanley). According to
Galen, on Christmas morning
in 1992, Robert asked his sons
whether they were interested
in taking over the business, or
whether he should sell it. It was
time in his life to take a step back.
By 1996, both brothers were
working at Sundance full time —
Galen first and Aron a few years
later. In 2000, Robert retired, but
he retains a financial and spiritual interest in the business.
“My dad was almost a stranger
when we were growing up,” Galen recalled. “He was always
working, always on the go, moving around from city to city
opening up Hungry Hunter restaurants. I was determined that
for the first 20 years, I wanted to
fully participate in my family’s
life. I didn’t want to miss out. I
wanted soccer practices and all
the school activities. I needed to
stay in one place, concentrate on
one business.”
It seems to have worked out
for everyone, especially the dining public who keeps the place
packed, or nearly so, throughout the year. Besides the dining
rooms, booths, quiet nooks and
private dining areas, there is a
lively bar scene with a long list
of contemporary cocktails. The
wine list boasts more than 400
labels, mostly California, and
most of that cabernet — the perfect pairing for beef.
Slow-roasted for eight hours,
the certified Angus prime rib is
offered in 8-ounce to 14-ounce
cuts: $32.95 to $42.95. On a recent visit, the juicy, flavorful
meat was served exactly as ordered — rare, with minimal fat.
Creamy horseradish and hot au
jus were served on the side. The
meat was accompanied by vegetables and a choice of potato or
rice.
Fork-tender was the 13-ounce
USDA Prime New York strip
steak ($48.95). The steak was
served at the optimum temperature: hot, but with time enough
for the meat to have rested after
cooking. Meat proteins heat and
coagulate during cooking, and
moisture is driven towards the
center. If the meat rests for a few
CHO’S, RESURRECTED ... Palo
Altans’ favorite hole-in-the-wall
dim sum spot Cho’s Mandarin
Dim Sum, which closed earlier
this year after receiving a sudden
60-day notice from the landlord,
is being resurrected in downtown
Los Altos. The restaurant, which
sold potstickers, pork buns and
the like on the cheap for 35 years
at 213 California Ave., announced
the news on its Facebook page
last Friday, Dec. 12. “Something
new is coming to Los Altos,” the
post reads, with a photograph of
the new restaurant at 209 1st St.
According to Yelp, the space was
most recently occupied by Chris’
Fish and Chips and is near the
corner of State Street. The 2,337
people who signed a Change.org
petition to keep Cho’s open on
California Avenue will surely be
lining up as soon as the restaurant reopens.
‘OCCUPY THE FARM’ ... Documentary “Occupy the Farm” tells
the story of the battle over the Gill
Tract, a large plot of University of
California-owned land in Berkeley
that the university planned to
develop and community members wanted to preserve and use
as farmland. The film, directed
by Todd Darling and produced
by Steve Brown of Woodside,
documents a day in April 2012
when hundreds of people flooded
onto a section of the land and
“occupied the farm,” planting
15,000 vegetable seedlings in
protest. The film premiered in
early November but is just now
making the rounds to Palo Alto,
with a one-night showing at The
Aquarius Theatre this Monday,
Dec. 22, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
“Occupy the Farm” filmmakers
and “special guests” will also
minutes after it is off the fire,
the protein molecules relax and
reabsorb the juices. That’s what
makes a perfect steak.
But Sundance offers more
than just great beef. The Pacific
swordfish ($29.50) was seabreeze fresh, dusted with spices
and grilled over an open flame.
The fish was succulent and moist.
Sauteed New England sea
scallops and wild gulf prawns
($28.50) were plump and meaty,
nestled in a reduced white wine
garlic butter sauce with an ambrosial hint of fresh garlic and
pepper that tickled the palate.
The chicken Marsala ($22.95)
was a pounded-thin breast, sauteed in Marsala mushroom sauce
and then served under a blanket
of earthy, fragrant mushrooms.
There were plenty of appetizers too: mouthwatering golden
brown crab cakes ($14.95), filet mignon spring rolls ($12.95)
hold a Q&A following the film.
The screening was made possible through Tugg, a website
that allows people to request
that films come to local theaters.
Tugg requires a certain number
of advance reservations in order
to confirm an event; the threshold
was met earlier this week, and
a limited number of tickets are
still available. Go to tugg.com/
events/12449 to reserve a spot.
FOOD TRUCKS GET FIVE YEARS
... The uproar in Menlo Park
over the arrival of Off the Grid, a
weekly food truck market held in
the Caltrain station parking lot, is
but a distant memory. The city’s
Planning Commission (on which
this writer’s father serves, full
disclosure) granted a unanimous,
long-term blessing to Off the Grid
on Monday night with a new fiveyear permit. The market — one
of more than 20 that Off the Grid
operates throughout the Bay Area
— first launched in February 2013
at Merrill Street and Ravenswood
Avenue, with about 10 trucks
serving up eats every Wednesday
night. Benjamin Himlan, Off the
Grid’s director of business development, told the planning commission on Dec. 15 that about
600 to 800 people came each
week during the summer, but that
number has now dropped by approximately 60 percent, the Almanac reported. As a result, Off the
Grid has been closing at 8 p.m.
instead of 9 p.m. and will go on
hiatus from Dec. 22 through Jan.
4. The longer hours will return in
March, Himlan said.
Check out more food news
online at Elena Kadvany’s blog,
Peninsula Foodist, at paloaltoonline.com/blogs/.
served on a gingery Asian salad
and Idaho potato skins ($11.50)
with cheddar cheese, smoked bacon and chopped green onions.
The steakhouse classic wedge
salad ($9.95) comes topped with
house-made blue cheese dressing, chopped tomato, crumbled
blue cheese and smoked bacon.
The clam chowder ($6.50 cup;
$8.50 bowl) was loaded with
clams, potatoes and onions.
Desserts aren’t made in-house,
but to house specifications. The
signature mud pie ($8.95) — coffee ice cream with an Oreo cookie crust in a puddle of hot fudge,
topped with whipped cream
and chopped peanuts — is big
enough to share and has been on
the menu since opening day. Also
good was the New York cheesecake ($7.95) with a strawberry
fruit sauce.
What’s not to like? Happy
40th, Sundance. Q
Breaking the ‘Hobbit’
‘The Battle of the Five Armies’ makes Peter Jackson’s Tolkien saga redundant
00 1/2 (Century 16, Century 20)
Hobbits put their trust in simple pleasures: a nice meal (or two,
or six), a cup of tea, a social call.
So it’s ironic that writer-director-producer Peter Jackson has
proven determined to complicate
“The Hobbit,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s
relatively humble volume, into
three, two-hour-plus films, culminating in “The Hobbit: The
Battle of the Five Armies.”
With most of the book’s plot
expended in two previous films,
The Weinstein Company
“The Imitation Game” gives rising star Benedict Cumberbatch a
chance to shine as the anxious mathematical genius Alan Turing.
Cure for the
uncommon code
this third installment — penned
by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa
Boyens and Guillermo del Toro
— mines appendices to Tolkien’s “The Return of the King.”
It’s probably best not to think too
much about how this $250 miltop-secret Government Code
and Cypher School at Bletchley
Park, where Turing and a team
worked to break the German naval Enigma code, largely by use
of a electromechanical cryptanalytic machine: a prototypical
computer of Turing’s design. But
Graham Moore’s screenplay —
derived from Andrew Hodges’
book, “Alan Turing: The Enigma,” — also leapfrogs backward
to Turing’s schoolboy days (and
first love with a male friend) and
forward to the incident that found
Turing prosecuted for “gross indecency.”
In his English-language directing debut, Norwegian director
Morten Tyldum (“Headhunters”) plays it safe: “The Imitation
Game” is a dutiful biopic, tasteful
to a fault. It’s Cumberbatch who
elevates the material with depth
of feeling, radiating the desperate
Awards season always makes
room for at least one plummytoned, veddy-English drama
(think “The King’s Speech”), so
it’s no surprise to see Benedict
Cumberbatch refereeing ye olde
internal wrestling match between
British reserve and tortured feeling in the “based on a true story”
feature, “The Imitation Game.”
Cumberbatch, best known
for making intellect sexy on
the BBC’s “Sherlock,” inhabits
WWII codebreaker and computer innovator Alan Turing in
the mathematician’s social anxiety, fierce determination and, yes,
keen intellect. The story mostly
unfolds in the early 1940s at the
Apart from Cumberbatch’s
performance (and fine supporting
turns from the likes of Matthew
Goode, Mark Strong, Charles
Dance, and Rory Kinnear), the
film’s principal achievement is
simply in erecting a more visible platform for Turing’s story,
which has seen but a few previous
treatments on stage (“Breaking
the Code” on the West End and
Broadway) and screen (two telefilms: one called “Codebreaker”
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intelligence of a man compelled
to achieve greatness through puzzle-solving — and to tamp down
his sexual orientation to survive in
a discriminatory time. Both compulsions prove sad, with Turing
arguably less interested in winning the war (something for which
no less than Winston Churchill
principally credited Turing) than
proving his own thinking correct,
meanwhile making doe-eyed,
guiltily halfhearted overtures
to colleague Joan Clarke (Keira
Knightley).
DRAMA
OPENINGS
ing Middle Earth saga affords
many more parts for beloved
British thespians, including Ian
Holm, Stephen Fry, Billy Connolly, Benedict Cumberbatch
and Christopher Lee, who at age
92 must be breaking some kind
of record with his athletic fight
scenes (achieved mostly with a
double and CGI assist).
“The Battle of the Five
Armies” is many stories: a tale
of Middle-Earth “troubles” —
“ethnic tensions” if you will — a
(self-mocking?) parable of greed
(“Don’t underestimate the evil of
gold!” Gandalf thunders), a love
story of sorts (the triangle of Tauriel, Legolas, and Aidan Turner’s
Dwarf Kíli), and a tale of male
bonding between Bilbo and
Thorin. Add in the grace notes
Jackson and his team sometimes
bring to each of these tasks, and
the action-Jackson spectacle,
and genre fans likely won’t feel
cheated out of their time or the
price of the 3D ticket. But for
some, especially the fantasy
tourists, the “Ring”-around-theresolution feels pretty old by now.
Are we there yet? Yes, there and
back again.
Rated PG-13 for extended sequences of intense fantasy action
violence, and frightening images.
Two hours, 24 minutes.
— Peter Canavese
DRAMA
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Picture
Cate Blanchett as Galadriel and Ian McKellen as Gandalf return in “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five
Armies.”
lion sausage was made, as it’ll
quickly become apparent how
narratively bereft it is, how thematically redundant to the five
Middle Earth films (totaling fifteen hours) that precede it.
All that aside, fans of the series
and fanboy grumblers will have
to agree that “The Battle of the
Five Armies” is often entertaining. Carefully choreographed action rules the day, with clashes on
an ice floe, a crumbling bridge, a
mountain ridge. And that title’s
not kidding around: Most of the
film is one giant extended battle,
with multiple dwarf, elf, and orc
armies converging in the vicinity of Erebor (a.k.a. The Lonely
Mountain). If you intend on caring a whit for what’s going on,
bring a scorecard, but if you ask
me, you’re better off just going
with the flow.
The gang’s all here: hobbit
Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), greed-infected dwarf
Thorin Oakenshield (Richard
Armitage) and his twelve dwarf
compatriots, sage wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen), Elven king
Thranduil (Lee Pace) and his
son Legolas (Orlando Bloom),
Woodland Elf Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly), royal Elf Galadriel
(Cate Blanchett), human Bard
the Bowman (Luke Evans). A
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Movies
Openings
and one preserving Derek Jacobi’s performance in “Breaking
the Code”). That Turing’s heroic
achievements, including being
credited as a “founder of computer science,” haven’t been heralded more often in drama owes
to his work going unrecognized
for decades due to the Official
Secrets Act.
Where Tyldum’s film tiptoes is
in depicting Turing’s homosexuality in an adult context: boy Turing experiences love, while adult
Turing’s gay impulses remain off
screen. Perhaps the intention here
was to underline that Turing’s
sexual orientation should have
been beside the point, or to give
the police investigation into his
private life the air of innuendo.
Alternatively, such primness may
be due to some squeamishness
on the part of the filmmakers or
notoriously hands-on distributor,
The Weinstein Company. At any
rate, “The Imitation Game” capably dramatizes an important story
while giving rising star Cumberbatch suitably juicy dramatic material.
Rated PG-13 for some sexual
references, mature thematic material and historical smoking.
One hour, 54 minutes.
— Peter Canavese
MOVIE TIMES
All showtimes are for Friday – Sunday only unless otherwise noted.
For other times, reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies.
Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest.
Annie (PG) Century 16: 10 a.m., 12:55, 4, 7:15 & 10:05 p.m.
Century 20: 10:35 a.m., 12:05, 1:30, 3:05, 4:25, 6, 7:20, 8:55 & 10:15 p.m.
Big Hero 6 (PG) Century 16: 9:05 & 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:45 & 10:25 p.m.
Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 1:35, 4:15, 6:55 & 9:30 p.m.
Birdman (R) +++
Palo Alto Square: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 10:05 p.m.
Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker (Not Rated)
Century 16: Sun 12:55 p.m. Century 20: Sun 12:55 p.m.
Citizenfour (R) +++1/2
Aquarius Theatre: 1:45, 4:30, 7:20 & 9:55 p.m.
Exodus: Gods and Kings (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9 a.m., 7:15 & 10:40
p.m., Fri & Sat 12:25 & 3:50 p.m. In 3-D at 6:10 & 9:35 p.m. Century 20: 9:50
a.m., 1:20, 4:55 & 9:35 p.m., Fri & Sat 8:05 p.m., Sun 8:15 p.m. In 3-D at 11:05
a.m., 2:30, 3:45, 6:10 & 10:35 p.m.
Foxcatcher (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 12:45, 3:45, 7:05 & 9:50 p.m.
Century 20: 10:15 a.m., 1:15, 4:20, 7:25 & 10:30 p.m.
Gone Girl (R) ++1/2
Century 20: 7:05 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:30 p.m.
Heaven Can Wait (1943) (Not Rated)
Stanford Theatre: 5:25 & 9:20 p.m.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9:50
a.m., 1:10, 2:50, 4:30, 7:50 & 9:35 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:10 p.m. In 3-D at 9, 10:40 &
11:35 a.m., 12:20, 2, 3:40, 5:20, 6:15, 7, 8:40 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:10
a.m., 1:45, 4:20 & 7:40 p.m. In 3-D at 9:35 & 10:20 a.m., 12:50, 2:40, 5:15, 6:10,
8:45 & 9:40 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:05 p.m. In X-D at noon, 3:30, 7 & 10:30 p.m.
Horrible Bosses 2 (R)
Century 20: 2:30, 5:10, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m., Sat & Sun 11:50 a.m.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9:10 &
10:35 a.m., 1:35, 4:35, 7:35 & 10:35 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:10, 3:10, 6:10 & 9:10 p.m.,
Sun 6:30 & 9:25 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:55, 4:50, 7:45 & 10:40 p.m.
The Imitation Game (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 9:55 & 11:25 a.m., 12:45,
2:15, 3:45, 5, 6:30, 7:55, 9:15 & 10:40 p.m.
Interstellar (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 11 a.m., 2:55, 7 & 10:40 p.m.
Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 2:50, 6:30 & 10:05 p.m.
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) (Not Rated)
Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m.
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (PG) Century 16: 9:20, 10:35 &
11:50 a.m., 1:05, 2:30, 3:35, 5:10, 7:40 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 9:55 & 11:30
a.m., 12:30, 2, 3, 4:30, 5;30, 7:10, 8:10, 9:45 & 10:45 p.m.
P.K. (Not Rated)
Century 16: 11:30 a.m., 3:15, 7 & 10:35 p.m.
The Penguins of Madagascar (PG) ++ Century 16: 9:15 & 11:40 a.m., 2:20,
4:45, 7:20 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 1:40, 4:10, 6:40 & 9:10 p.m.
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) (Not Rated)
Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 3:35 p.m.
The Theory of Everything (PG-13) ++ Century 20: 4:45, 7:45 & 10:35 p.m.,
Fri & Sat 11 a.m. & 1:55 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m.
Top Five (R) ++1/2
Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5:05, 7:50 & 10:45 p.m.
Wild (R) +++ Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1, 4:45, 7:30 & 10:20 p.m.
Guild Theatre: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 & 9:40 p.m.
+ Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding
Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260)
Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View
(800-326-3264)
Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City
(800-326-3264)
CinéArts at Palo Alto Square:
3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128)
Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260)
Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)
Internet address: For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more
information about films playing, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies
ON THE WEB: Up-to-date movie listings at PaloAltoOnline.com
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Clockwise from top: Kids can craft their
own Christmas mugs by drawing or writing on dollar-store mugs with an oil-based
Sharpie paint pen.
Peppermint “puppy” chow is an easy Christmas snack to make with kids. Combine rice
Chex cereal with melted white chocolate,
crushed candy canes and powdered sugar.
Kids can create ornaments by filling clear
ball-shaped ornaments with sprinkles.
Kids
in the
kitchen
T
he holiday season is a time to
build memories and reconnect
with your family, and often during
this wonderful but busy time of the year,
parents may forget the wonder and magic
of the season that kids feel. So, here’s a list
of five kid-friendly activities to do in the
kitchen to create lasting holiday memories
and to make the season brighter for both
you and your little ones.
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children in the holiday
merrymaking with
these activities
By My Nguyen
photographs by Veronica Weber
Deck the kitchen
The kitchen is the heart of the home that
brings together loved ones, so enlist your little
ones to create festive and whimsical decor
to add holiday cheer to your home’s mostused room. Have your kids cut up white paper snowflakes and tape them to the kitchen
window to create a winter wonderland. If you
have a white refrigerator, turn it into a snowman by cutting out circles of different sizes
from black construction paper — you’ll want
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Kids can cut out white paper snowflakes and tape them to the
kitchen window to bring holiday cheer to the home’s most-used
room.
Kids in the kitchen
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two eyes, five for the mouth and
four buttons. Cut out an orange
triangle for the nose and two
thick red stripes (one should be
the width of your fridge and the
other half the length) for the scarf.
Affix them all with tape. Need a
place to display those Christmas
cards? Tape a piece of red ribbon
down the front of your cabinet
doors and let your kids attach the
greeting cards with clothespins.
Peppermint “puppy”
chow
Now that the kitchen is all
decked out, get the kids together
to make a Christmas snack. Looking for a kid-friendly recipe? Try
making a batch of crunchy peppermint “puppy” chow (for the
kids, not the canines). The magical mixture of rice Chex cereal,
white chocolate, crushed candy
canes and powered sugar will
surely become a favorite holiday
treat. First, pour five cups of rice
Chex cereal into a large bowl.
Then, crush 15 candy canes in a
blender. Melt 10 ounces of white
chocolate according to the package directions. Pour the melted
white chocolate and crushed
candy canes over the cereal and
fold the mixture until the cereal is
completely coated. In a large Zip-
loc bag, pour in one cup of powered sugar and the coated cereal.
Seal the plastic bag and shake.
Pour into a bowl and enjoy!
Christmas mugs
Take a break from snacking
to craft homemade Christmas
mugs. These easy-to-make mugs
are perfect for sipping hot chocolate out of or giving away as gifts.
First, buy white mugs from the
dollar store and wash and dry
them. Using an oil-based Sharpie
paint pen (available at officesupply stores), draw a holiday
design or Christmas saying on
the mug. Don’t worry about your
kids messing up because the paint
rubs off with a little water. Place
the mugs on a baking sheet and
bake them at 350 degrees for 20
minutes. Let the mugs cool completely in the oven before taking
them out. These mugs are not
dishwasher safe and should be
hand washed only.
Sprinkle ornaments
Kids can brighten up the Yule
tree by creating homemade ornaments. Purchase clear ball ornaments and fill them with fake
snow, pine needles, glitter or
— sure to be a kid’s favorite —
sprinkles. Start by taking off the
topper of the clear ball ornament
(available at any craft store) and
pouring a teaspoon of varnish
(any kind will work, it just needs
to be clear) into the ornament.
Slowly swirl the varnish around
so that it coats the entire inside
surface area. Next, put the ornament upside down and let it drain
into a paper cup for 30 minutes.
Once the varnish is fairly dry, use
a funnel to pour the sprinkles (use
colorful ones or red and green
ones) into the ornament. Gently
swirl the sprinkles around the
inside. If there are extra sprinkles, shake the excess out of the
opening of the ornament. Finally,
place the topper back on and hang
the ornament on your tree. Bonus
idea: Squirt a teaspoon of acrylic
paint into the clear ball ornament,
and slowly swirl it around until
the inside surface area is coated.
Then, put the ornament upside
down in a paper cup overnight
so all the excess paint drains out.
Finally, add the topper and you’ll
have a painted ornament in any
color you choose.
Candy cane steamer
Looking for the perfect holiday
drink to serve to kids and adults?
Skip the hot chocolate and try a
candy cane steamer. This sweet,
warm peppermint drink can be
enjoyed with your favorite holiday cookies. First, heat one cup of
milk in the microwave for 60 seconds and stir. Next, add two tablespoons of candy cane syrup and
stir. Finally, top with whipped
cream and garnish with crushed
candy canes.
Palo Alto Weekly Digital
Editor My Nguyen can be
reached at mnguyen@paweekly.
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Chinese Favorites at Home” (Reiji
Ohmine, Dec. 20, 6:30 p.m.,
$79); “Decadent Holiday Chocolates” (Angela Gonzales, Dec.
21, 9 a.m., $69); “Holiday Cookie
Exchange” (Elizabeth Prado,
Dec. 21, noon, $59); “Family Fun:
Holiday Treats” (Angela Gonzales, Dec. 21, 4 p.m., $39); “Better
with Bourbon” (Dec. 24, 3 p.m.,
$69); “Bread Baking 101” (Angela
Gonzales, Dec. 26, 11 a.m., $69);
and “Passport to Italy” (Scott
Tomelleso, Dec. 26, 6:30 p.m.,
$69). Info: 650-289-0438 or
[email protected]
WEED WARRIORS ... Volunteers
are needed to restore habitat at
the Pearson-Arastradero Preserve Wednesday, Dec. 31, from
1 p.m. until sunset. Meet at the
Gateway Facility, down the trail
from the Pearson-Arastradero
Preserve parking lot at 1530
Arastradero Road, Palo Alto,
just north of Page Mill Road.
Info: [email protected] or
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KUDOS TO ARCHITECTS ... The
American Institute of Architects,
Santa Clara Valley Chapter,
presented three awards recently
to local architects. The Birge
Clark Award, which “recognizes
outstanding achievement in architectural design as expressed
in a body of work produced by
an individual architect over a
period of at least 10 years,” went
to Palo Alto architect Joseph
Bellomo. The Firm Award, which
“recognizes a firm that has consistently produced distinguished
architectural design for a period
of at least 20 years,” went to
Cody Anderson Wasney Architects, Palo Alto. The 25-Year
Award, which “recognizes a distinguished project of enduring architectural significance that has
retained its central form, character, and design integrity over
time,” went to Hawley Peterson
Snyder Architects, Mountain
View, for the 1980 Apple (Mariani) Building. Q
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story by Jennah Feeley
photos by Veronica Weber
G
lass walls, open
floor plans and
geometric design
characterize the
iconic subdivision
that emerged in South Palo Alto
in the early 1950s. A strong proponent of fair and affordable
housing, Joseph Eichler had
more than modern aesthetics in
mind when creating the Greenmeadow neighborhood, and his
community values resonate with
residents to this day.
The Greenmeadow Community
Association, made up entirely of
volunteers, continues to maintain
strong bonds between nearly 300
homes in the neighborhood. Residents are proud to be part of a community that cherishes diversity, togetherness and, of course, Eichler
housing.
Robert Shaw remembers being
enamored with the openness of
the single-story, flat-roofed homes
when he moved to the neighborhood in 1975. The community’s
vibe differed vastly from the upstate New York neighborhood he
had left behind.
“The people were serving wine
and cookies as we looked at their
house, and we were flabbergasted
by that,” Shaw said. “They later
told us that they really wanted to
sell to someone that would value
the house the way they had and
were convinced that we would.”
Beyond the architectural appeal
of the Eichlers, strong community
Clockwise, from top left: Sigrid Pinsky walks her dog Willie at the park adjacent
to Greenmeadow pool; a home on Scripps Avenue decorated with a wreath; a
home on Ben Lomond Drive; a mosaic featuring tiles decorated by neighborhood
children in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Greenmeadow Community
Association; and a home on Scripps Avenue.
ties set Greenmeadow apart from
the rest of the city, residents said.
Greenmeadow’s first-generation
families shared everything from
linoleum buffers to coffee pots,
according to longtime resident Sigrid Pinsky, and that spirit is maintained between neighbors today.
“I think one of our strengths is
our sense of history,” Pinsky, who
moved there in 1991, said. “We
have a real sense of where we’ve
come from and what’s important
and what we want to be in the future.”
Every year the community hosts
numerous events to remember
the past and celebrate the present. Residents brag most about the
Greenmeadow Fourth of July bash
— comprised of athletic events, a
marching band, a drill team and
a picnic lunch. The mayor typically joins the fun, and everyone
comes together to sing “America
the Beautiful,” which Pinsky said
moves her to tears, without fail.
“The piccolo gets me every
time,” Pinsky said.
A house and garden tour, an egg
hunt, sporadic food-truck visits, karaoke parties and potlucks fill the
neighborhood’s social calendar.
The adults tend to go out together,
and movie nights at the park often
turn into date nights for the parents, noted Penny Ellson, a resident
since 1995.
Many more functions, especially
those for kids, are centered around
FACTS
CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS (nearby): Crescent Park Child Development Center (Peekaboo), 4161 Alma St.; Montessori School of Los Altos,
303 Parkside Drive; Palo Alto Infant Toddler Center, 4111 Alma St.
FIRE STATION: No. 4, 3600 Middlefield Road
LIBRARY: Mitchell Park branch, 3700 Middlefield Road
LOCATION: between Creekside Drive and Ferne Avenue, Nelson Drive
and Ben Lomond Drive
NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Greenmeadow Community
Association, 650-494-3157, greenmeadow.org; Jeff Schultz, president,
[email protected]
PARKS: Greenmeadow Park (private); Mitchell Park (nearby),
600 E. Meadow Drive
POST OFFICE: Cambridge, 265 Cambridge Ave.
PRIVATE SCHOOLS (nearby): Palo Alto Prep School, 2462 Wyandotte
St.; Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, 450 San Antonio Road
PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Fairmeadow Elementary School, JLS Middle School,
Gunn High School
SHOPPING: San Antonio Shopping Center, The Village at San Antonio
the Greenmeadow Pool. Many of
the neighborhood kids join the
swim team, fostering relationships
between each other and their families.
As Palo Alto has grown in population, the Greenmeadow neighborhood has experienced an influx
of new residents, many from other
countries. Despite cultural divides,
the community is committed to
preserving the sense of camaraderie that has defined the neighborhood from the beginning.
The neighborhood association
plans to search out individuals
within Greenmeadow’s sub-communities to “make the melting pot
a little more mixed,” according to
GMCA Membership Committee
Liaison Karen Pauls. New residents are encouraged to join various committees within the association to ensure everyone is included
and involved.
“It’s a community that encourages civic and community connection, and it teaches people how
to be leaders and how to help each
other,” Ellson said. “And I love
that.” Q
Editorial Intern Jennah Feeley can be emailed at jfeeley@
paweekly.com.
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HOME SALES
Atherton
East Palo Alto
Menlo Park
704 Arnold Way Dlb Trust to A.
Movsesyan for $1,400,000 on
10/31/14; previous sale 1/07,
$930,000
Los Altos Hills
sale 8/12, $435,000
1523 Lilac Lane Ranieri Trust
to T. Cooper for $905,000 on
11/21/14
131 Margo Drive #12 M. Adhiwiyogo to B. Pang for $790,000
on 11/21/14; previous sale 7/07,
$571,500
255 S. Rengstorff Ave. #129
O. Kim to H. Luan for $570,000
$310,000
859 Tulane Court N. Zarubina
to C. Smith for $1,280,000 on
$882,000
246 View St. A R Trust to Kathleen Reynolds Family Limited for
$1,464,000 on 11/21/14; previous
sale 5/10, $975,000
Palo Alto
101 Alma St. #1201 Cambou
Trust to Baha Real Estate Investment for $2,100,000 on 11/21/14;
previous sale 4/13, $1,508,000
2270 Cornell St. Simpson &
Litz-Simpson Trust to Von Trust
for $3,300,000 on 11/21/14; previous sale 9/13, $1,400,000
3556 Middlefield Road S. Doshi
to P. Race for $2,030,000 on
$1,287,000
765 San Antonio Road #44
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our Kids
Palo Alto
Total sales reported: 4
Lowest sales price: $830,000
Highest sales price: $3,300,000
Woodside
Lowest sales price: $1,085,000
Robinson Trust to H. Lu for
$830,000 on 11/21/14; previous
sale 5/96, $185,000
Portola Valley
60 Palmer Lane S. & S. Boyden
to M. Imrie for $2,750,000 on
10/30/14
Redwood City
10 Arch St. M. & S. Terzic
to P. Chiang for $793,000 on
$678,000
630 Bair Island Road #104 B. &
P. Gupta to Springmeyer Trust for
$790,000 on 11/3/14; previous
sale 3/12, $560,000
462 Beresford Ave. Goold Trust
to Y. Liang for $1,375,000 on
11/4/14
11 Colton Court Caridis Trust to
R. & L. Cevasco for $2,895,000
$3,030,000
1027 Eden Bower Lane Springmeyer Trust to M. & M. Livingston
for $1,678,000 on 10/29/14; previous sale 5/95, $495,000
929 Emerald Hill Road Bullwinkle Trust to A. Yotam for
$1,308,000 on 10/31/14
1181 Fernside St. Diversified
Capital Partners to P. Guerra for
$1,219,000 on 10/29/14; previous sale 8/97, $355,000
932 Governors Bay Drive
N. Balthaser to C. Tse for
$1,900,000 on 10/30/14; previous sale 6/12, $1,600,000
1301 Harrison Ave. Mckernan
Trust to W. Haller for $1,260,000
$875,000
2749 Kensington Road Telucci
Trust to S. Hernandez for
$885,000 on 10/30/14; previous
sale 9/96, $270,000
1653 Lark Ave. Matkovich Trust
to J. Dong for $1,110,000 on
$166,000
2626 Marlborough Ave. Lofgren
Trust to St. Francis Center of
Redwood City for $750,000 on
10/30/14
3418 Rolison Road P. & V.
Chand to Giomi Trust for
$1,200,000 on 10/31/14; previous sale 9/06, $995,000
547 Sapphire St. S. Ort to Herda
Trust for $1,375,000 on 11/4/14;
previous sale 1/12, $910,000
940 Taft St. B. & G. Affrunti to
C. Bloomquist for $999,000 on
$707,500
1142 Virginia Ave. Pembroke
Trust to B. Pembroke for
$1,192,000 on 11/4/14; previous
sale 7/00, $740,000
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Mountain View
181 Ada Ave. #26 M. Nadler
to M. Palmon for $910,000 on
11/21/14
3450 Bruckner Circle C. & L.
Rochford to Rangarajan Trust for
$2,200,000 on 11/21/14; previous sale 9/08, $1,575,000
505 Cypress Point Drive #280
Thompson Trust to Beckman
Trust for $465,000 on 11/21/14;
previous sale 8/10, $280,000
2111 Latham St. #303 L. & M.
Stewart to Ackerman Trust for
$742,000 on 11/21/14; previous
Portola Valley
Mountain View
East Palo Alto
25333 La Loma Drive Kersten
Trust to C. & K. Welborn for
$3,095,000 on 11/21/14; previous sale 7/07, $4,157,500
27724 Via Cerro Gordo Rosso
Trust to Sambucetto Management for $2,050,000 on 11/25/14;
previous sale 7/98, $1,400,000
Highest sales price: $587,500
67 Redwood Way Sterling Mutual Properties to J. Katz for
$2,175,000 on 11/4/14; previous
sale 4/03, $1,370,000
182 Toyon Road Treat Trust to Z.
Zhou for $3,700,000 on 11/4/14
Los Altos Hills
Menlo Park
Atherton
327 Azalia Drive Posty Cards
to J. Podolsky for $587,500 on
$375,000
2326 Ralmar Ave. B. & W. Heffner to P. & J. Ryan for $470,000
on 10/28/14
360 Everett Ave., Unit 4C install
washer, ventless dryer in closet,
$1,000
722 Gailen Ave. install roofmounted PV system, $n/a
467 Lincoln Ave. replace existing garage slab, $5,000; new
back patio design with outdoor
fireplace barbecue and hardscape, $n/a
250 Lowell Ave. demo pool associated equipment, $n/a
3347 Saint Michael Court install
roof-mounted PV system, $n/a
323 University Ave. Historic
Category 2: add interior sliding
doors at mezzanine level, $n/a
1155 Forest Ave. revise rear
patio layout, drainage, raised
carport pad with ramped driveway, remove skylight in master
bedroom, add two crawl spaces,
firepit, barbecue, $n/a
870 Moana Court vault ceiling at
living and dining room, $n/a
4115 Park Blvd. remodel bathroom, $13,000
4108 Thain Way remodel bathroom, install electric-heated tile,
$8,500
2443 Ash St. re-roof, $56,445
2360 Tasso St. re-roof garage,
$3,424
2733 Cowper St. install air conditioner at side yard, $n/a
2299 Bryant St. remodel kitchen, new washer/dryer enclosure,
$10,000
530 Lytton Ave. tenant improvement: multimedia development
suite 300, $140,000
200 Lowell Ave. new pool, spa
and associated equipment,
$40,500
4284 Manuela Ave. replace two
patio doors, $17,871
228 Waverley St. re-roof,
$8,800
212 Santa Rita Ave. install roofmounted PV system, $n/a
762 Charleston Road remodel
two bathrooms, $12,000
433 Melville Ave. install natural
gas generator, $n/a
228 Ramona St. install roofmounted PV system, $n/a; reroof, $7,000
SALES AT A GLANCE
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is recorded from deeds after the
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within four to eight weeks.
564 Warrington Ave. N. Blanco
to Mangalick Trust for $630,000
on 10/29/14
13 Woodhill Drive MccomasIllescas Trust to A. Nikkar for
$2,325,000 on 11/4/14; previous
sale 12/92, $725,000
Woodside
303 Hillside Drive E. Mostrel to
M. & R. Wilson for $1,085,000
$490,000
BUILDING PERMITS
Palo Alto
2445 Faber Place replace rooftop HVAC, $n/a
315 Lowell Ave. demo swimming pool and associated equipment, 4n/a
3410 Kenneth Drive enlarge
solar system, $n/a
3584 Lupine Ave. remodel
kitchen, $18,192
1804 Embarcadero Road replace rooftop HVAC, $n/a
4005 Miranda Ave. tenant improvement for Robert Bosch,
includes lab remodel, accessible
bathroom compliance, $27,120
1810 Hamilton Ave. install roofmounted PV system, $n/a
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305 Cowper St.
Palo Alto, CA 9301
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to transact business under the fictitious
business name(s) listed above.
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LIVING CULTURES SUPERFOODS
LIVING CULTURES PROBIOTICS
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 599035
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
1.) Living Cultures Superfoods, 2.) Living
Cultures Probiotics, 3.) Living Cultures
Elixir, 4.) Living Cultures Cafe, located at
3101 Magliocco Dr., Apt. #308, San Jose,
CA 95128, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: A Limited
Liability Company.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
HEISSEL LIFESCIENCES LLC,
3101 Magliocco Dr., Apt. #308
San Jose, CA 95128
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PALO ALTO LIMOUSINE
File No.: 598591
doing business as:
Palo Alto Limousine, located at 305
Cowper St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: Married
Couple.
owner(s) is(are):
DWIGHT MATHIASEN
305 Cowper St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
KATHRYN SHUGART
305 Cowper St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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PACIFIC WORKPLACES
File No.: 598751
doing business as:
Pacific Workplaces, located at 2225 E.
Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303,
Santa Clara County.
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2225 E. Bayshore Road, Suite 200
Palo Alto, CA 94303
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File No.: 598664
doing business as: Palo Alto Rides,
located at 305 Cowper St., Palo Alto, CA
94301, Santa Clara County.
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305 Cowper St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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doing business as:
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REBECCA NIE
233 Homer Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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doing business as:
Acme Fine Arts, located at 1938
Channing Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94303,
Santa Clara County.
Individual.
ALAN SONNEMAN
1938 Channing Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94303
(PAW Dec. 12, 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 2015)
PHO #1
File No.: 598843
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doing business as:
Pho #1, located at 568B East El Camino
Real, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara
County.
This business is owned by: A General
Partnership.
DUNG TRAN VIET LE
487 Broderick Drive
San Jose, CA 95111
PHONG THANH NGUYEN
1869 Yosemite Drive
Milpitas, CA 95035
(PAW Dec. 12, 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 2015)
EASY STREET CONSULTING
File No.: 599124
doing business as:
Easy Street Consulting, located at 19736
Oakmont Dr., Los Gatos, CA 95033,
Santa Clara County.
Individual.
TONY MARTELLO
19736 Oakmont Dr.
Los Gatos, CA 95033
(PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 9, 2015)
SARATOGA HARDWARE LLC
File No.: 599313
doing business as:
Saratoga Hardware LLC, located at
12850 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road,
Saratoga, CA 95070, Santa Clara County.
Liability Company.
SARATOGA HARDWARE LLC
12850 Saratoga-Sunnyvale
Saratoga, CA 95070
(PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 9, 2015)
ENABLE YOUR VISION
File No.: 599312
doing business as:
Enable Your Vision, located at 3597
South Court, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa
Clara County.
Individual.
DENISE COLEY
3597 South Court
Palo Alto, CA 94306
(PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 9, 2015)
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE
OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
File No. 598743
The following person(s)/ entity (ies) has/
have abandoned the use of the fictitious
business name(s).
The information given below is as it
appeared on the fictitious business
statement that was filed at the County
Clerk-Recorder’s Office.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S):
SMITH WINES
288 Ferne Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94306
FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON:
11/17/2014
UNDER FILE NO.: 577902
REGISTRANT’S NAME(S)/ENTITY(IES):
PETER MARTIN SMITH
288 Ferne Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94306
DANIELLE RAE SMITH
288 Ferne Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94306
THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY:
Married couple.
County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara
(PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 9, 2015)
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8 Curse word that’s “dropped,” for
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25 James Joyce novel with its own
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31 Hard-to-find book character
33 Performing ___
34 Social-climbing type
35 Ex-”Saturday Night Live” player
Gasteyer
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39 “All ___ day’s work”
40 “So what if ___?”
42 “I ___ little silhouetto of a man...”
43 Vox piece
45 It’s gripping
48 Assist
49 Hatcher who played Lois Lane
50 Epitome of deadness
55 Comprehend
59 “I Can’t Make You Love Me” singer
Bonnie
60 Way to stop a bike
62 “Sesame Street” star
63 Title for a monk
64 Spitting nails
65 “No questions ___”
66 Despite everything
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sequel titles
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example
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paper
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passes
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201 Autos/Trucks/
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202 Vehicles Wanted
new Holiday music
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Stanford music tutoring
Tacky Christmas Sweaters! USED BOOKSHOP AT MITCHELL PARK
Donate Your Car, Truck, Boat
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340 Child Care
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German Language Classes
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133 Music Lessons
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Online Writing Tutor
Mind
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Treatments for Alzheimers
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135 Group Activities
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Screen Door - $60
425 Health Services
245 Miscellaneous
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150 Volunteers
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Hope Street Music Studios
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403 Acupuncture
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Brand New Preschool Open House
235 Wanted to Buy
240 Furnishings/
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500 Help Wanted
330 Child Care
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215 Collectibles &
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Winter Dance Classes Kid’s
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560 Employment
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435 Integrative
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751 General
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MARYANNE A. WONG aka MARY WONG
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You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this
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on you to file a written response at this
court and have a copy served on the
plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not
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759 Hauling
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809 Shared Housing/
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767 Movers
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papeles legales para presentar una
respuesta por escrito en esta corte y
hacer que se entregue una copia al
demandante. Una carta o una llamada
telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta
por escrito tiene que estar en formato
legal correcto si desea que procesen su
caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un
formulario que usted pueda usar para
su respuesta.
Puede encontrar estos formularios de la
corte y mas informacion en el Centro de
Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.
sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de
leyes de su condado o en la corte que le
quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la
cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario
de la corte que le de un formulario
de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no
presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede
perder el caso por incumplimiento y la
corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y
bienes sin mas advertencia.
Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado
inmediatamene. Si no conoce a un
abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de
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de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o
poniendose en contacto con la corte o
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AVISO! Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a
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Menlo School’s Lacy
wraps up prep career
with 10th at nationals
by Keith Peters
I
Chasson Randle, who scored a
season-high 31 points in the win
over the Lions, said it’s a matter
t was only a short few years
ago that Lizzie Lacy was all
about soccer and lacrosse.
Running cross country was not
quite on the radar.
In fact, Lacy started running
only to join her classmates for
their freshman year at Menlo
School. For Lacy, running was
just a backup plan.
That is no
longer the
case. Soccer
and lacrosse
are now the
secondar y
sports as
Lacy has run
herself into
the school,
league and
section re- Lizzie Lacy
cord books
while emerging as one of the most
accomplished in her sport on the
Peninsula in many years.
Last weekend, the Menlo
School senior didn’t run to victory at the 36th annual Foot Locker
Cross Country Championships
National Finals, but she did come
away with at least a moral triumph
at Balboa Park in San Diego on
Saturday.
After finishing behind Caroline
Pietrzyk of Malibu High at the
CIF Division IV State Championships and at the Foot Locker West
Regional, Lacy finally defeated
her rival at nationals by clocking
18:01 over the 5,000-meter (3.1
mile) course. Pietrzyk, meanwhile, finished 14th in 18:08.
“It was just an amazing experience,” said Lacy, who will run at
Amherst College next fall.
Lacy was the No. 1 finisher
from California while Pietrzyk
was No. 2. The two were third
and second, respectively, at the
West Regional at Mt. SAC last
weekend in Walnut as Makena
Morley of Montana won the race.
Morley finished third on Saturday
in 17:29. Anna Rohrer of Indiana
was the winner in 17:13.
“It’s like what she’s been doing
all season, exceeding all expectations,” Menlo coach Jorge Chen
said. “I knew that she was going
to do well but I didn’t know she
was going to do this well! Race
after race, Lizzie has always been
exceeding our expectations —
and her own I’m sure.”
Lacy was seeded 21st entering
the race, and seemed to have little
trouble picking off runners ahead
of her.
“Before the race, I told her this
Despite drawing the attention of every Loyola Marymount team member, Stanford’s Chasson Randle
nonetheless scored a season-high 31 points to carry the Cardinal to a 67-58 nonconference win Wednesday.
It all starts with defense
Stanford men hit road
for important games
at BYU and Texas
By Rick Eymer
tanford is headed back into
enemy territory and this
time the trip could help
make or break the season.
The Cardinal men’s basketball
team makes its first stop in Provo,
Utah, on Saturday, where a solid
BYU team waits. And then it’s
on to Texas for a meeting with
the ninth-ranked Longhorns on
Tuesday.
Last season, Stanford made its
mark with a win on the road in
Connecticut following a brutal
loss to the Cougars, in which the
Cardinal allowed 112 points.
“That was the turning point of
the season,” Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins said after the Cardinal (6-2) beat visiting Loyola
Marymount, 67-58, on Wednesday. “You give up that many
points and you look at it from the
standpoint that we realized what
we had to do to be successful. We
have to be a good defensive team,
there’s no way around that.”
Stanford went on to beat the
Huskies, 53-51, as a steppingstone to qualifying for the NCAA
tournament for the first time in
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Women’s volleyball: Stanford-Penn
St. winner vs. BYU-Texas winner in
NCAA finals, 4:30 p.m.; ESPN2
Men’s basketball: Stanford at BYU,
8 p.m.; ESPNU; KNBR (1050 AM)
Running
is her
calling
IN THE SWIM . . . Palo Alto Stanford
Aquatics came away from the 2014
Speedo Winter Junior Nationals with
a second-place finish in the combined standings, a runner-up finish in
the boys’ meet and a third place by
the girls. The Bolles School Sharks
won the combined title (boys and
girls) with 591 points while PASA was
next with 530. In the boys’ meet,
Bolles had 426 points to PASA’s 307
while the PASA girls finished with
223 points following the four-day
meet in Federal Way, Wash. While
neither PASA team had an individual
champion in the short-course yards
meet, the boys won the 200 medley
and 400 medley relays. Each squad
consisted of Ben Ho, Joe Kmak, Joe
Molinari and Albert Gwo. The 200
MR clocked 1:29.38 while the 400
MR set a meet record of 3:14.80. The
400 free relay team of Ho, Molinari,
Jeremy Babinet and Gwo finished
second in a sizzling 2:59.55, a time
most college teams wouldn’t mind
swimming. The 200 free relay squad
of Gwo, Molinari, Corey Gutierrez
and Ho clocked 1:21.95 for third
and the 800 free foursome finished
fourth in 6:37.20 with the team of
Alex Liang of Paly, Ho, Lucca Martins and Molinari. Individually, Babinet was second in the 100 breast
(53.70), Gwo was third in the 50 free
(20.11), and Kmak was third in the
200 breast (1:58.58). Other finalists
included Molinari in the 400 IM (6th
in 3:52.34) and Martins in the 200
fly (7th in 1:47.39). In the girls’ meet,
Palo Alto’s Grace Zhao was seventh
in the 200 breast in 2:13.22, seventh
in the 50 free in 22.75 and ninth in
the 100 breast in 1:01.81 for PASA.
Castilleja’s Heidi Katter had the best
individual finish for PASA while finishing fourth in the 100 fly in 53.60.
Teammate Chloe Isleta was fifth in
the 200 IM in 2:00.25. Gunn’s Jenna
Campbell was ninth in the 100 free
in 1:47.56 while winning the B final. In
the relays, PASA was second in the
200 free with Zhao, Isleta, Campbell
and Isabelle Henig clocking 1:31.98.
The 200 medley relay team of Isleta,
Zhao, Katter and Campbell also
finished second, in 1:40.34. Campbell, Isleta, Henig and Alex Grimes
finished third in the 800 free relay
(7:17.95) and the 400 free relay team
went 3:23:14 for sixth.
CROSS COUNTRY
Stanford’s 6-foot-10 Stefan Nastic (4) scored 15 points and was solid
on defense as the Cardinal improved to 6-2.
six years.
“You have to be able to stop
people at this level,” Dawkins
said. “If you don’t it just becomes
a free-for-all.”
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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Ajanaku
a Honda
finalist
Stanford’s shooting
needs to improve
Shirley Pefley/stanfordphoto.com
Stanford junior is among
four nominees for
prestigious national honor
S
tanford middle blocker
Inky Ajanaku is among
the four nominees for the
Honda Sports Award for volleyball, joining Wisconsin’s Lauren
Carlini, Micha Hancock of Penn
State and Washington’s Krista
Vansant.
Ajanaku is a junior from Tulsa,
Okla., and a two-time American
Volleyball Coaches Association
first team All-America selection.
She helped the Cardinal earn the
top-seed in the NCAA Tournament and competed in the NCAA
Championship semifinals on
Thursday night. (For results, go
to www.pasportsonline.com)
She ranks fifth in the nation in
hitting percentage (.438) and finished the regular season ranked in
the top 10 in the Pac-12 in four
different statistical categories.
This season she was twice named
the Pac-12 Defensive Player of
the Week and earned both an Offensive Player of the Week and
AVCA National Player of the
Week nod.
The Honda Sports Award is
Men’s hoop
presented annually by the CWSA
to the top women athletes in 12
NCAA- sanctioned sports and
signifies “the best of the best in
collegiate athletics”. The winner
of the sport award becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman
Athlete of the Year and the prestigious 2015 Honda Cup.
The nominees were chosen by
a panel of coaches representing
the American Volleyball Coaches
Association (AVCA). All Honda
Sports award winners become a
finalist for the prestigious 2015
Honda Cup award presented in
June.
The Honda Sports award winner for volleyball will be announced next week after voting by administrators from over
1,000 NCAA member schools.
“The good thing about two-shot
fouls is that if you miss one, you
get another chance,” Randle said.
“I’m only human.”
Stanford coach Johnny
Dawkins, a point guard in the
same vein as Randle while playing at Duke, can appreciate Randle’s achievement.
“He had a nice streak going,”
Dawkins said. “I’m proud of the
way he bounced back. I never had
a run like that from the line.”
Randle’s streak was the school’s
third-longest, and the longest
since Ryan Mendez’s school record 49 in 2001.
Randle, coming off a seasonlow nine-point effort against Denver on Sunday, was 9 of 19 from
the field and 10 of 12 from the
foul line against LMU.
“He is adjusting to new teammates,” Dawkins said. “The guys
he plays with are good, just inexperienced. He needs to lead a little
more than in the past and he wants
those things on his shoulder.
Stefan Nastic scored 15 points
on 7-of-10 shooting for the Cardinal, despite getting into immediate foul trouble against LMU.
That made center Grant Verhoeven’s return to action even more
important. He scored four points
and grabbed two rebounds in his
season debut, following his recovery from a hip injury.
“Having Grant come back
and contribute was huge for us,”
Each NCAA member institution
has a vote.
Five Honda Sports Awards winners for volleyball have gone on to
win the prestigious Honda Cup —
Megan Hodge (Penn State, 2010),
Sarah Pavan (Nebraska, 2007),
Ogonna Nnamani (Stanford,
2005), Misty May (Long Beach
State, 1999) and Deitre Collins
(Hawaii, 1983).
Earlier this week, Stanford had
six players recognized when the
AVCA announced its All-America selections.
Madi Bugg, Jordan Burgess and
fellow junior Ajanaku were named
to the first team, redshirt freshman Merete Lutz earned second
team honors, and seniors Morgan
Boukather and Kyle Gilbert garnered honorable mention. Q
O
lems has to confound coach Tara
VanDerveer. Before beating Santa
Clara at home, the Cardinal was
the top 3-point shooting team in
the nation and was the only team
with two players making at least
50 percent of their long-range
shots.
Stanford has made eight of 36
three-point attempts in its past
two games (22 percent).
Stanford would love to come
home with at least a split of its
Tennessee trip. The Cardinal open
a four-game homestand on Monday with a 2 p.m. game against
UC Davis.
Lili Thompson’s nine points led
the Cardinal against the Mocs, the
first time since at least 1996 that
the Cardinal has not had a doubledigit scorer in a game.
Stanford, which held a substantial 49-34 rebounding margin, was
limited to 27.7 percent shooting
from the field, including a woeful
23.5 percent in the second half.
That’s the program’s lowest mark
since converting 19.3 percent (11of-57) in a 61-35 loss to Connecticut on Dec. 29, 2012, which is also
the last time Stanford was held to
less than 50 points.
The Cardinal did most everything well enough except shoot the
ball. It’s been a problem through
the early part of the season and
reached a low point against the
Mocs. It wasn’t limited to 3-point
shooting, though making 1 of its
last 10 didn’t help.
“I thought we had a lot of shots
that we have to make if you want
to play at this level,” VanDerveer
said. Q
STANFORD ROUNDUP
of turning up the intensity on defense.
The Cardinal had to come from
behind to beat both Denver and
LMU in the first two games back
from finals. Fatigue was a factor
against the Pioneers, though no
such built-in excuse was available
for the Lions.
“I don’t know what it is,”
Randle said. “The last couple of
games we haven’t started out well.
We need a turnaround quickly.”
Stanford seemed to snap out of
its defensive doldrums late in the
first half against LMU and carried it through to the final buzzer.
Randle hopes the same defensive intensity appears against the
Cougars.
“If we take the way we played
in the second half to Utah we’ll be
all right,” he said. “They’re a good
team, with a lot of good players.
We have to be ready. It’s a matter
of turning up the intensity on the
defensive end and then get out in
transition, where things open up.”
Against LMU, Randle missed
his first free throws of the season,
ending a streak of 39 consecutive
that dated to last year’s Sweet 16
game against Dayton. He made
his first 35 this year. He’ll head to
BYU with a streak of five straight
free throws.
Six of Stanford’s top seven players received All-American volleyball
honors from the AVCA this week.
By Rick Eymer
uch. Stanford’s latest setback hurt, although it’s not
nearly as bad as one might
think. A season that began with
a victory over then-No. 1 Connecticut, moving the Cardinal
women’s basketball team to the
top of the national rankings, has
suddenly taken a sharp detour.
No. 7 Stanford (6-3) heads
to No. 11 Tennessee for a Saturday morning (10 a.m.) test on
the heels of a 54-46 loss to host
Chattanooga on Wednesday night.
The Cardinal fell to an unranked,
nonconference opponent for the
first time in 15 years, or about the
same time Stanford failed to win
a conference title.
The Cardinal suffered its other
two losses to ranked opponents —
Texas and North Carolina. That
makes Saturday’s game interesting in, oh so many, ways.
The Lady Vols have also suffered the indignity of a loss to the
Mocs. Stanford can begin to reassess its season against Tennessee.
Will the loss to Chattanooga
just be a bump in the road or a
full-blown detour down the path
to lower expectations? How well
the Cardinal recovers against Tennessee will help set the tone for
the remainder of the season.
Stanford owns a 9-22 record
against the Lady Vols, but has
won three straight in the series
and four of the past five.
The Cardinal has not loss two
in a row since a similar December
trip four years ago that resulted in
losses to DePaul and Tennessee.
The source of Stanford’s prob-
Grant Verhoeven
Dawkins said. “When Stefan got
into foul trouble, Grant was able
to come in and hit his first shot.”
The Lions held a 31-19 lead
with 3:41 remaining in the first
half. That’s when the tide started
turning.
Stanford scored the final eight
points of the half to draw within
31-27 heading into the intermission.
In other news, Schuyler Rimmer, who appeared in two of Stanford’s first four game, is no longer
with the team. Malcolm Allen, the
twin brother of sophomore guard
Marcus Allen, will redshirt the
season. Q
Stanford’s Bowen and Bonanni
finalists for Cutino Award
S
tanford’s Alex Bowen and
Bret Bonanni have been
named two of three finalists for the prestigious Peter J.
Cutino Award.
Considered the Heisman Trophy of water polo, the Cutino
Award is given annually in honor
of the late Peter J. Cutino, the former Cal and The Olympic Club
coach, who passed away in September 2004. He is in the U.S.
Water Polo Hall of Fame, won
“Water Polo Coach of the Year”
17 times and led the Golden
Bears to eight NCAA Championships.
A group of female finalists
will be named at the close of the
women’s collegiate season in the
spring, with one male winner and
one female winner named at a ceremony in June 2015.
Diving
Stanford’s Kristian Ipsen won
the men’s 1-meter gold medal to
help open the 2014 USA Diving
Winter National Championships
on Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio.
With his victory, Ipsen earned a
berth on the 2015 World Championships team.
Football
Stanford junior tackle Andrus
Peat continued to pile up postseason honors after being named a
first team All-American by The
Sporting News on Wednesday.
It marks the sixth All-America honor for Peat, who was also
named as the Morris Trophy recipient as the Pac-12 Conference’s
top offensive lineman. The Chandler, Ariz. native, also earned first
team All-America honors from
ESPN.com and Sports Illustrated while garnering second team
accolades from the Associated
Press, CBS Sports and the Walter
Camp Foundation. Q
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PREP ROUNDUP
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
A perfect
start for
Panthers
Eastside Prep boys
have quietly improved
to 7-0 in basketball
by Keith Peters
erhaps the best-kept secret
in local boys basketball
circles this preseason is
Eastside Prep, which has quietly
compiled a 7-0 record thus far
while flying completely under
the radar.
The Panthers remained perfect
with a 76-41 victory over visiting
KIPP San Jose on Monday night.
The game was rescheduled from
last Thursday when most of the
prep events were postponed due
to the heavy storm.
Junior Dylan Berumen had a
career-high 16 points and grabbed
six rebounds for Eastside Prep
with freshman Jackson Clark adding 10 points and two steals.
The Panthers defeated San Jose
High, University Prep and College
Prep last week, the latter a big 5040 triumph at home.
“The College Prep game was
our best effort of the season,”
said Eastside head coach Chris
Bischof. “We lost to this team the
last two years.”
Senior Darius Riley had 11
points and 10 rebounds while
sophomore Aaron Cason added
14 points and six assists. Sophomore Isaiah East contributed nine
points and four steals.
In Los Altos Hills, Ryan Brice
tossed in 26 points and grabbed
five rebounds to pace the host
Pinewood boys to a 70-54 nonleague basketball win over Oakwood School on Monday night.
The Panthers (4-1) also got 12
points from Nathan Beak and 10
from Mathew Peery while David
Bodine had eight points and eight
rebounds. Pinewood was nearly
flawless from the free-throw line
as it made 14 of 16 shots and came
up with 17 steals.
Pinewood outscored Oakwood
in the final period, 16-11, to head
into the holiday break. The Panthers will be back on the floor on
Dec. 27 for the St. Francis Holiday Tournament.
The Gunn at Wilcox game,
scheduled for Monday night, was
canceled. The Titans (4-1) were
back on the floor Wednesday in
the Prospect Tournament and
got a season-high 28 points from
Alex Gil in a 78-35 romp over
Branham. Chris Russell added 14
points for Gunn, which raced to a
20-8 first-quarter lead and led by
44-14 at the half.
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Menlo School senior Lizzie Lacy capped a record-breaking season
with a 10th place at the Foot Locker nationals.
Lacy
year is probably one of the fastest fields of runners,” Chen said.
“Yet because of the nature of so
many good and fast runners, maybe some of the mid-pack runners
might go to go out too fast — the
seeded runners — Lizzie, might
be able to pick up steps in place,
and she did just that.”
Wearing borrowed spikes that
the race sponsor gave runners to
handle the weathered, flooded
terrain, Lacy nonetheless earned
second team All-American honors.
The best part of the race?
“It was very unexpected,” Lacy
said. “The start was incredibly
fast so I felt that I was further
back than I wanted to be at the
first mile . . . The first loop felt
pretty rough, but probably the
second loop was my favorite part
because I was able to catch up to
other runners and show my stuff.
When other runners began feeling fatigued and slowing down, I
was able to maintain and improve
upon my pace as the race wore
on. In that sense I thought the
race went very well for me, as I
raced to my strategy and it ended
up working out very well for me
in the end.”
Lacy and Chen went over film
and strategy in the days leading
up to the race. What wasn’t expected was the runners having
to make a quick adjustment to
running in spikes. Lacy, who has
played lacrosse the past several
spring seasons, doesn’t even typically lace up spikes for track. But
the change didn’t faze her.
“Lizzie was so proud of Menlo
there,” said Chen, who also coaches track and soccer. “She has represented the school well and made
us all so proud. I feel really lucky
to coach her and the whole entire
cross country team.”
Lacy finished ahead of Stanford
recruit Hannah Long of Eureka
High in Pacific, Mo. She finished
19th in 18:20.
Two other Stanford recruits
did quite well in the boys’ race as
Grant Fisher of Grand Blanc High
in Michigan defended his national
title with a 15:03 clocking. Alex
Ostberg of Darien High in Darien,
Conn., was ninth in 15:22.
Fisher won the 2013 Foot Locker national race in 15:07. Fisher,
who won his second consecutive
Michigan Division I cross country
championship earlier this month
in 14:52.5, was the most soughtafter distance running recruit in
the country after posting times of
4:02.02 at New York City’s Dream
Mile and 8:51.28 at the Brooks PR
Invitational two mile in Renton,
Wash., last spring. Both were victories against strong competition.
Fisher has won five state championships overall, including two at
3,200 and one at 1,600. He also
is an outstanding soccer player
and has been selected for Olympic Development Program teams.
College will offer Fisher the opportunity to concentrate on one
sport.Q
(Menlo School Athletics
contributed)
Girls basketball
With sophomore Skyler Burris
scoring 12 points, Palo Alto rolled
to a 59-30 victory over Lincoln in
Brije Byers
Scott Harris
EASTSIDE PREP
PRIORY SCHOOL
The senior guard sparked
four basketball wins by scoring 87 points, 19 coming in a
65-64 win over state-ranked
O’Dowd and 68 in three wins
and a title at the Paris Twins
Classic where she earned
all-tournament honors.
The junior guard/forward
poured in 96 points in four
basketball games, including a career-high 40 against
Oceana and 21 in a 12-point
win, to help the Panthers go
3-1 during the week and improve to 4-1 on the season.
Honorable mention
Skyler Burris
Palo Alto basketball
Destiny Graham
Eastside Prep basketball
Alexis Harris
Riley Hemm
Sacred Heart Prep basketball
Lauren Koyama
Lizzie Lacy*
Menlo cross country
David Abramovitch
Gunn wrestling
Ian Cramer
Gunn wrestling
James Giaccia
Palo Alto wrestling
Andy Isokpehi
Priory basketball
Darius Riley
Eastside Prep basketball
Alex Yu
Gunn wrestling
* previous winner
Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com
the championship game of the
Tamalpais Lady Hawk Tournament on Saturday night in raindrenched Mill Valley.
Junior Alexis Harris added 10
points and sophomore Lauren
Koyama finished with nine. Both
were named to the All-Tournament Team while Burris was
named the Most Valuable Player.
Earlier in the day, Palo Alto (61) posted a 52-29 win over Petaluma. The doubleheader was necessary after Thursday’s opening
round was postponed due to the
heavy rain storm. Paly knocked
off Urban, 55-41, on Friday.
At the Paris Twins Classic
at Piedmont High in Oakland,
Eastside Prep (7-1) finished off
a three-game sweep with a 5540 victory over Piedmont. Senior
Destiny Graham had 14 points
against Piedmont and 52 for the
tourney, in addition to dominating the boards, and was named the
Most Valuable Player.
Brije Byers tossed in 22 points
and finished with 68 points for the
three games — including 31 in an
opening-round win over Justin Siena. She earned all-tourney honors along with freshman Kayla
Tafaafe.
Wrestling
Palo Alto senior James Giaccia
won the 132-pound title at the annual Webber Lawson Invitational
last Saturday. Giaccia won his
first two matches by pin, won a
major decision in the semifinals
at 11-1 and posted a 7-6 win in
the finals to improve to 8-1 this
season.
Also on Saturday, Gunn opened
its season by defeating Salinas,
Pioneer and Serra in the annual
Gunn Quad.
The Titans needed all they
could muster to overcome an
inspired Serra team in the final dual, 39-36. Gunn benefited
from a scoring error that allowed
Gunn’s final wrestler to return to
the mat after he thought he had
lost.
With the meet tied at 36, Gunn’s
138-pound senior Shelby Oyung
came through with a clutch 9-7
sudden-victory overtime win to
defeat his opponent and get the
win.
In addition, three Gunn wrestlers turned in undefeated performances for the weekend: sophomore David Abramovitch (126)
and seniors Ian Cramer (152) and
Alex Yu (160). Q
WARMEST THOUGHTS
AND BEST WISHES FOR
A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY SEASON
AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
ZANE MACGREGOR & CO.
REAL ESTATE
ADVISORS
& BROKERS
621 High Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
CalBRE # 00871571
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