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O fficers who fatally shot a mentally ill man on a Palo Alto street last Christmas

were justified when they dis-charged their weapons, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has determined.

The District Attorney released a 31-page report Tuesday on the death

of William David Raff along with video of the 19-second confronta-tion, taken by four cameras mount-ed on Palo Alto police cruisers.

Raff, 31, was shot Christmas night four times as he charged at officers with a knife, videos from police cameras show. Raff, who re-cently moved into the transitional

mental-health group home La Sel-va House, had called 911 to report that someone named “Andre Seal” was threatening to harm people. When three officers arrived at the house, at 652 Forest Ave., Raff ex-ited the home and charged police with a knife in his hand.

The videos show that officers told Raff a number of times to drop the knife, which turned out to be a table knife with a round-ed tip. Raff can be seen danc-ing around in the middle of the

darkened street like a boxer; the officers had backed off to about 50 feet away, standing by one offi-cer’s car. Then Raff bellowing un-intelligibly and charged at them. Officer Khalil Tannous fired a Taser at Raff, but it was not effec-tive: Only one of its prongs struck him in the leg. Officers Nicolas Enberg, who stood in the street, and Officer Zachary Wicht, to his right on the sidewalk, opened fire as Raff continued to run toward them. Raff was about 25 feet from

Enberg when Enberg fired the first shot, the report quotes Wicht as recalling. Raff collapsed to the ground a few feet from Enberg.

“The totality of the evidence leads only to the conclusion that William Raff was intent on dying at the hands of police officers on Dec. 25, 2015,” prosecutor Charles Gill-ingham wrote in the report, which was based on an investigation by the Palo Alto Police Department.

UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis

District Attorney releases video in fatal Christmas shooting in downtown Palo Alto

by Sue Dremann

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W ith the crowded race to succeed Assemblyman Rich Gordon in the

24th District heading into the fi-nal stretch, independent political action committees are throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars into the contest in hopes of influ-encing the outcome.

Palo Alto City Councilman Marc Berman has been the chief beneficiary of these political ac-tion committees, with groups funded by dentists, Realtors, car dealers, poultry farmers and pawnbrokers collectively contrib-uting thousands of dollars to his campaign in the month leading up

to the June 7 primary.Berman, an attorney who until

last fall worked as development director at the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, benefited from huge infusion of cash from EdVoice Independent Expenditure Committee, the political arm of the Sacramento-based education-poli-cy nonprofit. Last week, the com-mittee made a series of expendi-tures totaling $368,291 to support Berman’s bid for the Assembly.

The group paid for several fli-ers, one touting Berman as “one of our region’s innovative leaders” and crediting him for “(leading) the charge to transition Palo Alto

toward cleaner energy” and for helping to close the achievement gap in public schools.

Berman said the EdVoice ex-penditures were made completely independently from his campaign.

“We had no coordination with (EdVoice) whatsoever,” Berman said.

The California Real Estate Independent Expenditure Com-mittee, based in Los Angeles, is also backing Berman with fliers and contributions. Last week, the group issued several fliers urg-ing voters to support Berman,

Independent groups pump cash into Assembly campaign

Contributions from political action committees boost Berman’s bid to replace Rich Gordonby Gennady Sheyner

EDUCATION

All kindergartners entering the Palo Alto Unified School District this fall and in future

years will attend school for a full day under a proposal the school board approved Tuesday night, despite op-position from parents and a claim that the majority of kindergarten teachers do not support this shift.

Only board member Camille Townsend opposed the proposal, which was recommended by Su-perintendent Max McGee with the consensus of all 12 elementary school principals, he said Tuesday.

McGee offered this recommenda-tion after making what he described as a “compromise” proposal two weeks ago to extend the kinder-garten day only two days a week at some schools and four days a week at others. He said he reconsidered the compromise after the board ex-pressed concerns over a lack of con-sistency among the schools.

Several concerned parents and teachers voiced their concerns that a longer kindergarten day will harm, not benefit, students. Several teachers maintained that the cur-rent model in place at most schools, in which one-half of each class stays longer two days a week, is the best way to provide small-group instruction and maintain a balance of academics and play. Opponents also drew a connection between the longer school day and higher stress levels, even at this young age.

“A vote for full-day kindergar-ten is a vote to make kindergarten look like first grade,” said Escon-dido Elementary School kinder-garten teacher Debbie Scalero. “It is a vote to watch the magic, creativity and wonder of kinder-garten dramatically decline.”

“Please, please hear us: Longer kindergarten is not better kinder-garten,” said Duveneck Elementary School parent Julie Tomasz, who last month started an online petition against full-day kindergarten. The petition has garnered 146 signatures.

Speakers also urged the board to hold off on what they felt was a “rushed” process to put a change in place by this fall. They asked how the district planned to make this change without the full back-ing of the very teachers who will be responsible for implementa-tion. Several board members, too, asked for more details about an implementation plan.

McGee said he was confident that principals and teachers will be able to work together to suc-cessfully shift to the longer day.

“I know clearly that this recom-mendation is not what the major-ity of the kindergarten teachers prefer, but I will tell you that I believe in my heart of hearts that this recommendation model best serves all students, and that is my job as superintendent,” he said.

The catalyst for the full-day shift was a recommendation from the district’s Minority Achievement and Talent Development commit-tee, which said that the key to help-ing to reduce Palo Alto Unified’s longstanding achievement gap is to help minority students early on.

Proponents of full-day kinder-garten, including current teachers at Barron Park, have also said that the longer day allows for a more relaxed, balanced pace and, in fact, allows for more small-group time with students throughout the

School board approves full-day kindergarten for all

Some parents, teachers still voice concern and opposition

by Elena Kadvany

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Around TownNO SURPRISE ... It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Palo Alto, the home of Stanford University and tech companies like Tesla Motors, VMware and Palantir, is one of the wealthiest cities in the nation. NerdWallet’s recent analysis of where people are wealthy (in terms of income, home value and credit availability) solidifies it. The Golden State dominated the list of wealthiest cities among the Western states, with Palo Alto coming in first place on the Top 20 list. Palo Alto boasted the highest median home value among all the U.S. cities analyzed, at $2.5 million. According to the analysis, 34 percent of those homes were owned without a mortgage — the highest percentage in the West’s top 10 and comparable to any other region in the country. Nationally, Palo Alto snagged the No. 1 spot, with a median household income of $151,370 and average credit limit of $71,696. NerdWallet analyzed 475 U.S. cities with at least 65,000 people to compile its list.

BRIDGING THE GAP ... Palo Alto’s plan to build a landmark bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101 took an unexpected swerve last December, when officials determined that the slender and elegant design proposed by the winner of the city’s design competition was simply too good to be true. This week, in an attempt to remedy the situation, the council hit the reset button and unanimously approved a new design contract for the long-anticipated overpass. The $1.5 million contract with Biggs Cardosa Associates calls for early design work on what would be a “standard” 14-foot-wide bridge, though Public Works believes that the structure could be enhanced, budget permitting. Brad Eggleston, assistant director of Public Works, said that while the “baseline” construction cost is about $7.7 million, the city could consider additional amenities if it identifies the needed funding. This includes an overlook platform, education signs and trailhead improvements at Adobe Creek. As the design work gets under way, staff plans to solicit community feedback about potential amenities and whether they are worth the extra expenditures. The council agreed with this approach, though Councilman Tom DuBois wondered

whether it wouldn’t be easier to just determine what type of bridge the city wants to build and move ahead accordingly. “If we want to build a $13 million bridge, let’s build a $13 million bridge,” DuBois said. Ultimately, the council concurred with the staff approach and voted unanimously to support it. If things go as planned for the project (admittedly, a massive “if”), construction would begin in 2019 and be completed by spring 2020.

OFF THE BEATEN PATH ... It may not be the most expensive bike project in Palo Alto (that would be the aforementioned bike bridge), but what’s known as the Midtown Connector is quite possibly the most controversial. Envisioned by the council as an off-street recreational pathway for bicyclists and pedestrians along Matadero Creek, the project has been blasted by some residents in the area as a waste of time and money. Critics point to the fact that the creek currently serves as a flood-control facility for the Santa Clara Valley Water District and inviting the public to start using the pathway would bring noise and possibly crime to the area. Supporters argue that the new pathway would be a welcome connection between Alma Street and the Baylands. The Planning and Transportation Commission weighed a series of options, including a pedestrian-only path along the creek and avoiding Matadero Creek altogether and using the money to create a separated bikeway on Loma Verde. After much debate, the commission settled on a “hybrid” option that would create a shared-use path on some portions of the creek and existing streets on others. In advocating for this approach, Commissioner Greg Tanaka said that the creek offers the city the best opportunity to go beyond small incremental improvements. “I think we have to go with the option that uses the creek somehow,” Tanaka said. “If not, what are we doing here? We’re just making small increments to what we have already.” Commissioner Michael Alcheck said the “hybrid” approach has “the most appeal,” though he also highlighted concerns about privacy and safety. The commission then voted 4-0, with Kate Downing, Adrian Fine and Eric Rosenblum absent, to support this option.

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“Warm, safe and dry.”That’s the slogan of a

$26 million bond that the Ravenswood City School Dis-trict is asking voters to approve on June 7 to fund capital im-provements at the district’s eight school sites — improvements district officials say are critical to helping fulfill the basic tenets of keeping students and teachers warm, safe and dry.

Measure H would fund sig-nificant repairs and upgrades at all eight of the district’s schools, which are more than 50 years old: new roofs at all the schools; upgraded heating, ventilating, air conditioning, climate-control, electrical and fire-safety systems; updated plumbing and parking facili-ties; modernized classrooms that will help accommodate higher-quality science, tech-nology, engineering, math and language programs; new equipment, classroom technol-ogy, landscaping and more.

The bond requires 55 percent of the vote to pass. The Raven-swood Board of Trustees in March unanimously approved placing Measure H on the ballot.

The bond would pay for only a fraction of the $100 million in “critical” districtwide repairs identified in a comprehensive facilities master plan, Super-intendent Gloria Hernandez-Goff said in an interview with the Weekly. The master plan’s entire list of repairs would cost more than $300 million.

Some facility conditions have directly affected learning. The need for new gas lines and a heating system was evident this past winter, when Costaño Elementary School lost heat due to a gas leak and had to close early for winter break.

The school district has done some repairs and upgrades on

a piecemeal, emergency basis. A sewer line under Brentwood Elementary School recently cracked and had to be immedi-ately repaired, Hernandez-Goff said. A slew of upgrades done last summer cost $2 million, Hernandez-Goff wrote in a let-ter to the school community.

The bond is also about edu-cational equity, board Presi-dent Ana Pulido said.

Students, for example, have been using portable science labs — which limit the number of activities students can do — because the district lacks a sink with flowing water need-ed for a full science-lab set-up.

“Every parent wants to feel like wherever their student is at, they’re receiving the same kind of quality programming and op-portunities as anybody in anoth-er school versus having to feel like ‘This school is not meeting my child’s needs; I have to take them somewhere else,’” Pulido said. “Currently, because of the way the schools were built, not every school is able to provide the same offerings. That’s what we’re trying to address in this as well, as much as possible.”

Pulido and Hernandez-Goff said the bond is a first step toward long-term improvements for Ra-venswood, envisioned in the dis-trict’s new facilities master plan.

The bond’s annual tax rate is $30 per $100,000 of taxable value. A property assessed at $700,000, for example, would have an annual tax obligation of $210 under this measure.

Measure H is a general obliga-tion bond, meaning it will be re-paid over approximately 30 years through a tax on all taxable prop-erty — residential, commercial and industrial — located within the school district’s boundaries.

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million bond on ballotSuperintendent: Measure H to support ‘critical’

improvements across schoolsby Elena Kadvany

An analysis of data provided by the Palo Alto Unified School District shows that

more than 70 percent of district teachers will be earning salaries in excess of $100,000 for the upcom-ing 2016-17 school year, based on a union contract approved Tuesday by the school board.

The figure does not include ad-ditional pay earned as a result of teachers possessing advanced de-grees ($2,219 per degree).

It also does not reflect the 1 or 2 percent bonus teachers may re-ceive at the end of next school year as stipulated in the contract.

The contract provides an imme-diate retroactive raise of 5 percent back to July 1, 2015, a 4 percent raise for the upcoming year begin-ning July 1 and a 3 percent increase in July, 2017. Up to 2 percent bonus-es will also be paid for each of the next two years depending on wheth-er property-tax revenues exceed or fall short of budget projections.

To analyze the impact of the contract on teacher pay, the Week-ly created spreadsheets of the cur-rent 2014-15 salary schedule and then adjusted them to reflect the proposed increases over the three years covered by the new contract, and then cross-referenced them with data provided by the district showing how many teachers are

at each “step” on the schedule. All the data and spreadsheets used in the analysis are available at ti-nyurl.com/PAUSDteachercharts.

The analysis shows that 575 teachers, or 69 percent of the dis-trict’s 833 teachers, will make more than $100,000 in base salary start-ing July 1, 2016. Almost 90 percent (741) will make more than $80,000. Additional compensation for ad-vanced degrees will bump addi-tional teachers above $100,000.

Under the contract, teach-ers work 187 days a year, or 8.6 months. If adjusted for 12 months work, the rate that would pay $100,000 for 8.6 month would equate to $140,000 annually.

The teachers’ salary schedules are complicated tables containing 210 different pay levels that increase on two dimensions: number of years of experience and number of semester

With new contract, 70 percent of Palo Alto teachers will earn over $100,000

Contract raises compound with salary ‘step’ hikes and added pay for further education and post-bachelor’s degrees

by Palo Alto Weekly staff

EDUCATION

Costaño Elementary School is one of eight schools in the Ravenswood City School District, where conditions of the facilities have deteriorated to the point of needing critical repairs.


ELECTION 2016

EDUCATION

The Palo Alto school board approved Tuesday night in a 4-to-1 vote a 12 percent

base salary increase for teachers over three years, with all but one board member arguing that that level of pay hike is necessary to help the district retain and attract high-quality teachers.

Trustee Ken Dauber cast the sole dissenting vote, unsurprising given his previously voiced oppo-sition to spending money that he has argued could be spent on both “healthy” teacher raises and sig-nificant class-size reduction at the district’s middle and high schools. He has also pointed to data that suggests the district has remained competitive in teacher pay and is not facing any dire retention or recruitment issues.

A standing-room only crowd of teachers wearing Palo Alto Educators Association (PAEA) T-shirts and sweatshirts in the

district boardroom cheered and gave a long standing ovation after teacher Teri Baldwin, president of the teachers union, challenged Dauber’s concerns directly. She said that in eight months of ne-gotiations between the district and the union, class-size reduc-tion was never discussed. To im-ply that teachers “intentionally” chose larger salaries over smaller classes is wrong and “mislead-ing,” Baldwin told Dauber.

“When a member of the school board publicizes misinformation, it looks like you intend to mis-lead the community and discredit teachers rather than work with them,” Baldwin said.

Dauber responded that his criti-cism has not been aimed at the teachers union, but rather at his own colleagues on the board.

“It’s the board’s responsibility to assess the cost of the contract in relation to the other needs of

the district and strike a balance,” he said. “That, I think, is what the board has not done.”

He also noted that his goal was not to negotiate class sizes in the contract but rather for the district to have enough money to signifi-cantly reduce them.

Though no changes could be made to the new contract on Tues-day night, Dauber had suggested that the district offer teachers instead a 9 percent base salary increase over three years with 1 percent one-time bonuses — a raise he said would maintain the district’s position as one of the higher-paying districts locally and across the state.

Dauber estimated that this level of compensation increase would free up an additional $4.5 million annually — the equivalent of 35 teachers, which could reduce class

School board approves 12 percent pay increases for teachers

Other employee groups, including senior administrators, will also see raisesby Elena Kadvany



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units earned by a teacher after at-taining a bachelor’s degree.

The lowest point on the scale is for a teacher with no experience and no semester units, while the highest point is for 30 or more years of experience and 90 or more units of post-bachelor’s education.

As illustrated in the charts,

teachers receive increases in base salary as they move across and down the salary schedule. These increases are separate from in-creases contained in the union contract, so many teachers expe-rience bumps in pay far greater than the amount called for in the contract.

Data provided to the Weekly by the district shows that the vast ma-jority of teachers (520) have maxed out on the education scale at 90 units

or more. Only 13 teachers have few-er than 30 educational units.

According to Assistant Superin-tendent for Human Resources Scott Bowers, most teachers earn semes-ter units through master’s programs or university extension programs. But they may also be earned, up to various limits, through coursework at community colleges, indepen-dent study, private lessons and tu-toring, work experience during the summer and by serving on a school site council or a district committee.

Here is an example of how the system works:

Miss Jones will be starting her fifth year as a teacher this fall and has 30 units of credit from a master’s program. Her pay this year was $66,997, but she will re-ceive a 5 percent retroactive pay increase bringing it up to $70,347.

Next school year her pay will increase 9 percent to $76,566 be-cause even though the contract calls for a 4 percent increase she gets an automatic 5 percent bump for having completed another year of teaching, which is based on the “step” schedule.

If Miss Jones also had fin-ished another 15 units of course-work, her pay would increase to $80,539, or a 14 percent increase over her current year’s pay and 26 percent more than her salary last school year.

District classified employees, which include aides, maintenance, business and administrative staff, have a similar salary structure as teachers but with fewer step in-creases, meaning they reach the top of the salary range sooner.

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The picture painted of Wil-liam Raff in the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s

Office report and the incidents that led to his death show a man who, for at least the previous year, had often been in a dire mental-health crisis. Raff had made two prior attempts to kill himself be-fore the Dec. 25 police incident, and he had voiced wanting to harm himself on other occasions. He was hospitalized for his men-tal condition at least three times, including on Sept. 13 and Oct. 24, 2014, and on Dec. 6, 2015, the re-port states.

Diagnosed with schizo-affec-tive disorder, Raff had delusions and seizures, according to the DA’s report. He was twice put on a psychiatric hold and hospital-ized by Santa Cruz law enforce-ment agencies and once by police in Westminster, California.

His father, Garold Raff, told po-lice that his son had spent Christ-mas Eve and Christmas Day with him, and he had become concerned for his son’s mental state. William Raff had been placed at La Selva House after coming out of a locked

psychiatric facility in Fremont. The elder Raff believed that his son was deteriorating and that La Selva was not an appropriate place for him. He should have been in a locked facility, he told police.

On Christmas, Garold Raff had taken his son shopping at a mar-ket. William Raff was so agitated that the father called La Selva staff and said he wanted to talk to the CEO to warn that William was significantly agitated and his medication needed to be watched. Raff had recently been given more medication because he had a seizure on Dec. 22. Garold Raff felt that the excess medication he was given might be worsening his mental state, he told police.

Staff at La Selva also told police that Raff was “not totally there” when he arrived to live at La Selva on Dec. 21. Raff was “ramping up” in the intervening days before the 911 call. On Christmas Day, Raff was flushed red and was staring into space. He told staff member Kevin McKellar that he was trying to keep his heart beating. Later, he seemed better.

Another staff member, Joseph

Carter, said that Raff had been tapping his chest earlier that day for two to three hours. He and McKellar were concerned that he might try to put himself into “self-psychosis” again as he had a couple of days earlier.

Raff improved after McKellar took him for a walk, and when music was played at the house, he danced. But then things started to fall apart. Raff called 911 around 9:17 p.m., and Carter said he saw Raff go into the kitchen and grab a knife out of the drawer.

Raff went out the back door. Carter followed him to try to de-escalate the situation.

“William, William stop! Wil-liam, let’s talk! Make a good de-cision,” Carter said he called out to Raff. But Raff ignored him, Carter later told police.

By the time Carter got to the front of the house, about 25 feet behind Raff, he could see that Raff was already in the street confronting the police officers, the DA’s report states.

Carter said he raised his hands and yelled that he was staff and tried to tell officers that Raff was holding a “butter knife.”

Despite Carter’s attempts to stop the situation from unfolding, Raff, standing in the middle of the street, then screamed and began running toward the officers, to his death.

A mind unravelingFatal shooting precipitated by man’s mental-health

crisis, report statesby Sue Dremann

About the cover: Photo illustration by Paul Llewellyn based on video recordings by the Palo Alto Police Department.

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COUNCIL RAIL COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss the city’s scoping comments for the Environmental Impact Report for the San Francisco-to-San Jose segment of high-speed rail. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 31, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to discuss its annual priorities and hold a study session to discuss the city’s efforts on sea-level rise. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 31, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission will hear an update on the city’s teen programs, discuss a proposed design for Quarry Road Improvements and Transit Center Access and discuss the parks, Open Space, Trails and Recreation Facilities Master Plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 31, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to review 799 Embarcadero Road, a proposal to replace Fire Station #3; and hear an update on the Comprehensive Plan Update Draft Environmental Impact Report. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 2, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

Public AgendaA preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week


Upfront

“William Raff called 911 that night to create a fake emergency and draw an armed response from the police. Raff then committed sui-cide by attacking the officers, who shot him in self-defense.”

The District Attorney’s Office determined that the officers fired upon Raff after reasonably believ-ing that they would be harmed or killed or that one of them was in imminent danger. The officers had retreated back 50 feet from Raff after he came running from the east side of the house in the dark. Raff was holding the knife in a “pistol grip” as if he was go-ing to stab down at someone.

The review asserted that Raff had concocted a false story that some-one at the home was threatening to harm people. The officers believed there was someone at the house who might have been a threat, and they did not know that the person before them with the knife was the same person who had called dispatchers.

The whole incident happened in less than eight minutes, from when Raff called 911 to his collapse on Forest Avenue. After the 911 call, a dispatcher called La Selva House and talked to staff, and the staff member, Kevin McKellar, said he did not think that Raff was a danger.

But officers did not know of the dispatcher’s discussion with McKellar because of their simul-taneous arrival at the house, ac-cording to the report. The only information officers had received right away was that no one named Andre Seal lived at the residence.

The officers commanded Raff several times to put down the knife, the DA noted, but Raff did not com-ply. He had acted so swiftly and with such surprise that the officers did not have time for a plan of action or further retreat, the report states. During the encounter, Wicht called for a backup weapon that fires large rubber projectiles and is less lethal, but within moments, Raff was al-ready charging at Enberg.

Enberg was wearing bullet-protective body armor, but it was penetrable by a blade, each of the officers later said in interviews. Enberg told police that he had feared that Raff would stab him in the neck or upper abdomen; Wicht said that Raff had locked eyes with Enberg just before charging at him with the knife in his right hand.

There also was confusion at the scene. A witness, Joseph Carter, a La Selva House employee, said that when he saw police officers, he had raised his hands and yelled, “Staff, I’m the staff. He has a but-ter knife, it is a butter knife,” he said during a police interview.

Tannous said he heard someone yelling, but he could not make out what was said. He also did not know if that other person was the individual Raff had referred to in the 911 call, he said.

The DA’s office did not find that Raff’s carrying of a mere table knife had adequate bearing on the officers’ actions.

“The fact that the knife used by Raff was a dinnerware knife does not make the situation less threatening for the officers, or their actions less justified. The knife used could be used to inflict a fatal wound or serious injury on the officers whose faces and necks were exposed and whose vests were not designed to protect from knife strikes,” the DA’s re-view noted. “None of the officers heard a staff member stating that the knife was a ‘butter knife’ and if they had, they would not have had the time or ability to assess the credibility of that statement. What the officers saw was a man yelling and charging at them with a knife in his hand, in an attack.”

“The officers could not have known and did not know, that William Raff had a history of suicide attempts, the most recent being approximately three weeks earlier,” the DA’s office stated.

California law permits any per-son to use deadly force where there is a reasonable need to protect one-self, or another, from an apparent, imminent threat of death or great bodily injury, the DA’s office noted.

“Furthermore, it specifically permits police officers to use deadly force when arresting a person who has committed or is committing a violent felony (such as assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon) and the officer has probable cause to believe the person poses a threat of future or imminent death or great bodily in-jury, either to the officer or to oth-ers. Courts do not require officers to wait until they are physically attacked before they are entitled to take action,” Gillingham wrote.

How the investigation was conducted

The DA’s investigation was based on reports by the Palo Alto Police Department,

which included documented inter-

views with civilian witnesses and officers, audio recordings of the in-terviews, audio and video of the in-cident and crime scene details. The review was conducted according to the 2012 “Officer-Involved Guide-lines” adopted by the Santa Clara County Police Chiefs’ Association, according to the DA’s office.

The Police Chiefs’ Association guidelines state that the role of the district attorney is to “monitor the police investigation” and “when deemed necessary, perform an inde-pendent investigation, separate from that of the police investigation.”

Asked why the DA’s office de-termined it would not do a sepa-rate investigation from that of the Palo Alto police, Deputy District Attorney James Gibbons-Shapiro said Tuesday that in this case all of the video and audio evidence indicated that officers had acted lawfully. The DA’s office was ini-tially present in the first days after the shooting, having sent a deputy district attorney and a DA investi-gator to monitor the police inves-tigation. They sat in on interviews and ensured that the right steps were being taken to record all of them so that police would not rely only on paper records, he said.

These procedures are the regu-lar practice for the Santa Clara County DA’s office. He could not recall an incident that required an independent investigation outside of that of police because of the initial monitoring of police evi-dence practices, which takes place in each of these cases, he said.

In addition, Palo Alto Police Department policy states that its own investigative unit will look

into the department’s officer-in-volved shootings.

Police conducting administrative investigation

T he Palo Alto Police De-partment said it is defer-ring all questions related to

the content or details of the DA’s findings to the DA’s office. The police department had no addi-tional information available for release, but they did express con-dolences to Raff’s family.

“We have tremendous sympathy for the Raff family and William’s friends and loved ones. We are also mindful of the lasting effect this incident has had on our per-sonnel, the independent witnesses who observed what occurred, and the staff at the transitional resi-dential program at which Mr. Raff was a resident,” the department said in a written statement.

The administrative investigation into the shooting is continuing, how-ever, now that the District Attorney’s Office has completed its criminal investigation, the department noted. The administrative investigation will include a review of policies, training, tactics and equipment.

“At the conclusion of the admin-istrative investigation, we will sub-mit it to our Independent Police Auditor for review. They will also receive all audio and video record-ings associated with the case. The Independent Police Auditor will make public comments at the ap-propriate time about the incident, the response of our personnel, and the administrative investigation

itself,” department officials wrote.Raff’s family could not imme-

diately be reached for comment. His mother, Tina Cremer, filed a wrongful-death claim against the City of Palo Alto in late March. Her attorney, Michael Haddad, said that the city rejected the claim on May 2. He plans to file a lawsuit in the near future.

“The DA’s job is not to deter-mine if the shooting is lawful; it’s to determine whether criminal charges are appropriate. It doesn’t cover civil claims,” Haddad said. “What this boils down to is that the officers at the scene knew that the home was housed by people with mental illness.”

When a “thin man acting errati-cally came out of the house, the officers should have known that he was mentally ill,” he said.

Then a staff member came out waving his arms and yelled that “it’s just a butter knife,” he added.

“The officer makes no at-tempt to take cover or move out of the way. He just stands there and shoots this poor guy with a mental illness. He wasn’t wanted for any crime. The most logical inference is that he is mentally ill. Someone who’s mentally ill is not a criminal. The shooting was un-necessary,” Haddad said.

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

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CorrectionsThe May 20 story “Palo Alto residents oppose VTA bus plans” incorrectly characterized resident Penny Ellson’s support of the cuts to bus route 86 in 2007. She sought to preserve routes 86 and 88 and supported the com-promise in order to save transportation for students. The May 20 story “Here comes the sun” misstated the level by which natural gas use fell between the 1970s and today. It fell from 45 million to 28 million therms a year. Also, the timeline for when new solar contracts will come online has been updated by the Utilities Department: The Frontier project is expected to be online in June; the Elevation and Western Antelope projects are expected to come online in November. The Weekly regrets the errors. To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, [email protected] or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

The video of the shooting is posted at tinyurl.com/PAPDshootingXmas. Warning: the footage is graphic. Viewer discretion is advised.

WATCH ON VIDEOPaloAltoOnline.com

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Upfront

Development approved for Olive Garden siteThe City Council approved on Monday night a proposal to demol-

ish the Olive Garden restaurant on El Camino Real and replace it with a mixed-use development featuring offices, condominiums and retail space.

Despite anxieties about the new development’s mass, appearance and potential traffic impacts, the council voted 5-4 to approve the proposal for 2515-2585 El Camino Real, between Grant and Sherman avenues.

Though the council’s vote cleared the path for developer ECRPA, LLC, to demolish the 9,694-square-foot restaurant and construct a 39,858-square-foot mixed-use building (with 108 parking spaces underground), it also ensured that the new development would have some key differences from the one proposed.

The most significant difference is the replacement of office space with retail. The proposal from ECRPA called for nearly 10,000 square feet of office space. The council demanded that ECRPA re-duce the office component and required that the entire ground floor in the blocklong development be devoted to retail. This would limit office use to less than 1,000 square feet. The developer also agreed to devote two units to below-market-rate housing.

Vice Mayor Greg Scharff, who led the parade of revisions, also proposed a condition (with agreement from his colleagues) requiring the developer to create a “robust” transportation-demand-manage-ment program that would encourage alternative transportation and carpooling to reduce anticipated traffic levels by 30 percent.

— Gennady Sheyner

High-speed rail launches study for PeninsulaWith plans accelerating for the Bay Area segment of California’s

high-speed rail line, Palo Alto officials this week called for a more inclusive process in designing the train system and renewed their calls for rail officials to “grade separate” the new bullet trains from crossing traffic.

That is one of the main points that the city plans to make as it pre-pares its comments on the California High Speed Rail Authority’s forthcoming Environmental Impact Report for the Peninsula segment.

On Wednesday morning, the agency made a stop in Palo Alto, where its Northern California Regional Director Ben Tripousis pro-vided an update to the City Council Rail Committee about the new document and solicited comments about what issues the authority should look at for the stretch between San Francisco and San Jose. For the four council members on the committee, grade separation was the biggest cause of concern.

Under the current plan, the Peninsula segment calls for high-speed rail to share tracks with Caltrain in what’s known as the “blended system.” Because the high-speed trains in the blended system would reach maximum speeds of only 110 mph (below a 125 mph limit), the rail authority is not required by Federal Railroad Administration regulations to pursue grade separation, according to Tripousis.

Rather than physically separate the rail corridor from the crossing streets, the rail authority plans to pursue less dramatic and expensive safety measures: new perimeter fencing and four-quadrant gates at all grade crossings.

While these measures are expected to limit the ability of cars to get on the tracks, Palo Alto officials are concerned that they will also create massive congestion at the four locations where the train tracks meet the streets. Tripousis said the rail authority will be exploring the impact of quad gates during the environmental analysis.

— Gennady Sheyner

Men run off after being ‘startled’ by Crescent Park home’s occupant

Two men who police say kicked down a door of a Crescent Park home Thursday afternoon in an apparent burglary attempt fled the scene empty-handed after a resident startled them.

Police said the attempted burglary occurred shortly before 6 p.m. on the 1300 block of Dana Avenue. The resident, a woman in her 60s, re-ported that she had been home alone when she heard a crashing sound. When she went to see what happened, she reportedly saw that her door had been kicked in and a man she didn’t know was standing inside.

Police said that she yelled at the man and startled him. At that point, a second man allegedly came running down the stairs from the second floor. Both ran out the front door and reportedly proceeded east on Dana Avenue, police said.

The woman said the two men were in their 20s or 30s, with dark skin (she said they were possibly Polynesian). She described one as wearing orange shorts and a gray T-shirt; the other wore dark shorts or pants and a top “with a stripe or other marking.” Both were nearly six feet tall and about 250 pounds.

Police said there haven’t been any similar incidents in Palo Alto recently.

— Gennady Sheyner

News DigestGuiding Stanford’s FutureACADEMIC PROGRAMS ■ HOUSING ■ TRANSPORTATION

RESOURCE CONSERVATION ■ SUSTAINABILITY

Stanford University has begun looking forward to its application to Santa Clara

County for its next General Use Permit that governs its campus land use. Join

us to learn more about that process and how Stanford manages its lands.

Please join us at a drop-in open house event to provide your input

as we seek an updated General Use Permit from Santa Clara County.

Thursday, June 2, 6:00–8:00 p.m. Paul Brest Hall, Stanford University, 555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford

Saturday, June 4, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Terman Middle School, Multipurpose Room/Café, 655 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto

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For more information please visit gup.stanford.edu.

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NeighborhoodsA roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

Upfront

REMEMBERING TRAGEDY, BUILDING COMMUNITY ... One year after the University AME Zion Church started a movement to foster multi-ethnic understanding and dialogue after the June 17, 2015, racially motivated church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, the effort to address prejudice in Palo Alto goes on. Pastor Kaloma Smith and other members of the interfaith community will hold a candlelight memorial on June 5 to remember the tragedy that took place in a house of worship. The entire community is invited to the event. The candlelight service is open to all. It will take place at 7 p.m. at First Congregational Church, UCC, 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto.

THE HOUSES THAT ZUCK BUILT ... It isn’t every day that someone redevelops Palo Alto property and puts a smaller home on it, but Mark Zuckerberg is not just anyone. The billionaire Facebook CEO plans to replace one home on Edgewood Drive and three on Hamilton Avenue, which he bought in 2011 and 2013, respectively, that surround his Crescent Park home. Instead of two single-story houses and two two-story ones, he’s proposing three smaller single-story homes and one smaller two-story residence, according to an application filed with the city by his architects. The plans also include two massive basements, measuring 2,400 and 3,000 square feet. (Basement space is not counted toward the city’s floor-area requirements.) The total square footage of the houses themselves, however, will be 20 percent smaller than the existing homes. The redevelopment does not include a request to merge the lots. The Crescent Park Residents Association has not taken a position on the project, said Norm Beamer, the association’s president. Beamer said that as long as the homes are to be used as single-family homes for long-term residents, he has no concerns. For more on this story, go to PaloAltoOnline.com.

Got a good neighborhood story, some news, an upcoming meeting or an event? Email Sue Dremann, Neighborhoods editor, at [email protected]. Or talk about your neighborhood news on the discussion forum Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com.

Around the Block

John Guislin, a resident of Crescent Park, stands by the intersection of Middlefield Road and Everett Avenue where he says car drivers regularly ignore the “no left turn” law and go over the 25 mph speed limit. Guislin has started a petition asking the city to increase the safety of the road.

F or John Guislin and his neighbors on Middlefield Road, screeching tires and

clanging metal have become in-creasingly familiar sounds in re-cent years.

Drivers making their way downtown or to Stanford Univer-sity routinely use Middlefield as a thoroughfare. As they pass this residential area, many go beyond the speed limit, taking sharp right turns and, every once in a while, crashing into each other.

“Middlefield Road, from Univer-sity to the Menlo Park border, is four continuous blocks of driver may-hem,” Guislin told the council on May 9. “We have a history of hav-ing serious accidents and dangerous conditions — speeding, congestion, et cetera — on Middlefield.”

The neighbors have been lob-bying city leaders for years to do something about the problem, with some success. Last June, the city added time-of-day turn restriction signs, which prohibit left turns onto Middlefield Road from Everett Av-enue and Hawthorne Avenue dur-ing peak commuting hours. The city also restriped the street so that cars would no longer merge near the intersection of Middlefield and Hawthorne, where cars are of-ten lined up to turn left. Now, the merging happens a few hundred feet south of the intersection.

But as Guislin and his neigh-

bors testified earlier this month, the traffic woes have not abated. Andrea Lichter, who has lived on Middlefield for the past 30 years, said she has seen conditions de-volve in dangerous ways.

“I’m in my home every night, and I hear near-crashes, and I just cringe,” Lichter said at the meeting. “I get so concerned and so upset, waiting to hear the impact. And quite often there is an impact.”

She recalled an incident several years ago when a young man speed-ing north on Middlefield crashed his sports-utility vehicle through her fence and drove into her front yard. There was also the fatal accident that occurred in 2011, when a 25-year-old Stanford University scholar speed-ing south on Middlefield crashed his Saab into a tree and then a parked vehicle near Hawthorne.

Now, residents are proposing a more dramatic solution: reducing the number of lanes on Middle-field from four to two. They believe this solution, commonly known as a “road diet,” will offer them the best shot at calming the traffic con-ditions. Earlier this month, 90 per-cent of the Middlefield Road home-owners along that stretch submitted a petition requesting the change.

According to the petition, the residents are requesting the change to “reduce the number of accidents, increase safety for pedestrians and bicyclists, increase traffic compli-

ance with speed limit, improve traf-fic flow, improve safety of driveway access, and improve quality of life for residents.” The petition states that more than 90 percent of cars go faster than the posted 25 mph speed limit and that, in some cases, they exceed 50 mph. In April alone there were six accidents, the petition states.

On May 13, four days after Guislin’s presentation to the coun-cil, two more accidents occurred on Middlefield within an hour. Guislin followed up with an email to the council, with the photos of both accidents attached.

“It is bad enough hearing the crunch of frequent crashes and wondering if any of our family members were near the road or on the sidewalk at that moment,” Guis-lin said. “We dread the day when a bicyclist or pedestrian is run over on the sidewalk by crashing cars.”

Since then, at least two more ac-cidents have taken place on Willow Road in Menlo Park and University Avenue, according to crimereports.com. The site shows three accidents occurring on this stretch of Middle-field between May 11 and May 23, three of them involving minor in-juries (there were no injuries in the two crashes that Guislin reported).

While the residents are calling for a road diet, the city is exploring other options to calm traffic. These include eliminating left turns entire-ly (rather than just during limited

hours) by installing signage, adding a narrow median on Middlefield or installing a traffic signal. But as city officials warn on a special page dedicated to the project, any of these projects “could add traffic or increase congestion on other streets and will require careful analysis and input from residents on both sides of Middlefield.”

That’s not to say, however, that the road diet idea won’t be explored. Joshuah Mello, the city’s chief transportation official, said that right now the plan is to complete the pilot program with the left-turn restrictions (it ends next month), evaluate the data from the program and see what changes to make.

“We’re going to look at the the results of the turn-restriction sig-nage and see if it led to any kind of reduction in the number of collision and safety concerns out there,” Mello said.

He noted that a road diet of the sort being proposed by the residents has been shown to be a “proven safety measure” for certain types of collisions. Once the pilot study is complete, it will be one of several solutions that will be evaluated.

According to the Federal High-way Administration, road diets are effective in addressing four-lane highways where crashes occur with high frequency, “resulting in con-flicts between high-speed through traffic, left-turning vehicles and other road users.” The adminis-tration, according to its website, promotes road diets “as a safety-focused alternative to a traditional four-lane undivided highway.”

“The resulting benefits include a crash reduction of 19 to 47 per-cent, reduced vehicle speed dif-ferential, improved mobility and access by all road users, and integration of the roadway into surrounding uses that results in an enhanced quality of life,” the administration’s website states.

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one touting his “proven record of fighting for us” and another re-ferring to him as a “progressive focused on fiscal responsibility.”

Meanwhile, another indepen-dent group, Californians Allied For Patient Protection Indepen-dent Expenditure Account, paid for an ad that takes a swing at Vicki Veenker, who is also vying for the Assembly seat. The flier criticizes Veenker for not having held an elected office and for having “nev-er been seen at council meetings.” In an obvious allusion to Donald Trump, the flier states that Veenk-er “sounds like someone we know running for President, doesn’t it.”

The attack ad drew an imme-diate rebuke from the California chapter of the National Women’s Political Caucus of California, which has endorsed Veenker. Angelica Ramos, president of the group’s local chapter, issued a statement that blasted the ad for implying to Peninsula women and girls that “despite all the hard work they do behind the scenes, like Vicki, they are unqualified for advancement as well.

“This is the kind of institution-al sexism that discourages other qualified women from running for office, and it shows,” the state-ment read.

(Berman told the Palo Alto Week-ly that his campaign had nothing to do with the mailer and that negative attacks have no place in the race.)

Veenker also is backed by nu-merous political action commit-tees, though she lags far behind Berman in contributions from these groups. Last week she re-ceived one $4,200 contribution from the Women’s Political Com-mittee and another $4,200 contri-bution from the Women In Power Political Action Committee. And last month, she received $8,500 from the California Nurses Asso-ciation Political Action Commit-tee; $2,500 from the Mountain View Professional Firefighters Political Action Committee; and $1,000 from D.R.I.V.E., a political action committee of the Interna-tional Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Earlier this year, Veenker also benefited from an $8,500 contri-

bution from the California Teach-ers Association, one of her top backers.

Veenker is also the only can-didate in California who is being directly opposed by the Califor-nians Allied For Patient Protec-tion Independent Expenditure Account. The group has raised money to support numerous can-didates for the state Assembly, including Democrats Joaquin Ar-ambula in District 31; Matt Da-babheh in District 45; Bill Dodd in District 3; and Raul Bocanegra in District 39. It also has raised $32,501 specifically to oppose Veenker, according to its cam-paign statement.

Political action committees have largely refrained from contribut-ing to the campaigns of Mountain View council men Mike Kasper-zak and John Inks; or to Menlo Park Councilman Peter Ohtaki, the sole Republican in the race. And Cupertino Mayor Barry Chang, who has raised close to $300,000, did so largely by relying on contributions from individuals and area companies (the sole ex-ception was the $2,250 that Chang received from the Associated Builders and Contractors North-ern California Chapter PAC).

In a campaign statement filed earlier this month, Chang listed dozens of major contributions that collectively totaled $289,000. Many of these contributions were in the form of $4,200 and $8,500 checks from companies that are based outside the district and that gave more than once. Tropicana Russell, Inc., based in San Ma-teo, contributed a pair of $4,200 checks. So did Tiptoe Properties, LLC; Marina Brothers, Inc.; and Bayca Inc. — all companies based in San Jose. According to Chang’s statement, he received two more $4,200 contributions from Caix-ing Xie, owner of Bayca. Similar-ly, Chang received donations total-ing $42,000 from Campbell-based firm South Bay Construction, in addition to separate contributions

from the company’s partners.Chang’s tendency of getting

separate contributions from a business and from its owners is unusual, given that the city’s cam-paign finance laws treat donations from a firm’s controlling partner as an individual donation and that many of his donors had already made the maximum allowed con-tribution in their capacity as in-dividuals. And while Chang only reported these contributions in his “late contributions” filing earlier this month, many of them were made last year (in some cases, going back to last July).

When asked about this ir-regularity by the Mountain View Voice (the Weekly’s sister paper), Chang explained that he had made an extra effort this cam-paign cycle to adhere to elec-tions rules, which he described as “complicated.” He pointed out that these large donations had been included in his committee’s standard campaign finance report submitted last month.

Chang, who was sanctioned by the Federal Political Practice Commission for his failing to disclose 160 contributions to his 2014 campaign for the City Coun-cil, also told the Voice that he had recently retained a Sacramento accounting firm to serve as his treasurer. He was notified only then that he should file additional paperwork for the large donations.

“I’m glad I had (my accountant) because she’s the expert,” Chang said. “To the best of my knowl-edge I filed them, and I filed them correctly. But she said we had to file them again.”

The two remaining candidates, retired engineer Seelam Reddy and community activist Jay Cabrera, are running low-budget campaigns and have not formed committees for their respective Assembly bids.

Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at [email protected]. Mountain View Voice Staff Writer Mark Noack contributed to this report.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Palo Alto Municipal Code Section 2.28.070, that the City Council of the City of Palo Alto will conduct a Public Hearing at its Regular Meeting on Monday, June 13, 2016 at 6:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California, to adopt the proposed Fiscal Year 2017 Budget, Copies of the budget are available on the City’s website, the Rinconada Library, and in the Administrative Services Department, 4th Floor, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. There is a $27.00 per book plus postage or $11.00 per cd-rom charge for this publication.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, pursuant to Government Code Sections 66016 and 66018, that the City Council of the City of Palo Alto will conduct a Public Hearing at its Regular Meeting on Monday, June 13, 2016, at 6:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California, to consider changes to the Fiscal Year 2017 Municipal Fee Schedule, including new fees, and increases to existing fees. Copies of the fee schedule setting forth any proposed new fees, and increases to existing fees are available on the City’s website and/or in the Administrative Services Department, 4th Floor, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. There is a $7.00 per copy charge for this publication.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Palo Alto will hold a Regular Meeting on June 13, 2016, at 6:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California, to consider adoption of a resolution determining the calculation of the appropriations limit for Fiscal Year 2017. The calculation of the limit and the supporting

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NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, pursuant to Article XIIID, section 6 of the California Constitution, that the City Council of the City of Palo Alto will hold a Public Hearing at its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, June 13, 2016 at 6:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. The Public Hearing will be held to consider changes to the Water, Wastewater and Refuse

Changes to the City’s Electric and Gas rates will also be considered during the June 13 Public Hearing, as part of the adoption of the Fiscal Year 2017 Budget. Copies of the proposed water, wastewater, refuse, electric and gas rate schedules are available on the City’s website at www.CityofPaloAlto.org/RatesOverview and in the Utilities Department, 3rd Floor, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. There is a $3.00 per copy charge for this publication.

BETH MINORCity Clerk

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Eight people are vying for the California Assembly District 24 seat on June 7: (top row, from left) Marc Berman, Vicki Veenker, Barry Chang, Peter Ohtaki, (bottom row) Seelam Reddy, Mike Kasperzak, John Inks and Jay Cabrera.

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The district estimates that the total amount repayable during the life of the bond, including principal and in-terest, is approximately $44 million.

The bond, if approved, would only be used for capital improve-ments. Pulido and Hernandez-Goff hope voters differentiate between the purpose of a facilities bond and the most recent parcel tax voters approved in 2011. (That tax, Mea-sure B, renewed a previous $98-per-parcel-per-year tax with an increase to $196 per parcel per year. It was billed as a means to help fund a strapped school district facing sig-nificant state and federal cuts.)

State law requires that the dis-trict establish an independent citizens’ oversight committee and conduct annual audits to ensure funds are only spent on voter-ap-proved projects improving class-rooms and facilities and not for administration or salaries.

The only official opposition to Measure H has been filed by the Sil-icon Valley Taxpayers Association, a Cupertino organization “dedicated to protecting the rights and interests of the taxpayers of Silicon Valley against the overreaching and over-spending of government,” according to the group’s website.

Mark Hinkle, president of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Associa-tion, said while he is not very fa-miliar with the Ravenswood school district, he opposes Measure H from a philosophical standpoint. It is unfair and unjustified, he said, to saddle taxpayers with the cost of something that should be covered by the district’s own budget.

“Every time a governmental body puts a bond measure or parcel tax on the ballot, what they’re in fact saying is, ‘Everything we’re cur-rently spending money on is more important than this measure,’” he told the Weekly. “If it’s important, why isn’t it in the current budget?”

Hinkle also voiced concern about the general obligation bond’s 30-year lifespan and the prospect of potentially high bond interest rates.

Ravenswood serves more than 3,400 students from preschool through eighth grade at campuses in both East Palo Alto and Menlo Park.

The first time the school district put a bond on the ballot, in 1996, voters overwhelmingly approved the $6 million measure to pay for repairs and renovation. Four years later, the district mounted a second $10 million bond, Measure C, to help finish projects started under the 1996 measure and to build a new high school, which is now As-pire East Palo Alto Charter School. (Ravenswood still owns the site, but it is not a district school.) Measure C passed with 86 percent of the vote.

The school district recently polled voters about the bond measure; 84 percent said they would support it, according to Ravenswood.

Voters can vote by mail, online or in-person at local voting cen-ters from May 9 through June 7. For more information, go to San Mateo County’s official election website at shapethefuture.org.

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Faircourt’s bid to ban two-story homes rejectedAn effort to ban new two-story homes in the Eichler enclave of

Faircourt faltered Wednesday night after a series of last-minute detractions dragged the petition just below the needed signature threshold. (Posted May 26, 12:52 a.m.)

Policy passed by Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors allows requests for change of measure letter

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors passed a policy Tuesday that will help voters differentiate between local measures of the past and present that share the same letter and cover similar issues. (Posted May 25, 4:43 p.m.)

Measure A to extend funding for Santa Clara County’s parks

Santa Clara County voters will decide whether they want to prolong a park preservation fund on the June 7 ballot. Measure A would extend the county’s park charter fund by taking .015 cents for every $100 of assessed property value for 15 years starting July 1, 2017, if it is approved by a majority vote. (Posted May 24, 2:32 p.m.)

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


sizes at the high schools by an av-erage of six students, the same number at the middle schools or by three at the elementary schools, he has said.

Class sizes have become a fo-cal point at board discussions in recent weeks after two parents published their own data analy-sis showing that the district is not meeting its official staffing ratios in a significant percentage of classes across the three middle schools and two high schools.

The staffing ratios are included in the teachers’ contract but was not an article the union and district opened this year for negotiation.

Baldwin told the board that the union would “welcome” negoti-ating language that guarantees lower class sizes. The last time class sizes were discussed as part of negotiations was in the 2011-12 school year, according to As-sistant Superintendent for Human Resources Scott Bowers.

The other four board members expressed strong support for the contract.

“The most important thing is excellent teachers,” said trustee Melissa Baten Caswell. “The mar-ket reality is that there is a price for excellent teachers, and the re-ality is we have less resumes com-ing in the pipeline right now at the price that we’re paying.”

While board Vice President Terry Godfrey supported the con-tract, she suggested that the dis-trict could “make some revisions” to the negotiations process itself — particularly to “sunshine” (to be open or available to the public) negotiations and have more public discussion informed by concrete data on key issues that affect the contract, such as retention, attri-tion and competition.

(See sidebar, “With new con-tract...” for details on the contract.)

The contract also provides that all non-union managers and su-pervisors, including senior admin-istrators, receive the same increas-es as union members, a practice followed in previous years. The board approved in a 4-to-1 vote, with Dauber dissenting, two years of compensation increases rather than the proposed three for this group of employees at an amend-ment made by Baten Caswell. Her amendment included the ca-veat that the board will review this summer the compensation process for management employees.

Dauber made a failed motion to defer the vote on non-represented management employee raises to the board’s next meeting and ask staff to return with a justification for the proposed increases beyond past practice. Godfrey seconded his motion, but the other three board members opposed it.

The board also approved in two separate 4-to-0 votes, with Dauber abstaining for each, its agreement with its classified employees union as well as compensation increases for non-represented confidential and supervisory employees.

day, not less.Achievement committee mem-

ber Gina Dalma, who is also a parent, spoke in favor of full-day kindergarten Tuesday night. In months of research, data analysis and focus groups, the committee found that full-day kindergarten is “one of the single-most im-pactful strategies to closing the achievement gap,” she said.

“Why the rush?” she asked. “Because our kids are entering behind.”

“This is our opportunity to be a lighthouse district on kindergar-ten,” she added. “Sadly, today, we are not.”

Under the new model, all kin-dergartners will attend school for the full day, starting in mid-October. This will be a signifi-cant change for some but not all of Palo Alto’s elementary schools. Barron Park and Palo Verde el-ementary schools already offer a longer school day four days a week (except Wednesday, which is an early-dismissal day at all ele-mentary schools), but the other 10 schools operate on the extended half-day model.

McGee has recommended that the elementary schools cap the maximum number of weekly instructional minutes at 1,550, which is the current number at Barron Park.

All kindergarten classrooms will now have instructional aides for at least 10 hours each week. In addition, classrooms with more than 20 students will receive re-mediation funds for each student over 20. Those dollars can be used for more aides or for other purpos-es, like equipment or materials, as defined in the school district’s agreement with its teachers union.

The district estimates that the additional remediation could cost up to approximately $90,000, bringing the total cost of the changes to $428,000.

While parents will be able to opt out of the longer day and pick their child up at lunch, some ex-pressed concern that this would put their children at an education-

al disadvantage.Longtime teacher Jill Dineen,

who served on a district “think tank” group that evaluated dif-ferent kindergarten models this spring, criticized the opt-out op-tion and said kindergarten teach-ers will effectively have to make the morning all-academic.

Board members who supported the proposal said that full-day kindergarten is not a “silver bul-let” to close the achievement gap but is a needed change that will ultimately benefit all students.

The board approved the fund-ing for full-day kindergarten along with several other budget requests: high school wellness-center work-ers, breakfast for low-income el-ementary students, elementary reading specialists, staffing at the district office and the high school athletics programs.

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

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a Public Hearing at the special meeting on Monday, June 6, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider Adoption of a Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, and Approval of a Site and Design Application to Demolish the existing approximately 18,000 square foot building and construct a new approximately 62,000 square foot building for an automobile dealership located at 1700 Embarcadero Road. The application includes Design Enhancement Exception request to allow deviation from the 10 foot build-to-line from Embarcadero Road and Bayshore Road. There is also a request to apply the Automobile Dealership (AD) zoning overlay. Environmental Assessment: An Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration was circulated. Zoning District: CS (D) Service Commercial and Site Design Review Combining District. The Planning and Transportation Commission recommended approval.

BETH MINOR City Clerk

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Council Finance Committee (May 23)Budget: The committee completed its review of the proposed fiscal year 2017 budget and recommended a series of changes, including funding for two new Residential Preferential Parking districts and a reduction of two positions. The committee also asked staff to return with a scenario that would reduce capital expenditures to limit transfers into the General Fund from the Budget Stabilization Reserve. Yes: Unanimous

City Council (May 23)2515 El Camino Real: The council approved a mixed-use development proposed for the present site of the Olive Garden at 2515 El Camino Real and added a series of conditions, including a requirement that the ground floor be dedicated entirely to retail and a requirement that the developer create a “transportation-demand-management” program that would cut the single-occupant vehicle rate by 30 percent. Yes: Berman, Burt, Kniss, Scharff, Wolbach No: DuBois, Filseth, Holman, SchmidBridge: The council approved a design contract with Biggs Cardosa Associates for a bike and pedestrian bridge over U.S. Highway 101. Yes: Unanimous

Board of Education (May 24)Teachers contract: The board approved a new multi-year agreement with its teachers union, providing a 12 percent raise and up to 4 percent in one-time bonuses over three years. Yes: Baten Caswell, Emberling, Godfrey, Townsend No: DauberClassified contract: The board approved a new three-year agreement with its classified employees union. Yes: Baten Caswell, Emberling, Godfrey, TownsendAbstain: DauberManagement compensation: The board approved two years, rather than three, of compensation changes for non-represented management employees. Yes: Baten Caswell, Emberling, Godfrey, Townsend No: DauberConfidential/supervisory compensation: The board approved compensation changes for non-represented confidential/supervisory employees. Yes: Baten Caswell, Emberling, Godfrey, Townsend Abstain: DauberFull-day kindergarten: The board approved a proposal to move all of the district’s elementary schools to a full-day kindergarten model starting this fall. Yes: Baten Caswell, Dauber, Emberling, Godfrey No: TownsendResource allocations: The board approved $1.2 million in additional budget requests for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 years. Yes: UnanimousPaly performing arts center: The board authorized staff to seek bids for furnishings and equipment for Palo Alto High School’s new performing arts center. Yes: UnanimousSummer maintenance: The board approved the award of contracts for several summer maintenance projects. Yes: Unanimous

Planning and Transportation Commission (May 24)Faircourt: The commission rejected an application from Faircourt Tracts No.3 and No.4 for a single-story overlay. Yes: Alcheck, Tanaka, Waldfogel Absent: Downing, Fine, Rosenblum Abstained: Gardias567 Maybell: The commission approved the environmental analysis and site-design application for a 16-home development proposed for 567 Maybell Ave. Yes: Alcheck, Gardias, Tanaka, Waldfogel Absent: Downing, Fine, RosenblumMidtown connector: The commission recommended a “hybrid” approach for the proposed bike and pedestrian route through Midtown that would use a portion of the Matadero Creek combined with on-street segments. Yes: Alcheck, Gardias, Tanaka, Waldfogel Absent: Downing, Fine, Rosenblum

Historic Resources Board (May 25)Avenidas: The board discussed the proposal to expand Avenidas and agreed to continue its hearing to a later date. Yes: Unanimous

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Exhibit “B”Downtown Palo Alto Business Improvement District Annual

BID Assessments

Retailers and Restaurants (100%)

Service Businesses (75%)

Professional Businesses (100%)

Lodging Businesses (50%)

Financial Institutions

$225.00 (Under 6 FTE employees) (50%) $170.00

$340.00 (6 to under 11 FTE employees) (75%) $260.00

$450.00 (11+ FTE employees) (100%) $340.00

$170.00 (Under 4 FTE employees) (50%) $130.00

$260.00 (4 to under 7 FTE employees) (75%) $200.00

$340.00 (7+ FTE employees) (100%) $260.00

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$ 60.00 (26% to under 1 FTE employees) (25%) $ 50.00

$110.00 (2 to 4 FTE employees) (50%) $ 90.00

$170.00 (5 to 9 FTE employees) (75%) $130.00

$225.00 (10+ FTE employees) (100%) $170.00

$225.00 (up to 20 rooms) (50%) $170.00

$340.00 (21 to 40 rooms) (75%) $260.00

$450.00 (41+ rooms) (100%) $340.00

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CITY OF PALO ALTO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the City Council of the City of Palo Alto Will Hold a Public Hearing at the Special Council Meeting on Monday, June 6, 2016 at 5:00 P.M., or as Near Thereafter as Possible, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California Declaring its Intention to Levy an Assessment Against Businesses Within the Downtown Palo Alto Business Improvement District for Fiscal Year 2017.

BETH MINOR City Clerk

ZONE A ZONE B (75%)

Note 1: For retail, restaurant, service, and professional businesses, size will be determined by number of employees either full-time or equivalent (FTE) made up of multiples of part-time employees. A full FTE equals approximately 2000 hours annually. Lodging fa-cilities will be charged by number of rooms available and financial institutions will be charged a flat fee.

Note 2: Second floor (and higher) businesses located within Zone A, will be assessed the same as similar street-level businesses located within Zone B.

Note 3: Assessment amounts are rounded to the nearest ten dollars. The minimum assessment will be $50.00.

PulsePOLICE CALLSPalo AltoMay 18-24Violence relatedArmed robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Theft relatedCommercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Embezzlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Vehicle relatedAuto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 7Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 6Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 4Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Alcohol or drug relatedDrinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Open container. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2MiscellaneousFound property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Illegal lodging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Misc. muni. code violation . . . . . . . . . . 1Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Noise complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Possession of switchblade . . . . . . . . . . 1Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Sex crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Terrorist threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Menlo ParkMay 18-24Violence relatedSpousal abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Theft relatedGrand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Vehicle relatedAbandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 2Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 2Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 3Vehicle stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Alcohol or drug relatedDriving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Open container in vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . 2Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2MiscellaneousFound property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Juvenile case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

VIOLENT CRIMESPalo Alto300 Pasteur Drive, 5/18, 8:57 p.m.; battery/simple.1899 Park Blvd., 5/19, 9:43 a.m.; robbery/armed.Colorado Avenue, 5/22, 1:10 p.m.; domestic violence/misc.Menlo Park400 block Pierce Road, 5/24, 8:16 a.m.; spousal abuse.


Margaret FruthMargaret Fruth, a Palo Alto resi-

dent and Palo Alto High School graduate, died on May 10, at Stan-ford Hospital from complications related to a traumatic brain injury. She was 65.

She was born on March 25, 1951, in India-napolis, Indiana, to Carroll and Catharine (Her-shey) Fruth. The second oldest of four siblings, she moved with her family to Smyrna, Georgia, and Burbank, California, before they settled in Palo Alto in 1959.

After graduating from Palo Alto High School in 1969, she attended Clark University, where she com-pleted her studies in 1973 with a double major in history and ge-ography. After, she lived in New York for several years, working as a workers’ compensation claims examiner. She later transferred to San Francisco.

Fruth met Ken Uhland at a Mensa party, and the two mar-ried in 1984. Following the birth of their only child, they relocated to Menlo Park, where Fruth served on the city’s Arts Commission for six years. She spent the last seven years of her life at the Palo Alto Commons.

Beginning in elementary school, she wrote creative prose and po-etry throughout her life, receiv-ing national writing awards and school scholarships and becoming a published poet. Active in educa-tion, she served on the governance council of the San Carlos Charter Learning Center and as press and public relations officer for Aurora High School. She was also a vocal opponent of the sale of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park.

She was predeceased by her husband, Ken Uhland, in 2004. She is survived by her compan-ion, Larry Wechsler of Palo Alto; daughter, Catharine Emma Her-shey (Kenneally Harder) of San Jose; sister, Pat (Stan) Severson of El Cerrito, California; sister, Cathy (Don Jr.) Matthews of West Bloomfield, Michigan; brother, Bob Fruth (Cynthia Finnell) of Seattle; niece, Mary Matthews of Rochester Hills, Michigan; niece, Elisabeth Severson (Meagan Be-mer) of Seattle; nephew, Donald Matthews III (Kate Hummel) of Findlay, Ohio; and nephew Zak Fruth of Seattle.

A memorial gathering was held on May 21 at the Palo Alto Friends Meeting in Palo Alto. A private sea scattering will take place at a later date. Memorial donations can be made to the Ramallah Friends School, a Par-kinson’s disease foundation of the donor’s choice, or the “532-Proof Fruth” team at the National Par-kinson Foundation’s second Mov-ing Day Silicon Valley on June 4 (tiny.cc/532ProofFruth).

Dorothy YenneyDorothy Gwendolyn Cull Yen-

ney, a Palo Alto resident since 1958, died on March 28, at the Palo Alto Commons, surrounded by her chil-dren. She was 94.

Also known as Dottie and GramDot, she was born on Feb. 13, 1922, in Fargo, North Dakota, to Jack Arthur and Net-tie Mildred Cull. Her parents’ youngest child and only daughter, she was active in her youth, riding horseback, skijoring, playing soft-ball and cello, and participating in farm activities, including egg deliveries. She went on to study at Carleton College, focusing her stud-ies in math and art (her major and minor, respectively).

After receiving her bachelor’s degree, she moved to Southern California to pursue a career in the aerodynamics industry. There she met Warren W. Yenney, also an aeronautical engineer, whom she married in 1954. From 1954 to 1958, their growing family lived in Mary-land, before settling in Palo Alto.

After starting a family, Yenney focused her energies on raising her three children, but she was also ac-

tive in various community organi-zations, namely the Palo Alto Art Club (now the Pacific Art League) and the Mother Singers choir.

An avid artist, she had paintings shown in a number of galleries and explored many stylistic approach-es and media, including classical oil and abstract acrylic painting and plaster-cast, stone and wood sculpture. She played cello in some productions of the Stanford Savo-yards. She also played softball with her kids and tried out tennis later in life, continuing to play regularly into her 80s.

Recently she spent time at Ave-nidas in downtown Palo Alto, and in 2013, she moved to the Palo Alto Commons. She will be remembered for her distinct style and sense of humor, according to her family.

She is survived by her three children, Jon Atwood Yenney of Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Heidi Lee Yenney of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Kris Yvon Yenney of Palo Alto; and five grandchildren, Jules, Robyn, Coleman, Lucy and Rachel.

A celebration of life will held on June 5 at 4 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, 505 E. Charleston Road, Palo Alto. In lieu of flowers, memorial do-nations can be made to an arts or conservation organization of the donor’s choice.

Frances Escherich, 99, a resident of Webster House in Palo Alto, CA, passed away peacefully in her home on May 17, 2016.

She was born October 31, 1916, in Ashtabula, Ohio, the second daughter of four children of Ralph Eller and Elizabeth Ylitalo Eller. She is the last of her immediate family.

Fran (as she was known) graduated from high school in Ashtabula, and Miller Business College in New York City; and attended Western Reserve University (now Case Western) and American University in Washington, D.C. She worked for Cleveland Trust where she became a loan officer. She applied to the FBI at the urging of her brother-in-law, a Special Agent, and was called to work on December 7, 1941. In 1944 she began training with the American Red Cross to go overseas. She then worked in Paris for a year in Home Service, and as hostilities ceased, she set up teletype stations with the help of the Signal Corps in Wiesbaden, Munich and Vienna.

Fran married overseas and had one daughter, Lindsay, who preceded her in death in 2007. After her divorce she worked as Executive Secretary to the President of the Farmers National Bank in Ashtabula, and in 1954 came to Palo Alto, CA, seeking a better public school for her daughter. She worked for Shalco Engineering as office manager until 1957. Fran then became confidential secretary to the first City Attorney until she retired in 1977. During her tenure with the City of Palo Alto, Fran codified the Palo Alto Municipal Code.

In 1964, she married Alfred Escherich (who preceded her in death in 2006). They were both very active in the community. Fran served on the boards of the Northern California Division of the Volunteer Service and of Gamble Garden Center. She was a member of the Gamble Executive Committee that wrote the bylaws and other organizational documents and also volunteered in the Gamble office. As a member of the Gamble Board of Directors, she was one of twenty who were recognized as “Founders”. Fran volunteered for her church, serving as chair of the Board of Trustees. She was well known for her organizational skills as well as her culinary gifts. Family members and friends gathered around the warm hospitality of the Escherich table over many years. During their lifetime, Fran and Al set up a Charitable Trust which provides a scholarship fund for needy students at UCLA and also benefits local charitable organizations.

She is survived by her two stepsons, Peter (Susan) of Riverside, Rhode Island, and A. Lonsdale (partner Luan Tran) of Portland, Oregon, and by two grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Fran was most appreciative of the kindness of friends and the messages of love and support during the last weeks of her life.

A Memorial Service will be held at the First Congregational Church, 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto, CA, on Friday, June 3, 2016, at 1:00 pm. A reception follows at the church.

Memorial contributions may be made to: First Congregational Church, 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto, CA 94305, or Gamble Garden Center, 1431 Waverley Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301.

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

Frances Escherich

CITY OF PALO ALTONOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a Public Hearing at the special meeting on Mon-day, June 6, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as pos-sible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to Request for City Council and Public Comments on a Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) and Fis-cal Study prepared for the Comprehensive Plan Update. The Draft Environmental Impact Report was published on February 5, 2016 for a public comment period that will end on June 8, 2016.

BETH MINORCity Clerk

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETINGof the City of Palo Alto

Historic Resources Board

8:30 A.M., Thursday, June 9, 2016, Palo Alto Council Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue. Plans may be reviewed at the Development Center at 285 Hamilton Avenue or online at: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/planningprojects; contact Alicia Spotwood for additional information during business hours at 650-617.3168.

Draft Professorville Historic District Design Guidelines - Informational Presentation to the Historic Resources Board. Board members and the public may provide comments on the draft guidelines. Final guidelines will be proposed for adoption at a future hearing. For additional information contact the planner, [email protected].

Amy French

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Mind blownEditor,

I am an eighth-grader at Jordan Middle School, and I was lucky enough to attend the first perfor-mance in the new Paly theater. The new Palo Alto High School Theater, I think, is a truly amazing addition to Palo Alto, as you men-tioned in your May 20 cover story.

My experience so far has been phenomenal and has blown my mind as to how the place of per-formance really changes the per-formance itself. Things like the amplification of the room and the awesome seating make it way bet-ter than Haymarket for me.

I know it was a costly project, but I think such a marvelous theater is worth it. I am looking forward to performing in it for the next four years in orchestra and drama.

James NielsenGreer Road, Palo Alto

A track recordEditor,

I’m writing to enthusiastically support Marc Berman for State Assembly.

As a mother of a toddler, I spend a lot of time at local parks in Palo Alto while my son plays with of his friends. Twice in the past year, fellow parents and I have noticed that unsafe conditions have been created due to heavy usage in the children’s playground areas. Both times, I reached out to Marc as my local council member. He im-mediately connected me with the right city staff so that the danger-ous areas were quickly fixed.

Marc’s proven track record means that as a member of the State Assembly he will be a re-sponsive representative for all of us. He also has the most thought-ful and visionary policy proposals of any candidate running.

Marc Berman has my vote. And if my son was old enough, Marc would have his vote too!

Martha BixbyKellogg Avenue, Palo Alto

Student, leaderEditor,

I first met Marc Berman over 20 years ago when he was a student in my journalism class at Palo Alto High School. Even back then, his leadership abilities and dedication to public service were evident.

Marc has gone on to a distin-guished career as an attorney, non-profit director and Palo Alto City Council member. As a teacher, I am particularly proud of his com-mitment to improving public edu-cation in our communities. At the Silicon Valley Education Founda-tion, Marc increased access to sci-ence, technology, engineering and math for underprivileged students so they’re prepared for careers in the 21st century economy.

Today, I see too many fellow teachers struggling to afford the high cost of living on the Peninsu-la. Marc has been a voice for them and an advocate for more afford-able housing and smart transpor-tation solutions.

That’s why I’m supporting Marc Berman for State Assembly District 24, and I encourage ev-eryone to visit www.voteberman.com to learn more about Marc.

Esther WojcickiTolman Drive, Stanford

Defining experienceEditor,

Californians Allied for Patient Protection (CAPP), a Sacramento-based interest group committed to keeping a cap on how much patients can receive for non-eco-nomic damages in medical mal-practice cases and largely funded by insurance companies, opposes the candidacy of Vicki Veenker for the State Assembly in District 24. In opposition mailers funded by its political action committee, CAPP alleges Veenker lacks the experience needed to represent the district in Sacramento, an un-fair and invalid accusation.

Having local government experi-ence is not the only way to become familiar with the issues our State legislature needs to address or with

the process of developing laws and public policy. Veenker has spent years as a volunteer and on the board of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, a nonprofit public interest legal group that provides both legal representation for the poor and advocacy on pressing so-cial issues. That includes work on fair housing, health legal services, representation of children and youth, and mental health advocacy. In addition, working as an attorney on contentious patent issues that sometimes involved multiple uni-versities and other stakeholders has made Veenker a skilled negotiator and expert at conflict resolution.

When questioned at a campaign meeting, Veenker asserted that this mailer was created by CAPP be-cause Veenker answered “never say never” when asked by CAPP if she was in favor of keeping the cap on malpractice compensation where it is now — and where it’s been for more than a decade. So even though she isn’t proposing to change the Medical Injury Compensation Re-form Act (MICRA) legislation that is so sacrosanct to CAPP, it wants her to adopt a rigid position against any changes to the cap. I, for one, wouldn’t want a representative who gave in to that sort of pressure.

Claire NoonanUniversity Avenue, Los Altos

SpectrumEditorials, letters and opinions

Our election endorsementsVote-by-mail ballots must be postmarked on or before Election

Day, June 7. They may also be turned in on Election Day to any polling place, or (for Santa Clara County residents) at Palo Alto City Hall or the Mitchell Park Library during normal business hours between now and Election Day. In addition, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on the next two weekends, ballots may be given to election officials stationed at the Mayfield Soccer Complex at El Camino Real and Page Mill Road.

Here are our recommendations:

State Assembly (24th District) Vicki Veenker (Dem)Of the eight candidates in the race, Palo Alto resident Vicki

Veenker offers an opportunity to send a woman to the Legislature who brings a unique blend of experience as a respected Silicon Val-ley intellectual property attorney and a public interest law advocate for the poor and disenfranchised through the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley.

(See the full editorial published on May 13.)

State Senate (13th District) Jerry Hill (Dem)(i)

United States Congress (18th District) Anna Eshoo (Dem)(i)

Board of Supervisors (District 5) Joe Simitian (i)

State Proposition 50 (Suspension of Legislators)

Yes This measure would amend the state Constitution to give the

Legislature the ability to suspend a member without pay or benefits on a two-thirds vote. It was placed on the ballot by the Legislature to enable an action short of expulsion when a member is charged with a crime. Currently, salary and benefits continue during a suspension.

Bay Area Measure AA (Parcel tax for Bay restoration)

Yes This measure would raise $25 million a year for the next 20 years

by imposing a parcel tax of $12 per year on the owners of every commercial and residential property in the nine Bay Area counties. The money would fund shoreline, marsh and wetland restoration, flood control measures and improved public access around the Bay. It requires a two-thirds vote to pass. Both business and environ-mental groups are supporting it.

County Measure A (Extension of parks fund)

YesSanta Clara County Measure A would increase the amount that

is set aside each year from property-tax collections for the county park fund and extend the program from 2021 to 2032. It is not a tax, but a requirement that a portion of taxes collected be allocated to park acquisition, operations, maintenance and improvement. The increase is from 1.425 to 1.5 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. The measure only requires a majority vote to pass.

Ravenswood School District Measure H(School bond measure)

Yes Voters in the Ravenswood City School District are being asked

to approve a $26 million bond measure to fund capital improve-ments at the district’s eight schools in East Palo Alto and portions of eastern Menlo Park. Measure H requires a 55 percent majority to pass. With $100 million in what the district’s master plan calls critically needed repairs, this bond measure will only scratch the surface in meeting the district’s long-deferred maintenance needs. New roofs, heating, ventilation, electrical, plumbing and fire safe-ty systems are among the improvements to be made in order to get the facilities up to an acceptable condition. The projected tax rate is $30 per $100,000 of assessed value, meaning that a property assessed at $700,000 would pay $210 annually. Measure H’s only flaw is that it isn’t asking for enough given the needs.

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Do you see a local business closing as a preventable tragedy or as a change in the times?Asked on California Avenue in Palo Alto. Interviews and photographs by Anissa Fritz.

Sarah BeaverSoftware designerBlackfield Way, Mountain View

“I feel conflicted because I’m the per-

son who makes the software that’s

responsible for this rift, so I see it as

something sad.”

Diogo MoreiraBusiness ownerCollege Avenue, Palo Alto

“If I have to go to one place, I’ll just

keep going. I don’t notice changes in

businesses.”

Erin McOmberSinger, voice teacherBryon Street, Palo Alto

“I tend to see it as a preventable trag-

edy depending on the business. I feel

like Palo Alto is close knit enough to

support small businesses.”

Joe SmartBankerLeavenworth Street, San Francisco

“I don’t see it as a tragedy. I see it as

an opportunity for something more

relevant to come along.”

Donna LevesqueRetiredCollege Avenue, Palo Alto

“It’s a tragedy. ... It’s because people

don’t buy the stuff (businesses) sell

because of technology. I’m not about

to get in my car and drive to another

location.”

by Astrid Maier

W e arrived in Palo A l t o

from Hamburg, Germany, on Aug. 6, 2015, with a 5-year-old daugh-ter who was proud to master writing her first name — MALINA — in somehow clumsy capital letters but could barely speak a sen-tence in English. We will be leaving Palo Alto on June 28 with a 6-year-old who cor-rects me when I make mistakes in English, has written her first books, knows the dif-ference between a hexagon and an octagon, and who wants to invent something “really cool” when she grows up.

What happened in between? My daughter went to an elementary school in Palo Alto.

You can meet with startup founders, talk to Stanford University professors and have coffee with venture capitalists to try to un-derstand Silicon Valley. Yet, if you want to really grasp what makes this special place thrive, sending your kid to a nearby public school is the shortest path into the heart of the Valley’s culture. Thinking big, being wholeheartedly techie and always aspir-ing to change the world — it all starts in kindergarten.

The full Valley experience starts for us every morning on our short walk to school. On the way, Malina meets and greets a lot of her new friends. And while my daugh-ter kisses me goodbye to begin her day in

Room 2, saying “Tsch ss” — German for “bye” — you can hear her classmates part-ing from their parents with “au revoir,” “zai jian” or “adios.” Every morning I feel as if my daughter is about to head off to a min-iature United Nations assembly.

That’s because Malina’s classmates’ parents resemble Silicon Valley’s overall population mix. A new study finds that 74 percent of all Silicon Valley tech workers age 25 to 44, such as many of the parents in Classroom 2, are foreign-born. And 51 percent of the Valley’s population over age 5 speaks a language other than exclusively English at home. This was according to a local newspaper report. The families at our school come to Palo Alto from countries such as France, Israel, China, India, Spain, Russia and Korea. And it is really impres-sive for me to see what an outstanding job the school has done to integrate everyone into the community.

For kids such as my daughter, who start the school year with poor command of the English language, our school brings in a special English teacher in the first months. For Malina, the school district even made an extra effort to find a na-tive German-speaking teacher for this purpose.

The school staff is exceptional, too: Ma-lina’s classroom teacher, Lisa, will go down in our family history forever as the one who sustained Malina through rocky times at the beginning. Thanks to Lisa, she has now grown into a curious and happy learner.

It’s in the system. Trying hard to inte-grate new arrivals — just as our school does with the youngest — pays off for the

whole area. Another new study (tinyurl.com/WSJBlog51) shows that 51 percent of the most valuable new companies were started by immigrants.

While schools in California are among the worst in the country, most public schools in Palo Alto score top levels. To overcome the shortages in California’s de-caying public school system, everyone here has agreed to a kind of a silent pact — to donate money.

Our school even has an anonymous donor who recently agreed to give $17 million for school renovations. The incredible flow of private money into the public school sys-tem means great teaching assistants, such as Anita, one of my daughter’s best friends on campus. And it means iPads, books and libraries as abundant as chalk stumps in German classrooms.

Of course, Malina has started to learn how to code here. Her teacher has provided parents with a password for an app that teaches kindergartners the basic principles of Java using a game. Malina loves this app. She plays it at home in the afternoon. The after-school program offers — for a fee — training in coding, design thinking and 3-D printing. While I don’t think all of this is necessary for elementary school kids, I get that tech savvy belongs here, just as Waldorf schools and clay pottery belong in Germany.

Yet, the most important ingredient, the one with all the Valley flavor to it, is the part money cannot necessarily buy: It’s the spirit.

Every Monday Malina’s teacher sends a blue note home with her, explaining what

the class did last week and what the plans are for the coming one. The other day it said they would focus on persuasive writ-ing, composing letters “to fix problems and change the world.” Had I read this when we first arrived here, I would have probably laughed and thought it to be a sign of your typical Valley grandeur. Ten months later I wholeheartedly appreciate this attitude. My daughter is learning how to read and write and do her first additions and subtrac-tions. But much more important to me, she has developed a self-assurance and stron-ger sense of her capabilities than any other school would have probably ever taught her back in Europe.

Back home Malina always wanted to be a singer when she grew up. Now, she wants to invent something. Malina’s year at a Palo Alto school has taught our whole family that Silicon Valley is less a spot on a map than a mindset.

There is always an opportunity to start something new and hopefully better. Any-one can aspire to change the world! Innova-tion is about psychology. If Europe doesn’t start adopting this attitude in our own ed-ucational systems, there’s really no point in Germany sending over whole troops of CEOs, politicians or other delegations to learn how to become more innovative, more like Silicon Valley. We have to start with our youngest.

Astrid Maier is a German journalist and currently a John S. Knight journal-ism fellow at Stanford. Before joining the program, Astrid was the tech editor for “manager magazin,” Germany’s leading business magazine.

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We love our city’s high schools, just as you do. We’re also worried about

them, and hope you’ll listen to our thoughts.

We’d like to relieve the stress and discouragement at our high schools—longstanding problems that have many causes, calling for a many-sided plan to fix them. Though it takes a little reading, we’re offering here just such a plan—Save the 2,008—because we share your wish for high schools that are for-ward-looking, life-enhancing, and vibrant.

Nothing can happen without the six of you, of course, because you’re at the helm of public education in Palo Alto—even if all of us, truly, as Superintendent McGee says, are in the same boat. As he reminds us, “We’re all in this together.” And we’re in it to lift up our kids.

Among our number (467 of us, names signed below), pooling do-nations to buy this space to spread the Save the 2,008 news, you’ll find Palo Alto parents and teenagers, business people and artists, rabbis and ministers, PAMF physicians and Stanford professors, Paly and Gunn alums, martial arts and yoga and music teachers, grandparents and grandchildren and people who are “names” in their fields.

But we’re far from being some great collective battleship that wants to bombard what’s wonderful about our high schools. And we’re far from blaming our schools for modern-day problems that have many sources. No, we’re just pulling our individual, 467 oars in sync, to-ward a shared destination reachable by a unifying plan.

Save the 2,008 would change ev-eryday life for the high-schooler who feels harried and behind from the moment the morning alarm goes off; for the parent whose workday thoughts stray to what’s happening, or not, on campus; for the couple who argue after dinner about the downsides of private school versus the downsides of public. And it will change life for school staff—faculty, administra-tors, counselors—who are daily backlogged with incoming emails,

incoming problems to iron out, and incoming, needy young faces.

Christened for the number of stu-dents and faculty at our city’s hard-est-hit high school two years back, when loss and frustration returned to shadow our school district, Save

the 2,008 was founded, as you know from our three open letters to you last year, by a high-school sopho-more and a former teacher, based on their daily experience in the trenches of school.

Our plan makes six commonsense proposals. While they’re not an all-or-nothing proposition, or meant to be adopted verbatim, they do make sense as a whole, and—again, like oars in sync—will move us forward with the greatest speed and smooth-ness and lasting impact.

The proposals would ease campus stress and discouragement, by:

1) Shrinking the largest class-es to a friendlier size. Classes at Gunn and Paly are routinely, im-personally, at 30 or more teenagers per room—much too crowded. Of all the ways to invigorate campus life, right-sizing classes is the most

powerful, because it’s “knowing that my teacher cares about me as a per-son” that makes each student feel inspired to learn. In smaller classes more hands get called on; homework is returned sooner, with richer feed-back; more one-on-one “mini-les-sons” occur. With their teaching loads at a more human scale, fac-ulty would have time to go to their students’ concerts, plays, and sports events—extracurricular TLC with a big pedagogical payoff. ~ Is money an object? Backers of the Cubberley “super school” were ready to help us this spring to the tune of millions.

2) Giving students a voice in homework loads via a new, confidential, teacher-friendly app. It would nightly crunch the numbers on actual minutes worked, would be

the missing tool to implement our homework policy, and could be built by our very own whiz-kids. Faculty could use it to avoid “test-stacking” and to compare their homework practices with colleagues’. And every morning, flashing on our schools’ electronic marquees, would be the Average Minutes of Homework Done by the Entire Student Body Last Night.

3) Requiring guidance coun-seling prior to enrollment in multiple APs. Not a red light, just a flashing yellow light of caution—to remind students and parents that: a) APs swallow up family time, friend-ship time, playtime, and sleep-time (indispensable to teen mental health); b) APs offer no proven edge for col-lege admissions; and c) there are hundreds of colleges and universities across the land that offer excellent life prospects. (Who knew about little Lu-ther College in Decorah, Iowa, cradle to eight Rhodes Scholars?)

4) Undoing our kids’ school-day involvement with texting and social media—by requir-ing that phones be turned off, first bell to last, as we do at our middle schools (exception for instructional use, of course), and by making our campuses more companionable. Even during class-time, furtively, our kids are plugged into the siren song of their phones—which bring them social comfort, join them to Twitter and Snapchat, but also leave them prey to gossip, ugly insults, and anonymous strangers. Schools that ban phone-use, says the London School of Economics, are showing improved test-scores. And for our teens, distracted learning is an en-couragement to distracted driving.

5) Curbing the bombardment of grade-reports—recently upped from every nine weeks to every three. This is information overload, push-ing our kids toward perfection even as what they most need, more often than we probably know, is a little time to heal—to rescue themselves from a social-emotional setback, a roman-tic rejection, a humiliation on social media, a parental rift or a death in the family, or from any bad case of the adolescent blues for which the best medicine is a little unscheduled time, a little taking it easy.

An Open Letter to the School Board and Superintendent

from residents and family members; students, alumni, and employees of the Palo Alto School District;

education and healthcare professionals and youth advocates

Six steps toward holistic change.

Creating hope for our high-schoolers.

YOU CAN ADD YOUR VOICE TO OUR CHORUS AT: savethe2008.com

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6) Eliminating the misery-inducing cheating that is committed by some 75% of our overburdened youngsters. Academic dishones-ty shouldn’t be the degraded atmosphere they’re obliged to breathe, just to run the race of school. Worsened by outsized workloads, continually countenanced, cheating damages self-esteem and churns up so much anxiety—paper after paper, test after test, for four years—that it erodes mental health.

More on the ins and outs of these proposals is at savethe2008.com.

Why six steps? Because many-sided, perpetual problems—such as ours with “student stress”—re-quire many-sided solutions. And because the steps mesh perfectly together, multiplying their effect.

It’s no good to open up more one-on-one time

in class, for example, if some of it’s wasted in teach-er-isn’t-looking, one-on-cellphone time. Likewise it would be cruel to “clamp down” on cheating if we didn’t help to lighten workloads. Too, teachers with less grade-reporting to do, less homework data to gather, will have more breathing room

for the tailored, individual tutelage that decreases any need to cheat. Faculty might even have time to make student-affirming, evening phone calls to mothers and fathers—better than grade-re-ports!—that would be threads in the re-stitching of our schools’ social fabrics.

And it’s wrong to cut kids’ attachments to their

phones unless we strengthen their classroom ties and give them meaningful connections to learn-ing that isn’t cheapened by fraud or devalued by a continual reminder that it’s only all about grades—learning they feel a passion for, learning that makes them feel good.

Make no mistake: we’re not accusing our schools of causing of all our problems. But our teenagers spend more time at school and doing schoolwork than anything else; and their four high-school years—from trembling frosh to been-there-done-that seniors—are a crucible of development that will grip them for many years to come, through decades of reunions. No, high schools don’t cre-ate teenage despair, and they cannot cure it; but there’s a tremendous amount they can do to make it more bearable, more survivable.

A grassroots coalition open to all.

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Though, at the hearing you granted Save the 2,008 last September, you embraced none of our action-steps, and though the Superintendent in-formed us last Oct. 12th, “We will not be returning the plan to the agenda for discussion and action,” we ask you to reconsider. Last fall we had only 353 members; now we have 467. You’ve welcomed a com-munity initiative to change a mid-dle-school name; ours is a similar, grassroots plea. Recently our group has been joined by Vicki Abeles (filmmaker of “Race to Nowhere”), by St. Louis physician Stuart Slavin (moving spirit behind lowered stress at medical schools nationwide), by Richard Freed (Gunn, ’82; ado-lescent psychologist and author of Wired Child), and by Matt Miles and Joe Clement, high-school teachers in Fairfax County, Virginia, where there’s been a teen mortality rate that matches ours.

Let’s do these six favors for our students. A high-schooler who isn’t

lost in classroom crowd, who can communicate confidentially to the teacher about homework loads, who hasn’t lost hours of sleep to APs, whose mind isn’t straying to social media during discussions of mitosis or “Macbeth,” who isn’t always un-der a G.P.A. gun, and who doesn’t have to make nightly decisions about cheating—such a young per-son will have a far less bumpy ride through adolescence and will feel less fear during the schoolday, much more joy.

We respectfully ask you to return Save the 2,008 to your agenda, for discussion and action. We honor the care and diligence that you bring to our shared public trust: the fate and condition of our schools. We’re rowing in the same direction you’ve already pointed—with last year’s ze-ro-period change and creative bell schedule—and these six proposals will bring further relief at no cost to our kids’ future prospects.

We call upon you as Palo Altans who are in the same boat we’re in, riding out the same sea of troubles. The shore is in sight, the lighthouse shines. Let’s pull together.

Lindsay OkamotoHeather OstromNancy Huddleston

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Caroline VericatCaroline VertongenMarc VincentiWalter VincentiBeverly WadeKeely WadeSteve WagmanManoj WaikarCarolyn WalworthJohn WandlingJames WangEmily WatkinsLarienne WeberLance WelshDenise WhiteJames WhiteKatie WhiteVirginia WhiteLynn WieseJoAnne & Bob WilkesLiliana WilliamsLisa (Whisnant) WillifordMelissa WilsonLaura WingardMary WolffJackie WyantLarry YangMeeLon YeeJessica YuMarina ZagoMila ZelkhaRoni ZeigerJin Zhang

Among the signers of this letter are at

least 51 parents and grandparents; 22 teachers

(from the PAUSD, Girls Middle School, Keys

School, Castilleja); 19 therapists, LMFTs, psy-

chologists and psychiatrists; eight physicians; six

Stanford professors of education; four rabbis;

four pastors; attorneys with Skadden, Arps,

with Cleary, Gottlieb, and with the City of Palo

Alto; martial-arts, self-defense, yoga, music,

and drama instructors; two former high-school

principals; a chief health strategist from Google;

a garden manager for Living Classroom; the

director of Stanford’s Genome Technology

Center; software engineers; venture capitalists;

an Academy Award winning filmmaker (Gunn,

’84); tutors with Avenidas; a senior communica-

tions officer for the Lucile Packard Foundation

for Children’s Health; a Florida psychologist &

national expert on suicide intervention; a St.

Louis pediatrician & national expert on reducing

stress in med schools; fiction and non-fiction

authors (on parenting, education); a retired

5th-grade teacher who, in memory of a girl

he’d taught, launched a petition to require

universities to publish data on student deaths;

the author of Beyond Measure and filmmaker

of “Race to Nowhere”; Paly and Gunn students

and alums.

Signed By:(Continued from previous page)

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You can add your voice to our chorus, with just the keystrokes of your name,

at savethe2008.com.

FACTS & FIGURES:

• According to 2015 District surveys by Challenge Success, the number of Paly and Gunn students who report being “often or always stressed by schoolwork” is 66%.

• According to District records released this school year, at Gunn and Paly during the fall semester there were 780 classes with 25 or more teenagers per room. There were 407 classes with 30 or more.

• According to District informa-tion provided for the Board meet-ing of 9/8/15, although our schools strongly recommend that students take no more than two AP courses, 680 Gunn and Paly students were enrolled in three, four, five or more.

• According to 2015 District surveys by Challenge Success, the number of Palo Alto high-schoolers who report being “often or always” prevented by schoolwork from get-ting enough sleep is 60%.

• According to a 3/20/15 state-ment by twenty PAMF pedia-tricians, printed in the Weekly, although teenagers need 9 hours of

sleep per night, the typical Palo Alto teen gets 6.5. (Over the course of a school year, then, that teen is losing the equivalent of 70 full nights of sleep.)

• According to a Nielsen study in 2011, the average American teenager was sending 3,417 texts per month. (Average girl, 3,952; average boy, 2,815.)

• According to a 2010 Pew study, in schools that allow students to use phones during passing-periods, prep periods, brunch and lunch, but forbid their use in the classroom—the policy on most U.S. campuses, including Gunn and Paly — 65% of students nevertheless manage to get on their phones in class.

• According to 2015 District surveys by Challenge Success, the number of Paly and Gunn students cheating at least once in the previous year was 81%. This included forbid-den collaboration on individual work (67%), copying others’ homework (54%), getting questions or answers from someone who’d already taken the test (40%), and plagiarism (37%).

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I f you stand in Palo Alto’s King Plaza on a blustery day, you may hear a wind chime, playing a

ghostly melody on the breeze (and at night the effect could be a bit spooky). Listen closer and you’ll pinpoint the sound to a pinewood structure that resembles a mod-est, cabin-style playhouse or garden shed. Reach out and touch a wall and suddenly you’re the musician, ringing out the notes and rhythms of the sonic sculpture. Meet

“Chime”: the city’s newest interactive piece of public art.

The Palo Alto Public Art Program has dedicated King Plaza as a space for ongoing, rotating temporary art exhibi-tions, according to program director Elise DeMarzo.

“We heard a lot of feedback from the community about wanting things that were interactive and playful, and that they’d like to see some change,” she said.

“Chime”’s multisensory com-bination of easily accessible vi-sual, auditory, and tactile elements made it particularly appealing as the city’s next installation. It’s easy enough for people of most any age, fitness level or musical ability to operate and enjoy. The piece, creat-ed by Oakland artist Dan Gottwald in collaboration with Scott Wat-kins, was installed in Palo Alto on May 16 and will be in residence outside of City Hall until August.

“It’s the kind of project I’ve been dreaming up for a long time — a great big community xylophone,” Gottwald said. But he realized that he had to modify the public-xylo-phone concept to avoid the need for a mallet or other external striking device, which could prove danger-ous. Instead, he designed the piece with internal percussive elements, so that with a simple push to one of the exterior panels, an inner pendu-lum is activated, which strikes one of the metal, tubular chimes (the fourteen chimes are tuned to notes a fourth apart from each other, in the key of C). The pendulum then swings back and forth, gently rock-

ing the curved panels and continuing the sounds, depending on the pressure of the push. The inviting, homey shape of the structure says, “It’s OK, you can touch this. It’s gonna do something, there’s a musical payoff,” Gottwald said.

For an art installation in such a high-tech city, the mechanical workings of “Chime” are refreshingly analog. Perhaps ironi-cally, Gottwald actually has a degree in electronic music. “But I’m way more in-terested, musically, in acoustic phenomena and how humans make those happen,” he said. Interaction with “Chime” is “a real, embodied experience” rather than a me-diated one via a digital interface, he said. “It’s an intimate experience when you use ‘Chime’ or hang out next to ‘Chime.’ It’s really rewarding,” he added. Gottwald has also contributed work to Oakland’s Mega-polis audio-art festival, and created the Analogous Ensemble, a collection of his musical-instrument sculptures designed to foster experimentation and collaboration. “It verges on performance art,” he said, and all his work is interdisciplinary, blur-ring the lines between sculpture and music, always encouraging touch and play.

“Chime” was conceived out of conver-sations between Gottwald and Watkins, whose background is in business and public policy, when they were room-mates at Oakland’s Mills College. The pair pondered how they could combine Watkins’ experience in urban design with Gottwald’s in sculpture and music to cre-ate public art. When Watkins heard about San Francisco’s Market Street Prototyp-ing Festival (dedicated to ideas for making public spaces more vibrant and engaging), he saw an opportunity — one Gottwald was initially skeptical about, unsure his vi-

sion would be well received. “I thought, who’s gonna want a great

big musical instrument? It’s a ridiculous idea,” he admitted. But with Watkins’ encouragement and assistance, the team made “Chime” a reality. The “ChimeSF” project was picked up by that festival for a two-year installation on Market Street in preparation for the revamping of the street in 2018. DeMarzo saw it at the Prototyping Festival and came away captivated by “this idea of community engagement through a musical sculpture,” DeMarzo said, and be-lieving, “there’s sort of a magical element that that piece could bring” to Palo Alto.

“As I watched people interact with it in San Francisco, I saw that someone may be looking at it from one side and think-ing about pushing it, then they can see the panels moving on the other side and you get this ‘aha!’ moment when (people on both sides) are making music together,” she said.

On a recent day as gusts of wind in King Plaza set “Chime”’s pendulums gently into motion, kids whizzing by on scoot-ers stopped, intrigued, and began pushing on the panels with increasing abandon and glee, creating a wild glissando.

Playing or composing a formal tune on the sculpture is possible, Gottwald said, but so far his musical experience with “Chime” has been largely improvisational.

“I tend toward not trying to control any-body. It’s pretty interesting to me to have a place where it’s its own composition right there,” he said. “If you find a song or a way to operate it that you like and you want to keep going, I’m all for it, but the composi-tion is the structure itself.”

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

‘Community xylophone’ installed in King Plaza

by Karla Kane

photos by Veronica Weber Scott Watkins, one of the creators of “Chime,” an interactive sound installation, stands beside the piece outside of Palo Alto City Hall.

A push to one of “Chime”’s external panels sets an internal pendulum into motion, which strikes a metal chime.

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In wrapping up its 60th season with the most-performed op-era in the world’s repertory, it

would have been easy to replay one of West Bay Opera’s nine pre-vious productions of “Madama Butterfly.”

Instead, the always inventive Palo Alto company chose to inject some new ways to understand the story, making it more compelling. It also brought together a strong, experi-enced foursome of principal singer-actors, produced a surprisingly lush orchestral sound with only 23 play-ers, utilized some of Silicon Valley’s cleverest computer-generated video and still imagery, and allowed its director to insert some well-acted silent pantomime to give a nuanced personality to a protagonist nor-mally considered one of the most shameless cads in all opera.

Audiences may come for some of greatest tunes composer Giaco-mo Puccini ever wrote, but they’ll quickly be engaged by the building dramatic tension crafted by stage director Eugene Brancoveanu.

Written in the first years of the 20th century, when America was beginning to flex its imperialist muscles in the Pacific, “Madama Butterfly” tells the story of a U.S. Navy officer stationed in Nagasaki, Japan. Lt. Pinkerton is oblivious to his callow, swaggering racism. His raging passion for 15-year-old Cio Cio San (Butterfly) leads him to lease a house for 999 years and marry her “until he can wed a real American wife.” The American consul, Sharpless, warns Pinkerton that the young geisha is totally com-mitted to him.

By the second act, three years later, the abandoned Butterfly (now with a 3-year-old boy she calls Sor-row), is destitute. Sharpless comes to say he has had a letter implying that Pinkerton was getting married and not likely to return. However,

he cannot persuade Butterfly to marry a rich prince who wants her. Instead she tells Sharpless to relay that Pinkerton has a son.

Pinkerton and his new wife, Kate, come to take the boy back. Butterfly, in her anguish, chooses to “die with honor rather than live in shame” by stabbing herself just as Pinkerton returns.

The splendid cast features Rus-sian-trained Olga Chernisheva, whose big, warm coloratura tones excelled in the big arias like “Un bel di vedremo” (“One fine day, we’ll see”) and the wrenching, beautiful final duet with Pinkerton. Veteran tenor Paul Gustafson has a strong, expressive vocal instrument that blends perfectly with Chernisheva. Both have sung these roles several times together at other venues.

Suzuki, Butterfly’s long-suffer-ing maid, is sung by Kristin Choi, who possesses a powerful mezzo voice. She’ll reprise Suzuki next year with Washington National Opera. Baritone Igor Vieira brings compassion and wisdom to the role of Sharpless, with resonant tone and stage presence.

Tenor Michael Desnoyers sings Goro, the marriage broker and real estate operator. Kiril Havezov’s strong bass baritone captures the role of Butterfly’s angry Uncle Bonzo, who banishes her from Japanese society. Ryan Bradford looks the role of handsome Prince Yamadori but his voice needs a bit more heft.

Kate Pinkerton is sung by so-prano Carolyn Bacon. This role was substantially augmented by the director’s decision to turn the normally static, off-stage chorus intermezzo before the third act into a dramatic pantomime. In a well-acted flashback showing the receipt by Pinkerton of Sharpless’ letter re-vealing the existence of the child, Kate learns for the first time about

her husband’s first “family.” The self-indulgent, arrogant Pinkerton dissolves in regret for what he has done, even reaching for his service revolver perhaps to do himself in. Kate runs through a series of emo-tions, ultimately deciding to have them both go to Japan and adopt the boy. In the opera’s final mo-ments, traditional staging usually has Butterfly stab herself before Pinkerton’s arrival. In this produc-tion, the actual stabbing takes place in his presence. While Pinkerton attempts unsuccessfully to restrain her, Butterfly reaches for his gun holster, removing the gun as the fi-nal crescendo of the opera is heard, and the curtain falls. This last direc-torial touch seems like an awkward overreach, but most of Brancove-anu’s other interventions work well.

The creative team is led by gener-al director and conductor Jose Luis Moscovich. The set staging is by

Peter Compton, who had a triumph with West Bay’s recent “Evgeny Onegin.” His color palette suggests the flat tones of Japanese woodcut master Hiroshige. Frederic Bou-lay, projection designer, took some of the latest video software from Adobe to make a ship sail into the harbor, creating ripples on the water with ever-changing cloud patterns. It even permitted the falling leaves to descend with the pace of the mu-sic. Lighting designs by Edward Hunter also reflected the musical score’s range of moods.

Pinkerton’s shaggy orange-blonde wig didn’t look like some-thing a spit-and-polish Navy would permit. But it was echoed in the hairpiece worn by his 3-year-old offspring. This lad is strikingly por-trayed with a confident panache by a 7-year-old girl, Zoe G. Lai.

Like several of Puccini’s other tragic heroines, “Madama Butter-

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It’s sad news for the sculpture’s fans, many of whom have strolled through its passageways and peeked through its doors and windows over the

years. Kienzle said the piece, which resembles a large nest or basket, has been exceedingly popular with patrons.

“For the past five years we have seen people just fall in love with that artwork,” she said. “It’s univer-sally beloved and captured the imagination of our community.”

Because of its popularity, Kienzle said the art cen-ter wants to give the community a chance to take a last look (and maybe one last selfie) and say good-bye to “Double Take” with some degree of celebra-tion. There will be a “destruction ceremony” held on site June 12, 3-4 p.m., with a few speeches, some hands-on art activities, and the start of the sculp-ture’s demolition.

However, there will be happier news for Dough-erty fans announced as well. Kienzle said a plan is in place to bring Dougherty back in November to create a new willow sculpture, with a little financial help from some friends.

The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation plans to em-bark on a crowdfunding campaign to raise $15,000

toward the costs of the new piece (estimated price tag is around $60,000, including the artist’s fee and the necessary materials to support the large, outdoor work). Anyone will be able to contribute to the on-line campaign, which will be set up in early June.

The Palo Alto Public Art Commission has also agreed to contribute $15,000 to the project after hearing Kienzle’s presentation at its May 19 meet-ing, making it a joint endeavor between the two groups (other gifts and grants will make up the rest of the funding).

— Karla Kane

Code: ART coming to downtown Palo Alto next year

Palo Alto is preparing to turn downtown into an interactive “creative laboratory” for three days next year as part of a new program to crowdsource ideas from the community that could transform underuti-lized alleyways and corridors into engaging public spaces.

The city’s Public Art Commission learned on May 19 that the Palo Alto Public Art Program is moving ahead with the launch of Code: ART with support from a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The program will bring two temporary public art installations and eight urban art interven-tions, or “prototypes,” to various locations through-out downtown for the public to explore during a three-day festival in June 2017.

Those attending the festival will get to provide feedback on which prototypes they’d like to see de-veloped in downtown.

“This is an opportunity for us to bring different groups together to re-imagine some of these under-utilized spaces into places that will stimulate inter-action between people,” Public Art Program Direc-tor Elise DeMarzo said.

The concept for Code: ART came from San Francisco’s Market Street Prototyping Festival that launched in 2015. The festival unveiled 50 exhibits that were being considered for the redesign of the Market corridor.

DeMarzo said the Palo Alto festival will be small-er than San Francisco’s but will use the same out-reach strategy to help determine which installations could become permanent.

Code: ART is part of a larger, long-term plan to integrate more art into Palo Alto over the next 10 years as outlined in the Public Art Master Plan that was approved on May 19 by the Public Art Commis-sion and is going to the City Council in August.

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NEWISH JEWISH CAFE TO OPEN THIS SUMMER ... Construction is in full swing at Palo Alto JCC’s Town Square, officially called Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, located at 3921 Fabian Way at the intersection of Charleston and San Antonio roads. Workers are busy creating a new Jewish restaurant in the Palm Court area of the JCC that will feature, among other items, pastrami, blintzes and knishes. “We’re opening this restaurant based on the need for a Jewish deli in the area,” said JCC CEO Zack Bodner. The restaurant, called Nourish, A Newish Jewish Cafe, replaces the four-year-old Cafe on the Square. Nourish is the brainchild of Bodner. “A lot of us grew up with Jewish delis in our neighborhoods, but now many are gone,” he said. Although the new menu is still being perfected, Bodner explained, “It will feature flavors from New York, Tel Aviv, and the Bay Area. We’ll have things like corned beef sandwiches, matzah ball soup, lox and bagels. When it’s Purim, we’ll have hamantaschen; when it’s Hannukah, we’ll have latkes. And there will be kosher items, too. That’s the beauty of having our own restaurant here.” The menu also will feature soups, salads, and artisan pizza, as well as traditional Israeli food consisting of hummus, falafel and Israeli salads. The major part of the $1 million-plus construction is building the full-service kitchen. “The old cafe didn’t have the capacity for a kitchen. We’ll have a real grill and an artisan pizza oven,” Bodner said, adding, “It’s going to be a real restaurant with a new brand and a new look.” Nourish, scheduled to open July 17, will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. PINK POSY OPENS AT STANFORD ... After nearly six months of delays, a new bakery opened last month at the Stanford Shopping Center. Pink Posy now occupies the

550-square-foot space that had been vacant for four years after the previous tenant, Fiori Artful Floral Design, moved out of the mall. The small space has been redone into a dazzling display of handcrafted cakes, pies, cookies and lunch items. The interior is simply but elegantly bathed in varying shades of white, accented by a stark white quartz counter and white quartz tabletops. Although the space is small with room for just a few tables, the bakery leases a 1,400-square-foot kitchen two buildings away, where all the pastries are baked fresh and walked over. Pink Posy, known mostly for its wedding cakes when it was a home-based business in Redwood City for several years, also has an espresso bar. MIDTOWN FLORIST FORCED OUT ... A venerable Midtown retailer is the latest to fall victim to rising rents, Nature’s Alley, a floral design shop, located in the Midtown Shopping Center, 2600 Middlefield Road, will close June 7 after an impressive 16 years in business. “Almost all the tenants here whose leases were up got a rent hike. Most were able to renegotiate their leases. I couldn’t afford it,” said Nature’s Alley owner Karen Froniewski. “I knew it was going to happen, I just didn’t know when,” she said of the rent increase and subsequent closing of her business. The 900-square-foot-space has a rich history. It used to be the storeroom for the former Midtown Pharmacy, which closed in 1995, and long before that, it was an outdoor patio that had a small window for post office transactions, according to Froniewski. Currently a Sunnyvale resident, Froniewski plans to move to Florida.

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Fine art‘Texture + Flow’An exhibition of Kathleen Mitchell’s intensely colorful acrylic paintings of landscapes both real and imagined will open on Tuesday, May 31, and continue through June 26 at Viewpoints Gallery, 315 State St., Los Altos (artist’s reception Friday, June 3). The gallery is open Monday-Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Go to viewpointsgallery.com.

Musical theater‘Songs for a New World’A collaboration between Stanford University’s music department and the student-theater company At the Fountain Theatricals, “Songs for a New World” is a gospel- and folk-music influenced musical tapestry of stories, composed by Broadway’s Jason Robert Brown. The free show will be performed at Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, on Friday, May 27, and Saturday, May 28, at 7:30 p.m. plus a special matinee/talk-back performance on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Go to arts.stanford.edu/event/songs-for-a-new-world/.

Chamber music‘From Bohemia’s Fields and Groves’The New Esterházy Quartet will perform a concert of music by Czech composers Antonin Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana on Sunday, May 29, at 4 p.m. at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 555 Waverley St., Palo Alto. According to the program notes, the music of Dvořák and Smetana is imbued with a definite Czech spirit,

with the composers sharing “an awareness of the Czech nationalism that was struggling with Austrian political and cultural hegemony in the latter 19th century.” Tickets are $10 student/$20 senior/$25 general admission. Go to newesterhazy.org/.

Murder mystery‘An Appointment with Death’Murder, she wrote! Agatha Christie’s beloved mustachioed sleuth Hercule Poirot takes the stage in Foothill College’s adaptation of this story of murder among tourists in the Holy Land, in celebration of Christie’s 125th birthday. Performances run through June 10, Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; and Sundays at 2 p.m. (no show on May 29). Tickets are $10-$20. Go to foothill.edu/theatre/current.php.

Community festivalEast Palo Alto Arts & Music FestThe fifth-annual East Palo Alto Arts & Music Fest, featuring art and graffiti workshops, a T-shirt station, interactive booths, a skate competition, multicultural food, and live music (including a performance by Soji & Edgardo), will be held Saturday, May 28, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Bell Street Park, East Palo Alto. The free, family-friendly event is sponsored by The East Palo Alto Youth Arts and Music Center Project, Live In Peace, Inc, YAMC’s Youth Action Team, a variety of local artists, and the City of East Palo Alto, with the goal of fostering civic pride and community spirit. For more information, visit facebook.com/events/564133723746877/ or email [email protected].

WorthaLookOn stage‘Bat Boy: The Musical’The tabloid-inspired story of a half-bat, half-human creature trying to fit in with civilized life (set to a beat-driven rock-music score), “Bat Boy: The Musical,” presented by the Los Altos Stage Company, opens this week and continues through June 25. Performances take place Wednesdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. and on Sundays at 3 p.m. (no show May 29) at the Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Tickets are $18 for students, $30 for adults. Go to losaltosstage.org/bat-boy-the-musical/.

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Rachel Weisz and Colin Farrell play soulmates in “The Lobster,” an absurdist romantic comedy.

Has the superhero bubble at last popped? The “X-Men” fran-chise, at least when in the hands of original director Bryan Singer, has tended to be a reliably smart and thrilling universe with a dy-namic cast of characters played grandly by top-tier talent. “X-Men: Apocalypse” sees Singer return for his fourth go-round, and although he and his team have X-Men sto-rytelling down to something of a science, that experience can also translate to something very like complacency.

Singer has billed “X-Men: Apocalypse” as “the true birth of the X-Men,” but the truth is that there’s hardly a character beat in it that we haven’t already seen played out in some way in this series. The earlier “X-Men” from 2000 had fresh and exciting storytelling and thematic imperatives as Singer and company established the universe and its social allegory. Five films later (not counting two “Wolver-ine” spinoffs and “Deadpool”), the franchise still has Singer’s style, spectacle to spare, and a cool toy box for playdates — though Pat-rick Stewart’s version of Professor X and Ian McKellen’s version of Magneto aren’t invited this time. Their inheritors, however, are back: James McAvoy as X and Michael Fassbender as Magneto.

They’re joined by a sprawling cast of heroes and villains (which, at 16, by my count, ties “Captain Ameri-ca: Civil War,” but who’s counting?) for what should be the equivalent of a page-turning comic-book adven-ture. To be fair, it comes mighty close. The story concerns the first and most powerful mutant, En Sa-bah Sur, aka “Apocalypse,” setting out to wipe out lesser humanity unless friendlier mutants can stop him. We meet the power-amplifying Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) in 3600

Hoult, only occasionally overtaken by hair and makeup), as well as Lu-cas Till’s Havok, and Rose Byrne’s CIA agent (and Professor X love in-terest) Moira MacTaggert. New, but distinctly familiar, recruits include the teenage versions of Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Jean Grey (Sophie Turner of “Game of Thrones”), and Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee).

Singer has shown a knack for elevating this kind of pop-culture material, but “X-Men: Apoca-lypse” noticeably strains to con-vince us of its import as it unfolds in 1983 with the superficial politi-cal resonance of a “nuclear scare” motif. Worse, screenwriter Simon Kinberg fumbles some nonsensi-cal character motivations and plot points that tie logic in knots, and Singer doesn’t drive “Apocalypse” with the same dispatch that saved predecessor “Days of Future Past” from such real-time scrutiny.

For all its failings, including the crime of not being exhilarating, “X-Men: Apocalypse” remains a competent sci-fi action flick. And there’s no denying the film’s dazzling superpowers and global-scale spectacle.

Superhero junkies probably won’t feel they’ve wasted their time, and “X-Men: Apocalypse” dutifully meets the minimum requirement of keeping the franchise afloat while introducing new characters and re-introducing others.

Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence, action and destruction, brief strong language and some suggestive images. Two hours, 24 minutes.

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It’s a dog-eat-dog world, so they say — a veritable jungle out there. And dating often stokes the “thrill of the chase,” or, in other words, the hunt. We may be at the top of the food chain, but that doesn’t mean we’re not animals, a notion filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos playfully employs in his absurdist romantic comedy “The Lobster.”

Die-hard cineastes may know Lanthimos already, from his Greek-language stunner “Dog-tooth” (or perhaps even his follow-up “Alps”), but this time, Lanthi-mos has international movie stars for his English-language debut. The film’s publicity materials de-scribe the setting as a “dystopian

near future,” but I’m not sure Lan-thimos and co-writer Efthymis Filippou would say the same. Af-ter all, no noticeable difference in fashion or technology tips the story to a future setting. It’s more of an absurdist alternate universe alle-gorizing how we live now, without any need for futuristic trappings.

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that’d be a lobster, for reasons he’s given considerable thought. The early scenes establish a pitiless process: “Guests” must register as heterosexual or homosexual, get literally stripped of their dignity, and are issued a tranquilizer gun and darts for daily “Most Danger-ous Game-”style hunts of “Loner” refugees living in “The Woods.”

Those who think they’ve found their match, or at least insist they have, get a honeymoon on a yacht before relocation to “The City.” If they encounter relationship trou-

bles, they are “assigned children ... to get past the fighting and argu-ing.” As you might imagine, there are some flaws in this world’s logic, but regular propaganda ses-sions (contrasting playlets “Man Eats Alone” and “Man Eats With Woman,” for example) reinforce the mating-game parameters and how to win at life. Through it all, Lanthimos applies an amusing indirect sarcasm to his implicit critique of the real-world societal pressure on single people to pair up on the clock.

With suspense-film scoring and a skin-crawlingly deliberate pace, Lanthimos wrings every bit of dull horror from his allegory, pitting

his pathologically numb sad souls — with their prevailingly autistic, if not robotic, manners — against each other more often than not. David nominally befriends same-boat characters played by John C. Reilly and Ben Whishaw (both as terrific as we’ve come to expect), but the relationships inevitably sour under the circumstances, and David eventually finds an appar-ent soulmate (Rachel Weisz, who also provides the acidic, novelistic narration).

With deadpan modern-art pre-cision, “The Lobster” investi-gates the nature of our need for a partner (who else will apply that pain-relief cream to the small of

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your back?), how we cling to su-perficial similarities to justify our matches, and our denial, at our peril, of our animal nature.

R for sexual content including dialogue, and some violence. One hour, 58 minutes.

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

The Angry Birds Movie 1/2On Bird Island, flightless birds live mostly in harmony. Ever-ticked-off Red (Jason Sudeikis) winds up in an anger-management class populated by hulking Terence (Sean Penn), speedy Chuck (Josh Gad) and volatile Bomb (Danny McBride). But when hungry green pigs steal the birds’ eggs, necessitating a frantic extended-climax rescue, the film starts to legitimize Red’s anger. It’s unfortunate that females are so marginalized here, but as long as people are going to waste time on “Angry Birds,” they may just as well do it this way. Rated PG for rude humor and action. One hour, 37 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed May 20, 2016)

The Man Who Knew Infinity In “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” writer-director Matthew Brown sets out with the arresting true story of extraordinary

mathematician Srinavasa Ramanujan. With gaping earnestness, Dev Patel plays the autodidact whose persistence won him a passage from East Indian obscurity to the University of Cambridge in 1913. Ramanujan soon meets his mentor, G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), who helps to push forward the student’s work as the befuddled Cambridge dons dismiss it out of racism or because of Ramanujan’s habit of not showing work in proofs. Ramanujan’s faith proffers a mystical contrast to Hardy’s avowed atheism, but by reducing them to familiar archetypes, Brown relies on Irons’ nuance and Patel’s lack thereof to fill in the gaps. A more complex meeting of minds and souls and a deeper dive into the mathematics might have been much more interesting than the dully inspirational “The Man Who Knew Infinity.” Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements and smoking. One hour, 48 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed May 13, 2016)


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NEW STORE OPENING ... Two Stanford business school alumni, Christina Bryant and Steph Peng, will open their second home decor store, St. Frank, the first week in June. The luxury home goods store will open in Town and Country Village and offers a selection of bohemian pieces and handcrafted housewares.. One novelty is the store will feature a bar where guests can relax and enjoy their surroundings with a complimentary beverage while they check out. Handmade Vietnamese handkerchiefs will be available as a gift with purchase while supplies last for the first shoppers. The store will also debut its boxes and trays and first collection of wallpaper, as well as colorful cactus silk rugs, hand-dyed pillows, upholstered furniture, and framed handmade textiles showcasing intricate embroidery and traditional weaving

INSPECT THE CREEK ... Acterra will be checking the water quality of San Francisquito Creek this Saturday May 28 from 9 a.m. to noon. The group will be working at different sites on San Francisquito Creek which are several miles apart. Volunteers of all ages are welcome; minors under 18 require a signed waiver and children under 12 require an accompanying adult. Starting at the trailhead to The Dish on Alpine Road and Piers Lane, the group will visit five sites along San Francisquito Creek to gather data on pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, specific conductance and turbidity. Please arrive on time as we will leave the Dish Trailhead when we finish monitoring there and carpool to the other sites on the creek. Meet at the dirt pullout at Alpine Road and Piers Lane, the trailhead to The Dish. Contact [email protected] for more information or to register groups larger than four.

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Interior designer Kit Davey has advised hun-dreds of clients on paint colors for their homes

and front doors. Some people are bold and take risks with a bright orange or a shade of green that reminds them of a forest. Oth-ers stick with a beige house, with a dark beige door.

Real estate agents, Davey said, like “safe” colors like white or hunter green. And, as far as they are con-cerned, orange is not the new black. Black is actually a trendy neu-tral now.

So what about those orange or bright gold or turquoise doors start-ing to pop up around the Midpeninsula?

The first thing to know, she said, is “there is no rule of thumb.” But, if you are selling your home, your Realtor may tell you differently.

“If you’re a Real-tor, the Realtor would say ‘play it safe,’ with black, forest green or navy,” she said.

What about comple-mentary colors, like orange and blue?

“I don’t get into color theory (using an art-ist’s color wheel) with a front door,” Davey said. Rather, the client needs to find a color that makes them hap-py. Perhaps it’s a color that goes with seasonal flowers in the garden, or even the car that’s parked in the driveway.

“It has a lot to do with the client’s personality,” Davey said, how private they are, how risk-averse or how will-ing to take risks they are.

She notes that people shouldn’t look at the door in isolation.

“It’s more of a holistic thing. It’s not about the door,” she advised.

Getting samples from a paint store is a good idea, but only after the colors have been nar-rowed down to shades such as greens or blues or oranges. Small swatches can be painted on the door, or you can stand back and hold sam-ples against the palette of your yard. Many paint companies also group colors that go

together so you can pick a trio of colors like a stucco color, wood window trim color and door color.

What color is Davey’s front door? She’s on her sixth door color, a lilac-purple

accented by a purple bench and purple shut-ters. Her house is seafoam green.

The best thing about painting your front door, she said, is “it’s a job you can do your-self. I just use the (old) paint as the primer.”

Paint company Sherwin Williams adver-tises a door paint that gives instant gratifica-tion, as it dries in only an hour so you could potentially paint your door and have guests

for dinner that eve-ning walking through a newly painted front door.

But Davey doesn’t advise making your decision too quickly.

Architecture can definitely play a role in painting the door, she said. For example, a French Tudor home might not lend itself to an orange door, but a Midcentury Modern Eichler would look spectacular with its clean lines and gen-erally neutral wood walls.

“I would suggest just start driving around and see what you like,” Davey said, or look up old issues of Sunset magazine. “Start doing some research in three dimensions, then go to the paint store, and then you’re not random about it.”

Just the names of ex-terior door colors are enough to inspire. At Benjamin Moore, one of their paint prod-ucts known as Grand Entrance, specifically formulated for exte-rior doors, has colors named Amalfi Coast (a deep Tahoe blue) or 10 Downing Street (a tra-ditional British black).

“I think that the front door of a per-son’s house has always offered an opportunity for a homeowner to add a bit of their own personality to the ex-terior entrance,” said Menlo Park architect Kelly Johnson, who designs homes but of-ten gets consulted on paint colors. Some-

times, she said, the homeowner wants a pop of color to say “Right here: front door. Wel-come!” Other times, they might want to make everything from the window trim to the door look unified with a more matched palette.

Johnson said while there is no right answer, both the style of the door and the color of the door should be considered carefully since the person likely goes through that door a few times a day.

Home & Real Estate Editor Elizabeth Lorenz can be emailed at [email protected].

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HOME SALESHome sales are provided by California RESource, a real es-tate information company that obtains home sales data from local county recorders’ offices. Information is recorded from deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to eight weeks.

Atherton 49 Douglass Way Puccini Trust to Gaotree Investment for $3,200,500 on 04/14/16; built 1952, 3bd, 2,030 sq. ft.

East Palo Alto 236 Azalia Drive Manning Trust to L. Jimenez for $625,000 on 04/12/16; built 1951, 2bd, 860 sq.ft.2647 Fordham St. T. Anaya to R. Delgado for $490,000 on 04/13/16; built 1953, 3bd, 1,010 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/28/2001, $420,0002887 Fordham St. M. Field to A. & S. Deo for $750,000 on 04/15/16; built 1953, 7bd, 2,016 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/06/1998, $240,0002647 Gonzaga St. Williams Trust to H. Trinh for $665,000 on 04/12/16; built 1952, 3bd, 1,030 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/1977, $30,2002178 Henry Court J. Browning to J. & C. Evans for $1,000,000 on 04/12/16; built 1997, 4bd, 2,080 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/29/2008, $560,000475 Larkspur Drive O. Hurd to W. Tang for $727,000 on 04/14/16; built 1954, 3bd, 1,020 sq. ft.2330 University Ave. #120 R. Krishna to S. Bhuiyan for $555,000 on 04/14/16; built 2006, 2bd, 981 sq. ft. (previous sale 02/22/2006, $445,000)

Los Altos633 Almond Ave. A. Bourgan to Wang Trust for $4,148,000 on 05/03/16; built 1938, 4bd, 3,208 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/05/2014, $3,125,000832 Carmel Ave. Wang Trust to I. & A. Field for $2,398,000 on 05/11/16; built 1947, 3bd, 1,916 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/31/2009, $1,320,000688 Coral Court R. Renfrew to B. Longmier for $3,050,000 on 05/10/16; built 1954, 4bd, 1,993 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/04/2012, $1,200,0001417 Country Club Drive P. Gruenstein to M. Lissauer for $3,425,000 on 05/03/16; built 1953, 6bd, 2,876 sq. ft.;previous sale 05/22/1998, $1,049,000406 East Edith Ave. Moore Trust to H. Tang for $3,620,000 on 05/11/16; built 1957, 3bd, 2,855 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/29/1999, $1,660,000638 Lincoln Ave. Kline Trust to N. Vora for $2,400,000 on 05/09/16; built 1945, 3bd, 1,050 sq. ft.620 Magdalena Ave. M. Logan to H. & S. Stirman for $2,775,000on 05/06/16; built 1952, 4bd, 2,953 sq. ft.; previ-ous sale 07/27/1989, $750,000840 Mora Drive J. & L. Mc-Mullen to Sinha Trust for $4,600,000 on 05/05/16; built5, 4bd, 4,051 sq. ft.524 Orange Ave. J. Vantas-sel to F. & K. Siciliano for $3,050,000 on 05/03/16; built 1999, 3bd, 2,053 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/05/2009, $2,000,0001457 Ranchita Drive W. & D. James to M. Li for $2,676,500 on 05/11/16; built 1959, 3bd, 1,674 sq.ft.1032 Rose Ave. Firestone Trust to E. Firouzjaei for $2,052,000 on 05/06/16; built 1955, 3bd, 1,527 sq.ft.

211 Solana Drive A. & S. Vahdat to A. & V. Faintuch for $3,743,000 on 05/11/16; built 2001, 4bd, 3,778 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/28/2012, $2,475,000541 Tyndall St. Fulcher Trust to S. & S. Wayne for $921,000 on 05/10/16; built 1964, 2bd, 956 sq. ft. (previous sale 05/15/2009, $440,000)1271 Via Huerta Veris-simo Trust to D. & R. Belt for $3,325,000 on 05/10/16; built 1963, 4bd, 3,438 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/15/2000, $2,250,000

Los Altos Hills14556 Harvard Court V. & V. Sikka to Fung Trust for $2,678,000 on 05/06/16; built

1968, 3bd, 2,736 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/05/2006, $1,889,00014565 Harvard Court Butner Trust to E. Zeng for $3,400,000 on 05/11/16; built 1971, 5bd, 3,132 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/1972, $78,00013030 La Paloma Road Kim Trust to G. & B. Hermann for $3,500,000 on 05/04/16; built 1973, 3bd, 3,517 sq. ft.

Menlo Park5 Arbol Grande Court Lanham Trust to Perkovich Trust for $3,749,000 on 04/13/16; built 1988, 3bd, 3,100 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/26/1988, $715,00042 Biltmore Lane Docter Trust to Sharif Trust for $1,970,000 on 04/14/16; built 1987, 3bd, 2,530 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/06/1987, $390,0002001 Camino A Los Cerros A. Onsori to S. Amir for $3,608,000 on 04/15/16; built 1923, 1bd, 760 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/03/2014, $2,820,000946 Evelyn St. Harvey Young Education & Development to J. Hu for $1,989,000 on 04/12/16; built 1927, 2bd, 1,000 sq. ft.; pre-vious sale 10/07/2013, $1,351,0001352 Madera Ave. K. Bass to Y. & A. Tosun for $870,000 on 04/13/16; built 1952, 2bd, 980 sq. ft.665 Monte Rosa Drive #922 T. & O. Stewart to L. Thomas for $875,000 on 04/12/16; built 1965, 2bd, 1,097 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/28/2006, $572,00020 Politzer Drive Kirkpatrick Trust to Y. Jin for $3,800,000 on 04/15/16; built 1958, 4bd, 2,880 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/30/1999, $1,012,5001033 Ringwood Ave. Ruettgers-Meeks Trust to M. Cuyegkeng for $1,900,000 on 04/15/16; built 1946, 3bd, 1,677 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/17/2007, $979,000765 University Drive Univer-sity Drive Limited to Z. Trailer for $2,450,000 on 04/14/16; built 1927, 3bd, 1,200 sq. ft.1868 Valparaiso Ave. Crocker Trust to GHG Construction & Development for $2,178,000 on 04/15/16; built 1960, 4bd, 1,490 sq. ft.

Mountain View1196 Andre Ave. Young Trust to Carter Trust for $2,200,000 on 05/03/16; built 1964, 3bd, 1,951 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/28/2007, $1,268,0001130 Boranda Ave. Rich Country to T. & K. Garjaka for $1,605,000 on 05/06/16; built 2007, 4bd, 2,112 sq. ft.1100 Carlos Privada Hamilton Family Trust to E. & M. Glibicky for $1,698,000.00 on 05/04/16; built 1985, 3bd, 2,022 sq.f t.; previous sale 08/27/2013, $1,250,000160 Cottonwood Court R. & M. Schmitt to X. Ni for $1,150,000 on 05/10/16; built 1999, 3bd, 1,288

sq. ft.; previous sale 09/15/2000, $588,00099 East Middlefield Road #29 F. Godoy to Y. Liu for $820,000 on 05/06/16; built 1969, 2bd, 1,083 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/28/2011, $385,000470 Franklin St. A. Staub to Penafiel Trust for $2,500,000 on 05/06/16; built 1948, 2,048 sq. ft.426 Mountain Laurel Court C. & A. Ludwick to Ludwick Trust for $1,300,000 on 05/09/16; built 1988, 2bd, 1,318 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/22/2012, $659,000961 Ormonde Drive D. & H. Bar-rett to W. Niu for $1,700,000 on 05/05/16; built 1964, 4bd, 1,576 sq. ft.; previous sale 03/29/2012, $827,00021 Royal Oak Court O. Camo-glu to S. Bhattacharyya for $1,250,000 on 05/06/16; built 2002, 3bd, 1,599 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/18/2011, $620,000255 South Rengstorff Ave. #60 K. Oelze to M. Li for $522,000 on 05/06/16; built 1965, 1bd, 551 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/14/2009, $225,000631 Tyrella Ave. MV Viewpoint 2013 to D. Quong for $1,390,000 on 05/06/16645 Tyrella Ave. MV View-point 2013 to A. Koshkalda for $1,080,000 on 05/04/16

Palo Alto972 Addison Ave. Brink-mann Trust to S. & T. Trieu for $5,100,000 on 05/09/16; built 1990, 5bd, 4,831 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/29/1995, $1,071,0002979 Alexis Drive H. Pang to S. Dhawan for $5,896,000 on 05/06/16; built 1965, 6bd, 5,732 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/05/2014, $5,557,000819 Altaire Walk Ma Trust to A. Kumar for $1,460,000 on 05/06/16; built 2011, 3bd, 1,333 sq. ft.4152 Baker Ave. Palmer Trust to Ideal Altos for $2,300,000 on 05/09/16; built 1949, 3bd, 1,110 sq. ft.3986 Bibbits Drive A. & R. Rich to M. Sun for $2,250,000 on 05/03/16; built 1957, 4bd, 1,717 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/16/1991, $410,0001536 Bryant St. Bertsch Trust to Bryant Limited for $7,050,000 on 05/06/16; built 1925, 5bd, 2,790 sq. ft.2928 Bryant St. GFL Group to Q. Yang for $4,280,000 on 05/04/16; built 2014, 5bd, 3,138 sq. ft.; pre-vious sale 01/31/2012, $1,523,000660 Coleridge Ave. Gross Trust to N. & K. Verghese for $3,100,000 on 05/10/16; built 1919, 3bd, 978 sq. ft.750 De Soto Drive Rising Trust to S. Cullen for $2,918,000 on 05/06/16; built 1952, 3bd, 1,784 sq. ft.4173 El Camino Real #1 Elsayed-Dumas Trust to Wu Trust for $1,768,000 on 05/06/16; built

1992, 3bd, 1,730 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/10/2004, $775,0003192 Fallen Leaf St. D. Goldie to M. Lee for $2,079,000 on 05/06/16; built 2009, 4bd, 2,037 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/30/2014, $2,157,0001071 Fife Ave. P. & C. Simon to V. Wu for $3,200,000 on 05/11/16; built 1954, 4bd, 1,272 sq. ft.1012 High St. Kohs Trust to S. & D. Friend for $2,500,000 on 05/10/16; built 1918, 2bd, 1008 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/31/1978, $80,000759 Matadero Ave. Gusman Trust to A. Rezvani for $2,230,000 on 05/10/16; built 1984, 3bd, 1,837 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/24/1988, $247,0004047 Park Boulevard P. & E. Sincerbox to V. & N. Sohoni for $1,760,000 on 05/06/16; built 1952, 4bd, 1,960 sq. ft.1328 Parkinson Ave. S. Wong to Z. Zhang for $4,500,000 on 05/04/16; built 1947, 3bd, 3,587 sq. ft.79 Roosevelt Circle H. Gelber to M. Sun for $2,375,000 on 05/03/16; built 1951, 3bd, 1,403 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/15/1986, $235,000966 Van Auken Circle Lock-feld Trust to J. Hancock for $2,450,000 on 05/06/16; built 1951, 4bd, 1,979 sq. ft.2020 Webster St. L. & J. Dathan to Mcglynn Trust for $4,250,000 on 05/04/16; built 1937, 3bd, 2,212 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/30/2009, $2,450,000

Portola Valley10 Cordova Court Schnei-der Trust to Ehrlich Trust for $3,800,000 on 04/13/16; built 1955, 4bd, 3,650 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/30/2003, $1,805,000

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180 El Camino Real, #1160 Use and occupancy and tenant improvement 1300sf for “k. Mina-moto “, retail pre-packaged food. $500,0002332 South CourtRemodel /repair detached garage 360sf. $40,0001031 Channing Ave. Add shear wall and revision to foundation750 Melville Ave. Remove/re-place water heater827 E. Greenwich Place mas-ter bathroom upgrade (108 sf), kitchen upgrade (187 sf), $150,000541 Cowper St. Use and occu-pancy only for new tenant “liftoff” to occupy 9463 sf519 Saint Claire Drive New 2-story single family residence 2,449sf with attached 1-car ga-rage 221sf (new accessory struc-ture with half bath and porch 180sf) $419,0003163 Middlefield Road Electri-cal permit for two illuminated signs for “Bill’s Cafe”1023 Corporation Way Re-roof install a 60 mil tpo membrane on existing built-up cap sheet. $55,4594190 Maybell Way 80 percent efficiency furnace changeout with 90k btus.1636 Channing Ave.Residential improvement bathroom remodel 79 sf scope of work includes ad-dition of a non-structural wall in the family room 423 sf. $43,7803958 Nelson Court Remodel kitchen (195 sf), remove 7seven-foot non-structural wall. New island. Replace kitchen electri-cal, replace existing 1/2 inch gas line with 3/4 inch line, upgrade service 200 amps in same loca-tion. $37,500151 University Ave. Deferred submittal for kitchen storage racking180 El Camino Real # 1050 Use and occupancy and tenant improvement for “tender greens” new restaurant to occupy 2,962sf. $550,000

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Atherton Total sales reported: 1Sales price: $3,200,500

East Palo Alto Total sales reported: 7Lowest sales price: $490,000Highest sales price: $1,000,000Average sales price: $687,430

Los Altos Total sales reported: 14Lowest sales price: $921,000Highest sales price: $4,600,000Average sales price: $3,013,100

Los Altos HillsTotal sales reported: 3Lowest sales price: $2,678,000Highest sales price: $3,500,000Average sales price: $3,192,670

Menlo Park Total sales reported: 10Lowest sales price: $870,000Highest sales price: $3,800,000Average sales price: $2,338,900

Mountain ViewTotal sales reported: 12Lowest sales price: $522,000Highest sales price: $2,500,000Average sales price: $1,434,580

Palo AltoTotal sales reported: 19Lowest sales price: $1,460,000Highest sales price: $7,050,000Average sales price: $3,235,050

Portola ValleyTotal sales reported: 1Sales price: $3,800,000

Source: California REsource

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Noelle Queen, Sales [email protected]

Ashley Banks, Sales [email protected]

Michael Dreyfus, [email protected]

ATHERTON ESTATE393 Atherton Avenue, Atherton

393atherton.com

Offered at $8,998,000

Beds 5 | Baths 9 | Home ±7,649 sf | Lot ±1 acre

FAMILY COMPOUND OPPORTUNITY75 Reservoir Road, Atherton

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Beds 4 | Baths 3 | Home ±2,740 sf | Lot ±3.2 acres

COMMUNITY CENTER1404 Harker Avenue, Palo Alto | 1404harker.com


Beds 3 | Baths 2

Home ±1,200 sf | Lot ±5,280 sf

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1–4PM


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Brand-New Luxury Home in Midtown

Enjoy the central location of this brand-new home of 3,176.8 sq. ft. (per

plans), including an attached two-car garage, that features 4 bedrooms,

4.5 bathrooms, an office, and a lot of 8,080 sq. ft. (per city). This

beautiful design offers numerous fine amenities and a bright, open

layout, plus highlights like an Internet-ready security system and

all en-suite bedrooms. Inviting outdoor areas further enhance the

property, which allows you to stroll to Hoover Park, Philz Coffee,

and top PAUSD schools.

For more information, please contact:

Michael Repka650.488.7325 | [email protected]

3135 Avalon Court, Palo AltoOffered at $3,998,000

www.3135Avalon.com


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This information was supplied by reliable sources. Sales Associate believes this information to be correct but has not verified this information and assumes no legal responsibility for its accuracy. Buyers should investigate these issues to their own satisfaction. Buyer to verify school availability.

OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30PM-4:30PM

BEAUTIFUL NEW CONSTRUCTION IN MENLO OAKS NEIGHBORHOOD

This beautiful custom home is just a short distance to Facebook, and both downtown Palo Alto and downtown Menlo Park. Upon entering

the home, the elegant formal living and dining room flow into the kitchen and great room, showcasing 10’ ceilings and backyard views. Asian

cherry hardwood floors and recessed LED lighting throughout. Luxuriously appointed, the gourmet kitchen boasts an island with quartzite

countertop, custom wood cabinetry, 6-burner Thermador range with custom hood, built-in microwave, and wine cooler. Convenient

downstairs bedroom features backyard access, full bath, and ample closet space. Tranquil upstairs master bedroom, complete with a private

bathroom featuring dual sink vanity with white Carrara marble countertop, two showers, and Jacuzzi.

• 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms

• 3,215 square foot interior

• 8,660 square foot lot

• 2-car attached garage with additional parking

• Top Menlo Park schools

OFFERED FOR $2,998,000

161 Willow Road, Menlo Park


650.488.7325 | www.deleonrealty.com | CalBRE #01903224

— Coming Soon — 715 Greer Road, Palo Alto

An extraordinary North Palo Alto location is just one of the many outstanding features

of this 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home of approx. 2,600 sq. ft. (per plans), including attached

garage, that was completed in 2016 on a lot of 6,270 sq. ft. (per county). Luxurious details and

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Each Office Independently Owned and Operated. I Keller Williams Realty does not guarantee the accuracy of square footage, lot size, or other information concerning the condition or features of the property provided by the seller or obtained from public records or other sources and the buyer is advised to independently verify the accuracy of that information through personal inspection with appropriate licensed professionals.


778 Loyola Drive, Los Altos

OPEN SATURDAY 5/28 1:00-4:30

LOUISE S DEDERACell 650-642-1422

[email protected] BRE 00409938

Selling the Peninsula since 1978

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* Built for entertaining with seamless connection to patio and landscaped yard.* Kitchen with granite counters, custom cabinetry, stainless steel appliances* Open to kitchen are breakfast room and family room with fireplace* Formal living room with wood-burning fireplace looks out on the fairways * Separate dining room has view of fairways* Four bedrooms, three baths (one bedroom and bath have a separate entrance) * Rebuilt pool, laundry room off over-sized garage and heavy shake roof. * Los Altos Schools.

Attractive home on 18,000 sq ft level lot across from fairways of Los Altos Golf & Country Club.

Open House Saturday & SundayMay 28 & 29, 1:30pm – 4:30pm

2577 Waverley Street PALO ALTO

New Spanish Villa with Modern Luxuries

» Brand new construction, Spanish Revival style villa

» 5 bedrooms and 4 full baths on two floors

» Approximately 2,681 total square feet

» Ten-foot ceilings as well as vaulted ceilings

» Custom white oak floors throughout

» Backyard studio unit with bathroom

» Lush new landscaping in front and rear yards

» Top-rated Palo Alto schools (buyer to confirm enrollment)

$4,898,000

For more information, visit lemieuxRE.com

Ranked #50 Nationally, The Wall Street Journal, 2015Over $2 billion in sales since 1998 | lemieuxRE.com

Tom LeMieux

650.465.7459

[email protected]

License #01066910

Jennifer Bitter Liske

650.308.4401

[email protected]

License #01847627


Prime location in tree lined Old Palo Alto, this charming and lovingly cared for home has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, 2,230 sq ft and sits on a 6,800 sq ft corner lot. The spacious living-room dining-room combination features hardwood oors, cove ceilings with accent lights, built-in bookshelves surrounding the replace and oor to ceiling windows with a sliding glass door leading to the mature garden and patio. A chef’s dream kitchen has beautiful sparkling recycled glass-cement counter-tops, plenty of cabinet space, and high-end stainless steel appliances. The two bathrooms have been remodeled with impeccable design and attention to detail with oversized showers. The two-car garage has an electric vehicle charging station, laundry area with separate sink, and access to the basement area for extra storage. The garden is full of drought tolerant, native California plants. This is the epitome of California Palo Alto living, close to downtown Palo Alto, and top-rated Palo Alto schools.

For more information call your real estate agent or Brendan Leary

LIST PRICE $3,595,000

View the Virtual Tour at www.tourfactory.com/1524546

540 N. CALIFORNIA AVE

PALO ALTOR. BRENDAN

LEARYCalBRE# 00640599

[email protected] | www.brendanleary.com | (650) 207-2100

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Buyer to verify all information including but not limited to the square footage, lot size, and schools.

OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30-4:30PM


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www.1400CowperStreet.comOffered at $4,488,000


Glamorously Updated in Unbeatable Location

Built in 1924 and shaded by mature trees, this classic 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home of 3,068 sq. ft. (per county) occupies

schools.

1400 Cowper Street, Palo Alto


Photography by Bernard Andre

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OFFERED at $3,695,000

30 Cheyenne Point, Portola ValleyCharming home tastefully remodeled in central Portola Valley. This California ranch style home features a large living room, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths and a spacious kitchen family room. Walk out of the family room onto the expansive deck and enjoy the Windy Hill views. Step down from the deck to the lovely terraced yard dotted with mature oaks, wonderful for entertaining and family living. This is country living at it’s best.

Highlights include:

• 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms

• 1 acre property

• Remodeled chef’s kitchen

• Hardwood floors throughout

• Master bedroom with fireplace

• Lovely views of Windy Hill

• Choice cul-de-sac in central Portola Valley

• Walking distance to acclaimed Ormondale Elementary

• For more information, please visit 30CheyennePoint.com

California Ranch with Windy Hill View

Open Saturday and Sunday, 1:30 to 4:30


ATHERTON2 Bedrooms372 El Camino Real $1,955,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate 543-7740

4 Bedrooms57 Greenoaks Dr $5,595,000Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456

5 Bedrooms95 Atherton Ave $15,200,000Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111

7 Bedrooms120 Selby Ln $9,998,000Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

LOS ALTOS3 Bedrooms758 Filip Rd $2,395,000Sat/Sun Alain Pinel 941-1111

635 Parma Way $2,500,000Sat/Sun Alain Pinel 941-1111

4 Bedrooms2072 Louise Ln $2,098,000Sat/Sun Alain Pinel 941-1111

778 Loyola Dr $2,880,000Sat Keller Williams Palo Alto 454-8500

1718 Bendigo Dr $2,788,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500

5 Bedrooms1531 Medford Dr $3,150,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker 325-6161

MENLO PARK2 Bedrooms321 McKendry Dr $1,695,000Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161

2 Bedrooms - Condominium2140 Santa Cruz Av #E101 $720,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 323-7751

3 Bedrooms2131 Avy Ave $1,598,000Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161

4 Bedrooms1994 Valparaiso Ave $3,550,000Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111

927 Arnold Way $1,795,000Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456

329 Oak Ct $2,295,000Sun Coldwell Banker 323-7751

2110 Oakley Av $3,199,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 323-7751

MOUNTAIN VIEW3 Bedrooms162 Farley St $1,349,000Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161

PALO ALTO2 Bedrooms - Condominium555 Byron St #107 $1,425,000Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 851-2666

3 Bedrooms - Condominium670 San Antonio Rd #26 $1,180,000Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456

3 Bedrooms4228 Wilkie Way $2,698,000Sun 1:30-5 Coldwell Banker 325-6161

1404 Harker Av $2,350,000Sun 1-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 544-8968

540 N California $3,595,000Sat/Sun Sereno Group 323-1900

4 Bedrooms3860 Timlott Ct $2,598,000Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

2346 Santa Ana St $4,098,000Sat/Sun 1:30-5 Coldwell Banker 325-6161

1525 Edgewood Dr $5,998,000Sat/Sun Deleon Realty 543-8500

6 Bedrooms315 Lowell Av $7,488,000Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500

PORTOLA VALLEY4 Bedrooms3338 Alpine Rd $2,750,000Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 851-1961

30 Cheyenne Point $3,695,000Sat/Sun Kerwin & Associates 473-1500

35 Valencia Ct $4,800,000Sun Coldwell Banker 851-1961

REDWOOD CITY3 Bedrooms

3421 Bay Rd $1,195,000Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 323-7751

4 Bedrooms

550 Santa Clara Av $2,795,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 851-2666

3600 Highland Av $2,495,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 851-2666

1039 Twin Oaks Ct $2,450,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 851-2666

SAN MATEO2 Bedrooms

19 Belford Way $1,288,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 851-2666

WOODSIDE2 Bedrooms

104 Highland Terr $1,395,000Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666

4 Bedrooms

35 Echo Ln $2,499,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate 543-7740

210 Woodside Dr $2,999,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 851-2666

1025 Canada Rd $5,299,000Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 851-1961

UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM

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LOVELY 4 Bedrooms + 3.5 Bathrooms 2752 square feet (approx./County) 6600 square foot LOT (approx./County) Built in 2007

Granite Kitchen + Stainless Appliances and Great Room overlooking Lush Backyard with Pool + Spa + Outdoor Kitchen & BBQ

Hickory Hardwood Floors on 1st & 2nd levels

Separate Dining Room Attached 2 Car Garage

Easy access to Hwy. 280 + shopping and Schools: Las Lomitas, La Entrada, Menlo Atherton

$3,199,000 MLS ML81586908

2110 Oakley Avenue Open House MENLO PARK SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1 - 4 PM

COLDWELL BANKER . MENLO PARK


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KIDS STUFF 330-390

MIND & BODY 400-499

JOBS 500-560

BUSINESS SERVICES 600-699

HOME SERVICES 700-799

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Walkies - Dog Walking Services

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College Essay Camp

133 Music LessonsChristina Conti Private Piano Instruction Lessons in your home. Bachelor of Music. 650/493-6950

Hope Street Music Studios Now on Old Middefield Way, MV. Most instruments, voice. All ages and levels 650-961-2192 www.HopeStreetMusicStudios.com

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135 Group ActivitiesAnna Christie by Eugene O’Neill

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203 BicyclesDiamondback Mountain Bike - $50.00

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215 Collectibles & AntiquesCharming 5 Room 1960’s Tin Doll House - $49.00

Classic 1960’s Disneyland Banner - $25.00

Cool Small Heineken Beer Sign - $15.00

240 Furnishings/Household itemsCustom Reclaimed Wood Furniture

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250 Musical InstrumentsLA guitar - $55.00

260 Sports & Exercise EquipmentChuck Norris Total Gym - $500.00

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355 Items for SaleBOY clothes 6-7-8 Years$40-2Bags

Collectors NFL FavreGBP5-6YRS$20

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Mind& Body

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Jobs500 Help WantedAdult Care I am in need of who will take care of my aged mother of 64, no qualification required, We offer ($540 per week),contact: [email protected]

Analyst (Palo Alto, CA) sought by Golden Sand River California Corp to conduct research and analysis of investment opportunities, building financial modeling, valuation analyses, creat-ing portfolio and analysis reports. Master degree in Finance, plus 6/mon job related exp. Send resume to 245 Lytton Ave, Suite 350, Palo Alto, CA, 94301 attn: HR

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Dry Cleaners Full time position for exp. spotter/presser (can train presser), and counter person in Palo Alto. Paid holidays and PTO. Call: (650) 329-3998 for more info.

Engineering Jive Software, Inc. is accepting resumes for Sr. Storage Engineer in Palo Alto, CA. Document and develop in-depth knowledge of Jive’s existing SAN (Storage Area Network) architec-ture along with strategic plan going forward. May require up to 10% travel to various unanticipated work locations throughout the U.S. Mail resume to Jive Software Inc., Staffing Department, 325 Lytton Avenue, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94301. Must reference Ref. SSE-AS.

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MARKETING Box, Inc. has the following employ-ment opportunity in Redwood City, CA: Group Marketing Manager (PS-CA). Distill marketing, sales data and external research for analysis to drive the right product-package for our global customers. Position may require travel to various, unantici-pated locations. Send your resume (must reference job title and job code PS-CA) to People Operations, Box, Inc., 900 Jefferson Ave., Redwood City, CA 94063.

Newspaper Delivery Routes Immediate Opening. Routes avail-able to deliver the Palo Alto Weekly, an award-winning community newspaper, to homes in Palo Alto on Fridays. From approx. 650 to 950 papers, 10.25 cents per paper. Additional bonus following success-ful 13 week introductory period. Must be at least 18 y/o. Valid CDL, reliable vehicle and current auto insurance req’d. Please email your experience and qualifications to [email protected] with Newspaper Delivery Routes in the subject line. Or (best) call Jon Silver, 650-868-4310

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HomeServices

715 Cleaning ServicesMagic Team Cleaning Services House, condo, apt., office. Move in/out. Good refs. “Serving Entire Bay Area.” 650/380-4114

Orkopina Housecleaning Celebrating 31 years cleaning homes in your area. 650/962-1536

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743 TilingResidential Tile Specialist Kitchen, baths, floors. Free est. 650/207-7703

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Gunn senior Maya Miklos will seek her first section title in the 400 meters and will defend her crown in the 300 hurdles at Friday’s Central Coast Section Track and Field Championships at Gilroy High.

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by Keith Peters

F or 18 local individuals, the 2016 track and field season includes at least one more meet — the Central Coast Section Championships

on Friday at Gilroy High.Those athletes — representing Palo Alto, Gunn,

Menlo-Atherton, Castilleja, Sacred Heart Prep and Menlo School — earned another week of practice following qualifying efforts at the CCS semifinals last Saturday at Gilroy High.

In most cases, those advancing were expected to do just that.

The Palo Alto for example, advanced five indi-viduals and two relays. The only surprise, perhaps, was Michel-Ange Siaba advancing in the triple jump with a leap of 42-7. Everything else was true to form.

Senior Eli Givens was the overall winner in the 200 at 22.14 and qualified third in the 100 in a windy 10.95. He also ran the second leg of the 400 relay (with Austin Cox, Thorin Haussecker and Dami Bo-larinwa) that won in 42.77 in addition to running a leg on the 1,600 relay that grabbed the final qualify-ing spot in 3:26.81. That team also included Neal Verwillow, Tanner Newell and Cox.


Dreambecomesa reality

Stanford pulls off another improbable

NCAA team title Brian Risso and Rick Eymer

I t’s official: the Stanford women’s tennis program is in a class by itself. Defying the

odds yet again, the Cardinal reign supreme in an era where parity is the common denominator and dynasties are measured in years.

Stanford, which beat No. 12 Oklahoma State, 4-3, for the NCAA national title in Tulsa on Tuesday, claimed its 18th cham-pionship in the 35-year history of the NCAA tournament. The Car-dinal dynasty extends decades across two Hall of Fame coaching careers and, perhaps, the top two assistant coaches in the nation.

Stanford won eight of the first 10 titles and 10 under coach Frank Brennan. Lele Forood, who was an assistant under Brennan for 10 years before taking over in 2001, just won her eighth title in 16 years, all with Frankie Brennan (Frank’s son) as an assistant.

The No. 15-seeded Cardinal (20-5) prepared itself for another championship run by allowing its top player, last year’s NCAA singles national runner-up Carol Zhao, to play for the Canadian National Team and participate in pro events.

“We’ll be just fine,” Forood said before the season, although it didn’t look that way after a loss to then No. 1 Vanderbilt dropped the Cardinal to 1-2 after three matches. That marked the first time ever Stanford had a losing record at any point in the season.

Taylor Davidson probably didn’t know it at the time, but those early season matches at the top of the ladder toughened her enough to allow her to complete the fairytale ending.

As she watched the final volley go long, clinching her match and the national title, she turned to her teammates with arms raised and then laid on her back on the court in anticipation of the dogpile that arrived moments later.

“My dreams just became real-ity,” she later tweeted. “Nothing compares to this feeling. Nothing. Number 15? No. Number 1.”

Davidson got her first taste of success by winning her first tour-nament title of any kind at the ITA Northwest Regional in both singles and doubles, with fellow junior Caroline Doyle, and earn-ing a trip to New York.

Davidson earned All-NCAA recognition at No. 2 singles, though she very well could have been named the Most Outstand-ing Player of the tournament. No


HOOP LOSS . . . The 2016-17 Stanford men’s basketball season has gotten off on the wrong foot as first team All-Pac-12 forward Rosco Allen has announced that he will pursue professional opportunities and forgo his final season of collegiate eligibility. Allen, who is a senior academically at Stanford, is on track to earn his Bachelor of Arts degree next month. Allen, a science, technology, and society major with a concentration in innovation, technology and organization, is expected to receive his undergraduate degree during commencement on June 12. The National Association of Basketball Coaches All-District selection led Stanford in scoring (15.6 ppg) and minutes (34.1 mpg) during his third season of competition with the Cardinal last season. He ranked fifth in the Pac-12 Conference in scoring (16.8 ppg) during league action, and ninth overall. Allen played in 97 career games with 60 career starts for the Cardinal. He was limited to just one game due to injury as a sophomore during the 2013-14 season. Allen scored 811 career points, with an 8.4 ppg career scoring average

STREAK ENDS . . . The Menlo School boys saw their streak of seven straight titles at the CIF/USTA Northern California Regional Tennis Championships end in a 5-2 loss to top-seeded St. Ignatius last Saturday at the Broadstone Racquet Club in Folsom. The Wildcats (28-0) also snapped the Knights’ streak of seven consecutive Central Coast Section crowns a week earlier. Menlo (21-5) was seeded No. 3 for NorCals, but blanked Jesuit, 7-0, and No. 2 Dougherty Valley, 7-0, to reach the title match. Menlo will lose eight seniors to graduation — Lane Leschly, Nathan Safran, Gabriel Morgan, Alex Neumann, Michael Quezada, Dylan Pace, Kylee Santos and David Roy — but will return starters Siddharth Chari, Clark Safran, Andrei Volgin and Mark Ball.

HE’S AN OLYMPIAN . . . Former Stanford rower Austin Hack, who starred for the Stanford men’s rowing program from 2011-14, stroked the United States Men’s Eight to the gold medal in the final of the FISA European and Final Olympic Qualification Regatta Tuesday in Lucerne, Switzerland. The victory punched USA’s ticket to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 5-21.


STATE SWIMMING CCS BASEBALL

The Palo Alto girls followed up their CCS title a week earlier with a second-place finish at the CIF State Swimming and Diving Championships that wrapped up Saturday at Clovis West High.

Paly junior Alex Liang (second from left) won two titles and helped the 200 medley relay team of (L-R) Andrew Cho, Robert Cheng and Matthew Liang finish third as the Vikings took fourth overall at the state meet.

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comebackAfter going 6-22 last

year, Knights are 23-7 and in title game

by Andrew Preimesberger

C armel and Menlo School are two of the winningest teams in Central Coast

Section baseball history, with the Padres winning eight section titles and the Knights five.

Both teams will be to add an-other crown to their collection on Saturday, but only one will suc-ceed as they’ll face each other in the Division II championship game at San Jose Municipal Sta-dium at 1 p.m.

The teams last faced each other in 2011, with Menlo posting a 9-8 win in nine innings in the semifi-nals as the Knights went on to win the title. Menlo hasn’t won since.

That could all change for the No. 3-seeded Knights (23-7) on Saturday after they eliminated No. 15 Capuchino, 10-7, in the semifinals on Tuesday at San Jose Municipal. The top-seeded Padres (22-7) advanced with a 3-2 victory over No. 13 Monterey.

Menlo returns to the CCS finals for the first time since 2013 and are seeking their first title since they won it all in 2011 under then-head coach Craig Schoof.

“We set a goal at the beginning of the season to make the CCS championship,” said Menlo sec-ond-year manager Ryan Cavan. “We’ve accomplished that goal.”

Add senior RJ Babiera: “We’ve been extremely happy with our outcome and we look forward to this championship. “Coming into this year, I think we knew that we were capable of reaching this far.”

That says a lot for Menlo’s con-fidence, which was tested by a horrendous 6-22 campaign in Ca-van’s first season. The Knights, however, returned plenty of talent that produced the kind of offense that was lacking in 2015.

“This was a team effort today,” said Cavan. “Everyone contrib-uted to the win. A big theme was that we wanted to hit. We had 11 hits on 10 runs scored and if you score 10 runs it’s easier to win.”

Menlo, which had beaten Capu-chino by 8-0 and 5-0 in its two pre-vious meetings, got its bats going in the second inning. Junior Chan-dler Yu led off the inning with a double that one-hopped the wall. Senior David Rich laid down the squeeze bunt and Yu scored from third base making it a 1-0 game.

Babiera lined a single to right field and two men came around to score. Senior third baseman Rylan Pade pulled a double to left, scor-ing Babiera from second base and made it a 4-0 lead going into the third.


Paly girlsfinish witha flourish

Paly’s Liang leads the boys with win

in 200 and 500 freeby Keith Peters

A fter preseason trailing, six SCVAL De Anza Divi-sion dual meets, prelims

and finals at league and section meets, the Palo Alto girls still had something left for the 2016 CIF State Swimming and Diving Championships that wrapped up Saturday at the Clovis Olympic Swim Complex at Clovis West High.

Boy, did they ever as Paly won two relay titles and one individual event to finish second in the state to Crean Lutheran of Orange County. Crean scored 147 points with Paly at 135.

“The kids did great,” said Paly coach Danny Dye, who had scored his girls’ team to finish third and his boys fourth, which is exactly where they finished thanks to a pair of state titles. “It was a great meet and I’m very proud of the girls and boys.”

First off, senior Mimi Lin won her first state title on the 1-meter board by scoring 498.65 points for her 11 dives. That was well off her winning total of 525.00 at the CCS finals, which set a section record. Had Lin duplicated that effort, she would have set a state meet mark.

The state title capped a sensa-tional final season that saw Lin win her fourth straight title at the SCVAL De Anza Division finals and her second straight section crown.

Lin got the Paly girls rolling into the swimming competition in the afternoon. The Vikings kept the momentum going by win-ning the 200-yard medley relay in 1:42.41, just off the state meet mark of 1:42.23 by Crean Luther-an last year. Paly, however, did

lower its own school record with a team of sophomore Zoe Lusk, junior Grace Zhao, senior Katie Francis and sophomore Claire Lin.

The Paly girls also defended their state title in the 200 free re-lay in 1:33.64, which broke the Vi-kings’ state meet record of 1:33.80 from a year ago. That also stood as the school record until Saturday. Zhao, Lusk, sophomore Peyton Wang and Lin made up the team, which will return next season for a shot at a third straight title. Lin’s 23.02 split on the final leg was the fastest of her Paly career.

Zhao added a fourth in the 50 free (23.38) and a third in the 100 breast in 1:01.54.

The Paly boys, meanwhile, had their best finish at the state finals while scoring 90 points for fourth. Oak Ridge was first with 136 points followed by San Ramon Valley (130) and Clovis (107). The Vikings finished ahead of Bellarmine (82), St. Francis (63) and Gunn (56).

Junior Alex Liang was sensa-tional for Paly as he won the 200 free in 1:36.65, breaking the state meet record and his own school mark of 1:36.85 from CCS.

Liang came back to win the 500 free in a personal best of 4:23.41, another state meet record and

faster than he swam at CCS. De-spite swimming the first 100 in 49.79, Liang trailed through 400 yards before taking the lead.

Liang came into the state meet seeded No. 1 in both his individ-ual events.

“I was a little nervous, for sure,” he said of having a target on his back. “But, the nervousness helps motivate me more.”

While some swimmers passed on the state finals in order to train more with their club teams for the upcoming Olympic Trials, Liang thought better of it.

“Why not just go for it? Win a couple of state titles,” he said. “I think that’s more valuable than just skipping it altogether.”

Liang also swam a leg on the third-place 200 medley relay team that clocked 1:33.57 and was the fastest CCS finisher. The team also included seniors Andrew Cho and Robert Cheng plus fresh-man Matthew Liang.

Cho added a fifth in the 100 back in 49.97 and the Vikings were 15th in the 400 free relay (3:15.80).

Elsewhere for the boys, Gunn missed two key members of its team — juniors Michael Lincoln and Max Pokutta — and was unable to generate the times and effort that earned the Titans their

first CCS title last week. Gunn, however, did close its champion-ship season by setting a school re-cord of 1:34.50 while taking sixth in the opening 200 medley relay. The team was an all-senior squad of Daichi Matsuda, Trent Tosky, Brian Lei and Joao Ama.

“Michael was at Yale for his sister’s graduation; our top breast-stroker, Max Pokutta, wasn’t at the state meet, either, as he pre-pares to make an Olympic Trials cut,” said Gunn coach Mark Her-nandez. “With two of our top five best swimmers gone, our lineup wasn’t nearly as strong as it was at CCS.

“Our boys looked like they had won the biggest meet of their lives a week before. They definitely competed, though, and it was a nice opportunity to have the boys together for one last meet.”

Matsuda (50.18) and Tosky (50.27) were 10th and 11th, re-spectively, in the 100 fly. Ama was 10th in the 100 free (45.82) and 14th in the 50 free (21.32), Matsuda was 12th in the 200 IM (1:52.68).

Other local swimming efforts saw:

Menlo-Atherton sophomore Izzi Henig was second in the girls’ 50 free in 22.82. Her school-record time of 22.73 from the prelims would have won her the title. Henig also was second in the 100 free in 49.16 and led off the 200 free relay team that clocked a school record of 1:34.98 and included junior Sophie Murff, senior Maddie Worden and junior Kate Denend.

The Bears also were 12th in the 400 free relay (3:31.14) with a team of freshman Haley Ar-rington, Murff, Denend and Henig.

M-A junior Mia Paulsen was ninth in diving (445.75) with Gunn’s Marisa Agarwal 15th (427.45). M-A senior Vincent Busque was 14th in the 500 free in 4:35.14; the Gunn girls had an all-freshman team of Sarah Snyder, Ashley Stahmer, Grace Tarmac and Milan Hilde-Jones take 14th in the 200 free relay (1:37.23), with Natalie Tuck of Castilleja finishing seventh in the girls’ 200 IM in 2:03.59.

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one was more valuable.Freshmen Melissa Lord and

Caroline Lampl also were named to the all-tournament team, earn-ing the recognition by turning in magnificent efforts through the season. Lampl and Doyle both won clinching sets for Stanford in the tournament.

Senior Krista Hardebeck goes out the same way she entered: as a national champion and enjoying her best season yet.

“It was such a pleasure to see that we were going to get such an incredible performance from her this year,” Forood said. “It started to make things more possible for us seeing ourselves as potential champions. We needed our fresh-men to really; their learning curve had to go up substantially this year, and clearly that happened as well. Krista being kind of a rock at four, and being able to deliver so many victories. Today she was first off the court with a win for us. That was really important. Re-ally important.”

Only time will tell if Lord and Lampl will repeat the success, though the foundation remains strong, with yet another top re-cruiting class coming in.

Doubles-point deficits. Gutsy individual efforts. Three-set clinchers. Heart-stopping come-backs. “Upsets” of higher seeds. At the end of the day, was anyone really surprised?

Definitely not Stanford, which once again made a mockery of the bracket en route to claiming the championship, rallying from a 3-1 deficit.

It does feel a little odd for 19-time national champion Stan-ford (18 NCAA, 1 AIAW), long regarded as the gold standard in women’s college tennis, to be celebrating such success as an underdog.

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NCAA tennis(continued from page 52)

The No. 15-seeded Stanford women won their 18th NCAA team championship in tennis with a dramatic 4-3 victory over No. 12 Oklahoma State on Tuesday in Tulsa. tering the postseason two weeks ago as a No. 15 seed despite win-ning the Pac-12 and knocking off the likes of Florida and Cal in the regular season, Stanford ripped through a postseason gauntlet of high seeds in No. 2 Florida, No. 10 Michigan, No. 6 Vanderbilt and No. 12 Oklahoma State.

Hoisting the hardware for the first time since 2013, Stanford has now won 14 of its past 16 NCAA matches when seeded lower than its opponent, a streak that cov-ers six years. That includes win-ning it all as a No. 12 seed three years ago — at the time the low-est-seeded team to accomplish the feat — and taking home the crown in 2010 as a No. 8 seed.

Tuesday’s upset of first-time fi-nalist and up-and-coming Okla-homa State (29-5), supported by approximately 700 rowdy, orange-clad fans making the short drive

from Stillwater, didn’t come easy. But just like seemingly every

other NCAA match over the past two weeks, one thing was certain: the Cardinal refused to quit until the final match was decided. And every time a match was decided, it was ultimately in Stanford’s favor.

The immediate hurdle was losing the doubles point rather convincingly and falling behind 1-0 for the fourth time in five matches.

But given Oklahoma State’s dominance in that area — the Cowgirls boast three ranked duos and lost doubles only once this season — Stanford wasn’t com-pletely caught off guard.

Capping what will go down as one of the most clutch careers in program history, Hardebeck de-feated Kelsey Laurente, 6-4, 6-4, at the No. 4 position to make it 1-1. It was her 99th career victory.

Oklahoma State regained the lead on the strength of Katrina Adamovic’s 6-4, 7-5 victory over Zhao at the top spot of the lineup.

In what was likely her final col-lege match, Zhao was unable to force a third set and suffered only her 16th loss in 92 career matches.

The Cowgirls’ lead swelled to 3-1 following Viktoriya Lush-kova’s 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 triumph over Doyle at the No. 3 position. At that point, the Cardinal was in serious trouble, needing to convert each of the remaining three matches.

However, Stanford was build-ing momentum, particularly with its freshmen on the back courts. Despite both losing their first sets, Lampl and Lord prevailed in three-setters, knotting the match at 3-3.

Notching her team-high 30th win of the season while improv-ing to 11-4 in three-setters, Lampl

surged past Katarina Stresnakova 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 at the No. 5 spot.

Booking her 25th victory of the year and completing a perfect post-season, Lord outlasted Carla Tur Mari 6-7 (6), 6-2, 6-2 on court six.

That left everything riding on Davidson, who could have under-standably caved in after playing four consecutive three-setters, two of which were dramatic clinchers against Texas A&M and Florida.

Requiring a uniform change in the second set after drenching her first outfit in sweat, Davidson fought through cramps and fa-tigue to force a third frame.

Davidson built a 5-2 cushion in the third set before Babic won three games in a row. But the Car-dinal’s No. 2 player settled down and provided the clincher.

–Brian Risso is the Sports Information Director at

Stanford

Stanford women just miss shot at another NCAA golf titleMark Soltau and Rick Eymer

M ariah Stackhouse and Lauren Kim completed collegiate careers unlike

any others in the rich history of the Stanford’s women’s golf pro-gram. Falling ever so tantalizing-ly short of a second consecutive national team championship is cause for celebration, not sadness.

Stanford and Washington bat-tled into sudden death in Wednes-day’s NCAA championship match, with the Huskies prevail-ing, 3-2, at Eugene Country Club.

Stackhouse and Kim were the last two Cardinal players on the course, the match in their capa-ble hands. Both needed two ex-tra holes to decide the outcome. Stackhouse recovered from a late stumble to win, tying the team score at 2.

In last year’s final against Bay-lor, she won the last two holes with birdies to force sudden death, then clinched the NCAA title by

winning the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.

Kim needed to win the final three holes of regulation just to force a playoff. She did just that before missing a long putt on the second playoff hole.

“The change in format of this championship has done wonders for women’s golf,” Kim said. “It’s made it really much more exciting, and you have to get three out of five. Each team is two and two and it comes down to that last match and people are making incredible shots under pressure. It just puts women’s golf in such a positive light that women can make it exciting, as ex-citing as the men, and we can make those shots under pressure.”

While there’s no way to replace Stackhouse and Kim, the Cardi-nal can look forward with a spar-kle in its collective eye.

Casey Danielson and Shannon Aubert will return, each with two years of pressure-packed competi-

tion to lean on. Freshman Sierra Kersten, who walked onto the team and won a huge match in the semifinals, can only get better.

Joining that trio is a recruiting class that already has experienced its own high level of success.

Albane Valenzuela of Switzer-land, who originally signed for this season, tied for low amateur in April at the ANA Inspiration at Mission Hills Country Club, the first LPGA major championship of 2016.

Incoming freshman Andrea Lee, who also qualified for the Inspiration, will play for the U.S. Curtis Cup Team, an eight-mem-ber squad that will oppose Great Britain and Ireland, June 10-12 at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club in En-niskerry, Ireland. Kim was named first alternate.

Ziyi (Emily) Wang, of Beijing, China, captured the 2014 Calla-way World Junior Championship and is the youngest tournament

winner on the China LPGA Tour, posting a 10-under-par total. She has competed internationally for Team China since 2006.

Madeline Chou, a three-time winner on the AJGA circuit and a Scholastic All-America, is a three-time league champion and four-time selection to the Orange Coun-ty First-Team All-County Team.

With the match against Wash-ington tied at 1-all, Ying Luo holed out from 51 yards on 18 for birdie to halve and take the match 1-up over Danielson, who lost for the first time in six career match-play matches.

“She made a really clutch putt, and you can’t really do much about that,” Danielson said. “It was just her time. We both had a really great match. We were neck and neck the whole time, and she just hit a couple of putts, and I wasn’t able to do that, and she clinched it on that last shot. What a way to go out.”

Washington looked like it was on the cusp of clinching the match behind the play of Julianne Alva-rez. The freshman was 3-up after 15, though Kim came back, win-ning 16, 17 and 18 to bring the match back to all square.

While that match went to extra holes, Stackhouse tied the overall match up at 2-all when she won 1-up over Sarah Rhee.

The deciding point then shifted back to Alvarez and Kim who halved the first playoff hole and then headed to the second one. After a shaky second shot from Alvarez, she nailed the third shot to within inches of the hole and conceded par.

Kim, whose second shot went into the rough, sailed her birdie putt well past the hole. Her par putt then slid past, giving Alvarez the victory and the Huskies their first championship.

– Mark Soltau writes for gostanford.com

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Annalisa Crowe*Menlo-Atherton track & field

Izzi Henig*Menlo-Atherton swimming

Mimi LinPalo Alto diving

Gillian Meeks*Gunn track & field

Maya Miklos*Gunn track & field

Kathryn Mohr Menlo-Atherton track & field

RJ BabieraMenlo baseball

Siddharth ChariMenlo tennis

Eli Givens Palo Alto track & field

Gabe OwensPinewood tennis

Kent Slaney*Palo Alto track & field

Chandler Yu Menlo baseball

* previous winner

Honorable mention

Alex LiangPALO ALTO HIGH

The junior swimmer set state meet records while winning the 200 free in 1:36.65 and the 500 free in 4:23.41 in addition to swimming on the third-place 200 medley relay that helped the Vikings finish fourth at the CIF State Championships.

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

Junior Kent Slaney continued his solid season by qualifying in both the 1,600 (4:21.01) and 3,200 (9:26.78). In the metric mile, Slaney wanted to avenge an earlier loss to Roman Munoz of King City and did so, but failed to notice Matthew Richardson of Bellarmine coming up on his out-side. Richardson got the overall win with Slaney taking second and gaining his revenge.

Palo Alto senior Catherine Yu also continued her strong late-season push and qualified fourth overall in the 100 hurdles in 15.82.

“Definitely a solid day,” said Paly coach Kelsey Feeley. “Even those who did not qualify to finals showed up and ran, jumped and threw their hearts out. Our girls’ 4x100 ran a season-best time of 49.97 (but did not advance) and our boys ran with authority (and did).

“We were also happily sur-prised with the per-formance of the boys’ 4x400 relay, a team that we more or less threw together as injuries came about throughout the long day of competition.”

Feeley also singled out the contributions of Givens and Slaney, who have produced the bulk of the points this season while run-ning 3-4 events each week.

“Kent and Eli both showed up and ran at the level that has be-come expected of them,” Feeley said. “That being said, as a coach, I am incredibly lucky to have ath-letes who do not only care about their individual achievements, but who also care about their team-mates and how much they can contribute to the team.”

Gunn, meanwhile, had the most local qualifiers (eight) with se-niors Maya Miklos and Gillian Meeks plus junior Jeffrey Lee-Heidenreich leading the way by qualifying in two events each.

Meeks turned in her usual dou-ble while qualifying first in the 1,600 (4:57.58) and third in the 3,200 (10:54.42). Miklos did the same in the 400 (second in 56.45) and 300 hurdles (second in 45.59). Lee-Heidenreich came through with a 43-7 mark in the triple jump and was among the high jump qualifiers who cleared 6-3.

Senior Lindsay Maggioncalda has a PR of 114-11 to qualify in the discus, senior Jenae Pennywell ran a solid (albeit wind-aided) 12.68 for third place in the girls’ 100, senior Amy Watt leaped a personal best of 17-5 to advance in the long jump, junior Margaret Redfield cleared 5-2 in the high jump and moved on and junior Andy Maltz threw 49-2 in the shot put to qualify for the finals.

The only thing missing for Gunn were two relays, the girls’ 400 and 1,600. A dropped baton on the final exchanged doomed

the sprint relay squad that includ-ed Miklos, Watt and Pennywell.

“Like most meets, some things went as expected, others were a little disappointing and a few more were pleasant surprises,” said Gunn coach PattiSue Plumer. “On the downside, it was really disappoint-ing for our girls that the relays didn’t go through. The 4x100 handoffs are not for-giving and, about .5 seconds per lap was the difference be-tween moving on or not in the 4x400.”

The 400 team had run 48.76 this sea-son, a time that easily would have qualified the foursome to the finals. Gunn wound up 21st in 52.07 after Miklos picked up the fallen baton and finished. The 1,600 squad ran 4:03.72 last week, again fast enough to advance this week. But, the Titans clocked 4:08.76 to finish 10th.

“On the plus side, Jenae ran great in the 100 and Lindsay and Amy PR’d in the discus and long jump, respectively. And, thankfully, every-thing else went more or less according to plan.”

For Menlo-Ather-ton, the Bears will send five athletes and two relays to the CCS finals.

Senior Annalisa Crowe qualified in the 1,600 (5:08.06) and 800 (2:16.03), se-nior Kathryn Mohr earned berths in the 100 (12.75) and pole vault (11-6), freshman Maggie Hall advanced in the 200 (25.48) after missing out in the 100, junior Jor-dan Mims advanced with a per-

sonal best of 49.24 in the boys’ 400 and sophomore Jack Gray had a personal best of more than a half foot of 21-0 1/4 in the long jump to move on.

The M-A girls also qualified their 400 relay team of Charlotte

Schroeder, Mohr, Ta-tum Maines and Hall as the Bears clocked a season best of 49.25 while moving to No. 4 in school history. The 1,600 relay team of Hall, Olivia Shane, Schroeder and Crowe ran 4:01.89, the No. 2 time of the day, to earn a berth in the finals.

M-A also had a pair of 800 runners — Madeleine Baier and

Shane — who just missed despite personal bests and might be add-ed to the field as alternates. Baier missed the final qualifying spot by .20 seconds as she ran 2:23.65 to the 2:23.45 time by Santa Tere-sa’s AnnMarie Howell. Shane was next at 2:24.97. Both M-A runners moved into the school’s top 10 list.

Other local qualifiers for the CCS finals included Menlo School sophomore Robert Miran-da in the 3,200 (sixth in 9:34.10), Castilleja junior Claire Traum in in the 800 (2:17.59) and the Sa-cred Heart Prep trio of Graham MacFarquhar in the 800 (1:59.39), Natalie Novitsky in the 1,600 (5:11.84) and Ma’ata Makoni in the girls’ shot put (38-3).

The CCS finals get under way Friday with field events starting at 4 p.m., and running at 6 p.m. The final race is scheduled around 9 p.m.

The top three finishers, plus those who have achieved at-large standards, will advance to the CIF State Track and Field Champion-ships the following weekend at Buchanan High in Clovis.

CCC track(continued from page 52)

Peyton Wang, Katie Francis, Zoe Lusk, Grace Zhao and Claire Lin

PALO ALTO HIGH

Palo Alto’s (L-R) Peyton Wang, Katie Francis, Zoe Lusk, Grace Zhao and Claire Lin combined to win the 200 medley and 200 free relays at the CIF State Championships, setting a state meet record in the free event and a school mark in the medley while helping the Vikings finish second in the team standings.

Event Time Name Team Year400 relay 41.54 Independence 19881600 4:08.7 Mark Stillman Willow Glen 1977110 HH 13.84 Arend Watkins Silver Creek 1997400 45.51 Bill Green Cubberley 1979100 10.37 Rubin Williams Valley Christian 2002800 1:50.7 Rick Brown Los Altos 1970300 IH 36.60 John Montgomery Independence 1988200 20.84 Rubin Williams Valley Christian 20023200 8:58.44c Gordon MacMitchell Gunn 19731600 relay 3:15.8 Los Altos 1970Long jump 25-3 1/4 Johnny Johnson Pacific Grove 1964Discus 204-10 Nick Kay Los Gatos 2003Shot put 63-9 Bob Brannen Los Gatos 1964Triple jump 50-11 1/2 Harold Rucker Silver Creek 1986High jump 7-3 Jeff Rogers Overfelt 1985Pole vault 17-6 1/4 Nico Weiler Los Gatos 2007

(MacMitchell’s time was converted from hand time)

CCS BOYS’ TRACK & FIELD RECORDS

Event Time Name Team Year400 relay 46.55 Mt. Pleasant 20061600 4:47.56 A. Barrientos SL Valley 2000100 HH 13.52 Vashti Thomas Mt. Pleasant 2008400 53.92 Leslie Maxie Mills 1982100 11.39 Jeneba Tarmoh Mt. Pleasant 2006800 2:07.79 Alicia Follmar Saratoga 2005300 LH 41.71 Tisha Ponder Del Mar 1996200 23.47 Jeneba Tarmoh Mt. Pleasant 20063200 10:09.5 Cory Shubert Del Mar 19831600 relay 3:49.90 Valley Christian 2005Long jump 20-6 Tisha Ponder Del Mar 1996Discus 165-10 Darlene Tulua Carmel 1996Shot put 53-5 1/2 Elena Bruckner Valley Christian 2015Triple jump 43-1 1/2 Vashti Thomas Mt. Pleasant 2008High jump 6-0 Jennifer Grimaldi St. Ignatius 2001Pole vault 13-8 Tori Anthony Castilleja 2007

CCS GIRLS TRACK & FIELD RECORDS

Babiera had a solid game with two hits, two runs scored and three RBI. Yu added a pair of doubles, an RBI and two runs scored in addition to picking up his 10th win of the season against just one loss.

Capuchino answered in the third inning when Ra-mon Enriquez smashed a double to right field, bringing home Aiden Yarwood and Trey Za-hursky to make it a 4-3 Menlo edge. Enriquez had two hits and two RBI for his team.

The Knights responded quickly and added to their lead. Senior Jared Lucian knocked home Da-vid Farnham on a single to left and Menlo went up 7-3. Lucian finished with two hits.

In the fifth inning, Babiera smashed a base hit to left field to drive in Ben Somorjai and make it 8-3. The Knights added two more runs in the frame for a comfortable

10-3 lead. The Mustangs rallied in the sixth

inning with four runs on four hits. Matt O’Mahony singled to center field and Enriquez came around to score, making it 10-4. Capuchino added three runs to close the gap to 10-7 after the sixth.

Capuchino had one last chance to do dam-age in the seventh in-ning. The Mustangs had the bases loaded with one out when their desig-nated hitter hit a ground ball to Pade at third base. He stepped on third and threw it across the infield to first base for a double play to wrap up the win.

Looking ahead, Men-lo players rightfully figured No. 1 Carmel would be their opponent.

“I have some good friends on that team and they have a great se-nior class like we do,” said Pade. “We’re still going to come out con-fident and know that we have good pitching left.”

Added Babiera: “Our emotions are running high and, coming into our last game, the emotions will be high whether we win or lose.”

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