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Spectrum 12 Transitions 14 Eating Out 23 Movies 25 Puzzles 41
Vol. XXXIV, Number 18 February 1, 2013
Arts ‘Peter and the Wolf’ in four languages Page 20
Sports Unique postseason for Paly boys’ hoops Page 27
Home Mastering ‘A Year in the Garden’ Page 33
Palo Alto’s sister-city program
celebrates 50 years — and
contemplates its future
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UpfrontVeronica W
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by Gennady Sheyner
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‘Positive psychology’ to be offered at Gunn Highby Chris Kenrick
Three-city gun buyback to be held
by Sue Dremann
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49ers fever heats up
Traffic, housing top list of citizen concerns
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Around Town
‘‘‘‘
CITY OF HACKS ... Palo Alto caught
attention of technologists the world
over last year, when it co-sponsored
its first citywide “hackathon” — a
combination of hacking session, net-
working soiree and food-and-music
festival. Now it looks as if this event
has also caught the attention of the
White House, which is hoping to
push other cities to follow suit. The
White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy has just
scheduled a “National Day of Civic Hacking” on June 1 and 2. “A coali-
tion of leading organizations, com-
panies and government agencies
have banded together to issue this
challenge with the goal of promot-
ing transparency, participation and
collaboration among governments,
startup, and citizens,” the office an-
nounced. The post notes that the
nationwide hacking event is being
modeled after the Super Happy
Block Party, the Palo Alto hackathon
that was co-sponsored by Innova-tion Endeavors, a local venture-capi-
tal firm founded by Google Executive
Chairman Eric Schmidt. This time,
federal agencies are looking to get in
on the fun. Officials from NASA, the
U.S. Census Bureau and the Depart-
ment of Labor will be among those
offering “specific challenges for
hackers to work during the event.”
Not surprisingly, Palo Alto is among
the roughly 30 cities that are already
planning activities for this day.
BRIDGING THE GAP ... In Robert
Frost’s poem “Mending Wall,” the
reader is left skeptical about a neigh-
bor’s assertion that “good fences
make good neighbors.” But if there’s
one thing that Palo Alto residents
have learned in recent years it’s that
insufficient parking breeds neighbor-
to-neighbor tension. That’s been the
case downtown, where residents
in the parking-deprived neighbor-
hoods Professorville and Downtown
North have been fighting downtown
businesses over parking spots and
lobbying the city to make sure new
developments offer ample parking
spots. And it’s now the case on the
border of Palo Alto and East Palo
Alto, where residents on one side of
the Newell Road bridge are accusing
those from the other side of cross-
ing over and taking over their park-
ing spots. The issue was brought
to the forefront earlier this month
when about a dozen residents from
the area around Edgewood Drive
and Newell Road in Palo Alto com-
plained about the problem of disap-
pearing spots, speeding cars and
increased littering on their blocks.
The East Palo Alto drivers report-
edly opted to cross the bridge for
their parking needs because of new
parking restrictions on their side of
the bridge. Palo Alto’s planning of-
ficials responded swiftly, creating a
“no parking anytime” restriction on
Newell Road between Edgewood
and the bridge and adding red
striping at curbs near intersections.
Chief Transportation Official Jaime Rodriguez said the city also plans
to restripe the yellow center lines
on Newell next week. The residents
lobbied for more substantive solu-
tions, such as parking permits. “My
belief is that the real solution is to
require permits for overnight park-
ing on Edgewood as well as further
down Newell if necessary,” resident
Irving Rappaport told the com-
mission. “And the other part of the
solution is to get cooperation from
East Palo Alto to deal with its part of
the problem instead of pushing their
problems onto the Palo Alto side of
the bridge.” Ben Ball, who also lives
on Edgwood, said he appreciates
the efforts of city planners to improve
the situation. But the “parking crisis”
remains, he said. “We’ve been told
it’ll take months and months to come
up with a way to solve the problem,
not withstanding the support we
have of our Edgewood Drive neigh-
bors,” Ball said.
IN THE ZONE ... Three years after
Palo Alto decided to remove require-
ments for ground-floor retail at the
600 block of Emerson Street, plans
are afoot to bring these requirements
back. The Planning and Transpor-
tation Commission Wednesday
discussed the city’s plan to prevent
the ground floors on the vibrant
downtown block between Hamilton
and Forest avenues from switching
to offices, as has already happened
at the former Fraiche Yogurt build-
ing. The commission didn’t vote, but
members expressed enthusiasm for
the rezoning effort, which was first
proposed by Mayor Greg Scharff, Councilwoman Karen Holman and
Councilman Greg Schmid. “It’s hard
to have a thriving downtown area if
you don’t have life on those ground
floors,” Commissioner Alex Panelli said. “It totally makes sense.” The
commission will continue this discus-
sion and possibly vote on the zone
change on Feb. 13.
Students can laugh and learn simultaneously.
— Lucy Filppu, Palo Alto High School English teacher, on the new “Literature of Comedy” class to be offered beginning this fall. See story on page 3.
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How Palo Alto residents rate transportation
2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
Ease of car travel
51% 62% 66% 65% 60% 65% 60% 61% 52%
Ease of rail travel
71% 64% 62% 63% 52% 55% 60% 69% 64%
Ease of bicycle travel
81% 77% 81% 79% 78% 84% 78% 79% 80%
Ease of walking
82% 83% 85% 82% 86% 88% 87% 86% 85%
Traffic flow on major streets
36% 40% 47% 46% 38% n/a n/a n/a n/a
How Palo Alto residents get to work
2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Motorized vehicle (car, van, truck, motorcycle, etc.) alone
55% 63% 61% 68% 59%
Motorized vehicle (car, van, truck, motorcycle, etc.) with other passengers
5% 9% 9% 8% 6%
Bicycle 20% 11% 13% 9% 16%
Walk 6% 6% 5% 7% 4%
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City racks up costs as street project evolves
Stanford University sued over Searsville Dam
Menlo Park names new police chief
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Mountain View parking dispute leads to fisticuffs
(Posted Jan. 30 at 4:03 p.m.)
Editorial: Why the secrecy in Menlo Park?
(Posted Jan. 30 at 12:05 p.m.)
Palo Alto woman, dog struck by hit-and-run driver
(Posted Jan. 30 at 9:46 a.m.)
Teen attacked while riding bike in Mountain View
(Posted Jan. 30 at 8:15 a.m.)
Former 49er in court over fight at Su Hong To Go
(Posted Jan. 29 at 4:53 p.m.)
Bicyclist, cars struck by hit-and-run driver
(Posted Jan. 29 at 9:36 a.m.)
AT&T’s sweeping antenna plan wins final OK
(Posted Jan. 28 at 10:45 p.m.)
Minor damages reported in laundromat fire
(Posted
Jan. 28 at 4 p.m.)
Clutter fuels house fire in Mountain View
(Posted Jan. 28 at 1:34 p.m.)
POST acquires 1,000 more acres of open space
(Posted Jan. 28 at 11:42 a.m.)
Stanford stalker faces six months in jail
(Posted Jan. 28 at 9:51 a.m.)
Firefighters use CO2 to douse underground blaze
(Posted
Jan. 28 at 7:57 a.m.)
Man shot, killed in East Palo Alto Saturday
(Posted Jan. 27 at 8:25 a.m.)
Mother and child injured in Menlo Park shooting
(Posted Jan. 26 at 11:59 p.m.)
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City Council (Jan. 28)AT&T: The council upheld the decision of the Planning Director to allow AT&T to move forward with the final two phases of its plan to install about 80 antennas on utility poles throughout the city. Yes: Unanimous Retreat: The council approved a proposed agenda for its annual retreat on Feb. 2. The retreat includes a priority-setting session and discussion of the city’s guiding principles and core values.Yes: Unanimous
Board of Education (Jan. 29)Boundary change: The board approved a boundary change between the attendance areas of Addison and Walter Hays elementary schools, effective beginning in the 2013-14 school year. Yes: Unanimous Bond issuance: The board discussed a proposal for issuance and sale of $70 million in bonds under the $378 million “Strong Schools” bond approved by voters in 2008. A final vote is expected Feb. 12.Action: None
Planning and Transportation Commission (Jan. 30)California Ave.: The commission discussed the status of the California Avenue streetscape project and a staff proposal to replace the streetlights on California Av-enue. Commissioners said they support replacing the lights but did not vote on the project. Action: NoneEmerson Street: The commission discussed a proposal to institute a retail require-ment on the ground floor of buildings in the 600 block of Emerson Street. The com-mission will continue its discussion on Feb. 13. Action: None
City Council Rail Committee (Jan. 31)Rail: The committee heard a report from its high-speed rail lobbyist in Sacramento and discussed potential changes to the California Environmental Quality Act. Action: None
CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week
CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a retreat to set its priorities for
2013. The meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2, in the Palo
Alto Art Center (1313 Newell Road).
CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to discuss the Service Efforts and Ac-
complishments report and the results of National Citizens Survey for 2012.
The council will also discuss ways to deal with the rising heath care costs
for employees and consider a proposal from Larry Klein and Greg Schmid
for council reorganization. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday,
Feb. 4, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).
COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to consider a
recommendation for a carbon-neutrality plan for the electric supply port-
folio. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the Council
Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).
CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to interview candidates for the Public
Art Commission, the Parks and Recreation Commission and the Plan-
ning and Transportation Commission. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m.
on Wednesday, Feb. 6, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250
Hamilton Ave.).
PLANNING AND TRANSP0RTATION COMMISSION ... The commission
plans to discuss a proposal by Jay Paul for initiation of a planned com-
munity (PC) zone to accommodate a four-story office development at 395
Page Mill Road and a three-story public-safety building with an attached
seven-level parking structure at 3045 Park Blvd. The meeting will begin at
6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250
Hamilton Ave.).
ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to hear a request
by Jacobs, on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford
Junior University, for a review of new exterior storefronts, signage and
awnings for the American Girl store at Stanford Shopping Center, 180 El
Camino Real. The board also plans to review 780 Welch Road, a request
by WRNS Studio on behalf of Stanford University Lands and Buildings for
review of a replacement of a three-story building. The meeting will begin at
8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250
Hamilton Ave.).
CUBBERLEY POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to
hear an update on the work of the Cubberley Community Advisory Com-
mittee. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Coun-
cil Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).
Public AgendaA preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week
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Keep the status quoEditor,
The obvious solution for the New-ell bridge is to replace it with one that fixes the flood problem, that maintains two lanes of traffic as to-day (one in each direction, although perhaps a tiny bit wider, so two cars fit side by side) and that add a small lane on each side for pedestrians and people on bikes, who currently have a dangerous time crossing the bridge. This essentially keeps the status quo while implementing the flood man-agement plan and while adding to the safety of people not in cars.
For those concerned about slightly improved automobile lanes, speed humps could be added to the end of the bridge, complementing the stop sign at the other end, in order to calm traffic.
People in nearby neighborhoods who don’t like the status quo should have considered buying elsewhere.
Andy RobinWalnut Drive
Palo Alto
Explore trench optionEditor,
Cars under tracks at Churchill, Meadow and Charleston? No way!
Side streets joining Churchill, Meadow and Charleston within 600 feet of the tracks would be cut off. Numerous private homes would be taken. To maintain connection of cross streets with Alma, cars on Alma would be forced to go through a dipsy-doodle at every intersec-tion.
Worst, school kids on foot or bikes would be forced to cross Alma at the bottom of the pit. Imagine a kid on a bike, rolling down the ramp and los-ing control, shooting out into Alma traffic.
Compare the cost of trenching with the cost of underpasses. Two stretches of trench are required: one between Adobe and Matadero creeks for the Charleston and Meadow crossings, and one under Churchill. Each trench has 1,000-foot ramps at each end. For comparison, three underpasses would require a total of 600 feet of street at depth plus 12 ramps 600 feet long from depth to the surface.
Cost elements are cubic yards of soil excavated, cubic yards of concrete poured, relocating utili-ties, taking of private property, and measures to keep the trains rolling during construction. My guess is the cost of trenching would be somewhat more than the underpasses, but not a lot more, so the obvious benefits of tracks-in-trench outweigh the higher cost.
A competent engineer could get a good ballpark number in a week or two, so let’s do the math and settle this issue once and for all.
“Big Bill” CutlerPark Boulevard
Palo Alto
SpectrumEditorials, letters and opinions
City proudly leads on ‘carbon neutral’
Major push to go green puts Palo Alto on cusp of major milestone
A s President Obama promised to take on the threat of climate change in his inaugural speech last week, Palo Alto residents can take comfort that their city has been focused on the effort
to reduce greenhouse gases for quite a few years. Showing more determination to reduce the production of carbon
pollutants than during his first term, the President promised a vig-orous attack on emissions that cause global warming, like those produced by coal-fired power plants. No such effort will be required in Palo Alto, where the city’s utility officials note that this year they expect the entire operation to be “carbon neutral.” Reaching this milestone means that overall, the city’s electric power will have net zero carbon emissions when the purchase of all energy types is balanced out.
The definition of carbon neutral was approved by the City Council in November. It says, “A carbon-neutral electric-supply portfolio will demonstrate annual net-zero greenhouse GHG emissions, mea-sured at the Citygate, in accordance with the Climate Registry’s Electric Power Sector protocol for GHG emissions measurement and reporting.”
Palo Alto residents benefit from not only living in a community that is leading the way in reducing GHG emissions, but doing so without pushing electricity rates above those charged by PG&E. Although not the best measure of comparison, in November the me-dian residential electric bill was $48.49 for Palo Alto residents and $59.98 for PG&E customers, according to city staff. And when the slightly higher cost of going carbon neutral is included next year, the additional average cost increase will be between $2.60 and $4.20 a year, literally just pennies a month.
In addition to purchasing clean electricity and holding down costs, the city has moved on numerous other fronts to act on global warm-ing. Back in 2006, environmentalists formed the area’s first Green Ribbon Task Force that issued a call for the city to take numerous actions to reduce emissions. Among the highlights in its report: promote public transportation; create a much tougher green building code; and reduce emissions from the city’s own vehicles. One goal that may have been considered a nearly insurmountable challenge back then was reaching carbon neutrality in the purchase of electric power, a benchmark that the city will surpass this year.
From this modest beginning, the city has moved forward on many fronts, to:
-ing tenants, and;
customers. Another success story for the city’s electric utility is PaloAl-
toGreen, a program that allows residential and commercial custom-ers to purchase energy exclusively from wind and solar sources for an additional 1.5 cents per kilowatt hour. The percentage of partici-pants by neighborhood is impressive, with Crescent Park leading the way at 35 percent, but closely followed by College Terrace, Commu-nity Center, Duveneck/St. Francis and Leland Manor/Garland. Bar-ron Park, Fairmeadow, Palo Verde, Southgate and Greenmeadow had close to 30 percent participation.
More than 200 commercial users are also in the program, includ-ing HP, Lockheed, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and the Vi at Palo Alto. Overall, 21.5 percent of the electric utility’s customers took part in the program, enough to win first place in the Dept. of Energy’s national contest for the sixth time.
Finally, another bright spot is a modest reduction of GHG emis-sions from the city’s operations in the last seven years. Direct emis-sions from natural gas use and the landfill were down 4,400 metric tons between 2005 and the projected amount released in 2012. In other areas, emissions from electricity generation is down 66,000 metric tons during the same period, and down 43,000 metric tons from transportation and solid waste.
If a city the size of Palo Alto can bring its emissions down by more than 100,000 metric tons in seven years, other Bay Area and U.S. cities can follow the lead and join in a concerted effort to go green. It will take much more effort by cities, as well as the state and federal government, to make a real impact on the dangerous greenhouse gases that continue to contribute to global warming. But at least we’re proving that it can be done with minimal pain and sacrifice.
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Posted Jan. 30 at 11:52 p.m. by Full Circle, a resident of the College Terrace neighbor-hood:
The California Avenue streetscape project has come a full circle. It started off as a small Capital Improvement Project to replace the street-lights. When it was found that the cost of replacing the street-lights exceeded the budget, the decision was made to use the funds for streetscape improve-ments like replacing the trees.
After the clear cutting fiasco, there was simply an acceptance that replacing the lights was still too expensive. Then, over a period of time, all the new el-ements of the current proposal were piled on top and council
approved increasing the bud-get.
Neither the residents, the mer-chants, the property owners, the staff, the PTC nor council con-sidered adding back the street lights that started off the whole process, until very recently.
Yes, it’s too bad that no one thought to add back the lights earlier. But, it’s simply not ac-curate for (Michael) Alcheck to say no one was discussing them. Alcheck’s lamentations show that he has no knowledge of the history of this project. This is what the city gets when council appoints a young real estate at-torney who had not attended any Planning Commission meetings prior to his appointment.
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What do you think about flood control in Palo Alto?Asked at Palo Alto Main Library on Newell Road, California Avenue and Cambridge Avenue. Interviews and photos by Rebecca Duran.
Linda ZadikHomemakerSaint Francis Drive, Palo Alto “We need to prioritize placing bridges and work on storm-drain systems.”
Dorothy Deringer RetiredPalo Alto Avenue, Palo Alto“It’s obviously getting better. We haven’t had a flood in a while. I don’t know how other people will feel on the other side of 101.”
Kathleen KarryRetiredCowper Street, Palo Alto“It seems to me that they were going to do something in 1982 and they didn’t.”
Sue RiggsRetiredTolman Drive, Stanford“It was spectacularly needed. I really worry about people in East Palo Alto on the other side.”
Bruce GravelleContractorRamona Street, Palo Alto“I don’t think they have fully deter-mined what they are going to do.”
by Yoriko Kishimoto
How are you do-ing on your New Yea r’s
resolutions? It’s not too late to start a life-long habit to truly make you healthier, wealthier and wiser. You guessed it — it is walking and bik-ing on a daily basis. Nationally, about 40 percent of all trips are less than two miles, an easy distance for cyclists. The latest census survey showed that the percentage of residents who commute mostly by bike in Palo Alto crossed the 10 percent mark, making our city second in the nation after Davis. Menlo Park (8.8 percent), Mountain View (6.2 percent) and other neighboring communities are close behind. But we can do better — much better. Just think about Amsterdam and Copenhagen where the weather is much less ideal and yet cycling has become part of the everyday culture and lifestyle. In Copenhagen, 36 percent of residents get to work or school by bike and 50 percent use a bike everyday.
Here are 10 things you can do to help the environment, avoid congestion, and most of all, improve your health and pocket-book:
get it tuned up. Biking is a lot more fun, easy and safe with a bike that works. Don’t forget a helmet and lights.
cyclist, but I signed up for a century ride (100 miles) around Lake Tahoe for my 50th birthday seven years ago. Once you do a century, you can breeze across town. Yes, it felt great and the coaching and ca-maraderie helped a lot.
and scenic routes for those who want to avoid traffic. (Check out bike routes on
least once a week. You’ll be surprised how addicting it is.
the rules.
-sider combining biking with Caltrain or
improve our bike infrastructure. You could
The younger generation is leading the way with the strong support of the city, school and PTA. The resulting U-turn in our kids biking to school is inspiring and hopefully is the harbinger for the rest of us.
2002 when only 11 percent of high school students biked to school, the new genera-tion of students begin with safety training in elementary school and continue through
middle school and high school with full support from our schools, PTA and the city with school crossing guards, better bike parking and constant encouragement.
-ing 40 percent bike ridership.
Palo Alto has come a long way since -
oned the bike boulevard in Palo Alto. El-len, who sadly passed away late last year, also worked steadfastly but passionately to get bikes on Caltrain — now about 12 percent of Caltrain riders bring bikes on
also championed the successful bike va-
football games, allowing thousands of fans to bike conveniently and safely to just out-side the gates.
The trend we see in our communities reflects larger trends in the Bay Area and the nation. Nationwide, we have seen his-toric decreases (although small) in vehicle
has been jumping every month for the past
-search Park, are popular, often with every seat filled. Our representatives are com-mitted to making the region even better for
just awarded $10.4 million to significant-ly upgrade regional bike and pedestrian paths, connecting across borders and bar-riers from the foothills to the baylands.
Ultimately, it will be up to us to wake up to decide to try biking or transit. One cyclist testified recently, “Biking to work really doesn’t add any time to my sched-ule. My round-trip bike time is about 1.5 hours. That’s about the same time I was spending driving and then working out af-ter work. The workout I get from my com-mute has opened a door to a whole world of bicycling and new friends. I feel great and I’m about 15-20 pounds lighter.”
we can double our biking and walking. Our newly updated bike master plan calls for 15 percent bike commute share by 2020,
Yoriko Kishimoto is a director of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space Dis-trict, Ward 2 and former mayor of Palo Alto. This column is written in memory of Ellen Fletcher, our late bicycle pioneer, with special thanks to Kathy Durham and Penny Ellson and all who champion Safe Routes to School.
Just do it! Biking will make you healthy, wealthy and on timeStart the year out right by exploring the city’s numerous opportunities for easy cycling
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Nationwide, we have seen historic decreases (although small) in vehicle miles traveled per capita over six of the past seven years.
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P A I D O B I T U A R Y
Dr. Leah McDonough died Jan. 16,
2013, in Redwood City of complications
from Alzheimer’s.
Born and raised in New York City, she
and her husband Joseph McDonough
had lived in Palo Alto since 1962. She
was preceded in death by her husband of
61 years in 2010. They had known each
other since they were 3 years old.
Leah attended the College of New Ro-
chelle (CNR), received a Master’s Degree
at Fordham University, and earned her
Doctorate in Psychology at Michigan
State University. CNR awarded Leah
a scholarship during the Great Depression, allowing her to pursue a
career in psychology. Without CNR’s generous support, Leah would
never have achieved her many accomplishments.
A clinical psychologist, Leah worked for San Mateo County for more
than two decades. For 12 years, she directed the forensic unit of San
Mateo County’s Mental Health Division. Her psychology research was
published in numerous articles and book chapters. After retiring from
the County, she took up writing essays and short stories, publishing
locally and nationally. She enjoyed babysitting for her granddaughter
Carrie. Leah and Joe traveled extensively, and loved to take Carrie along
with them. Leah was a trail-blazer of her generation and an inspiration
to her daughter and granddaughter. She was a devoted and wonderful
wife, mother, grandmother, and citizen of the world, and will be deeply
missed.
Leah is survived by her daughter, Susan McDonough (Warren Mar);
and her granddaughter, Caroline Mar (Sandy Metivier).
Donations in Leah’s honor may be made to the College of New Ro-
chelle (CNR, 29 Castle Place, New Rochelle, NY, 10805, web http://ti-
nyurl.com/CNRDonateLM) or to the American Civil Liberties Union-
Nor Cal (39 Drumm St., SF, 94111; http://tinyurl.com/ACLUNCgift).
Leah McDonoughApril 24, 1924 - January 16, 2013
P A I D O B I T U A R Y
Elizabeth (Betty) Apperson Myers, longtime Ladera resident, died at Stanford Hospital unexpectedly on January 10, two days after her 88th birthday.
Born in Montgomery County, Virginia, on January 8, 1925, to Kent Apperson and Margaret Rucker Apperson, Mrs. Myers graduated from high school in 1944 and then attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
She joined the United States Army in 1945 and was honorably discharged in 1946.
She moved from Virginia to Seattle, Washington, in 1946 to marry Frederick B. Sutton, an engineer with Boeing.
In 1949 she moved with her husband down the coast to California as he took a job at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (now NASA) in Mountain View. They eventually had a son and built a house in Ladera.
She was widowed in 1960, and though her extended family lived in Virginia, she decided to stay in California. She married John (Jack) Barber Myers in 1962 and they remained in Ladera. She was a homemaker, community volunteer, worked some outside her home, and continued her education at Cañada Community College.
After her husband’s death she moved into The Sequoias, a retirement community in Portola Valley, and had lived happily there for the past 10 years.
She was an active member and volunteer at the Ladera Community Church for 50 years, and was an active volunteer at The Sequoias.
She is survived by a son, George Sutton of Menlo Park; daughter-in-law Connie and grandson Colin; her sister and brother-in-law, Nita and Harland Little of Blacksburg, Virginia; sister Mary Kent Elliott of Christiansburg, Virginia; sister and brother-in-law, Pam and Don Mason of Cheyenne, Wyoming; and nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends.
A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, February 23, at the Ladera Community Church, 3300 Alpine Road in Portola Valley.
Donations may be made to the Ladera Community Church Endowment Fund, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA 94028; or to a charity of your choice.
Elizabeth Apperson MyersJan. 8, 1925 – Jan. 10, 2013
P A I D O B I T U A R Y
Howard B. Hushbeck passed away the eve-ning of Thursday, January 17, 2013.
Howard, the last of six siblings, was a native of Watsonville, California, where he attended Wat-sonville High School in the Class of 1941. After graduation he joined the Navy as part of the war effort of World War II. He was the radio opera-tor on the personal aircraft of Admiral Chester Nimitz, and as such visited all of the major lo-cations in the Pacific Theatre. After the war he obtained a degree in electrical engineering from California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo. During college, he developed passion for golf, amateur radio, and tinkering with electronic gadgets, passions which stayed with him for the rest of his life.
Howard married his late first wife Ruby in 1957.Howard retired from Lockheed Missiles and Space in 1989 after
32 years as a Senior Research Engineer, working on projects ranging from weapon systems to communication satellites.
In 1987 he married Elaine, to whom he was married until his passing.
Howard is survived by his wife Elaine, his son Brian, and his stepsons Gerry and Ron. Memorial services will be held at Cove-nant Presbyterian Church where he was a member for more than 50 years, located at 670 East Meadow Drive in Palo Alto on Saturday, February 9th at 3pm.
Howard B. HushbeckOctober 19, 1923 – January 17, 2013
P A I D O B I T U A R Y
Dorothy M. Carter passed away peacefully
January 22, 2013. Her granddaughter was with
her until shortly before her death.
Born 27 Feb 1916 in Sioux City, IA to Howard
A. and Edith (Rogers) Shoemaker, Dorothy came
to California to attend USC. She married Thos.
J. Carter Jr. in Norwalk, CA on 4 June 1939. Mr.
Carter died in 2001.
Mrs. Carter is survived by her three children,
Thomas E. “Ted” Carter (Teresa Cuseo) of San-
ta Rosa, CA; Carolyn M. Johnson (Richard H.
Greene) of Palo Alto, CA, and Marilyn A. Carter of San Antonio, TX.
Mrs. Carter is also survived by six grandchildren and fourteen great-
grandchildren.
A family gathering celebrating Dorothy’s life will be held later in the
spring.
Dorothy M. Shoemaker Carter
Karin Edith HamiltonKarin Edith Hamilton, a long-
time Los Altos resident, wife, mother and omi, died unexpect-edly Jan. 9 of cardiac arrest while vacationing in Puerto Val-larta, Mexico.
She was born Nov. 30, 1940, in Stuttgart, Germany, to Karl and Paula Burger. It was in Ger-many that she met her husband, William P. Hamilton, who was serving in the U.S. Army. They married at The Ludwigsburg Castle on Sept. 13, 1958. They set up permanent residence in California a few years after mar-riage.
She enjoyed spending time with her family and friends, shopping, taking relaxing hikes and leisurely bike rides, cook-ing, wine (with an ice cube) and watching Lifetime movies. She was proud to be a great grand-
mother at a young age. Although she and her husband had home bases in Lake Tahoe, Germany and Puerto Vallarta, they con-tinued to travel all over the world.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister, Eva Sky-les Smith, and her brother, Karl Burger. She is survived by her husband of 54 years, William P. Hamilton of Los Altos; son, William G. Hamilton of Los Ga-tos; daughter, Yvonne K. Mes-simer (Dale) of Mountain View; granddaughter, Michelle Y. Do-nati (Paul) of San Jose; grand-sons, Christopher W. Crook of Sunnyvale and Justin W. Ham-ilton of Campbell; great-grand-sons, Brady P. Donati and Parker W. Donati of San Jose; aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews and dear friends in Germany and the U.S.
Transitions PulseA weekly compendium of vital statistics
POLICE CALLSPalo AltoJan. 24-30Violence relatedAttempted suicide/juvenile . . . . . . . . . . .1Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft relatedAttempted burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle relatedAuto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . .6Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .4Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .3Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Alcohol or drug relatedDrunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Possession of paraphernalia. . . . . . . . . .1Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1MiscellaneousCasualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Juvenile problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . .2Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .3Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Menlo ParkJan. 24-30Violence relatedShooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft relatedAttempted burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Vehicle relatedAbandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . .5Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Traffic stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .2Vehicle accident/non-injury . . . . . . . . . .3Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Alcohol or drug relatedDrug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1MiscellaneousCoroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Juvenile problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Possession of concealed firearm . . . . . .1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .1Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
AthertonJan. 24-30Theft relatedFraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle relatedSuspicious vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Vehicle accident/non-injury . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Vehicle/traffic hazard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1MiscellaneousConstruction complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Hang-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . .1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .2Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
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“The people of Palo are, indeed, worthy of this honor. They resisted even to the death the efforts of the Japanese invaders to subdue them during the late war and were of inestimable assistance as I landed with the forces of liberation to redeem their native soil,” MacAr-thur wrote to City Councilwoman Frances Dias on Jan. 17, 1963.
Barbara Evans, Neighbors Abroad president, recalled the climate in which the program be-gan:
“We started in an idealistic time. The Cold War was on. We were a little town, but we were very con-cerned with non-aligned powers,” she said.
In the Bay Area, engineers and scientists were working for the government on projects, many of which were military in nature, and trying to find a way on a com-munity level to address social and cultural issues outside of politics and governments, Evans said.
“It was part of the zeitgeist of the time.”
Neighbors Abroad adopted Oax-aca as its second sister city in 1964. It was closer than the Philippines, making it easier for people to travel there. Like Palo Alto, it is also a university town, Mandell said.
Early on it became obvious that there was an unequal re-lationship, Ashley said. Less wealthy than Palo Alto, Oax-aca had social and educational needs. Palo Altans rallied to provide children with scholarships and build a chil-dren’s library. They also constructed a planetarium and ob-servatory. Among the most ambitious
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Palo Alto’s sister-city program celebrates 50 years — and contemplates its future
ary Ashley’s eyes twinkled. Tall and athletic, with smooth white hair, she
wiggled her hands beside her ears as she sang the Små Grodorna, Swedish for “The Little Frogs,” a traditional dance and song per-formed midsummer around a maypole:
The little frogs, the little frogs are funny to observe.
The little frogs, the little frogs are funny to observe.
They have no ears, they have no ears, no tails do they possess
They have no ears, they have no ears, no tails do they possess
Kou ack ack ack, kou ack ack ack,
kou ack ack ack ack kaa. Kou ack ack ack, kou ack ack
ack, kou ack ack ack ack kaa.”
Ashley learned the frog song while on a summer solstice trip to Linköping, Sweden. It was ar-ranged through Neighbors Abroad, Palo Alto’s sister-city cultural-ex-change program that is turning 50 this year.
Palo Altans and others will take part in a Swedish frog dance and other merriment on Feb. 9, at Neighbors Abroad’s golden-an-niversary festival. It will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. at Lucie Stern Community Center on Middle-field Road. The event will in-
clude exhibits, performances and traditional foods of Palo Alto’s six sister cities: Palo, the Philippines; Oaxaca, Mexico; Enschede, the Netherlands; Linköping, Sweden; Albi, France, and Tsuchiura, Japan. The free event is open to the public.
As Neighbors Abroad celebrates its milestone, the organization is also taking stock of how to main-tain its relevance in the 21st cen-tury. Palo Alto has expanded from a small college town to an eco-nomic center with global reach. Times have changed. So too must Neighbors Abroad, some say.
Neighbors Abroad began dur-ing the heart of the Cold War as a volunteer program of cultural exchanges and humanitarian proj-ects. It launched on Jan. 18, 1963, as a member of Sister Cities Inter-national, which was founded in 1956. President Dwight D. Eisen-hower started his Town Affilia-tion Program to urge U.S. cities to establish ties with other towns throughout the world.
“Eisenhower said, ‘People don’t kill people they know,’” said Mar-ion Mandell, Neighbors Abroad’s liaison with sister city Oaxaca.
The first group to become a sis-ter city with Palo Alto was a city that shared in part of the name: Palo, the Philippines. The adop-tion won kudos from Gen. Doug-las MacArthur the day before it was formalized.
Bruce Wilner organizes the Neighbors Abroad display for Linköping, Sweden, at Lucie Stern Community Center in Palo Alto in January. On the left is a scale model of “Foreign Friends,” which Linköping gave to Palo Alto in 1989.
Views of sister cities Albi, France (at top), and Linköping, Sweden.
Barbara Evans is the president of Neighbors Abroad, an organization that was formed to establish connections with “non-aligned powers” during the Cold War.
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idea was an orphanage to care for children whose parents are impris-oned.
“There was no foster care, so the kids had to go into the prison with their parents,” Mandell said.
The project even caused a social movement of sorts within Oaxaca, where upper-class women found they could leave behind their lun-cheons and teas and volunteer for a nonprofit organization, she said.
The transformation just five years later was astounding, ac-cording to Mandell.
“The first time I went there, there was this muddy field,” she said.
Now 55 children live there. The older girls learn sewing skills by making clothing for the younger ones, she said.
Neighbors Abroad also funded the Niño-a-Niño (child-to-child) health program in rural villages, which teaches children to teach
other kids about basic health care. The program has had far-reaching results, Mandell said.
Many parents adhere to tradi-tional misconceptions regarding health care, such as the belief in withholding water from children with diarrhea because being dri-er would stop the discharge. But many children died from dehydra-tion, Mandell said.
“You can’t change adults’ minds, but you can change a child’s,” she said.
Kids learned how to mix a rehy-dration drink of simple ingredients to give to a sick child. The chil-dren survived, the parents saw the benefits, and thereafter they incor-porated the practice, she said.
“Before this program, 36 per-cent of children died in the first year. After this, it was 1 to 2 per-cent,” Mandell said.
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Marion Mandell meets with children at the Neighbors Abroad-built orphanage in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Enschede, The Netherlands, became Palo Alto’s third sister city in 1980.
People pose with “Foreign Friends,” a gift from Linköping, Sweden. The sculpture was repeatedly defaced by vandals.
ther than Oaxaca and Palo, the four remaining sister-city relationships have remained
culture- rather than service-orient-ed, Evans said. Adult and student exchanges have included visits by artists, lawyers, musicians, hik-ers and chefs, said Betty Gerard, a Neighbors Abroad board member. There have been cross-cultural bi-cycle tours organized by the local Western Wheelers club and joint concerts between the local Aurora Singers and Albi’s Assou-Lezert. The first concert took place at Stan-ford University’s Memorial Audito-rium to a standing-room-only audi-ence, Gerard said.
“Albi-based Compagnie Evelyne Remazeilhes has performed here several times, recreating the dances of the Moulin Rouge in Paris as de-picted in the paintings of native son Toulouse-Lautrec. Palo Alto musical groups that have performed in Albi include the Palo Alto Chamber Or-chestra, the Palo Alto High School Jazz Band and the Paly Madrigal Singers,” she said.
But sometimes even seemingly innocuous cultural exchanges can create controversy.
Foreign Friends was an 11-foot-tall, traditional Swedish plank sculpture of a man and woman sit-ting on a bench with their dog. The sculpture was not universally appre-ciated by Palo Altans. A gift from Linköping in 1989, the sculpture sat at the corner of Waverley Street and Embarcadero Road. At first, it was a novelty. The sculpture was dressed up for the city’s Black and White Ball and became a destination for photographs, with visitors sitting alongside the sculptures.
But Foreign Friends became the target of multiple assaults. Once it was doused with gasoline and set ablaze; at other times it was de-faced with spray paint, according to Palo Alto Weekly reports. There are pictures of the Friends each with a black eye. And the sculptures were decapitated twice.
In 1993, someone removed the heads on Halloween night and left them in the statues’ laps. By Febru-ary 1994, just two months after be-ing restored by a local sculptor at a cost of $3,000, youths allegedly unbolted the heads after getting around motion sensors. The wooden noggins were never found, accord-ing to the Weekly.
New heads of redwood were fash-ioned but seemed incongruous.
Ralph White, chair of the Neigh-bors Abroad Linköping Commit-tee, said in a 1997 Weekly article that the sculpture was conceived as traditional Swedish folk art to be climbed and played on. But Palo Altans, who viewed it as high art, objected to the new heads.
The unwanted sculpture bounced from one place to another. By Janu-ary 2000, its wood rotting, Foreign Friends was unceremoniously carted off to the city landfill, where it was finally put to rest and composted.
Foreign Friends “was like some-thing from the Twilight Zone,” said
Palo Alto muralist Greg Brown, who traveled to Linköping in 1991 to paint one of his famous, quirky murals on a concert hall as part of a cultural exchange.
“(The mural) was a picture of a fellow coming out of a small door-way on the balcony of the second
floor. He was a black-tie character dangling from the balcony holding a violin. The strings were all that was holding him up from the balcony,” he recalled. “I was quite pleased to be ‘inflicted’ on Linköping, to be
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known as the guy who paid them back for ‘Foreign Friends.’”
The Linköpingers’ view of the value of plank sculptures surprised Brown, he said.
He found out that similar works of art had been crafted for 500 years. At a large festival, the sculptures were all over town. But after the fes-tival, nearly all were removed and dumped in a field behind the univer-sity to decompose, he said.
“A professor drove me out there to see these things dying in the field,” Brown said. “Palo Alto — put away your guilt.”
tudent exchanges have become a large part of forwarding the Neighbors Abroad agenda, with
most of the sister cities participat-ing. The travel goes both ways, with students coming to Palo Alto from abroad, said Keiko Nakajima, a Japanese-language teacher at Jane Lathrop Stanford and Jordan mid-dle schools.
Sixteen students are coming from Tsuchiura, Japan, on March 9 and will stay with host families for one week. There will be a welcoming party and picnic at Mitchell Park, two days of shadowing their host students at school, a visit to Palo Alto City Hall and attendance of a City Council meeting with a com-memoration of their visit by the mayor. Palo Alto police will take the students on a tour of the department,
Top: Neighbors Abroad exchange students from Palo Alto visit sister city Tsuchiura, Japan, last summer. Right: From left, Barbara and Joe Evans, co-presidents of Neighbors Abroad; Palo Alto Mayor Peter Drekmeier; Tsuchiura Mayor Kiyoshi Nakagawa; and Consul General of Japan Yasumasa Nagamine break open a ceremonial sake barrel in November 2009.
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and they will visit Stanford and sample American college cuisine in the cafeteria, Nakajima said.
The Japanese students will also cook family recipes for their host
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a month,” Nakajima said.Exchange students aren’t limited
to high school kids.Johan Lindell, a computer-science
student from Linköping who is an exchange student through Neighbors Abroad, said graduate students at Stanford are so diverse that he also meets many people from around the globe.
“The biggest thing is definitely the passive broadening of my horizons just from being around people with different backgrounds,” he stated in an email.
Lindell arrived at Stanford last September and will return to Swe-den in June. American culture is not unfamiliar in Sweden because it imports U.S. media, and Swedes in general are interested in most things from the United States, he said.
Stanford students’ drive to excel has had an impact on Lindell.
“I think most of my surprises come from meeting Stanford people rather than other Americans. Hav-ing a population base of 300 mil-lion tends to lead to the ... people of the top schools to be very driven. The whole ‘aura of ambition’ that can be found at Stanford is probably the biggest shift from back home,” he said.
ike many organizations found-ed five decades ago, Neighbors Abroad is struggling for ways
to attract younger members.
“It’s getting harder and harder,” Ashley said. “People are just so busy with their families and work-ing full-time jobs. I look at my own daughter, who was an exchange stu-dent in Enschede.”
Evans and Mandell said the job of a sister-city liaison is time con-suming and requires fundraising and reach-ing out to people. For now, they don’t plan to take on any more sister cities.
But some cities are knocking on the door. One person wanted Palo Alto to adopt a sis-ter city in India, Evans said.
“There have to be a lot of people involved if we are going to add another city. We need to reach out to the broader community.”
Palo Alto City Coun-cilman Larry Klein said perhaps the business model of Neighbors Abroad will need to change to attract more people.
“There is a lot of competition and so many different op-portunities for young people to travel. When I was growing up there
wasn’t anybody who went to a for-eign country,” he said.
Technology has made exposure to cultural ideas and everything else instantaneous.
But Councilwoman Nancy Shep-herd, a strong proponent of building business relationships with cities
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Palo Alto’s international relationships demand cultural literacy, city officials say
ranching out from the cultural exchanges promoted by the Neighbors Abroad program,
Palo Alto leaders are eyeing new business-oriented relationships with cities around the world.
The turning point came in 2007, when the mayors of sister city En-schede, the Netherlands, and Palo Alto agreed to a formal economic alliance in addition to continuing cultural exchanges.
Last December, Palo Alto fur-thered the entrepreneurial direction the city is taking in its international partnerships when it established a business relationship with Yangpu in Shanghai, China. The joint ef-fort will include student exchanges with a business curriculum, busi-
ness internships for youth and collaborations between high-tech companies.
With increasing overseas invest-ment in Bay Area businesses and real estate, the globalization of Palo Alto is a trend that cannot be ignored, city leaders said.
City Councilwoman Nancy Shepherd said the Smart City Partnership with Yangpu, which focuses on technology and green programs, is “very, very different from the type of exchange than Neighbors Abroad.”
But there is still a deep need for cultural literacy in global business, she said.
“You cannot escape that, even with an economic exchange, you
need to understand the culture,” she said.
In Shanghai, for example, there is a thousand-year-old cultural rule for gifting among businesses. Cul-tural etiquette includes giving out business cards to just about every-one. When a Palo Alto delegation that included then-Mayor Yiaway Yeh, City Manager James Keene and Shepherd went to Shanghai in early December, Shepherd dis-covered there is an entire ritual in-volved in handing out the cards.
“They give you the card with both hands, thumbs up, and I had to do it back to them, trying not to spill my cards all over,” she re-called.
“They like to do a lot of toast-ing. They put a teaspoon of wine in the glass for each person,” she said. Whoever had the higher title received more toasts and tea-spoons and a higher level of wine that reached toward the rim of the glass.
Shepherd said cultural literacy is much deeper than toasting spoon-fuls of wine.
“The concept is huge. It used to be ‘I want to sell my razors in India,’ so companies would put up a billboard and put the face of an Asian person over a white person,” she said.
But now cultural understanding permeates everything, including industrial methodology. Business-es need to look at the culture in its entirety to understand what kinds of technologies are possible and
acceptable there. It could mean the difference between using wind tur-bines, which are already accepted, instead of trying to import “smart grid” technology, she said.
Palo Alto needs to think harder about its relationships around the world and what that will mean for the city over time, Councilman Larry Klein said. Many countries want a sister-city business relation-ship with Palo Alto — a copy of “the Silicon Valley plan,” as one Chinese delegate once requested, so that the other countries could build tech centers, Klein said.
No such plan exists, Shepherd pointed out. Sister City business relationships could have a big im-pact on quality of life in Palo Alto, Klein said.
“We’ve become this worldwide economic power, and people want to join up with us. It raises ques-tions about what we’re really do-ing. It’s very flattering, but we’re a built-out community. We all like our idea of being the center of in-novation. If a company wants to build a new facility of a million square feet, another community might say ‘great’ — but Palo Alto will say, ‘We don’t have it.’”
Klein said the city must deter-mine what it is trying to accom-plish and what it expects to get out of such partnerships.
“To help existing companies? To help startups? To help Stanford in some way? What does the citizenry think our role is?” he asked.
— Sue Dremann
Student Emily Hwang holds a baseball that students at a Japanese school signed during her two-week stay in Tsuchiura, Japan.
Palo Alto Mayor Yiaway Yeh, right, is joined by the Mayor of Yangpu, Shanghai (at table), along with top officials from the Yangpu District and the Bay Area Council as they sign an agreement to explore economic opportunities between Palo Alto and Yangpu.
families, and they will travel to Yosemite, she said.
Emily Hwang, a Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School eighth-grader, said she hosted a Tsuchiura student in March 2012.
“She was very shy, but it was fun to get to know her a little bit while she was there. Since we were both a little bit embarrassed to speak in the other’s native language, there were some awkward silences, but we got over that eventually because we taught each other some stuff. I enjoyed showing her around places in Palo Alto and school and doing a bunch of things that I love with her. I’m glad I met her before I went to Japan. Otherwise, it would have been even more of a culture shock to me,” she stated in an email to the Weekly.
Hwang’s 11-day trip to Tsuchiura with a group of students took place last July. She said she wanted to participate after learning of the pro-gram from her older brother, who was studying Japanese.
“My experience as an exchange student was incredible and life-changing. Exposure to such a dras-tically different culture was shock-ing but equally exciting. I’ve made lasting friendships and seen and done things I will remember for-ever. I feel like participating in an exchange program gave me insight into Japanese life that I will never have the opportunity to experience again, so I am very grateful for that,” she said.
The most surprising thing was how nice the people were and how clean the city was, she said.
“I’d heard some things about how polite the Japanese were, but it’s actually pretty ridiculous how help-ful they are. Everyone there did so much to make sure we felt welcome and had a positive experience.
“My Japanese teacher had told us various things about Japan through-out the year, and my grandma is familiar with Japan, so I thought I had a faint idea of what it was like there in terms of food and culture. However, I learned that you can nev-er compare what people say about something and the actual thing,” she said.
Nakajima said the Palo Alto stu-dents go to the Atomic Bomb Mu-seum in Hiroshima and visit Kyoto. They attend the school in Tsuchiura, where students routinely take off their shoes and clean the classrooms. The weather, unlike Palo Alto’s, is very hot and muggy.
Perhaps the most valuable lesson students learn? Tolerance.
Nakajima said if the students don’t like aspects of Japanese culture, she tells them: “Too bad.”
“It’s their culture,” she says.Japanese students were about to
travel to Palo Alto in 2011 when an earthquake and tsunami hit. The airport was closed, so their trip was canceled, Nakajima said.
But that did not stop Palo Alto from springing into action.
“Neighbors Abroad and host families had to do something. They met that Sunday at Jordan Middle School and established a fundrais-ing effort that collected $14,000. The students sold cookies and wrist bands, and $10,000 was collected in
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On the cover: Palo Alto student Emily Hwang, right, and a friend stand beside a memorial obelisk in Japan during a Neighbors Abroad student exchange in July 2012.Photo courtesy of Emily Hwang.
around the world — most recently the city’s Smart City Partnership with Yangpu, Shanghai, China (see sidebar) — said the relevance of cul-tural exchanges such as Neighbors Abroad has not diminished. Social networking has its place, but people still want to meet face to face, she said.
Nakajima said that cultural litera-cy will always be relevant, and that won’t diminish in the global busi-ness climate.
But more importantly, she said, Neighbors Abroad still affects stu-dents on a basic human level. And it harks back to the core reason the organization was founded.
“It might change their lives. Half of the students say they don’t want to go home — they want to go back. They are never going to hate the Japanese.
“They can come home and tell their stories, and it might change the world,” she said.
Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at [email protected].
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by Rebecca Wallaceou can tell a lot about people from their favorite “Peter and the Wolf” recording. Do they go classic, with Lenny Bernstein narrating on vinyl? Highbrow, with Sir John Gielgud and the Royal Philharmonic? Or just completely random, with David Bowie, Weird Al, a Dixieland band or Japanese jazz quartet?
Mr. Prokofiev would surely be surprised by the sheer versa-tility of interpretation that his 1936 children’s composition has inspired. (As would many of us who grew up with the basic Bernstein or Disney version of the simple tale about a boy at his grandfather’s dacha.)
Yes, “Peter and the Wolf” has legs. Long, multicultural ones.
This month, Prokofiev’s work comes to Palo Alto in four languages. A quartet of narrators will present four perfor-mances of “Peter”: in English, Mandarin, Russian and He-brew. Ming Luke, a guest conductor at the San Francisco Bal-let, will conduct a chamber orchestra. (At press time, tickets to the English program had just sold out.) This will be the first Mandarin-language program held at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center.
“We’re embarking on a new journey,” said Ronit Widmann-Levy, the center’s director of arts and culture. “We do have some members who speak Mandarin, at the fitness club, but we have not been programming for the Mandarin population.”
Widmann-Levy, herself a seasoned opera singer, joined the JCC five months ago and is on a mission to expand the cen-ter’s multicultural offerings beyond the Hebrew and Russian programs that currently exist. “Peter,” with its wide appeal, seemed a good fit.
Prokofiev’s composition follows a boy (Peter, played by string instruments) who goes out exploring in the forest and meadow, where he meets up with such animals as a duck
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Oshman Family JCC hosts a quadrilingual ‘Peter and the Wolf’
Left: The San Francisco Ballet’s Ming Luke will conduct “Peter and the Wolf” at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center. Top: Composer Sergey Prokofiev.
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(oboe), a bird (flute) and, of course, a wolf (French horn). Grandfather is played by an authoritative bassoon. Young listeners learn about different types of instruments, as well as what might happen if you’re a duck and a little too slow.
Luke, who makes music education a major focus of his career, calls “Pe-ter” an unusual schooling opportuni-ty as well as a musical classic. “See-ing the instruments and how they can directly portray various animals, with the colors of the sounds, is time-less. There are not very many pieces like that, and it’s so ingeniously com-posed,” he said.
Interestingly, while the piece was written for children, it can be a chal-lenge for adult musicians to play, Luke added. The flute part is often used as an excerpt to test musicians on how well they play. “It’s very tricky to get really precise.”
The Palo Alto performances of “Peter” are scheduled for Feb. 10, with the following narrators: Susan Pari (English), 12:30-1:30 p.m.; Der-ek Tam (Mandarin), 2-3 p.m.; Boris Vladimirsky (Russian), 4-5 p.m.; and Ilan Vitenberg (Hebrew), 5-6 p.m. Before and after performances, kids can make animal masks at an arts booth, or take part in an instrument “petting zoo,” where they can touch the types of instruments played in the concerts.
Luke is a fan of the “zoo” idea. “Music should not be simply about sheer exposure,” he said. “It’s one thing to see people perform. It’s an-other thing to have the opportunity to try it yourself.”
Besides serving as assistant con-ductor of Opera San Jose and as-sociate conductor of the Modesto Symphony, Luke is also associate conductor and director of education programs at the Berkeley Symphony. There he makes great efforts to in-volve kids in classical music, and not just as spectators.
One of his favorite Berkeley pro-grams is “I’m a Performer,” a part-nership with elementary schools. First, professional musicians go into classrooms to meet the students and talk about why they love music; next, the kids go see the players perform. Lastly, the kids get to perform side-by-side with the musicians, playing simple arrangements. One can imag-ine the little ones, piping away on a recorder or singing.
“All musicians need to be involved in every level,” Luke said. “Just being a conductor is almost a disservice,” he said.
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A fter playing a starring role in bringing Stanford’s new Bing Concert Hall to life, Jenny
Bilfield is heading east: to the icon-ic Kennedy Center and the modern Music Center at Strathmore. She’s leaving her job as the artistic di-rector of Stanford Live to become president and CEO of the Washing-ton Performing Arts Society.
The Washington, D.C., organiza-tion, founded 47 years ago, presents dance and classical, jazz, pop, vo-cal and world music. Performers this season include violinists Hilary Hahn and Anne-Sophie Mutter, jazz singer and bassist Esperanza Spald-ing, and the dance company Ron K. Brown and Evidence. The Kennedy Center is a big venue for the group, along with Strathmore, the Harman Center for the Arts and others. Bil-field, who used to live in New York City, is looking forward to moving back to a bustling urban area.
“It’s exciting, and a different envi-ronment,” she said. “There’s a real sense of mission and opportunity.”
Bilfield has been at Stanford since 2006, serving first as artistic and ex-
ecutive director of Stanford Lively Arts, and then as artistic director of the organization after it was re-branded as Stanford Live last year. She’s been a member of the central planning team for the Bing hall and a particular advocate for arts pro-grams that bring performers and students together at the university.
Rather than just whisking in a big name for one performance, Bilfield wanted to have performers arrive earlier and stay longer when they could, imparting artistic knowledge to Stanford’s students. Collabora-tions in the last few years have included sound sculptor Trimpin teaching students to build their own musical instruments; and Stanford dancers and gymnasts being trained by Brooklyn dancer Elizabeth Streb’s company — and then getting to perform with the group.
One of the great joys of this job has been seeing high levels of stu-dent participation, Bilfield said. With the Bing hall now open, stu-dent concert attendance has been especially robust, she added. “Last night we had 150 students for
Yo-Yo Ma.”Bilfield has also been active in ar-
ranging commissions and premieres on campus. In fact, she plans to stay at Stanford through March 16 so that she won’t miss the performance of a new, Stanford-commissioned
work by Steve Reich. The innova-tive chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound will be performing Reich’s Radiohead-inspired “Radio Re-write.”
Bilfield is scheduled to start her new job on April 1, and says her
husband, the composer Joel Phillip Friedman, and their daughter, Hall-ie, are excited for the move. Before moving to California, the family lived in New York, where Bilfield was president of the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes.
Reginald Van Lee, who chairs the board of directors at the Washing-ton Performing Arts Society, said Bilfield was the natural pick for her new job. “She was the unanimous choice of the search committee from an impressive list of candidates,” he said in a press release. Bilfield will replace Neale Perl, who will become president emeritus.
Stanford Live also had some staffing changes last year, when the organization was rebranded. Wiley Hausam came from New York to become the first managing director of the Bing hall, and then was also named executive director of Stan-ford Live, with Bilfield staying on as artistic director.
When asked whether a replace-ment would be hired for Bilfield -- or whether Hausam would also assume artistic-director duties -- Matthew Tiews, executive director of arts programs at Stanford, said the decision had not yet been made.
“We are sad to see Jenny leave Stanford but wish her all the best with this exciting new opportunity. ... Stanford Live is currently evaluat-ing its next steps and based on the outcome of that process will begin a search for an appropriate replace-ment,” he wrote in an email.
Ms. Bilfield goes to Washington
Stanford Live artistic director Jenny Bilfield will head the Washington Performing Arts Society
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At Stanford since 2006, Jenny Bilfield has been an active member of the Bing Concert Hall planning team.
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Amour (PG-13) Guild Theatre: 1:15, 4:30 & 7:45 p.m.
Argo (R) 1/2 Century 20: 11:15 a.m.; 2, 4:45, 7:35 & 10:20 p.m.
Broken City (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 11:40 a.m. & 2:20 p.m.
Bullet to the Head (R) 1/2 Century 16: 11:30 a.m.; 2:10, 4:40, 7:30 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50 & 10:15 p.m.
Django Unchained (R) Century 16: 11:50 a.m.; 3:50 & 8 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m.; 2:50, 6:25 & 10 p.m.
Gangster Squad (R) 1/2 Century 20: 5, 7:45 & 10:30 p.m.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: Noon, 2:30, 5, 8 & 10:30 p.m.; In 3D at 11 a.m.; 1:30, 4, 7 & 9:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m.; 12:15, 2:45, 5:05 & 7:25 p.m.; In 3D at 1, 1:45, 3:20, 4:10, 5:45, 6:40, 8:15, 9:05 & 10:35 p.m.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG-13) Century 16: 11:20 a.m.; In 3D at 3:20 & 7:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m.; In 3D at 2:35, 6:15 & 9:55 p.m.
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The Impossible (PG-13) Aquarius Theatre: 1:30, 4:15, 7 & 9:45 p.m. Century 20: 11:45 a.m.; 2:35, 5:15, 7:55 & 10:35 p.m.
Josh Groban Live: All That Echoes (PG) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: Mon. at 7:30 p.m. Century 20: Mon. at 7:30 p.m.
Les Miserables (2012) (PG-13) Century 16: 11 a.m.; 2:25, 6:05 & 9:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m.; 3, 6:35 & 10:05 p.m.
Life of Pi (PG) 1/2 Century 20: 1:25 p.m.; In 3D at 4:20, 7:15 & 10:20 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1 p.m.; In 3D at 4 & 7 p.m.; In 3D Fri. & Sat. also at 10 p.m.
Lincoln (PG-13) 1/2 Century 16: 11:20 a.m.; 2:40, 6:05 & 9:20 p.m. Century 20: 12:20, 3:35, 7 & 10:15 p.m.
Mama (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 11:30 a.m.; 2, 4:50, 7:50 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: Noon, 2:25, 5:10, 7:50 & 10:25 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: Wed. at 6:30 p.m. Palo Alto Square: Wed. at 6:30 p.m.
Movie 43 (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 12:10, 2:30, 5, 7:40 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 8:20 & 10:40 p.m.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) (Not Reviewed) Guild Theatre: Sat. at midnight.
Saturday Night Fever (1977) (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: Wed. at 2 & 7 p.m. Century 20: Wed. at 2 & 7 p.m.
Silver Linings Playbook (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 12:10, 3:10, 6:20 & 9:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m.; 2, 4:50, 7:35 & 10:25 p.m.
Stand Up Guys (R) Century 16: 11:10 a.m.; 1:50, 4:20, 7:10 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 11:55 a.m.; 2:15, 4:40, 7:10 & 9:35 p.m.
Warm Bodies (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 11:10 a.m.; 12:20, 1:40, 2:50, 4:10, 6:10, 7:10, 9:10 & 10:05 p.m. Cen-tury 20: 11:30 a.m.; 12:40, 1:55, 3:05, 4:25, 5:35, 6:55, 8:05, 9:25 & 10:40 p.m.
Zero Dark Thirty (R) 1/2 Century 16: 11:50 a.m.; 3:40 & 7:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m.; 2:30, 6:40 & 10:10 p.m.
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Stand Up Guys (Century 16, Century 20) It’s
tempting to give this “Grumpy Old Gangsters” comedy-drama a pass. Noah Haidle’s screenplay seems chronically incapable of making smart choices.
But that’s why you hire Sec-ond City veteran and Oscar win-ner Alan Arkin: to spin gold from straw. It’s also why you hire Oscar winners Al Pacino and Christo-pher Walken, the former an Ac-tors Studio vet and the latter famed for his refusal to respect punctua-tion. Their spontaneity makes the picture’s first scene an immediate pleasure, though a sinking feeling sets in soon enough.
These guys are so good as to al-most make the slight script they’re given irrelevant ... almost. Pacino and Walken play BFFs Val and Doc, who reunite when Val walks out of prison after 28 years. Though he owes Val for being a “stand-up guy,” Doc finds himself in the posi-tion of having to kill his only friend (at the behest of Mark Margolis’ mobster Claphands). The screen-play does backflips to explain this contrivance and delay the inevi-table, to little avail.
Over 95 leisurely minutes, “Stand Up Guys” covers a period of about 17 hours between Val’s release and Doc’s deadline. The characters wander the streets by night: stealing a luxury car for a joyride, busting their old wheel man Hirsch (Arkin) out of a nursing home, and getting their drink and prostitutes on.
With hope springing eternal, di-rector Fisher Stevens plays these “adventures” for the cheapest of laughs. In addition, the require-ments of sticking Pacino, Walken and Arkin into the likes of a sub-”Blues Brothers” police chase result in choppy editing. But the director’s long resume as an actor is the film’s secret weapon, for the movie’s best bits are surprisingly tender moments between friends.
Those moments, sadly, are out-numbered by crass (OK) but dumb (not OK) episodes designed to allow the old men to bond with
younger women, in the hope their demographic will sit through the movie. These scenes take place at the local bordello (run by Lucy Punch); the local hospital, where one of the nurses (Julianna Mar-gulies) is Hirsch’s daughter; and the local diner, which not-so-mys-teriously draws Doc to a kind and pretty young waitress (Addison Timlin). There’s also the naked victim (Vanessa Ferlito) the guys happen upon, who provides a sud-den excuse for a righteous mission against bad guys.
The awfulness of the narrative is plain to see, and yet acting junkies probably won’t be able to resist the cast. Fertile comic Arkin, graceful hangdog Walken and shambling wild man Pacino can’t do much for the story. But each inevitably brings his own cinematic backstory to the table. No one can say “Stand Up Guys” lacks personality.
Rated R for language, sexual content, violence and brief drug use. One hour, 35 minutes.
— Peter Canavese
Bullet to the Head1/2(Century 16, Century 20)
Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and (to a lesser extent) Bruce Willis seem ea-ger to prove they can spearhead gratuitous action flicks with the same gusto they mustered in the 1980s and ‘90s. They’re literally sticking to their guns regardless of Father Time’s inconvenient in-trusion.
And while Stallone’s “The Expendables” (2010) served up some cheeky charm, the shtick has grown old. It’s borderline de-pressing, like watching a former high school football star with a paunchy gut. Willis has seen sev-eral recent actioners go straight to DVD, and Schwarzenegger’s “The Last Stand” fell flat. Now it’s Stallone’s turn.
The title itself should deter viewers who favor smart cinema over mindless mayhem. Based on the French graphic novel “Du Plomb Dans La Tete” and set in New Orleans, the story (as it were) revolves around hired killer James Bonomo (Stallone) and his unlikely alliance with Washing-ton, D.C., cop Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang of “Fast Five”).
Kwon heads to The Big Easy to investigate the murder of his ex-partner; meanwhile, Bonomo is seeking his own answers fol-lowing the brazen killing of his hitman cohort. When the two re-alize the deaths are linked, they grudgingly join forces to track down those responsible. They un-earth a conspiracy that involves a real-estate mogul (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a socialite (Christian Slater) and a violent mercenary (Jason Momoa). Even Bonomo’s tattoo-artist daughter (Sarah Shahi) is along for the bumpy ride.
Although Stallone lumbers his way through the film and appears
Christopher Walken and Al Pacino are furious that there isn’t a hyphen in “Stand Up Guys.”
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half-asleep half the time, the man still has charisma and is occasion-ally sharp despite dull material. Kang struggles, his weak charac-ter made more so by an amateur performance. And while the odd-couple dynamic has its moments, they are few and far between. Shahi and Momoa are solid, but their characters are one-dimen-sional.
Director Walter Hill hasn’t helmed a feature since 2002’s “Undisputed,” and it shows. Nov-ice filmmaking techniques such as use of voiceover, flashbacks and erratic transitions become
distracting and seem beneath the standards of a director with a decent resume (“The Warriors” and “48 Hrs.,” among others). The cheesy hard-rock soundtrack screams “bad ‘80s action movie,” and perhaps that was the goal all along.
But bad ‘80s action movies be-long in the ‘80s. It’s 2013, and the movie-going public deserves bet-ter than a “Bullet to the Head.”
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FridayWomen’s basketball: Stanford at Or-
egon, 6 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks; KZSU (90.1 FM)
Prep basketball: Sequoia at Menlo-Atherton (girls 6:15 p.m., boys 7:45 p.m.); KCEA (89.1 FM)
SundayMen’s basketball: Oregon St. at
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Junior forward Dwight Powell (33) scored 12 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as Stanford dominated visiting Oregon on Wednesday, 76-52, while handing the Ducks their first Pac-12 Conference loss.
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by Rick Eymer
W hen the Stanford men’s basketball team takes the court against visiting Or-
egon State on Sunday, the Cardinal players will bring a new swagger with them.
That’s what happens when you knock the tough kid of the block off his perch. The Cardinal played its most complete game of the season in a contest it sorely needed to grab new life for the remainder of the Pac-12 Conference.
Following its best road win of the season, Stanford beat No. 10 Oregon, 76-52, Wednesday night at home. The Ducks (7-1, 18-3) re-main the kingpins of the Pac-12, but they’re a little bit dizzy after getting shaken.
“It definitely ranks up there as one of the better moments for our program,” Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins said. “That’s the type of team we thought we might have at the beginning of the season. And we’re still developing into becoming the team we want to become.”
Stanford (4-4 in the Pac-12, 13-8 overall) asserted itself in every facet of the game, leaving nothing to sec-ond guess themselves.
The Cardinal recorded its first victory over a top 10 team in almost five years thanks in large part to the efforts of Dwight Powell and Josh Huestis, who dominated the paint against one of the conference’s top rebounding teams.
“They helped us with their board
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ALL-STATE . . . Stanford-bound
Austin Hooper of De La Salle was
named to the first-team defense on
the Cal-Hi Sports All-State team
released Tuesday. The 6-foot-5, 245-
pound senior, who can play both in
the defensive line or tight end, had 17
Division I offers — including Oregon
and Cal — before committing to The
Farm two weeks ago. His speed on
defense coming from the outside for
a player his size is what made him
so effective. The third-team offense
included two Stanford recruits, wide
receiver Francis Owusu (6-3, 190) of
Oaks Christian and offensive lineman
Thomas Oser (6-5, 285) of Harvard-
Westlake. On the Small Schools all-
state team, Sacred Heart Prep senior
defensive back Daniel Thaure (5-10,
185) was named to the first team
while teammate Mike Covell, a 6-0,
185-pound linebacker, was named to
the second team on defense. On the
all-state teams for underclassmen,
Palo Alto quarterback Keller Chryst was named to the second team for ju-
niors while Menlo School quarterback
Jack Heneghan received the same
honor on the third team.
“LINSANITY” . . . One day after see-
ing himself on the big screen during
the final viewing of the documentary
“Linsanity” at the Sundance Film Fes-
tival, Palo Alto High grad Jeremy Lin was back on the NBA floor helping
his Houston Rockets win. Lin, who
was in Park City, Utah, on Sunday to
watch the film along with 600 movie
fans, didn’t have far to travel on Mon-
day as the Rockets visited the Utah
Jazz. With Lin scoring 12 points on
5-for-5 shooting with seven assists,
three steals and two rebounds, the
Rockets continued to bounce back
from an earlier slump with a 125-80
victory on Monday night. A day earlier,
Lin attended the film documenting his
meteoric rise in the NBA last season.
The movie received great reviews, in
addition to a standing ovation before
Lin joined his producer and direc-
tor on stage for a Q&A following the
screening. A Los Angeles Times re-
port called “Linsanity: the Movie” eas-
ily “one of the most crowd-pleasing
documentaries to play the festival this
year.” As Josh L. Dickey of Variety
noted, the film is a “buzzer-beater
away from closing a distribution deal.”
Movie reviewer Robert Levin wrote:
“The Jeremy Lin story is remarkable
and faith-restoring.”
Palo Alto boys face unique postseasonin hoops after streaking to 18-1 mark
by Keith Peters
A familiar matchup in the Central Coast Section boys’ basketball playoffs has been Palo Alto against Mitty. In the past
10 seasons, the schools have met five times in Division II action with the Monarchs holding a 3-2 edge in the series.
The Vikings’ two victories came in the section finals, in 2005 and ‘06, the latter with Jeremy Lin in Paly’s state championship season.
In recent years, however, Mitty has ended Palo Alto’s season — each time in the semifi-nals (2011, ‘10 and ‘07). Those losses prevented the Vikings from reaching the Northern Cali-fornia playoffs.
That will not happen this season, even if the teams meet again.
Thanks to its enrollment of 1,907 students, Palo Alto for the first time has been elevated from the CCS Division II playoffs to Division I — thus escaping the Division II Monarchs.
Thanks to the new CIF and CCS Open Divi-sions, however, Paly and Mitty could meet once again. However, all the teams selected for the CCS Open Division will automatically qualify
for NorCals — either in the Open Division or their former section division.
Thus, Palo Alto has two chances to reach the NorCal playoffs this season for the first time since Lin-led 2006, and one of the opportunities is guaranteed.
To reach the CCS Open Division, all Palo Alto has to do is win the SCVAL De Anza Division. That accomplished, the Vikings are a lock for NorCals.
“I like that you are rewarded for winning league and going to NorCals,” said Paly coach Adam Sax. “I really like that (the) Open Divi-sion is a tournament and not one and done!”
Thanks to Tuesday’s 59-43 victory at second-place Saratoga on Tuesday night, Palo Alto will take an 8-0 league record, 18-1 overall mark and 16-game win streak into Friday’s home game against Homestead at 7:45 p.m.
The 18-1 mark equals the third best (with 2006) in Paly history after 19 games. Only the 1993 team that finished 31-0 and the 1929 squad (19-0) were better.
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play,” Dawkins said. “They blocked shots and were a bundle of activity inside.”
Huestis scored 14 points, on 6-of-9 shooting, and had 13 re-bounds. Powell added 12 points and 13 rebounds. Both received on-air praise from ESPNU broadcaster Bill Walton, who knows a thing or two about rebounding and playing with desire.
“Really, we just wanted to be as intense and aggressive as pos-sible,” Powell said. “We wanted to help each other out and be be pre-pared for the type of screens they set. It just came down to the mind-set of digging in and doing what it takes.”
Chasson Randle scored a game-high 17 points and Aaron Bright had 12 as Stanford built a 25-point lead early in the second half.
The Cardinal shot 52 percent to Oregon’s 35 and made twice as many 3-pointers (eight) in fewer at-tempts.
The last time Stanford beat a ranked opponent was just over two years, when it edged Washington, 58-56, in Maples Pavilion.
The Cardinal last beat a top 10 team nearly five years ago to the day (Feb. 2, 2008) when it upset Wash-ington State, 67-65, in overtime.
“You can’t forget the formula for success,” Dawkins said. “It’s about continuing to improve.”
Even though there was a large discrepancy between the team’s ranking and records, Oregon was a three-point underdog entering the contest.
“Someone told me that but I didn’t think twice about it,” Dawkins said. “That’s not for us to decide. We’re more interested in playing the game
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Stanford’s Chasson Randle (right) tallied a game-high 17 points to help spark a 76-52 upending of visiting Oregon on Wednesday.
well.”Stanford beat host Utah, 87-57, on
Sunday for its most lopsided con-ference win in nine years and then came back with its largest margin at home in a conference game.
“I hope we can look at this game and see the things we did well,” Randle said. “Even the things we can improve on. This can be moti-vation to play the same way every time out.”
Stanford’s noon game with the Beavers (1-6, 11-9) on Sunday in another Pac-12 game with conse-quences. The Cardinal finds itself in a little better shape going into the weekend. A tie for sixth place, with Colorado no less, sounds a lot better
than 10th place.“If we continue to grow as a team
we can be very competitive,” Dawk-ins said. “We’re seeing the ball go in and when you defend, it gives you a little more life offensively.”
Oregon State’s season has been similar to Stanford. The Beavers ex-pected to be better than they were a year ago and have yet to play up to their potential.
Like Stanford, the Beavers have the talent to beat good teams. The Cardinal can ill afford a letdown.
Oregon took an early 6-2 lead but that was before Randle, Pow-ell, Bright and John Gage each hit a 3-pointer during an 18-2 run that sparked the crowd and the team.
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Stanford women’s basketball looks to remain perfect on the roadby Rick Eymer
T he nationally No. 6-ranked Stanford women’s basket-ball team is on the road this
weekend, first at Oregon on Friday and then Oregon State on Sunday. This marks six road games in the team’s final 10 to close the regular season.
While playing away from home can be scary, not so for Stanford. The Cardinal is 11-0 away from Maples Pavilion this season and still owns a share of first place in the Pac-12 Conference.
Stanford remained atop the stand-ings as Chiney Ogwumike had 20 points and 12 rebounds in a 69-56 win over visiting No. 20 Colorado, 69-56, on Sunday.
Toni Kokenis added 15 points and a game-high five assists as the Cardinal (7-1, 18-2) won its fourth straight. Joslyn Tinkle scored 16 points and Amber Orrange added 10.
UCLA and Washington both won Sunday and remain a game behind co-leaders Stanford and California.
The Cardinal, which held its 38th consecutive opponent to under 70 points, led by as many as 19 in the
second half. The Buffaloes, off to their best
start in nine years, closed to within 53-46 with 8:01 remaining to play, but that’s as close as they would come. Stanford went on a 9-2 run afterward and never trailed by less than 10 the rest of the way.
Ogwumike recorded her fourth consecutive double-double and has 15 on the season. She also has reached double figures in scoring in all 20 games, including 20 or more in 15 of them.
Kokenis, still bothered by a brace around her right thumb, shot 6 of 11 for the game, including 3 of 4 from long range, and went 9 for 15 on the weekend. That may be an indication she’s adapting to her brace.
Tinkle also reached double fig-ures for a fourth consecutive time and for the seventh time in her past 10 games. She and Ogwumike each blocked three shots.
Women’s gymnasticsStanford finally will get a chance
to strut its stuff in front of the home crowd this weekend and what bet-ter way than to host one of the top teams in the nation?
Don’t think you’ll fit inside Burn-ham Pavilion, which remains one of the more cozy venues in all of col-lege sports? No need to fret. It’s also No. 11 Stanford’s debut on Pac-12 Networks and a nationwide audi-ence.
The Cardinal (7-1) recorded a team high and several individual season bests in its 196.450-195.775 victory over host California last Saturday but likely will need an-other season to compete with No. 4 UCLA, which visits Stanford on Saturday at 4 p.m.
Stanford has yet to lose a women’s gymnastics meet to California in the current millenium, winning 28 straight. Stanford is 37-1 against the Bears since 1996.
Senior captain Ashley Morgan had a tremendous week, winning the all-around at Georgia on Mon-day and at California on Saturday. She was named Pac-12 Women’s Gymnast of the Week.
The All-American claimed three individual titles against Cal, finish-ing first on vault, floor exercise and the all-around. Morgan tied her ca-
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Please be advised the Planning and Transportation Commis-sion (P&TC) shall conduct a Special public meeting at 6:00 PM, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 in the Council Chambers, Ground Floor, Civic Center, Palo Alto, California. Any interested persons may appear and be heard on these items.
Staff reports for agendized items are available via the City’s main website at www.cityofpaloalto.org and also at the Planning Division Front Desk, 5th Floor, City Hall, after 2:00 PM on the Friday preceding the meeting date. Copies will be made available at the Development Center should City Hall be closed on the 9/80 Friday.
NEW BUSINESS.Public Hearing
1. 395 Page Mill Road: Request by Jay Paul Company for Initiation of a Planned Community (PC) Rezoning to Accom-modate: 1) Four (4) Story Office Development at 395 Page Mill Road and 2) Three (3) Story Public Safety Building with Attached Seven (7) Level Parking Structure at 3045 Park Blvd.
Questions. For any questions regarding the above items, please contact the Planning Department at (650) 329-2441. The files relat-ing to these items are available for inspection weekdays between the hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. This public meeting is televised live on Government Access Channel 26.
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NOTICE OF A SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETINGof the Palo Alto
Planning & Transportation Commission
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reer-best on vault (9.925), recorded a season-best on floor (9.925) and tied her season-best on uneven bars (9.850).
In addition to Morgan, other Stan-ford gymnasts to watch include:
Junior All-American Amanda Spinner, who delivered a career-high performance on balance beam at Georgia, scoring 9.925 to lead Stan-ford on the only event it outscored the Gym Dogs. She scored a 9.825 for a third-place finish at Cal.
Samantha Shapiro earned her first individual title of the year at Cal, with a career-best 9.950 performance on uneven bars; the highest of any Cardinal this sea-son. The sophomore All-Ameri-can has improved her score on the event in each consecutive meet this season.
Shona Morgan, a junior from Mel-bourne, Australia, continues to be one of Stanford’s most consistent performers. She contributed scores on all three of her events at Cal. Morgan scored a season-best 9.850 on uneven bars and finished third on floor exercise with a 9.875. She also delivered a solid routine on balance beam, good for a 9.800.
FootballWith the Indianapolis Colts lur-
ing Stanford offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton away to the NFL, Cardinal head coach David Shaw has been forced to re-arrange his
coaching staff.Shaw on Tuesday announced sev-
eral staff changes to lead the Cardi-nal offense into the 2013 season fol-lowing a Rose Bowl championship season in 2012.
Mike Bloomgren has been el-evated to Andrew Luck Director of Offense/Offensive Coordina-tor (Hamilton’s previous position), while continuing to coach the offen-sive line. Bloomgren has been Stan-ford’s run-game coordinator the past two years.
Also transitioning in his third season, former running backs coach Mike Sanford has taken over Stan-ford’s quarterbacks and wide receiv-ers, while continuing his duties as recruiting coordinator.
Replacing Sanford as running backs coach is former Cardinal quarterback Tavita Pritchard, who for the last two years served as a de-fensive assistant and worked closely with Associate Head Coach/Defen-sive Coordinator Derek Mason.
Women’s water poloTop-ranked Stanford hosts the
Stanford Invitational this Saturday and Sunday at Avery Aquatic Cen-ter.
The Cardinal (5-0) has won its home tournament the past three sea-sons, capping last year’s title with a 9-5 win over UCLA.
Along with the Cardinal, this year’s field features seven additional teams ranked in the latest national poll: No. 3 UCLA, No. 4 Califor-nia, No. 9 San Jose State, No. 12 Hawai’i, No. 13 UC Davis, No. 14
Indiana and No. 16 Hartwick.The Olympic Club, based in San
Francisco, also will send a squad that will take on Stanford and UC Davis Saturday.
The Cardinal will open the tour-nament against The Olympic Club in exhibition action at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in Belardi Pool. Stanford will return to action at 4 p.m. Satur-day, facing San Jose State in Avery Pool.
Stanford opened the 2013 cam-paign this past Friday with an 11-2 win over No. 10 Michigan at Avery Aquatic Center, then followed up with wins over No. 18 Cal Baptist, No. 6 UC Irvine, Cal Baptist and No. 8 Loyola Marymount.
Senior two-meter and 2012 Olympic gold medalist Melissa Seidemann led the Cardinal with 14 goals over the weekend, posting four hat tricks. Stanford’s rookies flexed their scoring muscle as well, as Anna Yelizarova, Gurpreet Sohi and Olympian Maggie Steffens combined to score 28 goals over the five game, paced by Yelizarova’s dozen.
All three Cardinal goalies — se-nior Kate Baldoni, sophomore Em-ily Dorst and freshman Gabby Stone — saw action, anchoring a defensive effort that allowed just 18 goals.
Men’s water poloStanford had four players earn
All-America honors from the As-sociation of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC), the organiza-tion announced Tuesday.
Sophomore utility Alex Bowen was
named to the ACWPC All-America first team for the second straight year while freshman driver Bret Bo-nanni was named to the second team. Redshirt junior Forrest Watkins and freshman BJ Churnside were both named honorable mention.
Men’s volleyballThird-ranked Stanford is unde-
feated at home, but winless on the road. The Cardinal will need to change that to remain in contention in the hotly contested Mountain Pa-cific Sports Federation, especially with six of its next eight matches on the road.
Stanford (3-2 in the MPSF, 6-2 overall) begins that stretch with a
pair of matches at Hawaii (2-4, 3-6) this weekend.
Stanford rebounded from a pair of losses by recording two impres-sive home victories, beating No. 4 UCLA, 27-25, 19-25, 25-14, 25-12, on Tuesday, and No. 10 UC Santa Barbara, 25-19, 25-17, 25-22, on Friday.
WrestlingStanford (1-2 in the Pac-12, 5-12
overall) goes on the road this week hoping to keep the momentum from Sunday’s 27-9 victory over Cal Poly.
The Cardinal travels to Utah Valley on Friday and then to 17th-ranked Boise State on Sunday.
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Notice is hereby Given that proposals will be received from Pre- Qualified General Contractors by the Palo Alto Unified School District for bid package:
Contract No. DES-13 Duveneck Elementary School - Mod-ernization and New Construction
DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK:
Construction of (1) two story building, (2) single story buildings and modernization of existing buildings: Work includes but is not limited to demolition, abatement, excavation, site work, con-crete, structural steel, framing, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, finishes etc. Bid documents contain the full description of the work.
There will be a mandatory pre-bid conference and site visit at 02:30 p.m. on February 12, 2013 at the Duveneck Elementary School, 705 Alester Ave, Palo Alto California, 94303
Bid Submission: Proposals must be received at the District Facilities Office Building D, by 10:00 a.m. on February 27, 2013.
PREVAILING WAGE LAWS: The successful Bidder must com-ply with all prevailing wage laws applicable to the Project, and related requirements contained in the Contract Documents.
Palo Alto Unified School District will maintain a Labor Compli-
ance Program (LCP) for the duration of this project.
In bidding this project, the contractor warrants he/she is aware and will follow the Public Works Chapter of the California Labor Code comprised of labor code sections 1720 - 1861. A copy of the Districts LCP is available for review at 25 Churchill Avenue, Building D, Palo Alto, CA 94306.
1. A pre-job conference shall be conducted with the contrac-tor or subcontractors to discuss federal and state labor law requirements applicable to the contract.
2. Project contractors and subcontracts shall maintain and fur-nish to the District, at a designated time, a certified copy of each payroll with a statement of compliance signed under penalty of perjury.
3. The District shall review and, if appropriate, audit payroll re-cords to verify compliance with the Public Works Chapter of the Labor Code.
4. The District shall withhold contract payments if payroll records are delinquent or inadequate.
5. The District shall withhold contract payments as described in the LCP, including applicable penalties when the District and Labor Commissioner establish that underpayment of other violations has occurred.
Bidders may examine Bidding Documents at Facilities Office, Building “D”. Bidders may purchase copies of Plans and Specifications at ARC Reprographics located at 1100 Industrial Rd. Unit 13, San Carlos, CA 94070. Phone: (650) 517-1895
All questions can be addressed to:
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Palo Alto Unified School District
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Draft Supplemental Environmental
Impact Report (DSEIR) will be prepared by the City of Palo Alto
Department of Planning and Community Environment for the
project listed below. The agency and public comment period
for this notice will extend from February 1 to March 4, 2013. A
copy of the Notice of Preparation is available to be reviewed
at the Development Center which is located at 285 Hamilton
Avenue, Palo Alto, CA and at 250 Hamilton Avenue, 5th floor,
Palo Alto, CA 94301. If you have comments or questions regarding
the preparation of the EIR, please contact Elena Lee of the Planning
and Community Environment Department at 650-617-3196 or via
email at [email protected].
2080 Channing Avenue [08PLN-00157/10PLN-00198]: The Final Environmental Impact Report for the Edgewood Plaza
project (State Clearinghouse #2011022030) certified by the Palo
Alto City Council in April 2012 (hereinafter referenced as the
Edgewood Plaza Final EIR) evaluated the potential environmental
impacts resulting from renovation of the Edgewood Plaza site
and redevelopment with a mix of retail and residential uses. The
Edgewood Plaza project was approved by the City Council and
renovations began in September 2012.
The approved project included renovation of the three existing
commercial buildings, and construction of 10 single-family
residences and an approximately 9,000-square foot park. The
grocery store and Building 2 were to remain in their original
locations. Building 1 was proposed to be relocated west of its
current location to allow for a reconfiguration of the parking lot.
Buildings 1 and 2 were identified as historic structures under the
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in the Edgewood
Plaza Final EIR.
Building 1 was to be disassembled and all significant elements with
distinctive design qualities were to be retained. The building was to
be reconstructed in its new location and the visible historic building
elements from the existing building were to be rehabilitated and
installed at the new location. The relocation and reconstruction of
historic Building 1 as proposed was determined to be a less than
significant impact by the City Council based upon recommendations
of the City’s Historic Resources Board (HRB).
Implementation of the approved project began in September 2012
at which time Building 1 was demolished. None of the historic
building elements were retained after demolition. As a result, the
relocation and reconstruction of Building 1 cannot be implemented
pursuant to the mitigation measures in the approved project.
The proposed project is a modification of the approved
redevelopment of the Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center. Under
the revised project, Building 1 would be reconstructed with all
new materials. The location and design of the building would be
consistent with the previously approved project. All other aspects
of the approved project, including the renovation of Building 2 and
the grocery building, the new parking layout and landscape design,
and development of 10 single-family houses, remain the same as
the approved project evaluated in the 2012 Final EIR.
Potential Environmental Effects of the Project:
It is anticipated that the proposed project modifications may have
an environmental effect on Cultural Resources and this will be the
focus of the analysis in the Draft Supplemental EIR.
CURTIS WILLIAMS, Director of Planning and Community Environment
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Equally important, however, the Vikings have a two-game lead over the Falcons (6-2) with four to play.
Based on the MaxPreps computer rankings, Palo Alto appears a shoe-in to play in the CCS Open Division with Mitty, Serra, Bellarmine, Sa-cred Heart Cathedral, El Camino, Piedmont Hills and Half Moon Bay.
“It is going to be tough to play WCAL teams in the first round of the Open,” said Sax.
But, unlike in previous years, a loss before the finals will not elimi-nate Palo Alto.
If the Vikings lose before the fi-nals, they will advance to the Nor-Cal Division I playoffs. A CIF se-lection committee will select eight boys’ teams and eight girls for the NorCal Open Division playoffs.
Among the criteria to be selected includes: having won two straight section titles or qualified for Nor-Cals three of the past four years; made the NorCal finals the previ-ous season; or been ranked in the top 10 of Cal Hi Sports, MaxPreps or CalPreps.com rankings the past two seasons.
Palo Alto fits none of those and thus will play on in Division I for NorCals.
That, of course, means no Mitty standing in the way. Instead, it could be Piedmont Hills, Deer Valley or De La Salle providing a roadblock to the state finals.
“I like the system,” said Sax. “It seems to have more parity.”
For the girls, it’s likely Eastside Prep and Pinewood could be includ-ed in the CCS Open Division. But, both teams are expected to return to Division V for their run at Nor-Cal honors.
Palo Alto, meanwhile, continued one of the best seasons in school history as junior Keller Chryst came up with season highs of 19 points and 15 rebounds. Senior Aubrey Dawkins added 19 points for the Vikings.
Eilon Tzur added nine points for the Vikings. He and Chryst com-bined for 15 points in the third pe-riod to end any Saratoga comeback hopes.
Chryst won’t have the opportu-nity to add to his effort as he’ll miss Friday’s home game against Home-stead at 7:45 p.m. Instead, he’ll be in New Orleans attending the Super Bowl in New Orleans. His father, Geep, is the quarterbacks coach of the San Francisco 49ers.
In the West Bay Athletic League, Ricky Galliani poured in 22 points as Sacred Heart Prep remained tied for first place with a 65-42 victory over host King’s Academy on Tues-day.
Corbin Koch added 20 points for the Gators (8-1, 12-7), who will host co-leader Menlo School on Friday (7:30 p.m.) to determine sole pos-session of first place. Menlo (7-1, 11-7) was in attendance after its game with Priory was postponed to next week.
In the SCVAL El Camino Divi-
sion, Gunn battled visiting Los Al-tos before finally dropping a 51-49 decision. The Titans (1-7, 4-14) held a 29-26 halftime lead before the Eagles pulled ahead in the third pe-riod. Chris Russell tallied 16 points for Gunn while teammate Max Gi-rod added a season-high 15.
GirlsEastside Prep and Pinewood
remain tied for first place in the WBAL Foothill Division after each team posted victories this week.
Pinewood won its second game in as many days on Wednesday with a 50-42 win over visiting Menlo School. The Panthers (6-1, 16-4) overcame an outstanding individual effort by Menlo’s Drew Edelman (16 points, 19 rebounds) and their own horrendous shooting (16 of 60 for 27 percent) to win their third straight.
Marissa Hing led Pinewood with 16 points while Gabi Bade added 10 points and freshman Chloe Eackles contributed nine points and eight re-bounds. Maddy Price finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds for Menlo (4-3, 14-7).
On Tuesday, Pinewood began a busy four-game week with a 61-43 win over host Mercy-San Francisco. Hing had 16 points while Eackles had 11 points nine rebounds, five steals and five assists.
Eastside Prep, meanwhile, over-came a three-point first-quarter deficit and rolled to a 48-28 victory over visiting Sacred Heart Prep. Hashima Carothers tallied 16 points and Alexus Simon added 12 to rally the Panthers (6-1, 15-5), who held the Gators (3-4, 15-6) to single-digit scoring each quarter.
Elsewhere this week:In the SCVAL De Anza Division,
Gunn remained a game back of first place following a 43-39 victory over visiting Milpitas on Wednes-day. The Titans (5-2, 12-5) were led by junior guard Zoe Zwerling’s 23 points while sophomore Meghan Mahoney added 13.
In Saratoga, Palo Alto dropped back in the race after falling to the host Falcons, 53-46. The Vikings (4-3, 8-10) suffered their second straight loss. Paly and Saratoga were tied at at 32 heading into the final quarter before the Falcons erupted for 21 points. Coco Lovely paced Paly with 14 points, draining a trio of three-pointers..
In the PAL South Division, host Menlo-Atherton fell two games off the pace following a 53-49 loss to Burlingame (7-1). The Bears (6-2, 10-10) clung to a 30-29 halftime lead before being outscored 10-5 in the crucial third period. Emma Heath tossed in 18 points and Sarah Howell added 10 for M-A.
A day earlier, Menlo-Atherton overcame a three-point first-quarter deficit and pulled away for a 43-36 victory over visiting San Mateo. The Bears got 10 points each from Heath and Naomi Baer.
Before facing Pinewood, Menlo overcame a hot-shooting Castilleja team for a 62-52 victory on Tuesday. The visiting Gators made a school-record six 3-pointers in the first half and grabbed a 30-25 lead.
Menlo’s strength and size inside prevailed in the second half with Edelman finishing with 17 points and nine rebounds while Olivia Pel-larin added 13 points.
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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Hashima Carothers*Eastside Prep basketball
Erin ChangPalo Alto soccer
Destiny GrahamEastside Prep basketball
Amanda McFarlandMenlo soccer
Alexus SimonEastside Prep basketball
Schuyler Tinley-VolkMenlo soccer
Ian BennettSacred Heart Prep basketball
Aubrey Dawkins*Palo Alto basketball
Ricky GallianiSacred Heart Prep basketball
Aldis Petriceks*Palo Alto basketball
Bobby RothMenlo basketball
Ryan YoungMenlo basketball
Honorable mention
Sienna StritterMenlo School
The junior soccer forward scored the game-winning goals in a 3-1 win over Sa-cred Heart Prep and a 1-0 win over Priory to keep the Knights undefeated and atop the WBAL Foothill Divi-sion standings.
Jack HeneghanMenlo School
The junior produced 62 points, 12 rebounds and 14 steals as the Knights won three basketball games -- one against co-leader Harker -- and remained tied for first with rival SHP in the West Bay Athletic League.
* previous winner
To see video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to www.PASportsOnline.com
Menlo school girls are closing inon a second WBAL soccer title
by Keith Peters
I f’s not a matter of ‘if’ for the Menlo School girls’ soccer team. Rather, it’s simply when.
The West Bay Athletic League title will go to the Knights for a second straight year.
Menlo opened up an eight-point lead over second-place Sacred Heart Prep following a 1-0 victory over visiting Crystal Springs on Tues-day.
The division-leading Knights improved to 7-0 in league (9-2-4 overall) while Sacred Heart Prep and Priory each had to settle for ties. Menlo took 21 points into Thursday’s match at Notre Dame-San Jose while second-place SHP is well back with 13.
Menlo, which won its 17th straight division match against Crystal Springs, can clinch its second straight division title by winning its next two matches, giving the Knights 27 points. With four match-es left, the best SHP can finish is with 25 points while the best Priory or King’s Academy can finish is with 23 points.
Depending on what happened against Notre Dame-SJ, Menlo like-ly can clinch on Tuesday at home by beating King’s Academy.
Priory, meanwhile, visited Sacred Heart Prep on Thursday in a must-win match for both teams. Only the top two finishers earn automatic berths into the Central Coast Sec-tion playoffs. The third-place finish-er will have to face a playoff game against the Skyline Division winner for the league’s third section berth.
That’s what Menlo faced three straight seasons prior to last year, when the Knights finally broke through with their first league crown since 1991. By doing that, Menlo shed its bridesmaid role and finally became a bride.
“This ‘honeymoon’ season is turning out to be sweeter than the ‘wedding’ season of last year!” said Menlo coach Donoson FitzGerald. “But, we still have lots of work to do and this group of amazing girls will get it done!”
Menlo ran its unbeaten streak to 10 by holding off Crystal Springs. The lone goal was scored in the 34th minute of the first half by senior Priya Medberry on an nicely ex-ecuted eight-yard volley. The play began with a cross from sophomore Amber Mallett that was directed on
to Medberry by junior Kate Du-manian.
While Menlo outshot Crys-tal, 15-0, and controlled the ball much of the match scor-ing goals was a struggle. Menlo was led by se-nior defender
Hannah Rubin, senior Rachel Pin-sker, junior Amanda McFarland, and sophomore Lizzie Lacy.
In Palo Alto, Castilleja played the role of spoiler by deadlocking Sa-cred Heart Prep, 2-2. SHP slipped further in the WBAL race at 3-1-4 (7-2-5 overall). Taylor Ruegg and Brianna Carcione scored goals five minutes apart in the first half for SHP with Brigid White and Riley Shanahan providing assists.
In Portola Valley, host Priory (2-2-4, 3-4-6) also fell further be-hind in the WBAL race following a 2-2 deadlock with visiting King’s Academy.
In the WBAL Skyline Division, host Pinewood posted a 6-0 victory over visiting Harker on Tuesday to improve to 7-0-1 in league (8-3-2 overall). Olivia Biggs had a hat trick for the Panthers with assists from Gretchen Olsen and Amrita Mecker. Olsen, Nicole Colonna and Gabby
Amos-Grosser added solo tallies. Leah Hess assisted on Olsen’s goal.
Pinewood remains tied for the di-vision lead with Mercy-Burlingame. Those teams meet next Tuesday at Skyline College with the win-ner playing the Foothill Division’s third-place team in a playoff for the league’s final Central Coast Section berth.
In the PAL Bay Division, visit-ing Menlo-Atherton got goals from Brittany Scheuch and Marilena McCarty during a 2-2 deadlock with Burlingame. Elizabeth Cruz
and Julia Stoner added as-sists for the Bears (4-3-1, 6-5-3), who tallied both goals in the second half to overcome a 1-0 deficit.
Menlo-Atherton re-mains in fourth place with 13 points, still trailing Woodside (7-0-1), Car-lmont (6-1-1) and Burl-ingame (5-2-1).
Palo Alto tuned up for its run at a SCVAL El
Camino Division title with a 1-0 nonleague win over host Gunn on Wednesday night.
Paly junior Megan Tall ended the scoreless battle with about 20 min-utes gone in the second half, taking a pass from Sunny Lyu before shak-ing a Gunn defender and the Titans’ goalie to score.
Palo Alto improved to 9-4-2 while Gunn dropped to 2-9-3.
Gunn had an opportunity to take the lead when Ming Ming Liu made a steal and passed it into the box, where Camille Shrager’s shot was saved by Paly keeper Catherine Angell-Atchison. Paly’s Katherine Maniscalco later ran down a Gunn player to break up a one on one.
The Vikings will put their 7-0-1 division mark on the line Friday at Fremont. Paly might be able to lock up the El Camino Division crown on Wednesday at home against Wilcox (3:30 p.m.).
Boys’ soccerSacred Heart Prep opened up a
five-point lead over second-place Menlo School following a 7-0 romp over visiting Pinewood in a West Bay Athletic League match on Wednesday.
Brendan Spillane tallied two goals and two assists, all in the first half, as the first-place Gators (8-0-1, 11-2-2) grabbed a comfortable 6-0 lead. Robert Hellman added one goal and two assists.
In San Jose, Menlo fell back in the race following a 0-0 deadlock with host Harker. The second-place Knights are now 6-1-2 in league for 20 points (9-3-3 overall). Only the top two teams in the WBAL automatically qualify for the CCS playoffs.
In nonleague action, Palo Alto kept its postseason hopes alive with a 2-0 victory over visiting Gunn. The Vikings (10-4-2)got a first-half goal from senior Kirby Gee, off a deflection of a Gunn player, and sophomore Preston Kuppe tal-lied an unassisted goal in the sec-ond half to hand the Titans (5-9-2) the loss.
Gunn keeper Mack Radin made several nice stops in the first half to prevent possible goals by Chris Meredith and Gen Murphy. Paly hit
the post and crossbar before Gee’s shot hit a Gunn player and caromed into the cage.
Paly had another deflection off the post that didn’t go in during second-half action. Kuppe took a pass from Fernando Rodriguez and dribbled past two defenders before knocking a shot off Radin for the insurance goal.
Paly keeper Tony Maharaj had two nice saves, including a spec-tacular diving save off a header by Gunn’s Guy Kaznik. Gee and fellow senior captain Alex Chin had argu-ably their best defensive games of the season as Gunn had just a few shots on frame.
WrestlingGunn junior Cadence Lee will
go after a third straight title at the girls’ CCS championships this weekend at Oak Grove High in San Jose.
Lee will be seeded No. 1 in her di-vision for the two-day event, which begins Friday.
Gunn’s Jessica Sun was fifth last year and could be seeded again. Teammate Grace Robinson, mean-while, has the next best shot (after Lee) to place high.
Palo Alto will be represented by Alexa Austin.
Palo Alto junior Megan Tall (right) manuevers around Gunn’s goalie to score the only goal during the Vikings’ nonleague triumph on Wednesday night. Paly continues to lead the SCVAL El Camino Division.
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