Vol. XXXVI, Number 11 Q December 19, 2014 Questions arise over traffic chief’s outside job Page 5 w w w. P a l o A l t o O n l i n e.c o m Lighting up the season Community celebrations spread peace and joy, from many traditions Page 22 Donate to the HOLIDAY FUND page 30 Transitions 17 Spectrum 18 Eating Out 27 Movies 29 Puzzles 39 QArts Celebrating the race to space with Pop Art icon Page 25 QHome Greenmeadow: a community of devoted neighbors Page 35 QSports Crucial juncture for Stanford men’s basketball Page 45 Check-in with Your Skin Put your best self forward this winter and make your skin care a priority. 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But it’s his work outside the city that has some residents asking questions. Even as he has been plugging away at about 25 bike projects and working on a panoply of traffic initiatives, Rodriguez has been heading his own consulting company called Traffic Patterns, which according to its website S specializes in “traffic-operations analysis, traffic-control plan development, trafficsignal and geometric design, expert-witness services, private-development review and grant writing.” Rodriguez has not been secretive about the private practice, which predates his 2009 hiring at City Hall. At that time, thenPlanning Director Curtis Williams determined that his outside employment was allowed under city policy and approved it, current Planning Director Hillary Gitelman told the Weekly. This month, Gitelman reviewed his outside-employment statement — a form submitted annually to one’s man- ager — and gave him her stamp of approval. Rodriguez also properly lists Traffic Patterns on his annual Form 700, a staterequired conflict of interest statement. Described as a limited liability corporation with a fair market value of between $100,001 and $1 million, his company brought in a gross income of $10,000 to $100,000 last year. But while Traffic Patterns has not been involved in the city’s traffic projects, several residents have written letters and contributed postings on Town Square, the online discussion forum, raising concerns about Rodriguez’s involvement in the consulting firm. In some cases, these criticisms come from people who are unhappy about the city’s ongoing bike projects, which often entail road markings and lane reconfigurations. In a letter to the council last week, Andrea Smith criticized what she called “ugly bright yellow street signs being put up throughout PA” and wrote that Rodriguez “owns a company that designs and makes street signs.” (To be accurate, Traffic Patterns does not manufacture signs.) “Even the semblance of impropriety isn’t good for the city,” Smith wrote. (continued on page 12) EDUCATION School district settles construction lawsuit District pays out half million to Taisei Construction Company by Elena Kadvany L ess than a week before a scheduled case meeting at which Taisei Construction Company planned to seek a trial date in its lawsuit against Palo Alto Unified, the school district announced it will pay a $570,000 settlement to the construction firm that built two new Palo Alto High School facilities. Board President Melissa Baten Caswell announced the settlement at a special board meeting Wednesday after meeting in closed session to discuss the litigation. Taisei, who was contracted by the district in 2011 to build the Paly Media Arts Center and a two- story math and social studies building, had accused the district of employing a range of “bad-faith tactics” that delayed the buildings’ openings by nearly a year. Taisei initially sued Palo Alto Unified for $3.7 million to compensate for additional expenses incurred as the district “substantially changed and increased the scope of the work to be performed” throughout construction, according to the lawsuit. Taisei also sued construction manager Gilbane Building Company and architec(continued on page 13) HOLIDAY FUND Discovering a вЂ�newfound sense of purpose’ Downtown Streets Team helps homeless men and women rebuild their lives by Jennah Feeley S Veronica Weber Good cheer to all Water droplets glisten on poinsettia leaves. The poinsettia, aka “Christmas star” or “Christmas flower,” symbolizes good cheer and success and is said to “bring wishes of mirth and celebration,” according to the floral company Teleflora. everal years ago Norman Williams found himself released from a federal penitentiary with nowhere to turn. He lacked the means and the knowhow to get himself back on his feet. And he didn’t know anyone who could help him. Then he met the Downtown Streets Team. “Downtown Streets Team put me under their wing,” Williams said. “Since then I’ve been working for them ... volunteering.” Today, Williams has a whole new direction for his life. The nonprofit Downtown Streets Team provides homeless men and women — and those at-risk of becoming homeless — with housing, work experience, stipends for food and clothes and the opportunity to be part of the community through volunteer work. A $5,000 grant from the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund this year helped the organization purchase Safeway gift cards for the workers (or “team members,” as the organization calls them). The stipend allows team members to meet their basic needs and to continue with the organization until they are permanently employed. Having the independence and the means to (continued on page 14) www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 5 Upfront GraphicDesigner Embarcadero Media, producers of the Palo Alto Weekly, The Almanac, Mountain View Voice, Pleasanton Weekly, PaloAltoOnline. com and several other community websites, is looking for a graphic designer to join its award-winning design team. Design opportunities include online and print ad design and editorial page layout. Applicant must be fluent in InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. Flash knowledge is a plus. 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Name: _________________________________ Address: ________________________________ City/Zip: ________________________________ Mail to: Palo Alto Weekly, 450 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto CA 94306 Page 6 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com QUOTE OF THE WEEK Now they’re one of the вЂ�good guys.’ — Eileen Richardson, head of the Downtown Streets Team, on how formerly homeless team members feel when they don their yellow team shirts. See story on page 5. Around Town IN FULL SWING ... After the momentous grand opening of the Mitchell Park Library and Community Center in early December (during which the library counted at least 5,500 visitors), Palo Altans of all ages have made full use of the shiny new space on Middlefield Road. This week, the library focused on serving the city’s teens during finals week, staying open two hours later than usual (until 10 p.m.), bringing in two therapy dogs (a 2-month-old puppy and a Labrador from the Palo Alto Humane Society), serving snacks and planning a game night to celebrate the end of finals on Friday night, Library Manager RuthAnn Garcia said. Next week, the library will focus on seniors with a Medicare workshop and other activities; after that it will focus on young children, technology and cultural diversity. “The library serves everyone from birth through death,” Library Director Monique Le Conge said. “As callous as that might sound, it’s actually the truth.” Meanwhile, another renovated branch, Rinconada Library (formerly the Main Library), is eyeing a soft opening in January and grand opening on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14. ROOM FOR COMFORT ... In its final action in its final meeting of the year, the Palo Alto City Council turned its focus to “shared economy” services like Airbnb, which allows residents to rent out their rooms to travelers seeking accommodations. There was some debate, however, on whether this problem is really urgent enough to warrant immediate attention from planning staff. The proposal to consider regulating Airbnb and similar services came from a colleagues memo penned by Vice Mayor Liz Kniss and council members Karen Holman, Larry Klein and Gail Price. The quartet argued that these businesses pose several questions for the city, including whether hosts should pay hotel taxes and whether zoning regulations should allow such rentals in residential neighborhoods. The city currently has about 300 to 400 Airbnb listings per night, the memo states. Klein called services like Airbnb “clearly a problem,” and the memo recommended having staff return before the end of next March with a report on possible actions. The council, however, ultimately decided by a 5-4 vote that this urgent deadline should be eliminated. Councilman Greg Scharff argued that while the issue “is very important” and should be considered, it does not warrant diverting planning staff from myriad landuse, transportation and parking initiatives currently in the works. “I would say it’s not on top of the pile, by any means,” Scharff said. Nonetheless, the council voted unanimously to explore the issues. “I think looking at this carefully and seeing what other cities have done is really important,” Kniss said. “But we also need to look at what is really a brandnew business model that is not benefiting us in many ways and that may also penalize hotels.” ED HEAD MOVES SOUTH ... The Mountain View Whisman school board is tapping Kevin Skelly, the former superintendent of Palo Alto Unified School District, as its interim superintendent. Skelly will lead the K-8 district from Jan. 1 through June 30. Skelly only recently stepped down as Palo Alto’s superintendent after leading the district from July 2007 to June 2014. Skelly, joined by his wife and kids at the Mountain View district’s Dec. 11 board meeting, said working in Mountain View is particularly exciting for him because the city is changing so fast. “Mountain View is such an interesting community,” Skelly said. “A changing, evolving community.” Skelly said current Superintendent Craig Goldman, whose resignation takes effect Dec. 30, has been “tremendously supportive.” FESTIVE AND FREE ... Caltrain is offering free service starting 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 31, as a way to encourage New Year’s Eve partygoers to rely on the train system for latenight transportation needs. The agency has scheduled four extra southbound trains after midnight for revelers ushering in the New Year. The extra trains will depart from San Francisco station at 12:45, 1:15, 1:45 and 2:15 a.m., or when full, making all local stops to the San Jose Diridon station. Caltrain doesn’t allow open alcohol containers on trains after 9 p.m. following special events. Q Upfront TRANSPORTATION Jury takes a bold stance on new Palo Alto bike bridge Architects favor a prominent arch in a design competition for new span by Gennady Sheyner T hree different design teams came to Palo Alto City Hall on Wednesday afternoon, each with a bridge to sell to the city. Their goal? To come up with the winning design for the bike-andpedestrian bridge that will span U.S. Highway 101 at Adobe Creek, giving south Palo Alto new access to the Baylands. Their challenge? Convincing the city’s Architectural Review Board, a panel of independent jurors and, ultimately, the City Council that their particular design will be functional, sustainable and iconic enough to satisfy the council’s appetite for a landmark that makes people say, “Wow!” The finalists who presented were selected from a pool of 20 competitors. Each brought a distinct vision. One team — composed of engineering and architecture firms Moffatt and Nichol, Steven Grover and Associates, Lutsko Associates, JIRI Strasky and Mark Thomas and Co. — took the most subdued approach. In presenting their gently curving bridge, Grover emphasized its role in connecting residents to the Baylands and in staying consistent with the character of Palo Alto. The low-slung bridge, he said, aims to match the Baylands and offers “warm rich overtones, rather than a trumpet that calls attention to itself.” Plazas on either side of the bridge offer pedestrians and bicyclists a chance to pause and take in the sights. Its submission earned great praise from the jury, with nearly everyone agreeing that its light touch offers an elegant, if understated, solution to the problem the designers were asked to solve. “Subtlety is not something we’re famous for in this town,” said Judith Wasserman, a former longtime member of the architecture board and the chair of the jury evaluating the bridge. “It might be a good change of pace.” By contrast, the submission from HNTB Engineering, 64North, Bionic Landscape Architecture and Ned Kahn went for the jugular. A prominent arch strung, harp-like, with a network of thin cables spans the bridge, which starts in a counterclockwise loop west of the highway and then descends as a broad circle on the east side. Wil Carson of 64North described the proposed bridge as a “cathedral-like place.” “The gesture is toward the sky,” Carson said of the proposal, which ultimately took first place in the jury’s rankings. If the Moffatt proposal was the most minimalist and HNTB’s was the boldest, the one submitted by Endrestudio, OLIN, SBP and Biohabitats was the most poetic. The design of the bridge mimics a kayak, with wooden sides that jut out diagonally and a water-filtration system that ferries water from the span to a specially designed eddy, which filters the water and releases it back into Adobe Creek. The proposal describes the experience of approaching the bridge and ascending and descending as “magical.” “From the distance, the bridge is distinct and looks like a floating kayak,” the proposal states. “The rhythm of the bridge is informed by the experience of sky and horizon and derived from the structural system.” The kayak bridge drew heavy praise from the architecture board and the jury, but in the end Palo Alto’s Architectural Review Board favored the arch bridge — described by its designers as a “cathedral-like space” — created by the team of HNTB Engineering, 64North, Bionic Landscape Architecture, and Ned Kahn. it didn’t get as many votes as the other two. In choosing the winner, the jury found itself struggling over the same question that has characterized prior debates over the bridge: Should the city go for simplicity or boldness? Should the bridge play a supporting role in the pedestrians’ and bicyclists’ experience of the Baylands or draw attention to itself as a prominent gateway to the marshy preserve? The five-member jury wrestled with this question. Sam Lubell, an editor of The Architects’ Newspaper, at first declared a tie between the arch and the “cable” bridge (as the minimalist design was referred to) but after hearing final arguments from the three teams went with the former. Wasserman Jurors of Palo Alto’s Adobe Creek bridge competition chose as a close second the gently curving bridge designed by Moffatt and Nichol, Steven Grover and Associates, Lutsko Associates, JIRI Strasky, Mark Thomas and Co. A kayak-inspired bridge designed by Endrestudio, OLIN, SBP and Biohabitats was deemed the most poetic, but garnered the fewest votes from a five-member jury. went through the same quandary as she said she was “blown away” by all three designs. “You can close your eyes and throw darts and come out good,” she said. Like most of her colleagues, Wasserman said she was torn between the “iconic business” and the “Baylands-flowing business.” She ultimately went for the arch, as did her jury colleague Steve Burrows, executive vice president at WSP, who said the arch design is “deliverable” and “looks great.” Juror Susan Chin, executive director of the nonprofit Design Trust for Public Space, by contrast, went for minimalism. “It solved the problem very elegantly, and it was economical,” Chin said of the Moffatt proposal. The five members of the architecture board did not get a vote, though each member commented. The board generally reached the same consensus as the jury: All three designs for the $10 million project are dazzling, though the arch and the cable are a notch above the kayak. Robert Gooyer, vice chair of the architecture board, posited that the cable bridge would be “too subtle” and too difficult to notice for drivers passing under it. “If you’re driving by at 70 mph on the freeway you’d think, вЂ�Ooh. I think this is the new pedestrian bridge I just went under,’” Gooyer said of the Moffatt proposal. “What the City of Palo Alto I think would be interested in is thinking, вЂ�Palo Alto is where you see a big arch across the freeway.’” The jury’s recommendation will be reviewed by the Public Art Commission, the Architectural Review Board, the Parks and Recreation Commission and the Planning and Transportation Commission. The City Council will review and possibly approve a design in early February. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com. TALK ABOUT IT PaloAltoOnline.com Which design do you prefer for the Abode Creek bridge? Share your choice and reasons on Town Square, the community discussion forum at PaloAltoOnline.com/square. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 7 Upfront NONPROFIT City OKs more funds for Palo Alto History Museum by Gennady Sheyner H ow much money should Palo Alto spend in the present and the future in order to establish a museum that would tell the story of the city’s past? That’s the question that the City Council agonized over on Monday night as it considered the latest request from the nonprofit Palo Alto History Museum, which for years has been trying to establish itself in the historic Roth Building next to Heritage Park. The downtown project has been in limbo for years, though now museum staff believes it can be up and running in the fall of 2016. Provided, that is, it gets a little help from the city. This week, the council considered the museum’s requests for $1 million in public funds to fix up the back wall of the 82-yearold Roth Building and for another $1.65 million as a grant that would be matched by other donors. The History Museum also asked the council to designate the Roth Building at 300 Homer Ave. as a “sender site,” which would allow the city to raise money for the building’s rehabilitation through sales of transfer of development rights (TDRs). Developers who purchase these rights effectively buy themselves density bonuses at projects elsewhere downtown. After a long discussion, the council ultimately agreed to go TALK ABOUT IT PaloAltoOnline.com How important is it to you to that the Palo Alto History Museum is opened? Share your opinion on Town Square, the community discussion forum, at PaloAltoOnline.com/square. along with two of the three proposals. By a 6-1 vote, with Larry Klein dissenting and Mayor Nancy Shepherd and Marc Berman recusing themselves, the council agreed to begin the process for selling the TDRs. Though the museum’s financial plan estimates the sale would bring in about $1 million for the historic building’s restoration, officials expect the figure to be considerably higher because of the sizzling real estate market. By the same vote, the council directed city staff to identify funding sources to pay for the reconstruction of the damaged back wall. The request for a grant proved a tougher sell, with the council ultimately voting 7-0 not to go along with it at this time. Council members agreed to reconsider it next year when staff is also scheduled to provide an update on the TDR sale. The council majority agreed that because the Roth Building is a public facility, it would be appropriate to spend public money on its rehabilitation. “This is a city-owned asset,” Councilman Pat Burt said. “Whether it’s the Historical Museum or otherwise, we own this building and we’ll own the appreciation of the asset as a result of improvements to it.” Councilwoman Karen Holman — who previously served as a director at the History Museum, though her involvement ended more than two years ago — spoke in favor of rehabilitating the Birge Clark-designed building. Vice Mayor Liz Kniss concurred, saying, “Regardless of whether this (museum) actually comes to pass or not, I think the rehabilitation and seismic work need to be done.” Klein vehemently disagreed. He called requests from the History Museum “inappropriate” and contrary to the deal that the city had struck with the nonprofit in 2007, when it agreed to let the museum use the building with the proviso that the organization would take care of the rest. After making these arguments, Klein voted against all three requests. He noted that when the council adopted its city infrastructure plan in June and surveyed the public about its priorities, the level of support for the museum was relatively low. Approving public funds for the project would be an “end run around Veronica Weber City Council agrees to foot some construction costs, sell вЂ�transfer of development rights’ to help museum The Palo Alto City Council agreed to make proceeds from sales of “transfer of development rights” available for refurbishing the Roth Building at 300 Homer Ave., the proposed site of the Palo Alto History Museum. tory Museum is to “showcase the the infrastructure plan,” he said. He also said he was not im- remarkable heritage of Palo Alto pressed with the museum’s efforts through the careful collection, to raise funds thus far. Museum preservation and continued social Board President Rich Green said engagement with precious local the group has received $400,000 in artifacts and documents,” accordgifts and has $2.5 million in pledg- ing to the nonprofit’s website. The vision declares that the es for the rehabilitation, which will space design “will inspire comcost an estimated $9.1 million. While Green said the museum munity participation, attracting has more than 500 donors, Klein the diversity of our local historysaid, the “only big funder I can makers while reaching out to the next generation of inquisitive see is the City of Palo Alto.” “I think this is just a way for the school children.” The council’s votes on Monday city to waste money,” Klein said. Others were more open to con- bring the museum closer to that tributing city funds to the project, reality, though a considerable gap which would be built in two phas- remains. Council members species. The first phase would repair fied that the TDRs should be sold the building to make it functional. at a price no lower than $200 per The second phase would fund the square foot. With 9,592 square installation of exhibits, creation of feet of TDRs available, this means education programs and transfer the sale would fetch at least $1.9 of the city’s historical archives million for the rehabilitation. This into the building. Green said the would still, however, leave the Hisgoal is to open the museum as tory Museum with a shortfall of soon as possible after the first more than $3 million for construcphase is complete and to “make it tion in the first phase and a gap of a community asset as quickly as $9 million for the second phase’s build out of the exhibits and propossible.” The vision of the Palo Alto His- grams. Q EDUCATION Gunn High wellness center to house all student services, except one Revised design moves college and career center to separate building by Elena Kadvany A planned comprehensive wellness center at Gunn High School will consolidate guidance, counseling, Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS) and the school nurse in one space, but it will not include the school’s college and career center. Erwin Lee, principal with the firm Deems Lewis McKinley Architecture, and Gunn Principal Denise Herrmann presented a revised design for the wellness center as part of an update on the Central Building Project at the Dec. 9 Palo Alto Board of Education meeting. TALK ABOUT IT PaloAltoOnline.com If you are a Gunn High student, what do you think of the proposed center? Will it make it easier for students to use the school’s mental health services? Tell us your opinion on Town Square, the community discussion forum at PaloAltoOnline.com/square. The proposed center would be on the second floor of a two-story building in the middle of campus. The first floor would contain a performing-arts center, music and choral classrooms, and a computer lab. The second floor has ACS and the school psychologist in one corner, the nurse down the hall and eight counseling offices (plus one that can be used as a conference room or office if necessary). There would also be two large, general-purpose classrooms that could be used for yoga or mindfulness classes. “It’s all about consolidating things that really should be together so the services are streamlined,” Herrmann told the board. The current layout of key student services at Gunn, with school counselors, Adolescent Counseling Services, the nurse and others in separate locations, is not only inconvenient for students but hinders staff communication and col- Page 8 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com laboration, she said. Rose Weinmann, Gunn High School’s student board representative, expressed concern at the meeting that counseling services are located out of sight on the second floor, making it difficult for students to know if their counselor is available or not. Board President Melissa Baten Caswell later suggested implementing some sort of technology downstairs so students don’t have to go upstairs to see who is available. Herrmann said that they did map out some options with the wellness center on the first floor, but space constraints and the need to balance accessibility with privacy won out. Gunn junior Sara Zhang told the Weekly that she appreciates the school’s effort to create a more accessible space for student wellness. Right now, students don’t know about or can’t find counseling services, she said. While developing the revised design, Herrmann said, she met with Gunn’s Student Executive Council to gather feedback. She said students told her the best way to make them and their peers feel more comfortable about taking advantage of the school’s mental health services is to put them in the same place as many other services. “I could be going to get a BandAid from the nurse; I could be going to have a nutrition session; I could be going to have a yoga class,” Herrmann said of students entering the proposed center. “All of those services will be out of the same main hub.” However, Gunn’s College and Career Center will not be part of the center. It’s being moved to building B — the current location of the main office and administration building at the front of the school. The new location will allow for “room to grow the program, to expand exploration of other post- secondary options and make connections with internships, work study, senior projects, etc.,” Herrmann wrote in a Dec. 15 email. The revised design will return to the board on Jan. 13 for approval. If the project moves forward, construction is projected to be completed by March 2018. Zhang said that future senior classes might be upset to lose the quad, where many senior traditions and events take place, during construction, but “having a mental health support facility for students who need the specialized support is more important. If this wellness center was built and even just one student benefited from it and felt that the available resources helped them, it would be worth it to miss a couple of small events that probably wouldn’t even make much of an impact on my life,” she said. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com. Upfront EDUCATION Minority students speak to challenges Palo Alto students share their experiences with achievement-gap committee by Elena Kadvany A It’s my job to show you the options to consider when it comes to insuring your assets. Elena Kadvany group of Palo Alto middle and high school students of color Tuesday night shared the good, the bad and the ugly inherent to their academic and social experiences in the school district, from essential support programs to struggling with social and cultural stigmas. The three middle school students and four Gunn High School students were asked to speak at the second meeting of Superintendent Max McGee’s Minority Achievement and Talent Development Committee, which has been charged with finding ways to boost opportunities and support for these students and their peers. Perhaps most telling were the high school students’ answers to one committee member’s question: If you fast-forwarded 30 years, would you send your own children to Palo Alto schools? “The way it is right now, absolutely not,” Gunn freshman Hudson Alexander said without a moment of hesitation. Hudson said life in high school wasn’t what he thought it would be — illustrated by the fact that other Gunn students have a tendency to use the “n” word. “That’s not appreciated by me and the rest of the people up here,” Husdon said, “and nothing is being done (to stop it).” Senior Chantal Olivier-Winston, president of Gunn’s Black Student A group of Palo Alto high school students of color speak on Dec. 16, including (from left to right) Gunn High School freshman Hudson Alexander, junior Crystalyn Trevillion, senior Jordan Hardy and senior Chantel Winston, as Superintendent McGee looks on (far right). Union, said if things were the same in 30 years, she wouldn’t send her children to school here either. “Palo Alto is a great place for education, but as a minority, it’s really hard to fit in,” she said. “I’d rather have my child feel like they fit in somewhere.” But junior Crystalyn Trevillion said she’s had an overall good experience in the district and would send her children to Palo Alto schools. Senior Jordan Hardy said, “Yes and no. I think it would just depend on my child.” Though their responses were mixed, the four students have had common experiences related to feeling left out; feeling pressured to choose between being smart and being black; and internalizing the unconscious biases in the classroom. “For me, I have never been afraid to say how smart I was or been afraid to answer a question,” Hardy said, “but there are those people who are scared to just stand up and say, вЂ�Yeah, I’m in this honors course’ or вЂ�I know the answer to this’ or вЂ�I got an A on this,’ because there’s this stigma in the black community that being smart is a white trait.” Hudson summed up the social crossroads they face: “Do you want to fit in with who you look like, or do you want to be smart and go places?” (continued on page 13) INTERNATIONAL E-book details Palo Alto resident’s North Korea ordeal Serving the community for over 25 years! 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Over and over, sometimes yelling, the communist official would demand that Newman, a Korean War veteran, apologize for his so-called “illegal acts.” “If you do not tell us everything honestly, fully, and in great detail ... you will not be able to return to your home country,” the man threatened, according to an account released this month of the Palo Alto resident’s stunning 2013 detention. For more than a year, the details of then-85-year-old Newman’s 44day ordeal in North Korea have been shrouded in mystery. While Merrill Newman addresses reporters at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 7, 2013, as his wife, Lee, stands by his side, following Newman’s return after being held in North Korea for six weeks. 171 University Ave., Palo Alto 650.328.7411 • www.paloaltobicycles.com Hours: Mon. - Fri. 10am - 7pm, Sat. 10am - 6pm, Sun. 11am - 5pm www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 9 Upfront News Digest No smoking in shopping districts Palo Alto continued its crusade against cigarette smoke this week by expanding its existing ban to commercial districts, though the City Council also decided that it needs more time to consider whether e-cigarettes should also be covered by the new law. The ban, which the City Council unanimously approved early Tuesday, applies to areas zoned “regional commercial,” including Stanford Shopping Center, Town & Country Village, downtown and California Avenue. It also includes “neighborhood commercial” sites such as Alma Village. Smoking will now be prohibited at all publicly owned sidewalks, alleys, parking areas, public places, outdoor dining areas and service areas in these districts. The ordinance states that the new restrictions are intended to “protect the public health, safety and general welfare” and to “ensure a cleaner and more hygienic environment within the city, reduce litter, and protect the city’s natural resources, including creeks and streams.” Last year, the council unanimously banned smoking at local parks and open-space preserves, as well as within 25 feet of entrances or exits to enclosed public spaces. The council’s only issue of disagreement came over e-cigarettes. While members generally agreed that these devices are harmful, they signaled that they would like to further explore their effects. “The evidence seems to show that there is a dangerous trend of more youths thinking that smoking is cool because of the use of e-cigarettes,” Councilman Marc Berman said. “I think it’s a dangerous trend.” Q — Gennady Sheyner Rash of auto burglaries hits Palo Alto Seven vehicles were broken into and items stolen in the span of a little more than an hour in Palo Alto on Monday, Dec. 15, according to the Palo Alto Police Department. The auto burglaries took place in parking lots along El Camino Real between 1:50 and 3:04 p.m. The first break-in occurred at the Stanford Shopping Center, at 180 El Camino Real. A second car was burglarized at the shopping center at 1:58 p.m. Thieves broke into vehicles at Town & Country Village (855 El Camino Real) as well as Palo Alto Square (3128 El Camino Real) and one car near Chipotle Mexican Grill, at 2675 El Camino Real. Two more vehicles were burglarized at the Stanford Shopping Center, the last at 3:04 p.m. In each incident, the criminals smashed the car windows to gain entry. In November, burglars broke into 14 vehicles in and around the restaurant corridor on El Camino Real between Nov. 6 and Nov. 9, making off with electronic devices. To see a map of the auto burglaries, visit www. umapper.com/maps/view/id/251133/. Police advise residents and visitors to lock their unattended vehicles and close all windows, as well as take valuables with them or keep things out of sight. Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff Land use tops council’s concerns Names and faces will change but Palo Alto’s official priorities should remain largely fixed when the new City Council convenes for its first meeting in January, with land use and transportation leading the way. According to a survey of current and future council members, the update of the city’s Comprehensive Plan and progress on a wide array of transportation initiatives should dominate the council’s agenda in 2015, much as they did this past year. All council members and members-elect except Councilman Larry Klein (who is termed out this year), Mayor Nancy Shepherd (who concludes her term this year after losing in her bid for re-election) and Vice Mayor Liz Kniss took the survey, which asked Page 10 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com for their top civic concerns. The submitted lists in many ways reflect the wide spectrum of opinions and styles that current and new council members will bring with them to the dais. Councilman Greg Schmid, an economist whose musings on development trends often border on the abstract and academic, submitted a list of priorities that include identifying “big picture” issues that will influence the city over the next 15 years. Councilwoman Karen Holman, who last year lobbied to include “healthy city” initiatives on the priorities list, is renewing her request this year. Newly elected member Cory Wolbach made a pitch for “social services” as a priority, a term that encompasses new services for the homeless, youth, seniors and disabled community members. Q — Gennady Sheyner City ends legal feud with contractor Days after Palo Alto celebrated the grand opening of its new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center, the city reached a settlement with the contractor that officials blame for the years of delays and myriad mistakes that plagued the highprofile project. The settlement, which City Manager James Keene announced Monday night, brings to an end years of acrimonious wrangling and accusation between the city and Flintco Pacific. The city has consistently accused Flintco of mismanaging its subcontractors, submitting faulty work and inflating costs through change orders. Flintco alleged that the city breached its contract and that the plans for the library were “filled with errors, omissions, conflicts, ambiguities, lack of coordination and noncompliance with applicable code requirements.” The city fired Flintco in January and the two sides have each filed claims against each other. The comprehensive agreement settles all these claims. Under the terms, Flintco will pay all of the costs incurred by the replacement contractor, Big D, for completing construction, estimated to be more than $2 million. The city will also recover about $700,000 from Flintco, which includes a waiver of about $150,000 in change orders. In announcing the settlement, Keene said the city is “avoiding years of arguing and wrangling and legal costs.” Q — Gennady Sheyner $24 million to launch allergy center Silicon Valley entrepreneur and philanthropist Sean Parker has gifted $24 million over the next two years to establish the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research at Stanford University, the university announced on Wednesday, Dec. 17. Parker cofounded the file-sharing computer service Napster and was the first president of Facebook. He also cofounded Plaxo, Causes and Airtime. The gift is one of the largest private donations to allergy research in the United States to date, university officials said. The first-of-its-kind center will seek better treatments for children and adults with allergies and aims to develop a lasting cure. The Center will be led by Dr. Kari Nadeau, an internationally renowned immunology researcher at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the School of Medicine. Allergies, whether they are to food, drugs, the environment or other triggers, have potentially adverse consequences for millions of people worldwide. Recent estimates conclude that between 30 and 40 percent of the global population suffers from one or more allergic conditions. About one in three Americans suffers from some form of allergy. Parker said his firsthand experience with lifethreatening allergies led him to found the center. Researchers will focus on understanding immunesystem-mechanism dysfunctions that result in allergic reactions. The research could lead to new, safer and more lasting therapies for adults and children. Of the $24 million total, $4 million will be used to establish a dollar-for-dollar challenge match for all other new gifts to the center. Q — Sue Dremann Upfront Neighborhoods A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann Around the block COUNCIL’S CALL ... A long-simmering neighborhood battle over a proposal by Verizon to install a new pole with telecommunications equipment at the Palo Alto Little League ball field on Middlefield Road came to a conclusion Monday night when the City Council gave the project a long-awaited green light by a vote of 8-1, with Greg Schmid dissenting. The decision came after months of formal appeals and public hearings in front of every land-use board in the city. MIKI, REDUX ... Miki Werness, whose well-acclaimed but financially troubled grocery store fizzled in Alma Village last year, will get another shot at success in College Terrace after the City Council agreed early Tuesday morning to approve him as the new grocer at 2180 El Camino Real, the former site of the beloved JJ&F Market. The council voted 8-1, with Karen Holman dissenting, and included a condition that would penalize the developer $2,000 a day if the grocery becomes vacant. Werness’ store is expected to open in early 2016. He said he will “with every fiber of my being strive to make the store ... one of the best stores in Palo Alto.” CHANUKAH PARADE ... Here’s an opportunity to watch or join a parade of cars sporting menorahs on top as they drive through Palo Alto neighborhoods spreading holiday light and joy. The parade will take place on the fifth night of Chanukah, Dec. 20, from 7:45 to 8:30 p.m. Cars will head out from Chabad, located at 3070 Louis Road in Palo Alto. Q Veronica Weber BEST LIGHTS IN THE вЂ�HOOD ... Palo Alto’s famed Christmas Tree Lane on Fulton Street south of Embarcadero Road has made social-networking site Nextdoor’s “top 10” list of Bay Area places to experience holiday lights. But there are plenty of other festive discoveries throughout town that residents have listed on a Holiday Cheer Map on the Nextdoor website. Among Palo Alto’s listed displays are: 750 Hamilton Ave., 703 Addison Ave., 1135 Webster St., 1142 Harker Ave., 866 Garland Drive, Yale Street, Maddux Court and Maddux Drive, and Santa Rita and California avenues. The map includes attractions, lights and displays, places to give back, tree lots and Santa sightings. More information can be found at nextdoor.com/cheer. Barbara Allen opens up the top flap of her poetry post to show how she provides copies of the post’s weekly poem for people to take. COMMUNITY CENTER Pure poetry Resident Barbara Allen creates Palo Alto’s first вЂ�poetry post’ by Sue Dremann P alo Alto native Barbara Allen has loved poetry since childhood. Raised by an aunt who lived on Coleridge Avenue, she played along streets named for some of the world’s most celebrated poets: Tennyson, Melville, Coleridge and Emerson. As a teen, Allen often read poetry to her Aunt Dickie, who lived down the street, as the elder woman’s sight failed, she said. Decades later and now retired, Allen still lives among the famed poets in a home on Melville Avenue. To share her love of verse with her neighbors, in August she created Palo Alto’s first “poetry post,” a wooden box with a clear plastic window that is mounted outside her gate. Each week Allen posts a different poem inside: works by Billy Collins, Jane Kenyon, Mary Oliver, William Martin, Kaylin Haught and California native Dana Gioia and others. Poetry is a way to connect with universal human experiences and make them personally relevant, she said. “Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world,” she said, quoting the author Frances Mayes. “Poems are so spare. It’s just the right words in the right order. It just goes right into my heart,” she added. Allen encountered her first poetry box while visiting her daughter in Portland, Oregon, where such posts are commonplace. “When I was up there, I thought, вЂ�I have to do that.’ Then I had a health alert, and I said, вЂ�Stop procrastinating,’ and that’s when I had the box built,” she said. The idea reflects the spirit of neighborliness she saw there, she said. “People in Portland care a lot about each other and they care about community. When people say, вЂ�How are you?’ they really want to know the answer,” she said. But in Palo Alto, “There is not as much connection in neighbor- hoods. I think Palo Alto has become pretty busy — it’s a busy, busy place. ... I hope people will stop just for a moment and slow down,” she said. The poetry box is starting to make an impact, according to Allen. A Channing Avenue neighbor walks by every day to visit the box. Friends suggest poems, and people stop to chat. They often take home copies of poems Allen leaves in the box. Allen keeps a file of the poems she loves. She posts ones that are noncontroversial, accessible, somewhat short — and often uplifting, she said. One day when she felt like a particularly “bad mother,” Allen chose Collins’ “The Lanyard,” a poem about motherhood and the gift of a lanyard from a son. The post struck a nerve with mothers strolling on Melville Avenue, she said. Allen often enjoys peeking out her back door to see who has stopped by. “I noticed a 13-year-old boy the other day,” she said, clearly pleased. Just as reading to Aunt Dickie instilled in her a love of poetry, Allen has initiated a love for the written word in many of her former students. A retired teacher, she worked for eight years of her career with students in the Ravenswood City School District in East Palo Alto. There, her pupils memorized a simple poem each week. Many have come back and said, “I still have my poetry book,” she said. For Allen, poems have become a kind of daily practice since her husband’s death 14 years ago. She took part in an adult-education poetry group at Cubberley Community Center, and she has gone to week-long poetry retreats. Allen does write poetry “for my own amusement and healing and journey,” but she has never tried to publish, she said. She rarely posts her own verse. But on the anniversary of her husband’s death, she posted her favorite poem about him, which came to her in the garden. She kept it there for just one day. On a recent morning, Allen admired the poetry box’s craftsmanship, which she had custom-made. She looked forward to having her daughter, an artist, decorate it when she comes to Palo Alto for the holidays, she said. Reflecting on the gift of poetry, she quoted from a children’s poem by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, a 20th-century American writer of children’s picture books: “Keep a poem in your pocket And a picture in your head And you’ll never feel lonely At night when you’re in bed.” Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 11 Upfront Jobs (continued from page 5) On Town Square, one person anonymously wondered if “there is any link between all the new green and white street markings popping up on the pavement all over town, and Mr. Rodriguez’s private company” and called it “suspicious that the town is putting up so many unnecessary and meaningless street signs.” The city’s policies permit outside employment, provided an employee meets certain conditions. For department heads, this entails permission from the city manager. Other employees are required to get authorization from their department heads and fill out an outside-employment statement. Approval for outside employment for non-department heads must be renewed annually every July. The city’s policy for outside employment specifies that “when a person accepts employment with the City of Palo Alto, it is as- sumed that the employment is to be his/her primary job.” “If the person undertakes supplemental work, such work is assumed to be secondary in importance and is subject to the approval of the city,” the policy states. The city’s policy also offers guidelines for department heads to consider in a ut h o r i z i ng outside employment, including: Will requirements Jaime of the outside Rodriguez employment interfere with scheduling, work performance, or on-call status of the city position? Will the status, reputation or credentials of a city position be used as a basis for advertising or soliciting outside employment? Will a conflict of interest likely result between discharge of official city duties and outside employment duties? When asked about Traffic Patterns, Rodriguez told the Weekly that he keeps his two roles distinct from each other. He called his company a “small private practice” and said it allows him to “see what other communities are building (both things that work and don’t work) and bring that perspective to Palo Alto directly instead of always having to rely on private consultants for input.” Under his agreement with the city, his company is prohibited from working on Palo Alto projects, City Manager James Keene said. Keene told the Weekly that it’s not uncommon for employees to have jobs outside City Hall, though it is very unusual for high-level managers to do so. For employees like firefighters, who may have 10-day breaks between shifts, there’s nothing strange about them doing something else in the interim, he said. Rodriguez’s situation is unique in this regard, Keene said. When the city was hiring him, his private practice came up during the Holiday Waste Service Schedule GreenWaste of Palo Alto is closed on Christmas (December 25) and New Year’s Day (January 1). If your regular collection day falls on or after one of these holidays, your collection day will be moved to the following day for the rest of the week. Regular collection schedules will resume the following week. DECEMBER SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY DAY THURSDAY FR DAY FRIDAY SAT SATURDAY 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 DECEMBER/JANUARY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY DAY THURSDAY 28 29 30 31 1 FR DAY FRIDAY SAT SATURDAY 2 3 Questions? ons? Contact GreenWaste of Palo lo Alto at (650 (650) 493-4894 Lights, Camera, Take Action! Stanford Blood Center has partnered this holiday season with BayKids Studios. For each blood donation made during our Give Good campaign, December 15 –28, 2014, a donation will be made towards the creative expression of children facing illness. Please call or visit our website for more detailed information. bloodcenter.stanford.edu 888-723-7831 Page 12 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com by-case basis, be able to say negotiations. “It was very clear he was not whether or not we’d allow this,” going to come to work for us if he Keene said. Keene said that in the wake of could not maintain this practice,” Keene said. “And he was head and recent concerns, he has had sevshoulders, by far, the best candi- eral discussions with the city’s executive team on expanding the date we had.” Rodriguez has also been work- reporting requirements in outsideing for the company “completely employment statements. The new on his own time,” Keene said. His details could include such things outside employment statement, as geographical restrictions and which the Weekly obtained, lists conditions designed to avoid conhis involvement with Traffic Pat- flicts of interest as well as percepterns as taking up five hours per tions of conflicts. At least one council member week, on the weekends. Keene and Gitelman said they were both disagrees with the need to allow completely satisfied that his pri- outside employment for managers. vate practice does not conflict Councilman Greg Scharff told the Weekly that because managers with his work for the city. Rodriguez isn’t the only high- already have a guaranteed salary profile manager with a venture from the city, it might make more outside the public realm. Gil economic sense for them to priFriend, who was hired in 2013 oritize their outside-employment as the city’s first chief sustain- duties over their city work. He did not criticize Rodriguez ability officer, is another. Friend serves as a CEO of the consult- specifically (he concurred with ing firm Natural Logic, Inc., a Keene’s and Gitelman’s assessment of Rodriguez’s corporation that work ethic and acaccording to his Form 700 has вЂ�He was head and complishments) but suggested that it a fair market might be time to revalue between shoulders, by far, $100,001 and the best candidate visit the city’s policy. “I don’t think a $1 million. Acmanager should be cording to the we had.’ form, his gross —James Keene, allowed to have outincome from city manager, Palo Alto side employment,” Scharff told the the Natural Weekly. Logic was beEven if Rodriguez’s employtween $10,001 and $100,000 in ment with Traffic Patterns was the preceding year. Like Rodriguez, Friend ran his authorized by Williams and is business before taking on the city disclosed on his Form 700, he ran job and at the time of his hiring, afoul of the city’s policy in at least his private practice was discussed, one respect. When the Weekly Keene said. The parties agreed asked Gitelman in late Novemthat Friend would end his oper- ber to see Rodriguez’s outsideating-executive role in the com- employment statement, she said pany but that he would maintain he did not submit one this year. his ownership and be allowed to After the Weekly’s request, Gitelpartake in an occasional speech man said she asked Rodriguez to provide a statement for her review or coaching engagement. During 2014, he coached a few as soon as possible. “Clearly we are going to have to clients in the beginning of the year, taught one course and de- review our policy to ensure everylivered no speeches, Keene said. one is aware of this requirement,” Friend’s consultancy has taken she said in an email. Earlier this week, she signed off between five to 10 days this year, all on his own time. Keene char- on Rodriguez’s request (which he acterized Friend’s involvement in submitted over the Thanksgiving his private company as “minimal.” break) and attached a note that his “Clearly, he cannot undertake outside employment will be subany activities that would interfere ject to new conditions that ensure with any of his duties with the there is no conflict. She said she has reviewed the request and is City of Palo Alto,” Keene said. In defending the city’s outside- satisfied that so far there has been employment policy, Keene cited none. That, she said, is a bigger Bay Area’s high housing costs. concern than his delay in handing Without allowing outside employ- in this year’s form. “To me, it’s more important ment, there would be “challenges in attracting talent in a competi- that there is no conflict,” she said. “I was certainly aware that he had tive market.” For high-profile positions, he a company and that he did outside said, these employments are ap- work and now I know a whole lot more about it. That’s the main proved “in a very selective way.” “We would want to, on a case- thing.” Q Upfront Minority (continued from page 9) Former school board member Barbara Klausner, who heads the after-school tutoring nonprofit Dreamcatchers, asked the high school students if they felt that way from the very beginning of their time in the district, or if they became aware of it later on. Hudson said he first felt it in third grade when his teacher asked him to keep a journal about his class performance — perhaps because he had acted out or said something she didn’t like, he thought — but no one else in the class had to. Hardy said she noticed it in elementary school as social groups formed along racial lines. Then in middle school, she said, girls of color were punished for violating dress code more than other students. Even if she, for example, was wearing the same length shorts as a white student, she would be the one reprimanded for it. Olivier-Winston said one practice that particularly angers her is sending Hispanic and AfricanAmerican students who aren’t doing well at Gunn to Alta Vista High School in Mountain View. Alta Vista — one of the district’s alternative high school programs, along with Middle College — is a continuation program that “emphasizes personalized instruction, integrated study, and vocational education and training,” the district website reads. “It’s really frustrating to see close friends go through that,” Olivier-Winston said. “If I were to get to the point where I had no motivation ... and I get kicked out, I’m not going to feel any better about myself.” Hardy urged the committee to think about “getting those kids help and seeing what is wrong because it might not be the school. It might not be that they aren’t doing well because they can’t do well, it’s because they have other personal problems or home problems or they’re just too afraid to go and get help or they don’t know how to.” All of the students who spoke Tuesday night have benefited from extra academic support or an after-school program, particularly Advanced Via Individual CityView A round-up Settlement (continued from page 5) ture firm Deems Lewis McKinley (DLM) for negligence and “tortuous interferences with contract relations.” The settlement includes both of them, with DLM and Gilbane also making payments, according to a school district press release. The settlement also includes an agreement that Taisei will indemnify the district against all potential claims brought by subcontractors and also that Taisei will remain responsible for warranty claims and latent defect claims, the district stated. “These buildings opened this past fall and are exceptional additions to the Palo Alto High School campus,” Superintendent Max McGee said in the announcement. “This settlement puts an end to the legal process and attorney fees. Even after paying the settlement amount, this project came in under budget, and the remaining amount can be put to further improvements on the campus.” After more than a year of litigation under its belt, the district had in October spent more than $300,000 in legal fees on this case. In the first eight months of this year, law firm Dannis Woliver Kelley (DWK) billed the district $229,827. Taisei Operations Risk Manager Jaysen Van told the Weekly in late October that he intended to instruct company attorneys to again push for a trial date at the upcoming Dec. 23 case meeting. Van did not immediately return requests for comment about the settlement. Q Determination (AVID) in middle school and Focus on Success in high school. AVID is an in-school program designed to help students “in the middle” — neither failing nor getting all A’s — get on a collegebound path. They are selected through recommendations and an interview process. Focus on Success is a similar study and lifeskills elective in which students can work on homework with tutors. They also must interview to get into the program. Kim Bomar, parent and cochair of Parent Advocates for Student Success, asked rhetorically, “What happens to the kids who aren’t getting in? Are we just giving up on them?” Jordan Middle School student Heilala Finau said the transition from elementary to middle school was hard for her, mostly because of the increased homework load. “But my teacher from AVID ... she helped me set my goals and set my homework for each day,” Heilala said. of Palo Alto government action this week City Council (Dec. 15) College Terrace Centre: The council approved a a proposal to have Miki Werness be the new grocer at the College Terrace Centre development at 2180 El Camino Real. Yes: Berman, Burt, Klein, Kniss, Price, Scharff, Schmid, Shepherd No: Holman History: The council unanimously voted not to approve a $1.6 million grant for the Palo Alto History Museum at this time. The council also voted 6-1 to sell “transfer of development rights” to developers to raise money for the rehabilitation of the Roth Building and to spend $1 million to rebuild the back wall of the building. Yes: Burt, Holman, Kniss, Price, Scharff, Schmid No: Klein Recused: Berman, Shepherd Council Policy and Services Committee (Dec. 16) Commissions: The committee recommended several modifications to the city’s policies for recruiting and interviewing candidates for boards and commissions. The new policies specify that a person can only apply for one commission at a time and that an interview could be conducted by teleconference only when the candidate is out of town. Yes: Unanimous Minutes: The committee recommended switching from “sense” minutes, which summarize the council’s discussions, to “action” minutes, which list formal votes. The committee also recommended considering at a later date the addition of verbatim minutes. Yes: Klein, Price, Scharff No: Schmid Council Finance Committee (Dec. 16) Finances: The committee discussed and forwarded to the full council the Long Range Financial Forecast for fiscal years 2015-25. Yes: Unanimous Utilities: The committee recommended a resolution amending the city’s capand-trade revenue utilization policy. Yes: Unanimous TIM FLANNERY CIRQUE ZIVA from the SF Giants Golden Dragon Acrobats Jan. 25, 2 & 4 PM Jan. 23, 8 PM LES MISERABLES MY FAIR LADY March 6–15 June 5–14 WEST SIDE STORY KISS ME KATE August 14–23 November 6–15 Get Your Tickets Online At: www.FoxRwc.com One committee member asked the middle school students whether there was anyone on campus who communicates to them that they have potential. “My AVID teacher,” Heilala said. “She’s so kind to me. She tells me I can do anything.” All three middle school students also take advantage of an after-school homework club where teachers are available to answer their questions. “I like it because teachers are there to help you. Sometimes at home my parents don’t understand a question, and when I ask teachers at homework club, they help me,” said Kenia Morales, a Jordan Middle School eighth-grader. Kenia and her younger brother also go to Dreamcatchers for tutoring, which she said helped both of them boost their test grades. Most of the students spoke to the challenge of learning when and how to ask for help. They said when they have spoken up, teachers have responded and made themselves available to help. The high school students said they felt prepared for and had plans to attend four-year colleges. They also said they have had positive experiences with teachers who assessed them based on achievement, not their skin color. Hudson’s mother, Jan Barker Alexander, who is also Stanford University’s associate dean of students and director of its Black Community Services Center, was in the audience Tuesday night and said she didn’t want the meeting to end with committee members thinking that “people at Gunn have not been responsive to us.” She commended the new leadership at Gunn, as well as Terman Middle School Principal Pier Angeli La Place, one of the committee members, for recognizing these issues and working relentlessly on behalf of her son. Q The Minority Achievement and Talent Development committee will next meet Tuesday, Jan. 6, from 7 to 9 p.m. at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave., Palo Alto. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 36th Annual Tall Tree Awards The selection committee invites your nominations in four categories: CITIZEN VOLUNTEER PROFESSIONAL OR BUSINESS PERSON BUSINESS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION The Tall Tree Award recognizes outstanding service to the Palo Alto community, based on local impact, breadth of contribution, diversity of individuals impacted, timeliness and originality of contribution. To make a nomination, download the form at paloaltochamber.com or contact the Chamber of Commerce at (650) 324-3121 DEADLINE: JANUARY 9, 2015 2215 Broadway St., Redwood City 650.FOX.7770 www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 13 Upfront Matched CareGivers My Nguyen VIDEO: Superintendent McGee talks about plans for Palo Alto schools “There’s no place like home.” When you, or someone you care about, needs assistance... you can count on us to be there. We provide Peninsula families with top, professional caregivers. Call now (650) 839-2273 www.matchedcaregivers.com Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all REAL RESULTS, REAL ESTATE 2775 Middleп¬Ѓeld Rd, Palo Alto • Phone: (650)321-1596 Fax: (650)328-1809 See our local listings online at — www. midtownpaloalto.com CalBRE# 1900986 Page 14 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Max McGee, superintendent of Palo Alto Unified School District, was the featured speaker at the winter luncheon of the League of Women Voters of Palo Alto on Dec. 5. He spoke of the district’s vision and goals, including preparing students for the jobs of the future and ensuring that youth acquire the ability to think critically rather than merely memorize information. To watch the video, or listen to the audio, go to tinyurl.com/nupbmh6. Information about the League is available at www.lwvpaloalto.org. Streets (continued from page 5) take care of themselves gives people who were once down-and-out a newfound sense of purpose, said Eileen Richardson, the Downtown Streets Team’s executive director. “Before you know it they’ve built their self-confidence ... to a point where they just start flourishing,” she said. Downtown Streets Team was founded nearly a decade ago as a solution to the panhandling and filthiness that downtown Palo Alto business owners deplored. The organization was initially operated through the downtown Business Improvement District but became a separate agency in 2005 when Richardson took the reins. Today, the organization serves six communities, including Palo Alto, San Jose, Sunnyvale and San Rafael. The 150-member Palo Alto team reaches out to the homeless downtown while performing various jobs, including sweeping streets, cleaning parking garages, handing out food to low-income and homeless individuals as well as providing peer-to-peer outreach. Team members work one to five days per week. The organization also arranges for team members to live at the Opportunity Center in Palo Alto, which keeps them off the streets and in the workforce, Richardson said. Williams resides at the Opportunity Center. When he first joined the team six years ago, he didn’t have a place to stay and he wasn’t able to take care of himself. Downtown Streets Team gave him a place to call home. To ensure team members work through the myriad issues that have contributed to their homelessness, each works with a project manager, a case manager and an employment specialist. Individualized attention rather than general services is what’s needed, Richardson said. “Very early on I learned that we could never be all things to all people,” she said. “Even if we had the best clothes closet on the planet, we would never have a size 8, brown pair of shoes on Feb. 22 when this person needed it. You’re better off throwing that person in the car, driving to Walmart and getting them a new pair of shoes.” That approach has helped more than 600 team members “graduate,” which means they hold stable jobs and maintain housing on their own. Graduates have moved on to work at grocery stores, pet-cleaning businesses and even for the City of Palo Alto, Richardson said. “There has never been a bridge between the homeless person and the resume services or the job training or the work skills,” she said. “We are that bridge in the center that gives you the hope that you really can do this again.” Team members are easily recognized in the community with their yellow work shirts, which Richardson said are a point of pride for the members because, in their uniforms, they feel like contributing members of the community. “They are starting to rebuild their dignity,” she said. “They could have been down-and-out for 10 years, homeless on the streets or panhandling. Now they’re one of the вЂ�good guys’ because they put that T-shirt on.” Q Editorial Intern Jennah Feeley can be emailed at jfeeley@ paweekly.com. For more information about the agencies supported by the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund, see page 30. Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council has no meetings scheduled this week. Upfront North Korea (continued from page 9) he was captive, the communist country’s culture of secrecy and the United States’ lack of diplomatic relations with North Korea made it nearly impossible to know what was happening to Newman. Then there was the silence of his distraught family members, who were advised not to jeopardize his safety by speaking out and putting North Korea on the defensive. When Newman returned to the U.S., the private octogenarian declined media interviews as he recovered and reintegrated into life in Palo Alto. Now, an e-book written by Mike Chinoy, senior fellow at the U.S-China Institute at USC and a foreign correspondent for CNN for 24 years, tells the tale of Newman’s captivity and the harrowing behind-the-scenes efforts to free him. Based on interviews with Newman, his family and those who worked to secure Newman’s release, “The Last P.O.W.” is a straightforward narrative that describes their rollercoaster of bewilderment, frustration, fear, false hopes and finally jubilation. The book reveals that neither Newman nor his wife, Lee, had any qualms about the planned 10-day vacation in October 2013, which he took with his friend Bob Hamdrla. “I was perfectly comfortable,” Lee told Chinoy. “It wasn’t something that had any significance for me.” Newman, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in the Korean War, even contacted some former military comrades, now in Seoul, South Korea, to ask if they knew of “anyone special” he could see in North Korea. In early 1953, Newman had been part of a special unit nicknamed the White Tigers, which trained and coordinated South Koreans to sabotage communist forces in North Korea. They operated out of Mount Kuwol, a mountain range, which had become, by the time of Newman’s vacation, a “summer getaway for Koreans,” according to the website of the London travel agency through which Newman and Hamdrla booked their trip. It was possible, Newman thought, that some former fighters were still alive. He would soon learn the degree to which he underestimated the climate of hostility in North Korea about the war. “After 60 years, my assumption was that, like Germany or Japan or Vietnam, people forget,” he told Chinoy. “That was my mistake. It’s not true. The North Koreans still think the war is on.” The book tells of how the men’s two female tour guides were actually informants. Prior to touring Mount Kuwol on Sunday, Oct. 20, Newman asked the guides to help him contact former soldiers whom he might have known. “It was probably a dumb thing to do. It was clearly my error to indicate I’d like to make contact with any North Korean survivors,” he told Chinoy. After his inquiry, the trip to Mount Kuwol was suddenly canceled, supposedly because roads had been washed out. Another fateful conversation took place on Thursday, Oct. 24, the book notes. One guide told Newman he might be able to help the government bring North and South Korean families back together, and, encouraged, Newman showed his guide the email to former Kuwol comrades in Seoul. That’s when things took a turn for the worse. The next day, Newman was taken to the hotel lobby for a meeting with two men. “Almost a year later, this meeting remains so traumatic that he only broadly remembers that the North Koreans questioned him about the Korean War,” Chinoy writes. “It was tense. They were yelling at me. I was shaken and upset,” Newman said, adding that they threatened not to give him or Hamdrla back their passports. As news reports later revealed, Newman was on the plane to leave Pyongyang on Oct. 26 when a government official boarded and removed him — the start of what would turn into six weeks of detention and include a coerced “confession.” One touching anecdote revealed in the book: Newman was initially left alone in a room at the Yanggakdo Hotel and, seeing a phone, he called Lee. Surprisingly, the call went through, and the two were able to speak briefly before the connection was cut. On the subject of the interrogations Newman underwent about the Kuwol Regiment, Chinoy relates a few of Newman’s own strategies for getting through the sessions, including making up information. He also found ways to ensure that the “confession” he made, which was video-recorded and later broadcast, could not be seen as being of his own volition. “The Last P.O.W.” also provides insight into the tense and frantic diplomatic efforts going on to gain Newman’s release, as well as how the sudden media firestorm about Newman, sparked by a Nov. 20 San Jose Mercury News article, frayed the nerves of those trying to advocate quietly on his behalf. Q A longer version of this article is posted on PaloAltoOnline.com. “The Last P.O.W.” is available from Amazon.com as a Kindle ebook for 99 cents. Editor Jocelyn Dong can be emailed at jdong@paweekly. com. 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Others will tell you that it’s our mix of remarkable people who live here. To learn more, or for your personal visit, please call 650.838.4004. Your style, your neighborhood. 401 Webster Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 websterhousepaloalto.org A not-for-proп¬Ѓt community owned and operated by Episcopal Senior Communities. License No. 435294364 COA #246. EPWH695-01HA 112814 www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 15 Michael Repka Before you select a real estate agent, meet with Michael Repka to discuss how his real estate law and tax back-ground beneп¬Ѓts Ken DeLeon’s clients. Inspirations a guide id to t the th spiritual i it l community Pulse A weekly compendium of vital statistics POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Dec. 10-16 Violence related Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Strong arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Managing Broker DeLeon Realty JD - Rutgers School of Law L.L.M (Taxation) NYU School of Law (650) 488.7325 DRE# 01854880 | CA BAR# 255996 [email protected] Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 7 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 8 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 6 Vehicle tampering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Inspirations is a resource for ongoing religious services and special events. To inquire about or to reserve space in Inspirations, please contact Blanca Yoc at 223-6596 or email [email protected] Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 www.deleonrealty.com Midtown Connector Feasibility Study Your Input Needed! Apply for a position on the Citizen’s Advisory Committee The City of Palo Alto is looking for 8-12 Palo Alto residents to serve on the Midtown Connector Citizen’s Advisory Committee (CAC). The CAC will meet up to 4 times and advise the City on The Midtown Connector Project which seeks to identify routes on and parallel to the Matadero Creek between Highway 101 and Alma Street that serve to connect community facilities for use by bicyclists and pedestrians of all ages. CAC meetings are intended to help the project team further define overall project objectives, identify several alignment alternatives that could partially or fully achieve project objectives, and consider the criteria to be used in evaluating the alternatives. Applications due Jan 13 For more information and the application: www.cityofpaloalto. org/MataderoCAC Or call (650) 329-2442 Website: www.cityofpaloalto.org/MataderoCAC Page 16 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Bernard Elspas Bernard Elspas died on 11/27/14 after a short illness at 89 years old. Bernie was an only child, born to Claire and Bernard Elspas in New York City on July 26, 1925. At home, Bernie spoke German, and was fascinated by math and music from a young age. He finished Bronx High School of Science then received a BS from City College and an MS from NYU before driving to California with his new bride Martha Soffer Elspas. Bernie completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1955. At SRI he worked in the areas of switching theory, error correction and artificial intelligence. One of his earliest projects helped Bank of America move from paper filing to an electronic system. In 1976 Bernie was named a Fellow of the IEEE. Bernie and Martha had many friends in the Stanford community, and had a life rich in music, with her performing and teaching career. They raised Sherman (Shlomo) and Barbara who gave them 6 grandkids: Alex, Sam, Raphael, Sarah, Rebecca and Jacob. Also missing Bernie are his son-in-law Jason Rusoff, daughter-in-law Janis Brett Elspas, and many nieces and nephews and friends. Bernie loved recording programs and sharing VHS and DVD recordings with loved ones. Til the end he was gracious, a good friend, a devoted teacher, a doting father and grandfather, an avid crossword puzzler and a lover of vanilla ice cream. He was cared for by Vasiti Finau and Ofa Tuita. Services have been held. Donations may be made to KQED. PAID OBITUARY Support our Kids with a gift to the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund Donate online at siliconvalleycf.org/paw-holiday-fund Miscellaneous False info to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Menlo Park Dec. 10-16 . . . . . . . related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0 Violence Theft related Burglary undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Probation violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Receive stolen property . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto 899 E. Charleston Road, 12/13, 3:05 p.m.; robbery/strong arm. University Avenue, 12/15, 2:25 p.m.; domestic violence/battery. Transitions Births, marriages and deaths Carol Arnold Esther Pfeiffer Carol Sarappa Arnold, a longtime resident of the area and employee in Palo Alto, died on Sept. 4 in Tiburon, California, following a 2010 diagnosis of a type of ovarian cancer. She was 72. She wa s born on Sept. 1, 1942, in Camden, New Jersey, to Vincen zo a nd Stella Serappa. She grew up in Waterford Works, New Jersey, and graduated in 1960 from Edgewood High School. She received a scholarship to attend Douglass College, then the women’s division of Rutgers University, where she was on the synchronized swimming team. She graduated in 1964 with a bachelor’s degree in bacteriology and a minor in chemistry. After college, she worked in research labs for major pharmacy companies in Philadelphia. Soon she met and married her first husband David Wilson; the couple later separated. She then worked at Smith Klein Pharmaceutical Company (SKP) and was transferred to a new Palo Alto office in 1972. While there, she took evening business classes at Santa Clara University and received an MBA in 1980. In December 1980, she married Charles Arnold, an internist/oncologist at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, whom she had met on a ski trip to Canada. Later on she took up financial planning, receiving a license as a certified financial planner in 1989. When her husband retired in 1998, they moved from Atherton to Tiburon, and she took her practice with her. She and Charles enjoyed attending plays, concerts, ballet and opera, as well as ballroom dancing, traveling and dining. They also spent a lot of time outdoors — fishing, hunting, scuba diving and skiing on mountain slopes. She is survived by her husband, Charles Arnold; her stepchildren, Gary Arnold, Christopher Arnold and Lisa (Greg) Maldewin; her brother, John Sarappa; five nieces and nephews; and many cousins and friends. Her ashes were interred on Sept. 11 at the Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, and memorial services were held in Tiburon. A memorial website can be viewed at www.mhww.com/ carol-arnold/. Memorial donations can be made to the San Francisco Opera Center, San Francisco Ballet Endowment, Associate Alumni of Douglass College for the Douglass Fund and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church of Tiburon. Esther Marie Pfeiffer, a longtime resident and piano teacher in Palo Alto, died after a brief illness at her home in Palo Alto. She was 83. She was born on June 14, 1931, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to John and Clara Pfeiffer. She began playing piano proficiently at a young age and began teaching lessons at age 14. Having moved to a few places around the country, including Seattle, she settled in Palo Alto in the early 1950s. She received her high school diploma through the American School of Correspondence in 1952. For 69 years she taught lessons in piano and music theory, in some instances teaching three generations from the same family. She impressed upon her students the importance of understanding the historical and political contexts of the pieces they were learning. She also taught students piano at the University of Nebraska in the mid-1980s, following the request of a faculty member, Beth Miller Harrod. While there, she also furthered her own education through master classes. She was a member of the Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity and the Music Teachers National Association. She also read often, absorbing texts on music as well as history, art and politics, and loved to attend musical events at Stanford and around the Bay Area. Near the end of her life, she was cared for by nurses and caregivers from Vitas hospice; the two daughters of her longtime companion, Denny Kelly; and a few other close friends. She was predeceased by her sister, Helen Pfeiffer, in 1998, and her friend, Denny Kelly, in 2014. She is survived by many former students and friends around the world. A memorial service will be held in early 2015 in Palo Alto. Memorial donations can be made in her memory to the Vitas Community Connection, c/o Vitas Innovative Hospice Care, 670 N. McCarthy Blvd., Suite 220, Milpitas, CA 95035, or to a charity of the donor’s choice. Elizabeth “Betty” Swyryd Elizabeth “Betty” Swyryd of Palo Alto, CA passed awayВ peacefully on December 11, 2014. Born in Saint Paul, MN on November 28, 1931В to Anna and Michael Swyryd, immigrants of what is now the Czech Republic and Ukraine, respectively. Betty earned her BS in Medical Technology from the University of Minnesota—Minneapolis. Over her career spanning more than 40 years, Betty performed many medical research roles at the University of Minnesota until 1960 and then at Stanford University. Working with tissue cultures, drosophila, chromatography, enzymology, immunofluorescence, in situ hybridization, nick translations, gel transfers, and such, Betty performed fundamental experiments in nucleic acid chemistry and biosynthesis in mammalian systems. She also authored and co-authored dozens of research publications. Throughout her life and retirement, Betty pursued her passion for photography. She was very involved with Mid-Peninsula Photographic Alliance and Palo Alto Camera Club, including spans as club president and newsletter editor. Betty loved to travel, US and international. Many of her travels were for photography trips, including lunar eclipses and hot air balloon festivals. Later in life, her travels were more inspired by her interest in genealogy and ancestry, including a research vacation to Prague. Betty was also closely involved with the Palo Alto Chapter of American Association of University Women (AAUW) as their club photographer. Betty was preceded in death by her brother Miroslav (and his wife, Sylvia) and is survived by her niece Lyn (and her husband, Mike, andВ their three children). A private burial service will be held at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto. An open house to celebrate Betty’s life will be held on Sunday, December 21. Please contact lynswyrydsmith@ gmail.com for information. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital. PAID Virginia R. O’Hagan Herbert January 3, 1919 – December 4, 2014 Virginia Rezek O’Hagan Herbert, a longtime Palo Alto resident, died suddenly but peacefully at home after a short bout with pneumonia. She would have been 96 years old next month. Teaching and inspiring young people was her passion, and she dedicated her life to communicating her vibrant love of literature, drama and the arts. Intellectually and emotionally engaged until the very end, Virginia is deeply mourned by many friends and former students for her true gift for friendship, and the delight with which she pursued life. She was born in Roanoke, Virgina, and was primarily raised there as well. In 1938, she and her mother moved to California, and Virginia finished college by graduating with a major in English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1940. She then trained as a teacher, and her first job was teaching English and drama at Elk Grove High School. About 40 percent of her students that first year were Nisei whom she sadly watched be forcibly interned after Pearl Harbor. They brought her boxes of wonderful strawberries which had to be harvested early before they left for the camps. She taught English and humanities for 38 years at various schools in several states, but primarily in the Sequoia Union High School District, notably Sequoia and Carlmont High Schools, before finishing her career at San Carlos High School, teaching there from 1960 until she retired in June, 1979. Her retirement was reimagined and celebrated with a special “Realivement Occasion” attended by many former students. For her sabbatical year of 1965-1966, she won a John Hay Fellowship in the Humanities and attended Harvard, where she studied poetry with Robert Lowell and Robert Fitzgerald. Virginia was married three times and had two children. Her first husband, Herschel B. Chipp, was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy when they married in 1944, and later became a professor of art history at U.C. Berkeley and specialist in Pablo Picasso. He was the father of her son Dennis. Her second husband, Turlogh O’Hagan, was the father of her daughter Maureen. Both these early marriages ended in divorce after a few years. She married her third husband, LeRoy V. Herbert, in 1988 after being single for many years, and they lived and traveled happily together for 10 years until his death in 1998. Virginia loved to travel and visited many countries, notably Japan, Mexico, England, Ireland, France, Italy, China, Indonesia, Russia, Kenya, Tanzania and Tahiti. After retirement she was active in the Peninsula Symphony Association, the Radcliffe Club of the Peninsula and the First Baptist Church of Palo Alto. She is survived by her daughter, Maureen O’Hagan (Joel) Steed of Ukiah, California; her nephew, Penn (Nancy) Butler of Atherton; and her niece, Lynn (Brian) Chichi of San Clemente, California. Preceding her in death were her sister, Anne Butler of Menlo Park; her son, Dennis Browning Chipp; and her three husbands. A memorial service was held on December 13, 2014. Memorial contributions in Virginia’s honor may be made to Defenders of Wildlife or Earthjustice. PAID OBITUARY Visit Lasting Memories An online directory of obituaries and remembrances. Search obituaries, submit a memorial, share a photo. Go to: www.PaloAltoOnline.com/obituaries OBITUARY www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 17 Editorial An elusive history museum Hope springs eternal as building decays T he Palo Alto City Council once again provided a lifeline to a nascent Palo Alto History Museum group that has repeatedly been unable to demonstrate sufficient community support to propel the project forward. It is a painful approach that isn’t fair to either museum advocates or Palo Alto residents and taxpayers. And worse, the council’s action Monday night to help the museum will likely result in a yet-to-be determined developer getting the right to substantially exceed zoning limits in the future on some unknown downtown building at the very time the city is trying to rein in such development. This council has followed in the footsteps of its predecessors in being unable to take decisive action that might be viewed as wavering in its support for a history-museum dream that has been percolating for more than a decade without substantial progress. The journey began 14 years ago when the city purchased the historic Roth Building at 300 Homer Ave. and adjacent land for $10 million from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation as it vacated downtown and moved to its current site on El Camino. In 2003, some three years after the building had been boarded up, the city invited proposals from nonprofits interested in renovating the Birge Clark-designed historic building in exchange for a long-term lease at little or no rent. As expected, the only proposal submitted was from a group made up of many well-known community members active in historic preservation interested in creating a history museum. The City Council at the time endorsed the plan, which involved private fundraising of some $7 million. For the last 10 years the city-owned building has been allowed to deteriorate as the museum supporters failed to find the needed major donors to jump-start a capital campaign. The city made modest investments for repairs to keep the building from completely falling apart, but its condition has steadily eroded, and of course now needs much more work than if it had been done immediately. Museum advocates have kept returning to the city, as they did this week, looking for major public financial support they say is critical to raising the estimated $20 million now needed for renovation, seismic upgrade and museum build-out. On Monday, without any assurances or confidence that the museum committee will be able to raise the money needed to move forward with any more success than in the past, the City Council agreed to sell bonus development rights called TDRs to raise an estimated $2 million for the project. It also approved $1 million to repair and fortify the building’s back wall. TDRs (transferable development rights) are incentives to developers who undertake renovations of historic buildings by allowing them bonus square footage for use on another property. The city is using the incentives, which will give a developer a density bonus enabling the construction of almost 10,000 square feet more than the zoning allows on another project, to raise money for the museum project. The density rights will be sold by the city in a public bidding process. This is exactly the same payment-for-zoning process as our infamous (and currently suspended) planned community (PC) zoning, where a developer can exceed the zoning rules by providing a public benefit deemed worthy by the City Council. In this case, the benefit will be cash to help the museum renovate the Roth Building. The council’s action, taken on a 6-1 vote with Councilman Larry Klein the only dissenter (Nancy Shepherd and Marc Berman did not participate due to owning property near the site) is just another poorly conceived idea for propping up the history museum, only this time making the community pay for it through another over-sized project that will exceed our zoning rules. Klein has been right to try and put a stop to these convoluted attempts at supporting the history museum. The city has already made substantial contributions, and has now doubled down based on little more than wishful thinking. Instead of more gifts from the city, what museum organizers need are firm fundraising milestones that, if not achieved, will result in the non-renewal of its lease option next June. The city has an asset that has been wasting away for the last 14 years. It must treat it like any other city asset, spend the money to renovate it and move city staff out of expensive nearby leased space into the building or find a paying tenant. We would love to see a history museum in that location, but if supporters can’t raise the money with all the support and patience shown by the city, it’s time to move forward with another plan. Page 18 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions Were these asked? Editor, When I heard rumors of lacerations on the feet and legs of pedestrians from the new California Avenue sidewalks, due to embedded glass in exposed aggregate, I dismissed it, thinking it was an invention of the project’s earlier naysayers. But while scrutinizing the sidewalks this week, I found numerous sharp edges and loose shards with dried aggregate, appearing to have come from the sidewalks. I also observed the glass is slippery, when wet, potentially a hazard for women wearing stiletto heels, such as one may wear to nicer restaurants. These sidewalks collect much more dirt than others. I noted grungy-looking areas, and not just under restaurant tables. The worst were two huge blotches near the Christian Science Reading Room, where there are no restaurants. I wanted to love the entire California Avenue Streetscape that, along with Public Works, Palo Alto residents tweaked and changed over four years (2010 to 2014). I spent from 2005 to 2009 helping create the original Concept Plan with the CAADA Board of Directors. But another red-flag is the new parallel parking configuration created a six-car backup towards El Camino Real, something I never saw before. The convenient diagonal parking replaced with parallel takes longer to negotiate. If a bicyclist was there, it would be dangerous; so a suggestion is redirecting bicyclists to parallel streets, for their safety, designating easier and safer flow of traffic for them. Wider sidewalks were on the 2010-2014 City Council “Wish List,” and a consultant was retained to oversee the residents’ choices as the original CAADA Streetscape Plan was changed. What questions were asked by council about the impacts of having sharp, slippery glass in sidewalks that attracts dirt, the size edging out bicyclists and forcing them to compete with backed-up cars, due to the new parallel parking? Ronna Devincenzi Cambridge Avenue, Palo Alto Protecting local retail Editor, It is simply not enough to keep tearing down older and smaller buildings in downtown Palo Alto in exchange for sleek, taller office buildings. This provides only a pot of money for developers and landlords and nothing for the community at large. To be vital and of value to residents, retail of different kinds must be part of the plan. The council has indicated they realize they should think about protecting our local retailers. The city of Mountain View has been brilliant in this area. Retailers who are to be replaced by a teardown should be given assistance both financial and in finding two-year places to do a temporary relocation while their former home is torn down and rebuilt. Since most of the new buildings will provide retail spaces on the ground floor, the developers should be obliged to resettle the former retail tenants back into the new space at rates commensurate with what they had been paying. Developers and landlords make a pile of money without sacrificing our small retailers in doing so. Carol Gilbert Byron Street, Palo Alto Anonymity enables Editor, I’m writing to urge you to reconsider your policy of allowing anonymous commenters on your website. As the author of a recent OpEd, I feel insulted and almost assaulted by the often untruthful and hateful statements made. My piece was about climate change, and hopefully you’re well aware of the scourge of “trolls” that infest the comment sections on climate change articles and cast doubt on perfectly legitimate material. The Los Angeles Times found this to be such a problem that they disallow climate trolls altogether. Kudos to them! One of the articles posted recently is filled with more of the same kind of comments, and most have no factual basis: www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/12/13/ palo-alto-to-explore-incentivesfor-slashing-natural-gas-use. Certainly a first step for Palo Alto Online would be to require commenters to register with their real name and a legitimate email address. Readers that suspect the commenter to be using an alias should be able to communicate this to the editorial staff and have the post (and the registration of the commenter) removed. The comment stream could be a useful tool for public discourse. Instead it has turned into a sledgehammer of hate and mockery. Bruce Hodge Janice Way, Palo Alto A model of care Editor, Thank you for your recent series of articles (“Coroner releases identity of man killed on train tracks” on 10/20/14; “In the wake: Teens respond with messages of hope, change” on 11/14/14; and “Guest Opinion: How to help those in crisis” on 10/17/14), which addressed the community response to the deaths by suicide of local youth, as well as the available suicide-prevention resources. This series of articles was very informative and careful in its handling of such a sensitive topic. We appreciate your willingness to dive in depth into an issue that is often cast aside in our society but in actuality affects numerous families throughout Palo Alto, the greater San Francisco Bay Area and the nation. The media plays an important role in their safe reporting of death by suicide. Your series of articles can serve as a model for insightful and dignified approaches by news organizations addressing the issue of suicide and suicide prevention. Relying on provocation or sensationalism of this important topic in the media simply serves to continue the stigma against mental illness and suicide. Irresponsible reporting that includes references to a suicide note, methods or a landmark where a death by suicide took place can be dangerous, especially in younger age groups, and can lead to what is known as “suicide contagion.” Thoughtful journalism such as yours reduces the risk of copycat suicides from improper reporting and provides important education and resources for the public. Thank you for your attention and thoughtfulness to this issue. Chapter Board Members Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter American Foundation for Suicide Prevention WHAT DO YOU THINK? The Palo Alto Weekly encourages comments on our coverage or on issues of local interest. Submit letters to the editor of up to 300 words to [email protected]. Submit guest opinions of 1,000 words to [email protected]. Include your name, address and daytime phone number so we can reach you. We reserve the right to edit contributions for length, objectionable content, libel and factual errors known to us. Anonymous letters will generally not be accepted. Submitting a letter to the editor or guest opinion constitutes a granting of permission to the Palo Alto Weekly and Embarcadero Media to also publish it online, including in our online archives and as a post on Town Square. For more information contact Editor Jocelyn Dong or Editorial Assistant Sam Sciolla at [email protected] or 650-326-8210. Check out Town Square! Hundreds of local topics are being discussed by local residents on Town Square, a reader forum sponsored by the Weekly on our community website at www.PaloAltoOnline.com. Post your own comments, ask questions, read the Editor’s blog or just stay up on what people are talking about around town! Guest Opinion A year in Brazil by Chantal Teixeira any teens wouldn’t consider taking a year to go abroad, especially during high school. Maybe they’re scared of starting in a new school and being the “new student.” Maybe they’re terrified of leaving all their friends and family. Or just maybe they’re scared of being in a completely different country with a different language. Yes, it all does sound scary; however, it’s all these new experiences that make it so amazing. Last year as a sophomore, I decided to live for a year with my dad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I continued my studies at the American School of Rio de Janeiro, which is almost the same as Palo Alto High School. During my time there, I also volunteered to teach English to underprivileged kids in Rocinha, which is the largest slum in Brazil. I am currently a junior at Paly, but I was born in SГЈo Paulo, Brazil, and so was my entire family. When I was 6, my mother decided to attend Stanford Law School for her master’s degree. My parents, my brother and I all came to the United States with the thought of living here for just the time that my mom would be studying. M Ten years later, we have settled into one of the most prestigious cities in the world, with little chance of going back to Brazil. I, however, have always been extremely committed to my Brazilian roots, and I have a love for that country that words cannot describe. Despite living in this amazing area, I am always curious to step out of my comfort zone, try new things and live in a different country. It is unquestionably nerve-racking to leave everything you know and enter a world that you don’t know. The idea of leaving my lifelong friends and my family was heartbreaking. I was scared of being forgotten. I also knew that being the “new girl” at school wasn’t going to be a piece of cake. A year — 365 days — isn’t that short of a time. I was also terrified of losing school credits and complicating my schedule. Thankfully, at the American School of Rio de Janeiro all my classes were in English. Also, all my friends here were completely supportive of my decision. Overall, there were no setbacks for me not to go, so why not? My year in Rio de Janeiro was eventful and unforgettable. I made so many friends from different countries through my international school. It was a bit strange to practice my Portuguese wherever I went, but I improved a whole lot. The city was so new to me, but it was beautiful. It felt like summer year-round; I lost count of how many times I went to the beach. Living inside the Brazilian culture was incredible, as the music, food, people, parties and the way of life in general stood out from America. The culture in Brazil is like no other: The people are relaxed, carefree and just happy. Only in Brazil will you find people on the beach on a Monday afternoon getting some sun and drinking coconut water. Brazilian people are loud and spontaneous, and can make any situation fun and exciting. People aren’t stressed about anything, and instead of worrying about small details, they understand the big picture of life, just enjoying those moments with the people they love most. And that’s exactly what I admire. By the time I got there, I had realized that I wanted to make a difference. So I took the initiative to start a community service project in the largest slum in Brazil, Rocinha. I began teaching English to children from ages 5 to 12 in a small school called Oficina do Sucesso, or in English, “Workshop of Success.” I really wanted to support Brazilian children’s learning opportunities. I wanted to help change their lives and give back to the community some of what I was fortunate to receive over the years. I had a passion to help them find their way into the future, and English offers these kids a door to opportunity. Rocinha is a part of Brazil that not many people know of apart from the violence and drug trade occurring there that the media shows. But during those seven months, I met some of the most warmhearted people. I established an uncondi- tional connection with each and every one of those kids. However, I knew that teaching English wasn’t going to be easy, or that safe. It was a huge commitment. I risked a lot going up to the slums every week. I planned all the lessons in advance, and that would sometimes take hours. It was a different world, and I was scared to face the reality of other people’s lives. It shocked me to see their actual day-today lives; I had never seen such poverty. It changed my perspective of the world forever. There were 5-year-old kids going to the brick, windowless houses asking for food and money. Every corner you turned you saw trash on the streets, and sewage water ran down the roads. There were children without shoes building the brick houses instead of going to school. “Poverty” was a somewhat unspoken word before my journey in Brazil. This volunteer work caused my view of the world to shift. I came back to Palo Alto a changed person, as I am more grateful for what I have and the opportunities before me. My year in Brazil was a gain in my life, and there is not a single part I regret. I left as myself and came back as a better version of that. I encourage other high school students to spend some time abroad to gain endless memories and unforgettable experiences. It’s worth it. Q Chantal Teixeira is a Palo Alto High School junior. On Dec. 5, she won the school’s President’s Volunteer Service Award for her work in Rocinha. She can be reached at [email protected]. Streetwise What is your favorite (or least favorite) holiday tradition? Asked on California Avenue. Interviews and photos by Sam Sciolla. Georgina Chadwick Arlene Holloway Yuma Kennedy Sam Putney Linda Gray-Moin Kingsley Avenue, Palo Alto Student Torreya Court, Palo Alto Retired Sacramento Street, East Palo Alto Software analyst Whitclem Drive, Palo Alto College student Esplanada Way, Stanford Artist “I like decorating the Christmas tree. We always do it with the whole family together, and our cats can sleep under it.” “I’m from Britain, and I always make a real Christmas pudding, a plum pudding. ... It’s just absolutely redolent of my childhood.” “Favorite holiday tradition is spending time with family to watch the movie “Elf.” ... Least favorite would be grandma getting drunk.” “Every other year I go to South Carolina, or I stay here. It’s good to alternate between grandparents ... both sides of the family.” “Attending the Dickens Christmas Fair at the Cow Palace. ... They turn it into Victorian London. You walk through the door, and you’re just transported.” www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 19 Peninsula Christmas Services Join Us For Christmas Christmas Eve Christmas blessings from St. Bede’s Episcopal Church Let us celebrate together! Inspirations a guide to the spiritual community Inspirations is a resource for ongoing religious services and special events. To inquire about or to reserve space in Inspirations, please contact Blanca Yoc at 223-6596 or email [email protected] (All services will be about an hour) 4:00 pm Christmas Pageant Service 6:00 & 10:00 pm Christmas Eve Worship with Choir 9:30 pm Carol Sing Christmas Day 10:00 am Christmas Day Communion with hymns 330 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park (650) 326-2083 www.trinitymenlopark.org Christmas Eve—Wednesday, 12/24 4PM Children’s Christmas Pageant & Eucharist 5:30PM Community Dinner Free to all; RSVP appreciated 7:30PM Choral Prelude 8PM Festival Eucharist with Choir Christmas Day—Thursday, 12/25 9AM Holy Eucharist with Carols First Sunday after Christmas — 12/28 9AM Christmas Lessons & Carols and Eucharist Please join us after each service for coffee and cookies, with piГ±atas following the pageant. St. Bede’s Episcopal Church 2650 Sand Hill Rd (at Monte Rosa), Menlo Park 650-854-6555 stbedesmenlopark.org Valley Presbyterian Church in the Redwoods 945 Portola Road, Portola Valley, CA 650-851-8282 www.valleypreschurch.org Christmas Eve Worship St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Parish, Palo Alto Our Lady of the Rosary, 3233 Cowper Street St. Albert the Great, 1095 Channing Avenue St. Thomas Aquinas, 751 Waverley Street CHRISTMAS EVE – WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24TH 5:00 pm Family Mass – Our Lady of the Rosary (Children’s Christmas Pageant during Mass) 5:00 pm Family Mass – St. Albert the Great (Children’s Christmas Pageant during Mass) 6:00 pm – St. Thomas Aquinas 7:00 pm – Our Lady of the Rosary (Spanish) Midnight Mass – St. Thomas Aquinas (Gregorian) CHRISTMAS DAY – THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25TH 7:30am – St. Thomas Aquinas; 9:00am – St. Albert the Great; 10:30am – Our Lady of the Rosary; 10:30am – St. Thomas Aquinas; 12:00 Noon – St. Thomas Aquinas (Gregorian) Page 20 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com 5:00 pm Family Candlelight Service 10:00 pm Candlelight Service Lessons & Carols Holiday Services at Stanford Memorial Church Sunday, December 21, 2014 10:00 am University Public Worship Covenant Presbyterian Church December 14, 2014 10:30 a.m. Worship Christmas Cantata- Daniel Pinkham Choir Cantata with Organ and Brass 4:00 p.m. Chamber Concert Series Music of the Christmas Season Harpers Hall Harp Ensemble 10:30 a.m. Worship One Starry Night in Bethlehem Children and Youth Pageant 7:30 p.m. Christmas Eve Candlelight Service Lessons and Carols 4:30 pm Catholic Mass Wednesday, December 24, 2014 4:00 pm Christmas Eve Family service (Doors open at 3:00 pm) Please bring new, unwrapped toys which will be given to children in need. 8:00 pm Christmas Eve Festival Communion service (Doors open at 7:00 pm) Please note: Please arrive early for Christmas Eve services. Attendees must arrive together with their group. Saving seats will not be allowed. Thursday, December 25, 2014 12:00 am Catholic Christmas Eve Midnight Mass December 21, 2014 December 24, 2014 12:00 pm Catholic Christmas Day Mass More info: religiouslife.stanford.edu/holiday-services Rev. Dr. Margaret Boles Covenant Presbyterian Church, 670 E. Meadow Dr., Palo Alto 94306 (650) 494-1760 www.CovenantPresbyterian.net Memorial Church, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, (650)723-1762 Simply Christmas Celebrate the true meaning of Christmas in Scripture and Song! Wednesday, December 24th at 6:00 pm CHRISTMAS EVE AT FIRST PRES First Baptist Church • 1100 Middle Ave Menlo Park Choir Singing Carols & Anthems (650) 323 8544 • www.firstbaptist.com 4:30pm, Sanctuary CHRISTMAS at FIRST LUTHERAN 600 Homer Avenue, Palo Alto | 650-322-4669 www.flcpa.org December 24, 5:00 p.m. | Family Service First Lutheran children dramatize the Christmas story Carols and Holy Communion Service of Lessons & Carols 5:00pm, Sanctuary Festive Reception & Holiday Treats 6:00pm, Fellowship Hall WWWFPRESPAORGs#OWPER3Ts December 24, 10:00 p.m. | Pre-service Music 10:30 p.m. | Candlelight Service Allen Simon, Choir Director | Jin Kyung Lim, Organist December 25, 10:00 a.m. | Worship | Holy Communion Lessons and Carols for Christmas | Jin Kyung Lim, Organist All services include congregational singing of traditional carols Christmas Eve Wednesday, December 24 4:00 pm Christmas Day 6:00 pm Holy Communion with Carols Family Communion Service with Children’s Pageant Christmas Eve at Bethany 5:00 p.m. Family Christmas Children tell the story of Jesus, as shepherds, angels, wisemen, and the holy family. Thursday, December 25 10:00 am Festival Holy Communion with Choir & Bells ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH PALO ALTO CHRISTMAS EVE V4:00 pm Children’s Christmas Pageant & Communion V10:00 pm Festive Choral Christmas Eve Holy Communion beginning with Carols CHRISTMAS DAY V10:00 am Holy Communion with Carols 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto (650) 326-3800 www.saint-marks.com 11:00 pm Communion, Readings & Carols by Candlelight Join us between services for wonderful food and Christmas cheer! 7:00 p.m. Classical Christmas Classical music and readings tell the story of joy and hope on Christmas Eve. 10:00 p.m. Candlelight Christmas A quiet and contemplative time to listen, sing, and reflect on the birth of Jesus Christ. BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH 1095 CLOUD AVENUE MENLO PARK CHRISTMAS WORSHIP SERVICES Christmas Eve Candlelight Service & Reception Wednesday, December 24, 10 p.m at the corner of Avy & Cloud www.bethany-mp.org Woodside Village Church 3154 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA 650.851.1587 www.wvchurch.org www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 21 Lighting season up the Community celebrations spread peace and joy, from many traditions photos by Veronica Weber / story by Carol Blitzer F Mezzo soprano Fran Moyer and other members of the First United Methodist Church Chancel Choir sing carols during the church’s Advent Procession with Carols service on Dec. 7. Page 22 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com rom a musical Advent procession to the civic lighting of the Hanukkah menorah, Palo Alto celebrates the holiday season this month through gettogethers featuring music, food and much good will. Carolers strolled into First United Methodist Church in downtown Palo Alto for Advent Sunday, Dec. 7, then participated in a service that featured verses, hymns and songs of the season. The season called Advent, the four weeks before Christmas, is a time of preparation for the birth of Christ, notes Pastor Linda Holbrook. She called the Advent Service a “kind of lesson in music. ... The music is about leading up to Christmas, about expectations, looking forward,” beginning with the processional hymn, “Wonder of God’s Glory Bright” and including the hymn, “To a Maid Engaged to Joseph.” The lessons harked back to the Old Testament, and much of the music to Old English songs, a tradition that goes back hundreds of years, she said. A candle-lighting service is planned for Christmas Eve at 11 p.m., when it’s almost Christmas Day, “symbolizing Christ coming into the world,” Holbrook said. On the same Sunday evening, Cover Story Clockwise, from top left: Elida Atayde, dressed as an angel during a reenactment of Mary and Joseph’s search for a place to stay on Christmas Eve, holds a candle during the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park posada on Dec. 6; Corina Martinez, left, Helena Holdstead and Serena Thomson, dancers from Raices de Mexico, dance in the MichoacГЎn style during the posada; a home at the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park is festively decorated for the holidays; Karlos Tapia, far right, and his wife Siobhan Tapia, and fellow attendees sing songs by candlelight during the posada. homes in the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in the Barron Park neighborhood were gaily strung with lights — including a reindeer on a rooftop — to create a festive atmosphere for the posada. Beginning in 2012, according to Erika Escalante, president of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park Association, the posada was organized as a “way to get to know the community, share a bit of our culture, make them aware of what’s happening,” she said. Close to 500 visitors lined up at the sidelines, holding batteryoperated candles and singing a traditional song in a Spanish/ English mashup. The posada began with a procession of Mary, Joseph, shepherds and angels, all symbolically seeking shelter, which they are refused until they reached the “sta- Above: Rabbi Yosef Levin lights the first candle on a large menorah outside of Palo Alto City Hall on Dec. 16, the first night of Hanukkah, during an event hosted by Chabad of Palo Alto; right: Rabbi Zalman Levin, far left, Mendel Brownstein, center, Mendel Oster (dressed as a dreidel) and children dance around in a circle during the Hanukkah celebration. (continued on page 24) www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 23 Cover Story Sonia Raghuram performs on the sitar during the Eid Festival at Lucie Stern Community Center. Celebrations (continued from page 23) ble,” a tent strewn with straw where they are welcomed. “Mary and Joseph are looking for shelter, and we’re in danger of losing our homes,” Escalante said, referring to the planned closure and sale of the mobile home park. After the procession, guests at the posada were entertained by Veracruz, MichoacГЎn and Jalisco-style dancing by the group Raices de Mexico. After breaking the seven-pointed-star piГ±ata, a feast of ponche (hot punch), tamales, pozole (hot soup) and pan dulce was enjoyed by all. From top: Eli Barasch and friend Simon Illouz, center, and fellow children who attend religious school at Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto, light the first Hanukkah candle on Dec. 16; Rachel Lieb, left, and Haviva Bradski play a game of dreidel during Kol Emeth’s celebration; Junnat Hameed, 4, pauses for a moment during her dance for the Eid Festival at the Lucie Stern Community Center on Dec. 12; Moazzam Chaudry holds his sleepy daughter Punhal Chaudry, 3, during the Eid Festival. The Arabic calligraphic paintings, reading “Al Hamd O Lilla” or “Praise be to God,” are by artist Shaz Imran. Page 24 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com The community was welcomed to Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto on Tuesday, Dec. 16, to celebrate Hanukkah, aka Chanukah, called the Festival of Lights. The courtyard glowed with the community candle-lighting (one candle, called the shamash, is used to light one other candle each night for the eight nights of the festival). No celebration is complete without traditional foods — fried potato latkes (pancakes) and sufganiyot (fried donuts), to remind folks of the legend: When the Maccabees, Jewish freedom fighters, retook the Temple in Jerusalem from the Syrian Greeks in 164 BCE, they found only enough holy oil to last a day. Instead, the oil lasted eight days. David Booth, senior rabbi of Congregation Kol Emeth, noted that although Hanukkah is considered a minor Jewish holiday, it carries some wonderful imagery: “the external image of light in the darkness, light that can overcome depression. “There’s something very beautiful about the holiday,” he said. “It’s closest to the darkest time of year ... and we remember the hope that light can give us. “One of the commandments for Hanukkah is to publicize the holiday, often by putting a menorah in the window. ... It’s not a message to people to become Jewish but that God’s light is in the world,” Booth said. Even with rain threatening, Rabbi Zalman Levin of Chabad of Palo Alto was determined to “Light up the Night” at Palo Alto City Hall on Tuesday evening, Dec. 16. “It’s a Tiki torch. It burns even in the rain,” he said. Sponsored by Chabad, the event kicked off with the lighting of the 12-foot Hanukkah candelabra. About 50 people braved the elements, huddling under tents without sides while sampling latkes and sufganiyot as well as participating in crafts and activities. Lasagne and a cheesecake bar added to the attractions. The message of Hanukkah is “that even in times of darkness, we can always spread light, ... even one little candle to bring light to the darkness,” Levin said. “We want to bring out the light to the public, light up even the darkest places. The light represents goodness and kindness, hope, faith — the triumph of goodness,” Levin said. Rounding out the December festivities was a celebration that’s usually held at another season, following Ramadan (which was in July this year). Samina Sundas, founding executive director of American Muslim Voice Foundation, organized an Eid Festival on Dec. 12, with the help of a City of Palo Alto $1,000 Know Your Neighbors grant. Held at the Lucie Stern Community Center ballroom, the event drew 300 people who enjoyed a Pakistani dinner, shared desserts from around the world and participated in Nasheed spiritual singing. There was even a photo booth with opportunities to have a photo taken in ethnic dress. The event also honored “unsung community heroes,” including Palo Alto Mayor Nancy Shepherd and Altaf Chaus, the Muslim Burger King owner who returned $100,000 cash to the police because of his faith. Sundas noted that holding the Eid Festival now is part of an initiative dubbed “Share the joy of Eid,” which she said “is part of the American Muslim Voice’s larger goal to move all Americans вЂ�from fear to friendship,’ by expanding the sense of community at a grassroots level.” Sundas posited why so many chose to come during the busy holiday season: “Given the state of our nation all Americans are tired of being divided and being afraid of each other. And now our message of unity, kindness, love, peace and friendship is appealing to all,” she wrote in an email. “What do we have to lose? The old ways have created a culture of despair, division and violence, and together we can replace it with a culture of hope inclusion and peace.” Q Staff Photographer Veronica Weber can be emailed at [email protected]; Associate Editor Carol Blitzer can be emailed at cblitzer@ paweekly.com. On the cover: Orit Glenn and her daughter Karen Glenn light the first candle on the menorah and sing the blessings on the first night of Hanukkah, Dec. 16, at Congregation Kol Emeth. Photo by Veronica Weber. Cantor Arts Center presents rarely seen prints by Pop Art icon Robert Rauschenberg flight and a special admiration for astronauts. So when he was invited by NASA to be part of its art program and to document the launch of Apollo 11 in July of 1969, he leaped at the opportunity. He was given unrestricted access to behind-the-scenes preparations and was in the grandstand at Cape Canaveral during the historic liftoff. A photograph of the smiling artist, with the massive rocket enclosed in its armature behind him, reveals the obvious delight and enthusiasm he must have felt that day. “The whole project seemed one of the only things at that time that was not concerned with war and destruction,” Rauschenberg said. Looking back, it is easy to see his reference points — the Vietnam War, inner-city riots, the growing awareness of environmental disasters — and how the launch of a rocket into space (fulfilling John Kennedy’s prediction about sending a man to the moon) must have felt like a rare positive, unifying force. Inspired by the Apollo mission, Rauschenberg decided to produce a major body of work about the space program. The Stoned Moon Project (1969-70) was originally intended to be a book of 20 collages and drawings. The book never came to fruition, and the artwork, rarely seen before now, became part of the holdings of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. In addition to images, the project also included the artist’s unpublished notes, giving insight into his choices of subject matter and media. Guest Curator James Merle Thomas explained in an email interview that the exhibition was inspired by his own dissertation research into art in the Cold War era. “I was interested in more closely examining the Stoned Moon Projects as a kind of transitional moment in the artist’s career,” Thomas wrote. “During the same months that he was producing Stoned Moon, Rauschenberg began making art that was much more politically explicit and critical.” The artist’s desire to commemorate the Apollo flight in a new and technically-advanced manner led him to Gemini G.E.L. Studios in Los Angeles. Long known as a place where artists could experiment and push the boundaries of traditional print-making, Gemini was the perfect fit for the project. Working at a hectic pace, Rauschenberg created 33 prints: at that time the largest lithographs produced on a hand-operated press. Of these, 13 appear in the exhibition, on loan from a private collector. Measuring over seven feet in height, requiring the use of two lithography stones laminated together, the Stoned Moon series utilized photographs obtained from NASA and images of Florida flora and fauna. The prints are a big, bright, bold celebration of technology — both space travel and printmaking — and creativity. In “Banner,” the artist has gathered symbols of the space race (the top stage of a rocket, three smiling, brave astronauts) with images of Florida (a crate of oranges, the state seal). Bright blue swaths of ink surround the images, perhaps reflective of the sky, space and the “blue yonder” that men were about to explore. In “Sky Garden,” Rauschenberg juxtaposes the outline of a rocket, symbol of man’s technical prowess, with sea birds and palm trees. A matrix detailing all the parts of the rocket is overlaid with now-familiar terminology (command module, heat shields) clearly delineated. In most of the prints, there is a stark contrast between nature and technology. Rauschenberg lived for many years in Florida and was committed to the environmental movement. His poster, “Earth Day” (1970), which combined (continued on next page) In 1969, Robert Rauschenberg accepted an invitation to produce art for NASA’s Apollo 11 mission. Here, the artist poses at the Kennedy Space Center with the Apollo 11 launch vehicle assembly in the background. Stephen Dull/Robert Rauschenberg Foundation n December 5, 2014, the Orion space craft traveled 3,600 miles above Earth testing systems in preparation for sending astronauts into deep space. It was reported on television news and on the second page of newspapers but was hardly the story of the day. Go to Mars? Why not? After all, we have been to the Moon and back. We have become so inured to the rapid scientific and technological developments of the space program that it seems we are not easily impressed. But Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center has a cure for that apathy. The museum’s latest exhibition draws together collages, prints and archival materials that pay tribute to the historic Apollo 11 mission of 1969, when man first set foot on the moon. “Loose in Some Real Tropics: Robert Rauschenberg’s вЂ�Stoned Moon Series’” will be on view from December 20 through March 16. The display is a visual reminder of a time when space travel was cause for unabashed awe and wonder. It also serves as a record of how one artist memorialized that era forever. Robert Rauschenberg began his career as an important avant-garde artist in 1950s and ’60s New York. He rejected the prevailing Abstract Expressionist predilection for angst-driven paintings on canvas in favor of a cooler, detached observation of life. Rauschenberg is credited with the invention of the “combine,” a collage-like amalgamation of disparate yet symbolic found objects. His choice of media and technique seemed to obey no boundaries, and to betray no fears. As quoted in Mary Lynn Kotz’s book “Rauschenberg: Art and Life,” the artist once explained to an interviewer, “I had nothing to start with, so I could try anything I wanted to.” One thing Rauschenberg did have was a life-long interest in James Dean/Smithsonian Institution A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Elizabeth Schwyzer In “Sky Garden” as in many of his works from the series, Rauschenberg juxtaposed symbols of nature and technology. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 25 Arts & Entertainment Comedian Cathy Ladman dishes about food, family and being Jewish by Kevin Kirby Robert Rauschenberg at Kennedy Space Center with Apollo 11 launch vehicle assembly in background, July 15, 1969. Photograph by James Dean. Courtesy James Dean and NASA Art Collection, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Eve and Christmas Day. The two cultures that are not busy with religious holiday traditions of their own on those days have long found mutual benefit from the situation.” More recently, a new element has been creeping into the Jewsand-Chinese-food tradition. In cities across the country, holiday events have sprung up combining Chinese cuisine with Jewish comedy. That’s where Cathy Ladman comes into the picture. She’s the featured performer at Chopshticks, the OFJCC’s version of this new cultural mash-up, which combines comedy with a buffetstyle Chinese dinner from Hunan Garden Restaurant. “I’m really looking forward to it,” Ladman said in a recent telephone interview, “because every other time I’ve done a show on Christmas Eve for a room full of Jews, it’s been great fun.” Ladman has appeared previously at Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, the San Francisco equivalent, but this will be her first Christmas Eve in Palo Alto. Ladman considers herself “a comedian who happens to be Jewish, rather than a Jewish comedian.” But she notes that shared cultural Jaime Klein “W hat are you doing on Christmas Eve?” For a lot of Americans, the answer is easy. Christmas Eve is a time of traditions, from attending midnight mass, to sipping eggnog and singing carols, to sweating over inscrutable bicycle assembly instructions while a Yule log crackles on the big-screen TV. But what about those who, for religious or cultural reasons, don’t celebrate Christmas — those who, in the words of comedian Cathy Ladman, have “been shut out of the commercial Christmas season”? It should be no surprise that these Americans have developed some traditions of their own. For decades, the joke among many Jewish families has been that Christmas Eve is the night when everyone goes out for Chinese food. It’s a cliche born from practical reality, as Amy Snell of the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center (OFJCC) in Palo Alto explained: “The tradition of Jews eating Chinese food at Christmastime goes back to the days when Chinese restaurants were some of the only businesses that stayed open on Christmas On Christmas Eve, “Chopshticks” at the JCC will feature comedian Cathy Ladman as well as a Chinese buffet dinner. heritage makes these gigs more intimate and more spontaneous than a typical stand-up performance. “I’m culturally from a Jewish family, so there’s things we have in common,” she explained. “I know there will be a lot of ad-libbing and a lot of talking to people in the audience. There will be a lot of shorthand because they’re Jewish ... I’m Jewish ... we have a lot of similar characters in our family.” And family is where much of Ladman’s comedy begins. Her material includes stories about her marriage and about the daughter she and her husband adopted when Ladman was nearly 50. With a studied deadpan, she describes this as “excellent timing,” then jokes about being a member not of the PTA, but of the “PTAARP.” When asked how many of her stories are, as she puts it, “merely reporting,” Ladman chuckled. “Some of it is. There are times when I’ve gone back to my family in New York, and some of it is nearly transcribing. But there’s a way to craft it too. You have to have an economy of words and timing to have the story land a laugh.” It’s a craft that Ladman has been honing for 33 years, perfecting her timing and landing laughs in clubs across the country, making numerous appearances on “The Tonight Show” and “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” and taping her own HBO “One Night Stand” special. In the early days, she admits, stand-up was a way of getting attention. “It was just, вЂ�What can I do to get a laugh?’ But I think it’s become increasingly personal as I’ve gotten older. It’s about my family, about my personal growth. I think it reflects where I am in my life and what my perspective is.” With an act that trades heavily on the realities of everyday life and of growing older, Ladman’s perspective sometimes leans toward the dark side. “I like to talk Rauschenberg (continued from previous page) Robert Rauschenberg’s “Stoned Moon” Projects, 1969–70 December 20–March 16 Discover an iconic artist’s depiction of the Apollo 11 Mission, the launch that put the first man on the moon. Rarely seen art is accompanied by photographic documentation and artist’s notes never before on view. CANTOR ARTS CENTER AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY 328 LOMITA DRIVE В‡STANFORD, CA В‡94305 В‡ В‡ 0 8 6 ( 8 0 6 7 $ 1 ) 2 5 ' ( ' 8 This exhibition is organized by the Cantor Arts Center in close collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Works in this exhibition are on loan from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, Special Collections at the Getty Research Institute, and a private collection. We gratefully acknowledge support for the exhibition from the Cantor Arts Center’s Halperin Exhibitions Fund and the Contemporary Collectors Circle. Page 26 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com images of man-made destruction (pollution, deforestation) and endangered species (a bald eagle and a gorilla), is considered an iconic representation of its time. The artist felt, however, that the space movement was a “responsive, responsible collaboration between man and technology.” Critics loved the Stoned Moon series; arts writer Lawrence Alloway noted that Rauschenberg “produced the first persuasive public art of the early space age.” The exhibition is part of the Cantor’s new focus on interdisciplinary programming, which will encompass collaborations with the departments of Physics, Music, and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. The year-long effort, called “Imagining the Universe,” will include lectures by NASA astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison and artists Alyson Shotz and Matthew Ritchie (dates to be announced). Rauschenberg once wrote of his about things that might make people uncomfortable, but then you take the air out of it with comedy, and all of a sudden it’s not so verboten and not so scary. It’s just another thing. It can’t hurt us.” As a prime example, Ladman has recently been workshopping a one-woman act, “Does This Show Make Me Look Fat?,” in which she speaks candidly about her decades-long struggle with anorexia. But she was quick to point out that this project is “very different” from the stand-up comedy she’ll be performing at Chopshticks. “I don’t want people to think they’re going to come to the JCC and hear about the awful details of my eating disorder.” She paused for a moment, then added, “But I know I’ll be talking about food, because there’ll be Jews there.” Of course, the event won’t be exclusively Jewish. Christmas Eve comedy gigs have begun drawing diverse audiences, as Americans of all backgrounds discover that a good laugh and some nice moo shu are a great remedy for seasonal stress. As Ladman put it, “We all know why we’re there, and we’re definitely going to have fun.” Q Freelance writer Kevin Kirby can be emailed at penlyon@ gmail.com. What: “Chopshticks” with Comedian Cathy Ladman Where: Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto When: Wednesday, Dec. 24, at 7:30 p.m. Cost: $55-$65 Info: Go to tinyurl.com/l2tquga or call 650-223-8609 desire to “integrate the creative mind with the new super technology.” He died in 2008 and would, no doubt, be amazed at the innovations and inventions that have found their start right here in Silicon Valley. As he proved in his Stoned Moon Projects, the talents of artist and scientist are not mutually exclusive; at best, they can enhance and affirm each other. Q Freelance writer Sheryl Nonnenberg can be emailed at [email protected]. What: Loose in Some Real Tropics: Robert Rauschenberg’s “Stoned Moon” Projects, 1969-70 Where: Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford When: Dec 20-March 16, Wednesday-Monday 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday 11 a.m.-8 p.m. See website for holiday hours and closures. Cost: Free Info: Go to museum.stanford. edu or call 650-723-4177 Eating Out Michelle Le Sundance The Steakhouse serves up succulent New York strip steak. A mecca for meat After 40 years, Sundance retains its high standards and charm 1 school charm. In these days of celebrity chefs, restaurant empires, glitzy chains and often unintelligible menus, Sundance stays with Longtime customer Bob Siegmann, left, catches up with waiter James during the one location, keeps the facility lunch hour at Sundance. in tip-top condition, trains the staff in fine-dining details, ensures the kitchen maintains the highest standards and building and opening Hungry Hunter restaurants, while uses the finest ingredients — and the menu needs no Hamner was a regional manager for Jack in the Box. After the successful launch of their Sundance Mintranslation. Robert Fletcher and partner Richard Hamner ac- ing Co. steakhouse, the pair founded four Pacific Fresh quired the Stanford View restaurant when the prop- restaurants, which they sold in 1991 to a Japanese comerty became available in 1974. Both had worked for (continued on next page) corporate restaurant chains: Fletcher was in charge of Michelle Le by Dale F. Bentson 974 was a momentous year. Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, the Oakland A’s beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series, “The Sting” won best picture, the price of a first-class stamp rose to 10 cents, Robert M. Pirsig published “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” — and in Palo Alto, restaurateur Robert Fletcher opened Sundance Mining Co. The rest is history. Sundance Mining Co. morphed into Sundance The Steakhouse and is thriving in its 40th year. Sons Aron and Galen Fletcher are now running the classic American steakhouse on El Camino Real in Palo Alto with topnotch food, attentive service, an excellent wine list and decor that exudes old- www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 27 Eating Out Sundance The Steakhouse 1921 El Camino Real, Palo Alto 650-321-6798 sundancethesteakhouse.com Hours: Lunch: Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Dinner: Sunday-Monday, 5-9 p.m.; Tuesday-Saturday, 5-10 p.m. Reservations Lot Parking Alcohol: full bar Noise level: moderate Happy Hours Children Bathroom cleanliness: excellent Tidbits by Elena Kadvany Outdoor dining Credit cards Private parties Michelle Le Takeout (continued from previous page) The menu at Sundance features Dungeness crab cakes with sherry cayenne aioli. pany. After an amicable separation, Hamner went on to found the Una Mas chain of Mexican eateries. Fletcher mined Sundance. His sons grew up in the restaurant business but chose different career routes. Galen became a certified public accountant with Ernst & Young while Aron charted GOLDEN GLOBE O M I N E E BEST ACTRESS • REESE WITHERSPOON DRAMA N В® SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARD NOMINEE В® BEST ACTRESS • REESE WITHERSPOON BASED ON THE INSPIRATIONAL BEST SELLER BY CHERYL STRAYED SCREENPLAY BY DIRECTED BY NICK HORNBY JEAN-MARC VALLГ‰E THE DIRECTOR OF DALLAS BUYERS CLUB NOW PLAYING IN THEATRES EVERYWHERE CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR THEATRES AND SHOWTIMES Sign up today at www.PaloAltoOnline.com Page 28 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com a course at Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley). According to Galen, on Christmas morning in 1992, Robert asked his sons whether they were interested in taking over the business, or whether he should sell it. It was time in his life to take a step back. By 1996, both brothers were working at Sundance full time — Galen first and Aron a few years later. In 2000, Robert retired, but he retains a financial and spiritual interest in the business. “My dad was almost a stranger when we were growing up,” Galen recalled. “He was always working, always on the go, moving around from city to city opening up Hungry Hunter restaurants. I was determined that for the first 20 years, I wanted to fully participate in my family’s life. I didn’t want to miss out. I wanted soccer practices and all the school activities. I needed to stay in one place, concentrate on one business.” It seems to have worked out for everyone, especially the dining public who keeps the place packed, or nearly so, throughout the year. Besides the dining rooms, booths, quiet nooks and private dining areas, there is a lively bar scene with a long list of contemporary cocktails. The wine list boasts more than 400 labels, mostly California, and most of that cabernet — the perfect pairing for beef. Slow-roasted for eight hours, the certified Angus prime rib is offered in 8-ounce to 14-ounce cuts: $32.95 to $42.95. On a recent visit, the juicy, flavorful meat was served exactly as ordered — rare, with minimal fat. Creamy horseradish and hot au jus were served on the side. The meat was accompanied by vegetables and a choice of potato or rice. Fork-tender was the 13-ounce USDA Prime New York strip steak ($48.95). The steak was served at the optimum temperature: hot, but with time enough for the meat to have rested after cooking. Meat proteins heat and coagulate during cooking, and moisture is driven towards the center. If the meat rests for a few CHO’S, RESURRECTED ... Palo Altans’ favorite hole-in-the-wall dim sum spot Cho’s Mandarin Dim Sum, which closed earlier this year after receiving a sudden 60-day notice from the landlord, is being resurrected in downtown Los Altos. The restaurant, which sold potstickers, pork buns and the like on the cheap for 35 years at 213 California Ave., announced the news on its Facebook page last Friday, Dec. 12. “Something new is coming to Los Altos,” the post reads, with a photograph of the new restaurant at 209 1st St. According to Yelp, the space was most recently occupied by Chris’ Fish and Chips and is near the corner of State Street. The 2,337 people who signed a Change.org petition to keep Cho’s open on California Avenue will surely be lining up as soon as the restaurant reopens. вЂ�OCCUPY THE FARM’ ... Documentary “Occupy the Farm” tells the story of the battle over the Gill Tract, a large plot of University of California-owned land in Berkeley that the university planned to develop and community members wanted to preserve and use as farmland. The film, directed by Todd Darling and produced by Steve Brown of Woodside, documents a day in April 2012 when hundreds of people flooded onto a section of the land and “occupied the farm,” planting 15,000 vegetable seedlings in protest. The film premiered in early November but is just now making the rounds to Palo Alto, with a one-night showing at The Aquarius Theatre this Monday, Dec. 22, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “Occupy the Farm” filmmakers and “special guests” will also minutes after it is off the fire, the protein molecules relax and reabsorb the juices. That’s what makes a perfect steak. But Sundance offers more than just great beef. The Pacific swordfish ($29.50) was seabreeze fresh, dusted with spices and grilled over an open flame. The fish was succulent and moist. Sauteed New England sea scallops and wild gulf prawns ($28.50) were plump and meaty, nestled in a reduced white wine garlic butter sauce with an ambrosial hint of fresh garlic and pepper that tickled the palate. The chicken Marsala ($22.95) was a pounded-thin breast, sauteed in Marsala mushroom sauce and then served under a blanket of earthy, fragrant mushrooms. There were plenty of appetizers too: mouthwatering golden brown crab cakes ($14.95), filet mignon spring rolls ($12.95) hold a Q&A following the film. The screening was made possible through Tugg, a website that allows people to request that films come to local theaters. Tugg requires a certain number of advance reservations in order to confirm an event; the threshold was met earlier this week, and a limited number of tickets are still available. Go to tugg.com/ events/12449 to reserve a spot. FOOD TRUCKS GET FIVE YEARS ... The uproar in Menlo Park over the arrival of Off the Grid, a weekly food truck market held in the Caltrain station parking lot, is but a distant memory. The city’s Planning Commission (on which this writer’s father serves, full disclosure) granted a unanimous, long-term blessing to Off the Grid on Monday night with a new fiveyear permit. The market — one of more than 20 that Off the Grid operates throughout the Bay Area — first launched in February 2013 at Merrill Street and Ravenswood Avenue, with about 10 trucks serving up eats every Wednesday night. Benjamin Himlan, Off the Grid’s director of business development, told the planning commission on Dec. 15 that about 600 to 800 people came each week during the summer, but that number has now dropped by approximately 60 percent, the Almanac reported. As a result, Off the Grid has been closing at 8 p.m. instead of 9 p.m. and will go on hiatus from Dec. 22 through Jan. 4. The longer hours will return in March, Himlan said. Check out more food news online at Elena Kadvany’s blog, Peninsula Foodist, at paloaltoonline.com/blogs/. served on a gingery Asian salad and Idaho potato skins ($11.50) with cheddar cheese, smoked bacon and chopped green onions. The steakhouse classic wedge salad ($9.95) comes topped with house-made blue cheese dressing, chopped tomato, crumbled blue cheese and smoked bacon. The clam chowder ($6.50 cup; $8.50 bowl) was loaded with clams, potatoes and onions. Desserts aren’t made in-house, but to house specifications. The signature mud pie ($8.95) — coffee ice cream with an Oreo cookie crust in a puddle of hot fudge, topped with whipped cream and chopped peanuts — is big enough to share and has been on the menu since opening day. Also good was the New York cheesecake ($7.95) with a strawberry fruit sauce. What’s not to like? Happy 40th, Sundance. Q Breaking the вЂ�Hobbit’ вЂ�The Battle of the Five Armies’ makes Peter Jackson’s Tolkien saga redundant 00 1/2 (Century 16, Century 20) Hobbits put their trust in simple pleasures: a nice meal (or two, or six), a cup of tea, a social call. So it’s ironic that writer-director-producer Peter Jackson has proven determined to complicate “The Hobbit,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s relatively humble volume, into three, two-hour-plus films, culminating in “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.” With most of the book’s plot expended in two previous films, The Weinstein Company “The Imitation Game” gives rising star Benedict Cumberbatch a chance to shine as the anxious mathematical genius Alan Turing. Cure for the uncommon code this third installment — penned by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Guillermo del Toro — mines appendices to Tolkien’s “The Return of the King.” It’s probably best not to think too much about how this $250 miltop-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, where Turing and a team worked to break the German naval Enigma code, largely by use of a electromechanical cryptanalytic machine: a prototypical computer of Turing’s design. But Graham Moore’s screenplay — derived from Andrew Hodges’ book, “Alan Turing: The Enigma,” — also leapfrogs backward to Turing’s schoolboy days (and first love with a male friend) and forward to the incident that found Turing prosecuted for “gross indecency.” In his English-language directing debut, Norwegian director Morten Tyldum (“Headhunters”) plays it safe: “The Imitation Game” is a dutiful biopic, tasteful to a fault. It’s Cumberbatch who elevates the material with depth of feeling, radiating the desperate Awards season always makes room for at least one plummytoned, veddy-English drama (think “The King’s Speech”), so it’s no surprise to see Benedict Cumberbatch refereeing ye olde internal wrestling match between British reserve and tortured feeling in the “based on a true story” feature, “The Imitation Game.” Cumberbatch, best known for making intellect sexy on the BBC’s “Sherlock,” inhabits WWII codebreaker and computer innovator Alan Turing in the mathematician’s social anxiety, fierce determination and, yes, keen intellect. The story mostly unfolds in the early 1940s at the Apart from Cumberbatch’s performance (and fine supporting turns from the likes of Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, and Rory Kinnear), the film’s principal achievement is simply in erecting a more visible platform for Turing’s story, which has seen but a few previous treatments on stage (“Breaking the Code” on the West End and Broadway) and screen (two telefilms: one called “Codebreaker” (continued on page 31) В® GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS NOMINATIONS 32 BEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR STEVE CARELL В‡ BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR В‡ MARK RUFFALO Century Theatres at Palo Alto Square Fri and Sat 12/19 – 12/20 Birdman – 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 The Theory of Everything – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun – Tues 12/21 – 12/23 Birdman – 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 The Theory of Everything – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 Tickets and Showtimes available at cinemark.com В© H F PA В® SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS NOMINATIONS BEST ACTOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR STEVE CARELL Benedict Cumberbatch plays вЂ�The Imitation Game’ in WWII spy drama 000 (Century 16) intelligence of a man compelled to achieve greatness through puzzle-solving — and to tamp down his sexual orientation to survive in a discriminatory time. Both compulsions prove sad, with Turing arguably less interested in winning the war (something for which no less than Winston Churchill principally credited Turing) than proving his own thinking correct, meanwhile making doe-eyed, guiltily halfhearted overtures to colleague Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley). DRAMA OPENINGS ing Middle Earth saga affords many more parts for beloved British thespians, including Ian Holm, Stephen Fry, Billy Connolly, Benedict Cumberbatch and Christopher Lee, who at age 92 must be breaking some kind of record with his athletic fight scenes (achieved mostly with a double and CGI assist). “The Battle of the Five Armies” is many stories: a tale of Middle-Earth “troubles” — “ethnic tensions” if you will — a (self-mocking?) parable of greed (“Don’t underestimate the evil of gold!” Gandalf thunders), a love story of sorts (the triangle of Tauriel, Legolas, and Aidan Turner’s Dwarf KГli), and a tale of male bonding between Bilbo and Thorin. Add in the grace notes Jackson and his team sometimes bring to each of these tasks, and the action-Jackson spectacle, and genre fans likely won’t feel cheated out of their time or the price of the 3D ticket. But for some, especially the fantasy tourists, the “Ring”-around-theresolution feels pretty old by now. Are we there yet? Yes, there and back again. Rated PG-13 for extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images. Two hours, 24 minutes. — Peter Canavese DRAMA Courtesy of Warner Bros. Picture Cate Blanchett as Galadriel and Ian McKellen as Gandalf return in “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.” lion sausage was made, as it’ll quickly become apparent how narratively bereft it is, how thematically redundant to the five Middle Earth films (totaling fifteen hours) that precede it. All that aside, fans of the series and fanboy grumblers will have to agree that “The Battle of the Five Armies” is often entertaining. Carefully choreographed action rules the day, with clashes on an ice floe, a crumbling bridge, a mountain ridge. And that title’s not kidding around: Most of the film is one giant extended battle, with multiple dwarf, elf, and orc armies converging in the vicinity of Erebor (a.k.a. The Lonely Mountain). If you intend on caring a whit for what’s going on, bring a scorecard, but if you ask me, you’re better off just going with the flow. The gang’s all here: hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), greed-infected dwarf Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) and his twelve dwarf compatriots, sage wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen), Elven king Thranduil (Lee Pace) and his son Legolas (Orlando Bloom), Woodland Elf Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly), royal Elf Galadriel (Cate Blanchett), human Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans). 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Since the Weekly Bayshore Christian Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation cover all the Breast Cancer Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 administrative costs, every dollar raised goes directly to Building Futures Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 CASSY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 support community programs through grants to non-profit Children’s Center of the Peninsula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,200 organizations ranging up to $25,000. Collective Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 And with the generous support of matching grants Computers for Youth Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 from local foundations, including the Packard, Hewlett, Deborah’s Palm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Downtown Streets Team. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 DreamCatchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 East Palo Alto Youth Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Environmental Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 EPA Tennis & Tutoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Family Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Foothill-De Anza Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Foundation for a College Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Friends of Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Hidden Villa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Arrillaga & Peery foundations, your tax-deductible gift will be doubled in size. A donation of $100 turns into $200 Give to the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund and your donation is doubled. You give to non-profit groups that work right here in our community. It’s a great way to ensure that your charitable donations are working at home. with the foundation matching gifts. Whether as an individual, a business or in honor of someone else, help us reach our goal of $350,000 by making a generous contribution to the Holiday Fund. With your generosity, we can give a major boost to the programs in our community helping kids and families. CLICK AND GIVE Donate online at si siliconvalleycf.org/ paw-holiday-fund InnVision Shelter Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 JLS Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,500 Jordan Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,500 Kara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 Enclosed is a donation of $_______________ Mayview Community Health Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Music in the Schools Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 Name _________________________________________________________ New Creation Home Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 New Voices for Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 Nuestra Casa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Palo Alto Art Center Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Palo Alto Community Child Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Business Name _________________________________________________ Address _______________________________________________________ City/State/Zip __________________________________________________ Palo Alto Historical Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Palo Alto Housing Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Palo Alto Humane Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 Parents Nursery School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Peninsula HealthCare Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 E-Mail __________________________________________________ Credit Card (MC, VISA, or AMEX) All donors and their gift amounts will be published in the Palo Alto Weekly unless the boxes below are checked. ________________________________________ Expires _______/_______ T I wish to contribute anonymously. Phone _________________________________________________________ Project WeHOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 Quest Learning Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Racing Hearts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 T Please withhold the amount of my Rebuilding Together Peninsula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Silicon Valley FACES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 contribution. Signature ______________________________________________________ St. Elizabeth Seton School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 St. Francis of Assisi Youth Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 I wish to designate my contribution as follows: (select one) St. Vincent de Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,000 Teen Talk Sexuality Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Terman Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,500 T In my name as shown above T In the name of business above TheatreWorks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Youth Community Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$20,000 Youth Speaks Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 OR: T In honor of: T In memory of: T As a gift for: _____________________________________________________________ (Name of person) Non-profits: Grant application and guidelines at www.PaloAltoOnline.com/holiday_fund Application deadline: January 9, 2015 Page 30 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Please make checks payable to: Silicon Valley Community Foundation Send coupon and check, if applicable, to: Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund c/o Silicon Valley Community Foundation 2440 West El Camino Real, Suite 300 Mountain View, CA 94040 The Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund is a donor advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization. A contribution to this fund allows your donation to be tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Through December 15, 275 donors have contributed $ 103,286. With match, $206,572 has been raised for the Holiday Fund. New Donors 3 Anonymous.......................... $1,210 Lorraine Macchello........................... * Ken & Michele Dauber ................. 500 Amy Harris & Joss Geiduschek ..... 100 Jack & Martha McLaughlin ............... * Barbara & Charles Stevens............... * Patrick & Emily Radtke .............. 2,000 Margaret & Les Fisher .................. 100 Marjorie Giles .............................. 300 David & Karen Backer .................. 250 Laura Simeone .............................. 50 Noble & Lorraine Hancock ................ * Martha Shirk ............................... 500 Ellmann Family............................. 100 David & diane Feldman ................ 750 Bonnie Packer ............................. 100 Hans & Judith Steiner .................. 100 Harry & Susan Hartzell .................... * Carolyn & Tony Tucher ...................... * Marc & Ragni Pasturel ................. 200 Tony & Priscilla Marzoni.................... * Tom & Patricia Sanders .................... * Robert & Connie Loarie .................... * Sallie & Jay Whaley ...................... 100 Eric Richert.................................. 100 Annette Isaacson ......................... 100 Hoda Epstein ................................... * Chittra Chaivorapol....................... 800 Arden King..................................... 20 Marie Earl & Peter Skinner............ 100 In Memory Of Nickolas Rudd ............................. 100 Ludwig Tannenwald .......................... * Jack Sutorius ............................... 300 Nick ........................................... 500 Emmett Lorey .................................. * Becky Schaefer ................................ * In Honor Of Marilyn Sutorius ........................... 300 The Barnea-Smith Family .................. * Hamilton Avenue friends................... * Sallie Tasto.................................. 100 Foundations, Businesses & Organizations United Methodist Women of the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto ...................... 500 Arrillaga Foundation ............... 10,000 Peery Foundation .................... 10,000 Communication & Power Industries....500 Previously Published Donors 26 Anonymous ......................... 6,380 Dorsey and Katherine Bass .......... 300 Faith Braff ................................... 500 Wendy Sinton .............................. 100 Victor & Norma Hesterman ............... * William & Sally Hewlett.............. 1,000 Edward Kanazawa ............................ * Donald & Adele Langendorf .......... 200 Ellen Lillington ............................... 75 Jean M. Colby .................................. * Chris & Beth Martin ......................... * Lawrence Naiman ........................ 100 Tom & Patricia Sanders .................... * Dorothy Saxe ................................... * Roger Smith ................................ 300 Marian Adams ............................. 100 Brigid Barton ............................... 400 Lucy Berman ............................ 1,000 Harriet & Gerald Berner .................... * Roy & Carol Blitzer ........................... * John & Olive Borgsteadt ................... * Linda & Steve Boxer......................... * Larry Breed ................................. 100 Bruce F. Campbell ..................... 2,000 Mr. George Cator ....................... 300 Ted and Ginny Chu ........................... * Keith Clarke..................................... * Constance Crawford ......................... * Theodore and Cathy Dolton .......... 350 Eugene & Mabel Dong ................. 200 Tom & Ellen Ehrlich ..................... 300 Jerry and Linda Elkind .................. 250 Leif & Sharon Erickson ................. 250 Russell Evarts ................................. * Solon Finkelstein ......................... 150 John & Florine Galen ........................ * Greg & Penny Gallo ...................... 500 Betty Gerard ................................ 100 Dena Goldberg............................. 250 Margot Goodman ............................ * Lynda & Richard Greene ............... 300 Eric and Elaine Hahn ........................ * Phil Hanawalt & Graciela Spivak .... 500 The Havern Family..................... 5,000 Walt and Kay Hays ........................... * Joe and Nancy Huber ....................... * Jon & Julie Jerome ........................... * Michael & Marcia Katz ................. 200 Sue Kemp ................................... 250 Christina Kenrick....................... 1,000 Michael & Frannie Kieschnick ........... * Hal & Iris Korol ................................ * Tony & Judy Kramer.......................... * The Kroymann Family ................... 250 Patricia M. Levin .......................... 100 Steve and Nancy Levy .................. 500 Mandy Lowell ............................... 100 Gwen Luce ...................................... * Lori & Hal Luft ............................. 100 Kevin Mayer & Barbara Zimmer......... * Richard L. Mazze ......................... 100 Drew McCalley & Marilyn Green .... 100 Eve & John Melton ....................... 500 Merrill & Lee Newman ................. 250 Craig & Sally Nordlund.................. 500 Jim & Alma Phillips....................... 250 Helene Pier...................................... * David & Virginia Pollard ................ 300 Teresa Roberts ......................... 2,000 Dick and Ruth Rosenbaum ........... 100 Peter and Beth Rosenthal ............. 300 Steve & Karen Ross ..................... 100 Nancy & Norm Rossen ..................... * Don & Ann Rothblatt ........................ * Dan and Lynne Russell................. 250 John and Mary Schaefer ............... 100 Jerry & Donna Silverberg .............. 100 Bob and Diane Simoni.................. 200 Art and Peggy Stauffer ................. 500 Peter S Stern ................................... * Jeanne and Leonard Ware ................ * Roger Warnke .............................. 200 Susan & Doug Woodman.................. * Gil and Gail Woolley ..................... 300 Lawrence Yang & Jennifer Kuan ... 1,000 Art & Helen Kraemer ........................ * Barbara Klein & Stan Schrier ............ * Patti Yanklowitz & Mark Krasnow... 200 Andrea Smith............................... 100 Larry Baer & Stephanie Klein............ * Ms. Amy Renalds ........................... * Jody Maxmin................................... * Van Whitis ................................... 200 Diane Doolittle ................................. * John & Nancy Cassidy .................. 300 Charles P. Bonini.............................. * Lee & Judy Shulman ........................ * Robert & Barbara Simpson ............... * Janis Ulevich ............................... 100 Judith & James Kleinberg ................. * Leo & Marlys Keoshian .................... * James & Renee Masterson............... * Ralph Britton ............................... 300 Nancy Steege .............................. 100 Joanne Koltnow ........................... 200 Diane & Steve Ciesinski ............... 500 Charlotte Epstein ............................. * Caroline Hicks & Bert Fingerhut .... 100 Jessie Ngai.................................. 100 Xiaofan Lin .................................... 50 Hal and Carol Louchheim ................. * Rathmann Family Foundation ............ * Judy Ousterhout ............................... * Debby Roth.................................. 100 Sandy & Rajiv Jain........................ 101 Dennis & Cindy Dillon ....................... * Ho John Lee ................................ 100 Stan & Yulia Shore ........................... * Mehdi Alhassani .......................... 150 Dmitri Seals .................................... * Mike & Dana Nelson ...................... 75 Brigid Barton & Rob Robinson ...... 400 Adria & Beau Brown ......................... * Meri Gruber & James Taylor .............. * Janice Bohman ............................ 250 Jan Swan......................................... * Dexter & Jean Dawes ....................... * Nina Kulgein ................................ 200 Rick & Eileen Brooks ........................ * Michael & Jean Couch .................. 250 Martha Cohn ............................... 100 Maureen Martin ............................... * Diane Moore.................................... * Micki & Bob Cardelli ......................... * Matt Glickman & Susie Hwang ...... 500 Ralph Wheeler ............................. 225 Robyn Crumly .................................. * Bill Johnson & Terri Lobdell........ 1,000 Jan Thomson & Roy Levin ............. 250 Shirley Ely.................................... 500 Tatyana Berezin ............................... * Bonnie & Bryan Street ..................... * Bob & Joan Jack .......................... 300 Annette Glanckopf & Tom Ashton ...... * George & Betsy Young ...................... * Mahlon & Carol Hubethal ................. * John & Ruth Devries......................... * Linnea Wickstrom ........................ 100 David & Lynn Mitchell ................... 300 Virginia Fehrenbacher ................... 100 Lani Freeman & Stephen Monismith... * Mike & Cathie Foster.................... 500 Don & Bonnie Miller ......................... * Page & Ferrell Sanders................. 100 Joyce Barker ................................ 100 Lijun & Jia-Ning Xiang ................... 200 Hugh McDevitt ............................. 200 Robert French.............................. 100 Patricia Thomas ........................... 100 Scott Wong .................................. 200 Pam Mayerп¬Ѓeld ............................ 100 Thomas Rindfleisch .......................... * David Labaree ............................. 200 Mike & Lennie Roberts................. 100 Boyce & Peggy Nute ......................... * Zelda Jury ................................... 100 Karen Sundback & James Moore ... 500 Steve & Mary Chapel ....................... * John & Lee Pierce ........................ 250 Mary Jo & Leonard Levy ............... 250 In Memory Of Ted Linden................................... 200 Al and Kay Nelson ............................ * Dr. Elliot Eisner ................................ * Ruth & Chet Johnson ....................... * Robert Lobdell ................................. * Baxter Armstrong ......................... 100 Phillip Gottheiner ............................. * Boyd Paulson, Jr .............................. * Dan Dykwel ..................................... * Dr. David Zlotnick ............................. * Dr. John Plummer Steward............ 100 Richard Brennan .............................. * Bob Donald ..................................... * Leonard W. Ely ............................. 200 Don and Marie Snow .................... 100 Kathy Morris .................................... * Pam Grady................................... 250 Carol Berkowitz ................................ * Yen-Chen and Er-Ying Yen ............. 250 Francine Mendlin ............................. * Richard Brennan .......................... 100 Helene F. Klein ................................ * Jean M. Law ................................ 100 Ernest J. Moore ............................... * Mary Floyd..................................... 25 Thomas W. and Louise L. Phinney ..... * Leo Breidenbach .............................. * Bob Schauer................................ 150 Bertha Kalson ................................. * Steve Fasani................................ 100 Jimmie Dickinson ......................... 100 John F. Smith............................... 250 Robert Spinrad ............................ 500 My sweet Dad Al Pellizzari ................ * My sweet dog “Tufi” ......................... * Ed Arnold......................................... * Sam Stewart & Alan Stewart ............ * August Lee King ............................. 25 Nate Rosenberg ............................. 75 Betty Meltzer ................................... * Aarol O’Neill .................................... * John Black................................... 500 Jim Byrnes................................... 100 In Honor Of Gary Fazzino .................................... * Uncle Bill’s 50th birthday ................. * The Settle Family ......................... 500 Palo Alto Weekly staff ...................... * Sandy Sloan ................................ 100 Larry Klein’s service on City Council . * As a Gift For Mark Zuanich............................... 150 Foundations, Businesses & Organizations Attorney Susan Dondershine ........ 250 Harrell Remodeling, Inc. ................... * Bleibler Properties LLC ................. 500 Alta Mesa Improvement Company ............................... 1,500 Movies Openings (continued from page 29) and one preserving Derek Jacobi’s performance in “Breaking the Code”). That Turing’s heroic achievements, including being credited as a “founder of computer science,” haven’t been heralded more often in drama owes to his work going unrecognized for decades due to the Official Secrets Act. Where Tyldum’s film tiptoes is in depicting Turing’s homosexuality in an adult context: boy Turing experiences love, while adult Turing’s gay impulses remain off screen. Perhaps the intention here was to underline that Turing’s sexual orientation should have been beside the point, or to give the police investigation into his private life the air of innuendo. Alternatively, such primness may be due to some squeamishness on the part of the filmmakers or notoriously hands-on distributor, The Weinstein Company. At any rate, “The Imitation Game” capably dramatizes an important story while giving rising star Cumberbatch suitably juicy dramatic material. Rated PG-13 for some sexual references, mature thematic material and historical smoking. One hour, 54 minutes. — Peter Canavese MOVIE TIMES All showtimes are for Friday – Sunday only unless otherwise noted. For other times, reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest. Annie (PG) Century 16: 10 a.m., 12:55, 4, 7:15 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 10:35 a.m., 12:05, 1:30, 3:05, 4:25, 6, 7:20, 8:55 & 10:15 p.m. Big Hero 6 (PG) Century 16: 9:05 & 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:45 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 1:35, 4:15, 6:55 & 9:30 p.m. Birdman (R) +++ Palo Alto Square: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 10:05 p.m. Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun 12:55 p.m. Century 20: Sun 12:55 p.m. Citizenfour (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 1:45, 4:30, 7:20 & 9:55 p.m. Exodus: Gods and Kings (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9 a.m., 7:15 & 10:40 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:25 & 3:50 p.m. In 3-D at 6:10 & 9:35 p.m. Century 20: 9:50 a.m., 1:20, 4:55 & 9:35 p.m., Fri & Sat 8:05 p.m., Sun 8:15 p.m. In 3-D at 11:05 a.m., 2:30, 3:45, 6:10 & 10:35 p.m. Foxcatcher (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 12:45, 3:45, 7:05 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 10:15 a.m., 1:15, 4:20, 7:25 & 10:30 p.m. Gone Girl (R) ++1/2 Century 20: 7:05 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:30 p.m. Heaven Can Wait (1943) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 5:25 & 9:20 p.m. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9:50 a.m., 1:10, 2:50, 4:30, 7:50 & 9:35 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:10 p.m. In 3-D at 9, 10:40 & 11:35 a.m., 12:20, 2, 3:40, 5:20, 6:15, 7, 8:40 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 1:45, 4:20 & 7:40 p.m. In 3-D at 9:35 & 10:20 a.m., 12:50, 2:40, 5:15, 6:10, 8:45 & 9:40 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:05 p.m. In X-D at noon, 3:30, 7 & 10:30 p.m. Horrible Bosses 2 (R) Century 20: 2:30, 5:10, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m., Sat & Sun 11:50 a.m. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9:10 & 10:35 a.m., 1:35, 4:35, 7:35 & 10:35 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:10, 3:10, 6:10 & 9:10 p.m., Sun 6:30 & 9:25 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:55, 4:50, 7:45 & 10:40 p.m. The Imitation Game (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 9:55 & 11:25 a.m., 12:45, 2:15, 3:45, 5, 6:30, 7:55, 9:15 & 10:40 p.m. Interstellar (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 11 a.m., 2:55, 7 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 2:50, 6:30 & 10:05 p.m. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (PG) Century 16: 9:20, 10:35 & 11:50 a.m., 1:05, 2:30, 3:35, 5:10, 7:40 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 9:55 & 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 2, 3, 4:30, 5;30, 7:10, 8:10, 9:45 & 10:45 p.m. P.K. (Not Rated) Century 16: 11:30 a.m., 3:15, 7 & 10:35 p.m. The Penguins of Madagascar (PG) ++ Century 16: 9:15 & 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 4:45, 7:20 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 1:40, 4:10, 6:40 & 9:10 p.m. The Shop Around the Corner (1940) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 3:35 p.m. The Theory of Everything (PG-13) ++ Century 20: 4:45, 7:45 & 10:35 p.m., Fri & Sat 11 a.m. & 1:55 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m. Top Five (R) ++1/2 Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5:05, 7:50 & 10:45 p.m. Wild (R) +++ Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1, 4:45, 7:30 & 10:20 p.m. Guild Theatre: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 & 9:40 p.m. + Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264) CinГ©Arts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128) Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) Internet address: For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more information about films playing, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies ON THE WEB: Up-to-date movie listings at PaloAltoOnline.com www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 31 L Slackers Zipline Night Rider... LL L H A PPY HOLIDAYS The ride is smooth, the stop is gradual and the fun is endless SHOP ONLINE • FREE SHOPPING or IN-STORE PICK-UP Complimentary Gift Wrap Create your shopping list online too! 173 Main Street, Los Altos • 650.941.6043 www.AdventureToysLos Altos.com Happy Holidays Who wouldn’t be thrilled to receive a Lux Gift Card? Our gift cards are redeemable for eyeglasses, sunglasses, contact lenses. Don’t forget to use your end-of-the-year vision plan beneп¬Ѓts. 2014 1805 El Camino Real Palo Alto 650.324.3937 [email protected] Page 32 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Clockwise from top: Kids can craft their own Christmas mugs by drawing or writing on dollar-store mugs with an oil-based Sharpie paint pen. Peppermint “puppy” chow is an easy Christmas snack to make with kids. Combine rice Chex cereal with melted white chocolate, crushed candy canes and powdered sugar. Kids can create ornaments by filling clear ball-shaped ornaments with sprinkles. Kids in the kitchen T he holiday season is a time to build memories and reconnect with your family, and often during this wonderful but busy time of the year, parents may forget the wonder and magic of the season that kids feel. So, here’s a list of five kid-friendly activities to do in the kitchen to create lasting holiday memories and to make the season brighter for both you and your little ones. L L It’s easy to include children in the holiday merrymaking with these activities By My Nguyen photographs by Veronica Weber Deck the kitchen The kitchen is the heart of the home that brings together loved ones, so enlist your little ones to create festive and whimsical decor to add holiday cheer to your home’s mostused room. Have your kids cut up white paper snowflakes and tape them to the kitchen window to create a winter wonderland. If you have a white refrigerator, turn it into a snowman by cutting out circles of different sizes from black construction paper — you’ll want (continued on page 34) Warmest wishes for a wonderful holiday season From your friends at DeLeon Realty В® 650.488.7325 | www.deleonrealty.com | DeLeon Realty C alBR E # 0 1 9 0 3 2 2 4 www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 33 L LL H A PPY HOLIDAYS Kids can cut out white paper snowflakes and tape them to the kitchen window to bring holiday cheer to the home’s most-used room. Kids in the kitchen (continued from page 32) – through December 24th – H O L I D A Y S A L E If it’s holiday... it’s here! Framed Prints, Unique Gifts, Ready-Made Frames, Calendars, Cards, Toys, Journals, Sketchbooks Photo Frames Canvas, Brushes, Oils, Watercolors, Pastels, and much, much more... two eyes, five for the mouth and four buttons. Cut out an orange triangle for the nose and two thick red stripes (one should be the width of your fridge and the other half the length) for the scarf. Affix them all with tape. Need a place to display those Christmas cards? Tape a piece of red ribbon down the front of your cabinet doors and let your kids attach the greeting cards with clothespins. Peppermint “puppy” chow Now that the kitchen is all decked out, get the kids together to make a Christmas snack. Looking for a kid-friendly recipe? Try making a batch of crunchy peppermint “puppy” chow (for the kids, not the canines). The magical mixture of rice Chex cereal, white chocolate, crushed candy canes and powered sugar will surely become a favorite holiday treat. First, pour five cups of rice Chex cereal into a large bowl. Then, crush 15 candy canes in a blender. Melt 10 ounces of white chocolate according to the package directions. Pour the melted white chocolate and crushed candy canes over the cereal and fold the mixture until the cereal is completely coated. In a large Zip- loc bag, pour in one cup of powered sugar and the coated cereal. Seal the plastic bag and shake. Pour into a bowl and enjoy! Christmas mugs Take a break from snacking to craft homemade Christmas mugs. These easy-to-make mugs are perfect for sipping hot chocolate out of or giving away as gifts. First, buy white mugs from the dollar store and wash and dry them. Using an oil-based Sharpie paint pen (available at officesupply stores), draw a holiday design or Christmas saying on the mug. Don’t worry about your kids messing up because the paint rubs off with a little water. Place the mugs on a baking sheet and bake them at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Let the mugs cool completely in the oven before taking them out. These mugs are not dishwasher safe and should be hand washed only. Sprinkle ornaments Kids can brighten up the Yule tree by creating homemade ornaments. Purchase clear ball ornaments and fill them with fake snow, pine needles, glitter or — sure to be a kid’s favorite — sprinkles. Start by taking off the topper of the clear ball ornament (available at any craft store) and pouring a teaspoon of varnish (any kind will work, it just needs to be clear) into the ornament. Slowly swirl the varnish around so that it coats the entire inside surface area. Next, put the ornament upside down and let it drain into a paper cup for 30 minutes. Once the varnish is fairly dry, use a funnel to pour the sprinkles (use colorful ones or red and green ones) into the ornament. Gently swirl the sprinkles around the inside. If there are extra sprinkles, shake the excess out of the opening of the ornament. Finally, place the topper back on and hang the ornament on your tree. Bonus idea: Squirt a teaspoon of acrylic paint into the clear ball ornament, and slowly swirl it around until the inside surface area is coated. Then, put the ornament upside down in a paper cup overnight so all the excess paint drains out. Finally, add the topper and you’ll have a painted ornament in any color you choose. Candy cane steamer Looking for the perfect holiday drink to serve to kids and adults? Skip the hot chocolate and try a candy cane steamer. This sweet, warm peppermint drink can be enjoyed with your favorite holiday cookies. First, heat one cup of milk in the microwave for 60 seconds and stir. Next, add two tablespoons of candy cane syrup and stir. Finally, top with whipped cream and garnish with crushed candy canes. Palo Alto Weekly Digital Editor My Nguyen can be reached at mnguyen@paweekly. Create Your Holiday at UArt! 9th Annual University Art UArt Redwood City Sat. Dec. 20th, 4 - 6 p.m. 2550 El Camino Real 650-328-3500 Also in San Jose and Sacramento UniversityArt.com Support our Kids with a gift to the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund Donate online at siliconvalleycf.org/paw-holiday-fund Page 34 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Votoe ur for iyte tree! favor ees! 14 tr Fun for the Whole Family! Fu Pictu with Santa! Arts & Crafts Table! Pictures Hot Cider & Cookies! Carolers! Holiday Guitar! Rain or ! Shine! F FREE. 4437 Webster St, Palo Alto 6650-328-3300 LyttonGardens.org Home&Real Estate LAST-MINUTE GIFT IDEAS? ... How about a cooking class through Palo Alto Adult School or flower arranging through the Menlo Park Community Services Department? Find out what they’re offering at paadultschool. org or menlopark.org. SNAPSHOT NEIGHBORHOOD Home Front OPEN HOME GUIDE 42 Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com Greenmeadow A community of devoted neighbors LEARN TO COOK ... Hands-on cooking classes at Sur La Table, #57 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, include “Date Night: Chinese Favorites at Home” (Reiji Ohmine, Dec. 20, 6:30 p.m., $79); “Decadent Holiday Chocolates” (Angela Gonzales, Dec. 21, 9 a.m., $69); “Holiday Cookie Exchange” (Elizabeth Prado, Dec. 21, noon, $59); “Family Fun: Holiday Treats” (Angela Gonzales, Dec. 21, 4 p.m., $39); “Better with Bourbon” (Dec. 24, 3 p.m., $69); “Bread Baking 101” (Angela Gonzales, Dec. 26, 11 a.m., $69); and “Passport to Italy” (Scott Tomelleso, Dec. 26, 6:30 p.m., $69). Info: 650-289-0438 or [email protected] WEED WARRIORS ... Volunteers are needed to restore habitat at the Pearson-Arastradero Preserve Wednesday, Dec. 31, from 1 p.m. until sunset. Meet at the Gateway Facility, down the trail from the Pearson-Arastradero Preserve parking lot at 1530 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, just north of Page Mill Road. Info: [email protected] or [email protected] KUDOS TO ARCHITECTS ... The American Institute of Architects, Santa Clara Valley Chapter, presented three awards recently to local architects. The Birge Clark Award, which “recognizes outstanding achievement in architectural design as expressed in a body of work produced by an individual architect over a period of at least 10 years,” went to Palo Alto architect Joseph Bellomo. The Firm Award, which “recognizes a firm that has consistently produced distinguished architectural design for a period of at least 20 years,” went to Cody Anderson Wasney Architects, Palo Alto. The 25-Year Award, which “recognizes a distinguished project of enduring architectural significance that has retained its central form, character, and design integrity over time,” went to Hawley Peterson Snyder Architects, Mountain View, for the 1980 Apple (Mariani) Building. Q Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email cblitzer@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication. story by Jennah Feeley photos by Veronica Weber G lass walls, open floor plans and geometric design characterize the iconic subdivision that emerged in South Palo Alto in the early 1950s. A strong proponent of fair and affordable housing, Joseph Eichler had more than modern aesthetics in mind when creating the Greenmeadow neighborhood, and his community values resonate with residents to this day. The Greenmeadow Community Association, made up entirely of volunteers, continues to maintain strong bonds between nearly 300 homes in the neighborhood. Residents are proud to be part of a community that cherishes diversity, togetherness and, of course, Eichler housing. Robert Shaw remembers being enamored with the openness of the single-story, flat-roofed homes when he moved to the neighborhood in 1975. The community’s vibe differed vastly from the upstate New York neighborhood he had left behind. “The people were serving wine and cookies as we looked at their house, and we were flabbergasted by that,” Shaw said. “They later told us that they really wanted to sell to someone that would value the house the way they had and were convinced that we would.” Beyond the architectural appeal of the Eichlers, strong community Clockwise, from top left: Sigrid Pinsky walks her dog Willie at the park adjacent to Greenmeadow pool; a home on Scripps Avenue decorated with a wreath; a home on Ben Lomond Drive; a mosaic featuring tiles decorated by neighborhood children in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Greenmeadow Community Association; and a home on Scripps Avenue. ties set Greenmeadow apart from the rest of the city, residents said. Greenmeadow’s first-generation families shared everything from linoleum buffers to coffee pots, according to longtime resident Sigrid Pinsky, and that spirit is maintained between neighbors today. “I think one of our strengths is our sense of history,” Pinsky, who moved there in 1991, said. “We have a real sense of where we’ve come from and what’s important and what we want to be in the future.” Every year the community hosts numerous events to remember the past and celebrate the present. Residents brag most about the Greenmeadow Fourth of July bash — comprised of athletic events, a marching band, a drill team and a picnic lunch. The mayor typically joins the fun, and everyone comes together to sing “America the Beautiful,” which Pinsky said moves her to tears, without fail. “The piccolo gets me every time,” Pinsky said. A house and garden tour, an egg hunt, sporadic food-truck visits, karaoke parties and potlucks fill the neighborhood’s social calendar. The adults tend to go out together, and movie nights at the park often turn into date nights for the parents, noted Penny Ellson, a resident since 1995. Many more functions, especially those for kids, are centered around FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS (nearby): Crescent Park Child Development Center (Peekaboo), 4161 Alma St.; Montessori School of Los Altos, 303 Parkside Drive; Palo Alto Infant Toddler Center, 4111 Alma St. FIRE STATION: No. 4, 3600 Middlefield Road LIBRARY: Mitchell Park branch, 3700 Middlefield Road LOCATION: between Creekside Drive and Ferne Avenue, Nelson Drive and Ben Lomond Drive NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Greenmeadow Community Association, 650-494-3157, greenmeadow.org; Jeff Schultz, president, [email protected] PARKS: Greenmeadow Park (private); Mitchell Park (nearby), 600 E. Meadow Drive POST OFFICE: Cambridge, 265 Cambridge Ave. PRIVATE SCHOOLS (nearby): Palo Alto Prep School, 2462 Wyandotte St.; Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, 450 San Antonio Road PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Fairmeadow Elementary School, JLS Middle School, Gunn High School SHOPPING: San Antonio Shopping Center, The Village at San Antonio the Greenmeadow Pool. Many of the neighborhood kids join the swim team, fostering relationships between each other and their families. As Palo Alto has grown in population, the Greenmeadow neighborhood has experienced an influx of new residents, many from other countries. Despite cultural divides, the community is committed to preserving the sense of camaraderie that has defined the neighborhood from the beginning. The neighborhood association plans to search out individuals within Greenmeadow’s sub-communities to “make the melting pot a little more mixed,” according to GMCA Membership Committee Liaison Karen Pauls. New residents are encouraged to join various committees within the association to ensure everyone is included and involved. “It’s a community that encourages civic and community connection, and it teaches people how to be leaders and how to help each other,” Ellson said. “And I love that.” Q Editorial Intern Jennah Feeley can be emailed at jfeeley@ paweekly.com. READ MORE ONLINE PaloAltoOnline.com For more Home and Real Estate news, visit www.paloaltoonline.com/ real_estate. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 35 Wishing you a Happy Holiday from Paciп¬Ѓc Union, the Bay Area’s leading luxury real estate п¬Ѓrm. 650.314.7200 | 1706 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025 | A Member of Real Living Page 36 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com paciп¬Ѓcunion.com Home & Real Estate HOME SALES Atherton East Palo Alto Menlo Park 704 Arnold Way Dlb Trust to A. Movsesyan for $1,400,000 on 10/31/14; previous sale 1/07, $930,000 Los Altos Hills sale 8/12, $435,000 1523 Lilac Lane Ranieri Trust to T. Cooper for $905,000 on 11/21/14 131 Margo Drive #12 M. Adhiwiyogo to B. Pang for $790,000 on 11/21/14; previous sale 7/07, $571,500 255 S. Rengstorff Ave. #129 O. Kim to H. Luan for $570,000 on 11/25/14; previous sale 1/12, $310,000 859 Tulane Court N. Zarubina to C. Smith for $1,280,000 on 11/24/14; previous sale 3/06, $882,000 246 View St. A R Trust to Kathleen Reynolds Family Limited for $1,464,000 on 11/21/14; previous sale 5/10, $975,000 Palo Alto 101 Alma St. #1201 Cambou Trust to Baha Real Estate Investment for $2,100,000 on 11/21/14; previous sale 4/13, $1,508,000 2270 Cornell St. Simpson & Litz-Simpson Trust to Von Trust for $3,300,000 on 11/21/14; previous sale 9/13, $1,400,000 3556 Middlefield Road S. Doshi to P. Race for $2,030,000 on 11/24/14; previous sale 9/07, $1,287,000 765 San Antonio Road #44 Support our Kids Palo Alto Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $830,000 Highest sales price: $3,300,000 Woodside Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $1,085,000 Highest sales price: $1,085,000 Robinson Trust to H. Lu for $830,000 on 11/21/14; previous sale 5/96, $185,000 Portola Valley 60 Palmer Lane S. & S. Boyden to M. Imrie for $2,750,000 on 10/30/14 Redwood City 10 Arch St. M. & S. Terzic to P. Chiang for $793,000 on 10/30/14; previous sale 4/07, $678,000 630 Bair Island Road #104 B. & P. Gupta to Springmeyer Trust for $790,000 on 11/3/14; previous sale 3/12, $560,000 462 Beresford Ave. Goold Trust to Y. Liang for $1,375,000 on 11/4/14 11 Colton Court Caridis Trust to R. & L. Cevasco for $2,895,000 on 10/28/14; previous sale 6/06, $3,030,000 1027 Eden Bower Lane Springmeyer Trust to M. & M. Livingston for $1,678,000 on 10/29/14; previous sale 5/95, $495,000 929 Emerald Hill Road Bullwinkle Trust to A. Yotam for $1,308,000 on 10/31/14 1181 Fernside St. Diversified Capital Partners to P. Guerra for $1,219,000 on 10/29/14; previous sale 8/97, $355,000 932 Governors Bay Drive N. Balthaser to C. Tse for $1,900,000 on 10/30/14; previous sale 6/12, $1,600,000 1301 Harrison Ave. Mckernan Trust to W. Haller for $1,260,000 on 10/29/14; previous sale 3/06, $875,000 2749 Kensington Road Telucci Trust to S. Hernandez for $885,000 on 10/30/14; previous sale 9/96, $270,000 1653 Lark Ave. Matkovich Trust to J. Dong for $1,110,000 on 10/28/14; previous sale 4/79, $166,000 2626 Marlborough Ave. Lofgren Trust to St. Francis Center of Redwood City for $750,000 on 10/30/14 3418 Rolison Road P. & V. Chand to Giomi Trust for $1,200,000 on 10/31/14; previous sale 9/06, $995,000 547 Sapphire St. S. Ort to Herda Trust for $1,375,000 on 11/4/14; previous sale 1/12, $910,000 940 Taft St. B. & G. Affrunti to C. Bloomquist for $999,000 on 11/4/14; previous sale 12/05, $707,500 1142 Virginia Ave. Pembroke Trust to B. Pembroke for $1,192,000 on 11/4/14; previous sale 7/00, $740,000 Residential real estate expertise for the mid-peninsula. with a gift to the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund Visit Palo Alto Online to learn how Redwood City Total sales reported: 18 Lowest sales price: $630,000 Highest sales price: $2,895,000 Source: California REsource Mountain View 181 Ada Ave. #26 M. Nadler to M. Palmon for $910,000 on 11/21/14 3450 Bruckner Circle C. & L. Rochford to Rangarajan Trust for $2,200,000 on 11/21/14; previous sale 9/08, $1,575,000 505 Cypress Point Drive #280 Thompson Trust to Beckman Trust for $465,000 on 11/21/14; previous sale 8/10, $280,000 2111 Latham St. #303 L. & M. Stewart to Ackerman Trust for $742,000 on 11/21/14; previous Portola Valley Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $2,750,000 Highest sales price: $2,750,000 Mountain View Total sales reported: 9 Lowest sales price: $465,000 Highest sales price: $2,200,000 Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $2,050,000 Highest sales price: $3,095,000 East Palo Alto 25333 La Loma Drive Kersten Trust to C. & K. Welborn for $3,095,000 on 11/21/14; previous sale 7/07, $4,157,500 27724 Via Cerro Gordo Rosso Trust to Sambucetto Management for $2,050,000 on 11/25/14; previous sale 7/98, $1,400,000 Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $1,400,000 Highest sales price: $1,400,000 Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $470,000 Highest sales price: $587,500 67 Redwood Way Sterling Mutual Properties to J. Katz for $2,175,000 on 11/4/14; previous sale 4/03, $1,370,000 182 Toyon Road Treat Trust to Z. Zhou for $3,700,000 on 11/4/14 Los Altos Hills Menlo Park Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $2,175,000 Highest sales price: $3,700,000 Atherton 327 Azalia Drive Posty Cards to J. Podolsky for $587,500 on 10/30/14; previous sale 2/10, $375,000 2326 Ralmar Ave. B. & W. Heffner to P. & J. Ryan for $470,000 on 10/28/14 360 Everett Ave., Unit 4C install washer, ventless dryer in closet, $1,000 722 Gailen Ave. install roofmounted PV system, $n/a 467 Lincoln Ave. replace existing garage slab, $5,000; new back patio design with outdoor fireplace barbecue and hardscape, $n/a 250 Lowell Ave. demo pool associated equipment, $n/a 3347 Saint Michael Court install roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 323 University Ave. Historic Category 2: add interior sliding doors at mezzanine level, $n/a 1155 Forest Ave. revise rear patio layout, drainage, raised carport pad with ramped driveway, remove skylight in master bedroom, add two crawl spaces, firepit, barbecue, $n/a 870 Moana Court vault ceiling at living and dining room, $n/a 4115 Park Blvd. remodel bathroom, $13,000 4108 Thain Way remodel bathroom, install electric-heated tile, $8,500 2443 Ash St. re-roof, $56,445 2360 Tasso St. re-roof garage, $3,424 2733 Cowper St. install air conditioner at side yard, $n/a 2299 Bryant St. remodel kitchen, new washer/dryer enclosure, $10,000 530 Lytton Ave. tenant improvement: multimedia development suite 300, $140,000 200 Lowell Ave. new pool, spa and associated equipment, $40,500 4284 Manuela Ave. replace two patio doors, $17,871 228 Waverley St. re-roof, $8,800 212 Santa Rita Ave. install roofmounted PV system, $n/a 762 Charleston Road remodel two bathrooms, $12,000 433 Melville Ave. install natural gas generator, $n/a 228 Ramona St. install roofmounted PV system, $n/a; reroof, $7,000 SALES AT A GLANCE Home sales are provided by California REsource, a real estate information company that obtains the information from the County Recorder’s Office. Information is recorded from deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to eight weeks. 564 Warrington Ave. N. Blanco to Mangalick Trust for $630,000 on 10/29/14 13 Woodhill Drive MccomasIllescas Trust to A. Nikkar for $2,325,000 on 11/4/14; previous sale 12/92, $725,000 Woodside 303 Hillside Drive E. Mostrel to M. & R. Wilson for $1,085,000 on 10/30/14; previous sale 4/10, $490,000 BUILDING PERMITS Palo Alto 2445 Faber Place replace rooftop HVAC, $n/a 315 Lowell Ave. demo swimming pool and associated equipment, 4n/a 3410 Kenneth Drive enlarge solar system, $n/a 3584 Lupine Ave. remodel kitchen, $18,192 1804 Embarcadero Road replace rooftop HVAC, $n/a 4005 Miranda Ave. tenant improvement for Robert Bosch, includes lab remodel, accessible bathroom compliance, $27,120 1810 Hamilton Ave. install roofmounted PV system, $n/a ' 5& +8&.) 8(5< %(6PDUW6(//6PDUW NICKGRANOSKI Broker Associate Alain Pinel President’s Club DRE #00994196 2 I I L F H (650) 326 - 2900 ' L U H F W (650) 346 - 4150 ZZZVWDQIRUGSIFRP FKXFNIXHU\#JPDLOFRP www.NickGranoski.com [email protected] 650/269–8556 НћЕЊДћЖЊЕЅЕ¶ЖђЖµЕЇЖџЕ¶ЕђПІdЕЅЖ‰ZДћД‚ЕЇЖљЕЅЖЊЖђН—НћzЕЅЖµЖЊЖ‰ЖЊЕЅДЁДћЖђЖђЕќЕЅЕ¶Д‚ЕЇЕќЖђЕµ Д‚Е¶ДљДћЗ†Ж‰ДћЖЊЖџЖђДћД‚ЖЊДћЖђЖµЖ‰ДћЖЊДЏО�/ДђД‚Е¶Н›ЖљЕќЕµД‚ЕђЕќЕ¶ДћД‚Е¶З‡ЕЅЕ¶Дћ ДљЕЅЕќЕ¶ЕђД‚ДЏДћЖ©ДћЖЊЕ©ЕЅДЏЖљЕљД‚Е¶З‡ЕЅЖµН™НџЕќЕЇЕЇН�Н•WД‚ЕЇЕЅЕЇЖљЕЅ :KLOH&KXFNKROGVDGRFWRUDWHIURP6WDQIRUG8QLYHUVLW\ 6WDQIRUG3URSHUW\)LQDQFHLVQRWRZQHGRUDIILOLDWHGZLWK6WDQIRUG8QLYHUVLW\ Michael Repka Before you select a real estate agent, meet with Michael Repka to discuss how his real estate law and tax background beneп¬Ѓts Ken DeLeon’s clients. 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ARHSCYE3 HL-113-AD 00-62-16160 10-2013 www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 37 A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate ServicesВ Holmes Ranch, Davenport 6 Quail Meadow Drive, Woodside 5 Betty Lane, Atherton $25,000,000 $22,800,000 Price Upon Request Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305 Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Greg Goumas Lic.#01242399, 00709019, 01878208 Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas and Karen Gunn Lic.#0187820, 01804568 280 Family Farm, Woodside 10800 Magdalena, Los Altos Hills 303 Atherton Avenue, Atherton $9,998,000 $6,995,000 $6,950,000 Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305 Listing Provided by: Cutty Smith & Melissa Lindt, Lic.#01444081, 01469863 Listing Provided by: Denise Villeneuve, Lic.#01794615 13195 Glenshire Drive, Truckee 18630 Withey Road, Monte Sereno 1730 Peregrino Way, San Jose $6,900,000 $6,500,000 $4,000,000 Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208 Listing Provided by: Albert Garibaldi, Lic.#01321299 Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305 195 Brookwood Road, Woodside 5721 Arboretum Drive, Los Altos PENDING 38 Hacienda Drive, Woodside $4,495,000 $3,995,000 $3,888,888 Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019, Listing Provided by: Virginia Supnet, Lic.#01370434 Listing Provided by: Gail Sanders & Denise Villeneuve Lic.#01253357 & 01794615 850 Vista Hill Terrace, Fremont 356 Santana Row #310, San Jose PENDING 2091 Park Blvd., Palo Alto $3,488,000 $3,299,950 $2,100,000 Listing Provided by: Sophie Tsang, Lic.#01399145 Listing Provided by: Albert Garibaldi, Lic.#01321299 Listing Provided by: Velasco DiNardi Group, Lic.#01309200 See the complete collection w w w.InteroPrestigio.com 2014 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved. All information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with another broker. Page 38 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com В® В® 303 Atherton Avenue Atherton, CA 94027 This spacious trophy property with its prestigious statement address awaits the discerning owner. With 11,017 square feet, 8 bedrooms, 9 baths, a 5 car garage, and a private guest suite with kitchenette, this classical residence will accommodate numerous guests and an extended family.В Situated amongst gated estates in quieter west Atherton, the home is private and peaceful, while only moments away Stanford University, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Sand Hill Road, top private and public schools, and several prestigious country clubs.В This is your moment. • • • • 7 Bedrooms 9 Bathrooms Approx. 11,017 Sq. Ft. 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TenBroeck | 650.941.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| See it all at APR.COM /alainpinelrealtors @alainpinelrealtors www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 41 THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM MARKETPLACE the printed version of fogster.com TM KATHRYN SHUGART 305 Cowper St. Palo Alto, CA 9301 Registrant/Owner has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 21, 2014. (PAW Nov. 28, Dec. 5, 12, 19, 2014) Public Notices LIVING CULTURES SUPERFOODS LIVING CULTURES PROBIOTICS LIVING CULTURES ELIXIR LIVING CULTURES CAFE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599035 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Living Cultures Superfoods, 2.) Living Cultures Probiotics, 3.) Living Cultures Elixir, 4.) Living Cultures Cafe, located at 3101 Magliocco Dr., Apt. #308, San Jose, CA 95128, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): HEISSEL LIFESCIENCES LLC, 3101 Magliocco Dr., Apt. #308 San Jose, CA 95128 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 5, 2014. (PAW Dec. 12, 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 2015) 995 Fictitious Name Statement PALO ALTO LIMOUSINE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 598591 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Palo Alto Limousine, located at 305 Cowper St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: Married Couple. The name and residence address of the owner(s) is(are): DWIGHT MATHIASEN 305 Cowper St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 KATHRYN SHUGART 305 Cowper St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 19, 2014. (PAW Nov. 28, Dec. 5, 12, 19, 2014) PACIFIC WORKPLACES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 598751 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Pacific Workplaces, located at 2225 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): PBC PALO ALTO, LLC. 2225 E. Bayshore Road, Suite 200 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business PALO ALTO RIDES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 598664 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Palo Alto Rides, located at 305 Cowper St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: Married Couple. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): DWIGHT MATHIASEN 305 Cowper St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 name(s) listed above on 09/01/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 25, 2014. (PAW Dec. 12, 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 2015) RebexArt Studio FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 598935 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: RebexArt Studio, located at 233 Homer Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): REBECCA NIE 233 Homer Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 11/12/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 3, 2014. (PAW Dec. 12, 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 2015) ACME FINE ARTS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599053 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Acme Fine Arts, located at 1938 Channing Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): ALAN SONNEMAN 1938 Channing Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 8, 2014. 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This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 9, 2014. (PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 9, 2015) SARATOGA HARDWARE LLC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599313 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Saratoga Hardware LLC, located at 12850 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road, Saratoga, CA 95070, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): SARATOGA HARDWARE LLC 12850 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Saratoga, CA 95070 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 15, 2014. (PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 9, 2015) ENABLE YOUR VISION FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599312 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Enable Your Vision, located at 3597 South Court, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): DENISE COLEY 3597 South Court Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/02/14. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 15, 2014. (PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 9, 2015) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 598743 The following person(s)/ entity (ies) has/ have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): SMITH WINES 288 Ferne Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 11/17/2014 UNDER FILE NO.: 577902 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S)/ENTITY(IES): PETER MARTIN SMITH 288 Ferne Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 DANIELLE RAE SMITH 288 Ferne Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: Married couple. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 25, 2014. (PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 9, 2015) PaloAltoOnline.com (continued on page 44) Page 42 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com “Smooth Move”--about to be pulled on you. 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Only about Palo Alto. for contact information Page 44 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com C R O S S W O R D S 3 2 5 4 9 6 7 1 8 Sports Shorts ON THE AIR Saturday Monday Women’s basketball: UC Davis at Stanford, 2 p.m.; KZSU (90.1 FM) Tuesday Men’s basketball: Stanford at Texas, 4 p.m.; ESPN2; KNBR (1050 AM) READ MORE ONLINE www.PASportsOnline.com For expanded daily coverage of college and prep sports, visit www.PASportsOnline.com Menlo School’s Lacy wraps up prep career with 10th at nationals by Keith Peters I Chasson Randle, who scored a season-high 31 points in the win over the Lions, said it’s a matter t was only a short few years ago that Lizzie Lacy was all about soccer and lacrosse. Running cross country was not quite on the radar. In fact, Lacy started running only to join her classmates for their freshman year at Menlo School. For Lacy, running was just a backup plan. That is no longer the case. Soccer and lacrosse are now the secondar y sports as Lacy has run herself into the school, league and section re- Lizzie Lacy cord books while emerging as one of the most accomplished in her sport on the Peninsula in many years. Last weekend, the Menlo School senior didn’t run to victory at the 36th annual Foot Locker Cross Country Championships National Finals, but she did come away with at least a moral triumph at Balboa Park in San Diego on Saturday. After finishing behind Caroline Pietrzyk of Malibu High at the CIF Division IV State Championships and at the Foot Locker West Regional, Lacy finally defeated her rival at nationals by clocking 18:01 over the 5,000-meter (3.1 mile) course. Pietrzyk, meanwhile, finished 14th in 18:08. “It was just an amazing experience,” said Lacy, who will run at Amherst College next fall. Lacy was the No. 1 finisher from California while Pietrzyk was No. 2. The two were third and second, respectively, at the West Regional at Mt. SAC last weekend in Walnut as Makena Morley of Montana won the race. Morley finished third on Saturday in 17:29. Anna Rohrer of Indiana was the winner in 17:13. “It’s like what she’s been doing all season, exceeding all expectations,” Menlo coach Jorge Chen said. “I knew that she was going to do well but I didn’t know she was going to do this well! Race after race, Lizzie has always been exceeding our expectations — and her own I’m sure.” Lacy was seeded 21st entering the race, and seemed to have little trouble picking off runners ahead of her. “Before the race, I told her this (continued on next page) (continued on page 47) Despite drawing the attention of every Loyola Marymount team member, Stanford’s Chasson Randle nonetheless scored a season-high 31 points to carry the Cardinal to a 67-58 nonconference win Wednesday. It all starts with defense Stanford men hit road for important games at BYU and Texas By Rick Eymer tanford is headed back into enemy territory and this time the trip could help make or break the season. The Cardinal men’s basketball team makes its first stop in Provo, Utah, on Saturday, where a solid BYU team waits. And then it’s on to Texas for a meeting with the ninth-ranked Longhorns on Tuesday. Last season, Stanford made its mark with a win on the road in Connecticut following a brutal loss to the Cougars, in which the Cardinal allowed 112 points. “That was the turning point of the season,” Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins said after the Cardinal (6-2) beat visiting Loyola Marymount, 67-58, on Wednesday. “You give up that many points and you look at it from the standpoint that we realized what we had to do to be successful. We have to be a good defensive team, there’s no way around that.” Stanford went on to beat the Huskies, 53-51, as a steppingstone to qualifying for the NCAA tournament for the first time in S Hector Garcia-Molina/stanfordphoto.com Women’s basketball: Stanford at Tennessee, 10 a.m.; KZSU (90.1 FM) Women’s volleyball: Stanford-Penn St. winner vs. BYU-Texas winner in NCAA finals, 4:30 p.m.; ESPN2 Men’s basketball: Stanford at BYU, 8 p.m.; ESPNU; KNBR (1050 AM) Running is her calling Hector Garcia-Molina/stanfordphoto.com IN THE SWIM . . . Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics came away from the 2014 Speedo Winter Junior Nationals with a second-place finish in the combined standings, a runner-up finish in the boys’ meet and a third place by the girls. The Bolles School Sharks won the combined title (boys and girls) with 591 points while PASA was next with 530. In the boys’ meet, Bolles had 426 points to PASA’s 307 while the PASA girls finished with 223 points following the four-day meet in Federal Way, Wash. While neither PASA team had an individual champion in the short-course yards meet, the boys won the 200 medley and 400 medley relays. Each squad consisted of Ben Ho, Joe Kmak, Joe Molinari and Albert Gwo. The 200 MR clocked 1:29.38 while the 400 MR set a meet record of 3:14.80. The 400 free relay team of Ho, Molinari, Jeremy Babinet and Gwo finished second in a sizzling 2:59.55, a time most college teams wouldn’t mind swimming. The 200 free relay squad of Gwo, Molinari, Corey Gutierrez and Ho clocked 1:21.95 for third and the 800 free foursome finished fourth in 6:37.20 with the team of Alex Liang of Paly, Ho, Lucca Martins and Molinari. Individually, Babinet was second in the 100 breast (53.70), Gwo was third in the 50 free (20.11), and Kmak was third in the 200 breast (1:58.58). Other finalists included Molinari in the 400 IM (6th in 3:52.34) and Martins in the 200 fly (7th in 1:47.39). In the girls’ meet, Palo Alto’s Grace Zhao was seventh in the 200 breast in 2:13.22, seventh in the 50 free in 22.75 and ninth in the 100 breast in 1:01.81 for PASA. Castilleja’s Heidi Katter had the best individual finish for PASA while finishing fourth in the 100 fly in 53.60. Teammate Chloe Isleta was fifth in the 200 IM in 2:00.25. Gunn’s Jenna Campbell was ninth in the 100 free in 1:47.56 while winning the B final. In the relays, PASA was second in the 200 free with Zhao, Isleta, Campbell and Isabelle Henig clocking 1:31.98. The 200 medley relay team of Isleta, Zhao, Katter and Campbell also finished second, in 1:40.34. Campbell, Isleta, Henig and Alex Grimes finished third in the 800 free relay (7:17.95) and the 400 free relay team went 3:23:14 for sixth. CROSS COUNTRY Stanford’s 6-foot-10 Stefan Nastic (4) scored 15 points and was solid on defense as the Cardinal improved to 6-2. six years. “You have to be able to stop people at this level,” Dawkins said. “If you don’t it just becomes a free-for-all.” www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 45 Sports WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Ajanaku a Honda finalist Stanford’s shooting needs to improve Shirley Pefley/stanfordphoto.com Stanford junior is among four nominees for prestigious national honor S tanford middle blocker Inky Ajanaku is among the four nominees for the Honda Sports Award for volleyball, joining Wisconsin’s Lauren Carlini, Micha Hancock of Penn State and Washington’s Krista Vansant. Ajanaku is a junior from Tulsa, Okla., and a two-time American Volleyball Coaches Association first team All-America selection. She helped the Cardinal earn the top-seed in the NCAA Tournament and competed in the NCAA Championship semifinals on Thursday night. (For results, go to www.pasportsonline.com) She ranks fifth in the nation in hitting percentage (.438) and finished the regular season ranked in the top 10 in the Pac-12 in four different statistical categories. This season she was twice named the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week and earned both an Offensive Player of the Week and AVCA National Player of the Week nod. The Honda Sports Award is Men’s hoop (continued from previous page) presented annually by the CWSA to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA- sanctioned sports and signifies “the best of the best in collegiate athletics”. The winner of the sport award becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the prestigious 2015 Honda Cup. The nominees were chosen by a panel of coaches representing the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA). All Honda Sports award winners become a finalist for the prestigious 2015 Honda Cup award presented in June. The Honda Sports award winner for volleyball will be announced next week after voting by administrators from over 1,000 NCAA member schools. “The good thing about two-shot fouls is that if you miss one, you get another chance,” Randle said. “I’m only human.” Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins, a point guard in the same vein as Randle while playing at Duke, can appreciate Randle’s achievement. “He had a nice streak going,” Dawkins said. “I’m proud of the way he bounced back. I never had a run like that from the line.” Randle’s streak was the school’s third-longest, and the longest since Ryan Mendez’s school record 49 in 2001. Randle, coming off a seasonlow nine-point effort against Denver on Sunday, was 9 of 19 from the field and 10 of 12 from the foul line against LMU. “He is adjusting to new teammates,” Dawkins said. “The guys he plays with are good, just inexperienced. He needs to lead a little more than in the past and he wants those things on his shoulder. Stefan Nastic scored 15 points on 7-of-10 shooting for the Cardinal, despite getting into immediate foul trouble against LMU. That made center Grant Verhoeven’s return to action even more important. He scored four points and grabbed two rebounds in his season debut, following his recovery from a hip injury. “Having Grant come back and contribute was huge for us,” Page 46 • December 19, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Each NCAA member institution has a vote. Five Honda Sports Awards winners for volleyball have gone on to win the prestigious Honda Cup — Megan Hodge (Penn State, 2010), Sarah Pavan (Nebraska, 2007), Ogonna Nnamani (Stanford, 2005), Misty May (Long Beach State, 1999) and Deitre Collins (Hawaii, 1983). Earlier this week, Stanford had six players recognized when the AVCA announced its All-America selections. Madi Bugg, Jordan Burgess and fellow junior Ajanaku were named to the first team, redshirt freshman Merete Lutz earned second team honors, and seniors Morgan Boukather and Kyle Gilbert garnered honorable mention. Q O lems has to confound coach Tara VanDerveer. Before beating Santa Clara at home, the Cardinal was the top 3-point shooting team in the nation and was the only team with two players making at least 50 percent of their long-range shots. Stanford has made eight of 36 three-point attempts in its past two games (22 percent). Stanford would love to come home with at least a split of its Tennessee trip. The Cardinal open a four-game homestand on Monday with a 2 p.m. game against UC Davis. Lili Thompson’s nine points led the Cardinal against the Mocs, the first time since at least 1996 that the Cardinal has not had a doubledigit scorer in a game. Stanford, which held a substantial 49-34 rebounding margin, was limited to 27.7 percent shooting from the field, including a woeful 23.5 percent in the second half. That’s the program’s lowest mark since converting 19.3 percent (11of-57) in a 61-35 loss to Connecticut on Dec. 29, 2012, which is also the last time Stanford was held to less than 50 points. The Cardinal did most everything well enough except shoot the ball. It’s been a problem through the early part of the season and reached a low point against the Mocs. It wasn’t limited to 3-point shooting, though making 1 of its last 10 didn’t help. “I thought we had a lot of shots that we have to make if you want to play at this level,” VanDerveer said. Q STANFORD ROUNDUP Hector Garcia-Molina/stanfordphoto.com of turning up the intensity on defense. The Cardinal had to come from behind to beat both Denver and LMU in the first two games back from finals. Fatigue was a factor against the Pioneers, though no such built-in excuse was available for the Lions. “I don’t know what it is,” Randle said. “The last couple of games we haven’t started out well. We need a turnaround quickly.” Stanford seemed to snap out of its defensive doldrums late in the first half against LMU and carried it through to the final buzzer. Randle hopes the same defensive intensity appears against the Cougars. “If we take the way we played in the second half to Utah we’ll be all right,” he said. “They’re a good team, with a lot of good players. We have to be ready. It’s a matter of turning up the intensity on the defensive end and then get out in transition, where things open up.” Against LMU, Randle missed his first free throws of the season, ending a streak of 39 consecutive that dated to last year’s Sweet 16 game against Dayton. He made his first 35 this year. He’ll head to BYU with a streak of five straight free throws. Six of Stanford’s top seven players received All-American volleyball honors from the AVCA this week. By Rick Eymer uch. Stanford’s latest setback hurt, although it’s not nearly as bad as one might think. A season that began with a victory over then-No. 1 Connecticut, moving the Cardinal women’s basketball team to the top of the national rankings, has suddenly taken a sharp detour. No. 7 Stanford (6-3) heads to No. 11 Tennessee for a Saturday morning (10 a.m.) test on the heels of a 54-46 loss to host Chattanooga on Wednesday night. The Cardinal fell to an unranked, nonconference opponent for the first time in 15 years, or about the same time Stanford failed to win a conference title. The Cardinal suffered its other two losses to ranked opponents — Texas and North Carolina. That makes Saturday’s game interesting in, oh so many, ways. The Lady Vols have also suffered the indignity of a loss to the Mocs. Stanford can begin to reassess its season against Tennessee. Will the loss to Chattanooga just be a bump in the road or a full-blown detour down the path to lower expectations? How well the Cardinal recovers against Tennessee will help set the tone for the remainder of the season. Stanford owns a 9-22 record against the Lady Vols, but has won three straight in the series and four of the past five. The Cardinal has not loss two in a row since a similar December trip four years ago that resulted in losses to DePaul and Tennessee. The source of Stanford’s prob- Grant Verhoeven Dawkins said. “When Stefan got into foul trouble, Grant was able to come in and hit his first shot.” The Lions held a 31-19 lead with 3:41 remaining in the first half. That’s when the tide started turning. Stanford scored the final eight points of the half to draw within 31-27 heading into the intermission. In other news, Schuyler Rimmer, who appeared in two of Stanford’s first four game, is no longer with the team. Malcolm Allen, the twin brother of sophomore guard Marcus Allen, will redshirt the season. Q Stanford’s Bowen and Bonanni finalists for Cutino Award S tanford’s Alex Bowen and Bret Bonanni have been named two of three finalists for the prestigious Peter J. Cutino Award. Considered the Heisman Trophy of water polo, the Cutino Award is given annually in honor of the late Peter J. Cutino, the former Cal and The Olympic Club coach, who passed away in September 2004. He is in the U.S. Water Polo Hall of Fame, won “Water Polo Coach of the Year” 17 times and led the Golden Bears to eight NCAA Championships. A group of female finalists will be named at the close of the women’s collegiate season in the spring, with one male winner and one female winner named at a ceremony in June 2015. Diving Stanford’s Kristian Ipsen won the men’s 1-meter gold medal to help open the 2014 USA Diving Winter National Championships on Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio. With his victory, Ipsen earned a berth on the 2015 World Championships team. Football Stanford junior tackle Andrus Peat continued to pile up postseason honors after being named a first team All-American by The Sporting News on Wednesday. It marks the sixth All-America honor for Peat, who was also named as the Morris Trophy recipient as the Pac-12 Conference’s top offensive lineman. The Chandler, Ariz. native, also earned first team All-America honors from ESPN.com and Sports Illustrated while garnering second team accolades from the Associated Press, CBS Sports and the Walter Camp Foundation. Q Sports PREP ROUNDUP ATHLETES OF THE WEEK A perfect start for Panthers Eastside Prep boys have quietly improved to 7-0 in basketball by Keith Peters erhaps the best-kept secret in local boys basketball circles this preseason is Eastside Prep, which has quietly compiled a 7-0 record thus far while flying completely under the radar. The Panthers remained perfect with a 76-41 victory over visiting KIPP San Jose on Monday night. The game was rescheduled from last Thursday when most of the prep events were postponed due to the heavy storm. Junior Dylan Berumen had a career-high 16 points and grabbed six rebounds for Eastside Prep with freshman Jackson Clark adding 10 points and two steals. The Panthers defeated San Jose High, University Prep and College Prep last week, the latter a big 5040 triumph at home. “The College Prep game was our best effort of the season,” said Eastside head coach Chris Bischof. “We lost to this team the last two years.” Senior Darius Riley had 11 points and 10 rebounds while sophomore Aaron Cason added 14 points and six assists. Sophomore Isaiah East contributed nine points and four steals. In Los Altos Hills, Ryan Brice tossed in 26 points and grabbed five rebounds to pace the host Pinewood boys to a 70-54 nonleague basketball win over Oakwood School on Monday night. The Panthers (4-1) also got 12 points from Nathan Beak and 10 from Mathew Peery while David Bodine had eight points and eight rebounds. Pinewood was nearly flawless from the free-throw line as it made 14 of 16 shots and came up with 17 steals. Pinewood outscored Oakwood in the final period, 16-11, to head into the holiday break. The Panthers will be back on the floor on Dec. 27 for the St. Francis Holiday Tournament. The Gunn at Wilcox game, scheduled for Monday night, was canceled. The Titans (4-1) were back on the floor Wednesday in the Prospect Tournament and got a season-high 28 points from Alex Gil in a 78-35 romp over Branham. Chris Russell added 14 points for Gunn, which raced to a 20-8 first-quarter lead and led by 44-14 at the half. P Courtesy Foot Locker Menlo School senior Lizzie Lacy capped a record-breaking season with a 10th place at the Foot Locker nationals. Lacy (continued from page 45) year is probably one of the fastest fields of runners,” Chen said. “Yet because of the nature of so many good and fast runners, maybe some of the mid-pack runners might go to go out too fast — the seeded runners — Lizzie, might be able to pick up steps in place, and she did just that.” Wearing borrowed spikes that the race sponsor gave runners to handle the weathered, flooded terrain, Lacy nonetheless earned second team All-American honors. The best part of the race? “It was very unexpected,” Lacy said. “The start was incredibly fast so I felt that I was further back than I wanted to be at the first mile . . . The first loop felt pretty rough, but probably the second loop was my favorite part because I was able to catch up to other runners and show my stuff. When other runners began feeling fatigued and slowing down, I was able to maintain and improve upon my pace as the race wore on. In that sense I thought the race went very well for me, as I raced to my strategy and it ended up working out very well for me in the end.” Lacy and Chen went over film and strategy in the days leading up to the race. What wasn’t expected was the runners having to make a quick adjustment to running in spikes. Lacy, who has played lacrosse the past several spring seasons, doesn’t even typically lace up spikes for track. But the change didn’t faze her. “Lizzie was so proud of Menlo there,” said Chen, who also coaches track and soccer. “She has represented the school well and made us all so proud. I feel really lucky to coach her and the whole entire cross country team.” Lacy finished ahead of Stanford recruit Hannah Long of Eureka High in Pacific, Mo. She finished 19th in 18:20. Two other Stanford recruits did quite well in the boys’ race as Grant Fisher of Grand Blanc High in Michigan defended his national title with a 15:03 clocking. Alex Ostberg of Darien High in Darien, Conn., was ninth in 15:22. Fisher won the 2013 Foot Locker national race in 15:07. Fisher, who won his second consecutive Michigan Division I cross country championship earlier this month in 14:52.5, was the most soughtafter distance running recruit in the country after posting times of 4:02.02 at New York City’s Dream Mile and 8:51.28 at the Brooks PR Invitational two mile in Renton, Wash., last spring. Both were victories against strong competition. Fisher has won five state championships overall, including two at 3,200 and one at 1,600. He also is an outstanding soccer player and has been selected for Olympic Development Program teams. College will offer Fisher the opportunity to concentrate on one sport.Q (Menlo School Athletics contributed) Girls basketball With sophomore Skyler Burris scoring 12 points, Palo Alto rolled to a 59-30 victory over Lincoln in Brije Byers Scott Harris EASTSIDE PREP PRIORY SCHOOL The senior guard sparked four basketball wins by scoring 87 points, 19 coming in a 65-64 win over state-ranked O’Dowd and 68 in three wins and a title at the Paris Twins Classic where she earned all-tournament honors. The junior guard/forward poured in 96 points in four basketball games, including a career-high 40 against Oceana and 21 in a 12-point win, to help the Panthers go 3-1 during the week and improve to 4-1 on the season. Honorable mention Skyler Burris Palo Alto basketball Destiny Graham Eastside Prep basketball Alexis Harris Palo Alto basketball Riley Hemm Sacred Heart Prep basketball Lauren Koyama Palo Alto basketball Lizzie Lacy* Menlo cross country David Abramovitch Gunn wrestling Ian Cramer Gunn wrestling James Giaccia Palo Alto wrestling Andy Isokpehi Priory basketball Darius Riley Eastside Prep basketball Alex Yu Gunn wrestling * previous winner Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com the championship game of the Tamalpais Lady Hawk Tournament on Saturday night in raindrenched Mill Valley. Junior Alexis Harris added 10 points and sophomore Lauren Koyama finished with nine. Both were named to the All-Tournament Team while Burris was named the Most Valuable Player. Earlier in the day, Palo Alto (61) posted a 52-29 win over Petaluma. The doubleheader was necessary after Thursday’s opening round was postponed due to the heavy rain storm. Paly knocked off Urban, 55-41, on Friday. At the Paris Twins Classic at Piedmont High in Oakland, Eastside Prep (7-1) finished off a three-game sweep with a 5540 victory over Piedmont. Senior Destiny Graham had 14 points against Piedmont and 52 for the tourney, in addition to dominating the boards, and was named the Most Valuable Player. Brije Byers tossed in 22 points and finished with 68 points for the three games — including 31 in an opening-round win over Justin Siena. She earned all-tourney honors along with freshman Kayla Tafaafe. Wrestling Palo Alto senior James Giaccia won the 132-pound title at the annual Webber Lawson Invitational last Saturday. Giaccia won his first two matches by pin, won a major decision in the semifinals at 11-1 and posted a 7-6 win in the finals to improve to 8-1 this season. Also on Saturday, Gunn opened its season by defeating Salinas, Pioneer and Serra in the annual Gunn Quad. The Titans needed all they could muster to overcome an inspired Serra team in the final dual, 39-36. Gunn benefited from a scoring error that allowed Gunn’s final wrestler to return to the mat after he thought he had lost. With the meet tied at 36, Gunn’s 138-pound senior Shelby Oyung came through with a clutch 9-7 sudden-victory overtime win to defeat his opponent and get the win. In addition, three Gunn wrestlers turned in undefeated performances for the weekend: sophomore David Abramovitch (126) and seniors Ian Cramer (152) and Alex Yu (160). Q www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 19, 2014 • Page 47 WARMEST THOUGHTS AND BEST WISHES FOR A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY SEASON AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. ZANE MACGREGOR & CO. REAL ESTATE ADVISORS & BROKERS 621 High Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 CalBRE # 00871571 [email protected] ZANEMAC.COM
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