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“ Even if you feel a little ner-vous,” Ohlone Elementary School teacher Julie Bag-
niefski told a class of second- and third-graders sitting quietly in a circle on a classroom floor Tues-day morning, “I guarantee you’re going to feel different by the end of the day.”
She and other teachers across the Palo Alto school district’s elementary and middle schools greeted students and parents — many excited, many nervous and some a combination of both — on the first day of school Tuesday.
At Ohlone, students began the morning in their classrooms, which are all mixed-grade. And with no traditional bell system at Ohlone, students simply entered their classrooms when the doors opened.
Bagniefski instructed the third-graders in her class, referred to as “olders,” to look out for their “youngers” throughout the day. The mixed-age classrooms allow older students to take on mentor-ship roles and to build stronger connections between students and teachers, since students have the same teacher two years in a row, Assistant Principal Annora Lee said.
It was also the first day of school for new Principal Dawn Yoshinaga, who replaced Nicki Smith after her retirement at the end of the last school year. Yoshi-naga was previously the principal of Palo Alto Unified’s early-edu-cation campus, Greendell School, for a year.
At Ohlone, parents hovered in the background until 8:30 a.m.,
when all second- through fifth-grade classes gathered in the school’s farm for a first-day-of-school “opening ceremony.”
The annual ceremony, led by Yoshinaga, reinforces the school’s whole-child philosophy, referred to as the “Ohlone way.” After reading the Pledge of Allegiance, the large crowd of students and staff, as well as parents, recited in unison the “Pledge to the Earth,” which ends: “one planet, indivis-ible with safe air, water, soil and economic justice, equal rights and peace for all.”
At the event, all teachers and staff stood on a stage and intro-duced themselves by their first names — another marker of the Ohlone way — and Yoshinaga discussed how to be clean, kind, friendly and bounce back from mistakes.
A notable change this year at Ohlone and the district’s other 11 elementary schools this week is a new mathematics curriculum. Teachers started instruction this week from Bridges in Math-ematics, a textbook the district approved in order to align its el-ementary math content with the Common Core State Standards.
Inside Sylvia Sanders’ fourth-grade classroom at Barron Park Elementary School, she started the first day of school with a les-son on “what a math classroom should look and sound like” — a more specific version of the class-room norms she would usually go over at the beginning of the
D uring the first days of school this week, along with finding their lock-
ers and classrooms, Gunn High School freshmen got a new kind of assignment: Discover the things they have in common with each other.
In classrooms across campus,
freshmen conducted “frienter-views” with each other — inter-viewing at least 10 students they didn’t know and identifying a shared interest. For two stu-dents in one class, it was writing and drawing; for two others, it was simply that they both have a sister.
The activity — an assignment in finding commonalities rather than differences when meeting new people — is lesson No. 1 in a new social-emotional learn-ing curriculum Gunn is piloting in earnest this fall. (Palo Alto High School is also testing out the curriculum but not as exten-sively as Gunn.)
The social-emotional effort is a districtwide initiative that will roll out to all 17 Palo Alto Uni-fied School District (PAUSD)
campuses over the next few years, from elementary through high school.
Gunn is launching it this year through a new iteration of the school’s teacher-advisory pro-gram, the second new version in as many years. Last year, Titan Connect — a program that paired cohorts of students with a teacher-coach and up-perclassmen mentors and which started with last year’s freshmen class — replaced Titan 101, a
freshman transition program. Titan Connect has been re-
placed this year with Social Emotional Literacy and Func-tionality, or SELF. For the pilot year, ninth-graders have been assigned to a cohort of 20 to 24 students and paired with a men-tor — a Gunn teacher who vol-unteered for the role. These co-horts will stay together through to their senior year, meeting
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Gunn High introduces new model for teacher-advisory program
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Classes begin at elementary, middle schools
New principals issue encouraging messages to campus communities
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As school starts, new social-emotional curriculum debuts
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Titan talkKathleen Laurence, new principal at Gunn High School and former Palo Alto High School assistant principal, welcomes the class of 2021 during freshmen orientation on Aug. 11. The first day of school was Aug. 14.
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What is something you would tell your kindergarten self?Asked at Palo Verde Elementary School. Question, interviews and photographs by Elinor Aspegren.
Around TownSCHOOL COMMUNICATIONS HEAD QUITS ... Jorge Quintana, the Palo Alto school district’s communications coordinator, suddenly left his post just days before the start of the new school year. Superintendent Max McGee said his last day was on Aug. 11, and that Quintana took a new job in the Redwood City school district. McGee hired Quintana, a former broadcast journalist and public information officer from the San Jose Unified School District, in 2016. In past discussions, the school board has been divided over the value of a full-time communications officer, but McGee said Thursday that the position is “essential.” Quintana supported the principals, updated the district website and produced a new online “Board Report” that briefly summarizes discussion and action at Board of Education meetings, McGee said. “The priorities shift in times of a crisis — that’s when it’s most needed — but I think ... the day-to-day work, the website updates, the support to the principals and the Board Reports to the community really matter,” he added. The district has posted the job opening and is looking for a replacement. Quintana did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
HOOTING FOR HELP ... A new app launched in Palo Alto helps connect teens with neighborhood jobs to help them boost their wallet and resume. TeenJobFind, made available on the Apple Store last week, matches teens with work including baby-sitting, pet-sitting, yard work, party assistance, cleaning and organizing. The company screens job posters (referred to in the app as “owls”) and teens (known as “owlets”) to ensure safety between both parties. “We are bringing back a sense of community that has been lost in today’s society,” CEO and founder Janet Shah told the Weekly in an email. Teens can take advantage of the opportunities when they have a free day or afternoon in the midst of their academics and extracurricular activities, according to the app’s website. Users can join with their email address or through their Facebook or LinkedIn accounts. To complete registration, job
posters must upload their driver’s license for a criminal background check in addition to their credit card information to withdraw the payment. Anyone found with convictions or pending cases for a violent crime, felony, drug-related offense, sexual offense and/or certain theft or property damage offenses will not be allowed on the app. Job seekers will have to provide an email address for their coach, a parent or another trusted adult who can serve as a reference and provide parental/guardian consent. Users will also be asked to provide their Social Security number, which helps complete background checks for the adults and ensure payment for teens. “So cool and very easy. I would encourage everyone to do it,” Kris Brockmann, the app’s first job poster, wrote on the company’s Facebook page. Job posters pay $15 an hour, $3 of which helps maintain TeenJobFind and the remainder is given to the teens. A launch party to celebrate the new app is set for Saturday, Aug. 19, from 2-4 p.m. at Mitchell Park. Once the nest is up and running, the company plans to expand its service beyond the city and to other platforms. Learn more at teenjobfind.com.
OUT FOR BLOOD ... Stanford Blood Center is seeing a drop in blood donations and looking for more residents to help build up its supply. The shortage comes at a time of higher-than-normal blood usage and fewer donations during the summer. “We’ve appealed to our current donor base, and now we’re reaching out to others in the community,” said Stanford Blood Center spokesman Loren Magaña said in a press release this week. “If it’s been a few years since your last donation or even if you’ve never donated before, please consider coming in to one of our centers or visiting a mobile blood drive.” The center has seen a high demand for blood products for numerous surgeries. Any interested donors must be in good health and show no signs of the cold or flu. They must also have a healthy meal, plenty of fluids and present photo identification once they come in to donate. Additional information can be found online at sbcdonor.org or by phone at 888-723-3781.
If we wait until the wrecking ball starts ... there’s no turning back.
—Jan Holiday, a La Comida board member, on moving La Comida’s program back to Avenidas. See story page 5.
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Solar eclipse viewing tipsNASA experts are stressing the importance of safety in preparation
for the solar eclipse on Monday, when many on the Midpeninsula plan to hold viewing events for the phenomenon, which will be visible from the continental U.S. for the first time in nearly 40 years.
The “path of totality,” where a full solar eclipse will take place, stretches from the Oregon coast southwest to where South Carolina touches the Atlantic Ocean, in a matter of 90 minutes through the dif-ferent time zones. It will be the first solar eclipse visible from Amer-ican soil since 1979 and first coast-to-coast solar eclipse in North America since 1918, NASA officials said.
While the Midpeninsula doesn’t fall within the path of totality, it will still result in enough coverage noticeable from the ground. Anyone looking directly at the sun during the eclipse puts themselves at risk for permanent eye damage, according to NASA.
NASA experts recommend that the public use certified eclipse glasses with a designated ISO 12312-2 international standard or handheld solar viewer with filters that aren’t torn, scratched, punc-tured or coming loose. People are advised against using a camera lens, telescope, binoculars or other device without a specially de-signed lens.
Anyone using eclipse glasses or solar viewers should stand still and briefly close their eyes before using the device and not remove the filters while looking at the sun.
An inexpensive option for watching the partial solar eclipse is to make a pinhole projector from a cereal box.
During Monday’s City Council meeting, City Manager James Keene called on the community to reduce its energy consumption during the solar eclipse, estimated to take place from 9:02 to 11:54 a.m. Some energy-saving actions include unplugging electronic devices and large appliances not in use.
Palo Alto receives 30 percent of its energy from large-scale solar in the Central Valley and 1 percent from local rooftop systems, accord-ing to Keene.
The Weekly will collect your social media posts of the eclipse, whether you’re watching the event locally or elsewhere in the coun-try. Tag the Weekly on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and include #PaloAltoEclipse in your posts to be featured on our Storify page.
Midpeninsula eclipse viewing events:• Total Solar Eclipse Party, Palo Alto City Library, Mitchell Park
Library, 3700 Middlefield Road, 9-11 a.m. • Solar Eclipse Viewing Party, Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo,
1451 Middlefield Road, 9:45-10:45 a.m. • The Eclipse! A Viewing Event, Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma
St., 9-11 a.m.• The Eclipse! A (RE)Viewing Event, Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma
St., 6:30-7:30 p.m.• NASA Ames Research Center, live stream showing the eclipse will
be streamed at nasa.gov/eclipselive starting at 9 a.m. PDT. — Palo Alto Weekly Staff
Judge temporarily halts recall campaignThe effort to recall Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky has
been temporarily halted, with a judge approving a restraining order to stop the campaign from collecting the signatures needed to place the measure on the ballot next summer.
The San Jose Mercury News reported that retired Orange County Judge Marjorie Laird Carter granted the order on Friday afternoon, blocking the campaign from gathering signatures for the next 12 days, until an Aug. 23 hearing.
This was a small victory for Persky, whose six-month sentence for former Stanford University student Brock Turner’s sexual assault of an unconscious woman outside a fraternity party on campus in 2015 was widely criticized. The recall campaign, led by Stanford law professor Michele Dauber (a family friend of the young woman), has alleged Persky has shown a pattern of bias against women and defendants of color in sexual violence cases.
The campaign organizers announced just hours before the restrain-ing order was granted that they had received the green light from the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters to start collecting approxi-mately 90,000 signatures from voters to put the recall on the June 2018 ballot.
According to the Mercury News, Persky argued in court documents that because he is a state officer, California’s secretary of state rather than the county registrar should have decided whether the campaign’s signature effort could move forward.
In a statement, Dauber called Persky’s motion to block the campaign from gathering signatures “a last-ditch desperate effort,” adding that the campaign did everything correctly.
“The Constitution and the California Elections Code are completely clear. We scrupulously followed every provision required by law, as did the County in approving our petition and telling us that we can collect signatures,” she said.
— Elena Kadvany
News Digest
I t was not only the first day of middle school for just under 300 sixth-graders at the Ra-
venswood Middle School in East Palo Alto on Wednesday morning but also the first-ever day for the district’s new standalone middle school.
The students, who come from six different feeder schools in the Ravenswood City School District, spent their first day in advisory classes — cohorts of students with whom they will move through the grades — getting to know each other, their teachers and the new school. In many ways, it looked like the first day of school at any middle school; in one room, students sit-ting in a circle stood up one by one and introduced themselves, sharing which elementary school they went to as well as their favorite movie, sports team or activity.
But Ravenswood Middle School, housed in a wing of Cesar Chavez & Green Oaks Academy on Ral-mar Avenue, is an ambitious ven-ture for the Ravenswood school district. Prior to this year, the dis-trict taught middle school students at six separate campuses combined with elementary schools. The goal of the new campus is to reverse an alarming trend to which the K-8 model contributed: Only one in three Ravenswood students leave the district fully prepared to meet the rigors of high school and then graduate ready for college, accord-ing to the district.
New administrators described the school on Wednesday as a “startup” and a “new beginning” for the district.
Teachers will model “grit,” a “spirit of design” and “rapid itera-tion” — taking risks and learning from inevitable failures, said Mau-rice Ghysels, a former Menlo Park City School District superintendent who has been brought on to serve as chief innovations officer for the Ravenswood Middle School.
But the school’s ultimate goal, Principal Douglas Garriss said, is to level the playing field for stu-dents who have historically started high school already behind many of their peers. The new school of-fers a range of electives, from a makerspace to band, and is work-ing to expose students early on to diverse opportunities. During a five-week summer transition program, the school took 65 ris-ing sixth-graders on field trips to Pescadero State Beach to visit the Marine Science Institute program,
to a production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” in San Jose and to a local college, among other places. They also had guitar lessons, yoga, art, physical education, science and math instruction.
“We want them to have expo-sure to band and makerspace and all of those things so when they get to M-A (Menlo-Atherton High School), they go in at the same playing field with the other kids,” Garriss told the Weekly Wednes-day. “That’s why we went to this model.”
The new school is fully staffed for this year, Garriss said, with 25 teachers and staff, including a school counselor, school psy-chologist and two mental health counselors from nonprofit Coun-seling and Support Services for
A new school year and a ‘new beginning’ for Ravenswood Middle School
Campus looks to better prepare students for rigors of high school, collegeby Elena Kadvany
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Douglas Garriss, principal of the new Ravenswood Middle School, center right, is joined by teachers and staff as they welcome the first sixth-grade class and lead them in a chant of “Ravenswood” on the first day of school, Aug. 16.
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What advice do you have for younger, incoming students?Asked at Gunn High School. Question, interviews and photographs by Shawna Chen.
U nhappy over the City of Palo Alto’s planned evic-tion of a dozen nonprofit
organizations and businesses that have been using First Bap-tist Church in Palo Alto as their home, members of the groups and their supporters turned out in force on Monday to plead with the City Council to change zon-ing rules to allow them to stay.
Among the groups was iSing Girl Choir, an all-girls choir edu-cation group, which serenaded the council and demonstrated its uni-ty with a rendition of The Wailin’ Jennys’ “One Voice.”
Joining the chorus of advocates for keeping the groups at First Baptist, retired San Francisco
49ers quarterback Steve Young told the council that his two daughters have been choir mem-bers for years.
“iSing teaches tremendous value and empowerment to young women through song,” he said. “The impact has been dramatic.
“Demand for space for com-munity-based programs is grow-ing and will continue to grow,” he added. “Our churches in Palo Alto have a vital role as a repository for these programs. There are very limited options. I hope the City will see the need to treat churches differently. iSing needs this home.”
The conflict over tenants at First Baptist, located on North California Avenue, arose following
complaints by church neighbors of traffic and parking problems created by the tenants. City code enforcement officers began look-ing into one of the church’s larg-est tenants, New Mozart School of Music, in early 2016. After initially requesting that the music school apply for a conditional-use permit to remain at the church, city planning staff determined that its operation in a residential neighbor-hood would be illegal even with a permit. This summer, the school was ordered to move.
First Baptists’ other tenants then began to receive their notices of violation this month after the church submitted a list of groups housed there to the city. Those include iSing Girl Choir, Tues-day Night Tango, Bisheh Toddler Class, Chinese Global Artist As-sociation, Resounding Achord (a concert and musical event organi-zation), Palo Alto Philharmonic, therapists Jill Cooper, Jennifer Merrill, Joellen Werne (both Mer-rill and Werne are characterized as “medical services”), Moveable Feet (a folk dancing program), Stanford Folk Dance and Tango Argentina.
While the issue was not on the council’s agenda Monday, and thus no formal action could be taken, the groups received a modicum of good news: In his comments to the council, City Manager James Keene acknowledged the backlash against the enforcement action and
said that he has directed staff to allow any tenant who requests more time to find a new location to be granted that time.
“There will not be any eviction notices proceeding,” Keene said.
He also indicated that he’s willing to discuss a long-term arrangement that doesn’t involve eviction — including turning the church into a community center.
“There are still some traffic neighborhood issues that need to be resolved. There’s some discus-sion about exploring the possibil-ity of applying for a CUP (condi-tional use permit) for legalization as a community center,” said Keene, who added that he will be meeting with the church’s pastor, Rick Mixon.
“We’re going to work collab-oratively to see how we move for-ward. There may be the need to have a larger discussion with the City Council,” Keene said.
Among the more than 15 people who spoke about the First Baptist situation Monday was Mixon, who said that the church very much wants to be a good neigh-bor and would like to hear the
complaints directly so that the church staff can address them.
He also asserted, however, that renting out the church facility — which when he arrived 11 years ago was largely sitting empty during the week — is part of his congregation’s mission. It’s in line with what churches through-out the country are doing, he said, arguing that city laws need to be updated.
“You’re living with a very anti-quated definition of what a church is,” Mixon said. “It does not re-flect the reality of 2017.”
Leaders of other Palo Alto churches, some of whom likewise rent out their space to groups at rel-atively low rates, also asked the city to recognize that the lease of space is a way that faith groups offer something back to the community.
The Rev. Lindy Bunch of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church said that, as a relative newcomer who has witnessed the difficulties that local youth encounter, she won-ders if Palo Alto is a community that has room for art, music and
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CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to discuss a letter of intent with Pets in Need to develop a financing study for a new animal shelter facility; and consider a proposal to pursue a Fiber-to-the-Node network. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 22 in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to hear a status update on the recent audit of Cable Franchise and Public, Education and Government (PEG) Fees; and discuss the Water Meter Billing Audit. The meeting will begin on Tuesday, Aug. 22, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss the Baylands Boardwalk Replacement Preliminary Design, the Buckeye Creek Hydrology Study; and review and discuss the Rinconada Park and Junior Museum & Zoo Long Range Plan and Draft Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration. The meeting will begin at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 22, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The school board will take action on updated policies related to discrimination and sexual harassment and on proposed legal services contracts for the 2017-18 school year. A request for proposal (RFP) for solar panels and the renovation of JLS Middle School’s swimming pool, among other items, will also be discussed. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 22, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave.
HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to hold study sessions on a proposal to build a new five-story parking garage at 375 Hamilton Ave.; the potential reclassification of a Birge Clark-designed building from Category 3 to Category 2 on the city’s Historic Inventory at 526 Waverley St.; and the former International Telephone and Telegraph property at 2601 East Bayshore Road. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 24, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to interview candidates for the Storm Water Management Oversight Committee. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 24, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to take action on the approval of the Draft Minutes of the Special Meeting on June 29 and the assignment of Council Buddies; and discuss the “Languages & International Collection” (subcommittee) and a report on ALA Conference. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 25, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
Public AgendaA preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week
City to hold off on evictions of First Baptist groups
Pastors, others say allowing churches to rent space to various community groups should be allowedby Elinor Aspegren, Shawna Chen and Jocelyn Dong
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The First Baptist Church, located at 305 N. California Ave. in Palo Alto, was notified by the City of Palo Alto this summer that its lease of space to tenants violated zoning law. Tenants have been given eviction notices.
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What is something you wish an eighth-grader had told your sixth-grade self?Asked at Jordan Middle School. Question, interviews and photographs by Elinor Aspegren.
A venidas, the downtown Palo Alto nonprofit that provides services to se-
niors, plans to open a cafe in its center at 450 Bryant St. — ending speculation that it might continue to host longtime lunch program La Comida.
In making the announcement at Monday night’s City Council meeting, Amy Andonian, Ave-nidas’ president and CEO, said the cafe will provide “low-cost, nutritious meals in small and in-dividual seatings throughout the day,” as well as social activities such as “food demos, cooking classes ... current events discus-sions and more.”
The decision follows more than a year of episodic friction between Avenidas and La Comi-da that arose after it became clear an $18 million renovation at 450 Bryant St., which will break ground this fall, would shrink the space currently used by the senior lunch program.
Rather than split its single lunch service into two smaller seatings, the La Comida board of directors decided last De-cember to part ways with Ave-nidas, and find a new location in which to feed seniors. How-
ever, in early June, the group submitted a petition to the city signed by 234 people (an addi-tional 255 have signed an online version), calling for La Comida and Avenidas to be “permanent partners.”
That, in turn, led to further mediation between the two groups, which proved fruitless.
“Avenidas proposed some op-tions for a congregate meal pro-gram to operate out of 450 Bry-ant St., including a merger of the two organizations to streamline operations. No agreement was reached,” Andonian told the council, reading from a state-ment co-signed by Board Chair-man Jim Phillips.
The stalemate notwithstand-ing, board members of La Comida Monday night urged the council to help return the 45-year-old La Comida pro-gram to Bryant Street after the redevelopment.
“I strongly urge you to sup-port the co-location of La Comi-da and Avenidas under the new remodeled arrangement. There’s still time,” said Jan Holiday, a La Comida board member. “If we wait until the wrecking ball starts, which will be in less
than a month, there’s no turn-ing back.
“This program serves a popu-lation that would not be served by a shift in the model of how to deliver meals,” Holiday said. Last year, La Comida provided 42,000 meals on a pay-as-you-can basis, with a suggested do-nation of $3 per person.
Some seniors, she said, come to the scheduled lunch service so that they can socialize over a meal.
“I’m not sure the same (thing) could happen under the grab-and-go casual atmosphere that’s
being proposed,” she said.Andonian, however, said that
senior centers across the coun-try are opening cafes, including those in Sunnyvale, Morgan Hill and San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood.
The inspiration, she said in a follow-up email to the Weekly, is Chicago’s Mather’s More Than a Cafe, run by Mather LifeWays, a senior residential and service organization. Such cafes, de-scribed by The New York Times as “a sleek meld of Starbucks,
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Palo Alto nonprofit Avenidas won’t house La Comida after renovation of senior center is complete
by Jocelyn Dong
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The building at 450 Bryant St. in downtown Palo Alto, which for decades has housed senior services run by the nonprofit Avenidas and a lunch program run by the nonprofit La Comida, is scheduled for renovation beginning this fall.
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professors, LMFT’s, renowned authors, and yoga, music, and drama instructors.
And public speakers will be heard at next Tuesday’s school board meeting: District Offices, 6:30 pm, August 22nd.
P alo Alto could move ahead with plans to transform its rail corridor without a
formal community stakeholder group to provide feedback on the project if the City Council approves its Rail Committee’s recommendation, which runs counter to what the city’s Plan-ning and Transportation Com-mission supported last week.
The council Rail Commit-tee unanimously agreed on Wednesday that it would be bet-ter to rely largely on community workshops, focus groups and other methods to gather public feedback as it considers alterna-tives for separating the railroad tracks from local streets at the city’s four rail crossings. The committee directed staff to ex-plore developing subcommittees and expanding the Technical Advisory Committee as ways to add community representatives to the group of experts typically called on to answer technical
questions and present its recom-mendations to the council.
The City could have 200 peo-ple involved in a more hands-on way over the next eight months rather than a single committee with 10 people on it, committee members said as they discussed various ways the city could ef-fectively include the community in project discussions without slowing down the process.
The decision to omit a com-munity stakeholder group from the process came after a vigor-ous debate at the Aug. 9 Plan-ning and Transportation Com-mission meeting on whether the process should prominently feature a formal stakeholder group of residents and experts. The commission supported a new stakeholder group by a 4-2 vote, saying the group would be in sync with the city’s Context Sensitive Solution (CSS) pro-cess, which places a premium on continuous stakeholder
involvement for major projects.Creating a stakeholder group,
however, would have added months to a process already fac-ing a tight deadline.
Santa Clara County voters approved Measure B last fall, which allocates $700 million for grade separations in north county, which includes Sunny-vale, Mountain View and Palo Alto. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority plans to come up with an implementa-tion plan next year to determine how the money would be doled out over the 30-year life of the tax measure.
Palo Alto Chief Transporta-tion Official Joshuah Mello said to stay on equal footing with Mountain View and Sunnyvale, Palo Alto needs to be prepared to propose its grade-separation plans to the VTA by March.
“We are currently on sched-ule if we continue along the path we’re on,” Mello said. “Each
decision takes around two months and that’s being somewhat ambi-tious. If we were to have a stake-holder group, we’re estimating it would add another two weeks — potentially four weeks — to the process every time you want to make a decision. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but cumulatively, when you make multiple deci-sions in the process, we could be adding months to the decision-making process.”
Members of the Rail Com-mittee, which includes council-men Eric Filseth, Adrian Fine, Tom DuBois and Mayor Greg Scharff, agreed that expanding the Technical Advisory Commit-tee (TAC) to include community members wouldn’t create delays and would be in sync with the CSS process.
“Having these additional view-points, isn’t going to add any more time, and we’re going to get much richer recommendations on what the community is willing to accept,” DuBois said. “I think the TAC should be more CSS, and not purely engineering-type deci-sions, but engineering with some community context.”
Committee and staff also rec-ognized that expanding the TAC to include community members could have negative impacts. TAC is typically used on an as-needed basis when the city needs technical advice from
experts, such as Caltrain and the High-Speed Rail Authority, and meetings are not generally pub-lic. This could change under the committee’s proposal.
“Tying everything all together is risky,” said City Manager James Keene. “There are lots of impor-tant conversations that have to take place with other peer agen-cies. Some may benefit from be-ing open in public, but some may be debilitated by that. I guarantee that if every conversation we had on the San Francisquito Creek was public, we still wouldn’t have some things done because we have to be able to get together with some other jurisdictions at times with some big arguments without it all being out there.
“I guarantee you a lot of oth-er agencies outside of us aren’t going to want to go to a meet-ing with us with our citizens ... nothing against them,” Keene added. “Then, they’re going to say, ‘Wait, I guess we should bring our citizens, too’ and all of a sudden you have a whole dif-ferent meeting. We just have to remember that other agencies and jurisdictions see the world differently than we do.”
The council is scheduled to consider the rail redesign process on Monday, Aug. 28.
Unlike Paly’s longtime teacher-advisory program, Gunn’s pro-gram will not have an academic advising component but rather focus on the tenets of social-emo-tional learning.
Courtney Carlomagno, a social-emotional learning teacher on special assignment at Gunn, de-fines the increasingly buzzy edu-cational term as “skills so you’re able to understand yourself, so you can understand others and more successfully navigate your life at the high school level and after.” Lessons touch on every-thing from making first impres-sions and taking effective notes to understanding the teenage brain and forging identity.
At Gunn, the idea is to provide students a small, tight-knit com-munity within the large school, Carlomagno said.
“The long-term idea is that PAUSD in general is in a big shift to making social-emotional
learning a priority in how we pre-pare the whole child for a happy, healthy and responsible life,” she added.
The ultimate goal, Carlomagno said, is for students to receive direct instruction in the new pro-gram. Professional development for all teachers will also touch on social-emotional learning so that the skills are also reinforced in core classes such as math and English. She plans to send out a weekly update on the program with suggestions for how teachers can incorporate social-emotional learning into their classes.
Advisory classes at both Paly and Gunn participated in the same activities during the first week of school, but each teacher put his or her own spin on the lessons. At Paly, teacher Paul Kandell led his class of sopho-mores through four “frienter-views” and then asked them to find one new person outside of the class and write down his or her name and common interest by the next time they were to meet.
Gunn teacher Yukie Hikidas challenged her students instead
to memorize the name of each person they interviewed in class.
The curriculum is structured so the first few weeks are the fun, “low-stakes” activities, like mem-orizing names and a handshake competition, so students can get to know each other and feel more comfortable before moving onto heavier topics, said Tara Firenzi, Gunn’s other social-emotional learning teacher on special as-signment. Something as simple as learning each other’s names seems “mundane,” she said, but is “critical” to forging early con-nections between students and teacher.
Gunn formed a student advi-sory committee that will meet regularly and give feedback on the new program, Carlomagno said. Sixty upperclassmen — out of 100 who applied — are also serving as “Titan Ambas-sadors,” this year, helping with freshman orientation and in the
first days of the social-emotion-al learning program.
Gunn sophomores, juniors and seniors can also opt into the fresh-men’s SELF lessons during their free “flex” period on Thursdays.
The school district’s focus on social-emotional learning grew out of interest in evaluating counseling and service models at the two high schools in recent years, part of a broader focus on student mental health and well-being. A committee of students, parents, staff and administra-tors convened last year to ex-plore possible social-emotional learning curriculum, which the district said existed in pockets throughout the district but lacked coherence.
Acting on the group’s recom-mendations, the district is phasing in the curriculum this year at the high schools. A group of teach-ers and staff from Paly, Gunn (including new Principal Kathie
Laurence) and the district were trained this summer in the cho-sen curriculum, School Connect.
Kandell, who has taught in the district for close to 20 years and participated in the summer training, said he’s wary of edu-cational trends but sees this as a well-intentioned effort to support students proactively, inside and outside of the classroom.
After two teenage suicide clus-ters in recent years, the district’s stance was, “’We’re going to do everything on the list to try to change our culture,’ and they’re going through the list,” Kandell said.
The district plans to form a new advisory committee this fall to help oversee the contin-ued roll-out of social-emotional learning at all schools in the coming years.
Freshmen Sengal Araya, left, and Kiran Flemish, right, get to know each other through an exercise in which students introduce themselves to 10 of their classmates and find out the interests they share in common. They met one another during the school’s new Social Emotional Literacy and Functionality (SELF) class for freshmen.
Bally’s and Elderhostel,” offer activities as well as food and are meant to attract seniors who are not inclined to frequent tradi-tional senior centers.
Rather than see the cafe as a replacement for La Comi-da, Andonian said it will be complementary.
“We believe that the Avenidas cafe — in conjunction with La Comida’s congregate meal ser-vice — will expand offerings to our growing community,” she said. “More seniors throughout Palo Alto will be able to take advantage of some form of sub-sidized meal to improve their nutrition.”
The issue was not on Monday night’s agenda, so no council members could offer their com-ments. In a follow-up interview, however, Councilwoman Lydia
Kou, who has volunteered at La Comida, called the situation “disappointing.”
“I can’t accept this. It’s very, very logical to have the two ser-vices co-located,” she said. “It’s a travesty what’s going on.”
Kou said that the current din-ing hall at Bryant Street was built using funds raised by Ro-tary Club of Palo Alto for La Comida, and thus, in her view, the burden is on Avenidas to ac-commodate the meal program as it is.
La Comida has looked every-where in downtown Palo Alto for a new home but has come up empty, Kou said.
Given the benefits that Aveni-das is receiving from the city — lease of the city-owned building for $1 a year, with 75 percent of its utilities paid for by the city — Kou said that the council should look at the city’s contract with Avenidas to see if it’s pro-viding the services expected of the nonprofit.
“The service contract is due to end at 2020. Maybe it’s time to look at that,” Kou said.
For the next year, La Comida will be serving meals at Steven-son House, located at 455 East Charleston Road in south Palo Alto, after which the lunch pro-gram will need to find a perma-nent location.
Under a settlement agreement forged in December between La Comida and Avenidas, the senior-services organization is helping to fund La Comida’s re-location to Stevenson House and has pledged to help remodel the kitchen at La Comida’s perma-nent facility, when found. Ave-nidas has also agreed to provide supportive services at La Comi-da’s new location and transpor-tation for seniors between La Comida and 450 Bryant St.
Andonian said Monday that Avenidas remains committed to the agreement.
Council OKs new shuttle routePalo Alto’s efforts to revitalize its free shuttle program got a
major boost late Monday night when the City Council approved the Palo Alto Transit Vision Plan.
(Posted Aug. 16, 8:48 a.m.)
Gunn student dies by suicideGunn High School Principal Kathie Laurence, in an email to
school families Tuesday afternoon, urged parents to talk openly with their children and to reach out for help if needed following the death by suicide of a senior in his home on Tuesday.
(Posted Aug. 15, 5:48 p.m.)
Actor John Heard died of natural causes Actor John Heard, best known for his role as the father in the
movie “Home Alone,” died of natural causes, the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office said today in a press release. The 71-year-old was found dead at Palo Alto hotel on July 21 while recovering from back surgery.
(Posted Aug. 15, 3:34 p.m.)
Streetlights address City’s wireless needsAs Palo Alto’s voracious appetite for wireless data continues to
grow, local streetlight and utility poles are transforming into criti-cal tools for telecom giants looking to expand and improve their coverage. On Monday, the City Council unanimously approved a “master license agreement” with Mobilitie LLC that will pave the way for it to install cell and data-backhaul equipment on 16 street poles and three utility poles.
(Posted Aug. 15, 8:11 a.m.)
Hundreds march against hateSeveral hundred people marched in a candlelight procession
in Mountain View on Sunday night in a solidarity against white supremacist and hate groups. The vigil, which was organized by the 3,000-member Together We Will Palo Alto Mountain View, attracted residents from as far as Redwood City, including many families.
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school year, she said in an inter-view. She encouraged inquiry, in-teraction and collaboration.
“Kids said, ‘It should be quiet; people should be whispering,’” Sanders said. “I said, ‘Actually, I would like to hear people asking questions; people laughing; peo-ple saying things like, ‘Can you tell me more about that? Can you solve that another way? Would you like some help?’”
The new curriculum is not a major departure from what Sand-ers and others have been teach-ing in their classes, but instead of teachers having to cobble together supplementary material to make up for where the district’s previ-ous curriculum, Everyday Math, failed to meet the state standards, it’s now packaged in one textbook.
Sanders said Bridges in Math-ematics incorporates best prac-tices in elementary math, from “true problem solving where the answer is not immediately appar-ent” to ample practice and games.
The district brought Bridges in Mathematics staff in this sum-mer to train teachers, and they’ll return for another professional development day in October. The district also plans to offer training workshops for elementary-school aides. Math-specific teachers on special assignment (TOSAs) are serving as coaches and support
for teachers throughout this first year of full implementation.
The district plans to evaluate the first year of Bridges through collecting feedback from teachers and parents and analyzing student assessment data.
A t Jordan Middle School on Tuesday morning, another new principal was famil-
iarizing herself with her school community and campus. Valerie Royaltey-Quandt was a Campbell Union High School District ad-ministrator who replaced outgo-ing Principal Katie Kinnaman at Jordan. She is the school’s fourth principal in as many years.
She said she acknowledged the impact of such turnover with both staff and parents after arriving in the district.
“It’s the elephant in the room,” she said on Tuesday. “Just saying, ‘Yeah, this is is hard.’ Transi-tion is hard. Even good change is change.”
Royaltey-Quandt, who worked as Campbell’s director of student services, assessment and account-ability since 2015, has also been an elementary and middle school prin-cipal, assistant principal and high school Spanish teacher. She said in her first five years as a teacher, she had four different principals.
She has no illusions about the effect that can have on teachers. It was “completely disruptive,” she said, and led to a mindset of “you handle that up there and I’m going
to do my job.”Her goals for the first weeks
and months at Jordan is to combat that attitude and “build commu-nity,” she said. She invited staff to come in to talk with her one-on-one this summer and is holding a “principal’s coffee” event to meet with parents next Friday, Aug. 25, at 2:30 p.m.
Royaltey-Quandt was spending the first day of school wandering the halls with new sixth-graders participating in the school’s two-day orientation program, Jaguar Journey. To familiarize students with the school, they participate in a range of activities, from “locker Olympics” (learn where your locker is and how to open it) to a scavenger hunt that teaches them where different buildings and services are located.
Older students convened in their regular classes, from science and mathematics to art.
In a welcome message to par-ents last week, Royaltey-Quandt wrote about the “skills and at-titudes” she thinks are essential to develop and support in middle school students, from “embrace struggle” to “ask thoughtful ques-tions” and “build intellectual stamina.”
“For middle school students, academic work can become more rigorous and the social environ-ment may become larger and more complex,” she wrote. “Stu-dents may form new identities as secondary students.”
Royaltey-Quandt also told par-ents that she has kept a photo-graph of her eighth-grade self on her desk as long as she’s been an administrator.
“In addition to being quite humbling, it reminds me every day that the middle school expe-rience can be both exciting and perplexing at the same time, and
that caring, knowledgeable and en-gaged school staff can partner with parents, guardians and community to help guide the way,” she wrote.
Royaltey-Quandt and Yoshina-ga are among five new principals in the district this year.
Dawn Yoshinaga, the new principal of Ohlone Elementary School, welcomes students during the traditional opening ceremony on the first day of the school year. Behind her stand the school’s new teachers and aides.
About the cover: Clockwise, from bottom: Kindergartners read to each other in their classroom at Ohlone Elementary School on the first day of school. New students at Jordan Middle School figure out how to use their combination locks during an orientation exercise called “Locker Olympics.” Annaben Kazemi, vice principal of the new Ravenswood Middle School, high-fives David Paige, center, and fellow sixth-graders as they make their way onto the basketball courts and field for brunch/recess on Aug. 16, the first day of school. Photos by Veronica Weber.
Youth Bay Area. All but one staff member were internal hires from the Ravenswood school district. Several teachers also grew up in East Palo Alto.
More will be hired as the school grows over the next two years from sixth grade only to a full middle school. The school will eventually take over the entire Ralmar Avenue campus, includ-ing space currently occupied by the Los Robles Magnet Academy. (Los Robles will move to Ronald McNair Academy, and McNair, a middle school on Pulgas Avenue, will have been consolidated into the new middle school by then.)
Despite most teachers’ enthu-siasm for the new school, its de-velopment was not without some controversy. A letter this spring announcing the teachers union took a “vote of no confidence” in Superintendent Gloria Hernandez-Goff described what they saw as a flawed process that failed to fully include the teachers’ opinions.
When asked to respond to these criticisms, Ghysels said the district
has moved forward.“That was then,” he said. “What
I see now is just a lot of enthusi-asm for getting it right, evidenced by (the fact that) we got all togeth-er and delivered.”
The Ravenswood Middle School was designed with the population it serves in mind. With a large number of English-learner students, for example, the schedule includes time for two elective pe-riods, so students in need of dedi-cated English support still have one period for an elective, Garriss said.
The Ravenswood Middle School also has an Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) college-readiness pro-gram and is espousing a “college-going culture,” administrators said. Signs posted outside each classroom door note not only the teachers’ names but the colleges they attended.
Garriss, who started in the dis-trict as a seventh-grade teacher, most recently oversaw Raven-swood’s English-language acqui-sition, English-language devel-opment and AVID programs for sixth- through eighth-graders.
Before the school year started,
the Ravenswood Middle School teachers received training on top-ics like college-readiness strate-gies, community building and restorative justice, Vice Principal Annaben Kazemi said.
There are no separate special-education classes at the Raven-swood Middle School — stu-dents with special needs are “completely integrated” into all of the mainstream classrooms, Kazemi said.
Throughout Wednesday morn-ing, the school worked to empha-size concepts like perseverance, resilience, leadership and com-munity with students.
In an all-school assembly, Gar-riss reminded students to embrace failure and to learn from their mistakes, to strive to be their best rather than be perfect and to be “leaders” in setting the culture of the new school.
“This is a new beginning for Ravenswood. This is a new begin-ning for every single one of you,” he said. “You have all of those choices that are right here in front of you, right now.”
Anne Blachman, born September 11, 1919, died peacefully on July 31, 2017 at the age of 97 in Oakland. As per her wishes, her body was donated to Stanford Medical School through their Willed Body Program.
She was adventuresome, loved to learn, had an eager intellect and was an independent thinker; she was a voracious reader, adored connecting people, was physically active, matter-of-fact and an excellent cook.
After receiving her BA in economics from Brooklyn College in 1941, she went to work in Washington D. C., in the Office of Price Administration with the Processed Food Division, where she helped set the value of rationed products. In 1943 she worked in the administrative offices of the Tule Lake war relocation camp. Returning to the East Coast in 1945, she worked at Columbia University, and after the war traveled to Hokkaido, Japan to run a recreation center for US serviceman handing out doughnuts & coffee,on behalf of the American Red Cross, in order to meet nice young men. She was then hired as a Research Assistant by RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, in 1948.
Thanks to a mutual friend, at the age of 34 she was introduced to Nelson Blachman. Their courtship was short and sweet. They married at a small ceremony over the Thanksgiving weekend in 1953 and continued to celebrate their anniversary on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. She and Nelson moved to Palo Alto in 1954, where she lived for the next 40 years, except for sabbaticals in London, Madrid and Washington DC as well as shorter international sojourns.
Anne was delighted to be a housewife and mother. In her ‘free time’, she became a personal investor for her family, swam regularly at the Eichler Club, took classes, read, socialized and over the years derived great satisfaction from finding good deals and collecting entertaining stories at garage sales.
In 1996, she and Nelson moved to Piedmont Gardens in Oakland, where she made new friends and spent time with her children and grandchildren. In 2008, at the age of 89, her health a began to falter. While she was not the social outgoing person she had been, she was kind and appreciative, thanking the staff and greeting everyone who passed her. Her family dubbed her condition “zen dementia”. Her husband, 4 years her junior, died in 2014, and although she wasn’t always aware of what was happening, when informed of his death she said “I’m sorry to hear that. He was a good man. The world needs more men like Nelson.”
She is survived by her two daughters (Susan and Nancy Blachman), their husbands (Joel Biatch and David desJardins) and four grandchildren (Isadora and Sophia Blachman-Biatch and Louis and Sarah Blachman).
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City Council (Aug. 14)Labor negotiations: Status of negotiations with SEIU, UMPAPA. Action: None reportable.Consent calendar: The council pulled 425 Portage Ave., a retail waiver request, from the calendar for later deliberation and approved the rest of the items. Yes: Unanimous.Transit Vision Plan: The council adopted the plan and prioritized funding a new South Palo Alto route and marketing. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Holman, Kou, Scharff, Tanaka, Wolbach. Absent: Kniss.Buena Vista Mobile Home Park: The council approved a tentative map that results in three parcels at 3972, 3980 and 3990 El Camino Real. Yes: Unanimous.Janitorial: The council approved a $10.6 million, five-year contract with SWA for janitorial services. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Holman, Kniss, Kou, Scharff, Wolbach. No: Tanaka.Pensions: The council amended the city’s contract with California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS). Yes: Unanimous.League of Cities: The council approved Cory Wolbach as the city’s voting member and Greg Scharff as the alternate at the upcoming League of California Cities conference. Yes: Unanimous.
Human Relations Commission (Aug. 15)HSRAP: The commission unanimously approved Commissioners Jill O’Nan and Steven Lee to serve as Ad Hoc Review Committee members for the Human Services Resource Allocation Process (HSRAP). A third potential member, Commissioner Medhi Alhassani, was absent. A vote on Alhassani or another member for the third spot will be taken later when he is at a commission meeting. Yes: Brahmbhatt, Chen, Gordon Gray, Lee, O’Nan, Stinger Absent: Alhassani
Council Rail Committee (Aug. 16)Connecting Palo Alto: The committee discussed the Connecting Palo Alto effort, including the problem statement, the objectives, the evaluation criteria and the process for facilitating the community discussion on grade separations. The committee unanimously agreed to omit a community stakeholder group from the process and directed staff to look at the possibility of creating subcommittees and expanding the Technical Advisory Committee to include community members. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Scharff.
City Council (Aug. 16)Staff evaluations: The City Council met in closed session to discuss the evaluations of the four council-appointed officers: city manager, city attorney, city clerk and city auditor. Action: none.
Architectural Review Board (Aug. 17)3001 El Camino Real: The board directed the developer of a retail and apartment complex to revise designs, including the top of the buildings, the height difference between the sidewalk and residential ground floor and the location of bicycle parking, among other aspects. The project will return to the board. Yes: Baltay, Furth, Kim, Lew. Absent: Gooyer.
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other youth-serving organizations.“Are we as a city devoted to mak-
ing it easier for community groups to be a part of this place, or are we making it harder?” she asked.
A member of First Congregation-al Church of Palo Alto called for a moratorium on the evictions and a broader approach to the conflict.
“This is a serious issue for all of our faith-based communities and needs to be resolved comprehen-sively,” he said.
“I know I’m not alone in sensing there’s currently a struggle for the soul of our nation,” he said, add-ing that local faith communities are giving people a place to express and affirm their values. “These voices need to be supported not impaired. Current policy is a potentially seri-ous problem for us all.”
The council was unable to dis-cuss the issue Monday given that it was not on the agenda, but Mayor Greg Scharff told the Weekly it appeared code enforcement has been “too overzealous with our regulations.”
“I think that we’ve been over-zealous. I mean, this church has been operating for 10 years, and what’s changed?” he said.
Councilman Adrian Fine told the Weekly he is of two minds on the issue: “As a council member, I think that we have our regulations. As a resident, I think that we’ve essentially stopped a flourishing of com-munity — but we can’t do se-lective enforcement.”
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a lifetime resident of Palo Alto, died at age 70 on Friday, August 4, of complications from a stroke. She had just retired after serving for 13 years as a teacher’s aide in the Palo Alto school system, working with children with special needs. Before that she worked for many years at Track and Field News in Mountain View. A graduate of Palo Alto High School, she also attended Foothill College. She loved animals and could remember in detail the many cats and dogs she owned over the years. Known for her giving nature, she was a longtime donor of blood to the American Red Cross.
Born in Philadelphia in 1947, she came to California with her family in 1951. She is survived by her domestic partner, George L. Greenan of Palo Alto; a brother, Skip Light of Redwood Estates, and his wife Sylvia; a sister, Cynthia Mitchell of Scotts Valley; two nieces, Katy and Kelly Mitchell; many cousins; and her beloved dog, Mocha.
The family will hold a memorial service on Sat., Oct 14, at 4 p.m. at the Redwood Estates Pavilion, Redwood Estates, CA 95033. Memorial gifts may be made to the American Red Cross or the Marine Mammal Center.
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Grace Elaine Light
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Elliot Charles PolingerMay 16, 1919 – June 11, 2017
On the morning of June 11, 2017, Elliot Charles Polinger, M.D., 98, peacefully passed away. He is survived by daughters Barbara (James) De Grand and Jean (Jerry) Meyer, grandsons Alec (Jade) De Grand and Matthew (Laurie) De Grand and great-grandchildren Nate and Maura De Grand and one on the way.
Dr. Polinger was born in New York City on May 16, 1919 and went to Columbia University, barely 16 years old, where he earned the Bausch and Lomb Honorary Award for science. He continued on to New York Medical College, graduating in 1943 with honors. He then joined the Army and was sent to Spokane, WA., where he met and married the love of his life, Mildred, in 1944 after a 4 month courtship. They were happily married for over 69 years until her death in 2014. He was stationed at Fort Baker, just under the Golden Gate Bridge, for the duration of the war. Dr. Polinger practiced medicine for over 40 years, most of it in the specialization of Anesthesiology. He was a man of tremendous intellect, compassion, hard work and especially humor. He was able to stay in the family home of 63 years in Atherton until the end with the great help of his family, especially Jeannie and Jerry and his ladies, Hina, Pou, Cece and Vanessa. He was dearly loved and will be sorely missed and is now buried next to his love, Mildred, at the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park in Colma, CA.
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Nancy Supan, 87, wife of the late James Supan, passed away on July 7, 2017. Nancy was a native Palo Altan. She married the love of her life, James, in 1949. They enjoyed 52 years of marriage before James passed away in 2001. Nancy lived her life always thinking of others. Her joy came from family celebrations, travel, gardening, and her love of reading. Nancy was preceded in death by her parents David and Eva Rhein, by her sister Dorothy Cadwalader, and her brother David Rhein. Nancy is survived by her children, Richard (Bernadette), Larry (Carol), Tom (Miros), and Cathy (Rick deceased), eleven grandchildren, and two special great grandchildren. She also leaves behind many other loving relatives. Nancy’s greatest happiness was being Nana to her grandchildren. Each one held a special place in her heart. The family is very grateful to the wonderful nurses and staff at Manor Care in Sunnyvale who lovingly took care of Nancy during her stay. At Nancy’s request, a private burial was held.
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William Riley MarkenSeptember 2, 1942 – August 11, 2017
Lois had the good fortune to be blessed with all the very best in life: a great education, a sunny intellectual community, a love of fine music, poetry, and literature, the ability to prepare and relish fabulous food, and a remarkable circle of warm and accomplished friends with whom to share it all.
Friends fondly remember coming together at Lois’s house to bring early music to life on their viols; for delectable dinners by candlelight with early music playing in the background; and for lively discussions or laughter over a particularly wryly written article or droll observation.
Lois lived life on her own terms. Surrounded by people who could share her appreciation of that which was refined and beautiful (while retaining an irrefutable ironic wit), she drew great satisfaction from a life well lived.
The family asks that Lois be remembered with a toast to all life has to offer, and to her transcendence of this life’s bounds. To quote Lois’s dear friend and mentor Byra Wreden, ‘On we go...’
A celebration of Lois’s life will be held at 4 pm, Wednesday, September 13, 2017 in the Braun Rehearsal Hall, Room 110, Braun Music Center, 541 Lasuen Mall, Stanford.
If you wish to honor Lois’s memory with a charitable donation, please consider the Friends of Music at Stanford or the Oregon Health & Sciences University Foundation. Photo by Laura Hofstadter
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Lois M. NisbetNovember 21, 1935 – June 22, 2017
Harry E. Bailey died peacefully on Monday, July 17, in Seattle, Washington surrounded by his family. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan to Jennie Versluis Bailey and Harry Edward Bailey.
Harry was a student in the Niles Public Schools, graduated at age 16, and attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 1942, at age 18, Harry joined the Army Air Corps serving as a pilot and a 1st Lieutenant during WWII.
When he returned to the University of Michigan in 1946, Harry completed Bachelor of Science degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and in Mathematics. He also met his wife-to-be, Katharine Anne Lewis of Ann Arbor. They were married on August 8, 1947. They lived briefly in Seattle where Harry worked for Boeing before returning to complete a Master of Science degree and a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Their first two children, Christine and Alice, were born in Ann Arbor; their third, Ted, was born in Boulder, Colorado, where Harry took a job as Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Colorado.
In 1958, Harry and his family moved to Palo Alto, California. For the next 32 years, Harry worked for NASA at Ames Research Center in Mountain View. He made a significant contribution to the design of NASA’s space shuttle before retiring in 1990. Harry’s retirement allowed him to devote more time to his passion for playing Master’s bridge.
Harry is survived by his wife Katharine, daughters Chris (Finley) Young and Alice (Gilles) Cheylan, son Ted (Emese Patakfalvi) Bailey, as well as 7 grandchildren, Josh (Ericka), Daniel (Maia), and Rebecca Young; Vincent (Mabel), Laurent, and Isabelle Cheylan; and Michael Bailey.
A private service was held at Tahoma National Cemetery. View or sign the Guest Book at Hoffner Fisher & Harvey, Seattle, harveyfuneral.com.
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Harry Edward BaileyFebruary 13, 1924 – July 17, 2017
Kevin GiffenLongtime Palo Alto resident
Kevin Giffen died in his sleep in Menlo Park on the morning of Aug. 7. He was 89.
He was born in Detroit, Mich-igan, on Jan. 21, 1928, after his family immi-grated from Ire-land. He was the sixth of seven children and the last to die.
In 1945, with his mother’s bless-ing, Kevin enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the age of 17. He would go on to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a pilot, ultimately flying in the Korean War and earning an Air Medal and National Defense Service Medal. He met his future wife, Elinor, while in the Navy. They were married at Whiting Field in 1955. Kevin eventually transitioned to the reserves where he served long enough to obtain career status and the rank of Lieu-tenant Commander.
He started his education while on active duty, and then attended the University of Michigan as a full-time student, where he earned an engineering degree and a master’s degree in business administration. After receiving his MBA, his first job was working as an engineer on the Eagle Missile Program at Ben-dix Corporation. He spent the ma-jority of his private-sector career as a sales and marketing leader. His most memorable role was as vice president of sales at Granger & As-sociates LLC. Between his time in the Navy and in business, he trav-eled the globe.
He never lost his love for flying and spent many years operating Sky Sailing, Inc., a glider airport in Fremont. He was able to stay in-volved for many years after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1992. His family noted that his will to live and dry sense of humor never left him, and his final years were spent in assisted living, where he used his charm to stay in favor with the staff.
He is preceded in death by his wife of 50 years, Elinor. He is survived by son, Sean (Fatima) of Palo Alto; daughter, Mary of Perry, Michigan; and grandchildren, Cait-lin, Kevin, Colin, Catherine and Liam. He also benefited from the support and friendship of longtime neighbors, Faith and Steve Witte.
His funeral mass will be celebrat-ed on Saturday, Aug. 19, at noon at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, 3233 Cowper St., Palo Alto.
I was saddened to read in last week’s paper that the city code enforcement was going after all of those community groups and individuals that use/rent space at First Baptist Church.
I have lived nearby since 1984 and attended many worthwhile community events there, and I have always considered it an im-portant resource.
First Baptist has a long histo-ry — like many other churches — of offering affordable meet-ing space. It is a kind of social safety net that shelters many small groups on tight budgets.
There is a lot of talk about the importance of “diversity,” usually referring to race or eth-nicity. But income diversity is also a fact of life. And the local churches have striven to bridge the gap by making space avail-able to the many who are unable to afford what life has become in Palo Alto.
Dana M. St. GeorgeCampesino Avenue, Palo Alto
Show compassionEditor,
The July 21 article “City cracks down on tenants at First Baptist Church” raises an issue regarding code enforcement within our community, which could reach well beyond the ten-ants at the First Baptist Church on North California Avenue.
I have lived in Old Palo Alto for almost 25 years. As a neigh-bor of the First Baptist Church, I am very disappointed with the code enforcement unit’s deci-sion with respect to this prop-erty. I find the city is showing little compassion and flexibility with respect to this entity.
As I understand the situation, neighbors in the area have com-plained about increased traffic and parking around the church. I must admit that I have noticed more activity in the area, but as-sumed that church membership had increased. It is clear that I was wrong.
Apparently, nonprofit groups and individuals who are serv-ing our community rent space at the church. Many of these entities help to provide a safe and supportive environment for our young people, which is also a goal of our city. It seems as if the current decision to expel iSing with only a 30-day notice and others by Sept. 30 is not right.
I think that the application of the letter of the law is not the correct path. What if traffic and parking issues were caused, not
by these entities, but by growth in church membership? Would the neighbors ask the church to move? Of course not! The neighbors and church would work out a compromise.
I realize that zoning for resi-dential properties does have its parameters and cannot be ig-nored. But perhaps the code does not meet the demands of the day and needs to be revisited.
Let’s show compassion within our community, take a second look at this issue and do the right thing.
Leslie BraunWebster Street, Palo Alto
Enforce parking lawEditor,
The Palo Alto Police Depart-ment has done an admirable job getting half of the resident RVs on El Camino Real to move.
What about the remaining 24, which I counted last night, Fri-day, Aug. 11?
It would be great if PAPD would enforce the parking law equally.
Could we get a response from PAPD?
Jed LeeSan Antonio Road, Palo Alto
Neighborliness a thing of the pastEditor,
Re: your Aug. 11 Guest Opin-ion, Mr. Aldis Petriceks’ coffee shop interloper declaring Palo Alto totally different now from the time she raised her children here 50 years ago is quite right; however, I am not sure that Pe-triceks will be able to find that mid-20th century life anywhere in the USA today. Two major things happened locally, na-tionally and internationally to
prevent a return to the kind of close-knit neighborliness that he hopes for.
The first was the 1960s and 1970s American feminist move-ment. The divorce rates rock-eted, and women returned to work in droves, leaving behind hollowed-out neighborhoods and little time to support the community activities once com-mon. Shared child care, coffee klatches, swim afternoons at Chuck Thompson’s, neighbor-hood BBQs etc., soon became a thing of the past. Twenty moms at Mitchell Park wading through the pool with 20 and more children soon became 20-plus children with two or three care workers.
The second blow to neighbor-liness came with the advent of the silicon chip. Neighbors who were teachers, police officers, nurses, office workers, shop as-sistants etc., moved out, attract-ed by the high prices that their $25,000 homes were now fetch-ing. They were soon replaced by professional high-tech work-ers and their support staff, who needed to work 60 to 80 hours a week to maintain their corpo-rate positions, leaving little or no time to know their neighbors.
We have also lost genera-tional continuity: Few longtime residents have children who can afford to live in Palo Alto, and many new residents come from other states and countries. For this reason, a small town in the Midwest might be slightly more neighborly than Palo Alto but not much more, as those fam-ily’s typically need two incomes these days, leaving their neigh-borhoods just as unmanned as our own.
R egardless of whether one believes Santa Clara County Supe-rior Court Judge Aaron Persky should be removed from of-fice because of his past sentencing decisions in sexual assault
cases, he won’t be helped by his shady legal maneuver last week, in which he sued Santa Clara County to stop his own recall election.
Even if he is successful, which seems highly unlikely, the primary effect will be forcing the expenditure of taxpayer money for the county to defend itself against his lawsuit and then pay for an ex-pensive special election caused by the delay resulting from his suit.
Persky’s sudden legal maneuver occurred last Friday, the day after the county Registrar of Voters gave the final go-ahead to the recall petition drive, when he sought an injunction blocking the recall campaign from the very court on which he serves.
It is a tactic with only one possible objective: to tie up the recall effort in litigation and delay the election to remove him from office. According to the Registrar of Voters, if the courts do not resolve Persky’s claims in the next two weeks, the county will be unable to meet the legal requirements for putting the recall on the regular June 5, 2018 ballot. This will likely force the county to hold a special election at substantially greater cost to county taxpayers. Earlier estimates by the Registrar of Voters pegged the cost of a special election at $6.9 million, compared to about $575,000 if held at the same time as a regular election. The cost difference led recall orga-nizers to postpone their campaign and align it with the June election.
Persky’s legal position, which is opposed by both the Secretary of State and Santa Clara County, argues that under the California Constitution only the Secretary of State can approve and oversee the recall of a local judge. He is demanding that the county halt the recall process and direct the recall organizers to the Secretary of State’s office to begin anew.
He also argues that a successor judge candidate may not appear on the same ballot and be elected in the same election. Instead, if he were to be recalled by voters, he says, the law requires the governor to appoint his successor. The state Election Code and Secretary of State’s manual on recall elections both contradict Persky’s position.
Persky is grasping at straws, at taxpayers’ expense. The Legis-lature, the courts, including the California Supreme Court, and the Secretary of State have developed extensive laws, policies and judicial interpretations that all run contrary to his arguments. He is asking the courts to rule that significant parts of the state Elections Code are unconstitutional and that established practices of county election officials which have been developed at the direction of the Legislature and Secretary of State, should be thrown out.
Persky does have one troubling factor working in his favor — he is a judge trying to derail the process for recalling judges in a case that will be decided by judges who are largely against judicial re-calls. And not surprisingly, virtually all the judges in Santa Clara County, where Persky filed his lawsuit, have publicly committed their support to him in the recall election.
Persky’s decision to raise constitutional objections to the estab-lished recall process therefore creates an unusual challenge for the courts and a chilling effect on other public officials, including the Registrar of Voters and the County Counsel, who must regularly work with judges and the courts on other matters.
With no judge in the county able to hear Persky’s case, the court has brought in a retired Orange County judge who now lives in Santa Cruz to hear the matter. Last Friday, at Persky’s request, she granted a temporary restraining order stopping the recall and ordering the halt of any signature-gathering. A full hearing will be next held next Wednesday, Aug. 23. The county has filed briefs opposing Persky.
For how little Persky has to gain from this legal challenge he risks further loss of support from voters. Especially damaging is his demand that the recall campaign be barred from gathering sig-natures until the case is adjudicated. One of the most fundamental rights of all citizens under the First Amendment is the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances, including the right to recall and remove elected officials.
Persky did not need to seek a court order halting the circulation of the approved recall petitions while he sought judicial review of his arguments. He could have left the question of the validity of signatures gathered until the court ruled on his claims. But by try-ing to shut down the petitioning, he demonstrated not only a desire to delay and disrupt the process and possible election but a lack of respect for one of the most important constitutional protections embodied in our Bill of Rights.
Between now and Sept. 1, by which time the county says it must have a court ruling or it will be unable to hold the recall election next June, we hope Judge Persky reconsiders this obstructionist strategy, drops his challenge and accepts the ultimate will of the citizens of Santa Clara County in a June 2018 election.
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friends binge on their second safa-ris, cruise Europe-an canals or time-share in Hawaii, I consider a trip to downtown Palo Alto an equally grand adventure. For someone living in south Palo Alto, a crosstown sojourn requires strategic plan-ning. Snail-like speed limits, packed park-ing and a rotating landscape of shops and restaurants present pioneer-like obstacles: The time it takes mirrors the forty-niners’ trek West; the lengthening queues of cars lined up at lights make their own modern wagon train.
With who-knows-what lanes of Alma Street often under construction, I opted for Middlefield Road, still four lanes and de-liciously drivable. New library crowds for sure, but few drivers actually crawling at 25 mph; new stoplights but only a few short miles to University Avenue. Ah, the pro-verbial straight shot. Or not! With the new tidal wave of traffic, expect the unexpected. I forgot that living in Silicon Valley does not guarantee synchronized lights or sen-sors that save gas, time and tempers.
Signals between Charleston Road and Oregon Expressway flashed like pinball machines — the green, amber, red in quick succession before East Meadow Drive. Still optimistic, however, I sailed along smoothly
past the Winter Lodge and sprinted by Safeway until ... my sudden brake and balk at the stop-start-slow-stop-go-stop through Midtown. I’d made it halfway!
Not until after Oregon Expressway did the real squeeze begin.
Old Palo Alto, new traffic pattern! I should have packed snacks to sustain me. And jammies, in case I nodded off along the narrowing track and found it necessary to bed down among the lawn-bowlers.
Approaching the To-Be-Named-Later Middle School, fortress-style white stan-chions guarded the sanctity of the shrunken and empty curb lane for ... kids? On bikes? Only if they’re part of Cirque du Soleil! Though due to pinched lanes and clogged cars at the signal before California, not much moved anyway — I was stuck, but I was safe. And by now, famished. If the road onward imposed an impasse, down-town remained a dream. Eureka! I’d call AAA for a sandwich and coffee. I figured they owed me since my aging Toyota had never required a road fix.
Again inching along, wary of a close en-counter with oncoming cars, I noticed fren-zied homeowners frantically waving for some kind of reprieve from the steady traf-fic in order to escape from their own drive-ways — and this on a weekday. What else could I do but order more sandwiches and hope no one was vegan or kept kosher. It’s a good thing our town is aging. Many Mid-dlefielders are a mature and resourceful au-dience, able to wait out the daily commute, student deluge, day-long parkers. They must stay healthy should their rewrought roadway impede trucks or ambulances in
case of fire, falls or emergencies. I feel es-pecially sorry for the holiday latecomers who can’t get through to Christmas Tree Lane until spring.
I made it downtown before dark, stalked someone walking to the Bryant Street ga-rage and then wandered around seeking the old and scouting the new. Thank you Bell’s Books for being where you belong; hello, welcoming West Elm; boo-hoo the demise of iconic Sport Shop and Toy World. May Lemonade last, cold metal benches and all, but where the heck was Sam’s Chowder House — didn’t that just open? How much did I age en route; every-one on the street seemed so very young, except the homeless.
My new mantra? Ohm ... change ... ohm ... Daily I breathe yogic-ly to tackle my regular routes closer to home that careen southwest along San Antonio Road and weave toward the hills via Charleston. The holy grail of Interstate 280 remains the closest we’ll get to the wide open spaces of an earlier (1960s?) California.
Even complicated roundabouts and those scary, neon-green bike lanes that suddenly stretch mid-street cannot match the conges-tion, confusion, fear and fascination of con-stant construction and insidious road diets at my end of town. Nope, can’t blame it all on Mountain View! It cost me thousands in eye surgery to even attempt navigating the slings and arrows on Arastradero Road — and I wonder how many drivers dare veer the mandated 3 feet away from bikers as lanes suddenly disappear, new signals appear and a scrappy teenager passes on someone’s lawn to beat the bell at Gunn.
Didn’t my taxes pay for the wonderfully wide lanes on East Charleston now mashed together with that enticing but off-limits center? The Machiavellian transportation engineers, who probably steer clear of these silly street changes themselves, endlessly alter the light patterns just to keep drivers in the dark. I’m convinced they collude with Caltrain to catalogue my personal car trips in order to catch me precisely when those white bars clang down at the railroad crossing.
Ohm ... there’s more on the way. Instead of road rage, we’ll progress to car rage, mowing down those little driverless steel gumdrops with roof bulbs for brains. I can also imagine Tesla Man helicoptering up by his battery-powered beanie to ride sky-high above the clogged congestion of earthbound Everyman. Just picture, how-ever, the mid-air collisions of briefcase-wielding bodies madly whooshing along without any lanes, lights or stop signs. Imagine when they collide with the ever-lower flying commuter planes! The more things will change ...
... the more we’ll remain stuck. I bow to the plethora of people, cars and jobs in bur-geoning Silicon Valley that make my home a costly castle. Given the inevitability of increased traffic — above and below — I just hope we old-timers won’t have to pull up the drawbridge or circle our SUVs to keep out all those impending Prime sub-scribers soon to be delivered to by Amazon drones.
Evelyn Preston is a former Palo Alto teacher and a 25-year investment adviser who now writes.
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I nexplicably, I’ve somehow never re-viewed or even seen a Broadway by the Bay production until now, but it seems
I’ve picked a fine time to start, based on its riveting production of the Pulitzer-winning musical “Next to Normal.”
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s show is a powerful, harrowing look at the damage wrought on all the members of a “normal” suburban American family — the Goodma-ns — by mental illness, in this case the bipo-lar disorder and a host of other symptoms of mother/wife Diana (Caitlin McGinty). When she’s up, gliding on the highs of a manic epi-sode, she’s a glorious whirlwind of nervous action and positivity. When she’s down, plummeting into the depths of depression, she’s suicidal and delusional. When she’s pre-scribed a plethora of medication, the doctors call her “stable,” but she feels like a zombie, devoid of feeling, in a haze and utterly unlike her charismatic self.
Her teen daughter, Natalie (Mackenzie Cala), is a tightly-wound, high-achieving student seemingly on the verge of a break-down of her own, embarrassed by her mother (and afraid of becoming her — the disorder may run in the family), but also wounded to the core by a lifetime of being neglected and overshadowed by Diana’s all-consuming love for her firstborn son, the mischievous and mysterious Gabe (Sean Okuniewicz). Long-suffering, mild-mannered and somewhat-hapless husband, Don (Joe Hudelson), wants his wife to regain her health (he misses the vivacious, adventurous girl he married but would settle for boring and “normal”). He has his own issues, including some deep de-nial of the tragedy that exacerbated Diana’s condition years earlier and continues to haunt the family (for more about that plot point,
you’ll have to see the show yourself). Rounding out the cast is Henry (Joey Pi-
sacane), a sweet, jazz-loving teen stoner who sees Natalie for who she is and offers her the love and support she desperately needs, and Brendan Quirk, who plays both of Diana’s doctors: the inscrutable automaton who ped-dles pills and the “rock star” therapist who encourages her to try everything from hyp-nosis to electroshock therapy.
The show does not flinch from demon-strating the suffering of all the characters. We feel the justifiable pain and frustration of Don and Natalie, but, since so much of “Next to Normal” comes from Diana’s perspective, we also fully empathize with her struggle, and her desire not to lose herself completely. The stage belongs to McGinty: As Diana, she’s radiant and heartbreaking, with a beau-tiful singing voice. (She is a bit too young to be a woman with teenage children, though, even if the character did get pregnant in col-lege. Mother and kids don’t seem to be con-vincingly far apart in age.)
While the experience of watching “Next to Normal” is often uncomfortable, it’s also a pleasure, thanks to the quality of the production and the performances, and the
high-energy, soaring music. Stylistically (and in some ways, thematically), it’s reminiscent of The Who’s “Tommy,” with its rock-opera sound, especially in Okuniewicz’s numbers. When the cast members harmonize together, the effect is thrilling.
Broadway by the Bay is aptly named, as not only does the company offer the musi-cals of the Great White Way, it’s also liter-ally on Broadway — the Redwood City ver-sion — housed in the palatial splendor of the 1929-built Fox Theatre.
Kelly James Tighe has designed a mar-velous set: the stylish, stylized interior of a modern home befitting a family of architects (the Goodmans met while studying architec-ture as undergrads and designed their home themselves). One of my favorite aspects of the show was actually the lighting design by Michael Oesch. The set’s tall white shelves are all illuminated by lighting that changes color frequently throughout the performanc-es, in accordance with the moods of the scene. Sometimes, the lights even pulse in rhythm with the music, creating the feeling that the entire house itself is alive with the family’s intense energy.
The production is, fittingly, a family affair,
with Broadway by the Bay’s Executive Ar-tistic Director Alicia Jeffrey handling musi-cal direction and her husband, Jasen Jeffrey, serving as director. They’ve also partnered with the National Alliance on Mental Illness of San Mateo County, which has included in the program support and contact informa-tion for individuals and families dealing with mental illness.
I saw a lot of puffy, red eyes upon leaving the theater. It’s a bold choice for Broadway by the Bay, which most often seems to of-fer mass-appeal, feel-good musicals (this show was instead described by the New York Times as a “feel-everything” musical). There’s an attempt at an uplifting finale, which struck me as a bit abrupt, although it’s understandable to want the show to conclude on a note of hope. It’s not hard to imagine Natalie and Henry turning into versions of Diana and Don in their later years, but perhaps they’ll have learned better ways of coping. “Next to Normal” doesn’t attempt to suggest there are any easy answers or miracle cures, though. The major takeaway, and most memorable lyric, might be Diana’s realiza-tion that “you don’t have to be happy at all to be happy you’re alive.”
Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at [email protected].
What: “Next to Normal”Where: Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway St., Redwood CityWhen: Weekends through Aug. 27 (see website for detailed schedule)Cost: $44-$66Info: Go to broadwaybythebay.org
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the City Council of the City of Palo Alto will conduct a Public Hearing at its Special Meeting on Monday, August 28, 2017 at 6:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California, for the purpose of receiving
Palo Alto Fire Station No. 3 Replacement Project (CIP PE-15003) is “Substantially Complex” and the contractor retention amount be increased from 5 percent to 10 percent.
Dragon Productions The-atre Company has been waiting a long time to
produce the regional premiere of British playwright Charlotte Jones’ “Airswimming.” Execu-tive Artistic Director Meredith Hagedorn, who also directed the current production, fell in love with Jones’ work a decade ago and even had her cast mem-bers all picked out based on the chemistry she saw between them in another local production. Fi-nally, years later, the rights were granted and the cast (Annamarie MacLeod and Katie Anderson) was ready to bring “Airswim-ming” (which first opened in 1997) alive for local audiences. It was worth the wait.
“Airswimming” is, accord-ing to Jones, “a comedy about despair.” I’d be hesitant to call this look at a shameful slice of recent history a comedy, but then again, it is quite funny at times, in a “Grey Gardens” and “The Odd Couple” kind of way.
Based on the true experiences of many women in England, Ire-land and elsewhere, the play fo-cuses on Persephone (Anderson) and Dora (MacLeod), two young women who are locked up in St. Dymphna’s Hospital for the Criminally Insane. They’re in-carcerated on the cusp of adult-hood in the early 1920s and not released until the 1970s (Jones was inspired after reading about the release of two real women from a similar institution after 50 years). The reasons women were cast out of “proper” soci-ety and locked away in abysmal, isolated, abusive facilities such as this were myriad. In Perse-phone and Dora’s cases, they were deemed “moral imbeciles” for unacceptable behaviors such as having sex before marriage, bearing illegitimate babies, and having a desire to wear men’s clothing.
When they first meet, Perse-phone is a fragile, snobby crea-ture from a posh background, convinced that any day her par-ents will return for her and she can finally have the debutante ball and high-society life she’s entitled to. She butts heads with gregarious, hearty Dora, who longs for the heroic life of a sol-dier she could never have and weeps for her three brothers, who perished in the Great War. Initially, Persephone bristles at Dora’s bluff, masculine manner and compulsive recitations of military and historical facts and dates, while Dora shows little sympathy to Persephone’s dim-witted, swoony ways. But the one hour per day they spend in each other’s company scrubbing the shabby stairs and bathroom of their asylum (the only time for
human company they receive), proves to be a lifeline as the two bond, share stories and eventu-ally become as close as sisters, as intimate as spouses in some ways.
The years turn to decades and before they know it, they’re el-derly and co-dependent, with a rich, imaginative world of their own creation, including their af-fectionate nicknames: Porph and Dorph.
The play jumps back and forth between the early days and the Porph-and-Dorph years, provid-ing plenty of humorous moments (such as Porph’s obsessive love for wholesome Hollywood icon Doris Day), wrenching scenes of sadness for what these women have been put through, and poi-gnant glimpses into their devo-tion to one another.
With no intermission, the pro-duction is intense and relentless. A problem with the lights at the preview I attended meant there were no blackouts or dramatic theater lighting, but the quality of the performances made that technical glitch irrelevant. Jones’ script is witty and compelling, and Hagedorn’s staging lively. Crucially, her instincts were right on when she first thought of MacLeod and Anderson for these roles years ago. They’re simply splendid.
Anderson’s Porph is full of childlike wonder, and her sing-ing voice, when breaking into Day songs, is lovely. MacLeod’s Dorph is weary and briskly no-nonsense most of the time, with moments of dark vulnerability. Both ace the transitions back and
forth between their characters’ old-age selves and their younger years, with MacLeod especially effective at changing her pos-ture from chipper, headstrong young Dora to stooped, broken Dorph. Sometimes accents in local theater productions can be a bit dodgy. Not so here: Dia-lect coach Richard Newton has earned his keep, as both actors have delightfully old-fashioned English mannerisms and sound, with their voices also slightly evolving as the play shifts back and forth in time.
After all their years trapped in a derelict mental institution, the pair do seem to descend into madness, and who could blame them? They’ve simply done the best they can with what life’s unfairly given them. To quote Porph’s beloved Doris Day, “que será, será.” They make prover-bial lemons out of lemonade; dreaming of swimming the channel, they put on their gog-gles and swim in the air. Their circumstances are heartbreak-ing, but it’s heartwarming, too, to watch them discover and cling to whatever helps preserve their humanity.
Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at [email protected].
Just keep swimmingDragon offers poignant production of British dramedy
by Karla Kane
What: “Airswimming”Where: Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway St., Redwood CityWhen: Through Aug. 27 (see website for detailed schedule)Cost: $27-$35Info: Go to dragonproductions.net
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M uch of European cuisine has evolved over centuries of wars and occupa-tions, often birthing hybrid fare that
utilized the best elements of both. One such culinary crossroad was southeast-
Urfa, it can be traced back 11,000 years and has been dominated by dozens of civilizations. As a result, modern cuisine from Urfa carries
-ish roots and since late 2015, Urfa Bistro has offered the Midpeninsula a taste of it.
Growing up in the restaurant industry in Urfa, owner Zubi Duygu’s grandfather and immediate family were all in the business. Duygu owned restaurants in Burlingame, San Francisco and Berkeley before open-ing Urfa Bistro in Los Altos. His brother,
Memet, who earned his culinary stripes in Istanbul, is the chef.
“We make everything from scratch,” Duygu said. “We bake bread daily and make sure ev-ery table has a basket of fresh, warm bread. We have branzino flown in daily on Lufthansa from Bodrum (on the Aegean Sea). Every or-der in the restaurant is made to order. We cook nothing ahead.”
While there is an increasing number of Turkish and Middle Eastern restaurants in the area, most are indistinguishable from each other. Urfa Bistro though, was quite distinctive. Not only was the food a notch above, the menu broke away from the usual lamb and chicken kebabs served with red and green bell peppers and onions.
There are some of the usual suspects on the menu, but at Urfa they are spiced differently — often using isot pepper — and presented more artistically, with vividly colored foods
on white porcelain plates. The isot is a pep-per with a smoky raisin-like flavor, not sinus-clearing hot, but one that lingers peaceably on the palate.
Urfa Bistro encompasses more than just Turkish delights. It is a Mediterranean bistro with a broader focus. The chilled tomato gaz-pacho ($7) featured chunks of fresh tomatoes, onions and a hint of garlic topped with wedges of avocado. It was a refreshing start to lunch.
The grilled octopus ($12) made a vibrant plate. Braised, then grilled, the cephalopod was served over a slice of grilled honeydew melon with cherry tomatoes, arugula and ol-ive tapenade.
The octopus was beautiful on the plate, but of the four pieces, two were overly salty and two were not. The different levels of saltiness unbal-anced the plate and diminished the pleasure.
That was just about my only complaint. The spanakopita appetizer ($9) was delicious, four wedges of golden puff pastry stuffed with feta cheese, onions and sautéed spinach.
Another traditional dish, moussaka ($18), was a generous portion of layered eggplant, potato, ground beef and mozzarella cheese topped with béchamel and tomato sauces. Lus-cious and soft under its tomato-y coat, every bite was rich and rewarding.
My favorite dish was the Beyti kebab ($17). Ground beef and lamb had been wrapped in lavash flatbread and topped with tomato sauce, with a splash of yogurt on the side. It was a fitting tribute to its creator, Istanbul chef Beyti Güler, who introduced it on his menu in 1961.
Beyti kebab reminded me of a cross be-tween an aram sandwich and lasagna — an aram sandwich because of the lavash wrap, and lasagna thanks to the meat filling and tomato sauce topping. It was Middle Eastern comfort food at its finest.
At lunch, the restaurant served wraps in addition to an abbreviated menu. The savory ground chicken wrap ($11) was wrapped
Seyma Cimentay clears tables after lunch at Urfa Bistro in Los Altos.
Above: Urfa Bistro’s spanakopita are filled with sautéed spinach, onions and feta cheese. Below: Kunefe, a mound of shredded filo dough baked with mozzarella, then topped with pistachios and a honey-lemon syrup.
tightly in lavash with lightly spiced and charbroiled chicken, tomatoes, onions, lettuce and tahini sauce inside. The accompanying French fries were nicely crisp.
Save room for the desserts, they’re worth it. My favorite was the kunefe ($9) — wiry shreds of phyllo dough wrapped around mozzarella cheese and baked golden, then topped with crushed pistachios.
The two enchanting squares of baklava ($7) were honeyed, but-tery, nutty delights, topped with candied orange peel. The rice pudding ($7) was too creamy, re-minding me of tapioca pudding, lacking that tiny bit of grain that
defines rice pudding. Urfa Bistro seats 40 inside and
has a back patio where dogs (and their owners) are welcome. There is also sidewalk seating on State Street.
The restaurant serves beer and wine, and has a prompt and knowl-edgeable waitstaff.
Urfa Bistro is a cut above most of the Middle Eastern restaurants in the area. Duygu is a passionate owner who takes great measure importing authentic ingredients. In the kitchen, chef Memet knows how to turn those ingredients into delicious dishes.
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AVIDBANK RELOCATES ... Palo Alto-based Avidbank plans to relocate its downtown headquarters at 400 Emerson St. to its San Fernando Street office in San Jose this fall after it opens a new Palo Alto branch office at 437 Lytton Ave., Chairman and CEO Mark Mordell confirmed. The new office is currently undergoing construction, with the landlord adding a new coat of paint as Avidbank revamps 2,800-square-foot first floor with new interior partition walls, restrooms and a break room. Construction will most likely finish in September, at which point the Emerson location will close completely, Mordell said. The new site will provide the same services as the Emerson Street office.“There will be no interruption to our customers or clients whatsoever,” Mordell added. “We’re scheduling this and notifying our clients. It’s all a function to make sure the construction is completely finished, furniture is fully in, and everyone has a positive experience both internally and externally.”Avidbank opened in Palo Alto in 2003 as The Private Bank of the Peninsula — a subsidiary of Peninsula Bank Holding Co.—
before changing its name in 2011. — S.C.
GUIDEBOAT JOINS STANFORD ... Stanford Shopping Center is preparing to add another outdoor equipment store to its roster. Mill Valley-based Guideboat Company will open its fourth store at the shopping center this fall. The city is currently reviewing a permit that will allow the company to replace the existing storefront and establish new interior partitions at the new location. Guideboat sells outdoor equipment as well as an assortment of “woodsy-worthy” outerwear, sportswear and accessories, according to its website. Customers have praised the company on Yelp as having “a classic, cool and hight-quality style.” Guideboat is the fourth outdoor-lifestyle retailer to join Stanford over the past 18 months. North Face, Timberland and Arc’teryx have all recently opened stores there. — E.A.
Compiled by the Weekly staff; this week written by Shawna Chen and Elinor Aspegren. Got leads on interesting and news-worthy retail developments? The Weekly will check them out. Email [email protected].
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From left to right: Beyti kebabs at Urfa Bistro are made with ground beef and lamb wrapped in lavash, topped with tomato sauce and served with garlic yogurt. The grilled octopus is served on top of grilled honeydew and a salad of arugula, cherry tomatoes and olive tapenade. The back patio at Urfa offers the option to dine al fresco.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Annabelle Creation (R) 1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Atomic Blonde (R) 1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Baby Driver (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Big Sick (R) Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Dark Tower (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Despicable Me 3 (PG) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Dunkirk (PG-13) 1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Emojie Movie (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Fairy Tale: Dragon Cry (Not Rated) Century 20: Saturday Girls Trip (R) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Glass Castle (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Hard Way (1943) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Friday The Hitman’s Bodyguard (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. In This Corner of the World (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. It Happened One Night (1934) (Not Rated) Century 20: Sunday
Kidnap (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Letter (1940) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Saturday Logan Lucky (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Midwife (Not Rated) Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Mildred Pierce (1945) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun. The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Only Boy Living in New York (R) Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Spider-Man: Homecoming (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Step (PG) Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. They Won’t Forget (1937) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Friday Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (Not Rated) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. War for the Planet of the Apes (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Wind River (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Guild Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Wonder Woman (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.
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‘Lucky’ break(-in)Soderbergh’s latest heist comedy goes South
(Century 16 & 20)
The caper comedy “Logan Lucky” isn’t about very much. Nominally, it’s about love of fam-ily and bogus notions of curses or luck, but primarily it’s an escap-ist lark that just wants to tickle audiences for a couple of hours. And on that level, “Logan Lucky” works like gangbusters: It’s vin-tage Soderbergh in its confident construction, sleek photography, stellar ensemble acting, and nim-ble sense of cinematic play.
To make the film, director Ste-ven Soderbergh emerged from a four-year break from feature filmmaking that’s been called a “retirement” (clearly not) and a “sabbatical” (except that the di-rector worked continuously, as feature cinematographer, editor, and producer, as well as directing for TV and apparently shooting a secret feature using iPhones). So that much-discussed “retire-ment” turns out, happily, to have
been a lot of talk, not unlike “Lo-gan Lucky,” in which a trio of siblings have words about a sup-posed “Logan family curse” while contemplating the robbery of the Charlotte Motor Speedway during a NASCAR race.
Loose lips sink ships — when you’re plotting a heist and when, like Soderbergh, you’re giving in-terviews all the time. The latest talk surrounds the film’s touted first-time screenwriter Rebecca Blunt: According to anonymous inside sources, Blunt is a pseud-onym for Soderbergh’s wife, Jules Asner (the response from a director himself known for using pseudonyms: “Well, that’s going to be news to Rebecca Blunt”).
Blunt and Soderbergh take a mostly deadpan tack in telling the story of West Virginia natives Jimmy, Clyde, and Mellie Logan (Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, and Riley Keough). They’re work-ing-class folks — that is, until Jimmy loses his construction job because of a limp branded “a pre-existing condition and ... a liability issue.” Robbery recruits Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) and his little broth-ers Sam and Fish Bang (Brendan Gleeson and Jack Quaid) who skirt closer to “hillbilly” clichés (the script’s working title was “Hillbilly Heist”), but Soderbergh avoids the superior tone that has
plagued the Coen Brothers when dealing with low-income, under-educated characters.
Rather, “Logan Lucky” works to build identification with and affection for the Logans and Jim-my, in particular. Jimmy’s stron-gest motivation, for example, is the love of his adorable daughter Sadie (Farrah Mackenzie), since Jimmy’s ex-wife (Katie Holmes) intends a move that threatens his custody access. Sadie’s participa-tion in children’s beauty pageants plays funny-sad, but also show-cases sincere enthusiasm and love.
Much of the humor in the pic-ture comes from bickering, with amusing disagreements over
chemistry and a certain buzzy TV show. But audiences will agree that the heist structure holds up well enough to make fa-miliar material stand tall. Soder-bergh extends to his clutch sup-porting player an “Introducing Daniel Craig” credit pointing out the freshness of his performance, and not long before, the film pre-emptively tells a self-referential joke on itself. Both are unmis-takable signals that Soderbergh’s here to have fun, and his mood is contagious.
Rated PG-13 for language and some crude comments. One hour, 59 minutes.
— Pete Canavese
Adam Driver and Channing Tatum star in “Logan Lucky.”
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HOW TO GROW VEGETABLES ... The Los Altos Library will host a book signing by John Jeavons, a Slow Food advocate, on Saturday, Aug. 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Jeavons will present a path toward creating a sustainable food system. He will discuss how people can grow their own food on 1 percent of the area used by conventional farming, while building soil and saving water. Jeavons is the Executive Director of Ecology Action, headquartered in Willits. He is known internationally as the author of the best-selling book “How to Grow More Vegetables.” For the past 45 years Jeavons has devoted his time to researching, developing and teaching a small-scale, resource-conserving agricultural method known as Grow Biointensive. Saturday’s talk is a part of the “Food for the Future, Now Slow Food Speaker Series.” The Los Altos Library is located at 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos.
LEARN TO GRAFT ... Lyngso Garden Materials in San Carlos will offer “Basics of Grafting,” a limited-availability clinic on grafting and budding. The Saturday, Aug. 26 class will be held from 10 a.m. to noon. Participants will learn the basic practices and techniques of grafting, and examples of various types of grafting, equipment use, supply sources and references will be discussed. This presentation is geared toward beginners and will include introductory grafting techniques. Instructor Bob Yamamoto has been grafting since 2000. He is self taught. To register, go to bit.ly/LearnToGraft. Lyngso Garden Materials is located at 345 Shoreway Road, San Carlos.
CorrectionsA photo caption in the August 18 Home and Real Estate section should have identified a garden in Eleanor Pardee Park as the UC Master Gardeners’ Demonstration Garden. The Weekly regrets the error. To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, [email protected] or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.
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It also will bring a unique opportunity to find everything from furniture, home goods, stained-glass items, ceramics and other one-of-kind art pieces handcrafted by an eclectic mix of artists from throughout the United States.
Artist Christine Charter Moorhead, who has been working with stained glass since 1978, is among those who will be display-ing her work. She makes a variety of home goods from lamps, mirrors and windows to fireplace screens. Moorhead said she felt drawn to stained glass because of its capac-ity to start a conversation.
“Glass transcends the soul — you see it through different eyes, it illuminates. It takes you away from the ordinary and cre-ates a whole different palette for people to enjoy,” she said.
Irene Estrin, a clay artist from Santa Bar-bara who has participated in the festival for the past three years, said she got her start in clay while working as a teaching assistant with special-needs students, who took her to a clay-making class. She got hooked on cre-ating items with textures inspired by nature and now spends the bulk of her time creating artistic home goods.
“My first texture came about because I went on a bicycle ride on the Erie Canal. I’m always picking up things, and so I picked up some gravel,” she said. “I glued it on a wooden spoon and I used that for texture.”
Estrin’s work uses natural elements for more than just texture — her bowls, tea sets and vases are adorned with ceramic leaves and flowers.
Estrin calls her work “functional art” that can be used, not just admired. She said many times she has had to compel her buyer to ac-tually eat out of her bowls or use her vases.
“You can enjoy art — it’s not just some-thing to look at. You can hold it, and you can feel it and use it,” she said.
Steven Andersen also creates functional art pieces for the home. The Stockton wood-worker uses western red cedar in his con-struction of chairs, benches, dining tables and planters. He combines dark and light cedar, which gives his work a unique tone.
“That’s one of the aspects of the cedar that customers like,” he said. “So that’s part of the creative process, I guess — to alternate the colors and make that all kind of work so that the final piece can fit in all of the others. So if you bought a bunch of pieces, they’re all going to look the same.”
Andersen, a one-man company, was ex-posed to woodworking in high school and received a construction certificate in col-lege. He worked in the cabinet business for 30 years.
Andersen said that he has had the joy of creation since he was young, when he and his brother would work with their father’s tools.
“A lot of people see wood, and they just see wood,” he said. “When I see wood, I see the grain, and I see potential.”
The festival will take place on Univer-sity Avenue, between Webster and High streets, in downtown Palo Alto from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, and Sun-day, Aug. 27. The Palo Alto Medical Foun-dation will sponsor the event put on by the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce. The city of Palo Alto will provide assistance with security and street closures.
Editorial Intern Elinor Aspegren can be emailed at [email protected].
he 36th annual Palo Alto Festival of the Arts will
bring nearly 300 artists and an es-timated 150,000 people to down-town Palo Alto on Saturday, Aug. 26 and Sunday, Aug. 27.
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Near right, Irene Estrin’s bowls often have ceramic leaves and flowers. Far right, woodworker Steven Andersen creates furniture out of dark and light tones of western red cedar.
Far left, clay artist Irene Estrin takes inspiration from textures such as shells, pine cones and starfish. Near left, glass artist Christine Charter Moorhead says looking at stained glass helps people see things in a different way.
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Palo Alto arts festival draws artisans who design home decorby Elinor Aspegren
HOME SALESHome sales are provided by Cali-fornia REsource, a real estate in-formation company that obtains the information from the County Recorder’s Office. Information is recorded from the deeds after the close of escrow and pub-lished within four to six weeks.
Atherton4 Bassett Lane Maletis Trust to Murray Trust for $4,350,000 on 06/30/17; built 1948, 5bd, 3,630 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/06/1974, $113,00083 Faxon Road Hogar Limited to Road Trust for $30,000,000 on 07/03/17; built 2007, 3bd, 7,192 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/02/2002, $7,275,000
East Palo Alto896 Green Street Anson Trust to A. Averell for $552,000 on 06/28/17; built 1916, 2bd, 1,050 sq.ft.; previous sale 01/29/1976, $24,50016 Kirkwood Court Urweider Trust to C. Payne for $975,000 on 06/29/17; built 1956, 3bd, 1,150 sq.ft.152 Wisteria Drive F. Alvarez to Apex 1 Holdings for $850,000 on 06/30/17; built 1952, 5bd, 1,390 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/11/2004, $460,000
Los Altos1033 Dartmouth Lane Haugh Trust to L. Fei for $3,400,000 on 07/24/17; built 1969, 5bd, 3,328 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/1977, $145,0002056 El Sereno Avenue Plunkett Trust to H. Tseng for $2,175,000 on 07/24/17; built 1950, 3bd, 1,049 sq.ft.1968 Fallen Leaf Lane Iufer Trust to A. & S. Imam for $2,800,000 on 07/18/17; built 1960, 3bd, 2,447 sq.ft.1475 Holly Avenue K. Kasik to Row Trust for $4,675,000 on 07/18/17; built 2007, 4bd, 3,394 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/28/1992, $12,5001367 Richardson Avenue Mc-cord Trust to Richardson Av-
enue Limited for $2,210,000 on 07/20/17; built 1955, 3bd, 1656 sq.ft.24 South El Monte Avenue W. Wilson to Cao Trust for $2,722,500 on 07/24/17; built 1985, 3bd, 3,146 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/16/1988, $745,0001682 Stevens Place #B Fa-hey Trust to N. Panjwani for $1,708,000 on 07/24/17; built 1961, 2,182 sq.ft.
Los Altos Hills26880 Elena RoadCreston Developers to Rgen Trust for $9,750,000 on 07/21/17; built 2013, 5bd, 7512 sq.ft. (Previous Sale 06/15/2011, $1,545,000)14700 Manuella Road Suss-man-Rothman Trust to Hauser Trust for $3,750,000 on 07/17/17; built 1928, 4bd, 3,067 sq.ft.26965 Orchard Hill Lane Har-rison Trust to Diaz Trust for $4,320,000 on 07/18/17; built 1965, 5bd, 3,302 sq.ft.
Menlo Park705 Cambridge Avenue Menlo Living Limited to Menlo Limited for $3,200,000 on 06/21/17; built 1948, 3bd, 1,240 sq.ft.; previous sale 02/10/2016, $2,235,0002098 Cedar Avenue K. Patel to Arata Trust for $2,823,000 on 07/03/17; built 1922, 4bd, 2,599 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/10/2013, $1,550,000931 Cloud AvenueWright Trust to S. & T. Wright for $1,750,000 on 06/20/17; built 1939, 2bd, 930 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/21/2007, $1,200,000848 College AvenueTrust Trust to E. Tsai for $2,498,000 on 06/30/17; built 1914, 4bd, 1,850 sq.ft.1003 Fremont Street Pike-French Trust to R. Pike for $2,440,000 on 06/23/17; built 1935, 4bd, 2,160 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/09/2002, $1,100,0006 Greenwood PlaceR. & L. Davis to R. Davis for $1,690,000 on 06/22/17; built 1948, 2bd, 1,120 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/13/1987, $265,0002140 Santa Cruz Avenue #A102 Johnson Trust to D. Jeris
for $838,000 on 06/30/17; built 1978, 2bd, 1,230 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/15/2011, $452,5001230 Sharon Park Drive #59 Matsuzaki Trust to H. Sun for $1,177,000 on 06/30/17; built 1978, 2bd, 1,860 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/19/1996, $411,500
Mountain View181 Centre Street #16 Stuhlbarg Trust to K. Malla for $1,425,000 on 07/20/17; built 1981, 3bd, 1,488 sq.ft.; previous sale 02/19/1991, $269,5001033 Crestview Drive #210Yo-sefof Trust to W. Hui for $877,000 on 07/20/17; built 1969, 2bd, 1,140 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/28/2010, $350,000117 Fairchild Drive MV View-point to A. Thangaraju for $1,295,000 on 07/24/17; built 2016, 3bd, 1,753 sq.ft.403 Farley Street M. & S. Rit-ter to K. Oo for $1,638,000 on 07/19/17; built 1950, 4bd, 1,746 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/08/1995, $280,0001828 Fordham Way Gentry-Far-rar Trust to M. Di for $2,425,000 on 07/18/17; built 1956, 4bd, 1,707 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/05/2015, $2,358,000172 Georgetown Drive D. Hwang to D. & K. Chan for $1,380,000 on 07/20/17; built 2005, 2bd, 1,294 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/23/2009, $655,0002080 Marich Way #8 Desh-pande Trust to HMD Home Solu-tions for $1,680,000 on 07/18/17; built 1982, 3bd, 1,667 sq.ft.; pre-vious sale 12/31/2009, $714,500264 North Whisman Road #9 G. Berg to M. & E. Scott for $775,000 on 07/17/17; built 1978, 2bd, 1,087 sq.ft.1629 Notre Dame Drive P. & L. Sterbentz to K. Yuan for $2,500,000 on 07/18/17; built 1954, 3bd, 1,616 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/11/2003, $759,000178 Oberg Court Lee-Zhu Trust to Y. Wan for $1,320,000 on 07/21/17; built 2006, 3bd, 1,369 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/27/2006, $650,500315 Ruth Avenue D. Jones to W. Zheng for $1,735,000 on
07/24/17; built 1959, 3bd, 1,140 sq.ft.128 Sherland Avenue D. Lewis to B. & V. Mukherjee for $1,827,000 on 07/24/17; built 1965, 2,160 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/19/1997, $371,0002272 Towne Circle S. Nemat-bakhsh to K. Ni for $1,460,000 on 07/18/17; built 2002, 3bd, 1,539 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/31/2014, $980,000220 View Street Yatovitz Trust to A. Goldie for $1,615,000 on 07/20/17; built 2008, 2bd, 1,332 sq.ft.; previous sale 01/23/2008, $850,000
Palo Alto925 Addison Avenue D. & M. Maydan to M. Green for $8,400,000 on 07/20/17; built 2006, 5bd, 4,096 sq.ft.811 Ames Avenue Mukherjea Trust to B. Liu for $2,437,500 on 07/20/17; built 1955, 3bd, 1,631 sq.ft.3188 Bryant Street Bowling Trust to Shi Trust for $4,900,000 on 07/17/17; built 2017, 7bd, 4,019 sq.ft.879 Clara Drive J. Jeon to Y. Zhu for $3,150,000 on 07/18/17; built 2006, 4bd, 2,183 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/28/2013, $2,350,000795 East Charleston Road W. Ernst to K. Ho for $2,321,000 on 07/24/17; built 1956, 3bd, 1421 sq.ft.627 Fulton Street Foster Trust to A. & L. Varma for $3,828,000 on 07/17/17; built 1924, 4bd, 2062 sq.ft. (Previous Sale 10/30/2015, $3,700,000)107 Greenmeadow Way G. Hel-frich to A. Benitez for $1,250,000 on 07/20/17; built 1959, 2bd, 994 sq.ft.1800 Guinda Street Gerken-Soforenko Trust to S. & F. Ahn for $3,100,000 on 07/21/17; built 1938, 3bd, 1,689 sq.ft.445 Homer Avenue P. Hertz-mann to Z. Liu for $1,900,000 on 07/20/17; built 1981, 3bd, 1,580 sq.ft.2530 Marshall Drive K. Smith to Oak Trust for $2,600,000 on 07/19/17; built 1954, 3bd, 1,712 sq.ft.
923 Moreno Avenue T. Duong to Y. Bao for $2,256,000 on 07/18/17; built 1954, 4bd, 1,260 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/17/2002, $775,0002326 Ramona Street Clark Trust to X. Wang for $3,600,000 on 07/17/17; built 1930, 3bd, 1,973 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/15/1991, $660,0003637 Ramona Street Kueffer Trust to W. Riggs for $2,235,000 on 07/21/17; built 1951, 3bd, 1,318 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/1973, $39,500859 Rorke WayLieb Trust to J. Wu for $2,820,000 on 07/18/17; built 2006, 4bd, 2,066 sq.ft.; pre-vious sale 08/03/2004, $875,000410 Sheridan Avenue #108 Morrison Trust to Colton Trust for $935,000 on 07/17/17; built 1977, 1bd, 812 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/16/2008, $560,000345 Wilton Avenue D. Chomo to R. Singh for $1,975,000 on 07/18/17; built 1947, 3bd, 1,245 sq.ft.
Portola Valley20 Navajo Place Bad to Thomas Trust for $3,600,000 on 06/23/17; built 1964, 4bd, 3,430 sq.ft.
Stanford81 Pearce Mitchell Place Mark Trust to Stanford University for $555,000 on 07/18/17; built 1975, 3bd, 1,286 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/19/1975, $58,500
Woodside6 Bret Harte Drive J. Huca to B. Randolph for $1,100,000 on 06/30/17; built 1966, 2bd, 1,540 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/27/2011, $399,000275 Ridgeway Road Bullock Trust to A. Massa for $4,282,500 on 06/27/17; built 1973, 4bd, 3,610 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/26/2003, $217,500
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Senior Andi Sullivan will the the centerpiece of a talented Stanford women’s soccer team that has a national championship as its goal.
Pursuit of a national championshipSullivan reflects on Stanford career, her senior year and the national team
by Shawna Chen
W hen Stanford soccer midfielder Andi Sul-livan first arrived at
the U.S. senior national team’s training camp in Salt Lake City last October, she was incredibly nervous.
“Wow, I’m really not ready for this,” she thought to herself as she joined the drills. The exercises moved so fast that by the time she got the hang of something, it had already finished five minutes ago.
“You had to be firing (on all) cylinders at all times,” she said. “I told myself, ‘Keep your head down and work hard. Be
responsive and try to absorb as much information as possible.’”
Sullivan, who has served as Stanford’s team captain since her sophomore year, said getting a taste of playing at the high-est level, something she knew she wanted to do since she was a child, “was very surreal.” The invitation was already more than enough, so she was shocked when she was instructed to start a game.
“These are players that I’ve either looked up to since I was a kid or watched on TV growing up,” she said. “You play with them and you realize,’Oh my gosh, they’re even better than you get to see on TV.’”
“The team ... made me want to go home and work some more so I could come back and be better for my Stanford team and also for them in the future,” she added.
Her challenge as team captain is establishing a culture in which every team member feels like she can contribute, even as players ro-tate in and out every year.
“At the end of the day, we want to perform well and we want to win games, so whether you’re playing or not, you want to be con-tributing to that team’s energy and competitiveness,” she said. “It’s never about you; it’s about how I’m pushing my teammates to be
better so that in the game they’re ready, and how they’re pushing me to be better so I’m ready no matter the circumstance.”
That way, the big wins mean even more because everyone is celebrating together, she said. When someone scores and the whole team sprints out onto the field in victory, there’s an “infec-tious energy” that is irreplaceable.
“It’s one single moment but there’s so much work that goes into it,” she said. “To get to cel-ebrate it for a second, and to keep pursuing that feeling . . . that
New coach but same offense at SHP
Former pro quarterback Grieb takes the reins
PREP FOOTBALL
(continued on page 47)
by Glenn Reeves
A new coach but the same offense. Continuity exists in the Sacred Heart Prep
football program.But longtime followers of the
Gators ought not be surprised if this year’s team turns out to be a bit more disposed toward the pass than previous editions.
Mark Grieb takes over as head coach from Pete Lavorato. Grieb has extensive history playing quarterback and coaching quar-terbacks. The highly-successful Lavorato would open it up and pass when the situation called for it. But he always preferred keep-ing it on the ground and grinding
out 4 or 5 yards a carry with his team’s fly offense.
“Maybe,’’ Grieb answered when asked if he might be inclined to put the ball in the air more than SHP teams of the past did. “I like to be balanced.’’
But there’s no questioning his high regard for returning quarter-back Brad Yaffe.
“Brad’s an outstanding passer who can make any throw on the field,’’ Grieb said. “He’s smart and tough. His best attribute is his competitiveness.’’
The 6-foot-2, 190-pound Yaffe took over at quarterback midway
Sacred Heart Prep’s Garrett Gavello (21) returns as a leader among the linebacking corps. (continued on next page)
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through last season and complet-ed 57 percent of his passes (48 of 84) for 684 yards. Before moving to QB he played defensive end.
“He filled in one day on the scout team and started tackling guys right and left,’’ Grieb said.
Tommy Barnds, Jack Donnelly, Te-vita Moimoi (younger brother of last year’s leading rusher Isoa Moimoi) and John Wil-lard are penciled in at running back.
Their success will be predicated on the performance of an offensive line group that Grieb says is the strength of the team. Rob-ert Thompson (6-2, 220), Liam Shaughnessy (5-9, 180), Nick Schlotter (5-9, 165) and Jake Da-vison (6-0, 215) have stood out in fall camp.
“I believe that games are won up front,’’ Grieb said. “I’m excited about what we’re doing up front. Our line is working extremely hard.’’
Grieb also has had to replace defensive coordinator Mark Modeste, who took the head coaching job at Strake Jesuit High School in Houston, the same school long-time Bellarm-ine coach Mike Janda starred and coached at.
Dave DeGeronimo, an assistant for a number of years at Sacred
Heart Prep and Palo Alto, is the new defen-sive coordinator. Veter-an coaches John Gilm-ore and Ed Larios are still on staff, Gilmore as a line coach and Lar-ios coaching running backs and linebackers.
Garrett Gavello, who was in on 73 tackles last season, 50 solo,
returns to lead the lineback-ing corps, which looks to be the strength of the defense. Moimoi, Donnelly, Barnds and Andrew McLean round out that lineback-ing group.
The Gators open the season Aug. 25 with a trip to Hollister to take on San Benito.
“That’s a tough opening draw, a battle the first week,’’ Grieb said. “But I’m excited. I feel good about it.’’
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Mark Grieb
Cardinal men’s soccer picked to win Pac-12
Women’s volleyball tabbed for second in the conferenceby Stanford Athletics
T he top-ranked Stanford men’s soccer team was picked first in the Pac-12
preseason coaches poll, tallying 24 points and four first-place votes. The Cardinal also placed a league-best four on the All-Pac-12 preseason team in seniors Corey Baird, Tomas Hilliard-Arce, Foster Langsdorf and Drew Skundrich.
The nation’s most successful collegiate soccer program over the past three seasons, Stanford is 46-8-11 (.792) since 2014, has won back-to-back national cham-pionships and three consecutive Pac-12 titles.
One of six programs to win back-to-back national champi-onships and the first to do it in a dozen years, the Cardinal will attempt to become just the sec-ond program to win three straight NCAA titles (Virginia; 1991-94). Stanford, which returns nine of its 11 starters, including 100 per-cent of its goals scored and over 90 percent of its assists, will also enter the 2017 season with an ac-tive shutout streak of 548:29.
Stanford used a flurry of first-half goals to beat Portland in its first exhibition on Sunday, 3-0.
Its final tune-up is at home on Saturday at 7 p.m. against Pacif-ic. Admission to the exhibition is free and prior to the start the pro-gram will host a free youth clinic from 5-6 p.m. for those ages 5-12 on Maloney Field, directly behind
the east side of Cagan Stadium ad-jacent to El Camino Real.
Women’s volleyball The defending NCAA cham-
pion Stanford women’s volleyball team was selected to finish sec-ond in the Pac-12 in a vote among conference coaches, the Pac-12 announced Wednesday. The Car-dinal has won seven of the last 11 conference championships.
Stanford, which received three first-place votes, totaled 113 points to come in just behind Washington (118), which collect-ed eight first-place votes. Oregon came in third in the voting with 93 points, followed by Utah (88), which picked up the final first-place vote. Rounding out the top half of the poll were UCLA (83) and USC (71).
Women’s basketball Stanford senior Brittany
McPhee and the USA U23 na-tional women’s basketball team went undefeated to win the in-augural U24 Four Nations Tour-nament at Katayanagi Arena in Tokyo.
McPhee averaged 9.3 points on 61.1 percent shooting (11-of-18) and 4.0 rebounds in 15.7 minutes per game and the United States swept its three games against Australia, Canada and Japan over the last four days.
She tied for 12th at the event in both scoring and rebounding, was fourth in field goal percentage.
result is so special.”She said she likes to be the glue
on the team, working defensively and initializing possession and then letting the “special players do their thing.”
Sullivan, said Cardinal coach Paul Ratcliffe, leads by example. She is a team player, whether she’s helping with recruiting future play-ers or mentoring younger players. There’s no one quality that stands out because she has so many.
“She’s a great leader; she’s tech-nically very good; she’s competi-tive; she’s a ball-winner,” he said. “She has good vision and kind of checks all the boxes in a player. And she’s a great human being, a great person; very easy to talk
to, humble, cares a lot about oth-ers. She’s a great representative of Stanford.”
Every day, she demands excel-lence of herself and her team-mates, giving 100 percent in “ev-erything she does” and training at the highest level she can, Ratcliffe said.
That training paid off this year as Stanford’s pursued the Pac-12 championship against rival Cali-fornia. Sullivan took on two de-fenders by herself in the 56th min-ute and made a “perfectly placed shot” at the lower right corner of the goal, said Ratcliffe, giving the team a decisive lead against Cal.
“She rose to the occasion,” Rat-cliffe said. “It was a big game, and she had the determination and competitiveness to fight through and make a huge impact on us.”
As Sullivan enters her senior
year, she is continuing recovery from tearing her anterior cruciate ligament last year. She’ll return to the field this season and hopes to secure the national champion-ship. Though she feels like “we’re due,” she’s focused on trusting the process of training and being “re-silient and relentless” in pursuing that goal.
She hasn’t given much thought yet to post-Stanford years but knows she wants a professional soccer career. Her dream? Playing in the Olympics and World Cup.
“I feel confident enough that if I do the work and put in the right effort, I feel like I’m on the right track,” she said. “I realize those words have weight and they’re not going to just happen, but I don’t think they’re out of reach.”
The Cardinal advancing to the Final Four in 2016 and securing
its victory against Florida with a free kick in overtime; the team beating Oregon State in 2016 with two seconds to go in “this absurd condition where it was pouring down rain and the ball was get-ting stuck in the mud and you shouldn’t even be playing;” Stan-ford winning its 11th Pac-12 title this past year: these are the mo-ments that will stay with her long after she leaves the field.
But for now, she’s putting all her energy into her last season at Stanford.
“I can’t wait to see what kind of memories we’ll make this year,” she said. “Because [past memories] are really special but we can’t live off those. You’ve got to go out and create more.”
No restrictions on ChrystPalo Alto grad healed quickly, nicely, from knee injury
Date Opponent Time
Friday at Marquette 5:30 pmSunday at Wisconsin 3 pmAug. 25 at Florida 2 pmSept. 1 vs. Georgetown 4 pmSept. 3 vs. Navy 1 pmSept. 8 vs. USF 7 pmSept. 10 vs. Yale 1 pmSept. 17 at Santa Clara 7 pmSept. 21 at Washington St. 6 pm*Sept. 28 vs. Arizona 7 pm*Oct. 1 vs. Arizona St. 1 pm*Oct. 5 at Utah 4 pm*Oct. 8 at Colorado 11 am*Oct. 13 vs. Washington 8 pm*Oct. 19 vs. Oregon 6 pm*Oct. 22 vs. Oregon St. 1 pmOct. 26 at UCLA 7:30 pm*Oct. 29 at USC 3 pm*Nov. 3 vs. Cal 7 p.m.
* Pac-12 Conference
STANFORD WOMEN’S SOCCER
Soccer(continued from page 45)
by Glenn Reeves
K eller Chryst’s future avail-ability was cloaked in uncertainty after he went
down with a knee injury in Stan-ford’s Sun Bowl win last Decem-ber over North Carolina.
There were no guarantees he would be ready for the start of the 2017 season.
But Chryst, much to the delight of the Stanford fanbase, has shown himself to be a fast healer. His per-formance in fall camp has been at such a high level that coach David Shaw named him the starter for Stanford’s Aug. 26 season opener in Australia against Rice.
And on Sunday at the final open practice of fall camp Shaw said there would be no limits on play calling, including the quarter-back run, for Chryst in the season opener.
“He’s 100 percent,’’ Shaw said. “No ill effects. No issues at all.’’
Chryst’s readiness altered
Shaw’s cautious plan to bring his quarterback along slowly.
“I anticipated resting him more, pulling him out more, but he’s feeling great,’’ Shaw said. “So as long as he’s healthy and cleared by the doctors we’re ready to go, no limitations. He’s going to have to scramble. We can’t keep him from running.’’
Chryst came out of Palo Alto High touted as the No. 1 dropback passer in the nation. But in taking over as the starting quarterback last season and leading the Cardi-nal to a 6-0 record he showed the ability to execute the Stanford of-fense in its entirety, to run as well as pass. He completed 77 of 136 passes for 905 yards and 10 touch-downs and also averaged nearly four yards per carry, gaining 159 yards on 41 carries with two TDs.
The quarterback run is a not insignificant part of the Stanford offense. And while running the ball makes him more susceptible
Palo Alto grad Keller Chryst will have no restrictions following knee surgery during the offseason. He was named Stanford’s starting quarterback.
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Stanford women open soccer season on the road
First three games are away from homeby Nick Sato/Stanford Athletics
SOCCER
T he second-ranked Stanford women’s soccer kicks off the season with a trip to
Milwaukee to face off with Mar-quette on Friday and Wisconsin on Sunday.
After nearly three weeks of preseason preparations, the Car-dinal starts the season with three matches on the road against tough opposition.
Stanford’s schedule includes 10 opponents who appeared in the 2016 NCAA tourna-ment, including four teams who earned a top-four seed: Florida (1), Georgetown (2), USC (2) and UCLA (4). Seven opponents fin-ished last season ranked in the United Soccer Coaches top-25 poll: USC (1), Georgetown (3), Florida (10), UCLA (13), Utah (16), Santa Clara (17) and Colo-rado (23).
Stanford returns 12 of its top 15 leaders in minutes played, includ-ing seven who featured in all 21 matches: Kyra Carusa, Michelle Xiao, Sacred Heart Prep grad Tierna Davidson, Tegan McGrady, Alana Cook, Beattie Goad and Averie Collins.
Andi Sullivan, the Pac-12 leader in points (29) and points pergame (1.61), is set to re-turn from a knee injury sustained in the NCAA tournament. She led the team in goals (11) despite making four appearances with the United States National team, the first caps of her career.
Redshirt junior forward Kyra Carusa also returns after leading the Pac-12 in assists (10) -- her 0.48 assist/game ratio was tops in the league with no other player
owning a ratio of 0.39 or higher. As a team, Stanford led the Pac-12 in goals (51), points (141) and goals (28) during league play.
Sullivan and Davidson were named to the watch list for the Missouri Ath-letic Club’s Hermann Trophy, the highest honor in collegiate soccer. Sullivan, a three-time All-Pacific Region selection and the reigning Pac-12 Player of the Year, makes the list for the third consecutive sea-
son. Davidson, who was named to TopDrawerSoccer’s Freshman Best XI, the All-Pac-12 second team and Pac-12 All-Freshman team, was one of five to start all 21 matches in 2016.
Sullivan, Davidson and Ca-tarina Macario were picked for TopDrawerSoccer’s Preseason Best XI teams. Sullivan, a two-time First-Team All-American, was part of the first team. David-
son earned a place on the second team, with Macario on the all-freshman team.
In addition to eight freshmen, Stanford welcomes sophomore transfer Sam Hiatt, who started all 19 games for Boston College in 2016 while playing the most minutes on the team as
a freshman. She adds depth to the back line, which will be without graduated All-America center back Maddie Bauer for the first time since 2012.
The top-rated freshmen recruit-ing class: Belle Briede, Sophia Serafin, Civana Kuhlmann, Ma-cario, Jojo Harber, Kiki Pickett, Brooke Redington, and Madison Haley.
Andi Sullivan
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to a hit on his surgically-repaired knee, Chryst said it will not affect his style of play. After all, born into a football family -- father Geep is the Denver Broncos tight ends coach, uncle Paul is the head coach at Wisconsin -- Keller has grown up steeped in football val-ues. They are part of his fabric. He’s a bottom-line guy: You do what you need to do for your team to be successful and win games.
“I’m going to take whatever yards I can get,’’ he said.
The current nature of the game necessitates mobility at the quar-terback position.
“In the landscape of college football you can’t have a statue back there,’’ Stanford offensive coordinator Mike Bloomgren said. “He’s a kid who is a better athlete than everyone gave him credit for. He can run the ball on third down and get us a first down.’’
Chryst was not asked to run much in high school playing for Earl Hansen at Paly. Logic sug-gests his development as a runner is the major part of his evolution as a quarterback at Stanford. But that’s not necessarily the way Chryst sees it.
“I’ve learned a lot every year,’’ he said. “Overall I think the big-gest thing is being a master of the huddle.’’
He’s talking leadership, a role intrinsic to the quarterback posi-tion, not something statistically quantifiable. His teammates buy in. Chryst was named a team cap-tain on Sunday.
“The offensive linemen think he’s in solidarity with them,’’ Bloomgren said.
At 6-foot-5 and 234 pounds, Chryst is an imposing figure, as big or bigger than linemen of a previous generation.
“He’s a football junkie,’’ said wide receiver Trenton Irwin. “His whole family is in football. He was out here every day over the sum-mer for optional drills.’’
There’s never been any question about Chryst’s ability as a passer. Irwin, a favored target a year ago when he caught 37 passes for 442 yards, is well versed to speak on that subject.
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