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M arijuana dispensaries could sprout at up to three Palo Alto locations, if the City

Council or voters were to approve an ordinance legalizing medical marijuana within city limits.

A citizens group has gathered

more than enough signatures to put the issue on the city ballot, City Clerk Donna Grider told the Weekly. The success of the signa-ture drive means the council must either adopt the proposed ordi-nance or bring it to the voters some

time next year.Initiative supporters argue in the

petition that legalizing and taxing marijuana dispensaries would be both humane and financially lu-crative. The proposed ordinance would “allow our neighbors, who are seriously or terminally ill, to legally and safely obtain marijuana near their home, if they have the ap-proval of their physician,” the peti-tion states.

“Terminally ill patients, many of

whom are elderly, are faced with a Hobson’s choice of buying marijua-na illegally or traveling many miles to a city that has a dispensary,” the petition reads.

The drive is led by former Ron-ald Reagan adviser Thomas Gale Moore and Cassandra Chrones Moore, a policy analyst at the lib-ertarian think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Under the proposed ordinance, operators of marijuana dispensa-

ries would pay $10,000 for their permits and pay a 4 percent tax for every dollar of their gross receipts. The dispensaries would also have to pay $10,000 every year to have their permits renewed.

Proponents note in their petition that San Jose’s medical-marijuana ordinance brought the city $290,000 in revenues in its first month and urge Palo Alto officials to pass a

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Ballot initiative to allow three pot dispensaries gathers needed signatures, heads to City Council

by Gennady Sheyner

A fter a brief respite, Palo Alto’s firefighters union on Wednes-day renewed its legal battle

against the city and resurrected its quest to keep a labor-reform mea-sure off the November ballot.

The union, International Asso-ciation of Fire Fighters, Local 1319, last month filed an “unfair labor

practices” charge against the city with the state Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), arguing that the council acted unlawfully in not conferring with the union before deciding to place a repeal of binding arbitration before city voters. Mea-sure D, which the council approved in July by a 5-4 vote, seeks to repeal

a 33-year-old law that empowers a panel of arbitrators to settle labor disputes between the city and its public-safety workers.

The union had also requested on Aug. 1 an injunction that would keep Measure D from the ballot.

Days after filing the complaint and requesting the injunction, union leaders agreed to shelve both in hopes that the council would re-open negotiations with the unions and consider less drastic reforms to the binding-arbitration process.

But this past Tuesday night, before the council retreated into a closed session to discuss the union’s legal challenge, union President Tony Spi-taleri urged the council to consider a settlement proposal from the labor board, a proposal that he declined to discuss in detail but that he said

would postpone the election until June 2012 and give the city and the union a chance to draft an ordinance that would be acceptable to all.

On Wednesday, when it became clear that the council would not re-schedule the election, the union re-sumed its legal challenge and asked the court once again to consider its request for an injunction. The labor board is expected to consider the re-quest for injunction immediately and issue a response within a few days of the request, City Attorney Molly Stump said.

Spitaleri on Wednesday criticized the city’s decision to place the bind-ing-arbitration repeal on the Novem-ber ballot, saying in a statement that the “City Council has thrown fair-

COMMUNITY

A fine romanceSeated on a new bench carved out of a felled, century-old eucalyptus tree at the College Terrace Library, Mark Mueller reads a fairy tale to his wife, Sarah Griffin Mueller. Mueller hand-wrote the book, “Princess and the Mule,” a year ago based on the couple’s own story — and used it to propose. The Muellers celebrated their anniversary by rereading the story.

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Legalized marijuana wafts toward Palo Alto ballot

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From fear to friendship‘National Invite Your

Neighbors to Dinner Day’ aims to foster understanding

by Sue Dremann

F or 10 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, Samina Faheem Sun-das has opened her Palo Alto

home and her heart to her fellow Americans with the goal of build-ing “a beloved community.”

A Pakistani immigrant, naturalized American citizen and Sunni Muslim, Sundas said she saw her fellow Amer-icans — people she did not know — express hatred toward her as a result of Sept. 11.

“It was just a very rude awakening for me. I realized at that moment the place I call home, the nation I adopt-ed, the people I think of as my own, have just kicked me out. That day, I became ‘the other,’” she said.

But Sundas, 57, found her life’s work in the rubble of the disaster. Sundas started holding dinners in her home to help her neighbors and people of faith overcome the fear of “the other.”

Her efforts have neither gone unno-ticed nor unrewarded. She received the 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an interfaith peace organization, for her open houses and for founding American Muslim Voice, a nonprofit that brings people of different backgrounds together to learn about each other.

On Oct. 2, Sundas, together with American Muslim Voice and dozens of interfaith groups, will host “Na-tional Invite Your Neighbors to Din-ner Day.”

The event encourages Americans to lessen religious and cultural tensions by inviting someone of a different background over for dinner, she said.

The event, part of the “From Fear to Friendship” campaign, was an-nounced at a press conference in Washington, D.C., on March 28. It was sponsored by U.S. Rep. Pete Stark (D-


Fire union reignites battle against ballot measure

Firefighters reopen their ‘unfair labor practice’ charge against city; seek to block labor-reform measure

by Gennady Sheyner

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Around Town

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BRAIN DRAIN ... Palo Alto likes its

retired city workers — so much so,

that it rehires them at a higher rate

than any other city in Santa Clara County. According to a recent re-

port from the county, 5.7 percent

of the city’s employees are people

who retired and were then rehired

(for other cities in the county, the

average was 1.6 percent). The

practice of rehiring retired workers

faced some scrutiny after newspa-

per reports found some instances

of employees “double dipping”

by retiring, cashing out all their

vacations and bonuses, and then

returning to work while continuing

to collect their pension. But the

county’s Civil Grand Jury recently

issued a report on the matter and

found that in most cases, rehiring

retirees “appears to be a prudent

way to secure highly skilled talent

for short-term tasks at a relatively

low cost to economically strapped

municipalities and does not in

itself appear to be a barrier to hir-

ing new workers.” In Palo Alto, the

rehiring of retirees is particularly

popular for several reasons. With

revenues falling, the city has been

shaving away at workers’ benefits

and instituting new requirements

for employees to share medical

and pension costs. These factors

led many employees to retire over

the past two years, leaving “a rap-

id and unprecedented municipal

‘brain drain’,” according to a report

from Human Resources Assistant

Michele Dallara. The city’s plum-

meting tax revenues also threw a

wrench into the city’s “succession

planning” by forcing the council to

trim positions instead of creating

training plans. The city, accord-

ing to Dallara’s report, faced a

“significant exodus of workers with

expertise and institutional knowl-

edge” and ended up rehiring retir-

ees for such positions as deputy

fire chief, police investigators and

managers in Public Works, Plan-

ning and Community Environment,

and Human Resources. The City

Council is scheduled to approve

the staff response to the grand

jury report on Monday night.

BEYOND THE BORDERS ... When

Borders Books announced in July

its plans to close all stores by Sep-

tember, Palo Alto’s theater lovers

saw the local store’s impending

departure as a perfect opportu-

nity to restore the building to the

theater it once was. These hopes

were dealt a blow last week, when

representatives of the building

owner, Charles “Chop” Keenan,

submitted plans to convert most

of the building to office space. Ac-

cording to Thomas Fehrenbach,

the city’s economic-development

manager, the plan calls for offices

on the second floor and on 25

percent of the ground floor of the

prominent two-story building on

University Avenue and Waverley

Street. Fehrenbach wrote in a

letter to the City Council that his

office has put together a brochure

about the property at 456 Univer-

sity Ave. and has reached out to

various people in the theater and

performing arts communities. The

new brochure calls the building

“ideal for theater use” and lauds

its “high foot traffic” and proximity

to Caltrain and Stanford. So far,

he said, there have been no formal

proposals from the theater com-

munity.

HANDS OFF ... A proposal by

State Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo

Alto, to add penalties for drivers

who text behind the wheel hit a

legislative wall this week when

Gov. Jerry Brown decided to veto

it. The proposal, Senate Bill 29,

would have raised fines and added

a “point” on the driving records

of motorists who text while driv-

ing or who talk on their cell pones

without hands-free devices. The

bill would have raised fines for

those who text while driving to

$50 for first offense and $100

for subsequent offenses. When

court fees and other penalties are

entered into the equation, repeat

offenders would have to pay more

than $500. Though Simitian as-

serted that the new bill would

reduce collisions and save lives,

Brown vetoed the bill, saying the

current laws suffice. Simitian, who

authored three previous laws tar-

geting distracted drivers, called

the veto a “lost opportunity to

save more lives.” He said he would

review Brown’s veto message to

see if there’s any room for com-

promise. “I’m disappointed, but

the Governor gets the last word,”

Simitian said in a statement. “I un-

derstand and accept that. My job

now is to figure out where do we

go from here.”

We should not wait for a disaster to come to find out who’s who.

— Samina Faheem Sundas, a Sunni Muslim and U.S. citizen, on why she created ‘National Invite Your Neighbors to Dinner Day.’ See story on page 3.

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Foundation aims for longer school dayNew Ravenswood director links classroom hours, higher scores

by Chris Kenrick

A tight focus on academics has slowly but surely boosted test scores in East Palo Alto

schools.The kids and teachers have worked

hard — but Renu Nanda thinks out-side volunteers deserve some small credit as well.

Nanda, a lawyer and resident of Menlo Park, is the new executive di-rector of the Ravenswood Education Foundation, which has raised more than $3 million in its four-year his-tory and brokered outside assistance for the hardscrabble Ravenswood City School District. The district serves 3,800 K-8 children from East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park.

Longer school days and summer academies have been top funding priorities for the foundation — “in-creased learning time is one of those things that we know works,” Nanda said.

The Ravenswood district celebrated a 79-point gain — from 636 to 715 — over three years in its Academic Performance Index (API), released last week.

That may not compare to Palo Alto’s 926, but it’s progress for a dis-trict where 80 percent of children are considered low-income; about two-thirds are still learning English; and 30 percent every year are brand-new enrollees.

Four schools — Brentwood, Cesar Chavez, Costano and Willow Oaks — exceeded the median API score for other California schools with similar demographics. One school, James Flood, precisely hit the me-dian. Three others — Belle Haven, Green Oaks and McNair — came in below the median API score for simi-lar schools.

“Having great schools is an incre-

mental process, and it takes a long time,” Nanda said in an interview in her small office at Ravenswood dis-trict headquarters.

“We’re showing that we can do it, but it’s still a community of high need. Less than half the parents are high school graduates in this district — compared to the three-quarters in surrounding communities that have graduate degrees.”

Nanda first came to the foundation as a board member more than two years ago and has chaired the de-velopment committee and served as board vice-president. She previously worked at the Silicon Valley Commu-nity Foundation and the Low Income Investment Fund in San Francisco.

In August she took over the Ra-venswood foundation’s executive post from founding director Charley Scandlyn, formerly a pastor at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, who has returned to the church staff.

The Menlo Park Presbyterian con-gregation has generated major finan-cial and volunteer power for Raven-swood schools, particularly during the church’s “Compassion Weekend” each spring, which brings out thou-sands.

“We’ve had volunteers in the class-room, volunteers adopting class-rooms, a whole teacher-appreciation initiative. There’s a lot of community support,” Nanda said.

The foundation’s website lists addi-tional broad-based support from local corporations and foundations, as well as from 700 individual donors.

“We’re trying to bridge the desire of the community to help — with all the resources it can bring to bear — with the needs of the district,” Nanda said.

“The district staff is busy educating, teaching, leading, running schools.

When you have an out-side compa-ny that says, ‘Hey, we’d like to do something,’ it’s good to make it easy for them.”

B e s i d e s adding class-room hours for Raven-swood students, top foundation goals are promoting parent involvement and helping eighth-graders transition to high school.

The foundation last year hired a “parent-outreach coordinator” for the district, and more than 500 district parents have donated to the founda-tion, Nanda said.

The eighth-grade transition project is still in the planning stages.

Since the closure of Ravenswood High School 35 years ago, Raven-swood students have had to split up for high school, fanning out to Menlo-Atherton, Woodside and Carlmont. Rumors of high dropout rates abound, but reliable data is hard to come by since the high school district does not track the scattered Ravenswood stu-dents as a group.

“Our next frontier is how our chil-dren are doing in high school, and whether they’re succeeding in high school and beyond,” Nanda said.

“We’ve supported good teachers, excellent administrators and engaged parents, and I’m confident our (stan-dardized test) scores will continue to go up.”

Staff Writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at [email protected].

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Seeking to provide local techno-philes with faster and easier In-ternet access, AT&T on Wednes-

day launched a “hotzone” initiative in the heart of downtown Palo Alto.

The initiative, known as “AT&T Wi-Fi Hotzone,” essentially drapes a busy section of University Avenue, between Cowper and Bryant streets, in what the company calls a “fast and reliable” Wi-Fi network. AT&T customers with qualifying plans get unlimited access to AT&T hotzones at no additional cost, the company announced.

The new hotzone is the latest effort by AT&T to increase its local pres-ence. The company had recently in-stalled new Wi-Fi antennas at Hotel President on University Avenue, de-spite protests from a group of build-ing residents. The company is also plans to put up a network of antennas around existing utility poles — mea-

sures the company says are necessary to accommodate the city’s limited capacity and insatiable appetite for Internet service.

AT&T has also recently partnered with Stanford University to provide Wi-Fi service at nine athletic facili-ties on campus. Ken McNeely, presi-dent of AT&T’s California operation, said in a statement that the company’s initiatives aim to address an increase in connectivity and mobile data use across the company’s networks.

“We’re focused on increasing our coverage and enhancing the customer experience in the Palo Alto area, and we are excited to continue efforts with the launch of our second Wi-Fi hot-zone in the past year for AT&T cus-tomers in California,” McNeely said.

Though the company’s efforts have angered a small but vocal sector of the community, particularly in those areas where AT&T proposed to put

up new antennas, city officials have been generally enthusiastic about the company’s efforts to improve Inter-net service around town. Mayor Sid Espinosa said the city appreciates AT&T’s investment in the Palo Alto community.

“As the center of technology and innovation, Palo Alto is proud to be one of the first cities in the country to have a Wi-Fi hotzone deployed in its downtown corridor,” Espinosa said in a statement.

Paula Sandas, CEO of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, agreed and said her organization “applauds AT&T’s expansion of Wi-Fi coverage in Palo Alto.”

“Wireless connectivity in today’s business is a requirement, not a luxu-ry,” Sandas said in a statement. “Our businesses depend on reliable wire-less connectivity for their day-to-day operations.”

New AT&T ‘hotzone’ opens on University Ave.Company says initiative will provide ‘fast and reliable’ Internet access

by Gennady Sheyner

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Man arrested in July linked to burglaries in Palo AltoPalo Alto police say they have solved at least four more home burglar-

ies since arresting a suspect in July.On July 29, police responded to a report of a prowler in the area of

Jefferson and Edgewood drives. A resident saw a man, later identified as George Martinez, 45, of East Palo Alto, in the backyard of her home and called police.

Officers spotted Martinez near the Edgewood Shopping Center on Channing Avenue. He ran from police but was caught at the intersec-tion of Embarcadero and West Bayshore roads after a short foot chase, police said.

The resident identified Martinez as the person she had seen in her backyard, and he was arrested on a parole violation and booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail. Police said he was on parole for assaulting a police officer.

Investigators found stolen property in Martinez’s car, police said. Po-lice say they have been able to link Martinez to four residential burglaries from July in which computers, cash and jewelry were stolen.

Police said the district attorney’s office has charged Martinez with sev-eral counts of burglary. Community members are encouraged to report suspicious activity by calling 911 or 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be emailed to [email protected] or people can anonymously call or text 650-383-8984.

— Bay City News Service

Palo Alto aims to slash waiting time for permitsPalo Alto’s famously infuriating permit-review process is about to get

a major makeover.Spurred by years of customer complaints of having to wait hours to get

help and by a recent surge of activity at the city’s Development Center, the City Council decided Sept. 6 to add five new staff members, including a new director, to the chronically busy permit hub.

The council voted 7-1, with Yiaway Yeh absent and Karen Holman dissenting, to back a long list of reforms proposed by City Manager James Keene and the city’s planning staff to improve customer service and reduce waiting times at the center, located across the street from City Hall. The reforms include hiring a “development center official” to coordinate the various departments involved in the permit process (a list that includes Planning and Community Environment, Fire, Utilities and Public Works), a “permit center manager” to provide day-to-day manage-ment of the facility and three project managers.

In approving the proposed initiatives, the council sought to address one of the most common sources of community consternation — a per-mit process residents, developers and builders have called unnecessarily confusing and torturously time-consuming.

Councilman Greg Scharff said the process (derisively known around town as the “Palo Alto Process”) is “probably the No. 1 issue people complained about” when he ran for the City Council last year. Council-woman Nancy Shepherd called the problem “the most egregious in our community right now.”

“The Development Center has experienced considerably increased customer traffic in the last 18 to 24 months,” Emslie told the council Tuesday. “Real estate activity and construction activity requiring build-ing permits have increased dramatically.”

The funds for the new positions will come from Development Center revenues, which have been spiking thanks to the higher activity. In fiscal year 2011, which ended June 30, the city collected $7.1 million in Devel-opment Center revenues while spending $5.8 million. Staff expects the center, which is supposed to be revenue neutral, to bring in between $7 million and $8 million in revenues in the current fiscal year.

— Gennady Sheyner

Victim in Menlo Park explosion identifiedThe man killed in an explosion in a Menlo Park laboratory Friday,

Sept. 2, has been identified as 56-year-old Adrian Martin of San Jose, the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office said.

Martin, a scientist at Membrane Technology and Research Inc. at 1360 Willow Road, was preparing a pre-gas mixture involving methane, he-lium and nitrogen when the 4:07 p.m. explosion occurred, according to Menlo Park Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman.

A female coworker standing near the door of the lab was thrown clear by the explosion and survived with only some damage to her eardrum.

Martin was seriously injured. He was recovered from the lab, but he then suffered cardiac arrest and died at the scene, Schapelhouman said.

Fire officials found a leaking methane cylinder in the lab, although it was not clear if the cylinder was leaking before the explosion or if it was caused by the blast, he said.

More than 20 employees were evacuated from the business, and a hazardous-materials team responded to ensure that the area was safe.

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Fremont) and its supporters include The September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Amnesty In-ternational, the Council of Churches of Santa Clara County and the Dalai Lama Foundation.

Sundas said she came up with the idea after the congressional hearings earlier this spring by House Home-land Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.). She found King’s claims that American Muslims were becoming “radicalized” to be deeply concerning, she said.

“I was really, really disturbed by that. Rather than reacting negatively, what can we do to create a day to focus on building relationships?” she said.

Sundas said she hopes Invite Your Neighbors to Dinner goes beyond faith and culture. Within Palo Alto, there is a deep need for connection and understanding that neighborhood relationships can help remedy, she said, referring in part to youth suicides in the past two years.

“In America today we live very closed, isolated lives. We will never get to know one another until we break down the walls of our own homes. Nobody swings on their porch swings anymore or even gets out of their car to open the garage door. They just rush in their cars and push a button to open the garage door, drive in and close the door. There is a minimum of human contact or understanding of what it means to have the support and love of a community,” she said.

In the small Pakistani community where she was raised in the 1950s, Sundas said, everyone knew each other and neighbors were close. Kids didn’t get into trouble because everyone knew what they were do-ing, she said.

“We should be knowing who’s hav-ing a baby? Who’s sick? Who’s travel-ing and needs someone to water their plants? Who’s having financial diffi-culties so we can protect their dignity without making a fuss?

“All of the problems we are having today are because we don’t know each other. Once you build a relationship, you can’t do anything but help. Our hope is that we should not wait for a disaster to come to find out who’s who,” she said.

Sundas most recently opened the doors of her Evergreen Park neighbor-hood home on Aug. 20, and 63 people showed up.

“People should host a dinner at whatever level is comfortable for them, whether by inviting one or two people or having a potluck. Choose your own people. Just have dinner that day,” she said.

“Even if we find one close friend out of all that effort, it is a blessing from God,” she said.

Sundas is featured in a Weekly vid-eo of Sept. 11 remembrances posted on www.PaloAltoOnline.com.

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

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ness out the window throughout this entire process.” He called the No-vember vote an “illegal election.”

“In their haste to repeal binding arbitration and take away the rights of police officers and firefighters, the City Council violated state law,” Spitaleri said in a statement. “We sat down with the city and a PERB mediator last month to try to reach a negotiated settlement. Unfortu-nately, the City Council rejected this settlement, just like they have rejected our offers in contract nego-tiation and a compromise on bind-ing arbitration.”

Though the labor-relations board doesn’t have the power to remove the binding-arbitration repeal from Palo Alto’s ballot, it could request the Santa Clara County Superior Court issue the injunction requested by the union, Stump said.

Duane Reno, an attorney for the union, wrote in a letter to the labor-relations board that city representa-tives had agreed during an August meeting with mediators that the City Council would consider postponing the ballot measure. When the council took no action after its Tuesday night closed session, the union reopened its challenge to Measure D and asked that the “County of Santa Clara be enjoined from placing the measure on the Nov. 2, 2011 ballot.”

The union’s attorneys also request-ed that the “unfair labor practice” charge be taken out of abeyance.

On Wednesday, the labor-relations board filed the complaint on behalf of the union charging the city with violating state labor-relations laws. Specifically, the union claimed that the city failed to negotiate with the unions in “good faith”; deprived members of the firefighters union of their right to be represented by the union; and deprived the union of its right to represent its members.

With the legal challenge back on the table, the two parties on Wednes-day cancelled their Sept. 13 meeting with Public Employment Relations Board mediators. Instead, they will now fight their legal battle in a for-mal hearing on Sept. 26 and 30, in

the labor-relations board’s Oakland office. The court will issue its rul-ing on the unfair labor practice charge no later than the date of the hearing, Chief Administrative Law Judge Shawn P. Cloughesy wrote in a notice of the hearing.

Councilman Greg Scharff, a lead-ing proponent of the repeal measure, called the union’s latest complaint a “frivolous” action by Spitaleri. He noted that the deadline for pulling the item off the ballot has long passed and the council had no authority to remove it even if it wanted to. Even if the deadline weren’t an issue, Scharff said he would not support postpon-ing the election until next year.

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City Council (Sept. 6)Development Center: The council approved a staff proposal to add five positions to the Development Center, including a “development services official,” a “permit center manager” and three project managers. Yes: Burt, Espinosa, Klein, Price, Scharff, Schmid, Shepherd No: Holman Absent: Yeh

Historic Resources Board (Sept. 7)Main Library: The board discussed proposals to improve connectivity between the Art Center, the Main Library and the Community Garden. Action: None

Utilities Advisory Commission (Sept. 7)Electricity: The commission discussed the city’s ongoing effort to convert overhead electric lines to underground. Action: NoneFiber: The commission heard a presentation about staff’s proposal to expand the city’s fiber network. Action: None

CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week

CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold its annual meeting with Assemblyman Rich Gordon; discuss parking strategies in downtown and around California Avenue; consider the city’s response to the regional Sustainable Communities Strategy; and approve a construc-tion contract for improvements to the new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center. The meeting with Gordon will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 12, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.). The rest of the meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers.

BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will discuss updates to board policies on technology, privacy and other areas in a special morning study session. In a regular meeting later in the day, the board is scheduled to vote on the district’s “focused goals” for 2011-12, to discuss a process to determine the future use of the old Cubberley High School site and to hear a re-port on academic achievement results in elementary and middle schools. The study session begins at 8:30 a.m. in Conference Room A of school-district headquarters. The regular meet-ing begins at 6:30 p.m. in the board room of school-district headquarter (25 Churchill Ave.).

CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a closed session to discuss labor negotiations with the firefighters union. The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss the city’s economic-development plan and the Emerging Technologies Pilot and Demonstration Partnerships. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13, in the Council Confer-ence Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss 525 San Antonio Road, a request by SummerHill Homes to subdivide a 2.64-acre site into 10 single-family lots. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

SCHOOL-CITY LIAISON COMMITTEE ... The committee will discuss recent school board and City Council meetings, the school district’s “focused goals,” and a process for determin-ing the future use of the old Cubberley High School site. The meeting begins at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15, in Conference Room A of school-district headquarters (25 Churchill Ave.).

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 559 Lytton Ave., a request by California Communities on behalf of Lytton Park, LLC, for a new development consisting of four townhouses; and 2080 Channing Ave., a proposal to renovate three retail structures, relocate one retail building and construct 10 new houses and a small park at Edgewood Plaza. The meeting is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The commission will consider a report about the new Art Center “On the Road” installation; consider a possible collaboration with Talenthouse on a public-art project; and approve a finalist for the Main Library and Art Center percent-for-art project. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

Public AgendaA preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week

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Heart-transplant survivor celebrates decade of lifeThe Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks 3,000 miles away became real and

terrifying for 13-year-old Jennifer Silva and her family as she awaited delivery of her new heart at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. (Posted

Sept. 8 at 1:56 p.m.)

PG&E pipeline-testing project delayed in Palo AltoThe first tests of Palo Alto’s PG&E gas-transmission line 132 have

been delayed due to “issues in getting the pipeline segment cleaned and prepped” and have been rescheduled for Saturday (Sept. 10), Palo Alto Utilities officials announced. (Posted Sept. 8 at 8:35 a.m.)

Cleaver attacker gets seven-year sentenceA busboy who attacked a chef with a meat cleaver in the kitchen of a

Palo Alto restaurant in 2009 was sentenced to seven years in state prison on Wednesday (Sept. 7), Supervising Deputy District Attorney Rob Baker said. (Posted Sept. 7 at 3:32 p.m.)

CHP reports rise in DUIs over Labor Day weekendThe California Highway Patrol has reported more DUIs over the Labor

Day weekend compared to last year, but fewer fatalities this year in the Bay Area. (Posted Sept. 7 at 8:54 a.m.)

Woman killed in hit-and-run on East BayshoreA woman killed in a Redwood City hit-and-run crash Tuesday eve-

ning (Sept. 6) has been identified as 53-year-old Nora Fuentes-Arias of Redwood City, a San Mateo County deputy coroner said. (Posted Sept. 7

at 8:24 a.m.)

Car break-ins at the Junior Museum and ZooBurglars got away with stereo equipment, cash and other personal items

after two Sunday afternoon (Sept. 4) auto burglaries outside the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo, Palo Alto police said. (Posted Sept. 6 at 5:34 p.m.)

Mystery containers force closure of 280 on-rampAn Interstate Highway 280 on-ramp near Portola Valley was reopened

at noon Monday (Sept. 5) after crews removed two mysterious contain-ers that prompted a hazardous materials investigation, fire officials said. (Posted Sept. 6 at 8:39 a.m.)

Report of mountain lion sighting in WoodsideSomeone reported spotting a mountain lion in a residential area near 350

Jane Road in Woodside at about 7:15 p.m. Sunday (Sept. 4), San Mateo County emergency officials said Monday. (Posted Sept. 6 at 8:30 a.m.)

Palo Alto man arrested for U-Haul firesA Palo Alto man was arrested Thursday (Sept. 1) on suspicion of steal-

ing gas from U-Haul rental trucks in Mountain View and setting fire to the trucks in July. (Posted Sept. 4 at 11:16 a.m.)

Stanford Hospitals terminate Blue Cross coveragePatients with Anthem Blue Cross health insurance stopped having cov-

erage at Stanford Hospitals and Clinics on Thursday (Sept. 1) after con-tract negotiations were not resolved, according to an Anthem document. (Posted Sept. 2 at 9:56 a.m.)

Online This WeekThese and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com/news or click on “News” in the left, green column.

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taxes for our city or continue to lose them to neighboring munici-palities,” the petition states. “The ordinance will tax marijuana sales and place the revenue in the city’s general fund.”

A May budget addendum from the San Jose deputy city manager estimated that San Jose would bring in nearly $4 million a year from marijuana taxes and fees.

Supporters of the new ordinance had collected 6,341 signatures, 4,859 of which were verified as valid, Grider said. That is far more

than the 4,356 needed to place an item on the ballot.

If the council decides not to adopt the ordinance outright, it would have to decide whether to place it on the ballot in June or November 2012, City Attorney Molly Stump told the Weekly. Stump said her of-fice is in the process of crafting a recommendation, which the council is tentatively scheduled to consider on Sept. 19. She declined to say whether staff favors adopting the ordinance or placing on the ballot.

Pot dispensaries have tradition-ally been a tough sell for Palo Alto’s elected leaders. In 1997, the City Council responded to a proposed cannabis club by swiftly and unani-mously passing an ordinance out-lawing such facilities in the city.

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The current City Council, mean-while, has been more ambivalent on the issue. Last October, the council briefly discussed Proposi-tion 19, a state initiative that would have legalized and regulated mari-juana sales, and agreed to not take a stance on it. While Gail Price advocated backing Proposition 19, which California voters weighed in on last November, and Karen Hol-man urged the city to discuss the initiative more thoroughly, other council members felt the issue is one of “personal choice.” Council-man Larry Klein said the council should not spend time on the issue, a stance that the council majority quickly endorsed.

Peter Allen, a political strategist who is working with the campaign to allow the dispensaries, hopes things will be different this time around. Allen said the group chose Palo Alto as the potential site for new dispensaries because of the famously progressive values of its voters. Last year, more than half of the city’s voters supported Propo-sition 19. The initiative ultimately lost, with 46.5 percent of the state’s voters supporting it.

“We felt Palo Alto would be a jurisdiction that would be open to something like this,” Allen said. “People in Palo Alto tend to support individual rights and have progres-sive values.”

The proposed ordinance includes a host of provisions limiting the lo-cation and hours of operation for the new dispensaries. These facilities would not be allowed in residential areas or near schools, parks or day care centers. Their hours of opera-tion would be limited to between 9 a.m. and 10 p.m.

Each dispensary would have to operate on a not-for-profit basis and would be comprised of at least four employees, all of whom have to be at least 21 years old. The ap-plicant must include a management member with at last 12 months of experience in a California marijua-na cooperative or dispensary. No one under the age of 18 would be allowed into the facilities.

The dispensaries would also be required to keep registers of all employees and qualified patients, whose records would be sorted by identification numbers to protect their privacy.

Allen said his group hopes the council takes a stronger position this time around, approving the ordinance and saving the city the costs of holding an election.

“The City Council had instituted the ban without going to the voters,” Allen said. “It would make sense for them to come full circle and adopt the ordinance outright.”

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

Born Barbara Jean Smith, in San Francisco on March 10, 1921, she was the only child of Edward Converse and Nyra Lydia (Beck) Smith. She attended Lowell High School and studied Political Science at Stanford University, where she made many life-long friends. The “Whiskin’ Wabbits” (her college badminton-playing pals) gathered for reunions every year until recently. Barbara graduated from Stanford University in 1942 and in September of that year she joined the WAVES in Washington D.C. where she achieved the rank of Lieutenant by the war’s end. Upon leaving the Navy, Barbara began working for the phone company where she established many lasting friendships.

Enjoying all aspects of classical music, Barbara delighted in her evenings spent at the Opera, ballet and local choir concerts. She performed with both the Stanford Chorale and the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church Chancel Choir for over 20 years. In fact, her singing teacher introduced her to her husband of 53 years, Jack Richards.

She stayed at home to raise her children but was actively involved with the schools, PTAs and as a Girl Scout Leader. She also volunteered with the Stanford Music Guild and the South Peninsula Chapter of the SF Opera Action Guild

where she was recently recognized for over 50 years of service including two terms as Chapter President. Barbara and Jack were members of the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church where they actively participated in Bible Study groups and Couples Club.

As the kids got older, Barbara returned to the work force, this time at SRI where she worked with Dr. Villard in the Ionospheric Dynamics Lab. After retirement, Barbara and Jack enjoyed camping in California and once drove up to Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. She avidly followed Stanford women’s basketball games and attended games often.

She is survived by her children, Ruth Androwsky (her husband Paul and their children Donna and Stephen) of Fremont, and John Richards (his wife Angela and her daughter Alexandra) of Palo Alto.

Barbara Richards90 a long time Atherton resident died in her home August 9, 2011.

Notice is hereby given that the City of Palo Alto has completed a draft performance report for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program for fiscal year 2010/11. The Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) is available for public review and comment prior to its submittal to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The CAPER provides a summary of the programmatic accomplishments in affordable housing and community development during the 2010-2011 fiscal year. It describes the status of actions taken during the year to implement the strategies and objectives described in the City’s Consolidated Plan for the period July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2015, and the progress made in addressing identified priority needs and objectives.

Public Review and Comment Period: The draft CAPER will be available for public review and comment for a 15-day period, beginning on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 and concluding at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 20, 2011. Written comments may be submitted during the review period and should be sent to the City of Palo Alto, Department of Planning and Community Environment, Attention: Consuelo Hernandez, 250 Hamilton Avenue, 5th Floor, Palo Alto, CA 94301; 650/329-2428; e-mail [email protected].

Public Hearing: The Human Relations Commission will hold a public hearing to take public comment on the draft CAPER on Friday, September 16, 2011, located at the Baylands Interpretive Center, 2775 Embarcadero Road on or about 9:00 a.m.

To Obtain a Copy of the CAPER: Copies are available at the Planning Department reception desk, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, 5th Floor, the Development Center located at 285 Hamilton Avenue during regular business hours on the City website at www.cityofpaloalto.org/depts/pln/cdbg or by calling 650/329-2603.

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POLICE CALLSPalo AltoAug. 31-Sept. 6Violence relatedArson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Misc. sex crime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft related Grand Theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Residential burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Vehicle related

Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . .5Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .3Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .1Alcohol or drug relatedDrunk/drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2MiscellaneousAnimal call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . .2Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .1Tree blocking roadway . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

VIOLENT CRIMESPalo Alto900 block Urban Lane, 8/31, 6:05 p.m.; domestic violence.Unlisted block St. Francis Drive, 9/5, 12:25 a.m.; domestic violence.Unlisted block University Avenue, 9/5, 1:02 a.m.; battery.Unlisted block Madux Drive, 9/5, 4:05 p.m.; arson.Unlisted block Embarcadero Road, 9/5, 6:48 p.m.; domestic violence.Unlisted block Pasteur Drive, 9/6, 3:40 a.m.; misc. sex crime.

Menlo Park1400 block Almanor Avenue, 9/2, 4:30 p.m.; battery.400 block Pope Street, 9/6, 10:04 a.m.; battery.

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Measure EEditor,

When it comes to renewable en-ergy, environmental justice and con-servation of local parklands, Palo Altans can have it all — if they vote yes on Measure E.

Measure E would rededicate 10 acres of the city’s former landfill to build a renewable energy facility that uses biological processes to turn or-ganic waste into an alternative form of natural gas.

As Oakland, Millbrae and other Bay Area communities have already demonstrated, these “biogas” facili-ties save millions of ratepayer dol-lars by generating energy that is car-bon neutral, capitalizing on existing infrastructure (such as the sewage treatment plant adjacent to the land-fill), and displacing fossil fuels that require environmentally destructive drilling techniques (e.g., hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”).

As a life-long conservation-ist, I fully appreciate opponents’ concerns, but Measure E does not threaten conservation efforts; it en-hances them.

First, this is not an “either-or” sce-nario; only a fraction of the former landfill will be rededicated (10 of 126 acres, or 8 percent of the land-fill). Secondly, because no funding currently exists to redevelop the landfill, revenues from the bioenergy facility could subsidize restorations to the rest of the park. Finally, by off-setting fossil fuels, and provid-ing an alternative to the city’s inex-cusable sewage incinerator, Measure E’s environmental conservation will extend far beyond the borders of the former landfill.

Sadly, opponents of Measure E present a false dichotomy: renew-able energy vs. parkland. But the real dichotomy is not complicated: sustainable development vs. 10 acres of landfill.

Alex DiGiorgioEl Camino Real

Palo Alto

In poor taste?Editor,

The Sept. 2 inclusion of the article on Steven Ma, who is paid exorbitant sums to help students who have the good fortune to belong to wealthy Asian-American families, was a poor editorial choice.

What qualifies this man — who feeds on the current frenzy to get ad-mitted to selective schools — to get free publicity of any sort?

Palo Alto students feel enormous pressure to get accepted to “de-signer” schools. How can we close an achievement gap when some par-ents are willing to spend this kind of money to ensure success for their children?

This kind of information can only be disheartening for parents (and their children) who don’t have the twin advantages — wealth and

this ethnicity— to qualify for this “edge.” To include a profile of this arrogant man seemed elitist and just in plain bad taste.

Rena DavidowS. California Avenue

Palo Alto

HomelessnessEditor,

Homelessness is not a new phe-nomenon in California. What is new — and alarming — is that more and more of the homeless are families that once believed they were secure members of the middle class.

The growing trend is a sign that the nationwide economic slump is that a feared second recession could push the poor there over the edge and make a solid recovery even harder.

More than two years into the eco-nomic recovery, there isn’t yet a light at the end of the tunnel for Califor-nia’s economy and stubborn unem-ployment. The number of job losses in the state is still much higher than the worst moments of the 2001 and 1990 recessions. The state’s jobless rate hit 12 percent last month, the second worst in the nation.

The world today has more than 1,200 billionaires, perhaps 24 mil-

lion millionaires, and 120 million homeless. It has half a billion who eat too much, and an equal num-ber who eat scarcely enough to stay alive. Equity of income distribution is worse today than at any time since records have been kept. At present the U.S. has more homeless than any other industrialized country on Earth.

Ted Rudow III Encina Avenue

Palo Alto

Smog standardsEditor,

It is in all of our interests to have clean air. Asthma rates are sky-rocketing among seniors and the very young. Republicans want to roll back all the advances we have made in clean air regulations. Now, President Obama has disappointed us all by siding with those who wish to attack the environment with ev-ery bill they write. Please write your congressmen and senators and tell them clean air is our God-given right and to stop this bad legislation im-mediately.

Eileen Lepera915 Whitehall Lane

Redwood City

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A worthy gamble by Palo Alto city manager

Reorganization and staffing increases in building permit process will test manager’s ability to achieve

needed culture-shift where others have failed

F or many Palo Alto residents, the quality of city government comes down to how they and their architects and contractors are treated when trying to navigate the city’s building permit

labyrinth.Horror stories abound of how even minor projects can become

mired in the city’s review process, frustrating homeowners, devel-opers and their design professionals and driving up the cost and duration of construction.

The combination of an overworked city staff along with an ar-chaic process for review and approval by city departments like fire, planning, public works and utilities result in a system that is inefficient and on the verge of collapse.

It didn’t take City Manager Jim Keene long to recognize the importance of overhauling the permitting process to improve the functioning and credibility of Palo Alto city government, and he sought help from community members and design professionals to craft a fix.

With the added pressure of a rapidly growing demand for build-ing permits and project approvals, the city council approved Keene’s bold plan this week that will add five highly paid staff members to the Development Center at a time when other depart-ments are cutting back.

The reforms passed easily 7-1, perhaps due to the booming busi-ness currently seen at the center, which could produce $8 mil-lion in revenue by June 30, the end of the fiscal year. If the city manager’s plans work out, the five new staff members will lead the rejuvenated department to drastically change the “culture” of a department that has long been known as the home of “Palo Alto Process,” a label that brings visions of red tape and gridlock to the residents, builders and developers who attempt to get approval for projects large and small.

It won’t be easy to wipe out the mindset that Development Center staff members often are fixated on mind-numbing details rather than actually helping customers get something done. But at least on paper, city administrators have designed a system we hope will deploy a much more skilled team, which is one of the busiest at City Hall.

Former Councilman John Barton, a local architect who has years of experience in dealing with the center and served on an advisory group that helped the staff draw up the changes, emphasized the importance of achieving a culture change within City Hall.

“The plan is one thing — implementing it is another,” he said, adding, “As you know, culture changes are difficult. If this is anything, it’s a culture change.”

The final vote to endorse the changes was 7-1, with Yiaway Yeh absent and Karen Holman dissenting. It was a solid victory for the city manager, who has spent more than a year putting the new guidelines together.

The beefed-up department will be led by a director who will re-port directly to the city manager and coordinate interactions with other city departments involved in the permitting process. Other new staff will oversee the day-to-day operations of the Develop-ment Center and improve customer service, from initial discus-sions with a resident, developer, architect or contractor to complex project review and management.

The proposal estimates that the new employees, plus an admin-istrative staff member that already has been added to the depart-ment, would cost an additional $600,000 to $800,000 a year, push-ing anticipated expenses for the year ending July 2012 up to $7.5 million. But the administration expects those costs to be covered by the department’s growing revenue base, which is expected to hit $7.5 million to $8 million for the fiscal year.

There is plenty of reason for the city to take this action now, despite the economic downturn that is crippling the national economy. Council member Nancy Shepherd called gridlock at the Development Center “the most egregious in our community right now.”

Staff data shows that this May, 1,263 customers were served, up 380 visits from last year, a 43 percent increase. During June, there was a 31 percent jump over last year, although July moved up only 2 percent over 2010.

Mayor Sid Espinosa got it right when he told the council: “With-out a doubt, Palo Alto should be thorough, we should be trans-parent, we should be rules-based, but we should also be more customer service-based and more efficient.”

We wholeheartedly agree, and hope the city can achieve that outcome with this overhaul of the Development Center.

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How did 9/11 impact your outlook on life?Asked on California Avenue, Palo Alto. Interviews and photographs by Jeff Carr.

Mel JoseMarketer Ben Lomond Drive, Palo Alto“My daughter was born two days later, and it made me think more about look-ing out for her and my family, being more selfless, worrying less about the little things.”

Max SanfordReal Estate AnalystFolsom Street, San Francisco“It made me more thankful.”

Gretchen Zaballos RetireeCountry Lane, Pleasanton“I felt since then that we’ve had a loss of freedoms, with the airport screen-ings and everything. We’ve had a loss of confidence in international com-merce. Travel has been much more of a hassle for me.”

Frank BurnsRetireeEl Camino Way, Palo Alto“I’m a New Yorker. I was in New York City on 9/11, and I can tell you the world is a different place now. We have a military spending enormous sums of money in equipment, but no one to fight with. With all of our economic problems, it’s not appropriate.”

Jillian MallisGraduate Student Bowdoin Street, Stanford“For an 11-year-old New Yorker, it af-fected me because I became more aware of bad people, of evil in the world.”

by Jay Thorwaldson

F i n a n c i a l l y strapped Free at Last, the non-

profit organization that serves scores of per-sons teetering on the brink of their futures in the Midpeninsula, has been surviving on a smaller staff and the dedication of paid and volunteer staff mem-bers.

Beyond the east-of-Bayshore communities it primarily serves, the organization is best known as being co-founded 17-years ago by David Lewis, who was fatally shot June 9 last year at Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Ma-teo following a confrontation with a man he’d known many years. Lewis received the Cali-fornia Peace Prize in 1995 for his work, and a documentary film project was launched af-ter his death (www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=17926).

But within the communities it serves Free at Last is known as a refuge and pathway back for persons who are addicted to drugs and alcohol, so they can go on to lead sober and crime-free lives, a major step for those returning from jail or prison.

“We have no money,” co-founder and board Chair Vicki Smothers said when summing up the situation this week, following one report that the organization was about to go out of business entirely.

Not so, or at least not yet. The hope — Smothers said in an inter-

view during a break from her day job doing

mental-health outreach for San Mateo County — emerged in a meeting in July with officials from the Haas Center at Stanford University and Supervisor Rose Jacobs Gibson of San Mateo County, a former East Palo Alto City Council member.

With assistance from the Haas Center, Free at Last on Aug. 1 began an intensive search for a new executive director to replace interim CEO Gerardo Barragan and made a number of urgent steps to stay afloat and stabilize its finances.

The primary qualification for a new direc-tor, in addition to core management abilities and community engagement, is a successful background in fund development and grant-writing, Smothers said. Applications have al-ready started coming in, including a couple of technically qualified individuals from out of state but who lack knowledge of or connections within the communities.

Interviews start next week. “Right now we’re just really hopeful we find

the right person,” Smothers said. Even under Lewis, writing grants was not a

strength of the organization. His natural dedi-cation and charisma helped in tight corners, along with an inner determination that led him back personally from addictions, crime and prison into becoming a nationally known fig-ure. He was adept at finding pockets of unspent county money and applying it to the needs of those the organization served.

Details of the crisis were outlined in a news story last April on Palo Alto Online, the Week-ly’s community website (www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=20927).

A major meeting of the board of directors was held in June, at which time the question

came up about why former sources of funding stopped supporting the program.

It became clear that “our funders never left us — we stopped writing grants,” Smothers said. “We didn’t have anyone to write grants who was knowledgeable about that.” In that sense, Free at Last “has been treading water for the past 10 years,” since the departure of earlier executive director Priya Haji in 2002.

Other survival steps include:

16, and remaining staff have increased their workloads, in addition to work by “what we call our ‘unpaid volunteers,’” Smothers said.

for presentation in mid-September to San Ma-teo County, a major supporter of the organiza-tion for years through contracts for services.

“We need to explain to them how we’re going to stay alive,” Smothers said, adding that she doesn’t expect new county money. Last year

-tracted services, but the group’s overall budget (before cutbacks) was about $1 million.

complex at 1796 Bay Road in East Palo Alto waived rent for two months prior to Aug. 1, but has had to resume charging rent, including a prior-contractual 10 percent boost.

the Ravenswood Clinic on a temporary basis.Earlier, the program began charging fees for

some programs, but the economic recession sharply reduced income from that source last year.

Smothers refers repeatedly to the dedica-tion and unpaid time staff members provide, including weekend duties.

“The dedication of people is beyond words,”

she said. “You can’t pay people enough for this kind of work,” and the pay was low to start with.

But the continuing crisis and uncertainty has taken a toll on staff morale, which Smoth-ers acknowledged is “very, very low.”

There was a real boost in January 2011, when Free at Last celebrated its 17th anniver-sary. The event drew city officials from East Palo Alto and neighboring communities, as well as longtime friends and supporters. It was a combination memorial to Lewis and a celebration of the success of existing and past clients.

The various programs operated by the orga-nization presently serve 18 men with interim housing, counseling and support groups, plus 10 women, two with children. There are 25 to

programs, in addition to up to 100 persons on some days who just drop in for a cup of cof-fee and a sense of refuge from the world and, perhaps, themselves.

The needs of individuals vary widely, and some simply come to the drop-in center.

“Eventually we know they’ll catch on,” Smothers said. “One woman has been coming in since 1996, and the other day she got clean,” she added as an illustration of the importance of continuing presence in the community.

Hope keeps the program going. “It’s like holding our breath until it hap-

pens,” Smothers said of the dream of financial stability. Despite low morale, staff dedication means “people will be there until we close — but I don’t believe we’re going to close.”

Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at [email protected] or [email protected].

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ohnny Campbell comes from a long line of fiddlers. There’s his dad, his grandpa,

his great-grandpa. So naturally, he moved from Tennessee to the Bay Area to join a

bluegrass band.

No, we didn’t get that backward. Campbell fiddles here, for the local band Windy

Hill. The group is named after the Portola Valley landmark and was started by a couple

of Menlo-Atherton High School graduates.

Though the Bay Area is known more for redwoods than blue-

grass, the five musicians seem to be ambling happily along their

creatively rootsy paths. They perform from San Francisco to Santa

Cruz, revere the bluegrass icon Bill Monroe, and recently put out their

first album, “Let’s Go To The Fair.”

“There’s not many young, traditional bluegrass bands,” says banjo

player Ryan Breen, who can see Windy Hill from his Portola Valley backyard.

“We take it really seriously. We love it, and I

think people recognize that.”

While at Colorado State University in 2008,

Breen started the band with fellow M-A graduate

Henry Warde, a mandolinist. The two returned

home after school in 2009 and reconnected with

bass player Kyle McCabe, who had been in their

class at M-A.

Arts & EntertainmentA weekly guide to music, theater, art, movies and more, edited by Rebecca Wallace

photos by Michelle Lestory by Rebecca Wallace


Clockwise from top: The Windy Hill band rehearses one last song before taking the stage at the Amnesia bar in San Francisco; Henry Warde, left, and Ryan Breen perform at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco; Breen picking on the banjo; Johnny Campbell practicing backstage at Cafe Du Nord.

–Banjo player Ryan Breen

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CorrectionA Sept. 2 review of TheatreWorks’ “Sense and Sensibility” misstated the show’s running time. The show has been running at about 155 min-utes each night, a publicist said. To request a correction, contact Edi-tor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, [email protected] or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

Guitarist Thomas Wille joined later, as did Campbell. Breen met Campbell at a music festival and invited him into the band. The fiddler, who was just visiting California, decided to stay.

“It’s a close-knit bluegrass commu-nity in the Bay Area,” Breen says. “It’s easy to make new friends.”

The atmosphere is decidedly down-home on a recent afternoon at McCabe’s West Menlo Park family home, where he’s lived since graduat-ing from U.C. Berkeley. Their band-mates weren’t able to make it today, but McCabe, Breen and Campbell contentedly mix bass, banjo and fiddle into a few spirited tunes full of fast picking.

A dachshund and a wire-haired terrier scamper around the patio, and there’s a fresh, spicy smell of tomato plants growing in a box. Campbell takes a pull from a bottle of beer and looks satisfied. “Hand-some Molly,” Breen sings, “wher-ever she may be.”

The musicians try some harmo-nies, reaching for what Bill Monroe famously described as bluegrass’ “high, lonesome sound.” Some don’t quite gel yet, but the guys freely admit they’re all working together on being stronger players.

“It’s not like I’m a bass scholar,” McCabe says. “I’m just learning.”

That’s been happening since high school, when the M-A friends used to hang out at events like the High Sierra Music Festival, soaking in every note.

Now Windy Hill has been playing its own venues, including the Little Fox Theatre in Redwood City and Palo Alto’s Dragon Theatre. The band plays some original tunes, including “Highway 84,” which Warde wrote about that lonely drive home from band practice to the Coastside.

“Our new goal is to play 10 gigs a month,” Breen says.

By day, Breen works at a law firm, while Campbell is a welder. As for McCabe, joining the band also helped him get hired in this economy. When the Old Port Lobster Shack opened a few months back in Ladera, McCabe asked the management if they needed a band for the grand opening.

“They said, ‘That’s cool, but can you cook?’” McCabe says, laughing. Now he’s got a job and a band. “Bluegrass kind of took me in its lifeboat.”

Info: Windy Hill has several show

dates planned, including: Sept. 11 at

the Peninsula Banjo Band Jubilee in

San Jose, Sept. 19 at the Amnesia

bar in San Francisco, and Oct. 22

at the First Presbyterian Church of

Mountain View. For details, go to

windyhillbluegrass.com.

Weekly photographer Veronica Weber also shot a video of the Windy Hill musi-cians performing, rehearsing and talking about music. To watch it, go to PaloAltoOnline.com.

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Contagion (Century 16, Century 20) Direc-

tor Steven Soderbergh is a master craftsman at assembling impres-sive ensemble casts. From “Traf-fic” (2000) to “Ocean’s Thirteen” (2007), Soderbergh has been a magnet for stellar Hollywood tal-ent. His well-crafted and thought-provoking “Contagion” follows the same pattern, uniting Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fish-burne, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and a handful of other notable actors.

And therein lies part of the prob-lem. With so many characters to keep track of, it’s difficult for the audience to get especially attached to any one individual. There is no real protagonist driving the story, rather a diverse and widespread swath of world citizens whose lives are affected by a fatal and fast-moving virus. But “Contagion” is also an intelligent, complex and frighteningly realistic disaster film with zombie-flick undertones and a powerful ending.

The film has a relentless start. Wife and mother Beth Emhoff (Paltrow) returns from an overseas business trip with a flu-like illness that rapidly spirals from cough to seizures to death. Beth’s distraught husband, Mitch (Damon), is of-fered no concrete answers from the perplexed doctors and begins to wonder why he hasn’t contracted the virus himself. Meanwhile, Dr. Ellis Cheever (Fishburne) with the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention and his colleague Dr. Erin Mears (Winslet) start a full-fledged investigation into the mys-terious affliction as more fatalities are reported around the world.

Panic begins to take hold as the death toll rises, while Ellis, Erin and a plethora of health experts (in-cluding Marion Cotillard’s Dr. Le-onora Orantes and Elliott Gould’s Dr. Ian Sussman) scramble to find a cure. The conspiracy-theory musings of popular blogger Alan Krumwiede (Law) hardly help the frenzied public perception. And few seem immune to the deadly virus that begins to claim victims at a furious rate.

The picture’s pacing lulls at times as the narrative bounces around to the varied locales, and the scien-tific jargon can be a bit confusing. Soderbergh infuses his dramatic thriller with zombie-esque sensi-bilities (not a bad thing), including atmospheric music and scenes of desolation. The acting sways from exceptional (Fishburne and Wins-let) to phoned-in (the normally reli-able Cotillard virtually sleepwalks through her role).

There is greatness buried in “Con-tagion” that might get overlooked due to the sweeping nature of the story and cavalcade of characters. Messages about nature, health and morality are interwoven through-out, and the film’s astonishing fi-nal minutes will leave some glued to their seats. Overall, “Contagion” offers a healthy dose of smart film-making while most of Hollywood is serving up cinematic placebos.

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Warrior (Century 16, Century 20) Some-

times a movie has “face value.” That’s the case with “Warrior,” a masculine family drama set within the world of mixed martial arts competition. Sure, the film delivers on its surface promise of “Rocky”-style inspirational sports-drama theatrics, but it also boasts amazing faces: from the soul-boring eyes of Tom Hardy to the determined grimaces of Joel Edgerton to Nick Nolte’s craggy visage, desperation for redemption written all over it.

Hardy (“Inception”) plays bruiser Tommy Conlon, an ex-Marine look-ing for purpose and a payday by prov-ing himself as an MMA fighter. As a high school wrestler coached by his father, Paddy, Tommy has already tasted championship — if no one else does, father and son know what Tommy is capable of. Upon Tommy’s homecoming from Iraq, the alcoholic Paddy’s pleas for forgiveness cannot penetrate his son’s hard-earned cal-luses. Nevertheless, Tommy allows the old man to coach him once again, with the understanding that “He’s just some old vet that I train with. He means nothing to me.”

For estranged brother and son Bren-dan (Edgerton), a championship has perhaps less to do with proving some-thing to himself than with taking a last desperate grab at financial salva-tion — or are those motivations one and the same? Underwater and facing foreclosure, the high-school physics teacher and his wife (Jennifer Morri-son) have three jobs between them and a daughter with heart trouble. When Brendan’s MMA moonlighting gets him suspended without pay from his day job, he contemplates what seems impossible: the $5 million champion-ship of the Sparta Tournament, “the Super Bowl of mixed martial arts.”

Why, that’s the very same compe-tition in Tommy’s sights, and if you can’t guess who ends up in the final bracket of the single-elimination tour-nament, God bless you and welcome to a little something called the Ameri-can motion picture.

Undaunted, director Gavin O’Connor straightens his spine of melodrama and focuses on the task of building up the film’s emotional muscle. And so “Warrior” becomes “face time” well spent, with micro-expressive mugs speaking much louder than the relatively spare dia-logue. When these family members do have it out, the punch is all the harder for the windup; if there’s water under the bridge, so far it’s drowning them — take your pick of sports-talk metaphor.

Last year’s “The Fighter” carried, for better or worse, the extra weight of a true-story basis, while “Warrior”’s baggage is the “Rocky” franchise. Rather than disguising the similarities, O’Connor and his co-writers Anthony Tambakis and Cliff Dorfman all but flaunt them.

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Apollo 18 (PG-13) Century 16: 11:45 a.m.; 1:55, 4:20, 7:25 & 9:50 p.m. (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 11:25 a.m.; 1:35, 2:40, 3:45, 4:55, 6,

8:15 & 10:30 p.m.

Bucky Larson: Century 16: 11:40 a.m.; 2:20, 4:55,Born to Be a Star (R) 7:45 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 12:20, 2:45, 5:15,(Not Reviewed) 7:40 & 10:15 p.m.

Captain America: The Century 20: 11:10 a.m. & 10 p.m.; In 3D at 4:35 p.m.First Avenger (PG-13)

Circumstance (R) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 1:45 p.m.; Fri.-Wed.(Not Reviewed) also at 4:20 & 7:15 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. also at 9:45 p.m.

Colombiana (PG-13) Century 16: 12:50, 3:40, 7:20 & 10 p.m. (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 8 & 10:35 p.m.

Contagion (PG-13) Century 16: 11:30 a.m.; 12:30, 2:05, 3:05, 4:40, 5:40, 7:50, 8:50 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m.; 12:15,

1:50, 2:50, 4:20, 5:25, 6:55, 8, 9:35 & 10:35 p.m.

Cowboys & Aliens Century 20: 7 & 9:50 p.m. (PG-13) 1/2

Crazy, Stupid, Love Century 16: 12:40, 3:50, 7:10 & 10:05 p.m.; Tue. also (PG-13) 1/2 at 12:40 a.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m.; 1:55, 4:45, 7:45

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The Debt (R) Century 16: 11:30 a.m.; 2:10, 4:50, 7:35 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m.; 2, 4:40, 7:25 & 10:05 p.m.

Don’t Be Afraid of Century 16: 9:45 p.m. the Dark (R) Century 20: 10:20 p.m. (Not Reviewed)

The Electric Daisy Carnival Aquarius Theatre: Thu. at 9 p.m.Experience (PG-13)

The Globe Theatre Century 20: Thu. at 6:30 p.m. CinéArts at Palo Presents Henry VIII Alto Square: Thu. at 6:30 p.m.

The Guard (R) Century 20: Noon, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20 & 9:45 p.m. (Not Reviewed) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 2:15, 4:40 & 7:20

p.m.; Fri. & Sat. also at 9:50 p.m.

Harry Potter and the Century 16: 12:20 & 6:40 p.m.; In 3D at 3:20 & 9:40 p.m.Deathly Hallows: Century 20: 12:30 & 7:10 p.m.; In 3D at 3:30 & 10:05 p.m.Part 2 (PG-13)

The Help (PG-13) Century 16: 11:50 a.m.; 1, 3, 4:15, 6:30 & 7:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m.; 12:20, 2:20, 3:35, 5:35, 7:05 & 8:50 p.m.

Higher Ground (R) Century 16: 11:35 a.m.; 2:15, 4:55, 7:55 & 10:35 p.m.(Not Reviewed)

Midnight in Paris Guild Theatre: 3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m. (PG-13) 1/2

One Day (PG-13) 1/2 Century 16: 11:30 a.m. & 6:50 p.m. Century 20: 2 & 7:30 p.m.

Our Idiot Brother (R) 1/2 Century 16: Noon, 2:25, 4:40, 7:30 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m.; 1:25, 3:40 & 10:30 p.m.; Fri. & Sun.-Wed. also at 5:55 & 8:10 p.m.

Rebecca (1940) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat.-Thu. at 7:30 p.m.; (Not Reviewed) Sat. & Sun. also at 3:20 p.m.

Rise of the Planet of Century 16: 11:55 a.m.; 2:30, 5, 8 & 10:30 p.m.the Apes (PG-13) Century 20: 11:40 a.m.; 2:30, 5:05, 7:35 & 10:10 p.m.(Not Reviewed)

Sarah’s Key (PG-13) 1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 3, 5:30 & 8 p.m.

Saving Private Perez (PG-13) Century 20: 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:55 & 10:35 p.m.(Not Reviewed)

Senna (PG-13) Aquarius Theatre: 3:30 & 6 p.m.; Fri.-Wed. also at 8:30 p.m.

Shark Night (PG-13) Century 16: 2:35 & 5 p.m.; In 3D at 12:05, 8 & 10:30(Not Reviewed) p.m. Century 20: 3:10 & 5:40 p.m.; In 3D at 12:40,

8:05 & 10:25 p.m.

The Smurfs (PG) Century 20: 11:25 a.m. & 4:20 p.m.; In 3D at 1:50 p.m. (Not Reviewed)

Spy Kids: All the Century 16: 2:05 & 9:35 p.m.; In 3D at 4:30 p.m.Time in the World (PG) Century 20: 11:45 a.m.; 4:40 & 9:30 p.m.; In 3D at (Not Reviewed) 2:15 & 7:15 p.m.

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) Stanford Theatre: Fri. at 7:30 p.m.

Suspicion (1941) Stanford Theatre: Sat.-Thu. at 5:40 & 9:50 p.m.

The Three Ages (1923) Stanford Theatre: Fri. at 9 p.m.

Warrior (PG-13) Century 16: 11:50 a.m.; 3:10, 7 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m. & 8:20 p.m.

MOVIE TIMES

Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260)

Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264)

Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264)

CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-3456)

Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260)

Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)

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They set their working-class-hero story primarily in Rocky Balboa’s Philadel-phia stomping grounds, craft a training montage (juiced up with split-screen), build to that foregone ring matchup, and throw in a fearsome “mighty mythical Russian” — fighting for the first time on U.S. soul — for good measure. And say what you will, but the well-staged fights get their (right) hooks in to the audience.

Though “Warrior” throws in allusions to “Moby Dick” and Diogenes, the real

archetypes are “the frontrunner” and the “underdog” (in discovering mutual jealousies and resentments between the brothers, one might wonder which is which). Like either of its heroes, the implausible, ingratiatingly manipulative “Warrior” may be middleweight, but you wouldn’t want to bet against it.

Rated PG-13 for intense mixed mar-

tial arts fighting, language and themat-ic material. Two hours, 20 minutes.

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Eating OutThwack!

A heavy wooden rolling pin, wielded by Leah Jacobs,

landed squarely on what was, a few seconds prior, the smooth, matte surface of a stick of butter.

Thwack!Now with a concave indentation,

the butter was clearly on the losing end of Jacobs’ assault. Soon the stick would become a broad, flat sheet, suitable for placing on top of a sheet of butterless pastry dough to begin creating layers.

“This is the noisiest thing I do — and the most violent,” Jacobs said on a recent Friday morning.

Some may find it ironic that the creation of delicately flaky edibles, such as the croissants currently taking shape, requires such brute force.

But then, some may also find it surprising that Jacobs is turning out her croissants, brioches, beignets, galettes and macarons not at a fan-cy downtown bakery but rather at Mountain View’s Shoreline Park.

Come again?Known more for windsurfing les-

sons and families in paddle boats, Shoreline Park also is home to the Lakeside Café, where Jacobs works full-time as a pastry chef.

Both the water-sport center and the restaurant are owned and operated by Menlo Park resident Christina Ferrari, president of Silicon Shores Corporation.

It was her idea to bring in Ja-cobs.

“Pastry is a personal passion of mine,” said Ferrari, seated under a blue umbrella at a table overlooking the lake. “I spent the better part of last year living in Paris and work-ing with the masters — learning the authentic fabrication of viennoiserie — bread, bonbons and chocolate fabrication – all of the cakes and the tarts and everything that is gas-tronomie over there.

“My aspirations for this place were to transform it into a respite in the valley,” she said, noting that since 2000 when she took over, she’s changed the menu and found new suppliers for ingredients. “Bringing in Chef Leah to work with me and to create this vision is important to me.”

Jacobs, who was hired in April, hails from Boston, graduated from the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts and formerly worked at the organic-leaning Henrietta’s Table in the Charles Hotel. She now lives

FOOD FEATURE

Leah Jacobs, the new pastry chef at the Lakeside Cafe, readies chocolate croissants for the oven.

Pastries in the parkFreshly baked croissants and cheesecake set sail at

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in Palo Alto. At the Lakeside Cafe, she’s been

able to spread her creative wings, she said. In addition to producing the daily “staples” — croissants (plain and chocolate), scones (cher-ry almond and chocolate orange), muffins (blueberry and pecan-sour-cream) and cinnamon buns — she follows her culinary whims. Diners at the café might also find fresh strawberry cheesecake, delicate crème brûlée, slices of apple pie or the decadent chocolate-croissant bread pudding in the cafe’s glass cases.

Jacobs has her sights on intro-ducing patrons to lamingtons, a bite-size Australian treat made of white cake coated in chocolate and coconut.

“They’re delicious,” she said.Her creativity extends to catering,

which Ferrari said makes up more than one third of the café’s business. In mid-August, Jacobs helped cater a 1,600-guest, carnival-themed Google event, producing 500 can-died apples and 500 cupcakes deco-rated in Google colors. To prepare for the assignment, she experiment-ed over the weekend at her house, making batches of the apples to test the caramel coating, she said.

“You don’t want it so hard that people can’t bite through it. But you don’t want it so soft that the caramel falls off,” she said.

Then she and an assistant pulled an all-nighter, working from 7 p.m. till noon the next day to meet the deadline.

But those hours hardly faze her. Like Ferrari, Jacobs has a personal passion for pastries, an enthusiasm sparked by baking chocolate cakes as a child in her mother’s kitchen. s

She started a career in high-tech, working with engineers and sup-pliers. But on weekends and week-nights, she would make wedding cakes and cupcakes for parties.

She soon admitted the split life wasn’t for her.

“Doing something just for the money is really not worth it in the long run,” she said. “I felt like I was slowly dying.”

So she took the plunge, enrolling in the Cambridge School and study-ing under a master French pastry chef Delphin Gomes and chef Sha-

ron Donovan.“I love being able to produce

something that is beautiful. ... Even now when I make a perfect crois-sant, I’m still, like, ‘Wow!’ every single time,” she said. “It’s still like magic to me. “I just get excited by that.”

Peggy Asher, a Los Altos resi-dent, is a regular at the café and has been similarly enthusiastic about the freshly baked pastries.

“Everything’s been excellent,” Asher said, listing off the items she’s tasted: the blueberry and the pecan-sour-cream muffins, the bri-oches and the apple tart.

“A lot of times people, when they come in for a beverage, I’ll share that the chocolate brioche is deli-cious, and they either look at the pastries and purchase one, or — if they’re trying to lose weight — they plug their ears and run out scream-ing because they look so good, they’re afraid they’re going to go off their diet,” she said, laughing.

Ferrari occasionally joins Jacobs in the kitchen and said she plans ad-dition changes for the café, starting with overhauling its daily menus. As an avid traveler whose destinations have included India and Mongolia as well as Europe, Ferrari said she’s always looking to bring new ideas and dishes to share with Shoreline’s diverse visitors. She also envisions offering more dishes around sea-sonal ingredients.

Jacobs wants to add savory baked goods to the brunch menu, such as French puff pastries filled with in-gredients — “mushrooms and on-ions and Gruyère, something like that,” she said.

So with all the changes afoot, what about the park-goer who just craves a hot dog?

Ferrari said the Lakeside Café ca-ters to those taste buds as well.

“Even our hot dogs are deli-cious,” she said. “We have sourced the childhood memory I’ve had, to find the hot dog that, if you’re go-ing to have a hot dog, it’s going to be pretty darned tasty here, whether it’s on a brioche bun or something else.”

Editor Jocelyn Dong can be emailed at [email protected].

Eating Out

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3G’S OPENS ... On Aug. 29, the

new 3G’s Cafe opened at 456

Cambridge Ave. in Palo Alto, with

its owners eager to serve menu

items with a Bolivian twist. Sisters

and co-owners Gloria and Fatima

Justiniano said they designed

their new business with the am-

bition to share their culture by

focusing around the traditional si-

esta. “In Bolivia, it’s a daily routine

to take a siesta (nap) and have

coffee and a pastry when you

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Cover Story

T en years ago, the Midpenin-sula was jolted awake on a Tuesday by urgent phone calls

and televised images no one could soon forget.

Over the next few hours of Sept. 11, 2001, we watched and listened, horrified, as hijacked planes nearly 3,000 miles away crashed in New York City, then Washington, D.C., and then Pennsylvania. When the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed at 10:28 a.m. EDT in a violent free fall of concrete, steel and fire, our collective inno-cence came crashing down with it.

Terrorism had struck U.S. soil.Amid confusion and grief, people

along the Midpeninsula responded as best they knew how.

Palo Alto police stepped up se-curity at utilities facilities, City

Hall and U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo’s office, even as then-City Manager Frank Benest urged residents to stay calm.

To provide stability for the city’s youth, schools remained open, at-tempting to keep students on their normal routines.

Flags were lowered to half staff. Most of Stanford Shopping Center closed. The normally bustling Palo Alto Airport ground to a standstill.

Shocked residents congregated, impromptu, to mourn victims, ex-press their fears over missing loved ones and try to console one another.

The strangeness of the day un-folded. In the late morning, Men-lo-Atherton High School students heard a roar and looked up to see an Air France plane being escorted by two fighter planes.

“It was kind of frightening, in a way, in that this is supposed to be a free country,” Pam Wimberly, the M-A athletic director, said at the time.

People, motivated to help, quickly rallied. Nearly 1,000 showed up at the Stanford Blood Center offices in Palo Alto and Mountain View, over-whelming the staff. Going to donate blood “seemed like one small thing I could do,” Leslie White, a mother of two, told the Weekly.

Religious institutions opened their doors to hold vigils for the lost, and the living. The next day, school chil-dren wrote thank-you letters to New York firefighters and police officers, decorated with red, white and blue hearts and American flags.

Though 10 years have passed, the ripples of Sept. 11 can still be felt.

The region’s youth, who were just children in 2001, saw their views of the world shaped by Sept. 11, and today they speak of the lessons they learned about the fragility of life and security.

Menlo Park members of Califor-nia Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 3, who aided in the World Trade Center recovery effort, are forever haunted by their experience — but also proud of their participa-tion.

A group of Palo Alto residents channeled their outrage into a deter-mination to make sure their neigh-bors are prepared to survive a ca-tastrophe. Those efforts have grown and continue today.

Likewise, law-enforcement staff sought new ways in the intervening years to work more effectively with

other agencies and jurisdictions.To honor the 3,000 victims who

lost their lives, and to remember the many more survivors who bear the scars of that day, the Weekly invites readers to pause to reflect on what happened 10 years ago and how the tragedy, and our response to it, has changed our lives.

— Jocelyn Dong

Palo Alto area residents’ recollections of Sept. 11 have been posted on Palo Alto Online. About two dozen people — ranging from those who were in New York City on that fateful Tuesday to those who were half a world away — shared memories of their emotions and reactions to the news. A video, featur-ing a handful of the residents, is also posted on PaloAltoOnline.com.

WATCH MORE ONLINEwww.PaloAltoOnline.com

Flags lined Fulton Street in Palo Alto on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001.

Theripplesof Sept. 11A decade after the Twin Towers fell, Palo Alto residents and city staff work through the lessons they’ve learned

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Stanford University students and faculty gathered in White Plaza on campus the evening of the attacks.

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Aweek after the terrorist at-tacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, then-Palo

Alto Mayor Sandy Eakins publicly asked residents to “face the future unafraid.”

“We are only beginning to fathom the staggering effect this will have on our country and the world,” Eakins said at the City Council meeting.

Ten years later, these effects are easier to pinpoint. Sept. 11, 2001, continues to shape the city in subtle but palpable ways.

Police officers have greatly bol-stered their capacity to share infor-mation with other law-enforcement

agencies — changes enabled by both cultural changes and Department of Homeland Security grants, which helped fund the technology that made this collaboration possible.

Palo Alto’s tech-savvy businesses are now assisting the American war effort.

And “emergency preparedness” has become the leading buzzword among local neighborhood groups.

For Palo Alto Police and Interim Fire Chief Dennis Burns and the city’s emergency responders, the event was a wake-up call — a re-minder that once unfathomable

Palo Alto after 9/11A decade later, residents and city staff

focus on being preparedby Gennady Sheyner


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Juana Briones Elementary School student Julia Moser hung up the card she made for New York firefighters and police officers after the tragedy.

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Many ways to commemorate 9/11

Local churches, other organizations plan events to observe the 10-year memorial

W ith music and song, can-dlelight and prayer, the 3,000 victims of the ter-

rorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, will be remembered on the Mid-peninsula throughout the day on Sept. 11, 2011.

In addition to interfaith memo-rial services, there will be a polo benefit for soldiers injured in Af-ghanistan and Iraq, as well as a commemoration of a monument made from the wreckage of the World Trade Center.

Schola Cantorum will be per-forming a concert at the Stanford Memorial Church.

“This event will be a fitting way for all of us who partici-pate to pay tribute — whether as performers on the platform or as members of the audience seated in the congregation,” said Greg-ory Wait, Schola’s conductor and music director.

Flying flags to remember

Close to 3,000 flags at the cor-ner of Newell and Embarcadero roads will provide the backdrop to a Memorial Event at 9 a.m. Sunday. Following a brief cer-emony remembering those who lost their lives, Mayor Sid Es-pinosa and the Palo Alto City Council will add the last flags.

Afterwards, participants are invited to walk to Eleanor Pardee Park, at 851 Center Drive, to visit the city’s 9/11 memorial site.

Information: www.cityofpaloalto.org

Tribute concertA memorial concert, featuring

Mozart’s “Requiem in D Minor,” will be performed at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Stanford Memorial Church. Featuring the 80-voiced Mountain View-based Schola Cantorum, the free concert is part of a National Requiem of Remembrance, with 60 choruses performing across the country, rolling across the country hour by hour, ending in Hawaii.

Robert Huw Morgan, Stan-ford’s university organist, will play with the choir.

Information: http://news.stanford.edu

A Sunday of remembrance

Trinity Church in Menlo Park is holding a remembrance service at 5 p.m. Sunday that will include representatives from the Chris-tian, Jewish and Muslim faiths, and is open to everyone.

“Our hope is not only to pro-vide a simple prayer service to al-low members of the community to pause, remember, reflect and pray for healing, but also to dem-

onstrate that members of the Jew-ish, Muslim and Christian com-munities can come together in a way that promotes healing and peace,” said the Rev. Matthew Dutton-Gillett, rector of Trinity, an Episcopal church located at 330 Ravenswood Ave. at Laurel Street in Menlo Park.

In addition to Trinity clergy, participants will include Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann, senior associate dean for religious life at Stanford University; Rabbi Paul Shleffar, founder and director of the Center for Contemporary Jewish Spirituality; and Shahzad Chowdry, who is part of the ING’s Islamic Speakers Bureau, an out-reach organization that promotes inter-religious understanding.

Information: www.trinitymenlopark.org

Polo benefit in Atherton

Honoring combat soldiers on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Wounded Warriors Polo Benefit will be held Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Menlo Polo Club, 190 Park Lane in Atherton.

The event raises funds for orga-nizations that aid in the physical rehabilitation of severely injured American soldiers returning from combat duty in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The event will include an open-ing ceremony, wine tasting, two polo games, a carriage driving display and a silent auction.

Information: woundedwarriorspolobenefit.org

Commemorative monument

A commemorative monu-ment, highlighted by a piece of twisted and rusted steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center Towers, will be unveiled at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Kings Mountain Volunteer Fire Brigade firehouse, 13889 Skyline Blvd. in Woodside.

Protected by ribbons of steel in the shape of a globe, the piece of wreckage is mounted on top of a 3-foot stone pillar, located in a small garden adjacent to the firehouse.

“This monument will serve as a constant reminder of the first responders as well as the mili-tary — and everyone who helps protect our homes and country,” said Steve Johnson, a member of the brigade and coordinator of the unveiling.

Information: Steve Johnson at 650-851-8447 or [email protected]

— Palo Alto Weekly and Almanac staff

Growing up in the shadow of September 11

Childhood memories of scary day taught them to ‘expect the unexpected,’ students say

by Chris Kenrick

T heir parents and baby sitters were crying. Their teachers were acting scared. A plane crashed into a building. It might have been a movie.

Such are the memories of today’s high school students about Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 — when they were young children.

“I was so young that it didn’t really hit me exactly what had happened,” said Palo Alto High School junior Jessica Tam.

A first-grader at Duveneck Elementary School at the

time, Tam remembered watching the images of crashing towers with her parents.

“My parents were shocked, and over the years I’ve come to recognize the significance of the event.”

Paly senior Jared Swezey-Gleason was up early for school that day and found his baby sitter “bawling on my parents’ bed,” her eyes fixed on the television screen. He looked at the screen to see a smoking building and a few moments later — live — a second plane crashing into it.

In his second-grade class later that day, the teacher asked the children if they knew what had happened.

“For me, it was engraved into my brain, so the ques-tion of whether we had seen it seemed ridiculous,” Swezey-Gleason recalled.

Paly freshman Arin Tai-Seale, who was 4 at the time, has no specific memory of Sept. 11, 2001, at all.

“I don’t remember much — just my parents talking about the news, and when I got older I learned more about it. For me personally it made planes kind of scary, but I still go on them,” she said.

Paly junior Soo Song most recalled the shock of her parents, who had emigrated from Korea four years ear-lier.

“My parents never really thought that America could be attacked like that, and they were really impacted by it,” Song said. At the time, they tried to shield her from the news.

“I’m sort of glad I wasn’t old enough to realize the full horror of the event.”

Kevin Wang, then a second-grader at Hoover Elemen-tary School and now a Paly senior, recalled the teachers were acting strangely that day, with “people running in

Menlo-Atherton High School student Jessica Weiner (left) comforted classmate Patty Tapia at a campus vigil.

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‘ My parents never really thought that America could be attacked like that, and they were really impacted by it.’

– Soo Song, junior, Palo Alto High School

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events are now part of the new reality. Burns said the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon forced Palo Alto to ask tough ques-tions about its own capability to withstand terrorism.

“9/11 burned an image into our minds that these things can happen everywhere,” Burns said.

The department had already been thinking about emergency response, thanks in large part to local disas-ters such as the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and the 1998 San Fran-cisquito Creek flood, he said. But

the attack stirred the community and created a greater sense of ur-gency in the department.

“I think 9/11 pushed us more, the council pushed us more and the community pushed us more,” Burns said. “Internally, we tried to push ourselves and tried to be proactive. It’s something we continue to do.”

Burns said the department, like others across the nation, took advan-tage of the federal grants that pro-liferated after 9/11 to boost its in-formation-sharing capabilities. The new tools include the COPLINK software, which allows Palo Alto police to instantly share informa-tion with other enforcement agen-cies. Before the software became

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Stanford University’s White Plaza was home to a vigil the night of Sept. 11, 2001.

Members of the Stanford community mourned the victims of the attacks at Memorial Church.

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available, Burns said, officers had to call other agencies to get certain information.

There’s also the Northern Cali-fornia Regional Intelligence Center, a multi-jurisdiction agency in San Francisco that was set up shortly after 9/11. The center issues warn-ings about terrorist threats and al-lows federal, state, county and local agencies to easily share data.

City leaders have also invested $300,000 in a police mobile-com-mand unit, a vehicle that will be a crucial communications hub in a di-saster and is one of the most sophis-ticated in the Bay Area, according to the department. It has its own dis-patch capabilities for emergencies, separate from those housed in the basement of City Hall.

Because of these initiatives and the increased emergency-response training that became the new nor-mal after 9/11, the Palo Alto Police Department is much further along than it was 10 years ago in monitor-ing potential terrorist threats, Burns said.

“Everyone realizes that we’re all in this together,” Burns said. “The community and individuals, municipalities and state, local and federal officials — we’re all in this together.”

W hile the Police Department focused on security and strengthened its coopera-

tion with federal law-enforcement authorities, the Library Depart-ment found itself caught up in the impact of the Patriot Act, which the Congress passed in October 2001. The Patriot Act expanded the law-enforcement agencies’ powers to search individuals’ records, gather intelligence in the United States, detain immigrants and more.

In response, the Palo Alto Library changed its policies to protect its pa-trons’ privacy from the potentially snooping eyes of law enforcement.

In 2003, the library began to is-sue written warnings to patrons who signed up for library cards warning them that previously private infor-mation about books checked out was no longer private. Records of book fines, once stored indefinite-ly, were to be purged within three weeks after the fine is paid. Patrons’ computer-search history was to be swiftly deleted, as were questions directed to the reference desk.

The changes in the local libraries and police departments were symp-tomatic of the tension between na-tional security and civil liberty that was playing out in communities across America post 9/11. Not ev-eryone agreed with the library’s new policies. Then-City Attorney Ariel Calonne called the newly adopted record-purging policy a “knee-jerk response,” though he agreed with library staff’s characterization of the Patriot Act as a heavy-handed wartime reaction.

The library’s policies have evolved further over the past decade. Now that records are automatically purged, the library no longer is-sues written warnings to patrons about the Patriot Act. Advances in technology have made it easier for libraries to instantly delete infor-mation without the need for staff interaction, Library Director Mo-nique le Conge said. These privacy protections have become part of the library culture everywhere, she said. These days, if someone calls or emails an information request, that information is destroyed as soon as the question is answered, le Conge said in an email.

“Most library activities now au-tomatically include some type of privacy protection, and libraries au-tomatically refer any specific law-enforcement requests to the City Attorney,” she said.

A s City Hall adjusted to the post-9/11 threats to security and civil liberty, a group of

residents began thinking more broadly about the next disaster.

Then-Councilwoman Judy Klein-berg began calling people affiliated with local hospitals, neighborhood groups and major businesses. The goal, she said, was to bring together all the agencies and groups that would have to work together during a major emergency. More than 30 people showed up at the first meet-ing, representing just about every major city sector, she said.

“It was an enormous gathering involving everyone from Stan-ford Hospital to police and fire, to AT&T, people from the Stanford Research Park and people from the

neighborhood groups,” Kleinberg recalled. “None of those people had sat in the same room before. It was quite amazing.”

The move toward better emergen-cy preparedness proceeded in fits and starts over the following decade. Shortly after Kleinberg assembled the group, then Police Chief Lynne Johnson took over the group’s coor-dination and, in 2003, turned it into an official organization called the Citizens Corps Council. The city-sponsored group, which included officials from American Red Cross and other organizations, held quar-terly meetings to update each other — but, according to Kleinberg, it didn’t pursue the type of transfor-mative initiatives she and others en-visioned, including a database with contact information of every agency that would be involved in disaster response.

“It changed from an action-ori-ented group that was just trying to get people to be prepared and us-ing various tools and strategies to make everyone aware who respond-ers would be to a very small group sharing information,” Kleinberg said. “That wasn’t what it was sup-posed to be originally.”

Now, Palo Alto’s drive toward emergency preparedness has once again reignited. The City Council has for the past two years designated “emergency preparedness” as one of its five official priorities. This summer, the council put its budget where its mouth is and agreed to hire a new director to oversee the expanding Office of Emergency Services — a high-level official

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‘ 9/11 burned an image into our minds that these things can happen everywhere.’

– Dennis Burns, police and interim fire chief, City of Palo Alto

Notice is hereby Given that proposals will be received by the Palo Alto Unified School District for bid package: Palo Alto High School Haymarket Boiler Replacement

Contract No: PAB-11

DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK: The work includes, but is not limited to asbestos abatement work, the removal and replacement of existing boilers, hydronic piping, installation and integration of associated com-ponents, and other work associated electrical, EMS work and as indi-cated in the plans and specifications.

There will be a mandatory pre-bid conference and site visit at 10:00 a.m. on Sept. 14, 2011 starting at the 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, California 94301. Please meet in front of the Hay-market Theater.

Bid Submission: Proposals must be received at the District Facili-ties Office Building “D”, by: 10:00 a.m. Sept. 28, 2011.

PREVAILING WAGE LAWS: The successful Bidder must comply with all prevailing wage laws applicable to the Project, and related requirements contained in the Contract Documents.

Palo Alto Unified School District will maintain a Labor Compliance

Program (LCP) for the duration of this project. In bidding this project, the contractor warrants he/she is aware and will follow the Pub-lic Works Chapter of the California Labor Code comprised of labor code sections 1720 - 1861. A copy of the Districts LCP is avail-able for review at 25 Churchill Avenue, Building D, Palo Alto, CA 94306.

1. A pre-job conference shall be conducted with the contractor or subcontractors to discuss federal and state labor law require-ments applicable to the contract.

2. Project contractors and subcontracts shall maintain and furnish to the District, at a designated time, a certified copy of each payroll with a statement of compliance signed under penalty of perjury.

3. The District shall review and, if appropriate, audit payroll records to verify compliance with the Public Works Chapter of the Labor Code.

4. The District shall withhold contract payments if payroll records are delinquent or inadequate.

5. The District shall withhold contract payments as described in the LCP, including applicable penalties when the District and La-bor Commissioner establish that underpayment of other viola-tions has occurred.

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who would serve as the maestro for the various grassroots groups that currently constitute the frontline of the city’s emergency-preparedness operation. Activities that were once the purview of neighborhood lead-ers and concerned citizens are grad-ually becoming a major focus inside City Hall.

Mayor Sid Espinosa said the ter-rorist attack 10 years ago spurred many cities, including Palo Alto, to take a closer look at their disaster-preparedness efforts.

“9/11 got a lot of communities to start thinking about whether they are really ready for a natural disas-ter or an act of terrorism,” Espinosa said. “I know our Police Depart-ment started looking at the safety of our buildings, and the neighborhood organizations in the city — though they were more focused on natural disasters — realized that any sort of event requiring mobilization in the community needs to be planned so that we can be prepared.”

Businesses also began to adjust to the post-9/11 era. While estab-lished giants Lockheed Martin and Hewlett-Packard Co. continued to supply the U.S. military, smaller and leaner companies also opened shop to contribute to the military campaigns. Palantir Technology, a downtown startup that sprung into existence in 2004, has been using its data-gathering and sorting tools to map out organizational charts of ter-rorist suspects in Afghanistan and locations of improvised explosive devices in Iraq. Palantir was one of four Palo Alto companies — along with HP, Attensity Corporation and Stellar Solutions — listed by the Washington Post in its “Top Secret America” database, which tracks companies that assisted the federal government after 9/11.

“These are Palo Alto technology-based companies that saw the shift in business and responded,” Espino-sa said.

T his Sunday, Palo Alto’s current city leaders hope to recreate an atmosphere of inclusiveness,

reflection and solidarity at a memo-

rial ceremony at the Palo Alto Art Center. The event will feature flags, bagpipes and a moment of silence and reflection at 9:11 a.m.

People will then be able to stroll to Eleanor Pardee Park, where resi-dents planted a grove of olive trees in honor of 9/11 victims shortly af-ter the attacks.

The trees, which have since blos-somed to heights exceeding 15 feet, stand in a ring behind a stone bear-ing a quote from George Washing-ton’s farewell address, encourag-ing Americans to, “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”

Espinosa said Sept. 11 was a “transformative event for our coun-try” even though it happened thou-sands of miles away.

“Part of patriotism is understand-ing what it means to be an American and coming together as a country,” Espinosa said. “That’s what hap-pened in 9/11.”

Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at [email protected].

Residents reflect on Sept. 11

Recollections and videos posted on Palo Alto Online

V anessa Roach was get-ting ready to go to work at Stanford University. Yon-

kel Goldstein was at a meeting in New York City, across from the World Trade Center. Samina Sundas was shopping in Costco. Chet Frankenfield was driving through Canada.

As part of the Weekly’s com-memoration of Sept. 11, the four Palo Alto area residents recently recalled the moments they heard about — or witnessed — the ter-rorist attacks of Sept. 11, as well as their feelings and experiences of that day.

Their recollections, and those of nearly two dozen other local residents, have been posted online, along with a video capturing a handful of their stories. To read their memories, and watch the video, go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com.

A few excerpts are printed be-low:

Yonkel GoldsteinFrom the vantage point of a

decade after 9/11 it seems as fate wanted me to be in New York City — not just in New York City but probably at almost the precise location that one would have selected to view those ter-rible events, had one known in advance what was to happen and, if for some macabre reason, one wanted to witness them.

At about 7 a.m., my colleague and I took a cab down to the law office where our team was meet-ing — at One Liberty Plaza, directly across from the Twin Towers. The cab driver got lost (I thought he feigned getting lost to jack up the fare — what New York Cab driver can’t find the World Trade Center?), and we ended up circling the Tow-ers. My colleague and I agreed that if we finished the day early enough our team should retire to a bar at the World Trade Center for a bit of refreshment. But there was tons of work to accomplish between now and then. Little did we know ...

Vanessa RoachMidday Stanford announced a

gathering in the Quad in front of Memorial Church where every-one could get together and just be. After the informal program and remarks, they asked for people to call out names of those who were missing so we could all keep them in our thoughts.

People called out names for some time. But there was one voice and two words that still haunt me today. A man, who seemed to be on the outer edge of the circle, called out quietly, “My sister.”

Everyone seemed to stop and catch their breath. It was so real

and so painful. I will never know who this man

was, or if his sister survived. But I will never forget hearing those two words.

Samina SundasI was at Costco when I first

learned about the tragedy. There were many people standing by the TV. I start-ed crying as I was watching the destruction and pain caused by misguided in-dividuals in the name of Islam.

One of the men from the group angrily asked me: “Why are you crying?”

I did not say anything and looked around for some support. There was none.

The man was uncomfortably close and yelled again: “I have asked you, ‘Why are you cry-ing?’”

I politely replied as I walked away: “Sir, because I have not figured out yet how not to care about human beings.”

Chet FrankenfieldWe arrived in Cache Creek,

B.C., a forlorn little town in the middle of nowhere. At breakfast at the Bear’s Claw Lodge, our young waitress asked us if we had seen on television what was go-ing on in New York City. She said an airplane had crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

We were not overly concerned by this news and thought that anyone who believed the Penta-gon was in New York City was not too reliable a news source. We returned to our motel and turned on the TV and realized for the first time what a horrific event was occurring. ...

We arrived in Prince Rupert, B.C., and read in the paper that there was to be a memorial ser-vice for the victims of the terrorist attacks on Friday evening. We at-tended. When the people discov-ered we were U.S. Americans, the outpouring of sympathy and love was overwhelming. I have always liked our Canadian neighbors, but that evening the mutual love could not have been greater.

Palo Alto(continued from previous page)

The Sept. 11 recollections of two dozen Palo Alto area residents — including two who were in New York City — have been posted on Palo Alto Online.

READ MORE ONLINEwww.PaloAltoOnline.com

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and out of the classroom.”He knew something was wrong

but didn’t know what it was until he got home from school and saw the TV images.

“I thought it was a movie at first — I don’t think it really hit me until a couple days later,” Wang said.

Paly seniors Tremaine Kirkman and Uma Veerappan both recalled their parents frantically and repeat-edly trying to get through to rela-tives in New York. Both have uncles who lived there at the time.

Kirkman thought he must be “in trouble” when his mother arrived, shaking, to take him home early from his second-grade class at Es-condido Elementary School, where they’d been celebrating a classmate’s birthday.

“I was a kid, so I didn’t really understand what was going on, but it’s become more significant every year,” he said.

Veerappan’s uncle, who worked near the Twin Towers, had been walking near the explosions, but was safe.

Though too young to fully have comprehended the terrorist attack at the time, the students have no doubt they’ve grown up in its shadow.

“I think the event itself, and what I saw, is a central part of my child-hood and how I remember those developing years,” Swezey-Gleason said.

“To have seen not only the tragedy in it but how everyone came together in the end was really powerful.”

The event “definitely changed this country,” Wang said.

Song worried for years, especially in elementary school, that her fre-quently flying father would get on a plane that would be hijacked.

“Obviously, this paranoia will be with America forever, consider-

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Juana Briones Elementary School students such as Amanda Sutherland (center) made cards for firefighters and police officers as a special project the day after 9/11.

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hew

‘ I know I should be happy and make the most of what I have, because it could be taken away by a tragedy like that.’

– Jared Swezey-Gleason, Palo Alto High School senior

ing how airport security got really tight,” she said.

For Tam, although she didn’t feel personally affected by the attack, “It opened my eyes to the rest of the world and all the terrorism that’s going on, not only in America but outside of America.”

All the students interviewed said they were relieved at the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden this year, but they differed on the appropriate response.

Wang, who was at a friend’s house when the news came, said they went outside and screamed, “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

“We were really excited. This was 10 years in the making — a huge event. Then we went back and watched Obama’s speech, and it was really fine and touching, a really special moment.”

Paly freshman Joshua Torres was watching “Family Guy” when his mother told him Bin Laden had been killed.

“I think everyone was quite happy — happy in a ‘revenge’ way,” Tor-res said. “That he’s dead was our re-venge, but I don’t think screaming and shouting was the best way to say he was dead.

“Everyone should have been a little more respectful.”

The post-Sept. 11 world is all they’ve really known, but students said they still have drawn life les-sons from the event.

“It showed me just how extreme peoples’ struggles (are) and — even in a very sheltered area like Palo Alto — how tragic those struggles can actually be,” Swezey-Gleason said.

“I know I should be happy and make the most of what I have, be-cause it could be taken away by a tragedy like that.”

Though Veerappan said she was too young for it to have affected her childhood, she thinks the terrorist attacks taught her, from an early age, to “expect the unexpected.”

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Rescuing the rescuersLocal 9/11 responders reflect on 10-year anniversary

by Sandy Brundage

Retired Task Force Canine Search Handler Shirley Hammond (with husband David Hammond, right) worked with her dog, Sunny Boy, at Ground Zero.

Michelle Le

I t started like any other Tuesday. Ed Greene, then a deputy chief with the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, got a phone call

around 3 a.m. about a wildfire that might need more firefighters. He went back to sleep. Another call came a couple hours later, talk-ing about “deployment,” and was, he thought

at first, related to the same incident.“I was hazy, having coffee,” he recalled. “I

hadn’t looked at the TV. They said, ‘You bet-ter go turn it on.’”

Afterward the chief went about his planned schedule, interviewing applicants for jobs at the dispatch center, but, “It was a weird, weird

day,” he said. It was Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.Six days later he and the 66 other emergen-

cy responders of California Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 3 were at Ground Zero in New York City, trying to grasp the magnitude of the attack.

Ten years hasn’t dimmed the pain. Or the pride.

The task force knew going in that they weren’t looking for survivors, or even any-thing recognizably human. The collapse of the Twin Towers pancaked 70 stories of rein-forced steel into a 70-foot basement, grinding bodies into the very dust the responders were breathing.

Shirley Hammond and her Doberman, Sun-ny Boy, began searching portions of the site. Trained to track the living, Sunny had never-theless acquired an ability to find cadavers. One day, a New York City chief asked for a dog-handler team to search a specific location, and Hammond responded.

“There were four fellows with torches cut-ting beams,” Hammond recalled. “I assumed they were firefighters, searching for one of their own. Sunny kept returning to one area and finally pawed a spot on the ground.”

Later one of the firefighters came up and put a hand on her shoulder.

“He said, ‘It was our brother,’” Hammond, a search-and-rescue veteran, recalled after pausing for several moments to regain her composure.

There were living victims, however — the responders themselves.

“Our job was not just to rescue people but to rescue their psyches,” Greene reflected. “We’re not just using our fancy tools for re-covery. Our job is to rescue the survivors.”

California Task Force 3 wasn’t immune to the mental strain. Shortly after arriving in New York, some of its members were dispatched

to form a rapid-response team in case other attacks followed. The hairs on Chief Harold Schapelhouman’s arms stood up as he talked about learning that the emergency responders were expected to be targets. Without telling their families, the team took DNA swabs of themselves. For identification. Just in case.

And despite the overwhelming emotional support given to the responders, some mo-ments still stung.

“What makes it hard is when someone’s outside the site, holding up a photo of their loved one, and knowing that’s not what you found — you don’t want them to know what you’re dealing with. And the pull is to give them what they want; you have to get over it,” Schapelhouman said.

The lessons that guided the team in New York were learned the hard way, at the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bomb-ing in Oklahoma City in 1995.

Both sites were graveyards, Schapelhou-man said, but Oklahoma was “a little house of horrors.” In New York City, remains were recovered using “little red biohazard bags. In Oklahoma, we used body bags.”

As others searched for remains, Dave Ham-mond, Shirley’s husband, used his engineering


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expertise to keep the federal building from falling down while other responders were taking it apart.

That experience stood him in good stead in New York, although the World Trade Center presented different chal-lenges.

“The most dangerous thing about that site was the foot-ing, and the chemicals,” he said, then held up a photo of the debris. “The biggest thing for an engineer is getting your mind around what it is. The first thing you say is, ‘Oh ----.’ Then your training kicks in.”

After Oklahoma, Hammond said, he would wake up at night, rocking back and forth in bed. Being on the pe-riphery in New York, the sheer, unthinkable scale of the destruction made it easier to cope.

Some reminders of 9/11 are physical rather than psycho-logical. At a reunion held about a month after the team’s deployment, the task force began realizing that 70 percent of their members had gotten sick, according to Schapel-houman. Pneumonia in 20-year-old firefighters; lingering coughs; skin rashes; inexplicable nose bleeds. To this day, the chief struggles with the aftereffects.

“I’ll never regret going to New York, but part of what I wish I could undo is not wearing a mask because I was on the phone, on the radio,” he said. “When I get sick now, I get really sick.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention even-tually established a health support program for 9/11 re-sponders.

On the fifth and 10th anniversaries of Oklahoma City, task force members traveled to the site, which Schapel-houman said was critical in allowing him to move for-ward.

“I saw a kid, maybe 1 or 2 years old, playing in the (me-morial) reflecting pond and I realized he didn’t know what it was,” he said. “It symbolized that I had to let it go.”

The same realizations for 9/11 might be harder to come by. The 10-year memorial in New York City this year ex-cludes the responders, for reasons ranging from expense to security, according to the chief, who has held off on sending a letter of protest to the mayor in hopes that the decision would change.

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Menlo Park firefighters were dispatched to Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks.

Courtesy of C

alifornia Task Force 3

“What’s missing here is the deeper level of significance. Why not allow them to come in, let them try to find that closure?” Chief Schapelhouman said.

Closure or not, Sept. 11 will never again be just another day for those who responded to Ground Zero.

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Stanford volleyball setter Karissa Cook (above) will host defending NCAA champ Penn State on Friday before Lindsay Taylor (right) and her teammates host NCAA champ Notre Dame.

STANFORD SPORTS

It’s a chanceto take on

the championsCardinal women’s volleyball hosts Penn State; Women’s soccer in a rematch with Notre Dame

by Rick Eymer

T he Stanford women’s soccer match with defend-ing national champion Notre Dame on Friday night is a certified sellout, but there’s plenty of

seats available for Friday’s Stanford women’s vol-leyball match against four-time national defending champion Penn State and there’s no scheduling con-flict.

It’s a unique situation and it continues all weekend with additional bonus matches. Stanford’s volleyball match begins at 5:30 p.m. The soccer match starts at 7:30 p.m.

“It’s an extraordinary soccer event and an extraor-dinary volleyball event,” said Stan-ford women’s volleyball coach John Dunning. “It’s crazy there are so many things going on and it’s not getting any better, for a preseason tournament, anywhere else. It’s awe-some.”

The Nike Volleyball Big Four Classic also includes No. 7 Florida and No. 10 Texas, which meet in Friday’s late match in Maples Pavilion.

The Stanford Nike soccer Invitational also includes No. 11 UC Ir-vine and No. 17 Santa Clara, with that match preced-ing the Stanford-Notre Dame rematch.

The Stanford men’s soccer team will kick things off at 3 p.m. against visiting Kentucky, ranked 15th in the nation.

And that’s not all!Stanford is also throwing in a couple of nationally-

ranked field hockey matches, with the No. 16 Cardinal hosting No. 19 Indiana on Friday at 5 p.m. and No. 18 Northeastern on Sunday at 1 p.m.

The volleyball tournament continues Saturday, with matches at 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Soccer continues with matches Sunday beginning at 1 p.m.

“We worked with the volleyball team to adjust


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OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Stanford wom-

en’s basketball All-American Jayne Appel, who now plays in the WNBA,

is doing a photo shoot for USA Water

Polo. The former high school water

polo goalie revealed in a tweet on

Thursday, “My first time in a cap

since high school.” . . . Senior goalie

Alexandre Popp has been named the

Northern Division Defensive Player of

the Week by the Collegiate Water Polo

Association (CWPA) for matches last

weekend. Popp, a native of Palo Alto

and a Menlo-Atherton High gradu-

ate, led a strong Crimson defensive

effort throughout the MIT Invitational

last Saturday. In a season-opening

win over MIT, Popp made five saves

and combined with Jimmy Field to

down the Engineers, 13-5. Later,

Popp stopped 13 shots from No. 17

Cal Baptist during a 13-9 loss to the

Lancers . . . Former Castilleja stand-

out Taylor Docter and Gunn grad

Teresa Skelly helped the Harvard

women’s volleyball team win a pair of

matches last weekend at the Georgia

State Invitational in Atlanta, Ga. The

Crimson topped host Georgia State,

25-22, 25-16, 22-25, 22-25, 15-13 as

Docter had 17 kills with Skelly adding

13. In a 25-23, 25-22, 25-20 triumph

over Jacksonville State, Docter con-

tributed 11 kills while hitting .550 for

the match, with Skelly added five

blocks for Harvard (2-1). Docter was

named to the all-tournament team . .

. Palo Alto grad Mike Scott had six

catches for 89 yards in his debut with

the Idaho Vandals in a 32-15 season-

opening loss to Bowling Green.

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Stanford has a chance to avengelast ugly football trip to East Coast

by Rick Eymer

O ffensive guard David DeCastro suc-cinctly summed up Stanford’s last foot-ball trip to North Carolina in two words:

“It sucked.”Cardinal quarterback Andrew Luck, of

whom former Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh once said had a photographic memory, has managed to block his memory of that loss to Wake Forest two years ago.

“I don’t remember too much from that game,” Luck said. “I tried to put it all out of my memory, except that we lost and it’s like a five-hour plane ride back that’s awful.”

No one has to remind Luck that it was also his first loss as a Division I quarterback. For-get that he threw for 276 yards, completing 23 of 34 passes, and two touchdowns, it was just plain ugly.

“I just don’t have good memories,” DeCastro said. “Hopefully we can clear that up. It just sucked overall. It sucked, to sum up the East

Coast trip.”There’s still a handful of players left who

shared Stanford’s 10th cross country trip since 1971, including then starters Luck, DeCastro, Jonathan Martin, Chris Owusu, Matt Masifilo and Delano Howell.

The sixth-ranked Cardinal (1-0) returns to the East Coast this week with its nonconfer-ence game at Duke (0-1) on Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. (PT) and the game will be televised nationally on ESPNU.

Historically, Stanford does not fare well when traveling to the Eastern time zone. The Cardinal is 2-8 in its previous 10 trips. One of those wins was at Duke in 1972.

Luck has fared much better since that Wake Forest loss. Stanford is 19-4 with him as a starter since then, including the past 10 games in succession.

Cardinal coach David Shaw, then an assis-


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PREP FOOTBALL ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Sonia Abuel-SaudSacred Heart Prep volleyball

Elizabeth AndersonGunn water polo

Sarah DaschbachSacred Heart Prep volleyball

Jesse EbnerSacred Heart Prep volleyball

Maddie KuppePalo Alto volleyball

Melanie WadePalo Alto volleyball

B.J. BoydPalo Alto football

Willy FonuaMenlo-Atherton football

Jayshawn Gates-MoutonPalo Alto football

Tyler McCoolSacred Heart Prep football

Cameron MoodyMenlo-Atherton football

Luke ThomasSacred Heart Prep football

Honorable mention

Kimmy WhitsonPalo Alto High

The senior setter had 168 assists, 20 digs and six blocks to help the Vikings go 9-0 and successfully defend their volleyball title at the High Sierra Classic in addition to being named to the all-tournament team.

Dylan MayerMenlo School

The senior two-way player carried the ball 18 times for a career-high 155 yards and two touchdowns, tallying the game-winning TD with just 5.7 seconds to play to lift the Knights to a 19-18 season-opening football win.

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Runnersto carrythe load

Young quarterbacks still finding their way after Week 1 of the season

by Keith Peters

F our local football teams opened the 2011 high school season last weekend, with

three of the squads starting new quarterbacks. Perhaps not too sur-prising, explosive aerial games did not come to pass.

In the victories by Palo Alto, Sa-cred Heart Prep, Menlo School and Menlo-Atherton, those teams com-bined for just 390 yards of passing — an average of 97.5 yards per game — as Jack Larson (SHP), Keller Chryst (Paly) and Jack Heneghan/Matt Bradley (Menlo) made their varsity debuts at quarterback.

The only returning quarterback starter was Willy Fonua of Menlo-Atherton.

By comparison, the 2010 openers produced 721 passing yards in five games — an average of 144.2 yards per game.

Despite a lack of passing, the 2011 openers actually turned out better than last season.

The five openers in ‘10 produced four wins in five games, 131 points scored and 65 allowed. In the four openers last week, all four local teams won while producing 129 points and allowing 43.

(Note: Pinewood and Priory were not included in these totals because they play eight-man football)

While passing lacked, the run-ning games took over last weekend. Menlo’s Dylan Mayer rushed for a career-high 155 yards on 18 carries in the Knights’ 19-18 win over Santa Cruz; Tyler McCool of Sacred Heart Prep rushed for a career-high 145 yards on eight carries with a pair of TDs; Palo Alto’s B.J. Boyd carried eight times for 100 yards and scored twice while Taylor Mashack and Cameron Moody of Menlo-Ather-ton combined for 119 yards on 13 total carries and three touchdowns in a 43-7 romp over El Camino.

Thus, while the young local quarterbacks find their respective grooves, running backs evidently will carry the offensive load for the time being.

Whether that continues could be determined this weekend when Week 2 gets rolling with more non-league action.

Menlo School (1-0) will host Mis-sion (San Francisco) on Friday at 3:15 p.m.; Sacred Heart Prep (1-0) will play at the same time against host Riordan; Pinewood makes its season debut by hosting Stuart Hall at 4 p.m.; and Gunn does the same by visiting McClymonds in Oakland at 7 p.m.

On Saturday, Priory (0-1) will attempt to bounce back from last week’s 40-8 season-opening loss to Stuart Hall by traveling to face An-

derson Valley in Boonville at 1 p.m. Menlo-Atherton (1-0), meanwhile, will play host to always tough Los Gatos at 2 p.m.

Palo Alto (1-0) will have a bye week after opening impressively with a 28-18 win over visiting San Benito last week.

If there were any questions about how Palo Alto would start the sea-son after winning the CIF Division I state championship last year, Boyd answered them on the first play of the 2011 season as he returned the opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown and Paly raced out to a 28-0 lead.

After a three-and-out from San Benito, Boyd added a second touch-down with a 62-yard run on the team’s first play from scrimmage to put Paly up 14-0.

Junior wide receiver Jayshawn Gates-Mouton hauled in touchdown catches of 19 and 10 yards in his varsity debut from sophomore quar-terback Keller Chryst in the second quarter to round out the scoring for the Vikings.

Chryst, a transfer from North Carolina, made his Paly debut with eight completions in 23 attempts for 109 yards, two TDs and one inter-ception. Gates-Mouton caught six passes for 72 yards in his debut.

Palo Alto could have scored more points, but had two touchdowns called back by penalties.

Meanwhile, Menlo-Atherton played its first night game under its new permanent lights and rolled to a 43-7 nonleague victory over El Camino.

Fonua threw for three touchdowns and Moody returned a kickoff 90 yards to highlight the offensive ex-plosion for the Bears. Moody added a 24-yard TD run and one from a yard out that gave M-A its final margin of victory.

Mashack added a 60-yard TD run in the first quarter to help spark the Bears to 22 points in the opening period. He finished with 71 rush-ing yards on just three carries to lead the Bears to 211 yards on the ground. Blake Olsen caught a 40-yard scoring pass from Fonua, who also tossed a three-yard TD pass to Richard Cornew.

In Santa Cruz, Menlo School rode the wave of a fourth-quarter rally for a thrilling 19-18 last-second win over host Santa Cruz.

“Our defense did a great job; that was the key to keeping us in the game all night, “ Menlo coach Mark Newton said.


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After Santa Cruz grabbed a 12-0 lead at halftime and improved it to 18-12 in the fourth quarter, Menlo began engineering its comeback.

With 42 seconds left, Menlo se-nior Chris Reed ran the kickoff to the Knights’ 35. Bradley, a junior, completed a pair of long passes to junior Connor Stastny and senior Tommy Ford to get down to the Santa Cruz 30.

Sophomore quarterback Jack Heneghan came in and connected down the middle with Reed, who got the Knights to the 2-yard line. With 5.7 seconds left, Mayer scored be-hind senior Spencer Buja and junior Wyatt Rouser. Junior Timmy Costa added the PAT, and the Knights walked away with the win.

“We played a lot of guys in differ-ent spots,” Newton said. “We’ll be able to take away a lot of teaching points — to improve, and there’s a lot they did well.”

It was Mayer, who also tied the game 12-12 with a 60-yard run with 5:46 left in the fourth quarter.

On Saturday, McCool had a career day to pace Sacred Heart Prep to a 39-0 blasting of San Lorenzo Val-ley. He had an 80-yard TD run just

before halftime that gave the Gators a 33-0 lead. A few minutes earlier, McCool ran it in from 43 yards out to make 27-0. All of McCool’s yards came in the first half.

Larson made his starting debut at quarterback for SHP and responded with 95 yards and two touchdowns on 6-of-14 passing. Ryan Gaertner caught a 15-yard scoring pass and Duke Moran latched on to an 18-yard TD reception.

Sacred Heart’s defense also rose to the challenge, holding SLV to just 67 yards of total offense in the first half. Luke Quinton, who didn’t play football last season, was among the defensive standouts for SHP. Luke Thomas and Fatu Tupou, both de-fensive ends, also contributed to the big shutout.

NOTES: Palo Alto is ranked No. 21 in the state in the California Top 50 by Cal-Hi Sports. Among the reasons why were running backs Dre Hill and Boyd, who combined for 1,719 yards and 18 touchdowns last season, plus four of five return-ing offensive linemen from last season’s 14-0 team. The only other CCS team among the top 21 is Bel-larmine, which is ranked 18th.

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Palo Alto senior Melanie Wade (19) had 21 kills and came up with some big blocks to help the Vikings improve to 10-0 this season with a big five-set nonleague victory over Presentation on Wednesday night.

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Important victorykeeps Paly perfect

Defending state champion Vikings are off to another 10-0 start after holding off Presentation in an early season showdown

by Keith Peters

T he 2011 season has gotten under way for the Palo Alto girls’ volleyball team in iden-

tical fashion as the 2010 campaign, and that’s a very good thing for the Vikings.

Paly started out last year with a 10-0 record and used that as a springboard to eventually winning the CIF Division I state champion-ship and finishing with a 41-1 re-cord.

Palo Alto once again has opened its season with a 10-0 record fol-lowing a big nonleague win over Presentation on Wednesday. That comes on the heels of the Vikings successfully defending their title at the 32-team, two-day High Sierra Classic in Reno last weekend.

The Vikings now have won 25 straight matches, dating to last sea-son when they finished the year with a 15-match win streak.

Palo Alto also has won seven straight tournaments, also dating to last season, and entered this week ranked No. 5 in the nation in the MaxPreps Xcellent 25 National Volleyball Rankings. The Vikings also have been ranked No. 4 nation-ally in the Powerade Fab 50 by ES-PNRise.

Wednesday’s showdown with Pre-sentation was a rematch of the 2009 CCS Division II semifinals, which Palo Alto won in five sets. While the Vikings went on to lose to Mitty in the finals, they bounced back in 2010 to win 26 straight matches. Ev-idently, beating a quality team like Presentation in ‘09 certainly didn’t

hurt Paly’s growth heading into its championship season.

Thus, it will be interesting to see how the latest victory plays into the Vikings’ success this season. Paly coach Dave Winn has set up the team’s toughest schedule ever, which includes upcoming home matches against Division IV state runner-up Sacred Heart Prep (Sept. 13) and Division II state champion St. Francis (Sept. 26) along with Paly’s first-ever appearance in the Mitty Tournament (Sept. 16-17).

Presentation certainly provided stiff competition in a showdown that brought together two nation-ally ranked teams, two tournament champions from last weekend and two favorites for Central Coast Sec-tion championships this season.

Not too surprising, it took five sets before host Palo Alto rallied for a 25-19, 27-25, 19-25, 21-25, 15-11 victory.

Presentation (6-1) came in ranked No. 24 nationally by MaxPreps af-ter winning last weekend’s Milpitas Spikefest I tourney.

On Wednesday, something had to give between the two talented squads. Paly did well to bounce back after losing its early 2-0 lead. Senior Melanie Wade provided 21 kills and senior Maddie Kuppe add-ed 18, Presentation’s Emily Sklar nearly served Paly off the court in the third and fourth sets while fin-ishing with 27 kills.

Paly took advantage of a few Presentation errors in the deciding fifth set, including a botched serve to close the match. Caroline Martin,

Becca Raffel and Jackie Koenig also played well for the Vikings. Raffel gave Paly a 13-8 lead in the final set before Presentation rallied to get to within 13-10. Kuppe produced a kill at 14-10 to set up the deciding point.

Palo Alto defended its title at the High Sierra Classic on Saturday fol-lowing a 25-22, 25-15 victory over St. Francis (Sacramento) in the title match. The Vikings swept all nine matches in Reno, 2-0.

“We definitely made fewer errors than most teams we faced,” said Winn. “Our blocking was quite an intimidation factor, and all of our servers put a lot of pressure on the opponent’s offense. We trailed SF-Sac 7-2 and 10-3 before we came back and outscored them. I was very impressed with our ability to make really good decisions when we were

out of system.”Kimmy Whitson and Kuppe both

were named to the all-tournament team. Kuppe had 21 kills in the final three matches on Saturday and fin-ished with 61 for the tourney. Whit-son had 62 assists in the quarters, semis and finals while finishing the tourney with 168.

Wade led the statistical parade with 71 kills, 42 digs and eight blocks while Martin contributed 29 kills and 37 digs to the winning ef-fort.

Elsewhere on Wednesday:Sacred Heart Prep (5-2) also was

busy while pulling out a 25-21, 27-29, 25-23, 25-22 nonleague victory over host Menlo-Atherton (3-3). Jes-se Ebner led the way with 20 kills and four blocks while fellow senior Sarah Daschbach added 13 kills and 13 digs for coach Damien Hardy.

Junior Ellie Shannon contributed 12 kills and four blocks for the Ga-tors while setter Jojo Kurtzman pro-duced 46 assists. Olivia Bertolacci added 26 digs. Ali Spindt had 12 kills and 14 digs for the Bears while Pauli King contributed 15 kills and 11 digs. M-A coach Jennifer Wil-son also got solid efforts from Seini Moimoi (12 kills, seven blocks) and Sarah Collins (19 assists, five digs).

In San Jose, senior Natalie Roy produced 14 kills to lead Menlo School (5-2) to a nonleague sweep of St. Thomas More on Wednesday, 25-21, 25-8, 25-18. Roy added four aces while sophomore middle block-er Sarah Bruml added six kills.

In Portola Valley, host Priory posted a 25-23, 25-22, 25-18 non-league victory over Cupertino in a season opener.

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the times,” Cardinal women’s soc-cer coach Paul Ratcliffe said. “We wanted to make it great for fans of both teams. I still wish I could go to the volleyball match.”

The Irish and Stanford met for the national title in last year’s NCAA women’s soccer tournament. This season, No. 10 Notre Dame (2-2) already has lost to top-ranked North Carolina and Duke while Stanford (4-0-1) remains unbeaten.

“Notre Dame is a great team. Those losses were to top-level oppo-nents,” Ratcliffe said. “It’s still early in the season. There’s no doubt they will be a strong team.”

In volleyball, No. 2 Penn State (4-1) surprisingly lost its season-opener at home against Oregon. The Cardinal is undefeated after four matches. Florida and Texas have each lost early matches.

Dunning thinks that only goes to show how many teams could com-pete for the national title this year. The Ducks, despite a worthy re-sume, did not make it to postseason play last year.

“Last year was open for a lot of teams,” Dunning said. “This year it is very open. With the growth of the Pac-12, it could make volleyball explode.”

The volleyball team has been relatively healthy this year, giving junior setter Karissa Cook a full complement of hitters from which to choose. Junior Hayley Spelman and senior Stephanie Browne have missed time.

Cook worked in a 4-2 system last year, meaning she only spent half the time on the court. This year she’s the quarterback and in the lineup every play.

“I’m not surprised at all,” Dun-ning said. “She has waited around for her opportunity. She’s a 5-1 set-ter and she’s really good at it. I’m happy with the way people have stepped up so far.”

Cook was named Pac-12 women’s volleyball Defensive Player of the Week for her efforts in leading the third-ranked Cardinal to a pair of victories in the Stanford Invitational over the weekend.

Cook helped Stanford beat Notre Dame on Friday and No. 18 Duke on Saturday. She averaged 5.00 digs per set, 0.88 blocks and 12.25 assists in the two games.

Cook tied a career high with 20 digs and set a career best with five blocks against the Irish. She also controlled the offense with 47 as-sists and put down three kills of her own.

She followed that effort with another career outing, recording a career-high 51 assists and matching her career-high with 20 digs in the victory over the Blue Devils.

Cook earned her first career weekly honor. It was Stanford’s 75th honor all-time.

Meanwhile, sophomore hitter Rachel Williams seems to have found her rhythm, recording double figures in kills in each match and improving her totals each time. She was named the MVP of last week-end’s Stanford Invitational, in which the Cardinal beat both Notre Dame and Duke.

Sophomore Carly Wopat has also recorded double figures in kills in each of the first four matches, also improving her totals each time. She leads the Cardinal with 25 blocks.

“Carly is a natural blocker,” Dun-ning said. “She has good senses, is physical and alert all the time.”

It doesn’t get any easier for Stan-ford. The Pac-12 opener arrives Tuesday and it’s at California, cur-rently the nation’s top-ranked team. The Bears reached their first ever national championship match last year.

Health is more of an issue with Cardinal soccer. All-American Courtney Verloo has yet to play and remains out this weekend. Ratcliffe said defenders Rachel Quon and Kendall Romine and midfielder Mariah Nogueira should get some playing time. All played against Northwestern last week.

“We’ve had several players step in and do a great job,” Ratcliffe said.

Among the main contributors have been junior defender Madeline Thompson and senior midfielder Kristy Zurmuhlen.

“Both have been at Stanford for years,” Ratcliffe said. “They have an unbelievable work ethic and are getting better and better. Kristy is a talented player. She’s not always a starter but she contributes to the team every year. She’s an inspi-rational leader who works harder than anyone and that inspires ev-erybody.”

It doesn’t get any easier for the soccer team either, with road games at nationally ranked Portland and Santa Clara next week.

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Stanford grad Taylor getsfirst MLB hit with A’s

by Rick Eymer

S tanford grad Michael Taylor allowed many thoughts to flood his mind as he ran to-

ward first base on Tuesday night. Once he reached the bag, he snapped out of his dream world and got him-self back into the ballgame.

The former all-Pac-10 outfielder stood on first base at the Oakland Coliseum, his first major-league hit tucked safely in the back pocket of the Ath-letics’ bat boy.

“Honestly it was a little surreal and kind of a relief,” Taylor said. “A lot of things went through my mind and one of them was won-dering if this moment would ever happen.”

The single extended a ninth-inning rally for the Athletics, which fell short in a 7-4 loss to the visiting Kansas City Royals.

Still, it’s a game Taylor will al-ways remember. He’s no longer 0-for-something. The man has a batting average (.167).

“It’s always good to get the first one,” A’s manager Bob Melvin, a Menlo-Atherton grad, said. “It’s a grind until you get it. He also made a nice running catch in the gap. You feel like you belong a little more.”

Taylor has been waiting for this moment since he was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the fifth round of the 2007 First-Year Player Draft. Two years later he was named the best position player in the Phil-lies’ farm system before a trade, also involving the Toronto Blue Jays, brought him to Oakland in Decem-ber of 2009.

He made his major league debut on Friday night, and was playing in his third major league game.

“You always wonder what the sit-uation will be, who will be pitching, things like that,” Taylor said. “Now I can take a deep breath and go out and play. I’ll take the hits any way they come. You work hard to hope-

fully have success in this game.”Taylor flew out to right, popped

up to short and walked and scored a run before driving a pitch from Brandon Wood into center field.

“Now I’ll work to get better,” he said.

Taylor has also learned that play-ing right field in the big leagues is

slightly more difficult than anywhere else and he’s been working with Oakland coach Tye Waller on getting better reads on balls hit his way.

It helped in one situ-ation against the Roy-als. Yamaico Navarro drove a line drive to-ward the right-center field fence with two runners on. Taylor got a good enough jump on the ball to freeze the runners, hold Na-varro to a single on ball hit off the fence,

and keep the Royals from scoring on the play.

“I was playing him in and over because I know him a little bit and I know he likes to hit to that gap,” Taylor said. “He put a good swing on it but I thought I had a chance to catch it. Then I just wanted to hit Jemile (Weeks) on the run. The ball got away but luckily nothing hap-pened.”

Taylor has been trying to stay so focused in the field, and posi-tion himself correctly, that some of the fans are starting to call him ‘O.C.D.’

“In the minors you never play in a closed stadium,” Taylor said. “It’s an open air stadium and the wind only blows one way. Here you nev-er know what the wind might do. Balls carry better and I have to play deeper and take deeper routes. I’m trying to get locked in, get my as-signments right and make sure I’m the right position.”

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“The thing is for us is the elements were different,” Shaw said. “I think the most important point is we are deeper now than we were then. We didn’t have the same juice in the sec-ond half as we had in the first half. So I think we’re better equipped to play a game like this.”

Stanford used a total of 33 players against Wake Forest, which won in the final two seconds. The Cardinal used 63 players in last week’s 57-3 season-opening victory over San Jose State.

Shaw, who has overseen recruit-ing in the Mid-Atlantic region, from Maryland to southern Virginia, since he has been at Stanford, said going to the East Coast even once every two years can make all the difference in recruiting.

“We’re one of the few, true na-tional recruiters,” Shaw said. “For us to play an East Coast game is really big because we get to send some coaches out on the road and recruit the night before. We’re ac-tually going to send some guys out early because there is some Thurs-day night high school action. And to be visible. This game is going to be on ESPNU, but also be visible to where guys within driving distance can come and watch us play, which is exciting.”

Since the Cardinal has players

from across the nation, an east coast trip can also be a rewarding experi-ence for many.

“I don’t know how many states we have players from, but I know it’s a lot,” Luck said. “We got guys from Georgia, up to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. I know a lot of guys have family on the East Coast, so it’s great that they can come and see them in person.”

Stanford’s running game last weekend produced 141 yards on 40 carries, two for nine yards by Luck. The four-man rotation seemed more like Stepfan Taylor (18 carries, 61 yards) with a supporting cast of Tyler Gaffney (5-23), Jeremy Stew-art (3-17) and Anthony Wilkerson (8-14).

“We’ve got to play our style of football which is the physical side of football,” Shaw said. “But we have to have the execution and some of our execution wasn’t up to our usual standards. So that’s where we’ll go back to work.”

If he gets a repeat performance from his defense, Shaw will be very happy. One of the nation’s top rush defenses a year ago, the Cardinal limited the Spartans to 27 total yards on the ground.

“We were happy with our play but at the same time still not satisfied,” Stanford senior linebacker Chase Thomas said. “We gave up too many passing yards and we didn’t get to the quarterback enough.”

Thomas, who hails from Geor-gia, will have plenty of family and friends at the game.

“It’s still just another matchup,”

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he said.NOTES: Luck’s two passing

touchdowns gives him 47 all-time, fourth in Stanford history. He needs five touchdowns to match Jim Plunkett for third place. Luck’s .664 career completion percentage (442-686) and 158.04 career passing rating tops the list, as does his 816 career rushing yards . . . Redshirt freshman punter Ben Rhyne (Char-lotte) is Stanfordís only player from North Carolina . . . According to the UNLV S.I.D. department, Stan-fordís offensive line of juniors Sam Schwartzstein, David DeCastro and Jonathan Martin, and redshirt fresh-men David Yankey and Cameron Fleming is the third-youngest in the country.

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CITY OF PALO ALTO PRESENTS – 27TH ANNUAL

GOT OLD SHOES? Change someone’s world with a pair of your shoes. Bring your gently worn shoes to the Moonlight Run and they will be sent to Djibouti, Africa.

First aid service and chiropractic evaluations will be available.

SEX

LAST NAME

ADDRESS

CITY

T-SHIRT

Please make checks payable to: Palo Alto Weekly MOONLIGHT RUN and mail to: Palo Alto Weekly Moonlight Run, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302 • ONE ENTRY FORM PER PERSONCHECK ONE ON RACE DAY

(12 & under - include t-shirt size and $15)(If you are under 18, please read the instructions above)AGE

FIRST NAME

ZIP

M F

S M M LL XL PHONEYOUTH T-SHIRTS

WAIVER: In consideration of your accepting my entry, intending to be legally bound do hereby for myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, waive, and release any and all rights and claims that I may have against the persons and organizations affi liated with the run and sponsoring agencies, and the assignees for any and all injuries suffered by me while traveling to and from, and while participating in the Moonlight Run, or associated activities September 9, 2011. I further attest that I am physically fi t and suffi ciently trained for participation in this event.

SIGNATURE OF REGISTRANT (parent or guardian if under 18 years of age)must have this on Race Night

DATE AMOUNT

VISA/MASTERCARD

NAME ON CARD

SIGNATURE

EXP. DATE AMOUNT(PLEASE PRINT)

PHONE

EMAIL

XXL

STATE

5K WALK7:00 P.M.

10K RUN8:15 P.M.

5K RUN8:45 P.M.

(Note: all race communications is sent by email)

Flashlights/head lights recommended.

PALO ALTO WEEKLY MOONLIGHT RUN & WALK Friday, September 9, 2O11

Stanford

Bring printed form to race night

bring printed form to Race Night Registration

TIME & PLACE5K walk 7:00pm, 10K run 8:15pm, 5K run 8:45pm.

Race-night registration 6:00 to 8:00pm at City of Palo Alto Baylands Athletic Center, Embarcadero & Geng Roads (just

east of the Embarcadero Exit off Highway 101). Parking — go to PaloAltoOnline.com to check for specific parking locations.

COURSE 5K and 10K loop courses over Palo Alto Baylands levee, through the marshlands by the light of the Harvest Moon!

Course is flat, USAT&F certified (10k run only) on levee and paved roads. Water at all stops. Course map available

at www.PaloAltoOnline.com.

REGISTRATIONS & ENTRY FEE Pre-registration fee is $25 per entrant (postmarked by September 2, 2011) and includes a long-sleeve t-shirt.

Late/race-night registration is $30 and includes a shirt only while supplies last. Family package: Children 12 and under run free with a registered parent. A completed entry form for each child

must be submitted with adult registration. Please indicate on form and include $15 for t-shirt.

No confirmation of mail-in registration available. Registration also available online at www.PaloAltoOnline.com.

Refunds will not be issued for no-show registrations and t-shirts will not be held.

SPORTS TEAM/CLUBS:Pre-registration opportunity for organizations of 10 or more runners; e-mail [email protected].

MINORS: If not pre-registered Minors under 18 MUST bring signed parental/waiver form (below) on race night to participate.

DIVISIONS Age divisions: 9 & under; 10-12; 13-19; 20-29; 30-39; 40-49; 50-59; 60-69, and 70 & over with separate divisions for

male and female runners in each age group. Race timing provided for 5K and 10K runs only; not 5K walk.

COMPUTERIZED RESULTS by A Change of Pace Chip timing by A Change of Pace. Race results will be posted on the Internet at www.PaloAltoOnline.com by 11pm

race night. Registration forms must be filled out completely and correctly for results to be accurate.

Race organizers are not responsible for incorrect results caused by incomplete or incorrect registration forms. You

must register for the event you plan to participate in.

AWARDS/PRIZES/ENTERTAINMENT Top three finishers in each division. Prize giveaways and refreshments.

DJ Alan Waltz. Pre-race warmups by Noxcuses Fitness, Palo Alto

PALO ALTO GRAND PRIX Road Race Series — Moonlight Run, 9/9; Marsh Madness, 10/23; Home Run, 11/13, for

more information go to www.paloaltogp.org.

BENEFICIARY Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund. A holiday-giving fund to benefit Palo Alto area non-profits and charitable organizations.

In April 2011, 45 organizations received a total of $240,000 (from the 2010-2011 Holiday Fund.)

MORE INFORMATION Call (650) 463-4920, (650) 326-8210, email [email protected] or go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com.

For safety reasons, no dogs allowed on course for the 5K and 10K runs. They are welcome on the 5K walk only. No retractable

leashes! Please bring your own clean-up bag. Jogging strollers welcome in the 5K walk or at the back of either run.

PRE-

REGISTRATION

CLOSED!

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