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The Weekly was awarded a first-place “Freedom of Information”award for its legal challenge, news
coverage and editorials relating tosecret e-mails and staff responsesbetween City Council members and
city staff, which resulted in a ground-breaking open policy in council mem-ber/staff communications.
The Weekly’s second-place forgeneral excellence follows threeconsecutive first-place generalexcellence awards in the prestigious“Better Newspapers Contest” of theCalifornia Newspaper Publishers’Association (CNPA) — in the high-ly competitive category of largeweekly and semi-weekly papers.
The CNPA conference was heldaboard the Queen Mary in LongBeach. The several thousand entriesare judged by editors and staff ofCalifornia newspapers, and finalistsare judged by a “blue-ribbon panel”of out-of-state editors.
The Weekly also picked up itsfourth consecutive first-placeaward for its editorial pages; a firstfor spot-news coverage (the eighthtop award for spot news in a row)
for its work on the AmyMalzbender tragedy by WeeklyStaff Writer Bill D’Agostino andother staffers; a first for a spot-news photo (“You’ve got a friend,”by former Staff Photographer DonFeria) and a first place for a sportsphoto (“Another winning finish,”by Sports Editor Keith Peters).
The paper won second-placeawards for overall sports coverage
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Paper’s challenge of secret council e-mails recognized
T he Palo Alto Weekly Saturday received the second-place award for general excellence among all largenon-daily newspapers in California — along with five
first-place awards and two other second-place awards.
Sitting in a booth at the back ofPalo Alto’s City Council chambers,they remotely control three camerasthat capture the action — out ofsight of everyone else at the meet-ing, and usually for hours on end.
As reality television goes, it’sno “Joe Millionaire.” But city offi-cials and citizens alike praise theeffort that brings Palm-Pilot-driv-en residents a way to stay abreastof local government.
Year-round, the Palo Alto-based Midpeninsula CommunityMedia Center broadcasts every-thing from weekly City Councilmeetings to the occasionalHistoric Resources Board delib-eration on cable channels 26 and29. The channels reach about13,000 Palo Alto subscribers,according to Annie Niehaus, the
center’s executive director.. City Hall operators may seem a
humble bunch, but some haveeven gone on to bigger and betterthings — including Hollywood.The work has even attracted theinterest of Palo Alto City Councilmember Dena Mossar, who untilnow has been more accustomed tobeing in front of the camera thanbehind it.
Like all worthwhile endeavors,there are sacrifices to be made.Video operators recall many a latenight given up in the cause ofinforming the populace.
Vince Larkin, who now worksfor Stanford’s KZSU-FM radio,said his most challenging eveningas a video operator occurred whena Planning & Transportation
Reality TVVideo operators at City Hall
bring democracy to local homesby Jocelyn Dong
I t may seem to some as exciting as watching an ice-berg melt — filming government officials as theydeliberate on issues such as city budgets and zoning
ordinances.But in Palo Alto, that behind-the-scenes task falls in
the hands of about 10 people. They are City Hall videooperators, and they fulfill a unique niche in 21st centu-ry democracy by bringing democracy to the massesweek in and week out. (continued on page 9)
Sculpting acontroversy
Dispute between art commission, director
might go to City Councilby Bill D’Agostino
F or the first time in the27-year history of thecity’s Palo Alto Public
Art Commission, a deci-sion by the appointed offi-cials might go to the CityCouncil.
Earlier this year, the commissionapproved a surrealistic sculpture,known as “Rrrun,” to be placed in ayet-to-be-determined Palo Alto loca-tion. But Arts and Culture DirectorLeon Kaplan, who is retiring at theend of the week, blocked the 5-foottall artwork from going forward, say-ing he thought commissioners weretoo cozy with the creator.Commissioners argue they were try-ing to honor a major local artist.
“Rrrun,” which is made out of aconcrete-like material, depicts thebottom half of a person running onthe top half of a car. “It’s inspired bythe time we spend in our cars andthe personalities that cars take on,”said artist Marta Thoma, who alsocreated the “Go Mama” sculptureon California Avenue and a fencewith electricity-related imageslocated in front of an electrical sub-station on Alma.
Kaplan said the decision to shelvethe artwork was based more on con-cerns about the approval processthan the piece’s artistic merits.Thoma served on the commission afew years ago and has already placedthe two other pieces in Palo Alto.
Commissioners voted 6-1 lastmonth to award Thoma $10,000 for“Rrrun,” but no other artist had achance to compete for the money,Kaplan pointed out. “It constitutedat least the appearance of a conflictof interest.”
“In my view, the relationshipbetween Marta and the current
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Phillip Pumphrey, a city video technician, controls three cameras from a remote station to produce the televised City Council meetings.
board wrestle gamely lastmonth with the issue of nutri-
tion in school lunches, I had thewrong thought at the wrong time.
I remembered how great the greasyhamburgers tasted in the schoollunchroom, back when I was in highschool in Chicago.
It was comfort food amid a day ofsome stress, although no one knewthen how wickedly bad such food isfor us.
It isn’t just what kids eat at schoolthat should concern parents and theschool district. It’s also what theygulp down in liquid form. The schoolboard indicated clearly last monththat it intends to remove caffeinatedsodas from the high schools.
But the board didn’t deal with therelated issue: If kids shouldn’t beable to drink the stuff, why shouldteachers?
“We have to take up the issue ofteachers sitting there with a can ofCoke when it is banned for the kids,”school board President Cathy Kroy-mann said.
Deputy Superintendent BobGolton told the board the staffstopped short of recommending aban on caffeinated sodas because“adults on campus routinely drinksodas, not being role models — sowe backed away from that policy.”
The board isn’t backing away,though.
“If we are about healthy choices,we should be modeling those behav-iors,” board member Gail Price said.
That means teachers.Getting kids to stop drinking caf-
feinated sodas will be easier saidthan done. When those drinks wereremoved from middle-school cam-puses last year, some kids reportedlysneaked into the teachers’ lounges toget pop with a buzz.
“It’s hard to find a kid who doesn’tlike caffienated beverages,” saidJonathon Steinman, 16, who will bea junior at Paly this fall. “I know kidswho drink three or four before noon.”
Steinman, who is an editorial-pages intern at the Weekly this sum-mer, said he and his classmatessometimes stay up until 4 a.m. doinghomework and they need the caffeinefrom sodas and other sources.
“They resort to extreme meas-ures,” he said, describing how somestudents use an extract of a high-caf-feine plant which, in small doses, canjump-start anyone’s endurance.
That brings up the subject of how
much stress kids are under at school,but that’s another topic. Comfortfood and caffeine are byproducts ofstudent stress.
Prohibiting caffeinated beveragesmay have one undesirable side effect.“I don’t want to make the sodas aforbidden fruit,” school board mem-ber Mandy Lowell said at June’sboard meeting,
Steinman agreed: “People willwant what they can’t have.”
Maybe they should develop a “For-bidden Fruit” juice for the vendingmachines — that might have someappeal.
There’s another difficulty: Any banat Paly won’t be much more thansymbolic, as students can just walkacross the street to Town & CountryVillage shopping center for lunch. AtGunn, at least they have to get intheir cars to go somewhere.
“I’m not sure we can build an arti-ficial world on these two campuses,”said school board member John Bar-ton.
That’s why it’s necessary to ban thedrinks from teacher’s lounges, too.
“There’s a bigger variety of sodasin the teacher’s lounge,” said JacobSavage, 14, who was an eighth-grad-er at JLS last year and will be start-ing at Gunn next month. If sodas arebanned for kids, “it won’t be devas-tating, but they won’t like it,” he said.
Having soft-drink machines oncampus isn’t as bad as having ciga-rette machines, which would be un-thinkable. Both nicotine and caffeineare unhealthy, addictive substances.
“It’s why soda manufacturers wantto have machines in the schools, justlike tobacco manufacturers want toget kids early,” said Santa ClaraCounty Supervisor Liz Kniss, a for-mer Palo Alto school board and CityCouncil member. She’s also a publichealth nurse and feels strongly aboutthe issue of caffeine.
“What you put into your body de-termines what you can do,” she said.“Kids don’t understand that caffeineis addictive.”
The board is poised, when it re-turns from summer break Aug. 24, toban unhealthy snacks and caffeinatedsodas from high school campuses.
Steinman noted that caffeinated so-das aren’t just available at Paly —they are also the best deal in town:$1 for a 20-ounce bottle.
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The Palo Alto City Councilvoted against giving an upscalefusion South Asian restaurant a
lease for a city-owned downtownbuilding, but instead awarded it to agym offering less money.
After the vote, Owen Byrd, a landuse attorney representing the SaffronClub restaurant, accused the councilof engaging in “social engineering”by choosing the lesser monetary pro-posal. When asking for proposals,the city said it only cared about thefinancial package, not the benefit tothe community, Byrd pointed out.
Council members argued thatForm Fitness was a better fit fordowntown and had a smaller risk ofgoing under. The building is the firstcity-constructed building designedto raise profits for the local govern-ment, which leases other buildings tononprofits at subsidized rates.
The fitness club will initially pay$1.85 a square foot per month, com-pared to the restaurant’s $3 proposal.The gym’s rent will increase more
rapidly over time. During the lease’s10 years, Form Fitness will pay morethan $2.8 million. The restaurantoffered $3.2 million.
The financial picture was slightlymore complicated than those num-bers paint. For instance, the cityagreed to pay $74,100 to help thegym improve the building. The citywould have paid nearly $300,000 forthe restaurant’s upgrades. MayorBern Beecham, who voted for thefitness club, insisted the choice wasnearly a wash financially.
The city is paying $320,000 amonth on the bond used to constructthe 7,210 square-foot building, locat-ed at 445 Bryant St. In 2001, whenthe council approved the building’sconstruction, officials hoped itwould garner $4.50 a square foot andimmediately cover payments. Thecity’s general fund will need to sub-sidize it for the first six years.
The council voted 6 - 3 in favor ofthe gym. ■
PALO ALTO
Gym beats out restaurantDeveloper accuses city of ‘social engineering’
by Bill D’Agostino
public art commissioners thatbrought the project forward was tooclose,” Kaplan said.
The City Council is authorized toreferee disagreements between staffand the commission, but neverbefore has it been needed, Kaplansaid. It is unknown when the art-work’s fate will go before the coun-cil.
Commissioner Gerald Brett saidthe group was simply trying tohonor a local artist. Thoma grew upin Palo Alto, and now lives in LosAltos.
“You shouldn’t be ungrateful forthis major artist willing to sellpieces for that amount of money,”Brett said.
One commissioner, Ron Cooper,voted against the sculpture, report-edly saying he didn’t favor it onartistic grounds, but was unavail-able for comment by press time.
The artist also thinks the piecedeserves approval.
“The money is so small it would
be hard to afford a competitiveprocess for it,” said Thoma, whoadded she was not making any prof-it on the grant. “I’m just a localartist that actually has an interna-tional reputation — to show mywork is just to take advantage ofsomeone who is nearby and talent-ed.”
This month, Thoma won aSilicon Valley Artist Fellowshipand her work is currently beingshown at the Triton Museum of Artin Santa Clara.
Kaplan’s last day is Friday, afternearly a quarter century with thecity. This is his second bitter con-troversy in the past few months.
“I wouldn’t have written thescript like that if it had been up tome,” he said.
Last month, the commission andKaplan butted heads over DigitalDNA, an egg-shaped sculptureplanned for Lytton Plaza. The art-work was destroyed in a warehousefire, and commissioners blamedKaplan for not installing it prior tothe blaze. The artist is currentlyrebuilding it. ■
Public art(continued from page 3)
T he Palo Alto City Councilpushed pause on a proposal tospend $40 million to build a
citywide fiber-optic network to pro-vide high-speed Internet and digitaltelevision to all homes and busi-nesses Monday night.
Despite years of study, the city’sfinancial experts have not found aviable way to fund the proposal.They will continue to monitor otherCalifornia cities considering similarventures.
The city’s elected officials alsoofficially put off a once-plannedNovember vote on the topic.
Councilwoman LaDoris Cordellquestioned whether it was time topull the plug on the entire project.“In Palo Alto, we have a hard time
bringing closure and saying no,” shesaid.
Councilwomen Yoriko Kishimotoargued the project was important forthe future of Palo Alto since itwould bring local control to thespread of information and provide anew source of future funding forcity services.
Kishimoto, along withCouncilwoman Hillary Freeman,wanted the council to instruct cityanalysts to be more proactive infinding a way to pay for it, but theirproposal was rejected.
Mayor Bern Beecham said theanalysts have gone through their bagof tricks and “there aren’t any moretricks in the bag.”■
Leon Kaplan, the city’s Arts and Culture director,currently embroiled in a dispute with the Public ArtCommission. Kaplan is scheduled to retire at the endof the week. See page 3.
WELCOME TO TOWN ... NewPalo Alto City Attorney GaryBaum started work last week,and promptly was greeted by a“Welcome to Town” publicrecords request from the PaloAlto Daily News. According to acity official, reporters once againdemanded the salaries of allemployees, as they have in thepast. Last year, the paper’s pub-lisher lost a lawsuit against vari-ous nearby cities and unionswho denied a similar claim. Thejudge ruled that most employ-ees’ privacy was more importantthan the public’s right to knowfor most, but not all, municipalemployees, setting the stage forPalo Alto to deny the paper’srequest.
GIVING JEOPARDY CHAMP ARUN FOR HIS MONEY ... Thenight Ken Jennings became thefirst $1 million winner onJeopardy last week, Midtownresident Irene Lawrence washis closest competition. Backhome in Palo Alto, Lawrencecalled her 15 minutes of famean “interesting anthropological”experience. The episode wasactually filmed in March, beforethe computer geek became amedia darling. As soon as thetwo new competitors heardJennings, the Mormon computergeek from Salt Lake City, hadwon 28 games straight, theylaughed and knew they werecannon fodder. “We didn’t givehim the worst he’s had, but wedidn’t give him the easiest timehe had either,” Lawrence said.Jennings seemed nice but thePalo Altan didn’t have muchinteraction with him in the“bullpen” before the game. As aplayer, Jennings was quick withthe buzzer, she said. “It’s defi-nitely an advantage, but I would-n’t call it an unfair one ... This isa game, it’s not a war — and Ihad fun.” Lawrence was espe-cially tickled that the announcer,Johnny Gilbert, got her occupa-tion correct during the opening— she is an “enrolled agent,” akind of tax specialist. Her hus-
band and daughter encouragedher to audition in Sacramento.Her daughter Claire is now plan-ning to try out for CollegeJeopardy, hoping to follow in hermother’s footsteps.
BIDDING FOR DINING DOLLARS ... Going with theaxiom that the best way to peo-ple’s pocketbooks is throughtheir stomachs, the new PaloAlto Downtown BusinessImprovement District board islaunching “Dine Downtown” inAugust. Modeled after the suc-cessful “Dine About Town” initia-tive in San Francisco, “DineDowntown,” will offer prix-fixemenus on Monday nights inAugust at several restaurants,including Café Fino/Maddalena’s,Gordon Biersch, Il Fornaio, LaStrada, Niebaum-Coppola, Nola,Nouveau Trattoria, Osteria,Spago, and Zibibbo. GordonBiersch’s prix-fixe, for example,includes a choice of drink, salad,entrée and dessert (chocolatedouble fudge cake or carrotcake, for those who were won-dering) for $20. “DineDowntown” is the board’s firstforay into promoting the down-town area since forming the dis-trict earlier this year in an effortto revitalize revenues.
WISH LIST FOR LIBRARIES? ...When you visitwww.Amazon.com sometime inthe future, could the Palo Altolibraries have a wish list ofbooks posted? That was oneidea suggested by a Palo Altoresident at a recent meetingwith Paula Simpson, the newdirector of Palo Alto libraries.The notion was part of a discus-sion on the future of thelibraries. Mindful of the city’stight budget, Palo Alto residentsput their minds to brainstormingabout how to save the librarysystem money and also sug-gested the use of bookmobiles,collaboration between Stanfordand Palo Alto, and the perennial“competent budget manage-ment at the top.” ■
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After 40 years in the state’s publicschool system, Golton — who livesin San Francisco — said he’s look-ing forward to taking a long-awaitedsabbatical. He said he’ll miss thesuperintendent, the business servicesstaff and the community as a whole.
“I was here in both good times andbad, when we had five years ofunprecedented growth and nowthere’s been a couple years of budgetreductions,” he said. “That’s the kindof thing I’m good at.”
The district won’t necessarily lookfor a replacement within, but it’s dis-trict policy not to exclude any possi-ble candidates. Marilynn Cook, assis-tant superintendent of humanresources, said it’s unknown at thispoint whether the district will hire asearch consultant. The position, how-ever, will be posted this week in a fewpublications, with an advertised start-ing salary between $140,000 to$150,000, said Superintendent MaryFrances Callan.
In May, the district filled two topadministrator positions from within.Scott Laurence, former principal of
Gunn High School, will take over ashead administrator at Palo Alto HighSchool while Noreen Likins, viceprincipal at Gunn, will move up theladder to head that campus.
Though Golton will retire Aug. 31,he will continue in his positionthrough October. Cook said it wouldbe ideal to have the new person inplace two weeks before Golton offi-cially leaves.
“Dr. Golton has been very flexibleon his intention to leave the district ingood shape,” Cook said.
Callan added the district is alreadylooking into hiring an interim assis-tant superintendent if a replacementhasn’t been hired in time, saidCallan.
“We are trying to find someonewho can do the kind of superb jobthat he has done in terms of the busi-ness and finances of this district,”Callan said. “People trust his num-bers and understand when he saysthis is the bottom line.” ■
Golton to retireBusiness whiz expected to stay on through October
by Alexandria Rocha
T he Palo Alto Unified School District is on the huntagain: Bob Golton, the deputy assistant superintend-ent of business services for seven years, announced
this week he will retire at the end of August.
Two Palo Alto women remain incustody after being charged on suspi-cion of killing their newborns. Theincidences have left law enforcementand social workers looking foranswers to the tragedies.
Ophelia Vanider Hill, 31, wasarrested Sunday on charges ofmanslaughter and cruelty to a childafter her former landlady found adead infant in the suspect’s WebsterStreet apartment.
According to police, Vanider Hilllived in the apartment for six yearsbefore abandoning the unit in April.The landlady, Althea Andersen,found the baby Sunday while clean-ing out the apartment, a task she wasunable to do earlier because of evic-tion laws.
Andersen was unavailable for com-ment.
Although specifics of the case hadyet to be revealed, one social workersaid the circumstances of the sus-pect’s life could be significant.
“If this woman was living in thatapartment building for six years andprobably struggling to pay the rent, Idon’t think she had a lot of
resources,” said Ken Borelli of theSanta Clara County Social ServicesAgency. “Where is the family supportsystem? If someone is pregnant, mostfamilies come together to help thenew mom. When someone is isolat-ed, they don’t have a lot of that.”
This is the second case of appar-ent infanticide in two weeks. MariaAna Quinones, 22, was arrestedJuly 8 on suspicion of murderingher newborn in February and dump-ing it behind the Palo Alto DaysInn, where she worked.
“It goes back to what does thatpregnancy symbolize? Is that preg-nancy the product of a casual rela-tionship? A product of incest? Aproduct of rape?” A lot of this goesunreported,” Borelli said.
Just one day after Vanider Hill’sbaby was found, the Webster Streetapartment fourplex resembled a ghosttown. An apparently brand new “NoTrespassing, Private Property” signguarded the entrance. But no othersigns of tragedy were visible: win-dows to the neighboring unitsremained open, indicating an overall
COMMUNITY
Questions persist aftersecond infant death
Factors like isolation, lack of support could play role in second case of infanticide in two weeks
by Alexandria Rocha
I solation and the lack of a support system could be con-tributing factors in the recent cases of infanticide thatshocked Palo Alto the past two weeks, social workers said.
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A gift of lovePalo Alto resident Kitty Sanford, who is dying of cancer, threw a
party with the help of friends on Saturday to raise money for the futureof her 10-year-old daughter Kuuleilani.
Sanford, a single mother and former high-tech recruiter, spent her lifesavings during her battle against cancer. The fund-raiser at theChildren’s Discovery Museum of San Jose netted more than her$25,000 goal. Organizers were still tallying the total at press time.
Sanford described the event as “like a Cinderella story” that lifted allof her considerable pain for the evening. The event “filled my heartwith exactly the peace I need.”
Good friends in Seattle will become Kuuleilani’s “next parents.”Sanford and her daughter plan to return to Hawaii this week to meet
her new infant nieces. Friends plan more fund raisers, including a“Kitty” and dog walk-a-thon.
To contribute to the fund for Kuuleilani, go to www.kittyslove.com. ■— Sue Dremann
Swastikas carved into picnic tablesVandals have carved swastikas into the picnic tables at
Greenmeadow Park in south Palo Alto. The Nazi symbols, whichwere discovered Friday morning, were lightly carved into five of thesix picnic tables in the privately-owned community center and park.
“The same thing happened last summer,” said Lanie Wheeler, presi-dent of the Greenmeadow Community Association. No one was everarrested for that act.
The vandalism is being investigated as a “hate incident” by thepolice, said Capt. Brad Zook, and could be classified as a hate crimeunder state law.
Wheeler said that parents in the neighborhood talked to their teen andpre-teen children after last year’s incident and found many of them did-n’t know the historical significance of a swastika. But without an arrest,there is no way of knowing if the carving is youthful vandalism orsomething more sinister.
Last year, the vandalized tables and benches were sanded down toremove the offensive symbols, which the neighborhood association willnow do again. ■
— Don Kazak
Q Café closingThe Q Café on Alma Street near Palo Alto is closing at the end of
the month, the building’s owner reported this week.The lease ends Aug. 1, and the owner of the restaurant/
nightclub/pool hall hasn’t asked for an extension, real estate develop-er Chop Keenan said.
“Restaurants have life cycles, and I think his has run the coursethere,” Keenan said.
The manager of the restaurant refused to answer questions, insist-ing that a decision hadn’t yet been made. The Q Café opened in 1994with a 10-year lease. Keenan said the 6,000-square-foot space brickbuilding was the first he ever owned and has a “special place in myheart.” He didn’t yet know what would replace The Q Café, locatednext to a yoga center.
“We’re getting all kinds of calls ... until we get in there it’s hard tolease it, but it’s a great space,” he said. The lease will likely be in the$3-plus range, he added.
In June 2001, a 21-year-old college student was shot and killed out-side the Q Café as she was exiting the club with friends. Despite aplethora of witnesses, police never found out who shot Maria AnnHsiao, or why they did so. Three years later, fliers still adorn somedowntown storefronts with her yellowed photo. ■
Commission meeting went to thewee hours of the morning and hewas committed to record theArchitectural Review Board at 7a.m.
“We practically slept back in thebooth,” he said.
Then there’s the lack of artisticfreedom that comes with the job.Video operators are not allowed to dofancy camera work or zoom in tootightly, although doing so mightspice up their work.
“We’re not allowed to artificiallycreate drama,” said Jeff McGinnis,26, who last week was eyeballingfour monitors and punching buttonsas the Planning & TransportationCommission talked zoning ordi-nances.
McGinnis has been broadcastingmeetings for four years and aspires toget into the post-production business.
Niehaus, who was the first City Hallvideo operator back in 1989, said thepoint is to make sure officials and citystaff don’t feel uncomfortable.
“In general, if there is a heateddebate, you stay on the speaker. Youdon’t get reaction shots” or focus onthe opponent’s expressions, she said.
Aside from creative constraints,video operators also put up with theirate callers who somehow find thephone number to the booth. In a way,the calls are a blessing in disguise.Operator Phillip Pumphrey, 26, saidthe complaints are always technicalin nature and not something the oper-ators have control over. But at leastthe calls mean people are watching.
The Media Center has no way oftracking exactly how many peopletune in to government meetings, butnational studies have shown that citycouncil meetings are the top showpeople watch on public-access TV.Local sports come in second.
And although community televi-sion itself may not seem to draw highinterest, the millions of volunteersand employees of such organizationsproduce some 20,000 hours of newprogramming each week — morethan all the programming producedby NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and PBScombined, according to the Alliancefor Community Media, a nationalindustry group.
Michael Heath was a video opera-tor in the late ’90s and now works onthe TV show “Without a Trace” inthe art department, as well as manag-ing props for big-name movies like“Bruce Almighty,” “The Hulk” and“Seabiscuit.” He’s currently involvedin the sequel to “Meet the Parents”called “Meet the Fockers,” starringBen Stiller, Robert DeNiro, DustinHoffman and Barbra Streisand.
“There’s so much to be aware ofwhen you’re doing a City Councilmeeting,” he said. “It couldn’t beboring because you had to pay atten-tion” to who was speaking.
In fact, he said he misses the CityCouncil meetings. “As tense as itwould be sometimes, it was profes-sional (work). This is going out live.If the issue was a hot topic, the pres-sure was on,” he said.
One of the projects he had workedon at the Media Center — though notin conjunction with the governmentbroadcasts — even won an Emmylast year.
As for Mossar, she got involvedwith the Media Center because of a
private project she’s working on witha friend. When the opportunity cameup to gain experience in operating theequipment, she stepped forward.
Mossar expects to be in the boothsin Palo Alto, Menlo Park or SanMateo one or two nights a weekbeginning in September. Watchingdeliberations through the monitors,she said, will be a “more intense”way of boning up on the issues thanreading the city-prepared packetseach week.
Heath explained that after watch-ing people on a monitor for so long,exiting the booth and seeing them inperson can be “a strange sensation.”
“It was like meeting celebrities,”he said, confessing to sometimesfeeling “star struck” by the people hewatched.
From the other end, Mossar saidshe’s “ceaselessly amazed at howpeople come up to me and say, ‘I sawyou on television last night.’” ■
The Media Center is looking tohire four video operators. ContactAnnie Niehaus at 494-8686 for infor-mation.
Senior staff writer Jocelyn Dongcan be reached at [email protected].
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and for a photo essay by ChiefPhotographer Norbert von derGroeben.
Six other entries were cited forreaching the final round of judging:for a local spot-news story, “Stunnedinto silence”; a feature story, “Behindthe music”; columns by Staff WriterSue Dremann; a spot-news photo byformer Chief Photographer KateRobertson; a feature photo by ChiefPhotographer Norbert von der
Groeben; and an editorial on “Mediaspoofing” about the City Council’sconsideration of a behavior code.
The Weekly’s sister paper, theMenlo Park-based Almanac, pickedup a first-place award for enterpriseand investigative reporting and twosecond-place awards for lifestyle cov-erage and a sports story.
Another sister paper, theMountain View Voice, picked upthree second-place awards for pub-lic service, environmental reportingand a sports photo.
The first-place award for general
excellence went to a brand-newweekly newspaper, the SantaBarbara-based South Coast Beacon,founded three years ago and eligiblethis year for the first time to competein the CNPA contest.
Among large daily papers, the LosAngeles Times picked up first placefor general excellence, and the SanJose Mercury placed second.
The Palo Alto Daily News, in asmaller-dailies category, won a first-place award for an editorial and a sec-ond place for an editorial cartoon. ■
— Weekly staff report
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feeling of safety.The Santa Clara County Coroner’s
Office conducted an autopsy on thebaby Monday, but could only say thecause of death is pending and theinvestigation is still ongoing. Policealso didn’t release informationregarding the baby’s father.
“We have to follow up on leads andreleasing any information can jeop-ardize that,” Palo Alto Detective KaraApple said.
Apple said Vanider Hill’s arraign-
ment is scheduled for Wednesday.According to Child Trends, a
national nonprofit research firm,homicide is the leading cause ofinjury deaths among infants underone year of age in the United States.Infants are most likely to be killed bytheir mother during the first week oflife, but are more likely to be killedby a male thereafter.
Between 1970 and 2000, the infanthomicide rate more than doubled to 9instances per 100,000 children underage one, according to Child Trends.However, infant homicides have beenon the decrease for the past few
years; there were about 270 infanthomicides in 2002, which was downfrom 332 the year before.
Besides isolation and lack of a sup-port system, other risk factors regard-ing infant homicide include a secondor subsequent baby born to anunmarried teenage mother; no prena-tal visit before the sixth month ofpregnancy or no prenatal care at all; ahistory of maternal mental illness; amother with 12 or fewer years of edu-cation; or a premature birth. ■
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PulseA weekly compendium of vital statistics
Alvin MasonAlvin “Al” Mason, 79, a former
resident of Palo Alto, died June 21.He was born April 16, 1925, in
Fresno and moved to Palo Alto in1930. He graduated from Palo AltoHigh School in 1943 and was in-ducted into the Army Air Corps theday after graduating from highschool. He earned his Flight Wingsand flew 34 missions in a B-24 asan armored gunner and aerial pho-tographer while stationed at Ip-swich, England. He was awardedthe Air Medal with 4 Oak LeafClusters and a medal from the Kingof Sweden.
After his service, he returned toPalo Alto and joined his father andbrother in a family painting busi-ness for 13 years. In 1951, he mar-ried Dorothy Limoges of Elk Point,S.D. They had five children.
He was employed by various Sil-icon Valley electronics companiesfor more than 30 years and workedas a mechanical and electricaldraftsman and designer. He was anactive member of Grace LutheranChurch for 40 years. He alsocoached Little League, Babe Ruth,Pop Warner football and was anAssistant Scoutmaster for Troop#9, Grace Lutheran.
Nine years ago, he and his wifemoved to Andover, Minn., to helpcare for their grandson.
He is survived by his wife of 53years, Dorothy Mason of Andover,Minn.; five children, Patti Brooksof Napa, Alan of San Jose, Gary ofAnoka, Minn., Marc of Grass Val-ley and Gaelyn of Palo Alto; andthree grandchildren.
Services have been held.
Gordon L. PooleGordon L. Poole, 77, a former
resident of Stanford, San Franciscoand Menlo Park, died July 7 from arare bone marrow disease.
He graduated from Palo AltoHigh School in 1944 and served asa sergeant in the U.S. Army from1944 to 1947 in Korea. He went onto graduate magna cum laude fromHarvard College in 1949 and fromHarvard Law School in 1952.
After graduation he moved backto San Francisco and practiced asan associate with Treadwell &Laughlin in San Francisco andNixon Peabody, formerly known asLillick, McHose & Charles.
He was a member of the Califor-nia, San Francisco and AmericanBar Associations and the MaritimeLaw Association. He was also amember of the San Mateo CountyRepublican Central Committee anda vestryman for Trinity EpiscopalParish in Menlo Park. Additional-ly, he was a member of the Bo-hemian and World Trade Clubs inSan Francisco. He loved the SanFrancisco Opera, Stanford football
and baseball, swimming, skiing andwildflower hikes.
He is survived by his wife, Lois;two sons, David and Edward;daughter, Elisabeth; brother, War-ren; and two grandchildren.
Services have been held.
Robert ShellyRobert Bliss Shelly, 83, a long-
time resident of Portola Valley, diedJune 27.
A native of Boulder, Colo., hegraduated pre-med from the Uni-versity of Colorado in Boulder.
After his stint with the U.S. Pub-lic Health Service ended in 1954,
he became a psychiatrist with thePalo Alto Medical Clinic. He wasalso an assistant clinical professorat Stanford University.
He was an accomplished tennisplayer, skier and musician (hecould play trombone, trumpet, gui-tar and piano). Passionate about na-ture, he also volunteered as a do-cent for the Jasper Ridge BiologicalPreserve in Woodside.
He is survived by his daughter,Susan Rushton of Auburn; son,Bob of San Jose; daughter, Julie ofMountain Ranch; son, James ofMenlo Park; and three grandchil-dren. Donations may be made inhis honor to Peninsula Open SpaceTrust, 3000 Sand Hill Road, Wood-
side, CA 94062.
Hans WolfHans Abraham Wolf, 76, a long-
time member of the Palo Alto com-munity, died July 7.
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, heimmigrated to the United Stateswith his family in 1936. He studiedat Harvard College and OxfordUniversity and received an MBAfrom Harvard Business School.
His business career began atTexas Instruments and ended withthe pharmaceutical company Syn-tex Corporation where he retired asVice Chairman.
After his retirement in 1993, heenjoyed numerous stints on various
local charity boards. The commu-nity awarded his efforts when hereceived the Palo Alto Tall TreeAward in 1998, a LifetimeAchievement Award in 1998 andthe Thomas W. Ford Award in2002.
He is survived by his wife, Eliza-beth; three daughters, Heidi, Re-becca and Deborah; son, Andrew;and three grandchildren.
Friends and family are invited toattend services Sunday, Aug. 8, at 3p.m. at the First CongregationalChurch of Palo Alto, 1985 LouisRoad, Palo Alto. Donations may bemade in his honor to the EastsidePreparatory School, 2101 PulgasAve., East Palo Alto, CA 94303.
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with mixed blood but obvious In-dian features who traditionallyhave been relegated to the mar-gins of power and society. Heshined shoes and sold soft drinksat soccer games to help his familymake ends meet.
Toledo escaped the life ofpoverty that afflicts half of Perubecause an elementary schoolteacher convinced his father tolet young Alejandro become thefirst family member to attendhigh school. Two Peace Corpsvolunteers also took a shine
to penniless Alejandro and helpedhim leave Peru in 1965 to study inthe United States. These plusCarnoy constitute the Big Four ofToledo’s life.
Toledo graduated from the Uni-versity of San Francisco beforegetting two masters degrees andhis doctorate at Stanford. Carnoywas his thesis adviser and mainsounding board.
At Stanford, Toledo — knownas “Alex” — was a charismaticorganizer of parties. He met hiswife, Eliane Karp, also a Stanford
graduate student, at one PaloAlto party. Toledo, short and
wiry, was a whiz on intramuralsoccer fields, and coached Ameri-can Youth Soccer Organizationteams in Palo Alto. Carnoy’s sons,David and Jon, played on oneteam.
“I never heard him talk aboutrunning for president or gettinginvolved in politics,” Carnoy saidin an interview at his Stanfordhome. “I always assumed hewould work for international or-ganizations.”
Toledo did work for the WorldBank and the United Nations, andtaught at Harvard University. Buthe secretly nourished a dream toreturn to Peru and be elected pres-ident so he could help lift hiscountry out of poverty.
Toledo ran for president in2000, following a dozen years ofeconomic and political upheavalin Peru: hyperinflation thatreached 7,500 percent one year, aguerrilla war that had left 69,000dead and finally a president, Al-berto Fujimori, who used an iron-fist and bribes to retain power.
With the same tenacity andstreet smarts he used to pull him-
self up, Toledo came from last inthe polls to narrowly lose to Fuji-mori.
When corruption engulfed hisadministration later that year, Fu-jimori resigned, and in 2001 Tole-do won the presidency with a
promise to respect democraticrights, provide better lives for thepoor and improve the country’swoeful education system. He be-came the country’s first “cholo” to
I t was one of hundreds ofmeetings that Stanford Edu-cation Professor MartinCarnoy has held with
prospective graduate students overthe years.
But one 1970 meeting standsout as launching a unique, collab-orative student/teacher relation-ship — one that has lasted morethan three decades and helpedbridge two continents.
“I could see that this guy was apusher, that he was very ambi-tious,” Carnoy recalled of his firstimpression of a young Peruviannamed Alejandro Toledo.
“He had the ambition of some-one who has come from the bot-tom and clawed his way up —who had the ambition to go waybeyond where anyone expectedhim to go,” Carnoy said.
Carnoy accepted Toledo into theStanford International Develop-ment Committee, a Ford Founda-tion-funded graduate-school pro-gram designed to groom futureeducation leaders in Latin Ameri-ca.
Under Carnoy’s guidance, Tole-do earned a doctorate in education
from Stanford. Today, Toledo is the embattled,
“reform” president of Peru, andCarnoy visits there regularly toadvise him on education policy.
The two friends laughed recent-ly about their initial 1970 meeting,which took place at Stanford’sCubberley Hall. Now they werein Peru’s presidential palace inLima, seated at a long conferencetable.
“He was a hippie professor,and a progressive,” Toledo re-called of his mentor.
“I became hippier during hisstay at Stanford,” Carnoy addedwith a smile, noting that Toledothen had shoulder-length hair.Carnoy was 31, Toledo 23.
Toledo turned serious when heidentified Carnoy as one of fourpersons “who have been critical inmy professional success in becom-ing president of Peru. We had thischemistry, and he helped me to getsome funding to get into this pro-gram.
“We are two crazy people whohave in common a vision forchange,” Toledo said.
Later, drinking a Coke at a baracross the street from the presi-dential palace, Carnoy marveled atthe unimagined heights achievedby Toledo.
He also cited an unexpectedtwist from his five “adviser” visitsto Peru: Carnoy, the expert whohas advised governments in Cali-fornia, Washington and abroad oneducation, is now learning fromhis one-time student.
“The stuff I do is very abstract,”he said. “I write policy papers. I’m
in the game of ideas. I try to con-vince people that my ideas aremore solid. I’m supposed to be aworld expert.
“But I have learned that youcan’t think in terms of ideas —you have to think in terms oflaws,” Carnoy said. “Let’s say areform gets into law. Then youhave to get it implemented — thekids could possibly be worse off ifit is not implemented properly.”
He’s also learning about processand politics: “I realize now howdifficult it is to get things done. It
takes an enormous amount ofenergy. It explains to you whyso little happens. I’m getting abig education.”
The two men come from differ-ent worlds. Carnoy was born inPoland, but his family moved tothe United States to escape Nazirepression of Jews when he was18 months old.
Toledo was born in the highmountains of Peru, one of 16children, only nine of whomsurvived infancy. He was a“cholo,” a term for Peruvians
THE PROFESSORStanford Professor Martin Carnoy has enjoyed a longtime friendship with former student — and current Peruvian president — Alejandro Toledo.
Toledo (far left) coached soccer in Menlo Park during the 1970s.
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& THE PRESIDENTAlejandro Toledo made history when he became the first “cholo” to be elected president of Peru.
— Stanford ProfessorMartin Carnoy on PeruvianPresident Alejandro Toledo
Professor Martin Carnoy’s special link to an ambitious young graduatestudent has spanned a third of a century and a presidency
“He had the ambitionof someone who hascome from the bottomand clawed his wayup — who had theambition to go waybeyond where anyoneexpected him to go.”
be elected president.Toledo insisted that Carnoy at-
tend his inauguration, along withpresidents and dignitaries of oth-er nations. Unable to reach thepresident-elect in the days be-forehand, Carnoy arrived in Limafrom a family vacation in Paris,still unsure whether he had tick-ets to any of the events.
Security guards at Toledo’s of-fice gave him the cold shoulderuntil the president-elect spottedhim and greeted him effusively.
“From that moment on, wewere royalty,” Carnoy said. “Heis incredibly loyal to his friends.”
Carnoy got a prime seat duringthe president’s inaugural speechin the country’s congressionalchamber and one of the covetedspots the next day when Toledoheld a second symbolic inaugu-ration at Machu Picchu, the Incacitadel.
Carnoy, who lost a 1984 racefor Congress against the Repub-lican Ed Zschau, sensed from the
beginning that his former studentwould encounter difficulties aspresident. “I looked at the (light-skinned) faces in Congress andsaid (as if he were speaking toToledo), ‘You’re in trouble.You’ll have the same troubleClinton had. You’ll have to fightpeople who don’t like a smartoutsider.’”
Although Toledo has presidedover one of Latin America’sstrongest economies, oppositioninterests have continually placedobstacles in his path. That andself-inflicted wounds by the po-litically inexperienced presidenthave left him with an approvalrating of only 7 percent.
Two of Toledo’s happiest daysas president were when he visit-ed Stanford for two days in 2003as the university’s commence-ment speaker. The visit includeda spontaneous post-commence-ment walk through the Quadwith Carnoyto Cubberley Hall.
“I want to see my office,” Tole-do said as they entered the build-ing.
Carnoy obliged him by unlock-ing a door that led to the base-ment offices. “Oh, my God!What memories!” Toledo calledout. He tried unsuccessfully threetimes to yank open the lockeddoor of his one-time office.
With Carnoy and seven securi-ty guards still in tow, he thenheaded to the Stanford Book-store, where he rifled throughclothes racks to find a sweatshirtand T-shirt for his daughter, whois studying at a university inFrance. Afterward, a seven-carmotorcade, waiting outside thebookstore, whisked the presidentto San Francisco.
Before he departing the cam-pus, Toledo recalled his 1970meeting with Carnoy, remember-ing that he drove south to Stan-ford on Bayshore Freeway in his1959 Triumph, a $300 purchasethat included a hole in the floor.
“It was a beat-up car, but Idrove freely, with the windthrough my hair. I don’t have thefreedom today,” he mused.
During Carnoy’s recent visit toLima, Toledo was embroiled inyet another political crisis as theCongress was preparing to handhim a major defeat by firing oneof his cabinet ministers.
“Having a tough day at the of-fice?” a journalist asked. Toledoreplied with a four-letter word hehad undoubtedly learned in Cali-fornia. The following day hewould shake off the congression-al vote and vow to muffle hiscritics with a strong economythat would put more money inthe pockets of ordinary Peru-vians.
“I am always amazed at howthick-skinned he is,” Carnoy saidlater. ■
Carnoy and Toledo (center) posed for a photo a year ago when the Peruvian president visited Stanford for gradua-tion festivities. Also pictured, retired Professor Robert Textor (far left) and John Bock, PhD (far right).
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“We are two crazypeople who havein common avision for change.”
The Homeland Security Depart-ment is announcing plans to developprocedures to either cancel or post-pone the November election in theevent of a terrorist attack that is per-ceived to disrupt the election process.
The government is in effect tellingOsama bin Laden and terrorists ingeneral to attack us — it will stopthe election.
No matter if the White House it-self is blown up (God forbid) thiscountry must not stop its electionprocess. This is the most importantaspect of our democracy. If electionscan be cancelled here out of fear,then what hope does the rest of theworld have?
Instead, we must announce to theworld that nothing will stop the Unit-ed States election process or thefunctioning of its government. Wedo need to be reasonable: a ther-monuclear holocaust or the assassi-nation of both presidential candi-dates would stop the election andprobably everything else in our lives.
To reverse this process should nowbecome the number one priority ofall members of congress. This is howFascism begins. People will be out-raged; the possibility of serious in-ternal unrest could cause the govern-ment to take further action to removeor curtail our freedoms.
Only police states cancel elections.We must not give in to this kind of
fear. This is what happened in pre-World War II Germany. This was themodus operandi of the former SovietUnion. It is the tactic used by currentdictatorships.
We must not be fooled into think-ing that this is just prudent planning.It is not prudent; it is traitorous toour Constitution.
Even publicly announcing theseplans is paramount to giving aid tothe terrorists. This ignominious pro-posal must be stopped.
Richard and Jeanne PlaconeChimalus Drive
Palo Alto
Moore and CordellEditor,
In his excellent column in the NewYork Times of July 2, Paul Krugmanasks why should Michael Moore, aself-proclaimed polemicist, be heldto a higher standard than the presi-dent of the United States.
A local situation shows some in-teresting parallels.
In the July 9 Weekly, LaDorisCordell urges that the tabloid DailyNews be held to a higher standardthan a public official, namely herself.
In leading the City Council’s rushto remove the traffic-diversion barri-ers from Downtown North, coun-cilmember Cordell used distortionsmore than worthy of the Daily Newsand disingenuously tried to shift theblame for her abrogation of duty tothe hard-working and dedicated staff,
a staff that had been highly respon-sive both to the city and the neigh-borhood.
The main pillar of her argumentwas that the citizens of Palo Alto hadbeen promised a post-trial survey,which was never carried out. How-ever, Ms. Cordell did not deign toanswer a question that was repeated-ly put to her — before, during andafter the public hearings — as towhy did she not insist that a neigh-borhood survey on the barriers becarried out, when she had every op-portunity, and indeed an obligation,to insist that staff carry out that sur-vey.
Her recent comments to the Week-ly provide the answer. She finds the“symbolism” of the barriers person-ally objectionable, and for her thatjustified any means for achievingbarrier removal — never mind hon-esty, the city’s process or neighbor-hood input, or the science of trafficengineering.
Like our appointed, or perhapsanointed, president, Judge Cordellseemingly answers to some higherauthority.
Walter SedriksWaverley Street
Palo Alto
Read it yourselfEditor,
Please allow me to suggest toyour readers, be they city employ-ees or not, that they take the oppor-tunity to read several issues of thePalo Alto Daily News and decidefor themselves what they think ofit, rather than have LaDorisCordell be their judge, jury and ex-ecutioner all wrapped up into one.
In an article printed in the July 9Weekly, Cordell is quoted as say-ing that, “The Daily is a joke atCity Hall,” and “The paper is fullof distorted headlines, erroneousfacts and grammatical errors.”
She cites as an example, “a storylast month in which the paper(Daily) reported that Palo Altanswere criticizing the city for allow-ing a concert at Foothills Park,which is off limits to non-residents,to go forward.”
Please be advised I am one ofthose outspoken critical residents.I have written both to the Dailyand to the council on the subject. Ihave heard from the Daily — itprinted my letter. I have yet to hearfrom anyone on the council, in-cluding LaDoris Cordell.
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Can car-dealer zonechanges stem exodus? Adding flexibility to signage and landscaping
may help keep high-revenue dealerships intown, but city should heed esthetics also
I t almost seems like it’s a case of the proverbial closing the garagedoor after the car has been stolen.
But the City Council Aug. 9 will at long last will take up thematter of how to keep the last eight automobile dealerships fromleaving town, as others have done in past years.
The dealerships generate major revenue for the city through thebig-ticket sales taxes on vehicles sold — estimated at more than $2.1million, or 12.2 percent of the total sales-tax income received by thecity. They also have historically been a stable revenue source — im-portant in turbulent economic times.
The exodus of auto dealerships and car-related services has beenoccurring slowly for more than two decades, and it’s disconcertingthat it’s taken so long for the city to begin addressing some steps topreserve this important revenue base by making life a bit easier forthe dealers.
Better late than never, one hopes. Most of the stick-around incentives fall under an “auto dealership
overlay zone,” and the review is part of the city’s overall zoning or-dinance update that complements and implements the Comprehen-sive Plan. The update itself has seemed like an endless process —now approaching eight years since the Comprehensive Plan was ap-proved.
The zoning update will be completed just about the time when anew Comprehensive Plan review is due to begin. We hope recent re-forms in the city Department of Planning & Community Develop-ment will prevent such a lag between the plan and the zoning ordi-nance from occurring again. It’s a disservice to citizens, landownersand businesses alike.
But the auto-dealer retention strategy will have some noticeableimpacts on the community — changes in the city’s restrictive sign or-dinance, modifications of landscape areas to display vehicles moreeffectively and relaxed parking standards, among others.
The overall strategy also includes proactive business outreach andlong-term planning “to address the specific needs that an auto deal-ership has ... to be competitive in the regional market.”
That includes a dealer being able “to demonstrate to their manu-facturer or corporate sponsor that their sites can provide identity ofcorporate logo, full service and enough fleet storage.” The strategyfocuses only on dealers who sell new or new and used cars, and doesnot address used-car-only dealers.
The staff concludes that the proposed overlay zone does not haveany significant impacts and does not go beyond impacts identified inthe Comprehensive Plan. Dealerships are low generators of trafficand provide repair and warranty services for residents, the staff notes.
But in talking with dealers the staff found low satisfaction with thevisibility of their locations. Dealerships want to “locate near high-ways on large parcels of land to obtain maximum exposure to re-gional traffic, easy access ... and (maintain) large on-site invento-ries.”
There’s not much the city can do about location for most dealer-ships. Some things it can do is to exempt showrooms from floor-area-ratio limitations, adopt flexible parking standards, allow up totwo “display pads” to encroach into landscape strips, loosen land-scaping requirements (while maintaining protective screening forresidential neighbors), and find areas in manufacturing zones to allowstorage of vehicles away from the limited-sized sales sites.
One of the biggest — and potentially most contentious — areas ofconcern is signage, particularly for dealers far from the freeway whowould like higher, larger and internally lit pole signs. They alsowould like temporary signage and decorations for special promo-tions.
But the signage issue is being deferred for further discussion withthe dealers before specific recommendations are made.
“Low monument and building-wall signs may not achieve the deal-ership’s needed visibility,” the staff has concluded, telegraphing awillingness to consider bigger, more-visible signs. If the staff anddealers don’t go overboard, some sign modifications may be a rea-sonable compromise with the realities of a market-sales economy.
The City Council should move ahead with what appears to be acarefully considered program designed to curtail erosion of an im-portant element of the community and preserve the city’s increas-ingly tenuous revenue base — the foundation of city services. ■
Cordell expresses, overall I find theDaily to be a fine publication, wellworth reading. It regularly reprintscolumns by well-known journalistson both sides of the political spec-trum and has, for example, justcompleted a two-issue series cov-ering both sides of the upcomingBaylands recycling center question.
Michael GoldeenCambridge Avenue
Palo Alto
Nutritional valueEditor,
It was great to see the schoollunch problem get such prominentcoverage in the Palo Alto Weekly(July 14). There seems to be gener-al agreement that there is room forimprovement in the taste and nutri-tional value of the food served inPalo Alto schools.
If you visit a school, you’ll seethat many kids make a lunch ofsoda and chips. Why? Kids say thatsalads and entrees are unappealing.
Other school districts have im-proved both taste and nutrition inthe foods they serve by hiring theirown food-service director. By do-ing so they have increased sales ofsandwiches, salads and main dish-es, and have started making mon-ey.
The Healthy School Lunch Com-mittee has not proposed banningpizza or burgers, just serving tasti-er, fresher food. We hope that theschool district will see that improv-ing food is a win-win situation forits finances and for students’health.
Gerda Endemann, Ph.D.Parent and member, Healthy
School Lunch CommitteeStanford
StreetwiseWhat do you think of Sen. John Edwards as John Kerry’s running mate?Question and interviews by Alex Doniach. Photographs by Victor Maccharoli. Asked near University Avenue in Palo Alto.
Julia Frenchmarketing managerFulton St., San Francisco
He’s a good choice. It was a strategicmove to pick someone from the South.
David LinStudentAscension Dr., Los Altos Hills
I really don’t know what to think be-cause I’m not very familiar with Ed-wards.
Aurora RichardTeacherMir Mirou Dr., Los Altos Hills
I really don’t have an opinion because Idon’t know him. I just want anyone butBush.
Sandra Weissmiller Post-graduateW. Belview, San Mateo
He’s attracting attention from the mediaand since Kerry isn’t really good at get-ting attention I think this is a goodthing.
Ron SmithEngineerMenhaden Ct., Foster City
It’s a good call on Kerry’s part althoughI don’t know that much.
by Mark Heyer
T here isa greatmystery
in Palo Alto:How manybus inessescall our townhome?
T h i sshould be astraightfor-ward ques-tion for our city government, butPalo Alto is one of the few citiesanywhere without business licens-es. Our city government doesn’thave a clue what is going on interms of who’s actually doing busi-ness. Nor does the Chamber ofCommerce.
Dunn & Bradstreet reports about4,500 businesses in Palo Alto. Myexperience going into Palo Altohomes to service their computerproblems tells me that there aremany, many hundreds of “invisiblebusinesses” in Palo Alto.
Suppose there are 2,000, averag-ing a conservative $50,000 per year.If so, the Palo Alto economy is un-dervalued by $100 million or so!
And we are far from a few lonelyvoices. If we include real estateagents, employees of corporationsworking at home, non-profit work-ers, club volunteers and eBay entre-preneurs, we who work from homerepresent one of the principle en-gines of our local economy. Yet tothe City of Palo Alto, we are invisi-ble — and unappreciated.
The home-office/business move-ment is much more than just a sim-ple lifestyle choice. It is — andshould be — a key component inour strategies to reduce traffic andpollution, reclaim commute timefor family and community activi-ties, improve neighborhood interac-tions and make our communitymore livable — while generatingsubstantial income for our localeconomy.
The evolution and developmentof effective home-office policiesand services is key to our economicand civic future.
Palo Alto goes to great lengths tosupport the visible business enginesof our community — providingparking, retail-business zoning, pro-motional campaigns, developmentresources and more. The Chamberof Commerce lobbies on behalf oftraditional business owners, but hasfew members from the home-officeunderground. Our anonymity ren-ders us powerlessness to advocatefor the things that we need to pros-per and contribute even more to ourcommunity’s success.
So what do we need from the citythat we can’t get at Fry’s? Howabout a really good municipal-in-formation utility — a fiber-optic in-tranet. Residential DSL and cable“broadband” were never designedfor business and are not supportedas such. The typical so-calledbroadband-upstream (outgoing)speed is one-tenth of one percent ofthe speed of any home or officecomputer network - all but useless
for business. By design, these sys-tems prevent us from communicat-ing directly with each other. Wecannot communicate amongst our-selves in our own community theway any office does over its corpo-rate local-area network.
Many countries are moving rap-idly to develop their residentialfiber-optic information infrastruc-tures: India, South Korea, China,Japan and Malaysia to name a few.Can you spell “outsourcing”? If youpurchased a home loan in Palo Altorecently, it is very likely that your“customer service representative” islocated in India.
Yet our federal government andincumbent providers (Comcast andSBC locally) are mired in a deathstruggle with the FCC that is rele-gating Palo Alto to an informationStone Age compared to what other,hungrier nations are doing to pro-vide the latest information access totheir populations.
But it does not have to be so inPalo Alto — if we take the initiativeto do it ourselves. There are muchbigger economic forces at play thanthe details being nitpicked by somecritics of the city’s fiber-utility pro-posal.
The biggest beneficiaries of theproposed (but currently stalled) PaloAlto Utilities fiber-to-the-home ini-tiative will be home businesses,schools, libraries and community or-ganizations. A business-class munic-ipal-information utility connectingall of our homes and businesseswould provide fantastic long-term
economic and social benefits — andI believe make money.
It’s not just good for local busi-ness; it is the future of local busi-ness, and jobs as we are increasing-ly faced with global competitors incommunities that are rushing tofiber-speed connections. Think HPlinking to its Palo Alto workers andme transmitting jobs from my homeoffice to a print shop downtown.
As a home-business operator, Iwould pay extra — a lot extra —to have access to a municipal-infor-mation utility operated by the city.So would many of my colleagues.
How much extra? In a heartbeat, Iwould pay $2,000 to Palo Alto’sUtilities for a fiber hookup. Com-pared to what we all spend forhome-office computer equipment,this is a drop in the proverbial buck-et and would bring me far morebenefits than the costs involved.
Like many of you, I chose to livein Palo Alto because we are a lead-ership community — socially, eco-nomically and environmentally. Ourcitizens have organized to make ourcity environmentally friendly, bicy-cle friendly, library friendly andmuch more. Now is the time for usto organize and make Palo Alto tru-ly, proactively, home-businessfriendly.
If you agree, join me in makingour voices heard. ■
Mark Heyer is a resident of theMidtown area. He can be e-mailedat [email protected] orthrough the Web site, www.hey-ertech.com.
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ThursdayJohn “Broadway” Tucker will belt
out the blues at the Brown Bag Con-cert Series today at noon at CogswellPlaza, located at the corner of LyttonAvenue and Ramona Street. Admis-sion is free. For more informationplease call (650) 463-4940 or visitwww.PaloAltoOnline.com.
The Anton Schwartz Quintet willperform tonight from 6 to 7:30 p.m. atthe Stanford Shopping Center, in thegardens of the Clock Tower Plaza(near Neiman Marcus), as part ofSummer Jazz 18. From moody bal-lads to upbeat versions of the clas-sics, Schwartz and his quintet —which includes Menlo Park native Tay-lor Eigsti and Julian Lage — explore afull range of the jazz lexicon. The con-cert is co-sponsored by SFJAZZ. Ad-mission is free. For more informationplease contact (415) 788-7353 or visitwww.sfjazz.org.
“Jazz and The Music of Brazil” willtake place tonight at 7:30 p.m. atCampbell Recital Hall, as part of the2004 Stanford Jazz Festival. GuitaristRay Scott and vocalist Liza Silva willmerge the high-octane rhythms ofBrazil with the splendors of jazz. Tick-ets are $16 general; $14students/seniors/Palo Alto Jazz Al-liance members.
“Is This Seat Taken?” will runthrough Aug. 15 at Stanford Universi-ty’s Eleanor Prosser Theatre. Present-ed by Stanford’s Theatre Q, the playis a comic drama about an upper-class dysfunctional family who re-unites one Thanksgiving weekend.Show times are Wednesdays throughSundays at 8 p.m., with additional Fri-day late shows at 11 p.m. and Sun-day matinees at 3 p.m. Tickets are$15 general admission; $10 for stu-dents, seniors and all late shows andmatinees. For more informationplease visit www.stanfordtheater.org.
“Are We Almost There? will runthrough Aug. 7 at the Bus Barn The-atre, 97 Hillview Ave. in Los Altos.Presented by the Bus Barn StageCompany, the play features book,music and lyrics by Morris Bobrow.
Show times are Thursdays throughSaturdays at 8 p.m. and Sunday, July25 at 3 p.m. Admission is $25 forperformances Thursdays through Sat-urdays; $20 for Sunday. For ticketsplease call the box office at (650)941-0551 or visit www.busbarn.org.
“Red” will be presented by Theatre-Works though Aug. 8 at the LucieStern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Roadin Palo Alto. Written by Chay Yew, thestory follows a celebrated Chinese-American novelist as she absorbs in-spiration for her next work in Beijing.Show times are Tuesdays at 7:30p.m.; Wednesdays through Fridays at8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m. (8p.m. only Aug. 7); Sundays at 2 and 7p.m. (2 p.m. only Aug. 8). Tickets are$20-$50; discounts will be availablefor youth, students, seniors andmembers. For tickets and information,the public may call (650) 903-6000 orvisit theatreworks.org.
“Noises Off” will be presentedtonight and Friday at 7:30 p.m. at thePalo Alto Children’s Theatre, 1305Middlefield Road. Additional showtimes are Friday Saturday at 7:30p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Ticketsare $6 adults; $3 children and areavailable through the Children’s The-atre box office by calling (650) 463-4970. The box office is open 1:30 to6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
Friday“Ragtime” will preview tonight at 8
p.m. at Foothill College’s SmithwickTheatre, 12345 El Monte Road in LosAltos Hills. It will officially open on Sat-
urday. The play features a book byTerrence McNally, score by StephenFlaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, ina tapestry of fiction and fact that in-tertwines the lives of a black family,upper-class Protestants and Jewishimmigrants. Show times are Thurs-days, Fridays and Saturdays at 8p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m. A benefitgala will take place on Saturday at4:30 p.m. “Ragtime” will run throughAug. 15. Tickets are $24 general; $22seniors; $18 students; $10 childrenunder 12. Tickets to Saturday’s galaare $150 and include dinner, a winetasting, silent and live auctions andthe performance; proceeds will bene-fit the Foothill Music Theater program.For tickets to the gala, please call(650) 949-6231. For tickets to othershows, please call the box office at(650) 949-7360 (open Mon.-Sat. 5-9p.m., Sun. 12-4 p.m.), 24-hourcharge-by-phone hotline at (650) 949-7414, or visithttp://www.foothill.edu/fa/ragtime/in-dex.html.
SaturdayThe Heath Brothers will perform
tonight at 8 p.m. at Campbell RecitalHall, as part of the 2004 StanfordJazz Festival. Saxophonist JimmyHeath, bassist Percy Heath anddrummer Albert “Tootie” Heath will bejoined by pianist Jeb Patton. Ticketsare $38 general; $30 students; $36seniors and Palo Alto Jazz Alliancemembers. For tickets call (650) 725-ARTS (2787) or visitwww.ticketweb.com. For information,call (650) 736-0324 or visit stanford-jazz.org.
“Question” will be on display throughJan. 2 at the Iris & B. Gerald CantorCenter for Visual Arts at Stanford Uni-versity. This experimental project isdesigned to provoke and addressquestions frequently asked by visitorsabout art and its presentation in mu-seums. The center is open Wednes-day through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5p.m.; Thursday until 8 p.m. Admissionis free. Please call (650) 723-4177 orvisit www.stanford.edu/dept/ccva
SundayBennett Paster’s “ORGANIC!” will
be presented tonight at 7:30 p.m. atCampbell Recital Hall, as part of the2004 Stanford Jazz Festival. Multi-in-strumental keyboardist Paster will bejoined by his organ-based quartet,guitarist Chris Rossbach and mem-bers of the Stanford Jazz Workshopfaculty. Tickets are $16 general; $14students/seniors/Palo Alto Jazz Al-liance members. For tickets call (650)725-ARTS (2787) or visit www.tick-etweb.com. For information, call (650)736-0324 or visit stanfordjazz.org.
Art A profile of “Question,” a new
experimental project at theCantor Arts Center.
TheaterA review of “Red,” the latest
production by TheatreWorks.
Eating OutA review of Pasta Pomodoro in
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Veteran shows she has plenty of fight with win over Williams
in Bank of the West Classic
by Robyn Israel
W hat began as possibly a farewell tour forLindsay Davenport has ended in quite a dif-ferent way. Forget that talk of retirement,
which Davenport hinted at before the 34th annualBank of the West Classic got under way last week.
Retirement? There’s still plenty of life left in Dav-enport’s 28-year-old legs, as she proved in Sunday’schampionship match during a nearly three-hourslugfest on a hot summer day.
It was a day during fan tennis fans got their mon-ey’s worth as the No. 2-seeded Davenport prevailedover top-seeded Venus Williams, 7-6 (7-4), 5-7, 7-6(7-4), before a capacity crowd at Stanford’s TaubeTennis Center.
“There’s so little that separates a match of thatscore line,” Davenport said. “Every set was close —a few points here or there, and it could have gone herway. I’ve been on the flip side, so I know what itfeels like.”
The matchup between the tournament’s top twoseeds seemed a sure thing, given the weak field atthis year’s Bank of the West Classic. With 2003champion Kim Clijsters out with an injury, and littlerepresentation from the rising crop of Russian play-ers, competition was seriously wanting at this year’stournament.
But 4,673 fans came out on Sunday to root forboth Davenport and Williams - both local fan fa-vorites.
Davenport, a two-time Bank of the West champi-on, may have forgotten what it feels like to beatWilliams. The last time it happened was 2000.
“Having lost to her so many times, and then tobeat her in this match felt really good,” said Daven-port, who earned first-place prize money of $93,000.
On Sunday, the two nemeses met for the 23rdtime, with Williams boasting a 12-10 record going
by Keith Peters
T he curtain has come down onthe U.S. Olympic Track andField Trials in Sacramento.
For Toby Stevenson, Grace Up-shaw, Nicole Teter and KristinHeaston, they have received theirapplause and taken their bows asmembers of the 2004 U.S.Olympic team.
Stevenson, a Stanford grad, wassecond in the men’s pole vault.Upshaw, a Menlo Park resident,was second in the women’s longjump. Teter, a Palo Alto resident,was second in the women’s 800while Heaston, a strength coach atStanford, was second in thewomen’s shot put.
Not only did all four finishamong the top three in their re-spective events, but all have
achieved the Olympic “A” stan-dard. Their trips to the SummerGames in Athens next month areassured.
For other local athletes likeJonathon Riley, Jill Camarena,Grant Robison and Jason Lunn,the drama for them continues on adifferent stage as they, too, attemptto become Olympians. All need alittle help.
“I’m in an interesting position,”said Riley, a 2003 Stanford gradwho finished second to Tim Broein the men’s 5,000. “For me toqualify, he (Broe) either has to rununder 13:21 to get the “A” stan-dard or slower than 13:25 (the Bstandard), so he gets neither stan-dard.”
Riley is the 2004 U.S. leader at
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Lindsay Davenport celebrates the winning point in her three-set victory over top-seeded VenusWilliams on Sunday in the finals of the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford’s Taube Tennis Center.
Stanford assistant strength coach Kristin Heaston earned a berth on theU.S. Olympic track and field team with a second in the shot put.
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U.S. TRACK & FIELD TRIALS
The drama is not yet overfor potential Olympians
While some berths are assured, a handful of local athletes have work to do, need things to fall their way
LOCAL BASEBALL . . . The PaloAlto Oaks remained atop the StanMusial Division of the Western Base-ball Association with a pair of victo-ries, 4-2 and 6-2, over the visiting ElCerrito A’s at Baylands Park on Sun-day. Brian Beres singled home tworuns in the sixth to put the Oaks (13-1) ahead to stay. Beres also homeredin the game. Sean Scott and GregMatson each added two hits. MattCampbell threw a five-hitter with awalk and three strikeouts to earn thepitching victory. Matson earned thewin in the second game, tossing atwo-hitter. The Oaks scored five runsin the fifth to snap a 1-1 tie. Gabe Du-ran doubled home two runs. PaloAlto hosts the Tigers on Sunday in adoubleheader at Baylands beginningat 11:30 a.m. . . . The Palo Alto Na-tional 9-10-year-olds, the District 52champs, won their first two games atthe Section 3 Tournament in SanLorenzo, beating Tassajara, 8-0, onSaturday and topping Newark, 13-2,on Sunday. Graham Marchant wasthe winning pitcher in Saturday’s vic-tory. Nathan Bills had two hits anddrove in two runs. In Sunday’s win,four Palo Alto pitchers combined ona one-hitter while Freddy Avis hadthree hits and Bills drove in threeruns. Palo Alto is one win away fromadvancing to the Division 2 StateTournament in Rancho Murietta (nearSacramento).
CARDINAL CORNER . . . Stanfordreached into the recent past andfound its new golf coach. Stanfordgrad Conrad Ray, a member of the1994 NCAA Championship team,was named men’s golf coach on Fri-day. “I am very excited to have theopportunity to come back to Stan-ford and be a part of a program anduniversity I hold in high esteem,” Raysaid. “I look forward to continuing thewinning tradition and meeting the fu-ture challenges of the Stanford golfprogram.” Ray has played on the Na-tionwide Tour since 1998 . . . Stan-ford will open its basketball season atthe Pete Newell Challenge againstUSF on Friday, Nov. 19 at The Arenain Oakland. In the other half of thedoubleheader, North Carolina willplay Santa Clara. Both games will benationally televised . . . L.J. Hepp wasnamed an assistant men’s basketballcoach at Stanford on Thursday, fillingthe vacancy created when RussellTurner left to become an assistantcoach with Mike Montgomery andthe Golden State Warriors. Hepp,who attended North Carolina, servedas Stanford’s Video Coordinator lastyear.
OF LOCAL NOTE . . . The Palo Alto10-under All-Star girls’ fast pitch soft-ball team travels to San Diego thisweekend to participate in the ASAPacific Coast Region ChampionshipTournament. Palo Alto qualified forthe tournament by finishing third inthe Northern California Champi-onships. Team members includeBiby Chacon, Becca Dixon, MaddieDray, Anna Gale, Nicole Grimwood,Julia Howard, Reilly Jackson, KellyMcConnell, Trina Ohms, SydneyRock, Annie Rosenberg, PaulineRyan and Amber St. John.
13:21.11 and the only Americanwith the “A” standard (13:21.50).Broe needs to run that by August 9for he and Riley to go. If Broeruns 13:25.40 or faster for the “B”standard and current “B” runnersLouis Luchini and Jorge Torres donot run the “A” standard, thenBroe goes to Athens alone as thenational champion.
“It’s frustrating to get secondand not know I’m going to theOlympics,” said Riley, who can donothing at this point but wait. Andhe is not alone.
Robison, who graduated thisspring from Stanford, didn’t evenrun in the finals of the men’s 1,500meters on Sunday before a crowdof 24,323 at the Spanos SportsComplex on the campus of CalState Sacramento. Still, Robison iseligible to join 1,500 champ AlanWebb on the U.S. roster, sinceonly they possess the Olympic“A” standard of 3:36.20 or faster.
If Trials runnerup Charlie Gru-ber and third-place finisher RobMyers do not get the coveted “A”standard by the deadline, Webband Robison will go to Athens andperhaps will be joined by Lunn, ifhe gets the qualifying time. Lunnwas fifth in Sunday’s 1,500 finalein 3:40.81 and seems the best can-didate for the No. 3 spot on theU.S. squad.
“Lunn and Gruber are both capa-ble of running it,” Robison said ofthe Olympic standard. If I end upbeing one of the runners, that’sgreat.”
Robison has been bothered by afoot injury since January andfailed to defend the NCAA cham-pionship he won in 2003. He also
failed to advance from the semifi-nals on Saturday, still shy of beingat full strength.
“I’ve been able to get in sometraining,” Robison told reporters.“Hopefully, I’ll be able to get insome races in Europe and get backinto it. It was a little frustratingnot being in there (for the final).It’s part of racing.”
For Camarena, her Olympicberth situation is fairly straightfor-ward. All she needs to do is throw60-10 1/2 or farther in thewomen’s shot put to achieve the“A” standard. The recent Stanfordgrad put herself in position tomake the U.S. team by throwing58-2 and finishing third last Friday.
“It’s back to work on Mondayand I’ll be looking for moremeets,” said Camarena, whose sea-son (and career) best is 59-6 3/4.“I think I’m ready to hit the “A”standard. I want to join these girls.”
Heaston, who finished second at59-4 3/4 to Laura Gerraughty’s 60-8 1/2, promised to help Camarenaobtain her qualifying mark.
“I will go anywhere in the worldto help her meet that mark,” Heas-ton promised. “She will get it.”
The 28-year-old Heaston knowsabout traveling around to get aqualifying mark.
“I drove all the way from Al-abama to North Carolina and thenI got on a plan for California,”Heaston said. “I finally hit the ‘A’standard at UCLA.” Heastonthrew 60-10 3/4 at that meet onJune 30.
While getting the Olympic stan-dard proved emotional for Heast-on, it didn’t match what she wasfeeling after making the U.S.team.
“This is a great moment,” saidHeaston, who wore the red, white
and blue sweatsuit that her dad,Steve Heaston, wore as the assis-tant coach of the 1988 U.S. men’sOlympic water polo team. He diedfive years ago this month, so Fri-day night was that much emotion-al for Kristin.
Family was also the focal pointfor Upshaw last week as shejumped on to the U.S. team in thewomen’s long jump with a markof 22-5.
“I just wanted to go to Athens,”Upshaw said. “I got the job done.I couldn’t be happier.”
A large contingent of Upshaw’sfamily was in attendance, includ-ing her sister Joy, who had elec-tion-sized pins made up with“Amazing Grace” printed on the
front.Upshaw, the 2003 U.S. outdoor
champion, posted a mark of 22-21/2on her second jump to move into
second place behind championMarion Jones. Upshaw stretchedthat out to 22-5 to put the finish-ing touches on her first Olympicteam berth.■
Stanford grad Jill Camarena threw 58-2 to finish third and earn a berth on the U.S. Olympic track and fieldteam, but still must attain an Olympic “A” qualifying mark of 60-10 1/2 to make the trip to Athens, Greece.
Track trials(continued from page 20)
Stanford grad Jason Lunn finished fifth in the men’s 1,500 on Sunday,but still could qualify for a trip to the Summer Olympics.
Stanford grad Jonathon Riley fin-ished second in the men’s 5,000meters.
Menlo Park resident Grace Upshaw leaped to a second-place finish of22-5 to earn her first berth on the U.S. Olympic team.
by Rick Eymer
W hile the United Statesmen’s water polo team lostin the fifth-place game of
the FINA World League Super Fi-nals, 11-10 in a sudden-deathpenalty shootout, on Saturday inLong Beach, the U.S. women’s vol-leyball team moved closer to
clinching a spot in the champi-onship round of the Grand WorldPrix with a solid performance inHong Kong.
Stanford grad Logan Tom scoreda match-high 26 points as TeamUSA defeated Italy, 25-20, 17-25,18-25, 25-22, 17-15, on Friday atthe Hong Kong Coliseum in what
turned out to be the critical match ofthe tournament.
The U.S. and Italy are currentlytied for fourth, each with 4-2records, in the second play of GrandPrix play. The top five team advanceto the championship round in Reg-gio Calabria at the end of themonth, joining host Italy.
Stanford senior Ogonna Nnamaniadded 14 points - 12 kills, twoblocks - and had a hitting percentageof .458 in the win over the Italians.
The United States lost to China,20-25, 28-26, 16-25, 25-20, 15-9,on Saturday but came back to beatThailand, 25-19, 25-14, 25-20, onSunday.
In Long Beach, the United Stateslost in a sudden death penaltyshootout for the second straight day.The Americans lost to Greece, 13-12, on Friday.
Stanford senior Tony Azevedoscored twice and Stanford gradWolf Wigo added a goal in the lossto Spain. ■
U.S. water polo and volleyball teams continue their Olympic tuneups
400 - 1, Jeremy Wariner (Baylor) 44.37;2, Otis Harris (Nike) 44.67; 3, Derrick Brew(Nike) 44.69; 4, Darold Williamson (Baylor)44.70; 5, Calvin Harrison (Nike) 44.85; 6,Andrew Rock (adidas) 44.95; 7, Kelly Willie(LSU) 44.97; 8, Jerry Harris (adidas) 45.06.
3,000 steeplechase - 1, Daniel Lincoln(Nike) 8:15.02; 2, Anthoney Famiglietti (adi-das) 8:17.91; 3, Robert Gary (adidas)8:19.46; 4, Isaiah Festa (Wisconsin Run)8:20.66; 5, Steve Slattery (Nike) 8:23.60; 6,Jordan Desilets (Eastern Michigan) 8:24.62;
7, John Mortimer (Boston AA) 8:24.92; 8,Darin Shearer (Unattached) 8:26.54.
5,000 - 1, Tim Broe (adidas) 13:27.36; 2,Jonathon Riley (Nike) 13:30.85; 3, BolotaAsmerom (Nike) 13:32.77; 4, Matt Lane(Nike) 13:33.51; 5, Mark Menefee (Hanson)13:37.68; 6, Matthew Gonzales (New Mexi-co) 13:41.25; 7, Jorge Torres (Reebok)13:41.79; 8, Chad Johnson (Nike) 13:43.24.
20,000 race walk - 1, Tim Seaman (NYAC) 1:25:40; 2, John Nunn (U.S. Army)1:26:23; 3, Kevin Eastler (U.S. Air Force)1:28:49; 4, Curt Clausen (NYAC) 1:30:26; 5,Benjamin Shorey (Wisconsin-Parkside)1:31:58; 6, Matthew Boyles (Unattached)1:33:17; 7, Theron Kissinger (New Balance)1:33:58; 8, Sean Albert (Unattached)1:35:21.
Javelin - 1, Breaux Greer (adidas) 270-4;2, Brian Chaput (Penn) 261-10; 3, LeighSmith (Tennessee) 250-7; 4, Tom Pukstys(Unattached) 247-3; 5, Brian Kollar (Unat-tached) 244-1; 6, Christopher Clever (Unat-tached) 242-8; 7, Paul Pisano (Unattached)232-9; 8, John Taylor (Javelin USA) 232-9.
Triple jump - 1, Kenta Bell (Nike) 57-81/4; 2, Walter Davis (Nike) 57-1/4; 3, TimRusan (Nike) 57-0; 4, Melvin Lister (Unat-tached) 56-10 3/4; 5, Lawrence Willis (Unat-tached) 55-7; 5, Robert Howard (Unat-tached) 55-7; 7, LaMark Carter (Unat-tached) 54-9 1/4; 8, Von Ware (Unattached)54-6.
Discus - 1, Jarred Rome (Unattached)215-9; 2, Ian Waltz (Unattached) 212-3; 3,Casey Malone (Nike) 211-6; 4, Carl Brown(Nike) 203-4; 5, Doug Reynolds (Unat-tached) 198-5; 6, Kevin Fitzpatrick (Unat-tached) 195-6; 7, Michael Robertson (SMU)194-5; 8, KibwÈ Johnson (Unattached)192-2.
High jump - 1, Matt Hemingway (adidas)7 6 1-2; 1, Jamie Nieto (Nike) 7-6 1-2; 3,Keith Moffatt (Unattached) 7-5 1-4; 3, HenryPatterson (Unattached) 7-5 1-4; 3, ToraHarris (Nike) 7-5 1-4; 6, Andra Manson (Un-attached) 7-4 1-4; 6, Teak Wilburn (Unat-tached) 7-4 1-4; 6, Adam Shunk (Indiana In-vaders) 7-4 1-4; 6, Jesse Williams (Unat-tached) 7-4 1-4; 6, Charles Austin (Unat-tached) 7-4 1-4.
1,500 - 1, Alan Webb (Nike) 3:36.13; 2,Charlie Gruber (Nike) 3:38.45; 3, Rob Myers(Unattached) 3:38.93; 4, Christopher Lukez-ic (Unattached) 3:40.05; 5, Jason Lunn(Nike) 3:40.81; 6, Nate Robison (Unat-tached) 3:40.99; 7, Donald Sage (Stanford)3:41.26; 8, Said Ahmed (Arkansas) 3:42.77.
110 hurdles - 1, Terrence Trammell(Mizuno) 13.09; 2, Duane Ross (Nike) 13.21;3, Allen Johnson (Nike) 13.25; 4, Ron Bram-lett (Nike) 13.33; 5, Mark Crear (God Speed)13.37; 6, Robby Hughes (Holyfield Intl.)13.42; 7, Aubrey Herring (Nike) 13.46; 8,Arend Watkins (Nike) 13.73.
in Area 2 Tournament in Martinez; Palo AltoB team vs. San Mateo at Baylands, 7 p.m.
Water poloWomen — 20 & Under National Champi-
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THURSDAYBaseball
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FRIDAYBaseball
American Legion — Palo Alto B teamvs. Redwood City Reds at Baylands, 7 p.m.
Water poloWomen — Senior National Champi-
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into the match. It was their firstmeeting since 2003, when theyplayed in the quarterfinals at Wim-bledon (Williams won 6-2, 2-6, 6-1).
This time, Davenport “tried to bementally aggressive,” and took ad-vantage of the fact that Williamsmade twice the number of un-forced errors (73 compared to her35).
Williams, a four-time GrandSlam champion (Wimbledon andU.S. Open titles in 2000 and 2001)and former No. 1-ranked player,has struggled this year. She has yetto win a tournament in 2004 andfell to Croatian Karolina Sprem inthe second round of Wimbledon.
“I made a lot of errors today,”said Williams, a two-time Bank ofthe West champion (2000 and2002). “She was playing well —she’s always played well. I thinkshe’s right up there.”
Asked whether the 93-degreeheat had played a role in the match,Williams said no.
“These days, people give it theirall, regardless of the heat,” saidWilliams, currently the No. 13player in the world. “I’m comingfrom Florida, so this is nothing.”
Despite falling to 2004 Wimble-don champion Maria Sharapova inthe semifinals, Davenport has sofar enjoyed a successful run thisyear. She is ranked No. 5 in theworld, and posted tournament winsat the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyoand the Bausch & Lomb Champi-onships on Amelia Island, Fla. thisyear.
Sunday’s victory marked Daven-port’s third Bank of the West title.She won the event in 1998 and1999, beating Williams both times.
Asked to recall the last time sheand Williams had played a matchof equal intensity, Davenport citedthe 1998 Bank of the West final, inwhich she beat Williams 6-4, 5-7,6-4.
“She’s been a great rival of mine,a great player,” Davenport said. “Ithink she’ll have many of these(tournaments) left in her.”
Whether the same can be said of
Davenport is doubtful. Now 28 andnewly married to Jonathan Leech,she has expressed growing discon-tent with the travel and time de-mands that tennis exerts on her.Her 11-year career has been im-pressive, with three Grand Slamvictories (1998 U.S. Open, 1999Wimbledon and 2000 AustralianOpen) and $17, 402,894 in careerearnings.
But don’t count Davenport outjust yet.
“If this (win) does anything, itmotivates me to keep going,” Dav-enport said. “I’ll think about it (re-tiring) at the end of the year, whenthe year is done. For now, I want to
get a really good run going for theU.S. Open.”
The U.S. Open, the final GrandSlam tournament of 2004, will be-gin Aug. 30 in Flushing Meadows,N.Y.
Splitting a $30,000 paycheck onSunday was the winning doublesteam of Greece’s Eleni Daniilidouand Australia’s Nicole Pratt, whodefeated the Czech Republic’s Ive-ta Benesova and Luxembourg’sClaudine Schaul 6-2, 6-4. Daniili-dou is Greece’s top female tennisplayer, and will have the honor ofcarrying her country’s flag at theOlympic Games, which begin Aug.13 in Athens. ■
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Venus Williams came into the tournament ranked No. 15 in the world, but was seeded No. 1 ahead of Daven-port, the world’s No. 5-ranked player. The two players battled for nearly three hours in Sunday’s final.
Lindsay Davenport enjoyed facing rival Venus Williams again. Their lastmeeting came in 2003 at Wimbledon.
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