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S tate funding cuts could mean fewer teachers to meet grow-ing demand at Foothill-De

Anza Community College District, officials said this week.

“We’re starving, and we’re even getting thinner,” Chancellor Martha Kanter said.

The cuts could hurt students in in-troductory classes as well as those in cutting-edge green-technology programs, officials said.

Everyone is affected when an al-ready under-funded system takes a financial hit, Kanter said.

California’s community colleges

stand to lose $484 million in the fis-cal year starting in June under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to meet California’s $14 billion bud-get deficit.

The cuts — on which the legisla-ture will vote in May — are part of his suggested 10 percent across-the-board reduction in spending.

In addition, an unexpected dip in state property-tax collections will increase the burden, costing com-munity colleges $84.4 million —

and Foothill-De Anza about $2.4 million.

The cuts couldn’t come at a worse time, according to district spokes-person Becky Bartindale.

In economic slowdowns, commu-nity colleges see enrollment swell as students seek new skills for the tougher job market, she said.

For the spring semester alone, en-rollment at Foothill-De Anza is up 5 percent, she said. Its annual growth is 2.5 percent, she said.

But the governor’s proposal funds a mere 1 percent enrollment growth, she said.

It also provides no funding for cost-of-living adjustments, such as increasing wages, insurance or utili-ties costs, she said.

But the college district must make such payments — meaning it sim-ply can’t spend money to ramp up programming for the additional stu-dents, she said.

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More students but less money will be a recipe for disappointment, district officials say

by Arden Pennell

A two-foot steelhead trout is not a happy fish when stuck in shallow Los Trancos Creek

during dry season, Stanford Uni-versity’s campus biologist Alan Launer said this week.

To aid fish migration and help the school collect water more ef-ficiently, Stanford is planning changes to the creek and its own

Felt Lake, located west of Inter-state 280.

As part of the three-part Steel-head Habitat Enhancement Proj-ect, a fish ladder in the creek will be replaced, among other improve-ments.

The fish ladder currently allows water to spill over a dam and rush downstream, according to Tom W.

Zigterman, associate director of utilities at the university.

Called an Alaska Steep Pass, the ladder was designed for full, rushing bodies of water in Alaska — not Los Trancos Creek, whose flow varies wildly and sometimes slows to a trickle, Launer said.

And steelhead trout, a threat-ened species that travels upstream to spawn, have trouble making it up the ladder in low flows, Launer said.

Instead of spawning, fish occa-sionally get stuck below the ladder, then turn around and head back to the bay, he said.

“They don’t want to get stuck in this dinky little creek,” he said.

The current ladder works poorly when creek flow dips below three cubic feet per second; the new

concrete step-pool and “weir” lad-der would be easier to navigate in flows as low as half a cubic foot per second, he said.

It may even increase chances of steelhead survival by easing their journey and allowing them to spawn more readily throughout the creek, he said.

In addition to the fish ladder, the project would revamp the system by which Los Trancos water is diverted to Felt Lake, Zigterman said.

The university uses the lake, a man-made reservoir, to irrigate golf and athletic fields.

To hold extra water, the school would dig up roughly 100 acre-feet of sediment that has settled in Felt Lake since its 1920 creation,

Stanford proposes changes to creek, Felt Lake

Project should help fish, won’t hurt creek, school officials say

by Arden Pennell


Oregon Expressway

may get improvements

County meeting slated for Thursday to gather

suggestionsby Becky Trout

Palo Altans with keen memo-ries will recall Santa Clara County-led discussions about

Oregon Expressway’s problems about five years ago.

Drawing on the community’s suggestions, Santa Clara County approved a 13-page implementation plan for the 4.7-mile-long road in August 2003.

And now, after receiving $2.8 million through the 2005 federal Transportation Equity Act, thanks to Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Palo Alto), some of those improvements may finally materialize.

Palo Altans rejected a proposal to add sound walls along Oregon Expressway but called for improve-ments that would make it easier for bicyclists and pedestrians to cross the four-lane roadway, said Council-woman Yoriko Kishimoto, who was involved in the planning effort.

In particular, the plans call for coordinating the timing of signals to improve both traffic movement and “crossability” east of El Cami-no Real. Pedestrian ramps may also be added to direct walkers and the handicapped safely across the road.

Crossings at Waverley Street, Ross Road and Indian Drive are targeted for improvements, ac-cording to the plan, which is avail-able at www.PaloAltoOnline.com/pivot/?ore.

Middlefield Road might also see an added turn lane.

Other proposed projects include a $250,000-plus study of the Alma Street interchange, which has very


Lake Lagunita, on the Stanford University campus, is filling with more water than usual due to preparations for a project at Felt Lake.

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LAND USE

State cuts could hit Foothill-De Anza at worst time


OurTown

by Don Kazak

Talking about the Bomb

D iscussing the destructive power of nuclear bombs is not a pleasant way to spend a

Tuesday morning, but the students were attentive and asked smart, so-phisticated questions.

The 18 girls were all second-semester seniors at Castilleja High School in Palo Alto.

They were listening to Lynn Eden talk about bombs and didn’t recoil when she showed some scary slides on a large screen.

One was an aerial view of San Francisco in 1906, after the earth-quake and fire destroyed much of the city.

Another was of Hamburg, Ger-many, after the Allies fire-bombed it in World War II.

And still another was of Hiro-shima, Japan, after a nuclear bomb exploded that destroyed the city and helped end the war.

The cities were all ravaged by fire. The moon-like emptiness of San Francisco and Hiroshima were eerily similar, and for a good reason. The cities had burnt to the ground. (A few sturdy buildings were left standing in Hamburg.)

Eden’s point is that the fire after a nuclear blast, especially with mod-ern weapons, will cause damage over a wider area and kill people who didn’t die in the blast.

“Nuclear bombs create their own weather,” Eden explained. There is a void created by the blast and air rushes in, sometimes at hurri-cane force. That’s what creates the firestorms.

Great. Atomized or toasted.Eden explains this in much great-

er detail in her 2006 book, “The World on Fire.”

Edeb is associate director for research at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Coop-eration, and she is a sociologist by training. So how did a sociologist become an expert on nuclear weap-ons?

“I became interested in nuclear deterrence,” she said. “I am in-terested in things that don’t make sense, and that didn’t make sense to me.”

The idea of nuclear deterrence, she concisely explained, is: “If we choose to, we can absolutely de-stroy you.”

The American military has been tasked to “have a force that can de-stroy the world,” she said

The good news is that Ameri-

can presidents have increasingly stopped thinking of nuclear weap-ons as weapons. “It would be dev-astating for us diplomatically to use the bomb,” she said. “I can’t think of a circumstance under which the U.S. would use a nuclear weapon.”

The bad news is we still have 3,000 nuclear warheads, while other countries have theirs, too. There’s a lot of bombs in the world, hopefully all locked up with nowhere to go.

Eden noted that India and Paki-stan are trying to develop their economies. It’s easier for their leaders to say, “We’re a nuclear power.”

But what does that have to do with their economies, student Elis-abeth Dillon asked.

It’s all about being a member of the nuclear club, Eden replied, adding: “It should be a club no one wants to be a member of.”

Another student, Lauren Buchan-an, asked if there could be “some-thing worse than nuclear weapons,” a cheerful thought.

“Biological warfare,” Eden re-plied.

Nuclear weapons are kept on air-planes, on submarines at sea, and in underground silos amid the farms of the Midwest, Eden said.

The scariest thing isn’t the dan-ger of a nuclear power firing off one of its weapons at somebody — although the deep enmity between India and Pakistan can make peo-ple nervous — but a terrorist group getting its hands on a bomb.

That’s the stuff of action movies like “The Sum of All Fears.”

Eden isn’t too worried about a group of terrorists getting its hands on a bomb.

“The weapons are very well guarded,” she said. “The real fear is unaccounted-for fissionable ma-terial.” That material could be used to make a “dirty bomb,” one that wouldn’t have a nuclear explosion but that would spread radioactiv-ity in a similar manner as would a nuclear bomb, closing down the area for years.

The United States and Russia have elaborate, encoded locks on their bombs.

“If a terrorist group got a hold of a nuclear weapon, they probably couldn’t detonate it,” Eden said.

Whew. ■Senior Satff Writer Don Ka-

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Upfront

L ong before Palo Alto’s school board voted in February to put a $378 million bond measure

on the June ballot, a small group of parents was laying groundwork to convince citizens to vote “yes.” They met with district officials to offer their services, established contacts at schools and even picked out a name for their efforts.

Now, the “Strong Schools for a Strong Community” committee is leading a full-swing campaign — even before the official April 13 kick-off party.

Led by four co-chairs, including Mandy Lowell, former school board president, the group is reaching out to the school and local community, she said.

The mostly volunteer effort is driven by the belief that the bond measure is crucial to upgrade facili-ties at Palo Alto’s aging, cramped schools, she said.

To win, 55 percent of voters need to approve the measure under state Proposition 39.

Lowell said that so far, the pro-measure committee has met with the city’s Chamber of Commerce and the League of Women Voters, garnering endorsements from each.

The group’s Web site is up and running, meaning the four co-chairs answer dozens of e-mails daily about the bond measure, she said.

One or two boosters per school site have been established to help get the word out, Nancy Shepherd, co-volunteer coordinator, said.

And the committee has contract-ed Oakland-based political consul-tant Larry Tramutola to advise on grassroots tactics such as effective brochure mailing, the committee’s co-chair Jon Foster said.

Tramutola also consulted for the successful $178 million school bond Measure B in 1995.

Foster said this year’s commit-tee hopes to raise $100,000 to pay mainly for mailings and Tramutola’s fee.

Campaign finance statements released this week show the group has raised $6,465 so far, including a $5,000 donation from Lowell. It’s the most she’s ever given and not

meant as an attention-grabbing ges-ture, Lowell said — it was just to help with start-up supplies and lawn signs.

Foster, who also campaigned for the winning $493 parcel tax in 2005, said he and co-chair Samir Tuma met with schools Superintendent Kevin Skelly as early as summer to volunteer to lead a campaign.

They continued to meet with Skelly and Chief Business Official Bob Golton throughout the fall to learn more about how the district planned to handle the bond mea-sure, he said.

By law, the school district cannot spend taxpayer money on a politi-cal campaign. It can only send out informational fliers.

Months of school-district efforts — including meetings at school sites to draft possible project lists for the bond measure — ended with the board’s Feb. 26 approval to place the measure on the ballot.

The work to get the measure passed now lies with the citizens’ committee, Foster said.

And all the committee has done until now is mere preparation for a massive push in April and May to reach citizens — including phone banks and mailings, he said.

Yet opposition to the bond mea-sure is also gearing up.

An anti-bond measure statement was filed with the county registrar this month by Allen Rice, treasurer of the San Jose-based Willow Glen Libertarian Alliance, and Palo Alto resident Wayne Martin.

Martin is a longtime opponent of new taxes who actively campaigned against the 2005 parcel tax.

The statement accused the district of failing to follow Proposition 39’s requirement to detail what the funds would be used for by not listing spe-cific projects at specific schools for specific amounts of money.

Rice also filed an identical argu-ment against the Fremont Union High School District’s proposed June bond measure.

Martin is starting a “Palo Altans Against Measure A” campaign, he said this week.

The group will soon have a Web

site up, will make fliers and go door-to-door, he said.

The anti-bond-measure campaign will run a tight, responsible budget, he said, declining to cite a figure. The group has not yet filed finance statements with the county.

In response to Rice’s and Martin’s arguments, Foster said the school district can’t peg prices to projects in the official ballot statement because costs will fluctuate in coming years. Of the $378 million, the district pre-dicts it can manage about $30 mil-lion of work annually, he said.

Yet there is an unofficial list of projects and costs, he said, refer-ring to the document the district prepared after many school meet-ings in the fall.

Besides, all projects will be voted on by the school board at public meetings, he said — echoing an argument the “Strong Schools for a Strong Community” stated on its of-ficial rebuttal to Rice and Martin’s statement.

Rice and Martin also questioned how cronyism would be avoided in forming the citizens’ oversight com-mittee required by Proposition 39.

State law that prevents employees, vendors or consultants from serving and dictates which sorts of stake-holders will serve should prevent such favoritism, the pro-measure rebuttal states.

Enthusiastic as they are, the pro-measure volunteers are by no means political groupies, they said.

“In some ways we’re scrambling because we’re parents” or working full-time jobs, Lowell said.

And Kathy Schroeder, commit-tee co-chair, called campaigning a “necessary evil.”

“It’s the democratic process in all of its detail,” she said.

The bond measure on the June 3 ballot would continue, without in-creasing, Measure B’s $44.50 tax per $100,000 in assessed property valuation to raise $378 million. De-pending on how quickly property values rise, the tax could extend until 2042, Golton said. ■

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M onday marked the first day in 25 years that San Mateo County Sheriff’s deputies

weren’t assisting in the policing of East Palo Alto. The East Palo Alto Police Department is standing on its own for the first time since the city incorporated in 1983.

San Mateo County informed the city in May 2005 that it would end the contract for police services.

As part of the transition, the city established its own investigations unit of detectives more than a year ago. The sheriff’s deputies have been providing supplemental patrol assistance since then, according to

officials.“I knew the city needed its own

crime investigations,” Police Chief Ron Davis said.

The end of the contract will free up money to hire additional offi-cers. Four open positions had been frozen to pay for the contract, Davis said.

The city is currently budgeted for 39 sworn officers and has seven vacancies. Davis said he hoped to fill those positions by the end of the year.

The department has two recruits in training now, Davis said, while he just made a job offer to a third

potential officer. In addition, five candidates have completed oral in-terviews, and 10 more applied at a recent job fair Davis held.

After the hiring process, the re-cruits attend police academy (if not already completed) for six months and then spend four months in the field with a training officer.

The city has seen homicides de-crease since the 15 in 2005 to six in 2006 and seven last year. The 2006-07 numbers included a deadly period in December 2006 and Janu-ary 2007, which included several homicides and a spate of non-lethal shootings, prompting new commu-nity efforts to reduce violence. Da-vis has vowed to continue to reduce the number of homicides. ■

—Don Kazak

Sheriff’s contract with East Palo Alto ends


Upfront

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Around Town— Liz Schwerer, mother of two second-graders

at Ohlone Elementary School, on the need for Oregon Expressway improvements. See story on page 3.

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IN HONOR OF HOPKINS ... The Gunn High School community plans to dedicate an oak tree and a bench to Albert Hopkins, its former Academic Center director and teacher who died in July 2007 at age 63. “We wanted to memorialize Albert and his commitment to educa-tion and the students and the community,” Assistant Principal Phil Winston said. Donations gathered after Hopkins’ death raised money for the memorial. Winston said he is not sure how much money is left, but it may be used to provide scholarships. Hopkins is being honored for “his dedication and his love and passion for the students that were here and all the connec-tions he made with people and all the lives he touched,” Winston said. Hopkins’ renown grew after he was attacked by Palo Alto police officers in 2003. He was never charged with a crime, and he believed the officers beat him because he was African-American. The city agreed to a $250,000 settlement in 2005. A ceremony will be held Friday, April 4, at 12:25 p.m. between the new science building and the library on the Gunn campus.

BROCHURE BLOOPER ... A recently released brochure to attract Palo Alto’s next city man-ager extols the community; for example, “Complementing its exciting and innovative business community, Palo Alto’s residents are highly educated, politically aware and culturally sophisti-cated.” Indeed. But the brochure also makes a critical slip, calling El Palo Alto a “majestic 250-year-old coastal redwood tree.” 250? Highly educated Palo Al-tans know the tree is believed to be more than 2,000 years old. Recruiter Bob Murray pledged to correct the mistake.

SIDEWALKS ARE FOR CARS? ... Palo Altan Paul Berry is on a mission. He’s tired of people viewing the rolled curbs of South Palo Alto as an invitation to park their cars with two wheels on the sidewalk, two wheels on the street. He’s been capturing the parking offenders with his camera, sending the photos in to the city. “What can be done to discourage sidewalk parking? At

present there seems to be zero enforcement of rules against it.” He sent a letter in August and another in March, still looking for a response from the city.

CALLING ALL USED BIKES ... That rusty old bike gathering cobwebs in the garage could help a student in Kenya, ac-cording to charity One Dollar for Life. The nonprofit, run by Los Altos High School students, has teamed up with Gunn High School to organize a used-bike drive on Saturday, April 5. Children in the African nation routinely walk two or more hours to school, according to a press release from the charity. A bike would not only save time and en-ergy but also give them a chunk of the day back to help out at home. Extra bikes can be sold to help the school buy basic goods such as notebooks or labora-tory equipment. Even broken bicycles can be donated. Gunn and Los Altos students hope to collect 700 and have recruited community members to spread the word, including the Palo Alto Kiwanis. The Mountain View and Palo Alto police departments and the Stanford Sheriff’s Of-fice will be donating impounded bicycles, according to the press release. The students’ nonprofit has rented a shipping container to fill with bikes and later drive to Oakland, for shipping to Mom-basa, Kenya. Bikes can be do-nated on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Gunn High School in Palo Alto at 780 Arastradero Road and Los Altos High School at 201 Almond Ave.

VOLUNTEER AT THE PACIFIC ART LEAGUE ... The belea-guered Pacific Art League is now under the leadership of a new board following months of heated debate about the non-profit art association’s future. It is also planning to boost its volunteer rolls to supplement the vacancies left by five departing staff members during the tur-moil. The league is looking for a gallery manager, a chief financial officer, a webmaster and a vol-unteer coordinator — all volun-teer positions. For more informa-tion, visit www.pacificartleague.org. ■

SIBLING PREPARATION

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Join other prenatal and postpartum mothers in a Yoga class designed to enhance strength,

flexibility and tranquility. Practice Yoga stretches and poses while pregnant and return after

your delivery for a gentle shape-up and relaxation time.

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THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS: BULLYING AND THE SOCIAL LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN

Learn how children react to socially stressful situations, such as being Cyber-Bullied,

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- Tuesday, April 15

BECOMING GRANDPARENTS

Designed for new and expectant grandparents, this class examines the change in labor

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NOTICE OF VACANCY ON THE PUBLIC ART COMMISSION FOR FOUR, THREE-YEAR

TERMS ENDING APRIL 30, 2011 (TERM OF COOPER, DEEM, FRANKEL, AND NEGRIN)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council is seeking applications from persons interested in applying for a three-year term on the Public Art Commission ending April 30, 2011.

Eligibility Requirements: The Public Art Commission is composed of seven members who are not Council Members, officers, or employees of the city, and will be appointed by the City Council, serving without pay. Regular meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.

Qualifications: Members of the Public Art Commission either shall be members of the Architectural Review Board or shall be professional visual artists, professional visual art educators, professional visual arts scholars, or visual arts collectors whose authorities and skills are known and respected in the community and, whenever feasible, who have demonstrated an interest in, and have participated in, the arts program of the City.

Application forms and appointment information are available in the City Clerk’s Office, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto (Phone: 329-2571) or maybe obtained on the website at http://cityofpaloalto.org.html/

Deadline for receipt of applications in the City Clerk’s Office is 5:00 p.m., Thursday, April 17, 2008. If the incumbent does not reapply, the deadline will be extended to Tuesday, April 22, 2008.

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PALO ALTO RESIDENCY IS NOT A REQUIREMENT.

Zigterman said.The sediment would be spread

over adjacent hills with a mix of natural seeds to encourage vegeta-tion, he said. Building the reservoir created surrounding “borrow pits,” and filling them with earth will re-store the land’s original topography, he said.

The university would also replace its pumping station downstream at San Francisquito Creek near Ju-nipero Serra Boulevard, he said. It would double capacity from four to eight cubic feet per second — but only during high flows, he said, not-ing the flow can reach hundreds of

cubic feet per second.The school would not take any

more water in total from creeks than it does now, he said.

And the project includes a prom-ise not to take water when flows dip below five cubic feet per second — meaning the university would essen-tially load up on water in winter and then leave creeks alone in summer and fall, he said.

That’s a change from the current practice, where water is pumped with flows as low as one cubic feet per second, he said.

The project is currently under environmental review by Califor-nia’s Department of Fish and Game, Zigterman said.

A response should come this

spring and work would begin this summer, he said.

While it dredges the reservoir, Stanford would use its wells to ir-rigate fields, he said.

Currently, Lake Lagunita on the university campus is at high levels because reservoir water is being pumped in to lower Felt Lake in anticipation of summer’s work, he said.

He was not sure the exact amount being pumped, he said.

These preparations are underway because, according to Zigterman, the university expects the state to issue a mitigated negative declara-tion, or a clean bill of environmental health for the project.

Creek watchdog group San Fran-

cisquito Watershed Council found no problems with the proposal dur-ing meeting with Stanford represen-tatives, according to Ryan Navratil, the council’s program director.

“It appeared very much like Stan-ford had done their homework,” he said.

The group even wrote a letter to the state agency last year expressing support, Zigterman said.

The current diversion system at Los Trancos has worked poorly since its 1995 installation, Launer said. It requires manual monitoring — or people scrambling out at 2 a.m. in the middle of a storm to insert flash boards to direct the water, he said.

The new system will be automat-ed, he said.

The entire diversion, lake and fish project has been tangled in argu-ments for nearly a decade, he said.

Discussions with state agencies began in 1999, but Stanford and agencies had trouble seeing eye-to-eye on how much water should be diverted.

“Both sides were pretty obstinate, putting it mildly,” he said.

Stanford ultimately agreed to many agency requests, including not to divert water during dry times, he said.

Stanford has riparian and pre-1914 appropriative water rights at its di-versions, Zigterman said. ■


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“These students come pouring in, but you don’t have the money that you need to offer classes to serve them all,” she said. Many students will wait longer to get credentials as they vie for spots in classes. Oth-ers may grow frustrated and simply give up, she said.

Delays in times of budget crises can add six months to a year to the length of schooling, Kanter said.

Theresa Tena, director of fiscal policy at the Community College League of California, said unlike other schools, which can close en-rollment — as did state universities this winter — community colleges bear the brunt of hard times.

“We don’t close the doors. We don’t stop enrollment. It’s just go-ing to mean students take longer [and] there are fewer spots in class-es, larger classes and waitlists for classes,” she said.

In the last budget crisis, counsel-ing, tutoring and support services at Foothill-De Anza were cut, hurting students who really needed help, Bartindale said.

For example, students who weren’t used to navigating the higher edu-cation system or didn’t understand how to apply to financial aid may have been the first students affect-ed, she said.

This time always-popular basic classes will generate waitlists and frustration, she said.

High-demand “green technology” programs — which experienced a demand spike of 600 percent in the previous two years — would also lack money for expansion, Kanter said.

But the district is not expecting to lay off staff due to budget cuts this or next fiscal year, Bartindale said.

A reserve of $6 million in state money, awarded earlier to raise the district’s per-student funding to the state average of $5,500, will help cover costs, she said.

Yet that is a one-time reserve, leaving the district without a long-term plan to fund growth, she said.

Meanwhile, the district has been

tightening its belt by spending less on travel to academic conferences and by putting out the word on cam-pus that money is scarce, she said.

But it’s tough to save when the fiscal year is already three-quarters finished; the district can’t just cancel programs in full swing, she said.

Funding is already spare, so there’s little leeway for obvious sav-ings, Kanter said.

“There’s not much left to be ef-ficient with,” she said. With $5,500 per student, “there’s only so much you can do.”

For now, the district hopes the state legislature will come up with an alternative to sweeping cuts — one that won’t hike student fees, she said.

“What we’re doing right now is crossing our fingers. ... We’re read-ing tea leaves. ... We’re hoping the government budget won’t have high-er student fees,” she said.

This is her fifth major budget crisis in California in 35 years, she added. But she’s never seen a cri-sis follow so closely on the heels of the previous crisis, which came in 2003-04.

“What’s disappointing is we have not learned our lesson and we have not figured out a way to sustain our educational program,” she said. ■


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short entrance lanes.At Page Mill Road and Interstate

280, the plan calls for reconfigur-ing the southbound on-ramp and adding signals at both sides of the interstate. The changes are needed to make the road safer for bicyclists, Kishimoto said.

Lower-priority projects include adding turn lanes at the express-way’s intersection with El Camino Real and adding a southbound right-turn lane from Junipero Serra Bou-levard to Page Mill.

To weigh in on these projects, the county’s Roads and Airports Department is hosting a meeting Thursday, April 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Dance Studio at Jordan Mid-dle School, 750 N. California Ave.

“This is the first opportunity for the public to provide input as users of the expressway since the study was adopted,” Palo Alto’s transpor-tation manager Gayle Likens said.

Liz Schwerer, mother of two sec-ond graders at Ohlone Elementary School, said she and other Ohlone

parents have concerns about cross-ings at Greer and Louis roads, where as many as four accidents involving Ohlone pedestrians or bicyclists have occurred in the last few years.

Both north- and southbound Greer, for example, lack a left-turn signal onto Oregon Expressway. As cars wait for a break in the traffic to turn, they often don’t look out for pedestrians who also have a green light, Schwerer said.

“There are so many people at the school who are afraid to let their kids cross that intersection even in the company of their parents,” Schwerer said. That complicates ef-forts to encourage parents to bike or walk rather than drive to school, she said.

The Oregon-Page Mill thorough-

fare is one of the county’s eight expressways, an unusual road type considered a link between the high-ways and local streets, Kishimoto said.

The county initiated an express-way-wide planning study when its coffers were flush with dot-com boom money, she said. It lacked the money to implement it right away, however.

Although the plan has already been approved, the public now has the opportunity to “fine tune” it, Likens said.

For additional information, con-tact the Roads and Airports Depart-ment at 408-494-2700. ■

Staff Writer Becky Trout can be e-mailed at [email protected].

CorrectionA March 28 article incorrectly identified the location of Scott Design As-sociates, which worked on a home included in the Charming Cottages of Palo Alto tour. Its offices are in Burlingame. To request a correction, contact Managing Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-326-8210, [email protected] or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

Oregon(continued from page 3)

—Theresa Tena, director of fiscal policy, Community College

League of California

“We don’t close doors. We don’t stop enrollment. It’s going to mean ... fewer spots in classes, larger classes and waitlists for classes.”


Upfront

Homeless woman found dead in Palo AltoMary Ann Morgan had tried for

years to stop drinking and straighten out her life. But she ended up home-less and on the streets of Palo Alto.

Morgan, 61, was found dead last Friday morning in a downtown alley near University Avenue. The cause of her death is not known.

Morgan had been a member of the Downtown Streets Team, a housing-for-work program, five times.

“We gave her extra chances,” said Eileen Richardson, the director of the

Downtown Streets Team.Morgan even lived for about nine months in the Opportunity Cen-

ter before voluntarily signing over her apartment and leaving.“It’s so sad,” Richardson said. “She was a very nice woman who

was always caring about other people. She would do well for a while and then go on binges and become difficult, yelling at everyone.”

Morgan was even one of the 12 people featured on a 2007 calen-dar, “Faces of Hope,” which the Downtown Streets Team produced more than a year ago. The portrait photographs were shot by Rich-ardson’s daughter.

Richardson doesn’t know where Morgan was from originally but said she’s been in the Palo Alto area off and on for 30 years. Mor-gan had said she has two children, who would now be grown, and a brother. But Richardson doesn’t know who they are or how to find them.

Richardson has been working with the Santa Clara County Coro-ner’s office since last Friday trying to locate a next of kin so Mor-gan’s body can be released for burial or cremation. ■

—Don Kazak

Foothill nets legal win over tax foeA legal tussle over the $490.8 million bond Measure C, passed by

district voters in June 2006, is finally over for the Foothill-De Anza Community College District.

The California Supreme Court declined to review an appellate ruling last Wednesday, ending more than a year and a half of litiga-tion.

“It is now 19 months later, and we have prevailed at all levels,” Chancellor Martha Kanter said. “We are jumping for joy, literally.”

A lawsuit was originally filed challenging whether the measure conformed to state regulations earlier imposed by Proposition 39.

The college district won the lawsuit but that decision was ap-pealed. The district won the appeal in December, but complainants Melvin Emerich and Aaron Katz turned to the Supreme Court to review the appeal.

The court declined to review the appeal Wednesday, ending the legal battle.

The district was already preparing to build while in litigation, Kanter said.

“We were able to put the first quantity of bond funds into the bank to start earning interest,” she said.

The district sold $250 million in bonds and put all but $10 million in escrow, according to a press release.

“At this point, we now can spend funds to renovate classrooms and build a new science center,” Kanter said. ■

—Arden Pennell

EPA man convicted of cockfighting operationAn East Palo Alto man will serve six months in county jail and be

on supervised probation for three years as a result of a plea agree-ment he reached with prosecutors over charges he ran a cockfighting operation from his home.

It’s unusual to discover cockfighting operations, San Mateo Coun-ty Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. It usually happens on the coast in Half Moon Bay or Pescadero.

Jose Alfredo Sierra, 19, will no longer be able to live with pets or other animals nor be able to work with them, as terms of his plea agreement.

Wagstaffe said neighbors of Sierra in the 2500 block of Ralmar Avenue complained to police of hearing roosters “screaming” at times over the period of months, leading police to investigate. Police discovered one dead rooster, a severely injured rooster and various related items, including razor blades that the cocks use as weapons and syringes and steroids that are used to prepare the roosters for fighting.

Other roosters were discovered on the property, he added.Sierra was arrested Feb. 24. ■

—Don Kazak

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POLICE CALLSPalo AltoMarch 22-27Violence relatedArmed robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Assault w/a deadly weapon . . . . . . . . . .1Sexual assault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft relatedCommercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Counterfeiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Vehicle relatedAbandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . .8Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .5Vehicle accident/property damage. . . .10Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8Alcohol or drug relatedDrunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . .1MiscellaneousFound property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Misc. municipal code violation . . . . . . . .3Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . .7Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Noise complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . .2Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Menlo ParkMarch 24-30Violence relatedBattery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft relatedCommercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle relatedAuto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . .5Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Reckless driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .4Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Alcohol or drug relatedDrug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2MiscellaneousAnimal call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Indecent exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

AthertonMarch 24-31Theft relatedFraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle relatedAbandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Suspicious vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Alcohol or drug relatedPossession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Miscellaneous911 hang-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Animal call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Civil matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Construction complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Disturbing/annoying phone calls. . . . . . .1Fire call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Follow up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Hazard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Juvenile problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Meet citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .2Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Town ordinance violation . . . . . . . . . . . .3Tree blocking roadway . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Welfare check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Wires down. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

VIOLENT CRIMESPalo Alto200 block Hamilton Avenue, 3/23, 1:46 a.m.; assault with a deadly weapon.Unlisted block Harker Avenue, 3/25, 12:03 p.m.; armed robbery.Unlisted location, 3/26, 12:22 p.m.; sexual assault.

Menlo Park1100 block Pine Street, 3/30, 8:03 a.m.; battery.1100 block Madera Avenue, 3/30, 1:13 p.m.; domestic violence.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETINGof the City of Palo Alto

Historic Resources Board

Please be advised the Historic Resources Board shall conduct a meeting at 8:00 AM on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 in the Civic Center, Council Chambers, 1st Floor, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. Any interested persons may appear and be heard on these items.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES. Approval of minutes of Historic Resources Board meetings of February 20 and March 5, 2008.

NEW BUSINESSPublic Hearings

1. 1030 Ramona Street [08PLN-00095]: Application by Robert and Kelli Glazier for Historic Resources Board review and recommendation regarding the proposed demolition of a one-story duplex, constructed in 1954, that was considered by the Keeper of the National Register and the Dames and Moore historic survey of 1997-2000 as a visually adverse non-con-tributing building in the Professorville National Register Historic District.

2. 345 Lincoln Avenue [08PLN-00057]: Application by Cody Anderson Wasney Architects for Historic Resources Board review and recommendation regarding a revised project comprising proposed alterations and an addition to the Charles Benjamin Wing house (1893) and water tower (1894) which are listed on the City’s Historic Inventory in Category 2, and are located in the Professorville National Register Historic District and in the R-1(10,000) zone district. The proposed project includes a comprehensive landscape plan. The project is sub-ject to the City’s discretionary Individual Review process and the historic preservation provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The project was publicly reviewed at a Historic Resources Board Study Session on February 20, 2008.

OTHER BUSINESS

3. Discussion of potential topics for the Joint HRB-City Council meeting scheduled for May 19, 2008.

Questions. If interested parties have any questions regarding the above applications, please contact the Planning Division at (650) 329-2441. The files relating to these items are available for inspec-tion weekdays between the hours of 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM and staff reports will be available for inspection at 2:00 PM the Friday preceding the hearing.

The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. To request accommodations to access City facilities, services or programs, to participate at public meetings, or to learn more about the City’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), please contact the City’s ADA Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing [email protected].

Cathy Siegel, Advance Planning Manager

NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETINGof the City of Palo Alto

Architectural Review Board (ARB)

Please be advised that Thursday, April 17, 2008, the ARB shall conduct a public hearing at 8:30 AM in the Council Chambers, 1st Floor, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. Any interested persons may appear and be heard.

Draft Ordinance Proposing Greenbuilding Requirements for Private Development: Request for ARB recommendation to City Council of 1) an Ordinance Amending Title 18 (Zoning) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code to Add a New Chapter 18.44 (Green Building Regulations) and 2) a Resolution to Adopt Green Building Compliance Thresholds, Rating Systems, and Compliance Verification for Private Development Projects.

200 San Antonio [07PLN-00302]: Request by Toll Brothers for ARB review of a 45-unit multiple family project, includes a new public street, landscaping, and driveways and Design Enhancement Exceptions for setback encroachments. Zone District: ROLM.

564 University Avenue [08PLN-00079]: Request by Ann Hawkinson for ARB review of a 4,475 square foot addition to an existing category 2 historic residence and historic rehabilitation for new restaurant tenant.

4703 El Camino Real [07PLN-00288]: Request by Adrian Huang for Preliminary ARB review of a new 1,682 square foot commercial building at the corner of El Camino Real and El Camino Way. Zone District: Neighborhood Commercial (CN).

3801 E Bayshore Rd – [08PLN-00097]: Request by Chris Dorman for ARB Review of landscape and parking changes to an approved project. Zone District: ROLM(D)(AD).

The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. To request accommodations to access City facilities, services or programs, to participate at public meetings, or to learn more about the City’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), please contact the City’s ADA Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing [email protected].

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CITY OF PALO ALTONOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the City Council of the City of Palo Alto will hold a Public Hearing at a Regular Council Meeting on Monday, May 5, 2008 at 7:00 p.m., or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California to Consider Adoption of an Ordinance Establishing Underground Utility District Number 45 (Palo Alto Avenue, Alma Street, High Street, Lytton Avenue and Cambridge Avenue) by Amending Section 12.16.020 of Chapter 12.16 of Title 12 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code. DONNA J. GRIDER City Clerk

DeathsJohn Wesley Fort

John Wesley Fort, 83, a former pastor in East Palo Alto, died March 23.

He was born in Born in Terrell, Texas. As a young man he joined the U.S. Navy.

In 1950 he met his future wife, Pearlie Mae Riley.

In 1957 he became a member of the Calvary Temple Church of God In Christ. He then spent many years serving as assistant pastor to Dr. E.J. O’Neal at the Little Flock Church of God In Christ. In 1974 he became a pastor and founded and built the House of Prayer Church of God In Christ, now known as Grace Temple Church of God In Christ.

He served on the Senior Citizen Board of Directors. He and his wife volunteered to help feed the hungry, while dispersing food to the needy in the community. He helped implement fundraising for the then-new Senior Citizen Cen-ter. He encouraged community members to participate in church and to get involve in the care and

organization of their community. Loved ones recall him as a gen-

tle, friendly person with whom everyone liked to talk.

He enjoyed fine cars and fishing with his friends.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Pearlie Mae Fort of East Palo Alto; children, Shirley Hill (and her husband Thomas Hil), Wesley D. Fort (and his wife Dr. Mary Bains-Fort), Gregory John Fort, Pinky Annette Fort and Ce-cil Lamar Fort; 11 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

A memorial service was held Monday, March 31, at the Grace Temple Church of God In Christ, 1970 Clarke St., East Palo Alto.

Anne MacKenzieAnne MacKenzie, 83, a long-

time resident of Palo Alto, died Feb. 24.

She was born in Chicago, Ill. She received an art scholarship to the University of Southern Cali-fornia and a master’s degree from Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1976. She studied under Rich-ard Diebenkorn at the University of California, Los Angeles, and

taught art and drawing at Cal. State Long Beach. She also taught art classes for children.

She was the sole practitioner in graphic-arts business Banyan Design and a member of the Palos Verdes Art Association.

Friends remember her as a gift-ed and creative artist and teacher. She is especially remembered for her work in the Palo Alto Camera Club.

She was married to Ted Shields and married the late Fred MacK-enzie, an engineer with Stanford Research Institute, in 1986 and moved to Palo Alto that year.

She is survived by her children, Leighton, Leslie and Jana Shields, all of Southern California; broth-er, Frank Rus of Naperville, Ill.; step-children, Richard MacKenzie of California and Nancy Hamble-ton of Nevada; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, April 5, at 10 a.m. at the Palo Alto Art Center auditorium, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto.


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Thursday Miyoko Tani, a Sunnyvale artist, is showing watercolors and large monotype prints at Gallery 9 at 143 Main St. in Los Altos, with a reception set for Saturday, April 12, from 3 to 6 p.m. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Go to www.gallery9losaltos.com or call 650-941-7969.“Re:producing Motherhood,” an exhibit by Menlo Park photog-rapher Kristin Lorraine Herbster, explores the challenges of today’s mother role. Black-and-white photos are shown with interviews with modern women and excerpts from parenting books. The show is at the Michelle R. Clayman Insti-tute for Gender Research at Serra House on the Stanford campus, 589 Capistrano Way, through June 13. A reception is tonight from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Go to www.stanford.edu/group/gender.João de Brito, an impressionist/figurative artist from the Azores, is exhibiting his lively, tree-filled paintings at Cafe Borrone at 1010 El Camino Real in Menlo Park through April 20. The show is of new works and is called “Colors of Life.” Go to www.joaodebrito.com or call the cafe at 650-327-0830.“Design Unbound,” an exhibit by Stanford University design stu-dents, is at the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery on campus through May 4. Go to art.stanford.edu or call 650-723-2842.

FridayPear Slices 2008 is a collec-tion of new short plays being performed at the Pear Avenue Theatre, 1220 Pear Ave., Unit K, Mountain View, through April 27, Thursday through Sunday. The playwrights are: Paul Braverman,

Leah Halper, Caryn Huberman, Valerie Leghorn, Richard Me-dugno and Ross Peter Nelson. Tickets are $15-$30; go to www.thepear.org or call 650-254-1148 (1-800-838-3006 for credit-card ticketing).The New Century Chamber Or-chestra, with Stuart Canin (con-certmaster of the Los Angeles Opera) as guest concertmaster, performs at 8 p.m. at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church at 600 Colora-do Ave. in Palo Alto. The program includes Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony for Strings, Op. 110a. Tickets are $42/$28; go to www.ncco.org or call 415-357-1111.Mariana Barnes, an aerospace scientist/engineer in Palo Alto, is exhibiting her acrylic paintings that feature bright mosaic pat-terns and colors. The show is this month at the Pacific Art League at 668 Ramona St. in Palo Alto, with a reception tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. Go to www.fineartbymariana.com or call the art league at 650-321-3891.Urban Nights Dance Fusion, the annual performance of many Stanford University student dance groups, comes to Dinkelspiel Auditorium on campus tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. Groups include Cardinal Ballet, Los Sal-seros and Swingtime. Tickets are $10; go to cardinalballet.group.stanford.edu or call 520-240-5537.The Coupa Cosas gallery is showing work for the home by nine members of the Association of Clay and Glass Artists of North-ern California. Barbara Brown, Babak Daleki, Jan Schachter, Lee Middleman, Mary Dorsch, Phyllis Williams, Eliza Wilson Thomas, Bill Geisinger and Eileen P. Gold-enberg will have a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and exhibit through

May 3 at 536 Ramona St. in Palo Alto. Call 650-322-0193.

SaturdayThe Firebird Youth Chinese Or-chestra gives a free concert at the Center Pavilion at Stanford Shopping Center from noon to 1:30 p.m. as part of a spring se-ries. A musical-instrument drive for the Ravenswood City School District is also going on through April 20; people can donate at the mall’s guest-services office. Go to www.stanfordshop.com or call 650-617-8591.The Palo Alto Philharmonic plays music by Brahms, Debussy and Rachmaninoff, featuring pianist Daniel Glover in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Pa-ganini. The concert is at 8 p.m. at Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middle-field Road, Palo Alto. Tickets are $8-$17; go to www.paphil.org.

SundayThe St. Lawrence String Quar-tet plays with pianist Stephen Prutsman at 2:30 p.m. in Stan-ford’s Dinkelspiel Auditorium. The program includes the new String Quartet No. 4 by Stanford composer Jonathan Berger, and Haydn’s G Major String Quartet. Tickets are $20-$44; go to live-lyarts.stanford.edu or call 650-725-ARTS.Nancy Ortberg, a former teaching pastor, speaks about her book “Looking for God: An Unexpected Journey through Tattoos, Tofu, And Pronouns” at 1 p.m. at Ke-pler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. The book is a collection of personal essays on finding God in unforeseen places. Go to www.keplers.com or call 650-324-4321.

Weekend Preview

ArtThe Palo Alto art cooperative Gallery House celebrates its 50th an-niversary.

MusicGuest concertmaster Stuart Canin — whose resume includes playing for Harry Truman and Winston Churchill — performs with the New Century Chamber Orchestra in Palo Alto.

MoviesReviews of “Leatherheads” and “Snow Angels.”

COMING UP IN FRIDAY’S WEEKEND EDITION

ON THE WEB: Comprehensive entertainment listings at www.PaloAltoOnline.com


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INNOVATIVE REMODELS OF LOCAL HOMES

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Stop-Loss (R)Fri-Th. 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:50

The Band’s Visit (PG-13)Fri-Th. 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30

For more on the local arts scene, read arts editor Rebecca Wallace’s blog. Go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com and click on Ad Libs.

Matt Sameck and Corrie Borris are in “Something Wonderful” by Leah Halper, which will be per-formed with several other new short plays at the Pear Avenue Theatre this month.

“Rain” is among the watercolors and large mono-type prints being exhibited by artist Miyoko Tani this month at Gallery 9 in Los Altos.


MoviesMovie reviews by Jeanne Aufmuth, Tyler Hanley, and Susan Tavernetti

10,000 B.C. (PG-13) Century 16: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 12:05, 1:50, 2:35, (Not Reviewed) 4:25, 5:10, 6:15, 7:05, 8:55, 9:45 & 10:25 p.m. 21 (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 12:35, 2, 3:30, 4:50, 6:30, 7:40, 9:20 & 10:30 p.m. Century

20: 12:15, 1:30, 3:05, 4:30, 6, 7:30, 9 & 10:30 p.m. The Band’s Visit (PG-13) ✭✭✭1/2 CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30 p.m. The Bank Job (R) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 1:20, 4:05, 7:20 & 9:55 p.m. Century 12: 1:20, 4:10, 7:20 &

10:05 p.m. Be Kind Rewind (PG-13) ✭✭1/2 Century 12: 1:10, 4, 7:10 & 9:50 p.m. College Road Trip (G) Century 16: 4:30 & 9:10 p.m. Century 12: 12:15, 2:15, 4:40 & 7:05 p.m. (Not Reviewed)The Counterfeiters (R) ✭✭✭1/2 Guild: 2:15, 4:45, 7:10 & 9:40 p.m. Definitely, Maybe (PG-13) ✭✭1/2 Century 20: 1:25, 4:55, 7:35 & 10:20 p.m. Doomsday (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 1:40, 4:35, 7:15 & 10:10 p.m. Century 12: 1:05, 3:50, 7:25,

9:20* & 10:10 p.m. *Spanish subtitles Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who! Century 16: 12:30, 1:15*, 1:55, 2:50, 3:35*, 4:20, 5:05, 5:55*, 6:45, 7:30, (G) ✭✭✭ 8:10*, 9, 9:45 & 10:25 p.m.* *Spanish subtitles Century 20: Noon, 12:45,

1:30, 2:15, 3:05, 3:50, 4:40, 5:40, 6:55, 7:55, 9:20 & 10:10 p.m. Drillbit Taylor (PG-13) Century 16: 1:25, 2:40, 4, 5:15, 7, 7:50, 9:35 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: (Not Reviewed) 12:35, 1:35, 3, 4:05, 5:30, 6:40, 8, 9:15 & 10:30 p.m. In Bruges (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 & 10:15 p.m. Jumper (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 12: 1, 3:20, 5:40, 8 & 10:30 p.m. Juno (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Century 20: 12:05, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 & 9:30 p.m. Married Life (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 1:45 & 6:50 p.m. Century 20: 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:15 & 9:35

p.m. Meet the Browns (PG-13) Century 16: 1, 3:50, 6:55 & 9:25 p.m. Century 12: 12:40, 1:50, 3:10, 4:30, (Not Reviewed) 5:45, 7, 8:30 & 9:40 p.m. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Century 16: 12:50, 3:20, 5:40, 8 &10:15 p.m. Century 20: 12:30, 2:45, (PG-13) ✭✭✭ 5:05, 7:25 & 9:50 p.m. Never Back Down (PG-13) Century 12: 1:40, 4:50, 7:40 & 10:25 p.m. (Not Reviewed)

The Other Boleyn Girl (PG-13) ✭✭ Century 20: Noon, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05 & 10:40 p.m. Run, Fatboy, Run (PG-13) ✭✭1/2 Aquarius: Noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30 & 10 p.m. Semi-Pro (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 4:10 & 10:05 p.m. Shutter (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 7:45 & 10 p.m. Century 12: 12:50, 2, 3,

4:20, 5:15, 6:30, 7:30, 9 & 10 p.m. The Spiderwick Chronicles Century 12: 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50 & 10:20 p.m. (PG) ✭✭✭

Stop-Loss (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 & 10 p.m. CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 & 9:50 p.m.

Superhero Movie (PG-13) Century 16: 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25 & 9:40 p.m. Century 12: 12:30, 2:45, (Not Reviewed) 5, 7:15 & 9:30 p.m. There Will Be Blood (R) ✭✭✭✭ Century 20: 12:40 & 6:45 p.m. Under the Same Moon Century 20: 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8 & 10:35 p.m. Aquarius: 1:45, 4:30, 7 & (La Misma Luna) 9:30 p.m. (Not Rated) ✭✭✭1/2

Vantage Point (PG-13) ✭✭✭1/2 Century 16: 1:35, 4:25, 7:10 & 9:30 p.m. Century 20: 1, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55 & 10:15 p.m.

MOVIE TIMES

★ Skip it ★★ Some redeeming qualities ★★★ A good bet ★★★★ Outstanding

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

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

Century Park 12: 557 E. Bayshore Blvd., Red-wood City (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)

Internet address: For show times, plot synop-ses, trailers and more information about films playing, go to Palo Alto Online at http://www.PaloAltoOnline.com/

Note: Screenings are for Wednesday through Thursday only.

ON THE WEB: The most up-to-date movie listings at www.PaloAltoOnline.com

PENINSULA PEOPLE1st Place Adult – $250 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to University Art, and a One-year Membership to Palo Alto Art Center2nd Place Adult – $200 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Jungle Digital3rd Place Adult – $100 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Bear ImagesYouth Winner – $75 Cash, $25 Gift Certificate to University Art

VIEWS BEYOND THE PENINSULA1st Place Adult – $250 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to University Art, and a One-year Membership to Palo Alto Art Center2nd Place Adult – $200 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Jungle Digital3rd Place Adult – $100 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Bear ImagesYouth Winner – $75 Cash, $25 Gift Certificate to University Art

Categories and Prizes1st Place Adult – $250 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to University Art, and a One-year Membership to Palo Alto Art Center2nd Place Adult – $200 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Jungle Digital3rd Place Adult – $100 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Bear ImagesYouth Winner – $75 Cash, $25 Gift Certificate to University Art

1st Place Adult – $250 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to University Art, and a One-year Membership to Palo Alto Art Center2nd Place Adult – $200 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Jungle Digital3rd Place Adult – $100 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Bear ImagesYouth Winner – $75 Cash, $25 Gift Certificate to University Art

ENTRY DEADLINE: April 4, 2008, 5:30pm

For more information call 650.326.8210 ext. 268 or e-mail [email protected]

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17th Annual Palo Alto WeeklyPhoto Contest

Call for EntriesJudges NORBERT

Norbert von der Groeben joined the staff of the Palo Alto Weekly as Chief Photographer in July 2003. Prior to working at the Weekly, Norbert spent 17 years as a staff photographer at a daily newspaper, the Contra Costa Times. His photos have also appeared in such magazines as People, Business Week and Vanity Fair.

Angela Buenning Filo photographs landscapes in transition, most recently focusing on Silicon Valley and Bangalore, India. Her photographs have been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the San Jose Museum of Art. She teaches at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto.

DAVE HIBBARDDavid Hibbard, a Menlo Park resident, has photographed natural landscapes and wild places most of his life. He is represented by Modernbook Gallery in Palo Alto. His first monograph, Natural Gestures, will be published later this year.

CARNOCHANBrigitte Carnochan’s painted gelatin silver photographs have been exhibited at galleries and museums nationally and internationally. A book of her images, Bella Figura: Painted Photographs by Brigitte Carnochan, was published by Modernbook Editions in July 2006. Her next show at Modernbook will be in November 2008.

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BookTalkFOR A GOOD CAUSE ... Popular local author Firoozeh Dumas will be the featured speaker at the Fifth Annual Circle of Support Breakfast benefiting Family & Children Services of Palo Alto. The breakfast will be 8 to 10:30 a.m. May 8 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Palo Alto. Dumas is the author of “Funny in Farsi” and has a new book, “Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad.” For tickets and informa-tion, call 650-326-6576 ext. 5423 or go to fcservices.org.

SOON TO BE A MOVIE ... Menlo Park mystery writer Barry Eisler has won fans with his series of books about John Rain, a dan-gerous former government agent. The first in the series of books, “Rain Fall” is now being cast as a movie, and actor Gary Oldman is in negotiations to play the star-ring role, according to Variety. “The book feels like it was written for the screen,” according to the 2002 review in the Weekly.

OF LOCAL NOTE ... Pearl Karrer of Palo Alto has written a book of poems, “The Thorn Fence.” It is available at Amazon and Bell’s Books in downtown Palo Alto. Nick Tayler, a San Jose State University professor of compara-tive literature who lives in Menlo Park, has written “The Disagree-ment,” a Civil War novel from the point of view of a young Southern doctor who saves the life of a wounded Union officer. Zachery Mason of Palo Alto has written “The Lost Books of the Odyssey.” It features “alternative episodes, fragments and revisions” of Hom-er’s original “Odyssey.” Just pub-lished, it won the 2007 Starcher-one Fiction Prize. Taylor will be at Kepler’s at 7:30 p.m. April 17.

AUTHOR, AUTHOR ... Author events at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park this month include Nancy Ortberg (“Looking for God: An Unexpected Journey Through Tattoos, Tofu and Pronouns”) at 1 p.m. April 6. Germaine Greer (“Shakespeare’s Wife”) appears at 2 p.m. April 13. Thriller writer Pat-rick McGrath (“Trauma”) appears at 7:30 p.m. April 18. And Nathan-iel Rich (“The Mayor’s Tongue”) appears at 2 p.m. April 19.

MORE AUTHOR, AUTHOR ... Author events at Books Inc. in Palo Alto this month include Palo Alto yoga instructor Esther Gokhale (“8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back”) at 7 p.m. April 9.

Items for Book Talk may be sent by the last Wednesday of the month to Don Kazak, Title Pages editor, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302 or e-mailed to [email protected].

“Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories” by Tobias Wolff;

Alfred A. Knopf; 379 pp., $26.95

By Jennifer Deitz

T obias Wolff has earned both critical praise and popular success for his nov-els and memoirs, including “This Boy’s

Life” and “Old School,” but he is perhaps even more revered as a master of the short story. His newest book, “Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories” makes clear why this reputation is so well deserved.

In reading this collection, one finds from beginning to end, the author’s knack for cap-turing the essence of a diverse array of charac-ters and for swiftly and economically bringing to life the small universes they inhabit. The stories are resonant and convincing whether he is depicting a sharply intelligent yet deeply insecure English professor, the blithe cruelty of school-age boys, the melancholy of an aging husband reflecting on a lost love, or the stub-bornness and courage of a woman in search of her soldier brother.

Wolff is a professor of humanities and sci-ences at Stanford, and after having received a

Wallace Stegner Fellowship in creative writ-ing in 1975, is now a teacher in the program. Wolff came of age as a writer at a time when a number of luminaries of the short story form — most notably Raymond Carver — were

also gaining prominence. Like Carver, Wolff’s earlier stories tend to be minimalist in style, and because he most frequently shuns the beautiful and the elite to focus on the disen-franchised and the unlucky, he has often been included among the set of authors who came to be known as “dirty realists.”

The writing throughout these early stories is straightforward and plain-spoken, echoing the lives and personalities of Wolff’s charac-ters, who themselves tend to be plain-spoken, regular people leading largely regular lives. The power in the best of these stories lies in the author’s clear-eyed depiction of the ten-sions and cruelties brewing beneath the sur-face of lives that at first appear ordinary and mundane but are soon revealed to be simmer-ing and explosive.

One of the finest examples of this is in the story “Desert Breakdown, 1968,” which be-gins by introducing a young Vietnam vet, his pregnant wife and their young child, who have embarked on a road trip, cutting through Colo-rado and heading into California, on the hunt for a fresh start and new careers. The reader is lulled into following the mundane bickering and frustrations of the couple as their 1958 Bonneville breaks down at a gas station in the middle of nowhere.

But tensions are soon ratcheted up as the couple finds themselves surrounded by a vaguely threatening and off-color group of small-town inhabitants who become the fam-ily’s reluctant hosts. While the wife is left to fend for herself among “the natives” who are preparing for a dinner of rabbit stew that eve-ning, the husband hitches a ride in a hearse with three young alcoholic punks who tempt the young husband into taking a turn that risks perilous consequences for both him and his family. Stories like this one — that are at once realistic and strange — are the gems of this collection.

What makes the collection most interesting, however, is being able to read these stories back to back and catch a glimpse of how the author’s style and sensibility seemed to shift and evolve over the decades, gradually eas-ing away from the dictates and restraints of the sparsely realistic style he began with and transitioning into a style of storytelling that feels deeper, more compassionate and freer in language and form than the earlier work.

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While there is an unsettling sense of misanthropy running beneath the surface of a few of the earliest stories, stories written in the later years of Wolff’s career feel softer in their view of humanity and even better able to capture what is most beautiful in even highly fallible characters.

The new stories in the collection, such as “That Room,” hit a perfect balance of strong, lyrical language that is also forthright and down-to-earth, showing the author seeking to tell old stories in new ways. In this story, for instance, there is no dialogue — it is essayistic in style and reflective in tone — and yet, in only a few pages, Wolff is able to pack in unexpected danger and intrigue as a young dreamer finds himself startled back into reality as he stares down the wrong end of a

revolver. A description Wolff provides

of one of the characters, Eduardo, featured in this story, could just as easily describe the power Wolff’s own writing holds to rivet and en-chant. “While the rest of us did the heavy lifting, Eduardo provided ad-vice about girls and told stories in which he featured as a trickster and deft, indefatigable swordsman. He played it for laughs but in the very materials of his storytelling — the dance halls and bars, the bumbling border guards, the clod-brained farmers and their insatiable wives, the larcenous cops, the whores who loved him — I felt the actuality of a life I knew nothing about yet some-how contrived to want for myself: a real life in a real world.” ■

Wolff will be at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. April 24.

Jennifer Deitz is a freelance writer. She can be reached at [email protected].

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This month’s picks by Frank Sanchez, head book buyer at Kepler’s, include a book of pho-tographs of the region, a book about the comic book “scare” of the 1950s, a book about the super rich and powerful, and more.

“Gabriele Basilico — Sili-con Valley” edited by Sandra Phillips and Filippo Maggia is a collection of photographs of the area by the noted Italian photog-rapher. He had been invited by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to take the photos, which are mostly in black and white but include some color. It’s a wonderful collection but the title is a little misleading, since the book has a partial San Francisco focus. There are just a few shots of the Palo Alto area. Handsomely done, though.

“The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America” by David Hajdu is a fascinating sto-ry about how churches and other moral leaders led a crackdown against what they deemed dis-tasteful comic books in the early 1950s. One of the publishers of the comic books, Bill Gaines, went on to found Mad magazine, so the story has a happy ending of sorts. The author also wrote “Positively Fourth Street,” a book about Bob Dylan.

“Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making” by Da-vid Rothkopf is an unflattering look at how the richest and most powerful people in the world are changing things. The author counts some 6,000 corporate, government and other leaders among the worldwide elite, but doesn’t name them.

“Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields and Time Travel” by Michio Kaku starts with the notion that much of what we take for granted today was once science fiction. What science fiction will be-come reality in the future? The author, cofounder of the string

field theory, examines some pos-sibilities.

“Human Smoke: The Be-ginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization” by Nich-olson Baker has piqued the in-terests of book critics. Baker, a highly regarded writer, looks at the 1930s and 1940s in a series of snippets of what was happen-ing, but deliberately doesn’t state conclusions, just inferences. He questions many of our assump-tions about those long-ago times, including how world leaders such as Churchill and Roosevelt were regarded.

“The Translator: A Tribes-man’s Memoir of Darfur” by Daoud Hari is the author’s obser-vances of the Darfur genocide. He had worked as a translator for journalists and helps groups in his native Darfur. The village where he grew up was destroyed and his family fled. He stayed in the area, helping survivors and then working as a translator.

“Mudbound” by Hillary Jor-dan is a novel set in rural Missis-sippi after World War II. It’s the story of a young mother strug-gling to make ends meet for her family, of sharecroppers and of war veterans who had seen too much brutality.

“Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature” by Marcus du Sautoy is an exami-nation of symmetry found in na-ture, which is much more preva-lent than we may first think. The book is also about the relationship between chemistry and physics, and of how mathematicians have grappled with the most difficult concepts over time.

“Blood Matters” by Masha Gessen is the author’s foray into the world of genetics after she found she was genetically pre-disposed to ovarian and breast cancer. The author, a Russian journalist, is part of a growing group of people who look at their genetics in thinking about their future health.

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J oel Davidson beamed when showing visitors through his Palo Alto home, but Kay

Wright, after discussing her condo, also a “below market rate” (BMR) property, couldn’t hold back the tears.

Both are longtime Palo Altans, now in their 60s, who worked pro-fessionally with children — David-son as a recreation therapist at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Wright as a social worker.

The similarities end there.Davidson is a recent BMR owner;

he purchased his one-bedroom Bar-ron Square condominium in south Palo Alto for $97,000 in 2005. He

is confident and lively, his voice retaining a trace of an Eastern ac-cent.

Wright, a gentle woman with soft features, purchased her Abitare condo in downtown Palo Alto for $100,000 about 20 years ago.

Davidson waited 18 years for his condo, and he’s thrilled.

“I’m just so appreciative to have a place,” said Davidson, who used to rent. “I think it’s a fabulous pro-gram.”

“I mean it’s just amazing to live in Palo Alto for that amount of money.”

For Wright, the joy of having her own place in Palo Alto has worn

off. “I deeply regret my decision,”

Wright said recently. While her neighbors sell their

market-rate condos for $700,000 to $965,000, Wright would only get $120,000. Due to deed restrictions, she would have to sell to another BMR program participant. That, she said, doesn’t give her enough money to move.

Wright said she has already bro-ken several bones, and she is con-cerned about having several flights of stairs in her unit.

“I think the intent of the BMR is a good one, but somehow the way this turned out has become extremely unfair,” she said.

When Palo Alto began its afford-able-housing program in 1974, it was perhaps the first community in California to adopt an “inclusionary zoning” approach to address the rap-idly rising price of real estate. The concept is straight-forward: All new housing developments should in-clude some homes available for peo-ple with lower incomes. In theory, the city would then include residents of all incomes living together, their diversity fueling a vibrant social and economic mix.

Actually crafting a program, of course, was much more complex. How many residences should devel-opers provide? Who should live in them? How much should they cost? And, perhaps most critically, what happens next?

Those questions have risen to the forefront again as the city grapples

with the future of its program, which now has 179 ownership and 155 rental units, with about 145 more coming soon. Nearly all are in condominium developments.

The debate has stirred passions of current homeowners, who want fair treatment, financial freedom and respect. It has also raised a critical question: Is homeownership — with limited appreciation, restricted in-heritance and refinancing rules, oc-cupancy restrictions and potentially even discrimination — a good deal for the residents or the city?

P alo Alto’s program began al-most informally, with the city crafting deals with each de-

veloper, according to Cathy Siegel, the city’s advanced-planning man-ager. Siegel, something of a BMR guru, has been tapped to share her knowledge with other communities as inclusionary-zoning provisions have become widespread, particu-larly in high-priced areas such as California.

Initially, the residences were in-tended for school district and City of Palo Alto employees, she said.

“They used words like ‘low and moderate income’ in some of the early documents. I think they were looking at people that were kind of the edge of being priced out of the market,” Siegel said.

But in the late 1970s, the pref-erences for teachers and city em-ployees were dropped, Siegel said. It added unnecessary complexity, and delays, to an already Byzantine

process. By 1976, the city standardized the

regulations — each development now had to set aside 10 percent of its residences for the BMR units. The Greenhouse on San Antonio Road, with 24 BMR units, was one of the first major projects under the program.

The program is managed by the nonprofit Palo Alto Housing Corpo-ration, which maintains the waiting list, checks eligibility, coordinates with developers and manages re-sales.

Program founders showed fore-sight, Siegel said. They included deed restrictions, in effect for 59 years, to limit the selling price of the residence.

“The idea that Palo Alto held strongly when the program was es-tablished, one of the goals, was to make the units affordable over time ... so the next buyer can still buy an affordable unit,” Siegel said.

Other cities, which established 20- or 30-year deed restrictions, have lost residences from the pro-gram, while the need for affordable housing hasn’t abated, Siegel said.

The first buyers’ residences ap-preciated in line with the Consum-er Price Index (CPI), a measure of price variations developed for geo-graphic areas by the U.S. Depart-ment of Labor. But in 1983, with inflation and interest rates soaring, pushing the CPI up to double-digit levels, housing managers watched as prices for BMR units approached

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those of market-rate properties.So the city slashed the appreciation

rates of any future BMR units. Any deeds signed after 1983 would only allow residences to appreciate by one-third of CPI per year, equal to about 1 percent per year.

A two-bedroom condo at Abitare, on Alma Street north of University Av-enue, climbed from $87,000 in 1985 to $108,000 in 2007, for example. Simi-lar units now sell for about $750,000 to more than $800,000.

In the mid-1980s, the city launched its affordable-rental program, Siegel said. Developers are required to pro-vide BMR rentals when they build apartment complexes. The rental units are intended for lower-income resi-dents than the ownership BMR resi-dences, she said.

I n 2003, the city planners began revising the program’s policies but soon realized they faced an enor-

mous task. Problems related to restricted appre-

ciation needed to be addressed. With limited appreciation and low incomes, many owners didn’t have enough money to keep their residences in good condi-tion. And although the program’s man-agers realized early the program would not serve as a “stepping stone” for own-ers to purchase market-rate houses, the low appreciation had slashed the choic-es for residents, leading many to stay in their home even when it no longer met their needs — containing stairs or too many bedrooms, for example.

And BMR owners are required to pay all homeowners’ association dues, although they aren’t reimbursed by selling at a profit as market-rate own-

ers are.“When we pay homeowners’ fees,

it’s just money out the window,” an-other BMR owner, who didn’t want to provide her name, said.

But the program's problems didn't end there.

Over the years, the program had ac-cumulated about 20 types of deeds, complicating administration and po-tentially creating inequity.

Some of the older residences also haven’t been kept up, planners say.

“Essentially our impression is that there is a lot of deferred maintenance,” Steve Emslie, the city’s planning direc-tor, said recently.

Marlene Prendergast, the Hous-ing Corporation’s executive direc-tor, agreed. “This isn’t to say they are trashed. ... (Residents) stay a long time.”

And with the low-appreciation for-mula, each time a BMR residence is sold, it gets more affordable in relation to the housing market. Buyers of new BMR units must earn between 80 and 120 percent of the Santa Clara County median income, which is now between $84,400 and $126,600 for a family of four.

But as the residence is sold and re-sold, its value slips, making it afford-able even to relatively low-income fam-ilies, who sometimes lack the money to keep up with maintenance.

These families, as well as other BMR owners, are also vulnerable to increases in homeowners’ dues. The city had to step in to provide loans for BMR own-ers at the Palo Alto Redwoods complex on El Camino Real and at Abitare in 2002, when both developments faced major assessments related to unit-wide projects.

In addition, sometimes BMR units

were built with lower quality materials than other units, increasing the demand for maintenance, Siegel said. Develop-ers have always been allowed to sub-stitute “luxury” furnishings, such as marble countertops, for more standard fixtures, Siegel said.

“But sometimes they went too far, and it was really, really basic,” she said.

Wright said she has plywood-grade kitchen cabinets, and although she has no fireplace, her unit is topped by a chimney, to keep the complex’s exte-rior appearance uniform.

“Now, we don’t let them do that,” Siegel said.

Yet when the Weekly recently vis-ited the Vantage development on East Meadow Drive, which is under con-struction, contractors knew immedi-ately where the BMR units were.

In the past, developers also created BMR units that were smaller than the others or were clumped together in a less desirable location of the develop-ment, Siegel said.

Davidson’s condo, in the Barron Square complex off Maybell Avenue, is bunched with six other BMR units closest to El Camino Real. His build-ing didn’t have air conditioning and units were smaller than in other neigh-borhood condos, Davidson said.

Even more troublingly for the city, some owners have refinanced their res-idences, sometimes for even more than they were worth, according to Emslie and Siegel. Deeds written before 1993 didn’t even require owners to check with the city before taking out a loan, and a survey recently revealed that 50 percent of owners have refinanced at least once.

“We’ve even had a situation where the homeowner told the lender what it

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A single mother’s experience

J ean Nolan and her two sons moved into their three-bedroom condo in The Greenhouse off San Antonio Road in 1993. A legal secre-tary at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Nolan had been on the

waitlist for six years and paid $114,300. Other Greenhouse properties were selling for about $250,000 at the time, she says.

It has been a good home, and she’s taken care of it, installing floors, painting it in pastel colors and adding other upgrades.

“I have had a good experience,” Nolan said.But as she nears retirement, and now rooms only with Baxter, the cat,

Nolan said she’d like to move to Ohio to retire.She was extremely disappointed to learn her home is worth only

$132,000, despite an appraisal that valued it at $610,000 last year. “Let’s be fair about this. I didn’t sign on to be broke. I didn’t sign

on to come out with nothing. Nobody in their right mind would buy something with that low (of appreciation),” Nolan said.

Although Nolan signed a deed that limited her equity appreciation, she said she hadn’t realized its implications.

“I can only say whatever I knew at the time was overshadowed by my excitement at being able to buy a home for my children,” Nolan said.

Since the City Council is now reviewing the affordable-housing pro-gram guidelines, she believes the contract is irrelevant, she said.

“I didn’t raise (the appreciation issue), the city did,” Nolan said. Nolan considers the fact that her home will go to a family with a

lower income “totally unfair.” The city shouldn’t make current owners pay to provide the units to those of lower incomes.

Nolan said she plans to “stick it out” until she can sell for $200,000. Even with the city’s recently approved maintenance bonus, however, her condo is only worth about $160,000. ■

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Shame: the cost of ownership

K ay Wright, 61, doesn’t usually tell people she lives in a below-market-rate (BMR) home.

She’s overheard other Palo Alto residents talking about “those BMR owners.”

Few BMR owners interviewed by the Weekly, even those who are extremely happy with the affordable-housing program, were willing to give their names. Even owners who addressed the City Council and submitted letters, which are public records, called the Weekly and asked not to be mentioned by name.

“I’m ashamed to be part of the BMR program. I’m embarrassed I even got involved in it,” said one owner, “Kathy.”

When she purchased in 1985, she was a “busy, single mom working full-time.”

“I didn’t know what one-third CPI meant,” she said, referring to the appreciation formula that has brought owners about a 1 percent increase per year.

“We just thought we were lucky to get it,” she said.Joel Davidson isn’t an ashamed BMR owner. He serves on the board

of his homeowners’ association, as do other affordable-housing pro-gram participants, said Marlene Prendergast, executive director of the Palo Alto Housing Corporation.

And although some recent owners may be happy now, they will real-ize later the costs of the program, Kathy said.

“Twenty-two years down the road they will be unhappy,” she fore-cast.

One family who bought a BMR in the recently constructed Arbor Real, which replaced Rickey’s Hyatt along El Camino Real, said they only wanted to get their children into Palo Alto schools, not earn mon-ey.

Wright said she decided to speak about the issue because she wanted to warn future participants.

“I want people in the future to know not only the disrespect you get, but also, is this where you want to invest your money?” Wright said. ■

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was worth, and they loaned her quite a lot more,” Siegel said.

The city and the Housing Corpo-ration have had to step in about four times to save BMR homes from fore-closure, Prendergast said.

“We haven’t lost (residences), but we have had to go into litigation to be tough on the lenders and title compa-nies who may have screwed up,” Pren-dergast said. “It’s six horrible months, a lot of expense, and then the person’s probably out, which is sad. It’s really terrible when that happens.”

A nother unforseen consequence of the program’s complexity is its own participants’ lack of

knowledge. Several owners contacted by the Weekly said they still didn’t un-derstand what full CPI or partial CPI was.

“There was so little information given when I bought my unit. I was just so home-buying naïve,” said a longtime BMR owner who asked not to have her name used. “There was no training, not like they do now. All they did was give me my deed and contract and say, ‘This is how it is.’”

She said she was satisfied until she learned that some BMR owners, those who bought before 1983, were earning three times the appreciation.

“There was no education at all,” said another BMR owner, who also asked to remain anonymous.

The city hired a consultant, Keyser Marston Associates, in 2004 to review the program. It published a 352-page report — available at www.PaloAl-toOnline.com/pivot/?BMR — and conducted a survey of residents, which was completed by 124 residents, a 73 percent participation rate.

The survey found a majority of resi-

dents are satisfied with their experi-ence, more than half are older than 60 years and more than 70 percent have incomes below $50,000, with 22 per-cent earning less than $22,000.

Only 18 percent said they “know for sure” how their resale value was calculated, with more than half who said they “know somewhat” or “don’t know at all.”

Thirty percent of residents said they “don’t know at all” the requirements of refinancing their unit. Nearly one-third of respondents said they weren’t completely sure of the rights and re-sponsibilities as owners when they purchased their home.

Prendergast said she finds it hard to believe that owners really didn’t understand what they were agreeing to, although the Housing Corporation has bulked up its education efforts in recent years.

“What we did was go carefully over the deed restrictions and explain them in as plain language as we could,” Prendergast said. “We assumed that they would remember those things.”

“Granted, when you are buying a house it’s a scary thing. There’s all kinds of big words and it’s a lot of money, but the CPI was the lynchpin of the whole program. ... They should have known,” Prendergast said.

A fter years of finessing, policy changes finally bubbled up to the City Council in late March.

The council approved some procedur-al revisions, but additional debates, cutting to the core mission of the pro-gram, were deferred until later this year. That’s when the city will begin working on the housing component of the Comprehensive Plan, its governing document.

The coucil already extended the term of deed restrictions from 59 to 89 years, a change the program man-agers hope will ensure the residences remain affordable indefinitely. It also plans to require increased education, having future owners sign a “plain lan-guage” deed.

And, the city plans to create a low-interest loan program to finance BMR-maintenance projects so owners can keep their units in tip-top shape.

The council also approved a $2,000 per year maintenance bonus, which will boost the home values of current owners earning only about 1 percent a year. When an owner decides to sell, if the residence is in good condition, he or she will receive $2,000 for each year since his or her purchase, Emslie explained.

But if a unit isn’t well-maintained, the owner doesn’t get the bonus. Sev-eral BMR owners said they are still not satisfied. One woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said the bonus did not account for the homeowners’ fees and amount of money she had put into her unit. Another owner said it would take more than the bonus’ value to refurbish her unit, which had shoddy materials to begin with.

But the BMR program may be in for an even larger shake-up.

Councilman Jack Morton said he doesn’t want to keep calling it an “ownership” program.

“I think because we use the term ownership there’s a real misunder-standing,” Morton has said. “BMR is in a way a contract that has restricted home ownership. You get assistance from a housing fund to go into a unit you couldn’t afford.”

“(The residents) thought a housing contract was an investment contract,”

he said. And Councilman Greg Schmid has

said the city might be able to house more people if it moved away from the ownership model. Owners have the advantages of a usually fixed mortgage, rather than paying increas-ing rents indefinitely and they receive a significant tax credit for ownership, he said.

“I think it is worth looking at the question whether this economic ben-efit would be greater for a larger num-ber of people if the city monetized the value of that ownership and turned it into a rental program,” Schmid said.

Councilwoman Yoriko Kishimoto said she had also considered the merits of an all-rental program.

“If you do go to the rental model, it’s much clearer who has the respon-sibility for maintaining and upgrading, which seems like a huge issue,” she said.

Yet that would require the city to purchase and manage the units, Mor-ton said. Although all the residences are technically in the city’s program, ideally the city shouldn’t have to pay anything for them.

To address the inadequate apprecia-tion, the council voted recently to ask staff to consider an entirely different formula. Rather than basing sale price on CPI, the prices could be pegged to Area Median Income, or AMI, which is currently used to establish eligibility for the program.

“CPI is only tangentially related to affordability,” Schmid said.

Emslie has said he favors CPI be-cause it is less variable than AMI. The council will probably discuss that is-sue before June, he said.

Changing the home-price calcula-tion formula wouldn’t affect current

owners, who must stick with the lan-guage in their deed, according to the city’s attorneys.

Even without a comprehensive change, city planners are recom-mending the program shift toward encouraging rental residences, rather than ownership, perhaps even grouped together on land acquired from devel-opers.

Developers don’t usually build many rental units because they can earn more by selling condos or houses, Siegel said.

Despite efforts to remedy the pro-gram, inequities remain. The few remaining owners who purchased between 1974 and 1983 continue to earn about 3 percent per year, com-pared to the 1 percent for post-1983 owners. One Greenhouse BMR owner paid $38,000 in 1975 for a condo now worth $146,800. But Jean Nolan’s comparable condo, which she bought in 1993 for $114,300, is now only val-ued at $132,300.

And future owners, some of the 500 families currently on the Housing Cor-poration’s wait list, could have their home values pegged to the AMI.

Talk of switching to a rental pro-gram even scares Wright, who fears the city might try to take her home.

And Morton’s assertion that “owner-ship” is the wrong word for the BMR residents’ situation infuriates them.

“We were told when we bought our home it was ours,” Wright said.

Prendergast understands the attrac-tion of ownership. “In this country, there’s this little thing called the dream of owning your own home. It’s a very strong feeling that’s kind of amazing.

“You have your own castle.” ■Staff Writer Becky Trout can be e-

mailed at [email protected].

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ABCs of affordable housing• AMI — Area median income. For Santa Clara County in 2008 it is

$105,500 for a family of four

• BMR — Below market rate

• CPI — Consumer Price Index, developed by the U.S. Department of Labor. It has been 2.8 percent for the last 12 months. ■

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Some units in the Vantage development in south Palo Alto, now under construction, are reserved for Palo Alto’s affordable-housing program.

Jean Nolan shows a visitor her three-bedroom, below-market-rate home in south Palo Alto. She believes the limited appreciation rate on her unit is unfair.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Stanford freshman Hilary Barte leads the Cardinal at No. 1 singles.

Chancefor finaldance

Wiggins leads Stanford to first Final Four

after 11-year absenceby Rick Eymer

T here were so many frustrating moments along the way, so many last-second losses that

it was a wonder Stanford women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer was able to hold it together so well.

Candice Wiggins was getting ready to shed tears of joy on na-tional television; Roz Gold-Onwude had to bury her face in her newly-acquired ‘Final Four’ T-shirt to hide her tears.

Wiggins wouldn’t let herself be-lieve it until the final seconds were ticking off the clock. Following her emotional outburst, Wiggins leaped into VanDerveer’s arms like a kid to her mom.

The scoreboard inside the Spo-kane Arena illuminated the curse-busting score: Stanford 98, Mary-land 87. The fourth-ranked and second-seeded Cardinal (34-3) earned an all-expense paid trip to Tampa, Fla., for a gathering of the four teams still standing in the NCAA tournament.

It’s been 11 years since Stanford celebrated such a trip. Over those years the Cardinal has endured the good, bad and ugly. There were the consecutive first-round losses, the four losses in the second round and the frustration of losing three con-secutive regional finals.

Even while attending the first day of classes on Tuesday, Stanford players remained engulfed on cloud nine.

Players and coaches gathered to-gether on Tuesday night to watch their next opponent — Rutgers or Connecticut — qualify for the Final Four. The game will be held on Sun-day, April 6 at the St. Pete Times Stanford women’s coach Tara VanDerveer (left) applauds as Candice Wiggins and Jayne Appel hold aloft the

regional championship trophy after the Cardinal toppled No. 1 seed Maryland, 98-87, on Monday night.

Stanford women put historic winning streak on the line against USC and UCLA this weekend

by Rick Eymer

U nthinkable for the past nine years, the Stan-ford women’s tennis team appears vulner-able to seeing its longest winning streak ever

come to an end this weekend.The fifth-ranked Cardinal (3-1, 13-4) hosts No.

10 USC on Friday at 1:30 p.m. and No. 8 UCLA on Saturday at noon in Pac-10 contests that put Stan-ford’s 127-match home winning streak on the line.

Stanford’s program has been so good for so long that winning has been taken for granted. The Cardinal has never suffered a losing season since women’s tennis became a collegiate sport in 1975, and has gone undefeated in 10 seasons. Those 16 national team titles are unmatched, as is the current .918 winning percentage that reflects Stanford win-ning 774 of the 843 dual matches in its history.

Stanford remains a leading contender for the na-tional title even as the season continues to unfold.

The season has been mildly crazy. Northwestern and Baylor, the top two teams in the current ITA rankings, never have appeared in a national cham-

pionship match.Stanford has not lost more than four matches

in a season since 1983, and dropped five in Lele Forood’s first seven seasons as coach combined.

To even entertain the thought that the home win-ning streak could end, as soon as Friday, seems blasphemous at best.

Stanford’s four losses have been to (at the time) fourth-ranked Georgia Tech, No. 11 UCLA, No. 11 California and No. 13 Arizona State. The Sun Devils beat Stanford, 4-3, for the first time in 24 years on Friday. The Cardinal came back to beat Arizona, 6-1, on Saturday.

The last time Stanford lost at home was on Feb. 27, 1999 when fourth-ranked Cal knocked off the fifth-ranked Cardinal, 5-4. Stanford went on to win the national title.

Four of the six singles players that day were fresh-men, including at No. 1 singles, and Stanford had lost its top three players from the previous season.

There’s a good chance the Cardinal could have



ON THE RUN . . . Stanford fresh-man Alexandra Gits likely won’t be in the field this weekend for the annual Stanford Invitational track and field meet. It’s not that Gits isn’t ready to run; she just needs a rest. Gits flew back from Edenburgh, Scotland, early this week after competing in the 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Gits competed in the Junior Women’s 6K race, finished 13th while leading the USA team to a sixth-place finish. Gits ran 20:41 and was the top American finisher, despite falling midway through the race. She took a tumble after colliding with Kenya’s Jackline Chebii. Both bounced up quickly. “After I fell, I just wanted to get back up,” Gits said. “I did not want that front pack to get too much distance on me.” Chebii recoved to finish sixth with Gits only seven spots behind. The U.S. team put all of its run-ners among the top 50 for its solid finish. Gits came to Stanford after becoming the 2006 Minnesota state champ in cross country and 2007 track and field state champ in the 3,200. She finished second in the Junior Women’s division at this year’s USATF Cross Country Championships.

COACHING CORNER . . . Wood-side Priory is looking for a new boys’ head basketball coach for the 2008-09 season following the resignation of veteran coach Al Klein, who took the Panthers to the semifinals of the NorCal Divi-sion V playoffs the past two sea-sons and finished 25-6 in 2008. Those interested in applying should contact Priory athletic di-rector Mark Stogner at 851-6107 . . . Menlo School is looking for a girls’ varsity basketball coach for the 2008-09 season. Please send a resume and cover letter to athletic director Craig Schoof at [email protected]. Dead-line for submitting an application is April 25 . . . Sacred Heart Prep is seeking a girls’ varsity volleyball coach for the 2008 fall season. Interested applicants should con-tact athletic director Frank Rodri-guez at 473-4031 or [email protected] . . . Palo Alto High is looking for a varsity assistant and JV assistant volleyball coach for the fall season. Those inter-ested should contact Paly AD Earl Hansen at [email protected].

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WHAT: 2008 Stanford University Grand Prix long course swim meet, part of the Toyota Grand Prix Series that serves as an opportunity for ath-letes to race against top-flight com-petition while preparing for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

WHEN: Friday through Sunday, April 4-6. Preliminaries begin each day at 9 a.m. Finals are 5 p.m.

WHERE: Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center.

WHO: The field includes Olympi-ans like Natalie Coughlin, Tara Kirk, Dana Kirk, Jason Lezak, Klete Keller and Amanda Beard, plus Stanford

All-Americans like Julia Smit, Elaine Breeden, Brooke Bishop, Nate Cass, Jon Criste, Eugene Godsoe plus Car-dinal graduates Shaun Phillips, Hong-zhe Sun, Andy Grant and local high school standouts like Liv Jensen of Palo Alto and Alex Navarro of Sacred Heart Prep.

TICKETS: All-session passes are $25. Prelims are $5 and finals are $8.

SCHEDULE: Friday — 800 free, 1500 free, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly, 400 medley relay. Saturday — 200 IM, 400 free, 100 breast, 200 back, 50 free, 800 free relay. Sunday — 100 back, 200 free, 100 fly, 400 IM, 400 free relay.■


MEN’S BASKETBALL

Stanford’s 2008-09 lineup will look decidedly different than this one, with senior Fred Washington (left) grad-uating and sophomore twins Robin (42) and Brook Lopez (right) leaving school for the NBA draft.

Stanford suddenlyappears shorthanded

With Lopez twins headed for the NBA, Cardinal’s style of play and roster is decidedly different heading into 2008-09 season

by Rick Eymer

I t was only moments after the Stanford men’s basketball team had been eliminated from the

NCAA Tournament following an 82-62 loss to Texas in the Houston Regional on Friday. Cardinal senior Fred Washington was asked what he thought about the team’s future.

Said Washington succinctly: “Short.”

Washington never spoke more prophetic words. The truth in that statement was unveiled Monday by the announcement that Stanford’s 7-foot sophomore twins Brook and Robin Lopez would be leaving school for the NBA.

It was a foregone conclusion that Brook Lopez would be leaving Stanford after his sophomore sea-son to turn pro. The only question was whether his 7-foot twin, Robin, would join him.

It became a multiple choice an-swer on Monday night.

The two had talked about tak-ing time to make their decision but, only three days after Stanford’s loss to Texas in the NCAA Tournament, the two announced they would give up their final two years of college eligibility.

Brook has been touted as a top-five pick in the upcoming NBA draft. His 26-point performance against Texas cemented that conclusion. He was named to the third team of the Associated Press All-America squad announced Monday.

And while Robin didn’t perform up to his expectations in the sea-son-ending loss to the Longhorns last Friday in Houston, his offen-sive improvement over the past six weeks apparently elevated him to first-round status.

“This has been a very difficult decision for me because I really enjoyed my two years at Stanford,” Robin Lopez said in a statement. “I have always hoped I would have an opportunity to play in the NBA, and I feel that now is the right time to make that dream a reality.”

The twins, who turn 20 on Tues-day, said last year they wanted to turn pro at the same time. They made good on that plan after be-ing the foundation of the Cardinal’s 28-8 season that included Stanford’s first two NCAA Tournament wins in four years.

While a player who declares for the draft before his college eligibil-ity is gone has the option of with-drawing from the draft if he does not hire an agent, there is no hint the Lopez’s would consider returning to Stanford.

Their mother, Deborah Ledford, told AP that both brothers will hire agents.

“That’s something we’re still working on and finalizing,” she said. “It’s a definite decision.

We’ll be hiring agents.”Thus, Stanford coach Trent John-

son can start making plans of life next season minus his 14-feet of Lo-

pez brothers.The Cardinal won’t be pounding

the ball inside next season as much as guard play assumes a more prom-inent role.

Brook Lopez left Stanford fans with a good impression in his final game, scoring 26 points on 10-of-22 shooting and snaring 10 rebounds, his 12th career double-double. He averaged 19.3 points, 8.2 rebounds and 2.1 blocks this season after missing the first nine games because he was academically ineligible. He scored 30 and 26 points in the Car-dinal’s final two NCAA Tourna-ment games.

“The sky is the limit for Brook,” Johnson said after the loss. “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out this is probably his last

game. He knows his work habits and those things are the only thing that’s going to stop him from being spe-cial regardless of where he plays. In my mind he’s one of the better post players we’ve had.”

It seemed there was some incen-tive for Robin to return. With 83 blocked shots, he just missed the single-season record of 85 set by Curtis Borchardt in 2001-02. Lopez is also 12 blocked shots away from passing Tim Young’s 167 career blocks.

Robin would have been the cen-terpiece of a starting lineup that would also include two other start-ers in guards Anthony Goods (6-3) and Mitch Johnson (6-1).

Instead, Stanford will not have a true center. Six-foot-eight Lawrence

Hill and 6-7 Landry Fields will like-ly join the starting lineup. Josh Ow-ens (6-8), who played sparingly as a freshman, could fill the post spot.

Fields reached double figures against the Longhorns, scoring 11 points including a key 3-pointer with 12:52 remaining to play.

“He was aggressive, relaxed and he had fun,” Johnson said. “I’m ex-cited for Landry because he’s a guy going into next year that’s going to have a huge role on this basketball team.”

Drew Shiller (6-0) will see his role expand next year, along with redshirt sophomores Da’Veed Dildy (6-5) and 6-9 Will Paul. They figure to be in the rotation, providing depth off the bench.

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three freshmen play singles this weekend, including at No. 1, after losing its top two players from last year.

Hilary Barte is 11-0 since moving into the top spot on Feb. 22, Caro-lyn McVeigh has won her last seven matches and 10 of 11 overall. Jenni-fer Yen owns a 13-7 overall mark.

Stanford, USC and UCLA each have at least four players ranked among the top 25, which makes this weekend even more interesting.

The Stanford men’s team, mean-while, had a big weekend. The Car-dinal stunned previously undefeated Arizona State, 7-0, in the Pac-10 opener for both teams on Friday at Taube Tennis Center.

Not even rain, and a 90-minute delay, dampened things for the Cardinal (2-0, 8-6), which got four straight-set singles victories.

Matt Bruch clinched the victory at No. 2 singles. The Sun Devils won an earlier match, 4-3, between the teams.

Bruch, named the Pac-10 Player of the Week on Monday, was involved in six victories last week, three in singles and three in doubles.

Paul Clayton, Richard Wire and Greg Hirshman also won in straight sets.

Wire’s win at No. 4 singles clinched the Cardinal’s 5-2 win over visiting Arizona on Saturday.

Phil Kao also won a key match for Stanford, which travels to USC on Friday.

Baseball The Cardinal (2-1, 13-7) beat

visiting Long Beach State, 9-3, on Monday in a nonconference game and hosted Hawaii on Tuesday.

Sean Ratliff hit a three-run homer against the 49ers, while five Cardi-nal pitchers held down Long Beach State. Ratliff, Cord Phelps, Jason Castro and Randy Molina each had two hits.

The Cardinal finds itself in a four-way tie for second place in the Pac-10 after two weekends of competi-tion. Stanford will host top-ranked Arizona State (3-0, 25-1) for a three-game series beginning Friday at 6 p.m.

For Stanford, a good showing against the Sun Devils would go a long way to help the Cardinal in its quest for a postseason appear-ance.

“Every game is a battle and every team is good,” said Erik Davis, who pitched Stanford past Washington State on Saturday. “We could have nine playoff teams, except for poli-tics, that’s how good this league is this year. We need to keep produc-ing team wins.”

“Obviously (Arizona State) is a great team but we’re not going to be intimidated,” Phelps added. “Hope-fully we’ll give them our best game and see what happens.”

On Sunday, Jeffrey Inman picked up right where Davis left off and that meant another victory for the Stanford. Inman (3-0) threw 7 1/3 innings of shutout ball while allow-ing eight hits and striking out five before giving way to Drew Storen, who finished a 4-1 victory over Washington State in the final game of a three-game Pac-10 series.

Phelps recorded three hits, includ-ing a two-run single that sparked a four-run rally in the fourth in Sun-day’s game.

Davis (3-1) threw his first career complete game in a 7-3 win over the Cougars on Saturday.

Women’s gymnastics Stanford made up for falling short

in last year’s Pac-10 meet by claim-ing the conference title on Satur-day in Seattle. The nationally No. 7-ranked Cardinal recorded a score of 197.000 points to edge Oregon State.

Stanford earned the No. 1 seed in the Central Region, which will be held in Baton Rouge on Saturday, April 12.

The top two teams from each of the six regional meets advance to the NCAA championships in Ath-ens, Ga., on April 24.

Stanford senior Tabitha Yim scored a 39.550 in the all-around, senior Liz Tricase scored 9.950 to win the bars competition and sopho-more Carly Janiga’s 9.950 on beam was good for first.■

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Forum.“We stayed tough and did the

things that got us here and we’re go-ing to keep it going,” Wiggins said. “It’s amazing. It’s the most incred-ible feeling.”

Wiggins scored 41 points to make sure Stanford would get to the Final Four. In her first two appearances in the Elite Eight, Wiggins scored a combined 42 points.

“We did have that mission,” Wig-gins said. “I knew this was the team that could do it.”

Wiggins became the first woman to record two 40-plus point games during one NCAA Tournament. Her 44 points against Texas-El Paso in the second round was the third- high-est total in tournament history. She just added the fifth-highest total with her effort against the Terrapins.

It was a beautiful game with both teams shooting over 60 percent from the field in the first half and over 50 percent for the game. Wiggins led the Stanford charge, while Kristi Toliver, the daughter of an NBA referee, led Maryland. She tried putting the Terrapins on her back, scoring 35 points, all but 11 in the second half.

There were five lead changes in the first 13 minutes of the contest, but none after Wiggins put Stanford ahead to stay at 32-31. With 6:39 re-maining in the first half, the Cardi-nal held a 34-33 edge. By halftime, Stanford was up 51-41.

“I’m so proud of our team,” said VanDerveer, who has coached 46 of the 50 Stanford wins in NCAA competition. “It’s a little surreal. It’s been a while. I don’t know that there’s been anyone that does more for their team than Candice does.”

JJ Hones, who made three 3-point-ers in the first 20 minutes, stepped up to score 17 first-half points, matching Wiggins output.

Kayla Pedersen stepped back and did her best Hones/Wiggins

impersonation by making a trio of 3-pointers in the first half.

Maryland never got closer than five points during the second half.

Hones ended with a career-high 23 points. Pedersen added 15 points, six rebounds and a career-high sev-en assists.

Stanford won its 22nd straight — longest current streak in the country — and will be the first Final Four team from west of the Rockies since the Cardinal’s appearance in 1997. It will be Stanford’s seventh Final Four trip. The Cardinal matched a school record with its 34th win of the season.

Stanford accumulated a 32-8 record in the NCAA tournament through its last Final Four appear-ance in 1997. Since then the Cardi-nal is 18-10 in the postseason, with three of those losses of the most agonizing kind.

In the Elite Eight in 2004, Nicole Powell hit a basket in the final 30 seconds to tie the Tennessee game at 60. Moments later the Lady Vols

snatched the victory and Powell’s desperation 3-point attempt bounced off the front of the rim. She scored 31 points.

In the 2005 Elite Eight contest, Stanford rallied from a 13-point deficit to close within 70-69 on a Wiggins’ basket. Kelley Suminski’s 3-point shot that would have meant a Stanford win, also bounced off the front of the rim.

In 2006, and yet another Elite Eight appearance, Wiggins cut the lead to 60-59 and then grabbed a de-fensive rebound in the final 15 sec-onds. She was driving to the basket, and with 4.8 seconds left, passed it off to Krista Rappahahn, who sank a 3-pointer from the right corner. Wiggins was called for a charge, the basket waved off and Stanford lost again.

“They were celebrating and danc-ing and I said ‘I just want to dance like that, be in the Final Four,”’ Wiggins said. “I had that image in my head, and sure enough we are going dancing.”■

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The Stanford women’s basketball team celebrates its 98-87 victory over Maryland in the NCAA Spokane Regional final Monday.

MEN’S SWIMMING

Stanfordmakes big

splashCardinal men win two individual titles, finish

third at NCAA meetby Keith Peters

T he Stanford men’s swimming and diving team left for the 2008 NCAA Championships

with a young squad, without a na-tional individual champ since 2005 and with little hope of winning its first national title since 1998.

While the Cardinal returned home without that elusive crown, it did so with its first two-time champion since 2002, with valuable experi-ence, and plenty of momentum for the future.

“We haven’t actually had a win in a while,” said Stanford junior Paul Kornfeld, who won the 100- and 200-yard breaststrokes. “We had nine second places last year. Hope-fully, this is a big morale booster for our team and we can springboard and keep building off it.”

With Kornfeld clocking a school record of 52.03 in the 100 breast and becoming the second-fastest in school history with a 1:53.11 to win the 200, Stanford finished third in the team race with 244 points Sat-urday night in Federal Way, Wash. Arizona won the team title with 500.5 points with Texas taking sec-ond with 406.

Kornfeld became Stanford’s first individual champ since 2005, the first to win two events since 2002 and the first to sweep the breast-stroke events since Olympian Kurt Grote in 1995.

Kornfeld also swam a leg on Stan-

ford’s 400 medley relay team that finished third on Friday night in a school-record 3:05.43.

While Kornfeld’s performances weren’t all that surprising — he was the No. 1 seed in the 100 breast and No. 2 in the 200 — Stanford senior Danny Beal had the meet of his life.

As a junior, Beal finished 14th in the 200 free (1:35.97), 12th in the 500 free (4:19.83) and 29th in the 200 fly (1:49.91 in prelims). All Beal did this past weekend was blow those marks and finishes away.

He started out Friday with an eighth-place finish in the 500 free (4:16.43) after becoming the No. 3 performer in school history with a 4:15.11 prelim time. On Saturday, he broke the school record in the 200 free with a 1:33.26 time in the pre-lims, finishing sixth in the finals in 1:33.65. Later than night he swam leadoff on Stanford’s fifth-place 800 free relay squad.

On Saturday, he swam a personal best of 1:43.05 in the prelims of the 200 fly, then topped that with a 1:42.79 to finish third. That time made him No. 2 in school history, trailing only the legendary Pablo Morales, who clocked 1:42.60 in 1987.

With Beal the only Stanford se-nior who scored, the future is blind-ingly bright for the Cardinal.

The team’s 400 free relay that finished fourth in 2:51.46, the third-fastest time in school history, fea-tured junior Jason Dunford, fresh-man Austin Staab, sophomore David Dunford and junior Dan Priestly.

Staab later finished third in the 100 fly in 45.61 with Jason Dun-ford seventh in 46.28 (after a PR of 46.07 in the prelims).

Nate Cass, who finished seventh in the 200 IM in 1:45.69 (with a PR of 1:44.84 in the prelims), is a ju-nior.

Then there is sophomore Eugene Godsoe, who led off the 400 medley relay with a PR of 46.75 in the 100 back, led off the 200 medley relay that finished fourth in 1:24.95, took sixth in the open 100 back in 46.80 and finished seventh in the 200 back in 1:42.67 (after another PR of 1:42.38 in the prelims).

Along with Kornfeld in the breast-strokes was freshman John Criste (fifth in the 200 in 1:55.77 after a PR of 1:55.46 in the prelims) and ju-nior Chris Ash (eighth in the 200).

Freshman David Mosko also contributed points in the distance events.■

Stanford junior Paul Kornfeld swept the NCAA breaststroke titles.

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HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARDBASEBALL

SCVAL De Anza DivisionPalo Alto 000 020 0 — 2 8 2Los Altos 010 000 0 — 1 4 0

Burk and Abrams; E. Johnson and Young. WP — Burk (4-1). LP — Johnson.

2B — Goodspeed 2, T. Pederson (PA); E. Johnson (LA). 2 hits — Goodspeed, Burk (PA).

Records: Palo Alto 5-3 (7-6-1), Los Altos 2-7Homestead 000 020 3 — 5 9 1Gunn 000 120 0 — 3 5 2

WP — Flores (2-1). LP — Einfalt.HR — Batinich (H); Einfalt (G). 3 hits —

Harris (H).Records: Homestead, 5-1, Gunn 0-6

(0-10)Bishop Gorman Tournament

Third roundMenlo 000 310 0 — 4 10 2Bishop Gorman 102 022 x — 7 8 2

Corley and Mudd; Malm, Bowers (5) and Rickard. WP — Bowers. LP — Corley (0-1).

2B — Garcia 2 (BG). 2 hits — Mosbacher, K. Diekroeger, Morris (M); Rickard, Garcia, Lafler (BG).

Records: Menlo 10-4Blue Division

Third place gameMenlo 104 000 2 — 7 11 1Campbell Hall 001 010 0 — 2 8 2

K. Diekroeger and Umphreys; Schwartz, Markley (7) and Ehrlich, Domabedian (5). WP — K. Diekroeger (3-1). LP — Schwartz.

2B — Umphreys (M); Zebrack, Kaplan, Ehrlich, Winther (CH). 3 hits — Mosbacher, T. Williams (M). 2 hits — D. Diekroeger (M); Kaplan (CH). 2 RBI — Ryan, K. Diekroeger (M).

Records: Menlo 11-4Nonleague

FridaySH Prep 000 000 0 — 0 1 1Menlo-Atherton 100 100 x — 2 4 1

Olmstead, Wilkins (6) and Buono; Mosher and Masket. WP — Mosher (3-2, 10 strike-outs). LP — Olmstead (2-4).

HR — Bader (MA). 2 hits — Viegas (MA).Records: Sacred Heart Prep 3-7, Menlo-

Atherton 13-5Saturday

SH Cathedral 210 060 2 — 11 9 0SH Prep 353 000 1 — 12 13 1

Branch, Geno (3), Masoud (4), Ruckere (5), Baca (7) and Swenson; Davila, Brezinski (5), Lussier (5) and Buono. WP — Lussier (1-0). LP — Baca.

HR — Dea 2 (SHC); Davila 2, Suttle (SHP). 2B — Gartrell, O’Connor, Cardin (SHC); Da-vila, Brezinski (SHP). 4 hits — Davila (SHP). 3 hits — Dea (SHC); Olmstead (SHP). 2 hits — Gartrell (SHC); Deggelman, Brezinski (SHP). 5 RBI — Davila (SHP). 3 RBI — Dea (SHC); Olmstead (SHP). 2 RBI — DiLuzio (SHC); Suttle (SHP).

Records: Sacred Heart Prep 4-7

BOYS SWIMMINGPAL Bay Division

At Menlo-Atherton 125, Carlmont 39200 medley relay — Menlo-Atherton

(Swartz, Hong, Kwok, Wright) 1:48.87; 200 free — Kelvie (MA) 1:52.40; 200 IM — Masuda (MA) 2:08.46; 50 free — Hong (MA) 24.12; 100 fly — Kwok (MA) 57.90; 100 free — Kelvie (MA) 49.22; 500 free — Hong (MA) 4:59.33; 200 free relay — Menlo-Atherton (Wright, Kelvie, Masuda, Bogott) 1:36.42; 100 back — Masuda (MA) 59.64; 100 breast — Kwok (MA) 1:11.48; 400 free relay — Menlo-Atherton (Masuda, Kelvie, Kwok, Hong) 3:42.07.

Records: Menlo-Atherton 3-0

GIRLS SWIMMINGAt Menlo-Atherton 108, Carlmont 61200 medley relay — Carlmont 2:01.53;

200 free — Winters (MA) 2:01.17; 200 IM — Tang (Carl) 2:24.63; 50 free — Leech (MA) 26.42; 100 fly — Tuhtan (Carl) 1:05.77; 100 free — Leech (MA) 57.67; 500 free — Win-ters (MA) 5:31.43; 200 free relay — Menlo-Atherton (Leech, Breen, B. Dorst, Winters) 1:48.21; 100 back — Jung (Carl)1:07.22; 100 breast — E. Dorst (MA) 1:19.26; 400 free relay — Menlo-Atherton (Leech, Breen, B. Dorst, Winters) 3:59.45.

Records: Menlo-Atherton 2-1 Nonleague

At SH Prep 123, Castilleja 47200 medley relay — Sacred Heart Prep

(Mordell, Liang, Menon, Kr. Howard) 1:59.33; 200 free — Clark (SHP) 2:02.16; 200 IM — Liang (SHP) 2:15.33; 50 free — Kr. Howard (SHP) 26.05; 100 fly — Ka. Howard (SHP) 1:00.19; 100 free — Kr. Howard (SHP) 57.81;

500 free — Ka. Howard (SHP) 5:33.76; 200 free relay — Sacred Heart Prep (Child, Kr. Howard, Mordell, Ka. Howard) 1:45.74; 100 back — Liang (SHP) 1:06.68; 100 breast — E. Henderson (SHP) 1:15.11; 400 free relay — Sacred Heart Prep (Child, Ka. Howard, Clark, Liang) 3:48.09.

Records: Castilleja 0-2, Sacred Heart Prep 5-0

BOYS TENNISPrivate Schools Athletic League

Pinewood 7, at Woodside Priory 0Singles — Jayakar (P) d. Ross, 6-1, 6-1;

Jindal (P) d. Khanon, 6-4, 6-3; Field (P) d. Mcintosh, 7-6, 6-0; Pinewood wins by de-fault.

Doubles — Alter-Tuan (P) d. Montalvo-Hickson, 6-2, 6-1; Lee-Baze (P) d. Kovachy-Farino, 6-4, 7-6; Elson-van Reis (P) d. John-son-Haley, 2-6, 6-3, 10-8.

Records: Pinewood 5-3 (5-11)National InvitationalAt Newport Beach

First roundWaccamaw High (South Carolina) 6, Sa-

cred Heart Prep 2Second round

Sacred Heart Prep 6, Seattle Prep School 2

Consolation semifinalsSH Prep 8, Jesuit 0

Singles — Blumenkranz (SHP) d. Daw-son, 6-2; Hutter (SHP) d. Kim, 6-1; McCall (SHP) d. Nagle, 6-0; Malozak (SHP) d. Elo-nets, 6-2; Hansen (SHP) d. Oler, 6-0.

Doubles — McCall-Westerfield (SHP) d. Elores-Oler, 6-0; Parsons-Malozak (SHP) d. Ravuri-Thomas, 6-1; Robinson-Hansen (SHP) d. Celli-Skylar, 6-1.

Consolation championshipSH Prep 6, Menlo 2

Singles — Blumenkranz (SHP) d. Hoff-man, 8-5; Ball (M) d. Hutter, 8-2; McCall (SHP) d. Glenn, 8-5; Malozak (SHP) d. Chase, 8-4; Parsons (SHP) d. Duggal, 8-3.

Doubles — Blumenkranz-Parsons (SHP) d. Hoffman-Ball, 8-7; Hutter-McCall (SHP) d. Chase-Glenn, 8-2; Carlisle-Duggal (M) d. Malozak-Hansen, 8-4.

Records: Sacred Heart Prep 10-2, Menlo 10-5

BOYS TRACK & FIELDSt. Francis Invitational(Top local scorers only)

3,000 — 4, Avis (Paly) 9:03.08; 6, Cum-mins (Paly) 9:18.39; 7, Hsueh (Paly) 9:18.72; Mile — 5, Summers (Gunn) 4:32.63; 100 — 5, Light (Gunn) 11.41; 800 — 4, Berezin (Paly) 1:58.76; 7, Hunter (Gunn) 2:01.67; Discus — 8, Muaka (Paly) 137-4.

GIRLS TRACK & FIELDSt. Francis Invitational(Top local scorers only)

3,000 — 5, Fawcett (Gunn) 11:15.78; 100 hurdles — 5, Margerum (Gunn) 16.18; Mile — 2, Mayer (Gunn) 5:13.65; 3, Jac. Evans (Gunn) 5:16.61; 6, Gaeta (Paly) 5:23.32; 400 — 3, Feeley (Gunn) 1:01.42; 100 — 7, Powell (MA) 12.94; 8, Greene (MA) 12.96; 800 — 1, Lattanzi (Paly) 2:15.77; 800 sprint medley — 3, Menlo-Atherton 1:52.78; 300 hurdles — 4, O’Donnell (MA) 47.89; 8, Margerum (Gunn) 49.09; Long jump — 1, Margerum (Gunn) 16-8 1/4; Triple jump — Lee (MA) 34-7 1/2; 6, Cain (MA) 32-5.

ScheduleWEDNESDAY

BaseballDe Anza Division — Palo Alto at Gunn,

3:30 p.m.PAL Bay Division — Capuchino at Menlo-

Atherton, 3:15 p.m.; Burlingame at Menlo, 3:15 p.m.

Boys golfDe Anza Division — Palo Alto and Gunn

vs. Los Altos and Mountain View at Shoreline GL, 2:45 p.m.

Girls lacrosseNonleague — University (SF) at Gunn, 4

p.m.Boys lacrosse

PAL — Serra at Menlo, 4 p.m.; Leland at Sacred Heart Prep, 4 p.m.; Bellarmine at Menlo-Atherton, 4 p.m.

SoftballPAL Ocean Division — Sequoia at Menlo,

3:15 p.m.; Menlo-Atherton at Jefferson, 3:30 p.m.

Paly’s Mia Lattanzi ran 2:15.77 in the 800 on Saturday.

Keith Peters

Goods returns as the team’s top scoring threat, while Mitch John-son has to become more of a scor-ing threat.

Incoming players include two highly regarded shooting guards and a power forward.

Guards Jeremy Green from Bow-ie High in Texas, and Jarrett Mann from Blair Academy in Delaware are both listed among the top 100 prospects. Miles Plumlee (6-9, 215) is rated the 17th best power forward,

with room for improvement.Stanford will rely on all three

freshmen, with the guards figuring to make an immediate impact.

Last week was more about the se-niors who played their final game together. Fields said the locker room was full of talk about Taj Finger, Pe-ter Prowitt, Kenny Brown and Fred Washington. They spent a few mo-ments together in the game after the outcome was long since decided.

The 28 victories match the fourth highest in program history, and the most in four years.

“We just wanted to thank our se-

niors for giving us such a great sea-son,” Fields said.

Finger was active defensively and grabbed seven rebounds. Washing-ton also had seven boards. Brown (who grew up in Texas) hit a 3-point-er and Prowitt grabbed a rebound.

Fields also knows there are areas in which Stanford will need to im-prove for another successful season.

“Defensively we should get better and rebounding is a must,” he said. “We’re very proud of what we ac-complished. We fell short of some of our goals but overall this is one of the better teams in Stanford history.”■

Palo Alto’s Lattanziis back on track

She runs No. 9 time in the state in 800 to win at St. Francis by Keith Peters

P alo Alto senior Mia Lattanzi has a lot to look forward to on Saturday, even though she’ll

be on her feet much of the day and night.

In the morning, Lattanzi will compete against a top field in the girls’ 1,600 at the annual Stanford Invitational track and field meet. In the evening, she’ll attend Paly’s prom.

Being on her feet is a lot more enjoyable and pain-free for Lat-tanzi these days. She suffered a foot stress fracture her sophomore season at the CIF State Meet, where she finished second in 2:10.87 after clocking a state-leading 2:09.61 in the prelims.

That stress fracture ended her 2006 season and carried over into 2007, where she failed to reach even the Central Coast Section finals.

Lattanzi, however, is healthy and showed her fitness by winning the girls’ 800 at the St. Francis Invi-tational on Saturday. Her time of 2:15.77 is the ninth-fastest in the state this season.

“She’s running very well,” said Paly girls’ track coach Paul Jones. “She had competition until the last 200, then just blew past it.”

Jones confirmed that Lattanzi’s slow healing last season made it impossible to do the kind of train-ing that got her to the state meet as a sophomore.

“The foot never could take the kind of training it could it needed t get good,” Jones said. “She was never 100 percent (healthy) last season.”

Lattanzi, however, is probably in better shape than she was two years ago at this time. Then, she concen-trated on the 400 meters and didn’t run an 800 until the league meet. Thus, said Jones: “We’re definitely ahead of where we were two years ago.”

Jones has added the 1,600 to Lat-tanzi’s workload this season and the longer distance has given her added strength, in addition another event she could qualify for at the state meet. The longer race is still in the testing stage, thus Saturday’s appearance at the Stanford Invita-tional. The 1,600, set for 11:53 a.m., will include Gunn freshman Jackie Evans and Laurynee Chetelat of Da-vis, who finished 29th in the Junior

Women’s division at the 36th IAAF World Cross Country Champion-ships in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Sunday.

Evans finished third in the girls’ mile (5:16.61) and teammate Al-legra Mayer took second in 5:13.65 at the St. Francis meet.

Other highlights from the invita-tional included a winning mark of 16-8 1/4 in the girls’ long jump by Gunn sophomore Sunny Margerum (she was also fourth in the 300 hur-dles and fifth in the 100 hurdles); a 34-7 1/2 winning mark by Menlo-Atherton’s Stephanie Lee in the tri-ple jump; a third in the girls’ 400 by Gunn senior Kelsey Feeley; a fourth in the girls’ 300 hurdles (47.89) by M-A’s Kim O’Donnell; a fourth in the boys’ 3,000 by Paly’s Charlie Avis (9:03.08), and a season-best 1:58.76 by Paly’s Julius Berezin (fourth place) in the boys’ 800.

The high school portion of the Stanford Invitational begins Friday at 11:50 a.m. with the girls’ 3,000. Field events start at 3:45 p.m. On Saturday, the girls’ 400 hurdles will start things at 9 a.m.

BaseballPalo Alto kept its recent streak

of success alive with a 6-2 non-league victory over visiting Aragon on Monday. The Vikings (8-6-1) haven’t lost in six games, suffer-ing only a 15-15 tie with Prospect a week ago.

Senior Kevin Johnson had three hits and scored three runs while ju-nior Steven Burk had three hits and three RBI for Palo Alto, which puts its 5-3 mark in SCVAL De Anza Di-vision action on the line Wednesday at Gunn (0-6, 0-10) at 3:30 p.m.

Paly won its third straight league game last Friday, a 2-1 squeaker over host Los Altos. Burk scattered four hits for a complete-game vic-tory and senior Tyger Pederson hit an opposite-field double to drive in Burk with the winning run in the fifth.

Speaking of streaks, Menlo-Atherton (13-5) won its sixth straight last Friday with a 2-0 nonleague triumph over visiting Sacred Heart Prep. Bears’ senior Matt Mosher tossed a complete-game one-hitter with 10 strikeouts and Lee Bader had a solo homer to cap the scoring. M-A returns to PAL Bay Division

action Wednesday by hosting Capu-chino at 3:15 p.m.

Menlo (11-4) also returns to league play after finishing third in the Blue Division of the Bishop Gorman Tournament last week in Las Vegas. The Knights went 2-2, which included a 7-4 loss in the third round to unbeaten Bishop Gor-man, the No. 2-ranked team in the nation.

Menlo wrapped up third with a 7-2 win over Campbell Hall (North Hol-lywood) as junir Kenny Diekroeger pitched a complete-game with no walks. Junior shortstop Chris Ryan had the key hit, a two-run single in the seventh. The Knights host Burl-ingame on Wednesday at 3:15 p.m.

Sacred Heart Prep (4-7) bounced back from its loss to Menlo-Atherton to hold off Sacred Heart Cathedral on Saturday, 12-11, in a nonleague game. Eric Davila hit two homers, including the game-winning solo shot in the bottom of the seventh, and drove in five runs to pace the Gators. Teammate JJ Suttle also homered while Mike Olmstead added three RBI.■

PREP ROUNDUP

Men’s basketball(continued from page 21)

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EPA rental woesEditor,

Last Wednesday’s Weekly (March 26) said that Page Mill Properties had no comment about whether its East Palo Alto tenants were being notified this week about impending rent increases.

As one of them, I can tell you that the answer is “yes.” I received my notice on Tuesday, which was appar-ently timed one week before April 1 rent payments are due.

David Taran has stated publicly, several times, that his company is spending large amounts of money to renovate the East Palo Alto apartment buildings that it recently bought. If so, I wish he’d spend a little more money on mine, which needs roof repair and seismic-safety upgrades (among other things).

There is a pattern of inactivity at my building.

Starting last summer, a work crew would arrive, do a day’s work then disappear while leaving the job un-finished. Two to four weeks later, a different crew would arrive, do an-other day’s work and advance the re-pairs a little further, but again disap-pear without finishing them. Two to four weeks after that, same story.

My building has been looking like a perennial construction zone for about nine months and neither the tenants nor our resident “manager” (so to speak) see much evidence that repairs are likely to be completed soon.

If the current rent increases, combined with such tardy mainte-nance, are any indication that Mr. Taran has financially overextended himself, that sounds like bad news for many of us in East Palo Alto. Perhaps he should consider selling some of the buildings that he so re-cently bought?

Scott MarovichE. O’Keefe Street

East Palo Alto

Robotic allianceEditor,

It was indeed a pleasure to see the customary rivalry between Gunn and Paly disappear in the finals at the FIRST robotics competition in San Jose a week ago.

Both the Gunn and Hawaiian teams fielded strong offensive ro-bots while the Paly team played ex-cellent defense, as it demonstrated in a match it played against Gunn.

Together the three teams formed a strong alliance. However, I want to set the record straight about miscon-ceptions the “Guest Opinion” writer (Weekly, March 26) may have left in readers’ minds about support the Gunn Robotics Team receives.

Gunn parents do not work on the robot itself — the Gunn robot is designed, built and fixed during competitions solely by students on the team.

While there are some adult men-

tors who provide advice and lend arms-length support to the students during the build period, it is a source of enormous pride among members of the Gunn team that, unlike some teams in the area, they design and build their robot from start to fin-ish.

Additionally, the Gunn team is supported primarily by money the school receives for Bill Dunbar’s en-gineering technology class (in which all team members must participate), generally modest donations from parents and some corporate support, although that support has not been very substantial with the exception of last year.

Many FIRST teams are primarily supported through corporate dona-tions but that is not the case with the Gunn team.

Last year’s Capitol Steps fundrais-er was an idea generated by a team member’s family as an alternate way of raising money for the team since the team has not received large con-tributions from corporations and the cost of competing in FIRST is approximately $4,000-$5,000 per competition. The team was fortu-nate that it was a successful fund-raiser and repeat performances are

scheduled this year on May 18.Finally, the Gunn team has had

its own struggles in the past, most notably four years ago when legal issues forced the team to disband mid-season.

I hope that this year’s experience will lead to more instances where the two teams can work together.

I know our students all appreci-ated the alliance with Paly.

Elizabeth GroverLa Donna Avenue

Palo Alto

Tree-killing crashEditor,

On March 23 a drunk driver drove her car over the side strip next to our house and took out three of our 50-year-old walnut trees, a big part of a rose bush and a part out of our fence, and was finally stopped by a tree we planted about 10 years ago.

The sound of the impact was that of an explosion and the destruction we witnessed when we ran out of our house was just that.

Tree trunks and tree branches were all over the place mixed with car parts and broken glass. Down against our fence was what was left of her car. We surely thought who-

SpectrumEditorials, letters and opinions

Two-month stretch for school bonds

Palo Alto schools face “decision of the decade” for $378 million bond issue, Measure A

T he debate over the proposed $378 million bond measure for Palo Alto schools — to go to voters June 3 — is already heating up.

At issue is whether the Palo Alto Unified School District will have the funds to accommodate growing enrollment, replace scores of “portables” and make overdue, energy-conscious upgrades to existing schools — including a new pool at Gunn High School and a new theater at Palo Alto High.

Pro-bond campaigners have been preparing for months. There naturally will be opponents. Some are already urging

people to vote against the bond measure “to send a message” to school officials — it’s not clear there is agreement on the message, though.

Some cite mismanagement of the last bond measure, the $143 million “Building for Excellence,” or B4E measure approved by voters in 1995. Few have been more critical of that management boondoggle than the Weekly, which exposed problems and prodded the district to correct its worst defects. But there is virtually no one left in the district who was involved in B4E, and bidding procedures and oversight provisions are vastly improved.

Other opponents cite language-immersion programs as reasons to oppose the new bonds. Some mention costs of the court-ordered Tinsley integration program, or other issues.

But to base a decision that will determine the district’s physical condition for decades to come on a single issue, whatever its merit, is shortsighted and destructive.

We face a long two months in Palo Alto. Meanwhile, pro-bond campaign leaders are making an all-out

effort to convince voters that Measure A is critically important to help maintain the high educational standards for which Palo Alto is known nationally. Yes, good education can be achieved in old, run-down schools, but the demoralizing influence of shabby facilities can’t help but erode the morale and ultimately the performance of both teachers and students.

And ask any Realtor in town whether there’s a link between “good schools” (physically and academically) and home values.

It is important for voters to pay close attention to proposed projects outlined as part of Measure A (listed in the ballot statement), as will the Weekly in the next two months and beyond. Yet from an overall, early assessment (as reported in the Weekly’s Feb. 20 cover story) it seems this bond issue is well-grounded, with oversight provisions in place that should prevent another B4E experience.

By supplanting the prior bond measure, this measure will retain the 1995 measure’s $44.50 per $100,000 of assessed value of a home or business. Thus there will be no increase in property taxes above what is already being paid by owners — just an extension of payments until approximately 2042.

This measure is indeed a decision of the decade for Palo Alto schools, and the early single-issue critics would do well to take a broad view of its importance, and perhaps find other venues for “sending a message” to district officials.

For the rest of us, it’s time to do our homework on this vitally important decision.

Lessons from phony plastic-bag letters

A flurry of form letters opposing a suggested ban on plastic bags circulated through Palo Alto businesses in March. The result was about 35 names of persons associated with local businesses,

from employees to managers or owners. But the letters, it turns out, were the result of a stealth effort

by Dart Container Corporation, a Michigan-based company that makes single-use plastic bags and polystyrene containers.

As reported in the Weekly last week, many signers did so for poor reasons. One signer said she signed the letter because she felt sorry for the circulator.

Beyond the ethical issues of stealth campaigns, there are some object lessons for those who signed — the most obvious being that a signature has value only to the extent it has credibility.

This bogus effort not only undermines the credibility of local businesses that joined in it but also sabotages legitimate arguments about use of single-use containers of all types.

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by Jeff Blum

I c a n n o t call them t r u e

scof f laws b e c a u s e their viola-tions may be uninten-tional. Nev-er theless , they are v i o l a t i n g the law.

I am not talking about speed-ers who drive down Embarcadero Road or Alma Street perhaps un-aware of their speed — or perhaps fully aware but seeking to shave a few seconds off of their commute times.

The people to whom I refer are some Palo Alto landlords who are not complying with the city’s rela-tively new Mandatory Response Ordinance.

The ordinance obligates land-lords to mention in leases the re-quirement of landlords and tenants to attempt to mediate certain types of disputes between them.

But Project Sentinel, which over-sees the mediation program for the city as well as for other local cit-ies, determined in a recent review of numerous rental agreements that every agreement failed to no-tify tenants about the mandatory-mediation program. In addition,

a city staff review of registrations filed with the city concluded that many hundreds of landlords — perhaps between 1,000 and 2,000 — have failed to register with the city, another requirement of the or-dinance.

Maybe it is small potatoes to some that numerous landlords in-tentionally or unintentionally are not complying with one of the city’s ordinances, but it concerns me a great deal. It took a substan-tial amount of time and effort by the city’s Human Relations Com-mission and others to develop this ordinance, which is designed to level the playing field somewhat between landlords and tenants — and help counter skyrocketing rents in Palo Alto. Noncompliance by landlords can lead to more litigation between landlords and tenants and possibly to a surge in already exces-sively high rents. Economic trends indicate that higher rents may be in store for Palo Alto, exacerbating the extreme hardship of renters who are just getting by now.

Should the city be vigorously pur-suing possible landlord scofflaws? Assuming for argument’s sake that they are intentionally disregarding the city’s ordinance, the model for this go-get-’em approach might be Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York. His philosophy has been to enforce even little laws to estab-lish a more law-abiding culture. He

wants to send a message to New Yorkers that they should embrace an attitude of less tolerance for im-proper conduct across the board. He claims success.

Concern that Palo Alto might de-scend into Dante’s Inferno if we do not pursue erring landlords might be overreacting a bit. Nor do I expect Palo Altans to develop a culture of criminality if we allow landlords to persist in their noncompliance with the ordinance.

Yet the noncompliance problem is serious enough for Palo Alto to con-sider a solution suggested by Proj-ect Sentinel. It has been successful in other cities, such as Campbell, Los Gatos and Fremont.

The Campbell ordinance provides that no rent increase will be valid unless the landlord’s lease with the tenant contains information about Campbell’s dispute-resolution pro-cess, which is similar to Palo Alto’s Mandatory Response Ordinance.

Palo Alto currently has a mech-anism for enforcement of its or-dinance that is quasi-criminal in nature. It provides that a noncom-plying landlord may be prosecuted through a citation proceeding ini-tiated by the city attorney. This approach is not practical, in part because the city attorney does not have the time or resources to pursue the many noncomplying landlords.

When it has been utilized by ten-ants and landlords, the ordinance has been successful in keeping them out of court through mediation and in creating some local rent stabil-ity. These goals remain important and it is within our ability to be even more successful in reaching them through this minor proposed change to the city’s Mandatory Re-sponse Ordinance.

Mindful that I am a member of the Human Relations Commission, which has a direct role in the or-dinance’s review process, I offer this change solely as an individual member.

Jeff Blum, a family law attor-ney practicing in Palo Alto, is a member of the Palo Alto Human Relations Commission and is on the Board of Directors of the Palo Alto YMCA. He can be e-mailed at [email protected].

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Maybe it is small potatoes to some that numerous landlords are not complying with one of the city’s ordinances, but it concerns me a great deal.

ever was in there was dead or close to it. But to everybody’s surprise she came out of her car seemingly unhurt. There were no brake tracks and we wondered how fast she was going to finally have been stopped by the trees.

Seeing no skid or brake marks we concluded that she must have hit the accelerator instead. After the police arrived it was clear that this lady was under the influence. She was handcuffed and taken to the police station.

Within a couple of hours the city workers had put the fallen trees in the grinder, towed her car and cleaned up most of the street and sidewalk and side strip.

The driver was saved by our old walnut trees and so were we. She would have run into our yard or house and could have hurt us. Even worse, she could easily have hit a pedestrian. Now we are open for any speeder or person who decides that he or she can drive while under the influence.

Our protection, our walnut trees, are gone forever. No more food for the squirrels, no more beautiful trees in the summertime, no more buffer from danger.

It is the city’s strip but they were our trees. Who is going to replace these trees? We want our adult trees back because we are afraid that young trees are going to leave us too vulnerable for years to come.

She took out our adult trees because she decided that she could drink and drive. What is now going to protect us against people just like that?

Ina JekelMelville Avenue

Palo Alto

Is Palo Alto harboring unintentional scofflaws?

Domo arigatoEditor,

Thank you so much for your won-derful article on Keiko Nakamura’s Japanese exchange program at Jor-dan Middle School (March 26).

It is a wonderful and very educa-tional program that has been set up largely, if not entirely, through the efforts of Nakajima sensei alone.

We participated in her program two years ago this month and our son Zan went to Japan that summer for two weeks.

Frankly, our son began the Japa-nese program reluctantly but it is now one of his favorite subjects and he’s fanatical about all things Japa-nese.

In fact, he continues to take Japa-nese language at Paly and hopes to return to Japan someday to spend more time and improve his lan-guage skills.

Japanese is not at all an easy lan-guage to learn. I can’t thank Naka-mura sensei enough for her patient method with our kids while teach-ing and while traveling with them

to a totally different culture.They all seemed to catch her en-

thusiasm. She also has a delightful sense of humor. She is one of the jewels in the crown of our school system.

John StuckyBryant Street

Palo Alto

Thinking aheadEditor,

The Weekly asks: “Is the local news media too negative?” The an-swer must be: “Not at all.”

The press would lose all cred-ibility if it routinely endorsed every City Hall proposal.

Our city manager tells us that we face an impending “leadership cri-sis and brain drain” as more than a third of upper-level managers will be retiring within three years and there are few talented prospective managers in their wake. Indeed, this is a serious concern as we look to the future.

However, it also reflects poorly on city management, which should have as an ongoing priority the de-

velopment of a competent manage-ment team.

A key measure of any manager’s performance is how successful that manager is in developing a strong line of succession.

Yes, a manager may claim that union restrictions preclude him from taking appropriate action. Is this simply an excuse for inaction, or alternatively, is the union running the city?

Developing managerial talent includes judicial hiring, personnel training and assignments of increas-ing challenge and responsibility. It’s a conscious development process that doesn’t “just happen.”

It’s a sad commentary on mana-gerial performance when we learn some three-and-a-half months be-fore he retires that we face a “lead-ership crisis and brain drain.”

Tom WymanWashington Avenue

Palo Alto

Seale for the dogsEditor,

A modest proposal: Officially

designate Seale Park a “Dog Run” in recognition of its long-standing usage.

Dog owners frequent Seale, so-cializing while their unleashed dogs have the run of the park. With a fenced-off play area for children, an alternate designation for this charming, suburban park is: “Dog Park with Child Run.”

At Seale, when an unleashed dog bounds up to pedestrians, owners often shout at their pets in a com-manding, sharp voice. Leashes are carried but not used. By example, leashing was not provided when I entered Seale several times last week in an ankle-to-hip post-sur-gery brace.

Newly renovated Hoover Park has an expanded official dog run. I appeal to fellow Midtowners to consider this new venue if they are disinclined to leash their dogs while socializing at Seale. Seale would then return to the common use for which it was intended.

Kathleen McCowinEllsworth Place

Palo Alto

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council is seeking applications for the Human Relations Commission from persons interested in a three-year term ending March 31, 2011.

Eligibility Requirements: Composed of seven members who are not Council Members, officers or employees of the City, who are residents of the City, and who shall be appointed by the Council. Regular meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month.

Duties: The Human Relations Commission has the discretion to act with respect to any human relations matter when the Commission finds that any person or group does not benefit fully from public or private opportunities or resources in the community, or is unfairly or differently treated due to factors of concern to the Commission: a) public or private opportunities or resources in the community include, but are not limited to, those associated with ownership and rental of housing, employment, education and governmental services and benefits; and b) factors of concern to the Commission include, but are not limited to, socioeconomic class or status, physical condition or handicap, married or unmarried state, emotional condition, intellectual ability, age, sex, sexual preference, race, cultural characteristics, ethnic background, ancestry, citizenship, and religious, conscientious or philosophical belief. The Commission shall conduct such studies and undertake such responsibilities as the Council may direct.

Appointment information and application forms are available in the City Clerk’s Office, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto (Phone: 329-2571) or may be obtained on the website at http://cityofpaloalto.org.html/

Deadline for receipt of applications in the City Clerk’s Office is 5:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17, 2008. If one of the incumbents does not reapply, the deadline will be extended to April 22, 2008.

DONNA J. GRIDERCity Clerk

PALO ALTO RESIDENCY IS A REQUIREMENT.

NOTICE OF VACANCIES ON THE HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION FOR TWO,

THREE-YEAR TERMS ENDING MARCH 31, 2011 (TERMS OF BLUM AND SAVAGE)

Spectrum

This week on Town Square ...Do not permit

Posted March 27 at 11:48 a.m. by reader:

“I would be furious if College Terrace had parking permits. I to-tally agree now ... with residents who blame Stanford and, above all, with the person who says that parking permits merely shift the problem without solving it.

Stanford has caused this to hap-pen, just as its shuttles have made it much easier for VTA to cut bus service (College Terrace resi-dents, you could have used the 88 to get around on Saturday. Now you have the 89 in one direction in the morning and the other in the afternoon). College Terrace residents — refuse these permits. Stanford — get tough with your staff and students and think about what your shuttles do.”

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120 AuctionsForeclosed Home Auction Northern California Area. 1000+ Homes Must Be Sold! Free Catalog 1-800-470-9403. www.USHomeAuction.com (Cal-SCAN)

130 Classes & InstructionGERMAN Language Class

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Weekend Expressive Art Workshop

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133 Music LessonsA Piano Teacher Children & AdultsEma Currier (650)493-4797

Barton-Holding Music Studio Instruction, All Levels. Roger Emanuels, cello and Laura Barton, vocals. 650/965-0139

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Hope Street Studios In Downtown Mountain ViewMost Instruments, VoiceAll Ages, All Levels(650) 961-2192

Jazz & Pop Piano Lessons Learn how to build chords & improvise. Bill Susman, M.A., Stanford. (650)906-7529McCool Piano Lessons 566-9391MP mccoolpiano.com 5 min walk fr. Burgess gymPiano Lessons Taught in your home. Member MTAC & NGPT. Specializing in beginners. Karen, (650)233-9689Piano Lessons in Palo Alto Call Alita (650)838-9772Violin-Classical, fiddle, jazz Kids & adults. MV & Cupertino. MM, Eastman; tchg credential; former SJ Symphony. 408/446-5744Voice Lessons Voice lessons in Emerald Hills. Experienced in performance and teach-ing, Ca tchng cred. Linda Draggett Tel. 650-368-7531 Piano lessons also available.

135 Group ActivitiesArt kids/EarthDay/Mothersday! - 6507990235BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP - $1Clay fun for Preschool kids!Free Reiki TreatmentsMoms, Get Fit!NATURE/OUTDOORS Events CalendarScrabble-Bstn Mkt-Mon Evg-FreeSpring Lectureship - Sara MilesStrollerGym classes at CubberleySummer camps for kids

140 Lost & FoundLost grey bird w/ red cheeksLost Mature Siamese Cat Has microchip. 650-964-0114Runaway Cat!

145 Non-Profits NeedsVolunteer Summer Internship

150 VolunteersSupport Tropical Reforestation!Be a Volunteer Mediator!!!Become a Mentor! Once a week!Challenge Yourself!Children’s Art DocentsDo You Have Bipolar Disorder?Errands for the Blind Neededfoster a shy tame cat in needFosterers for NASA cats neededGallery Shop VolunteerHave Fun! Be a Mentor!Malaria Vaccine StudyRead to ChildrenStanford University ResearchTreatment Study for AnorexiaTrio looking for moreVolunteer Summer Internshipvolunteers needed to visit

152 Research Study VolunteersAre you ready to quit smoking? Smokers interested in quitting are needed for a Clinical Trial contact Ella Laramee 650-585-5304 [email protected]

Bulimic women for 1 hr interview Share your experiences in developing your sense of self as a woman, role choices, and the struggles you encoun-tered along the way.Your story will be heard in a safe, respectful, and confidential environ-ment, in a convenient location of your choice

Chronic Pain Patients needed for a 12 visit research study. No Drugs. If interested, contact (650)585-5304 or [email protected]

Chronic Pain Research Study Paid. 11 visits over 2-3 months. Must have min. 6 months diagnosis. Contact for details!(650) 585-5304 [email protected]

Shamanic Journey Study Research participants are wanted for an 8-session study on how being initi-ated into a spiritual practice called the shamanic journey may foster change. The study will take place in Palo Alto.

155 Pets50 Plus German Shepherds Available - Adopt or FosterG.S. Rescue of No. CA invites you to its Redwood City Adoption Day fi rst Sat. of each month, 11am-2pm, Pet Food Express, 372 Woodside Plaza. www.savegsd.org or call 1-866-SAVEGSD

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210 Garage/Estate SalesATH: 98 San Benito, 4/4-5, 10-4 x-Middlefield. Moving Sale. China: Limoge and Haviland. Crystal, Queen Anne curio, Victorian screen, cherry dresser, grandfather clock, drop leaf tables. Books, assorted antiques. Orchids (30). Pix: www.ksa2000.comLA: 34 Del Monte Ave., 4/5, 9-4 Estate Sale. Vintage clothes and col-lectibles, furn., holiday, housewares, exercise equip. Palo Alto, 3453 Ashton Court, March 31-April 6 Must sell individual collection of design-er goods, including clothes, bags, scarves, boots. Hermes bags and scarves—some brand new—at excel-lent prices. Also Gucci, Prada, Burberry, YSL and many others. Serious buyers only! Please call for an appointment: 650.815.1239.

215 Collectibles & AntiquesBlack Antique Marble Clock Circ - $849.00French Wall clock circa 1925-19 - $749.99Armoire - French circa 1880 - $3,999.99Authentic French Antique chairs - $50.00Buffet - French, circa 1880, - $3,999.99Diecast Scale ModelsJOHN WAYNE PLATESLarge Porcelaine platter, French - $274.99Roseville Pottery - $300 oboRoyal Staffordshire Bowl - $15Stamp album - $60Sunset Magazine Covers Posters - $VariousThree section French Armoire- - $3,999.99

220 Computers/Electronics new HP 14 ink cartridge - $ 5.47” Tube Lights (ea.) — F40T10 - $2047-inch Spectralite Shop Lights - $20 ea.

230 FreebiesFree sofa bed - FREE

FREE Dog Walker - FREE

235 Wanted to BuyAntique dolls

240 Furnishings/Household items4-drawer Metal File Cabinet - $120Black Leather Sofa - Gone!!!Blue Chairs - $10Cherry Wave Arm Dbl Size Futon - $260Crate & Barrel Picnic Basket - $35Demolition Sale - $Best OfferDinning Table Black Chairs - $399HANDCROCHET BEDSPREAD - $125.00Leather & Wood Spartan Recliner - $60Leather sofa - $395.00Magnavox Television - $15Maytag Electric Dryer - $75maytag electric dryer - $100POTTERY BARN BED+ TRUNDLE - $399.00shark hand vac - $20.00Teak Dining Table Pedestal. 2 leaves, 5 chairs, $150/set. Cash. 650/813-1305

245 MiscellaneousSawmills From only $2,990 - Convert your Logs To Valuable Lumber with your own Norwood portable band sawmill. Log skidders also available. www.NorwoodSawMills.com/300N -FREE Information: 1-800-578-1363 - x300-N. (Cal-SCAN)“FAIRY TALE” wedding dress - $250 OBO2 Lizard Cages - $50 eachAuto creeper - $200.00Desk - $15Hanging file Rack - $10.00LADIES DOWN JACKET - $35.00MANICURIST CABINET - $35.00Pair of hanging lights - $15.PORTABLE HEATER - 25.00Shih Tzu Puppies Adorable! AKC registered. Born 02/07/08. 3 male ($700 each), 1 female ($750). (650) 851-5744.Virtual Online AssistantsWood Shop Tools and fishing gear. 650/325-6546

250 Musical InstrumentsYamaha Clavinova - $900.00

260 Sports & Exercise EquipmentAerobic HealthRider 2 Gd Meter - $80BOWLING BALL - $15.00Golf Clubs New & Used - CallNordicTrack Treadmill - $200ROLLER BLADES - 12.00Ski, Rossignol 9X Pro - $125skis, rossignol 7x - $100Wooden Canoe - $ 700

445 Music ClassesMusic lessons, voice, piano Performance. Confidence.Experienced. UniversityInstructor. 650-965-2288Piano Lessons in Palo Alto Call Alita (650)838-9772

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Jobs500 Help WantedAllrounder for Bakery/Cafe Sympathetic, friendly person wanted for German Bakery. Allrounder needed behind the counter.Please call: 650-941 4463Cafe Borrone is now hiring energetic, hardworking, friendly people. Full-time and part-time positions available. We will work with your school schedule! Apply in person: 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park.

Caregivers / CNAs / HHAs Visiting Angels (Sunnvyale) has imme-diate openings! Exp w/elderly requ-ried. Full-time, part-time, overnights & live-in. Flexible schedule, top pay, medical benefits & BONUSES! (408) 735-0983

Packages processing manager needed Are you employed? Or are you looking for the job? Anyway try us! Our com-pany looking for freelance workers. Easy! Process the correspondence from our clients and earn up to 3k/month. Info: http://www.cargogiant.biz/line/vacancies/Restaurant Empire Grill and Tap Room651 Emerson St., Palo Alto, 94301. 650/321-3030. Hiring host/ess, wait-staff, bartender.

525 Adult Care WantedElder Care Needed for 1 lady. Must speak English. Good driving record and refs reqd. 650/327-7896, 10am-6pm

540 Domestic Help WantedStudent P/T Help in exchange for room in Portola Valley. Cooking, housework Mon., Wed., Thurs., 3:30-5:30. Occasional housesit-ting. Start 4/28. Refs. Call 650-854-1503, Karen

550 Business Opportunities$700-$800K Free Cash Grants Programs - 2008!, Personal bills, School, Business/Housing. Approx. $49 billion unclaimed 2007! Almost Everyone Qualifies! Live Operators 1-800-592-0362 Ext. 235. (AAN CAN) All Cash Candy Route 30 Machines and Candy. All for $9,995. Be your own Boss. MultiVend LLC, 880 Grand Blvd., Deer Park, NY. 1-888-625-2405. (Cal-SCAN)America’s Favorite Coffee Dist. Guaranteed Accounts. Multi Billion $ Industry. Unlimited Profit Potential. Free Info. 24/7 1-800-729-4212. (Cal-SCAN)

Make Money Online Make Money Daily! PT/FT. No Experience Required. Work from Home. Need Computer. Free info. 1-800-610-1732 (AAN CAN) Mystery Shoppers Get paid to shop! Retail/Dining estab-lishments need undercover clients to judge quality/customer service. Earn up to $70 a day. Call 800-901-9370 (AAN CAN) Executive Director Part TimeFacilities and Move Coordinator

General/Security U.S. Security Associates, Inc.$300 Sign-On BonusHiring for all shifts $13.00/Hour**Guard Card Training Provided**(650) 212-7316

560 Employment InformationAwesome Travel Job First Job? Great For Beginner! Travel USA representing Major Hip-Hop, Rock & Roll, Fashion and Sport Publications! Transportation Furnished. Start Today. 1-888-477-1235. (AAN CAN)

330 Child Care Offered“SaturDAY Nanny Av. from 8am-3pmCamp reviews - Neighbor.comChild Babysitting and Elderly Care giving 15 years experienceExcellent Referencesask for Anna650-324-2927Daycare has OpeninigsExcellent n Efficient Nanny

Experienced Nanny Over 11 yrs exp. Very reliable, lov-ing, CPR, Trustline registered. Clean DMV. Avail. Mon., Wed., Fri. full days. 650/814-7497Fun, BABYSITTER - TrustlineGreat nanny looking for full timHow to fund childcare -DivorceLive Out Nanny/House Managernanny for evening or weekend

340 Child Care WantedAfternoon Child Care Needed

Are You our PT Sitter?Full Time Nanny Needed!live in or live out nanny neededNEEDED - nanny fulltimeSeeking Full Time Nanny!

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Help Palo Alto MomWith 3 kids, 10:00-6:00Car provided, $3,600/mo

Nanny & Family AssistantMenlo Park, 8 yr old girl1:00-7:00, up to $600/wk

650-462-4580

Weekend Nanny

345 Tutoring/LessonsArt:Classes,B-parties, Clay! - 6507990235French & Spanish for Adults

French Native Teacher All levels and ages. SAT, AP, conversa-tion for travelers and business profes-sionals.Hessen Camille Ghazal, Ph.D. 650/965-9696French, Spanish for HS studentsLanguage Experts Exp. European French-Spanish Teacher with degree. Kids, high schoolers, spe-cial programs for adults. 650/691-9863 650/804-5055www.languagesexpert.comMath & Spanish Specialists K-16 - $40 to $80 p/hmath tutoring Middle school and High school tutoring at all math levels by St. Francis High School student. $25/hr. Call (650)966-8990.One-to-One Tutoring ServicePhysics-Chemistry-Biology TutorsSAT Prep In Your Home! Personalized prep from an expert. Perfect scorer w/ years of experience. 925-998-9408 or [email protected].

350 Preschools/Schools/Camps

Montessori PreschoolAges 3-6. Environment designed for

learning and exploration. 650/857-0655.

www.growingtreepreschool.com

Openings in Young 5’s for Fall

355 Items for SaleBRIO TRAIN SETkids’ adidas soccer shoes, 4 1/2 - $12Playmobil Fire Engines

390 Kids for Summer Jobsfulltime sitter needed

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Inside Sales RepsWe are looking for dynamic, outgoing, professional inside sales representa-tives who will be based in our Palo Alto offi ce.

The successful candidate will have:• Excellent communication skills: in person, on the phone, and through the

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themselves to consumers• Serious work ethic - ready to go the extra mile to service your clients• Ability to generate ideas, concepts and have the vision to present this to

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If you feel you are a qualifi ed candidate for this position and want to grow your sales career with a dynamic media company, please send your resumé to

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Qualifi ed candidates will be contacted for a personal interview.

500 Help Wanted

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It’s All About The Kids

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Our 14th Year Serving the Bay Area

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Winter Camp: February 18-22

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1 Day Mini Camps: May 31 & June 7

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When: 6 Sessions June16 - August 15

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Drivers - CDL Training $0 down, financing by Central Refrigerated. Drive for Central, earn up to $40k+ 1st year! 1-800-587-0029 x4779. www.CentralDrivingJobs.net (Cal-SCAN)

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Drivers: ASAP! Sign-On Bonus. 35-42 cpm. Earn over $1000 weekly. Excellent Benefits. Need CDL-A and 3 months recent OTR required. 1-800-635-8669. (Cal-SCAN)

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Home Refund Jobs! Earn $3,500-$5000 Weekly Processing Company Refunds Online! Guaranteed Paychecks! No Experience Needed! Positions Available Today! Register Online Now! http://www.RebateWork.com (AAN CAN)

Outdoor Youth Counselor Do you love the outdoors and helping troubled teens? Immediate openings at Eckerd outdoor therapeutic programs in NC, TN, GA, FL, VT, NH and RI. Year-round residential position, free room & board, competitive salary, benefits. Info and apply online: www.eckerdyouth.org. Or fax resume to Career Advisor/AN, 727-442-5911. EOE/DFWP (AAN CAN)

Post Office Now Hiring! Average pay $20/hr or $57K/yr includes Federal Benefits and OT. Placed by adSource, not affiliated w/ USPS who hires. 1-866-616-7019. (AAN CAN)

BusinessServices

604 Adult Care OfferedElderly Care Offered Licensed. 25 years exp. Live in/out and hourly. Alzheimer’s care. Emma, 650/630-0174; 650/630-3345; 650/630-3819

Geriatric Care Management —- Clark Consulting 650-879-9030

624 FinancialCredit Repair Erase bad credit legally. Money back warranty, FREE - consultation and infor-mation: 1-866-410-7676 http://www.nationalcreditbuilders.com (AAN CAN)

628 Graphics/WebdesignPA Website Designer [email protected]

645 Office/Home Business ServicesAdvertise! Newspaper advertising works! Reach 6 million Californians! 240 newspapers statewide. $550 for a 25-word clas-sified ad. Call (916) 288-6019 [email protected] www.Cal-SCAN.com (Cal-SCAN)Display Advertising! Reach over 3 million Californians in 140 community newspapers. Cost $1,800 for a 3.75”x2” display ad (Super value that works out to about $12.86 per newspaper). Call (916) 288-6019 [email protected] www.Cal-SCAN.com (Cal-SCAN)News or Press Release Service? The California Press Release Service is the only service with 500 current daily, weekly and college newspaper contacts in California. Questions call (916) 288-6010. www.CaliforniaPressReleaseService.com (Cal-SCAN)

648 Horses-Boarding/TrainingBarn and Corral For 1 horse. Feed and clean incl. $420 mo. 650/851-7834

650 Pet Care/Grooming/TrainingAll Animals Happy House Pet Sitting Services by Susan Licensed, insured, refs. 650-323-4000

Dog Training Classes Saturday mornings at Woodland School, Portola Valley Starts Sat., April 26 *Puppy and Beginner *Private lessons available *Expd, qualified instructors Please call 650/851-5500 box 4 to register.

HomeServices

701 AC/HeatingAndre Ballowe Services

703 Architecture/DesignDesign/Permits One Stop Place for Your Remodeling Design needs. Complete Plans include Structural Engineering and Energy Compliance (T-24). ADW 650/969-4980

Envision Interiors Interior Design on any budget www.envisioninteriors.net

www.MadsonDesign.com Artful & budget-conscious residential design. (415) 334-2291

704 Audio/VisualAV Pros Custom Home Theater, DirecTV sales/instal. Speakers/voice/data. Flat screen HDTV. Install Antennas. Security Cameras, inwall wiring. Insured. (650)965-8498

710 CarpentryCabinetry-Individual Design Precise, 3-D Computer Modeling Mantels, Bookcases, WorkplacesWall Units, Window SeatsNed Hollis 650-856-9475

715 Cleaning Services2 person team. We do the same service as everyone else-but the difference is: "we love to do it!" Steam spot clng avail Lic.# 28276, Call (650)369-7570www.FlorLauHousecleaning.comAffordable Housecleaning Service in Your Neighborhood Refs avail. 20 yrs. exp. Reliable. 650-222-0058 Best Housecleaner 10 yrs. exp. *No job too small* Free estimates 650-679-2066Cici’s Housecleaning 20 yrs. exp. Excellent references. Service for your home or business. Legal res. Call (650)464-6715

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Francisca Deep Housecleaning Good refs and exp. 650-771-1414 or 650-298-8212

Housecleaning Available 18 years exp. Excellent refs. Good rates, own car. Maria, 650/323-2363 or 650/207-4609 (cell)

Irene’s Housekeeping Services Affordable, prof. and personal-ized. Special requests welcome. Compassionate to senior needs. Can work around kids. Great refs. 650/814-6297

Jose’s Janitorial ServiceProfessional House Cleaning, Offices

* Window Washing * Commercial Residential * Husband & Wife References (650)322-0294

Luz All in One Cleaning 10 years experience. Any time, any place. Excellent references. 650/322-1520; 650/815-8308

Marias Housecleaning Services Res/Comml. Personal service. Ironing. Mon-Sat. 10 yrs exp, refs, free est. Call Maria: 650/328-6952; cell, 650/465-5806

Mendez Cleaning Service 10 yrs. Res/comml. Daily, weekly, monthly. Help at parties. Construction clean up. Lic’d. Residential. Good refs, rates. Cell: 650-630-1566 or 650-364-3149

Navarro Housecleaning Home and Office. Weekly, bi-weekly. Floors, windows, carpets. Free est., good refs., 15 years exp. 650/853-3058; 650/796-0935


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Day Trippers: Daily Natural Science Field Trips

Energy & Natural resources

cience & Nature Adventures for Kid Explorers(for campers entering Grades 1-5)

9 am to 4 pm daily at Keys School in Palo Alto; Extended care available. June 23-27 & July 7-11 $330/week Extended Day: $40 per week ($310/week if registered before April 15)June 30-July 3: $110/day or $400/session Extended Day: $10 extra per day

For more information, or to register for S.N.A.K.E. Camp, go to www.evols.org/summer.htm

Free bus service from Palo Alto

Joy! Arts Camp 2008August 4 - 8, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Where kids K - 6th Grade Explore Joy! Through Visual, Musical, Movement & Culinary Art

Foothills Congregational Church461 Orange Ave, Los Altos 650.948.8430 www.foothills-church.org


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Ramos Cleaning Services Residential & commercial. Free esti-mates, reasonable prices, 10 yrs. exp. Weekly, bi-weekly, monthly. Please call Doris 650-678-4792 Lic: 10929Rosa’s House Cleaning 18 yrs exp. exc refs, friendly, reliable Rosa 650-743-3059Rosario’s Housecleaning Good rates. Experienced. Good refer-ences. Free est. 650/703-3026Sandra’s Housecleaning Good refs/qual. Clean house/ apts/win-dows. 650-759-2960

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Free Estimates

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719 Remodeling/AdditionsAndre Ballowe Services

NEW ConstructionROOM Additions

KITCHEN & BATH RemodelingCal. Lic. #627843 • Bonded • Insured

650-366-8335

DOMICILE CONSTRUCTIONGENERAL CONTRACTOR

726 Decor & DraperyDesign Impact Blinds, shades, shutters,drapery, cur-tains and valances.Contact: Asmita Deshpande Phone: 408-568-6947

730 ElectricalAlex Electric Lic #784136. Free Est. All electrical Alex, (650)366-6924

Stewart Electric Residential Electric & Lighting Services.Lic #745186(408)745-7115 or (408)368-6622

737 Fences & GatesFences - Decks - Retaining Walls Stairs. Reasonable prices. Lic. #786158. Al, 650/269-7113 or 650/853-0824

748 Gardening/Landscaping

Beckys LandscapeWeekly, Biweekly & Periodic Maint.

Annual Rose, Fruit Tree Pruning, Yard Clean-ups, Demolition, Excavation,

Irrigation, Sod, Planting, Raised Beds, Ponds, Fountains, Patios, Decks.

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Leo Garcia Landscape/Maintenance Lawn & Irrig. install, retain walls. Res & Co. maint., tree trim/removal. Clean-ups, grdn lighting, cust. arbors. Install: Fences, decks, flagstone, paver. Free Est. Lic’d. (650)369-1477

Luis Vargas Gardening Complete Garden/Landscape Maintenance * Sprinklers Repairs * Clean up * Replants Flagstone * Patios * Pavers Excellent Local Refs 650/796-1954

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Maintenance Clean up, trim, pruning, stump removal/tree service, rototilling, aeration, landscaping, drip and sprin-kler. Roger, 650/776-8666

Pats Landscape Service Rose Care SpecialistHorticulture Degree, 20 yrs.Full maint., free estimates.Patrick, 650/218-0592Shubha Landscape DesignShubha Landscape Design (650) 321-1600 LIC # 852075 www.shubhalandscapedesign.com

Total Landscape Irrigation, Lawn, Concrete, Driveways, Flagstone, Bricks, Pavers, Fences, Decks and Garden Maint. CA Lic #755857. 650/630-3949

751 General ContractingA European Contractor For all your construction needsCall Sheila: 650/861-2274

A B WESTCONSTRUCTION

• Remodels • Repairs• Tile • Carpentry • Decks• Elec/Plumbing • Painting

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(650) 347-8359 Lic.#623885Fax(650)344-6518

Home AdditionsKitchen and

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(650) 592-1232(650) 222-4010

CRCCUSTOM BUILDERS

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GENERAL CONTRACTORLicense #907806

NOTICE TO READERS California law requires that contrac-tors taking jobs that total $500 or more (labor and/or materials) be licensed by the Contractors State License Board. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertis-ing. Check your contractor’s status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

757 Handyman/Repairs Tiling & Stone Solutions Tub, Shower, Kitchen, Fireplace.Repairs & new installations. Reasonable. Since 1985. Free esti-mates. Raymond (650)815-6114

A European Craftsmanship Kitchen and Bath Remodeling.For All Your Repair Needs. Plumbing, Finish Carpentry and More. Licensed. 650/270-7726

Able Handyman FredComplete home repairs, maintenance, remod., prof. painting, carpentry, plumbing, elect. & custom design cabinets. 7 days. 650.529.1662 • 483.4227

Al Trujillo Handyman Service Int./Ext. painting* Kit./BA Improv., Dry Rot, Flooring Install, Homes/Apt. Repairs, Auto Sprinkler, Landscapes, Fences. 20yrs. 650-207-1306Dennis Harris, Handyman Services

Larry’s Handyman Service Various Repairs/Installations Plumbing, electrical, locks, screens, blinds, gut-ters, chalking, odd jobs, etc. 12 yrs. exp. Quality work. 650-856-0831 Palo Alto

759 Hauling

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JunkGeneral/Eco-Dumpster

767 Movers

768 Moving AssistanceArmandos Moving Labor Service Home, Apts, Storage. House cleaning services avail. Sm/lrg moves. Serving the Bay Area for 20 yrs. Armando, 650/630-0424. Lic #22167

771 Painting/WallpaperChristine’s Wallpapering Interior PaintingRemoval/Prep * Since 1982Lic. #757074 * 650-593-1703

Lic. 52643Great Refs & Low Rates (650) 575-2022

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Don Pohlman’s Painting * Detailed Craftsmanship * Excel. Restorative Prep * Great Local References 650/799-7403 * Lic. 635027

Farias Painting Interior/Exterior. Drywall, crown moulding, baseboards. Avail. 24/7. 25 yrs exp. 650/814-1910; 650/248-6911 (c)

Gary Rossi PAINTING Residential/Commercial. Wall paper removal. Lic. (#559953) and Bonded. Free est. 650/345-4245

HDA Painting & DrywallExterior & Interior PaintingComplete Drywall Service13 Yrs Exp. • Licensed •

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STYLE PAINTING Interior/exterior. Quality prep to finish. Owner operated. Reasonable prices. Lic 903303. 650/388-8577

Wallpapering by Trish 24 years of experienceFree Estimates949-1820

775 Asphalt/ConcreteRoe General Engineering Asphalt * Paving * SealingNew Construction and Repairs30 years exp. No job too smallLic #663703 * 650/814-5572

779 Organizing ServicesEnd the Clutter & Get Organized Residential organizing by Debra Robinson (650)941-5073Put order back in your life! Get Organized Today RedToteOrganizers.com Cristina at 650-302-5294

783 PlumbingBayshore Plumbers Lic. #905661. Service, drains and repairs. 21 years exp., comml./residential. Insured. 650-323-6464 or 408/250-0568He-Man Plumbing Serving Menlo Park and Palo Alto650/222-7953Very Reasonable Plumbing Drains, Repairs and Installation. 20 yrs exp. Very fast and efficient service. Jimmy, 968-7187

787 Pressure Washing

789 Plaster/StuccoExterior Stucco Patching Windows & Doors. Crack Repair. 30 yrs. exp. (650)248-4205

790 Roofing

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795 Tree CarePALO ALTO TREE SERVICE Business/Res. Tree Removal and stump grinding. Certified/Ins. 18 yrs exp. Free estimate. Lic. #819244. 650/380-2297

OZZIES TREE SERVICE: Certified arborist, 22 yrs exp. Tree trimming, removals and stump grind-ing. Free chips and wood. Free est. Lic. and insured. 650/ 368-8065; cell 650/704-5588

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801 Apartments/Condos/StudiosMenlo Park, 2 BR/1 BA - $1,850/moMountain View, Studio BR/1 BA - $1175Mountain View, Studio BR/1 BA - $1125MP: Studio Large studio. Like new, premier build-ing, A/C, phone entry, gated gar., pool, free cable. N/P. $1050 mo. and up. 650/325-7863Mv 650 465-3846, 2 BR/2 BA - $1845MV: 1BR Senior Apts Waiting list open. Central Park Apartments, 90 Sierra Vista Ave. Application dates: Tues. 9-12 only or Thur. 1-4pm only. 650/964-5600 Section 8 and vouchers OKPA: 1BR/1BA Patio, pool, laundry, covered prkng. $1200 mo. Info, 650/796-7096

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Palo Alto, 1 BR/1 BA Downtown PA with deck. 4 blocks from Stanford. $1400-$1600. 510 847-7157Palo Alto, 2 BR/1.5 BA - $2900/montPalo Alto, 3 BR/2 BA - $5500/mo.Palo Alto, 3 BR/3 BA - $4500/mont

803 DuplexPalo Alto, 3 BR/2.5 BA - $2800/mont

805 Homes for RentLA: 2BR/1BA Plus office. Hardwood flrs., oak kit., frplc, dbl. gar. Lg yard w/gardener. N/S. $2795 mo. Open Sat.-Sun., 2-4pm. 2037 Farndon Ave. 650/493-4386Los Altos, 2 BR/1 BA - $2795. Mon

Menlo Park, 4 BR/2.5 BA 4 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath home Sharon Heights, 2 fireplaces, dining room, family room, living room, master bedroom with patio doors to yard/pool. Great Las Lomitas schools no smoking, pets negotiable $6,500 a month includes the gar-dener and pool service Dan or Janet 650 854-7276 or 415 730-5757

MV: 4BR/2BA Refrig., pets negot. Close to downtown area. Avail. 5/1. $3195 mo. 650/968-2647

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809 Shared Housing/RoomsLos Altos, 1 BR/1 BA - work/excha

Mv Near Pa, 2 BR/1 BA - $850/month

Palo Alto, 1 BR/4+ BA - $680/month

Redwood City, 2BR/1BA Share sunny 3BR/2BA home. Quiet, mature and responsible. Must love animals! No smoking, drinking, drugs. Available 3.29. Prefer vegetarian. Rent + 1/2 utils.

810 Cottages for RentLos Altos, Studio $1200/mo Los Altos Studio Cottage for 1 person. Avail 4/1. Quiet, prvt ent & patio. Rcnt rmdl & appli.basic utls incl. No smkg. (650)339-1175.

MP: 1BR/1BA small, quiet attached cottage. 200 block Willow Rd. $950 mo., utils. incl. Carport, garden. Share W/D, patio. N/P, N/S. 650/326-7679

815 Rentals Wanted1 BR or cottage wanted

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July, August rental for family

PA: Small House wanted by Stanford Alum. Near Palo Alto High School beginning Summer 2008. Excel. credit, refs. Long term possible. 650/327-1735 or email

Phd Student looking for studio

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rental wanted for summer

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820 Home ExchangesARCHITECT on call

825 Homes/Condos for SaleBelmont, 2 BR/1 BA - $699,000

Menlo Park, 4 BR/3 BA - $3,395,000

Menlo Park, 5+ BR/4+ BA - $4100000

Mountain View, 2 BR/1.5 BA - $580,000

Palo Alto, 3 BR/2 BA - $1,698,000

Palo Alto, 3 BR/2.5 BA - $1,329,000

Palo Alto, 3 BR/3 BA $853,410 3br/3ba/2 car tandem garage. Highly upgraded.Includes washer/dryer, balcony off the master suite, 2-car tandem garage with storage. GREEN features include 2.0 kW solar system, tankless water heater, dual pane low-E glass, lighting control motion sensors and high efficiency AC/heat pump. 4% Broker Co-Op on advertised home.3707 Heron Way, Vantage of Palo Alto. Warmington Homes CA. www.WarmingtonHomesCA.com. (650) 856-0257

Redwood City (emerald Hills), 5+ BR/4+ BA - $2,499,000

Redwood City, 3 BR/2 BA - $749000

Sunnyvale, 2 BR/1 BA - $589,000

830 Commercial/Income PropertyPA: Office Space 270sf office space on S. Calif Ave. $900 mo., incl. utils and janitorial. Karen, 650/328-9480

840 Vacation Rentals/Time SharesBed & Breakfast B&B Hotel

Pajaro Dunes Condo 2BR/2BA or 1BR/1BA. On beach, ocean view. Cable TV, VCR, CD, tennis, W/D. Pvt. deck, BBQ. Owner, 650/424-1747. [email protected]

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850 Acreage/Lots/StorageArizona Land Bargain $29,900. Beautiful mountain property in Arizona’s Wine Country. Price reduced in buyers market. Won’t last! Good access & views. Eureka Springs Ranch offered by AZLR. ADWR report and financing available. 1-877-301-5263. (Cal-SCAN)

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Nevada 5 Acres Priced for Quick Sale. $24,900. Beautiful building site with electric & county maintained roads. 360 degree views. Great recreational opportunities. Financing available. Call now! 1-877-349-0822. (Cal-SCAN)

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New Mexico Ranch Dispersal New to Market! 140 acres - $89,900. River Access. Northern New Mexico. Cool 6,500’ elevation with stunning views. Great tree cover including Ponderosa, rolling grassland and rock outcroppings. Abundant wildlife, great hunting. EZ terms. Call NML&R, Inc. 1-866-360-5263. (Cal-SCAN)

Southern Colorado Ranch Sale 35 Acres- $29,900. Spectacular Rocky Mountain Views Year round access, elec/tele included. Excellent Financing available w/low down pay-ment. Call Red Creek Land Co. Today! 1-866-696-5263 x3469. (Cal-SCAN)

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995 Fictitious Name StatementMIDTOWN ENGINEERING AND SURVEYINGFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506308 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, MidTown Engineering and Surveying, 528 Kendall Ave., Suite 14, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County:KENNETH KONG-NAN YANG528 Kendall Ave., Suite 14Palo Alto, CA 94306 This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on June 2002.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 4, 2008.(PAW March 12, 19, 26, April 2, 2008)MAVERICK’S PRINTINGFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506084 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Maverick’s Printing, 250 Wilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County:ALEX MCMANIGILL250 Wilton AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94306MICHELLE MCMANIGILL250 Wilton AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94306 This business is being conducted by husband & wife. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 28, 2008. (PAW March 12, 19, 26, April 2, 2008)FRESAFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506360 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Fresa, 3705 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County:SEP HINES980 University ALos Altos, CA 94024MALIKA PARKER750 Maplewood APalo Alto, CA 94303STEVE KIM980 University AvLos Altos, CA 94024 This business is being conducted by copartners. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on 2/1/08.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 5, 2008. (PAW March 12, 19, 26, April 2, 2008)MACLOVIA COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL CLEANING SERVICESFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506431 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Maclovia Commercial & Residential Cleaning Services, 703 East Charleston Rd. #B, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County:MACLOVIA VALENCIA703 East Charleston Rd. #BPalo Alto, CA 94303 This business is being conducted by an individual.Registrant has not yet begun to trans-act business under the fictitious busi-ness name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 6, 2008. (PAW March 14, 21, 28, April 4, 2008)SPORTS AND FUNSPORTS & FUNFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506597 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, 1) Sports and Fun, 2) Sports & fun, 805 Roble Ave. #6, Menlo Park, CA 94025, San Mateo County.

The Principal place of business is in San Mateo County and a current Fictitious Business Name Statement is on file at the County Clerk-Recorder’s office of said county.JAMES ARTHUR HEEBNER805 Roble Ave #6Menlo Park, CA 94025 This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 11, 2008.(PAW March 19, 26, April 2, 9, 2008)

KIFER INVESTMENTFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506498 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Kifer Investment, 2500 El Camino Real, Suite 100, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County:GEORGE O. MCKEE21 Atherton AvenueAtherton, CA 94027FRANK L. CRIST, III 9 Del Fina Place, #206Carmel Valley, CA 93924MICHELLE EHLERS8141 E. Sand Flower DriveScottsdale, AZ 85262JAMES M. CRIST810 Bruce Ave.Palo Alto, CA 94303KRISTEN B. WINSLOW1037 Hometown WayPleasanton, CA 94566KATHERINE CRIST925 Shore Pine CourtFort Collins, CO 80525CRIST FAMILY TRUST DATED 10/29/80FRANK LEE CRIST JR. andCAROLYN GAY CRIST, TRUSTEESNo. 6 Rumsen TraceCarmel, CA 93923ALLEN W. KOERING10949 Magdalena Ave.Los Altos Hills, CA 94022ANN M. CRIST113 Otay StreetSan Mateo, CA 94403DAVID BANKS14835 StagecoachSisters, OR 97759-9566 This business is owned by a general partnership. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 10, 2008. (PAW March 19, 26, April 2, 9, 2008)

DESIGN MINEFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506573 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Design Mine, 1862 Ash Street, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County:KATHERINE CROMIE1862 Ash StreetPalo Alto, CA 94306 This business is owned by an indi-vidual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 11, 2008. (PAW March 19, 26, April 2, 9, 2008)

MAGNIFICENT MURALSFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506765 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Magnificent Murals, 611 Barron Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County:ERIN CASTELAN611 Barron Ave.Palo Alto, CA 94306 This business is owned by an indi-vidual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on 1993.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 13, 2008. (PAW March 21, 28, April 4, 11, 2008)

CVM PRINTINGFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506545 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, CVM Printing, 951 Sycamore Dr., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County:CHARITO MABUTAS951 Sycamore Dr.Palo Alto, CA 94303 This business is owned by an indi-vidual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s)

listed herein on 3/10/08.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 10, 2008.(PAW March 21, 28, April, 4, 11, 2008)MOEJOFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506711 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Moejo, 1044 Maddux Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County:JO L. JACKSON1044 Maddux DrivePalo Alto, CA 94303 This business is owned by an indi-vidual.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on 02/14/2008.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 12, 2008. (PAW March 21, 28, April 4, 11, 2008)THE MASTER SILICON PAINTINGEAST AND WEST BAY PAINTINGDOLPHINES PAINTINGREDWOOD PAINTINGFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506047 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, 1.) The Master Silicon Painting, 2.) East and West Bay Painting, 3.) Dolphines Painting, 4.) Redwood Painting, 990 Minnesota Ave., San Jose, CA 95125, Santa Clara County:MORA’S PAINTING, INC.990 Minnesota Ave.San Jose, CA 95125 This business is owned by a corpora-tion.Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 27, 2008. (PAW March 26, April 2, 9, 16, 2008)DOG TOWN PALO ALTOFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506954 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Dog Town Palo Alto, 540 Bryant St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County:LORI SCHMALZ1192 Essex LaneFoster City, CA 94404 This business is owned by an indi-vidual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 18, 2008.(PAW March 28, April 4, 11, 18, 2008)CASA BLANCA CONSTRUCTION, INC.FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 507038 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Casa Blanca Construction, Inc., 4093 Ben Lomond Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County:RODRIGUEZ-COVIELLO CONSTRUCTION, INC.4093 Ben Lomond DrivePalo Alto, CA 94306 This business is owned by a corpora-tion. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on 02/18/1998.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 20, 2008. (PAW March 28, April 4, 11, 18, 2008)UZUMAKI SUSHI RESTAURANTFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 507205 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Uzumaki Sushi Restaurant, 451 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County:SMILING FACE INC. 1610 Maxine Ave.San Mateo, CA 94401 This business is owned by a corpora-tion.Registrant has not yet begun to trans-act business under the fictitious busi-ness name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 24, 2008. (PAW March 28, April 4, 11, 18, 2008)COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FOR REHABILITATION, INC. (C.A.R.)FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506961 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Community Association For Rehabilitation, Inc., (C.A.R.), 525 E. Charleston Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94306,

Santa Clara County:ABILITIES UNITED 525 E. Charleston Rd.Palo Alto, CA 94306 This business is owned by a corpora-tion.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on 4/11/1994.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 19, 2008.(PAW March 28, April 4, 11, 18, 2008)

BUENDIA PALANA ENTERPRISEFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 507268 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Buendia Palana Enterprise, 300 Curtner Ave., Apt. G, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County:ELPIDIO C. PALANA JR.300 Curtner Ave., Apt. GPalo Alto, CA 94306SATRUNINA B. PALANA300 Curtner Ave., Apt. GPalo Alto, CA 94306 This business is owned by husband & wife. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on Feb. 14, 2008.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 25, 2008.(PAW April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2008)

MANGO CARIBBEAN RESTAURANTFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506964 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Mango Caribbean Restaurant, 435 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County:WINSTON WINT120 West Third Ave., # 703San Mateo, CA 94402 This business is owned by an indi-vidual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on 3/1/08. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 19, 2008. (PAW April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2008)

RED WINDOW CATERINGFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506965 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Red Window Catering, 435 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County:WINSTON WINT120 West Third Ave., # 703San Mateo, CA 94402 This business is owned by an indi-vidual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on 3/1/08.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 19, 2008.(PAW April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2008)

THE ZEN HOTELZEN HOTELFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 507306 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, 1.) The Zen Hotel, 2.) Zen Hotel, 4164 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County:MISTRY & SONS, LLC485 N. Whisman Road, # 300Mountain View, CA 94043 This business is owned by a limited liability company. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 25, 2008. (PAW April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2008)

STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL FROM PARTNERSHIP OPERATING UNDER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMEFile Number: 506848 The following person(s)/entity(ies) has/have withdrawn as a general partner(s) from the partnership operating under the following fictitious business name (s). The information give below is at is appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office.FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): SMOG ME, 898 E. Fremont Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94087.FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 5/20/2005.UNDER FILE NO. 461970REGISTRANT’S NAME(S): MICHAEL FONG CHEW, 789 16th. Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County


on March 17, 2008.(PAW April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2008)BUTTERFLY STUDIOFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 506698 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as, Butterfly Studio, 3375 Alma St. # 374, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County:LISA KINDLEY3375 Alma St. # 374Palo Alto, CA 94306 This business is owned by an indi-vidual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on 1/6/04.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 12, 2008. (PAW April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2008)

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Title Order No.: 30097416 Trustee Sale No.: 45440 Loan No.: 9042237065 APN: 150-08-027. You are in Default under a Deed of Trust dated 05/04/2006. Unless you take action to protect your property, it may be sold at a public sale. If you need an explana-tion of the nature of the proceedings against you, you should contact a lawyer. On 04/10/2008 at 10:00 A.M., FCI Lender Services, Inc. as the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 5/18/06 as Instrument #18939312 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, exe-cuted by: Jesus Ticsay, an unmarried man, as Trustor. Downey Savings and Loan Association, F.A., as Beneficiary. WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). At the North Market Street entrance to the County Courthouse, 190 North Market Street, San Jose, CA, all right, title and

interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the prop-erty situated in said County, California describing the land therein: As more fully described in said Deed of Trust. The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 668 Farley Street, Mountain View California 94043. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $796,553.69 (Estimated) Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. Date: 3/13/08, FCI Lender Services, Inc., as Trustee 8180 East Kaiser Blvd., Anaheim Hills, CA 92808 Phone: (714) 282-2424 Sale Information: (714) 282-2430 Vivian Prieto, Vice President FCI Lender Services, Inc. is a debt col-lector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. (RSVP# 106692)(PAW 03/21, 03/28, 04/04/08) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA No. 108CV109061 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ROBERT E. TOMPKINS & MARGARET M. TOMPKINS filed a peti-tion with this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows:SAMUEL TOMPKINS to SAMUEL TOMPKINS-JENKINS. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING: May 13, 2008, 8:45 a.m., Room 107. Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four succes-sive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY.Date: March 26, 2008/s/ Mary Ann GrilliJUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2008)Notice of Availability of Annual Report

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