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I t’s summer, but school is not out for 80 incoming fresh-men at Eastside College

Preparatory School in East Palo Alto.

Seven hours a day, Monday through Friday, they’re in class-rooms learning pre-algebra, analyzing “Fahrenheit 451,”

playing with data sets on Google sheets and getting to know one another through ice breakers and off-campus hikes.

This is Summer Bridge at Eastside, a six-week program designed to prepare new fresh-men for the rigors of college-prep curriculum and transition

them into high school life. The program has existed since 1997, the first summer after the launch of the tuition-free private school, which serves students who will be the first in their families to go to college.

Unlike most brand-new high schoolers, with Summer Bridge

“students don’t feel uncom-fortable when they start high school,” Principal Chris Bischof said. “That puts students at ease a lot.”

The intensive summer pro-gram packs in 12 weeks of academic instruction into half the time. Students take math, English, “high school prep” and personal finance classes. In high school prep, they’re immersed in Eastside’s culture and expecta-tions, which can be a big change for the students who come from public middle schools, Bischof

‘A warm-up before school starts’ In summer program, rising freshmen get ready for Eastside Prep

by Elena Kadvany

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Accused killer deemed too dangerous

for bailIsadore Diaz has a

history of convictions for violent feloniesby Sue Dremann

Editor’s note: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence.

A Santa Clara County Supe-rior Court judge on Mon-day decided that a man ac-

cused of stabbing a fellow Buena Vista Mobile Home Park resident to death and beating another one is too dangerous for release.

Isadore Christopher Diaz, who is charged with the murder of Timo-thy Wood, remained in a cell at the Palo Alto Courthouse and was not brought up to the courtroom for his initial appearance on that charge before Judge Charles E. Wilson. The judge continued Diaz’s ar-raignment to July 12, but he said the facts and substantial evidence showed “a presumption of great bodily harm” and that releasing Diaz would present a “clear threat” of continued great bodily harm to others. The judge also denied bail.

Diaz, 31, has been charged with killing Wood, 63, and the separate assault of Alan Cochran, both of which occurred on the night of June 24. Court records show that Diaz previously served time in prison for assault and other charg-es stemming from cases in 2007, 2008 and 2012 in Merced County. He has two prior convictions for assault with a deadly weapon and three convictions for participating in a criminal street gang, among other charges.


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N early 20 community col-leges and districts as well as the Community Col-

lege League of California and Association of California Com-munity College Administrators have formally come out in op-position to a state bill that would allow homeless students to sleep overnight in campus parking lots.

Locally, the Foothill-De Anza Community College District is remaining publicly neutral but watching closely as Assembly Bill 302, which was proposed by Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Palo Alto, makes its way through the state legislature.

In an interview with the Week-ly, Foothill College President

Thuy Nguyen called Berman’s effort “admirable” but said ques-tions remain about the financial and operational challenges cre-ated by the bill.

“The question is whether this is a good idea that should be re-quired of all,” she said.

Rolling out safe overnight park-ing at Foothill would not be as easy as some people think, Nguy-en said. The college would have to increase its limited night-time security, potentially by contract-ing out the work, and consider

how to accommodate students who might have children or fami-lies who would sleep in a vehicle with them, she said. The bill would also require community colleges to connect homeless stu-dents using the parking facilities with housing, food and financial resources.

“There’s way more complica-tion than one would initially think of something as ... simple as, ‘If they can park during the day, why can’t they park overnight?’” Nguyen said.

Preliminarily, the Foothill-De Anza Community College Dis-trict estimates that implemen-tation of the bill could cost its campuses about $830,000 each per year for additional security, custodial support, fencing, sig-nage and, if a parking lot is not available close to bathrooms, por-table toilets. This cost could vary greatly depending on the level of infrastructure spending required to support each parking area,

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Foothill College’s Thuy Nguyen says overnight parking program would take $830K and political will

by Elena Kadvany


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GET’CHA HEAD IN THE GAME ... The power of social networking brought together a class of rising fourth-graders and a local board-game maker at Ohlone Elementary School, where they’re having fun in the classroom while sharpening their math and language-arts skills. Ohlone co-teachers Michelle Yee and Cathy Harkness understood the importance of stepping away from traditional methods of teaching summer school so that the students learn different subjects through hands-on applications. Through NextDoor.com, a social-networking service for neighborhoods, Harkness found 23-year-old board-game maker Justin Leong. The Mountain View resident spoke to the kids about the various stages of creating a game, including identifying resources for the game and coming up with the rules. The students absorbed his information and spent a week collecting game tokens, spinners, cards and boards from donated games in order to make their own. Through creating the games, the students were able to learn multiplication by having to deal with scores and play money and practice their language arts skills by writing out the rules for their games and reading them to their peers, among other lessons. “He inspired me to try and make games,” student Genesis Suarez said of Leong. She added that she hopes to see her creation sold at Walmart one day. Leong had the chance to “play test” the students’ games and was blown away by the kids’ imaginations.

ON TO BIGGER THINGS ... Former Palo Alto City Auditor Harriett Richardson is coming out of retirement to become BART’s first inspector general, the regional transit agency announced June 21. Appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Richardson will be responsible for planning, directing and managing “the independent oversight of all District actives and operations to ensure the effective use of resources and compliance with applicable federal and state laws.”

Richardson retired from the city on Feb. 15 after nearly five years. Her departure was one of many recent high-profile vacancies at City Hall. The city has yet to name her successor. Before working in Palo Alto, Richardson was San Francisco’s audit director and the audit manager/deputy director at Berkeley’s Auditor’s Office. “The appointment of Ms. Richardson as BART’s new inspector general helps BART reach a new level of transparency and accountability to the riding public and the taxpayers who fund the cost of BART infrastructure and operations,” BART Board District 1 Director Debora Allen said in a statement. The position was approved by voters in June 2018 through Regional Measure 3, which raises tolls at seven state bridges in the Bay Area by three $1 increases (the first hike took place on Jan. 1, the next two raises are set for 2022 and 2025). An estimated $4.5 billion raised from the toll fees have been earmarked for transportation improvements. Richardson, who was one of three nominees following a nationwide search, will receive an annual salary of $205,000.

STAYING FRESH ... The Peninsula is rapidly turning into a destination for food, a reality that the San Mateo County Silicon Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau is embracing through this year’s “As Fresh As It Gets” awards, which covers establishments in San Mateo County and Palo Alto. The 2019-20 recipients recognize businesses that deliver local fresh produce and seafood, plus wine and beer. To qualify for the award, applicants were required to buy locally grown or caught items for at least a month and sign a commitment to continue the practice. Palo Alto had four winners on the list: The Sea by Alexander’s Steakhouse (a traditional award winner) and Dinah’s Poolside Restaurant, St. Michael’s Alley and Vina Enoteca (gold award winners). East Palo Alto’s Quattro Restaurant & Bar was one of 10 establishments to join the platinum award circle. The winners were recognized at an awards ceremony on June 20. They each received a certificate, plaque to display in their business, a commemorative polo shirt and commendations from local, state and federal government officials.

Let’s fight. Let’s not remain quiet.—Karla Facundo, East Palo Alto resident, on the city’s housing crisis. See story on page 8.

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oped his art concept for Palo Alto’s new public-

safety building, he decided to see the world through the eyes of an emergency responder.

Wegner, an El Cerrito-based artist whose abstract pieces of-ten contemplate the relationship between space and time, joined a police officer for a ride-along. At a routine traffic stop, he was struck by the speed and multi-tude of decisions the officer had to make: Should that person who slowed down but didn’t fully stop at the stop sign be pulled over? Did the violation merit a ticket or a warning? What would be the best way to approach the driver? What the most appropriate re-sponse to what the driver says?

“At each juncture, there is a binary decision that has to be made,” Wegner told the Weekly. “It felt like any moment involved a judgment call. In the aggregate, I can see the situation was in flux. With anything more com-plicated than a traffic stop, I can just see how very quickly you have to think through the split-second decisions — a blizzard of them.”

This frenetic pace of mak-ing these judgment calls is re-flected in “100,000 Decisions,” one of three works in the suite of pieces that the City Council last week approved for the long-awaited public-safety building, a $115-million project that has been the city’s top infrastructure priority for nearly two decades. Construction of the three-story structure at 250 Sherman Ave. is set to begin as soon as the city finishes building a new parking garage on an adjacent parcel, 350 Sherman Ave.

“100,000 Decisions” is a com-pilation of vertical black and white strips assembled within a square red frame. Up close, you can see thousands of bars

made of ABS plastic, the mate-rial used to make police helmets and vests. Stepping back from the piece, the bars turn into a gradient, with gray on the inside dissolving into white in the top right corner and solidifying into black in the bottom left corner.

Wegner also recalled his ride with local firefighters to a medi-cal call at a home where there had been a family tragedy, to which the department also had been called. Wegner said the firefighters’ response was con-ditioned by prior knowledge of the trauma.

“It was a really nuanced and supple and beautifully gauged quality of response, and at the same time, there was a way of

thinking that was strictly a cur-rent of ones and zeroes,” he said. “That sat with me a bit. It started to feel like they entered into the middle of the frame where most of the values were gray or hard

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“Street Level” is comprised of about 400 aluminum disks, each featuring imagery from historical, hand-drawn maps of historic Mayfield and Palo Alto. A close-up of those disks is shown above.


CorrectionThe June 28 story “Teen podcast offers up pearls of wisdom” incorrectly spelled Sophia Lu’s last name. The Weekly regrets the error. To request a clarification or correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at [email protected], 650-326-8210 or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto 94302.

Artist seeks to capture the order — and chaos — of emergency response

Peter Wegner to create three exhibits for Palo Alto’s new public-safety buildingby Gennady Sheyner


M ore than 60 East Palo Alto residents voted on Saturday to form a ten-

ants union to combat rising housing costs that they say are harming the city’s long-term residents.

The action was brought about by multiple nonprofit organizations

that advocate for renters, immi-grants and seniors, which con-vened the meeting at Willow Oaks Elementary School in Menlo Park. The union, the first such entity in the 36-year-old city, will be led by residents.

The group aims to gain influence

and to oppose developers and land-lords seeking to redevelop large portions of the city, which until recently has been one of the least expensive areas to live in the nine-county Bay Area.

The city has at least 27 large com-mercial and mixed-use develop-ments in the pipeline, which could increase demand for market-rate housing in East Palo Alto by em-ployees working in those buildings.

Projects to provide more mar-ket-rate housing are already in the works. The city’s largest landlord of low-income housing, Sand Hill Property Company, proposed in December to demolish 160 rental units and to replace them with 605 apartments, 445 of which would be rented at market rate and 160 that would be below-market rate.

The company said that tenants currently protected under the city’s rent-stabilization ordinance would have first right for return to the new apartments, but residents have expressed concern about whether their units would be protected un-der state law and where they would be live during construction.

“We are here with one common interest: We wonder about redevel-opment and what that will do to my home,” said Francisca Guzman, an 11-year resident of the Woodland Park Communities and a member of the city’s rent-stabilization board.

Karla Facundo, an East O’Keefe Street resident, said she has seen her rent rise dramatically — to $2,248 a month — and struggles to make ends meet. Her landlord recently started charging her for utilities in addition to rent.

“It is so much money. They are raising my rent by $100 a month. Garbage, sewer and water are now being added to my rent,” she said.

Longtime residents who lived in

the city when “nobody wanted to live here” should not be pushed out of the community, she said.

Tenants unions have been suc-cessful in places such as Los An-geles, where government leaders decided to enact “rent pauses,” to prevent rent increases for a period of time in vulnerable communities. The San Francisco Tenants Union, which formed in the 1970s, pushed to pass rent control and a proposi-tion that gives every tenant facing an eviction a right to an attorney, said Ofelia Bello, executive direc-tor of Youth United for Community Action.

Representatives from community groups including Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, Youth United for Community Action, Faith in Action, the city planning commission and Comite de Veci-nos del Lado Oeste East Palo Alto, a group of Woodland Park resi-dents, said they are supporting the tenants union because it represents the city’s diverse population.

Even in a city like East Palo Alto, whose elected representatives lean toward the progressive side, a ten-ants’ union is the only way to have a flexible and responsive voice to the changes, some residents said at Saturday’s meeting.

East Palo Alto is also approving the development of new, affordable housing. The city gave the green light to a proposal in January for 128 new affordable units at Light Tree Apartments at 1805 E. Bay-shore Road, 14 of which will be set aside for formerly homeless people, the disabled and/or transitional-age youth. The city also plans to put 120 affordable units at 965 Weeks St. on city-owned land.

The number of units, however, is small compared to the estimated thousands of new workers who the-oretically could populate the city as the new office developments come to fruition.

The union plans to have four working groups: governance and leadership structure; membership; programs and activities; and mem-bers’ urgent needs. A larger meet-ing will be scheduled in the future after the organizational commit-tees’ initial meetings, organizers said.

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

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East Palo Altans form tenants union to fight housing crisis

Group aims to have clout to protect affordable and low-income housingby Sue Dremann

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A fter more than 50 years of business spanning two generations of his family,

Larry Skarset, 72, has closed the doors of his Cambridge Barber Shop at 382 Cambridge Ave. in Palo Alto ahead of a redevelop-ment project planned for the site.

Skarset started barbering in 1967, joining his father, Raymond Skarset, in his original shop on California Avenue. The father-son duo remained at that location for about 30 years, Skarset said, before moving to Cambridge Avenue in 1997. They worked side by side until Raymond died in 2009.

While Skarset may have closed the doors of his longtime shop,

he doesn’t plan to retire any time soon. On July 3, Skarset moved into Beauty Spa by Ereeda locat-ed at 200 S. California Ave. near Mollie Stone’s Markets, where he will continue to cut hair from a rented chair at the shop.

“It’s been very interesting to see how the Silicon Valley’s developed over all these years,” said Skarset, who sat down with the Weekly earlier this week to reminisce about his many decades as a small business owner in Palo Alto. It’s a profession that has included giving haircuts to Hewlett-Packard Co. co-founder David Packard along with countless students and pro-fessors from Stanford University.

Among the changes he’s seen: Rents have gone up — way up.

He said the approximately 800-square-foot space on Cali-fornia Avenue where he and his father once worked is now vacant. When he inquired about possibly moving the shop back into that site, the landlord quoted him $5.50 per square foot.

“That’s about $4,000 or $5,000. You’d have to really do a lot of business for that,” Skarset said. “It was about $1,800 or $2,000” when he and his father were there.

The project that forced him to leave his Cambridge shop involves demolishing three buildings, with addresses ranging from 378 to 410

Cambridge, to make room for a new three-story building that will have retail on the ground floor and office space on the second and third. (See sidebar.) Most of the existing spaces have been occupied for many years by small business owners like Skarset.

“The little small business guys are all out now,” he said referring to the many mom-and-pop businesses that once lined California Avenue. “It seems like everything’s getting franchised now, but I’ve been stay-ing in business. I’ve been here for 50 years now, and I’d like to stay around. I do good work, I love the business and I like the people.”

In the final days before Skarset moved out of his longtime shop, most of the memorabilia that had covered the walls for generations had been taken down, including all the pennants from various uni-versities that he had accumulated from customers over the decades.

His collection started when a former customer mentioned he was attending Slippery Rock Universi-ty in Pennsylvania, which Skarset had never heard of.

The customer told Skarset more about the school and later brought him a pennant, which he pinned to the wall. Clients carried on the tradition until Skarset’s walls were covered.

“Maybe they’ll let me put Stan-ford and Cal back up at the new place,” he said.

“And Harvard ... I’ve got all the Ivy Leagues,” he added with pride.

Although he said it’s been dif-ficult coming to terms with the move, he understands that change is inevitable.

“Life is always changing and you gotta go with the changes, I guess,” he said.

He does, however, have some concerns about Palo Alto’s rapid growth.

“There’s too much wealth, and it’s getting to be where if you’re not wealthy, you’re not going to be able to live here,” he said, adding that it may not be long before residents will have to travel outside of Palo Alto to find mechanics, barbers and other service workers.

As for his thoughts about the new development replacing his shop and the adjacent buildings, he said he wishes the developers “the best of luck.”

Editorial Assistant Cierra Bailey can be emailed at [email protected].

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Barber Larry Skarset’s customers have included David Packardby Cierra Bailey

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A fter four years on the drawing board, a new retail-and-office building

project on Cambridge Avenue in Palo Alto’s California Avenue business district could break ground this fall. Current tenants at 378 through 410 Cambridge have received eviction notices to leave by July 31, and the develop-er, Cambridge Investments LLC, has submitted a demolition-per-mit application to the city.

The three-story, 35,000-square-foot development, called 400 Cambridge Ave., will replace three existing buildings from the late 1950s, which comprise 32,093 square feet of retail and office space.

Current tenants include a bar-ber shop, a real estate developer, a tech-staffing company, a publi-cation, a therapist, a venture cap-italist, an artificial intelligence company and a Rolfing practice among others, according to signs on the building.

Some tenants said they have known for a long time they would be moving and received formal eviction letters last month.

The new development will merge three lots into one and include a single structure with 4,274 square feet of ground-floor retail (3,405 square feet more than currently housed), 1,716 square feet of common areas and 29,010 square feet of office space on two floors, according to plans filed with the city. The building will also include a 8,364 square-foot ground-floor garage.

The proposal has taken four years to gain the city’s approval.

The initial design was deemed too boxy by the Architectural Review Board. The final ver-sion altered the front façade from stucco to brick, which offers more contrasting hues and also fits better into the context of the California Avenue area, where there are other brick structures, the developer noted.

To address concerns about the building’s mass, architects creat-ed an 11-foot set back at the front eastern corner, which includes an outdoor seating area beneath steel decks and an area for pub-lic art facing the adjoining public parking lot.

The development, initially pro-posed in 2015, also faced oppo-sition from neighbors and exist-ing small-business owners who worried that it will not serve the neighborhood. Owner representa-tive Steve Pierce of Greenheart Land Co. said on Tuesday that the company worked with neighbors to come up with a proposal that took their concerns into account.

The property is adjacent to condominiums to its west, so the

developer added light wells that provide light, air and setbacks for the condos. The back of the building is set back 10 feet from the rear property line, which has a 7-foot-high fence and land-scaping to screen the building from neighbors, according to the plans.

The new development will in-crease parking from two spots to 15, Pierce noted, including 10 to serve the retailers and five for office use. It will also have 12 bicycle-parking spaces.

The plan removes one street tree at the southwest corner to make way for the garage en-trance, but adds another at the southeastern corner.

Pierce said the project is await-ing building permits. A demoli-tion permit is under review by the city. Construction could begin late this year or early next year and would take most of the next year, depending on city approv-als for the phases of demolition and construction. The company will also submit a construction-logistics plan, he said.

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In the 2012 case, he pleaded no contest to burglary, being a felon who was previously convicted of a violent felony, obstructing or resist-ing arrest on an executive officer and battery on a peace officer. He received a 40-month sentence in prison.

He lived in Palo Alto with his grandmother, who told the Weekly last week that Diaz had turned his life around, was active in his church and helped the homeless. He was also once shot in the head and con-tinued to suffer medical issues as a result of his injury, she said.

Court documents also show that Diaz allegedly attacked a third man on the night of Wood’s death and Cochran’s assault; the third man declined to file charges.

Palo Alto police initially re-sponded to Wood’s trailer at 3980 El Camino Real at 7:53 p.m. af-ter his roommate called to report finding him on the floor. Wood had left the trailer at about 5 p.m. The roommate left about 10 min-utes later to go for a two-hour bike ride. When he returned, he found the door to the trailer locked. He entered using his key and found Wood gravely injured. Police lo-cated two knives with blood in Wood’s trailer, including one near his body.

Wood died at a local hospital.

The Santa Clara County Coroner-Medical Exam-iner’s Office later deter-mined he’d been stabbed several times.

About an hour later, while police were inves-tigating the stabbing, Co-chran was in the mobile home park when Diaz al-legedly approached and punched him. Diaz then allegedly kicked Cochran, who had fallen, in the face before returning to his apartment. Cochran said the two had never met and he did not know why he was targeted. Co-chran needed eight stitches to his lips, he told the Weekly.

As officers talked to Cochran, a police report states, Diaz jumped into a friend’s car and allegedly told him, “Let’s get out of here.”

The man drove away and parked in front of a fence on Los Robles Avenue, which runs along the edge of Buena Vista. When he told Diaz to be careful getting out because the car was close to the fence, Diaz allegedly became angry and asked, “Do you think I’m fake?” the police report states.

Diaz was loud and he could not keep still, the man told police. The two men began walking back to-ward the mobile home park when Diaz allegedly put his friend in a headlock and punched him in the face three times. The man ran back to a friend’s home, where he hid in the living room.

Diaz soon followed and knocked on the door. Entering the residence, he allegedly punched the man once more before exiting.

The victim told police he was afraid of Diaz and didn’t want to press charges. He refused medical attention, ac-cording to court papers.

Diaz, after being read his Miran-da rights, denied that he had struck anyone. But he allegedly told an of-ficer that he made a mistake.

Asked why he struck Cochran, he said that “he just got that feeling and had to do it,” the court docu-ments state.

Police arrested Diaz three days later in connection with Wood’s murder, based on several pieces of evidence, while he was in custody for alleged assault on Cochran, ac-cording to the court documents.

Police are basing their case in part on security camera recordings and blood-stained clothing.

Surveillance recordings show on June 24 a man who appeared to be Diaz walking toward and away from Wood’s trailer. Wood is also seen on the video walking to a dumpster to toss out a large bag of trash and walking back toward his trailer. Police believe this was the last time Wood was seen alive.

About 20 minutes later, a person resembling Diaz, who has a distinc-tive tattoo on his left arm, returned to the area near Wood’s trailer, ac-cording to the court documents.

The man whom police believe is Diaz was initially wearing a white tank top when he went toward the trailer, but when he left the area he had changed into a black T-shirt with a California logo on the front. All of the other articles of clothing the man wore were the same, the video showed.

Police later found the white shirt with blood on it, and detectives found the same style, brand and size of white tank tops in Diaz’s residence with the same batch number. Police also found a white sock with blood in Diaz’s bathroom hamper and the same mismatched shoes — a white one and a black one — that were the mates of the shoes Diaz was wearing at the time of his arrest for assaulting Cochran.

Diaz has been charged in Wood’s killing with one count of murder, one count of using a deadly weapon and five counts of committing the crimes while hav-ing prior convictions for a violent or serious felony.

In the alleged assault on Co-chran, he also faces charges of felony battery with serious bodily injury, felony assault with a deadly weapon or force likely to produce great bodily injury, an enhance-ment of causing great bodily injury, misdemeanor battery on a person and five counts of having a prior conviction of a violent or serious felony.

He is scheduled to return to court in the Cochran case on July 19.

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

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Palo Alto Chamber hires new CEOCharlie Weidanz, who has helped lead Abilities United and various

other Peninsula nonprofits over the past three decades, will be the new chief executive officer of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, the organization announced last week.

Weidanz, who most recently served as CEO at Abilities United, is leaving that role just as the local nonprofit is merging with Gatepath, a Redwood City-based nonprofit that also focuses on adults and chil-dren with disabilities.

Prior to Abilities United, he had served as executive director at the YMCA.

In joining the Chamber, Weidanz will work alongside Judy Klein-berg, who had spent the past five years as both the CEO and president of the Chamber. With the addition of Weidenz, Kleinberg will contin-ue to serve as president, with a focus on government affairs, disaster planning, the Leadership Palo Alto program for emerging executives and city leaders, and the new Palo Alto Chamber Foundation.

Weidanz will focus on the nonprofit’s internal operations, includ-ing membership development, organizational programs and signa-ture events, according to the Chamber’s announcement. The state-ment touts the new executive team of Kleinberg and Weidenz as one that combines their “complementary skill sets, creating a dynamic leadership experience focused on organizational mission and vision that matches evolving community and business needs.

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Nonprofits Abilities United, Gatepath merge Palo Alto-based Abilities United and Gatepath in Redwood City,

two nonprofits serving people with disabilities, have finalized their merging agreement that went into effect on Monday. The move is expected to save costs, improve their position for grants and expand their service area across two counties.

A joint marketing team will look into re-naming the combined organizations in 2020, according to Abilities United’s board of direc-tors President Jenn Wagstaff-Hinton.

Services for both organizations will continue as normal, but Wag-staff-Hinton said that Abilities United will dial back its aquatics and after-school programs.

Abilities earned $5.3 million and had a $222,057 deficit in the 2017-18 fiscal year that ended in June 2018, according to its IRS Form 990 filing. In the same fiscal year, Gatepath had total revenue of $15.6 million and a $566,789 deficit.

Both organizations will continue to serve the public out of their 13 program sites across the Peninsula. The future of Abilities United’s headquarters at 525 E. Charleston Road is uncertain, as the non-profit’s lease on the property with Santa Clara County expires in four years, according to Wagstaff-Hinton.

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Former CEO of Packard Children’s hospital diesChristopher G. Dawes, former CEO of Lucile Packard Children’s

Hospital Stanford, died on Saturday as a result of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was 68 years old.

Dawes stepped down from his post as president and CEO of the hospital in March 2018 to focus on his health.

According to his biography on the hospital website, Dawes was instrumental during its developmental years, building it into the na-tionally renowned medical institution it is today.

“We went from being a very lovely community hospital, nicely de-signed and family-friendly, to a world-class children’s hospital draw-ing patients from across the United States and around the world,” said Susan Packard Orr, a longtime member of the hospital’s board of directors, and daughter of its founder, Lucile Packard.

Some of Dawes’ contributions as CEO include directing a $500 million program to build centers of excellence in various medical specialties, including heart and cancer care; brain and behavior; and pulmonary disease. He also developed a network of care for children and mothers, and oversaw the hospital’s expansion into a state-of-the-art 361-bed facility in Palo Alto, which opened in 2017.

Born in Great Britain, he and his family moved to California when he was a child. He launched his career in hospital administration after earning a bachelor’s degree in public administration from San Diego State University in 1974. A decade later, he received a master’s degree in business administration from McLaren School of Business at the University of San Francisco.

He took on the role of chief operating officer at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in 1995 after spending 10 years work-ing in senior administrative positions at Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco (which later became the California Pacific Medical Center), Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose and Stanford Health Care.

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said. Students write letters to themselves about their goals; the school holds onto the letters and returns them their senior year. They also hear from alumni and upperclassmen about their experi-ences at Eastside. Upperclassmen are also on campus over the sum-mer for summer classes or to pre-pare for the college-application process.

In the finance class, rising freshmen learn about budgeting, credit, investments, the cost of a college education and financial aid. (As seniors, they’ll take an-other, more advanced personal finance course.)

The academic courses are de-signed to teach students who ar-rive with a range of skill levels. Between 10% and 20% of stu-dents require extra support to bring their reading, writing and math skills up to grade level, ac-cording to Eastside. Many arrive without a firm understanding of pre-algebra, Bischof said. All Eastside students take the equiva-lent of two years of math their freshman year to ensure that by senior year, they can progress to pre-calculus, college-level AB or BC calculus or Advanced Place-ment statistics, Bischof said. The goal is to lay the foundation

necessary for a student to pursue a major in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) in college, the principal said.

Increasing the rigor of math early for students at Eastside has helped students with “entering, persisting and finishing STEM degrees” in college, he said.

They’re also exposed to begin-ning coding over the summer, in case any students want to take Eastside’s computer science elec-tive. One of those students is An-thony Prado, who stepped away from a Google sheet populated with data on Tuesday to talk about the summer program.

“I like it a lot,” said the incom-ing ninth-grader, who attended middle school at East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy, a charter school. “It teaches me a lot; a warm-up before school starts.”

In a neighboring math class, students corrected errors on a re-cent test with the help of teacher Hai Tran. Exams during Summer Bridge also help Eastside teachers to assess where students are aca-demically and to measure youths’ progress.

“Progress isn’t necessarily good or bad,” Tran told the students on Tuesday. “It’s just where you are.”

Several doors down in an Eng-lish class, 26 focused, engaged students learned about adverbs, played an interactive vocabu-lary game on Chromebooks and

analyzed the book they’re cur-rently reading, “Fahrenheit 451.”

Elizabeth Diaz, a Stanford Uni-versity student who graduated from Eastside in 2017, returned to her alma mater this summer through an internship with Street-code Academy, a youth technolo-gy nonprofit providing coding in-struction during Summer Bridge.

When she was a rising fresh-man, she considered the summer program as mostly a time to make new friends but also a time to catch up academically. A highlight for her, she said, was a two-day camping trip, which this year’s students are going on at the Pre-sidio in San Francisco next week.

According to Eastside, 100% of its graduates have been ad-mitted to four-year colleges and 76% have either graduated from a four-year college or university or are on track to graduate within six years, compared to a national college completion rate of 11% for first-generation students.

Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at [email protected].

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according to Foothill.If the Commission on State

Mandates determines AB 302’s requirements to be a reimbursable state mandate, the state would reimburse community colleges. But that determination is not guaranteed.

“One of the challenges with the bill for many community colleges, including Foothill, is the financial one. Where are we going to find the money?” Nguyen asked, sug-gesting that local tech companies or wealthy donors could poten-tially contribute.

Senate Committee staff have recommended the bill be amend-ed to allow community colleges to opt out if they show they are addressing student homelessness in other ways, including by pro-viding emergency housing grants, hotel vouchers and rapid re-hous-ing referral services. Exempt col-leges would have to report to the Community College Chancellor’s Office on the services provided to homeless students, the number and type of students served and whether they remain in school or graduate.

Other amendments include add-ing a Dec. 31, 2022 sunset date; moving up the implementation date from July 1, 2020, to April 1, 2020; requiring that students who use the lots be enrolled in at least six units per semester; and requiring the Community College Chancellor’s Office to conduct

a follow-up survey on student homelessness and release the re-sults by 2022.

The California Faculty Asso-ciation, California School Em-ployees Association, the Faculty Association of California Com-munity Colleges and Student Senate for California Commu-nity Colleges all formally sup-port AB 302.

At a summit on student home-lessness at Foothill in June, stu-dents, faculty, community leaders and elected officials spent a day brainstorming short- and long-term solutions to the issue. Ideas ranged from the feasible — pro-viding 24-hour study areas and laundry services and expanding

a campus food pantry — to the more ambitious, including build-ing student housing and fining owners of vacant “ghost houses.”

During the summit, students who have experienced homeless-ness urged their campus leaders and elected officials not to shy away from out-of-the-box solu-tions that will help struggling students in the near term.

As a result of the summit, Nguyen said Foothill plans to pi-lot a smartphone application that will list available housing and food resources on campus and in the community. She also wants to talk with local cities and the county about prioritizing afford-able housing and accessory dwell-ing units for community college students. She’s working with the Foothill administration as well to make housing assistance and in-formation part of the enrollment and orientation process for new students, just as financial aid and other support programs are.

“When students do not have money because of their family status to be able to pay for books, then we ask them, ‘Do you need financial aid?’ We don’t make the assumption that students have an ability to pay for books,” Nguyen said. “If we go at it from that mind-set, then we ask the question, ‘How can we provide information or even actual services to (homeless) students?”

While she won’t take a firm po-sition on AB 302, Nguyen is sup-portive of another bill that would change the way financial aid is calculated for community college

students by taking into account the total cost of attendance, in-cluding housing. Senate Bill 291, which is co-sponsored by the Cal-ifornia Community Colleges and the Community College League of California, is now pending in the Assembly’s Higher Education Committee.

Berman’s bill has brought to the forefront a student homeless-ness crisis at California commu-nity colleges, where nearly one in five students are either homeless or do not have a stable housing, according to a recent survey con-ducted by the California Com-munity Colleges Chancellor’s Office and The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. But there is little agreement on whether overnight parking is the right solution to address this seg-ment of the state’s housing crisis.

Supporters see AB 302 as a way to provide fast-acting, much-need-ed relief for students who live out of their cars and struggle to find somewhere safe to park at night.

“This is not meant to be a long-term solution,” Berman has said, “but the crisis exists today and we can’t pretend like it doesn’t.”

Opponents, however, have criticized the legislation as a one-size-fits-all, temporary fix that will take resources away from long-term solutions, such as more substantial financial aid for com-munity college students. Citing concerns about cost and liability, some community colleges have asked that compliance with the bill be optional.

“We are concerned that this

well-meaning approach masks the deeper issue of lack of resources, such as financial aid for Califor-nia’s community college students, and instead potentially subjects students to sanitation and safety issues,” the Community College League of California said in an opposition statement. “We are concerned AB 302 perpetuates the structural inequities in Cali-fornia’s higher education system.”

The bill passed the Assembly in May on a 60-8 vote and is set for a July 9 hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The safe overnight lot bill is one of several possible solutions, in Nguyen’s eyes, including giv-ing students Airbnb gift certifi-cates for emergency, short-term housing (which Foothill is work-ing to do) and prioritizing stu-dents for affordable housing in the area.

“Quite frankly, the community college leaders accelerated the conversation of food insecurity and housing insecurity well be-fore the bill,” she said, “but this bill has lit a fire of ‘Then, what are we going to do, if it’s not this?’”

Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at [email protected].

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to describe at the moment and what was required of them was a quick, reflexive, intuitive deci-sion-making where the pattern was only revealed at a distance.”

This interplay of order and chaos also features prominently in “Chance Impression,” a work of art inspired by Wegner’s ex-perience getting his fingerprints taken by the Police Department’s forensics unit. Fingerprinting, Wegner discovered, is consid-ered the first forensic discipline. When it was developed a century ago, it was referred to as “lifting of chance impression.”

Both the name and the meth-od are integrated into the piece, which consists of thousands of red thumbtacks impressed on the wall, creating the shape of a gi-ant fingerprint. The piece intends to both represent the “hands-on” work performed in the building and the intersection between the rational scientific method used by officers and the unique, idio-syncratic nature of each human.

“I liked that there was a kind of analytical, rational framework for the forensic discipline,” We-gner said. “You come across a crime scene that’s just the after-math of mayhem and you impose this rational, analytic, empirical process on the chaos that you

encounter and you extract this information that hopefully allows you to encounter a criminal.”

For Wegner, whose work is fea-tured in world-famous museums such as the Guggenheim Mu-seum in New York City, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the public-safe-ty-building presented a different type of challenge. It required col-laboration with and buy-in from a diverse set of stakeholders, including emergency respond-ers, members of the Public Art Commission (which unanimous-ly approved his concepts last De-cember) and California Avenue merchants.

He was one of 63 artists who submitted their qualifications for consideration. The selection panel that chose him included — among others — interim Fire Chief Geof-frey Blackshire, architect Mallory Cusenbery, Assistant Police Chief Patty Lum, former city Mayor Yoriko Kishimoto and Michael Ekwall, owner of La Bodeguita del Medio, a restaurant on Cali-fornia Avenue.

Wegner also said he was mind-ful of the fact that, given the pub-lic nature of the new building, the set of stakeholders also includes “every taxpayer in Palo Alto.” At the same time, Wegner made an effort to link the art in the new building with the more immedi-ate setting: the California Avenue

area that today is considered Palo Alto’s “second downtown” and that once formed the heart of Mayfield. (Palo Alto annexed the city of Mayfield in 1925.)

The sense of place is at the heart of “Street Level,” the third exhibit in Wegner’s suite. The piece is comprised of about 400 alumi-num disks, each featuring imag-ery from historical, hand-drawn maps of historic Mayfield and Palo Alto. The blue disks vary in scale — ranging from 3.5 inches to 7.5 inches in diameter. Wegner discovered the maps while going through local archives and talking to area historians.

The maps, Wegner noted, are in themselves “public art projects” — attempts to reconstitute the ob-jects on the street landscape with-in the intellectual model that is a map. They are drawings created by the culture, even if the maker is usually anonymous. This, Weg-ner said, makes them “historically rich in meaning.”

Fittingly, “Street Level” will be displayed on the building’s exte-rior wall, adjacent to Jacaranda Lane and facing Birch Street. From a distance, a visitor won’t necessarily see all the finely en-graved line work, but they would at least see the “galaxy” of loca-tions, he said.

“But because you can get closer as a viewer, I wanted to get a fair amount of detail so that close in-spection is rewarded.”

In another nod to the build-ing’s location, Wegner proposed a fourth piece, “94306,” an LED display that would mimic the form of California Avenue struc-tures, as seen from a bird’s eye view. The piece, which referenced both Palo Alto’s tech presence and California Avenue’s eclectic nature, aims to create a “snapshot in time” of California Avenue as it is today, while also allowing for various and slowly-changing color displays based on time of day, the season and specific occasions.

That component, however, was left out of the final package that the council approved. While We-gner said he was “surprised” by the omission, he added that he is happy to see three of his artworks get included in the new structure.

Kristen O’Kane, director of the Community Services Department, said the LED piece was intended to be part of the California Av-enue garage project, which went through a different art selection process. The city’s procurement laws, she said, prohibited the city from adding “94306” to the police building project. Incidentally, the garage itself will not have a public art piece, O’Kane said. That’s be-cause the various façade enhance-ments in the garage, including decorative louvers and reflective tiles, limit the opportunity for art to be integrated there.

The city expects to finish con-structing the new public-safety building by fall 2022, according to the city’s recently approved capital budget. But the art is al-ready causing some debate. Mark Weiss, an advocate for public

art, criticized the city for cutting “94306” out of Wegner’s suite and noted that given the police building’s escalating price tag, the $716,000 contract with Weg-ner falls below the city’s “1% for public art” threshold.

Councilman Greg Tanaka, on the other hand, argued that the budget is too high and voted against the contract. Tanaka cited other community needs, including housing and an improved animal shelter, that should be funded. He was the only dissenter, however, in the 6-1 vote to approve the contract.

Wegner said he plans to start working on the art projects within weeks. He said the experience of developing the concepts for the new building underscored for him the importance of engaging in a public dialogue. He hopes the art itself will have the same effect.

“These are works for the public square and I very much hope that the community will feel owner-ship of them and feel they are a natural complement,” Wegner said.

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

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Xia Guan, beloved mother, wife, and daughter, passed away on June 18, 2019, after 5 years of brave battle with cancer.

She was born February 4, 1970, in Hubei, China. At age 14, she was admitted to the Special Class for Gifted Youth in the best science and technology university in China. After graduating from University of Science and Technology of China in 1989 with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Xia started her graduate school at UC Davis and earned her PhD degree in Genetics in 1997. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University before she moved to IT industry.

She started her career in Pharmaceutical IT Quality industry after joining Roche Palo Alto in 1999. After a short transition with Nektar Therapeutics from 2005 to 2007, she joined Gilead Sciences and took her career to the next level. She was Director of Business IT R&D at Gilead Sciences before passing away at a young age of 49.

She met her love of life on the first day in college. They were married and raised 2 wonderful boys together. She became an avid San Francisco Giants fan after her children started playing baseball in little league which triggered her interests to learn about and understand the sports. Her first priority was always the children and family. “Your Love, Our Lives” was written on the funeral f lower ribbons by her children, which truly told

the story of how she loved them. Her love shaped the children to become responsible and loving individuals. In her spare time she enjoyed traveling. She always wanted to see every part of the

world, and wanted to show her children how wonderful the world is.

Xia made a lot of friends through out the years, and always enjoyed having a laugh with them. She always brought sunshine to her friends, even when she was vigorously fighting cancer. Xia was a Christian and an incredibly brave fighter. She had no fear for death, she held her head up high and faced disease and death with smile. She was so strong she never stopped smiling. Evil could destroy her flesh, but could never defeat her heart. She peacefully left the world, leaving for family and friends her smiles, her kindness and love. As a close friend witnessed, she was always positive, willing to help, and never complained or brought negative thoughts to friends.

Even when she was fighting for her life in the past 5 years, she never stopped praying for the church, for the people in

need, Christians or not. She had sympathy for people close to her as well as for people she didn’t know. Her love touched lot of people. Love is forever. For the people she loved, her love became a part of their lives and they will love her forever!

She is survived by her husband, John Liu of Palo Alto, her 2 sons, and her parents.

Xia GuanFebruary 4, 1970 — June 18, 2019

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TransitionsBirths, marriages and deaths

Dean Ray Lindsay, a devoted husband, father,

grandfather and humble disciple of Christ,

passed peacefully from mortality on May 1,

2019. He was surrounded by his family and held

tenderly in the arms of his beloved wife, Joan.

As a true disciple of Christ, Dean faithfully

kept sacred covenants he had made with God.

Hence, the characteristics of Christ were woven

into the very fiber of his eternal being. Godliness

was his virtue. Faith was his catalyst for action.

Righteousness was his guiding principle.

Kindness was his daily attribute of goodness

given freely to everyone he met. Cleanliness in

mind and body was his obedience. Dedication

to his wife, children, grandchildren, and great

grandchildren was his patriarchal passion. Oh,

how he loved his family.

Dean was born October 17, 1931, to Ray T.

and Mildred Ellison Lindsay of Menlo Park,

California. Marilyn Lindsay (decd.) and

Ronald K. Lindsay (Avis) surrounded

him in deepest sibling love and

joviality throughout his life. He

married his eternal companion

and sweetheart, Joan Lydia

Bailey, in the Salt Lake Temple

of the Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-day Saints

on March 22, 1957. They

are the parents of Andrea

Shaffer, Christian Dean

Lindsay (Daralee), Charisse

Roberts (Rick), and Garrett

Ray Lindsay (decd.), 15

grandchildren, Lindsay

Shaffer Norris (Joshua),

Sydney Shaffer Scott (Jeff),

Courtney Shaffer, Cortland

Lindsay, McKenna Lindsay, Curtis

Cameron (Ashley), Skylar Wing

(decd.), Ashley Roberts Roddam (Eric),

Abbigail Roberts Eccles (Ty), Logan Roberts,

Alissa Lindsay Harlan (Jarom), Jordan Lindsay,

Matthew Lindsay, Preston Lindsay, Kyle Lindsay,

and 9 great grandchildren.

Dean attended Lowell High School, in San

Francisco (head cheerleader), Menlo College,

and University of Utah where he was an active

member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He graduated

from Brigham Young University in banking,

finance, and marketing. He loved going to work

every day as a partner in The Lindsay Company,

sharing duties with his father, Ray, and brother

Ron for over 60 years.

Dean served 4 full time missions for The

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He answered a call from President David O.

Mackay to serve in South Africa (1953-55).

Finding such joy in missionary work, he served

3 more missions with his eternal companion,

including New York, New York (1991-92) ,

Voronezh, Russia (1999-2001), and Canberra,

Australia (2005-2007). Dean served in many

various church leadership responsibilities

throughout his lifetime including Bishop of

Stanford Ward, California, numerous stake and

high council callings in California and Utah, a

MTC bishopric assignment in Provo, Utah, and

as a temple worker in the Mount Timpanogos

Temple in American Fork, Utah. He loved

listening to church conference talks, studying

the scriptures and reading the Book of Mormon

with his sweetheart each night before turning

out the light.

As family patriarch, Dean honored his

priesthood responsibilities with joy as he

baptized his children and grandchildren,

administered blessings and confirmations,

conferred priesthood ordinations to his sons and

grandsons, going through the Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-day Saint temples with Joan

and each of his 4 children and grandchildren,

leading sacred family prayers and directing

opportunities for fasting, discussions, and

family home evenings, was always eager to

participate in gospel discussions with family

and friends, and treasured sharing personal

testimony of God and gospel truths.

Dean was a kind true friend of many, always

eager to care for others and helping them

to meet their life’s challenges. He

had a gift in remembering the

name of everyone he met

and taking a keen personal

interest in each person.

He loved holding his

tiny grandbabies. He

exuded gratitude,

even for the simplest

of acts done to help

him. Many were

blessed to sit at his

side, share and learn

from him. He loved

swimming (Lake

Tahoe, Lake Powell),

water and snow skiing,

learning, cars (driving at

age 14), working at an early

age in a logging company,

early summers in Nephi with

his grandparents on their farm,

dinners with friends, riding horses,

soaking in a hot tub under the stars, floating

in a swimming pool in the cool of the evening,

fishing, traveling the world, building houses,

ballroom dancing, and playing golf and tennis,

especially with Joan and with his brother,

Ron. He was known for always giving a line

disagreement or out of bounds question to his

opponent’s benefit. He cherished and supported

Joan’s accomplishments, and was seen playing

the honored Rabbi in Fiddler On the Roof,

Andrew in On Sacred Ground, Schroeder in

You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, and singing

bass in productions of Handle’s Messiah.

As Dean’s progressive medical disease

hampered his physical abilities and mobility,

the medical care given to him by his physicians

was exemplary and greatly appreciated. Dean’s

family would like to extend their deepest

gratitude to the medical and nursing staff at

Utah Valley hospital for their tender care of him

and his sweet wife, Joan, and their family during

his last hours on earth. His passing has left a

painful deep hole in our hearts and we will miss

him dearly. Each of us has been blessed with his

kindness, his love, his testimony, his friendship

and his example of gratitude and goodness. He

made us want to be and do better.

Condolences may be sent to the family at

www.olpinmortuary.com.

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

Dean Ray LindsayOctober 17, 1931 – May 1, 2019

Donald FittonDonald Fitton, 94, died on June

26. He was born on an orange ranch in Lindsay, California, to Roland and Georgia Fitton. His father had been an ace fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force in WWI. One of his early aspi-rations was to follow in his father’s footsteps, so on his 18th birthday in 1942, he joined the U.S. Air Force, training as a fighter pilot.

After his military service, he attended San Jose State Univer-sity, where he met and fell in love with Virginia Luke in 1948. They married in 1949 and cel-ebrated their 70th wedding an-niversary earlier this year.

He had a 20-year career as an executive in the scientific and technical publishing industry. However, he decided to make a career change after attending a seminar with Stanford Univer-sity professor Dr. Harry Rath-bun and his wife, Emilia, on the teachings of Jesus in 1954.

In 1962, he became one of the co-founders and first president of Creative Initiative Founda-tion (CIF), located in Palo Alto. Working with the Rathbuns and others in the community, he and his wife were instrumental in forming the AMR Institute, which focused on the human condition as influenced by at-titude, motivation and response.

With his wife, he also taught a Stanford Senior Colloquium on human maturation and led semi-nars for the Peace Corps and Vista. In 1982, CIF’s focus shift-ed to increasing awareness and education to prevent nuclear war. This led to the genesis of the Be-yond War movement, which he and his wife co-founded.

In the 1990s, the couple con-tinued to work with the Founda-tion for Global Community in Palo Alto.

They lived in the Bay Area for 70 years and in Palo Alto for over 40 years. He is survived by his wife, Virginia; their son, John (Mary Lynn); and three grandchildren. His daughter, Kris, predeceased him.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in his name may be made to The Art of Yoga Project at theartofyogaproject.org.

Robert Therrien Robert Therrien, a sculptor

who grew up in Palo Alto, died June 17 after a battle with cancer. He was born in Chicago on Nov. 17, 1947, according to the Gago-sian art gallery website, where his work was recently exhibited.

He moved to Palo Alto at the age of 5 and went to Palo Alto

High School before attending the California College of Arts and Crafts (California College of the Arts). He later received a photography degree from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara fol-lowed by a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

He was best known for tak-ing ordinary objects, such as tables and chairs, and making them extraordinary by sculpting enormous replicas of them. He once described himself as fall-ing in between a romantic and realist artist, his online biogra-phy states.

His work can be found in mu-seums across the globe, includ-ing the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Museum of Contemporary Art and The Broad, both located in Los Angeles, as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Dorothy HassettDorothy Hassett, a longtime

former Weekly employee, died on June 6. A fourth generation Ca l i fo r n ia n, she was born in Modesto to Lester and Velma Smith on July 2, 1929, the sec-ond child of three. She at-tended Ca-noga Park High School in the San Fernando Valley, where her mom was a secretary and liberal activist and her dad was an itin-erant farmer at first and then a home builder.

She attended San Jose State University and remained in the Santa Clara Valley the rest of her life. She taught physical edu-cation at San Mateo High School and married Bob Hassett, who taught shop classes at Sunnyvale High School. The couple raised three children together: Sally, Allan and Carla. When the kids were in school, she took a job at the Los Altos Town Crier news-paper followed by two stints with the Palo Alto Weekly, start-ing in 1989 and ending in 2015.

As a lifelong athlete, she was a fan of the San Francisco Giants, the San Francisco 49ers and the Golden State Warriors.

Her husband developed de-mentia early, but she became an advocate and loyal part of his caregiving family at Sunnyside Gardens for over 10 years be-fore he died. She was also pre-deceased by her daughter, Sally; her son, Allan; her older sister, Mary Lou; and her younger brother, Dale. She is survived by her daughter, Carla (Brian); three grandchildren; her sister-in-law, Nancy; and a host of nieces and nephews.


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A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Karla KaneArts & Entertainment

This year’s Music@Menlo festival highlights seven “Incredible Decades,” transporting audiences

from the age of Bach through the romantic era to the Roaring ’20s and the new millennium. While last summer’s seven-city “Cre-ative Capitals” journey featured music from seven European cities, this year’s event crosses the ocean into the 20th century, as jazz and popular music coming out of the New World inspired composers worldwide.

Spanning centuries of chamber music, the 17th annual festival runs July 12 to Aug. 3 at the Cen-ter for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton High School and Menlo School, both in Atherton.

“Bach Ascending,” the first con-cert program, opens in the 18th century, with the first “Branden-burg “ Concerto as well as a suite from Handel’s “Water Music.” Pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel, co-founders and co-artistic directors of the festival, said they are particularly excited about per-forming those pieces at Menlo for the first time.

Moving through the ages, programs include “Beethoven Launched,” which also includes Haydn and Mozart; “Classical Twi-light,” featuring Schubert’s “Win-terreise” song cycle, with Wu Han on piano; the “Romantic Revolu-tion,” with the music of Schumann, Chopin and Mendelssohn; and “Moscow to Montmartre,” span-ning such disparate composers as Rachmaninoff and Debussy.

“I’ve been drooling over that piece for a long time and finally feel I’m old enough to take the chal-lenge,” Wu Han said of “Winter-reise.” Based on 24 poems by Wil-helm Müller, the melancholy song cycle was composed in the year of Beethoven’s death, and just a year before Schubert’s own sad demise at age 31. Finckel translated the li-bretto from the German to help her get the feeling of the piece, which Russian baritone Nikolay Borchev will sing. “It’s beautiful and heart-wrenching,” she said.

The penultimate “Roaring Twen-ties” concert shatters classical boundaries, with George Gersh-win’s “Lullaby” for String Quartet, a Ravel sonata imbued with bluesy Gershwin influences, and a roman-tic piano quintet by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who left troubled pre-war Vienna to score Hollywood

movies.The Korngold

piano quintet, which Wu Han is “dying to hear,” is rarely performed. Both she and Finckel are eager to introduce it to Menlo audiences.

“People don’t know the name Korngold,” said Finckel, but the quintet features “themes that show up later in ‘The Adventures of Rob-in Hood,’” which Korngold scored. “This is where that music of Hol-lywood came from — immigrants from Vienna. Thank God we have them.”

Finally, “Music at the Millen-nium” blurs classical distinctions with Mark O’Connor’s playful “F.C.’s Jig” (short for “Fiddle Con-certo”) for Violin and Viola and John Adams’ “Road Movies” for Violin and Piano. Calling his title “total whimsy,” Adams points to the “swing mode” in the piano part as well as the “tricky cross-hand style” in the final movement.

Multimedia lectures with mu-sicologists illuminate each of the seven key decades, showing his-torical and cultural influences on music, such as the upheavals and revolutions of the 19th century and the technological innovations of the last century, when radios, record players, and later, the computer, brought music of all genres into the home.

While all festivals have a theme, this year’s Music@Menlo illus-trates how “music is created in relation to history,” Wu Han said during a phone interview from New York, where she and Finckel, called classical music’s “power couple,” are artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Although the chamber repertoire is massive, “we’re never at a loss to find interesting ways to present it,” Finckel added, using an analogy to the Grand Canyon, which he and Wu Han visited recently. “Every time you turn a corner, it looks dif-ferent. There’s no end to the variety of ways the Grand Canyon looks. The literature of chamber music is kind of like that.”

By concentrating on seven spe-cific decades, it’s far easier to give audiences a clear picture of the evo-lution of classical music, Finckel

observed. “It’s not the whole pie, but it’s seven very delicious slices, each one with its own flavor,” he said. “I think these seven decades have contributed to the strength of that house of chamber music that we’re building. Each of these decades has its own room. It just makes the structure itself stronger and more interesting and more enjoyable.”

What sets Music@Menlo apart from other summer festivals is its education component, not only with a lecture series but with mas-ter classes, informal Café Con-versations and a series of Carte Blanche concerts in which the artists curate their own programs. In addition, the festival hosts a Chamber Music Institute and in-ternational program, training pre-professional musicians as well as talented children, offering them an opportunity to learn and perform with professionals. In the Aug. 2 Overture Concert, 11 students in the festival’s international program will perform pieces by Beethoven, Brahms and César Franck with the festival’s main-stage artists.

Violinist Arnaud Sussmann, who is also associate director of Men-lo’s international program, em-phasized the festival’s educational component.

“I’ve been going there for 10 years and I can’t tell you how many summers I’ve been blown away by what I’ve learned,” he said. “Most festivals you go, perform and have a wonderful time. At Menlo you re-ally go to learn something extra.”

In terms of performing, Suss-mann will fiddle in O’Connor’s “Jig” and play viola, not his usual instrument, in a Mendelssohn string quartet. He will also play second violin in Korngold’s piano quintet, a challenging piece with intricate rhythms he will be per-forming for the first time.

But beyond performing, he said, “teaching is another huge passion of mine.” He sees his mission as mentoring talented young musi-cians just as he was mentored when he left France at age 15 to study at Juilliard with Itzhak Perlman, whom he refers to as “my teacher, Mr. Perlman.”

These days, Sussmann is passing those lessons on, not only at Men-lo, but at Stony Brook University on Long Island. “One of the most beautiful things about what we do in this music world, or in the art world, is that the skills we learn cannot be just passed on through a book. You need a mentor. You need someone who is going to pass on the information that was passed on to them through their mentor.

“Teaching really helps your own playing, because you have to sit back and analyze things and listen from the outside,” Sussmann said. “If you’re a great teacher ... hope-fully, you can apply (those les-sons from listening) in your own playing.”

Acquiring new audiences for classical concerts is a perennial

concern. Sussmann, 34, uses so-cial media to reach out. In addi-tion, running the summer program for young musicians with pianist and educator Gilbert Kalish is heartening.

“Every time I go to Menlo, I feel better about the future of classical music, when you see the level the dedication the artistry of the young musicians we see there,” he said. “Music@Menlo becomes its own enclave, idealistic world for a few weeks and it’s all because of the genius of David and Wu Han.”

Both Wu Han and Finckel said education has been a central part of Menlo’s mission from its incep-tion — not simply through mentor-ing new generations but by opening audiences to music they may not know.

“If you look back on Music@Menlo on the internet, you would see 17 years of education-centric and performance-centric pro-grams,” said Wu Han. “We’re not just looking at music that is pleas-ing but music that is meaningful.”

Freelance writer Janet Silver Ghent can be emailed at [email protected].

Music@Menlo spans the centuriesby Janet Silver Ghent

What: Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute.Where: Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, 555 Middlefield Road, Atherton; and Menlo School, 50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton.When: Friday, July 12, to Saturday, Aug. 3.Cost: $34-$84 per concert, $15-$35 for patrons under 30, with some free events.Info: Go to [email protected].

This year’s Music@Menlo festival highlights seven decades of chamber music, with musicians including (clockwise from left) violinist Arnaud Sussman, festival founders David Finckel and Wu Han, and singer Nikolay Borchev.

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A ccording to artist Kathy Aoki, “printmaking is a democratic art form. You

can show two identical originals at different exhibitions at the same time. Try doing that with a painting!”

Aoki is one of the numerous art-ists represented in the “Local Edi-tions: A Celebration of Bay Area Printmaking” exhibition currently on view at the Palo Alto Art Cen-ter, part of its summer-long pro-gram celebrating the eclectic art of printmaking (following last sum-mer’s focus on collage).

Aoki’s print series “Dance Styles of the 1800’s,” printed by Gruenwald Press, cheekily imag-ines modern dance styles such as twerking being performed in private and social settings in the 19th century, the juxtaposition of

old-fashioned and new proving humorous and thought-provoking.

“I prefer printmaking methods where there is evidence of the inked plate making contact and pressing into the paper texture (as in intaglio printing), or methods where the artist’s hand is visible, such as linoleum cut or lithogra-phy,” Aoki told the Weekly in an email.

Lithography, for example, tradi-tionally involves drawing an im-age with fat or wax onto a stone or metal plate. It’s an artform that requires some technical trial and error.

“With all printmaking, I enjoy the opportunity to make more than one, to experiment along the way. There are frequent mini-fail-ures in printmaking that must be overcome. I think this resilience to

technical adversity has made me a better artist in general,” she said.

Other local printing presses featured in “Local Editions” in-clude Arion Press, Crown Point Press, Electric Works, Gallery 16, KALA, Magnolia Editions, Paulson Fontaine Press, Trillium Graphics, Mullowney Printing and Palo Alto’s own Smith Andersen Editions.

“For this show we really wanted to make our community aware of how many incredible printmaking presses and master printers there are in the Bay Area and show work that has been done at each one,” curator Selene Foster said. “(Curatorial assistant) Andrea An-tonaccio and I collected work we feel embodies the spirit of what they do.”

For Paul Mullowney of San Francisco’s Mullowney Print-ing, it’s something of a family tradition.

“Years ago, my father was a newspaper publisher. My grandfa-ther was a commercial printer in the early 1900s; my shop is named after his company,” he said. “I guess graphic arts is kind of in my blood.”

His business does all kinds of printing — photogravure, lithog-raphy, screen, letterpress and more — “almost anything but digital reproductions,” he said. He’s currently especially fond of

photogravure, a process that in-volves transferring a photographic image to a printing plate.

“Network Paradox Scroll,” a large photogravure etching by Greg Niemeyer and Roger Anton-sen, was created with Mullowney Printing and is included in “Local Editions.”

When asked about the future of his chosen medium and keep-ing a traditional business going in the high-cost-of-living Bay Area, Mullowney said, “print publishing is very expensive. The economics are always a challenge. It’s always a struggle.” Mullowney Printing offers workshops and education in addition to its diverse array of printing capabilities, which helps the business thrive, along with continued interest from the com-munity. “There are a lot of young people who are really into the ana-logue printing,” he said.

Big-name artists such as the late children’s author/illustrator Mau-rice Sendak and cartoonist Robert Crumb are represented in the art center’s exhibition thanks to their lithographic work with Trillium Graphics. Stanford University art professor Enrique Chagoya’s “Pyramid Scheme,” digital pig-ment prints on cans published by Electric Works, are Warhol-esque Campbell’s Soup lookalikes un-der the name “Cannibulls Soup,” with flavors including “Wall

Street Gumbo” and “Freddie Mac’n’Cheese.”

Marcel Dzama’s whimsical “The Cabin of Count Dracula,” also published by Electric Works, includes not only 20 hand-drawn lithographs but also a little model cabin (home to the vampire fam-ily) and a colored vinyl record, “Dracula EP,” by Dzama’s band Albatross Note, which exhibition visitors are invited to play aloud.

Other components of the “Sum-mer of Printmaking” include the free Summer Family Day on Aug. 25, 2-4:30 p.m., with hands-on art-making and performances; classes for adults in monotyping, etching and collagraph; and the tempo-rary transformation of the Glass Gallery into a primitive printing press, where five local arts will be printing throughout the summer. Their work will be featured in a celebration on Aug. 22.

“Local Editions” also borrows several prints from Palo Alto’s public art collection, donated by the late Paula and Phillip Kirkeby of Smith Andersen Editions, in-cluding David Gilhooly’s etching “First Morning Cup of Paula’s Coffee,” from 1983. Smith An-derson Editions’ former printing press, which the art center now runs from Cubberley Community Center, has been renamed PKP Press in honor of Paula Kirkeby, a former Palo Alto public art com-missioner. Works by a selection of artists printing at PKP Press, including Rozanne Hermelyn, Gloria Huet, Anne McGrath Ho-chberg and Susanne Smith, are on view in the Studio Gallery of the art center through Aug. 25.

“Paula herself was an inspira-tion to so many, both artists and printers,” Foster said.

Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at [email protected].

Arts & Entertainment

Start the pressesPalo Alto Art Center celebrates a ‘summer of printmaking’ with ‘Local Editions’ and more

by Karla Kane

What: “Local Editions: A Celebration of Bay Area Printmaking.”Where: Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto.When: Through Aug. 25. Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Thursday open until 9 p.m.); Sunday 1-5 p.m.Cost: Free.Info: tinyurl.com/y3ozclqh.

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The art center’s “summer of printmaking” celebration includes Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordström’s series of color aquatints with etching.

Kathy Aoki’s stone lithograph with watercolor, “(She) Twerkin’,” was printed by Gruenwald Press and hand-colored by the artist. Aoki’s work is on display as part of the Palo Alto Art Center’s “Local Editions” exhibition.

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A good catchThe Fish Market remains a local institution with seafood classics and modern touches

T he Palo Alto Weekly last sent a reviewer to The Fish Market in 1994. The res-

taurant was a local institution even then. Founders Fred Duck-ett and Robert Wilson fired up their famous mesquite grill dur-ing the Gerald Ford adminis-tration, when the term “Silicon Valley” was barely in the lexicon and a gallon of gas cost about 60 cents.

Today, with four other Bay Area locations and two in south-ern California, as well as its own seafood processing and distri-bution company, the Palo Alto Fish Market — still in its origi-nal location — is one of the true grande dames of the local restau-rant scene. Duckett died in 2006; Wilson continues to be involved in the operations.

The shiny and new tend to oc-cupy the attention of critics, but what of those rare places that have managed to transcend trends and withstand the enormous pres-sures, economic and otherwise, of the industry? I made a few visits to the El Camino Real mainstay for a little nostalgia and to get a sense of how The Fish Market has managed to stay relevant while its hometown barely resembles the sleepy college town it was on opening day in 1976.

The culinary ethos here has always been as no-nonsense as the restaurant’s name: a focus on fresh, lightly seasoned, char-broiled fish served with simple sides and no pretense. The menu changes slightly every day de-pending on the catch. One thing

that hasn’t changed is the basket of pre-dinner Boudin sourdough bread and butter.

“Many restaurants no longer provide bread as a standard of-fering, but it is one of our hall-marks,” Vice President of Op-erations Dwight Colton said in a phone interview. “I think our cus-tomers would revolt if we changed that practice.”

Complimentary bread or not, fans of trendy fusion or complex sauces might be feeling a yawn about now. But The Fish Market’s focus on classic, quality seafood has proven an enduring recipe for success. They also have made some smart menu tweaks over the years, such as adding a small su-shi menu about a decade ago and, more recently, ahi poke.

Everything about this poke was on point: shimmering cubes of ruby-red yellowfin tuna delicate-ly bathed in sesame oil and soy and served atop a crunchy sea-weed salad. A wasabi kick heated things up on the back end. Airy wonton chips, served alongside the generous mound of glistening fish, were light and crunchy. Poke perfection.

The Baja-style crunchy fish ta-cos ($14.75 for two) also showcase The Fish Market’s more modern side. Corn tortillas enveloped a huge hunk of moist, grilled swordfish, topped with cabbage, cheese, chipotle ranch and pico de gallo. A delicious mesquite grilled artichoke ($9.95), served with a zingy garlic-lemon aioli, rounded out our appetizers.

The linguine with Manila clams

The Fish Market’s cioppino comes with crab legs, shrimp, mussels, calamari and rockfish.

Grilled Mexican line-caught swordfish at The Fish Market in Palo Alto.

The bar at The Fish Market, which opened in Palo Alto in 1976.

($19.50) has stood the test of time with its classic wine-and-garlic sauce, just a touch of heat from red pepper and a generous serving of sweet, plump clams. The ciop-pino ($25 small, $36 large), on the menu since the restaurant’s earli-est days and described therein as “famous,” is still a solid choice, with two large crab legs, shrimp, mussels, calamari and rockfish in a slightly peppery stew made extra chunky with tomatoes. This signature dish didn’t quite feel “famous” to me (and I daresay Sam’s Chowder House now has the rightful claim to the best ciop-pino in the area). This one tasted a little flat and was too heavy on the tomato chunks, suggesting a hearty pomodoro pasta sauce more than a seafood stew.

The Ecuadoran seabass ($28.95) initially looked somewhat plain and disappointing, an unadorned piece of fish, a tad on the paltry side with a ho-hum scoop of veg-etables and a side of French fries. But one bite erased any doubt and made clear why The Fish Market still has a lobby full of people waiting for tables on weekend nights. Simple, delicate, moist and smoky, the perfectly grilled piece of fish was a testament to the primordial exquisiteness of open-flame cooking. And those plain-looking, lightly seasoned vegetables turned out to be fresh, crunchy and delicious.

Desserts are old school and comforting, along the lines of key lime pie ($8.50) and warm apple crisp a la mode ($9.50). I happily tucked into a dessert special on offer over Fathers’ Day weekend, a warm upside-down apple pie ($9.50) with a caramelized wal-nut crust and cinnamon ice cream.

My visits to the restaurant came at peak weekend dinner times and the servers had to move at warp speed through the large dining room. Yet no one missed a beat. Service was always efficient, friendly and well-timed. Cock-tails like the “Mandarin Mule” ($11) were generous and expertly mixed, like in, well, the good old days. No trendy, oversized ice cubes in Lilliputian glasses here.

Still, time marches on, and eventually it is almost always deemed that changes must be made. Colton told me they are planning significant renovations to the restaurant in 2020 to give the place a more modern look. I can’t decide yet if I like that idea, but I suppose you have to trust a restaurant group that seems to have been making smart decisions for more than four decades.

Freelance writer Monica Schreiber can be emailed at [email protected].


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Eugene and Nadine Wu, who came to Palo Alto in the early 1950s, celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary last month. Photo by Veronica Weber.

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JULY 2019

I n 1950s Palo Alto, a cup of coffee cost a nickel, an apartment in Col-lege Terrace rented for $75 a month

and the Chinese community represented a tiny minority of the population: Only 167 residents, or 0.7% of Palo Alto’s residents, were Chinese, according the 1950 U.S. Census.

This is the Palo Alto Eugene and Nadine Wu remember while living in the community as newlyweds. Eugene worked at Stanford University and Na-dine at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic.

“There was almost no Chinese com-munity. There was no Chinese grocery story. Even buying a bottle of soy sauce was difficult — you had to go to San Francisco to buy those things,” said Eu-gene, who will turn 97 on July 12. He and Nadine celebrated their 69th wed-ding anniversary last month.

Today, mainstream Palo Alto grocery stores routinely stock Asian food prod-ucts, and a house that in the 1950s sold for $13,000 is now valued at $3.4 mil-lion. The population of Chinese accounts for 17.5% of the city, according the U.S. Census’ 2017 estimate.

The Wus recently sat down in their Menlo Park home with the Weekly to reflect on the transformation of this mi-nority population, an “unimaginable” change that’s taken place within their lifetimes.

They recalled their early days in Palo

Alto when they served as unofficial ambassadors of the fledgling Chinese community. “We did a lot of things in those days because there was no Chinese consulate,” Nadine said.

Eugene was sometimes called upon to receive visitors from Taiwan or Hong Kong who came to Stanford University, and Nadine was invited to Chinatown in San Francisco to celebrate events, such as Chinese National Day, she recalled.

Born in Chengdu, the capital of south-western China’s Sichuan Province, Eu-gene came to the United States in 1945 as one of 100 interpreters enlisted to help train Chinese Air Force cadets

A thriving cultural forceCouple recalls ‘amazing’ growth of Palo Alto’s

once-fledgling Chinese communityby Chris Kenrick

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FILM FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER ...Oscar-nominated filmmaker DorothyFadiman of Menlo Park will screen three of her short documentaries, including “Shattering the Myth of Aging,” on Wednesday, July 31, at Avenidas@450Bryant in Palo Alto. The screenings will be followed by a conversation with Fadiman moderated by Jasmina Bojic, director of Stanford’s Camera As Witness program and founder of the United Nations Association Film Festival, which holds special screenings for seniors at Channing House and Avenidas. The event is a fundraiser for the United Nations Association Film Festival for Seniors, and a minimum donation of $60 is suggested. For more information, go to unaff.org.

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Senior Focusto fight against the Japanese in

World War II. Eugene had learned English as a young boy in Cheng-du — memorizing the Gettysburg Address in high school — stud-ied foreign languages in college and joined the Chinese Army as an interpreter. After the Japanese surrendered, he was able to stay in the United States to attend the University of Washington, where he met Nadine.

He came to Palo Alto in 1951 fresh out of library school after he was hired to help organize the newly acquired Chinese collec-tion at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, which docu-mented China’s political, eco-nomic and social developments starting with the 1911 revolution.

Eugene recalled that there were only two Chinese faculty mem-bers at Stanford at that time.

While Nadine Wu worked as a lab technician at the old Palo Alto Medical Clinic, Eugene — always formally dressed in pressed shirt and tie — toiled in the basement of Hoover Tower. “We used to boast that we were the ones hold-ing up the tower,” he said.

His job was organizing and cataloging box loads of materials, many of them manuscripts written by leaders of the Chinese Com-munist Party. “Everything had to be done by hand,” Wu said.

The English in the card catalog could be typewritten, but the Chi-nese had to be written by hand, he explained.

Living in Palo Alto wasn’t al-ways easy for the Chinese couple.

The Wus said they faced racial discrimination when looking for an apartment in Palo Alto.

“We’d look in the Palo Alto

Times and find vacancies, but when we went and knocked on the door and they saw our faces, they’d say, ‘Sorry, the place has been rented,’” Eugene said.

Nadine said they eventually found a close-knit neighborhood where their son and daughter — born in 1957 and 1960 — spent their early childhood years.

“Our neighbors were won-derful — we were all young mothers,” Nadine said about living on Louis Road. “It was very safe. You could unlock your door, go to the neighbor’s house and nothing happened.”

The Wus felt so secure that they let their 5-year-old son walk unac-companied to his piano teacher’s house.

In the early 1960s, the Wus moved to Massachusetts, where they spent 33 years while Eugene directed the Harvard-Yenching Library, a major center for East Asian research. When they re-turned to the Palo Alto area for retirement in the late 1990s, they were astonished by the growth and dynamism of the local

Chinese community. “We joined a Chinese church,

and it has eight branches all over the Bay Area,” Nadine said. The main branch — located in Menlo Park and serving a mix of people from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and even some U.S.-born Chinese — holds multiple services every Sunday.

“It’s amazing how the make-up of the Chinese community changed over time,” Eugene said.

Before World War II, the Chi-nese community consisted of mainly Cantonese immigrants who ran restaurants and laundries. After World War II, the influx of new immigrants, mostly non-Cantonese, were academics and computer technicians, he said.

“After 1980, mainland Chi-nese students came to study, and it’s amazing to see how many re-mained here and became profes-sors at universities, medical doc-tors, engineers,” Eugene said. “This was just unimaginable before.”

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

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moving the parasites that often in-fest his hives.

When he aims for accuracy though, he can’t be gentle: he grabs a metal measuring cup and a glass mason jar with a small mesh screen for a lid and brings them out to the six beehives in his backyard. Then he opens a hive, scoops out a half cup of bees and seals them in the jar. Quickly, he pours rub-bing alcohol onto the 300 buzzing martyrs and swishes vigorously, drowning them all.

When the body of every bee is soaked, he drains the liquid through the mesh lid and counts the black spots that come out with it — each one is a varroa mite. If he counts too many, Silverstein — a retired orthopedic surgeon — will treat the infected hive with an oxalic acid vapor, which he likens to a doctor treating his patients.

Silverstein is among hundreds of beekeepers along the Peninsula trying to fight off the deadly mites, which are killing 40% of the coun-try’s honey bee colonies each year.

The mite epidemic is one of the first things new beekeepers learn about when they start tending bees on the Midpeninsula. The next thing they learn is that they have to pick a side: Treat the colonies or let nature take its course.

Many beekeepers insist bees can fight off the mites on their own. In order for that to work, they say, ev-ery beekeeper has to stop treating because it interferes with natural selection — the ability for bees to evolve their defense mechanisms.

“It’s almost a religious divide among beekeepers,” said Tori Muir, former president of the Beekeepers’ Guild of San Mateo County, who like Silverstein uses strips and sprays to keep mite pop-ulations down.

Menlo Park resident David Wuertele — a treatment-free

beekeeper — watched all three of his hives die last year, but he doesn’t think it’s because his treatment-free practices “killed” his bees.

“I believe that any attempt to treat mites prevents evolution from improving our gene stock, and interferes with treatment-free beekeepers’ efforts,” he wrote in an email. Wuertele — a software engineer at Tesla — sees initial losses as a part of the process of genetic evolution, which would result in stronger bees if treaters stopped keeping genetically weak bees alive with chemicals.

While locals are still struggling to come to a consensus on how to get rid of the mites, all beekeep-ers agree that death by varroa is traumatic.

After nesting in brood chambers alongside growing bee pupae, var-roa mites hatch and pierce through the abdomen of adult bees to feast on an organ called “fatty tissue,” which helps control the bee’s im-mune system. This weakens the bees and leaves them highly sus-ceptible to crippling diseases like Deformed Wing Virus.

Guild member Nickie Irvine, who has been beekeeping for 15 years, confronts the scourge with-out chemicals, but she doesn’t ex-actly leave the bees to do it on their own, either.

After teaching environmental anthropology at Stanford Univer-sity for 25 years, Irvine is well-versed in research and the scien-tific method. She now approaches each of her backyard hives as a ge-netic experiment to test different ways of reducing varroa numbers without using chemical treatments.

When word spread that some

Russian bees had adapted to bet-ter withstand varroa, she bought queens from those colonies.

If she sees good resistance in a hive — from Russian or other strong genes — she’ll split the hive so the strong bees can raise a new queen, which creates two healthy hives from one.

Other times she’ll graft larvae from one hive into another to spread the strength of the gene pool.

There’s no shortage of creative (if not complex) alternatives to treatment, so in the quest for a solution to the varroa epidemic, Irvine would like to see more tol-erance of beekeepers who explore unconventional methods.

“We need to let more people experiment to see what works and what doesn’t,” she said.

On the Peninsula, no sentinel hives — colonies that are heavily monitored to detect the presence of varroa — can warn beekeep-ers, because the mites have been in California since at least 1989. The question is not if a hive will get varroa, it’s when. Many back-yard beekeepers weigh factors like honey production, the bees’ suf-fering and chemical toxicity when considering treatment options, but those aren’t necessarily in line with the nature of a hive.

“Bees are brutally community minded,” Muir said. “It’s all about what helps us — (the colony) —survive. There’s no cult of person-ality or anything — with them it’s just about metrics.”

She explained how in winter, when resources are scarce, the colony will push drone bees out of the hive to starve. Or, if a queen is underperforming, how the colony

will raise a new queen and huddle around the old one, beating their wings furiously until she explodes from the heat. It’s a merciless ver-sion of altruism that few beekeep-ers dare simulate.

Irvine said she doesn’t think she could stomach killing an entire colony suffering from high num-bers of varroa mites — which some researchers advocate — but she’ll move larvae and buy queens.

Silverstein and Muir prefer the oxalic acid treatment, but every ap-proach has its tradeoffs.

“The people who monitor for mites year round and treat whenev-er the mite population starts spik-ing up, they (rarely) lose hives,” Muir said. “But very few people want to keep bees that way, and at some point you have to question — you’re keeping them alive, but at what cost, because you’re con-stantly treating for mites.”

Kali Shiloh writes for the Weekly’s sister publication The Six-Fifty. You can reach her at [email protected].

Burlingame beekeeper Bob Silverstein checks a frame from one of his hives. Local beekeepers disagree on whether or not to treat mite-infected hives.

IF YOU’RE INTERESTED ...Two local beekeepers’ guilds welcome both new and experienced beekeepers.

Beekeepers’ Guild of San MateoMeets the first Thursday of the month in San Carlos. sanmateobeeguild.org/ or [email protected]

Santa Clara Valley Beekeeping GuildMeets the first Monday of the month in San Jose. beeguild.org or 408-634-BEES

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CARDINAL CORNER … Stanford Athletic Director Bernard Muir announced the hiring of Ted Sobolewski as Stanford’s Director of Men’s Rowing and Brian Swingly as head coach of Stanford sailing. Sobolewski joins the Cardinal after serving as the associate head coach at Northeastern for the previous four seasons. Swingly comes to The Farm after 13 years with the Coast Guard Academy sailing team, including the last 10 as head coach … Stanford head coach Kate Bertko and the women’s lightweight rowing program were honored as the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Coach and Crew of the Year, Stanford has captured the IRA team championship each of the last five years … Stanford athletes continue to gain popularity as Pan American Games rosters are being set across the region. Junior women’s basketball forward Alyssa Jerome is the latest as she was named to Canada’s roster for the Pan American Games that start Aug. 6 in Lima, Peru. Cardinal teammate Kiana Williams will play for the U.S. … Stanford senior and reigning AVCA National Player of the Year Kathryn Plummer joins 13 others who were named to the United States’ women’s national volleyball team that will compete at the Pan American Cup, which opens Saturday in Peru … Flo Track reported that Stanford Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Chris Miltenberg left The Farm to take over the same positions at North Carolina … Stanford won the 2018-19 Learfield IMG College Directors’ Cup, extending its streak to 25 consecutive seasons of winning the award, presented to the most successful intercollegiate athletic department in the nation.

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Christian Coleman blazes to fastest 100 time

New world bests achieved in men’s mile and two mileby Glenn Reeves

U SA’s Christian Coleman lowered his world lead in winning the men’s

100-meter race in 9.81 at Sun-day’s Prefontaine Track and Field Classic as part of the IAAF Dia-mond League at Stanford’s Cobb Track and Angell Field, which drew a sellout crowd of 8,128, the largest crowd at Stanford since 1962.

“I just try to go out and compete and try to come out with a win, but, obviously, guys are steadily getting better and better and al-ways running faster,” Coleman

said. “It’s going take some pretty good training to get a gold medal at the end of the year.”

Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei in the men’s two mile and Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot in the men’s mile also took over the world lead while two Diamond League re-cords and four meet records were also set on a thoroughly satisfying afternoon involving the world’s top athletes.

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F ormer Stanford All-Ameri-can Christen Press took ad-vantage of her opportunity.

Press and Alex Morgan, cel-ebrating her birthday, each scored in the first half for the Americans, who have won a record 11 consec-utive World Cup matches, defeated England 2-1 in the FIFA Women’s World Cup semifinals on Tuesday in Decines-Chappieu, France.

The U.S. advances to its third consecutive final Sunday at 8 a.m. against Netherlands, which edged Sweden 1-0 in overtime.

Press, who started in place of Megan Rapinoe, who sustained

a slight hamstring strain, put the U.S. ahead 1-0 in the 10th min-ute on a header off a perfectly placed long crossing pass from former Cardinal teammate Kel-ley O’Hara.

“I always say we have multiple starters at multiple positions,” coach Jill Ellis said. “I knew and trusted she would be ready for the moment.”

Press was also part of Morgan’s goal as he took a long pass and sent it along to Lindsey Horan, who served it up to Morgan in the box.

The British tied the match in the 19th minute and had a goal in the second half taken off the board

because of an offside call.Becky Sauerbrunn was issued a

yellow card for tripping inside the box and England was awarded a penalty kick in the 84th minute.

Goaalkeeper Alyssa Naeher dove right, smothered the ball to her chest and saved Team USA’s victory.

In an earlier game, Rapinoe scored both goals in a 2-1 victory over host France in the quarterfi-nals, never backing down from a staunch effort by the French nor from the controversy resulting from her outspoken and unfiltered expression of political views.

“It’s everything you want,” said

Rapinoe. “A good, healthy hostile crowd. Our fans were amazing but they were no match for the blue fans. There was so much energy in the stadium and France had a lot of the ball so that energized their fans. We didn’t have the best night on the ball, but the focus de-fensively, the discipline to do what we did is tremendous.”

Two members of that defensive unit are Menlo Park resident and Sacred Heart Prep graduate Abby Dahlkemper and former Stanford All-American Kelley O’Hara, the Cardinal’s all-time leading scorer



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yelling. They were like, ‘Woah, woah!’ And it got me a little mo-tivation to win the race.”

Paul Chelimo, born in Kenya but competing as an American, was second in 8:07.59.

In all, 13 facility records (of 19 events) were established at Stan-ford as well as dozens of personal and season bests, which made the meet one of the top track and field events ever contested on Stan-ford’s campus.

Coleman held off Justin Gatlin, who finished in 9.87, in a race be-tween Tennessee runners (Gatlin is 14 years older than Coleman). Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes, who has trained with Usain Bolt, was third in 9.97.

“It’s always good to run on home soil,” Coleman said. “The crowd was hype.”

Stanford has played host to im-portant meets throughout its his-tory, including the 1941 NCAA Championships, the 1932 and 1960 Olympic Trials, and the epic 1962 USA-USSR dual that has been described as “the greatest track meet of all time.”

But there never has been a meet at Stanford with the quality of Sunday’s Prefontaine Classic. The oldest facility record surpassed was that of Jeff Fishback’s 9:06.8 two-mile from the Pacific Asso-ciation AAU meet of 1962, which was erased by 59 seconds.

Other top marks included Swe-den’s Armand Duplantis’ 19-5 1/2 in the pole vault, Brazil’s Darlan Romani’s 74-7 1/4 and Ukraine’s Yuliya Levchenko’s 6-8 1/2 in the women’s high jump. Those marks exceeded any Jenner Classic meet or U.S. national championship, which were held at Stanford in 2002 and 2003.

The women’s 100 meters was just as entertaining as Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou de-fended her title from last season with a time of 11.02, the fastest Diamond League mark of the season.

LSU’s Aleia Hobbs was sec-ond on 11.04, followed by Tex-as’ Teahna Daniels (11.13) and 19-year-old Sha’Carri Richardson (11.15) in her professional debut.

“The race felt good. I noticed some tweaks I could make, even throughout the race,” Richardson said. “It wasn’t my best race, but I know it was an OK race for it to be my first pro race, but I just no-ticed some areas of improvement and will only get better.”

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997 All Other LegalsORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.:19CV345264 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: JI YOON CHAI filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: JI YOON CHAI to MARIA JIYOON CHAI. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: July 30, 2019, 8:45 a.m.,Room: PROBATE of the 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 successive 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 27, 2019 /s/ Julie A. Emede JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW June 21, 28; July 5, 12 )

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Former Cardinal All-American Kelley O’Hara delivered a perfectly placed long crossing pass to Press.

when she left The Farm. Tierna Davidson, another former Stanford and Sacred Heart Prep standout, also has added to the stellar defensive show-ing. She started the match against Chile and played a strong game, contributing two corner kicks to the attack.

France scored its goal with just under 10 minutes remain-ing in regulation and Dahlkemper just missed redirect-ing the header to safety.

Notably, it’s what wasn’t seen that made the difference. The hard work, the support system and the unity of the back line clearly helped neutralize an outstanding French offense.

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“That’s the most intense match I’ve ever been a part of,” said Ellis, who helped recruit Dahlkemper to UCLA but left to join the national team before getting the chance to coach her there. “They have superb players, coaches, so it was very

special. Our whole back line was tremendous; there was a lot they had to deal with.”

Cr yst a l Dunn marked French for-ward Kadidiatou Di-ani, essentially elimi-nating her from the equation. Julie Ertz, Sauerbrunn, O’Hara,

Dahlkemper, Samantha Mewis and Naeher were solid against a relentless French attack.

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