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But last Friday, the restraining or-der was withdrawn because theneighbor, who reportedly has cancer,was being treated in a New York hos-pital and unavailable to testify.

The legal move seemingly ended abizarre chapter in Palo Alto land-usepolitics, although recriminations andallegations continued to spiral after-ward.

Moran, who lives across the street

from a property that Migdal tried foryears to develop, has repeatedly de-nied the accusation. Last week, hewondered if politics played a role inthe restraining order, or at least in itspublicity.

“My reaction is this a clever varia-tion of a SLAPP (“Strategic LawsuitAgainst Public Participation”) law-suit,” Moran said.

“It’s a level of ugliness which I

would have hoped didn’t exist,” headded. “You don’t want it to warpwho you are.”

Before he was asked about thepotential relationship between therestraining order and local politics,Migdal mentioned Moran’s pre-sumed aspirations. “A person likethis does not belong on the CityCouncil and, God forbid, to be

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by Bill D’Agostino

A restraining order against Palo Alto neighborhood leader and potentialCity Council candidate Doug Moran has been withdrawn, but other like-ly contenders are worried the incident could be a sign of ugliness to

come.“I hope it’s not a harbinger of how nasty the election is going to get,” said

Councilwoman Yoriko Kishimoto, who confirmed she is running for re-election in November. “We all want to stay focused on the issues.”

Earlier this year, local real estate developer Mark Migdal applied for, andreceived, a temporary restraining order against Moran, the president of theBarron Park Association. Migdal claimed Moran asked a neighbor to kill him.

by Bill D’Agostino

In a room no bigger than manywalk-through closets, there is acomputer that knows when you’re

waiting at a traffic signal.It knows when you push the button

for your turn to cross EmbarcaderoRoad. It knows when your car isidling at an intersection on Alma

Street. It knows when your bike hastripped the electric loop under thepavement along Middlefield Road.

And, with a few clicks of a mouse,the City of Palo Alto’s transportationengineers can watch those intersec-tions, observe you waiting and makea real-time adjustment to the length ofyour red light — if need be.

The new computer system is thefirst in what city officials hope will bea series of upgrades to the city’s traf-fic signals in coming years.

“This opens up a lot of doors,”transportation engineer David Still-man said last week. As he spoke, hedemonstrated the new system.

An animated image of Embar-cadero and Middlefield roads flashedon both a small computer monitorand on a large plasma screen over-head. Simple figures represented thecars and pedestrians; green arrows onthe road showed which signals hadgreen lights.

The new upgrades allow the city tosqueeze efficiencies out of the streetswithout widening them, Stillmanadded.

“Palo Alto has a policy of notwidening roads or intersections, sowe just need to make better use ofwhat we have,” CouncilwomanYoriko Kishimoto said.

Traffic experts agree that upgradingtraffic signals can be one of the mostcost-effective ways to reduce delays,fuel consumption and travel times.Last month, the National Transporta-tion Operations Coalition gave thecountry a “D-” for cities, counties andstates’ overall administration of traf-fic signals.

Projects such as Palo Alto’s werecited as badly needed. Nearly all ofthe 97 intersections the city controlshave recently been upgraded to com-municate with the computer. (A few

Private eyes arewatching you

New computer system allows traffic officials to watchyour every move in an effort to streamline commute


Talking aboutthe pastJLS students put

together portfolios, preparefor exit interviewsby Alexandria Rocha

N ora Boyd and Laura Gum-brecht know how to give agood handshake.

“It shouldn’t be too firm,” said Lau-ra, 14.

“But not like a wet fish,” piped inNora, also 14, extending her arm andmaking it limp at the wrist.

The longtime best friends are justtwo of the eighth-graders at JaneLathrop Stanford Middle Schoolbusy prepping for their big interviewsthis week. For the second year, theEast Meadow Drive campus is con-ducting “eighth-grade exit inter-views,” held Thursday and Friday, togive those heading to high school achance to reflect on their last threeyears.

“It’s a chance to see how they’vegrown over the years. Even some-thing as simple as how much theirhandwriting has improved over theyears,” said Cindy Lazzareschi, a JLSteacher.

The concept of eighth-grade exitinterviews came from a school inMilpitas where JLS Principal JoeDiSalvo used to work. He saw thebenefit of having graduates packagetheir best middle school assignmentsto show interested community mem-bers in a formal, real-world setting.

One of the key components behindthis week’s interviews is having “kid-friendly” interviewers. To accomplishthat, DiSalvo and two parents, EllenHarris and Margaret Toor, recruited80 community members — many re-tired Palo Alto teachers.

Each student will be assigned a spe-cific time to head to an interview. Nocall-slips will be delivered, and it’sthe student’s responsibility to make iton time. The kids have been told todress nice, but “it’s not like you wearyour prom outfit,” said Laura.

As much as possible, there will be


Egrets? We have a few ...Snowy egrets perch on a palm tree at the Palo Alto Bayland Nature Preserve on Monday. This is the second year that egrets have come tonest at the Baylands.

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Council candidates fear dirty campaign aheadMessy chapter in Palo Alto politics ends as restraining order against potential candidate withdrawn


The TV in Jim Steyer’s homedoesn’t get turned on during theweek. When his children want

to watch something on weekends,they must convince both Steyer andhis wife, Liz, that it’s a good idea.Same for computer and video games.

And his concern doesn’t end withhis own kids.

Steyer, a lecturer in political sci-ence and education at Stanford Uni-versity for the last 18 years, is on amission to protect children from in-appropriate and violent media con-tent and programming.

Steyer isn’t a Bible-thumpingmember of the Christian Right,though.

“Look, I’m a progressive FirstAmendment lawyer,” he said. “Thatis what I teach at one of the finestuniversities in the country.”

Steyer, 48, once clerked for Cali-fornia Supreme Court Justice AllenBroussard, during which he helpedwrite two landmark First Amendmentdecisions, and also was a co-founderof the East Palo Alto CommunityLaw Project.

Steyer gained some note when hewrote a book, published in 2002,“The Other Parent: The Inside Storyof Media’s Effect on Our Children.”He was even on Oprah’s TV show.

While doing the research andworking in two children’s relatedgroups, Steyer became aware that noone was taking time to rate media —TV programs, movies and videogames — in a thoughtful way thatcould be a guide for parents.

“A lot of people said to me, ‘Howcome you’re not doing this?’” he re-called. So, about two years ago, hehelped form Common Sense Media(www.commonsensemedia.org), aSan Francisco-based non-profit com-pany and Web site.

“We’re Consumer Reports meetsAARP,” Steyer quips, referring to theconsumer magazine and the vigilantlobbying group for seniors.

Except his group is about kids, andparents.

“We’re building a mass con-stituency base of concerned people,”he said. “This is not a Republican orDemocratic issue.”

The Web site rates media for kid-appropriateness, with a “on” icon, a“pause” icon, or an “off” icon.

Last week’s posting, for instance,rated 11 current movies. Only one,“Mad Hot Ballroom,” won a “on”icon. Two movies, “Mindhunters”and “House of Wax,” received “off”

icons, and everything else got a“pause” icon.

The reviews are written by threeeditors and 25 freelance writers.Viewers can read the reviews, thenoffer their own comments, which arealso posted. “Star Wars: Episode III -Revenge of the Sith” had a “pause”icon. But 166 adults also wrote com-ments, as did five kids.

Steyer’s daughter, Lilly, 12, and hisson Kirk, 10, also contribute com-ments.

Common Sense is striking a chord.The Web site already has 1.1 millionregular users, Steyer said. Its goal isto reach 25 million users within fiveyears.

Media companies are also takingnote.

Common Sense already has a dealto put its reviews on Netflix movierentals, and the Associated Press wireservice will start distributing its re-views to AP-member newspapers.

The large media corporations havealways used the First Amendment asa defense to criticism that somemovies and video games are too vio-lent for young people. That’s an ar-gument Steyer, as a First Amendmentlawyer, is eager to take on.

But no one is taking him on. “There has been almost no criti-

cism because we are about sanity, notcensorship,” he said. “This is why wehave the potential to be such a potentpublic voice.

“Common Sense is the media in-dustry’s worst nightmare, because weknow the law better than they do andwe’re more progressive First Amend-ment advocates.”

Steyer, who becomes animated andpassionate when talking about kidsand media content, reaches near-lift-off excitability when video games arementioned.

“You think I believe the videogameindustry gives a hoot about the FirstAmendment?” he asks, his voice ris-ing. “All they care about is their prof-its.”

He believes Common Sense is fill-ing a void no one has tried to fill be-fore, with its goal of helping parentsmake informed media choices fortheir kids.

“There’s no right answer,” headded. “I’m not telling you what your8-year-old should do, but here’s theinformation, and make a thoughtfulchoice.” ■

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Around Town

—Community leader and potential City Council can-didate Doug Moran, commenting on the politi-cal implications of a restraining order against himthat was recently withdrawn. See story, page 3.

NO LIBRARY PLAN THISYEAR ... If you’re waiting for areport from the Palo Alto Li-brary Advisory Commissionabout its master plan for up-grading the city’s libraries, keepwaiting. The commission isn’tplanning to present its new pro-posal to the City Council andthe public until March 2006.The commission, however,hopes to ask the City Councilthis summer to fund a survey toask residents and other groupsfor input on options for thecity’s future library service. Ifyou’ll remember, last Decemberthe council asked the commis-sion to study the city’s librariesand come up with a new mas-ter plan. That request came asthe council denied Library Di-rector Paula Simpson’s contro-versial proposal to close two ofthe five city libraries and build anew “full-service library.” Don’texpect the commission’s pro-posal to include recommendingclosing libraries. “Nobody onthe commission would supportany branch closures at thispoint,” Commission Chair San-dra Hirsh said. Since last De-cember, the commission hasbeen creating a “matrix” of pos-sible options for the city’s li-brary system. At last week’smeeting, the commission alsoapproved a new vision state-ment for its quest: “The City ofPalo Alto desires to implementan enhanced library servicemodel that delivers superior li-brary service throughout PaloAlto. The new library servicemodel consists of a full-servicelibrary supporting distributed li-brary services at locationsthroughout Palo Alto ... includ-ing, but not limited to, existinglibrary branch locations.”

ONE-DAY LIBRARY CLOSURE ...Speaking of Palo Alto’s li-braries, all five will be closed onFriday, June 3, so the staff canattend a one-day training ses-sion. The online services, suchas the catalog and referencequestions, will still be availableand overdue library books canstill be returned. For more infor-mation, visit the library’s Web

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STANFORD STADIUM PLANSGOING FORWARD... Therecould be fewer seats at Stan-ford Stadium in coming years.Next Monday, the Stanford Uni-versity Board of Trustees will re-view a plan to renovate the uni-versity’s football stadium,reducing the seats from 85,000to 55,000. However, the stadi-um would still grow by morethan 30,000 square feet. Newrestrooms and a new press boxwill be constructed. The $55million to $65 million projectionwould begin after next season’sfinal home game, on Nov. 26,according to the university. Theteam would reportedly play thefollowing season in either SanJose State University’s footballfield or SBC Park.

HERE COMES THE CHOPPER! ...Avoid hanging out near PaloAlto’s City Hall early Saturdaymorning, June 4. Around 7a.m., a helicopter will land onthe roof at 250 Hamilton Ave.to deliver equipment for the ele-vator’s air conditioner. Accord-ing to a press release, “resi-dents are advised to avoid thearea for safety reasons.” Thedelivery is expected to last 30minutes.

A SONG (SPARROW) FORYOU ... Drivers visiting thePalo Alto Baylands have madea new friend, a song sparrowthat has been hopping on carsat they park. “He’s gotten to bequite popular,” City NaturalistDeborah Bartens said. Naturephotographers have especiallyenjoyed him, since he comesright up to the window, readyfor his close-up.

RIDING FOR A CURE ... PaloAlto Fire Chief Nick Marinaroand Councilwoman YorikoKishimoto will both be bicy-cling the 100-mile “Team inTraining” bicycle ride in LakeTahoe this Saturday, June 5.Donations support theLeukemia & Lymphoma Soci-ety.

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located near the Stanford ShoppingCenter will be improved in comingmonths.)

Two-thirds of the $1.5 million forthe new upgrade came from federal,state and regional grants.

The next step, after the physical up-grade is completed, is to let the com-puter start making adjustments to thelengths of some stop lights, based onthe traffic conditions it observes.

The computer, located in a buildingat the Municipal Services Center nearthe Baylands, does not use cameras towatch the intersections, although that

could be another upgrade in the fu-ture. Rather, using fiber-optic cables,the computer is connected to vehicle-triggered wire loops under the pave-

ment and the pedestrian-triggeredbuttons on the sidewalk.

Traffic engineers create a plan tochange the timing of traffic signalsto known conditions during differenttimes of the day. The wire loops andbuttons let the computer know whena pedestrian or vehicle is waiting andin need of a chance to proceed.

Prior to the project, the city’s traf-fic signals had not been substantiallyimproved since they were installed inthe 1970s. With the old system, up-grading the plan was an arduous task,requiring engineers to visit the inter-section and open up the green “con-trol boxes” by the side of the road.Now the plan can be upgraded im-

mediately, using the computer in theBaylands or City Hall.

Also under the old system, city en-gineers often did not immediatelyknow when traffic signals stoppedcommunicating with the entire sys-tem and stopped running.

One consistent goal is to allow driv-ers riding along a stretch of a roadwith numerous traffic signals to getgreen light after green light, whatStillman called “synching” the lights.

There is still a major hindrance to“synching” the entire system of PaloAlto’s traffic signals: many of thecity’s major intersections — alongPage Mill Road, El Camino Real andFoothill Expressway — are not con-

trolled by the city, but by Santa ClaraCounty or Caltrans.

So while most of the signals alongMiddlefield Road are run by the city,the county runs the one at Middle-field and Page Mill roads. The city at-tempts to synchronize the lights onMiddlefield Road in the north andsouth sections of the city, but cannotsync the two parts together, Stillmannoted.

That kind of coordination was oneof the other major factors cited by thenational survey as needing improve-ment nationwide.■

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two adults per student. The interviewis only 15 to 20 minutes long, andcomputers and CD players will beavailable when the students haveWeb pages or music to present.

“I have heard from some peoplethat it’s intimidating,” said Nora.“But the way I form thoughts aboutsomething is by talking it out andthen I form opinions, so I’m excit-ed. I’ll probably mess up and saysomething wrong, but then I’ll re-cover.”

Bodenheimer said it has been acommon practice for middle schoolstudents to keep portfolios for anumber of years. The exit inter-views help the kids trim down theirpiles of work to only their bestpieces.

Since Nora’s favorite subject issocial studies, she plans to show-case some of her best journal en-tries, tests and projects. Laura saidher portfolio will include workfrom her English classes, as wellas some of her favorite poetry.

I’m excited to do the interviewbecause I like to talk to peopleabout what I’ve accomplished,” shesaid.

Besides “kid-friendly” inter-viewers, another significant ele-ment will be the feedback studentsreceive. Last year, the communitymembers rated the students’ an-swers to the questions on a smallnumber scale, only writing a fewshort comments at the end.

The volunteers expressed distastefor the rating system, and suggest-ed they provide narrative feedbackinstead. ■

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mayor some day,” he said.However, Migdal denied that poli-

tics played a role in his decision toseek a restraining order.

“This was not motivated by any-thing at all but my safety,” Migdalsaid. “He simply did a very wrongthing and the police told me to take itseriously.”

Another wrinkle in the tale is thefact that Owen Byrd, Migdal’s land-use attorney, first alerted the Palo AltoDaily News to the restraining order,thereby making it public, according tothe developer. One of Byrd’s formerclients is architect John Barton, thepresident of the school board, who isalso seriously considering running forCity Council.

Byrd was unavailable for comment.Barton, who described himself as

Byrd’s friend, said the notion that pol-itics played a role in Byrd’s decisionto raise the issue publicly is “patent-ly false and borders on libelous,” anddescribed it as “standard Palo Altorumor mill nonsense.”

“It makes me angry,” he said. “Wehave so many issues to deal with inthis community, so much work to do,and we’re going to waste politicalcapital on silliness.”

If the intent of the legal maneuver-ings or its publicity was indeed to getMoran to not run for council, it maybe successful. Via e-mail, Moran not-ed he is taking “a little time to seehow this story plays before making adefinite decision one way or the oth-er.”■

Staff Writer Bill D’Agostino canbe e-mailed at [email protected].

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Former Mayor Larry Klein, who recently helpedlead a successful ballot measure to increasethe monthly storm-drain fee, announced last

week he’ll be running for the Palo Alto City Coun-cil in November. He served on the council from1981 to 1989.

“In general, I think we need to do better on a va-riety of issues,” Klein said last week, citing thecity’s declining revenues and expanding expendi-tures as an example.

A majority of the council — five of nine seats —are up for grabs in the race. The contest won’t of-ficially start until June 18, when candidates canbegin pulling papers to run. However, candidatestypically start jockeying for position a few monthsbefore the official start date.

Incumbent Councilwoman Yoriko Kishimoto saidlast week she is running for re-election, while coun-

cil members Jack Morton and Hillary Freeman re-cently said they’re still deciding.

Mayor Jim Burch has long stated that he is notseeking re-election; Councilman Vic Ojakian isleaving due to term limits.

Attorney Harold “Skip” Justman, who came infifth when four seats were up for grabs in 2003, isagain running. He claimed last week he’s alreadyraised $13,000 to promote his candidacy.

Perennial candidate and homeless advocate Vic-tor Frost is also running.

Others who acknowledged last week that theyare seriously considering a campaign are Planningand Transportation Commissioner Pat Burt, schoolboard president John Barton and Barron Park As-sociation President Doug Moran.■

— Bill D’Agostino

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Upfront

One killed, three wounded in EPAA Memorial Day gathering was shattered by gunfire late Monday af-

ternoon in East Palo Alto, leaving one man dead and three otherswounded.

The four shooting victims were in the garage and driveway area of ahouse in the 1500 block of Kavanaugh Drive when neighbors heard gun-shots ring out at 4:59 p.m., said Sgt. Linda Gibbons of the San MateoCounty Sheriff’s Department Major Crimes Unit.

Dwayne Anthony Henry, 35, of Menlo Park was pronounced dead at thescene. Three other people were transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Gibbons said. Their names are being withheld forsecurity reasons.

Witnesses said a person wearing a mask walked up to the house and be-gan shooting at the men and then ran away, Gibbons said.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call DetectiveGary Ramos at (650) 363-4064, Gibbons at (650) 363-4063 or the anony-mous witness line at (800) 547-2700.

Man arraigned for alleged hit and runA Los Altos man suspected of striking and critically injuring a bicyclist

in an allegedly alcohol-fueled crash in Palo Alto last Wednesday was ar-raigned Friday, according to Santa Clara County Deputy District Attor-ney Deborah Baldocchi.

Craig Borlik, 40, has been charged with two felony counts of drivingunder the influence, one felony count of hit-and-run and one felony countof child endangerment.

Borlik was allegedly driving his Ford Expedition with his 3-year-old soninside in the 400 block of West Charleston Road around 4 p.m. when heran a red light. According to police, Borlik allegedly struck a 72-year-oldbicyclist who was crossing the road and then fled the scene.

However, Borlik was discovered a short time later in the 1400 block ofEl Camino Real, passed out in front of a home with his son still strappedinside the car. His vehicle was found to have front-end damage and in-vestigators determined it was likely the vehicle in the accident.

Although Borlik’s alleged level of intoxication at the time of the acci-dent is unknown, one of the charge enhancements is for driving with ablood alcohol level above .20.

He is scheduled to enter a plea on June 3.The bicyclist remains in critical condition at Stanford Hospital with two

broken legs, a broken pelvis and internal injuries, police officials said. ■— Bay City News Service

Palo Alto settles PG&E electrical claimsPalo Alto electrical rate increases next year could be significantly low-

er than expected due in part to a $4.22 million refund the city will get ina new settlement of a 2004 claim by PG&E, city officials announcedThursday.

Next year’s increase could be about 11.5 percent instead of the origi-nally recommended 19.5 percent.

Palo Alto and nine other cities that own utility systems have settled forless than half a $26.2 million claim against them by PG&E for retroac-tive back payments under a “scheduling coordinator service,” coveringfrom April 1998 through August 2002. The settlement agreement calls fora $12.9 million payment to PG&E, meaning the cities will get the differ-ence back from an escrow account.

Palo Alto has put about $720,000 a month for the past year into an ac-count of the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA), for a total of $8.5million. The $4.22 million is Palo Alto’s remainder after the settlementfunds have been taken out, City Councilman Bern Beecham announcedThursday afternoon shortly after an NCPA Commission meeting in Lodi.

Beecham is Palo Alto’s representative on the commission.In 2002, PG&E issued a surprise demand for $50.1 million in retroac-

tive payments for services involved in scheduling the flow of electricityto the interconnected cities in an NCPA “power pool.” Negotiations re-duced that by early 2004 to $21.3 million, and interest since swelled it tothe $26.2 million.

The cities through NCPA contested the PG&E claim before the Feder-al Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which still must approve thesettlement, possibly at its June meeting, according to Palo Alto UtilitiesDirector John Ulrich.

Details of the settlement negotiations are secret under FERC confi-dentiality rules, but Ulrich hinted at the cities’ reasoning in a memoThursday afternoon to the City Council, Utilities Advisory Commissionand executive staff.

“Although it was believed that our position had merit, FERC has beenmaking decisions favorable to the service providers during the transitionto regional transmission organizations and has encouraged settlements be-tween the disputed parties,” he said.

“We will reduce our recommended (fiscal year 2005-06) electric rateincrease to reflect this expected increase in revenues,” he said. ■

— Jay Thorwaldson

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POLICE CALLSPalo AltoMay 19-25Violence relatedAssault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Elder abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Rape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft relatedGrand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle relatedAbandoned bicycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . . .2Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Lost/stolen license plates . . . . . . . . . . . .1Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . .4Vehicle accident/property damage . . . . .9Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Vehicle stored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Alcohol or drug relatedDrunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . . .1MiscellaneousAnimal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Found property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . .1Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . .2Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Warrant arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Weapons disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Menlo ParkMay 19-25Violence relatedCarjacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Spousal abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft relatedFraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Vehicle relatedAuto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . . .3

Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Tow request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . .3Vehicle accident/property damage . . . . .7Alcohol or drug relatedDrug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . .1MiscellaneousDisturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Found property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Indecent exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . .3Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Warrant arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

AthertonMay 20-26Theft relatedCommercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle relatedBicycle stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Suspicious vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Vehicle accident/major injury . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle accident/property damage . . . . .3Vehicle code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1MiscellaneousAnimal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Be on the lookout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Citizen assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Construction complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Disturbing the peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Fire call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Follow up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Hazard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Pedestrian check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . .7Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Town ordinance violation . . . . . . . . . . . .11Watermain break . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Welfare check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

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Art JohnsonCharles Arthur Johnson, 53, a

former longtime resident of PaloAlto, died April 30 at his home inYoungsville, La.

He was born Aug. 31, 1951, atWalter Reed Hospital in Washing-ton, D.C. The family moved toGermany in 1952 and moved toPalo Alto after the death of his fa-ther in 1954. He graduated fromGunn High School in 1969.

After high school, he became acommercial diver for the oil in-dustry. He moved around theworld for his job living in Singa-pore and New Zealand before set-tling in Louisiana. At the time ofhis death he was operations man-ager of the ROV division for aworldwide diving company.

He is survived by his children,Angelica and Christal Lynn ofYoungsville, La.; his adopteddaughter, Tess; his sisters, PamelaFaure of Healdsburg, Calif., andKiKi Simpson of Menlo Park; hisbrothers-in-law, Jim Simpson andPeter Faure; his nieces, AriannaScott, Annika and Chelsea Simp-son; and his nephew, ChristopherFaurot.

He was a lover of the sea andwill be deeply missed by all whoknew him. In lieu of flowers, me-morial donations may be sent incare of Katherine Simpson for theAngelica and Christal Johnson ed-ucational fund at the San MateoCredit Union, 525 MiddlefieldRoad, Redwood City, CA 94063.

Johnnie Mae Nichols-Watson

Johnnie Mae Nichols-Watson,76, a resident of Menlo Park, diedMay 19.

She was born Nov. 10, 1928 toClarence and Edna Nichols. Shewas the fourth sibling of five, allwhich have preceded her in death.

She received her education inTexas where she met her now de-ceased husband, Isaac Watson, andrelocated to California. From thisunion she gave birth to her onlychild, Jacqueline Watson.

She received Christ in her life atan early age, practicing her faith asChurch of God in Christ. She re-ceived many certificates and ac-knowledgements for continueddedication and loyal work in thechurch.

She was known for her kind,loving and caring ways. She alsohad a very witty sense of humorand was a strong, courageous andhonest woman who appreciatedthe simple things in life.

She is survived by her daughter,Jacqueline Watson of Menlo Park;nieces Linda Hamilton of San Joseand Beverly Jones of Antioch;nephews, Edward Johnson ofMenlo Park, Kenneth Johnson ofSunnyvale and Jack Britton of SanFrancisco; and a host of othernieces and nephews as well as ex-tended family and friends.

Memorial services have beenheld.

Virginia A. Price

Virginia A. Price, 62, a residentof Palo Alto, died May 16.

She was born Oct. 26, 1942, inZanesville, Ohio. After graduatingfrom Zanesville High School, sheattended nearby Muskingum Col-lege in southeastern Ohio. Shespent her junior year abroad inAix-en-Provence and graduatedfrom Muskingum with degrees inboth French and psychology.

In 1966 she joined IBM, whereshe worked as a marketing repre-sentative, a software instructor andan executive consultant. In 1973she entered the doctoral programin counseling psychology at Stan-ford University.

As a doctoral student, she begana 20-year collaboration with Mey-er Friedman on the study and treat-ment of Type A behavior. Shehelped develop the treatment pro-tocol for modifying Type A be-havior in the Recurrent CoronaryPrevention Project (RCPP). TheRCPP reduced both Type A be-havior and the rate of recurrentheart attacks in a group of morethan 1,000 post-coronary men andwomen.

In 1978 she married Peter Ene-mark. That same year she beganto study Christian Science. In1980, her son, David Price Ene-mark, was born and she receivedher Ph.D. in counseling psycholo-gy. In 1982, her second son,Daniel Price Enemark, was bornand she published her first book,“Type A Behavior: A Model for

Research and Practice.”She led stress-management

groups in the RCPP, at the ArmyWar College, in the private sectorand in the Coronary/Cancer Pre-vention Project (CCPP). She alsotrained group leaders for the RCPPand for the CCPP. During the So-viet era, she traveled to Poland toteach the diagnosis and treatmentof Type A behavior there.

She had a small private practicein Palo Alto. Of all her profes-sional activities, leading stress-management groups was the mostimportant to her. She went on tostudy the Enneagram theory ofpersonality types. She publishedher second book, “The EssentialEnneagram: The Definitive Per-sonality Test and Self-DiscoveryGuide” in 2000. She traveled toGreece, Latvia, Thailand andTurkey to conduct workshops onthe Enneagram.

She was a businesswoman, ascholar, a researcher, an author, atherapist, a group leader, a wifeand a mother. She was a memberof The Second Church of Christ,Scientist, in Palo Alto and a vol-unteer chaplain in the San MateoCounty jails.

She is survived by her husband,Peter Enemark; son, David PriceEnemark; and son, Daniel PriceEnemark, all of Palo Alto. A me-morial service has been held.

David Rubinfien

David Rubinfien, 83, a longtimeresident of Palo Alto, died April26.

He was born in Chicago, Ill., in1921, and educated at the Univer-

sity of Illinois and the Universityof Chicago.

He married Shulamith in 1943and they had three children.

He was formerly president andCEO of Syva Co., Microgenicsand Systemix.

He is survived by his wife, Shu-lamith of Palo Alto; his sister,

Leona Billings of Davis; his son,Leo of New York, N.Y.; daughter,Elizabeth of Palo Alto; and daugh-ter, Louisa of Washington, D.C.

Services will be private.In lieu of flowers, donations

may be made to the American Civ-il Liberties Union.

TransitionsBirths, marriages and deaths

Howard, Robert (Bob) Harris,born May 27, 1945, resident ofBelmont and the surroundingPeninsula, was taken from us ina fatal airplane crash Thursday,May 12, 2005. A proud andadoring father, whole-heartedand compassionate he touchedso many lives with his enthusiasm, patience and kindness. He was effortlessly

warm, generous and uplifting. Bob’s accomplishmentswere many. He was a local legend in the Avionic Industry.Hundreds of pilots were fortunate to have had him astheir Medallion Flight Instructor, many returning for counsel and renewed friendships. With over 24,000 hoursof flight time, an AA degree in Aeronautical Engineering,ATP, SMEL, DC-3, CFII, CFI-ME, and First Class MedicalRatings, he served as a corporate and individual pilot forelectronic corporations, classified surveillance technology experiments, NASA’s flight simulator program, medical aid transportation to third world countries, private clients,curious youth, and family vacations.

Bob’s expertise was not limited to aeronautical engineering. He applied his same dedication, passionand excellence as President and owner of HowardEnterprises to the clients of his computer consulting company. His talents ranged from computer skills to highly sophisticated entertainment systems to complexelectrical-mechanical devices. Bob also held a Bachelorof Science in Law (1988), served on the San CarlosPolice Department (1977-1983) and was a USN Photo-Journalist during the Vietnam War (1966). As a“Jack-of-All-Trades,” he could fix just about anything andhappily helped others with their projects. Bob loved toescape to the family cabin in El Dorado Forest where hewas the acting Treasurer on the Board of Directors.There was no project to large or too small and all werepursued with the same enthusiasm and zest.

Bob lived life to the fullest. With his bouncy stride andthe latest gadgets and jingling key ring strapped to hisbelt, he always applied his quick-witted and clever humorto gain perspective on any event. In all his activities,whether flying, ski racing, motorcycle riding, sports cardriving, SCUBA diving, construction, or electronics, hewas more than willing to give the spotlight to others anddiscover together (cameras rolling) as if it were the firsttime. His kind heart and generous spirit will be deeplymissed.

Bob is survived by his daughters Amber and JodieHoward, Father Robert C. Howard, Sister Caroline Rose,and Half-Brother Glen Howard. A celebration of Bob’s lifewill be held Saturday, June 4, 2005 from 5-9pm at TheHiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos. All are welcome.Please bring pictures and stories to share and we shall“party on”.

ROBERT HARRIS HOWARD

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Bored or bothered?Editor,

The definition of “anarchy” is asituation in which there is a totallack of organization or control.This demonstration was organized.As applied to the recent protest,“Reclaim the Streets Palo Alto”(Weekly, May 25) does not demon-strate a lack of control or govern-ment. Rather, this group embodiesa concept only too familiar — thehaves versus the have nots.

In the age of globalization, tech-nology and capitalism, the gap be-tween the rich and poor continuesto widen at a rapid pace. Technolo-gy serves as its accomplice. Indi-viduals remain attached to their hi-tech devices and in constant cyber-space communication. The overar-ching economic capitalistic systemupholds the status quo — the richget richer and the poor get poorer.

Meanwhile, today’s youth wit-nesses their decaying socioeco-nomic surrounding without muchrecourse. In their idealistic minds,they view a chaotic situation. Theyhave not created their world. Manywant to change it. The young gen-eration is not necessarily “bored”as claimed. They are frustrated.Anarchy is their labeled counterat-tack, not against boredom, but so-cial injustice.

The need to be part of somethinglooms larger than oneself. If societycannot provide that signals an un-healthy environment. A divisive so-ciety bent on marginalizing groups,maintaining order through physicalforce, and utilizing economic andsocial controls never achieves a justoutcome.

Such an environment may expectdemonstrators to protest. They arenot bored. More often than not,they are genuinely concerned.

Mona Lisa SafaiIrving Avenue

AthertonA caring communityEditor,

It has been wonderful to be partof a community that cares deeplyabout quality education. I spenteight years on our school board.We debated issues but our focuswas always on effective ways toprovide the best education. There’sno debating that Measure A iswhat’s best for our kids’ education.

We know that the key to educa-tional success is the classroomteacher. Despite enrollment growthand cuts in state funding, ourschool board has maintained re-duced class size so students can getthe attention needed. In the last twoyears, administrators have been re-duced by 13 percent. It is no longerpossible to keep cuts away from theclassroom.

The quality of our students’ edu-cation is at risk. The district willlose $5.5 million when our local

parcel tax expires. The state won’tfill the gap. Measure A is part of ameasured financial plan. Withoutit’s passage the district will spininto financial crisis.

I just read the Registrar of Voters“Voter Information Pamphlet.”None of the signers of the opposi-tion statement even live in PaloAlto. None have spent top dollar ona Palo Alto home with the expecta-tion they were moving to a commu-nity that believes we have a respon-sibility to invest in our children.

Measure A will cost less than$1.35 a day. Please join me in vot-ing “yes” on Measure A. Togetherwe can take a stand for our kids, forhigh-quality education and for thekind of community we believe in.

Susie RichardsonMartin Avenue

Palo AltoTough timesEditor,

Times are tough. Gasoline priceshave just jumped another 30 per-cent. Our utilities ask for an 18-per-cent increase. The state is still es-sentially bankrupt and the schoolboard asks for more money.

Before we grant them this favor Ithink we need to review their per-formance.

Reducing class size to 20 stu-dents proves excruciatingly expen-sive. Available evidence (LondonUniversity, Institute of Education)shows mixed results above gradethree. Fiscal evidence shows the

district may save millions by sim-ply allowing class size in gradesfour and five only to slip upwardsby two or three students.

The district’s expense/staff ratioshave remained unchanged fordecades. This indicates a lack of in-novation and development. Text-books are the clearest example.They are bulky, weighty and expen-sive. If, as I have reason to suspect,the selection practices that RichardFeynman describes in his book,“Surely You Must Be Joking,” stillprevail they are also of poor quali-ty. Surely money can be saved here.

Tinsley (Voluntary Transfer Pro-gram) students cost us $6,500 peryear each. This decades-oldarrangement is out-of-date, yet theboard is reluctant to challenge it.Divorced wives do better than that.Both the state and federal govern-ments mandate programs they donot fully fund, yet the board fearstelling them to get lost. Such poli-cies of appeasement do not havethe most attractive track record.

These are serious issues. If theboard is denied the money it’s ask-ing for, it may drum up the nerve toface them.

Michael GoldeenTasso Street

Palo AltoBetter believe itEditor,

David Lieberman (ReadWire,May 20) opposes Measure A,which provides critical funding for

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YES on Measure A toavert schools crisisParcel tax vote June 7 is a critical turning point

toward either rebuilding school quality or plunging it further downward

T uesday’s vote on a $493 annual parcel tax for Palo Altoschools is more than just another tax measure.

If it wins the required two-thirds voter approval, it willbe a major step toward rebuilding some of the quality that hasbeen eroded by $6.5 million in budget cuts in the last few years. Itwill be the same kind of “vote of confidence” in the teachers andadministrators — those who have made Palo Alto schools out-standing investments in the future of our children — that the origi-nal $293 parcel tax vote was in 2001.

If Measure A is defeated, it will be a devastating blow to themorale of teachers, administrators, school staff and the thousandsof parents and others who have dedicated their time and oftenmoney to shoring up the quality in the face of the erosion that hasafflicted schools statewide for the past quarter century.

In recent weeks, the Weekly has published letters and GuestOpinion columns for and against Measure A, which are availableto review on the Weekly’s community Web site, www.PaloAl-toOnline.com. One column reported on an independent calcula-tion of school expenditures over the next six years — the life ofthe parcel tax — and showed that budget trimming must occureven if the tax is approved.

This proposed tax fully replaces the $293 parcel tax approvedby voters in 2001, which was billed explicitly as a way to raiseteacher pay to help them stay afloat in the high-cost Palo Altoarea. Opponents now claim that, among other things, Palo Altopays its teachers too much. What has changed? Despite the dot-com bust, this area is still among the most expensive places tolive, and surging gasoline prices have impacted those who mustcommute in.

But this parcel tax goes much further than the tax it would re-place. As shown in a quite specific list of items it will fund, thisproposed tax is no blank check. It will restore some programs andpositions that have fallen victim to recent budget cuts, and it willsustain the smaller class sizes that were achieved after a hard-fought effort over many years by parents and school leaders.

Last November, when a $521 parcel tax proposal fell a hairlineshy of winning two-thirds approval, supporters acknowledgedthey were overconfident, and many people were preoccupied withthe national election.

A defeat this time will not have such easy outs, and thus wouldbe an especially devastating blow to a district already harried byinternal budget-cutting demands and an uncertain state commit-ment to schools. The devastation we believe would be far morethan financial: A loss Tuesday would shatter the morale of teach-ers, staff and supporters.

It would inevitably be interpreted as a sign that the century-plusera of strong community support for the best-quality publicschools in Palo Alto has come to an end, that a core vision of thecommunity has blurred.

That realization or belief, valid or not, would cause a loss ofheart for all involved. We believe it could accelerate a downwardspiral that would alter our schools for generations, perhaps forev-er.

It might even answer the current debate about whether or notthere is a “schools premium” in Palo Alto housing prices — but istesting that proposition worth the risk?

In our May 18 editorial supporting Measure A, we noted thatmany statistics are floating around that seem to indicate the dis-trict is wasteful and pays teachers too much. We are revisitingMeasure A because it is so important — and after reading thecampaign arguments and hearing from both sides, we are morethan ever convinced that significant playing with statistics is oc-curring.

Someone inclined to vote no can easily find a rationalization todo so. But this is not just another school-funding election where afew protest votes won’t hurt much.

The vitally important aspect of this vote remains that without anew parcel tax the district will be forced to cut directly and deeplyinto educational programs and classrooms, well beyond the recentslashes into support services, counselors and librarians.

Certainly Palo Alto schools would “survive” a defeat of Mea-sure A next Tuesday, as opponents assert, but they won’t be thesame schools afterward.

Again, vote yes on Measure A next Tuesday.

Editorial



by Al Russell

Ever sincemy old-est son

e n t e r e dkindergartenin 1974, Ihave volun-teered forPalo Altoschools. Myfirst PTA po-sition waspresident, nearly 30 years ago —an unusual and great way to begin.

Later I served as school sitecouncil chairperson at twoschools, and as president (twice),vice president, and treasurer of thePalo Alto High Music Boosters. Inaddition, I have served on andchaired many district-level schoolcommittees, including site disposi-tion/re-use committees and twoyears leading the district’s LongRange Planning Committee.

I have spent the last eight yearson the district’s Planning ReviewCommittee for the Building ForExcellence Program, the $200 mil-lion renovation and modernizationprogram.

Like so many other Palo Altoparents, I have contributed my

time and energy to schools be-cause of my commitment to main-tain the excellence of our educa-tional program.

And because of my long in-volvement with Palo Alto’sschools, I have witnessed first-hand the condition of our schoolsand the education they offer chil-dren. I have seen what most PaloAltans realize: Inadequacy offunding plays a crucial role indefining how our schools function.

At the time my son enteredschool, a big year for PTAfundraising meant raising $1,000over and above the membershipdues. Several years later, my son’sschool, El Carmelo, held the firstauction in our district and doubledthe PTA’s income for the year.

We were very happy with the re-sults. But, as economics changed,state allocations dwindled and theimpact of 1978’s Proposition 13became apparent (local controlwas lost to Sacramento), fundingneeds at our schools increased.Our PTAs increasingly felt theneed to meet the substantial andgrowing gap in educational fund-ing.

To help close this gap, in 1987 Ihelped found the Palo Alto Foun-

dation for Education (PAFE), anonprofit organization dedicatedto supporting innovation and ex-cellence in Palo Alto classrooms.In my two terms as PAFE presi-dent, I had the opportunity to ad-minister its successful teacher-grant program — grant requestsconsistently highlighted the quali-ty and excellence of our teachingstaff.

As a PAFE co-founder, I havebeen proud of our work to fosterinnovation in Palo Alto class-rooms. Over the years, we havegrown the grant program from un-der $10,000 to more than$100,000 per year.

But classroom grants are onlypart of the school-funding needs inPalo Alto. Three years ago, theschool board, trying to provide amore egalitarian basis for fundrais-ing, adopted a K-12 staffing rulethat specified that school-basedPTA’s could no longer providefunds directly to their schools topay for staffing.

Although PAFE was asked tohandle this larger-scale centralizedfundraising, we could not. Ourfunding goals had always beenproject-based (including the$1 million campaign to outfit and

equip the 20 new high school sci-ence labs), and our contacts withthe (then) 16 Palo Alto schoolswere limited.

The All Schools Fund (ASF)then sprang into existence to raisefunds centrally to pay for staffingneeds at the schools approach. Intime, both PAFE and ASF came torealize that two central fundraisingorganizations for schools confuseddonors, and that combining the en-ergies of the specific-school ap-proach with the longer-term, proj-ect-focused experience of PAFEcould be the best way to raisefunds for Palo Alto schools.

ASF and PAFE merged duringthis 2004-5 school year to createthe new nonprofit Palo Alto Part-ners in Education — which has al-ready raised more than $1.8 mil-lion to support schools this year.

Yet as exciting as this merger is,Partners in Education’s vital pri-vate fundraising leaves an impor-tant piece of the funding puzzleuntouched.

The deplorable state of schoolfinance in California has given riseto school foundations throughoutCalifornia. Though they contributeto some important parts of studenteducation, these foundations do

not and cannot replace the reliablerevenues offered by parcel taxes.Parcel taxes offer school districtsthe security to plan ahead to retainkey staff and programs. The stabil-ity they provide is particularly crit-ical in basic aid districts such asPalo Alto, where available rev-enues cannot be assured until afterthe fiscal year has ended.

So, as proud as I am of the ac-complishments of PAFE, ASF andnow Partners in Education, I feeleven more strongly that Palo Altovoters must approve the upcomingparcel tax. The revenues it willgenerate are critical for continuingthe outstanding education that mychildren enjoyed in the 1970s and1980s.

My oldest grandchild has juststarted school at Ohlone, and Iwant his experience at school to beas wonderful as his father’s. Mylong-term experience with PaloAlto schools, and my pride in ourschool district, lead me to urgentlyrecommend that everyone cast avote for Measure A June 7. ■

Al Russell is a longtime PaloAlto resident who continues to beactively involved in schoolfundraising and financial issues.

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StreetwiseWho could you stand to see removed from the public eye?Question and interviews by Daniel Grujic. Photographs by Tomomi Tsuda. Asked at Palo Alto City Hall.

Brad JohnsonLibrary clerkSouth Court, Palo Alto

“Just celebrities in general. It’s allgossip, not news.”

Lynne HaroExecutive assistantAmarillo Avenue, Palo Alto

“Arnold; because of what he’s doneto the schools and the budget; allthe failed promises.”

Brian LuceOffice managerForest Avenue, Palo Alto

“Paris Hilton. I have no idea whatshe does or why she’s famous.”

Chris CunninghamUnemployedAlma Street, Palo Alto

“Rush Limbaugh, because hesounds terrible.”

Jim BuelerResearch assistantEmmett Way, Palo Alto

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by Wayne Martin

S upportersof Mea-sure A,

the $493 annu-al parcel tax,state that goodschools driveup housingprices.

There’s a ba-sis of truth inthis claim. Butare our good schools the primaryreason for local house price appre-ciation? Of course not.

Home prices generally demon-strate “weak” and “strong” link-ages to various “decision vari-ables” in a buyer’s perception ofthe value of a property. For in-stance, ocean-front property gener-ally is much more expensive thanequivalent properties not locatedon the water.

Such a “strong” linkage betweena property’s perceived value andsuch a “variable” could commanda considerable increase in price.For voters considering MeasureA’s hefty $493 yearly price tag,how effective is the Palo Alto Uni-fied School District in increasing(or maintaining) home prices?

Over the past 35 years, prices inPalo Alto have undergone a mete-oric rise. In 1970, the median priceof a home was $33,900. By 2003,the median price was an astound-ing $1 million-plus — an overallincrease of 3,142 percent in only35 years.

While there is no doubt thatsome people have chosen Palo

Alto because of its schools, are theschools the only reason that peoplemove to Palo Alto?

Palo Alto is a desirable place tolive for many reasons. Palo Alto ishome to tens of thousands of high-paying jobs. It’s close to StanfordUniversity. There’s easy access tohighways and mass transit. We en-joy beautiful streets and neighbor-hoods, great shopping, unmatchedcity services, minimal crime andfantastic weather. Certainly ALLof these variables come into play

when people decide to buy a homein Palo Alto.

For many homebuyers, publicschools aren’t even part of the de-cision equation. After all, fully 75percent of Palo Alto residents haveno children attending Palo Altoschools.

Last year, proponents of a newparcel tax floated the rumor thatPalo Alto property values would“tank” if such a tax were notlevied. Balderdash. It didn’t hap-pen.

In fact, local house prices havegone up fully 20 percent since thedefeat of that measure. According

to the May 21 San Jose MercuryNews (citing Dataquick Informa-tion Systems), Palo Alto zip code94301 saw the median home priceincrease by 27 percent, while zipcode 94306 saw a similar pricejump of 17 percent.

Given the generally robust risein home prices in the rest of SantaClara County, where the schoolsare not considered as good as PaloAlto’s, there would seem to beonly a “weak” linkage between ris-ing home prices and local schools

at the current time.Yet taxes ARE part of every

homebuyers’ decision equation.Nobody likes to pay new taxes thataren’t needed. Likewise, nobodywants to live in a community heldhostage over threats of decreasedproperty values if new parcel taxesare not levied.

The decision to vote “yes” or“no” on Measure A should bebased on solid information aboutschool district financing and budg-et planning. Proper budget stew-ardship by the school district canensure that we maintain our greatPalo Alto schools without a newparcel tax. Look at the facts. Votesensibly, which I think means“No.” ■

Wayne Martin is the head ofPalo Altans Against Measure A,and was a leader in the group op-posing Measure I, the last parceltax measure. He can be e-mailedat [email protected].

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Palo Alto Unified School District(PAUSD), claiming central admin-istrators are overpaid.

Lieberman doesn’t mention thatfunds from Measure A cannot beused for PAUSD central adminis-tration. Nor does he mention thatPAUSD administrative compensa-tion is in line with comparableschool districts and that PAUSDhas cut administrator positions by13 percent in recent years.

The truth is that Measure A hasnothing to do with administrative

salaries. Measure A provides vitalfunding to maintain current classsizes, avoid teacher layoffs and re-verse a fraction of the $6.5 millionin cuts to our public schools in thelast three years.

Voting “no” on Measure A willhave absolutely no effect on admin-istrator salaries. But it could lead tolayoffs of more than 100 teachers,significant increases in class size,reductions in course offerings andthe closure of a school.

Don’t believe it? See what’s hap-pened to other school districts thatrejected parcel taxes in the face ofthe funding shortfalls affectingmost public schools in California.

PAUSD’s current parcel tax expiresnext year; voting “no” on a replace-ment means the loss of $5.5 milliona year to our schools.

If voters want PAUSD to reducecompensation for senior leadership,they should lobby the school boardor elect new board members in theupcoming election. But anyonewho cares about the quality of pub-lic education and property values inPalo Alto should vote “yes” onMeasure A.

Megan Swezey FogartyBryant Street

Palo AltoSeniors show supportEditor,

As senior citizens, we could optout of paying the Measure A schoolassessment, but we won’t. We willvote for the measure and pay thetax increase.

Why? When we were looking fora home in the ‘60s we could havepurchased more house and propertyin other communities for less mon-ey than we paid for our home inPalo Alto, but we didn’t even lookelsewhere. We wanted the famedPalo Alto school system for ourchildren and we were very pleasedwith the education our children re-ceived.

But cutbacks in recent years havetaken their toll on our schools andthey need our support now.

Improving our school system willhave practical benefits for all PaloAlto homeowners, regardless ofwhether they have children in theschools. Just as we paid more forour home in the ‘60s to take advan-tage of the excellent school system,ensuring a return to excellence inour schools will keep all our prop-erty values up.

Previous Palo Alto homeownersprovided the funding for theschools that our children enjoyed.Now we have an ethical obligationto provide the funding for this and

future generations.Support Measure A.

Alice and Rich StiebelTalisman Drive

Palo AltoMisguided descriptionEditor,

I support allowing City of PaloAlto employee Dennis Harman toretain his job and congratulate theWeekly for covering the story (May18). But I deplore the Weekly’smisguided description of Mr. Har-man as “a disabled employee” in-stead of “an employee with disabil-ities.” This isn’t a trivial grammati-cal syntax mistake.

The simple rule is this: peoplefirst. A person is a person, first andalways. It is unjustifiable to pre-cede a person’s identity with an ad-jective that describes a potentiallynegative perception or less desir-able trait if it is a disability overwhich the person is powerless.Such language irreparably dimin-ishes the person’s image. Remem-ber the old adage about first im-pressions?

For years the state of Californiahas ensured that legal documentscorrectly identify “people first” fol-lowed by appropriate descriptors asrequired, e.g., a person with dis-abilities, a veteran with handicaps,a student with special needs. It’slong overdue for the Weekly’s jour-nalists to do the same.

As the article points out, DennisHarman is highly regarded and val-ued. It would not have been objec-tionable had your headline moreaccurately described Mr. Harmanas a “highly regarded and valuedemployee,” using his positive traits,which are equally if not more im-portant to the story.

Shelby ValentineGovernor’s Appointee to Area

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Premium reasoningEditor,

As an owner of a residential prop-erty served by the Palo Alto UnifiedSchool District (PAUSD), your “yeson A” vote will help preserve edu-cational excellence in Palo Altoschools which, in turn, will help youretain your “Palo Alto Premium,”both great values to you.

The “Palo Alto Premium” is theamount paid above the price thatcould buy a similar property in anysurrounding town; the “Palo AltoPremium” portion directly related topublic school educational excel-lence consistently ranges from 10 to20 percent of your property’s value.

When you “do the math” on yourprobable rate of return on each $493investment in PAUSD educationalexcellence, you will see why your“yes on A” vote should be automat-ic.

Using conservatively low assump-tions: Assume your home wouldsell for $500,000 today, that it willappreciate just 5 percent each yearfor the next six years and that your“Palo Alto Premium” is just 10 per-cent. When your $500,000 homeappreciates 5 percent, or $25,000,next year, your 10 percent “PaloAlto Premium” portion will be$2,500.

So your $493 annual investmentwill earn you at least $2,500 eachyear in the future, over a 500 per-cent annual return.

“Do the math” for yourself; plugin your own assumptions. You’lldiscover even better results. Mea-sure A opponents don’t want you tothink about the “Palo Alto Premi-um” since it financially overwhelmsevery one of their negative claims. Itis so compelling that naysayers arefinally “getting it” by changing theirvotes to “yes on A.”

Bob HarringtonFulton Street

Palo Alto

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LOS ALTOS HILLS – Luxury in a new customhome on 2.69+/-acres. A quiet and serenesetting, 5bd/5ba, library, media room, etc.Bay/city light and hill views. Cul-de-sac.Palo Alto Schools.

$6,500,000

Grace

Wu650.543.1086

[email protected]

LOS ALTOS HILLS – Magnificent custombuilt one year new estate on 2+/-acressurrounded by majestic redwoods.Meticulous detailing throughout this twolevel floor plan with 6bd/6.5ba.

Call for Price

ATHERTON – One of Atherton’s distinctiveproperties. Gated, contemporary designedhome on 1+/-acre fully landscaped grounds.Exquisite limestone flooring. Large pooland spa. 3-car garage.

Call for Price

LOS ALTOS HILLS – Charming 5bd/4.5baMediterranean on approximately 1.5 acres.Beautiful lot with enchanting views of theBay and the rolling hills. Palo Alto schools.

$4,998,000

Cathy

[email protected]

PALO ALTO – Distinguished ProfessorvilleCraftsman home beautifully and stylishlyremodeled. Gorgeous 10000+/-sf lot withpool. Dramatic and spacious interiors.

Co-listed with Hanna Shacham, ColdwellBanker.

Call for Price

MENLO PARK – Sensational 4bd/3ba homeon private West Menlo cul-de-sac. Qualitydesign and finishes. Professionallandscaping with al fresco dining room.Sold with multiple offers.

$3,395,000

Connie

[email protected]

Kathleen

[email protected]

Jenny

[email protected]

COMING SOON

SOLD

Emely Weissman650.543.1057

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David Olerich650.543.1059

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ATHERTON – Beautifully expanded andremodeled 5bd/3ba traditional home inLindenwood. Fabulous kitchen, abundantwindows and great floor plan. Gatedlandscaped grounds with pool.

$2,538,000

LOS ALTOS HILLS – Elegant 5bd/3.5bacontemporary 1.71+/-acres on a level lot withwonderful views. Striking architecturalangles and walls of glass create dramaticspaces.

$2,988,000

PALO ALTO – This 3000+/-sf home hasextraordinary elegance and quality in design,detailing, amenities and craftsmanship. It is 4 years old. 3bd/3.5ba, family room, breakfastarea, media room, office, den, wine cellar,large utility room. Wired for phone/DSL, cableand music. $2,575,000

PALO ALTO – This 5bd/3ba home exudescasual elegance and architectural interest.There is an inviting courtyard that integratesthe outdoors with the interior. Close toshops and restaurants.

$2,895,000

PALO ALTO – Prime Old Palo Alto. 5bd/4ba.Huge rooms. Remodeled kitchen and baths.Hardwood floors. Great 1bd/1ba cottagewith private yard. Detached 2-car garage.12000+/-sf lot.

$2,799,000

PALO ALTO – The symmetry and simpleelegance of the colonial revival period isevident in this delightful 4bd/3ba home inthe heart of Crescent Park.

$2,550,000

Sunny

Dykwel650.543.1087

[email protected]

Anne

[email protected]

Pamela

[email protected]

Teresa

Budzich650.543.1044

[email protected]

Colleen

Foraker650.543.1043

[email protected]

SOLD

COMING SOON

Suzie

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PALO ALTO – Gorgeous traditional home on atree lined street in desirable CommunityCenter. Located on a large beautifullylandscaped lot this 4bd/4.5ba two story homeoffers many special features. Hot tub,detached garage with studio and dark room,two master suites, one with sauna. $2,500,000

MENLO PARK – A spacious retreat near townwith large skylights, vaulted ceilings and aflowing floor plan. There are walls ofwindows and French doors to facilitateindoor/outdoor living. 4bd/3ba, maturegarden/pool.

$2,495,000

PALO ALTO – Exquisite, almost new5bd/4.5ba in prime location. Fabulous floorplan, lovely landscaping. Gourmet kitchen.3321+/-sf. Media/rumpus room on lowerlevel.

$2,395,000

PALO ALTO – This 5bd/3ba French countryhome on a beautifully landscaped lot, boastsa spacious modern floor plan, fine materials,and exquisite finishes.

$2,395,000

LOS ALTOS – Fantastic opportunity to own a4bd/2.5ba on an approximately .66 acre levellot at the end of a cul-de-sac. Multipleoffers.

$2,350,000

PALO ALTO – Classic Crescent Park homeoffers the perfect floor plan with fourspacious bedrooms on 2nd floor. Fabulousgranite kitchen and adjoining breakfast andfamily room all open to private backyardand pool with spa.

$2,550,000

Pamela

[email protected]

Suzie

[email protected]

Wendy

Kandasamy650.543.1012

[email protected]

Sherry

[email protected]

COMING SOON

Jeremy

[email protected]

SOLD

Pam

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PALO ALTO – 1890s Victorian. Excellent 10-unit investment property in sought afterDowntown Palo Alto. Property consists of 7 studios, 2 1bd/1ba units and 1 2bd/1baunit.

$2,250,000

PALO ALTO – 8 year old custom home. Welldesigned floor plan: 5bd/3ba, high ceiling,hardwood floor in FR and master suite.Skylights. New carpet and interior/exteriorpaint.

$2,195,000

LOS GATOS – Spectacular setting in LosGatos hills. Five minutes to Village.Gourmet cook’s dream kitchen. 4bd/2.5ba.Separate DR. Large FR. 1.8+/-acre.

$2,195,000

PALO ALTO – Set on a spectacularly large lot,this unique home makes a sophisticatedimpression with its grand proportions anddramatic architectural character.Showcasing a master suite, three additionalbedrooms and 3.5ba.

$2,150,000

LOS ALTOS – 4bd/3.5ba stunningMediterranean in a prime area of Los Altos.Soaring foyer, cathedral beam ceiling, 2 fireplaces, formal dining room and familyroom.

$1,950,000

PALO ALTO – In a prime location inprestigious Crescent Park is a magical closeknit cul-de-sac close to downtown with anenchanting 4bd home on a captivating10890+/-sf lot. This is an extraordinary placeto live.

$1,899,000

Ali

[email protected]

Anne

[email protected]

Grace

Wu650.543.1086

[email protected]

Sandy Harris650.543.1071

[email protected]

Nancy [email protected]

Jenny

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Ludmila

Maslow650.543.1054

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MOUNTAIN VIEW – Fabulous newconstruction on .25+/-acre. Gorgeous5bd/3.5ba Craftsman style home, pluscharming 1bd/1ba, 700+/-sf cottage. Artisticdetailing throughout.

$1,875,000

LOS ALTOS HILLS – Value in land, 1.4+/-acrewith 2 existing structures. Prime locationacross from Fremont Hills Country Club,ideal for the equestrian. Sewer line. PaloAlto schools.

$1,800,000

PALO ALTO – Lovely, two-story home indesirable Midtown Palo Alto. 4bd/2.5ba,separate family room with fireplace,hardwood floors, inside laundry and 2-cargarage.

Call for Price

PALO ALTO – Charming Barron Park5bd/2.5ba home on huge 13000+/-sf lot.Built in 1934, and still retains much of theoriginal charm. Bonus guest cottage/officewhich was recently updated.

Call for Price

BERKELEY – Beautiful historical churchconstructed in the late 1800s with seating for150-200 people. Also has Assembly Hall andtwo-story Sunday School along with livingquarters.

$1,590,000

PALO ALTO – Two story Green Gables homewith four bedrooms, three bathrooms andfamily room. Lovely neighborhood close toGunn High School. Two car detachedgarage.

$1,625,000

Lizbeth

[email protected]

Homa

Adnani650.543.1096

[email protected]

Alan

Dunckel650.543.1074

[email protected]

Benyam

Mulugeta650.543.1010

[email protected]

Benyam

Mulugeta650.543.1010

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Denise

Simons650.543.1104

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LOS ALTOS – Gracious remodeled 4bd/2bahome with family room and built-in office inone bedroom. Lovely landscaped gardens.Close to Rancho San Antonio Preserve.Cupertino schools.

$1,475,000

PALO ALTO – Unique and dramatic 3bd/2bahome in the heart of Community Center.Expansive “Great Room” with vaultedceiling, large skylights and flagstonefireplace.

$1,450,000

MOUNTAIN VIEW – Spacious 4bd/3ba homeon large lot. Traditional floor plan withformal entry, separate DR and family roomwith fireplace. Los Altos schools. Sold withmultiple offers.

$1,427,000

PALO ALTO – 4bd/2ba home. Convenientlylocated near schools and park. Spaciousliving room and kitchen with eat-in nook. 2-car attached garage.

Call for Price

PALO ALTO – Picturesque English Country.“Cotswold” inspired in Professorville.Spacious 1686+/-sf. 2bd/2ba. Lovelygarden. High coved ceiling. Luxuriousmaster.

$1,299,500

Bea

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Shari

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Charlene

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Connie

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PALO ALTO – Appealing ranch-style home inexcellent location close to schools. 3bd/2ba.Beautiful gardens, pool. Spacious lot withroom to expand.

$1,150,000

Gayle

[email protected]

SOLD

SOLD

Lydia KouJohn St. Clair III

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MENLO PARK – A charming 3bd/2ba homewith a legal 1bd/1ba apartment over thedetached garage that is ideal for extendedfamily, au pair or extra income. Las Lomitasschools.

$1,195,000

MOUNTAIN VIEW – Beautifully remodeled3bd/2ba home surrounded by lovelylandscaped gardens. Family room withvaulted ceilings. Many upgrades and top ofthe line appliances. Los Altos schools.

$1,089,000

PALO ALTO – Old Palo Alto. Charming,picturesque bungalow by Santa Rita.Hardwood floors, French doors, newstainless appliances, two-car garage. NearWalter Hays.

$1,175,000

MENLO PARK – Two fabulous townhousescurrently under construction. Each unit has3bd/2ba and appointments of the finestquality. Expected completion late Fall 2005.

Call for Price

PALO ALTO – Beautiful 5bd/3ba home with2108+/-sf of living space. Two master suites,one is 600+/-sf with private patio. Large LRwith FP. Tile and hardwood floors, largelandscaped lot with deck.

$1,198,000

MOUNTAIN VIEW – Cuernavaca’s largestmodel “F”. 4bd/2.5ba, 2493+/-sf home, highceilings with crown moldings, remodeledkitchen with top appliances, large separatefamily room with wet bar.

Call for Price


Pamela

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Ali

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Sherry

[email protected]

Charlene

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Arti

Miglani650.543.1015

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Pamela

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MENLO PARK – Charming Ranch home.Sold with multiple offers. 3bd/2ba.Spacious living room and formal dining.Eat-in kitchen. All new windows. Call forsales price.

$1,050,000

PALO ALTO – Wonderful 4bd/2ba home withmany recent upgrades including new paintin and out, landscaping, carpets, appliances.Wonderful family neighborhood.

Call for Price

PALO ALTO – Handsome 3bd/2ba hometucked away on peaceful, quiet cul-de-sac insought after Greenmeadow neighborhood.Light-filled rooms, soaring ceilings, FR andcomfortable playroom. Dramatic large lot.

$1,000,000

PALO ALTO – This home was prepared to sellin only 2 weeks, new paint, new kitchenhardware, new driveway, new fences, newlandscaping, professional cleaning. If youare in need to sell let me help you prepareyour property.

$1,020,000

PALO ALTO – New listing in one of PaloAlto’s most sought-after Midtownneighborhoods. Sunny and bright 3bd/2baplus a family room with views to the privatebackyard. Generous lot. Hardwood floors.Close to award winning schools.

$1,049,000

Rick

Howard

Smith650.543.1046

[email protected]

Gloria & Phil

Sheehan650.543.1013

[email protected]@apr.com

AnneKing

[email protected]

David

[email protected]

LOS ALTOS – Beautifully maintained twobedroom one bath updated kitchen andbath. Magnificent gardens and large pool.Excellent Los Altos schools.

$1,060,000

Michael

[email protected]

SOLDSOLD

SOLD

COMING SOON

Judy [email protected]

Inge Angiletta650.543.1064

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PALO ALTO – Charming 2bd/1ba home indesirable Barron Park. Nestled undercanopy of mature trees, lush foliage on10039+/-sf lot. Sold with multiple offers.Call Shelly for sales price.

$998,000

MOUNTAIN VIEW – Sold in 9 days with 9 offers for well over the list price. Lovelyremodeled 3bd/2ba home with sunlit eat-inkitchen and family room. Pretty landscapedgardens. Great Los Altos schools.

$995,000

MENLO PARK – Cute cottage in the best partof the Willows. Beautifully landscapedyards. Hardwood floors, new dual panewindows. 2bd/2ba.

$989,000

REDWOOD CITY – A jewel on the Athertonborder. 2bd/2ba on 7380+/-sf lot. Hardwoodfloors, newer kitchen. Huge LR/DR withfireplace. Security/fire alarm. Central air.

$928,800

PALO ALTO – Spacious 4bd/2ba Ranch-stylehome needing updating and upgrading.Separate family room opens to backyard,eat-in kitchen, hardwood floors.

$899,000

Charlene

Chanteloup650.543.1016

[email protected]

Stephanie

De Wames650.543.1078

[email protected]

GregCelotti

[email protected]

Ling

Lau650.543.1055

[email protected]

SOLD

MENLO PARK – Absolutely charming3bd/2ba. All remodeled. Hardwood floors.Designer colors. Lovely kitchen and baths.Huge backyard with detached office. SuperbLas Lomitas schools.

$998,000

Suzie

[email protected]

Shelly

Roberson650.543.1093

[email protected]

SOLD




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MOUNTAIN VIEW – Delightful home on tree-lined street. Very well maintained withloving care. 3bd/2ba. Tons of trees on largelot in beautiful neighborhood. Los Altosschools.

$885,000

Jeremy

[email protected]

SAN CARLOS – West of Alameda and setbehind a quaint picket fence, charming3bd/1ba home plus in-law unit and office,both with separate entrances. Eat-in kitchen,hardwood floors, freshly painted.

$799,000

Lila

[email protected]

PALO ALTO – Conveniently locatedProfessorville townhouse in quiet 4-unitcomplex. 2bd/1.5ba, end-unit with largeyard and attached 2-car garage. Updatedkitchen and baths.

$795,000

David

[email protected]

PALO ALTO – Quiet contemporary 2bd/2.5batri-level townhouse. Attached 2-car garage,large deck and garden. Located in back ofcomplex.

$759,000

Terry

Rice650.543.1062

[email protected]

MENLO PARK – Charming 2bd/1ba home inthe Avenues. Hardwood floors, wood-burning FP, sunny eat-in kitchen and insidelaundry room. Newly landscaped yards.

Call for Price

REDWOOD CITY – Located on a lovely tree-lined street on west side, 3bd/2ba homewith large front and back yards. Hardwoodfloors. Close to shops and restaurants.

Call for Price

Lizbeth

[email protected]

Shelly

Roberson650.543.1093

[email protected]

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MOUNTAIN VIEW – Stylish 6 years newtownhome with 2bd/3ba. Bright livingroom, high ceilings, gourmet kitchen.Private complex on cul-de-sac. Los Altosschools.

$699,000

SUNNYVALE – This well maintained 2 bedroom home provides a balance ofpracticality and charm. Entertain friendsand family in the large bonus room orrelax in the secluded backyard patio.

$579,000

Angela

Bumbera650.543.1111

[email protected]

SAN CARLOS – Beautiful top floor condo indesirable Brittan Heights. Peaceful settingwith mountain views. Great floor plan,bright and spacious, formal entry, cathedralceilings, laundry room, pool, spa, tenniscourts, rec room. 2bd/2ba.

$559,000

Estela

Estrada

Freeman650.543.1061

[email protected]

APTOS – Rustic cabin on 16000+/-sf lot plus3 contiguous parcels totaling 1+/-acre. Allthis in the Redwoods of Monte Toyon abovethe Village of Aptos.

$550,000

Karen

[email protected]

MOUNTAIN VIEW – 2bd/2ba modern andcharming in park like setting. Nicelyupgraded unit, freshly painted, withhardwood floors, close to shopping,downtown and freeways.

$469,000

Ludmila

Maslow650.543.1054

[email protected]

REDWOOD CITY – Quiet and peacefullocation, clean and in great condition, pool,quick and easy access to Highway 280. Allin all – Great Value.

$417,000

Ron

[email protected]

Anne [email protected]

Lila [email protected]

COMING SOON

SOLD

COMING SOON


Cardinalbaseballon road

Team must travel in NCAA for first time in nine years

by Rick Eymer

T he Stanford baseball team getsa second chance to make a bigimpression when it travels to

Waco, Texas, home to Baylor Uni-versity and its resurgent athletic pro-gram, to open play in one of 16NCAA regional tournaments begin-ning Friday.

Stanford coach Mark Marquesshas never been to Waco, and he mayfeel a little out of place as the otherthree teams all hail from Texas.

The third-seeded Cardinal (32-23)meets second-seed TCU (40-18) onFriday at noon (PDT) in the double-elimination tournament. Host Baylor(39-21) takes on fourth-seededTexas-San Antonio (27-32) in an-other first round affair. The Bearsare seeded fourth nationally.

While Stanford has visited Texasseveral times in the past, includingregional play in 1994 and 1981, itsnever played anywhere outside ofAustin.

Stanford will play at noon or 5p.m. on Saturday depending on Fri-day’s outcome. Sunday’s games arealso scheduled for noon and 5 p.m.,with a game Monday at 4 p.m. ifnecessary.

Stanford, with advances to thepostseason for the 12th straight year,received one of the 34 at-large bidsdespite finishing in a sixth-place tiein the Pac-10 with a 12-12 mark.California finished fifth and Wash-ington shared sixth with the Cardinaland both teams will be home for thepostseason party.

The 23 losses are the most sinceStanford finished 40-25 in 1995,when the Cardinal traveled to a re-gional in Wichita State and secureda spot in the College World Series.

Stanford matched its lowest everfinish in conference play, and lostmore conference games in any yearsince going to a 24-game schedule in1999. Stanford finished 10-20 in1993.

Stanford finished the regular sea-son dropping two of three to hostUSC over the weekend. The Cardi-nal won Saturday, 14-3, behind JeffGilmore’s complete-game effort, butlost Friday 5-2, and Sunday, 4-2.

The Trojans won the season se-ries with Stanford for the first time innine years.

“It’s been one of those yearswhere in big spots we haven’t gottenthe key hits,” Stanford third base-man Adam Sorgi said. “But if youlook back we’ve gotten better as theseason goes on. You haven’t seenthe best of a lot of guys yet. We’ll beready.”

The Cardinal are 10-16 in gamesdecided by two runs or less, and witha key hit there or a big pitch there,that could change during the post-season.

SportsShorts

FridayCollege baseball: Stanford vs. Texas

Christian, noon, KZSU (90.1 FM)Prep sports: High School Sports Fo-

cus, 11 p.m., KICU (36); rebroadcastSunday at 7 p.m.

SaturdayCollege baseball: Stanford in Baylor

Regional, 2 p.m. or 5 p.m., KZSU (90.1FM)

SundayCollege baseball: Stanford in Baylor

Regional, noon or 5 p.m., KZSU (90.1FM)

Prep sports: Cal-Hi Sports Bay Area,6:30 p.m., KRON (4); rebroadcast Mon-day at 7 p.m. on Fox Sports Net

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TENNIS CHAMPS . . . It hasbeen quite a year for the SacredHeart Prep boys’ tennis team.The Gators won their first-everCentral Coast Section Division IIteam championship by knockingoff rival Menlo in the title matchand advanced to the NorCaltournament and reached thesemifinals before falling to Alame-da. Sacred Heart Prep capped itshistoric season last week whensophomore Andrew Davisonteamed with freshman JamieHutter to capture the CCS dou-bles title at Imperial Courts in Ap-tos. Hutter and Davison, the No.1-seeded team, knocked off theNo. 2-seeded tandem of PatBrogan and Chase Huebner ofLos Gatos, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Huebn-er had helped Los Gatos win thepast two CCS doubles titles inaddition to contributing to theWildcats’ CCS Division I title andsecond straight NorCal champi-onship. Menlo’s tandem of AlexKaufman and Mark Keeganreached the semifinals beforefalling to Brogan and Huebner.

HELLING HURT . . . Stanfordgrad Rick Helling, pitching forthe Milwaukee Brewers affiliate inTriple-A Nashville, sustained a leftarm injury on Friday night when apiece of a broken bat becameimpaled in his arm. Helling, a 10-year major-league veteran, wastaken to a local hospital for treat-ment.

COACHING CORNER . . . Menlo-Atherton is looking for coachesfor the 2005-06 school year:wrestling, girls’ frosh-soph volley-ball, track and field assistant, var-sity football assistant, JV boys’and JV girls’ water polo andcheerleading. Those interestedshould contact M-A Athletic Di-rector Pam Wimberly at 322-5311 (ext. 5706) or e-mail re-sumes to [email protected] . . .Menlo School is looking for agirls’ varsity basketball assistantcoach and girls’ frosh-soph bas-ketball coaches. Call 330-2001(ext. 2282) or e-mail [email protected].

Keith PetersKeith Peters

Menlo School senior Libby Jenke (foreground) leads Stanford-bound Alicia Follmar of Saratoga after the first lap ofthe girls’ 800 at the CCS finals. Follmar wound up winning with Jenke second in the nation’s fastest 800 this season.

STANFORD ROUNDUP

Gunn’s Tyler findshappiness in finalsShe leads local state meet qualifiers

with top 3,200 time in Californiaby Keith Peters

H appiness and heartbreak. Those are the emotionalhighs and lows from the 2005 Central Coast SectionTrack and Field Championships.

Happiness is finishing among the top three, or achiev-ing an automatic qualifying mark, and earning a trip tothis weekend’s CIF State Meet at Hughes Stadium inSacramento.

Heartbreak is everything short of that.There was no heartbreak for Gunn senior Tori Tyler. Or

Menlo-Atherton senior Evan Anderson. Or Palo Altofreshman Mia Lattanzi. They, along with a handful of oth-er local athletes, were among the lucky ones. Theyachieved their goals at last Friday’s CCS finals at LosGatos High and will be competing this weekend in Sacra-mento.

Tyler had a big smile on her face after finishing thegirls’ 3,200 meters. Her winning time of 10:31.04 notonly gave her a ticket to the finals-only race in Sacramentoon Saturday, but it moved her among the CCS elite.

First and foremost, Tyler took over the state lead in the Gunn senior Tori Tyler leads the field early on her wayto recording the state’s No. 1 time in the 3,200.

CCS TRACK & FIELD

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BASEBALLPac-10 Conference

FridayStanford 000 200 000 — 2 5 1USC 000 013 01x — 5 11 1

Romanczuk, Reynolds (7), Davis (8) andHester. Kennedy, Koss (9) and Clement. WP- Kennedy (11-2). LP - Romanczuk (5-6). Sv- Koss.

HR - Sharpe (USC). 2B - Minaker, Lowrie(S)l Hart 2 (USC). 3 hits - Hart (USC). 2 hits -Sharpe, Hankerd, Frost (USC). 2 RBI - Han-kerd (USC).

SaturdayStanford 201 400 205 — 14 16 1USC 200 010 000 — 3 12 1

Gilmore and Hester. Encinas, Bannister (4),Martlaro (8), Williams (9), Aguilar (9) andClement. WP - Gilmore (10-2). LP - Encinas(6-4).

HR - Clement (USC). 3B - Lowrie (S). 2B -Minaker 2, Sorgi, Hester, Seawell (S); Kalter(USC). 3 hits - Sorgi, Minaker, Summerhays(S). 2 hits - Lowrie, Hester (S); Kalter, Clement,Hart, Sharpe (USC). 4 RBI - Minaker, Hester(S). 2 RBI - Taylor, Lewis (S); Clement (USC).

SundayStanford 010 000 100 — 2 9 1USC 002 000 02x — 4 10 1

Holler, Gallagher (3), Manship (8) and Hes-ter. Spradlin, Kos (8), Friedman (9) andClement. WP - Koss (3-1). LP - Gallagher (1-5). Sv - Friedman.

HR - Seawell (S); Clement (USC). 2B - Mi-naker (S); Sharpe (USC). 3 hits - Hankerd(USC). 2 hits - Taylor, Lewis (S). 2 RBI -Clement (USC).

Final standings: Oregon State 19-5 (41-9);Arizona 17-7 (37-19); Arizona State 15-9 (34-22); USC 15-9 (37-19); California 13-11 (34-23); Stanford 12-12 (32-23); Washington 12-12 (33-22); UCLA 4-20 (15-41); WashingtonState 1-23 (21-37).

WOMEN’S CREWNCAA Championships

at Lake Natoma, Rancho CordovaDivision I Eights

Semifinals - 1, Princeton 6:35.77; 2, Yale6:39.47; 3, Ohio State 6:39.67; 4, Brown6:41.40; 5, Stanford 6:47.92; 6, USC 6:52.38.

Petite final - 1, Brown 6:24.65; 2, Ten-nessee 6:26.26; 3, Michigan 6:29.67; 4, USC6:31.71; 5, Stanford 6:31.87; 6, Washington6:34.36.

SOFTBALLNCAA Super Regional

at StanfordFriday

Tennessee 100 001 0 — 2 4 1Stanford 000 000 0 — 0 2 1

Abbott and Doepking. McCullough andNelson. WP - Abbott (46-7). LP - McCullough(21-7).

HR - Card (T). 2 hits - Card (T); Rinehart (S).2 RBI - Card (T).

Records - Stanford 43-15; Tennessee 63-13

SaturdayStanford 000 000 0 — 0 1 3Tennessee 005 001 x— 6 9 0

McCullough, Severson (3) and Nelson. Ab-bott and Doepking. WP - Abbott (47-7). LP -McCullough (21-8).

2B - Card (T). 2 hits - Schutzler, Durant,Card (T). 2 RBI - Brock (T).

Records - Stanford 43-16; Tennessee 64-13

MEN’S TENNISNCAA Doubles Tournamentat College Station, Texas

Semifinals: Mark Growcott-Ken Skupski(LSU) d. Sam Warburg-KC Corkery (Stanford),7-6 (1), 6-4.

Quarterfinals: Sam Warburg-KC Corkery(Stanford) d. Roger Matalonga-Colin O’Grady(Arizona), 6-3, 7-6 (5).

Second round - Sam Warburg-KC Corkery(Stanford) d. Daniel Chu-Alex Slovic (Wash-ington), 6-3, 6-4.

First round: Sam Warburg-KC Corkery(Stanford) d. Daniel Byrnes-Mark Van Elden(Oklahoma State), 4-6, 6-1, 6-1.

WOMEN’S TENNISNCAA Doubles Tournament

at Athens, Ga.Championship: Erin Burdette-Alice

Barnes (Stanford) d. Amber Liu-Anne Yelsey(Stanford), 6-3, 6-4.

Semifinals: Erin Burdette-Alice Barnes(Stanford) d. Ana Cetnik/Story Tweedie-Yates (TCU), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

Quarterfinals: Erin Burdette-Alice Barnes(Stanford) d. Olga Borisova-Marianna Yufer-ova (VCU), 6-2, 6-2; Amber Liu-Anne Yelsey(Stanford) d. Daniella Bercek-Riza Zalameda

(UCLA), 6-3, 6-0.

MEN’S TRACK & FIELDNCAA West Regional

at Eugene, Ore.Team leaders - 1, USC 103; 2, Oregon

87.5; 3, UCLA 71.33; 4, Arizona State 71; 5,BYU 68; 6, Stanford 51; 7, California 40.5; 8,Arizona 34.83; 9, Washington State 33.5; 10,Boise State 32.

100 - 1, Wes Felix (USC) 10.45; 2, JamesMcSwain (WSU) 10.48. 3, Phillip Frances(USC) 10.50; 4, Wopamo Osaisai (Stanford)10.57.

200 - 1, Wes Felix (USC) 20.58; 2, SethAmoo (ASU) 20.72. 3, Chris Berrian (FresnoSt.) 21.01.

400 - 1, Kedar Inico (UO) 46.14; 2,Domenik Peterson (ASU) 46.33; 3, CraigEverhart (UCLA) 46.50. 8, Nick Sebes (Stan-ford) 48.69.

800 - 1, Ryan Brown (UW) 1:48.20; 2, JonRankin (UCLA) 1:48.20; 3, Duane Soloman(USC) 1:48.73.

1,500 - 1, Jon Rankin (UCLA) 3:44.07; 2,Don Sage (Stanford) 3:44.69; 3, Bryan Lind-say (BYU) 3:45.21. 5, Russell Brown (Stanford)3:45.40.

5,000 - 1, Robert Cheseret (UA) 13:48.76;2, Ryan Hall (Stanford) 13:48.92; 3, Ian Dob-son (Stanford) 13:57.41. 6, Chris Emme (Stan-ford) 14:02.34.

3,000 steeplechase - 1, Ben Bruce (CalPoly-SLO) 8:38.33; 2, Josh McAdams (BYU)8:41.56; 3, Aaron Aguayo (ASU) 8:41.80.

110 HH - 1, Eric Mitchum (UO) 13.65; 2,Blake Fazier (USC) 14.09; 3, AK Ikwaukor(UO) 14.16.

400 IH - 1, Brandon Johnson (UCLA)50.12; 2, John Cassleman (WSU) 50.93; 3,Jonathan Williams (UCLA) 51.07.

400 relay - 1, Arizona State (Koehnemann,Peterson, Amoo, Love) 39.14; 2, USC 39.43;3, Washington 39.66.

1,600 relay - 1, Arizona State (Barton,Amoo, Peterson, Banda) 3:06.94; 2, Oregon3:07.69; 3, Washington 3:08.15.

Pole vault - 1, Trent Powell (BYU) 17-1 andRobison Pratt (BYU) 17-1; 3, Tyson Byers(WSU) 16-7.25 and Jon Derby (UO) 16-7.25.

Triple jump - 1, Rodrigo Mendes (BYU) 55-5; 2, Allen Simms (USC) 55-4 1/4; 3, LeonidasWatson (UO) 52-1 3/4; 5, Solomon Welch(Stanford) 51-7 1/4; 7, Feranmi Okanlami(Stanford) 50-5 1/4.

Hammer - 1, Mattias Jons (Boise State)223-1; 2, Karim Chester (N. Arizona) 208-5; 3,Paul Etter (UO) 206-8.

Long jump - 1, Leonidas Watson (Oregon)26-0 3/4; 2, Trevell Quinley (ASU) 25-6 3/4; 3,Kurt Weber (Fullerton) 25-1 1/4.

Shot put - 1, Rhuben Williams (Cal) 63-43/4; 2, Russell Winger (Idaho) 63-2 3/4; 3,David Nichols (Sac State) 62-3 1/4..

Discus — 1, Michael Robertson (Stan-ford) 201-0; 2, Niklas Arrhenius (BYU) 190-2;3, Sean Shields (Arizona) 186-7.

Javelin — 1, Gabriel Wallin (Boise St.) 238-10; 2, Nate Putnam (Boise St.) 222-6; 3, PaulTeinert (Cal) 216-7).

WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELDNCAA West Regional

at Eugene, Ore.Team leaders — 1, Stanford 110 1/2; 2,

UCLA 85; 3, Arizona St. 74; 4, USC 63; 5,BYU 54; 6, Cal 52; 7, Arizona 38; 8, Oregon36; 9, Washington 30; 10 Cal Poly-SLO 29

100 — 1, Janice Davis (Stanford) 11.61; 2,Halima DeCree (UNLV) 11.65; 3, Porchea Car-roll (ASU) 11.67.

200 — 1, Monique Henderson (UCLA)22.72; 2, Antonette Carter (Cal) 23.12; 3,Porchea Carroll (ASU) 23.22. 5, Ashley Purnell(Stanford) 23.45.

400 — 1, Monique Henderson (UCLA)50.78; 2, Nashonme Johnson (Stanford)53.10; 3, Christine Moschella (Stanford) 53.37.

800 — 1, Aneta Lemiesz (BYU) 2:03.90;2, Ashley Freeman (Stanford) 2:04.82; 3,Maggie Vessey (CPSLO) 2:05.90; 4, AlysiaJohnson (Cal) 2:06.01. 5, Chinny Offor (Stan-ford) 2:06.77.

1,500 — 1, Heidi Magill (BYU) 4:18.19; 2,Johanna Nilsson (N. Arizona) 4:18.31; 3, Iry-na Vashchuk (USC) 4:20.06; 4, Arianna Lam-bie (Stanford) 4:20.47.

5,000 — 1, Sara Bei (Stanford) 16:22.41;2, Teresa McWalters (Stanford) 16:38.73. 3,Cosette Smith (UCSB) 16:44.19.

100 hurdles — 1, Virginia Powell (USC)12.81; 2, Dawn Harper (UCLA) 12.99; 3, Shar-ifa Jones (Arizona) 13.13.

400 hurdles — 1, Christine Spence

(UNLV) 58.50. 2, Mackenzie Hill (UCLA) 59.60.3, Undine Becker (Stanford) 59.93.

3,000 steeplechase — 1, Rena Williams-Chesser (BYU) 10:13.78; 2, Jeane Goff (Stan-ford) 10:17.51; 3, Tiffany Strickland (UtahSt.)10:21.20.

400 relay — 1, Southern California 44.03;2, Arizona St. 44.53; 3, Cal 44.63. 4, Stanford(Becker, Purnell, Johnson, Bailey) 45.17.

1,600 relay — 1, Stanford (Offor, Free-man, Moschella, Davis) 3:34.73; 2, USC3:36.54; 3, Cal 3:38.85.

High jump — 1, Sharon Day (CPSLO) 6-01/2; 2, Kaylene Wagner (CPSLO) 6-0 1/2; 3,Miruna Mataoanu (Boise St.) 5-11 1/2.

Triple jump — 1, Kamila Rywelska (BYU)42-10 3/4; 2, Erica McLain (Stanford) 42-61/4; 3, Cassandra Strickland (Cal) 41-7.

Shot put — 1, Jessica Pressley (ASU) 55-11 1/4; 2, Jessica Cosby (UCLA) 54-1; 3,Megan Howard (Arizona) 52-8 3/4;

Discus — 1, Ilona Rutjes (Arizona) 183-7;2, Kamaiya Warren (UCLA) 177-9; 3, JuliaPedersen (ASU) 176-5.

Javelin — 1, Sarah Malone (Oregon) 186-10; 2, Jenna Dean (WSU) 164-2; 3, MalloryWebb (Fresno St.)

Pole vault — 1, Kate Soma (Washington)13-7 3/4; 2, Shayla Balentine (SDS) 13-3 3/4;3, Angela Tavlarides (ASU) 13-3 3/4.

Long jump — 1, Antonette Carter (Cal)21-6 1/4; 2, Candice Baucham (UCLA) 21-51/4; 3, Amy Menlove (BYU) 21-0 1/2.

Hammer — 1, Jessica Cosby (UCLA) 213-11; 2, Sarah Hopping (Stanford) 204-2; 3, Ju-lia Rozenfeld (USC) 202-6.

SCHEDULEFRIDAYBaseball

NCAA — Waco Regional: Stanford vs.Texas Christian, noon

SATURDAYBaseball

NCAA — Waco Regional: Stanford en-tered

SCOREBOARD

by Rick Eymer

E rin Burdette added an indi-vidual trophy to her collectionon Sunday when the Stanford

senior paired up with junior AliceBarnes to win the NCAA doubleschampionship in Athens, Ga.

Perhaps what made the individ-ual title so special for Burdette,who won the clinching match inlast week’s team championship,was how she recovered from ashoulder injury that threatened toend her collegiate career prema-turely earlier in the year.

“A month and a half ago Icouldn’t even lift my arm,” Bur-dette said after she and Barnes beatteammates Amber Liu and AnneYelsey, 6-3, 6-4, in the title match.“To be able to come back and playfor this title was fantastic.”

Stanford recorded its fifth dou-bles title, matching UCLA for mostby any one school. The Cardinalhave had 12 doubles teams play forthe championship, twice it’s beenan all-Stanford final. CurrentCastilleja coach Meredith McGrathand Teri Whitlinger beat team-mates Sandra Birch and DebbieGraham for the title in 1990.

Burdette and Barnes also becamethe fifth unseeded duo to win an

NCAA title, joining Stanford’sElise Burgin and Linda Gates(1984) among others.

“Ever since Erin came back fromher injury I think we just got betterand better,” Barnes said. “I justhoped that we would have enoughtime to get enough matches underour belt to compete here. A monthago I didn’t even think we weregoing to be able to play in thistournament and we were both verydisappointed.”

Burdette and Barnes went threesets before beating TCU’s tandemof Ana Cetnik and Story Tweedie-Yates, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, in Saturday’ssemifinals.

Tweedie-Yates played at Stan-ford her first three years.

Liu and Yelsey advanced to thefinals with an upset victory, 6-2, 6-2, over second-seeded Audra Co-hen and Cristelle Grier of North-western.

In College Station, Texas, Stan-ford’s Sam Warburg and KC Cork-ery fell to LSU’s Mark Growcottand Ken Skupski, 7-6 (1), 6-4, inthe semifinals of the NCAA dou-bles tournament.

Warburg and Corkery finishedthe season with a 38-7 mark. ■

Stanford’s Burdette has a dreamy finish

Cardinal senior concludes career with doubles title

Chris Minaker takes a 13-gamehitting streak into the regional aftergoing 5-for-14 with four doublesagainst the Trojans. Minaker andJohn Hester each drove in four runsto support Gilmore’s 10th win in 12decisions.

Sorgi, Minaker, and Ben Sum-merhays each collected three hits.

Meanwhile, junior second base-man Jed Lowrie earned first teamall-American recognition fromSports Weekly, becoming the firstCardinal to be named back-to-backall American since Jeremy Guthriein 2001-02.

Track and fieldSara Bei and Janice Davis each

won an individual title and the 1,600relay team won as the Stanfordwomen won the team title at theNCAA West Regional in Eugene,Ore., over the weekend.

Michael Robertson won the dis-cus as the Stanford men finishedfifth.

Bei won her third consecutiveWest Regional 5,000 meters, cover-ing the distance in 16:22.41, 10 sec-onds slower than last year’s winningtime and 46 seconds off her person-al best.

“I’m really better and better eachweek,” Bei said. “I feel like I’m justgetting going now. It feels good go-ing into nationals.”

Davis won the 100 meters in11.61, a day after racing 11.47 —the second-fastest time in school his-tory — in the preliminaries

“I was just happy to run without

pain,” Davis said.Bei and Davis were two of sever-

al women to qualify for the NCAAchampionships in Sacramento be-ginning June 8. Sarah Hopping (dis-cus), Teresa McWalters (5,000),Ashley Purnell (200), NashonmeJohnson and Christine Moschella(400), Ashley Freeman and ChinnyOffor (800), Arianna Lambie(1,500), Jeane Goff (3,000 steep-elchase), Undine Becker (400 hur-dles) and Erica McLain (triple jump)also qualified.

The 1,600 relay team of Davis,Offor, Freeman and Moschella alsoqualified.

Robertson, who won the discus in201-0, was one of seven men toqualify for the championships. He’llbe joined by Ryan Hall and Ian Dob-son (5,000), Wopamo Osaisai (100),Donald Sage and Russell Brown(1,500) and Solomon Welch (triplejump).

SoftballStanford’s bid to reach the

Women’s College World Series fellshort as the Cardinal dropped twogames to visiting Tennessee, 2-0 onFriday and 6-0 on Saturday, in theNCAA Super Regional.

Stanford (43-16) won last week’sregional in Columbia, Mo., to reachthe Super Regional, which is onestep shy of the WCWS.

“First of all unless you win thelast game it is a hard way to endyour year for a great team,” Stan-ford coach John Rittman said. “Intime we will be able to reflect on thegreat year we had. I am proud of theway we prepared for this weekendand the way we handled ourselves.”

Stanford managed just three hits in

14 innings against Tennessee pitch-er Monica Abbott (47-7), two byCardinal left fielder Jackie Rinehart.Freshman Erin Howe got Stanford’sonly hit on Saturday.

“It was definitely frustrating be-cause we could not catch a break,”Stanford shortstop Lauren Lappinsaid. “We were hitting the ball wellbut to players. They made all theplays and supported Monica defen-sively.”

Stanford returns 14 players, in-cluding nine who played a majorityof the games. Six seniors participat-ed in their final contest: MichelleThiry, Katherine Hoffman, ElizabethBendig, Heather Shook, Leah Nel-son and Meghan Sickler.

“I didn’t know this was going tobe my last game,” Nelson said.

Women’s volleyballStanford coach John Dunning,

who led the Cardinal to a nationalchampionship in the fall, was nameda recipient of the USA VolleyballAll-Time Great Coach Award.

Dunning, who will be honored ata Stanford home match during theseason, has a 120-20 record with theCardinal and two national titles.

Men’s golfStanford opens play at the NCAA

championships on Wednesday at theCaves Valley Golf Club in OwingsMills, Maryland. The tournamentruns through Saturday.

Stanford is making its first ap-pearance at NCAAs since 2001.

Freshman Rob Grube, who wonthe regional title at Stanford GolfCourse, will be joined by KevinBlue, Pat Phillips, Zack Miller andMatt Savage. ■

Stanford roundup(continued from page 29)


An Open Letter from the Measure B Citizens Watchdog Committee to the Voters andTaxpayers of Santa Clara County and the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors

Measure B Transportation Improvement Program

County Measure B Program: In November 1996, the voters in Santa Clara County overwhelmingly approved Measure A, an advisory measure that outlined a specificpackage of transportation improvements for the County. On the same ballot, Measure B authorized the enactment of a 1/2-cent sales tax for general County purposes, for anine-year timeframe. The Board of Supervisors is responsible for the implementing the projects as described in Measure A. To that end, the Board created the County MeasureB Transportation Improvement Program that is administered in the Office of the County Executive. Through agreements, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA),Caltrans, the County Roads and Airports Department and local cities manage construction of specific Measure B transportation projects.

The Citizens Watchdog Committee (CWC) of the 1996 Measure B Transportation ImprovementProgram is pleased to report many successful accomplishments of Santa Clara County’s $1.3billion transportation sales tax program.

Topping the list of accomplishments to date has been freeing congestion on major freeways andproviding new light rail service to the East Valley. These projects were constructed in record time:

• Tasman and Capitol Avenues new rail service completed on time and $18 million under budget

• Route 101 between Morgan Hill and San José adds two new lanes in each direction deliveredsix months ahead of schedule and $20 million under budget

• Route 85/87 Interchange completed two months ahead of schedule and $2 million under budget

• Widening I-880 from four to six lanes from Route 101 to Montague Expressway

• Route 85/101 South interchange new direct access for carpool lanes

• Modifications to the Route 152/101 Interchange improve traffic operations

The Measure B program made significant contributions to the Caltrain Program, such as new transit centers in Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and soon in Palo Alto. The Program is funding over a dozen projects in the County’s10-year Bicycle Expenditure Plan (including bike lanes, trails and under and overcrossings).

The Board of Supervisors approved moving two deferred projects, an auxiliary lane on Northbound 17 betweenCamden and Hamilton the Route and the 85 Noise Mitigation project into construction as a result of costsavings on other projects and increases in sales tax revenues.

As the Citizens’ Oversight Committee for Measure B sales tax dollars, we continue to monitor these projectsclosely. The ongoing work of the CWC is to scrutinize expenditures, to receive regular updates from theCounty’s project management oversight staff, to monitor the annual independent audit, and to advise the publicon Program progress by making reports available to the public.

We encourage the public to attend our bi-monthly meetings or contact us on our website athttp://santaclaracounty.org/measureb.

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• Operational improvementson the Route 17 corridor

• Widening Route 152east of Gilroy

• Initiating the widening ofRoute 87, from downtownSan José to Almaden Valley

• Improvements on allCounty Expressways

• 237/880 Interchangeimprovements in Milpitas

• 85/101 Interchangeimprovements inMountain View

• $90 million to fill potholesand maintainstreets in all our fifteencities and the County.

• The Vasona extension of lightrail from downtown San Joséthrough downtown Campbellis set to open ahead of sched-

ule mid 2005

Other highway projects areeither complete or wellunderway including:


Sports

Castilleja sophomore Tori Anthony cleared 12-5, the same height as the win-ner, but settled for second in the CCS finals.

Keith Peters

Palo Alto’s 400 relay team of (L-R) Alyson Seedman, Ranecia Fields, Katy Wanner and Katrina Zawojski clocked aschool record of 48.26 while finishing third and earning a berth to the CIF State Meet this weekend.

Keith Peters

Menlo-Atherton senior Evan Anderson raced away witha victory in the 1,600.

Menlo-Atherton senior Laurie Roberts was happy withher second place in the high jump.

Keith Peters

Keith Peters

Palo Alto freshman Mia Lattanzi (right) turned it on in the homestretch towin the girls’ 400 in a school record of 56.18 in the CCS finals.

Keith Peters

event. Second, she moved into ninthplace on the all-time CCS list. Third,her time was the fifth-fastest in sec-tion meet history and the fastest timein the meet since 1987.

And, equally important to her,Tyler ran a personal best and set aschool record.

“I was really happy to get a PR,”the diminutive dynamo said. “Mygoal was to try and break 10:40, andI was kind of going for 10:32. That’swhat Ruth Graham ran when she wonhere.”

That was in 2002 when Graham,considered the finest girls’ distance

runner in Gunn history, won the CCStitle in 10:32.06.

“So I guess it’s a Gunn tradition,”said Tyler, who defended her sectiontitle easily and gave her school fivestraight CCS victories in the event.

Tyler, headed for the University ofWashington in the fall, had a fewchallengers early in the race, but leftthem behind and was running solothe final four laps.

“Suffice it to say it was a tremen-dous race,” said Gunn coach ErnieLee. “The plan going into the racewas to just run even 79-second lapsand not worry about anyone else. As-sistant coach Matt Tompkins and Ifigured that most likely everyone elsein the race would just let her go and

worry about the other two state meetspots. If anyone did go with her, wewere pretty certain that they wouldfall off after four laps as Tori contin-ued to run the pace.”

Two runners did stay with Tyler forthe first mile in around 5:14.

“Tori did not slow down and theother girls fell off significantly in thesecond mile,” Lee said.

“I just tried to keep on the pace,”said Tyler, who knew she had a shotat the state lead with a lap remaining.The blistering pace set by Tyler tookits toll, with Palo Alto sophomore Re-nata Cummins forced to stop beforethe finish line and walk the remaining50 meters.

Next up for Tyler will be the state

finals, where she goes in as the topqualifier.

“I hope at least to be in the topfive,” said Tyler, who was 16th at statein 2004. “Or, win it.”

Anderson also has a shot at a top-six finish (and medal) in the 1,600 inSacramento. He won his first CCS ti-tle in the event last Friday in 4:16.76.While the time makes him only theNo. 11 qualifier going into Friday’spreliminaries, Anderson’s season bestof 4:11.41 puts him among the topthree time-wise.

Anderson likely could have runfaster Friday, but he knew quickly hedidn’t need a fast time to win.

“I knew it wasn’t going to be fastafter the first lap,” he said. “My legs

were felt a little heavy. I just wantedto get the lead and stay here. I knewno one was going to come up andchallenge me, unless they had a sen-sational final lap.”

No one did and Anderson won go-ing away by more than three seconds.He later finished third in the 3,200 in9:23.87, a half-second off his careerbest. That puts him Saturday’s finals,giving him two races to possiblymedal in.

Lattanzi is happy to be running inone event at state. The talented ninth-grader charged off the final turn andoverhauled the field to win her firstCCS title with a personal- and school-record 56.18.

CCS track(continued from page 29)


Menlo School senior Libby Jenkewas the CCS leader at 56.09, butdropped the race in order to concen-trate on the 800. Lattanzi took fulladvantage of the opportunity.

“I was glad she wasn’t in the race,because she was my main competi-tion,” Lattanzi said. “But I was alsodisappointed not to run against her.”

Lattanzi still had plenty of compe-tition, having to run down Los Altossophomore Bria Nelson, who ran alifetime best of 56.71. Lattanzi leanedat the finish, just as she had beatenNelson at the De Anza Division fi-nals.

“I really wanted to be in the topthree,” Lattanzi said. “Even though Idid not have the fastest time (in theCCS), winning it was still amazing.”

Amazing pretty much summed upthe girls’ 800 race, arguably thefastest of any section finals in the na-tion. The top four finishers broke 2:10and the top five all qualified for statebased on automatic standards.

Stanford-bound Alicia Follmarcapped a sensational double - she ear-lier won the 1,600 in 4:52.66 - byclocking a lifetime best of 2:07.79.Jenke, the state leader in 2:07.47 (in-doors), was second in 2:08.70 afterrunning into trouble late in the race.

“I was feeling comfortable,” said

Jenke, who led after an opening 61-second lap. “But, unfortunately, I gotboxed in on the last turn and was un-able to get out and make a move. So,I was disappointed with that.

“I think I ran a good race. Maybenext time I’ll react better when situa-tions arise.”

Castilleja sophomore Tori Anthonyreacted well to the competition in thegirls’ pole vault, clearing the sameheight (12-5) as winner NatashaBarthel of St. Francis but finishingsecond on more misses at a lowerheight. Both surpassed the previousmeet record of 12-1 by KirstenLofton of Aptos in 2003.

A year ago, Anthony was partici-pating in gymnastics and her polevault career had yet to take off.

“I just wanted to try a new sport,”she said. “I had been doing it (gym-nastics) for 10 years.”

Anthony hooked up with ScottSlover, a former UCLA pole vaulterwho coached Barthel and St. Francisteammate Taylor Franklin. All threequalified for the state meet.

Also qualifying was Menlo-Ather-ton senior Laurie Roberts, who fin-ished second in the high jump at 5-6despite overcoming a fever of 101.3the night before.

“I’ve been kind of out of it,”Roberts said, after earning her thirdtrip to the state meet.

Roberts trained very little the week

of the finals, spending more timesleeping and trying to recover.

“Before I got sick, my thinking wasI could win this,” Roberts said. Hethought process then shifted to justclearing 5-4, the automatic qualifyingstandard. She did that with ease be-fore making 5-6.

“Five-six is all right,” Roberts said.“I’ll take it.”

As will Palo Alto’s 400 relay team,which was very satisfied with itsthird-place finish and school-recordtime of 48.26.

“We were seeded third in this meetlast year and we got fifth,” said No. 2runner Katy Wanner, a junior. “It waspretty devastating. Our goal this yearwas to make it to state, and we did.”

Joining Wanner was junior RaneciaFields, sophomore Alyson Seedmanand senior Katrina Zawojski. For Za-wojski, her happiness in the 400 relaywas mixed with the heartbreak of fail-ing to qualify in any of her three oth-er events.

Zawojski finished fourth in the longjump at 17-7, missing third by oneinch. In the triple jump, she tied forthird at 37-7, but lost out on an infe-rior second-best jump. She also fin-ished fifth in the 200 in 25.67, failingto surpass any of her season bests.

“I just didn’t have any hops,” Za-wojski said. “I’ve very disappointed.”

Happiness and heartbreak, at theCCS finals. ■


Sports

BOYS TENNISCCS Individual Championships

At Imperial Courts, AptosSingles

First round: Kaiser (Saratoga) d. Pybas(Salinas), 6-2, 6-2; McCall (Sacred Heart Prep)d. Clifton (Monterey), 6-2, 6-0; B. Brogan (LosGatos) d. Sh. Herry (Aptos), 6-2, 6-3; Bradley(R.L. Stevenson) d. Nguyen (Yerba Buena), 6-4, 6-1; Rozkin (Bellarmine) d. Maleksalehi(Prospect), 6-3, 6-0; Benvenuto (Aragon) d.St. Herry (Aptos), 6-0, 6-2; Nerenberg (HalfMoon Bay) d. Kyauk (South San Francisco), 6-0, 6-0; Tzou (Lynbrook) d. Cheng (Leland), 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Quarterfinals: Kaiser d. McCall, 6-1, 6-2;Bradley d. Broan, 7-5, 7-6 (7-3); Benvenuto d.Rozkin, 6-2, 6-4; Tzou d. Nerenberg, 6-4, 6-4.

Semifinals: Kaiser d. Bradley, 5-7, 6-0, 7-5; Benvenuto d. Tzou, 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6-1.

Finals: Benvenuto d. Kaiser, retired injuryDoubles

First round: Hutter-Davison (SHP) d. Klay-Hernandez (Aptos), 6-2, 6-4; Clark-Lin (Home-stead) d. Bhajat-Ragu (Harker), 6-1, 6-0; Lok-Switzer (Los Gatos) d. Nguyen-Lam (SilverCreek), 7-6 (7-1), 6-2; Hemmer-Morton (Sali-nas) d. Lisan-Vong (Westmoor), 6-0, 6-1;Juang-Fong (Saratoga) d. Nguyen-Bunag(Mitty), 6-1, 4-6, 6-0; Kaufman-Keegan (Men-lo) d. Norton-Klinger, 6-1, 6-1; Banks-Davou-di (Leland) d. Bates-Howard (RL Stevenson),7-5, 1-6, 6-3; P. Brogan-Huebner (Los Gatos)d. Reidy-Savovic (Monterey), 6-1, 6-0.

Quarterfinals: Hutter-Davison d. Clark-Lin, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5; Lok-Switzer d. Hemmer-Morton, 6-2, 6-2; Kaufman-Keegan d. Juang-Fong, 5-2, retired; Brogan-Huebner d.Banks-Davoudi, 6-1, 6-1.

Semifinals: Hutter-Davison d. Lok-Switzer,6-2, 6-2; Brogan-Huebner d. Kaufman-Kee-gan, 6-2, 6-2.

Finals: Hutter-Davison d. Brogan-Huebn-er, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

BOYS TRACK & FIELDCCS ChampionshipsAt Los Gatos High

Team leaders — 1, Riordan 76; 2, St.Francis 54; 3, Oak Grove 32; 4, Santa Colara25; 5, Palma 24; 6 (tie), Los Altos, Salinasand Mitty 20; 9, North Monterey Co. 17; 10,Menlo-Atherton 16. Others - 32, Gunn 2; 38,Palo Alto 1

(Top 3 finishers and automatic qualifiers(*) advance to CIF State Meet, June 3-4 inSacramento)

400 relay — 1, Riordan 42.04; 2, Mitty

42.53; 3, Monterey 42.66; 4, St. Francis42.87; 5, Wilcox 43.01; 6, Evergreen Valley43.26; 7, Lynbrook 43.45; 8, San Benito43.97

1,600 — 1, Anderson (Menlo-Atherton)4:16.76; 2, Corona (Willow Glen) 4:19.92; 3,Alvarez-Bautist (Watsonville) 4:21.13; 4, Kele-her (Burlingame) 4:22.68; 5, Paquet (MontaVista) 4:23.58; 6, Nedeau (St. Ignatius)4:24.01; 7, Onorato (Leigh) 4:24.76; 8, Dou-glas (Saratoga) 4:28.28; 9, Palladino (Carl-mont) 4:32.16; 10, Smart (Los Gatos) 4:32.91;11, Wong (Live Oak) 4:36.97

110 HH — 1, Hersey (Los Altos) 14.45; 2,Ta (Silver Creek) 14.52; 3, Lumpkin (Palma)14.61; 4, Robinson (Santa Clara) 14.64; 5,Iosefa (Oak Grove) 14.77; 6, Thompson (St.Ignatius) 14.99; 7, Chen (Westmoor) 15.07; 8,Drbal (Bellarmine) 15.10

400 — 1, Gaspar (Los Gatos) 48.64; 2,Rice (San Benito) 49.17; 3, Wolfram (Pied-mont Hills) 49.73; 4, Luttrell (Scotts Valley)49.73; 5, Teng (Lynbrook) 50.12; 6, Bell (Jef-ferson) 51.26; 7, Bates (Aragon) 51.30; 8,Harvin (Monterey) 52.11

100 — 1, Illarina (Riordan) 10.84; 2, Mc-Graw (Riordan) 10.85; 3, Chaung (Santa Clara)11.02; 4, Clair (Greenfield) 11.03; 5, Hun-sucker (Valley Christian) 11.10; 6, Thompson(San Benito) 11.12; 7, Barrera (Independence)11.15; 8, Newland (Harbor) 11.20

800 — 1, Camarena (Salinas) 1:54.80; 2,Fitzpatrick (Carmel) 1:54.83; 3, Parker (N.Monterey) 1:55.66; 4, Gonzalez (Westmoor)1:56.85; 5, Williams (St. Ignatius) 1:57.14; 6,Palmtag (N. Monterey) 1:58.03; 7, Alvarez-Bautist (Watsonville) 1:59.11; 8, Wolfram(Piedmont Hills) 2:00.53

300 IH — 1, Robinson (Santa Clara)38.40; 2, Pham (Lynbrook) 38.83; 3, Ta (SilverCreek) 38.93; 4, Iosefa (Oak Grove) 38.95; 5,Hersey (Los Altos) 39.06; 6, Greene (Bel-larmine) 39.76; 7, Wheeler (Menlo-Atherton)39.79; 8, Shabram (Carmel) 40.59

200 — 1, McGraw (Riordan) 21.99; 2, Ila-rina (Riordan) 22.01; 3, Gancayco (Mitty)22.18; 4, Chaung (Santa Clara) 22.25; 5, Plat-tner (St. Francis) 22.39; 6, Meloty-Kapella(Palo Alto) 22.73; 7, Jackson (Wilcox) 22.85;8, Weltz (San Benito) 22.92

3,200 — 1, Sitler (St. Francis) 9:21.11; 2,Dixon (VC Dublin) 9:22.21; 3, Anderson (Men-lo-Atherton) 9:23.87; 4, Huerta (N. Monterey)9:28.37; 5, Day (Milpitas) 9:32.08; 6, Fisher(St. Francis) 9:35.27; 7, Corona (Willow Glen)9:38.62; 8, Vasquez (San Benito) 9:39.01; 9,Dally (Carmel ) 9:45.04

1,600 relay — 1, Oak Grove 3:22.52; 2,Riordan 3:23.68; 3, North Monterey Co.

3:23.83; 4, Monterey 3:24.79; 5, Los Altos3:25.99; 6, Santa Clara 3:29.23; 7, Salinas3:30.33; 8, San Benito 3:33.06

High jump — 1, Roper (Oak Grove) 6-6; 2,Jackson (Palma) 6-4; 3, Hershey (Salinas) 6-4; 4, Clark (Los Altos) 6-4; 5 (tie), Beauchman(Bellarmine), Rutledge (Los Gatos) and Wal-lace (Saratoga) 6-0; 8, Gabany (King’s Acad-emy) 6-0

Pole vault — 1, Fazio (Riordan) 15-8; 2, C.Roche (St. Francis) 15-4; 3, Mills-Bunje (St.Francis) 14-11; 4, Merrigan (San Benito) 14-11*; 5, Chronis (St. Francis) 14-11*; 6, Shee-han (St. Francis) 14-6; 7, Harris (Bellarmine)14-0

Long jump — 1, Gonzalez (Westmoor) 22-7 3/4; 2, Mills-Bunge (St. Francis) 22-7 1/4; 3,Roper (Oak Grove) 22-2 1/2; 4, Bradford (Sali-nas) 22-1 1/2; 5, Yu (Gunn) 21-6 3/4; 6, Clark(Los Altos) 21-1 3/4

Triple jump — 1, Wright (Serra) 48-2; 2,Davis (Milpitas) 46-10 1/2; 3, Mills-Bunge (St.Francis) 45-9 1/2; 4, Moon (Riordan) 44-10; 5,Hunter (Overfelt) 44-0 1/2; 6, Clark (Los Altos)44-0 1/4; 7, Fyock (Salinas) 43-11 1/2; 8,Hernandez (Del Mar) 42-6

Discus — 1, Gomez (Pioneer) 174-7; 2,Tsai (Homestead) 157-6; 3, Best (Gilroy) 154-5; 4, O’Neal (Branham) 153-1; 5, Gordon (Mit-ty) 146-9; 6, Covarrubias (King City) 140-7; 7,Horn (Los Gatos) 137-7

Shot put — 1, Newman (Palma) 54-7 3/4;2, Bianculli (Riordan) 53-7 1/2; 3, Wernick (St.Francis) 52-4; 4, Gordon (Mitty) 50-9; 5, Tsai(Homestead) 49-1; 6, Quirke (Los Gatos) 48-2 3/4; 7, Evans (St. Ignatius) 46-10

GIRLS TRACK & FIELDCCS ChampionshipsAt Los Gatos High

Team leaders — 1, Mt. Pleasant 52; 2,Valley Christian 44; 3, Mitty 37; 4, Harbor 34;5, Palo Alto 30; 6 (tie), Saratoga and Branham21; 8, St. Francis 18; 9, Aptos 15; 10 (tie) Se-quoia and Notre Dame-San Jose 14. Others- 16, Gunn 10; t20, Menlo-Atherton 9; 22,Castilleja 8; 22, Menlo School 8

(Top 3 finishers and automatic qualifiers(*) advance to CIF State Meet, June 3-4 inSacramento)

400 relay — 1, Valley Christian 47.82; 2,Mt. Pleasant 47.86; 3, Palo Alto (Fields, Wan-ner, Zawojski, Seedman) 48.26 (school record,old mark 48.34, ‘05); 4, Mitty 48.63; 5, Mon-ta Vista 48.83; 6, St. Ignatius 48.99; 7, Los Al-tos 49.63; 8, Menlo-Atherton 50.30

1,600 — 1, Follmar (Saratoga) 4:52.66; 2,VanAusdall (Aptos) 5:01.94; 3, Hitchner (HalfMoon Bay) 5:02.71; 4, Lee (Carmel) 5:08.32;

5, Huang (Lynbrook) 5:09.44; 6, Chew (Cu-pertino) 5:11.52; 7, Vazquez (Overfelt)5:11.57; 8, Bell (Salinas) 5:12.40; 9, Millett(Half Moon Bay) 5:12.59; 10, Hsu (MontaVista) 5:13.38; 11, Benson (Burlingame)5:15.44; 12, Wing (Valley Christian) 5:23.06

100 hurdles — 1, Thomas (Mt. Pleasant)14.70; 2, Dugall (Mt. Pleasant) 15.02; 3, Mar-shall (Valley Christian) 15.09; 4, Van Vlasselaer(Woodside) 15.32; 5, Boykin (Mitty) 15.59; 6,LeFever (Aptos) 15.62; 7, Ibia (Evergreen Val-ley) 15.65; 8, Chandler (Palo Alto) 16.11

400 — 1, Lattanzi (Palo Alto) 56.18 (schoolrecord, old mark 56.56 by Lattanzi, ‘05); 2,Nelson (Los Altos) 56.71; 3, Huxtable (ScottsValley) 58.18; 4, Wright (Scotts Valley) 58.53;5, Williams (St. Francis) 58.57; 6, Pettigrue(Mt. Pleasant) 1:00.80; 7, Adams (Monterey)1:00.93

100 — 1, Carter (Mt. Pleasant) 11.57(meet record, old mark 11.84 by Craig, Men-lo, ‘97 and Roseby, Monterey, ‘00); 2, Offor-jebe (NDSJ) 12.29; 3, Worthy (Jefferson)12.39; 4, Eckels (Silver Creek) 12.42; 5,Archdeacon (Harbor) 12.50; 6, Curtis (Mitty)12.66; 7, Erickson (Los Gatos) 12.81; 8, Mor-gan (Santa Cruz) 12.83

800 — 1, Follmar (Saratoga) 2:07.79; 2,Jenke (Menlo) 2:08.70; 3, Whalen (Mitty)2:09.59; 4, Jones (Live Oak) 2:09.84*; 5,Robinson (Mitty) 2:11.27*; 6, Mulgannon (LosGatos) 2:20.54; 7, Jacobson (Aptos) 2:20.97;8, Chaidez (NDSJ) 2:21.38

300 hurdles — 1, Okuji (RL Stevenson)45.54; 2, Marshall (Valley Christian) 45.56; 3,Smith (Silver Creek) 45.93; 4, Boyle (Cuperti-no) 45.95; 5, Aronson (Mills) 46.34; 6, Connet(Menlo-Atherton) 46.92; 7, Przybyla (Palo Alto)47.12; 8, Agoff (Aragon) 47.64

200 — 1, Carter (Valley Christian) 23.69(meet record, old mark 23.92 by Roseby,Monterey, ‘99); 2, Tarmoh (Mt. Pleasant)24.04; 3, Offorjebe (NDSJ) 25.19; 4, Worthy(Jefferson) 25.59; 5, Zawojski (Palo Alto)25.67; 6, Eckels (Silver Creek) 25.70; 7, Nel-son (Los Altos) 25.89; 8, Brown (Mt. Pleasant)26.13

3,200 — 1, Tyler (Gunn) 10:31.04 (schoolrecord, old mark 10:32.00 by Graham, ‘00); 2,Boyd (San Benito) 10:54.86; 3, Viehweg (St.Ignatius) 10:56.47; 4, Plank (Mitty) 11:07.23;5, Meyer (Carmel) 11:12.46; 6, Voigtlander(Burlingame) 11:15.56; 7, Worsham (MontaVista) 11:20.62; 8, Barrientos (Harbor)11:26.12; 9, Cummins (Palo Alto) 11.34.67;10, Hoyt (San Lorenzo Valley) 11:46.49; 11,Hansen (Cupertino) 11:50.52

1,600 relay — 1, Mt. Pleasant 3:49.90(meet record, old mark 3:50.33 by St. Francis,

‘89)’ 2, Mitty 3:53.33; 3, Los Gatos 3:57.07;4, Palo Alto 4:00.70; 5, Milpitas 4:02.09; 6,Saratoga 4:02.48; 7, Los Altos 4:04.30; 8,Valley Christian 4:07.53

High jump — 1, Kaufman (Branham) 5-8;2, Roberts (Menlo-Atherton) 5-6; 3 (tie), John-son (Los Gatos), O’Connor (Mercy-Burlingame) and Coulter (Aptos) 5-4; 6, Huff(Aptos) 5-4*; 7, Parsons (ND Salinas) 5-4*; 8,McKenzie (Leland) 5-2

Pole vault — 1, Barthel (St. Francis) 12-5(meet record, old mark 12-1 by Loftin, Aptos,‘03); 2, Anthony (Castilleja) 12-5 (equals meetrecord); 3, Lozovatskaya (St. Ignatius) 12-1; 4,Franklin (St. Francis) 11-9*; 5, Almond (Gon-zales) 11-5; 6, LeFever (Aptos) 11-0; 7, Lopes(San Lorenzo Valley) 10-6

Long jump — 1, Kaufman (Branham) 18-11 1/4; 2, D. Robinson (Mitty) 17-11 3/4; 3,Marchbanks (Sequoia) 17-8; 4, Zawojski (PaloAlto) 17-7; 5, Sullivan (Harbor) 17-6 1/2; 6,Dugall (Mt. Pleasant) 17-5 1/2; 7, Balsham(St. Ignatius) 17-4; 8, Yee (N. Salinas) 15-9 1/4

Triple jump — 1, Sullivan (Harbor) 38-33/4; 2, Marchbanks (Sequoia) 37-8; 3,Schields (ND Belmont) 37-7 (on second-bestjump); 4, Zawojski (Palo Alto) 37-7; 5, D.Robinson (Mitty) 37-6 1/4; 6, Kaufman (Bran-ham) 37-4 3/4; 7, Dugall (Mt. Pleasant) 37-31/2; 8, Thomas (Mt. Pleasant) 35-11

Discus — 1, Dufresne (Harbor) 132-6; 2,Bushnell (Fremont) 121-5; 3, Freitas (Inde-pendence) 121-5; 4, Osborne (San Benito)116-10; 5, Schmitt (Carlmont) 115-6; 6,Onyewuenyi (Oak Grove) 113-5; 7, Tafralis(Mills) 112-8; 8, Bottorf (Milpitas) 111-11

Shot put — 1, Dufresne (Harbor) 50-7 1/4(meet record, old mark 48-1 by Morrison, Pre-sentation, ‘95); 2, Onyewuenyi (Oak Grove)39-6; 2, Gomez (Mt. Pleasant) 39-4; 4, Hadley(Soquel) 39-2 1/2; 5, McGuire (St. Francis)39-0; 6, Musika (Milpitas) 36-9 1/2; 7, De-Martini (St. Ignatius) 35-9; 8, Bushnell (Fre-mont) 34-2

SCHEDULEFRIDAY

Track and fieldState — CIF State Championships at

Hughes Stadium in Sacramento: field-eventpreliminaries, 2 p.m.; running 5 p.m.

SATURDAYTrack and field

State — CIF State Championships atHughes Stadium in Sacramento: field event fi-nals 3 p.m., running 5 p.m.

CCS track(continued from page 33)

HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD

Paly senior Katrina Zawojski missed making the state meet in the long jumpby one inch and missed in the triple jump despite tying for third place.

Keith

Pet

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ThursdaySmuin Ballet will present itsspring show this weekend at theMountain View Center for the Per-forming Arts, 500 Castro St.Show times are tonight and Fri-day at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 and8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.Tickets are $36-$50. For ticketscall (650) 903-6000. For more in-formation please call (415) 495-2234 or visitwww.smuinballet.org. “The World Goes ‘Round”will run

through June 18 at the Bus BarnTheatre, 97 Hillview Ave. in LosAltos. This revue will feature mu-sic by John Kander and FredEbb. Regular show times areThursday through Saturday at 8p.m.; Sunday, June 5 at 3 p.m.and Sunday June 12 at 7 p.m.Tickets are $28 for Thursday, Fri-day and Saturday shows; $22 forSundays. For information andreservations please call (650) 941-0551 or visit www.busbarn.org.Friday“The New Renaissance of

Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar” willbe discussed tonight at 7:30 p.m.at the Community School of Mu-sic and Arts (CSMA) at Finn Cen-ter, as part of its “Classes WithoutQuizzes” Arts Lecture Series. Thelecture will be given by StanfordUniversity Professor Stephen M.Sano. CSMA is located at 230San Antonio Circle in MountainView. General admission ticketsare $10; student/senior ticketsare $8, with ID. Tickets will beavailable at the door one hour pri-or to the event. To pre-purchasetickets and for additional informa-tion, call (650) 917-6800, ext. 335or visit www.arts4all.org/tickets.The Foothill New Works Festival

will open tonight at 8 p.m. in thePlayhouse Theater (Room 1301)at Foothill College, 12345 ElMonte Road in Los Altos Hills.Presented by the Foothill CollegeDrama Department, the festivalwill feature eight student-writtenand student-directed short plays.Additional show times are June 4,5, 9, 10 and 11 at 8 p.m. Mati-nees are June 6 and 12 at 2 p.m.Tickets are $15, general; $12,students and seniors. To pur-chase tickets, accesswww.foothill.edu/fa or call theFoothill Box Office at (650) 949-7360.West Bay Opera presents “The

Three Penny Opera” tonight at 8p.m. at the Lucie Stern Theatre,1305 Middlefield Road in PaloAlto. Additional show times areSaturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at2 p.m. Tickets are $46; $23 foryouth under 17 or students withvalid ID. For tickets or more infor-mation, please call the West BayOpera box office at (650) 424-9999, Monday through Friday, 1-6p.m., or visit www.wbopera.org.Tickets may also be purchased atthe Holt Building, 221 LambertAve. in Palo Alto.“Les Miserables” will be pre-

sented today at 1 p.m. at Menlo

Middle School Commons Theater,50 Valparaiso Ave. in Atherton.Additional show times are Satur-day at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 1p.m. Tickets are $7 adults; $5students.“The Psychic Life of Savages”

will run through June 5 at thePear Avenue Theatre, 1220 PearAvenue, Unit K in Mountain View.Show times are Thursday throughSaturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2p.m. Tickets are $10-$20. Formore information call (650) 254-1148 or visit www.thepear.org.SaturdayBetween Waters Gallery and Design will feature the works ofJack Durnford, Rose Offner, CharPribuss and Beverly Travlosthrough August. A reception forthe artists will take place todayform 2 to 5 p.m. There will also bea special exhibition and sale ofchildren’s art by paintbrush Diplo-macy. The gallery is located at 75Arbor Road, Suites K & J in Men-lo Park. Viewing hours are Tues-day through Saturday from 10a.m. to 5 p.m. For more informa-tion call (650) 323-6362 or visitwww.betweenwatersgallery.com.The Aurora Singers will perform

tonight at 7 p.m. at the UnitarianUniversalist Church of Palo Alto,505 E. Charleston Road in PaloAlto. The 60-voice choir will pres-ent “Music With Spirit,” a concertof spirituals, songs of peace andshow tunes. Suggested donationis $9 general; $7 seniors and stu-dents. For more informationplease call (650) 321-4262 or e-mail [email protected] National Association of

Composers USA, San FranciscoBay Area Chapter will present aconcert tonight at 8 p.m. at theLucie Stern Ballroom, 1305 Mid-dlefield Road in Palo Alto. Ticketsare $15 general admission; $10students and seniors and will beavailable at the door. For more in-formation please call (408) 269-2301.The Mid-Peninsula Shakespeare

Festival will open tonight ay 8p.m. with Moliere’s “That Rascal

Scapin.” The performance willtake place at Mid-Peninsula HighSchool, 1340 Willow Road inMenlo Park. Additional showtimes are June 5, June 12 andJune 24 at 8 p.m. Admission isfree. For more information pleasecall (650) 322-3261.SundayEl Camino Youth Symphony willpresent its season finale tonight at7:30 p.m. at Spangenberg The-ater, 780 Arastradero Road inPalo Alto. Tickets are $10-/$5.For more information call (650)327-2611 or visit www.ecys.org. Jemma Mammina will perform

today at 2 and 4 p.m. at theCommunity School of Music andArts (CSMA) at Finn Center. Thefree concerts are part of CSMA’sApplied Materials Concerts4KidsSeries, geared for pre-school andyoung children. Jazz singer Mam-mina will teach the kids to “scat”using call-and-response tech-niques. CSMA is located at 230San Antonio Circle in MountainView. Limited, open seating willbe available at the door for bothconcerts on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets will be avail-able one hour prior to the con-certs. For additional informationplease call (650) 917-6800, ext.335 or visit www.arts4all.org/tick-ets.

TheaterA profile of former Palo Alto

resident Gabriel Quinn Bau-riedel, who recently won anObie (Off-Broadway) award for“Hell Meets Henry Halfway.”

OperaA reviews of West Bay’s new

production, “The ThreepennyOpera.”

MoviesReviews of “Sisterhood of theTraveling Pants,” “CinderellaMan” and “Lords of Dogtown.”

COMING UP IN FRIDAY’S WEEKEND EDITION

Weekend Preview

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4 tickets to BonfanteGardens.

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Congratulations to Natalie Fisher

of Palo Alto.

Summer Sweat WeekFREE week of

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Who: Individuals of all ages, sizes and fitness levelsWhen: May 30th - June 3rdWhy: Kick start your fitness! Summer is almost here.Where: Stanford Stadium 6:00 a.m., May 30 - June 3

Los Gatos High School track 6:00 a.m., May 30 - June 3San Jose City College track 6:00 a.m., May 30 - June 3Cisco Systems 6:00 a.m. (Cisco Employees only, May 31 - June 3)

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

Stanford University ProfessorStephen M. Sano will discuss theHawaiian slack-key guitar on Fri-day at the Community School ofMusic and Arts.


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

Crash Century 12: 11:55 a.m.; 2:20, 4:50 & 7:35 p.m. (R) ✭✭✭✭ CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 2:40, 5:20, 8 &

10:20 p.m. Enron: The Smartest Guild: 7 & 9:45 p.m. Guys in the Room (Not Rated) ✭✭✭1/2The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Century 16: 11:25 a.m.; 1:50, 4:25 & 7 p.m. the Galaxy (PG) ✭✭

The Interpreter Century 16: 1:55, 4:30 & 7:30 p.m. (PG-13) ✭✭ Century 12: 9:40 p.m. Kicking & Screaming Century 16: 11:10 a.m.; 1:25, 3:35, 5:45, 8 & 10:15(PG) ✭✭1/2 p.m. Century 12: 12:10, 2:20, 5 & 7:20 p.m. Kingdom of Heaven Century 16: 11 a.m. & 10:10 p.m. (R) ✭✭

Ladies in Lavender Aquarius: 7:35 & 9:55 p.m. (PG-13) ✭✭✭

Layer Cake Century 16: 12:05, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35 & 10:05 p.m. (R) ✭✭✭✭

The Longest Yard Century 16: 11:50 a.m.; 12:40, 2:20, 3:10, 4:50,(PG-13) ✭✭ 5:40, 7:20, 8, 9, 9:50 & 10:30 p.m. Century 12:

11:30 a.m.; 1, 2, 3:40, 4:35, 6:20, 7:05, 7:50, 9,9:35 & 10:30 p.m.

Mad Hot Ballroom CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 2, 4:30, 7:10 & 9:50(PG) ✭✭✭1/2 p.m.Madagascar Century 16: 11 & 11:45 a.m.; 12:35, 1:10, 1:55,(PG) ✭✭1/2 2:40, 3:20, 4:05, 4:45, 5:30, 6:20, 7:40, 8:25, 9:50

& 10:30 p.m. Century 12: 11:15 a.m.; noon, 12:45,1:25, 2:15, 2:55, 3:35, 4:25, 5:05, 5:45, 6:35, 7:55,8:45 & 10:05 p.m.

Millions (PG) ✭✭✭ Aquarius: 9 p.m. Monster-in-Law Century 16: 11:55 a.m.; 2:15, 4:40, 7:15 & 9:35(PG-13) ✭ p.m. Century 12: 11:50 a.m.; 2:25, 4:55, 7:25 &

9:55 p.m. The Sisterhood of the Century 16: 11:20 a.m.; 12:40, 2, 3:20, 4:40, 6,Traveling Pants (PG) 7:25, 8:45 & 10:10 p.m. Century 12: 11 a.m.; 1:40,(See review on 4:20, 7:05 & 9:50 p.m. Friday, June 3)Star Wars: Episode III Century 16: 11:30 a.m.; 12:25, 1:30, 2, 2:45, 3:50,- Revenge of the Sith 4:50, 5:25, 6:15, 7:10, 8:10, 8:45, 9:30 & 10:25(PG-13) ✭✭✭ p.m. Century 12: 12:05, 1:05, 2, 3:25, 4:25, 5:25,

6:45, 7:45, 9 & 10:05 p.m. Unleashed Century 16: 10 p.m. Century 12: 10:15 p.m. (R) ✭

The Wild Parrots of Aquarius: 7 p.m.Telegraph Hill (G) ✭✭✭

MOVIE TIMES

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

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

Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (960-0970)

Century Park 12: 557 E. Bayshore Blvd., Redwood City (365-9000)

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

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

Spangenberg: 780 Arastradero Rd., Palo Alto (354-8220)

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2005 Ballot


starting June 3rd


Picture PerfectChris Holmes “The Kiss” Views Beyond the Peninsula, First Place

171 people took theirbest shots in hopes

of winning a spot in ourannual photo contest

“Stairwell - Mechanics Library”Susan Neville

“Misty Hillside”Anne Talbott

“The Encounter”Dave Edwards

“Waiting”Steven Shpall

“Eye to Eye”Nicky Hughes

“Ballerina Dreams”Nadine Priestley

“Home Plate”Deven Hickinbotham

“Tokyo Traffic Symphony”

J. Lawrence Naiman

“Big Leaf Mountain”J. Lawrence Naiman

Youth Selected for Exhibition

“Hotel California”Larisse-Anne Ortiz-Luis

“Pardon me!”Albert Hong

“Sally”Jose Ibarra

Selected for Exhibition

Brad Evans “Faces” Peninsula People, Honorable Mention

P hotographer Ansel Adams oncesaid that “You don’t take a photo-graph, you make it.” That’s exact-

ly what the 20 winners of this year’sPalo Alto Weekly Photo Contest did.Some waited for the perfect moment tocapture their image, others with a keeneye were in the right place to snap anamazing moment. From the snowy, ro-mantic streets of New York to the fu-turistic gotcha-shot snapped at theMOMA, this year’s entries are as beau-tiful as they are thoughtfully composed.

This year’s judges include Norbert vonder Groeben, the Weekly’s chief pho-tographer; Dave Hibbard, a fine art pho-tographer; Joe Quever, a commercialphotographer; and Brigitte Carnochan, afine art and documentary style photog-rapher. Our sponsors include: Photo Ex-press, University Art, Palo Alto ArtCenter, UCSC Extension. The photosdisplayed in this issue will be on viewfrom June 1 to June 15 at the Palo AltoArt Center. You can also view them on-line at www.PaloAltoOnline.com.

P A L O A L T O W E E K L Y

PHOTOC O N T E S T


Photo Contest

Anna Wachtel“I Was Framed”

Third Place

Brad Evans “Trapped” Peninsula Images, First Place

Abbie Smithson“Before Prom”

Youth 16 and Under, Second Place

Julia Nelson-Gal“The Impersonal Camera, 2005”

First Place


Photo Contest

Brigit Starmanns “Beginning of the Blizzard in Soho” Views Beyond the Peninsula, Third Place

Rick Stultz“Saturday Morning”

Peninsula People, Second Place

Megu Okamoto“Hope”

Third Place

Julia Nelson-Gal

“The Impersonal Camera, 2005”

(Photo page 38)First Place

Julia Nelson-Gal’sphoto is the product ofa unique inspiration

and attitude toward im-agery. She said that “rightnow I am more interestedin finding an existing im-age in the world than tak-ing an image from reality.I like the idea that some-one other than me was thefirst one experiencing thatmoment in time — and now I am reviving it.”

The 47-year-old artist has bachelor’s and mas-ter’s degrees in Art History, which she used inher careers at museums, auction houses andnon-profits. She said that “at the museum I be-came so used to looking at the images made byothers that it changed the way I make art.”

Nelson-Gal especially likes the phone-boothimages because there is no human involve-ment in the production of the photo, as a con-sequence they “have their own feel.” If youwere to look at the entry closely, you may beable to discern a bit of the encyclopedic pageNelson-Gal used as a background, highlightingthings she found interesting.

Today Nelson-Gal is a full time artist, andhas been for two and a half years. Her sparetime is devoted to her three children and yoga.■

— Daniel Grujic


Photo Contest

Manipulated Images Anne MacKenzie

“Lord Nelson’s Missing Hand”Third Place

A nne MacKenzie washaving fun playingwith reality when she

was working on her jolly en-try.

She initially captured thephoto, “then felt there waslittle to tie the windows to-gether.” She manipulated theimage using a photo editingprogram. She hopes viewerswill be able to “enjoy theplayfulness” of the image. She describes the cre-ation as “a flight of imagination.” The only thingshe doesn’t like about the picture is that “it isn’treally what I would consider fine art photogra-phy.”

MacKenzie has been taking photos for fiveyears, and is an active member of the Palo AltoCamera Club. She admits that her photography“seems all-consuming lately,” but expects to “con-tinue to learn more about it and enjoy exploringphotographic concepts.” She spends the rest of hertime reading and going to films and concerts. ■

— Daniel Grujic

Manipulated Images Judge’s comment

❝Manipulating photographic images is tricky business these days — in more ways than one.There are many digital tricks to play on the viewer, and it’s easy (too easy) to get lost in the but-tons, sliders, masks, plug-ins and filters that can turn an image into incoherent neon color andconfusion. It was refreshing to see that the majority of entries in the manipulated category dis-played a subtle, sure touch. Our three winners each had an idea that was clearly realized — themanipulations not random but in service of an artistic concept. On reflection, I realize that ourchoices followed a theme. We chose three images each addressing the question of history,whether personal history, art history, or political history.❞

—Brigitte Carnochan

Bill Blankenberg“Margitte Does Pescadero”

Second Place

B ill Blankenberg’s first se-ries of photographs weretaken with a borrowed

camera in 1947 — the photoswere of his grade school burn-ing down. He was living in asmall town in South Dakotaand said “everyone turned outfor a good fire, so I went andtook pictures.”

The first foray into the worldof freelance photography wasnot very profitable, as no one would buy the pic-tures. He was hired by the town photographer to takepictures of a funeral that the photographer was apallbearer in.

For his entry into the contest, Blackenberg want-ed “to answer the familiar question: What would thefamous painter Rene Magritte have done after a nicelunch at Duarte’s Tavern?” He notes that Magritteused windows in scenes to disclose other scenes, so“I decided to impose the barn window over a rock ina picture I had of Pescadero Beach. The other imagescame from my files.”

The 73-year-old retired professor currently residesin Los Altos. He spends his time taking hikes andpictures.■

— Daniel Grujic Brad Evans “Art Thief” Honorable Mention

Brad Evans“Trapped”First Place

(Photo on page 38)

O n a recent visit tothe San FranciscoMuseum of Mod-

ern Art, Brad Evans, 52,noticed an odd juxtapo-sition of light and anglesand took his best shot.

He thought the womanabove him looked ratherremarkable, and so tooka straight photographwith his Sony digitalcamera. The impression is of a woman stand-ing up, pressed against the glass, but in realityit’s a bug’s eye view of the woman lying acrossthe catwalk that intersects the skylight.

Evans, a systems engineer from Woodside,was inspired about four years ago by otherstreet photographers, especially Daido Moriya-ma and others of his milieu.■

— Carol Palinkas

Stephen Stern“Thunderbirds & Umbrella”

Second Place

Portola Valley resi-dent Stephen Sterngot his first camera

about 40 years ago, but itwas a digital camera giv-en to him by his wife thathe says changed his artcompletely.

“With a digitalcamera, it’s a lot morelike play. If they don’tcome out, I haven’t lostanything. It’s been terrific,” he said.

Stern, who was in construction, hurt his armmore than a year ago. “Not being able to drivefor part of the time allowed me to just look atmy photography entirely differently.”

For his shot, Stern took a young boy he men-tors to Moffett Field and got interested in all thejet trails, thinking it was a great image with theumbrellas. “It sort of took itself.”

“I feel like I’ve really been doing it in a to-tally different way for the last two or threeyears,” he said, adding, “This isn’t a picture Iwould have taken with a film camera.” ■

— Carol Palinkas

Donna J. Wan“Bedtime Zoo”

Third Place

Donna J. Wan cameacross her winningphoto in the midst

of a search for aban-doned or discarded ob-jects, the subject of aportfolio she was work-ing on, called “Arti-facts.”

She became interestedin photography when aclassmate suggested shetake a photography class at Foothill College.She took her classmate’s advice in the summerof 2002, and has taken several more since thatday. She will be enrolled in the master’s of fineart’s program in photography at the San Fran-cisco Art Institute in the fall of this year.

Wan has lived in Menlo Park for five years.Her work has been exhibited in several areas ofNorthern California, including the Modern-book Gallery in Palo Alto. ■

— Carol Palinkas


Photo Contest

Peninsula Images

Peninsula ImagesJudge’s comment

❝The lattice work of linesand shapes is intriguing of it-self, but our eye is drawn tothe dark figure seeminglytrapped within it all. The pho-tograph records a simple ac-tion — a person walkingacross a catwalk — yet it isso much more than that.❞

—Dave Hibbard

Rick Stultz “SFMoma Interior” Honorable MentionAdrienne Defendi “Fallen Leaf” Honorable Mention

Chris Holmes“The Kiss” First Place

(Photo on page 37)

C hris Holmes knows that pa-tience pays off. The 48-year-old vice president of busi-

ness development was on vacationin Bucerias, Mexico when he was“inspired by the color of thecafébuilding.” He spent 30 min-utes shooting the building beforedeciding it would better serve as abackdrop, with people as the pri-mary element.

Out of the corner of his eye,Holmes said he saw a schoolboy waiting for his moth-er who was working at the café. “I took a number of im-ages of him, then she noticed me taking pictures andreached through the bars and kissed him — I was for-tunate to capture the exact moment their lips met,” saidHolmes.

He is particularly attached to this photo because hefeels he “earned this shot.” Holmes said that “emotion-ally, it captures a very special moment between motherand son.”

Holmes has been taking photographs seriously for 10years, and although his photography is mostly limited tofamily and vacation photos these days, he hopes to trav-el and shoot landscapes again. ■

— Daniel Grujic

Brigit Starmanns“Beginning of the Blizzard

in Soho” Third Place(Photo on page 39)

B rigit Starmanns is interestedin seeing “the different ef-fects of light and unusual an-

gles in different landscapes.” NewYork City provided the 39-year-olddirect product manager with ascene that featured unique lightingconditions. She was visiting thecity with friends one weekend“which just happened to be theweekend of the Blizzard of 2005,”as the local news called it.”

She likes the photo because “the light was very uniquewith the snow at dusk, with no traffic and few people onthe streets,” and hopes viewers will be able to see the “al-most surreal motion of the pedestrians in the snow.”

Starmanns has been taking photos seriously for sixyears and regularly gets in her car with nothing but acamera to find new places and inspirations for her pho-tography. She hopes to continue taking pictures and ex-hibit her work in the future. ■

— Daniel Grujic

Chris Marolf “Sunflower” First PlacePhoto on cover

Menlo Park resident Chris Marolf has no problemcoming up with photo opportunities. With cam-eras “lying all over the house,” he just has to

wait for an interesting occurrence and take his shot. In this case, his 4-year-old daughter, Zoe, provided

the inspiration.“We were just working in the backyard and had a

bunch of sunflowers. We were going to take the seedsout and feed them to the birds, and she was checkingit out.” He used a Konica 35 mm Hexar to take the pic-ture.

Marolf, who works in the construction industry andhas lived in Menlo Park for about seven years, has been taking pictures eversince he was a young boy, with all kinds of cameras. “It’s always been part ofmy life,” he said.

— Daniel Grujic

Rick Stultz “Saturday Morning” Second Place(Photo on page 39)

If the woman crossing the path of Rick Stultz’s cameralooks eerily like one of the numerous murals aroundPalo Alto, it’s just the lighting. She’s for real.“I didn’t think about it at the time,” he said of the re-

semblance. “I was just looking at the composition andcolors and so forth.”

Stultz wandered downtown with his Nikon d100, look-ing for interesting light and design, and came across thebuilding in the background. Intrigued with the lightingand shapes, he was pondering how to turn it into an in-teresting image when the woman in the walker camealong. “I realized she fit in just right. So I waited until shegot to just the right place and took the picture.”

Stultz, 59, has been a Palo Alto resident for 30 years and is in commercialreal estate management. He also does architectural photography.

— Daniel Grujic

Megu Okamoto “Hope” Third place(Photo on page 39)

“It is just so much fun ... to be with people I can berelaxed with; they are like the treasure house ofinspiration for me,” said Megu Okamoto.

Okamoto is a 21 year old international student at FoothillCollege majoring in photography. She originally tookthe introductory photography course for fun, but enjoyedit enough “to pursue it for the rest of my life.”

The photo is one in a series from her portfolio, “DearFriends,” the subject of which is “one of my preciousfriends that I have met here in California.” Okamoto de-scribes the surprisingly simple process involved in the cre-ation of her entry: “I had him stand under the stairs, asked him to relax, and thenclicked.” She hopes the photo will reflect the idea of friendship and remind peo-ple of the concept in their own relationships with others.

Okamoto plans to try many different kinds of photography during her stud-ies and “deepen my understanding of the subject.” As far as the near future,Okamoto and her classmates are exhibiting their photographs from May 26through June 22 at the Krause Center at Foothill College. ■

— Daniel Grujic


Photo Contest

Views Beyond the Peninsula

PeninsulaPeople

Peninsula People Judge’s comment

❝Photo is one that elicits a definitive reaction from the viewer. Afterlooking at the photo, you either want to meet the person or run asfar away from him as you can. Chris Marolf’s photo — ‘Sunflower’ —has that magic. I wanted to know more about who was behind thatsunflower. ... The starkness of the black-and-white photograph drewme in completely. I seriously doubt the composition would haveworked as well in color; it probably wouldn’t have forced the viewerto take a second look. ❞

—Norbert von der Groeben

Jordy Mont-Reynaud“Acrobatics in the 11eme” Second Place

The Mont-Reynaud family has made a tradition of winning awards in the Palo Alto Week-ly Photo Contest. Mont-Reynaud, as well as his mother and sister, are previous winners.

His last photo entry, “Te Kiwi Sunrise,” involved the meticulous construction of the objectsin the scene and the expert manipulation of light. This year’s entry was taken in Paris, and it isof an evening performance done by his half-sister’s modern circus company. This time, they didmost of the set up.

Mont-Reynaud, now 21 and a software engineer, wants people to see “a fleeting moment ofharmony in the middle of a chaotic city.” It was taken as part of a documentary project, and keptin simple black and white so that you focus on the form and composition. Mont-Reynaud likesthe photo because “it manages to convey a sense of visual harmony and balance without beingsymmetrical or static.”

The photo is a result of eight years of practice. Though programming is his primary ambition, Mont-Reynaudsaid: “I definitely feel like photography has given me a visual sense which I apply to lots of things I do.” ■

— Daniel Grujic


Photo Contest

Pa

Youth 16 and UnderBarrett Johnson

“Dusk”First Place

F or BarrettJohnson,inspiration

is close tohome. Near ahill behind hishouse, he stum-bled upon thebarbed wirethat netted himfirst place inthe youth cate-gory. Why barbed wire? “I thoughtit was really cool. I took a wholebunch of shots and picked out myfavorite one.”

Four years ago, his mother gavehim a camera for Christmas, an old-er, manual Nikon with few bells andwhistles. Johnson, 13, attends LaEntrada Middle School and haslived in Menlo Park for about sev-en years. ■

— Carol Palinkas

Abbie Smithson“Before Prom”Second Place(Photo on page 38)

Ab b i eS m i t h -s o n ’ s

photo opportu-nity presenteditself in theform of her sis-ter’s promnight. TheMenlo Ather-ton HighSchool stu-dent’s sister was all dressed up withher hair done when Smithson tookher shot. While nearly all prom-go-ers have their picture taken, noteveryone gets the treatment Smith-son’s sister received.

The 16-year-old RedwoodCity native worked her magic byputting her 35-mm camera on a verylow exposure at low shutter speedand taking the shot without a flash.But even Smithson was surprised atthe final product. “I didn’t now itwas going to come out with the dou-ble reflection.” ■

— Carol Palinkas

Anna Wachtel“I Was Framed”

Third Place(Photo on page 38)

“Iwas inS a nF r a n -

cisco for funwith a friend,and we werew a n d e r i n gthrough a tun-nel and sawthat, andthought itwould make acool picture,” she said.

She took a straight shot with herMinolta single-lens reflex camera.Everything was already in place, in-cluding the message scrawled on thewall. “I thought it was an interestingcombination. The wall was coveredwith graffiti, and that was one pieceyou could read well. It was an inter-esting light setting.”

Wachtel has been taking photog-raphy for two years at Gunn, begin-ning in her sophomore year. Sheplans on continuing next year as asenior. ■

— Carol Palinkas

YouthJudge’s comment

❝There was wonderful work, in all categories. What stuck with memost, though, was the youth category. I think of my own photogra-phy before the age 16, and to be quite honest, it didn’t even comeclose to the majority of the vision and creativity I saw in this year’sentries. The attention to lighting, composition, (selective) focus,mood, and creativity were very inspiring. There were a wonderful va-riety of techniques — both technical and visual.❞

—Joe Quever

Emma McCarthy

“Overlapping Gates”Honorable Mention

Charlotte Cesana

“Reflections in the Room ofShadows”

Honorable Mention

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