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• Wednesday, January 3, 2007 • Palo Alto Weekly

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housing market still managed modest

price increases, with the median

home price increasing 4% in Palo

Alto (compared to 13% in 2005),

2% in Menlo Park (compared to

28% in 2005) and 9.6% in Atherton

(compared to 1.75% in 2005). It

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✦ However, the number of home sales did decline in 2006. There were

489 sales in Palo Alto (compared to 536 last year), 354 sales in Menlo Park (compared to 454 sales last

year), and 99 sales in Atherton

(compared to 103 last year). The

decline is due in part to a lower

inventory of homes for sale, reflecting

recovering employment numbers and

a distinct decline in company lay-offs.

✦ The financial press and media are dramatizing what appears to be

a normal and long-predicted cyclical

rebalancing, and are creating anxiety

about where the market is headed.

However, there is no sign of an

imminent bust or crash, and it seems

more likely that the market is merely

stabilizing after a prolonged “super

hot” period and is now heading

back toward lower, more sustainable

growth.

✦ According to economists, the criteria for a bubble-proof market

are a limited supply of land and

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constraints limit the number of new

housing units coming on the market

and the regional economy remains

healthy with a stable job market. And

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near historic lows. These factors

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the market stabilizes.

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Real Estate Market ReportSOLD

SOLD

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SOLD

Year No. of Year Median % Avg. Sales End Inv. Price Change DOM

2006 489 30 $1,350,000 +4% 24

2005 536 38 1,300,000 +13% 30

2004 565 36 1,150,000 +28% 30

2003 535 44 900,000 -3% 44

2002 509 76 925,000 +7% 43

2001 392 74 860,000 -11% 47

2000 558 35 969,000 +35% 22

Palo Alto Market Activity Year No. of Year Median % Avg. Sales End Inv. Price Change DOM

2006 354 28 $1,277,000 +2% 35

2005 454 42 1,250,000 +28% 27

2004 468 32 975,000 +15% 30

2003 503 47 849,000 +0.7% 45

2002 463 78 843,000 +5% 37

2001 368 48 800,000 -8% 48

2000 398 27 870,000 +25% 22

Menlo Park Market Activity Year No. of Year Median % Avg. Sales End Inv. Price Change DOM

2006 99 19 $3,288,000 +9.6% 63

2005 103 22 3,000,000 +1.75% 51

2004 102 29 2,950,000 +36% 78

2003 95 25 2,175,000 -9% 100

2002 76 28 2,397,000 -13% 65

2001 75 26 2,750,000 -29% 67

2000 95 15 3,848,000 +109% 35

Atherton Market Activity

Statistics sources are provided by Re Infolink, deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

Selected Transactionsfor 2006

and Local Forecast

W hile each Palo Alto neigh-borhood has its own issues on the horizon for 2007, leaders agree residents’ broadest

concern will be over the city’s con-tinued growth. Citizens want to see Palo Alto bring in new revenue this year to address the budget shortfall

but are concerned about the impact of new development on their old way of life, they said.

“Other communities have been very aggressive to attract business-es. And Palo Alto, by sitting still, has fallen behind,” said Greg Tana-ka, president of the College Terrace Residents’ Association. “We want it all: calm streets, open space, all of that. But there’s got to be a tradeoff. We can’t have it all.”

In places like the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood, where Edge-wood Plaza is poised for redevelop-ment, or Barron Park — an area

where, according to neighborhood association president Doug Moran, “the city doesn’t support economic development of retail services” — new business is mostly welcome.

But some 2007 development proj-ects promise to be prickly issues.

Norm Beamer, president of the Crescent Park Neighborhood Asso-ciation, thinks plans to build a new Stanford Medical Center campus and expand Stanford Shopping Cen-ter to include new businesses and a hotel are going to occupy citizens’ attention in the coming year.

“People are concerned about

increased use of traffic arteries, including University Avenue,” he said. Crescent Park is located in north Palo Alto and is bisected by University.

“I hope there will be many hear-ings on that, and I hope they will be open to the public,” said Betsy Allen of Green Acres, which is located in south Palo Alto. “I don’t think Palo Alto is a no-growth city. I think it’s a planned growth city. When citi-zens are concerned about traffic or services or school crowding, they stand up and say so. And in Palo

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UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis

Nicholas Jensen

(continued on page 5)

I t was afternoon story time, and six children sat around a teacher who read in a whisper. The quiet was disturbed for only a moment when a tall administra-tor, giving a tour of the school, en-tered the room and a child asked him: “Are you the president?”

Down the hall, the cafeteria

atmosphere was more rambunc-tious. Parents sat in fold-out chairs and watched their third-graders perform a collection of Christ-mas carols. The girls, dressed in ‘50s-style poodle skirts and white blouses, smiled and sang loudly while the boys, in rolled-up jeans and T-shirts, kept the beat with

simple dance moves.It was the week before winter

break at Stratford School, and ev-erything was business as usual.

However, the fledgling private school, or at least the land it sits on, is at the center of a controver-sial debate in the community. Fac-ing overcrowded campuses, the Palo Alto school district is about to undergo a major overhaul of its attendance boundaries that could involve evicting Stratford, which is housed in the former Garland Elementary School, a site still owned by the district.

There haven’t been any deci-sions made, but the district’s pro-posal will be disclosed next week. Then the school board will hold a public study session Jan. 16 on

the recommendations and make a decision in February.

The district committee that re-viewed the boundaries has already made a plethora of suggestions that would shift students between sites districtwide, upsetting parents.

Many of those parents have called for Garland school to be re-opened, a move that would relieve the city’s north cluster of elemen-tary schools, which are the most crowded.

But such a move would be bit-tersweet to others.

“We love being here. We’re just getting ourselves established,” said Sherry Adams, the co-founder of Stratford Schools, which opened in Palo Alto two years ago. “I’d

Private school, or its land, could be focus of debate

School district might want Stratford School property back

by Alexandria Rocha


Tongans, EPA police talk about shooting

In wake of teen’s death, meeting remains civil,

additional details emergeby Becky Trout

E ast Palo Alto’s Tongans sol-emnly packed City Hall Thurs-day evening — young and old, clad mostly in black — reacting to the death of Maikeli Iongi, the 16-year-old shot by police officers on the night of Dec. 22 after he alleg-edly fired twice at them.

The goal was to “take tragedy and turn it into something positive for the community, so we don’t have to come back again” for another violent death of a young person, East Palo Alto Police Chief Ron Davis said.

“It’s hard for us to be here,” said Kalatini Ahio, minister of the First Tongan United Methodist Church of San Bruno. “One of us lost a life. A young man, a Tongan. We are all to-gether. ... We all feel hurt.”

Ahio lead the crowd in a long, har-monious hymn the Tongans knew by heart. It was a song of God’s love, he explained later. He urged the crowd to express their thoughts “with a spirit of love.”

And they did, Mayor David Woods said after the forum, adding it went better than he had expected.

Both Davis and Woods extended their condolences to the Tongans.

“I want it to be known we haven’t just lost a member of the Tongan community. We’ve lost a member of the larger East Palo Alto commu-nity,” Woods said, pointing out that he has a 17-year-old child.

Davis quickly established that East Palo Alto officers were not involved in the shooting, which occurred when officers chased two suspects in a robbery. Iongi allegedly pulled out a handgun and began shooting,


Trip Truman and Sonya Lee take a break from schoolwork while Abha Thakur plugs away in Stratford School's second grade class.

EAST PALO ALTO

SCHOOLS

New year, old concerns

Palo Alto neighborhood leaders look to the futureby Dan Shilstone

NEIGHBORHOODS


OurTown

by Don Kazak

Looking ahead to 2007

Hundreds of people will gather the night of Nov. 6 to watch election returns come in and see who won seats on the Palo Alto City Council and the Palo Alto school board. It will be an anxious night for the candidates as they watch the numbers roll in, signify-ing the relief of victory or the disap-pointment of defeat.

That’s 10 months away, but much is sure to happen between now and then as the school board and City Council both wrestle with what promise to be difficult decisions.

The city is planning a two bond measures for 2008 that will be ham-mered out in 2007. One will be for a new police station and the other will be to expand the Mitchell Park Library.

But those aren’t the only weighty issues facing the city. When the City Council begins budget hearings in the spring, it will have to slash the city’s operating budget by $3 mil-lion, which is being transferred to long-needed capital projects.

“We’ll have to cut from services,” City Manager Frank Benest said. “It will be doable. We’ll also try to in-crease revenues, but that won’t hap-pen immediately.”

The proposed expansion of Stan-ford Shopping Center and the con-struction of a new hotel at the mall may represent dollar signs in the eyes of council members, but both could come up against traffic con-cerns. In Palo Alto, any project is watched closely.

Things are better or worse on the school side, depending on one’s perspective. The school district isn’t facing a budget squeeze like the city, but it will be looking to replace five-year Superintendent Mary Frances Callan, who has announced her re-tirement, effective in August.

A shadow hangs over that search for a successor, however. The 48-member district Management Team, composed of principals, vice principals and others, wrote a memo to the school board Sept. 6, saying there were trust issues with Callan. The school district is plan-ning to follow through with hiring a consultant to examine what went wrong in Callan’s relationship with the Management Team.

That consultant will begin work before Callan leaves.

The district is grappling with another difficult issue — planning for beyond 2007. Enrollment at all

three levels — elementary, middle and high school — is projected to exceed school capacities in the next

five years.“We need lead time to plan for

new facilities,” board member Barb Mitchell said. “We need good co-operation with the city.” The latter was a reference to the Cubberley Community Center, now owned by the city. But it was once Cubberley High School. And it may be again.

“Do we create a new high school or grow the (existing) high schools?” school board President Camille Townsend asked. The district will convene a task force this year to ex-amine the high school experience of its students to help answer the ques-tion Townsend posed.

So, who wants to run for the school board or City Council this year? The council will have four seats open with Mayor Judy Klein-berg and council members Bern Beecham and Dena Mossar being term-limited out and Councilwom-an LaDoris Cordell having already decided not to seek a second term.

Potential candidates mentioned by others include Karen Holman and Pat Burt of the Planning and Transportation Commission and Doug Moran of the Barron Park Association, among others.

The school board will have two open seats to replace board mem-bers Mandy Lowell and Gail Price. Townsend has not decided whether to seek a second term.

Melissa Baton Caswell of the PTA Council and Jon Foster, co-chair of the district’s successful 2005 Mea-sure A campaign, are most men-tioned, among others. Foster has also been mentioned as a potential City Council candidate.

The school community is histori-cally more aggressive about recruit-ing potential candidates than the city is, and more potential candi-dates are being mentioned for the school race than the city race at this point.

That glass of wine will taste bitter or sweet come Nov. 6, for those who make the effort. ■

Senior Staff Writer Don Ka-zak can be emailed at [email protected].

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but his cousin Kilipeni Pahulu, 18, surrendered. A gun was found by Iongi’s body.

East Palo Alto officers were in charge of the investigation, and they will “maintain an unbiased perspec-tive,” Davis said.

Although he said the agency em-ploying the officers wasn’t key, “For many people in the community, the police are simply the police.”

The forum, which lasted more than an hour but started 20 minutes late, was primarily intended to strengthen the connection between the police and the Pacific Islander community, but additional details about the inci-dent did emerge.

Two Menlo Park police officers, rather than one as previously report-ed, were at the scene, Lt. Tom Alipio said. San Mateo County Sheriff’s Sgt. Peter Ralls was also involved, according to Sheriff’s Capt. Dan O’Keefe, who was not at the meet-ing. The names of the other officers have not yet been released.

Officers learned of the initial rob-bery and shooting on the 900 block on Newbridge Street at 11:19 p.m., Alipio said, and then received a re-port the two suspects, matching the description of Iongi and Pahulu, were spotted several blocks away at Sara-toga Avenue and Alberni Street.

The call went out county-wide, Da-vis said, and the three officers were first to spot the suspects. As one Menlo Park officer attempted to take Iongi into custody, the youth alleg-edly fired two shots, Alipio said. The other Menlo Park officer and Ralls

then returned fire, he said. Davis said East Palo Alto officers

were at the scene of the Newbridge Street robbery, whose 39-year-old victim remains in critical condition at Stanford Medical Center.

Would it have been different if East Palo Alto officers were there, some-one asked.

Probably not, Davis said. When a suspect is shooting, officers are trained to stop the threat, he said. Tasers or rubber bullets wouldn’t have been appropriate either, he said, because they could have allowed the suspect to continue firing.

When pressed by a young woman to say if he was completely sure that Iongi had fired, Davis said “it does suggest that it was Iongi.” He said he had evidence stronger than a single person’s observations.

He said the investigation will re-veal additional details.

The city has reached out to the family, but the family has so far not wanted to talk, Woods said, adding that was understandable in the imme-diate aftermath of Iongi’s death.

He said he plans to follow-up with-in two weeks to strengthen relations with the Tongan community.

The solution is to stem youth vio-lence, Davis said, a goal he asked the young people in attendance Thursday to help with.

He said he also hoped to hire a Pa-cific Islander police officer to help bridge relations with the community, which comprises about 9 percent of the East Palo Alto population, ac-cording to the U.S. 2000 Census. ■

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

East Palo Alto(continued from page 3)

Alto, they’re listened to.”Many community leaders voiced

anxieties over school crowding and associated traffic problems.

“And Chinese immersion is some-thing that is coming up,” Tanaka said. “Escondido (Elementary) may be one of the schools (to host the pro-gram), and some parents don’t want it there. They’re afraid it will bring too much traffic to our neighborhood. That might come up as a debate.”

Moran agrees Mandarin immer-sion, which the Palo Alto school dis-trict is considering adopting, will be an issue in 2007.

“We have two schools that were selected as likely candidates, which could force out a lot of neighborhood children,” he said. “It’s nothing to do with Mandarin immersion itself, but the traffic problems and loss of neighborhood schools.”

Palo Alto’s growth may be con-trolled, but the minds of many are also on the uncontrollable this year: natural disasters.

Beamer says the flooding of San Francisquito Creek “has been a chronic problem since at least 1998” and could come to the fore-front again depending on the sever-ity of this year’s rainy season. Resi-dents affected by the flooding have been actively seeking a solution for many years.

“Our big push this year is in im-proving disaster preparedness, as an outflow of the city’s disaster-pre-paredness plans,” said Moran. Many Palo Alto neighborhood associations

have similar plans to work with the city in 2007 to organize and inform citizens should disaster strike.

But though there are issues on the horizon and Palo Alto is, in Betsy Allyn’s words, “never quiet,” most neighborhoods are looking forward to a positive year. Neighborhood leaders were hopeful about making progress on improving the Palo Alto library system and also expressed satisfaction with police efforts to re-duce crime. In 2006, residents had experienced a surge and then decline in burglaries and robberies.

“I look forward to a continued downward trend,” said Jim McFall, who heads Southgate’s Neighbor-hood Watch program. “[Crime is] not what it was previously.”

And many neighborhoods are look-ing to strengthen social ties this year.

“We are eager and waiting to meet our new neighbors on Wilkie Way,” said Carlin Otto, president of the Charleston Meadows Neighborhood Association, referring to new hous-ing that is replacing the former Rick-ey’s Hyatt hotel. “It’s the first time in 20 years that we’ve had a truly significant number of new neighbors added to our neighborhood.

“We’re planning all kinds of social events. In the past we’ve built won-derful team-working ties, but this is a year to build a different kind of tie: laughing, playing, dancing, skating, picnicking with each other.”

Jim Pinsky of the Greenmeadow Community Association is also looking at 2007 as a year to have more fun, from the very beginning: “We have our first ever New Year’s Eve party this year,” he said. ■

Predictions(continued from page 3)

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Making Sense of the Human SensesMondays, January 8 – March 12, 7:00 p.m.

Please join us for eight engaging evenings of thought-provoking lectures by Stanford’s distinguished medical faculty.

Making Sense of the Human Senses will take students on a fascinating tour of the human senses, exploring how we see, hear, taste, smell and touch.

Conducted by nine faculty members from Stanford’s School of Medicine, the course will also explore what happens when the human senses stop functioning as they should and what cutting-edge medical innovations are being used to make things right again. Experts will discuss new advances in stem cell and gene therapy as well as recent technology breakthroughs that have made possible the artifi cial retina, the cochlear implant, and the emerging fi eld of human-computer interactions.

This course will be led by Dr. Robert Jackler, Sewall Professor and Chair, Department of Otolaryngology, and he will be joined by a team of other Stanford specialists.

For more information or to register, please visit us online at:www.csp.stanford.edu or call 650.725.2650


Last Year’s Grant Recipients

Adolescent Counseling Services..$7500

American Red Cross - Palo Alto

Area ................................................5000

Bread of Life ...................................5000

California Family Foundation .........2500

Challenge Learning Center.............5000

Cleo Eulau Center...........................5000

Collective Roots Garden Project ....7500

Community Breast Health Project ..5000

East Palo Alto Kids Foundation ......7500

East Palo Alto YMCA .....................7500

Ecumenical Hunger Program (EHP) 7500

Environmental Volunteers ..............3000

East Palo Alto Children’s Day ........5000

Foundation for a College Education 5000

Hidden Villa ....................................5000

Inn Vision/Urban Ministry .............5000

Jeremiah’s Promise, Inc. ................7500

JLS PTA Homework Habitat ...........6000

Jordan Middle School PTA.............2500

Kara ................................................5000

Mini Infant Center ..........................2000

Music in the Schools Foundation...5000

New Creation Home Ministries .....5000

Nuestra Casa..................................7500

Palo Alto Art Center Foundation ...7500

Palo Alto Community Child Care ...8000

Palo Alto Friends Nursery School ..3500

Palo Alto Housing Corporation.......5000

Parents Leadership Institute ..........7500

Peninsula Stroke Association ........1100

Plugged In/EPA.net ........................5000

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic 2500

Stanford Children’s Center ............2000

St. Elizabeth Seton School .............5000

St. Vincent de Paul Society ............5000

Teach for America ..........................2500

The Children’s Health Council ........2500

The Learning Center .......................2000

TheatreWorks .................................5000

West Bay Opera .............................5000

YES Reading ...................................5000

YMCA of the Mid-Peninsula ..........5000

Youth Community Service ..............5000

N on-profit organizations serving families and children in the Palo Alto area are facing unprecedented challenges and need our help. Through a unique partnership between the Palo Alto Weekly and local foundations, the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund is hoping to raise over $250,000 this year to support these groups and the people who benefit from their services.

With contributions of matching funds from the Packard, Hewlett, Peery & Arrillaga fam-ily foundations your tax deductible donation to the Holiday Fund will be doubled in size.

Last year $240,000 was raised from more than 600 people in the community, and 43 lo-

cal groups received grants in support of their programs.

Help make this year’s Holiday Fund campaign our most successful ever. Send in your contribution today and then check out our progress by watching the growing list of donors in each issue of the Palo Alto Weekly. All donations of $25 or more will be acknowledged in every issue of the Palo Alto Weekly between mid- November and the end of the campaign in mid-January.

With your generosity, we can give a major boost to the programs in our community help-ing our kids and families.

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation opens

The new Silicon Valley Community Foundation has announced its 10-year lease of offices at 2440 West El Camino Real, Mountain View, as its new headquarters.

The foundation will occupy 133,500 square feet on the second and third floors of the building and expects to move into the head-quarters by summer. In the meantime it will maintain offices and community meeting space in both San Jose and San Mateo.

The new foundation is one of the largest community foundations in the nation, with more than $1.5 billion in assets under manage-ment and 1,400 philanthropic funds. It resulted from the merger of the Peninsula Community Foundation (PCF) and the Community Foundation Silicon Valley (CFSV).

“The new headquarters will have community conference space where we will hold workshops and events for nonprofits and donors. In addition, the space will be available to community groups,” Em-mett D. Carson, CEO and president, said.

Carson also has announced key leadership positions for the new community foundation: Peter Hero, senior advisor, former presi-dent of CFSV; Vera Bennett, chief financial officer, former CFO and interim CEO at PCF; Mari Ellen Reynolds, chief of staff, for-mer director of development at CFSV; Sandi Hutchings, chief ad-ministrative officer, former controller at PCF; Candice Balmaceda, vice president, finance/controller, former director of finance at CFSV; Ellen Clear, vice president, grantmaking, former vice presi-dent of community programs at PCF; Ash McNeely, vice president, donor engagement, former vice president of philanthropic services at PCF. ■

Weekly Publisher Bill Johnson is a member of the board of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

—Palo Alto Weekly staff

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be disappointed if they wanted it back.”

Garland, located on N. Califor-nia Avenue behind Jordan Middle School, was closed due to declining enrollment in 1979. Since then the site has been home to six tenants, including Stratford.

In 2004, the school board decided to give the campus some stability by leasing it to the private Stratford for $650,000 a year for 10 years. The lease includes a clause, howev-er, allowing the district to take the site back with three years’ notice to Stratford. If the board made the call now, the district could reopen Garland in fall 2010.

Stratford is currently serving about 200 students in preschool through third-grade. The Palo Alto campus is the eighth site Strat-ford Schools has opened in the Bay Area, with others in Danville, Fremont, Los Gatos, San Jose and Sunnyvale. Tuition for a full ele-mentary program is about $10,500 a year.

“When we go into a community, we don’t just go into a communi-ty,” Adams said. “We give back. We’ve held a classical concert se-ries outdoors and collected toys for the Ronald McDonald House. The rent we pay also goes back into the community.”

Given the stiff competition be-tween high-performing public and private operations in Palo Alto, parents who choose private schools for their children are typically looking for a specific educational philosophy.

At Stratford, that philosophy

focuses on family. Homework is never given on the weekends under the premises that Saturdays and Sundays are for family time. The school year also begins after Labor Day in September.

Stratford boasts an emphasis on language and the arts. Children start learning an instrument in pre-school and each preschool class-room has a piano. Spanish instruc-tion starts in first-grade.

“Stratford has very high expec-tations, and they are very good at looking at each child and help-ing them progress based on their strengths and weaknesses,” said Emily Grant-Gould, whose son Ty-ler attends preschool at Stratford. “I’m not worried about (it) being too academically strict because I know they have fun and they pay attention to the social aspects of the children, as well.”

Grant-Gould’s oldest son, Zach-ery, is in second-grade at the pub-lic Duveneck Elementary School. Zachery attended a Stratford campus through first-grade while he was on the waiting list for his neighborhood school.

Grant-Gould said she plans to enroll Tyler at Stratford for kinder-garten, but will be waiting to see what the school board decides to do with the school.

“It would be a shame to shut down something that has started to really impact our community,” she said. “I’d definitely be sad to see them go.”

The district’s attendance-area proposal will be available Jan. 12 on www.pausd.org. ■

Staff Writer Alexandria Rocha can be e-mailed at [email protected].

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Kwang. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125Ieva Lange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Donald & Adele Langendorf. . . . . . . . .200Wil & Inger Larsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Ian & Karen Latchford . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Ho John Lee & Insook Jeon. . . . . . . . . .200Patricia Levin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Stephen & Nancy Levy . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Harry & Marion Lewenstein. . . . . . . . . .**Bjorn & Michele Liencres. . . . . . . . . .1000Robert & Constance Loarie . . . . . . . . . .**Jim Lobdell & Colleen Anderson . . . . . .**Steve & Linda Longstreth . . . . . . . . . . . .**Charlotte A. Lowell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Gwen Luce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Robert & Nancy Luft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300Mark & Judy Lurie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Janet McClure Lyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Jonathon MacQuitty & Laurie Hunter .100John & Claude Madden. . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Dick & Ellie Mansfield . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Mimi Marden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Chris & Beth Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250James & Renee Masterson . . . . . . . . . .100Jody Maxmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**May Family Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**John & Leona McCabe . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Bob & Diane McCoy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Hugh O. McDevitt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200Patrick & Nancy McGaraghan . . . . . . .500Joe & Lynnie Melena. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**John & Eve Melton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500F. W. Merrill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Don & Bonnnie Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**E. L. Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Frank & Shirley Mills . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100David & Lynn Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Stephen Monasmith & Lani Freeman . . .**Diane Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150Jim & Becky Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . . .1000Les Morris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Tom & Isabel Mulcahy . . . . . . . . . . . . .100The Murphy-Chutorian Family . . . . . .1000Elsbeth Newfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Merrill & Lee Newman. . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Frederic & Kristin Nichols . . . . . . . . . . .**Craig & Sally Nordlund . . . . . . . . . . . .250Boyce & Peggy Nute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Susan Osofsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Enid Pearson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Scott & Sandra Pearson. . . . . . . . . . . . .500John S. Perkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Conney Pfeiffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Jim & Alma Phillips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Helene Pier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**John & Lee Pierce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Virginia Pirrotta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Jeremy Platt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**David & Virginia Pollard . . . . . . . . . . .125Karen Porter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Joe & Marlene Prendergast . . . . . . . . . . .**Harry Press & Mildred Hamilton . . . . .100Don & Dee Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Nan Prince . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Roxy Rapp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500The Milk Pail Market & Friends . . . . .1000The Read Family. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Bill & Carolyn Reller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Gretchen Reynolds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Jerry H. Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Susie Richardson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Thomas Rindfleisch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Barbara Riper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Teresa L. Roberts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Nancy Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500Mitchell & Sandra Rosen . . . . . . . . . . . .**Dick & Ruth Rosenbaum . . . . . . . . . . . .**Peter & Beth Rosenthal . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Paul & Maureen Roskoph . . . . . . . . . . .100Steve & Karen Ross. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Don & Lou Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Norman & Nancy Rossen . . . . . . . . . . . .**Don & Ann Rothblatt . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500Jozef Ruck & Donna Ito . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Ruth B. Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Don & Jacquie Rush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Al & JoAnne Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Grace Sain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25Richard A. Baumgartner & Elizabeth M. Salzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300Ferrell & Page Sanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Tom & Pat Sanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Barbara Sawyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**George & Dorothy Saxe . . . . . . . . . . . .**John & Mary Schaefer . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

Scott & Kathy Schroeder . . . . . . . . . . . .**Ken & Heather Schultz . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Virginia Schulz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Linda Schweizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25A.Carlisle Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Kenyon Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Mark & Nancy Shepherd. . . . . . . . . . . . .**Rosalie Shepherd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Martha Shirk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Lee & Judy Shulman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Bob & Gloria Sikora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Bob & Diane Simoni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200Robert & Barbara Simpson. . . . . . . . . .200Andrea B. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Charles A. Smith & Ann D. Burrell . . . .**Roger Smith & Judy Kay . . . . . . . . . . . .200Ed & Ellen Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .350Lew & Joan Southern . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200Robert & Verna Spinrad . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Bob & Becky Spitzer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Doug & Barb Spreng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500Art & Peggy Stauffer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500Isaac & Maddy Stein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Charles & Barbara Stevens . . . . . . . . . . .**Doug & Kathy Stevens . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Shirley F. Stewart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Stan & Sue Sucher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150Debra Szecsei. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500Ludwig & Carol Tannenwald . . . . . . . . .**Jacqueline S. Thielen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Craig & Susie Thom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Tom & Pat Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Carl & Susan Thomsen . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Jan Thomson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250David & Nehama Treves . . . . . . . . . . . .100Al & Edie Trevino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Tony & Carolyn Tucher. . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Mike & Ellen Turbow . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Janis Ulevich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Jim & Susan Voll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Jerry & Bobbie Wagger. . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Leonard & Jeanne Ware . . . . . . . . . . . .200Roger & Joan Warnke . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Don & Sylvie Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Anna Wu Weakland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Mimi Webb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Steven Weinstein & Phyllis Kayten. . .1000David R. Wells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35George & Lois Wentworth . . . . . . . . . . .**Jay & Sallie Whaley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Ralph & Jackie Wheeler . . . . . . . . . . . .250John & Lynn Wiese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75George Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Douglas & Susan Woodman. . . . . . . . .200John & Mary Woodside . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Lijun & Jia-Ning Xiang. . . . . . . . . . . . .100Mark Krasnow & Patti Yanklowitz . . . . .**George & Betsy Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Steve & Grace Zales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200

As A Gift ForWillie Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**The Warren Cook Family. . . . . . . . . . . . .**Jim & Ro Dinkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Arlee R. Ellis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Jason & Lauren Garcia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Mona Hubenthal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Caitlyn & Andrew Louchard . . . . . . . . . .**Bob & Diane McCoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**“No Limit” Racing Team. . . . . . . . . . . . .25Marjorie Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Ziebelman boys (Bryan, Tyler & Scott) .**Paul & Becky Zuanich . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

In Honor Of Dr. Richard Babb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Marlene & Bill Bethke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Meghan Byrd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Will, Elissa & Julia Chandler . . . . . . . .250Debby at Ruskin Gardens. . . . . . . . . . . . .**Vicki Saxton Doyle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Fred Eyerly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35Grant & Crystal Gaudette . . . . . . . . . . . .**Vincent & Patricia Grande. . . . . . . . . . . .**Michael Havern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Kingsley Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Al Jacobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Earlie Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**The King/Brinkman Family . . . . . . . . . .**Alison Cherry Marer and Family . . . . . .**The Maser Family. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Members of the MidPeninsula & San Mateo Co. Dental Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1000Lynne & David Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Marie Moore, Briones angel . . . . . . . . . .**My Terrific Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .950Wanda Root & Jacques Naar . . . . . . . . .100The Nordlund Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Oma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250The Opportunity Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Our Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500Palo Alto City Library Staff. . . . . . . . . .300Heidi & Forrest Pendleton . . . . . . . . . . . .**Mrs. Piazza & Ms. Bunya . . . . . . . . . . . .25Charles G. Schulz, Esq. . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Sandy Sloan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Marilyn Sutorius. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Sallie Tasto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Joe Vavuris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**

In Memory OfCarol Berkowitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100C. & S. Abel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Arny Agiewich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Don Andrushko. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Swarn Lata Bhushan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Carl Biorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Anna & Max Blanker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150Louis Bogart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Leo Breidenbach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**A.L. & L.K. Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Elizabeth & Edward Buurma. . . . . . . . . .**Bill Carlstead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Michael Coghlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Dorothea Crofut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100David & Zoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Sallye Dawidoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Bob Dolan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500Bob Donald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Bob Donald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Fred Eyerly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Steve Fasani. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Steve Fasani. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Dave Ferguson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Kelly Flanagan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Mary Floyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50M.C. “Bud” Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Paul C. Freeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25Ron Gordon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Ron Gordon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500Pam Grady. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Grandpa Bud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Peter Haptas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Sally Hassett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Alan Herrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Florence Kan Ho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Lois Hogel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100George Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Bertha Kalson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Yogloo “Yogie” Kamikihara . . . . . . . . . .**Sy & Charlotte Kaplan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Alfred Kenrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500Al Kenrick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**David Kessler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Jane Khuu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Helene F. Klein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Samuel Benjamin Kurland. . . . . . . . . . . .75Bill Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Roger Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Charles Bennett Leib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Emmett Lorey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**George Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Bob Makjavich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Glen Brackbill, PhD & Molly Marcus . .**Bob Markevitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Theresa McCarthy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Mary Pat McGreevey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Alice & Milton McMurry . . . . . . . . . . . .**Homer Meaders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Todd L. Miller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Peter Milward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Allen Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500Ernest J. Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Kathy Morris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Bessie Moskowitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25David P. Sr & David P. Jr Mouton . . . . . .25Fumi Murai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Bud & Barbara Murfey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Al & Kay Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Our “Great” dad Al Pellizzari . . . . . . . . .**Our son Nick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .400Gertrude Palen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Boyd C. Paulson, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5000Paul Arthur Pearson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Thomas W. Phinney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Adelaide Potter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Jan Raffel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Jeff Reichenthal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500Jonathon Reichenthal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500Irving F. Reichert, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Nancy Prior Ritchey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Sol Rotwein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Ivy & Irving Rubin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .450Helen Rubin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150Ted Rusmore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Bill Sabbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Janis Sarnquist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Rudy Schubert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Beverly Jeanne Sheldon . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Paul Sidone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**John Eric Smitham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50George & Arline Sobel. . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Charles Henry & Emma Westphal Stelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**John Steward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Marjorie Stewart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Jack Sutorius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100“Sweet” Bill Beames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100Ray & Edith Tinney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250Bertie Weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .**YC Yen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200Dr. David Zlotnick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200

BusinessesAlta Mesa Memorial Park . . . . . . . . . . .575Bleibler Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500First Lutheran Church Women . . . . . . .100Harrell Remodeling, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . .**Palo Alto Weekly Moonlight Run . . .14400Tellme Networks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1000Thoits Bros. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500

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POLICE CALLSPalo Alto Dec. 18-27Violence relatedBattery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Sexual assault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Suicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft relatedCommercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Counterfeiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Embezzlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Vehicle relatedAbandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . .3Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .6Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .8Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Alcohol or drug relatedDrunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Possession of paraphernalia. . . . . . . . . .1Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . .1MiscellaneousFound property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . .2Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Noise complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Stalking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .1Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20Weapon disposal request. . . . . . . . . . . .1

Menlo ParkDec. 18-27Violence relatedBattery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Spousal abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft relatedFraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle relatedAuto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . .5Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Tow request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Vehicle accident/major injury . . . . . . . . .2Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .3Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .7Alcohol or drug relatedDrug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4MiscellaneousCoroner’s case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Indecent exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Parole violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .1Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

AthertonDec. 18-27Theft relatedFraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle relatedHit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Parking problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8Suspicious vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .1Miscellaneous911 hang-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Animal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Citizen assist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Construction complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Fire call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Foot patrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Hazard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .4Town ordinance violation . . . . . . . . . . . .3Tree down. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Welfare check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

VIOLENT CRIMESPalo AltoUnlisted location, 12/20, 10:43 a.m.; sexual assault.3900 block El Camino Real, 12/20, 12:09 p.m.; suicide.Unlisted location, 12/22, 3 p.m.; elder abuse.Unlisted location, 12/22, 11:29 p.m.;domestic violence.100 block University Avenue, 12/23, 2:28 p.m.; battery.Unlisted location, 12/24, 6:44 p.m.; child abuse.1600 block Middlefield Road, 12/25, 9:38 p.m.; battery.

Menlo Park800 block Willow Road, 12/20, 6:33 p.m.; battery.Unlisted block El Camino Real, 12/20, 10:53 p.m.; shooting.1300 block Willow Road, 12/26, 7:38 p.m.; robbery.200 block Santa Margarita Avenue,12/27, 5:59 p.m.; spousal abuse.

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Crime DigestTwo women shot in East Palo Alto, one dies

The East Palo Alto Police Department is investigating a Friday night shooting that killed a young East Palo Alto woman.

According to police, officers responded around 10:34 p.m. Friday to a report of shots fired in the 2600 block of Fordham Street and found two victims suffering from gunshot wounds.

A 19-year-old East Palo Alto woman, Melvea Fifita, was pronounced dead at the scene, police reported. A 21-year-old San Francisco woman was taken to a local hospital for treatment of her injuries where police said she was listed in serious but stable condition.

The Police Department does not have anyone in custody for the shoot-ing. Anyone with information is asked to call police detectives at 650-853-3177 or 650-853-3183. Anonymous calls can be made by calling 650-853-8477. ■

—Bay City News Service

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John JasbergJohn Henry Jasberg, 89, a long-

time resident of Palo Alto, died Dec. 23 after a long illness.

He was born Nov. 3, 1917 in Tel-luride, Colo., and grew up in Kel-logg, Idaho. After graduating from the University of Idaho with a de-gree in electrical engineering, he worked at the Radio Research Lab in Boston, Mass.

He attended graduate school at Stanford University, where he worked at the W.W. Hansen Lab. Later, he was employed at the Stan-ford Linear Accelerator Center from its opening in 1962 until his retire-ment in 1986.

He was self-reliant, hardworking and devoted to his family. He spent much of his free time gardening and keeping cars and appliances in run-ning order. Music and astronomy were lifelong interests.

A loving husband and father, he is survived by his wife of 53 years, Alberta of Palo Alto; two brothers, Donald and Pete Jasberg, both of Kellogg, Idaho; children, Hilda of Portola Valley, Marta of Cleveland, Ohio, Carla of Madison, Wis., John of San Francisco; and five grand-children.

An informal gathering of family and friends is planned for January.

Jean Mitchell

Jean Bothwell Mitchell, a long-time resident of Palo Alto, died Dec. 2. She was 92.

Born in San Jose, she grad-uated from Stanford Nurs-ing School in 1938. She was married to Dr. Sidney P. Mitchell, a prominent physician at the Palo Alto

Medical Foundation, for 54 years.Her interests were many, includ-

ing volunteering for the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, the Children’s Health Council, Fam-ily & Children Services, and many other local charities and organiza-tions.

She will be remembered by her surviving children and their spous-es, Charles S. and Elizabeth Mitch-ell, James E. and Jane Mitchell, Christiane H. Mitchell (widow of Steven P. Mitchell), Susan M. and Ross Miles; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She was pre-ceded in death by her husband, Dr. Sidney P. Mitchell, and her son, Dr. Steven P. Mitchell.

A memorial service will be held Thursday, Jan. 4, at 4 p.m. at Stan-ford Memorial Church. A reception will follow at Webster House in Palo Alto.

In lieu of flowers, memorial do-

nations may be made to the Sidney Pearce Mitchell, M.D., and Steven Pearce Mitchell, M.D., Scholarship Fund at Stanford University.

Nancy Jean Tincher

Nancy Jean Tincher, 82, died peacefully Dec. 23 at her home at the Forum in Cupertino. A longtime Palo Alto resident, she was known for her intelligence, community ser-vice, and devotion to her family.

She was born in Green Bay, Wis., on June 2, 1924. She was Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. She went to gradu-ate school at the University of Wis-consin Law School, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and on the Wisconsin Law Review. She met her husband, Bill, there, and after they graduated in 1948, they practiced law in Denmark, Wis.

They moved to California in 1951 and settled in the Bay Area, where she was a homemaker, community volunteer and hobbyist. The Tinch-er home served as polling location for many years. For more than 10 years she was a key member of a local group that transcribed school textbooks into Braille. She was a frequent speaker at local service groups and raised money to pur-chase additional Braille typewrit-ers for other volunteers. Her con-tributions were acknowledged by the Sertoma Club, which presented her with their Volunteer of the Year Award. She also received the Kable Bay Area Woman of the Month Award. She was one of the found-ers of the Gunn High School Career Center and a volunteer in the Eng-lish as a Second Language classes taught by her neighbor.

Relatives recall her as a constant and inspirational supporter of her husband and children in their edu-cation, work, and activities. She helped both her husband and son when they started their businesses by doing office administration and accounting. She also loved hand-work, and over the years pursued jewelry making, sewing, knitting, crocheting, and cross stitching. Her other love was gardening, growing plants, vegetables, and fruits.

She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Bill, of Cupertino; her son, Rich, and his wife, Leslie, of Portola Valley; her daughters, Myra Kelley of Campbell and Virginia Van Kuran of Palo Alto and their husbands Pete and Don; five grand-children and three great-grand-daughters.

Memorial donations may be made to Peninsula Habitat for Humanity, 690 Broadway St., Redwood City, CA 94063, or donate online at http://www.peninsulahabitat.org.

Mary WrightMary Wright, 61, a longtime

resident of Palo Alto, died Dec. 22 at Stanford Hospital after battling ovarian cancer for nearly two-and-a-half years.

She began running marathons in 2000 to raise money for leukemia research and faced her disease with the determination of a long-distance runner. Her doctor called her the “marathon woman.”

She was born in Buffalo, N.Y., on May 27, 1945. She had two careers, one in the classroom and one at Adobe. She was a classroom teacher in Mountain View and later a teach-er’s aide at Ohlone, Juana Briones and JLS schools.

She entered the high-tech world at Adobe in the early ‘90s and for many years was executive assistant to the CEO. Children will remember her patience, and Adobe employees will remember the holiday parties she orchestrated.

She was a devoted mother, wife and friend. She is survived by her husband, Jon Wollf; children, Jason Wright of Monterey, Jesse Wright of Palo Alto and Anna Wright of Palo Alto; and brothers, Chuck Kimmick of Yorba Linda and Paul Kimmick of Aurora, Colo.

She requested that donations be made in her memory to the Stepha-nie Ann Chanceller Foundation or the Leukemia and Lymphoma So-ciety.

A celebration of her life is being planned for mid-January. For more information, please contact [email protected].

BirthsJulie and Michael Wilcox of Stanford, a son, Dec. 18.

Barbara and Kenneth Luis of Palo Alto, a daughter, Dec. 19.

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Woman hit by carA pedestrian suffered head in-

juries shortly before 2 p.m. Mon-day when she was hit by a vehicle in the 400 block of Fernando Avenue in Palo Alto, police re-ported. She is under treatment at Stanford Hospital.

The woman was identified as Virginia Guevara, 31, of San Jose. The driver of the vehicle, Kenia Branner, 29, of East Palo Alto, was rendering aid when Palo Alto Fire Department para-medics arrived, police Sgt. San-dra Brown reported.

Witnesses are asked to contact Sgt. Steve Herrera at 650-329-2683. ■

—Palo Alto Weekly staff

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Oh, what a seasonEditor,

Congratulations to the Paly foot-ball team for a great season. The final game shouldn’t detract from what they accomplished this year.

Can someone explain to me why public schools should compete at the state level with private-school perennial football powers? Sports have been getting increasingly com-petitive, which has even seeped into the high-school level with games on ESPN and luxury-box suites at some high-school stadiums in the southeast.

Private schools now recruit from far and wide, putting public schools at a disadvantage. I think an obvi-ous solution is to have separate state competitions for public and private schools.

Doug Lusk Hilbar Lane

Palo AltoTime for ‘Taser flu’?Editor,

Taser flu has arrived in Palo Alto, and its insidious effects are impact-ing certain City Council members. Most notably, LaDoris Cordell.

Reports from around the world strongly suggest this disease is reaching pandemic proportions, and deaths are occurring almost at a daily rate. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control) based in Atlanta, the source of Taser flu has been identified as coming from Scottsdale, Ariz. However, the CDC has traced its origin back to Nazi Germany.

On a local level, it would appear Police Chief Lynne Johnson may be a major carrier in spreading this disease due to her close proximity to the City Council.

Taser flu is preventable by plac-ing the carrier in an isolation cell. Therefore, Palo Alto citizens should be warned of the serious and deadly effects of Taser flu.

Mark Petersen-PerezAddison Avenue

Palo AltoLet’s leave nowEditor,

I was appalled to hear Senator Reid agreeing to increasing our troops in Iraq. There is no such thing as “winning” a war that has destroyed a beautiful country and taken so many lives and ruined so many more.

We need to leave now instead of creating even more of a nightmare there, which is the only thing that more troops will do. All the Iraqi clerics have said the U.S. military presence is the root cause of all the violence in Iraq.

We must leave immediately. And that is what the voters called for in November.

Barbara OceanlightSt. Michael Drive

Palo Alto

‘Marshall’ a tearjerkerEditor,

I could not disagree more with Jeanne Aufmuth’s characterization of the film “We Are Marshall” as not scoring “any touchdowns in the emotion department” (Weekly, Dec. 22). There are many legitimate criti-cisms of the movie, but that is not one of them.

For example, the scene where Coach Lengyel (Matthew McCo-naughey) presents the game ball, following the unexpected victory over Xavier, to the academician, awkward university president, Don-ald Dedmon (David Strathairn), is a real lump-in-the-throat tearjerker of a moment.

“We Are Marshall” may be worth only 2.5 stars critically, but emo-tionally it is a 3.5-hankie movie.

Leon KaplanHamilton Avenue

Palo Alto

Dangerous caninesEditor,

Considering there are a very large number of dogs in Palo Alto, it was only a matter of time before some-thing like what happened to little Sean Martin (Palo Alto Online,

Dec. 8) did.Dogs are “domesticated” preda-

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