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Smythe offers solution to 

Jackling house dilemma 

■ Venture capitalist says he would extract historic 

elements and rebuild with them elsewhere. 

By Dave Boyce 

Almanac Staff Writer 

The end may be near for 

the saga of the Jackling 

house, a 30-room Woodside 

mansion built in 1925 by 

a noted architect and owned by 

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Mr. 

Jobs has spent eight years arguing 

with preservationists over his 

plans to remove the house and 

build something more modern. 

But it may be a new beginning 

for parts of the house. 

Gordon Smythe, a Palo Altobased 

venture capitalist with a 

long-standing interest in this 

home and others designed by 

By Andrea Gemmet 


Members of a city council 

might detest each other 

in private, but they usually 

manage to keep things civil in 

public, at least for the duration of 

a council meeting. 

A brouhaha over getting things 

on the Atherton 

City Council 

agenda, however, 

appears to 

have fractured 

whatever veneer 

of collegiality 

that body possessed. 

On June 17, 

a split council 

decided it will 

now take a majority of council 

members to approve even the 

hearing of an item, a turn of 

events that had the two council 

members in the minority leveling 

accusations of censorship at 

their colleagues. 

“To me, the idea that we are 

trying to censor people doesn’t 

make any sense whatsoever,” 

said Councilman Jim Dobbie, 

who said he was the driving 

force behind changing the 

rule to require a three-member 

majority. “The council represents 

George Washington Smith, 

informed the Woodside Town 

Council on June 23 that he has 

assembled a team to remove 

historically significant elements 

of the house and use them in a 

new family home — if he finds 

“a great piece of land” on which 

to build it. 

An official list of parts that 

haven’t “been damaged beyond 

repair” is in preparation, Mr. 

Smythe told The Almanac. A 

preliminary list in the Woodside 

council’s staff report includes 

roof tiles, an organ, a copper 

mailbox, a flagpole, and decorative 

tile and woodwork. 

A new house using these 

New Atherton rule: Is 

aim to stifle dissent? 

‘ It would appear, from 

the outside, to be the 

majority stifling dissent 

from the minority.’ 

FORMER ATHERTON COUNCILMAN 

ALAN CARLSON 

everybody, it should be up to 

the whole council how we spend 

time at a council meeting.” 

Critics said the change will 

prevent the council from having 

to discuss controversial or 

embarrassing topics. Mr. Dobbie 

claims he doesn’t see it that way. 

“It’s very simple. Previously, 

two council members that 

may or may 

not have the 

interest of all 

of the residents 

(of) Atherton 

in mind, who 

may be representing 

special 

interests, could 

put on an issue 

that’s very 

divisive to the 

town,” Mr. Dobbie said. 

Elected bodies such as the 

Menlo Park Fire Protection 

Board allow a single board 

member to request a topic be 

added to a meeting agenda for 

consideration. Some others, 

such as the city of Palo Alto, 

require a second from another 

council member before something 

can be agendized. 

Mr. Dobbie said he did not 

know of any other cities that 

See AGENDA, page 8 

recycled elements would run 

between $4 million and $6 

million, Mr. Smythe told The 

Almanac, with Mr. Jobs contributing 

about $604,000 to pay for 

the deconstruction. 

For the plan to proceed, Mr. 

Jobs, Mr. Smythe and the town of 

Woodside must agree to a contract 

that would obligate Mr. Smythe 

to extract the historical elements 

within 60 days of signing. 

The parts may be in storage for 

a while. Mr. Smythe would have 

five years to use them, at which 

point parties with a historical 

interest in the house, including 

the town of Woodside, would 

have the right to take them. 

The council voted 5-2 to issue 

a demolition permit to Mr. Jobs 

on the condition that he and Mr. 

Smythe sign the contract, which 

seems likely to happen. 

Mr. Smythe told the council 

the deal is “pretty much done,” 

and Howard Ellman, Mr. Jobs’ 

attorney, said as much, adding 

that Mr. Jobs wants to work with 

the preservationists. 

A key unknown is whether 

Uphold Our Heritage, a preservation-minded 

group that has 

argued for restoration of the 

house, will sue to stop its demo- 

lition. In an earlier lawsuit, 

Uphold convinced a San Mateo 

County Superior Court judge 

to invalidate a 2004 demolition 

permit. Mr. Jobs appealed that 

decision and lost in state court. 

No one from Uphold spoke at 

the council meeting. Douglas 

Carstens, Uphold’s attorney 

and a partner at the Santa 

Courtesy, Rob Caughlan 

Pete McCloskey, left, a much-decorated veteran of the Korean War, tries to teach Rob Caughlan, a 

self-described anti-war activist, how to salute. Mr. Caughlan’s documentary on Mr. McCloskey will air on 

KQED-TV July 5. 

Documentary salutes Pete McCloskey 

By Sean Howell 


Filmmaker Rob Caughlan 

spent eight years trying to 

pack an account of the life 

and career of Pete McCloskey 

into his allotted 54 minutes, the 

length of the program that will 

run on KQED-TV (Channel 9) 

on Sunday, July 5, as part of the 

station’s “Truly CA” series. 

It’s no easy task to condense 

any life story into that time 

frame, and Mr. McCloskey’s 

is certainly no exception. A 

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much-decorated veteran of the 

Korean War, Mr. McCloskey, 

now 81, helped draft bedrock 

environmental legislation in the 

early 1970s in the House of Representatives. 

He became a house- 

Gordon 

Smythe 

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proposal to the 

Woodside Town 

Council. 

Photo by Dave Boyce/ 

The Almanac 

See JACKLING, page 6 

hold name in 1972, when he 

challenged incumbent Richard 

Nixon for the Republican presidential 

nomination, opposing 

Mr. Nixon’s stance on the war. 

He has also enjoyed a celebrated 

legal career, notable 

especially for the environmental 

causes he took on. He practiced 

in Menlo Park prior to his political 

career, and worked out of an 

office above the Pioneer Hotel in 

Woodside after he retired from 

Congress. (A longtime Wood- 

See MCCLOSKEY, page 7 

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unavailable for comment. 

Speaking on Uphold’s behalf, 

attorney Jan Chatten-Brown said 

the details of Mr. Smythe’s proposal 

will probably be key, particularly 

“whether it would involve 

reconstructing ‘the house’ as 

opposed to saving simply parts 

of it. Obviously, Uphold Our 

Heritage wants to see the architectural 

integrity preserved.” 

The contract includes a clause 

that allows Mr. Smythe to walk 

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renewed litigation. “Who would 

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Plans to reuse the house’s 

meaningful elements may be the 

preservationists’ last chance, Mr. 

Ellman said. The Uphold group 

should settle, he said. 

Mr. Smythe told The Almanac 

that he’s looking forward to 

working with Uphold “as much 

as possible.” 

He said that he and his wife spent 

a week in Santa Barbara touring 

homes designed by Mr. Smith, 

the Jackling house architect. “We 

like the architect a lot. We love 

his buildings,” he said. “We want 

to reconstruct it in a way that he 

would be happy with.” 

The public hearing on the 

matter was brief, with just one 

speaker: Woodside resident and 

preservationist ally Steve Rubin, 

who raised a process question 

about the adjacent property, also 

owned by Mr. Jobs. 

Mayor Peter Mason and Councilman 

Dave Burow voted against 

the resolution. 

Mr. Mason has said he laments 

the tearing down of historic 

resources in town, while Mr. 

Burow disagreed with the proviso, 

advanced by Councilman Ron 

Romines, that conditions a demolition 

permit on Mr. Smythe and 

Mr. Jobs signing the contract. 

Finding a site 

If Mr. Smythe hasn’t found a site 

suitable for a rebuilt version of the 

house in five years, the elements 

would be offered, in order of priority, 

to the town of Woodside, 

the San Mateo County Historical 

Association, and the University 

of California at Santa Barbara, 

according to the staff report. 

Councilwoman Carroll Ann 

Hodges asked Mr. Smythe how 

the search was going. 

“That’s not an issue that we 

have nailed down,” he replied. 

“I wish it weren’t the case. I 

wish we had a site. I don’t think 

a house like this deserves to be 

thrown just anywhere.” 

The parcel should be at least 

10 acres, he said, adding that he’s 

said he’s looked in Southern and 

Central California and the Bay 

Area. “This house should not be 

crammed in somewhere, but it’s 

difficult to find a great piece of 

land,” he said. 

One site near San Jose has 

“amazing views (but) it didn’t 

feel right,” he said. “This house is 

about being surrounded by trees 

and having privacy.” 

The team that would dismantle 

the house works “on a nail by 

nail basis, I understand,” Mr. 

Ellman said, adding that of the 

many inquiries Mr. Jobs received 

regarding the house, “Gordon is 

the one guy who has really stuck 

with this.” A

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Documentary salutes Pete McCloskey 

MCCLOSKEY 


side resident, Mr. McCloskey 

still maintains a home in Portola 

Valley, at the Sequoias retirement 

community.) 

His many accomplishments are 

detailed in Mr. Caughlan’s progressive-minded 

documentary, 

“Pete McCloskey: Leading from 

the Front,” set to air on KQED 

at 6 p.m. The film focuses on 

Mr. McCloskey’s political career, 

following him from childhood 

in Southern California to semiretirement 

on a farm in Rumsey, 

California, where he still takes on 

the occasional case (and wages the 

occasional political battle). The 

documentary, narrated by Paul 

Newman, presents Mr. McCloskey 

as an “original maverick” who 

repeatedly shook up the political 

system; a man who by his own 

admission is “perfectly agreeable 

to losing, if I can make my point, 

and make it hard.” 

The documentary marks the 

first foray into filmmaking for 

Mr. Caughlan, who for 30 years 

ran a “good deeds” advertising 

and public relations firm out of 

an office near the Menlo Park 

Caltrain station. He wanted to tell 

Mr. McCloskey’s story to honor 

the man, and to propagate what 

he views as the movie’s central 

message: that the country needs 

people who are willing to fight for 

a cause, regardless of whether it’s 

popular at the time. 

Predictably, editing the film 

proved to be a challenge. Many 

of Mr. Caughlan’s favorite stories 

about Mr. McCloskey ended 

up on the proverbial cuttingroom 

floor. 

In the documentary, we learn 

of a heated argument in the 

back of a limousine between Mr. 

McCloskey and John Ehrlichman, 

a close adviser to then-President 

Nixon, over Nixon’s invasion of 

Cambodia. What we don’t learn 

is that the men had been good 

friends, up until Mr. McCloskey 

advocated impeaching Nixon on 

the floor of the House — and that 

the men resumed their friendship 

when Mr. McCloskey visited Mr. 

Ehrlichman in an Arizona prison 

after the fallout from the Watergate 

break-in. 

Another story that didn’t make 

the cut was Mr. McCloskey’s role 

in a case brought by the nonprofit 

Surfrider Foundation, against a 

polluting pulp mill in Humboldt 

County. As Mr. Caughlan tells 

it, Mr. McCloskey — whom the 

Surfriders recruited to help with 

the case, at Mr. Caughlan’s suggestion 

— waited patiently during 

the trial while a lawyer defending 

the pulp mill tried to explain to 

the judge Congress’s intent in 

Photo by Rob Caughlan 

Pete McCloskey, left, and the late actor Paul Newman, who narrates 

the film about the former congressman and political maverick. 

drafting the Clean Water Act. 

When the pulp mill lawyer had 

finished, “Pete gets up and humbly 

says that he helped write the Clean 

Water Act, and that in fact that was 

not the intent behind it. ...” 

Recounting the story, Mr. 

Caughlan — a longtime surfer 

and environmental advocate — 

grins. He had an artist make 

courtroom drawings depicting the 

incident, but couldn’t find space 

for it in the finished product. Mr. 

McCloskey’s life has been marked 

by so many other milestones that 

“winning the largest clean-water 

action in American history didn’t 

fit in,” Mr. Caughlan says. 

Met in 1967 

Mr. Caughlan first met Mr. 

McCloskey when he walked a precinct 

for him, during Mr. McCloskey’s 

1967 bid for a local seat 

in the House against Woodside 

resident Shirley Temple Black. 

“My mom thought I went over 

to the dark side” in joining a 

Republican’s campaign, he says. 

He and Mr. McCloskey kept in 

touch; he even stayed at McCloskey’s 

Washington, D.C., home 

for a few weeks. At the time, Mr. 

Caughlan was house-hunting in 

D.C., having landed a job with as 

a special assistant to the administrator 

of the Environmental 

Protection Agency. 

“I asked Pete, ‘Do I need a key?’ 

He said, ‘Nah, the door’s broken,’” 

Mr. Caughlan remembers. 

“Leading a bayonet charge takes 

one kind of courage,” he says (Mr. 

McCloskey led six of them during 

the Korean War). “Living in D.C. 

without a lock, well — that’s a different 

kind of courage.” 

When Mr. Caughlan set out to 

make the documentary, he didn’t 

expect it would take eight years. 

But he encountered a number of 

stumbling blocks, not the least of 

which was Mr. McCloskey himself. 

The film was nearly finished 

when a restless McCloskey came 

out of retirement to challenge Rep. 

Richard Pombo in 2006 for the 

House seat in Tracy, forcing Mr. 

Caughlan to revise the ending. 

Mr. McCloskey had been roused 

to action by Mr. Pombo’s plan to 

sell public land to private bidders. 

He lost in the primary, but 

succeeded in his ultimate goal 

when the Democratic candidate, 

Jerry McNerny, bounced Mr. 

Pombo in the general election. 

Mr. Caughlan put the documentary 

aside for six months to 

work as Mr. McCloskey’s press 

secretary, then ended up spending 

another half-year working for Mr. 

McNerny. 

Mr. Caughlin anticipates taking 

some heat for not giving enough 

attention to Mr. McCloskey’s 

faults. But “I’ve got Nixon, (Spiro) 

Agnew, and (Pat) Robertson criticizing 

him,” he says. “It’s just that, 

coming from them, it sounds like 

a compliment.” 

“I just wanted to tell Pete’s 

story,” he says. “I don’t care about 

the reviews.” 

In producing the film, Mr. 

Caughlan got help from some 

big names. Paul Newman, who 

worked on Mr. McCloskey’s campaign 

for the Republican nomination 

for president in 1972, agreed 

to narrate. Woodside resident 

Joan Baez donated her song 

“Saigon Bride.” 

And Robert Redford convinced 

Warner Brothers to let 

Mr. Caughlan use a clip from 

“All the President’s Men,” in 

which Mr. Redford’s character 

works in an empty office while 

on a nearby television set, a news 

anchor announces Mr. McCloskey’s 

defeat in the 1972 presidential 

primary. 

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equire a majority vote just to 

put something on the agenda. 

“It wouldn’t bother me if we 

were the only town to do it this 

way,” he told The Almanac. “To 

me it’s the right way.” 

The situation in Atherton 

prompted former Atherton 

councilman Alan Carlson to 

quote Winston Churchill’s 

assessment of post-World War 


II Eastern Europe: “An iron 

curtain is descending.” 

“All the people who voted for 

it ran on a platform of open 

government and transparency, 

and they’ve pulled the shade 

down on transparency. It would 

appear, from the outside, to be 

the majority stifling dissent 

from the minority,” Mr. Carlson 

told The Almanac. “That’s never 

how it worked when I was on the 

city council.” 

During his nine years on the 

Atherton council, there was 

N E W S 

New Atherton rule: Is aim to stifle dissent? 

AGENDA 


never any formal policy in place, 

Mr. Carlson said. To get a topic 

discussed by the council, all you 

had to do was call the city manager 

and request that it be placed 

on a meeting agenda, he said. 

Prior to publishing the meeting 

agenda, the city manager would 

go over it with the mayor, who 

could choose to pull things off 

the agenda. 

“I don’t know that anybody ever 

said that something should not 

be on an agenda, and took things 

off. I was mayor twice, and that’s 

how it used to work,” said Mr. 

Carlson, who resigned his seat in 

November 2007 when he moved 

to Carmel Valley. Mr. Dobbie was 

elected to finish out the remainder 

of Mr. Carlson’s term. 

Councilman Charles Marsala 

said he feels he is being targeted 

by the new rule, a situation that 

inspired him to quote at length 

from George Orwell’s “Animal 

Farm.” 

“Are they chasing me off the 

farm? You bet,” he told The 

Almanac. 

The town’s controversial 

decisions about basements and 

restrictions on youth sports 

organizations using public 

school campuses — all would 

have benefited if he had been 

allowed to put them back on the 

agenda, Mr. Marsala said. 

“As council members we come up 

with ideas and brainstorm them, 

and if people don’t like them, they 

don’t like them,” he said. 

While it may appear that tightening 

up the agenda-setting rule 

was triggered by a divisive topic 

championed by Mr. Marsla in 

May — to expand the Atherton 

branch library by “selling” it 

the town council chambers, and 

using the proceeds from the sale 

toward building a new town hall 

— Mr. Marsala said the majority 

has been stifling him for longer 

than that. 

Mr. Marsala pointed to another 

topic he tried to revisit — the 

controversial series of audits of 

the town’s building department 

in 2006, which resulted in a 

major shake-up and the sudden 

retirement of building official 

Mike Hood. 

“There is a desire to block the 

truth from getting out that Mike 

Hood did a great job for our 

town and we erred in not getting 

a second opinion on the audit, 

which might embarrass people 

who were looking for something 

as a way of controlling building 

(in town),” Mr. Marsala said. 

Mr. Dobbie said that as for 

the library issue, it should never 

have gone on the council agenda 

because it was clear that the Joint 

Powers Authority that runs the 

library would never allow library 

funds to be used to purchase the 

town council chambers. 

“What’s the point of the council 

talking about it if the JPA 

assured us that we would not be 

allowed to use the funds,” said 

Mr. Dobbie. A 

Report released on 

high-speed rail 

The agency that oversees 

the high-speed rail project has 

released a report summarizing 

comments the agency received 

from local governments, agencies, 

and residents, in regard to 

the section of the proposed route 

from San Jose to San Francisco. 

The 75-page scoping report 

divides the comments received 

into 10 topics, including concerns 

over property acquisition, the rail 

line’s alignment, and coordination 

with other transit systems. 

The report is preliminary to 

the release of the environmental 

impact report, expected 

to be completed in 2010. That 

report will identify the potential 

impact of one or several design 

configurations on the surrounding 

environment. 

To read the scoping report, 

visit tinyurl.com/HSRscope.

N E W S 

Trial starts for public works supervisor 

By Andrea Gemmet 


Opening arguments began 

Monday in the jury trial 

of Atherton public works 

supervisor Troy Henderson, a 

33-year employee of the town who 

is facing misdemeanor assault and 

battery charges for allegedly attacking 

an Atherton police officer. 

In a June 3, 2008, incident caught 

on videotape, Officer Pilar Ortiz- 

Buckley was sitting in the police 

station staff room when she was 

threatened by public works supervisor 

Troy Henderson, who then 

lunged at her, according to Steve 

Wagstaffe, the chief deputy district 

attorney of San Mateo County. 

In an opening statement, defense 

attorney Jamie Harley said, “This 

is an opportunity for her to retire 

Councilman says he’s now cancer-free 

Atherton Councilman Jim Dobbie 

told The Almanac that he is 

now cancer-free, following chemotherapy 

to treat lymphoma. 

Mr. Dobbie said that he was 

diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma 

and underwent the removal of his 

spleen. His initial prognosis was 

not good, he said. 

“Now I’m trying to recover from 

the chemotherapy, but the cancer 

is all gone,” he said. 

He called the five months of 

chemotherapy “absolutely, totally 

terrible.” Despite undergoing treat- 

Portola Valley: ‘Extremely difficult’ budget passes easily 

By Dave Boyce 


Portola Valley Town Manager 

Angela Howard had used the 

words “extremely difficult” to 

describe her recent efforts to balance 

the town’s budget for the fiscal 

year that starts on July 1. 

But that budget’s passage by a 

unanimous Town Council on 

Wednesday, June 24, could not 

have been smoother. The discussion 

and vote took less than 

10 minutes, including a public- 

Hilary Giles named among top 100 financial advisers 

Portola Valley resident and private 

wealth adviser Hilary Giles is among 

the top 100 women financial advisers 

for 2009, according to an annual 

list compiled by Barron’s Magazine, 

the financial weekly published by 

Dow Jones & Company. 

Ms. Giles works out of the Menlo 

Park office of Merrill Lynch’s 

Private Banking and Investment 

Group and manages more than 

$1 billion in assets for individuals 

with a typical net worth of $50 

million and a typical account under 

management of $15 million, the 

Barron’s listing said. 

Inclusion in the list is a reflection 

of an adviser’s volume of 

■ ATHERTON 

with full benefits and say she was 

violated by a town employee.” 

Prosecuting attorney Sharron 

Lee said: “We all know there is 

a certain line we’re not allowed 

to cross. We have the right to be 

free from unwanted, harmful or 

offensive touching. You’ll see the 

defendant cross that line.” 

Mr. Henderson, 58, is also 

named in a civil lawsuit that Officer 

Ortiz-Buckley filed against 

the town, alleging ongoing sexual 

harassment by Mr. Henderson. In 

her April 22 complaint, Officer 

Ortiz-Buckley said that once she 

reported the incident, she faced 

retaliation and disability discrimination 

related to the injury she 

suffered in the incident. 

ment for cancer, 

Mr. Dobbie 

points out that he 

didn’t miss any 

regular council 

meetings. 

“It was one 

of worst things 

Jim Dobbie 

I’ve ever been 

through, but it was successful,” 

Mr. Dobbie said. 

During his ordeal, Mr. Dobbie 

said, he was touched by the support 

he received from his fellow 

Athertonians. 

comment period during which no 

one from the small and scattered 

audience volunteered to speak. 

The council voted 4-0, with 

Councilman Ted Driscoll absent. 

In doing her routine calculations 

to prepare the budget, Ms. 

Howard said she discovered a 

$420,000 hole, much larger than 

the $40,000 or $50,000 she was 

used to. Expenses are up and the 

town’s interest earnings are down 

24 percent, and revenues from real 

estate transfer tax and building 

assets, revenues 

generated for 

the firm, and the 

“quality of the 

adviser’s practices,” 

according 

to the Barron’s 

Web site. 

Ms. Giles’ 16 Hilary Giles 

years in finance include leading the 

Northern California account management 

group of New York-based 

wealth management firm Bessemer 

Trust, and researching and managing 

a portfolio for Sand Hill Advisors. 

She started her career with 

JP Morgan in venture and private 

equity, according to a biography 

Through his attorney, Mr. Henderson 

has said that he is innocent. 

Prosecutors sought to include 

evidence about Mr. Henderson’s 

alleged harassment of other female 

town employees, but Judge Craig 

Parsons denied it, said Chief 

Deputy District Attorney Steve 

Wagstaffe. However, the judge 

didn’t rule out the possibility that 

the evidence could be brought up 

later in the trial, as a rebuttal to Mr. 

Henderson’s defense testimony. 

Judge Parsons did grant a 

motion to exclude any evidence 

concerning the defendant’s medical 

condition. The defense claims 

Mr. Henderson is impotent and 

has no sex drive due to medical 

treatment for prostate cancer, 

according to Mr. Wagstaffe. A 

“I found a number of wonderful 

people here in Atherton. They did 

all kinds of things for me and my 

wife,” he said. 

Mr. Dobbie was elected to the 

Atherton City Council in the special 

election held in June 2008 to 

fill the seat vacated by Alan Carlson. 

A 15-year Atherton resident, 

he is a retired high-tech executive 

and a former pilot in the Royal Air 

Force Reserve. 

– By Andrea Gemmet 

permits are down 69 percent and 

47 percent, respectively. 

The new budget includes hiring 

and salary freezes at Town 

Hall, cuts in funding for various 

volunteer committees, and no 

capital improvements other than 

road repair. 

Mayor Ann Wengert asked Ms. 

Howard about the possibilities for 

increasing the town’s income. 

“I have lots of ideas for generating 

revenues,” Ms. Howard 

replied. A 

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She has a master’s degree in 

business from Columbia University, 

and a bachelor’s degree from 

Georgetown University, where she 

graduated Phi Beta Kappa, according 

to the biography. 

Ms. Giles is a trustee of Portola 

Valley’s Woodside Priory School, a 

Benedictine Catholic college preparatory 

school for grades 6-12, and a 

career adviser for Summer Search, 

a national leadership development 

program, the biography said. 

She and her husband have four 

children. She sails competitively 

and collects post-modern lithographs, 

the biography said. 

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The city of Menlo Park will sponsor a community 

parade and festival on Saturday, with food, 

music and activities for all ages. 

Kids and their families are invited to dress in 

red, white and blue and bring decorated tricycles 

and bikes, wagons, pets and floats to join the July 

Fourth parade, which begins at 11:45 a.m. 

Participants should assemble ahead of time in 

the Wells Fargo parking lot, corner of Santa Cruz 

Avenue and Chestnut Street. 

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Avenue, across El Camino Real, and end at Burgess 

Park. 

At the park there will be carnival games, 

inflatables, rock climbing, crafts and face painting. 

Johnny Vegas and the High Rollers will play 

music from noon to 2:30 p.m. 

Wrist bands, required for games and activities, 

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JUNIOR RODEO IN WOODSIDE 

The 59th annual NorCal Junior Rodeo, sponsored 

by the Mounted Patrol of San Mateo 

County, will be held Saturday, July 4, at the 

Mounted Patrol grounds at 521 Kings Mountain 

Road in Woodside. 

Gates open at 8 a.m. The full day of events will 

include cowboys and cowgirls, ages 6 to 18, taking 

part in bull riding, steer and calf riding, barrel 

racing and team roping. The Rodeo Queen and 

her court of princesses will be in attendance. The 

main events start at noon with Presentation of the 

Colors by the Mounted Patrol Color Guard. 

Family entertainment will include an afternoon 

pig scramble and a petting zoo, which will be 

open all day. 

Admission is $15 for adults, $7 for ages 6-17, 

and free for kids 5 and under. 

The Mounted Patrol will also hold a dinnerdance 

at the Mounted Patrol grounds on Friday, 

July 3, starting at 6 p.m. No reservations are 

needed for the barbecue dinner. For more information, 

call 851-8300. 

REDWOOD CITY PARADE AND FESTIVAL 

“All Things Musical” is the theme for the 71st 

Redwood City Independence Day parade, which 

starts at 10 a.m. Saturday, July Forth, at the 

corner of Brewster and Winslow streets. 

The parade will feature decorated floats, local 

performing groups, college bands, horses, and 

military groups. 

The Peninsula Celebration Association is also 

sponsoring an arts and crafts festival along 

Middlefield Road from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will 

be more than 60 crafts vendors and food and 

beverage booths. 

The ninth annual Battle of the Bands, starting 

J U L Y 4 T H 2 0 0 9 

A weekend of parades, carnivals, a street fair, and the 

NorCal Junior Rodeo await local Fourth of July celebrants 

By Jane Knoerle | Almanac Lifestyles Editor 

at 1:30 p.m., will be held in the San Mateo Credit 

Union parking lot, with the U.C. Davis Marching 

Band and the Leland Stanford Junior University 

Marching Band competing. 

The Marshall Law band will play on the entertainment 

stage from 2 to 5 p.m. 

The day will end with the annual fireworks show, 

launched from the water at the Port of Redwood 

City. The fireworks are expected to begin at 

approximately 9:30 p.m. For more information, 

go to www.parade.org. 

KIWANIS CARNIVAL 

The Woodside Terrace A.M. Kiwanis Club 

of Redwood City will hold its annual carnival 

Saturday and Sunday, July 4 and 5, in the 

county government center parking lot, corner 

of Veterans Boulevard and Middlefield Road in 

Redwood City. 

The Kiwanis Web site says the carnival features 

family-oriented rides, with seats wide enough for 

a parent and child to sit together. 

The carnival starts right after the Redwood 

City parade and continues until 10 p.m. It will be 

open from noon to 10 p.m. on Sunday. For more 

information, call 592-3250. 

LITTLE HOUSE BARBECUE 

Little House, at 800 Middle Ave. in Menlo 

Park, invites you to put on your Western finery 

and join them for a barbecue from 11:30 a.m. 

to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 1. 

Cowgirl Chryle Bacon will entertain. Cost is $10 

per person. For details, call 326-2025. 

RAGTIME PIANO MUSIC 

Nan Bostick of Menlo Park will perform two, 

four, and six-handed ragtime music with fellow 

musicians Chris and Jack Bradshaw at 3:30 p.m. 

Saturday at the First Baptist Church of Menlo 

Park, 1100 Middle Ave. at Arbor Road. 

The trio will be accompanied by percussionist 

Pete Devine and Robyn Drivon on tuba. Offerings 

will benefit the U.S.O. 

Following the concert, there will be a church 

barbecue at 5:30 with Pastor Rick Line as head 

chef. Cost is $5 per person 

For more information, call Carol Maslin at 

323-8544. 

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Steer riding is one of the July Fourth events 

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sponsored spons by the Mounted Patrol of San Mateo 

County, Count and held at the Mounted Patrol grounds 

at 521 Kings Mountain Road in Woodside. 

There will be no pre-Independence Day concert 

at Stanford University’s Frost Amphitheatre 

this year because of ongoing construction 

around the amphitheatre, making it unsafe to 

launch fireworks. The event usually includes a 

jazz festival sponsored by Lively Arts, as well 

as a fireworks display. 


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Wednesday, July 15, 2 – 4 p.m., 650-853-2960 

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Supermarket Wise 

Thursday, August 6, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., 650-853-2960 

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction 

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Classes start Monday, September 14 and Tuesday, 

September 15, 6:30 – 9 p.m., 650-853-2960 

Nutrition and Diabetes Classes 

Living Well with Prediabetes 

Monday, July 6, 9 – 11:30 a.m., 

650-853-2961 

Healthy Eating with Type 2 Diabetes 

Tuesday, July 14, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., 

650-853-2961 

Feeding Your Toddler (ages 1 – 3) 

Thursday, July 16, 10 a.m. – noon, 

650-853-2961 

Heart Smart Class 

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Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Child Care Classes 

Breastfeeding – Secrets for Success 

Saturday, July 18, 10 a.m. – noon, 650-853-2960 

Moving Through Pregnancy 

Mondays, August 3 – 17, 7 – 9 p.m., 650-853-2960 

Preparing for Birth 

Wednesdays, August 5 – September 9, 7 – 9 p.m., 

650-853-2960 

Support Groups 

Cancer 

650-342-3749 

CPAP 

650-853-4729 

Diabetes 

650-224-7872 

Drug and Alcohol 

650-853-2904 


Healing Imagery for 

Cancer Patients 

650-279-8772 

Kidney 

650-326-2107 

Multiple Sclerosis 

650-321-4121 

Community Health 

Education Programs 

Mountain View Center 

701 E. El Camino Real 

Living Well Classes 

Advance Health Care 

Directive Appointments 

650-934-7380 

HICAP Insurance 

Counseling Appointments 

650-934-7380 

Mind-Body Stress 

Management (3 sessions) 

Monday, July 13, 7 – 9 p.m., 

650-934-7373 

Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Child Care Classes 

Breastfeeding Your Newborn 

Mondays, July 6, 13 or August 

3, Tuesdays, July 7 or August 4, 

6:30 – 9 p.m., 650-934-7373 

Feeding Your Toddler 

Tuesday, July 7 or August 4, 

7 – 8:30 p.m., 650-934-7373 

Preparing for Baby 

Tuesday, July 14 or August 4, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., 

650-934-7373 

Infant Emergencies and CPR 

Wednesday, July 22 or 

Wednedays, August 5 & 26, 

6 – 8:30 p.m., 650-934-7373 

Sunnyvale Center 

201 Old San Francisco Road 

Breastfeeding Support Group 

Tuesdays, 10:30 – noon 

Sunnyvale City Council Chambers 

456 W. Olive Avenue 

Understanding Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) 

Community Lecture 

Nicole Simpson, M.D., PAMF Gastroenterology 


Sunnyvale City Library 

665 W. Olive Avenue 

A Conversation with Gwendolyn Smith, Master of Social 

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Wednesday, August 5, 7 – 8:30 p.m., 650-934-7380 

For a complete list of classes, lectures and 

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N E W S 

Little League: 

Partners team 

wins city title 

This story was submitted by the 

Alpine-West Menlo Little League. 

The Partners team of the Alpine- 

West Menlo Little League Majors 

Division faced as formidable a 

challenge as it had all season in 

Mike’s Cafe of the Menlo-Atherton 

Little League. But Partners 

scored two runs in the top of the 

sixth to earn a 2-0 victory June 19 

at Burgess Park and win bragging 

rights in the 37th renewal of the 

Menlo Park city championship. 

Conor Bonfiglio launched a 

two-out shot over the left-field 

fence and pitcher Kodiak Conrad 

put the finishing touches on 

a pitching masterpiece to give 

Partners a Little League tri-fecta: 

the Alpine-West Menlo league 

championship, the playoff championship, 

and the city championship 

on the way to a 20-3 record. 

Mike’s Cafe earned its way to 

the championship by winning 

the M-A league playoffs. 

Conrad struck out eight and 

faced just three batters over the 

minimum 18 on the way to a 

one-hit, 81-pitch complete game. 

Catcher Andrew Cox played a big 

role, throwing out two of those 

three base runners at second base. 

Rio Zelayo delivered Mike’s 

Cafe’s lone hit, a single in the 

second inning. 

Jackson Salabert limited Partners 

to four hits in five innings, 

but gave way to relief in the sixth. 

That’s when Bonfiglio struck. 

Bonfiglio and Cox both had 

two hits for Partners. 

Transit agencies get 

$16 million from feds 

The Peninsula Corridor Joint 

Powers Board, which oversees 

Caltrain service in San Mateo, 

Santa Clara, and San Francisco 

counties, will receive a $9 million 

grant for track, bridge, signal 

and bicycle improvements, 

Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, D-Menlo 

Park, announced June 10. 

Also, the San Mateo County 

Transit District will receive a $7 

million grant to purchase buses 

and for preventive maintenance, 

she said. 

The two grants, approved in the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act passed by Congress earlier 

this year, “will allow the Peninsula 

Corridor Joint Powers Board 

and the San Mateo County Transit 

District to complete much needed 

upgrades and maintenance,” Rep. 

Eshoo said in a press release. 

“These grants will help keep 

our trains and buses running 

safely and on time, while creating 

new jobs and investing in our 

regional economy,” she said.

N E W S 

City official 

resigns post 



Barbara Santos George, director 

of Menlo Park’s community 

services department, 

has resigned. The department 

oversees the city’s recreation programs, 

child care services, and 

programs for senior citizens. 

Her last day with the city will 

be Thursday, July 2, according 

to Personnel Director Glen 

Kramer. Library Director Susan 

Holmer will help to oversee the 

department on an interim basis, 

according to Mr. Kramer. 

The city will hold off on finding 

a permanent replacement for 

Ms. George, said City Manager 

Glen Rojas. Instead, the administration 

will evaluate whether 

the city can realign its existing 

staff structure to compensate for 

the vacant position, as the city 

tries to weather the recession, 

Mr. Rojas said. 

Mr. Rojas said he was “a little 

surprised” at the news of Ms. 

George’s resignation. She started 

working for the city in November 

2006. “We’re scrambling 

to make arrangements for the 

department to move forward,” 

he said. 

Ms. George said her resignation 

“did not have anything to 

do” with the beleaguered city 

child care program that operates 

out of the Civic Center complex. 

“I just wanted an opportunity to 

try a couple of new things, and 

this seemed like a good chance 

to do it,” she said. 

The debate over whether the 

city should continue to run the 

child care program has consumed 

most of Ms. George’s 

time over the past few months, 

she has said, as the department 

looked for ways the city could 

recoup more of its costs. The 

City Council is tentatively scheduled 

to give direction regarding 

the program’s future at its July 

21 meeting. A 

TOWN OF PORTOLA VALLEY 

INVITES APPLICATIONS 

FOR TOWN COUNCIL 

The Town of Portola Valley is seeking candidates for 

three Town Council seats, which are up for election. 

All are 4-year terms, which expire in November 2013. 

The Town Council meets on the second and fourth 

Wednesdays each month at 7:30 p.m. 

Interested residents may request information and 

nomination papers Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. 

– 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. at Town Hall, 

765 Portola Road. Candidate filing period is July 13 

– August 7, 2009, unless an incumbent does not file 

for re-election, in which case the deadline will automatically 

be extended until 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 

August 12, 2009. There is no fee for filing. 

Sharon Hanlon 

Town Clerk 

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS 

BID PROPOSALS SOUGHT FOR 

RESURFACING OF VARIOUS FEDERAL AID 

ROUTES PROJECT ESPL 5273(020) 

CITY PROJECT NUMBER 20-051 

The City of Menlo Park invites qualified contractors to submit sealed bid 

proposals for the construction of the RESURFACING OF VARIOUS FEDERAL 

AID ROUTES PROJECT. Work required as part of this project consists of, in 

general, resurfacing selected federal routes within the City by means of (a) 

reconstruction including a deep area grind and installation of new asphalt 

concrete pavement; or (b) applying an asphalt concrete overlay. Other related 

work includes: manhole, valve and monument adjustment; wedge cut; deep 

lift asphalt; installing concrete ADA accessible ramps; installing traffic striping/markings; 

and all appurtenant work in place and ready for use at various 

locations in the City of Menlo Park; all as shown on the plans and described 

in the specifications. Performance of this work requires a valid California 

Contractor’s License Class A. The UDBE contract goal for the project is 

3.6%. The DBE contract goal for the project is 7%. Project documents and 

copies of the prevailing rate of wages can be obtained from the Menlo Park 

Engineering Division, located in the Administrative Building at 701 Laurel St. 

Sealed bid proposals will be received at the Engineering Division office until 

2 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2009, at which time they will be opened and 

publicly read. Additional information can be obtained on the City’s website: 

www.menlopark.org/cip 

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING 

AND 

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 

CITY OF MENLO PARK 

PLANNING COMMISSION 

MEETING JULY 13, 2009 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commission of the City of 

Menlo Park, California, is scheduled to review the following items: 

PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS 

Use Permit and Variance/Jeremy and Susan Stieglitz/1066 Laurel 

Street: Request for a use permit for interior modifications and first and 

second floor additions that would exceed 50 percent of the replacement 

value in a 12-month period and 50 percent of the existing square 

footage of the existing nonconforming single-story, single-family residence 

on a substandard lot in the R-3 (Apartment) district, and for a 

variance to construct a one-car garage where the distance between the 

main buildings on the subject property and adjacent left side property 

would be 17 feet, 9 inches where 20 feet is required. The proposed 

remodeling and expansion are considered to be equivalent to a new 

structure. 

Use Permit/Yvette Keller and Mark Bessey/1015 Berkeley Avenue: 

Request for a use permit to construct single-story additions to an existing 

single-story, single-family, nonconforming residence that would 

exceed 75 percent of the replacement value of the existing structure in 

a 12-month period in the R-1-U (Single-Family Urban) zoning district. 

Rezoning, Planned Development Permit, Lot Merger and Minor 

Subdivision, BMR Agreement, Heritage Tree Removal Permit, 

and Environmental Review/Sand Hill Property Company/1300 El 

Camino Real: Requests for the following: 1) Rezoning the properties 

from C-4 General Commercial District (Applicable to El Camino Real) to 

Planned Development (P-D) District, 2) Planned Development Permit to 

establish development regulations including parking, building height, 

landscaping, and building setbacks, and conduct architectural review 

for the proposed development of 110,065 square feet of commercial 

space (51,365 square feet of retail/restaurant/service uses and 58,700 

square feet of non-medical office uses), 3) Lot Merger and Minor 

Subdivision to merge the existing six lots and create up to four commercial 

condominium units, 4) Below Market Rate (BMR) Agreement 

for the payment of in-lieu fees associated with the City’s BMR Housing 

Program, 5) Heritage Tree Removal Permits to remove two on-site and 

four off-site heritage trees, and 6) Environmental Review of the proposed 

project for potential environmental impacts. This item will focus 

on the Parking Study and Fiscal Impact Analysis (FIA) prepared for the 

project. No action will be taken on the proposed project. 

STUDY MEETING ITEM 

Study Session/El Camino Real/Downtown Specific Plan: Review of 

project status and opportunity for individual commissioner comments. 

NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that said Planning Commission 

will hold a public hearing on public hearing items in the Council 

Chambers of the City of Menlo Park, located at 701 Laurel Street, Menlo 

Park, on Monday, July 13, 2009, 7:00 p.m. or as near as possible thereafter, 

at which time and place interested persons may appear and be 

heard thereon. If you challenge this item in court, you may be limited 

to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public 

hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered 

to the City of Menlo Park at, or prior to, the public hearing. 

The project file may be viewed by the public on weekdays between 

the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, with alternate Fridays closed, at the 

Department of Community Development, 701 Laurel Street, Menlo Park. 

Please call the Planning Division if there are any questions and/or for 

complete agenda information (650) 330-6702. 

Si usted necesita más información sobre este proyecto, por favor llame 

al 650-330-6702, y pregunte por un asistente que hable español. 

DATED: June 25, 2009 Deanna Chow, Senior Planner 

PUBLISHED: July 1, 2009 Menlo Park Planning Commission 

Visit our Web site for Planning Commission public hearing, agenda, and 

staff report information: www.menlopark.org 

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A cornucopia of restaurants and cafes providing 

the finest dining from brunch to dessert. 

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner 

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Open daily for lunch and dinner. 

Coffee & Tea 

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(650) 369-5250 9am-5:30pm Mon. - Sat. 

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N E W S 

Portola Valley 

OKs revised 

noise law 

By Dave Boyce 


There will be quieter weekends 

in Portola Valley, 

quieter than they would 

have been, that is. 

A late change to the town’s 

noise ordinance, which the Town 

Council approved on June 24, 

now prohibits the use of wood 

chippers and chain saws by commercial 

gardeners on Saturdays. 

Residents are allowed to use 

such tools, including leaf blowers, 

on both weekend days 

between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. To 

encourage brush removal for 

wildfire safety, between mid- 

April and mid-June, residents 

can use these tools until 8 p.m. 

Commercial gardening is prohibited 

on Sundays, and no one, 

residents or gardeners, can use 

such noisy tools on holidays. A 

late push to ban weekend commercial 

use of leaf blowers came 

up for discussion but not a vote. 

The council voted 3-1 to introduce 

the updated ordinance, with 

Councilman Ted Driscoll absent 

and with Mayor Ann Wengert 

opposed to the ban on commercial 

use of chippers and chain saws. 

The ordinance is available online 

in a staff report on the town Web 

site at tinyurl.com/lr6bv6. 

With a second reading, probably 

at the July 8 meeting, the 

council would officially adopt 

the ordinance and it would 

become law 30 days later. 

In opposing the ordinance, Ms. 

Wengert said the new provision 

would confuse residents, and 

that they should have commercial 

services available on Saturdays 

to clear brush and reduce 

wildfire risks, a priority that 

trumps other concerns. 

The council vote came after an 

unusual fifth public hearing, the 

extra hearings made necessary 

by several small but substantial 

changes the council made to the 

ordinance language in recent 

meetings. 

One of those changes opened 

up Saturdays to commercial use 

of garden tools, and another 

redefined garden tools to include 

chippers and chain saws — suggested 

by Councilwoman Maryann 

Moise Derwin in the interest 

of lowering the wildfire risks. 

Leaf blowers 

There was an elephant in the 

room: extending the Saturday 

ban to include the commercial 

use of leaf blowers. 

Councilman Steve Toben has 

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F O R T H E R E C O R D 

� POLICE CALLS 

This information is from the Atherton and 

Menlo Park police departments and the 

San Mateo County Sheriffís Office. Under 

the law, people charged with offenses are 

considered innocent until convicted. 

ATHERTON 

Fraud reports: 

■ Unauthorized use of account numbers 

and identification in purchase of Apple 

iPod, South Gate Ave., June 21. 

■ Unauthorized credit card charges 

possibly linked to obscene phone calls 

resident had been receiving, 100 block of 

Encinal Ave., June 22. 

■ Check fraud, Valparaiso Ave., June 25. 

MENLO PARK 

Residential burglary reports: 

■ Attempted break-in but no loss, 1100 

block of Woodland Ave., June 19. 

■ Cell phone and two sets of earrings for 

a total loss of $300, 1300 block of Hollyburne 

Ave., June 24. 

Auto burglary reports: 

■ Purse with credit cards stolen, 1600 

block of Marsh Road, June 19. 

■ DVD player, GPS device and CDs 

stolen, 1100 block of Windermere Ave., 

June 21. 

■ Window smashed and laptop computer 

stolen, 1000 block of Hobart St., June 25. 

Stolen vehicle reports: 

■ Maroon 2006 Mitsubishi Endeavor, 

1100 block of Madera Ave., June 19. 

■ Maroon 1998 Ford Expedition, 100 

block of Hedge Road, June 19. 

■ 2008 Toyota, 300 block of Lexington 

Drive, June 21. 

■ Bronze 2000 Infiniti I30, 1100 block of 

Hidden Oaks Drive, June 25. 

Theft reports: 

■ GPS device stolen from unlocked vehicle, 

200 block of Hedge Road, June 19. 

■ Car stereo and GPS device stolen from 

vehicle, 500 block of Laurel St., June 22. 

Fraud report: Unauthorized use of credit 

card and loss of $776, 400 block of Claremont 

Way, June 19. 

Spousal abuse reports: 

WOODSIDE 

Residential burglary report: Closets 

opened and Panasonic TV valued at $100 

stolen, 100 block of Skywood Way, June 17. 

Auto burglary report: Apple iPod, key 

ring, business cards, and cell phone 

charger stolen, intersection of Edgewood 

Road and Interstate 280, June 18. 

PORTOLA VALLEY 

Bracelet missing from recently deceased 

resident, 501 Portola Road, June 19. 

WEST MENLO PARK 

Weapons report: Arrest and booking 

of Nicholas Belich of Union City after 

search of vehicle, with his consent, yielded 

police-type baton, 23-inch machete, air 

Sequoia board 

Continued from previous page 

■ 800 block of Santa Cruz Ave., June 23. 

■ 1300 block of Sevier Ave., June 25. 

gun altered to resemble real gun, illegal 

fireworks and pipe suspected of marijuana 

use, intersection of Alameda de las Pulgas 

and Oakley Ave., June 22. 

said repeatedly that residents 

in community workshops told 

him that they want to be able to 

direct the work of hired gardeners 

on Saturdays, including their 

use of leaf blowers. 

During the June 24 public 

comment period, three residents 

spoke up against that idea, echoing 

sparse public complaints 

from past meetings. 

Town Planner George Mader 

informed the council that all the 

Planning Commission members 

at a recent meeting said they 

opposed the commercial use of 

leaf blowers, chippers and chain 

saws on Saturdays. 

That opinion resonates with 

Councilman Richard Merk, who 

has said all along that commercial 

leaf blowing should not be 

allowed on weekends. 

He could have thrown a 

wrench in the works by demanding 

a vote on the issue. With Ms. 

Derwin on board, saying that 

she could not ignore the opposition 

of five planning commissioners, 

and with Mr. Driscoll 

absent, a tie vote could have 

delayed the ordinance again. 

Mr. Merk chose not to do that, 

implying in an interview that 

democratic government is about 

participation, and that leafblower 

opponents in the public 

missed their chance. “If you want 

to change this, you’ve got to come 

to the meetings,” he said. “People 

have had any number of opportunities 

to speak up.” A 

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Barbara Greer 

Portola Valley resident 

Barbara Greer 

died peacefully 

on May 25 at 

The Sequoias in 

Portola Valley, 

where she had 

lived since 1991. 

She was 96. 

Ms. Greer, 


Barbara Greer 

born Barbara Balfour, was born 

and raised in South Pasadena. 

She graduated from South Pasadena 

High School and Stanford 

University. After graduating, she 

remained at Stanford an additional 

year to earn a teaching 

credential. She returned to South 

Pasadena and taught school for 

several years in West Los Angeles. 

In 1938 she married Lt. Harry 

Holt Greer, a young U.S. Navy 

officer. They began a 26-year 

life as a Navy family, moving 35 

times during that period. After 

his retirement, the family moved 

to Poughkeepsie, New York, 

where he worked for IBM. Mr. 

Greer died in 1973. 

After his death, Ms. Greer 

moved back to South Pasadena, 

where she lived in the house 

where she grew up for the next 

18 years. During her last years in 

South Pasadena, she worked as a 

travel adviser and tour guide, taking 

several trips to the Orient. 

In 1991 Ms. Greer moved to 

The Sequoias to be with several 

of her friends from Stanford. She 

started a lip-reading class for residents 

and was able to travel well 

into her 90s, say family members. 

She was a member of Valley Presbyterian 

Church and served as a 

deacon for several years. 

She is survived by her children, 

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE 

Fees Due for Garbage, Recycling 

Material and, Plant Material Collection 

for Fiscal Year 2009-2010 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Menlo Park, 

California, will hold a Public Hearing to consider the report of the City Manager 

to place unpaid fees due for garbage, recycling material, and plant material 

collection services for Fiscal Year July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010, on the San 

Mateo County property tax rolls, pursuant to Sections 7.06.040 and 7.06.050 of 

the Menlo Park Municipal Code. 

NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that said City Council will hold the 

aforementioned Public Hearing to consider this report in the Council Chambers 

of the City of Menlo Park, Civic Center - 701 Laurel Street, at 7:00 p.m. on 

Tuesday, the 14th day of July, 2009, or as near as possible thereafter, at which 

time and place interested persons may appear and be heard thereon. 

NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that “If you challenge this matter 

in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else 

raised at the Public Hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence 

delivered to the City of Menlo Park at, or prior to, the Hearing”. 

Dated: June 23, 2009 

/s/ 

MARGARET S. ROBERTS, MMC, City Clerk 

� OBITUARIES 

Gaby Pryor of La Canada; G. 

William Greer of Richmond, 

Virginia; James B. Greer of 

Menlo Park; and Adelia Greer of 

Galway, Ireland. Other survivors 

are nine grandchildren and 12 

great-grandchildren. 

Services have been held. Interment 

will be at Arlington National 

Cemetery in July. 

Ruth Ann Jordan 

Golfer, pianist and artist 

A memorial service will be 

held at 10 a.m. Friday, July 17, 

at Ladera Community 

Church, 

3300 Alpine 

Road in Portola 

Valley, for 

Ruth Ann Jordan. 

Ms. Jordan 

died peacefully 

at her Menlo 

Park home on 

June 22, surrounded by family. 

She was 74. 

Ms. Jordan was born in Belmont, 

Massachusetts, and 

attended Lesley University in 

Cambridge, Massachusetts. She 

moved to Portola Valley in 1971, 

where she, her husband, Bill Jordan, 

and six children lived for 30 

years. 

An avid golfer, Ms. Jordan 

enjoyed playing at Emerald 

Hills, Deep Cliff, and Blackberry 

Farms golf courses, say 

family members. She was also 

an accomplished pianist, a tireless 

gardener, and “world class” 

grandmother, they say. 

Since all the Jordan grandchil- 

Published in THE ALMANAC on July 1, 2009 and July 8, 2009. 

Ruth Ann Jordan 

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dren live in the Bay Area, their 

grandparents enjoyed attending 

their sporting events, plays and 

recitals, says Mr. Jordan. 

For many years, Ms. Jordan 

belonged to an art group that 

met weekly at Christ Church 

in Portola Valley. Her paintings 

were displayed in local restaurants. 

She is survived by her husband 

of 53 years, Bill Jordan of Menlo 

Park; children Pamela, Jennifer, 

Wendy, Chuck, Rick and Rob; 

and eight grandchildren. 

Victoria Madison 

Rathbun Gill 

Former Portola Valley resident 

A celebration of the life of Victoria 

Madison Rathbun Gill will 

be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, July 

2, at the Swedenborgian Church, 

2107 Lyon St. in San Francisco. 

Ms. Gill died at her home in San 

Francisco on May 30. She was 

57. 

Born in Portola Valley, Ms. Gill 

attended both Portola Valley and 

Corte Madera schools. She spent 

her freshman year of high school 

at Crystal Springs for Girls, then 

transferred to Woodside High 

School, graduating in 1969. 

She attended Reed College and 

the University of Oregon before 

graduating in 1974 from Sonoma 

State University with a bachelor’s 

degree in European studies. 

Ms. Gill worked for many years 

at Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon 

law firm in San Francisco. 

During this time, she wrote a 

great deal and had her poetry 

published in both books and 

poetry journals, say family members. 

She also worked as a book 

editor. 

She earned a second bachelor’s 

degree in French from San Francisco 

State University in 1987, 

then obtained a master’s degree 

in French from Middlebury College 

in 1989, studying in Paris and 

Vermont. 

In 1988 she married Kim Gill, 

who shared her love of France. 

They traveled there together several 

times, say family members. 

They separated in 1996. 

Ms. Gill was a judge twice for 

the French National New Fiction 

Award, sponsored by Club Med. 

Ms. Gill worked for 12 years for 

Seifer, Murken, Despina, James 

& Teichman Law Office in San 

Francisco. She left in September 

2008, when she began experiencing 

health problems. 

Ms. Gill is survived by her 

father, Alvin Rathbun, and stepmother, 

Sally Lemoin Rathbun of 

Los Altos; sister Susan Rathbun 

Martin; step-sister Lisa Lemoin 

of Campbell; and three nephews. 

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parishioner of Nativity Church for 32 years, died peacefully 

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moved to the Bay Area where she applied her musical talent 

and teaching skills in the San Francisco and San Mateo 

School district for 40 years. She laid to rest two good men 

as her husbands, Bernie and Lou before she departed to god. 

She was an active member of the Italian Catholic Federation 

of Menlo Park. She is survived by her brother, Phil, daughter, 

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Censorship feud in Atherton 

As if they do not have enough tough issues before 

them, now the Atherton City Council has found time 

to knock heads over who controls placing items on 

the body’s agenda, a perk that just a few months ago was 

available to all members. 

But not now. The ideological 3-2 split on the council has 

festered and a couple of weeks ago burst into flames when 

members Jim Dobbie, Kathy 

EDITORIAL 

The opinion of The Almanac 

Another view of Atherton 

‘censorship’ dispute 

Editor: 

Your article last week regarding 

the claim of censorship by 

council members really misses 

the facts. 

As council members we are 

here to represent all the residents 

of Atherton and as such it is 

important that we spend our 

time in council meetings on an 

agenda that is approved by the 

council. If two council members 

under the previous rules were 

allowed to place items on the 

agenda that may represent only 

special interests then it can be 

very divisive, the last thing we 

need. 

The agenda item in the May 

council meeting regarding the 

use of library funds was placed 

on the agenda by council member 

Charles Marsala who represented 

it as coming from a committee. 

The only committee involved is 

the Blue Ribbon Task Force. I am 

a member of that committee and 

it never approved putting this 

item on the council agenda. Mr. 

Marsala clearly thought that up 

on his own. 

This item was received by the 

McKeithen and Mayor Jerry 

Carlson agreed that it should 

take three votes to get any 

item before the council. 

After passing this new ordinance, the majority can now 

blithely ignore any issue minority members Charles Marsala 

and Elizabeth Lewis want to place on the agenda, effectively 

muzzling their ability to have the council even discuss items 

they believe are important to their constituents. Mr. Marsala 

and Ms. Lewis, who often vote together, are blasting the 

majority for censoring their ability to speak and act freely on 

the council. 

Mr. Dobbie told Almanac reporter Andrea Gemmet last 

week that “Agenda items can be very dangerous if they’re 

not approved by the council,” a ridiculous observation that 

on this council simply means that he and his two majority 

partners determine the degree of “danger.” 

In support of the majority-rule on setting the council 

LETTERS 

Our Regional Heritage 

community with great concern. 

The cry of censorship by two of 

the council members is a laugh. If 

a worthwhile item needs to be on 

the agenda then the council will 

approve it. If it is an item which 

agenda, Mr. Dobbie said at the June 17 council meeting 

that there could be “absolute chaos” if a majority did not 

approve an item before placing it on the agenda. 

Ms. McKeithen chimed in: “If the council doesn’t allow 

it, we’ll have to take the flak from the public.” 

All of this seems ludicrous when looking back to prior 

years when it took just one member to send a request to the 

mayor and city manager to place an item on the agenda. 

Former mayor and council member Alan Carlson, who 

now lives in Carmel Valley, told The Almanac last week 

that during his two terms as mayor there was never a 

written policy on placing items on the agenda. While the 

mayor had discretion to remove or block an agenda item 

request, he didn’t know that anybody ever used it, Mr. 

Carlson said. 

The residents of Atherton deserve better. They don’t need 

their local council members engaging in bitter partisan 

wrangling. There is enough of that in Washington, D.C., 

and Sacramento. In a community of fewer than 2,500 

households, there should be nothing but collegiality and 

respect among council members. 

And finally, if the council majority does not wish to act 

on an agenda item placed by Mr. Marsala or Ms. Lewis, 

they can simply vote to table it and move on. We have yet 

to see an agenda item that is so dangerous it could not be 

discussed. 

In the late 1800s, tanbark wagons like this triple rig driven by William H. Shine were a common sight 

in Woodside. In this 1897-98 photo, taken about an eighth of a mile from the Woodside Store on Kings 

Mountain Road, Mr. Shine guides his nine-horse team toward Redwood City, the final destination for his 

trip that began miles away in the Coastal Range above the town. 

may divide the community or 

appeal only to special interests, 

or take up valuable time that 

should be spent on pressing 

issues, then the council should be 

involved in the decision and may 

Woodside Library Collection 

not approve. 

Jim Dobbie 

Atherton Council member 

See LETTERS, next page

V I E W P O I N T 

LETTERS 


Preserve scent of 

the great outdoors 


Thank you for the article on 

using our solar dryer: the backyard 

clothesline. And thanks to 

your paper and Ami Jaqua for 

raising the public’s awareness of 

the virtues of hanging clothes 

outside. 

I often wonder how many families 

on Bay Laurel Drive beside 

mine enjoy their time involved 

in this activity. 

When we take an evening walk 

on our wonderful street replete 

with lovely gardens, the dominant 

and ubiquitous fragrance is 

not that of the flowers. Too often 

it’s the smell of fabric softener 

emanating from dryers. 

Upward with clotheslines! 

Florrie Forrest 

Bay Laurel Drive, 

Menlo Park 

A meatless July 4th 

will avoid food bugs 


What ever happened to the 

good old days when the worst 

things we had to fear on the 

Fourth of July were traffic jams 

and wayward fireworks? 

According to the USDA’s Meat 

and Poultry Hotline, this year’s 

top threat is food poisoning by 

nasty E. coli and Salmonella 

bugs lurking in hamburgers and 

hot dogs at millions of backyard 

barbecues. 

The hotline’s advice is to 

grill them longer and hotter. 

Of course, they don’t bother to 

mention that the high-temperature 

grilling that kills the bugs 

also forms lots of cancer-causing 

compounds. 

Luckily, a bunch of enterprising 

food manufacturers and 

processors have met this challenge 

head-on by developing a 

great variety of healthful, delicious, 

and convenient, veggie 

burgers and soy dogs. These 

new foods don’t harbor nasty 

pathogens or cancer-causing 

compounds. They don’t even 

carry cholesterol, saturated fats, 

drugs, or pesticides. And, they 

are available in the frozen food 

section of every supermarket. 

This Fourth of July offers a 

great opportunity to declare 

our independence from the 

meat industry and to share 

wholesome veggie burgers and 

soy dogs with our family and 

friends. 

Miles Barne 

Sharon Park Drive, 

Menlo Park 



CITY COUNCIL 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of 

Menlo Park, California is scheduled to review the following item: 

Public Hearing on the Adoption of a Resolution to 

Abandon Portions of Public Rights of Way Along Alma 

Street and Mielke Drive for Future Construction of the 

Burgess Gymnasium. 


Menlo Park, California, will hold a Public Hearing on the Adoption 

of a Resolution to Abandon Portions of Public Rights of Way 

Along Alma Street and Mielke Drive for Future Construction of 

the Burgess Gymnasium. 

The Public Hearing will be continued to July 21, 2009 (originally 

scheduled for July 14, 2009). Testimony for the Public Hearing 

on this matter will be held in the Council Chambers of the City 

of Menlo Park at 7:00 p.m., or as near as possible thereafter, on 

Tuesday, the 21st day of July, 2009, at which time and place 

interested persons may appear and be heard thereon. 

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raise 

only those issues you or someone else raised at the Public Hearing 

conducted for this project, or in written correspondence delivered 

to the City of Menlo Park at, or prior to, the Public Hearing. 

Visit our Web site for City Council, public hearing, agenda, and 

staff report information: www.menlopark.org 



CITY COUNCIL 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Menlo 

Park, California is scheduled to review the following item: 

Public Hearing is set for July 14, 2009 on the Adoption 

of a Resolution Overruling Protests, Ordering the 

Improvements, Confirming the Diagram and Ordering 

the Levy and Collection of Assessments at the Existing 

Fee Rates for the Sidewalk Assessment and at a Five 

Percent Increase for the Tree Assessment for the City of 

Menlo Park Landscaping Assessment District for Fiscal 

Year 2009-10. 


Menlo Park, California, will hold a Public Hearing on the Adoption 

of a Resolution Overruling Protests, Ordering the Improvements, 

Confirming the Diagram and Ordering the Levy and Collection of 

Assessments at the Existing Fee Rates for the Sidewalk Assessment 

and at a Five Percent Increase for the Tree Assessment for the City 

of Menlo Park Landscaping Assessment District for Fiscal Year 

2009-10. 

The Public Hearing on this matter will be held in the Council Chambers 

of the City of Menlo Park at 7:00 p.m., or as near as possible thereafter, 

on Tuesday, the 14th day of July, 2009, at which time and place 

interested persons may appear and be heard thereon. 

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raise only 

those issues you or someone else raised at the Public Hearing conducted 

for this project, or in written correspondence delivered to the 

City of Menlo Park at, or prior to, the Public Hearing. 

Visit our Web site for City Council, public hearing, agenda, and staff 

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