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By Renee BattiAlmanac News Editor

Community members curious about the prog-ress of the massive Hill-

view Middle School recon-struction project at Santa Cruz Avenue and Elder Street in Menlo Park can get an update by school district officials at a meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 16. The meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. in the Hillview library at 1100 Elder Ave. Hillview is the Menlo Park City School District’s last cam-pus to be renovated in a con-struction project that’s expect-ed to be finished in September 2012. Construction began in summer 2010, and existing buildings, most of which ulti-mately will be demolished, are being used to keep classes going on the campus as new buildings are erected. At the Aug. 16 meeting,

Ahmad Sheikholeslami, the district’s director of facilities and construction, will give a progress report, and com-munity members will have a chance to ask questions and discuss issues or concerns.

Maurice Ghysels, the dis-trict’s new superintendent, is also expected to attend. Earlier this summer, the dis-trict announced it was taking advantage of the longer days by starting the construction work earlier in the day — at 7 a.m. — to keep the project on schedule. The early start time is expected to end Aug. 22. The campus renovation was launched to address the bur-geoning enrollment in the dis-trict, which has three schools serving kindergarten through fifth-grade students but only

one middle school. A number of Hillview’s neighbors protested the plan to rebuild the campus and increase the school’s enroll-ment, urging the district to instead create a second middle school program on another campus. Once the project is com-pleted, the 9.5-acre Hillview

campus will have some 85,000 square feet of new facil-ity space, including several two-story buildings. Among the new facilities will

be a performing arts/multipur-pose building with seating for 400; nine science classrooms; music and choir classrooms; and an administration, library and media building. The existing gym is being modernized.

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UPFRONT

Progress report on rebuilding Hillview

Rendering by DLM Architecture

This rendering of the new Hillview campus shows the view from Santa Cruz Avenue. The building off of Santa Cruz is a classroom building. The building to its left is the existing gym. The two structures along the parking lot are classroom buildings. The buildings on the opposite side of the courtyard will have the library/media center on the second floor. The large building next to the existing gym will house the performing arts room, music classrooms, and science classrooms. To the left are the new field and basketball courts that will replace the existing school buildings.

The Hillview campus will have 85,000 square feet of new facility space, including

several two-story buildings.

Go to tinyurl.com/Hillview-163 for more information on the project, including pictures and a construction webcam.

INFORMATION

■ School officials will update the communityTuesday on rebuilding the middle school.

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By Sandy BrundageAlmanac Staff Writer

Describing it as a “very, very difficult decision,” and a “profoundly sad

case,” a judge denied the Team-sters Union Local 856 request for an injunction that would have stopped the town of Atherton from laying off 11 employees. Judge Steven Dylina in San Mateo County Superior Court on Thursday, Aug. 11, sought arguments from both sides before rendering the ruling, and told the courtroom that he fully expected the case to head to the

appeals court. He explained that the plain-tiffs failed to prove their case in light of other cases cited by Atherton’s legal defense, which argued that cities have the right to lay off employees as needed. The union appeared to agree with the judge’s prediction about the appeal. “We are disappoint-ed in the ruling, but the union will continue to push the law-suit forward,” said spokesman Peter Finn. “Teamsters Local 856 is committed to fighting outsourcing with all available resources.” The town planned to lay off

six employees on July 15 as part of its strategy to outsource the building and public works departments, a move staff said was necessary to help close an $856,000 budget deficit. Those six employees will now lose their jobs on Friday, Aug. 19. Five public works maintenance employees received job exten-sions through Sept. 16, town staff said. According to City Attorney Bill Conners, another employee may also retire now that the judge has ruled, bringing the number of actual layoffs to 10. The layoffs were challenged in court by the union under a section of state government code that it says makes it illegal for the town to outsource the jobs it has targeted, according

to Mr. Finn. The court granted a temporary restraining order last month, blocking the layoffs until the Aug. 11 hearing. A similar case in Orange County Superior Court led to a preliminary injunction in July against outsourcing of city services in Costa Mesa. Accord-ing to the firm representing the employee union in that case, the lawsuit cited California Govern-ment Codes 37103 and 53060, which it interprets as prohibit-ing the use of private contractors for general services performed satisfactorily by city employees. Those are the same govern-ment code sections cited in the Atherton lawsuit by Stewart Weinberg, the union’s lawyer. But City Attorney Bill Con-

ners said the two cases didn’t have much in common, pri-marily because the Teamsters union signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that the city could lay off employees and eliminate positions when necessary due to economic conditions. In the Costa Mesa case, he said, the city outsourced without negotiating first, treat-ing it as a management right. The Teamsters argued that the MOU expired on June 30. Atherton’s legal defense con-tended in its filing that the agreement is still in effect despite the expiration date, because no new contract has been put in place yet, an argu-ment the judge’s ruling appeared to confirm on Thursday. A

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Almanac photo by Nick Gonzales

Thanks, buddySeven-year-old Augusta Iwasaki pats her horse Tigerlilly on the nose for a job well done at the Menlo Charity Horse Show in Atherton last week. Augusta competed in the Small Pony Hunter Conformation class on Tuesday, Aug. 9. See more photos on AlmanacNews.com.

Court rejects order to stop Atherton layoffs■ Employees union says it’s committed to fighting the decision on appeal.

High-speed rail price tag rises againBy Gennady SheynerEmbarcadero Media

California’s planned high-speed rail line could cost billions more than the

state’s initial projections indicat-ed, according to newly released documents from the agency spearheading the project. The California High-Speed Rail Authority released Envi-ronmental Impact Reports for two Central Valley segments of the proposed line, which is slat-ed to stretch from San Francisco to Los Angeles and reach speeds of 220 mph as it passes through the middle of the state. The two reports — covering the Fresno-to-Merced and Mer-ced-to-Bakersfield segments, respectively — indicate that the combined cost for the Central

Valley section would be at least $10 billion and could be higher than $13 billion. Previous estimates had the price tag for this section of the line at about $7 billion. The revisions should come as no surprise to legislators and crit-ics of the controversial project, for which voters approved a $9 billion bond measure in 2008. At the time, the project carried an estimated price tag of $33.6 billion. The rail authority in 2009 revised the projected price tag to $42.6 billion — a figure that local watchdogs and state analysts claimed was still too low. The Palo Alto-based group Ca l i for n ia ns Advoc at-ing Responsible Rail Design (CARRD) released its own pro-jections in February, estimating the price tag at about $65 billion.

The group used details from the rail authority’s own plans to come up with the estimate. In May, the state’s nonparti-san Legislative Analyst’s Office issued a report largely confirm-ing CARRD’s estimate and pro-jecting the cost of the project at about $67 billion. “We knew the costs were in a different ballpark,” said Elizabeth Alexis, co-founder of CARRD. “We wanted the authority to start talking about that ballpark sooner or later. “A project of this size is not in the realm of financial possibili-ties,” she added. “So you either just say no to the project or you make some changes.” Legislators have also been consistently skeptical about the

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College board puts $564M measure on ballotBy Leslie ShenSpecial to the Almanac

A measure that would raise $564 million for community college facilities will be on the

Nov. 8 ballot. The money would be spent on facilities at three community colleg-es in the San Mateo County Com-munity College District, including Canada College in Woodside. The district’s Board of Directors passed a resolution Aug. 10 to put the measure on the ballot.

To pass, the measure must be approved by 55 percent of the vot-ers. The other colleges in the district are the College of San Mateo and Skyline College. Projects that would be financed include modernization of buildings for earthquake and fire safety, ener-gy efficiency, and accessibility for people with disabilities. Technology upgrades would be made to librar-ies, math and science classrooms, research labs, and campus security systems.

Among the goals, according to a district report, is to “prepare stu-dents for high-demand 21st century jobs.” Bond sales would generate funds where other sources have fallen short, said Barbara Christensen, director of community and govern-ment relations for the district. “There was a lot of discussion about state funding,” she said of the Aug. 10 board meeting in San Mateo. “Over the past few years we’ve lost almost $200 million that were promised to us.” A


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M. Kenneth Oshman, tech pioneer, dies at 71 Silicon Valley pioneer, Ather-ton resident and Jewish Com-munity Center benefactor M. Kenneth Oshman died July 30 at age 71. He co-founded ROLM Corp., a tele-com mu nic at ions company, in 1969. He was executive chairman of Echelon, a San Jose clean-tech company, since 1989, and served as the company’s CEO from 1988 to 2009 and president from 1988 to 2001. He stepped down in 2009 after he was diagnosed with lung cancer, according to a statement from Echelon. Ech-elon is a pioneer in energy-control systems for smart elec-tric grids, smart buildings and smart devices. “He was one of the original Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, whose personal vision and pas-sion formed not one, but two, industry-leading companies that developed revolutionary technologies that paved the way for today’s communica-tions and modernization of the smart grid,” the board of directors of Echelon said in the statement. Ron Sege, Echelon’s president and CEO, said in a statement that Mr. Oshman’s colleagues “will deeply mourn his loss and miss his spirit, good humor and big-heartedness.” Mr. Oshman was raised in Rosenberg, Texas. He attended Rice University and graduated summa cum laude with under-graduate degrees in engineer-ing. He married his high school sweetheart, Barbara Daily, in 1962. The couple moved to the Bay Area in 1963, where Mr. Oshman was a member of the technical staff at Sylvania and developed nonlinear optical techniques and systems. While at Sylvania, he attended Stan-

ford University and received a master’s degree in 1965 and a doctorate in 1968.

Mr. Oshman and three associates founded ROLM Corp., a telecommu-nications company, in 1969. He was com-pany CEO, president and a director until its merger with IBM in 1984. He was a vice president at IBM after the merger and a member of its cor-porate management

board until 1986. He was a past president of the board of the Stanford Alumni Association and past member of the advisory council of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, of Stanford Associ-ates, and the board of directors of the Community Foundation of Santa Clara County. He was a member of Presi-dent Ronald Reagan’s Econom-ic Policy Planning Committee and the Committee to Advise the President on High Tem-perature Superconductivity. Mr. Oshman was known as a gifted businessman and lent his expertise to the boards of Sun Microsystems, Knight Rid-der, ASK Computer Systems, StrataCom Inc., and Charles Schwab Corp., among others. His family foundation donat-ed $10 million to help build a new south Palo Alto Jew-ish community center, which opened in 2009 and was named in their honor. He enjoyed playing golf, attending opera, and spend-ing time in Hawaii. The most important thing in his life, say family members, was spending time with his family. He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Barbara, sons Peter and David, four grandchildren, and brother Rick Oshman. A memorial service was held Aug. 9 at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills.

Menlo Park■ Christine Tsai and Sze-jun Tsai, a son, July 9, Sequoia Hospital.■ Molly and Andrew Titley, a daugh-ter, July 25, Sequoia Hospital.■ Susan and Timothy Hibbard, a son, July 6, Sequoia Hospital.■ Molly and Jon Kossow, a daugh-ter, July 7, Sequoia Hospital.

Atherton■ Viola and John Moses, twin sons, July 4, Sequoia Hospital.■ Noemmy Barron and Eduardo Ruiz Jauregui, a daughter, July 21, Sequoia Hospital.

Emerald Hills■ Tatiana Bachniak and Robert Ginda, a son, July 30, Sequoia Hospital.

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REAL ESTATE Q&Aby Monica Corman

Dear Monica: I am planning to put my home on the market after Labor Day and want to price it appropri-ately given the current economic uncertainty. I could wait until next spring but I really don’t want to do this. What would be your recom-mendation regarding pricing?

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Dear Joseph: If you are about to put your home on the market I assume you have listed it with a very experienced and effective real estate agent. With your agent, look carefully at everything that has sold in your area in the past few months. Your agent can tell you which properties are the closest in compari-son to your property. The most recent sales are the best ones to use, although

if the best comparable sold last spring, you can update its relevance by adding or subtracting value according to what the market has done since then.

Think like a buyer. Buyers are going to be more cautious in the next months and some will decide to wait to buy until the economic indicators are more stable and certain. But many will still buy especially if they plan to stay in the property for several years. Interest rates are so attractive that these buyers are smart to buy now. They will be looking for good value and will not pay a higher price than they feel is prudent. You should price your property accord-ingly and you will have the best chance of succeeding. Preparation, marketing and pricing are key to selling your home well.

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State citizens commission makes it final: Menlo Park gets two congressional districtsBy Dave BoyceAlmanac Staff Writer

The city of Menlo Park will have two representatives in Congress when the

June 2012 election rolls around, a distinction shared with 35 of the approximately 1,050 cities and towns in California. Ten others will have more than two representatives. The responsibility for this state of affairs lies with the California Citizens Redistrict-ing Commission, which came into being after voters approved Proposition 11 in 2008 and took the once-a-decade redrawing of district borders out of the hands of politicians in Sacramento. The commission voted on Monday, Aug. 15, to accept the final versions of the new maps for the congressional districts as well as state Assembly, Senate and the tax-collecting Board of Equalization districts. Disputes about the maps will go directly to the California Supreme Court for resolution. In its representation in Wash-ington, D.C., Menlo Park has long been entirely within one congres-sional district and represented since 1992 by Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Menlo Park. The new map divides the city at U.S. 101, assign-ing the Belle Haven neighborhood to the district represented by Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Francisco. Also to be represented by Ms. Speier: the demographically simi-lar communities of unincorporat-ed North Fair Oaks near Ather-ton, East Palo Alto and Redwood City. Ms. Eshoo’s district retains the rest of Menlo Park as well as Atherton, Woodside and Portola Valley, among many other areas. That’s the extent of local split-ting by the new maps. Menlo Park, Atherton, Woodside and Portola Valley and the nearby unincorporated areas will con-tinue to be represented in the state Assembly by Rich Gordon, D-Menlo Park. In the state Senate, Portola Valley

and Woodside used to be outside the district represented by Sen. Joe Simitian. After June 2012, they will join Menlo Park and Atherton and other Peninsula communities in a single Senate district. The 14 commission members — five registered Democrats, five registered Republicans and four registered as “Decline to State” — were chosen in a multi-faceted process that included 120 appli-cants, interviews with the Bureau of State Audits, a winnowing phase, and random selection. Since January, the commission met 79 times, according to its website, where interested readers will also find the meeting tran-scripts. Go to wedrawthelines.ca.gov for more information on the process.

Views on split The idea of Belle Haven and the rest of Menlo Park being repre-sented separately in the U.S. Con-gress isn’t wildly popular. Letters to the commission from Menlo

Park and East Palo Alto residents were uniformly negative, as were the sentiments in interviews. “I think it’s disgusting, myself,” Belle Haven resident Matt Henry said. “Belle Haven is part of the city of Menlo Park. ... Belle Haven always gets cut out.” “We have the same politics as Menlo Park,” Mr. Henry added. “We might argue and squabble, but we’re the same family. We have the same objectives and financial base. I think this is just another layer of complexity for us. I think it’s awful.” But the redistricting commis-sion had as an objective to comply with the 1965 Voting Rights Act to “ensure that minorities have

an equal opportunity to elect representatives of their choice.” Wouldn’t Belle Haven have more of a voice with this realignment? “Something tells me that the reason (the commission) did what they did is precisely because of that,” East Palo Alto Mayor Carlos Romero told the Almanac. “That’s the only logic I can come up with.” The commission did not understand the “very close rela-tionship” that Menlo Park, Palo Alto and East Palo Alto have when local officials go to Washington, D.C., to lobby the Department of Justice on crime issues or the Environmental Protection Agency on polluted fields, Mr. Romero said. The three-city relationship is important “irrespective of the socio-economic differences, and they are vast, and we admit that,” he added. Anna Eshoo was “very instrumental” in lobbying with and for East Palo Alto and she visits frequently, he said. State Sen. Joe Simitian, who represents Menlo Park, would not comment specifically on the outcome. “Many of the com-munities of interest bump into each other,” he said, and called it “unfortunate” that Menlo Park “got caught” in a late change to the congressional map. It may be particularly irritating locally in that residents have a “strong and unique” attachment to their community’s identifica-tion, he added. But Menlo Park will have two representatives in Congress, he noted. “If you get the right two people, you have two voices in the legislative body instead of one,” he said. “If you have two who are willing to step up to their jobs, a split is actually a good thing.” And the redrawn Peninsula Senate district, which will include more of San Mateo County, less of Santa Clara County and none of Santa Cruz County? “I think it gives that district a somewhat more San Mateo Coun-ty cast, if you will,” he said. A

Disputes over the maps will go directly to the

California Supreme Court for resolution.

Fire damages portable classroom at Belle Haven school Firefighters battled a blaze at a school in Menlo Park on Aug. 9, a fire official said. The fire, which burned in a double-wide trailer behind Belle Haven Ele-mentary School at 415 Ivy Drive, was reported by a neighbor at 8:49 a.m., said Chief Harold Schapelhouman of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District. Firefighters had the one-alarm blaze under control by 9 a.m., and no one was injured.

The trailer is one of several portable classrooms in the rear of the campus, and is used for preschool and as an office space for an after-school program, Chief Schapelhouman said. School was not in session, so no children were in danger, he said. The trailer and its contents, which included computers and other office equipment, were seriously damaged and will most likely not be usable.

“If the trailer can’t be repaired — and we don’t believe it can — replacement is an option, preferably before school starts,” he said. He said school officials estimat-ed the fire caused about $150,000 to $200,000 in damage. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Chief Schapel-houman said it was most likely accidental.

— Bay City News Service


David Heuck is a lot like most people when something hurts and doesn’t get better. “I just didn’t want to go in to see my doctor,” he said. “I didn’t want someone to tell me I’d have to have something done.”

At 51, Heuck is the father of two young children, a busy executive and a guy who likes to be active. Golf is part of his daily environment and he enjoys the game. He’d been active in sports in his youth, but around the time he turned 14, that stopped being so easy when his lower back began to hurt. A doctor told him it was because his legs were different lengths. “Go to a shoe re-pair person and have an insert made,” the doctor said. The back pain stopped.

As far as Heuck was concerned, that fixed the problem and life went on as usual. Two years ago, however, he played golf two days in a row. The next day, “all of a sudden, I had some pretty intense pain in my hip. I didn’t think much of it. I figured I’d tweaked some-thing the wrong way,” he said.

But it didn’t go away, and it didn’t go away, and Heuck turned to some online medical information which made him think he had bursitis, an inflamma-tion in a joint that can resolve itself. “I was pretty good at compartmentalizing things,” he said. “I just gimped along.”

When he played catch with his son, he could only go for balls on one side of his body. When he bent down, it was an awkward, stork-like move-ment. He couldn’t walk uphill or stand for any length of time. The pain was constant, even waking him at night. “It gets depressing when you can’t do things you normally would do,” Heuck said. “I just got to the point of thinking, ‘This is how it’s going to be.’ “

Trying something differentThis April, he walked up in front of an audience to give a presentation and his doctor happened to be there. Af-terwards, he came over to Heuck and said, “What is up with you? Go get an MRI.”

Within minutes of the MRI test’s end, “the guy who’s reading the results tells

me he’s surprised I’m even walking,” Heuck said. His doctor began a search for someone to help. “He asked around and talked to people and gave me Dr. Miller’s name. He said Miller was do-ing some new procedures that maybe were a little bit less invasive,” said Heuck.

Miller is Matt Miller, MD, an ortho-paedic surgeon at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, with a Stanford University undergraduate degree in human bi-ology and a cum laude graduate of Boston University School of Medicine. His special interest and training is in minimally invasive techniques for hip and knee replacements and design of hip and knee implants and instrumen-tation.

He has also done more than 750 hip and knee replacements.

Miller represents a generation of sur-geons “who grew up playing video

games, so surgi-cal techniques like arthroscopy, working from a monitor and us-ing instruments to do something on a different plane make sense to us,” he said. “It’s about relearning what you’re supposed to look for, where vital structures are and how to use the newer instruments to protect those structures.”

Miller is also part of the broadening trend throughout surgical specialties to use smaller incisions, an approach that reduces tissue damage, which can re-duce surgical pain and recovery time.

With hip replacements, the intro-duction of minimally invasive tech-niques, in combination with changes in anesthesia and rehabilitation has transformed a once-lengthy and very painful operation. “It is still a serious procedure, however,” Miller said, “and patients should exhaust non-operative measures first.

All went well with Heuck’s surgery, and when he was back at work only six days after Miller replaced his hip, walking unassisted, some of Heuck’s colleagues thought he’d decided not to have the surgery after all.

Smaller can mean fasterIn Heuck’s first meeting with Miller, the physician was very direct. “You’ve exhausted your non-operative options,” Miller said, “and your best option is to have the hip replaced.” Heuck’s left hip had never formed properly that had cause the difference in his leg lengths and it failed quickly, relative

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After David Heuck played golf two days in a row, he developed an intense pain in his hip. He thought he’d tweaked something, but the pain didn’t go away.

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“ It gets depressing when you can’t do things you normally would do. I just got to the point of thinking, ‘This is how it’s going to be.’”

– David Heuck, patient, Stanford Hospital & Clinics

New Tools, New Anesthesia, New Therapy Mean Big Changes in Hip Replacement

Minimally invasive hip replacement surgery meant David Heuck was able to return to work six days after his surgery, and, instead of having to wait months to get back to playing golf, he was back on the course in six weeks. Norbert von der Groeben


to his age, Miller said. “That’s often the case.”

Miller explained what he wanted to do: Instead of a 10- to 12-inch incision, a three-to four-inch inci-sion; instead of a general anesthesia, which often causes postoperative nausea and mental confu-sion, a spinal anesthesia, which would avoid that side effect and dampen nerve fibers that respond to surgical pain. He would also use a long-acting lo-cal infusion of a numbing, Novocain-like medication, in combination with a drug that causes blood vessels to con-strict and keep the numbing medica-tion from dispersing.

After the surgery, Heuck would be giv-en pain medications, but fewer narcot-ics, which can interfere with a patient’s ability to participate in therapy. Within hours of the surgery, Miller would be asking Heuck to get up right away, and expecting physical therapists to help Heuck walk and get himself in and out of bed. That kind of immediate activity, Miller said, can cut rehabilitation time to weeks instead of months.

It’s a hugely different scenario from the early days of hip and knee replace-ments, in the 1960s, when patients might spend three to four months in the hospital and then many more months recovering full function.

With newly-designed instrumentation that allows less damage to muscles, through that smaller incision, the kind of fast recovery Heuck experienced is now possible. “Healthy, younger pa-tients can go home the morning after,” Miller said. “The goal is to get people healed quicker so they can get back to work and get back to life.”

The smaller incision surgery is more technically demanding, Miller said. “You have to know how to look at things, to know what you’re looking for. You have to have lots of experience and specific training with hips and knees

before you do small incision replace-ments.”

Less fuss, less painBefore his surgery, Heuck and his wife, Janie, had to attend a pre-surgery class, of sorts, to learn what to expect. Heuck said he was surprised at first because he was 20 years younger than everyone else. Then, as the class con-tinued and the instructor was explain-ing about drains and bandages, Heuck said, she kept turning to him and say-ing, “Oh, you won’t have that with Dr. Miller,” Heuck began to appreciate how his hip replacement might be different from most.

“I don’t think I had a full appreciation of how wonderful it was going to be,” said Janie Heuck. “It was all new to

us.” She visited her husband in the re-covery room immediately after surgery and expected to say hello and leave. “I thought he would be loopy, and he was completely coherent!”

Heuck told Miller he never felt any pain at all.

They left at 11 am the next day, less than 48 hours after he emerged from the operating room. Heuck’s surgery was on a Thursday; he stopped taking pain medications on Monday evening. And, Wednesday, he went back to work, which brought those colleagues to wonder if he’d skipped the surgery.

Six weeks after the surgery, Miller gave him the okay to play golf again, albeit sensibly, and Heuck went out onto the course for a bit. “It felt great,” he said.

“My son is excited for his daddy to be able to run with him and I’m ex-cited because he’ll be able to exercise with me,” Janie Heuck said. “It’s changed the quality of our life, for sure.”

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“ The goal is to get people healed quicker so they can get back to work and get back to life.”

– Matt Miller, MD, orthopaedic surgeon, Stanford Hospital & Clinics

Getting a New Hip Replacing the ball and socket hip joint is a relatively new surgery the first routinely successful modern procedures were performed in the 1950s and 1960s. Now, more than 300,000 hip replacements are conducted each year in the US.

Most hip replacement candidates are between 60 and 80 years old, but barring other health conditions, there is no weight or age limit.

All our joints are cushioned by cartilage; when it is damaged or wears away, the absence of a cushion means pain from bone on bone contact. The hip is the largest joint in the body, the primary support of our body weight.

The hip joint can deteriorate for many reasons; the most common is the effect of osteoarthritis, where the cartilage that cushions the movement of our bones wears away.

Without that cushion, every movement of a joint becomes painful, even while resting, day or night. Being overweight also puts stress on the hip joints.

Some sports activities may mean harder wear and tear on hip joints, and hip replacement at an earlier age.

The pain may be dull and aching, or sharp. A worn-out hip joint may cause lower back or knee pain, too.

Replacing the hip joint means putting a new covering on the socket, located in the pelvis and creating a whole new version of the ball-shaped top of the femur that fits into the socket. A metal stem is inserted about six inches deep into the femur, with a ball, usually metal, anchored to its tip to complete the mechanism.

Hip replacement surgery may still mean restrictions on certain kinds of movement, like jogging or high-impact sports.

When properly cared for, a well-positioned hip replacement can last for 20 years or more.

For more information about minimally invasive hip and knee replacement at Stanford, call 408.866.6651 or 650.723.5643, or visit stanfordhospital.org/hiplg or stanfordhospital.org/hiprc. To see an animation of a hip replacement surgery, visit stanfordhospital.org/seehip.

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Back at work without any pain from his recent hip replacement surgery, David Heuck can walk and talk to colleagues, including John Buntin, without a second thought.

David Heuck was back to work so quickly after his hip replacement surgery that some of his colleagues, like Shawn Smith wondered if he’d decided against the surgery.

Stanford Hospital & Clinics is known worldwide for advanced treatment of complex disorders in areas such as cardiovascular care, cancer treatment, neurosciences, surgery, and organ transplants. It is currently ranked No. 17 on the U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals” list and No. 1 in the San Jose Metropolitan area. Stanford Hospital & Clinics is internationally recognized for translating medical breakthroughs into the care of patients. The Stanford University Medical Center is comprised of three world renowned institutions: Stanford Hospital & Clinics, the Stanford University School of Medicine, the oldest medical school in the Western United States, and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, an adjacent pediatric teaching hospital providing general acute and tertiary care. For more information, visit http://stanfordhospital.org/.

“ It’s changed the quality of our life, for sure.”

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Dancers, acrobats, and the San Jose Sharks mobile shark tank will be on hand Sunday, Aug. 21, for the 10th annual San Mateo County Sheriff ’s North Fair Oaks Community Festival. The highlight of the day’s events will be the coronation of the 2011 North Fair Oaks Queen of the Festival at 2:30 p.m. She will receive a $6,000 scholar-ship, while three finalists will share $9,000 in scholarships. Funds raised by the festival go to

youth, intervention, and diver-sion programs run by the Sher-iff’s Office. Held in Redwood City, the free event runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Middlefield Road between First and Fifth Avenue.

Another meetingon downtown plan The subject of many (many)

late-night discussions, the downtown/El Camino Real spe-cific plan stars as the topic of a special meeting of the Menlo Park Transportation Commis-sion on Thursday, Aug. 18. The meeting starts at 5 p.m. in council chambers at the Civic Center at 701 Laurel St. The Planning Commission is expected to continue, and per-haps complete, its review of the specific plan on Monday, Aug. 22, when it convenes at 7 p.m. in the council chambers.

Atherton set to hire firm tooutsource building services

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By Renee BattiAlmanac News Editor

The town of Atherton is poised to hire Interwest Consulting Group to pro-

vide services now performed by its building department staff, a move Interim City Manager John Danielson says will save the town more than $350,000 in the current fiscal year. The Atherton City Council will be asked at its Aug. 17 meet-ing to approve a contract with Interwest. The town currently employs one of the firm’s part-ners, Michael Kashiwagi, as its interim public works director. Current building department

staff members, along with a finance department assistant and a public works supervisor, are being laid off, effective Aug. 19. Three other public works employ-ees will be laid off Sept. 16. Under a plan designed by the interim town manager, building and public works services are being outsourced. The Teamsters union representing the employees are fighting the layoffs and out-sourcing of services. The contract before the coun-cil this week would set payment to Interwest for building ser-vices at an amount not to exceed

58 percent of building revenues collected through fees. In a staff report, Mr. Danielson said that the town will “incur additional cost for Interwest to take over building projects that are incomplete. (That cost) will either be paid out of current building revenues or from the building department operating reserve.” The building department reserve was estimated to have about $960,000 in fiscal year 2010-11, according to Finance Director Louise Ho. The council meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the council chambers, 94 Ashfield Road in the Town Center. A

Deputies look for man aftersuspicious Woodside incidentBy Dave BoyceAlmanac Staff Writer

Authorities are still looking for a man a San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office dep-

uty discovered pushing buttons on a call box at the gate of a residence on Mountain Home Road then escaping on foot on Friday, Aug. 12, a Sheriff’s Office spokesman told the Almanac. A warrant has been sworn out for suspect Scott Louis Hendrick-son, 40, of Rodeo, on charges of possession of stolen property and burglary tools. Mr. Hendrickson is also on parole, Lt. Ray Lunny said in a phone interview. With Mr. Hendrickson at the time was Scott Arlin Evers, 38, of San Mateo, also a parolee and now in county jail on the same charges, deputies said. A deputy on a motorcycle dis-covered Mr. Hendrickson at the gate of the Mountain Home resi-dence. Mr. Hendrickson walked

across the street to his vehicle and got in and drove off, deputies said. Records showed the vehicle’s registration as expired, so the deputy went after it, made a traffic stop and discovered that both men were parolees and thus eligible for random search and seizure, depu-ties said. While Mr. Evers was out of the car being searched, Mr. Hendrick-son drove off on to Mountain Home Road, turned left on to Vintage Court — a dead end — and crashed through several fences before stopping his disabled vehicle and running away, deputies said. Deputies said Mr. Hendrickson is white, 5 feet 8 inches tall, and has a shaved head. He was wearing a blue shirt, blue pants and white shoes at the time. They are advising an immediate call to 911 in encountering some-one matching this description. “Do not approach or try to appre-hend subject,” the deputies said. A

Car meets poleJohn Woodell sent us this photo of a car that crashed into a telephone pole on Valparaiso Avenue near Emilie Avenue in Atherton shortly before 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12. AMR treated the driver at the scene for minor injuries while AT&T replaced the pole.

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Portola Valley crime: Woman faces prison, again■ She has been toprison nine times.By Dave BoyceAlmanac Staff Writer

Another confinement in state prison, or in the San Mateo County jail, could be ahead

for San Francisco resident Jennifer Leigh Prince, 40, who has a connec-tion to a series of December 2010 Portola Valley property crimes. Ms. Leigh Prince, who has been in prison nine times, pleaded no contest on Aug. 8 to possession of stolen property and identity theft, both felonies, prosecutors said. Her offenses, including grand theft and auto burglary, were neither violent nor “serious,” so she is not subject to an auto-matic three-strikes prison sen-tence, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told the Almanac. In the plea agreement, pros-ecutors had asked that Ms. Leigh Prince plead guilty and be sen-tenced to five years in prison with no chance of parole, Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Guidotti said in a telephone interview.

Superior Court Judge Lisa Novak modified the agreement to the include a range of pos-sible sentences, from probation all the way up to a maximum of seven years behind bars, Ms. Guidotti said. A probation report and sen-tencing is set for Oct. 4. Ms. Leigh Prince remains in jail on bail of $25,000, according to the District Attorney’s Office. Because the sentencing takes place after a budget-cutting measure takes effect to send nonviolent, non-serious offend-ers to county jails instead of prison, the judge will have that option, Mr. Wagstaffe said. Ms. Leigh Prince’s attorney did not respond to an interview request. The Portola Valley connec-tion occurred at around 6 a.m. on Dec. 23, 2010, when a deputy from the county Sheriff ’s Office, called to investigate an auto burglary in the Brookside Park neighborhood, discovered two women sitting in a green Jeep Cherokee parked on Cres-cent Avenue with no license plates, according to a deputy’s

account. While examining the women’s IDs, the deputy noticed an object in the vehicle that resem-bled an object reported stolen in the auto burglary, at which point the driver put the Jeep into gear and drove off, the deputy said. The deputy gave chase but lost sight of the vehicle. A Sheriff ’s Office report sub-sequently noted three thefts and two burglaries reported for Dec. 23 in Brookside Park. The next day in a traffic stop, San Mateo police arrested Ms. Leigh Prince. She allegedly gave the officer an ID and was in pos-session of a checkbook that were reported stolen in two Coastside auto burglaries three weeks earlier. There also was a warrant out for her arrest, and she was in posses-sion of four $20 bills with the same serial number, deputies said. After consulting with Sher-iff ’s Office investigators, police determined that Ms. Prince had been driving the green Jeep that night in Portola Valley. The report is silent on whether the second woman in the Jeep was ever caught. A

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A half-billion-dollar commu-nity college bond measure is on the ballot in November,

as are several local races that are now officially contested. These include the fire protection district in Menlo Park, the local high school district, the commu-nity college district, the elemen-tary school district in Woodside, and possibly the Woodside Town Council. The filing period ended Friday, Aug. 12, for elections where incum-bents are running for re-election. In elections where incumbents are not running, the deadline is extended to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17. In the San Mateo County Com-munity College District, voters will be asked to approve a $564 million bond measure, which requires 55 percent voter approval for passage. The funds would be used to modernize classrooms, classroom equipment and libraries; add renewable and alternative energy systems; retrofit for seismic and fire hazards; improve access for disabled students; remove haz-ardous materials; add security cameras; and fix leaky roofs and deteriorating infrastructure. Following are the candidates in contested elections. Candidates are listed in the order shown on a ros-ter at the website of the San Mateo County Registrar of Voters. ■ Sequoia Union High School District, with three seats open and five candidates: East Palo Alto

nonprofit director Larry Moody, San Carlos School District board member Carrie B. Du Bois, Stan-ford University law school lecturer and Menlo Park resident Allen Weiner, and incumbents Lorraine Rumley and Olivia Martinez. ■ Menlo Park Fire Protection District, with two seats open and five candidates: incumbent Bart Spencer, business executive Scott Barnum, security consultant Robert Silano, community activist Virginia Chang Kiraly, and former board member and “low-voltage” electrician Steve Kennedy. ■ San Mateo County Commu-nity College District, with three seats open and six candidates: incumbent Dave Mandelkern, Jaime Diaz, incumbent Patri-cia Miljanich, incumbent Karen Schwarz, Shawn Kann (who is listed as having not yet completed the nomination process), educa-tion nonprofit director Joe Ross, and businessman Michael Stog-ner. ■ Woodside Elementary School District, with two open seats and three candidates: lawyer and par-ent Kevin P.B. Johnson, business-man and parent Rudy Driscoll, and incumbent and lawyer Vir-ginia “Ginger” Bamford. ■ Woodside Town Council, with the District 3 seat open and two candidates: venture capital-ist Tom Shanahan and Eldona Hamel. Mr. Shanahan has com-pleted the nomination process and

Ms. Hamel has not, Town Clerk Janet Koelsch told the Almanac. Meanwhile, incumbent council-men Ron Romines, Dave Burow and Peter Mason are running for re-election. In Portola Valley, incumbent Councilwoman Ann Wengert has completed the process in her bid for re-election to the Town Coun-cil. The other possible candidate, Jeff Aalfs of the architecture review board, has not yet completed the nomination process, Town Clerk Sharon Hanlon said, but he has until Aug. 17 to do so. Papers are available in Portola Valley Town Hall at 765 Portola Road on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 to 5 p.m. In Woodside, Town Hall is at 2955 Woodside Road with week-day hours from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. On the board of the West Bay Sanitary District, three incum-bents are running unopposed: David Alexander Walker, Frances M. Dehn and Ronald W. Shep-herd. In the Woodside Fire Protection District, two board incumbents, John Gardner and Patrick Cain, are running unopposed. Two seats are open on the Lad-era Recreation District board. Incumbent Karen Fryling is run-ning, as is Peter Caryotakis, a sci-ence teacher at Menlo-Atherton High School. Two seats are also open on the board of the Los Trancos Coun-ty Water District, and Claudia C. Mazzetti has filed for one of them. A

As-of-yet unidentified thieves crept through an unlocked back window of a home in the 500 block of Glenwood Avenue in Menlo Park on the afternoon of Wednesday, Aug. 10, and left with an estimated $8,200 in jew-elry and an Apple MacBook.

Burglars also busted the side window of a home in the 200 block of Marmona Drive on Monday, Aug. 8. The resident reported the theft around 3:15 p.m. and told police a monitor, digital camera, docking station, Wi-Fi device, iPad, jewelry,

and $300 cash — worth about $7,600 total — were missing. The past week included two other burglary reports in Menlo Park; one in the 1100 block of Windermere Drive and another in the 1300 block of Almanor Avenue, both on Aug. 4.

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rail authority’s financial projections and its business plan. State senators Joe Simitian and Alan Lowenthal have grilled rail authority officials at numerous committee meetings over the past two years and tried to get the authority to release a more realistic business plan before it could receive state funding. Sen. Simitian’s provision tying state funds to a new business plan died last year when then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger struck it down with a line-item veto. Rachel Wall, spokesperson for the rail authority, attributed the

increase in the cost projection to the additional engineering work that has been performed since the origi-nal estimate was released. She said the agency has always assumed the cost estimates of a major infrastruc-ture project such as high-speed rail would be dynamic. “As we’ve done further engineer-ing and worked further with com-munities to address their designs and concerns, the estimated costs have changed,” she said. She said the rail authority plans to release an updated business plan in October with a revised cost estimate for the entire system. She said the authority expects the new estimate to be higher than its cur-

rent $43 billion price tag. The new concerns about high-speed rail’s final price tag have not deterred state and federal officials from proceeding with the design of the new train system. This week, in fact, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood authorized a $179 mil-lion grant to California for various rail-related improvements. The grant includes $86 million to the rail authority for construction of the Central Valley segment. The rail authority will accept public comments on the newly released EIR between Aug. 15 and Sept. 28. Go to cahighspeedrail.ca.gov for more information. A

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Inspector cites 14 vendors at Menlo Park Block PartyBy Sandy BrundageAlmanac Staff Writer

It started with a dead pig.An eagle-eyed shopper at Draeger’s Market in Menlo

Park noticed a store employee wheeling around a dead pig in a shopping cart, snapped a photo, and called the county health inspectors. Turns out, the pig was meant for a school dissec-tion lab, and no violations were found, according to the county. But, after wrapping up a visit to Draeger’s on June 22, a health inspector noticed the Menlo Park Block Party down the street on Santa Cruz Avenue and decided to drop by. Four hours and 14 cita-tions later, vendors at the block party realized that they did indeed need a spe-cial event permit from the county to dispense food at the party. In addition, they also needed hand-washing stations, gloves, covers for food, and other hygienic niceties. Several vendors told the inspector the Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce, co-sponsor of the block party, invited them to participate, but hadn’t told them they needed permits, according to the inspection reports. The vendors weren’t fined

— this time. Instead, the chamber footed a $918 bill for the inspector’s overtime. Five mobile food trucks operating at the party did have current permits, the inspection report said. Dean Peterson, the coun-ty’s director of environmen-tal health, said the fines can go as high as three times the cost of the permit, racking up $294 to $888 per booth, for a potential total of $12,432. “We also have the author-ity to shut down their opera-tion — this option is rarely used unless the operation poses a risk to public health, i.e., no hand-washing equip-ment or food kept at unsafe temperatures, basically the same reason we would shut down any operation,” he said in an email to the Almanac. A similar event hosted by the chamber — the Connois-seur’s Marketplace — hasn’t had the same problems, Mr. Peterson noted. The chamber’s CEO, Fran Dehn, said the organization has an upcoming meeting with the county to discuss the issues, and had asked the county to bill it instead of the vendors. A copy of a letter sent to Ms. Dehn by the county indicates the chamber completed the application for a special event permit for the party on June 23, the day after the festivities. A

Mia Banks joins Coldwell Banker Mia Banks has joined Coldwell Banker Resi-dential Brokerage as a sales associate in its Menlo Park-El Camino office. She will special-ize in residential sales in Portola Valley, Menlo Park, Atherton, Wood-side and Palo Alto. Prior to joining Coldwell Banker, she was a real estate agent with Cowperthwaite & Co. She also has worked in management consulting for BCG, CSC/Index, and Andersen Consulting/Accenture, and has worked with several start-up companies in Silicon Valley. Ms. Banks has lived in Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Portola Val-ley, and has raised her children in the local public and private schools. She says she enjoys volunteer-

ing at her children’s schools (Sacred Heart and Menlo School), hik-ing the Portola Valley hills, and playing tennis at Alpine Hills Tennis & Swimming Club with her husband and two teenage boys. Ms. Banks received her

bachelor’s degree in biology from Brown University, and then earned her master’s degree from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, with an emphasis on marketing and strategy. “Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage has been rapidly growing on the Peninsula, and we need high caliber agents to help us meet the increas-ing needs of our clients,” said Wendy McPherson, manager of the company’s Menlo Park-El Camino office.

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ing and even energetic than a person’s young-er years. She will speak on the topic at 7 p.m. and sign copies of the book afterward. Ms. Fonda netted Oscars for her roles in “Klute” and “Coming Home.” Following numerous

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Assault with deadly weapon report: Pedestrian victim, hit in face with hamburger thrown by vehicle driver, was then grabbed by hair as vehicle drove off, but she freed herself and sustained non-life-threatening injuries, Jack in the Box restaurant at 1401 Willow Road, Aug. 5.Fraud reports:

■ Loss of $2,700 after money wired to “relative” in Mexico claiming to have been involved in vehicle accident, Felton Ave., Aug. 6.■ Possible intrusion into victim’s bank account after victim provided personal information at fraudulent online employment posting, Noel Drive, Aug. 5.

WOODSIDE

Residential burglary report: Loss estimated at $1,990 in theft of tools and equipment from garage of home being remodeled, Woodside

Road, Aug. 4.

PORTOLA VALLEY

Woman arrested on assault, brandishing and drunk-in-public charges after entering fire station, throwing brownies at victim then grab-bing knife from counter and lunging at victim, fire station at 135 Portola Road, Aug. 3.Theft reports:

■ Loss estimated at $200 in theft of “field closed” sign from athletic field, Corte Madera Middle School at 4575 Alpine Road, Aug. 10.■ Juveniles counseled after deputies traced source of candy wrappers, ketchup bottle, hot dog buns and other picnicking indicators found near remains of campfire near batting cage, Ford (baseball) Field at 3399 Alpine Road, Aug. 11.

ATHERTON

Auto burglary report: Loss estimated at $1,200 after window smashed and laptop computer stolen, Sutherland Drive, Aug. 11.Fraud report: No loss in unauthorized open-ing of AT&T account in victim’s name in Janu-ary 2011, Tuscaloosa Ave., Aug. 11.

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The Belle Haven redistricting insult Editor: The redrawing of the congressio-nal district boundaries represents another step in the process that moves Belle Haven farther from Menlo Park and many locals are overjoyed. They have the Citi-zens Redistricting Commission to thank and it’s all legal. As a resident of Belle Haven the continuous message is: You are not wanted. The disparity in the quality of service and education in Belle Haven compared to the rest of Menlo Park is disgraceful, but it has come to be accepted as normal. The strategy is to make some positive changes on a limited basis and to do it very slowly. This long-time tactic is insulting and this redistricting just adds insult to injury, but it’s all legal. Those of you that still believe in

“separate but equal,” rejoice! The Bayshore Freeway has saved you again. Your Tree City will remain relatively pure because diversity doesn’t work in Menlo Park, but to be fair, it also hasn’t worked in many cities, most notably Detroit, Watts and now London. Everyone pretends to be shocked and surprised when long time sup-pressed rage is unleashed, when in fact we all know why these things happen. There are still those in Belle Haven that believe in the system in spite of everything, but be assured there are those that do not share that belief. A mind-set that glori-fies every man for himself can be quite contagious and dangerous both nationally and locally.

Matt HenryBelle Haven

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Impugning integrity not helpful in debateEditor: Nancy Lemer’s recent guest opinion regarding the debt-ceil-

ing crisis reminded me why, after 36-years as a registered Republi-can, I’m no longer a member of the GOP. Not only is her point of view

extreme, but so is her tone. First, she contends inaccurately that failure to raise the federal


The bad economic news keeps piling up in front of the Cali-fornia High-Speed Rail project but will it be enough to bring Governor Brown, the state Legislature and even the federal

government to their senses? Surely it is time for people with some clout in Sacramento and Wash-ington to begin winding down this project, which keeps getting more expensive as the state’s fiscal woes get worse. And remarkably, even though it lacks a viable business plan and has yet to line up any private capital, the project received another $89 million from Washington just

a week or so ago. Why is the federal government continuing to fund high-speed rail before making sure that the money won’t be wasted on two Central Valley segments that could become

a “Railroad to Nowhere?” like the project made famous by the late Sen. Ted Stevens, who shamefully promoted the “Bridge to Nowhere.” Ever since Proposition 1A passed in 2008, Peninsula residents have done everything possible to point out the many design flaws in the high-speed rail’s plan, but instead of working to correct them, the rail authority was ordered to turn its focus to the Central Valley, where it was thought the project would get a much warmer reception. But even in this new, somewhat friendlier location, the rail authority must cope with skyrocketing costs and numerous other setbacks that have sur-faced in recent weeks. For example: ■ After absorbing a batch of already highly critical news over the preceding month, the rail authority released its cost estimates for two Central Valley segments, from Fresno to Merced and Merced to Bakersfield, last week. These relatively flat routes were expected to cost $7 billion, but the estimate jumped to between $10 billion and $13 bil-lion in the recently released environmental impact report. ■ Unlike the rail authority, which is sticking to its unbelievably low price tag of $42.6 billion for the entire project, the Palo Alto-based Californians Advocating Responsible Rail Design (CARRD) and the state’s nonpartisan state Legislative Analyst’s Office have much higher estimates — $65 billion and $67 billion, respectively. This is a huge gap, more than 30 percent. ■ In a study made public two weeks ago, a highly respected peer-

review group of professors and transportation experts that report to rail authority CEO Roelof Van Ark said the authority has been using a flawed forecasting model to predict the number of passengers that will use the high-speed trains. ■ The agency’s public relations firm, Ogilivy Public Relations World-wide, resigned about a month ago after fulfilling less than half of a 4-1/2-year, $9 million contract. ■ Another public relations faux pas was the unexpected departure of Jeffrey Barker, the rail authority’s deputy director in charge of commu-nication, who failed to provide a timely response to a public informa-tion request from CARRD, allowing it to drag on for months. The Palo Alto-based organization was seeking release of the critical peer-review report, and was successful only after filing a chronology of its request with the authority. The information was released the following day, the same day that Barker resigned, saying he is going “to pursue other endeavors.” ■ On the economic front, the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives, including the budgeting process, has left little doubt that further federal support for high-speed rail will be drastically cut or eliminated altogether. By any yardstick, the high-speed rail project is simply far too finan-cially ambitious for the state to undertake at this time, when basic services have been cut to the bone and additional cuts could be on the way as a result of more federal belt-tightening. The idea of paying debt-service on nearly $10 billion in bonds makes no sense in this fiscal environment. High-speed rail supporters have enormous obstacles to overcome in order to get this project back on track. They need a convincing business plan, a new management team, and most importantly, reliable funding sources that don’t commit the taxpayers to unaffordable subsidies of construction and operation. High-speed rail is looking more and more like a pipe-dream. The governor and the Legislature should provide the leadership to unwind this project, presumably through passage of another state ballot mea-sure that counteracts the requirements of Prop. 1A, or by finding and embracing a new financing model. Otherwise, we are in danger of building a railroad to nowhere that will make Sen. Stevens’ bridge look like child’s play.

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debt-ceiling would not result in catastrophic default. Then, she accuses those who disagree with her, such as our congresswoman, Anna Eshoo, of lying. Ms. Lemer is entitled to her belief that risking the full-faith and credit of our country is no big deal. But impugning the integrity of those who, like Rep. Eshoo, think this reckless, is not helpful in fostering the type of respect-ful and reasoned debate that we need in a democracy to solve our nation’s problems. As one who served in local gov-ernment for 30 years, I know that those who disagree with us may — or may not — be mistaken, but they are seldom “lying.” Reading Ms. Lemer’s piece made me nostalgic for the days many decades ago when the Peninsula was represented by Republican, as well, as Democratic officeholders in state and federal government. But, these were a very different stripe of Republican, from liberals like Pete McCloskey, to moderates like Ed Zschau, Tom Campbell and Dixon Arnett, to responsible conservatives like Bob Naylor. They and the great Republican presidents, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, would find it dif-ficult to be at home in today’s Republican Party. I dare say, even Ronald Reagan would purse his lips if he saw the things being done in his name.

Jon SilverPortola Valley

Palo Altan likes Menlo Park just as it isEditor: As a Palo Alto resident of many years, I go to Menlo Park to take care of my weekly errands — groceries, dry cleaners, bank,

hardware store, drugstore, sta-tioners, bakery, and bookstore. Parking is easy, which is a huge plus. On Sundays, our Live Oak Lions Club sponsors the Farm-ers’ Market with its outstanding fresh produce, and again, park-ing is easy. Please let downtown Menlo

Park continue in its present configuration — it works.

Alice GrossPalo Alto

Reader sees a bias for West Menlo ParkEditor: For as long as I’ve been reading

the Almanac, I’ve felt that it has always reflected a “West Menlo” preference. This is attitude is clearly shown in last week’s editorial, “District shift won’t hurt Belle Haven.” When the Almanac’s rationale is that east Menlo has more in common with East Palo Alto and Redwood City, it could

just as easily say that it has a lot in common with East Oakland. I think that the districts are better represented by a diverse socioeconomic base. What the Almanac proposes is polariza-tion and in this case promotes segregation.

Tom WongHedge Road, Menlo Park


V I E W P O I N T

By P.J. Utz

A recent guest opinion in the Alma-nac by my Ladera neighbor Lennie Roberts did not fairly represent

the pertinent issues regarding the Alpine Road Trail. I will focus solely on six facts, and provide my personal opinion as a con-cerned citizen. Fact No. 1. The trail in question is not just a “bike/pedestrian trail/sidewalk” as described in the Almanac article. It is a des-ignated trail in official county trail maps. It is designated the “C1 Connector Trail” in the Santa Clara County Trail Map and the “E12 Lower Alpine Trail” in the San Mateo County Trails Plan. This trail is the precise trail that was desig-nated for rebuilding in Stanford’s approved General Use Permit. Fact No. 2. Stanford has offered over $10 million to San Mateo County to rebuild the Lower Alpine Trail. If San Mateo County does not accept the funds or requests an exten-sion by Dec. 31, 2011, the $10 million will be given to Santa Clara County. The situation is simple and unambiguous. Our county Board of Supervisors can either approve revitalizing a Lower Alpine Trail that badly needs work, or it can reject the proposal. There are no provisions in the

agreement for grants to fund other trails or projects within San Mateo County. Fact No. 3. If Stanford’s funds are sent to Santa Clara County after Jan. 31, 2011, San Mateo County staff members have said that taxpayers would have to pay for needed, costly trail and creek repairs. Fact No. 4. Repairs will not require “the destruction of sensitive creek and ripar-ian habitats. ...” It is indeed a fact that the creek bank will need repair, as it has already eroded into the trail near the Interstate 280

interchange. Without a remedy, the creek will carve its way all the way into Alpine Road. For the next 135 days we have a choice on how it will be repaired and who will foot the bill. Fact No. 5. Continued scare-tactics warning about a “12-foot-wide super sidewalk” is yester-day’s falsehood. No one — not Stanford, not the county, not the residents — is advocating any such thing. The town of Portola Valley accepted Stanford’s funds

and chose to construct a modest 8-foot path. San Mateo County has the same abil-ity to choose for itself. Fact No. 6. San Mateo County has decided to take another look at the Stanford offer. It will be holding a number of educational meetings over the coming months to edu-

cate the community regarding these facts and to encourage dialogue on the issues. Now a mixture of facts and opinions. My family have been strong advocates for the environment for the 12 years we have lived in Ladera. We are a one-car family. We bike to work and school on this danger-ous trail. We recently completed a green remodel of our home. And we regularly use hiking trails in the Bay Area. We are in agreement with the Almanac article, that says, “San Mateo and Santa Clara counties have a shared interest in providing safe, cost-effective facilities for walkers, runners, cyclists, and equestri-ans.” This will best be accomplished by first making Alpine Road and the Lower Alpine Road Trail, by far the most heavily trafficked areas in Portola Valley, as safe and as useable as possible, for as many residents as possible. We must insure that the residents of Weekend Acres and Ladera are educated on the issues, and that they be positively served by the changes. Concerned citizens should use the remaining 135 days to learn the facts at upcoming informational meet-ings. It is financially irresponsible to turn away Stanford’s funds that are already ear-marked to rebuild this designated trail.

P.J. Utz lives in Ladera and is a Stanford professor.

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