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Charting a path to the cloud

San Mateo startup Snowflake stays grounded amid big growth
By Anna Schuessler c l o ud- b a s e d establish hasn’t changed at all.
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF data storage and “Without the people, we have
analytics serv- nothing,” she said. “That’s the
In the five years Nancy Venezia ice has seen way it’s always been.”
has worked at the San Mateo-based since it was Having worked in the corporate
startup Snowflake, she’s seen the founded in and nonprofit worlds, Venezia,
company outgrow the small office 2012, the com- Snowflake’s director of culture
it occupied above Philz Coffee on pany character- said she found the ego-less,
B Street, double in size several istic that keeps focused culture she was looking
times and expand its workforce Venezia rooted for when she took a job as the nas-
Bob Muglia ANNA SCHUESSLER/DAILY JOURNAL
across the globe. in the team cent startup’s office manager. She
But despite the growth the she’s helped Snowflake’s offices at 100 S. Ellsworth Ave. in downtown San Mateo offer
See CLOUD, Page 20 a wintery workspace for employees.

CELEBRATION TIME
Housing bill
raising local
control fight
San Francisco senator’s most recent bill drawing
mixed perspectives from elected officials, others
By Austin Walsh Wiener, who
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF represents San
Francisco and a
The ongoing battle between slice of north-
local control advocates and a law- ern San Mateo
maker seeking to overhaul state County, said
housing policy ramped up over a the bill loosen-
recent proposal seeking to incen- ing density
tivize residential development r e g ul a t i o n s
near public transportation. Scott Wiener near public
Senate Bill 827, authored by transit stops
BECKY RUPPEL/HALF MOON BAY ATHLETICS (LEFT); TERRY BERNAL/DAILY JOURNAL (TOP RIGHT, BOTTOM RIGHT) state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San could combat the state’s afford-
Three county basketball teams celebrated with Central Coast Section championship victories Saturday. Francisco, served as the most ability crisis. Most notably, the
Left: Half Moon Bay’s Ethan Menzies, above, hugs Danny Mack after the Cougars captured the CCS Division IV recent catalyst for debate between bill aims to boost allowable
boys’ title with a 72-58 win over Santa Cruz at the Leavey Center. Top right: South City swarms the court at the local legislator and those building height limits in certain
Piedmont Hills High School after claiming the CCS Division III girls’ title with a 66-50 win over Soquel. Bottom wishing to preserve the authority cases to a maximum 85 feet, while
right: Sacred Heart Prep’s Grace Battles, left, and Megan Norris hug after the Gators won the CCS Division IV of local elected officials when
girls’ crown with a 55-35 victory over Notre Dame-Belmont at the Leavey Center. SEE STORIES PAGE 11 considering housing proposals. See FIGHT Page 18

Educators adopt more tolerant drug policy

Focus shifts from punishment to education following marijuana legalization across state
By Austin Walsh
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Growing tolerance for marijuana is filter-
ing into local schools as educators develop
new policy designed to appropriately
address student drug use in the wake of state
legalization.
Health and school safety officials at two
of San Mateo County’s high school dis-
tricts said their focus is shifting away from
a traditional disciplinary response to a new
approach built around education.
While still recognizing the developmen-
tal dangers posed by teen drug use and pre-
serving a punitive system to be adminis-
tered when necessary, officials indicated
society’s evolving view of marijuana is
reflected at schools too.
“I think it is going hand in hand. There is
more tolerance. But there’s also an intoler-
ance for excluding kids from education.
There’s a larger effort to keep kids in
school, ” said Don Scatena, San Mateo
Union High School District’s director of
Student Services.
The district’s new drug policy nods to
Scatena’s sentiment, as students who may
have previously been immediately sus-
pended after getting caught with pot at
school are now required to enroll in after-
school drug education program.
Under a system implemented last fall,
first offenders are mandated to enroll in the
program offering 12 hours of intensive
drug awareness instruction offered in two-
hour sessions spread across six weeks.
The program, currently serving about
200 high schoolers, was established with a
focus on keeping students at school and
enrolled in classes rather than suspending
them, which studies show offers limited
See SCHOOL, Page 20
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Thought for the Day

“Boredom is the root of all evil — the
despairing refusal to be oneself.”
— Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher

This Day in History

The impeachment trial of President

1868 Andrew Johnson began in the U.S.

Senate, with Chief Justice Salmon P.
Chase presiding. Johnson, the first
U.S. president to be impeached, was
accused of “high crimes and misde-
meanors” stemming from his attempt
to fire Secretary of War Edwin M.
Stanton; the trial ended on May 26
with Johnson’s acquittal.
In 1 7 6 6 , Antonio de Ulloa arrived in New Orleans to
assume his duties as the first Spanish governor of the
Louisiana Territory, where he encountered resistance from
the French residents.
In 1 7 7 0 , the Boston Massacre took place as British sol-
diers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened
fire, killing five people.
In 1 8 6 7 , thousands of members of the Irish Republican
Brotherhood launched the Fenian Rebellion in Ireland in an
attempt at overthrowing British rule; the poorly-organized
rising was swiftly put down by British and Irish authori- REUTERS
ties. People dressed as ‘Manghao’ dance during a celebration of the Manghao Festival in China.
In 1 9 2 7 , “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place,” the
last Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was
published in the U.S. in Liberty Magazine.
In 1 9 3 3 , in German parliamentary elections, the Nazi In other news ...
Party won 44 percent of the vote; the Nazis joined with a will turn this into a room where itself.
conservative nationalist party to gain a slender majority in Mike Tyson’s former Ohio home women can get ready for a wedding.” The wildlife biologists tracking the
the Reichstag. becoming a house of worship Church offices and meeting rooms slithery creatures stumbled upon
In 1 9 4 6 , Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” WARREN, Ohio — A garishly are being built on the second floor. bloated snake in Collier Seminole
speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in appointed Ohio mansion that heavy- It’s unclear which of the mansion’s State Park, and when they moved the
which he said: “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the weight boxing champion Mike Tyson design features can be attributed to creature it began regurgitating a
Adriatic, an ‘iron curtain’ has descended across the conti- once called home and subsequently Tyson or the previous owner. It was white-tailed deer fawn.
nent, allowing police governments to rule Eastern Europe.” fell into disrepair is being converted built in 1979. Tyson bought it at Biologist Ian Bartoszek told the
into a house of worship. sheriff’s sale in 1989 for $300,000 Naples Daily News that the fawn
Birthdays The Living Word Sanctuary Church
has been cleaning up the property in
and sold it 10 years later for $1.3 mil-
lion to Paul Monea, an infomercial
weighed 35 pounds; the snake 31.5.
“We were sitting there just trying to
Trumbull County’s Southington entrepreneur best known for market- process that an animal this size could
Township, roughly 45 miles south- ing Tae-Bo exercise videos. get its head around what turned out to
east of Cleveland, since the 25,000- Monea was sentenced to 13 years in be a deer,” Bartoszek said. “It’s surre-
square-foot mansion was donated to federal prison in 2007 for money al to see that in the field.”
the church several years ago. laundering charges. The mansion was Bartoszek said it was the largest
“The property had been untouched bought at sheriff’s sale in 2010 for python-to-prey weight difference he
for 10 years,” Living Word Pastor $600,000 and then donated to the had measured.
Nicholas DeJacimo told the Warren church for a tax write-off. The Burmese pythons, which can grow
Tribune-Chronicle . “You had so much church’s up-front investment was nearly 20-feet long, were brought to
Magician Penn Pro Football Hall of Actress Eva grass you could have sold it for hay. $50,000 to clear back taxes. South Florida as pets in the late
Jillette is 63. Famer Michael Mendes is 44. Tyson returned to the mansion in 1970s. They were released into the
The mansion is a considerable step
Irvin is 52. 1995 after serving time in Indiana for wild, and have become a problematic
up; the church has been holding serv-
rape and lived there while training at invasive species.
Actor Paul Sand is 86. Actor James B. Sikking is 84. Actor ices at a YMCA. The sanctuary the
promoter Don King’s camp in nearby White-tailed deer are an important
Dean Stockwell is 82. Actor Fred Williamson is 80. Actress church hopes to have ready by year’s
Orwell, according to the newspaper. food source for Florida’s endangered
Samantha Eggar is 79. Actor Michael Warren is 72. Actor end is an area where Tyson and his
Tyson befriended neighbors during panthers, so the researchers are con-
Eddie Hodges is 71. Singer Eddy Grant is 70. Rock musician guests splashed in an indoor pool. A
training runs and played basketball cerned the pervasive snakes could
Alan Clark (Dire Straits) is 66. Actress-comedian Marsha four-bay garage is being turned into
with kids on his court. also impact the health of the big cats.
Warfield is 64. Actress Adriana Barraza is 62. Actress Talia youth classrooms and a nursery. Tall
Balsam is 59. Rock singers Charlie and Craig Reid (The steel cages where Tyson kept four Python devours If the snake had been left in the
Proclaimers) are 56. Actor Paul Blackthorne is 49. Rock musi- tigers have been dismantled for a wild, it would have digested the entire
cian John Frusciante is 48. Singer Rome is 48. Actor Kevin pavilion. deer that weighs more deer, Bartoszek said.
Connolly is 44. Actress Jill Ritchie is 44. Actress Jolene The second-floor master suite fea- NAPLES, Fla. — Researchers study- He said the predator-to-prey size
Blalock is 43. Model Niki Taylor is 43. Actress Kimberly tured mirror-covered walls and ceil- ing invasive Burmese pythons in ratio stunned his team.
McCullough is 40. Actress Karolina Wydra is 37. Singer- ing, a whirlpool spa and two bath- Florida came upon something they’d “It showed my team and myself what
songwriter Amanda Shires is 36. Actress Dominique rooms. never seen before: an 11-foot-long we were actually dealing with out
McElligott is 32. Actor Sterling Knight is 29. Actor Jake “We heard there were some crazy python had consumed an entire deer there, what this python is capable
Lloyd is 29. parties here, ” DeJacimo said. “We that weighed more than the snake of,” he told the newspaper.

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Plan aims to make Belmont library green
Officials considering environmental upgrades for library and its programming
By Zachary Clark
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
In an effort to reduce Belmont’s carbon
footprint, the City Council is checking out a
plan to bring energy upgrades to the library
and expand its sustainability programming.
The Belmont Library Sustainability
Implantation Plan, which was presented to
the council at a study session last month,
would expand on several energy efficiency
upgrades made to the library’s lighting and
heating, ventilation and air conditioning
system last year.
Those energy improvements, along with
others made to City Hall and streetlights,
collectively advance Belmont’s Climate
Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emis-
sions, which was adopted late last year.
In November, Presidio Graduate School
student Susan Wright and her colleague
Rowan Lynn approached the city with their
plan to bring sustainable upgrades to the
library. Wright said she chose the library, in
part, because of its role as a community gath-
ering space that serves about 1,000 people
and offers four to five events daily.
“I had all this background of knowledge
about climate action plans to help the City
Council connect some dots,” said Wright,
who has been a Belmont resident for 13
years, and was a member of the Belmont
Green Advisory Committee and served on the
Parks and Recreation Commission for six
years.
The plan recommends what Wright calls an
“energy trifecta” upgrade for the library,
which includes solar panels, electric vehicle
LOCAL
charging and battery storage.
The plan offers a schematic for making the
library 90 percent solar powered, with panels
on the roof and newly built shade structures
over the center of the parking lot. Roof pan-
els would handle 58 percent of the building’s
usage, while panels on the parking structure
would handle 32 percent, according to the
plan.
Wright said the library could be up to 100
percent solar powered, depending on the
specifics of the Pacific Gas and Electric plan
and type of solar panels the council selects.
The plan outlines a variety of options for
electric vehicle charging stations and recom-
mends battery storage for the building, which
lowers the high cost of charging electric
vehicles. According to the plan, the battery
storage feature would power the library indefi-
nitely so it could serve as an emergency shel-
ter in the event of a natural disaster or provide
backup power during outages.
The plan also recommends the library
become a “green business,” a program admin-
istered by the County of San Mateo that certi-
fies businesses and other organizations that
meet certain environmental guidelines; and
expand programming that promotes sustain-
able practices, including a sustainable teach-
ing garden and pop-up bike repair stations.
The total system cost would be about
$682,000, with first-year utility savings of
$30,800, according to the plan.
“It’s a proactive way to whet everyone’s
appetite for what is possible in a state-of-the-
art library facility,” Mayor Doug Kim said in
an email. “Finding creative ways to finance
even more energy efficiency that reduces its
carbon footprint would make it a model for all
public and institutional facilities.”
Community Development Director Carlos
de Melo said the plan was well received by the
community and City Council, but funding
isn’t exactly a slam-dunk.
“There’s certainly a great interest in mov-
ing on all initiatives in our [Climate Action
Plan],” de Melo said. “But $600,000 is a sig-
nificant capital outlay. It could be a potential
to fund this, but we have millions and mil-
lions of dollars in infrastructure needs that
require serious attention. It’s a balancing
act.”
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Police reports
Bad call
There were 15 cellphones stolen at
Hillsdale Shopping Center in San
Mateo, it was reported at 12:06 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 16.
HALF MOON BAY
Threat cas e. Someone reported road rage on
East Hillsdale Boulevard and Sea Spray Lane,
it was reported at 9:11 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.
28.
Threat cas e. Someone reported being
threatened by another driver on Regulus
Street, it was reported at 5:44 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 28.
Pro perty fo r des tructi o n. Property locat-
ed during a consent search was taken for
destruction on Metro Center Boulevard, it was
reported at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28.
Abando ned v ehi cl e. A parked vehicle was
not moved for a week on Puffin Court, it was
reported at 8:35 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28.
REDWOOD CITY
Burg l ary. A residence was broken into on
Marshall Court, it was reported at 4:24 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 24.
Sto l en v ehi cl e. A vehicle was stolen on
Veterans Boulevard, it was reported at 4:23
p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24.
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South City speed crackdown nets 80
South San Francisco police issued 80 citations Saturday
as part of an effort to reduce speeding in areas where there
are high injury or fatal traffic collision rates, police said.
Officers fanned out across the city with lidar devices that
can record a driver’s exact speed and allow officers to target
the fastest vehicle.
Police said drivers were issued citations if they were driv-
ing 15 mph or more over the speed limit.
$100 million loan fund targets affordable housing
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission commit-
ted $10 million Wednesday to establish a loan fund to help
nonprofit developers acquire and preserve existing San
Francisco Bay Area housing, MTC officials said.
The money can be used for multi-family housing that is
in high-frequency transit service areas and would be afford-
able for low- and middle-income renters.
The $10 million will be supplemented with $39 million
from two other funds known as the Enterprise Community
Loan Fund and the Low Income Investment Fund.
Nonprofit developers and joint venture partnerships can
tap the fund for loans of up to $7 million for terms as long
as 10 years to buy non-subsidized apartment buildings
with at least four units.
Rents for at least three-quarters of the units must be
affordable for households whose annual income is no more
than 80 percent of the Bay Area’s median income.
In the Bay Area the median income ranges from $64,300
to $105,350 depending on the county.
Borrowers can also use a loan to fund an operating
reserve for the acquired property, perform life safety
upgrades and limited other rehabilitation work.
Spare the Air winter season over
The winter Spare the Air season ended Wednesday, and 19
Spare the Air alerts were called from November through
February, Bay Area Air Quality Management District offi-
cials said.
Dry weather throughout the season allowed wood smoke
pollution to build up, air officials said, because of a per-
sistent high-pressure ridge blocking storms that otherwise
would have cleared the air.
“Despite the recent rain, dry, still winter weather has
become the norm in the Bay Area, which significantly
increases wood smoke pollution health impacts through-
out the region,” said Jack Broadbent, executive officer of
the Air District.
“Cleaner heating solutions are needed to protect the
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health of our families and neighbors inside and outside our
homes,” Broadbent said.
The 2017-18 season included long stretches of alerts, up
to eight days in a row in December, because of unusually
stagnant weather, air officials said. All 19 alerts were
called in December and January.
National Guard rescues man from ocean
The California Air National Guard unit in Silicon Valley
rescued a man today from a Panamanian container ship 675
nautical miles off the coast of California, military officials
said.
The guard’s 129th Rescue Wing returned to Silicon
Valley at about 4:30 p.m. and transferred the patient, a 54-
year-old Croatian man, to San Jose Regional Medical
Center.
The man was suffering from a life-threatening illness.
National Guard spokesman Capt. Roderick Bersamina said
the man was stable on the flight to California as a Guardian
Angel pararescue team cared for him.
The container ship MSC FLAVIA was more than 1,000
miles west of the San Francisco Bay Area when the women
and men of the guard accepted the assignment. Since 1977,
the 129th Rescue Wing has saved 1,134 lives.
Baby animal safety tips offered
Officials with a Burlingame animal shelter are offering
several tips so people can avoid unintentionally harming
nesting mammals and birds this spring.
Officials with the Peninsula Humane Society & Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are asking resi-
dents to wait to trim or remove trees and bushes or make
sure there are no birds or squirrel nests before doing the
work.
Residents are encouraged to check for rabbit holes and
birds’ nests before mowing the lawn.
Shelter officials also suggest residents avoid leaving pet
food outside and to use trashcans with tight-fitting lids or
metal trashcans to make it less likely animals will build
nests or dens in basements or garages.
Shelter officials suggest securely closing crawl spaces
and air vents and capping chimneys.
If a baby bird or squirrel is on the ground, shelter offi-
cials suggest trying to place it back in the nest if the situ-
ation doesn’t seem dangerous.
Otherwise, let the animal be because mothers will con-
tinue to feed the babies on the ground below the nests.
But if the baby appears to be in danger or abandoned,
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shelter officials encourage people to bring it to the shel-
ter’s Wildlife Care Center or call the center.
Shelter officials suggest dog owners keep dogs on a
leash to prevent them from finding a coyote or other ani-
mal den. Mothers protecting their babies may be aggres-
sive with dogs.
If a mother chooses to have its babies in an area that’s
not ideal for humans, shelter officials ask that residents
leave the animals alone until the mother feels her babies
are able to move.
The mother will probably move in a few weeks, accord-
ing to shelter officials.
Locking the mother out or closing up the den may harm
the babies. Anyone who wants more information can call
the humane society’s Wildlife Care Center at (650) 340-
7022, ext. 314.
1906 film of San Francisco
after quake found at flea market
SAN FRANCISCO — More than a century after San
Francisco’s deadly 1906 earthquake, a film reel with nine
minutes of footage capturing the city two weeks after the
devastation surfaced at a flea market and it will soon be
shown to the public, according to a newspaper report.
The long-lost find portrays some of the city’s post-quake
decimation, including City Hall with its dome nearly
destroyed, the San Francisco Chronicle said Saturday.
Much of the city was flattened and thousands were killed in
the so-called “great quake” and ensuing fire on April 18,
1906.
The nitrate film reel discovered at San Francisco’s
Alemany Flea Market was shot by early filmmakers the
Miles Brothers. The footage is a bookend to their most
famous work “A Trip Down Market Street,” a 13-minute
silent film shot from a cable car days before the earthquake,
said film historian David Kiehn.
The new footage captures a similar journey down the
city’s main thoroughfare, but shows many of the buildings
collapsed to the ground. The reel also features a mob of
horse wagons and carts, people waiting to get on a ferry to
cross San Francisco Bay to Oakland and damaged buildings
being blown up with dynamite.
“Miles Brothers footage shot after the earthquake is
extremely difficult to find,” Kiehn told the Chronicle.
They shot nearly two hours of post-quake film but almost
none of it had been known to survive, he said.
Kiehn has spent the past eight months preparing a digi-
tal version that will premiere at the Niles Essanay Silent
Film Museum in Fremont on April 14, just a few days shy of
the quake’s anniverary.
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Belmont’s economic outlook remains rosy

City officials feel fiscally prepared for future challenges, yet keep an eye to uncertain future
By Zachary Clark
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Belmont’s budget was described as
healthy and in a position to handle eco-
nomic challenges but the city’s finance
director still warned of future fiscal uncer-
tainty.
“As it stands right now, we’re doing
well,” Finance Director Thomas Fil said at a
mid-year budget meeting Feb. 27. “I’d like
to characterize our financial position as of
Dec. 31 as we’re doing fine, but storm
clouds are beginning to form on the hori-
zon,”
Those storm clouds are a reference to
impending statewide challenges, including
rising pension and retirement medical costs
as well as a potential future economic down-
turn.
Those challenges of course may impact
Belmont’s budget and services in the future,
but as of now, Fil said there is no talk of cuts
or need for corrective actions, and he
expects the city to com-
plete the year “close to
on target.”
With respect to the
city’s general fund, lead-
ing economic indicators,
other than sales tax,
remain strong, according
to a staff report.
Doug Kim The general fund’s bal-
ance as of Dec. 31,
2017, was $8.8 million, compared to $8.9
million at the same time 2016, for a decline
of 1 percent.
Fil said that some budget disparities are
unique to the mid-year review and won’t nec-
essarily appear in the year-end budget
because of the “seasonal” nature of govern-
ment and timing of payments and spending.
For example, property tax revenue does-
n’t always arrive on time, and a $600,000
payment from San Mateo County that
arrived in January of this fiscal year arrived
in December of the previous fiscal year,
resulting in mid-year budget disparities
between the two fiscal years.
So far this fiscal year, property tax rev-
enue is exceeding expectations, but sales
tax revenue is not, and the two are offset-
ting each other, Fil said.
Deputy Finance Director Christine Paras
said property tax revenue has increased by
$100,000, but the finance department will
be decreasing the budget’s year-end projec-
tions for sales tax by $500,000.
While sales tax is revenue is down, transit
occupancy tax revenue is expected to
increase significantly during the second
half of the fiscal year when a new hotel
becomes fully operational, and sales tax in
the transportation sector should improve
after a remodel of a major auto dealer,
Autobahn Motors, according to the staff
report.
Regardless of the mixed results among
some tax revenue, Fil said spending and
expenditures are about the same.
“This is something that we’d hope to
have,” he said.
According to the staff report, despite the
overall health of the general fund, it still
remains “at risk” if the $181 million identi-
fied in deferred maintenance and infrastruc-
ture improvements is not resolved.
To that end, Measure I, which Fil predicts
will bring in $52,000 more than initially
thought, is helping. The half-cent sales tax
measure approved by voters in November
2016 aimed for infrastructure improvements
is slated to bring in $1.3 million this year.
“I think one of the big headlines is the
allocation of well over a million dollars (in
Measure I revenue) that has come to the city
that we’re putting back onto the streets lit-
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Democrats seek to help
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CHERRY HILL, N.J. — Resistance to
the Republican tax overhaul comes with an
ideological twist for some Democratic
state officials: They’ve styled themselves
as champions of the working class but are
pushing hard for measures that would
reduce taxes mostly for the wealthy.
Democratic governors and lawmakers in
a handful of high-income, high-tax states
are promoting policies that are intended to
spare their residents the pain of the new
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cept is under consideration in Connecticut,
Maryland, New York, Rhode Island and the
District of Columbia.
Proponents say the cap on state and
local tax deductions disproportionately
affects states controlled by Democrats and
raises the cost of living. They say that has
the potential to drive well-off residents to
other states.
California state Senate President Pro
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would take a big hit if wealthier residents
flee California because they pay the bulk
of the taxes.
“We have to offer services like schools,
like health care, like resources for senior
citizens who have Alzheimer’s,” he said.
Putin: Russia will ’never’
extradite citizens accused by U.S.
WASHINGTON — Russia will “never”
extradite any of the 13 Russians indicted
by the United States for election-med-
dling, Russian President Vladimir Putin
said, even as he insisted they didn’t act on
behalf of his government.
Putin’s comments in an NBC News inter-
view airing Sunday illustrated the long
odds that the Russian operatives will ever
appear in U.S. court to answer charges of
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trolling and targeted messaging operation
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treaty with Moscow and can’t compel it to
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Russia’s constitution prohibits extradit-
ing its citizens to foreign countries.
“Never. Never. Russia does not extradite
its citizens to anyone,” Putin said.
Even if the Russians never face justice in
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Ski resort open
a day after avalanche
MAMMOTH LAKES — California’s
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day after it was shut down when an ava-
lanche partially buried three people.
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House on Saturday.
The District of Columbia Police
Department says in a tweet that “adult male
has been declared deceased. We are working
to notify next of kin.”
That tweet comes about two hours after
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responding to reports of a self-inflicted
shooting along the White House’s north
fence.
The incident took place before President
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return to the White House from Florida.
The White House says it was aware of the
situation and that Trump was briefed.
The Secret Service says there were no
other reported injuries.

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White House: No exemptions from steel, aluminum tariffs

By Kevin Freking
and Zeke Miller
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President Donald
Trump’s administration appears unbowed by
broad domestic and international criticism
of his planned import tariffs on steel and
aluminum, saying Sunday that the president
is not planning on exempting any coun-
tries from the stiff duties.
Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,”
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro
said: “At this point in time there’s no coun-
try exclusions.”
Trump’s announcement Thursday that he
would impose tariffs of 25 percent and 10
percent, respectively, on imported steel and
aluminum, roiled markets, rankled allies
and raised prospects for a trade war. While
his rhetoric has been focused on China, the
duties will also cover significant imports
from Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Japan
and the European Union.
The Pentagon had recommended that
Trump only pursue targeted tariffs, so as not
to upset American partners abroad. But
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said
Sunday that was not the direction the presi-
dent would take.
“He’s talking about a fairly broad brush,”
Ross said on ABC’s “This Week.” He reject-
ed threats of retaliation from American
allies as “pretty trivial.”
Few issues could blur the lines of parti-
sanship in Trump-era Washington. Trade is
one of them.
Labor unions and liberal Democrats are in
the unusual position of applauding Trump’s
approach, while Republicans and an array
of business groups are warning of dire eco-
nomic and political consequences if he goes
ahead with the tariffs.
Trade politics often cut along regional,
rather than ideological, lines, as politi-
cians reflect the interests of the hometown
industries and workers. But rarely does a
President Donald Trump announces the United States will impose tariffs of 25 percent on
steel imports and 10 percent on imported aluminum during a meeting at the White House.
debate open so wide a rift between a presi-
dent and his party — leaving him almost
exclusively with support from his ideologi-
cal opposites.
“Good, finally,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown,
an Ohio Democrat and progressive as he
cheered Trump’s move. Sen. Bob Casey of
Pennsylvania, a Democrat who has called
for Trump to resign, agreed.
“I urge the administration to follow
through and to take aggressive measures to
ensure our workers can compete on a level
playing field,” Casey tweeted.
This moment of unusual alliance was long
expected. As a candidate, Trump made his
populist and protectionist positions on
trade quite clear, at times hitting the same
themes as one of the Democratic presiden-
tial candidates, Vermont Sen. Bernie
Sanders.
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“This wave of globalization has wiped out
totally, totally our middle class,” Trump
told voters in the hard-hit steel town of
Monessen, Pennsylvania, during one of his
campaign stops. “It doesn’t have to be this
way.”
Trump’s criticism of trade agreements and
China’s trade policies found support with
white working-class Americans whose
wages had stagnated over the years.
Victories in big steel-producing states such
as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana demon-
strated that his tough trade talk had a recep-
tive audience.
Both candidates in a March 13 House elec-
tion in Pennsylvania have embraced the
president’s plans for tariffs. They addressed
the topic Saturday in a debate that aired on
WTAE in Pittsburgh.
“For too long, China has been making
cheap steel and they’ve been flooding the
market with it. It’s not fair and it’s not
right. So I actually think this is long over-
due, ” said Democratic candidate Conor
Lamb.
“Unfortunately, many of our competitors
around the world have slanted the playing
field, and their thumb has been on the scale,
and I think President Trump is trying to
even that scale back out,” said Republican
candidate Rick Saccone.
But Trump’s GOP allies on Capitol Hill
have little use for the tariff approach. They
argue that other industries that rely on steel
and aluminum products will suffer. The cost
of new appliances, cars and buildings will
rise if the president follows through, they
warn, and other nations could retaliate. The
end result could erode the president’s base of
support with rural America and even the
blue-collar workers the president says he
trying to help.
“There is always retaliation, and typical-
ly a lot of these countries single out agri-
culture when they do that. So, we’re very
concerned,” said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.
Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., asked the
administration to reconsider its stance. He
said American companies could move their
operations abroad and not face retaliatory
tariffs.
“This scenario would lead to the exact
opposite outcome of the administration’s
stated objective, which is to protect
American jobs,” Walker said.
The Business Roundtable’s Josh Bolten, a
chief of staff for President George W. Bush,
called on Trump to have “the courage” to
step back from his campaign rhetoric on
trade.
“Sometimes a president needs to, you
need to stick to your principles but you also
need to recognize in cases where stuff you
said in the campaign isn’t right and ought
to be drawn back,” he said on “Fox News
Sunday.” ‘’The president needs to have the
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‘Trump slump’ in gun business
continues despite control fight
By Andre Welsh-Huggins
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gun store owners
called it the “Trump slump.” Sales of firearms
slowed dramatically after the election of
Donald Trump as president in 2016 allayed
fears of a Democratic crackdown on gun own-
ers.
That trend has continued in recent weeks
even with talk of gun control in Congress
and among business leaders following the
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orientation at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In the past, gun massacres generally led to
an uptick in sales as people worried about
mal,” owner Robert Akers said Thursday,
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under President Barack Obama.
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Smith & Wesson, said revenue fell by one-
third over the past three months, consistent
with a drop since Trump was elected.
Demand dropped in December and January,
before the Florida shooting and the debates
on gun laws that followed, he said. The com-
pany doesn’t expect sales to improve much
over the next year.
Sturm Ruger and American Outdoor Brands
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Trump was elected, as they have mostly

Following Parkland, idle school the government restricting access. But with
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threats get tougher responses

By Steve Karnowski
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS— Fifteen students in one
Florida school district are facing felony
charges and prison time for making alleged
threats since the Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School massacre.
Meanwhile, an autistic Minnesota high
school student whose alleged threat led to a
six-hour lockdown is in juvenile court and
has received an outpouring of sympathy.
The Feb. 14 killings of 17 people in
Parkland, Florida, have ignited a wave of
copycat threats, as happens after nearly
every high-profile school shooting. Most
prove unfounded, but cause big disruptions
to schools while tying up police for hours
or even days.
Experts say authorities’ swift responses
are underscoring a climate in which even
idle threats will result in serious conse-
quences.
“Kids make bad decisions and I think that
in decades past those decisions would have
been addressed behind closed doors with the
principal and parents,” said Ken Trump,
president of National School Safety and
Security Services, a Cleveland-based con-
sulting company. “Now they’re being
addressed behind closed doors in the police
station and the courtroom.”
The Volusia County Schools system in
east-central Florida isn’t taking chances.
Sheriff Michael Chitwood made it clear he
had a zero-tolerance policy as threats began
after Parkland. On Thursday, he went further,
saying students or their families would have
to pay the costs of the investigations — at
least $1,000 and sometimes much more.
District spokeswoman Nancy Wait said
the message is clear: We’re not joking
around.
“Unfortunately that word didn’t get to the
students and we started seeing more students
making threats in the classroom, and that
was frightening to their classmates,” she
said. “Most of the time these students didn’t
have access to weapons, but they were still
making threats to shoot up their schools.”
Don Bridges, president of the National
Association of School Resource Officers
and a veteran of 16 years on duty at Franklin
High School in suburban Baltimore, said
the number of threats goes down when dis-
tricts send a strong message that they won’t
be tolerated.
The Educator’s School Safety Network,
which tracks reports of school threats and
violent incidents across the country, has
documented a spike since Parkland. The
Ohio group counted 797 as of Sunday. Most
(743) were for threats of various kinds,
including gun and bomb threats.
somebody turned a faucet off,” said David
Dobransky, 67, who owns Dobransky
Firearms, a small gun shop in North Canton,
Ohio. Since then, sales there have been cut
in half, and nothing the president or
Congress has done or said following the
Florida shooting has improved business.
Gun owners apparently have faith that
Trump won’t impose more restrictions, gun
show owners say. That’s even with the con-
fusing messages Trump has sent in the past
week.
He has cast himself as a strong supporter
of the National Rifle Association but on
Wednesday criticized lawmakers for being
too fearful of the NRA to take action. He also
reaffirmed positions opposed by the NRA,
such as banning gun sales to those under 21.
Then the next day, Trump met with NRA
officials and tweeted they’d had a “Good
(Great) meeting.” The NRA’s executive direc-
tor, tweeting about the same meeting, said
Trump and Vice President Mike Pence “don’t
want gun control.”
At Rapid-Fire Firearms in Rapid City,
South Dakota, business is “just like nor-
election and Sturm Ruger is down 28 percent.
Potentially dampening sales further, four
major retailers last week — Kroger, Dick’s
Sporting Goods, L.L. Bean and Walmart —
announced they will no longer sell guns to
anyone under 21.
In addition, outdoor retailer REI says it’s
halting future orders of some popular brands
— including CamelBak water carriers, Giro
helmets and Camp Chef stoves — whose par-
ent company also makes ammunition and
assault-style rifles.
Over the past 30 years, U.S. gun produc-
tion has tripled. Nine million were produced
in 2015, compared with 3 million in 1986,
according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives. Those figures don’t
reflect sales since Trump took office, bring-
ing with him the perception he was friendlier
to gun owners.
The U.S. also imports millions of guns
annually.
At Duke’s Sport Shop in New Castle,
Pennsylvania, gun sales have gone up in
recent days, but that’s thanks to the annual
infusion of tax refund checks, owner Wes
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U.S., Afghan leaders agree on peace push, Taliban don’t
By Matthew Pennington
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Despite U.S. support,
the Afghan government’s surprising new
peace offer to the Taliban is immediately run-
ning into a wall. The insurgents show no sign
of shifting from their demand that talks for a
conflict-ending compromise take place with
Washington, not Kabul.
The impasse is blocking a diplomatic path
out of America’s longest-running war and
could prove as fateful as fortunes on the bat-
tlefield.
The Trump administration says it’s escalat-
ing pressure on the Taliban to advance a nego-
tiated solution to the fighting. But diplomacy
is a distant second to military efforts right
now, and the U.S. isn’t offering carrots of its
own to persuade the insurgents to lay down
their arms.
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ior American diplomat for Afghanistan and
Pakistan, said the U.S. should be clearer about
what it’s willing to negotiate on, including
Chinese president considering Cardinal to face Australian court on sex abuse charges
historic grab at indefinite rule
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — President Xi Jinping is
poised to make a historic power grab as
China’s legislators gather beginning
Monday to approve changes that will let
him rule indefinitely and undo decades of
efforts to prevent a return to crushing dicta-
torship.
This year’s gathering of the ceremonial
National People’s Congress has been over-
shadowed by Xi’s surprise move —
announced just a week ago — to end consti-
tutional two-term limits on the presidency.
The changes would allow Xi, already
China’s most powerful leader in decades, to
extend his rule over the world’s second-
largest economy possibly for life.
“This is a critical moment in China’s his-
tory,” said Cheng Li, an expert on elite
China politics at the Brookings Institution
in Washington.
The move is widely seen as the culmina-
tion of the 64-year-old Xi’s efforts since
being appointed leader of the ruling
Communist Party in 2012 to concentrate
power in his own hands and defy norms of
collective leadership established over the
past two decades. Xi has appointed himself
to head bodies that oversee national securi-
ty, finance, economic reform and other
major initiatives, effectively sidelining the
WORLD
“The trouble is that the major issue the Taliban is interested in
talking about is the one [Ghani] has no control over — the
presence of American troops in Afghanistan.”
— Barnett Rubin, a New York University expert on Afghanistan
when it might start pulling forces from
Afghanistan. “That could set the stage for
talks,” she said.
Such a timetable seems a remote prospect,
and President Donald Trump has consistently
railed against the idea of telling the enemy
when the U.S. might leave. The U.S. involve-
ment in the Afghan conflict is now in its 17th
year, and 10,000 Afghan civilians were killed
or wounded in 2017 alone. All sides are hung
up on even the format for potential negotia-
tions. The Obama administration’s peace
push, which relied heavily on Afghanistan’s
neighbor Pakistan, floundered in 2015.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s new
effort, announced at an international confer-
ence in Kabul this past week, includes incen-
tives for insurgents that join negotiations
party’s No. 2 figure,
Premier Li Keqiang.
Once passed, the con-
stitutional amendment
would upend a system
enacted by former
Chinese leader Deng
Xiaoping in 1982 to pre-
vent a return to the
bloody excesses of a life-
Xi Jinping
long dictatorship typi-
fied by Mao Zedong’s
chaotic 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution.
“Deng Xiaoping’s abolishment of life-
time tenure for the leadership and more
institutionalized transitions in power are
very much in question,” said Li, the politics
expert.
Passage of the proposed constitutional
amendment by the congress’ nearly 3,000
hand-picked delegates is all but certain. But
observers will be looking to see how many
delegates abstain from voting as an indica-
tion of the reservations the move has
encountered even within the political estab-
lishment.
On Sunday, Zhang Yesui, the legislature’s
spokesman, told reporters that the move is
only aimed at bringing the office of the
president in line with Xi’s other positions
atop the party and the Central Military
Commission.
and enter the political mainstream. The gov-
ernment would provide passports and visas to
Taliban members and their families, and work
to remove sanctions against Taliban leaders,
he said. The Islamist group could set up an
office.
Alice Wells, America’s top diplomat for
South Asia, endorsed the overture and said the
“onus” was on the Taliban to demonstrate
they’re ready to talk, “not to me or the United
States, but to the sovereign and legitimate
government and people of Afghanistan.”
With wounds and emotions still raw in
Kabul after a wave of brutal Taliban attacks in
Kabul in late January, Ghani’s offer was a sig-
nificant olive branch. Still, it’s one unlikely
to change the calculus of hard-line insurgents,
said Michael Kugelman, senior associate for
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MELBOURNE, Australia — Wearing his
clerical collar, the most senior Vatican offi-
cial ever charged in the Catholic Church sex
abuse crisis arrived at an Australian court
Monday morning ahead of a hearing to deter-
mine whether prosecutors have sufficient
evidence to put him on trial.
Australian Cardinal George Pell’s commit-
tal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates
Court before Magistrate Belinda Wallington
is scheduled to take up to a month, with tes-
timony of alleged victims likely to be sup-
pressed from publication.
Pell arrived by car and was flanked by
police and one of his lawyers, Paul Galbally,
as he walked through a large group of media
and into the court security screening area. He
remained silent as he entered.
Pope Francis’ former finance minister was
charged in June of last year with sexually
abusing multiple people in his Australian
home state of Victoria. The details of the
allegations against the 76-year-old cardinal
have yet to be released to the public, though
police have described the charges as “histor-
ical” sexual assault offenses — meaning the
crimes that are alleged to have occurred
decades ago.
The case places both the cardinal and the
pope in potentially perilous territory. For
Pell, the charges are a threat to his freedom,
his reputation and his career. For Francis,
they are a threat to his credibility, given that
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South Asia at the Wilson Center think tank.
And Barnett Rubin, a New York University
expert on Afghanistan who advised the
Obama administration, said: “The trouble is
that the major issue the Taliban is interested
in talking about is the one he has no control
over — the presence of American troops in
Afghanistan.”
Top Afghan security officials maintain
back-channel discussions with Taliban, The
Associated Press has learned, but the officials’
efforts are not coordinated and more formal
talks are impeded by the Taliban’s insistence
that its “Islamic Emirate,” ousted in a U.S.-led
invasion in 2001 for hosting al-Qaida,
remains Afghanistan’s legitimate govern-
ment.
“America must end her occupation and must
accept all our legitimate rights including the
right to form a government consistent with
the beliefs of our people,” the militant group
said in a rambling Feb. 14 letter addressed to
the American people and “peace-loving con-
gressmen.” It sought “peaceful dialogue” with
Washington.
he famously promised a “zero tolerance”
policy for sex abuse in the church.
Advocates for abuse victims have long railed
against Francis’ decision to appoint Pell to
the high-ranking position in the first place.
When Pell was promoted in 2014, he was
already facing allegations that he had mis-
handled cases of clergy abuse during his time
as archbishop of Melbourne and, later,
Sydney.
Pell has not yet entered a plea. But his
lawyers told the court that the cardinal plans
to formally plead not guilty.
One of the charges was withdrawn last
week because the accuser had died.
Pell’s lawyers told the court last month
that the allegations stemmed from publicity
surrounding a national inquiry into child
abuse three years ago.
His lawyer, Ruth Shann, said the first com-
plainant approached police in 2015, 40
years after the alleged crimes, in response to
media reports about Australia’s Royal
Commission into Institutional Responses
to Child Sexual Abuse.
Australia’s longest-running royal com-
mission — which is the country’s highest
form of inquiry — had been investigating
since 2012 how the Catholic Church and
other institutions responded to sexual abuse
of children in Australia over 90 years. The
inquiry issued its final report in December.
Pell testified to the inquiry in a video link
from the Vatican in 2016 about his time as a
priest and bishop in Australia.
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Lavish lifestyles of the Trump administration
The Baltimore Sun
It never pays for public officials to
appear to be living high on the hog.
Well, almost never. At least that’s the
advice we should have given a certain
former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon
who took up politics only recently
and now finds himself defending a
$31,561 dining room set the taxpay-
ers purchased for his office suite at the
U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development. And, apparently,
he didn’t even get to pick it out.
The problem, of course, is that
while the agency in charge of helping
the poorest Americans find decent
housing was ordering a custom-made
table for the secretary’s personal
space, HUD officials were also plan-
ning how best to make substantial
reductions to programs that help the
elderly and homeless. And, worst of
all, people noticed. A senior agency
official claims Dr. Carson’s wife,
Candy Carson, has spearheaded an
effort to spend lavishly on that same
office space — even if it means going
around federal rules that require con-
gressional approval for any spending
on a department head above $5,000
— and the official filed a whistleblow-
er complaint about it.
Not good, right? You are about to
make decisions about how many
Americans deserve to live on heating
grates and in cardboard boxes while
simultaneously picking out that just-
so mix of mahogany and leather. Dr.
Carson’s defense is that he didn’t
have much direct involvement (it was
a Charm City-based federally-
approved contractor picking out that
fancy dining room table, by the way)
and that the cost isn’t out of line for
such furniture. Here’s what his defense
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Editor,
To clarify my position on allowing
the gun store in San Carlos: I am talk-
ing about permitting sporting guns,
duck guns etc., and also self-defense
weapons, not assault rifles. Those
advocating gun control almost always
specify by saying, “We are not talk-
ing about legitimate limiting options
for your family’s self defense or legal
sporting purposes, we are talking
about assault weapons of war.”
I am advocating only for a legal
right to sell those guns which the
public at large and most gun control
advocates overwhelmingly support. If
you want to say, “I don’t support even
self-defense and sporting guns, and
furthermore, I don’t support my
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should be: I’m just following the
example set by my boss and fellow
cabinet members.
If there’s one thing that has defined
Donald Trump’s first year in office —
aside from the incompetence, erratic
behavior and frequent lies, of course
— it’s how in both policy and appear-
ance this president and his minions
have favored the wealthy and shame-
lessly gamed the system for their per-
sonal benefit. The tax plan approved
by Congress last fall is surely the
centerpiece of policies side so lopsid-
edly tilted to the rich that investor
Warren E. Buffett recently estimated
his company’s windfall at $29 bil-
lion. So how’s that slightly lower
income tax withholding rate working
out for the rest of us?
But it’s not just the giveaways, it’s
the shameless takeaways, too. EPA
Administrator Scott Pruitt doesn’t fly
coach when on government business,
he goes strictly first class, lest he be
seated next to an irate passenger.
Apparently, rolling back environ-
mental protections has its price in
rude behavior from the little people
who favor clean air and water but
can’t afford an upgrade when they fly.
Where in the world did Mr. Pruitt get
the idea it was acceptable to travel on
the public dime with the champagne
set? Maybe it was from former Health
and Human Services Secretary Tom
Price, who racked up a $1 million tab
using private and military planes.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
used a government aircraft on a trip to
Kentucky that gave him an excep-
tional view of the solar eclipse at a
cost of $26,900, which is like 85
percent of a Carson dining room. He
it’s assault weapons sales.” Don’t
support those sales in San Carlos.
John Dillon
San Bruno
As we loot and pollute
Editor,
As we loot and pollute, the extent
of our collective plunder is beyond
my wonder.
Our chances of survival are purged
as we cheer on the stock market
surge.
The next Arctic oil rig is tanta-
mount to mankind’s collective oxy-
codone fix.
Our flawed laws based on greed must
be replaced by ones to meet the plan-
et’s needs.
The likely return on your stock
market portfolio will be a burning
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even ended up reimbursing the gov-
ernment for the cost of his wife’s
travel, $595. Readers may recall his
wife, the actress Louise Linton, who
after facing criticism for announcing
the designer clothing she wore on
that Fort Knox trip, told her critic
that she was “adorably out of touch.”
Those darn peasants.
Yet all that pales to the master of
the opulent lifestyle who once criti-
cized Barack Obama for playing golf
too much only to set the presidential
record for days on the links in his
first year in office, spending tens of
millions in taxpayer dollars (and bet-
ter yet, directing many of those dol-
lars at his own businesses) to fly to
his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida at
least 13 times and New Jersey’s
Bedminster 11. The fact-checkers at
Snopes estimate his Secret Service
golf cart rental bill for 2017 at more
than $100,000 alone. NBC News cal-
culates the president’s first year in
office included 130 days at Trump
properties. Mr. Trump refuses to give
Americans a full accounting of his
personal finances, so we’re kept in
the dark about just how much he prof-
its from his position and government
spending at venues like his D.C.
hotel or Mar-a-Lago, but he’s certain-
ly set the tone
Dr. Carson’s circumstances may
seem more severe because he works at
HUD, not Treasury or the Oval Office.
But it’s still small potatoes. As
Secretary Mnuchin’s spouse might
observe, he’s adorably out of touch.
This may be an administration that
claims to be working for the little
guy, but it’s a crowd that identifies
more with guys who fly in the front of
the plane and play the back nine at
the most exclusive clubs.
forest and flooded coastline.
Corporate short-term gains will
prove to be our unending long-term
pain.
As California burns, Tel Aviv siz-
zles, Mozambique fries and Miami
floods, we madly wage wars over our
dwindling natural resources.
Our collective suicide is clear, yet
ignored by most out of fear.
I hate to imagine the despair, when
we finally cannot breathe the air.
The time for humanity to join in
unison is now; without it there will
be no tomorrow.
Put down the arms, quiet the
bombs, stifle the tanks and embrace
the love that humanity needs to sur-
vive.
John Ebneter
San Mateo
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Redwood City’s
mayor Ian Bain
I
an Bain had to wait a long time before he became
mayor of Redwood City and even a longer time before
he was elected to the City Council. But his persever-
ance and patience paid off and he was the top vote getter in
the 2015 election.
Bain first ran for the council in 1995 and didn’t make it.
He ran again in 1997 and almost did. He was just 129 votes
short. Three months later, when a sitting councilmember
retired, the council appointed him to fill the vacancy. He
had to run for the seat in 1998, which he did and lost. So
he decided to take some time off — five years — where he
was able to focus on his family and job.
“It turned out for the
best,” Bain explained.
He started seeing things
from the perspective of an
ordinary citizen and not as a
councilmember or candidate
for council. In 2003, he ran
again and was elected.
Bain describes himself as
being for slow or measured
growth and for developers
to meet the city’s goals
rather than the reverse. For
a while, his views were not
shared by a majority of his
colleagues. He feels it is
more important than ever
for his city to carefully manage future growth because of
the high pace of development in the recent past. When the
2011 downtown precise plan was approved, if developers
adhered to the plan they did not have to go through indi-
vidual environmental impact reports. This increased the
pace of development. Redwood City developed the reputa-
tion as an easy place to build and developers flocked to the
city. Instead of growth playing out over 10 to 20 years, it
happened within five and for many in the city it was too
much too soon.
The height limit in the Downtown Precise Plan is 136
feet, but Bain said anything that tall has been allowed. He
pointed out that through the appeals process and negotiat-
ing with the community, some buildings have been scaled
down within the downtown. Also, within the DTPP, there
are some places where the maximum height allowed is
much lower, to fit with historic buildings.
The community is also concerned about the loss of three
popular enterprises — Malibu Grand Prix, Mel’s Bowling
Alley, and Lyngso (the latter moved to San Carlos) when
the properties were sold for future development.
There are three major projects working their way through
the city which are not located in the Downtown Precise
Plan area. The mayor feels the council as a result will have
more discretion and more time to evaluate. The three big-
gies are 1601 El Camino Real which includes five blocks
encompassing El Camino Real and Maple, Cedar and Main
streets. The developer would like to build 272 multi-family
units including 37 low-income; 589,700 square feet of
office space; 10,000 square feet of retail; and a 10,000-
square-foot child care facility.
The Harbor View proposal would be built on land once
housing Malibu Grand Prix and Lyngso. It would include
1.2 million square feet of office space in four seven-story
buildings between Redwood Creek and Highway 101. With
enough space to accommodate 7,800 tech workers, this
proposal will need a general plan amendment.
The third is Sobrato’s Broadway Plaza at 1401 Broadway.
It would replace an existing retail strip mall and office
building with a mixed-use project of approximately 400
market rate, 120 affordable units; 420,000 square feet of
office space; 26,000 square feet of retail and a 10,000-
square-foot child care facility.
Bain, 50, was born in Berkeley and grew up in Palo Alto.
He attended Gunn High School and later Berkeley High
School when his family moved back to Berkeley. He gradu-
ated from the University of California, Berkeley with a
degree in political science. His first job was in Redwood
City working for Kainos, a nonprofit for the developmen-
tally and intellectually disabled. He taught Kainos kids job
skills, found them jobs and eventually ended up as a grant
writer for the agency. When he moved back to Redwood
City in 1993, he found a job with a technology public
relations agency and worked in corporate communications.
He now holds a similar job in San Jose.
Redwood City has seven councilmembers (most cities on
the Peninsula have five). It has term limits of 16 years and
elects mayors for two-year terms rather than one. So it
takes a while before a newcomer can become mayor. After
patiently waiting his turn, Bain finally is mayor of
Redwood City. It’s a challenging time for a mayor who
believes in measured growth in a city which has grown,
according to some, by quantum leaps.
Sue Lempert is the former mayor of San Mateo. Her column runs
every Monday. She can be reached at sue@smdailyjournal.com.
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10 Monday • March 5, 2018
The Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower Panama is seen on the right next to
apartment buildings in Panama City.
During Trump hotel strife, a
‘Trump Mojito’ but no water
By Mark Stevenson
and Jeff Horwitz
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PANAMA CITY — If you can overlook the
intermittently running water, Friday’s four-
hour power outage and occasional police
presence in the lobby, the Trump hotel in
Panama City retains its status as one of the
city’s finest.
The hotel remains open for business
against a backdrop of service interruptions,
bad press and a fight over the Trump
Organization’s management contract that
ended in fisticuffs and repeated police calls
last week.
“This isn’t what you expect from a luxury
hotel,” one guest was heard fuming when
told Thursday that access to running water
would not be restored for hours.
The hotel’s lobby is notable mostly for
its shortage of guests, compensated for by a
generous allotment of reporters and security
staff bracing for renewed confrontations
after investor Orestes Fintiklis tried to
wrest the administrative office back from
the Trump Organization last week.
Armed with termination notices for the
hotel’s management, he met stiff resistance
from Trump lawyers and security — the first
skirmish in a battle for physical control of
the hotel property.
Unlike the Trump International Hotel in
Washington or the Mar-a-Lago resort in
Florida, which draw guests hoping to bask
in Donald Trump-style affluence, guests
who spoke to The Associated Press seemed
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less enamored of the Panama City proper-
ty’s fondness for aggressive branding.
“I could really do without the Trump
Mojito. There are like four or five Trump
drinks on the menu,” said Leanne Horning,
a tourist from Chicago staying at the hotel
because she got a good deal online.
Horning is “adamantly not” a supporter of
the U.S. president and said it irked her that
instead of ordering standard cocktails,
guests had to choose from among the
Tropical Trump, Trump Breeze and Trump
Rose.
While Trump Meritage and Trump
Chardonnay also were available, what was
lacking a good chunk of this past week was
Trump water, at least when guests turned on
the hotel’s faucets.
According to municipal authorities,
Trump receptionists, housekeepers and a
maintenance man, city workers spent much
of last Tuesday and Wednesday repairing a
damaged water main at the hotel. Though
water was restored late Wednesday, the
Trump Organization seized the opportunity
to perform some additional maintenance,
extending the cutoff into late Thursday.
A helpful worker distributed cases of
Trump-branded bottled water to guests.
Fintiklis, who manages the Miami-based
private equity fund Ithaca Capital, has
alleged financial misconduct by Trump
Hotels dating back years and has said
Donald Trump’s statements on immigration
have destroyed his brand in Latin America.
Fintiklis is waging a bitter battle to oust the
Trump team from the hotel.
Google expansion plans helping
to turn New York into a tech hub
By Karen Matthews
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — As New York City waits
to hear whether it’s been chosen as the site
for Amazon’s second headquarters, recent
moves by another tech giant, Google, to
expand its footprint in the city are help-
ing to legitimize New York’s claim to be
Silicon Valley East.
Google is reportedly close to a reaching
a $2. 4 billion deal to add a landmark
Meatpacking District building to its
already substantial New York campus.
The building, a block-long former
Nabisco factory named after its ground-
floor upscale food mall, Chelsea Market,
sits across the street from Google’s cur-
rent New York City headquarters, a mas-
sive, art deco, former shipping terminal
that also occupies an entire city block.
Google already leases space in Chelsea
Market, which also contains offices for
Major League Baseball and the local cable
news channel NY1, among other tenants.
If the sale goes through, it would be
among the priciest real estate transactions
for a single building in city history. It
would also give Google a remarkable
Manhattan campus to supplement its still-
growing main headquarters in Mountain
View, California.
Representatives for Google did not
respond to requests for comment about the
company’s New York expansion plans.
Google already occupies another former
Nabisco cookie factory just west of
Chelsea Market. And, across the street
from that factory, it has also announced
plans to lease another 320,000 square feet
of space at Pier 57, an office and retail
complex built on a pier over the Hudson
River.
A New York Post real estate writer this
week dubbed Google’s slice of Manhattan
“Alphabet City,” a reference to the name
of both Google’s parent company and a
neighborhood on Manhattan’s east side.
The pending Chelsea Market deal was
first reported by the real estate publication
The Real Deal.
The Google expansion comes as other
tech companies, including Amazon,
Facebook and Spotify, are also growing in
the city. In addition to considering New
York among the 20 finalists for its new
eastern U.S. headquarters, Amazon recent-
ly signed a deal to bring 2,000 employees
to a building, formerly occupied by The
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Associated Press, on Manhattan’s far west
side.
New York has been pitching itself as an
alternative to Silicon Valley for years. And
while tech many never rival financial
services and Wall Street as the most
important private-sector employer and
economic driver in New York, it has estab-
lished a legitimate footprint that goes
beyond a few big-name companies.
A report by state Comptroller Thomas
DiNapoli found that New York City had
7,600 tech firms in 2016, an increase of
23 percent since 2010. The report found
that the average salary for tech employees
in the city was $147,300.
Julie Samuels, executive director of
TechNYC, a trade association of New York
tech companies, said the presence of large
companies like Google and Amazon has
created “a robust ecosystem” where young
engineers and others move to New York to
work for the large companies and then
leave after a few years to found startups.
Tasso Argyros, the founder of three-year-
old startup ActionIQ, agreed. “One of the
best things that happened for New York
was when Google opened up their office
here,” he said.
Argyros said people in Silicon Valley
told him he was “a little bit crazy” when he
moved to New York in 2013.
But his data-focused marketing company
seeks to attract big companies as clients
and it’s helpful to be in the New York area
with its high concentration of Fortune
500 companies.
“It’s much easier to be close to your cus-
tomers,” he said.
Samuels and Argyros said another advan-
tage to New York is that tech isn’t the only
game in town.
Samuels said she was pleased to learn
that she and her husband are the only par-
ents in her 3-year-old son’s preschool
class who work in tech.
“That would never happen in San
Francisco,” she said. When she lived in
the city by the Bay, “everyone I knew was
in tech.”
Argyros said there’s “a little bit of
groupthink in Silicon Valley. There’s a lot
of people who have similar jobs, they read
similar things. But New York is really too
big to be dominated by one industry.”
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to SHC in CCS girls’ soccer finals
Monday • March 5, 2018

Menzies’ 38 leads HMB to title

By Ethan Kassel
DAILY JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT
SANTA CLARA — Maybe giving up a 9-0 run to end the
first half was the best thing that could have happened for
the Half Moon Bay Cougars.
Half Moon Bay opened the third quarter with incredible
ferocity, outscoring Santa Cruz 25-5 en route to a 72-58 win
to claim the Central Coast Section Division IV boys’ basket-
ball title, the program’s first since 1996.
Held to eight points in last year’s championship loss,
Ethan Menzies dominated Saturday night, scoring 38 points,
including 16 in that dominant third quarter as No. 1-seeded
Half Moon Bay (24-5) exorcised the demons of years past.
With No. 2 Santa Cruz (24-5) leading
32-30 to close the second quarter,
Menzies started the third with a put-back
as the Cougars completely took control
of the game. They took the lead on a
Gavin Tomberlin put-back moments
later, part of a 16-0 run to open the sec-
ond half. Jake Quosig’s steal and layup
opened up a double-digit lead, and Danny
Ethan Menzies Mack’s 3-pointer, one of just four
Cougar 3s on the night, made it 46-32. BECKY RUPPEL
They hardly needed to shoot from outside as Menzies was HMB guard Sam Treanor drives against G.J. Hill in the Cougars’
72-58 win over Santa Cruz in the CCS Division IV boys’
See HMB, Page 16 basketball championship game Satuday at the Leavey Center.

Miraculous march
South City overcomes loss of MVP point guard to
claim first CCS championship in program history
By Terry Bernal
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
SAN JOSE — South City wasn’t
supposed to stand a chance. Or so
it seemed.
Despite entering the Central
Coast Section Division III playoffs
as the No. 1 seed, the Lady Warriors,
one day prior to their semifinal
game, lost three-time Peninsula
Athletic League North Division
MVP Brittney Cedeno to injury.
South City’s dreams of taking
home the program’s first-ever
CCS title crushed? Guess again.
The Warriors (26-4) proved true
to their name, putting forth a
spectacular display of team bas-
ketball to overcome No. 2 Aptos
66-50 Saturday night at Piedmont
Hills High School.
“We’re excited,” South City sen-
ior Jerlene Miller said. “It took us
four years to get here.”
Cedeno has helped South City to
the CCS playoffs for three straight
years, and has suffered injuries in
all three. In 2015, she left the
Northern California playoff open-
er with a concussion and the
Warriors saw a lead quickly shrivel
into a 58-57 loss to Tamalpais.
Last year in the PAL tournament
finals, she was lost for the season
with a knee injury.
South City head coach Paul Carion
said the difference this year, with
Cedeno suffering a severe ankle
sprain in practice, that the Warriors
had time to absorb the shock.
See SSF, Page 16
SHP runs
and guns
to crown
By Terry Bernal
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
SANTA CLARA — Sacred Heart
Prep’s last Central Coast Section
championship in 2016 came via a
1-point thriller. This time around,
the Gators took it much easier on
the heart of head coach Melanie
Murphy.
Returning to the Leavey Center
for the second straight year, top-
seed SHP (16-10) used its up-tempo
transition attack to take apart West
Bay Athletic League rival Notre
Dame-Belmont 55-35.
“We were just on tonight,”
Murphy said. “Notre Dame-
Belmont is a really good team. TERRY BERNAL/DAILY JOURNAL
They’ve played us twice (in the reg- Sacred Heart Prep freshman Megan
ular season) and we’ve split with Norris glides to the hoops in the
them. So we knew we were going to Gators’ 55-35 win Saturday over
have a battle. But our shots fell the Notre Dame-Belmont in the CCS
way we wanted them to.” Division IV girls’ title game.
No. 2-seeded NDB got the game- Gators scored in the contest, with
high scorer with freshman Alaiyah just two touching double-figures as
San Juan’s 13 points, but had little junior forward Zoe Zaharias and
else to boast on offense. Entering freshman center Megan Norris
the half trailing 21-14, the Tigers shared the team-high with 10
shot just 22.2 percent from the points apiece.
field in the second half. Sophomore guard Charlotte
“Their size gives us all kinds of Levison added eight points, senior
problems,” NDB head coach Josh guard Grace Battles had seven and
Davenport said. “We never had a senior forward Tatum Angotti
clean look inside. We never had a totaled six. It has been this kind of
really clean look from the outside. balanced effort that spurred SHP’s
Their length — they’re taller than postseason resurgence after finish-
us at every position — so, you ing in a fourth-place tie in the
have to make a few shots to soften WBAL Foothill Division, one
them up early in the game or it’s a game ahead of last-place NDB.
struggle like it was the whole way.” “I think with our motion offense,
TERRY BERNAL/DAILY JOURNAL SHP used its shutdown defense to a lot of different people get oppor-
South City freshman Alex Salise drives to the hoop in the Warriors’ 66-50 slingshot its fast-break attack, tunities,” Murphy said. “I think we
win over Aptos in the CCS Division III championship game Saturday at finding an array of targets to con-
Piedmont Hills High School. vert at the other end. Nine different See GATORS, Page 16

Woodside shut down by St. Francis

NATHAN MOLLAT/DAILY JOURNAL
Woodside’s Gabriella Silvestri, left, tries to get past St. Francis’
Lauren Beers during the Wildcats’ 2-0 loss Saturday in the CCS
Division I championship game at Valley Christian High School.
By Nathan Mollat
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
SAN JOSE — The skies opened up
and dumped gallons of water on players
and fans alike a half hour before the
start of the Central Coast Section girls’
Division I soccer final between No. 1
Woodside and No. 10 St. Francis.
The rain deluge ended before the start
of the game, but the deluge of Lancers’
soccer didn’t as St. Francis dominated
the two-time defending champion
Wildcats, beating Woodside 2-0
Saturday afternoon at Valley Christian
High School.
Given how much Woodside struggled
at times this season, a runner-up finish
was quite an accomplishment.
“I’m satisfied for the girls. [Our sea-
son] was not a matter of improving, it
was surviving. We had about 15 must-
win games,” said Woodside head coach
Jose Navarrete. “Any type of trophy
will do.”
St. Francis (13-8-3) took a quick 1-0
lead before most anyone had settled in.
The Wildcats stabilized and played the
Lancers even for most of the rest of the
game before St. Francis iced it early in
the second half with its second goal.
While the defense was mostly up to
the challenge, the offense for
Woodside (9-5-8) was mostly lacking.
The Wildcats managed just four shots
for the game, only two of which were
on frame. St. Francis, conversely,
pulled the trigger on 10 shots, six of
which were on goal.
Most of the fans were still settling
into the bleachers at Valley Christian
when the Lancers took a 1-0 lead just
three minutes into the game. Courtney
Mathisen received a pass at the top of
the Woodside penalty box and placed her
shot just inside the right post for what
turned out to be the game-winning goal.
“It was not a real good start for by
us,” Navarrete said.
See SOCCER, Page 14
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12 Monday • March 5, 2018 SPORTS THE DAILY JOURNAL

Spring training
Dodgers 9, Giants 3
Sharks’ power-play woes prove costly
By Josh Dubow
San Francisco starter THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jeff Samardzija gave up
three hits and three walksSAN JOSE — Artemi Panarin scored two
in two innings. Giants goals and the Columbus Blue Jackets ended
prospect Steven Duggar their California swing on a winning note by
homered for the third time
beating the Sharks 4-2 Sunday night.
this spring and is battingNick Foligno and Sonny Milano got
.412. Columbus started with first-period goals and
Dodgers catcher Yasmani
Grandal homered and
Sergei Bobrovsky made 34 saves to help the
Steven Duggar starter Kenta Maeda struck Blue Jackets salvage the final game of their
three-game trip to remain a point ahead of
out three in 2 1/3 innings. Florida for the second wild-card spot in the
Eastern Conference.
A’s 12, Padres (ss) 4 Evander Kane scored his first goal since
San Diego newcomer Eric Hosmer hit his joining the Sharks and Joonas Donskoi also
first home run. Shortstop Franklin Barreto, scored but San Jose was unable to erase a
Oakland’s top prospect, connected off three-goal deficit.
Clayton Richard for his second homer. The Martin Jones allowed three goals on 11
A’s designated power-hitting Brandon Moss shots before being pulled early in the second
for assignment. period and the Sharks went a 12th straight
Blue Jackets 4, Sharks 2
game without a power-
play goal, extending their
drought to 28 chances.
The Sharks fell behind
3-0 early in the second
when Panarin deflected
Ian Cole’s point shot into
Martin Jones the net to end Jones’
night. The Blue Jackets
limited San Jose’s chances after that as they
kept control of the game until a broken play
late in the second gave the Sharks life.
Kane’s pass was deflected right to Dylan
DeMelo at the point. DeMelo fired the puck
toward the net and Donskoi deflected it past
Bobrovsky to make it 3-1.
Kane then scored midway through the
third, giving him five points in three games
with San Jose. But the Sharks were unable to
get the equalizer against Bobrovsky, who
made a sliding save on a deflection by
Pavelski.
Panarin then sealed it with an empty-net-
ter, his 20th goal of the season.
The Blue Jackets bounced back from losses
at Los Angeles and Anaheim by getting off to
a fast start in San Jose despite being short-
handed for six minutes in the opening period.
The Sharks failed to convert any of those
chances into goals with Bobrovsky’s glove
save on a deflection by Pavelski the best
chance as their power-play drought extended
to 27.
Aaron Dell stopped all 16 shots he faced in
place of Jones.
Center Eric Fehr returned to the lineup
after missing one game and Marcus Sorensen
was scratched.

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Terra Nova taken down by Irish Dons can’t keep
By Nathan Mollat
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF pace vs. Valley
in CCS DII finals
SAN JOSE — Terra Nova girls’ soccer head
coach Ernie Brockmeyer said defense has
been the heart and soul of the Tigers’ sur-
prising run to the Central Coast Section
Division II championship game.
Against Sacred Heart Cathedral in the title
game at Valley Christian High School
Saturday morning, the Tigers needed to be
perfect defensively to pick up an offense
that struggled to solve the Irish back line.
Unfortunately, the Tigers were not per-
fect. They made a couple of mistakes, SHC
took advantage and the Irish came away
with a 2-0 victory.
Despite the disappointing loss, there
were no tears on the Terra Nova sideline.
Only contented smiles.
“We’re really upset, but in the long run,
we’re happy,” said Terra Nova senior center
fullback Tori Jaques. “We made history
today. It sucks we lost, but the last three
years we never even got this far.”
Terra Nova (9-6-7), the No. 3 seed, was
appearing in the school’s first-ever girls’
soccer final, but that in and of itself was not
enough to give the Tigers a championship,
mainly because their offense had a tough
time applying any pressure on the SHC
goal. Terra Nova did a good job of building
up the attack along the flanks and through
the middle, but the Irish defense made it
nearly impossible for the Tigers to get off a
dangerous cross or make that final through
pass that resulted in a chance on goal.
“We don’t have the firepower up front,”
Brockmeyer said. “I thought one goal would
be the winning goal.”
That first goal didn’t come until the sec-
ond half and despite dodging a couple break-
away bullets in the first, the Tigers made the
first mistake and the Irish pounced. A ball
was played to midfield where Terra Nova
sweeper Haley Dyer and SHC’s Maggie
Altman were matched. Dyer could not clear
the ball away and went by her, latched onto
the loose ball and broke in on goal.
As Terra Nova started to collapse on
Altman at the top of the Tigers’ penalty
box, Altman made a small little cutback
behind the defender to find space for a shot.
She turned and hammered a shot on goal that
goalkeeper Julia Falk had no chance of
stopping as the Irish took a 1-0 lead in the
49th minute.
“I think that first goal broke our backs,”
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Terra Nova sweeper Haley Dyer clears a ball away during the Tigers’ 2-0 loss to Sacred Heart
Cathedral in the CCS Division II championship game Saturday at Valley Christian High School.
Brockmeyer said. “The team just let down.”
About 20 minutes later, ninth-seeded SHC
(13-7-3) netted an insurance goal. Catriona
Black won a ball in her defensive end and
carried it to midfield before sending a diago-
nal ball through to Rhea Chan on the right
flank, who took the ball nearly to the end
line. She slotted a pass into the middle of
the Tigers’ penalty box where there were a
pair of unmarked Irish strikers. It was
Sophie Rodil who finished, punching a one-
timer past a defenseless Falk for the game’s
final goal.
Terra Nova, on the other hand, managed
only one shot on goal over the final 40
minutes, a weak attempt from the top of the
penalty box that was easily saved by SHC
goalkeeper Emma Wineinger. She also had a
save in the first half as Terra Nova finished
with just three shots.
Despite Terra Nova having stretches of
control in the first half, it was SHC that had
the dangerous chances through the opening
40 minutes. In the third minute, Rodil
drilled a shot from the top of the box that
was saved by Falk with a dive to her left.
Falk, who finished with five stops, was
forced into action again in the seventh
minute off a shot from 25 yards out.
SHC’s best chance at a first-half goal
came in the 17th minute on a play that fore-
NATHAN MOLLAT/DAILY JOURNAL
shadowed the Irish’s first goal. It was SHC’s
Rodil and Terra Nova’s Dyer matched up near
midfield when the ball took a funny hop
past Dyer and Rodil raced onto the loose
ball and broke in on goal.
As she approached the Tigers’ penalty
box, the ball got a bit tangled up in Rodil’s
feet, allowing Dyer to recover and poke the
ball away before Rodil could get a shot off.
“”They (SHC) took it to us,” Brockmeyer
said. “We’re a team who’s taken it to the
other team (this season).”
Despite coming up short, Brockmeyer is
excited about his team’s future.
“It’s the first time we’ve ever gotten this
far, so I’m very proud of the girls, ”
Brockmeyer said. “We have 12 juniors who
will be seniors next year, so we’re looking
to hopefully get back (to the CCS champi-
onship game).”
Monday • March 5, 2018 13
By Ethan Kassel
DAILY JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT
SAN JOSE — The Aragon offense might
not have gotten the memo that Saturday’s
Central Coast Section Division II boys’
basketball championship game was moved
from Independence High School to nearby
Piedmont Hills after a power outage.
While the No. 3-seed Dons and their sup-
porters made the trip, the
offense never really
showed up in a season-
ending 57-36 loss to
Valley Christian.
A 19-2 run bridging the
first two quarters set the
tone as the top-seeded
Warriors reinforced the
WCAL’s status as the top
Sam Manu league in the region.
Their last-place league finish was a product of
the league’s strength. With 6-foot-9 junior
Jay Allen-Tovar and 6-7 senior Cameron Fini
in the middle, scoring on Valley Christian
(14-13) was all but impossible for Aragon.
The Dons scored exactly nine points in
every quarter and, outside of brief moments at
the start of the third quarter, spent the entire
second half looking at a double-digit deficit.
“It’s disappointing, of course,” Aragon
head coach Hosea Patton said, “but I’m
happy that our guys got here.”
The start of each half was certainly the
best for Aragon (16-11). Three early 3-
pointers gave the Dons a 9-7 lead, but they
wouldn’t score again in the opening quarter,
finally improving their end of the score-
board on a steal in the backcourt and layup
See DONS, Page 16
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14 Monday • March 5, 2018
M-A can’t keep pace with upstart Silver Creek
By Terry Bernal
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
SANTA CLARA — Menlo-Atherton’s
MVP duo put forth quite a gritty effort. But
Silver Creek’s sister tandem was just too hot
to handle.
The top-seed Lady Bears (21-9) posted
their second lowest scoring total of the sea-
son in the Central Coast Section Division I
championship game Saturday at the Leavey
Center, falling to No. 6 Silver Creek 42-30.
M-A’s co-Peninsula Athletic League Most
Valuable Player tandem of Greer Hoyem and
Carly McLanahan were both held relatively
in check by Silver Creek’s dynamic defense.
Hoyem totaled a double-double with 17
points and 10 rebounds while McLanahan
managed just eight points.
The Bears shot just 21.7 percent from the
field in the defensive spectacle.
“I just feel like we couldn’t hit shots
tonight,” M-A head coach Markisha Coleman
said. “… We didn’t get the open looks we nor-
mally get. But there were shots there.”
For Silver Creek — a team that had never
previously reached a CCS championship
game — the win was vindication for head
coach Sonny Flores. It was 30 years previ-
ous while at Yerba Buena High School his
team lost to the Menlo-Atherton boys in
the CCS Division II finals.
“It’s been a long time coming,” Flores
said. “I dreamt about it as a player at [Yerba
Buena]. We played in the CCS champi-
onship game my senior year. As a coach it
has been a motivating, driving force … to
try to reach this game.”
The Augmon sisters were the reason
Flores at last realized his dream. Junior for-
ward Leilani Augmon (16 points, 13
rebounds) and freshman guard Aniyah
Augmon (15 points, 11 rebounds) each
recorded double-doubles. And their prolific
defense — the two accumulated five steals
— not only disrupted M-A’s shot selection,
SOCCER
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Woodside, to its credit, steadied itself
after the flash goal and held the Lancers to
just one other shot on goal over the final 37
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from ever finding a tempo.
Silver Creek (17-11) never trailed, jump-
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an 18-13 advantage into halftime, M-A
three times got to within two points, the
latest coming at 26-24 with 4:42 remaining
in regulation. From there, the Augmon
show went primetime, with Leilani Augmon
knocking down Silver Creek’s only 3-
pointer of the game to spark an 11-3 run.
“It was a tough game for us tonight … but
I’m proud of my girls,” Coleman said. “We
got down a lot in the first half and before the
end of the half we battled back. The second
half we battled and the game got away from
us mid-fourth quarter. But for the most part
we battled.”
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than M-A, totaling 29.8 percent from the
floor. But the Raiders dominated the boards,
including a flurry of second chances with 13
offensive rebounds. Silver Creek outre-
bounded M-A 42-32 overall.
“I don’t think it was even just their post,
it was all their players going in to
rebound,” Coleman said, “… and they did
get a lot of second chances. It’s hard to beat
a team when you give them so many oppor-
tunities.”
M-A opened shooting just 1 of 12 in the
first period as freshman guard Catharine
Chai got the ball into Hoyem for the team’s
only field goal of the quarter. It looked as
though it was only a matter of time before
Hoyem would get going in the post as
Silver Creek center Bella Samatua got into
foul trouble, incurring four fouls by midway
through the second quarter.
Leilani Augmon and junior Alexa Othon
bridged the gap though, rotating on defend-
ing Hoyem effectively.
“It’s a team effort,” Flores said. “Our
girls, they came off the bench and put a
body on Greer. She’s a heck of a player. We
just won collectively as a team.”
M-A held Silver Creek to just five points
in the third quarter. The Bears went on a 6-1
run with Hoyem getting creative by driving
the baseline for a power layup to close it to
21-19. They kept the deficit at 2 to end the
third quarter when Hoyem slipped behind
the defense on a half-court inbound pass and
got to the hoop uncontested.
But as the defensive sparring turned into a
brawl, Silver Creek ran away with a 19-9
differential in the fourth quarter. McLanahan
stepped up with magnificent defense, grab-
bing two steals in the period. But Leilani
Augmon’s uncontested 3 started an 11-3
Silver Creek run, and the junior was even
more potent on defense recording all three
See M-A, Page 16
she saw an empty net.
But her shot attempt slipped off her foot
in the soggy conditions and sliced well wide
of the frame.
“[A goal there] would have helped, but we
still had a lot of game left,” Navarrete said.
Unfortunately for the Wildcats, it would
be their best chance.
Woodside got a good look early in the
second half, but Raquel Krampert’s shot was
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Cardinal fall in
Pac-12 tourney
championship
By Tim Booth
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE — All day long, Oregon coach
Kelly Graves noticed something a little dif-
ferent about Pac-12 player of the year
Sabrina Ionescu. It wasn’t something that
could be defined, just something the coach
noticed about his star player.
Ionescu scored a career-high 36 points and
No. 6 Oregon won its first Pac-12 Conference
tournament title beating
No. 16 Stanford 77-57
Sunday night.
Playing in their first con-
ference tournament final,
the Ducks looked every bit
the part of a premier team
heading into the upcoming
NCAA tournament. Ionescu
Sabrina Ionescu was the star, as the Ducks
(30-4) avenged one of their
two regular season losses in conference play.
Ionescu was brilliant early, scoring 12
points in the first quarter, and took over late
in the third quarter as Oregon held a double-
digit lead most of the second half. Ionescu
scored 19 points in the second half.
“It was the Ionescu show today,” Stanford
coach Tara VanDerveer said.
A year ago, Oregon was the surprise of the
NCAA tournament making an unexpected
run to the regional final before falling to
UConn. Now they’ll go into the tourney as
one of the favorites.
Ionescu is a big reason why. The sopho-
more has been a standout all season but
saved one of her best career performances
for the final. Ionescu set a championship
game record for points scored, hitting 14 of
24 shots, including a four of 3-pointers the
last of which set a new career-high.
team a 2-0 lead. Catherine Paulson started
the sequence by beating a couple of
Woodside defenders to gain the penalty box.
She then hit a pass back to sister Sarah
Paulson, who was stationed at the top of the
box before she quickly slotted a through
ball to Morgan Ketas, who hammered a shot
into the back of the net.
Rebecca Weeks’ looping shot in the 54th
minute soared just a bit high for Woodside,
which would be the Wildcats’ best chance of
the second half.
“Overall, the best team won today, ”
Navarrete said. “This is our first loss in
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Harvick earns
100th career
win in Vegas
By Greg Beacham
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAS VEGAS — Kevin Harvick
raced to his second straight
NASCAR Cup win with a dominant
performance at the Las Vegas
Motor Speedway on Sunday, earn-
ing his 100th career win across
the three national series.
Harvick followed up his stellar
p erfo rman ce
last weekend in
Atlanta with
another lop-
sided victory in
his Stewart-
Haas Racing
Ford. He led 209
of the 267 laps,
Kevin Harvick won all three
stages and even
held off a late charge from local
product Kyle Busch to win in Vegas
for the second time in four years.
“These last two weeks, we’ve
just hit on everything we needed
to,” Harvick said. “My (team has)
done their homework on a number
of things. Just really proud of
everybody.”
Busch got close to his second
career victory in his hometown
with his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota,
but couldn’t overcome the domi-
nant leader. Kyle Larson finished
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laps Sunday in Las Vegas for his
second straight NASCAR win.
Series race on Saturday, while
defending champion Martin Truex
Jr. was in fourth and pole-sitter
Ryan Blaney in fifth.
Harvick has already matched his
Cup win total from last season in
three races — and he’s headed to
Phoenix, where he has won five
times since 2012.
Only Richard Petty, Kyle Busch
and David Pearson have won more
races across the three national cir-
cuits than Harvick, the 42-year-
old Californian.
Not many wins are more
emphatic than Harvick’s 100th.
Harvick led 144 of the first 160
laps and comfortably won the first
two stages. He was fourth out of the
end-of-stage caution after Stage 2,
with Joey Logano getting in front
with an exceptional pit stop.
But Harvick reclaimed the lead
off another restart with 73 laps to
go after Kurt Busch wrecked along
with Chase Elliott. Harvick
emerged from his last pit stop with
a three-second lead on Brad
Keselowski, and Busch couldn’t
catch up.
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SPORTS Monday • March 5, 2018 15
Roger Bannister, first to run
sub 4-minute mile, dies at 88
By Chris Lehourites
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — It was a typical
British afternoon in early May:
wet, cool and blustery. Not exactly
the ideal conditions for running
four laps around a track faster than
many thought humanly possible.
A lanky Oxford medical student
named Roger Bannister looked up
at the white-and-red English flag
whipping in the wind atop a near-
by church and figured he would
have to call off the record attempt.
But then, shortly after 6 p.m. on
May 6, 1954, the wind subsided.
Bannister glanced up again and
saw the flag fluttering oh-so gen-
tly. The race was on. DAVID BEBBER/REUTERS
Roger Bannister holds the stop watch used by Harold Abrahams to time
the race during 50th anniversary celebrations at Oxford in 2004.
See MILE, Page 19
Mickelson ends drought Golf briefs Wie earns first win since ’14
MEXICO CITY — Phil Mickelson
Mickelson, who closed with a 5- SINGAPORE — Michelle Wie
ended the under 66, two-putted from 18 feet holed a 36-foot putt from off the
longest drought for par on the signature par-3 17th green on the final hole to win the
of his career hole at Chapultepec Golf Club. Women’s World Championship by
with a playoff Thomas went long, chipped to just one stroke Sunday and capture her
victory over inside 10 feet and his par putt to first LPGA tournament since the
Justin Thomas extend the playoff was never on 2014 U.S. Women’s Open.
in the Mexico line. Wie separated herself from four
Championship Mickelson won his third World contenders when she drained her
after Thomas Golf Championship. His last vic- lengthy birdie putt on the 72nd
Phil Mickelson holed out for tory was the 2013 British Open, a hole at the Sentosa Golf Club for a
eagle on the stretch of 101 starts worldwide final round of 7-under 65 to finish at
final hole of regulation. without a win. 17-under 271.
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16 Monday • March 5, 2018
DONS
Continued from page 13
by Donoven Robinson early in the second
to cut the lead to 22-11.
A Sam Manu put-back had the Dons with-
in 11 at the halftime break, and they trailed
just 29-22 after opening the third quarter
with baskets by Gabe Lukaszewicz and
Davion Cox. Allen-Tovar quickly took
momentum back for the Warriors with a
ferocious dunk, but Aragon would climb
within seven shortly thereafter on a
Robinson 3.
It was the last time the Dons would be
within striking distance.
Valley Christian restored a nine-point
lead on an alley-oop from Fini to Allen-
Tovar and closed the quarter on a 10-0 run.
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Continued from page 11
did a really good job running the floor today,
getting out in transition.”
SHP pushed its lead to double digits at the
start of the second half — and kept it that
way to the closing buzzer — on a swift tran-
sition score as sophomore point guard
Denise Stine finished the break with a bal-
anced underhand layup. Stine then stifled
NDB’s ensuing possession with a steal and
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Continued from page 11
“Yeah, it was a shock,” Carion said. “We
were all in shock. And we all stood around
just kind of looking. But then we all settled
down and said, OK, we’ve all got to step up
… and they had a night to sleep on it and
they knew.”
Freshman point guard Alex Salise stepped
up big time, delivering a mighty effort than
belied her 5-1 stature. While Miller filled up
the stat sheet with a noble double-double
effort of 19 points and 13 rebounds, Salise
— in just her second varsity start — was the
driving force.
“I felt defense won this game — and Alex
Salise,” Carion said.
South City’s defense indeed wore down
Aptos (25-4). But the Mariners led for most
of the first half, answering a 22-22 tie with a
pair of free throws to start an 8-2 run. Aptos
was 10 of 10 from the stripe in the first half,
and was on the verge of going into the lock-
er room with momentum and a 36-27 lead
when Salise turned into a magician.
Taking a full-court inbound pass with under
four seconds remaining in the half, Salise
drove past midcourt and heaved a 35-foot
shot, around a defender no less, banking in a
3-pointer that sucked the air our of the
Piedmont Hills gym with the collective gasp
of the crowd.
“I just saw a lane I could take and I just sort
of threw it up trying to hit the backboard,
wishing it would bank in,” Salise said. “And
SPORTS
The Warriors scored the first four points of
the third to stretch the lead to 48-27 and led
by as much as 25 down the stretch, empty-
ing the bench en route to their first section
title since 2005.
Though Aragon did keep the explosive
Valley Christian offense under 60, it would
have taken a Herculean defensive effort to
compensate for the 24 percent performance
from the field. Alton Julian scored a game-
high 23 for the Warriors, including 14 of
his team’s 17 in the first quarter. Justin Kidd
added 10, while Allen-Tovar had 10 points
and 20 rebounds, with 10 apiece on the
offensive and defensive glass.
The trio outscored the entire Dons roster.
No Aragon player scored more than Manu’s
eight. The 6-4 junior also had eight
rebounds, as did Lukaszewicz. Robinson
scored seven.
Getting there at all looked bleak when
Aragon started Peninsula Athletic League
South Division play 1-4, including losses to
bolted to the basket, converting while draw-
ing a foul but missing the and-1 attempt.
NDB then missed a shot at its end and
Angotti showed her versatility as the 6-1
senior grabbed a rebound, then drove coast-
to-coast to finish the Gators’ 7-0 run to start
the second half. SHP was 8 of 11 from the
field in the quarter.
“We gave up more layups today … than we
have over the course of three or four games
combined,” Davenport said. “Again, credit
to them because they exploited us, especial-
ly in transition.”
NDB center Olga Faasolo added nine
points. The senior was integral to returning
then luckily it did.”
Down 36-32, Carion’s halftime message to
his team was simple.
“Everybody walk out of this gym with an
empty gas tank,” Carion said. “Everyone
walks out with an empty tank, win or lose
we’re going to be OK … and they did.”
Salise took the message to heart. She
missed on her first attempt of the second
half, but Miller forgave it with a put-back.
Then Salise went to town, driving with aban-
don for back-to-back layups, one more acro-
batic than the next, tying it 36-36.
Six lead changes followed, with a 3-point-
er from senior Val Avila and two put-backs by
Miller looming large for South City, the lat-
ter giving the Warriors a 45-44 advantage. It
was the beginning of an 8-0 run that put
Aptos on its heels.
Two minutes into the fourth quarter, the
Mariners closed it to 52-48 on a 3 by sopho-
more Gabby Giuffre. But Miller answered
with a 19-foot jumper almost as improbable
as Salise’s earlier 3-pointer.
“That’s her first outside shot of the sea-
son,” Carion said. “And that’s huge. … Not
only has she not hit that shot all season, she
hasn’t taken that shot all season.”
Aptos was spent by the fourth quarter. After
a perfect run of free throws in the first half,
the Mariners shot just 6 of 15 from the stripe
in the second. The death knell came when 6-
1 sophomore forward Natalia Ackerman (a
game-high 21 points) fouled out with 4:55
remaining.
The Warriors had all their posts in foul
trouble as well. Miller survived four fouls,
but junior forward Karizma Bergesen — who
by far played her season high in minutes —
Woodside and San Mateo, but a healthy Manu
was critical as the Dons rattled off seven
straight wins to finish the regular season,
starting with a victory over Menlo-
Atherton. They also evened the season series
with San Mateo and Mills during that stretch.
Much of the Dons’ hope for next year will
center around Manu, who moved back to San
Mateo from Taiwan this year. He’ll be the
only returning starter, but Noah Salah pro-
vided solid minutes off the bench and soph-
omore Matthew Mukai stepped up early in
the season when injuries struck.
Lights go out on Lady Dons
In the same Aragon-Valley Christian
matchup in the CCS Division II girls’
championship game, a change of venue
helped the Lady Dons improve but not over-
come the bracket’s top seed.
Aragon (16-10) fell 69-62 in a quest for
the program’s first-ever CCS title. The
the Tigers to the CCS championship game for
the first time since 2015. She only played
half of last season due to an ACL injury, and
was running at about 50 percent in the games
she did play, according to Davenport.
The title for the Gators marks the 14th in
program history and the second in the career
of Murphy. After winning the Division IV
crown in 2015, SHP reached the finals again
last year but lost to Half Moon Bay.
“It hasn’t hit me yet,” Zaharias said of the
title. “But it’s starting to feel real. It’s just
amazing to get this second one with the
team.”
SHP now moves up to Division III in the
fouled out early in the fourth quarter and 6-
foot junior Becca Tasi (seven points, five
rebounds) fouled out with 2:25 to go.
But nothing, it seems, could stop South
City’s miraculous march to the CCS crown.
“We wanted this really bad, especially our
seniors who have been doing this for
years,” Bergesen said. “So, we just came in
here, we sat down and took a deep breath and
realized what we needed to do … and we just
took a deep breath and went for it.”
Senior guard Kayla Jew (11 points) fin-
ished off the win nailing three straight free
throws.
And the Warriors celebrated with vigor.
“I can’t say I was surprised,” said Cedeno,
who was front and center on the sideline all
night, out of uniform and on crutches. “But
I didn’t know they were going to come out
this strong. They just had so much hunger
in them.”
South City now advances to the CIF
Northern California Division II playoffs as
the No. 7 seed. The Warriors host No. 10
Del Oro-Loomis Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Cedeno said it is unlikely she will play.
COUGARS
Continued from page 11
so dominant in the paint. He scored 14 in
the first half, and with Santa Cruz’s Javier
Felix picking up his fourth foul 12 seconds
into the third quarter, there was little resist-
ance as the 6-foot-7 center imposed his
will. With 1:52 left in the period, Menzies
threw down perhaps the dunk of the year,
evading one Santa Cruz defender and poster-
izing another for the 3-point play.
The lead was 55-37 through three quarters
and grew to 20 early in the fourth on a
Tomberlin finger roll. Though Santa Cruz
did cut the lead to 10 on a Max DeHart 3-
pointer with 1:24 left, Menzies would hit a
pair of free throws to cap off his monster
night and pull down his 13th and 14th
rebounds to finish the game with the ball in
his hands.
While the Cougar football team had cele-
brated three consecutive section titles,
Menzies and point guard Sam Treanor (10
points) hadn’t experienced the glory them-
selves until Saturday night at the Leavey
Center. The two had been supporting their
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game started at Independence High School,
but a power outage at halftime forced the
game to be moved to neighboring Piedmont
Hills.
No. 1 seed Valley Christian (13-13) took
a substantial 35-21 lead into halftime. The
No. 3 Dons outscored the Warriors in each
of the final two quarters and totaled 41
points in the half.
Nor Cal woes
Despite both the Aragon boys’ and girls’
teams reaching the CCS finals, neither were
selected to represent in the CIF Northern
California Division II playoffs.
Traditionally, both finalists from each CCS
bracket advance to Nor Cal. But now, with
CCS Open Division teams guaranteed
advancement to Nor Cals, those teams
receive priority in their original divisions,
forcing many CCS runner-up teams out of
the fray.
CIF Northern California playoffs. The No. 8
Gators host No. 9 Campolindo-Moraga
Wednesday at 7 p.m.
NDB earned the No. 2 seed in Nor Cal
Division IV. The Tigers will host No. 15
Alhambra-Martinez Wednesday at 7 p.m.
With Davenport set to step down as NDB’s
coach at the end of the season, any game
could now be his last.
“I think we can go make some noise,”
Davenport said. “It’s just a matter of how we
bounce back from today. We will shoot better
in the next game. … We are unlikely to play
a team that has the kind of length Sacred
Heart Prep has.”
M-A
Continued from page 14
of her steals in the final stanza.
With the loss, Hoyem and McLanahan
finish their careers without a CCS title. As
freshmen in 2015, M-A fell in the Division
I title game to North Salinas. The past two
years, the Bears did not reach the champi-
onship round in the Open Division.
“Menlo-Atherton deserves a lot of cred-
it,” Flores said. “Coach Markisha Coleman
has done an outstanding job. Her program
has been robbed of a CCS championship
the last two years, I believe, because they
got sucked up into the Open (Division).
Otherwise they would have been Division I
champions, most likely. She’s done a great
job. A lot of credit goes to Menlo-Atherton
because we had our hands full.”
M-A now advances to the CIF Northern
California playoffs. Seeded No. 11 in
Division II, the Bears open Wednesday night
at No. 6 Montgomery-Santa Rosa at 7 p.m.
teammates and friends on the gridiron,
along with the rest of the basketball roster,
but HMB had yet to see such successes on
the hardwood with this group.
“I don’t mean to sound like a parent, but
it’s been great to watch Ethan grow,” said
Tomberlin. “Most of us had been playing
together since kindergarten, but he was liv-
ing in Wyoming and didn’t move back until
the end of middle school. He’s been such a
huge part of what we’ve done here.”
The group did have three football players
in Tomberlin, Hayden Von Almen and
Quosig, who drew praise from first-year
head coach John Parsons for his defensive
prowess in the second half.
“We talked about a few things that we want-
ed to change in the second half defensively,”
said Parsons. “Jake started that for us.”
Santa Cruz got 14 points from Max
DeHart, 12 from Jeremiah Elmore and 11
from Makai Norman, one of six sopho-
mores on the roster. It was an Elmore put-
back that gave the Cardinals the lead going
into halftime.
Half Moon Bay will move up to Division III
for the CIF Northern California tournament,
starting Wednesday. The Cougars earned the
No. 5 seed in the bracket and will host No. 12
Rio Americano-Sacramento at 7 p.m.
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Guillermo del Toro with the Best Director and Best Picture awards for ‘The Shape of Water.’
‘Shape of Water’ triumphs
By Jake Coyle
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Against all odds, love
won out at the 90th Academy Awards.
Guillermo del Toro’s lavish, full-hearted
monster romance “The Shape of Water”
swam away with best picture at an Oscar cer-
emony flooded by a sense of a change for a
movie business confronting the post-
Harvey Weinstein era. The ceremony, held
Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los
Angeles, exorcised some demons — like
last year’s envelope fiasco — and wrestled
with other, deeper problems in Hollywood,
like gender equality and diversity.
“The Shape of Water,” which came in with
13 nods, took a leading four awards, includ-
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best director for del Toro. The Cold War-set
movie, about a mute woman and a captive
fish-man, is del Toro’s Technicolor ode to
outsiders of all kinds — and species.
“The greatest thing that art does, and that our
industry does, is erase the lines in the sand,”
said del Toro, accepting the best director award.
Del Toro became the third Mexican-born
filmmaker to win the award, joining his
friends and countrymen Alejandro Inarritu and
Alfonso Cuaron — who once were dubbed “the
Three Amigos.” He dedicated the best picture
award to young filmmakers — “the youth who
are showing us how things are done.”
The night’s final award was handed out
again by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway,
a year after the infamous “Moonlight”-“La
La Land” error. “It’s so nice seeing you
again,” said Beatty with a grin.
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The ceremony was the crescendo of one of
Hollywood’s most turbulent awards seasons
ever — one that saw cascading allegations
of sexual harassment topple movie moguls,
upended Oscar campaigns and spark new
movements like Time’s Up.
Much of Sunday’s broadcast, hosted for the
second straight year by Jimmy Kimmel,
seemed to point a way forward for the industry.
“It’s a new day in Hollywood,” said presenter
Jennifer Lawrence, who with Jodie Foster,
subbed for last year’s best-actor winner, Casey
Affleck, in presenting the best-actress award.
The award went to Frances McDormand for
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,”
a movie about a furious woman out for justice.
McDormand asked all the attending female
nominees stand up in the theater. There
weren’t nearly as many as men, despite the
historic nominations for Greta Gerwig (the
fifth woman nominated for best director) and
Rachel Morrison (“Mudbound”), the first
woman nominated for best cinematography.
Jordan Peele won for his script to his horror
sensation “Get Out,” becoming the first
African-American to win for best original
screenplay. Peele said he stopped writing it “20
times,” skeptical that it would ever get made.
Things went expected in the acting cate-
gories, where three widely admired veteran
actors won their first Oscars. Gary Oldman
won for his Winston Churchill in “Darkest
Hour,” Allison Janney (“I, Tonya”) took
best supporting actress, and Sam Rockwell
(”Three Billboards”) won best supporting
actor. Oldman thanked his nearly 99-year-
old mother. “Put the kettle on,” he told her.
“I’m bringing Oscar home.”
Monday • March 4, 2018 17
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18 Monday • March 5, 2018
West Virginia teachers: No raise, FIGHT
no school; strike plans continue
By Michael Virtanen
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Unions representing West Virginia teach-
ers and service personnel say they will stay
out on strike after the state Senate voted to
cut the 5 percent pay raise they had negoti-
ated with the governor.
A joint legislative committee has been
formed to address differences in the pay
raise bills of the state Senate and House.
In a joint statement Saturday, the
American Federation of Teachers-West
Virginia, West Virginia Education
Association and the School Service
Personnel Association said Senate President
Mitch Carmichael and his leadership team
had left them with no choice after they
voted to reduce the raise to 4 percent.
The statement said all public schools in
West Virginia would be closed again
Monday “and remain closed until the Senate
honors the agreement that was made. ”
Teachers walked out of classrooms statewide
starting Feb. 22.
The Republican-controlled Senate voted
Saturday evening to approve the lower pay
raise, bucking teachers, Republican Gov.
Jim Justice and the Republican-controlled
House, which approved the 5 percent raise
Wednesday.
‘Black Panther’ is box-office
king for third straight week
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Wakanda’s reign shows
no signs of waning. “Black Panther” is king
of the box office for the third straight week-
end.
The Ryan Coogler film from Marvel and
Disney brought in $65.7 million domesti-
cally this weekend, easily outpacing new
releases “Red Sparrow” and “Death Wish,”
according to studio estimates Sunday.
“Black Panther” has now grossed $500
million domestically after three weeks of
release. It’s the third fastest film to reach the
$500 million plateau.
“Disney is clearly on a roll with ‘Black
LOCAL/ NATION
House members later Saturday wouldn’t
agree to the Senate’s move, and the two
bills will now have to be reconciled by a
legislative conference committee.
House of Delegates spokesman Jared Hunt
said Sunday no meeting had been scheduled
yet of the conference committee. It wasn’t
yet clear when it would meet.
The committee will include Delegates Bill
Anderson, R-Wood, and Brent Boggs, D-
Braxton, and House Education Chairman
Paul Espinosa, R-Jefferson; and Senate
Majority Leader Ryan Ferns, R-Ohio,
Senate Finance Chairman Craig Blair, R-
Berkeley, and Sen. Robert Plymale, D-
Wayne.
The Senate’s vote came as the teachers’
strike rolled into its second weekend.
Republican Sen. Greg Boso of Nicholas
introduced the amendment to lower the
raise, which the full Senate adopted by a
vote of 19-15.
Senate Republicans have repeatedly
emphasized exercising restraint with state
spending, while agreeing that teachers and
West Virginia’s other public workers are all
underpaid.
“That compensation increase is long
overdue, ” said Sen. Charles Trump, a
Berkeley Springs Republican. “We’ve been
able to do this without tax increases.”
Panther’ showing incred-
ible strength as it posts
the third biggest third-
weekend gross of all
time,” said Paul
Dergarabedian, senior
media analyst for
comScore, “and most
notably becomes the
Ryan Coogler 10th highest grossing
movie of all time in
North America after just 17 days in theaters.”
Fox’s “Red Sparrow,” featuring Jennifer
Lawrence as a Russian ballerina-turned-
super-spy, earned $17 million in its first
weekend.
Continued from page 1
also exempting qualified projects from local
parking and density limits.
Critics though claim the proposal merely
seeks to take away the ability of city coun-
cils, planning departments and other local
representatives traditionally charged with
guiding community development.
“The biggest issue is stripping away plan-
ning documents and handing this decision
over to developers,” said Jason Rhine, a leg-
islative representative with the League of
California Cities.
Wiener refuted such claims though, and said
the proposal merely seeks to reclaim some
authority for the Legislature in housing mat-
ters, which is badly needed considering the
breadth of the state’s affordability crunch.
“There are local communities which have
created policies that are not sustainable, and
I do believe the state has a role to play,” said
Wiener.
Under SB 827, properties one-half mile
from large public transit stations and one-
quarter-mile from frequently used bus stops
would be exempt from local zoning regula-
tions such as maximum allowable densities,
minimum parking requirements and height
limits between 45 feet and 85 feet, or four to
eight stories.
Wiener’s most recent proposal dovetails
with his work on Senate Bill 35, signed by
Gov. Jerry Bill last year amidst a slate of new
laws seeking to facilitate housing construc-
tion, with a focus on transit-oriented devel-
opment.
Despite the success of last year’s housing
law push, Wiener has said he intends to keep
the pressure on over the coming legislative
session. Such a desire comes to the chagrin
of Rhine, who said it may be wiser to hold
off on crafting more bills in favor of letting
the most recent round of laws take hold.
Wiener’s interest in continuing to craft
new housing laws has drawn positive
reviews from local legislators who laud the
legislative effort to quell the affordability
crisis.
Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South San
Francisco, lent his support to Wiener’s most
recent effort, while also noting the need to
keep an eye to local control.
“SB 827 provides a solid starting point for
building more housing. As we evaluate our
affordable housing options, we should
strongly consider balancing the preservation
of local land use authority with making it
easier to make sure affordable housing is
built,” he said in an email.
Mullin recently proposed bills separately
aiming to address affordable housing by
facilitating financing and also seeking to
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again allow cities and counties to establish
redevelopment agencies.
Mullin said the agencies were an effective
mechanism for local elected officials to build
new housing, until Brown vanquished them
during the Great Recession. Wiener too said
he supports bringing back redevelopment
agencies, answering the call of those who
claim his housing effort worsens a financial
struggle for cities to implement new poli-
cies.
“The state was wrong to do that …. We
should bring it back with an emphasis on
infrastructure and affordable housing,”
Wiener said, regarding redevelopment.
Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Palo Alto,
meanwhile was reticent to lend his support to
Wiener’s bill while it is still in its formative
stages.
“The bill is in the Senate now and will go
through several committees in the Senate and
the Assembly, where I expect many changes
to be made, before I have an opportunity to
vote on it on the Assembly floor. I am wait-
ing to see what the details of the bill are
before I take a position,” he said in an email.
His stance regarding forthcoming changes
are already beginning to come to fruition, as
Wiener released a list of proposed amend-
ments to the bill Tuesday, Feb. 27. Many of
the changes are designed to preserve existing
affordable housing developments in the tran-
sit zones standing to be affected by the legis-
lation.
“These amendments largely focus on con-
cerns some have expressed about displace-
ment and demolition,” said Berman. “We
want to add new density while assuring the
people who are already living there, particu-
larly low-income people, are not pushed
out.”
State Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, also
was reticent to take a position on the most
recent bill, with an assumption it will con-
tinue to take shape over the coming weeks
and months.
“It’s hard to really have an opinion on
something that is not really what it will be
eventually,” he said.
He did note though the bill, as constructed,
stands to offer a profound effect on the com-
munities he represents.
“It could have some very major impacts on
certain communities that would change the
entire character of a community and I don’t
think that is his intent, and I think those
will be some of the changes we will see,” he
said.
For Wiener’s part, he said the bill is part of
a continued legislative push on the housing
front which should not be viewed as an
unwillingness to work with local communi-
ties.
“We are not having a state takeover of
housing, but having a better balance of local
control that operates within the state con-
trol,” he said.
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The Burlingame Parks and Recreation Department hosted 300 kids who took on the Muddy
Mile, with 15 obstacles that featured lots of mud. The obstacles included a muddy crawl,
muddy moguls and a wall climb.
Dev i n and Bri ttany Co l l i er, of San
Jose, gave birth to a baby girl at Sequoia
Hospital on Feb. 2, 2018.
***
Taul ani and Fi fta Takapauto l o , of
East Palo Alto, gave birth to a baby boy at
Sequoia Hospital on Feb. 5, 2018.
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With two friends acting as pacemakers,
Bannister churned around the cinder track
four times. His long arms and legs pump-
ing, his lungs gasping for air, he put on a
furious kick over the final 300 yards and
nearly collapsed as he crossed the finish
line.
The announcer read out the time:
“3...”
The rest was drowned out by the roar of the
crowd. The 3 was all that mattered.
Bannister had just become the first runner
to break the mythical 4-minute barrier in
the mile — a feat of speed and endurance
that stands as one of the seminal sporting
achievements of the 20th century.
The black-and-white image of Bannister,
eyes closed, head back, mouth wide open,
straining across the tape at Oxford’s Iffley
Road track, endures as a defining snapshot
of a transcendent moment in track and field
history.
Bannister died peacefully in Oxford on
Saturday at the age of 88. He was “surround-
ed by his family who were as loved by him,
as he was loved by them,” the family said in
a statement Sunday. “He banked his treasure
in the hearts of his friends.”
British Prime Minister Theresa May
remembered Bannister as a “British sport-
ing icon whose achievements were an inspi-
ration to us all. He will be greatly missed.”
Bannister’s time of 3 minutes, 59.4 sec-
onds captured the world’s imagination and
buoyed the spirits of Britons still suffering
through post-war austerity.
“It’s amazing that more people have
climbed Mount Everest than have broken
the 4-minute mile,” Bannister said in an
interview with The Associated Press in
2012.
Bannister followed up his 4-minute mile-
stone a few months later by beating
Australia’s John Landy in the “Miracle
Mile” or “Mile of the Century” at the
Empire Games in Vancouver, British
CORRIE FUHRMAN
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Ji apeng Men and Ai ji ng Zhang , of
San Mateo, gave birth to a baby girl at
Sequoia Hospital on Feb. 7, 2018.
***
Parry and Emi l y Garff, of Redwood
City, gave birth to a baby boy at Sequoia
Hospital on Feb. 9, 2018.
***
Wenx un Huang and Adai r Li u, of
Redwood City, gave birth to a baby boy at
Sequoia Hospital on Feb. 9, 2018.
***
Andre and Andrea Jo hans s o n, of
Redwood City, gave birth to a baby girl at
Sequoia Hospital on Feb. 9, 2018.
***
Bo Wang and Bao qi ng Ji ang , of
Columbia with both men going under 4
minutes. Bannister regarded that as his
greatest race because it came in a competi-
tive championship against his fiercest
rival.
While he will forever be remembered for
his running, Bannister considered his long
medical career in neurology as his life’s
greatest accomplishment.
“My medical work has been my achieve-
ment and my family with 14 grandchildren,”
he said. “Those are real achievements.”
The quest to break the 4-minute mile car-
ried a special mystique. The numbers were
easy for the public to grasp: 1 mile, 4 laps,
4 minutes.
Monday • March 5, 2018 19
The San Bruno Community Foundation presented a check for $13,700 to the Capuchino
Alumni Association for science equipment. Pictured are, left to right, Emily Roberts from the
foundation, alumni President Alan Bestall, and science department members Kristen Tucker,
Janice Valletta, Kathleen Serratto and Luis Galdona.
Mountain View, gave birth to a baby boy at City, gave birth to a baby boy at Sequoia
Sequoia Hospital on Feb. 12, 2018. Hospital in Redwood City on Feb. 16,
*** 2018.
Charl es and Mel ani e Lee, of San ***
Carlos, gave birth to a baby boy at Sequoia Juny i Zhang and Xi ao y an Wu, of
Hospital on Feb. 13, 2018. Fremont, gave birth to a baby boy at
*** Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City on Feb.
Hs i ao -Ti ng and Chi a-Jung Wang , of 17, 2018.
San Jose, gave birth to a baby boy at ***
Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City on Feb. Wadi h an d An t o n i a Zumo t , of
14, 2018. Redwood City, gave birth to a baby girl at
*** Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City on Feb.
Mat t h e w an d Rac h e l Mo ran , of 19, 2018.
Menlo Park, gave birth to a baby girl at ***
Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City on Feb. Hao Wan g , an d Li l i Zh an g , of
16, 2018. Redwood City, gave birth to a baby boy at
*** Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City on Feb.
Ajeet and Gl o ry Bans al , of Foster 21, 2018.
When Sweden’s Gunder Hagg ran 4:01.4 rival to the trio of Swedish runners who had
in 1945, the chase was truly on. But, time
and again, runners came up short. The 4-
minute mark seemed like a brick wall that
taken the mile world record down close to
the 4-minute mark.
“I made up my mind then when I got to
would never be toppled. Oxford, I would take up running seriously,”
Bannister was born on March 23, 1929, Bannister said.
in the London borough of Harrow. At the As a first-year student on an academic
outbreak of World War II, the family moved scholarship at Oxford, Bannister caught his
to the city of Bath, where Bannister some- coaches’ attention while running as a pace-
times ran to and from school. maker in a mile race on March 22, 1947.
Bannister’s passion for running took off Instead of dropping out of the race as pacers
in 1945 when his father took him to a track normally do, he kept running and beat the
meet at London’s White City Stadium, field by 20 yards.
which was built to host the 1908 Olympics. “I knew from this day that I could develop
They watched British middle-distance star this newfound ability,” he reflected in later
Sydney Wooderson, who had emerged as a life.
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infrastructure on the cloud to more estab-
lished companies that are moving their
data there, Snowflake’s customers repre-
central location on the Peninsula has
allowed employees from various parts of
the Bay Area make it to work at its current
MONDAY, MARCH 5
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sent a wide range of industries, from offices in two buildings at the corner of Coffee Break for LGBTQ 50+. 10:30 Hillsdale Drama Presents: ‘ The
credit card companies to media and enter- South Ellsworth and First Avenue, and is a.m. to 11:30 a.m. San Mateo Pride Lion, the Witch, and the
clearly remembers its founders, Benoit tainment enterprises, said Muglia. looking forward to an expansion of its Center, 1021 S. El Camino Real, San Wardrobe.’ 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Hillsdale
Mateo. For more information call High School, 3115 Del Monte St.,
Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin By creating a “data warehouse” that headquarters to a new building under con- 591-0133. San Mateo. Play located in the Little
Zukowski, pitching in to sit at the front can aggregate information from several struction near the corner of East Fourth Theater. Cost $10 to $17. For more
Dance Connection with Nob Hill information and to purchase tickets
desk of the office or hold a projector for a sources and organize it so it can be easi- Avenue and the Caltrain tracks. Sounds. Free dance lessons 6:30 visit hillsdaledrama.com.
presentation when they didn’t have a ly analyzed by customers, Snowflake’s For Stefan Kazmi, getting to know p.m.-7 p.m. with open dance 7 p.m.
stand to use and their care for employees to 9:30 p.m. Burlingame Woman’s ‘Joseph and the Amazing
technology aims to cut down on the downtown businesses and contributing Club, 241 Park Road, Burlingame. St. Technicolor Dreamcoat.’ 7:30 p.m.
as they grow from a scrappy startup to a number of steps needed to process large to the startup culture in San Mateo has set Patrick’s Day dance, wear green for Menlo-Atherton High School
global company. volumes of data. For example, an online his experience at Snowflake apart from a fun evening of music and danc- Performing Arts Center, 555
ing. Free entry for men with dance Middlefield Road, Atherton. Cost
And after the company raised $263 gaming company might use several the other tech companies where he’s experience. Admission $10 mem- $14. For more information contact
million in January with plans to increase tools to collect data on the choices their worked. Noting the company’s family- bers, $12 guests. Light refresh- kristinm33@gmail.com.
the 360-person team to more than 600 ments. For more information call
customers make within a game and their like culture, Kazmi said seeing the tight- 342-2221. ‘The Elephant Man.’ 8 p.m. Hillbarn
by the end of the year, Venezia will be responses to marketing campaigns and knit community maintained as Theatre, 1285 E. Hillsdale Blvd.,
working with a lot more teammates. TUESDAY, MARCH 6 Foster City. $37-$54. Based on the
other tools located outside the game, and Snowflake grows has been one of the Write Your Life: Memoir Writing life of John Merrick. For more infor-
Though the startup’s growth is just as Snowflake’s data warehouse can inte- most rewarding aspects of the last three Wor k shops. 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. mation call 349-6411.
familiar for Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia, grate data from these tools on one plat- years he has worked there, even if the Little House, 800 Middle Ave., Menlo
Park. $60 for series. $20 for drop-in. SATURDAY, MARCH 10
he admits even he was taken aback by form. company’s growth is still hard to com- For more information call 326-0723. Education Town Hall. 10 a.m. to
how quickly it’s taken off. Muglia joined Muglia acknowledged that for compa- prehend. 11:30 a.m. Hillview Community
some 34 other employees when he came WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos.
nies moving their operations to the “When I started here, I was the only IT Easybridge. 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Discussions will cover state funding
on board as Snowflake’s CEO in 2014, cloud for the first time, Snowflake may person and now I’m designing our glob- Fattoria E. Mare Restaurant, 1095 for K-12 education as well as early
but had a sense its small size and zero only be part of the solution. But by al headquarters,” he said. Rollins Road, Burlingame. Open to childhood education. For more
seniors. For more information and information contact
revenue wouldn’t last very long. By accelerating an analyst’s access to data Though Muglia is looking forward to to RSVP visit zachery.ross@asm.ca.gov.
developing tools allowing customers to and enabling users to share information further growth in the coming year, he peninsuladbc.com/easybridge.
AAR P Chapter 2895 Monthly
analyze data stored in the cloud, Muglia across an organization or with outside said unlocking the data that allows users Sons In R etirement B ranch 4 Meeting. 10 a.m. to noon. San
said Snowflake’s cloud-oriented data parties, the data warehouse his team is to make data-based decisions will likely Lunch. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. South Bruno Senior Center, 1555 Crystal
warehouse has been well received by its San Francisco Elk’s Lodge, 920 Springs Road, San Bruno. Coffee and
building can be the difference between never get old. Stonegate Drive, South San doughnuts will be available starting
more than 1,000 customers. whether a company can effectively “The reality is when you can make a Francisco. Cost is $19. For more at 9 a.m. Entertainment is Manny
“At some level, I think it has been sur- develop its products or share new ones decision based on data, everybody information call 878-5746. Catania. For more information call
583-4499.
prising in terms of how fast it’s going,” with customers, said Muglia. knows why the decision was made,” he San Mateo Professional Alliance
he said. “It’s clear to me that our oppor- Though he lives in Menlo Park now, said. “That encourages a transparency in Network ing Lunch. Noon to 1 p.m. Repair Cafe. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Pacific Catch Restaurant, 243 S. B St., Burlingame Public Library, 480
tunity is substantially larger than what I Muglia said he has a long history in an organization and actually changes the San Mateo. Free admission, lunch Primrose Road, Burlingame. Bring
realized it was.” Seattle, where the company opened a way people operate.” ordered off the menu. For more up to three assorted items to be
information contact mike@mike- repaired. Examples of items that
foor.com. may be fixed are lamps, small appli-
ment. officials invited medical experts to

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Golick’s speech topics vary from
assessing the drug’s addictive qualities
to emphasizing the increased potency
offer classes for parents concerned
about the effects of marijuana legaliza-
tion following voters approving
Toastmaster s Public Speak ing
and Leadership
Development. Noon to 1 p.m. BKF
Engineers, 255 Shoreline Drive,
Sk ills
ances and even furniture. Free. For
more information call 558-7407.
Reach and Teach: Origami Time. 1
p.m. to 2 p.m. 144 W. 25th Ave., San
of the marijuana more readily available Proposition 64, which took hold in Suite 200, Redwood Shores. Join us Mateo. All ages and experience lev-
in a friendly and supportive atmos- els welcome to learn new paper
today than in eras past, said Li. January. Professional development phere while learning to improve folding tricks. All materials provided
academic benefits for students. But even when illustrating pot’s trainings exist for teachers too, better your communication and leader- free. For more information email
“Just suspending a kid for being potential dangers, Li said the conversa- equipping them to work with students ship skills. For more information call craig@reachandteach.com
(202) 390-7555.
caught with a substance is not necessar- tion with students is no longer “just say in this new era, said Li. Hung Liu: All Over the Map. 1 p.m.
ily the best practice,” said Karen Li, no.” Instead, research indicates build- Since the San Mateo Union High Caption for Hearing Loss Class. to 5 p.m. Sanchez Art Center, 1220
Sequoia Union High School District’s 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. San Mateo Senior Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica. Exhibition
ing an educational program around neu- School District drug education program Center, 2645 Alameda de las Pulgas, by renowned Chinese painter and
wellness coordinator. roscience can be most impactful for hosted at San Mateo and Mills high San Mateo. For more information printmaker Hung Liu. For more
Li’s district’s policy is not yet cen- call 522-7490. information call 355-1894.
teens considering smoking pot, she schools is still in its burgeoning
tralized, she said, as officials are allow- said. stages, Scatena said it is too early to Publishing Discussion and Book Family Fun Day. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
ing each campus to develop a system “Understanding that the effects on gauge its effectiveness. He said though Talk with George Anders. 7 p.m. to Peninsula Museum of Art, 1777
8 p.m. Burlingame Library, 480 California Drive, Burlingame. For
best accommodating their school com- your brain are going to be heightened ultimately recidivism rates among Primrose Road, Burlingame. Pulitzer children ages 5 to 12. Interactive
munity with an eye on identifying the because of where your brain develop- those enrolled will be a useful means of winner and journalist George activities exploring art and creativi-
most effective drug education methods. Anders will discuss the world of ty. $5 per child. For more informa-
ment is at, because the decision is tracking success. publishing non-fiction. For more tion call 692-2101.
Generally though, she too said educa- yours,” said Li. He noted while the program brings a information call 558-7411.
tors are moving away from a solely ‘The Elephant Man.’ 2 p.m. Hillbarn
She added though that educators pri- heightened emphasis on education, Social Security Class. 6 p.m. to 7:30 Theatre, 1285 E. Hillsdale Blvd.,
punitive model. marily emphasize early intervention to school officials have not entirely aban- p.m. San Mateo Senior Center, 2645 Foster City. $37-$54. Based on the
“It’s a much bigger lens we are look- dissuade students from smoking mari- doned discipline. Those who continu- Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo. life of John Merrick. For more infor-
$18 entry fee. For more information mation call 349-6411.
ing through, rather than saying ‘you juana, or doing other drugs. ously violate district drug policy will call 522-7490.
are busted. You are kicked out of “Our goal is to prevent the use. It’s face potential suspensions, he said, Hilldale Drama Presents: The
school,’” said Li. THURSDAY, MARCH 8 Lion, the Witch, and the
illegal for those under 21 in California. while officials consider requiring Free Pet ‘Fixes.’ 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. Fair Wardrobe. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Hillsdale
The efforts of each school site range We want to prevent that situation. The enrollment in more intensive interven- Oaks Community Center, 2600 High School, 3115 Del Monte St.,
from restorative justice programs in-between area is harm reduction,” she tion programs.
Middlefield Road, Redwood City. San Mateo. Play located in the Little
Free spaying and neutering clinic Theater. Cost $10 to $17. For more
offered at Menlo-Atherton High said. “The first one is in lieu of suspen- hosted by the Peninsula Humane information and to purchase tickets
School, to motivational interviews To round out the district’s program, Li sion. The next is looking at suspen- Society. Surgery performed by a visit hillsdaledrama.com.
licensed vet in an SPCA surgery
conducted at Sequoia High School by said support is offered to educators and sion and looking at another program,” vehicle. One pet per family. Cats and Joseph and the Amazing
teachers seeking to help students better parents too with an understanding that he said, of the approach for recidivists. dogs only. For more information call Technicolor Dreamcoat. 7:30 p.m.
analyze their behavior. 340-7022. Menlo-Atherton High School
all parties should participate for the The goal though is clear — officials Performing Arts Center, 555
At Woodside High School, doctor greatest effectiveness. The same effort are seeking a new approach to helping V is it Sicily : Community Travel Middlefield Road, Atherton. Cost
Jennifer Golick addressed students exists in Scatena’s district, as parents students better cope with marijuana and
Inf ormation Session and Visit $14. For more information contact
Ireland: Community Travel kristinm33@gmail.com.
Wednesday, Feb. 28, with an emphasis are expected to take one of the after- other drug issues. Information Session. 6 p.m. to
on helping the teens understand the school sessions with their children. “It’s not a punitive event. It’s more of 7:30 p.m. Skyline College, 3300 ‘The Elephant Man.’ 8 p.m. Hillbarn
College Drive, San Bruno. Free and Theatre, 1285 E. Hillsdale Blvd.,
ways marijuana can harm their develop- Sequoia Union High School District an educational event,” said Li. open to adults 18+. For more infor- Foster City. $37-$54. Based on the
mation call 738-7098. life of John Merrick. For more infor-
mation call 349-6411.
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tHe Halo Forerunner saga. 3 books.
Like new. Great gift! $25. (650) 204-0587
v.logvinov, unusual Journey to the
Country of Cyclic Arithmetic, 2017, Rus-
sian, 104p $25 (650)638-1695
294 Baby stuff
fisHer-price HealtHy Care booster
seat - $5 (650)592-5864.
295 art
BrusHed finisH, 15" X 20" frame
holds 18 various size photos. Never
used. $20. 650-369-2486.
296 appliances
air conditioner 10000 BTU w/re-
mote. Slider model fits all windows. LG
brand $199 runs like new. (650)235-
0898
air conditioner, Portable, 14,000
BTU, Commercial Cool model
CPN14XC9, almost like new! All acces-
sories plus remote included.
20” x 16-5/8” x 33-1/2” $245 OBO.
(650)345-1835
coffee maker $15.00 white, Kitchen
Gourmet, makes up to 12 cups (650)533-
0907
coleman lxe Roadtrip Grill -
Red Brand New! (still in box) $100
(650)918-9847
electric stove From Sears
Excellent Condition $225
Please Call (650)244-9267
good microwave 1100 watt $40 Da-
ly City (415) 231-4825.
Hotpoint Heavy Duty Dryer excellent
working condition Burlingame $50 Call
Dan (408)656-0958
maytag wasHer excellent working
condition Burlingame $50 Call Dan
(408)656-0958
(650)745-6309 after 5:00 pm.
smitH corona typewriter and table
M120 $25 (650)888-9314
taBle top Elec.Skillet Oster #4859
w/cover 11 7/8"sq.cook area $10.00
(650)344-4756
unitap standard centerset bath-
room chrome faucet, complete, $10,
(650)595-3933
vacuum cleaner (reconditioned)
$20 Call Ed (415)298-0645
western wasHBoard Sales made
of brass and wood, Golden Beam #25-C.
$75. phone 650-369-2486.
wHirlpool wasHer DRYER, GE
Refrigerator all working and in good con-
dition all for $99.00 (650)315-3240.
wHirlpool-dryer gas Coin Oper-
ated Laundry $99.00 (650)948-4895 or
(650)302-2456
wHirlpool-dryer gas Coin Oper-
ated Laundry $99.00 (650)948-4895 or
(650)302-2456
297 Bicycles
adult Bikes 1 regular and 2 with bal-
loon tires $30 Each (650) 347-2356
Bmx mongoose Outer Limit Bike,
looks almost new, $29 (650)595-3933
cHild’s scHwinn Bicycle, Blue in
good condition. $20. (650) 355-5189.
new 12" girls bike w/ training wheels
$75.00 (650) 347-1458 no ans/leave
mes
298 collectibles
80’s tops Complete Factory Set All
Years $99 Call Rick (415) 999-4474.
a-team figurines Plus Jeep $20
(650)591-9769 San Carlos
lennox red Rose, Unused, hand
painted, porcelain, authenticity papers,
$12.00. (650) 578 9208.
miller lite Neon sign , work good
$59 call (650)218-6528
star wars Action figure: Qui-Gon
Jinn (Jedi Knight), mint-in package. $10
Steve (650)518-6614.
302 antiques
maHogany antique Secretary desk,
72” x 40” , 3 drawers, Display case, bev-
elled glass, $150. (650)766-3024.
303 electronics
antares dollars Bill Changer ma-
chines never used for small bus. $95
(650)992-4544.
Blaupunkt am/fm/cd Radio and Re-
ceiver with Detachable Face asking
$100. (650)593-4490
kindle fire 8 in. Case and Charger
incl. 64 gig $40 Jeff (650)208-5758
motorola Bravo MB 520 (android
4.1 upgrade) smart phone 35$ 8GB SD
card Belmont (650)595-8855
onkyo av Receiver HT-R570 .Digital
Surround, HDMI, Dolby, Sirius Ready,
Cinema Filter.$95/ Offer (650)591-2393
samsung flat TV 20" ex.co.incl.
VCR ,set up $70. (650)992-4544
304 furniture
2 walnut 3-drawer nitestands. Tops
need work but very good cond. $20/ea
(650)952-3466.
antique dining table for six people
with chairs $99. (650)580-6324
antique moHagany Bookcase. Four
feet tall. $75. (415) 282-0966.
armcHair good condition $55.
(650)266-3184
Beige sofa $99. Excellent Condition
(650) 315-2319
Bunk Beds for sale. Cherry Wood, 2
years old. Includes Mattresses. $600 or
B/O (650)685-2494
carpet runner: 16ft.X26 Wide. Col-
or: floral design. good condition
$45.00. (650)266-3184
commode, good condition. $20 obo.
Please call (650)745-6309
computer desk (glass) & chair. Like
new $75 OBO (650)704-4709 or
gtecher@comcast.net
computer desk For sale $99
(650)520-4650
computer swivel CHAIR. Padded
Leather. $80. (650) 455-3409

legal notices
rior Court of California, County of San
Mateo, 400 County Center, REDWOOD
CITY, CA 94063. The name, address,
and telephone number of plaintiff's attor-
ney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El
nombre, la dirección y el número de telé-
fono del abogado del demandante, o del
demandante que no tiene abogado, es):
Robert G. Gottschalk
Fictitious Business Name Statements,
475 El Camino Real
MILLBRAE, CA 94030
FILED: 11/30/2017
Trustee Sale Notice, Name Change, Probate,
Jsmith@durhamschoolservices.com DATE (Fecha): 11/30/2017
Clerk (Secretario) by, Rodina M. Catala- Notice of Adoption, Divorce Summons,
no
Deputy (Adjunto) Antonio R. Geronimo
NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED:
Notice of Public Sales and More.
You are served as an individual defend-
ant.
(SEAL)

(Published in the San Mateo Daily Jour-

Published in the Daily Journal for San Mateo County.
nal: 2/26/18, 3/5/18, 3/12/18, 3/19/18)

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304 Furniture
dESK, Gd. cond. $99.99 or b.o.
(650)458-3578
dINETTE TABLE, 3 adjustable leaf.$30.
(650) 756-9516.Daly City.
dINING ROOM SET - Cherry Wood
(Looks Like Mahogany), two extra
leaves, Seats up to 10 $1200 Call Eve-
nings (650)591-6331.
dINING TABLE (36"x54") and 4 match-
ing chairs, sturdy oak, cost $600, sell for
$250 .(650)-654-1930.
dRESSER 4-dRAwER in Belmont for
$75. Good condition; good for children.
Call (650)678-8585
ENTERTAINMENT CENTER for $50.
Good shape, blonde, about 5' high.
(650)726-4102
FREE wOOdEN Bed frame, good condi-
tion pictures available (650)322-9598
email tmckay1@sbcglobal.net
GLIdER rocker and ottoman, oak, excel-
lent condition. $100 (650)345-5644.
IKEA dRESSER, black, 3 shelf. 23" x
15"deep x 50" high. $65. (650)598-9804.
IKEA TABLE, black 58" x 21" x 14" high.
$ 30. (650)598-9804.
LIvING ROOM Table, good condition.
$30. (415)231-4825
LOvE CHAIR, velour, tan. $45.
(808)631-1365.
NEw dELUxE Twin Folding Bed, Lin-
ens, cover, Cost $618. Sale $250. Must
Sell! (650) 875-8159.
NEw TwIN Mattress set plus frame
$30.00 (650) 347-2356
NIAGARA vIBRATING Adjustable bed
good condition Burlingame $90 Call Dan
(408)656-0958
OFFICE SwIvEL Chair, good condition.
$25. (415)231-4825
OFFICE TYPE 34"X 60" heavy solid
wood with formica wood grain top $25
(650) 787-9753
ORNATE LARGE BOOKCASE: Two
Pieces 5Ft across by 7ft tall Paid $2500
asking $500 CALL(650)345-9199.
ORNATE MAHOGANY headboard with
gold trim $60. (650)589-0764
RETRO HUTCH Needs refinishing other-
wise good condition. Top detaches from
bottom $25. (650)712-9962
SEwING STORAGE cabinet, Custom
made wood perfect condition $75.
(650)483-1222
SOFABEd, vELOUR, tan, Excellent
condition. $75. (808)631-1365.
SOLId wOOd Dining table with exten-
sion great piece great condition black
$80 (650)364-5263
SOLId wOOd Entertainment Center-
TurnTable, Am-Fm, Eight Track, Built In
Speakers, Sony 26’ Smart T.V.(68.75 in.
X 25.5inch X28inch) $500 o.b.o
(925)482-5742
304 Furniture
TABLE 24"x48" folding legs each end.
Melamine top, 500# capacity. Cost
$130. Sell $50. 650-591-4141
TwIN BEd frame-black wrought iron
from Crate & Barrel $65 (650)631-1341
TwIN BEd, mattress, box spring, frame
$ 50. (650)598-9804.
USEd BEdROOM Furniture, FREE. Call
(650)573-7381.
wALL UNIT/ROOM Divider. Simple
lines. Breaks down for transportation.
$25.(650)712-9962 leave message
wALNUT CHEST, small (4 drawer with
upper bookcase $50. (650)726-6429
wARdROBE CLOSET with beveled
door mirror $100 or B/Offer. (650)589-
0764
wOOd - wall Unit - 30" long x 6' tall x
17.5" deep. $90. (650)631-9311
wOOd-GRAIN LAMINATE Kitchen table
3’x4’ plus 1’ leaf, 2 chairs. Photo availa-
ble $35 (650)392-4841.
306 Housewares
COMPLETE SET OF CHINA - Windsor
Garden, Noritake. Four place-settings,
20-pieces in original box, never used.
$250 per box (3 boxes available).
(650)342-5630
CRYSTAL (LEAdEd glass) lamp $30.
Can send picture. (650)464-7860
308 Tools
ANTIqUE IRON Hand Drills. 3 available
at $30 each. (650)339-3672 Ron
CRAFTSMAN 9" Radial Arm Saw with 6"
dado set. No stand. $55 (650)341-6402
SHOPSMITH MARK V 50th Anniversary
most attachments. $1,500/OBO.
(650)504-0585
vINTAGE CRAFTSMAN Jig Saw. Circa
1947. $60. (650)245-7517
vINTAGE SHOPSMITH and BANd
SAw, good shape. $300/obo. Call
(650)342-6993
309 Office Equipment
1950’S BURROUGHS elec. adding ma-
chine. $30. 650-888-9314.
LAPTOP CASE or bag. Black. Like new.
Hardly used. $25. (650)697-1564.
310 Misc. For Sale
500-600 BIG Band-era 78's--most mint,
no sleeves--$50 for all-(650)574-5459
BESSY SMALL Evening Hand Bag With
Beige Cord $75.00 (650)678-5371
BIFOLd SHUTTERS 2x28”x79 $10.00
(650)544-5306
BOBBY HULL Hockey Game Great
Cont. ,1960’s $50 (415)269-4784
310 Misc. For Sale
CASH REGISTER Parts; Much Skin Not
Guts $500 (415)269-4784
COSTCO PLAY Pen with travel bag.
Used once $35 (650)591-2981
dRUM -déCOR ONLY Brass cylinder &
fittings, wood frame. Has age. $25.00
(650)344-4756
LIONEL CHRISTMAS Holiday expan-
sion Set. New OB $99 (650)368-7537
LIONEL wESTERN Union Pass car and
dining car. New OB $99 (650)368-7537
LOREx 14” B&W Surveillance System
Model SG14S1042C-A $75 (415)407-
2360 RWC loction.
LUGGAGE, REd, 21" NEW Samsonite
Spinner,$50.00. (650)729-3000
NEGRINI FENCING Epee mask size M
& France Lames 5 epee blade $95
(415)260-6940
SAMSONITE 26" tan hard-sided suit
case, lt. wt., wheels, used once/like new.
$45. (650)328-6709
SILK SAREE 6 yards new nice color.for
$35 only. Call(650)515-2605 for more in-
formation.
SINK, 33”x22” Top mount with faucet,
$15.00 (650)544-5306
SLR LENS Pentax 28-90mm f3.5-5.6
Pentax K Mount $25 (650)436-7171
SLR LENS Sigma 28-105mm f3.8-5.6
Sigma SA Mount $25 (650)436-7171
TRAIN-COLOR PRINT by John Hugh
Coker $50 Call (650)344-4756
UNIdEN HARLEY Davidson Gas Tank
phone. $100 or best offer. (650)863-8485
wATER STORAGE TANK, brand new,
275 gallons. 48" x 46" x 39" $225.
(650)771-6324
311 Musical Instruments
CHROMATIC HARMONICA: Horner
The 64 Chomonica, German Made $180,
(650)278-5776.
dRUM SET-PEARL FORUM Excellent
condition, Black, Full Kit, Light Use, $425
Call Paul (650)218-6706.
EPIPHONE LES Paul 100th
Anniversary Custom Electric Guitar.
Mint. $600.00 650 421 5469
FENdER MUSTANG I guitar amplifier
70 watts 8-guitar settings.with cover.
$80. (650)421-5469
FENdER MUSTANG ll guitar amplifier
110 watts 8-guitar settings, with cover.
$130.00 (650)421-5469
FOR SALE:
Epiphone Les Paul Custom
Prophecy Electric Guitar. Mint.
$625.00, 650 421 5469.
PIANO-1955 BALdwIN Acrosonic 36”
High, Free for anyone to pick-up
(650)295-9121.
311 Musical Instruments
HUGE LUdwIG Drum Set Silver Sparkle
& Chrome, Zelgian, Pasite & Sabian
Cymbals, 24 in. Timpany $4,300
(650)369-8013.
PIANO, UPRIGHT, in excellent condi-
tion. Asking $345. (650)366-4769
UPRIGHT PIANO. In tune. Fair condi-
tion. FREE. (650) 533-4886.
vINTAGE LINGERIE Washboard circa
1920’s The Zinc King #703. Suitable for
strumming $50 (650)369-2486
YAMAHA ACOUSTIC Guitar, model
FG830 electric. $400.00 (650)421-5469
zILJIAN CYMBALS with stands, 21”
ride, 18” crash. Paistie 18” crash - $99
(916)826-5964
312 Pets & Animals
AIRLINE CARRIER for cats, pur. from
Southwest Airlines, $25, 2 available. Call
(505)228-1480 local.
ONE KENNEL Cab ll one Pet Taxi ani-
mal carriers 26x16. Excellent cond. $60..
(650)593-2066
PARROT CAGE, Steel, Large - approx
4 ft by 4 ft, Excellent condition $300 best
offer. (650)245-4084
PET CARRIER for small dog or cat in ex-
cellent condition $30. Claudia (650) 349-
6059
PET TAxI Animal Carrier. Brand: Delux
Nature Miracle - Excellent Condition for
$25. Call (650)349-6059.
316 Clothes
5 BOxES male & female square dance
clothing. Excellent Condition. As a
bunch $200 Maryann (650)574-4439.
dAwGS BRANd Kaymann black and
white snake print loafers size 7 (9.3”) $25
(650)369-2486
FAUx FUR Coat Woman's brown multi
color in excellent condition 3/4
length $50 (650)692-8012
GENUINE LAdIES Mink Fur Jacket,
$50.00 Call: (650)368-0748.
GOLF SHOES FootJoy, brown and white
saddle, 91/2, like new, $15; (650)591-
9769
GOLF SHOES, FootJoy, black & white
saddle, 91/2, good condition, $5;
(650)591-9769
KAYANO MEN’S Running shoes size 11
good condition $20 (650)520-7045
LAdIES SEqUIN dress, blue, size XL,
pure silk lining, $40.00, (650) 578-9208
MEN'S STETSON hat, size large, new,
rim, solid black, large, great gift. $40
(650) 578-9208
NEw wITH tags Wool or cotton Men's
pullover sweaters (XL) $15/each
(650)952-3466
PARIS HILTON purse white & silver un-
used, about 12" long x 9" high
$23. (650)592-2648
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316 Clothes 340 Camera & Photo Equip.
TUxEdO SIzE 40, black, including white NIKON 18-140 zoom lenses (3), excel-
shirt, excellent cond. $50 (650)355-5189 lent condition. $200 each. (650)592-9044
wILSON LEATHER Lady Jacket. Small, OMEGA B600 Condenser Enlarger, In-
like new. $45. (808)863-1136. struction Manual & 50mm El-Omegar En-
larging Lens $95 (415)260-6940
wILSON LEATHER, burgundy lady jack-
et, Small, like new $45 (808)863-1136 vIvITAR v 2000 W/35-70 zoom and
original manual. Like new. $99 SSF
318 Sports Equipment (650)583-6636
15 SF Giants Posters -- Barry Bonds, 345 Medical Equipment
Jeff Kent, JT Snow. 6' x 2.5' Unused. $4
each. $35 all. (650)588-1946 San Bruno
HOMEdICS dUAL Shiatsu Massage
Cushion. 3 Zone. $45.00. (650)207-4162
BOLLINGER YOGA Mat. 2 blocks &
strap $5 (650)888-9314 Garage Sales
BOw FLEx Max Trainer M-3-Very Good
Condition, Like New, Assembled, Paid
$1200 asking $800 Call Michael
(650)784-1061. GARAGE SALES
CHILdS KICK scooter by razor with hel- ESTATE SALES
met $25 obo (650)591-6842
EASTON ALUMINUM bat.33 inches, 30
Make money, make room!
oz, 2 3/4 barrel. $30. (650)596-0513
GOLF BAG travel protector, black, $5;
List your upcoming
(650)591-9769 garage sale,
moving sale,
GOLF BALLS, good condition, 100 for
$10; (650)591-9769 estate sale,
GOLF CLUBS {13}, Bag, & Pull Cart all--
$90.00 (650)341-8342
yard sale,
rummage sale,
GOLF CLUBS, used set with Cart for
$50. (650)593-4490 clearance sale, or
MEN'S ROSSIGNOL Skis. $95.00, whatever sale you
good condition, (650)341-0282. have...
MEN’S SKI Boots, Salomon, Size 9, very
good condition. $70. (650) 591-2981.
Reach over 83,450 readers
ONE dOzEN Official League Diamond from South San Francisco
Baseballs. Brand New. $35. Call Roger
(650)771-6324.
to Palo Alto.
in your local newspaper.
PRINCE TENNIS 2 section nylon black
Bag with Prince Pro Graphite Racket-
$55.(650)341-8342
Call (650)344-5200
PROGRAMMABLE ELIPTICAL Exer-
cise Bike. Excellent Condition. Redwood
City (650)740-9980 $75.00
TOTAL GYM XLS, excellent condition. 379 Open Houses
Paid $2,500. Yours for $900. Call
(650)588-0828
TOUREdGE REACTION ii uniflex sys-
tem 8 irons 3-9 and pitch irons
new $75. Call May (650)349-0430
OPEN HOUSE
TREAdMILL-HORIzON LIKE New, limit-
LISTINGS
ed use, Paid $750-Asking $450 OBO
(650)508-8662 List your Open House
vINTAGE NASH Cruisers Mens/ Wom- in the Daily Journal.
ens Roller Skates Blue indoor/outdoor sz
6-8. $60 B/O. (650)574-4439
Reach over 83,450
wOMAN’S SKI Boots, Nordica, size 8
$30 (650)592-2047.
potential home buyers &
wOMEN’S RAICHEL ski boots, size 6 ?
renters a day,
$ 50. (650)888-5808 . from South San Francisco
YAMAHA ROOF RACK, 58 inches $75. to Palo Alto.
(650)458-3255 in your local newspaper.
335 Garden Equipment
Call (650)344-5200
CHAIN SAw, 16“ ,Craftsmen ,electric,
$55. (650)888-5808
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Election projections in Italy point to hung Parliament

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Election projections in Italy early
Monday showed a center-right coalition
that includes an anti-migrant party edging
past the populist 5-Star Movement, but no
single bloc or party with the support to win
a majority in Parliament.
If confirmed by official results, the out-
come could set the stage for weeks of polit-
ical haggling to forge a new government
An RAI State TV projection from
Sunday’s election showed the center-right
bloc in front with 35.5 percent and the cen-
ter-left, which includes
the Democratic Party
leading the current gov-
ernment, lagging at 23
percent.
The anti-establish-
ment 5-Star Movement
had 32.5 percent.
Another projection
Silvio that looked only at how
Berlusconi parties fared had the 5-
Star Movement snag-
ging 31.8 percent of the vote, but far from
the threshold it needed to form a govern-
ment.
The anti-immigrant, euroskeptic League
of Matteo Salvini had 15.9 percent of the
vote and its main center-right partner, for-
mer Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza
Italia, came in at 14.2 percent. The
Democratic Party had just 19.6 percent.
“Despite a stronger than expected per-
formance, the M5S (Five-Stars) are still far
away from securing an absolute majority,”
Wolfango Piccoli, a London-based analyst
with Teneo Intelligence, wrote.
Piccoli noted that Berlusconi and Salvini
had forged a ‘’gentleman’s agreement” stat-
ing that if their bloc secured a majority of
the vote, whichever of their parties received
more support could pick Italy’s next pre-
mier.
Berlusconi cannot hold public office now
due to a tax fraud conviction and tapped
European Parliament President Antonio
Tajani as his choice for premier. Salvini
wants the job for himself.
Like Piccoli, other analysts said the elec-
tion appeared to have dealt Italy a hung
Parliament — and weeks or even months of
political negotiations to line up a governing
coalition of rival forces appeared likely.

Merkel in line for a fourth term after months of uncertainty

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN — Germany ended months of polit-
ical uncertainty Sunday when Chancellor
Angela Merkel gained the support needed to
preserve her governing coalition and secure a
fourth term as leader of Europe’s most powerful
economy.
The center-left Social Democrats voted over-
whelmingly to remain in a coalition with
Merkel’s conservative bloc, after difficult and
drawn-out negotiations triggered by
September’s elections, which saw the rise of a
new right-wing force in German politics and
raised questions about Merkel’s future.
Parliament is expected
to meet March 14 to re-
elect Merkel as chancellor,
ending the longest time
Germany has been without
a new government after
elections in its postwar
history.
Merkel has drawn flak
Angela Merkel from both left and right for
maintaining an
unabashedly centrist course since taking office
in 2005. With the coalition approved, she can
now turn her attention to tackling rising anti-
immigrant sentiment in Germany while push-
ing forward efforts to reform the stumbling
European Union.
“I congratulate the SPD on this clear result
and look forward to continuing to work togeth-
er for the good of our country,” she said on
Twitter.
Merkel’s survival drew cheers from her allies
at home and abroad, with French President
Emmanuel Macron declaring it “good news for
Europe.”
“France and Germany will work together in
the coming weeks to develop new initiatives
and advance the European project,” Macron
said in a statement.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel
expressed hope that the end of Germany’s six-
month political limbo would allow the EU to
step up efforts to deal with such issues as immi-
gration, security and trade.
In a veiled reference to the United States
under President Donald Trump, Michel cited the
threat of protectionism, the weakening of
international cooperation and the issue of cli-
mate change as challenges the 28-nation bloc
must face.
Merkel, who has proved herself a shrewd
international negotiator during more than 12
years in office, faced her greatest challenge at
home after deciding to allow over a million
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Syrian troops advance in rebel-held region near capital

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad
vowed Sunday to continue with a military
offensive in a rebel-held region near the capi-
tal, as troops and allied militias captured a
number of villages and towns in the largest
advance since a wide-scale operation began
last month.
Speaking to a small group of reporters in
Damascus, Assad said the five-hour daily
“humanitarian pause” in eastern Ghouta would
continue, to allow for any civilians wishing
to leave the area to do so.
“There is no contradiction between the truce
and the military operation,” he added.
Assad also denied that the Syrian govern-
ment carried out toxic gas attacks, describing
such reports as part of the western countries’
“dictionary of lies.”
Meanwhile, the United Nations said it
planned to deliver aid to a total of 70,000 peo-
ple in the stricken region starting Monday
after it received approval from the govern-
ment to move in. U.N. officials had said lack
of approvals and consensus among the war-
ring parties, as well as the limited duration of
the five-hour Russian-ordered humanitarian
pause, had made aid delivery impossible.
Syria’s Central Military Media said govern-
ment forces captured at least six villages and
towns along the edge of eastern Ghouta in the
advance that began late Saturday. The Central
Military Media later said the troops continued
their movement, reaching the outskirts of
Mesraba, in central Ghouta.

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