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Obama: US will defeat terror threats new phase

By Julie Pace
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON In a rare Oval

Office address, President Barack
Obama vowed Sunday night the
U.S. will overcome a new phase of
the terror threat that seeks to poison the minds of people here and
around the world, as he sought to
reassure Americans shaken by
recent attacks in Paris and

California.
I know that
after so much
war,
many
Americans are
asking whether
we are confronted by a
cancer that has
Barack Obama no immediate
cure, he said,
speaking from a lectern in his

West Wing office. The threat

from terrorism is real, but we will
overcome it, he declared.
The presidents speech followed
Wednesdays shooting in San
Bernardino, California, that killed
14 people and wounded 21.
Authorities say a couple carried
out the attack and the wife pledged
allegiance to the Islamic State and
its leader in a Facebook post.
Obama said that while there was

no evidence the shooters were

directed by a terror network overseas or part of a broader plot, the
two of them had gone down the
dark path of radicalization.
This was an act of terrorism
designed to kill innocent people,
he said in the 13-minute address.
In speaking from the Oval
Office, Obama turned to a tool of
the presidency that he has used
infrequently. His decision to

speak in prime time reflected the

White Houses concern that his
message on the recent attacks hasnt broken through, particularly in
the midst of a heated presidential
campaign.
Yet Obamas speech was likely
to leave his critics unsatisfied. He
announced no significant shift in
U.S. strategy and offered no new

See TERROR, Page 19

County gets
legal help to
oppose suit

TIGERS ROAR TO STATE TITLE

Federal suit alleges discrimination

against rehab center near Woodside
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT

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Notre Dame-Belmont head coach Jen Agresti hoists the CIF Division IV state championship trophy after her Tigers
took down Southern California champion Laguna Blanca in Saturdays state title match at Santiago Canyon
College. The crown marks the first in any sport in Notre Dame-Belmont history. STORY PAGE 11

Fund set up for Burlingame renters

San Mateo County is set to

spend $600,000 to hire an outside
legal firm to combat a federal lawsuit filed by Stillpath Retreat
Center, after the Board of
Supervisors shot down its proposal to open a rehab center near
Woodside.
The county was served with a
complaint in July that alleges the
boards action to overturn a
Planning Commission decision
violated federal fair housing and
disability laws.
The Planning Commission
approved the retreat centers plans

to reorganize into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in

January 2014 on a 3-1 vote.
But residents in Kings Mountain
appealed the decision and asked
the board to overturn the decision,
which it did unanimously in March
2014.
Supervisor Don Horsley said his
opposition stemmed primarily
from residents in the area who
complained that the increased use
at the 16-acre facility would intensify fire danger, increase traffic
and strain the rural areas water
supply.

See SUIT, Page 20

Effort aims to benefit those grappling with climbing cost of living

By Austin Walsh
DAILY JOURNAL

Burlingame residents struggling

to afford rising rents may look to a
fund established by local officials
for a little additional assistance
during the holiday season.
Burlingame Mayor Terry Nagel
and Cindy Cornell, an advocate for
the rights of local renters, worked
with Samaritan House in San
Mateo to set up a collection fund
of resources set aside to benefit
Burlingame renters who are having difficulty affording the escalating cost of living locally.
Contributors to the Burlingame

Family
Fund
can select to
make charitable
do n at i o n s
toward essential services,
holiday gifts or
whatever other
need they prefer
by contacting
Terry Nagel
Samaritan
House, a nonprofit service agency.
Nagel said the tremendous need
she has seen in the community
while
collaborating
with
Cornells agency, the Burlingame
Advocates for Renter Protections,
compelled her to get involved and

start the collection fund.

These people need help now
and they are facing a desperate
time in the holiday season that
wont be very merry, she said.
During her time working in the
community, Nagel said she has
seen residents constantly faced
with the difficult decision of using
a limited pool of resources to pay
for rent, meals, health care or a
variety of other essential services.
Its a really bad situation, she
said.
Cornell, in an email, echoed
many of those sentiments.

See RENT, Page 20

PHOTO COURTESY OF STILLPATH

Owners of the Stillpath Retreat Center near Woodside are suing San Mateo
County over a Board of Supervisors decision to deny the facility to be converted into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center.

FOR THE RECORD

Monday Dec. 7, 2015

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Thought for the Day

O tempora! O mores! (Oh the times!
Oh the customs!)
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C.-43 B.C.).

This Day in History

The Imperial Japanese navy launched
a surprise attack on the U.S. Navy
base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as part
of a plan to pre-empt any American
military response to Japans planned
conquest of Southeast Asian territories; the raid, which
claimed some 2,400 American lives, prompted the United
States to declare war against Japan the next day.

1941

In 4 3 B. C., Roman statesman and scholar Marcus Tullius

Cicero was slain at the order of the Second Triumvirate.
In 1 7 8 7 , Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S.
Constitution.
In 1 8 4 2 , the New York Philharmonic performed its first
concert.
In 1 9 0 9 , chemist Leo H. Baekeland received a U.S. patent
for Bakelite (BAY-kuh-lyt), the first synthetic plastic.
In 1 9 4 6 , fire broke out at the Winecoff (WYN-kahf) Hotel
in Atlanta; the blaze killed 119 people, including hotel
founder W. Frank Winecoff.
In 1 9 6 5 , Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras
I simultaneously lifted the mutual excommunications that
had led to the split of their churches in 1054.
In 1 9 7 5 , author-playwright Thornton Wilder, 78, died in
Hamden, Connecticut.
In 1 9 8 5 , retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart died
in Hanover, New Hampshire, at age 70.
In 1 9 8 7 , 43 people were killed after a gunman aboard a
Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner in California apparently
opened fire on a fellow passenger, the pilots and himself,
causing the plane to crash. Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time,
arriving for a Washington summit with President Ronald
Reagan.
In 1 9 9 0 , actress Joan Bennett died in Scarsdale, New York,
at age 80.
In 1 9 9 5 , a 746-pound probe from the Galileo spacecraft
hurtled into Jupiters atmosphere, sending back data to the
mothership before it was presumably destroyed.

Birthdays

Noam Chomsky is
87.

Singer-songwriter
Tom Waits is 66.

NFL player Terrell

Owens is 42.

Actress Ellen Burstyn is 83. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss.,

is 78. Broadcast journalist Carole Simpson is 75. Baseball
Hall of Famer Johnny Bench is 68. Actor-director-producer
James Keach is 68. Country singer Gary Morris is 67. Sen.
Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, is 63. Basketball Hall of Famer
Larry Bird is 59. Actress Priscilla Barnes is 58. Former
Tonight Show announcer Edd (cq) Hall is 57. Rock musician
Tim Butler (The Psychedelic Furs) is 57. Actor Patrick Fabian
is 51. Actor Jeffrey Wright is 50. Actor C. Thomas Howell is
49. Rapper-producer Kon Artis is 41. Pop singer Nicole
Appleton (All Saints) is 40. Latin singer Frankie J is 39.

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The Caltrain Holiday Train presented by Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a Bay Area tradition since 2001, rolled into
town Saturday night.

In other news ...

Lawsuits part of call for more
transparency at law schools
SAN FRANCISCO Nikki Nguyen
left a $50,000-a-year job at Boeing
Co. in 2006 to pursue a law degree at
Thomas Jefferson School of Law in
San Diego, her sisters successful
career as a corporate attorney providing a glimpse of the possibilities she
imagined ahead of her.
Instead, she struggled for more than
a year to find a job after she graduated
and watched her student loan debt of
over $180,000 balloon.
Nguyen, 34, is among 12 former
Thomas Jefferson students who are
suing the university in a California
court, accusing it of inflating its graduates employment figures and salaries
to attract students.
They werent transparent, said
Nguyen, whose case is scheduled to go
to trial in March. People who have a
dream of law school should go into it
with their eyes wide open.
An attorney for Thomas Jefferson,
Michael Sullivan, denied the allegations and said the school was following procedures set by the American Bar
Association that have since changed.
Nguyens lawsuit is among more
than a dozen similar ones filed in
recent years against law schools,
including Golden Gate University
School of Law in San Francisco and
the University of San Francisco
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ket, he said.
The lawsuits against Golden Gate
University and the University of San
Francisco also alleged the schools
were misrepresenting their post-graduate employment figures.
The Golden Gate lawsuit was settled,
with each of the five plaintiffs receiving $8,000, according to a May 2015
court filing. The case against the
University of San Francisco was dismissed in May.
A spokesman for Golden Gate law
school, Erik Christensen, referred
comment to an attorney, who did not
immediately respond. University of
San Francisco law spokeswoman
Angie Davis said the university and
plaintiffs amicably resolved the matter, and the school could not comment further.
In court filings, both schools said
data were available that showed what
percentage of students actually
obtained jobs at law firms.
The ABA has since required schools
to publish a more detailed breakdown
of their employment figures that,
among other things, distinguishes
full-time from part-time jobs.
But Procel and McEntee say problems still exist. Students know on
average the debt they will incur to
attend school, but dont have a good
sense of how it can mushroom after
graduation with interest and fees if
they have to defer payment, Procel
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suits have been dismissed, critics say

they point to a need for greater regulation and transparency for law schools,
so prospective students know their
employment prospects, the debt they
will incur and even their chances of
successfully passing the bar.
Schools are setting up a lot of people to fail, said Kyle McEntee, executive director of Law School
Transparency, a nonprofit legal education policy group that had no involvement with the lawsuits.
Thomas Jefferson reported postgraduation employment figures that
exceeded 70 percent and topped 90 percent in 2010, but did not disclose that
those figures included part-time and
non-legal work such as a pool cleaner
and a sales clerk at Victorias Secret
and were based on a small sample of
graduates, according to Nguyens lawsuit and her attorney, Brian Procel. The
lawsuit further alleges that the school
routinely reported unemployed students as employed and shredded surveys and other documents that reflected a more accurate employment picture.
Thomas Jefferson responded in court
documents that the students ignored
additional available employment data.
Sullivan said there is no evidence that
demonstrates any effort on the part of
the school to misrepresent the postgraduate employment numbers.
These were students who were
encountering a more difficult job mar-

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LOCAL

Blast foundation eyes scholarship fund

Restitution money set to benefit community in the coming year
By Austin Walsh
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

San Bruno students interested in pursuing

a college degree who need a little nancial
assistance paying tuition may soon be able
to look to a scholarship made available
through the restitution fund established in
the wake of the gasline explosion which
devastated the Crestmoor neighborhood.
The San Bruno Community Foundation,
charged with allocating the $68.5 million
granted by Pacic Gas and Electric after the
tragedy to benet city residents, set establishing a memorial scholarship as one of its
immediate goals for the coming year.
Foundation members put their sights on
setting up the scholarship, as well as developing a fund which benets community
service organizations, as attainable targets
in the short term while they examine larger
building capital projects, said foundation
Director Leslie Hatamiya.
Hatamiya said the foundation would like
to begin spending a portion of the fund to
serve residents, as the five-year anniversary
of the gasline explosion passed in
September.
Knowing that a lot of the bigger projects
will take some time to research and develop
and implement, like libraries and other larger capital projects, we wanted to start spending the funds to benefit the community in
2016, she said.
Hatamiya said she was uncertain how
much may be offered to residents or local
organizations through the scholarship or
community grant programs.
The foundation has set aside $1 million
for the scholarship and grant program, as
well as four other projects which involve
coordination with city officials, including a
developing a master plan of community
facilities, offering funds for city gather-

ings,
implementing
pedestrian
safety
improvements
downtown and building more
park space.
These are all things
that we are hoping that
we will get going, if not
fully realized, in 2016,
Leslie Hatamiya said Hatamiya.
Another $15 million
of the fund has been dedicated to putting
into an endowment, which will continue to
grow and serve the community over future
years, said Hatamiya.
She said foundation members are prepared
to issue a request for proposals to investment firms which have interest in managing
the endowment.
The rest of the fund would likely be used to
build large community projects in which
residents have expressed interest, such as a
library, community center, an indoor swimming pool, upgraded recreation center as
well as other park and athletic field
improvements, said Hatamiya.
Foundation members still need to work to
narrow down which projects the fund will be
spent to build, because the $55 million left
over after setting aside money for other uses
is insufficient to accommodate the variety
of demands identified by the community,
said Hatamiya.
Clearly, $70 million does not go that far
to do all these, she said.
Beyond large capital projects, the foundation has established priorities to spend the
money serving local schools, social services, city-wide beautification efforts and community building through annual events, said
Hatamiya.
These are the things we are seriously
going to look into, she said.
As the anniversary of the blast which

County seeks housing help

Housing Authority to hire outside firm
to locate housing for voucher holders
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT

Noting that Section 8 voucher holders in

San Mateo County are increasingly unable
to find places to live, the Housing Authority
is set to hire a private firm to provide
Housing Locator Services.
The authority is set to contract with
Abode Services for the next three years to
try to increase housing choices for voucher
holders, with assistance provided by the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development.
The contract is not to exceed $750,000,
according to a staff report to the Board of
Supervisors by Housing Authority
Executive Director Ken Cole.
The authority has made efforts to increase
utilization of the vouchers by increasing
subsidy amounts, increasing outreach to
potential landlords and leveraging the federal dollars to build more affordable housing
in the county.
Even with these efforts, however, voucher
usage continues to decline, Cole wrote in
the report.
Abode currently contracts with Santa
Clara, Alameda and Santa Cruz counties to
provide a housing first approach to assist
the homeless.
The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the county is now $2,516, a 50.2
percent increase in four years, according to
a housing indicators report released in July.
Residents in the county with Section 8

housing vouchers are being pushed out of

the rental market by prospective tenants
who have plenty of cash in hand, according
to the Housing Authority.
The availability of rentals is also virtually zero in the area.
The county has roughly 4,200 vouchers
with 800 of them being in the Move-toWork program, which provides case management and long-term goal setting for participants.
The Housing Authority received another
1,356 applications for rental assistance in
the last quarter for a HUD Move-to-Work
program.
In total, the county has received 23,477
applications for the self-sufficiency program since it was expanded in January
2014.
Currently though, only 3, 563 of the
voucher holders have stable housing,
according to Coles report.
The areas housing crisis is spurred by
robust job growth and the lack of new home
construction.
In the last three years, San Mateo County
has added 40,000 new jobs but built only
3,000 new homes, according to the Housing
Leadership Council.
The item is on the Board of Supervisors
consent calendar.
The board meets, 9 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 8,
400 County Center, Redwood City.

killed eight residents, and injured 66 others,

just passed and the calendar is prepared to
flip to a new year, Hatamiya said the foundation feels it is due time to honor those
whose lives were altered by the tragedy
through allocating a portion of the funds.
We want the people who lived through it
to see some of these benefits realized, she
said.
She added the foundation should move as
quickly as possible to make decisions
because building costs could rise, and taking longer to get an effort off the ground
will only delay its delivery.
If we do not start moving now it will be
even longer, she said.
The foundation has been deliberate in
establishing a game plan for how to responsibly allocate the money, she said, and residents have been receptive to the call for
community input on how to serve San
Bruno through the fund.
The $68.5 million controlled by the foundation is separate from the $50 million trust
agreement specifically benefiting the
Crestmoor neighborhood, which suffered
the brunt of the blast Sept. 9, 2010.
A lions share of the groundwork laid
toward spending a portion of the fund was
done in the past year, said Hatamiya, and the
foundation members look forward to beginning to benefit the community with the
money.
We are very pleased we have made this
much progress, she said. And the community will start to see these projects in the
coming year.

Monday Dec. 7, 2015

Police reports
False everything
A 25-year-old San Francisco man was
arrested when he was found to be in possession of false documents and a wallet
that didnt belong to him on the rst
block of El Camino Real in Millbrae
before 2 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1.

MILLBRAE
Co ntraband. A San Francisco man was
arrested when he was found to be under the
inuence of a controlled substance and in
possession of stolen packages on the 900
block of Hemlock Avenue before 3:48 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 3.
Theft. A Burlingame woman was arrested
for stealing and pawning rings on the rst
block of Corte Ana before 11 p.m. Monday,
Nov. 30.
Sus pended l i cens e. A Millbrae man was
cited for driving with a suspended license on
the rst block of Berni Court before 9:56
p.m. Monday, Nov. 30.

BURLINGAME
Burg l ary. A vehicles window was smashed
and items were taken on Broadway before
6:59 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2.
Vandal i s m. A cars tires were slashed on El
Camino Real before 2:40 p.m. Wednesday,
Dec. 2.
Theft. A bicycle was stolen on Floribunda
Avenue before 12:17 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2.
Burg l ary. A construction site was broken
into and tools were stolen on Easton Drive
before 9:07 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2.
Theft. A bicycle was stolen near Primrose
Road and Fox Plaza Lane before 8:38 a.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 2.

LOCAL

Monday Dec. 7, 2015

Police investigating
overnight residential
burglary in Hillsborough
Investigators in Hillsborough
are looking into a residential burglary that took place sometime
Friday or Saturday.
Sometime between 5:20 p.m.
Friday and 10:30 a.m. Saturday
morning, a home in the 900 block
of Tournament Drive was burglarized, according to police.
The suspect apparently kicked a
glass window pane near a door
handle, opened the door and
entered the residence where
property was reported stolen,
according to police.
Theyre asking residents who

may have noticed suspicious people or vehicles in the area to call

dispatch at (650) 375-7470.
Police are also asking residents
who may have video surveillance
systems to come forward with any
footage that might be relevant to
the investigation.
The
Hillsborough
Police
Department offers home security
evaluations by appointment by
contacting Officer Dana Tandy at
(650) 375-7470.

Parolee who
allegedly led CHP on
chase pleads not guilty
A 24-year-old San Jose parolee
pleaded not guilty Thursday to

Local briefs
multiple charges after he allegedly
led California Highway Patrol
officers on a chase through San
Mateo County early Wednesday
morning.
Milton LeClaire is accused of
driving while under the influence,
resisting an officer, fleeing from
officers and driving on a suspended license, according to prosecutors.
Around 2:10 a.m., LeClaire was
driving south on Highway 101 in
San Mateo, traveling at about 110
miles per hour, prosecutors said.
A CHP officer noticed the speeding vehicle and attempted to pull
it over. LeClaire, however,

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ignored the officer and continued
toward Redwood City, according
to prosecutors.
He then exited at Woodside Road
and drove through city streets at
speeds between 50 and 60 miles
per hour, prosecutors said.
LeClaire drove through a stoplight at Woodside Road and
Broadway, and then passed
through numerous stop signs on
side streets, according to prosecutors.
LeClaire next turned his vehicle
onto a dead-end street, where he
jumped out of the vehicle and
attempted to run.
Officers chased him and were
ultimately able to apprehend him
with the use of a Taser, prosecutors
said.

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a suspended license and had a long
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On Feb. 19, LeClaire was arrested by Milpitas police for allegedly
burglarizing automobiles at a
parking lot, located at 1818 Clear
Lake Ave.
The burglaries, which occurred
on Feb. 3 and Feb. 10, were captured on surveillance video. The
footage led police to LeClaire and
he was arrested on suspicion of
burglary, according to police.
LeClaire remains in custody
with bail set at $50,000.
He is set to appear next in court
on Dec. 16 at 2 p.m. for a preliminary hearing, prosecutors said.

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Wife may have been driving force in rampage

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN
BERNARDINO

Investigators are looking into

whether Tashfeen Malik radicalized her American-born husband
and was the driving force in the
San Bernardino massacre plot,
two officials said Sunday.
That possibility emerged late
last week when it was disclosed
that the Pakistani-born Malik had
pledged allegiance to the Islamic
State group in a Facebook post at
about the same time she and husband Syed Farook launched the
commando-style
attack
Wednesday that left 14 people
dead at a holiday luncheon.
Meanwhile, memorials for the
victims got underway Sunday, and
President Barack Obama readied a
prime-time address to the nation
on security and terrorism.
Federal investigators continued
trying to establish what pushed
the couple to carry out what

appears to be
the deadliest
attack
on
American soil
by
Islamic
extremists
since 9/11.
I think I
cant say definiright
Tashfeen Malik tively
now what led
either of these two to pick up guns
and become murderers. I consider
that is the focus of our investigation, Attorney General Loretta
Lynch said on NBCs Meet the
Press.
Were looking at everything
we can find out about these two
killers lives how they grew up,
where they grew up, how they met.
All of those things will provide us
guidance.
Lynch said the FBI terrorism
investigation so far has involved
over 300 interviews, several
locations searched, a lot of infor-

mation being processed, being

analyzed and being gathered, and
more to come.
One U. S. official said there
appears to be nothing in Farooks
history that would implicate him
as the driver of the attack.
Separately, a law enforcement
official said investigators are
looking into whether Malik was
radicalized in the Middle East,
where she spent considerable
time, and used her 2014 marriage
to Farook to penetrate the U.S.
and commit jihad. But the official
said it is only one among a number of theories that are being pursued.
The two officials were not
authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
While radical Islamic groups at
times have mobilized women as
suicide bombers, and extremist
women may exhort their men to
attacks, it is extremely rare in

San Bernardino residents mourn

the dead, calls for unity, not rancor
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN BERNARDINO At a church, a

mosque, a makeshift street-corner memorial
and other sites, they gathered Sunday to
mourn the 14 victims of the San Bernardino
massacre and lament that the community
has now been added to the tragic list of U.S.
cities scarred by terrible violence.
Residents struggled to come to terms with
the violence and hoped the community
would unite in mourning and not be divided
by the disclosure that the killers were a religious Muslim couple.
Its unfortunate that were on this list
now, a list like Newtown, Aurora and others
where such tragic events occurred, Rep.
Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., told a crowd at a
mosque. Its not how I want San
Bernardino remembered.
Meanwhile, investigators were looking
into what led Tashfeen Malik and Syed
Farook to attack the gathering of Farooks
co-workers on Wednesday. On Sunday,
scores of mourners visited a growing memorial on a corner near the social service center where the shooting took place. There
were American flags, poster that read Pray

for the world, balloons, candles and cards.

Many said they hoped the community would
pull together.
Im trying to use it as a teaching thing
for myself and for my children that horrible
things happen, but it doesnt mean that
everybody is a horrible person, said Eric
Abrams, of San Bernardino.
At the St. Catherine of Siena Catholic
Church, where shooting victim Yvette
Velasco worshipped, the service focused on
the need to get beyond the anger. Many
parishioners said they would reach deep into
their faith to find some way to forgive.
More than 100 people gathered for an
interfaith memorial service at a mosque
where Farook had occasionally prayed.
Photos of the victims were placed on a table
at the Islamic Community Center of
Redlands, with a candle lit for each.
Muslim community members said they are
feeling both grief over the loss and fear of a
backlash against their community.
It is really sad that we meet because of
this. It is sad that only in death are we able
to celebrate humanity, 30-year-old mosque
member Ajarat Bada said, fighting back
tears.

conservative Muslim societies for

female jihadists to take part in
actual combat, as Malik did.
Malik, 29, and Farook, 28, were
killed in a furious shootout with
police hours after they opened fire
with assault rifles on a gathering
of Farooks colleagues from the
San Bernardino County public
health department, where he
worked as a restaurant inspector.
Former college classmates of
Maliks and others who knew her
in Pakistan said that in recent
years, she began dressing more
conservatively including wearing a black head-to-toe garment or
a scarf that covered nearly her
entire face and became more fervent in her faith.
Former classmate Afsheen Butt
said Malik showed drastic changes
after a trip to Saudi Arabia in late
2008 or early 2009.
She used to tell us that this is
the real life. We are a nation that
has strayed from the right path,

Butt said. She used to give us

Islamic religious literature.
Saudi
Interior
Ministry
spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour
Al-Turki said authorities there
have received no indication Malik
was radicalized in Saudi Arabia.
Pakistani Interior Minister
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said
Sunday that investigators so far
have found no evidence linking
Malik to Islamic militants. He
said his country is ready to share
any information it has about
Malik and her family.
We have nothing to hide, he
said.
Also Sunday, police took people into the parking lot of the
Inland Regional Center, where the
attack occurred, to retrieve their
cars, which had been stuck at the
crime scene.
Some people hugged as they
waited to get into the police cars.
One man wore a T-shirt with the
logo SB Strong.

States strict gun laws failed to

stop killings in San Bernardino
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SACRAMENTO The deadly shooting

in San Bernardino happened in a state with
some of the nations toughest gun laws:
California bars assault weapons, blocks the
sale of large-capacity magazines and
requires universal background checks for all
gun purchases.
Authorities say they believe suspected
gunman Syed Rizwan Farook and wife
Tashfeen Malik had legally obtained two
handguns and that two rifles were also legally purchased in California. Federal officials
say the attackers had large-capacity magazines that violate California law in their
SUV.
Since the attack Wednesday at a social
service center in Southern California, the
states strict laws and the apparent legal
purchase of the weapons have set off a

debate over the effectiveness of gun measures and whether getting tougher would help
prevent more violence.
Strong gun laws do prevent gun deaths.
Not every law can prevent every gun death,
said Allison Anderman, a staff attorney with
the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence in
San Francisco. They work most of the
time.
The gun-control advocacy group rates
Californias gun laws No. 1 in the nation;
the state ranks 42nd in its rate of gun
deaths. Louisianas gun laws were ranked
50th and it is No. 2 in deaths, according to
the groups 2014 rankings.
Gun laws vary dramatically state-to-state,
even city-to-city. The patchwork of regulations means its often easy for determined
gunmen to acquire weapons by skirting laws
in their home state, they say. Untraceable
weapons can be built from scratch.

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US Muslims struggle with how to condemn extremism

By Rachel Zoll
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK By now, the

tableau has become tragically
familiar: American Muslims standing before a bank of cameras, condemning an attack linked to
Islamic extremism.
After the San Bernardino,
California, rampage, the local
chapter of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations didnt
even wait for law enforcement to
announce a motive. Just hours
after the husband-and-wife shooters were identified as Muslim on
Wednesday, the civil rights group
held a news conference with the
perpetrators
brother-in-law,
Farhan Khan.
And so we had a stunned, slightly disheveled Muslim man, surrounded by Muslim leaders, saying his family had no hint of the
plot. I love this country, Khan
said.
Perception is reality, said
Salam Al-Marayati, president of
the Muslim Public Affairs
Council, a policy and advocacy
group based in Los Angeles.
There was enough information
out there at that time that people
believed it was (extremism) and
that has an impact on Muslim
communities. You have to be
proactive.

Game plan needed

But some in the Muslim community say a new game plan is needed. A younger generation is especially impatient with the condemnations of Islamic extremism
from Muslim groups after every
attack. They argue that the statements merely reinforce false
notions that Muslims are collectively responsible for the violence.
America is ready for a more
sophisticated conversation when
it comes to these things, said

High

Shahed Amanullah, a former U.S.

State Department adviser and cofounder of Affinis Labs, which
helps develop apps to counter the
appeal of Islamic extremism and
build online communities for
young Muslims. You cant press
release your way out of this.
The public pleas that all
Muslims should not be blamed for
attacks in the name of Islam grew
in the aftermath of the 2001
strikes on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon.

Vulnerable moment
The attacks occurred at an especially vulnerable moment for the
U.S. Muslim community, which
was more inwardly focused at the
time and not nearly as accepted in
American culture as Christianity
and Judaism. The few American
Muslim groups with any public
profile issued a flurry of press
releases condemning the attacks
and calling Islam a peaceful religion, encouraged mosques to hold
open houses, organized interfaith
events and held Islam 101 sessions for law enforcement officials and community leaders.
Muslim groups largely kept to
script after extremist attacks in
places such as London in 2005,
Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009,
Boston in 2013 and, most recently, last month in Paris.
But many Americans continued
to blame Islam itself for extremism. A Pew Research Center survey
last year found an increasing share
of Americans believe Islam is
more likely than other religion to
encourage violence among its followers. A growing number of U.S.
Muslims resented suggestions
that they had a special obligation
to condemn attacks no other
religious group, they argued, is
expected to issue such statements
after self-professed followers of
their faiths commit a crime.
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Perception is reality. There was enough information

out there at that time that people believed it was
(extremism) and that has an impact on Muslim
communities. You have to be proactive.
Salam Al-Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, a
policy and advocacy group based in Los Angeles.

event last month on anti-Muslim

bias, speaker Linda Sarsour said
she struggled with Muslims who
take part in such news conferences.
It reinforces the fallacy that I
have something in common with
the Islamic State group, said
Sarsour, a prominent Muslim
leader from New York. She said she
condemns terrorism not as a
Muslim, but as a human who is
outraged and saddened by violence. The audience applauded.
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for
the national Council on AmericanIslamic Relations, the civil rights
group that is the primary force
behind the condemnations and
news conferences, said he is well
aware of the criticism. He said
every time his organization posts
a statement on Facebook condemning Islamic extremists, commenters complain: We shouldnt
have to do this. Youre feeding
into a false linkage of Islam to terrorism.

Hate calls
At the same time, Hooper said,
Im getting hate calls all day
long saying, Sure you condemn
terrorism, but we dont believe
you.
Since the Paris attacks, and after
the California assault, U. S.
Muslim leaders have been reporting a fresh outburst of threats and
vandalism at mosques.
To remain silent I dont
think thats a viable alternative,
especially when the New York
Post front page screams Muslim
Killers, as it did after the San

Bernardino shootings, Hooper

said.
But Amanullah said in the wake
of such attacks, Muslim groups
should not be preoccupied with
protecting Muslims from a backlash. They should instead join the
broader discussion, emphasizing
shared concerns about preventing
violence, while also doing something to help, he said.
I think the average American,
when they see that Muslims are
acting like other Americans and
not any different, I think that
would resonate with people,
Amanullah said. I think its
organically happening with
younger generations of Muslims.
Younger Muslims are investing in
broader struggles in this country.
He pointed to a recent Ramadan
fundraising drive among American
Muslims to raise money to rebuild
black churches that have been the
target of arson.

Changes hearts
Thats the kind of stuff that
changes hearts doing blood
drives, cleaning up neighborhoods, tutoring people, he said.
Tarek El-Messidi, 35, an
American Muslim leader from
Knoxville, Tennessee, serves as
one example. Through his organization Celebrate Mercy, which
teaches about the Prophet
Muhammad, he used social media
to urge Muslims to send condolence letters to the family of
Ambassador Chris Stevens, who
was killed along with three others
in the 2012 attack on the U.S.
diplomatic outpost in Benghazi,

Libya. The effort drew 7,700 letters from 115 countries, ElMessidi said.
After this years killings in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, of
three young American Muslims
who had been focused on public
service, El-Messidi helped create
the Feed Their Legacy effort,
which organized canned food
drives in honor of the victims
among mosques in 30 states. He
said about 200,000 meals were
provided for the poor.
The narrative is being defined
for us, and were being defined by
these extremist acts and the poll
numbers show that, El-Messidi
said.
I personally do feel like condemning is an unfortunate necessity right now because our community is misunderstood. But I think
thats partially the Muslims fault
because were not changing the
narrative. Condemning is just a
Band-Aid solution. It feels like
putting a Band-Aid over a tumor,
El-Messidi said

Sign of denial
For Asra Nomani, an advocate of
Islamic reform and author of
Standing Alone: An American
Womans Struggle for the Soul of
Islam, the deeper problem is an
unwillingness
of
American
Muslims to truly confront extremism in the religion. Resistance to
issuing the condemnations, she
said, is a sign of denial about
whats wrong with how the religion is being interpreted.
I disagree with that whole logic
of people who say we dont need
to apologize and we dont need to
condemn it, Nomani said. Were
not owning up to the problem
when we say: This isnt my
Islam. I didnt pull the trigger. I
dont believe in extremist ideas. I
think were setting ourselves up
for this animosity that comes our
way.

NATION

THE DAILY JOURNAL

Monday Dec. 7, 2015

Justices look anew at affirmative action

By Mark Sherman
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON Basketball
coaches, leading military officers
and many of the countrys biggest
businesses agree that the Supreme
Court should preserve the use of
race as a factor in college admissions. But they may be in a fight
they cannot win as the justices
take up a case that presages tighter
limits on affirmative action in
higher education.
The court is hearing arguments
Wednesday for the second time in
three years in the case of a white
Texas woman who was rejected for
admission at the University of
Texas.
Abigail Fisher did not graduate
in the top 10 percent of her high
school class, which would have
won her a spot at the states flagship college in Austin. She also
did not get in under the program

that looks at race among many

factors and through which Texas
admits about a quarter of its
incoming freshman classes.
Lawyers for Fisher say the university has no good reason to consider race at all because the top
10 plan that the state put in place
in 1997 works well to bring in
Hispanic and African-American
students. Texas says the plan by
itself is not enough and it needs
the freedom to fill out its incoming classes as it sees fit.
Fishers argument did not persuade the conservative-leaning
federal appeals court in New
Orleans, which has twice upheld
the universitys admissions
process. The second ruling, last
year, followed a Supreme Court
order to reconsider Fishers case.
Among the many groups urging
the justices to leave the Texas program in place are the coaches,
including
Dukes
Mike

Krzyzewski and University of

Connecticuts Geno Auriemma,
who said they have firsthand
knowledge of the value of diversity on campus. We are not writing
as dilettantes or tourists. We live
this life, the coaches wrote.
The high court has been much
more skeptical of the role of race
in public programs since Justice
Samuel Alito joined the court, taking the seat of Justice Sandra Day
OConnor. In 2003, OConnor
wrote the courts opinion in
Grutter v. Bollinger that allowed
colleges and universities to use
race in their quest for diverse student bodies.
The conservative majority of
which Alito is a part generally is
cohesive on issues of race. It stuck
together in cases that stripped the
Justice Department of its power to
approve in advance changes related to elections in all or parts of 16
states with a history of discrimi-

On Capitol Hill, its now the

establishments turn to rise
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON On Capitol Hill, its

the establishments turn.
After months where tea party lawmakers
provoked crisis and unrest in Congress,
even driving out a speaker, GOP leaders
have turned to the business of governing,
pushing forward a series of bills destined to
get the presidents signature.
Major highway legislation and a sweeping federal education rewrite passed the
House this past week despite conservatives
objections and are expected to become law.
A massive spending bill for every federal
agency is in the works, as is legislation to
extend dozens of tax breaks worth hundreds
of billions of dollars.
Negotiations on the spending bill could
melt down before Fridays deadline as conservatives push for language barring Syrian
refugees and cutting money for Planned
Parenthood. Yet after months of turmoil in
the Capitol, where conservatives began the
spring by provoking a near-shutdown of the
Homeland Security Department and ended
September by ousting Speaker John
Boehner, R-Ohio, lawmakers are marveling
that they suddenly seem to be getting

things done.
It has been pleasant to serve here for the
last few weeks, which was not always the
case earlier in this Congress, said Rep.
Carlos Curbelo of Florida, an establishment-aligned Republican. Dont want to
get too optimistic yet, but its certainly
been a positive change.
The change comes about partly because of
timing. The trauma of September and
October gave way to the traditional end-ofyear legislative rush, when partisan battling turns to compromise as deadlines for
must-pass spending bills and other legislation come due.
In the House, Boehners sudden departure
was followed by a month of chaos as lawmakers searched for a successor. New
Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was sworn in at
the end of October, and has gotten high
marks for making good on his promises of
opening up decision-making in the House
and keeping the conservatives who battled
Boehner in the fold.
Other Republicans were simply tired of
agreeing to the demands of a small group of
tea party lawmakers who derived their power
from their ability to sink legislation on the
floor.

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nation in voting, and threw out

local plans to integrate public
schools in Louisville, Kentucky,
and Seattle.
The only break from this pattern
was in June, when Justice
Anthony Kennedy joined the four
liberal justices to preserve a key
legal tool in fighting discrimination in housing.
Every time they take one of
these cases, I worry, said
Sherrilyn Ifill, president and
director-counsel of the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational
Fund.
Ifills worry may be especially
apt in Fishers case because there
is no split among lower courts to
attract the justices attention. In
addition, Fisher herself will not
benefit from the ruling because
she graduated from Louisiana State
University in 2012, and one liberal justice, Elena Kagan, is absent
from the case due to her earlier

work on it while serving in the

Justice Department.
So it appears that the conservative justices have more theyd like
to say about affirmative action.
The first time Fishers case was
heard by the court, shortly after
her graduation, people on both
sides of the issue expected a decision that sharply cut back on or
eliminated public universities use
of race in admissions. Instead,
after sitting on the case for eight
months, the justices released an
opinion that ordered appellate
judges to look anew at Fishers
complaint to see whether Texas
sufficiently explained its need to
take account of race in admissions.
The vote was 7-1, with only
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in
dissent. Kagan sat out the first
round, too. The outcome, in June
2013, concealed tense divisions
among the justices.

WORLD

Monday Dec. 7, 2015

THE DAILY JOURNAL

Polls in France put National Front on top

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS Polling agency projections suggest the far right

National Front took the lead in the
first round of Frances regional
elections on Sunday, in a new
boost for Marine Le Pens antiimmigration strategy and a new
blow to President Francois
Hollandes Socialists.
The agencies Ifop, OpinionWay
and Ipsos based their projections
on actual vote count in select constituencies. They projected that
the National Front won between
27 and 30 percent support nationwide,
followed by former
President Nicolas Sarkozys
Republicans party and the governing Socialists.
The elections Sunday took place

in an unusually tense security climate just over three weeks after

deadly attacks on Paris a climate expected to favor conservative and far right candidates.
While National Front had significant support Sunday, its
unclear whether the party can
translate that into victory in the
second round of voting on Dec. 13
for leadership of Frances 13
newly drawn regions.
Sarkozys Republicans party
and its allies were projected to
come in second place at around 27
percent.
The Socialists, who currently
run nearly all of the countrys
regions, are projected to come in a
weak third place, with between 22
and 24 percent.
The Paris attacks on Nov. 13

that killed 130 people and a

Europe-wide migrant crisis this
year have shaken up Frances
political landscape.
The National Front is hoping
the two-round voting that started
Sunday will consolidate political
gains she has made in recent years
and strengthen its legitimacy
as she prepares to seek the presidency in 2017.
The unpopular Hollande has
seen his approval ratings jump
since the Paris attacks, as he
intensified French airstrikes on
Islamic State targets in Syria and
Iraq and ordered a state of emergency at home. But his party,
which currently runs nearly all of
Frances regions, has seen its
electoral support shrivel as the
government has failed to shrink

10 percent joblessness or invigorate the economy.

Many political leaders are urging apathetic voters to cast ballots as a riposte to fundamentalists targeting democracies from
France to the U.S.
First-time voter Eli Hodara, an
18-year-old
Paris
student,
expressed hope that more young
people would turn out.
I think it is important to vote
even if one leaves the ballot
blank, Hodara said.
It is the last election before
France votes for president in
2017, and a gauge of the countrys
political direction.
Its an important moment,
important for the future of our
regions, important also for the
future of our country, important

with regard to the catastrophic and

dramatic events that have hit
France, Le Pen said as she cast
her ballot in the northern city of
Henin-Beaumont.
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants in Europe and
the exploits of IS, which has
claimed responsibility for the
Paris attacks, have bolstered the
discourse of the National Front. It
denounces Europes open borders,
what it calls the migratory submersion and what it claims is the
corrupting influence of Islam on
French civilization.
Le Pen is campaigning to run
the northern Nord-Pas-de-CalaisPicardie, which includes the port
city of Calais, a flashpoint in
Europes migrant drama. Polls
suggest she could win.

Kerrys warning of binational state in Israel rejected UK cops probe terrorist

attack at London station
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM Israels prime

minister insisted Sunday that his
country is not heading toward
becoming a binational state,
rejecting a warning to that effect
by U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry.
Also Sunday, police said a
Palestinian
stabbed several
Israelis before he was shot and
killed, the latest incident in more
than two months of Palestinian
attacks.
At his weekly Cabinet meeting
Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu said,
Israel will not be a binational
state, but in order to have peace,
the other side needs to decide that

it wants peace
as well. Kerry
had
warned
Saturday about
the dangers of
the
possible
collapse of the
Palestinian
Authority.
He told a conJohn Kerry
ference at the
Brookings
Institution
in
Washington that if that were to
happen, Israel would have to
assume full governance of the
West Bank, potentially leading to
a one-state solution that would
endanger Israels future as a Jewish
and democratic state.
Later Sunday, police said a

Palestinian intentionally crashed

his car into two young people
walking on a sidewalk in
Jerusalem, injuring them lightly
before he got out of the vehicle
brandishing a knife and stabbed an
officer. A soldier who saw the incident as he stepped off a bus ran
toward the attacker, opened fire
and killed him, police said.
Near-daily Palestinian attacks
on Israelis that began in midSeptember are showing no signs
of relenting. Violence erupted over
tensions at a sensitive holy site in
Jerusalem, sacred to both Jews and
Muslims, and quickly escalated
and spread.
Since then, 19 Israelis have
been killed in Palestinian attacks.

By Sylvia Hui

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON Counter-terrorism
police in Britain on Sunday investigated a stabbing at a London
Underground station in which a
man brandishing a knife injured
two people and reportedly said
This is for Syria.
Police arrested a 29-year-old
man late Saturday and said they are
treating the violent unprovoked
knife attack at east Londons
Leytonstone subway station as a
terrorist incident.
Richard Walton, chief of
Scotland Yards counter-terrorism

command, said the decision was

made because of information
received from witnesses and subsequent police investigations.
The force said it was searching
a residential address in east
London, but declined to say
whether they were looking for
other suspects.
British media widely reported
that the suspect linked his actions
to Syria after the attack.
The claim could not be independently verified, but the incident
comes just days after Parliament
approved British airstrikes on
Islamic State group targets in
Syria.

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THE DAILY JOURNAL

Monday Dec. 7, 2015

Letters to the editor

The JV team is in town
Editor,
A message for Obama. The JV team
is in town and is taking our protection to pieces. First, it will behoove
the president of the United States to
acknowledge the enemy is a radical
Islamic movement determined to terrorize and change the American way
of life. Second, all the alphabet agencies have been caught with their
pants down by a Pakistani national,
recently admitted alien and a U.S. citizen of Middle Eastern descent hiding
in plain sight, but noticed by neighbors, fabricating bombs in their
house, in the middle of a busy town,
who buys lots of ammunition and
loves target shooting.
What did all these millions of dollars spent on surveillance get us? Not
a thing so it seems and if it had not
been for a tip, the police would
have had no clue notwithstanding
plate readers and cameras on cars. You
get the idea. I am wondering why the
female terrorist does not have a face.
She was here legally, had been ngerprinted and photographed in the
application and in the green card
process, and lets assume she had a
California driver license without
wearing a burka. All of that story is
as dark as the picture of her on the
internet. Could it be we have a system
that wont work no matter how much
money we throw at it? I woke up during the night and heard all these
politicians scurrying around to try
and put a story together to save face.
Just like in the Benghazi disaster.

Harry Roussard
Foster City

Letter: Heads buried in the sand

Editor,
When Syed Farook and Tashfeen
Malik, armed with assault weapons,
murdered 14 people and wounded 21
more, it was not workplace violence.
This was clearly pre-planned and
expensive. Also, it required training.
Like the Fort Hood massacre, this was
thought-out and pre-planned.
Both the president and the media
cant seem to connect the dots. Is it
because Osama is dead and General
Motors is alive? If we say terrorism
isnt terrorism does that make it go
away? Do we believe that if we are
nice to terrorists they wont hurt us?
Do we believe that global warming is
our biggest threat?
Some of us think the answer is no.

Keith De Filippis
San Jose

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Ian Bain for mayor

of Redwood City
Editor,
It is no surprise that Ian Bain
received the highest number of votes
in the Nov. 3 Redwood City Council
election.
He is a good listener and has a
record of responsiveness spanning to
the last millennium. He exhibited
exemplary leadership in expressing a
vision for Redwood Citys Bay lands
and recently helped several residents
navigate the problems created by the
affordable housing crisis. Ian has
worked tirelessly for over a decade to
make Redwood City a better place for
all its residents, spearheading the initiative to clean-up and beautify
Woodside Road, and undergrounding
telephone and electrical wires along
Middleeld Road. He is refreshingly
accessible, willing to listen to all
residents concerns and ideas.
On Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, I am
condent that the City Council will
accede to public acclaim and elect Mr.
Bain mayor of Redwood City.

Kaia Eakin
Redwood City

Time to put community

before money
Editor,
On Tuesday, the San Mateo
Planning Commission will once
again hear SPI Holdings pleas to tear
down the Bridgepointe ice rink. Other
than hiring a crisis PR rm Singer &
Associates, a politically-connected
lobbyist Ed McGovern, ling a poorly-redacted draft lease with Nordstrom
Rack and offering $3 million, I ask
What has changed? The following
quotes are from SPIs last commission
appearance in May 2014.
Charlie Drechsler, current San
Mateo Planning Commission chair:
I think it is disingenuous and I dont
like the rink not being available.
(This) is not a good example of corporate ethics.
Joshua Hugg: It was not a good
faith gesture to cut off the (rink). No
explanation, were terminating the
lease. To heck with the rest of you.
Sometimes investments may not
be the most productive monetarily,
but (create) a stronger, healthier community.
Rick Bonilla, current San Mateo
City Council member: There was no
written mandate to operate explicitly
stated for the rink because it was
always intended that an approved land
use would be operated.
Dianne Whitaker, current San
Mateo Planning Commissioner mem-

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Taking without giving is not OK

Editor,
The fate of the Bridgepointe ice
rink is a situation where we need our
San Mateo city government to step in
to protect the interests of the community from the greed of Dennis Wong,
a billionaire developer who is using
his wealth and the inuence it affords
to attempt to change the rules, eliminating a community asset and making
$10 million in the process.
The rink was specied in the
Bridgepointe master plan as a condition of its development so that San
Mateo could maintain places where
the community could meet. The desire
for a good community appears to be
an inconvenience to Dennis Wong in
his quest for personal gain.
Like Dennis Wong, I am a Harvard
Business School graduate. I like the
idea of people making money. My
version of that is to create something
that adds value and be compensated
for it.
The idea that rich and powerful people can make money by using their
inuence to change the rules without
adding value, and at the expense of
the community, disgusts me. This
happens too much on the national
stage. I hate to see it happen in my
backyard. The average citizen in the
community cant stand up to a powerful personlike Dennis Wong. That is
the role of government. We need the
government to tell Dennis Wong,
Sorry Dennis, not this time. You
cant just change the rules and make
money at the expense of the San
Mateo community.

Tom Stuart
San Mateo

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The ice rink at

Bridgepointe
Shopping Center

t is sad to realize the ice rink at Bridgepointe has

no future. Tomorrow night, the San Mateo
Planning Commission will consider the staff recommendation to accept the shopping center owners
request to allow retail in that space. I am afraid the City
Council will go along with that recommendation.
When I was on the City Council, in 1996, we
approved a new master
plan for Bridgepointe to
replace the long vacant
Fashion Island mall. A
very important part of the
plan was to keep the existing ice rink. When the
owner, Peter Pau, came to
us the following year, he
wanted to get rid of the
rink. The rink operator
was having some problems and Pau was afraid of
not having a viable use for
the space. So we compromised and said it could be
an alternative recreational
use if the ice rink did not
work out but it had to be a similar recreational use. The
council understood more retail meant more sales taxes
for the city and those were difficult financial times
unlike today, but we also recognized the importance of
fun places for youth to gather. The new owner, SPI
Holdings, also wants to get rid of the rink and, in 2013,
unilaterally refused to renew the lease of the rink operator without much public notice. There has been no ice
skating at Bridgepointe for the last two years.
***
Theres nothing worse than a former councilmember
commenting on an item before the current council. And I
usually try not to interfere. But it saddens me that young
people and their families will not be able to enjoy the
sport of ice skating in San Mateo and that local hockey
teams will not be able to practice and play here. The
city attorney, Shawn Mason, has told the council they
cant force the owner to keep an ice rink. And there has
been no proposal to offer an alternative recreational use
on the site. Instead the owner is offering $3 million for
this pain and suffering and suggesting the city use this
money to upgrade recreational facilities elsewhere. At
the very least, one would hope this money could be set
aside as seed money for a possible new ice rink in the
city. Maybe the temporary holiday rink in Central Park
will bring more supporters to the cause.
***
At one point, there were rumors that Franklin
Templeton Investments might be interested in an ice
rink on their property. There are also rumors that the
National Hockey League or even the Sharks might have
an interest. And supporters of the ice rink, more than
4,500 have signed a petition to keep it, could come up
with some of the funding to make it happen. If the
Planning Commission and council feel they have no
choice but to put retail on the site then the very least
they can do is support an effort to find another location
and use the $3 million toward that goal. The city of San
Mateo has lots of retail but now it doesnt have one permanent ice rink. And I am not sure how wise a decision
this is for SPI Holdings. Shopping centers of the future
need to attract shoppers with other perks such as gyms,
restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys, and yes, ice
rinks, to attract retail customers who are increasingly
buying online.
***
At tonights meeting, the San Mateo City Council
will welcome a new mayor, Joe Goethals, a new councilwoman, Diane Papan, and say goodbye to Jack
Matthews who is termed out. Congratulations and good
luck to Goethals and Papan. And a fond farewell to
Matthews, who has served the city well on the council
and previously on the Planning Commission. He is an
architect and his expertise filled an important role. As a
former planning commissioner, he also brought the
experience and history of many zoning and design
issues. I served with Matthews on the Rail Corridor Plan
study and on the council and always appreciated his
vision and his dedication to details. His contribution to
the city and his kindly manner will be missed.
Sue Lempert is the former may or of San Mateo. Her column runs ev ery Monday. She can be reached at sue@smdaily journal.com.

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Grocery chains leave food deserts barren

By Mike Schneider
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. LOUIS As part of

Michelle Obamas healthy eating
initiative, a group of major food
retailers promised in 2011 to open
or expand 1,500 grocery or convenience stores in and around
neighborhoods with no supermarkets by 2016. By their own count,
theyre far short.
Moreover, an analysis of federal
food stamp data by The Associated
Press reveals that the nations
largest chains not just the
handful involved in the first ladys
group have since built new
supermarkets in only a fraction of
the neighborhoods where theyre
needed most.
The Partnership for a Healthier
America, which also promotes
good nutrition and exercise in its
anti-obesity mission, considers
improving access to fresh food a
key part of the solution. But the
APs research demonstrates that
major grocers overwhelmingly
avoid Americas food deserts
instead of trying to turn a profit in
high-poverty areas.
Among the APs findings:
The nations top 75 food retailers opened almost 10,300 stores
in new locations from 2011 to the
first quarter of 2015, 2,434 of
which were grocery stores. Take
away convenience stores and dollar stores, which generally dont
sell fresh fruits, vegetables or

meat, and barely more than 250 of

the new supermarkets were in socalled food deserts, or neighborhoods without stores that offer
fresh produce and meats.
As the largest supermarket
chains have been slow to build in
food deserts, the so-called dollar
stores have multiplied rapidly.
Three chains Dollar General,
Family Dollar and Dollar Tree
made up two-thirds of new stores
in food deserts.
The dollar store sector is consolidating, too: Dollar Tree
merged with Family Dollar this
year, creating the largest dollarstore chain in the nation and in
the process, less competition and
less incentive to diversify what
these stores offer.

Dollar stores
The dollar stores are popping
up everywhere in the food deserts,
but that doesnt mean anything if
the owners dont give customers
the opportunity for fresh produce, said Norman Wilson Sr., a
food desert activist who is pastor
of a Pentecostal church in
Orlando, Florida.
Excluding dollar stores and 7Elevens, just 1.4 million of the
more than 18 million people the
USDA says lived in food deserts as
of 2010 got a new supermarket in
the past four years.
On top of all that, its difficult
to say how many more people live

in newer food deserts created by

recent store closures.
Viola Hill used to walk several
times a week to a Schnucks supermarket a block away from her
apartment in her struggling north
St. Louis neighborhood, until it
shuttered last year. Now she can
only get to a supermarket once a
month, when she pays a friend
$10 to drive her to one several
miles away.
I have to get enough food to
last me a whole month, said Hill,
a retiree who likes to cook chicken and green beans. It hurt us
really badly when they closed.
The USDA considers a neighborhood a food desert if at least a fifth
of the residents live in poverty
and a third live more than a mile
from a supermarket in urban areas,
or more than 10 miles in rural
areas, where residents are more
likely to have cars.
The first ladys groups 2014
progress report, its most recent,
says the companies that made the
pledges have opened or renovated
602 grocery stores or other food
retail locations, well below
halfway toward their collective
goal.
The partnership counted companies as having met their commitments if the stores they opened or
renovated fell within a mile of a
USDA-designated food desert in a
city, or within 10 miles of a rural
one. The AP analyzed which of the
new stores that opened lie directly

Trump makes money off the name Central Park

By Jonathan Lemire
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK Donald Trump is

arguably New York Citys most
famous resident, and hes made
some of his money off the name of
one of the citys most famous public landmarks: Central Park.
The leading Republican presidential candidate first applied for a
trademark to use the words
Central Park on merchandise
more than two decades ago, when
the park had a far less glamorous
reputation than it does today.
Since then, Trump has used the
nonexclusive trademark to brand
furniture, chandeliers, pillows and
even key chains.
A Trump spokesman declined to
say how much Trump has earned
from the trademark, but noted the
developers deep connections to
the park. Trump once owned the
Plaza Hotel along Central Park
South, operates a skyscraper hotel
overlooking the park and famously renovated the parks oncedowntrodden ice rink.
Mr. Trump, over the course of
his career, has owned and developed some of the most iconic
buildings in the city, many of
which ... sit only footsteps away

from
Central
Park, said Alan
Garten, executive vice president and general
counsel to The
T r u m p
Organization.
Since it is a
public space,
Donald Trump no one can put
an
exclusive
trademark on the words Central
Park. But, as first reported by
cable news channel NY1, records
show that Trump is the single
biggest private, for-profit holder
of Central Park trademarks on specific goods.
It was undeniably a savvy move.
His first application came in
1991, when the citys violent
crime rate was near its height and
the park often conjured up fears of
urban danger. There were 2,154
murders in the city that year, as
opposed to 328 last year, and
1991 was just two years removed
from the Central Park jogger case
in which a woman was attacked
and raped while running through
the park.
According to the records kept by
the U. S. Patent and Trademark
Office, Trump first received per-

mission to use Central Park for

parking garage services, and later
expanded the trademark as the park
became synonymous with the
high-priced real estate that surrounds it in a safer, more affluent
New York.
A 2007 trademark allowed him
to put the parks name on dozens
of Trump-branded furniture and
lighting options. Beds, tables,
desks, lamps, flashlights, picture
frames and throw pillows all bore
the names Central Park and
Donald Trump. A glossy, 44page furniture catalog boasted
photos of the elegant and rich
furnishings with stylized shots of
the park and Trump.
Many of Trumps Central Park
products are not currently in production, but they can be found in
some discount stores and gift
shops.
The park isnt the only New Yorkarea landmark on which Trump has
filed a trademark. He owns one for
Westchester, the county north of
the city, that was the namesake of a
furniture line, and one for Fifth
Avenue, to label items within his
casino business.
Trademark experts say its difficult to precisely gauge how much a
name is worth.

within food deserts.

Research has shown that a lack
of access to healthy foods contributes to health problems, such
as
obesity
and
diabetes.
Proximity to a supermarket can
make a big difference in what people eat, especially if they dont
drive, although other factors such
as food culture also play a role.
Supermarkets often build stores
close to each other to compete in
an area and highlight each stores
niche, said Ira Goldstein, president of policy solutions at The
Reinvestment
Fund,
a
Philadelphia-based community
development firm that has invested in grocery store construction in
low-income neighborhoods. But
the stores typically look for
neighborhoods that can support
their format rather than changing
their format to fit the neighborhood.
That brings choice and variety
to the market but it doesnt necessarily solve the problem in an
inadequately
served
area,
Goldstein said.
Large supermarket chains rigid
formats often miss the nuances of
a community, said Jeff Brown,
CEO of Browns Super Stores in
the Philadelphia area. Stores that
succeed generally have other
amenities, such as a pharmacy,
doctors clinic or a bank embedded
in the supermarket, he said.
Bigger chains often are not
selling what they should be sell-

ing because they dont understand, said Brown, whose company has seven stores in underserved
neighborhoods.

Low-income neighborhoods
Building stores in low-income
neighborhoods comes with unique
complications, according to the
Food Marketing Institute, a
Washington-based trade group for
food retailers. A large customer
base on food stamps creates erratic flows with a rush of business in
the beginning of the month when
the food stamps are issued, but
slow business at the end of the
month.
Insurance and security can be
more costly in neighborhoods
perceived to be high crime, and
workers from neighborhoods with
high unemployment sometimes
need extra training for basic job
skills.
The average supermarket operates on a 1 or 2 percent profit
gin and must be sustainable mar
least a decade to recoup any for at
so retailers cant afford toprofit,
unprofitable locations, said pick
Fikes, vice president of
David
and community affairsconsumer
Food Marketing Institute. for the
We would love to have a supermarket in every neighborhood
across America, whether if its a
food desert or not, Fikes said.
But its got to be sustainable for
all involved.

Ecology, religion
a natural mix for
some Americans
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON As a group,
the most religious Americans are
less likely than others in the U.S.
to trust the science of global
warming. Yet one group of faithful
Americans not only believes the
threat is real, but also feels
obliged to help save Earths climate, an analysis by the
Associated Press-NORC Center for
Public Affairs Research and Yale
University shows.
The Bible has always been clear
about the call to care for the world
that God has created and to love
our neighbors, said Rachel Lamb,
26, a national organizer for Young
Evangelicals for Climate Action
and the daughter of a Baptist minister. She notes that the poor will
suffer most from the consequences
of a warming climate, making it
particularly
compelling
to
Christians.
When you see something like

climate change, we cant ignore

it, Lamb said. We have to act.
As an international conference
in Paris enters its second week in
hopes of agreement on a plan to
curtail global warming, Lamb and
others like her see that issue as
more than a secular one for government leaders.
The AP-NORC and Yale analysis
of Americans environmental attitudes identified nine distinct segments of the U. S. population,
each with a different relationship
with the environment. Members
of one group, called the
Religious Greens, are among
those most likely to attend church
at least once a week. A majority of
this group trusts their religious
beliefs over scientific explanations when the two conflict.
At the same time, 9 in 10 of
them believe global warming is
happening, and 7 in 10 believe the
environmental crisis is more serious than most people think.

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State champs
NDB brings home Division IV state volleyball crown
By Terry Bernal
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

ORANGE So cool and composed were Notre Dame-Belmonts

players as they stood shoulder to
shoulder on the sideline awaiting a
deserved postgame awards ceremony, it was almost as though they
didnt realize they had just made
history.
When Notre Dame-Belmont head

coach Jen Agresti raised the Division

IV state championship trophy, however waiving it towards the blueand-gold regalia of the upwards of
100 hometown fans who made the
trip to Santiago Canyon College
her notorious composure gave way
as she couldnt help but smile a smile
of part joy, and part relief.
What Agrestis team accomplished
Saturday afternoon with a sweep of
Southern California champion

Laguna Blanca-Santa Barbara was far

from simple; but it makes the Tigers,
quite simply, the most accomplished
team in Notre Dame-Belmont history, as the 14-player squad became the
schools first team in any sport to
win a state title ever.
It was a long road back after a
2014 season in which the Tigers
were stunned in the Northern

TERRY BERNAL/DAILY JOURNAL

See TIGERS, Page 28

Notre Dame-Belmont prides itself No. 1 after capturing the CIF Division IV
state championship Saturday at Santiago Canyon College.

Gators gobble up
4th straight title
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Half Moon Bays Phillip Anderson celebrates as the final seconds tick off the Cougars 54-7 win over Pacific Grove
in the CCS Division V championship game.

HMB revels
in CCS glory
By Nathan Mollat
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

SAN JOSE When Half Moon

Bay football coach Keith Holden
scheduled his teams post-season
banquet, he had no idea his Cougars
would be playing in the Central
Coast Section Division V championship game.
So while last Mondays team
banquet may have been about a
week too early, there was no doubting who won the teams Most
Valuable Player award.
Matt Spigelman has been our
MVP all year, Holden said Saturday

night. And I said hell be our MVP

Saturday night.
Saturday night, the second-seeded
Cougars took on top-seeded Pacific
Grove in the CCS Division V finals
at Independence High School and
Holden
proved
prophetic.
Spigelman, a senior running back,
rushed for a game-high 177 yards
and scored four touchdowns as the
Cougars routed the Breakers 54-7 to
claim the schools second CCS
football championship 10 years
after winning their first.
It feels amazing. No better way
than to go out like this,
Spigelman said. We really didnt

expect that (the final score).

It still hasnt quite hit me yet.
But Spigelman was hardly alone.
The entire Cougars squad put on an
MVP-like performance as they
dominated Pacific Grove in every
aspect of the game.
We were so excited to be in this
game. Weve only been in it (the
championship game) once is
school history. Holden said.
Defense
was
lights
out.
Offensively, we put up a lot of
points.
I was really happy with the way
we played all around.

See HMB, Page 14

Many wrote off the Sacred Heart

Prep football team following a
three-loss season.
When it was all said and done, the
Gators proved they are still one of
the best teams in the section after
rallying for a last-minute 35-28 win
over Riordan in the Central Coast
Section Open Division III championship game Saturday night at
Westmont High School.
It is SHP's fourth straight CCS
title. The Gators (10-3) won the
Division IV titles in both 2012 and
2013, before winning the 2014
Open Division title last season.
Riordan, the fifth-seeded team,
tied the score with a touchdown and
two-point conversion with about
two minutes to play. The Gators,
seeded sixth, started their next drive
from their own 20 and capped it with
under a minute to play when senior
quarterback Mason Randall found
senior tight end Andrew Daschbach
with a 33-yard scoring strike.
It was Daschbach's second touchdown catch of the game. He caught a
4-yard score in the third quarter and
finished with five catches for 98
yards.
Daschbach was also a beast on

defense, finishing with eight

tackles,
two
sacks, an interception and a
forced fumble.
D a v i d
Peterson also
had a strong
Mason Randall defensive performance, ending the game with 10 tackles,
including eight solo stops.
Randall, a three-year varsity
starter, completed 10 of 14 passes
for 162 yards and three touchdowns.
He hooked up with Mitch O'Donnell
for a 54-yard score in the second
quarter.
The Gators' ground game was
equally effective. Isoa Moimoi
paced the attack with 142 yards and
a score on 24 carries. Senior Lapitu
Mahoni added 118 yards and two
touchdowns on 26 carries.
With the win, SHP grabs the section's final berth into the Nor Cal
bowl series, keeping their hopes
alive for an appearance in a state
title game. The finalists in the Open
I and Open II divisions took the first
four spots, with the winner of the
Open Division III brackets getting
the fifth and final spot.

Dubs cruise to No. 22

By Brian Mahoney
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK Stephen Curry

scored 16 of his 28 points in the
third quarter and the Warriors ran
their NBA-record start to 22-0 by
beating Brooklyn 114-98 Sunday.
Draymond Green added 22 points,
nine rebounds and seven assists.
Klay Thompson scored 21 for the
Warriors, who won their 26th in a
row overall in the regular season,
one behind the 2012-13 Miami
Heat for the second-longest streak
in NBA history.
Coming off consecutive 40-point
games, Curry was having a relatively quiet and even puzzling night
he missed his first three free throws
before helping the Warriors
regain control against a team that
nearly beat them this season and
looked capable of finishing the job
this time.

But the NBA

MVP put together one of his
electrifying flurries to end that
notion,
and
Golden State put
it away in a
hurry with a
Steph Curry blistering start
to the fourth.
The Warriors equaled another NBA
record, tying the 1969-70 New York
Knicks for the best road start at 120. They visit Indiana on Tuesday.
Thaddeus Young had 25 points
and 14 rebounds, and Brook Lopez
scored 18 for the Nets, who had
their four-game home winning
streak snapped.
Lopez missed from point-blank
range at the regulation buzzer on
Nov. 14 and the Warriors beat the

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M-A falls in Division I state championship match

By Terry Bernal
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

ORANGE Menlo-Atherton
advanced one match further than
in did in last years state playoff
run, but fell one win shy of its
ultimate goal.
The disappointed Bears couldnt
eclipse the star power of Redondo
Union terminator Megan Rice in
Saturdays CIF state championship
match at Santiago Canyon College,
as the senior outside hitter scorched
a match-high 22 kills to down M-A
in straight sets 25-16, 25-18 25-16.
Last year, M-A reached the CIF
semifinals aka the Northern
California championship match
but fell in a five-set war to eventual
state champion Pitman-Turlock.
This year, new head coach Fletcher
Anderson, along with his wife and
assistant coach Lauren, was tasked
with replacing beloved coach Ron
Whitmill.
It was kind of tough for Lauren
and I, but I fell in love with these
girls, Anderson said. Theyre easy
to love. They work so hard every
day and fight so hard every time
they take the floor.
With the win, Redondo Union
averted a Northern California sweep
through five state title matches
played Saturday in Orange. In the
Division II bracket, Archbishop
Mitty-San Jose defeated Village
Christian-Sun Valley in four sets; in
Division III, Valley Christian-San
Jose now coached by Whitmill
swept Olympian-Chula Vista; in
Division IV, Notre Dame-Belmont
swept Laguna Blanca; and in
Division V, Branson-Ross dominated Upland Christian Academy-

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Menlo-Athertons Kirby Knapp, left, and Eliza Grover, right, try to defend
Redondo Beach star Megan Rice in Saturdays Division I state championship
match at Santiago Canyon College. Rice dominated Redondos victory,
scoring a match-high 22 kills to lead her Sea Hawks to the state title.
Rancho Cucamonga.
M-A got a gutsy performance
from outside hitter Jacqueline
DiSanto. Along with the juniors
team-high 12 kills, she and the
Bears back row did their darndest to
dig Rices attack, but to no avail.

Im really proud of how we

played all season, DiSanto said. I
just dont think this game showed
how we could really do.
The 6-foot Rice who will join
former M-A outside hitter Devin
Joos at UC Santa Barbara next sea-

son was simply the best player

the Bears faced all season, crushing
balls with thundering sound and
spectacular results. She made a statement in Game 1 with nine kills,
then added seven of Redondo
Unions 17 set kills in Game 2.
Hands down, (Rice was) the best
weve seen, Anderson said.
The Bears (27-8) looked relaxed
in taking the floor for the 8 p.m.
start, after arriving in Orange Friday
evening via charter bus. Senior outside hitter Leanna Collins warmed
up with the patented spring in her
step prior to playing in her final
varsity match, while junior setter
extraordinaire Kirby Knapp was
sharp in showcasing her lofty rainbow regiment during the pregame.
That was as relaxed as M-As players would get all night, however, as
Redondo Union swiftly engaged in
battle in the opening set. Game 1
started with a rowdy back-and-forth
that saw seven ties, with M-A even
taking a two-point lead at 12-10 on
a service ace by DiSanto.
But Redondo Union (36-4) quickly got a side-out, then tied it 12-12
on a vicious cross-court kill by
Rice. Other than a brief 1-0 lead at
the outside of Game 2, it was the last
time M-A had its head above water
in the match. Redondo Union took a
13-12 lead when senior setter
Norene Iosia scored an ace with a
thundering boom of her own. Then
at 15-14, Redondo Union went on a
five-point run to start a larger 10-2
run to close out the set.
The key to the Bears early success in the set was, despite Rices
dominance, they were able to dig
Redondo Unions other attackers.
That was not the case in Game 2.

Tied at 1-1 in the second set,

Redondo Unions 6-3 middle blocker Kacey Baker ignited her team with
a block. Ultimately, it was the second point of a 7-1 run that saw a
recurring attack from 6-foot freshman middle Kyla Doig, who totaled
five kills in the set.
The Bears produced in the middle
of the set with their best front-row
rotation of DiSanto on the left side
and Collins on the right. DiSanto
scored five kills in the set and
Collins added four, as M-A showed
its best offensive game with 13 team
kills. But 20-16 was as close as M-A
got, as Rice scored a side-out with a
left-side kill. Iosia followed with
back-to-back blocks and, despite
some of the Bears gutsiest defense
of the match in the final points,
Redondo Union dropped the hammer
with a 5-2 run to close it out.
We did what we could,
Anderson said. We dug a bunch of
balls, but they were digging their
balls too and they made us
swing and swing and swing. It was
just a little bit too much.
Game 3 turned into a Redondo
Union landslide in a hurry. Rice
and Iosia scored back-to-back
kills to open a quick 3-0 lead.
After a pipe kill by DiSanto,
Redondo Union got an immediate
side-out and Iosia heated up a fivepoint service run, finishing with
her third ace to take a 10-1 lead.
M-A showed plenty fight as junior
middle Eliza Grover who led the
Bears in blocks this season
stuffed several Renondo Union shot
attempts, but not one of them fell
for a roof. Instead, Redondo Unions

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As land reliever
Madson; Giants
tab Samardzija
By Janie McCauley
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OAKLAND The As filled a key

need a day before the start of baseballs winter meetings, agreeing to a
$22 million, three-year contract
with free-agent reliever Ryan
Madson, a person with direct knowledge of the deal said.
The person spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity because a physical was still needed to finalize the
deal. In Madson, the club has found
another proven pitcher for a bullpen
that had an American League-worst
4.63 ERA last season for a team that
lost 35 one-run games and the
veteran gets to play in his home
state of California.
Madson went 1-2 with a 2.13 ERA
in 68 outings and 63 1/3 innings for
the World Series champion Kansas
City Royals this past season. This
year marked his first in the American
League following nine seasons with
the Philadelphia Phillies.

Samardzija agrees to $90

million deal with Giants
SAN FRANCISCO The Giants
landed a top-tier starter to complement ace Madison Bumgarner,
agreeing with free agent Jeff
Samardzija on a $90 million, fiveyear contract Saturday a day after
losing out on Zack Greinke.
The club said the deal will be formally announced once Samardzija
passes a physical thats scheduled
for Tuesday.
Samardzija won 11 games this
year for the Chicago White Sox for
his first double-digit victory total
in eight major league seasons,
going 11-13 with a 4.96 ERA in 32
starts. The 30-year-old right-hander spent the second half of the
2014 season pitching in the Bay
Area with the Oakland Athletics
following his trade from the
Chicago Cubs. The 214 innings in
2015 were the second-highest of
his career.
San Francisco had said there was
interest in bringing back right-hander Mike Leake, but informed the
pitcher that wouldnt be the teams
first order of business.

NATHAN MOLLAT/DAILY JOURNAL

Above: Half Moon Bay offensive lineman

Justin Terra manhandles Pacific Grove's James
Donlon on a third-quarter running play.
Left: Matt Spigelman catches a pass and
turns it into a 55-yard touchdown, despite
the efforts of Donlon.

HMB
Continued from page 11
The numbers Half Moon Bay (112) put up in the title game were
staggering. The Cougars racked up
403 yards and five touchdowns
rushing. Sophomore quarterback
Gavin Tomberlin completed 4 of 7
passes for 140 more and a pair of
touchdowns which put the
Cougars over the 500-yard mark for
offense. They gained 20 first
downs and did not punt.
As dominating as the Half Moon
Bay offense was, the defense was just
as strong. Pacific Grove came into
the game averaging 27.5 points per
game. Not only did the Cougars hold
the Breakers to a single touchdown
on a trick play late in the second
quarter but held them to just 124
yards of total offense.
The Breakers had 110 yards of
offense at halftime, but just 14 yards

GSW
Continued from page 11
Nets in overtime at home. Coach
Luke Walton said the Warriors let
the Nets have too good a start in

after the break and finished the game

with just seven first downs just
two in the second half.
I told our defense if we stop run,
well win this game, Holden said.
Stopping the run, most of the time,
youll be all right.
That old football adage was on
display on the field. While Half
Moon Bay was shutting down
Pacific Groves run, the Breakers
had no answers for the Cougars
ground attack. Half Moon Bay set
the tone on the first drive of the
game, going 64 yards on the back of
sophomore
fullback
Chase
Hofmann, who carried the ball eight
times for 48 yards on the 11-play
drive and scored from a yard out to
give the Cougars a 6-0 lead.
Hofmann would go on to rush for
101 yards on 10 carries all in the
first half.
Super sophomore, is how
Holden described Hofmann. He
does it all. Where ever he plays, he
plays well. His dad is in our
(schools) hall of fame.
The Cougars forced the Breakers to

punt on their first possession before

Half Moon Bay went back to work,
this time on the arm of Tomberlin.
The Cougars needed just six plays to
go 80 yards, overcoming a holding
call and a sack. The big play was a
Tomberlin 45-yard completion to
Pablo Gutierrez, who reached back
behind the defensive back on the
underthrown ball, before snagging it
clean and gaining another 15 yards.
A couple of penalties and a sack
pushed the Cougars back to their
own 45, but on third-and-30,
Tomberlin rolled right and heaved a
pass downfield to Spigelman, who
had run a drag route all the way back
across the field.
The Pacific Grove defensive back
appeared to have a play on the ball,
but somehow he not only missed
deflecting it away, but Spigelman
maintained his concentration, made
a juggling catch and took it to the
house for a 55-yard catch-and-run to
put Half Moon Bay up 14-0.
The game changed on the Breakers
next possession as the Cougars special teams made its presence felt.

that one, when Brooklyn scored

36 points in the first quarter.
This time, Golden State bolted to
a 9-0 lead and the only reason its
30-16 advantage after one wasnt
bigger was because the Warriors
were just 5 for 14 at the free throw
line with Curry missing all three.
But with a season-best 38
points on 78 percent shooting in

the second period, the Nets

trimmed it to 57-54 at halftime,
then opened a five-point lead late
in the third.
Curry answered with 11 points
and a lob for Festus Ezelis slam in
the final 2:10 of the period.
Golden State led 87-80 before
pouring it on in the fourth.

Pacific Grove lined up to punt deep in

its own territory, but Half Moon
Bays Cody James came off the left
end to block it, with the ball skipping into the end zone. After a brief
scramble, Half Moon Bays Hofmann
fell on it in the back of the end zone
to give the Cougars a 21-0 lead with
9:32 to play in the first half.
Pacific Grove punted for a third
consecutive
possession
and
appeared to pin the Cougars at their
1-yard line.
Four plays later, Spigelman was
plunging into the end zone from a
yard out. Going to its Jumbo or
Scrum package for the first time,
Spigelman had runs of 4 and 5 yards
before breaking off an 89-yard jaunt
down to the Breakers 1. Spigelmans
second touchdown of the night gave
the Cougars a 28-0 lead with five
minutes before halftime.
Not even a 48-yard, hook-and-ladder trick play by Pacific Grove for a
touchdown with 1:35 to go before
halftime could slow Half Moon
Bays roll. The Breakers got the ball
to start the second half, but like they
did so often in the opening 24 minutes, they punted.
And like Half Moon Bay did all
game long, the Cougars marched
down the field for a score, with
Spigelman scoring from 2 yards out
for a 34-7 lead. After another
Breakers punt, Spigelman capped a
7-play, 42-yard drive with a 5-yard
scoring run to go up 40-7.
Tomberlin struck again for Half
Moon Bays next touchdown, finding Anthony DeMartini on a wheel
route out of the backfield for a 28yard touchdown moments after
DeMartini had a 17-yard touchdown
run called back because of a hold.
The Cougars put an exclamation
point on the win when James, on his
only carry of the game, broke off a
27-yard touchdown run to round out
the scoring with three minutes to
play, as the fourth quarter was played
with a running clock.
When we click (offensively),
there is no one who can stop us,
Spigelman said.

Tip-ins
C Andrew Bogut was back in the
starting lineup after missing
Saturdays victory at Toronto with
back spasms. ... Walton said starting forward Harrison Barnes is
improving from a sprained left
ankle.

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Gabberts 71-yard strike

leads 49ers to OT victory
By Andrew Seligman
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO The Bears had just taken a late

lead when 49ers coach Jim Tomsula delivered
the message to Blaine Gabbert.
He told his quarterback to enjoy the
moment. Gabbert owned it, instead.
Gabbert threw a 71-yard touchdown pass to
Torrey Smith in overtime after running for the
tying TD late in regulation, lifting the struggling 49ers to a 26-20 victory over the Bears
on Sunday.
You get opportunities like that,
Tomsula said. You got to enjoy them.
Thats why they play the game. All of these
players in the NFL are amazing athletes.
Amazing individuals. You get in a moment
like that. Enjoy it. Savor it.
Tomsulas pep talk came right after
Chicagos KaDeem Carey ran for a touchdown
in the closing minutes of regulation.
Gabbert answered with a big TD run and then
won it with that long pass in OT after the
Bears Robbie Gould missed a field goal at the
end of regulation.
You really saw kind of the peaks and valleys
of NFL football right there, Gabbert said.
The Bears (5-7) had just gone three-and-out
after forcing a punt by San Francisco to start
the extra period.
On the first play of the 49ers second possession, Gabbert found a wide-open Smith
along the left sideline, giving San Francisco
(4-8) a surprising win over a team that had
jumped into playoff contention.
It was set up by all the throws we had underneath early on in the game, all the runs we ran
out of that formation, Gabbert said. It
worked perfectly. Torrey did a great job tracking the ball in the air and using his speed to
outrun everybody.
All that happened after a wild finish in regulation.

The Bears took a 20-13

lead on Careys 4-yard run
with 3:32 left, only to let
it disappear and then blow
a chance to win the game
as time expired.
Gabbert scrambled 44
yards untouched through
the middle for his first
Blaine Gabbert career touchdown run with
1:42 left, after some
encouragement from Tomsula.
If that wasnt bad enough for Chicago, the
Bears wasted a huge opportunity after Deonte
Thompson returned the kickoff 74 yards to the
28. The Bears had the ball at the 17 when they
called on the usually reliable Gould, and at that
point, linebacker NaVorro Bowman could
sense the dread on the sideline.
We had this feeling a few games (where) we
played well and fell a little short, he said.
That same kind of emotion and feeling came
back. Were right there. And I think today
showed what weve been trying to get to all
the players just keep fighting no matter
whats happening in the game.
Gould, who missed a 40-yard attempt in the
third quarter, booted a 36-yarder wide left as
time expired.
Gabbert, who took over for Colin
Kaepernick last month, completed 18 of 32
passes for 196 yards and a touchdown. He also
ran for 75 yards and his score.
Smith had two catches for 76 yards, and
Jimmie Ward returned his first career interception for a touchdown, helping the 49ers snap
a two-game losing streak and secure their first
road win. They were 0-5 away from home.
Chicagos Jay Cutler was 18 of 31 for 202
yards with that interception. Alshon Jeffery
had 85 yards receiving and Matt Forte ran for
84 and a touchdown, but for the second time in
three games, the Bears missed a chance to
reach .500. They also fell to 1-5 at home.

Eagles shock Patriots with 35-28 win

NFL brief

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. Najee Goode

scored on a blocked punt, Malcolm Jenkins
returned an interception 99 yards for another
TD and the Eagles held on for an improbable
35-28 win over the Patriots Sunday.
Darren Sproles returned a punt 83 yards for
the Eagles second special teams touchdown, giving Philadelphia a 21-point lead
before the Patriots came charging back.
Tom Brady threw for a touchdown to make
it a two-score game and then, after an onside
kick, ran it in from the 1 yard-line to cut it
to seven points with 3 minutes left.

New Englands second onside kick failed,

but the Patriots (10-2) forced a third-down
fumble to give Brady one more chance.
The comeback fell short when Bradys
passes bounced out of his receivers hands.
Losers of three in a row, the Eagles (5-7)
had given up 45 points apiece in consecutive weeks heading into the game against
the defending NFL champions and their
Super Bowl MVP quarterback.
Now its the Patriots on a losing streak
their first back-to-back regular-season losses since 2012.

Monday Dec. 7, 2015

49ers 26, Bears 20

San Francisco
Chicago

6
6

7
7

0
0

7
7

6 26
0 20

First Quarter
ChiFG Gould 40, 10:17.
ChiFG Gould 51, 5:59.
SFWard 29 interception return (kick blocked), 2:49.
Second Quarter
ChiForte 5 run (Gould kick), 13:37.
SFDraughn 1 run (Dawson kick), 6:53.
Fourth Quarter
ChiCarey 4 run (Gould kick), 3:32.
SFGabbert 44 run (Dawson kick), 1:42.
Overtime
SFSmith 71 pass from Gabbert, 12:50.
A62,088.
SF
CHI
First downs
13
20
Total Net Yards
291
364
Rushes-yards
23-121
42-170
Passing
170
194
Punt Returns
3-0
6-72
Kickoff Returns
5-116
2-92
Interceptions Ret.
1-29
0-0
Comp-Att-Int
18-32-0 18-31-1
Sacked-Yards Lost
4-26
1-8
Punts
9-48.1
6-42.8
Fumbles-Lost
0-0
1-0
Penalties-Yards
6-50
8-72
Time of Possession
24:46
37:24
Individual statistics
RUSHINGSan Francisco, Gabbert 6-75, Draughn
13-36, Cadet 3-6, Miller 1-4. Chicago, Forte 21-84,
Langford 12-59, Carey 5-17, Cutler 4-10.
PASSINGSan Francisco, Gabbert 18-32-0-196.
Chicago, Cutler 18-31-1-202.
RECEIVINGSan Francisco, Draughn 5-50, Boldin 537, Smith 2-76, McDonald 2-18, Cadet 1-6, Bell 1-5,
Miller 1-4, Ellington 1-0. Chicago, Forte 5-39, Jeffery 485, Bennett 3-14, Mariani 2-33, Langford 2-9, Bellamy
1-16, Miller 1-6.
MISSED FIELD GOALSChicago,Gould 40 (WL),36 (WL).

Chicago followed up a rare win at Green Bay

on Thanksgiving with a gut-wrenching loss
against a team both coordinators probably
would have loved to beat.
Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio and
offensive coordinator Adam Gase interviewed
for the 49ers head coaching job that went to
Tomsula following Jim Harbaughs departure
after last season. Gase wound up following
Fox from Denver, and Fangio moved to
Chicago after overseeing one of the leagues
top defenses the past four years in San
Francisco.

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Three late INTs

doom Raiders
By Josh Dubow
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OAKLAND Just when Oakland seemed in

position to take control, Derek Carr started
giving the ball and possibly the Raiders
playoff hopes away.
Carrs three fourth-quarter interceptions
turned into three Kansas
City touchdowns as the
Chiefs handed the Raiders
their fourth loss in five
games, 34-20 on Sunday.
Im pretty ticked off,
especially on how some
of them happened, Carr
said. I get pretty upset.
Those things will hapDerek Carr
pen. It just (stinks) that it
happened all back to back like that.
Alex Smith threw two TD passes to Jeremy
Maclin after Carrs first two interceptions and
former Oakland safety Tyvon Branch returned
the third for a game-clinching score that gave
the Chiefs (7-5) their sixth straight win.
After starting the season with five losses in
six games, the Chiefs are in the lead in the
AFC wild-card race.
We knew we dug ourselves in a hole in the
beginning of the year, but weve been battling
back every week just working hard and
believing in each other and coming out with
victories, said linebacker Josh Mauga, whose
interception started the fourth-quarter barrage.
The Raiders (5-7) had been right in the hunt
for the playoffs before this recent slide, but
now seemed doomed to a 13th straight season
without a playoff berth.
Safety Charles Woodson, who recovered
two fumbles in the first half, said he viewed
this as a playoff game, making the loss sting
even more.

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Iowa to face Stanford RAIDERS

in 102nd Rose Bowl
Continued from page 15

By Greg Beacham
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PASADENA Iowa and

Stanford barely missed out on
the College Football Playoff.
The Rose Bowl is a pretty
great place to forget your sorrows.
The Hawkeyes (12-1, No. 5
CFP) will face the Cardinal
(11-2, No. 6 CFP) on Jan. 1
in the 102nd edition of the
Granddaddy of Them All,
Rose
Bowl
officials
announced Sunday.
Iowa and Stanford finished
in the final two rankings
spots outside the four-team
playoff, yet they earned coveted spots in the traditional
year-end
intersectional
matchup between the Big Ten
and Pac-12 powers.
If this is the consolation
prize, what a deal it is for
both of us, Iowa coach Kirk
Ferentz said.
The Cardinal earned their
third Rose Bowl berth in four
years by beating Southern
California 41-22 in the Pac12 title game on Saturday
night.
Stanford
beat
Wisconsin three years ago to
earn its first Rose Bowl victory since the 1971 season,
but lost to Michigan State

two years ago.

We too are excited about
going back to Pasadena,
Shaw said. The Rose Bowl
people have been phenomenal the times that weve
gone. Thats a rare occurrence
nowadays, but were looking
forward to the week, looking
forward to a great game.
Stanford also had hopes of
a playoff spot after finishing
the season with big wins
over Notre Dame and USC,
but conference title game victories by Clemson and
Alabama consigned the
Cardinal to Pasadena.
Although both football
programs date to the 19th
century, Iowa and Stanford
have never faced each other.
Shaw and Ferentz have only a
passing acquaintance, but
both coaches have watched
the others program occasionally through the season.
I loved what Iowa did during the course of this year as
being one of those under-theradar teams that kept winning
... and finally people started
to notice the phenomenal job
that was going on, Shaw
said. I love well-coached
teams that fight and scrap and
eventually get what they
deserve.

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I played a lot of football in my

life, won a lot of games, lost a lot of
games. But today was probably one
of the hardest losses Ive been a part
of in my career, Woodson said.
That was a tough loss.
The game turned odd late in the
third quarter after the Raiders took a
20-14 lead on a 5-yard TD pass from
Carr to Lee Smith. But Sebastian
Janikowski hit the upright on the
extra point, ending a streak of 225
straight makes.
The Raiders then forced a punt and
were driving to make it a two-score
game when Carr tried to make something out of nothing and it cost
him. He tried to throw the ball away
to avoid a sack, but was hit on the
play and the ball went right to
Mauga, who rumbled 65 yards to the
2 on the return.
The only thing in my mind was
try to get as close to the goal line or
even score, Mauga said. I was
hoping I could score, but I ran out of
gas.
Maclin then scored on a 1-yard
pass from Smith. But the holder
Dustin Colquitt couldnt get the snap
down and the Chiefs missed the extra

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point, keeping the game tied at 20.
Carr then threw another interception on the next possession after
Michael Crabtree tripped and
Oakland native Marcus Peters
returned it 58 yards to the 13.
Maclin then took a short pass and
ran 13 yards for the go-ahead score
only to have kicker Cairo Santos
miss the point after attempt.
The botched kicks proved contagious as Janikowski hit the upright
again on Oaklands ensuing possession on a 49-yard field goal try.
The Raiders got another chance,
but Branch scooped up a pass that
deflected off Coopers hands and ran
it back 38 yards for the score.
Carr became the third Raiders quarterback since the team moved back
to Oakland in 1995 to throw three
fourth-quarter interceptions.
It just got away from us, coach
Jack Del Rio said. Turned the ball
over and you cant do that. The last
four drives were three turnovers and
a missed field goal. Thats not the
way you want to close out a game
you want to win.
The Raiders took a 14-7 lead
going into the half after Woodson
ripped the ball away from Travis
Kelce with the Chiefs in field goal
range and returned it 38 yards to the
Kansas City 36. That set up Carrs
25-yard TD pass to Michael
Crabtree.

Chiefs 34, Raiders 20

Kansas City
Oakland

7
7

0
7

7
6

20
0

34
20

First Quarter
OakMurray 2 run (Janikowski kick), 10:25.
KCA.Smith 3 run (Santos kick), 4:58.
Second Quarter
OakCrabtree 25 pass from Carr (Janikowski kick), :13.
Third Quarter
KCWare 10 run (Santos kick), 9:16.
OakL.Smith 5 pass from Carr (kick failed), 2:12.
Fourth Quarter
KCMaclin 1 pass from A.Smith (pass failed), 11:17.
KCMaclin 13 pass from A.Smith (kick failed), 7:57.
KCBranch 38 INT return (Kelce pass from Smith),3:14.
A55,010.
KC
OAK
First downs
15
27
Total Net Yards
232
361
Rushes-yards
22-89
24-99
Passing
143
262
Punt Returns
2-29
3-21
Kickoff Returns
1-33
4-88
Interceptions Ret.
3-162
0-0
Comp-Att-Int
16-22-0 31-48-3
Sacked-Yards Lost
4-19
4-21
Punts
5-50.0
4-39.5
Fumbles-Lost
3-2
3-0
Penalties-Yards
11-88
4-21
Time of Possession
25:32
34:28
Individual statistics
RUSHINGKansas City,West 9-35,Ware 7-26, A.Smith
5-23, A.Wilson 1-5. Oakland, Murray 20-86, Olawale 216, Reece 1-4, Cooper 1-(minus 7).
PASSINGKansas City, A.Smith 16-22-0-162. Oakland,
Carr 31-48-3-283.
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Hunger Games finale fends off Krampus

By Ryan Nakashima
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

oliday hazards, volume 11. Im

pretty sure Ive touched on this
topic annually since becoming a
Daily Journal contributor. The holiday
season can be the best time of the year for
pet owners, especially those who use
vacation time to help a new pet settle in
to the home and to establish a routine.
And, you proudly send off your very rst
holiday photo card featuring the new addition. If you have guests coming and
going and the front door opening and
closing, make sure your pets are secure
inside your home and cant dart out.
Assume that new pets will be unpredictable. Where your old friend never
messed with tinsel on the tree, the sappy
water in your tree stand, hors doeuvres
on the coffee table or wrapped boxes of
chocolates, the new pet might be more
curious. Keep in mind that walnuts, poinsettias, holly and mistletoe all are toxic
or harmful to pets if ingested. Dont
think youre being extra nice by giving
your pet a heaping serving of rich dinner
leftovers as his special treat! It will be
out of this world to him going down, but
could very likely lead to an upset stomach
or explosive diarrhea. Hows that for a
yule tide image? Lastly, heres a tip for
your holiday season tear-down. When its
time to pack up, youll undoubtedly take
stock of your decorations and wonder if
some need an upgrade. Our Elf on the
Shelf, for example, is missing an eye
we say hes winking! You might have a
manger with just two wise men, a wreath
that clashes with your new color scheme
or one too many snow globes. Dont toss
these items. Please consider taking them
to our Pick of the Litter resale shop in
Burlingame. The weeks just after
Christmas are great for deals on secondhand holiday decorations. All sales benet shelter animals.
Scott ov ersees PHS/SPCAs Adoption,
Behav ior and Training, Education,
Outreach, Field Serv ices, Cruelty
Inv estigation, Volunteer and Media/PR
program areas and staff from the new Tom
and Annette Lantos Center for
Compassion.

LOS ANGELES The Hunger Games

finale spoiled an early Christmas for the
holiday horror comedy Krampus to maintain its top spot at the North American box
office for the third week running.
The Jennifer Lawrence-led film took in an
estimated $18.6 million in the U.S. and
Canada, bringing its domestic total to $227
million, according to Rentrak estimates
Sunday.
The anti-Santa Claus thriller from
Universal, the only film to debut in the top
10 this week, brought in $16 million.
The normally slow weekend following
Thanksgiving was up 26 percent from a year
ago thanks to the fresh fodder from
Universal, which slipped in between the
release of two huge franchise movies
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part
2, and Star Wars: Episode VII The Force
Awakens, which is due out Dec. 18.
Even though its horror at its base, you
needed to have enough time for the film to
open and lead up to Christmas, said
Nicholas Carpou, Universal Pictures presi-

Top 10 movies
1.The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part
2, $18.6 million ($32.4 million international).
2.Krampus, $16.0 million ($3.3 million international).
3.Creed, $15.5 million ($1.4 million international).
4.The Good Dinosaur,$15.5 million ($19.4
million international).
5.Spectre, $5.4 million ($23 million international).
6.The Night Before, $4.9 million.
7. The Peanuts Movie, $3.5 million ($2.2
million international).
8.Spotlight, $2.9 million.
9.Brooklyn, $2.4 million.
10.Secret In Their Eyes, $2.0 million.
dent of domestic distribution. Being the
only wide commercial release on this date
really did wonders for this film.
Modestly budgeted for under $15 million,
Krampus is likely to add to the profits of
what has been a record year for Universal
following the release of movies like
Jurassic World, Furious 7, and
Minions.
Meanwhile, the final movie installment
for bow-wielding Katniss pushed past $500
million worldwide, another hit for
Lionsgate, which has staked its claim on

The Hunger Games finale has made $227 million at the domestic box office.
the young adult market. It hopes to keep
rolling with its franchise film strategy with
Allegiant, the third film in the
Divergent series due out in March.
Creed, the boxing film where Sylvester
Stallone reprises his role as Rocky Balboa,
came third, and the Disney/Pixar animated
tale The Good Dinosaur came fourth. Each
had around $15.5 million in ticket sales.
Overall ticket sales are running 4 percent
ahead of last year and are on
track to top $11 billion in
the U.S. and Canada for the
first time, said Rentraks
senior media analyst Paul
Dergarabedian.
Dergarabedian says it
remains to be seen whether
the global excitement
around J.J. Abrams Star
Wars will drown out a bevy
of other options coming out
later this year. That ranges
from director Alejandro
Inarritus The Revenant to
the Amy Poehler and Tina
Fey-led comedy, Sisters,
which has knowingly marketed its film with a Star
Wars parody trailer and the
hashtag
(hash)youcanseethemboth.

Among other films competing for attention in the coming weeks are: Alvin and
the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, the Will
Smith-led football movie Concussion,
and Joy, an underdog tale that reunites
stars Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper
with American Hustle director David O.
Russell.
Hopefully the rising tide of Star Wars
will raise all movies, Dergarabedian said.

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WARRIOR FOR THE DAY

SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY

Seaman
Recruit
Joseph Ortiz, of Millbrae, California and a
2014 graduate of Mills
High School, earned
Warrior of the Day
Award aboard USS
Harry S. Truman (CVN
75). Ortiz is a culinary
specialist, preparing
and cooking meals for
a crew of more than
3,000 Sailors aboard
Truman. Ortiz has been
in the Navy for four
months.
Mi chael and Co urtney
Was s erman, of Redwood City,
gave birth to a baby girl at
Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City
Nov. 19, 2015.

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The Burlingame Downtown Business Improvement District put on Small Business Saturday Nov. 28 to bring
shoppers to its downtown in support of local mom-and-pop shops.The holiday shopping season kicked off with
the band, Astralogik playing some Christmas cheer on Burlingame Avenue. Howard Avenue featured a face
painter which provided complimentary face painting. A balloon maker walked around the downtown twisting
and shaping balloons to resemble animals, toys, vehicles and other shapes.

RED WAGON
FOOD DRIVE
The first annual Sunnybrae Neighborhood Red Wagon Food Drive
collected more than 600 pounds of
food donated and delivered to the
Second Harvest Food Bank. Second
Harvest Food bank provides food to
nearly one quarter of a million people each month. This event was
organized by Nathan Nunes, a local
real estate agent and resident of
Sunnybrae.

Birth announcements:
Kri s hna Dev an and Al l i s o n
Ho l t, of San Carlos, gave birth
to a baby boy at Sequoia Hospital
in Redwood City Nov. 18, 2015.
Chri s to pher and Patri ci a
Bo rs , of Woodside, gave birth to
a baby boy at Sequoia Hospital in
Redwood City Nov. 19, 2015.

Mi chael and Caro l i na

Rey no s o , of San Mateo, gave
birth to a baby boy at Sequoia
Hospital in Redwood City Nov.
20, 2015.
Juan Di eg o Vento ci l l a and
Adri ana Vas quez, of Redwood
City, gave birth to a baby boy at
Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City
Nov. 21, 2015.

Mi chael and Lo rena

Del uca, of Danville, gave birth
to a baby girl at Sequoia Hospital
in Redwood City Nov. 19, 2015.

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Justice Department to investigate Chicago police

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO The U.S. Justice

Department is expected to launch a
wide-ranging investigation this
week into the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police
Department after recent protests
over a video showing a white
Chicago police officer shooting a
black teenager 16 times, according to a person familiar with the
matter.
The person was not authorized
to discuss the investigation publicly before it was announced and
spoke Sunday to The Associated
Press on condition of anonymity.
The civil rights probe would follow others recently in Baltimore
and Ferguson, Missouri, and come
as the police department and
Mayor Rahm Emanuel are under
intense scrutiny over their han-

TERROR
Continued from page 1
policy prescriptions for defeating
IS, underscoring both his confidence in his current approach and
the lack of easy options for countering the extremist group.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, RWis., dismissed the presidents
address as a half-hearted attempt
to defend and distract from a failing policy.
Obama did call for cooperation
between private companies and
law enforcement to ensure potential attackers cant use technology
to evade detection. He also urged
Congress to pass new force
authorization for military actions
underway against IS in Iraq and
Syria, and also to approve legislation to bar guns from being sold to
people prohibited from flying on
planes in the U.S. for terrorist
concerns.

dling of the October 2014 death of

17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
Officer Jason Van Dyke was
charged with first-degree murder
Nov. 24, more than a year after the
killing and just hours before the
release of police dashboard camera
footage showing the officer
shooting the teenager.
The video shows McDonald
veering away from officers on a
four-lane street when Van Dyke,
seconds after exiting his squad car,
opens fire from close range. The
officer continues shooting after
McDonald crumples to the ground
and is barely moving. The video
does not include sound, which
authorities have not explained.
The Chicago City Council
signed off on a $5 million settlement with McDonalds family
even before the family filed a lawsuit, and city officials fought in

court for months to keep the video

from being released publicly. The
citys early efforts to suppress its
release coincided with Emanuels
re-election campaign, when the
mayor was seeking AfricanAmerican votes in a tight race.
Since the release of the video,
Emanuel
forced
Police
Superintendent Garry McCarthy to
resign and formed a task force to
examine the department. But the
calls for the mayor to resign
something he said he wont do
have grown louder from protesters
in the city, including more than
200 people who shouted that he
step down during a Sunday afternoon march. Protesters counted to
16 in reference to the shots fired, a
number that has taken on a symbolic significance since the
demonstrations began.
Civil rights leader the Rev.

Jesse Jackson said he was pleased

with the decision to investigate
Chicago. Jackson said he hoped
that the investigation would focus
not only on the police department, but on Emanuels office and
the Cook
County
States
Attorneys office, which he and
others have criticized for taking
so long to bring charges against
Van Dyke.
All three of them the police,
City Hall and the prosecutors
office are suspect, Jackson
said. We cannot trust them.
Emanuel initially said a federal
civil rights investigation of
Chicago police tactics would be
misguided. He later reversed
course and said he would welcome
the Justice Departments involvement something that politicians including Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton

and Illinois Attorney General Lisa

Madigan have called for.
A spokesman for the police
department referred a request for
comment to Adam Collins, a
spokesman for the mayors office.
We welcome the engagement of
the Department of Justice as we
work to restore trust in our police
department and improve our system of police accountability,
Collins said.
On Friday, Chicago released
hundreds of pages that show
police officers reported a very different version of the McDonald
encounter than video shows. In
the documents, police officers
portray McDonald as being far
more menacing than he appears in
dashcam footage. That further
angered activists and protesters,
who were already accusing the city
of a cover up.

And he implored Americans to

not turn against Muslims at home,
saying the Islamic State is driven
by a desire to spark a war between
the West and Islam. Still, he called
on Muslims in the U.S. and around
the world to take up the cause of
fighting extremism.
The spread of radical Islam into
American communities, he said, is
a real problem that Muslims must
confront without excuse.
The presidents most specific
policy announcement was to order
the departments of State and
Homeland Security to review the
fiance visa program that the
female shooter in California used
to enter the U.S. In his remarks,
Obama referred to a visa waiver
program that Congress is also
reviewing, but the White House
later clarified he meant the fiance
program
He also reiterated his call for
broader gun control legislation,
saying no matter how effective
law enforcement and intelligence
agencies are, they cant identify

every would-be shooter. He called

it a matter of national security to
prevent potential killers from getting guns.
What we can do, and must do, is
make it harder for them to kill, he
said.
Obama stands little chance of
getting
the
Republican-led
Congress to agree to any gun control measures. On Thursday, the
Senate rejected legislation barring
people suspected by the government of being terrorists from purchasing firearms. Gun rights advocates say such a ban would violate
the rights of people who havent
been convicted of crimes.
Congress also has been unable
to coalesce behind any plan to
authorize more force against IS,
and the administrations proposal
has languished since February.
Obama repeated his long-standing opposition to an American-led
ground war in the Middle East and
made no mention of the more
aggressive action others have suggested, including a enforcing a no-

fly zone and safe corridors in

Syria.
Our success wont depend on
tough talk, or abandoning our values or giving in to fear, he said.
Instead, we will prevail by being
strong and smart, resilient and
relentless.
After the speech, the president
appeared as previously scheduled
at the Kennedy Center Honors
tribute in Washington.
The presidents critics and
increasingly, some members of
his own party have questioned
his strategy. Hours before he
spoke, Hillary Clinton his former secretary of state and the
front-runner for the Democratic
presidential nomination said
the U. S. is not winning the
fight against IS.
Obama has insisted that the
Islamic State is contained in Iraq
and Syria. However, the group has
set its sights elsewhere in the
world, launching attacks in
Lebanon and Turkey and downing a
Russia airliner over Egypt.

The Nov. 13 attacks in Paris

marked the groups most aggressive actions in Europe, a coordinated effort that left 130 people
dead and wounded hundreds more.
Last week, the terror threat drew
even closer for Americans when a
couple a 29-year-old woman
originally from Pakistan and her
28-year-old American-born husband launched an attack on a
holiday
luncheon
in
San
Bernardino.
The FBI is investigating the
massacre as a terrorist attack that,
if proved, would be the deadliest
by
Islamic extremists
on
American soil since Sept. 11,
2001.
The woman pledged allegiance
to IS and its leader in a Facebook
post, according to U.S. official
who was not authorized to discuss
the case publicly and spoke on
condition of anonymity. A
Facebook official said the post
came about the time the couple
stormed the San Bernardino social
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SUIT
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The sprawling lodge and tree houses
at 16350 Skyline Blvd. now hosts
occasional Buddhist, meditation and
yoga retreats.
It was bought by Raymond and
Michael Blatt from a co-founder of ETrade for a reported $9 million after
the Planning Commission gave its
approval but before the Board of
Supervisors decided to vote against the
concept.
The Blatts wanted to convert the
Stillheart Institute, a meditation and
spiritual retreat and turn it into a rehab
center called Stillpath.
Supervisor Dave Pine said the facility would not have served San Mateo
County residents when he voted

RENT
Continued from page 1
Families, seniors and individuals
are desperately trying to stay in their
homes, some reporting to us that they
are cutting back on food, medication
and child care, Cornell said. During
the holidays, the pain of these rent
increases and the prospect of perhaps
having to leave ones home, school,
church, and maybe even their job is all
the more painful and stressful.
Nagel said the fund will hopefully
help ease the financial strain some of
these residents are feeling, during a
time of year when many feel especially vulnerable.
She said she has seen the stress of
struggling to pay rent drive some residents to the hospital, as they become
overcome with grief due to financial
hardship.
Offering charity is the least that can
be done, Nagel said, since many of the
renters in need of assistance have few
policies or regulations to protect
them.
We are just targeting this tremendous need we see in our community,
she said.
Once contributions are made to the
fund, Nagel said workers at Samaritan
House are trusted to distribute the
resources appropriately.
The case workers are very good
about selecting those who need help
the most, said Nagel.
Bart Charlow, CEO of Samaritan
House, said this is the first time his

against the proposal last year.

The high-end rehab center would
have reportedly cost $45, 000 a
month.
At its Tuesday, Dec. 8 meeting, the
board is set to approve an agreement
with Kerr and Wagstaffe, LLP to assist
the County Counsels Office in fighting the claim.
The American Addiction Center has
also joined the lawsuit against the
county and is seeking substantial
damages, according to a report to the
board by County Counsel John Beiers.
Horsley said prior to his vote that he
had received 172 letters from nearby
residents opposed to the rehab center.
He received two letters in support of
the plan by non-residents, he said.
Traffic is already bad on Woodside
Road and the increased use at the rehab
center would only make it worse,
Horsley said last year.
The board overturned the Planning

Commissions decision despite a recommendation by then Community

Development Director Jim Eggemeyer
to deny the neighbors appeal.
The property currently has a threestory retreat lodge, on-site parking
garage and 12 duplex tree houses. It
sits just west of Skyline Boulevard off
of Woodside Road.
In 1991, the facility was approved
to be a spa/fitness center.
The garage and tree houses were
added to the property in 2007.
Two appeals were filed against the
project by the Skyline Neighbors
Association and Community of
Interested Neighbors or COIN.
Some of the arguments against the
rehab center was the use permit granted for the retreat center should not be
amended to allow for a rehab center. A
new use permit would be necessary,
COIN argued.

organization has established a fund for

a need specific to a particular community.
This is an experiment, he said.
This is a creative thing Mayor Nagel
has come up with and we are seeing
how this works out.
But he expressed appreciation to
Nagel for coming to the organization
with an innovative way to address an
issue in her community.
Its a wonderful idea, he said. We
are grateful the mayor has recognized
the crisis in her town and wanted personally to do something to help. She
knew Samaritan House does this kind
of work on a regular basis, and it is a
great partnership to see how well this
works.
Nagel said she believes there is an
especially large demand for financial
assistance in Burlingame because
more than half the residents are
renters, and the city has recently
become an attractive destination for
young, well-paid workers, especially
in the technology sector, which has
driven up the cost of living.
Burlingame voters passed an ordinance which prevents the establishment of rent control, so the hands of
officials are frequently tied regarding
the efforts they can pursue to offer
assistance to those who do not own
their homes, said Nagel.
This is a tough situation, said
Nagel. Renters are completely at the
mercy of peoples good will and there
is a tremendous incentive for people
who own property to jack up the
prices.
In the void of any policy regulating
rents in Burlingame, Nagel and

Cornell have been working in the

interest of some residents facing large
rent hikes to negotiate with landlords
who may be willing to offer relocation
assistance or other compromises to
those who can no longer afford their
housing cost.
Landlords who are typically detached
from the residents renting their property have a tendency to be more compassionate when they meet their tenants and learn more about their lives,
said Nagel.
Nagel said she and Cornell decided to
establish the charity fund to serve
those who the most vulnerable in the
community, in an effort to support
those who do not have many other
lines of defense against the considerable expense of living in Burlingame.
The least we could do is to funnel
help their way, she said.
Cornell praised Nagel for taking the
lead on building the charity campaign.
Mayor Nagels establishment of
the Burlingame Family Fund, to be
operated and distributed by Samaritan
House, will be a godsend for so many
newly needy people in Burlingame,
Cornell said.
Nagel said she believed the charity
was a worthy effort to help those in
need, since no larger policy regulations exist.
I do think we need to show some
compassion for those whose lives
have been thrown into turmoil because
the cost of living is not regulated in
any way, she said.
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Calendar
MONDAY, DEC. 7
Daytime Fiction Book Club. 10 a.m.
to 11 a.m. San Carlos Library, 610 Elm
St., San Carlos. This month we will be
discussing The lowland: a novel by
Jhumpa Lahiri. Free and open to the
public. For more information call
591-0341 ext. 237.
Hearing
Loss
Association
Meeting. 1 p.m. 1433 Madison Ave.,
Redwood City. A Christmas party
with food and refreshments will be
open to the public and free of cost.
For more information call 345-4551.
San Mateo on Ice. 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Fitzgerald Ball Field in Central
Park, Fifth Avenue and El Camino
Real, San Mateo. Located in San
Mateos Central Park, the outdoor ice
rink features 9,000 square feet of real
ice and is the largest outdoor skating rink in the Bay Area. $15 per person for all day skating with free skate
rental. For more information visit
sanmateoonice.com.
Dance Connection with Live Music
by Nob Hill Sounds. Free dance lessons 6:30 p.m.-7 p.m. with open
dance from 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Burlingame Womans Club, 241 Park
Road, Burlingame. Members, bring a
new first-time male friend and earn
free entry for yourself (only free
entry per new dancer. New men get
free entry. Admission $9 members
and $11 guests. Light refreshments.
For more information call 342-2221.
Elder Fraud Lecture. 7 p.m. San
Carlos Library, 610 Elm St., San
Carlos. Defend yourself against
crooks who target elderly persons.
Free and open to the public. For
more information call 591-0341 ext.
237.
The Secret Show: A Night Of
Standup Comedy. 9 p.m. Swingin
Door, 106 E. 25th Ave., San Mateo. A
comedy show featuring some of the
Bay Areas brightest comics. Join
guest host Jesus U. BettaWork as he
brings the Peninsula a lineup of
comic amigos and amigas. For more
information visit www.jesusubettawork.com.
TUESDAY, DEC. 8
Holiday Winter Coat Drive and Gift
Card Drive to Benefit Seniors. 9
a.m. to 7 a.m. Little House Activity
Center, 800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park.
Takes place until Dec. 23, Monday
through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 7
p.m. Help collect new and slightly
used winter coats of all sizes or gift
cards to be delivered to Meals on
Wheels recipients and clients at the
Onetta Harris Senior Center in Menlo
Park. Your gift will bring warmth and
joy to a special someone. For more
information contact 326-2025 ext.
242.
Parent Education Workshop. 9:30
a.m. to 11 a.m. Sobrato Center for
Nonprofits, 330 Twin Dolphin Drive,
Redwood City. Learn about Applied
Behavior Analysis (ABA), widely recognized as the most effective treatment for autism spectrum disorder.
Presented by Allyne MarconDawson, MA, BCBA. RSVP to openingdoorspta@yahoo.com.
Complimentary Gift Wrapping.
10:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. Little House
Activity Center, 800 Middle Ave.,
Menlo Park. Takes place until Dec. 23,
Monday to Friday from 10:30 a.m. to
2:30 p.m. For more information contact 326-2025 ext. 242.
Around the World Potluck. 10:30
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. 800 Middle Ave.,
Menlo Park. Bring in your favorite
Christmas dish and share your traditions that illuminate the spirit of
Christmas around the world. For
more
information
email
leiland@peninsulavolunteers.org.
San Mateo on Ice. 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Fitzgerald Ball Field in Central
Park, Fifth Avenue and El Camino
Real, San Mateo. Located in San
Mateos Central Park, the outdoor ice
rink features 9,000 square feet of real
ice and is the largest outdoor skating rink in the Bay Area. $15 per person for all day skating with free skate
rental. For more information visit
sanmateoonice.com.
Robot Workshop with DASH. 5
p.m. to 6 p.m. San Mateo Public
Library (Oak Room), 55 W. Third Ave.,
San Mateo. Come meet DASH the
robot in this interactive workshop.
Participants will have the chance to
do some hands-on activities. Space
is limited to 30 attendees for children ages seven to ten. Sign up in
the childrens room. Free. For more
information contact 522-7838.
Documentary Club. 6:30 p.m.
Belmont Library, 1110 Alameda de
las Pulgas, Belmont. The library will
be presenting Keep On Keepin On,
a depiction of the friendship of
music legend Clark Terry and blind
piano prodigy Justin Kauflin. For
more
information
email
belmont@smcl.org.
Lawyers in the Library. 7 p.m. to 9
p.m. San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St.,
San Carlos. Registrants get a free 20-

minute consultation with an attorney. Lawyers legal expertise may

vary from month to month. Free and
open to the public. For more information and to register call 591-0341
ext. 237.
Public Hearing on Proposal to
Demolish the San Mateo Ice Rink at
Bridgepointe. 7:30 p.m. 330 W. 20th
Ave., San Mateo. For more information
go
to
http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/Civic
Alerts.aspx?AID=581.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 9
Port Commission Meeting. 8 a.m.
675 Seaport Blvd., Redwood City. For
more information call 306-4150.
12 Days of Christmas at Little
House:
Christmas
Cook ies
Decorating Day. 10:30 a.m. to 2:30
p.m. 800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park. For
more information go to www.penvol.org/littlehouse.
San Mateo Professional Alliance
Weekly Networking Lunch. Noon
to 1 p.m. Kingfish Restaurant, 201 S. B
St., San Mateo. Meet new business
connections. Free. For more information call 430-6500 or visit sanmateoprofessionalalliance.com.
Annual Christmas Tour. 2 p.m. to 4
p.m. 519 Grand Ave., South San
Francisco. Tour of museum featuring
Christmas decorations.
San Mateo on Ice. 2 p.m. to 9
p.m. Fitzgerald Ball Field in Central
Park, Fifth Avenue and El Camino
Real, San Mateo. Located in San
Mateos Central Park, the outdoor ice
rink features 9,000 square feet of real
ice and is the largest outdoor skating rink in the Bay Area. $15 per person for all day skating with free skate
rental. For more information visit
sanmateoonice.com.
THURSDAY, DEC. 10
Quilting Club. 10 a.m. to noon. San
Carlos Library, 610 Elm St., San
Carlos. We meet on the second
Thursday of each month. For adults.
Free and open to the public. For
more information call 591-0341 ext.
237.
Non-fiction Book Club. 11 a.m. to
noon. San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St.,
San Carlos. Discussion of Missoula:
rape and the justice system in a college town by Jon Krakauer. Free and
open to the public. For more information call 591-0341 ext. 237.
12 Days of Christmas at Little
House: Piano Concert. 11 a.m. to
noon. 800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park.
For more information go to
www.penvol.org/littlehouse.
Millbrae
Camera
Club
Photography Exhibit. 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. Society of Western Artists Art
Center, 527 San Mateo Ave., San
Bruno. Exhibit runs from Dec. 10 to
20 at 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday
through Friday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday. Exhibit by the
Millbrae Camera Club. Local photographers display their printed photographs in pictorial, travel, nature,
photo journalism and creative categories. For more information contact
mdrilling@mcc.photos.
San Mateo on Ice. 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Fitzgerald Ball Field in Central
Park, Fifth Avenue and El Camino
Real, San Mateo. Located in San
Mateos Central Park, the outdoor ice
rink features 9,000 square feet of real
ice and is the largest outdoor skating rink in the Bay Area. $15 per person for all day skating with free skate
rental. For more information visit
sanmateoonice.com.
Tween Holiday Craft Afternoon. 3
p.m. to 5 p.m. San Mateo Public
Library (Oak Room), 55 W. Third Ave.,
San Mateo. Make holiday cards, DIY
mugs, snowmen magnets, reindeer
ornaments and pinecone owls. Hot
cocoa will be provided. Open to
those in fifth-, sixth-, seventh- or
eighth-grade. Sign up in the childrens room. For more information,
call 522-7838.
South San Francisco Holiday
Concert:
Nathan
Martinez
(Classical Guitar). 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Downtown Breezeway, 356 Grand
Ave., South San Francisco. Free.
Fifth Annual Founders Event. 5:30
p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 236 B St., San
Mateo. Holiday celebration to honor
this years Support the Kid Heroes.
Age 21 and over only. For more information
go
to
stkfounders2015.eventbrite.com.
14th
Annual
Burlingame
Chanukah Celebration. 6 p.m. to 7
p.m. 240 Park Road, Burlingame. A
Chanukah celebration for the whole
family with live music, hot latkes, and
menorah lighting. For more information call 341-4510.
Burlingame Library Foundation
Event. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Books Inc. and
Urban Bistro, Burlingame. For more
information call 773-6295.
For more events visit
smdailyjournal.com, click Calendar.

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

HOLY MOLE

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

ACROSS
1 Natural elevs.
4 Zen riddle
8 ETs craft
11 Cincinnati river
13 The skinny
14 Gunk
15 Point out danger
16 Blurts out (2 wds.)
18 Sentra maker
20 Certain votes
21 Happy sighs
22 Nowhere near
24 Ms. Abdul
27 Tent dwellers
30 Feint
31 Aid
32 Shade tree
34 Sault Marie
35 Peddle
36 Mound
37 Movie awards
39 Energy
40 Crater edge
41 Zedong

GET FUZZY

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Wild about
Not in tune (hyph.)
Tumbled down
Andes empire
Sixth sense
Solitary
In shreds
Airline to Stockholm
Sense
PC glitch

DOWN
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2 Bangkok native
3 Gentlemen
4 Drying ovens
5 Wallet stuffer
6 Rear, to Popeye
7 Denials
8 Hideous
9 Pate de gras
10 Klutzs mutter
12 Discounted (2 wds.)
17 Poet Teasdale
19 Detectives cry

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Current meas.
Nightwear, briey
Jalopy
Luau strummers
Evening update
Regard
Smack
Damage
Speed meas.
Bali
Walk (2 wds.)
Gator kin
Big lug
Runway gure
Coats cupcakes
Houston org.
Bakers meas.
Door opener
Pale brown
Yin complement
Politico Landon
Fawns ma
Flight dir.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Now is not the
time to be greedy or self-centered. Use your energy to
get ahead in business, not to encourage opposition. Be
willing to compromise and work as a team player.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Youve got
insight, and with a little ingenuity you can
achieve whatever you set out to do. Romance
is skyrocketing, and emotional matters can be
turned into long-term benefits.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Dont be too trusting.
Protect your money and possessions. Dont let
emotional matters escalate into a battle of the wills

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that will leave you feeling exhausted and frustrated.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) Pursue your beliefs. A
challenge will help you realize your full potential. You
dont have to overdo it to get ahead; you just have to be
precise and stick to basics.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Expand your interests.
Travel and educational plans will lead to new places.
Trying new things could help you advance. Dont let
emotional mishaps ruin your day.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Opportunities will
develop in an unusual manner. Your passionate
approach to everything you do will help make even
the most difcult task possible. Be honest about your
feelings and what you want.
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before you run out of time. Talking may be your favorite

pastime, but it wont pay the bills if you dont follow
through with your plans.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Youve got more going
for you than you realize. Stop worrying and start
producing. Much can be accomplished if you get down
to business and put your skills to good use.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Dont leave anyone out.
Your fun-loving nature will be admired by outsiders,
but someone close will feel left out if you neglect
his or her needs.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Youll have some big
ideas, but if you temper them, you will not only reach
your destination in record time, you will get recognition
for your accomplishments.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Dont argue a moot

point. Keep the peace and put your time and effort into
positive change. Dont worry about those who decide
to take a different route. Do whats best for you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Take an unusual
approach to whatever you do. Altering your living
quarters or engaging in a project with someone as
unique and creative as you are will bring good results.
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BIOTECH Natera seeks Senior Field Application

Scientist (San Carlos, CA) to provide
technical support to diagnostics and research products in the US, Europe, and
Asia. Reqd: MS in Biotechnology, Molecular Biology or rel with 6 yrs rel exp in
technical field support. Ability and willingness to travel internationally 10 - 20% of
time. Resumes to: J. Hart, Natera, Inc.,
201 Industrial Road, Suite
410, San Carlos, CA 94070. Ref. code:
31951-031. No calls/emails/faxes EOE.

110 Employment
NEEDED - Cook/Caregiver; Bayview Assisted Living; San Carlos.
(650) 596-3489

HOUSE CLEANERS NEEDED

$12.25 per hour. Company Car.
Call Molly Maid at (650)837-9788.
1700 S. Amphlett, #218, San Mateo.

110 Employment

110 Employment

CAREGIVERS

ILS Coordinator

2 years experience
required.
Immediate placement
on all assignments.

Call
(650)777-9000

(650) 458-2200

www.homebridgeca.org
1660 S. Amphlett Blvd. 115
San Mateo, CA 94402

DRIVERS
WANTED

GOT JOBS?

Early mornings, six days per week,

Monday through Saturday

The best career seekers

read the Daily Journal.

Pay dependent on route size.

Call 650-344-5200.

Email resume to:

info@sdsprogram.com
JOB TITLE: Software Engineer
Job Location: Belmont, CA
Requirements: MS or equiv. in CS, S/W
Engg., CIS, etc. + 2 yrs.
exp. reqd. (or BS + 5).
Exp. w/ Java, J2EE,
Oracle, EJB. JSP,
Servlets & Unix reqd;
exp. w/ at least two (2) of
the following also reqd:
C++,C#, PHP, Javascript.
Mail Resume: RingCentral, Inc.
Attn: HR Dept.
20 Davis Drive,
Belmont, CA 94002

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Newspaper Routes

Pick up papers between 3:30 a.m.

and 4:30 a.m. 2 to 4 hour routes
available from South SF to Palo Alto and the Coast.

Independent Living
Services agency seeks
responsible person to
coordinate ILS services
in San Mateo/SF region.

We will help you recruit qualified, talented

individuals to join your company or organization.
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with benefits?

Call for an appointment:

650-342-6978

ECONOMICS MGR, ECON & ANALYTICS

Redwood City, CA. MS in Econ, Finance,
Mgmt Sci and Engineering or rltd + 1 yr
exp in job offered or rltd. Perform econ
analytics. Biocodex, Inc.,
recruitingUSA@biocodex.com.
HOME CARE AIDES
Multiple shifts to meet your needs. Great
pay & benefits, Sign-on bonus, 1yr exp
required.
Matched Caregivers (650)839-2273,
(408)280-7039 or (888)340-2273

MARKETING Samsung Semiconductor Inc. has the following job in Menlo Park, CA: Associate
Manager [Job Code: 5KB1915] Responsible for conducting market intelligence &
analysis of industry players & trends in
key areas, such as Internet of Things.
Mail resume to 2440 Sand Hill Rd., Ste.
302, Menlo Park, CA 94025, Attn: S.
Tan. Must reference job code to be considered. EOE

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523 LINDEN AVE
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NOW HIRING!
Licensed Stylists
and Barbers
4 seats available
Manicure and Pedicure
One Table Available
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(650) 219-5163
(650) 270-3151
(650) 703-2626
NEWSPAPER INTERNS
JOURNALISM

The Daily Journal is looking for interns to do entry level reporting, research, updates of our ongoing features and interviews. Photo interns also welcome.

Director of Maintenance / Environmental Services needed for

busy, upscale Assisted Living Memory Care community. This position
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110 Employment
TECHNOLOGY
ORACLE America, Inc.has openings for
the following positions (all levels/types) in
San Mateo County, including Redwood
Shores, CA; Alameda County, including
Pleasanton, CA; San Francisco, CA;
Santa Clara County, including Santa
Clara and San Jose, CA; and other locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Travel to various unanticipated sites
throughout the U.S. required. Some positions may allow for telecommuting.
Consultants (TCONS1115): Analyze requirements and deliver functional and
technical solutions. Implement products
and technologies to meet post-sale customer needs.
Sales Consultants (TSC1115): Provide
presales technical/functional support to
prospective customers. Design, validate
and present Oracles software solutions
to include product concepts and future
direction.
Software Developers (TSWD1115): Design, develop, troubleshoot and/or
test/QA software.
Applications Developers (TAPD1115):
Analyze, design develop, troubleshoot
and debug software programs for commercial or end user applications. Write
code, complete programming and perform testing and debugging of applications.
Submit
resume
to
applicant_us@oracle.com. Must include
job #.Oracle supports workforce diversity.

Monday Dec. 7, 2015

203 Public Notices

210 Lost & Found

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT #267371
The following person is doing business
as: Fortaleza Hispana, 80 Glen Way,
Suite 14, SAN CARLOS, CA 94070.
Registered Owner(s): Sandra M. Beltran,
328 South Van Ness Ave, Apt. 2, SAN
FRANCISCO, CA 94103. The business
is conducted by an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business
under the FBN on
/s/Sandra M. Beltran/
This statement was filed with the Assessor-County Clerk on 11/25/2015. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal,
12/07/15, 12/14/15, 12/21/15, 12/28/15)

LOST DOG, 14 year old Bichon, white

and Fluffy. Reward $500 cash. Her name
is Pumpkin. Lost in Redwood City.
(650) 281-4331.

RFP OPPORTUNITY San Mateo County

Youth Commission
San Mateo County Health
System has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP)
for a contractor to develop
and maintain the San Mateo
County Youth Commission,
including training, program
research and evaluation,
and fostering key partnerships.

11/22/63. 4-BOOK collection on the assassination of JFK. 650-794-0839. San

Bruno. $30.

The RFP package is available at smchealth.org/rfp.

Proposals are due by 5 pm,
January 5, 2016.

QUALITY BOOKS used and rare. World

& US History and classic American novels. $5 each obo (650)345-5502

FOUND: LADIES watch outside Safeway Millbrae 11/10/14 call Matt,

(415)378-3634
FOUND: RING Silver color ring found
on 1/7/2014 in Burlingame. Parking Lot
M (next to Dethrone). Brand inscribed.
Gary @ (650)347-2301
FOUND: WEDDING BAND Tuesday
September 8th Near Whole Foods, Hillsdale. Pls call to identify. 415.860.1940
LOST - Apple Ipad, Sunday 5.3 on Caltrain #426, between Burlingame and
Redwood City, south bound. REWARD.
(415)830-0012
LOST - MY COLLAPSIBLE music stand,
clip lights, and music in black bags were
taken from my car in Foster City and may
have been thrown out by disappointed
thieves. Please call (650)704-3595
LOST - Womans diamond ring. Lost
12/18. Broadway, Redwood City.
REWARD! (650)339-2410

150 Seeking Employment

15 YEARS EXPERIENCE; high recommendations, CA Drivers license, looking
for live in/live out senior care. Call Luisa
(650) 834-7343.

LOST CAT Our Felicity, weighs 7 lbs,

she has a white nose, mouth, chin, all
four legs, chest stomach, around her
neck. Black mask/ears, back, tail. Nice
REWARD. Please email us at
joandbill@msn.com or call 650-5768745. She drinks water out of her paws.

Tundra

Over the Hedge

Over the Hedge

Over the Hedge

LOST SMALL gray and green Parrot.

Redwood Shores. (650)207-2303.

Books

16 BOOKS on History of WWII Excellent

condition. $95 all obo, (650)345-5502
FREE 30 volume 1999 Americana Encyclopedia. Excellent condition Call 650349-2945 to pick up.
MAGAZINES. SIX Arizona Highways
magazines from 1974 and 1975. Very
good condition. $15. 650-794-0839.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Hardback Books
2 @ $3.00 each - (650)341-1861

STEPHEN KING Hardback Books

2 @ $3.00 each - (650)341-1861

GRACO 3 way pack n play for kid in

good condition $20. Daly City (650) 7569516.
GRACO DOUBLE Stroll $90 My Cell
650-537-1095. Will email pictures upon
request.
SIT AND Stand Stroll $95 My Cell 650537-1095. Will email pictures upon request.

295 Art
BOB TALBOT Marine Lithograph (Signed Framed 24x31 Like New. $99.
(650)572-8895

296 Appliances
AIR CONDITIONER 10000 BTU w/remote. Slider model fits all windows. LG
brand $199 runs like new. (650)2350898

297 Bicycles

299 Computers

303 Electronics

MAGNA-GLACIERPOINT 26" 15 speed.

Hardly used . Bluish purple color .$ 59.00
San Mateo 650-255-3514.

RECORDABLE CD-R 74, Sealed, Unopened, original packaging, Samsung, 12X,

(650) 578 9208

BAZOOKA SPEAKER Bass tube 20

longx10 wide round never used in box
$75.0 (650)992-4544

300 Toys

COMPLETE COLOR photo developer

Besler Enlarger, Color Head, trays, photo
tools $50/ 650-921-1996

298 Collectibles
1920'S AQUA Glass Beaded Flapper
Purse (drawstring bag) & Faux Pearl
Flapper Collar. $50. 650-762-6048

AMERICAN GIRL 18 doll, Jessica,

blond/blue. new in box, $65 (505)-2281480 local.

BELT BUCKLE-MICKEY Mouse 1937

Marked Sterling. Sun Rubber company.
$300 (650) 355-2167.

STAR WARS one 4 orange card action figure, Momaw Nadon (Hammerhead). $8 Steve 650-518-6614

CHERISHED TEDDIES Figurines. Over

90 figurines, 1992-1999 (mostly '93-'95).
Mint in Boxes. $99. (408) 506-7691

STAR WARS SDCC Stormtrooper

Commander $29 OBO Dan,
650-303-3568 lv msg

ELVIS SPEAKS To You, 78 RPM, Rainbow Records(1956), good condition,$20

,650-591-9769 San Carlos
GEOFFREY BEENE Jacket, unused, unworn, tags , pink, small, sleeveless, zippers, paid $88, $15, (650) 578-9208

ICE MAKER brand new $90. (415)2653395

LENNOX RED Rose, Unused, hand

painted, porcelain, authenticity papers,
$12.00. (650) 578 9208.

JACK LALANE juicer $25 or best offer.

650-593-0893.
KIRBY MODEL G7D vacuum with accessories and a supply of HEPA bags.
$150 obo. 650-465-2344

RIVAL 11/2 quart ice cream maker

(New) $20.(650)756-9516.
SHARK FLOOR steamer,exc condition
$45 (650) 756-9516.
UPRIGHT VACUUM Cleane, $10. Call
Ed, (415)298-0645 South San Francisco

297 Bicycles
2 BIKES for kids $60.My Cell 650-5371095. Will email pictures upon request.
ADULT BIKES 1 regular and 2 with balloon tires $30 Each (650) 347-2356

3-STORY BARBIE Dollhouse with spiral

staircase and elevator. $60. (650)5588142

1940 VINTAGE telephone bench maple

antiques collectibles $75 (650)755-9833

CHEFMATE TOASTER oven, brand

new, bakes, broils, toasts, adjustable
temperature. $25 OBO. (650)580-4763

PORTABLE AIR conditioner by windchaser 9000 btu s cools 5,600 ft easily

$90 obo (650)591-6842

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING City of San Mateo Public

Works Department Clean Water Program Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Report San Mateo, Calif. The Clean
Water Program is a series of projects to upgrade and increase
the capacity of the Citys wastewater treatment plant and sewer collection system to eliminate sanitary sewer overflows,
align with the Citys sustainability goals, and meet current and
future regulatory requirements. The Wastewater Treatment
Plant also treats wastewater for Crystal Springs County Sanitation District, a portion of unincorporated San Mateo County, the
southern portion of the Town of Hillsborough, and the City of
Foster City which is a co-owner of the Wastewater Treatment
Plant. The Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Report
(Draft PEIR) for the Clean Water Program was released on October 20, 2015. The Draft PEIR identifies any impacts the potential Clean Water Program projects may have on the surrounding environment during construction and after completion. The types of impacts covered in the report include aesthetics, air quality and greenhouse gases, biological resources,
cultural resources, geology and soils, hazards and hazardous
materials, hydrology and water quality, land use, population
and housing, public services, recreation, transportation, traffic,
and utilities. On November 12, 2015, the Public Works Commission held a public hearing to discuss the Draft PEIR, and
will reconvene for a second time for an additional opportunity
for public comment and review on Wednesday, December 9,
2015, at 7:30pm. The meeting will take place at the City of San
Mateo City Council Chambers, 330 W 20 th Ave, San Mateo,
CA 94403. Any comments may be submitted in writing by
agencies and the public until December 18, 2015 at the following address: Andrea Gardner, San Mateo City Hall, Public
Works Engineering PMO, 330 W 20th Avenue, San Mateo, CA
94403. Comments may also be faxed to (510) 622-9203, or
emailed to andrea.gardner@ch2m.com . Responses to comments will be prepared and issued by May 2016, when there
will be another opportunity for public comment and review before the item is brought to the San Mateo City Council for certification in the summer of 2016. A digital copy of the Draft PEIR
is available for download on the Clean Water Program website
at http://www.cleanwaterprogramsanmateo.org/ . Hard copies
are available for viewing at the following locations: City Hall,
330 W 20th Avenue; San Mateo Main Library, 55 W 3rd Avenue; San Mateo Marina Branch Library, 1530 Susan Court;
and San Mateo Waste Water Treatment Plant, 2050 Detroit
Drive.
12/6, 12/7/15
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Tundra

LOST PRESCRIPTION glasses (2

pairs). REWARD! 1 pair dark tinted bifocals, green flames in black case with red
zero & red arrow. 2nd pair clear lenses
bifocals. Green frames. Lost at Lucky
Chances Casino in Colma or Chilis in
San Bruno. (650)245-9061

294 Baby Stuff

210 Lost & Found

Tundra

23

MONOPOLY GAME, 1930's, $20, 650591-9769 San Carlos

RENO SILVER LEGACY Casino four
rare memorabilia items, casino key, two
coins, small charm. $95. (650)676-0974
SCHILLER HIPPIE poster, linen, Sparta
graphics 1968. Mint condition. $600.00.
(650)701-0276

THOMAS TRAINS, over 20 trains, lots of

track, water tower, bridge, tunnel.
$80/OBO. (650)345-1347
THOMAS/BRIO TRAIN table, $30/OBO.
Phone (650)345-1347

302 Antiques
ANTIQUE ITALIAN lamp 18 high, $70
(650)387-4002
ANTIQUE OAK Hamper (never used),
new condition. $55.00 OBO. Pls call
650-345-9036
BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE Victorian
Side Sewing Table, All original. Rosewood. Carved. EXCELLENT CONDITION! $350. (650)815-8999.
HAND DRILLS and several bits & old
hand plane. $40. (650)596-0513

STAR WARS C-3PO mint pair, green tint

(Japan), gold (U.S.) 4 action figures.
$99 650-518-6614

MAHOGANY ANTIQUE Secretary desk,

72 x 40 , 3 drawers, Display case, bevelled glass, $700. (650)766-3024

STAR Wars Hong Kong exclusive, mint

Pote Snitkin 4 green card action figure.
$25 650-518-6614

OLD COFFEE grinder with glass jar.

$40. (650)596-0513

STAR Wars Shadows FIVE 4 purple

card figures (Chewbacca, Dash, Leia,
Luke, Xizor). $50 650-518-6614
STAR WARS LANDO Calrissian 4 orange card action figure, autographed by
Billy Dee Williams. $60 Steve 650-5186614

OLD VINTAGE Wooden Sea Captains

Tool Chest 35 x 16 x 16, $65
(650)591-3313

DVD/CD Player remote never used in

box $45. (650)992-4544
ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITER good
condition $50., (650)878-9542
HOME THEATER system receiver KLH"
DVD/CD Player remote 6 spks. ex/con
$70. (650)992-4544
JVC EVERIO Camcorder, new in box
user guide accessories. $75/best offer.
(650)520-7045
KENWOOD STEREO receiver deck,with
CD Player rermote 4 spks. exc/con. $55.
(650)992-4544
LEFT-HAND ERGONOMIC keyboard
with 'A-shape' key layout Num pad, $20
(650)204-0587
MOTOROLA BRAVO MB 520 (android
4.1 upgrade) smart phone 35$ 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
OPTIMUS H36 ST5800 Tower Speaker
36x10x11 $30. (650)580-6324
PIONEER HOUSE Speakers, pair. 15
inch 3-way, black with screens. Work
great. $99.(650)243-8198
PORTABLE AC/DC Altec Lansing
speaker system for IPods/audio sources.
Great for travel. $15. 650-654-9252
SONY DHG-HDD250 DVR and programable remote.
Record OTA. Clock set issues $99 650595-8855
SONY PROJECTION TV 48" with remote good condition $99 (650)345-1111
VINTAGE G.E. radio, model c-430-a
$60. (650)421-5469

PAIR OF beautiful candalabras . Marble

and brass. $90. (650)697-7862

VINTAGE G.E. radio, model c-442c $60.

(650)421-5469

303 Electronics

VINTAGE G.E. radio, model c1470 $60.

(650)421-5469

46 MITSUBISHI Projector TV, great

condition. $400. (650)261-1541.

VINTAGE ZENITH radio, model L516b

$75. (650)421-5469

LEGAL NOTICES

Fictitious Business Name Statements,

Trustee Sale Notice, Name Change, Probate,
Notice of Adoption, Divorce Summons,
Notice of Public Sales and More.
Published in the Daily Journal for San Mateo County.

Fax your request to: 650-344-5290

Email them to: ads@smdailyjournal.com

NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Dell Server Purchase
The City of San Bruno is accepting bids, subject to the specifications and conditions as stated in Bid No. E16-1530-02. Bid
Packets are available at,
http://www.sanbruno.ca.gov//gov/city_departments/finance/bid
ding_opportunities.htm. Sealed bids must be submitted to the
San Bruno City Clerks Office, City Hall, 567 El Camino Real,
San Bruno 94066, by 3:00 p.m., Thursday, December 17,
2015, at which time they will be publicly opened and read.
Contact the Finance Department at 650-616-7034 to obtain a
copy of the bid documents or for more information.
/s/ Carol Bonner,
San Bruno City Clerk
December 4, 2015
Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, December 7 and
12, 2015.

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Monday Dec. 7, 2015

303 Electronics

304 Furniture

304 Furniture

304 Furniture

304 Furniture

308 Tools

VINTAGE ZENITH radio, model yrb-791 1948, $ 70. (650)421-5469

COMPUTER SWIVEL CHAIR. Padded

Leather. $80. (650) 455-3409

INFINITY FLOOR speakers H 38" x W

11 1/2" x D 10" good $50. (650)756-9516

304 Furniture

LAWN CHAIRS (4) White, plastic, $8.

each, (415)346-6038

WOOD FURNITURE- one end table and

coffee table. In good condition. $30
OBO. (760)996-0767.

CRAFTSMAN RADIAL Arm Saw Stand.

In box. $30. (650)245-7517

CUSTOM MADE wood sewing storage

cabinet perfect condition $75. (650)4831222

RATTAN SIX Drawer Brown Dresser;

Glass top and Mirror attachment;
5 ft long. $200. (650) 871-5524.
RECLINING SWIVEL chair almost new
$99 650-766-4858

WOOD WALL unit, 7 upper and lower

cabinets, 90" wide x 72" high. $99.
(650)347-6875

ANTIQUE DINING table for six people

with chairs $99. (650)580-6324
ANTIQUE MAHOGONY double bed with
adjustable steelframe $225.00. OBO.
(650)592-4529
ANTIQUE MOHAGANY Bookcase. Four
feet tall. $75. (415) 282-0966.

DINETTE TABLE with Chrome Legs: 36"

x58" (with one leaf 11 1/2") - $50.
(650)341-5347
DINING ROOM table Good Condition
$90.00 or best offer ( 650)-780-0193

BEIGE SOFA $99. Excellent Condition

(650) 315-2319

DINING/CONF. TABLE top. Clear glass

apprx. 54x36x3/8. Beveled edges &
corners. $50. 650-348-5718

BRASS / METAL ETAGERE 6.5 ft tall.

Rugs, Pictures, Mirrors. Four shelf. $200.
(650) 343-0631

DRUM TABLE - brown, perfect condition, nice design, with storage, $45.,
(650)345-1111

BROWN RECLINER, $75 Excellent Condition. (650) 315-2319

ESPRESSO TABLE 30 square, 40 tall,

$95 (650)375-8021
FREE 2 piece china cabinet. Pecan finish. Located in SSF. I'll email picture.
650-243-1461

BUREL TOP TABLES. Call for info

(650) 898-4245.
CHAIRS 2 Blue Good Condition $50
OBO (650)345-5644

LIGHT OAK Cabinet, 6 ft tall, 3 ft wide, 2

ft deep, door at the bottom. $150.
(650) 871-5524.

ROCKING CHAIR fine light, oak condition with pads, $85/OBO. 650 369 9762

LOVE SEAT, Upholstered pale yellow

floral $99. (650)574-4021

TABLE LAMP w/ hand painted rose design. $25.00 Pls call 650-345-9036

MAPLE COFFEE table. Excellent Condition $75.00 (650)593-1780

TABLE, HD. 2'x4'. pair of folding legs at

each end. Laminate top. Perfect.
$60.(650)591-4141

306 Housewares
BED SPREAD (queen size), flower design, never used. $22. Pls call
650-345-9036

FIREPLACE TOOLS Set, Black, brass

handles. Stoker, log mover, shovel,
brush, holder. $40. 650-654-9252.
HEAVY DUTY Mattock/Pick, Less Handle $5. (650)368-0748

TEAK-VENEER COMPUTER desk with

single drawer and stacked shelves. $30
obo. 650-465-2344

SOLID TEAK floor model 16 wine rack

with turntable $60. (650)592-7483

PULLEYS- FOUR 2-1/8 to 7 1/4" --all for

$16. 650 341-8342

OAK BOOKCASE, 30"x30" x12". $25.

(650)726-6429

TV STAND in great condition. 3'x 20"x

18", light grey. $20. (650)366-8168

OAK SIX SHELF Book Case 6FT 4FT

$55 (650)458-8280

TABLECLOTH, UNUSED in original box,

Royal Blue and white 47x47, great gift,
$10.00, (650) 578-9208.

UPHOLSTERED BROWN recliner , excellent condition. $99. (650)347-6875

SHOPSMITH MARK V 50th Anniversary

most
attachments.
$1,500/OBO.
(650)504-0585

308 Tools

VINTAGE LARGE Marble Coffee Table,

round. $75.(650)458-8280

VINTAGE CRAFTSMAN Jig Saw. Circa

1947. $60. (650)245-7517

BOSTITCH 16 gage Finish nailer Model

SB 664FN $99 (650)359-9269

WILLIAMS #1191 CHROME 2 1/16"

Combination "SuperRrench". Mint. $89.
650-218-7059.

MIRROR, SOLID OAK. 30" x 19 1/2",

curved edges; beautiful. $85.00 OBO.
Linda 650 366-2135.

CHILDS TABLE (Fisher Price) and Two

Chairs. Like New. $35. (650) 574-7743.

FULL SIZED mattress with metal type

frame $35. (650)580-6324

COFFEE TABLE @ end table Very nice

condition $80. 650 697 7862

FUTON COUCH into double bed, linens

D41"xW60"xH34" 415-509-8000 $99

OUTDOOR WOOD SCREEN - new $80

obo Retail $130 (650)873-8167

COMPUTER DESK $25 , drawer for keyboard, 40" x 19.5" (619)417-0465

GLASS TOP dining table w/ 6 chairs

$75. (415)265-3395

PAPASAN CHAIRS (2) -with cushions

$45. each set, (650)347-8061

TEAK CABINET 28"x32", used for stereo equipment $25. (650)726-6429

WALNUT CHEST, small (4 drawer with

upper bookcase $50. (650)726-6429
WHITE BOOKCASE :H 72" x W 30" x D
12" exc condition $30. (650)756-9516.
WHITE WICKER Shelf unit, adjustable.
Excellent condition. 5 ft by 2 ft. $50.
(650)315-6184

CHIPPER/SHREDDER 4.5 horsepower,

Craftsman $150 OBO. (650) 349-2963
CLICKER TORQUE Wrench, 20-150 lbs,
1/2", new, $25, 650-595-3933
CRAFTMAN RADIAL SAW, with cabinet
stand, $200 Cash Only, (650)851-1045

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

WOOD - wall Unit - 30" long x 6' tall x

17.5" deep. $90. (650)631-9311

CRAFTSMAN 3/4 horse power 3,450

RPM $60 (650)347-5373

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

WOOD BOOKCASE unit - good condition $65. (650)504-6058

CRAFTSMAN 9" Radial Arm Saw with 6"

dado set. No stand. $55 (650)341-6402

WOODEN MINI bar with 2 bar stools

$75. (415)265-3395

CRAFTSMAN JIGSAW 3.9 amp. with

variable speeds $65 (650)359-9269

DOWN
1 Reactions to
puppies and
kittens
2 Falls asleep from
exhaustion, in
slang
3 Pit crew worker
4 Scandal-plagued
energy company
5 Like EEE shoes
6 Needing no Rx
7 Carrots and
turnips
8 Bridal estate
9 Obsolescent
streetcorner
communication
device
10 Tinted
11 Give the cold
shoulder to
12 Take a break
from
13 Valentine symbols
18 Not odd
22 One in a human
pyramid
23 Mud bath site
24 Ordinary
28 Thats just
wrong
30 Takes shape
32 Tavern orders
34 Round Table
VIP: Abbr.

ELECTRIC MOTOR MIXER $450.

(650) 333-6275.

PRE-LIT 7 ft Christmas tree. Three sections, easy to assemble. $50. 650 349
2963.

MAPLE LAMP table with tiffany shade

$95.00 (650)593-1780

OAK WINE CABINET, beautiful, glass

front, 18 x 25 x 48 5 shelves, grooved
for bottles. 25-bottle capacity. $299.
(360)624-1898

ACROSS
1 Supplier of fake
tunnels to Wile E.
Coyote
5 Dictionary entry
9 Attempt to scam
using email
14 Small songbird
15 Am __ early?
16 Saul Bellows
The Adventures
of __ March
17 *One held above
criticism
19 Gossip spreader
20 What push may
come to
21 *Magicians
secret exit
23 1953 Alan Ladd
Western
24 Subject in which
Freud is studied,
briefly
25 Boring routine
26 Ballpoint, for
one
27 Goose egg
29 Popular
thesaurus
31 Most populous
continent
33 Sign offering
freebies
36 Day ender on
Wall Street ...
and, literally,
what each
answer to a
starred clue has
39 Hyundai sedan
40 Increase
dramatically
43 Bearded spring
blooms
46 List shortener, for
short
48 Carry a balance
49 Lions lair
50 Set ones sights
on
53 Caught with a
lasso
55 *Swanson frozen
meal
57 Closet pests
58 Made public
59 *Traditional
62 Blinding driving
hazard
63 Dam in a stream
64 Giggly Muppet
65 Night Moves
singer Bob
66 Ginger cookie
67 Rod companion

DEWALT DRILL/FLASHLIGHT Set $99

My Cell 650-537-1095. Will email pictures upon request.

35 Snowy bird
37 Poisonous
ornamental
38 Contract
ambiguity to
exploit
41 More than cool
42 VIP carpet color
43 Dog collar
attachments
44 Malign
45 Wearing
opposite-sex
clothing

47 Gator cousin
51 Cat calls
52 Over the
Rainbow
composer
Harold
54 Significant __
56 Able was __ ...:
palindrome
start
57 Dealership
sticker fig.
60 Day, in Spain
61 u r 2 funny!

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

NEW SHUR GRIP SZ327 Snow Cables

+ tentioners $25, 650-595-3933

WILLIAMS #40251, 4 PC. Tool Set

(Hose Remover, Cotter Puller, Awl, Scraper). Mint. $29. 650-218-7059.
WIZARD STAINED Glass Grinder, extra
bit, good condition, shield included,
$50. Jack @348-6310

310 Misc. For Sale

"MOTHER-IN-LAW TONGUES" plants,
3 in 5-gal cans. $10.00 each. 650/5937408.
8 TRACKS, billy Joel, Zeppelin, Eagles
,Commodores, more.40 @ $4 each , call
650-393-9908
ELECTRICAL CORD for Clothes
Dryer. New, $7.00. Call 650-345-9036
GAME "BEAT THE EXPERTS" never
used $8., (408)249-3858
HARLEY DAVIDSON black phone, perfect condition, $65., (650) 867-2720
INCUBATOR, $99, (650)678-5133
LIONEL CHRISTMAS Boxcars 2005,
2006, 2007 New OB $90 lot 650-3687537
LIONEL CHRISTMAS Holiday expansion Set. New OB $99 650-368-7537
LIONEL ENGINE #221 Rio Grande diesel, runs good ex-condition
$90.
(650)867-7433
LIONEL WESTERN Union Pass car and
dining car. New OB $99 650-368-7537
RMT CHRISTMAS Diesel train and Caboose. Rare. New OB $99 650-368-7537
SAMSONITE 26" tan hard-sided suit
case, lt. wt., wheels, used once/like new.
$60. 650-328-6709
STAR TREK VCR tape Colombia House,
Complete set 79 episodes $50
(650)355-2167
TASCO LUMINOVA Telescope.with tripod stand, And extra Lenses. Good condition.$90. call 650-591-2393
ULTRASONIC JEWELRY Cleaning Machine Cleans jewelry, eyeglasses, dentures, keys. Concentrate included. $30
OBO. (650)580-4763

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12/07/15

VASE WITH flowers 2 piece good for the

Holidays, $25., (650) 867-2720
VINTAGE WHITE Punch Bowl/Serving
Bowl Set with 10 cups plus one extra
$30. (650)873-8167

311 Musical Instruments

BALDWIN GRAND PIANO, 6 foot, excellent condition, $8,500/obo. Call
(510)784-2598
HAILUN PIANO for sale, brand new, excellent condition. $6,000. (650)308-5296
HAMMOND B-3 Organ and 122 Leslie
Speaker. Excellent condition. $8,500. private owner, (650)349-1172
MONARCH UPRIGHT player piano $99
(650) 583-4549

UPRIGHT PIANO. In tune. Fair condition. $300 OBO (650) 533-4886.

WURLITZER PIANO, console, 40 high,
light brown, good condition. $490.
(650)593-7001
YAMAHA PIANO, Upright, Model M-305,
$750. Call (650)572-2337

312 Pets & Animals

AIRLINE CARRIER for cats, pur. from
Southwest Airlines, $25, 2 available. Call
(505-228-1480) local.
BAMBOO BIRD Cage - very intricate design - 21"x15"x16". $50 (650)341-6402

By Debbie Ellerin
2015 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

12/07/15

FRENCH BULLDOG puppies. Many

colors.
AKC Registration. Call
(415)596-0538.

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312 Pets & Animals

317 Building Materials

318 Sports Equipment

ONE KENNEL Cab ll one Pet Taxi animal carriers 26x16. Excellent cond. $60..
650-593-2066

CULTURED MARBLE 2 tone BR vanity

counter top. New toe skin/ scribe. 29 x
19 $300 (408)744-1041

VINTAGE GOLF Set for $75 My Cell

650-537-1095. Will email pictures upon
request.

PARROT CAGE, Steel, Large - approx

4 ft by 4 ft, Excellent condition $300 best
offer. (650)245-4084
PET CARRIER, brown ,Very good condition, $15.00 medium zize leave txt or call
650 773-7201

315 Wanted to Buy

WE BUY

Gold, Silver, Platinum

Always True & Honest values

Millbrae Jewelers
Est. 1957

400 Broadway - Millbrae

650-697-2685

316 Clothes

INTERIOR DOORS, 8, free.

call 573-7381.

WET SUIT - medium size, $95., call for

info (650)851-0878

SHUTTERS 2 wooden shutters 32x72

like new $50.00 ea.call 650 368-7891

WOMEN'S LADY Cougar gold iron set

set - $25. (650)348-6955

WHITE DOUBLE pane window for $29

or Best offer. Call Halim @ (650) 6785133.

335 Rugs

WOODEN SHUTTERS 12x36" Six available. $20. (650)574-4439

345 Medical Equipment

318 Sports Equipment

ATOMIC SKI bag -- 215 cm. Lightly
used, great condition. $15. (650) 5730556.
BUCK TACTICAL folding knife, Masonic
logo, NEW $19, 650-595-3933
DELUXE OVER the door chin up bar; excellent shape; $10; 650-591-9769 San
Carlos

BLACK LEATHER belt, wide, non-slip,

43" middle hole, $2, 650-595-3933

G.I. ammo can, medium, good cond. $8.

Call (650) 591-4553, days only.

LEATHER JACKET, New Black Italian

style, size M Ladies $45 (650) 875-1708

GOLF BALLS-15 dozen. All Brands: Titeslist, Taylor Made, Callaway. $5 per
dozen. (650)345-3840.

LEATHER JACKET, New Dark Brown ,

Italian style, Size L $49 (650) 875-1708
MANS SUIT, perfect condition. Jacket
size 42, pants 32/32. Only $35. Call
650-345-9036
PARIS HILTON purse white & silver unused, about 12" long x 9" high $23. 650592-2648
SUNGLASSSES UNISEX TOMS Lobamba S007 w/ Tortoise Frames. Polarized lenses 100% UVA/UVB NEW
$65.(650)591-6596

ADULT DIAPERS, disposable, 10 bags,

20 diapers per bag, $10 each. (650)3420935
BATH CHAIR LIFT. Peterman battery
operated bath chair lift. Stainless steel
frame. Accepts up to 350lbs. Easily inserted I/O tub.$250 OBO.
(650) 739-6489.
BATH TRANSFER bench, back rest and
side arm, suction cups for the floor.
$75/obo. (650)757-0149
QUICKIE WHEELCHAIR - Removable
arms for transferring standard size.
$350.00. (650) 345-3017

GOLF CLUB, Superstick,this collapsible

single club adjusts to 1-9,$20,San Carlos
(650)591-9769

TRAVEL WHEEL chair Light weight travel w/carrying case. $300. (650)596-0513

GOLF CLUBS, 2 sets of $30 & $60.

(415)265-3395

Garage Sales

IN-GROUND BASKETBALL hoop, fiberglass backboard, adjustable height, $80

obo 650-364-1270
LADIES MCGREGOR Golf Clubs
Right handed with covers and pull cart
$150 o.b.o. (650)344-3104

VELVET DRAPE, 100% cotton, new

beautiful burgundy 82"X52" W/6"hems:
$45 (415)585-3622

LEAD FOR fishing sinkers: cleaned,

cast in small ingots, 20# for $10
(650)591-4553, days only.

VEST, BROWN Leather , Size 42 Regular, Like New, $25 (650) 875-1708

POWER PLUS Exercise Machine

(650)368-3037

VINTAGE 1970S Grecian made dress,

size 6-8, $35 (650)873-8167

SOCCER BALLS - $8.00 each (like new)

4 available. (650)341-5347

317 Building Materials

TREADMILL BY PRO-FORM. (Hardly

Used). 10% incline, 2.5 HP motor, 300lb
weight capacity. $329 (650)598-9804

32 PAVING/EDGING bricks, 12 x 5x1

Brown, smooth surface, good clean condition. $32. (650)588-1946 San Bruno

CARPET RUNNER, new, 30 inches,

bound on both sides, burgundy color, 30
lineal feet, $290. Call (650)579-0933.

$99

TWO SETS of 10lb barbell weights @

$10 each set. (650)593-0893

EXTERIOR BRASS lanterns 20" 2 NEW,

both $30. (650)574-4439

VINTAGE ENGLISH ladies ice skates up to size 7-8, $40., (650)873-8167

Carpets

Cleaning

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ESTATE SALES
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List your upcoming garage

sale, moving sale, estate
sale, yard sale, rummage
sale, clearance sale, or
whatever sale you have...
in the Daily Journal.
Reach over 76,500 readers
from South San Francisco
to Palo Alto.
in your local newspaper.

379 Open Houses

OPEN HOUSE
LISTINGS
List your Open House
in the Daily Journal.
Reach over 76,500
potential home buyers &
renters a day,
from South San Francisco
to Palo Alto.
in your local newspaper.
Call (650)344-5200

380 Real Estate Services

4 BEDROOM 3 BATH FOR SALE.
$495,000. Northgate section of Vallejo.
Call Piter C-21. (707) 815-3640.

HOMES & PROPERTIES

The San Mateo Daily Journals
weekly Real Estate Section.

Look for it
every Friday and Weekend
to find information on fine homes
and properties throughout
the local area.

440 Apartments
STUDIO APT. One Person Only. Belmont. $1800 a month. Call Between 8am
- 6pm. (650) 508-0946. Leave Message

470 Rooms
HIP HOUSING
Non-Profit Home Sharing Program
San Mateo County
(650)348-6660

620 Automobiles
CHEVY 10 HHR . 68K. EXCELLENT
CONDITION. $8888. (650)274-8284.

620 Automobiles

630 Trucks & SUVs

AA SMOG

Complete Repair& Service

$29.75 plus certificate fee
869 California Drive .
Burlingame

(650) 340-0492

640 Motorcycles/Scooters
BMW 03 F650 GS, $3899 OBO. Call
650-995-0003

MOTORCYCLE SADDLEBAGS, with

mounting hardware and other parts $35.
Call (650)670-2888

Sell your vehicle in the

Daily Journals
Auto Classifieds.
Just $42!
Well run it
til you sell it!

670 Auto Service

MENLO ATHERTON
AUTO REPAIR
WE SMOG ALL CARS
1279 El Camino Real

Menlo Park

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TIGERS
Continued from page 11
when Notre Dame seemed to be a team on a
mission, only to fall, on their home court, one
game shy of a trip to the state finals. Their
response this season was to make certain
everyone in their postseason path knew, in no
uncertain terms, the 2015 state title was their
destiny.
They did it; they accomplished it, Agresti
said. Im really proud of them.
The manner in which Notre Dame (32-10)
went about its business in Saturdays commanding 25-14, 25-18, 25-19 victory wasnt unlike
the players reserved postgame celebration.
Like quiet assassins, the Tigers meticulously
took out their opponents by focusing their
intensity into the precision of one of their
finest all-around performances of the year.
Junior outside hitter Katie Smoot opened the
match with a commanding show in Game 1. En
route to totaling a match-high 20 kills, the
power-wielding left-side smasher scored eight
kills with a .429 hitting percentage in the opening set. As she cooled ever so briefly in the
opening portion of Game 2, her junior counterpart Tammy Byrne emerged to shoulder the left
side, hitting .625 in the set en route to 14 match
kills. Senior Jess Beering played a steadily
explosive middle to total 10 match kills.
But it was the defense of libero Katarina
Warburton that exemplified the Tigers mission.
One of four seniors on the Notre Dame roster, Warburton said she had a talk with Byrne
heading into Game 3. Knowing she was on the
verge of playing the final set of her Notre
Dame career, the four-year varsity player
resolved to leave it all on the floor.
She did, quite literally. Credited with 14 digs,
Warburton putting on a show with one diving dig more acrobatic than the last refused
to let anything touch the floor, notching eight
of her digs in the final set.
It felt kind of surreal, Warburton said. I
dont know how to feel about it. Its the last
game Im going to play and now that its over

TERRY BERNAL/DAILY JOURNAL

Left: Tigers junior Katie Smoot fires one of her 20

match kills in Saturdays CIF Division IV state
championship game at Santiago Canyon College.
Above: Senior libero Katarina Warburton puts on a
show with14 digs in her final high school match.
I can kind of take it all it. I am just so proud
and proud of our team.
Game 1 couldnt have started any better for
the Tigers, as they opened with a four-point
run. According to Smoot, however, who tabbed
the first three kills of the match amid the fast
start, the run was one point shy of the way
Notre Dame envisioned the match starting.
Were just focused on getting five points at
the beginning of every set, Smoot said. So,
I would say [thats how we saw it starting].
Each of Smoots first three kills were on
finesse shots, but she soon brought the firepower that has forced so many defenders onto
their heels throughout the season. Her fourth
kill was a crusher off middle to give Notre
Dame a 5-3 lead. Opposite Mavis Lui and
Beering added kills to keep the two-point margin in tact at 8-6 and 9-7, respectively.
Then the Tigers defense wrestled Laguna
Blanca into submission with two wildly scrappy saves. Smoot produced the first one with a
seemingly hopeless one-handed dig as she ran
down a ball near the referees platform, but

somehow got a sideways pass to setter Kristine

Gese, who bump set Lui, who in turn slapped it
over the right side; and Laguna Blanca couldnt
return the ball, giving the Tigers a 17-11 lead.
Notre Dame D-ed up again to force set
point, when defensive specialist Giana Susa

BEARS
Continued from page 13
front row showed its defensive digging ability
to be on par with its offense.
They were just a super scrappy team,
Grover said. We played hard, but they were
really good.
Redondo Union even got two dogpiles out
of the closing minutes. At match point, an
apparent finisher was negated on a tacit
Redondo Union net violation. The soon-tobe- champs didnt see the referees signal, and

wrestled a wicked serve receive, distributed to

Beering who provided a one-hand bump set for
Smoot to execute her eighth kill of the set.
Beering closed out Game 1 with a right-side
kill to cap a three-point service run by Byrne.
Game 2 saw Smoot start in the back row,
though she proved her six-rotation mettle with
13 match digs. And after four early ties, the last
at 6-6, Byrne roasted her first of five kills in
the set to give Notre Dame the lead for good.
Byrnes attempt was set up by a tremendous
defensive effort by defensive specialist Giana
Susa, as the junior produced a scrappy serve
receive and, on the ensuing volley, a monster
dig to prolong the rally.
Laguna Blanca closed the lead to 16-13, but
following a Notre Dame timeout, the Tigers rallied for three straight points. Smoot forced set
point with one of her three match aces, before
a Laguna Blanca error gave the Tigers a 2-0 lead
in the match.
Game 3 drew up similarly, with Notre Dame
senior Mele Fakatene serving up an ace to give
her team the lead for good at 7-6. The match
ended on Smoots 20th kill.
Notre Dame playing its final season in
the West Catholic Athletic League this year
was one of three teams representing the WCAL
at the state finals.
We knew once we got here to state, it would
be another game, Byrne said. Mitty, Valley
Christian theyre all here too. So we were
ready for it.
reacted to the ball falling on M-As side, causing Redondo Union to storm the court.
On the following point, however, Rice gave
Redondo Union its second straight state title
by pivoting inside off the right side for a deadly kill, setting off the official celebration.
It was a season of celebrations for M-A as
well. Not only did the Bears win the first Nor
Cal title in program history, they ran the table
in Central Coast Section play with a
Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division
championship and a CCS Division I title;
each were their second straight.
The top goal was to do better than we did
last season, DiSanto said. We won the PAL
championship, we won CCS, we won Nor Cal.
That topped it all off.