SEPTEMBER 11: NOW AND THEN

CONTROVERSIES CAST SHADOW OVER 9/11; OBAMA SAYS

BIN LADEN STILL PURSUED NATION PAGE 5
RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF TRAGEDY: GUEST PERSPECTIVE
BY ASSEMBLYMAN JERRY HILL OPINION PAGE 9

Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010 • Vol XI, Edition 21 www.smdailyjournal.com

The aftermath
Where to find help
Red Cross Hotline,(888) 443-5722
***
Register with the American Red Cross Safe and
Well program to let family and friends know
you are safe or to locate others.To register visit
safeandwell.communityos.org/cms or call
616-7180.
***
Red Cross receiving center,Church of the
Highlands,1900 Monterey Drive.
***
PHS/SPCA is offering temporary shelter,pet
food and supplies for displaced animals.Two
humane officers are stations at the Red Cross
trailer at 251 City Park Way.The emergency
veterinary clinic closest to San Bruno is at 227
N.Amphlett Blvd.and can be reached at 348-
2575.
***
Affected residents are asked to contact their
insurers as soon as possible with a list of dam-
aged or destroyed party and current contact
information.Farmers Insurance mobile claims
vehicles are expected to arrive Saturday morn-
ing and will provide phones and laptops for
victims to use,as well as water,food and sup-
plies for customers and non-customers.
Farmers Insurance customers should call the
company’s 24-hour claims hotline at (800)
435-7764.Spanish speakers can call (877) 732-
5266.
Foremost Insurance customers can call (800)
527-3907 and 21st Century Insurance cus-
tomers can call (888) 244-6163. State Farm
Insurance holders should call (800) SF-CLAIM.
***
Disaster victims should call the California De-
partment of Insurance Consumer Hotline at
(800) 927-HELP (4357) for questions about in-
surance coverage and living expense
reimbursement during the evacuation period.
***
Extensions for filing,audits,billing notices,as-
sessments and relief from subsequent
penalties are available for those individuals
and/or businesses impacted by the explosion
and resulting fire in the City of San Bruno,an-
nounced Betty T.Yee,chairwoman of the State
Board of Equalization Friday.
Emergency relief for taxpayers and fee payers
may include extensions for filing returns or to
make payments,relief of interest and penal-
ties,and expediting copies of BOE tax records.
Any taxpayer or fee payer who,as a result of
the explosion or fire,cannot meet tax filing REUTERS
and payment deadlines may apply.The BOE
may also extend these relief provisions to in- Firefighters spray water on the remains of a house as smoke rises from the aftermath of Thursday’s fiery gas-line explosion in a San Bruno neighborhood.
clude delays caused by disruption of the

Fire investigation underway

normal activities of the U.S.Postal Service or
other private mail and freight companies,ac-
cording to Yee’s office.
For More Information visit the BOE website:
www.boe.ca.gov or call the BOE Taxpayer In-
formation Call Center at (800) 400-7115.
TDD/TTY service is available at (800) 735-2929.
BOE representatives are available to assist tax
and fee payers Monday through Friday (ex-
cept state holidays) from 8 a.m.to 5 p.m.
***
The State Bar Association of California is coor-
dinating legal services for potential victims.
Rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting clients at
an accident scene,at a hospital or on the way
to a hospital; seeking clients who,because of
their physical,emotional or mental state,are
unable to exercise reasonable judgment; seek-
ing employment by mail unless the letter and
envelope are clearly labeled as an advertise-
ment.
For more information,the association can be
reached at (800) 843-9053 to obtain the
names of certified lawyer referral services or to
report lawyer solicitation.
***
San Bruno residents affected by the fire can
pick up their mail at the San Bruno Main Post
Office,located at 1300 Huntington Ave.,San
Bruno.Residents whose homes may not have
been destroyed,but are unable to reach their
home may also pick up their mail at the San
Bruno Post Office,according to the U.S.Postal
Service.
Mail delivery to areas of San Bruno unaffected
by the fire will continue as scheduled.Cus-
tomers with questions about mail delivery
may call the San Bruno Post Office at (650)
952-2901.
Customers who may be affected long term
have the option of setting up either a tempo-
rary change of address or renting a P.O.Box.
P.O.Box availability and pricing can be
checked by visiting usps.com or by calling
(800) ask-usps ((800) 275-8777).
The San Bruno Post Office is open Monday-
Friday from 8:30 a.m.to 5 p.m.,Saturday 9 a.m.
See HELP, Page 23
By Michelle Durand
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
As the San Bruno community
wonders how it will put its life back
together after Thursday night’s
deadly explosion and fire, officials
are beginning to demand answers on
what caused the neighborhood near
Crestmoor Canyon to blow apart.
“We need to know why this hap-
pened and how it happened and
make sure it never happens again,”
said Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, who
is acting governor while Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is overseas.
Christopher Hart, National
Transportation Safety Board vice
president, had limited information
on the cause at a Friday evening
press conference but promised to
look at every aspect of the natural
gas pipeline itself and the employ-
ees in charge of its operation.
The eight-member investigative
team will assess those workers for
training, alcohol use and what they
were doing in the hours before the
explosion at 6:02 p.m., Hart said.
The NTSB will not determine
Status of homes
Destroyed homes:
Glenview:970,971,981,991,1100,
1110,1115,1121,1127
Earl:1701,1711,1721
Claremont:1621,1631,1641,1642,
1645,1646,1650,1651,1655,1660,
1661,1670,1680,1690,1700,1701,1710
Fairmont:1101,1106,1110,1115,1121
Concord:2731,2735,2741
Major damage:
Glenview:960
Claremont:1636
Minor damage: DIANA CLOCK/DAILY JOURNAL
Fairmont:1120,1127
Home Depot employee Maria Jacinto helps collect donations at the
Glenview:1127 Red Cross emergency shelter site at San Bruno City Park on Friday.
Claremont:1720,1721
Earl:1731
Outpouring of support
probable cause or assign blame By Heather Murtagh clearly showing a tremendous
while on scene but will issue a
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF community support to help those
report in 14 to 18 months and make affected by the massive fire
recommendations if safety concerns
Boxes upon boxes of food, Thursday night in San Bruno.
are found. water and clothing were separated, “Do you need anything?” was
A ruptured 30-inch steel gas line volunteers showed up en masse commonly heard around the recre-
caused the explosion but some offi- and blood banks were turning
away prospective donors Friday See SUPPORT, Page 23
See FIRE, Page 18
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Quote of the Day Snapshot Inside

“It’s a rally of ‘I’m
remembrance for tens Still Here’
of thousands who lost Self-indulgent
and pointless
loved ones that day. ... It’s not a
political event,it’s a human rights event.” See page 21
— Pamela Geller,a conservative blogger
“Controversies cast shadow over 9/11,” see page 5

Local Weather Forecast

Saturday: Areas of low clouds and fog in Wall Street
the morning then sunny. Highs in the upper
50s to lower 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 Stocks continue
mph. September rally;
Saturday night: Clear in the evening then Dow gains again
patchy low clouds. Lows in the upper 40s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph. See page 10
Sunday: Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the 50s to upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10
mph.
Sunday night: Clear in the evening then widespread low REUTERS
clouds and fog. Lows around 50. Southwest winds 5 to 10 A bird flies past a couple sitting on the beach in Rehoboth,Del.
mph.

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No retrial for convicted molester
By Michelle Durand
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Prosecutors decided not to retry a former
Pacifica man on 118 molestation charges after
he agreed not to appeal nine other convictions
and to a 36- to 42-year prison sentence.
Dedy Idris, 65, waived all appellate issues
involving jury misconduct Friday as part of a
sentencing agreement with the prosecution in
which it dismissed the count for which a jury
could not reach an unanimous decision, said
defense attorney Steve Chase.
The stiff sentence at Idris’ age essentially
guarantees him a life term so seeking more
convictions is a moot point, said Chief Deputy
District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
“That is justice for the evil he perpetuated
on these young victims,” Wagstaffe said.
The amount of time imposed was a key fac-
Police chief accepts blame for not finding body
By Terry Collins
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OAKLAND — A Northern California
police chief accepted blame Friday for his
officers’ failure to quickly find a second dead
body hidden in a home where a 73-year-man
was discovered fatally beaten two weeks ago.
Hercules police Chief Fred Deltorchio said
he was disappointed that it took until
Thursday to discover the unidentified male
body heavily wrapped in three layers of plas-
tic and a carpet behind a fake wall in a J-
LOCAL
tor for whether prosecu-
tors would seek a retrial.
The trial came 17 years
after prosecutors say Idris
molested four girls
between January 1988 and
July 1993 while living in
his friends’ Pacifica home.
The girls were friends of
the couple’s young daugh-
Dedy Idris ter. After Pacifica police
began investigating Idris,
he fled to his native Indonesia. The United
States has no extradition treaty with the coun-
try so after agreeing to surrender to the FBI,
he flew to Guam where he was arrested and
returned in September 2008.
During trial, Chase argued the now-adult
alleged victims had no corroborating evi-
dence.
shaped closet under some stairs.
The body was sealed so tightly that no
smells could escape, he said.
“To search a house and not find a body is
disappointing. And unacceptable,” Deltorchio
said. “The bottom line is it is my responsibil-
ity more than anybody else because I’m over-
seeing their actions.”
An autopsy was under way to determine if
the body was that of Frederick Sales, 35, who
has been missing since his father Ricardo
Sales was found bludgeoned to death in his
bed in the home on Aug. 27.
Jurors deliberated seven days before
announcing they were helplessly deadlocked
11-1 in favor of guilt on the majority of
charges. Two days prior, the jury had returned
verdicts of guilty on nine charges of felony
lewd acts with a child by force or threat and
one count of lewd and lascivious behavior. A
remaining count was dismissed after jurors
returned both guilty and not guilty forms.
Judge Jack Grandsaert declared a mistrial
July 14 and prosecutors since held they were
ready to retry Idris but waiting to see what
sentence the judge was considering.
Idris will be sentenced Oct. 22.
He remains in custody in lieu of $3 million repeatedly harassed his wife when she left her
bail.
Michelle Durand can be reached by e-mail:
michelle@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650) Suspicious person. A man was sent on his
344-5200 ext. 102.
Deltorchio said he was certain that Efren
Valdemoro was behind the deaths of Sales and
the person whose body was found Thursday.
Authorities said Valdemoro killed his girl-
friend Cindy Tran, 46, who owned and lived
in the Hercules home where the father and son
stayed as housemates.
Valdemoro, 38, was shot and killed by
California Highway Patrol officers following
a high-speed chase in Tran’s car in Richmond
on Aug. 31. Valdemoro strangled Tran, whose
body was found in the car after the chase, the
CHP said.
Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010 3
Police reports
Reasons not to call police
A 9-year-old boy didn’t want to go to school
because he didn’t do his homework on the
200 block of Palm Avenue in Millbrae
before 8:45 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 9.
MILLBRAE
Hit and run. An unidentified parent left a note
for a homeowner after their car rolled away
from a school parking lot, crossed a street,
over a lawn, sideswiped a house, hit a tree and
struck a parked car on the 1100 block of Helen
Drive before 1:12 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9.
Meet the citizen. A husband reported that men
graveyard shift at a McDonald’s at the corner
of Center Street and El Camino Real before
9:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9.
way after he attempted to set up camp in an
alley following an argument with his parents
on the 100 block of Hazel Avenue before
10;03 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9.
BURLINGAME
Welfare check. An elderly woman with a
bleeding gash on her forehead was wandering
around disoriented on the 700 block of Paloma
Avenue before 8:18 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 9.
Disturbance. Someone wanted to file a com-
plaint of both noise and air pollution against a
resident with a gas-powered generator on the
1400 block of Balboa Avenue before 8:31 a.m.
Thursday, Sept. 9.
Suspicious person. A man in a surgical mask
was kicking items around a parking lot on the
1800 block of El Camino Real before 3:27
a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7.
4 Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010
Ex-DEA: Obama sued over
immigration,why not pot?
By Matt Apuzzo
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President
Barack Obama sued to keep Arizona
from writing its own immigration
laws. Now, every former Drug
Enforcement Administration boss is
asking whether he’ll do the same to
stop California from legalizing mari-
juana.
In a letter to Attorney General Eric
Holder, all nine former DEA admin-
istrators said legalizing pot presented
the same threat to federal authority as
Arizona’s immigration crackdown.
The letter raises questions about
when the federal government should
wade into debates over state laws.
While Obama has made immigration
an important issue for his administra-
tion, steering the debate over legaliz-
ing marijuana has not been a focus of
his agenda.
Proposition 19, on the November
ballot in California, would allow
adults to possess up to one ounce of
Bridget ‘Bea’Warnock
Bridget “Bea” Warnock, born
Aug. 16, 1921, died in her home of
55 years in San Mateo Aug. 20,
2010.
Bea was one of nine children
born on a farm in Schefield, N.D.
She moved to San Francisco where
she met and married the love of her
life, Robert Warnock, in 1945.
They moved to a great neighbor-
hood on Poinsettia Avenue in San
Mateo in 1954 where they raised
four children: Gary Warnock of
San Mateo, Laura Kozier of
Sacramento, Dan Warnock of
Anchorage and Bill Warnock of
marijuana. Local
governments
would be allowed
to tax its sales.
Obama’s drug
czar, Gil
Kerlikowske, has
said he opposes
the measure, but
Barack Obama the former DEA
administrators in
Democratic and Republican adminis-
trations say the Justice Department
should forcefully come out against it
before the election. And if it passes,
the former administrators say,
Obama should sue.
Before Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
signed a tough immigration law in
April, Obama called it misguided. In
July, the administration sued the
state, saying only the federal govern-
ment can set immigration policy. The
lawsuit cited the Constitution’s
Supremacy Clause, which says that
when state and federal laws are at
odds, federal law prevails.
Obituary
San Mateo. They had three grand-
children, Mark, Laura and Carl,
and an abundance of wonderful
friends and relatives. She was pre-
ceded in death by her husband in
1987.
Bea was truly loved and will be
deeply missed. Remembrances hon-
oring her may be made to the
Peninsula Stroke Association, 3801
Miranda Ave. Building 6, Room
A162, Palo Alto 94304. A celebra-
tion of life reception will be held
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday,
Sept. 25 at Central Park Recreation
Center in San Mateo.
LOCAL/STATE
A bit of live history
Victorian Day activities has reenactment of notorious case
By Heather Murtagh
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Ladies donning hats and gloves and
gentlemen in suits gathered in his-
toric Courthouse A in Redwood City
Thursday evening.
It’s a social gathering of sorts.
While everyone is actually playing a
part, they are depicting “The Strange
Case of Constance Flood,” one of the
best-known cases to ever be heard in
the room which now sits inside the
San Mateo County History Museum.
In 1931, Judge George Buck oversaw
the strange inheritance case in a
packed courthouse. On Sunday, vol-
unteers will reenact the case in the
play adapted by Joan Levy from the
book of the same name by reporter
Willa Okker Iverson, who covered
the trial for the United Press. It’s all
part of the history museum’s annual
Victorian Day activities.
The afternoon of free activities
includes family-friendly crafts, his-
torical exhibits and the live perform-
ance.
Although the case was not during
the Victorian age, it does have
Victorian roots. A little girl named
Constance lived with millionaire
James Flood and his first wife Rose in
the 1890s. When Rose died, Flood
married her younger sister Maud, at
which point Constance seemed to
disappear. No one heard from
Constance again until Flood died in
1926 and Constance came forward to
claim a daughter’s share of the inher-
itance.
Flood’s estate was worth $18 mil-
lion, which would be about $180 mil-
lion today. As a result, the case was
the talk of, well, most towns.
Former Superior Court Judge
Quentin Kopp, playing Buck, noted
Volunteer Gloria Sweatt,left,is questioned as a witness by another volunteer
during‘The Curious Case of Constance Flood,’a play that will be put on twice
Sunday during the Victorian Days at the San Mateo County History Museum.
lawyers wouldn’t be allowed to be so
close while questioning witnesses
during Thursday’s practice. Those in
attendance laughed as Kopp inquired
as to if he could give such a warning
to lawyers during the performance.
Those performing are volunteering
their time and enjoying the characters
being portrayed.
For John Edmonds, the role of
bailiff isn’t too far off. He was a
bailiff in that courthouse at one time.
As a result, he is a pro at swearing
people in and walking them to the
witness stand. Knowing that, he’s
been asked by people to participate in
the performances from time to time.
Mike Casey, on the other hand, is a
recently retired teacher who happens
to know many of the people who run
the museum. He’s traditionally
played mostly villains, but this
Sunday is portraying Maxwell
McNutt, who fought for the lost little
girl’s cause.
Gloria Sweatt, donning a black
drop waist dress and hat with veil,
took the stand to give testimony about
THE DAILY JOURNAL
HEATHER MURTAGH/DAILY JOURNAL
the Flood case with much personality.
A volunteer for the museum, and
sometimes a docent, Sweatt enjoys
performing.
What happens won’t be revealed
here, but there are two performances
on Sunday.
In addition, the museum will offer
activities from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
including creating a Victorian hat or
designing a stained glass window in
the Grand Rotunda; learning about
the local cities’ history from represen-
tatives upstairs; exploring the Living
the California Dream exhibit; and
considering keepsakes like a minia-
ture Victorian tea set or earrings made
from silver spoons.
Victorian Days in the Museum is
scheduled for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 12 at the San Mateo
County History Museum, 2200
Broadway in Redwood City. The
event is free. There will be two per-
formances of “The Strange Case of
Constance Flood” at 12:30 p.m. and
3 p.m. in Courtroom A.
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Left:Demonstrators who support and oppose a proposed Muslim cultural center and mosque Park51 stand with signs in front of the site in New York.
Right:Rescue workers carry fatally injured New York City Fire Department Chaplain,Father Mychal Judge,from the World Trade Center towers in 2001.
Controversies cast shadow over 9/11
By Beth Fouhy
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — They will read
the names, of course, the names of
every victim who died in the Sept.
11 attacks. The bells will ring. And
then that moment of unity will give
way to division as activists hoist
signs and march, some for and some
against a planned mosque two
blocks from ground zero.
This 9/11 is more political and
contentious than the eight before it,
with grieving family members on
opposite sides of the mosque battle.
Obama: Bin Laden still pursued, ‘deep underground’
By Lolita C. Baldor
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Nine years
after the Sept. 11 attacks, President
Barack Obama said the U.S. has
forced Osama bin Laden “deep
underground” but Americans will
face an expanded terror threat for
years to come from other al-Qaida
extremists “willing to die to kill
The debate became so heated that
President Barack Obama felt the
need to remind Americans: “We are
not at war against Islam.”
It was uncertain Friday whether
hushed tones would replace the
harsh rhetoric that threatened to
overshadow the commemoration of
the terrorist attacks that killed near-
ly 3,000 people in New York,
Washington and Shanksville, Pa.
The son of an anti-Muslim pastor
in Florida confirmed that his father
would not — at least for now —
burn copies of the Quran, a plan that
inflamed much of the Muslim world
other people.”
The govern-
ment is no less
determined to
kill or capture
the 9/11 archi-
tect, he said. But
the nation must
remember the
Osama fight is with al-
Qaida terrorists,
bin Laden
NATION
and drew a stern rebuke from
Obama. But Terry Jones got on a
plane and was headed to New York
on Friday night, said an associate,
K.A. Paul. Jones has said he wants
to meet with the imam behind the
proposed mosque.
Activists in New York insisted
their intentions were peaceful.
“It’s a rally of remembrance for
tens of thousands who lost loved
ones that day,” said Pamela Geller, a
conservative blogger and host of the
anti-mosque demonstration. “It’s
not a political event, it’s a human
rights event.”
not the much wider world of people
of Muslim faith.
On the eve of the ninth anniver-
sary of the 2001 attacks, a day mag-
nified by heightened tensions over a
planned mosque near ground zero
and a Florida pastor’s threat to burn
Qurans, Obama sought on Friday to
reinforce the nation’s founding
belief of religious tolerance.
Saturday, he said, should be a day
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REUTERS FILE PHOTOS
The site of the proposed mosque
and Islamic center is already used
for services, but it was padlocked
Friday, closed until Sunday. Police
guarded the block, and worshippers
were redirected to a different prayer
room 10 blocks away.
More than 2,000 supporters of the
project, waving candles and
American flags, held a vigil near the
proposed Islamic center’s site
Friday evening instead of Saturday,
saying they wanted to avoid entan-
gling the mosque controversy and
See SHADOW, Page 31
not only to mourn but to show that
“we are not at war against Islam.
We’re at war against terrorist organ-
izations that have distorted Islam or
falsely used the banner of Islam to
engage in their destructive acts.”
Speaking to reporters in the White
House East Room, Obama was
blunt about the enduring terror
threat that has gripped the nation
since al-Qaida terrorists slammed
5
First Medal of
Honor for living
Afghan war vet
By Michael J. Crumb
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DES MOINES, Iowa — A 25-
year-old soldier from Iowa who
exposed himself
to enemy gunfire
to try to save two
fellow soldiers
will become the
first living serv-
ice member
from the wars in
Afghanistan and
Iraq to receive
Salvatore
the Medal of
Honor, the
Giunta
White House announced Friday.
President Barack Obama phoned
Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta,
on Thursday at the base in Italy
where he’s stationed to tell him he’d
be receiving the nation’s highest
military honor, Giunta’s father told
the Associated Press. He will
become the eighth service member
to receive the Medal of Honor dur-
ing operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan. The seven previous
medals were awarded posthumous-
ly.
“It’s bittersweet for us,” said
Steven Giunta, of Hiawatha. “We’re
very proud of Sal. We can’t mention
See HONOR, Page 31
planes into New York’s World Trade
Center towers, the Pentagon in sub-
urban Virginia and the central
Pennsylvania countryside.
“It’s just a reality of today’s world
that there are going to be threats out
there,” Obama said. “I think, ulti-
mately, we are going to be able to
stamp it out. But it, it’s going to take
some time.”
See OSAMA, Page 31
6 Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010
G
oing grocery shopping
Tuesday, Sept. 14? The
Whole Foods Market at
Jefferson and El Camino Real in
Redwood City is donating 5 percent of
all sales that day to the Redwood City
Education Foundation’s “Save Our
School Music” campaign.
The RCEF supports all 9,000 stu-
dents in the Redwood City
Elementary School District; the
music campaign supports instrumental
music instruction in grades sixth
through eighth. Current and former
Redwood City Elementary School
District music students will be per-
forming from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Redwood City’s public schools also
benefit from Whole Foods Market’s
“Nickels for Non-Profits,” a communi-
ty giving program that features a dif-
ferent local nonprofit every three
months. Whenever a customer reuses a
shopping bag, Whole Foods donates a
nickel to that nonprofit. Redwood
City’s public schools will be the bene-
ficiary of this program from Sept. 3
through Jan. 16, 2011. The goal of the
program is to reduce the use of new
bags while increasing funding for the
organization.
For more information about the
RCEF visit www.rcef.org.
***
The 2010 Art Faculty Exhibition at
the Skyline College Gallery will run
through Oct. 8 featuring works by art
faculty, including Aya Artola, Paul
Bridenbaugh, Noah Buchanan, Ilana
Crispi, Eileen David, Diane Jones,
Jody Keane, David Kerr, Ellen
Lowenstein, Michael Pauker,
Michael Ryan, Tiffany Schmierer,
Laura Siegel, Arthur Takayama and
Ann Turner. An opening reception
will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30
p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16 at Skyline
College’s Gallery, located on the
ground floor of building 1 on campus
at 3300 College Drive in San Bruno.
Visitors to the Skyline campus may
park in visitor lots D or M, which offer
pay-by-space meter parking.
Admission is free. The gallery is open
11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays, 10 a.m. to
7 p.m. Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
LOCAL/STATE
Thursdays, and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Fridays. For more information visit
www.smccd.edu/accounts/skygallery/
or call 738-4294.
***
A variety of service providers will be
on-hand to help veterans when Cañada
College hosts its first Veterans
Resource Fair and Welcome Back
Barbecue from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 23 in the main quad on
campus, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd. in
Redwood City.
This event is designed for veterans
and their families. The American
Legion will prepare a barbecue, there
will be activities for children and rep-
resentatives from various college
departments, student clubs, and veter-
ans service organizations will be avail-
able to answer questions. The Vietnam
Veterans of America, American
Legion, Disabled American Veterans,
Next Step Employment Center and
AmVets will attend and the Veterans
Administration will have its mobile
Vet Center on campus to enroll veter-
ans during the event.
For more information contact Edith
Flores, veterans certifying official, at
306-3123.
Class notes is a twice weekly column dedi-
cated to school news. It is compiled by edu-
cation reporter Heather Murtagh. You can
contact her at (650) 344-5200, ext. 105 or
at heather@smdailyjournal.com.
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Around the state
Suit alleges schools charging illegal fees
LOS ANGELES — The American Civil Liberties Union
said in a lawsuit filed Friday that California’s cash-strapped
school districts have been charging student fees that violate the
state constitutional guarantee to a free public education.
The civil liberties organization is seeking class-action status
for the suit, which accuses dozens of school districts statewide
of charging for textbooks, uniforms and extracurricular activi-
ties.
Mark Rosenbaum, chief council of the ACLU of Southern
California, said at a press conference announcing the lawsuit
that an investigation by his group found some 50 districts that
mention allegedly illegal fees on their websites, but that there
are likely more that do so.
Schwarzenegger, Palin trade Twitter jabs
SACRAMENTO — Flying over Alaska on his way to Asia,
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t help but take
a light-hearted jab at the state’s former governor that started a
140-character war of words with his fellow Republican on
Friday.
“Over Anchorage, AK. Looking everywhere but can’t see
Russia from here. Will keep you updated as search continues,”
Schwarzenegger tweeted as he began a weeklong trade mission
to China, Japan and South Korea on Thursday. He sent along a
photo of himself gazing out the window of his jet.
THE DAILY JOURNAL FAMILY RESOURCES Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010 7

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8 Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010
COUNTY
GOVERNMENT
• The Board of
Supervisors is sched-
uled to adopt a resolu-
tion increasing the
number of members
on the San Mateo
County Exposition and Fair Association’s
Board of Directors. The agreement increases
the board from seven to nine members with at
least one director from the agriculture commu-
nity.
The Board of Supervisors meets 9 a.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 14 in Board Chambers, 400
County Government Center, Redwood City.
CITY GOVERNMENT
• The Redwood City Council is scheduled
to sell property at 3272 Rolison Road to the
San Mateo County Service League on an “as
is” basis with a minimum bid of $170,000 plus
closing costs. The league will be required to
operate it for 55 years for affordable housing
LOCAL/NATION
purposes. The city purchased it for $54,741.46
in 1995 to rehabilitate a low-income multi-
family complex. The property is currently
occupied by seven households and nets
approximately $25,000 in income after operat-
ing expenses. The city did not previously sell
the land because of the unfavorable neighbor-
hood and economic climate. The city is doing
so now to avoid a federal requirement it repay
the funds used for its ongoing operation.
In a letter to the City Council, Service
League Executive Director Mike Nevin said
the Rolison Road property would be an excel-
lent fit “especially to support family reunifica-
tion.”
The council will also hold a public hearing
on creation of a special financial district for
public infrastructure improvements incidental
to the One Marina Project. No protests have
been filed by property owners, as there is only
one who has petitioned the city to create the
district.
The City Council meets 7 p.m. Monday,
Sept. 13 at City Hall, 1017 Middlefield Road,
Redwood City.
Senate urged to repeal
‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
By David Crary
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Elated by a major court
victory, gay-rights activists are stepping up
pressure on Congress to repeal the military’s
“don’t ask, don’t tell” policy this month. They
want to avoid potentially lengthy appeals and
fear their chances for a legislative fix will fade
after Election Day.
The House voted in May to repeal the 17-
year-old policy banning openly gay service
members. Many majority Democrats in the
Senate want to take up the matter in the
remaining four weeks before the pre-election
recess, but face opposition from Republican
leaders.
National gay-rights groups, fearing possible
Democratic losses on Nov. 2, urged their sup-
porters Friday to flood senators’ offices with
phone calls and e-mails asking that the Senate
City, turf foes reach settlement
The city of San Carlos and the group that
sued over its use of synthetic turf to renovate
the Highlands Park lower athletic field are
finalizing an agreement that spares more traf-
fic studies and environmental documents.
Instead, the city will spend approximately
$10,000 to improve traffic flow and parking
— items the neighborhood and Save San
Carlos Parks want, said Public Works Director
Robert Weil.
Save San Carlos Parks sued the city in 2009,
arguing the environmental documents used to
approve the project were not stringent enough.
In a ruling Aug. 17, Marie Weiner, San Mateo
County Superior Court judge, found that the
synthetic turf itself is acceptable but that the
city failed to properly analyze how added traf-
fic will impact the environment.
The plan calls for converting the surface of
the Highlands Park lower field from natural to
synthetic turf.
School may have no more room
More than 70 children who started classes
in San Carlos may need to attend middle
school in another city as school officials con-
sider telling out-of-district parents that, start-
ing next year, there is no room for their chil-
dren after fourth grade.
Enrollment has grown for the San Carlos
Elementary School District steadily in recent
years. As a charter district, it allows many out-
of-district students to attend, room permitting,
without much issue. That trend slowed in
2008 as local children began to fill the spots
New rules would mean
fewer hours for sleepy pilots
WASHINGTON — Work hours would be
shortened for pilots who fly at night while
some pilots who fly during the day could
spend more time in the cockpit under a gov-
ernment proposal to help prevent dangerous
fatigue.
The Federal Aviation Administration plan,
THE DAILY JOURNAL
“If we don’t speak up now,our
window for repeal could close.”
— Joe Solmonese,president
of the Human Rights Campaign
vote on the measure during the week of Sept. 20.
“If we don’t speak up now, our window for
repeal could close,” said Joe Solmonese, pres-
ident of the Human Rights Campaign.
Supporters of repeal hope senators heed the
ruling issued Thursday in Los Angeles by
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips, who said
’don’t ask, don’t tell’ was an unconstitutional
violation of the due process and free speech
rights of gays and lesbians.
The policy has a “direct and deleterious
effect” on the military by hurting recruitment
efforts during wartime and requiring the dis-
charge of service members who have critical
skills and training, she said.
and now district officials worry middle school
space is limited. As a result, the board is
informing out-of-district parents of current
kindergarten through fourth grade students
that their child won’t have a spot at one of the
two middle schools beginning next year.
Lights out for M-A?
Residents opposed to lighting football, soc-
cer and lacrosse games at Menlo-Atherton
High this year will have their chance to turn
off the lights when a judge considers an
injunction Monday that would bar the change
until after the lawsuit is settled.
On Monday, a judge will not only hear the
injunction but consider setting up dates for the
lawsuit. Installing five temporary light towers
are planned for the upcoming season. The dis-
trict recently approved a contract for the
lights, which should be delivered in
September and removed in March, and also
for work to improve electrical hookups.
Using the lights for more than a limited
number of games is the top complaint for the
neighbors — banded together under the
moniker Protect Atherton’s Residential
Character — which is suing to stop installa-
tion.
Around the nation
which the agency has spent 15 months draft-
ing, is an attempt to overhaul pilot work
rules to reflect current scientific understand-
ing of how fatigue impacts human perform-
ance and prevent errors that cause accidents.
The rules were last updated over two
decades ago and most date back to the
1940s.
THE DAILY JOURNAL OPINION Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010 9
Guest perspective Contact Us
Resilience in the face of tragedy
By Jerry Hill supplies and those who passed on that tragic day go to www.thevolunteercenter.net
money for vic- nine years ago and those who and click on “San Bruno Fire.”

N
ine years ago, when the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
upended America’s sense
of security, the nation came together.
Brave emergency workers
rushed into burning buildings to
rescue people who were trapped.
Americans opened up their hearts
and wallets to comfort mourning
families. We have not forgotten the
planes that on Sept. 11 crashed into
the Twin Towers in lower
Manhattan, the Pentagon and a
field in Pennsylvania. Nor have we
forgotten the nearly 3,000 innocent
people who lost their lives.
Americans have a history of
coming together in times of crisis.
This week, after a natural gas
pipeline ruptured in San Bruno and
leveled a neighborhood, killing at
least four people and injuring more
than 50 others, I saw firsthand the
American spirit through the
tremendous outpouring of support
from our community.
Emergency workers risked their
lives to save people and property.
Local residents converged on the
Red Cross center to offer clothing,
tims. Blood
banks were
filled to capaci-
ty. People even
offered to host
displaced fami-
lies in their
homes.
I was in awe as I toured the devas-
tation with emergency officials and
spoke with families who had lost
everything. But the one thing that
kept our spirits up was the unending
display of kindness from volunteers
and community members.
Words can’t express my appreci-
ation to the countless heroes who
have reached out and helped their
neighbors during this extraordinary
time. Everyone who stood in line to
give blood. Everyone who stopped
by the Veterans Recreation Center
to drop off supplies. Everyone who
cooked hot meals for displaced
families. Everyone who made a
generous donation.
Your selflessness embodies the
true meaning of 9-11. Let us carry
this spirit with us during our every-
day lives as we strive to honor
Letters to the editor
passed from our community only
three days ago.
Here are a few opportunities to
continue the spirit of Sept. 11:
• The Silicon Valley Community
Foundation will match, dollar for
dollar, financial gifts made to the
San Bruno recovery effort, via an
initial commitment of $100,000.
Details: (650) 450-5444 or e-mail
donate@siliconvalleycf.org.
• The San Bruno Lions Club has
set up a fund to help victims. Mail
donations to San Bruno Lions
Club, P.O. Box 242, San Bruno,
CA 94066, and write “FIRE” in the
note area of check. Details: (650)
873-9166.
• To donate cash to victims via the
Red Cross, call (800) RED-CROSS
and specify “San Bruno Fire.”
• The Safeway Foundation,
which has donated $25,000, gift
cards, food and ice, has established
a checkstand donation program
for customers in Bay Area coun-
ties. Details: www.safeway.com.
• Giving blood: To donate
blood, contact Blood Centers of
the Pacific at (888) 393-GIVE or
For Red Cross blood donation
info, call (800) RED-CROSS.
• Bedding, clothing: The
Salvation Army at 300 El Camino
Real in San Bruno will accept
donations, as will the Goodwill
Industries location at 225
Kenwood Way in South San
Francisco. Details: http://san-
bruno.ca.gov/.
• To volunteer please visit
www.thevolunteercenter.net or con-
tact the Veterans Memorial
Recreation Center located at 251
City Park Way at (650) 616-7180.
Jerry Hill represents the 19th
Assembly District which includes
parts of unincorporated San Mateo
County and the cities of Belmont,
Brisbane, Burlingame, Daly City,
Foster City, Half Moon Bay,
Hillsborough, Millbrae, Pacifica,
San Bruno, San Mateo and South
San Francisco.
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Editorials represent the viewpoint

Rechecking the facts
Editor,
It has come to my attention that I
was completely wrong in my asser-
tion that the San Mateo County
District Attorney’s Office was not
instrumental in ensuring that an
innocent young man’s conviction
was overturned (“Problems with
the criminal justice system” letter
to the editor in the Sept. 3 online
edition of the Daily Journal). I was
initially informed by a reliable
source that attorney Jeff Hayden
was the sole reason this young
man’s case was investigated and
then proven innocent.
Unbeknownst to me, the real hero
here was Deputy District Attorney
Melissa McKowan. I have known
Ms. McKowan for almost 13 years
now and I have always known her
to be a highly ethical and talented
prosecutor. I have nothing but the
utmost respect for her. If it had not
been for Ms. McKowan’s commit-
ment to justice then I truly believe
justice would not have been served
in this case.
I also want to apologize to your
reporter, Ms. Michelle Durand. It
was Ms. Durand who was com-
pletely right from the start and not
me. While I relied on a reliable
source for my information, it is still
no excuse for not checking the
facts prior to making the statement
I did. As a side note, I do want to
say on my behalf that I still feel the
Daily Journal at times projects a
prosecution sided view point in the
articles written about pending
criminal cases here in our county. I
can understand that at times most
defense lawyers do not make them-
selves available to your reporters
so that you can get both sides to
the story. Hopefully someday that
will change. However, I do strong-
ly feel that our local newspaper
should challenge us all — the
lawyers, the courts, the police
departments — when something
doesn’t go right in the system.
It never hurts to question and it
never hurts to get the answers to
ensure that maybe next time we
can all do something a little better
to ensure justice is done. As a life-
long resident of this county and a
13-year veteran defense lawyer, I
am very proud of our District
Attorney’s Office. There are times
we may respectfully disagree but I
am confident the right thing gets
done. Unfortunately, my letter did
not reflect that but instead you
received the ranting of someone
who in the end should have done
what he preached: investigate the
whole story before casting judg-
ment. Again, please accept my
apologies for the lapse in judg-
ment.
Mitri Hanania
Redwood City
Helping America
understand Islamic culture
Editor,
I found Mina Nilchian’s opinion,
“Why a woman chooses to wear a
hijab,” in the Sept. 3 edition of the
Daily Journal, to be smart, charm-
ing and educated.
If an opinion is interesting, edu-
cational and persuasive, it is worth
reading. Obviously, I found
Nilchian’s perspective to be all of
the above because it gave me
something to think about and I
found it enlightening. Nilchian is a
young, modern and western woman
and is also respectful of tradi-
tions. Many wrongly assume that
no woman “really” wants to wear
the hijab. That is partially due to
not understanding what wearing a
hijab means to the individual
woman. I appreciate that Nilchian
was able to convey some common
understanding about beauty in
American culture. She hit the nail
on the head when she was able to
point out the issue of free choice.
In the United States, it is a personal
exercise of an individuals rights, as
long as others are not forced to
wear or accept it as well. But still,
many wrongly view it as an attack
on western culture and a cause for
concern.
There is concern for women who
do not have the choice, that is why
many are threatened by the hijab.
Muslim women born and raised in
the United States can’t totally
understand what it really means to
live in an Islamic country. Nilchian
stated that “there is no right or
wrong when it come to a woman’s
choice of expression.” However,
some women who live under
Islamic Sharia do not have the
choice. It is important to under-
stand how the western world views
the hijab. Basically, Americans are
kind and understanding. Explaining
traditional Muslim customs like the
wearing of the hijab is good. A lot
of the concern with Muslim culture
is due to a lack of understanding
on both sides of issues. Nilchian
did a great job of offering some
insight of the hijab viewed from
her unique cultural perspective.
Richard King
Palo Alto
Tunnel equality
Editor,
Simple question to California
High-Speed Rail Authority
(HSRA) and state/federal politi-
cians: Why is HSRA bending over
backwards to help big-dogs San
Francisco and San Jose, but taking
advantage of and punishing small
Peninsula cities? Specifically,
HSRA is paying $2.3 billion to
completely bury and “tunnel” their
fast and loud 150 mph trains
through all of San Francisco, and
HSRA is paying even more to
“deep bore tunnel” all of their
tracks from Santa Clara to San
Jose, but for small, tightly-impact-
ed cities like Burlingame, San
Mateo, Belmont, Redwood City,
etc. (where poor, minority families
and children will be disproportion-
ately evicted from their homes
through HSRA’s eminent domain
powers), HSRA says they can’t
“afford” tunnels, and that these
cities must tax themselves $5-6 bil-
lion to pay for them? What about
“tunnel equality?”
Ask Hill (650) 349-1900;
Simitian (916) 651-4011; Eshoo
(202) 225-8104; Speier (202) 225-
of the Daily Journal editorial board
3531; Boxer (202) 224-3553; and and not any one individual.
Feinstein (202) 224-3841 if this is OUR MISSION
fair and equal, or unjust? Why It is the mission of the Daily
must small Peninsula cities fight to Journal to be the most
get a less desirable “open trench,”
accurate, fair and relevant
local news source for those
or worse, an “aerial viaduct” (i.e. who live, work or play on
four-track, 40-foot high, six-high- the MidPeninsula.
way lane wide concrete mass)? I By combining local news and sports
am for high-speed rail, in concept, coverage, analysis and insight with the latest
but it is impossible to ignore such business, lifestyle, state, national and world news,
we seek to provide our readers with the highest
political gamesmanship and stench
where “San Francisco Only” tun-
quality information resource in San Mateo County.
Our pages belong to you, our readers, and we
nels are paid for by HSRA, but choose to reflect the diverse character of this
small cities without political clout dynamic and ever-changing community.
must tax themselves $6 billion for Publisher
Jerry Lee
the same tunnels! If this was your
Editor in Chief
small city, and was literally being Jon Mays
divided in two by HSRA
Sports Editor
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Dow 10,462.77 +47.53
Nasdaq 2,242.48 +6.28
10-Yr Bond 2.7950% +0.3400
Oil (per barrel) 76.45
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BUSINESS
Stocks continue rally
By Stephen Bernard
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
1,244.50
NEW YORK — Stocks edged higher
Friday, extending a rally that began near-
ly two weeks ago, as investors hold on to
their newfound optimism about the
economy.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose
47 points in very light trading. It was the
seventh day of gains out of the past eight
for the index. Treasury prices eased as
traders became more willing to take on
risk.
Stocks have escaped their August dol-
drums and moved steadily higher in
September thanks to a series of encour-
aging signals on the economy. The latest
came Friday morning with a report that
wholesale inventories shot up in July, a
sign of confidence that retail sales will
pick up.
“It’s becoming more evident that con-
fidence by consumers and the labor mar-
ket is improving,” said Tim Speiss,
chairman of EisnerAmper’s Personal
Wealth Advisors practice. “It’s tepid; It’s
weak; But it’s progress.”
The energy sector got a lift from a
Wholesale inventories rise 1.3 percent
By Martin Crutsinger
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Inventories held
by wholesalers surged in July by the
largest amount in two years while sales
rebounded after two straight declines.
The Commerce Department said
Friday that wholesale inventories rose
1.3 percent in July, the best performance
since July 2008 and triple the increase
economists had expected. Sales at the
wholesale level increased 0.6 percent,
double what had been expected and the
best showing since April.
Businesses restocking depleted store
shelves has been a major driver of the
economy since late last year and the
strong gain seen in July should help alle-
viate fears that the country could be in
danger of slipping into another reces-
sion.
Nervous Americans want easy access to their cash
By Pallavi Gogoi
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Americans want to be
close to their cash.
People are bailing out of bank certifi-
cates of deposit and parking their cash
in checking and savings accounts that
earn little or no interest but also don’t
exact penalties for early withdrawal.
It’s another signal of how nervous
Americans are about their finances as
the U.S. economy struggles. Consumers
are stuck with few options to make their
money work. The Standard & Poor’s
500 is down 0.5 percent for the year,
one big reason why people have pulled
a net $145.3 billion out of mutual funds
in the first eight months of the year,
according to Lipper Inc.
PG&E shares fall after San Bruno explosion
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Shares of PG&E
Corp. fell sharply Friday after an explo-
sion killed at least four people and
injured dozens more in San Bruno
where the utility provides natural gas
service.
In a filing with the Securities and
Exchange Commission Friday, the
company said its operations could be
“adversely affected,” depending on
the outcome of an investigation into
the cause of the giant fireball in San
Wall Street
jump in oil prices. Oil climbed about 2
percent after a pipeline that delivers oil
to Midwest refineries was shut down. Oil
companies like Chevron Corp. and
Schlumberger rose on the news.
The market’s September rally has
paused only once so far, when concerns
resurfaced about European banks.
European markets fluctuated Friday after
a report that German banking giant
Deutsche Bank is considering raising
new cash through a stock sale.
Many of the recent improvements in
economic indicators have been incre-
mental, but given the deep pessimism
about the economy that had set in during
August even faint glimmers of hope on
the job market and other parts of the
economy like trade have been enough to
please investors.
“There’s been so much negativity that
it doesn’t take much in terms of data
beating expectations to propel the mar-
ket,” said Hank Smith, chief investment
officer at Haverford Investments.
The Dow rose 47.53, or 0.5 percent, to
close at 10,462.77. That’s the highest
The overall economy, as measured by
the gross domestic product, slowed to an
annual growth rate of just 1.6 percent in
the April-to-June quarter, down from
GDP growth of 3.7 percent in the first
quarter. That slowdown has raised con-
cerns about the durability of the recov-
ery from the nation’s worst recession
since the Great Depression.
Reports this week have eased those
fears somewhat. In addition to the new
report on inventories, the government
said Thursday that new applications for
jobless benefits fell last week to the low-
est level in two months. Also on
Thursday, the government said the U.S.
trade deficit narrowed in July as exports
rose to the highest level in nearly two
years, an indication that American man-
ufacturers are still benefiting from rising
global demand.
U.S. businesses have helped spur the
“At times of uncertainty, there is a
natural human tendency to stay liquid
and have money easily accessible,” says
Dan Geller, executive vice president at
financial data analysis firm Market
Rates Insight.
The firm’s analysis of domestic banks
insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, found CD
deposits declined by $200 billion in the
first six months of the year. Deposits in
checking, savings and money market
accounts rose by $171 billion.
A CD commonly carries an interest
rate for a fixed term ranging from three
months to five years. Depositors typical-
ly pay a penalty if they withdraw their
money prior to the end of the CD’s term.
A big part of the blame for the shift in
money: The interest rates people can
Bruno on Thursday night.
The company, which is the parent of
Pacific Gas and Electric Co., also said in
the filing that it maintains $992 million
in liability insurance for damages
caused by fire.
PG&E shares closed down $4.03, or
about 8 percent, at $44.21 during the
regular session. The drop slashed $1.57
billion from the company’s market cap-
italization, based on its 390.75 million
shares outstanding at July 29.
The stock gained back 14 cents to
$44.35 in after-hours trading.
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close since Aug. 10. But it’s still only up
0.3 percent this year.
Broader indexes also rose. The
Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 5.37,
or 0.5 percent, to 1,109.55, while the
Nasdaq composite index rose 6.28, or
0.3 percent, to 2,242.48.
About two stocks rose for every one
that fell on the New York Stock
Exchange, where consolidated volume
was extremely low at 3.1 billion shares.
Even with their recent gains, most
indexes had only modest advances for
the week. The main culprit: a drop
Tuesday spurred by worries over
European banks. The Dow is up 0.1 per-
cent for the week, the S&P is up 0.5 per-
cent, and the Nasdaq is up 0.4 percent.
Bond prices dipped. The yield on the
10-year Treasury note, which moves
opposite its price, rose to 2.79 percent
from 2.76 percent late Thursday. Its
yield is used to help set interest rates on
mortgages and other consumer loans.
Oil rose $2.20, or 3 percent, to $76.45
a barrel on the New York Mercantile
Exchange. Chevron rose $1.46 to
$78.82, while Schlumberger Ltd. rose 78
cents to $59.31.
recovery by rebuilding their inventories
after slashing them during the recession
to cut costs.
When businesses began building up
inventories at the end of last year, that
boosted orders to U.S. factories and
helped spur overall economic growth.
Inventories held by wholesalers were cut
for 13 consecutive months starting in
September 2008.
The July increase marked the seventh
consecutive rise in inventories and fol-
lowed a 0.3 percent inventory increase in
stockpiles in June.
The rise in sales and an even bigger
increase in inventories left the ratio of
inventories to sales at 1.16 in July. That
means it would take 1.16 months to
deplete inventories at the July sales pace.
That was up slightly from a ratio of 1.15
in June.
earn are at historic lows. The national
average rate for deposits decreased from
1.20 percent to 0.99 percent in the first
half of 2010. It was the first time the
measure fell below 1 percent since the
1950s, according to Market Rates
Insight.
“Interest rates on short-term instru-
ments like CDs are so low, why bother
when you can leave money in the
bank?” says Martin Feldstein, professor
of economics at Harvard University.
Andrea Perez, a 34-year-old New
York resident, placed $15,000 of her
savings in a CD two years ago that
yielded about 5 percent. When the CD
matured recently, she moved the money
to a checking account because she did-
n’t think the new rate of 1 percent was
worth it.
PG&E said in a statement that, “if it is
ultimately determined that we were
responsible for the cause of the incident,
we will take accountability.”
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. President
Chris Johns said crews still haven’t been
able to determine the cause of the rup-
tured steel gas pipe or the ensuing blast
because they can’t get close enough.
The fire was contained by Friday, but
at least a quarter of the charred area was
still too hot for firefighters to search.
The National Transportation Safety
Board planned to investigate the blast.
NOW IT’S A RACE: GIANTS PULL EVEN WITH PADRES AFTER 1-0 WIN FRIDAY NIGHT >>> PAGE 13
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<< Raiders will have to slow down Johnson, page 12

• Lot of familiar faces when Niners face Seattle, page 12

Capuchino-South City game postponed

By Nathan Mollat
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Not surprisingly, Friday night’s
Capuchino-South City football game
was postponed in response to the
explosion and devastating fire that
roared through a San Bruno neigh-
borhood Thursday evening.
“First of all, our thoughts and
prayers are with Capuchino and the
city of San Bruno,” said South City
coach Frank Moro. “We want to play,
but there’s nothing we can do. We
offer any help we can to Capuchino.”
Capuchino athletic director Mike
Trimble said his school’s decision to
postpone the game was made around
9 a.m. Friday and Capuchino com-
municated with the South City
administration of its decision.
“I don’t think there was any hesita-
tion in not playing. It just didn’t feel
right,” Trimble said. “We called
South City and they were expecting
not to play. They were very nice
about offering assistance in the future
and today.”
Friday was to be Capuchino’s sea-
son opener, while South City started
its season last week with a 13-12 win
over Santa Clara. Because South City
played a game in “Zero Week,” the
Warriors will have a bye this season.
Capuchino, on the other hand, was
scheduled to play 10 straight weeks,
with no break in the schedule.
This scheduling could impact any
Central Coast Section playoff impli-
cations for both teams, assuming they
are in a position to make the postsea-
son. CCS commissioner Nancy
Lazenby Blaser said there are provi-
sions in the CCS bylaws to account
for teams with less than 10 games
played. She said a formula is used to
limit the impact of playing less than a
10-game schedule.
That determination won’t be for a
couple months, however. Right now,
Capuchino’s football team — along
with the entire San Bruno communi-
ty — is just now beginning to com-
prehend the magnitude of the disas-
ter.
Capuchino’s first-year coach
Jordan Seiden said he is unaware of
how many players are directly affect-
ed, but he does realize everyone at
Capuchino has been touched in one
way or another.
“Everybody on this team has fami-
ly, friends, people they, who live in
the area (that have been affected),”
Seiden said.
Trimble said Seiden met with the
team during the lunch break Friday to
inform them the game had been post-
poned. While there may have been
sentiment among some players to
play the game just to take their mind
off the real world for a few hours,
everyone accepted the decision.
“Everybody is pretty much in
shock. [The meeting] was pretty
somber,” Seiden said. “I think some
of the kids wanted to play the game,
to get their mind off it. But for the
most part, everyone understood [the
decision not to play].”
Said Trimble: “Basically, what
happened was a lot of kids didn’t get
to sleep in their own homes
(Thursday night). They were evacuat-
ed for safety precautions. They didn’t
know if their houses were standing.
The kids were obviously worried.
“There was a lot of confusion.”
If there is a chance to make up the
game, Trimble said he wouldn’t be
opposed.
“If the dates are right, sure (we’d
like to make up the game),” Trimble
said. “If it works out.”

Palo Alto
wears down
Burlingame
By Emanuel Lee
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

A month before his team’s season-opening

game against Palo Alto, Burlingame High foot-
ball coach John Philipopoulos said he was more
interested to see how his players would respond
to adversity rather than the final score.
So even after the Panthers suffered a 21-9
home loss to the Vikings on Friday,
Philipopoulos said he was pleased, given the
circumstances. Not only was Burlingame play-
ing one of the best teams on the Peninsula, but
it committed five turnovers to cost itself any
chance of an upset victory.
“We made a lot of mistakes obviously, but we
gave them a game,” Philipopoulos said. “For
our guys to come out and play four quarters
hard, I couldn’t be more proud of them.
Nothing that happened tonight changes my
NATHAN MOLLAT / DAILY JOURNAL view on this team. I think there’s a really high
San Mateo quarterback Chris Zografos gets airborne after being tackled by Aragon’s James Egan, but not before Zografos picked up 15 ceiling point and plenty to be excited about.
yards and a first down during the Bearcats’27-15 win over the Dons. Obviously we’re not close to where we want to
be, but all in all I think we can take a lot from

Bearcats down Dons

By Nathan Mollat
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
For the last 15 years, Aragon has been the
team to beat in the city of San Mateo among
the public schools. Year in and year out, the
Dons have lorded over both Hillsdale and San
Mateo — the Dons haven’t lost to Hillsdale
since 1991 and have beaten the Bearcats 11
times in a row.
Friday night at Aragon, however, San Mateo
laid claim to the moniker best team in the city
with a 27-15 win over the Dons.
“We just showed them who the team in the
city is,” said San Mateo running back George
Naufahu, who rushed for 159 yards and two
touchdowns, while making several tackles
from his linebacker position.
“We’re the team with ‘San Mateo’ on the
front of our jerseys.”
This game was the classic example of the
statistics not telling the whole story. Aragon
(0-1) out-gained San Mateo (1-0) 370 to 323
and held the Bearcats to just 40 yards of
offense in the first half.
Despite that, Aragon trailed 7-2 at halftime.
The Dons had a chance to really put the ham-
mer on the Bearcats, but three times they
See BEARCATS, Page 14
this game and make progress as we go for-
ward.”
Indeed, Burlingame won’t be playing too
many teams with the athleticism, size and speed
of the Vikings, who wore down the hosts after a
lackluster first half that saw Palo Alto go into
halftime with a 7-2 lead. The Panthers got on
the scoreboard first when Kevin Nasre tackled
Miles Anderson in the end zone, giving them a
2-0 lead with 1:03 left in the first quarter.
However, Palo Alto scored 21 unanswered
points to win going away. Burlingame’s offense
didn’t score until Nik Gutierrez connected with
Dan Cuddy for a 17-yard touchdown with 9.2
seconds remaining. Although the game had
See PANTHERS, Page 14

Posey’s successor anchoring San Jose playoff run

By Terry Bernal
DAILY JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT
SAN JOSE — With Giants High-
A affiliate San Jose establishing
itself as a Yankee-like powerhouse
in the California League over the
past decade, it’s appropriate it cur-
rently has a kid from the Bronx at
the heart of it all.
Catcher Johnny Monell made a
splash when he joined San Jose last
year, helping it to its third league
championship in most prolific first halves in San Jose
five years, and history. Thrust into the postseason
its fourth in 10 spotlight, Monell was promoted
years. from Low-A Augusta specifically to
This time last catch for San Jose in the playoffs.
year, however, The left-handed slugger rose to the
Monell had occasion, hitting .286 (6 for 21)
monumental with two home runs throughout the
shoes to fill. He postseason.
Johnny Monell inherited the Advancing to the 2010 postseason
same No. 7 by virtue of winning the North
worn by catcher Buster Posey, who Division in the first half of the sea-
started 2009 by posting one of the son, the Giants look to repeat as
league champs — something they
have never done — beginning
Saturday night against Rockies affil-
iate Modesto in the best-of-five
North Division playoffs. And now,
even though he has an entire High-
A season under his belt, Monell
maintains the even-keel perspective
with which he excelled last year.
The way Monell sees it, there is a
ballgame Saturday. The objective is
to win. Period.
“I wouldn’t say [coming in with a
year’s experience] would be differ-
ent,” Monell said. “Last year is last
year. The only thing is you’re in a
position to win. So, you get that
opportunity, you’ve got to take
advantage of it.”
A 30th round pick in 2007 out of
Florida’s Seminole Community
College, Monell has taken advan-
tage as an under-the-radar presence
See PLAYOFFS, Page 16
12 Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010
Carroll ready to start as Seattle hosts 49ers
By Tim Booth
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE — Before Pete Carroll
can “Win Forever” in Seattle, he
might want to figure out just who is
on his team.
Consider it the price of conducting
a major overhaul.
Earlier this week, the Seahawks’
new coach mistakenly referred to
offensive tackle Tyler Polumbus as
“Troy” throughout his weekly brief-
ing. It was an innocent mistake, but
was amplified by the possibility that
Polumbus could be Seattle’s starting
left tackle on Sunday when the
Seahawks open the season at home
against division favorite San
Francisco.
After months of revamping the
Seahawks roster, and whether Carroll
knows all his players or not, he’s
about to make his return to the NFL
11 years after he last coached a pro-
fessional game.
Unlike his previous stops with the
New York Jets and in New England,
Carroll isn’t taking over a known
commodity with a direction.
Seattle is a clean slate, the result of
23 losses in two seasons.
“It feels much different. It does feel
different. Different teams, different
personalities makes it that way and
Titans’Johnson ready to rush for history,starting with Raiders
By Teresa M. Walker
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Chris
Johnson is ready to pick up where he
left off in 2009, running wild as he
chases Eric Dickerson’s NFL rushing
record and even a whole new bench-
mark — 2,500 yards on the ground.
Recent history says he couldn’t have
a much better opponent for starting his
quest than the Oakland Raiders, who
travel to Tennessee to play the Titans in
Sunday’s season opener.
Oakland’s defense ranked 29th in
the NFL last season, giving up an aver-
age of 155.5 yards rushing per game.
The Raiders gave up a season-worst
241 yards at Denver.
Tennessee running backs have had
some big days against the Raiders.
Eddie George posted the NFL’s third-
different settings
for the clubs,
where they’re
coming from. All
of that has some-
thing to make
each one of the
situations really
unique,” Carroll
Pete Carroll said. “This is a
very exciting
time. This is just the first game
though. It’s only our first opportuni-
ty.”
For Carroll, Sunday is his reintro-
duction to the NFL and an opportuni-
ty to move forward from the mess left
behind at Southern California.
The Trojans will already be two
games into their first season with
Lane Kiffin at the helm when
Carroll’s Seahawks take the field
against San Francisco. In his attempt
to revamp Seattle’s roster, Carroll has
created enough noise to drown out the
sanctions that dog his former employ-
er.
Less than half of Seattle’s 53-man
roster for Sunday is returning from
last year. A total of 180 roster transac-
tions were made this offseason by
Carroll and general manager John
Schneider.
A half-dozen players — mostly
reserves — were brought in last
best opening day
Aug. 31, 1997,
when he ran for
216 yards against
an Oakland
defense that with-
ered under the
Tennessee sun
and his 35 rushes.
Chris Johnson The NFL
Offensive Player
of the Year hadn’t heard that number
until this week and sees George’s mark
as something to run toward on opening
day.
Still, “my main focus is to go in and
get the win,” Johnson said.
Starting the season with a victory is
important to each NFL team. For the
Titans, it’s crucial after last year’s 0-6
start. They managed to finish 8-8 after
winning eight of the final 10, but
nobody wants to think about going 0-1
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weekend as cuts were made around
the NFL. Backup safety Jordan
Babineaux got booted on Monday,
only to be signed back at a lesser cost
a day later.
“We could have sat status quo with
what we had and we thought we had a
chance to get better so every one of
these moves was designed to help us
and to get better right away with guys
that have played, guys that have done
things, guys that can contribute very,
very soon, if not immediately, partic-
ularly some of the guys that are going
to play in this game and contribute
right away,” Carroll said. “I’m really
excited about that — that we contin-
ued to work to help to find our roster.
This is a roster that needed help.”
Even his players are waiting to see
just how all the changes are going to
mesh on the field.
“I wouldn’t involve anxiety, but
we’re all excited,” said linebacker
Aaron Curry, one of the few
holdovers from last year’s 5-11 team
under Jim Mora. “We all believe in
everything and all the decisions that
we made upstairs and the changes
they made in the locker room. We
believe in our system, we believe in
our coaches and we believe in each
other.”
While the Seahawks are waiting to
see if their belief in what Carroll is
after hosting the opener on their own
field.
“All of our attention and focus right
now is on a very talented, unpre-
dictable Raider team,” Titans coach
Jeff Fisher said. “When you start the
season, people will hold things back.
We do, they did, so you have to adjust.
It’s a tremendous challenge for us, if
you take into considerations their
speed, their athleticism, their size and
what they’ve done over the offseason.”
Giving Johnson the ball — a lot —
will be a big part of the Titans’ game
plan.
“He’s going to see it more than a few
times,” Fisher said.
Of course, he won’t see last year’s
Raiders. This is a revamped team.
Oakland is coming off a 5-11 record
in coach Tom Cable’s first full season.
The Raiders have a new starting quar-
terback in Jason Campbell, but put
selling will translate into success, the
49ers have seen the results of accept-
ing coach Mike Singletary’s
approach.
It began when Singletary took over
midway through the 2008 season and
continued last year when the 49ers’ 8-
8 mark was the best for the franchise
since 2002.
Now the expectation is that the
mediocre NFC West is the Niners’ for
the taking, even with the difficult task
of playing three of four on the road to
begin the season, the one area
Singletary has yet to solve.
“We don’t look at what the media
talks about who’s favored to win. You
still have to play the game. A lot of the
games we lost last year we were
favored to win,” 49ers cornerback
Shawntae Spencer said. “It’s one of
those things that it’s the little things,
focusing on the little things and fin-
ishing games out, competing for 60
minutes. Last year on the road we did-
n’t do that very well, as far as finish-
ing games. We were always close.
When you’re at somebody else’s sta-
dium, you have to find a way to pull
away. When it’s close you have to find
a way to finish games, and we didn’t
do that last year.”
Getting wins away from home
seems to be the final obstacle for the
49ers to overcome. They were just 2-
most of their work into the defense —
drafting middle linebacker Rolando
McClain and defensive end Lamarr
Houston, and signing two-time Pro-
Bowl tackle John Henderson.
Henderson has played against
Johnson while with Jacksonville, and
said discipline is key.
“You have to slow him down by
keeping the edges and everyone
swarming to the ball. Just get after him.
He really doesn’t like it when big line-
men are coming down and hitting on
him. That’s why he uses his speed to
get outside and get away from us.
That’s a big advantage he has,”
Henderson said.
Johnson takes a streak of 11 consec-
utive 100-yard rushing games into this
season, and another one puts him in
sole possession of second behind only
Barry Sanders, who set the NFL mark
of 14 straight in 1997.
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6 last season on
the road, and
open at Seattle,
come home for
Super Bowl
champ New
Orleans, then are
at Kansas City
and Atlanta.
Mike Singletary Offensively,
they’ve settled on
Alex Smith as the quarterback to
move them forward. Frank Gore
remains their battering ram ball carri-
er with a history of torching the
Seahawks, while Vernon Davis and
Michael Crabtree cause problems
downfield in the passing game.
Defensively, Patrick Willis led the
league in tackles last season and was
joined at the Pro Bowl a year ago by
defensive lineman Justin Smith.
Singletary knows what Carroll is
going through, determining the best
ways to get players to accept a differ-
ent voice and different attitude. Smith
said players accepted the attitude
Singletary brought when he took over
as interim coach during the 2008 sea-
son.
“You’re always fighting to help
your guys understand how important
it is to go out every day and pay the
price to be a good football team or a
great football team,” Singletary said.
“All the film we’ve been watching, it
has been one or two guys, and they still
haven’t brought (Johnson) down. He
still broke some tackles,” Raiders tack-
le Tommy Kelly said. “So, we’re going
to try to get as many guys as we can
around him and just try to slow him
down.”
Fisher played Johnson very little this
preseason, even sitting him out of the
fourth game while encouraging him to
prepare himself for the opener.
Johnson ran for 93 yards in an opening
win against Jacksonville in 2008 and
had only 57 in a road loss to Pittsburgh
last year.
Through his first two seasons,
Johnson has caught first-time oppo-
nents off-guard with his speed. Cable
got to see Johnson in person at the
2008 Senior Bowl.
See RAIDERS, Page 15
14 Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010
PANTHERS
Continued from page 11
long been decided, the Burlingame offense need-
ed something to hang its helmets on after a dis-
mal first half that saw it commit turnovers on
each of its four possessions, not counting the one
kneel down just before halftime.
The Panthers had three fumbles and a pass
intercepted in the first two quarters, and things
didn’t get much better in the second half, as they
turned it over two more times. Two of the
Panthers’ five turnovers came inside Palo Alto’s
10-yard line, and another came when they fum-
bled the second-half kickoff. The rash of
turnovers — along with Palo Alto asserting its
superiority in the final 24 minutes — proved to
be the difference in a game that saw the teams
evenly matched from a statistical standpoint.
BEARCATS
Continued from page 11
turned the ball over inside the Bearcats’ 10-
yard line. Late in the second quarter, the
Bearcats took a 7-2 advantage when Lemoto
Filikitonga stripped the ball away from Aaron
Eder and went 90 yards the other way for the
touchdown.
All told, Aragon turned the ball over five
times, three of which led to San Mateo scores.
The teams exchanged fumbles to start the
third quarter before San Mateo’s Michael Latu
put a jolt into the San Mateo crowd with an
83-yard scoring run that put the Bearcats up
14-2.
SPORTS
The Vikings totaled 264 yards of offense to the
Panthers’ 242, a minimal advantage. However,
Palo Alto was able to bust loose for some big
plays offensively in the second half, allowing it to
beat Burlingame for the fifth consecutive season.
“They’re a little bigger than we are (on the
line), and they started to lean on us a little bit,”
Philipopoulos said.
Burlingame and Palo Alto have played each
year since the 2003 season, with the Panthers’
only wins coming in ’04 and ’05. Despite Friday
night’s loss, Philipopoulos felt playing a team
like Palo Alto prepares his squad for the rigors of
the Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division sea-
son.
“We’re better now than we were two and a half
hours ago,” he said. “Did we win? No. But did
we do some good things that we can build on?
Yes. We established an identity, which is being
able to run the ball and play some good, hard-
nosed and tough defense.”
Once again, Ilan Lesov led Burlingame’s
“Too many mistakes, missed opportunities,”
said Aragon coach Steve Sell. “We left two or
three touchdowns out there just by making
mistakes.”
Two plays after Latu’s score, San Mateo
defensive back Larry Campbell came down
with an interception, which eventually led to a
29-yard scoring run for Naufahu to boost the
Bearcats’ lead to 21-2 with 8:53 left in the
third quarter.
Aragon got back in the game late in the
third and early in the fourth quarters. After
Naufahu’s score, the Dons went on a 55-yard,
10-play drive, culminating with a Davarian
Redd 1-yard plunge with 3:59 left in the third
quarter.
Aragon recovered a San Mateo fumble on
the Bearcats next possession and drove 48
yards on eight plays. Moe Tau’s 1-yard touch-
MICHAEL COSTA / DAILY JOURNAL
Two Burlingame defenders put the pressure
on a would-be Palo Alto ball carrier during the
Panthers’21-9 loss to the Vikings Friday night.
ground game with 84 yards on 19 carries.
Gutierrez completed 10-of-25 passes for 122
yards with a touchdown and two interceptions.
down run cut the San Mateo lead to just six
points with 9:59 to play.
But the Bearcats showed just what kind of
team they can be this season. On their ensuing
possession, they took over on their own 38
and pounded the Aragon defense into submis-
sion. Naufahu carried the ball five times on
the drive, ripping off runs of 9,4,6, 9 yards
before ending it with a 9-yard scoring run.
“We wanted to see how tough we were,”
said San Mateo coach Jeff Scheller.
Sell said it was not a good feeling watching
the Bearcats drive the ball right down his
team’s throat .
“That (San Mateo) drive kind of surprised
me. It was disconcerting to see them line up
and say, ‘Here we come, stop it,’” Sell said.
“That’s a powerless feeling.”
THE DAILY JOURNAL
While the Panthers’ run game looked solid once
again, their passing attack left a lot to be desired.
“Our quarterback was running for his life out
there at times, so that’s one area we need to
improve on,” Philipopoulos said. “The turnovers
are killers, but we’ll fix that. Overall, though, I
feel good because I think we have a lot of room
to grow, and we set out and accomplished what
we wanted to do.”
Which was match a rugged Palo Alto team
from a physical standpoint, and there’s no ques-
tion the Panthers held their own in that regard.
Now they just have to limit their mistakes,
improve their offensive execution and get
healthy. Defensively, Burlingame was stout in the
first half.
However, it had some breakdowns in allowing
some big plays in the third and fourth quarters,
something Philipopoulos said is easily cor-
rectable. Nasre and Kevin Kim were a defensive
force at times, flying in from the secondary to
record a couple of tackles for losses.
Coming into the season, the offensive line
was one of San Mateo’s biggest question
marks. After a shaky first half, the Bearcats
put it all together over the final 24 minutes of
play.
“(The offensive line) took the challenge,”
Scheller said. “They’re guys that just don’t
give up.”
Aragon’s most pressing concern was find-
ing a quarterback to efficiently run the
offense. Consider that problem fixed as well
as senior Anthony Nichols did an admirable
job running the Dons’ offense, while also giv-
ing Sell hope for the future. Nichols complet-
ed 11 of 18 passes for 129 yards — but he
also had two interceptions. Receiver James
Egan was Nichols’ main target, pulling down
seven passes for 80 yards.
16 Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010
PLAYOFFS
Continued from page 11
amid a talented Giants farm system. In San
Jose this season, he hit .273 with a team-best
19 home runs. Two weeks ago, Monell
received a brief promotion to Triple-A Fresno.
Since returning to San Jose for its final three
regular-season games, Monell has solidified
himself as the team’s cleanup hitter, going 4
for 10, including pivotal home runs in consec-
utive wins which clinched home-field advan-
tage for the Giants throughout the North
Division playoffs. His booming two-run shot
Sept. 4 against Visalia helped San Jose come
back from a five-run deficit to win 7-5. The
following night, his opposite-field solo shot in
the bottom of the eighth was the decider in a
4-3 Giants win to clinch the best overall
record (76-64) in the North.
Catcher building
It’s no secret the Giants have become intent
on developing the catcher’s position in recent
years. Much in part to the emergence of
Posey, the keen perspectives of various former
catchers have aligned throughout the system.
SPORTS
Each of the Giants’ top three minor-league
teams are managed by former professional
catchers: Steve Decker at Triple-A Fresno,
Andy Skeels at Double-A Richmond, and
Brian Harper at San Jose. In addition, former
Giants Gold Glove catcher Kirt Manwaring is
the organization’s roving instructor.
From where Monell is squatting, this makes
the Giants organization the exception, not the
rule, in regards to catcher-intensive organiza-
tions. Perspective on the rigors of the most
demanding position in pro sports is always
readily available.
“It’s a simple text message,” Monell said.
“[I go to] our manager, and it’s a simple text
message to any rover you want.”
Not to mention the presence of Hall of
Fame players throughout the organization.
“When you speak of this organization, it’s
class,” Monell said. “You look at it, when
you’ve still got Orlando Cepeda, Willie Mays,
all those guys coming to spring training, and
talking to you about the game, it’s amazing.”
Crawford rehabbing
Another veteran of San Jose’s 2009 squad is
shortstop Brandon Crawford, who will back
for this year’s playoffs.
It’s not exactly how he would have his sea-
son go.
Having recently
returned from a wrist
injury that derailed his
first full season at Double-
A, infielder Crawford is
set to play throughout the
postseason with San Jose.
Last season, the left-
handed slugging shortstop
was the hottest hitter from
Brandon
the outset of San Jose’s
Crawford
prolific roster that includ-
ed Posey, Darren Ford and Madison
Bumgarner. After hitting .371 over his first 25
games at San Jose in ‘09, Crawford was
among the first crop of players — along with
Bumgarner and Tim Alderson — to be pro-
moted to Double-A.
Since having played in two of the least-
friendly offensive yards in all of baseball in
consecutive years — Dodd Stadium in
Norwich, Conn. in 2009, followed by The
Diamond in Richmond, Va. this year —
Crawford has posted lackluster numbers. He
hit .258 at Double-A in ’09, and just .241 with
the venue change this year.
During batting practice at the outset of July,
Crawford was struck by a Nick Noonan line
drive, which fractured the fifth metacarpal in
his right hand. No surgery was necessary, but
THE DAILY JOURNAL
he was in a cast for over a month and was
forced to the disabled list throughout July and
August.
With the presence of defensive wunderkind
shortstop Ehire Adrianza in San Jose,
Crawford is currently playing third base for
the first time in his organized baseball career,
though his sights are set on a return to short-
stop next year.
“Oh definitely,” Crawford said. “And for the
most part, I think that’s where the Giants want
me, too.”
Playoff schedule
North Division play begins Saturday night
in San Jose with first pitch set for 6 p.m. at
Municipal Stadium. The Giants will send co-
San Jose Pitcher of the Year Justin Fitzgerald
(10-6, 3.45) to the mound to face Modesto
right-hander Josh Sullivan (3-3, 5.86). Game
2 is slated for a 5 p.m. start Sunday, with
Giants lefty Kelvin Marte facing a yet-to-
named Modesto starter. Game 3 moves to
Modesto on Monday night at 7:05 p.m., with
Giants right-hander — and former CSM
standout — Kyle Woodruff scheduled to face
Nuts southpaw Kenny Durst. If necessary,
Game 4 will be played Tuesday in Modesto at
7:05 p.m., and Game 5 Wednesday in San
Jose at 7 p.m.
THE DAILY JOURNAL SPORTS Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010 17

Clijsters beats Venus to move into Open finals

By Rachel Cohen interview. “I ment in 2005, is Clijsters’ final opponent in 2009 being patient and being aggressive,”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS never expected seeking to was Wozniacki, who was making her Zvonareva said. “With those windy
I’d come back in become the first first major final appearance. The 20- conditions, you have to play some-
NEW YORK — Kim Clijsters is this position. I woman since year-old Dane had been dominant in times ugly. You don’t have to expect
one win from her second straight U.S. was trying to do 2001 to success- her run this year — she lost just 17 to play your best tennis.”
Open title after beating Venus it. It wasn’t easy fully defend her games in advancing to the semifinals, Zvonareva rarely seemed flustered
Williams in three sets Friday for her but I stuck with it U.S. Open title. the fewest since Serena Williams by Wozniacki’s knack for returning
so you can have The last to do dropped 14 in 2002. virtually every shot — and by the
20th straight victory at Flushing
these moments.” it? Williams. But
Meadows. But Zvonareva knocked Wozniacki strings that kept breaking on her rack-
Kim Clijsters The second- Vera Zvonareva 3 0 - y e a r - o l d
Clijsters will play seventh-seeded seeded Clijsters American, seed- off rhythm with powerful serves and ets.
Vera Zvonareva for the championship won 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4 to defeat ed third, hasn’t been back to the final assertive play, as the wind again made “I had five newly strung rackets
Saturday night. Zvonareva reached Williams for the fifth straight time. since 2002. for difficult play at Arthur Ashe before the match, and I don’t know
her second straight Grand Slam final, Clijsters broke Williams with a per- She lost to Clijsters in the fourth Stadium. The seventh-seeded Russian what happened,” she said. “In one
defeating top-seeded Caroline fect backhand lob to allow herself to round last year, part of the Belgian’s had five aces, and she won 70 percent hour to go through five rackets, it’s
Wozniacki 6-4, 6-3 earlier Friday. serve out the match. remarkable run in her third tourna- of points on her first serve and 13 of quite a lot. But, you know, it happens.
“Obviously, this is what you try to Clijsters, who also won the tourna- ment back after a 2 1/2-year layoff. 17 points at the net. I will just have to bring some more
achieve,” Clijsters said in an on-court “It’s the right balance between rackets tomorrow.”

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FIRE
Continued from page 1
cials like Assemblyman Jerry Hill, D-San
Mateo, are concerned that Pacific Gas and
Electric glossed over reports of potential
leaks in the weeks leading up the explosion.
“Our first priority needs to be helping the
victims and then we need to take a long hard
look at the cause of this fire,” Hill said in a
written statement Friday afternoon.
Hill pointed to a May 18, 2010 report by
the NTSB which said a CPUC audit of
PG&E found violations of regulations and
procedures in a Christmas Eve 2008 pipeline
accident in Rancho Cordova. The audit
found PG&E service representatives didn’t
define the term “hazardous leak” and were
not trained on using gas detection equipment
and grading leaks outdoors.
Hill wants to know if the power compa-
ny’s personnel have since been trained prop-
erly or if similar oversights mean the San
Bruno explosion could have been avoided.
“The residents of San Bruno deserve to
know if PG&E used the correct procedures
in the days and weeks leading up to this dis-
aster,” Hill said.
Several witnesses and residents have
reported smelling gas fumes in the weeks
leading up to the disaster but PG&E repre-
sentatives were not present to address the
rumors and Fire Chief Dennis Haag has yet
to check dispatch records.
Hart’s initial impression of the area —
now declared a crime scene to limit public
access — was of the “amazing destruction.”
Hart said he saw approximately 170 dam-
aged or destroyed homes, although that fig-
ure is far larger than that being used by other
first responders.
The most damaged areas, according to
officials on scene, are the 1600 and 1700
blocks of Claremont Drive, the 900 block of
Glenview Drive, the 1700 block of Earl
Avenue, the 1100 block of Fairmont Drive
and the 2700 block of Concord Way.
As of Friday evening, 38 homes were
destroyed and eight sustained major and
minor damage.
Four people are confirmed dead but the
San Mateo County Coroner’s Office had
only identified three victims as of Friday
night.
A 44-year-old woman and her 13-year-old
daughter were among the announced.
Agustin Macedo said his daughter,
Jacqueline Greig, and his granddaughter
Janessa were killed. Macedo said he was too
upset to give any more information, includ-
ing how he knew his family members’ fate.
Another victim was identified as 20-year-
LOCAL
old Jessica Morales.
Greig lived in a house just yards from the
source of the blast. Greig worked at the
California Public Utilities Commission.
Executive Director Paul Clanon announced
to staff Friday morning that Greig was miss-
ing, according to the Associated Press.
Authorities are hopeful for no further
fatalities and Haag said there are no missing
person reports. Rescue teams and dogs have
searched 90 percent of the homes and will
narrow in on areas Saturday to confirm there
are no bodies.
Along with the confirmed dead, 52 people
were treated at county hospitals including
three at the burn unit of St. Francis Hospital
in San Francisco.
Although Haag said the fire is “100 per-
cent contained” there are still hot spots and
a lack of power and sewage within the area,
keeping even those residents whose property
was not destroyed from returning home. A
limited number of residents may be able to
enter beginning Saturday but that is the best-
case scenario, said San Bruno City Manager
Connie Jackson.
Meanwhile, the city compiled a list of
properties destroyed or damaged and began
distributing them at assistance centers. That
information is based on visual inspections
so further evaluations by building inspec-
tors could prove others are structurally
unsound.
Teams are also working to identify poten-
tial hazardous material and manage debris,
said Secretary Matthew Bettenhausen of the
California Emergency Management Agency.
“This is the beginning of a long recovery
process,” Bettenhausen said.
Part of that recovery includes a town hall
meeting 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Robert’s
Catholic Church, 1380 Crystal Springs
Road, to answer questions and offer support,
said Councilman Rico Medina.
Officials also expect damage estimates on
Saturday.
More from the scene
M
axine Rodondi and her husband
had just sat down for dinner
Thursday evening when they
heard a loud explosion that shook their
home.
“We thought it was an earthquake,” said
Rodondi, who lives in the 1800 block of
Claremont Street. “And I saw debris flying,
and then we went outside and there was this
huge ball of fire. My son yelled, ‘Call 911,’
and I picked up the phone and the phone was
dead.”
Flames shot in the air and the heat was too
intense to stand at her front door, Rodondi
said. Her home was about two blocks from
the initial fire.
“And it was just a roar. It was so loud you
could hardly hear yourself talk,” Rodondi
said.
Emotions are still running very high in the
tight-knit community, Rodondi said.
“There’s a lot of people — good friends
— lost their homes. People I’ve known for
50 years.”
***
Karen Celentano, who lives in the 1400
block of Claremont Street, said the “horren-
dous boom” seemed like it was directly
behind her home but was actually at least
two blocks away.
“The whole sky was just red and pink and
just tons of smoke billowing,” Celentano
said.
Celentano said she’s been told that her
home is still standing. She does not know
when she’ll be able to return to the neigh-
borhood but her insurance company has paid
for a hotel room for her and her family, she
said.
***
One man was seen allegedly looting a San
Bruno home. He was arrested after trying to
evade and assault officers, San Bruno Police
Chief Neil Telford said.
Telford said police are currently not inves-
tigating any other reports of looting, but
continue to consider the area surrounding
the explosion a crime scene.
***
Freddy Tobar and his wife Nora, thought
about the house they lost. He saw flames
shooting up outside his window and then
through his home. He grabbed his chihuahua
and ran outside, getting second degree burns
on his arms and the side of his face.
The couple saw the house burning to the
ground on the news, and returned Friday to
THE DAILY JOURNAL
find it destroyed.
“We have to start from zero again. When
you start remembering it gets too sad,” Nora
Tobar said.
“But the most important thing is that
we’re alive,” she said.
***
Betty Leong, who lives on Glenview
Drive, said she wasn't home at the time of
the explosion, but her husband was. He was
able to get out of the home but had to be
taken to a local hospital after suffering a
heart attack during the escape, she said.
Leong said she went out because her hus-
band asked her to check if their home was
still standing, but the couple did not have
high hopes because it was starting to catch
fire as the husband escaped.
The couple also have a cat but do not
know what happened to it in the fire, she
said.
***
Some residents said they smelled gas in
the neighborhood over the past several
weeks. PG&E said it was checking its
records for the complaints, but added that
none of its crews were at work on the line
Thursday.
Compared to the tens of thousands of
miles of gas pipelines across the country,
accidents are relatively rare.
In 2009, there were 163 significant acci-
dents involving natural gas pipelines, killing
10 people and injuring 59.
Transmission lines like the one that burst
in San Bruno deliver natural gas from its
source to distribution lines, which then carry
it into neighborhoods before branching off
into homes.
Over the past two decades, federal offi-
cials tallied 2,840 significant gas pipeline
accidents nationwide — including 992 in
which someone was killed or required hos-
pitalization, according to the Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
Those accidents killed 323 people and
injured 1,372.
Experts say the nation’s 296,000 miles of
onshore natural-gas lines routinely suffer
breakdowns and failures.
More than 60 percent of the lines are 40
years old or older and almost half were
installed in the 1950s and 1960s, according
to a recent analysis by the Pipeline Safety
Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group based in
Bellingham, Wash.
— From wire reports
18 Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010
FIRE
Continued from page 1
cials like Assemblyman Jerry Hill, D-San
Mateo, are concerned that Pacific Gas and
Electric glossed over reports of potential leaks
in the weeks leading up the explosion.
“Our first priority needs to be helping the
victims and then we need to take a long hard
look at the cause of this fire,” Hill said in a
written statement Friday afternoon.
Hill pointed to a May 18, 2010 report by the
NTSB which said a CPUC audit of PG&E
found violations of regulations and proce-
dures in a Christmas Eve 2008 pipeline acci-
dent in Rancho Cordova. The audit found
PG&E service representatives didn’t define
the term “hazardous leak” and were not
trained on using gas detection equipment and
grading leaks outdoors.
Hill wants to know if the power company’s
personnel have since been trained properly or
if similar oversights mean the San Bruno
explosion could have been avoided.
“The residents of San Bruno deserve to
know if PG&E used the correct procedures in
the days and weeks leading up to this disas-
ter,” Hill said.
Several witnesses and residents have report-
ed smelling gas fumes in the weeks leading up
to the disaster but PG&E representatives were
not present to address the rumors and Fire
Chief Dennis Haag has yet to check dispatch
records.
Hart’s initial impression of the area — now
declared a crime scene to limit public access
— was of the “amazing destruction.” Hart said
he saw approximately 170 damaged or
destroyed homes, although that figure is far
larger than that being used by other first
responders.
The most damaged areas, according to offi-
cials on scene, are the 1600 and 1700 blocks
of Claremont Drive, the 900 block of
Glenview Drive, the 1700 block of Earl
Avenue, the 1100 block of Fairmont Drive and
the 2700 block of Concord Way.
As of Friday evening, 38 homes were
destroyed and eight sustained major and
minor damage.
Four people are confirmed dead but the San
Mateo County Coroner’s Office was awaiting
final identification from dental records before
releasing names.
A 44-year-old woman and her young
daughter are among those feared dead,
although officials have not released any
names. Agustin Macedo said his 44-year-old
daughter, Jacqueline Greig, and his grand-
daughter were killed. Macedo said he was too
upset to give any more information, including
how he knew his family members’ fate. The
LOCAL
granddaughter’s age and name weren’t
known, according to the Associated Press.
Greig lived in a house just yards from the
source of the blast. Greig worked at the
California Public Utilities Commission.
Executive Director Paul Clanon announced to
staff Friday morning that Greig was missing,
according to the Associated Press.
Authorities are hopeful for no further fatal-
ities and Haag said there are no missing per-
son reports. Rescue teams and dogs have
searched 90 percent of the homes and will
narrow in on areas Saturday to confirm there
are no bodies.
Along with the confirmed dead, 52 people
were treated at county hospitals including
three at the burn unit of St. Francis Hospital in
San Francisco.
Although Haag said the fire is “100 percent
contained” there are still hot spots and a lack
of power and sewage within the area, keeping
even those residents whose property was not
destroyed from returning home. A limited
number of residents may be able to enter
beginning Saturday but that is the best-case
scenario, said San Bruno City Manager
Connie Jackson.
Meanwhile, the city compiled a list of prop-
erties destroyed or damaged and began dis-
tributing them at assistance centers. That
information is based on visual inspections so
further evaluations by building inspectors
could prove others are structurally unsound.
Teams are also working to identify potential
hazardous material and manage debris, said
Secretary Matthew Bettenhausen of the
California Emergency Management Agency.
“This is the beginning of a long recovery
process,” Bettenhausen said.
Part of that recovery includes a town hall
meeting 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Robert’s
Catholic Church, 1380 Crystal Springs Road,
to answer questions and offer support, said
Councilman Rico Medina.
Officials also expect damage estimates on
Saturday.
More from the scene
M
axine Rodondi and her husband
had just sat down for dinner
Thursday evening when they
heard a loud explosion that shook their
home.
“We thought it was an earthquake,” said
Rodondi, who lives in the 1800 block of
Claremont Street. “And I saw debris flying,
and then we went outside and there was this
huge ball of fire. My son yelled, ‘Call 911,’
and I picked up the phone and the phone was
dead.”
Flames shot in the air and the heat was too
intense to stand at her front door, Rodondi
said. Her home was about two blocks from
the initial fire.
“And it was just a roar. It was so loud you
could hardly hear yourself talk,” Rodondi
said.
Emotions are still running very high in the
tight-knit community, Rodondi said.
“There’s a lot of people — good friends
— lost their homes. People I’ve known for
50 years.”
***
Karen Celentano, who lives in the 1400
block of Claremont Street, said the “horren-
dous boom” seemed like it was directly
behind her home but was actually at least
two blocks away.
“The whole sky was just red and pink and
just tons of smoke billowing,” Celentano
said.
Celentano said she’s been told that her
home is still standing. She does not know
when she’ll be able to return to the neigh-
borhood but her insurance company has paid
for a hotel room for her and her family, she
said.
***
One man was seen allegedly looting a San
Bruno home. He was arrested after trying to
evade and assault officers, San Bruno Police
Chief Neil Telford said.
Telford said police are currently not inves-
tigating any other reports of looting, but
continue to consider the area surrounding
the explosion a crime scene.
***
Freddy Tobar and his wife Nora, thought
about the house they lost. He saw flames
shooting up outside his window and then
through his home. He grabbed his chihuahua
and ran outside, getting second degree burns
on his arms and the side of his face.
The couple saw the house burning to the
ground on the news, and returned Friday to
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find it destroyed.
“We have to start from zero again. When
you start remembering it gets too sad,” Nora
Tobar said.
“But the most important thing is that
we’re alive,” she said.
***
Betty Leong, who lives on Glenview
Drive, said she wasn't home at the time of
the explosion, but her husband was. He was
able to get out of the home but had to be
taken to a local hospital after suffering a
heart attack during the escape, she said.
Leong said she went out because her hus-
band asked her to check if their home was
still standing, but the couple did not have
high hopes because it was starting to catch
fire as the husband escaped.
The couple also have a cat but do not
know what happened to it in the fire, she
said.
***
Some residents said they smelled gas in
the neighborhood over the past several
weeks. PG&E said it was checking its
records for the complaints, but added that
none of its crews were at work on the line
Thursday.
Compared to the tens of thousands of
miles of gas pipelines across the country,
accidents are relatively rare.
In 2009, there were 163 significant acci-
dents involving natural gas pipelines, killing
10 people and injuring 59.
Transmission lines like the one that burst
in San Bruno deliver natural gas from its
source to distribution lines, which then carry
it into neighborhoods before branching off
into homes.
Over the past two decades, federal offi-
cials tallied 2,840 significant gas pipeline
accidents nationwide — including 992 in
which someone was killed or required hos-
pitalization, according to the Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
Those accidents killed 323 people and
injured 1,372.
Experts say the nation’s 296,000 miles of
onshore natural-gas lines routinely suffer
breakdowns and failures.
More than 60 percent of the lines are 40
years old or older and almost half were
installed in the 1950s and 1960s, according
to a recent analysis by the Pipeline Safety
Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group based in
Bellingham, Wash.
— From wire reports
Milla Jovovich:Actress returns as ‘Alice’in ‘Resident Evil’franchise
‘Afterlife’ to scare away others
By Paul Dergarbedian
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — It’s going to be a par-
ticularly evil weekend as Sony-Screen
Gems’ “Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D” goes
for the best debut in the history of the hor-
ror franchise with a 3-D powered gross that
is likely to top the $25 million mark.
Star Milla Jovovich reprises her role as
Alice, the kick-ass patron saint of the
undead who takes no prisoners and shows
no mercy to her enemies. In 2002, the first
“Resident Evil” film opened at No. 2 with
a solid $17.7 million. This was followed by
“Apocalypse” in 2004 with a No. 1 debut of
$23 million and in 2007 by “Extinction”
with yet another No. 1 debut at a franchise-
topping $23.7 million.
The lack of fresh wide-release competi-
tion, the continued appeal of the horror-
action genre, and the general hotness of
Jovovich should make this film the week-
end winner by an apocalyptic mile.
Second and third place should be occu-
pied by Focus Features’ “The American”
and Fox’s “Machete,” with grosses between
$5 million and $6 million and drops of
more than 50 percent on their second week-
end. The two films have had solid midweek
grosses, but the difference between these
two movies and the No. 1 film will provide
one of the biggest gaps between the top two
films that we’ve seen in a long time.
The young guns of Sony’s “Takers” will
likely end up fourth, although the film has
shown incredible staying power since its
release and could shoot for third or even
second place in its third weekend of
release.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOLLYWOOD — Milla
Jovovich, the sexy international
model turned singer and actress, is
one of the few women to have
anchored a successful action movie
franchise.
The first three installments of
“Resident Evil,” based on a popular
videogame about a superpowered
heroine fighting ravenous zombies,
netted more than $380 million in
worldwide box office receipts, with
each release more successful than
the previous one.
“I’m 34 years old and every
teenager in the country knows who
I am because of ‘Resident Evil,” the
actress marvels. “They don’t know
how to pronounce my name, but
they know I’m the girl from
‘Resident Evil.’ “
For those who don’t know, it’s
pronounced “Mee-luh Yo-vo-
vitch.” Born in Ukraine, she is the
daughter of a Serbian doctor and a
Russian actress. She is married to
Paul W.S. Anderson, who wrote,
directed and produced the first
“Resident Evil,” released in 2002.
Anderson also wrote and produced
the sequels “Resident Evil:
Apocalypse” and “Resident Evil:
“Extinction.” The couple has a 2-
year-old daughter, Ever.
“Resident Evil: Afterlife” begins
four years after the initial outbreak
of the T-virus, which was designed
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Sunday news shows

MUSEUM GOTTA SEE ‘UM
ABC’s ‘This Week’ 8 a.m.
Austan Goolsbee,newly named chairman of the White By Susan Cohn
House Council of Economic Advisers; Imam Feisal Abdul DAILY JOURNAL SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
Rauf,leader of effort to build Islamic center and mosque
near ground zero; Eboo Patel,president,Interfaith Youth The San Francisco Airport Museums currently presents
Core; Irshad Manji,author and New York University "Liberian Helmet Masks of the Sande and Poro Societies
professor; the Rev.Richard Cizik,founder,The New from the Collections of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good. Anthropology."
Most African masks, whether they represent males or
CBS’‘Face the Nation’ 8:30 a.m. females, are carved and worn by men. The Sande society is
the only known female group in Africa where the women
House Minority Leader John Boehner,R-Ohio; Rep.Keith wear masks. With finely carved, delicate features and elab-
Ellison,D-Minn.; former New Jersey Gov.Tom Kean,co- orate hairstyles, Sande masks represent the epitome of
chairman,9-11 commission. female beauty. Masked performers, commonly referred to
as zogbe or sowei, play a central role in Sande ritual activi-
NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ 8 a.m. ties. The costumed masker embodies the spirit of Sande,
White House adviser David Axelrod; former Mayor Rudy representing the society's principles and ideals.
Giuliani,R-N.Y. Sande and Poro societies are found throughout Sierra
Leone and Liberia, in parts of Guinea and as far east as the
CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ 3 p.m. borders of the Ivory Coast in West Africa. Many different
Former Rep.Dick Armey,R-Texas; former Sen.Trent Lott, cultural groups, such as the Gola, Temne, Mende, Vai,
R-Miss. Kpelle, De and Bassa, belong to these associations. Sande
and Poro societies play a major social role in the local com-
‘Fox News Sunday’ 8 a.m. munity life of many villages. They teach young men and
women the domestic skills and knowledge they will need as
Goolsbee; Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich,R-Ga.;
married adults. Poro is the secret society for men, responsi-
Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan.
ble for initiating boys into manhood, while its counterpart,
Sande, initiates girls into womanhood. They are "secret" in
the sense that members of each society have certain knowl-
edge that can only be shared with other initiates. Mask c. 1950-67 Gola Liberia gumwood, stain Collection
TODAY’S Masquerades are an essential component of these wide-
spread associations. Masked performers not only appear
of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology,
University of California at Berkeley.
MOVIE TIMES during initiation ceremonies, but also on many other impor-
tant social occasions. The masks worn by Sande and Poro broad public audience. This exhibition allowed us to present
members possess unique characteristics and embellish- many variations on male Poro society and female Sande
ments, while adhering to established aesthetic criteria. society helmet masks. Typically, you would only see a few
CENTURY 12 DOWNTOWN • SAN MATEO • 558-0512 Among the Poro society, the Vai, Mende, Gola, De, and of these masks displayed together in museums with African
THE AMERICAN (R) (11:00 AM) | (12:00) | (1:50) | (2:40) | (4:30) | (5:30) | 7:20 Southern Kpelle have a helmet-shaped wooden mask collections; but here, we've been able to display 22 unique-
| 8:30 | 10:10 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG-13) (11:40 AM) | (3:20) | 7:05 | 10:30 THE known as gbetu or bowu. The mask closely resembles those ly carved examples. What's more, it is exciting to present
EXPENDABLES (R) (11:15 AM) | (2:10) | (4:55) | 7:40 | 10:15 GOING THE DISTANCE of the sowei masks of the Sande society, except that it has a
(R) (11:20 AM) | (1:55) | (4:25) | 7:15 | 10:20 INCEPTION (PG-13) (12:10) | (3:40) | the Sande society masks because they are the only known
7:00 | 10:25 MACHETE (R) (11:30 AM) | (2:00) | (4:40) | 7:25 | 10:00 THE OTHER
long-ringed neck with a small head at the top. The helmet female group in Africa where the women wear masks."
GUYS (PG-13) (11:25 AM) | (2:05) | (4:45) | 7:30 | 10:05 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE portions of the gbetu masks are typically carved with faces, This free exhibition, located in the International Terminal
(R) (12:30) | (3:30) | 6:10 | 9:00 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (R) (11:00 AM) | while the base displays various arrangements of geometric outside the secured boarding areas, may be seen at all times.
(11:50 AM) | (1:30) | (2:30) | (4:10) | (5:00) | 7:00 | 8:00 | 9:50 | 10:35 TAKERS (PG- motifs. Unlike Sande initiations where sowei masks per- No airline ticket is needed for access. For information call
13) (11:10 AM) | (1:40) | (4:20) | 7:10 | 9:55
form important ritual functions, gbetu masks, though they 821-9900 or visit www.sfoarts.org. "Liberian Helmet
may appear during the Poro initiation period, do not play a Masks of the Sande and Poro Societies from the Collections
CENTURY 20 DOWNTOWN REDWOOD CITY • 201-1341
major ceremonial role. of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology" runs
THE AMERICAN (R) 11:25 AM | 12:40 | 1:55 | 3:15 | 4:35 | 5:55 | 7:20 | 8:30 | 10:00 Nicole Mullen, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions at the
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12:50 | 4:00 | 7:10 | 10:20 THE EXPENDABLES (R) 12:00 | 5:10 | 10:30 GOING THE
San Francisco Airport Museums, says, "It was wonderful to
DISTANCE (R) 11:40 AM | 2:25 | 4:55 | 7:30 | 10:05 INCEPTION (PG-13) 11:45 AM | be able to bring the Phoebe. A. Hearst Museum of
3:25 | 7:00 | 10:15 THE LAST EXORCISM (PG-13) 1:10 | 3:40 | 6:00 | 8:20 | 10:35 Anthropology's collection of Liberian helmet masks to a Susan Cohn can be reached at susan@smdailyjournal.com.
MACHETE (R) 11:15 AM | 12:20 | 1:45 | 2:50 | 4:15 | 5:20 | 6:50 | 8:00 | 9:25 | 10:35
NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (PG) 11:20 AM | 1:50 | 4:20 | 7:05 | 9:40 THE OTHER
GUYS (PG-13) 12:05 | 2:40 | 5:15 | 7:55 | 10:25 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (R)
Fall garden tour The 19th century cemetery is located
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Continued from page 19
Miller), who have barricaded themselves
inside a former prison. Alice leads a dar-
ing rescue mission but faces new dangers
celebrity trainer. “I hit the gym a few
times a week, but I didn’t overdo it,”
recalls Jovovich, a striking brunette with
| 9:50 | 11:20 AVATAR: SPECIAL EDITION 3D (PG-13) (11:20 AM) | (3:10) | 7:00 | she couldn’t have imagined. intense green eyes.
10:45 DESPICABLE ME 3D (PG) (11:55 AM) | (2:25) | (4:55) | 7:25 | 9:55 EAT PRAY “Afterlife” marks the return of Instead of jumping back into action
LOVE (PG-13) (12:50) | (4:05) | 7:20 | 10:35 THE EXPENDABLES (R) (11:50 AM) | by the mysterious Umbrella Corporation Anderson to the helm and is the first
to combat aging and nerve-based diseases films, she shot the mystery thrillers “A
(2:35) | (5:15) | 7:55 | 10:35 GOING THE DISTANCE (R) (11:15 AM) | (1:55) | (4:35) |
“Resident Evil” movie to be shot in 3-D. Perfect Getaway,” set on a tropical island,
7:15 | 9:55 INCEPTION (PG-13) (12:05) | (3:35) | 7:10 | 10:40 THE LAST EXORCISM but has had the unfortunate dead cells and “I missed directing the films,” the film-
(PG-13) 12:01 AM | (11:30 AM) | (12:45) | (2:00) | (3:15) | (4:30) | (5:45) | 7:00 |
transforming its hosts into zombies. The and “The Fourth Kind,” set in the Alaska.
8:15 | 9:30 | 10:45 LOTTERY TICKET (PG-13) 10:05 MACHETE (R) (11:05 AM) | maker says. “ ‘Resident Evil’ has always Both films were released last year.
(12:25) | (1:45) | (3:05) | (4:25) | (5:45) | 7:05 | 8:25 | 9:45 | 11:05 NANNY MCPHEE virus has gone global, turning its victims been a rich playground for me.”
RETURNS (PG) (10:55 AM) | (1:50) | (4:35) | 7:20 THE OTHER GUYS (PG-13) (11:15 into mindless cannibals. Very few unin- “Being heavier actually opened up new
As for the 3-D aspect, Anderson says, roles for me,” says the actress. “I played
AM) | (2:00) | (4:45) | 7:30 | 10:15 PIRANHA 3D (R) (11:50 AM) | (2:20) | (4:45) | fected humans have survived.
7:10 | 9:35 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (R) 12:01 AM | 12:15 AM SALT (PG-13) “It’s really exciting to be on the cutting more normal people.”
(2:15) | 7:25 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (PG-13) (11:05 AM) | (1:55) | (4:50)
Picking up where “Extinction” left off, edge of a new technology.”
“Afterlife” finds Alice (Jovovich) in Alice, her signature “Resident Evil”
| 7:40 | 10:30 THE SWITCH (PG-13) (12:30) | 6:20 | 11:45 TAKERS (PG-13) (11:00 Jovovich hadn’t seen the stereoscopic
AM) | (1:50) | (3:20) | (4:40) | 7:30 | 9:00 | 10:20 TOY STORY 3 IN DISNEY DIGITAL Japan, armed with superhuman abilities role, is anything but normal. Infected by
version at the time of this interview, but
3D (G) (11:00 AM) | (1:45) | (4:30) | 7:15 | 10:00 VAMPIRES SUCK (PG-13) 12:15
and leading an army of her own clones she watched a non-3-D print, and loved it. the virus, she manages to stay human,
AM | (11:55 AM) | (5:00) | 10:00
against her longtime nemesis, Umbrella “Paul would bring it home and we’d though she has developed certain extraor-
Chairman Albert Wesker (“Diary of the watch it on our big screen TV,” she says. dinary powers — particularly an ability to
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Dead’s” Shawn Roberts). “I’m like ‘OK, great. If you think 3-D fight off zombies. When she encountered
CAIRO TIME (PG) (2:30) | (4:45) | 7:00 | 9:15
After escaping Wesker’s clutches, Alice looks great, I trust you.’ “ them in previous installments, they would
AQUARIUS • PALO ALTO • 266-9260 commandeers a small plane and escapes “Afterlife” marks a return for Jovovich simply explode. If she got bit, she would
to Alaska in hopes of finding uninfected to action movies, after she took a break regenerate. This time around, though, she
GET LOW (PG-13) (2:00) | (4:30) | 7:00 | 9:30 MAO’S LAST DANCER (PG) (3:00)
| (5:45) | 8:30 survivors in a town rumored to be safe. from the genre following her pregnancy is more vulnerable.
Instead she finds an old friend, Claire (Ali and the birth of her daughter in 2007. “Alice had to lose her powers,” says
CINÉARTS • PALO ALTO • 493-3456 Larter), last seen in “Extinction,” who is “I took my time losing the weight,” she Anderson, who again wrote the script.
MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT (R) (1:45) | (4:35) | 7:20 | 10:00 MESRINE: PUBLIC suffering from amnesia. Together they says, looking svelte and fit. “I gained 75 “We took her back to the place she was in
ENEMY #1 (R) (1:25) | (4:20) | 7:15 | 10:10 head to Los Angeles, where they meet a pounds (during the pregnancy), and it the very first movie: a skilled warrior but
handful of survivors, including Claire’s took me over a year to lose it.” just a human being.”
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‘I’m Still Here’self-indulgent,pointless

By Christy Lemire
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Joaquin Phoenix may truly have walked away
from a much-heralded acting career two years
ago to pursue his artistic expression as a rapper.
His look, which went from dark and mysterious
to shaggy and doughy, may simply have been
part of his transformative process.
Or not.
It becomes increasingly difficult to care about
discerning what’s real and what’s a hoax as the
documentary “I’m Still Here” drones on. We
have to use the word “documentary” loosely,
however, because it suggests an attempt at cap-
turing fact on film. What “I’m Still Here” cap-
tures is questionable.
Casey Affleck, an esteemed actor in his own
right who is directing for the first time, gets
such intimate access to Phoenix, it’s often
uncomfortable to watch, especially when
‘I’m Still Here’
Director:Casey Affleck
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix
Rated: R
Grade:
Ben Stiller and Sean Combs in on the joke. The
fact that Affleck often has multiple cameras
going at once is a hint. So are the closing cred-
its, in which Affleck and Phoenix are listed as
co-writers.
If there is an actual structure here, though, it’s
often elusive. Phoenix complains a lot about
being misunderstood, gives passionate bear

Five most explosive

hugs to fellow actors Sean Penn, Bruce Willis,
Phoenix is bent over a toilet yacking or having Jack Nicholson and Danny Glover at a play
a particularly vile prank played on him while rehearsal, and makes a halfhearted attempt at
he’s asleep. attending President Obama’s inauguration. He

That’s unsurprising, given that Affleck is
married to Phoenix’s sister, Summer, and the
two co-starred in Gus Van Sant’s “To Die For”
15 years ago. And similar to Van Sant’s recent
films, “I’m Still Here” often has a natural aes-
thetic and a languid, meandering vibe that
makes you wonder what’s going to happen next
— that is, if you’re still awake.
Affleck’s camera stalks Phoenix as he walks
and talks and rants and smokes (four things he
does for the entirety of the film), and tries to
explain the conundrum of reconciling art and
celebrity. If he watches his own performances,
does he become too conscious of them, and
does that affect future performances? If he
reads articles about himself that describe him as
emotional and intense, is he really that way, or
does he become that way because it’s the image
that’s being projected onto him?
Intriguing existential questions, all. And at
times, “I’m Still Here” does give the impression
that it’s trying to achieve an understanding of
the fragility of fame. Mostly, though, it feels
like an elaborate put-on, with celebrities such as
also snorts what looks like cocaine off the
naked breasts of a woman who is supposedly a
prostitute, smokes joint after joint and cavorts
with the various sycophants who are constantly
around and frequently nude.
He also raps — badly. His rhymes are mono-
tone, his beats are tinny and his lyrics are inane.
He agonizes in his home studio and performs
awkwardly on stage in front packed, bewildered
crowds in Las Vegas and Miami. When he final-
ly gets Combs to sit down and listen to his
demo, Combs is polite but direct: Phoenix is not
good enough to do this. The producer’s reaction
crushes Phoenix. But is it a genuine reaction?
Phoenix does seem crestfallen, and beats him-
self up as convincingly as he does after his infa-
mously painful Letterman appearance. (Affleck
includes the whole interview, which is just as
much of a scream as it was when it first aired in
2008.) Then again, this is a two-time Oscar
nominee for “Gladiator” and “Walk the Line.”
This is a guy who can be frighteningly good at
what he does — when it comes to acting, at
least.
music documentaries
By Christy Lemire
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — There are music doc-
umentaries that are all about the music —
concert films that focus solely on the artistry
and thrill of live performance — and then
there are juicy ones that are all about back-
stage ego and volatility.
“I’m Still Here,” which follows Joaquin
Phoenix’s tumultuous transformation from
Oscar-nominated actor to shaggy, doughy
rapper, would seem to fall into the latter cat-
egory — if it truly is a documentary, that is,
and not an elaborate put-on. Here are some
other examples of serious rock-star behav-
ior:
• “Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back”
(1967): A classic from legendary documen-
tarian D.A. Pennebaker, this behind-the-
scenes look at the 23-year-old Dylan set the
standard for this kind of film. It’s got all that
famous imagery: the black-and-white verite
photography, Dylan standing there tossing
away cue cards with the lyrics to
“Subterranean Homesick Blues.” All impish
charisma and childish impulse, Dylan tours
England in 1965 with Joan Baez and
Donovan, tussles with reporters and forges
one of the many facets of his persona we’d
come to know, or at least think we know.
“Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” paro-
dies this time in Dylan’s life with dead-on
hilarity.
• “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart”
(2002): Visually similar to “Don’t Look
Back” with its grainy, black-and-white cine-
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Baptist Church of Christ Lutheran Non-Denominational Houses of Prayer Houses of Prayer

PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH
Dr. Larry Wayne Ellis, Pastor
(650) 343-5415
217 North Grant Street, San Mateo
Sunday Worship Services at 8 & 11 am
Sunday School at 9:30 am
Website: www.pilgrimbcsm.org
LISTEN TO OUR
RADIO BROADCAST!
(KFAX 1100 on the AM Dial)
Every Sunday at 5:30 PM
Buddhist
LOTUS
BUDDHIST CIRCLE
(Rissho Kosei-kai of SF)
851 N. San Mateo Dr., Suite D
San Mateo
650.200.3755
English Service: 4th Sunday at 10 AM
Study: Tuesday at 7 PM
www.lotusbuddhistcircle.com
SAN MATEO
BUDDHIST TEMPLE
Jodo ShinshuBuddhist
(Pure Land Buddhism)
2 So. Claremont St.
San Mateo
(650) 342-2541
Sunday English Service &
Dharma School - 9:30 AM
Reverend Ryuta Furumoto
www.sanmateobuddhisttemple.org
CHURCH OF CHRIST
525 South Bayshore Blvd.
San Mateo
(650) 343-4997
Bible School 9:45 AM
Services 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM
Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 PM
Minister J.S. Oxendine
www.church-of-christ.org/cocsm
Congregational
FOSTER CITY
ISLAND UNITED CHURCH
Foster City's
only three-denomination Church
Methodist, Presbyterian (U.S.A.),
and United Church of Christ
1130 Balclutha Drive (at Comet)
Worship/Child Care/Sunday School
at 10am
All are Welcome!
Call (650) 349-3544
• THE •
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
OF SAN MATEO - UCC
225 Tilton Ave. & San Mateo Dr.
(650) 343-3694
Worship and Church School
Every Sunday at 10:30 AM
Coffee Hour at 11:45 AM
Nursery Care Available
www.ccsm-ucc.org
901 Madison Ave., Redwood City
HOPE EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN CHURCH
600 W. 42nd Ave.,
San Mateo
Pastor Eric Ackerman
Worship Service 10:00 AM
Sunday School 11:00 AM
Child care provided in the nursery.
Hope Lutheran Preschool
admits students of any race, color
and national or ethnic origin.
License No. 410500322.
Call (650)349-0100
HopeLutheranSanMateo.org
Methodist
CRYSTAL SPRINGS
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday Worship 10:00 AM
Sunday School • Childcare • Drama
Choir • Handbells • Praise Band
2145 Bunker Hill Drive
(Near Polhemus Rd.)
San Mateo • (650)345-2381
www.csumc.org
Non-Denominational
REDWOOD CHURCH
Our mission...
To know Christ and make him known.
(650)366-1223
Sunday services:
9:00AM & 10:45AM
www.redwoodchurch.org
Church of the
Highlands
“A community of caring Christians”
1900 Monterey Drive
(corner Sneath Lane) San Bruno
(650)873-4095
Adult Worship Services:
Friday: 7:30 pm (singles)
Saturday: 7:00 pm
Sun 7, 8:30, 10, & 11:30 am,
5 pm
Youth Worship Service:
For high school & young college
Sunday at 10:00 am
Sunday School
For adults & children of all ages
Sunday at 10:00 am
Donald Sheley, Founding Pastor
Leighton Sheley, Senior Pastor
Synagogues
PENINSULA TEMPLE
BETH EL
1700 Alameda de las Pulgas
San Mateo at Hwy 92
(650) 341-7701
Synagogues
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22 Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010
Yellowstone breaks record for summer visitors
Yellowstone has almost 958,000 visitors in July, up 6.5 percent from July 2009, and nearly
855,000 in August,a more than 13 percent increase from a year earlier.
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matography, this documentary began life as an
up-close depiction of the Chicago band Wilco
as it stood on the brink of stardom. It ended up
being an indictment of the corporations that
run the recording industry. Led by singer-
songwriter Jeff Tweedy, the band records its
fourth album, “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” only to
reach an impasse with the label over its con-
tent. Frustrations lead to infighting. But direc-
tor Sam Jones’ film also functions beautifully
in its performance scenes, whether in the inti-
macy of rehearsal or on stage, where Wilco
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enjoys a cult-like fan following.
• “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster”
(2004): A riveting look at a turbulent time in
the monstrously popular metal band’s history.
You don’t have to be a Metallica fan to enjoy
this movie (though there are plenty of record-
ing sessions to watch if you are). Through the
group’s brutally honest therapy sessions, film-
makers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky tell
a story of loyalty, communication, redemption
and the challenges that come with continuing
a career in your 40s. The members of
Metallica fight, record their album “St.
Anger,” fight some more, and eventually find
some kind of peace. The film is so nonjudg-
mental — and often so insightful — it never
falls into “Spinal Tap”-style parody.
• “Gimme Shelter” (1970): Another classic
By Mead Gruver
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — This species in
Yellowstone National Park is appearing in
greater numbers than ever before — people.
More than 2.5 million of them visited the
world’s first national park over the June, July
and August summer season. That’s up by more
than 200,000 compared with summer 2009,
putting Yellowstone on track to set another
attendance record. Nearly 3.3 million people
visited during all of 2009, topping the previous
record set in 2007 by nearly 5 percent.
Marketing by the state tourism offices in
Wyoming, Montana and Idaho probably is
boosting Yellowstone tourism, park
spokesman Al Nash said.
The weak economy might also be helping
by encouraging cheap vacations.
“Visiting your national parks is a good
value,” Nash said Wednesday. “And you can
sort of adjust the length and the type of your
trip to fit your schedule and your wallet more
than you can other visitor destinations.”
On the other hand, more people can mean
longer lines at park entrance stations, restau-
from another legendary documentarian,
Albert Maysles. Here, the volatility doesn’t
just exist backstage, it permeates every scene,
swelling as the film leads up to its explosive
climax: the Rolling Stones’ concert at
Altamont, where a clash between Hell’s
Angels and fans results in death. Maysles fol-
lows the band’s 1969 tour, and the feeling of
dread is inescapable; the fact that we know
what’s coming at the end in no way depletes it
of its suspense. Mick Jagger tries to quell ten-
sions from the stage, but even being a sexy
and charming rock star does no good in a vio-
lent crowd of hundreds of thousands. The
band’s reaction to the footage afterward is
chilling.
• “Madonna: Truth or Dare” (1991): A
striking mix of black and white with bursts of
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rants and gift shop cash registers, Nash said,
along with more traffic jams where people
stop to gawk at roadside wildlife.
“If you came to the park and weren’t in a
wildlife jam at some point, your trip probably
was unusual,” Nash said. “And if you were in a
wildlife jam, it probably lasted longer than you
might have experienced in previous years.”
Business has been brisk at the nine hotels
and other restaurants and gift shops operated
by Yellowstone’s largest concessionaire,
Xanterra Parks & Resorts, company sales and
marketing director Rick Hoeninghausen said.
“It has been a very strong summer. I would
say that this year our volumes, our business
levels, have mirrored the strong visitation that
we’ve experienced,” Hoeninghausen said.
The most people in Yellowstone on any
given summer day — 25,000 to 30,000 — far
exceeds population estimates for the park’s
other large mammals.
Yellowstone is home to about that many elk
during the summer. About 15,000 to 22,000
elk stick around the park during the winter.
Yellowstone has approximately 3,000 bison,
no more than 1,000 moose and close to 100
wolves, according to park figures.
color during the concert scenes, which seems
fitting for Madonna, given the dramatically
fluctuating images of herself she presents to
the world. Director Alek Keshishian follows
Madonna on her grueling 1990 Blond
Ambition tour and provides many of the
moments we’ve come to associate with the
pop star: the pre-show prayer circles, the sex
games with her dancers, the backstage dissing
of Kevin Costner. She’s always fully aware
she’s being filmed, of course — don’t kid
yourself that you’re seeing the “real”
Madonna. As “herself,” though, she certainly
gives a better performance than she did in
“Swept Away.” And if it doesn’t happen on
camera for Madonna, as Warren Beatty astute-
ly observes, it may as well not happen at all.
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Steven Lindley
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) scientist
Steven Lindley hosts an interactive dis-
cussion on the state of California’s
salmon. Following a precipitous col-
lapse of Sacramento River Chinook, the
federal government completely closed
California’s fishing season in 2008 and
2009. Dr. Lindley discusses the factors
causing this decline, as well as
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ation center in San Bruno City Park Friday.
Displaced families were gathering at the
one-stop center where general assistance
and insurance information was available to
those affected by Thursday’s fire which
destroyed homes, resulted in injury and
death and brought people from miles
around to what is normally a quiet town.
“It’s amazing,” said Councilwoman
Irene O’Connell who was at the recreation
center Friday afternoon along with the rest
of the City Council.
All around her, average people had
taken over roles of assistance. Downstairs,
people put together boxes, sorted through
donations and conferred about what was
still needed. There were plenty of newborn
clothing, for example, but toddlers were
not getting the clothing needed. Upstairs
was a different experience.
Residents could check in and meet with
various organizations like Red Cross or
local state and federal representatives
about their issues.
“It’s a one-stop multiple service center,”
said Harold Brooks, CEO of the Red Cross
Bay Area Chapter. “You can get your
insurance, PG&E vouchers, get assistance
from the Red Cross, whatever you need.”
The center is going to be set up as long
as a need continues.
Outside, many families sat and waited.
Some held their heads in their hands with
no desire to talk about the unknown cir-
cumstances of their home and loved ones.
Daniella Ceceres and her mom Melissa
sat inside the park, separated by a paved
road from the frenzy of donation activity,
quietly with their dogs — Wendy, Trinity
and Basia.
The pair, who live on the hill that was set
ablaze, were at Costco buying things for
dinner. Daniella’s dad, Melissa’s husband,
was at home and about to walk the dogs
when he saw smoke and flames. He took
the dogs and got out of town. Danielle and
Melissa decided to head home.
“When we walked out, we saw big
flames and smoke. As we got closer, there
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to noon.It is closed Sunday.
***
The San Mateo County Community College District is
offering several brand-new apartments to be used as
temporary housing for victims of the San Bruno fire.
The district opened Cañada Vista,a 60-unit complex on
the Cañada campus in Redwood City,three weeks ago
and not all apartments have yet been rented to faculty
and staff.The college district had reserved several
apartments to be used to recruit new faculty and staff.
For information on available apartments contact chris-
tensen@smccd.edu.
***
The California Department of Financial Institutions
(DFI) is urging financial institutions to review their
lending policies to grant appropriate latitude to exist-
ing customers affected by the San Bruno emergency
and to expedite the extension of new credit to finance
cleanup or rebuilding.
***
Subsidiaries of AT&T Inc.in San Bruno are providing vic-
tims with free access to phone and computer services
to help them keep in touch with loved ones during the
disaster’s aftermath,the company announced Friday.
Employees of AT&T stores in San Bruno provided
wireless phones to people who needed them at
the Veterans Memorial Recreational Center, located
at 251 City Park Way at Crystal Springs Road. The
company also made computers and cellular phone
chargers available at that location, the company
said in a statement.
How to help
Donations of basic medical supplies (i.e.:Band-aids,an-
tiseptic cream,bandages and aspirin),non-perishable
foods,toiletries and clothing can be dropped at the
Veterans Memorial Recreation Center,251 City Park
Way,San Bruno.
***
To donate to the Red Cross visit www.redcrossba-
yarea.org or call (888) 4-HELP-BAY or (800) RED-Cross
and specify “San Bruno Fire.”Donated items should be
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approaches to management and
conservation. Dr. Lindley is the
Supervisory Research
Ecologist on the Landscape
Ecology Team within the
Fisheries Ecology
Division of the Southwest
Fisheries Science Center
(which is part of the NOAA
Fisheries Service). Sponsored by
Café Scientifique Silicon Valley.
Tuesday, Sept. 14 from 6 p.m. to 7:30
Daniella Caceres,left,and her mom Melissa Caceres sit with their dogs Wendy,left
to right,Trinity and Basia at San Bruno City Park Friday.
was a red glow and we thought, ‘What do
we do?’” said Daniella Ceceres.
They tried to make it home to salvage
some items but the road was closed. The
family met up about an hour later and
stayed with a friend.
On Friday, they were able to talk with
their insurance agent at the park and were
hoping to hear about their home. Aerial
shots on the news gave the Cecereses
hope, their home appeared to be OK. Their
bird, a cockatoo named Magic, is still
inside.
In Millbrae, the Blood Centers of the
Pacific was turning away potential donors
citing post-Sept. 11 walk-in levels. As a
result, the center will be open from 8 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Still, the
inside was packed with people, not all
from San Bruno but all hoping to help the
plight of those affected.
Daly City resident Michelle Miller
heard about the events on television.
“People needed help,” said Miller, who
was also impressed by the quick reaction
from local businesses wanting to help.
“It makes me feel good to see [business-
es] supporting the community,” she said.
San Mateo resident Clay Minter grew up
in the Glenview neighborhood. His best
friend’s mom still lives in that neighbor-
brought to the First Tongan United Methodist Church,
560 El Camino Real,San Bruno.Officials say that there
are enough donated items now,and that further dona-
tions should be made in cash to immediately help the
victims.
***
To volunteer visit www.thevolunteercenter.net.
***
To donate blood to the Blood Centers of the Pacific
visit bloodcenters.org or call (888) 393-GIVE.The cen-
ters need universal Type O negative blood and urge
residents not to donate until next week.
***
The district 4-C4 Lions Club has set up a Local Disaster
Bank account.Any monetary donations to this account
should be made out to
District 4-C4 and mailed to:
Lion Steve Picchi,311 Filbert St.,Half Moon Bay,CA
94019
Any money received will be deposited into the Disaster
Account.Any amount of donations will be helpful.
***
The Salvation Army is accepting donations of clothing
and furniture at six locations in the Bay Area.Families
displaced by Thursday’s catastrophe will have an op-
portunity to select the goods that best fit their needs
from donations collected at those six locations,in com-
bination with Salvation Army Family Thrift Store
inventory.Those locations are:
SAN FRANCISCO:Salvation Army Family Thrift Store —
1500 Valencia St.(at Cesar Chavez); Salvation Army
Family Thrift Store — 3921 Geary Blvd.(at Fourth
Street);
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO:Salvation Army Family Thrift
Store — 1170 S.Mission Road; Salvation Army Dona-
tion Drop Box-409 South Spruce Ave.(in parking lot);
SAN BRUNO:Salvation Army Family Thrift Store — 300
El Camino Real;
DALY CITY:Salvation Army Donation Drop Box — 3
Serramonte Center (in Serramonte Center parking lot).
***
The San Bruno and San Mateo farmers’markets are ac-
cepting donations for the San Bruno fire relief through
the American Red Cross.
Donation boxes will be made available at the PCFMA
Information Booths at the farmers’markets.The San
Bruno market,located at San Mateo and Jenevein av-
enues,is Sunday from 9 a.m.to 1 p.m.and the San
Mateo market,at the College of San Mateo,is Saturday
from 9 a.m.to 1 p.m.
The proceeds will be sent directly to the Red Cross so
that help can get to those who need it.
p.m. SRI International —
International Building —
Middlefield at Ringwood —
Menlo Park. Café
Scientifique is a place
where anyone can come
to explore the latest ideas
in science and technology
and debate science issues out-
side a traditional academic con-
text. Event is free of charge - For more
information visit www.cafescisv.org.
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hood. The two have a standing weekly din-
ner Thursday nights.
Minter described his friend driving over
the explosion point one minute before it
blew.
“God placed him there at the right time,”
said Minter, adding how his friend was
able to save his 86-year-old mother and her
health care worker minutes after arriving.
Minter donates regularly, but it had been
a while. When he heard O- blood was in
need, he headed down to the Millbrae
location and waited two hours to give.
College of San Mateo student Tyler
Huffman was able to make a 1:45 p.m.
appointment at 1 p.m. Friday, not a bad
wait. His friend’s family has been dis-
placed with the father in the hospital.
Huffman was trying to be supportive.
He was watching the first football game
of the season and the San Francisco Giants
game at a sports bar when the news started
showing the fire.
“I was in a sports bar and no one was
watching the game,” he said. “The more
you watched it, the more surreal it
became.”
Heather Murtagh can be reached by e-mail:
heather@smdailyjournal.com or by phone:
(650) 344-5200 ext. 105.
For more information contact the Pacific Coast Farm-
ers’Market Association at (800) 949-FARM,(925)
825-9090 or visit www.pcfma.com.
***
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation will match
up to $100,000 on all financial gifts to its San Bruno Fire
Fund.For questions to donate,contact 450-5444 or do-
nate@siliconvalleycf.org.
***
Wells Fargo & Company is contributing $50,000 to sup-
port the efforts of the American Red Cross Bay Area
Chapter.Beginning Saturday through the rest of the
month,Wells Fargo customers can donate to the Amer-
ican Red Cross at 85 Wells Fargo ATMs in San Mateo
County.Customers will not be charged a fee for using
this service and 100 percent of the donation will be
sent to the American Red Cross.
Wells Fargo will work with customers affected by the
fire in San Bruno on a case-by-case basis to assist them
with their financial services needs.Wells Fargo cus-
tomers affected by the fire can contact their banker
and visit their nearest Wells Fargo store to discuss fi-
nancial options.Customers also can contact Wells
Fargo 24 hours a day,seven days a week at (800) TO-
WELLS ((800) 869-3557).
***
Safeway Inc.announced that its philanthropic arm,The
Safeway Foundation,is donating $25,000 to the Ameri-
can Red Cross.In addition to the financial donation and
the ongoing food and supplies being provided by local
Safeway stores,the company is giving grocery gift
cards to the families who were impacted.
The company is also providing a method for commu-
nity members to aid in this effort.Roughly 80 Safeway
stores in the surrounding counties are collecting dona-
tions at checkstands for the American Red Cross’San
Bruno relief effort.
***
An emergency response fund has been created by Sili-
con Valley Community Foundation.The community
foundation is offering an initial $100,000 match on all
gifts to aid in the response and recovery of this neigh-
borhood.
The San Bruno Fire Fund is designed to help rebuild
the community today and in the weeks to come.All
contributions will be granted to qualified nonprofit or-
ganizations and programs serving those whose lives
have been impacted by this emergency.For any ques-
tions about the fund or how to make a gift please
contact the community foundation at (650) 450-5444
or donate@siliconvalleycf.org.
Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010
Calendar
SATURDAY, SEPT. 11
Hearing Loss Association of the
Peninsula Meeting for Working
Adults. 9:30 a.m. Bob’s Courthouse
Cafe, 2198 Broadway, Redwood
City. Free for all interested. For more
information call 345-4551.
Child Safety Seat Check. 10 a.m. to
12 p.m. South San Francisco Fire
Station 61. 480 N. Canal St., South
San Francisco. Assemblyman Jerry
Hill is hosting a child safety check
for San Mateo County residents.
Certified technicians will make sure
your child’s safety seat is safe and
installed correctly in your vehicle.
Free. For more information contact
Marc Hershman at 349 1900.
35th Annual Hillsborough-San
Mateo Fall Garden Tour. 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. Special garden tour, plant sale
and raffle. Funds will benefit San
Mateo Arboretum Society, which
helps sustain San Mateo Central Park
and promotes a knowledge and inter-
est in gardening throughout the com-
munity. Tickets $35 in advance, $40
same day of tour. Map of venue
included on tickets. For more infor-
mation and to order tickets call 579-
0536, ext. 5 or visit www.sanma-
teoarboretum.org.
Recycle Computers with Redwood
Shores Community Association. 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. Redwood Shores
Community Library, 399 Marine
Parkway. Bring your old TV’s, com-
puters, monitors etc., working or non
working, to donate. Free. For more
information contact Michael
Whatmore at 444-5881.
Book Super Sale. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Belmont Library, 1110 Alameda de
las Pulgas. Books in Friends’ Store
are 50 percent off. Tapes, compact
discs and videos also on sale.
Proceed benefit Belmont Library.
For more information call 593-5650.
Genghis Khan and the Making of
the Modern World. Noon to 4 p.m.
Millbrae Library, 1 Library Ave.
Film: ‘Mongol’ (with English subti-
tles) and a book discussion in
Mandarin Chinese.
Paws and Claws Wildlife Show.
1p.m. Coyote Point Museum, 1651
Coyote Point Drive, San Mateo.
Learn about the animals at Coyote
Point. Free with museum admission.
For more information call 342-7755
or visit www.coyoteptmuseum.org.
Family Fun Event at Hillsdale
Shopping Center. 1:30 p.m.
Hillsdale Shopping Center, 60 31st
Ave., San Mateo. A series of free
interactive entertainment for the
entire family. Featuring Hawaiian
dance and music lessons. For more
information contact
spin@spinpr.com.
‘900 Lives of Vision.’ 2 p.m. to 4
p.m. Second floor of Avenue 25
Gallery, 32 W. 25th Ave. Reception
for new art exhibit by Leigh Toldi.
For more information visit
avenue25gallery.plsinfo.org.
Paws and Claws Wildlife Show. 3
p.m. Coyote Point Museum, 1651
Coyote Point Drive, San Mateo.
Learn about the animals at Coyote
Point. Free with museum admis-
sion. For more information call
342-7755 or visit www.coyotept-
museum.org.
Art Show and Open House. 6
p.m. to 9 p.m. Avenue Art, Suite
110 of 60 E. Third Ave., San
Mateo. Come see local artists such
as Joe Gurkoff and Tim
Christensen display their work.
Free. For more information call
579 4465.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 12
Cultivating Creativity: A Free
Hypnosis Workshop. 10 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. 122 Second Ave., Suite
209, San Mateo. Explore your cre-
ative subconscious with certified
hypnotherapist Susan Gold. Free.
Must e-mail or call to reserve a seat.
For more information or to register
visit susangold.net or call 532-0509.
Target Family Days. 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. Courthouse Square 2200
Broadway, Redwood City. Come out
for family-friendly events such as
face painting and hands-on Art proj-
ects. Free. For more information
visit redwoodcity.org/events/target-
familydays.
Paws and Claws Wildlife Show. 1
p.m. Coyote Point Museum 1651
Coyote Point Drive, San Mateo.
Come to the Wildlife Theatre and
learn about Coyote Point Museum’s
non-releasable animals. Free with
admission which starts at $4. For
more information visit coyoteptmu-
seum.org.
Hearing Loss Association of the
Peninsula Meeting. 1 p.m. Veteran’s
Memorial Senior Center, 1455
Madison Ave., Redwood City. Ellen
Mastman, audiologist and speech
instructor will present a program on
lipreading. Free. For more informa-
tion call 345-4551.
23
Paws and Claws Wildlife Show. 3
p.m. Coyote Point Museum 1651
Coyote Point Drive, San Mateo.
Come to the Wildlife Theatre and
learn about Coyote Point Museum’s
non-releasable animals. Free with
admission which starts at $4. For
more information visit coyoteptmu-
seum.org.
Boogie Woogie Ballroom Dance. 5
p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Burlingame
Masonic Hall, 145 Park Road,
Burlingame. Come for lessons, danc-
ing and a snack buffet. $12 for lesson
and dance, $10 for dance. For more
information contact Cheryl Steeper
at csteeper@best-of-show.com.
MONDAY, SEPT. 13
Nancy’s Little House Hike: Fall
Creek. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Meet at
Little House, 800 Middle Ave.,
Menlo Park. Meet new friends, learn
about the Bay Area’s natural history
and improve your physical fitness.
Bring a day pack, water and lunch
and be prepared to walk three to five
miles. $30. For more information or
to reserve a space e-mail
nshawtrey@comcast.net or call
(952) 846-3877.
Video Tai Chi. 11 a.m. Twin Pines
Senior and Community Center, 20
Twin Pines, Belmont. Easy to follow
demonstrations will guide you
through the experience of Tai Chi, a
gentle exercise form that improves
tone, flexibility and reduces stress.
Free. For more information or to
reserve a space call 595-7444.
Video Line Dancing. 12:30 p.m.
Twin Pines Senior and Community
Center, 20 Twin Pines Lane,
Belmont. Learn popular line dances
by following along with a video.
Free. For more information or to
reserve your space call 595-7444.
Movies at Little House. 1 p.m. The
Roslyn G. Morris Activity Center,
800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park. Come
out to enjoy the movie ‘Leap Year’ at
the Little House auditorium. $2
members, $3 non-members. For
more information contact 326-2025.
Chair dancing through the
decades. 2 p.m. Twin Pines Senior
and Community Center, 20 Twin
Pines Lane, Belmont. Get exercise,
improve flexibility and burn calories
with seated exercises along with
films and music that was popular
through the decades. Free. For more
information call 595-7444.
Employment support group. 3 p.m.
First Baptist Church, 787 Walnut St.,
San Carlos. Get support, information
and networking. Free. For more
information call Bob Riley at (415)
205-5184 or visit www.sancarlosf-
bc.org.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 14
Stay Fit at Little House. 7:30 a.m.
to 8:40 a.m. Little House Fitness
Center, 800 Middle Ave., Menlo
Park. Stay in shape by Taiji/Qi Gong
exercises. $12 members, $14 non-
members. For more information call
326-2025.
Stay Fit at Little House. 9 a.m. to
10 a.m. Little House Fitness Center,
800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park. Stay
in shape by Qi Gong exercises. $12
members, $14 non-members. For
more information call 326-2025.
Emergency Preparedness
Workshop. 10 a.m. Twin Pines
Senior and Community Center, 20
Twin Pines Lane, Belmont. Learn
how to prepare for a disaster and set
up a support network. Free. For more
information call 595-7444.
24 Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010 COMICS/GAMES THE DAILY JOURNAL

Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010
All those petty restrictions that have been impeding your
progress should finally be alleviated in the year ahead, allow-
ing you to move full speed ahead on your dreams once again.
You’ll be able to achieve several significant objectives.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Because it can be difficult for
you to praise others at times, you are easily misunderstood.
You’ll feel good about yourself if you will speak up and praise
someone for a job well done.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Someone whom you went out of
your way to help recently, and who may not have shown any
appreciation, is trying to find a way to reciprocate. You’ll feel
better about this person once s/he does.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Spend some quality time
smoothing out a social issue that has somehow gotten out of
hand. Make it work out.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - A big achievement that
was of a difficult nature might finally be accomplished, all
because you knew how to get everyone working together to
make it happen.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Talk things out with an
associate who normally operates on the same wavelength
that you do. Once again, this person might be able to fill in
the missing pieces you can’t find.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - Two critical factors that
have recently had an impact on your earnings might once
again start to quiet down and allow things to fall back into
place. Once things mellow out, you can relax.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - Your word is your bond, which
will become quite evident to everybody with whom you’ll be
involved. Once folks start to realize this, it should become far
easier to do business with them.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) - The main reason you are likely
to meet with such success is that you will not only realize
what your assets are but what your limitations are as well.
You’ll make things happen.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - The more you are challenged,
the better you are likely to perform. You’ll enjoy dealing with
endeavors that call for sharp thinking as well as clever ideas
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Although domestic issues might
occupy your time, you’ll be quite effective in dealing with
them in both tangible and intangible ways. Because you won’t
be intimidated, desirable results are likely.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Team up with those who can
help advance your desires and plans. Once they understand
how they can fit into the scheme of things, they’ll be both
supportive and willing helpers.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Because you are likely to focus on
opportunities that have real substance and are not just wish-
ful thinking, making a profit won’t be just a pipe dream but
will have real possibilities. Do what you think will work.
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203 Public Notices 203 Public Notices 203 Public Notices Over the Hedge Over the Hedge Over the Hedge

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Governing Board of the San Bruno Park School District will re-
ceive bids for the following:

To furnish all labor and materials, transportation, fees, permits, and other services for Construction
of 2 New Modular Buildings at Parkside Intermediate School, site located at 1801 Niles Ave., San
Bruno, San Mateo County, shall be in complete conformance with the Drawings and Specifications
and other Contract Documents as prepared by the office of Persinger Architects and Associates,
and their consultants.

2. The time allotted for completion of this Contract is 300 calendar days. The estimated construction
cost is $8,300,000.

4. Bids must be sealed in an envelope clearly marked "BID" and filed at the District Office:

SAN BRUNO PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT

Drabble Drabble Drabble
500 Acacia Avenue
San Bruno, California, 94066

Bids must be received on or before 3 p.m. October 6th, 2010. Bids will be opened and read publicly at the
same location at 3:05 p.m., October 6th, 2010. Any claim of error in a bid must be made between the above
time for receipt and the above time for opening or such error shall be deemed waived. Sealed bids may be
withdrawn, but not resubmitted, between the above stated time for receipt and the stated time for opening upon
such claim of error.

5. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the opening
thereof.

6. The Director of the State Department of Industrial Relations has determined general prevailing wag-
es. The wages so established and the conditions pertaining thereto are on file at the District Office where they
may be examined on request, or on the Internet at: www.dir.ca.gov.

Pursuant to law, the Contractor and all tier Subcontractors under the Contractor shall pay all workers on all
Work performed pursuant the this Contract not less than the general prevailing rate of per-diem wages and the
general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work as determined by the Director of the Department of Indus- 203 Public Notices 203 Public Notices 203 Public Notices
trial Relations, State of California, for the type of work performed and the locality in which the work is to be per-
formed within the boundaries of the District, pursuant to sections 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code. CASE# CIV 496284 CASE# CIV 497992 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
This project is funded in whole or in part with State bond funds and, therefore, the District and/or its designee ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR STATEMENT #240877
will be operating a labor compliance program pursuant to Labor Code section 1771.7. CHANGE OF NAME CHANGE OF NAME The following person is doing business
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, as: R.G. Dental Studio, 1 S. Lindon Ave.
COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, Ste. 6, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA
7. All bids must be submitted on the designated Bid Form, and in accordance with Instructions to Bid- 400 COUNTY CENTER RD, 400 COUNTY CENTER RD, 94080 is hereby registered by the follow-
ders, Drawings, Specifications, and other Contract Documents, available from: REDWOOD CITY CA 94063 REDWOOD CITY CA 94063 ing owner: Raul Guillan, 26 Center St.,
PETITION OF PETITION OF REDWOOD CITY, CA 94061. The busi-
Greystone West Company Michelle M. Pierce Rosa Martha Escobado Vargas ness is conducted by an Individual. The
19670 Eighth Street East TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: registrants commenced to transact busi-
Petitioner, Michelle M. Pierce filed a peti- Petitioner, Rosa Martha Escobodo Var- ness under the FBN on
Sonoma, CA 95476 tion with this court for a decree changing gas, filed a petition with this court for a /s/ Raul E. Guillen /
Phone: 707.933.0624/ Fax: 707.996.8390 name as follows: decree changing name as follows: This statement was filed with the Asses-
Present name: Codey Ryan Syverson- Present name: Rodrigo Escobado sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
Copies of Contract Documents may be obtained therefrom with a deposit of $100.00 per set. Check shall be Pierce Proposed name: Rodrigo Moreno Esco- County on 09/10/10. (Published in the
made payable to San Bruno Park School District. The deposits are refundable upon the return of complete sets Proposed name: Codey Ryan Pierce bedo San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/11/10,
of documents, bound, in good condition. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons THE COURT ORDERS that all persons 09/18/10, 09/25/10, 10/02/10).
interested in this matter shall appear be- interested in this matter shall appear be-
fore this court at the hearing indicated fore this court at the hearing indicated
8. The Governing Board reserves the right to reject any and/or all bids, waive any irregular-ities, and to below to show cause, if any, why the pe- below to show cause, if any, why the pe- NOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL
be the sole judge of the responsibility of any bidder and of the suitability of the materials and/or services ren- tition for change of name should not be tition for change of name should not be REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE
dered. granted. Any person objecting to the granted. Any person objecting to the CASE NO. 119631
name changes described above must file name changes described above must file In the Superior Court of the State of Cali-
9. This project is subject to the Fingerprinting requirements of Section 45125 of the Education Code, as a written objection that includes the rea- a written objection that includes the rea- fornia, for the County of San Mateo
sons for the objection at least two court sons for the objection at least two court In the Matter of: The Estate of Vittorio Li-
well as the requirements of the Michelle Montoya School Safety Act. days before the matter is scheduled to days before the matter is scheduled to do Giovannoni, Decedent
be heard and must appear at the hearing be heard and must appear at the hearing Notice is hereby given that, subject to
10. The Owner will not consider or accept any bids from contractors who are not licensed to do busi- to show cause why the petition should to show cause why the petition should confirmation by this Court, on Sep. 20,
ness in the State of California, in accordance with the California Public Contract Code, providing for the licens- not be granted. If no written objection is not be granted. If no written objection is 2010, or thereafter within the time al-
ing of contractors. In accordance with Section 3300 of said Code, the bidder shall have a Class "B" General timely filed, the court may grant the peti- timely filed, the court may grant the peti- lowed by law, the undersigned as Co-Ex-
Building Contractor license and shall maintain that license in good standing through Project completion and tion without a hearing. tion without a hearing. ecutors of the estate of the above-named
A HEARING on the petition shall be held A HEARING on the petition shall be held decedent will sell at private sale to the
all applicable warranty periods. Contractor must have DSA approved PC drawings in order to bid this proj- on October 6, 2010, at 9 a.m., Dept. PJ, on September 29, 2010, at 9 a.m., Dept.
ect. Bidder shall state the license number on the Designation of Subcontractors form for all subcontractors do- highest and best net bidder on the terms
Room 2C at 400 County Center, Red- PJ, Room 2C at 400 County Center, and conditions hereinafter mentioned all
ing more than one-half of one percent (0.5%) of the bidder’s total bid. Owner reserves the right to reject any bid wood City, CA 94063. Redwood City, CA 94063. right, title and interest that the estate has
if a listed subcontractor is not licensed at the time bidder’s bid is submitted to Owner. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall acquired in addition to that of the dece-
be published at least once each week for be published at least once each week for dent at the time of death, in the real
11. The successful bidder will be allowed to substitute securities or establish an escrow in lieu of retain- four successive weeks prior to the date four successive weeks prior to the date property located in the City of Daly City,
set for hearing on the petition in the fol- set for hearing on the petition in the fol- County of SAn Mateo, California, more
age, pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 22300, and as described in the Agreement between Owner and lowing newspaper of general circulation: lowing newspaper of general circulation:
Contractor, General Conditions and in the Exhibits section of the Project Manual. commonly known as 72 Victoria Street,
The Daily Journal, San Mateo County The Daily Journal, San Mateo County and more particularly described as set
Filed: August 16, 2010 Filed: August 17, 2010 forth in Exhibit A which is attached here-
12. There will be a Mandatory Job walk on Wednesday September 22nd, 2010 onsite at Parkside Inter- /s/ Stephen Hall / /s/ Stephen Hall / to and incorporated erein by this refer-
mediate School 1801 Niles Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066 beginning at 3:00 p.m. for the purpose of acquainting Judge of the Superior Court Judge of the Superior Court ence.
all prospective bidders with the bid documents and the work site. Failure to attend the job walk may disqualify Dated: 08/16/2010 Dated: 08/17/2010 The property will be sold on the following
(Published 09/04/2010, 09/11/2010, (Published 08/21/10, 08/28/10, 09/04/10, terms: all cash in lawful money of the
the non-attending bidder from the bid. 09/18/2010, 09/25/2010) 09/11/10) United States of America, with 10 per-
cent of the bid amount to accompany the
DATED: September 10, 2010 BOARD OF TRUSTEES offer in the form of a cashier’s check pay-
SAN BRUNO PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT able to the Estate of Vittorio Lido Giovan-
BY: DR DAVID HUTT, SUPERINTENDENT noni and the balance to be paid on con-
PUBLISHING DATES: CASE# CIV 497821 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME firmation of sale by the Court. The 10
September 12, 2010 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR STATEMENT #240525 percent amount which accompanies
September 19, 2010 CHANGE OF NAME The following person is doing business those bids which are not accepted and
as: Mediterranean Delight, 2161 Pine- presented to the Court for confirmation
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, crest Dr., SAN BRUNO, CA 94066 is shall be immediately returned uncashed
COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, hereby registered by the following owner: to the bidding party.
400 COUNTY CENTER RD, Michael El Haddad, same address. The The Sale is subject to current taxes, cov-
REDWOOD CITY CA 94063 business is conducted by an Individual. enants, conditions resitrictions, reserva-
PETITION OF The registrants commenced to transact tions, rights, rights of way and ease-
business under the FBN on ments of record.
Maria Lorenza Koh /s/ Michael El Hadad / The property is to be sold on an “AS IS”
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: This statement was filed with the Asses- basis, with no representations or warran-
Petitioner, Maria Lorenza Koh, filed a pe- sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo ties whatsoever concerning the condition
203 Public Notices 203 Public Notices 203 Public Notices tition with this court for a decree chang- County on 08/19/10. (Published in the of the property, its compliance with state
ing name as follows: San Mateo Daily Journal, 08/21/10, or local laws, rules or regulations, or
Present name: Maria Lorenza Koh 08/28/10, 09/04/10, 09/11/10). state of title. All potential buyers are ad-
CASE# CIV 496284 vised to fully inspect and research these
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR Proposed name: Gwen Marris Koh matters prior to submitting his or her bid.
The San Bruno Planning Commission will meet Tuesday, THE COURT ORDERS that all persons FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME All costs, including, but not limited to, ex-
CHANGE OF NAME
September 21, 2010 at 7:00 p.m., at the Senior Center, 1555 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, interested in this matter shall appear be- STATEMENT #240412 amination of title, recording of convey-
Crystal Springs Blvd., San Bruno, CA and take action on the COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, fore this court at the hearing indicated The following person is doing business ance, transfer taxes and any title insur-
below to show cause, if any, why the pe- as: Pistol Pete’s Hot Dogs, 657 Walnut ance policy shall be at the expense of
following items. All interested persons are invited to attend. 400 COUNTY CENTER RD, St., SAN BRUNO, CA 94066 is hereby the purchaser or purchasers. Any
tition for change of name should not be amounts to be prorated shall be so pro-
REDWOOD CITY CA 94063 granted. Any person objecting to the registered by the following owner: Peter
1650 Claremont Drive - Request for a Use Permit to allow PETITION OF Reese, same address. The business is rated as of the date of confirmation of
name changes described above must file conducted by an Individual. The regis- sale.
an addition which increases the gross floor area by greater Michael Wayne Weinreich a written objection that includes the rea- Dated this 26th of August, 2010
than 50% (53%) per SBMC Section 12.200.030.B.1. Environ- trants commenced to transact business
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: sons for the objection at least two court under the FBN on The undersigned reserves the right to re-
mental Determination: Categorical Exemption. Petitioner, Michael Wayne Weinreich days before the matter is scheduled to /s/ Peter Reese / fuse to accept any bids.
filed a petition with this court for a decree Antonio G. Giovannoni
be heard and must appear at the hearing This statement was filed with the Asses- Miriana Zamattia
300 Piedmont Avenue- Request for a Use Permit to allow a changing name as follows: to show cause why the petition should sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo Patricia Kennedy Fyfe, Attorney for Co-
personal training studio at a surplus school building per Present name: Michael Wayne Wein- not be granted. If no written objection is County on 09/12/2010. (Published in the Executors
reich timely filed, the court may grant the peti- San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/04/10, Dated: Aug. 23, 2010
SBMC Section 12.84.080.B. Environmental Determination: 09/11/10, 09/18/10, 09/25/10). Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal
Categorical Exemption. Proposed name: Mykl Morrissey tion without a hearing.
A HEARING on the petition shall be held on August 28, September 4, 11, 2010
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons
interested in this matter shall appear be- on October 7, 2010, at 9 a.m., Dept. 24, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
fore this court at the hearing indicated Room 2C at 400 County Center, Red- STATEMENT #240621
Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, September 11, below to show cause, if any, why the pe- wood City, CA 94063. The following person is doing business
2010. tition for change of name should not be A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall as: Kemco, 2305 Hillside Drive, Burlin-
granted. Any person objecting to the be published at least once each week for game, CA 94010 is hereby registered by
four successive weeks prior to the date the following owner: Kirkland E. Heath- 210 Lost & Found
name changes described above must file
set for hearing on the petition in the fol- cote, same address. The business is FOUND IPHONE in Shoreview area, San
a written objection that includes the rea- lowing newspaper of general circulation: conducted by an Individual. The regis-
sons for the objection at least two court Mateo last week of July. Please provide
The Daily Journal, San Mateo County trants commenced to transact business proof of ownership. Call (650)868-7321
days before the matter is scheduled to Filed: August 16, 2010 under the FBN on 01/20/1997.
be heard and must appear at the hearing /s/ Stephen Hall / /s/ Kirkland E. Heathcote / FOUND SONY Power Shot digital cam-
to show cause why the petition should Judge of the Superior Court This statement was filed with the Asses- era, July 14th at Fox School in Belmont.
not be granted. If no written objection is Dated: 08/13/2010 sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo (650)593-9294
timely filed, the court may grant the peti- (Published 08/21/10, 08/28/10, 09/04/10, County on 08/26/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/11/10, LOST: CAMERA in case. Burlingame
tion without a hearing. 09/11/10) 09/18/10, 09/25/10, 10/02/10). Avenue / Washington Park area. Lost
203 Public Notices 203 Public Notices A HEARING on the petition shall be held Saturday, July 31 around 1pm. Bummed
on October 5, 2010, at 9 a.m., Dept. PJ, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME about losing camera; mostly bummed
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Room 2C at 400 County Center, Red- about losing family photos in camera. If
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #240758 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #240859 found, please call Joe, (650) 867-6652
STATEMENT #240435 The following person is doing business wood City, CA 94063. STATEMENT #240624 The following person is doing business
The following person is doing business as: S.F. Flooring Group, 701 San Mateo A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall The following person is doing business as: Ivy Advantage, 1025 Harrison Ave.,
as: Urban Wildlife Management, 181 Ave., SAN BRUNO, CA 94066 is hereby be published at least once each week for as: Acupressure Health Center, 119 Park Redwood City, CA 94062 is hereby reg- 295 Art
Barroilhet Ave., SAN MATEO, CA 94401 registered by the following owner: Jeffrey four successive weeks prior to the date Blvd., Millbrae, CA 94010 is hereby reg- istered by the following owner: Ghassan
is hereby registered by the following Scott Fisher, 140 Elmwood Ct., SAN istered by the following owner: Xueqin Mazen Elmashni, same address. The PAINTING "jack vettriano" Portland gal-
owner: Alan J. Merrifield, same address. BRUNO, and Rain Stogden, same ad- set for hearing on the petition in the fol- Xiao, 54 Tioga Ave., San Francisco, CA lery 26 x 33. $65. (650)345-1111.
dress. The business is conducted by a lowing newspaper of general circulation: 94134. The business is conducted by an business is conducted by an Individual.
The business is conducted by an Individ- The registrants commenced to transact
ual. The registrants commenced to trans- General Partnership. The registrants The Daily Journal, San Mateo County Individual. The registrants commenced to
PICTURE WITH Frame Jack Vettriano
act business under the FBN on 08/01/10 commenced to transact business under Filed: August 19, 2010 transact business under the FBN on business under the FBN on 10/13/10.
the FBN on N/A. 09/01/2010. /s/ Ghassan Mazen Elmashni / with light attached $100. (650)867-2720
/s/ Alan J. Merrifield / /s/ Stephen Hall / /s/ Xueqin Xiao /
This statement was filed with the Asses- /s/ Scott Fisher / This statement was filed with the Asses-
This statement was filed with the Asses- Judge of the Superior Court This statement was filed with the Asses- sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo 296 Appliances
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo Dated: 08/19/2010 sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 08/13/10. (Published in the County on 09/09/10. (Published in the
County on 09/02/2010. (Published in the (Published 08/21/10, 08/28/10, 09/04/10, County on 08/26/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 08/21/10, San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/04/10, San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/11/10, San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/11/10, KENMORE DISHWASHER, almond,
08/28/10, 09/04/10, 09/11/10). 09/11/10, 09/18/10, 09/25/10). 09/11/10) 09/18/10, 09/25/10, 10/02/10). 09/18/10, 09/25/10, 10/02/10). works great. $50. 650-961-9652
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610 Crossword Puzzle 610 Crossword Puzzle 610 Crossword Puzzle 315 Wanted to Buy 315 Wanted to Buy 310 Misc. For Sale
2 LIGHT fixture shades - vintage, 1960’s,
square ceiling glass shades, 11”X11”x1”,
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle original beauty, $15. (650)347-5104

BALANCING DISC for back by "Body

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis Sport" $15. (408)249-3858

ACROSS DOWN 26 Day follower, in 41 Call to the attic BARBIE DOLL - 36" my size Barbie doll,
fully dressed, $35., (650)583-5233
1 Clear skies 1 In-flight “Taps” 42 Swear words
BETTY BOOP Women's perfume in box
7 Adequately announcement 30 Feature of some 43 A buzzer may $10. (408)249-3858
suited to nos. bluffs end it BLUE BACK disc never used in box
14 Stop browsing 2 Flashy 1940s 31 Praised 44 Flea market $15. (408)249-3858
15 Curling-up site outfits 32 Take by surprise booth CAROL HIGGINS CLARK HARDBACK
16 Shared with 3 Not easy on the 34 One end of 49 River past BOOKS - 10 @ $3. ea., or all for $25.,
(650)341-1861
17 Too much eyes Ontario’s Logroño
CHARCOAL BBQ like new with cover
18 Vision blurrers, at 4 Capybara or Welland Canal 50 Notable Volstead and extended holder $55. (650)347-9920
times cavy 35 Praise Act enforcer COOKBOOK "HOW to cook everything"
19 Nikon F, e.g., 5 Some former 37 Rink statistic 52 Will party $10. (408)249-3858
briefly tadpoles 40 Military band 53 Source of DOG CAGE/GORILLA - folding
20 Death is part of it 6 UAL western members emergency funds large dog cage good condition, 2 door
with tray, $75.,(650)355-8949
21 Common hub
California map 7 Fish malady ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: ETAGER over the toilet water tank - wal-
nut, $25., San Mateo, (650)341-5347
word 8 Cause of a duel, HENRY THE BOTTLE HOLDER -perfect
22 Item for the maybe condition from Bombay store discontin-
ued, $100., (650)867-2720
Windsor knot- 9 On deck
challenged? 10 Food eaten with JANET EVANOVICH BOOKS - 4 hard-
23 Woods set tongs and a fork 303 Electronics 304 Furniture backs @ $3.ea., 4 paperbacks @ $1.
ea., (650)341-1861
24 Monopoly 11 Sporty ’80s
PANASONIC COLOR tv with Vhs combo PATIO TABLE with 4 chairs includes
phrase Pontiac 20 inches like new $70. 650-347-9920 umbrella with stand all metal $80/all
KARASTAN AREA RUG - 5’ X 3’, 100%
all wool, thick pile with fringe, solid color
27 Clinker in a Glas 12 Can’t stop eating OBO, (650)367-8949 beige, very clean, $60., (650)347-5104
PHILLIPS VCR plus vhs-hu 4 head Hi-Fi
28 Richard of “A 13 Notes aren’t like new, $35. (650)341-5347 RECLINER - Beige, $40., (650)771-1888 KITTY LITTER container plastic with
Summer Place” written during SAMSUNG COLOR tv 27 inches good ROLL-A-WAY SUPERB, wood book-
swinging door and handle $13. (650)592-
2648
29 Winter vacation them condition $90. 650-347-9920 case/entertainment center $70.
(415)585-3622
destination 15 Temp SANIO CASETTE/RECORDER 2 way LOUNGE CHAIRS - 2 new, with cover &
Radio - $95.obo, call for more details, plastic carring case & headrest, $35.
33 Calmed 19 “I feel for you” (650)290-1960
SHELVING - 2000 square foot of shelv-
ing, $500. obo, (650)212-6666
each, (650)592-7483
35 Censor 22 Nocturnal fish MASSAGE KIT $18 in original box ,
SONY RADIO cassette recorder $20 TABLE & CHAIR SET - new, perfect
36 Men-on-base 24 “Pie __”: Mass black good condition. (650)345-1111 condition, $475., (650)638-1285 (650)368-3037
gp.? motet TV - Big Screen, $70., ok TWO END tables: $35 or $20 each. MERCHANT MARINE, framed forecastle
card, signed by Captain Angrick '70. 13 x
37 Cell projection 25 Line outside a condition,(650)367-1350 (650)787-8219
17 inches $35 cash. (650)755-8238
insulated by a nightclub 304 Furniture WICKER FURNITURE, 5 pieces, SOLD!
xwordeditor@aol.com 09/11/10 MIRROR OCTAGON GOLD FRAME
myelin sheath WOODEN BOOKCASE with doors, $20., beveled edge new never hung 30 inches
3 PIECE COFFEE TABLE SET: $100. x 22 inches SOLD!
38 Nickname of (650)787-8219
(650)771-1888
1950s Reds WOODEN KITCHEN China Cabinet: $99 PICNIC COOLER with utensils and small
3 TIERED stainless rolling cart gently (great condition!), (650)367-1350 plates and wine cups. still in wrapper
slugger Ted used $100 firm, (650)341-0418 $20/all. (408)249-3858
39 Watches 46" ROUND dining table $90. Call 306 Housewares PICTURE FRAME - Large, $25.,
42 Caucasus (650)430-4884
"PRINCESS HOUSE" decorator urn (650)367-1350
native ANTIQUE SOLID oak end table "Vase" cream with blue flower 13 inch H SALON CHAIR - hydrolic, works per-
marble top, carved door $50. (650)342- $25., (650)868-0436
45 Cruise itinerary 7568
fectly, black base, black leather,
$90.obo, (650)290-1960
listing BISSEL STEAM CLEANER - easy to
BLACK LEATHER office chair with 5 use, used 3 times, cleans great, SOPRANOS COOKBOOK and calen-
46 Indoor rowing rollers $25. (650)871-5078 $35.obo, (650)260-2664 dar $10/all. (408)249-3858
machine, briefly, CABINET - Real wood, $70., STAIRS 6 ft and 4 ft $90/both. 650-368-
in rowers’ jargon (650)367-1350 BOWL - light green heavy glass swirl de- 3037
47 Take the cuffs CHAIR, IKEA. Very Good cond. Recliner sign bowl, great centerpiece, $25.,
(650)834-2804 SUIT/COAT HANGERS (14) sturdy good
shaped, flexible. Lt brown wood on can-
off? vas 26-1/2"x38”x29" $15. 650-704-2497.
quality hardwood unused $1/each or all
$10
CANDLEHOLDER - Gold, angel on it,
48 Boss’s domain, tall, purchased from Brueners, originally San Bruno 650-588-1946
perhaps CHANDELIER WITH 5 lights/ candela- $100., selling for $20.,(650)867-2720
VACUUM CLEANER - $50.,
49 Enchanting, but bre base with glass shades $20. (650)367-1350
COUNTERTOP WATER DISPENSER :
(650)504-3621 Oasis water cooler Hot N Cold, Durable
not in a big way? & excellent condition,$86, (650)278-2702
COFFEE TABLE - $60., (650)367-1350 VICTORIAN BUILDINGS collection of
51 Fragrant Cloud Liberty Falls 11 for $30/all 3.5 to 4 inches
COFFEE TABLE - Square, oak Coffee ELECTRIC BBQ - nonstick, $40.,
and Crimson Table with leather top, $30., (650)771- (650)592-2648 tall. (650)592-2648
Glory 1888 OVEN ROASTING PAN WITH RACK. VIETNAM VHS (5) documentary. good
53 Roaring New, non stick, large, never used $55., condition $15/all. (408)249-3858.
COFFEE TABLE light brown lots of stor- (650)341-0418
54 Place to see a age good condition $75. (650)867-2720
WALKER - fold up, like new, has two
wheels, $20. (650)342-7568
pilot light? REVEREWARE, 1,3.4 qt. pots, 5",7"
55 Disarming pans, stainless steel w/copper bottoms, WETSUIT - Barefoot, like new, $40.,
COFFEE TABLE SQUARE shaped. (650)367-8949
excellent cond., $60/all. (650)577-0604
events? Lightweight, 28”x28x19" includes large
storage space, $11 650-704-2497 WHEELBARROW LARGE, needs tire
56 Blood reservoirs VASE - beautiful butterfly design, gold
color, perfect cond, $25., (650)867-2720
repair $10. Daly City 415-333-8540
57 Island vacation By Mike Nothnagel COMPUTER DESK - $70., (650)367- WORLD CUP memorabilia '94 USA Bear
rentals (c)2010 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
09/11/10 1350 307 Jewelry & Clothing mascot, 2 sport cups unused and collec-
tors pins $55/all. (650)591-6596
CURIO CABINET, Hand tooled lighted MURANO GLASS bracelet from Italy
Curio cabinet Blonde. 5.5" X 23" X 1.5" various shades of red and blue artfully
$98. San Mateo. 650-619-9932 designed $100. (650)991-2353
311 Musical Instruments
296 Appliances 298 Collectibles 298 Collectibles 2 ORGANS, antique tramp, $500 for
DESK 60”w 28”h 30” d, two shelf exten- SMALL JEWELRY cabinet - 17” H, 12”
sion 4 drawers $60 (650)364-7777. both. (650)342-4537
AIR CONDITIONER - slider model for 49ER REPORT issues '85-'87 $35/all, VICTORIAN VICTON talking machine- W, 2 glass doors, plus 2 drawers, very
narrow windows, 10k BTU, excellent (650)592-2648 1910, works and looks fine, $650., pretty, $35., (650)592-2648
condition, $100., (650)212-7020 (650)579-7020 DESK, EXTRA LONG. LIKE new. Brown GLOCKENSPIEL- very beautiful, $100.,
wood .5 drawers; 2 sliding doors. (650)755-9833
18"x28"x72"$18. 650-704-2497 WOMAN’S PEARL NECKLACE - ivory
5 COLORIZED territorial quarters uncir- & blue cultured, blue pearl collar, 10 KEYBOARD CASIO 3 ft long $50.
MINI FRIDGE - 34 inches high, runs well, culated $7/all. (408)249-3858 300 Toys strands, 18”, $40., (650)834-2804 (650)583-2767
$85., (650)355-2996 DINING TABLE with 4 chairs with leaf
BAY MEADOW coffee mug in box $15. SCOOTER "STREET SURFER" $30
(650)345-1111 obo never used, (650)349-6059
light wood 42 x 34 $99. (650)341-1645 308 Tools 316 Clothes
MINI-FRIDGE - 32" tall; White Kenmore DIRECTORS TYPE CHAIR with leather
$70. Call (650)229-4735 CARNIVAL GLASS WATER PITCHER - CLICKER TORQUE wrench 1/2 inch BLACK LEATHER MOTORCYCLE
beautiful design, $25., leave message 302 Antiques seat, $35., (650)355-2996 drive 20-150 LBS reversible all chrome JACKET - Large, water proof, new,
(650)365-1797 $40. 650-595-3933 $35., (650)342-7568
ANTIQUE SOLID mahogany knick-knack
PORTABLE GE Dishwasher, excellent or bookshelf with 4 small drawers, good DRAFTING TABLE 30 x 42' with side
condition $75 OBO, (650)583-0245 CLASSICAL, OPERA dvds (200), al- CRAFTSMAN 16” SCROLL SAW - MENS "BASS" black loafers like new
most new, and (100) CD’s, $3,000 all, condition, $95. 650-726-5200 tray. excellent condition $75. (650)949-
2134 good condition, $85., (650)591-4710 size 12D $35. (650)868-0436
RADIATOR HEATER, oil filled, electric, (650)233-0111
1500 watts $25. (650)504-3621 ANTIQUE STROMBERG – Carlson ra- HAND SAWS - $5/each 3 total. Daly MENS SLACKS - 8 pairs, $50., Size
COLORIZED TERRITORIAL quarters (5 dio Floor modelm $75., needs new tubs, ENTERTAINMENT CENTER - Oak
wood, great condition, glass doors, fits City, call for details, (415)333-8540 36/32, (408)420-5646
REFRIDGERATOR SIDE-BY-SIDE, ice pieces) uncirculated $18/all. (408)249- RWC, Photo by email: kennjc@aol.com,
& water originally $1500, selling $100., 3858 (650)592-5591 large TV, 2 drawers, shelves , $100/obo. PRESSURE WASHER 2500 PSI, good PINK LADIES hospital volunteer jacket
(650)756-6778 (650)261-9681 condition, $350., (650)926-9841 like new washed once Medium $10
DANCING FIGURINE by Bradley Dolls - CHINA CABINET - Vintage, 6 foot, RWC. (650)868-0436
SHOP VACUUM 5 gallons with extra fil- Musical, plays “If You Love Me”, 8 1/2 “ solid mahogany. $300/obo. EUDUXIANA BED with headboard and SPEEDAIR AIR COMPRESSOR - 4 gal-
ters $15. (650)949-2134 tall, $20., (650)518-0813 (650)867-0379 remote control. Hardly used, paid $6k lon stack tank air compressor $100., SCRUBS - Medical, woman’s, Size L,
selling $2,500 OBO. (650)740-1743 (650)591-4710 pretty prints, excellent condition, $9. ea,
SHOP VACUUM rigid brand 3.5 horse GLASSES 6 sets redskins, good condi- 5 pairs of pants $6. ea.(650)290-1960
power 9 gallon wet/dry $40. (650)591- tion never used $45/all. (650)345-1111 EDISON MODEL B STANDARD + 20 FANCY COCKTAIL SIDE TABLE - 2 TABLE SAW 10", very good condition
2393 Cylinders oak case - Serviced yearly, door, 1 drawer, excellent condition, anti- $85. (650) 787-8219 SOCCER CLEATS - 3 pair, size 6,7 & 8,
HISTORY BOOK of "Superbowls by the beautiful, $550/obo, (650)344-6565 que, $95. obo, (650)349-6059. $10. each, (650)679-9359
STOVE TOP 4 burners with electric grill
commercial grade $50., (650)756-6778
bay" game 1-18, $35., (650)592-2648
FRAMED MIRRORS - Pair of dark wal- 309 Office Equipment
ENGLISH ARMOIRE with stand. Bought nut, framed mirrors, 29” X 22”, perfect, 317 Building Materials
for $415. Sacrifice for $330. each $25., pair $44., (650)344-6565 CALCULATOR - Casio, still in box, new,
JACK TASHNER signed ball $25. Ri- (650)771-1888 $25., (650)867-2720 DOUBLE PANED GLASS WINDOWS -
TOASTER "PROCTOR Silex" one slice, chard (650)834-4926 FRENCH END TABLE - exquisite inlaid various sizes, half moon, like new, $10.
works fine SOLD! 303 Electronics rich mahogany wood, custom glass tray, and up, (650)756-6778
JOE MONTANA cover photo, '85 "in 20” x 27” X 19”H, $100., (650)347-5104 DELL ALL IN ONE COLOR PRINTER
SCANNER with 4 extra ink cartridges,
UPRIGHT FREEZER - like new, $100 ., flight" magazine, $30, (650)341-8342 32 INCH Sony TV FREE at Pick up.
HUTCH - maple finish, 4 shelves, 52 $40. obo., (650)290-1960 318 Sports Equipment
(650)257-7562 (650)871-5078
OAKLAND A'S bobble head dolls 80's inch W, $75., (650)341-1645 2 GOLF CLUBS - Ladies, right handed,
VACUUM CLEANER heavy duty like (2) $15/each or $25/all in box. (408)249- LADIES SWIVEL ADJUSTABLE office putter & driver $5/each (650)755-8238
46” MITSUBISHI Projector TV, great LARGE PICNIC table - 3’ x 8’, $25., desk chair, burgundy upholstery with
new $45. (650)878-9542 3858 condition. $400. (650)261-1541. (650)368-0748 black frame, never used, $35/obo, exc. BROWN LEATHER GOLF BAG with 11
POSTER - framed photo of President cond. ,(650)260-2664 golf clubs, $65/all, (650)592-2648
WEBER GRILL - Never used! Porcelain INTELLIVISION CONTROLLER with 13 MAHOGANY BEDROOM DRESSER -
enamel bowl and lid, 22-1/2” with ash Wilson and Chinese Junk $25 cash, 37 L x 19 W 9 drawers and attached mir-
(650)755-8238 game cartridges $50., (650)592-5591 GOLD'S GYM - GT2000Power Tower +
catcher. SOLD! ror 37 H x 36 W , $75., (650)341-1645
OFFICE LAMP - new in box, $35/obo, Instructions as new, asking $100/obo,
JVC DVD cd player $25. (650)834-4926 MATTRESS TWIN size perfect condition (650)303-3568 (650)344-6565
297 Bicycles SALEM CHINA - 119 pieces from 50’s.
Good condition, $225., appraised at SOLD!
JVC VHS recorder - Like new, $15., KAYAK - Necky Looksha 4 model, 17 ft.,
$800., (650)345-3450. OFFICE LAMP brand new $8. (650)345- 53 lbs, $1,000. (650)394-4243
BICYCLE WICKER BASKET -quality (650)367-8949 OTTOMAN/ FOOTREST Clean. Like 1111
thick weave, never used, $25. obo, new. Circular. Light brown 'felt like' mate- MITZU JR. tour kids set 7 clubs & bag
(650)260-2664 SWATCH WATCH '86 Worlds Fair. MAGNOVOX 32” TV - excellent cond., rial. $6.Call cell: 650-704-2497 $15/all obo. (650)952-0620
Like New w/receipt $85, (650)591-6596 refurbished, $100.obo., (650)260-2664 310 Misc. For Sale
TITLIST GOLF club 983k driver 9.5 de-
MENS MOUNTAIN bike 26 inch new 18 VASE - with tray, grey with red flowers, MICRO TEK scanner/copier - excellent ROCKING CHAIR white with gold trim 2 "HUFFY Tundra" Bicycles Male & Fe- gree grafaloy stiff/ $75 obo. (650)952-
speed $99. 919-740-4336 San Mateo perfect condition, $30., (650)345-1111 condition, $15., (650)368-0748 excel cond $100. 650-755-9833 male $100/each. Denise (650)589-2893 0620
28 Weekend • Sept. 11-12, 2010 THE DAILY JOURNAL

318 Sports Equipment 335 Garden Equipment 381 Homes for Sale 381 Homes for Sale 620 Automobiles 630 Trucks & SUV’s
TRIATHLON WETSUIT - Quintanaroo, TABLE - for plant, $20, perfect condi- NISSAN ‘08, Versa 1.8S black, TOYOTA ‘10 Venza V6, white, $29,588,
ladies, medium, good condition, $45., tion, (650)345-1111 $12,588. #9940P. Toyota 101. Please #9743P. Toyota 101. Please mention
(650)728-5978 mention the Daily Journal. (650)365- the Daily Journal. (650)365-5000
TABLE - for plant, $20, perfect condi- 5000
WOODEN TENNIS RACKET '50's or tion, (650)345-1111
TOYOTA ‘10, Tundra 2WD truck, grade,
older "C"Hemold $25., (650)868-0436 NISSAN ‘09 MAXIMA, 3.5S, gray, silver, #9493T, $24,580. Toyota 101.
TREE PRUNER 5ft long good condition
$10. (408)249-3858 #9955P, $27,888. Toyota 101. Please Please mention the Daily Journal.
322 Garage Sales mention the Daily Journal. (650)365- (650)365-5000
5000
345 Medical Equipment
NISSAN ‘96 Pathfinder, Excellent condi- 635 Vans
ALUMINUM CRUTCHES for adults ad-
FLEA justable $30. (650)341-1861 tion, 4 wheel drive. SOLD!
SCION ‘06 tC, Basic, dark gray,
NISSAN ‘01 Quest - GLE, leather seats,
sun roof, TV/DVR equipment. Looks
379 Open Houses
MARKET #9919P, $15,588. Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
new, $15,500. (650)219-6008

TOYOTA ‘09 Sienna CE, blue, #9804P,

$20,998 and , TOYOTA ‘09 Sienna CE,
SAN BRUNO OPEN HOUSE SCION ‘07 tC, Spec, gray, #9915P, blue, #9807P, $22,998 Toyota 101.
$14,998. Toyota 101. Please mention Please mention the Daily Journal.
LISTINGS the Daily Journal. (650)365-5000 (650)365-5000
San Bruno City List your Open House TOYOTA ‘06 Matrix, STD, silver, TOYOTA ‘09 Tacoma basic, white,
Park in the Daily Journal. #9767T, $12,588 Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
#9752P, $19,888 and TOYOTA ‘09 Ta-
coma basic, silver, #9809T, $21,995.
5000 Toyota 101. Please mention the Daily
Crystal Springs & Reach over 82,500
potential home buyers &
Journal. (650)365-5000
TOYOTA ‘07 Camry Hybrid, basci, grey,
Oak Ave. renters a day, #9758P, $21,588 Toyota 101. Please TOYOTA ‘09 Tacoma Prerunner, white,
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365- #9512T, $22,998. Toyota 101. Please
from South San Francisco mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
Sunday to Palo Alto.
in your local newspaper. TOYOTA ‘07 Camry Solara, SLE, silver,
5000

Sept. 12th Call (650)344-5200

#9548P, $22,999 Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
640 Motorcycles/Scooters
HARLEY DAVIDSON ‘83 Shovelhead -
9 am - 4 pm TOYOTA ‘07 Corolla CE, green, 9794T
$13,588. Toyota 101. Please mention
special construction, 1340 cc’s, Awe-
some!, $5,950.obo.
Call Rob (415)602-4535.
380 Real Estate Services the Daily Journal. (650)365-5000
Don’t miss HONDA ‘01 Reflex Scooter - Silver,
TOYOTA ‘07 Prius, basic, silver, $1,999., Call Jesse (650)593-6763
shopping for great
deals! DISTRESS #9801P, $17,588. Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
645 Boats
Furniture, sporting
goods, antiques &
SALES TOYOTA ‘08 Highlander, base, gray,
#9679P, $21,885 Toyota 101. Please
EVINRUDE MOTOR, for Boat, 25
horsepower, SOLD!
more! Bank Foreclosures. mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
$400,000+ PROSPORT ‘97 - 17 ft. CC 80 Yamaha
Pacific, loaded, like new, $9,500 or trade,
Free list with TOYOTA ‘08 Prius, gray, #9691P,
$17995. Toyota 101. Please mention
(650)583-7946.

pictures. the Daily Journal. (650)365-5000

650 RVs
GARAGE SALE PeninsulaRealEstate.info TOYOTA ‘08 Yaris, Base, gray,
Free recorded message #9720P. $14,588. Toyota 101. Please DODGE ‘75 Motorhome - 440 V8, smog
SOUTH SAN 1(800)754-0569 470 Rooms 620 Automobiles
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
exempt. Many extras.
(650)520-0499
$2,999.

FRANCISCO ID# 2042

Dolphin RE BELMONT LARGE view room ca-
TOYOTA ‘08, Corolla CE, silver,
#9763T, $12,988, Toyota 101. Please
REXHALL ‘00 VISION - 53K mi., Ford
Triton V-10 engine. 29 feet long, no pop
AUTO AUCTION
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SHADOW
Continued from page 5
the Sept. 11 observance.
Organizers “believe that tomorrow is a day
for mourning and remembrance,” said Jennifer
Carnig, a spokeswoman for the New York Civil
Liberties Union, one of the vigil’s sponsors.
For Jones, pastor of a 50-member
Pentecostal church in Florida, it was to be a
day to burn the Quran. He backed off that
threat after drawing angry protests across the
Muslim world, a call from the secretary of
defense and impassioned pleas to call it off
from religious and political leaders and his
own daughter.
“There will be no Quran burning tomorrow,”
Jones’ 29-year old son, Luke Jones, told
reporters outside his father’s Gainesville
church Friday. He added that he could not pre-
dict what might happen in the future.
Terry Jones had previously said he would
cancel his plan if the leader of the planned
New York Islamic center, Imam Feisal Abdul
Rauf, would agree to move the project to
Jones claimed Thursday that an imam in
Florida had told him the mosque would be
moved. That imam later said Jones was mis-
taken, that he had only arranged a meeting
with Rauf in New York on Saturday.
Rauf, however, said that wasn’t true, either,
that he had no plans to meet with Jones,
although he added in a statement Friday that
he is open to seeing anyone “seriously com-
mitted to pursuing peace.”
The carefully worded text seemed to leave
open the possibility of a meeting, but only if
Jones proved himself to be a serious peace-
maker. With that caveat, it would seem unlike-
ly that the imam would meet with a man
whose threat to desecrate the Muslim holy
book stirred anger and protest and even some
bloodshed in the Islamic world.
In Afghanistan, 11 people were injured
Friday in scattered protests of Jones’ plan. Only
a few thousand people attended those rallies and
no large-scale demonstrations were reported
elsewhere. In Indonesia, the world’s most pop-
ulous Muslim country, cleric Rusli Hasbi told
1,000 worshippers at Friday prayers that REUTERS FILE PHOTO
whether or not Jones burns the Quran, he has An American flag flies near the base of the destroyed World Trade Center in New York, Sept.
already “hurt the heart of the Muslim world.” 11,2001.Planes crashed into each of the two towers,causing them to collapse.

security, would hardly solve all problems.

OSAMA
McFarland, Wis. Giunta killed one insurgent

Continued from page 5

Conceding that efforts to capture or kill bin
Laden have so far failed, Obama said that al-
Qaida leaders are “holed up” in a way that has
made it difficult for the group to operate.
Counterterrorism officials concur that the
core al-Qaida leadership — believed to be in
hiding in Pakistan along the mountainous bor-
der — has been hurt and degraded over the past
nine years, and has been struggling for funding.
Obama, describing the pursuit and pressure
on bin Laden, said that “we have the best
minds, the best intelligence officers, the best
special forces, who are thinking about this day
and night. And they will continue to think about
it day and night as long as I’m president.”
Getting bin Laden, said Obama, though
extremely important to the country’s national
He said homeland security has improved in
the past nine years. But, with a nod to the foiled
Dec. 25 attempted airliner attack and the
botched Times Square car bombing in May,
Obama added, “There is always going to be the
potential for an individual or a small group of
individuals, if they are willing to die, to kill
other people. Some of them are going to be
very well organized and some of them are
going to be random.”
A report issued Friday by a group led by the
two former 9/11 Commission chairmen said
the terror threat has become more complex, as
al-Qaida and an array of affiliates and allies in
countries like Yemen and Somalia take on a
broader strategy.
“I think the American relationship with the
Islamic world is one of the really great foreign
policy challenges of the next decades,” said for-
mer 9/11 co-chairman Lee Hamilton. “We’re
not going to solve it in a year or two or five or
even 10 years.”
HONOR
Continued from page 5
that enough, but in this event, two other sol-
diers were killed and that weighs heavy on us.
You get very happy and very proud and then
you start dealing with the loss as well. You
can’t have one without the other.”
Giunta was serving as a rifle team leader
with Company B 2nd Battalion, 503rd
Infantry Regiment when an insurgent ambush
split his squad into two groups on Oct. 25,
2007, in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan,
the White House said in a news release.
Giunta went above and beyond the call of
duty when he exposed himself to enemy fire to
pull a fellow soldier back to cover. He
engaged the enemy again when he saw two
insurgents carrying away a wounded soldier,
22-year-old Sgt. Joshua C. Brennan, of
and wounded the other before tending to
Brennan, who died the next day.
“His courage and leadership while under
extreme enemy fire were integral to his pla-
toon’s ability to defeat an enemy ambush and
recover a fellow American soldier from
enemy hands,” the White House said.
Giunta, who enlisted in the Army shortly
after graduating from Kennedy High School
in Cedar Rapids, is now stationed in Italy with
the Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne
Brigade. He was in his second tour of duty in
Afghanistan at the time of the ambush.
Giunta, who was previously awarded a
Bronze Star and Purple Heart, among other
medals, called his parents after hearing from
the president, his father said.
“He was very honored to talk to the presi-
dent but he’s very reserved about it,” Steven
Giunta said. “It’s not something he’s comfort-
able with, the event or the Medal of Honor.”

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Iran postpones American woman’s release

By Nasser Karimi
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Friday postponed
the planned release of an American woman
jailed along with two friends for more than a
year, state media reported, dealing a blow to
the hopes of three U.S. mothers who have
pleaded for the trio’s freedom.
Iranian officials had said that Sarah Shourd,
who was detained with her friends near Iran’s
border with Iraq, would be released on
Saturday. But the IRNA state news agency
quoted the deputy chief of communication for
the Iranian president’s office, Mohammed
Hassan Salilhimaram, as saying that would not
happen.
He said details of the decision would be
announced later, but Tehran’s chief prosecutor,
Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, blamed the fact that
“judicial procedures have not been done,”
according to the semiofficial ILNA news
agency.
It was the latest in a series of mixed mes-
sages from Tehran in a
case that has deepened
tensions between the U.S.
and Iran, a relationship
already strained over
Washington’s suspicions
that Tehran is trying to
manufacture nuclear
weapons — something
Iran denies.
Sarah Shourd Shourd and two friends,
Shane Bauer and Josh
Fattal, were arrested along the Iran-Iraq border
in July 2009, and Tehran has accused them of
illegally crossing the border and spying. Their
families say they were hiking in Iraq’s scenic
north and that if they crossed the border, they
did so unwittingly.
The U.S. State Department and relatives
said they had no immediate information about
the reports.
The announcement of the delay came hours
after state media reported that President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had personally inter-
vened to secure Shourd’s release as an act of
clemency in part because of the “special view-
point of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the
dignity of women.”
Patrick Clawson, deputy director at the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said
the last-minute quarrels over Shroud’s release
highlight the internal fissures in Iran’s power
structure between Ahmadinejad and others
such as the prosecutor who could see him
overreaching his authority.
“There are all kinds of internal pressures,”
he said. “A case like this shows there are vari-
ous factions at play.”
A judicial official close to the prosecutor’s
office said that Dolatabadi believes the release
is unacceptable because Shourd should first
stand before the court and then the amnesty
will be granted.
The official spoke on condition of anonymi-
ty because of the sensitive nature of the issue.
Shourd’s name was not among the official
list of prisoners freed at the end of the
Islamic holy month of Ramadan, suggesting
that prosecutors want the Americans to first
face trial before any kind of pardon or
clemency is considered.
Typically, inmates released during Ramadan
have already been convicted.
In some recent cases of high-profile foreign-
ers jailed and released in Iran, authorities have
first conducted trials and issued sentences.
In May, a French academic, Clotilde Reiss,
was freed after her 10-year sentence on espi-
onage-related charges was commuted.
American freelance journalist Roxana Saberi
was convicted of spying before being released
in May 2009.
Canadian-Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari
of Newsweek was freed on $300,000 bail in
October 2009 after nearly four months deten-
tion following the crackdown after the disput-
ed presidential election. He was later sen-
tenced in absentia to more than 13 years in
prison and 50 lashes.
In 2007, Iran released 15 British sailors
without a trial after being held for nearly two
weeks for allegedly crossing into Iran along its
river border with Iraq. Some were paraded on
television to deliver confessions for trespass-
ing.

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settle Saddam-era claims
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million to Americans who say they were
abused by Saddam Hussein’s regime, U.S.
and Iraqi officials said Friday.
The agreement, recently signed by U.S. and
Iraqi officials, represents a significant step
forward for Iraq and could bring an end to
years of legal battles by Americans who claim
to have been tortured or traumatized under
Saddam’s regime. But the deal is likely to
anger Iraqis who consider themselves the vic-
tims’ of both Saddam and the 2003 U.S. inva-
sion, and wonder why they should pay money
for wrongs committed by the ousted dictator.
The American Embassy spokesman in Iraq,
David Ranz, said the agreement “to settle
claims of American victims of the Saddam
Hussein regime,” was signed Sept. 2.
Nokia dumps CEO, turns to Microsoft
HELSINKI — Nokia Corp. is replacing
CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo with Microsoft
executive Stephen Elop as the world’s top
maker of mobile phones aims to regain lost
ground in the fiercely competitive smart
phone market.
The choice of a North American executive
to lead a Finnish company reflects the increas-
ing dominance of U.S. and Canadian compa-
nies in the evolution of the phone business.
Apple Inc.’s iPhone has set the standard for
today’s smart phones, while Research In
Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerrys are the favorite of
the corporate set. More recently, Google Inc.’s
Android software has emerged as the choice
for phone makers that want to challenge the
iPhone.