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Nov. 6, 2015
Vol XVI, Edition 70
DEEP PESSIMISM
NATION PAGE 7
‘PEANUTS’ IS AGREAT TRIBUTE
WEEKEND JOURNAL PAGE 18
POLL: AMERICANS SOURING ON OBAMA’S ISLAMICSTATE PLAN
By Bill Silverfarb
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
San Mateo County Sheriff GregMunks told the Daily JournalThursday he will not seek re-elec-tion in 2018 and that he is sup-porting Undersheriff CarlosBolanos to succeed him.Munks was elected to the posi-tion in 2006after then sher-iff Don Horsleyretired. His lawenforcementcareer spansnearly fourdecades.He toldCountyManager John Maltbie last weekhe plans to retire when his termexpires at the end of 2018 and alsosent a memo to the San MateoCounty Deputy Sheriff’sAssociation explaining his plans.“There’s been a lot of rumorsabout when I might leave and Iwant to end the speculation,” saidMunks, who turns 61 next month.Meanwhile, Bolanos got a jump-start on replacing Munks byfiling a Statement of Organizationwith the county’s Election’sOffice Wednesday. The name of hiscommittee is Carlos Bolanos forSheriff 2018.Bolanos couldn’t be reached forcomment Thursday.With news of Munks retiring,San Mateo Police Chief SusanManheimer has been encouragedto run for the office as well. Shehadn’t decided whether she’d runThursday but indicated she wasconsidering it.Munks said he came to the deci-sion after discussing it with his
Sheriffwon’t seek re-election
Greg Munks to serve until 2018 when term expires; UndersheriffCarlos Bolanos to run for position
Greg Munks
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Fishermen load pots onto the boatin preparation for the start of the2013 commercial crab season.
Crab seasonpostponeddue to toxin
Industry, fishermenimpacted by delay
By Samantha Weigel
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
State wildlife officialsannounced a delay in recreationalDungeness crab season Thursdaydue to tests revealing high levelsof a potentially deadly neurotoxin— screeching to a halt a nearly$60 million industry. Dozens of commercial pros,charter boat captains and RVsfilled with eager sport fishermen atPillar Point Harbor in Half MoonBay awaited the troubling news asthe state Fish and GameCommission unanimously votedto cancel the season’s Nov. 7 startwith no indication as to when the
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: Sasha Alquero, left,offers a lesson to her second-grade class atRedwood Shores ElementarySchool using her pet hermitcrabs.
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By Samantha Weigel
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Organizers of the renowned bigwave surf competition Titans of Mavericks received the thumbs upfrom the California CoastalCommission Thursday just in timeas forecasters are boasting a prom-ising El Niño. Cartel Management, whichtook over and rebranded theevent, was ordered to apply for aCoastal Development Permitthrough the statewide agencyresponsible for overseeing landuse along the coast.Although the contest has beenheld in conjunction with gnarlywaves breaking just north of PillarPoint Harbor near Half Moon Bayfor more than 15 years, this wasthe first time organizers wererequired to obtain a permit fromthe Coastal Commission.
Titans gets Coastal Commission approval
Permit issued for Mavericks surf competition
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Cartel Management received a Coastal Development Permit from theCalifornia Coastal Commission Thursday.
Pets make learning more exciting
By Austin Walsh
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Second-graders at Redwood ShoresElementary School in Redwood City arelearning to come out of their shells andembrace a unique fashion of learning, with alittle help from three hermit crabs. The hermit crabs, named Awesome, Happyand Hatty, were brought to the classroom byteacher Sasha Alquero, who uses the pets tosupplement her curriculum. Alquero, who has been teaching for nearlytwo decades, said using the hermit crabs as acentral figure to her lessons can be a fun andcreative way to introduce subjects whichmay otherwise be complex and difficult forher young students to grasp. “The pets have been helpful for the kids tolearn about compassion and empathy forother living things,” said Alquero. Many of her students do not have pets athome, so they appreciate coming to theschool to catch a glimpse of their small,shelled classroom friends, said Alquero. She said she too grew up in a house with-out pets, which has inspired her to hostthem in her classroom, so all students canenjoy the opportunity to raise and care for acompanion. Students sat gathered around Alquero onthe classroom carpet Thursday, Nov. 5, and
Redwood Shores ElementarySchool all love teacher’s pets
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Friday
Nov. 6, 2015
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Baby pygmy goat stolen from Arizona State Fair is found
PHOENIX — Like a scene out of aHollywood tearjerker, a baby pygmygoat that vanished from the ArizonaState Fair came home to his motherThursday surrounded by TV camerasand jubilant fairgoers.Dozens of employees and visitorsburst into applause as GusGus wasgently placed in the pen where he waslast seen. Several people huddled towatch mother and kid reunite below a“Welcome Home GusGus!” banner and“Welcome Home” balloons.Fair livestock director Karen Searlesaid a man walking his dog along acanal in Phoenix found GusGus andtook him to a pet store, where anattentive worker reached out to theState Fair.“They called the fair and sent pic-tures to our phone,” Searle said. “Wesaid ‘It’s got to be him’ and it washim.”GusGus was hungry and tired, butnot injured. Searle believes someonesimply dumped him near the canal butthat he couldn’t have been out therethat long. Finding him was especially urgentbecause he cannot survive without hismother’s milk. The miniature goatweighs less than 5 pounds and is stillnursing. Born last month, he also hasnot received all his shots. Fair workerssay they wish they could meet the manwho found GusGus but that he didn’teven leave his name at the pet store.“From the bottom of our hearts,we’d like to thank him,” petting zoomanager Emilie Owen said. “He literal-ly saved GusGus’ life by finding him.”Families at the fair who had heardabout the missing goat earlier in theday were also in a celebratory mood.“It’s good to know he’s OK. He’s solittle,” said Megan Zimbelman, whowas there with her high school class-mates. Someone took tiny GusGus from hispen Wednesday evening. The allegedkidnapping sparked disbelief andlegions of followers on social mediawho helped make the missing animal ahot topic. His disappearance sparkedthe hashtag, #FindGusGus. “In over 30 years that we’ve beendoing this, I have never had anythinglike this happen,” Owen said.
Arizona authorities capture four emus on the lam in Tucson
TUCSON, Ariz. — Pima Countyauthorities say four emus that gotloose in a neighborhood on Tucson’ssouthwest side have been captured.The four large birds were containedThursday in the area of West DrexelBoulevard and South Cardinal Avenue.County sheriff’s officials say two of the emus have been returned to theirowner and are back in their pen.They say the other two emus arebeing taken back to their owner in ahorse trailer.The emu is the largest bird native toAustralia and the second-largest birdin the world, behind the ostrich. In February, two quick-footed llamasdashed in and out of traffic in aPhoenix-area retirement communitybefore they were captured by authori-ties, causing a stir in the streets and onsocial media.
Seattle’s ‘gum wall’ to be cleaned after 20 years
SEATTLE — After 20 years of peoplesticking their gum to the walls of analley by Seattle’s Pike Place Market,officials say it is time for a cleanup.Pike Place Market announced thisweek it will take down the estimated 1million pieces of gum off the walls of Post Alley. Known as the “gum wall,the sticky landmark has become apopular attraction to visitors andlocals.Besides gum, people leave pictures,business cards and other mementos.Some pieces of gum were shaped intohearts and messages.Tourist Katri Mattsson said the gumwall was “pretty gross,” but also “inway very impressive.”The market has hired a contractorthat will use steam to melt off the gum,beginning Nov. 10. Pressure washingdamages the historic building toomuch.
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Basketball playerLamar Odom is 36.
This Day in HistoryThought for the Day
1860
Former Illinois congressmanAbraham Lincoln defeated three othercandidates for the presidency: JohnBreckinridge, John Bell and StephenDouglas.
“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.”
— Alvin Toffler, American writer-futurist
Model-actress Rebecca Romijn is43. Actress EmmaStone is 27.
Birthdays
PETER MOOTZ
A gas leak during a contractor’s job at St. Gregory’s Church and School at 28th Avenue an Hacienda Street in San Mateoprompted a school evacuation just after 11:30 a.m. Thursday. Beresford Elementary School welcomed the students fromthe school and helped facilitate parent pickups.
Friday:
Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.North winds 5 to 10 mph...Becomingwest in the afternoon.
Friday night:
Mostly clear. Lows in themid 40s to lower 50s. Northwest winds 5to 10 mph.
Saturday
: Partly cloudy. A slight chanceof rain in the afternoon. Highs in thelower 60s. Light winds...Becoming southwest 5 to 10 mphin the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
Saturday night:
Partly cloudy in the evening thenbecoming mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows in theupper 40s to mid 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
Sunday
: Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs around 60.
Sunday night
: Rain likely. Lows in the mid 40s.
Local Weather Forecast
In 1632
, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed inbattle.
In 1854
, America’s “March King,” John Philip Sousa, wasborn in Washington, D.C.
In 1861
, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was elect-ed to a six-year term of office.
In 1928
, in a first, the results of Republican HerbertHoover’s presidential election victory over Democrat AlfredE. Smith were flashed onto an electric wraparound sign onthe New York Times building.
In 1934, 
Nebraska voters approved dissolving their two-chamber legislature in favor of a nonpartisan, single (or“unicameral”) legislative body, which was implemented in1937.
In 1944
, British official Lord Moyne was assassinated inCairo, Egypt, by members of the Zionist Stern gang.
In 1956
President Dwight D. Eisenhower won re-election,defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.
In 1962
Democrat Edward M. Kennedy was elected Senatorfrom Massachusetts.
In 1977
, 39 people were killed when the Kelly Barnes Damburst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls Collegein Georgia.
In 1984
, President Ronald Reagan won re-election by alandslide over former Vice President Walter Mondale, theDemocratic challenger.
In 1990
, about one-fifth of the Universal Studios backlotin southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.
In 2012, 
President Barack Obama was elected to a secondterm of office, defeating Republican challenger MittRomney.
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Actress June Squibb is 86. Country singer StonewallJackson is 83. Singer Eugene Pitt (The Jive Five) is 78.Singer P.J. Proby is 77. Country singer Guy Clark is 74.Actress Sally Field is 69. Pop singer-musician Glenn Frey(The Eagles) is 67. Singer Rory Block is 66. Jazz musicianArturo Sandoval is 66. TV host Catherine Crier is 61. Newscorrespondent and former California first lady Maria Shriveris 60. Actress Lori Singer is 58. Actor Lance Kerwin is 55.Rock musician Paul Brindley (The Sundays) is 52. EducationSecretary Arne Duncan is 51. Rock singer Corey Glover is 51.Actor Brad Grunberg is 51. Actor Peter DeLuise is 49.
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 The Daily Derby race winners are Gold Rush, No.1, in first place; Whirl Win, No. 6, in second place;and Lucky Star, No. 2, in third place. The race timewas clocked at 1:45.71.
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Nov. 6, 2015
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LOCAL
SAN MATEO
Disturbance
. A man was seen wrestling awoman to the ground inside an apartmenton Park Place before 8:53 p.m. Sunday,Nov. 1.
Burglary
. A window was smashed and apurse was taken from a car on North BStreet before 7:52 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1.
Suspicious circumstances.
A transientwas found sleeping in the bushes of a prop-erty on Laurie Meadows Drive before 8:53a.m. Sunday, Nov. 1.
Suspicious circumstances.
Two men intheir 60s stole cash from a store at theHillsdale Shopping Center before 4:21p.m. Friday, Oct. 30.
Armed robbery.
An ice cream vendor washit in the face and robbed at SouthHumboldt Street and Second Avenue before2:21 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30.
MILLBRAE
Suspended license
. A Daly City man wascited for driving with a suspended licenseon El Camino Real and Santa Inez Avenuebefore 2:48 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1.
Disturbance
. Several people were seenfighting and a San Bruno man was arrestedfor a misdemeanor warrant on Broadway andLudeman Lane before 2:48 p.m. Sunday,Nov. 1.
Theft.
A vehicle was stolen on the 600block of Santa Susana Avenue before 8:11a.m. Sunday, Nov. 1.
Police reports
It’s like butter
A woman called to say that items weremelting in her house on Martin Drive inSan Mateo before 7:37 p.m. Sunday,Nov. 1.
By Austin Walsh
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
To answer a call from the community forhousing, South San Francisco officials areprimed to move forward with an opportunityto develop a residential project east of Highway 101, in an area historicallyreserved for the city’s prized biotechnologysector. The South San Francisco City Councilgranted the OK during a meeting Wednesday,Nov. 4, to begin exploring the possibilityof building housing on city-owned propertyon the San Francisco Bay side of Highway101, near the city’s Caltrain station. But the lengths officials are willing to goto consider building housing are limited, assome are wary about infringing on the clus-ter of the biotechnology companies whichfill the area near the city’s Bayshore. Officials will begin examining the oppor-tunity to construct housing on a slice of property along Grand Avenue, due east of the busy thoroughfare connecting thePeninsula before looking at sites any fur-ther east toward the Bayshore biotech busi-nesses. Mayor Rich Garbarino said he favoredconsidering the potential to build near theCaltrain station as a test site, to gauge theappetite for new housing prior to movingforward with developing a second locationnear the South San Francisco ferry terminal. “Let’s start with housing around theCaltrain station,” he said. “Use that as asounding board before we start thinkingabout housing near the water.”He said as officials consider buildinghousing, it remains imperative they protectthe economic viability of the area, asbiotechnology companies and other indus-trial businesses populate the district east of Highway 101. When the concept of building housingnear the Bayshore region was discussed pub-licly by members of the council last month,Economic Development Director AlexGreenwood said it should be the obligationof officials to preserve the economic healthof the biotechnology cluster. Residential development is currently pro-hibited in the area east of Highway 101 inSouth San Francisco, according to a cityreport. Additional environmental factors need tobe considered as well by officials when dis-cussing the opportunity to build housingnear the Bayshore, according to the report. Examining the probability for sea levelrise which could potentially threaten anyfuture housing developments, as well asadditional geotechnical research, need to beconducted, according to the report. As the city looks into adding residents toan area historically not intended to accom-modate housing, Garbarino also noted offi-cials need to consider developing newamenities, infrastructure and support servic-es as well. Building at the Caltrain station site alsohas the benefit of being close to downtownSouth San Francisco, which officials areinterested in rejuvenating through theefforts approved under the downtown specif-ic area plan. As part of the specific plan, the Caltrainstation is set to be extended closer to down-town, and the project is slated to include theconstruction of bicycle paths and pedestrianwalkways, which Councilman MarkAddiego said could establish a connectionbetween both sides of Highway 101. Addiego said he believes building hous-ing near the current Caltrain site presents aunique opportunity to offer homes to thosewho work in the city and wish to live closeto their jobs. “This becomes an exciting possibility,”he said. Young workers, many employed by thebiotechnology companies, have a desire tolive in mixed-use developments near theirworkplace in metropolitan areas which offereasy access to restaurant and nightlife ven-ues, as well as other amenities, according tothe report. Developing a residential project whichgrants those opportunities could help thecity establish what is considered a viabledowntown by many younger residents, saidAddiego. He said he notices a shift in the demo-graphic of people who patronize local busi-nesses in downtown South San Franciscoduring the workday, and in the evening aftermany workers go home. Should there be an attractive opportunityfor workers in South San Francisco to livelocally, some might be compelled to spendmore time downtown, he said. “I see a lot of young faces on GrandAvenue before 6 p.m.,” he said. “If homewas South San Francisco, I would imaginedinnertime would be as vibrant as
City OKs Bayside housing study
South San Francisco council approves examining housing east of 101
 
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