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 Jan. 27, 2015
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A LESS INVASIVEBRAIN SURGERY 
HEALTH PAGE 17
FIERCE SNOWSTORM DESCENDS ON DENSELYPOPULATED NORTHEAST
By Samantha Weigel
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
San Mateo residents have a newrepresentative after PlanningCommission Chair Rick Bonillawas unanimously appointed to theCity Council Monday night.The council had six applicantsfrom which to choose as it soughtto fill thevacancy leftwhen formercouncilmanRobert Rossretired Jan. 6citing healthconditions.Bonilla wasunanimouslychosen by the council and will besworn in Feb. 2. while servingthrough Dec. 7.The remainder of Ross’ four-year-term, which expires in 2017,will be up for a vote in theNovember election.Bonilla, as well as applicantsDouglas Henton, Anne Kuhre,Donald Mattei, Fred Nesbitt andDiane Papan were allotted 10 min-utes to make a presentation duringthe night’s crowded special CityCouncil meeting.During his presentation, Bonillasaid he wants to “foster a robusteconomy that represents all work-ers, protects all neighborhoodsand provides a magnificent placefor residents of all incomes.”Bonilla, a retired carpenter andunion representative, has lived inSan Mateo for 24 years. He wasappointed to the Public WorksCommission in 2006 where hespent six years before moving tothe Planning Commission in2012.The varied applicant pool
San Mateo appoints new councilman
Planning Commission Chair Rick Bonilla chosen unanimously by City Council
Rick Bonilla
Up inflames
City coffersbulge withtax revenue
Proceeds from thrivinghotels spurs economicrevival for Burlingame
By Austin Walsh
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
These are boom times forBurlingame as prices for homesales soar, andan influx of vis-itors have driv-en hotel tax rev-enue to anunprecedentedpeak, saidFinanceDirector CarolAugustein. The city’sannual budget document, releasedlast week at the Burlingame CityCouncil meeting, showed thecity’s general fund increased 8.5percent from the previous year,bringing in an additional $4.3million, swelling to $51.3 mil-lion.Hikes in hotel, sales and proper-ty tax revenue have spurred theincrease of cash flowing to thecity, according to the report.Those three taxes account for 85percent of the general fund. “The city is in fantastic finan-cial shape right now,” Mayor TerryNagel said during the report’s pres-entation last week. The city’s 13 hotels are a keycomponent of driving the localeconomy. Tax on the city’s 3,742hotel rooms brought in $3.1 mil-lion more than the previous year,accounting for 38 percent of thecity’s current general fund pro-ceeds, according to the report.
By Bill Silverfarb
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
San Mateo County supervisorswill vote Tuesday on whether toboost the pay for home care work-ers by 10 percent, far below the$15 an hour union members havebeen fighting for since its con-tract expired in June.The Board of Supervisors willconsider raising the pay for In-Home Supportive Services work-ers from $11.50 an hour to $12.65an hour for the remainder of theyear after union membersapproved the memorandum of understanding Monday afternoon.IHSS workers provide care forthe elderly and individuals withdisabilities.Some members of the ServiceEmployee International Union,Local 521 were arrested afterstorming a Board of Supervisors’meeting in November demandingthe board provide a living wagefor IHSS workers at $15 an hour.The 10 percent raise the countyis proposing is its “last, best and
County offers home care workers 10 percent raise
Terry Nagel
Car crash sparks fire at San Bruno pizza parlor
STAFF AND WIRE REPORT
An unlicensed juvenile wasarrested after sparking a two-alarmfire by crashing a Mercedes Benzinto Seniore’s pizza parlor in SanBruno while attempting to evadepolice Monday morning. The unnamed girl crashed intothe building on the 900 block of ElCamino Real sometime before10:30 a.m. and damaged the gasmeter, according to authorities. The girl was first spotted drivingrecklessly and running stop signsnear San Anselmo and Santa Inezavenues when police attempted topull her over before she crashedinto the building, San Brunopolice Lt. Troy Fry said. Luckily, no one was injured asthe vehicle and building wereengulfed in flames, Fry said. Seniore’s employee HassanYasin was on his way to work toopen the store when he heard aboutthe fire. “I’m usually the first one there,”said Yasin, who has worked at thepizza parlor for four years. “Godwas on our side.”No one was in the store at the
JEFF TESON
A car is engulfed in flames after crashing into Seniore’s pizza place on El Camino Real in San Bruno Monday.
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Naked violinist sues over arrest in Portland last year
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Hillsboro,Oregon, man arrested after playing aviolin while naked outside the federalcourthouse in Portland last year issuing police.The Oregonian reports that 25-year-old Matthew T. Mglej claims authori-ties used excessive force and violatedhis First Amendment rights. He namedthe Multnomah County Sheriff’sOffice and Portland Police Bureau asdefendants in a lawsuit filed last week,and he’s seeking $1.1 million in dam-ages.Police showed up after receivingcomplaints about the demonstration,during which the man played violin,meditated and quoted former IranianPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.They said they arrested him for inde-cent exposure and carried him to apatrol car when he refused to walk.Mglej claims jail deputies cut hiswrists by jerking on his handcuffs andcalled him names when he cried fromthe pain and for his service dog.He has a hearing on the indecentexposure charge next month.
Suspected burglar falls through ceiling, lands near police
HOUSTON — Authorities say aman’s plans to break into a Houstonstore fell through, after he crashedthrough the ceiling and landed in frontof police.Houston police say the man climbeda tree and onto the roof of a FamilyDollar store early Sunday morning,then managed to break a hole in theroof and enter the building. But after making his way into thestore, the man fell through the ceiling just as a police officer arrived inresponse to a call about a potentialburglary.KHOU-TV reports that the officerordered the unidentified man to stay onthe floor. The man was later arrested.Authorities believe the man was try-ing to steal cigarettes.
Woman gets bag full of cash at Burger King drive-thru
ROCHESTER, N.H. — A NewHampshire woman got a surprise at aBurger King drive-thru: a bag full of cash instead of food.Janelle Jones says she discoveredon the way home that the bag did notcontain the sweet tea and junior spicychicken sandwich that she had orderedFriday at the Rochester fast-foodrestaurant.Foster’s Daily Democrat reports thatJones called her husband and theydecided to return the $2,631, whichwas a Burger King bank deposit. Matthew Jones says the couplebriefly considered keeping the money,which they certainly could have used.But he says he and his wife areJehovah’s Witnesses, and that“Jehovah sees everything.” The newspaper reports that therestaurant confirmed the couple’saccount but had no comment on it.
Two small planes run out of fuel, crash-land offHawaii
Two small planes ran out of fuel andcrash-landed into the Pacific Oceanoff Hawaii on the same day, with onebriefly nose-diving before levelingout and drifting down to the waterbeneath a massive parachute.The five people aboard the planessurvived after dramatic rescues,authorities said. In one of the crashes, the pilot putdown the aircraft near a cruise shipand was pulled aboard it in a life raftamid giant waves.The National Transportation SafetyBoard said Monday it is investigatingthe separate incidents, whichoccurred Sunday.One of the planes, a single-engineaircraft carrying only a pilot, crash-landed about 250 miles off Maui. Theother plane was carrying four peopleand went down several miles off Oahu. NTSB investigator Josh Cawthrasaid both planes sank, and he didn’tknow if they would be recovered. Hesaid he had not yet spoken with eitherpilot and had few other details.
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Actress BridgetFonda is 51.
This Day in HistoryThought for the Day
1945
During World War II, Soviet troopsliberated the Nazi concentrationcamps Auschwitz and Birkenau inPoland.
“When a true genius appears,  you can know him by this sign: that all thedunces are in a confederacy against him.”
— Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist (1667-1745)
Chief U.S. JusticeJohn Roberts is 60. Comedian PattonOswalt is 46.
Birthdays
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A child plays in Central Park as it snows in the Manhattan borough of New York.
Tuesday
: Mostly cloudy. A slight chanceof showers in the morning. Highs in thelower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10mph... Becoming southwest in the after-noon.
Tuesday night:
Mostly cloudy. Lows inthe lower 50s. East winds 5 to 10mph...Becoming south after midnight.
Local Weather Forecast
A story in the Jan. 26 edition of the Daily Journal inaccu-rately identified San Carlos Elementary School District as abasic aid district. It is instead a revenue limit district, mean-ing its budget is built entirely by allocation from the state,to meet minimum funding levels.
Correction
In 1756, 
composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born inSalzburg, Austria.
In 1880, 
Thomas Edison received a patent for his electricincandescent lamp.
In 1901
, opera composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan,Italy, at age 87.
In 1913, 
the musical play “The Isle O’ Dreams” opened inNew York; it featured the song “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”by Ernest R. Ball, Chauncey Olcott and George Graff Jr.
In 1944, 
during World War II, the Soviet Union announcedthe complete end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad,which had lasted for more than two years.
In 1951
, an era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert beganas an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb onFrenchman Flat.
In 1965, 
“Up the Down Staircase,” Bel Kaufman’s novelabout a young, idealistic teacher at a New York inner-cityschool, was published by Prentice-Hall.
In 1967
, astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H.White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a testaboard their Apollo spacecraft. More than 60 nations signeda treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.
In 1973, 
the Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.
In 1977
, the Vatican issued a declaration reaffirming theRoman Catholic Church’s ban on female priests.
In 1984, 
singer Michael Jackson suffered serious burns tohis scalp when pyrotechnics set his hair on fire during thefilming of a Pepsi-Cola TV commercial at the ShrineAuditorium in Los Angeles.
In 1998, 
first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, on NBC’s“Today” show, charged the sexual misconduct allegationsagainst her husband were the work of a “vast right-wing con-spiracy.”
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Actor James Cromwell is 75. Actor John Witherspoon is73. Rock musician Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) is 71. Rhythm-and-blues singer Nedra Talley (The Ronettes) is 69. Ballet starMikhail Baryshnikov is 67. Political commentator EdSchultz is 61. Country singer Cheryl White is 60. Countrysinger-musician Richard Young (The Kentucky Headhunters)is 60. Actress Mimi Rogers is 59. Rock musician Janick Gers(Iron Maiden) is 58. Actress Susanna Thompson (TV:“Arrow”) is 57. Political and sports commentator KeithOlbermann is 56. Rock singer Margo Timmins (CowboyJunkies) is 54. Rock musician Gillian Gilbert is 54.
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REDWOOD CITY
Petty theft.
A person reported their skate-board and jewelry were missing when theywent to pick up their car from a tow yard onMiddlefield Road before 11:55 a.m. Friday,Jan. 16.
Arrest
. A woman was arrested for stealingitems from a business on Veterans Boulevardbefore 3:42 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16.
Fight
. A group of men were fighting in thestreet and there were spectators on OxfordStreet before 7:58 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16.
Battery
. A woman was punched in the faceat a party on Poplar Avenue before 3:19 p.m.Friday, Jan. 16.
Theft
. A person was seen taking a packagefrom the front porch on Norman Street andRedwood Avenue before 5:35 p.m. Thursday,Jan. 15.
SAN MATEO
Arrest
. A man was arrested for hitting avehicle and attempting to leave at East 40thand 41st avenues before 5:53 p.m. Sunday,Jan. 18.
Burglary
. Several laundry machines werebroken into on Studio Circle before 11:25a.m. Sunday, Jan. 18.
Suspicious person.
A man was seen try-ing handles on cars on South Boulevardbefore 6:05 a.m. Friday, Jan. 16.
Police reports
It’s on the house
Someone reported footsteps on theirhome on North Claremont Street in SanMateo and saw a man jump down fromtheir roof before 12:41 a.m. Friday,Jan. 16.
By Bill Silverfarb
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
With some expecting seas to rise 3 feet inthe Bay Area by century’s end, San MateoCounty will use a $500,000 grant to devel-op strategies to combat its effects.The economic risk to properties in SanMateo County exceeds that of every othercounty in the state, according to a reportthe Board of Supervisors will hear Tuesday.Particularly at risk are San FranciscoInternational Airport, Foster City,Redwood Shores and several wastewatertreatment plants that feed into the Bay allof which will be submerged in several feetof water in the event of a 100-year storm orsea level rise due to climate change.The board will vote on a resolutionTuesday to designate County Manager JohnMaltbie to execute an agreement with theCalifornia State Coastal Conservancy toreceive the grant.Gauges in the San Francisco Bay recordeda 7-inch rise in sea level over the 20th cen-tury and a 2012 report from the NationalResearch Council projected the sea will riseby 3 feet this century.Supervisor Dave Pine, AssemblymanRich Gordon, D-Menlo Park, and U.S. Rep.Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo are leading thelocal effort to highlight the potentialimpacts of sea level rise due to climatechange.Gordon, who describes sea level rise as a“slow-moving emergency,” formerlychaired the Select Committee on Sea LevelRise and the California Economy. He craft-ed a state law that requires cities, counties,coastal and Bayside airports, ports, stateenvironmental agencies and utilities toshare their studies, plans and actionsthrough an online database created lastyear.The grant the county is seeking will funda working group to study the potentialimpacts of climate change on the coastnorth of Half Moon Bay and the Bay shore-line. The group will then develop a strategyto cope with the impacts.“This is a first step of going beyond justtalking about the problem. The grant willbe helpful for future planning,” Pine toldthe Daily Journal.It will help identify assets in the countythat are at risk of major flooding, he said.It will help the county not only prep forinevitable sea level rise but also for stormslike the one that hit the area in Decemberwhich caused major flooding, Pine said. “Storms like December’s will be morecommon long before we will have to dealwith true sea level rise,” Pine said.The study area contains many differentland uses, including residential neighbor-hoods that have been subject to severeflooding, habitat for threatened and endan-gered species and substantial public infra-structure including two major highways,Caltrain and BART lines, the San FranciscoBay Trail, sanitary sewage treatment plantsand multiple flood control channels andpump stations, according to the report theboard will hear Tuesday.The Coastal Conservancy will considerawarding the $500,000 grant at a publichearing this Thursday.
Body found in Bay was that of missing tech worker
Authorities say the body of a man foundfloating in San Francisco Bay last Novemberwas that of a missing tech worker.The San Francisco medical examiner’soffice confirmed the death of 26-year-oldDaniel Ha on Sunday.Ha was reported missing after Halloweennight, when he was last seen leaving hisapartment in the South of Market neighbor-hood. When U.S. Coast Guard and San Franciscofire crews found a body floating in the bay onNov. 11, Ha’s family said items found on hisbody matched his personal belongings.Acting Medical Examiner ChristopherWirowek said the case remains under investi-gation, with the cause and manner of deathpending.
Deck collapse in San Franciscoseriously injures three people
Three people were treated for seriousinjuries after a deck collapsed during a birth-day party in San Francisco.The collapse happened about 5:30 p.m.Sunday at a home in the city’s ExcelsiorDistrict.People were outside taking pictures duringthe party when the railing gave way, drop-ping them roughly 20 feet to the concretebelow.
Grant to fuel sea level rise plan
Board of Supervisors set to approve receiving study money from Coastal Conservancy
 
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