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Friday, November 3, 2017

gilroydispatch.com • Vol. 150, No. 44 • $1

LOCAL SCENE Tickets Now on Sale for Gavilan College Children’s Theatre Production of Aesop's Fables Each fall, Dr. John Lawton Haehl and the Children's Theatre class create an original play based on a book or collection of stories. Through improvisation and writing exercises, the class develops an original script based on these childhood classics. This fall's Gavilan College Children’s Theatre production will be an original adaptation based on Aesop's Fables. The fables that will be showcased in the play include “The Grasshopper and the Ant,” “The Crow and the Fox,” “The Donkey and the Lap Dog,” among others. The performance will feature song, dance and storytelling for a young audience. The show is Saturday, Nov. 18 at 2pm at the Gavilan College Theater. There will be a free sneak preview event of two of the fables on Nov. 4 at 2pm at BookSmart in Morgan Hill, 1295 East Dunne Ave. Advanced tickets on sale at the Gavilan College Bookstore and BookSmart. Tickets can also be purchased at the door. Adults $15; students and seniors $10 ; Family Pack: two adults and two children $30.

Home Depot Helping Vets Bryce Stoepfel

DOGGY DELIGHT Peter Voss giving Nova the shih tzu a dog’s eye view while workers at Green Tripe process what will become dog food.

Green hype moves Green Tripe DOG FOOD MAKER SAYS IT WILL MOVE PLANT FROM HOLLISTER By Brad Kava Editor

Gilroy is about to get a new dog food company thanks to Hollister’s looser cannabis cultivation laws and the run up on building prices they are bringing about. Green Tripe, which sells millions of dollars a year of raw dog food around the world, is leaving Hollister after more than a decade because its landlord sold his 9,000-square-foot building for hundreds of thousands of dollars over the asking price—in cash. With legalized marijuana

in the city, cannabis growers have been speculating on buildings in the industrial district. A neighboring building valued at $900,000 sold for $2.1 million in cash and its owner applied, but was denied, a cannabis permit. Green Tripe, which is owned by husband and wife Mary and Peter Voss and has five fulltime and three parttime employees, is moving to Alexander Street in Gilroy, even though owner Mary Voss said they offered the Hollister landlord the same $1.2 million price for a building that was listed for $600,000, but the competitors paid in cash. The couple paid $1.45 million for the 8,387 square foot Gilroy location at 7238 Alexander

Bryce Stoepfel

The Home Depot Foundation recently awarded the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 6309 a $8,750 grant and Home Depot employees will spend a day painting, hammering and making minor repairs to improve the Gilroy Veterans Hall. “Home Depot is always supportive of veterans,” said VFW Commander Bob Diaz. “We are thrilled to receive the grant and the assistance in making the place we call home a little nicer.” The Veterans Hall is home to the VFW Post 6309, which includes the auxiliary, and also the American Legion Post 217 and its auxiliary. The veterans hall hosts monthly meetings and social events for these organizations. The Canteen is also a popular watering hole for veterans passing through the area. Home Depot volunteers will lend their trade skills to paint, replace lighting fixtures with energy efficient ones, add storage units and make other minor repairs to the Hall that was built in 1951. Founded in Gilroy in 1946, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6309 is a patriotic veterans’ organization that fosters camaraderie among veterans of overseas conflicts. Its mission is to serve the veterans and the community and to advocate on behalf of all veterans. Worldwide there are more than two million VFW members. In Gilroy, there are nearly 300 members. The work starts Nov. 3 from 9am until it’s completed at the Gilroy Veterans Hall, 74 West Sixth St.

DIRTY WORK It’s a tough job preparing the tripe for processing. So tough that in 2008, the company was featured on Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs hosted by Mike Rowe. St., behind the Caltrain station, which was last occupied by Mission Powder Coating. Gilroy wasn’t their first choice because the move will be expensive, but the prices

of Hollister industrial buildings has gone up too much because of cannabis speculation and buyers who are paying in cash for them to have stayed there. “Every place in San

Benito was gone,” said Mary Voss, who owns the company with her husband, Peter. “Everything in Gilroy was gone too. ➝ Green Tripe, 12

THE LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE OF MORGAN HILL, GILROY & SAN MARTIN

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Gilroy keeps out cannabis sales

A section of the Gilroy Dispatch & Morgan Hill Times

OU T & AB OU T OF NDAR CA LE EN TS EV

THE SECRETS of Katherine Filice

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SPOKING MY MIND P10 | BELLA VIVA P16 | REALTOR HAYLEY DOWSING-CONNOLLY P18

CITY MOVES BEFORE POT LAWS CHANGE IN JANUARY Bryce Stoepfel Reporter

Unlike what’s going on in neighboring Hollister, the green dreams of pot entrepreneurs in Gilroy are drying up. The city has already legislated against medical marijuana dispensaries and will take action in the next few weeks to ban recreational growing and sales of cannabis. “We have to do something before the end of the year or you fall into state

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licensing requirements,” said city planner Sue O’Strander. “Our intent is to stay in line with what Gilroy expects.” Gilroy has legislated against medicinal marijuana and will make amendments to the city code regarding personal use of marijuana and the planning department has recommended restricting commercial sales. Hollister, in contrast, has legalized commercial cannabis sales and cultivation. Since 2010 the Gilroy City Code has imposed a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries and in 2016 the city amended the code to prohibit

medical marijuana cultivation, delivery, and commercial marijuana activity within the city. This statute was in part overridden last November in California when 56 percent of voters approved Proposition 64, The Adult Use of Marijuana Act. Under the act, for adults aged 21 years and older, the use of marijuana will be legal in January. The act also allows for the growing of up to six marijuana plants on private property for personal use, which supersedes the city’s code. The recommendation ➝ Pot Legalization, 12

POT PROHIBITED Despite changes made at the state level regarding legal marijuana, large commercial growing operations will not happen in Gilroy.


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