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Friday, November 17, 2017

gilroydispatch.com • Vol. 150, No. 46 • $1

BUSINESS: Drive a little, eat a lot of healthy fruit P4

Survey pinpoints the city’s accident hotspots

LOCAL SCENE The city’s great annual parade Gilroy Downtown Business Association will host the annual Gilroy Holiday Parade, Doggie Dress-Up and ceremonial Christmas tree lighting Saturday, December 2, from 2:30pm to 7 pm. This year’s Holiday Parade Grand Marshal is Siena Arioto, whose team was the top earner for the South Bay MDA Muscle Walk, with $15,344 raised. The Christmas tree lighting will be performed by Siena and Santa Claus and will honor the Star of Light award recipients, to be announced that night. This is always a great event, and gets better each year. The parade is inspirational and fun and the whole day is a great chance to meet neighbors and get ready for the festival season. You can take photos with “Santa Paws” benefiting the South County Tail Waggers between noon and 2pm at the intersection of Monterey and Fifth streets The Doggie Dress-up will begin at 2:30 pm at the intersection of Monterey and Fifth Streets. Vendor booths will be open 2:30- 7pm on Fifth Street The Main Stage performances will take place from 3-5pm. The parade begins at 5:30pm and will be emceed by Mark Turner and Jane Howard. The tree lighting will immediately follow the parade, at the intersection of Monterey and Fifth Streets. For more information, visit www.Downtowngilroy.com.

Reporter

Balaji Vaidyanathan

picturesque Autumn afternoon at Christmas Hill Park.

This Thanksgiving morning, November 23, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation will host the 13th Annual Applied Materials "Silicon Valley Turkey Trot." From humble beginnings in 2005 with 1,900 paid participants and $132,000 donated to local charities, the goal this year is to donate at least $900,000 to five nonprofits helping local families in need. You can view a new video that shows why your support is so important here, http://bit. ly/2yEM6JT or search Silicon Valley Turkey Trot to sign up. In just 13 years, the Turkey Trot will have contributed more than $8 million to nonprofit partners, plus an additional 200,000 pounds of canned goods to Second Harvest.

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

ABOUT OUT & AR OF CAL ENDNTS EVE

St. Joseph’s sets families up with Thanksgiving dinner

Food for the table

ORGANIZERS SAY THEY WILL RETURN TO CITY NEXT YEAR By Bryce Stoepfel Reporter

While the first YogaFest at Christmas Hill Park didn't attract the 2,000 attendees event organizers hoped for, the 700 who showed up were treated to a brisk autumn Sunday afternoon of peace, good health and a bounty of multiculturalism. YogaFest Director Deepak Sridhar

FOUNDATION IS OK, STORMS DAMAGED FLOORS IN BUILDING By Bryce Stoepfel

THANKSGIVING WINES P15 | VETERANS SERVICES P18 | REALTOR TERI FORTINO P19

Inside this issue: Gifts of Thanksgiving

plans to bring YogaFest back to Gilroy next year. “We’ve been very happy with what we've seen,” Sridhar said. “It’s been a flowing crowd throughout the day and they're really excited. Part of this is bringing that one world family feeling to everybody. We are bringing people together despite the differences that divide them. We want to celebrate our differences and we feel that is the true essence of yoga.” Hosted by the Art of Living, a worldwide non-profit organization that works to promote peace

of mind through yoga and meditation, YogaFest made its first foray into Gilroy after two years hosting the event in Morgan Hill. YogaFest decided to come to Gilroy to help spread awareness of yoga and meditation to a new community. “A lot of locals have come,” said festival organizer Amit Verma. “This is something new to Gilroy. Many people here haven’t seen so many cultures come together like this. That is yoga.” Christmas Hill Park's ➝ Yogafest, 12

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According to city officials, last winter’s rains struck Gilroy’s tallest building–the 162-unit Alexander Station Apartments–before the ceilings were finished and caused the floors to swell. Luckily, according to building reports, the concrete foundation is solid with no evidence of settling.

Gilroy Chief Building Inspector Rob Allen said the floor material used at Alexander Station absorbed excessive amounts of moisture during last year's severe storms and that the problem is relatively common in building projects of its size. The plywood floorboards that sit on the floor joists absorbed the moisture before the completion of the roof, causing them to swell. “As the construction moved forward, floor levels were added and ➝ Alexander Station, 12

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Yogafest brings bliss

Alexander Station repairs begin

THE LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE OF MORGAN HILL, GILROY & SAN MARTIN

A section of the Gilroy Dispatch & Morgan Hill Times

By Bryce Stoepfel

AFTERNOON DELIGHT YogaFest attendees find peace of mind on a

Trot before you eat

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INTERSECTION AT LEAVESLEY AND MURRAY SEES THE MOST COLLISIONS

SOLID FOUNDATION Despite the problem with sagging floors, city officials say the foundation at Alexander Station Apartments is sound.

The most dangerous intersection in town is the on Murray Avenue and Leavesley Road with 35 collisions, including three DUIs and one involving a pedestrian, according to a report released during a special city council study session. Out of the top 10 dangerous intersections in Gilroy, six are found along State Route 152 from data collected between 2102 and 2016 by the Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System. The report, compiled by the Hexagon Transportation Consultants, found that during that time frame 175 collisions occurred at intersections along Highway 152. Among the most dangerous intersections include Welburn Avenue and Monterey Road, Camino Arroyo and Pacheco Pass Highway, Miller Avenue and First Street and Church Street and First Street. The heaviest concentration of accidents occurred from between the intersections of Welburn Avenue and Monterey and the Highway 101 off ramp at San Ysidro Avenue a half mile stretch of road that has seen 99 accidents from 2012 and 2016, according to Jeff Elia, Vice President of Hexagon Transportation. The study reported that no fatalities occurred at any of the listed intersections but three severe injuries occurred at the intersection of Chestnut and Tenth streets and two severe injuries at Camino Arroyo and Pacheco Pass Highway. The intersection with the highest rate of collisions, based on crashes per million vehicles entering the intersection, are the intersections of Santa Teresa Boulevard and Longmeadow Drive and Miller Avenue and First Street where each sees .65 collisions for every million ➝ Intersections, 2

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