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THE LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE OF MORGAN HILL, GILROY & SAN MARTIN

A supplement to the Gilroy Dispatch & Morgan Hill Times

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Gavilan’s Adapted PR program changes lives

SOUTH VALLEY MAGAZINE INSIDE THIS ISSUE

GAVILAN STRONG Local Adapted PE program gives the disabled an edge P4

GODSPELL REVIEW P8 | NEW WINES P12 | BLACK LEGACY P14

SCHOOL BOARD CUTS $3M P4 | RESERVOIRS RISING P8 | MISS GILROY 2019 P11

THE LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE OF SAN BENITO COUNTY

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

ESTABLISHED 1868

A supplement to the Hollister Free Lance

SAN BENITO MAGAZINE Get a taste of home at San Juan’s Natural Wonders INSIDE THIS ISSUE A New SV Media publication Friday, February 22, 2019 gilroydispatch.com • Vol. 152, No.8 • $1 HEALTHY HAVEN SJB’s Natural Wonders is a big surprise in a little package P4

Governor hints at new plan for train funding GODSPELL REVIEW P8 | NEW WINES P12 | BLACK LEGACY P14

GOVERNOR’S STATE OF STATE CAUSES LOCAL CONFUSION Jaqueline McCool Reporter

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Gov. Gavin Newsom sent shockwaves through California with his Feb. 12 State of the State address on Feb. 12 when he said “we have to get real” about the long-planned high-speed rail through California. Newsom told his statewide audience that the controversial project would “cost too much and take too long” and that he would shift focus to the Merced to Bakersfield portion of the plan. Newsom’s criticism of the rail line spawned cheers in the South Valley because many thought the project had been altered or ended all together. Two days later, the Governor issued a clarifying statement that seemed to indicate that not much had changed after all.

RAIN OR SHINE ICE protestor huddles under umbrellas with a sign that reads, ‘We are not going to leave.’

Police called to rally PROTESTORS GATHER IN HEAVY STORM OUTSIDE LOCAL OFFICE Jaqueline McCool Reporter

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In the middle of a drenching rain storm Feb. 14, a group of protestors gathered outside the Morgan Hill office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in hopes of shutting it down. The protest, organized by the Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara County, hosted a series of speakers at the Vineyard Court office

who advocated for the abolishment of the agency and the shutdown of the field office over an incident that occurred in December 2018. At the first protest, immigration attorney Dorothy Ma described an incident where an immigrant was detained by officers with the U.S. ICE agency and was denied due process while forced to sit in a van outside the Morgan Hill field office on Vineyard Court before he was transported to a processing center in San Francisco. The protestors returned nearly two months later, this time in smaller numbers in the winter rain, with a list of demands; many marched into the field office an read the list

to the officers inside. Morgan Hill police were called to the scene, and the building’s landlord faced off with the protestors who had gathered in the parking lot of the office. The protest ended peacefully, with protestors dispersing to public property, but vowing to return As car alarms blared, the small group of protestors continued to chant and give speeches in both English and Spanish. “What kind of a society are we when we tear their families apart?” Fr. Robert Brocato, from St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Gilroy, asked the crowd. “What kind of a society are we when our government institutions, which

we expect to be working in a fair way and a lawful way, are not? What about human dignity, basic human dignity?" The Morgan Hill ICE office is a administrative processing center. ICE spokesperson Richard Rocha responded to a request for comment: “The ICE office in Morgan Hill is solely administrative space and does not have space to process or detain individuals, nor is it set up to offer attorney or family visits. ICE routinely stops at the Morgan Hill office to allow detainees an opportunity to use the restroom en route to other permanent ICE facilities where full access to attorneys is provided.”

Judge to decide hospital fate soon ATTY. GENERAL AND COUNTY TRADE BARBS IN PAPERS FILED IN COURT Barry Holtzclaw Managing Editor

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There will be no federal court hearing of a request by Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s motion to

block the sale of O’Connor and Saint Louise hospitals by Verity Health System to Santa Clara County. U.S. District Court Judge R. Gary Klausner on Feb. 14 canceled the hearing, which had been scheduled for Feb. 22 in his courtroom in Los Angeles. “No appearances by counsel are necessary,” the judge wrote. “The court will issue a ➝ Becerra, 8

SAINT LOUISE Gilroy’s regional hospital likely to close if judge grants AG’s request for a stay.

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