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THE LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE OF SAN BENITO COUNTY

APRIL 13, 2018

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San Benito Magazine INSIDE THIS ISSUE

THIS WEEK: Poppy Jasper screens Luis Valdez’s ‘Ceasar’s Last Fast’

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Video view leads to property, heroin OFFICERS SAY THEY KNEW THE SUSPECT Staff report

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Police arrested a Hollister man after the victim of a theft provided video footage that helped officers identify the suspect, according to authorities. When police caught up to the suspect, he was arrested not only with stolen electronics items, but also with heroin in his possession, police said. The evening of March 30, a Hollister Police officer received a report of a theft from a victim. During the course of his investigation, the officer obtained video footage of the suspect, according to an April 3 press release from Hollister police. An officer identified the suspect as Carlos Sanchez, 35, according to the press release. The officer responded to Sanchez’ home and saw him outside in a nearby vehicle. Sanchez was consuming heroin and wearing the same clothing he was wearing in the video of the theft. Sanchez also had a stolen iPad and two stolen laptop computers,

‘THE GRUNCH’ Left to right, Ashley Maupin, Alejandro Manzo (as the Grunch) and Brody Thiessen.

Young actors take the stage SAN BENITO KIDS COMPANY PRESENTS “THE GRUNCH” IN HOLLISTER ON APRIL 13

said Jim Brumfield, whose 14-acre horse ranch on San Juan Highway is a short walk from the site of the planned bridge. The riverbed crossing will be funded completely with federal money from the Federal Highway Administration's Toll Credit Highway Bridge Program, with construction slated for the spring of 2017. “The key to a better transportation

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reached out to local high schools and the Gilroy Department of Parks and Recreation. We want to get kids off the street and keep them out of trouble.” What makes Pound 4 Pound really pop, is the coaching. Aside from Ruben, who’s been training fighters for 40 years, coaches include former fighters Carol Siracusa and Pat Deleon. The Ghost, when he’s not working to train his 11-year-old son Robert Jr. or away at his job as a fight commentator for Fox Sports, is also a coach.

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One week after its grand opening, Pound 4 Pound Sports Fitness, the new boxing gym on Monterey Street was popping with the sounds of the sweet science. Whap, whap—swap—pap, pap, pap! “We’re here to build champions,” said Ruben Guerrero before the day sparring sessions started at the new gym opened

bags, mats, mitts, the new gym at 7648 Monterey St is slick, slim and powerful, just like multiple former world champion Robert Guerrero. It took about seven months to get to opening day, but there’s more to come. “I’m turning this whole area back here into a full gym, with weights, cardio machines and a place for Crossfit,” Ruben Guerrero said while touring the unfinished back half of the building which had been the Discount Surplus store. “We get kids from the streets, but we also take in kids from the YMCA and the Gilroy Youth Alliance,” Maricela said. “ We’ve also

make his pizzas. In starting the business, he is also bringing a taste of his family’s home country to his family’s hometown in Hollister. The Felice family is from the Calabria part of Italy and has deep roots in San Benito County as well. With the opening of Forno, meanwhile, Hollister will once again

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direction by Kayla Murphy. Summers says the show is coming along nicely, and the kids are more than ready for their opening night. “This is a very talented group of kids,” Summers says. “We have many familiar faces and lots of new talent.”

The San Benito County chapter of the national nonprofit organization Birthday Cakes 4 Free started last spring and group members have been bringing cakes, cupcakes and muffins to low-income seniors and children ever since then. Since the group started in June, its members have delivered about five cakes a month to the Emmaus House, Chamberlain's Children Center and the assisted living facility Whispering Pines Inn. Now they're looking to expand to individual homes in the county. A2

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by him and his Maricela, parents of former multiple world boxing champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero. It was tough to tell that fighters Oscar Escandon and Pedro Cruz were sparing. Even with head and body padding, the shots each threw and absorbed appeared, and sounded, like both were fighting at full steam. “I’d say they’re at 90 percent speed and 50 percent power right now,” Robert Guerrero said. Like the fighters, Pound 4 Pound looks and sounds like it’s on full power. With the boxing ring, dozens of heavy bags, speed

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musical, he comes up with a perfect plan to ruin it for everyone. But will the spirit of theatre prevail? Produced by Adrienne Summers, Shanon Romiti, and Jenny Arbizu, the 60-minute show features a cast of children ages 8 to 14 years old. The show is directed by Dena Gregory, with choreography by Betsy Molchan and vocal

‘The Ghost’s’ dad opens boxing gym

A $16 million bridge stretching 900 feet across the San Benito River is planned to connect Y Road and San Juan Bautista. But in this rural area, the number of people it will serve is small. “It's like our own bridge to nowhere,”

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The costumes are made, props are placed, and the

Christmas, The Grunch, presented by San Benito Stage Company, opens Friday, April 13 at the Granada in Hollister. The children’s musical tells of Rudy Grunch (played by Alejandro Manzo), a grumpy 6th grader who always feels like an outsider. When the entire school gets excited about the annual school

The company vying to build a 247-megawatt solar farm in Panoche submitted a draft supplemental environmental impact report addressing plans to examine impacts under a revised, reduced proposal. PV2 Energy filed the supplemental draft EIR on Dec. 23. The prior company overseeing the project, Solargen Energy, had an initial EIR approved by the county board in late 2010. A5

Special to the Free Lance

SPORTS

Jenny Arbizu

Soph surge

A year ago, Brad Sparrer was the No. 5 player in the lineup on San Benito High’s golf team. But entering the 2015 season—practice starts on Feb. 1—the 5-foot-8, 140pound sophomore will likely be the Haybalers’ No. 1 player. Sparrer’s meteoric rise came the good old-fashioned way: hard work. B1

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stage is set. And in an alltoo-familiar plot twist, everything goes missing the night of the show. A headline of the latest happening at San Benito Stage Company? Thankfully not. But a story from a Dr. Seuss book? Not quite— but it’s based on one. Inspired by Dr. Seuss’s The Grinch Who Stole

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