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LOCAL SCENE Remember veterans Local veteran Eddie Bowers invites all residents, veterans and their families to the annual downtown Morgan Hill Veterans Day remembrance ceremony. The event will start at 9am Nov. 11 at the city’s Veterans Memorial, located in the median of Monterey Road at First Street. The ceremony will consist of a flag raising, laying of a wreath, patriotic songs performed by Morgan Hill school children, a reading of the names of local veterans who gave their lives in combat and a playing of “Taps.”
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Veterans Run is Nov. 11 Support veterans organizations by signing up and running in the third annual Morgan Hill Veterans Run 5K/10KWalk Nov. 11 in downtown Morgan Hill. The race will start at 9:45am at 17500 Depot St., allowing participants to attend the annual downtown Veterans Day memorial ceremony just a block away from the run/walk’s start and finish line. Proceeds from the Veterans Run will benefit area nonprofits the Morgan Hill Freedom Fest (the
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Applications are open for Community Action Grants for 2017–18, funded by the American Association of University Women Morgan Hill chapter. The application deadline is Oct. 31, for grants of up to $1,000 each. These grants are awarded to local nonprofit organizations in support of projects that are in alignment with AAUW’s mission, including broadbased education programs, education programs targeted at underserved segments of the population and programs targeted at equity for women and girls. This year, grants totaling $3,000 were given to Learning and Loving Education Center for ESL class supplies; Central High School for its Chef’s Garden; San Martin Gwinn Elementary Home and School Club for its mariachi music program and Discovery Counseling Center for Bold Journey. The grants are funded through AAUW’s annual Wildflower Run. For grant criteria and information on how to apply, visit aauw. org, and click on “community” in the navigation bar on the home page.
NEW BLOOD Angelia Guglielmo, great-granddaughter of Guglielmo Winery founder Emilio Guglielmo, joined the winery’s Customer Relations and Sales department just prior to last weekend’s bottling event at the Morgan Hill vineyard.
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Hundreds of wine enthusiasts interested in learning and experiencing some of the intricacies of the bottling process joined members of the Guglielmo Winery staff in Morgan Hill Nov. 4 for its
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of wine by the case, not so much single bottles.” At Saturday’s bottling event, the winery crew went through 24 barrels, accounting for about 600 cases of wine, Dudley shared. This November’s blended red consisted of Zinfandel (35 percent), Teroldego (26 percent), Barbera (12 percent), Cabernet Franc (9 percent), Petite Sirah (6 percent), Syrah (6 percent) and Mixed Reds (6 percent), all from Guglielmo Private Reserve Stock. “That changes every
time,” said Dudley of the blended combination. “We offer it for tasting in our tasting room two weeks beforehand and we take pre-orders if they can’t come that day.” Guglielmo’s staff, including winemaker/owner George Guglielmo and winemaker Nikolas Zorn, assisted patrons in the oldfashioned bottling process that made the Nov. 4 event special. Participants placed up to a sixpack of bottles in the portable bottling machine, which automatically stops the flow from the
barrel once filled. They then remove the bottles and hand them to a senior worker who corks them with an oldfashioned cork machine. “It’s a lot of fun,” said Dudley of the bottling event that the winery hosts four times per year on the first Saturday of February, May, August and November. “We get a combination of both (members and nonmembers) coming out to the event. Plus we get people visiting for the first time and that’s really exciting.” ➝ Guglielmo, 18
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seasonal “Bottle Your Own Red Wine” event. The bountiful turnout of wine club members, non-members and first-time visitors made for one of the busiest bottling events of the year for the local winery, located at 1480 E. Main Ave. “November is always one of our busiest ones. We were busy from the moment we opened the line to almost 2:30pm,” said Karolyn Dudley, Guglielmo’s wine club manager. “This particular time of year, a lot of people are ordering large amounts
Before a Morgan Hill man beat Bertha Paulson to death in 2013, she had been the victim of domestic violence multiple times in the three years since she
moved to California, according to authorities and her older sister. Her killer, Michael Sheppard, 64, was convicted of second-degree murder Nov. 2 in Paulson’s death. Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Chuck Gillingham said Sheppard faces a maximum sentence of 15 years to life in prison. The jury found that Sheppard killed Paulson, 45, the night of June 15, 2013 at his home at
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Morgan Hill Apartments, a small mobile home park just north of downtown. It was the only murder in Morgan Hill in 2013. Court files and testimony during last week’s trial—which started Oct. 30 at the South County Courthouse—showed that Paulson died of a broken neck and suffered fractured ribs, collapsed lungs and numerous cuts. Her body was covered in bruises. These injuries resulted from a
“brutal” attack by Sheppard, described Margaret Petros of Mothers Against Murder, an advocate for Paulson’s family. “What is really sad is she did not have any family or close friends in this area,” Petros said from the nonprofit’s Los Altos office. Petros attended last week’s trial on behalf of Paulson’s relatives, who live in Alaska. The family could not attend due to the uncertainty of the trial
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