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THE LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE OF MORGAN HILL, GILROY & SAN MARTIN

A supplement to the Gilroy Dispatch & Morgan Hill Times

JANUARY 4, 2019

Ready for renewal the New Year

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THE YEAR IN EDUCATION P4 | PD GETS NEW MOBILE COMMAND VEHICLE P2 | DUO IS A FORCE ON THE SOBRATO MAT P15

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Ready for renewal the New Year

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LOCAL SCENE Value the Youth The annual Morgan Hill Values Youth event will take place 8:30am to 12pm Jan. 26 at the Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center, 17000 Monterey Road. The event is free. All youth, parents/ guardians and adults who work with the youth in the community are invited to attend. The event is designed to help youth and families effectively utilize the Developmental Assets in order to empower the youth. For more information and to register, visit mhyouthconference.com.

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History at the House From 10 to 11:30am the first Saturday of every month, the Morgan Hill Historical Society invites the community to the Hiram Morgan Hill House at Villa Mira Monte, 17860 Monterey Road, for “History at the House.”

Attendees are encouraged to share their knowledge of local history and landscapes during the ongoing monthly conversation. The event is open to the public and free.

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The 2019 annual “Point-inTime” Homeless Census and Survey will take place in Morgan Hill, 4:30 to 10am Jan. 29, and city staff is looking for volunteers. Point-in-Time Count data are the primary data used for federal funding allocations and national estimates of homelessness.

The numbers reported by your community are used by the US Interagency Council on Homelessness and all federal departments including Housing and Education.

Count numbers are also most often cited by local strategic plans, state, county and city government and the media.

To register to volunteer, visit https://www.surveymonkey. com/r/SantaClara-PIT-2019.

Mother Son Dance Wear your play clothes to a casual evening of fun at the Mother Son Dance Party, 6 to 9pm Feb. 2 at the Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center, 17000 Monterey Road.

Dance floor entertainment will be provided by One Way Music, and there will be a photo booth to capture the memories. A light dinner and refreshments will be served.

If a mother is unavailable, grandmothers, aunts or family friends are welcome. Register beforehand by visiting morganhill.ca.gov.

HOME ON THE RANGE Rancher Justin Fields rides with his cattle, driving them onto summer pastures. A year’s worth of work pays off at the end of May, when cattle from the Fields’ ranch are sent off to market. It only happens once a year, so they need to budget tightly to make payday last.

Business thrived in 2018

A LOOK BACK AT THE STIRRINGS OF THE LOCAL ECONOMY Bryce Stoepfel Reporter

BookSmart is the little bookstore that could.

It was a near run thing, though, and after owners

Brad Jones and Cinda Meister announced the probable closure of the Morgan Hill mainstay in March, it appeared that the final chapter was soon to be written. But BookSmart keeps chugging on after their recent announcement of a move to a smaller location, and the saga of the wandering independent bookstore continues.

“It’s heartbreaking,”

Meister said in March after BookSmart announced its likely closure. “This is our passion, to be part of the community and to support literacy and the arts. It’s a safe place for the community to gather. It’s much more than a bookstore.”

BookSmart's trouble began in 2016 when they had to move from their longtime location in downtown Morgan

Hill to a shopping center at 1295 E. Dunne Ave. Jones and Meister racked up a mountain of debt to finance the move along with renovation costs to get their new location ready for business.

As the bad debt grew to $250,000, BookSmart fell behind on the rent.

After being turned down for a small business loan from the City of Morgan Hill, BookSmart

earlier this month decided to move once again: to a smaller, and cheaper location at 421 Vineyard Center. The space will be onequarter the size of the Dunne Avenue store, the cafe will be gone, and the toys section will be smaller. The store will have a new look, but it will live another day.

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Saint Louise gets good marks STUDY OF QUALITY OF CARE WAS ORDERED BY BANKRUPTCY COURT Barry Holtzclaw Managing Editor

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Barry Holtzclaw

In Saint Louise Regional Hospital, Santa Clara County will be buying a hospital in need of some improved computer resources, but with a dedicated, quality staff providing adequate care.

That’s the view of a special ombudsman appointed by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to conduct a required assessment of the quality of

care provided by the hospital during its period of protection under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code.

“The general milieu of the hospital during our time spent showed administration’s significant dedication to the hospital, and the patients they serve,” concluded Jacob Nathan Rubin, the courtappointed ombudsman.

The bankruptcy judge on Dec. 19 was expected to approve the purchase of the Gilroy hospital, along with O’Connor Hospital of San Jose by the county from Verity Health System. Santa Clara County was the

COPTER IS READY Saint Louise Regional Hospital has a helicopter pad for emergencies.

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Morgan Hill Police Capt. Shane Palsgrove stand in front of the new regional public safety mobile command vehicle Friday, Dec. 21. Morgan Hill Police acquired the vehicle with federal and state Homeland Security grants.

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Morgan Hill and Gilroy police celebrated the arrival of a new mobile command center that Morgan Hill acquired through multiple rounds of grant funding.

The Morgan Hill Police Department took delivery of the new vehicle the morning of Dec. 21 at the station on Vineyard Boulevard. The command vehicle, manufactured by LDV, is a high-tech RV equipped with satellite communications facilities, birds-eye camera views from atop a collapsible 50-foot tower extension, command staff meeting room and all the features needed to allow public safety first responders to efficiently coordinate their efforts and see everything around them during a large-scale disaster or criminal incident.

The vehicle will facilitate emergency response to events such as wildfires, floods, earthquakes and other incidents that require a multiagency response from fire, police, sheriff ’s and state and federal agency personnel, Morgan Hill police explained. Police command staff can “stage, plan and implement specific actions to quickly resolve incidents” using the vehicle and its equipment.

The vehicle will also be useful in a police response to potential criminal threats such as a hostage situation or active shooter incident, MHPD Capt. Shane Palsgrove said. And it can provide an eye in the sky for public events

EYE IN THE SKY Morgan Hill Police Capt.

Shane Palsgrove Dec. 21 demonstrates the exterior communications and audiovisual capacities that equip the new public safety mobile command vehicle.

that draw large crowds— such as the Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras and the Gilroy Garlic Festival—so that officers can be watchful of any disturbances or missing children, for example.

Police Chief David Swing said, “One of the most foundational aspects of any response is communication.

Effective communication helps enhance our response, and this helps us coordinate communication” during largescale responses.

Although the command vehicle is a regional asset that will be shared among local agencies, the City of Morgan Hill took the lead role in its acquisition.

MHPD obtained two grants from the state Homeland Security Grant Program that funded more than 100 percent of the vehicle’s $600,000-plus cost, Palsgrove said. The grant program is funded by federal dollars passed through to the states, to fund projects at the local level.

The city council accepted the grants, and police ordered the vehicle from LDV in July 2018.

The Morgan Hill police chief gave credit

to Palsgrove for persisting through the grant process and securing the funding for the new command center on wheels.

“Our success in the grant process would not have occurred without the work of Capt. Shane Palsgrove. He shepherded this project from council acceptance through project delivery,” Swing said.

The command vehicle is the only one of its kind in South County, Palsgrove said. But it is “fully interoperable” with similar emergency vehicles stationed with police departments in the northern part of the county, should those agencies ever need assistance from the Morgan Hill/Gilroy vehicle during a disaster or other large-scale event.

One of the conditions of the federal grants is the vehicle has to be available as a regional asset—for Gilroy police and fire and the county sheriff ’s office, for example. Gilroy Police Capt.

Kurt Svardal was present at Morgan Hill Police station Dec. 21 for the local unveiling of the vehicle.

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HIGH TECH ON WHEELS A full-length view of the police department’s new mobile command center, acquired by MHPD Friday, Dec. 21.

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2018 in education

MHUSD FULL OF HEADLINES Scott Forstner Reporter

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With many Morgan Hill families headed by highly involved parents active in their children’s schooling, education remains a hot topic among households and social circles.

There was a lot to talk about in 2018.

Before looking back, however, let’s look ahead, starting at the top of the public schools’ hierarchy with five new trustees joining the always precarious Morgan Hill Unified School District’s Board of Education.

Gone are two feuding factions—with retired educators Ron Woolf and Donna Ruebusch not seeking re-election, like their board adversaries Gino Borgioli and David Gerard. The fifth, former board president Tom Arnett, a peacemaker of sorts, departed with two years remaining on his term after deciding to move out of his trustee area.

New to the governing body for 2019 are all firsttime board members who won election in November 2018 and were sworn in Dec. 11. Those are Vanessa Sutter, Wendy Sullivan, Carol Gittens, Heather Orosco and John Horner—the only male voice on the seven-member dais that also includes board president Mary

Patterson and vice president Teresa Murillo.

Adding an immediate twist to the new year, Murillo announced her resignation from the board in December, and thus a sixth new member will be appointed early in 2019.

Will public hostility and disagreements on policy played out in public session among board members, district administration and parents be less common in 2019? If the new board’s first meeting was any indication—votes were unanimous on board president and vice president as well as appointment over election among others—then a more cordial democratic process might be underway.

But that wasn’t always the case in 2018, although the former school board did accomplish much to be merry about as they worked with district staff to improve MHUSD the best way they saw fit.

Perhaps, the top agenda for 2018 was the $50 million Britton Middle School Transformation Project— which got off to a delayed start but is in full swing with anticipation that at least phase I will be completed by the start of the 2019-20 school term. Anyone driving on Monterey Road just north of the downtown has seen the future of MHUSD being constructed, and every parent with a graduating fifth-grader has their fingers crossed that Britton will be ready to go in 2019.

WALKOUT Ann Sobrato High School students in March participate in the national movement to make schools safer and push

for stiffer gun control in the aftermath of another school shooting in Parkland, Fla Back to 2018 In January 2018, a debate over the district’s facility use fees sent shockwaves through several segments of the population, specifically those families involved in youth sports leagues like Pony Baseball, Spirit Softball and Orchard Valley Soccer.

The district hired Facilitron (not a character in Transformers), which proposed changing school field rental prices from a daily to an hourly rate.

That didn’t sit well with the league representatives,

but district staff lightened the blow through negotiations, and a more amenable new pay structure has been in place ever since.

At the end of January and extending several months thereafter was the district’s push for a parcel tax measure, which included two public polling surveys to gauge support and, of course, several twists and turns. The school board was supportive of the district’s plan at first. However, at the 11th hour, the board wanted to add local charter schools

into the mix. It ultimately resulted in the board failing to place a parcel tax measure on any 2018 election ballot.

Before February ended, a scary moment impacted the local board as one of its own, Trustee Gino Borgioli, was struck by a car while walking his dogs.

Borgioli suffered scrapes and bruises and was out of commission for a short while, but the strongwilled board member returned to the dais without skipping a beat.

In March, local

student activists joined the national movement to make schools safer and push for stiffer gun control in the aftermath of another school shooting in Parkland, Fla. District and school site leaders worked collaboratively with the student body to allow them to express themselves but also not disrupt an entire school day.

The students would participate in a second peaceful demonstration the following month.

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DEVASTATING FIRE Jayme

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and Jeremy Simmons stand in the rubble of what used to be their home, destroyed by a July 25 fire on the 12100 block of Church Avenue in San Martin that ravaged 20 acres, burned several homes and outbuildings and displaced 21 people. In terms of the human impact, it was one of the most devastating fires in South County in 2018.

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HERO OF THE YEAR On April 23, Morgan Hill resident Jose Perez, right, was awarded with a California Highway Patrol Medal of Distinction for his quickthinking actions following a traffic accident that likely saved two people from burning to death. The traffic accident actually occurred January 2017. Perez was driving on Pacheco Pass just east of Gilroy when he witnessed a head-on collision right in front of him. He and another motorist, Vidal Flores of Lake Elsinore, stopped to help. Upon noticing some flames inside one of the crashed vehicles, the two good Samaritans removed two unconscious occupants out of the wreckage. Just as the heroes were removing the accident victims—a man and a woman—the vehicle burst into flames. Flores was also recognized by the CHP for his heroism.

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COLLABORATION For the first time in 2018, cancer survivors and supporters of more research funding for the disease combined forces in Gilroy and Morgan Hill to create the South County Relay For Life. The May 19-20 event took place at Morgan Hill Community Park. Nearly 500 participants helped raise more than $105,000 for cancer research. Pictured at the 2018 South County Relay for Life are the Struiksma family: Marcus, 16 months; father, Jelle; mother, Joanna; and Tobin. They were part of “Team Grandpa” at the Relay for Life.

YOGA MEETS GOATS The Original Goat Yoga came to South County in 2018.

Lainey Morse, founder and CEO of Goat Yoga, came up with the idea of hosting yoga sessions with goats in 2016. She hosted numerous popular sessions in San Martin this year. Pictured is San Francisco resident Thomas Pierce staying in tabletop position with a Nigerian goat on his back, at a September 2018 goat yoga session at a home on New Avenue.

GUEST VIEW STEVE TATE

Life after mayoralty

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loved being the mayor of Morgan Hill. It is a great community and it is the people who live, work and volunteer here that make it such a wonderful place.

I’ve now turned the reins over to our new mayor, Rich Constantine, and have complete faith that he and new council members Yvonne Martinez-Beltran and John McKay will join with veterans Larry Carr and Rene Spring to keep Morgan Hill really special and improve our quality of life even more.

When I announced in 2016 that I would not be running again in 2018, people started asking me what I would do after I left, and that question reached a crescendo this fall.

When the Times asked me to write an article giving my perspective upon leaving office, I said sure, and thought I would use the opportunity to focus on that question—maybe not figure out what I am going to do but at least determine the approach I will take.

Assuming that my savings, pension bookstore shift—something I gave up and Social Security provide enough when mayoral duties got in the way. income that I won’t need a job and can With those expanded roles as still do some travel, I will be looking priorities as well as my duties in Rotary for volunteer opportunities. Of Club and on the St. Louise course with the stock market’s Foundation Board, I will need recent crash, employment may to prioritize other possible again become a need! activities and select which ones First off, I do plan to to do in a way that will assure continue with the non-mayor I don’t overcommit. There are related activities that I spend so many possibilities because about half my time on now, and there are so many worthwhile expand my role working with a organizations in Morgan Hill couple of non-profits on whose Steve Tate that need volunteer support in boards I sit. many ways.

For the Boys and Girls I’ll list some of the Club, now locally resident at the organizations of interest, in no Friendly Inn on Crest Avenue, I want particular order or priority; I will to establish an ongoing interaction need to explore possibilities in these with the kids and not just attend organizations to see which have the regional meetings up in San Jose. For greatest interest to me and best meet the Edward “Boss” Prado Foundation, my skills in order to prioritize: again I want to get more hands-on • Morgan Hill Community and interact with the clients we serve Foundation and our other volunteers on a more • Community Law Enforcement regular basis.

Foundation In addition, I plan to continue • Downtown Association to serve as an ambassador with the • Learning and Loving Center Chamber of Commerce and to join • Morgan Hill Historical Society the Sister City Committee, which I • Leadership Morgan Hill worked with as mayor. I also want • Morgan Hill Chamber of to pick up a Friends of the Library Commerce

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• Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center After a couple of months of “unwinding” from being mayor, I’ll be pursuing specific opportunities with these organizations, finding ways to work independently of the city but with the same objective everyone within these organizations has: making Morgan Hill even better.

I will also keep up with what is going on in our city, as there are many open issues: high-speed rail location (if it happens), attracting jobs, affordable housing for low-income earners, traffic congestion relief, building the Catholic High School and the baseball/softball fields, expanding medical services in and around the De Paul Center, and so on. I won’t be a “regular” at city council meetings, but I will be there when I have an opinion to share or a cause to advocate.

Morgan Hill has come a long way in my 27 years of service, and I am confident that the people of Morgan Hill will continue to work together to keep it truly special.

Steve Tate just completed his sixth consecutive term as mayor of Morgan Hill.

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Mushroom farm faces $67M suit

WASTEWATER FLOWED OFF MORGAN HILL FACILITY Staff report

A national mushroom grower could be on the hook for millions of dollars worth of damages and penalties after local authorities accused the company of intentionally dumping toxic production waste from its Morgan Hill site into an adjacent creek.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced in a Dec. 27 press release that it has filed a $67 million lawsuit against Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. in relation to the illegal dumping allegations, which center on the company’s Hale Avenue farming and production site in north Morgan Hill.

The DA’s lawsuit claims Monterey Mushrooms has “on numerous occasions and for years, pumped wastewater from its water holding

pond and process water holding tanks at the Morgan Hill facility into Fisher Creek,” reads the press release from the DA’s Environmental Protection Unit.

Monterey Mushrooms spokesman Bruce Knobeloch said in a statement the company is “shocked and disappointed” by the lawsuit, which follows recent “active communication and dialogue” with the DA’s office dating back to incidents that occurred during the “catastrophic winter storms” of 2016 and 2017—incidents the company claims were not intentional. Since those storms, Monterey Mushrooms has worked with county and state environmental regulators to prevent future incidents, reads the company’s statement.

Much of the illegally dumped wastewater contained toxic levels of ammonia, according to the DA’s Office. Fisher Creek flows into Coyote Creek, which flows into San Francisco Bay.

“Businesses should never DA’s press release. Mon- investigators—authorities leaving the property,” make illegal and danger- terey Mushrooms allegedly estimated that Monterey reads the company’s stateous tradeoffs between pol- pumped harmful wastewa- Mushrooms pumped about ment. “Due to this experilution and profit,” District ter from its holding ponds 700,000 gallons of waste- ence, the company has colAttorney Jeff Rosen into waterways in water into Fisher Creek dur- laborated with county and said after his office order to dispose ing a 48-hour period, the state agents and spent milfiled the complaint, of the waste with- DA’s office said. On other lions of dollars to install which alleges dozout incurring addi- occasions, investigators additional storage, as well ens of unfair busitional costs. sampled the wastewater as engineer the separation ness practices and The Morgan Hill discharged into the water- of stormwater.” state Fish and Game facility also allowed ways and tested for various The statement conviolations. “We will contaminated toxic substances. The state- cludes, “Monterey Mushvigilantly protect stormwater from its ment from Monterey Mush- rooms has a long history the health of our compost process- rooms notes that during the being a responsible memcounty’s waterways.” Jeff Rosen ing and used com- times mentioned in the DA’s ber of the community and The investigapost areas to flow press release, winter storms is committed to the hightion started with into the waterways, flooded Coyote Creek from est standards of environleads from a local citizens the press release continues. Anderson Dam north to San mental compliance.” group, which passed on The grower is accused of Jose and caused major damMonterey Mushrooms, information about poten- using overflow pipes, cul- age to the Oroville Dam in Inc. is one of the nation’s tial illegal dumping to the verts and hoses to divert northern California. largest mushroom growers.

California Department of wastewater into fields, and “Our Morgan Hill facil- The company’s corporate Fish and Game, Deputy DA subsequently into Fisher ity was inundated by these headquarters are in WatDenise Raabe said. Fish and Creek. record storms and rainwa- sonville, and it has offices Game officials contacted the On Jan. 7 and Jan. 8, ter volume, which resulted and production facilities in DA’s office, and the two enti- 2017—two of “many” occa- in a record release of process 12 states, including Califorties continued the investiga- sions documented by water, primarily rainwater, nia, and Mexico. tion into Monterey Mushrooms’ Morgan Hill facility.

Businesses should never make illegal and The intentional illegal dumping began in early dangerous tradeoffs between pollution and profit.

2016 and continued to — DISTRICT ATTORNEY JEFF ROSEN spring of 2017, reads the

Smoke, donuts, tax efforts made headlines ➝ School, 4

infamous parcel tax debacle reared its ugly head as board members reversed course on supporting the measure for the November election. At first the board pushed forward with the charter inclusion, but then backed off under the district’s urging and the parcel tax never made the ballot.

The following month, Gavilan College’s Board of Trustees approved a $248 million bond measure for

the Nov. 6 election, which passed and will have a major impact on the community college that serves South County and San Benito County.

Election season—which eventually produced five new school board trustees in Morgan Hill—came with some interesting storylines, but none more than the case of Vanessa Sutter. The rookie politician was given false information from the Santa Clara County Registrar’s Office that led to her

missing the candidacy filing deadline. Sutter won her appeal, got her name on the ballot and ended up victorious in her trustee area. She won a four-year term.

Bandits struck in October 2018 as someone drove their truck onto the Ann Sobrato High School football field and spun doughnuts. With deep ruts throughout, the Bulldogs were forced to play one home game at nearby Live Oak High School. Saving the season,

or at least homecoming, were the employees in the MHUSD grounds and maintenance departments who spent the better part of two days replacing the grass on the field so homecoming could be held at Sobrato.

Smoke from the widespread Camp Fire up north impacted local sports as the air quality in Santa Clara County reached unsafe levels, causing the postponements and cancellations of all MHUSD

athletic events. It delayed and delayed again Live Oak High School football team’s playoff game that they eventually lost weeks after the original date. School district leaders elected to keep schools open despite the dangerous air quality.

The smoke eventually cleared and gave way to some holiday season hospitality, starting with the Live Oak students in the Future Business Leaders of America who prepared and

delivered turkey care packages to 125 needy families.

Before students hit the winter break, the tradition of student ingenuity continued at Britton Middle School, where all eighth-graders participated in the annual science fair. The event drew hundreds of families supporting their students’ education, with blue ribbon winners given the chance to compete in 2019 against other schools in the South Valley Science and Engineering Fair in mid-January.

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PROTECTING NEIGHBORHOODS FROM THE THREAT OF WILDFIRES

With new wildfires threatening our local communities, PG&E is partnering with our customers in high fire-threat areas to accelerate and expand our vegetation management work. We will be examining and addressing critical vegetation across 7,100 miles of power lines.

The 2018 wildfire season is already one of the worst on record — with more than 1.5 million acres burned and more than 1,000 homes lost. And it’s not over yet. With the wildfire risk increasing at an alarming pace, the 2018 wildfire activity is on track to exceed the 2017 wildfire season, which was the most destructive on record.

In order to keep our neighborhoods safe, PG&E may need to trim or remove vegetation on or near properties in high firethreat areas. PG&E’s action plan includes the following steps: ■ Step 1: Our safety inspectors will be in your neighborhood to determine what vegetation may need to be trimmed or removed.

■ Step 2: If needed, we will mark trees that need to be addressed and contact you to discuss the results of the safety inspection.

■ Step 3: We will perform safety work shortly after the inspection.

■ Step 4: We will plan to begin wood debris removal within a few weeks after completion of the safety work (unless you would like to keep it).

KEEPING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD SAFE

You can help keep your family and neighbors safe by maintaining defensible space around your home and property. We recommend you regularly trim bushes and trees, remove any dry or dead vegetation and be sure to leave space between trees and plants.

Now, and in the years ahead, we must all work together to be better prepared for wildfires.

To learn if you live in a high fire-threat area and what you can do to keep your community safe, please visit pge.com/wildfiresafety.

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Flower shop showcases local artisans

REALM FLOWER SHOP OPENS ON DEPOT ST. Scott Forstner Reporter

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Perfectly nestled in a small corner business space in the trendy Granary District on Depot Street at the corner of Main Avenue— which already includes a brewpub, wine bar, bike shop, high-end restaurant and apartment flats—is the recently opened Realm Flower Company.

While her new endeavor is three weeks old, floral designer/business owner Becky Ruebsamen is a familiar face in Morgan Hill, who owned a local salon before making the switch from hair to flowers.

“I fell in love with doing flowers, and here I am,” said the 55-year-old Morgan Hill resident of 24 years.

She describes her Realm Flower Company as not just your traditional flower shop but also a gift shop—where she showcases many local and regional artists’ work for sale—and a workshop where she hosts weekly hands-on floral arrangement and arts and crafts classes. (The first Dec. 16 workshop sold out right away, so she added a second that same day.)

“We’re not your average type of flower shop. We have retail and gifts as well. We have something for everyone,” said Ruebsamen, who handpicks the products sold in her boutique and leads the floral services. “It’s been amazing. So many people are curious when they spot the shop and they just walk right in, which is what I want.”

METICULOUS ARRANGEMENT Realm Flower Company owner Becky Ruebsamen recently

opened up her flower, retail and workshop at 17500 Depot St. Suite 122.

Ruebsamen hopes her business will benefit from plenty of foot traffic from established nearby destinations such as the Running Shop and Hops and The Grapevine. Her shop includes a “Beer can cactus garden” and “Bike-themed T-towels” in honor of nearby business Bike Therapy.

“It’s a cool space,” she said.

“This courtyard is amazing.”

The retail space of her shop also includes items that stick to her mantra of “Recycle, Reimagine, Repurpose,” along with Santa Cruz-based Fish

Princess goat milk soap and lotion, Santa Barbarabased Raw lip balm and a mix-your-own aromatherapy oils stand.

While Ruebsamen’s shop showcases area artisans with photography, paintings, ceramics, woodwork and metal work, the heart and soul of Realm is her floral arrangements. She decorates the shop with readyto-go flower arrangements of varying sizes. Customers who have something more specific in mind can call in to place and order or drop by for consultation to

“personalize it.” She recently did several arrangements for a holiday party but said anything “down to one bloom in a little bottle,” is available for purchase.

Ruebsamen has begun to use her business’ Instagram account (Realm Flower Company) to help showcase her detailed floral skills.

She’s also working out a partnership with Odeum Restaurant called “Flower to Table,” where diners out for a special occasion can preorder a floral arrangement to decorate

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“I’m an idea person,” said Ruebsamen, also a landscape designer by trade.

A mother of three adult children with three grandchildren, Ruebsamen was in between jobs about six months ago when she made the decision to start her own floral business.

“I had left a job and thought, ‘I don’t want to work for someone else again,’” she recalled. “I told myself, ‘If you are gonna do this, you’ve gotta do it now.’ This is it.”

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Hospital notches low marks for safety ➝ Saint Louise, 1 sole bidder, at $235 million.

The ombudsman’s Dec. 10 report, filed Dec. 14, is required by law to ensure continuing acceptable patient care. The report gives a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a local hospital.

Report Highlights

A final decision has not yet been made whether the county will continue to contract for hospital and intensive care physicians with San Jose Medical Group, which is part of Verity Medical Foundation.

The hospital’s Electronic Medical Record system “remains a systemwide problem that limits the organization from performing well ... despite their efforts at providing quality patient care,” the report said. Saint Louise does not have a

computerized physician order entry system to elicit and extract information to accurately demonstrate appropriate care to outside accreditation and monitoring organizations.

Psychiatry and neurology are lacking for the inpatient cases. Rubin stated that although a peer review system was changed systemwide, Saint. Louise “does a great job of monitoring its physicians.”

The hospital’s accreditation report was reviewed, and revealed several plant management issues “that were of low likelihood to cause harm with corrective action.” All the findings were corrected, or at least a plan of action was deemed acceptable by the accreditation commission.

Saint Louise got a C grade from hospital safety

grade.org for the fall of 2018, the spring of 2015, fall of 2015, spring of 2016, fall 2016, spring of 2017 and fall of 2017, and a D grade for the spring of 2018.

Most of the complications relating to data and safety grades for Saint Louise were related to the “inadequate electronic medical record requirements.”

Rubin said this includes their absence of a computerized physician order entry system. “Despite the lack of a computerized physician order entry system and suboptimal electronic medical records, Saint Louise was able to perform adequately in significant patient care areas.”

Few problems with Surgery

The hospital scored well in the categories of dangerous objects left a patient’s body, surgical wound splits open, dangerous blood clots, and cuts and tears.

Here are some other measures: Collapsed lung data: hospital score was 0.32, best hospital score 0.11, average hospital score 0.29, and worst hospital score 0.47.

Serious breathing problem: score 11.35, best hospital score 1.71, average hospital score 8.23, and worst Hospital score 17.91.

Doctor’s order medications through a computer: score 15, best hospital score 100, average hospital score 69.80, worst Hospital score 5.

Safe administration of medication, handwashing, communication about medications: scored well in these categories.

Communications about discharge: score 83, best hospital score 96, average hospital score 86.88, and worst hospital score 69.

Staff work together to prevent error: score 92.31, best hospital score hundred 20, average hospital score 114.54, and worst hospital score zero.

Scored well in dangerous bedsores, prevention of falls.

Track and reduce risk to patients: score 0.21, best hospital score 0.02, average hospital score 0.38, worst hospital score 1.91.

Doctors, nurses and hospital staff

Did well in scores for communication with doctors, and communication with nurses.

Effective leadership to prevent errors: score 110.77, best hospital score hundred 20, average hospital score 117.14, worst hospital score zero.

Enough qualified nurses: score 94.12, best hospital score 100, average hospital score 97.68, worst hospital score 29.41.

Specially trained doctors care for ICU patients: score 15, best hospital score 100, average Hospital score 49.17, worst hospital score 5.

Responsiveness of hospital staff: score 92, best hospital score 96, average hospital score 91.16, worst hospital score 82.

Despite the lack of a computerized physician order entry system...Saint Louise was able to perform adequately in significant patient care areas.

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2018: The year in local business

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With competition like the behemoth that is Amazon, along with remaining big-box bookshops like Barnes and Noble, they will depend on their regular customers to stay in business.

BookSmart's Morgan Hill story is not finished.

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Mushroom for growth

The Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras is one of the most popular local events of the year, and while the festival helps to put the humble and versatile mushroom on the map, not many realize how robust the local mushroom growing industry has become. At Del Fresh Produce between Morgan Hill and Gilroy, mushrooms are grown by the ton, contributing to a $79 million a year industry in Santa Clara County.

They need help too.

Farmworkers are on short supply, and Del Fresh Produce requires mushroom harvesters, and at $.22 a pound, a mushroom picker can make up to $80,000 if they can average 100 pounds an hour—“if you’re breathing and look like you can pick up 25 pounds,” joked Del Fresh Food Safety Coordinator Emily Bettencourt.

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Up in the hills, somewhere between San Jose and Morgan Hill, the life of the cowboy and cowgirl lives on.

Every May, ranchers Justin and Arleah Fields wrap up a year's worth of work, riding and roping on the hills of Coyote Valley, tending to up to 500 head of cattle.

Being so close to the high tech world of Silicon Valley, Fields and his family carry on a tradition that goes back to the days of the Spanish vaquero, and while his and other ranchers work happens unseen, its results end up on dinner plates of millions of Americans every day.

Many people “ are so removed from the land, they don’t know where their food comes from,” Fields, 46, said. “They don’t realize that their food is actually being produced here.”

Even today, the regional agricultural sector remains an integral part of the local economy, with 33,500 head of cattle in San Benito County and 13,300 head in Santa Clara County, according to the 2016 USDA Agricultural Census.

This year the rate is about $1.55 a pound, or about $1,007 a head at the

video auction. Of course, when your payday comes once a year, you need to be able to budget well.

“I brought in our check to the bank, and while I waited the bank manager came out to ask us about investing our money,” Arleah Fields said. “When I told him that was our paycheck for the year, he was like ‘Oh, wow.’ ” Luckily for the Fields, the American appetite is bullish on beef. On average, an American eats 222.2 pounds of red meat and poultry every year. To help feed the hunger, U.S. cattle ranchers produce 100 billion pounds of beef every year.

NO GENERATION GAP Specialized CEO and founder Mike Sinyard, right, with Global Marketing head Mark Cote pictured inside Specialized headquarters in September 2018.

"A lot of times they come here for a couple of days, and they're gone. They want a lot of money for very little effort."

Overall, the mushroom growing business in California ranks third in the world, behind only Pennsylvania and Canada. And it all starts with the compost, nearly 100 tons a month.

“Composting is like, if a tree falls in the woods, it takes some years for that tree to break down into the soil, but we rev it up here,” Del Fresh Produce owner Don Hordness said.

“We add nitrogen to the straw, and we grow these thermophilic bacteria and fungus, and those little guys break it down. We build tight piles that build up the heat, between 130 and 160 degrees. That's when you see the steam

rising off the piles—that's when the bacteria is eating up the nutrients.”

Two wheels to the future

The future on two wheels happens to be home in Morgan Hill. Specialized Bikes, an industry-leading company in bike technology, is headquartered right here in Morgan Hill, and that's for a good reason.

Morgan Hill has a lot to do with the company’s success, says Mark Cote, head of global marketing and innovation.

Downtown Morgan Hill’s continued upgrades, with new bars and restaurants, help Specialized attract new hires.

“It helps business, and it helps lifestyle,” Cote said of Morgan Hill’s appeal to young workers. “We look at the top of who’s coming

out of universities. Where are they going to live? In the last two to five years, it really has become a place where our newer and younger employees can say, ‘Yeah, I can totally see crashing in Morgan Hill; it’s a pretty cool spot.’”

At Specialized, where you work is where you live, and Morgan Hill offers the downtown atmosphere that helps attract the best and brightest new employees, but also new clients. With the city's embrace of the AMGEN Tour of California, it appears that both Specialized and Morgan Hill are on together for the ride.

“If you take that with what our brand is trying to do with cycling globally, and what Morgan Hill did for alignment, I don’t think the community has ever been

so vibrant with cycling,” Cote said.

The bike industry is changing, though. With the rising popularity of bike and scooter sharing companies like Bird and Uber Bikes, Specialized is still confident that the demand for high-quality, high-performance bikes remains strong as ever. They're not scared of the competition; they embrace it.

“I think it’s had the opposite effect,” Cote said.

“If you look at it its smallest form, it’s competition.

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FORCE ON THE MAT Sobrato High’s Jesse Redmond and Riley Hedden both had outstanding football seasons and are looking to do the same on the wrestling mat. Hedden went 2-2 in the CCS Championships last season at 195 pounds, while Redmond wrestled on the JV team a year ago.

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“My biggest goal is to make it farther in CCS,” he said. “And I want to get a good seed and do well in all of these tournaments I’ll be competing in.”

Even though Hedden knows a lot of moves, his main strategy on the mat involves brute strength along with some technique.

“I’m a thrower,” he said. “I don’t do many shoots; I do a lot of throws and tilts and try to get near-falls and pin them. The main strategy is to push them back and throw them often.”

In addition to the two Sobrato coaches, Redmond has another person who coaches him up well—his brother, Genaro, the 2006 CCS champion at heavyweight.

“He shows up to all of my

Robert Eliason

Jesse Redmond and Riley Hedden are wrestlers who also played together on the football team. Although one has to be explosive on the gridiron, the mat is an entirely different story. For a wrestler to achieve their full potential, their cardio and conditioning must be at a high level.

Redmond, a junior, and Hedden, a senior, know all too well that one has to have superior cardio to wrestle at a high level.

“Football is nothing like wrestling when it comes to conditioning,” said Hedden, who was ranked No. 12 in the Central Coast Section in the 220pound weight division through the third week of December.

“Any football player would die if they came over to wrestle—it’s that draining.”

Hedden blamed his lack of wrestling shape and competing up a weight class in losing both of his matches in the first tournament he competed in on Dec. 15. Hedden, who went 2-2 in the CCS Tournament last year in the 195-pound division, plans on competing at 195 again. As of Dec. 19, Hedden said he weighed 205 pounds and was on his way to reaching the 195 number.

Redmond plans on wrestling at 160 pounds instead of 170,

which he did last year at the junior varsity level. Redmond has only been wrestling for a little over two years, having started the sport in his freshman season. He’s picked things up rather quick and hopes he continues to ascend as the season goes on.

“I’m still learning and at the same time teaching guys moves and what to watch out for as a junior captain,” he said.

Luis Lopez, who is the cocoach for the Bulldogs, expects Hedden and Redmond to do good things this season. Hedden is the more experienced wrestler out of the two, having started the sport when he was in the fifth grade. Back then, Hedden lived in Las Vegas and competed in a number of tournaments in his middle school years. Hedden has finished in fourth place in each of the last two years in the Blossom Valley League Tournament, including going 2-2 in last year’s CCS Tournament.

THE WRESTLERS Riley Hedden and Jesse Redmond are two of the top wrestlers for Sobrato High. Redmond wrestles in the 160 pound weight class, while Hedden competes in the 195 pound division. tournaments and tells me what I did good, what I did wrong and what I can improve on,” Jesse said. “He’ll tell me things to work on and that allows me to focus on certain aspects to get better. Hopefully, if I continue to work hard, I’ll place at CCS.” Redmond said wrestling has increased his overall abilities as an athlete, especially on the mental side. Redmond and Hedden know it’s going to take a lot of mental toughness to get their cardio in championship form. The last situation a wrestler wants to face is competing in a close match in the third period and gassing out.

“I know I have to get my conditioning up,” Hedden said.

Hedden has succeeded despite suffering a serious wrist

injury that affects him to this day. Three years ago, while helping his grandfather resod the roof of a house, Hedden fell 18 feet off an extended ladder and broke his left wrist. Hedden needed a couple of surgeries just to get his wrist to a point where he could use it for everyday tasks. However, due to the injury, his left arm is a lot weaker than his right arm.

Overcoming adversity

“My left arm is a lot smaller than my right one,” he said. “I can’t really lift weights because my right arm will go up and my left one won’t move. It hurts every time I lift something. There was so much trauma that I’m always going to have pain in that wrist.”

When asked if he suffers

from mental trauma from going through such a scary ordeal, Hedden said, “I’m scared to climb a ladder—that’s about it.”

Hedden started wrestling because a bunch of his friends were doing it, and it’s a sport he’s enjoyed for a long time. The sport has given him discipline, focus and a will to compete even when times are tough. It’s also helped get him in shape.

“I needed to start wrestling because when I was younger I was a fat boy,” he said.

Hedden said one of his most memorable moments in the sport came while he competed in the Junior Cadet Nevada State Championships while in middle school, taking a pair of thirdplace finishes while he was in the seventh and eighth grade.

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Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital (HHMH) is pleased to announce a partnership with Pediatrix Medical Group of California, a MEDNAX affiliate that also provides services to Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose. Pediatric hospitalists from “The importance of this Pediatrix will begin supporting women’s and children’s services at program is placing quality HHMH as early as February 2019. physicians in the Hollister Pediatrix and HHMH will work together to establish a premier community to establish pediatric hospitalist program in Hollister, increasing community continuity of care.” access to top-quality pediatric care. Pediatrix will provide highly trained hospital-based pediatric hospitalists to assist with high-risk newborn deliveries, help determine when a newborn requires transport out for critical care, and support the care of well newborns in the nursery, as well as inpatient children and teens. Pediatric hospitalists will also be on hand to provide onsite consultative services to attending medical staff and ER physicians and to help stabilize patients in emergency situations.

Good Samaritan Hospital’s neonatology group has, for many years, been assisting HHMH with the stabilization and transport of high-risk newborns, and supported physicians with telephone consultations. “We have a long-standing relationship with Hazel Hawkins, built over the last 10 to 15 years, and this is the next step,” said Dr. Richard Powers, MEDNAX affiliated neonatologist and Chief of Staff at Good Samaritan Hospital.

HHMH pursued a partnership with Pediatrix due to the need for full-time pediatric support at the hospital. Currently most pediatricians in Hollister have established office-based practices and cannot staff the hospital. “Pediatrix has a history and national reputation for providing excellent care to newborns and children,” said Ken Underwood, HHMH CEO. “This partnership will bring experience and vital support to our top-tier Women’s Center and ER, and to children admitted to Hazel Hawkins Hospital”

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osary: Fri. Dec. 28, 2018 7:00 PM at Black Cooper Sander Funeral Home in Hollister. Mass: Sat. Dec. 29, 2018 at 10:00 AM St. Mary’s Church in Gilroy. Interment to follow at St. Mary’s Cemetery.

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harlene Veronica Harkness, born August 18, 1930, in Jourdanton, Texas, to Frank and Phyllis Ulcak Kremenek, passed away in San Luis Obispo on December 15, 2018. Shar moved to Morgan Hill with her family in 1949, where she met her future husband, Walt Harkness. They lived in Morgan Hill until 1959, when they moved to Davis, but continued to spend time in Morgan Hill for many years. Shar moved to Avila Beach from Davis in 1999 to be near her son, Michael, after Walt died.

Shar taught elementary school for over 30 years, first in Morgan Hill, then in Davis, and then as a volunteer reading aide in Avila Beach. She was an avid reader, loved learning, and art, and music, and games, and passed those loves along to her children and grandchildren. After they retired in 1984, she and Walt traveled the world, and she continued that on her own, visiting almost every continent.

Shar was preceded in death by her husband, Walt, and son, Bill. She is survived by her daughter, Jody (Carl) Woodbury of El Dorado; her son, Michael (Pat) Harkness of San Luis Obispo; grandchildren Caitlin Ridge, Benjamin Cassady, Mason Harkness , and Molly Woodbury ; great-grandchildren Skyler and Grayson; and brothers Larry and John Kremenek.

A memorial service with immediate family will be held in San Luis Obispo.

Remembrances in Shar’s name may be made to the children’s educational fund at www.unicefusa.org.

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However, prepayment premiums, accrued interest and advances will increase this figure prior to sale.

Beneficiary's bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the Trustee.

In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee's Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. The property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the property receiver, if applicable. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Notice to Potential Bidders If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a Trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself.

Placing the highest bid at a Trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be

responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same Lender may hold more than one mortgage or Deed of Trust on the property.

Notice to Property Owner The sale date shown on this Notice of Sale may be postponed one or more times by the Mortgagee, Beneficiary, Trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about Trustee Sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call In Source Logic at 702659-7766 for information regarding the Trustee's Sale or visit the Internet Web site address listed below for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, CA0800144413-1. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: December 3, 2018 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps TS No. CA08001444-13-1 17100 Gillette Ave Irvine, CA 92614 Phone: 949-252-8300

TDD: 866-660-4288 Myron Ravelo, Authorized Signatory SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.insourcelogic.com FOR AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: In Source Logic AT 702-659-7766 Trustee Corps may be acting as a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained may be used for that purpose.ISL Number 53720, Pub Dates: 12/21/2018, 12/28/2018, 01/04/2019, MORGAN HILL TIMES (PUB MHT 12/21, 12/28, 1/4)

Shelly Geraci - Misc: furniture, boxes and picture frames UNIT #8114 Marie Canales - Misc: tools, boxes and furniture

956 MOR - Lien Sale

Notice is hereby given that SEALED bids will be received at the City of Morgan Hill, Utilities Division, 100 Edes Court, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037 to secure one (1) 150 kW Trailer Mounted Diesel Generator. Bids should be in a sealed envelope plainly marked, INVITATION FOR BID 150 kW TRAILER MOUNTED DIESEL GENERATOR 2019. Bids will be excepted until 3pm, Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at which time they will be publicly opened. The City of Morgan Hill accepts no responsibility for deliveries made to another location other than location specified above and/or for delayed deliveries from mail carriers.

The City has the authority to reject any and all bids and may waive any minor technicality or variance found in the bid documents.

A free electronic copy of the bid can be obtained by going to the City of Morgan Hill website at http://www. morgan-hill.ca.gov/bids. aspx. If you have questions, contact Inga Alonzo, Public Utilities Management Analyst at 408-776-7333.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION[br /] As defined by the California Self Storage Facilities Act. Chapter 10, commencing with Section 21700. Division 8 of the California Business and Professions Code.

WINDMILL MINI-STORAGE 13585 SYCAMORE AVE. SAN MARTIN, CA 95046 Date of sale: JANUARY 11, 2019 Time of sale: 9:00 am Auctioneer: Joe Ward California License # 758-0952 Phone: 408-891-6108 Agent for Owner: Rob Anderson General Manager In accordance with the California Self Storage Act, should bids fall short of Agents predetermined fair market value on a given storage unit, agent shall have the right to halt the sale of said storage unit.

UNIT #12201 Rachel Campos - Misc: furniture, tools and boxes UNIT #13214

UNIT #7207 Joseph Garza - Misc: boxes and furniture (Pub MHT 12/28, 1/4)

957 MOR - Public Notice Invitation to Bid 150 kW Trailer Mounted Diesel Generator

(PUB MHT 1/4)

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EVENTS MANAGER The Gilroy Elks Lodge is looking for a Events Manager. Candidate must be experienced in Event Coordination and Management of Event bookings and accounting. Two -year degree in Event Planning or equivalent experience. Salary Range $40 -$50K plus Incentives. www.gilroylodgeonthehill.com 831. 444.1749 -Dan dm.elk1567@gmail.com

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Good sized bedroom, bathroom, living room, kitchen dining area and full size washer and dryer in unit, A/C. Located on a 2 acre private property.

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209.676.0179.

PG&E, Water, Garbage and Wifi included in rent. Dedicated Parking (1 vehicle.) Private Entrance. 5 mins to Hwy. 101.

DUPLEX FOR RENT FOR RENT DUPLEX in Hollister 1 bedroom; 1 bath inside laundry, water and garbage included suitable for a couple or one person $1,100 a month plus deposit no pets or smoking 831.637.3410

NO pets, NO smoking, NO parties, NO drugs. NO BS. NO kidding - please no negotiating. First month's rent $800 security deposit required at move in. llkennett64@gmail.com

MISC. FOR SALE OAK DINING SET & BUFFET Oak table extends to 87 inch long when both leaves used. 6 chairs, 2 with arms. Oak buffet 48 inch wide and 33 1/ 2 inch tall has 2 drawers and 3 doors. 8 pieces.

(408) 981-8284 caryl_patrick@yahoo.com Morgan Hill

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