Monthly Archives: December 2013
Painful year brings forth new sense of self
With just days left in 2013, I’ve been ruminating on the past year and wondering what the future may hold. Personally, it’s been a tumultuous year and a half and I’m hopeful the winds will begin to shift come 2014.
Winter Holiday Anti-DUI crackdown nets 316 arrests
Officers representing 13 county law enforcement agencies arrested 316 individuals for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs from Dec. 13 through Dec 25.
Scrapbook Dec. 22-28, 2013
HONORS: Nicolette Sheridan
You finished your Big Race. Now what?
You decide to take up running. And it’s hard, but you have made a commitment, so you keep running because you are determined to become active and make a change in your life. And after a few days, weeks, two, three months, it gets a little easier, so you keep running. And, eventually, it becomes a habit, and most of the time, at least, you look forward to going out on your run. And now you are faster and you can run farther than you did when you started, and you’re feeling pretty good about yourself. So you think about taking up a challenge: a 5K or 10K race; a half marathon, marathon, trail race, ultramarathon; whatever.
Help give the gift of life
More than 41,000 blood donations are needed across the nation every day but donations tend to slow down in the holiday months, even though accidents happen all year long.
Coffee with Mayor Gage set for Jan. 25
Mayor Don Gage has scheduled his next “Coffee with the Mayor” event for 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 at City Hall, according to a press release from City staff.
Still searching for ways to give? Look to your local schools
This year, Gilroy resident Christine Taylor took an unusual approach to Christmas.
YMCA senior nutrition programs receive $10,000 grant
Senior nutrition programs at the Gilroy Senior Center (7371 Hanna St.) and the Centennial Senior Center in Morgan Hill (171 W. Edmundson Ave.) got a collective $10,000 boost as the YMCA of Silicon Valley was awarded extra funds through the CareMore Foundation’s Senior Hunger Grant Program.
New sidewalks are coming, but it will take a while
Dear Red Phone:
Elsie Emily Wideman January 24, 1925 – December 21, 2013
Elsie's ashes will be interred at Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA, at a future date.
