Monthly Archives: May 2014
Prep Baseball: Hale, Aptekar, Lemberger, Duyao earn MBL First Team honors
Justin Hale, Sam Aptekar, Jimmy Lemberger and Makaio Duyao were the go-to guys for their respective teams all season and Wednesday their value was recognized with All-League honors.
Police blotter: Prowling, battery
The Gilroy Police Department recently responded to a variety of crimes, including battery, peeping or prowling and possession of ammunition by a prohibited person. Arrests were recorded in the GPD blotter May 21 through 28. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.
Program allows Gavilan transfers to law schools
For Gavilan College graduate Michael Treviño, an initiative to get more students to law school is personal. Treviño was the first in his family to go to college. He attended community college before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, and eventually went to law school at the University of Washington. Treviño is now the director of undergraduate admissions for the University of California system.
Fallen warriors remembered
Roughly 100 community members descended on the Gavilan Hills Cemetery the morning of May 26, not to set up tents or chairs for the parade later that day, but to remember Gilroy’s honored dead and countless other who perished fighting in foreign wars.
Musical magic of Phil Robb to live on at Gilroy High
Described by supporters as a “catalyst behind restoring Gilroy’s choral music program,” an educator who “instills character,” “dedicated” and “truly a hard act to follow” a Garlic Capital’s revered choir director whose melodies enchanted the lives and hearts of thousands of youth singers will have a lasting legacy.
CHP offering driver safety class for teens
The California Highway Patrol’s Start Smart program—a driver safety education class for new and future licensed teenage drivers between the ages of 15-19 and their parents/guardians—could save your child’s life.
4 letters: Speeding at Wayland and Broadway; Shrinking coverage; Buyer’s remorse; Harris for Superior...
Speeding vehicles at Broadway and Wayland
Letter to the class of 2015
Editor’s note: The Gilroy Dispatch receive the following letter to the soon to be Gilroy High School seniors. Since many of the GHS class of 1982 are turning 50 this year, Lois Harrison composed a “short letter of what we hoped someone had told us before our senior year.”
‘Stronger Than Yesterday’
"Just keep moving! It doesn’t matter how fast you go,” a voice yelled in a bustling fitness facility on a Monday night, music blaring and sweat pouring from the faces of participants as they performed lunges, climbed ropes and practiced their form on overhead barbell squats. This is a familiar scene at Morgan Hill’s Brethren CrossFit 5 p.m. class and the voice is that of Nicole Perry, one of the seven certified CrossFit trainers that teach classes at the gym. Opened in January 2009 and owned by Lee Pappas, Brethren CrossFit is one of two CrossFit affiliated gyms in Morgan Hill attracting locals to take up the popular fitness regimen.
Life lessons for soon-to-be graduates
So here we are—in the middle of graduation season in the South Valley. From preschoolers who look so cute in their hats and Hawaiian leis to Gavilan College graduates, someone, somewhere is starting a new chapter in their life.
