Monthly Archives: June 2017

GOOD ON YA Gilroy’s remodeled Goodwill store at 856 First St. not only looks like a Ross or Marshall’s but has the first free employment service station in Silicon Valley to help people find jobs. The WORKCONNECT Employment Resource Center opened June 9 and Mayor Roland Velasco cut the ribbon in front of a packed house. The center will have full time staff and will give free employment workshops, online job search training, job training, resume help and offers a computer lab. The center is open weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. but closed from noon to 1 p.m. for lunch.

The inaugural Fifth Street Live concert drew lively crowds to downtown Gilroy on Friday, June 19.

Nine hundred twenty-seven students just earned high school diplomas in Gilroy and 23 of those were handed out in the city’s first Adult Education graduation since 2013. Dropout Jovita Caspary, 37, a single mother at age 14, turned her life around and received a diploma during the program’s May 30 ceremony at the Gilroy High School Theatre.

The Gilroy City Council on Monday decided to spend more than $5 million of city reserves over the next two years to improve city operations and infrastructure.

Collins Okoronkwo and Kaelee Scott walked across the Christopher High School campus on a Sunday. Confetti from Thursday’s graduation still lay strewn about the grounds. Signs still adorned the outer walls of warning parents not to bring in fireworks or other noisemakers.

FLAME ON

by Zachery Hilton

The Gilroy Chamber of Commerce and Fact Fitness celebrated the opening of the new location on 7433 Monterey Street in downtown Gilroy during a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday.

Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero said he is more prepared for a fight than he has been for a long time.

Margaret Peterson passed away peacefully on June 1, 2017 after an extended illness.