Join Gilroy Hawks Wrestling Club
Gilroy – Gilroy Hawks Wrestling Club is accepting registrations for the 2007 season Tuesdays and Thursdays at South Valley Middle School cafeteria from 6 to 7pm. Please bring a copy of your birth certificate. Open to Gilroy students 5 and older.
Details: 847-7292.
Find a loving companion animal
Gilroy – The Friends of San Martin Animal Shelter need help to find loving families for the many homeless companion animals currently at the shelter and in foster homes.
Visit the FOSMAS pet fairs from noon to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday at Petco on San Ysidro Avenue. There will be many wonderful companion animals available for adoption.
Details: 681-3788 or www.fosmas.org
Enjoy a crab dinner and dance
Gilroy – Residents will have a chance to feast on crab, dance with a loved one to celebrate Valentine’s Day, and support a good cause Saturday, during an event sponsored by the Gilroy Knights of Columbus Council 2469.
The event at St. Mary Parish Hall, at First and Church streets, begins with a happy hour at 6pm, followed by the crab feed at 7pm.
Proceeds from tickets – $35 a person – will support scholarships and charitable activities. To purchase tickets, stop by the parish office at 55 First St., or call Frank Borge at 842-4357 or Stanley Villalobos at 848-9865.
Give blood and help save lives
Gilroy – The American Red Cross, Northern California Region will be holding mobile blood drives open to the public from 10am to 3pm Saturday, at Church Hall, 8095 Kelton Drive.
Details: www.BeADonor.com (Code: SVCC) to schedule an appointment or
1-800-GIVE-LIFE
Free movies at Gilroy Library
Gilroy – The Gilroy Library will be screening “American Dream Cinema: Ethnic Experiences on Film” each of the remaining Saturdays in February in conjunction with more than 40 other events for Silicon Valley Reads 2007.
The films all touch on immigration, the American dream and other themes of the Silicon Valley Reads 2007 book, “The Tortilla Curtain” by T.C. Boyle.
At 2pm Saturday, filmmaker John Carlos Frey will be at the library for a screening of his film “The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon.” After the screening, he will be available for comments and the film will be available for purchase.
Silicon Valley Reads 2007 events at the Gilroy Library will wrap up at 1pm Feb. 24 with a screening of Sundance Award Winner, “Picture Bride.”
Silicon Valley Reads asks everyone in the community to read the same book, at the same time and to discuss it with friends, family and co-workers.
Details: 842-8207.
South County Democrats meet
San Martin – The next meeting of the South County Democratic Club will be at 10am, Saturday at the San Martin Lions Club located at 12415 Murphy Ave. Assembly Member John Laird is the guest speaker.
Details: 782-1017
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