What happened to D.A.R.E.?: “Hi, I’m wondering if you can investigate why the Gilroy Unified School District, after 20 plus years, has decided to cancel the D.A.R.E. program that was completely funded by the Gilroy Police Department. No money was ever asked for funding by the GUSD and the police department always donated their time, the prize, everything completely paid for by the police department. Why are they doing away with this education with no thank you, no notice to the police department saying we’ve decided to cut this out, nothing. I think D.A.R.E. is a great program and my daughter, who just graduated from the program, enjoyed it and got some great information. Can you look into that for me? Thank you.”
Thanks for the call. The Red Phone passed your information along to the City Editor, who felt it worthy of an article. In case you missed it, check out Wednesday’s edition for ‘GUSD cuts D.A.R.E. program in favor of LifeSkills.’
In a nutshell, school officials dropped D.A.R.E. because there is another program – LifeSkills – that is state-funded.
A ‘pyle’ of concerns: “Your Saturday article, Bravo leaves GUSD, you don’t indicate where he’s going specifically. Also in your earlier reference to Gomer Pyle, the television show, Pyle is spelled P-Y-L-E. Not P-I-L-E.”
Oops. Obviously Gomer Pyle was before the Red Phone’s time, so thanks for bringing the error to its attention.
As far as Bob Bravo’s destination, it was covered in the follow-up story in Wednesday’s edition. Bravo is off to the Antioch Unified School District.
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Anderson bridge in disrepair
Back in March, when the area was in the midst of some major storms, the flooding took out a bridge across Coyote Creek at Anderson Lake County Park.
The Red Phone recently heard from a caller who questioned why the bridge has yet to be repaired. That left Red Phone asking the same question.
According to Tamara Clark-Shear of the Santa Clara County Parks Department, the county is in discussions with the California Fish and Game Department to figure out a temporary fix. After which, it will figure out a permanent fix. They should know what they’re going to do next week.
The missing bridge is quite an inconvenience and 100-plus days should have been plenty to come up with a plan and perhaps get a project going. It’s not the Golden Gate, for goodness sake.
So until further notice, the Anderson Lake footbridge is on hold.
