Road construction begins on 152
Gilroy
– Pacheco Pass will be partially closed from just east of Gilroy
foods to Llagas Creek each night from Monday, through Friday, for
striping and safety improvements.
Road construction begins on 152
Gilroy – Pacheco Pass will be partially closed from just east of Gilroy foods to Llagas Creek each night from Monday, through Friday, for striping and safety improvements.
One-half of the road way will shut down each night beginning at 10pm and reopen 4am the following morning.
The road will reopen 6am Saturday morning.
Eat pizza and help fund science camp
Gilroy – A pizza dinner will occur during Brownell Academy’s sixth grade orientation Monday night.
From 5:30 to 6:30pm for $4 each, parents and students can eat dinner and explore the campus.
Proceeds benefit next year’s sixth grade science camp.
Celebrate spring with the GHS choirs
Gilroy – You don’t have to travel far to hear a world class performance.
Celebrate spring with the Gilroy High School choir concert Monday, at Gilroy Presbyterian Church.
The concert features more than 160 students from GHS and award-winning choirs Concerto Delle Donne and the Chamber Singers.
The Men’s and Women’s Choirs as wells as the Concert Choir will perform to music including Bach, Haydn and Mozart.
Students sing in in German, Latin, Maori, Italian, French and English.
Show begins at 7:30 pm. Donation is $5 at the door.
Deadline nears for Garlic Fest cook-off
Gilroy – July may be three months away, but time is running out to enter the Garlic Festival’s cook-off. Interested garlic chefs have until May 1 to get their clove-laden recipes for the 2005 Great Garlic Recipe Contest and Cook-Off.
Recipes must be original, with at least six cloves of fresh garlic, and serve six people with less than two hours’ preparation.
Last year’s top recipe was garlic seafood soup, by Ginger Moreno of Palos Verdes.
Other recent winners include grilled candied-garlic salmon on crispy rice noodles and baby Asian greens and garlic-scented seafood cakes with citrus salsa and chipotle aoli.
Every year, recipes are received from around the U.S. and Canada. From the hundreds of entries, eight finalists will be selected to prepare their dishes for a panel of five celebrity judges at this year’s festival, which runs from July 29 to July 31.
The cook-off winner receives a crown of garlic and $1,000. Second place receives $750, and third place receives $500. Other finalists are given $100.
Recipes can be submitted via e-mail to cl***@******************al.com or mailed to Gilroy Garlic festival Association, Attn: Recipe Contest, P.O. Box 2311, Gilroy, 95021.
Entries must be postmarked no later than May 1.
Professional chefs are not eligible to participate.
Celebrate Earth Day at Christmas Hill Park
Gilroy – The City of Gilroy and Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society present “2005 Earth Day Festival” on Saturday, from 10am to 2pm at Christmas Hill Park.
Enjoy free food, free activities, live animals, birdhouse building, compost and woodchip giveaway, visit with eco and wildlife organizations and bird walks throughout the day, starting at 9am.
Please bring your own shovel and container if you wish to take advantage of the compost and woodchip giveaway.
Heavy rain will cancel the event.
Details: 846-0460 or visit www.ci.gilroy.ca.us.
Get interested in AAUW at luncheon
Gilroy – The Gilroy Branch of the American Association of University Women is holding a Spring Membership Luncheon on Saturday, May 7 to give interested persons an opportunity to learn more about AAUW.
It will be held at Mama Mia’s Ristorante Italiano at 1360-B First St., Gilroy, from 11:30am to 2pm. Guests at the buffet luncheon will have a choice of Chicken Bernardo or Tortellini Pomodoro for a cost of $15 each.
Rhoda Bress, of the Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education, will speak on “Making the Grade On A Public School Board: A Parent’s Story”.
Membership in AAUW is open to all persons with a BA or BS degree.
The Gilroy Branch includes Hollister and San Juan Bautista. AAUW promotes equity for all women and girls, lifelong education and positive societal change.
RSVP to Maretta Juarez at 504-8647.
Learn the keys to good customer service
Gilroy – Learn why customer service skills are so important, the keys to quality service and the 10 deadly “sins” of customer service.
Gain the tools to deal with challenging customers and good customer service strategies and much, much more.
The workshop will be held on Wednesday, from 10am to noon at the Gavilan College SBDC offices located in the Dry Creek Village at 8351 Church Street, Bldg. E.
The cost for this two-hour workshop is $20 payable in advance or at the door.
Please call in advance to pre-register 847-0373.
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