Cheers: To the Gilroy Unified School District board members for
their decision to re-examine block scheduling. Three school board
members, Pat Midtgaard, Rhoda Bress and Tom Bundros have requested
a study session to analyze the GHS block schedule system and
instructional time being used.
Cheers: To the Gilroy Unified School District board members for their decision to re-examine block scheduling. Three school board members, Pat Midtgaard, Rhoda Bress and Tom Bundros have requested a study session to analyze the GHS block schedule system and instructional time being used.
Jeers: To Postmaster Penny Yates for her attempt to fire letter carrier Patricia Finley. Faced with a bad management order not to dismount her vehicle to deliver mail, Finley did the best she could to deliver her customers’ mail while still complying with her boss’s directive. Yates eventually rescinded her order, was publicly criticized and now the mail carrier might be terminated. Smells fishy.
Cheers: To the Gilroy Unified School District for finally building a cafeteria for students at Gilroy High School, who in the past struggled to find comfortable places to eat lunch, especially during inclement weather. The 10,000-square-foot structure will seat 1,000 students and will include offices for student services, as well as additional food services, including a deli, salad bar and grill.
Jeers: To the owner of the abandoned horse now being cared for at the San Martin Animal Shelter. The horse, estimated to be about 15 years old, was found July 14 in a pasture in the San Martin-Morgan Hill area.
In addition to being severely underweight, the horse also suffers from knee and hip conditions, but staffers at the shelter say they’ll have no problem finding a new home for it. After the horse gains weight and is healthy, the shelter will put it up for adoption through a silent auction.
Cheers: To pilots Larry Fernandes and Mark Sochan, who flew 5-year-old Benjamin Murphy to Minnesota to undergo treatment for leukemia. And to the rest of the South County Airport Pilots Association that raised money to pay for the trip.
While the pilots got the boy to Minnesota in time, he was not eligible for the treatment, but is currently undergoing chemotherapy at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto.
Jeers: To the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors for its decision to seek market-rate rent for the San Martin building that now houses the Lions Club. To help secure federal funding to expand the South County Airport, the county will soon bid a new lease for the Lions Club Hall on Murphy Avenue. Let’s hope a group that can afford it shares the space, thus allowing the Lions to stay.
