No Coal Wanted: Gilroy Schools Go Solar
After a yearlong delay, work has started on sprawling campus solar energy installations that will save at least $1.5 million and replace the pothole-plagued parking lot at Gilroy High School.
Pig heads to market
Early in the morning as the rest of the city sleeps, out in the rural edges of town past the Sonic Drive-In and the last Subway before Pacheco Pass, Gilroy teen, Julianna Figone, is already awake and doing her morning chores at her step-dad’s ranch where she is raising a market hog for the upcoming Santa Clara County Fair.
Fostering relationships
Eight Gilroy students traveled with the Gilroy Takko Student Exchange Program to Japan for a 10-day visit from June 26-July 5. Gabriela Avila, Luis Cruz Velasco, Rachael Gallagher and Louisa Mantilla represented Gilroy High School while Emmanuel Duran, Camryn Crowley, Isabel Mena and Natalie Roberts represented Christopher High School. After exploring Tokyo and outlying areas for two and a half days, the students and their chaparones, Marah Kuwada and Gretchen Yoder-Schrock, headed to Gilroy’s Sister City, Takko-Machi in the prefecture of Aomori.
Upcoming City Council Meeting, July 10, 2017
With the July Fourth holiday squarely in the rearview window, the Gilroy City Council gets back to work on Monday night, July 10 at 6 p.m. Below is a peek at the upcoming agenda, which can found at cityofgilroy.org:
Walking 13,000 miles around the U.S.
A journey of 13,000 miles by foot was nearly thwarted on Thursday when Army veteran Eli Smith, who is on a hike to all four corners of the country, suffered a heat stroke while passing through Gilroy on Monterey Road in last week’s heat. He started his walk more than 2,700 miles away in Pensacola, FL.
Farm to Table at the garden was a hit; more are coming
Succulent fare, a beautiful garden ambiance, fine wine and clucking chickens, the hits at the first Farm to Table Dinner this year at the Gilroy Demonstration Garden. Volunteers from the garden hosted the evening as part of a fundraising drive to keep the Eden of downtown Gilroy on Eigleberry Street growing, but also to celebrate community and to show off seven years of progress of the community garden.
Teaching, Flying, Building His Own Plane
For 30 years, during careers in engineering and computerized banking, through fatherhood and retirement and as a student and teacher at Gavilan Community College in Gilroy, Herb Spenner lived with a singular, droning dream.
G-Town: The County’s Fastest Growing City
Gilroy is the fastest growing city in Santa Clara County with 1,159 new residents in 2016, according to a demographics report released by the California Department of Finance New State Population Report.
San Jose man walks away from plane crash
Mrityunjoy Dhar, a 30-year-old flying fanatic, walked away from a San Martin plane crash last Saturday with only cuts to his face.
