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A Gilroy family found out last week their 12-year-old daughter, who has battled cystic fibrosis since she was four weeks old, isn't eligible for a lung transplant, and her doctors doubt she'd survive long even if she did.

Fifteen people received new haircuts outside a downtown bar Thursday afternoon as patrons raised more than $800 for a popular employee of the establishment who is undergoing treatment for stage 3 lymphoma. Morgan Hill resident Bob Matts and local hairstylist Ashley Sulesky helped organize the “Buzz A Thon” outside the M & H Tavern in an effort to help raise money bartender Teresa Glover and her medical expenses. Matts donated $10 for each customer who agreed to have their head shorn by Sulesky, who donated her time to the fundraising effort. Matts encouraged other patrons to match him, and together they raised a total of $830, which will be donated directly to the Teresa Glover Fund, Matts said. Matts said he became “teary-eyed” reading about Glover’s plight in the news last month, and he and other Tavern patrons decided to do something for the 39-year-old mother of two who was diagnosed with lymphoma in December 2013. “So we made an event on Facebook, and I said I would match everybody who shares it with me,” Matts said. In addition to contributions by Matts and those who matched him, a silent donor agreed Thursday to donate $1,000 to cover expenses for another fundraiser for Glover on Saturday if longtime Tavern bartender Bob Allman agreed to shave his head. Allman - who couldn’t refuse the offer - and other residents thought up the Saturday evening fundraiser at Troy’s Bocce Ball, which will feature a DJ and full lineup of live music, to be closed out by the hit rock band SmashMouth. Morgan Hill resident Norbert Diaz said he heard about Thursday’s fundraiser on Facebook and decided to have his seven years’ worth of long black locks shaved in honor of his cousin who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. “This is for a good cause,” Diaz said. Mike DiRubio, one of the producers of the Saturday event, had his head shorn for Thursday’s fundraising effort. He said the haircuts are “just symbolic” but that support for friends and family suffering from cancer is a social and family obligation.“We’ve all lost somebody to cancer,” DiRubio said. “It’s a community’s responsibility to do something for people.”For more information about Saturday’s fundraiser or to donate go to www.teresagloverfund.com.

If it wasn't for the machines, tubes, IVs and the hospital bed 12-year-old Caley Camarillo of Gilroy remains in most of the day, it's hard to tell she's fighting for her life given the smile plastered on her face.

It's five months from Gilroy Garlic Festival season, and five judges are on their way to picking the queen of the festival and her court this month in the garlic capital of the world.

The widely acclaimed, multi-platinum selling San Jose-based rock band SmashMouth will perform in Morgan Hill Saturday, and tickets are only $5 each (or $20 for reserved seating).

GILROY — Oakwood entered Thursday’s game with a chip on its shoulder.

Come mid-June, Gilroy Gardens will host a new water feature designed to teach young children about the physics of water while they play in it and beat the heat, according to theme park administrators.

Operation Freedom Paws has 150 tickets available for its St. Patrick’s Day Irish Dinner fundraiser from 5 to 10 p.m. March 17 at the San Martin Lions Club (located at 12415 Murphy Ave. in San Martin).