Community

Gavilan College Trustee Laura Perry, the community college’s longest-serving board member, will be honored for her 20 years of service at the 2013 Annual Trustees Conference in May.

Gilroy's Don of generosity, Don Christopher of Christopher Ranch, donated two new vans and 100 Nook e-readers to Gilroy High School last month.

Community Solutions, a leading South County social services agency, has relocated its Gilroy office to 9015 Murray Ave., Suite 100 on the north side of Gilroy. The new office will also serve as the agency's headquarters for the whole of South Santa Clara County.

The kid ran out of the crowd holding a shred of paper high, like he was displaying a number during an auction.

Friends and family of John Vasquez, a 46-year-old Gilroy native who was diagnosed less than three years ago with a rare nerve disorder called chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, along with multiple myeloma (a cancer that starts in the plasma cells of bone marrow) and monoclonal gammopathy (a condition in which an abnormal protein is in the blood) will host a family barbeque, raffle and fundraiser from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 27 at Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy. 

What many locals will recognize as the cheerful red barn (visible off Hecker Pass Highway, not far from Syngenta Flowers) is opening back up for the season this week.

The El Camino Club, a Gilroy-based nonprofit organization consisting of California Highway Patrol Officers and supervisors assigned to the Gilroy-Hollister CHP Office, recently volunteered several hours of their own time Feb. 28 to pick up trash on the shoulders of Hecker Pass between Burchell Road and Watsonville Road. The group filled up 12 Adopt-a-Higway bags full of trash.

The Central Coast Barnstormers opened the season with a 35-19 loss to the visiting South Bay Stallions on Saturday at Gilroy High.

Despite the overwhelming generosity of the community, the Second Harvest Food Bank has fallen $300,000 short of its “Holiday Food and Fund Drive” target.

District 5 rallied past 50 Shades of Bay Tree 58-55 on Wednesday to improve to 2-0 atop the nine-team Men’s Spring Basketball League at Solorsano Gym.