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The South Valley Middle School boys volleyball team made history March 29 when it became the school’s first bump-set-spike squad to play in the Santa Clara County East Side Junior High Coaches Association championship game.

Gilroy families are invited to meet the Easter Bunny and wander through the grass in search of Easter eggs at Christmas Hill Park on Saturday for the annual Easter egg hunt.

Though it had its way with opponents en route to a Silicon Valley championship three weeks ago, The Gilroy-Morgan Hill National Junior Basketball third-and-fourth-grade all-star team surprised itself a bit at the national tournament held in Huntington Beach over the weekend.

A leading social services agency in Gilroy is doing its best to weather the ripple effects of a lingering recession, although times are getting lean at St. Joseph's Family Center on Church Street.

The Gilroy Demonstration Garden will hold an organic vegetable seedling sale from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday at the garden, located on Eigleberry Street between Sixth and Seventh streets in downtown Gilroy. 

Families walked together in ponchos, their jeans soaked to their knees. Puddles greeted guests on the seats of each ride. Earthworms sprawled on wet pavement. The local artists who planned on demonstrating their art outdoors, throughout the 75 acres of beautiful park property, had to find shelter so their work wouldn’t be destroyed.

In the end it wasn’t rain 825 runners had to deal with during Sunday’s 29th Wildflower Run, but a frigid, 35 mph wind.

Something old, something new, something borrowed: Miss Gilroy Garlic Queen 2012 rocked her pageant ensemble with all of the above.