Community

Despite the weekend heat, more than 100 people showed up to support the Miller Red Barn Association’s BBQ at the Barn, helping the group move one step closer to its goal of restoring the venerable Miller Red Barn at Christmas Hill Park.

Amazing what a difference the number 1 can make. 

Faced with more babies in need and rising overhead, a struggling nonprofit that clothes and feeds Gilroy newborns is appealing for financial help to continue its work with the city’s needy.

Jeannette Close has been named the associate publisher at New SV Media and will head up all advertising and circulation at the Gilroy Dispatch, the Morgan Hill Times and the Hollister Free Lance. She is based out of the Gilroy Dispatch office in downtown Gilroy.

GOOD ON YA Gilroy’s remodeled Goodwill store at 856 First St. not only looks like a Ross or Marshall’s but has the first free employment service station in Silicon Valley to help people find jobs. The WORKCONNECT Employment Resource Center opened June 9 and Mayor Roland Velasco cut the ribbon in front of a packed house. The center will have full time staff and will give free employment workshops, online job search training, job training, resume help and offers a computer lab. The center is open weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. but closed from noon to 1 p.m. for lunch.

The inaugural Fifth Street Live concert drew lively crowds to downtown Gilroy on Friday, June 19.

FLAME ON

by Zachery Hilton

The Gilroy Chamber of Commerce and Fact Fitness celebrated the opening of the new location on 7433 Monterey Street in downtown Gilroy during a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday.

For over 20 years Kimberlee Rossi, owner of Leedo Art & Framing has been making Gilroy a bit more arty. The sign above the store at 7436 Monterey St. sums it up: “Because the earth without art is just eh!” a play on the letters in earth.