Trips planned for GHS students
Gilroy
– The Gilroy High School Varsity Cheerleading Squad will travel
to Honolulu Feb. 9 to 14 to perform at the 2005 Pro Bowl.
Trips planned for GHS students
Gilroy – The Gilroy High School Varsity Cheerleading Squad will travel to Honolulu Feb. 9 to 14 to perform at the 2005 Pro Bowl. While on the trip, the 11 students also will visit Pearl Harbor and attend a Hawaiian luau. Student and booster club fundraisers will cover the costs of transportation and hotel accommodations at the Waikiki Inn. The trip will be chaperoned by two GHS staff members and three parents.
The high school’s 60 Chamber Singers will perform and participate in two festivals and an exchange concert with other high schools April 7 to 10 in San Diego.
Director Phil Robb and four other GHS staff members will accompany the group, as well as several parent chaperones. The students also will attend a workshop with choral mentors. Students raised the funds to cover transportation and hotel costs.
Attendance records online
Gilroy – Next week is Edline Week at Gilroy High School. Beginning Feb. 7, student attendance records will be available online at www.edline.net.
At the end of each day, the high school will upload the attendance for every student. Also, the progress, quarter and semester grades will be uploaded within a week of the end of the grading period.
Parents can pick up their activation codes from 6 to 8pm Feb. 9 in the D-1 computer lab at the College and Career Center.
Students will receive their activation codes Feb. 10 and 11.
County wins fight over theater
San Jose – Santa Clara County has won another round in its litigation with San Jose over the county’s development plans for the county fairgrounds.
Earlier this week, a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge denied a claim by the San Jose Downtown Association that the county had not completed all the required environmental impact reports for a new concert theater county officials want to build on the Fairground site.
The city has complained that the county’s project will interfere with San Jose’s own revitalization efforts.
Last November, a San Mateo County Superior Court judge, hearing the case because it was moved out of the county, ruled that fairgrounds are not subject to city review.
On Feb. 1, that same judge will entertain a motion by the county to dismiss the city’s lawsuit. The next hearing is scheduled for Feb. 28.
VTA signs off on 2030 plan
San Jose –The Valley Transportation Authority signed off on a draft of its transit master plan with little discussion Thursday night.
The Valley Transportation Plan 2030, as it is known, is based on revenue projections of nearly $22 billion through 2030. Revenue sources include sales, gas and other taxes, and state and federal funding.
With a price tag of $4.1 billion, BART is by far the VTA’s most financially ambitious project. Some members of the VTA board voted unsuccessfully last month to have the VTA study alternative BART proposals that would have halved the project’s price tag, but delayed by many years any hopes of running BART trains through downtown San Jose.
As is stands, construction will be on hold until the VTA can secure almost $2 billion in state and federal funding.
The VTA must adopt a revised transportation outlook every three years, to tie in with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s master plan for the nine Bay Area counties, which is also revised every three years.
Police suspect ‘fowl’ play
Hollister – A parole search resulting in the arrest of a Hollister resident on a felony drug charge Wednesday also sparked a fish and game investigation when officers found a severed owl’s head in the man’s front yard, according to police.
Samuel Joseph Martin, 48, of 1148 San Benito Street, was arrested by agents with the Unified Narcotic Enforcement Team for possession of crystal methamphetamine for sale and felony violation of parole, UNET Commander Mark Colla said. While agents were searching the home, they also discovered the head of a barn owl in a pot nailed to a tree in the front of the house, and a pair of wings lying on top of a box near the head, Colla said.
Police don’t know why the bird’s body parts were arranged in that manner or where the rest of its body is.
Martin is facing up to four years in prison if convicted of the drug charges, but hasn’t been charged by Fish and Game for any crime related to the owl.
However, officials say even if Martin didn’t kill the bird himself it is still a crime to dismember it and have it in his possession. A conviction is punishable by a maximum $5,000 fine and a year in county jail, Martarano said.
Man charged with molestation
Hollister – Police arrested a Hollister resident Tuesday for repeatedly molesting an 11-year-old girl for the past eight years, police said.
Nabor Alberto Rodriguez, 34, was arrested on suspicion of two felony counts for committing a lewd act with a child and penetration with a foreign object, after he was stopped for running a stop sign at the intersection of Teresita Court and Central Avenue about 7:30pm, said police spokesman George Ramirez.
Police had been searching for Rodriguez since the child and her mother made a report on Dec. 13, Ramirez said. Although detectives went to Rodriguez’s home in the 100 block of East Park Street several times, he eluded them until Detective Rudy Rodriguez witnessed the traffic violation and recognized him as being wanted for child molestation, Ramirez said.
The girl told police that, unbeknownst to her mother, Rodriguez had been touching her inappropriately since she was a toddler, Ramirez said.
Each felony charge carries an eight-year maximum prison sentence if convicted, according to the California Penal Code.
Rodriguez is also charged with annoying a child under 18, a misdemeanor, which would land him in county jail for up to a year or a fine of $1,000 if found guilty, according to state law.
Rodriguez is being held at the San Benito County Jail in lieu of $110,940 bail. Although this is his most serious arrest in San Benito County, he’s no stranger to the jail, according to jail personnel.
Pasta with three sauces
Gilroy – Sam Bozzo presents his pasta tre’colore during “Spaghetti Dinner” Wednesday, Feb. 9, from 5 to 8pm in the Brownell Gym.
Indugle your taste buds with pasta tre’colore (pasta with 3 sauces) and try your luck at the raffle. Cost is $5 for adults and $4 for kids 12 or younger. Raffle tickets are $5 each. Takeout is also available; containers are provided. Proceeds will benefit the Giroy High School Choir Program.
Details: 847-2424.
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