Learn about GATE at Open House Friday
Gilroy
– All parents of children in grades 2, 3 and 4 in Gilroy Unified
School District are invited to tour the GATE classrooms at Rucker
Elementary School this Friday, April 22, from 6 to 7pm, rooms 7, 14
and 17.
Learn about GATE at Open House Friday
Gilroy – All parents of children in grades 2, 3 and 4 in Gilroy Unified School District are invited to tour the GATE classrooms at Rucker Elementary School this Friday, April 22, from 6 to 7pm, rooms 7, 14 and 17. The GATE teachers will make a brief presentation, and will be available to answer questions. Parents can look at ongoing and past student work and projects, and parents of students in the program will also be available to answer questions.
The GATE Open House will be followed by desserts sold in the multipurpose room 6:30pm and the Rucker School Talent Show and Raffle at 7pm.
Free citizenship workshop Saturday
Gilroy – One-Stop, 7800 Arroyo Circle suite A, will be hosting “Free Citizenship Day” on Saturday, April 23, beginning at 11am.
Free citizenship services featured include:
• Bilingual presentation (English and Spanish) on the benefits of becoming an United States citizen and how to become an United States citizen.
• Free initial legal consultation with an accredited immigration expert
• An appointment for a later date for the following free services:
• Assessment of eligibility
• Application assistance
• List of 100 exam questions and answers
• Sign-up for free citizenship classes
Don’t forget to bring a permanent resident card (“green card”).
Details: One -Stop at 846-1480 or Catholic Charities Citizenship Services at 914-8337.
Cold Stone Creamery helps Make-A-Wish
Gilroy – This month, Cold Stone Creamery will help celebrate the Make-A-Wish Foundation’s 25th year of making dreams come true for chronically and terminally-ill children.
More than 1,000 Cold Stone Creamery locations will participate in a month-long fund-raising effort to benefit local Make-A-Wish Foundation chapters across the country. Throughout April, all Cold Stone Creamery locations in the San Francisco Bay Area will be donating a portion of ice cream sales as well as accepting contributions from customers to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
In store donors will receive a “star” with the donor’s name that will be displayed in the store.
Cold Stone Creamery also will be hosting its Fourth Annual World’s Largest Ice Cream Cake Social from 5 to 8pm on Monday, April 25, at all Cold Stone Creamery locations nationwide. At this event, customers will receive a free slice of ice cream cake (a recipe that is specially created by a Wish child) in exchange for a donation to Make-A-Wish. Cold Stone Creamery in Gilroy is located 890 Renz Lane, Suite 101.
Rebekah’s annual Spring Festival this weekend
Gilroy – Rebekah Children’s Services annual Spring Festival begins with a barbecue at 11:30am Saturday, April 24. The event includes crafts, games, food, desserts and lots of fun. Meals are $7.
There will be a yard sale with something for everyone.
On Sunday, April 24, there will be campus tours from 10am to noon and a silent auction from 10am to 2pm.
The highlight of Sunday will be Bob Dunham, a former resident, who is donating an iron gate he designed and built for the front driveway at Rebekah’s Children’s Services. The gate will be donated at 1pm on Sunday.
Learn about AAUW at membership luncheon
Gilroy – The Gilroy Branch of the American Association of University Women is holding a Spring Membership Luncheon on Saturday, May 7 to give interested persons an opportunity to learn more about AAUW. It will be held at Mama Mia’s Ristorante Italiano at 1360-B First St., Gilroy, from 11:30am to 2pm. Guests at the buffet luncheon will have a choice of Chicken Bernardo or Tortellini Pomodoro for a cost of $15 each.
Rhoda Bress, of the Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education, will speak on “Making the Grade On A Public School Board: A Parent’s Story.”
Membership in AAUW is open to all persons with a BA or BS degree. The Gilroy Branch includes Hollister and San Juan Bautista. AAUW promotes equity for all women and girls, lifelong education and positive societal change. RSVP to Maretta Juarez at 504-8647.
Crab feed benefits GHS athletics
Gilroy – The Gilroy High School Athletic Association will hold the twenty-fifth annual “Crab Cioppino Feed and Dance” on Saturday, May 7 at Don Christopher Ranch, 305 Bloomfield Road.
Dinner will be served from 5:30 to 8pm, followed by dancing from 8 to 11pm. Ages 21 and over are invited to stuff themselves with crab and dance to the sounds of the band Shaboom.
Tickets are $50 each. Tee-shirts with the 25th anniversary design are available for only $10. Purchase tickets at the Gilroy High School between 8am and 4pm or online with your Visa or Mastercard at www.gilroyhighschool.com.
Details: 848-7178 or e-mail jd****@*********ca.us.
How well do you Google?
Gilroy – Google is now a recognized verb in the English language and it’s no coincidence that T-M-I is also becoming a familiar verbal shorthand for “too much information.” That’s exactly what most people get when they try to do Internet research using the popular Google search engine – often millions of Web site links.
A free class at the Gilroy Library (Sixth and Hanna streets in Gilroy) on Extreme Googling on Tuesday, April 26, at 10:30am will describe how to understand the way Google conducts a search of the World Wide Web and how to make the most of the search engine’s capabilities. Participants will have the opportunity to try out Extreme Googling on public access library computers.
Advance registration information is available at the reference desk.
Details: Gilroy Library at 842-8208.
Send news items to City Editor Robert Airoldi. FAX to 842-2206, mail to Gilroy Dispatch, 6400 Monterey Road, Gilroy, CA 95020, or e-mail ed****@****ic.com.
