The public is invited to celebrate Gilroy Little League opening
day at the Gilroy Sports Complex located on 5925 Monterey Frontage
Road, Saturday March 17 from 4pm until dusk. RSVP by today.
Little League opening day around the corner
Gilroy – The public is invited to celebrate Gilroy Little League opening day at the Gilroy Sports Complex located on 5925 Monterey Frontage Road, Saturday March 17 from 4pm until dusk. RSVP by today.
Details: (408) 718-2626
Get help at free citizenship day
Gilroy – Catholic Charities will be presenting “Free Citizenship Day” beginning at 10am at Rebekah Children’s Services, 290 IOOF Ave., today.
Free citizenship services featured include:
Presentations (English and Spanish) on the benefits of becoming an United States citizen and how to become an United States citizen. Initial legal assessment will be with an accredited immigration expert or attorney.
Bring a permanent resident card (green card) with you.
Details: Catholic Charities Citizenship Services at 914-8337.
Free film series for local adults
Gilroy – Adults ages 55 and up can participate in a free class/film series through the Gavilan College Department of Noncredit Instruction. Humanities 767, “Film Classics” is designed to study the facts, fantasy, history and trivia of classic and modern films. The background and history of each film and its performance will be compared and contrasted. This class is “open entry” meaning that participants do not have to attend all class sessions.
Instructor Grant Richards is a graduate of Gilroy High School and Gavilan College and teaches film history and film production at Gavilan College.
Upcoming films are:
Wednesday – “Friendly Persuasion”
March 21 – “North by Northwest”Â
March 28 – “The Graduate”
April 4 – “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
All films will be screened at the Morgan Hill Community Playhouse on Wednesday afternoons from 2 to 5pm, now through June 6. Students may register in class, or may call in advance to 848-4859.
Work abroad in sister city in Japan
Gilroy – A Coordinator of International Relations is needed to strengthen sister city relations, represent Gilroy at events and socials, arrange international travel, build cross cultural relationships, and teach English and American culture in Gilroy’s sister city in Japan. The contract is good for one year and includes good salary, medical benefits, a furnished apartment, and travel expenses. The position starts Oct. 13. All applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree, be from the Gilroy/Morgan Hill area, love people and trying new things.
Details: Sarah Bryson, fax resume to 011-81-179-32-4294, sj********@***oo.com.
SJSU gets $15M
San Jose – A 1957 civil engineering graduate has donated $15 million to San Jose State University – the largest private gift in his alma mater’s 150-year history.
The record donation from Bay Area developer Charles Davidson will be earmarked for engineering programs and initiatives, the university said.
The Board of Trustees will also be asked at its meeting next week to rename the College of Engineering for Davidson.
The gift ties a donation from Kinko’s founder Paul Orfalea for the largest individual gift received by the California State University system, said Nancy Stake, an SJSU spokeswoman.
California State University, San Luis Obispo named its College of Business after Orfalea following his $15 million donation in 2001.
BART thwarts scam
San Francisco – Tech-savvy commuters dreaming up ways to beat the subway out of fares will have to come up with a new method after transit officials thwarted a scam that cost the agency up to $300,000 a year.
Counterfeiters sliced the magnetic strip on Bay Area Rapid Transit cards, cut it into smaller strips, and spawned multiple new cards.
In January, BART engineers figured out a way to stop the scam, but officials estimated the agency lost an average of $830 a day, or more than $300,000 a year, in revenue.
As they have elsewhere, commuters here have always tried to scam free fares. Fifteen years ago they manufactured their own magnetic strips to make BART cards. There was also the classic: scam of tying a string to the end of a bill; after slipping the bill into the fare machine to buy a BART card, scammers would then pull the money back out.
BART managers are banking on new technology – so-called smart cards – that are embedded with microprocessor chips that can be used for various transactions, such as adding and deducting value on a transit ticket. Officials believe they are more secure than magnetic strips previously used the the transit system.
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.
