Gavilan Football: Ram prep for Mendocino
GILROY—While Gavilan scored 63 points in its season opening win against Shasta, it also gave up 50. Coach Spencer Gilford acknowledged that his cornerbacks are all freshmen and that the play of the defensive secondary must improve.
Prep Football: Cougars look to go 2-0 at home, move closer to South County title
After a 12-6 win in the season opener, Christopher now has its eyes fixed on Live Oak. The Acorns, which beat Gilroy 31-21, and Cougars are 1-0 heading into this week and a win for either will put them one step closer to being South County champions. Christopher, which beat Sobrato, Live Oak and Gilroy last season, are the defending champs but it won’t be an easy task defending the title.
The art of ‘Art’
Limelight Actors Theater’s latest offering lives up to the company’s tagline: “Theater with a twist.” The new production, “Art,” is chock full of comedy, intellect and drama. Characters Marc, Serge and Yvan—friends for years—hit a bump that puts their friendship to the test. The test comes after one of them purchases an all-white painting at an exorbitant price. With laughter and poignancy, they square off over the canvas. Lines are drawn and the bonds that tie each man to the others are stretched to the breaking point.
Mount Madonna School welcomes new teachers
Five teachers have joined the ranks at Mount Madonna School (MMS) this year. Brendan Dilloughery, Haley Campbell, Salvatore Talamo, Stewart Diaz-Mogollon, and Tiffany Wayne will be educating our students in the areas of middle and high school mathematics, science, outdoor adventure, English, Spanish, creative writing and history.
Honoring the lives lost Sept. 11
Bagpipes played at City Hall Thursday morning as the Gilroy Police Department Honor Guard and Gilroy Fire Department personnel raised the flag to half-mast in remembrance of the lives lost during the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Locals take in African landscape, wildlife
Is Africa on your “bucket list?” It certainly wasn’t on my or my wife’s list, but our children and their lives have provided us the causes and inspiration to go beyond our comfort zone. Our son, Sean, spent his tour in the Peace Corps in Gambia in 2002, and we traveled there with our daughter and her fiance—something she described as “... an adventure, NOT a vacation.” Sean’s job with UNICEF prompted us to travel more than 95,000 miles by air from Gilroy to Kenya, Uganda and Cape Town for marriages, births and medical care in the past three-plus years.
City OKs use of hydrants to keep construction dust down
“Why does the city allow contractors at the various construction sites in Gilroy to use potable water from fire hydrants in dust mitigation? Since we are in a drought, it would make water conservation sense for them to use the treated non-potable water from the waste treatment plant instead.
Prep Roundup: Sept. 10
Olivia Tabron is making her case for a Monterey Bay League First Team honor—and it's only Christopher's seventh game of the year.
