Tim and Karen Havstad: ‘Love me forever’
Tim and I met through my husband’s uncle, a.k.a. my boss. I did not want to meet him. Luckily my boss, his uncle, did not adhere to my wishes and brought him to a party I was attending. Once introduced, I thought he was good looking, but still not interested. He was my boss’s nephew, and there was no way I was going down that road!
Raphael and Sarah Avila: Lucky in love
Love can sometimes be hard to find, but if you’re lucky it will find you. It happened to be the summer of 2003 a little over 10 years ago. I had just graduated from college and was working at Macy’s when someone new started in my department. We had said “hello” and seemed to have an instant connection and we quickly became friends. We enjoyed spending so much time together we didn’t even realize that we were together sharing every day.
Frank and Marilyn Orlando: How I fell in love
I met my future wife in grade school through her brother, electric trains and horses. Her brother, John, and I each had an electric train. That's how I met his sister Marilyn. I found out she was a horse fanatic and they each had a pony. My brother Jerry and I shared a horse. We all started riding together. There were four kids but only three horses so I rode on the back of Marilyn's horse. That started everything!
Adam and Marissa Plares: All my life
I was 16 when Adam visited my church for the first time. I was playing “Eve” in a play that day. From the audience, he saw me and turned to his friend and said, “I'm going to marry her.” After service, we met in person, and I fell in love right back.
Brad and Aimee Ledwith: ‘I think I should be with you …’
She was a student at UCSB and I was trying to recruit her to work for me. I was six years older. Her name tag said, “AIMEE.” So the first time I ever met my wife of 13 years, I started singing “Aimee, what you wanna do? I think I should be with you ... for awhile, maybe longer ... if I do!”
Eddie and Lisa Ruminski: The perfect match
In 2005, Eddie and I were both widowed after lengthy marriages - he in Morgan Hill and I in Monterey. We each thought we would spend the rest of our lives single and were gradually resigning ourselves to that condition, but we both felt lonely. Finally, at the urging of our respective sisters, we simultaneously decided to try eHarmony, an online dating service recommended by the AARP.
Ralph and Gale Hammond: Love at the office
In 1972, I was a working girl at United Technologies in Sunnyvale. Also working there was a young engineer who lived in San Francisco and went skiing every weekend – very attractive attributes in a future boyfriend! It didn’t hurt that he looked like Leonardo DiCaprio. Obviously I didn’t know this then since Mr. DiCaprio wouldn’t be born for a couple more years yet.
Dick and Carmen Vieira: A cowboy and his sweetheart
Dick Vieira and Carmen Galdos were married May 7, 1950. They dated for three years before getting married, meeting at a dance in San Juan Bautista. Mom said he was the only boy with a car - "He was high-tone." Dad was smitten from the beginning and said he chased "her until she caught him." I don't know who chased who. It depends on who tells the story.
Firefighters tackle three-alarm apartment blaze Saturday night
The Gilroy Fire Department and three other agencies responded to a three-alarm fire Saturday night within an apartment complex on the 400 block of Broadway Street in Gilroy, according to GFD Chief Alan Anderson.
Prep Roundup: Feb. 3
The Gilroy wrestling team was leaps and bounds ahead of the competition at Saturday's Overfelt Classic in San Jose.






















