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Just over a year ago, Nathan Lynch couldn’t run 400-meters without feeling like he was going to faint.

Each Christmas, The Salvation Army supplies toys to nearly 2,000 children in need in the Gilroy community.

This year, the PBS-televised “Christmas at Belmont” concert - hosted by internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves and taped at Nashville's Schermerhorn Symphony Center - will have it's own Gilroy star: Emily Perino.

When Connie Rogers, president of the Gilroy Historical Society, first learned that City Council voted Nov. 18 to proceed with the demolition of the “Red Barn” in Christmas Hill Park within a year unless purchased or relocated by a private investor, to say she was disappointed would be an understatement.

Here's your weekly digest of criminal happenings in Gilroy, including a string of vehicle thefts on the same day, an alleged robbery at gunpoint and a man who was arrested for driving under the influence after trying to evade a DUI checkpoint.

The Gilroy Police Department responded to a variety of crimes this week, including possession of a weapon on school grounds, grand theft, burglary and battery against an elder or dependent. Arrests were recorded in this week's GPD blotter from Dec. 10 through 19.

Jeffrey Paige, a 17-year-old senior at AdvancePath Academy, is this week's "Student of the Week."

While riding his orange Kubota tractor at approximately 2:30 p.m. Dec. 9, Steve Alexander, who lives roughly three miles east of Saint Louise Regional Hospital in rural Gilroy, saw a mountain lion cross his path just 40 feet away.

Thirty years ago, an active local nonprofit organization started a modest holiday giving campaign that provided a few local families in need with food baskets.