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Dear Red Phone,

When 15-year-old Samantha Sadoff exited Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville following her August audition for a voiceover role in the upcoming “Monsters University” film, she suddenly stopped in the parking lot and told her mother: “Wait, I want to do it one more time.”

Mary Tillman, mother of former professional football player Pat Tillman, who voluntarily left the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the U.S. Army in 2002 and died two years later in Afghanistan, will be the guest speaker July 10 at the Rotary Club of Morgan Hill.

This year’s Morgan Hill Freedom Fest promises to offer all the excitement and celebration that area Independence Day revelers are accustomed to during the local commemoration of the holiday, capped off with “the largest fireworks show ever produced in Morgan Hill,” according to organizers.

Here are a few criminal incidents worth noting this week.

A lot of parents want their children go to Christopher High School, or at least it would seem, looking at the number of families willing to lie about where they live to attend it.

The teal-and-white gowned class of 2013 threw their caps into the cool night air Friday with a marked pride, knowing they will forever stand distinct from the thousands of graduates their alma mater will churn out in years to come.

Corralled in among the magazine and book racks of the Gilroy High School library, a roiling sea of blue and white surged as the cap and gown-clad Class of 2013 prepared to stream out into the big, wide world.

Morgan Hill’s first homicide of 2013 was the result of a violent fight between a man and a woman who were involved in an “off and on” relationship and had recently moved in together at a local mobile home park, according to police and the couple’s neighbors.

A Morgan Hill man died in a traffic accident early Monday morning in San Jose, when the intoxicated driver of the sedan he was riding in crashed into several parked cars, police said.