Opinion

Theatre reviews missed

There were quite a few firsts bringing a finale to this school year. With graduation commencement ceremonies drawing to a close last week, it’s always assuring to know that the graduating classes of 2014 will leave behind a legacy that no Gilroy students ever have. Combined, graduates from Gilroy High School, Christopher High School and Mt. Madonna Continuation School contributed more than 50,000 volunteer community service hours. Setting the groundwork for youth community involvement is a great way to fill a need with volunteer organizations as well as provide a foundation of stewardship, giving everything from nonprofits, service groups and churches an extra helping hand. Kudos to a class of young volunteers.

So who the heck was Henry Miller? And why should we give a darn?

Editor Mark Derry is greatly missed

Speeding vehicles at Broadway and Wayland

Editor’s note: The Gilroy Dispatch receive the following letter to the soon to be Gilroy High School seniors. Since many of the GHS class of 1982 are turning 50 this year, Lois Harrison composed a “short letter of what we hoped someone had told us before our senior year.” 

More than 2,400 years ago, the Athenian leader Pericles offered a tribute to fallen soldiers that still applies to the more than 1 million Americans who have died in combat: “Not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions, but there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.”

Dear editor,

Friday, May 9 was the final straw for me.

Attorneys with the Gilroy’s legal firm of choice, Berliner-Cohen, and the city administrator are penning their way around state law and holding up multiple efforts by the Gilroy Dispatch to obtain the names of six public safety retirees who claimed an industrial disability within the past five years.