‘Sunsets and Margaritas’: Creative Dysfunction
Join Gregorio Serrano (Tommy Gomez) for his dad's 78th birthday
Seniors have stories to share – if we listen
After my last column detailing the finger-lickin’ goodness found at Gilroy’s famous Garlic Festival, I was contacted by the program director at Live Oak Adult Day Services, who asked if I’d be interested in swinging by to visit the seniors and share the details.
$36,000 award for Jewish teen leaders
Know a socially-minded teen with a passion for repairing the world? The Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards is seeking nominations of Jewish teens with exceptional community service/social change projects that embody the value of tikkun olam, repairing the world. Nominations for the awards present an opportunity for educators, civic leaders and teen mentors to acknowledge Jewish teens whose thoughtful approach to making a difference is creating meaningful change, whether locally, nationally or globally. The Helen Diller Family Foundation will recognize up to 15 recipients for its 2015 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards with $36,000 each.
Sharks fall to Hurricanes, 5-4
SAN JOSE – This season’s schedule has a little more than two months to go, time for San Jose to play its final 28 games of the regular season. Saturday night’s 5-4 loss to Metropolitan Division cellar-dweller Carolina left San Jose only two points ahead of both Calgary and Vancouver in the struggle for second place in the Pacific Division.Coach Todd McLellan would have earned his 300th career victory had the Sharks been able to turn back the visitors. Instead, Carolina scored in the final minute of the first period and never trailed in winning for the 19th time in 52 games.Goaltenders Cam Ward of Carolina and Antti Niemi each brought .915 goals against averages into the game. Ward was saddled with a 12-18-4 record based on the Hurricanes’ 111 goals scored. Only Buffalo, with 97 in the net, boasted fewer goals coming into the weekend.San Jose was able to pull into a 3-3 tie in the third period with a two-goal explosion in a span of 82 seconds. Tomas Hertl netted his second goal of the game at 2:27. Logan Couture’s slapshot from the right circle left it at 3-3.Carolina regained the lead at the 15:09 mark when defenseman Andrej Sekera’s headman pass toward the San Jose net ricocheted off the skate of San Jose’s Brenden Dillon and past Niemi.Hurricane rookie Victor Rask added an empty-netter with 1:10 left in the game. Patrick Marleau completed the scoring with a lofted shot from the left flank over Ward’s shoulder with 54.3 seconds left.Though Carolina fashioned a 14-9 edge in shots on net in the first period, the first intermission looked to be a scoreless tie until the Hurricanes’ captain Eric Staal recorded his team-pacing 17th goal with 57.7 seconds left. Jiri Tiusty’s low shot from the blueline went wide of the Sharks’ net, but the carom off the endboards allowed Staal to jam the puck past Niemi at the right post.Carolina rookie Andrej Nestrasil added his second goal of the season 5:33 into the second period. Winger Alexander Semin controlled the puck at the right point before dishing to Nestrasil for the rush down the slot between defenders.San Jose’s lone goal through two periods came at the 8:26 mark. Rookie Chris Tierney outworked Carolina’s John-Michael Liles for the puck behind the Hurricanes’ net. Tierney’s backhander to Hertl at the bottom of the left circle led to a one-timer under Ward.The Hurricanes’ regained the two-goal margin when Elias Lindholm whisked the low shot from the top of the right circle inside the left post at the 10:13 mark on a power play.NOTES: The game drew 17,139…Marc-Edouard Vlasic, reportedly not feeling well prior to the game, was held out of the Sharks’ line-up…San Jose concludes the three-game home stand with games opposite Calgary on Monday and Washington Wednesday.
State budget crisis solution staring legislators in the face
The panic in Sacramento this fall has been every bit as severe
Animal hoaxes on the Internet: Will WERC’s ‘aquatic opossum’ be next?
Have you heard the one about the fox that shot a hunter in Belarus? According to a story published by Reuters, an “unnamed hunter” wounded a fox, then a scuffle occurred when he tried to finish off the animal with his rifle butt. The fox resisted and pulled the trigger, shooting the man in the leg. Red flag: The fox escaped, and there were no witnesses.
Downtown failures and inconsiderate neighbors
Well, Gilroy's downtown suffered another big loss in the "downtown's the place to be" schematic with the recent closure of the Clock Tower restaurant located in the Old City Hall building.
