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The congregations of two historic South Valley churches are engaged in an exciting experiment. The Gilroy United Methodist Church (7600 Church St.) and Morgan Hill United Methodist Church (17175 Monterey St.) have shared co-pastors since July. Even more intriguing is the fact that the ministers involved are married to each other.

Here we are, halfway through my son's senior year of high school and I have learned something very important: Senior year is more expensive than any other year of high school. Basically, it's the year that parents spend like drunken Beverly Hills housewives using their soon-to-be-ex-husband's black AMEX for the last time.

SAN JOSE – San Jose opened a four-game homestand on a solid note Monday night, pushing past Pacific Division rival Calgary 3-2 at sold-out SAP Center.

An Open House for Almaden Parents’ Preschool for 2014-15 Enrollment in Blossom Hill, San Jose will be held January 27th-31st, 9am-3pm

Sunday Night Lights. That’s what we’re talking about. It will be under typically dour-gray skies when the San Francisco 49ers travel north to clash with their new rivals, the Seattle Seahawks. The lights will come on for the National Football Conference championship. It’s a late afternoon game – 3:30 west coast start – built for prime time TV around the country and it has EPIC written all over it. As a longtime 49ers fan, you have to love it. There’s nothing better to stoke the fan fires than a bitter rivalry, and this new Hatfield-and-McCoys-worthy feud harkens back to the old days when the Los Angeles Rams were all things rotten. This blossoming match-up might even be better since the trash-yakking Seahawks are coached by “Pretty Boy” Pete Carroll who left USC just in time to duck under the trail of rules violations and NCAA sanctions. Former Stanford and now 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh doesn’t like Pete one bit, and that’s the thing he’ll have to overcome to win Sunday. Jim would like nothing better than to run it down Pete’s team’s throat – especially in the Red Zone. But he has to be smarter than that, he has to be creative offensively when it counts, he has to balance smash-mouth football with Bill Walsh genius and he has to pretend that squeaky Pete on the opposite sideline is just a lousy rendition of a Disney character.

Baron is a 7-year-old labrador/retriever mix who is great with all dogs, and is sweet and gentle. He loves to be pet and play fetch. He is available for adoption at the San Martin Animal Shelter. Interested? Call (408) 686-3900.

It is still early enough in 2014 that many people have been able to keep their new year's resolutions. If yours include a vow to read more books, then here's a suggestion.

Solid Ground, a gospel music trio from Sacramento, will perform "southern gospel" and contemporary Christian music at 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19 in the sancutuary at the First Presbyterian Church, 2066 San Benito St., Hollister. A free will offering will be taken. Details: Larry Shaw at (831) 245-9572.

Just like your primary care physician, I believe it is important to have good chemistry with your financial advisor. Your physician monitors your physical health, while your financial advisor does the same for your financial health.

If there is anything to make you wistful for the good old days of 2012, it is the year we see today in our rear view mirrors.