Baby season has arrived
A Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center volunteer just picked up the first baby birds of the season. The tiny-tiny hummingbirds (two of which will fit on a dime) are just one day old and came in with egg shell still stuck to their backs. Their mother had flown into a home improvement store, become trapped, and could not return to care for them in their nest in the store's garden center. The extremely fragile babies now require regular feedings of a special formula every 15 minutes for several weeks before they can eat on their own, fly and then be released---IF they survive the first couple of days of their lives.
FRYS.COM OPEN: Round 2 under way after 2-hour delay
The sun is finally shining over CordeValle Golf Club but not
Supes approve $25M in first-time homebuyer assistance
Santa Clara County’s Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved $25 million in 2016 Measure A Affordable Housing Bond funds to finance a new, first-time homebuyer down payment loan program, according to a June 20 announcement.
Through a partnership between the county’s Office of Supportive Housing...
FRYS.COM OPEN: Four tied at 4-under after Day 1
Woods struggles with the putter, amateur Cantlay wows during wet
Sales tax avalanche, give us a ‘Big Break Garlic Fest’
Flipping the TV channels between the SF Giants game and the Big Break golf series the other night, it popped into my head. The events surrounding the Garlic Fest are not only a lot of fun, but they help to promote our fine fest. Any Giants fan watching a game on TV lately has seen the promos for the first Garlic Fest satellite party at AT&T ballpark slated for next Friday. When I saw that promo and flipped back to the Big Break on the Golf Channel, which is a skills elimination challenge, I thought of Gilroy Golf Course pro Don DeLorenzo and G-Fest Executive Director Brian Bowe. How about a “Big Break Garlic Fest” Golf Tournament? It would bring back another satellite event, take only half a day, add a new fun format to a local golf event and raise some good charitable money …
The necessity of bodily pain
As far as physical pain goes, I have experienced very little in my life. I have never had any surgery, a broken bone or spent a night in a hospital. So it truly shocked me recently after I had been suffering severe knee pain for several weeks for no apparent reason, to learn that x-rays show that my left knee has been damaged by osteoarthritis. I thought there would be a gradual onset of something like this, with warnings leading up to it. Neither of my parents had arthritis. I never expected arthritis to make an appearance until much later in life, if at all.
