Olympic cyclist with local connection places seventh in road race
Former Gilroy resident Shelley Olds – who has trained in South Santa Clara and San Benito counties for the Olympics – placed seventh Sunday in the women's road race in London.
BOXING: Guerrero defeats Aydin by unanimous decision, claims WBC Interim welterweight title
SAN JOSE – Doors have been closed in front of Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero as he has chased down boxing supremacy. He has found ways to fight through all of them. Opportunity knocked Saturday night and Guerrero powerfully paraded is way right through one more obstacle, coming out on the other side the WBC Interim Welterweight world champion.
BOXING: Shoving match breaks out at Guerrero, Aydin weigh-in
Robert Guerrero and Selcuk Aydin almost came to blows at the conclusion of Friday's official bout weigh-in in San Jose, causing a brief shoving match on stage and building that much more tension and animosity ahead of the boxers' 12-round WBC Interim welterweight world title fight Saturday night.
Time for some southern smokin’ Gilroy jazz …
The two subjects, as sometimes happens in life, collided in my brain and made a connection. Years ago with Miss Jenny, we were fortunate to take a trip to see her “Granny.” Thelma Hudson hailed from Fairhope, Alabama. She wasn’t really her grandmother, but Thelma, who resided in Gilroy with her pastor husband for many years before retiring to the south, took care of Miss Jenny as her “Granny Nanny” when she was a youngin’ and Miss Jenny’s parents were both hard at work supporting the family.
Feed me, feed me
Three nestling Bullock’s Orioles open their bright pink mouths and demand to be fed, in this case by volunteers who feed them a special passerine diet every hour from sunrise to sunset. They were orphaned mid-July after a windstorm broke the tree branch holding their nest and were brought to the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center still snuggled inside their hanging nest made from fibers, grasses, and bits of soft feathers. Sporting gorgeous amber-yellow breast feathers, they are growing up fast and have just begun eating juicy mealworms. When they’re released back to their summer habitat in Gilroy sometime next month, they will dine on wild bugs such as caterpillars and spiders, as well as fruit. They will also drink from hummingbird nectar feeders in backyards, as well as enjoying halved oranges and suet put out for them.
