Join world champ Guerrero at special toy drive Thursday
Local world champion boxer Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero will be on hand Thursday in front of the C28 store in Oakridge Mall in San Jose helping collect donations for the Fifth Annual Cathedral of Faith Toy Drive.
Red Phone: Cell phones and driving
"On a Friday about 11:15 a.m. at the stop sign at Wren and Leavesley I saw a Gilroy Police SUV in which the driver heading south on Wren was talking on his cell phone as he was driving. I was just wondering if I missed something. Does that law not apply to the police who are giving us tickets for talking on our cell phones as we drive?"
Red Phone: Sprinkler needs fixing
"Can someone fix the water leak on northbound Santa Teresa Boulevard just before Long Meadow Drive? I go to work around 3:45 a.m. every morning, and every morning there's a river crossing the road from the planter box in the center divide. It has been happening for more then two months now. What a waste."
Vet course opens eyes to new experiences
The newspaper industry has taken a hit in recent years and sometimes it's as though I'm walking a tightrope - trying to remain balanced in a business whose future is up in the air.
How can senior women improve retirement outlook?
If you are a senior woman, you need to be diligent in managing your financial resources to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle in retirement.
Red Phone: Road needs to be widened
“Can (or more appropriately will) the city do something about the traffic lanes heading towards Christopher High School on Santa Teresa Boulevard? The problem starts at Longmeadow Drive all the way to East Day Road. There doesn’t appear to be efficient use of the existing pavement out there. There are hundreds of feet of wide, empty striped medians and/or shoulders while cars are backed up and trying to crowd into over-capacity lanes. Why?”
The gift of reading changes lives
One of the most life-changing gifts you can give a young person
Taking a timeout to point a couple things out
I was told yesterday that former Gilroy High wrestler Jesse Delgado, who, while in high school, won four Central Coast Section titles and placed no worse than fourth at the CIF state championships, winning it all in 2009, transferred from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to the University of Illinois. I looked him up on the Illinois athletic website and, sure enough, there he was.
Biggest tax hike obstacle: resentment of public employees
The many negative stories represent aberrations, revealing nothing at all typical about public employees in California. But they have turned public opinion against civil servants so severely that it will be difficult to pass any of the current spate of tax increase proposals, no matter who might back them or bankroll them.

















