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Carly M. Pedersen and Scott H. Adams announced their engagement on Dec. 24. The bride to be is a 2003 graduate of Live Oak High School and graduated from Santa Clara University in 2008. Pedersen is a Cost Control Analyst for Pebble Beach Resorts. She is the daughter of Jeff and Bobbi Pedersen who reside in Morgan Hill. Adams graduated from Enterprise High School in 1995 and served in the US Air Force in 1997. He was a PGA Class A Professional in 2006. Currently, he is head PGA Golf Professional at San Juan Oaks Golf Course in San Juan Bautista. He is the son of Sharon Adams-Bucher of Aptos, and Steve Adams of Fresno.

IT’S TIME to make your healthy habits stick. Whether it’s establishing an exercise routine or making healthier food choices, you’ll have a better chance of succeeding if you train your mind. Anyone can start a new fitness routine and eat healthier meals for a month or two, but it’s exponentially more difficult to stick to those habits for a lifetime.

MAYBE IT’S JUST ME, but I seem to be a bit chubby after the holidays. I suspect it was the sugar cookies. And possibly the pumpkin pie, hot cocoa and giant holiday meals. Honestly, I haven’t said “no” to any type of food since Thanksgiving. Oh, fine. Since Halloween.

When we drive down the 1600 block Mantelli toward Santa Teresa, we have noticed two unsightly piles of cut, dried up tree branches left in the gutter and a Recology Yard Waste container—for many, many weeks.Each week when the garbage truck comes by or every other week when the street cleaner drives past, I would think they would report this unsightly mess but the debris and the yard waste container do not move!How do we get this mess removed from the street? If the house were unoccupied, I would think an agency handling this home would be alerted to this. I know of no other street in Gilroy where a condition like this has existed for this length of time.I look forward to a means to resolve this concern.Thank you, good caller, for bringing this situation to the attention of Red Phone. A solution is on the way as we speak. Red Phone contacted Karla Hill of South Valley Recology, which provides trash removal services for Gilroy.Hill said, “I spoke to our customer at this address. We discussed the yard waste [brush-bundles] on the ground. He said he would put the bundles inside the can. He is doing ‘landscape clean up’ in his backyard. When we discussed retrieving his containers from the street, he did not agree.”Hill said, “Recology does not pick up yard waste on the street. However we will pick up 3 feet by 3 feet bundles of small tree branches.”What about the law? Red Phone also contacted Gilroy Code Enforcement Officer, Scott Barron, about this situation. Barron said, “I have received a couple of complaints regarding this site. A violation notice was sent to them a week ago giving them a few days to clean up/remove the encroachment. If they don’t comply they could be cited.”Again, if you want to report any city violations, call Code Enforcement at 408-846-0264.

If you're in your 30s or older, you started P.E. classes with static stretches—the type of stretches that are held for a set time—in the belief that they would increase flexibility, improve performance and reduce injuries.

THERE is more to a natural landscape than meets the eye. We stand in awed reverence beneath Yosemite Falls or on the rim of the Grand Canyon. Who wouldn't? The grandeur is overwhelming. But what about those ho-hum areas that we pass without notice? Are those places empty wasteland, or do they hold some importance beyond our ken?

MORGAN HILL resident Katie Fernandez was one of three Californians to begin a 10-month term of service in the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), an AmeriCorps program.

Morgan Hill resident Steve Caposio’s run toward stardom is solidly under way, as the construction contractor-by-day appeared on—and won—the Dec. 13 episode of The Food Network’s nationally broadcast “Cutthroat Kitchen” reality television series.Caposio, always a showman, told more than 100 of his closest friends and family, gathered at his home for a viewing party of the Sunday evening broadcast, that the producers contacted him earlier this month and asked him to return to the show’s “Tournament of Champions.” Caposio expects to return to Food Network studios in February 2016 for production of that program.But Caposio isn’t about to forget where he came from. He also announced after the conclusion of the Dec. 13 broadcast that he wanted to donate his winnings from “Cutthroat Kitchen” to his sister-in-law Sally Brown, who is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. He handed Brown and her husband Jimmy a check for about $7,000 at his home Sunday night.“These two are very close to me, so if it’s the least I can do,” Caposio told the crowd in his living room, with his arms around the Brown couple and their 13-year-old son Jimmy.Sally Brown, who came down from Novato for the viewing party, said she had no idea Caposio was going to make such a gesture. She said she was “overwhelmed” with emotions. Sally Brown is the sister of Caposio’s wife Shana.Caposio, the 49-year-old owner of  several businesses—including Exterior Construction, Pac-Net Auto Sales and a security firm called Pledge Protection—has been cooking almost his whole life, beginning under the tutelage of his mother Etta Caposio. He also has a personality possessed by an endless magnetic energy that fills the corners of every room he occupies and makes strangers feel immediately welcome.This combination of charisma and love of—not to mention talent for—cooking inspired Caposio, on the advice of friends and family, to start trying to enter show business a few years ago. His appearance on “Cutthroat Kitchen”—a Food Network favorite hosted by Alton Brown that is now in its 12th season—was his most high-profile appearance yet.“He’s a character,” said Mattie Scariot of 152 West Productions. Scariot has been managing Caposio and his show-biz ventures, which include an indie film about poker players with Hollister director John Nava that is currently in the editing room. “He just keeps talking. He cooks amazingly well, and he has always wanted to do television.”Caposio entered the Dec. 13 party at his home with a grand entrance to Frank Sinatra’s “Come Fly With Me” piped at full volume, as he ran onto the upstairs landing in front of scores of guests who began assembling an hour earlier. He strutted down the stairs to a sustained applause, hugging, kissing and shaking hands with every guest he passed—the whole time casting a huge, playful smile that revealed his own amusement with making such a dramatic, clichéd arrival.Each episode of “Cutthroat Kitchen” pits four chefs against each other in a winner-takes-all competition in which contestants can sabotage while trying to out-cook each other. In the Dec. 13 episode, titled “We Don’t Need Another Gyro,” the contestants were tasked in each round with cooking a crabcake benedict, a gyro and a rhubarb pie. Each contestant starts with $25,000, and in each round gets to bid on a sabotage effort to staunch their competitors.For example, in the last round Caposio, going by the stage name “Chef Capo,” sabotaged competitor “Chef Carla”—who frequently referred to Caposio as “old man” or “grandpa” throughout the show—by forcing her to cook a rhubarb pie on an awkward pan shaped like the symbol for the number pi.During the party at Caposio’s home, guests got a chance to sample the gyro recipe that he produced on the show.In his living room, Caposio treated his Morgan Hill audience to his own live commentary of the broadcast, animated by wild hand gestures, a wide range of facial expressions and witty banter.“I was sweatin’ after the second round,” Caposio said, describing how nervous he was during production.After three rounds, Judge Simon Majumdar declared Caposio the last man standing, causing the crowd in the Morgan Hill living room to erupt in applause.“I’m very proud of my son,” said Etta Coposio, Steve’s mother and an accomplished cook herself who has published a book and used to own an Italian restaurant in Cupertino. “He was a good student. He was always at my hip in the kitchen. I believe in having a sense of humor, even when you’re cooking—it’s all going to come out alright.”Steve Caposio’s continued push into show business doesn’t end with his invitation to return to “Cutthroat Kitchen” for filming in February. He is also the co-star in the upcoming indie film “The Biggest Game In Town,” a “people movie with poker in it” written and directed by Nava. 152 West is working with Nava on cinematography, editing and other production tasks.Scariot and her husband Nils Myers introduced Nava to Caposio when he was looking for the right actor to play the role of “Diamond Dave.”“I had a part that’s a terrible poker player and a worse cook, but he has great charisma,” Nava laughed.Nava went to Caposio’s house to meet him, and within 30 minutes he knew not only that he was the perfect co-star; he also wrote more scenes for Caposio based on the budding actor’s strengths.“I went home and expanded his character,” said Nava, who added that everyone on the film’s set was impressed with Caposio’s acting chops. “He’s the comic relief. He’s a natural, and he’s gifted. He’s willing to take risks. I’ve been around actors a lot, and Steve is one of a kind.”Keeping his feet on the ground, Caposio—a father of two grown sons and an 11-year-old daughter—knows how blessed he is.“Every one of these people, I’ve been cooking for them forever,” Caposio said Sunday night, referring to the crowd at his home. “I come from an Italian family, and every event we do revolves around food. It brings the family together. In the end, that’s all you’ve got left—family and friends.”

Lianne Marie Dobbs as Emma and Timothy Gulan as Mr. Knightley return in this radiant much demanded production of Jane Austen’s charming “Emma”. It was so highly lauded in TheatreWorks 2007 production season that it has returned in all of Robert Kelly’s directional glory as good as new if not better.

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