Giving Gilroy weathers the storm
Those who ventured out to hear the Sorella Strings Quartet went armed with rain coats and umbrellas, ready to splash their way through the deep puddles in the flooded parking lot of the Music Academy and the United Methodist Church in downtown. Nevertheless, many braved the elements to attend the first in a spring concert series featuring professional musicians from South Valley. The concert emphasized the Romantic era, with lots of Schubert and Brahms.
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Anniversary of infamy for American freedoms
Last Sunday marked an anniversary of infamy for American freedom. That sunny day in the South Valley marked 70 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the U.S. military broad powers to force 120,000 American citizens to leave their homes and possessions to be relocated behind the barbed-wire fences of concentration camps in desolate locations. I consider Roosevelt's decision on Feb. 19, 1942 to sign Executive Order 9066 one of the most atrocious failings by a U.S. president in upholding America's traditions of freedom and democracy.
