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n By Bob Burch Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES – Two days before the start of their season, the New Orleans Saints have already notched a major victory. The suspensions of four players involved in the alleged bounty program have been lifted by a three-person arbitration panel, meaning the banned players are free to return.

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At some point when you become a parent, you lose your coolness. Seriously. I don't know where it goes, but it's gone. And you, the person voted “coolest” in high school are suddenly lumped in with the rest of the goofy parents - basically every single parent on the planet. There is no escape, no matter who you are or how cool you once were. I'm pretty positive even Mick Jagger's daughter looked at her dad and thought, “Will he stop with the duck lips? It's soooooooo embarrassing. And who dances like that at his age?”

At age 41, and with 42 right around the corner in February, Jeff Garcia is the third-oldest player in the National Football League. The most meaningful portion of the prior statement is the latter half – Garcia is back in the NFL.

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.

I've adopted a phrase similar to the teen catch-all word