Scrapbook Aug. 6-10, 2012
ENGAGEMENT: Flores/Anderson: Melissa Ann Flores and James Oscar Anderson are excited to be planning a June 15, 2013 wedding.
Standing Water, Dark Clothing Magnets for Mosquitoes
Everything is shaping up for a horrendous mosquito season. Not
County pushes for sales and use tax
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will discuss and vote on placing a proposed county sales and use tax measure on the November ballot during a special meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday on the 10th floor of the County Government Center, located at 70 W. Hedding St. in San Jose.
New Year’s resolutions and willpower
Every year about this time, I write a list of New Year’s resolutions. It’s the usual stuff: Work out three times a week, cut back on coffee and alcohol, floss daily, relearn Spanish, watch less television, etc. I then put the list in the drawer of my bedside table, where it remains until I take it out a year later and laugh at my lack of progress.
Nothing flat about latest coffee drink
Recently I began my Facebook status with the cryptic, “Oh-oh” and a cell phone photo of a cup of specialty coffee. For once in my life, I was rendered speechless.
Priest returns to Gilroy’s St. Mary Church
Each spring, Bishop Patrick McGrath formulates a list of priests who will be assigned to different churches in the Diocese of San Jose. Then in July these priests must pull up stakes and move to a new parish. The process may be painful, as they leave behind familiar surroundings, friends and colleagues to face the unknown in a new rectory, church and community.
















