Teen organizes fundraiser for Jacob’s Heart
Fifteen years ago, Cecilia Anaya fought cancer but lost the battle when she was just 11 years old. Throughout her journey, the girl and her family benefited greatly from Jacob’s Heart, a local organization that provides support services to cancer patients and their families.
GETTING OUT: El Corte de Madera is full of ‘treats’
High in the peninsula hills, above Redwood City and Woodside, El Corte de Madera Open Space Preserve is another peaceful sanctuary along Skyline Boulevard. El Corte de Madera Creek and Lawrence Creek, both born from springs near the road, descend through the preserve's 2,821 thickly forested acres on the way to San Gregorio Creek and the Pacific Ocean.
The Hawaiian island of Maui: Where civilization and Eden merge
Think Hawaii and images of romance, blue skies and glorious weather float by the conjured thoughts. Midway across the warm Pacific lies a chain of islands called Hawaii, 2,000 miles of ocean from our mainland with no continental coast between. These small bits of land appear offered to the sky by water and pressed to the earth by stars. Here civilizations of Occident and Orient merge under the tropical influence of the Polynesian culture.
GOLF: Garry Lester takes over position at San Juan Oaks Golf Club
HOLLISTER - San Juan Bautista resident Garry Lester was named
Engagement: Sanidad-Espinoza
Dan and Mary Ann Sanidad of Morgan Hill announce the engagement of their daughter, Maria Gabriela Sanidad, to Adrian Fidel Espinoza, son of Manuel Alfaro, Grace Ramirez, William Espinoza and Maggie Poffenroth. The bride-to-be received her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy, specializing in art therapy, from Notre Dame de Namur University. She is employed at Discovery Counseling Center in Morgan Hill. The groom-to-be attended Evergreen Valley College and is employed at Leal Vineyards in Hollister. The wedding will be held Dec. 19, 2015, at Willow Heights Mansion.
