‘Little Women’: Visit with an old friend
Louisa Mae Alcott's “Little Women” has never been out of print since it was first published in 1868. It was translated into a least a dozen foreign languages during Alcott's life and can now be found in 50 different languages including Bengali, Chinese, Indonesian and Urdu.
A recipe for your holiday leftovers
The main goal of advertising is to entice you to purchase a specific product. In order to increase your purchase of said product, recipes are often listed on the label. In a different move, Unilever, the manufacturer of Best Foods Mayonnaise—known as Hellmann’s east of the Rocky Mountains—cross promotes its product with a commercial for a recipe. This week, I feature the recipe currently being promoted just in time to make use of your Thanksgiving leftovers.
Events celebrate ‘Christmas spirit’
The holiday shopping season has certainly begun, judging from the decorations seen in local stores and the sales being advertised. However, this is not the “Christmas season” itself because, according to the traditional Christian calendar, that begins on Dec. 25 and continues through Jan. 5 (the famous “12 Days of Christmas”).
Scrapbook Nov. 23-29, 2014
ANNIVERSARY: Flores' celebrate 48 years: Robert and Connie Flores, of Hollister, celebrated 48 years of marriage on Nov. 20.
Commercial leases explained
Not everyone can afford to buy residential real estate and not every company wants to purchase their space. For those reasons we have leasing and renting.
Turkey’s in the tub: must be Thanksgiving
Over the years, I’ve believed my biggest Thanksgiving challenge, short of buying a second fridge, was finding a water-tight vessel large enough to hold a brining turkey the size of a Shetland pony within its confines for two entire days prior to Thanksgiving.
Does city still have millions of dollars in its reserve fund?
In the Nov. 7 Dispatch, referring to Measure F, Mayor Don Gage was quoted as saying “there are a significant number of issues we don't have the money to fix.”
81 years and still going strong
A quiet little mouse scampering about the nooks and crannies of Gilroy at all hours of the day and night gets to see more than just the usual everyday happenings. If you could go on a mouse ride-along this week, you would see the hours people spend laboring behind the scenes, such as the work going into creating the wondrous Christmas Bazaar that will be held Saturday at the corner of Fourth and Church streets.
