Local Boy Scouts Help With 12,000 Service Hours
Local Boy Scouts Help With 12,000 Service Hours
Hollister – Boy Scouts in San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties have collectively completed more than 12,000 hours of community service during the past year.
The Monterey Bay Area Council of Boy Scouts made the announcement this week as a part of the national organization’s 97th anniversary.
On Wednesday, the Boy Scouts also helped launch Good Turn for America Day in cooperation with the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army and Habitat for Humanity International. The day marks a nationwide effort to fight hunger, housing shortages and health problems around the United States.
The Monterey Bay Area Council also announced a Good Turn for America challenge, which encourages all units in the area to perform more community service this year.
The scout unit that records the most community service hours in 2007 will receive the Monterey Bay Good Turn for America Award and be acknowledged at a recognition dinner.
Supes to Receive Mid-Year Budget Report Tuesday
Hollister – The Board of Supervisors will receive a mid-year report on the county’s budget at its meeting on Tuesday.
According to the report, overall countywide spending and revenue for fiscal year 2006-07 are both down from 2005-06. Most departments have spent considerably less than 50 percent of their total budget, and the county’s biggest spender – risk management, which has spent 152 percent of its budgeted funds – is in the red because another department’s expenditure was deducted from the wrong account.
The district attorney’s office has spent 48 percent of its total budget, but the department has exceeded its annual budget for travel and professional services by 22 percent and 46 percent, respectively. The travel expenses were accrued during extradition and training for the murder case People vs. Munguia, while the professional services expenses consist of payments to attorney Nancy Battel in the case People vs. Michael Pekin.
The supervisors will meet at 9:30am Tuesday in the county administration building.
Children’s Miracle Network Honors Real Estate Office
Hollister – The ReMax Platinum Properties office in Hollister was recently named the Children’s Miracle Network’s corporate sponsor of the year. Since 2002, ReMax of Hollister has donated more than $54,000 to the group.
The Children’s Miracle Network is a national network of hospitals, affiliated locally with the Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital. The group recently made a $150,000 donation to Emmaus House, a battered women’s and children’s shelter in Hollister, and it provides funds to San Benito Social Services and to SHARP, a Hollister activities program for special needs children.
The award was given at the network’s annual gourmet gala at the Tehama Golf Club in Monterey. The event itself raised nearly $70,000.
From staff reports.
