Musical auditions
GILROY
– The Gilroy Community Services Department and John Bisceglie
are holding auditions for
”
Shake, Rattle
&
amp; Roll,
”
a 1950s and 1960s musical revue. Auditions are open to ages 5 to
adult, Saturday, May 12 in the Wheeler Community Center Dance Room,
250 W. Sixth St., in Gilroy.
Auditions will be at noon for ages 5-9, 2 p.m. for ages 10-14
and 4 p.m. for ages 15-adult. Please prepare a short, up-tempo song
and wear comfortable clothes. Auditions are open to San Benito
residents.
For more information, visit www.jbpresents.org.
Musical auditions
GILROY – The Gilroy Community Services Department and John Bisceglie are holding auditions for “Shake, Rattle & Roll,” a 1950s and 1960s musical revue. Auditions are open to ages 5 to adult, Saturday, May 12 in the Wheeler Community Center Dance Room, 250 W. Sixth St., in Gilroy.
Auditions will be at noon for ages 5-9, 2 p.m. for ages 10-14 and 4 p.m. for ages 15-adult. Please prepare a short, up-tempo song and wear comfortable clothes. Auditions are open to San Benito residents.
For more information, visit www.jbpresents.org.
Coffee with Caballero
HOLLISTER – San Benito residents are invited to meet with Assembly member Anna Caballero for a coffee break at Main Street Bistro, 600 San Benito St., Ste. 110, in Hollister Saturday, May 5 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Residents may bring their ideas, concerns or questions about the legislative process to the event.
For more information, call 759-8676.
Letter carriers stamp out hunger
HOLLISTER – San Benito letter carriers will be collecting bags of food along their mail delivery routes, Saturday, May 12 as part of the National Association of Letter Carriers’ “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive.
In its 15th year, the drive has collected more than 765 million pounds of food. Residents can leave a sturdy bag containing nonperishable food items such as canned soup, fruits, vegetables or tuna or dried pasta, rice beans or cereal next to the mailbox prior to their regular mail delivery time.
All donations will be delivered to Community Pantry in Hollister. For more information on how to help local food agencies, visit www.thefoodbank.org.
Help a kitty
SAN MARTIN – The San Martin Animal Shelter staff hopes to place cats that are not suitable as house pets. The independent cats are healthy and are ideal as barn or stable cats, where they can control rodents in exchange for food and shelter.
Friends of the San Martin Animal Shelter makes the cats available for a $25 donation. Cats are spayed or neutered and vaccinated prior to adoption.
Further information is available by calling 408-681-3788 or by e-mailing
fr****************@ya***.com
.
What’s it like to be a lawyer?
HOLLISTER – The San Benito County Bar Association celebrates Law Day May 1 and May 8 with presentations at local schools and in Hollister City Hall.
Law Day is sponsored by the American Bar Association as a national celebration of the rule of law, underscoring how law and the legal process contribute to the freedoms Americans share.
The observance includes a presentation at 9 a.m. May 1 in the council chambers at Hollister City Hall, with City Attorney Stephanie Atigh and local attorney Arthur Cantu conducting a mock City Council meeting with fifth- and sixth-graders from Calvary Christian Academy.
At 1:15 p.m. on May 1, local attorneys Peter Spurzem and Chenoa Summers will conduct mock student council meetings with fourth-graders at Ladd Lane Elementary School.
At 11:30 May 8, a presentation is planned at San Benito High School in which Court Commissioner Jean Flanagan and local attorney Marla Pleyte focus on judicial interpretation in Mitch Huerta’s government class.
Youth Baseball
SALINAS – The Garcia Knockout Baseball Club traveling team will be holding tryouts on Sunday, May 6 at 10 a.m. at El Dorado Park in Salinas. The team is open to children ages 13-under. For additional information, call Nick Torres at 210-8386 (tryouts and pitchers) or Perry Irwin 262-0505 (pitchers only).
Wilson Park groundbreaking today
AROMAS – The Aromas Community Center Foundation hosts a groundbreaking for the A.R. Wilson Community Park in Aromas today at 5:15 p.m.
The park is located at 300 Aromas Road.
In 1997 the foundation purchased 17 acres of open land along Aromas Road for $217,000, thanks in large part to a $150,000 donation from Graniterock and grants from the Packard and Harden foundations.
Two years later, Union Pacific Railroad donated an adjacent one-acre parcel creating 18 acres of land for park development. The site will include two soccer fields, two baseball diamonds, a concession stand, bathrooms, fencing and parking. Plans call for direct access from a neighboring residential area and the Aromas School.
With construction costs expected to approach $1 million, foundation President Janet Montgomery is hopeful that community support will continue.
“We will be pursuing additional grants, both private and public, as well as continuing our fund-raising efforts,” Montgomery said.
Lectures to celebrate local campus location
HOLLISTER – Local attorney Joe Thompson is celebrating Gavilan College trustees’ decision to locate a new campus near Hollister, just across Airline Highway from Ridgemark.
Thompson agreed to present a four-part lecture series at the school of business annually. The lectures will cover transportation and logistics for agribusiness and wine shippers, receivers, intermediaries and carriers; private-sector transportation strategies for building sound, sustainable, taxpayer-friendly communities; truth-in-transport: comparative social and economic consequences of private and public transportation for local government; and transportation regulation: American law, federal pre-emption and international pre-emption under NAFTA, COGSA and the Warsaw Convention.
Thompson’s organization, the Abraham Lincoln Learning Fortress for Responsible Enterprise Education (ALLFREE) will offer a tuition scholarship for the semesters when Thompson’s series is given at the Hollister campus. Scholarship candidates should be enrolled in programs emphasizing agribusiness or wine growing.
When Thompson is done presenting the series, he promised to help endow a transportation and logistics lecture chair at Gavilan.
Democrats to meet
HOLLISTER – The May meeting of the Democratic Party Central Committee will be held on Thursday, May 10, from 4:45 p.m. to 6 p.m., at the public library (470 Fifth St., Hollister). The public is invited. Meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Rodriguez
Juan Andres Rodriguez was born April 11 to Noemi Mejia and Juan Rodriguez. Born at Hazel Hawkins Hospital he weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces at birth.
