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The new Pinnacles Peek features will run monthly in the Free Lance Lifestyles section as a new partnership with Pinnacles National Park, which provides the content.

Ruth Marion Saunders has never shown her artwork in a commercial gallery before, but when she decided it was time to put some of her paintings up for sale she went all out. Saunders opened her own art gallery in San Juan Bautista, named the Zen Art Gallery Plus, on Third Street. She has one wall devoted to contemporary work and one wall devoted to more traditional pieces.

Visitors came out in droves to celebrate Pinnacles upgrade from a national monument to a park on Feb. 11. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar visited the park from Washington, D.C. to speak on the momentous occasion. Hear from Mark Paxton, the interim executive director of the Pinnacles Partnership, and Timothy Babalis, a National Park Service, historian.

Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar said the National Park Service is striving to become a place that is more inclusive and the redesignation ceremony Monday surely reflected that effort.

The Department of Interior began circulating invitations Monday for a ceremony to redesignate Pinnacles National Monument as a National Park on Feb. 11 at the Pinnacles National Park Visitors Center on the east side of the park.

San Benito County residents and others interested in Pinnacles National Monument’s future have less than a month to comment on a draft general management plan and environmental assessment. The public comment period will close on Jan. 11.

The California Department of Public Health released a health advisory notifying state residents that they have received reports of six cases of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome as of Aug. 30 – in people who visited Yosemite National Park.

    A new National Park Service report shows that more than 246,000 visitors in 2010 spent $4.8 million in Pinnacles National Monument and in communities near the park. The spending supported 58 jobs in the local area.

All 397 national parks across the country will offer free admission Jan. 14-16 to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.