Benefit barbecue for Bautista
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA
– The annual Daisy’s Saloon Rib Cookoff takes place this
Saturday, Oct. 20, as a benefit for the Mike Bautista family.
Bautista was seriously injured Oct. 11 and is in the Trauma Unit
at Valley Medical Center.
The event begins at noon at the Third Street tavern. At 5 p.m.,
a bean Cookoff will be held at Mom ‘n’ Pop’s Saloon just down the
street. A drawing will be held and all proceeds go to the Bautista
family.
To register for the cookoffs, call 623-4484 or 623-2393. Further
information is available at 636-3805.
Benefit barbecue for Bautista
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA – The annual Daisy’s Saloon Rib Cookoff takes place this Saturday, Oct. 20, as a benefit for the Mike Bautista family.
Bautista was seriously injured Oct. 11 and is in the Trauma Unit at Valley Medical Center.
The event begins at noon at the Third Street tavern. At 5 p.m., a bean Cookoff will be held at Mom ‘n’ Pop’s Saloon just down the street. A drawing will be held and all proceeds go to the Bautista family.
To register for the cookoffs, call 623-4484 or 623-2393. Further information is available at 636-3805.
Self-help court services in SBC
HOLLISTER – The San Benito Superior Court, in a joint program with Santa Cruz Superior Court, will now offer “self-help” services to people who don’t have a lawyer for certain court proceedings. There will be several evening sessions to introduce information about the services, including one Wednesday, Oct. 24 from 11 a.m. to noon at the San Benito County Free Library, 470 Fifth St.
The Web sites www.legalselfhelp.ca.gov and www.sucorte.ca.gov offer advice on filing paperwork and court appearances in English and Spanish. They also have “fillable” online forms in many languages.
In addition to the online services, Sasha Morgan, the manager of self-help services for the community, will be in San Benito starting Oct. 22 at 380 Fifth Street to help people with domestic violence, civil harassment, name change and guardianship issues. The office will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Mondays.
For more information, call 420-2397 or 630-5197 on Mondays.
CMAP volunteers honored
HOLLISTER – The Community Media Access Partnership will be hosting their 2007 Volunteer Recognition Awards at San Juan Oaks Golf Club, 3825 Union Road, in Hollister at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24.
The event will honor the volunteer board members, producers and crews who make CMAP work.
For more information, call 408-846-4983.
Blood drive scheduled
HOLLISTER – The American Red Cross will hold its monthly Hollister blood drive on Thursday, Nov. 1 from 1:30-6:30 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints hall, 1670 Cienega Road. To schedule an appointment, call Dick Koleszar at 637-5536 or go to www.BeADonor.com (Code: ROTARY).
Volunteers needed
HOLLISTER – Small Steps, a local nonprofit organization that provides jackets and shoes to children, is looking for volunteers to help with its annual shopping trip on Saturday, Nov. 3. The group’s goal is to take 375 local children pre-selected by their teachers to Target and Payless Shoe Source. Small Steps is looking for approximately 400 volunteers to be an adult shopper, register participants, work in the Kiddie Korral, help set up or clean up or serve refreshments.
Volunteers must be 18 years of age or older and must pre-register so names, addresses and driver’s license numbers can be run through Megan’s Law. Thumbprints of volunteers are taken on the day of the event. To receive a volunteer form, call 638-2111. Send tax-deductible donations to: Small Steps, P.O. Box 2137, Hollister, CA, 95024.
Colleges to be represented at upcoming fair
GILROY – South County Cal-SOAP will host a college fair for students of all ages and their parents on Thursday, Nov. 8 from 5-7 p.m. at the Gilroy High School main gymnasium. Representatives from more than 50 California and out-of-state colleges will be at the fair, which is open to all students in the Gilroy, Morgan Hill and San Benito County areas.
No reservations are required. Raffle tickets will be given to each person in attendance upon receipt of their evaluation of the event. For more information or to contribute a door prize, call South County Cal-SOAP at 4408-846-7504.
Visitor Center moves to campground
PAICINES – Beginning last Wednesday, Pinnacles east side Visitor Center operations moved to the monument’s campground store and Saturday, Dec. 1, the monument will transition into operating the campground.
“The Pinnacles Visitor Center will become the new starting point for visitors as they arrive on the monument’s east side,” explained Eric Brunnemann, superintendent of Pinnacles National Monument. Fees for monument entrance and camping will be collected; sales of books and educational materials, in addition to camp store items, will be available in the new Pinnacles Visitor Center. Additionally, visitors should stop at the Pinnacles Visitor Center to buy park passes, receive information about trails, ask questions, and get a park map.
“This move begins to place our visitor services for the east side away from the heart of the monument’s resources, and property locates them closer to the periphery,” continued Brunnemann.
The Pinnacles Visitor Center phone number will be 389-4485. However, Pinnacles business number will change to 389-4486.
The new Pinnacles Visitor Center will be open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. daily with hours increasing during the spring busy season. “This is a short-term transitional operation as the monument begins to run the campground operation. Long-term plans are being developed through the General Management Planning process currently under way,” Brunnemann said. By late 2007 or early 2008, campers wishing to make reservations need to contact Reserve America at www.reserveamerica.com. Between Dec. 1 and when reservations are handled by Reserve America, campsites are available on a walk-in basis only.
The building that previously hosted the visitor center will now become the Bear Gulch Nature Center. The Nature Center will be open and operated by monument staff, Western National Parks Association, Volunteers, and park partners with reduced hours. The monument will continue to have exhibits, educational opportunities, and book sales from the Nature Center.
Smoke ’em if you got ’em
HOLLISTER – The recent spate of cooler, damper weather means the federal Bureau of Land Management lifted fire restrictions, effective this week, on all lands administered within the Hollister Field Office.
The fire clearance includes the Tumey, Griswold, Ciervo and Panoche Hills.
Visitors may now have open campfires and barbecue fires at campsites on BLS public lands with a valid California Campfire Permit.
People wishing to start a fire should take care to contain it, and build them only in areas free of vegetation, according to BLM. A shovel and water to extinguish the fire are required.
The burn season coincides with the re-opening of BLM lands that were closed to public access during the upland game season. The areas open on Saturday, Oct. 20.
Further information is available by calling 630-5029.
