Read All Day
HOLLISTER
– Gabilan Hills School is preparing to celebrate the birthday of
well-known children’s author Dr. Seuss with a
”
Read All Day
”
Celebration March 1. The school staff is inviting members of the
community to campus that day to read for an hour or two to the
classes. All readers need to do is bring their favorite book and
they can join a kindergarten through 5th grade class.
For more information, call Vice Principal Delia G
ómez at 636-4430.
Read All Day
HOLLISTER – Gabilan Hills School is preparing to celebrate the birthday of well-known children’s author Dr. Seuss with a “Read All Day” Celebration March 1. The school staff is inviting members of the community to campus that day to read for an hour or two to the classes. All readers need to do is bring their favorite book and they can join a kindergarten through 5th grade class.
For more information, call Vice Principal Delia Gómez at 636-4430.
Study in Spain
GILROY – Gavilan College will host an information session for students interested in studying Spanish in Sevilla, Spain this summer. The trip is June 3-30 and costs $1,500, not including airfare. Students can earn up to five units of transferable college credit while living with a host family.
The orientation meeting is Sat., Feb 24 at 9:30 a.m. at the Gavilan College Humanities Bldg., room 105, 5055 Santa Teresa Blvd.
For more information visit www.gavilan.edu/spanish or call or e-mail Albert Marques at 408-848-4794 or
am******@ga*****.edu
.
Autism support groups available
HOLLISTER – The Santa Cruz chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association offers support groups for families in Santa Cruz, Watsonville and Hollister. The groups are free of charge and open to the public.
Hollister’s English-speaking Alzheimer support group meets the second Wednesday of every month at the senior center, 300 West St., from 1:30 to 3 p.m. The Spanish-speaking support group meets the third Wednesday of every month at the senior center from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
For more information, call 636-8838 or visit www.alznorcal.org.
Getting to know apricots
HOLLISTER – The annual Central Coast Counties Fruit Institute sponsored by the University of California will be held Tuesday, Feb. 13 from 9 a.m. until noon at the Veterans Memorial Building in Hollister.
The meeting is designed for commercial apricot and cherry growers but is open to the general public and free with no prior registration required. Topics will include Chilling Hour Update, Pesticide Regulation Update, Insect Pest Management, Eutypa Dieback and Bloom and Fruit Disease Management. Continuing education credit for growers is available.
For more information concerning this meeting call Bill Coates at 637-5346.
And a look at walnuts
HOLLISTER – The Central Coast Counties Walnut Institute will be held on Thursday, Feb. 15 from 8:30 a.m. until noon at the Veterans Memorial Building in Hollister. This University of California educational meeting provides commercial walnut growers with the latest information on production and pest management. The meeting is free, open to the general public and does not require pre-registration.
Subjects include an update on pesticide regulations, walnut varieties and rootstocks, cover crops and nitrogen fertilization, codling moth and walnut husk fly management, statewide research projects and marketing activities. Continuing education credit for growers is available.
For more information about this meeting call Bill Coates at 637-5346.
The complete agenda is available at http://cesanbenito.ucdavis.edu/. Apple and olive meetings will be in March but the agendas are not out yet.
GOP backs primary status quo
HOLLISTER – The San Benito County Republican Party has taken the position to support the resolution to be before the February 6 meeting of the San Benito County Board of Supervisors that is in opposition to change the presidential primary to February 2008.
Support for the change in the date of the presidential primary centered on two items:
– The early primary would give California a meaningful voice in selecting the nominees for president. Without the change in date, the nominating process could easily be settled by the June 2008 California primary. Thus, an earlier date could make California’s positions relevant in the nominating process.
– The second item is a report that the Democratic National Committee will strip the California delegation to the 2008 Democrat National Convention of between 90 and 100 delegates if the California presidential primary is moved to February 2008. The Democratic National Committee should not try to dictate California election policies.
Opposition to the change in the date of the presidential primary had a single issue.
– There is an effort in Sacramento to have a referendum to modify term limits of our legislatures. Changing the date of the presidential primary would provide a vehicle to allow a vote on possible changes in term limits in February 2008. If the term limit vote passed, the termed-our assemblymen and senators could then be on the June primary ballot. The term limit law is too important to be put in jeopardy by changing the date of the presidential primary election.
The San Benito County Republican Party does not minimize the importance of the selection of the nominees for President of the United States. However, the party has taken the position that protection of term limits is more important than a possible one-time influence on selection of the nominees for president.
Marvin L. Jones
chairman
San Benito County Republican Party
