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Public Health Services is partnering with local schools to establish or resurrect fruit and vegetable gardens.

A fundraiser put on Sept. 20  raised over $10,000 for the Casillas-Gardner Family and Friends Relay for Life Team. The promoters that put on the event were L&L Productions, WGAS and Correa Customz.

Congressman Sam Farr on Tuesday will be joined by local officials in announcing a grant award to make repairs at the Hollister Municipal Airport, according to a statement from Farr's office.

At the tender age of 21 months, Emilie Ann Beck showed bizarre symptoms, including having frequent thirst and urination. She also experienced irritability and excessive fatigue, unusual for a nearly 2-year-old.

HONORS: Spencer Smith: Air Force Airman Spencer W. Smith graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

For the first time in nearly 30 years a husband and wife team is leading the National Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) and the National Auxiliary to SUVCW.

Paso Robles' Ed Hazard believes the public and politicians haven't given enough attention to rights of royalty and mineral rights owners in local-level debates like the one in San Benito County over Measure J. Kathy Spencer from the Bitterwater area has another perspective and worries her family members could lose control of their property because an oil company owns mineral rights on 440 acres of their land.

A Calfire air tanker based out of Hollister crashed Tuesday while fighting a fire at Yosemite National Park and the pilot was killed.

The San Benito County Sheriff's Office is reporting "no less than" three mountain lion sightings near the Stonegate community in the past week, according to a statement from the agency.

Public Health Services is partnering with local schools to establish or resurrect fruit and vegetable gardens. Students at Sunnyslope, Calaveras, Hollister Dual Language Academy and R.O.Hardin elementary schools will plant, cultivate and eat their fresh fruits and vegetables, all while learning about the importance of healthy eating and physical activity, according to public health in an announcement.