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For the month of November, the Hollister Animal Shelter is running a promotion that allows people to choose their own price for cats or kittens.

The Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program held a Medicare overview community event last week at the Hollister Community Center to tell seniors about the program’s changes in 2014, especially in light of the recent rollout for the health insurance exchanges as part of the president’s healthcare law.

A representative of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), made it clear to the San Benito County Board of Supervisors that they want to eat their cake and have it too. They want their jobs and a raise and they want to continue to contribute little toward America’s best large-scale retirement and healthcare benefit plans. Who wouldn’t? They even offered to help squeeze more taxes out of county residents to fund their gold-plated benefits. They did not use the term “squeeze” – but what else can you call it when those with the best deals propose a tax increase on so many struggling families?

Run for those who can’t.

You know it's fall when there is a crisp breeze, the leaves gently fly from the trees, the air turns colder and I spend about 10 minutes deciding the best way to kill my husband. Oh, stop judging me. It's totally justifiable homicide, according to my extensive research that consists mainly of repeats of “Law & Order,” with a couple of “CSI” episodes thrown in so I know how to hide all the evidence.

This is a very busy time of year for those, who like myself, are the chefs of the family. We are busy reviewing our notes from last year, making our checklists, procuring the ingredients and developing our timelines. Because it is at the top of my timeline, I present a recipe for California Inspired Christmas Fruitcake.

GILROY — Luis Ramirez may not have played a full 90 minutes, but he certainly made a difference for Gavilan.

Janet Yellen - currently the vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - has been nominated to succeed Ben Bernanke at the helm of the world's most important central bank. A former UC Berkeley and London School of Economics professor and San Francisco Fed president, Yellen is a globally admired economist with many fans on Wall Street. The way it looks now, in January she will become the most powerful woman in the world.

Morgan Hill is a very different place today than it was 50 years ago. Then it was a farming community with a population of some 4,000 residents. The sick were treated in 50-bed Wheeler Hospital in Gilroy; north-south traffic passed directly through downtown on Monterey Highway; the largest employers were a signal flare maker, a travel trailer builder and animal feed processors.

Gavilan is still perfect.