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I always get excited about the summer bounty of vegetables that grow in the home garden or found at the farmers’ market or the farm stand. Eating them while they are in season is the key to their superior quality.

Hollister will have its first team at a Babe Ruth World Series after the senior team advanced with a dramatic victory in Utah.

More than 30 Hollister students spent a week at a unique summer camp that taught them about healthy eating and exercise. The Youth Alliance, in partnership with the American Diabetes Association and Safeway Pharmacy, offered a week-long Health Squad camp at Rancho Park Apartments.

Alex Rodriguez and Jason Sims called together participants in Tuesday’s youth golf camp, the first of three days in the session at Ridgemark Golf & Country Club. They stood atop a small set of steps leading to the pro shop and quickly gained the campers’ attention with some questions.

Our local grape vines have been thriving throughout the warm summer, the leaves soaking up the sunshine and clusters of grapes hanging heavily from the vines. Our wine growers have been busy with canopy management - pulling selected leaves from the vines to give the best sunlight exposure and air movement to the fruit. Veraison (when grapes start to ripen and change from green to purple) has come early this year, attracting birds and other critters that are looking for a tasty meal. But even though the grapes are turning color, they aren't ripe enough yet - so nets are draped over the rows to protect them from being picked clean by hungry birds.

Allyssa Marae, a 22-year-old who was raised in Morgan Hill and now lives in Hollister, has a dream to host a music festival at the amphitheater of Christmas Hill Park in the heart of Gilroy.

Light changes everything. The right lighting fixture can increase functionality, create a warm and inviting look, and add beautiful style to your home. There is an endless variety of wonderful fixtures in countless styles and finishes. When brought together in a creative and functional plan, your home really will light up your life.

A week or so ago I learned something earth shattering. To be honest with you, I'm not even sure I should write about it - because, well it could alter the very foundation of humankind. By revealing this horrifying truth, many of us (and by that I mean me) will question everything we have ever learned. And what is this potentially catastrophic truth that will shake you to your core?

Are you a member of the “Sandwich Generation?” This designation - which applies to people caring for their aging parents while supporting their own children - may be applicable to you if you’re either a younger Baby Boomer, born in the late 1950s or early 1960s, or an older member of “Generation X,” born in the mid-1960s. But any way you slice it, being in the “Sandwich” group is probably going to present you with some challenges, particularly of the financial kind - so you’ll need to make the right moves.

A&W Restaurants is celebrating National Root Beer Float Day today by giving away free root beer floats to customers while asking them to donate toward the Wounded Warrior Project, according to a press release from the company.