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Last Saturday, I did something I never imagined I’d have to do in a million years: I spoke at my 7-month-old nephew’s funeral.

High Point Market in North Carolina is the largest home furnishings industry trade show in the world. Held twice a year in April and October and going strong since 1909, it draws more than 80,000 visitors from more than 100 countries around the globe. With exhibitors spread more than 10 million square feet in 180 buildings, visitors learn to come in very comfortable shoes or leave with very sore feet. (No designer stilettos here. Nike is the order of the day ... but I digress.) Today's column provides highlights from last month's High Point Market with a specific focus on upcoming color trends. We keep up with the latest in home furnishings by attending High Point and similar trade shows in order to better serve our South Valley clients.

Do you need a college degree to succeed? That assumption is long-entrenched, and it isn't hard to see a relationship between education and earning power. Yet the cost and debt linked to getting a degree are so significant now that some contrarians are saying “skip it” - go learn in the world rather than on campus, if you're smart you'll do just as well in life.

After only two years playing softball at Oklahoma, former San Benito standout Jessica Vest is already on top of the college landscape.

For those who know me and my family, it comes as no surprise that I am in the middle of cherry season. You may think that since I spend long days around cherries, the last thing I want to do is see the fruit when I come home. While that could be true, I would not be able to make one of my favorite cherry desserts, Cherry & Almond Galette.

“Fiddler on the Roof” is a perennially popular musical that opened on Broadway in 1964. The first musical in U.S. history to surpass 3,000 performances, it won nine Tony awards and went on to hit performances in London and elsewhere. A successful movie version followed in 1971, and the show has enjoyed enduring popularity.

On June 23, Old Mission San Juan Bautista will honor its patron saint, St. John the Baptist, with a fiesta acknowledging the Native Americans who physically built the mission and the Spanish, Mexican, American, Franciscan and settlers' influence on the Central California area, according to an announcement from the Mission.

The California Department of Public Health issued a warning Monday not to eat Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend frozen berries as they may be linked to a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections. The frozen berries were sold at Costco, where they have been removed from stores though they may have been sold at other retail locations as well. Consumers with questions may call the California Department of Public Health at 916-650-6595.

For the second consecutive year, the Hollister Warriors Wrestling Club took home a pair of state championships at the California USA Wrestling Kids Freestyle State Championship on Saturday in Fresno.

More than two dozen San Benito artists will be participating in the 2013 Open Studios Tour from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday with stops in Hollister, Aromas, and San Juan Bautista.