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There comes a time in parenting when you realize that everything everyone told you about raising children is a big, fat lie. Also? When your mother curses you with “someday you will have a child just like you,” that will totally happen. Not that my dear, sweet, sainted mother ever cursed me like that, of course. Yeah, my mom reads this, can you tell?

It was warm and sunny at San Jose's Alum Rock Park last Friday. At 11:45 a.m., a group of more than 50 people, varying in age from children in strollers to seniors with canes and including four clergymembers, gathered in the uppermost parking lot. They could have been there for a picnic.

San Benito High graduate and Oklahoma infielder Jessica Vest was named the Big 12 Player of the Week on Tuesday. The sophomore homered twice and drove in seven runs in a doubleheader sweep of Wichita State last week.

Heather Johnson, Kayla Medrano and Kari Bittle drove in three runs each to lead Gavilan College’s softball team to a 15-7 home win over the City College of San Francisco on Tuesday.

Last time we talked about using the stayman convention to ask partner, who opened one notrump, if he has a four-card major suit. But, let's assume you hold a five or six card heart suit; so you already know that you should probably bid game in hearts, but, for tactical reasons, it would be better if the notrump hand remained hidden from the opponents.

The Central Coast Barnstormers semi-pro football team picked up its first win of the season Saturday, improving to 1-2 with a 55-32 victory over the Solano Chiefs at Vacaville Christian.

Editor's note: This is part of the annual Pride section. This year's theme is "Made in Hollister".

It turns out dentists aren’t so bad for the candy business, at least that’s the case with the budding industry in Hollister. It was a dentist, after all, who encouraged Brad van Dam in the mid-1990s to move the Marich Confectionery business from Watsonville to Hollister.

 I love the U.S.A. deeply – warts and all – and I always considered my military service as public service. Several times during my career the Department of Defense initiated a RIF, which stands for Reduction In Force, and that meant lots of pink slips. During those times, I was convinced that the nation needed officers exactly like me more than just about any other soldier. Of course, I was in the impossible position of trying to balance the public interest of reducing the armed forces with my personal interest of keeping my career and job.