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If you watch too many sports shows, as I do, you’ll eventually hear the following about the diminished skills of aging athletes, “Father Time is undefeated.” This is a modern, abridged version of a quote by Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor (1878-1932), “Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.” And so it does.

Eugene Trak and Andreanna Staubly want to share the practice of meditation with San Benito County residents through free public meditation offerings and guest lectures.

Local veterinarian Roger Bruce retired at the end of December from his practice on Orchard Road after nearly 30 years of business in San Benito County.

It started last summer. I began to get the tiniest inkling that perhaps I was not as organized a person as I thought I was when my sister opened up the guest bath cabinet and said, “You know you fold your towels wrong, don't you?”

Even though San Benito County’s Public Health department waited until January to hold a free seasonal flu vaccination clinic, there was a line of about 50 people when they opened the doors of the Veterans Memorial Building at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, with a line forming again in the afternoon.

Those old enough to remember the decade of the ’50s (and earlier) are aware of some characteristics of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States in those days:  

Investors sometimes may get frustrated with their investments because those investments don’t seem to produce quick results. Perhaps that’s understandable in our fast-paced society, in which we’ve grown accustomed to instant gratification. But investing is, by nature, a long-term activity. If you look at it in terms of an athletic event, it’s not a sprint, in which you must pull out all the stops to quickly get where you’re going. Instead, it’s more like the 26.2-mile race known as a marathon.

New Mexico State pitcher Christopher Bradley, a former Sobrato High and Gavilan College baseball star, is one of several award winners who will be honored at the San Jose Elks Club Hot Stove Banquet on Jan. 22.

Happy New Year! Before I begin this week's column, I advise you to purchase a pork butt roast. They are usually on sale right now for under $2 per pound. Get one, wrap it tight and freeze it. It will be featured in my Mardi Gras article for Pulled Pork Poor Boys.

Anzar High School students have a new route from their homes to campus available to them this year as the San Juan Highway Bike Lane project is completed. The bike lane connects Hwy. 129 near Hwy. 101 to downtown San Juan.