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Ray and Peggy Pierce have opened a new office in Hollister on Sixth Street – Pierce Real Estate.

The Youth Alliance will be participating in La Posada at the Rancho Park Neighborhood Center, 1200 Rancho Drive, on Wednesday, at 3:30 p.m. The Mexican Christmas tradition celebrates the nine days of La Posada (or the Lodging) from Dec. 16 through Christmas Eve. On each night, a home is selected, where the doors open to all with an invitation for refreshments, caroling and dancing.

The Autism Parent Club of San Benito County will host a meeting from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Pritchett’s Living Services, 800-F San Benito St., in Hollister.

With the holidays fast approaching, my thoughts turn to family gatherings, gift-giving and sparkling wine - not necessarily in that order. Since the topic of family gatherings would far exceed the limited word count of this column, I will focus on gift ideas for the wine lover on your list and sparkling wines that can be essential to getting through family gatherings.

You can stop running around like a hungry rooster with its head cut off. One of downtown’s most popular restaurants is merely renovating and has a goal of reopening in January.

Dear Santa,

The Community Services and Workforce Development department, which oversees a family winter shelter at the migrant camp on Southside Road, is seeking donations to provide a holiday luncheon for the 20 families staying at the shelter this year.

The key and lock portion of the business will continue on.

Just a few weeks after serving a Thanksgiving dinner to more than 300 visitors, the Holte Holiday dinner committee is preparing for its annual Christmas dinner on December 25.