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The 2012 Little League All-Star season kicked off Saturday with the District 9 tournament in three age groups. All eight Hollister teams played at least one game, and no team has been eliminated.

The third annual Rider Appreciation Day at Corbin in Hollister is set for Saturday at the company, 2360 Technology Parkway. The vendor setup is from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The following is a list of nonprofit booths in Hollister selling safe and sane fireworks through Wednesday:

In the final meet of the 2012 wrestling season in Idaho, the Hollister Warriors wrestling club ended its successful season with another individual championship. Overall at the Kids and Cadets Western Regional Championships in Pocatello, Idaho, the Warriors competed in 11 division with five wrestlers, taking home one first place and three top-six finishes.

Golden State Warriors general manager Bob Myers seems to be maintaining his usual cool exterior. He's still sporting the fresh smile, still oozing poise.

Here it is, another Fourth of July and time to plan the picnics, the barbecues and of course, the fireworks. I am a veteran of many Independence Day celebrations, having attended them my entire life – well, except for that brief period when I lived in Canada and shockingly, nobody celebrated the Fourth of July. I think it was because a) they are a different country; and b) it’s too cold there in July to have outdoor celebrations.

As you and your friends and family get set for the Independence Day celebrations here in the South Valley, I hope you’ll take a moment to think about the great American experiment we are a part of today. The word “experiment” to describe our republic is a fitting one. Many of the leaders who founded our nation were scientifically astute and understood the principles of carrying out tests to prove or disprove revolutionary ideas – including political ideas.

I was watching the terrific series “Moon Machines” on the Science Channel. It’s about the Apollo Program that put man on the Moon July 20, 1969. Much was human interest – vignettes showing who did it and how. They ranged from engineers at MIT designing inertial guidance systems, to the “LOL” system of computer programming. LOL stood for the “Little Old Ladies,” the operators, almost all mature women, who physically wove wires and doughnut-shaped magnets to program computer memory. The show eventually got to the Saturn V, the 6.2-million-pound, 363-foot high, 3 million part, behemoth multi-staged rocket system used to propel Apollo. As they ran the launch films, I found myself talking to the TV – feeling the same feelings and saying the same thing I said during launches more than 40 years ago. “Go baby, go!”