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Kurt Drückler was a heavy smoker. For many years, the German gentleman ran a tobacco shop on the corner of Alexandrinen and Sebastian streets in the heart of Berlin. A few months after I was born, he died from emphysema. This lingering and painful disease, caused by years of inhaling tobacco smoke, prevented him from traveling to the United States in 1966 to see me, his newborn grandson.

When the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night take a seat at the NBA lottery for the 21st time in 28 years, holding the No. 7 slot in the draft, we can only hope the results vanquish an enduring misconception about this woebegone franchise.

The first time Brandon Jacobs won a Super Bowl, he ballooned to 285 pounds and started losing his trademark leg strength for the New York Giants.

On June 6, the drive-in theater will celebrate its 79th birthday. Yeah, I know. Most people don’t care and there aren’t many drive ins still around. Honestly? That’s a shame. I love the drive in. And I’m sure I’m not alone in my fondness for outdoor movie theaters … right?

I vividly remember the day she adopted me, me driving home with her 5-month-old paws on the dashboard, face tilted downward and pressed against the windshield. I remember wondering if I had made the right decision: Was I ready to take on a dog? We’d had family dogs when I was young, but I was an adult now, living on my own. She would be all mine.

Any short list of great sports calls must include Howard Cosell’s “Down goes Frazier!” repeated three times when challenger George Foreman put Joe Frazier on the mat during the first round of their championship fight in January, 1973. Frazier got up but Foreman eventually won by TKO after knocking him down five more times. The point is that heavy blows can have a cumulative effect and California just took one on the chin - you could feel it stagger and fall.

The Si, Se Puede! Learning Center staff members have been busy developing curriculum and planning field trips for the summer program that begins June 11.

Enza Zaden, a seed research and development company headquartered in the Netherlands, celebrated the expansion of its operations at its lab facilities in San Juan Bautista on Thursday.

Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital celebrated the grand opening of its new Mabie First Street Healthcare Center on May 18 with a ribbon cutting by the San Benito County Chamber of Commerce.