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When presented with the idea of traveling to Africa last summer to offer her skills at a school in Awaso, Ghana, second-grade teacher Noreen Kakalec would be the first to tell you she didn't immediately rush off to pack her bags.

Sisters Nora and Delia Ephron took the book “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” by Ilene Bacmerman, added stories of friends and their own experiences and came up with a delightful production that hits home with most women and can tickle the funny bone of the guys in the audience. Sadly, Nora Ephron died a little more than two years ago and left an enormous library of plays and books, including “When Harry Met Sally,” “Sleepless in Seattle” and this play.

The Gavilan College men’s basketball team hasn’t won a conference game in two years.

South County residents will have an opportunity next month to honor U.S. veterans buried in local cemeteries. Remembrance ceremonies will be held in Gilroy and Morgan Hill on Dec. 13 at 9 a.m. simultaneously with a national observance at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

It appears an injured great blue heron found Oct. 27 near the Ridgemark community was shot with pellets from an air rifle, and there is a $5,050 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the person responsible.

I don’t know how it happened, but somehow my son is crazy. I mean, seriously crazy. Apparently, one time when Junior was 8 or 9, we drove past See Grins RVs and I said, “I’d love to get an RV and travel all over the place.” Somehow, that one, innocent remark turned into, “Once you move away to college, Dad and I are getting an RV and traveling the United States.” I know this because he came home last weekend and asked us when that was going to happen. (Side note: I’m sure it was because he missed me and not because he missed having clean underwear.)

It is apparently mandatory during every conversation about ocean cruises that each person declare whether or not they are a “cruise person.” At least it appears that way based on my experience. Though I suspected I was not a cruise person, I wasn’t sure since I had never been on one. I just knew that if I wanted to see Alaska’s Inside Passage, it would be on a cruise—and I definitely wanted to see the Inside Passage.

For a unique experience that transcends into a special, almost spiritual adventure along with encounters that make you wonder how the great powers created so much beauty in the oceans, visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Happy Halloween! For those of you on “team pumpkin,” it is an exciting time of year. Pumpkin flavored everything is just about everywhere. However, this is not exciting to me. You may remember that I dislike pumpkin. I side on another fall favorite and consider myself part of “team apple.” This week, I feature a recipe for a breakfast item, containing apples that is close to my heart.

GILROY —Merced's running game proved too much for Gavilan to handle.