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When Kate Mayhorn looks out her front door, she sees piles of dead trees across the street and dirt where once there was the beginning of a green golf course fairway. From her living room window, she sees more dead grass and rows of trees marked for demolition with red X's.

When the idea of putting together a Hollister Challenger Cheerleading team came up less than a year ago, everyone involved—from Hollister Vikings Pop Warner President Jeff Valenzuela to board member Monica Pritchett and many others—knew it would be a tremendous opportunity for special-needs girls to get involved in a positive activity.

On Sept. 28, an important nonprofit organization held an open house/fiesta in Gilroy. Informed Choices, a pregnancy resource center, welcomed the community to visit its new facility located at 66 First St.

GILROY—Gavilan’s volleyball players are taking their game outside this spring.

The Hazel Hawkins Hospital Foundation has received a $50,000 grant from the Hospice Giving Foundation to fund its palliative care program for end-of-life services, according to an announcement from the foundation.

It is no secret that this is my favorite time of year for vegetables. A visit to any farm stand or farmers market here in the South Valley will yield a plethora of items just in from the fields. The variety of colors, flavors and textures become my muse in the kitchen. This week, I share how many of these seasonal vegetables can find its way into a very tasty, healthy and economic dish.

Recently, my husband and I celebrated our wedding anniversary. I won’t say which one—but I was 5 when we married. Really. Anyway, I’m not the most romantic of people—possibly due to the trauma of being married before I finished kindergarten. So I was thrilled when I got a new toaster for my anniversary. I even picked it out.

The journals and other writings of the first Europeans to reach the American West describe an amazing abundance of wildlife. Massive bison herds running at a full gallop took an hour to pass. Grizzly bears, pronghorn, elk, and beaver were regular and common sights. At each equinox, the skies were dark with migrating waterfowl.

“Good night and good luck” was the famous sign-off line of journalist Edward R. Murrow who became renowned for his radio news broadcasts during the height of World War II. I hope his spirit won’t mind a journalistic pipsqueak like me borrowing it as the title for my last regular column at the Free Lance.

San Benito High School junior Felos Montoya never expected joining a dance troupe would give him the moves to tackle life's challenges one step at a time.