Missing community calendar listings Why haven't I seen the calendar for a couple of months? I feel like I am missing out on current events? Where is the calendar?
Dear Calendar Reader: As part of our redesign, we moved our popular community calendar to our Web site. We are posting community events daily. We've also added a feature on our Web site that allows the public to submit calendar items online directly, without having to fax them or e-mail them to the editor. This service is free and easy to use. Just put your cursor on the news button, which will show you the "submit a digest item" button on the drop-down list of choices. Click on it and it will ask you for details about the event. You'll be able to even submit a photo related to the listing. We give priority to events sponsored by non-profit and social service agencies, but we do run business events when they're newsworthy.
Insensitive light I ride a 600-pound motorcycle; so it's no lightweight. When I pull into the left-hand turn lane to turn onto Butterfield from westbound Cochrane, the light never changes. I've rolled my bike back and forth across the sensor, but still no light change. My options are to either sit or wait for a larger vehicle or to run the light if no one is around to help. How do we send this traffic light sensor in for a little sensitivity training before I get traffic school?
Dear Morgan Hill Chopper: Cal-West Lighting and Signal senior technician George Sandman checked out the signal at Cochrane Road and Butterfield Boulevard. He raised the sensitivity of the signal and said that it should now detect motorcycles. Sandman offered to meet you at the intersection and make further adjustments if needed. He also commented that sensors at traffic signals are activated by proximity to metal and not to weight as they once were. Hope this resolves the problem. Red phone thanks Sandman for helping and going the extra mile for the Morgan Hill Chopper. Cal-West Lighting and Signal is a maintenance and repair company that is under contract to fix the problems at this intersection.
El Toro mountain photo confusion
The article about El Toro mountain in the March 25 issue of the paper is not the El Toro mountain. I think you should advise your readers that you have incorrectly showed a picture of some other mountain.
Dear El Toro Connoisseur: The photo we used with the March 25 Morgan Hill Times front-page story about the city's purchase of 18.5 acres of land surrounding the iconic El Toro mountain is identified in our photo file as being El Toro. However, we have heard from people in the community with deep
roots in Morgan Hill that it's not. We will be further examining the image and consulting with the Morgan Hill Historical Society to determine if we, indeed, have the wrong image. The three-story structure, that resembles a hotel, is obviously a red flag. Red Phone is highly doubtful that such structure was ever erected near the foot of the mountain.
Caller if you or anyone out there has any idea about the identity and location of this mountain, please let us know. Red Phone has a suspicion that the mountain may be in Gilroy and that the structure is the old Milias Hotel, which was located in downtown Gilroy in the late 1800s. Stay tuned. We'll keep you posted on what we discover about this photo.
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