Everyone gets so excited about “Social Media” when it comes to things like the General Plan update for our city, and the consultants who are paid the big bucks – hundreds of thousands to assist in crafting the plan – talk it up like the Second Coming. So far, 55 responses to the very simple “interactive” web survey on the city’s future plans. Let’s see, there are how many adults living in Morgan Hill? City Council better prescribe a new direction for the consultants, one that yields results.
No results for the owner of Roxanne’s Biscotti – a Morgan Hill resident who desperately wants to find a business home in town to bake her delicious cookies, which Miss Jenny and I tasted again at the boutique winery, Aver Family Vineyards, last weekend. Roxanne has been searching and searching to no avail. So, she commutes to San Jose to bake her treats (Note to Cricket “Resume Goddess” Rubino: the chocolate dipped biscotti bites with a glass of red wine are sooooo decadently delicious) wasting precious time and energy when she could be pumping even more dollars into the local economy. Can’t somebody help her find a baking home … John Horner at the Chamber, Steve Rymer at City Hall??
Hall pass from work as a pediatric intensive care nurse in Nashville, TN for middle daughter Cayla for a week. She arrived with beau Nick in tow just in time for youngest daughter Mariah’s 21st birthday … and that makes me how old? … well, let’s move on.
Choo, choo … almost a whole newsletter for the guide to the 18th Annual Garden Railway Tour. It’s 10 pages and details the 15 garden railroad set-ups you can visit on the tour scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 17. Had no idea there were so many dedicated people out there building intricate garden railroads. In Morgan Hill there are a few locations including the Llagas Creek Railway brought to you by Gary Broeder and Tom and Dodi Monti’s T&T Pepper Tree Railroad. Down the road in Gilroy are 6 locations to visit which include Nigle and Margaret Mallinson’s Mt. Madonna Railroad and Dave and Peggy Hartwig’s Hilary Logging Lumber and Mining Co. Railroad. The tour “profits” – which depend entirely on day-of donations – benefit the Community Pantry and St. Joseph’s Family Center, two outstanding organizations that assist those less fortunate in our community. The guide is on our website with a story. More details:
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More details on the tourism push to come, but the train is moving and it’s time to get on board.
Reach Editor Mark Derry at
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