Community

Ten-year-old Presley Calisi constantly begs her piano instructor Morgen Buciak to play something for her to start their lessons at Music As Language in Morgan Hill.

Santa Clara Valley Water District staff members will host a March 22 community meeting to offer an Anderson Dam Seismic Retrofit update beginning at 6 p.m. inside the Hiram Morgan Hill Room of the Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center.

At a press conference at Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose March 14, Morgan Hill Police Chief David Swing delivered the following “message of solidarity to our immigrant communities” on behalf of the Santa Clara County Police Chiefs Association. The statement was signed by 14 law enforcement leaders in Santa Clara County, including District Attorney Jeff Rosen.

City of Morgan Hill and Silicon Valley Clean Energy officials will host a community meeting March 30 to provide more information about the renewable energy program for local electricity customers that will start in April.Enrollment in SVCE is automatic for PG&E customers in Morgan Hill, and will take place over a six-month period in two phases—one starting in April and one in July, according to city staff.SVCE is a nonprofit public agency formed in 2016 by a dozen South Bay communities to source clean electricity at costs below PG&E’s comparative rates. PG&E will remain an “essential partner” as the utility company will continue to deliver electricity over existing power lines, maintain the infrastructure, send bills and provide customer service, according to city staff.The March 30 meeting will start at 7 p.m. at Morgan Hill City Council Chambers, 17555 Peak Ave.For more information, visit svcleanenergy.org or call (844) 474-SVCE.

It’s Relay season.

Morgan Hill’s supercentenarian Belle McCormick passed away March 1 at the age of 110, according to the retired educator’s daughter Annie Saso.

Arlene Biala is an award-winning poet who has participated in poetry performances and workshops in the Bay Area for over 20 years. She is currently Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County for 2016-17. Her poetry has been described as “grounded in ritual object and ritual practice, mantras that resonate within the body, and plant the body firmly in the world.”

The Morgan Hill Community Foundation’s El Toro Culture and Arts Committee and Morgan Hill’s Recreation and Community Services Department will host the 17th annual Art a la Carte, a children’s art fair  from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 29 at the Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center.

U.S. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, who represents Morgan Hill in the nation’s highest legislative body, was “preaching to the choir,” according to one attendee, at her March 4 town hall that brought a packed house to the council meeting chambers on Peak Avenue.

A report showing that Morgan Hill has the second highest suicide rate in the county among “youth” between ages 10-24 was released March 3 by the Santa Clara County Public Health Department.