Cheers to BookSmart owners Cinda Meister and Brad Jones, who
took home the Morgan Hill Toastmasters Club’s first
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Excellence in Community Leadership Award.
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Cheers to those who give. Photographer Peg Jackson and all 43 people who had her shoot portraits of their pets to benefit the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center. They raised $3,250.
Cheers to the Teacher’s Aid Coalition for collecting donations for their twice-a-year teacher school supply giveaway.
And, cheers to the San Martin Neighborhood Alliance, which will donate $1,000 each to the Friends of the San Martin Animal Shelter and Boy Scout Troop 730, collected from the profits of the alliance’s annual car show.
Jeers to those who think the rules, ordinances and laws of a polite society don’t apply to them.
Don’t have a handicap placard, don’t park in a handicap spot. Got a dog? Don’t let it do its business on someone else’s property without picking it up. Got a cell phone? Heck, who doesn’t today? Don’t talk loudly in public. If you’re at the movies, or in a restaurant, politely excuse yourself or shut it off. It’s as simple as that.
Cheers to BookSmart owners Cinda Meister and Brad Jones, who took home the Morgan Hill Toastmasters Club’s first “Excellence in Community Leadership Award.”
The Morgan Hill Toastmasters club unanimously voted to award its leadership award to Meister and Jones because of their high level of dedication and efforts helping organizations such as the Friends of the Morgan Hill Library, the Poppy Jasper Film Festival, and the Morgan Hill Charter School.
The couple has also demonstrated a significant impact in building a regional identity for the South Valley area, trying to foster stronger leadership connections between the communities of Hollister, San Juan Bautista, Gilroy, San Martin and Morgan Hill.
Cheers to the more than 450 Morgan Hill residents, most of them from the Hispanic community, who packed the Britton Middle School auditorium to welcome new Superintendent Dr. Wes Smith, who told those in attendance that public education is the road for children to realize their dreams, and the only way to get to those dreams is if everyone works together.
“I want to start a relationship where we can guarantee kids are successful by working together,” Smith told the audience.
Seeing so many parents in attendance convinced Julian Mancias, a member of COLEAD which helped organize the event, that the event’s main goal – to introduce Smith to the Hispanic community – was accomplished with the attendance of a standing-room only crowd.
“A lot of people attended the event to show Dr. Smith that we do have a strong interest in the education of the kids of Morgan Hill,” Mancias said.