It
’s been a few good weeks for Morgan Hill with ample reason to be
glad we moved here. There is no better time – except possibly
around July 4 – to find residents working together better. This is
the sort of thing that makes Morgan Hill a special place to live
and work.
It’s been a few good weeks for Morgan Hill with ample reason to be glad we moved here. There is no better time – except possibly around July 4 – to find residents working together better. This is the sort of thing that makes Morgan Hill a special place to live and work.
• Few small festivals – if you can call 60,000 visitors over two days small – are more fun or better run than the Taste of Morgan Hill. Sunday Minnich and her Chamber of Commerce crew plus several dozen volunteers and produced a first-rate variety of entertainers, food and crafts.
City staffers and community volunteers earned kudos too when they trotted out the Poppy Jasper Film Festival and the Italian Street Painting Festival ideas for our approval. Judging from the response cards, approval is what they got. We’ll look forward to seeing both festivals soon, adding to the cultural variety of Morgan Hill. Jay Jaso, Rosemary Rideout and Kim Bush led the pack.
It was not unusual at the Taste to overhear the town and its people complimented by out-of-towners for their friendliness and helpfulness.
• On another front, those fabulously committed people from WERC (the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center) just successfully raised and released another two bobcats, managing to keep them totally unaware of human presence. Bobcats must remain wild and maintain their fear of humans to survive in the wilderness and the bobcat team, led by Evelyn Davis and headed by Sue Howell deserve praise and help. Send the program money: www.werc.org
• The great, gaping hole that used to be filled with health care professionals in Morgan Hill may be filled soon if plans by O’Connor Hospital work out. The O’Connor team took over the job of filling the Medical Office Building and the old Saint Louise Hospital building on Cochrane Road from the Saint Louise Regional Hospital team and appears to be making significant progress. What a relief.
• Live Oak High student athletes and their families and fans have a reason to cheer, now that the Booster Club has come to their rescue. With budget cuts to extracurricular high school activities of close to $30,000, many so-called “minor” sports – tennis, golf, diving and freshman sports – would have been out of competition, at least for the 2003-2004 school year. President Pam Mom and her boosters committed to support Live Oak sports to the tune of $25,000. To support the boosters efforts, contact Pam Mom at 778-7860, Deb Guidry at 778-9467 or Tam Bouslog at 779-1958.
• On the academic front, the district and the entire community can be very proud of four elementary schools, El Toro, Los Paseos, Nordstrom and Paradise Valley/Machado, which have been recognized by the California Department of Education as in the running for a California Distinguished School award. Principals Kathleen Masner, Joanne Yinger, Nancy Milo and James Hamilton and their staffs have demonstrated their excellence in reaching out to all students and raising the bar for all at these schools. Even if the principals and staffs choose not to go further with the application process, it is an honor their schools have been recognized.
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