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Champagne has been the drink of celebrations ever since French monk Dom Pérignon discovered the libation in 1693 and exclaimed,“Come quickly, I am drinking the stars.”

Tucked into the main commercial thoroughfare in downtown San Juan Bautista is the charming blue and white Jardines de San Juan Mexican Restaurant & Gardens. The local gem—open nearly 40 years—sits on the first floor of a two-story building at 113 Third St., and like the name, boasts a spacious back patio colorfully decorated with full spectrum of umbrellas and overflowing with beautiful potted plants including asparagus fern, geranium and cascading succulents.

The growth of solar as an alternative energy source has created a new challenge for people buying or selling an existing home with solar panels in place. The choices between owning, leasing, or power purchase agreements could impact the marketability of your home, and what buyers are looking for in a property with solar.

Calling all fashion lovers! Calling all shopaholics! Calling all readers of What They’re Wearing! The perfect career for you has been found: wardrobe stylist. A wardrobe stylist's job entails endless shopping throughout the day. One spends eight hours of non-stop, shop til you drop, going in and out of stores, spending $3,000 to $10,000 dollars of someone else’s money, and in the end, getting paid for all that! Stylists provide personalized outfits and fashion advice to people from all ages, genders, and sizes.

The holidays are here and all of us know what that means. Yes, we must try to outdo our neighbors with our display of holiday spirit. We need lights! We need trees! We need a lot of beer to make our decorating go faster.

The Oakwood boys basketball team improved its record to 7-1 with a 67-43 win over Gonzales High School.

Accident

Two thieves were arrested with a stolen car full of burglarized items, after trying to purchase merchandise at a Morgan Hill store with a lifted credit card, according to police.A Morgan Hill Police officer identified a stolen vehicle the afternoon of Dec. 15 as it turned into Target, 1066 Cochrane Road, according to a post on the MHPD’s Facebook page. The officer followed the vehicle into the store’s parking lot.With assistance from more officers who arrived on the scene, police set up a perimeter and were able to locate the suspects and arrest them “following a high-risk felony car stop,” the post says.The investigation determined the two suspects—Luis Vasquez and Patricia Vaquera—had entered Target and tried to purchase items with a stolen credit card, police said. When that didn’t work, they walked out of the store with the items, without paying.The stolen credit cards were related to a burglary out of San Jose the previous evening, police said. Officers contacted that victim and notified him that his credit cards had been recovered.Also recovered in the stolen car was “a lot of mail” that had been stolen, according to authorities. MHPD contacted the postal inspector, who will reach out to these victims and investigate any possible federal crimes.Furthermore, the owner of the stolen vehicle, a black Honda, told police that the car was full of merchandise she had spent all day purchasing for Christmas presents, according to the Facebook post. The vehicle owner lost all those presents, as well as two car seats for kids.Vasquez and Vaquera were booked at Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of multiple felonies including car theft, possession of burglary tools, identity theft, giving false ID to police, illegal weapons and narcotics offenses.A couple of days later, MHPD posted an update that the Morgan Hill Police Officers Association contacted Target and the two parties “put together a covert operation and purchased replacement gifts” for the victimized car owner. That post includes a photo of MHPD officer with the victim, surrounding a pile of new toys and other children’s items purchased from the local store.

Each December on National Wreaths Across America Day, a fresh pine wreath is placed at the headstones of U.S. veterans across the country in remembrance of their service and sacrifice to their country.