Has your opinion of Obamacare, aka the Affordable Health Care Act, changed for the better or the worse over the last year?
• Rene Spring: I have always been very supportive of the Affordable Health Care Act. My opinion, thus, has not changed. Here in California, all seems to be work as planned with far fewer glitches than on federal level. I admit that the roll-out of the federal website was everything but well done. However, having worked in the software industry for all of my adult life, I’m confident that they can fix those glitches as needed so that everyone who wants to and needs to enroll will be able to do so.
Season of Wonders
Join us to celebrate our nearly 30 year tradition of Christmas concerts with Season of Wonders! Sunday, December 15th at 2:30pm at the Morgan Hill Presbyterian Church. We will sing and we will all have cookies with warm beverages after the concert. Donations at the door, first-come; first-served seating. Merry Christmas!
General Plan Update committee meeting Dec. 12
The next Morgan Hill General Plan Advisory Committee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 12, where committee members will discuss and refine draft growth alternatives for the potential ways Morgan Hill could grow over the next 20 years. The GPAC, along with elected and appointed City officials, is currently in the process of a comprehensive update, known as Morgan Hill 2035, of the General Plan and the City’s major land use documents.Thursday’s meeting will be the sixth meeting of the GPAC, which is comprised of 17 Morgan Hill residents representing a cross section of industries, age groups and socioeconomic sectors. The committee will continue to meet over the next two years in order to collect and consider input on how the City should grow, and draft General Plan Update recommendations to the City Council and the Planning Commission. The meeting takes place 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday at the Centennial Recreation Center multipurpose room, at 171 W. Edmundson Ave.“Refined” growth alternatives will be presented to the Council and Commission Jan. 22, 2014, and the Council will formally approve three alternatives to be analyzed further on Feb. 19, 2014, according to City staff. For more information on the GPAC and the City’s comprehensive update process, visit morganhill2035.org.
Christmas cards for troops
For Vietnam War veteran Bob Johnston, his affinity with the armed forces didn’t end when he came home.
