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A crowd gathered at San Martin's Taylor Made Farms last Saturday, where 14 wild mustangs and one burro found new forever homes through the Bureau of Land Management's National Wild Horse and Burro Adoption program.

ENGAGEMENT: Paetz/Mickiewicz: Jenna Paetz and Kyle Mickiewicz are engaged to be married.

Gilroy Police Department want people to be on the lookout for a silver, four-door Saturn Sedan, bearing California license plate 4YBD579, stolen during a carjacking July 8 on the 700 block of El Cerrito Way.

Yesterday, my marathon training plan listed: "5 miles, easy." If you are actually following a specific plan for a race of any distance, it helps to understand the terms that are used. Nearly every race plan includes "easy" days, but what exactly does that mean? Easy is not specific at all--it is the opposite of "hard"--I know that much. But how easy is easy? What does "easy" mean for me? It's obvious that easy days alternate with "hard" days, so it's plain to see that this easy-hard pattern is meant to keep runners from turning every workout into a Hard Day.

As volunteers walked down the driveway after a day of feeding wildlife and cleaning enclosures at the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center, they were mystified to hear an unusual whistling-chirping sound coming from underneath a parked vehicle. Getting low on the ground and peeking up under the car, they were astonished to see a large face staring right back at them. Looking and sounding like a super-sized ground squirrel (which in truth, it is), it turned out to be a yellow-bellied marmot, normally a denizen of the Sierra and Rocky mountains. We quickly learned why they're nick-named “whistle pigs” - they whistle when alarmed by predators, such as wolves, foxes, coyotes, badgers, bobcats, golden eagles, hawks, owls, weasels, humans and dogs (one of which had just chased this particular marmot under the car).

On June 28, Grinds, Vines and Automobilia Café celebrated the end of its first year in business with some loyal customers at a ribbon cutting ceremony with staff, ambassadors and board members of the Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce.

Landscape Innovation of Gilroy recently received three awards by the California Landscape Contractors Association. The awards were first place in design, Ken and Penny Perluss; first place in lighting, Goldsmith residence; and second place in renovation, Elks Lodge of Gilroy.