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Bob Straight wasn’t born in Morgan Hill. Nor did he attend Live Oak High. But he is fully invested in baseball in the southern Santa Clara County city.

Conventional wisdom says that we learn life’s lessons in the school of hard knocks, and I suppose that is true. But I have learned many of life’s most important lessons during my outdoor wanderings.

    DEAR ABBY: Please use your wide reach to educate well-meaning parents about how their children should behave when visiting cemeteries. I'm a funeral professional who takes pride in helping families honor their heritage and transition from grief to recovery. I especially enjoy helping to allay children's fears about death and cemeteries.

Talk of a “South County Wine Trail” signage program on the freeways, which would direct vino lovers and out-of-towners to the treasure trove of wineries nestled in the Gilroy, San Martin and Morgan Hill backcountry has been going on for more than a year, but has yet come to fruition.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving and area law enforcement agencies this week recognized three of Morgan Hill’s finest for their efforts to remove drunk drivers from the streets, and one of the local officers made more DUI arrests last year than any other officer on the Peninsula.

We’re still flabbergasted over the Gilroy Unified School District Board of Trustees’s approval five years ago of a Capital Improvement Bond that netted  $2.4 million at an ultimate cost of $28.2 million.

    DEAR ABBY: It bothers me greatly to know that so many children continue to start smoking at an early age. My husband and I did that, and now we're paying an awful price. We have had emphysema for years. Four of our children also took up the habit. I finally started paying them to quit ($100 every two weeks they didn't smoke -- up to five payments).

Harassment

The first person who called the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center last month to report an injured juvenile herring gull in Gilroy thought the bird had been shot in the face with a pellet gun. A short while later, another call was received about the same gull from a person who believed it to have been hit head-first by a vehicle.