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1 week ago | 
benitolink.com | Robert Eliason
Lea este artículo en español aquí. Anzar High School’s swim team continued the Hawks’ tradition of excellent athletics by defeating King City High School in its April 11 meet. The girls scored 86-84, for an overall 6-0 record for the season, and the boys scored 90-62, for a 3-2 record. The girls’ win places them at the top of the Cypress Division of the Pacific Coast Athletic League. The boys are second in their division.
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1 week ago | 
benitolink.com | Robert Eliason
Lea este artículo en español aquí. Building on the Hawk Academy, a successful partnership with Gavilan College, four Anzar High School students have been studying a cutting-edge technology called “mechatronics” in a class offered at Hartnell College’s Alisal campus. Ben Grainger, Hartnell’s director of college readiness and dual enrollment, said Anzar counselor Julie Casteneda-Hicks contacted him over a year ago, looking for additional opportunities for the school’s students.
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1 week ago | 
benitolink.com | Robert Eliason
Lea este artículo en español aquí. Note: Daniel Valdez will participate in the Mexico y Tú panel discussion at 7 p.m. on March 14 at the Granada Theater in Hollister as part of the Poppy Jasper Film Festival. At 8 p.m., following the discussion, he will be given an Icon Award by the Festival.
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1 week ago | 
benitolink.com | Robert Eliason
Lea este artículo en español aquí. My friends, Harry and Helen Nguyen, who own five Phở Hà Nội locations in San Jose, surprised me at dinner one night by announcing that they wanted me to “try real Vietnamese food.” I assumed they meant some off-the-menu offerings at one of their restaurants and told them I was ready whenever they were available.
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1 week ago | 
benitolink.com | Robert Eliason
Lea este artículo en español aquí. For the second year in a row, San Andreas High School students can apply for locally sourced scholarships, thanks to Celeste Toledo-Bocanegra, who helped eight graduates last year to get money for college. “As much as I enjoy seeing other high schools benefit from community members donating,” she said, “I noticed no children from San Andreas received anything.
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2 weeks ago | 
benitolink.com | Robert Eliason
Lea este artículo en español aquí. In this first of two articles, Daniel Valdez recounts his work on the landmark film, ‘Zoot Suit.’Star and musical director of the landmark film “Zoot Suit,” and musical director of “La Bamba,” Daniel Valdez’s performing career began humbly when his older brother, El Teatro Campesino founder Luis Valdez, dressed him up as Elvis Presley in the second grade.
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2 weeks ago | 
benitolink.com | Robert Eliason
Lea este artículo en español aquí. Lacking a quorum for its April 7 meeting, members of a San Juan Bautista city council committee dealing with growth informally discussed changes to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the city and the San Benito County Board of Supervisors. City Manager Ashley Collick, City Attorney John Geffen and City Planner Ariel Goodspeed were in attendance. The MOU has been the subject of ongoing meetings since it was first proposed last June.
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2 weeks ago | 
benitolink.com | Robert Eliason
Lea este artículo en español aquí. Birichino Winery has begun releasing its 2023 wines, and according to co-owner John Locke, the year produced “one of the best vintages we’ve ever encountered.” With Locke and his partner Alex Krause’s experience in the industry, including working under Randall Grahm at Bonny Doon Winery and founding Birichino in 2008, that is saying quite a bit. “We had very nice weather in springtime,” Locke said.
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2 weeks ago | 
benitolink.com | Robert Eliason
Lea este artículo en español aquí. Gavilan College’s Higher Aspirations Program offers students who were formerly incarcerated and those impacted by incarceration a means to remove obstacles that could keep them from focusing on their education. Through peer counseling and financial assistance, the program helps students with basic needs such as housing, mental health and food insecurity. “We serve formerly incarcerated students such as myself,” said Program Specialist Hector Barrios.
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3 weeks ago | 
benitolink.com | Robert Eliason
Lea este artículo en español aquí. For a school with less than 300 students, Anzar High’s athletic program consistently produces top-notch competitors, and the track team is no exception. Although the squad had only six members last year, they won the Central Coast Sectiondivision for the first time in 12 years and advanced to the Central Coast Championships as a team for the first time in 10 years.
