Lady Gaga Gives to Gilroy Schools
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1 THE LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE OF MORGAN HILL, GILROY & SAN MARTIN AUGUST 16, 2019 SOUTH VALLEY MAGAZINE Artist brings nature-inspired work to gallery INSIDE THIS ISSUE ROOTED ART Artist brings nature-inspired work to downtown Gilroy P6 A supplement to the Gilroy Hill Times Dispatch & Morgan SHERIFF’S OFFICE SEARCHED P4 | SCHOOLS OPEN P8 | ALMOST $1M RAISED P10 THE LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE OF SAN BENITO COUNTY AUGUST 16, 2019 ESTABLISHED 1868 SAN BENITO MAGAZINE Teens return from once-in-a-lifetime adventure INSIDE THIS ISSUE A New SV Media publication Friday, August 16, 2019 gilroydispatch.com • Vol. 152, No. 33 • $1 Muddy Waters Hollister teens return from once-in-a-lifetime adventure P6 A supplement to the Hollister Free Lance Free A supplement to the Hollister CALENDAR P8 | GARDENING P15 | REAL ESTATE P19 Adventure GILROY FESTIVAL SHOOTING park plan will expand Gilroy Gardens MOUNTAINSIDE COULD HOST BIKING TRAILS AND ZIP LINES Erik Chalhoub Magazine and Business Editor The Gilroy City Council got its first look Aug. 5 at a major expansion proposed for Gilroy Gardens that would add bike trails, zip lines and other recreation- al activities on a 350-acre hillside behind the park. The park’s board of directors hired Canada- San Francisco 49ers Francisco San based Select Contracts in 2017 to study the feasibil- ity of an “adventure park” located on the 350 acres of mountainside adjacent to Gilroy Gardens, said HOMETOWN HEROES The San Francisco 49ers and Levi’s Stadium fans honored 14 first responders during the 3rd quarter of the Aug.10 exhibition General Manager Barb game, including Gilroy police officers, Campbell police officers and two Gilroy police 911 dispatchers who worked the initial response to the Gilroy Garlic Granter. Festival mass shooting, including the officers who returned fire with the shooter—Eric Cryar, Hugo Delmoral and Robert Basuino. The project’s timeline is unknown at this point, as Granter said it is cur- rently in the “idea stage.” Select Contracts CEO Chris Sutton said the firm will negotiate with the city on a lease agreement, and Nurse saves a life if those efforts are success- QUICK ACTION saw Nick McFarland, also of one of many calls to emer- ful, Select Contracts will Gilroy, sitting in the park- gency dispatchers that fate- raise capital for planning CAPTURED ON ing lot, bleeding from a ful evening. A recording of and construction. TENSE 911 CALL leg wound. She stopped to Thompson’s call would be tighten an apron tourniquet broadcast on media across ➝ Adventure, 11 Barry Holtzclaw and apply pressure to the the U.S. in the days that Managing Editor wound—first aid that saved followed. KGO-TV/ABC7 Kim Thompson, a Gilroy his life. (McFarland was lat- The following transcript nurse who works in Morgan er released from the hospi- of that three-minute, 22-sec- Hill, was running for her tal and is recovering.) ond call, with some edit- life on July 28, after hear- Then Thompson called ing for clarity, captures the THANK YOU Nick McFarland of Gilroy thanks ing gunshots at the Gilroy 911. Her call, later released danger, anxiety, confusion, nurse Kim Thompson whose first-aid may have saved Garlic Festival. Then she by Santa Clara County, was ➝ 911 call, 2 his life at the Gilroy Garlic Festival July 28. Lady Gaga gives to Gilroy schools MORE THAN the new school opens on name is Stefani Joanne Roble, Antonio del Buono for people, for the gen- an especially tragic note, Angelina Germanotta, and Las Animas elemen- erous gifts to our stu- $11K SENT FOR a little over two weeks announced the donations tary schools and Gilroy dents, schools and com- 23 PROJECTS after the Garlic Festival in a Facebook post, say- and Christopher high munity,” said Melanie shooting. ing that her Born This schools. Corona, spokesperson for AT FIVE Lady Gaga on Friday, Way Foundation has “We continue to be the Gilroy Unified School SCHOOLS Aug.9 announced plans partnered with the char- amazed at the outpouring District. to make the opening day a ity DonorsChoose.org to of support for our staff and Corona said the total Barry Holtzclaw little easier for classrooms fund classroom projects students in the wake of the funding for the Gilroy proj- Managing Editor in Gilroy, and in El Paso, in the three cities. tragedies that occurred at ects was approximately The beginning of the Tex., and Dayton, Ohio— In Gilroy, the 23 proj- the Gilroy Garlic Festival, $11,717, and that Gilroy’s school year can be rough cities hit this month with ects—for which funds and we are so grateful to projects were fully funded for anyone. For hundreds deadly mass shootings. were requested by teach- Lady Gaga and her orga- as of Aug. 9. Funding gifts of students in the Gilroy The Star is Born per- ers and staff before the nization, which supports Unified School District, former, whose real festival tragedy—are at El mental health resources ➝ Lady Gaga, 8 6 58015 02001 0 Experience Santa Cruz Cannabis New State-of-the-Art Location Original Location 533 Ocean St. • Santa Cruz 3600 Soquel Ave. • Santa Cruz 8am – 9pm Daily 8am – 10pm Daily Valid ID Required | All 21+ Welcome | 18+ Medical Licenses: A-10-17-0000003-TEMP • A-10-17-0000002-TEMP 2 2 GILROY DISPATCH AUGUST 16, 2019 GILROY FESTIVAL SHOOTING Garlic Festival contract ‘Do not hang up.’Byline Byline with city is 34 years old ➝ 911 call, 1 OK. We’ve got help coming, for, Are you, are you speaking for him. How old is he? life-saving heroism and calm to the police? CITY COUNCIL SEES He believed the Garlic professionalism exhibited in There’s a body out. They POSSIBLE LIABILITY Festival Association would have those first few minutes of the Uh, 26. just carried a body out. to defend the city against any claims. mass shooting at Christmas OK. Alright. And is he awake? OK, where are they taking it? CLAIMS AHEAD Hill Park that would see four The Garlic Festival staff and people killed, including the Grazed on the right. He’s They’re doing CPR on the Jaqueline McCool its public relations/marketing awake, alert, oriented. I’m Reporter gunman, and 13 injured. body. firm, Articulate Solutions, of a nurse. He got grazed in The City of Gilroy is bracing it- Gilroy, has declined to answer Gilroy, CA, 5:49pm July 28. the right hip. And he has a OK, I understand. We’ve got self for potential litigation over repeated telephone and email Do not hang up, Kim. gunshot wound to the right the ambulances coming, OK? the Gilroy Garlic Festival mass inquiries from the Gilroy leg. We have them coming. shooting July 28 that bloodied Dispatch about the festival car- OK. OK. the last day of the festival. nage. All content, except a sin- They’re doing CPR. Paramedic emergency, what’s Three young people were gle home page statement, on the address of the emergency? He’s bleeding with a OK, that’s good. They’re trying killed and 13 others were injured the festival’s website has been CHQ with the transfer. I have tourniquet, and I think to help them. when a lone gunman fired with disabled since the day after the it was an apron. And we a semi-automatic weapon on the Kim on the line. She’s at Miller So this guy that you’re mass shooting, and its tele- applied pressure. crowd. The killer took his own life phone number rings as a busy and Uvas Parkway, and she’s with, Kim, is there any serious with a man who has been shot. OK, hang on, Kim, Hang on. in a gunbattle with police. circuit. bleeding? Ma’am? Slow down, OK? Slow down, A special meeting of the City The city entered into its alright? Um, is the assailant He’s doing CPR on her. Council on a Saturday morn- existing contract with the Gilroy Yes, hi. still nearby? We’re leaving, we’re leaving ing, Aug. 3, was convened a few Garlic Festival in 1985. The con- Ma’am? OK what’s your name? the scene. days after the shooting so coun- tract has not been revised or They’re taking every victim cil members could discuss in updated since then. Each year OK, we’re sending everybody Kim. down. They’re taking in the closed session if the city had the city issues a new permit for now, OK? Kim, OK. We’ve got everybody white truck. We need an been named in any claims by the festival. ambulance, fast. festival attendees or if the city on the way, OK? They’re all on OK. The agreement between their way to you, OK? We understand, OK? We un- were vulnerable to legal claims the Garlic Festival and the city derstand . We have somebody Alright? Everyone’s on the way. it might bear some responsibil- allows the festival to be held Yeah. going to that specific location ity for the calamity. We need ambulances. Just on city property and has main- Absolutely. They’re going to where you are. Following shootings in other tained a 34-year-old rental fee please, we need help. help him, OK? cities, legal action has been of $1,500 for use of the site They’re going to take Kim, they’re on the way, OK? taken against the municipali- at Christmas Hill Park each His family’s OK but he got people down. Just stay calm so you can help ties, event companies and busi- August. shot. Kim, Kim.