Editorials
Help postal carriers try to 'Stamp Out Hunger'
Food banks fill up with supplies each year during the holiday season. When Thanksgiving and Christmas roll around, people are in the spirit of giving, so when the call goes out for donations of food to feed the hungry, everyone is ready and willing to give.
It doesn't take long for that food to run out, though. And by mid-year, the cupboards tend to get a little bare. The needy are still hungry, and the food banks still want to provide the necessary goods--but often there just isn't enough to go around.
Aware of this annual concern, the National Letter Carriers Association decided to get involved. Each year about this time, the postal carriers lend a hand to help stock the shelves of the various food banks with their "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive, and the Los Gatos letter carriers are ready to do their part in this, the 10th year of the food collection.
The Los Gatos post office is asking residents to support the annual food drive. So when local letter carriers deliver the mail on May 11, they'll be picking up, too. Postal workers are asking residents to place non-perishable canned and dry goods in paper bags at the curb or near their mail box for easy pick-up. They will do the rest.
The postal effort is the largest one-day food drive in the nation, and it comes at a time of year when supplies need to be replenished to get food providers through to the busy holiday season.
Neither rain, nor snow, nor dark of night will keep the letter carriers from their appointed rounds. And on those rounds this Saturday, they'll be picking up while they deliver.
Los Gatos and Monte Sereno ... please give generously to a good cause.
Riders climb Cat's Hill
The Nicholson Street hill is quite an intimidating climb, even in a car. Try it on a bicycle some day.
That's just what hundreds of cyclists will be doing this weekend when the 28th annual Cat's Hill Criterium returns to town on May 11.
Riders will be negotiating the one-mile loop including the climb up Nicholson hill--the famous Cat's Hill. Lorine Tetzlaff knows the hill very well. She should. She grew up in Los Gatos and has spent most of her life here.
She didn't grow up with an interest in cycling, but she developed a love of the sport not long after falling in love with former Olympic cyclist Bob Tetzlaff, an elementary school teacher at Daves Avenue School.
The two were married in 1976, but even before their union they joined with Tom Moore, then head of the Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce, to bring a bicycle race of world-class stature to the town.
Lorine came up with the name Cat's Hill, and Bob designed the course. The rest is cycling history.
The Cat's Hill Criterium is just one of the many unique activities produced in Los Gatos. And the town owes the Tetzlaffs a debt of gratitude for creating such an outstanding event that has truly stood the test of time.
Los Gatos, California Since 1881
