SHOWDOWN

Both teams look solid for stretch run

Emanuel Lee, Sports Editor

When it comes to the premier public high school baseball teams in the Central Coast Section, it doesn’t get much better than Hollister and Los Gatos.

The two perennial powers faced off April 10 with the host Wildcats prevailing, 7-4. The result improved Los Gatos’ record to 13-6 while the Haybalers dropped to 12-2, their second straight loss after opening the season with a dozen wins in a row.

The Wildcats were coming off an impressive 4-1 win over St. Ignatius on April 8 and coach Mike Minkel couldn’t be more pleased after his club knocked off another quality A-league opponent in Hollister.

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Women Gather To Prepare Layette Care Packages For Newborn Babies

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In the lead-up to Easter, local women gathered to package diapers, bibs and baby food for newborns, as part of the 20th Annual Lenten Layette event at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Los Gatos, March 30.

Since 2003, St. Mary’s has celebrated new life by preparing layettes for newborn babies during the Easter season.

A layette is a child’s first set of clothing and accessories.

The purpose of the collection is to provide items for newborn babies who otherwise would leave the hospital without basic necessities such as blankets, clothing and diapers.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Relief Society women’s organization partnered with St. Mary’s to donate and collect baby supplies.

The volunteers counted more than 5,000 diapers, formula, blankets, bottles, onesies, hats, bibs, comfort items and gift cards.

This year under new leadership, Dianna McKay invited the St. Mary’s school children to participate in donating items, making gift cards and helping fill over 70 gift bags.

The baby layettes are shared with several partner organizations, including Sacred Heart, Birthright, Real Options, Santa Maria Urban Ministries and Hispanic Ministries in Monterey who are helping those displaced by recent floods from the Pajaro levee break.

After gathering items, repackaging diapers, and removing tags, participants met at St. Mary’s to assemble layettes gift bags for delivery.

The event concluded with a pot luck lunch and fellowship.

Supervisors Make Narcan Available At All County Libraries

Eli Walsh, Bay City News

Santa Clara County will begin providing the opioid overdose-reversing medicine naloxone in all county library branches in an effort to make the treatment more widely available.

The county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously April 4 to make naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, available at all county libraries and to train library staff on how to administer Narcan to someone who has over- dosed on an opioid such as fentanyl.

Santa Clara County Librarian Jennifer Weeks said the county is also exploring partnerships with cities like San Jose and Mountain View that have their own library systems.

Narcan has been approved as a prescription drug since 2015 and is the standard treatment to reverse an opioid overdose by reversing or blocking an opioid's effects on the brain.

“By increasing access to these kits, we can help prevent opioid-related deaths and ensure that our community has the resources it needs to stay safe and healthy,” said Supervisor Otto Lee, who called for making Narcan available at local libraries.

Other library systems across the country have made Narcan kits freely available to members of the public, including the San Francisco Public Library and the library systems in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Denver.

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