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Parking garage safety project underway PROJECT THREE YEARS IN THE MAKING COULD TAKE 60 DAYS TO COMPLETE Jaqueline McCool Reporter

Robert Eliason

The city’s “parking structure safety enhancement” project is underway at the three-story downtown garage, nearing completion of a project that was first approved by the council in 2017. The parking structure, located between East Third and East Fourth streets, serves the downtown as walkable parking to the businesses along Monterey Road and side streets. Starting on March 18, the long awaited project broke ground with the installation of a window screening and a railing to improve safety in the lot. Up to 10 parking stalls will be obstructed during construction, between 7am and 5pm Monday through Friday. The staff report from the December 2018 city council meeting, when the council approved an additional $220,000 for the project from the city’s public facilities fund, states that the project arose out of a concern for public safety. Initial funding for the project was $200,000, which the council approved in 2017. The lot was opened in 2016 and the report said the same problems have

HAPPY ARBOR DAY David Hamilton of Mighty Tree Movers (in driverís seat), moves a 30-foot-tall, 15-year-old London Plane tree about 50 feet April 15, from one the back of The Granary Districtís parking lot on Depot Street to a spot closer to the sidewalk.

To save a tree ARBORIST MOVES MATURE TREES FROM CONSTRUCTION SITES Michael Moore Editor

Widespread construction of the type experienced

in Morgan Hill and the South Bay in recent years often means the loss of an untold number of mature trees from previously vacant land. But at least one builder in Morgan Hill has taken aim to relocate and preserve the trees that have been in the ground since long before any development plans were approved.

Weston Miles Architects recently hired Mighty Tree Movers, also based in Morgan Hill, to move eight mature trees—some fruit bearing—from the footprint of an upcoming construction project on Depot Street, while keeping the plants alive and thriving. David Hamilton, owner of Mighty Tree

Movers, and his crew moved the biggest of these trees on April 15. That morning, Hamilton used his massive hydraulic tree spade hooked up to a truck to move a 35-foot, 15-year-old London Plane tree. The crew and truck moved the tree about 50 feet—from its birthsite on the south side of the

parking lot next to the Granary building to a spot closer to the sidewalk on Depot Street. The tree, and others moved by Hamilton in previous days, was standing in the way of the final phase in the development of the Granary District, ➝ Trees, 9

➝ Garage, 4

Students inspired by ‘Resilience’ CHILDREN DEMONSTRATE VALUE OF SERVICE, COMPASSION Scott Forstner Reporter

Scott Forstner

One group of Martin Murphy Middle School students used Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame as a lightning rod for suicide prevention. A different pack of sixth-graders were inspired by women’s rights pioneer Carrie Chapman Catt to design an international flag for equal rights to promote action in other nations.

Another set of students started a campaign to stimulate recycling and combat pollution, while a separate batch of middle schoolers formed a welcoming club to ease tensions for new students. These student-produced initiatives—displayed April 18 in Murphy’s Innovation Center—were just a few outcomes from a sixthgrade lesson that started with the question: “What is Resilience?” “Our students have been studying resilient historical figures. They were then asked to use the resilience of the person they are studying to make another person’s life better,” said Murphy

WOMEN’S RIGHTS Students Anthony Talamo, Adriana Escobar, Galvin Huynh, Brooklyn Amato and Mia Gavay created a women’s rights flag as part of their project for the April 18 Resilience in Action Day at Martin Murphy Middle School. teacher Virginia Barrera, who did not know what to expect from her students. “We have been

blown away by the level of imagination and motivation from our kiddos.” Barrera, along with her

sixth-grade colleagues, were so impressed by their students that they invited ➝ Resilience, 11


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