For the past three years, Toni-Jo Napihaa has made the tent beneath the swooping branches of a Bay Laurel tree her home at Uvas Creek Park in Gilroy. Thursday, Napihaa, 62, began folding up tarps and lugging tanks of propane out of the dusty dirt pathways as she prepared to leave the park encampment with […]
For the past three years, Toni-Jo Napihaa has made the tent beneath the swooping branches of a Bay Laurel tree her home at Uvas Creek Park in Gilroy. Thursday, Napihaa, 62, began folding up tarps and lugging tanks of propane out of the dusty dirt pathways as she prepared to leave the park encampment with […]
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Mike Beasley - Morgan Hill/San Martin - Individual
Mike Beasley, center, with plaque, is joined by President/Superintendent Dr. Kathleen
Rose, far left, Gavilan Trustee Rachel Perez, second from right, and members of the
FOCUS Safe Parking Team at the Morgan Hill Bible Church. The location serves as a
transitional car park where people experiencing homelessness can legally park overnight.
The site also offers showers, bathrooms, laundry facilities and other support services.
After retiring from IBM, Beasley chose to apply his business experience to solving problems in the community. A founding board member of the Gilroy Compassion Center in 2011, he has served in multiple positions. He spends hours advocating, researching, team-building, and planning with the Compassion Center. He is dedicated to developing long-term solutions for homelessness and building the team to make it happen. As Board Chair Beasley was instrumental in recruiting and hiring the
every day u.s. and afghan troops train and fight side-by-side. building up the afghan security forces is at the heart of the current american strategy in afghanistan. we have been working closely with the afghan national security forces now for years. in the last several years, this force has really come of age. the strategy appears to be unraveling, as protests and anger mounts over the accidental burning of quran by u.s. troops. i think the trust is there. i think the mutual confidence is there. the afghan national security forces are becoming more capable every single day. privately, some u.s. commanderrers admit the trust that does exist is rapidly evaporating. in fact, afghan security forces are killing u.s. and international troops at an alarming rate. of the 60 nato troops killed this year, 12 have been murdered by afghan troops. that is 20% of coalition deaths. to stem the growing anger and save the strategy, president obama has apologized for the quran burn