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vol . 5 , no. 24 : february 11-17, 2026 : losgatan.com
extreme girls lacrosse p10 : rotary crab fest p11 : blum gets humorous p12 : police blotter p13 Faizi Samadani / Los Gatan
SECOND HARVEST FOOD PANTRY FOR SENIORS, UNHOUSED KICKED OUT OF CHURCH HOME Dispute with two former employees at the center of the controversy Dinah Cotton, Contributor
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley has discontinued distributing food to residents in Los Gatos after being asked to stop by the Los Gatos United Methodist Church, a spokesperson for the food pantry told the Los Gatan. “Los Gatos United Methodist Church recently notified Second Harvest that, due to organizational changes, it would no longer be able to host the free grocery distribution at its site,” Diane Baker Hayward, director of communications for Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, wrote in a Jan. 30 email, noting it had been operated in collaboration with Live Oak Senior Nutrition and Services Center. “Second Harvest is in conversations with another organization in the area who has expressed strong interest in taking over both the grocery rescue program from the church and continuing the food distribution efforts to serve the area’s senior community, while remaining open to serving all individuals in need.” Live Oak and Second Harvest had been working together since February 2024, according to the food bank. “Second Harvest is working with all involved and handling standard transition steps,” Baker Hayward said. Town of Los Gatos Community ➝ Senior Nutrition, 6
BRIGHT PALETTE Morgan Bricca stands in front of her new mural on the side of the Whole Foods that’s under construction in Los Gatos. P8.
AT SUPER BOWL LX, BAD BUNNY DISHES UP EMPOWERING MOMENT OF UNITY Anti-ICE protests were peaceful; 2 killed in violence in San Jose Drew Penner, Editor
Just a few blocks from where the Seattle Seahawks were battling the New England Patriots for football’s biggest prize Sunday, giant turquoise boxes and palms were bathed in sunset rays, as a nearby mid-rise office building hummed. Around a paved bend, inside a hacienda-style structure, an assortment of people of all dif-
ferent backgrounds, including from various Latin American countries, had gathered at Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina to watch Bad Bunny perform a halftime show destined to create waves before it began. “Everyone knows he’s going to say something,” is how 47-year-old Rigo Aboyte put it. Aboyte worked at the Pedro’s location in Los Gatos for seven years. These days he runs a mango business in Mexico. But he’s returned on vacation. A murmur of excitement arose as people remarked
at how Bad Bunny, the topstreamed artist on Spotify who is from the American territory of Puerto Rico, would indeed be singing totally in Spanish. People smiled—and even laughed—at the various ornaments of the performance, but no louder than the set piece that paid homage to Maria Antonia “Toñita” Cay, the owner of Brooklyn's Caribbean Social Club. One person was draped in a large Puerto Rican flag, others waved smaller ones. Vanessa Rojas, one of the ➝ Super Bowl, 4
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