Ron Locicero will be inducted into the Monterey Peninsula College Lobo Hall of Fame
Morgan Hill Life file photo
Ron and Shirlee Locicero in front of the sign at Morgan Hill Community Park where the Magical Bridge Playground was built.
By Robert Airoldi
Robert Airoldi
Congratulations go out to Morgan Hill resident Ron Locicero, who will be inducted into the Monterey Peninsula College Alumni Athlete Award Lobo Hall of Fame 2023. A ceremony will be held in March where he will speak about his time at MPC and how it impacted his life.
“We are pleased to honor Ron by inducting him into the Monterey Peninsula College Lobo Hall of Fame,” said Beccie Michael, executive director of the MPC Foundation and MPC Vice President of Advancement. “Ron made significant contributions to MPC’s football team in the early 1960s, and his ensuing career and commitment to the community are truly noteworthy. We are proud to be recognizing him and several other deserving alumni at the Lobo Hall of Fame Banquet March 10, 2023.”
Ron is the 2020 Morgan Hill Man of the Year. He and his wife, Shirlee, were instrumental as the driving force in getting the Magical Bridge Inclusive Playground built at Morgan Hill’s Community Park.
Randy Musterer
During the recent holidays, thousands of travelers were stranded and lost their luggage after Southwest Airlines experienced a huge meltdown. One of those was Randy Musterer, whose parents were forced to drive from the Bay Area to San Diego.
Musterer, who owns all three Sushi Confidential restaurants in the South Bay including the one recently opened in downtown Morgan Hill, told ABC News he understood the employee perspective. So he decided he could use his resources to gift the San Jose Southwest employees at San Jose International Airport with a lunch of sushi and teriyaki.
“The challenges they were going through physically and mentally showing up to work every day,” he said, “knowing they were just gonna get bombarded with a lot more problems.”
Knowing he couldn’t feed all the customers, he just wanted to put a smile on the faces of Southwest employees to make sure they had a tasty lunch.
Preparations to make more than 1,500 pieces of sushi and teriyaki started late the night of Dec. 29 and continued into the next morning.
“Feeding 120 people, we actually split all the prep work and all the cooking and preparing between two locations to allow us to get it done in time,” Musterer told ABC News.
Friday before noon, he and his team brought the food right to the Southwest employee break rooms.
For Musterer, it’s not only a way to help these workers get through a rough patch, it’s also a way of giving back after his business also faced challenges.
“During the pandemic, a lot of people rushed to support restaurants, they came to Sushi Confidential to support us,” Musterer said. “A lot of Southwest Airlines employees are our customers and they supported us.”
Thanks for your generosity, chef Randy!
A series of storms have flooded local streets throughout the South Valley, Photo by Morgan Hill Police Department
The new year brought plenty of rain and wind with an atmospheric river. The water Mother Nature sent our way is appreciated because of the drought. But the “bomb cyclone” also brought havoc with creeks flooding and local roads and highways covered with water, making driving hazardous.
Valley Water CEO Rick Callender signed a countywide flood emergency declaration Jan 4. This lets the agency take immediate actions necessary to help protect public life and property from flooding and high winds. Localized flooding occurred along San Francisquito Creek, Upper Penitencia Creek, West Little Llagas Creek and Uvas Creek.
Morgan Hill Police Department photo
The winter deluge caused Uvas Reservoir in the hills west of Morgan Hill to exceed its capacity. The water reached the spillway Dec. 31, only five feet away from the “major flooding” stage, according to Valley Water data.
Rangers at Henry W. Coe State Park east of South Valley announced Jan. 5 they have closed the park to visitors for public safety through Tuesday, Jan. 10. Creeks are high with swift flowing water, trees may fall, and there are mudslides throughout the park causing unsafe conditions, they said.
“While the weather is supposed to be mild tomorrow (Jan. 6), we still have concerns regarding unknown conditions including slides, washouts, falling trees and our ability to access anyone who is injured,” said Jennifer Naber, a California State Park Peace Officer in charge of the park. “Personally, I am concerned about people coming out for backpacking trips on Friday when it isn’t raining and becoming stranded on Saturday or Sunday.”
December drenched Morgan Hill with 13.71 inches of rain, reported Chris Henry, a local weather watcher. This beats by far the historical average of 4.71 inches for the month, according to Henry’s Facebook page “Morgan Hill Rainfall.”
Get ready for more rain – mostly showers – through at least Thursday Jan. 19, according to the National Weather Service. And although California has been pelted by a series of major storms with lots of H-2-O, we’re still deep in a drought. The water we received that helped filled our reservoirs the past couple of weeks does very little to alleviate that fact.
