Knitting provides many benefits such as new friendships, camaraderie, and health benefits. In our community, there are many needs for knitted goods such as shawls for dialysis and chemotherapy patients, preemie hats, and scarves for children and adults. Participants may keep their products for their own use or donate them to one of these charitable causes.

The Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library launched a new program today that offers students of all ages live, one-to-one help from professional tutors online.

The City of Stockton received good news late Friday afternoon, December 11, 2015; the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) issued an opinion dismissing the appeal to confirmation of the City’s plan of adjustment by creditor Franklin High Yield Fund. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein entered an order confirming the City’s Plan of Adjustment in early February 2015, and the City exited bankruptcy later that month.

Katherine Agnes (Groo) Dugoni died peacefully at her home in Palo Alto, CA, surrounded by family, on December 3, 2015 at the age of 89. Kaye, as she was known to her friends, was born in Montpelier, ID, on August 12, 1926. As a child her family moved to Spokane, WA, where she met the love of her life, Arthur A. Dugoni, in 1943. Art was a freshman at Gonzaga University and Kaye was at nearby Holy Names Academy. The couple were married at St. Aloysius Church at Gonzaga in 1949.