Heavens Task Force: November 22, 2011 (Remembering JFK and my youth)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Henderson (Dave was married to my Biology teacher's daughter) ...cal
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David Lee Henderson (born July 21, 1958 in Dos Palos, California), nicknamed Hendu, is an American former Major League Baseball player who played for the Seattle Mariners (1981–1986), Boston Red Sox (1986–1987), San Francisco Giants (1987), Oakland Athletics (1988–1993) and Kansas City Royals (1994). He batted and threw right-handed. He attended Dos Palos High School, where his football #42 and baseball #22 were both retired for his hometown Broncos, who wear blue and gold. He graduated from Dos Palos High School in 1977.
Henderson helped his teams reach the World Series four times during his career (1986 with Boston, 1988–1990 with Oakland). However, his only World Championship ring came in 1989, when the A's swept their Bay Area rivals, the San Francisco Giants.

http://www.pinnaclenews.com/business/contentview.asp?c=272589 (I worked several seasons in the tomatoes after my son was born. I could work 10-12 weeks and draw my unemployment for 26 weeks. hmmmmmmmm and a couple of seasons I worked in the Hollister as well... my brother lived in Hollister at the time and I stayed with him the first season. The second season I lived with 4 very young males in the Santa Cruz hills and had a blast. They worked nights and I worked days and it was very convenient and very fun... Back in the day when I worked tomatoes the job was a state job. The job was never boring and I loved it cause each and every year I worked it, I lost 10-15 pounds the first week.) ...cal
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Action is heating up at the San Benito Foods cannery in downtown Hollister. Hundreds of seasonal workers will soon be on the job working 10 to 12 weeks processing tomatoes at the facility. A number of growers of processing tomatoes have moved their operations to the county recently because the water supply is more abundant and reliable here than in the traditional tomato-growing region on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley.

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San Benito Foods has started its season.

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Student Forced to Remove US Flag Shirt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjCz0fa28Uk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_World_Series
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The 1989 World Series was played between the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants. The Series ran from October 14 through October 28, with the A's sweeping the Giants in four games. It was the first World Series sweep since 1976, and is best remembered for the Loma Prieta earthquake, which occurred on October 17 before Game 3 began, and caused a 10-day disruption in play. Fay Vincent presided over the Series, his first as Commissioner of Baseball after the sudden death of his predecessor Bart Giamatti over a month earlier.^[1] This Series is also known as the "Earthquake Series", "Bay Bridge Series", "BART Series", and "Battle of the Bay," as the two participant cities lie on opposite sides of San Francisco Bay, connected by the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge and the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system. It was the first cross-town World Series (involving two teams from the same metropolitan area) since 1956, and only the third such series that did not involve New York City.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_San_Jose,_California
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During World War II, San Jose experienced racial tension in neighborhoods where large populations of African Americans, Mexican Americans and Japanese Americans lived on the city's western and eastern edges. Most of the Japanese community were removed and interned in war detention camps in the course of the war. Anti-Mexican violence based on the earlier zoot suit riots in Los Angeles took place in the summer of 1943 in San Jose. After large numbers of blacks from the Southern states moved to San Jose's growing wartime manufacturing industry, locals were divided, but grew to accept the thousands of new black residents.^{[citation needed]}
San Jose was a conservative Republican bastion until the 1980s, when continued population growth yielded a political shift away from the more conservative agricultural heritage still shared by most of rural California to a more urban outlook, mirroring the voting patterns of the more densely populated urban centers of Los Angeles and San Francisco. San Jose now has a Democratic majority in party registration.

[edit] Earthquakes

San Jose lies near the San Andreas Fault; a major source of earthquake activity in California. Significant quakes rocked the city in 1839, 1851, 1858, 1864, 1865, 1868, 1891 and 1906. The Daly City Earthquake of 1957 caused some damage. Most recently, the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 also caused some major damage to parts of the city.

http://www.b25.net/main.html
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