For Our City-Gilbert is looking for volunteers to help us complete various projects around the Town on Saturday, April 13.

Nearly three years after the case of missing Baby Gabriel Johnson captured national attention, his mother, Elizabeth Johnson, was sentenced on Friday to 5.25 years of prison on offenses in connection to the case.

Riley, a male medium-sized mixed breed dog, was one of the stars of the recent Gilbert Days Parade, where he “sang,” acted cute, and cuddled with the volunteers from Friends for Life. He’s come a long way since being rescued from a reservation in northern Arizona where he was starving and suffering from tick fever. About 1 or 2 years old, he is proving himself to be full of personality, the folks at Friends for Life say.

The temperatures are dropping and the thought of being outside is actually pleasant, making it an ideal time to experience Gilbert Days — a four-day extravaganza with a rodeo, carnival, dance and community parade celebrating the town’s western roots.

Jack Jarzynka had driven past American Legion Post 39 in Gilbert “about 100 times,” so one Saturday night after he and his wife, Kathy, had dinner about six years ago, he decided to stop in for a 1950s and 60s dance.

A look at key Gilbert facts and figures

Whether you want to explore a classy art festival or cheer at the ostrich, or even Chihuahua races, the East Valley has it! Let’s take advantage of our Arizona paradise and dance outdoors to live music, indulge during a cook-off, put on our boots for the rodeo and Old West Days, or run foot races.

It’s time to lace up your running shoes because registration has begun for the 28th Annual Gilbert Days 5K and 1 Mile Run and Family Expo Friday, Nov. 16 at Freestone Park.

Lump together a parade, carnival, craft fair, music festival and farmers market, and what do you get? Gilbert Days - the town's annual nod to its Western roots.

Call it a turkey roundup.