10 New COVID Deaths + Anytime Fitness Proposal

Get on up, Santa Cruz! Let's get you all caught up to start this Tuesday, February 15 off on an informed note. Here's everything going on around town today.

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First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny. High: 63 Low: 42.

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Here are the top stories in Santa Cruz today:

1. 'This is sobering information': Santa Cruz County records 10 new deaths in dashboard (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
2. Anytime Fitness proposed for Westside Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
3. SC Sheriffs Donate $100K Toward Gutzwiller Memorial Park (Santa Cruz Patch)
4. Santa Cruz County Supervisors to mull over hotel, single-use cup taxes (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
5. Central Fire Protection District: Central FD Elections Redistricting Plan Update (Press Release Desk)
6. Photo | Skeletons bare it all on Valentine's Day in Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
7. Theater Parking Attendant (Lookout Santa Cruz)
8. Man arrested with heart-shaped meth rock in Santa Cruz, deputies say (KRON4)
9. This Week's Santa Cruz Area Events (Santa Cruz Patch)
10. Morning Lookout: Unhoused Santa Cruz, Starbucks unionization + Valentine's latte art (Lookout Santa Cruz)
11. Who's Hiring In Santa Cruz: This Week's Newest Job Openings (Santa Cruz Patch)

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Today in Santa Cruz:

• Santa Cruz Small Business Support & Networking (Leads Club) (12:00 PM)
• Intro to Beekeeping: Learning How To Support and Keep Bees with Emily Bondor (5:30 PM)
• District Advisory Committee - Santa Cruz City Schools (6:00 PM)
• International Baccalaureate (IB) Open House (6:00 PM)
• Our Community Reads - Invasion of the Communist Body Snatchers: The Supreme Court, Weird Science Comics, and the Red Scare (7:00 PM)
• Viewpoints: Invasion of the Communist Body Snatchers (7:00 PM)

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From my notebook:

• Santa Cruz Rotary Club: "Our club lost its caterer, Mickey Phelps, when she passed away recently. Then her wife was evicted from their home and had to find new quarters in another town. She didn't have the means to move. So, our club stepped up to help. Under th..." (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz Rotary Club: "Here we go again! This week's Rotary Club cartoons. Try not to make fun of these guys. Click the link to start from the first slide. https://www.santacruzrotary.com/february-11-2022.html" (Facebook)

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That's it for today. I'll catch up with you bright and early tomorrow with another update!

— Michael Wittner

About me: I am excited to be returning to Patch as a Roving Editor, a job that will allow me to find out what's going on in communities all over the country. I worked as a Patch Field Editor from April 2020 to June 2021, covering Agoura Hills, Beverly Hills, Calabasas, Malibu, and Northridge-Chatsworth. Before then I was the Associate Editor of the Jewish Journal, a biweekly paper covering the Jewish community north of Boston. I grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts, a small, seaside town north of Boston, and graduated from Bard College in New York, and then got my masters in teaching from New York University. Feel free to send any story ideas to michael.wittner@patch.com.