🌱 $5.2M To Homeless + Pellerin Assembly Run

Happy Thursday, Santa Cruz! Here's everything you need to know to get this day started. Here's everything you need to know about what's happening today in town.

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First, today's weather:

Clouds giving way to sun. High: 65 Low: 41.

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Here are the top stories today in Santa Cruz:

1. Santa Cruz Starbucks unionization push follows national trend of increased union approval (KSBW Monterey)
2. Feds award $5.2M for Santa Cruz County homeless projects (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
3. Former Santa Cruz County Clerk Running For Assembly (Santa Cruz Patch)
4. Coast Line | April 23 auction supports Homeless Garden Project (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
5. 7.3 earthquake strikes off Japan; no tsunami expected in Santa Cruz (Lookout Santa Cruz)
6. Things To Do in Santa Cruz: March 16-22 (Good Times)
7. Santa Cruz Expat Dan Bern Returns to Kuumbwa (Good Times)
8. Opinion: Why CZU Survivors are Struggling to Rebuild (Good Times)
9. Letter | PVUSD trustee didn't serve Aptos students (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
10. Starbucks Illegally Retaliated Against Pro-Union Workers, Labor Officials Allege (HuffPost

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Today in Santa Cruz:

• St. Patrick's Day Tempest Celtic Rock Concert 2022: Michael's On Main, Soquel (7:30 PM)
• Concrete Ship History Walk (11:00 AM)
• School Board Mtg. - Bonny Doon Elementary Distict (5:30 PM)
• Incoming Parent Night - Santa Cruz City Schools (6:30 PM)
• Planning Commission Meeting - Santa Cruz City (7:00 PM)

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• Sweet house rabbit adoption show held Sunday inside of pet pals (March 20)
• Honey Hot Shots (March 20)
• Equinox Climate+Land+Water Meditation (March 20)
• 🌷 Spring Equinox Ceremony ~ Native Flute Meditation and Drum Journey (March 20)
• American Diabetes Association Diabetes Alert Day: Understand Your Risk (March 22)
• Indie Pop Star Michelle Lambert Returns to Chinatown's Clarion Performing Arts Center! (March 26)
• Stanford Art & Anatomy Summer Program (April 11)
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That's it for today! See you all tomorrow morning for 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.