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🌱 Highway 17 Animal Crossing + Freezing Temperatures

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Up and at 'em, Santa Cruz! Let's get you all caught up to start this day off on an informed note. Here's everything worth knowing around Santa Cruz today.

First, today's weather:

A passing morning shower. High: 57 Low: 32.

Here are the top stories in Santa Cruz today:

  1. Near Freezing Temperatures To Hit Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz Patch)
  2. Lillian's Brings East Coast-style Italian Cuisine to Santa Cruz (Good Times Weekly)
  3. Three unvaccinated individuals die of COVID in Santa Cruz County (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
  4. Efforts Underway To Make Highway 17 Safer For Animal Crossing (CBS San Francisco)
  5. Soquel Man Dies In Car Crash: CHP (Santa Cruz Patch)
  6. Will Watsonville Community Hospital be saved? (Lookout Santa Cruz)
  7. Living shoreline project launches at Santa Cruz County beach (East Bay Times)
  8. LOOKOUT PM: Unhoused Part II; Period project comes to UCSC (Lookout Santa Cruz)
  9. Santa Cruz cardiologist ruminates on COVID, National Heart Month (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
  10. Santa Cruz chronic homeless housing project awarded $1M grant (Santa Cruz Sentinel)

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Today in Santa Cruz:

  • Modern Dance & Folk Dance Classes: Santa Cruz (11:45 AM)
  • Senior Show: Stella Brown (Online Exhibition) (12:00 AM)
  • CAPS Graduate Women's Group - University of California Santa Cruz-Meetings & Conferences (9:00 AM)
  • Writing Together - University of California Santa Cruz-Meetings & Conferences (9:30 AM)
  • Intro to Google: Gmail, Calendar, Forms and Hangouts (10:30 AM)
  • Homeless Garden Project Open Office Hours (10:30 AM)
  • Blockchain: Beyond Cryptocurrency - University of California Santa Cruz-Training Events (12:00 PM)
  • Blockchain: Beyond Cryptocurrency - University of California Santa Cruz-Meetings & Conferences (12:00 PM)
  • Intro to E-bikes Virtual Workshop (12:00 PM)
  • Used Book Sale - Bonny Doon Elementary Distict (12:30 PM)
  • Downtown Farmers Market - Santa Cruz City (1:00 PM)
  • STEAM @ Home Kits: Make a Balance Bot! (1:00 PM)
  • SCCS Regular Board Meeting - Santa Cruz City Schools (6:30 PM)

From my notebook:

  • Visit Santa Cruz County: "Jumping on the Happy TWOsDay train. ✌️/✌️✌️/✌️✌️ Photo 📷 | @exploradora_jett #visitsantacruz #santacruz #santacruzcounty #pleasurepoint #twosday #tuesday #22222 #mood #tuesdaymood" (Instagram)
  • Santa Cruz Warriors: "Happy Birthday Jerome! 🎂 #SeaDubs" (Facebook)
  • Gault Elementary School: "Next week!! 2-28-22. 5-7pm. ♥️🐬🍜👌🏻🍲" (Facebook)
  • Santa Cruz Rotary Club: "Our Masquerade fundraiser was a big success. We raised money for Benevolence & Grants, and for the new housing project for homeless military veterans. Ya gotta love our club not only for its spirit, but also for its generosity and servic..." (Facebook)
  • Santa Cruz Warriors: "This t-shirt is 🔥 The first 1,000 fans in attendance will receive a t-shirt designed by a #SeaDubs fan presented by SomethingInked! 🏀 SCW vs. NBA G League Ignite 🗓️ Monday, Feb. 28th 🎟️ bit.ly/3LPRwaR" (Facebook)
  • Santa Cruz Public Libraries: "Senderos and their partners are excited to present the 12th Annual Latino Role Models Conference which will be presented virtually on Saturday, March 12, 2022 from 9:00AM-12:30PM. This free event is focused on Santa Cruz County students ..." (Facebook)
  • Santa Cruz County Chamber of Commerce: "Save the Date for Santa Cruz Burger Week! February 23 - March 1: Seven days of burger love! Visit Santacruzburgerweek.com for full list of participating businesses!" (Facebook)
  • Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks: "#TrailTuesday Take the trail less traveled and walk the Saratoga Gap Trail at Castle Rock State Park. 🥾 High up in the Santa Cruz Mountains from the Castle Rock Trail, you can connect to the Saratoga Gap Trail. This scenic trail overloo..." (Facebook)
  • Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter: "2022 Summer Camp is FULL but we still have a couple scholarship opportunities available, check out the application here: https://docs.google.com/forms/... We a..." (Facebook)
  • Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (RTC): "The goats have been hard at work clearing vegetation from the rail line. This week, they will be in their final location on the rail line between 17th and 38th avenues. As a reminder, if you venture out to see them, please don't feed or ..." (Facebook)

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— 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.

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