🌱 Rally For Ukraine + Dropping Cases

Happy Tuesday, Santa Cruz! Here's everything you need to know about what's happening today in Santa Cruz.

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First, today's weather:

Periods of clouds and sun. High: 72 Low: 44.

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Here are the top stories today in Santa Cruz:

1. Santa Cruz Rallies For Ukraine (Santa Cruz Patch)
2. Santa Cruz County cases, hospitalizations continue to drop (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
3. Santa Cruz Receives $50K To Help Fund New Playground (Santa Cruz Patch)
4. UC Santa Cruz: A Slow-Motion Section Of The San Andreas Fault May Not Be So Harmless After All (Press Release Desk)
5. UC Santa Cruz: Elephant Seals' Map Sense Tells Them When To Head 'Home' (Press Release Desk)
6. How Artist Felicia Rice Rebuilt Her Life After Losing Her Home in a Wildfire (KQED)

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Today in Santa Cruz:

• TICKET DEADLINE: Surf City Kiwanis Crab Feed - Dine-In & To-Go 2022: Santa Cruz (5:00 PM)
• California State Parks Backpacking Adventures (CASPBA) (9:00 AM)
• California State Parks Backpacking Adventures (9:00 AM)
• Wilder Ranch State Park Docent Program (9:00 AM)
• Irish Genealogy pre-1800 with guest speaker, Lorna Moloney (1:00 PM)
• SCIL Meeting - Harbor High School (3:45 PM)
• Understanding Your Student's Math - Bonny Doon Elementary Distict (5:30 PM)
• Recycling Boot Camp! - Santa Cruz City (6:00 PM)
• Recycling Boot Camp - City of Santa Cruz (6:00 PM)

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You're all caught up 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.