🌱 Santa Cruz Daily: 2nd Starbucks Unionizes + Windy Weather

Rise and shine, Santa Cruz! Here's everything you need to know to get this Tuesday started off right.

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First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny. High: 60 Low: 41.

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Here are the top stories today in Santa Cruz:

1. 2nd Santa Cruz Starbucks unionizes (KSBW Monterey)
2. Wind Advisory issued for Santa Cruz Mountains (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
3. Photo | Harlem Globetrotter stops at Santa Cruz's Gault Elementary School (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
4. Roaring Camp Railroad Fears 'Forced Abandonment' (Santa Cruz Patch)
5. Colorado Fire 98% Contained: Cal Fire (Santa Cruz Patch)
6. Santa Cruz mom charged with trying to kill children heard voices: court documents (KRON4)
7. Latest Job Openings In The Santa Cruz Area (Santa Cruz Patch)
8. Letter | Pogonip is protected and not for homeless camp (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
9. Tsunami that battered Santa Cruz highlights the threat facing Pacific coast (Bend Bulletin)
10. Sharing Space: Santa Cruz Museum Of Art & History's Residency Program (Press Release Desk)
11. Golden State players help Santa Cruz end losing skid | NBA G League (Santa Cruz Sentinel)

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Today in Santa Cruz:

• Santa Cruz Small Business Support & Networking (Leads Club) (12:00 PM)
• GSSCC Lecture Series -- Getting Ready for the 1950 Census: Searching With and Without a Name Index, (1:00 PM)
• SCIL Meeting - Harbor High School (3:45 PM)
• Recycling Boot Camp! - Santa Cruz City (6:00 PM)
• SCHS Red & White Fair (Open House) - Santa Cruz City Schools (6:00 PM)
• SCHS Red & White Fair - Santa Cruz High School (6:00 PM)
• Recycling Boot Camp - City of Santa Cruz (6:00 PM)
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (7:30 PM)

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From my notebook:

• Santa Cruz Fire Department: "Captain Max Fortuna, of Stockton Fire Department was shot and killed while responding to a fire this morning. Our hearts go out to his family and to his fire family. This loss is felt by us all. #firefamily #stocktonfiredepartment #santa..." (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz Police: "Happy National Hot Chocolate Day! 🥰☕🍫 Nothing like a cup of hot cocoa to keep you going! How do you like your hot chocolate? Plain? Marshmallows? Do you have your own favorite hot chocolate recipe? ☕️🍫 #nationalhotchocolateday #hotcoc..." (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz Fire Department: "Please keep Captain Fortuna's family and fire family in your thoughts as they grieve and process the unimaginable. RIP Cpt Fortuna 🙏" (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz SPCA: "We did ✨FOUR✨ adoptions last week! Big congratulations to Bruno (big guy), Hazel, Moss the kitty and Harriet the Terrier, adopted by one of our own staff members. ❤️" (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz Warriors: "Leaving Texas with a W 😀 #SeaDubs Invisalign || #WinningSmiles" (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz Warriors: "💪 Moody hustlin' on defense Be There Live || Ticketmaster" (Facebook)
• City of Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation: "Calling all Chowder Chefs!!👩‍🍳🥣 The 41st Annual Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-Off is February 26th and 27th at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Register by this Friday, February 4th to receive free ride wristbands and team t-shirts!🎢🎡..." (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz Rotary Club: "Homelessness? We have a plan for that! Our speaker's slides will explain it all... along with drawings of planned residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects downtown. But first... the Rotary Cartoons... Click the link to start at th..." (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz Public Libraries: "Did you miss this book last year? Other readers have rated Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin very highly. SCPL has this title in print, eAudiobook, and eBook. #booksyoumighthavemissed" (Facebook)

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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.