🌱 Starbucks Rally + Super Bowl Cameo

Good day, neighbors! It's me again, Michael Wittner, your host of the Santa Cruz Daily.

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First, today's weather:

Plenty of sunshine. High: 65 Low: 40.

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Here are the top stories today in Santa Cruz:

1. Starbucks employees plan rally at Santa Cruz locations (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
2. Path paved for finalization of Santa Cruz County worker contract (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
3. Salesforce Partners with 1440 Multiversity to Create 100 Jobs (Good Times Weekly)
4. Santa Cruz makes cameo appearance in Super Bowl LVI commercial (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
5. Santa Cruz's Nat Young heats up, surfs into Round of 16 at Sunset Beach | WSL Championship Tour (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
6. Santa Cruz County Approves Tax Hike Ballot Measures: Reports (Santa Cruz Patch)
7. 19-year-old missing in Santa Cruz County (KSBW Monterey)
8. Cal Fire contains half-acre fire in Ben Lomond546 (KION)
9. Santa Cruz County's new CZU dashboard shows fewer than 10% have been issued rebuilding permits (Lookout Santa Cruz)
10. Hollister man pleads guilty to fatal 2018 Santa Cruz shooting (East Bay Times)

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Today in Santa Cruz:

• Tech Talks: Google Privacy Tune-up (Apple/Android) (11:00 AM)
• Emergency Rental Assistance Program Webinar (12:00 PM)
• JavaScript Coding - Virtual Library (3:00 PM)
• Colaboración de la Fuerza Laboral del Condado de Santa Cruz: Herramienta para explorar carreras y pr (4:00 PM)
• CAPS Graduate Men's Group - University of California Santa Cruz-Meetings & Conferences (5:15 PM)
• School Board Mtg. - Bonny Doon Elementary Distict (5:30 PM)
• Trivia on Tap - Offsite Library (6:30 PM)
• Monarch Prospective Family meeting - Santa Cruz City Schools (6:30 PM)
• Planning Commission Meeting - Santa Cruz City (7:00 PM)

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From my notebook:

• Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office: "This past week, our Santa Cruz County Deputy Sheriffs' Association voted to contribute $100,000 toward the Willowbrook Park Memorial for Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller. It is the largest donation in the history of the Deputy Sheriff's Association..." (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter: "Healthy Pets for All is a community outreach program that improves the lives of animals and helps keep pets with their owners by providing services and supplies to pet owners who are financially struggling to keep their pets healthy and ..." (Facebook)
• Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks: "🚢Join us on Friday, Feb. 18, to learn about Seacliff State Beach's fascinating history, the development of Aptos, "The Madman of Seacliff" and much more on this 1-mile, 1-hour stroll to the Aptos Creek Bridge and back! 🏖️ Learn more an..." (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz Public Libraries: "In 2022, we are celebrating Black History Month by having local African American leaders read Children's Books written and illustrated by people of the African Diaspora. To view the other stories read by local leaders, please visit our Y..." (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.