🌱 Crab Feed + Photo Exhibit

Hello, neighbors! Michael Wittner here with the latest Watsonville Daily.

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First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and mild. High: 69 Low: 37.

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Here are the top stories today in Watsonville:

1. Drive-Thru Crab Feed Coming To Watsonville (Watsonville Patch)
2. Photo | Annual Art to Go! exhibit featured in Watsonville (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
3. 2 popular Watsonville parks are works in progress (KSBW Monterey)
4. Housing Identified as Key For New Vision of Watsonville's Downtown (Good Times Weekly)Moss Landing battery plant offline after second overheating incident546 (KION)
5. A Health-Care Group Is Poised to Buy Bankrupt Hospital in Watsonville, California (Bloomberg)
6. Santa Cruz County Chamber Of Commerce: California's Labor Market A Mixed Bag - Coronavirus Continues To Impact Us (Press Release Desk)

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Today in Watsonville:

• Big Kid Storytime - Watsonville City Main Calendar (4:00 PM)
• Big Kid Storytime - Watsonville Public Library (4:00 PM)
• PVUSD Parent Conference 2022 - Pajaro Valley Unified School District (6:00 PM)
• Conferencia de Padres PVUSD 2022 - Pajaro Valley Unified School District (6:00 PM)
• Open House - PVHS - Pajaro Valley Unified School District (6:00 PM)

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From my notebook:

• Watsonville Police Department: "This is a great opportunity to keep your kids busy this summer! Part of this paid internship includes site visits to our police department. See details below. 𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗔Ñ𝗢𝗟 ¡Esta es una gran oportunidad para mantener a sus hijos ocupad..." (Instagram)
• Watsonville Police Department: "This is a great opportunity to keep your kids busy this summer! Part of this paid internship includes site visits to our police department. See details below. 𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗔Ñ𝗢𝗟 ¡Esta es una gran oportunidad para mantener a sus hijos ocupados..." (Facebook)
• Pajaro Valley Chamber: "The 2022 Drive-Thru Crab Feed will take place on Saturday, March 5th. Be sure to get your tickets soon! Information and tickets can be found at: https://fairgrounds-foundation.org/" (Facebook)
• City of Watsonville - City Gov't: "Talk about a #ThrowbackThursday! Here you see a group of volunteer firefighters posing in front of the Watsonville Fire Station in the late 1880s on Main Street. The second floor of this building also served as a City Hall. Once the fire..." (Facebook)
• Pajaro Valley Arts Council: "Will you join us in supporting the arts and bringing more awareness of the importance of caring for the Earth to audiences in our County? Donate to sponsor PVA's exhibition Alma Sagrada: Cultivando Ritmos Naturales! Alma Sagrada invites ..." (Facebook)
• Watsonville Family YMCA: "Something new for Thursday at 7:00pm. Facebook live ZUMBA! Just follow the link below https://m.facebook.com/Watsonv... Chic@s Zumba por la pagina de Facebook de la Watsonville YMCA. Solo as click al enlace de arriba" (Facebook)
• City of Watsonville - City Gov't: "Starting today, many Watsonville residents will be receiving a survey from McGuire Research. It's part of our ongoing efforts to have a better understanding of the issues impacting our City. Registered voters in Watsonville can expect to..." (Facebook)
• Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency: "#ThrowbackThursday We poured the concrete for our 1.5-million-gallon storage tank six years ago!" (Facebook)
• Pajaro Valley Chamber: "WELCOME EVAN DARLING! Be sure to visit Evan, in his new office, beginning March 1st, located at 1919 Main Street. Evan can assist you with all of your insurance needs, whether it be business, auto, home life or health. Contact him at 831..." (Facebook)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Watsonville City Center: "Hello My names Stephen. - & I'm reaching out to anybody that needs help with their yard…I recently tuned up all my yard work machinery ..feel free to call me @8312544892Id be glad to take a peek and give u a free estimate..hope to hear f..." (Nextdoor)

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Alrighty, you're all good for today! See you tomorrow for your next 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.