🌱Pajaro Valley Health Care Members Sought + Super Bowl Cameo

Welcome back, Watsonville! Let's get you started this Thursday with everything you need to know going on today in town.

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First, today's weather:

Mild with plenty of sun. High: 67 Low: 36.

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Here are the top stories today in Watsonville:

1. Pajaro Valley Health Care District Board Members Sought (Watsonville Patch)
2. Photo | Quilters keep stitching ahead of annual show in Watsonville (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
3. 19-year-old missing in Santa Cruz County (KSBW Monterey)
4. Cal Fire contains half-acre fire in Ben Lomond546 (KION)
5. Santa Cruz County's new CZU dashboard shows fewer than 10% have been issued rebuilding permits (Lookout Santa Cruz)
6. Hollister man pleads guilty to fatal 2018 Santa Cruz shooting (East Bay Times)
7. Starbucks employees plan rally at Santa Cruz locations (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
8. Path paved for finalization of Santa Cruz County worker contract (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
9. Salesforce Partners with 1440 Multiversity to Create 100 Jobs (Good Times Weekly)
10. Santa Cruz makes cameo appearance in Super Bowl LVI commercial (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
11. Viewing Wildlife At Elkhorn Slough In Monterey County (Escalon Times)
12. Watsonville Cabins Offer Panoramic Views, 14 Acres (Watsonville Patch)
13. Moss Landing battery plant down indefinitely after second incident in 5 months (Monterey County Weekly)

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Today in Watsonville:

• Afterschool STEAM @ La Selva Beach - La Selva Beach Branch Library (4:00 PM)
• School Site Council Meeting - Pajaro Valley High (5:00 PM)
• Personnel Commission Meeting - Pajaro Valley Unified School District (5:30 PM)

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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.