tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64861134957138374082023-11-15T10:15:56.557-08:00Ketti WilhelmPeople-watcher, non-digital eavesdropper, reporter and writer in transition. For my new work, please go to kettiwilhelm.com.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12358561059285772023noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6486113495713837408.post-64100797144161503222014-11-24T23:13:00.002-08:002014-11-24T23:24:05.952-08:00<div class="MainColumn ContentDefault home_section_spotlight" id="StoryHeader" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 20px;">
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Finally, I've managed to hack into this account to post the following – a political piece I wrote for the Missoula Independent with one of my former professors last summer. </div>
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I'm transitioning to a new site (hence the forgotten password)! So all of my new published work will be posted there, along with my blog, at <a href="http://kettiwilhelm.com/">kettiwilhelm.com</a>. Thanks for reading!</div>
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Politics is a cheap game to play in Montana, thanks largely to “dark money,” a furtive type of campaign funding for which the state has a substantial claim to being the nation’s poster child. Liberal and conservative groups flooded Montana with funds from undisclosed donors in 2012, attracted by a high-stakes U.S. Senate race, relatively cheap TV ads and the low cost of reaching the state’s nearly 680,000 registered voters by mail.</div>
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According to ProPublica, almost a quarter of the $51 million or more spent in the 2012 Senate race came from issue-advocacy groups that do not disclose their contributors. The dark money—and the influence it represented—drew protests from Democrats and Republicans alike.</div>
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But efforts to shed light on dark money have fallen flat. During the state’s most recent legislative session, Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat, and Republican state Sen. Jim Peterson, a rancher from Buffalo, collaborated on the proposed Trace Act, which would have closed some disclosure loopholes. It died in committee without fanfare. Peterson and a small band of Republicans then vowed to take the fight directly to voters with Initiative 168, but they abandoned the campaign in June, saying they couldn’t raise enough money to collect signatures statewide.</div>
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While Montana’s far right has never supported dark money disclosure, organizers of I-168 were surprised to hear objections from liberal groups that typically support disclosure. Peterson says he reached out directly to potential supporters on the left, but couldn’t get any bites.</div>
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“Everybody says, ‘Yeah, I don’t like dark money,’ but when it comes time to raise the money to get the signatures ... people clam up,” he says.</div>
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Sandy Welch, a Republican and an organizer for the “Stop Dark Money” initiative, says her group sought support from across the political spectrum, yet managed to raise only about $20,000—a fraction of what it takes to bring an initiative to the ballot in such a large state.</div>
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“There are a lot of people who fund political activities who like dark money,” Welch says. “They don’t want it to go away.”</div>
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The organizers weren’t the only ones surprised at the initiative’s failure.</div>
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“Where were the organizations?” asks Anthony Johnstone, a professor of constitutional and election law at the University of Montana. “Where were the unions? Where was Common Cause? Where were the parties? Without that kind of support, you’re going to have a hard time qualifying an initiative, even on something so recently salient in Montana.”</div>
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Jonathan Motl, Montana’s commissioner of political practices, says he was disappointed but not surprised by I-168’s failure. He says Peterson’s decision to require disclosure for money spent on voter mobilization by nonpartisan nonprofits probably doomed the initiative before it got off the ground.</div>
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“In my opinion, that was added by Peterson in an effort to bring in some support for it from (conservative) groups, which weren’t going to support it anyway,” Motl says.</div>
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One of the people Peterson looked to for support was C.B. Pearson, a veteran organizer of ballot initiative campaigns. Pearson spearheaded the 2012 “corporate personhood” ballot measure, which passed with 75 percent approval in protest of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling. But Pearson says he couldn’t support the Stop Dark Money initiative and agreed with Motl, saying the inclusion of all nonprofits would have forced disclosure on the League of Women Voters and other groups that encourage voting, but refrain from endorsing candidates or ballot issues.</div>
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“I just don’t think you can regulate that,” Pearson says. “There’s a right to participate.”</div>
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The Missoula-based Forward Montana would have been in the same boat. But under Montana law, nonprofits that do endorse specific candidates, including unions and groups such as Montana Conservation Voters, are already required to disclose their contributors.</div>
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Had the measure focused solely on disclosure for the issue-advocacy groups, it might have had a chance, Pearson says. He adds that when people lament the effects of dark money, they’re usually thinking about the nasty, anonymous, third-party attack ads.</div>
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“I don’t think anybody likes the third-party stuff at all,” he says.</div>
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As Montana’s chief elections watchdog, Motl says dark money still needs to be exposed because it undermines the public’s trust in the political process, which in turn erodes faith in government. He adds that his office is working on legislation that would require disclosure by issue-advocacy groups, which are often the perpetrators of anonymous attack ads.</div>
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Campaign finance reform remains a hot issue at the federal level. Newly nominated Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Amanda Curtis has said campaign finance reform will be her top priority if she’s elected. And the Federal Communications Commission recently began requiring all TV stations to post their political ad sales data online.</div>
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Progress hasn’t been so forthcoming locally, but I-168’s organizers say they hope the short-lived campaign at least helped educate voters about dark money. Welch expects the issue to resurface in the Montana Legislature next year. Peterson, who is limited by law from seeking a fourth consecutive term in the Senate, says he isn’t sure the idea will receive better treatment in future sessions.</div>
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“I don’t know,” he says. “I hope so, but I think they’re going to run into the same problem I did.”</div>
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Even so, he adds, it’s a fight worth taking on because dark money plays an outsized role in Montana, especially in down-ballot races, such as legislative contests.</div>
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“Montana’s a cheap place to play,” Peterson says, adding that $20,000 can have significant influence in a state Senate race, as $10,000 can in a state House contest.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12358561059285772023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6486113495713837408.post-3617158578294270012014-05-23T11:46:00.003-07:002014-05-23T11:46:45.720-07:00Finally seeing my own byline again.<br />
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For nearly four years, Missoula's most prominent downtown retail space has remained vacant. While the Missoula Mercantile building has turned into little more than a billboard for art shows, what with its windows filled with posters and displays, officials say it's an exception to an otherwise healthy downtown.</div>
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The Merc, which has been empty since Macy's closed in 2010, has proven more difficult to fill than its Virginia-based owner expected. Octagon Partners bought the 80,000-square-foot building for $2.3 million in 2011 and put nearly another million into deconstructing it to its historically accurate bones—minus the lead and asbestos that contractors removed. But the owner is still looking for tenants willing to move in or someone to buy the site outright.</div>
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Several bars and restaurants wanted to move in, says Jed Dennison of Zillastate Realty, the local firm handling the property. But it's been a hard sell because the construction timeline requires signing a lease at least 15 months before a shopkeeper could even start painting the walls, let alone open for business.</div>
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"It doesn't make sense to pull the trigger on a $12 million renovation for a 2,000-square-foot tenant," says JP Williamson, of Octagon.</div>
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Plus, Dennison says the bank won't fork over the renovation loan without safe, reliable office tenants signed up on the second floor and several retailers on the ground floor.</div>
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While the rental situation is caught in a catch-22, Dennison says three local buyers have expressed interest in the building, including the Missoula Public Library. The 40-year-old library has outlived its original lifespan by a decade and outgrown its capacity. With more than 1,700 visitors a day, Executive Director Honore Bray says the library turns down 50 to 100 requests for meeting spaces weekly.</div>
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"We'd love [to move into the Merc], but we can't say yes or no yet," Bray says, noting the library is waiting for architects to assess whether the historic building, built in 1887, would be able to support the weight of the bookshelves.</div>
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If the library purchases the building, it comes with good and bad news. Bad: The city would lose roughly $1 million a year in taxes, says Missoula Downtown Association Executive Director Linda McCarthy. Good: A single owner-occupier would simplify securing funds for construction, and could finally fill the biggest hole in downtown.</div>
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"In a big-picture sense," McCarthy says, "it would be great if it was an active (retail) space and remains on the tax rolls. But having a library in that building is better than a vacant building."</div>
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McCarthy adds that while the Merc remains the elephant on the corner of Higgins and Front, downtown is largely healthy. Its 12.8-percent vacancy rate is less than half the national average and shows the area continues to attract new businesses. "But I wouldn't say it's thriving yet," McCarthy says.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12358561059285772023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6486113495713837408.post-2378274734535592742014-05-23T11:37:00.002-07:002014-05-23T11:37:49.128-07:00National finalists!Brett Berntsen's Montana Journalism Review cover story "<a href="http://mjr.jour.umt.edu/?p=2398" target="_blank">No Place to Hide</a>," edited by yours truly, ended up as a national finalist in the Society of Professional Journalists' <a href="http://www.spj.org/moe13.asp" target="_blank">Mark of Excellence Awards</a>!<br />
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Plus, at the regional level, our site won Best Affiliated Website and the print magazine was a finalist for Best Student Magazine, as I've mentioned before. Not too shabby, <a href="http://mjr.jour.umt.edu/" target="_blank">MJR</a>.<br />
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And Native News 2013 won Best Independent Online Student News Publication in Region 10. Here's <a href="http://nativenews.jour.umt.edu/2013/?page_id=34" target="_blank">my contribution to the publication</a>, and here's the list of <a href="http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=1244#1244" target="_blank">Region 10 winners in all categories</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12358561059285772023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6486113495713837408.post-86961041717612436782014-03-13T16:32:00.000-07:002014-03-13T16:32:30.465-07:00MJR is winning awards!Here's some exciting news: <a href="http://mjr.jour.umt.edu/" target="_blank">Montana Journalism Review</a>, the magazine I edited last fall, won regional Mark of Excellence awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for Best Student Magazine, Best Affiliated Website, and Best Non-fiction Article (for<a href="http://mjr.jour.umt.edu/?p=2398" target="_blank"> the cover story I edited</a>)! We'll find out in May if we advance to the national competition in any of the categories.<br />
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With the job market still tight, unpaid internships are as close as many aspiring professionals can get to a job in their field. These internships are supposed to be about businesses investing in their future workforces and interns gaining experience and training valuable enough to offset their unpaid hours. So, what’s wrong with having the option to get ahead in competitive industries?</div>
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<span class="pp"></span>The problem arises when the system closes out people who cannot afford to work for free. This is especially egregious because internships are not just extra flair on a resume anymore. Internships are required to get even an entry-level job in many fields, and to graduate from some university programs. My bachelor’s degree in journalism required a one-credit internship, and I paid my university several hundred dollars to earn the credit for my free labor.<span class="aa"></span></div>
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<span class="pp"></span>The average U.S. student has $29,000 in student-loan debt at the end of a bachelor’s degree. Students pay extravagantly for their education — much more so now than in decades past, even accounting for inflation — then are obliged to do unpaid work before being rewarded with a degree or job.<span class="aa"></span></div>
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<span class="pp"></span>Students can’t afford to work for free any more than anyone else can, especially if they’re not getting some sort of educational or experiential benefit out of the process. (Bear in mind many undergraduates, people switching careers, and other interns have families to support or other responsibilities and debts.)<span class="aa"></span></div>
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<span class="pp"></span>Federal law is clear on when it’s OK not to pay interns or trainees. The Fair Labor Standards Act establishes six criteria companies must meet to justify not paying interns. The key elements are the internship must provide the equivalent of vocational training, and the company cannot directly benefit from unpaid interns or use their efforts to replace paid employees.<span class="aa"></span></div>
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<span class="pp"></span>In 2013, several groups of unpaid interns sued the corporations they worked for, including Condé Nast, Hearst, PBS, Atlantic Records, and Elite Model Management. The plaintiffs allege their internships didn’t have enough, or any, educational value to justify not getting paid for their work. More suits are in progress in the sports, fashion, media, and healthcare industries.</div>
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The decision that led to the deluge of lawsuits came last June, when two former Fox Searchlight interns won their lawsuit over unpaid internships in which they were assigned menial tasks, such as fetching coffee, on the set of the 2010 film “Black Swan.” They may have been getting their feet in the door at Fox, but they weren’t getting an education; they were simply doing work that needed to be done.</div>
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<span class="pp"></span>The message from the federal court was clear: Programs that don’t teach must pay. As a reporting intern at a midsize, daily newspaper in California last year, I didn’t get paid but I did get a lot of experience and a better idea of what kind of career I want. I could afford to be philosophical about the process because I was lucky enough to have a full-ride college scholarship, which helped me absorb the cost of moving from my native Montana to California for a summer of what was essentially volunteer work.<span class="aa"></span></div>
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<span class="pp"></span>Too many students don’t have that option, which means only the relatively wealthy can afford the experiences needed to land decent jobs. This system entrenches economic inequality, making the dream of bettering one’s station in life increasingly limited to those who don’t start out poor.<span class="aa"></span></div>
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<span class="pp"></span>It also means companies that don’t pay interns don’t necessarily get the best applicants — merely the best middle-class-and-above applicants — and they expose themselves to costly litigation.<span class="aa"></span></div>
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<span class="pp"></span>While it’s true that fewer internships may be offered if all companies have to comply with the law and pay their interns, at least then the opportunities would go to the most qualified students who are ready to contribute to a professional workplace. This would also relieve employers of the frustration of dealing with students who are not prepared for professional work, but are forced into internships as a graduation requirement. (Former bosses as well as former professors have told me this is not an uncommon problem.)<span class="aa"></span></div>
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<span class="pp"></span>The cost of higher education in the U.S. borders on injustice. Colleges and universities make matters worse by offering their students as free labor, driving many students deeper into debt, by requiring internships and making students pay for the credits they earn working these unpaid gigs.<span class="aa"></span></div>
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<span class="pp"></span>Popular culture tells us not getting paid for labor is an inevitable part of young professional life, and people should just tough it out. But no one benefits when career advancement is limited to wealthier applicants, least of all companies that potentially miss out on discovering some of the greatest talents simply because those people might not be able to afford living and being interns at the same time.<span class="aa"></span></div>
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<span class="pp"></span>Interns and employers alike deserve a fairer system that promotes learning and rewards merit, not economic class.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12358561059285772023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6486113495713837408.post-72028377619558784822013-07-20T15:35:00.000-07:002013-07-20T15:36:40.458-07:00One more front page centerpiece, and another story that reminded me community news can be a lot of fun to report.<br />
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MOSS LANDING -- A group of middle school girls from Monterey and Santa Cruz counties spent the week learning about ocean conservation in Monterey Bay Aquarium's bilingual Young Women in Science camp.</div>
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The camp packs a lot into a week, from surfing and boogie boarding, to meeting with local research groups and female scientists who serve as teachers and role models. One morning's activity was kayaking at Elkhorn Slough, a hot spot of biological diversity with its unusually high number of endemic species of birds, fish, mammals and plants.<br />
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As the girls got ready to paddle, their rows of boats sat, looking like bright yellow, beached whales, a few feet from the water while the guide from Monterey Bay Kayaks gave a rundown on slough safety that ended with a call for questions.<br />
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Only one hand shot into the air.<br />
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"Is this for emergencies?" asked Jennifer Lopez, a petite, outgoing 12-year-old from Salinas with glittery pink glasses, holding up the orange plastic whistle tethered to her life vest.<br />
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Luckily, the whistles stayed quiet throughout the morning. The girls toured the tranquil slough, with curious sea otters, which they had spent the previous day studying, swimming along side them and flocks of elegant terns flying overhead.<br />
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The Young Women in Science program was established in 1999 in response to what Claudia Pineda Tibbs, the Aquarium's Hispanic marketing and public relations coordinator, called an alarming lack of women and minorities studying and pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math, commonly called STEM.<br />
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"STEM careers were really targeted toward men and toward people who were not of color," Pineda Tibbs said.<br />
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"It's really to have the girls see that there are women in science, and break that perception of what a scientist looks like," she added. "Scientists can be women, mothers, people of color."<br />
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Pineda Tibbs said the biggest challenge, in the beginning, was getting parents to agree to let their kids to participate in the program, especially in the Latino community, where she said some families are not used to girls spending all day out of the house with a program that's not directly related to school. One of the benefits of the program being bilingual is it allows the girls to share what they learn about conservation with their families and friends, no matter what language they speak.<br />
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Now, the program fills quickly. Each year, two first-year Otter Camps accommodate 72 girls and one Ocean Guardians Camp for returning students takes another 45. The final camp of the year will be next week and is fully booked.<br />
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The girls join the camp with an array of backgrounds and interests. While the program is bilingual and most campers receive scholarships to cover at least part of the $200 cost, there are no requirements for family income, language or even interest in a career in science.<br />
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"Some of them say, 'I want to be a police officer,' some say they want to be marine biologists or they want to work in fashion," Pineda Tibbs said of the participants. "And that's OK because, ultimately, it's inspiring conservation of the ocean. And everyone can do that."<br />
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The program incorporates other aspects of conservation, as well, including recycling and composting lessons. The coordinators try to make sure the lunches provided are as close as possible to zero waste.<br />
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While the girls' families are only asked to pay a maximum of $200 for the program, the aquarium's cost per participant is about $1,000, including busing the girls around Monterey Bay, activities and lunches. Most of that money comes from grants, membership revenue and donations to the Aquarium's Children's Education Fund.<br />
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Campers who are interested in science careers have options to continue with related programs in high school and college.<br />
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Rita Medina, 19, of Watsonville, is working her first job this summer as a program assistant for Young Women in Science. She has been involved ever since her years as a camper, and was a volunteer for the Teen Conservation Leaders program in high school. She said the program has helped her decide to study marine biology when she starts at Cabrillo College in the fall.<br />
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"I'm getting paid and it's my first job," Medina said. "I really love it."<br />
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SALINAS -- The Professional Bull Riding Pro Touring Event held its own Wednesday night at the Salinas Sports Complex as the unofficial kickoff event of the California Rodeo Salinas.</div>
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The event filled the stadium as the crowd cheered and country music blared, ushering in the 13th annual PBR event in Salinas.<br />
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Mandy Linquist, marketing manager of the California Rodeo Salinas, said the PBR event has always taken place on the Wednesday of Big Week, as rodeo week is known.<br />
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"People are already in the Western lifestyle mindset," Linquist said.<br />
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"They're busting out their jeans and their cowboys boots and they want to go to as many events as possible this week."<br />
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Linquist said about 8,000 people attended last year's PBR event and that ticket sales are slightly up this year.<br />
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The event draws cowboys from across the country, as well as some international contestants.<br />
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The mood behind the chutes was mixed.<br />
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Ryan McConnel, 26, originally from Bloomfield, N.M., was first in line and nervously waited for his chance on Shameless. McConnel was quickly bucked off as his fiancee, Rebekah Zacarias, of Clovis watched from across the arena.<br />
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At 26, McConnel said the sport doesn't get any easier with age.<br />
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"It gets tough and you don't want to get a lot worse off than you already are," McConnel said.<br />
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Sean Willingham, a 32-year-old veteran bull rider from Summerville, Ga., has been a professional in the sport since before the PBR stopped in Salinas and has been riding more than half his life.<br />
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"It's a young man's sport, for sure," Willingham said.<br />
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Willingham was scheduled to ride a bull named Oops on Wednesday. He waited for his turn at press time for this story.<br />
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Early in the program, defending California Rodeo Salinas champion Shane Proctor, 28, of Moorsville, N.C., was in the lead with a score of 86.<br />
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SALINAS -- The 103rd annual California Rodeo Salinas begins its four-day run Thursday at the Salinas Sports Complex.</div>
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Mandy Linquist, the rodeo's marketing manager, said she's been attending the event her whole life.<br />
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"There are people who've been coming here for 60 or 70 years," Linquist said. "It is great to be part of something that's got a legacy like that."<br />
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As an appetizer for rodeo fans, the 13th annual Professional Bull Riding Touring Pro Event will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Salinas Sports Complex, the same location as the rodeo.<br />
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The rodeo's main events begin 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, the performance begins at 1:15 p.m.<br />
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Thursday's California Rodeo Salinas will begin with the grand entry and crowning of 2013 Miss California Rodeo. Bull riding will be the first event in the arena and one of this year's speciality acts, Cowboy Kenny's Steel Rodeo Tour, will also debut Thursday and continue for every performance of the rodeo.<br />
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Cowboy Kenny is a motocross champion from Oklahoma who will perform a motorcycle jumping act.<br />
Other events include mutton busting, open-ranch doctoring and the traditional rodeo events such as barrel racing, team roping, tie-down roping, bull riding and bronc riding.<br />
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The Salinas rodeo hasn't always included such an array of events. When the event began, more than a century ago, it was known as the Wild West Show and mostly featured local cowboys and cowgirls riding bucking horses. Still, the show drew crowds of 4,000 strong.<br />
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This is the first year motocross has been part of the rodeo.<br />
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"We typically try to change up the acts each year to keep it new and fresh," Linquist said.<br />
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Linquist said she's expecting 45,000 spectators for the four-day event. Sunday usually draws the largest crowd, about 13,000.<br />
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Tickets range from $7 to $20.<br />
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WHERE: 295 Sun Way, Salinas<br />
COST: $3 to enter, $25 for unlimited rides weekdays, $30 for unlimited rides Saturdays and Sundays<br />
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SANTA CRUZ -- The Santa Cruz Community Coalition to Overcome Racism will host two screenings of the film "Juvies," about the California juvenile justice system.</div>
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The events will be accompanied by dinner and open discussion sessions with Spanish translation.<br />
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Jenn Laskin, a longtime teacher and law student interning with the Santa Cruz County Probation Department, organized the events. Laskin said she and the group Barrios Unidos, which works to prevent youth violence, are trying to establish a permanent support group for friends and families of incarcerated youths, something she said is lacking in the community.<br />
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"Everybody knows somebody," Laskin said. "Our country incarcerates more people than any other country. There's all kinds of reasons why people get into the system."<br />
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Both screenings are open to the public<br />
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"Juvies" follows 12 teens incarcerated in Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall who were charged as adults.<br />
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The system changed in 2000, when voters approved Proposition 21, shifting the authority to charge minors in adult court from judges to district attorneys and allowing the options for crimes other than murder.<br />
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"Courts used to look at the potential for a juvenile to be rehabilitated," Laskin said. "Now, it's just whether the prosecutor thinks they deserve it."<br />
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Rob Wade, assistant district attorney for Santa Cruz County, said only serious violent crimes, such as shootings or stabbings, but not simple fistfights, are eligible for direct filings in this county. Each person's role in the crime is considered, so everyone being charged will not necessarily be direct filed because one person is.<br />
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"Just because you're a juvenile, doesn't mean you're going to get direct filed," Wade said. "There's a real gravity to the decision to direct file someone and we don't do it for all violent crimes."<br />
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When minors are convicted in adult court, Wade said, they serve their time in juvenile facilities until they turn 18.<br />
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Yesenia Molina, an intervention and prevention specialist at Barrios Unidos, works with kids in Santa Cruz County Juvenile Hall. She said she doesn't think charging minors in adult court deters crime or reduces recidivism.<br />
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"If you were going to get out, even then, you would be such a different person because your adolescence was entirely taken away," Molina said. "They don't have the opportunity to develop themselves as adults in the right way."<br />
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Rather than discouraging gang affiliation, Wade said direct filing, and the prison system in general, often encourages it by putting people in an environment permeated by gang culture, where they often choose to be housed with others members of their gang.<br />
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Direct filing will be a topic of discussion at the screening events, as well as other legal issues affecting families of incarcerated kids, such as gang enhancement sentencing and what Laskin calls "the school-to-prison pipeline."<br />
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"When kids are missing time in school, it's harder for them to go back to school," she said. "And when they're in the corrections system, it's easier for them to stay there."<br />
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The problem is exacerbated by underfunded school systems. A 2008 study by Pew Charitable Trusts found California spends 2.5 times more on corrections than education.<br />
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Laskin said that race and location can complicate the issue.<br />
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"The same crimes committed by white kids in Santa Cruz get rehabilitation or treatment," she said. "South County gets more enforcement."<br />
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Gang enhancement sentencing means that if prosecutors determine a crime was related to a gang, judges can add years to a sentence.<br />
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Wade said his office uses the recommendations of local police to decide whether to add a gang enhancement to a charge.<br />
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"As prosecutors, we have an ethical obligation to charge what we think we can prove," Wade said. "We do that with a good-faith belief that we think that person is a gang member."<br />
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Prosecutors charge people with a gang enhancement for participating in gang crime even if they are not members of the gang.<br />
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Laskin and Barrios Unidos work with youth to help them understand these laws and to teach them impulse control.<br />
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"There isn't any kind of simple answer to it," Wade said. "Whether gang statutes are deterring crime is a philosophical question, and I'm not sure I know the answer to that."<br />
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WHAT: 'Juvies' film screenings, family/community support meetings and dinners. Spanish interpretation and child care will be provided.<br />WHEN: 4 to 6 p.m., Sunday in Santa Cruz; 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Wednesday in Watsonville.<br />WHERE: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers, 734 E. Lake Ave., Suite 14 (upstairs), Watsonville.<br />COST: Free<br />INFORMATION: Contact Jenn at 202-802-7626 or <a href="mailto:jennlaskin@gmail.com">jennlaskin@gmail.com</a>.</div>
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SCOTTS VALLEY -- Elliot Stone has had a lifetime of training in martial arts, but none in emergency medicine. Still he was one of the first responders to reach four victims who were torn from the Asiana jumbo jet Flight 214 as it crashed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday.</div>
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The plane came in for a landing flying too low and too slow. The landing gear crashed against the seawall, ripping open the back of the airplane and scattering people onto the runway, while the rest of the plane careened down the tarmac.<br />
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Just seconds came between Stone's realization that something was wrong and the impact. He was seated next to Elena Jin, 23, his fiancee from Santa Cruz whom he had proposed to a day earlier at their hotel in Suwon, South Korea.<br />
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"All that went through my mind was grabbing her arm, looking in her eyes and saying, 'This might be it,' " he said.<br />
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When the plane finally stopped, Stone, 25, said he and his friends and family were able to escape quickly.<br />
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Stone, the owner of Elite Martial Arts Academy in Scotts Valley, and a group of nine people including family and clients, had been in South Korea for 10 days on a vacation and to compete in an international competition in the Korean martial art of ho kuk mu sul.<br />
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He said he's been studying the art since he was 7, and credits it with helping him to remain calm in any situation.<br />
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On the trip back, Stone and the rest of the group, including Brian Thomson, 45, Elliot's parents, Walter Stone, 64, and Cindy Stone, 63, and his brother Oliver Stone, 29, all of Scotts Valley, and Elena's 16-year-old sister, Alisa Jin, of Santa Cruz, were seated in the middle of the plane above the wings.</div>
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After the crash, some of the group escaped on inflatable chutes, while Elliot Stone and others had to climb out over piles of rubble and luggage, through holes in the warped, Fiberglass walls of the fuselage, jumping about 5 feet from the tilted wreck to the ground. All were lucky enough to walk away from the crash with just a few scratches and bruises.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12358561059285772023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6486113495713837408.post-75416481279666788212013-07-08T21:19:00.002-07:002013-07-20T15:21:41.671-07:00Here's a little story I wrote about the weather. Made the front page.<br />
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SANTA CRUZ -- The upper Santa Cruz Mountains will be scorching this Independence Day, with temperatures topping 100 degrees at elevations above 1,000 feet prompting the National Weather Service to issue an extreme heat warning for the area through 7 p.m. Thursday.</div>
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While the higher elevations will have the county's highest temperatures, the mountain towns are feeling the heat, too. Accuweather predicts a high of 90 degrees for Boulder Creek, 88 for Ben Lomond, 89 for Bonny Doon, 89 for Scotts Valley and 88 for Felton. Overnight lows are expected to be in the upper 50s and low 60s.</div>
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Santa Cruz-based artist Jody Bare works at the un-air-conditioned Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center in Ben Lomond and said she's embracing the heat.</div>
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National Weather Service meteorologist Austin Cross reminded those headed to the beaches to be aware of dangerous rip currents despite the calm waters.</div>
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SANTA CRUZ -- After setting travel records during the Fourth of July holiday last year, the number of Californians vacationing this week is expected to dip slightly.</div>
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"Last year, we had the calendar effect," said Cynthia Harris, spokeswoman for AAA of Northern California.</div>
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In 2012, Independence Day fell on a Wednesday, which spread out holiday travel and allowed many people to vacation the entire week, creating the busiest Fourth of July for travel the state has seen in a decade.</div>
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AAA expects a 0.7 percent decrease this year, though the 4.7 million Californians expected to travel falls within the typical range of 4.2 million to 4.8 million.</div>
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The economy isn't stopping people from taking road trips and booking luxury hotels, a testament to consumer optimism while markets remain uncertain, according to AAA. A family of four will spend an average of $894 during the holiday this year, Harris said.</div>
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"Travel is most indicative of how people are feeling about their discretionary budget," she said.</div>
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Santa Cruz's Dream Inn raised its rates in step with the expected tourism boost. The basic daily room rate is $419 on Thursday through the weekend, about $100 more than this time in 2012, and the hotel is booked for those nights.</div>
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"We raise the rates and see if people keep booking," said Christopher Johnston, supervisor of the Dream Inn. "This year, people are very willing."</div>
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The Hilton Santa Cruz/Scotts Valley is charging $189 for a basic room this week, 5 percent to 10 percent more than last year for the Fourth of July weekend, and the hotel is almost full.</div>
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Jim Maggio, general manager of Seascape Resort, said rates haven't risen from last year, but occupancy has. With a basic room rate of $350, Seascape is nearly booked through the weekend.</div>
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More casual options for the Fourth of July holiday are sold out, too.</div>
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Campgrounds at Seacliff, New Brighton, Manresa and Sunset state beaches and Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park are booked Wednesday through Saturday nights, with only a handful of spaces remaining Sunday.</div>
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The Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay KOA and the Santa Cruz RV Resort are booked through Sunday night.</div>
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"Santa Cruz is one of our most popular places to go," said Dennis Weber, State Parks spokesman. "It's easier to find a campground the further north you go and the further inland you go."</div>
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With a statewide average gas price of $3.99 a gallon, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report, only Hawaii and Alaska have more expensive gas than California.</div>
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"Even if gas prices go up 5 cents or 3 cents before a holiday, that is not preventing a family from taking a road trip," Harris said of the 3.7 million people who are expected to drive more than 50 miles this weekend.</div>
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The average road trip will cover 584 miles, with popular destinations including Lake Tahoe, San Diego, Las Vegas, Zion National Park in Utah and national parks in California.</div>
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Harris said drivers should expect heavy freeway congestion from 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, when many people will be leaving work early for the holiday. Whether driving or flying, she recommends avoiding midday travel.</div>
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"The earlier you leave or the later you leave, you'll see fewer delays," Harris said.</div>
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For those visiting or remaining in Santa Cruz County for the Fourth of July, the sale and use of fireworks are only allowed in Watsonville and the county's only legal fireworks show will be in Scotts Valley, beginning at 9:15 p.m. Thursday in Skypark.</div>
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According to the Sheriff's Office, there are also numerous prohibitions on county beaches, including fireworks, alcohol, glass containers, wood pallets, unleashed pets, vehicles and pieces of wood with nails.</div>
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APTOS -- Seventeen-year-old Chris Randolph is the president of Aptos High School's Robotics Club, but his business card gives him a different title: CEO, pilot and director of software engineering for Aptos Mariners Robotics LLC.</div>
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The "company" beat out 29 teams from around the world with their underwater robot, called The Kraken. They designed and built the robot, or remote operated vehicle, to repair a permanent ocean observation system, a collection of sensors used to gather data such as water temperature and salinity.</div>
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The annual competition, held by Monterey Peninsula College's Marine Advanced Technology Education, poses a reality-based problem for students to creatively engineer their way out of each year.</div>
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"At the competition, you'll see ROVs that look completely different, and you'd never guess they do the exact same thing," Chris said.</div>
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The 13-member Aptos team took first place for their mission performance, written technical report and in the competition overall.</div>
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In response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the challenge in 2011 was to build a robot capable of capping an underwater oil well.</div>
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That was also the year Chris joined the team as a freshman, specializing in software design. He's spent the past three years tweaking his program that uses an Xbox controller to command the underwater robot.</div>
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Chris' younger sister, Catie Randolph, 16, started with the team this year as a sophomore and designed The Kraken's claw. Her brother then used his Xbox controller to tell the claw to open locks and doors and unplug and plug in cables on the station.</div>
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Another requirement of the competition is that teams present their work like a business.</div>
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Chris said Zoliniak also excels in the presentation aspect of the competition, when each team member has to explain his or her portion of the project to the judges. Chris and Katie said that's the hardest part of the competition for them.</div>
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"They were kids who didn't necessarily know each other (before joining the club)," Manildi said. "And they were able to bond and listen to each others' ideas and realize that they all have something to offer."</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12358561059285772023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6486113495713837408.post-68019377185196605572013-06-30T19:25:00.002-07:002013-07-10T23:00:02.267-07:00My second city council of the week: Capitola. The meeting ended around 11:30 p.m. so this online version is much more detailed than the one that ran in the paper on June 28.<br />
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CAPITOLA -- The Capitola City Council approved a 23-unit housing complex for seniors at 1575 38th Ave. with a 4-1 vote late Thursday.</div>
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The project has been in the works since 2011, and originally was denied by the Planning Commission, which gave a directive to reduce the mass, scale and height of the proposed building. The building has since shrunk by a factor of three from its original 67-unit size, and has gained approval by the commission, but the community remains divided over many aspects of the development.<br />
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"The principle decision is whether or not we're going to overturn the Planning Commission's decision," said Vice Mayor Sam Storey of the Commission's 3-2 vote to allow the project to go ahead.<br />
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The council's approval means the zoning for the property, which is currently the site of Capitola Freight and Salvage, will be changed from neighborhood commercial to planned development, allowing for less setback from the street and a higher overall height for the building.<br />
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For a property to be zoned for planned development, it has to have a unique characteristic that warrants the change.<br />
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"It is upscale senior housing in Capitola, and we do not have that," said Councilman Ed Bottorff.<br />
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He said one of the reasons the Planning Commission denied the project originally was lack of parking.<br />
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With the new design, he said, "I think there's overkill on the parking."<br />
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Nathan Schmidt, the project's transportation planner, said the project is designed to allow 1.4 parking spaces per unit, and he expects fewer than half of those spaces will be used regularly.<br />
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"I'm not a fan of (planned development zoning)," said Mayor Stephanie Harlan, the lone dissenting vote. "I've seen it before and it's a way to get around the rules."<br />
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Harlan called the change "spot zoning," saying that the purpose of zoning is for residents of an area to know what type of development they can expect around them and changing the zoning for one property violates that understanding.<br />
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Harlan also expressed concern that vehicles would still overflow into the spaces at King's Plaza Shopping Center, located across the street from Villa Capitola, on 41st Avenue.<br />
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George Ow, owner of the shopping center, spoke in support of the project. Ow was opposed to the development in its first iteration.<br />
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The center's delivery and garbage pickup areas face the Villa Capitola site, raising concerns about potential noise disturbances.<br />
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"I think we can all agree that there is a need for more senior housing in Capitola and that demographic data show that that need will increase," Maureen Romac, one of the owners of the property, told the council.<br />
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Richard Grunow, community development director for the planning commission, said the new design, with a lower overall height and increased setback from the street, addresses the concerns that led to the agency's original denial of the project.<br />
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In addition to parking, the council debated landscaping, the revised size of the project and even the length of time residents will be allowed to have a live-in caretaker at the property without the project crossing the line from senior housing to assisted living.<br />
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"It seems like cruel and unusual punishment for a person who's starting to fall down to be told you have to move," said Santa Cruz County resident Charles Houdleston, 71.<br />
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Susan Sneddon, Capitola city clerk, said her office has received 38 letters and emails about the Villa Capitola project -- an unusually large volume.<br />
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While most of those letters are from seniors and family members of seniors expressing support for and interest in the project, the city also received a letter signed by 21 residents of Bulb Avenue, the street behind the proposed development, in opposition. Their concerns, as stated in the letter, are "privacy, shading, noise, traffic, parking and incongruency with the surrounding neighborhood."<br />
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Romac said she and her husband, Steve Thomas, co-owner of the property, have collected 180 signatures from supporters, including those of 20 residents of Bulb Avenue.<br />
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Kimberly Frey, of Bulb Avenue, spoke in opposition, saying the development will reduce the amount of sunlight on her property and allow residents of the nearby Villa Capitola to peer into her windows.<br />
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In other action, the council approved an experimental, one-day closing of the Esplanade to motor vehicles, scheduled for Oct. 13.</div>
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WATSONVILLE -- The Watsonville City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a lease for WaterLab, an experimental, wastewater treatment facility to be run by UC Santa Cruz at the city's Water Resource Center.</div>
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The project, which is being designed, built and will be run by UCSC students, will be used to test various processes for purifying sewer water into drinking water and other experiments.</div>
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"This facility will be capable of producing drinkable water, although there's no intention of anyone drinking it."</div>
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The water used for experimentation by WaterLab will be purified by the city's water treatment plant after WaterLab has conducted its tests.</div>
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Haddad said the project will help prepare students for careers in water resources, an expertise he said will be in demand.</div>
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"Why Watsonville?" Haddad asked. "You have tomorrow's water challenges today."</div>
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Those challenges, Haddad said, include huge agricultural demands on the water supply and the need to protect the Monterey Bay marine ecosystem.</div>
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UCSC will pay the city a one-time, $18,000 fee to use the space for five years. Haddad said the project is funded by grants and likely will earn at least $50,000 in grant money yearly.</div>
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The agreement continues past concessions made by employee unions, saving the city more than $1 million. Those concessions include continuing furloughs that began four years ago, reducing hours and pay by 10 percent. Police will forgo raises and take eight days of furlough each year.</div>
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The council also rejected a claim by former Councilman Emilio Martinez and his wife, Kathleen Morgan-Martinez, alleging harassment, threats and "systematic silencing" during Martinez's time on the council.</div>
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WATSONVILLE -- The Watsonville City Council will decide Tuesday whether to approve a deal with UC Santa Cruz to establish an experimental wastewater treatment laboratory at the city's treatment plant.</div>
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The laboratory, called WaterLab, would occupy extra space at the city's award-winning Water Resource Center. The lab, which would focus on teaching and research on sustainable water treatment processes, would be the first such partnership between the city and the university.<br />
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"It's going to put Watsonville on the map for innovative water technologies and seeing how they can be applied in the real world," said Steve Palmisano, director of Watsonville's Public Works and Utilities Department. "It's a great bridge between the academic world and the real world."<br />
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Built in 2010 for $10 million, Watsonville's Water Resources Center stands out with its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.<br />
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The experimental lab would be designed, built and operated by UCSC students, said WaterLab's director, Brent Haddad, a professor of environmental science and director of UCSC's Center for Integrated Water Research.<br />
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"I'd like to be able to demonstrate that these advanced water treatment techniques exist and are reliable," Haddad said. "The best way to do that is to show the world that students can build them and they will work."<br />
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About 300 students have been involved with the project, Haddad said. It's open to students of all majors who are interested in sustainable water supply. He hopes to have the lab operating this summer, if the lease is approved.<br />
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While the technology needed to purify wastewater for a variety of uses already exists, Haddad said, every system is different, such as how dirty the water is and how clean it needs to become.<br />
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Haddad said the system that students have designed for WaterLab is a five-step process to produce drinkable water. The first step is slow sand filtration, which removes many impurities. Then it goes through a process to remove elements such as phosphorus and nitrogen. Next are advanced filtration, reverse osmosis and, finally, ultraviolet radiation to prevent microscopic organisms from reproducing, which effectively kills them in about an hour.<br />
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After those steps are complete, WaterLab will test the results to see if the water is, in fact, potable, and then it will be treated again in the city's normal plant.<br />
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"There aren't a lot of plants that have a goal of potable," Haddad said. "When you look to the end of the 21st century, that's going to be a big need."<br />
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"There will be no out of pocket costs; it's basically self-funded," said Kevin Silviera, Watsonville's wastewater division manager. UCSC will pay the city a one-time fee of $18,000 to lease the extra space at the Water Resources Center, at 500 Clearwater Lane, for five years.<br />
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As global need for freshwater increases, the technology of turning sewage into drinking water could become indispensable, and public opinion will be playing catch up.<br />
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The City Council is scheduled to vote on the lease agreement at its 6:30 p.m. meeting Tuesday, at the Watsonville Council Chamber, 275 Main St.<br />
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WATSONVILLE -- When the Watsonville City Council passed a new, slimmer budget earlier this month, Parks and Community Services' summer drop-in programs at Marinovich and Callaghan parks landed on the chopping block.</div>
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But before that meeting had even ended, local nonprofits were jumping at the chance to save the free lunch programs.<br />
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"I was shocked and alarmed" about the decision to cut the programs, said Chris Johnson-Lyons, head of the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County Inc., a Watsonville-based nonprofit. "If the issue is not having adequate staffing, the Community Action Board can offer some help," she recalled telling the council.<br />
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The board did just that. Within two weeks, Johnson-Lyons had secured the resources to keep lunch on the menu at Callaghan Park.<br />
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Unlike the free and reduced-price lunch programs offered during the school year, kids don't have to prove income-eligibility to benefit from the summer lunch program.<br />
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"Hundreds of low-income youth depend on this program in the summer," Johnson-Lyons said. "Nutritious food may be more expensive than non-nutritious food, and this is a way to help ensure that children are getting a healthy lunch. It's a small but important victory. ... We have to look for those and we have to remember those."<br />
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In addition to keeping the lunch program, the board is now training and paying two high school students and one college student to supervise activities and serve the free meals, which are available to kids and teens ages 18 or younger from Tuesday through Friday. The program starts Tuesday.<br />
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Anthony Saavedra, 16, is one of the students who will be working at Callaghan Park.<br />
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"I thought that would be a really good thing to do, helping kids who don't get enough to eat," Saavedra said.<br />
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A senior at Pajaro Valley High School, Saavedra said he has experience taking care of kids as a camp counselor and a baby sitter for his brothers.<br />
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While Johnson-Lyons was volunteering one solution, Margarita Cortez, executive director of Loaves and Fishes Inc., a nonprofit kitchen and food pantry in Watsonville, was texting City Manager Carlos Palacios to propose another.</div>
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"I was watching (the meeting) on Community Television from home," Cortez said. "So, I started communicating that we were still around. I started hearing those comments that there weren't going to be any other programs around."<br />
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Loaves and Fishes serves a free, made-from-scratch lunch at noon every weekday to adults and children.<br />
The lunch program at Marinovich Park also would have been canceled, but the city Public Works and Utilities Department, which wasn't as deeply affected by the budget cuts, volunteered to provide staffing. Marinovich Park will host a hands-on, environmental science workshop, where kids will have supervision working on activities designed to teach the basic principles of science.<br />
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La Manzana Community Resources provides food for the Callaghan and Marinovich programs, as well as six more in Watsonville and five in Santa Cruz. But the Parks and Community Services Department was responsible for staffing the sites under their purview. With the budget cuts, the department couldn't afford to staff all four of its locations for the program.<br />
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Brad Blachly, assistant director of the Parks and Community Services Department, said the 3 percent budget cut translated to about $108,000 for his department.<br />
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Blachly said the drop-in program serves 35 to 60 meals a day, depending on the location. His department tried to be pragmatic when choosing which programs to cut.<br />
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"We know Loaves and Fishes is right next door to Marinovich Park," Blachly said of the organization less than a block from Marinovich. "There are other options close by for children to get a meal."<br />
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Thanks to the Public Works and Utilities Department keeping the Marinovich program alive, Loaves and Fishes still won't be seeing an extra spike in demand this summer. But the modest community kitchen, located in a renovated Victorian-style home at 150 Second St., is already busy. In the winter, when fewer people have work in agriculture, the kitchen serves 100 to 150 meals a day, said Cortez, Loaves and Fishes' director.</div>
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Summer is normally the low season for hunger.<br />
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"In 2009, we only saw 30 to 50 people in the summer," Cortez said. But Tuesday's lunch drew more than 90 diners.<br />
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"We plan accordingly to meet that need," she said. "We just try to increase our fundraising, because we know that if we don't meet that need, our families will go without."<br />
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Last year, Loaves and Fishes served more than 25,000 meals to about 500 individuals, Cortez said.<br />
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Matilde Barrera, 34, is one of the regulars. She said Loaves and Fishes provides a sense of community, with many of the same people coming for lunch every day and the same volunteers serving.<br />
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Barrera was at the head of the lunch line at noon last week with her 2-year-old son and husband for a hearty meal of beans, rice, quesadillas, salad, milk and abundant strawberries.<br />
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"Where I'm from, in Michoacan (Mexico), there's none of this," Barrera said in Spanish. "They don't help people. That's why I came here."<br />
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<li>Callaghan Park, 225 Sudden St., 12:30-1:30 p.m., Tuesday-Friday</li>
<li>Marinovich Park, 118 W. Second St., 12:15-1:15 p.m., Tuesday-Friday</li>
<li>La Manzana Community Resources 521 Main St., 12:15-1:15 p.m., Monday-Thursday</li>
<li>Neighborhood Services, 231 Union St., 12:10-1:10 p.m., Monday-Thursday</li>
<li>Ramsay Park, 1301 Main St., 12:15-1:15 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday</li>
<li>San Andreas, 295 San Andreas Road, 12:45-1:45 p.m., Monday-Thursday</li>
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<li>Beach Flats, 133 Leibrandt Ave., noon to 1 p.m., Monday- Friday</li>
<li>Familia Center, 711 E. Cliff Drive, noon to 1 p.m., Monday-Friday</li>
<li>Boys & Girls Club Santa Cruz, 543 Center St., noon to 1 p.m., Monday-Friday</li>
<li>Santa Cruz Teen Center, 301 Center St., noon to 1 p.m., Monday-Friday</li>
<li>Boys & Girls Club Shoreline Middle School, 855 17th Ave., noon to 1 p.m., Monday-Friday</li>
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WATSONVILLE -- For Leticia Valdivia and flocks of other parents, summer has long presented a struggle to keep kids engaged in reading and learning, above television and games.</div>
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Valdivia said curiosity drew her into the Watsonville Public Library. She happened to arrive in the middle of drop-in craft time for preschool kids, a weekly event that's part of the library's Summer Reading Program. She signed up both her kids for the program and they sat down at a table with craft supplies and books.<br />
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"I need a place to keep him motivated," Valdivia said of her 6-year-old son. "And, for me, the library's the best place for that."<br />
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The decades-old tradition of summer reading programs at public libraries continues to grow and thrive in Watsonville, in step with the young community it serves.<br />
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The library offers free, bilingual programs for kids and teens, and participation is booming for both.<br />
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The library has grown, too.<br />
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Located in the Watsonville Civic Plaza, the public library occupies two floors of spacious rooms with high ceilings, large windows, cheery light and comfortable chairs. Even the 110,000 volumes have room to spread out. The space was designed to accommodate at least 40,000 more, said the library's director, Carol Heitzig, and most shelves in the children's section have empty space for the collection to expand.<br />
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"They said, 'It's too big! Why'd you build it so big?'" said Hannah Clement, the librarian for the young adults section, recalling the reactions of first-time patrons of the new location, where the library has been since 2008.<br />
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"I asked them, 'Well, what do you think Watsonville's going to be like in 20 years?'" Clement said. "We didn't build a library for this year, we built a library for 20 or 25 years from now."<br />
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Demographically, the city is unusually young, with 31.6 percent of the population younger than 18, according to the 2010 U.S. Census, compared with just less than 25 percent for the rest of California and 24 percent nationwide.<br />
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Those numbers mean not only that Watsonville can expect to keep growing in coming years, but also that a lot of kids are looking for something to do.<br />
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"If they don't have anything better to do, that's when they start to get in trouble," Clement said of her specialty age group.<br />
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In the past few years, participation in the teen program has increased about 50 percent.<br />
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About 90 teens have signed up for this summer's program. A variety of events and prizes, including a Kindle Fire, paid for by the nonprofit Friends of The Watsonville Public Library, help keep them motivated and engaged. But the teen group can still be a tough audience.<br />
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"When teens sign up, being teens, I know I might never see them again," Clement said. "I give them a free book, so I know I've put a book in their hands."<br />
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The children's program, with activities designed for kids from 6 months old to 11 years old, tends to be an easier sell.<br />
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Susan Nilsson, the children's librarian, said about 300 kids in that age range already are signed up, and she expects 400 to 500 registrants before the program ends July 26.<br />
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"No matter what they read, it helps keep up their skills," Nilsson said. "I recommend comic books. They have great vocabulary."<br />
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The activities offered are frequent and varied, so turnout depends on the event and the day.<br />
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Upcoming events include a reading and activities with Deborahlise Mota and Ruth Mota, authors of the book "Don't Bug the Bugs" on Wednesday, and performances by the Banana Slug String Band on July 17, and Boswick the Clown on July 23.<br />
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Many other events recur weekly, including bilingual story times and reading buddies sessions with volunteers from Youth Now.<br />
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Nilsson said about 40 kids usually come to the drop-in, preschool craft time, from 10:30 to noon Thursdays.<br />
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"My favorite thing to do is arts and crafts," Alexcia Thomas-Martinez, 6, said as she happily drew a crayon self-portrait on the back of her paper cupcake craft.<br />
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Alexcia and her younger brother, Izaya, 5, frequent the library with their grandmother.<br />
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Newcomers are always welcome in the Summer Reading Program. There are no required meeting times and readers can sign up at any time during the summer.<br />
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SANTA CRUZ -- This weekend, Nick Doan gets to take a break from his second round of radiation therapy and enjoy a community benefit organized in his honor by doting, lifelong friends in his Westside community.</div>
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A construction worker and beloved baseball coach at Santa Cruz High School, Doan, 33, has spent the past two months fighting an aggressive, inoperable form of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme.<br />
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Doctors discovered the tumor when Nick started having seizures about a month after his wife, Kate, gave birth to their second child. The cancer first appeared three years ago, in Nick's left frontal lobe. He went through surgery, radiation and chemotherapy to stop it. Now, another tumor is growing in an area of the brain used for language. Doctors don't want to operate and risk leaving Nick unable to communicate.<br />
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"On the lighter side, he's made it three years, and most people don't," Kate said with a tense smile, while nursing her baby boy, Hudson. "So, I don't underestimate him for anything."<br />
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In the face of a daunting diagnosis, the family's outlook is one of strength and positivity. It's impossible not to see that in Kate as she sits at a table in the shade outside Studio 831, a Westside gym where she exercises and where Nick's benefit will take place.<br />
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Paige Nutt Smith, a lifelong friend of both Nick and Kate, owns the gym, and it's also where Kate, 34, does her daily CrossFit workout. CrossFit involves a constant variation of functional movements, from Olympic weightlifting to cardio to gymnastics exercises.<br />
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Even with a baby in her arms, she looks more like a professional athlete than a woman who gave birth in March.<br />
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Normally, Kate works as a per-diem nurse, filling in open shifts when full-time nurses can't. But while taking care of Nick, plus their 5-year-old daughter and an infant, she hasn't been able to work. The Doans are now depending on help from friends and family and Emergency Medi-Cal insurance.<br />
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"I tried to get private insurance for him a couple of years ago," Kate said. "But with his history, they just basically laugh at you."<br />
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Two weeks ago, Nutt Smith and another close friend, Nicole Carter, came up with the idea to hold a benefit to raise money for the Doans and to bring the community together around them.<br />
The women said they've been touched by the community's outpouring of support.<br />
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Businesses have donated numerous items for the raffle and silent auction that will be part of Sunday's event, including massages, haircuts, wine, kiteboarding lessons, skateboards, rounds of golf and stays at the Hilton and Hotel Paradox. The website Nutt Smith set up for people to donate to the family has brought in more than $13,400 from 130-plus donors.<br />
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Carter and Smith gushed about Nick's contagious smile, dry sense of humor and passion for his community and for children.<br />
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"He's the guy who will introduce himself to you and give you the handshake before anyone else will," Carter said.<br />
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The past two weeks have been a blur of planning for her and Nutt Smith. They've been promoting the benefit with fliers at local businesses and social networking.<br />
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"I just want people to come who want to be here," Kate said. "It'll be perfect however it is. It could be five people or it could be 105."<br />
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Carter said more than 1,100 Facebook invites have gone out and 111 people have given their virtual word that they would come.<br />
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With CrossFit workouts, a kids' obstacle course, beer and Jason Williams, of the local band Ribsys Nickel, as master of ceremonies, the three women are hoping the event will help keep up the positive energy Kate and Nick fill their lives with.<br />
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"This isn't an, 'Oh, I'm so sad,' situation," Kate said. "This is a very tough and tragic situation, but we're going to make it."<br />
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WHAT: Benefit event for Nick Doan, a local man who is fighting an aggressive type of brain cancer. The event will include CrossFit workouts for all ages and levels, an obstacle course workout and a bounce house for kids, a barbecue, beer, a silent auction and a raffle.<br />WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday. CrossFit workout for all ages and all levels at 10. Advanced CrossFit workout at 11. Obstacle course for kids at 11:30. Barbecue and beer to follow.<br />WHERE: Studio 831, 2351 Mission St., Santa Cruz<br />COST: $40 donation for one or two workouts, a hat, barbecue lunch and beer; $25 donation for one or two workouts and a hat; $20 donation for one or two workouts; $15 donation for barbecue lunch and beer.<br />DETAILS: Email <a href="mailto:studio831@gmail.com">studio831@gmail.com</a><br />TO DONATE: <a href="http://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/8gj2/nick-doans-fund">www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/8gj2/nick-doans-fund</a></div>
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With officer Michael Birley, 44, carrying the torch, the runners, including Chief John Weiss, took the last leg of the day's relay -- a seven-mile stint from the Santa Cruz Hilton in Scotts Valley to the Glenwood Fire Station.<br />
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The torch started in Watsonville on Wednesday morning. Police officers from Watsonville, Capitola, Santa Cruz and UC Santa Cruz joined officers from the CHP, California State Parks, Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office and the District Attorney's office to deliver the flame to the Scotts Valley team.<br />
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The relay began June 14 in Tulare County and, after being carried by more than 500 law enforcement personnel, will finish at the University of California Davis on June 28. The arrival of the torch will mark the official start of the 2013 Special Olympics Northern California Summer Games. The games will take place June 28-30, with more than 700 athletes competing in aquatics, bocce, tennis and track and field.<br />
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The torch run is the largest single fundraising effort for Special Olympics Northern California, which serves more than 14,000 adults and children with developmental disabilities throughout the year. Law enforcement personnel give a $25 donation to run in the event and can collect additional donations.</div>
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SANTA CRUZ -- The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History will continue its weekly story hours on Thursday with a baby birds-themed gathering, and will launch its biweekly Summertime Saturdays program this weekend with a day devoted to snakes.</div>
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The museum hosts Natural History Story Time, or "Nat Time," for short, every Thursday afternoon with a different theme every week. Summertime Saturdays are every other Saturday, beginning this week, with the final event on Aug. 10.<br />
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During the rest of the year, Saturdays are for Families in Nature, a field trip program. In the summer, the program changes gears and hosts families on museum grounds, usually drawing about 200 guests over the course of the day. Every event has a different theme, but the museum's Education Manager Deborah McArthur said each is a festival-type event, with outdoor activities including bubbles, sidewalk chalk and an ice cream stand starting when the museum opens at 10 a.m. in addition to stories, crafts, music and other theme-specific activities starting at 11 a.m.<br />
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"Summertime is the major season for our family programs," McArthur said. "We want people to have the opportunity to come together and celebrate nature regularly."<br />
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Nat Time, which started last spring, runs throughout the year, but summer is the program's biggest season, McArthur said. The program often moves outdoors at the end of the half-hour session for topical exploration of the nearby beaches.<br />
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This week's baby birds themed story time will include tours of the museum's nest exhibit and nest-building.<br />
Nat Time is scheduled for every Thursday of the summer except July 4.<br />
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The city used to fund the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, but stopped in 2009. The museum now operates entirely as a community-funded, nonprofit and depends on donations, entrance fees and membership fees, as well as volunteer docents.<br />
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The museum will hold a docent training session from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday. The training is open to anyone interested in becoming a docent. Volunteers can also sign up to help with a variety of events on a one-time-only basis at <a href="http://santacruzmuseum.org/">santacruzmuseum.org</a> or by calling 831-420-6115, ext. 15.<br />
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IF YOU GO<br /><br />WHAT: Families in Nature: Summertime Saturdays. Family-oriented, educational events at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.<br />WHEN: 11 a.m. Saturdays, June 22, July 13, July 26, Aug. 10.<br />WHERE: 1305 E. Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz<br />COST: Free with admission, which costs $4 for adults, $2 for seniors, and is free for museum members, kids and teens younger than 18.<br />DETAILS: <a href="http://santacruzmuseum.org/">santacruzmuseum.org</a><br /></div>
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IF YOU GO<br /><br />WHAT: Natural History Story Time<br />WHEN: 3:30 to 4 p.m. Thursdays, except July 4<br />WHERE: 1305 E. Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz<br />COST: Free with admission, which costs $4 for adults, $2 for seniors, and is free for museum members, kids and teens younger than 18.<br />DETAILS: <a href="http://santacruzmuseum.org/">santacruzmuseum.org</a></div>
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WATSONVILLE -- The Monterey Bay Greenhouse Growers Open House launched its fourth annual greenhouse tour Friday with an amateur floral design competition among four spirited, local politicians and businessmen.</div>
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Watsonville Mayor Lowell Hurst won the competition and later declared, "I'd rather cut flowers than the city budget."</div>
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Local was the theme of the event, which continues Saturday when six area greenhouses open their doors for free public tours of the farms where they grow roses, succulents, edible flowers and more.</div>
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Even with a diverse and viable local greenhouse industry, 80 percent of cut flowers in the U.S. are imported, with the majority coming from Colombia and Ecuador, according to Kasey Cronquist, chief executive officer of the California Cut Flower Commission based in Watsonville.</div>
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Consumers have more than one choice for local flowers. California boasts 225 cut flower growers, providing an annual economic benefit of $10.3 billion to the state, Cronquist said. Monterey and Santa Cruz counties are home to $700 million worth of cut flower activity.</div>
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Every day, seven to 10 freight planes loaded with cut flowers land in the U.S. from South America, Cronquist said. In preparation for Valentine's Day, 35 planes arrive daily. And local farms aren't the only things that suffer.</div>
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"Americans are so price focused that we want to buy cheap flowers because we don't think they last very long in the vase," Prinzing said. "The reason we don't think they last long is because we've been disappointed by flowers that are imported. If you buy local flowers, you are getting flowers that were cut yesterday or today, so they last a lot longer."</div>
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In Prinzing's book, "The 50 Mile Bouquet," she discusses the resurgence of American flower farming, an industry with a rich local history.</div>
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Watsonville farmer George Marciel's family has lived the rise and recent decline of that industry. His great-grandfather was the first farmer to grow roses commercially in California.</div>
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Marciel said Pajaro Valley was home to more than 100 rose growers 30 years ago. Now, two remain.</div>
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A fourth-generation rose propagator, Marciel is responsible for selecting which new varieties of roses will be grown at California Pajarosa Floral, one of the greenhouses on Saturday's tour. Each year, more than a hundred different genetic samples arrive from breeders in Italy, France, Germany, Holland and New Zealand. Marciel monitors them and selects varieties based on factors such as color and disease-resistance. This year, he said he chose three new varieties to clone and grow. Some years, none make the cut.</div>
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EDINA, Minn. -- Mari Ruddy, a woman with Santa Cruz County connections who had been missing in Minnesota since Tuesday, was found unconscious but alive on Thursday, according to police there.</div>
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Ruddy has Type 1 diabetes and her family worried that she did not have her pump, insulin or other supplies with her when she went missing early Tuesday afternoon. A missing persons report was filed that night, according to St. Paul police.<br />
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Late Thursday morning, a man noticed Ruddy reclined in the driver's seat of her car in the parking lot of a park in Edina, a first-ring suburb of St. Paul, according to Kaylin Martin, public information officer for the Edina Police Department. The man said he thought she was napping but called police when he saw her there four hours later, at 2:45 p.m.<br />
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"There's no foul play suspected," Martin said.<br />
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But some questions remain unanswered.<br />
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"We are not 100 percent sure (how long she had been unconscious in her car)," Martin said.<br />
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Ruddy was taken to Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, where she remains. Hospital officials could not comment on her condition, but a statement was posted from Ruddy's family early Thursday evening on the website <a href="http://findmariruddy.com/">findmariruddy.com</a> that she was stable in the intensive care unit.<br />
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The website, which was established to coordinate volunteers to search for Ruddy and spread the word about her disappearance, first displayed this post that Ruddy had been found on Thursday afternoon: "Mari has just been found unconscious, but alive. We will provide more details as soon as we can. Privacy is requested until more information can be shared. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts."<br />
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Ruddy is the founder and director of TeamWILD, a company that supports and coaches people with diabetes who want to be physically active. She is an avid cyclist and triathlete.<br />
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According to her LinkedIn profile, Ruddy worked as a Spanish language teacher at Harbor High School from 1988 to 1994 and was an assistant principal at Aptos High School from 1994 to 1998. She worked at Watsonville High School as a conflict resolution consultant from 1999 to 2001 before moving to Denver. She has lived in St. Paul for less than a year.<br />
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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A former Santa Cruz County teacher has been reported missing from her home in St. Paul, police say.<br />
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Mari Ruddy, who worked in Santa Cruz County high schools for 12 years, was last seen about noon Tuesday at the St. Paul home she moved into less than a year ago.<br />
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Ruddy, 48, has Type 1 diabetes and her family believes she may only have enough insulin to last two days. A missing persons report was filed with the St. Paul Police Department Tuesday night. A website, <a href="http://findmariruddy.com/">findmariruddy.com</a>, also was launched in an effort to find her.<br />
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Ruddy uses an insulin pump and needs insulin to keep herself alive. Her family believes she does not have her blood glucose meter, extra insulin or other pump supplies with her.<br />
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The website reports that she left home in her car, a late 1990s or early 2000s model, dark green Honda Civic with a bike rack on the roof and a red bumper sticker with the word "namaste." The license plate number of her vehicle is 102-LNC, according to the website. Ruddy's purse and cellphone were found at her home.<br />
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"At this point, it's not deemed to be suspicious," said Howie Padilla, spokesman for the St. Paul police. The missing persons unit is investigating.<br />
The website reports that her family is worried that she may try to harm herself and may be in "a place with spiritual significance, beauty or seclusion."<br />
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According to her LinkedIn profile, Ruddy worked as a Spanish language teacher at Harbor High School from 1988 to 1994 and was an assistant principal at Aptos High School from 1994 to 1998. She worked at Watsonville High School as a conflict resolution consultant from 1999 to 2001. About 10 years ago, she moved to Denver, according to her friend Jolene Kemos, and moved to St. Paul less than a year ago. Ruddy and Kemos worked together at Aptos High and remain close.<br />
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"She's my mentor and friend and I love her very much," Kemos of Santa Cruz said. "It's beyond belief that she's out there somewhere. She's well loved by many people in Santa Cruz and beyond."<br />
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Ruddy is the founder and director of TeamWILD, a company that supports and coaches people with diabetes who want to be physically active. She is an avid cyclist and triathlete.<br />
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Information is available at <a href="http://findmariruddy.com/">findmariruddy.com</a>. There is also a Facebook group for people who want to help at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/172257126284014/?notif_t=group_r2j">www.facebook.com/groups/172257126284014/?notif_t=group_r2j</a>.</div>
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SCOTTS VALLEY -- After 20 years in the New York area, Santa Cruz native Craig Wallace Dale will be back home Saturday to teach The Power of Light, his first workshop outside of the urban sprawl of New York.<br />
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The photographic lighting workshop, which Dale developed in partnership with Photoflex, a Watsonville-based company that makes lighting equipment, will soon be taught by other instructors across the U.S. and Canada.<br />
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More workshop varieties will be coming soon, but Dale said they always will debut locally. Saturday's will be at the Hilton in Scotts Valley from 1-5 p.m.<br />
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"People in Santa Cruz are so photographically engaged and savvy that it just makes sense to do them in Santa Cruz," Dale said of the inaugural workshops.<br />
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He first worked for Photoflex in the late 80s and got a taste of travel managing the company's factories in Asia. He began to spend time in New York for the job and found himself drawn to the city.<br />
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"I realized I was sitting in my office in Santa Cruz dreaming about New York," Dale, now 48, recalled.<br />
He shares a home with his 6-year-old daughter in Hoboken, N.J., where his studio is located, not far from the city that drew him east.<br />
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"If I look out my window right now, I'm looking at the Empire State Building," Dale said in an interview from his studio.<br />
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In 2008, Dale finished a master of fine arts degree just as the recession tightened publishers' belts, slimming the market for fine art photography. With a student loan to repay and a young family to provide for, Dale branched out to save his business, opening a school called Beyond The Photograph out of his studio.<br />
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He's taught more than 300 students in private lessons and small classes, usually with fewer than a dozen students. Dale said his classes go beyond pretty pictures and photo gadgetry.<br />
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"Anyone can make a better photograph," Dale said. "But the real challenge is making a more meaningful photograph. What I'm teaching people is to make photographs that tell more complete stories."<br />
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In his years as a professional photographer, Dale has told many stories through environmental portraiture.<br />
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"(Photography) has allowed me to travel all over the world and meet so many people, from an Academy Award-winning actress like Susan Sarandon, to a rickshaw driver in India and everyone in between," Dale said.<br />
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