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Stationed Without Sanction

November 6, 2020March 18, 2021 slvpost.comanimal rescue, CZUFire0 comment

Boulder Creek Native Leads the Second Responders By Julie Horner Ryan Okrant was born and raised north of Bear Creek Road in Boulder Creek. When he heard that his parents had been evacuated from the CZU fire, he hopped on the first plane he could get. He had seen on social media that pet owners were agonizing over not being… Read More

Columnists Fire Local News

Clearing the Way

November 5, 2020March 18, 2021 slvpost.comCZUFire0 comment

Bruce Baker Falls Danger Trees Head On By Julie Horner Here’s to the unsung timber fallers who just go home after the day’s work. “They eat good, sleep good, get up in the morning, and be an athlete,” says Boulder Creek’s Bruce Baker. “A timber faller doesn’t last forever. They get injured or worse. I’m living a dream in real… Read More

Community Fire Local News

The Little Red Schoolhouse on Alba Road

November 4, 2020November 20, 2020 slvpost.com0 comment

By Lucia MacLean It stood for 125 years. Since the day it was built in 1895 it has been a rallying point for the local community. It first saw service as a grammar school and Sunday School, always morphing into whatever the community needed. When the neighborhood needed mail service, or seeing the road maintained, it provided a central focal… Read More

Columnists Fire Local News

Dark Clouds and Silver Linings

November 3, 2020March 18, 2021 slvpost.combouldercreek0 comment

Camp Krem Spirit Undaunted After Fire By Julie Horner Founded in 1957 by special needs educator, Alex Krem, Sr., Boulder Creek’s family run campground created especially for “giving exceptional people the opportunity to be themselves” has succumbed to the CZU August Lightning Complex fire. The CZU fire destroyed 20 buildings in all including the rustic Jon Lucchese Center, and has… Read More

debris flow evacuation map San Lorenzo Valley Bonny Doon

Fire Local News

Debris Flow Evacuation Map Released

November 2, 2020November 15, 2020 slvpost.com0 comment

Map shows San Lorenzo Valley, Bonny Doon, Davenport, and Swanton locations most likely to face evacuation orders due to debris flow hazard risk during the upcoming rainy season. County Press Release: County Press Release: Following the 2017 Thomas Fire in Santa Barbara County, debris flows – fast-moving, deadly masses of mud, rocks, boulders, entire trees – around the community of… Read More

Albert the Peacock Last Chance Road Fundraiser

Animal Rescue Fire Recovery

Albert the Peacock Boulder Creek Strong Fundraiser

November 1, 2020December 30, 2020 slvpost.comfundraiser0 comment

“A teeny teeny little creek in a deep ravine” provided a natural firebreak that saved Jenny Gosk’s home in Boulder Creek. “When we evacuated I took my iPad and drew the peacock—somebody posted him trotting along in the apocalypse and I used that as a basis. I used the time to not think about whether our house was there, or… Read More

Common Roots Farm San Lorenzo Valley Post

Columns Farms

Rediscovering our Roots at Common Roots Farm

November 1, 2020December 31, 2020 slvpost.comfarms, Food0 comment

Common Roots Farm in Santa Cruz County - founded by Heidi Cartan in 2016 as a place where people with disabilities could fully participate n the running of a farm. Read More

Fire Recovery

From the Ashes: Last Chance Strong

November 1, 2020December 30, 2020 slvpost.comfundraiser0 comment

By Asia Carpenter My parents along with their entire community of Last Chance recently lost their home and nearly everything they owned to the CZU Lightning Complex Fires. My parents built this home by hand over 30 years ago. It was the only family home that my brothers and I knew. My brothers, both firefighters, continued for days to fight… Read More

Astrology Columns

NOVEMBER’S COSMIC WEATHER REPORT FROM CATIE CADGE

November 1, 2020December 12, 2020 slvpost.com0 comment

By Catie Cadge Welcome to the Santa Cruz Cosmic Weather Report – Evolutionary Astrology of the moment, your moment in time, our collective moment of change! Early November is Scorpio season, a time for regeneration. I love the Japanese expression, mono no aware, the fleetingness of life. Leaves change and fall, everything eventually fades, all passes away so life can… Read More

Columns Fire Music

We Will Dance and Smile Again

November 1, 2020December 10, 2020 slvpost.com0 comment

By Jon Payne This house, this land, this community was at the center of the universe to me. It was a special house, built and designed in a 70s lodge style by a family who lived in it for decades. It dawns on me, as it has before, that other people have held this home deeply in their hearts and… Read More