Opportunity
The San Lorenzo Valley Post welcomes January 2021
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SLV Support for Families
Adopt-a-Family program brings relief during the holidays By Julie Horner With so many displaced by the CZU Complex Fire, Ben Lomond local Julie Zabalza came up with a plan to help bring some stress relief and a much needed feeling of support to valley families in need. “Around the middle of September, I had this idea to create an adopt-a-family…
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Christmas at Home
Santa Hangs Up His Cap By Julie Horner Santa knows everyone. “When I was in the home video distribution business I got to work with Gene Kelly, Frank Zappa, Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin, Charlie Daniels, Dennis Hopper…now that’s a story right there.” He remembers seeing Leon Redbone at the Catalyst. Standing at the bar later, he recalls hearing the…
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Gathering the Good
The 2020 Estate vintage is lost. The vines are still heavy with fruit that will now be cut away, too smoky to be palatable. “The grapes are way off the scale smoke damaged,” Big Basin winery owner Bradley Brown said. Workers in the field have dropped the clusters off the vine onto the ground. “It’s kind of sad. They look...
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Heading Home
Animal Rescue group reunites fire victims with their lost pets in the Santa Cruz Mountains
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Under Crisp December Stars
By Julie Horner There is a secret spot in the forest near home in Boulder Creek. Castaways for the holidays by choice, we pack a feast and our musical instruments and head northwest a few miles on a narrow byway badly pitted and pocked but all to ourselves above Big Basin. Conspicuously the sole vehicle in the pullout, we scurry…
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Stationed Without Sanction
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…
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Clearing the Way
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…
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Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
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…
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Abundance
By Julie Horner Live music has made a cautious comeback in Santa Cruz County and evenings are full to brimming. Felton Music Hall and Michael’s on Main have flung their doors wide to offer distanced dining with a show weekend nights. Other venues with outdoor spaces like the Summit House on Highway 17, Redwood Pizzeria in Felton, and Davenport Roadhouse…
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