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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

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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

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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

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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

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Safely to Shelter

November 1, 2020September 22, 2023 slvpost.comsanta cruz county0 comment

Volunteering at the Emergency Animal Shelter during the CZU Fire By Wendy Volgelgesang I don’t recall when I’ve felt more helpless than during the CZU Lightning Complex Fire. Learning about friend’s homes burning to the ground, and the overall magnitude of displacement and loss in the community sent me into a state of anxiety, sadness, and helplessness that I couldn’t… Read More

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The Big Fire

November 1, 2020November 14, 2020 slvpost.comfire, SanLorenzoValley, the big fire0 comment

By Randall Brown The summer of 1904 in California was hot and dry. Labor Day marchers in Santa Cruz sweltered under record high temperatures and the following day was hotter. Then, early Wednesday morning, the town’s electric system shut down. “All street cars were stopped,” reported the Sentinel, “and an almost weird quiet as of some impending calamity reigned throughout… Read More

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IOOF Cemetery: Boulder Creek’s Overlooked Treasure

November 1, 2020March 18, 2021 slvpost.combouldercreek, cemetery0 comment

The Boulder Creek IOOF Cemetery By Julie Horner, Lisa Robinson, and Nick Morris Tucked quietly into Ben Lomond Mountain where few know to tread, the CZU Lightning Complex fire paid a visit to the Boulder Creek Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Cemetery. The lush woods behind the cemetery are burned to the gates, and the undergrowth of ivy, huckleberry,… Read More

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Winter Worry: Post-fire Debris Flows

November 1, 2020December 8, 2020 slvpost.comdebrisflow0 comment

According to Kent Edler, assistant director of the county public works department, the fire burned the upper soil layers, creating water-repellent soil. Steep, burned, and denuded slopes deposit rocks, soil, and trees into drainages. Water will pocket and pond in areas where tree roots burned out. Water that used to flow underground might now flow overland. Debris can alter stream… Read More

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PG&E Tree Removal without Approval

October 29, 2020November 13, 2020 slvpost.comczulightningcomplex, PG&E, propertyrights, redwoods0 comment

October 29, 2020 Dear Members of the Board of Supervisors, County Counsel Heath and County Administrative Officer Palacios, As your constituents and residents of Santa Cruz County and the San Lorenzo Valley and Bonny Doon, we are requesting that the Board more closely examine PG&E’s actions following the CZU fires. We are concerned that PG&E is using the fire aftermath… Read More

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Boomeria – The King Always Wins

October 23, 2020November 13, 2020 slvpost.comBonnyDoon, boomeria, czulightningcomplexfire0 comment

Boomeria in Bonny Doon Suffers a Scorching In Bonny Doon the Warnella Fire and the Waddell Fire combined to make a firestorm. The fire climbed up into the Santa Cruz Mountains burning most everything in its path. Boomeria, built by the Boomers starting around 1957, survived by the heroic efforts of friends and neighbors. A colorful Renaissance estate created by… Read More