New Year Editor’s Note BY BRAd kava Can we make the new normal better? That’s our goal for 2021, to take what we’ve learned during the long shelter-in-place directive and save some of the best things for the new year. Those include more board games and less video games; more walks and fewer drives; more socializing with neighbors; more time spent looking over homework and school work; more time to slow down and quit running around like an Uber service. One thing we’ve learned is that the county’s bike lanes aren’t safe. We’ve spent more time cruising on two wheels than ever and now we are really worried about what…
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Bigfoot Coloring Page
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Local Artist Logan Ryan
Logan Ryan Local Artist Fourth Grade | San lorenzo valley elementary Logan Ryan is a fourth grade student at San Lorenzo Valley Elementary. Besides drawing he loves playing with his two hamsters, Peanut and Goober, playing the piano, baking sweets and playing video games. Logan has always enjoyed drawing and prefers drawing in pencil.
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Paying for your Santa Cruz Home
The Santa Cruz real estate market is being reshaped by out-of-towners moving in now that so many people can work anywhere they choose. However, it seems not to have occurred to many people here that they can do the same thing: get an “out of town” job without the commute out of town. There are many well-paying jobs “over the hill” that no longer require a daily commute.
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Eco Tours
One of our guiding philosophies is that viewing the natural beauty of the Elkhorn Slough should have minimal impact on the wildlife and environment
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Giving Birth During a Pandemic
The silver lining of the pandemic is the added layer of insulation that it gives new parents.
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Lovingkindness Meditation
Practicing loving kindness meditation ultimately changes how we relate to ourselves and others; we start to feel less isolated and more connected.
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Saving the Monarchs
The decline of the monarch butterfly began in the 1980s and continues today but there is hope. Many species have been brought back.
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Carry Forward
The greatest treasure is appreciating coming together and gathering. Truly being grateful for it
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January Celebrations
Friday 1New Year’s Day Saturday 2Happy Mew Year for Cats DayNational Science Fiction Day Sunday 3 International Mind-Body Wellness Day an opportunity to celebrate how a healthy mind and healthy emotions means a healthy body! The mind, body and soul connection plays an integral role in our overall health and well-being. Our emotions, purpose, spirituality, experiences, goals, beliefs, habits and actions all have an important impact on mind-body harmony and overall health. That is why we celebrate International Mind-Body Wellness Day at the start of each year, because nothing is more important than creating the best you possible, and what better time than the new year for a new you?JRR…
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Face to Face School
Demonstrating an admirable resilience in the face of a pandemic, students have adapted and adjusted to the times, and teachers have shown that their valiant efforts and unwavering passion can and will educate children across many platforms and over a variety of wavelengths.
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Local Transportation Project Funding Approved
The funding works to address a number of issues that are particularly acute in the mid and south county areas.
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Childbirth Classes
Families have let go of many activities as they shelter together in the safety of their homes during the COVID-19 outbreak. But one activity expectant parents - especially first-time parents - should not give up is attending a good childbirth class.
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January Teacher of the Month
Krista Holt is pictured below with her puppets, Puppy and Snail, who are important “friends” in our class and help us with our Social Emotional & Growth Mindset lessons each week. “We end every class meeting with the class poem, ‘Let love shine through in all you do,’ says Holt.
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Positive Parenting Vital to Well-being
Dear parents, foster parents, grandparents, relative caregivers, and other adults raising children and teens: We’re celebrating you in January 2021!
