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A Day at De Laveaga Disc Golf Course
CommunitySports May 22, 2012, by Jacob Pierce
It’s Sunday afternoon, and Asa Maestas, a Soquel High School junior, is standing on a concrete tee at De Laveaga Disc Golf Course’s fourth hole teaching a novice—me—how to play. Maestas instructs me to throw “nip to nip,” demonstrating as he pulls his disc horizontally across his chest and extends it out toward our target, a metal basket that appears to be several light years away.
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Drawn to Santa Cruz, A Cancer Patient Rethinks Life
Community May 22, 2012, by Maria Grusauskas
Less than three years ago, Jennifer Heskett Yamaguchi laid on an examination table in Tucson and watched the monitor as a urologist sent a camera into her bladder. What she saw turned her world upside down: more than 20 cancerous tumors—too many to even count—taking over the right side of her bladder.
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Food Revolution Summit is Live Online This Week
EnvironmentCommunity Apr 30, 2012, by Karsten Mueller
In this year’s Summit, which began Saturday, April 28, and runs through May 6, John and Ocean Robbins are hosting interviews with an impressive array of food experts on topics including health, corporate agriculture, food policy, local food, climate change, raw food, sustainable animal products, food justice and more.
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World Book Night Goes Surfing
Community Apr 24, 2012, by Kate Jacobson
On the Monday after a hot weekend in town mobbed with tourists, Santa Cruz skies are solid and gray. The ocean is as flat as old beer from Cowell’s Beach to the Moss Landing power plant, and Vice Mayor Hilary Bryant looks mighty lonely paddling out on her waxy board, carrying a mesh backpack filled with books meant for the surfers who are lurking inland until they can ambush the real swell like a pack of alligators.
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Hunting for Bigfoot in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Community Apr 24, 2012, by Aaron Carnes 2 Comments
When I found out I’d be going Bigfoot hunting with Michael Rugg, I figured we’d hike deep into the woods to some remote destination to conduct our search. In actuality, we spend most of the time in Felton, right along the road and close to the nearby homes. “Bigfoots don’t have to be in a big wilderness area to exist,” Rugg, who owns the Bigfoot Discovery Museum, explains to me on our outing. “They can exist around the edge of town.”
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2012 Gold Awards — Community Life
Community Apr 05, 2012, by Santa Cruz Weekly readers
Results from our 2012 reader survey on the best of Santa Cruz community life.
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2012 Goldies — Community Life
Community Apr 03, 2012, by SCW Writers
Our writers weigh in on the best of community life in Santa Cruz County.
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April Offers Rare Glimpse of Santa Cruz Sandhills
EnvironmentCommunity Apr 03, 2012, by Kathryn Leishman
Few readers of Sunset Magazine know that the publication was started by Southern Pacific Railroad as a promotional gimmick to persuade East Coast residents to visit the West Coast. It flopped at first, but eventually Laurence Lane, a former Midwestern farmer, purchased the magazine with the idea of turning it into a West Coast version of Better Homes and Gardens, and Sunset was on its way.
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Kiss And Tell
Community Feb 07, 2012, by Guest Writers
In every adult’s personal library of memories is a weird little room off the main hall marked “bad dates.” Bristling with curiosities (she vanished for an hour and came back in a different outfit!) and banalities made portentous by context (he ate all the popcorn—loudly), it’s a door best left shut.
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Animal Shelter Holds Valentine’s Match-Up
Community Feb 07, 2012, by Traci Hukill
One of my first loves was Nikolai. A gentleman silver tabby of a certain age and sweet temperament, he won me over right there at the animal shelter, among scores of other cats, with his singular mix of quiet reserve and friendliness. It felt like destiny, and Nikolai and I adored each other from the start.
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