With Christmas arriving on a Friday, Second Harvest Food Bank announced the change of its food drive in Watsonville.
The drive-through distribution for this week will take place on Wednesday from 9 AM to 1 PM at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds.
Officials with the Second Harvest Food Bank request that those in need not arrive before the 9 AM start time so they may fully set up the food distribution lines, and that there will be no food drive this Friday or on New Year’s Day in observance of each holiday.
The normal schedule of every Friday rotating between the Santa Cruz Boardwalk and Fairgrounds will resume in the New Year.
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California State University, Monterey Bay recently announced that in-person instruction could return as early as Fall of next year.
Students can enroll at CSUMB now through January 15 through the Cal State Apply website.
The announcement was made in anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines becoming widely available by the time Fall semester arrives.
As for the Summer term of next year, officials with the California State University system state that it is “too early to tell” if that semester can be safely conducted in person, and plan to decide closer to the registration deadline.
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Firefighters with The Santa Cruz Fire Department were dispatched for at least two separate vehicle fires over the weekend with one bringing traffic to a halt.
On Sunday, an auto transport truck caught fire while traveling on Highway 1 at the Fishhook.
And on Saturday, a Volvo was fully engulfed in flames that was parked in the Gateway Plaza shopping center off River Street in Santa Cruz.
Both fires were quickly extinguished, and no injuries were reported in either incident.
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A conservation easement will now preserve more than 9,000 acres on an active cattle ranch in the Gabilan mountain range outside Salinas. The rangeland on the 9,418 acre Silacci Ranch, which is almost 2/3rds the size of the city of Salinas, will now be preserved as rangeland....while retaining many private property rights of the landowner. The conservation easement means that the land cannot be subdivided, developed, or converted for intensive agriculture.
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