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A 24-year old man was taken into custody last week in Salinas following a domestic dispute. Police say Christopher Moore was arrested Thursday on the 18000 block of Kennedy Street on suspicion of shooting his mother’s boyfriend. The victim, Jose Arenas suffered one gunshot wound to the chest, and was taken to a local hospital where he is expected to survive.
A Cal-fire helicopter rescue was conducted this weekend in Monterey County, after a mountain climber became stranded near Arroyo Seco Gorge. Cal-Fire crews worked with firefighters from the South Monterey County Fire Protection District, and began the operation at 2:30 Saturday afternoon. The man, in his mid-20s, had become stranded about 2-hundred feet above the gorge, when he could not find a way up or down the cliff. The rescue took about an hour, and the victim was uninjured.
Today(monday) is the last day to register to vote in the November election. The Santa Cruz County Elections Office (on Ocean Street), and the Watsonville City Clerk’s Office (at City Hall) will both be open from 5 P.M. until midnight, to register as many people as possible. You can also stop by the Scotts Valley Safeway (on Mount Herman Drive), where a voter-registration drive is set to take place from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. For more information, go to www.votescount.com.
This Thursday marks the deadline to apply to be a member of the California Conservation Corps. The program will train participants to install a variety of energy-saving products, by working with Watsonville’s Central Coast Energy Services to install such products on low-income households around the central coast. The 1-year-training program comes with a stipend of more than 13-thousand dollars a year, as well as child care and health care benefits. The Conservation Corps is looking for 20-volunteers, between the ages of 18 and 25. The deadline to apply is 2 p.m. Thursday. For more information email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Plans to hold Holiday meals for the hungry are in doubt this year for a Santa Cruz veterans group. The United Veterans council announced Sunday that the closure of the VFW building on Santa Cruz’s Front Street will prevent the local post from holding the events. VFW post 5888 has been holding the Thanksgiving and Christmas meals for the past 24 years. County supervisors decided to close the Front Street building in January, to make repairs. Finding other locations has been difficult, however Santa Cruz County leaders are looking to the Civic Auditorium as a possible place to hold the charity meals. A lawsuit regarding the closure of the VFW building is set to be heard next month. The building remains closed as County leaders try to come up with 1.3-million dollars to make repairs.