Skimmers were found yesterday at several Bank Of America A-T-Ms in Santa Cruz county. One was connected to an A-T-M in Felton, another was in Aptos, and a 3rd was in Watsonville. Skimming is a method used by thieves to gather information from a cardholder. The devices found yesterday were believed to have been installed yesterday. People are encouraged to always look at any point-of-sale terminal before using it. If anything looks loose, crooked, scratched or damaged....or just unusual, don’t use that card reader....but do report it.
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With fewer special needs students enrolled at Ohlone Elementary School in Watsonville, the Pajaro Valley Unified School District has dropped both the Life Skills Program and a Resource Specialist position from the school.....and now educators and community members are concerned that these changes may mean a lack of appropriate assessments, and schooling, for special needs students in the southern zone of the district.
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A rally against the new Temporary Outdoor Living Ordinance was held at Santa Cruz City Hall yesterday. The ordinance reportedly details where camping is, and is not, permitted. Some at the rally feel that those who are directly impacted by such ordinances, should be involved in their creation.
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Monterey county has received 5,000 doses of the new single-dose Johnson And Johnson Vaccine. Those doses have been given to local providers such as Community Hospital Of The Monterey Peninsula and Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital.
C.H.O.M.P. plans to provide the single-dose shots in a clinic this Thursday.....but only to those 65 years-old and older who live in the 2 specific zipcodes of 93933 and 93955......while S.V.M.H. Plans to provide those doses during a Taylor Farms Clinic in Gonzales next week. A spokesperson for S.V.M.H. said they decided on that action because that clinic typically serves a population that is harder to reach, so the single-shot vaccine makes more sense for them.
Rite Aid, CVS and Walgreens may also have received some doses of the Johnson-And-Johnson Vaccine, which was formerly known as the Janssen Covid-19 Vaccine.
There will reportedly be a gap in receiving the newer vaccine next week, but they are expected to return the following week.
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