BRATTON…More Odwalla local history, UCSC’s East Meadow issues, Brommer and 7th and Swenson problems, poetry workshop, Movies on Friday. GREENSITE… is off this week. Will return next week.” KROHN…Zooming City Council meetings and laughs, Library Garage votes, Democratic Socialist mayor Cummings switch? STEINBRUNER…dumping waste water into ocean, SOU code, Soquel’s old mill and the old house, Aptos radio Tower, local businesses and Covid funds, County health inspections. PATTON…Cryptocurrency. EAGAN…Deep Cover plus Subconscious Comics QUOTES…”COUGHING”
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Ray Stevens sings “Quarantined’. A true saga. |
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CHER SINGS “Half Breed”. Just a little comment?? |
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The r-Real Nitty Gritty. Watch for Peter Lawford, Judy Garland and more! |
DATELINE JULY 13
ODWALLA & DAVENPORT…MORE HISTORY. I wrote some news last week about Odwalla and its local and historical connections. Those founding folks sent a letter saying….
“We the undersigned, being original creators of Odwalla Juice, read your recent column with interest and wanted to set the record straight on a few points, now that Coca-Cola is sun setting our beloved creation.
** First off, we would like to thank you for the mention in your column … It is an honor! **
We started the company in the fall of 1980 on Seabright Avenue, juicing oranges, first, in our kitchen, then the backyard shed, to deliver to local restaurants every morning in the early hours. Among our first accounts were Aldo’s, The Cook House, Harbor Cafe, and Tapu’s Breakfast Hut.
In January 1981 we set up shop on Mansfield Street, off 17th Avenue in Live Oak. Our goal was to support our musical passions while providing the best fresh juice on the planet. The loving people of Santa Cruz embraced our “Juice for Humans” and by the summer of 1981 we were selling bottled fresh-squeezed orange juice to retail outlets like Shopper’s Corner, Community Foods, and The Bagelry.
By 1983, Odwalla had outgrown the Mansfield location and, together with the Bailey Family, we remodeled the old Davenport packing shed and created a beautiful juice plant inside.
We processed 100% of our products there and maintained our headquarters next to the juice room with wonderful views of the ocean. Soon Odwalla offered a full range of fresh-squeezed fruit and vegetable juices and some of the world’s first nutritionally enhanced smoothies.
After ten years in Davenport, to keep up with increasing demand and to locate closer to the fruit, we refurbished a former Harry and David packing house outside Dinuba in the Central Valley and moved all manufacturing there in 1994.
As the company thrived, the founders were able to live by many of our core values, in smaller and larger ways… sponsoring our musical mentors The Art Ensemble of Chicago at Kuumbwa, creating scholarships for women nutritionists with our Femme Vitale program, starting one of the first plastic bottle recycling programs in Santa Cruz County, and sponsoring community gardens for local school children, among many other initiatives.
While we continued to distribute to Santa Cruz county residents from Davenport for many years, the company headquarters moved to Half Moon Bay in 1995.
We would like to thank all the folks who supported and gave love to Odwalla in Santa Cruz and beyond… as we used to say, “Drink it and Thrive!”
Greg Steltenpohl, Gerry Percy, Jeannine Bonstelle Bassett, Tom Dill, Don Faia
BRATTONOTE. The Davenport packing shed they moved to in the 80’s was once owned by the Davenport Producers..That’s a very sexy name when you think about it. They were my landlords too Also when they mention the Fred Bailey family’s and their son Zach, that’s who Zachary’s Restaurant is named after.
UCSC’S EAST MEADOW DEVELOPMENT. The problem with the many authorities in the UC system is that they are pushing ahead trying to create a stucco village on one of the most beautiful, and meaningful areas of that spectacular campus. Activist and concerned citizen John Aird sent a letter to Chancellor Cynthia Larive and Executive Vice Chancellor Lori Kletzer. It just about tells the entire story.
Dear Cynthia and Lori –
I am writing this short note to urge you to take the opportunity that your respective new leadership’s positions afford to change direction on and resolve the corrosive controversy surrounding building the family student housing complex on the East Meadow.
Here’s my case for doing so –
- It will make a positive statement about the leadership style you bring to your roles and your commitment to solutions that garner wide-spread campus and community support alike.
- It will protect the East Meadow which provides part of the introductory openness and beauty that distinguishes the UCSC campus and developmental heritage, one that visually projects the particular emphasis of the campus to its commitment to environmental stewardship on the campus itself and on its academic and research emphasis in a whole host of areas including environmental studies, marine biology and other disciplines that have nationally distinguished it.
- While the total effect and implications of Covid-19 at this point are unknown, one thing is clear. It will have a dampening effect on things for quite some time, whether that be in normal university functioning and adequate supportive funding, California State budgetary health as a whole or any kind of short-term “return to normalcy” on or off-campus. All of this buys time and the opportunity for alternative location reassessment and exploration.
Certainly these reasons and others suggest that other alternative sites ought to be re-reviewed with an announced commitment to select one that would leave the East Meadow preserved and protected.
I hope you will seize the opportunity here and make this decision. You will be justifiably applauded for having done so and it’ll also serve as a striking signal of the sensitivity of leadership that you being to your new roles.
Sincerely,
John Aird
BROMMER AND 7TH & SWENSON DEVELOPMENT ISSUES. Jean Brocklebank and Michael Lewis remain very eager in following up on the proposed Swenson development at Brommer and 7th. They sent this plea…
“Hello Harbor Neighbors,~
Having heard nothing since last November 2019, we wrote to Swenson asking about the status of the proposed development on the property at the SW corner of 7th at Brommer.
We also explained we were especially concerned that a virtual community meeting not be attempted by Swenson. We have attended several of these development community meetings and find them a very poor alternative to having people attend in person. Engaging with the community via Zoom is not “engaging.” It becomes a slide show with screens filled with speakers. True, questions can be asked … and answered … via a Q & A platform. But these virtual meetings are like eating a paper pizza instead of the real thing. Residents are growing weary of starring at computer screens in an attempt to engage with government, business and one another. The value of the human social experience cannot be replicated on a phosphorescent screen.
Last month we received the following information in response to our email to Swenson, which we think you will find very interesting:
“We received comments back from the County pertaining to the Pe-Application in early March and we are working towards implementing those comments into the plan. Additionally, hospitality has been greatly impacted by COVID-19. As we moved forward with the project, we were in search of a partner/operator for the lodge, and found little traction. Since COVID-19, the lodge component has proven even more challenging, and we are working on other economic alternatives that still satisfy the RFP, Zoning, and Coastal Commission goals.
“When we find an alternative solution, we will most likely need to submit another Pre-Application with the County for their review. You will be our first point of outreach if we are able to find an alternative solution and/or use, prior to us moving forward with the County Pre-App.
“Regarding Community Meetings, we did conduct a Zoom Webinar for one of our projects downtown and received great feedback from the attendees, with the Q&A feature and follow up emails. I certainly understand your concerns and desire for in-person meetings. We will use whatever medium is available to us at the time, and I am not sure if we are allowed to promote community gatherings, even if it was in a large parking lot in order to implement safe social-distancing practices. Realistically, due to COVID-19 impacts in general and pertaining to the viability of this project, I don’t see us holding a community meeting for at least 6 months at the earliest. So hopefully, we will have a solution by then, and shelter-in-place restrictions will be relaxed to where we can hold in person meetings again.”
As always, we will share any information we receive about this matter. Meanwhile, it looks like a lot of development projects are being delayed by at least 2 – 3 years. Frankly, we’re pleased.
All the best,
Jean Brocklebank and Michael Lewis.
POETRY WORKSHOP . Patrice Vecchione is creating an online workshop at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Tuesday, July 21. Check it out
Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us online for an event with acclaimed local poet, editor, and teacher Patrice Vecchione (Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience) to celebrate her newest book, My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice—the ultimate writing guide for teens.
BUSHWHACKERS BREAKFAST CLUB. Every Friday morning on KZSC (88.1 fm or live online at KZSC.org) from 8:10 am-8:20 am or thereabouts I present my “B Movie Bratton” segment of short critiques (not reviews) of what’s on our screens. Dangerous Dan Orange hosts the rest of the Bushwhackers B. Club. Lately of course those screens are on anything but theatre screens . Tune in this Friday and learn about Tom Hanks newest “Greyhound” the ship, not the bus. Plus Hanna, and streaming news and ideas. And probably a few more.
| Gillian Greensite is a long time local activist, a member of Save Our Big Trees and the Santa Cruz chapter of IDA, International Dark Sky Association http://darksky.org Plus she’s an avid ocean swimmer, hiker and lover of all things wild. |
July 13
THE ZOOM CHARADE
After you finish with the late-night comedy shows–Steven Colbert, Trevor Noah, and John Oliver–I suggest tuning into the Zoom Charade that has become the remains of what used to be a Santa Cruz city council meeting. It would all be funnier if the council only dealt with Covid-19 related decisions and road maintenance issues during their zoom chaos meetings. But that is not the case. They continue to make momentous decisions and spend real money on things too large to be decided on in council pandemic confusion as they did this past July 2nd. Frankly, I fully expect George Orwell to pop up on the Hollywood Squares Zoom meeting dais and say something about the dystopian moment SC finds itself in, like, “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” I feel crazy watching decisions made when the overwhelming preponderance of calls, emails. and community sentiment is against building the library at the bottom of a parking garage. These days, council can make decisions with little scrutiny and scant visibility, but the public one-upped them on audibility during that July 2nd meeting. Around 25 “Noise Makers,” as they called themselves, banged on pots and pans right outside the almost empty city council chambers. Seems that the city clerk and assistant city clerk are the only people allowed inside the chambers, along with the Community TV technician who puts together the Zoom boxes of council members all onto one TV square and broadcasts the entire gobbledygook from city hall. Have a look at the meeting here.
When is a Meeting Not a Meeting?
Start around minute number 34. At 1h:04s the mayor begins reading the protocol of “clearing the chamber” because the protesters outside council chambers, and only two people inside, were making it difficult to “conduct city business.” Justin Cummings read from a city’s handbook and included language that stated, “you will be removed by the Sergeant-at-arms and you will not be able to return to council chambers.” Return? Sergeant-at-arms? Folks, we really are living in strange times, “fictitious” ones as Michael Moore called out about George Bush’s fake war in Iraq in 2012 upon receiving his Oscar award.
There were no members of the public in council chambers on July 2nd. Every one of these council meetings has been quasi-secret because of the extremely limited participation of the public. In case you missed the link, here it is again
The noise-making got so loud that the mayor, I kid you not, read out that he was going to “clear the chambers.”He read the statement into his computer screen. None of the Noise Makers protesting could hear anything the mayor read. There was no “council chambers” filled with residents and certainly no “Sergeant-at-arms” present at the meeting because the meeting was virtual. Cummings then asked his computer screen, “And I would like to ask if you understand this warning?” Ironically, this is where George Orwell’s writing voice can be heard most loudly. There were no audience members in the chambers, so “clearing it “would of course take little time for the fictitious (virtual?) Sergeant-at-arms. The community has been banned from meetings since March. A petition from the public has been submitted to the mayor demanding that the Civic Auditorium be opened, and to hold council meetings there while maintaining the proper CDC social-distancing protocols. Councilmember Sandy Brown has been a strong proponent of opening up the Civic for meetings too, but thus far it has been rejected by ‘da Mayor, the city manager, and some other councilmembers. I understand the noise-makers wanted to hammer home their point about reducing the police budget too, but Cummings sent the police to the city hall court yard instead. In making the protesters point, more than 20 officers swarmed the Santa Cruz city campus, but by the time they arrived the protest was already breaking up. People involved in the protest reported that no arrests were made and maybe four people were left when the police ordered them to leave the area immediately outside city council chambers. I understand the protesters were hoping to get the council to specifically agendize the police budget. Their wish is similar to the national call to reduce and redirect a portion of the police budget towards social services since PD is not really trained in the area of mental health and addiction issues. Many of police calls for service also include issues stemming from people’s unemployment and houselessness issues. We cannot expect the police to provide job training or transitional housing services.
Parking Garage and Library Money Charade, Take III
“To the extent that a parking district generates revenue in excess of what’s required in order to provide and maintain parking facilities that are in existence, and to the extent the City Council makes a policy determination that those revenues are not needed to improve or increase parking facilities with the use of the revenues, then under the Parking District law of the State of California, you are able to put those funds into the General Fund.”
–Tony Condotti, Santa Cruz city attorney
That’s right; the parking fund is part of the city’s general fund. It is discretionary; meaning a majority of councilmembers can decide how to spend it. No denying this, although many supporters of the immense concrete proposed parking garage will say otherwise. In fact, during recent council deliberations on the garage, the Machiavellian Mathews-Coonerty clan were forced to bring back a former city attorney and darling of market-rate housing enthusiasts, John Barisone to, err, correct his business partner Condotti on his parking fund legal opinion. While neither has voted, or can vote on the project, the Mathews-Coonerty political marriage is daily pushing to make the library-in-a-garage-atop-the-Farmer’s-Market their legacy. They direly want to etch this apparent white elephant project onto their political backroom deal six-shooters. If ever built, the massive structure on one of the few remaining city-owned parcels will likely cost over $100 million and be the largest public works project (outside of the water dept.) in the history of Santa Cruz. Do we really want it to be a parking garage? According to Condotti’s legal opinion as described above, the city council can use parking fund fees to finance a homeless shelter, plant trees, offer loans to struggling businesses or, it can even supplement the expenses of remodeling the downtown library WHERE IT NOW STANDS at 224 Church Street. Using the $28 million in bond money to revamp and refurbish this 60’s structure, and thus enhance and firmly establish our town’s civic core will likely be one of the top three issues in the upcoming November elections, which actually begin October 5th. With political stakes high and slates of candidates now developing around rebuilding the library and creating a permanent downtown Farmer’s Market while also creating a Downtown Commons, versus displacing the market and moving our library into the ground floor of a 5-story parking garage, there will be no room for candidates to equivocate! Winning a seat on the city council will be a fiercely competitive endeavor this year. Each side now has at least three candidates and adding a number 4 is being debated over daily. With Covid-19 making a big comeback candidates are uncertain how campaigning may look in election season 2020. Barring a 4-seat sweep, the Campaign for Sustainable Transportation, the Downtown Commons Advocates, Sierra Club, and Santa Cruz Climate Action Network will all be looking to place the library decision into the hands of voters through a ballot initiative. Look for this issue to be with us until at least November of 2022.
Post Script
Does anyone know why in the world former progressive candidate and Democratic Socialists of America member, Justin Cummings would want to be the deciding vote on the library-in-a-garage? It’s perhaps the most controversial project in Santa Cruz since the Beach Area Plan. Will he now become known as Mayor Garage? Car-Carrier Cummings? Or, Just-in Time for Covid: Library-in-a-Garage?
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See Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez offer a two-minute, Why Defund the Police message.
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(Chris Krohn is a father, writer, activist, and was on the Santa Cruz City Councilmember from 1998-2002. Krohn was Mayor in 2001-2002. He’s been running the Environmental Studies Internship program at UC Santa Cruz for the past 14 years. He was elected to the city council again in November of 2016, after his kids went off to college. His term ended in April of 2020.
Email Chris at ckrohn@cruzio.com |
WHEN WILL THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ PLEASE STOP DUMPING WASTEWATER SO CLOSE TO THE SHORE?
Please write the Santa Cruz City Council and State Water Quality Control Board to demand that the City repair the ruptured sewage outfall pipe that is spewing contaminated water close to the shore for the surfers to ingest. Read on…
In February, 2020, the State Regional Water Quality Control Board enforcement agency sent a letter (attached) to the City of Santa Cruz requiring a detailed investigation and response regarding the known rupture in the City’s Wastewater effluent outfall pipe that has been leaking sewage water into the Bay about 65′ from shore. The City had to respond by May 31, 2020.
Essentially, the City report admits that it has known about this problem since 1992. They claim studies done in 1994 showed it was really no big deal, and that sand and rock covered the ruptured pipe, making it impossible to find the exact location of the rupture. The City had done no inspections of the outfall pipe in 2018, but did one in 2019. That report is attached at the end of this blog post. Take a look at pages 36-37 to see the significant dye plume on November 21, 2019. Take a look at page 23 that discusses the problems with Total Organic Carbon (TOC), fecal coliform and an abundance of large filamentous bacteria in the effluent related to the episodic UV treatment issues. See pages 10-16 for heavy metals and chemical contaminant levels.
Here is the City of Santa Cruz response to the State Water Quality Control Board…an expensive technical memorandum (see attached) that the State already has, and nothing done to actually fix the leak spewing contaminants close to shore for local surfers.
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Wastewater Treatment Facility • 110 California Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060 • Phone 831-420-6050 • Fax 831-420-6489
June 1, 2020
John M. Robertson, Executive Officer
Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board
895 Aerovista Place, Suite 101
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Re: REQUIREMENT TO SUBMIT A TECHNICAL REPORT ON THE CONDITION OF THE SANTA CRUZ WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY OUTFALL STRUCTURE
Dear Mr. Robertson,
Through this letter, the City of Santa Cruz (City) responds to your letter dated February 11, 2020, that required the City to submit a technical report on the condition of the Santa Cruz Wastewater Treatment Facility (SC WWTF) outfall structure. On page 2 of that letter, you request that the City respond to five items. We address each item in order below.
The City has engaged Brown and Caldwell (BC), the firm that helped the City with original outfall planning and design, to assist the City in its response preparation. BC prepared the accompanying technical memorandum (TM) that gathers relevant information concerning the outfall and historical identification of and monitoring for the leak and its vicinity. The TM includes a summary of the leak history, the annual outfall inspections, and results of the ongoing bacterial monitoring. The City discovered the leak in 1992 during a routine monitoring fly-over inspection. Initial investigations in 1992 failed to locate the leak precisely at the ocean bottom. In 1994, the City engaged Kinnetics Laboratory, Inc. (KLI) to conduct additional investigations to locate and measure the leak and monitor bacteria in the leak area. Diver investigation over the leak could not locate it precisely. A heavy layer of rock and sand cover the pipe at the leak location. The dyed effluent filters from the leak to the sediment surface through interstices (small openings) in the covering backfill and sediment, spreading laterally away from the leak before it reaches the sediment surface. Field measurements by KLI determined that the leak was very small, with an initial dilution of seawater to effluent exceeding 1000:1.
Based on the small, intermittent nature of the leak, the lack of evidence for adverse leak impacts, the substantial cost to repair a leak of insignificant magnitude, and the possible risk to the integrity of the outfall pipe, the City proposed in 1994 to continue to monitor the leak rather than repair it. The Water Board accepted the City’s proposal. The City has continued regular monitoring and reporting since that time.
Since the leak was discovered, the City has continued to conduct annual investigations, including dye studies and outfall inspections, as well as weekly bacteriological monitoring. The technical report provides a detailed review of the investigations and is briefly summarized below.
- A review of the available dye studies from 1995 to 2019 shows that the leak is still intermittent and (when observed) the plume at the leak site appears smaller than the plume at the diffuser section of the pipeline.
- A review of the annual outfall diffuser inspection reports from 1995 to 2019 show that the end structure is in good condition and the open diffuser ports are unobstructed.
- There is no evidence that sediment is impeding the flow of the outfall pipe. If the flow were being impeded, the effluent pumps would be run more often. The operations manager reported no increase in run times or frequency of use for the effluent pumps.
- The City monitors for potential bacterial contamination at the leak site via sampling boat at the 70-foot contour line above the outfall at the location of the leak site. Over the past 15 years, only three recorded values out of more than 600 tests have exceeded the Permit limits, all for enterococcus. The three exceedances occurred during the peak of the rainy season and are likely due to surface runoff.
From a review of the annual reports, there is no evidence that shows that the leak is increasing in frequency or size. The leak is still intermittent and small. We see no data or circumstances that support a need for additional costly field work or leak investigations and/or repairs.
A GIANT TOWER IN APTOS FALLS
A giant falls: Fire destroys Aptos radio tower | The Pajaronian
A blaze that Aptos/La Selva Fire said was likely started by a homeless person seeking warmth has felled one of the towers that once reached into the sky alongside Highway 1 in Aptos.
The tower was part of a quintet of now-silent radio antennae that stand at the site.
According to Aptos/La Selva Fire Protection Deputy Fire Marshal Marco Mack, the fire damaged the concrete at the base of the tower, and the porcelain insulators there. [read the whole article]
COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INSPECTIONS OF LOCAL FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO SEE
County Environmental Health Inspectors regularly visit all establishments throughout the County that sell or prepare food for the public. They are a dedicated, hard-working and well-trained crew and do an excellent job of keeping the public safe. You can look at the results of their inspections here
Wondering what the codes mean for various violations noted? Click on the code and a definition will appear. That’s how I learned that “VI” means ‘rodent or insect infestation”.
Many thanks to the anonymous friend who sent me this information to share with you.
WRITE ONE LETTER. MAKE ONE CALL. ATTEND A VIRTUAL MEETING. MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE BY DEMANDING ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS. TAKE A WALK ON THE BEACH AND STAY HEALTHY.
Happy Summer,
Becky
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Becky Steinbruner is a 30+ year resident of Aptos. She has fought for water, fire, emergency preparedness, and for road repair. She ran for Second District County Supervisor in 2016 on a shoestring and got nearly 20% of the votes.
Email Becky at KI6TKB@yahoo.com |
July 8
#190 / Maybe Not Such A Great Idea
Back in the middle of January, The Wall Street Journal celebrated a financial triumph for the world’s best-known cryptocurrency: “Bitcoin Rallies, Approaches $9,000.” That is what the headline said in the print edition of the paper on January 16, 2020. Online, The Wall Street Journal headline was even more emphatic. It added a boast that “Bitcoin … Trounces Stocks, Bonds, Gold and Oil.”
I have never been a big fan of cryptocurrency. The attraction, as I understand it, is that there is no central authority in charge of the money supply. This is considered to be a “feature, not a bug.” Since there is no central authority in charge, no government or bank is in a position to take away your money. Again, that is cited as an advantage, because it is true that sometimes banks and governments do, essentially, steal the money that is on deposit with them, or that is measured in value by the currency issued by the government.
No such problems are supposed to exist in the case of bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, although I would point out that the value of bitcoin appears to resemble a continuing gamble that the price will, somehow, inevitably go up. Comparing bitcoin to “stocks, bonds, gold, and oil” seems to be on target. If you want your money to be put into constant play in what amounts to a speculative “currency casino,” bitcoin may be just what you are looking for.
That is not the kind “savings” plan I want for my own money. The problem I worry about is this: if your money does disappear (and that has happened with bitcoin), there is no government or other institution that is specifically responsible. Thus, you have no way to hold anyone accountable. At least, that’s the way I see it.
But let me raise an additional issue, also serious. As Wikipedia tells us, cryptocurrencies exist only by way of an online technology that “creates a distributed ledger, typically a blockchain, that serves as a public financial transaction database.” That database exists, and the cyrptocurrency exists, only because a large number of computers are linked, and are in constant communication. The picture above shows bitcoin “mining” equipment in Quebec, Canada. The article from which I obtained the photo informs us that “Bitcoin consumes more energy than Switzerland.” Vox calls bitcoin “an energy hog.”
In case you hadn’t noticed, we are facing a planetary-level peril that is being created by our use of energy, the greatest source of which is the combustion of fossil fuels. Using less energy, not more, is the correct prescription for human survival. In our current climate crisis, it doesn’t make much sense to develop a whole new concept of money that is based on the production and consumption of massive amounts of energy obtained from the combusion of hydrocarbon fuels.
In short, for various reasons, including the need to maintain Earth as habitable for ourselves and other living things, it may be that bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies in general, are not such a great idea.
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Gary Patton is a former Santa Cruz County Supervisor (20 years) and an attorney for individuals and community groups on land use and environmental issues. The opinions expressed are Mr. Patton’s. You can read and subscribe to his daily blog at www.gapatton.net
Email Gary at gapatton@mac.com |
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Caitlin is a funeral director and a mortician, and she is so cool! Her YouTube channel is Ask a Mortician. She makes these videos about death, trends and practices in the funeral industry, and mixes new ideas with historical facts. Her delivery is great, her videos are both funny and interesting to watch! This one is about green burials versus “traditional” embalming and cremation. |
“COUGHING”
“Love and a cough cannot be hid”.
~George Herbert
“Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it – small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn’t last for a few days, like a cold.”
~Anthony Fauci
“A small cold and cough can actually stop you from going where you are.”
~P. V. Sindhu
