Serving Our Community For Over 25 Years • Aptos, La Selva Beach, Corralitos, Freedom & Watsonville
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April 1 2019 • Vol 28 No. 7
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Lynda Leigh wins CASA Cesar E. Chavez Award
CASA of Santa Cruz County is proud to announce that Lynda Leigh, a long-time CASA volunteer Advocate has won the Cesar E. Chavez Award in the Adult Role Model category. Full Story page 6
Reward Of All Readers – R.O.A.R. By Carey Levash, AJHS 7th Grade Parent Obviously the most important gift we can give our children is teaching them to teach themselves! Giving them the ability to do this comes from communication. They need vocabulary words to achieve. Research has found that children learn 1 new word for every 1,000 read.
An average reading time of 30 minutes a day offers them experience with 13.7 million words, between K-12th, banking them, 13,700 words in their concrete knowledge vault. Is it enough? At Aptos Junior we are incentivizing this goal. ... continues on page 4
Bobby Salazar – Community Hero
Robert “Bobby” Salazar passed away on March 17, at the age of 62, after a long battle with cancer. He was a devoted husband, father, grandfather and friend to many in the Aptos community. Full Story page 11
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