COMMUNITY NEWS
Bonnie Raitt, Boz Scaggs, and more Headline Online Fire Relief Benefit L ove You Madly announces a streaming event at 7 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 5 for Santa Cruz Fire Recovery with Sammy Hagar, Boz Scaggs, Bonnie Raitt, Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon), Joe Satriani, Colin Hay (Men at Work) and Los Lobos. Other acts include Rogue Wave, Laurie Lewis, The String Cheese Incident, T Sisters, Victor Krummenacher, Twiddle, and Prairie Prince. Emcees will include rock journalist Ben Fong-Torres, radio personality Bonnie Simmons, and Santa Cruz journalist Wallace Baine. T h i s evening of music, art, and impact on Nugs. TV at 2nu.gs/ loveyoumadly and SantaCruzFireRelief. org will support the Fire Response Fund managed by Community Foundations
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Boz Scaggs
Santa Cruz County. Viewers will see original artwork, photography, and examples of how funds have already been put into action to help families impacted by the CZU Lightning Complex fire. An online auction will let fans bid on guitars autographed by Sammy Hagar and Joe Satriani , plus a custom Santa Cruz Guitar acoustic with inlays designed by a local firefighter. Love You Madly original art T-shirts are available for purchase at https://www.bonfire.com/ love-you-madly-santa-cruz-fire-relief/
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Colin Hay
Joe Satriani
Original Love You Madly artwork is also available on a t-shirt, sweatshirt, and hoodie at https://www.bonfire.com/loveyou-madly-santa-cruz-fire-relief/, 100% of proceeds to the Fire Response Fund. Santa Cruz County has been deeply impacted by the CZU Lightning Complex Fire, a historic wildfire resulting in the evacuation of 77,000 people, covering more than 80,000 acres, and destroying more than 900 homes. Thanks to heroic work by firefighters local and from afar, these wildfires – the most destructive in Santa Cruz County history – are now contained. The
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Sammy Hagar
community now shifts focus to the overwhelming task of recovery and rebuilding, which is estimated to take more than a decade. All donations raised will go directly to the Fire Response Fund managed by the Community Foundation Santa Cruz County, which has already granted over $600,000 from the fund, strategically distributed where needs are greatest, and will continue throughout the entire recovery process. To give, visit http://cfscc.org/loveyoumadly “Love You Madly” page 29
