Meet Your New Mayor, by Margaux Keiser

Times Publishing Group, Inc.

January 2023 • Vol 28 No. 1

Meet Your New Mayor

Hello to the Capitola-Soquel Times community, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Margaux Keiser and I am the newly elected Mayor of the City of Capitola!

My husband and I have lived in Capitola for over 15 years and have loved being here since day one.

We even were lucky enough to get hitched at the historical Monarch Cove Inn on Depot Hill.

Capitola is a beautiful, unique & wonderful city, which I am so happy to be a part of, and now serve my community. ... continues on page 4

Margaux Keiser

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New City Clerk Julia Moss

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She brings four years of experience in municipal government, and more than a decade of experience in customer service.

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Housing on the Way

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Our Community Reads Presents Mary Coin

Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” is one of the best-known images of Depression-era California.

Marisa Silver’s Mary Coin is a richly imagined back-story — and after-story — of that photograph.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Meet Your New Mayor, by Margaux Keiser

Community News

4 Helping Job-Seeking Veterans 5 Our Community Reads Presents Mary Coin: Concert, Films, Photography, Art Series Starts Jan. 26 6 Housing on the Way In Soquel 7 Vaccine Boosts Pfizer Revenue, By Jondi Gumz 8 A Candle in the Darkness 9 ‘Mamma Mia!’ Onstage In January 11 Janus of Santa Cruz New Board Members 12 Twin Lakes Church: 1 Million+ Meals for Food Bank 13 Gutzwiller Memorial Groundbreaking: Strock Family to Match

December Donations, By Kieran Kelly 14 New Capitola City Clerk: Julia Moss 17 First Day Hikes 20 $103 Million for Bike & Walk Trail 22 State Offers Money to Repair Old Fair Barns, By Jondi Gumz 23 $5.7 Billion Opioids Settlement with Walgreens • 2023 Capitola Parking

Permits • CASA’s New Program Director • Jobs in Santa Cruz County •

New Planning Commissioners 24 New Cabrillo Stage Artistic Director

Business Profile

16 Interior Vision Flooring Design: ‘Think Green’, By Edita McQuary

In Memoriam

18 Judge Paul Marigonda: (1960~2022)

Letters to the Editor

21 Jacob’s Heart Supports Families • Storm Blows Everything Apart. Help!

Monthly Horoscope • Page 26 – The Bird Chirps the Future, By Risa D’Angeles Community Calendar • Arts & Entertainment – Pages 28, 29

Featured Columnists

1 Meet Your New Mayor, by Margaux Keiser 10 Braciola and Eddie’s Shoes, By Joe Ortiz 25 My Samsung Dishwasher Stopped Working. Can I Get a Refund?, By

Christopher Elliott 27 CARE: A Vision for 2023, By Carla Christensen, President, Soquel Creek

Water District Board of Directors 30 Supervisors OK Sustainability Update, Zoning Changes, By Manu

Koenig, Supervisor, First District 31 Bare-Root Stock Arrives For Winter, By Tony Tomeo