‘Angels’ of the Year Awards Dinner This event is held at Scopazzi’s Restaurant, which allows us to honor individual volunteers, businesses, churches, service clubs, and schools, who have given so much in labor and monetary contributions. Their contributions ensure that area residents during their time of need receive direct aid assistance in the form of emergency food, crisis rent, utility help, holiday projects food and gifts, educational assistance for children and disaster relief, before during and after. Full Story on page 2
The Original Santa Cruz Nutcracker Welcome to The Nutcracker! — A favorite holiday tradition for people of all ages. No matter what your relationship to this wondrous music, no matter how many times you may have attended, danced in or played in the orchestra, all agree that The Nutcracker is a gift. Full Story on page 6
Candle Lighting Children’s Memorial Worldwide Candle Lighting Children’s Memorial Ceremonies scheduled in Santa Cruz, Watsonville and Salinas for parents who have lost a child of any age by any circumstance hosted by Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services, Hospice of Santa Cruz County, and Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital. Full Story on page 5
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Remember Santa’s Village? T he reaction is always the same ... “Aaww, I went there when I was a kid.” Almost everyone in Santa Cruz, over a certain age, remembers Santa’s Village in Scotts Valley. Open year-round, it has come to represent a simpler time when even adults believed in the joy of Santa Claus.
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Back then, there were no video games and kids went outside and played, using their imagination to become soldiers, cowboys or princesses. Highway 17 was just a simple two-lane road through the mountains. There were cider up near the Summit.
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