Last hidden column for tag filter | |
---|---|
|
|
Fall Creek Watershed Video
Jan 04, 2017
Fred says "my wife, Roberta, and I have finished the Fall Creek video that we started in the Spring of 2015. We received an educational grant from the San Lorenzo Valley Water District to make a video about Fall Creek and where the community of Felton gets its water. As we have gotten into the project, more and more mysteries and information have serendipitously emerged. We knew that the community of Felton got its high quality cool water from Fall Creek at the intake pond just below the entrance to Fall Creek state park, but where does Fall Creek get its water? |
|
California Invention Convention
Jan 18, 2017
This year I had the opportunity to be an interim superintendent/principal in a small school district in Davenport CA. When teaching, years ago, before becoming a principal, I did an invention program with my students that convinced me that by solving a meaningful problem in their own lives, by coming up with an invention for the solution, students became empowered to think divergently, work collaboratively, develop creative thinking skills, and become innovative thinkers. These are the very skills that are needed in our children’s lives to make them successful individuals for the rest of their lives! So, when the opportunity arose, I asked the fifth/sixth grade teacher at Davenport if she would mind if I did an invention program with her students. And so the journey began. Wonderful inventions appeared, in answer to the problems they expressed. The winners went onto a local science fair, as our local county office of education allowed “Inventions” to be included, this year. We would like to send several winners and their families to the National Invention Convention that will take place on May 21, 2016 and will be held at the US Patent and Trade Office in Washington DC http://www.stemie.org/2016-national-invention-convention.html . Won’t you please help in this endeavor? We would like this to be the first effort in helping to bring about a California Invention Convention that will involve many more students throughout the state to become inventors and innovators. We are hoping to raise these funds by April 30, so we will know how many of our students we are able to send to the National Convention. It will be an experience they will never forget. The cost is approximately $2500 per student and chaperone, for airfare, hotel for three nights, and expenses. Thank you for considering helping us with the worthwhile experience for children! |
|
Blue Badge
Jan 25, 2017
|
|
Mountain Community Theater
Feb 01, 2017
Mountain Community Theater is proud to present the acclaimed play The Lion in Winter by James Goldman, directed by Wendy Edmonds. The production opens at Ben Lomond’s historic Park Hall on Friday, March 10, and continues on weekends through Sunday, April 2. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8:00 p.m. Sunday matinees are at 2:00 p.m. on March 19, 26 and April 2. General Admission tickets are $20.00. Students and Seniors are $17.00. There will be a champagne reception after the show on opening night. The performance on Friday, March 17 is Community Night, with two tickets for $20.00. There will also be a special Talk Back with the Cast and Director after the Sunday matinee on March 19. Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com. Mountain Community Theater (MCT) is the longest-running community theater in Santa Cruz County, started in 1982 by a collective of actors. MCT is a member-run non-profit organization that relies on support from its performances, season subscribers, and royalties from its own company-created script, Miracle on 34th Street, the Play. For more about MCT and its “Miracle,” visit https://mctshows.org/our-miracle/. |
|
Feb 15, 2017
|
|
SLV Foundation for Education
Feb 22, 2017
San Lorenzo Valley Foundation For Education was founded in 2003 to support the arts, math, science, and technology in San Lorenzo Valley schools. Our goal is to work in partnership with the community in helping our students thrive by financially enhancing target areas not adequately being provided for by California state funding. |
|
SLV Alano Club
Mar 01, 2017
The south end of Boulder Creek’s main drag is humming with life again as SLV Alano Club fills the empty space left by Video 9. It was a pleasant surprise to enter the familiar premises to find comfortable sofas, a big screen TV with folks gathered round to watch a DVD, and tables of community members busily collaborating. The atmosphere was convivial, casual, and welcoming to a stranger blowing in off the street. Co-owner Rickey E rose from the conversation to greet me, offering a warm, well calloused working man’s hand. He gave me the tour, peering into the meeting room in the back where rows of sofas and chairs were arranged facing forward awaiting meeting night when people from all walks of life come to lay down their burdens and hear much needed words of encouragement. He pointed to snacks, water, and sodas in a refrigerated case and a plate of donuts on the counter, all of which, he explained, are gratis to anyone who has come to the center for support and needs something to tide them over. Donations are accepted but they cannot charge for the refreshments. |
|
|
|
Touched by Hannah
Mar 15, 2017
Chris is a full-time independent filmmaker-video producer-author-motivational speaker. Based in San Jose since 1990, his upcoming memoir book, Touched by Hannah, is receiving plenty of media attention on TV, radio and social media. “A man with cancer and his 1 lb. newborn baby fight to live!” The trailer film he produced for Touched By Hannah won an award at the 2016 IndieFest Global Film Competition. http://www.touchedbyhannah.com Touched by Hannah video clips have tens of thousands of YouTube views, and several major publishers have expressed interest in my book. Chris’s Motivational Speech: Through story-telling about our life-threatening battles, with several humorous bits incorporated, Chris showshow they persevered and became much stronger, confident folks. When we learn to recognize our achievements instead of throwing them in the closet, it boosts our self-confidence. His simple yet potent messages inspire, get them laughing, reduce stress and immediately build self-confidence. He will your group encouraged, laughing and laser-focused! His Speaking demo reel http://www.chris-hennessy.com |
|
|
|
Felton Library Friends
Mar 29, 2017
Nancy has lived in Felton since 1982. She has been a business owner, teacher, and community activist. Beginning with the issue of locally owned water in Felton in 2003, she then became interested in libraries and in their power to transform lives. In 2005 she became one of the founding members of Felton Library Friends. She served for eight years on the Santa Cruz Library Joint Powers Board from 2006 to 2013 advocating for a better facility in the SLV. In 2016 she along with many other community members successfully worked on the county wide library Measure S campaign. She is currently working with other community members on various projects that will enhance the new Felton branch and serves on the new county-wide Library Advisory Commission. Contact: ngerdt34@gmail.com |
|
|
|
Apr 13, 2017 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
TED
May 03, 2017
I have lived my life as a completely ordinary kid. I use social media to procrastinate on doing my homework, I go to high school football games, and I eat way too much frozen yogurt. Unlike other 17-year-old kids though, I have had the privilege of being a beauty queen. More specifically, a rodeo queen. I use the word “privileged” reluctantly when I say this, of course. I grew up dreaming about being a rodeo queen. The extravagant dresses and outfits, the gorgeous hair and makeup, the opportunity to gallop by the crowd at full speed, waving as I run by. What I didn’t know was that this world I so desperately wanted to be a part of was doing the opposite of what I live my life trying to do. It wasn’t empowering young women with a passion for the sport, it was degrading those that didn’t fit the standard of beauty that was "required" for the job. |
|
May 06, 2017 - May 07, 2017
Make Waves with Rotary The most family friendly District Conference ever!
|
|
May 07, 2017 10:00 AM
|
|
Environmental Program Manager SLVWD
May 17, 2017
Environmental Programs Manager San Lorenzo Valley Water District Watershed Management
|
|
Ensenada Orphanage
May 24, 2017
Dr. Norm Crandell is a graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic West. He entered the profession with extensive training and experience in massage therapy and myofascial release and trigger point work. He carries that experience with his chiropractic adjustments, offering soft tissue work when necessary and tailoring a physical rehabilitation program to fit the patient's needs. This approach to wellness means looking for underlying causes of any disturbance or disruption (which may or may not be causing symptoms at the time) and make whatever interventions and lifestyle adjustments that would optimize the conditions for normal function. Using this unique approach, Dr. Norm is able to help you to accelerate and/or maintain your journey to good health. |
|
Americorps in the SLV
May 31, 2017
Linda Skeff says: It is exciting to see the Restoration Project expand as new groups and individuals join in the effort to remove invasive nonnative plants and encourage native plants to return to the degraded areas. The VWC, supporters of Garrahan Park,4-H, SLV Muesum supporters and Boulder Creek’s Community Church have all provided volunteers for various projects, and we are reaching out to involve more and more people. There are two basic goals, 1. To bring the whole SLV community that is sandwiched between Big Basin and Henry Cowell together in a native revival to improve the health of the watershed and its wildlife, both flora and fauna. (In the Midwest, studies demonstrated a huge increase in native fauna when each property in the area had a minimum 4X4 foot patch of native prairie grasses and plants. It is a huge community endeavor across many states and it is working there, so it will work here.) 2. To bring the communities together that form the SLV to form a living corridor for our native flora and fauna. Linking Highlands Park to Garrahan Park with this bridge will greatly increase the survival of the local flora and fauna. We now you have 3 huge tracts of public land thoughtfully connected by a community to form a native corridor one back or front yard at a time. |
|
Jun 03, 2017 - Jun 04, 2017
It all began in the 80s ... The Redwood Mountain Faire started in the early 1980s as a way to feature the talent of local artists, and musicians, in a community event that would benefit local charities as well. It was extraordinarily successful for 18 years, and became the model for other festivals, including the Strawberry Music Festival. After a hiatus of many years, the community wanted it back, so back it came in a remarkable rebirth, at a beautiful new venue, Roaring Camp (thanks to Georgie Clark), in June, 2010. |
|
ACLU
Jun 07, 2017
The Santa Cruz ACLU is a chapter of ACLU Northern California, which is the largest of the 53 affiliates nationwide of the ACLU. The American Civil Liberties Union is a non-partisan, not-for-profit, civil liberties organization founded in 1920 “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.” To learn more about the history and mission of the ACLU visit: American Civil Liberties Union: Guardians of Freedom. There are 16 other Northern California chapters, as well as 7 campus clubs. Meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month, usually at the Louden Nelson Center, at 7:00 pm. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns, or suggestions for what you’d like to see on the website; what can we do to make this website useful to you? |