News Briefs: Halloween helpers needed

Halloween helpers needed
The Valley Women’s Club needs volunteers to help ensure the safety of trick-or-treaters in Boulder Creek this Halloween. Volunteers keep costumed folks moving in a traditional counter-clockwise path and make sure they cross Highway 9 safely.
Volunteers should dress warmly, take a flashlight and meet at 4:45 p.m. Oct. 31 in front of the Boulder Creek Liquor Store, 13141 Highway 9. The assignment ends at 7 p.m.
For information: 345-1555. Those with experience directing traffic should call 338-2627.
Club names top Rotarian
Retired Capt. Jack Nunneley was named Rotarian of the Year by the Scotts Valley Rotary Club.
Nun-neley is a retired 30-year U.S. Naval officer who commanded a nuclear submarine from 1965 to 1969 and was commanding officer of the Naval Submarine School in Groton, Conn. After retiring in 1981, he joined Rotary in Vallejo before moving to Scotts Valley after his wife, Cynthia, died of cancer in 2007.
This year, all veterans and military service members will receive free entry to the Scotts Valley Rotary’s Oktoberfest, from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, at the Scotts Valley Sports Center, 251 Kings Village Road.
Admission is $10, and proceeds benefit Scotts Valley schools.
Learn about redistricting
Trudy Schafer of the California League of Women Voters will discuss how redistricting reform will work under a California law that will draw new boundaries for state assembly, senate and board of equalization districts.
The public is welcome to lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 31 at DeLaveaga Golf Lodge Restaurant, 401 Upper Park Road, in Santa Cruz. The cost is $15 per person.
Those who wish to attend must RSVP by Oct. 24 to 426-8683.
Museum debuts surf exhibit
The San Lorenzo Valley Museum and the Santa Cruz Surfing Club Preservation Society are launching a new exhibit, titled “Big Trees to Surfboards — The Redwood Connection.”
The exhibit shows how, in 1885, three Hawaiian princes selected redwood from Brookdale and shaped it into surfboards they rode at the San Lorenzo River mouth.
The exhibit will debut from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 24 at the museum, 12547 Highway 9, in Boulder Creek.
For information: 338-8382 or www.slvmuseum.com.
Center offers HIV testing
The Diversity Center, 1117 Soquel Ave., in Santa Cruz, will offer free HIV testing the first and third Monday of each month starting Monday, Oct. 19.
The anonymous, rapid HIV testing is for gay and bisexual men.
“Up to 74 percent of the HIV infections in Santa Cruz County are men who have sex with men, so it is essential that we continue to provide these services, even in hard times,” executive director Jim Brown said in a prepared statement.
The center partners with Santa Cruz County Health and Human Services to provide the free tests.
For information: 425-5422.