The boys and girls at Boulder Creek Elementary School are learning how to be peanut-conscious this year after the school banned peanut products from its kindergarten classrooms and its cafeteria and day care center.

It’s a Thursday morning, and Jake Gandolfo is red-eyed and hung over.

Twelve-year-old Ronin Olson of Ben Lomond suspects it might be time to stop collecting Beanie Babies. But before he retires his hobby, the Ocean Grove Charter School student decided to enter his massive assortment into the Santa Cruz County Fair’s hobbies and collections contest category.