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Local soccer team beats SC stars

n Kaden James Thomsen was born at 3:27 a.m. Sept. 2, 2011, to Soquel residents Kassandra Eirene Teegardin and Erik John Thomsen, a San Lorenzo Valley High School graduate. Kaden weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces when he arrived at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz. His paternal grandmother, Carole Hatch, lives in Ben Lomond.

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There’s been much in the news recently about e-cigarettes. The Santa Cruz City Council has just voted to update the city’s tobacco related ordinances which would ban the use of e-cigarettes where smoking is currently restricted and requiring the product to be sold only by vendors with tobacco retail licenses. Thus, Santa Cruz joins some 50 California state cities and counties in creating such restrictions.

Ten students from Santa Cruz Mountain Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competed in the 2013 U.S. Open at the Santa Cruz Kaiser Permanente Arena on October 19 and 20. 

It is estimated that about one-third of adults have difficulty sleeping and are thus sleep deprived.