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A series of public safety agencies recently carried the Special Olympics torch through Santa Cruz County en route to the Summer Games as part of the Law Enforcement Torch Run. Shaun Saffen, a Santa Cruz resident who’s one of the athlete leaders for Special Olympics...

I received an email from a reader not too long ago who lives on a ridge top outside Scotts Valley. She wrote that her “flowering plums have no ‘buzz’ about them when she walks by. Even (her) rosemary is not a buzz. A few yes, but not nearly the normal. Why is this year different?”

Wow, I thought the other day as I closed the Market’s door behind me; what a nice group of guys; knowledgeable, fun loving, and handsome. What a great place to shop and the sausage, meat, and poultry selections are terrific, not to mention the Leaf Lard that is available for my baking and fried chicken that I depend upon.

The Scotts Valley Square Shopping Center is currently undergoing Phase I of a remodel project and great things will be happening throughout the year. Don’t despair, although Phase I included removal of the hardscape in the shopping center, new plant material and colorful trees will be coming.

The fifth of May is just ‘around the corner’ and I have all of the ingredients needed for making Tamales, absolutely necessary in my opinion, to celebrate one of my favorite holidays. 

“You’ll never run or ski again,” the emergency room doctor announced the moment I regained consciousness at San Francisco General Hospital.