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There's nothing like the long days of summer to get you thinking you could really get used to this. The plants are blooming, the veggies are finally producing and it seems summer will go on forever.

- Submit Datebook items to [email protected] or drop off press releases or photos at 5215 Scotts Valley Drive, Ste. F, Scotts Valley 95066. Deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday. Entries are subject to editing, and publication is not guaranteed.

Women’s health just took a leap forward with the passage of California Senate Bill 1538, authored by former state Senator Joe Simitian, which requires that women with dense breast tissue as determined by a mammogram be informed that they have the condition.

On occasion I have patients present to me with the sensation that a pill was stuck in their throat. This is not an uncommon occurrence. A number of people do have problems swallowing medication in tablet or capsule form. When a pill actually does get stuck it is usually not really in the throat but in the upper esophagus just below the throat.

“Chronic underfunding is slowly starving California state parks.”

- Autumn Rain Underwood was born at 2:10 p.m. Sept. 10, 2013 to Jammie Leeann Underwood and James Orivs Nay. She weighed 7 pounds at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz.

Do you have a story that you always wanted to write? This November is your chance to join hundreds of thousands of people around the world, and commit your ideas to paper! National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo), a non-profit event founded in 1999 by The Office of Letters and Light, challenges people to write 50,000 words during the month of November.

Dylan John Meekwas born at 11:06 p.m. Nov. 15, 2013 to Porsche and Kieran Meek of Boulder Creek. He weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz.