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Scotts Valley
October 17, 2025

Club Roundup

Kiwanis Club of Scotts Valley

Datebook: Happenings in SLV and SV

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 29 to 31

The Mountain Gardener: Stirrings of spring mean tidying up garden

I’m beginning to see the stirrings of life on some plants, and although I’ve enjoyed some down time after the holidays, there are several tasks it’s time to do.

Your Health: Vitamin D needed for bones, brain

From time to time, I’ll write about various vitamins and how they affect our health. But what exactly is a vitamin?

Talk about Money: Not even death, taxes are certain in extraordinary times

In 1789, when Benjamin Franklin said “In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes,” even a mind as great as his couldn’t have predicted the surreal state of our tax system at the beginning of 2010. By not properly prioritizing the legislative agenda, our Congress has failed to preempt the one-year repeal of the estate “death” tax and the inevitable mess that will ensue.

The Mountain Gardener: Make your habitat a wildlife habitat, too

One of my resolutions this year is to get my garden certified as a wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation.

Nature Friendly: Visitors at the edge of wildness

In between the raindrops, I found a dry space to spend time in during a visit to Fall Creek in Henry Cowell State Park.

New Faces

• Felicity Portia Rosemary Boddy Strong was born at 12:52 p.m. Nov. 30, 2009, to Michele Avril (Boddy) and Paul David Strong of Scotts Valley. She weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces, at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz.

It’s the Law: Look a gift card in the mouth

How many of you gave or received a gift card this past holiday season?

Let’s Go Fishin’: Steelhead enter Nor Cal rivers

The rivers in the northern part of our state are getting rain and steelhead trout.

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Roadwork

Highway 9 accessibility improvements begin this week in Ben Lomond

Construction crews have begun work this week on a Caltrans project aimed at installing Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant curb ramps along Highway 9...