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Five boys runners — four seniors and a talented freshman — left for New York today to compete in the high school indoor track and field national championships.

The going has been slow for the nascent Boys and Girls Club of the Valleys. Although the actual building has been completed and ready to go for nearly a year, the funding that would allow after-school programs for the youth of Scotts Valley and the San Lorenzo Valley to begin has yet to materialize.

With each new season, we start fresh with high expectations for a bountiful harvest of vegetables and mouth-watering fruit, fragrant flowers to pick for bouquets and healthy plants to attract beneficial insects to the garden. As the months pass, it seems one problem after another crops up.

Family and friends gathered at the SLVHS Baseball field on June 12, to watch as teachers and graduating seniors began the procession.