Letter: Voting ‘yes’ on Lompico merger will help preserve quality of life

Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office

Wow, what a year.

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey

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A week or two ago, a Scotts Valley family received an early Christmas present — a couch, chair and love seat. It was an anonymous gift. A Good Samaritan you ask? Afraid not. The furniture was beaten up and useless, deposited on the property by someone too lazy or cheap, but likely both, to drive to the dump.

Kiwanis of the Valleys

Rowan Mae Roberts, an 8-pound 1-ounce girl, was born to Meredith Mae Imwalle and Adam Scott Roberts of Scotts Valley at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz. She was born at 9:16 a.m. on Dec. 2, 2014.