Locals can hire a Scotts Valley High School football player to do odd jobs, gardening or other spring tasks around their houses.

What could be better than a beach or a wide-open field, a warm breeze and a dancing kite?

A tiny fawn lay alone in the middle of the road. For hours, drivers maneuvered around her on the driveway leading to a camp off Zayante Road, ignoring the 4-pound animal with the swollen eyes. No one stopped to help her. They were too busy going to a camp event that day.

Harbor High’s Cory McElyea won the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League tournament with a 3-over-par 73, but Scotts Valley High School's Sam Jackson qualified for an at-large berth in the Central Coast Section championship by winning a pitch-and-putt contest in near-darkness after surviving a four-way tie for eighth place. He shot 88.

April showers will bring an abundance of May flowers around the Santa Cruz Mountains. And that’s just one of the perks of a cool, rainy spring.

At top, riders make an early turn after an early morning start from Skypark for the Scotts Valley Educational Foundation’s Mountain Charlie Challenge on Saturday, April 24.