B2 TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013
SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL
EXTRA
PRESCRIPTION FOR HEALTH
COAST LINES
SOQUEL
Giants’ trophy tour stops
at Soquel High on Tuesday
The San Francisco Giants Championship Trophies
will be on view Tuesday in Soquel as a benefit for the
local Junior Giants league.
The trophy tour, sponsored by Bank of America, is
touring the nation for three months.
At the viewing, fans may take photos of the 2010
and 2012 Major League Baseball Commissioner’s trophies, crafted by Tiffany and Co. The trophies will be
on display from 6-8 p.m. at Soquel High School, 401
Old San Jose Road.
Admission is free but a contribution of $2 per
person is requested to support the Live Oak Junior
Giants league, which served 210 children in 2012. The
league is supported in partnership with the Santa
Cruz County Sheriff Activity League, the Live Oak
School District and Community Bridges/Live Oak
Family Resource Center.
Junior Giants is the flagship program of the
Giants Community Fund, which serves more than
20,000 boys and girls in 80 underserved communities throughout Northern and Central California
and southern Oregon. The free, noncompetitive
baseball program provides opportunities for children to build confidence and leadership.
SANTA CRUZ
Veterans gather to
mark friendship project
Veterans and others are gathering from 3 to 6 p.m.
March 10 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence to
celebrate the 15th anniversary of the humanitarian
Vietnamese Friendship Village project.
Located in Van Canh village, the program has
provided medical and therapeutic treatments to
approximately 120 people considered victims of
Agent Orange, as well as several aging veterans. For
20 years, Vietnam Friendship Village Project USA
has raised money for the effort, which has ties to
Santa Cruz County.
The event is being attended by peace activists,
members of the Bill Motto “Wage Peace” VFW Post
5888, Veterans For Peace, and others. The center is
at 612 Ocean St.
Program aims to get residents
back on track with fitness
Santa Cruz Challenge starts
Saturday, gives access
to gyms, studios, classes
IF YOU GO
2013 SANTA CRUZ
CHALLENGE
By JONDI GUMZ
jgumz@santacruzsentinel.com
SANTA CRUZ — Jolie Downs, a
mother of two with a desk job, changed
her life last year. Never into exercise,
she signed up for the Santa Cruz Challenge, a 12-week program to visit more
than a dozen gyms, dance classes and
fitness studios.
“I came to really enjoy it and need it,”
said Downs, 36, who manages recruitment of public relations professionals
at Paradigm Staffing in Capitola. “It
was more expensive than I thought but
worth every penny,”
She discovered she loved yoga,
Pilates and dance. She lost 15 pounds.
Afterward she signed up for a gym and
exercises a couple times a week.
It’s not too late to join the 2013 Santa
Cruz Challenge, which starts Saturday
at the Santa Cruz High School track.
So far, about 40 people have signed up,
but organizers LeTa Jussila, an acupuncturist and personal trainer, and
Michelle Bean, a chiropractor, expect
a last-minute rush.
Jussila and Bean, partners in Optimal Health and Fitness, started the
Santa Cruz Challenge in 2011 with 74
people. Last year, when it started in
January, 68 participated.
This year’s challenge is shorter, eight
weeks, with unlimited fitness, dance
and outdoor “boot camp” classes; talks
WHAT: Eight-week program of fitness
classes and lectures on health topics,
weekly drawings and grand prizes.
WHERE: Fourteen gyms and fitness
studios in Santa Cruz County
WHEN: March 9 at Santa Cruz High
School track through May 4. Come
between 8-11 a.m. for a health and
fitness test.
COST: $249 to $399 per person,
depending on how many people sign up
with you.
DETAILS: www.santacruzchallenge.com
or 831-222-0189
stand-up paddleboard, mountain bike,
and a Santa Cruz Dream Inn stay-cation.
Downs appreciated the program’s
variety.
“I didn’t even use everything I could
have,” she said. “I was constantly meeting new people.”
Amy Anderson, 37, a trauma nurse
from Santa Cruz who works over the
hill, had a similar story.
“I was a sedentary mom,” she said.
“I‘ve had five kids. I didn’t think I had
any abdominal muscles left.”
She was the winner last year, the second year she participated.
She tried Capoeira, Zumba and Bike
Dojo, shaved four minutes off her mile,
lost 30 pounds, and held a plank position for five-and-a-half minutes. She
tried the “Ideal Protein” cleanse for
three months and “felt phenomenal.”
She appreciated Jussila individualizing the program.
“It was the push I needed,” Anderson
said. “She had modifications for me at
the beginning. I broke my back at age
21.”
When the challenge ended, Anderson kept on doing the outdoor workout
she learned. Last weekend she brought
her whole family to an obstacle course
at Seabright Beach organized by Optimal. Last year she completed her first
triathlon, something she never thought
she could do.
Now she’s looking forward to doing
it again.
on financial health, detoxification, meditation, volunteering, relationships and
the farmers market; plus weekly drawings with grand prizes at the end. Participants will get weekly emails with
health tips, discounts from local businesses and a chance to share their
experience online.
They can visit daily classes at Kayak Connection, Minorsan, Agile Monkey, Six Animal Kung Fu, Aerial Playground, Farley’s Kickboxing, The Bike
Dojo, Luma Yoga, Pleasure Point Yoga,
Palomar Ballroom, Santa Cruz Yoga,
Santa Cruz Dance Co., Integrated Martial Sciences and Optimal Health and
Fitness.
Prizes worth more than $50,000 Follow Sentinel reporter Jondi Gumz
include $1,000 and a mini-makeover, on Twitter at Twitter.com/jondigumz
CELEBRATING IN STYLE
SANTA CRUZ
Mobile home rents
topic of symposium
The Santa Cruz County Manufactured/Mobile
Homeowners Association is holding its first-ever
educational symposium on rent-control rules, featuring panels of experts on the topic.
The March 9 event is 1-5 p.m. at the De Anza Clubhouse, 2395 Delaware Ave. Formed on January 2012,
the association is intended to act on behalf of local
mobile home residents.
Panelists include Mayor Hilary Bryant, former
Mayor Mike Rotkin, association founder Mardi
Brick, National Manufactured Homeowners Association executive director Ishbel Dickens and others.
The event is free and open to the public.
SANTA CRUZ
UN conference focuses
on violence against women
Jane Weed-Pomerantz, former Santa Cruz mayor and founder of Positive Discipline Community
Resources, is in New York for the United Nations
Conference on the Status of Women,
which got under way Monday.
Weed-Pomerantz, one of six U.S.
delegates representing the Women’s
International League for Peace and
Freedom, will participate in workshops focusing on prevention of
violence against women and girls.
During the 10-day conference, nongovernmental organizations will disWEEDcuss issues of concern worldwide
POMERANTZ
and decide policies and programs to
pursue.
“We’ll be thinking globally but acting locally to not
only eliminate the suffering of women and girls but
to foster empowerment and build mutually respectful relationships,” said Weed-Pomerantz, calling her
involvement “a great honor and an amazing opportunity.”
Afterward, she plans to conduct community forums
to implement policies and programs developed at the
conference.
For information, email jweedpomerantz@baymoon.com.
SANTA CRUZ
LifeAID teams with
Grind Out Hunger
LifeAID Beverage, developer of the PartyAID and
FitAID “synergy” drinks, will partner with Grind
Out Hunger, a Santa Cruz nonprofit with a mission to empower youth by using their passion for
skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding and music to
become leaders in the fight against childhood hunger
and malnutrition.
“Teaming with Grind Out Hunger provides us
with the perfect vehicle for realizing our charitable
mandate,” said Aaron Hinde of LifeAID. “We plan
on actively participating with Grind Out in their
events such as food drives as well as their efforts
to educate kids about the importance of a healthy
diet.”
He said the company has new products such as
SkaterAID and SkierAID in the pipeline.
“In the action sports arena there are a lot of
unhealthy, high sugar and caffeinated options for
energy drinks,” said Danny Keith of Grind Out Hunger. “This opportunity represents the gateway to
healthier choices.”
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SANTA CRUZ — Sylvia Stolzberg celebrates her 102nd birthday Monday at the Louden Nelson Community Center.
CABRILLO COLLEGE
Cabrillo ‘not planning for any reductions’
By KIMBERLY WHITE
kwhite@santacruzsentinel.com
APTOS — Several months
ago, Cabrillo’s Board of
Trustees and administrators
were wringing their hands,
wondering how many notices
would be issued this month,
alerting faculty they may no
longer have jobs. Monday
they approved only a handful of notices to temporary
faculty who receive them
every year.
“We have no (pink slips)
going out except for the
ones that always are in the
categorical,” noted Cabrillo
College Federation of Teachers representative Paul Harvell.
But in his report to the
board, he did note that during contract negotiations
with administrators, union
members will ask for cost of
living increases, which they
have not received for years.
On a related topic, Victoria Lewis, Cabrillo’s vice
president of administrative
services, provided an update
on ongoing discussions about
the 2013-14 budget, noting
that all figures are preliminary and will be modified
based on the state’s May
revise. But as it now stands,
“we’re not planning for any
reductions right now,” Lewis
said after the meeting.
Cabrillo is expected to
enter the new year with a
$2.5 million deficit, but will
plug the hole with reserve
funds. Reserves also will be
tapped to cover a state-projected shortfall of $3.6 million for 2012-13. That would
leave just $2.7 million in the
reserve fund, but Lewis said
the $3.6 million figure likely
will be much smaller.
In other business, the
board unanimously approved
some changes to the fall
course catalogue, which
includes a new two-year
degree and certification program in energy management.
Students will learn construction principles focused on
sustainability and energy
management, learning about
renewable energy systems
and their role in energy and
resource conservation and
the environment.
The board also received
information about a potential
collaborative effort among
Cabrillo, Hartnell College
in Salinas and several other
entities to expand a sustainable agriculture program at
UC Santa Cruz. The university has submitted a $750,000
grant application to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
for its Environmental Studies Department and Center
for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. If
approved, the funds would
be used to recruit students
from Cabrillo and Hartnell to
UC Santa Cruz’s sustainable
agriculture field and expand
its offerings, according to
university spokesman Guy
Lasnier.
Cabrillo’s board packet
indicated plans call for a
new bachelor’s degree, but
Lasnier said that is not in the
works.
“Down the line, our work
together could mean a new
degree program, but there’s
no current plan for that,” he
wrote in an email.
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1 Killer Whale (Orca)
2 Humpback Whales
50 Common Dolphins
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