Family Owned For 33 Years • Aptos, La Selva Beach, Corralitos, Freedom & Watsonville
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July 1, 2024 • Vol 33 No. 13
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World’s Shortest Parade Thursday, July 4 • 10 a.m. Corner Soquel Drive & State Park Drive Full Story page 8
Perseverance is a Practice, By Kaitlyn Johnson Full Story page 5
Iconic Rancher Frank Estrada ~1935-2024~
The community is mourning Frank Laurance Estrada, an iconic rancher in Watsonville who passed away peacefully on June 19, surrounded by his loving family. He was 88. Frank was born Sept. 2, 1935, on the family ranch in the mountains below Mount Madonna Park to Frank and Laura Estrada. He lived a life that little boys dream of. At an early age he learned how to hunt, fish, tend to cattle and other farm animals and how to rope.
Frank started school in a one-room schoolhouse, Hazel Dell School, which was on the ranch and right next to his house. After three years, his parents realized Frank needed to go elsewhere for school, where he could focus on what was being taught and not on what was going on outside, so he was enrolled at Moreland Notre Dame School in Watsonville. ... continues on page 4
Greetings, from Papua New Guinea!
Santa Cruz County is a hotbed of people who do good locally and also around the globe. People from Santa Cruz County have helped educate villagers and adopted a child in Ghana, West Africa; built a school in Guatemala; and helped to support students and built wells in El Salvador. Full Story page 6
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