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March 1, 2025 • Vol 34 No. 5
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League Champs & Tourney Champs!
Aptos Mariners, undefeated in league, sailed away with the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League crown and then topped the rival Cardinals to earn the tourney championship. Full Story page 9
PVUSD Staff Cuts on Hold Full Story page 5
Daughters of the Strike By Jondi Gumz Blanca Baltazar was 12 when the historic Watsonville Cannery strike began. When her mother — who worked in the plant — walked the picket line, she would come along, carry signs and chant in Spanish while her father picked strawberries. Of course, she didn’t realize the 1985 strike, precipitated by wage cuts and lasting 18 months until new owners restored
wages and provided health insurance, would become a milestone in labor history. But now, 40 years later, the impact of the strike by more than 1,000 workers, overwhelmingly Latino, in two frozen food plants is being acknowledged with a Jon Silver documentary, “Daughters of the Strike,” to be screened for the Watsonville Film Festival, which opens March 6 at Cinelux Green Valley in Watsonville. ... continues on page 4
101 & Going Strong! By Edita McQuary
Dorothy Helen Crane, known as “Dottie” among her family and friends in the Watsonville chair yoga group she attends three times a week, will be 102 years old on March 11. Full Story page 10
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