Burning Man, Mercury Retrograde

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August 23, 2016

Burning Man—the nine-day desert art community on the playa of Black Rock City, Nevada—begins Sunday, Aug. 28 and ends Monday, Sept. 5. The formation of this temporary society is based on “radical self-reliance and self-expression” within the context of art, community and cooperation, a new social structure.
As the old society falls away, we will seek community, places of refuge based on this experiment. Everything that occurs is created by its citizens. Everyone participates. It’s an experiment. The theme for 2016 is “Da Vinci’s Workshop,” inspired by the Italian Renaissance, when Ray 3 (divine intelligence), Ray 5 (concrete and scientific knowledge) and Ray 7 (anchoring a new template, rhythm, new archetypes of living), streamed into the Earth, creating artistic and scientific innovation and an enlightenment that led Europe out of the Dark Ages.
The Renaissance was a revolutionary cultural movement. Science and art flourished, especially in Florence, Italy. An example of Renaissance art is Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” (1480).
Burning Man 2016 “attempts to become the epicenter of the new present-day Renaissance.” Its hero is Leonardo da Vinci, creator of “Vitruvian Man”—head, arms and feet outstretched, representing the five-pointed star of Venus.
Appropriately, as Burning Man looks to the past, Mercury retro begins, stationing at 29 degrees Virgo (early morning Tuesday, Aug. 30). What does this mean? The “new Renaissance” at Black Rock will have unusual turnabouts and surprises. Mercury retro is heyoka, the trickster, contrarian, medicine man, healer—functioning upside down and inside out, posing questions and zen koans so we see things differently. Mercury retro is perfect for Burning Man: looking back to the future.

ARIES: All work environments, both home and professional, will feel cluttered and disorganized. They will call you to order and organization. There will be changes in scheduling and routines. There is no routine in Mercury retro times. Mercury retro doesn’t allow it because things are supposed to be different, upside down and sideways. Careful with communication, for it doesn’t work well either—not in the usual way. Nothing will be safe, nothing predictable. Play with it.
TAURUS: Your usual creative energy will withdraw inward for a while. Remember all that you did as a child. Remember what you liked and didn’t like. Remember what you did for pleasure, for comfort. What art did you offer others? How curious were you? It’s a good time to be with children, to gather groups for art, dance, painting, theatre, crafts nights. Someone from the past reappears. Uh oh.
GEMINI: Things might be, should be (are they?) happening in your home. Mercury retrograding through your home (foundation) brings up the idea of roots, childhood, thought patterns and belief learned while young. St. Paul’s saying comes to mind: “When a child, I thought like a child.” How are your thoughts different now? While pondering this question, rearrange the furniture, kitchen, garage and yard, too.
CANCER: Everything concerning travel, communication, learning, talking, cars, driving, trips, appointments and plans may go into a state of confusion for you. Mercury retro makes everything topsy-turvy, not understood, changed, sometimes difficult. It calls everyone to do things over again, but in a different way. All those “r” words come into play: rewrite, renew, review, re … everything.
LEO: Values, resources, finances, money and more money. It’s good to create a Values Journal. Title: “This is What I Value.” Write your values in it every day. What is the situation with your income? Shifting to the Soul’s questions, how is your life energy? What are your spiritual values? What in life do you truly seek? Do you feel you are of value to the world? Are you tithing?
VIRGO: There will be a re-thinking and re-assessment concerning your self-image—the image you see in the mirror and the image you project to the world. Virgo likes to be impeccable with speech and communication, plans and organization. However, Mercury, Virgo’s ruler, has other plans. Words aren’t available, perceptions may be skewed, all reflections will not be remembered when Mercury turns direct. Virgo, forget everything and just have fun.
LIBRA: I like to write about Libra, a social sign (out and about), my rising and my daughter’s Sun sign. It’s always about balance, poise, beauty and Right Relations. However, this month all these virtues become veiled. Mercury whisks Libra behind the scenes into the depths of religion and psychology, offering messages from the underworld, overworld … somewhere. And dreams are the result. Libra, you’re not alone. Create an altar.
SCORPIO: So you want to be with friends, especially those from the past. There’s something special from the not-too-distant past that you long for, think about, pine away for. It’s not just desire, it’s actually need. And so you must take the time to revisit and discover if returning is the right move. Don’t move yet. Only visit. Allow no misunderstandings to go unattended. Goals, dreams, hopes, wishes need serious consideration.
SAGITTARIUS: There’s work from the past—a job or business or promises or promotion—that must be tended to. You’re a leader. A leader’s gifts are leading with will, love and patience. Is there a job you need to reapply for? Something you must do again? Mercury retro helps you reconsider career and make contact with important people. “Contact releases love.” And direction.
CAPRICORN: You might be thinking of a place you would like to (re)visit. You might think about studying something, returning to school, completing a course. You may be confronted with aspects of truth, morals and ethics. It’s good to review what your truths morals and ethics are. As we enter Aquarius, the new laws and principles of the Aquarian Age become our new morals and ethics. Watch your step when walking.
AQUARIUS: Check all legal financial papers—bank accounts, insurance, loans, mortgage or car payments. Is anything due? Pay bills on time. Make sure when sharing resources that everyone receives their fair share. Be sure too of a proper balancing of energies when helping others. Don’t overdo, overexert, overtax or overheat. Drink lots of pure water, purifying and cleansing.
PISCES: When marrying, we promise to honor the other in sickness or health, good times and bad. We promise to respect the other and help them “till death do us part.” Commitments we make usually in the throes of emotional passions and desire. As Mercury retro passes through your relationship/marriage house, you may want to re-negotiate those vows. Adding to them by loving more, giving more, promising more. Just don’t get married. Not yet. These words apply to all relationships.

Dad and Me and Netflix

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Steve Palopoli

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August 17, 2016

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Not long after I started managing my dad’s Netflix queue, I was getting obsessive about the email notices the company would send me whenever they mailed a DVD out to him, or received one he’d returned.
Since the next movie couldn’t go out until he returned the last one, I hoped he would send them back quickly after watching them, so we could keep them coming. We live three hours apart, so I couldn’t do much to make sure he mailed them off, but I needn’t have worried—this is my dad we’re talking about. I think he was even driving them to the post office the day after he watched them to make sure they got back right away. At nearly 80 years old, the man has never been late in his life, and it was turning out to be no different with this Netflix experiment we had embarked upon.
Until one day, when I suddenly realized I hadn’t gotten an email notice in almost a week. We were on an Expendables kick, so I had moved Expendables 2 to the top of his queue. According to my Netflix emails, it had gone out to him, but hadn’t been received back after several days.
I called him up. “Dad,” I said. “Did you watch Expendables 2 yet?”
“Oh yeah,” he said. “I just put it in the mail today.”
“Finally! Did you like it?”
“Oh, it was terrible,” he said, with a groan. “No story at all. The whole movie was just shoot-em-up, blow-em-up—blow everything up. They got this big all-star cast, and none of them even got to do anything!”
“Really?” I asked, mystified. “Then why’d it take you so long to get it back in the mail?”
“Well,” he said, “it was so bad, I had to watch it twice.”

INTO THE QUEUE

That right there is why I love talking to my dad about movies. I always have, ever since I was a teenager and actually felt like I was starting to know enough about movie culture to discover some good films, especially older ones. I’d watch, say, Double Indemnity, and when I’d tell him about it, he’d say, “Oh yeah, with Fred MacMurray. You know, until then he was known for being the goofy dad on My Three Sons.” Wait, the guy I just saw plot a cold-blooded insurance-scam murder in a hardboiled film noir? Mind blown.
Dad has always been unpretentious about it—to this day, he claims he doesn’t even know much about movies, but I know I got my love of them from him. He took me to the original Star Wars when I was five, and to Raiders of the Lost Ark when I was 9. (Yikes, dad, there were melting Nazis in that!) Once we got a VCR in the early ’80s, he and I and my mom and sis would watch everything from old Abbott and Costello movies to Star Trek flicks to The French Connection. We about wore through a dubbed video from one of his friends that had The Natural on it. It also had—tagged on to the end—Bob Clark’s rare early film Deathdream, which began my lifelong love affair with cult movies.
There is also a strange thread of movie culture that runs through our family history. His mom and dad met while working as ushers in a movie theater during the Depression—movies being the rare industry that thrived in that era, as people flocked to them to take their minds off their troubles. And, for reasons that even my dad isn’t sure about, we have a ring given to his father on the occasion of my dad’s birth by none other than legendary Warner Brothers studio head Jack Warner.
So movies are in my family, in a way, and when I got a job running a national movie magazine in L.A., my dad used to go to the Texaco gas station where he lives in Paso Robles to buy every new issue, even though he knew I was going to give him a copy for free. To this day, that’s the thing that means the most to me about that gig.
Movies came to mean something different though, after my mom died three years ago. After almost 50 years of marriage, he was devastated. He’s a very social person with a lot of friends, and memberships in at least three car clubs. But he confided to me that it was the nights—when he’d come home to an empty house after doing all his social things—that were the hardest.
About a year after mom’s death, I got an idea. What if on some of those nights, he had a movie waiting for him to watch, and he wouldn’t necessarily even know what it was going to be? He hadn’t rented a movie in years, and was mostly just watching the same DVDs and VHS tapes in his collection over and over, which I knew couldn’t be helping all that much.
Meanwhile, I was a big Netflix user, and I thought he’d enjoy it, too. Streaming was out of the question—the guy barely trusts his computer enough to get on it for email—and even with the DVD service, I had a feeling if I just signed him up and expected him to go hunt around to find movies to put in his queue, he wouldn’t. So I told him that for Christmas I was getting him a Netflix subscription, and I’d manage his queue—with his input, of course.
Now, like a lot of Internet-era sons, I have always enjoyed razzing my father about his flat-out rejection of technological advancement, and the lengths to which he takes his unwillingness to upgrade. This is a man who kept his VCR running by replacing the broken drive belt with a rubber hair tie. That ancient tape machine and his Sony DVD player are hooked up to his current TV—and I use the term “current” loosely, as he bought it in the early ’80s. How it’s even able to communicate with a DVD player in the first place, I have no idea. And yet, as with all the appliances he somehow manages to make last for 30 to 40 years, he’s not entirely convinced he’s gotten his money out of it. Did I mention he was born at the tail end of the Great Depression?
But this time, I completely changed my attitude. Rather than fight his tech resistance, I resolved to help him through it. The queue became a mix of movies I dropped in because I thought he might like them and things he mentioned he’d like to see. We’d talk about the great racing movies, and then I’d put them all in the queue. He’d tell me his favorite baseball movies, all the way back to 1942’s The Pride of the Yankees (and damn, does he know baseball movies), and into the queue they’d go. I’d send him current stuff I hadn’t even seen, and he’d tell me if it was good. My favorite part was—and still is—talking to him about each movie after he’s watched it.
Last December, he told me, “Hey, for Christmas this year, just do that Netflix thing again, if you don’t mind.” Mind? It’s like my favorite thing.

A LOOK BACK

Before I write this article, we sit down at his dining room table and talk for an hour and a half about what this whole experiment has been like for both of us. I tell him that even though we’ve always been close, this has been a bonding experience I didn’t expect. He tells me that before we started this, he had no idea what it’d be like at all, and that there have been plenty of times he’s opened that red envelope and wondered what the heck I just sent him, and why. Some turned out to be great, others not so much. (Here are my dad’s top three complaints about movies, in order: 1. “It was so slow”; 2. “It was slow”; 3. “It just was kind of slow.”) There have even been a few that were so bad, he had to watch them twice.
And of course we talk about mom, and I’m constantly reminded how much he still loves her and misses her, just like I do. It’s a hole in his life I can never fill, no matter how much I wish I could. My dad’s always a step ahead of me, though, like when the subject of her favorite movies comes up.
“Your mother liked that Richard Dreyfuss movie Mr. Holland’s Opus. She would watch it over and over,” he says. “I haven’t played it since she died.”
“Oh jeez, yeah, I understand,” I say. “Like it’s too emotional to watch it because it reminds you so much of her.”
He looks down at the table, with a long sigh. “No, I never cared that much for the movie.”
Slowly, a smile breaks through the deadpan, and then a sly laugh. He got me again, for about the millionth time. Just for that, dad, I’m putting a certain heartwarming movie about a music teacher bonding with his high-school students into your queue right now.

Senior Project 2016

Special Publications

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August 17, 2016

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Feelings, nothing more than feelings. Trying to forget my... oh, hi! Didn’t see you there. I was just thinking about how personal some of the stories get in this issue.
In general, we write a lot in Senior Project about what kinds of social trends people of a certain age are facing or creating, and try to offer an alternative take on what we all can be doing with our so-called retirement years. But this time around, the stories have a lot more of an emotional, even confessional quality than I was expecting. From Brad Kava’s frankness about the challenges and rewards of being a 60-year-old new dad, to Richard Stockton’s alternately sobering and funny recounting of his snore-induced brush with mortality, to my own attempt to explain how Netflix changed my relationship with my dad, people kind of poured their hearts out in these pages. There is some really moving insight into the project we all undertake when we start being known to the rest of the world as a “senior.” Can Oprah as guest editor of the next issue be far behind? Stay tuned!
STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Senior Project 2016: The Guide

STORIES

Good Old Dad: Confessions of a 60-year-old new father, by Brad Kava
Overcoming Sleep Apnea: What I did when snoring was no longer a laughing matter, by Richard Stockton
Dad and Me and Netflix: What happened when I stopped making fun of my dad’s trouble with technology and started embracing it, by Steve Palopoli
Zumba on the High Seas: Fitness is the newest reason to cruise, by June Smith
55+ Meetups in Santa Cruz County: Santa Cruz’s underground supply of activity groups, by Maria Grusauskas

55+ Meet Ups in Santa Cruz County

Maria Grusauskas

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Staying social is almost as important to our health as staying physically active—and loneliness has been estimated to shave about five years off our lives.
But living in Santa Cruz can sometimes feel like living in a bubble; it’s just isolated enough to feel pretty small, and meeting new friends can require some creative innovation. While tackling the ennui of routine, and the harsh reality of friends moving away to more affordable areas, I came across meetup.com, which brims with opportunities to expand your world of friends and get out. And, if you don’t see something that intrigues you, you can start your own group.
Here’s a breakdown of four active meetup groups in the Santa Cruz County area that welcome a mature age group.

GES 55+ Social Club
Green Earth Singles began in Santa Cruz more than 30 years ago, with an emphasis on outdoor activities. Today, group activities include events of all kinds, from lunch to movie nights, beach walks and bonfires.

Women’s Walking/Hiking Group for the Less Than Perfectly Fit
This is the perfect meetup group for those women who know that a 5-mile hike is out of their capability, but still want to walk and hike in nature, with a little support along the way. Hikes range from Arana Gulch (followed by happy hour at the Crow’s Nest) to Elkhorn Slough, a West Cliff midday walk, Henry Cowell State Park, and more.
Aptos-to-Live Oak Girlfriends 50 Plus Weekdays Fun
This brand-spanking-new meetup is geared toward women over 50 who have flexible time in their weekdays to connect. Meeting between Aptos and Live Oak (to avoid traffic), this group is all about coffee, potlucks, happy hours, walks, and laughter.
Laughter Yoga Santa Cruz
Open to all ages, from children to seniors, this group is aimed to beat stress and induce joy through laughter, and promises that you will leave feeling peaceful, relaxed and energized.
Find these groups and many more by visiting meetup.com.

Zumba on the High Seas

June Smith

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August 17, 2016

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Seniors like myself cruise for a lot of reasons—for relaxation, say, or to visit exotic ports of call. Most wouldn’t think to cruise for fitness. But my recent Zumba cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas—with its slogan “Eat-Sleep-Zumba-Repeat” emblazoned on every corner of the ship—made me a believer.
It all started because my daughter, Joy Smith, was joining 130 ZES (Zumba Education Specialist) staff from 50 countries, invited on board to provide classes for 4,400 passengers. The cruise welcomed instructors, along with friends and families who share a passion for the program. For a once-in-a-lifetime mother-daughter dance experience, Joy asked me to be her cabin-mate.
Zumba creator Alberto “Beto” Perez and this hand-picked elite team were cruise celebrities. These specialists are responsible for training instructors around the globe, and each one possesses a unique expertise, as shown in themed classes on the cruise. Joy incorporates cabaret, samba and hip-hop into her routines, and others specialize in Aqua Zumba, Bollywood or Brazilian Carnival, among many others.

**DANCE PARTNERS** The author with Zumba founder Beto Perez.

Colombian-born Beto—like Shakira, known simply by his first name—began his career as a trainer and choreographer. On one fateful day in 2001, he arrived at his aerobics class without his regular music and improvised with personal salsa and merengue tapes, and Zumba was born.
Getting to the ship in Fort Lauderdale the day before departure involved a red-eye flight from SFO, and the early arrival meant a long wait in the Hampton Inn hospitality area before check in. At breakfast, Joy reunited with ZES friends from around the world. Early the next morning, a bus picked up her group for orientation meetings, and at a more civilized hour, a second bus transported friends and family to the Independence of the Seas. After meeting up at the safety drill, we visited the beautiful, windowed lounge reserved for ZES members. Before we set sail, I attended a Zumba Gold class with Helen from New York. She had us grooving to Aretha Franklin and James Brown, sprinkled among her many selections with a Latin beat.
More than 346 classes took place in spaces all over the ship, continuing until 10:45 p.m. Beto’s morning sessions, held poolside, easily accommodated his large posse of fans, but passengers visiting the excursion desk on the Royal Promenade had to dance their way through popular, massive classes held in the walkway.
On our first full day at sea while Joy taught, I consulted the ship’s daily planner and saw that a salsa contest was taking place poolside. Knowing that the majority of contestants would be instructors, I had no intention of competing, but hoped I might pick up some new moves. As the groups practiced their routines, the pounding beat of the music was so contagious that those of us watching couldn’t help but dance on the sidelines.
Because there was a busy night ahead, I spent my afternoon relaxing and reading on our private balcony deck. First on my evening agenda was another Zumba Gold class, this one taught by Joy Prouty and Josie Gardiner, co-creators of the lower-impact class along with Beto. The women fed off each other’s energy, demonstrating their credo “Zumba is a party, and no matter what the person’s age, everyone likes to have a good time!”
Then it was time for the official ZES welcome dinner, and I had hoped this could be my chance to meet Beto. He’s constantly surrounded by admirers, but the perfect opportunity for an introduction came just before dessert was served. The last thing I expected, however, was to have him jump up, plant a hug and kiss on both cheeks and lead me to a side aisle to talk! He thanked me for bringing daughter Joy into the world, and I gathered up the composure to say, “I took her to dance classes as soon as she could walk.” When he asked if I was a dancer; I said that I had always loved Latin dance and thanked him for creating Zumba. With a knowing grin, he responded, “It’s hot!”
Throughout the week, we ate healthy but tasty food at the buffet, and in the evening feasted on shrimp cocktail and lobster in the formal dining room. We experienced a whirlwind of classes, lifestyle seminars, and reunions in corridors, elevators and restaurants with friends, often dining with friends Niel Smith and A.J. Hernandez. When Smith, who Joy had trained, met Hernandez at the Orlando annual convention, they became a couple, and we were in on the secret that Hernandez planned to propose on the cruise. After a dance class on the helipad, Smith was surprised with a white brushed-gold diamond surrounded by blue sapphires, and the words, “Niel, you have been the glass slipper for my heart. Will you marry me?” The answer was yes.

woman in front of cruise ship — **DOCK STAR** Joy Smith on the Zumba cruise.

Dinnertime was also an opportunity for Joy to meet the spouses who accompanied her ZES gal friends. Two of the husbands clued me in on the NZH Facebook page “Neglected Zumba Husbands.” There, an order link is provided for “Feel the Neglect” T-shirts. Both of these men, however, were supportive Zumba husbands, happily assisting their wives on work vacations to exciting locales.
On day three, the ship arrived at Labadee, the private island for Royal Caribbean guests, located on the north coast of Haiti. An official Zumba concert was taking place at Adrenaline Beach, but I opted to enjoy the upbeat music from our private balcony, looking forward to the next day’s destination of Falmouth, Jamaica.
We took the short bus ride to private Red Stripe Beach (named after the local beer) boasting fine white sand and warm Jamaican waters. We soaked up the sun, strolled along the beach and relaxed under wispy willow trees. The resident DJ led a group of us in lively impromptu dancing while waiting for the bus back to the ship.
On the last day, due to wind and rain, the reggaeton contest by the pool was cancelled, but there were plenty of indoor activities, including Joy’s seminar on healthy eating habits. That evening at the ZES farewell dinner, we dined at Beto’s table and enjoyed conversations with people from all corners of the world. For Joy and I, the cruise had given us the opportunity to dance anywhere, anytime—a pretty good reason for going off the grid.

The 2017 Zumba Love in the Caribbean cruise takes place April 23-28 from Miami, Florida to Nassau, Bahamas, and Cozumel, Mexico.

Overcoming Sleep Apnea

Richard Stockton

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August 17, 2016

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I’ve been married for 26 years. Well, not in a row. The second marriage took a turn for the worse when my snore became likened to “a circular saw cutting through sheets of aluminum,” “a giant sinkhole sucking down Chicago,” and “the snore that rattled the West.” My snore could be heard through a closed door.
I’d be lying flat on my back in fitful sleep with my soft palate and uvula vibrating louder and louder. As the constriction sinks farther down my throat, I stop breathing and my legs twitch. I gag and explode, gasping for air, bolting upright. I see my wife glaring at me, her fist and her jaw clenched. I say, “Wow, baby, guess you couldn’t sleep either.”
She threatened to use duct tape. A taser. Finally the note on her desk:
To stop the snoring, place pillow tightly over face. Hold until snoring stops. Burn this note.
Much later, Dr. Hasani stares down my throat, and tells me that the physiology of my soft palate (which vibrates during snoring, along with the uvula) makes me a perfect candidate for sleep apnea. Sleep apnea?
I read online that the symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea exactly fit my symptoms. For 10 years, I have felt worse and worse, with a devil whispering in my ear, “You’re getting old.” I wake up with a dry mouth and a headache, and my first thought is “when will I be able to nap?” I take a huge dose of ibuprofen and start slamming coffee. By 10 o’clock, I’m smoking weed. I get through the work day OK with ibuprofen, caffeine and cannabis sativa.
I’m a high-functioning drug addict.

RESTFUL TIMES Above: the author after tackling his sleep apnea problems with a CPAP machine (above). — **RESTFUL TIMES** Above: the author after tackling his sleep apnea problems with a CPAP machine (top).

My wife Julie videotapes me on the couch with my daughter. While talking, I pass out, head back. I choke until I stop breathing, flop around and gasp for air. The video captures my daughter looking at me with incredulous disdain.
After a torturous sleep study test at Stanford, I’m diagnosed with severe sleep apnea. I feel my mortality. Like all baby boomers, I fully expect to live forever and I tell my new sleep doctor, Dr. Tony Masri, that my goal is longevity. He says, “Longevity happens in the bedroom.”
Makes sense to me. My father fell out of bed, broke his hip, went to the hospital and died of pneumonia. That’s why I take Viagra nightly, to keep from rolling out of bed. It works like a brake.
The good doctor lays it out. “Apnea” means “without breath.” Every time breathing stops, the level of oxygen in the blood falls and the heart must pump harder until the person awakens to resume breathing. Dry mouth means you are having a lot of apnea events. About one in four men have sleep apnea, and it’s about half as prevalent in women.
Here’s another bummer: recurring low oxygen levels throughout the night can lead to stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and on. There is a lot of snoring and a lot of dementia in my family. If I can’t beat this thing, I’m screwed.
At least it inspired a poem:
When I sleep with my mouth open, it blocks my air lanes
I stop breathing and oxygen stops getting to my brain
I wake up with my head pounding in pain
In bed six hours I want to pass out again
I take ibuprofen and drink coffee to maintain
Smoke weed to feel better but I mostly feel insane
I wake up breathless with pounding chest pains
How many men has this succubus slain?
Dr. Masri persuades me to try a CPAP, which stands for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure. It pumps a low pressure air stream through your nose into your lungs, and that keeps your throat open and keeps the soft palate from closing. Wearing it, you look like a character out of the Star Wars cantina scene. Julie calls it my “nose face.”
Getting used to the mask was a steep learning curve for me. At first, a chin strap feels like something that must be outlawed at the Geneva Convention. My chin strap and my CPAP headgear was so tight it felt like I was in an Iron Maiden torture device.
But on the first night, I got lucky. It worked. I strained against teeth-clenched claustrophobia all night, but that morning I walked with a spring in my step that I had not felt in 30 years. I hustled around Santa Cruz all day, partied with Julie into the night and I was hooked. I’m bionic. Immortal once again.
Instead of wearing the mask of a caffeine/cannabis cloud all day, I wear the mask of a CPAP machine at night.
I had some bad nights after that while I struggled to get used to it. Many. Now, two years later, it’s easy.
Yesterday I worked out, took a shower, put on my nose face and went to sleep. I dreamed that I was sleeping without my air mask on. As I came into a light sleep, I reached up to make sure I was sleeping without my mask and I felt my air hose attached to the top of my head coming into my nose. My nose face felt so comfortable that I had dreamed I was not wearing it.
I’ll leave you with three notes about using a CPAP:

To use it, your mouth must be closed, which eliminates talking in your sleep. That alone can save your marriage.
The hose from the machine to your nose is about four feet long. You still might walk in your sleep, but you won’t get far.
After a sleep without apnea occurrences, I don’t want to get stoned. For me, not being stoned is like being in an altered state. My advice to potheads experimenting with being straight: Go slow. Reality is not for everyone.

Good Old Dad

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Brad Kava

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I can’t believe it’s taken me 60 years to learn about WubbaNubs and Baby Einstein, the things that are my most valued possessions now.
WubbaNubs are pacifiers attached to a soft stuffed animal, an invention that every parent must wonder why they didn’t think of first, so that they could retire to the Bahamas and hire a nanny.
Baby Einstein is an educational video series for children that is not only educational for kids and not offensive to parents, it also attracts babies to the screen like zombies to breathing human flesh. And it doesn’t make you feel guilty for letting them watch or put their mouths on your computer screen. (Oh, did I say that out loud?)
These things have become indispensable to me, because at the age of 60—at the same time my friends are retiring and admiring their newborn grandchildren or great-grandchildren—I just had my first kid. A son named Parker. P-A-R-K-E-R. Yeah, a son, not a grandson.
That was one of the biggest fears people had for me when I told them that I was having a baby with the love of my life. “What are you going to say when people think you’re a grandfather, not a father? Aren’t you worried about that?”
“Well, not really, but now that you mention it …”
There were, however, much bigger fears to fry. Like why does every magazine and publication on Earth give you these horrendous statistics about the odds of older parents having defective children? Yeah, that was terrifying. And they all blame the father’s chromosomes, not the mother’s. Mine are, like, 40 years too old, they all said. Not a day of eight-plus months went by without that terror flashing through my head, even when the unintentional selfies Parker took in the womb made him look OK—but with too much of my nose. When he was born, I counted fingers and toes enough times to show my own defective math gene. I was sure I was missing one.
But normal he is, if having a little screeching thing that looks like an alien and has zero communication skills is normal.
Which brings up the next fear my friends voiced to this senior dad, that honestly never came to me on my own: “How are you going to have the energy to deal with a kid?”
If I’d known then that the Rolling Stones’ singer was going to be a new father at the age of 73, I would have just said: “Mick Jagger.”
Instead, I said: “I’ve bicycled 500 miles across the Midwest each of the last 19 summers. I’m not going to have trouble keeping up.”
But that was before I realized that having a kid means I’m not going to have a week to bicycle across the Midwest for about another 15 years. OK, that’s one on the negative side of the balance sheet, but less of a sacrifice than the me of a year ago would have guessed.
On the plus side of the sheet, you can insert every cliché you’ve ever heard or said about having a child or grandchild:
Yes, it very quickly became the best thing I’ve ever done in my life.
Yes, I’ve posted a never-ending parade of unbearably cute pictures all over my Facebook, almost as many as my other hot category, memes of Donald Trump as Hitler.
Yes, he’s the cutest kid in the world.
Yes, he’s given my life new meaning.
Yes, I’ve changed a few diapers, but really I’m not that good at it.
So, I don’t think about my age that much. I’m of a generation that proudly says 60 is the new 30 or 16 or whatever it is, and you’re only as old as you feel. I imagine I feel the same way a 20-year-old would, but with a bit more patience and the wisdom to know that there is no bigger priority than my son.
Unlike a 20-year-old, though, I have this sense that I have to work harder to stay alive longer. I can’t take some of the chances I might have taken in my youth, like running toward an active shooting scene or shouting down fascists, but I still eat croissants. Sorry. I do feel that dark at the end of the tunnel, and want to be able to be there for him. It’s a worry.
Did I mention Mick Jagger is 73?
And there’s the overwhelming positive side of the equation, which I don’t want to bore you with because if you’ve had a kid, you already know—something hormonal or spiritual or magical or delusional takes over and turns parents into nuts about their kids. I’ve seen it before. Now I am it.
I’ve learned two important things over the last six months that are contrary to what people told me. A conservative friend (yes, I have one) told me that having a baby would make me conservative. I’d probably vote for Trump, he claimed.
Hell, no. It’s done the opposite. I’m more liberal than ever, because I care even more about making the world better for future generations. Liberals were the ones who fought slavery, gave women the vote, passed equal rights amendments, want to control the mayhem of firearms everywhere, support environmental regulation, cleaned the air, cleaned the water, want to save National Parks.
The other important thing is my relationship with my partner (good atheist Lord, I hate that word) Jennifer’s children, who feared I would love my own baby more than them. I can say honestly that isn’t true. I love Parker, but no more than them. That’s something I wouldn’t have realized if I hadn’t seen it for myself, but I’m so glad it’s true. Not a day goes by that I don’t appreciate, love and am fascinated by them, just as much as by their little brother.
Will I miss traveling and living a life of lazy luxury? I don’t know yet, but I don’t think so. We’ll find ways to do what’s important.
I was never that obsessed with having a kid. For most of my life other things took precedence, like my career, travel, friends. Frankly, I didn’t think the world was in such great shape for bringing new generations into. The worst science fiction is becoming fact: the oceans are dying; the climate is deteriorating; we are poisoning ourselves with bad food; the economy doesn’t favor average people; rich people are making us all serfs.
But on meeting my Baby Mama (OK, that’s even worse) and having a truly compatible relationship, I thought it could be the right time and person with whom to have a child. For about two years I considered it, but as I neared 60, I thought I was over it. Her kids were enough, and I’d have a good 10 years with them and then begin that spoiled retirement we all fantasize about, where I’d be like a kid myself, biking, traveling, doing what I want when I wanted.
And then one day at work I got the call from Jennifer, who said she had to tell me something later about her body, which sounded like she might have cancer. I was terrified, but she claimed it wasn’t something bad.
And thus began what Lou Reed once called the “greatest adventure,” guiding and helping and loving and looking endlessly at this new life form.
In some ways, he gives me great hope. If we can communicate with these little beings, maybe we can one day do the same with life forms from other planets. Parker is six months old now, and I still have no clue what he thinks about, wants, or understands. But some extra sense, the same thing that religious people must think reaches to them from God, connects him and me. I kind of know him, a bit.
I do worry about the age thing. I’ll be the oldest parent at his kindergarten, and at every class forever. But my friend Chris Jackson, the radio DJ on KFOX, gave me some good advice from a book he’s writing about treating your kid like a rock star. His parents were in their 40s when they had him, and he wasn’t bothered by their age so much as by the fact that they just weren’t cool. They were Sinatra fans who wouldn’t check out the rock he loved. They were set in their ways.
Jackson’s advice was to stay fluid, to listen to Parker and keep up mentally with what he likes. OK, I’ll do it. Unless he likes Kanye and the Kardashians, or whatever crap they come up with that’s worse than that. That would be a challenge.
At six months, I can make Parker smile, almost anytime, which is one of the greatest accomplishments of my life. No wonder new parents often think they can write a great children’s book or song or invent a baby product and bring it to Shark Tank.
These kids love everything we do, no matter how out-of-tune or shallow. I sing to him constantly, make dumb and obnoxious noises and get the most joyful, lilting laugh I’ve ever heard. Jerry Seinfeld isn’t this funny.
I live for that laugh. It’s the greatest sound I’ve ever heard. It’s changed my life’s goals. From here on out, all I want to do is keep this kid that happy.

Senior Project 2016 Directory

Uncategorized

GT Staff

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August 17, 2016

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Advocacy & Protection

Adult Protective Services

454-4101, (866) 580-4357, cdss.ca.gov/agedblinddisabled/PG1298.htm. 24-hour hotline to report elder abuse.

Advocacy, Inc.

5274 Scotts Valley Drive, Ste. 203, Scotts Valley, 429-1913,
advocacy-inc.org.

California Department of Aging

1300 National Drive, Ste. 200, Sacramento, (916) 419-7500, TDD: (800) 735-2929, aging.ca.gov.

California Senior Legislature

1020 N. St., Room 513, Sacramento, (916) 552-8056, 4csl.org. Local representatives: Senior Sen. George “Bud” Winslow (bu****@***il.com) and Senior Assemblymember Chuck Molnar (mo*********@***oo.com).

Center of Excellence on Elder Abuse and Neglect at UC Irvine

(714) 456-6466,
centeronelderabuse.org.

Central Coast Center for Independent Living

1395 41st Ave., Capitola, 462-8720, 462-8729 TDD: cccil.org.

County of Santa Cruz Human Services Agency, Adult and Long-term Care Division

1400 Emeline Ave., Bldg. K, Santa Cruz, 454-4101, TTY: 763-8828, santacruzhumanservices.org.

ElderCare Locator

(800) 677-1116, eldercare.gov.

Elderday Adult Health Center

100 Pioneer St., Ste. C, Santa Cruz, 458-3481, splg.org.

Elderly and Disabled Transportation Advisory Committee

1523 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, 460-3200, sccrtc.org.

Financial Abuse Specialist Team (FAST)

ncea.aoa.gov.

In-Home Support Services Public Authority Advisory Commission

18 W. Beach St., Watsonville, 763-8800; 1400 Emeline Ave., Santa Cruz, 454-4101, santacruzhumanservices.org.

Santa Cruz County Commission on Disabilities

701 Ocean St., Room 30,
Santa Cruz, 454-2355, scccod.net.

Santa Cruz County Seniors Commission

701 Ocean St., Room 310, Santa Cruz, 454-2600, co.santa-cruz.ca.us/departments/personnel/commissions/seniorscommission.aspx.

Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties/Area Agency on Aging

234 Santa Cruz Ave., Aptos, 688-0400, seniorscouncil.org.

Senior Network Services

1777-A Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, 462-1433, seniornetworkservices.org.

Senior Roundtable of Santa Cruz County

Visit seniorroundtable.com or call 469-4900

The Senior Coalition

P.O. Box 303, Soquel, 684-8172, seniorcoalition.org.

Living Facilities

There are many types of senior housing options, ranging from residential facilities and assisted living homes, to independent living and retirement communities. Learn more about the differences and search for options near you at eldercare.gov (800-677-1116) or seniorfacilityfinder.com.

Aegis of Aptos

125 Heather Terrace, Aptos, 706-2977, aegisliving.com.

Alexandria Victoria

226 Morrissey Blvd., Santa Cruz, 429-9137.

Capitola Manor

1098 38th Ave., Santa Cruz, 291-0010,
capitolamanor2014.com.

Cresthaven Nursing Home

740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, 475-3812.

Darwin House

707 Darwin St., Santa Cruz, 457-9091.

Dominican Oaks

3400 Paul Sweet Road, Santa Cruz, 462-6257, dominicanoaks.com.

Golden Age Convalescent Hospital

523 Burlingame Ave., Capitola, 475-0722.

Hanover Guest Home

813 Hanover St., Santa Cruz, 426-0618, hanoverguesthome.com.

La Posada

609 Frederick St., Santa Cruz, 429-9230, laposadaretirementcommunity.com.

Maple House

410 Pennsylvania Ave., Santa Cruz, 423-6347, themaplehouse.com.

Maple House II

2000 Brommer St., Santa Cruz, 476-6366, themaplehouse.com.

Oak Tree Villa

100 Lockewood Lane, Scotts Valley, 438-7533, brookdaleliving.com.

Pacific Coast Manor

1935 Wharf Road, Capitola, 476-0770, covenantcare.com.

Paradise Villa

2177 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, 475-1380, paradisevillaelderlycare.com.

Sunshine Villa

80 Front St., Santa Cruz, 459-8400, sunshinevillaseniorliving.com.

Twin Lakes Manor

777 Volz Lane, Santa Cruz, 477-1100, twinlakesmanor.net.

Valley Haven

2266 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz, 818-8372, valleyhavencare.com.

Valley Heights

925 Freedom Blvd., Watsonville, 722-4884, valleyheights.com.

Westwind Memory Care

160 Jewell St., Santa Cruz, 421-9100, westwindmemorycare.com.

Classes & Activities

Academy of Martial & Internal Arts

1570 Soquel Dr., Santa Cruz, 475-1429, reelingsilk.com.

Awakening Chi

1060 River St., Ste. 111, 334-7757, awakeningchi.org.

Bridge Of Hope

P.O. Box 576, Soquel, 464-2362,
bridgeofhopefoundation.org.

California Classic Sail

Santa Cruz Harbor, F dock. Near 790 Mariner Park Way, Santa Cruz, 325-0466, californiaclassicsail.com.

City of Capitola Recreation Department

4400 Jade St., Capitola, 475-5935, cityofcapitola.org/recreation.

City of Santa Cruz Parks & Recreation Department

323 Church St., Santa Cruz, 420-5270, cityofsantacruz.com.

Dominican Hospital’s Personal Enrichment Program

1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, 462-7709, dominicanhospital.org.

Santa Cruz County Parks Department

979 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, 454-7901, scparks.com./adult_senior.html.

Seascape Village Fitness & Physical Therapy

16 Seascape Village, Aptos, 708-2323, seascapevillagefitness.com.

Simpkins Family Swim Center

979 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, 454-7946, scparks.com.

Watsonville Community Hospital

75 Nielson St., Watsonville, 724-4741, watsonvillehospital.com.

Watsonville Parks & Recreation Department

30 Maple Ave., Watsonville, 768-3240, cityofwatsonville.org/parks-community-services.

Project SCOUT

114 E. 5th St., Watsonville, 724-2606, seniorscouncil.org./project_scout.html.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

5732 Soquel Drive, Soquel, 475-5782, aasantacruz.org. 24-hour hotline.

AA Family Groups

462-1818, ncwsa.org/d23.

Adult Mental Health Services

Santa Cruz: 1400 Emeline Ave., Bldg. K, Santa Cruz, 454-4170, santacruzhealth.org.

Adult Protective Services (Human Services Department)

1400 Emeline Ave., Bldg. K, Santa Cruz, 454-4101, santacruzhumanservices.org.

Catholic Charities Mental Health Department

217 E. Lake Ave., Watsonville, 722-2675.

Conflict Resolution Center

1414 Soquel Ave., Ste. 218, Santa Cruz, 475-6117, crcsantacruz.org.

Family Service Agency of the Central Coast

Santa Cruz: 104 Walnut Ave., Ste. 208, Santa Cruz, 423-9444; Watsonville: 11 Alexander St., Ste. D, Watsonville, 728-9970 (24-hour multi-lingual crisis line), fsa-cc.org.

Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) of Senior Network Services

1777-A Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, 462-5510, seniornetworkservices.org.

Hospice of Santa Cruz County

940 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, 430-3000, hospicesantacruz.org.

Mental Health Client Action Network

1051 Cayuga St., Santa Cruz, 469-0462, mhcan.org.

Narcotics Anonymous

429-7436, 24-hour hotline, scnapi.org.

Narcotics Anonymous Family Groups at Aptos Christian Fellowship

7200 Freedom Blvd., Aptos. St. Philip’s Church, 5271 Scotts Valley Drive, Rm 1, Scotts Valley, (888) 374-1164. At Sutter Hospital—Sutter Room: 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz Vets Center

1350 41st Ave., Ste. 102, Capitola, 464-4575, santacruzhumanservices.org, va.gov.

Women’s Crisis Support ~ Defensa de Mujeres (Monarch Services)

Santa Cruz: 1685 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, 425-4030; Watsonville: 233 E. Lake Ave., Watsonville, 722-4532, (888) 900-4232 (crisis line), wcs-ddm.org.

Dental Care

Cabrillo College Dental Hygiene Clinic

6500 Soquel Drive, Room 611, Aptos, 479-6431, cabrillo.edu/academics/dentalhygiene/clinic.

Denti-Cal

(800) 322-6384, denti-cal.ca.gov.

Dientes Community Dental Clinic

1830 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, 464-5409, dientes.org.

Dr. Robert Matiasevich Jr., DDS

1775 Dominican Way, Santa Cruz, 316-1580, santacruzdentist.com.

Salud Para La Gente

204 E. Beach St., Watsonville, 728-0222, splg.org.

Santa Cruz Pacific Dental

550 Water St. Bldg J-2, Santa Cruz, 458-3384, santacruzpacificdental.com.

Smile Dental Care, Dr. Fernandez

1588 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, 476-5995, usasmiledent.com.

Education & Social Services

AARP (American Association of Retired Persons)

1-888-687-2277, aarp.org.

Caregiver Training Series

Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 708-8576, cabrillo.edu/services/extension/healthcare.html. Offered each semester, Saturdays 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Cabrillo College Stroke & Disability Learning Center

6500 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 477-3300,
cabrillo.edu/academics/strokecenter.

Cabrillo Community College

6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 479-6100, cabrillo.edu.

Davenport Resource Service Center

150 Church St., Davenport, 425-8115.

Disability Resource Center

1156 High St., Santa Cruz, 125 Hahn Student Services, 459-2089.

The Diversity Center

1117 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 425-5422, diversitycenter.org.

Mountain Community Resources

6134 Hwy. 9, Felton, 335-6600, communitybridges.org/
mountaincommunity.htm.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Santa Cruz

1156 High St., Santa Cruz, 459-2552, ucsc-osher.wikispaces.com.

Santa Cruz Adult Education

319 La Fonda Ave., Santa Cruz, 429-3966, adulted.santacruz.k12.ca.us.

Santa Cruz Public Libraries

117 Union St., Santa Cruz, 427-7717, santacruzpl.org.

Scotts Valley Center of Cabrillo College

104 Whispering Pines Drive, Scotts Valley, 477-3400. cabrillo.edu/services/ scottsvalley.

Senior Computer Center

301 Center St., Santa Cruz, 420-6180, seniorcomputer.org.

Social Security

169 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz, (800) 593-8523, ssa.gov.

Watsonville Center of Cabrillo College

318 Union St., Watsonville, 786-4700, cabrillo.edu/services/watsonville.

Employment Services

California State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation

1350 41st. Ave., Ste. 101, Capitola, 465-7100, dor.ca.gov.

Employment Development Department Capitola Career Center

2045 40th Ave., Capitola, 464-6286.

Home Help for Seniors Respite Care Registry

1777-A Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, 462-1433, seniornetworkservices.org./ respite-care-registry.

Human Resources Department

809 Center St., Santa Cruz, 420-5040, cityofsantacruz.com./index. aspx?page=210.

Shoreline Santa Cruz Neighborhood Career Center

350 Encinal St., Santa Cruz, 423-8611, shorelineworks.org.

Watsonville Career Center

18 W. Beach St., Watsonville, 763-8700, santacruzhumanservices.org.

Workforce Investment Board

18 W. Beach St., Watsonville, 763-8900, cwib.ca.gov, santacruzhumanservices.org.

Financial Services

Bay Federal Credit Union

Multiple Locations, 479-6000, bayfed.com.

Edward Jones Investments

Multiple locations, edwardjones.com.

Pacific Inland Financial Inc.

5161 Soquel Drive, Soquel, 475-2600, pacificinland.com.

Santa Cruz Home Finance

1535 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz, 425-1250, santacruzhomefinance.com/home.html.

Food and Nutrition

Agri-Culture

141 Monte Vista Ave., Watsonville, 95076, 722-6622, agri-culture.us.

Beach Flats Community Center

133 Leibrandt Ave., Santa Cruz, 426-8232, beachflatscommunitycenter.org.

California Grey Bears

2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz, 479-1055, greybears.org.

Carnation Cafe Senior Lunch at Louden Nelson Community Center

301 Center St., Santa Cruz, 427-0901, cityofsantacruz.com.

Cindy’s Celebrations, Inc.

320 Carrera Circle, Aptos, 479-7509, cindyscelebrations.org.

Community Bridges Adult Care Food Program

236 Santa Cruz Ave., Aptos, 688-8840, communitybridges.org.

Elena Baskin Live Oak Senior Center

1777 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, 476-3272, liveoakseniorcenter.com.

Familia Center

711 E. Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz, 423-5747, communitybridges.org/familiacenter.

Highlands Senior Dining Center at the Senior Center of San Lorenzo Valley

8500 Hwy. 9, Ben Lomond, 336-5366.

Human Services Department

1020 Emeline Ave., Bldg. B, Santa Cruz/18 W. Beach St., Watsonville,
(888) 421-8080, santacruzhumanservices.org.

La Manzana Community Resources

521 Main St., Ste. Y, Watsonville, 724-2997, communitybridges.org/lmcr.

Live Oak Family Resources

1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, 476-7284.

Meals on Wheels for Santa Cruz County

Contact Community Bridges for meal times, locations and drop-off information: 464-3180, communitybridges.org/meals.

Mountain Community Resources

6134 Hwy. 9, Felton, 335-6600, communitybridges.org/mcr.

Pajaro Rescue Mission

111 Railroad Ave., Royal Oaks, 724-9576, teenchallengemb.org.

Second Harvest Food Bank

800 Ohlone Pkwy., Watsonville, 722-7110, thefoodbank.org. Food hotline: 662-0991.

Scotts Valley Senior Center

370 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley, 438-8666.

Valley Churches United Missions

Drop-off: 9400 Hwy. 9, Ben Lomond; mail: P.O. Box 367, Ben Lomond, 336-8258, vcum.org.

Watsonville Senior Center

114 E. 5th St., Watsonville, 722-1333.

Healthcare & Health Resources

Advantacare Medical

2121 41st Ave., Capitola, Ste. 303, (800) 481-4662, advantacare.net.

Aimee Gould Shunney, ND

Licensed Naturopathic Doctor. 740 Front St., #130, Santa Cruz, drshunney.com.

Alzheimer’s Disease Care Center at Elderday

100 Pioneer St., Ste. C, Santa Cruz, 458-3481, splg.org.

American Cancer Society

(800) 227-2345, cancer.org.

American Chronic Pain Association

P.O. Box 850, Rocklin, (800) 533-3231, theacpa.org.

American Council of the Blind

(800) 424-8666, acb.org.

American Diabetes Association

(408) 241-1922, diabetes.org.

American Heart Association

(408) 977-4950, americanheart.org.

American Kidney Fund

(800) 638-8299, kidneyfund.org.

American Liver Foundation

(800) 465-4837, liverfoundation.org.

American Lung Association

(800) 548-8252, lung.org.

American Red Cross

2960 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 462-2881, redcross.org/ca/santa-cruz.

Arthritis Foundation Great West Region

657 Mission St., Ste. 603, San Francisco, (888) 391-9389, arthritis.org.

Cabrillo Caregiver Training Series

708-8576, cabrillo.edu/services/extension/healthcare.html.

Cabrillo College Stroke & Disability Learning Center

6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 477-3300, strokecenter.com.

Cancer Detection Program: Every Woman Counts Central Coast Regional Contractor: Community Health Partnership

100 N. Winchester Blvd., Ste. 250, Santa Clara, dhs.ca.gov/cancerdetection. (408) 556-6605.

Carol Shwery, DC CCN

831 Bay Ave., Ste. 1E, Capitola, 476-6906, dccarolshwery.com.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

(800) 232-4636, cdc.gov.

Center for Lifestyle Management Program

610 Frederick St., Santa Cruz. 457-7077.

Central California Alliance for Health

1600 Green Hills Road, Ste. 101, Scotts Valley, 430-5500, ccah-alliance.org.

Community Connection Santa Cruz

300 Harvey West Blvd., Santa Cruz, 425-8132, ccsantacruz.org.

Dakota Health Center

111 Dakota Ave., Ste. 2, Santa Cruz, 429-1188.

Diabetes Health Center

85 Nielson St., Ste. 201, Watsonville, 763-6445, pvhealthtrust.org.

Dominican Hospital

1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, 462-7700, dominicanhospital.org.

EyeCare America Seniors Eye Care Program

(877) 887-6327, eyecareamerica.org.

Frank’s Pharmacy

7548 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 685-1100, franksrx.com.

Front St., Inc.

2115 7th Ave., Santa Cruz, 420-0120, frontst.com.

Hanger Inc., Prosthetics & Orthotics

700 Frederick St., Ste. 101, Santa Cruz, 460-9245, hanger.com.

Health Projects Center

1537 Pacific Ave., Ste. 300, Santa Cruz, 459-6639, hpcn.org.

Hearing Aid Helpline

(800) 521-5247 ext. 2, ihsinfo.org.

The Hearing Foundation

(800) 327-8077, earofthelion.org.

Hearts & Hands, Post Acute Care & Rehab Center

2990 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 479-9000.

Homeless Persons Health Project

115-A Coral St., Santa Cruz, 454-2080, santacruzhealth.org.

Horsnyder’s Pharmacy

1226-A Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 458-1400, horsnyder.com.

Katz Cancer Resource Center at Dominican Hospital

1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, 462-7770.

Laser Hair & Skin Solutions

783 Rio Del Mar Blvd., Ste. 71B, Aptos, 689-9830.

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

675 N. First St., Ste. 1100, San Jose, (408) 490-2666, lls.org.

Lincare, Inc.

444 Airport Blvd., Ste. 105, Watsonville, 724-1211, lincare.com.

Medi-Cal

18 W. Beach St., Watsonville, 763-8500, medi-cal.ca.gov. Also, see Central California Alliance for Health.

Medicare

(800) 633-4227, medicare.gov.

Mended Hearts Support Group

475-7585, mendedhearts.org.

Muscular Dystrophy Association

(800) 572-1717, mdausa.org.

National Kidney Foundation of North America

(415) 543-3303, kidney.org.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Northern California Chapter

1700 Owens St., Ste. 190,
San Francisco, (415) 230-6677, nmss.org.

Natural Foundations

4450 Capitola Road, Ste. 105, Capitola,
612-4628, NaturalFoundationsHealing.com.

NuMotion (formerly ATG Rehab)

446 Westridge Drive, Watsonville, 724-5544, numotion.com.

Optimage Health Inc.

930 Mission St., Santa Cruz, 421-0197, optimagehealth.com.

Orthnorcal

4140 Jade St., Room 100, Capitola, 475-4024, orthonorcal.com.

Ostomy Support Group of Santa Cruz County

230 Larita Drive, Ben Lomond, 336-8683.

Overeaters Anonymous Support Group

P.O. Box 698, Santa Cruz,
429-7906, santacruzoa.org.

Pacific Pulmonary Services

440 Westridge Drive, Watsonville, 643-2175, ppsc.com.

Parkinson’s Support Group in Santa Cruz

477-9412, 708-2906,
parkinsons.stanford.edu.

Philips Lifeline

(855) 214-1363, lifelinesys.com.

Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz

100 Enterprise Way, Ste. C110, Scotts Valley, 465-7800, pmgscc.com.

Radiology Medical Group

1661 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, 476-7711, rmgsc.com.

Santa Cruz AIDS Project

542 Ocean St., Ste. 1, Santa Cruz, 427-3900, scapsite.org.

Santa Cruz Core Fitness and Rehab

317 Potrero St., Ste. C, Santa Cruz, 425-9500, santacruzcore.com.

Santa Cruz Host Lions Club Eyeglass Fund

PO Box 477, Santa Cruz, 423-2352, santacruzhostlionsclub.org.

Santa Cruz County Prostate Cancer Support Group

1555 Soquel Drive, Education Bldg., Santa Cruz, 462-7770, scprostate.org.

Soquel Hearing Aid Center

2901 Park Ave., Ste. C2, Soquel, 498-9890, soquelhearingaidcenter.com.

Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center of Santa Cruz

2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz, 477-2200, suttersantacruz.org

Therapilates

920-A 41st Ave., Santa Cruz, 476-3100, therapilates.com.

Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired

413 Laurel St., Santa Cruz, 458-9766, vistacenter.org.

Watsonville Community Hospital

75 Nielson St., Watsonville, 724-4741, watsonvillehospital.com.

Watsonville Pharmacy Medical Supplies and Gifts

1433 Freedom Blvd., Watsonville, 728-1818, watsonvillepharmacy.com.

Westside Pharmacy Medical Supplies and Gifts

1401 Mission St., Santa Cruz, 423-7175. westsidepharmacyrx.com.

WomenCARE

2901 Park Ave., Ste. 1A, Soquel, 457-2273, womencaresantacruz.org.

Housing

Bay Avenue Senior Apartments

750 Bay Ave., Capitola, 464-6435.

California Rural Legal Assistance Inc.

501 Soqual Ave., Santa Cruz, 458-1089, crla.org.

Donald Dimitruk, Reverse Mortgage

411 Kelly Lane, Santa Cruz, 464-6464, do****@******************al.com.

Homeless Services Center

115-A Coral St., Santa Cruz, 458-6020, scshelter.org.

Housing Authority of Santa Cruz County

2931 Mission St., Santa Cruz, 469-4272, hacosantacruz.org.

Los Gatos Meadows

110 Wood Road, Los Gatos, (408) 354-0292, losgatosmeadows-esc.org.

Mobile Home Commission

701 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, 454-2772, sccounty01.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/mhc/index.html.

Mobile Home Ombudsman’s Office

(800) 952-5275, hcd.ca.gov.

Portola Property Management

1210 Brommer St., Santa Cruz, 475-1355, portolarentals.com.

Santa Cruz County Counsel

701 Ocean St., Room 505, Santa Cruz, 454-2040, co.santa-cruz.ca.us.

Senior Housing Finder

462-1433, seniornetworkservices.org.

The Shelter Project of the Community Action Board

Santa Cruz: 501 Soquel Ave., Ste. E, Santa Cruz, 457-1741; Watsonville: 728-4634,
cabinc.org./TSP.

Valley Haven

157 Herman Ave., Watsonville, 722-6242, valleyhavencare.com.

In Home Services

Care from the Heart Home Service

3143 Paul Sweet Road, Santa Cruz, 476-8316, carefromtheheart.net.

ComForcare Home Care

100 Doyle St., Ste. F, Santa Cruz, 427-1553, comforcare.com.

Companion for Life /Lifeline Project

1570 Soquel Drive, Ste. 2, Santa Cruz, 475-2778, companionforlifelifeline.com.

Dominican Home Health

8030 Soquel Ave., Ste. 104, Santa Cruz, 465-7988, dominicanhospital.org.

Familiar Surroundings

2901 Park Ave., Ste. C3, Soquel, 480-3990, fshomecare.com.

Helping Hands Senior Home Repair Program

427-5070, scvolunteercenter.com./ programs/elderly-disabled/helping_hands.

Home Helpers

343 Soquel Ave. #100, Santa Cruz, 477-6265, homehelpers.com.

Home Instead Senior Care

3912 Portola Drive, Ste. 3, Santa Cruz, 476-9500, homeinstead.com.

Heartland Hospice

824 Bay Ave., Ste. 40, Capitola, 476-2158, heartlandhospice.com.

Hospice of Santa Cruz County

940 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, 430-3000, hospicesantacruz.org.

In-Home Support Services (IHSS) Public Authority

Santa Cruz: 1400 Emeline Ave., Bldg. K, Santa Cruz, 454-4101;
Watsonville: 12 W. Beach St., Watsonville, 763-8800,
santacruzhumanservices.org.

Lifespan Care Management Agency

600 Frederick St., Santa Cruz, 469-4900, lifespancare.com.

Safe At Home Senior Care

820 Bay Ave., Capitola, 462-3500, safehomeseniorcare.com.

Santa Cruz Senior Home Care

477-6265, santacruzseniorhomecare.com.

Senior Network Services Registry

1777-A Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, 462-1433, seniornetworkservices.org.

Visiting Angels

5274 Scotts Valley Drive, Scotts Valley, 430-0616, visitingangels.com./santacruz/home.

Visiting Nurses Association (VNA) of Santa Cruz County

2880 Soquel Ave., Ste. 10, Santa Cruz, 479-6620, santacruzvna.org.

Legal Services

Advocacy Inc.

5274 Scotts Valley Drive, Ste. 203, Scotts Valley, 429-1913, advocacy-inc.org.

California Rural Legal Assistance

501 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 458-1089, crla.org.

California Victim Compensation Program

PO Box 3036, Sacramento, (800) 777-9229, calvcp.ca.gov.

Catholic Charities Immigration Services

Santa Cruz: 610 Frederick St., Santa Cruz, 431-6939,
Watsonville: 656 Main St., Watsonville, 722-2675,
dioceseofmonterey.org.

Consumer Affairs

701 Ocean St. Room 20, Santa Cruz, 454-2050, datinternet.co.santa-cruz.ca.us, dca.ca.gov.

Deborah A. Malkin, Attorney at Law

2425 Porter St., Ste. 3, Soquel, 462-9100.

District Attorney

701 Ocean St., Room 200, Santa Cruz; 275 Main St., Ste. 202, Watsonville, 454-2400.

Law Offices of Moira Leigh

150 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz, 454-0226, santacruzattorney.com.

Lawyer Referral Service

340 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 425-4755, lawyerreferralsantacruz.org.

Pacific Gardens Chapel

1050 Cayuga St., Santa Cruz, 423-5721, pacificgardenschapel.com.

Senior Citizens Legal Services of Santa Cruz

501 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 426-8824, seniorlegal.org.

Senior Legal Hotline

(800) 222-1753, slh.lsnc.net.

State Department of Insurance

(800) 927-4357, insurance.ca.gov.

Victim-Witness Assistance Program

454-2010.

Senior Centers

Senior Computer Center

301 Center St., Santa Cruz, 420-6180, seniorcomputer.org.

Elena Baskin Live Oak Senior Center

1777 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, 476-3272.

Louden Nelson Community Center

301 Center St., Santa Cruz, 420-6177 nelsoncenter.com.

Market Street Senior Center (Senior Citizens Opportunities, Inc.)

222 Market St., Santa Cruz, 423-6640.

Mid-County Senior Center

829 Bay Ave., Capitola, 476-4711, midcountyseniorcenter.com.

Scotts Valley Senior Center

370 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley, 438-8666, svlions.org.

Senior Center of San Lorenzo Valley

8500 Hwy. 9, Ben Lomond, 336-8900.

Watsonville Senior Center

114 E. Fifth St., Watsonville, 722-1333.

Transportation

A Move Made Simple

539-1000, AMoveMadeSimple.com.

American Cancer Society Transportation for Patients

(800) 227-2345, cancer.org.

Community Bridges Lift Line

236 Santa Cruz Ave., Aptos, 425-1558, 688-9663, communitybridges.org

Courtesy Cab

149 Walker St., Watsonville, 761-3122, courtesycab.com.

Greyhound Bus Lines

920 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, 423-4082, greyhound.com.

Metro ParaCruz

425-4664, scmtd.com./metro-paracruz.

Santa Cruz Metro Center

920 Pacific Ave., Ste. 21, Santa Cruz, 425-8600, scmtd.com.

Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County Transportation

Santa Cruz: 427-3435, Watsonville: 722-6708; Ben Lomond: 336-9387, scvolunteercenter.com.

Santa Cruz Yellow Cab

423-1234.

Volunteering

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County

1500 41st Ave., Ste. 250, Capitola, 464-8691, santacruzmentor.com.

California Grey Bears

2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz, 479-1055, greybears.org.

CASA

813 Freedom Blvd., Watsonville, 761-2956, casaofsantacruz.org/index.html.

Dominican Hospital Volunteer Services

1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, 462-7740, dominicanhospital.org.

Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries

PO Box 8472, Santa Cruz, 427-7716, fscpl.org.

Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties

234 Santa Cruz Ave., Aptos, 688-0400, seniorscouncil.org.

Suicide Prevention Service

104 Walnut Ave. Ste. 208, Santa Cruz, 459-9373, fsa-cc.org.

Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County’s Retired Senior Volunteer Program

1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, 427-5070; 12 Carr St., Watsonville, 722-6708, scvolunteercenter.org.

Opinion August 17, 2016

Steve Palopoli

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Sometimes I find a theme will arise in an issue of GT whether those of us who put together the paper each week thought to put it there or not. That was definitely the case this week with the battle between sound and silence. On the one hand, there’s the cover story by Aaron Carnes on local musician Henry Chadwick, whose sound is getting him attention from music journalists and fans around the country right now. It’s also, at a deeper level, about how hard it is to break out beyond the oddly insular music scene here, and what’s fueling Chadwick’s unexpected success. On the sonic side, there’s also Cat Johnson’s story about “Mighty” Mike Schermer, who went from changing sheets at UCSC to becoming a sought-after guitar sideman and leader of his own band.
But there’s a flip side, too, in the form of new contributor Daniel Talamantes’ article about the benefits of silence in our distinctly loud culture. And I have an article this week about the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods that explains why its founders Steve Kettmann and Sarah Ringler are pushing back against the noise to create an oasis of quiet for writers in Soquel.
I’m always surprised and fascinated when the issue is done and these threads of similar and contrasting ideas seem to suddenly rise off the page. I hope you enjoy finding those and other connections throughout this issue, too.
STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Read the latest letters to the editor here.

Tracks Must Go
In regards the upcoming ballot measure by the RTC to fund Highway 1 widening, I could not agree more with Steve Schnaar (GT, 7/27) that we have to get out of our cars. We have a wonderful opportunity to build a beautiful bike trail, and we have the perfect path in the rail line, going from Davenport to Watsonville. A program of incentives to get people electric bikes, coupled with the trail, could get many people out of their cars. But the tracks have to go. If in the near to middle future someone comes up with a better use of the path, we will figure that out. Leaving the rails in is a non-starter, like highway widening. The only reason not to pull them is the owner gets to expense the track at book value, propping up their stock price. The measure as presently constructed is designed for failure; it would only pass due to voters’ ignorance.
Joel Koppa
Santa Cruz

Which Cars?
While I agree with Steve Schnaar in the short term about the negative impacts of widening Highway 1, I think it’s important to point out that driving and automobiles do not, in and of themselves, contribute to climate change. It’s the type of automobiles we drive and how they are manufactured that adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The sooner we can transition to all-electric vehicles manufactured using power that doesn’t add carbon dioxide or methane to the air, the better off we’ll be. In opposing the current plans to widen Highway 1, we should not lose sight of the even more important battle to transition away from our current fossil fuel economy.
Mordecai Shapiro
Santa Cruz

Still the Thing
As many locals may have done, I was afraid that our best Shakespeare days were behind us, with the loss of the beloved Sinsheimer Grove. But after Ms. Jensen’s and Ms. Waters’ encouraging reviews I went to the new locale past the Delaveaga golf course and discovered the best two productions I have seen in years! All hail to two great directors, a fabulous cast, and the amazing discovery that changing young Hamlet’s gender makes the role more powerful, rather than diluting it. We are so blessed to have Shakespeare in this world, and twice blessed to have such passionate, engaging, and amusing productions presented here in our own quaint (and brilliant!) little town.
Go quickly to see both of these first-rate productions, with stunning and true performances by great actors (Bernard K. Addison as both Hamlet and Bottom! Larry Paulsen as both Puck and the lead of The Players!) delivering fine and true productions conceived by inspired directors. Just to see Hamlet played by this powerful woman, Kate Eastwood Norris, who proves that fierceness and existential crisis are not the terrain of a single gender. I, too, was worried, deeply, about Hamlet the female Dane, and found, as Ms. Waters said, that “I was quickly smitten.” I will not wish to see Hamlet (my favorite Shakespeare play) as a man again, as this was so much better.
In case you forget, Shakespeare expands the soul by reminding us how marvelous the world we inhabit—as complex and convoluted humans—really is. This is something worth re-“membering,” and these are productions which re-“mind” us well, with joy and intrigue, brightness and generosity, how wonderful it is, this fabulous globe of Shakespearean life.
John Roevekamp
Santa Cruz

Parting Gifts
Re: “Dancing in the Sunset” Photo Contest winner (GT, 8/3): It gets better, Kenny. Having lost my companion rottweiler Pooh Bear last year, after 14 wonderful years, I promise it will not be so raw as time passes. His loss was a wonderful catalyst for me to offload some old unfinished business as well, as I grieved fully and audibly. His last gift to me. Hugs.
Diane Cohan
Scotts Valley

CORRECTION
In last week’s cover story about the web dramedy Cleaner Daze, we stated that after Olivia Orea got out of rehab “she was caught up in transporting drugs from across the border.” In actuality, she became involved in an effort to retrieve a car stolen by drug traffickers near the border. Orea did not transport illegal substances across state or international borders. We regret the error.

PHOTO CONTEST WINNER

Submit to ph****@*******es.sc. Include information (location, etc.) and your name. Photos may be cropped. Preferably, photos should be 4 inches by 4 inches and minimum 250dpi.

GOOD IDEA

HOME BODY
With so many lovely cats in need of homes, the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter has drastically reduced adoption fees by as much as 65 percent through the end of August. Senior cats (over 6 years old) are only $25 this month, down from the norm of $55. Adult cats (between 1 and 5 years old) are $35, down from $100. And kittens, usually $120, are only $60 right now. Thatâ€™s rightâ€”youâ€™re only one adoption away from being a world-renowned cat video director.

GOOD WORK

ROADS AHEAD
Amelia Conlen, the executive director of Bike Santa Cruz County since 2012, has accepted a job at the City of Santa Cruz as the transportation coordinator, a position she will start in a few weeks. That means Bike Santa Cruz Countyâ€”known until last year as People Powerâ€”has an opening at its executive director position and is seeking applications for the job. Visit bikesantacruzcounty.org for more information.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

â€œUC Santa Cruz students embraced [Camper Van Beethoven] like a normal university would embrace its sports team.â€
-David Lowery

Music Picks Aug 17—23

GT Staff

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WEDNESDAY 8/17

COUNTRY

EVENING BELL

Hailing from the country music hotbed of Seattle, Evening Bell is a throwback to an era when honkytonks ruled the weekend, Tammy Wynette and George Jones ruled the airwaves and a long ride in an old pickup truck was the height of romance. Paying tribute to the classic country sound, Evening Bell also reflects modern life in the Pacific Northwest by pulling in elements of rock, folk and psychedelic influences, furthering the contemporary roots scene in compelling ways. Also on the bill: Santa Cruz-based country outfit Doggone Lonesome. CAT JOHNSON
INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

THURSDAY 8/18

REGGAE

MIKE LOVE

So this isn’t that Mike Love—you know, the one that fronted the Beach Boys. No, this is the reggae Mike Love, and isn’t “Mike Love” a more appropriate name for a conscious-minded roots reggae singer-songwriter than a rock star? Anyway, reggae Love was born and raised in Hawaii. He’s a vegan, a family man, and very, very spiritual. All that plus plenty of politics is dripping all over his ’70s-inspired roots reggae sound. Also, the island of Hawaii serves as an influence to his sound. It’s easy-going and breezy, despite all the seriousness in the lyrics. AARON CARNES
INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $15/door. 429-4135.

ZYDECO

ANDRE THIERRY

When the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier, deems you an accordion player, you’d be wise to take up the instrument—even if you’re still a toddler. Such was the case with West Coast Zydeco standout Andre Thierry, who Chenier dubbed a player at the age of 3. Born in Northern California, but deeply rooted to his Louisiana family, the Grammy-winning Thierry now blends the best of both worlds, combining traditional Zydeco with progressive elements from his home state. CJ
INFO: 7:30 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $12/adv, $14/door. 335-2800.

FRIDAY 8/19

SKA

ENGLISH BEAT

It’s hard to believe that the English Beat only released three albums. With that limited output, the band continues to enrapture audiences, decades later. The English Beat wasn’t even that big in the states in the early ’80s when it released those records, but, man, what amazing albums they were. The debut I Just Can’t Stop It (1980) is an amazing, infectious ska gem. Sophomore record Wa’ppen? (1981) is weirder and more reggae-influenced. The band’s final record, Special Beat Service (1982), is an absolute pop masterpiece—the group’s best album by far. Oddly, after all these years, the members are supposedly releasing a fourth studio album in late 2016/early 2017. Can it stack up to their prior brilliant LPs? We shall see. AC
INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $26/adv, $30/door. 479-1854.

EXPERIMENTAL HIP-HOP

JOOMANJI

Born in the concrete caves of UCSC’s music studios, Joomanji’s electro-jazz-infused hip-hop is tinged with tasty neo-soul, unique samples and intricate grooves. Now located in L.A., the group keeps their sound diverse by incorporating a variety of vocalists and guest artists. All composition, production, engineering, and mixing is their own, revealing a deep appreciation for the process. Local band Boostive brings a similar vibe: gritty hip-hop mixed with elements of dub and reggae, their energetic sets flow from ambient trance to psychedelic swing via rich bass grooves and a dynamic horn section. Openers Boostive’s opening set will be recorded for a live album, commemorating their last Santa Cruz show before the collective relocates to San Diego. KATIE SMALL
INFO 9 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $5. 427-2227.

SATURDAY 8/20

PUNK

POWER OF EXPRESSION FEST

Question: Do you love banging your head to punk rock bands, but hate those boring gaps between sets? If the answer is yes, then the Power of Expression is for you. The lineup of 15-plus local and regional bands will be playing on two stages at the Catalyst. The organizers are assuring everyone that it’s going to be bam, bam, bam, one band after another. No down time. There’s seriously some incredible acts on this line-up: Great Apes, Thanks Buddy, Good Neighbor Policy, the Defenders, and of course the one-of-a-kind Dan Potthast. AC
INFO: 6 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $15/door. 429-4135.

SUNDAY 8/21

CANADIAN FOLK

DE TEMPS ANTAN

Drawing from the rich and lively folk music traditions of Quebec, De Temps Antan combines age-old techniques with a contemporary flair to create music that seamlessly bridges the eras of the French-Canadian province. The band’s music is driven by traditional Quebec folk instruments, including the fiddle, accordion, harmonica, guitar and bouzouki, but it boasts a freshness and flair as traditional tunes are filtered through modern sensibilities and a fine-tuned sense of humor. As one reviewer wrote, the band blends “boundless energy with the unmistakable joie de vivre found only in traditional Quebec music.” CJ
INFO: 7 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $18/adv, $20/door. 335-2800.

MONDAY 8/22

JAZZ

JANE BUNNETT & MAQUEQUE

With relations between the United States and Cuba attaining a semblance of normality, it’s a good time to recognize the essential role that Canadian soprano saxophonist and flutist Jane Bunnett has played for the past two decades in introducing brilliant young Cuban players to the North American scene. Her Juno Award-winning band Maqueque showcases a rising generation of women—musicians who have been overlooked both at home and abroad. The band’s latest incarnation features drummer Yissy García, daughter of Irakere drummer Bernardo García, pianist Danae Olano, Daymé Arceno on percussion, Magdelys Savigne on batás, congas and vocals, and the single-monikered Yusa on tres guitar and fretless bass. ANDREW GILBERT
INFO: 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 427-2227.

IN THE QUEUE

DEZARIE

Roots reggae great from St. Croix. Wednesday at Moe’s Alley

REDLIGHT DISTRICT

Local psych-rock. Wednesday at Don Quixote’s

LARA PRICE BLUES BAND

Blues vocalist and her ace band. Friday at Pocket

B-SIDE PLAYERS

Afro-Latin-reggae-funk favorites. Saturday at Moe’s Alley

JAMESTOWN REVIVAL

Roots-inspired indie-rock from Austin. Sunday at Catalyst

Good TimesGood Times

Good TimesGood Times

INTO THE QUEUE

A LOOK BACK

STORIES

Advocacy & Protection

Adult Protective Services

Advocacy, Inc.

California Department of Aging

California Senior Legislature

Center of Excellence on Elder Abuse and Neglect at UC Irvine

Central Coast Center for Independent Living

County of Santa Cruz Human Services Agency, Adult and Long-term Care Division

ElderCare Locator

Elderday Adult Health Center

Elderly and Disabled Transportation Advisory Committee

Financial Abuse Specialist Team (FAST)

In-Home Support Services Public Authority Advisory Commission

Santa Cruz County Commission on Disabilities

Santa Cruz County Seniors Commission

Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties/Area Agency on Aging

Senior Network Services

Senior Roundtable of Santa Cruz County

The Senior Coalition

Living Facilities

Aegis of Aptos

Alexandria Victoria

Capitola Manor

Cresthaven Nursing Home

Darwin House

Dominican Oaks

Golden Age Convalescent Hospital

Hanover Guest Home

La Posada

Maple House

Maple House II

Oak Tree Villa

Pacific Coast Manor

Paradise Villa

Sunshine Villa

Twin Lakes Manor

Valley Haven

Valley Heights

Westwind Memory Care

Classes & Activities

Academy of Martial & Internal Arts

Awakening Chi

Bridge Of Hope

California Classic Sail

City of Capitola Recreation Department

City of Santa Cruz Parks & Recreation Department

Dominican Hospital’s Personal Enrichment Program

Santa Cruz County Parks Department

Seascape Village Fitness & Physical Therapy

Simpkins Family Swim Center

Watsonville Community Hospital

Watsonville Parks & Recreation Department

Project SCOUT

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

AA Family Groups

Adult Mental Health Services

Adult Protective Services (Human Services Department)

Catholic Charities Mental Health Department

Conflict Resolution Center

Family Service Agency of the Central Coast

Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) of Senior Network Services

Hospice of Santa Cruz County

Mental Health Client Action Network

Narcotics Anonymous

Narcotics Anonymous Family Groups at Aptos Christian Fellowship

Santa Cruz Vets Center

Women’s Crisis Support ~ Defensa de Mujeres (Monarch Services)

Dental Care

Cabrillo College Dental Hygiene Clinic

Denti-Cal

Dientes Community Dental Clinic

Dr. Robert Matiasevich Jr., DDS

Salud Para La Gente

Santa Cruz Pacific Dental

Smile Dental Care, Dr. Fernandez