Third-year Sophia Petraki, along with 34 other UCSC students, is creating a mobile clinic to provide the homeless of Santa Cruz with free care services. The project is being sponsored by the Homeless Health Project and the Homeless Service Center of Santa Cruz, and hopes to help fulfill the needs of the homeless.
The Homeless Garden Project helps homeless people transition back into life with a job, home and purpose. In this therapeutic garden environment, workers are able to combat homelessness and re-enter the work force.
The Superior Court of Santa Cruz County ruled homeless activist Becky Johnson to be in violation of the unreasonably disturbing noises clause of Santa Cruz’s noise ordinance. The judges defended the language of the ordinance against claims of vagueness and unconstitutionality.
Friends of Thanksgiving looks forward to and is seeking volunteers for the annual Santa Cruz Community Thanksgiving Dinner, normally put together by the recently closed Veteran’s Hall.
With both the law and limited shelter space stacked against them, Santa Cruz’s homeless have few options when it comes to sleep.
“Imagine Positive Change” meters are coming soon to Pacific Avenue, and are already bringing controversy.
Santa Cruz residents walk past them on Pacific Avenue everyday, but rarely do we see them for their talent. Street musicians. From guitar, to mandolin, to drums, to flutes, performers are doing what they love.
Slugs, food and rock ‘n’ roll. These three words define UC Santa Cruz’s second annual day-long concert and fundraiser event, Rock ‘n’ Roll on the Knoll. The knoll of choice, a typically serene, grassy hill located behind Stevenson College, will house a mini music festival this Sunday from noon to 8 p.m., complete with [...]
The 40th anniversary celebration of People’s Park in Berkeley, Calif. reeked of history and body odor as hundreds of wayfarers, wanderers and wonderers came together on April 26 to share stories and honor the park by remembering those who fought to protect it. A love child of rebellion, the park was founded on the [...]