Aptos Community Briefs: September 15, 2015

Aptos Shoes & Apparel Gives 100 Pairs of Shoes to Women’s Shelter

On Friday, September 18, at 11 a.m., Aptos Shoes & Apparel (Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos), in concert with Yaleet Inc., the USA distributor of Naot footwear, is donating 100 pairs of new Naot shoes to the Walnut Avenue Women’s Center (WAWC) in Santa Cruz. Many of the women who come to WAWC are dealing with homelessness, poverty, early pregnancy, or domestic violence.

Merrill Lehrer, the new owner of Aptos Shoes & Apparel said, “I’m thrilled to partner with Naot footwear to help people in our community. Women in shelters often arrive there with nothing but what they’re wearing. By giving them new, comfortable, fashionable shoes, it can be a step towards rebuilding their lives.”

Naot footwear is hand made in Israel and is one of the leading comfort footwear brands in the world. Yaleet Inc. and Naot have been donating shoes to people in need with the help of their retailers.

Aptos Shoes & Apparel has been locally owned for over 30 years, selling comfort footwear for men, women, and children. Merrill Lehrer also says they “offer fashion apparel, for women who want to look terrific, but don’t want to dress like their twenty year old daughter.”

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Allen Morgan Returns to the Santa Cruz County Fair!

Returning to the Santa Cruz County Fair this year is Allen Morgan, founder and steward of Santa Cruz Heirloom Seed and distributor for Seed Saver Exchange. His display will be about “old time medicine” and will include medicinal heirloom herbs and flowers and how they help the body, both internally and externally. This exhibit will be an education in self-health and warrants a visit.

Allen will be selling his Seed Saver Exchange Seeds from the Amish country of Decorah, Iowa, so you, too, can grow your own healthful herbs and flowers. And, he will be giving away over 1,000 free plant starts to Fair patrons.

The Santa Cruz County Fair begins on Wednesday this year, which is new; therefore opening day will be on September 16th, continuing through Sunday, September 20th.

Allen looks forward to seeing you there!

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Don Giovanni in the Park
Capitola Esplanade Stage • September 20 • 2 – 4:20 p.m.

Don Giovanni is breathtaking, passionate and inspiring opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787. Although sometimes classified as comic, it blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements.

Come and enjoy Opera in the Park with a full cast and costumes presenting one of the world’s most famous operas, Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

Presented by the Bay Shore Lyric Opera (www.bslopera.com).

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Fourth Annual Team G Childhood Cancer Foundation Bake Sale

In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Team G Childhood Cancer Foundation will host its fourth annual bake sale to raise money for pediatric cancer awareness.

The Bake Sale takes place in two locations Saturday, Sept. 26 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.:

• Surf City Coffee Company 9105 Soquel Drive Aptos
• Scott’s Valley Market 14 Victor Square Scotts Valley

Every day, 46 kids are diagnosed with cancer and seven kids die. In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and the local children who are fighting cancer or have lost their battle, support Team G raise money for pediatric cancer research.

Learn more at http://teamgfoundation.org/.

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Mail Theft Increasing, Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Patrick Dimick Warns

Just a warning that areas around the county have recently been experiencing an increase in mail theft from both locked and unlocked mailboxes. Please report any suspicious activity to the Sheriff’s Office at 831-471-1121. Mail theft crime reports can be made on our website at SCSHERIFF.com or by calling our dispatch number above if you do not have access to a computer.

We suggest that you remove your mail on a daily basis to decrease your exposure to mail theft -and- installation of a locking mailbox, especially a higher end fortified model. Though locking mailboxes are not a guarantee that mail theft will not occur, they are a deterrent.