Pajaro Valley Magazine November 19 2021

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Seasonal events start up this weekend in South County

he holidays kick off this weekend, with three different events that will be held throughout the Pajaro Valley. And as friends and family reunite after last year’s Covid shutdowns, there is plenty of seasonal fun to be had in the upcoming month—from art festivals and dance performances, tree lightings and more.

The second annual Holiday Lights event at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds will open Nov. 19 and run through Dec. 26.

Originally created to raise funds for the Fairgrounds and lift the community’s spirits during the pandemic, the event was so popular, and sold out so quickly that organizers decided to bring it back this year.

In addition to the usual drive-thru light show, the event will also offer up the opportunity to walk through the display during a special Holiday Fair on Dec. 3 and 4.

But Holiday Lights isn’t the only event starting up this weekend: In Aromas, the Aromas Hills Artisans (AHA) will once again be holding their annual Holiday Arts Festival on Nov. 21. After being canceled last year, organizers say they are eager to return.

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TRADITION A giant tree is aglow with lights at Watsonville Plaza

during the annual Holiday Tree Lighting ceremony in 2019.

After attending the festival, families can then head into downtown Watsonville for the annual Holiday Tree Lighting starting at 5pm.

The entire plaza will be lit up this year, in addition to the centerpiece: a 28-foot-tall tree. The event will also include music performances

by Pajaro Valley Unified School District students, and appearances

by Santa himself—plus another surprise guest.

“We’re all very excited, especially after the year and a half we’ve had,” said Maria Orozco, founding president and current board member for the Friends of Watsonville Parks and Community Services. “The community is ready to feel that holiday joy once again.”

Nearby, Main Street will also be illuminated thanks to 71 sponsors that helped the city purchase lights to adorn the street poles. Orozco said that sponsors included community members, local businesses, nonprofits and other groups. Together, they raised $10,000 in support of decorating the poles, after kicking off a campaign at the Evening with the Mayor event last month.

“We really want to thank everyone for making this happen,” Orozco said. “The Parks and Community Services Department, all the sponsors, everyone. This will make the holiday season that much more enjoyable.”

Nov. 21 Holiday Art Festival Aromas Sports Park, 300 Aromas Rd., Aromas Aromas Hills Artisans will host its annual Holiday Art Festival at Aromas Sports Park, featuring the work of local artists, music, workshops, hot food and more. Free parking is available and both kids and dogs are welcome.

Festival runs 10am-3pm. For updates, visit the AHA’s Facebook page.

Holiday Tree Lighting City Plaza, 358 Main St., Watsonville The public is invited to the city’s free annual Holiday Tree Lightning event, taking place at the plaza from 5-6pm. The entire plaza and parts of Main Street will be lit to ring in the holiday season, plus there will be performances by PVUSD students and a special appearance by Santa Claus. For information, visit cityofwatsonville.org.

Nov. 27 Holiday Boutique Aptos United Methodist Church, 221 Thunderbird Dr., Aptos The Aptos United Methodist Church will be hosting its annual Holiday Boutique. Come between 9am-3pm to browse a number of handcrafted, affordable gift ideas: jewelry, pottery, soaps, scarves, hats, paper crafts, home decor, children’s books, stuffed animals, woodworking, homemade jams, baked goods, plants and flowers, and more. For information, visit aptosumc.org.

Dec. 15-17 Santa Tour For the second year in a row, the City of Watsonville will be organizing a Santa Tour, where residents can enjoy a special early visit from Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus in their very own neighborhoods. Santa will visit various locations over the three-day event between 4-7pm. A map and schedule will be released in the upcoming weeks at cityofwatsonville.org.

Dec. 18 & 19 Nutcracker: Experience the Magic Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos For the 10th year at Cabrillo College, Experience the Magic returns to kick off the holidays with a family-friendly tradition. Santa Cruz City Ballet, at the International Academy of Dance presents the full length Nutcracker Ballet, with local talent and guest artists from the Bay Area and beyond. For information and tickets, visit nutcrackersantacruz.com.

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The festival will feature the work of AHA artists, including jewelry, pottery, stained glass, “living art” (made with plants), fiber and textile art, metal sculpture, photography, painting and wood carving, etc.

AHA member Linda Bjornson, a stained glass artist, said that for a while they were uncertain of the future of the festival, which is usually a weekend-long event held at the Aromas Grange.

“We had to make a call much earlier in the year about what we were going to do,” she said. “The Delta [variant] was happening. We knew we would feel safer if we did it outdoors, and just one day.”

The festival, to be held 10am-3pm, will also offer live music by Jesse Martinez, hot food from a local event company and two artist workshops—one where you can make a bead ornament for your Christmas tree, and another where you can learn how to spin wool into yarn from Christine Martinez.

In addition, the winners of AHA’s annual raffle will be selected at the event at 2pm.

“It will be great to see our friends and neighbors once again,” Bjornson said. “Come down and see. It’s fun, and a great place to find a gift for someone. Plus, you won’t have to worry about shipping.”

Holiday Lights 2021 Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, 2601 East Lake Ave., Watsonville The popular Holiday Lights event returns to the Fairgrounds this year bigger and brighter. In addition to the second annual drive-thru light show, the event will also include walk-thrus during a Holiday Fair on Dec. 3 and 4. Organizers recommend purchasing tickets early. For information, visit fairgrounds-foundation.org/holiday-lights.

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SCORCHED LAND Plenty of burn scars from recent fires dot

the trip along Highway 50 near Lake Tahoe.

PLEASANT WALK Downtown Carson City in Nevada is a quiet city with historical elements and trendy businesses.

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n the first part of this story my wife Sarah and I were exploring Sonora and Columbia in the Sierra foothills in Gold Rush country.

The landscape in these small historic towns, including Chinese Camp, Jamestown, Angels Camp, Mokelumne Hill and so on is a bizarre outcropping of stone formations and massive heaps of rocks left exposed by the miners using hydraulic mining in their crazed search for gold. Hydraulic mining called for copious amounts of water, often channeled to the area by lengths of metal and wood flume systems. Ultimately, the water was blasted by heavy duty pumps through hoses and giant nozzles to wash away the soil and send rivers of mud through a system of sluice boxes. Now, the area has an eerie moonscape aspect to it with the thousands of acres of raw rocks standing above the ground surface.

You cannot wander through these towns without seeing references to various groups of gold

seekers, Italians, Irish, Chinese and scads of Americans from all over. There are umpteen informative plaques scattered about telling of the tremendous work groups of Chinese workers did in creating the roads in record time that led to the mines and over the passes and elsewhere. The Chinese also did a huge amount of the work building the railroads as well.

A fascinating article in the New York Times explores some of this, called “Looking for a Gold-Rush Town Named Chinese Camp,” by Nina Ichikawa. A truly powerful line in her article reads: “But once the Chinese workers’ abundant and grueling labor had built the railroads and laid important groundwork for California agriculture, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882, barring their immigration into the country.”

We left Sonora on Highway 49 and climbed further into the Sierra, keeping a close watch on weather reports. Having lived in that area in Twain Harte and Long Barn one winter in the early ‘70s, I learned a few hard lessons about what big snow can do, especially

to the roadways. Too many times I watched tourists come charging up in the mountains from the Bay Area with their expensive toys for a little fun in the snow, many unprepared.

Suddenly, as though they could outthink Mother Nature, there they were stuck in a snowbank with no chains as night and colder temp’s approached. Many had no gloves and some even wore flip flops. It was quite a show watching them, their limbs frozen with pain, trying to dig out their cars as more snow buried their efforts.

On our trek over Highway 50 we lucked out: The highway report kicked the doors open to us past South Lake Tahoe and over the Nevada line with no chains required. It was on this pass that we got an eyeful of the lovely pines and the rugged terrain heavily draped with fresh snow. It was like driving through a famous painting—the whiteness, the stillness, the calm that snow brings was so refreshing.

We wound our way from Highway 50 to 395 north into Carson City, the place named after the famed explorer Kit Carson.

We found the Hardman House

Inn & Suites downtown, which gave us walking access to loads of interesting eateries, cafes and the like. The weather was pleasant and a light coat was all we needed.

One thing that struck us about the place was the traffic: there wasn’t any (compared to the grinding bumper-to-bumper traffic that we’ve grown used to in so many California cities).

On our first exploratory outing, we drove through a neighborhood of mostly older homes, taking in the beauty of Craftsman, Victorian, Spanish and other styles. As we came to the edge of a wilderness area, we spotted a herd of about 15 deer. They came right over to us, and as I jokingly called the leader over to my car window, they did just that, almost jutting her head into our car! I quickly rolled up the window, took a couple portraits with my camera and watched as the herd calmly moved on. Maybe that was the welcome wagon to Carson City?

On our next leg, we take in more of Carson City and head north through Virginia City to that big gambling place, Reno.

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Sweet, sweet Kataifi

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he inaccessibility of one of the main ingredients inspired this unusual North American version of an intriguing Middle Eastern dessert—similar to baklava—made of rolls of shredded wheat drenched in a sweet syrup called kataifi.

This is a recipe I have been sitting on for almost 50 years. Looking through my recipe box the other day, I came across it at the same

time that we had a box of Shredded Wheat cereal in the cupboard.

The shredded wheat used in the authentic Middle Eastern version is actually shredded filo dough.

Margo Oliver, who for many years edited the “Food and Drink” section of the Canadian Weekend Magazine, and was known as the “Betty Crocker” of Canada, came up with this adaptation using Shredded Wheat cereal. It does not hold together as well as baklava or authentically made kataifi, but it is

crunchy, very sweet and easier to make than baklava. You might have to have a particular attraction to Shredded Wheat, which I have, to appreciate it.

Many Middle Eastern desserts are made in a similar manner with baked dough and nuts covered in a sweet syrup and left to sit until the syrup is absorbed. These fake kataifi are fragile and crumble easily. I refrigerated my leftovers and that helped them to better hold their shape.

1 cup white sugar 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 1/4 cup honey 1/2 cup water 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons orange water – optional Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8-inch square cake pan.

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Keeps in a tin for several days and also can be refrigerated.

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