June 2012
C O M M U N I T Y N E W S T H AT M A K E S A D I F F E R E N C E
Vol 17 No. 6
Serving Central Santa Cruz County
‘Top 2’ is New for California
California Primary is June 5
Top 2 Primary lets you vote for any candidate (for most races), even if you are not in the same political party. The top two candidates — the ones who get the most votes in the primary — will be on the General Election ballot in November. Top 2 is new. It became law in 2010 when Prop 14 was passed. Before Top 2, each party could have one candidate on the General Election ballot for all party races. Now with Top 2, only two candidates get on the General Election ballot for most races — the two who got the most votes in the primary no matter what party they are from. Party preference refers to the political party that you and the candidate is registered with. It’s listed under each candidate’s name on the ballot. The word “None” appears for candidates who are not registered with a party. Top 2 applies only to the following voter-nominated offices: U.S. Senator • U.S. Congressperson • State Senator • State Assembly Member • Statewide constitutional offices. Top 2 does NOT apply to elections for President, Party Central Committees, or County Councils.
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Officer Donald Hoover — first Santa Cruz County CHP officer killed in the line of duty — 1934.
By Noel Smith eventy-eight years after CHP Officer Donald Albert Hoover was killed at the age of 31 while on duty riding his motorcycle, a portion of Highway One will be dedicated
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Bras for a Cause Seventh Year
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in his honor. The actual commemoration will probably take place in September, but an informal ceremony was held in the Rio del Mar home of his 84-yearold son, Richard, who was only 6 years old when his father died. In an interview last August,
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Richard said he remembered being told of his father’s untimely death. He is quoted in the Santa Cruz Sentinel as saying, “I remember the news, when they told me he had died in a crash. And I remember the big, beautiful, wonderful funeral that they
Library Celebrates 100 Years Porter Memorial Library
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gave him. There were several officers there in uniforms with their motorcycles. They said there was a procession out at the grave site that was three-quarters of a mile long, the most ever done at the time.”
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