Fairgrounds Resilience Centers Funding

Thestate Department of Food & Agriculture has awarded more than $88 million to 12 fairgrounds for upgrades such as kitchens, heating and air conditioning, showers and related improvements for sheltering people and animals in times of need.

The Santa Cruz County Fair will get $150,000 to upgrade the historic livestock barns that the state had deemed unstable and unusable for the 2022 fair.

The funding for “resiliency centers” was included in the 2021-22 state budget.

Work is to begin in late summer.

A committee that identified selection criteria consisted of CDFA, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the California Department of Social Services, and representatives of the fairgrounds industry (including California Construction Authority, the joint powers authority in charge of construction at fairgrounds).

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3rd DAA Silver Dollar Fair, Butte County: New event center & Jack Vanella Hall upgrade $30,000,000

24th DAA Tulare County Fair: Building

1 & 2 Demolition and Rebuild, Building 3 upgrade Completion $11,000,000

24th DAA Kings Fair: Fairgrounds-wide infrastructure upgrades $3,500,000

26th DAA Amador County Fair: Windmill Restaurant/commissary kitchen upgrade & multi-purpose concession stands $1,500,000

27th DAA Shasta District Fair: Trinity Hall upgrades & new community kitchen $4,000,000

28th DAA San Bernardino County Fair: Building 1 & 2 upgrades $6,000,000

35th DAA Merced County Fair: Yosemite Hall upgrades & pavilion reroof $5,000,000

50th DAA Antelope Valley Fair, Lost Angeles County: New Marcc campus, emergency operations centers, and culinary facility $20,000,000

California Exposition & State Fair, Sacramento County: Restrooms in livestock srea, HVAC at Expo Center, replacement of fabric tent on Building D $7,000,000

10th DAA Siskiyou Golden Fair: Fairgrounds Broadband upgrade $100,000

14th DAA Santa Cruz County Fair: Livestock Barns upgrade $150,000

20th DAA Gold Country Fair: Placer Hall HVAC upgrade $250,000

“Class of 2023” from page 8

The Class of 2023 comprises graduates ranging in age from 15 to 77 years, with an average age of 27.

The class was 63% female and 36% male.

The Class of 2023 contains a record 273 students graduating with a 4.0 grade-point average, a 39% increase over last year.

And 214 students graduated with high honors (3.75-3.99 GPA), 240 students with honors (3.5-3.74 GPA) and 496 students with honorable mention (3.0-3.49 GPA).

A notable 65 students graduated or transferred as part of the Honors Transfer Program, a learning community for highly motivated students seeking rigorous academic coursework in a supportive and cooperative environment.

Of those 65 students, 37 graduated as Honors Scholars, having completed at least

15 units of honors courses with a minimum 3.4 transferable GPA.

And 22 students were certified for the UCLA Transfer Alliance Program (TAP), which gives priority admission into the UCLA College of Letters and Sciences for fall 2023.

In addition there were seven UC Irvine Honors-to-Honors students.

Students are transferring to competitive universities, which include (with information to date): Yale University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, with others awaiting decisions from NYU and Stanford University.

The Peggy and Jack Baskin Award is given each year to a Cabrillo graduate in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math fields. This year’s recipient is Marlize Velasco, one of Cabrillo’s UCLA TAP-certified students. Marlize is transferring to UC Santa Cruz, and majoring in politics.

At the ceremony, she urged kindness and added: “Keep pushing forward even when the odds are against you.”

President of the Student Senate Denisa Rozsypalova, a Czech student living in California, cited the challenges of the pandemic.

Student Trustee Devinè Hardy, a non-traditional student motivated by the pandemic shutdown to return to college and finish her degree, said, “Always know your why.” One of her whys is advocating for those who have no voice.

The UC Santa Cruz Karl S. Pister award is an up to $20,000 scholarship given to a Cabrillo Student planning to transfer to UCSC. This year’s winner: Tymothie Hale, who is majoring in psychology.

The ceremony began with a processional of the Governing Board, faculty, and staff, and members of the Graduating Class of 2023, followed by a welcome from Vice President of Student Services Amy Lehman-Sexton. The Cabrillo Chorale, under the direction of Cheryl Anderson, sang the national anthem as well as Cielito Lindo (Lovely Sky). Wetstein, as president, gave congratulatory remarks, as did Cabrillo Faculty Senate President Anna Zagorska, and Cabrillo Classified Employees Union Second Vice President Ariba Alston-Williams.

Dr. Robin McFarland, interim vice president of instruction, presented the graduating class and Cabrillo Board President Adam Spickler conferred the degrees and certificates. n

To view the ceremony, see www.cabrillo. edu/events/graduation-ceremony/ or Cabrillo’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=CF-mVv_qgRY