Rough Cuts: {Watsonville Brown Berets, a snippet cut from Fruit of the Devil. This is a true story from back in the day . . .} Sunday morning, August 28, 1998. Prudenciana Elementary School. Watsonville. Aurora opened the door to the computer lab. Jose Santos, the new technology assistant, was down on his hands and […]
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Our Safe Strawberry Working Group met last night at the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council Offices in Salinas with the Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner, Eric Lauritzen and seven other county, state, and federal pesticide regulatory officials. This meeting was a follow-up to the June 2 public meeting that overflowed the Cesar Chavez library in Salinas,
I’ve taken the last 6 months away from my novel to go back to classroom teaching in the Pajaro River Valley. My middle school classroom – a well-equipped computer lab in a state-of-the-art Google Classroom paperless school – is surrounded by agricultural fields. Many of my 7th and 8th grade students are children of freseros
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