Salinas Valley News Tidbits | June 8, 2020
PARK PROGRESS
SOLEDAD — Pinnacles National Park has reopened its east and west entrances to vehicles for day-use visits. Limitations are in place, such as no overflow parking, with no parking permitted once the lots fill. The park is open daily from 7:30 a.m. to...
Closing underway of longtime law office in King City
KING CITY — Longtime King City attorney Peter D. Anderson died in September 2022 following 55 years of dedicated legal and community service.
Since his death, the process of closing Anderson’s law office is underway so that his clients can retrieve their files and get...
King City teacher seeks funds to build school garden
KING CITY — Kacey Hass, a seventh-grade life science teacher at Chalone Peaks Middle School, has started a GoFundMe page to raise money to start a school garden.
Hass is also the gardening teacher for both seventh and eighth grades, but the campus currently does...
Monterey County Fair Junior Livestock Auction returns with in-person show Saturday
MONTEREY — The thrill of in-person bidding at a livestock auction with live auctioneers and an engaged audience returns this Saturday, Aug. 28, with the Monterey County Fair Junior Livestock Auction.
The 2021 auction, returning for the first time since 2019, begins at 10 a.m....
In-person career services reopen in Salinas to assist workers
SALINAS — One Stop Career Center in Salinas has reopened for in-person services after being limited to virtual offerings during the past year of pandemic shutdowns.
Laura Kershner, employment program representative for Monterey County Workforce Development, said the new location at 344 Salinas St., which...
San Lucas School opens new makerspace
SAN LUCAS — Students and teachers celebrated the opening of a new makerspace on Nov. 5 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at San Lucas School, representing a renewed start after a challenging year of distance and in-person learning during the pandemic.
The makerspace is a place...
King City pulls plug on downtown reverse parking
KING CITY — King City Council members voted unanimously to not continue with the reverse diagonal parking test along Broadway during their June 22 city council meeting.
The city had repainted one side of the 300 block of Broadway for a two-month test period. The...
Monterey County’s Covid-19 isolation site at San Lorenzo Park sees surge in patients
SALINAS VALLEY — More patients are being relocated to an Alternate Housing Site at San Lorenzo Park in recent weeks due to an overall increase in Covid-19 cases countywide.
The King City site is called Operation Oasis by Monterey County staff, and has 10 trailers...
King City barrel race fundraiser exceeds goals
KING CITY — A local barrel race fundraiser exceeded its goals this year, bringing in nearly $50,000 for the Key for a Cure Foundation, in collaboration with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
The fundraiser, “Chasing Dreams, Finding Cures,” hosted its fifth annual rodeo event over...
