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The California Endowment and the Health Equity Award Planning Committee named the Monterey County Health Department (MCHD) as the winner of the Arnold X. Perkins Award for Outstanding Health Equity Practice.

More than 500 supporters attended the annual Salinas Valley Fair kickoff dinner, dance and auction fundraiser Saturday in King City, raising funds for the Fair and the Salinas Valley Fair Heritage Foundation, both nonprofits.

The City of King hosted the second annual District Watch Block Parties last Thursday in each of the five city council districts as part of its public safety community outreach initiative.

A midday shooting last Friday resulted in a King City man being shot twice at a local mobile home park.

Two special guests joined the Southern Monterey County Republican Women Federated for its monthly meeting last week at Lawrence’s Restaurant in King City — high school graduates Veronica Gasca of Greenfield and Thomas Stephens of King City, who both earned scholarships from the nonprofit.

A pair of shootings Monday sent two King City men to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, according to the King City Police Department.

Residents carry a cross down Third Street in King City as part of Friday’s Walk for Peace, hosted by St. John the Baptist Catholic Church to promote peace and non-violence in the community.

It was a record year for local oil company Aera Energy’s annual food drive last week, with the equivalent of 16,101 pounds of food donated to the Food Bank for Monterey County.

More than 70 firefighters helped battle a 25-acre vegetation fire Tuesday afternoon near the intersection of Highway 198 and Pine Valley Road, east of King City.