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October 9, 2009
October 9, 2009 - October 22, 2009
Volume XII, Issue 30
In This Issue...
Report Clears Way for Second Phase of Highway 1 Widening
Scotts Valley Commute Accident Sends Two to Hospitals
Shakespeare Santa Cruz Survives
County Recovering after Storm
Big Winter Storm Hits County
Planning Underway for Mental Health Service Transition in 2013
Central Fire Chief Bruce Clark Set to Retire
City to Rispin Hotel Developers: Deal's Off
Capitola's Chief Rick Ehle Retires, Part 2
Open Studios Artists Transcend the Decades
Soquel Creek Water Eyes Second Rate Hike in Two Years
Davenport to See Long-Delayed Water Quality Upgrade
Community Supporting New and Expanding Capitola Businesses
Potential Target Center Developer Pays Its Tax Bill
Locke-Paddon Named Conservationist of the Year
Grind Out Hunger Drive
Stuffed Animals Drive for CASA
Halloween Volunteers Needed in Boulder Creek
911
Wowak Officially Launches Campaign for Sheriff
Around Aptos
Chamber Kicks Off Fall with Look Back at Cabrillo and '89 Earthquake
Local Winemakers Recall 1989 Earthquake
Crimebeat
Crime beat Oct. 9, 2009
Watsonville Killer Denied Parole
Education
Pajaro Schools Bracing Community for More Cuts
Health
The Complications of Healthcare Reform
The Mid-County Post > Crimebeat
Watsonville Killer Denied Parole
Edgar Raul Valencia, who is serving a life sentence in Soledad State Prison for one murder and six attempted murders in Watsonville in 1993, was denied parole on the grounds that he continues to pose an unreasonable risk of danger to society. In the April 1993 incident, Valencia returned with two friends to a party in a warehouse where the friends had been denied entry earlier because they were intoxicated.

Valencia brought with him a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle and approached some partygoers outside the warehouse. As they fled, he fired into the warehouse until his weapon was empty. Eighteen-year-old Damien Caesar, an aspiring musician, was killed, and five others were wounded.

At his trial, Valencia claimed to believe his bullets would "bounce off" the metal building. Santa Cruz County Assistant District Attorney Alex Byers appeared before the Parole Board arguing against Valencia's release. Valencia will not be eligible for parole again until 2014. n
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