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October 30, 2009
October 30, 2009 - November 5, 2009
Volume XII, Issue 32
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State Park Budget Cuts Hit Home
Capitola Says No to Another Rispin Extension Request
Capitola City Manager To Retire
Planning the New Scotts Valley Library
Surfing Comes Home to Boulder Creek
More Trouble at the Brookdale Inn
Loma Fire Contained
VCUM Kicks Off Thanksgiving Food Drive
SV's Red Ribbon Week Promotes Drug-Free Lives
Plaque Commemorates Lime Works
Bounty of Pjs
Water Manager Praises Conservation Efforts
Wells Fargo Gives $24K to Local Schools
Change Your Clock, Change Your Batteries
Thirty-Meter Telescope Discussion
Crimebeat
Crime Beat 10/30/09
No Charges in High School Sports Fundraising Money Theft
Environment
Rain or No Rain? Forecasters Don't Know
The Weather Twins
Mark Stone Advocates Banning Single-Use Bags
Newsmakers
Scotts Valley High Haunted Hospital Raises Money to Fight Cancer
New Boulder Creek Business Board Continuing Most Seasonal Events
Monning Holds Office Hours
Redwoods League Announces Grants
People
Scotts Valley Chamber Announces 2009 Honorees
The Mid-County Post > Environment
Mark Stone Advocates Banning Single-Use Bags
Supervisor Mark Stone has requested that the County Board of Supervisors begin looking at a ban on most single-use paper and plastic bags.

Reusable fabric bags have become commonplace in the checkout aisles of many grocery stores, and even some department stores give shoppers a chance to purchase a bag rather than using one they may simply throw away.

The ordinances that Stone cites as examples make these efforts mandatory in most cases.

The board already voted to support state efforts in that direction, but with those stalled, Stone wants Santa Cruz County to look at similar ordinances in San Jose and San Francisco to see if they could be implemented here.

"I believe it is now time for Santa Cruz County to join with our neighbors in the banning of all single-use plastic and carry-out paper bags," Stone wrote in a letter to his fellow supervisors.

Supervisor Stone proposes that public works, the commission on the environment and the integrated waste management local task force develop an ordinance by Apr. 20, 2010.

Stone's request is on the consent agenda for the Nov. supervisors' meeting.
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