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)M SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL Friday, August 9, 2002 Fire, water district election races taking shape Recreation-district tickets also becoming finalized as filing deadline arrives today who has been volunteering for the district, is running, too. Newcomers Paul Storm and Gayle Loretta Noble are unopposed for the four-year seats because incumbents Denese Matthes and John Abel haven't filed. opposition for the four-year seats in the Central district. Fire district seats in Aromas, Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek, Branciforte, Felton, Pajaro Valley and Zayante are uncontested. Recreation district Incumbent Richard Gaughan filed papers Thursday for the short-term seat on the Boulder Creek Recreation and Park District board.

April Terrell, Contact Jondi Cumz at igumzig.santa-cruz.com. The candidates are Shed Damon, an attorney in Salinas, and Roberto Garcia, who has been on the Pajaro Valley school board. Incumbent Warren Koenig hasn't filed. Seats in the Scotts Valley, Lompico, and Central water districts are uncontested. Fire district races Michael Shulman, the planning commissioner and former mayor, plans to run for the Scotts Valley fire board, along with Marshall Masters, a tech-n ical writer who moved here four years ago.

Incumbent Richard Clark is seeking another term, but incumbent Jerry Ashfield has decided to step down after eight years. "The district is in a pretty decent Wameling, an engineer, also of Aptos, and Seacliff lawyer Cherie Bobbe, who applied for the opening filled by Wells earlier this year. Two Boulder Creek residents, Gordon Stewart and Janet Laidlaw, have filed for the San Lorenzo Valley Water District board. They are running because they didn't like way the district sold the Waterman Gap property. They would rather have kept the land and allowed it to be logged.

Both Stewart and Laidlaw are active in a campaign to oppose redevelopment in the valley. Incumbents Jim Rapoza and Terry Vierra are seeking re election. Board president Larry Prather hasn't filed papers yet. A race also is shaping at the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency. ByJONDI GUMZand RAMONA TURNER Sl-NTINIiL I Al WRITERS Incumbents face challengers in three water districts Soquel Creek, San Lorenzo Valley and Pajaro Valley and three fire districts Scotts Valley, Aptos-La Selva and Central.

The filing deadline is today. The hot race will be in the Soquel Creek Water District where seven people have filed for three seats. All three incumbents, Dan Kriege, John Beebe and Nancy Wells, who was appointed this year, want another term. Soquel activist Katherine Sweet is making another bid for office. Two years ago, she came in fourth when six people ran for two seats.

New names on the ballot include Aptos resident Bruce Jaffe and Richard position," said Ashfield. Jane Armstrong, who applied for an opening on the board this summer, took out papers in July but hasn't turned them in. Dene Bustichi has no opposition for the short-term fire board seat in Scotts Valley. In the race for two seats on the AptosLa Selva Kire Protection District, incumbents Vincent Paul Hurley and Charlene Ebey will be challenged by Don Ramos and David Barbin. And in the bid for the two short-term seats that will open in the Central Fire Protection District, incumbents Jack Darrough and Denise Lundell will defend against newcomer Christopher Robarchek.

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Ho filed his application Aug. 1. If elected, Begun said he would make sure the council is engaged in more public meetings and fewer closed sessions. Thursday was the day the incumbents made their political intents official. If re-elected to a second term, Norton said he would focus on transportation and housing issues, as well as fighting to keep Jade Street Park as a park and regulating development within the city.

Arthur would use his second term to pay more attention to neighborhoods in disrepair, install a merry-go-round in the village, help the city's finance policies meant to ensure its fiscal health build a track record and to pave the way for community planning to be in the hands of local communities rather than those of the state, he said. Harlan, who served on the council off and on since the mid-1980s, was not available to comment Thursday. The deadline to file is 5 p.m. Contact Ramona Turner at flip Weekends Minutes on the America's Choice' Network Plus mm Mobile To Mobile mm -N ILL to caO any of out 30 mtuhm cintomers anyilme Motorola V120c anytime minutes FOR monthly access irj ti'y i FREE Every monih as long as you remain on Ihe plan. Willi I or 2-year agreement.

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