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  Santa Cruz Hotels | Vacation Rentals | Real Estate | Restaurants | Attractions
Welcome to Santa Cruz, CA Santa Cruz has everything there is to offer in a real California beach town: world-class waves, miles of sandy beaches and a unique downtown steeped in local charm.
Santa Cruz offers every imaginable level of accommodation, from vacation bungalows and beach cottages to corporate retreat facilities.
Santa Cruz offers everything from casual fish and chips on the wharf to gourmet world-class fare—and yet jeans are always appropriate.
www.santacruz.com   (790 words)

  
 Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz Hotels | Santa Cruz Boardwalk | Chaminade
One of Santa Cruz’s finest hotels, the West Cliff Inn is perfect for a romantic getaway or a family trip to the sun-drenched activity filled beaches that Santa Cruz has to offer.
This modest Santa Cruz hotel is close enough to the pier and Pacific that on still nights one can here the waves crash against the beach.
A ten minute walk from Santa Cruz beach and Boardwalk, the Travelodge Santa Cruz Riviera is a 2-story family motel with an indoor swimming pool and hot tub open year round.
www.santacruz.com /hotels   (1521 words)

  
  Santa Cruz - Bolivia City Guide - Bolivia Web
Santa Cruz supplied the rest of the colony with cotton, rice, sugar and fruit.
By November 1996, according to data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra had a population of 904,376 inhabitants.
El Fuerte de Samaipata: (Fortress) 120 Km southwest from Santa Cruz, The entire Inca ruins complex of around 40 hectares was declared "World Heritage" by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee on December, 2nd 1998 in Kyoto, Japan.
www.boliviaweb.com /cities/scruz.htm   (669 words)

  
  cbs5.com - Police Impersonator Molests Santa Cruz Teen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The victim told police she believed the suspect was an officer because he was dressed in dark clothing, was wearing a dark jacket with a fur collar and a gold star badge pinned to it, and carried a dark metal flashlight and side handle baton.
Though the victim was led to believe the suspect was a legitimate officer, Santa Cruz police said the suspect's behavior and appearance revealed otherwise.
Santa Cruz police have released this sketch of a suspected police impersonator who sexually battered a woman.
cbs5.com /topstories/local_story_350173149.html   (413 words)

  
  Santa Cruz Island Channel Islands National Park
Santa Cruz is the largest island off the coast of California.
The scenic beauty of Santa Cruz is reflected in its many landforms-two rugged mountain ranges, the highest peaks on the Channel Islands, deep canyons, a central valley, year-round springs and streams, plus 77 miles of craggy coastline cliffs, giant sea caves, pristine tidepools and expansive beaches.
According to legend, Santa Cruz Island was named for a priest's staff accidentally left on the island during the Portola expedition of 1769.
www.nps.gov /chis/scipage.htm   (1860 words)

  
  Santa Cruz, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Cruz was colonized in the mid-1700s by the Spanish, who established both a mission (Mission Santa Cruz) and a secular settlement named Branciforte.
Santa Cruz is also notable for the extensive damage it suffered during the October 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which leveled the mostly unreinforced-brick downtown, killing five people.
Santa Cruz is also home to KSCO 1080 AM, one of the last independent commercial radio stations in the country.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Cruz,_California   (1453 words)

  
 Santa Cruz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
UC Santa Cruz students receive an education that combines the resources of a major research university with the advantages of a small college setting.
At UC Santa Cruz, undergraduates are able to choose from 57 majors, 33 minors and 59 concentrations in the arts, biological sciences, engineering, humanities, physical sciences and social sciences.
UC Santa Cruz professor David Haussler led a team of researchers that used bioinformatics to create a powerful new computer program that assembled the "working draft" of the human genome, announced in June 2000.
www.ucop.edu /pathways/infoctr/introuc/ucsc.html   (795 words)

  
 Santa Cruz County: Elections
The Santa Cruz County Elections Department, under the Direction of the Board of Supervisors, administers, conducts and tallies all Federal, State and County elections held in Santa Cruz County in accordance to Arizona Revised Statutes.
Santa Cruz County has approximately 17,000 active registered voters residing in 24 election precincts.
Santa Cruz County registered voters are needed to work at the polling places for the Elections.
www.co.santa-cruz.az.us /elections/index.html   (360 words)

  
 Santa Cruz - Eyestorm of Change- PelicanNetwork Guide
The City itself is core Santa Cruz, but the much larger area reaching from San Mateo's coast, the summit of the mountains that barely keeps Silicon Valley away, and down the coast to the Pajaro Valley is the State of Santa Cruz.
university came to Santa Cruz, and with it a new population of folks who saw the wonder of Santa Cruz.
This is due to the proximity to Santa Clara Valley -which has produced many wealthy people over the last millennium who wanted a home at the beach.
www.pelicannetwork.net /santa.cruz.htm   (1943 words)

  
 Poetry Santa Cruz
Poetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County.
Poetry Santa Cruz events are supported, in part, by a grant from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.
Poetry Santa Cruz is funded, in part, by a grant from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.
www.baymoon.com /~poetrysantacruz   (1070 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Massacre
Over 271 East Timorese were killed that day at the Santa Cruz cemetery or in hospitals soon after.
The Santa Cruz Massacre sparked the international solidarity movement for East Timor, including the founding of the East Timor Action Network, and was the catalyst for congressional action to stem the flow of U.S. weapons and other military assistance for Indonesia’s brutal security forces.
Casualties of the November 12, 1991 Massacre at Santa Cruz Cemetery in Dili, East Timor
www.etan.org /timor/SntaCRUZ.htm   (460 words)

  
 California Mission History: Santa Cruz
As early as 1774 a Franciscan padre traveled north along the beach from Carmel, and located the site for Mission Santa Cruz at the other end of crescent Monterey Bay.
The resulting panic at Santa Cruz, plus looting by the citizens of Branciforte, did more damage to the mission than could have been accomplished by the pirate.
The design was conceived from a study of aged drawings and paintings still in existence of the Mission of the "Holy Cross.".
www.californiamissions.com /cahistory/santacruz.html   (285 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Mission SHP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park is the site of a complex of buildings erected around the original Santa Cruz Mission.
Part of the cluster, the Neary-Rodriguez Adobe was built in 1791 and is the last of the mission’s many buildings to survive.
Misión la Exaltacion de la Santa Cruz was the 12th mission built in California.
www.parks.ca.gov /?page_id=548   (188 words)

  
 Santa Cruz: City of Santa Cruz California Travel Guide
Pleasure Point Beach and Cowell Beach are popular locations for surfers, not only for the size of the surf but also because the sandy beaches provide favorable conditions for playing beach volleyball and relaxing by a bonfire.
Another popular local attraction is the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
California's longest working and recreational wharf, the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, offers pier fishing, dining and entertainment opportunities as well as water equipment rentals.
www.santacruz-worldweb.com   (218 words)

  
 The home page for Mission Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California
Welcome to the website of Mission Santa Cruz, located on Mission Plaza in Santa Cruz, California. The Roman Catholic Parish of Holy Cross is the home of Mission Santa Cruz, the 12th link in the chain of 21 historic Spanish Franciscan missions that stretch from San Diego to Sonoma.
The full Spanish name of the mission is "Misión la exaltación de la Santa Cruz," named after a feast day in the Church calendar which occurs on September 14: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross, celebrating the Christian symbol of the cross on which Jesus was crucified.
The packet consists of a book devoted to Mission Santa Cruz, 3 picture postcards, and three informative pamphlets, one of which has a floor-plan of the mission.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/7151   (431 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Real Estate : Santa Cruz California Realtor
Santa Cruz Real Estate is miles of curving coastline, rocky cliffs and natural bridges sculpted by blue waves of time.
Tell us exactly what kind of Santa Cruz real estate you are looking for, and our exclusive Santa Cruz realtor will help to find it for you!
All information you provide will be used for the sole purpose of finding the perfect Santa Cruz property for you and will be kept strictly confidential.
www.santacruz.com /realestate   (183 words)

  
 santa cruz county - santa cruz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Santa Cruz is the quintessential California beach town.
Not far from the surf break, screams of delight and laughter fill the air at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the West Coast's oldest seaside amusement park.
A few blocks from the beach is Santa Cruz's downtown area.
www.santacruzca.org /places/santa-cruz.shtml   (122 words)

  
 Santa Cruz County Local History
World War II More than 240 articles on Santa Cruz County history, many with illustrations, are available on this site.
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is grateful to our local historians and their publishers for giving us permission to include their articles on our Website.
In some cases, the subject or area is yet to be studied and in other cases, we were not granted permission to use articles.
scplweb.santacruzpl.org /history   (301 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Bolivia Travel and Tours to Santa Cruz Enjoy Bolivia
The afternoon perspires heaviness and fatigue in the Cabins of Piraí, one of the many charming corners in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the tropical paradise of Bolivia.
exuberant vegetation, rural and suffocating corners conform the territory of the department of Santa Cruz de la Sierra located in the oriental part of Bolivia.
That is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the tropical paradise of Bolivia.
www.enjoybolivia.com /english/guiadestinos/santacruz/INTRO_IN.shtml   (310 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Indymedia : Indybay
On Tuesday, May 8, students from UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley occupied the UC "Anti-Poverty" Center protesting poverty wages by demanding that the UC release $8.5 million earmarked for custodians by the State Legislature.
The Santa Cruz Art Conspiracy (SCART) is an attempt to share and document some of the creative efforts of artists in Santa Cruz, California working to blur the lines between art and life, and between the personal and the political.
Free Skool Santa Cruz (FSSC) held their quarterly Community Picnic and Running a Free Skool workshop on the weekend of May 5th and 6th.
www.indybay.org /santacruz   (2897 words)

  
 Santa Cruz News - Topix
Local news for Santa Cruz, CA continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
The hunger strikers, including six who say they have consumed only water for nine days, contend that the public university should not be involved in managing two national laboratories that have a part in developing a new generation of nuclear weapons.
'UC provides a mantle of legitimacy to the nuclear weapons complex under the guise of the advancement of knowledge,' said Mark Valen, a UC Santa Cruz student who is on the hunger strike but was not arrested.
www.topix.net /city/santa-cruz-ca   (741 words)

  
 Earth First! Santa Cruz
Redwood Empire is back to plunder more of the Ramsey Gulch forest, with the help of the CA Department of Forestry, which approved the plan over the objections of Santa Cruz County, the Watsonville Water Board, and the Department of Fish and Game.
A tree-village has been established in the Ramsey 2 Timber Harvest Plan (THP) in southeastern Santa Cruz county in California.
(SCEF!) This area has been the scene of some of the worst logging in recent Santa Cruz county history and two years ago was the site of the first treesit in the county.
members.cruzio.com /~cruzef   (296 words)

  
 Santa Cruz County Parks Department - Simpkin's Family Swim Center and Community Center
Santa Cruz County Parks Department - Simpkin's Family Swim Center and Community Center
The 50 meter 18 lane lap pool (pictured to the right in the live WebCam photo) is the largest in Santa Cruz County, holding nearly 600k gallons of water.
This pool is used for lap swimming, water polo and water aerobics.
www.scparks.com /parkfac/simpkins.shtml   (223 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Brass
They also play at several annual events: UCSC Commencement Exercises, The KUSP Auction, The Santa Cruz Mission Fiesta, The Santa Cruz County Land Trust Picnic, The Capitola Art and Wine Festival, The San Jose Tapestry in Talent Festival, The California Gray Bears Christmas Dinner, and The Santa Cruz Downtown Association Estival Festival.
In addition to being an awesome and devoted trumpet player, husband to Joan, and father of two musical sons, Leonard is also a determined skiing fanatic, and a dermatologist most weekdays at the Santa Cruz Medical Clinic.
John directs the Santa Cruz Municipal Band (which he encourages you to join this semester!) through the Parks and Recreation Department.
www.scottharris.com /brass   (830 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Montessori: Young Children's Community
The Fireside and Mulberry teachers give the children their first experience of a children’s community where each member is respected and loved, and where the child’s natural curiosity leads to real learning.
Our facility for young children was built to help meet the child care needs of preschool-age children in Santa Cruz, Aptos, Soquel, Capitola, Scotts Valley, Felton, Live Oak, Ben Lomond, La Selva Beach, Larkin Valley, and Watsonville.
Santa Cruz Montessori • 6230 Soquel Drive • Aptos, CA 95003 • 831.476.1646 •
www.scms.org /ycc.html   (345 words)

  
 Santa Cruz County Local History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
World War II More than 240 articles on Santa Cruz County history, many with illustrations, are available on this site.
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is grateful to our local historians and their publishers for giving us permission to include their articles on our Website.
In some cases, the subject or area is yet to be studied and in other cases, we were not granted permission to use articles.
www.santacruzpl.org /history   (301 words)

  
 Page one of the history of Santa Cruz Mission.
Page one of the history of Santa Cruz Mission.
How old is the Mission at Santa Cruz?
    The Padres worked very hard, and the first Mission at Santa Cruz was dedicated on September 25, 1791.  If you want to do a little math, you'll see that the Mission at Santa Cruz will be 209 years old in the year 2,000.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/7151/Scmis.htm   (371 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Jaws 1989
We are part of the Santa Cruz City Youth Soccer Club (www.santaCruzSoccer.com) and affilated with CYSA-N through the Santa Cruz County Youth Soccer League (www.sccysl.org).
A marvelous accomplishment was achieved by one of the most highly regarded, both on and off the field, UC Santa Cruz men’s soccer players in recent years, this week which promotes the game of soccer throughout the County.
Aaron, a leader of the UCSC men’s team for 4 years, has been a great source of motivation in the Santa Cruz County youth soccer community for both boys and girls … a role model as a player and a mentor as a trainer to some of our local teams.
eteamz.active.com /santacruzjaws-1989/index.cfm   (498 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. Antibodies - World Leader in Antibody and siRNA Products
Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. Antibodies - World Leader in Antibody and siRNA Products
Copyright ©, 2006-2007, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Antibody definition: An immune protein molecule produced by B lymphocytes which has a constant effector region and two binding regions that vary between molecules yet are individually specific in recognizing their target epitope.
www.santacruzbiotechnology.com   (66 words)

  
 Hoteles, Aparthoteles en Santa Cruz, Reservas de Hospedaje - Bolivia Contact
Visite y conozca Santa Cruz de la Sierra, capital de Santa Cruz.
El departamento de Santa Cruz con su capital: Santa Cruz de la Sierra se encuentra en la zona amazónica de Bolivia y cuenta con una riqueza natural de extraordinaria belleza.
Usted puede hacer recervas por Internet en más de 200 hoteles de Bolivia, con información, precio especiales, detalles y fotografías de los hoteles de Santa Cruz.
www.boliviacontact.com /hoteles-santacruz.html   (163 words)

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