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Nestled inside an old card catalog cabinet on the main floor of the Huntington Beach Central Library lies a Garden of Eden just waiting to be planted after a long pandemic closure, the seed library is back.
Closed in spring of 2020, the special collection was fully reopened to the public in mid-March and has since seen a surge in seed seekers, as residents sheltering in place this past year have looked to enrich their living environments.
“People love it. They get so excited to come in and see what we have now,” said library services clerk Cynthia Flores. “With spring and planting season, I’ve seen all the excitement as kids come in and pick out seeds. Teachers are teaching kids about the cycle of the seed.”
Live Music in the New World: How Music Workers in Spain, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Guatemala Are Adjusting to COVID-19
Concert of the Argentine band Bandalos Chinos. Photo: Leandro Frutos
One year ago I was drinking my Argentine mate, likely touched by the saliva of thousands of strangers, at the Bahidorá Carnival, a Mexican music festival in a gorgeous natural reserve. This event opens a key live music series in Mexico that includes Nrmal Festival, the Vive Latino, and the Ceremonia. We are still in the innocent and hopeful beginning of 2020, and I am covering for KEXP, without knowing it, what would be the last few concerts with a live audience in our pre-pandemic reality.
Before Awa Behm, a first grader at Braden River Elementary School, left to move out of the area last week, she went to the school’s new kindness garden and picked up a small rock with an owl painted on it.
The rock was Behm’s way of being able to take a piece of Braden River Elementary with her.
Third grader Corbin Bennett helps deliver the kindness rocks to the new kindness garden. Courtesy photo.
“It made her feel special because she was sad about leaving,” said Tammy Peters, Behm’s teacher.
Peters’ class worked with their reading buddies in Joadie Durfee’s fifth grade class Jan. 26 to create kindness rocks. After the students were done painting positive messages, such as “I’m proud of you,” “You’re amazing,” and “You’re my sunshine,” on the rocks, they needed the perfect place to put them.
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