A memorial concert will be held Friday to Dan Lamothe, a local bassist and firefighting recruit who died during a training session in 2023. A bassist with the Santa Cruz psychobilly horror punk band Stellar Corpses, Lamothe also had longtime dreams of becoming a firefighter, which came closer to fruition as he began training with the Santa Cruz Fire Department in January 2023.
"On March 11, 1975, the City Council unanimously designated the Town Clock as the city's official Bicentennial project to be completed by July 4, 1976, donating $27,000 toward the project's estimated $89,000 cost," writes Local History columnist Ross Eric Gibson.