Ryder Walding, an incoming senior at Soquel High School, finished 7th at the prone paddleboarding world championships in Hawaii this weekend.
Carly Heltzel
Carly Heltzel is an editorial and audience engagement intern at Lookout this summer. She’s a journalism major going into her fourth year at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with minors in City and Regional Planning as well as Media Arts, Society and Technology. She’s also the incoming News Editor for Cal Poly’s paper, Mustang News, and writes a newsletter summarizing the top five Cal Poly, SLO and California stories each weekday during the school year.
This summer, Carly will be working on reader engagement, analytics and events in addition to her reporting. She’s most interested in reporting on the state’s housing crisis, breaking down complex data into digestible formats and getting to the human impact of local issues she writes about.
Originally from the south Bay Area, she spent many summer weekends in Santa Cruz and is excited to return to serve this community at Lookout this summer.
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At 17, Soquel High senior is taking on the ‘Mount Everest of paddling’ across Hawaii’s channel of bones
Ryder Walding, 17, will compete in the prone paddling world championships this Sunday. After a year of intense training, he aims to conquer one of the sport’s most grueling races: a 32-mile paddle from Molokai to Oahu in Hawaii.
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On Ocean Street, Marianne’s Ice Cream comes under the shadow of a major housing development
A five-story mixed-use development is slated to go up behind Marianne’s Ice Cream, a Santa Cruz staple. Marianne’s owners are worried about street parking during construction and the shadow of the building — which will stretch across Ocean Street in front of the parlor in winter — once it’s done.
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The Mystery Spot’s yellow sticker is taking over the world and nobody is quite sure why
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Shark encounter off Rio Del Mar Beach shuts down water access for 48 hours
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