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By J.M. Brown
jbrown@santacruzsentinel.com
SANTA CRUZ — As the Tan-
nery Arts Center prepares to cel-
ebrate its fourth anniversary, sup-
porters are hoping to narrow the
fundraising gap for a theater that
will complete the historic leather-
making site’s rebirth.
The renovation of the Salz Tan-
nery hide house into a venue for
theSantaCruzBalletTheatreand
other performing arts is estimat-
ed to cost $5 million. Supporters
have raised $3.2 million to date
but need another $1 million, or 85
percent of the total cost, to begin
construction.
“We are trying to build it to be
accessible for drama, music and
dance,” said George Newell, the
center’s executive director and a
founding board member. “Each
one of those activities has its own
specific requirements.”
The public will be able to tour
the 1956 redwood-encased struc-
ture, where cow hides were once
stored, during the center’s “Tan-
niversary”partyJune15.From3-9
p.m., the River Street campus will
offer open studios, performances,
exhibits and an artists’ faire.
Once completed, the 200-seat
Hide House theater will represent
the final piece of redevelopment
for the tannery, which operated
for 145 years before closing in
2001.
Thecityboughtthe8.2-acresite
in 2005 and partnered with Min-
nesota nonprofit Artspace Inc.
to build 100 affordable housing
units, which opened in 2009. Last
year, the tannery’s historic beam
house and tanyard buildings were
painstakingly rebuilt as work-
ing studios, and earlier this year
the Cultural Council moved into
the 147-year-old renovated Kron
Housethatbelongedtotheformer
tannery operators.
The City Council approved
permits for the theater renova-
tion in April. The 6,000-square-
foot structure will feature a new
2,000-square-footlobbybutother-
wise be preserved to the greatest
extent possible, Newell said. That
includes a barn-style door that
acts as the front entrance and sal-
vaged internal redwood beams.
The theater will also feature
70 additional flexible seats, state-
of-the-art acoustics and dressing
rooms. Outside, there will be a
courtyard that features a town-
hall style stage for outside perfor-
mances.
LisaPalm,aformerboardmem-
ber of two public schools, said a
key reason she got involved in
fundraising for the theater is its
Hopeshightoclose
theaterfundinggap
An artist's rendering of the front of the
Hide House Theater of the Tannery Arts
Center on River Street.
Tannery Arts Center
Tannery Arts Center: Anniversary event will include tours of hide house
IF YOU GO‘TANNIVERSARY’
WHAT: Fourth anniversary of the
Tannery Arts Center
WHEN: 3-9 p.m. June 15
WHERE: Tannery Arts Center,
1050 River St., Santa Cruz
DETAILS:
www.tanneryartscenter.org
Dan Coyro/Sentinel
The former Salz Tannery hide house will be rebuilt as a performing arts
center, with an entrance incorporating the large leather tumbling drum at
left, shown in the artist’s rendering above.
Optimizing the homing instinct
By Aaron Kinney
Bay Area News Group
SACRAMENTO — On a sunny morning in the
statecapital,MikeMcHenry,afishermanoutofPil-
lar Point Harbor in San Mateo County, guided his
boat to a dock on the Sacramento River and read-
ied its 10,000-gallon hold for some special cargo.
Once the captain had filled the tank with river
water, a team of state Fish and Wildlife biolo-
gists and technicians aimed a 100-foot tube into
the belly of McHenry’s 64-foot boat, the Merva
W. About 100,000 baby salmon gushed out of a
truck into the hold.
In about 10 minutes the vessel was teeming
with fish, their speckled backs presenting vari-
ous shades of greens, browns and yellows. Soon
after, McHenry would steer his boat 109 miles to
Fort Baker, just east of the Golden Gate Bridge,
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Obesemotherstendtohave
kidswhobecomeobese.Nowprovocativeresearch
suggestsweight-losssurgerymayhelpbreakthat
unhealthycycleinanunexpectedway—byaffect-
ing how their children’s genes behave.
Inafirst-of-a-kindstudy,Canadianresearchers
tested children born to obese women, plus their
brothers and sisters who were conceived after
the mother had obesity surgery. Youngsters born
after mom lost lots of weight were slimmer than
Mom’s surgery may
lower kids’ weight
Fighting obesity
Chinook
study aims
to improve
spawningScientists hope farm-raised
salmon can find way back to river
JOHN GREEN/Bay Area News Group
Juvenile salmon are unloaded from a truck at Brod-
erick Boat Launch in Sacramento earlier this month.
California Fish and Wildlife biologists are trying to
increase rates of return to spawning grounds.
Analysis: Supreme Court
By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Three U.S. states and three
countries have approved same-sex unions just in the
twomonthssincetheSupremeCourtheardarguments
over gay marriage, raising questions about how the
developments might affect the justices’ consideration
of the issue.
In particular, close observers on both sides of the
gay marriage divide are wondering whether Justice
Anthony Kennedy’s view could be decisive since he
often has been the swing vote on the high court.
It is always possible that Justice Kennedy is read-
ing the newspapers and is impressed with the prog-
ress,” said Michael Klarman, a Harvard University
law professor and author of a recent book on the gay
marriage fight.
In earlier cases on gay rights and the death penalty,
Willnewgaymarriagelegislationswayjustices?
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