Santa Cruz County seeks volunteers for homelessness survey, local coffee shops offer incentives for bringing reusable cups and the Department of Food and Agriculture recalls raw milk from Schoch Family Farmstead

KAZU | By Elena Neale-Sacks,

Erin Malsbury

Published January 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM PST

The "Just Bring It" campaign offers stickers and discounts to coffee shop patrons who bring their own reusable cups.

In today's newscast: Santa Cruz County is looking for more volunteers to help with its annual homelessness point in time count, and a local organization is partnering with coffee shops to reduce the number of disposable cups entering landfills. Plus, the California Department of Food and Agriculture issues a recall of raw milk from the Schoch Family Farmstead in Monterey County.

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Elena Neale-Sacks

Elena is an Emmy award-winning researcher, reporter, and producer. At KAZU, they cover agriculture, housing and homelessness, and the aftermath of the January 2025 lithium battery fire in Moss Landing. Their reporting and research has been featured on NPR, KQED, Netflix, Reveal, CalMatters, and more. Elena is an alum of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and UC Santa Cruz. You can reach them at elena@kazu.org.

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Erin Malsbury

Erin is an award-winning journalist and photographer. She's written for local and national outlets, including the Smithsonian and Science Magazine. She has a master's degree in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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