Perfecting Pajaro

Hammered by the March floods and the Loma Prieta quake, Pajaro struggles to rebuild itself.

The bridge leading from Pajaro into Watsonville hasn't been repaired since it was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. But just feet away from that battered bridge--almost in defiance of the broken-down reminder of the quake that rocked and wrecked this small community of 3,500--stands a bright row of neighborhood businesses that were freshly painted last summer by volunteers who came all the way from Mechanicsburg, Penn.

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