Steve Bankhead, who writes for that nameless Santa Cruz daily, called to say that the woman in that oft-discussed shark photo is Susan Theriot. Someone told me her name was Sandy Hansen. I think that wraps up everything about that shark photo, thank you very much. I'll run it again later with all the factual material, or at least what factual material we have at the moment. If ever there were two people completely different in style and personality, they're Jan Beautz and Art Pearl.
Art is larger than life, boisterous, possessed of a nutty sense of humor and carries a big stick.
Jan's just about the opposite. She's worked hard, runs a quiet and directed ship and inherited a lot of holdover problems in a very complex district. Art's running against Jan, the incumbent, for the First District seat on the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, better known as the Live Oak district. Art's lived in Live Oak for 27 years and served on the Santa Cruz City school board for 13 years and was chairman for three terms. He just co-authored a book, The Democratic Classroom .