California is on track to live with coronavirus as “endemic.” Gov. Newsom’s recently announced “SMARTER Plan” is an acronym for shots, masks, awareness, readiness, testing, education, and Rx. A new children’s book presents the late Betty White as a role model for kids. She was the first woman to host a TV talk show, and worked with animals off-camera. Join the Natural History Museum of LA County and fellow citizen scientists to document snails and slugs around your neighborhood. You could be the first to discover a species never before found in SoCal.