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Volume 28
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Issue 13
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December 17 - 30 , 2015
YOUR COMMUNITY IN YOUR HANDS
LOS OSOS
MORRO BAY
CAYUCOS
CAMBRIA
Santa Claus rode with
the Cal Fire Sta. 15 crew
and their families Dec.
12 in the Chamber of
Commerce’s 2015 Los
Osos Christmas Parade.
More photos on Page 41.
Photo by Neil Farrell
City Cleans Up Encampments
By Neil Farrell
S
mall groups of homeless
people lingered along The
Embarcadero, their possessions piled on the sidewalk.
A man rode a bike down the
Harborwalk bike lane, trailing a
second bike with him. Another
man toted black trash bags
stuffed with presumably his
possessions, balanced precariously as he pedals away from
the work crews.
Such was the scene on the
approach to the City of Morro
Bay’s Dec. 10-11 mass cleanup
of homeless encampments in
both the sand dunes along the
Harborwalk, and along Morro
Creek, a short distance away.
City Manager David Buckingham and Police Chief Amy
Christey led a cadre of City
workers, and reporters on a
tramp through the creek and
into woods growing at the rear
of Lila Keiser Park. Two representatives of Dynegy, which
owns most of the effected property, also tagged along.
A large pile of stuff — bicycles,
a wicker trunk, and miscellaneous other things — was piled
alongside the fence bordering
the Fishermen’s Gear Storage
Yard. This is stuff the owner
had gathered in advance of the
cleanup.
Another man, a well-known
local fellow, was hurrying to try
and salvage what he could. He
shouted at the City work crew,
because he thought he had until
the next day (Dec. 11) to get his
stuff out.
Buckingham spoke to him,
and the man, who will not be
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named for this story, rushed
back and forth across the dry
creek bed, into a thicket to grab
more of his items.
Asked how he was? He replied, “I’ll be OK. I’m a survivor.” He revealed that he’s been
living in the creek for 12 years.
Traversing well-worn paths
meandering through the creek
bed, several encampments appear, scattered amongst poison
oak and trees that have been
pruned to make clearings.
On a rise above the creek, at
the edge of the woods, another
local man, who grew up in Morro Bay and raised a son here,
was startled by the work crew
but resigned to the fact that they
were there to move him out.
He had a tremendous amount
of stuff including a 4-man tent
with a mattress inside, a bedroom in the woods.
Police officers and City
workers combed through his
somewhat meager belongings,
helping him sort though it,
identifying so-called personal
possessions that he would keep,
and what would be thrown into
a roll-off garbage dumpster.
It was the third dumpster put
out by Dynegy in advance of
the cleanup. The other two had
already been filled and hauled
away. The homeless folks have
been doing some self-cleaning,
too.
“Hey Neil,” the man called out
to this reporter. “Please don’t
put my picture in the paper.”
The City has been posting flyers for more than a month in
advance of the cleanup, the first
since 2010.
Chief Christey said on Thursday that they had met no resistance and to her knowledge, no
one had been ticketed. Some 20
City employees took part, along
with 24 California Conservation
Corps., members. Buckingham
See Clean-Up, page 12
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Contents
December 17 - 30, 2015 • Bay News
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Table of
Big Donation for Maritime Museum ........................ 3
A Happy Holidays WIsh for Peace and Health.......11
Twas the Night Before Christmas ............................ 5
Central Coast Lifestyle ..................................... 13-18
Police Blotter ......................................................6-7
Holiday Guide ................................................19-30
Cayucos Christmas Open House ............................ 8
Central Coast Life ...........................................31-36
Cayucos Shooterʼs Aim Hits Top............................. 9
Dinner and a Movie ............................................ 36
MBHS Grads Among Top Frosh Runners ................. 9
Cambria Market Lights Up the Night .................... 37
Michelle Johnson
art director
Meathead Owners Donate $150,000 .................. 10
A Joyful Christmas on Safari ................................ 41
Christy Serpa
editorial design
Work Continues on Hwy 1 ....................................11
Business Matters .............................................42-47
Kathrene Tiffin
copy editor
Firefirghter Family Needs Help .............................11
Biz Briefs ............................................................ 47
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Big Donation for Maritime Museum
By Neil Farrell
T
here’s been more activity in
the past couple of years than
the previous 23 years he’s been
working on it, said Larry Newland,
president of the Central Coast Maritime
Museum Association. And thanks to a
big check from the Morro Bay Harbor
Festival, that forward momentum can
continue.
Harbor Fest board members met
with CCMMA members Dec. 5 at the
Deep Sea Rescue Vehicle Avalon, which
the Museum Association has on display
in the Front Street parking lot, to swap
stories, give updates on the progress
and to accept a $10,000 donation.
That money was culled from the
2015 Harbor Festival, which was held
Oct. 3 on the Embarcadero. The festival
had a new look, new location and
new emphasis. Instead of relying on
hundreds of volunteers representing
numerous non profits, and then paying
each a small amount in compensation,
the festival used very few volunteers
and focused its charitable giving on
just one organization — the Maritime
Museum. Out-going president John
Solu said, “Thank you for all you do in
this town,” summing up the feelings of
the board.
Newland explained that work
on establishing a small, temporary
museum
is
well underway
with CCMMA
now working
to raise an
estimated
$30,000 to pay
for a portable
b u i l d i n g
(about
the
size of a 2-car
garage), to be
erected in the
City’s so-called
Triangle
lot
at the end of
Front Street.
The
City
already moved
and rebuilt the
entrance to the
gravel parking
lot,
which
it
acquired
from Dynegy,
and poured a
couple of slabs.
One will have
the building on
it and the other the Avalon, which will
be set to rest on a specially made trailer.
The CCMMA also is working on a
steel cradle for the historic tugboat
Alma, which has been painstakingly
refurbished, painted and looks almost
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The Alma played a key role in the
rescue of the crew of the doomed oil
tanker Montebello. That ship, which
had just filled its tanks at Port San Luis
and was motoring north to refineries in
the Bay Area, was struck by torpedoes
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Hawaii, in the first Japanese attack
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montebello for more on the incident.)
It was donated to the Museum by
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Chevron’s Estero Marine Terminal,
helping tankers into position to load oil.
The Alma had pretty much been put out
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operations, which ceased in 1999.
The Museum has the Avalon, the
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Harbor Festival Board members. Photo
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H H H
Twas the Night
Before Christmas
•
5
By Clement Clarke Moore
T
was the night before Christmas, when all through
the house
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
So up to the house-top the
coursers they flew,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
With the sleigh full of Toys,
and St Nicholas too.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his
work, and filled all the stockings, then turned
with a jerk.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
And then, in a twinkling, I
heard on the roof
h
The prancing and pawing of each
little hoof.
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
H
and
a away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
And laying his finger aside of his nose, and
giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!
As I drew in my head, and
was turning around,
But
Bu I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Down the chimney St Nicholas
came with a bound.
“Happy
“Hap
“H
ap Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!”
hiss
He was dressed all in fur, from hi
head to his foot,
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
And his clothes were all
tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on
his back,
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.
His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by
name!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
“Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! On Donner and Blitzen!
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
Clement
C
Clem
lem
Clarke Moore (1779-1863), wrote the poem
‘Twas
‘T
Twa
wass the night before Christmas also called “A Visit
from
fr
rom
m St.
S Nicholas” in 1822.
Itt iiss n
now the tradition in many American families to
read the poem every Christmas Eve.
The poem redefined the image of Christmas and
Santa Claus. Prior to the poem, St. Nicholas, the
patron saint of children, had never been associated
with a sleigh or reindeers.
Moore was a reticent man and it is believed that a
family friend, Miss H. Butler, sent a copy of the poem
to the New York Sentinel, which published the poem
with the condition that the author would remain
anonymous. The first publication date was Dec. 23,
1823 and it was an immediate success.
It was not until 1844 that Clement Clarke Moore
claimed ownership when the work was included in
a book of his poetry. Clement Clarke Moore came
from a prominent family and his father, Benjamin
Moore, was the Bishop of New York who was
famous for officiating at the inauguration of George
Washington.
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December 17 - 30, 2015 • Tolosa Press
Arroyo Grande
• Dec. 7: A man and a woman on the
900 block of Rancho Parkway were
arrested for narcotics possession
and parole violation. The couple
that gets arrested together stays
together, just in different cells.
• Dec. 7: An apparently really
small bicycle was stolen out of an
unlocked car on Ash Street.
• Dec. 5: A utility trailer was stolen
from a driveway on Via la Barranca.
• Dec. 3: A surfboard and bag were
stolen from the front of a house on
Miller Way. Way to harsh a mellow.
• Dec. 3: Credit cards were stolen
from a purse that was in a trunk of
a car on the 1200 block of James
Way. The cards were used at several
locations in SLO.
• Dec. 3: Two people reportedly
forced three storage units open on
Camino Mercado and stole no doubt
all the good stuff before taking off
in a car.
• Dec. 2: Someone with a warrant
for parole violation reportedly stole
things from Walmart.
Morro Bay
• Dec. 6: Someone reported some
creep lurking about at 3 p.m. in the
700 block of Butte. Police contacted
a 51-year-old fellow and logs
indicated he was arrested for the
unholy trinity — alleged possession
of drugs, paraphernalia and being
higher than Black Hill on dope. Oh,
yeah, and indecent exposure too,
because when you’re stoned and
outdoors, the world’s your toilet.
• Dec. 6: Police were called to a
disturbance at 2:15 p.m. in the 900
block of Allesandro. They arrested
a louse for suspicion of spousal
abuse, false imprisonment, battery,
and busting the phone, no doubt
trying to prevent what happened
next — he went to the gaol.
• Dec. 6: A citizen in the 900 block
of Pacific said his or her locked car
was burgled.
• Dec. 5: A woman in the 500 block
of Kings told 9-1-1 emergency that
on Dec. 5 sometime from 2-10 a.m.
someone got into her unlocked VW
Bug and stole $34 out of the driver’s
side glove compartment, no doubt
her emergency cash.
• Dec. 5: People in the Heights
Neighborhood near the golf course
awoke to a string of car burglaries.
Two cases were reported in the 400
block and one in the 300 block of
Arcadia; two in the 300 block of
Tulare; two more in the 300 block
of Kings, a case of there be a fungus
among us. All were unlocked with
miscellaneous items stolen, and
in one case the thief apparently
Police Blotter
dropped his booty nearby. Logs
indicated they took fingerprints at
one scene on Kings and await word
from CSI.
• Dec. 4: Police were called at 8:30
p.m. to Reno Court for a reported
troublesome juvenile. A report was
taken, and they’re in trouble now.
• Dec. 4: Police responded to a
disturbance at 3:55 p.m. in the
1900 block of Main. Some hacksaw
was nailed for suspicion of being
hammered in a tool shed and the
screwdriver was hauled to the wood
shed to sleep it off.
• Dec. 4: A woman in the 400 block
of Yerba Buena told police that
some scoundrel used her identity to
get a cell phone line and is no doubt
running up the minutes as they run
off their mouth.
• Dec. 4: Someone reported a
disturbance in the 400 block
of South Bay and a 41-year-old
woman was busted for suspicion of
possessing and being UTI on drugs.
She was checked into the county
rescue mission.
• Dec. 4: A man in the 400 block
of Kern told police that between 9
p.m. and 7 a.m. the night before,
some moron smashed out the back
window of his camper shell, no
doubt the same fiendish thief at
work the next night.
• Dec. 3: Police responded at 12:12
p.m. to a disturbance in the 800
block of Piney Way. A 31-year-old
gander was arrested for suspicion
of being honked. He was tossed in a
tank to thank.
• Dec. 2: Police responded to a
disturbance at 8:53 p.m. in the 900
block of Main. Logs indicated they
arrested two schwasted dudes ages
24 and 32 and they shared a black
and white cab to the hoosegow.
• Dec. 2: Police impounded a
trailer sitting in the 2900 block
of Cedar supposedly for expired
tags and being parked in the street
obstructing traffic, but mainly
because it pi**ed somebody off.
• Dec. 2: Someone found a wallet
down by the Rock and someone
found an iPhone at Hwy 1 and
Bay Boulevard. Logs indicated it
was a spat between the caller and
his 53-year-old girlfriend. Police
separated the two lovebirds in
opposite directions.
• Dec. 1: At 7:37 p.m. a woman in
the 500 block of Bernardo told
police that some joker was getting
in her pick up. The squirrel bolted
before officers arrived.
• Dec. 1: And in the loss-found
department… Different citizens
turned in a wallet, a car key, a cell
phone, a passport, and a fishing
knife and rug that was left in the
launch ramp lot. But then some
citizen in the 900 block of Marina
reported a theft with undisclosed
loss. And the topper was police
impounding some scofflaw’s car
that was parked too long in the 200
block of Olive.
Pismo Beach
• Dec. 10: A transient in front
of California Fresh was yelling
profanities at employees and then
cast a spell on one of them. The
would-be wizard was advised
against trespassing.
• Dec. 10: A caller on the 100 block
of Terrace, who was possibly tipsy,
was getting in and out of a car and
wandering around an apartment
complex.
Meanwhile
another
person was changing clothes and
attempting to get into a car. And,
if that wasn’t suspicious enough,
there was a SUV with its doors open
and stuff was on the ground while
a car alarm sounded somewhere in
“A 2-4-year-old child was
reportedly in a car alone for
about 20 minutes on the 600
block of Dolliver. The mother
of the year told police that it
was for a shorter time.”
the area.
• Dec. 9: A 2-4-year-old child was
reportedly in a car alone for about
20 minutes on the 600 block of
Dolliver. The mother of the year
told police that it was
for a shorter time.
“A citizen in the 700 block of Clearview
• Dec. 9: Two underage
reported some no doubt Angel of
boys who appeared to
be hammered swaddled
health going door-to-door selling
out of 7-Eleven on foot.
nutrition books. Olʼ Rafael gave ʻem
the slip.”
• Dec. 9: A woman was
passed out behind the
wheel of a car at a gas
Yerba Buena, both were turned in pump at Chevron. She was tired not
to police. The day before, someone under the influence.
in the 500 block of Monterey had • Dec. 8: A possible municipal code
his or her bike stolen.
violation was reported north of
• Dec. 1: A disturbance erupted the pier where some wood rat was
at 8:44 p.m. at Napa and Morro sleeping in a tent under a fallen
tree. No one was in the tent, so did
the tree make any noise when it fell?
• Dec. 8: A woman near California
Fresh reportedly approached a
caller and said she was having an
asthma attack and needed a ride
to Motel 6. Police were unable to
locate her.
• Dec. 8: A woman checked in for
three nights at Cottage Inn by the
Sea and paid with a credit card. She
later extended her stay by one night
but reportedly failed to pay for that
part.
• Dec. 8: A female was busted after
she stole items from Calire’s in the
Outlet Center and had made her
way to another store likely with the
hopes of stealing more.
• Dec. 8: A man reported that while
he was busy at the police department
picking up property, someone was
busy stealing stuff off his bicycle
parked outside the stationhouse.
• Dec. 8: Extra patrols were
requested in the evening hours on
2600 block of Solano after beer
bottles and cans were strewn all
over the walkway.
• Dec. 8: Police were unable to
locate a woman at an ATM on the
200 block of Pomeroy who was
reportedly acting odd and carrying
a huge wad of cash.
• Dec. 4: Someone cut a lock off a
freezer at Pismo Coast Village and
stole food.
San Luis Obispo
• Dec. 11: Police were called at 4:49
a.m. from the 700 block of Marsh
because a black Mazda was parked
with the engine running and the
interior lights on. No report, it being
more nuisance than crime.
• Dec. 11: A red Ford Escape couldn’t
escape getting towed at 3:44 a.m.
out of the Stenner Glen apartments.
• Dec. 11: A suspicious vehicle was
reported in a hit-n-split at 3 a.m.
in the 1200 block of Phillips. Logs
indicated it was a white sedan with
an Asian man driving. A 31-yearold man whose name has a lot of
vowels was nicked for suspicion of
breaking Rule No. 1 — don’t drive
on a toot.
• Dec. 11: At 2:37 a.m. someone at
Motel 6 on Calle Joaquin reported
a woman SCREAMING!!! in the
room one floor up.
• Dec. 11: At 2:30 a.m. someone at
SLO Brew reported a transient rag
picker digging through the garbage
and laying it out, no doubt to see
what treasures lay within.
• Dec. 11: A citizen called at 12:14
a.m. from the 3100 block of Estelita
and said a man was standing outside
the apartment and from the looks of
Tolosa Press • December 17 - 30, 2015
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7
Madelyn’s
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pparel
pa r el
him is fuzzed-up.
Homeless Daycare Center. Logs
• Dec. 10: There was a loud party indicated the woman who called
in the 100 block of Stenner. Police said a man yelled at her and called
were called at 11:42 and again her names, no doubt — BLEEP!
at 11:44 p.m. A “Don’t make me BLEEPing BLEEP-BLEEP!!!
come out here again!”
warning was given.
“Someone reported some creep
There was another
lurking about at 3 p.m. in the 700
loud party complaint at
block of Butte. Police contacted a
11:16 in the first block
51-year-old fellow and logs indicated
of Rafael. No violation
he was arrested for the unholy
that time. And at 10:38,
trinity — alleged possession of drugs,
in the 2100 block of
paraphernalia and being higher
Santa Ynez, another
than Black Hill on dope. Oh, yeah,
party had the neighbors
and indecent exposure too, because
poopin’
themselves
when youʼre stoned and outdoors,
with a bunch of revelers
the worldʼs your toilet.”
on a balcony. They too
got a stern talking to.
• Dec. 10: Someone
reported a smash-n-dash at 8 p.m.
• Dec. 10: A woman called at 2:49
at the Murray Street Station Apts.
p.m. asking police to go to an
• Dec. 10: At 7:43 p.m., someone apartment complex in the 500 block
reported a drunk or stoned loiterer of Ramona to check the welfare of
going in and out of the CVS store on her apparently not-too-close friend,
Madonna, no doubt waiting for a as she didn’t know what apartment
prescription.
she lives in.
• Dec. 10: A citizen called 9-1-1 at • Dec. 10: Someone in the 2900
7:10 p.m. from a parking garage in block of Higuera called at 12:48
the 800 block of Palm and said a p.m. asking police to check the
woman just left driving erratically. welfare of a barefoot transient old
Cha Cha Muldowney got away. In man who was using a wooden pallet
an unrelated call, a woman stalled for a redneck ladder.
her black Honda Civic in the turn
• Dec. 10: Police were called at
lane on Madonna at LOVR.
12:30 p.m. to the 800 block of
• Dec. 11: Someone called at 6:38 Higuera because a dog had been left
p.m. from Heritage Oaks Bank in the rain tied up to a bench for 40
in the 3300 block of Higuera to minutes outside Victoria’s Secret,
report suspicious trolls under a though surely there must be worse
bridge behind the bank on Prado. places to get tide up. The bad owner
No arrests. At 6:18, someone in returned.
the 900 block of Foothill reported
a transient mole passed out under • Dec. 10: Police were called at 11
a.m. to the 300 block of Santa Rosa
the building at Charlie’s Place.
because some transient joker was
• Dec. 11: Someone reported a aggressively panhandling at Jack
heinous crime at 5:38 p.m. at Palm in the Box. The weasel left before
and Osos — some degenerate was he got popped. At 10:43 a.m. in the
smoking! — a hanging offense in 12300 block of LOVR, someone
San Loony.
reported a transient man snoozin’
• Dec. 10: Police were called at 5:34 on a mattress in a breezeway next
p.m. to the Laurel and Orcutt bus to Quality Tinting.
stop because some person wrapped • Dec. 10: Someone in the 400 block
in a blanket was hogging the entire of Buena Vista left his or her car
bus bench, in this week’s example unlocked and of course some jackal
of why we need SWAT.
boosted it. Police put out the BOL
• Dec. 10: A citizen in the 700 block on the wire.
of Clearview reported some no • Dec. 10: Some scoundrel smashed
doubt Angel of health going door- the passenger side window of a
to-door selling nutrition books. Ol’ vehicle at Devaul and Tonini and
Rafael gave ‘em the slip.
stole whatever was handy. An
• Dec. 10: At 3:24 p.m. someone at unlocked car parked behind Sears
Higuera and Granada complained was burgled too, which begs the
question —
about an RV parked
Is it better to
blocking the bike
the car
lane and in a red
“A man reported that while leave
unlocked
if
zone. It was wisely
he was busy at the police they’re going
moved before police
department
picking
up to smash and
arrived.
property, someone was grab?
•
Dec.
10:
A
busy stealing stuff off his
disturbance
was
bicycle parked outside the
reported at 3:08
stationhouse.”
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Community
Cayucos Christmas Open House
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Cayucos Christmas Open House,
with many businesses open late and
offering free goodies, coffee, soup and
more. The Hillbillies Band led carolers
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backdrop. Two horse drawn wagons
rode folks around town and the Morro
Bay trolley gave free tours as well. The
Rotary Club set up a wondrous little
Santa House and folks lined up to get a
photo with their little ones in Santa’s lap,
Mrs. Claus sitting by his side. Businesses
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Cayucos Shooter’s Aim Hits Top
By Neil Farrell
A
Cayucos
man
has
doubled
down on a high
finish in a World
Championship
s h o o t i n g
competition,
going
from
a
third-place finish
back in October to
winning a title in
November.
T r e n t o n
Mitsuoka, 34, was
the overall winner
in the Rimfire Rifle
Open
Division
contest at the
World Shooting
Championships,
a.k.a. The Steel Challenge, held at
the Hogue Pistol Range off Hwy 1
between Cuesta College and Morro
Bay. The range is next to the San Luis
Sportsmen’s shooting range.
Mitsuoka said he finished first in
the rifle Open Division, fifth in the
Rimfire Pistol Division and seventh
in the Iron Sight Revolver shoot. A
relative newcomer to the sport of
quick shooting, Mitsuoka, had taken
third overall and second in the Open
Division at the 2015 National Shooting
Sports Foundation’s Rimfire Challenge
World Championships, held Oct. 10-11
in Fort Smith, Ark.
Rimfire refers to .22-cal. rifles and
pistols, which like with larger caliber
competitions, used soft lead bullets to
avoid ricochets. With seven targets, the
objective is to hit all the targets firing as
quickly as you can.
Mitsuoka is a videographer by trade,
and a semi-professional shooter, he told
The Bay News. He’s a former martial
artist, and grew up competing in judo,
where he earned the rank of second
degree black belt and won multiple
junior and youth national titles. Seems
that competitive spirit followed him
into competitive shooting.
“I
started
competitive
shooting
about
3-years ago,” he
told The Bay News.
“I grew up doing
judo and trained
a lot. I found that
shooting guns is
just like doing
judo,
requiring
all
the
same
skills. Hand-eye
coordination,
hand
dexterity,
and fast reflexes
are required for
both sports.”
Mitsuoka
is
sponsored
by
Apex
Tactical
Specialties, Inc., Hogue, Inc., Allchin
Gun Parts, and recently joined Tactical
Solutions, he said.
You could say that he’s now caught
the competition bug in his new chosen
sport. “I can’t wait until next season!”
he said. “I’m making plans to travel to
events all over the U.S. and hopefully
overseas next year.”
Taking second in Rimfire Division
at the November worlds was Kurt
Grimes and third was John Allchin.
The overall champion was Max Michel
according to the WSSC website (see:
www.worldspeedshoot.com/2015wssc), setting a world record in the
process and earning the official title of
“Steel Master.” Michel won the Open
and Production Divisions, setting the
record in the Production Division. He
also took top honors in the Rimfire
Pistol Division, setting a new world
record in the process.
Top woman shooter was Jessie Duff
who won the ladies open and limited
divisions and the Rimfire pistol shoot.
The World Championships return
to the Hogue range next Aug. 25-27.
Spectators are welcome and advised to
wear eye and hearing protection.
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Natalie Marquart and Shannon
McClish, both freshmen at U.C. Santa
Cruz recently capped off a great regular
season in the NCAA Div. III GSAC,
according to a news release from the
conference. Marquart showed steady
improvement all year and was named
to conference’s “Freshman of the Year”
and both she and McClish were named
to the 2015 GASC All-Freshman Team.
Their Banana Slug teammate,
Cailtlin Devlin of Elk Grove, Calif.,
was named “Runner of the Year.”
Marquart drew special recognition in
the conference’s news release, saying
that she, “is expected to add needed
depth this championship season and
be a top performer in the future for the
Slugs. Her lifetime best performance at
Bronco Invitational with a 6k time of
23:57 puts her on pace to be one of the
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Community
Meathead Owners Donate $150,000
A
local
businessman
and
his family have made
a large donation to the
French Hospital Medical Center
Foundation,
the
organization
announced last week.
The Steed Family, owners of
SLO’s Meathead Movers, donated
$150,000 to the Foundation to
support the Copeland Health
Education Pavilion at French
Hospital in SLO. In recognition,
French’s Executive Board Room in
its Pavilion will be named in their
honor.
Aaron, Erin and Evan Steed,
said they were impressed by the
technology available in the Pavilion
and the commitment to advanced
education and research to benefit
the community.
The 3-story, 18,000 square foot
Pavilion was just recently opened,
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technology and features to “advance
health care education for our
community and staff,” reads a news
release on the donation.
“We believe it is important to
invest in health care resources
that will continue to enhance our
community’s health and wellness,”
Aaron Steed, company CEO said.
“We are honored to be a part of the
transformation occurring at French
Hospital with this new innovative
facility.”
Erin Steed is a Foundation board
member and co-chair of the Annual
Celebration of Caring Gala. “On
behalf of French Hospital,” French
President and CEO Alan Iftiniuk
said, “we are pleased to accept
this very generous donation and
greatly appreciate the support and
friendship of the Steed Family and
Meathead Movers.”
The Pavilion was built after two
large donations, totaling multimillions, were made by Jim and
Sandy Copeland, and Tom and Pam
Copeland. To learn more about
the Copeland Health Education
Pavilion, or to donate, call the
Foundation at 542.6496, or see:
www.supportfrenchhospital.org.
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have been announced, and readers
are encouraged to tour the city and
check them out.
Unfortunately, because of our
publication schedule, The Bay
News was unable to publish them
in the final issue before Christmas
(everyone is supposed to take them
down after Christmas, right?).
We will however, post photos of
the winners on the Tolosa Press
website, see: www.tolosapress.com.
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2894 Alder Ave. Best Commercial
Display: Fabulous Finds, 739 Napa
Ave. Best Traditional/Religious: 1st,
498 Piney Way; 2nd, 2960 Ironwood
Ave.; and Honorable Mention: 2975
and 2985 Elm Ave. (several homes
have the Grinch theme on this
street).
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11
Work Continues on Hwy 1
P
lanning to travel up Hwy 1
through Bug Sur over the
holidays? Caltrans is giving a
heads-up on two major construction
jobs on the scenic highway.
The Elephant Trunk retaining wall
project, located along the SLO and
Monterey County line, continues with
daytime work from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Mondays-Fridays. There is a one-way
traversing stoplight to regulate traffic
that operates day and night. Expect
a 15-minute delay going through the
construction zone.
John Madonna Const., of SLO is the
contractor for the $9.5 million job,
which is being done to shore-up the
roadway in an area subject to major
landslides. Of note, all businesses along
the route will be open. The project is
expected to be finished in winter 201617.
And the Cow Cliffs viaduct bridge
project, located near Lucia south of the
Big Creek Bridge and running to the
Dolan Creek Bridge, is also continuing
with daytime work, and a traffic signal
light has been erected there too. The
contractor, RGW Construction Inc.,
of Livermore, may have to shut down
traffic while they move equipment in
and out of the job site, Caltrans said.
This project is $3.9 million and will add
to the scenic bridges along Hwy 1. This
job is approximately 18 miles south of
Big Sur proper.
Because work schedules are subject
to weather, Caltrans will have advanced
notifications for motorists, residents
A Happy Holidays Wish
for Peace and Health
Firefighter Family Needs Help
A
local firefighting family is facing
some mounting medical-related
expenses as both their young
children battle severe health problems,
and the community is being asked to
help out.
Cal Fire Firefighter, Misty Blake
and her U.S. Forest Service Firefighter
husband, Jeremy Blake, who live in
Atascadero, have two young children
“are facing difficult medical conditions
that will require extra patience,
planning and parental resolve – and the
public is encouraged to stand by their
fellow neighbor during the challenging
days ahead,” reads a news release from
the Fire Family Foundation, a nonprofit group that helps firefighters and
the families.
Annie Blake, 4, was recently
diagnosed with leukemia and has
begun a 2-½ year treatment process,
consisting of chemotherapy and
steroids, which she has not responded
well to. The treatment has disrupted
her colon leaving her unable to eat or
drink anything. Annie is being treated
by doctors in Santa Barbara, where it’s
a 250-mile round trip for every visit.
Benjamin Blake, Annie’s younger
brother, recently had surgery for
“a common birth defect for young
developing boys,” and is being treated
in Palo Alto, a 370-mile round trip.
Keeping up with the appointments
and treatment will be extremely tough
for the children’s parents, who expect
to miss about 4 months of work to care
for them, especially little Annie. The
Foundation is asking for donations
to help the family with these travel
expenses and the huge deductibles
from their insurance carriers.
“We are happy to support the
Blake family in their time of need,”
says
Fire
Family
Foundation’s
Executive Director, Robin McCarthy.
“We ask the local Central California
community of Atascadero, San Luis
Obispo and surrounding areas to help
support their neighbors with a donation
to the fund we have created especially
for the Blake Family. One hundred
percent of donations will go directly
to the Blakes as they face this difficult
time in their lives.”
All donations to Fire Family
Foundation are tax-deductible. To
make a donation to the Blake Family,
see: www.FireFamilyFoundation.com.
Fire Family Foundation is a nonprofit
founded by Firefighters First Credit
Union The Foundation offers immediate
assistance to firefighters and their
families, fire victims, fire departments,
and charities. By coming together as
a “fire family,” the organization said,
assistance can be provided to those
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By Senator Bill Monning
D
uring the holiday season it is
easy to become overwhelmed
with errands and tasks that are
inherently linked to this time of year,
such as shopping for gifts, baking, and
visiting family and friends.
However, it is important to remember
that there are members in our
community who do not have the means
to purchase gifts for their children, who
struggle to put food on the table even
though they work full-time, or may not
have a home for the holidays.
It is my holiday wish that during this
holiday season people slow down and
remember those who are less fortunate
than themselves, as well as try to give of
themselves to others.
Generosity does not need to be
monetary. Spending time with those
you value and love is one of the most
important gifts you can give. The act
of giving yourself is a meaningful and
powerful experience and simple acts of
kindness can warm the heart more than
any gifts.
My family and I volunteer locally year
round and I encourage you to volunteer
during this holiday season.
The joy that it brings us is incredibly
rewarding and a powerful reminder of
the holiday spirit. I wish you and those
you love a peaceful and happy holiday
season and a healthy and fulfilling 2016.
State Sen. Bill Monning represents
the 17th Senate District that includes
all of San Luis Obispo County.
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News
Clean-Up, from page 1
said they spent about $13,000
on the cleanup. Dynegy put up
$10,000.
Buckingham
explained
that
they were focused on cleaning
out rubbish the City is concerned
might wash down to the beach
and the ocean with winter rains.
Buckingham and Christey were the
first ones to go into any camps, he
said, attempting to connect them
with social workers.
He held a “City directive,” which
he said outlined the way they would
go about the task and justifying
the City’s confiscation of personal
property. They marked with caution
tape what they considered personal
property, Buckingham said, to set
aside and separate what is clearly
trash.
Then a “personal property team”
of City workers bagged those items
and marked them with the person’s
name or the location of the camp.
Those items were taken to the
City maintenance yard and stored.
Buckingham said people must go
to the Police Department and be
escorted to the yard to retrieve
their stuff. In 90 days, it will all be
thrown away.
Once the personal property was
removed, Buckingham said the
CCCs bagged up the rest as trash.
Buckingham
said
they
appreciated the self-cleaning that
was done and acknowledged there
are no dumpsters put out anywhere
that the homeless could use. “There
are none here permanently,” he
said. “We don’t want to encourage
camping.”
As for where these folks are
supposed to go, if what happened
after the 2010 cleanup is repeated,
most will move right back into the
Morro Creek woods and the sand
dunes — a population of survivors,
starting over.
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13
Good to be King
Unifying Support for the Christmas Unity Teletho
By King Harris
O
f all the events I’ve experienced
in my career as a news journalist,
none will ever quite compare to that
of helping to create and participating in a
seasonal event televised by KEYT-TV in
Santa Barbara that became known as the
“Christmas Unity Telethon.”
Its stage was both inside the studio and
outside on the patio, high up on a mesa
referred to as “TV Hill” overlooking the city.
With music provided by local school
choirs to popular musicians and singers far
and wide, persuaded by those who already
lived in the area, it blossomed into an
incredible 12-hour community celebration
of seasonal spirit and Yuletide cheer,
underscored by the cause to contribute to
a multitude of less fortunate who otherwise
might not experience any kind of Christmas
whatsoever.
It was a bold undertaking. I don’t to this
day know specifically whose idea it was, but
it had its seeds in one charitable woman
named, Barbara Tellefsen, who for many
years had been collecting toys, clothing,
and food at her tiny, Christmas Unity store
downtown.
What if, she suggested in the Fall of 1987
to Sandy Benton, my more-than-receptive
station manager, we could get all the
various non-profit agencies like Food Bank,
Salvation Army, Toys for Tots, and others
to come together under one umbrella
called “Christmas Unity” and work as one
organization to ensure that gifts would be
distributed more equally and efficiently?
And what if KEYT could provide some
valuable airtime like a telethon to raise funds
for the cause? Good ideas on both counts,
ones that would come into fruition when
Montecito resident and super songster,
Kenny Loggins, entered the picture.
He suggested, in his quiet unassuming
manner, that he could gather a whole
bunch of musicians like himself who would
perform for the event, free of charge, thereby
ensuring a strong and wide audience. Who
could turn down such a generous offer?
So while Loggins set out to contact his
playmates, including former partner Jim
Messina, and then-KEYT Production
Manager, Don Katich, corralled a crew
for the monumental task of producing the
program, Benton, Tellefsen, and I went
out to encourage and convince all the
independent and territorial non-profits to
join the unity collective.
There were of course a few egos that had
to be converted. One in particular, rather
stubborn and understandably so, was an
old, gruff, and feisty retired Marine Corps
officer, who had been in charge of the local
Toys for Tots drive since the Stone Age.
He wasn’t about to give up his cherished
annual role as the agency’s Santa Claus.
He dug his heels in like the Japanese
he fought on Iwo Jima. As news director,
it became my mission to present this
unusual and novel idea of cooperation and
unity to him, and, as expected, it wasn’t
received too well, not initially anyway. All
the other agencies fell in line without much
hesitation.
Our goal soon having for the most part
been achieved, it was decided that all food,
toys, and clothing gathered by all the nonprofits would be delivered and housed at
Tellefsen’s tiny Unity headquarters, located
under the Victoria Theater. That was where
the less fortunate folks throughout the
community who qualified would enter her
mini-warehouse to select items for their
families and would leave with their dignity
intact.
It was this very special part of the process
that caught the attention of other actors,
celebrities, and stars who lived in the area,
and who would over the years very much
desire to be a part of the annual fundraiser.
It was decided that an early weekend in
December would be prime time for a live
televised event broadcast on Channel 3,
starting in the afternoon and wailing its way
into the late evening.
KEYT’s news anchors and reporters,
side-by-side with local luminaries, would
provide the pitch for money and present the
various musical performances sprinkled
throughout the merry marathon.
The studio was transformed into what
may as well have been someone’s giant
living room, decked to the halls with a
glowing fireplace right next to a huge
decorated Douglas fir tree, with hundreds
of colorful poinsettias interspersed among
the brightly wrapped presents in all shapes
and sizes.
Any space left over was dedicated to a
phone bank, manned by tireless volunteers
who collected pledges from the thousands
of callers who phoned in to donate.
The patio deck outside was also spruced
up as a backdrop for all the singers who
came to perform their holiday harmonies.
Cameras were provided for the Hollywood
hosts entrenched in the Unity Shoppe, and
for our roving reporters traveling the streets
in the live van capturing the spirit and
generosity of people all over town.
It was a highly spirited scene, and quite
a magical time. Loggins, who said he would
just make an appearance, got so into the
evening, he confiscated my microphone
and wouldn’t give it back for the rest of the
night.
I had to grab a stand-by to interview
Santa Claus, who I recognized and saluted
as soon as I saw him — that old Toys for
Tots Marine had decided to join the party.
The first KEYT Christmas Unity Telethon
in December of 1987 was so successful that
— I’m proud to say — many more would
follow over the years. I am blessed as well
for being a part of its inception.
It truly was a holy night, but silent, it was
not.
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Then and Now
Pondering Good Fortune on the Central Coast
By Judy Salamacha
‘T
is still the season for merriment
and blessings during the final
days of 2015. I hope you had
the chance to experience the Cambria
Christmas Market, the Needs ‘N Wishes
fundraiser, or a musical production
that filled your heart with cheer.
And yet I’m in the mood for a bit of
reflection because all too soon, 2016
will rush in and consume us. My gut
says it will be a year of change in many
areas, so indulge me as I look back
and ponder my good fortune living
and writing about the people and
happenings around the Central Coast.
Forgive me if I fail to mention someone
or something important in my musing.
Since about 2004, I’ve been asking
the question “What brought you
here or why have you stayed here?”
The reasons are varied but whether
someone returned, relocated, or
retired, the concept of reinvention for
self-fulfillment was usually part of the
story.
They discovered they only had to
offer to help to unleash suppressed or
underutilized talents. They realized
making a difference in an organization
or bettering their community means
renewing their lives as well.
The Central Coast lifestyle allows us
to play our music, develop a maritime,
railroad or community historical
museum, create art, share dramatic
talents, write a book, nurture a garden
or open a business. One woman said
that a rainbow hovering over Morro
Rock inspired her to move to live her
passion.
More specifically, I wrote how
leaders energized organizations like
Morro Bay Beautiful, Port San Luis
Lighthouse, Morro Bay In Bloom,
People Helping People or the Cayucos
Land Conservancy. Tireless people like
Arley Robinson and Shirley Lyon, Red
Davis and Joan Solu, and members of
Celebrate Los Osos are regularly the
heart, soul and push behind whatever
they get involved in.
Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions & Lioness
clubs, Estero Bay Women or Quota
Club, AAUW, Newcomers, RAMS,
historical societies, Friends of Libraries
groups, Chambers of Commerce, etc…
collectively and collaboratively made
things happen.
While businesses might come and
go, many survive like Coalesce and
Volumes of Pleasure books stores.
Some were smart enough to invest in
the coffee craze like Top Dog Coffee or
bring wine tasting bayside like Morro
Bay Wine Sellers or STAX Wine Bar.
I’ve written about those who strive
to solve problems in unique ways, like
the Guerilla Gardeners. Some stories
were about writers like Tom Wilmer,
Sue McGinty and Anne Perry. Many
inspired like educators, Marlene Peter
and California Teacher of the Year,
Diana Barnhart.
Our youth spend quality education
downtime at Camp Hapitok, Kid’s
Camp, Project Surf Camp and Junior
Lifeguards. I’ve met people who teach
belly dancing, tap dancing, ballet and
square dancing. Many created events
to honor our military like the Lost at
Sea Memorial on the Cayucos Pier or
continued or launched a community
festival like the Cayucos Sea Glass
Festival, Los Osos Oktoberfest or the
Morro Bay Classic Car Show.
There have been unforgettable people,
like Pastor Doug, who taught us to smile
as he laughed out loud offering nibbles
at Spencer’s Market and Dan Reddell,
who maintained dignity throughout his
battle with ALS, Hershel Parker, who
spent a lifetime writing about Herman
Melville or Tracy Neil Shewchuk, who
survived stage 4 cancer.
So what’s next? I have no idea and
I’m comfortable with the exploration,
however, if wishing would make it so in
2016, I wish for world peace.
I wish political leaders would actually
talk to each other, resolving issues
instead of poking at another’s character
or background. I wish they would be
inspired by their constituents to do the
right thing, listening even to the one’s
who didn’t vote for them.
I hope voters will show respect for
those who win the elections, even while
working harder to get their candidate
elected the next time around.
I hope (meteorologists) John Lindsey
and Dave Hovde are surprised by more
rain than they’ve predicted, but in
spurts not deluges.
Although it was a fulfilling year for
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me, I hope we can shut the door on
2015 and move forward, building on
what was good rather than dwelling on
what didn’t happen. There is still time
for innovation to do more and make it
right.
I wish our communities would “circle
the wagons” and make insightful
decisions, because it is, indeed, only
by working together that we will find
success.
Many stories have yet to be written,
maybe by me, but for sure by my fellow
writers and journalists. I sincerely
thank Bret and Lani Colhouer and the
staff at Tolosa Press for enduring —
even expanding — so unique stories
about the Central Coast will still be
published.
Finally, and most of all, I hope we seek
and find joy and fulfillment each day of
2016. New Year’s Resolution: Just say,
“Yes, I’ll help make a difference,” and
something will happen.
Judy Salamacha is the co-author of
“Colonel Baker’s Field: An American
Pioneer Story” (Bear State Books, 2nd
Edition November 2015) and a former
publisher of The Bay News. Email her
at: [email protected] or
call (805) 801-1422. Her Then & Now
column is a regular feature of Tolosa
Press.
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I
rish Enigma- Lads and
lasses, top o’ tha mornin’
to ya. Irishman Conor
McGregor wants you all to
know that he has arrived...
in grandiose style, mind ya!
McGregor just happens to be
the new face of the Ultimate
Fighting Championships as
he quickly dispensed of #2
pound-for-pound UFC foe
Jose Aldo in a minuscule
thirteen, count ‘em, thirteen
seconds during their 145 lb.
featherweight championship
bout in Las Vegas. Mouthy, yet supremely
confident, McGregor backed up his prefight rhetoric with a devastating left
hand one-punch which felled Aldo, the
slight underdog going into the match.
The horde of Irishmen and Irishwomen
who flocked to the MGM Grand for the
contest are a testament to McGregor’s
pied piper appeal.
What his victory has done is potentially
set up the grandest UFC card in its short
history, as plans are currently being
discussed to put Conor McGregor on
display once more during the summer
of 2016 in Vegas via either a rematch
with Aldo or a bout with now #1
challenger Frankie Edgar or a move up
in weight in order to attempt garnering
another weight-class belt.
But hold your shamrocks my little
Leprechauns! Big Mac ain’t going to
be the biggest draw on that fight card.
There just happens to be a little matter
of retribution on the mind of the “old”
face of the UFC. “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey
has a score to settle with Albuquerque’s
Holly Holm. Speaking of faces, Holm
rearranged Rousey’s in a stunning upset
recently in Australia. The 18-1, count
it, underdog unleashed her supreme
boxing skills in tattooing Rousey’s
mug repeatedly and then floored the
undefeated UFC champ with a wicked leg
kick behind the right ear to drop Ronda
like a nun’s bad habit!
Can you imagine the groundswell
of support among UFC enthusiasts as
this card manifests itself over the course
of the next few months? It shall be a winwin for all as Las Vegas shall be aglow in
Irish orange, white and green ($$$$$)
and the gender-bending rematch shall be
the talk of the town. Prepare thyself.
For Reals- They are.
The NFL’s
Carolina Panthers. Just past the threequarters-post of the regular season,
Carolina has clinched their division and
sports the sport’s only unblemished
record, sitting at 13-0. The Panthers
have scored more points
than any other team. They
are tied with two others in
third place for allowing the
least amount of points in the
league. The revitalization
of running back Jonathan
Stewart has been key. In
my mind they boast the
offensive and defensive
Players-Of-The-Year
in
quarterback Cam Newton
and middle linebacker Luke
Kuechly, respectively.
Speaking of Newton,
have you ever been to a speaking
engagement where the keynote speaker
is rambling on, purveying power points
to the audience and, um, chewing gum?
Me either. It’s quite perplexing to see
Cam barking signals and changing plays
at the line of scrimmage and chomping
gum at the same time. It’s true! And
interestingly his gum is colored powder
blue to match the Panther’s uniforms. I
mean, what if the gum becomes entangled
with his mouthpiece? Or he swallows it
mid-bark?
But far be it for me to question Cam’s
approach. Seems he’s doing okay as his
team sits atop the perch of the lofty NFL.
Perhaps other QB’s ought to look into this
phenomenon. Leastwise chew on it for
awhile.
Quick Quips- MLB’s Chicago Cubbies
are hording up free agents like donuts
in a cop’s car with the acquisitions of
pitcher John Lackey, second baseman
Ben Zobrist and outfielder Jason
Heyward. The NBA’s San Antonio Spurs
are just giddy about being relegated as
an afterthought as all of the newspaper
ink has been focused on the Golden
State Warriors.
Deservedly, and
predictably, tennis great Serena Williams
is Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson Of
The Year. Basketball coach Tom Izzo
of the Michigan State Spartans just
continues to amaze, under the radar, as
he has positioned his squad at the top of
the national polls.
Big Ben has the Pittsburgh Steelers
primed for a playoff run in the AFC.
Somewhat shockingly #1 free agent
Zack Geinke signed within his former
employer’s (Dodgers) division as the
Arizona Diamondbacks are attempting
to buy their way back into contention.
Here’s hoping your stockings are stuffed
with love, and Merry Christmas to one
and all!
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Community Calendar
Los Osos Friends of the Library,
2075 Palisades, has a couple of
upcoming free events. Call 528-1862
for more information. All adults are
invited to attend a book discussion group
from 6:30-8 p.m. on the third Thursday
of each month. “Can’t We Talk About
Something More Pleasant?” by Roz Chast
and “The Art of Stillness” by Pico Iyer are
the books for Dec. 17. Family Movie Night
(Rated PG) is at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19.
Free popcorn, call for movie title.
•••
St. Benedict’s Church in Los Osos
is looking for volunteers to stock, sort
or cashier at its Abundance Shop thrift
store. Experience with handling cash and
donations for non-profits is preferred.
Shifts range from a minimum 3 hours a
week and a committed day/timeframe,
Tuesdays-Saturdays between 10 a.m. and
4 p.m. Contact Shop Manager, Francis
Rivinius, for an appointment at the
Abundance Shop, 2190 9th St.
•••
Lifelong Learners of the Central
Coast, a local non-profit organization
that presents various classes held in
different venues throughout the year, has
some upcoming classes with registration
being taken now. Most courses cost $5
each session for members or $10 each
for non-members. December’s classes
include: “The Latin Roots of American
History,” Thursday, Dec. 17 from 10
a.m. to noon at St. Stephen’s Episcopal
Church in SLO; and “Exploring Social
Networking,” Wednesday, Dec. 16 from
10 am to noon at KCBX in SLO. Register
through Brown Paper Tickets or go to:
lifelearnerscc.org for more information
and membership.
•••
Organizers
of
Cal
Poly’s
Tournament of Roses Parade float
are looking for volunteers to help
decorate the 2016 entry during the
parade’s annual “Deco Week,” Dec. 2630 in Pasadena. It’s a unique opportunity
to work with student float builders,
university alumni and community
members to create a piece of art that will
be on display to the whole world on New
Year’s Day. Hundreds of volunteers will
be needed every day. Floats are decorated
at the Brookside Pavilion, near the Rose
Bowl Stadium and all ages of volunteers
are welcome. Cal Poly’s entry, named
“Sweet Shenanigans,” is the only studentmade float among 44 entries that will
roll down Colorado Boulevard on New
Year’s Day. It’s the 68th consecutive year
that the two campuses — in SLO and
Pomona — have teamed up to design and
build a float. The float will be covered
with some 400,000 flowers — roses,
Gerbera daisies and chrysanthemums,
plus seeds, tree bark, seaweed and
crushed nutshells — all of which must
be applied by hand. Volunteers can sign
up online at: www.eventbrite.com/e/calpoly-rose-float-decorations-week-1227registration-18804604077. The team is
suggesting a $1 donation per person to
participate in the decorating process.
•••
The Central Coast Toys for Tots
holiday toy drive, which has collected
and distributed more than 200,000
toys to needy children over the last 15
years, again has its donation barrels set
up throughout SLO County. Led by Sgt.
James L. Pickens, donations of new,
unwrapped toys are being sought for the
drive. If readers want to donate some
money to the cause or if they know of a
needy child, call Sgt. Pickens at (805)
704-8112.
•••
A local charity that supports
battered women has put together
a holiday needs list and is asking the
community to generously give to those
going through troubled times the victims
of intimate partner violence and sexual
assault, and their families. “The Holiday
Needs List” and a “Giving Tree” can
be accessed by calling the RISE office
at (805) 226-5400 or by visiting the
Paso Robles office at 1030 Vine St. Cash
donations are also welcomed and all are
tax-deductible. See: www.RISEslo.org for
information on the organization and its
programs.
•••
Grandma’s Frozen Yogurt and
Waffle Shop, 307 Morro Bay Blvd., in
Morro Bay (corner of Main Street and
Morro Bay Boulevard), is wrapping up
the Third Annual Community Needs
Collection Drive, benefiting a pair of
Womenade projects for local school kids.
The clothing drive benefits Morro Bay
High’s Pirates Chest and Los Osos Middle
School’s Backpack Program, and happens
from 2-4:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19 during
the weekly Farmer’s Market. There will
be live music, fun activities for the whole
family and a visit from Santa and Mrs.
Claus. Hoodies, jeans, jackets, T-shirts,
new socks and other new or nearly-new
clothes are needed for the high school
kids. For LOMS, they need mac & cheese
packages, peanut butter in a plastic jar,
canned beans, spaghetti sauce, canned
tuna and chicken, individual applesauce
containers, individual packets of oatmeal,
and raisins, dried fruit, and nuts in small
packages. Collection barrels will be at
Grandma’s to accept donations.
•••
The
Cal
Fire/SLO
County
Firefighters Benevolent Association
is hosting its 25th Annual Operation
Santa Claus Toy Drive, in conjunction
with KSBY TV’s Season of Hope, at county
fire stations through Dec. 18. The toy
drive provides toys to kids who are under
the care and protection of SLO County’s
Child Welfare Services. The non-profit
volunteer program has helped over 6,100
children throughout SLO County since
1990. Residents and local businesses are
encouraged to contribute toys, gifts or
money that will be used to buy needed
items. Donations can be dropped off
at any Cal Fire/County fire station and
the Morro Bay Fire Department. Gifts
must be new and unwrapped for proper
identification and distribution and people
are urged to make donations as soon as
possible to help with distribution before
Christmas. See: www.calfireslo.org for
s information and for drop-off locations.
f
•••
y The Arroyo Grande Recreation
e Services Department is sponsoring
s a Holiday Decorating Contest for
g businesses and residences throughout
l the City. Businesses will be judged on
e Dec. 16 and residences will be judged the
evening of Dec. 17. Ribbons for 1st, 2nd,
and 3rd will be awarded for Most Festive,
w Best Use of Lighting, Most Spirited,
l Best Holiday Display, Most Creative,
e Most Traditional (residences only),
and Best Window Painting (businesses
d only). A Best Overall ribbon and sign
e will be awarded to one business and one
residence. Anyone interested in entering
l the contest should contact the Rec Dept.
t at 473-5474.
•••
To welcome the holiday season,
y the Grover Beach Community
n Library will sponsor a special
n children’s reading event at 11 a.m.
n Saturday, Dec. 19 at the library, 240 N
y 9th St., Grover Beach. Library volunteers
y will read to the children and Santa Claus
r will be there for photos with the children.
s Children of all ages are welcome to
t participate in this free event.
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e
e It’s that time of year once again for the
r 13th Annual Toy Drive to benefit
d local families in need. The toys do
f not need to be new, but should be in
d good condition. They will accept new
toys, as well as non-perishable holiday
food items. The goal is to brighten the
lives of at least 150 qualified families this
year. Donations are accepted Monday
through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
through Friday, Dec. 18. They can also be
picked them up by appointment. Drop off
toys and food items at Re/Max Del Oro
Realty’s two locations, 857 Santa Rosa St.
(on the corner of Mill and Santa Rosa), in
SLO. Or at the Arroyo Grande office, 214
E. Branch St., in the Village. For more
information or assistance, call Randy
Steiger at (805) 781-8101.
•••
The City Church and six others
in Nipomo will be hosting a benefit
Community Candlelight Service
from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20
at Nipomo High School’s Olympic Hall,
benefitting the Nipomo Food Basket
and the Nipomo High School Boosters
Club. The event is free and open to the
public. Bring non-perishable food items
to donate to the Food Basket. Last year’s
event raised some $4,000 and 600
pounds of food.
•••
After four solid years of dry winters,
the ocean phenomenon, El Niño, has
returned and is being predicted to make
this a hard, wet winter indeed. In the
interest of public service and safety,
Caltrans and the Highway Patrol
have produced an online video
with tips on how to be safe on the
roadways. The “Be Storm Ready” public
service announcement is posted online
at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTBIBU
umQTk&feature=youtu.be.
•••
SWAP will hold its monthly nature
walk in the Elfin Forest of Los Osos
at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 19. The walk
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features naturalist Al Normandin, talking
about “Plants, Lichens and Mushrooms,”
found throughout the Elfin Forest. Park
at the north end of 15th Street (16th for
wheelchairs) off Santa Ysabel Avenue in
Los Osos. Wear comfortable shoes, long
sleeves and pants to avoid poison oak.
Park avoiding driveways and mailboxes,
and leave pets at home. For more
information call (805) 528-0392. Walk
last 1-1/2 to 2 hours on the Elfin Forest
boardwalk.
•••
Ballet Theatre San Luis Obispo’s
presents The Magic Toy Shop (La
Boutique Fantasque) with The Skaters
(Les Patineurs) on Dec. 19 at 3 p.m. and
7 p.m. and Dec. 20 at 2 p.m. at the BTSLO BlackBox Theatre, 3566 S. Higuera
St. #207 in San Luis Obispo. Tickets
are $21 for adults and $13 for children
under 12. They can be purchased online
at www.bt-slo.org or by phone at 4401439. The Magic Toyshop (La Boutique
Fantasque) headlines Ballet Theatre San
Luis Obispo’s holiday performance is the
sweet story of a toymaker’s wonderful
creations. Unknown to the toymaker,
the dolls have a secret life apart from
the daily, shopping customers. When
several dolls are purchased, the group
rallies to stop the separation. La Boutique
Fantasque is set to the beautiful score by
Ottorino Respighi based on piano pieces
by Gioachino Rossini. Choreography
is by BT-SLO Artistic Director Theresa
Slobodnik and features a cast of 19
dancers. Costume design is by Nancy
Hopkins; set design by John Slobodnik.
Slobodnik will present her ballet The
Skaters (Les Patineurs) set to Giacomo
Meyerbeer’s festive, thumping score. An
ice skating rink on Christmas Eve reflects
scenes of the season. A Holiday Gala will
follow the Saturday evening performance
(no host desserts, beverages) The intimate
theatrical setting of BT-SLO’s BlackBox
Theatre and duration of the program is
family friendly. Seating is limited. Get
your tickets early.
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Suicide Bereavement Support - (for
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month, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Wellness Support Group- Tuesdays,
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limited daylight
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healthy habits slip away
as we cozy up inside. It
can help to have a little
extra encouragement to get
outside and break up that routine.
One enticing excuse we can rely on
throughout this season is the Downtown
SLO Farmer’s Market. Not only will you
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the street, dancing to the live tunes, and
perhaps incorporating a workout to and
from Downtown, you can also be inspired
by the healthy foods that are at the core
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may put in as much as 20
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evident just walking by the farm
stands on Higuera Street. Though the
aroma of BBQ may steal one of your
senses, the natural beauty of winter
squash, beets, carrots, chards, and sweet
potatoes can easily capture your eyes
and make for wonderful ingredients for
a warm winter soup. For those of us
still clinging to our sweet tooth from the
holidays, farmers such as Gary Billington
offer sweets that feel like dessert without
the Central Coast where our dedicated
farmers show up for the Downtown SLO
Farmer’s Market to bring us vast amounts
of fresh produce throughout the year. It
is no secret that farming requires a truly
committed work ethic, especially to make
it through the cooler months. According
to an interview with Avila & Sons Farm,
a common workday begins at 5:00 am
and continues long into the evening until
8:00 pm. On days of Farmer’s Markets,
the owner Dave Avila reported that they
the guilt and even provide healthy benefits
to boot. Medjool and Deglet Noor are just
two of the varieties of dates Gary brings
and a couple of his specialties include
date-nut rolls and date pieces rolled in
oat flour.
Right alongside our farmers are our
food vendors and restaurants that
incorporate many of these ingredients
on their menus. Be reminded of the
many ways healthy food can taste so
delicious by visiting vendors such as Bliss
Cafe, which operates a booth in front
of their Downtown restaurant. They
offer comforting entrees such as their
delicious vegan curry or Stromboli’s and
both are sure to warm you up from the
inside out. Another healthy option with
a global flare is brought to the market by
Novo, which is owned and operated at the
heart of Downtown. Novo prides itself
on a passion for pulling inspiration from
locally grown produce as it changes with
the seasons, while bringing flavors from
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Santa’s Eyes
by Leanne Phillips
M
isty was seventeen before she
ever sat on Santa’s lap. Surprising considering she’d elevated him to rock star status early on,
pasting pictures of him on her bedroom
walls where other young girls displayed
the Backstreet Boys. She lit up whenever she saw him in books or on television. But when our parents took her
to the mall to see him at the age of six,
she shrank against my mother’s legs,
wailing and keening like an old Irish
woman at a wake.
This didn’t stop my parents
from trying each year, always with
the same result. I dreaded our annual
pilgrimage to the mall with the mortification most twelve-year-old boys reserve for public displays of affection.
Perched high on magnificent thrones,
the mall Santas’ eyes were obscured
by luxurious eyebrows, crimson velvet
caps with snow white trim, and fancy,
gold-rimmed spectacles. Still, as each
Santa’s eyes lit upon the flattened, misshapen features of my sister’s face, the
discomfort, and even revulsion, were
visible.
On Misty’s seventeenth Christmas, my father heard about a man who
played Santa for the neighborhood
kids in his front yard. Maybe, he said,
this would be different. I was not convinced, but my parents insisted we go. I
prepared myself for the inevitable.
We drove the few blocks to
Santa’s house, a dingy affair badly in
need of paint and a good gardener. Santa hadn’t invested much in his charade.
His costume was dime-store variety,
made of cheap, worn, orange-red flannel. A pillow was conspicuously pushed
up under his jacket, held in place with a
rope belt. He was otherwise quite skinny. A matted beard was affixed to his
face with an elastic band. His matching
hat was too small for his head and sat
perched atop it like a bird’s nest.
He looked nothing like Santa Claus to me, yet there he sat, in a
threadbare lawn chair, in the middle
of his threadbare lawn, joyfully passing
out candy canes.
My embarrassment over the
tantrum my sister was about to throw in
this seemingly nice enough man’s front
yard was compounded by the fact that,
despite her childlike mental capacity,
my sister was physically an adult. But
my parents led her from the car and up
the sidewalk to see
Santa as proudly
as someone would
any six-year-old
child. I trailed behind.
We
got
in line, and to my
astonishment, my
sister’s eyes lit up
when she spotted
this Santa imposter seated on a rickety folding chair. When it was her turn,
Misty marched up to him without hesitation.
Santa’s face betrayed no surprise when my 5’6” sister clambered up
onto his lap. She regaled him for twenty
minutes, unloading a list of Christmas
wishes she’d apparently been storing
up her whole life. Santa listened patiently, smiling and nodding, occasionally laughing raucously, his eyes literally twinkling. Unshielded by glasses or
synthetic eyebrows or a big, plush cap,
all I saw in his gaze was warmth and
acceptance. Afterward, Misty led the
way back to our car pleased as punch,
clutching her candy cane, as if Christmas was finally underway.
Our family visited the neighborhood
Santa each year after
that, until we lost Misty
to a respiratory infection at the age of twenty-six. I never really
understood the way my
sister’s mind worked,
or didn’t work. But her
intuition, like her heart,
was true. Something told her this Santa
was the real thing. I didn’t get it then,
when I was twelve. But now I see that
the genuineness of that lawn chair Santa’s own heart shone in his eyes.
Leanne Phillips is a writer, a paralegal and the owner of a small publishing company. She volunteers as a
certified sexual assault and intimate
partner crisis counselor for RISE and
is a member of the SLO NightWriters
board of directors. She lives in San
Luis Obispo and has three children and
three grandchildren. Leanne is a member of SLO NightWriters, for writers at
all levels in all genres. Find them online at slonightwriters.org
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friends at your next soiree.
As the evening winds down, offer a
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From the New York Sun, 1897
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e take pleasure in answering
thus prominently the communication below, expressing at
the same time our great gratification
that its faithful author is numbered
among the friends of The Sun:
I am 8 years old. Some of my little
friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa
says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.”
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa
Claus?
— Virginia O’Hanlon
Virginia, your little friends are wrong.
They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think
that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.
All minds, Virginia, whether they be
men’s or children’s, are little. In this
great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared
with the boundless world about him, as
measured by the intelligence capable of
grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
He exists as certainly as love and
generosity and devotion exist, and you
know that they abound and give to your
life its highest beauty and joy.
Alas! How dreary would be the world
if there were no Santa Claus! It would be
as dreary as if there were no Virginias.
There would be no childlike faith then,
no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no
enjoyment, except in sense and sight.
The external light with which childhood
fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might
as well not believe in fairies. You might
get your papa to hire men to watch in all
the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch
Santa Claus, but even if you did not see
Santa Claus coming down, what would
that prove?
Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is
no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The
most real things in the world are those
that neither children nor men can see.
Did you ever see fairies dancing on the
lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof
that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there
are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby’s rattle and
see what makes the noise inside, but
there is a veil covering the unseen world,
which not the strongest man, nor even
the united strength of all the strongest
men that ever lived could tear apart.
Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can
push aside that curtain and view and
picture the supernal beauty and glory
beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all
this world there is nothing else real and
abiding.
No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives
and lives forever. A thousand years from
now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years
from now, he will continue to make glad
the heart of childhood.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year!!!!
Francis P. Church’s editorial, “Yes
Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” was
an immediate sensation, and became
one of the most famous editorials ever
written. It first appeared in The New
York Sun in 1897, and was reprinted
annually until 1949 when the paper
went out of business.
Thirty-six years after her letter was
printed, Virginia O’Hanlon recalled the
events that prompted her letter:
“Quite naturally I believed in Santa
Claus, for he had never disappointed
me. But when less fortunate little boys
and girls said there wasn’t any Santa
Claus, I was filled with doubts. I asked
my father, and he was a little evasive
on the subject.
“It was a habit in our family that
whenever any doubts came up as to
how to pronounce a word or some question of historical fact was in doubt, we
wrote to the Question and Answer column in The Sun. Father would always
say, ‘If you see it in The Sun, it’s so,’ and
that settled the matter.
“’Well, I’m just going to write The Sun
and find out the real truth,’ I said to father.
“He said, ‘Go ahead, Virginia. I’m
sure The Sun will give you the right answer, as it always does.’”
Her letter found its way into the
hands of a veteran editor, Francis
P. Church. Son of a Baptist minister,
Church had covered the Civil War for
The New York Times and worked at The
New York Sun for 20 years. Church had
for his personal motto, “Endeavour to
clear your mind of can’t.” When controversial subjects — especially those dealing with theology — had to be tackled
on the editorial page, the assignment
was usually given to Church.
He held a little girl’s letter on a most
controversial matter, and had to answer it. “Is there a Santa Claus?” the
childish scrawl in the letter asked. At
once, Church knew that there was no
avoiding the question. He must answer,
and he must answer truthfully. And so
he turned to his desk, and he began his
reply, which was to become one of the
most memorable editorials in newspaper history.
Church married shortly after the editorial appeared and he died in April,
1906, leaving no children.
Virginia O’Hanlon went on to graduate from Hunter College at age 21 with
a bachelor’s degree in art. The following
year she received her master’s from Columbia, and in 1912 she began teaching
in the New York City school system, later becoming a principal. After 47 years,
she retired as an educator. Throughout
her life she received a steady stream of
mail about her Santa Claus letter, and
to each reply she attached an attractive
printed copy of Church’s editorial. Virginia O’Hanlon Douglas died on May
13, 1971, at age of 81 in a nursing home
in Valatie, N.Y.
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Now more than ever, technology can
help us get creative with how to make
time with family more meaningful, and
then help us capture all the fun so the
memories last far longer than just a
moment. Here’s how to get started.
Make Things to
Share
Interactive computers such as Sprout
by HP are recreating what it means to
make things by merging the physical
and digital worlds. Sprout is what HP
calls an Immersive Computer; it comes
with a touch screen, touch mat, overhead projector, HD camera and 3D
scanner.
With Sprout, you can grab holidayinspired items -- like holiday wreaths
or jingle bells -- and easily scan them
into the device. There are several different free apps available that can help
you create, learn, interact and share.
Do-It-Yourself
Decorating
If you’re in the mood to get crafty
with the family, you can make non-traditional items such as garlands out of
leftover sprinkles from holiday baking.
JoJotastic.com blogger, Joanna Hawley, doesn’t throw away leftover ingredients; instead she recycles them for
a decorating project. Take her lead by
throwing some sprinkles on the touch
mat to scan, print and cut the images
into your favorite shape. Then, tie each
piece to ribbon and voila, festive garlands to hang on the wall for any holiday party!
Beat Holiday
Boredom
Spending time at home can be a
nostalgic, cheerful experience. But between baking pumpkin muffins and
holiday shopping, there are bound to
be stretches of free time -- especially for
the kids. Borrow a few tips from LunchboxDad.com blogger, Beau Coffron,
who
uses
creative holiday boredom busters
to keep the
kids busy!
Like
Beau
and his family, you can
explore apps
like Crayola
DJ to brighten up a chilly
winter day.
The kids will
love interacting with the projected turnstiles on
the touch mat to show off their musical
skills.
Direct a Family Video
Give the traditional family video a
new twist by recording quirky moments
and piecing them together on apps like
Video Capture. Lunchbox Dad likes the
eye-catching DreamWorks Story Producer app that lets you create and direct
your own How to Train Your Dragon
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Sangha Energy Offers Solutions Through the Weather
A
s 2015 draws to a close California’s
drought is giving way to an
expected “hard El Nino.”
Of course that’s a welcome respite for
the Central Coast’s ranchers and any of
a number of municipal water systems
that rely on surface water, but there’s a
hard reality to winter weather. In normal
years the same electric grid that strains
in summer under the draw of millions
of air-conditioning units also bears a
heavy load as temperatures drop and the
switches are flipped on electric heaters
and furnaces.
The same water that is needed so
badly back in the lakes and river systems
is going to wreak havoc getting there.
Mudslides, road wipeouts and trees
toppling in the wind and a home in the
suburbs is just as vulnerable to having the
copper wires that tie it to civilization cut
as is a mountain cabin. Industry studies
estimate around 47 percent of utility
outages are the result of strong storms.
In short, for utility companies and their
field workers it’s the hardest time of the
year to keep your home tied to their grid.
Fortunately, there are other options.
Sangha Energy, a local company
founded with the explicit intent of giving
homeowners and companies true energy
independence wants to help. In fact, with
a special beneficial corporation status
under California law, they’re uniquely
qualified to offer alternative energy
systems that match a client’s need rather
than padding a sales invoice.
For the last three years the majority of
Sangha’s business has come from off-grid
living, designing the complex integrated
systems for a single residence. Even
though it’s a lofty ambition for some to
live entirely independently that’s not all
or even most of what Sangha is all about.
Company
founder
Tod
duBois
explains that the word Sangha, meaning
community in Sanskrit, perfectly sums
up what they’re selling, “community
energy.”
That can mean a lot of things, but to
start it’s about providing the energy to
keep your family or small business going.
Partnering with local electricians, and the
industrial scale generator manufacturer
Generac, duBois is offering a simple but
oft overlooked solution.
Automatic standby generators, paired
with your own in-home micro-grid are
designed to protect from power failure
and restore power within seconds of
an outage. “You can’t heat a home on
battery backups,” duBois notes, “And
until recently, utility grade power was
considered too expensive on a backup
system.”
With the series of generator options
available, assessing individual needs can
be tricky, but that’s part of what Sangha
will help with. The systems are not the
type of thing you pick up at Home Depot.
Generac produces eight series of heavyduty generator, from the kind of small
unit that will keep a refrigerator and
lights going in a cabin to the kind of units
that sits in hospital basement and could
keep a commercial operation running
on their own. The most popular, the
Guardian series, comes in several sizes,
features a quiet enclosure to keep from
bothering the neighbors and can switch
between natural gas and LP fuel in a few
seconds, without the need for any tools.
Depending on the model prices hover in
the $2,500 -$4500 range.
For more in-depth information, go
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Me and a friend in the neighborhood,
Playing in the snow
He swears there’s no Santa,
His big brother told him so
Well that night I asked my Daddy:
“Is it true what that boy told me?”
And he said, “Son I’ll tell you what I know.”
I believe that anything is possible
I believe in miracles
In the angels keeping watch
In innocence that is never lost
I believe in Santa Claus
We’re counting down to Christmas morning,
The children all aglow
I wish they’d stay young forever, Oh oh
But one day they’ll wonder why
Santa’s reindeer fly
And when they do I’ll tell them what I know
I believe that anything is possible
I believe in miracles
In the angles keeping watch
In innocence that is never lost
I believe in Santa Claus
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Bending Life Through
Colored Glass
By Terry Sanville
S
ome people start at Point A
and take what seems like a
direct path to Point B. But
for American men in the 1960s,
the Vietnam War coupled with
the draft made finding one’s path
all that more challenging. Such
was the case with San Luis Obispo
glass artist Richard Mortensen.
Richard grew up in Whittier,
California. His father died when
he was just two and his mother
worked full time to raise him and
his two brothers. After graduating
from high school in 1964, his life
took many twists and turns. He:
Enjoyed the heck out
of art classes in junior
college;
Joined the Marine
Corps
Reserves
during the Vietnam
War but happily was
never activated;
Studied biology at
Long Beach State and
earned a B.S. degree;
Married Carol, an oil,
acrylic and watercolor
artist and teacher of art and
science;
Joined the Peace Corps along with
Carol and spent two years teaching at
jungle schools in Belize;
Attended graduate school at Oregon
State University, Corvallis, and studied
entomology;
Worked for the U.S. Forest Service
developing biological controls for insect
pests;
Worked for the U.S. Office of
Personnel
Management
doing
background security checks for
prospective federal employees;
Worked for the National Nuclear
Security Agency at Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory;
Retired to San Luis Obispo in 2007
after working for the feds for 37 years
– wow!
Somehow in the multiple folds of
Richard’s life, art happened. While
working in eastern Washington State,
he began playing with stained glass.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, Carol
taught a class in “fused glass.” Richard
fell in love with this medium. He’s been
producing both high art and whimsical
glass pieces since the early 1990s.
Richard’s process begins when he
“discovers” a design for a particular
piece. As he works with the different
types of glass, the materials suggest
a design that comes together in
sometimes-unexpected ways.
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“I finished a piece
made with black
glass with white and
gray areas,” he said.
“A woman said she
especially liked the
three nudes she saw
in the design. Now,
whenever I look at the
piece all I see are nudes.”
He then uses cutters and
diamond saws to cut the colored
glass into pieces and fit them together
on a flat plane – like a close-fitting
jigsaw puzzle.
“I bleed a lot when I’m producing my
pieces,” Richard joked.
The flat plane is placed in a kiln,
slowly heated to over 1,400 degrees
then gradually cooled. This process
“fuses” the glass pieces into a smooth
flat plate. The plate is then placed over
a stainless steel or ceramic mold and
slowly fired to more than 1,000 degrees.
The flat plate “slumps” into the mold to
form the desired shape.
Richard’s work is influenced by the
art he saw while exploring Central and
South America. His plates, platters,
bowls and other vessels use highcolor or dark moody glass in striking
combinations to create one-of-a-kind
works.
“I never do the exact same thing
twice,” he said adding that he produces
fun pieces for the Halloween and
Christmas holidays. “People seem to
like these, and they sell well.”
To see Richard’s work, check
out
https://sites.google.com/site/
moricaglass/ or visit The Gallery at
the Network in downtown SLO or
Studios on the Park in Paso Robles. For
more information, contact Richard at
[email protected].
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Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20 at the Cuesta
The
San
Luis
College Performing Arts Center.
Obispo Symphony’s
New
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POPS concert is set
Sunday, Jan. 10, is a day of
for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 31 at the cinematic celebration at the
Performing Arts Center at Cal Poly. Palm Theater. In the morning, two
Tickets start at $20 per person and engaging short documentaries: “The
can be purchased online at: www. Yellow Stars of Tolerance,” and the
slosymphony.org and at: www.pacslo. Academy Award winning “The Lady in
org or by calling the PAC Box Office Number 6” will be screened, followed
at (805) 756-4849. Guest conductor by a Q&A with the directors. In the
is Maestro Lawrence Loh, currently adjacent theater, is a special screening
music director of the Symphoria of the classic children’s animated
Orchestra of Syracuse N.Y., and artistic movie, “An American Tale,” free for
director and principal conductor of the children under-12.
Syracuse Opera. Loh guest conducts
In the afternoon, is the short film,
orchestras around the world including
“Banana
Bread,” followed by the hottest
the Pittsburgh Symphony and Youth
fi
lm
on
the
international festival circuit,
Symphony and the Dallas Symphony,
among others. The show will be the British film, “Dough” featuring
emceed by KSBY TV news anchor Dan veteran actor, Jonathan Pryce. After
Shadwell and feature symphonic gems, each screening will be a Q&A with the
jazz standards, movie music, sultry filmmakers.
tangos, and more by composers George
A customized dinner at Luna Red
Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Richard follows before the documentary,
Rogers, John Williams and more. “When Comedy Went to School” about
Renowned pianist, Orion Weiss, will the history and contributions of Jewish
perform Grieg’s “Piano Concerto” and comedians.
Café Musique will play its special brand
Screenings always sell out, so
of wild classical music. The special buy your tickets early. Sponsorship
concert will close at 9 p.m. with the packages that include tickets to the all
Times Square Ball Drop.
the events are still available. For tickets
The 6th Annual San Luis
Obispo Jewish Film Festival, is
set for Jan. 9 and 10 featuring award
winning narrative and documentary
films, and intimate conversations
with the filmmakers. Saturday night,
Jan. 9 is a welcome reception with the
filmmakers at Luna Red Restaurant
Downtown followed by a ceremony
for a Lifetime Achievement Award to
distinguished actor, director and writer
of film and television Saul Rubinek at
the Palm Theater. Rubinek has more
than 150 film credits to his name. His
30-year career includes performances
in “Unforgiven,” “Nixon,” “I Love
Trouble,” “True Romance,” “And the
Band Played On,” and “Hiroshima.”
and more information, see: www.jccslo.
com.
New Orleans style jazz band,
Rag Bone Saints, will play the
next Red Barn Concert in Los
Osos, Saturday, Jan. 2. Cost is $15
at the door. Doors open at 4:30 and
there’s a potluck supper at 5 with a
potluck band. Brings a dish to share,
place settings and BYOB. Show starts
at 6. Based in SLO, the Rag Bone Saints
celebrates the traditional jazz common
to the streets, bars and back alleys of
New Orleans. Along with Mardi Gras
standards and New Orleans classics,
the band also plays obscure jazz and
blues tunes from the 1920s and ‘30s.
The band is comprised of Will Newey
Famed actor, Hal Holbrook, will
bring his one-man show, “Mark
Twain Tonight!” to the Performing
Arts Center at Cal Poly, at 8 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 9. Tickets range from
$36.80-$66 and available at the PAC
Box Office, Mondays–Saturdays, noon
to 6 p.m. Call (805) 756-4849 or order
online at: www.calpolyarts.org. A Tony
Award winning performance, Holbrook,
90, is marking the 61st consecutive year
that he has brought Twain back to life
on stage. The show was developed in a
Greenwich Village nightclub in 1956,
was on the Ed Sullivan show, and
then opened off-Broadway in 1959.
Sponsored by Clayhouse Wines, Coast
101.3 FM, Matrix Mobile Television,
and The Tribune.
The SLO Winds will hold its
Annual Holiday Concert at 3 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 20 at the Cuesta College
Performing Arts Center. Tickets are
$10 for students and $20 general
admission and available online at:
www.cpactickets.cuesta.edu or call
546-3198. You’ll hear Samuel Hazo’s
“Rest” which was composed around
“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen;” “A
Hanukkah Festival,” a medley of three
traditional Hanukkah songs; Alfred
Reed’s “Russian Christmas Music” and
more. Jennifer Martin, David Rackley,
and Anthony Yi conduct.
Pianist and Cal Poly Music
Department
Chairman,
W.
Terrence Spiller, will give a benefit
recital at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8, in the
Spanos Theatre at Cal Poly. Tickets are
$9 for students and $12 for general
public and available at the PAC Box
Office, Mondays–Saturdays, noon
to 6 p.m. Call (805) 756-4849 or
order online at: www.calpolyarts.org.
Spiller’s program will start with two
sonatas by Beethoven: the Sonata in
F Major, Op. 10 No. 2, and the Sonata
in D major, Op. 28, “The Pastorale,”
plus Francis Poulenc’s “Les Soirées de
Nazelles” and five préludes from Sergei
Rachmaninov’s Préludes Op. 23 and
Op. 32. The concert is sponsored by
the College of Liberal Arts and Music
Department. For more information,
call the Music Department at 756-2406.
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A ceremony for a Lifetime
Achievement Award to
distinguished actor, director and
writer, Saul Rubinek
Los Osos party band, Back
Bay Betty will play a New Year’s
Eve show from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at
Morro Bay’s The Siren (formerly
The Fuel Dock), corner of Main and
Harbor Streets. For more on the band,
including a free download of a new
song, see: www.backbaybetty.com.
Songwriters At Play presents
Jeffrey Pine Thursday, Dec. 17 at
The Shell Café, 1351 Price St., Pismo
Beach. Pine is a veteran of more than
three decades of live performance,
song craftsmanship, recording and
entertaining. He has acquired a
well-deserved reputation as one of
America’s premier solo artists with
a rich vocal tenor and overall sound
often compared to Sting, John Mayer,
Cat Stevens, James Taylor, and Gordon
Lightfoot. The free show (tips) is for all
ages and starts at 6:30 p.m. with guest
performers. For more information, see:
www.songwritersatplay.com. Call 7738300.
The Arroyo Grande Rotary
Club will host its 8th Annual
Christmas and Holiday Concert
and Sing-Along at 4 p.m. Sunday,
Dec. 20 at Arroyo Grande’s Clark
Center. This year’s show is the “Twelve
Days of Christmas!” The program will
highlight many of the 12 elements of
the classic Christmas song with special
performances by guest artists: Village
Carolers of Studio Sing, Sing, Sing
directed by Judith Dunlore; the Arroyo
Grande High School Band directed by
Bill Benson; and many more. Dancers
from the St. Andrew’s Greek Orthodox
Church; the Grande Bell Ringers from
the Arroyo Grande United Methodist
Church directed by Leonard Lutz,
among others. Tickets are $12 for
adults and $6 for children/students
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Woodstone A Great Marketplace-Deli-Store-Restaurant
By Teri Bayus
A
s the holiday approaches and
we are consumed with endless
to-do lists, I long to spend time
outside, walking in our sun drenched
December.
I linger on these walks, looking for
marketplaces. Village shops of old that
provide traveling luminaries with a
nice meal to inspire their strolls. These
near extinct creatures have all but
disappeared.
But in Avila Beach, on the top of
the Bob Jones Trail is a Mecca called,
Woodstone Marketplace. This bastion
of all things scrumptious is a favorite of
the seaside dwellers of Avila and is now
on my list of favorite picnic places.
We dined with our friends who swore
the food was superb at this marketplacedeli-store-restaurant and they were
correct. The owner, Cheryl Peterman,
greeted us warmly at the counter. She
explained the menu, nightly specials
and deli style meals. The location along
the popular Bob Jones Trail makes this
a perfect stop to pick up your meal and
then jog or walk to the lapping waves of
Avila Beach.
My first trip I ordered the Woodstone
house salad that featured a bed of
mixed greens topped with caramelized
nuts,
dried
cranberries,
avocado,
and
gorgonzola
cheese, drizzled
with a raspberry
vinaigrette
dressing.
My
friend
had
the
tri-tip
dinner
plate
with succulent
shredded
tritip, brown rice,
veggies
and
rolls. It was
a huge plate
of meat and
goodies.
We
all shared the
cashew
pear
salad
with
crisp chopped
Romaine lettuce, diced pears, dried
cranberries, roasted cashews and
shredded Fontina cheese and finished
with a burgundy poppy seed dressing.
The salads were all crisp and delectable.
Gary started with the coconut crème
cake and was kind enough to share a
taste with the rest of us. Then he had
the Woodstone’s
turkey cranberry
sandwich with
fresh
sliced
turkey
breast,
cranberry relish,
cheddar cheese,
greens,
and
tomato
with
mayonnaise,
served on a fresh
baked ciabatta
roll.
I ordered the
pesto
chicken
pizza with a
cracker
crust
all
enveloped
with a creamy
garlic
sauce,
homemade
pesto chicken,
sun
dried
tomatoes, caramelized onions, and
then finished with pine nuts, fresh basil
and Parmesan cheese. It was a pizza
accomplishment.
We came back for breakfast and
encountered our waitress’s sunny-sideup personality. Gary had the village
breakfast wrap with scrambled eggs,
black bean salsa, Ortega chilies, black
olives, a cheddar-jack cheese blend,
and mango chicken sausage in a flour
tortilla. It was topped with sour cream
and homemade salsa.
I opted for the Teni’s Breakfast
Sandwich, which was two eggs, sliced
tomatoes, caramelized onion, avocado
and pepper jack cheese stacked
on toasted sourdough. With the
accouterments of the perfect coffee, I
was in Heaven.
We bought a bottle of Pinot Grigio
to take with us along with imported
cheese, crackers, olives, and a chocolate
brownie to the beach for an afternoon
of reading, riding waves and relaxing.
This will now be my first stop on the
way to Avila Beach.
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Woodstone Marketplace is the perfect
spot for a delicious meal in a peaceful
creek side atmosphere.
Located off San Luis Bay Drive in
Avila Beach, they offer an eclectic
combination of deli, country market,
coffee and espresso bar, and wine shop.
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Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Stinks
By Teri Bayus
B
e warned this is going to be a
rant, a negative rant. I have never
before been so angry at a motion
picture. I have been scared, saddened,
thrilled, tickled, terrified and horrified,
but never spitting mad at a movie and
the studio that made it.
The object of my disgust? “The Good
Dinosaur,” produced by Pixar. These
are the same folks that gave us “Up,”
“Toy Story,” “Wall-E” and many other
wonderful family pictures that melted
our hearts, taught lessons and were
safely viewed by anyone in the family.
I do admit that the death storyline
that pops up often is a bit off-putting,
but death is a real part of life.
Before, it was handled gently for
the young and sensitive viewers. Not
so with the currant piece of crappy
celluloid, The Good Dinosaur.
I have been taking my grandkids to
the movies since they were babies. I
usually research the film first to make
sure it is appropriate for their viewing.
I never checked on a Pixar movie,
especially an animated one about a
dinosaur. I trusted them. I was very
wrong.
This movie was so offensive that
I swear it was done intentionally. It
started with the short.
Those cute and sometimes better,
5-minute movies that start each film.
They usually are brilliant and funny.
This one is called “Sanjay’s Super
Team,” directed by Sanjay Patel.
It follows the daydream of a young
Indian boy, bored with his father’s
religious meditation, who imagines
Hindu gods as superheroes. This
seems like a nice metaphor, but it was
frightening.
Three-headed monsters battle Gods
and a barrage of scary fight scenes and
images. My 5-year-old grandson asked
to leave 2 minutes into it. I was sure it
would get better or at least funny, but
it didn’t and failed to inspire or even
enlighten.
His other grandparents were with
us, and sandwiched between him,
we shared furtive glances. This film
commits the cardinal sin of failure with
both of its primary audiences — parents
and children.
It features a dinosaur named, Arlo
(voiced by Raymond Ochoa), and his
pet human, Spot (Jack Bright). The pair,
separated from their families, travel
together on the familiar adventure to
find their way home. But this one is
riddled with frightening images.
We all found it too scary due to
intense, graphic scenes. The film moves
from one scary scene to the next. From
a horrible storm and a badly injured,
limping Arlo, to Arlo’s father being
drowned in the river. Then Arlo in
another storm, falling down a hill and
passing out in the water, to him falling
off a cliff, then running out of food, and
being attacked and hunted.
There’s a hallucination scene,
conversations about wanting the
crocodile drowned in a pool of his own
blood. Those with a fear of thunder and
lightning may end up wailing through
the movie.
Even the family is horrendous. Arlo’s
father seems to be more interested in
Arlo murdering a child, his sibling’s evil
bullies. Every other character they meet
seems to be either racist (some deep
South accented dinosaurs portrayed as
dumb hicks) or the T- Rexes that gallop
along rounding up bison with accents
straight out of John Wayne movies.
It is completely relentless in its
desire to move from one to another
cliffhanger.
At the end of the movie, Arlo finds
his way home and inexplicably pushes
the human boy onto a random human
family that, moments before, rejected.
He makes his way home and is allowed
to leave his footprint on a wall, which
he wasn’t allowed to do earlier because
his family viewed him as a giant clumsy
wimp who wouldn’t kill a human.
I do not trust Pixar any more. I cannot
find one good reason this story — an
animated dinosaur movie — would
have scarier elements than Jurassic
Park (which the grandkids saw and
were not afraid). It seems their newest
foray into the emotional spectrum is to
terrify children without a good story
behind it. Shame on you Pixar.
Teri Bayus can be scene on her
culinary television show, “Taste
Buds” at: www.centralcoastnow.tv
or on Charter Cable Ch. 10. Her novel
“Consumed, An Erotic Culinary Tale,”
is available on Amazon and iTunes.
Dinner and a Movie is a regular
feature of Tolosa Press.
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Photos by Erin O’Donnell
T
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at the Cambria Pines Lodge, 2905
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Christmas markets the event features
nightly
entertainment,
vendors,
food, fun for all and of course some
dazzling light displays. Admission is
$3-$10 depending on the night with
kids 5-under free. The final market
is set for Dec. 16-23. See: http://
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Coast Union High School and shuttle
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Weathering El Niño — How are SLO County’s Piers?
By Neil Farrell and Teresa Marie-Wilson
I
n 1983, a severe El Niño winter took
a heavy toll on San Luis Obispo
County’s ocean piers, partially
collapsing the Pismo Pier; completely
destroying an oil pier in Estero Bay
(which was never rebuilt); and likely
starting the decline of the Cayucos Pier.
With
meteorologists
predicting
another strong El Niño winter, what
kind of shape are SLO County’s historic
and beloved piers in? Tolosa Press
sought out the answers for the Pismo,
Avila, Harford, Cayucos and San
Simeon piers. Here’s what we found
out.
Avila Pier
The Avila Pier, built in 1908, while
not exactly in imminent danger of
collapse, it is in serious trouble. After
an extensive survey last summer by
Morro Bay’s Shoreline Engineering, it
was closed to the public in July.
Andrea Lueker, interim director of
the Port San Luis Harbor District, said
the pier, “Needs extensive repairs.” The
harbor commissioners are discussing
what such a fix would entail, including
whether to shorten the 1,685-foot
wooden structure, as well as how to pay
for it.
The current rough estimate is based
on the costs to repair the Cayucos Pier,
essentially $3.5 million to replace 200
piles vs. 700 piles at Avila, which would
cost $12.5 million. And there is a huge
potential hazard with Avila.
There is still residual oil beneath the
pier under the seafloor, remnants of
the Unocal oil spill that closed Avila
in 1998 and led to the razzing of the
entire waterfront. The concern is that
pile driving could release that oil.
They’ve
already
brought
Unocal
into the matter.
“That’s the other
part of this, the
oil,” Lueker said.
“There are certain
precautions that
we will have to
take.”
Lueker
said
commissioners
are working on a
plan for how to
proceed,
which
will
include Avila Pier
developing
a
scope of work and
asking the public
about paying for
it. PSL District
encompasses
basically the entire
South County, so
costs would be
spread over a large
area.
Faced with a
similar situation,
Cayucos residents
rallied
support
and raised a ton of
San Simeon Pier
money to bolster
the
County’s
efforts to secure
grant funding. PSL Directors have
hired a public relations firm to “gauge
the public’s interest and support,”
said Lueker. “It’s a great model what
Cayucos did. As with the Cayucos Pier,
everybody’s got an Avila Pier story.
That’s where I met my husband in
1988.”
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The Harford Pier has undergone
a patchwork of repairs and with the
opening of a new restaurant due at the
end of this month, has but one section
of the 1,320-foot wooden structure
to be repaired. But that section lies
underneath the Olde Port Inn.
“It’s more protected by the
breakwater,” Lueker explained, so it
doesn’t bear the brunt of most Pacific
storms, which tend to come from the
north out of Alaska. San Luis Bay
actually faces south. “There are a few
areas that in 4 to 6 years will need to be
addressed,” she added.
Another pier in Avila is the former
Unocal oil pier, which the company
donated to Cal Poly in 2001 and is now
a marine research lab. But it is made of
steel and not open to the public.
Pismo Pier
Harford Pier
The Harford Pier, first built in 1873
and perhaps the most commercially
used pier in SLO County, has been
pretty well maintained over the years
and today is in pretty decent shape, said
Lueker, whose duties include oversight
of that pier, too.
Of the public piers in SLO County, the
Pismo Pier sustained the most damage
in the ’83 El Niño, partially collapsing
in huge waves.
A 2014 assessment revealed some
problems and the Pismo Pier is
scheduled for a $3 million project
next year that will replace the middle
section.
“The full scope of the project hasn’t
been defined yet,” said Pismo Public
Works Director, Ben Fine. “It will be
pilings and deck boards, railings. I don’t
want to say it will be a reconstruction of
the pier, but we are going to basically
rebuild a section of the pier.”
The pier was originally constructed
in 1924, and was rebuilt after the 1983
winter. The 1,250-foot wooden pier
varies in width from about 32 to more
than 182 feet, and includes cantilevered
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fishing decks, four diamond pop outs,
and one tapered section.
Fine said the pier is a big draw for
tourists and locals alike. An electronic
counter tracks people who walk onto
the pier. In 2014, more than 800,000
people used the pier.
As for El Niño preparations, Fine
said the City is as prepared as it can
be. “How do you predict that?” Fine
asked. “We do monitor the pier during
large events? We get weather updates
from NOAA [National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration], PG&E
and Diablo Canyon. We get swell
predictions and we go out and monitor
the pier and make sure it is safe for
people to be on it. If it is not safe, we
close it.” The pier was actually closed
just last week during an extremely high
tide and storm surge.
The last pier inspection was in
2009 and was followed by a 2010
maintenance/repair
project
with
some decking replaced, railing gusset
strengthened, new piles installed,
shimming of other pilings and replacing
additional decking and railing.
Cayucos Pier
Of all the oceanic piers in SLO
County, the Cayucos Pier is by far in the
best shape to weather El Niño.
The Pier, which was first constructed
in 1872, recently underwent a complete
rebuild and is essentially brand new.
The County, with considerable help
Cayucos Pier
from the community, and using state,
federal and County sources of funding,
spent an overall $3.4 million on a multiyear effort to refurbish the historic pier.
The winter of ’83 was perhaps the
start of the pier’s rapid decline, to
the point where, having lost so many
pilings, it had to close to the public in
July 2013.
Shoreline Engineering dove the
pier, documenting all that needed to
be repaired and Associated Pacific
Constructors in Morro Bay did the
work, which took more than a year
and was completed and reopened with
a gala reception and ribbon-cutting
ceremony Oct. 31 attended by about
350 people.
Citizen volunteers formed “Save
Cayucos Pier” a non-profit organization,
and a movement was started that
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the group raised more than $750,000.
Some of that was deposited with the
SLO County Community Foundation
for a future maintenance fund.
San Simeon Pier
The first pier in San Simeon was built
in 1852 as part of a growing whaling
port. A second wharf was built in 1864
but destroyed in a storm. The new
owner of the property, Sen. George
Hearst, William Randolph’s daddy,
built a 1,000-foot pier in 1878. In 1957,
the current pier was built by the State
Parks Department, and was severely
damaged in a 1969 storm. That led to a
repair project and extension of the pier
by 300 feet. The current pier is 850 feet
long and just 12-feet wide. It sits within
William Randolph Hearst State Park
and is solely a pedestrian pier.
Dan Falat, the new district
superintendent for State Parks’ Coast
District, said via email, “According to
staff, it appears the last inspection/
repairs were completed between 1998
and 2002. We are currently working on
putting together a new contract for an
updated survey, but we do not have a
timeframe at this point.”
The pier, which like the Harford Pier
has a point of land to protect it from
storms, would appear to be in pretty
good shape. “Currently there are no
known problems that I have been
advised of since my arrival,” Falat said,
“but we do monitor it during storms in
case a closure needs to occur for any
reason.”
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A Joyful Christmas on Safari
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undreds of people turned
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Fairchild Way to Palisades Avenue.
With the theme “Christmas on
Safari,” some 34 entries entered the
parade including horse riders and
caballeros, local daycare centers,
businesses, a skateboarding club, the
4-H, Baywood Elementary School
and more. The winners were: Best
on Foot — Friends of the Los Osos
Library; Best Musical Entry — Morro
Bay High’s cheerleaders; Best of
Theme — Los Osos 4-H; Judges
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Best Animals — the Los Chorros de
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— the Rotary Club of Los Osos. Once
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with much cheer, high spirits and
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Balancing Act — Employee’s vs. Company’s Needs
Only Human
By Betsey Nash, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
T
he field of Human Resources
is often defined as the liaison
between employees and management. But what does that really mean?
While studying for my national
certification exams, I was advised that
when trying to answer any question
I was unsure about, just ask myself:
“What meets the needs of the company
without screwing the employee.” Or
was it the other way around?
Employees overwhelming think we’re
“not fair” or that we’re “management’s
pawn.” Employers think we care too
much about the employees. Only 21% of
respondents in a 2015 survey thought
HR supports everyone. Ouch!
It is a balancing act, and employment
law attorney, Karen Gabler, articulated
it well at a recent meeting of the HR
Association of the Central Coast. She
explained that employers want to know
how what we’re proposing is best for the
business? What will save the budget/
make money? How will it benefit the
customers?
They don’t want to hear what will
make the employees happy. We must
be meticulous in forming our responses
or proposals to answer their objections
and needs. It is a sales job, but that’s
not a bad thing.
Ever since we’ve been calling it HR
instead of Personnel, we’ve known
that taking care of the employee is in
a business’ best interest; that a happy
employee is a productive employee;
and that investing in good training pays
off dividends. But like with any sell job,
you describe the features and benefits
that match the needs of the customer.
I sort of eased into HR in the early
1980s while in management at Cuesta
Title. It was a matter of being recognized
for my strengths, and my job being
modified to capitalize on them. So I did
more hiring and coaching.
Then I completed the management
certificate coursework offered by Cal
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More management courses have
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business perspective.
And yet, when attorney Gabler
reminded
us
to
“think
like
management,” I realized that I could
still be doing a better job at this.
I called it a balancing act, but it’s
more like speaking two languages:
reassure employees that they matter
and then present the case for every
employee-centric proposal, that it will
improve the business.
Employees apparently think we have
no sense of urgency, don’t listen, and
are not fair! And we don’t keep their
secrets. I get really defensive when I
hear this.
Once I’ve calmed down I realize it’s
my job to make sure an employee feels
heard, and has realistic expectations
about what can be done. Especially
if I can’t divulge their secret! Oops,
defensive again.
Once I have done something, I need
to be sure they know about it. Unless,
of course, that would be unfair to
someone else.
So how does “Only Human” bring
2015 to a close? By paraphrasing
Gandhi’s famous quote: “Whatever you
do may not be appreciated, but it is very
important that you do it.” Lucky thing
we’re not in this business to please
people.
Betsey Nash, SPHR, SHRM-SCP,
often turns to Gandhi for inspiration;
being the change, even in an HR
department. One of her favorites is
Gandhi’s original quote: “Whatever
you do will be insignificant, but it is
very important that you do it.” She is
the owner of NASH HR SERVICES,
and can be reached at: betsey@
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The Business of Politics
Bottom Line
By Michael Gunther
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A
s we enter another election year,
it feels like elections occur back
to back.
I understand how the election cycle
is now a major revenue generator
for media outlets, campaign staff,
commentators, etc. Yet it seems that the
campaigning strategies are becoming
more outrageous in order to rally “the
R core” constituents and obtain higher
s ratings and media exposure.
r As political conversations have
s become so challenging, I started to
s think about leaders in the workplace.
In a work environment, none of these
politicians would survive, and yet we
a are electing these individuals to lead
our country and us.
This got me thinking, “Should we
expect all politicians from all parties to
operate more like you are expected to
within a work environment?”
Strong leaders value diversity of
thought, backgrounds, experiences,
genders, etc. One could never exclude or
demonize an individual based on race,
gender, religion, sexual orientation, to
name a few.
Individuals with opposing views
wouldn’t be allowed to just make up
facts; create stories that are not based
on reality and tear down one another
just to win the argument.
It is illegal for vendors to bribe
individuals within organizations to
persuade people to purchase a product
or service, and yet we let individuals
bribe our politicians with unlimited
contributions.
A leader wouldn’t survive in the
workplace if they were not willing
to work with others within the
organization to solve problems.
The leaders of the organization
wouldn’t be allowed to provide an
amazing retirement and benefits plan
to themselves and then, in turn, offer
nothing to their employees.
A business wouldn’t survive if there
were never any compromises on how to
approach new solutions and generate
new opportunities.
Maybe it is about changing the
method and style of conversation from
our politicians. Are the conversations
authentic? Is transparency present?
Is the conversation purposeful? Is it
based on trying to solve an issue or just
rally the troops? Is the conversation
impactful? Will it actually move the
solution forward or just create more
clutter or distraction?
If a business ran the same way
we allow our politicians to, those
businesses would truly struggle to
become sustainable. These businesses
would be faced with lawsuits, turnover,
lost market share and blasted on social
media. Yet, we allow our politicians to
run rampant.
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Protecting Public Health, Property and People
A View From Harbor Street
By David Buckingham
W
hat do 30 hypodermic needles,
200-plus cubic yards of garbage, a
40-foot shipping container and 60
people have in common? Those are some of
the stats from the City’s cleanup of Morro
Creek and the adjacent dunes.
Following a long outreach process
that included significant social services
support, the City conducted a thoughtful
and extensive cleanup of the creek in areas
some homeless folks frequently camp.
The primary purpose of the activity
was protection of public health and the
environment. Much of the garbage in the
creek presented a growing public health
danger. With El Niño rains expected to
cause high flows in Morro Creek this
winter, we wanted to ensure none of that
refuse washed across Morro Beach and into
the ocean.
While our focus was on removing trash,
we also wanted to protect the personal
property of folks who have camped in the
creek and dunes and take care to help
connect them with crucial services. Here’s
an update on what we did:
First, the City put together a
comprehensive plan for the cleanup. The
plan included all City departments and
partnerships with other organizations
including the California Conservation Corps
and Dynegy.
Since much of the illegal camping, and
thus much of the trash, was on private
property owned by Dynegy, its permission
and support was crucial. Dynegy contributed
$10,000 — a substantial percentage of the
total cost — toward the cleanup.
For 30 days, our Police Department
conducted a methodical noticing of the
planned cleanup areas. That included
visiting the entire cleanup zone on a regular
basis, and every day for the last 10 days, to
ensure the homeless camping there were
aware of the planned cleanup.
Notices were left at every campsite and
every trash pile. Social workers accompanied
our police officers during that noticing to
help connect the homeless with help. For
example, a homeless veteran was connected
with the special social services available for
former members of the military.
The cleanup occurred last Thursday and
Friday and involved 60 City employees
and members of the CCC. The first group
through the dunes and up the creek, were
Police Chief Amy Christey and myself the
City Manager.
Following our City directive, we
methodically and meticulously identified
and tagged every item, such as tents and
sleeping bags, backpacks and handbags,
and books, eyeglasses and photographs that
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That identification process was documented
on videotape to ensure accountability.
Next came the property collection crew,
who collected, bagged, and tagged the
previously identified property, documenting
the precise location it came from and when
available, by the name of the likely owner.
Our police volunteers transported that
property to the City Public Works yard
where the Police Department property team
logged it into storage in a special shipping
container obtained for that purpose. The
property will be retained at no cost for a
minimum of 90 days.
Anyone looking for personal property
they left in the creek or dunes may visit
the police station during regular business
hours to make arrangements to identify
and recover their property. The Police
Department, supported by employees from
the Maintenance Division and the Harbor
Department, did a great job handling
that personal property with appropriate
accountability and care.
Finally, the trash removal crew went in.
Confident all personal property had been
safely secured, the remaining trash was
removed. Guided by City maintenance
employees, the CCCs provided the primary
labor for that unwelcome job.
Using trash bags and trash pickers for
small items — from empty food containers
to needles — and also handling large items,
such as soiled mattresses and broken
furniture, trash was removed to six large
dumpsters brought in for the job. More than
200 cubic yards of trash was removed from
the creek and dunes.
When you have the opportunity, consider
saying thanks to a City employee - especially
Police Officers, our Maintenance Division
workers and Harbor employees - for their
work. This cleanup clearly fell in the “other
duties as assigned” section of our employees’
job descriptions, and they did a complex
and dirty job with the utmost compassion
and professionalism.
The purpose of this activity was primarily
to protect public health and the environment
and that was accomplished. The City will
continue to work with appropriate regional
agencies, and volunteer groups, to address
all aspects of the complex challenge of
homelessness with compassion for people
and protection of our residents and
environment.
As always, I look forward to hearing your
thoughts on this issue. Send me an email at:
[email protected].
David Buckingham is the city manager
of Morro Bay. His “A View From Harbor
Street” column is a regular feature of The
Bay News. Send Letters to the Editor to:
[email protected].
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Advantage Answers to Santa
By Camas Frank
F
or the ninth year running, San
Luis Obispo based Advantage
Answering Plus, is offering kiddos, and anyone else who calls, a direct
line to the North Pole for Christmas.
Well it’s more of a direct line to
his recorded message on a computer
server in SLO, with a promise that your
list and good wishes will be relayed to
him with absolute clarity. Parents can
even get an audio file of the call emailed
to them for posterity.
It’s a good thing that Advantage is
stepping up to the plate because with all
the anti-distracted-driving laws on the
books we don’t want Santa picking up
his cell as North American Aerospace
Defense Command (NORAD) is
tracking him this year. And, said Marty
Imes, Advantage’s director of vision
and culture, that’s pretty much what
the company is all about, making sure
that a busy client doesn’t have to turn
away callers while they’re otherwise
occupied.
Whether you’re calling a doctor,
lawyer, small business operator or
even Santa Claus, Imes said the goal
of the company culture is to brighten
people’s day, especially in an era
when technology and instant access
has taken out the human element of
communication. The company has
grown from a small family business
founded in the back of a local dance
studio in 1992 with three computers
and a couple of employees and has
grown with the times to keep up with
modern tech.
They now have a rotating cast of 700800 client companies and a more stable
30-40 employees in their small family
business.
The package of services they’re
offering Santa pro-bono is the kind
of client plan that usually runs about
$35 per month, like a cell phone plan,
although it would be a little hard to
handle if the elves at Advantage were
picking up the phones themselves as
well the was they do for companies. In
2014 kids left more than 200 messages
for Santa, mostly local, since it is a
number inside the 805 area code.
By the way, it wasn’t a worry 60
years ago, when the Air Force started
issuing updates on St. Nick’s trip, that
the Man-in-Red would
pick up his phone while
flying, but interestingly
enough the Pentagon
did get involved because
of a misplaced phone call.
In 1955 a Sears Roebuck ad run
Colorado Springs, Colo. newspaper
invited kids to contact Santa on a local
phone number, but due to a typo, the
dreaded red-phone at Continental
Air Defense Command (CONAD)
Operations Center started ringing
instead.
That wasn’t a legacy the folks at
Advantage were aware of when they
started the local tradition,
Debbie Imes, Advantage’s director of
business success, told the Tolosa Press,
SLO City News last year. Of course she
also maintained that Santa himself
started the tradition by asking them to
fill in for some of his call center elves.
Whether it was Debbie Imes’ idea or
Santa’s, the effect has been for the
workers at Advantage to receive back a
lot of the warmth and cheer, by hearing
the messages, which they try to give
callers to all of their client companies in
the day.
In a perfect world maybe the calls to
Santa could be entirely private, but some
work still has to be done for parents and
guardians to get a copy of the messages
back from Advantage’s records and it
helps to know what might have been in
the message and when it came in.
Of course, for a company that has
about 30 highly trained receptionists
bridging the gap between information
on their screens and the person at the
other end of the phone all day, it’s easier
than it sounds to do the matching.
To call Santa’s Hotline dial (805)
546-1121 and email [email protected] (the dash is important) to get
a copy of the recording. For information
about all their other services go online
to: www.advantage-plus.com. Just for
good measure, we’ve triple checked the
number for typos.
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Biz Briefs
The
SLO
Downtown
Association announced the
winners of its annual Holiday
Window Decorating Contest.
Some 24 businesses competed this
year, decorating their storefront
windows with creative and
inspiring designs. Hoping to gain
customers’ attention, businesses
go all out for the competition. The
Downtown Association Design
Committee hosts with judges
giving honors for first-third place,
as well as Best in Theme, with
this year’s theme being, “There’s
No Place Like SLO.” The contest
is also held online to include a
People’s Choice Award. First was
Bluebird Salon; second Jules D;
third Eco Bambino; and Best
Theme was Humankind Fair
Trade. The People’s Choice Award
went to the Assistance League
Thrift Store.
1st Place: Bluebird Salon
2nd Place: Jules D
3rd Place: Eco Bambino
Best in Theme: HumanKind
Fair Trade
Window Dressing Awards; Kitchen Seminars; Realtors Donate
Compiled by Camas Frank
San Luis Kitchen Co., will be
hosting monthly Free Kitchen
Design Seminars in 2016, the
company announced. The seminars
are held the second Saturday of the
month from 10:30 a.m. to noon at
the showroom, 3598 Broad St, SLO.
A free gourmet brunch follows each
presentation. Upcoming topics include:
How to survive a kitchen remodel, Jan.
9; Kitchen remodeling 101, Feb. 13; and
Make your kitchen wish list, March
12. Seating is limited so RSVP to 5417117. For more information see: www.
sanluiskitchen.com
Peoples’ Self-Help Housing
(PSHH)
announced
the
election of its newest board
member, Shelly Higginbotham.
Higginbotham is currently serving
her third term as mayor of Pismo
Beach, is president of the Five Cities
Homeless Coalition and has also served
on the Women’s Legacy Fund’s grant
committee for the San Luis Obispo
County Community Foundation. She
was named board member emeritus
for the Child Development Resource
Center. “The leadership at Peoples’
Self-Help Housing is thrilled to have
Shelly Higginbotham on its Board
with her tremendous experiences and
expertise,” said PSHH Board Chairman,
David Gustafson. “Her commitment to
addressing homelessness and serving
families and individuals in need along
the Central Coast is inspiring and a
great match for PSHH.” With nearly
1,200 self-help homes completed and
over 1,600 rental units developed,
PSHH is the largest affordable housing
developer on the Central Coast, with
offices in San Luis Obispo and Santa
Barbara. For more information see:
www.pshhc.org.
The San Luis Obispo Tourism
Business Improvement District
has
launched
a
redesigned
website along with a series of video’s
showcasing San Luis Obispo’s outdoor,
culinary, family and cultural assets. The
redesigned SanLuisObispoVacations.
com is a “guide to what to do, where
to stay and what’s going on in San
Luis Obispo.” “This redesigned site is a
wonderful resource for visitors interested
in San Luis Obispo,” said Nipool Patel,
co-owner of the Lamplighter Inn and
chairman of the SLO TBID board of
directors. “This redesign shows off all
of the things that we love about San
Luis Obispo from the photos and video
to the locals recommendations on the
ShareSLO blog.” Videos feature an
original song written and performed by
San Luis Obispo locals Dan Curcio, Ryan
House, Daniel Cimo and Vince Cimo of
Moonshiner Collective.
The Central Coast Realtors 6th Annual Benefit
Golf Tournament raised over $9,000
Eureka! Burger in Downtown SLO is
introducing festive cocktails and New
Year’s Day specials. Their emphasis
is on the new “decadent” Gingerbread
Man Old Fashioned cocktail. They
can be made at home with some Old
Overholt Rye Whiskey, gingerbread
syrup, BroVo Spirits Douglas Fir
Liqueur, and chocolate and herbal
bitters, but it’s a better option to let
their bartenders do it while customers
relax. On Jan. 1, Eureka! is offering $5
mimosas and Bloody Marys all day in
addition to their craft beers and cocktail
selection .
The San Luis Obispo County
Board of Supervisors has voted
to make the HERO Property
Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)
program
available
to
local
residents. HERO PACE financing
enables homeowners to make energyand water-efficiency improvements
and pay for them over time through
their property tax bills. Interest may
be tax-deductible, and homeowners
may see immediate savings on utility
bills. Applications for HERO will be
taken early next year. SLO County
joins Monterey, Fresno, and Kern
counties, which have all launched the
program, as well as Kings County,
which approved HERO in October.
“This home efficiency program will
benefit our county and our region,”
said County Supervisor Debbie Arnold.
“Participating homeowners will save
on utility bills and make their homes
more comfortable; local contractors
can staff-up to meet the demand, and
the environment benefits through
reduced greenhouse gas emissions
and increased water conservation.”
HERO staffs a hotline to respond to
homeowner queries: 800-720-HERO.
French Hospital Medical Center
announced the purchase of two
new and technologically advanced
GE
SenoClaire
3-D
Breast
Tomosynthesis mammographyimaging
machines. The new
mammography machine has been
installed
at
French
Hospital’s
outpatient imaging center, San Luis
Diagnostic Center, and is currently
being installed at French Hospital.
The San Luis Diagnostic Center began
breast tomosynthesis scans on Nov.
9. The new machines “are due to
the generosity of community donors
whose donations totaled $210,000 to
the French Hospital Foundation.” The
process is a three-dimensional imaging
technology that uses a low-dose, short,
X-ray sweep around the compressed
tissue. The SenoClaire detector touts
high quality digital imagery at low
radiation doses. Individuals interested
in supporting French Hospital’s
programs, and services can contact
the Foundation at 542 -6496 or see:
SupportFrenchHospital.org
The Central Coast Realtors 6th
Annual Benefit Golf Tournament
raised over $9,000 at the San
Luis Obispo Country Club with
more than 145 participants. The
Realtors Charitable Foundation takes
applications from organizations and
chooses three to award funds raised
from the Golf Tournament. This year’s
recipients, who were each awarded
more than $2,375 include the Food
Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo
County, Family Care Network and
Escuela del Rio. “The golf tournament
is always a big success” said Robin
Foreman, president of the Foundation.
Event organizer Mary Trudeau added,
“It was truly an honor to chair this
year’s Annual Golf Tournament to raise
funds for three very worthy charities.”
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