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January 8 - 21, 2015
YOUR COMMUNITY IN YOUR HANDS
AVILA BEACH • SHELL BEACH • PISMO BEACH • GROVER BEACH • ARROYO GRANDE • HALCYON • OCEANO
Folks welcomed the New Year with a dip in the ocean at the
Avila Beach pier during the 3rd annual Polar Plunge. Brave
people stormed into the water in celebration of 2015.
Photo by Evanne Mingori
New Tech Becomes
Demonstration School
The Best of 2014’s
Police Blotters
By Theresa-Marie Wilson
C
entral Coast New Tech High
School in Nipomo stepped into
the spotlight 3 three years ago
when the first group of freshman started classes at the only school of its kind
in the area.
The school was once again in the
spotlight after being chosen one of
nine new tech network schools across
the nation to be a demonstration site
for filming instructional videos. There
are 160 New Tech schools across the
country and two in Australia.
“It’s been great to be designated a
demonstration site after only being in
existence for three years. It is not real
common,” said Principal Dan Neff. “To
be chosen as one of only nine schools
across the network to film best practices for the video library, I think, is pretty
good.”
Schools in the New Tech Network
(NTN) practice project-based learning
and problem-based learning. Unlike
students in traditional schools, where
most teachers lecture and use textbooks as a teaching approach, teachers
in New Tech schools design rigorous,
real-world projects tied to state and
district standards and customize them
By Theresa-Marie Wilson and Neil Farrell
O
ne of the favorite features of our
readers is the weekly Police Blotter. These series of reports from
various cities give some insight into the
sometimes silly things that local police
and sheriff’s deputies are called on to
do in an area that thankfully, is largely
free of actual serious crimes. So as a
final send-off to 2014, we present the
Best of the Police Blotters, as chosen by
Theresa-Marie Wilson and Neil Farrell
(who also write them). Enjoy.
JANUARY
Arroyo Grande
• Jan. 9: A caller thought they had
seen a black or brown bear on The Pike.
Police did not see any bear or a picnic
basket for that matter in the area.
• Jan. 10: A man was reportedly stripping off clothes on the sidewalk in front
of 7-Eleven and making obscene gestures at passing cars. Magic Mike was
warned about having an open container
of some sort or another.
See New Tech, page 25
See Blotter, page 4
A Bold
New
Future
Everything’s
Coming
Up Roses
Bird
Watching
in Morro
Terence
Brewer
Trio at
Unity
Sensational
Sushi
page 2
page 8
page 10
page 22
page 24
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January 8 - 21, 2015 • Coast News
Table of
Contents
Bret Colhouer
publisher
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New Laws on the Books ................. 3
Community Calendar................ 10-11
Entertainment ..........................22-23
Police Blotter ʻYear in Reviewʼ .......4-7
Restaurant Month..................... 12-13
Dinner and a Movie ..................... 24
Cal Poly Float Wins ........................ 8
Lifestyle ................................... 14-17
Police Blotter ʻYear in Reviewʼ ...26-28
Opinion - King Harris ..................... 9
805-Sound............................... 18-21
In The Black .............................29-31
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NEWS
New Laws on the Books
T
he start of a new year wouldn’t
be complete without new laws,
and California has done them
up big this year. More than 900 new
or revamped regulations are on the
books for 2015. The following is merely
a smattering of rules for folks to follow.
Putting the pedal to the metal could
cost more at the pump. Gas prices will
likely go up in California as a result
of the state’s cap-and-trade system
surrounding the greenhouse- gas
emissions law. Starting Jan. 1, gasoline
and diesel producers have to supply
lower-carbon fuels -- which are more
expensive to produce -- or to buy
pollution permits for the greenhouse
gases created when the fuel is burned.
Also in California, people in the
state illegally will now be able to get a
driver’s license. Additionally, all smart
phones sold as of July 1 will have to be
equipped with a kill switch option as a
detriment to thieves. While on the topic
of cell phones, those of you who like
to get back at friends by posting nude
selfies of them will be facing charges of
misdemeanor that could result in fines.
Although those of us in San Luis
Obispo County are used to bringing our
own bags to the grocery store, the rest
of the state is next on the list. Statewide,
grocery stores and pharmacies will be
prohibited from distributing the bags
beginning July 1, 2015. Convenience
and liquor stores will be impacted the
following July. Plastic bag makers are
not likely going to take it like a bag
blowing in the wind. Signatures are
being gathered to foil the law and could
land a referendum on the November
2016 ballot.
Convicted felons won’t being leaving
jail empty handed in California.
Prisoners will be leaving with a state ID
in hand in the hopes that it will make
finding a job a little easier.
Informally known as the “eraser
law,” California’s “Privacy Rights for
California Minors in the Digital World
Law” prohibits some online operators
from marketing certain products and
services to minors, and allows minors
under 18 to request certain content be
deleted from websites on which they
are registered.
Also as concerns minors, Operators
of Websites, online services, online
applications, and mobile applications
that are directed to minors are
prohibited
from
marketing
or
advertising the following products and
services: alcoholic beverages, tobacco
or related products such as papers,
e-cigarettes,
drug
paraphernalia,
firearms or handguns, dangerous
fireworks and spray paint.
Salvia divinorum or Salvinorin A
is also a no-no in marketing aimed
at minors. For those not up on the
member of the mint family, the plant
is psychoactive and can be brewed,
chewed and smoked.
A new law that seems beyond its time
is getting a lot of attention. More room
is now required for egg-laying hens,
breeding sows and veal calves. The law,
as concerns space for hens, also applies
to out-of- state egg suppliers.
As covered in Tolosa Press in 2014,
“yes means yes” between college
students having sex goes into effect
requiring “an affirmative, conscious
and voluntary agreement to engage in
sexual activity.” That means that not
saying the word “no” does not mean
yes.
On the national front, federal
employees will receive a 1 percent pay
raise in 2015, as a result of an executive
order signed by President Obama on
December 19, 2014. This is the first
federal pay raise since 2010. Uniformed
military service members will also
receive a 1 percent increase.
According to the National Law
Review, California’s Invasion of Privacy
law also received an update. The law
currently prohibits the attempt to
capture, in a manner that is offensive
to a reasonable person, any type of
visual image, sound recording, or other
physical impression, when the person
is engaged in a personal or familial
activity (brown chicken, brown cow)
under circumstances where they had
a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Current California law prohibits the
activities described where the attempt
to capture is done through a visual
or auditory enhancing device. As of
January 1, the above activities are
prohibited when done using any device.
For those folks working in a dangerous
industry, the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA)
has issued new recordkeeping and
reporting requirements for workrelated injuries. The new law requires
employers to notify OSHA when an
employee is killed within eight hours
of the incident, and to report any workrelated hospitalization, amputation,
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• January 8 - 21, 2015 • Tolosa Press
POLICE BLOTTER
Blotter, from page 1
block of Kern said someone stole
the handle off his refrigerator,
proving once again that people will
steal anything.
Jan. 11: A man on James Way
reportedly jumped out of a car
with a rifle and entered the green
belt area. The driver of the car was
wearing rubber boots, glasses, and
jogging shorts. Police caught up
with the dynamic duo and issued a
warning for what turned out to be
a pellet gun. Hopefully, the fashion
police were close behind with a
warning for the driver.
Pismo Beach
• Jan. 16: Police were unable to
locate a man reading a newspaper in
a condo overlooking an elementary
school playground. Apparently he’d
violated some obscure municipal
code against minding one’s own
business.
• Jan. 21: A man was arrested
after police were called to the Shore
Cliff to check on him after he was in
the bathroom for about 25 minutes.
Perhaps prunes are in order.
• Jan. 22: A caller reported driving
on the freeway when someone
threw a bag of excrement on his
vehicle, which is a really crappy way
to commute to work.
San Luis Obispo
• Jan. 7: A citizen told police that
he or she couldn’t remember where
they left a Sandisk 32G memory
card.
• Jan. 21: Someone called from
the 900 block of Palm to report a
guy in a sports jersey with the No. 7
on it was “acting disoriented.” If he
were choking as well, he might’ve
been a 49er.
• Jan. 22: Someone complained
because a transient man had been
camping down by Laguna Lake for
two days and if he’d used his car,
he’d have gotten three days to move.
• Jan. 22: A woman called at
7:30 p.m. to report that a man in
a gray four-door BMW had driven
by slowly with his hand around
his “special purpose” exposing his
shortcomings to her. Naturally, this
occurred at Palm and Broad.
FEBRUARY
Los Osos
• Feb. 10: Deputies were asked
to check the welfare of someone
at 3:26 p.m. in the 900 block of
Nipomo. They couldn’t find them,
so great, now they’re lost too!?!
Pismo Beach
• Feb. 9: Police were called out
by Harry’s where four men were
jumping a brick wall and a woman
was lifting her shirt showing her
brick house.
• Feb. 11: A caller reported a man
sitting on the beach in some brush.
If that isn’t odd enough he was
under an umbrella with nothing on
but a towel.
• Feb. 16: A woman selling sand
dollars near the pier decided to take
a nap on the boardwalk. She was
advised to move along and no doubt
questioned as to why she wasn’t as
successful as her sister who sells
seashells by the seashore.
• Feb. 17: A caller on the 800
block of Taft said that he had swept
in front of his home and then the
neighbor moved her car and swept
her stuff in front of his yard. He
swept it back. The neighbor then
whipped out a leaf blower beginning
decades of herbicidal actions.
• Feb. 24: A female student got
busted smoking weed in the girls’
locker room at Judkins Middle
School proving that not everybody
knows that smokin’ ain’t allowed in
school.
San Luis Obispo
• Feb. 6: Police went to the
Albertson’s Shopping Center on
Foothill where they said some
juice weasel was outside a donut
shop making a nuisance of himself.
The 40-year-old glazed fellow was
dunked in the County mug.
• Feb. 12: A citizen in the 200
block of Hermosa called at 11:05
p.m. to complain because mooing
cows on the hill had been keeping
him or her awake for the past two
nights, a case of “Welcome to the
sticks buddy.”
• Feb. 24: Police got a call at 8:30
a.m. from Higuera and Broad where
someone said there was a transient
man yelling at people walking
by. Logs said it was “Some weird
voodoo thing.” Ol’ chicken bones
was gone when they arrived.
• Feb. 27: A citizen in the 1400
block of Phillips called at 6:33
p.m. to report a suspicious man.
Logs indicated the only description
was, “old, drunk and staggering,”
which pretty much says it all. Police
couldn’t find the stumblebum.
MARCH
Avila Beach
• March 25: Some chicken hawk
burgled a coop in the 6100 block
of Kestrel Rd., and ah-say, ah-say,
deputy Foghorn Leghorn is on the
case.
Los Osos
• March 12: A family feud erupted
in the 1300 block of 15th at 5 p.m.
Name the person who most likely
went to the hoosegow… Survey
says… junior!
• March 23: Sheriff’s deputies
stopped a suspicious fellow out
traipsing along at 2 a.m. at Los
Olivos and Fairchild. The swizzle
stick was shaken not stirred into a
County bucket.
Morro Bay
• March 5: Police responded to
a smoke shop in the 300 block
of Morro Bay Blvd., where some
apparent pothead stole a marijuana
water pipe, and reefer madness
begins to take hold.
• March 16: A guy in the 400
Pismo Beach
March: 2: Police were unable to
locate a woman who was no doubt
abashed because she was smashed
and got her face bashed when she
crashed the caller’s bicycle.
March 3: A portable toilet went
on the lam on Bello Street. The
runaway crapper had reportedly
been in the area for a couple of
weeks and did not appear to have a
permit associated with it.
• March 12: A caller on Panorama
at Shamrock reported a bird in cage
with a sign on it that said “free bird.”
The remaining members of Lynyrd
Skynyrd were nowhere to be found.
• March 12: Some hammered
guy refused to leave the front of
Giuseppe’s and refused a cab. He
was taken to Denny’s where drunks
are part of their profit margin.
• March 15: Police were unable
to locate transients using a shower
at Pismo Creekside RV Resort.
Obviously, they made a clean get away.
San Luis Obispo
• March 12: A fat, transient man
with a “thick tuft of hair on the
top of his head” like a mushroom
was loitering at 12:23 p.m. at the
Creamery in the 500 block of
Higuera. Police had a chat with ol’
fungus head and sent him packing.
• March 12: A citizen in the 1600
block of Tanglewood called at
11:47 p.m. to report a strange man
knocked on his or her door and
asked for a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich. He’d made like jelly and
jammed before officers arrived.
• March 19: At 1:51 a.m., someone
in the 100 block of Longview
got quite a view of a naked man
running down the street towards
Slack. Police streaked to the scene
but couldn’t catch the Flash.
• March 21: Someone reported a
prowler at 1 a.m. in the 1300 block
of Chorro scratching at one of the
windows trying to get in (hey it
worked for the cat). The 21-yearold Tomcat was taken to the County
litter box to sleep it off.
• March 27: Someone called
at 4:37 p.m. from Bubble Gum
Alley because a transient man was
actually being more disgusting than
the walls.
• March 27: A citizen called at
8:23 p.m. to report several teenaged boys were smoking pot and
drinking beer across from Mission
College Prep, yeah, they’re prepping
for college alright.
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POLICE BLOTTER
APRIL
Los Osos
• April 18: Deputies stopped a
suspicious bicycle rider at 12:50
a.m. in the area of LOVR and
Fairchild but he was allowed to
pedal on, Wayne.
Morro Bay
• April 5: Police responded
at 1 p.m. to the 900 block of
Embarcadero where a parked car
jumped in front of a woman driver.
• April 8: Someone found a bag of
crank in the parking lot at Rite Aid
and turned it over to police to sniff
out the situation.
• April 18: Police got a report at
9:22 p.m. of a fight at a bar in North
Morro Bay and when they got there
they found a guy with a fat lip, yeah
but you shoulb hab seed da udder
guy…
Pismo Beach
• April 5: A woman on the 600
block of Cypress appeared to have
urinated. The caller said that she
looked pregnant but when asked
she said that she was just fat.
• April 10: A slowpoke in the
middle of the road in front of the
train station was trying to get a
turtle off the street.
• April 19: A caller on the 600
block of Vista Pacifica said her
neighbor walked by and spit on her
car and called her foul names. He
then threw a tennis ball at her and
missed hitting his own wife for a
new meaning of unforced error.
• April 22: Some pinhead at the
Pismo Bowl refused to pay her bill.
She couldn’t split before police
arrived and had to pay up.
San Luis Obispo
• April 7: A citizen in the 3000
block of Augusta reported the theft
of Vicodin back in November 2013,
as apparently the fog of prescription
meds finally lifted.
• April 9: Police got a report
from a citizen in the 300 block of
Tassajara who reported an ongoing
problem with their pig neighbor
who keeps throwing feces over the
fence, a grand example of the kind
of crap police have to deal with.
• April 10: Police got a call at 4:45
p.m. of a crazy man who stole a
lighted candle running amok inside
the Old Mission Church, who looked
like he was under the influence of
more than the Holy Spirit.
• April 17: Some whiner in the
1300 block of Ella complained
because his car cover had a coffee
stain on it.
• April 18: Police responded at
12:52 a.m. to the 600 block of
Stanford after a woman said some
weirdo had approached her window
and taped a quarter to the glass with
a Band-Aid.
• April 23: Police responded at
11:32 a.m. to the Madonna Inn
where some homeless guy keeps
prowling around. It was the second
time in two days that presumably
the same Phantom of the Inn had
been reportedly upsetting the local
one-percenters.
• April 30: A citizen called 9-11 at 9:34 a.m. from Trader Joe’s
to report that he or she was
“intentionally bumped” by another
customer, reason No. 46 for getting
a Taser.
• April 30: Police got a report at
12:23 a.m. of shots fired at the SLO
Donut Shop in the 700 block of
Foothill and the shooters had the
parking lot blocked off, too. It was
apparently a prank, as no one is
crazy enough to try and block cops
from the donut shop.
MAY
Cayucos
• May 13: Deputies stopped a
suspicious vehicle at noon in the
area of Hwy 1 and Cayucos Drive
and made an arrest, a possible case
of arrive on vacation — leave on
probation.
Pismo Beach
• May 1: Police were unable to
locate a possible drunk driver. The
female driver was bleeding from
her head after falling out of the
car at 1st Stop Liquor, which was
obviously not her first stop.
• May 6: A caller reported four
people with backpacks sitting all
day by the bathrooms on Addie
Street. The caller thought that
they might be setting up camp,
apparently a day at the beach is not
allowed anymore.
• May 18: Police were unable to
locate the source of a report of “cats
going crazy” on the 2300 block
of Price Street. The female caller
said that something was going on
but that she couldn’t explain it. No
doubt catnip was brought to the
scene.
• May 21: A caller on the 1400
block of Ocean Boulevard reported
that someone had called his cell
phone three or four times in the last
half hour. The caller didn’t answer
it and didn’t know who was calling.
Further, he didn’t want an officer to
contact him. That pretty much ends
another pointless 9-1-1 call
Morro Bay
• May 3: Someone found a
camouflage backpack and boots
by City Park, so we’re looking for a
barefoot Rambo?
San Luis Obispo
• May 7: Someone called 9-1-1 at
9:54 p.m. from the 3500 block of
Higuera because a Coastal Peaks
Coffee van was parked in Coastal
Peaks Coffee’s lot.
• May 8: Police were called at 3:55
p.m. to the 1000 block of Peach
after a man wearing a Superman
T-shirt barged into Dr. Demaris’
office. Police spoke to him before he
went up… up… and awaaay!
• May 22: Police responded to
Sports Authority in the 200 block
of Madonna for a report that an
employee had tried to steal cash
eight times, as he clearly needs
more training. A crime report for
embezzlement was started.
• May 29: Someone called at 5:24
a.m. to report approximately 20
naked men “streaking” towards
a nearby sorority house. Police
couldn’t find them, as they no doubt
shrank away.
• May 30: Someone at Taco Bell
in the 3800 block of Broad called
police because two freeloaders were
using water cups to drink soda.
JUNE
Avila Beach
• June 14: Deputies got a report
of fireworks going off at 10:46 p.m.
on Cave Landing Road, at Pirate’s
Cove Nude Beach. Four deputies
responded but the whistling Petes
got away. The same deputies
popped over to a report of fireworks
at 11:38 on Avila Beach Drive and
again missed the finale. The hunt
sparkled briefly when they stopped
a vehicle at 11:58 on Avila Beach
Drive at Ontario Road, but the call
fizzled, and so the firecracker chase
was apparently a dud.
Cayucos
• June 16: A disturbance was
reported at 1:30 p.m. in the first
block of St. Mary. And sweet Jesus,
a second complaint came in at 5:54
and by God there was a third at
9:30. And thank the Holy Ghost, no
arrests were needed. Amen.
Los Osos
• June 24: Deputies were alerted
to a human dinghy floating on a sea
of suds at 4:40 a.m. on Pasadena
Drive. He or she went to the County
B&B to sleep it off.
• June 18: Someone in the 700
block of LOVR reported vandalism
at 3:20 a.m., as it apparently
couldn’t wait ‘til morning. Deputies
arrived to take a report at 3:42 p.m.,
so it apparently could wait ‘til after
lunch.
Morro Bay
• June 6: Police responded to the
700 block of Embarcadero for a
report of someone stealing fishing
poles, proving the new adage that
if you teach a man to fish he’ll eat
forever, but just stealing what you
want is easier.
• June 25: The store Dick at
Albertsons Market caught a live
one, as a 31-year-old sticky-fingered
woman was arrested for suspicion
of shoplifting, possessing drug
paraphernalia and the devilish PC
666, theft with prior convictions.
She was tossed into the hoosegow
to contemplate the errors in her
techniques.
Pismo Beach
• June 8: Police were unable to
locate a man that a caller on the
300 block of El Portal said pulled
out a “two-barreled pistol” on him
and demanded money. The caller
said that ol’ Jesse James might be a
drug dealer with the rarest weapon
on earth.
• June 29: Some slob who was
reportedly pickled in front of the
Cliffs and later face planted in a
field was arrested.
• June 28: A recently fired
employee at Wheel Fun Rentals
reportedly pushed a current
employee, which isn’t real fun at all.
The pushy one was advised against
trespassing.
San Luis Obispo
• June 18: Someone in Santa Rosa
Park called at 11 a.m. because there
was a naked man in the creek, no
doubt fishing with a wiggly worm.
The crack in the crick, was gone.
• June 19: At 1 p.m., someone
at City Hall called 9-1-1 because
a man there was going through
withdrawals, though not from
budget cuts.
• June 25: Some smooth talker
called police at 10:56 a.m. to report
that he was talking to a girl on the
phone and she started to choke and
then the line went dead, the 52nd
way to leave your lover…
• June 26: Someone called police
at 12:11 p.m. from outside Sears
on Madonna because two donkeys
were tied up outside for an hour
and the jacka** owner was nowhere
to be found.
• June 26: Someone called police
at 6:50 p.m. from Broad and
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POLICE BLOTTER
Higuera to report a man with a boa
constrictor had set up a booth at
Farmer’s Market without a permit.
The sideshow sneak snaked off with
his serpent in hand.
JULY
Avila Beach
• July 7: Deputies responded at
10:18 a.m. to Cave Landing Road
and the Pirate’s Cove Nude Beach
for a reported case of brandishing
a weapon. No word on how big of
a rod was brandished, snicker,
snicker…
Cambria
• July 24: A grand theft was
reported in the 800 block of Main
and the Bobbies’ll ‘ave a jolly good
time roustin’ the rotter.
Cayucos
• July 5: Suspicious circumstances
were reported at 12:30 p.m. down
by the pier. Some naughty boy got
hauled to the county ATM, which
collects, instead of dispenses, cash.
Los Osos
• July 14: Petty theft was reported
at 2:52 a.m. in the 1600 block of
11th. Deputies took a crime report
when they arrived at 3:14 p.m. now
how’s that for service.
Morro Bay
• July 6: Police got an emergency
call of an overturned skiff in the bay
off the 500 block of Embarcadero
with four people in the water. The
Coast Guard responded and the
four were apparently fished out of
the bay. USCG then conducted a
boating-while-tanked
investigation on the
dinghy
operator.
Meanwhile, at the
scene,
another
suspected drunk driver
backed his SUV into a
parked MBPD patrol
car.
The
Highway
Patrol
responded
to
investigate
and
determined no damage
was done to either
car and perhaps the
unluckiest driver in
the world hadn’t been
drinking.
• July 24: Police responded to a
hardware store in the 500 block of
Atascadero Rd., where they arrested
a 32-year-old man for suspicion of
embezzlement, because Ace is the
place with the sticky-fingered hardwaaare man…
Pismo Beach
• July 9: Guests at the Sea Crest
Resort called the front desk asking
for assistance because things
were moving around the room by
themselves. They no doubt had the
mushroom special for dinner.
• July 18: A person on the 200
block of Five Cities Drive was
vomiting. No further information
was regurgitated.
• July 19: A man with a moustache,
which narrows down the suspect
pool, was cutting people off and
speeding on Hwy 101. Speedy
Gonzales got away no doubt
exclaiming, “¡Ándale! ¡Ándale!
¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! ¡Epa!
Yeehaw!”
• July 29: A man standing in
the parking lot of an apartment
complex in the 100 block of Boeker
was wearing a blonde wig and high
heels with nothing on from the
waist down. The caller said she
was unsure if she’d seen the family
jewels or if the guy was merely
scantily clad? Extra patrol was
requested either way.
• July 29: A caller on the first block
of Whitecap reported that someone
may have entered her yard and
sprayed her dog with something.
The poor pooch was “throwing
up and pooping and had a yellow
substance on his face.”
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POLICE BLOTTER
• July 1: A woman reported a
prowler at 12:32 a.m. in the 600
block of Palm. Logs indicated a
face was seen pressed against the
bathroom window, which would
scare the sh*t out of anyone.
• July 1: Police got a report from
the SLO Swim Center pool on
Southwood at 7:06 p.m. reporting
that “low pH balance in the pool”
was causing them to pull people
out, though low pH beats a high
pee-H every time.
• July 2: Police got a call at 4:23
p.m. from the 600 block of Higuera
from someone who said a transient
named “Simba” who was just
“talking to a cat” when he or she
allegedly grabbed their cell phone,
the ol’ acting purrr-fectly crazy to
throw ‘em off guard trick.
• July 9: A citizen in the 2000
block of Meadow called at 1:15 p.m.
to report a couple doing the hunkachunka behind her house. Police
arrived for some coitus interuptus
at 1:27 but were too late.
• July 10: A driver at Higuera and
Osos called at 6:54 p.m. to report
a suspected DUI driver almost hit
several people and was having a
hard time shifting gears. Police
stopped the car but the let the
driver go as they apparently weren’t
drunk, just couldn’t drive a stick.
• July 23: Someone called at 11:46
a.m. from Morro and Marsh about
an aggressive transient yelling in a
restroom, who then left his soiled
britches behind, like who hasn’t
done that?
• July 23: Police responded at
2:44 p.m. to Taco Bell on Santa
Rosa for a report of some wacko
sitting against the back utility door
masturbating. Logs indicated it
was a false alarm, or perhaps a
premature alarm.
• July 28: Police responded to
Albertson’s in the 1300 block of
Johnson after some transient
man stole a jar of pickles. A store
employee was following the pickle
thief and police arrested the dill
weed, who is indeed in a pickle now.
• July 31: Police got a complaint
at noon regarding an antiPresident Obama protester on the
Hwy 101 overpass on Santa Rosa
who was dancing around naked.
And he thinks Obama should be
impeached?
AUGUST
Avila Beach
• Aug. 3: Deputies responded
to Avila for a report of two people
dinning and dashing in the 200
block of Front St. They got arrested.
While there, deputies came upon a
drunk in the area of Front and San
Francisco who also got arrested,
quite the parlay — two cheapskates
and a swizzle stick.
Cayucos
• Aug. 25: Deputies got a report
at 4:08 a.m. of indecent exposure
at 3rd and Pacific. According to
logs they arrested some apparently
nasty wanker.
Los Osos
• Aug. 5: Deputies responded
at 12:33 p.m. to the 1900 block of
Tapidero for an animal cruelty
report. No word on what type critter
the animal abused.
• Aug. 15: Deputies were asked to
check the welfare of a suspicious
person at 1 p.m. in the 1900 block
of 13th. He or she was arrested, and
has no doubt had more fun at the
dentist.
Morro Bay
• Aug. 3: A man told police that
some scoundrel stole the motor
from his dinghy.
• Aug. 11: Police got a report of
a reckless driver on Hwy 1 who
was unable to stay in his lane and
kept driving onto the shoulder.
The potential drunken driver was
contacted while pumping gas at
the Mobil Station and the 88-year
old was ordered to have his driver’s
license re-examined, as he wasn’t
drunk — just old.
• Aug. 16: Police got a call at 9 a.m.
from the 700 block of Quintana
where they said some perv exposed
his dinky-winky.
• Aug. 25: A man reported his
16-year-old daughter as missing.
Officers found the little impudent
enchilada hanging with her saucy
friends at Taco Bell.
Pismo Beach
• Aug. 19: A woman reported that
her sister walks her dog around
6 a.m. in the Esparto area. A man
approached her and asked if she
was “looking for a good time.” He
claimed to be a plumber from New
York.
• Aug. 23: A drunken man in front
of Hot Shots was yelling at a woman
and punching the windows of a car.
He was wearing a shirt that fittingly
said, “Explosive” on it. He was
arrested for being bombed.
San Luis Obispo
• Aug. 7: Police were asked at 1:30
p.m. to check the welfare of a man
sitting outside Banana Republic in
the 900 block of Higuera with his
luggage strewn about and wearing
only green boxer shorts. Police
said he was OK, though a tad
underdressed.
• Aug. 14: A burglar alarm
sounded at 7:38 a.m. in the 1100
block of Orcutt at Unity Church.
Human error was of course the
cause, as God doesn’t need a pass
code.
• Aug. 14: Police were called
at 12:31 p.m. by County Mental
Health and told to be on the
lookout for one of their in-patients
that reportedly jumped the fence
and took off, a case of one flew over
the coo-coo’s fence.
• Aug. 14: Police were called at
7:13 p.m. to the YMCA swim center
on Southwood, where they said
a man with a black hat and white
shirt pulled his pants down and
exposed his shortcomings.
• Aug. 19: And capturing the
irony-of-the-day award — at 7:24
a.m. police got a complaint from
the 100 block of Tank Farm Rd.,
of a homeless man sleeping in the
entryway of Habitat for Humanity.
• Aug. 19: Police got a call at 2:28
p.m. from the 1100 block of Tank
Farm Rd., of a man walking down
the street with his penis dangling
out of his pants. The caller said
he’d just turned onto Islay. Police
decided the call was unfounded, no
doubt just taking little Willie out for
some fresh air.
• Aug. 20: Someone called at 9:21
a.m. with a news flash that 20 dead
fish were floating in Laguna Lake,
as the lake lacks what fish need —
water.
• Aug. 26: A citizen in the 500
block of Hill called at 6:47 p.m. to
report a neighboring house was a
“college house,” his first clue being
six drunken idiots up on the roof.
• Aug. 28: A woman called at
4:23 a.m. from the 2100 block of
Florence and said she’d just gotten
home and found a man in her
garage, and the suspect apparently
ran off. To which her mom will no
doubt ask, “Where were you ‘til 4 in
the morning?”
SEPTEMBER
Avila Beach
• Sept. 14: Someone called at
11:08 a.m. to report animal cruelty
at San Miguel and Avila Beach Dr.
A second cruelty call came in at 5
p.m. at San Luis and Front Sts.,
as the beach tends to make some
animals lose their minds, and dogs
like it too.
• Sept. 18: Someone reported
an odd duck quacking about on
Canvasback Pl.
Cambria
• Sept. 25: Vandals struck in the
1000 block of Main, which is good
for 20 lashes in Singapore.
Morro Bay
• Sept. 9: Police went to the aptly
named high school at 3:12 after they
caught a 15-year-old pothead in
possession of the evil weed, a case
of don’t ya’ know to smoke AFTER
school boy? The Los Osos lad was
cited and released to his no doubt
proud parents.
• Sept. 12: Police contacted
another suspicious subject cruising
down the Boulevard at Shasta Ave.,
and tossed the 26-year-old transient
tosspot into the County melting pot
for being butt toasted.
• Sept. 26: Police did a little night
fishing at Lila Keiser Park at 1:36
a.m. and hooked up a couple of
keepers for warrants. They were
taken to the County B&B for a
descaling and fileting.
Pismo Beach
• Sept. 1: Police checked on
someone under the boardwalk.
They were OK and were apparently
just having some fun, under the
boardwalk, down by the sea-e-e,
yeah…
• Sept 21: A 24-year-old man
dislocated his hip halfway down the
beach access stairs behind the Tides
Motel. Apparently the stairs aren’t
very accessible after all.
• Sept. 27: Two people sleeping
behind Golden Donut were told to
hit the road, no doubt to make room
for more police officers.
• Sept. 27: A fight broke out at
Spyglass Park. One caller reported
See Blotter, page 26
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January 8 - 21, 2015 • Coast News
NEWS
Polys Rose Parade Float Wins Again
By Camas Frank
Photos by Tom Zasadzinski, courtesy of Cal Poly Pomona
C
al Poly’s annual entry in the
Tournament of Roses Parade
has again come out smelling
like, well, roses.
The
collaborative
float,
constructed by students at Cal Poly
SLO and Poly Pomona, won the
Lathrop K. Leishman Trophy for
the most beautiful non-commercial
float at the New Year’s Day iconic
parade.
“Soaring Stories” was the name of
their float, which literally brought to
life the pages of a fairy tale based on
this year’s parade theme, “Inspiring
Stories.”
Tiffany Geery, the design chair
and a fourth year industrial
engineering student said that the
final design was miles away from
how they started out, but everyone
was pleased with the result.
“The initial concept had a volcano
and a dinosaur on it,” she said in a
statement released by Cal Poly SLO’s
press officer. “The design team took
the idea of books coming to life from
the concept and brainstormed ideas
for stories, which is how we ended
up with our design.”
The finished float featured a
storybook-inspired castle and a
humongous griffin making his
escape from the pages that support
the scene.
The 18-foot wide by 55-foot long
float brought together a wide cross
section of the disciplines offered
at both schools, using solar panels
to animate castle and the winged
griffin powered by the float’s
engines.
A circulating waterfall added
to the feat of whimsy with other
flower-covered creations animated
for their scene including the castle’s
drawbridge and fish in the moat,
flickering flames and a moving
writer’s quill. In a first for the
schools, the float included a wall of
living flowers instead of cut flowers
that traditionally adorn Rose
Parade floats.
Cal Poly President Jeffrey
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see the product of their year of
handiwork, as well as stopping to
take a “selfie” with the crew, which
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Tolosa Press • January 8 - 21, 2015
•
OPINION
Future Flights of Fancy
Good to be King
By King Harris
I don’t know about you, but I’m not
a great fan of flying, partially because
of the language used by the airline
industry, which includes macabre
expressions like “terminal,” “final
approach,” and “non-stop.”
Nonetheless, I am an advocate of
our regional airport because simply
put, success there means a stronger
local economy. While other regional
airports in California are suffering
from permanent flight cancellations,
the County Airport in San Luis Obispo
seems to be bucking the trend.
Yes, while SLO currently offers
flights only to SFO, LAX, and
Phoenix, talks continue with Alaska
Airlines and United Airlines for
flights in the future to Seattle and
Denver respectively. But that’s not
the major news, as we hear from
Airport Director, Kevin Bumen.
“We have been very busy,” he said.
“There are a number of things going
on. We are submitting the application
for the funding for a new terminal so
that project is taking another step
forward. We will be putting that out
to bid this spring.
“The final decision to build or not
to build has not been made yet. But
we are getting all the pieces together
and we’ll go back to the Board of
Supervisors in June or July once
we have more information on the
grant in hand and then make a final
decision to move forward at that
point.”
Is it a question of money? “It
is,” he said. “Money and all the
circumstances that surround the
project in the industry. It’s a pretty
dynamic industry by now, within the
regional airports. We want to keep a
close eye on that and make sure all of
our assumptions we are making stay
relevant.”
The project consultants, RS&H,
“have submitted two separate
designs,” he continued. “The board
accepted one final design
in August. One was very
ambitious with a parking
structure and multi-level
terminal much more than
what we’re proposing at
this point. The design now
is a single-level building
just over 50,000 square
feet, four gates, so that we
could have four planes at
once.
“Right now we have 12,000 s.f. “We
have a single gate that we service
three aircraft through at once. Of
those 12,000 s.f., less than 9,000 of
it is public space. That is so far below
what a typical airport should handle.
Our building is 45-years old. We’ve
been through 9/11 in that facility and
all of the security requirements that
have been implemented since then,
so we’ve used a significant amount
of that floor space for security
equipment.”
That building has seen a number
of changes but it’s been expanded
modestly but it’s a difficult building
to expand. It was never built with that
in mind. Right now we have airlines,
airport offices, we have the sheriff’s
office, TSA, and we have operations
and maintenance in that building. We
would move all of those functions into
the new building. It’s on an entirely
new site because the current facility
sits too close to the runways. As we’ve
grown over the years the aircraft have
gotten bigger, the runway has gotten
longer.”
I asked Bumen how he decides what
he thinks he’ll need? “That’s the art of
the science, that’s for sure. There’s
a lot of analyses and looking back to
what we had years ago in terms of
type of aircraft, the number of people
per flight, flights per hour, flights per
day. There are a number of sources
that look forward to forecasting for an
airport of our size and our region that
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levels going forward.
“One of the interesting
design studies that was
done back in 1998 and
revealed that we needed a
terminal that was close to
30,000 s.f. when we were
operating in the same
building we’re in today. So
we’re really going to be in a
much more adequate facility that will
have several options for expansion
as we go forward. We can push the
building in three different directions
for the future so we’re going to design
with the future in mind.”
There are a couple of other things
to mention. The control tower will
stay where it is, for at least several
years. But the biggest change is going
to become a reality within 6 months.
Bumen said the turbo-props that
have been flying here for decades
will no longer be offering service by
May of this year, so we know that our
smallest aircraft seating 30 will be
replaced by aircraft with 50 seats.
So the future is going to mean larger
aircraft at the airport. One thing still
up in the air because of this change
is scheduling. Which means more
people in the building at any one
time, more baggage, more people per
hour type of metrics.
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approved, and if construction is on
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January 8 - 21, 2015 • Tolosa Press
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
SLO Little Theatre’s Academy
of Creative Theatre presents
a young performers’ adaptation of The
Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson
Burnett’s heartwarming tale of hope
and the transformative power of love.
Performances run January 9-25,
Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m. and
Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. at
the SLO Little Theatre, 888 Morro
Street in San Luis Obispo. Tickets at
slolittletheatre.org or call 786-2440.
Tickets are $13 students and $20
adults.
The Los Osos Library has
several events in January. From
noon-2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, is a free
workshop to teach folks how to use
do digital downloads. Get help with
your device to download free eBooks
and other eMedia resources from the
library. And all day Saturday, Jan.
17 it’s Adult Winter Reading Kickoff.
Celebrate the beginning of the library’s
adult reading program with delicious
warm beverages and treats. Free.
Sponsored by the Friends of Los Osos
Library. And at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan.
17 library will have a sing-a-long to a
“chilly,” Oscar-winning Disney movie.
Popcorn provided. The film is rated
PG, call 528-1862 for movie title. The
Los Osos Library is located at 2075
Palisades Ave. For more details call
528-1862.
Local physician, Dr. Lisa Molin,
will kick off the 2015 Greenspace
Speaker Series with a lecture on how
you can help the earth while improving
your health, from 3-5 p.m. Sunday,
Jan. 25 at the Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship at 786 Arlington St.,
Cambria. Cost is $5 at the door and
proceeds benefit Greenspace, a nonprofit organization working to protect
the North Coast of SLO County.
Molin will discuss three New Year’s
resolutions to reduce your carbon
footprint — eat local; eat less meat;
and eat less processed foods. Light,
healthy refreshments will be served.
For more information, call Greenspace
at 927-2866 or email to: connie@
greenspacecambria.org.
Morro Bay Art Association
will host the Third Annual “For
the Birds” exhibit of paintings,
photographs, drawings, and 3-D works,
all depicting birds, in the Main Gallery
at the Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main
St. The exhibition/sale will hang form
Jan. 15-Feb. 23 and there’s an opening
reception set for 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Jan.
18. Gallery hours are noon-4 p.m. daily.
Call 772-2504 during business hours
for more information. Pictured here is
a photo by Ralph Wessel.
The Estero Bay Republican
Women’s
Federated’s
next
monthly luncheon is set for 11:30
a.m. Thursday, Jan. 15 at The View,
at Morro Bay Golf Course, with the
guest speakers Greg McGill and Bruce
McGrath of Honor Flight, who will be
on hand to accept a donation form the
club. Cost is $15 members and $20
non-members. Members come from
Morro Bay, Los Osos and Cayucos and
new members are welcome. The club
promotes a Republican platform. Call
Carolyn Atkinson at 528-6208 or email
to: [email protected] if
you’d like to join.
SLO Little Theatre presents
another in their series of After
Hours @slotheatre late night
comedies, We Canceling Cable (and
other empty threats). Written by
Michael Kaplan, the show is a hilarious
look at parenthood and the sometimes
cringe-worthy moments that go along
with it. Performances are January 1625, Fridays and Saturdays at 9:30 pm
and Sundays at 7 pm at the SLO Little
Theatre, 888 Morro Street in San Luis
Obispo. Tickets are $20 and can be
purchased at slolittletheatre.org or call
786-2440.
SLO Downtown Association
is accepting applications from
local bands for its Concerts in the
Plaza concert series, which runs
from 5-8 p.m. Fridays, June 12-Sept.
11 at Mission Plaza. Bands get $500
a show and applications are available
online at: www.DowntownSLO.com.
Applications will be reviewed Feb.
18 by the promotions committee,
sound and event technicians, staff and
volunteers. Deadline for applications is
Friday, Jan. 30 at 4 p.m.
The Point San Luis Lighthouse
Keepers are looking ahead to 2015
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and will be continuing their trolley
tours on Wednesdays and Saturdays all
year long. They hold several signature
events, too, including a Mother’s Day
Victorian Tea, set for Saturday, May
9. This jewel of the Central Coast will
also celebrate 125 years on Aug. 14
and they plan a grand party. For more
information see their website at: www.
sanluislighthouse.org, and to reserve a
tour call 540-5771.
Seven Sisters Gallery, 601
Embarcadero Ste. 8 in Morro Bay
is featuring the photography of
Ronnie Goyette, with an opening
reception set for 5-8 p.m. Friday, Jan.
9 during Art Walk Friday. Goyette
focuses on the many birds that call the
Morro Bay Estuary and local environs
their home. This is Goyette’s third onewoman show at Seven Sisters Gallery
and coincides with the Morro Bay
Winter Bird Festival, thereby giving
bird-watching visitors a chance to see
the talented work of an extraordinary
new nature photographer. Show runs
through Feb. 12.
The Central Coast Women
for Fisheries’ yummy albacore
enchilada fundraiser is taking
orders now with Jan. 31 the date
to pick up the orders. Advanced orders
are $10 for a tray of four albacore
enchiladas featuring West Coast
trawl-caught fish. Green sauce with
corn tortillas or red sauce and flour
tortillas. Order from Jackie at 7728281 or Sharon at 674-4854. They are
also selling 50/50 drawing tickets the
day of the pick up ($1 each or six for
$5), which will be at the Morro Bay
Community Center, 1001 Kennedy
Way. See: www.womenforfish.org.
Birders from far and wide will
converge on Morro Bay and the
surrounding environs Jan. 1619 for the 2015 Winter Bird Festival.
The
weekend
is filled with
special
events,
presentations
a vendors’ fair
and field trips
to birding spots
throughout SLO
County. Among
the
special
events is keynote
speaker,
Scott
Weidensaul,
author of the
wonderful Living
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on the Wind and other
award-winning books on
birds, nature and history,
will speak Saturday, Jan. 17.
His talk is titled, “Messing
Around with Birds (For
Fun and Science).” And
on Sunday, Jan. 18 is
Shawneen Finnegan, the
first ever festival artist, on
“The Insanity of Obsessive
Birders” (according to her,
and she would know). Also,
Family Day, with free or low
cost events for families, will
be Saturday the 17th. See:
www.morrobaybirdfestival.
org for a complete listing of
birding walks and events. ✤
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• January 8 - 21, 2015 • Restaurant Month
SLO County | Restaurant Month
Off The Hook
833 Embarcadero, Morro Bay
Seafood with a special twist is the name of the game
where you dine overlooking the water at Off The Hook.
Chefs at Off The Hook add some Asian fusion flair to
their cuisine. This is a restaurant that is neither American
nor Japanese, but is a combination of the two bringing
out unique flavors. Freshly caught fish such as Pacific
snapper, salmon, and Alaskan halibut are on the menu
and are pan seared and paired with rich seafood broths
and Asian sauces. Charbroiled New York steaks come
with a Unagi sauce and charbroiled fillet mignon with
seared scallops is served with jasmine rice and an Asian
sauce. If you like traditional fish and chips you won’t be
disappointed and may be delighted with these tempura
battered fillets of snapper and shoestring fries. Off The
Hook has two sushi chefs preparing a full sushi/sashimi
menu for very reasonable prices. All the classic rolls are
available as well as some interesting Asian fusion rolls.
There are appetizers, sandwiches, and burgers, soups,
and desserts – something for everyone with that special
fusion flair.
Local Quality Fresh Seafood
Contemporary Affordable Dining
Delightful Bay View Setting
Morro Bay’s Local Favorite
Fine Selection of Saki, Beer & Wine
772-1048
833 Embarcadero, Morro Bay
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Lolo’s Mexican Restaurant SLO County
Dutchman’s Seafood
House
701 Embarcadero, Morro Bay
Waterfront views and excellent hospitality create a memorable dining
experience. They work closely with local fisherman, farmers, and
vendors to buy as much local seafood as possible and bring you the
best of the Central coast. They also have a full bar so you can enjoy
your favorite drinks (Happy Hour from 3-6pm). Open for lunch and
dinner, this is a great spot that will quickly become your place to meet
friends and family to dine and drink on the bay. Paul and his family are
happy to welcome you to our space and showcase their array of fresh
handpicked ingredients prepared by Chef David Sundeen that come
to life on your plate. They are constantly evolving and will be updating
their menu in the next couple months with new menu and bar items!
Splash Cafe
1491 Pomeroy, Pismo Beach • 1491 Monterey St., & next to Barnes & Noble, SLO
In 1991, Joanne and Ross Currie purchased Splash Café in Pismo
Beach just before the annual Clam Festival in October. That incredibly
busy beginning was just the start of a 20+ year journey that has seen the
Curries improve the clam chowder recipe that is now award-winning
and world famous, expand to a second and a third location in San Luis
Obispo, ship the chowder fresh frozen nationally, distribute in Costco
stores and other restaurants and start a gourmet catering division. It’s
Splash Café’s customer loyalty and their insistence on using the highest
quality ingredients that has caused chowder sales to grow from 5000
gallons a year in 1991 to over 40,000 gallons a year between the three
restaurants.
Restaurant Month
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ave you heard the expression “ the real estate market
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These days, it’s easy to get a general idea of what properties have
been selling for by going on Zillow
or similar websites like Realtor.com
or Trulia. The problem with depending on those sources entirely is
that they often don’t reveal certain
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you can obtain the
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prices and market
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Remember..knowledge is power.
A great Realtor
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you through the
selling or buying
process and help
you to avoid negative encounters along the way. It
can be difficult or awkward to switch
gears once you’ve made the wrong
decision on which professional will
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Tolosa Press • January 8 - 21, 2015 •
Professional
Service Directory
AT THE SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY YMCA
we are committed to meeting the
needs of parents by offering fun,
enriching camps. Vacation camps
provide a safe environment where
youth participate in a variety of
exciting field trips & activities, and
overall help develop stronger, more
confident young people. Sign-up for spring camp at
www.sloymca.org or call 543-8235 for more information.
A New Year-A New You
By Susan K. Boyd MS, MFT
J
anuary 2015 holds the promise that we can dream, start
over and reinvent ourselves in
some, new, way. It is the month that
we start diets and join gyms, again.
This is when we promise ourselves
to stop impulsively spending. Then
we fall off the kitchen chair opening a credit card statement from
December. We use the beginning
of the year to start new projects
and avoid finishing the ones left
over from last year. They are hiding, stuffed in the back of the closet
or out in the corner of the garage.
Why do our dreams, sometimes, get
stuck in neutral when we have such
good intentions?
A cliché that I tell myself, and
my clients, when struggling to get
unstuck is ‘failure to plan is planning to fail.’ Dreams only materialize when we turn them into goals.
Then we make a plan and take
steps, consistently in that direction.
An inspirational speech I recently
heard on this subject came from the
actor Denzel Washington. He was
speaking to a group of teenage actors. His motivational talk must
have impacted a lot of people as it,
quickly, went viral.
Here are a few of Denzel Washington’s comments that I think can
help us as we begin a new year.
“Dreams without goals remain
dreams. And they ultimately fuel
disappointment. Between goals
and achievement are discipline and
consistency. Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.”
January 2015 is a brand new year;
what is new about you? What could
be new about me? We are glad for
a new year, but what we really desire is that we would be different
than last year. We want to be fit,
so we write our meal plan and our
exercise schedule and do what we
record, daily, until it becomes automatic. We don’t skip because we
know the consequences. That is
how fitness becomes a lifestyle.
We want to save money. We put
cash in an envelope, for each purchase we refuse to make, when we
are out shopping. Then, we reward
ourselves, by putting it all in the
bank at the end of the month. What
about those unfinished projects?
They can go to the Goodwill, where
someone else will appreciate accomplishing what we started. Then
we avoid new projects until a deadline can be determined.
The change we may want the
most is to be better people. For example, if we hope to be kinder we
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can curb our tongue, today, and
practice patience. We will shift our
perspective by getting into someone
else’s world, the next time someone bends our ear. We will listen
without distraction. We won’t say
hurtful things that can’t be taken
back or forgotten. And if we do, no
pride will keep us from saying how,
very, sorry we are for the hurt we
have caused. We will consistently
do what we need to do now, so we
can become the people we always
wanted to be.
A new year is just a date on a calendar. What will change the course
of our lives is the lasting change we
make in ourselves. I am ready for a
change. How about you? ✤
KRIS DILWORTH,FNP, CDE is
a Family Nurse Practitioner, Certified Diabetes Educator, and Certified Insulin Pump & Sensor Trainer.
She loves what she does, and makes
it a point to spend adequate time
with patients to teach and help problem-solve for the many challenges of diabetes. Her
goal is to keep you healthy! Call the office of Roger
Steele, MD, for appointments in San Luis Obispo or
Grover Beach. (805) 541-1671
THE ABLE CHOICE, INC.
offers support and services to
families and children with special needs by experts in the field.
Special Education Consultant
Dr. Jackie Kirk Martinez and her
team provide research-based dispute resolution, instruction, and intervention for children by advising
families, agencies and school districts; supporting children’s needs in home, community and school; providing assessments, program development, intervention
and supervision; and offering professional development. Serving children from birth through 22 years
of age. Call for a free consul-tation at (805) 295-8806
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Susan K. Boyd is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in private practice in SLO. She can be
contacted for counseling at (805)
782-9800 or by email at sbcare@
aol.com. Also see www.susankboydmft.com
PEPPERTREE COUNSELNG
has been providing affordable
services on sliding scale to SLO
County for 25 years, starting at
$30 an hour. We offer individual,
couples, and family counseling.
We have a staff of professional counsellors who work
with clients to accomplish their goals in a timely and
focused manner. Our approach is eclectic incorporating behavioral and cognitive techniques. For an appointment or more information on our services call
Larry Ratner, Ph D, at 805 235 2910 or email [email protected]. We are located at 330 James Way,
#180, Pismo Beach, Ca.
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• January 8 - 21, 2015 • Tolosa Press
HEALTHY LIVING
Lifestyle
A Sweet Debate
By Michelle S. Yang
H
ave you ever seen a child’s
mood, temperament, and ability to concentrate change when
they’ve consumed sugar? Have you
ever given a child sugar at night? Do
they ‘bounce off the walls’? Usually in a
few hours the sugar wears off and then
they may experience a sugar crash.
Sugar’s effects are easily seen with
children, but how do they affect adults?
We checked out Sugarscience.org. They
have a team of health scientists who review thousands of scientific papers regarding the role of sugar and our health.
Researchers have revealed overwhelming evidence that overconsumption of
added sugar contributes to diabetes,
heart and liver disease. If the risk of
these diseases isn’t motivation enough
to alter your diet, consider the effect
sugar has on your performance. Some
studies show demonstrate that certain
sugars; particularly processed fructose,
can raise blood triglycerides resulting
in a delay of oxygen delivery to mus-
cle cells due
to red blood
cells sticking
together and
moving slower.
The American
Heart
Association
(AHA)
recommends no
more
than
6 teaspoons
(25 grams) of
added sugar per day for women and
9 teaspoons (38 grams) for men. The
average American consumes 19.5 teaspoons (82 grams) every day. How can
we reduce this?
Drink water, avoid sugary beverages.
I’ve said this before, but this one tip
cannot be stressed enough!
Purchase locally grown, organic
foods. Grab a fruit versus a candy bar!
Eat things that are perishable. A good
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is by shopping
along the perimeters of the supermarket where
the produce usually is & limit
purchasing items
that are in the
middle aisles.
Read the ingredients and purchase food items
that contain 5 or
less ingredients. Most processed foods
have more than 5 ingredients and are
packed with hidden sugars.
Look for sugar alternatives such as
honey, agave, and stevia. Although
they are sugary, they don’t tend to
spike our blood sugar like white processed sugar does.
There are many other tips we can
give you to decrease your sugar intake.
Starting with these changes to your eat-
ing habits will put you on the path to
better health in 2015. Good luck! ✤
Michele S Jang, PT is a physical
therapist who likes to look outside the
box. She has been a physical therapist
for over 20 years and has extensive
training in manual therapy or the use
of hands to help rehabilitate the body.
Michele has been an instructor both
in the United States and abroad. She
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body mechanics and proper breathing technique to increase awareness
and healing. Michele can be reached
at 805 543-5100 or [email protected].
For more information please also visit www.spiritwindstherapy.com.
Lifestyle
Tolosa Press • January 8 - 21, 2015 •
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TAX HELP
How Does Obamacare Affect How I File?
By Gretchen Ross, CRTP
T
here is a lot of press of how
Obamacare is going to be confusing many filers this year-but most people won’t see any effect at all. Yes, it is an added layer
to some people›s tax return but it is
not that complicated. This year, the
only change is for those who purchase their own health insurance.
Along with Obamacare comes a
new tax credit: The Premium Tax
Credit. Many who are purchasing their health insurance through
the exchange have been benefitting
from this tax credit all year long in
the form of lower health insurance
premiums. This tax credit is based
on income so when filing your tax
return, this is the time to figure out
whether you received too much or
too little credit.
If you qualify for the credit and
did not receive a lower
premium throughout the
year, you can claim the
credit on your 2014 tax
return. The great news
about the Premium Tax
Credit is that it is a refundable. That means,
even if you owe nothing
in taxes, you will still receive the credit as a tax
refund.
What every self-insured
taxpayer needs this year
in order to file an accurate return is form 1095A. This will be sent to
you by your health insurance provider. If you receive a 1095-A, you must
file a tax return even you
have not needed to file
in the past. With the information on the 1095A, use form 8962 to reconcile the
Premium Credit. You must report
any funds owed or credited to you
on the second page of form 1040.
There will be no change in filing for
California.
More information is available on
the website IRS.gov.
The IRS will begin accepting tax
returns this year on January 20th.
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I
’ve said it before, and I’ll say
it again: Those of us who live
here on the Central Coast are
fortunate for many reasons. We
have great weather, gorgeous
surroundings, and friendly people.
We are also blessed with many
great musicians who could hold
their own on the world stage (some
of them have). If you like to dance,
there are almost daily opportunities
to dance to a live band. To have a
good dance band, you need at
least a guitar, bass, and drums,
but sometimes other instruments
are added to make the band more
memorable and add dimension to
the music. And, after all, what is
sexier than a saxophone?
Scott Andrews grew up in Arroyo
Grande listening to his father’s big
band music. He would listen to the
records and spin around in circles
in the living room (sound like a
Billy Preston song?). When he was
in fourth or fifth grade at Ocean
View Elementary, the Paulding
Band came to the school, and Scott
decided he wanted to play the
saxophone. He quickly moved up to
Scott Andrews: All That Jazz
The Goddess of Groove
By Madeline Royal
first chair.
When
Scott
himself attended
Paulding Middle
School,
Eric
Stever was a year
ahead. Eric is
currently in Big
Daddy’s Blues
Band,
among
others.
Scott
and Eric had a
bit of a rivalry
then, although
they are friends
now. When Eric
won the Louie
Armstrong Jazz
Award in eighth
grade, Scott was
determined to
do the same, and
he did achieve the award the next
year. Rick Calder, another local sax
player, used to sit next to Scott all
through school. In high school, at
AGHS, Rick continued on alto sax
and Scott decided to specialize in
tenor sax, so they wouldn’t have to
compete for first chair. Scott was
in the AGHS Band, the Jazz Band,
the choir, and the Eagle-Aires, a
song and dance group. Local legend
Lee Statom was a huge influence
during Scott’s childhood years, as
Scott played in his bands in all three
schools, Scott learned about the
blues from him, and took his improv
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interest in Dungeons and Dragons.
His parents made a deal with young
Scott that they would buy him a
tenor sax he had his eye on if he got
his grades back up. In two weeks,
Scott’s math grade went from a D to
an A-, and he never looked back. He
was able to earn the sax, which he
still plays, a year ahead of schedule
in his junior year.
After high school, Scott attended
Cuesta College for two years,
with scholarships from the Basin
St. Regulars and the Women
Soroptomists. Scott was in the
Jazz Band under the leadership of
Warren Balfour. Scott participated
in the Montreux Jazz Festival, and
was in the 1985 North Sea Jazz
Festival in Rotterdam, when the
headliners were Miles Davis, James
Brown, and Ray Charles.
Two of Scott’s major musical
influences were Wayne Shorter and
David Sandborn. If you are familiar
with their music, you can definitely
pick that up when you hear Scott
play.
Eventually Scott burned out,
and stopped playing. Then, after
a divorce at the tender age of 25,
he went back to his first love. He
started practicing 8 hours a day,
and eventually formed the band The
Olive Club in the Bay Area, along
with David “Dino” Palizzolo, Sergio
Arrande, and David Sandborn.
They performed covers of Sinatra,
Sting, and Tom Waits. He then
did a recording project with his
brother, Craig, appropriately called
the Andrews Brothers Project.
Scott moved back to the Central
Coast in 2004, and was in a band
called Goza with Tim Costa and
Bobby Santa Cruz. The band broke
up, but Tim and Bobby went with
Scott as part of the original lineup
of BODY, along with Matthias Clark
and Greg Garman. Later members
were Forrestt Williams and Jim
Stromberg. Scott spent a few years
as an integral part of Burning
James and the Funky Flames, and is
currently leader of Scotty O’Graci’s
Soul Explozion, Black Market Trio
(with Joe Duran and Abe Robles),
and has a duo with piano man Mark
Pietri.
Scott has a passion in particular
for jazz, and in educating the
music-loving public to the wide
variety of music which falls under
that category. He is the director of
the SLO Jazz Festival, which has
aspirations to create wonderful
jazz related concerts, education,
and festival events on the Central
Coast. 2014 was the first year that
the festival came to fruition, with
sponsorships from the City of San
Luis Obispo and Alfano Motor
Cars/Mercedes-Benz. This year’s
SLO Jazz Fest is set for May 16,
2015, with hopes for three new
stages, including a youth stage and
a swing dance stage. If you have
board experience, Scott is looking
for you to join his team. Check out
www.slojazzfest.org.
What would he like you to get
from his music? “I’d like you to
go on a journey with me, and feel
something awesome. I want you to
have fun. If someone walks away
from a show or the Jazz Fest and
says ‘That was fun!’ or ‘That was
some awesome music!’, then I did
my job.”
Scott’s next gig is at Frog and
Peach in San Luis Obispo on
January 22 with Scotty O’Graci’s
Soul Explozion. The band plays
primarily disco and funk, and other
dance music. Check them out at
http://www.soulexplozion.com. D
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Clubs & Night Life
find your beat
South County
THE CLIFFS RESORT: 2757 Shell
Beach Road, 773-5000 or cliffsresort.com.
F. MCLINTOCKS SALOON: Two
locations: 750 Mattie Road in Pismo
Beach and 133 Bridge St. in Arroyo
Grande. 773-1892 or mclintocks.com.
Live music at the Pismo Beach location
every Fri. and Sat. from 6-9pm.
Tennessee Jimmy Harrell and Doc
Stoltey play on alternating weekends.
HARRY’S NIGHT CLUB AND
BEACH BAR: Cypress and Pomeroy,
downtown Pismo Beach, 773-1010.
Every Thu. Front Row Karaoke. ½
Theese & The Sweetness 9pm-1am 1/3
Mid Life Crisis 9pm-1am
LAETITIA WINERY: 453 Laetitia
Vineyard Drive, Arroyo Grande, 805481-1772. www.laetitiawine.com. Live
Music Saturdays and Sundays 1-4pm.
LIDO
RESTAURANT
AT
DOLPHIN BAY: 2727 Shell Beach
Road, Shell Beach, 773-4300 or
thedolphinbay.com.
Join
ThreeMartini Lunch every Thurs. and Fri.
from 6-9pm. Live Music Every Tues.
from 5:30-6:30 and Thursdays and
Fridays 6-9
MANROCK
BREWING
CO.
TASTING ROOM: 1750 El Camino
Real ste A, Grover Beach, CA 93433.
Tasting room M-Th 4pm-10pm, Fri 3pm12am, Sat noon-12am, Sun noon-7pm
MONGO’S SALOON: 359 W. Grand
Ave., Grover Beach, 489-3639. Karaoke
Tuesday and Wednesday 9pm. Live
Music and dancing every Friday and
Saturday at 9pm.
MR. RICK’S: 404 Front St., Avila
Beach, 805-595-7425 www.mrricks.
com Happy Hour Monday-Thursday
4-7pm ¼ J&B Rocks 1-5pm 1/10
Shamless 8pm 1/11 Lenny Blue 1-5pm
1/17 Soul Sauce 8pm-12am 1/18 Soul
Sauce 1-5pm 1/30 Klass-X 8:00pm12am 1/31 Booty Shakers 8pm-12am
SEAVENTURE: 100 Ocean View,
Pismo Beach, 773-4994. www.
seaventure.com Live music every
Wednesday from 6-9pm in the
Fireplace room. Acoustic Sundays
from 3-6pm on the Deck.
SHELL CAFÉ: 1351 Price St.,
Pismo Beach, 805-773-8300 www.
shellcafepismo.com ½ Swing Shift
7pm 1/3 Stringtown Ambassadors
11am ¼ Lenny Blue 11am 1/7 Blues
Master Jam 6:30pm 1/8 Songwriters
at Play 6:30pm 1/9 Avenue & DeJaVu
7pm 1/10 The Ginger Ups 11am 7pm
Strawberry Wheat
Dirty Reapin’ Blonde
Fear the Reaper–AMBER
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The Mooks 1/11Mathew Szlachetka
11am 1/21 Blues Master Jam 6:30
1/22Songwriters at Play 6:30pm
1/17 Ricky Montijo 11am Dr. Danger
7pm 1/18 John Alan Connerley 11am
1/21 Blues Master Jam 6:30pm 1/22
Songwriters at Play 6:30pm 1/23
Code Blues 1/24 Ted Waterhouse
11am Avenue & DejaVu 7pm 1/25
Louie Ortega 11am 1/28 Blues Master
Jam 6:30pm 1/29 Songwriters at Play
6:30pm 1/31 Jon Stephen 11am
TALLEY
VINEYARDS:
3031
Lopez Dr., Arroyo Grande, 489-0446,
talleyvineyards.com
VENTANA GRILL: 2575 Price
St. Pismo Beach, 773-0000, or
ventanagrill.com. Matt Cross plays on
Mon and Wed. evenings.
VINO VERSATO: 781 Price St.,
Pismo Beach, 773-6563 or vinoversato.
com. Every Tuesday: Side Effects
CREATIVE JUICES LOUNGE:
874 Guadalupe Street, Guadalupe,
CA 93434, 805-219-0518 www.
creativejuicelounge.com
San Luis Obispo
BON TEMPS CREOLE CAFE: 1000
Olive St., 544-2100. Zydeco music, live
blues, and jazz on Monday, Wednesday
and Thursday evenings.
CREEKY
TIKI:
782
Higuera
St., 903-2591.
www.creekytiki.
com EVERY FRIDAY Live Music
Directly Following Concerts in the
Plaza 12/31 New Years Eve Party w/
Billy Manzik OPEN TIL 2am!! 1/1
Happy New Year! 1/2 Jade Jackson
1/3 Kenny Taylor Band
FROG & PEACH PUB: 728 Higuera
St. (805)595-3764. 12/31 New Year’s
Eve Extravaganza 1/1 Dave Miller
Band 1/2 Nada Rasta 1/4 Billy Manzik
1/5 Toan’s Open Jam 1/6 Pint Nite 1/8
Kenny Taylor Band
THE GRADUATE: 990 Industrial
Way, 541-0969 or slograd.com. Every
Thu. Is Country Night 8pm 18+, Every
Fri “Noche Caliente” or “Hot Latin
Nights” 18+, Every Sat “Big Chill”
hits from the 70’s 80’s 90’s 21+ &
Every Sunday is Minor Madness 8pm11:45pm
LINNAEA’S CAFE: 1110 Garden St.,
541-5888 www.linnaes.com
LUNA RED: 1023 Chorro St., 540-5243
www.lunaredslo.com TBA
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Monterey St. pappymcgregors.com or
543-KILT (5458). Live music is Wed./
Thurs./Fri. from 6-9pm. Old Time
Fiddle & Banjo Show every Wed. from
6-9pm.
SLO BREWING CO.: 1119 Garden
St., 543-1843 or slobrewingco.com
1/7 AMP Live w/ Ill-Esha 7:30pm 1/9
The Dustbowl Revival & The Tipsy
Gypsies 7pm 1/10 Proxima Parada
7:30pm 1/16 Randy Rogers 7pm The
Budos Band 7:30pm 1/18 Bears Among
Men 6:30pm 1/20 Cody Canada & The
Departed 7:30pm 1/21 Dave Alvin and
Phil Alvin w/ The Guilty Ones 6:30pm
1/22 Kim Simmonds & Savory Brown
7pm 1/24 Agent Orange 7:30pm 1/25
The Expendables winter blackout 2015
7pm 1/27 Natural Vibrations & Junior
Reid 7:30pm 1/30 Y&T 7:30pm 1/31
Natural License 7:30pm
North Coast
10TH STREET GRILL: 2011 10th St.,
Los Osos, 528-2011 or 10thstreetgrill.
com.
CAMBRIA
PINES
LODGE:
2905 Burton Drive, Cambria, 9274200
or
cambriapineslodge.com.
Entertainment every night in the
Fireside Lounge.
FUEL DOCK SALOON: 900 Main
St., Morro Bay, 772-8478
MOZZI’S SALOON: 2262 Main St.
in Cambria, 927-4767. Friday Night:
Karaoke, Saturday Night: Live Music
OLD CAYUCOS TAVERN: 130 N.
Ocean Ave., Cayucos, 995-3209. Fri.Sat.: Live music.
OTTER
ROCK
CAFE:
885
Embarcadero, Morro Bay, 805-7721420. www.otterrockcafe.com Every
Wed.: Karaoke, 8pm. Every Thu.:
Thursday Night Spotlight, 8pm.
*Closed every Tuesday 1/1 Frankie
Parades w/mud on the Tire 1-10pm 1/3
Tres Gatos 8pm-12am ¼ Crosby Tyler
4-9pm 1/11 Cloud Ship 1/15 Frankie
Parades w/ Mud on the Tire 1/16 Three
Times Bad 1/17 The Easy In 1/18 More
Than This 1/22 Vet Anslinger 1/25
Mud On The Tire 1/29 Frankie Parades
w/ Mud on the Tire
SKIPPERS RESTAURANT: 113 N
Ocean, Cayucos, 995-1122.
SWEET SPRINGS SALOON: 990
Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos, 5283764, sweetspringssaloon.com. Friday
and Saturday: Live music from 9pm to
2am.
TOGNAZZINI’S DOCKSIDE: 1245
Embarcadero, Morro Bay, 772-8100.
WINDOWS ON THE WATER: 699
Embarcadero, Suite 7, Morro Bay, 7720677. Live music every Monday and
Friday evening.
North County
ASUNCION RIDGE: 725 12th St.,
Paso Robles, 237-1425 Live music
Saturdays from 5-8pm
AVION & CLAW: 6155 El Camino
Real,
Atascadero,
461-9463
or
avionandclaw.com. Live music Thurs.Sat. from 7-10pm.
BROKEN EARTH WINERY: 5625
Highway 46E, Paso Robles, 239-2562.
BRU COFFEEHOUSE: 576 El
Camino Real, Atascadero, 464-5007.
www.brucoffeehouse.com Live music
every Friday from 7-9pm. ½ Max
Martinelli 1/9 Young Ireland 1/16
Mothra
CAMOZZI’S: 5855 El Camino Real,
Atascadero, 466-1880.
D’ANBINO VINEYARDS AND
CELLARS: 710 Pine St., Paso Robles,
227-6800 or danbino.com. Every
Saturday 2-4:30 pm wine and music
events.
LA BELLASERA HOTEL AND
SUITES: 206 Alexa Ct., Paso Robles,
238-2834,
www.labellasera.com.
Guitar/Vocal duo, Adam Levine and
Judy Philbin play every Thurs. from
7-9pm, in the dining room/bar
LAST STAGE WEST: Halfway
Station on Highway 41 (15050 Morro
Road at Toro Creek), 461-1393 or
laststagewest.net. Most shows start at
6pm. 1/3 BanjerDan 1/13 The Banjer
Dan Show 1/14 Bluegrass Jam Night
1/20 The Banjer Dan Show w/ special
guest Cliff Stepp 1/28 Bluegrass Jam
Night
PAPPY MCGREGOR’S: 1122 Pine St.
in Paso Robles. www.pappymcgregors.
com or 238-7070,
PASO ROBLES INN CATTLEMAN’S
LOUNGE: 1103 Spring St., 2382660. Live entertainment Friday and
Saturday at 9:30pm.
PINE
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SALOON:
1234 Pine St., Paso Robles. www.
pinestreetsaloon.com 805-238-1114.
Every Monday Open Mic. 9pm. Every
Tuesday/ Friday/ Sunday Marilyn’s
Karaoke 9pm. Every Thursday North
County Line Up Live Music 9pm.
THE PONY CLUB AT HOTEL
CHEVAL: 1021 Pine St., Paso Robles.
www.hotelcheval.com 805-226-9995.
*Most shows 7-10pm unless stated
otherwise 1/2 Louie Ortega 1/3 Lance
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Lance Robison 1/16 Purple Thumb
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The Ranch: 1285 Mission St. in San
Miguel, www.liveattheranch.com or
467-5047. 11/29 Chris and Nick’s “Rave
Circus” 18+
SCULPTERRA WINERY: 5015
Linne Road, Paso Robles, 226-8881.
Steve Key presents “Songwriters at
Play” Sundays from 1-4pm www.
sculpterra.com
VINA ROBLES AMPHITHEATRE:
3800 Mill Rd., Paso Robles, 286-3680.
1/10 Melody Klemin 1-4pm 1/24 Martin
Paris 1-4pm Check out Vina Robles
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Ynana Rose, Jill
Knight,
Nicole
Stromsoe, Karen
Tyler, Holly Ann
Phillips,
Aaron
Porter, Steve Key,
Dorian Michael,
Jude’s
daughter
Ray Duncan, and a
closing set by Jude
herself.
Jude’s
songs have been
recorded by pop
stars Stevie Nicks,
Bette
Midler,
Johnny
Cash,
Jennifer Warnes,
Emmylou Harris,
and Bonnie Raitt.
Country
star
Trisha Yearwood
cut several of
Johnstone’s songs,
Jude Johnstone’s songs to be performed by the
beginning with the
Central Coast’s best scoustic artisits
intimate
ballad,
and number one
Cambria
resident
Jude
country hit, “The
Johnstone has played several Woman Before Me.” Jude is also a
Songwriters At Play tributes, covering recording artist with six CDs in release.
songs by Jackson Browne, Joni Advance tickets are available at the
Mitchell, and Leonard Cohen. On Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St.,
January 10 the tables are turned and an San Luis Obispo. Or call 805-547evening of her songs will be performed 0278. Tickets are $12. Come early for
at the Steynberg Gallery by some of the a good seat -- show begins at 7:30pm.
Central Coast’s best acoustic artists. The Steynberg Gallery cafe serves beer
The lineup includes Bob & Wendy, and wine, dinner and dessert items,
This year’s theme
is “Tolerance and
acceptance.”
A
highlight
of
the
festival
is
the
“Lifetime
Achievement
Award,” presented
to a member of the
Jewish community
who
has
made
an
outstanding
contribution to the
film industry. This
year’s honoree is
Academy
Award
The Terence Brewer Trio
winning sound editor
David E. Stone. Stone
has 110 major motion
gourmet coffee and tea. For more info picture credits to his name including
go to www.songwritersatplay.com.
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade,
The Green Mile, Die Hard, Top Gun,
The Fifth Annual San Luis Beetlejuice, Sex, Lies and Videotape,
Obispo Jewish Film Festival will Reservoir Dogs, Stand By Me, and
come to the Palm Theater Jan. 10 and Ocean’s Twelve. See the website for a
11 and tickets to screenings and special complete list of events and screenings.
events are on sale now, see: jccslo.com.
The Film Festival is dedicated to
screening short and feature films that
celebrate the diversity of the Jewish
experience from around the world.
The filmmakers and local experts who
share their insights with the audience
in Q&A sessions after each screening,
accompany the carefully selected films.
The country music recording artists,
Randy Rogers Band, will take the
stage at SLO Brew set for Friday, Jan.
16. Tickets are $20 in advance and $23
at the door. Order online at: www.
slobrewingco.com. The Randy Rogers
Band released a two disc, live album
“Homemade Tamales” in 2014 at the
Eat - Play - Shop
BAYSIDE CAFE is a wonderful find if you are looking for fresh food
and something off the beaten track where the “Locals” love to eat while
looking over the Back Bay. A restaurant with a casual dinning experience,
great home cooked food from the farm and the sea. Homemade desserts
are a must try. Open 7 days a week for lunch featuring fish and chips,
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Central Coast Women
for Fisheries
presents an
Albacore Enchilada Fundraiser
Saturday, January 31, 2015
At the Morro Bay Community Center.
Pick up time is 1 to 5 pm
$10 for a tray of 4 enchiladas.
Corn tortillas with green sauce or flour tortillas with red sauce.
For tickets contact…
Jackie: 805 772-8281 or Sharon: 805 674-4854.
Get your 50/50 tickets at the door!
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$1 a ticket or 6 tickets for $5.
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Country music recording artists, Randy Rogers Band
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Arts Center at Cal Poly at 8 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 16. Student and adult
tickets range from $22.40 to $40 and
may be purchased in advance at the
PAC Box Office, Tuesdays–Saturdays,
noon to 6 p.m. Call 756-4849 or order
online at: www.calpolyarts.org. Over
Madigan’s 25-year career she has
performed on nearly every standup gig on TV; is a frequent headliner
on Comedy Central specials and a
returning favorite on “The Tonight
Show,” Letterman, Conan, and Craig
Ferguson’s show, among others.
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p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17. Tickets are
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The Lonesome River Band will
play the Clark Center in Arroyo
Grande at 8 p.m. on Jan. 17.
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most popular, influential and respected
acts in bluegrass music. Lonesome
River Band’s long career is filled with a
multitude of Awards and Recognitions
from the International Bluegrass Music
Association including Album of the
Year, Bluegrass Band of Year, Vocal
Group of the Year, Song of the Year
and Banjo Player of the Year. The Band
just celebrated their 30th Anniversary
with three 2012 album releases that
have strengthened their reputation and
displayed the distinctive LRB sound
fans love. Tickets range in price from
$35 to $42 and can be purchased at
www.clarkcenter.org.
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Join Emily Yurcheshen, Gail
Brooks, Lulu Orozco and Scott
Killion for the Odyssey of Song
music and book talk at 3 p.m. Sunday
Jan. 11 at Coalesce Chapel, 845 Main
St., Morro Bay for the celebration
of Yurcheshen’s book, “An Odyssey
of Song, Musical Journey into your
Creative Heart.” This creativity
workbook leads readers on a musical
adventure through sound, songwriting,
story, and character play. Yurcheshen
is a singer/songwriter, speaker,
teacher, travel writer and director
of Peaceworks Communications, an
organization that promotes personal
and planetary peace through music,
creativity and communication.
members and $10 students. Tickets
available at Boo Boo Records in
Downtown SLO and online at: www.
brownpapertickets.com. Unity Concert
Hall is located at 1130 Orcutt Rd., SLO.
Doors open at 7. This is the Annual
Marilyn Greenberg Concert. Guitarist
Brewer and his trio are winner of the
SF Weekly Music Award for Best Jazz
Artist and the Oakland Chamber Of
Commerce Artist-Of-The-Year Award.
The Bay Area jazz guitarist is making
his first appearance in SLO and Brewer,
who is also an accomplished educator,
will be conducting a free jazz workshop/
clinic at the Cal Poly Music Building,
45-216 at 1:15 p.m. the 17th. All are
invited. For information call 546-3733
or see: www.slojazz.org.
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legendary Texas honkey-tonk, “Floore’s
Country Store,” before thousands of
fans. The live the album is the follow
up to the critically acclaimed, chart
topper, “Trouble.” A seasoned band
of road warriors, The Randy Rogers
Band has played more than 200 shows
a year, every year, for the past decade.
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January 8 - 21, 2015 • Tolosa Press
Dinner and a Movie
SLO’s Goshi Offers Up Sensational Sushi
By Teri Bayus
T
ucked deep in San Luis Obispo’s
Creamery Building is the
intimate sushi maven that draws
me in when I want adventurous, fresh,
and full-of-flavor sushi.
Goshi has offerings not seen in other
sushi restaurants, like sardines, local
salmon and halibut. They have Ashi
on draught, lychee sake and the Santa
Barbara uni is the star of the show.
We called ourselves dolphins and
proceeded to order nearly everything
on the menu, especially if it is unusual.
Gary started with his dessert-first
ordering, Mochi ice cream balls — a
traditional Japanese New Year’s dish
made from soaked glutinous rice,
which is pounded with mallets and
formed into a sticky cake. Goshi has
taken a pasta-thin sheet of mochi and
molded it around a core of vanilla ice
cream; the dish contains a half-dozen
or so oval globes. We loved the textural
play between the rich ice cream and the
chewy, sticky rice.
The menu has a full complement of
sushi, sashimi, hand rolls, and maki,
with all of the usual suspects well
represented. I ordered the albacore
tataki, six thick, buttery, and delicious
slices served on a bed of slivers of white
radishes, red onions, micro greens
and a vinegar, sweet soy sauce (that
we poured over a bowl of rice and
demolished).
We sampled the
Juni Sushi plate
comprised of 12
pieces of succulent
and fresh nigri
including
three
different kinds of
salmon, yellowtail,
roe, striped sea
bass,
tako
and
tamago (Gary calls
this nigri Japanese French toast). It
also came with a spicy scallop roll that
was filled with cut scallops and crab,
served with a spicy pepper paste and
Japanese mayo. It is then topped with
masago and fish skin crinkles.
After that it was a nigri parade. Nigri
is a thumb size piece of vinegar rice
(sushi means vinegar rice in Japanese)
with a slice of raw fish resting on it.
Some fish come with a dab of wasabi, a
horseradish like root that is made into
a paste to stimulate the palate.
We ordered the local salmon first
and there was only three pieces left,
each tasted impeccable. On to the
Santa Barbara uni, a sea urchin that
challenges even the most advanced
penchants, but this possessed the
sweetest flavor.
I always try something new and this
time it was seared squid with a mint leaf
drizzled with a fermented plum sauce.
This dish defied my expectations and
I dreamt about it that night. We begin
to talk about how aquariums make us
hungry, as we devoured the octopus,
ono, sardine and scallops and watched
the chef take the beak out of the squid
to serve us. We finished with a salmon
skin roll and a Gobo treat (Gobo is
pickled mini carrots and I love them).
For rolls we tried the spicy albacore
with garlic chips, a crunchy exterior
yielded to the succulent core, a nice
combination of flavors. The peppered
tuna roll is a blend of spicy tuna,
peppercorn-seared tuna, and avocado,
served with ponzu and sesame oil.
Both are works of art on the plate and
delicious.
Goshi Japanese Restaurant is located
at 570 Higuera St., Ste. 20 in San Luis
Obispo. Call them at 543-8942. Open for
lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. and
5-9:45 p.m. daily except Mondays. ✤
Big Eyes Surprisingly Funny and a Little Creepy
By Teri Bayus
T
hose of us who create know the
self-doubt and questioning we
experience with each conception.
No matter how famous or wealthy the
creator becomes, there is still a nugget
of “I am faking this” that sneaks into
their thoughts.
I saw this profoundly when I heard
an author who has 82 New York Time’s
Best sellers say she thought that maybe
nobody would read her 83rd book. The
movie, “Big Eyes” was a testament to
not only that artistic self doubt, but
also of the plight of many married
women, who went along with what
their husbands decree.
It is about art and how talent is in the
eyes of the beholder. My grandma had
Keane’s and they scared me. I hated
them. She said it was the beginning of
her art appreciation that became her
ultimate joy (besides me).
Already nominated for three Golden
Globe Awards, Big Eyes is a strange
and wonderful drama. Directed and
produced by Tim Burton, this is
his second biopic (his previous was
1994’s Ed Wood). Both films are
wonderfully written by the team of
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
who take amazing risks with subtly and
character.
Amy Adams plays Margaret Keane,
a 1950’s housewife who likes to paint
in her spare time. She has a daughter
and an abusive husband. She leaves
him and with her daughter moves to
San Francisco, where she meets an
artist, Walter (Christoph Waltz), at a
flea market where she is trying to sell
her paintings.
He is a natural salesman. She has a
passion for creating, although it’s the
same character over and over. After
they get married, Walter tries selling his
paintings but discovers that Margaret’s
are popular with housewives. He
creates a market using the paintings as
gifts to famous people and takes credit
as the artist.
It is a believable tale because in the
50’s women were not thought of as
being on an equal scale of employment.
Margaret is a shy person with only one
friend and fears losing her child (the
angry ex-husband was trying to declare
her unfit). This went on for about 10
years then Margaret found religion,
community and friends in Hawaii and
took Walter to court to win back her
name and fortune.
This film focuses on plagiarism,
lying for money and marital abuse,
uncomfortable subjects for anyone.
Walter and Margaret’s journey’s is
about a person defying the trends,
becoming a creative hero willing to take
a risk to get “their” paintings recognized.
They were he
first artists to
mass-produce
paintings, thus
bringing it to
the multitudes
and for that, I
thank him.
The
real
Margret helped
with the film
and is seen
reading a book
on the park
bench
when
Margaret and
Walter
are
painting
in
front of the San Francisco Palace of
Fine Arts. Margaret said she loved the
film because it gave her two more hours
with Walter.
The strength of the film is the
thematic depiction of the role of many
women in mid-20th Century, which is
not the aggressive feminist campaign of
recent years. Rather, Burton takes care
gently to bring the moment to its crisis
late in the film.
I loved this movie. It was a fantastic
insight on art, becoming famous, then
becoming kitsch, all under the shadow
of sexism. Big Eyes was surprisingly
funny and a bit creepy like the paintings
of Keane. It’s a little removed from
Burton’s typical eccentric crew, but
you still sense him in the shadows. ✤
Teri Bayus can be reached at:
[email protected] or follow her
writings and ramblings at: www.
teribayus.com. Bayus is also the
host of Taste Buds, a moving picture
rendition of her reviews shown on
Charter Cable Channel 10. Dinner and
a Movie is a weekly feature of Tolosa
Press. See this and future columns
online at: www.tolosapressnews.com.
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POLICE BLOTTER
Blotter, from page 7
that her friend might have a broken
jaw, which can happen when you
lead with your chin.
• Sept. 28: A fisherman and a
surfer got into a spat over water
rights at the pier. Surfers were
told to stay 100 feet from the pier.
Meanwhile, Pacific Wildlife Care
was called out to help a seagull
with a fishhook in its mouth that
apparently missed the 100-foot
warning, too.
San Luis Obispo
• Sept. 3: A citizen in the 400
block of South called at 12:46 a.m.
to report a raccoon was stuck in a
storm drain and was screaming.
The masked weasel was gone when
officers arrived. Then at 2:48 a.m.
someone in the 300 block of Broad
reported a man was screaming, no
word on whether he too was stuck
in a storm drain, or had simply
drained a bottle.
• Sept. 4: A man called police to
say his mother was acting strangely.
She was angry but reserved, which
apparently scared him.
• Sept. 11: And in news from
Little Italy… La policia dey go to
Louisa’s’s Place for some crazy
momma-luke making like he’s a
maniac o’ someting. He’s a yellin’
and a screamin’ and da officeria dey
tell ‘im to a shadd-up already.
• Sept. 11: Police were called at
2:11 p.m. the 1400 block of Royal
where a tenant said a non-resident
was using the washer and dryer,
and now you know why we need
SWAT.
• Sept. 11: A horde of union
agitators showed up on Elks Lane
and naturally, police were called.
Fifteen “protesters” were blocking
the entrance to the Elks Lodge,
which is good work if you can get it,
though probably not a union gig.
• Sept. 16: Police responded at
noon to Firestone Grill on Higuera
after someone called and said he or
she was eating outside and asked
this person who was smoking to
move away from them and was
apparently huffed, puffed and
rebuffed, a hanging offense in San
Loco.
• Sept. 16: Police got a 9-1-1
call at 10:17 a.m. from Holiday
Inn Express in the 1800 block of
Monterey. Dispatch spoke with a
desk clerk who told them, “It’s the
ghost room problem,” a clear case
for Peter Venkman.
• Sept. 17: Police responded at
11:20 a.m. to a bus stop in the 1000
block of Orcutt for an assault, which
might explain why people don’t ride
the bus.
• Sept. 22: Police were called to
the 1600 block of Hillcrest because
a lazy and apparently illiterate
man had been sitting under a “No
Trespassing” sign for 4 hours.
• Sept. 23: A citizen called to
report a red Prius parked for a week
on Farmhouse with the license plate
“42MPATHS” in a tow away zone,
as apparently the psychics didn’t
sense that one coming.
• Sept. 24: Someone in the 1500
block of Cordova reported a pit bull
dog had been left in a vehicle for
three days, and people wonder why
they get vicious.
• Sept. 30: Police were sent at 9:38
a.m. to the 700 block of Higuera
outside Fanny Wrappers’ lingerie
shop where some transient man
was standing on the corner yelling,
his panties no doubt in a bunch.
• Sept. 30: Someone in the 1700
block of Osos called at 8:48 p.m.
to report loud noise coming from
the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority
house. Logs indicated there were
some 100 girls there, no alcohol
was found, and they cited a 19-yearold sister for a noise violation
— chanting. At 10, they went to
another loud, sorority house chant
fest, in the area of Grand and
Abbott. No alcohol was found, there
were about 50 girls, and again one
was picked to win the noise ticket
lottery, as those sorority sisters are
real wild and crazy.
OCTOBER
Cambria
• Oct. 2: A grand theft had folks
seeing red in the 2300 block of
Green.
• Oct. 8: Deputies stopped a
suspicious vehicle at 6:14 p.m. in
the 800 block of Main, and the
apparently stuffed scarecrow was
hauled to the County cornfield
awaiting a brain.
Cayucos
• Oct. 10: Some scoundrel burgled
a car parked at the Estero Bluffs
Park natural area on Hwy 1 at San
Geronimo Road, as a love of nature
meets human nature.
Los Osos
• Oct. 1: Someone in the 1600
block of 4th had his or her identity
stolen and we have no idea who
they are now.
• Oct. 19: Someone reported some
suspicious joker at 7:12 a.m. in the
1300 block of 2nd. The clown was
whisked off to the funny house, no
foolin’.
Morro Bay
• Oct. 3: Now here’s a new one,
police documented a “general
incident” at 3:12 p.m. on Shasta
Avenue of a “Vehicle vs. Asphalt”
crash, as some folks are just
accidents waiting to happen.
• Oct. 5: Police contacted a man
at 2:30 p.m. in the 1100 block of
Front St., and arrested the fooligan
for suspicion of being under the
influence of drugs, and possession
of paraphernalia, as the FruitLoop Dingus’ stash had apparently
already gone up in smoke.
• Oct. 10: Police arrested a stickyfingered man in the 1600 block of
Main for suspicion of petty theft
with a prior conviction for petty
theft, a violation of the space-time
continuum.
• Oct. 12: At 8:13 a.m. police were
sent to Albertson’s for a disturbance
in the parking lot. A man told
officers that some unknown ruffian
had threatened to shoot him and
then threw a block of cheese at his
arm, an apparent case of assault
with a deadly snack food.
• Oct. 16: Police responded at
7 a.m. to Del Mar Elementary as
some scoundrel had burgled the
school overnight, a case of do you
know where your hooligans were?
• Oct. 18: Police were called at 7:54
p.m. to the 400 block of Morro Ave.,
where an unknown crispy carnivore
left a nylon bag containing a bottle
of Captain Morgan’s and raw meat.
• Oct. 21: At 1 a.m. police contacted
a man camping in the 800 block
of Quintana and naturally, the
squatter, 42, had an out-of-county
warrant. He was cited and released,
under the new catch-n-release job
security program.
Pismo Beach
• Oct. 5: Things were jumping on
the 200 block of Wadsworth. A man
and woman were fighting and the
woman threatened to jump off the
balcony. When she was attempting
her descent, the man pulled her
back. When police arrived it was
determined that it was a family
fighting and they were getting ready
to leave the area, no doubt before
they kill each other.
• Oct. 12: Some bundle of joy tried
kicking in a neighboring room a
Motel 6. When that didn’t work she
tried another room. She was mad
because her room key didn’t work,
as it was apparently idiot proof.
• Oct. 14: A caller reported a driver
was drinking Budweiser on Hwy
101, which isn’t very wise, Bud.
• Oct. 21: Some uncouth guy on
300 block of Wilmar was smoking
a cigarette and urinating in public,
which is a two-handed job. Police
located him taking a stroll on the
beach and hauled him off to jail.
San Luis Obispo
• Oct. 2: Someone reported a tipsy
fellow at 8:07 a.m. at Broad and
Marsh and the 51-year-old regular
customer had some bench warrants
and was of course three sheets past
a full deck.
• Oct. 2: Police went at 8:53 a.m. to
the 1000 block of Higuera at Black
Horse Espresso for a transient man
in the patio who wouldn’t giddyup when asked. At the same time
across town at McDonald’s they
had some Big Mac refusing to leave,
who of course turned McChicken
when police were called.
• Oct. 2: Police were called at
8:38 p.m. to Sierra Vista Hospital
because an elevator was stuck
up at the colonoscopy lab. Police
turned that crap over to hospital
maintenance.
• Oct. 5: It’s either a dream come
true or a nightmare, but the traffic
signals at Santa Rosa and Marsh
were simultaneously green in all
directions.
• Oct. 5: A woman called police
at 9:17 p.m. from Hathway at
Carpenter to report a man with
binoculars looking into a neighbor’s
window. The brazen peeper beat it
before police arrived. And speaking
of pervs, at noon the Apple Store on
Higuera reported some Sheldon was
getting a big bang out of watching
porn on their gadgets and won’t
leave, a case of “It isn’t logical. If I
want to test their products, I should
be able to test it on what I want to
watch…”
• Oct. 6: The clerk at 7-Eleven
on Marsh called at 8:45 a.m. to
report an irate woman came in and
threw an apple at him or her. The
31-year-old wildcat was arrested for
resisting arrest and battery, for an
apple a day might keep the doctor
away, but pitching one brings the
cops every time.
• Oct. 13: Someone at a mattress
store in the 1100 block of
Roundhouse reported a transient
man was sleeping on a discarded
mattress on the side of the building,
a case of if you leave it, he will come.
• Oct. 14: Police were called at
1:31 p.m. to Whole Foods Store on
Froom Ranch Road where some
apparent narcissist filming himself
with a video camera was very
agitated, yelling and screaming. Ol’
Cecil B. Demented split before cops
called it a rap.
• Oct. 14: A citizen called at
3:26 p.m. to report a guy walking
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•
27
Fitness Revolution Center
towards Eto Park with a
rope around his neck,
as he or she no doubt
thought he might be
intending to hang
around the park.
Police couldn’t find
him.
• Oct. 14:
A
motion
alarm
at the planning
department
counter at City Hall
went off at 2:36
a.m. Human error
was the cause, no
word on whether the
city council has refused
to hire an independent
investigator to confirm that
nothing happened.
• Oct. 22: Police were called at
8:33 a.m. to Emerson Park after
they found a transient man passed
out where they’d just applied bug
spray, an apparent case of using the
wrong pesticide.
• Oct. 29: Police were called
at 2:05 a.m. to the 2000 block
of Chorro for some type of loud,
drunken “Cheerleading.” Police
advised a man and four pom-poms
that the pep rally was over.
NOVEMBER
Avila Beach
• Nov. 5: At 12:11 p.m. at 1st and
Avila Beach Dr., a bomb scare was
a dud, as blowing up Avila would be
the waste of a perfectly good bomb.
• Nov. 10: Deputies were called at
11:40 a.m. to the 1200 block of Avila
Beach Dr., to check the welfare of
some shady character. He or she
was arrested, so from one to 10
today was probably a minus-two.
Cambria
• Nov. 3: Grand theft was reported
in the 6300 block of Moonstone
Beach Dr., and no doubt Deputy
Dawg’s, a gonna git dat mush-grat!
Cayucos
• Nov. 4: Deputies responded at
2:30 a.m. as some a** on Cass was
talkin’ trash. He or she (probably
he) went to the nick to sleep it off.
County Jail
• Nov. 10: The crime lab boys
returneth, this time carrying away
15 jars of irrefutable evidence of
guilt or innocence.
Los Osos
• Nov. 10: A burglary was
committed in the 1400 block of 7th.
No word on witnesses, as neighbors
may spy on each other incessantly,
but no one ever sees the
burglars.
Morro Bay
• Nov. 3: Police
contacted
a
woman in the
900 block of
Morro
Bay
Blvd., at 8 p.m.
and arrested her
for
suspicion
of
possessing
drugs, holding
medicinal weed
without a medimota card, and
perhaps
most
seriously, possession
of an allegedly stolen
shopping cart. The master
criminal was tossed to the nick.
• Nov. 4: Police responded to a
liquor store in the 300 block of
Atascadero at 12:55 p.m. after some
she devil grabbed a bottle of hooch,
jumped into a car and put the place
in her rearview.
• Nov. 7: A citizen in the 1400
block of Teresa left his or her vehicle
unlocked and some scoundrel
ransacked it, taking a wallet,
jewelry, a USB cable, a credit card
and even a pair of shoes.
• Nov. 7: At 3:57 p.m. in the 500
block of Quintana, police contacted
a transient man who they then
arrested for suspicion of making
threats to an officer, the ol’ sticksand-stones retort having been
tossed aside.
• Nov. 7: A caller on the 100
block of Boeker reported eating
two brownies possibly laced with
cocaine. He had a rapid heart rate
and was vomiting. Medics were
called to the scene.
• Nov. 12: Some unhappy harpy
was throwing all of her things out of
an apartment and breaking items.
She refused to talk to police, so
they left after confirming that she
was OK. Not long after, another call
came in reporting that the woman
had slapped the caller’s husband
and was throwing things at him
now. County Mental Health was
called in.
• Nov. 17: Police responded at
4:11 p.m. to the 2900 block of
Sandalwood for a report of two
swine guzzling booze and using
the bushes for a toilet. A 20-yearold was arrested for minor in
possession of hooch and a 21-yearold was cited and released for open
container, and in a month he’ll no
doubt have a warrant.
• Nov. 21: A business in the
500 block of the Boulevard said
someone stole a $40 watch the
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POLICE BLOTTER
day before, hardly worth the risk of
doing time.
Pismo Beach
• Nov. 17: A man, possibly high
on something, was reportedly
defecating on a dumpster at the
Outlet Center. He had feces all over
him following his personal outlet.
He was advised against trespassing,
the least of his worries.
• Nov. 19: A mother and daughter
on the 600 block of Joyce got into a
spat when the daughter found out
that the mother had been taping
her doing you-know-what. The
issue was resolved, but keep an eye
on You Tube.
• Nov. 23: A man with duct tape
covering his mouth was protesting
something in front of Splash Café.
He was advised to move on, to
which he no doubt responded
“Hmmfgrgh.”
• Nov. 24: A caller reported an old
man staggering on the 1100 block of
Price wearing a coat, shorts and one
shoe.
• Nov. 24: At the request of her
boyfriend’s family, a woman went
to check on him in the 2000 block
of Costa Del Sol. When she showed
up at his house he was standing
naked at the front door and yelled
at her to leave. The poor naked guy
was suffering from PTSD.
San Luis Obispo
• Nov. 5: A citizen called at 5:05
a.m. from Johnson and Lizzie and
said he or she had just hit a deer
and a guy came up with a knife and
said he was a hunter… As road kill’s
a delicacy in some states.
• Nov. 5: Someone in the 500
block of Dana reported a car was
parked in front of a hydrant with
the license plate, “JOOWISH.” And
“joo-best-move-it.”
• Nov. 6: A citizen in the 2100
block of Huton had a real howdydo morning, when at 7:25 he or she
found a transient man curled up in
a blanket in their backyard, a case of
“Mildred, we gots to get us a dog!”
• Nov. 6: A citizen called at 12:23
a.m. from Morro and Pacific to
report a red Mustang in a parking
lot with someone having sex in
the car. Their first clue a pair of
women’s shoes lying by the door.
Police arrived 10 minutes later and
of course the deed was over by then.
• Nov. 7: Some poor schmoe called
9-1-1 at 12:30 a.m. from the 1000
block of Chorro and said someone
took $1,000 off of him. Perhaps it
was the bartender, as the 40-yearold besotted fellow was arrested.
• Nov. 13: County Mental Health
called at 9:37 a.m. from the first
block of Tassajara to have police
past a snoot full in public.
Pismo Beach
• Dec. 5: At 7:51 a.m., A caller
on the 1600 block of Costa Brava
reported that his ex-girlfriend
was three sheets to the wind after
drinking a bottle of vodka earlier.
She refused to leave. It was agreed
that she could stay until a friend
cam to pick her up. At 8:33 a.m., the
guy called back to report that little
Miss Fatal Attraction had punched
him in the groin a few times.
• Dec. 9: A man wearing a cowboy
hat was walking around the Shell
Café pointing at employees like he
had a gun. No arrest was made, as
ol’ Tex was apparently not loaded.
check someone’s welfare. Then at
10:07 CMH called again because
there was a fellow there who wanted
to check himself in but his blood
alcohol was .25%, apparently too
drunk for the loony bin.
• Nov. 13: At 10:27 a.m. someone at
Morro and Pacific reported hearing
screams coming from the women’s
public restroom, with grunts and
farts no doubt coming from the
men’s. Police found nothing wrong.
• Nov. 19: A woman in the 900
block of Felicia told police that a
truck driving down Tank Farm
dropped some of its items in her
front yard, a case of why Lord
couldn’t it be a Brinks truck?
• Nov. 20: Someone called 9-11 at 1:07 p.m. from Bev Mo on
Froom Ranch Road because some
transient in the parking lot was
cooking breakfast.
• Nov. 20: Police were called
to French Hospital because a
discharged patient was refusing to
leave, nothing that showing him the
bill mightn’t cure.
• Nov. 21: A man in trailerwood
in the 500 block of Higuera called
at 2:17 a.m. to report some goofball
was in his front yard yelling and
screaming. The town crier was
gone. At 5:10 a.m. in the 700
block of Marsh, a man was in the
alley yelling about the CIA and the
“mission…” Officers had a chat with
agent double-o-zero.
• Nov. 25: Someone in the 200
block of California called at 9:24
a.m. and said the frat house “is
making the whole bock smell.”
• Nov. 25: A man called at 10:33
a.m. from the 600 block of Tank
Farm and said a “deranged, lunatic,
psychopath” was threatening him.
No report was done, as apparently
the guy’s mostly a BS’er.
• Nov. 25: Police were called at
6:39 p.m. to Albertsons on Johnson
for an unresponsive man slumped
over behind the wheel of a car
with a needle sticking out of his
arm (you really can’t make this up
folks). The 24-year-old apparent
hype was arrested for suspicion of
being fuzzucked up on drugs.
• Nov. 26: A woman in the 1300
block of Nipomo called at 12:41
a.m. and said an unknown subject
opened her bedroom door, shined
a flashlight in her room and then
ran off, apparently not liking what
he saw.
DECEMBER
Cambria
• Nov. 28: A disturbance was
reported at 11:35 a.m. in the 6600
block of Moonstone Beach Dr. An
arrest was made when they got
there at midnight, how’s that for
service, eh?
Los Osos
Dec. 10: Someone called at 3:18
a.m. to report a suspicious subject
sneaking around the 300 block of
LOVR. He was of course gone when
deputies arrived at 3:24 p.m., shoot
a dune snail could have gotten
away.
Morro Bay
• Dec. 12: Police contacted a
disorderly fellow at 10:55 a.m. in
the 900 block of Embarcadero
and discovered he had a warrant,
so off to the nick he went, for as
Confucius never said, “When man
have warrant, best to keep big
mouth shut.”
• Dec. 14: Police rolled at 11 p.m. to
the 400 block of Orcas for a woman
causing a scene. Logs indicated
they arrested a 42-year-old hellcat
for suspicion of being three sheets
San Luis Obispo
•Dec. 4: Police responded at 1:11
p.m. to the 2900 block of Augusta
after the break-in alarm went off at
Break Through Ministries. Human
error was the cause, but they will no
doubt be forgiven.
• Dec. 4: A citizen in the 4500
block of Wavertree said a remote
controlled drone helicopter crashed
in his or her front yard and burst
into flames, and let’s hope they find
the little black box.
• Dec. 4: A citizen called at 11:30
a.m. from the 3300 block of Bullock
who said she was the caregiver for
a man or woman who “deceased”
that morning and her relatives were
already at their home, no doubt
dividing up the spoils before the
poor chap is even cold.
• Dec. 11: Police got a call at 11:53
a.m. from Santa Rosa Shell about
a transient man who is having
trouble keeping his pants up, and
he’s not wearing any underwear.
Police couldn’t find the Copertone
Kid. In an unrelated call, at 12:05
p.m. there was a boozer sitting at
Higuera and Madonna with a tall
boy beer talking to himself, and
no doubt he still doesn’t make any
sense.
• Dec. 11: A woman called police
at 5:32 p.m. from Marsh and Morro
who believed a group of people
were selling drugs, this after she
heard them talking about “grams,”
no doubt because only drug dealers
use the metric system.
• Dec. 12: Someone called at 12:17
a.m. from Domino’s on Foothill
because there was a drunken fool
inside arguing with the employees.
The cheesy crust was tossed into the
County oven to stew a while. Then
at 1:09 a.m. someone reported
a McDingus inside McDonald’s
cursing and making a McFool of
himself. He was McGone when
Chief Big Mac arrived to cook his
fries. ✤
Tolosa Press • January 8 - 21, 2015
•
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In the Black
Are New Year’s Resolutions Really Worth It?
By Michael Gunther
A
s we start
another
year,
it
is interesting
to hear all the
talk
about
New
Year’s
resolutions.
F r o m
conversations at
parties, to the media discussing goals
for this coming year, they all ask,
“What are you going to do different or
improve this year?”
It is as if Jan. 1 provides us the ability
to step into life with a blank slate and
begin making the changes we want.
It is also intriguing the number of
resolutions people choose to take on
and wonder how many will actually be
achieved?
Don’t get me wrong — I am a big
believer in goal setting to achieve
the things you want to accomplish or
change in your personal or professional
life. My whole business is based on
helping businesses achieve their goals
and transforming performances.
My struggle is the propensity to create
a list of resolutions once a year, and
then by the end of March, many of the
resolutions have fallen by the wayside.
This along with the conversations that
may ensue, like, “I will wait till next
year to make the changes,” and so the
cycle starts all over again.
If you are going to create resolutions
this year, I recommend starting with
just one — learn how to create and
achieve the goals you want in your life
by creating and implementing one goal
at a time.
I encourage you to live in a constant
state of evaluating where you are in
life against where you want to be, and
create new goals throughout the year.
To achieve this, focus on one goal at a
time.
I have been on the resolution-setting
merry-go-round many times in my life.
I get excited about a fresh, New Year
and all the things I want to do different.
I make my list of personal and
professional goals that I want to focus
on to take my life to the next level.
Then, with so many goals and changes
happening at once, I slowly begin to
drop off the implementation phase.
Then, I have some success on a few
goals and mediocre, if any, movement
on others.
I have learned to focus on no more
than one or two goals at a time, even
though I still have a long list of goals
to pursue. With those one or two goals,
I truly concentrate on changing my
behaviors and actions necessary to
accomplish these goals.
Then, every three months, I step
back and assess how I am doing on
my goals. Some I may have achieved,
others I may still need to work on and
then, I reestablish my goals for the next
three months.
This ongoing process allows me
to narrow my energies on making
changes, assess on an ongoing basis,
and revisit my goals at least four times
a year.
An article published many years ago
suggested taking just one action every
week towards your goal. If you did this
every week, within one year, you will
take 52 steps towards your goal and
will be much further along than if you
try to rush into goal achievement and
get burned out or overwhelmed along
the way.
Bottom Line
I think setting goals and resolutions
are important elements in changing
aspects of our life that we want to grow
or develop. I recommend evaluating
your goal-setting process if you feel like
you start with the best of intentions,
but never seem to make the changes
you want to make in your life. Focus
on fewer items and take small steps
each week that will move you forward
and before you know it, you will be
achieving what you want. ✤
This is another article in a series on
Michael Gunther’s entrepreneurial
story and how being raised in a large
family and his belief in creating a
growth company with a work-to-live
mentality has influenced his career. To
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visit his blog at www.Collaborationllc.com. Michael Gunther is founder
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proactive business owners to build
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through results-oriented education
and consulting services. Learn
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January 8 - 21, 2015 • Tolosa Press
In the Black
Biz Briefs
Business News and Announcements
Compiled by Camas Frank
SLO County’s Public Works and
Transportation Department was
recently awarded a prestigious American
Public Works Association Accreditation.
The accreditation program recognizes
public works agencies that go beyond
the requirements of the management
practices established nationally, as
contained in the APWA Public Works
Management
Practices
Manual.
“This award demonstrates that our
department is dedicated to continuous
improvement and assessment of our
policies, procedures, and practices,”
said Public Works Director, Wade
Horton. “The heroes of this prestigious
award are the public works staff, who
work diligently to make San Luis
Obispo County a great community.” For
the department’s accreditation review,
a team of public works professionals
from Bettendorf, Iowa; Fairfield, Ohio;
Eugene, Ore.; and Kansas City, Mo.,
completed a thorough evaluation of
operations during an October 2014 site
visit.
Wells Fargo recently presented
a $25,000 donation to the nonprofit
Peoples’ Self-Help Housing designated
developer on the Central Coast with
offices in Santa Barbara and SLO. For
more information, see: www.pshhc.org
or call 781-3088.
for affordable housing for low income
households in San Luis Obispo and
Santa Barbara counties. The check was
presented to PSHH’s Monica Scholl by
Wells Fargo Assistant Vice President,
Raul Lorca, along with Wells Fargo
Regional President, Joe Mathai and
District Manager, Kathleen Voss. “We
are proud to partner with Peoples’
Self-Help Housing as you work toward
achieving our shared goals in the
community,” said Sandy Cha, Wells
Fargo VP and community affairs officer.
PSHH President/CEO, John Fowler,
said, “This gift will go a long way to
help ensure our residents and people
in need have safe and secure homes
and programs that lead them to greater
self-sufficiency. We are truly thankful
for Wells Fargo’s generous support.”
PSHH is the largest affordable housing
Big Brothers Big Sisters of SLO
County received a $2,500 grant
from the Vons Foundation and its
employees to support the agency’s youth
mentoring programs and associated
group activities. Anna Boyd-Bucy the
agency’s executive director said, “We
are grateful for Vons’ investment in our
community and our mission, to provide
children facing adversity with strong
and enduring, professionally supported
one-to-one relationships that change
their lives for the better.”
Concerts in the Plaza, the largest
free concert series in the County
is looking for bands to play in the SLO
Downtown Association’s next series.
Applications are sought from local talent
to entertain the crowds in the Mission
Plaza, Friday evenings from 5 to 8 p.m.
between June 12 and September 11.
The application can be found at www.
DowntownSLO.com. The deadline
for application submission is Friday,
January 30 at 4 p.m. Bands receive
$500 for each performance along with
marketing and promotional coverage
and may sell CDs and merchandise at
their event. Bands must be local (live
and play in San Luis Obispo or Santa
Barbara counties) and dates for selected
bands will be determined approximately
by March 18, 2015.
Twin Cities Community Hospital
is hosting another free seminar
on, “The Diagnosis and Treatment of
Parkinson’s Disease.” The seminar will
be taught by Twin Cities’ neurologist,
Dr. Nelson Yamagata, M.D. from
5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13. The
seminar will answer why Parkinson’s
disease is not a terminal disorder; why
Parkinson’s is more than a tremor;
movement, cognitive and balance
issues; treatments available and a Q&A
segment. The seminar is at the Morgan
Conference Center, 1220 Las Tablas Rd.,
in Templeton. The “Founder’s Pavilion”
is located west of the main entrance at
Twin Cities Community Hospital. To
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•
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In the Black
Biz Briefs Highlights of 2014
Business News and Announcements
Compiled by Camas Frank
H
ere’s a look back at highlights
from the world of local
business, as reported in the
Tolosa Press’ Biz Briefs Column in
2014.
Blackhorse Espresso and
Bakery expanded into to a new
location, 12300 Los Osos Valley Rd.,
and then celebrated with the San
Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce
ribbon
cutting
ceremony.
Blackhorse offers a relaxed and
upbeat environment along with
expertly made beverages, panninis
and baked goodies. “We pride
ourselves in friendliness, efficiency,
quality, and care,’ Manager Keri
Wilmore said. “Everything we craft
is done to the best of our abilities.
Whether a cappuccino, mocha, or
coffee and a muffin, you can rest
assured that it will be the best drink
or pastry money can buy.” See: www.
blackhorsecoffee.com for hours and
more information.
Keeping with the coffee theme,
Local Coastal Peaks Coffee
Roasters got a new barista
trainer, Rachelle Stepro, a former
Peet’s Coffee & Tea National Barista
Champion. When she’s not busy
training the Coastal Peaks team,
Stepro trains baristas at restaurants
and coffee shops around the Central
Coast that carry the Central Peaks
brand. Her training surrounds the
precise techniques for brewing
and serving Coastal Peaks Coffee.
Coastal Peaks wholesale customers
can schedule training sessions with
Stepro and have experts come to
their businesses and work with
the team. Call 543-0179 for more
information.
Digital West Networks, Inc.,
a SLO-based data infrastructure
provider, signed with Southern Cross
Cable Network for connectivity in
Australia and New Zealand. The
contract provides Digital West with
the opportunity to set up a new
point of presence (POP) in Equinix’s
Sydney data center. Digital West’s
larger customers include Mindbody,
Inc. “Australia is one of the fastest
growing marketplaces for health,
wellness and beauty providers
worldwide. To better support our
customers and grow our client base
we knew we needed to open an
office in Sydney,” said Jeff Darnton,
IT director for Mindbody.
SESLOC Federal Credit Union
announced plans to lease 8,858
square feet of its new headquarters
to Pacific Eye Surgeons. The Docs
moved in later in the year. SESLOC
built a 39,000 square foot building
at 3855 Broad Street (at Industrial
Way) in Southern SLO. Pacific Eye
Surgeon, a local medical practice
specializing in ophthalmology and
optometry services is moving in.
The practice has eight offices from
Paso Robles to Lompoc.
Congresswoman Lois Capps
issued a statement on the infamous,
“Hobby Lobby” ruling from the
U.S. Supreme Court: “The United
States Supreme Court ruled in
a 5-4 decision that closely held
corporations cannot be required to
provide birth control coverage as part
of their employee health plans if the
corporations’ owners have religious
objections to contraception. The
ruling in the Hobby Lobby case,
with five men in the majority,
severely undermines women’s
health by allowing corporate
employers to block employee access
to critical preventive services,
like birth control. This is in direct
contrast to protections already in
place in California state law and
opens a Pandora’s box of allowing
employers to dictate which medical
services their workers can access.”
The Libertine Pub, 801
Embarcadero in Morro Bay,
hosted a special event Sept.
13 to celebrate International
Sour Beer. Billed as the “ultimate
sour beer fest the Central Coast has
ever seen,” multiple “rad-rare” sour
beers were offered on draft and
in bottle from all over the globe,
including: New Belgium Brewing,
Bear Republic, Firestone Walker
Brewing Co., Lost Abbey, Telegraph
Brewing
Company,
Heretic
Brewing Company, Crooked Stave,
Boulevard, Castle Brewing, Kasteel
Brewing, and more. The Pub was
responsible in asking guests to book
a hotel room in Morro Bay for the
night.
qualify for the Mission Main Street
Grant, to buy electric bicycles, trikes,
scooters and safety accessories, they
needed to obtain 250 votes on the
www. missionmainstreetgrants.com
website to make the whole thing
work. The grant was issued by Chase
Bank, “to spark citizen engagement
in small business lending.”
Buffalo Wild Wings, winner
of several “best wings” and
“best sports bar awards,”
opened its newest location in SLO
on Nov. 3 at 309 Madonna Rd. To
celebrate, the sports bar and grill
offered weekly vouchers for free
wings over the next year to the first
100 guests in line for the restaurant’s
10 a.m. opening. They apparently
have a lot of TV’s open for a sports
bar experience and will clean up for
the Super Bowl (sources speculate).
On Aug. 19 the Women’s
Shelter Program of San Luis
Obispo County was presented
with a $3,000 donation from the
Janssen Youth & Youth Sports Fund,
held at the Community Foundation
of SLO County. The funds supported
a “Sports Enrollment Project”
to provide access to organized
fitness programs for low income,
traumatized children and adolescent
victims of domestic violence and
abuse. Celebrating its 35th year,
the Women’s Shelter Program
has been providing emergency
shelter, transitional housing, child
abuse treatment, counseling, case
management, outreach/education
and Latina services. For more
information see: www.wspslo.org.
In
December,
Heritage
Oaks Bank announced the
opening of the bank’s relocated
Downtown San Luis Obispo
branch at 1144 Morro St. The branch
was previously located at, 1135
Santa Rosa St. “We are very excited
to welcome our customers to this
beautiful new office,” said Terry
Detrick, vice president and SLO
branch manager. “Our entire team
is looking forward to being even
more accessible and to increasing
our relationships here in San Luis
Obispo. We invite community
members to come in and see our new
branch.” For further information,
see: www. HeritageOaksBank.com
or call the SLO branch at 5447200. ✤
Dynamic Electric Vehicles in
SLO asked for help applying for a
small business grant to purchase
and sell a larger variety of ecofriendly transportation. In order to
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