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Morro Bay’s eelgrass population needs help [12]

BY CAMILLIA LANHAM
Contents Editor’s note
April 20 - April 27, 2017
VOLUME 31, NUMBER 39

T
This week rying to peg what’s happening with one Every week
specific part of an ecosystem is like trying
cover to jump on a merry-go-round after it’s news art
Morro Bay faces News ............................. 4 Artifacts ..................... 22
an eco-challenge............................ 12
already spinning. It’s not easy and there are a lot
Strokes & Plugs ............ 14 Starkey....................... 26
of moving parts. So, when it comes to figuring Club Listings .............. 30
news out what happened to Morro Bay’s population of Split Screen................ 32
Los Osos residents
LEARNING
eelgrass—which has lost more than 95 percent of opinion Reviews and Times ... 32
behind on sewer hookups ..............9 its foothold in less than a decade—the Morro Bay Hodin ..........................16
CURVE The
Grover Beach’s cannabis zone ...... 10 Morro Bay This Modern World .....16
National Estuary Program knows it’s going to take
National Estuary
a collaborative effort. The flowering underwater
Letters ........................17 the rest
opinion Program is
leading a series
Street Talk...................18 Classified ................... 49
The cost of California’s of walk and talks,
plant is one of the foundations of the estuary’s Rhetoric & Reason .....19 Real Estate ................ 49
new fuel tax .................................... 16 like an April 13 ecosystem. For this week’s cover story, I spoke with Shredder .................... 20 Brezsny’s Astrology... 55
tour of the salt
flats near the
scientists, hunters, and other stakeholders that are
arts State Park Marina, teaming up with the estuary program to do what
KIDS’ ART: Creative education in light of the
recently released they can to ensure its survival [10].
at Studios on the Park ....................22 Events calendar
KIDS’ BOOKS: Tweenage angst .....24
2017 State of the Also this week, you can read about Los Osos
Bay report. Hot Dates .................... 42 Sports & Wellness ........47
residents who are behind the deadline to hook
flavor up to the area’s new sewer system [9]; how a
Special Events ............. 42 Farmers Markets ..........47
Stage ........................... 44 Lectures & Learning .....47
The beauty of a proposed marijuana zone is pitting the new industry against longtime Film & TV ..................... 44 Fundraisers .................. 48
plant-based menu ..........................38
businesses [10]; Studios on the Park and its effort to keep students Music ........................... 44 Support Groups ........... 48
creating [22]; a Los Osos author’s tweenage novels [24]; and Writers & Literature ..... 45 Volunteers ................... 48
the plant-based restaurant that just landed in meat-loving downtown Art ................................ 45 Holiday Events ............. 48

cover photo by Jayson Mellom Arroyo Grande [38]. Camillia Lanham

Kid Stuff ....................... 46
cover design by Alex Zuniga
The Outdoors .............. 46
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What the county’s talking about this week

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Bob Rucker, Alex Zuniga who died after complaining of shoulder pain raised concerns
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Camillia Lanham while in custody at the jail on April 13. It had about the jail’s
ARTS EDITOR been roughly four months since another inmate, ability to handle
Ryah Cooley
CALENDAR EDITOR 36-year-old Andrew Holland, died of a blood mentally ill
Trever Dias clot shortly after spending nearly 48 hours in inmates, some of
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Glen Starkey a restraint chair. Parkinson said he called on whom are held
STAFF WRITERS the SLO County District Attorney’s Office, as in the jail due to
Chris McGuinness, Peter Johnson,
Karen Garcia well as the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, to a lack of space
INTERNS investigate the most recent death as well as any ANOTHER DEATH Sheriff Ian Parkinson (pictured) adressed concerns over
Katrina Borges, Kristine Xu, in state and
other past deaths at the jail that they believe deaths in the county jail at an April 13 news conference.
Erica Hudson county mental
PHOTOGRAPHER warrant an investigation. health facilities.
Jayson Mellom
“I need to assure the public that we are an McLaughlin’s autopsy would be conducted by
PROOFREADER
Andrea Rooks
Holland, who had been declared mentally the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office.
open book,” Parkinson said. “We are not trying incompetent to stand trial four different times,
EDITORIAL DESIGNERS
to hide something or hold back information.” The change comes as the State Medical
Leni Litonjua, Jordan Dunn had been waiting for a transfer to the county’s
MARKETING & Since 2000, there have been 21 deaths at the Board seeks to suspend or revoke the license of
EVENTS COORDINATOR mental health facility at the time of his death.
Giselle Armstrong SLO County Jail. More than half of those deaths Dr. Gary Alan Walter, the county’s contracted
At the press conference, Parkinson estimated
ASSISTANT
have occurred since 2011, when Parkinson was medical examiner, in connection with a
PRODUCTION MANAGER that there were between 16 and 20 inmates
Eva Lipson elected. During his press conference, Parkinson misdemeanor DUI arrest and conviction last
in the jail awaiting transfer to a state or
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noted that the causes of those deaths included year. Walter, who conducted Holland’s autopsy
Eva Lipson, Geneé Toy, county mental health facility, but couldn’t be
Ellen Fukumoto a suicide, a drug overdose, and an inmate who and ruled the cause of death as natural,
ACCOUNT MANAGER transferred due to a lack of available space.
Colleen Garcia died of terminal cancer while awaiting trial, Parkinson described the jail as a “de facto” received three years of probation after pleading
ADVERTISING EXECUTIVES among others. mental health unit. “no contest” to the DUI charge in May 2016,
Rhonda O’Dell, Tracey Joyner Scuri,
Katy Gray, Kimberly Rosa, Jason Gann, “There’s been no distinct pattern of deaths,” “We have a facility that is not equipped according to court records.
Jennifer Herbaugh
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he said. “I think that’s important.” to deal with inmates suffering from a severe In an email to New Times, McLaughlin’s
Patricia Horton Parkinson also said the SLO County Jail illness, both medical and mental health, yet we former attorney, Matthew Guerrero, said he
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT wasn’t alone in experiencing an uptick in approved of his late client’s autopsy being
Cindy Rucker are forced to do it,” Parkinson said.
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE jail deaths. He pointed to statistics from the conducted by an outside agency.
Michael Antonette When asked if he believed the current
Department of Justice that showed an increase “Given the recent medical board action as
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT medical and mental health staffing at the jail
Rachelle Ramirez in total jail deaths across the state since 2011. well as questions about his prior findings and
was adequate, Parkinson said he was going
CONTRIBUTORS That’s the same year that California’s prison trial testimony, we support this decision,”
Russell Hodin, Rob Brezsny, to leave that up to the recommendations of
Hayley Thomas Cain, Al Fonzi, realignment initiative was signed into law. Guerrero wrote.
Michael Latner the investigations.
Parkinson said realignment changed the jail’s Acknowledging the myriad issues that
CIRCULATION MANAGER “I’m not a health care professional,” he said.
Jim Parsons population by placing inmates with longer may have contributed to the deaths in the
DISTRIBUTION “I’m not a mental health care professional.”
José Vasquez, Kevin Reed, sentences in county jails instead of state prisons. jail, Parkinson promised during the press
John Somies, Russell Moreton, Because of realignment, Parkinson said that Even as investigations begin, some changes
Michael Plureda, Barbara Alvis, have already occurred in the wake of the two conference to address any problems the
Tom Falconer, Carmen Parsons,
investigations revealed.
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Misty Lambert, Gary Story, most recent deaths. A sheriff’s spokesman
Ingrid Roessler, Dennis Flatley
confirmed April 17 that Parkinson had “Our acceptable number of jail deaths is zero,”
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NEWS from page 4
attorney Dan Knight and former City
Councilmember Dan Carpenter.
“It’s been a real privilege to be a
proponent of this,” Jenkins said at the
council meeting. “This is an opportunity
for you. … Apologize now for the prior
council’s violation of the First, Fourth, and
Fifth Amendments of residents, renters,
and owners.”
Because the initiative garnered some
5,400 signatures (more than 15 percent of
the city’s registered voters), under election
law, the council’s only two options were to
adopt the initiative untouched, or to call a
special election. That election is estimated
to cost the city about $150,000.
All five councilmembers said they weren’t
willing to expose the city’s existing policies to
legal challenges by adopting the initiative.
“There’s no way I’m willing to gamble on
our inclusionary housing. To put that at
risk—I can’t do it,” Councilmember Aaron
Gomez said.
“It leaves us with really no choice but
to move this to a ballot,” Mayor Heidi
Harmon added.
Council members also said they didn’t
believe residents who signed the petition
really understood the replacement clause,
but rather they just wanted a repeal of the
rental housing inspection program.
“I do think thousands of community
members wanted us to make this change,”
Councilmember Dan Rivoire said. “What
I don’t think the community wanted us
to do was expose the city to undue risk.
… It does seem the risks are grave and
absolutely is not what the people signing
that petition intended.”
City officials indicated that the all-mail
special election will be held either in late
July or August 2017.
—Peter Johnson
Fledgling Shandon
water district under
FPPC investigation
The dust just refuses to settle in North
County water politics.
Less than a week after 68 landowners
around Shandon held an election to form
the Shandon-San Juan Water District,
the California Fair Political Practices
Commission (FPPC) announced on April
17 that it was opening an investigation
into whether the proponents of that
water district violated campaign laws
by not reporting financial receipts and
expenditures leading up to the election.
The investigation stems from a
complaint filed by Kevin P. Rice, a San
Luis Obispo resident. In the complaint,
Rice claims that proponents of the
Shandon-San Juan Water District and
the Paso Robles Agricultural Alliance for
Groundwater Solutions (PRAAGS)—a
now-defunct committee that backed a
previous water district effort and had
members who own land in the new
district—didn’t follow proper campaign
finance procedures.
Rice’s main accusation is that the water
district leaders should have formed a
political action committee and released
financial disclosure forms under the
Political Reform Act.
PRAAGS financial disclosures from
2016 indicate that it gave $9,294 to
Bakersfield-based law firm Young
Wooldridge LLP between July and
November “for the benefit of Shandon-San
Juan Water District.”
Rice asserts that the district petitioners
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likely collected and spent more than the
$9,294 for things like “advertisements,
mailings, and literature.”
“It’s all dark money,” Rice said to New
Times.
The landowners behind the Shandon-
San Juan Water District, however, said
that all their expenditures were made
simply to comply with the Local Agency
Formation Commission’s (LAFCO)
requirements in applying to start a
district, and therefore the data was not
reportable.
“The complaint filed by Mr. Rice is
completely without merit,” a statement
from the Shandon-San Juan Water
District read. “By law, no committee
formation or reporting was required.”
The parties appearing in the complaint
are Shandon farmers and water district
board members Steve Sinton, Will Cunha,
and Marshall Miller, as well as PRAAGS
and Young Wooldridge.
The Shandon-San Juan Water District
covers 136,000 acres and is one of two new
water districts forming over the sprawling
Paso Robles Groundwater Basin. An
application to form an Estrella-El Pomar-
Creston Water District was approved by
LAFCO on April 6. An election for that
water district is likely to be held in
the fall.
In the same PRAAGS 2016 disclosure
form, the committee gave $18,589 to the
Estrella-El Pomar-Creston Water District
Formation Group. That group started an
official political action committee on April
10 but has yet to disclose any financial data.
—Peter Johnson
Grover Beach
approves memorial
for man killed
in dog attack
“Hero,” is how David Fear’s family
remembers him.
The word stood out on the backs of the
white T-shirts they wore to the April 17
Grover Beach City Council meeting; Fear’s
face was printed on the front.
The man who died in December 2016
after being critically injured while
protecting Betty Long, his 85-year-old
neighbor, from a dog attack will soon
be remembered as a hero by everyone
who walks by his surfboard. A concrete
replica of the board is destined to become
a memorial bench accompanied by a sign
reading, “Our hero salty dog David Fear,”
at the end of Nacimiento Avenue near the
Meadow Creek Open Space. On April 17,
the City Council unanimously approved
installation of the memorial at the site,
which is public property.
“That will be his actual surfboard he
rode, and I think it’s a great location,
because we hang out there all the time. It’s
the perfect resting site,” David’s brother,
Steve, said.
The Five Cities Men’s Club will be
responsible for all the costs associated with
the bench and sign, including construction,
installation, and long-term maintenance
and repair.
Fear’s wife, Terry Lopez, thanked
the community of Grover Beach during
the meeting.
“David was my husband for 25 years.
We lived there on our street for 18 years,
and we said when we moved there that
we were going to die there. Not this early,
but it happened,” Lopez said. “I just think
that right now he is so proud to see that
the community would do something like
this for him. He’s always helped anybody
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and everybody.”
The former
Grover Beach
police officer who
owned the dog that
attacked Fear, Alex
Geiger, faces two
felony charges in
connection with the
December attack.
Geiger pleaded
not guilty to the
charges, and is due
to appear in SLO
County Superior
Court May 22 for a
pre-preliminary hearing.
—Kristine Xu
Poly pays
security fees for
Muslim Student
Association event
Cal Poly’s taken a small step toward
changing the way it supports vulnerable
groups on campus.
That’s according to religious studies
professor and advisor to the Cal Poly
Muslim Student Association (MSA),
Stephen Lloyd-Moffett, who has been
calling out the university since Milo
Yiannopoulos spoke at the university
in January. Cal Poly didn’t charge
the College Republicans club, which
organized the event, for the event’s
security fees ($55,400). But the university
had charged the MSA more than $4,000
in security fees for a conference it held on
campus in 2016.
Lloyd-Moffett started an online
petition in February that attracted nearly
1,300 signatures requesting that the
administration pay MSA back for those
security charges.
But in a recent email to New Times,
Lloyd-Moffett changed his tune.
He said both Cal Poly President Jeff
Armstrong and Vice-President Keith
Humphrey have attended recent MSA
meetings and offered their support to the
association.
“They acknowledge the perception of a
double standard regarding the security
costs as well as the struggles the students
of color feel on campus,” Lloyd-Moffett said.
The administration says it will cover
the security fees for TED Talk speaker
and Muslim studies scholar Dalia
Mogahed to come to the university later
this month, a gesture Lloyd-Moffett
believes has to do with the apparent
double standard regarding Yiannopoulos’
security fees.
Mogahed will give her talk titled
Islamaphobia: A Threat to All at a free
MSA event on April 29 in the Chumash
Auditorium from 3 to 5 p.m.
“It will be the best single opportunity
our community has to learn about Islam,”
Lloyd-Moffet said.
Despite Cal Poly’s waiving seurity fees
for Mogahed’s visit, the university is not
changing its stance on the technicalities of
the prior security fees.
The Cal Poly MSA paid $4,888 in
security fees for a three-day, two-night
conference on campus in January 2016
that hosted several MSA chapters across
the West Coast. Cal Poly spokesperson
Matt Lazier told New Times that at the
time, the university’s policy was for the
campus club to pay for security fees. That
policy changed nine months later, around
the same time the College Republicans
club invited Yiannopoulos to campus.
by Jayson Mellom
“As of September 2016, Cal Poly’s
practice has been not to charge student
clubs for additional security costs related
to protests and similar free expression
activities,” Lazier said in an email. “As
the university has previously stated, there
was not a double standard regarding the
Milo event and the MSA West conference.”
—Karen Garcia
Arroyo Grande’s
crowdfunding
for new police dog
The Arroyo Grande Police Department is
looking to add another K-9 officer to it roster
and is turning to a popular fundraising
website to ask the public for help.
The department started an online
crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe to
raise $30,000 to purchase the dog, a male
German shepherd named Tig.
“Neither our department nor our city
government have these funds available,”
a statement from the department on the
GoFundMe campaign webpage said. “So,
as in the past, our success will depend
entirely on contributions from those
who want to be a part of keeping Arroyo
Grande safe.”
According to Arroyo Grande K-9 police
officer Jeff Corrall, the department decided
to acquire Tig after one of its two longtime
K-9s, a male German shepherd named
Gregor, was medically retired from duty
last year after six years of service. If the
fundraising campaign is successful, Tig
will join the department’s remaining K-9,
Daghan. Corrall said Tig would be trained
for common K-9 duties such as protection;
searching buildings; and helping find
evidence, suspects, and missing persons.
In addition, Corrall said he hopes to have
Tig specialize in the more rare skill of
bomb detection.
“There are very few bomb detection dogs
in California,” Corrall said. “He’s going to
be pretty active.”
Corrall said the money will not only pay
for purchasing and training Tig, but will
also cover the dog’s medical fees, food, and
ongoing support and maintenance. The
GoFundMe campaign began in January,
and has raised $4,200 so far.
“It’s been wonderful. We’ve had great
support from the community,” Corrall said.
“We’ve even gotten support from outside
[Arroyo Grande] and even outside
the state.”
Arroyo Grande isn’t the only police
department to turn to online fundraising
to help itself acquire a K-9. According
to the GoFundMe website, police
departments in Clinton, Conn.; Pawnee,
Okla.; Hanford and Arcata, Calif.; and
several other American cities, are also
using the site to raise money to start or
expand their K-9 programs. Δ
—Chris McGuinness
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News
BY PETER JOHNSON
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Hundreds of Los Osos
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connected to new sewer
I
f everything went as planned in
Los Osos, all 5,000 or so properties
mandated to connect to the new Los
Osos Wastewater Plant would have done
so as of a March 18 deadline.
But instead, as the one-year grace
period to hook up expires, up to 700—or
about 14 percent of the community—
still aren’t connected, according to SLO
County. Meanwhile, a State Water
Resources Control Board order dating
back to the 1980s continues to pressure
the same residences to ditch their septic
tanks, which have polluted the underlying
groundwater for decades.
County officials and community
members told New Times they aren’t sure
about the reasons for the delays. Deputy
Director of SLO County Public Works
Mark Hutchinson said the county would
be sending letters to property owners
to urge them to connect. He indicated a
questionnaire could be added to it to get
a better sense of the reasons why some
people aren’t completing the work.
“We want to really get a better sense of
why folks aren’t connecting,” Hutchinson
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Connecting to the sewer involves
choosing and hiring a contractor to build
a lateral pipe and decommission the septic
tank. The contractor must survey the
property first and obtain a permit from
the county.
All in all, the laterals are costing
homeowners between $2,000 and
$10,000, depending on the layout of the
property. For instance, if a house sits in a
depression, the lateral may have go uphill
to the mainline, which would require a
pricey sewage pump.
No matter the reason, if property
owners hold off for too much longer, the
county could start levying fines, or the
Regional Water Quality Control Board
could step in.
“Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that,” said
Bruce Gibson, SLO County’s 2nd District
Supervisor, who represents Los Osos.
Hooking up ain’t easy
Of the roughly 700 properties not yet
connected, the county knows that 98
are low-income homeowners rightfully
awaiting financial assistance.
SLO County has developed a subsidy
program for the lateral connections
by leveraging Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) community block
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of two).
For nearly a year, the program
was held up because HUD initially
determined that the construction work
called for prevailing wages (a higher set
of wages required for public projects).
That would’ve dramatically increased
the cost of the work, but the county
recently convinced HUD to change that
determination, since a lateral sewer pipe
benefits one private property owner.
On April 11, the county Board of
Supervisors sent $174,714 more in HUD
grant funds to the lateral assistance fund,
upping the total money available to about
$600,000—or about 100 hook-ups if each one
cost $6,000. Hutchinson said he hopes the
funds will be able to cover all 98 low-income
property owners. He said the program will
start moving forward right away.
Aside from those 98 homeowners,
officials are perplexed at why their data
indicate that roughly 600 others aren’t
connected. They aren’t ruling out some
accounting errors, but the number is too
high to be just that. Hutchinson said he
believes some are simply “overwhelmed”
by the costs.
In total, 203 property owners applied
for financial help with the lateral
connection, according to People’s Self-
Help Housing, the organization that
conducted the income certification. Of
those, 59 applicants earned below the 50
percent median income level ($38,550
for a household of two) and were eligible
for a U.S. Department of Agriculture
grant/loan program, 98 were suited for
the county program, and 46 were deemed
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ineligible for assistance.
Julie Olson is one Los Osos homeowner
who was declared ineligible for subsidies,
but not because she didn’t need them. Olson
doesn’t live in Los Osos—or SLO County—
since she suffers from a physical disability
and can’t afford to live in the area. As an
absentee landowner who rents out the
house, Olson said she was disqualified for
the financial assistance programs. She
decided to take out a loan to pay for the
lateral work.
“I am unable to afford to live in my
house—even if I wanted to move back
home,” Olson told New Times. “It is
frightening to live on credit, yet I can’t
lose my house. It is the only investment
I have that can keep me from starving if
things get worse in life.”
Some community members told
New Times long waits or problems
with contractors held up the work, or
properties had environmental conditions
that presented issues.
The lateral construction costs aren’t
the only sewer-related burdens facing Los
Osos residents. A wastewater bill for a
single-family house is projected at nearly
$2,000 per year, for the sewer service and
the $185 million plant construction costs.
Supervisor Gibson pointed out that
property owners who decided not to hook
up to the sewer will still be paying for it.
“If someone is just trying to ignore the
inevitable, they are going to be paying for
sewer service and the capital assessment
anyway,” Gibson said. ∆
Reach Staff Writer Peter Johnson at
pjohnson@newtimesslo.com.
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BY CHRIS MCGUINNESS
In the zone
Grover Beach expands the size of its cannabis
business district amid fears of pot biz bubble
T
he city of Grover Beach makes no
bones about wanting to become a
welcoming place for California’s
bourgeoning marijuana industry,
but finding the physical space to
accommodate the potentially lucrative
industry could prove to be difficult.
The city Planning Commission voted
4-1 April 12 to recommend that the City
Council approve a revised plan to create
a special overlay zone for commercial
medical marijuana businesses, including
processing, cultivation, testing,
distribution, and even retail sales.
Initially, that zone was limited to
65 acres of land in an industrial-zoned
area in the southwestern part of the
city. But the City Council scrapped that
plan in February, asking city staff to
go back the drawing board, and expand
the cannabis business zone, after local
residents and business owners raised
concerns that longtime businesses
might be forced out in favor of
marijuana businesses looking to swoop
in and buy property.
The revised land-use ordinance
expands the original zone to allow
commercial marijuana businesses in the
city’s coastal industrial commercial and
coastal commercial zones, upping the
total size to 86 acres. About 15 percent
of that area is vacant, according to data
from city staff.
“Expanding the area provides more
land for those types of uses,” said Bruce
Buckingham, Grover Beach’s community
development director.
But even the additional acreage may
not be enough to accommodate marijuana
businesses eager to set up shop in Grover
Beach and the existing businesses already
operating in those three areas, according
to Grover Beach City Councilwoman
Debbie Peterson. Peterson, a realtor,
conducted her own research of the
potential economic impact of the overlay
zone. According to Peterson’s research, just
talking about creating the district led to a
spike in property values and the reported
displacement of some businesses.
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told New Times. Peterson’s report,
compiled using local real estate data and
interviews with realtors and business
owners in the proposed overlay zones,
stated that 14 properties in the original
southern industrial zone have already
been put up for sale. As of March, at least
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average of $200 per square-foot that
properties in the same area were selling
for in December 2016. Three properties
in the potential zone have been sold,
according to Peterson’s research, with the
highest sale price being $2 million.
Peterson also claimed that 35
businesses in the area were “displaced”
as of March 2017, including 20 businesses
that have reportedly moved away or
will go within 45 days, and another 15
at risk for being displaced within the
next three months. Peterson cautioned
against displacing current businesses for
new ones and worried that speculation
and the rush to sell or lease property to
marijuana businesses would create an
A NEW INDUSTRY Grover Beach is one step closer to creating a special zone
economic bubble similar to the dot-com (outlined in red) for commercial medical marijuana businesses to operate in.
boom of the 1990s.
“When you have a boom, you usually designate a special zone for marijuana- full of blighted and empty properties that
have a bust,” Peterson said. related businesses. In July 2016, the had fallen into disrepair. Creating the
Buckingham said that the city had also medical marijuana innovation zone has
city of Arcata, Calif., approved the
heard concerns that business might be begun turning that around, Loya said.
creation of a “medical marijuana
forced out, but noted that those claims “The property owners are making high
innovation zone.” The zone, located in
were difficult to substantiate. quality investments,” he said. “We are
an industrial area of the town formerly
“We are hearing some stories about getting exactly the desired result. These
used by logging and mineral extraction-
displacement, but at this point it’s hard blighted properties now have money
for the city staff to verify,” he said. related businesses, has now been set
aside to house commercial medical pouring into them.”
Following the Planning Commission’s Loya said that some businesses were
vote to expand the area where the marijuana manufacturing and limited
displaced with the creation of the zone,
medical marijuana businesses will be cultivation businesses.
but indicated the number was low,
allowed to operate, Peterson said the new Currently, Arcata has about 23 adding the Arcata City Council was “very
plan would take some of the pressure off, businesses looking to operate in the sensitive” to the existing businesses while
but still questioned whether the space specially designated zone, and three such creating the innovation zone.
available would be able to accommodate businesses are already up and running, The Grover Beach City Council will
both the incoming cannabis businesses according to David Loya, Arcata’s conduct a first reading of the zoning
and the current local businesses that community development director. ordinances at its May 1 meeting. Δ
might be displaced. “We had a lot of interest,” Loya said.
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crisis remains.” squeezed for space in its commercial reached at cmcguinness@newtimesslo.com,
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Eelgrass
detectives
Morro Bay almost lost a foundation of
its ecosystem, and the National Estuary
Program is pushing to figure out why
BY CAMILLIA LANHAM • PHOTOS BY JAYSON MELLOM
E
ach slow, carefully placed step forces
saltwater to ooze from volcano-shaped
holes about the size of a thumbnail.
Gingerly, Faylla Chapman moves
through the mud flats exposed at low tide,
heading toward Windy Cove’s temporary
shoreline and trying not to lose her shoes
in the process. The Morro Bay State Park
docent, who was once a biology teacher,
has her face firmly focused on what’s
beneath her battered beige sneakers.
“What I want you to understand today
is the mud is alive,” she says. “Every hole
has something living in it.”
Worms—fat, pink, soft ones; skinny
ones with legs like a millipede; and ones
with two sharp teeth that once made
a student of Chapman’s bleed—clams,
shrimp, bacteria, and snails make this
sticky segment of the bay home. Each
lives beneath a distinctly shaped hole it
probes the surface from.
If you could sit over the top of this mud
at high tide in a glass-bottomed boat, she
says, you could see all the creatures moving
about. But now, most of them are hiding.
“Hey!” somebody shouts a few feet away,
and Chapman rushes over, foregoing the
threat of a muddied sock for the treat of a
biological specimen.
Half-in/half-out of a little mud volcano
is a ghost shrimp. It’s translucent and
the pink of its internal organs are visible.
She drops her hand into the briny water
covering the hole and gently tugs it all the
way out of its home. One paper-white claw
makes up half of its roughly 5-inch length.
Like a group of school kids, the adults
on Chapman’s mud flats tour are crouched
low, peering into the water with fascination.
This April 6 walkabout is part of a month-
long series of tours and hikes organized by
the Morro Bay National Estuary Program
to go with the release of the 2017 State of
the Bay report.
Earlier, Chapman had plucked a
plum-sized bubble snail from the muck—
sniffing the opening of its purplish shell
and wrinkling her nose at the scent.
“Sulfur,” she said as she handed it off.
“Here, smell it.”
That rotten-egg smell came from deep
down in the mud. It’s a smell you can’t
get out of your clothes for days, she said,
referring to the holes she’s bored into the
muck while searching for life. According
to Chapman, that sulfur originates
within eelgrass, a foundation of the Morro
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Bay ecosystem that has declined rapidly
over the last decade.
After eelgrass dies, it decays and
the sulfur it contained is gobbled up by
green bacteria, which are the basis for
everything above them in the food chain.
She pointed out a dark patch of water
in the bay, saying with surprise that it
looked like a new eelgrass bed that didn’t
exist last year. It’s a sign that maybe
the brine-water loving plant—which has
lost more than 95 percent of its Morro
Bay foothold in less than a decade: from
344 acres in 2007 to merely 13 acres in
2015—has a chance for survival.
The grass is a flowering underwater
plant that grows in shallow areas of the
estuary, where the water is clear and
light is prolific.
“While we do not yet know the exact
reasons for the decline, it is likely the result
of multiple factors,” the estuary program
states in the recently released report.
And without knowing the exact
reasons for the huge losses, its hard to
pinpoint what will help bring some of
it back and how to prevent staggering
declines from happening again. But the
program’s executive director, Lexie Bell,
said the estuary program is working with
stakeholders, government agencies, and
Cal Poly to do more research that will
help adaptively manage eelgrass and
Morro Bay in the future.
ADULT LEARNING Morro Bay State Park docent Faylla
Chapman uses her binder full of maps, diagrams, and fun
facts to educate people about the history of Morro Bay,
changes to the estuary, and all the things that call it home.
EVER-CHANGING Just as sand blows off the dunes into
the Morro Bay estuary, the bay’s ecosystem is dynamic and
always changing based on what’s happening around it.
Without eelgrass, Morro Bay would be a
much different ecosystem and some of those
changes are already starting to show.
“It’s designated legally as an essential
habitat. It really is a generator of
diversity in the bay,” Bell said. “It’s a
food resource and an area of protection
and habitat. It helps keep water clarity
improved. … It really is a cornerstone of
what’s going on in the bay.”
Geese and grass
One of the most visible changes related
to eelgrass decline is the number of brant
(also called the Western brant or black
brant) using Morro Bay as a feeding and
resting spot on the Pacific Flyway.
Dave Tyra, president of the Morro
Coast Audubon Society, said brant, a
goose that’s about the size of a mallard,
typically use the estuary as a stopover on
their migration between summer nesting
sites in northern Alaska and Canada and
wintering sites in Baja California.
Tyra pointed out that the annual
Christmas Bird Count pegged the number
of brant hanging out in Morro Bay on
Dec. 16, 2006, at more than 3,000 strong.
By Dec. 17, 2016, that number had fallen
to less than 500.
“That’s a snapshot. But just from an
observation standpoint, we’ve noticed a
decrease in the number of brant year over
year,” Tyra said. “And it really tracks
with the loss of eelgrass in the estuary.”
Eelgrass is the brant’s main source of food.
According to Ed Miller and Fred
Harpster—respectively, the vice president
and president of the Black Brant Group
in Morro Bay—the goose still feeds in
the thousands on coastal bays that have
plenty of eelgrass in them. But the loss of
eelgrass in Morro Bay is troubling to them.
“It’s come and gone over the years,
but nothing like this,” Miller said. “That
eelgrass ... it’s basically the nursery for
everything in that bay.”
The Black Brant Group has been
around for about two decades, and it was
started as a way to push back against
“anti-hunting pressure,” Harpster said.
Waterfowl hunters used to be able to hunt
throughout the bay, but legal hunting
areas have slowly been whittled away to
30 percent of what they once were.
“We just got to the point where we said if
we give up anymore, we might as well quit.
You have to educate people, and that’s what
we’ve tried to do these last 20 years,” Miller
said. “That’s why we started it, to protect
our hunters’ rights, but we’ve moved on to
more stewards of the bay.”
The group has spent about $450,000 on
various research projects since it started
and raises money through its once-a-year
dinner. The funds have often supported
projects that study the brant (such as
habitat changes in Alaskan nesting
areas), but more and more, that money is
also going to eelgrass research.
Harpster said he started hunting in
Morro Bay with his father in the 1950s,
and the bay has changed dramatically.
“I’ve lived on that bay my whole life,”
Harpster said. “That bay used to be
covered in clams, and now there’s hardly
any clams. It’s funny, as hunters, we are
pushing this bay conservation.”
Group effort
Eelgrass is also a haven and nursery
for fish and shellfish. It cleans excess
nutrients such as nitrates out of the bay.
Its root system acts as a stabilizer for the
bay’s soft floor, preventing sediment from
moving around and allowing more light to
filter through the water column.
But eelgrass is also an extremely
sensitive species that can only grow in
specific environments. Available light, the
saltwater/freshwater mix, water clarity,
water temperatures, tide flows, and
 elevation within the estuary can all affect fish interact with eelgrass.
eelgrass’s chances of survival. Sedimentation is the theory O’Leary

s
The National Marine Fisheries Service and her team of researchers is testing.
(NMFS), a department within the National Essentially, the thought is that how much
Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, sediment—dirt, dust, mud, sand—runs
estimates that fewer than 11,000 acres to down from the watershed or blows off the
as much as possibly 15,000 acres of eelgrass dunes and where it ends up settling in
habitat exists statewide. the bay could affect eelgrass growth, as
“While among the most productive could the amount of that same sediment
habitats, the overall low statewide clouding up the water (turbidity). But all
abundance makes eelgrass one of the rarest of this research is being done after the
habitats in California,” states a 2014 NMFS die-off.
report on eelgrass mitigation policy. “The “One of the hardest parts of this
narrow depth range within which eelgrass is we’ve sort of become ecosystem
can occur further places this habitat at risk detectives,” O’Leary explained.
in the face of global climate change and sea The goal is to get a more holistic view
level rise predictions.” of the bay and use all the data they’re
Stakeholders like the Morro Coast collecting to create a map of what the bay
Audubon Society, the Black Brant Group, looks like: where sediment is deposited and
and the Morro Bay National Estuary eroding; where eelgrass is now and where
Program have pooled their resources ESTUARY GAWKIN’ On the tail end of a docent-led
walk from the salt marsh to the mud flats near Morro
it’s occurred in the past; how water moves
(money and people power) together to do in and out of the bay from land and sea.
Bay State Park on April 11, walk attendees check out the
things to try and stem Morro Bay’s rapid creatures that call a salty pond home. “The whole thing is a model that makes
eelgrass decline. Working in conjunction predictions,” O’Leary said. “If you change
with state and federal agencies such as the one thing, how does it affect everything
California Department of Fish and Wildlife, normally exists in eelgrass beds, but surviving in murky water with low light. else. … It sort of helps us understand
the group spearheaded a huge eelgrass he cautions that trying to pinpoint “Everything is interconnected in one whether or not sediment affects eelgrass.”
replanting effort starting in 2012. something as the root cause is like asking form or another. Sometimes it’s good, Eventually, that model could be used
And although the majority of those blades whether the chicken or the egg came first. sometimes it’s bad,” he said. “It’s been a to help manage the bay, re-establish
didn’t make it past year two, Bell with the He compares the eelgrass pathogen to very erratic decade to say the least. And eelgrass, and potentially prevent massive
estuary program believes the effort wasn’t the bark beetle and what it has done to eelgrass is a pretty good canary. … If die-offs in the future. Although the
for naught. The method they used, basically forests from the Rocky Mountains to the you have a rainy day, the eelgrass doesn’t research team is building off the estuary
transplanting whole plants with roots Sierra Nevada over the last few years. turn over and die; if you have a long-term program’s past efforts and has already
intact, has worked in other areas of the bay Beetles normally exist in the trend, it responds to the long-term trend, started filling in data points of their own,
before—it just didn’t necessarily take off in environment and pine trees can usually and things have been unsettled this past more research is needed. O’Leary recently
the new areas. resist their impacts, but stressors such as decade.” submitted a grant proposal to receive
“Early methods were good because it’s higher temperatures and prolonged drought That being said, Merkel did some more funding for that work.
worked in the past,” Bell said. “But it’s can decrease a tree’s strength and therefore eelgrass monitoring in the bay in early One of those grant sources will hopefully
also a good lesson in adaptive its immunity to the bark beetle. April. He noticed spots of new eelgrass be California Sea Grant, which also funds
management to say ‘alright,
Explore Merkel said the same can be said growth in areas that had initially
her position at Cal Poly. The National Sea
this isn’t working anymore.’”
Or to say, what works over the bay of this pathogen and eelgrass,
especially in Morro Bay.
benefited from transplant efforts but
eventually died off.
Grant is run by the National Atmospheric
The Morro Bay and Oceanic Administration (NOAA).
there isn’t necessarily going “It’s a naturally occurring “I’m not sure that it is or is not related
National Estuary Individual programs are run in the 33
to work over here, because the Program has events pathogen in eelgrass beds, but to the transplants at this point,” he said.
states that touch either saltwater or the
conditions of the bay are different running through the it tends to go virulent in some “But it looks very promising.”
Great Lakes, doing research on problems
from south to north, east to west. end of April, including cases, and it appears that there
that stem from human interaction with the
Keith Merkel with Merkel an Earth Day paddle
and shoreline cleanup
are stressors that trigger its Detective work ocean, according to California Sea Grant
and Associates out of San Diego virulence,” Merkel said. “A lot To truly understand why eelgrass died in
helped with the most recent
at Tidelands Park on Director Jim Eckman.
April 22 from 8 to 11 a.m. of it probably has to do with the first place and why there are glimpses
efforts and also spearheaded The $72 million Sea Grant program
Visit mbnep.org to changing weathers.” of it returning, the estuary program feels it
the successful efforts that is on President Donald Trump’s
learn more. Things like less fog and needs to better understand Morro Bay and
took place as mitigation for chopping block as a future budget cut,
cloud cover over Morro Bay, how it works, in general.
dredging in other parts of the higher temperatures, and less as is a 17 percent cut to NOAA’s overall
As the die-off started to threaten an funding and a 31 percent cut to the
bay. Since the 1980s, Merkel has worked storm water flowing down the watershed end to Morro Bay’s eelgrass beds, the
up and down the West Coast in research, stressed out the eelgrass, lowering its Environmental Protection Agency’s
estuary program looked to Cal Poly (EPA) federal funding. Being an EPA-
restoration, and mitigation of eelgrass in immunity to the pathogen. for help finding answers. Bell said the
various bays. Currently, he’s part of a big “All of the things that we’ve got going designated National Estuary Program
relationship with the university is a first enables Morro Bay’s estuary program to
project in San Francisco Bay, which has on have sort of been a perfect storm,” he for the estuary program.
seen eelgrass declines as well. said. “And everything forward from there get funding. It receives about half of its
Jennifer O’Leary, a marine scientist money from the EPA each year.
“I would say that Morro Bay has been is a cascading failure.” who’s an adjunct professor at Cal Poly
hit worse than any other system along the All of the factors that eelgrass helped Eckman said cutting the Sea Grant
through the California Sea Grant program would save the feds about
coast, but all the systems along the coast control—keeping sediment on the bay program, is spearheading some of the
have in the past several years become floor and the water clear, sucking up extra efforts. She said they are studying a few $4 million when it comes to California
unstable relative to eelgrass distribution,” nutrients out of the water and helping to but would cost the state an additional
small plots of eelgrass they planted in $12 million to $18 million in matching
Merkel said. prevent large algae blooms—are no longer different areas of the bay, as well as the
His best guess as to why? A wasting restrained. And it becomes a vicious grants and other funding sources.
water and sediment dynamics in Morro “It would cost the state a lot of
disease caused by a pathogen that cycle, because eelgrass has a hard time Bay, oxygen levels in the water, and how opportunity lost,” Eckman said. “Federal
investment is a huge leverage.”
Eelgrass acreage Number of brant (black brant) But he’s confident that the legwork
in Morro Bay seen in Morro Bay Sea Grant has done in Washington, D.C.,
and in each of the states the program
435 3,506
touches will pay off. Eckman said there
3,400 have been letters written by senators
3,150 and representatives on both sides of the
2,951 aisle asking the budget committees to
344 2,840
2,500
maintain the Sea Grant program at its
287 2,335 current levels. He’s optimistic, but they’re
260 267 still encouraging people to make their
240 1,850 voices heard.
1,726 1,711
“It’s an attack on science. It’s a
176 1,470
165 167 minimization of the importance of
149 1,197 science,” Eckman said. “The long-
125
98 term cost of that is that you would be
537 convincing people not to go into those
17 13 fields and that would be tragic.” Δ
250
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DATA PROVIDED BY KEITH MERKEL OF MERKEL AND ASSOCIATES DATA COLLECTED FROM THE MORRO COAST AUDUBON SOCIETY CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT Editor Camillia Lanham dreams about
being a scientist, but didn’t do well
INTERCONNECTED As eelgrass acreage declines in the Morro Bay estuary, sightings of the brant—a goose that migrates
between Baja and Canada and feeds on the grass—are less frequent.
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BY KRISTINE XU
Volunteers for the earth
O
n April 22, 41 state parks will be
participating in the 19th annual
California State Parks Foundation’s
Earth Day. Since 1998, Earth Day has
allowed the community to give back to
California State Parks. This year at
Montaña de Oro, volunteers will help build
bridges, split rail fences and boardwalks,
conduct cleanups, restore trails and
habitats with native plants, and install
recycling bins and irrigation systems.
“It’s a pretty broad mix. There are
people passionate about taking care of
parks, that’s our core group. There are also
people interested in the well-being of the
community,” Christina Mueller from the
foundation said. “There are plenty of families
that come out, and sometimes there’s people
just looking for something to do.”
Volunteers will have two projects to
work on during Earth Day, according
to Mueller. One will be working on a
native demonstration garden, repairing
the boardwalk, repairing the path base,
and treating the planter beds. The other
will focus on coastal bluff protection and
restoration, where volunteers will put up
fencing so the access trails are defined,
as well as covering unwanted trails so
visitors don’t crush the flora.
According to a press release from
PG&E, more than 83,785 participants
have contributed to 334,301 volunteer
hours of work over the past 18 years, with
park maintenance and improvements
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from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and volunteers will be
meeting at the Spooner’s Cove parking lot.
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on May 1 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. by hosting
an open house and community outreach
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low-cost legal and social services available
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• Cal Poly Safer presents Take Back
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the UU Plaza starting at 11 a.m. and in
downtown SLO’s Mission Plaza starting
at 5 p.m. The evening will include a march
through downtown, a candlelight vigil for
survivors and those who have lost their lives
to sexual violence, an art gallery, and an open
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Opinion
BY MICHAEL SOUTHERN
Increased cost
California’s fuel tax increases won’t
just affect the cost of putting gas in your tank
I
read because of Senate Bill 1,
California’s tax on gasoline is going to
be raised by 12 cents per gallon; the
diesel excise tax will be increased by 20
cents per gallon with the sales tax on diesel
increasing by 4 percent (with an inflation
adjustment); and a new annual vehicle fee
is going to be imposed, varying between
$25 and $175 based on vehicle value (with
an inflation adjustment).
Is there a study available to describe
the impact of this action on the average
citizen? I would like to locate a copy. Surely,
there was some debate on the issue where
opposing viewpoints were raised.
Offhand, I see a significant financial
impact upon my life. Let me see if I can
summarize.
1) The cost of commuting to work will
increase proportionately.
2) The cost of operating city vehicles
will go up, thereby prompting an increase
in city taxes and fees to recover the
increased cost.
3) The cost of operating county vehicles
will go up, thereby prompting an increase
in county fees and property taxes to recover
the increased cost.
4) The utility company, with its hundreds
of vehicles, that provides my electrical
service will have increased fuel costs that
I am certain will be reflected in a higher
electric bill. The same can be expected
for the utilities that provide natural gas
service, water service, and trash pickup.
5) Transportation costs for children being
bused to school will result in increased
costs to the school districts, which will ask
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the state of California for education money
to cover the additional cost.
6) The cost of riding buses, trains, taxis,
and other forms of transportation will
increase dramatically.
7) The California State University
system has vehicles that will now cost more
to utilize. The same can be said for the
University of California system.
8) Education costs, alone, will show
a huge increase because not only will
transportation costs for those systems
increase, but the professors, teachers,
employees, and administrators who have
the higher commuting costs will, of course,
want higher pay increases which will
result in higher tuition costs or increased
demands upon the state education budget.
9) Delivery services and trucking services
will have increased fuel costs, which will
be passed on to the consumer through the
merchants who utilize these services.
So, I can see a cost increase for all
the basic needs of every Californian,
including food and clothing. Everything in
Californian is delivered by truck, so every
item will be impacted.
This is just my initial observation,
without much research. That is why I am
asking for a copy of any study describing
the impact of this fuel tax increase on the
average California citizen. Perhaps one
of your reporters could ferret out some
information. Thanks. ∆
Michael Southern lives in Santa Maria.
Send comments to letters@newtimesslo.com.
Russell Hodin
Not a ‘natural’ death
I am shocked by Sheriff Ian Parkinson’s
statement concerning the death of
Andrew Holland. The sheriff states
in his report that, “though the seated
position, dehydration, and self-injury
were all possibly contributory to the
cause of death, the formation of the
intrapulmonary embolism was a natural
response in the body.”
Yes, death is a “natural” response to
being inhumanely held immobile in a
chair for 46 hours! It is also a “natural
response in the body” to die from a
murderer’s bullet!
The sheriff’s statement is absurd and
blatantly trying to deceive us from the truth.
That big clot (5 centimeters) most
probably came from Andrew’s legs after
being restrained by straps and causing
blood to pool, creating a clot, which, when
he was finally released from the chair,
made its way to his right lung and killed
him. The clot was caused by the cruel
torture of this young man. As an RN, I
am appalled at the care he received. In
hospitals, restraint policies are extremely
strict—a last resort, no matter the
circumstance. This young man should
have been at a mental health facility.
Sheriff Parkinson even calls this chair
a “safety chair.” It might as well have
been an electric chair.
I extend my sympathy to Andrew’s
family. The family needs to take legal
action so this can never happen again.
The grand jury, the District Attorney, the
Board of Supervisors, and all authorities
above the sheriff and county jail need
to investigate and hold responsible the
incompetent entities and humans who
killed this young man.
Nancy Dahl
Los Osos
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Commentary
Hell awaits
There is currently the idea in our
culture that it is all right not to practice
or to believe in human birth control.
That is insane.
Until the last 200 years, our species
had a population less than a billion,
and most of human cultures or belief
systems could seek to multiply human
numbers. But now, with massive recent
human population growth (400 percent
in 100 years) we have 7.5 billion people
today. If you don’t recognize the current
crisis, project that growth 1,000 years
into the future, Earth would have a
population of millions of billions. We
know that is impossible. So what will
stop it? Either birth control or some
form of hell on Earth—starvation,
disease, war, murder, extermination.
Lack of birth control will result in hell
on Earth.
Moral responsibility to the future
requires us to be advocates of birth
control. (This is not a statement about
abortion.) People who oppose birth
control are bringing us hell, they are
not following God’s teaching, or being
politically correct.
Those people who say religious
freedom allows opposition to birth
control are not addressing our collective
future. They are not fighting for the
rights of the poor. They are just insane.
They may be disciples of the devil. They
certainly are not “cerebral.” They are
clearly immoral when you acknowledge
a future. People who worship the past,
who think moral responsibility can
be applied to the present and not the
future, or think that their belief system
makes birth control irrelevant or just
unimportant, are part of an insane
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culture. The insane belief that we can
do without birth control is currently
prevalent in many of our religions, our
politics, and our cultures.
That insanity is in our current media.
Anti-birth control members of the
“religious right” are clearly insane; the
pope can’t quite find sanity, and I’m not
too sure about Amy Goodman. Neither
God nor socialism will save us.
Hell awaits.
Emily Gold
Paso Robles
Automatic opposition
I can agree with Al Fonzi about the
political parties of this country (“When
words become weapons,” April 13).
Notice I said parties; it’s not just
one party.
Especially when you have the
extreme right-wing talk-radio guys,
Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage,
and the rest making statements like
“liberalism is a mental disorder,” falling
in lockstep with every other Republican
talking head about climate change,
and ignoring facts, insulting anyone
with a different opinion. And the fact
is, both sides do it. Both sides will
insult the other as a matter of course,
they will oppose whatever the other
side supports, no matter if it actually
helps, no matter if it moves the country
forward. Automatic opposition.
And to be honest, I don’t see any
difference between the sides. Abortion?
Religion? Just things to divide people,
and nothing is going to be different
when it comes down to the real issues,
such as keeping us in these wars (gotta
keep the defense industry going), big
pharma, big agriculture, all keeping
the candidates going with their political
contributions. Whether right or left,
without them, they won’t get elected.
Boris Roberts
Santa Maria
Fast and loose facts
In his April 13 op-ed “When words
become weapons,” Al Fonzi has once
again dipped into his inkwell of
alternative facts. One in particular
stands out: his claim that Hillary
Clinton violated “a host of national
security laws, regulations and policies
... .” As I recall, the FBI found that she
violated no laws.
Mr. Fonzi’s loose relationship with
facts is well established. One need look
no further than Richard Dydell’s April
13 piece, “Not an option,” to get
another taste.
I find it apropos that Mr. Fonzi plays
up his counterintelligence background,
as most of the vitriol that flows from
his pen is counter to most intelligent
discourse.
Richard Neidhardt
Los Osos
Oceanfront
property in Arizona
Yes, California could fall into the
Pacific but not from any earthquake. As
of Nov. 1, 2017, we could all be sucked
into Senate Bill 1 quicksand.
In effect, the program is not simply
a huge $52.4 billion transportation
program for 10 years; it’s a massive and
unending confiscation of the people’s
resources. The taxes could generate
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hundreds of billions over the decades.
Worse yet, by adding the new taxes, the
Sacramento politicians can use existing
revenues, which are also increasing,
to fund more staff, more raises, more
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And, what if Measure J had passed?
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We who live in the North County
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stretching over rolling hills dotted
with rangelands and vineyards—and
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Self-reflection
In reading Mr. Fonzi’s latest missive
(“When words become weapons,” April
13), I must admit that I totally agree
with his premise. Words can result in
events spiraling out of control and beget
violent confrontations that become
worse over time. The political left and
right have always been at some level of
conflict, but over the last decade or so it
has become much worse. Where we once
had disagreements over issues, we now
demonize the other side. This behavior
only creates more problems; it does not
solve them.
Since we all engage in some level of
self-deception, it may be hard for you,
Mr. Fonzi, to believe this, but you are
part of this problem and not part of the
solution. Both sides, liberals as well as
conservatives are just as guilty of this
behavior. It perpetuates because of self-
deception. Just as others can see our
faults better than we can see our own,
we can see this behavior in those on the
other side of the political divide. But at
the same time, we rationalize our own
behavior as acceptable because we’re
the ones in the right. Think about this.
How can it be right, if this behavior
leads to more rancor and intransigence
on both sides, as it obviously has?
Street talk
What do you think of President Trump’s proposed
budget cuts to federally funded science programs
(like the EPA and the National Health Institute)?
Martin Klassen
painter
“I think it’s ridiculous.”
Scott Johnson
retired
“Science is important
for younger
generations. If we
don’t evolve further,
how do we find out
what’s going on?”
The cure is not to blame the other
side exclusively, as this will only
perpetuate the problem. If both liberals
and conservatives, Democrats and
Republicans, focus on cleaning up
their own house, we just might regain
the level of political civility of years
gone past. One side cannot shame
the other side into changing their
behavior, but peer pressure is apt to
be more effective if it’s exerted from
peers who share the same side of the
political divide as yourself, whichever
side that is. This country is built upon
a great many different cultures and
points of view getting along. The hard
work our ancestors have put into this
endeavor is at risk if we don’t try to be
a little more self-reflective and work
together, focusing on what worked
before. Remember, bipartisanship is
not a crime, so let’s not treat it like one
and stop demonizing others who think
differently than ourselves. ∆
Donald Merrill
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ast week, my colleague Al Fonzi
claimed that my questioning
whether our constitutional
democracy would survive President
Trump’s authoritarianism was “absurd in
the extreme.” Mr. Fonzi offered two points
to try and substantiate his claim: 1) the
Trump administration has largely obeyed
a federal court’s rejection of his latest
reformulation to limit immigration from
predominantly Muslim countries, and
2) we are not yet experiencing massive
food shortages or knocks on the door from
secret police in the middle of the night.
Of course, my question would be
meaningless if we were already in a
situation like Venezuela. We are not.
My question is how far will we let it
go? Perhaps Mr. Fonzi is under the
delusion that constitutional democracy
is a set of self-correcting mechanisms,
but as conservative author David
Frum articulated so clearly last
January in his Atlantic essay, “How
to Build an Autocracy,” the operation
of our institutions “depends upon the
competence and integrity of those
charged with executing [the law].”
One need only look at what the
president’s team has already done to
undermine congressional checks on
executive authority to see how he has
diminished our democracy. White House
staff revealed classified information to
House Intelligence Committee Chair (and
Cal Poly grad) Devin Nunes, who then
publicly briefed the contents back to the
White House, claiming that he had new
information regarding the committee’s
investigation into how cooperative
Trump’s campaign team was with
Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Nunes eventually had to recuse himself,
but not before attacking “left-wing
activist groups” for filing complaints with
the Office of Congressional Ethics.
President Trump and congressional
surrogates have thus already achieved
their goal: They have corrupted the
investigative process by framing it as
partisan wrangling. This corruption
feeds the president’s conspiratorial
narrative, not just the outlandish claim
(refuted by the FBI) that President
Obama personally tapped his phones,
but the very idea of truth and ethical
judgment. “There is no truth here,” reads
this narrative, “only competing attempts
to grab power,” and, “everybody does
it.” And as Frum goes on to say, “people
who expect to hear only lies can hardly
complain when a lie is exposed.”
Perhaps Mr. Fonzi’s faith lies not
in Congress, but with those exalted
guardians of democracy, the free press?
Nowhere have we seen President Trump’s
authoritarian venom spew so pungently
as when directed at the press. While he
(jokingly?) promised, “I would never kill
them,” in a monologue about how much
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he “hates” reporters at a December rally,
this February, his corruption of their
work reached a peak. “You are dishonest
people,” he claimed at his longest press
conference to date, reminding supporters
that “the news is fake” and that reporters
are “insulting.” He followed up with the
notorious tweet that “The FAKE NEWS
media (New York Times, NBC, ABC,
CBS, CNN) is not my enemy, it is the
enemy of the American People!” Look up!
Kid’s
Again, the president delegitimizes
attempts by reporters to hold him Zone Wave
accountable by blurring the line between at the
professional journalism and partisan Hands camera!
hackery. Perhaps Mr. Fonzi does not see on
that to achieve this, President Trump Science
does not need to physically intimidate
the press or censor them, rather he calls
the entire institution into question,
the very idea of independent judgment.
Moreover, the president doesn’t need the
rallies and supporters on the streets that
autocrats of the past relied on; he has a
smartphone and a Twitter handle. He
has armies of trolls on the internet to do
his intimidating, enough to compel some
reporters, including Megyn Kelly, to quit
Twitter or hire guards.
As I write on Easter morning,
President Trump is using Twitter to call
for investigations into protests across the
country, reminding us that “The Election
is Over!” He insists that protesters slotransit.org
oppose the election results; it’s just
partisan politics, and everybody is lying.
In fact, protesters want to see his tax
returns, as an act of integrity followed by
every president since Jimmy Carter. But
this president has no use for integrity.
Worse, this corruption from above
inevitably leads to corruption within.
CREATING BEAUTIFUL SMILES
Even thoughtful, good people like FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES.
Al Fonzi find themselves unwitting
surrogates of a president they did not
initially support. Fonzi now parrots the
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same paranoia against “leftist” professors
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(can you think of a less politically
relevant group?) and “leftist mobs”
beating old women and children. He is
joining Trump, and Nixon before him,
with the motto: “The press is the enemy, NEW PATIENT
the establishment is the enemy, the
professors are the enemy.” This culture of S PE C I A L
cynicism, of questioning the existence of
truth and public integrity, is slowly but
surely replacing a democratic culture that INCLUDES:
has taken centuries to grow.
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Whereas, we’re idiots who
don’t know what we’re doing …
P
etitions are great. They allow
regular Joe and Jane Q. Citizen
to effect real change in government
when their elected officials would rather sit
on their hands. Petitions also suck. With
enough signatures, their edicts must either
be enacted or put to a vote … sometimes an
expensive one.
Remember the petition that demanded
an end to the Rental Housing Inspection
Ordinance? Yeah, well it demanded more
than simply rescinding the ordinance that
allowed city officials to ensure rental units
meet certain standards of livability; it
said the ordinance must be replaced with
the Non-Discrimination in Housing
Ordinance, which demands that “age,
income, disability, gender, race, ethnicity,
sexual identity, or inability or ability to own
a home” cannot be used to discriminate. Oh
my! That sounds lovely, amirite?
Well, oops-a-daisy! The problem is a lot of
SLO city housing programs do discriminate
… in favor of low-income or disabled people
with an inability to own a home. Yeah,
stuff like the requirement that developers
include low-income housing units in their
developments or pay into a fund that helps
create such units can now be challenged
in court thanks to this poorly worded,
carelessly thought-out petition.
Who’s at fault? We can thank former SLO
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Supervisors candidate Dan Carpenter and
local attorneys Stew Jenkins and Dan
Knight for this vaguely crafted petition.
Now the city of San Luis Obispo is
going to have to hold a special election and
put the idea to a vote, which also means
they’re going to have to educate voters on
why the so-called Non-Discrimination in
Housing Ordinance essentially screws over
the poor who benefit from programs that
discriminate in their favor.
All this because shady landlords didn’t
want the city making them keep their
units up to code and because the petition
writers managed to persuade signers that
the inspections were unconstitutional,
intrusive, and would end up getting people
kicked out of their not-up-to-code rentals or
end up raising their rents.
“Do you live in the city? Do you rent? Do
you want your rent to go up? No? Then sign
this petition,” signature solicitors barked
outside of local grocery stores.
The city estimates it will drop about
$150K on this special election, which
strikes me as low. More importantly, what
if the city loses? Can we kiss goodbye the
idea of affordable housing? Hey Carpenter,
Jenkins, and Knight, how about you guys
foot this bill?
Meanwhile over in Cal Poly Land, some
people have a bee in their bonnet. Mustang
News on April 17 ran an editorial by
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the arguments defending
homosexuality with also defending incest:
“love is love,” “they enjoy it and it doesn’t
hurt anyone,” “sexual taboos are just social
constructions anyway,” and “past societies
allowed it.”
In his argument, Bartlett also
unwittingly quoted from a satirical article
about “laws, such as in Portland, allowing
furries to mate and defecate in public dog
parks,” which Mustang New later removed
because, you know, it was satire and wasn’t
identified as such, and Bartlett acted as if
it actually furthered his argument, which
is—of course—idiotic. People in animal
costumes aren’t allowed to screw and poop
in public and there’s clearly a big difference
between same-sex consenting adults
engaging in a sexual relationship and blood
relatives boning down.
Anyway, anyone could have made the
same mistake as Barlett of accidently
thinking a satirical article was real. The
website in question—Real News Right
Now—also has articles titled “United
Airlines Passenger Given Parachute and
Ordered to Leave Plane Mid-Flight” and
“CNN Report: 1 in 5 American Voters
Spoke to Russian Ambassador Before U.S.
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“social border between acceptable
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a dog? “Love is love,” and the dog
is totally into it! Can I beat up a
masochist? “They enjoy it.” Can I screw a
warm apple pie on my mom’s kitchen table?
“Sexual taboos are just social constructions
anyway.” Can I marry three women? “Past
societies allowed it.”
Brandon, you’re a junior now! Cut out the
sophomoric thinking.
In more serious news, right after I wrote
about the so-called “natural” death of SLO
County Jail inmate Andrew Holland
last week, another inmate died. Kevin
Lee McLaughlin, 60, died in jail after
complaining of shoulder pain. A nurse who
looked at him sent him back to his cell,
where he died of a heart attack.
Obviously this isn’t the same as
retraining Holland in a Pro-Straint
Restraint Chair for 46 hours, after
which he died of a blood clot, which totally
wasn’t caused by being rendered immobile
for nearly two days, right? It does call
into question the quality of medical care
available at the jail.
Was it his left shoulder, Nurse Ratched?
Maybe pain in his left arm? I’m no doctor, but
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Kids’ art
BY RYAH COOLEY
PHOTOS BY JAYSON MELLOM
Kids Arts Smart
program exposes students
to the arts
L
ong after the pitter patter of little feet
dissipated, signaling the end of art class,
Veda Baker, a first grader from Virginia
Peterson Elementary School in Paso Robles,
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“I like it because it makes me happy to do
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Baker and her classmates from Jill
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said it was originally launched in 2011, when
school budgets were slashed and art classes cut
because of the recession. Since its inception,
more than 6,000 kindergarten through sixth-
grade students from North County schools— FIELD TRIP Eve Chatrand works with Leslie Ortiz, right, and Angel Santiago, left, from Virginia
including Paso Robles, Shandon, Atascadero, Peterson Elementary School, during a field trip to Studios on the Park in Paso Robles.
Templeton, Pleasant Valley, and San Miguel—
aficionados, the two-hour ocean-themed finally feel successful in another arena.
have received art lessons from a team of eight
visit to the studio was broken up into time “They feel like real artists, and they get so
local, professional artists.
for art activities, a story, snack time, and excited that their art is going to be displayed in
While art is penciled back into local school
budgets, Kids Art Smart remains a supplement even a dance break to songs from The Little a real art museum,” Goldbach said. “They take
to everyday art education. Studios on the Park Mermaid soundtrack, all led by local artist it really seriously.” Δ
is able to offer the program at no cost to schools Eve Chatrand.
“They come in; they don’t have any taboos,” Ryah Cooley is down for art class, snacks, and
through grants and sponsorships. Every school
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day during the fall and spring, little hands
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studio and see art on display is a bit of a who’s brought multiple classes to the gallery over through 30, and the art from students at Virginia Peterson and
different experience,” Moss said. the years, said the experience allows students Monterey Road Elementary Schools will show May 4 to 7. For
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Arts Kids’ books
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Young at heart
Los Osos author
Robin Mellom pens
children’s novels

A
h, middle school. It was the
worst of times, it was … well it
mostly just sucked. But Los Osos
middle grade and young adult author
Robin Mellom (who also works as a para-
educator at Los Osos Middle School)
thinks a little more fondly about that
transitional time between elementary
and high school. The former teacher and
principal’s kid (and current spouse of New
Times’ photographer Jayson Mellom) sat
down with New Times to talk tweens,
getting started as a writer, and her
latest book: The Pages Between Us: In the
Spotlight. The book is the second in its
series (written with co-author Lindsey
Leavitt) and follows the friendship of
a pair of tweenagers: outgoing, sassy
Piper, who loves making videos,
and her bestie Olivia, who is an
introverted, type-A book lover. The Take me back
whole story is told through notes, Los Osos author Robin Mellom’s LOCAL AUTHOR
passed back and forth between latest book, The Pages Between Us: Robin Mellom, a
In the Spotlight, is currently available local author and
the girls. No matter your age, this on Amazon for $9.65 for the hardcover Para-educator at
read will feel like a note from your version and $9.99 on Kindle. Visit Los Osos Middle
school days. robinmellom.com to find out more about School, got her
her books. start writing books,
New Times: How did you get into in part, through the
writing? local group SLO
Robin Mellom: I started writing when I Night Writers.
was teaching fifth grade in Atlanta. I was
22 and had just gotten out of college. I had
always loved writing, but I never knew
that I could do it. I started writing with my
kids. They were my first audience I guess.
I read it out loud to them and they gave me
feedback. It was great. Then when I got
here, Jayson went to shoot a local author
at a school and called me and said, “This

IMAGE COURTESY OF ROBIN MELLOM

woman is doing what you want to do.” And
that’s how I found SLO Night Writers. So
I met with them for years and years and
we just had a really serious critique group.
That’s what kept me on track.
NT: On your website, you mentioned that
middle-schoolers are some of the coolest
people ever, but I think anyone who’s been
through middle school will remember
them as some of the worst people ever.
What endears you to that age group?
RM: Because those little creatures turn
into amazing adults, as we all do. It’s
fascinating to me to see kids go through
that emotional roller coaster in such
a short period of time. When I was in
middle school, I didn’t enjoy it, but when I
went back as an adult to teach, it was like
watching an adorable movie.
NT: Where did the idea for the Between
the Pages series come from?
RM: That came from my own experience.
When I was in eighth grade, my best
friend and I wrote notes back and forth.
We figured out that if we took a spiral
notebook and wrote “history,” on the front
of it, no one would ever know. It worked.
We spent that entire year writing. First it
was like diary entries and then it turned
into bizarre stories that we would pass
back and forth, and the other one had to
add on to it.
NT: How did you meet your co-writer
Lindsey Leavitt?
RM: I met her through SCBWI (the
Society of Children’s Book Writers and
Illustrators). I just connected and felt like
I had always known her, so it didn’t take
long after I had the idea to realize that
she was the one I wanted to do it with. It’s
really cool to write with someone and see
their process.
NT: Who writes for which character?
RM: I write for Olivia and Lindsey writes
for Piper. Piper’s the stronger, sassy one.
And Lindsey’s more that way. And I just
kind of want to read and write like Olivia.
NT: What inspired each of the
characters?
RM: They’re based on ourselves, our
students, our children, and just some
random weirdness.
NT: What inspires you?
RM: Kids, the kids do. As they go out and
observe things and notice things for the
first time, it’s like they’re from another
planet. I love being around them and
listening to them.
NT: What’s your writing process like?
RM: It’s different for every book … but I
do the first couple of chapters to get the
voice, character, and style, and to get
excited about it. And once I see how
the characters are talking and how
it’s flowing, I go back to my outline
and really start hammering it out. It
usually takes me about three months
or so to write a draft of a novel.
NT: As someone who’s in that world
of writing and consuming literature
for children and young adults, what
would your response be to those who
have a stigma about adults reading
that genre?
RM: I feel sorry for them if they
think there’s anything wrong
with that. The literature that’s
out there is just outstanding. The
YA [young adult] thing has just
turned into amazing work.
NT: Do you have any upcoming
projects?
RM: I have two more books coming BFFS Los Osos author Robin Mellom’s
out this year, they both come out on latest book, In the Spotlight: The Pages
the same day, on Aug. 1. One of them Between Us, follows besties Piper and Olivia
is the fi rst of a picture book series for as they face middle school together.
little kids, Hannah Sparkles. She’s the
happiest girl in the world and she likes the janitor and cafeteria manager. It’s
to show people how to “sparkle.” The about a fi fth grader just dealing with
other one is a middle grade book called her mom being in charge of everyone
Confessions from the Principal’s Kid. My she knows. Δ
mom was the principal of my school. It
was an interesting experience because I Pass a note to Ryah Cooley at rcooley@
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Arts Strictly Starkey
BY GLEN STARKEY

The godfather
PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID CROSBY

of folk rock
David Crosby plays Vina Robles Amphitheatre

W
riting about David Crosby Robles Amphitheatre, enjoy An Evening
always feels fruitless. Everyone with David Crosby & Friends
knows who he is; knows he’s the (7:30 p.m.; all ages; $50 to $65.50 at
founder of both The Byrds and Crosby, ticketmaster.com). He’ll be joined by
Stills, & Nash knows he’s a two-time James Raymond on keys, Mai Agan
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; knows he’s on bass, Steve DiStanislao on drums,
the progenitor of the ubiquitous folk-rock Jeff Pevar on guitar, and Michelle
sound; and knows his distinctive and Willis on keys and vocals. Expect music
arresting voice. People even know about from Croz, the upcoming Sky Trails,
his past problems with drugs and alcohol and some of his greatest hits. Currently
and his run-ins with the law, know the weather forecast is dry, so this
that Phil Collins paid for his 1994 liver should be an amazing season opener
transplant required after a long bout of at Vina Robles. Visit the website at
hepatitis C, know he has diabetes and vinaroblesamphiteatre.com for a growing
cardiac problems. He’s now 75 years old, schedule of upcoming concerts.
but what casual observers who have come
to take Crosby for granted may not know Flatpicking pioneer
is that he’s in one of the most creative
Bluegrass flatpicking legend Dan LEGENDARY
periods of his long career!
Crary is usually mentioned along The amazing David
For years his solo albums came at a
with Doc Watson, Clarence White, and Crosby plays the
glacial pace. First there was 1971’s If I
Norman Blake as the men responsible season opening
Could Only Remember My Name followed show at Vina Robles
for bringing flatpicking guitar solos
18 years later by 1989’s Oh Yes I Can and Amphitheatre on
to bluegrass music. Crary, a founding
then 1993’s Thousand Roads. It wasn’t April 25.
member of the Bluegrass Alliance, is
until 2014 that he released another solo
celebrated for his “newgrass” approach
studio album, the critically acclaimed
and his long collaboration with Byron
Croz, which has been called his best
Berline and John Hickmand. The Los playing bass in order to ensure a place in 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. this Saturday, April
solo album he’s ever made. Last year he
Angeles Times said his “racing licks the band.” 22, for the 27th annual San Luis Obispo
followed up with Lighthouse, and he’s
sounded like the fretboard equivalent Considering what a great performer County Earth Day (free; all ages). This
already got another recording set to be
of Fred Astaire dancing up, then down and storyteller Crary is, not to mention year’s theme is to Reconnect: People,
released this year called, Sky Trails.
a staircase.” the excellence of his two musical Planet, Peace, and there’ll be plenty of
This late career creative burst has been
Next Thursday, April 27, Toro Creek partners in this show, it ought to be a music, a green car show, a kids’ zone, an
something to behold.
Event Center and the Bluegrass Music hoot! BanjerDan will open the show and eco marketplace, a health center, a green
This Tuesday, April 25, at Vino
Society of the Central Coast act as emcee. building and energy hub, as well as food
PHOTO COURTESY OF DAN CRARY host Crary with Bill Evans and drink, including beer and wine. The
BLUEGRASS and Wally Barnick at Last Celebrate event follows SLO Town’s Earth Day
ICON The great Stage West BBQ (6 p.m.; all March for Science.
flatpicker Dan ages; $20 presale at 792- Mother Earth “Each participant group will share
Crary plays Last It seems like every year Earth Day
0505 or $25 at the door; food their cause, solution, or action to protect
Stage West BBQ organizer and Information Press publisher
on April 27.
and drink sold separately). and preserve our environment, create
Evans is a five-string Sandra Marshall laments the demise of a sustainable future and a balanced
banjo tour de force who’s the daylong festival, and yet every year— society,” Marshall said.
performed with the San with the help of volunteers and a lot of Performers include The Noach
Francisco Symphony and hard work—Marshall manages to pull it Tangeras Band, Mama Tumba, The
appeared on A Prairie Home off once again! Erin Inglish Band, Arthur Watership,
Companion. Wally Barnick “Like many good projects, Earth Day has Jack Cimo, Desert Coast Dance
is an inveterate performer suffered funding cuts too,” Marshall said. Performing Arts, Dance Bunkai,
and member of the Cache “We trimmed back on advertising, music The Cal Poly Comedy Club, and more.
Valley Drifters, Bluegrass, acts, and almost cut the second stage. Just Learn more at earthdayalliance.com.
Inc., and The Hay Dudes, in time, we received new additional funding In addition, Greenspace presents the
who describes himself to cover the cost of a few performers and Earth Day Concert for Science with
“principally as a singer who confirmed the second stage.” Zen Mountain Poets, presented by the
some 40 years ago took up Come to El Chorro Regional Park from Cambria Land Trust in a benefit concert
PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIN INGLISH PHOTO COURTESY OF PAUL SMITH-STEWART on Saturday, April 22, from 1 to 3 p.m.,
EARTH MAMA at the Creekside Reserve (2264 Center St.
Musician and in Cambria).
activist Erin Inglish “Celebrate the earth and honor
is one of several ecological science with the popular SLO
acts playing Earth
County band playing a wide variety
Day, on April
22 at El Chorro
of very danceable ‘psychedelic folk
Regional Park. jazz,’ perfect for our beautiful outdoor
setting,” organizers said. “Wine, beer,
lemonade, snacks, and sandwiches by
True Earth Market will be available. We
will raffle artwork, a lunch for two at
one of our favorite Cambria restaurants,
and a secret prize. Greenspace’s native
hand-raised Monterey pine seedlings
will be available for purchase, just in
time for Arbor Day! An expert will
provide information on how to plant and
care for them.”
JAZZMAN Former Still Time bassist Paul Smith-Stewart
returns to SLO Town with his jazz quintet on April 22
Tickets are $10 at the gate. Children
at the Steynberg Gallery. STARKEY continued page 28

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Arts
BEACH SIDE FUN Reggae and world
music act Rey Fresco (pictured) plays a
two-act Live on the Rocks show with Damon
Castillo at The Cliffs Resort on April 23.
PHOTO COURTESY OF MISSY ANDERSON
GOSPEL-TINGED Soulful Missy
Anderson (pictured) with her husband-
accompanist Heine plays Linnaea’s Café
on April 21.
STARKEY from page 26
under 14 are admitted free. The concert
follows Cambria’s Earth Day March
for Science.
Funk-infused jazz,
world music, and
Americana!
Numbskull and Good Medicine
Presents have a hat trick of hot shows
lined up starting on Saturday, April
22, with the Paul Smith-Stewart
Quintet at Steynberg Gallery (7 p.m.;
all ages; $12 presale at ticketfly.com or
$15 at the door). If that name sounds
familiar, it’s because Smith-Stewart
played bass with Still Time for years
before moving to the Bay Area and
turning his attention to jazz.
He and his quintet are touring in
support of Transitions, his new EP with
music inspired by the likes of Medeski,
Martin, Wood, and Snarky Puppy. After
his stint with Still Time (2004 to 2012),
Paul accepted the position of director of
music at his alma mater Marin Catholic
College Preparatory in Kentfield. See?
There is life after a rock band dies!
Good Medicine also hosts another free
“Live On The Rocks” show with jazz-rock
hero Damon Castillo and reggae-world-
Latin act Rey Fresco this Sunday,
April 23, at The Cliffs Resort (1 to 5 p.m.;
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PHOTO COURTESY OF REY FRESCO
all ages). It’s supposed to be clear and in
the 70s!
Finally, Americana act Micky & The
Motorcars plays next Thursday, April
27, at BarrelHouse Brewing (6 p.m.; all
ages; $15 presale at ticketfly.com or $18
at the door). After 11 years and with six
albums, MMC has developed their own
brand of rootsy American folk rock.
Prince, pints, and
SLO’s Best Local Band
SLO Brew kicks off its week with a
DJ-driven Prince tribute by Soul Dust
Productions featuring DJs Velache,
Jungle Cat, and Jason Perez behind
the turn tables on Friday, April 21 (10
p.m.; 21-and-older; $5 cover). “In addition
to music by Prince, we’ll drop covers of
Prince tunes, the legacy of The Star (The
Time, Vanity 6, etc.), and music in the
spirit and vein of Prince, among others,”
organizers said.
Pop-Americana act The Kenny
Taylor Band plays Pint Night on
Tuesday, April 25 (10 p.m.; 21-and-
older; free). The Minnesota native now
calls Paso Robles home, where he writes
songs inspired by John Lennon, Dave
Matthews, and Ben Gibbard.
Zongo All-Stars, voted Best Local
Band in the New Times Best Of San Luis
Obispo County readers’ poll two years
in a row, plays on Wednesday, April
26 (10 p.m.; 21-and-older; free). They’ll
light up the dance floor with their mix
of Afro-Latin, Afro-Caribbean, funk,
reggae, and calypso music that they call
“CaliCubano.”
More music …
San Diego’s Missy Andersen brings
her Soul Americana Tour to Linnaea’s
Café this Friday, April 21 (7 p.m.;
all ages; pass-the-hat). A two-time
Blue Music Award nominee, Missy
Andersen is joined
by guitarist-husband
Heine Andersen
for a dynamic duo
performance featuring
Missy’s earthy, gospel-
tinged vocals and
Heine’s inspired blues
guitar work.
The always amazing
and eclectic Café
Musique returns to
D’Anbino Vineyards
and Cellars this ROCK GODDESS Kristen
Friday, April 21 (8 Black brings her band to The
p.m.; 21-and-older; Pour House on April 21,
$15 general admission; debuting some new songs from
call 227-6800 for a forthcoming release.
Strictly Starkey
GYPSY SWINGERS Café Musique brings
their wild classical, swing, folk, and more
sounds to D’Anbino’s on April 21.
reservations). The ensemble spent the
winter bringing their gypsy swing sounds
to Santa Cruz’s venerable Kuumbwa Jazz
Club to the palatial Gallo Center for the
Arts in Modesto, but now they’re back to
their old stomping grounds and ready to
play for their local fans.
The rockin’ Kristen Black Band
plays The Pour House this Friday,
April 21, from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. The
singer-songwriter pens great tunes in the
vein of Tom Petty, and she says she’ll be
unveiling some new songs that she plans
to record soon. “The Pour House built a
brand new stage with lighting and a nice
dance floor—super rad!” Black gushed of
the venue. Go get your dance on!
Pianist Scott Kirby plays a Los Osos
house concert on Saturday, April 22
(7 to 9 p.m.; all ages; $20 donation; call
528-6557 or 534-1501 for reservations
and directions; or email sstern3126@aol.
com). Expect ragtime, early jazz, Cuban
creole, South American tango, blues, and
Broadway tunes.
The SLO County Jazz Federation
presents its 34th annual Jazz Piano
Showcase this Saturday, April 22 (7:30
p.m.; all ages; $20 general admission,
$15 for Jazz Fed members, or $10 for
students available at Boo Boo Records
or brownpapertickets.com), at the Unity
Concert Hall. Six pianists—Mark
Bocchicchio, Bob Harway, Marshall
Otwell, Mark Pietri, Madison Scott,
and Eric Schechter—will perform, with
rhythm provided by Dylan Johnson
(bass) and Darrell Voss (drums) provide
rhythm support.
Check out Four Bitchin’ Babes—
Hormonal Imbalance v2.5, A
Mood Swinging Musical Revue, on
Saturday, April 22 (8 p.m.; all ages; $32
to $44 tickets at 489-9444 or boxoffice@
clarkcenter.org), in the Clark Center.
“The estrogen fueled fun continues!
The Four Bitchin’ Babes are four
PHOTO BY BRITTANY APP
PHOTO COURTESY OF CAFÉ MUSIQUE
accomplished and seasoned musician-
actress comediennes, who together, create
a tour de force musical comedy theatre
troupe,” according to organizers. “Playing
their own guitars, bass, piano, and Irish
Bodhran, this hilarious renegade sorority
of gal pals perform original songs and
stories offering both poignant views and
unbridled comedic commentary on the
joys and dilemmas of everyday life!”
See free live jazz on Sundays on the
Monterey Street Terrance from 11 a.m. to
1 p.m., including the Adam Levine Trio
playing straight ahead and Latin jazz this
Sunday, April 23. These weekly teaser
concerts are a run-up to the forthcoming
SLO Jazz Festival on Saturday, May
20, in the SLO Mission Plaza.
The Famous Jazz Artist Series returns
to Painted Sky this Sunday, April 23,
with saxophonist Mel Martin (6:30
p.m.; all ages; $20 tickets; reservations
at 927-0179 or charlie@talsanmusic.com).
Martin, one of the leading West Coast
jazz saxophonists, has worked with
Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy
Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, and many
others. The bebop proponent has been an
integral part of the Bay Area jazz scene
for decades. ∆
Keep up with New Times Senior Staff
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Arts
Goin’ South
THE CLIFFS RESORT: 2757 Shell Beach Rd.,
Shell Beach, 773-5000, cliffsresort.com.
FIGUEROA MOUNTAIN BREWING CO.:
Singer/Songwriter Night every Wed. from 8-10pm.
1462 E. Grand Ave., Arroyo Grande, 474-8525,
figmtnbrew.com. 4/22: Jacob Westfall from
8:30-11pm; 4/29: Noach Tangeras Band
from 8:30-11pm.
HARRY’S NIGHT CLUB AND BEACH BAR:
Cypress and Pomeroy, downtown Pismo Beach,
773-1010. Thurs.: Front Row Karaoke. 4/20: DJ
Camote at 5pm and JAWZ Karaoke at 9pm;
4/21: Stinger at 9pm; 4/22: Steve Tracy
Project at 3pm and Stinger at 9pm; 4/23:
Rock of Ages at 3pm and Three 4 All at
9pm; 4/24: Three 4 All at 7:30pm; 4/25:
Juan Marquez and Double Shot at 7:30pm;
4/25: Juan Marquez and Double Shot and
7:30pm; 4/26: Juan Marquez and Double
Shot at 7:30pm; 4/27: DJ Camote at 5pm and
JAWZ Karaoke at 9pm; 4/28: Robby James
at 9pm; 4/29: Robby James at 9pm; 4/30: Mid
Life Crisis at 3pm.
LIDO RESTAURANT AT DOLPHIN BAY: 2727
Shell Beach Rd., Pismo Beach, 773-4300 or
thedolphinbay.com. Live music Tues., Thurs., and
Fri. from 5-8pm.
MONGO’S SALOON: 359 W. Grand Ave., Grover
Beach, 489-3639. Open blues jam every Wed.:
DJ Drumz every Fri.; Karaoke with DJ Sam
every Sun. 4/22: Kenny Taylor at 9pm; 4/29:
Joe Daddy and the Sumthins.
MR. RICK’S: 404 Front St., Avila Beach, 595-7425.
4/21: Hitmen; 4/22: Three 4 All at 8pm; 4/23:
Kenny Taylor; 4/29: Crisptones at 3pm;
4/30: Billy Manzik.
PUFFERS OF PISMO: 781 Price St., Pismo Beach,
773-6563, puffersofpismo.com. Live music every
Tues. from 6:30-9:30pm, and most Fri. and
Sat. from 7-10pm. 4/20: Robert Herrera at
7pm; 4/22: The Taproots at 7pm; 4/25: Side
Effects at 6:30pm; 4/28: Jim Conroy and
Bruce Beck at 7pm; 4/29: Jill Knight at 7pm.
SEAVENTURE: 100 Ocean View, Pismo Beach, 773-
4994. Live music every Wed. from 6-9pm, Fri.
from 6-9pm; and Sun. from 2-6pm.
San Luis Obispo
BANG THE DRUM BREWERY: 950 Orcutt Rd.,
242-8372, bangthedrumbrewery.com.
BARRELHOUSE BREWING CO.
SPEAKEASY: 1033 Chorro St.
restaurants, and
coffee houses
296-1128, barrelhousebrewing.
where you can
com. 4/26: St. James
Infirmary at 7:30pm.
BON TEMPS CREOLE CAFE:
1000 Olive St., 544-2100. Zydeco
music, live blues, and jazz on Monday,
Wednesday, and Thursday evenings.
FROG & PEACH PUB: 728 Higuera St., 595-
3764. 4/20: Kingsborough; 4/21; Rod
Namcarrow and Vance with Brass
Mash; 4/22: Jake Nielson’s Triple Threat;
4/24: Toan’s Open Jam; 4/25: Fish Out of
Water; 4/26: Cloudship; 4/28: Dread Daze;
4/29: Missing Takes and Akeem.
THE GRADUATE: 990 Industrial Way, 541-096,
slograd.com. 4/20: Country Night from
8pm-2am; 4/21: Noche Caliente from
10pm-2am; 4/22: Country Night from
8pm-2am; 4/27: Country Night from 8pm-2am;
4/28: Noche Caliente from 10pm-2am; 4/29:
Country Night from 8pm-2am.
KREUZBERG COFFEE COMPANY: 685 Higuera
St., 439-2060, kreuzbergcalifornia.com. Open
mic night every Wed.
THE LIBRARY BAR AND LOUNGE: 723 Higuera
St., 542-0199.
LINNAEA’S CAFE: 1110 Garden St., 541-5888.
4/20: Old Timey Jam from 7-9pm; 4/21:
Missy Anderson at 7pm; 4/22: Lillie Lemon
at 7pm; 4/25: Jazz Jam at 7pm; 4/28: The
Mountain and the Moon at 7pm; 4/29:
Essence at 7pm.
LUNA RED: 1023 Chorro St., 540-5243. 4/21:
Bear Market Riot from 10pm-midnight; 4/22:
The Turkey Buzzards from 10pm-midnight;
4/28: Jimbo Scott from 10pm-midnight;
4/29: The Shawn Clark Family Band from
10pm-midnight.
MOTHER’S TAVERN: 725 Higuera St, 541-8733,
motherstavern.com. Live music every Fri. from
7:30-10:30pm.
NOVO RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE: 726
Higuera St., 543-3986, novorestaurant.com.
4/21: Beleza Nights (DJs) from 10pm-1am;
4/22: Beleza Nights (Djs) from 10pm-1am;
4/23: Beleza Nights (DJs) from 10pm-1am.
SLO BREW: 736 Higuera St., 543-1843, slowbrew.
com. 4/21: Let’s Go Crazy! (Prince tribute)
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4/26: Zongo All-Stars at 10pm; 4/30: Ethan
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dance or 9:30pm; 4/29: A Tribute to Van
listen to live Morrison at 7pm.
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music.
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4/21: The Dip at 5:30pm; 4/28: Dulcie
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ASUNCION RIDGE: 725 12th St. Paso Robles,
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ENOTECA RESTAURANT AND BAR: 206 Alexa
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Jazz every Thurs. night featuring Adam Levine
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LAST STAGE WEST: Halfway Station on Highway
41 (15050 Morro Road at Toro Creek), 461-1393
or laststagewest.net. 4/20: The BanjerDan
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Bill Evans, and Wally Barnick; 4/28:
Bernardus; 4/30: Havilah.
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Friday and Saturday from 9:30-11:30pm.
PINE STREET SALOON: 1234 Pine St., Paso
Robles, 238-1114.
PONY CLUB WINE BAR AT HOTEL CHEVAL:
Clubs
1021 Pine St., Paso Robles, 226-9995. 4/21:
Michael Keeney from 6-9pm; 4/22: Rewined
from 6-9pm; 4/28: Louie Ortega from 6-9pm;
4/29: Kenny Taylor from 6-9pm.
SCULPTERRA WINERY: 5015 Linne Rd., Paso
Robles, 226-8881. Steve Key presents
“Songwriters at Play” Saturdays and Sundays from
1-4pm. 4/23: David Starr; 4/30: Jimbo Scott.
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4812, vinarobles.com. Live music every Sat. from
1-4pm. 4/22: Martin Paris; 4/29: Bruno Novi.
North Coast
CAMBRIA PINES LODGE: 2905 Burton Drive,
Cambria, 927-4200, cambriapineslodge.com.
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Billy and Charlie Duo at 8:30pm; 4/25:
Louie Ortega at 8:30pm; 4/26: Andy Scott
at 8:30pm; 4/27: J&B Rocks at 8:30pm; 4/28:
Shameless at 9pm; 4/29: Stellar Band at
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LAS CAMBRITAS: 2336 Main St., Cambria, 927-
0175. Jon Stephens every Thurs. from 5-8pm.
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oldcayucostavern.com. Live music every Fri and
Sat.
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and the Cowtippers from 8:30pm-midnight;
4/30: Mud on the Tire from 7-8pm.
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thesirenmorrobay.com.
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772-5055, staxwine.com. Live music Thurs. and
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Heartstring symphony
M
arc Webb (500 Days of Summer,
The Amazing Spider-Man)
directs this screenplay by Tom
Flynn (Watch It, Second String) about
7-year-old Mary (Mckenna Grace), a
mathematical prodigy being raised by her
uncle, Frank (Chris Evans), who wants
nothing more than a normal childhood for
his gifted niece. When Mary’s maternal
grandmother, Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan),
learns of her granddaughter’s abilities, she
works to get custody of the child to assure
her talents aren’t wasted. The film also
stars Jenny Slate as Bonnie, the teacher
who discovers Mary’s math prowess; and
Octavia Spencer as Roberta, Mary and
Frank’s best friend. (141 min.)
Glen Cynics beware! Gifted is a
calculating weepfest designed to milk your genius who gave up her career to raise
tear ducts, and the hard-of-heart may find
the film’s overt manipulation too heavy-
handed. For me, however, I ate up every
clichéd moment and loved it! You’ve got
a precocious kid, a kind caregiver who’s
out of his element and in over his head,
a cruel matriarch who’s the math world’s
equivalent of an overbearing stage mother, Anna I’m a total sucker for movies that
and the always-awesome Octavia Spencer
as the sassy, blunt neighbor with the big
heart. And for the ladies in the house,
you’ve got a concerned but mousy teacher
who happens to score the hunky but kind
caregiver. It’s an effective combination,
but certainly not an original one. The real
star of the show is Grace, who’s actually 10 Summer; it seems Webb has a knack for
years old and already has 41 acting credits picking scripts that highlight the delicate
on her IMDB page. That’s a lot of work
considering she started just four years
ago in 2013. She’s remarkable as Mary
and delivers a very natural performance.
As the film progresses, we discover that
DO RIGHT Mary’s teacher, Bonnie (Jenny Slate),
and Mary’s uncle, Frank (Chris Evans), try to figure
out what’s best for Mary while also navigating their
attraction for one another.
Movies
At the
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
What’s it rated? PG
What’s it worth? Full Price
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
Stadium 10, Galaxy, Park
Pick Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters,
Dreamgirls, The Fifth Estate, Mr.
Holmes) directs this live action adaptation
of Disney’s animated musical fairytale
about a young prince (Dan Stevens)
trapped in the body of a beast, who
can only be freed by true love, but who
would love him in his ghastly form? His
improbable chance arrives in the form of
Belle (Emma Watson), the only woman to
visit his castle since it became enchanted,
who comes to plead for the release of her
father Maurice (Kevin Kline)—imprisoned
for stealing a single rose from the Beast’s
property. Meanwhile, Gaston (Luke Evans),
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GIFTED
What’s it rated? PG-13
What’s it worth, Anna? Matinee
What’s it worth, Glen? Full price
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
Stadium 10, Park, Galaxy
Mary’s mother died
and her uncle Frank
accepted caregiving
responsibilities. Like
Mary, her mother was
also a math genius
who was pushed to
the highest levels
of achievement by
her mother, Evelyn,
herself a math
her children. Evelyn’s unfulfilled promise
is first transferred to her daughter, who
ultimately disappointed Evelyn, who sees
another chance at math greatness in her
granddaughter Mary. This sets up the
tug-of-war over Mary’s guardianship. The
question becomes, what’s best for Mary?
tug at your heartstrings, as long as they
do so in a way that isn’t so overreaching
that it becomes an adventure in eye
rolling. Gifted hit that sweet spot, allowing
imperfection in the characters and
their situation, and keeping the drama
from getting stale. I loved 500 Days of
balance of relationships, whether familial
or romantic. Grace is a star as Mary—
spunky, adorable, and clever. The film
opens up on her first day of first grade,
and the first time she’s attended school at
all. She proves to be a pistol in
the classroom, piquing Bonnie’s
attention when she does math
out of the realm of most adults.
This doesn’t make Frank
happy—keeping a low profile
on Mary’s abilities is the only
way that he can see to give her
a somewhat normal childhood.
It doesn’t take long for the
principal to take notice and try
to convince Frank to send Mary
to a private school where she
can be challenged more fully.
When he refuses, she takes it
the village’s pompous braggart, pines for
Belle’s hand while his obsequious sidekick
Lefou (Josh Gad) struggles with his
conscience over his friend’s behavior.
The performances were roundly
fantastic! Watson is on point as Belle,
and Evans and Gad are both great as the
infuriating duo. The Beast is largely CGI,
but Stevens’ voice work is effective. I also
thought the voice work by the enchanted
objects—Lumiére (Ewan McGregor),
Cogsworth (Ian McKellen), Mrs. Potts
(Emma Thompson), Chip (Nathan Mack),
Madame Garderobe (Audra McDonald), and
Maestro Cadenza (Stanley Tucci)—was
wonderful. They were all fully formed
characters. (129 min.)
—Glen Starkey
THE BOSS BABY
What’s it rated? PG
What’s it worth? Streaming
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
Stadium 10, Park, Galaxy,
Fair Oaks
Going into The Boss Baby, I knew Alec
Baldwin was already capable of hilariously
portraying a baby in a suit via his
appearances as President Donald Trump
on SNL, so I knew I was in for at least a
moderately good time. And while The Boss
Baby draws some chuckles, it may not be
worth a full priced movie ticket.
Written by Michael McCullers (Mr.
Peabody & Sherman, Baby Mama) and
directed by Tom McGrath (Puss in Boots,
Shrek the Third), The Boss Baby tells the
story of Tim (Miles Christopher Bakshi), a
happy and loved only child whose world is
personally, getting grandmother Evelyn
involved and messing up Frank’s plan of
a normal, quiet life for Mary—the kind of
life his late sister never had. What ensues
is a rough battle of wills, with Evelyn
convinced that Mary’s fate should be to
continue the family legacy, and Frank
believing his sister would have wanted a
different fate for Mary, and perhaps the
chance to have childhood normality with
things like bike rides and Girl Scouts.
Does the film cloy at melodrama? Sure,
here and there. There are some very real,
rough moments as well, and the balance
in between creates a story with an effective
emotional payoff.
Glen The battle over Mary opens some raw
wounds between Frank and his mother.
Frank’s sister was the intellectual star of
the family, and it’s clear he feels abandoned
and ignored by Evelyn. He also thinks
Evelyn pushed his sister too far, and he’s
torn between blaming his mother and
himself for his sister’s death. Evelyn is so
desperate to have control over another math
prodigy that she even seeks out Mary’s
birth father, a man who has never met
Mary and never had any connection to her
life. It’s an act of desperation on Evelyn’s
part and shows just how far she’s willing
to go to control Mary’s life. This sets up the
most emotionally poignant moment in the
film after Mary has a breakdown when
she learns her birth father was in town for
the custody trial but didn’t come to meet
her. Mary acutely feels abandoned, and
it’s a feeling Frank knows as well. I won’t
spoil the moment for you, but Frank is able
to reinforce just how loved Mary is when
turned upside down when his mom (Lisa
Kudrow) and dad (Jimmy Kimmel) bring
home a new baby brother.
But Tim thinks something is off about
the new baby. He swears his new brother
arrived in a taxi and wears a suit, and that
baby definitely talks when Tim’s parents
aren’t around. When Tim catches him
on the phone, his “brother” introduces
himself as Boss Baby (Baldwin) and tries
to scare Tim into keeping his mouth shut
by claiming he can take all their parents’
love so there’s none left for Tim. (I know,
dark, right?)
But Boss Baby doesn’t really care about
things like love and family; Boss Baby has
a job to do. See, all babies come from a
place called Baby Corp., where babies are
assigned to a family or baby management.
Supervisors like Boss Baby drink magic
Split Screen
PHOTOS COURTESY OF FOX SEARCHLIGHT
KID STUFF
Roberta (Octavia
Spencer) and
Mary (Mckenna
Grace) sing
karaoke—a
respite from the
custody battle
over Mary.
they, along with Roberta, take a little field
trip. It’s an emotional tour de force. If you
need a good cry, if you want to be reminded
what it means to choose love, see Gifted.
Yes, it’s manipulative, and yes, Evelyn is a
bit too villainous to feel authentic, but it’s a
beautifully told, heartwarming story about
saving a little girl’s childhood.
Anna The custody battle airs everyone’s
dirty laundry, from Evelyn’s overbearing
and driven choices as a mother to Frank’s
beach bum lifestyle, complete with bar
fights and a lack of health insurance.
Evelyn only appears in Mary’s life when
she shows prospects at genius. That coupled
with her hard-edged, driven personality
make her particularly unlikeable. Frank
describes her as “very British,” a nod not
just to her accent but to her formality—
when Mary calls her “grandma” she
quickly corrects that either Grandmother
or Evelyn will do just fine. Yet even though
her villainous side is front and center, she
and Frank manage to reconnect in some
small ways, both recognizing what the loss
of Mary’s mother has done to each of them.
This is a film that had me crying with joy as
well as sorrow; its emotional resonance has
peaks and valleys that give the story added
depth and a firmer grounding in reality.
While I’m sure there are plenty of critics who
roll their eyes at the manipulative nature of
the film, I think there’re plenty of people like
me who can’t help but love a sweet, tender
story about love. ∆
Split Screen is written by Senior Staff
Writer Glen Starkey and his wife, Anna.
Comment at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.
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NOTHING ........ Don’t waste your time
formula that keeps them young and isn’t a bad way to spend an afternoon.
pinchable, while maintaining the brain of a Otherwise, catch the film once it’s on
grownup. And it turns out that babies have streaming sites or Red Box. (97 min.)
a mortal enemy: puppies. (I know it’s a tad —Ryah Cooley
ridiculous, but it’s the premise we’re given.)
Basically a super cute puppy is about to
be released by Puppy Co. and the babies
have to stop it otherwise people might
BORN IN CHINA
What’s it rated? G
love puppies more than babies. Tim agrees Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
to help Boss Baby with his job so that he Stadium10, Galaxy
can go back to life with just him and his
parents. You can guess how the story
unfolds from there.
New Disneynature’s new True Life
Adventure film Born In China takes
an epic journey into the wilds of China
Given that the Warner Bros. animated where few people have ever ventured.
film Storks just came out in December, it Following the stories of three animal
feels like DreamWorks Animation is now families, the film transports audiences to
overloading the movie market with baby some of the most extreme environments on
origin stories (We know how babies are Earth to witness some of the most intimate
really made guys). If you’ve got a kiddo
in your life, then watching The Boss Baby MOVIES continued page 33
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LOVE CONQUERS ALL In The Promise, a love triangle is set aside when war
overtakes the Ottoman Empire.
MOVIES from page 32
moments ever captured in a nature film.
A doting panda bear mother guides her
growing baby as she begins to explore
and seek independence. A 2-year-old
golden monkey who feels displaced by his
new baby sister joins up with a group of
free-spirited outcasts. And a mother snow
leopard—an elusive animal rarely caught
on camera—faces the very real drama of
raising her two cubs in one of the harshest
and most unforgiving environments on
the planet. Featuring stunning, never-
before-seen imagery, the film navigates
China’s vast terrain, seamlessly tying the
extraordinary tales together. (79 min.)
—Disneynature
THE CASE FOR CHRIST
What’s it rated? PG
Where’s it showing? Stadium 10
A hard-driving journalist, Lee Strobel
(Mike Vogel), was exactly where he
expected to be at work: on top. His award-
winning investigative reporting recently
earned him a promotion to legal editor at
the Chicago Tribune. But things weren’t
going nearly as well at home, where his
wife Leslie’s (Erika Christensen) newfound
faith in Christ went against everything
Lee believed—or didn’t believe—as an
avowed atheist. Utilizing his journalistic
and legal training, Lee begins a quest to
debunk the claims of Christianity in order
to save his crumbling marriage. (112 min.)
—Pure Flix
THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS
What’s it rated? PG-13
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
Sunset Drive In, Stadium 10, Park,
Galaxy
Now that Dom (Vin Diesel) and
Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) are on their
honeymoon and the rest of the crew
MORALE In 1940s London, a
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has been exonerated, the globetrotting
team has found a semblance of a
normal life. But when a mysterious
woman seduces Dom back into a world
of crime that he can’t seem to escape,
the crew will face trials that will test
them. (136 min.)
—Universal Pictures
FRANTZ
What’s it rated? PG-13
What’s it worth? Matinee
Where’s it showing? The Palm
Pick Written and directed by Francois
Ozon, Frantz is a heartbreaking
post World War I story (told in French
and German, with subtitles) that
peels back layer after layer of nuance
regarding relationships, morality, and
finding a sense of purpose.
Anna (Paula Beer) is an almost-widow,
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Lucke) parents (Ernst Stozner and Marie
Gruber) in a small German town. After
Frantz is killed in the war, these three
draw closer together in their grief. One
day when Anna is going to visit Frantz’s
grave she sees a stranger leaving flowers
on the grave. That same man, French
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at the house to talk with Dr. Hoffmeister
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ailment, but really about Frantz. It comes
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and met in Paris before the war, when
Frantz was studying abroad. While
Adrien is very timid about his memories
of Frantz, his presence seems to be
cathartic for Anna and the Hoffmeisters,
who grow fonder and fonder of Adrien. A
spark of romance is even planted when
Adrien escorts Anna to a local dance.
This Franco-German friendship isn’t
looked upon favorably by their neighbors,
as tensions between the two countries
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What’s it rated? R
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Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Weekdays: 4:15, 7:00 Sat-Sun: 1:30, 4:15, 7:00
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Boston, Free Fire opens with
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ONLY GOD FORGIVES
When? 2013
What’s it rated? R
Where’s it available? DVD,
Streaming on Amazon
W
riter-director Nicolas Winding Refn
re-teams with Ryan Gosling (Drive)
in this bloody neo-noir revenge tale, a pulsing soundtrack. It’s just much
bathed in neon and gorgeously filmed in darker and more difficult to like, largely
Bangkok. Gosling stars as Julian, a drug because none of its characters are
smuggler who killed a man a decade
earlier. Julian now runs a Thailand boxing broken, and Gosling plays him as nearly
club as a front for his operation, which he mute. He speaks perhaps 10 lines
runs with his sexually depraved and self- the entire film. We learn his mother
destructive brother Billy (Tom Burke).
Julian’s world is upended after
Billy rapes and murders an underage
prostitute. Cold-as-ice, sword-wielding
ex-policeman Lt. Chang (Vithaya
Pansringarm), known locally as the
Angel of Vengeance, allows the young
girl’s father to kill Billy in revenge.
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BEFORE THE FLOOD
What’s it rated? PG
Should I rent it? Definitely
THE FOUNDER
What’s it rated? PG-13
Should I rent it? Definitely
OCEAN WAVES
What’s it rated? PG-13
Should I rent it? Definitely
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Soon Julian’s sociopath mother, Crystal
(Kristen Scott Thomas), arrives from
London and coerces Julian into avenging
his brother, which leads to a showdown
between him and Chang.
Only God Forgives isn’t as good as
Refn and Gosling’s earlier collaboration,
Drive, but it contains many of the
same qualities of stylized cinema and
redeemable. Julian is emotionally
abused him and Billy both emotionally
and sexually. Crystal is the kind of cold
witch who compares her sons’ penis
sizes in conversation. All these people
are the worst form of humanity.
Then there’s Chang, a stone-faced
ex-cop who clearly doesn’t care about
due process and whose idea of justice
BROKEN
LIVES
Ryan
Gosling
stars as
Julian, a
drug-runner
who’s
drawn into
a revenge
plot.
SLEEPLESS
What’s it rated? R
Should I rent it? Don’t bother
SPLIT
What’s it rated? PG-13
Should I rent it? Definitely
Due for release on Tuesday, April 25
ARRIVAL
What’s it rated? PG-13
Should I rent it? Definitely
DETOUR
What’s it rated? R
Should I rent it? Maybe
is brutal and swift. We discover he’s
got a love for karaoke and dotes on his
young daughter, but on the streets he’s
more feared than respected, and he’s as
emotionally cold as they come—just as
much a violent killer as Billy.
Refn is unquestionably a careful
filmmaker, and he makes choices for
a reason. There’s enough subtly here
to bear repeat viewings—if one is
willing to witness the horrors again. The
cinematography reminds me of some
Michael Mann films such as Manhunter
and Collateral—filled with beautiful
colors and use of light. But this is a film
that appears designed to upset people,
and Refn seems to want to emulate the
career of someone like Lars von Trier,
whose films (Antichrist, Melancholia) also
upset viewers. When Only God Forgives
was screened at Cannes, it was booed
by some audience members and given a
standing ovation by others.
If you have a high tolerance for violence
and you want to witness truly broken
people and the depraved world they create
for themselves, this is worth seeing. I did
feel some sympathy for Julian because
despite his abusive past, he still makes
moral distinctions, but he loathes himself,
and trying to comprehend someone like
that is a depressing exercise. Watch at
your own peril. (90 min.) Δ
—Glen Starkey
THE GIRL WITH
ALL THE GIFTS
What’s it rated? R
Should I rent it? Probably
LA LA LAND
What’s it rated? PG-13
Should I rent it? Definitely
THE MARINE 5:
BATTLEGROUND
What’s it rated? R
Should I rent it? Don’t bother
UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS
What’s it rated? R
Should I rent it? Don’t bother
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escalate and shots are fired, quickly
leading to a full-on Battle Royale where
it’s every man (and woman) for themselves.
(85 min.)
—A24 Films
GET OUT
What’s it rated? R
What’s it worth? Full Price
Where’s it showing? Sunset Drive In
Pick In his directorial debut, actor-
writer Jordan Peele (Keanu, Key
and Peele, Rubberhead, MADtv) helms
this mystery-horror film about a young
African-American man named Chris
Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), who’s in a
mixed-race relationship with his white
girlfriend Rose Armitage (Allison Williams),
who decides it’s time for him to meet her
parents—Dean (Bradley Whitford) and
Missy (Catherine Keener)—so they head
to her family’s estate. When they arrive, he
discovers the area’s black residents behave
in bizarre ways, and when he’s warned
to “get out,” he discovers it’s not so easy
to leave.
The gore was convincing, the acting
roundly competent, and the story
HIDDEN British
explorer Percy Fawcett
(Charlie Hunnam)
goes searching for
an undiscovered city
in the Amazon at the
beginning of the 20th
century in The Lost
City of Z.
fresh enough not to wallow in horror
and mystery cliché. Currently, the
film has a 99 percent critic rating on
rottentomatoes.com, and I can see why.
I’ll remember this film. (103 min.)
—Glen Starkey
GHOST IN THE SHELL
What’s it rated? PG-13
What’s it worth? Rental
Where’s it showing? Galaxy
Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the
Huntsman) directs this screenplay by
co-writers Jamie Moss (Street Kings)
and William Wheeler (The Hoax, Queen
of Katwe) based on Masamune Shirow’s
Japanese Manga The Ghost in the Shell
about Major (Scarlett Johansson), a
human who was purportedly saved
from a horrible terrorist attack and
transformed into the perfect soldier via
cyber-enhancement. Now she goes after
the world’s most dangerous criminals and
terrorists, but when she meets a terrorist
named Kuze (Michael Pitt), she discovers
everything she thinks she knows about
herself is a lie.
It’s not terrible by any means, and
sci-fi fans will find something to enjoy,
but it’s also derivative and unoriginal—
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LEGEND In the documentary,
I Called Him Morgan,
filmmakers explore the life and
murder of jazz musician Lee
Morgan.
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not great attributes for a wannabe
blockbuster. (107 min.)
—Glen Starkey
GIFTED
What’s it rated? PG-13
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
Stadium 10, Park, Galaxy
See Split Screen.
GOING IN STYLE
What’s it rated? PG-13
What’s it worth? Streaming
Where’s it showing? Stadium 10, Galaxy
Three New Yorkers’ golden years have
never looked so exciting in Going in Style, a
modern-day remake of the 1979 movie.
Cash-strapped, pissed off, and
desperate after their hard-earned
pensions are cut in a company buyout,
retirees and friends Joe (Michael Caine),
Willie (Morgan Freeman), and Albert
(Alan Arkin) band together to rob a bank
and take what they’re owed. On their
heels is the FBI, led by Special Agent
Hamer (Matt Dillon).
Despite solid performances from the
lead trio, Going in Style is pretty formulaic
from beginning to end and doesn’t generate
quite enough laughs to be memorable.
It’s not for a lack of effort, though. Caine,
Freeman, and Arkin didn’t just phone
it in for this comedy. Each character
is fairly well thought out with unique
backstories and personalities. Joe is about
to lose his house, where his daughter
and granddaughter also live, thanks to
a predatory mortgage loan. Meanwhile,
Willie finds out he needs a kidney
transplant, but lives far away from his
family because of his financial ruin. Albert,
the cynic of the three, is pretty much
waiting for death until he unexpectedly
falls in love with a grocery store clerk and
finds a new zest for life.
Without a doubt, this flick was first and
foremost made to have a chuckle about
three senior citizens attempting a bank
robbery. That’s why it’s funny, but it’s also
why it has a low ceiling. Going in Style
delivers, most notably during a ridiculous
test robbery of a market that goes awry.
The movie predictably builds towards the
bank heist the whole way. Thankfully,
Going in Style offers a little more than that,
reflecting on broader themes about death,
family, legacy, and capitalism. (97 min.)
—Peter Johnson
I CALLED HIM MORGAN
What’s it rated? NR
Where’s it showing? The Palm
New On a snowy night in February
1972, celebrated jazz musician
Lee Morgan was shot dead by his wife,
Helen, during a gig at a club in New York
City. The murder sent shockwaves through
the jazz community, and the memory of
the event still haunts those who knew the
Morgans. This documentary by Swedish
filmmaker Kasper Collin (My Name Is
Albert Ayler) is a love letter to two unique
personalities and the music that brought
them together. (89 min.)
—Kasper Collin Produktion
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THE LOST CITY OF Z
What’s it rated? PG-13
Where’s it showing? The Palm
New The Lost City of Z tells the
incredible true story of British
explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam),
who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn
of the 20th century and discovers evidence
of a previously unknown, advanced
civilization that may have once inhabited
dedicated to exposing political truth. As
the Ottoman Empire crumbles into war-torn
chaos, their conflicting passions must be
deferred while they join forces to get their
people to safety and survive themselves.
(134 min.)
—Open Road Films
THEIR FINEST
What’s it rated? R
Where’s it showing? The Palm
New The year is 1940, London. With
the nation bowed down by war,
the British ministry turns to propaganda
at nothing to turn Julia’s dream into her
ultimate nightmare. (101 min.)
—Warner Bros. Pictures
THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE
What’s it rated? PG-13
What’s it worth? Full Price
Where’s it showing? The Palm, Bay
Pick Niki Caro (Whale Rider; North
County; McFarland USA) directs
Angela Workman’s (War Bride, Snow
Flower and the Secret Fan) screenplay
based on Diane Ackerman’s book of the
same name about Antonina (Jessica
charm barely veils his hunger for power
and control. He wants Antonina’s hand in
helping him to crossbreed species to create a
sort of super beast that has been extinct for
hundreds of years. While Jan is incredulous
at the idea, Antonina sees the importance
of keeping Lutz close, at least in his mind.
His lust for her gives her an important tool in
manipulation, and while he clearly frightens
her, she plays the part she needs to in order
to keep him distracted. All the while Jan is
running Jews out of the ghetto; the threat of
being caught and killed is palpable.
While the danger and violence is
constantly at the surface, the feminine
viewpoint gives the film a much more human
aspect than most war films. Antonina must
manipulate Lutz, but as Jan witnesses some
of their intimate moments, he’s filled with
betrayal, unable to see that everything
Antonina does is for him, their family, and
the people they’re trying to save. It’s one
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of many elements that show the stark
difference between the way men and
women process situations and try to solve
problems, which is at the heart of the film.
(124 min.) ∆
—Anna and Glen Starkey
New Times movie reviews were compiled
by Arts Editor Ryah Cooley and others.
You can contact her at rcooley@
newtimesslo.com.
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the region. (140 min.)

—Amazon Studios
PHOENIX FORGOTTEN
What’s it rated? PG-13
Where’s it showing? Park
New Phoenix Forgotten is based on
the true events of March 13,
1997, when several mysterious lights
appeared over Phoenix, Ariz., which
became known as “The Phoenix Lights,”
and remains the most famous and widely
viewed UFO sighting in history. Phoenix
Forgotten tells the story of three teens
who went into the desert shortly after
the incident, hoping to document the
strange events occurring in their town.
They disappeared that night, and were
never seen again. Now, on the 20th
anniversary of their disappearance,
unseen footage has finally been
discovered, chronicling the final hours of
their fateful expedition. (80 min.)
—Cinelou Films
films to boost morale at home. Realizing
their films could use “a woman’s touch,”
the ministry hires Catrin Cole (Gemma
Arterton) as a scriptwriter in charge of
writing the female dialogue. Although
her artist husband looks down on her
job, Catrin’s natural flair quickly gets her
noticed by cynical, witty lead scriptwriter
Buckley (Sam Claflin). Catrin and Buckley
set out to make an epic feature film
based on the Dunkirk rescue starring
the gloriously vain, former matinee idol
Ambrose Hilliard (Bill Nighy). As bombs are
dropping all around them, Catrin, Buckley,
and their colorful cast and crew work
furiously to make a film that will warm the
hearts of the nation (110 min.)
—STX Entertainment
UNFORGETTABLE
What’s it rated? R
Where’s it showing? Stadium 10, Park,
Galaxy
Chastain) and Jan Zabinski (Johan
Heldenbergh), keepers of the Warsaw Zoo,
who during the Nazi occupation of Poland
helped save hundreds of Jews.
There’s so much to admire in this film,
so many moments that thrill and haunt.
Early on during a party at the zoo, we
see Antonina’s bravery and compassion
in full force when she runs to save a
newborn elephant that isn’t breathing.
The guests—some of whom had been
dismissive of her—are astounded as she
works through the viscera in her party attire
to save the creature. In another scene after
the Nazis have rounded up Jews in a ghetto,
we see callous “tourists” snapping photos of
themselves with the encaged humans behind
them. In one of the most tragic scenes, when
Jan goes to the train station to beg a Jewish
friend, Dr. Janusz Korczak (Arnost Goldflam),
not to get on the train that is taking the Jews
to the death camps, instead Korczak enlists
Jan to help lift the children onto the train

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New Tessa Connover (Katherine Heigl)
is barely coping with the end of
her marriage when her ex-husband, David
What’s it rated? PG-13 (Geoff Stults), becomes happily engaged
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, to Julia Banks (Rosario Dawson)—not
Stadium 10, Park, Galaxy only bringing Julia into the home they
to avoid causing fear and panic, and one
by one, the little children lift their arms as
children do to be lifted up, unaware of what
awaits them. It’s a devastating moment, a
small moment, and an impossible moment to
endure.

New Empires fall, but love survives.

When Michael (Oscar Isaac),
a brilliant medical student, meets Ana
(Charlotte Le Bon), their shared Armenian
heritage sparks an attraction that explodes
into a romantic rivalry between Michael
and Ana’s boyfriend, Chris (Christian
Bale), a famous American photojournalist
once shared but also into the life of their
daughter, Lilly (Isabella Rice). Trying to
settle into her new role as a wife and a
stepmother, Julia believes she has finally
met the man of her dreams, the man who
can help her put her own troubled past
behind her. But Tessa’s jealousy soon
takes a pathological turn until she will stop
This is a compelling story of resistance
and a reminder that as horribly cruel as
humans can be toward one another, we’re
also capable of doing the right thing in HANDS UP In Free Fire,
dangerous situations. a shootout ensues in 1970s
The Zabinskis and their zoo are placed Boston after an arms deal
under the thumb of Lutz Heck (Daniel goes horribly wrong.
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BY RYAH COOLEY
A real good time
SLO Tease Burlesque
builds up the heat at
Transformations show
O
n Easter’s eve, my friend Nicole
and I are pulling up to a pitch-
black church parking lot in Los
Osos. Then, we promptly walk down the
street to catch SLO Tease Burlesque’s
Transformations show. Sorry, Jesus.
We were long overdue for a girls
night, so after a drink at the Baywood
Ale House, we make our way to the
South Bay Community Center to take
in burlesque in all its sassy glory for the
first time, ever.
The parking lot is packed and the
line spills out the door. We get our table
assignment (lucky number 13) and
quickly head to the back of the room,
where bartenders from Sidecar Cocktail
Co. are mixing up delicious cocktails
for the low, low price of $7 a pop. All
proceeds from drinks sold at the show
go to RISE and the Cancer Support
Community of the California Central
Coast. With two Cures (tequila, aloe
vera juice, and a rosemary garnish) in
hand, we walk back to our seats. It’s
already heating up as nearly every seat
in the house is taken. We happily people
watch and feel a tad underdressed as we
admire the variety of fedoras, corsets,
and full-color tattoos on display.
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SIZZLE SLO
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SLO Tease founder Rick Castle takes a stage to dance to the jazzy “Fever,” and
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of its partners, RISE, a nonprofit that distract her oblivious husband from his
offers services to survivors of sexual and newspaper and evening cocktail. Before
Then, at last the lights began to flicker, intimate partner violence. Castle reminds long, the lights are back on and we’re
signaling the start of the show. everyone that while sexy times can be making plans to drag more friends with
The sweet tune of “Pure Imagination” exciting, consent is still required, “every us to the next burlesque show. Δ
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The fun only continues from there. troupe’s fall 2016 performance) led the
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the character of the bling-loving crab
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Flavor
BY HAYLEY THOMAS CAIN
Magically nutritious!
Plant-based vibes
sprout in the Village of
Arroyo Grande
W
hat words would you use to
describe a carrot to an alien
from a distant planet? Orange?
Crunchy? Nutritious?
By comparison, Planted owner/
chef Jessie Essen, 26, sees the humble
vegetable through a multi-dimensional
kaleidoscope that knows no earthy
definition. See, there’s a ho-hum carrot,
and then, there’s a carrot sautéed with
spices, sprinkled with flaky sea salt, and
roasted with love.
Sweet and savory with crispy edges,
these chunks of goodness might beg to
be sprinkled atop a warm quinoa salad
then drizzled with from-scratch ginger-
lemon dressing.
“Once you roast a carrot, it starts to
caramelize in the oven and it starts to
become something so magical,” Essen
said. “You just don’t need meat when
you’ve got caramelized veggies on top.”
With her first restaurant, Essen aims
to change the way locals see all kinds
of vegetables: from the beans in her
mighty black bean burger topped with
house jalapeño cashew cream cheese to
the sweet potato in her Dreaming Juice,
brightened by ginger, apple, almond,
cinnamon, and clove.
“I don’t want to get a canned chickpea
to make hummus. I want to make it
all myself, so, in that way, I can see it
come all the way through fruition and
know that it was done right, mindfully,”
Essen said.
A Five Cities local, Essen moved to
Boulder, Colo., to study holistic nutrition
at Bauman College before diving
headfirst into the culinary industry.
First, she worked at a top-notch (although
chaotic) vegan, gluten-free restaurant.
Next, she cut her teeth at a fine dining
Italian restaurant where the head chef
ruled with an iron apron.
“The vegan restaurant was really in
line with the food that I like to eat, and
the Italian restaurant really taught me a
lot about working in a fast-paced intense
kitchen,” Essen said. “It was great to
have both experiences, and it’s exciting to
be able to apply what I know to what I’m
doing here.”
Essen’s kitchen is certainly not a
“hippie dippy” operation. Clean and
organized with her hardworking team
at the helm, this is “where the magic
happens.” Here, almond milk is pressed,
kale is massaged, and dark chocolate
peanut butter balls are chilled to
perfection.
The young health nut also gets quite
a bit of business guidance and support
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Food
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Leafy green goods
Planted is located at 201 E. Branch St. in the village of
Arroyo Grande and is slated to open within the coming
weeks. For more information, hours, and menu offerings,
visit the restaurant on Facebook.
from her family, who also own nearby
CJ’s Cafe. Essen grew up in her family’s
diner business, and you could say this
experience is what led her to a more
plant-based diet.
At 18, living on her own for the first
time, she was able to branch out away
from the food she had grown up with.
Suddenly, microwave pizzas, sodas, and
boxed pasta were relegated to the far
fringes of her diet.
“Entering into adulthood and actually
learning how to cook, that really changed
me,” Essen said. “I gravitated toward
whole ingredients; foods that are creative
and fresh. It was almost like the veil
was lifted. I knew I wanted to make all
of my own food from scratch. I want to
feed people more vegetables and I think
it’s good for people to have that option, FIRMLY PLANTED The Arroyo Grande Village’s newest plant-based restaurant,
especially in the Village, where it’s a lot Planted, is offering up crave-worthy spicy black bean burgers; satisfying, seed-topped
of hot pastrami sandwiches, burgers, and salads; a rainbow of fresh-pressed juices; bold smoothies; and desserts so magical you
won’t believe they’re actually good for you.
pizza. People want to feel good and move
on with their day.”
Essen recently catered a bridal party,
and was jazzed to hear positive feedback
from the girls. She said they told her the
food left them feeling clean, like they
had done something good for their body.
“That is just so exciting for me,” Essen
added.
That said, Planted isn’t about health
in lieu of flavor. I mean, I would agree
with the old adage, “food is medicine,”
but who really wants their food to taste
like medicine?
“All the dishes we have, they’re not
boring. It’s not just a salad without meat
or cheese,” she said. “There’s something
for everybody, whether you want
something light or if you want a really
dank veggie burger that will leave you
feeling stuffed.”
Dank, indeed.
You might find this surprising, but
Essen is not a vegan or even a vegetarian,
although she’s worn both labels in the
past. She’s just really interested in doing
things slowly, methodically, with care.
“I love serving people vegetarian food
because I feel like everyone could use
more vegetables in their diet, but I’m
more concerned with food that is made
from real, raw ingredients,” she said. “My
food is not made in a hurry, not made in
a rush. It is there to nourish, but it’s also FEEL GOOD, TASTE GOOD Planted
just really good food.” Δ owner/chef Jessie Essen believes that
food should taste good but also make you
feel great. Her fresh, plant-based menu
Hayley Thomas Cain loves fresh-pressed
is filled with vibrant juices, smoothies,
juice without the cleanup. She can be
salads, burgers, and sweet snacks that
reached at hthomas@newtimesslo.com.
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... Dogfish Head Brewing, the official
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wine lounge for a libation and enjoy a
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Boo Records on April 22 for the annual
shindig featuring a smorgasbord of
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from 5 to 7 p.m. and beginning May
4 with local outfit Bear Market Riot
… Mistura in Paso Robles is serving
up super fresh Peruvian cuisine—
like seabass tiradito and alpaca
carpaccio—plated with an artful eye.
YummY vibeS
Estuary enthusiasts, eat on: Keep
Morro Bay clean (and gobble up sweet
treats while doing so). Indulge your
dessert desires by purchasing locally
made confections from Treat SLO
this month, and a portion of those
proceeds will go back to the bay. The
otters thank you in advance! … Bow
wow wonderful: Ubatuba Acai at 785
Marsh St. in SLO will host a fundraiser
for Woods Humane Society this
April 23 with half the day’s sales going
to the dog and cat sanctuary … Pedal
to the metal: Have you been out to see
the wildflowers that are so effortlessly
exploding off Shell Creek Road yet?
Better get your butt out to this heavenly
patch of northeastern SLO County
(about 30 miles inland from Santa
Margarita) before this epic bloom is just
a colorful splash from the past. Why not
head out to Shell Creek Vineyards
to taste some petite sirah while you’re
at it? Follow @ShellCreekVineyards
on Instagram for wine offerings and
wildflowers galore. ∆
Hayley Thomas Cain is looking for your
best bites. Send suggestions to hthomas@
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immensely and helps conserve precious
H ayley’s P icks resources like water and fossil fuel (plus,
there’s tons of science out there that links
diets higher in fruits, vegetables, and
Eat less meat whole grains with lower instance of heart
for Earth Day disease, obesity, and cancer). But what
Are you composting, recycling, to serve for your next #meatlessMonday?
Get creative. Swap breakfast sausage
upcycling, and using reusable bags each
time you shop your local farmers’ market? for a piping hot bowl of oatmeal topped
Good. Whew. Now, it’s time to enjoy the with cinnamon and sliced apple, trade a
Earth Day festivities while knowing traditional turkey burger for an equally
you’re leaving the Earth better than you satisfying black bean-and-mushroom
got it. Of course, not all of us can save version, or fill up with a zesty bowl of stir-
the planet every single day, but there are fried veggies topped with fried egg in lieu
plenty of manageable steps you can adopt of beef Bolognese.
with very little effort (see above). Small One super satisfying way I’ve learned
changes can actually tilt the scale quite a to consume more veggies on a consistent
bit—both literally and figuratively. basis? Serving up a weekly curry-inspired
Going meatless one day a week, for dish that incorporates any leftover
instance, reduces your carbon footprint veggies loitering around my fridge. Note:
This recipe also
Leftover veggie coconut curry has the added
Get the biggest pot you have and crank up the stovetop. Sautee a whole chopped benefit of spring
onion in half a stick of butter, allowing the onion to caramelize. Once browned, add cleaning your ice
as much garlic as you can handle and stir until the aromatics drive you wild. Next, box. You’ll sweep
turn down the heat and stir in your curry powder (I get mine in bulk, but you can also out the crisper
make your own if you have all the spices). Start out with about a tablespoon of the drawer while
curry powder and mix well into the onion and butter, careful not to let it sit too long (it spicing up your
can actually burn, which is not delicious). Note: You can always add more curry powder
dinner and saving
later, but you cannot un-add it! Next, sploosh in a large can of diced tomatoes with
their juices, allowing the mixture to reduce at a simmer for about 10 minutes. Now, the world. I’d like
add about 2 cups of veggie stock and bring the mix to a rapid boil. This is prime to see Captain
time for throwing in chopped leftover veggies with some heft to them like broccoli, Planet do that. ∆
cauliflower, and potato.
Put the lid on for about eight minutes, allowing the veggies to soften (if you use Hayley Thomas
potato, chop into tiny chunks so they boil quicker). Simmer till all veggies are al dente.
Cain eats all
If the flavor needs some tang, squirt in a little ketchup and more curry powder. Finish
with frozen peas or leftover corn kernels (this cooks pretty much the moment it hits the her veggies. She
pot). Take the whole shebang off the heat and pour in half a can of coconut cream can be reached
(or milk), whisking until the curry has a creamy consistency. Season with salt and at hthomas@
pepper and serve over rice with a dollop of whole fat Greek yogurt on top. ∆ newtimesslo.com.
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Special Events CELEBRATE EARTH DAY AT ORCHARD SUPPLY

Biofeedback
In celebration of Earth Day, the Central
Coast Bioneers will be offering three
screenings featuring keynote speakers
from their 2016 conference, April 25 through
27 in room 17 of the Bonderson Engineering
Center at Cal Poly. A different topic will be
covered each night from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.:
Shaping Our Future Through Social Change
and Restorative Justice on April 25, Climate
and Clean Technology on April 26, and Food
and Water on April 27. Visit ecologistics.org
to learn more.
—Trever Dias
IMAGE COURTESY JO ELLEN BUTLER
HARDWARE Your neighborhood friends in green invite you
to a special Earth Day planting event April 22. Kids of all
COMMUNITY VEGAN POTLUCK every third Tuesday of the
ages are invited to get their hands a little dirty and plant
month through May 16. This ongoing community vegan potluck
their own seedling. 9am-noon Orchard Supply Hardware,
is free and open to all. Doors open at 5:45pm and at 6pm the
2005 Theater Dr., Paso Robles. More info: (415) 591-8406,
potluck begins. Short films/discussion begin 6:45-7pm, done
mrodrigues@shiftcomm.com.
by 8pm. Vegan dining is a plant-based cuisine containing no
animal products. All are welcome. 6-8pm Unitaraian Universalist
MUSTANG EXPO Slo-Stangs Auto club and Sea Pines
Golf Resort are putting on a club Mustang Expo. Showing
Fellowship Hall, 2201 Lawton Ave., San Luis Obispo. Free. More
info: 234-7279, heyjenny@gmail.com.
cars from the 1965-2016. April 22. 11am-3pm Mustang
Expo, 1945 Solano St., Los Osos. Free. More info: 235-8616,
CHURCH SPONSORED VINTAGE AND THRIFT All proceeds
will go to Valley View Adventist Academy. Currently accepting
mustang09man@gmail.com, slostangs@gmail.com.
WALK A MILE - ARROYO GRANDE Join the movement and
donations of gently used clothing and furniture. Grand opening
April 30. 10am Treasure Barn, 2794 Halcyon, Arroyo Grande.
Walk a Mile to end sexual assault and gender-based violence
in Arroyo Grande on April 22 at Heritage Square Park. The
More info: 459-8316, Gailmitchellj@gmail.com.
HOMESHARESLO ATASCADERO HOMESHARING CHAT
event will feature celebrity walkers, vendor fair, a kid’s zone,
live music, and more. April 22. 11am- 2pm Heritage Square
HomeShareSLO brings together homeowners or renters
Park, 300 W Branch St., Arroyo Grande. More info: 226-5400
with an extra room in their home and people looking for
Ext. 308, mrivoire@RISEslo.org, riseslo.org.
affordable housing. Serving all of SLO county. Bring your
TASTE OF PISMO April 22. Dinasaur Caves Park, Shell Beach
questions! April 20. 2-4pm Atascadero Senior Citizens
Rd., Shell Beach. $65; designated driver for $35. More info: 773-
Center, 5905 East Mall, Atascadero. More info: 215-5474,
4382, info@pismochamber.com, pismochamber.com.
celestehomeshareslo@gmail.com, homeshareslo.org/events.
FREE COMMUNITY HORSE TACK SWAP AT RIDING
SAVE OUR SCIENCE SOS Use your creativity to celebrate
WAREHOUSE Recycle-Reuse-Reduce on Earth Day at the
science by decorating a lab coat for Earth Day. April 20
through 22. Farmers Market and Earth Day Downtown SLO,
Riding Warehouse tack swap! Invite your friends for a day full
of deals on horse tack and fun! Seller spots fill up quick so
Farmer’s Market, San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: (310)
384-6912, saveourscienceslo@gmail.com, facebook.com/
reserve your spot now. Free pastries and coffee during set-
up. April 22. 10am-2pm Free Riding Warehouse Tack Swap,
groups/412280955776251/.
SPRING VEGAN PRIX FIXE DINNER AT ROBIN’S
181 Suburban Rd., San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 548-
2005, info@ridingwarehouse.com, ridingwarehouse.com.
RESTAURANT Enjoy the bounty of spring on the Central
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM Congregation
Coast and this very popular Vegan 4-course prix fixe dinner,
Ohr Tzafon will commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day

Wild show
April 21. 5-9pm Robin’s Restaurant, 4095 Burton Dr.,
on April 23, featuring local residents Marion and Paul
Cambria. $48, $66 with wine flight. More info: 927-5007,
Wolff sharing their stories of surviving the Holocaust. The
info@robinsrestaurant.com, robinsrestaurant.com.
afternoon will also feature music and readings. 3:30pm
CAMBRIA ANNUAL CAR, MOTORCYCLE SHOW AND
Congregation Ohr Tzafon, 2605 Traffic Way, Atascadero.
CHILI COOK-OFF Classic cars, fabulous motorcycles, great
Recent rains should make for an chili, prizes, raffles, music, gourmet Beers and more. April
Free. More info: 704-4984, cfhandler1@gmail.com,
congregationohrtzafon.com.
22. 10am-3pm Vet’s Hall Parking Lot, 1000 Main St., Cambria.
impressive display at the 12th Free. More info: 927-3624, bdbcambriachamber@hotmail.
CENTRAL COAST NURSE PROFESSIONALS
SLO MEETING Local start-up working toward nurse
annual Cambria Wildflower com, cambiachamber.org.
GRANDE OPENING - LAGO GIUSEPPE WINERY April
empowerment in the local community by supporting the
practice of nursing for all specialties/levels, April 23. Come
Show, April 29 from noon to 5 22 and 23. Reggae Vance Trio from Resination will be
get inspired, hear interesting topics, and network with fellow
performing on Saturday from 2-5pm and traditional Sicilian
nurses. 6-8pm Milestone Tavern, 972 E. Foothill Blvd., San
p.m. and April 30 from 10 a.m. to cuisine from the kitchen will be available for purchase.
Luis Obispo. No cost. Dinner can be purchased. More info:
11am-5pm Lago Giuseppe Winery, 8345 Green Valley Rd.,
878-9696, CCnurseprofessionals@gmail.com.
4 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Templeton. More info: 550-9199, info@lagogiuseppe.com,
YOM HASHOAH - HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
lagogiuseppe.com.
April 23. 6:30pm Congregatoin Beth David, 10180 Los Osos
Building. The show will feature an TOWN HALL MEETING WITH CONGRESSMAN SALUD
Valley Rd., San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 544-0760,
CARBAJAL The SLO Progressives are sponsoring a town
abundance of bouquets, botanists hall meeting with Congressman Salud Carbajal on April
cbdslo.org.
HOMESHARESLO HOMESHARING PRESENTATION
22. Come make your voice heard. Pacheco Elementary, 261
who can answer your questions, Cuesta Dr., San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 305-8295,
Have an extra room in your home? Seeking affordable housing?
HomeShareSLO is a local non-profit that facilitates matches
malcolm13@fastmail.com.
a wildflower café, photo contest, PLANT AND BAKE SALE The 22nd Annual Plant and Bake
between home providers and home seekers. Presentation
by Anne Wyatt, Program Coordinator. Bring your questions.
Sale in Creston takes place April 22. This year features
and more. For additional info, 1/2 wine barrels and fruit trees. Funds raised help maintain
April 27. 2-4pm Living Waters Fellowship Community
Room, 4314 Bridge St., Cambria. Free. More info: 215-5474,
email ffrpcambira@sbcglobal.net the garden. 9am Volunteer Community Garden, Swayze St.,
Creston. Free. More info: 438-3543, mustangannie1@juno.
celestehomeshareslo@gmail.com, homeshareslo.org.
EARTH DAY ~ COMMUNITY YOGA TO BENEFIT
or call 927-2856. com, crestonnews.org.
ECOSLO Celebrate Earth Day and support ECOSLO with a
EARTH DAY FEST AT SLOBG Enjoy music from popular
grounding gentle flow yoga class, followed by meditation
—T.D. local musicians, an eco-marketplace, and numerous great
and a community beach mandala. 50% to benefit EcoSlo.
exhibits. April 22. 11Aam-5pm San Luis Obispo Botanical
April 27. 5:30-7pm Holistic Movement Center, 845 Napa
Garden, 3450 Dairy Creek Rd., San Luis Obispo. Free.
Ave., Morro Bay. $20 suggested donation. More info:
PHOTO COURTESY OF RICHEL RUSCO More info: 541-1400 Ext. 303, lcollinsworth@slobg.org,
(707) 266-8945, holisticmovementcenter@hotmail.com,
education@slobg.org.
holisticmovementcenter.com/events/workshops.html.
LIGHTSHARE UNION GRABOVOI NUMBERS PROJECT
submit your PRESENTATION On April 29 project volunteers will
present various concentration exercises upon numerical
listing online sequences that address themes specific to Source, Gaia,
and humanity’s salvation and liberation. No registration is
For a complete list of special events, required. Donations are appreciated. 6:30-9pm Lightshare
art listings, support groups, lectures, and Center, 22701 El Camino Real, Santa Margarita. Free. More
more please visit New Times online at info: 305-7595, wendy@lightshare.us, lightshare.us.
newtimesslo.com/calendar.php where you WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES Join the movement and
can submit events to be included in the walk a mile to end sexual assault and gender-based violence,

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New Times calendar, browse for upcoming
events, or check out what’s happening
today in your neighborhood.
Submissions are edited and approved
by Calendar Editor Trever Dias who can
Help raise funds for local nonprofit Achievement House at its 2017 Charity Golf be reached at calendar@newtimesslo.
Tournament, April 29 at Laguna Lake Golf Course in SLO. The funds will go com. To be included in print, please
include specific dates in the description
toward a new computer lab for its Activity Day Program at the Mailing & More box. Character count for the description
is limited to 250 characters. Deadline for
Facility. Registration opens at 8:15 a.m. and is $50 per person, which includes submission is one week before the issue
you want to be in. Events can appear in
a barbecue lunch. A shotgun start will begin at 9 a.m. Go to achievement.org print up to 10 days before they happen. For
to register. a more comprehensive list of submission
guidelines and to read how to get your
April 29. The event will feature celebrity walkers, a vendor
fair, a Kid Zone, live music, and more.! Mission Plaza, 989
Chorro St., San Luis Obispo. More info: 226-5400 Ext. 308,
mrivoire@RISEslo.org.
BREW AT THE ZOO Party with the animals for this special
event! Tickets includes commemorative beer glass, sampling
of craft breweries, cider, and wine. April 29. 5:30-8:30pm
Charles Paddock Zoo, 9305 Pismo Ave., Atascadero. $30.
More info: 461-3490, tbanish@atascadero.org.
PASO ROBLES DANCE HALL through April 28. Join
other social dancers on a 3,000 square foot dance floor,
Friday nights from 7-9 pm. A DJ plays tunes to a variety
dance styles. $9 per person. 7pm Paso Robles Dance Hall,
600 Nickerson Blvd., Paso Robles. $9. More info: 835-2076,
tinascarsella@gmail.com.

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The 4th Annual
MAY 20
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MISSION PLAZA, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA

FEATURING: PONCHO SANCHEZ & HIS LATIN JAZZ BAND
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featuring Diana Purim; Peter Horvath Featuring Ray Obiedo and Peter Michael Escovedo;
INGA SWEARINGEN WITH CUESTA FACULTY AND SPECIAL GUEST CHARLIE SHOEMAKE;
Mama Tumba; Dawn Lambeth; Dylan Johnson; Jon Stephen; Samurai Flamenco;

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888-825-5484. Blankets and low-backed beach chairs (2’ or less) only (limited
space, all seating is 1st-come, 1st-served). And, please no high-backed chairs.
Children under 10 admitted free when accompanied by paid adult (one child
per adult). Rain or Shine. No Umbrellas. No pets. Beer and Wine available for
over 21 with ID. Please no outside food, drink, or cameras. Food and beverage
for purchase inside venue. No reentry after 6:30PM - will be firmly enforced
this year. Subject to search. All proceeds benefit the future Summer Jazz Work- DRUMCIRCUT
shop and SLO Jazz Festival, a 501(c)3, and all community charities it serves.

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EVENTS from page 42
ODD AND INTERESTING GEMSTONES
EXHIBIT through May 5. Showcasing
over 20 different varieties and 230 different
gemstones including fire obsidian, iris agate,
zincite, lodolite, and many more. Features the
work of professional jewelry designer Austin
Moore, owner of Earth Art Gem and Jewelry.
I Love Rocks, The Network Shopping Center,
explore our estuary through science . 3970 Broad St Suite 2,, San Luis Obispo.
Free. More info: 710-3970, rocksgonewild@
gmail.com, facebook.com/Opals-Interesting-
Gemstones-580962095256969/.
SAT EARTH DAY PICKUP & PADDLE
22 8 AM. Help the bay & enjoy the water. Stage
50% off paddleboard rentals! EDUCATING RITA A dramedy by Willy
Tidelands Park, Morro Bay. Russell, through April 30.. 46 year old
hairdresser, Rita, enrolls in open education
at Liverpoole University, in hopes of finding
SUN HIDDEN TREASURES OF MORRO BAY herself and culture. Fri./Sat.: 7:30pm, Sun.:
23 2 PM. See plankton up close.
Natural History Museum, Morro Bay.
3pm Pewter Plough Playhouse, 828 Main
St., Cambria. $22. More info: 927-3877,
rebeccajbuckley@aol.com.
MATURE BRAINCHILD - A STORY NIGHT
THU BIRDS, FISH, & OUR HEALTHY BAY Open mic for stories 10 minutes or less.
27 6 PM. Guest speakers from Audubon
California and NOAA discuss the bay.
Theme is The Last Straw. April 20. Top Dog
Coffee Bar, 857 Main St., Morro Bay. More
Natural History Museum, Morro Bay. info: 772-9225, bnbmoylan@sbcglobal.net,
topdogcoffeebar.com.
ANNIE THE MUSICAL The irrepressible
SAT ELFIN FOREST WALK & TALK comic strip heroine takes center stage in
29 9:30 AM. Explore and learn about the one of the world’s best-loved musicals.
Performances will be held at Guild Hall in
estuary. Elfin Forest, Los Osos. SLO April 23 through 30. 2pm matinee;
7pm evening SLO Guild Hall, 2880 Broad
MORE EVENTS + DETAILS St., San Luis Obispo. $15 - $32. More info:
540-8817, kerikproductions@gmail.com,
MBNEP.ORG / STATE-OF-THE-BAY kelrikproductions.org.
ACTING ABCS THEATER CAMP For
grades k through 3, April 17 through 21.
9am-10am SLO Guild Hall, 2880 Broad
St., San Luis Obispo. $100. More info:
kelrikproductions.org.
A CONNCECTICUT YANKEE IN KING
ARHTUR’S COURT April 27 through
June 11. Hank Morgan wakes up in
the days of Camelot and King Arthur
ADOPT
puts hims in charge of industrializing
DON’T the kingdom due to his knowledge of
SHOP! technology. Great American Melodrama,
www.sloanimalservices.com 1863 Front St., Oceano. More info: 489-
2499, manager@americanmelodrama.com,
Adopt-A-Pet!
americanmelodrama.com.
PLAY READINGS Fourth Wednesday of the
month. Audience chooses one of three plays,
PREVENT HOMELESS PETS and then volunteers to read the characters!
Spay & Neuter! April 27. 7 -9pm Pewter Plough Playhouse,
828 Main St., Cambria. Free Admission. More
info: 400-4737, rjbstage@aol.com.
Angel #213360. Sweet &
STAGED READING: FROZEN SLO Little
eager to please, 5 yr old
brown Pitbull mix, med Theatre’s Ubu’s Other Shoe Staged Reading
presents Frozen, a substantial, daring,
energy, great w/kids,
warmhearted show about sorrow, vengeance,
most dogs, but no cats/ mercy, and bearing the insufferable, April
chickens, 50lbs, leash/ Angel 21 and 22. Fri.: 7pm; Sat.: 2 and 7pm San
house/obed. Luis Obispo Little Theatre, 888 Morro St.,
San Luis Obispo. $15. More info: 786-
Bandit #910793. Easy-
2440, boxoffice@slolittletheatre.org,
going, mellow, sweet 9 yr slolittletheatre.org.
old B/W Schnauzer/Shih SPRING THEATRE PRODUCTION with
Tzu w/underbite, 9lbs, guest director, Don Stewart, May 5 through
7. Fri. and Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2pm Cuesta
leash/house/lap, scared
of cats, loves kids & dogs. Bandit College Culturual and Performing Arts Center,
CA-1, San Luis Obispo. $15. More info: 546-
Rocko #217157. Shy 6 yr 3198, cpactickets.cueata.edu.
old tri-color Aust Shep WHEN BUTTER CHURNS TO GOLD
through April 23. Orphaned farm girl
mix is sweet once he
Constance Goodwin tries to save the
knows you, would love
family from the villain Friedrich von
to be an only dog, leash/
Fouler. Great American Melodrama, 1863
house/basic obed, 60lbs,
loves his walks.
Rocko Front St., Oceano. More info: 489-2499,
manager@americanmelodrama.com,
americanmelodrama.com.
Tinker #217123. Adorable
MET LIVE IN HD: TCHAIKOVSKY’S
tiny red/w Chihuahua girl
EUGENE ONEGIN Deborah Warner’s
is 1 yr old, about 3lbs, production, April 30. 2pm Christopher Cohan
good on leash, likes other Center, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo. $12-
dogs, she dances when $22. More info: 756-4849, calpolyarts.org.
happy, super cute! Tinker
AUDITIONS
For more information please call the NUNSENSE AUDITIONS April 23.
NUNSENSE will run July 27 through
shelter volunteer line at 781-4413 Aug. 20. Video submissions accepted at
Adoption fees are: Cats $81, Dogs: $105 + $27 license fee. lyricsandmelodiesdl@gmail.com until April
Fee includes spay or neuter, all shots & microchip. 24. 4pm Cambria Center for the Arts Theatre,
SLO County Animal Services 1350 Main St., Cambria. More info: 203-
5072, ccatbarb@gmail.com.
885 Oklahoma Ave. SLO 781-4413
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A look back
The work of Los Osos artist David Jonas will be presented in an exhibit at Art Center Morro
Bay titled David Jonas, A Retrospective, through May 1. Visit artcentermorrobay.org or call
772-2504 to find out more.
Film
and TV
FREE MOVIE Disney film on the landscapes,
animals and people of Vancouver, New
Zealand’s white sand beaches, the deserts of
Namibia, canyons of Arizona and Utah, and the
Alaskan wilderness. Popcorn will be provided.
For all ages. April 22. 2:30-4pm Cambria
Library, 1043 Main St., Cambria. Free. More
info: 781-4796, mkensingerklopfer@slolibrary.
org, slolibrary.org.
JEAN MANN LIVE April 24. A jazz-tinged
Americana artist. 6:30-9pmm Morro Bay
Wine Seller, 601 Embarcadero, Morro Bay.
More info: 204-6821, stevekey57@gmail.
com, songwritersatplay.com.
FREE MOVIE SCREENING Disney film
on the landscapes, animals and people
of Vancouver; New Zealand’s white sand
beaches; the deserts of Namibia; canyons
of Arizona and Utah; and the Alaskan
wilderness. Popcorn will be provided. All
ages. April 27. 3:30-5pm Oceano Library,
1551-17th St., Oceano. Free. More info: 781-
4796, mkensingerklopfer@slolibrary.org,
slolibrary.org.
Music
CHARLIE SHOEMAKE LIVE Famed jazz
pianist Charlie Shoemake performs music
from The Great American Songbook for
dining every Friday and Saturday through
May 26. 6-8:30pm Harmony Cafe, 824 Main
St., Cambria. More info: 924-1219, charlie@
talsanmusic.cpm.
THE MICHAEL CALLAN DUO LIVE April
21. The Wine Seller, 601 Embarcadero, Morro
Bay. None. More info: (760) 401-1104, mc@
callan.tv.
CAFE MUSIQUE LIVE April 21. 8pm
D’Anbino Vineyard and Cellars, 710 Pine St.,
Paso Robles. $15 ($10 for club members).
More info: 227-6800, carmine@danbino.com,
danbino.com/events.
TAP ROOTS LIVE April 21. Tom Walters
and Nico Cass perform original contemporary
Americana and jazzy originals. 7pm- 9:30pm Porch
Cafe, 22322 El Camino Real, Santa Margarita.
Free. More info: 204-6821, stevekey57@gmail.
com, songwritersatplay.com.
34TH ANNUAL PIANO JAZZ SHOWCASE
PRESENTED BY SLO COUNTY JAZZ
FEDERATION SIx of the finest local jazz
pianists perform, April 22. 7:30pm (doors
open at 7pm) Unity Concert Hall, 1130 Orcutt
Rd. (entrance on Fernwood), San Luis Obispo.
$20 general/$15 jazz Fed members/$10
students. More info: 546-3733, botwin@att.
net, slojazz.org.
MUSIC AND ALS FUNDRAISER Featuring
bluegrass band Daily Special, April 22. Help
raise funds for the local ALS(Lou Gehrig’s
disease) in Memory of Chrystie (Dorr) Lose.
2-4:30pm Music and ALS Fundraiser, 203 E.
Branch St., Arroyo Grande. Free. More info:
602-2212, rberguia@gmail.com.
GREENSPACE EARTH DAY CONCERT FOR
SCIENCE WITH ZEN MOUNTAIN POETS
April 22. Raffle, dancing, wine, beer, and
food by True Earth Market. 1-3pm Greenspace
Creekside Reserve, 2264 Center St., Cambria.
$10/children under 14 enter free. More info:
927-2866, connie@greenspacecambria.org,
greenspacecambria.org.
SLOMA CONCERTS: DIRTY CELLO April
22. Meet the artists after the performance.
7pm San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010
Broad St., San Luis Obispo. $20 general
seating. More info: 543-8562, info@sloma.
org, sloma.org/events/upcoming-events.
php?event=1269.
FAMOUS JAZZ ARTIST SERIES San
Francisco saxophonist Mel Martin appears
at the Famous jazz Artist Series with Dylan
Johnson, Darrell Voss, co-producers Charlie
and Sand iShoemake. April 23. 6:30-
8:30pm Painted Sky Studio, 7i5 Main St.,
Cambria. $20. More info: 927-0179, charlie@
talsanmusic.com, Charlie Shoemake.
SLO CO BAND SPRING CONCERT
Director Leonard Lutz has assembled this
concemt program with a variety of music
that challenges the band while being very
pleasing to the audience. April 23. 3pm
Methodist Church, 275 N. Halcyon Rd.,
Arroyo Grande. $10 donation requested.
More info: 773-0323, CountyBand.Info@
gmail.com, slocountyband.org.
BENEFIT CONCERT - ARTS FOR LIVING
UNITED CEREBAL PALSY A benefit
concert featuring the San Luis Obispo County
Trumpet Alliance, benefiting Arts for Living
and United Cerebral Palsy. April 23. 3pm
St Timothy’s Church, 962 Piney Way, Morro
Bay. Fre, donations accepted. More info: 550-
1192, wbalfour@mac.com.
JOHN STEPHEN LIVE April 23. Nuevo
ARTWORK BY DAVID JONAS
Flamenco/tropical Brazilian guitarist. 21
and up only please, and no pets. 2-4:30pm
Morovino Winery, 468 Front St., Avila
Beach. $12. More info: 627-1443, mrs.vino@
morovino.com, morovino.com.
DAVID STARR LIVE Songwriters At Play
presents Colorado’s David Starr, April 23.
Starr is an Americana singer-songwriter, multi-
instrumentalist, and producer. 1-4pm Sculpterra
Winery, 5015 Linne Rd., Paso Robles. Free.
More info: 204-6821, stevekey57@gmail.com,
songwritersatplay.com.
AN EVENING WITH DAVID CROSBY
AND FRIENDS April 25. 7:30pm Vina
Robles Amphitheatre, 3800 Mill Rd.,
Paso Robles. $50-65.50. More info: 286-
3680, amphitheatre@vinarobles.com,
vinaroblesamphitheatre.com.
THE KW COMBO LIVE April 25. 5:30pm
Courtyard Marriott San Luis Obispo, 1605
Calle Joaquin, San Luis Obispo. Free. More
info: (831) 601-3793, integritykt@yahoo.com.
BLUEGRASS CONCERT WITH DAN
CRARY, BILL EVANS, AND WALLY
BARNICK Bluegrass guitar pioneer
Dan Crary performs with banjoist Bill
Evans and Central Coast favorite Wally
Barnick on bass, April 27. 6pm Toro Creek
Event Center at The Last Stage West,
15050 Morro Rd., Atascadero. $20 in
advance/$25 at door. More info: 792-0505,
eventbooking@torocreekeventcenter.com,
torocreekeventcenter.com.
RAY BARBEE MEETS THE MATTSON 2
Ray Barbee Meets the Mattson 2 will play
their unique brand of surf-jazz to benefit the
Cambria Education Foundation on April 29.
Doors open at 5pm; show at 6:30pm Hearst
Ranch Warehouse, 442 SLO San Simeon
Rd., San Simeon. $50. More info: 305-7838,
info@cambriaeducationfoundation.org,
cambriaeducationfoundation.org/upcoming-
events.html.
DIRTY CELLO CONCERT AT SLOMA
From China to Italy, and all over the U.S.,
Dirty Cello brings the world a high energy
and unique spin on blues and bluegrass.
Led by vivacious cross-over cellist, Rebecca
Roudman, Dirty Cello is cello like you’ve
never heard before. April 22. 7pm San Luis
Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San
Luis Obispo. $20 general seating. More info:
543-8562, info@sloma.org, loma.org.
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ORCHESTRA NOVO AND DR.
CRAIG RUSSELL PRESENT: FROM
THE MIND OF MOZART April 23.
Orchestra Novo’s Discovery Series is
an invigorating blend of exploration
and artistry, a multi-sensory event that
will nourish your mind and uplift your
heart. 4pm San Luis Obispo United
Methodist Church, 1515 Fredericks
St., San Luis Obispo. $25. More info:
441-6688, zette@orchestranovo.com,
orchestranovo.com/virtuosos-discovery-
series-from-the-mind-of-mozart/.
FESTIVAL MOZAIC WINTERMEZZO
CODA: THE CHOPIN PROJECT In
2010, pianist Jocelyn Swigger set out
on a journey to learn all 27 Chopin
etudes. In this multimedia program and
performance, she’ll discuss how her
life and her musicianship transformed
as she learned this notoriously difficult
music. April 29. 3pm Paso Robles Inn,
1103 Spring St., Paso Robles. $40. More
info: 781-3009, tickets@festivalmozaic.
com, festivalmozaic.com.
NORTH COUNTY CHORUS AND
ORCHESTRA: SONGS OF OUR
FOREFATHERS May 7. Cassandra
Tarantino’s graduate choral conducting
concert. 3pm Atascadero Lake Pavilion,
9315 Pismo Ave., Atascadero. $10-$15.
Free for veterans.. More info: 546-3198,
cpactickets.cuesta.edu.
MARY ANNE ANDERSON LIVE Jazz
singer Mary Anne Anderson appears
with guitarist Adam Levine on the third
Thursday of the month. A refreshing,
smooth jazz singer with loads of
personality in her vibrant performances.
April 20. 7:30-10pm Pewte Plough
Playhouse, 828 Main St., Cambria. More
info: 400-4737, rjbstage@aol.com,
pewterploughplayhouse.org.
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439-4316, rhonda@milestonetavern.
com, milestonetavern.com.
TRAIN WRECK FRIDAY: LULU & THE
COWTIPPERS LIVE Bring a picnic,
food to grill, or purchase dinner from
Steins BBQ and Catering. Free wine
tasting from 5-7pm. Wine available
for purchase. No outside alcohol or
pets please. Children 6 and under
admitted free. April 21. 5:30pm Pomar
Junction Vineyard and Winery, 5036
S. El Pomar Rd, Templeton, CA. $15,
free for club members. More info: 238-
9940, denise@pomarjunction.com,
pomarjunction.com.
FOUR BITCHIN’ BABES: MUSICAL
REVIEW - HORMONAL IMBALANCE
April 22. The Four Bitchin’ Babes
are four accomplished and seasoned
musician-actress comediennes, who
together, create a tour de force musical
comedy theatre troupe. They fill the
stage with whimsical songs and shtick.
8pm Clark Center, 487 Fair Oaks Ave.,
Arroyo Grande. $32-$44. More info:
489-9444, dave@clarkcenter.org,
clarkcenter.org.
TRAIN WRECK FRIDAY: RICKY
MONTIJO AND THE MOJITOS
May 5. Bring a picnic, food to grill, or
purchase from Steins BBQ or Choco’s
Mexican Grill. Free wine tasting 5-7pm.
Wine available for purchase. No
outside alcohol or pets. Lawn chairs
recommended. 5:30pm Pomar Junction
Vineyard and Winery, 5036 S. El Pomar
Rd., Templeton. $15. More info: 238-
9940, denise@pomarjunction.com,
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BOOK OF THE YEAR DISCUSSION A
discussion of The Immortal Life of Henrietta
Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Part of the Cuesta
Book of the Year program. For adults. April
20. 6:30-7:30pm Los Osos Library, 2075
Palisades Ave., Los Osos. Free. More info:
781-4796, mkensingerklopfer@slolibrary.
org, slolibrary.org.
MORRO BAY BOOK DISCUSSION
GROUP 1st and 3rd Wednesdays,
through May 17. Download
the booklists to find out what
book is discussed each week at
morrobaybookdiscussiongroup.org.
10am-noon Morro Bay Library, 625
Harbor St., Morro Bay. Free. More
info: 772-9268, karen@live-now.org,
morrobaybookdiscussiongroup.org/.
MYSTERY READERS GROUP Each
2nd Wednesday read and discuss a
wide spectrum of mysteries, thrillers,
and suspense novels, through May
10. 10am-noon Morro Bay Library, 625
Harbor St., Morro Bay. Free. More info:
772-9268, karen@live-now.org.
AN AFTERNOON WITH T.C. BOYLE
May 7. Limited VIP pre-show meet
and greet at 1:30pm, available for
an additional $40. 3pm Christopher
Cohan Center, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis
Obispo. $16-$45. More info: 756-4849,
calpolyarts.org.
POETRY
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There will also be an open mic. 6:30pm natural and indigo dyes on kozo paper, THE ART OF JERRY DEMOREST On
Cayucos Library, 310 ‘B’ St., Cayucos textiles, and wool felt, through display through April 29. Professional,
library. Free. More info: 995-3312, kate. April 30. 11am-5pm San Luis Obispo self-taught artist, Jerry Demorest
stulberg8@gmail.com. Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St, San Luis creates 2-dimensional, multifaceted,
SOUTH COUNTY POETRY Featured Obispo. admission is free, donations colorful paintings. Cambria Library,
reader is current poet laureate, Jeannie appreciated. More info: 543-8562, 1043 Main St., Cambria. Free. More
Greensfelder, followed by open mic, April jkociss@sloma.org, sloma.org. info: 927-4336, ocstaff@slolibrary.org,
23. 5:30pm South County Poetry, 301 MIDDLE SCHOOL ART through May 3. slolibrary.org.
Trinity Way, Arroyo Grande. Free. More Features artwork from Flamson and Lewis M.L. BURDICK EXHIBIT A selection
info: 473-0230, evycole@inbox.com. and Middle Schools. Studios on the Park, of abstract ink and mixed media works
1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. More info: by local artist M.L. Burdick will be on
Art
238-9800, sasha@studiosonthepark.org, display through June 1. Noon-8 pm
studiosonthepark.org. STAX Wine Bar, 1099 Embarcadero,
JUMP FOR JOY: VINTAGE EUROPEAN Morro Bay. Free. More info: 772-5055,
ART EXPLORATIONS An in depth look at POSTERS through April 23. Showcasing staxwine@yahoo.com, staxwine.com.
the permanent collection of the museum, posters from ther Belle Epoque, Art Deco,
held the last Sunday of each month. 3pm and Modern periods. Studios on the Park, SPECIAL ART
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. More info: EVENTS
St., San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 543- 238-9800, sasha@studiosonthepark.org, 15TH CALIFORNIIA SCULPTORS
8562, info@sloma.org, sloma.org. studiosonthepark.org. SYMPOSIUM SHOW IN CAMBRIA
ART AT HIGH NOON: JESSICA FORTE, PAUL SIMMONS, A showcase of sculpture by the
CONTEMPORARY CALIFORNIA AND BRAD TUCKER EXHIBIT artists attending the 15th California
PHOTOGRAPHY WITH LANA Z. through April 30. Left Field Gallery, Sculptors Symposium, April 29.
CAPLAN May 4. Noon San Luis Obispo 1242 Monterey St. #110, San Luis Come see the sculptors at work and
Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. More info: 543-9633, enjoy a day at Camp Ocean Pines
Obispo. More info: 543-8562, info@ leftfieldgallery.com. in Cambria. BBQ available for $15.
sloma.org, sloma.org. KIDS ART SMART April 27 through 10am-5pm Camp Ocean Pines, 1473
SPRINGTIME SUCCULENCE 30. Featuring artwork by students from Randall Dr., Cambria. Free. More info:
through May 2. Come see art that Templeton Elementary and Vineyard 636-7522, francine.kirsch@gmail.com,
expresses the ripeness of spring. Art Elementary Schools. Studios on the Park, californiasculptorssymposium.org.
Central Gallery, 1329 Monterey St., 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. More info: SPRING INTO ART YOUTH ART
San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 747- 238-9800, sasha@studiosonthepark.org, CAMP through April 21. For 5-6
4200, artcentral93401@gmail.com, studiosonthepark.org. year-olds. 9am-noon San Luis Obispo
artcentralslo.wordpress.com/. KIDS ART SMART May 4 through Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis
THE ART OF THE KIMONO through 7. Featuring artwork by students from Obispo. $175-$195, includes materials.
April 30. Featuring historic and Virginia Peterson and Monterey Road More info: 543-8562, info@sloma.org,
Contemporary kimonos. San Luis Obispo Elementary Schools. Studios on the Park, sloma.org.
Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. More info:
Obispo. More info: 543-8562, info@ 238-9800, sasha@studiosonthepark.org, OPENINGS AND
sloma.org, sloma.org. studiosonthepark.org. RECEPTIONS
FOLDED AND FLAT: SHIBORI BY DIRTY PICTURES May 4 through 29. SPRING JURIED ART SHOW through
ANA LISA HEDSTROM Ana Lisa Abstract expressionist landscapes by Tom April 30. Cambria Arts Center hosts
Hedstrom is a world-renowned textile Peck and other artists. Studios on the annual juried art show for paintings,
artist best known for her contemporary Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. More photography, 3D artwork, etc. Juror is
adaptations of shibori. Hedstrom’s info: 238-9800, sasha@studiosonthepark.
thoughtful and inventive artwork org, studiosonthepark.org. ART continued page 46
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Tera Galanti, a Cal Poly art professor
and mixed-media artist. 1-4pm Cambria
Center for the Arts, 1350 Main St.,
Cambria. Free. More info: 927-8190,
kerry.drager@gmail.com.
PETITE PLEIN AIR GEMS Coldwell
Banker is pleased to feature Laurel
Sherrie’s paintings, through April
30. Laurel painted these miniatures
locally on location, capturing fleeting
moments to share forever of treasured
places. Coldwell Banker, 1234 Monterey
St. #110, San Luis Obispo. More info:
473-4640, laurel@laurelsherrie.com,
laurelsherrie.com.
CUESTA N. COUNTY BEGINNING
DRAWING North County drawing
instructors, Virginia Mack and Louise
Luthi, present a semester of student
drawing, April 22. Show runs through
May 11. 6-8pm ärt/, 5860 Traffic Way,
Atascadero. Free. More info: 466-3684,
art5806atascadero@gmail.com.
JULIE DUNN AND ROGER COMS
EXHIBIT Tempera Batik paintings by
Julie Dunn and woodworking by Roger
Combs, through April 30. 2pm Sayva
Creative Studio and Gallery, 65 Landing
Passage, Avila Beach. Free. More info:
544-1036, lindalewisjewelry@gmail.
com, sayvacreativegallery.com.
A SIGN OF THE TIMES Reflects the
turbulent political climate, features
12 artists, runs through April 28.
GALA Center Gallery, 1060 Palm St.,
San Luis Obispo. More info: 550-0348,
ethellanders@charter.net, galacc.org.
SENSE OF IDENTITY through May
1. Artwork in this thought provoking
exhibit, is inspired by the artists’
personal or public sense of identity.
Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St.,
Morro Bay. More info: 772-2504,
artcenter.morrobay@gmail.com,
artcentermorrobay.org.
GALLERIES
LIGHT Paso Robles Art Association
member artists share their unique and
varied perspectives on the subject of
IMAGE COURTESY OF MONTEREY INTERNATIONAL
info: 543-8562, jkocsis@sloma.org,
sloma.org.
HOMAGE TO THE RANCHES Art
Center Morro Bay invites you to submit
paintings that reflect scenic barns and
ranches of SLO County. Take in will be
May 2, from 10am-2pm. 10am-2pm Art
Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro
Bay. $5-$10 per entry. More info: 772-
2504, artcenter.morrobay@gmail.com,
artcentermorrobay.org.
CLASSES AND
WORKSHOPS
ADULT POTTERY CLASSES through
May 16. Imagine your self sitting at
the wheel throwing your own cup,
glazing it a week later in your favorite
color, and remembering that moment
with each sip! Sculpture, wheel and
slab instruction. All materials included.
Shevon Sullivan, 1243 Monterey St., San
Luis Obispo. $30. More info: 896-6197,
anamcre.ss@gmail.com, anamcre.com.
CREATING WITH CORKS Have you
been saving wine corks just waiting
to make a project someday? Well,
that someday has arrived, April 22.
10am-1pm Art Center Morro Bay, 835
Main St., Morro Bay. $55-$75. More
info: 286-5993, artcenter.morrobay@
gmail.com, creativemetime.com.
DROP-IN WATERCOLOR PAINTING
Whether you’re a beginner or a
seasoned painter, this is the perfect
place to join a fun group of fellow artists
to paint in a museum. Students can
bring in their own landscape photo to
paint from or use an example provided.
April 22. 11am –1pm San Luis Obispo
Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis
Obispo. Registration $25 members, $29
general per class. Includes all materials.
Max 12 students per class. More info:
543-8562, info@sloma.org, sloma.org.
MUSEUMS
SLO RAILROAD MUSEUM Check out
the SLO Railroad Museum, with its fun
kid’s play area. See historic artifacts,
rail cars, a world class model railroad
under construction, visit the gift shop,

light. Reflections, sources, symbology
all pull you into the artists’ worlds,
through May 1. Noon-7pm Studios on
The Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles.
Free. More info: 238-5473, president@
pasoroblesartassociation.org,
pasoroblesartassociation.org.
GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE
PRESENTS ARTISTS ARDELLA
SWANBERG AND DON DOUBLEDEE
Gallery at Marina Square presents
featured artists Ardella Swanberg
with her fine art watercolors and Don
Doubledee with his fine art drawings,
through April 29. 10am-6pm Gallery at
Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero Ste.
10, Morro Bay. free. More info: 772-
1068, greg@galleryatmarinasquare.com,
galleryatmarinasquare.com.
#PEOPLEWATCHING An exhibit by
Julie Frankel featuring observations
from Scout Coffee, Steynberg Gallery,
Jaffa Cafe, Port San Luis Beach, LAX,
Starbucks, and other locations, through
April 30. 11am-6pm 2blondes Boutique,
1115 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. Free.
More info: 541-4668, julierf@mac.com.
ANNUAL JURIED STUDENT
EXHIBITION This exhibition showcases
student work juried by a professional
artist. Student shows typically include
art created with photography, ceramics,
sculpture, painting, drawing and 2-D
design, through May 12. Harold
J. Miossi Art Gallery, Room 7170,
Cuesta College, CA-1, San Luis Obispo.
Free. More info: 546-3202, emma_
saperstein@cuesta.edu, cuesta.edu.
CALL FOR ARTISTS Gymnastics, 4484 Broad St., San Luis
CALIFORNIA SCULPTURE SLAM
through May 24. California Sculpture
SLAM showcases current works
by established and up-and-coming
California sculptors, providing a platform Earth Day with activities and fun.
for a variety of concepts and materials.
Juror Brigitte Micmacker is the
co-founder and gallerist at Sculpturesite Los Osos Library, 2075 Palisades Ave.,
Gallery. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, Los Osos. Free. More info: 781-4796,
1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. More
and wave at passing trains. 10am-4pm
SLO Railroad Museum, 1940 Santa
Barbara St., San Luis Obispo. $3 and
under. More info: 548-1894, media@
slorrm.com, slorrm.com.
SLOMA EXHIBITION: SIX SQUARED
The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art
presents Six Squared, an exhibition of
traditional print media by the Central
Coast Printmakers on view in the
McMeen Gallery from through May
28. 11am-5pm San Luis Obispo Museum
of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.
Admission is free, donations welcome.
More info: 543-8562, info@sloma.org,
sloma.org.
SLOMA EXHIBITION: NEW VISIONS
The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art
and Central Coast Photographic Society
are pleased to announce”New Visions:
California Juried Photography from
through May 14. 11am-5pm San Luis
Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St.,
San Luis Obispo. Admission is free,
donations welcome. More info: 543-
8562, info@sloma.org, sloma.org.
Kid Stuff
SPRING GYMNASTICS CAMPS
Performance Athletics Gymnastics
will be offering a gymnastics spring
break camp for kids 3 to 13 (toilet
trained). Kids will enjoy gymnastics (no
experience necessary), games, crafts,
and outdoor time. Half day, full day, and
extended care available, through April
21. 9:30-2:30pm Performance Athletics
Obispo. Call for pricing. More info: 547-
1496, info@performanceathleticsslo.
com, performanceathleticsslo.com.
EARTH DAY CELEBRATION Celebrate
Learn how you can make a difference!
For ages 8-14. April 22. 11am-Noon
mkensingerklopfer@slolibrary.org,
Pretty jazzy
The Cambria Education Foundation presents jazz musician and skateboarder Ray Barbee and surf-jazz musicians
The Mattson 2 (pictured) for a concert to benefit the Coast Unified School District, April 29 at 6:30 p.m. at the
Hearst Warehouse in San Simeon. The show is 21-and-over, tickets are $50, and can they can be purchased at
Cambria school libraries, or at cambriaeducationfoundation.org.
slolibrary.org.
CHILDREN AGE 4-6 AIKIDO CLASS
Youngsters ages 4 to 6 have fun and
express healthy energy as they learn
mind body skills, social skills, and
peaceful power. Aiki-Mites class is
derived from the peaceful martial art
Aikido. Pre-registeration required.
April 25 through May 30. 3pm Budo
Ryu, 3536 South Higuera, San Luis
Obispo. $60 for one month. More info:
544-8866, aikidoslo@icloud.com,
aikidosanluisobispo.com.
FAMILY BINGO NIGHT Bingo ticket
includes 15 games and popcorn! Olive
Garden dinner will also be available
for purchase. April 28. 6-8pm SLO
Classical Academy, 165 Grand Ave.,
San Luis Obispo. $15. More info: 548-
8700, esantoyo@sloclassical.org, sloca.
salsalabs.org/familybingonight/index.html.
CREATE AND LEARN
POTTERY CLASSES for ages 13
and up, through May 11. Enrich your
creative young soul on the potters
wheel or sculpt a figure out of clay.
There is also a selection of pre-made
bisque ware to glaze. Includes snacks.
3:45-5:30pm Anam Cre’ Pottery, 1243
Monterey St., San Luis Obispo. $30.
More info: 896-6197, anamcre.ss@
gmail.com, anamcre.com.
KIDS POTTERY CLASSES through
May 16. Classes in wheel throwing
and sculpting for ages 6 up. There is
also pre-made pottery for kids to paint
available for all ages. Shevon Sullivan,
1243 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.
More info: 896-6197, anamcre.ss@
gmail.com, anamcre.com.
SLOMA SPRING BREAK ART
CAMPS FOR KIDS AND TEENS
through April 21. Spring into art with
SLOMA’s Spring Break Art Camps.
Discover the arts of Japan! All materials
included. Scholarships available. Class
descriptions at sloma.org. Kids 9am–
noon; Teens 1–4pm San Luis Obispo
Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San
Luis Obispo. $165 members, $195 non-
members. More info: 543-8562, info@
sloma.org, sloma.org.
VIDEO GAME CREATION CLASSES
through April 21. Learn to create a
multi-level arcade or platform style
video game, like Super Mario, Pong, or
Space Invaders, through an introductory
to graphical programming for computers,
tablets, smartphones, or as a flash
game for the internet. 9:30-11:30am
Paso Robles Community Services
Department, 600 Nickerson Dr., Paso
Robles. $77, plus $10 materials fee paid
to instructor. More info: 237.3988, ray@
raytoons.net, eepurl.com/cvZPLf.
LIBRARIES
PADDOCK PUPPET PLAYERS An
animal themed puppet show for all ages.
April 20. 3:30-4:30pm Oceano Library,
1551-17th St., Oceano. Free. More
info: 781-4796, mkensingerklopfer@
slolibrary.org, slolibrary.org.
FREE MOVIE SCREENING In
celebration of Earth Day, see a film
that gives close-up views of a variety
of insects as they hatch from eggs,
search for food, and cope witha rain
storm. For all ages. April 22. 2-3:30pm
Atascadero Library, 6555 Capistrano,
Atascadero. Free. More info: 781-4796,
mkensingerklopfer@slolibrary.org,
slolibrary.org.
ENGINEERING FOR KIDS Cal
Poly’s Society of Women Engineers
will provide a hands-on engineering
workshop for kids ages 5 and up. April
22. 2-3pm Arroyo Grande Library, 800
West Branch, Arroyo Grande. Free. More
info: 781-4796, mkensingerklopfer@
slolibrary.org, slolibrary.org.
MAKER MONDAY Last Monday of the
month. Learn by doing while creating
art, upcycling, experimenting, and
exploring the world. Maker Monday’s
are for kids in 1st grade and older and
are limited to the first 30 participants,
through April 24. 4-5pm Paso Robles
Library, 1000 Spring St., Paso Robles.
Free. More info: 237-3870, mbailey@
prcity.com.
TEENS
TEEN TIME AT PERFORMANCE
ATHLETICS GYMNASTICS Boys
and girls ages 12–17 of all levels are
welcome to develop their skills in
this fun yet challenging gymnastics
class. There will be a different
focus every month. Please sign up
in advance. April 22 through May
27. 1-3pm Performance Athletics
Gymnastics, 4484 Broad St., San
Luis Obispo. More info: 547-1496,
info@performanceathleticsslo.com,
performanceathleticsslo.com.
The
Outdoors
SUNDAY HIKES through June 11. 1-2
hour flat, easy hike, every Sunday. No
nicotine, no intoxicants, no unruly pets.
3pm The SLO Mansion, 2746 Reservoire
Canyon, San Luis Obispo. More info:
(502) 777-5561, sydneysordia@gmail.
com.
WHITE’S POINT VISTA WALK Enjoy
a walk to view the estuary, home to
hundreds of marine and terrestrial
animals. Learn about the forces
influencing this watery world. Dress
for wind/weather. Meet at the Natural
History Museum. Moderate walk, 0.5
mi, 0.75 hr. No dogs please. April 22.
11am White’s Point Trailhead, State Park
Rd., Morro Bay. Free; all ages welcome.
More info: 772-3834, rpass@mbnep.org,
mbnep.org.
EARTH DAY PICKUP AND PADDLE
Celebrate by joining fellow paddlers
and participate in a shoreline cleanup.
Meet local volunteer groups working
to keep the bay clean and safe. B.Y.O.
kayak/board, or rent one at 25% off.
Bagels and coffee while supplies last.
April 22. 8-11am Tidelands Park,
South end of Embarcadero, Morro Bay.
Free attendance, rentals available at
25 precent off. More info: 772-3834,
rpass@mbnep.org, mbnep.org.
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FAIR 2017 Celebrate Earth Day with
emPower and learn how you can make
a difference! Visit the booth to learn
how you can lower the county’s carbon
footprint, create jobs, make your home
more comfortable and energy efficient,
and improve your home’s air quality.
April 22. 10am El Chorro Park, State
Highway 1 at Dairy Creek Road, San Luis 19. Qi Gong is a powerful health and
Obispo. Free. More info: 687-3322, ap@ spiritual development system from
surfmedia.com.
WILDFLOWER HIKE April 22. Join
a ranger for a guided flower hike and
learn about some of the wildflowers in
the park. Moderate hike. Meet at the
registration office. 10 am-noon Lopez
Lake, 6800 Lopez Dr., Arroyo Grande.
Park day use fee $10 per vehicle. More
info: 788-2381, rwemple@co.slo.ca.us.
DUNA VISTA EXPLORATION HIKE
April 23. Join a ranger on this exciting
strenuous hike. Wear sturdy shoes and
bring water. Meet at the Wittenberg
Arm Kiosk. Rain cancels event.
9am-noon Lopez Lake, 6800 Lopez
Dr., Arroyo Grande. Park day use fee
$10 per vehicle. More info: 788-2381,
rwemple@co.slo.ca.us.
BIRDING THE BOARDWALK Enjoy
a stroll while identifying shorebirds
and more. Beginners welcome. Bring
binoculars and field guide. Dress for
wind/weather. Park close to east end
of Bayside marina parking lot. Easy
walk, 1 mi, 1.5 hr. Rain cancels. No
dogs please. April 26. 2pm State Park
Marina Peninsula Boardwalk, State Park
Rd., Morro Bay. Free; all ages welcome.
More info: 772-3834, rpass@mbnep.org,
mbnep.org.
BELLY BIOLOGY Investigate and collect
organisms from fouling communities that
thrive on our local docks. Learn about a
variety of fascinating organisms as well as practices can help you heal from illness
seaweeds. Bring a towel to lie on; meet in and/or injury and deal with difficult
the parking lot in from of the Coast Guard emotions. Taught by certified clinical
office. April 29. 2pm Embarcadero, Morro hypnotherapist and applied meditation/
Bay. More info: 772-3834, rpass@mbnep. qi gong instructor Devin Wallace. April
org, mbnep.org.
ELFIN FOREST WALK AND TALK A
knowledgeable walk leader from the
Morro Bay National Estuary Program
will explain the importance of the
estuary as you walk around the Elfin
Forest boardwalk. Meet at the north
end (1100 block) of 15th Street off Santa oils to keep on hand. Samples will be
Ysabel in Los Osos. April 29. 9am Elfin
Forest, 1103 Santa Lucia Ave., Los Osos. will be available for $5. Please RSVP by
Free; all ages welcome. More info: 772- calling 543-8688. April 27. 5:30pm SLO
3834, rpass@mbnep.org, mbnep.org/
state-of-the-bay.
Sports
and
Wellness
SLOCO MASSAGE AND YOGA
throough April 30. Enjoy an
invigorating yoga flow followed
with a long restorative savasana
that includes intuitive massage of
the scalp, hands and feet. Relax and
unwind at SLOCO during this semi-
private, all-inclusive yoga session.
5:45pm SLOCO Massage and Wellness
Spa, 1957 Santa Barbara Ave. #101,
San Luis Obispo. $25. More info: 439-
2515, natasha@slocomassage.com,
slocomassage.com/.
MEDITATION GROUP Wendy
McKenna guides a free monthly
meditation group every fourth
Thursday of the month. Next group
meets on April 27. Participants are
asked to dress in comfortable clothing
and to bring a blanket and pillow
if you want to use them. 6-7:30pm
Lightshare Center, 22701 El Camino
Real, Santa Margarita. Free. More
info: 305-7595, wendy@lightshare.us,
lightshare.us.
LESSONS AND
CLASSES
50 PLUS YOGA CLASSES A different
type of yoga class, focusing on muscle
flexibility and balance, and designed for
men and women over 50 years old, is
being offered Tuesdays, through April
25. 1pm City of Paso Robles Recreation
Services, 600 Nickerson Dr., Paso Robles.
$45 per month; $85 for 8 classes. More
info: (760) 382-3560, avidhiker2@yahoo.
com, prcity.com/recreation.
OUTDOOR QI GONG through May
China. Focusing on deep breathing,
flowing movements,and meditations,
it is easy to learn amd fun. Led by
certified teacher Devin Wallace. Call
first! 10:30am Tidelands Park, 351
Embarcadero, Morro Bay. Suggested
donation: $10. More info: 709-2227,
devinwalla@gmail.com.
AIKIDO AT MORRO BAY
COMMUNITY CENTER Aikido
is a Japanese martial art based
on redirecting an attacker’s force
harmlessly. Visitors are welcome to
watch and new students can start at
any time. Ages 12 and up, through May
30. 5:15-6:45pm Morro Bay Community
Center, 1001 Kennedy Way, Morro
Bay. $37/month. More info: 704-8613,
gabarker@sbcglobal.net.
ADVANCED REIKI TRAINING (ART)
- USUI/HOLY FIRE REIKI Join Reiki
Master/Teacher Stacy Mitchell April 23
for this Advanced Reiki Training class in
Usui/Holy FireII Reiki. Must be 2nd Degree
certified (any style) for at least 6 months
prior to class date. See website or contact
Stacy for more details. 9:30am-5:30pm
Call for location, 11573 Los Osos Valley
Rd., San Luis Obispo. $150. More info:
208-4167, celebrant@honoryourvoice.
com, honoryourvoice.com.
MINDBODY TECHNIQUES FOR
HEALTH AND HEALING Learn how
hypnosis, meditation, and qi gong
26 through May 17. 6:30-830pm Spirit
Winds Physical Therapy, 1422 Monterey
St. Ste. 102, San Luis Obispo. $100.
More info: 709-2227, devinwalla@gmail.
com, inner-workings.com.
ESSENTIAL OILS CLASS A DoTerra
expert will help you learn what basic
provided anfd make-your-own options
Wellness Center, 1428 Phillips Ln Ste.
300, San Luis Obispo. Free. More info:
kelsey@slowellness.com.
TEAM SPORTS
SLO PING PONG CLUB Every Sunday,
Tuesday, and Thursday. All levels are
welcome. C’mon in and hit around.
7-10pm Ludwick Gym, 864 Santa Rosa,
San Luis Obispo. $20 per year. More
info: 781-0641, stuckonscience@
hotmail.com.
SLO PING PONG CLUB The Ping Pong
club in San Luis meets three times a
week. It is recreational and competitive.
April 25 through June 20. Sun. 4pm,
Tues. and Thurs. 7:00 Ludwick Gym,
864 Santa Rosa, San Luis Obispo. Free.
More info: 781-0641, stuckonscience@
hotmail.com.
Farmers
Market
SLO GRANGE FARMERS MARKET
This farmers market is held every
Tuesday in the Grange parking lot
from 3-6pm 2880 Broad St., SLO. Free.
More info: 762-4688, marylwhite.
mail@gmail.com.
SAN LUIS OBISPO DOWNTOWN
FARMERS MARKET The San Luis
Obispo Farmers Market takes place
every Thursday from 6-9pm on Higuera
St. between Osos and Nipomo and
includes over 120 vendors of produce,
dairy, barbecue, flowers, and more.
10th ANNUAL Downtown Paso Robles Main Street presents
6-9pm Farmers’ Market, Higuera
VINTAGE SIDECAR RENDEZVOUS
RECYCLED TREASURES
St., SLO. Free. More info: 541-0286,
dowtownslo.com.
ARROYO GRANDE In the Smart &
BRITISH CAR CLUB
Final parking lot on the corner of Grand
Ave. and Courtland on Wed. at 8:30am
Arroyo Grande. More info: 544-9570.
SAN LUIS OBISPO At the Promenade
parking lot near World Market (off
Madonna Road), Sat. from 8-10:45am
& ANTIQUE MOTORCYCLES (Pre-1950)
SLO. More info: 544-9570.
TEMPLETON In the Town Park on Sat.
9am-12:30pm at 6th and Crocker Streets,
Templeton. More info: 748-1109.
LOS OSOS/BAYWOOD PARK
Mondays. 2-4:30pm At Second and
Santa Maria Streets, Los Osos. More
info: 748-1109.
NORTH COUNTY FARMERS
MARKET The City of Atascadero and
the North County Farmer’s Market
are extremely pleased to announce
the relocation of Farmer’s Market to
the Sunken Gardens in Downtown
Atascadero, through May 24. 3-6pm
Sunken Gardens, 6500 Palma Ave,
Atascadero. Free. More info: 470-3490,
tbanish@atascadero.org.
PISMO BEACH FARMERS MARKET
through May 26. Now located in the
Main Street Parking Lot on the corner
of Main and Dolliver Streets. 3-6pm
Main Street Parking Lot, Main St., Pismo
Beach. Free admission. More info: 773-
4382, rochelle@pismochamber.com.
NIPOMO CERTIFIED FARMERS
MARKET Takes place on Sundays
from 11am-2:30pm Monarch Club, 1645 Arts, Crafts, Antiques, Vintage Sidecars, Classic British Cars & Motorcycles!
Trilogy Parkway, Nipomo. Free. More
Saturday, April 22, 2017
info: 929-3081, glenn5612@att.net.
PASO ROBLES Tues. at City Park
from 3-6pm 11th and Spring St.,
Paso Robles. More info: 748-1109, 9 am to 3 pm - Free Admission
northcountyfarmersmarkets.com.
Downtown Paso Robles, City Park
Lectures
Vendors - Call 805-238-4103
email: info@pasoroblesdowntown.org. Visa/MC/Discover
and
Learning
HEALTHY FOODWEBS, HEALTHY
SOILS Renowned soil microbiologist
6-8-17DATE
Dr. Elaine Ingham leads a full-day
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workshop on the soil foodweb for all
growers. Learn about how beneficial
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microbes keep soils healthy and plants
FOOD &
happy! Special post-workshop mixer
from 5-7pm for an additional $10. April
21. 9 am-5pm Inn at Morro Bay, 60
State Park Rd., Morro Bay. $65 early
R AD BY
bird/ $95 general. More info: 756-5086,
BOOK YOU-17
cfs@calpoly.edu, cfs.calpoly.edu/
6-1
soilfoodweb.html.
TAROT AND TEA April 21. New
location at Len Collective! Come learn
NEW TIMES MEDIA GROUP
BY THE NUMBERS
about the intuitive art of Tarot from a
professional reader, while sipping a
Tasteful
specialty tea by Cyndi Silva! Decks are
provided, no experience necessary. NEW TIMES CIRCULATION
37,000
7:30-9pm Len Collection, 722 Marsh St.,
SLO. $10. More info: (310) 927-2324,
marketing.
dragronrunner805@gmail.com.
CREATING A NONVIOLENT
WORLD - A CONVERSATION WITH
BARBARA GAUGHEN-MULLER
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with Barbara Gaughen-Muller,
celebrated speaker, author, business
All food and drink creations!
leader, radio broadcaster, and president
of the United Nations Association Take a journey into the flavors of the area OF READERS REFER TO OUR FOOD
(UNA-USA). April 23. 1pm Unity of San that are key to the creation of everyone’s
Luis Obispo, 1130 Orcutt Rd., San Luis
& DRINK SECTIONS EACH WEEK
favorite dining and menu items. Readers
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in 1863. April 23. 2pm Dana Adobe all your senses!
Rancho Nipomo, 671 S. Oakglen Ave.,
Nipomo. $5. More info: 245-5193,
shs1954@gmail.com.
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Bioneers will hold a series of screenings
of selected 2016 Bioneers keynote
speakers hosted by Cal Poly’s Energy,
Utilities and Sustainability Division.
April 25 through 27. 5:30-7:30pm
Bonderson Engineering Center, Room
107, Cal Poly, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis
Obispo. Free, donations welcome. More
info: 548-0597, info@ecologistics.org,
ecologistics.com.
THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE - 102ND
ANNIVERSARY TALK Teacher/author
Bruce Badrigian will be speaking and
showing a slideshow on the genocide
and its ongoing implications in the
world. April 27. 1pm Morro Bay Library,
625 Harbor Blvd., Morro Bay. Free.
More info: 772-6394, dhammerlund@
slolibrary.org.
SCIENCE AT THE MUSEUM Guest
speakers focus on the importance of
estuary and watershed habitat. Ann-
Marie Osterback, PhD of NOAA will
discuss iconic steelhead. Andrea Jones
of Audobon CA will speak about Morro
Bay’s role in the Pacific Flyway. April
27. 6-8pm Morro Bay Natural History
Museum, Morro Bay State Park Rd.,
Morro Bay State Park, Morro Bay. Free;
all ages welcome. More info: 772-3834,
rpass@mbnep.org, mbnep.org.
CLASSES
MINDFUL YOUNIVERSITY 101
through May 25. Stressed? Burnt out?
Well-being is a skill. Learn/practice
mindfulness. Rewire your brain. Respond
more skillfully to life’s pressures.
No drop-ins. 5-6pm Grover Beach
Elementary School (library), 365 10th
St., Grover Beach. $35. More info: 270-
5523, mindfulkindfulyou@gmail.com,
mindfulkindfulYOUniversity.com.
FANTASTIC FERMENTATIONS What
is fermentation? On April 22 learn
about proper and safe techniques for
making a variety of fermented foods
and beverages including kombucha
and sauerkraut. 10am-noon UCCE
Auditorium, 2156 Sierra Way, San
Luis Obispo. $5. More info: 781-1429,
slomfp@ucanr.edu, cesanluisobispo.
ucanr.edu/YouthFamilyCommunities/
Master_Food_Preserver_Program/
Training/.
DISCOVER HIDDEN LIFE IN THE
MORRO BAY ESTUARY Learn about
some of the planet’s most fascinating,
seldom seen life forms. A video-
microscope will be used to look at the
life that exists in a single drop of water.
Meet at the Natural History Museum.
In partnership with MBNEP. April
23. 2-3pm Morro Bay Natural History
Museum, State Park Rd., Morro Bay.
Free. More info: 772-3834, rpass@
mbnep.org, mbnep.org.
SEA GLASS WIRE WRAPPED JEWELRY
Learn basic wire wrapping to wrap genuine,
local sea glass. All materials are included to
make one necklace and two earrings. April
24. 6-8pm Cenntennial Park, Paso Robles. $47.
More info: 286-5993, info@CreativeMeTime.
com, creativemetime.com.
MOSAIC WINE GLASS Choose
from different colors of broken china
plate pieces, wine related sayings and
baubles to customize a fun wine glass
wall art piece. Great beginner project.
Everything provided, one glass of
wine is included. April 29. 1-2:30pm
The Station Art Bar, 311 Higuera, San
Luis Obispo. $50. More info: 286-
5993, info@CreativeMeTime.com,
creativemetime.com.
CLUBS, MEETINGS,
AND DISCUSSION
GROUPS
SLO MOTION TOASTMASTERS
Provides a supportive and positive
learning experience in which
members are empowered to develop
communication and leadership skills,
resulting in greater self-confidence and
personal growth. March 6 through
May 1. 11:45am America’s Job Center,
880 Industrial Way, San Luis Obispo.
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Chiseled slabs
Take a tour of the California Sculptors Symposium’s 15th annual Sculpture Show, April 29 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at
Camp Ocean Pines in Cambria. There will be interesting and affordable sculptures for sale, as well as a barbecue
from noon to 1:30 p.m. Check out californiasculptorssymposium.org for more info.
Free to visit. More info: 305-5615,
Vppr-1389069@toastmastersclub.org,
slomotion.toastmastersclub.org.
CENTRAL COAST WATERCOLOR
SOCIETY MONTHLY PROGRAM
MEETING Award-winning California
Central Coast artist Kathy Miller, known
for her impressionistic watercolors of
nature, will demonstrate her watercolor
techniques using an example from her
recent travels in South America. April
25. 6:30pm: social time; 7pm: meeting/
demonstration San Luis Obispo United
Methodist Church (Wesley Room), 1515
Fredericks St., San Luis Obispo. Free.
More info: 439-0295, arttrekfineart@
gmail.com, ccwsart.com.
CHESS CLUB Club meets twice
per week. All levels are welcome
and all ages. April 27 through
June 17. Thur.: 6:30pm in SLO, Sat.:
10:30am in MB Carl’s Jr in San Luis
Obispo and Embarcadero Morro Bay,
195 N. Santa Rosa, Morro Bay Blvd
Embarcadero. Free. More info: 781-0641,
stuckonscience@hotmail.com.
FREELANCE YOUR WAY TO
FREEDOM (FREE WORKSHOP)
Whether you’re a small business owner,
coach, or consultant, MCSC wants to
support your freedom. In this workshop
you will learn how to maintain and
expand your customer inflow and
increase your bottom-line. April 28.
noon-1pm MCSC Headquarters, 71 Zaca
Ln., Ste. 130, San Luis Obispo. Free.
More info: 595-1357, stacey@mcscorp.
org, conta.cc/2olLZhB.
Fundraisers
WINE AND YOGA FUN-RAISER
FOR ALS April 21. A Fun, easy,
restorative class plus great wine. 21 and
over. Raises funds for ALS Research,
in Memory of Chrystie (Dorr) Lose.
$35 suggested donation. R.S.V.P. at
474-9928. Hosted by Jeanne and Ray
Berguia. 7-8:30pm Tantrum Fitness,
1590 W. Grand Ave., Grover Beach. $35.
More info: tantrumfitness.com.
K9 WINE AND DINE FUNDRAISER
2017 Annual fundraiser to support the
Atascadero Police K9 program. For only
$10, enjoy a spaghetti dinner and live
demonstrations every half hour of by
officers and their K9 partners. Come
anytime during the evening. April 22.
4-8pm Atascadero Elks Lodge, 1516 El
Camino Real, Atascadero. $10. More
info: 461-5051, chester@atascadero.
org, facebook.com/Atascadero-Police-
K9-Foundation-218850591518751/.
COMMUNITY REPAIR
CELEBRATION WITH PATAGONIA
iFixit is hosting a repair and
sustainability celebration to kick off
Patagonia’s Worn Wear College Tour!
Featuring live music, craft beer, and
raffle to support Bike SLO County!
See EventBrite for details. April 24.
6-8pm iFixit, 1330 Monterey Street,
San Luis Obispo. RSVP Required. More
info: 9255292571, Richard@ifixit.com,
eventbrite.com/e/community-repair-
celebration-with-patagonia-tickets-
32833167889?aff=es2.
WINES, PINES AND FELINES The
shelter celebrates 34 years with a
served dinner (choice of entree), wine,
raffle, live auction, and a special
performance by Cafe Musiq on April 26.
Tickets available at HART, 2638 Main
St or the Chamber of Commerce at 718
Main St. in Cambria. 5-9pm Cambria
Pines Lodge, 2905 Burton Dr., Cambria.
$95 per persomn. More info: 927-7377,
susanbarghini@sbcglobal.net.
ECHO EMPTY BOWLS Empty Bowls
benefits ECHO, El Camino Homeless
Organization, North County’s homeless
shelter. Ticket includes soup prepared
by 26 local chefs, a bowl, handcrafted
item, and raffle ticket. April 27.
11am-2:pm Atascadero Bible Church,
6225 Atascadero Ave., Atascadero. $25.
More info: 712-1224, info@echoshelter.
net, echoshelter.net.
FUNDRAISER CRAFT FAIR For the
San Luis Obispo Tigers Baseball Club,
held April 29. 9am-4pm SLO Elks Lodge
322, 222 Elks Ln., SLO. Free. More info:
801-5656, lilymarie@sbcglobal.net.
ART ON THE SPECTRUM This event
kicks off the Annual Walk for Autism
PHOTO COURTESY OF FRANCINE KIRSCH
and Awareness Fair. A 5-week art
workshop was held at the SLOMA.
View and purchase works by featured
local artist Sydney Hall as well as the
creative masterworks of her Art of the
Spectrum students. April 29. 5pm SLO
Art Museum, 1010 Broad St., SLO. $65 or
2 for $100. More info: 540-4432, Tyler@
catalystcainc.com, SLOAutism.org.
Support
Groups
GENERAL GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP
Every Wednesday. This group helps
those grieving the loss of a loved one
(i.e. friend, partner/spouse, child,
relative, etc.). This group also includes
“anticipatory grief” which means those
expecting the loss of a loved one.
5-6:30pm Hospice SLO, 517 13th St.,
Paso Robles. Free. More info: 544-
2266, tonyhuffaker@hospiceslo.org,
hospiceslo.org.
SPOUSE/PARTNER LOSS SUPPORT
Every Tuesday. This is a specific support
group designed for those who have
a spouse or partner that has passed.
This support group is for adults who
want group support from those also
grieving the loss of a partner or spouse.
5-6:30pm New LIfe Church, 990 James
Way, Rm. 16, Pismo Beach. Free.
More info: 544-2266, tonyhuffaker@
hospiceslo.org, hospiceslo.org.
ALZHEIMER’S / DEMENTIA
CAREGIVERS SUPPORT GROUP
Support Group for family caregivers of
those with dementia, third Thrusday
of the month. Supervised socialization
of persons with dementia provided in
adjoining room with prior arrangement.
April 20. 1-2:30pm First Baptist Church
Activity Building, 1900 Los Osos Valley
Rd., Los Osos. Free. More info: 534-
9234, noreeno@coastcrc.org.
SPOUSE/PARTNER LOSS SUPPORT
through May 11. This is a specific
support group designed for those who
have a spouse or partner that has passed.
This support group is for adults who want
group support from those also grieving the
loss of a partner or spouse. 11:30am-1pm
Hospice SLO, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis
Obispo. Free. More info: 544-2266,
tonyhuffaker@hospiceslo.org.
GENERAL GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP
Every Tuesday. This group helps
those grieving the loss of a loved one
(i.e. friend, partner/spouse, child,
relative, etc.). This group also includes
“anticipatory grief” which means those
expecting the loss of a loved one.
6-7:30pm Hospice SLO, 1304 Pacific St.,
San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 544-
2266, tonyhuffaker@hospiceslo.org,
hospiceslo.org.
GENERAL GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP
Every Wednesday. This group helps those
grieving the loss of a loved one (i.e. friend,
partner/spouse, child, relative, etc.). This
group also includes “anticipatory grief”
which means those expecting the loss of
a loved one. 5-6:30pm Hospice SLO, 517
13th St., Paso Robles. Free. More info:
544-2266, jeffwhitlow@hospiceslo.org,
hospiceslo.org.
NAR - ANON SUPPORT GROUP
(LET IT BEGIN WITH ME) Nar-
Anon family groups is for those who
know or have known a feeling of
desperation concerning the addiction
of someone very near to you. Meetings
every Sunday. 7pm St. Stephens
Episcopal Church, 1344 Nipomo St.,
San Luis Obispo. More info: 458-7655,
sallysunsetphoto@gmail.com.
PET LOSS SUPPORT This support
group helps those grieving the loss of a
pet. This group meets the last Monday
of the month. 5:30-7pm Hospice SLO,
1304 Pacific St., San LuisObispo. Free.
More info: 544-2266, tonyhuffaker@
hospiceslo.org, hospiceslo.org.
SUICIDE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT
For those left behind after someone
important to them completed suicide,
last Wednesday of the month. April
26. 5:30-7pm Hospice SLO, 1304 Pacific
St., San LuisObispo. More info: 544-
2266, tonyhuffaker@hospiceslo.org,
hospiceslo.org.
HIGH SCHOOL GRIEF GROUP
Hospice SLO will be offering a drop-in
adolescent grief group on Wednesdays
from through June 7. 3:30-5pm
Hospice SLO, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis
Obispo. Free. More info: 544-2266,
tonyhuffaker@hospiceslo.org.
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Do you
struggle with food and eating? Do you
purge, restrict, or binge for no apparent
reason? Overeaters Anonymous can
help. No dues or fees. Weekly meetings
throughout county. Go to oacentralcoast.
org for more info or leave message at
596-5033. Various SLO County. Free. More
info: centralcoastintergroup@gmail.com.
VETS WELLNESS CIRCLE
through June 9. Fridays, 50 minutes
long. No nicotine, intoxicants, or
rudeness. 5:30pm The SLO Mansion,
2746 Reservoire Canyon, San Luis
Obispo. More info: (502) 777-5561,
sydneysordia@gmail.com.
NAR-ANON MEETINGS Nar-Anon
family groups is for those who know or
have known a feeling of desperation
concerning the addiction of someone
very near to you. Every Tuesday and
Sunday. 6pm on Tue.; noon on Fri.
Church of the Redeemer, 4600 El Camino
Ave., Atascadero. None. More info: 466-
9065, ks4586@hotmail.com.
Volunteers
STATE PARK DOCENT TRAINING
April 22, all 9am to 1 pm. Over 50
different positions for volunteers
available at 3 park areas. For more
information call 772-2694 or visit
centralcoastparks.org. Morro Bay
Museum of Natural History, 20 State
Park Rd., Morro Bay. More info:
fayllac@sbcglobal.net.
VOLUNTEER TRAINING Do
something great for your community
and yourself, April 17 through 23.
Hospice SLO County, 1304 Pacific St.,
San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 544-
2266, leanneprobst@hospiceslo.org,
hospiceslo.org/services/home-support.
CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS EARTH
DAY RESTORATION AND CLEANUP
April 22. Calling all volunteers!
Celebrate Earth Day by repairing a
boardwalk, treating planter beds at
the Native Demonstration Garden,
and erecting fencing to define access
trails. Everyone welcome! Please sign
up at calparks.org/earthday. 9am-1pm
Montana de Oro State Park, 2828 Pecho
Valley Rd., Los Osos. Free. More info:
458-3974, jodi.isaacs@parks.ca.gov.
CASA INFO SESSION Learn about
volunteer opportunities at CASA of
SLO County. Become an advocate for
an abused or neglected infant, toddler,
child or teen, or a mentor for a young
adult leaving foster care. Training
provided. April 26. Noon CASA office,
75 Higuera St., Suite 180, San Luis
Obispo. More info: 541-6542, staff@
slocasa.org, slocasa.org.
21ST STREET CLEAN UP On April 29
there will be a clean-up of 21st Street
in Paso Robles. More information and
registration information is available
on the 21st Street Clean Up EventBrite
and Facebook pages. All are welcome.
9am-1pm Gene’s Upholstery, 841 21st
St., Paso Robles. Free. More info: 434-
0396 Ext. 3190, britta.dornfeld@ccc.
ca.gov.
Holiday
Events
27TH ANNUAL EARTH DAY FAIR
AND MUSIC FESTIVAL April 22.
Last day to register is April 15. An
all ages event featuring live music
on two stages, food, beverages, and
earth friendly groups and businesses
presenting their cause or product. Free
transportation is available. 11am-5pm
El Chorro Regional Park, CA-1, San
Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 544-
8529, earthdayslo@gmail.com,
earthdayslo.org. ∆
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 LegaL Notices
CITATION TO PARENT
IN ThE MATTER OF
ADOPTION PETITION OF:
ROBERT BONESO,
ADOPTINg PARENT
CASE NO: 16AD0085
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SUPERI-
OR COURT, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA
To: Dustin Biaggini
LegaL Notices By order of this court you are
hereby advised that you may ap-
pear before the judge presiding
BUSINESS & PROFES- in Department 2 of this court on
SIONS CODE 21700 May 25, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. then
Notice is hereby given by the and there to show cause, if any
undersigned that a Public Lien you have, why Bryson Biaggini
Sale of the following described should not be declared free from
personal property will be held your custody and control for the
Monday, the 24th of April at purpose of freeing Bryson Biaggini
for placement for adoption. The fol-
10:30a.m. at ALAMO SELF
STORAGE, 645 Tank Farm Road, lowing informtion concerns rights
San Luis Obispo, County of San and procedures that relate to this
proceeding for the termination of
Luis Obispo, State of California,
custody and control of said minor
and will be sold by the unit by
James O’Brien, Auctioneer, CA as set forth in Family Code Section
7860 et seq.:
Bond 14663730099, phone
1. At the beginning of the proceed-
(951) 681-4113. The property to
ing the court will consider whether
be sold is stored at ALAMO SELF
or not the interests of the minor
STORAGE, located at 645 Tank child require the appointment of
Farm Road, San Luis Obispo, counsel. If the court finds that the
CA 93401, County of San Luis interests of the minor do require
Obispo. such protection, the court will ap-
pointment counsel to represent
Unit # Name
him, whether or not he is able to
General Description of Goods
afford counsel. The minor will not
D41 Kensie, Belinda
be present in court unless her re-
Boxes, Coffee quests or the court so orders.
Table, Bedding, Misc. 2. If a parent of the minor appears
E7 Lara, Richard without counsel and is unable to
Desk, Suitcase, Clothing, Misc. afford counsel, the court must
A34 Venter, Steven appoint counsel for the parent,
File Cabinets, Plas- unless the parent knowingly and
tic Containers, Misc. intelligently waives the right to be
J20 Professional Ser- represented by counsel. The court
vices Bike, Tools, Toys, will not appoint the same counsel
Bags, Misc. to represent both the minor and
his parent.
M51 Randa, Jeff
3. The court may appoint either
Computer, Suitcases, Toolbox,
Misc. the public defender or private
M36 Howell, Leroy counsel. If private counsel is ap-
pointed, he or she will receive a
Mattresses, Boxes, Misc.
reasonable sum for compensation
J1 Stanberry, Bessie
Boxes, Picture and expenses, the amount of which
will be determined by the court.
Boxes, Misc.
L1 Croy, Larry That amount must be paid by the
Clothing, Containers, Lamp, real parties in interest, but not by
Misc. the minor, in such proportions as
the court believes to be just. If,
E53 Palmer, Mary
however, the court finds that any of
Clothing, Furniture, Misc.
the real parties in interest cannot
B23 Macias Rivera,
afford counsel, the amount will be
Tadea Janet Mattresses, Suit- paid by the county.
case, Misc.
O19 Uhler, John
4. The court may continue the
proceeding for not more than thirty
Golf Clubs, Chainsaw, Tools, (30) days as necessary to appoint
Misc. counsel to become acquainted
P16 Rutherford, Veroni- with the case.
ca Chairs, Boxes,
Rug, Misc. The name, address, and telephone
C14 Venter, Steven number of Adopting Parents attor-
File Cabinets, Plas- ney, or Adopting Parent without an
tic Tubs, Misc.
attorney, is:
K19 Geyman, Mark T
Robert Boneso
Car Parts, Cabinet, 3675 Neal Springs Road
Ladders, Misc. Templeton, Ca 93465
E18 Swarts, David Date: 03-26-2017
Couch, T.V., Clothing Bags, Misc. By: Darrel E. Parker, Clerk/s/ C.
C22 Danner, John Gearon Deputy Clerk
Tool Boxes, Grill, Couch, Misc.
April 13, 20, 27, & May 4, 2017
E38 Werner, Leo
Mattress, Clothing, Misc.
M20 Resendiz, Chris- FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
tian Toys, Sink,
NAME STATEMENT
Clothes, Misc.
FILE NO. 2017-0658
L8 De Rivera, Alexan-
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
der Suitcases, Cloth- (03/09/2017)
ing, Containers, Misc.
New Filing
G27 Magsanide, Crys-
The following person is doing busi-
tal Chairs, Bags, ness as: SLO EASY, SLO EZ, 572
Boxes, TV, Misc.
Sandercock, San Luis Obispo, CA
93401. San Luis Obispo County.
This notice is given in accor-
Paul Dukes(572 Sandercock,
dance with the provisions of Sec-
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401).
tion 21700 et seq of the Busi-
This business is conducted by an
ness & Professions Code of the Individual./s/Paul Dukes. This
State of California.(See Section statement was filed with the County
1812.600 of Civil Code) Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-09-
17. I hereby certify that this copy
ALAMO SELF STORAGE is a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy
By: Gary P. Braun Gong. County Clerk, J. Goble. 03-
09-22
April 13, & 20, 2017 Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0644 FILE NO. 2017-0681
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
(N/A) New Filing
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
The following person is doing ness as: THE SLICE PIZZA AND
business as: BROW INK, SLO GAMES, 1412 Grand Ave, San
BROW INK, 144 Day St. Nipomo, Luis Obispo, CA 93420. San Luis
CA 93444. San Luis Obispo Obispo County. The Slice Pizza
County. Bernadette Nelson (144 and Games II, Inc(1412 Grand
Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA 93420.).
Day st. Nipomo, CA 93444) This
This business is conducted by a
business is conducted by an
Corporation./s/The Slice Pizza
individual./s/. Bernadette Nelson
and Games II, Inc, Steven Goldie,
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo President. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of San
on 03-08-17. I hereby certify
Luis Obispo on 03-13-17. I hereby
that this copy is a correct copy
certify that this copy is a correct
of the statement on file in my of- copy of the statement on file in my
fice. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Clerk, I. Diaz03-08-22 Clerk, S. Kramos. 03-13-22
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017 Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0701
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(02/26/2017)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: SEA CHANGE COLLEGE
CONSULTING, 2408 El Dorado
Street, Los Osos, CA 93402. San
Luis Obispo County. Penscil Incor-
porated(2408 El Dorado Street, Los
Osos, CA 93402). This business is
conducted by a Corporation./s/Pen-
scil Incorporated, Vice President,
Laura J Penvenne. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk of
San Luis Obispo on 03-14-17. I here-
by certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Clerk, TJ. Blandford. 03-14-22
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0721
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(03/16/2017)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: TAQUERIA 805, 1276
Drake Circle, San Luis Obispo, CA
93405. San Luis Obispo County.
Todd Martinecello and Tony Quin-
tero(1276 Drake Circle, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93405). This busi-
ness is conducted by a General
Partnership./s/Tony Quintero. This
statement was filed with the County
Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-16-
17. I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement on
file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Gong.
County Clerk, I. Diaz. 03-16-22
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0729
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: LISTING LAUNCHER, 979
Osos St. Ste. C-3, San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County.
Listsoft, Inc.(160 Greentree Dr. Ste.
101
Dover, DE 19904. DE). This
business is conducted by a
Corporation./s/Listsoft, Inc. Sean
M. Lee, President. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk of
San Luis Obispo on 03-16-17. I here-
by certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Clerk, S. Currens. 03-16-22
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0737
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/01/2017)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: GRACIOUS GREENS, 521
Trouville Ave, Grover Beach, CA
93433. San Luis Obispo County.
Alvin Harold O’Neal.(521 Trouville
Ave, Grover Beach, CA 93433).
This business is conducted by an
Individual./s/Alvin O’Neal. This state-
ment was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 03-17-17. I
hereby certify that this copy is a
correct copy of the statement on
file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Gong.
County Clerk, J. Goble. 03-17-22
Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0751
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(03/05/2012)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: ZADA SALON & SPA,
ZADA SALON SPA & SURF, 600
Price Street, Pismo Beach, CA
93449. San Luis Obispo County.
Carmen Quezada-Roller(435 Stim-
son #D, Pismo Beach, CA 93449).
This business is conducted by an
Individual./s/Carmen Quezada-
Roller. This statement was filed with
the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 03-20-17. I hereby certify that
this copy is a correct copy of the
statement on file in my office. (Seal)
Tommy Gong. County Clerk, JF.
Brown. 03-20-22
Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0752
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(03/01/2017)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: FOOD 4 LESS, 1132 West
Branch Street, Arroyo Grande, CA
93420. San Luis Obispo County.
PAQ, Inc.(8014 Lower Sacramento
Road, Suit I, Stockton, CA 95210)
a California Corp. This business is
conducted by a Corporation./s/
PAQ, Inc,, John F. Quinn, President/
CEO/Sec. This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 03-20-17. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy of
the statement on file in my office.
(Seal)Tommy Gong. County Clerk,
JF. Brown. 03-20-22
Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017
LegaL Notices
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0756
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(11/10/2005)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: ENRICHMOND, 2020 La-
guna Negra Ln., Arroyo Grande, CA
93420. San Luis Obispo County. R
Richmond(2020 Laguna Negra
Ln., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420).
This business is conducted by an
Individual./s/R. Richmond, Owner.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 03-21-17. I hereby certify that
this copy is a correct copy of the
statement on file in my office. (Seal)
Tommy Gong. County Clerk, S. Kra-
mos. 03-21-22
Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0760
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(07/05/2000)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as: MCINTOSH & AS-
SOCIATES, 936 Main St, Morro
Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo
County. Carolyn Kay Mcintosh(200
Olive St, Morro Bay, CA 93442).
This business is conducted by an
Individual./s/Carolyn Mcintosh. This
statement was filed with the County
Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-21-
17. I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement on
file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Gong.
County Clerk, J. Goble. 03-21-22
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0762
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: D.G. AERIAL PHOTOGRA-
PHY, 129 A. Whiteley St., Arroyo
Grande, CA 93420. San Luis
Obispo County. Gary Daniels(129
A. Whiteley St., Arroyo Grande, CA
93420). This business is conducted
by an Individual./s/Gary Daniels.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 03-21-17. I hereby certify that
this copy is a correct copy of the
statement on file in my office. (Seal)
Tommy Gong. County Clerk, J.
Goble. 03-21-22
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0764
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: PARDON MY FRENCH BAK-
ERY, 1544 W. Grand Ave. Grover
Beach, CA 93433. San Luis Obispo
County. Hilario Tejeda and Jamie
Anne Tejeda(543 Adina Way, Ni-
pomo, CA 93444). This business is
conducted by a Married Couple./s/
Hilario Tejeda. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of San
Luis Obispo on 03-21-17. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Clerk, J. Goble. 03-21-22
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0765
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: CEDROS LIVING, 9116
Ciruela Way, Atascadero, CA
93422. San Luis Obispo County.
Adela Lozano Clayton(9116 Ciru-
ela Way, Atascadero, CA 93422).
This business is conducted by
an Individual./s/Adela L. Clayton,
Owner. This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 03-21-17. I hereby cer-
tify that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office.
(Seal)Tommy Gong. County Clerk,
A. Bautista. 03-21-22
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0766
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(09/10/2015)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: GRAFFINO WINES, 7750
N. Highway 101, Paso Robles, CA
93446. San Luis Obispo County.
San Marcos Winery, LLC(7750 N.
Highway 101, Paso Robles, CA
93446). This business is conducted
by a Limited Liability Company./s/
San Marcos Winery, LLC, Kimberly
Morelli, Manager. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk of
San Luis Obispo on 03-21-17. I
hereby certify that this copy is a
correct copy of the statement on
file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Gong.
County Clerk, A. Bautista. 03-21-22
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
LegaL Notices LegaL Notices LegaL Notices LegaL Notices
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0776
FILE NO. 2017-0767 FILE NO. 2017-0768 FILE NO. 2017-0769
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(03/01/2017)
(09/10/2015) (09/10/2015) (09/10/2015) New Filing
New Filing New Filing New Filing The following person is doing
The following person is doing The following person is doing The following person is doing business as: 9 ON ROCKVIEW
ACC, 3090 Rockview Place, San
business as: SAN MARCOS business as: SAN MARCOS business as: GRAFFINO WINE
Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis
CREEK WINERY, 7750 N. Highway CREEK VINEYARD, 7750 N. COMPANY, 7750 N. Highway Obispo County. Kevin Owens(3090
101, Paso Robles, CA 93446. Highway 101, Paso Robles, CA 101, Paso Robles, CA 93446. Rockview Place, San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401). This business is
San Luis Obispo County. San Mar- 93446. San Luis Obispo County. San Luis Obispo County. San Mar-
conducted by an Unincorpo-
cos Winery, LLC(7750 N. Highway San Marcos Winery, LLC(7750 cos Winery, LLC(7750 N. Highway
rated Association Other Than a
101, Paso Robles, CA 93446). N. Highway 101, Paso Robles, 101, Paso Robles, CA 93446). Partnership./s/Kevin Owens. This
This business is conducted by a CA 93446). This business is This business is conducted by a statement was filed with the County
Limited Liability Company./s/San conducted by a Limited Liability Limited Liability Company./s/San Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-22-
17. I hereby certify that this copy is
Marcos Winery, LLC, Kimberly Company./s/San Marcos Winery, Marcos Winery, LLC, Kimberly
a correct copy of the statement on
Morelli, Manager. This statement LLC, Kimberly Morelli, Manager. Morelli, Manager. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk This statement was filed with the was filed with the County Clerk
file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Gong.
County Clerk, A. Bautista. 03-22-22
of San Luis Obispo on 03-21-17. County Clerk of San Luis Obispo of San Luis Obispo on 03-21-17. Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017
I hereby certify that this copy is on 03-21-17. I hereby certify that I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement this copy is a correct copy of the a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy statement on file in my office. on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy » MORE
Gong. County Clerk, A. Bautista. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County Clerk, Gong. County Clerk, A. Bautista. LEGAL NOTICES
03-21-22 A. Bautista. 03-21-22 03-21-22
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017 Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017 Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
ON PAGE 53
COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Notice is given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the County Clerk, 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-120, San Luis
Obispo, California 93408 before 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 11, 2017 (“Bid Deadline”), for the following public works project:
OCEANO DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT · OCEANO, CA · CONTRACT NO. 300465
Bids will be opened and declared by the County Clerk at 3:15 p.m. on the bid opening date at a public meeting at 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-120,
San Luis Obispo, California 93408. Any bid received at the Office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo at or after
3:00 p.m. on the date specified above will not be accepted, and will be returned to the bidder unopened.
Bids are required for the entire work described in the Contract Documents. The award of the Contract, if it be awarded, will be to the responsible
bidder with the lowest responsive bid price on the base bid without any consideration of any prices on the additive bid items. The County of San Luis
Obispo reserves the right to add any of the additive bid items to the award of the Contract after the lowest responsible bidder has been determined,
and the bidder is bound by its bid amount for said additive bid items. The County of San Luis Obispo also reserves the right to not add any of the
additive bid items to the award of the Contract.
The Bid package (also referred to herein as the “Contract Documents”) are posted on the County’s Purchasing website:
http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/GS/Purchasing/Current_Formal_Bids_and_Proposals.htm
Any changes, additions, or deletions to these Contract Documents will be in the form of written addenda issued by the County. Any addenda will be
posted on the website. Prospective bidders must check the website for addenda or other relevant new information at up to 5:00 p.m. the day before
the prescribed date/time for submittal of bids. The County is not responsible for the failure of any prospective bidder to receive such addenda.
All addenda so issued shall become a part of this Bid. All bidders are required to acknowledge and confirm receipt of every addendum in their
bid proposal.
A mandatory pre-bid conference will be held at the entrance to Pismo Coast Village RV Storage at 1909 Delta Lane in Oceano, approximately 400
feet south of the intersection of Delta Lane and Ocean Street, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, April 26, 2017.
All bidder Requests for Information must be submitted no later than 3:00 p.m., 5 business days prior to the bid opening date. Requests submitted
after said date may not be considered. All questions pertaining to the content of this invitation to Bid must be made in writing through the
Purchasing website. Questions and responses will be posted on the Purchasing website and can be viewed by accessing the Invitation to Bid
located at the Purchasing website. The identity of the entity submitting the question will not be posted. The County reserves the right to determine
the appropriateness of comments / questions that will be posted on the website.
The County of San Luis Obispo is Equal Opportunity or Affirmative Action employer. The project is being partially funded by a federal Community
Development Block Grant through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This project is subject to all federal laws, regulations
and requirements that are applicable to a HUD-funded project of this type.
The bidder must have either a Class A license or a combination of class C licenses that make up a majority of the work at the time the Contract is
awarded (Public Contract Code § 3300). When the bidder holds a combination of Class C licenses, all work to be performed outside of the bidder’s
license specialties, except work that is incidental or supplemental to the licenses of the bidder, shall be performed by licensed Subcontractors
in compliance with the Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) of Part 1 of Division 2 of the
Public Contract Code)
Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 1771.1:
• A Contractor or Subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in the Bid Proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the
Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of this public works project, unless currently registered with the Department of Industrial
Relations and qualified to perform work pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to
submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code,
provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.
• This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.
Bids must be submitted under sealed cover plainly marked as a bid and identified with the project number, the date and time for receipt of sealed
bids, and the name of the bidder.
Bids must be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashier’s check, or a bidder’s bond in favor of the County in an amount not less than ten percent
(10%) of the submitted total base Bid.
Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by County to ensure
performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the County to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.
The successful bidder will be required to furnish the County with payment and performance bonds, with each issued by a California admitted surety
insurer equal to 100% of the Contract Price.
Pursuant to section 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code, the Contractor and all Subcontractors shall pay not less than the prevailing rate of per
diem wages as determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations and comply with all applicable Labor Code provisions,
which include, but are not limited to the employment of apprentices, the hours of labor, and the debarment of Contractors and Subcontractors. The
Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations determines the general prevailing wage rates. Copies are available at the Office of the
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors or at the DIR website, http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD.
Federal funds are being used on this project, and therefore, the Davis-Bacon Act (2 CFR part 200 Appendix II(D) and 29 CFR 5) apply. The Federal
minimum wage rates for this project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the Special Provisions. If there
is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the prevailing wage rates determined to be
applicable to this contract by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and
Subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate.
Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action
1. The offeror’s or bidder’s attention is called to Article 10, “Equal Employment Opportunity,” of the Agreement and Exhibit C, “Standard Federal
Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications”, in the Agreement set forth herein.
2. The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the Contractor’s aggregate workforce in each
trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows: A Goals for minority participation for each trade: 24.6% B. Goals for female
participation in each trade: 6.9% These goals are applicable to all the Contractor’s construction work (whether or not it is Federal or federally
assisted) performed in the covered area. If the Contractor performs construction work in a geographical area located outside of the covered
area, it shall apply the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the
Contractor also is subject to the goals for both its federally involved and nonfederally involved construction. The Contractor’s compliance with
the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR 60-4 shall be based on its implementation of the Equal Opportunity Clause, specific affirmative
action obligations required by the specifications set forth in 41 CFR 60-4.3(a), and its efforts to meet the goals. The hours of minority and female
employment and training must be substantially uniform throughout the length of the contract, and in each trade, and the contractor shall make
a good faith effort to employ minorities and women evenly on each of its projects. The transfer of minority or female employees or trainees from
Contractor to Contractor or from project to project for the sole purpose of meeting the Contractor’s goals shall be a violation of the contract, the
Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR part 60-4. Compliance with the goals will be measured against the total work hours performed.
3. The Contractor shall provide written notification to the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within 10 working days of
award of any construction subcontract in excess of $10,000 at any tier for construction work under the contract resulting from this solicitation.
The notification shall list the name, address and telephone number of the Subcontractor; employer identification number of the Subcontractor;
estimated dollar amount of the Subcontract; estimated starting and completion dates of the Subcontract; and the geographical area in which
the Subcontract is to be performed.
4. As used in this Notice, and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the “covered area” is San Luis Obispo County, California.
By order of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo made this 11th day of April , 2017. Tommy Gong County Clerk and Ex-officio
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: /s/Sandy Currens, Deputy Clerk April 20, 2017
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FILE NO. 2017-0780
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(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: ADOORABLE DOORWAYS,
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1285 Alder Ct. San Luis Obispo,
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SLO C SLO C
ty. Carol Cronin Lambert(1285
Alder Ct. San Luis Obispo, CA
93401). This business is con-
ducted by an Individual./s/Carol
C. Lambert. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of San
Luis Obispo on 03-22-17. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Clerk, JF. Brown. 03-22-22
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0786
M TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
F R E E G RA
(03/23/2017)
New Filing
for
The following person is doing
rs
New Membe
business as: PACIFIC LANDSCAPE
CONSTRUCTION, 1355 Freder-
icks Street, San Luis Obispo, CA
1-877-POT-DELI
93405. San Luis Obispo County.
Dario Jose Robles(1355 Freder-
icks Street, San Luis Obispo, CA
(1-877-768-3354) 93405) and Tyler Johanson(7394
Santa Ysabel Ave, Atascadero, CA
93422). This business is conduct-
POTDELI.ORG for Menus, Maps , Hours ed by a General Partnership./s/
Dario Robles. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of San
111362.5, 11362.7, et. seq., & AG Guideline Compliant. State registered Not-for-Profit Collective. Income/Sales/Payroll Taxes Paid. Luis Obispo on 03-23-17. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Clerk, A. Bautista. 03-23-22
MEDICAL
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
NEW Location! FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
MARIJUANA
Medical Marijuana
FILE NO. 2017-0791
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(03/05/2017)
EVALUATIONS
New Filing
Evaluations by a licensed physician
The following person is doing
business as: SHAKA WRAP, 1602
Sydney Street, San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401. San Luis Obispo
County. Peter Colin Doyle(1602
with 30 years experience Sydney Street, San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401). This business is con-
on the Central Coast ducted by an Individual./s/Peter
Doyle. This statement was filed
APPOINTMEN with the County Clerk of San Luis
TS Obispo on 03-23-17. I hereby
AVAILABLE certify that this copy is a correct
IMMEDIATELY copy of the statement on file in my
! office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Clerk, J. Goble. 03-23-22
Central Coast Medical
Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
Recommendations NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0792
ALL BAsic NEW New: $85 · Renewal: $70 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(03/23/2017)
(Price of Renewal is the same no matter how long expired, New Filing
& RENEWALs
The following person is doing
no matter if another doctor originally recommended) business as: GRANITE CABINETS
AND MORE, 1151 Pike Lane Ste
Includes 3 laminated recommendations 5, Oceano, CA 93445. San Luis
$50!
2 letter size 1 wallet size Obispo County. Michael R Fish-
er(1151 Pike Lane Ste 6, Oceano,
805-481-1181 CA 93445). This business is con-
ducted by an Individual./s/Michael
R Fisher. This statement was filed
agpotdoc.com
with the County Clerk of San Luis
• Instant verification M–F 10am-2pm and 3-5pm
Obispo on 03-23-17. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
• Good for one full year Walk-Ins Welcome
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Clerk, D. Chavez. 03-23-22
405 East Branch St, Ste. 100 Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
• LE $100 with medical record Arroyo Grande
(in the Village/easy parking)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0807
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
*Bring in this coupon and receive discounts
Open Friday, (03/24/2017)
75
$
New Filing
Saturday & Mondays FOR NEW The following person is doing
business as: FARM TO TAKO,
PATIENTS
FARM 2 TACO, 712 Marsh Street,
12pm – 5pm San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San
Luis Obispo County. C3, LLC(712
65
$
Marsh Street, San Luis Obispo,
334 Morro Bay Blvd FOR RENEWAL CA 93401). This business is
conducted by a Limited Liability
FOR 1 YEAR! Company./s/C3, LLC, Richard K
Morro Bay Hanen, Member. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 03-24-17.
DON’T BE FOOLED WITH 6
805-544-6164
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
MONTH RENEWAL PRICES on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy
Gong. County Clerk, S. Currens.
www.morrobay420md.com Offer expires 4-30-17 03-24-22
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0815
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(03/27/2017)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as: MANATTAN STREET
TOWNHOME OWNERS ASSO-
CIATION, 377 South 7th Street,
Grover Beach, CA 93433. San
Luis Obispo County. Andrew Mar-
tin(1241 Johnson Ave #149, San
Luis Obispo, CA 93401) and Ron
Pallechia(357 South 7th Street,
Grover Beach, CA 93433). This
business is conducted by an Unin-
corporated Association Other Than
a Partnership./s/Andrew Martin.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 03-27-17. I hereby certify that
this copy is a correct copy of the
statement on file in my office.
(Seal)Tommy Gong. County Clerk,
I. Diaz. 03-27-22
Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0825
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/01/2017)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: ROTHE CONSULTING,
446 Arcadia Ave, Morro Bay, CA
93442. San Luis Obispo County.
Mark Edward Rothe(446 Arca-
dia Ave, Morro Bay, CA 93442).
This business is conducted by an
Individual./s/Mark Edward Rothe.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 03-28-17. I hereby certify that
this copy is a correct copy of the
statement on file in my office.
(Seal)Tommy Gong. County Clerk,
I. Diaz. 03-28-22
Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0826
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as: BOX’D, 648 Church
Street, Unit B, San Luis Obispo, CA
93401. San Luis Obispo County.
Megan Mckinzie Hanley(648
Church Street, Unit B, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93401). This business
is conducted by an Individual./s/
Megan Hanley. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of San
Luis Obispo on 03-28-17. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Clerk, I. Diaz. 03-28-22
Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0831
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(N/A)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: LOTUS BODYWORKS AND
AESTHETICS SPA SERVICES, 683
Cobble Creek Way, Templeton, CA
93465. San Luis Obispo County.
Sheri Lynn Hatchard-Sandoval(683
Cobble Creek Way, Templeton,
CA 93465). This business is con-
ducted by an Individual./s/ Sheri L.
Hatchard-Sandoval. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
of San Luis Obispo on 03-29-17.
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy
Gong. County Clerk, TJ. Blandford.
03-29-22
Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0835
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(03/29/2017)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: THE MASON HOUSE, 220
South Mason, Arroyo Grande, CA,
93420. San Luis Obispo County.
Cindy Gay Foresee(220 South Ma-
son, Arroyo Grande, CA, 93420).
This business is conducted by an
Individual./s/Cindy Foresee. This
statement was filed with the County
Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-29-
17. I hereby certify that this copy
is a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy
Gong. County Clerk, JF. Brown.
03-29-22
Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0843 FILE NO. 2017-0878
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(03/27/2017) (04/21/2012)
New Filing New Filing
The following person is doing busi- The following person is doing
ness as: HLNP ARCHIFACTURE, business as: LEESTREES, 220
1469 5th Street, Los Osos, CA Rockfalls Road, Arroyo Grande, CA
93402. San Luis Obispo County. 93420. San Luis Obispo County.
Humberto Lauro Norman(1469
5th Street, Los Osos, CA 93402.).
Lee Yecny and Renee Bell(220
Rockfalls Road, Arroyo Grande, CA
93420). This business is conduct-
This business is conducted by an
Individual./s/Humberto Norman,
Owner. This statement was filed
ed by an General Partnership./s/
Lee Yecny. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of San
with the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 03-29-17. I hereby
Luis Obispo on 04-04-17. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Clerk, JF. Brown. 04-04-22.
Clerk, S. Kramos. 03-29-22
Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017
Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0881
FILE NO. 2017-0846
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(11/01/2007)
(10/13/2015)
New Filing
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
The following person is doing
ness as: THE COASTAL INSTITUTE,
business as: COMPLETE AUTO-
1473 Randall Drive, Cambria, CA MOTIVE, 273 Tank Farm Road,
93428. San Luis Obispo County. Ste. B, San Luis Obispo, CA
Camp Ocean Pines(1473 Ran-
dall Drive, Cambria, CA 93428). 93401. San Luis Obispo County.
This business is conducted by John S. Rowe IV(889 Naples St,
a Corporation./s/Camp Ocean Grover Beach, CA 93433). This
Pines, Crissa Hewitt President. This business is conducted by an
statement was filed with the County Individual./s/John S. Rowe IV.
Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-30- This statement was filed with the
17. I hereby certify that this copy County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
is a correct copy of the statement
on 04-04-17. I hereby certify
on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy that this copy is a correct copy
Gong. County Clerk, JF. Brown.
03-30-22 of the statement on file in my of-
Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017 fice. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Clerk, J. Goble. 04-04-22
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0853
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
NAME STATEMENT
(03/01/2017)
FILE NO. 2017-0884
New Filing
The following person is doing TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(04/05/2017)
business as: PRINT FACTORY,
113 Wessels Way, Templeton, CA New Filing
93465. San Luis Obispo County.
The following person is do-
Giancarolo Campolmi(113 Wes- ing business as: PEACEFUL
sels Way, Templeton, CA 93465).
This business is conducted by an
SHIFT, 2020 Pecho Road, Los
Osos, CA 93402. San Luis
Individual./s/Giancarolo Campolmi.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
Obispo County. Tracy Jeanne
Airth(2020 Pecho Road, Los
on 03-31-17. I hereby certify that Osos, CA 93402). This business
this copy is a correct copy of the is conducted by an Individual./s/
statement on file in my office.
(Seal)Tommy Gong. County Clerk,
Tracy Jeanne Airth, Owner. This
statement was filed with the
I. Diaz. 03-31-22
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
on 04-05-17. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my of-
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0860 fice. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE Clerk, A. Bautista. 04-05-22
(N/A) Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as: CENTRAL COAST
PLUMBING SUPPLY, 8860 Palomar
Avenue, Atascadero, CA 93422.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0891
San Luis Obispo County. Lisa C.
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
Pahler and Steve J. Pahler(8860
Palomar Avenue, Atascadero, CA (02/28/2017)
93422). This business is conduct-
ed by a General Partnership./s/
New Filing
The following person is doing
Lisa C. Pahler. This statement was
business as: ARTISAN BUILD-
filed with the County Clerk of San ERS, 1078 Rockaway Ave,
Luis Obispo on 03-31-17. I hereby
Grover Beach, CA 93433. San
certify that this copy is a correct
Luis Obispo County. Roland W.
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County Perkins(1078 Rockaway Ave,
Clerk, S. Kramos. 03-31-22 Grover Beach, CA 93433). This
Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017 business is conducted by an
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
Individual./s/Roland W. Perkins.
This statement was filed with the
NAME STATEMENT County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
FILE NO. 2017-0868 on 04-05-17. I hereby certify
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
that this copy is a correct copy
(N/A)
of the statement on file in my of-
New Filing
The following person is doing busi- fice. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
ness as: RITUAL MOON, 1311 7th Clerk, D. Chavez. 04-05-22
Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017
Street, Los Osos, CA 93402. San
Luis Obispo County. Paige Newell
Gillespie(1311 7th Street, Los FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
Osos, CA 93402). This business
is conducted by an Individual./s/ NAME STATEMENT
Paige Gillespie. This statement was FILE NO. 2017-0895
filed with the County Clerk of San
Luis Obispo on 04-03-17. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/03/2017)
New Filing
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Clerk, D. Chavez. 04-13-22
The following person is doing
business as: CALWISE SPIRITS
Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017 CO., 872 Higuera St. San Luis
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis
Obispo County. Bergh Corpo-
NAME STATEMENT ration(872 Higuera St. San
FILE NO. 2017-0874 Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
business is conducted by a
(N/A)
Corporation./s/Bergh Corpora-
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as: SEA VIEW WINDOW
tion, Aaron Bergh, President.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
CLEANING, 258 Madera St. Los
Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo on 04-05-17. I hereby certify
County. Malik Ali Shaban(258
that this copy is a correct copy
Madera St. Los Osos, CA 93402).
This business is conducted by an
of the statement on file in my of-
fice. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Individual./s/Malik Shaban, Owner.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
Clerk, A. Bautista. 04-05-22
Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017
on 04-03-17. I hereby certify that
this copy is a correct copy of the
statement on file in my office. » MORE
(Seal)Tommy Gong. County Clerk,
A. Bautista. 04-03-22 LEGAL NOTICES
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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING BRIEF FROM PAGE 53
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017 AT 9:00am FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NOTICE OF
NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT PETITION TO
All Board Members present FILE NO. 2017-0913 FILE NO. 2017-0939 FILE NO. 2017-0977
FILE NO. 2017-0904
1. Consent Agenda – Item Nos. 1-15 & Resolution (Res.) Nos. 2017-87 LegaL Notices TRANSACTION BUSINESS
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE ADMINISTER
(04/07/2017) (04/11/2017) (03/16/2017)
thru 2017-91 approved as amended. DATE New Filing New Filing New Filing ESTATE OF:
(04/06/2017) The following person is doing The following person is doing busi- The following person is doing busi-
2. Presentations: Recognizing S. Summers – 2017-92, J. Bolster- FICTITIOUS BUSINESS business as: AI MEDIA & DESIGN, ness as: MUZIOS MARKET & DELI, ness as: PANMARIE, 391 Avenida CATHERINE ERRETT,
White – Res 2017-93 & E. Medina - Res. 2017-94, for receiving the New Filing
Commission on the Status of “Women’s Wall of Fame” Awards;
NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing
1524 21st St, Oceano, CA 93445.
San Luis Obispo County. Adrian
669 Higuera St. San Luis Obispo, De Amigos, Nipomo, CA 93444.
San Luis Obispo County. Ann Marie AkA A. C. SANDERS,
FILE NO. 2017-0896 CA 93401. San Luis Obispo
Res. 2017-95, proclaiming 4/9-15/17 as the “National Public Safety
TRANSACTION BUSINESS business as: SUNSHINE LASH Iriarte(1524 21st St, Oceano, County. Lori Jean Miller(832 Carla Vitello(391 Avenida De Amigos, Ni- AkA CATHERINE
Telecommunicators Week”; & proclaiming April 2017 as “National CA 93445). This business is con- Court, Santa Maria, CA 93454). pomo, CA 93444). This business is
DATE & SKIN, 464 Marsh St., San ducted by an Individual./s/Adrian This business is conducted by an conducted by an Individual./s/Ann SANDERS
County Government Month”, adopted. Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San
(01/01/2017) Iriarte. This statement was filed Marie Vitello. This statement was
3. Public Comment Period - matters not on the agenda: B. Hilton; New Filing Luis Obispo County. Lucinda with the County Clerk of San Luis
Individual./s/Lori Miller. This state-
ment was filed with the County filed with the County Clerk of San CASE NUMBER:
The following person is doing Obispo on 04-07-17. I hereby cer- Luis Obispo on 04-14-17. I hereby
H. Finger; E. Cano; B. DiFatta; M. Bennett; D. Sutliff; K. Aydelott; L. Marie Lattimer(199 Oak Crest
tify that this copy is a correct copy
Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-11-
certify that this copy is a correct
17PR - 0130
Brooks; M. Amerine; E. Greening; L. Owen & L. Sands, speak. No business as: KESTREL LAND- Dr. Avila Beach, CA 93424). 17. I hereby certify that this copy is To all heirs, beneficiaries,
action taken. SCAPES, 1192 12th Street, of the statement on file in my office. a correct copy of the statement on copy of the statement on file in my
This business is conducted by (Seal)Tommy Gong. County Clerk, J. file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County creditors, contingent credi-
Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis
4. Res. 2017-97, approving, authorizing & directing execution of a
Obispo County. Nick Joseph an Individual./s/Lucinda Lattim- Goble. 04-07-22 County Clerk, I. Diaz. 04-11-22. Clerk, D. Chavez. 04-14-22. tors, and persons who may
joint exercise of powers agreement re: the CA Municipal Finance Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017 Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017 Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017 otherwise be interested in
Fernella(1192 12th Street, er, Owner. This statement was
Authority & approving $8,400,000 of multifamily housing revenue filed with the County Clerk of the will or estate, or both, of:
Los Osos, CA 93402). This FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
bonds for financing the acquisition & rehabilitation of the Los
business is conducted by an
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS CATHERINE ERRETT, aka A.
San Luis Obispo on 04-06-17.
Robles Terrace Affordable Rental Housing Project, adopted.
Individual./s/Nick Fernella. This NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT C. SANDERS, aka CATHERINE
I hereby certify that this copy FILE NO. 2017-0927 FILE NO. 2017-0986
5. Res. 2017-98, approving & authorizing submittal of the urban Co. statement was filed with the is a correct copy of the state- FILE NO. 2017-0942 SANDERS
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
2017 Action Plan under the Community Development Block Grant, County Clerk of San Luis Obis- (04/10/2017) TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE A PETITION FOR PROBATE
ment on file in my office. (Seal) (01/01/2009)
Home Investment Partnerships Act, & Emergency Solutions po on 04-05-17. I hereby certify New Filing (02/17/2017)
New Filing has been filed by TOM KEAT-
Grants programs & amendments to the 2009-12 & 2012-15 Action that this copy is a correct copy Tommy Gong. County Clerk, N. New Filing ING in the Superior Court of
The following person is doing busi- The following person is doing busi-
Plans to reallocate funds, adopted. of the statement on file in my of- Balseiro. 04-06-22 ness as: TABLE, HEIDI PETERSEN The following person is doing busi- California, County of San Luis
ness as: VOSS& BECK FAMILY
fice. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017 CERAMICS, 5940 Entrada, Atas- ness as: LUNADA GARDEN BISTRO,
6. Closed Session. Anticipated Litigation: Significant exposure to 78 N. Ocean Ave, Cayucos, Ca
DENTISTRY, 200 Station Way, Suite Obispo.
Clerk, D. Chavez. 04-05-22 cadero, CA 93422. San Luis A, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San
litigation - No of potential cases: 3. Existing litigation: PG&E’s 2017 Obispo County. Heidi Marta Pe- 93430. San Luis Obispo County. The Petition for Probate re-
Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017 Luis Obispo County. Randall C. Voss,
General Rate Case A: 15-09-001; Application Filed by PG&E for FICTITIOUS BUSINESS tersen(22318 J Street, Santa Mar- Marco V. Lucatero, Jorge A. Lo-
DMD, Inc.(225 Christine Way, Pismo
quests that by TOM KEATING
Retirement of Diablo Canyon Power Plant A: 16-08-006; Golden garita, CA 93453).This business pez(1885 Norwich Ave, Cambria, be appointed as personal rep-
State Water Company Advice Letter 1674-W CPUC Protest; FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT is conducted by an Individual./s/ CA 93428) and Juan P. Favila(953
Beach, CA 93449) and Trevor S.
resentative to administer the
Beck, DDS, Inc.(383 Village Glen
FILE NO. 2017-0910 Heidi Marta Petersen. This state- Sheffield St. Cambria, CA 93428). estate of the decedent.
SLODCCA, et al. v. SLO Co. Pension Trust Board, et al. (CV 100425); NAME STATEMENT ment was filed with the County This business is conducted by a
Drive, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420).
Mesa Community Alliance v. State of CA Dept. of Parks Rec, et FILE NO. 2017-0899 TRANSACTION BUSINESS This business is conducted by a Gen- THE PETITION requests the
al.; Conference w/ Labor Negotiator, T. Douglas-Schatz, re: Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-10- General Partnership./s/Marco V.
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE 17. I hereby certify that this copy Lucatero, General Partner. This
eral Partnership./s/Randall C. Voss, decedent’s will and codicils, if
SLOGAU; SLOCEA-T&C; DCCA; Sheriffs’ Mgmt; SLOCPPOA; DSA; (04/07/2017) is a correct copy of the statement DMD, Inc., Randall C. Voss, President any, be admitted to probate.
DATE statement was filed with the County
& Partner. This statement was filed
DAIA; SLOCPMPOA; SLOCEA–PSSC; Unrepresented Mgmt & New Filing on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-11- The will and any codicils are
(03/29/2017) with the County Clerk of San Luis
Confidential Employees; ASLOCDS. Personnel re: Public Employee Gong. County Clerk, N. Balseiro. 17. I hereby certify that this copy available for examination in
New Filing The following person is doing Obispo on 04-14-17. I hereby certify
Appointment for the Position of Director of the Department of 04-10-22. is a correct copy of the statement
The following person is doing business as: 8575 PERFETTO that this copy is a correct copy of the the file kept by the court.
Planning and Building. Report out. Open session. Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017 on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy
business as: ONE HOPE WINE, CAFFE, 1750 El Camino Real statement on file in my office. (Seal) THE PETITION requests au-
Ordinance No. 3346, amending the Land Use Ordinance Title Gong. County Clerk, TJ. Blandford.
7. 2195 Corbett Canyon Rd, Ar- Ste. B, Grover Beach, CA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 04-11-22.
Tommy Gong. County Clerk, A. Mc- thority to administer the es-
22, establishing a new Ch. 22.58 – Oak Woodland Ordinance, royo Grande, CA 93420. San Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017
Cormick. 04-14-22. tate under the Independent
amending §22.06.020 & Table 2-2 in order to regulate the clear- 93433. San Luis Obispo Coun- NAME STATEMENT Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017
Luis Obispo County. Maiden- ty. Gennaro Daffuso and Laura
Administration of Estates
cutting of oak woodland, adopted as amended. FILE NO. 2017-0928
stoen Wine Corp.(2195 Corbett FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Act. (This authority will allow
Zuffi(415 Monterey Ave, Morro TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE NOTICE
8. Ordinance No. 3347, establishing a 2nd extension of interim Canyon Rd, Arroyo Grande, CA (N/A) NAME STATEMENT the personal representative
zoning/urgency Ordinance No. 3325, prohibiting clear-cutting of
Bay, CA 93442). This business IN THE SUPERIOR to take many actions without
93420).This business is con- New Filing FILE NO. 2017-0947
is conducted by a Married The following person is doing obtaining court approval.
oak woodlands & limiting removal of native trees in the inland area ducted by a Corporation./s/ TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE COURT
(not including the coastal zone) of the unincorporated portions of Couple./s/Gennaro Daffuso. business as: MONDE PUBLIC RE- (01/05/2017) Before taking certain very
Maidenstoen Wine Corp, Mike LATIONS, 2975 Rockview Place OF THE STATE OF
the Co., except for development or land use activities complying This statement was filed with New Filing important actions, however,
Callahan, President & CEO. This #20, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. The following person is doing busi-
w/ certain authorization standards & procedures, adopted.
statement was filed with the the County Clerk of San Luis CALIFORNIA IN AND the personal representative
San Luis Obispo County. Lindsey ness as: ROCK SOLID MOVING,
Adjourned County Clerk of San Luis Obis- Obispo on 04-07-17. I hereby Melissa McConaghy(2975 Rock- 2195 Andover Pl, Cambria, CA FOR will be required to give notice
po on 04-06-17. I hereby certify certify that this copy is a cor- view Place #20, San Luis Obispo, 93428. San Luis Obispo County. to interested persons unless
Tommy Gong, County Clerk-Recorder and
rect copy of the statement on CA 93401). This business is con- Jesse A Leidig(1208 San Mateo THE COUNTY OF they have waived notice or
Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors that this copy is a correct copy Dr., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401).
ducted by an Individual./s/Lindsey consented to the proposed
of the statement on file in my of- file in my office. (Seal)Tommy
McConaghy. This statement was This business is conducted by an SAN LUIS OBISPO
By: /s/ Annette Ramirez, Deputy Clerk action.) The independent ad-
fice. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County Gong. County Clerk, TJ. Bland- filed with the County Clerk of San Individual./s/Jesse A Leidig. This CASE NO. 17AD-0027
April 20, 2017 Clerk, JF. Brown. 04-06-22. ford. 04-07-22. Apr. 13, 20, 27 Luis Obispo on 04-10-17. I hereby statement was filed with the County ministration authority will be
Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017 & May 4, 2017 certify that this copy is a correct Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-11- CITATION granted unless an interested
copy of the statement on file in my 17. I hereby certify that this copy is In re the Matter of the Petition person files an objection to
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County a correct copy of the statement on of ALINA DARWAY on behalf of
file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Gong.
the petition and shows good
Clerk, A. Bautista. 04-10-22. ATHENA MEJORADO, Minor, for cause why the court should
Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017 County Clerk, A. Bautista. 04-11-22. Freedom from Parental Custody
Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017 not grant the authority.
and Control
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF A HEARING on
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS the petition will be held in this

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NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT TO: THORR VIERNES MEJORADO court as follows: JULY 25,
FILE NO. 2017-0933
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
FILE NO. 2017-0963 By order of this court, you are 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept: 9,
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE hereby cited to appear before the in Superior Court of California,
(03/31/2017) (01/01/2016)
New Filing Presiding Judge of this court on County of San Luis Obispo,
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your legal notice?

The following person is doing
business as: AUXILIO INNOVA-
TIONS, 364 Quintana Rd. Morro
Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo
County. Robert Lichty(1220 Baden
Ave, Grover Beach, CA 93433).
This business is conducted by an
Individual./s/Robert Lichty. This
statement was filed with the County
Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-11-
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: ZORRO’S HOT SAUCE CO.,
927 Shell Beach Rd, Shell Beach,
CA 93449. San Luis Obispo County.
Stephen James Landrigan(165
Leeward, Shell Beach, CA 93449).
This business is conducted by an
Individual./s/Stephen Landrigan.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
6-16-2017, in Department: 9 at
9:00 a.m., then and there to show
cause, if any you have, why the Pe-
tition ALINA DARWAY for Freedom
from Parental Custody and Con-
trol of ATHENA MEJORADO, your
daughter, should not be granted.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED
that said Petition alleges that you
left said minor children in the care
located at 1035 Palm Street,
Room 385, San Luis Obispo,
CA 93408.
IF YOU OBJECT
to the granting of the petition,
you should appear at the hear-
ing and state your objections
or file written objections with

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17. I hereby certify that this copy
is a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy
Gong. County Clerk, D. Chavez.
04-11-22. Apr. 20, 27 & May 4,
11 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
on 04-13-17. I hereby certify that
this copy is a correct copy of the
statement on file in my office. (Seal)
Tommy Gong. County Clerk, TJ.
Blandford. 04-13-22.
Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
and custody of Petitioner, their
stepfather, for a period of more
than (1) year, without any provision
for the minors’ support and without
any visitation and with the intent to
abandon the child.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED
that if you wish to contest this
the court before the hearing.
Your appearance may be in
person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A
CREDITOR or a contingent
creditor of the decedent, you
must file your claim with the
court and mail a copy to the

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NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT proceeding, but you are unable personal representative ap-
FILE NO. 2017-0937 FILE NO. 2017-0964 to afford counsel, upon proof of
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
pointed by the court within the
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE indigence, at your request, coun-
(04/12/2017) sel will be appointed to represent
later of either (1) four months
(04/10/2017)
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The following person is doing
business as: AM PAC REPAIR,
4149 Santa Fe Suite 8, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obis-
po County. Paul Luiz(6474 Edna
• Great customer service Rd, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401).
This business is conducted by an
Individual./s/Paul Luiz. This state-
• Largest reach in SLO County ment was filed with the County
Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-11-
17. I hereby certify that this copy
• Save money!!! is a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy
Gong. County Clerk, D. Chavez.
04-11-22.
Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0938
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(04/11/2017)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: STONE. CLOTHING, 549
Charro Way, Nipomo, CA 93444.
San Luis Obispo County. Alexandra
Nicole Matus(549 Charro Way, Ni-
pomo, CA 93444).This business is
conducted by an Individual./s/Alex-
andra Matus. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk of San
Luis Obispo on 04-11-17. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
Clerk, JF. Brown. 04-11-22.
Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: KNUCKLES UP SIDE X
SIDES, 165 Fair View Dr, Arroyo
Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo
County. James Daniel Murray(165
Fair View Dr, Arroyo Grande, CA
93420). This business is conducted
by an Individual./s/James Murray.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
on 04-13-17. I hereby certify that
this copy is a correct copy of the
statement on file in my office. (Seal)
Tommy Gong. County Clerk, TJ.
Blandford. 04-13-22.
Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0969
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(04/13/2017)
New Filing
The following person is doing busi-
ness as: MIKE’S BARBER SHOP,
MIKE’S IDEAL BARBER SHOP, MIKE’S
BARBER SHOP PISMO BEACH, 1051
Price St, Pismo Beach, CA 93449.
San Luis Obispo County. Jonathan El-
liot(421 Yerba Buena St, Morro Bay,
CA 93442). This business is conduct-
ed by an Individual./s/Jon Elliot. This
statement was filed with the County
Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-13-
17. I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement on
file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Gong.
County Clerk, J. Goble. 04-13-22.
Apr. 20, 27 & May 4, 11 2017
your interest in this matter at no
expense to you.
DATED:3-28-2017
MICHAEL POWELL
Rebecca Hochman, Deputy Clerk
JENNIFER L. FEHLMAN, SBN.
95307
1190 Marsh Street, Suite H
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
(805) 541-5252; fax: (805) 541-
5253
Attorney for ALINA DARWAY
April 20, 27, May 4, & 11, 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 2017-0600
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(03/03/2017)
New Filing
The following person is doing
business as: CHILI PEPPER, 2121
Broad Street, San Luis Obispo, CA
93401. San Luis Obispo County.
Alexander Nino De Rivera(646
Perkins Lane, San Luis Obispo, CA
93401). This business is conducted
by an Individual./s/Alexander Nino
De Rivera. This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of San Luis
Obispo on 03-03-17. I hereby cer-
tify that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my office.
(Seal)Tommy Gong. County Clerk,
TJ. Blandford. 03-03-22
Mar. 23, 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
of letters to a general person-
al representative, as defined in
section 58(b) of the California
Probate Code, or (2) 60 days
from the date of mailing or
personal delivery to you of
notice under section 9052 of
the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and
legal authority may affect your
rights as a creditor. You may
want to consult with an attor-
ney knowledgeable in Califor-
nia law.
YOU MAY EXAM-
INE the file kept by the court.
If you are a person interested
in the estate, you may file with
the court a formal Request for
Special Notice (form DE-154)
of the filing of an inventory
and appraisal of estate assets
or of any petition or account
as provided in Probate Code
section 1250. A Request for
Special Notice form is avail-
able from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner:
John M. Pratt
1303 Higuera Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
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NOTICE OF
PETITION TO
ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF:
DEWEY JOSEPH LEA II
CASE NUMBER:
17PR - 0103
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,
contingent creditors, and persons
who may otherwise be interested in
the will or estate, or both, of: DEWEY
JOSEPH LEA II
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been
filed by RENÉ LEA-CAMPBELL in the
Superior Court of California, County of
San Luis Obispo.
The Petition for Probate requests that
by RENÉ LEA-CAMPBELL be appointed
as personal representative to adminis-
ter the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to
administer the estate under the Inde-
pendent Administration of Estates Act.
(This authority will allow the personal
representative to take many actions
without obtaining court approval. Be-
fore taking certain very important ac-
tions, however, the personal represen-
tative will be required to give notice to
interested persons unless they have
waived notice or consented to the
proposed action.) The independent ad-
ministration authority will be granted
unless an interested person files an
objection to the petition and shows
good cause why the court should not
grant the authority.
A HEARING on the
petition will be held in this court
as follows: MAY 10, 2017 at 9:00
a.m. in Dept: 9, in Superior Court of
California, County of San Luis Obispo,
located at 1035 Palm Street, Room
385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.
IF YOU OBJECT to the
granting of the petition, you should
appear at the hearing and state your
objections or file written objections
with the court before the hearing. Your
appearance may be in person or by
your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDI-
TOR or a contingent creditor of the
decedent, you must file your claim
with the court and mail a copy to the
personal representative appointed by
the court within the later of either (1)
four months from the date of first issu-
ance of letters to a general personal
representative, as defined in section
58(b) of the California Probate Code,
or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing
or personal delivery to you of notice
under section 9052 of the California
Probate Code. Other California stat-
utes and legal authority may affect
your rights as a creditor. You may
want to consult with an attorney knowl-
edgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE
the file kept by the court. If you are
a person interested in the estate,
you may file with the court a formal
Request for Special Notice (form DE-
154) of the filing of an inventory and
appraisal of estate assets or of any
petition or account as provided in Pro-
bate Code section 1250. A Request
for Special Notice form is available
from the court clerk.
Petitioner:
René Lea-Campbell
2000 Corporate Dr., #1027
Ladera Ranch, CA 92694
April 20, 27, & May 4, 2017
NOTICE OF
PETITION TO
ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF:
MARK ANTHONY ANGELO
(AMENDED)
CASE NUMBER:
17PR - 0114
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,
contingent creditors, and persons who
may otherwise be interested in the will
or estate, or both, of: MARK ANTHONY
ANGELO
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been
filed by SHERRI SHERMAN ANGELO in
the Superior Court of California, County
of San Luis Obispo.
The Petition for Probate requests that
by SHERRI SHERMAN ANGELO be ap-
pointed as personal representative to
administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to
administer the estate under the Inde-
pendent Administration of Estates Act.
(This authority will allow the personal
representative to take many actions
without obtaining court approval.
Before taking certain very important
actions, however, the personal repre-
sentative will be required to give notice
to interested persons unless they have
waived notice or consented to the
proposed action.) The independent
administration authority will be granted
unless an interested person files an ob-
jection to the petition and shows good
cause why the court should not grant
the authority.
A HEARING on the
petition will be held in this court as fol-
lows: June 13, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in
Dept: 9, in Superior Court of California,
County of San Luis Obispo, located at
1035 Palm Street, Room 385, San
Luis Obispo, CA 93408.
IF YOU OBJECT to the
granting of the petition, you should ap-
pear at the hearing and state your ob-
jections or file written objections with
the court before the hearing. Your ap-
pearance may be in person or by your
attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDI-
TOR or a contingent creditor of the
decedent, you must file your claim with
the court and mail a copy to the per-
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sonal representative appointed by the
court within the later of either (1) four
months from the date of first issuance
of letters to a general personal repre-
sentative, as defined in section 58(b) of
the California Probate Code, or (2) 60
days from the date of mailing or per-
sonal delivery to you of notice under
section 9052 of the California Probate
Code. Other California statutes and
legal authority may affect your rights
as a creditor. You may want to consult
with an attorney knowledgeable in Cali-
fornia law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE
the file kept by the court. If you are
a person interested in the estate, you
may file with the court a formal Re-
quest for Special Notice (form DE-154)
of the filing of an inventory and apprais-
al of estate assets or of any petition or
account as provided in Probate Code
section 1250. A Request for Special
Notice form is available from the court
clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner:
Robert H. Mott, Attorney at Law
960 Santa Rosa Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
April 6,13, & 20, 2017
NOTICE OF
PETITION TO
ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF:
MITZI MACKERRON HOLT
CASE NUMBER:
17PR - 0092
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,
contingent creditors, and persons who
may otherwise be interested in the will
or estate, or both, of: MITZI MACKER-
RON HOLT
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been
filed by MEYGAN HALES, BRANDY
JAUREGUY in the Superior Court of
California, County of San Luis Obispo.
The Petition for Probate requests that
by MEYGAN HALES AND BRANDY
JAUREGUY be appointed as personal
representative to administer the estate
of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s
will and codicils, if any, be admitted to
probate. The will and any codicils are
available for examination in the file kept
by the court.
A HEARING on the
petition will be held in this court as
follows: May 10, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in
Dept: 9, in Superior Court of California,
County of San Luis Obispo, located at
1035 Palm Street, Room 385, San
Luis Obispo, CA 93408.
IF YOU OBJECT to the
granting of the petition, you should ap-
pear at the hearing and state your ob-
jections or file written objections with
the court before the hearing. Your ap-
pearance may be in person or by your
attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDI-
TOR or a contingent creditor of the
decedent, you must file your claim with
the court and mail a copy to the per-
sonal representative appointed by the
court within the later of either (1) four
months from the date of first issuance
of letters to a general personal repre-
sentative, as defined in section 58(b) of
the California Probate Code, or (2) 60
days from the date of mailing or per-
sonal delivery to you of notice under
section 9052 of the California Probate
Code. Other California statutes and
legal authority may affect your rights
as a creditor. You may want to consult
with an attorney knowledgeable in Cali-
fornia law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE
the file kept by the court. If you are
a person interested in the estate, you
may file with the court a formal Re-
quest for Special Notice (form DE-154)
of the filing of an inventory and apprais-
al of estate assets or of any petition or
account as provided in Probate Code
section 1250. A Request for Special
Notice form is available from the court
clerk.
Petitioner:
Meygan Hale and Brandy Jaureguy
1350 Porter Street
Pismo Beach, CA 95408
April 13, 20, & 27, 2017
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S
SALE
T.S. NO.: 2016-03451-CA
A.P.N.:009-781-018
PROPERTY ADDRESS:
1020 TURTLE CREEK
ROAD, PASO ROBLES, CA
93446
PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE §
2923.3(a), THE SUMMARY OF INFOR-
MATION REFERRED TO BELOW IS
NOT ATTACHED TO THE RECORDED
COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT BUT ONLY
TO THE COPIES PROVIDED TO THE
TRUSTOR.
NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE
INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT AT-
TACHED
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NOTA: SE ADJUNTA UN RE-
SUMEN DE LA INFORMACIÓN DE
ESTE DOCUMENTO
TALA: MAYROONG BUOD NG
IMPORMASYON SA DOKUMEN-
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TIN TRONG TÀI LIỆU NÀY
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY
OWNER:
YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED
OF TRUST DATED 11/18/2005. UN-
LESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT
YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD
AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN
EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF
THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU
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SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER.
Trustor: Eric Ziering, A MARRIED MAN
AS HIS SOLE AND SEPARATE PROP-
ERTY
Duly Appointed Trustee: Western Pro-
gressive, LLC
Recorded 02/06/2006 as Instrument
No. 2006008408 in book —-, page—-
and of Official Records in the office
of the Recorder of San Luis Obispo
County, California,
Date of Sale: 05/16/2017 at 11:00
AM
Place of Sale:IN THE BREEZEWAY AD-
JACENT TO THE COUNTY GENERAL
SERVICES BLDG. LOCATED AT 1087
SANTA ROSA STREET, SAN LUIS OBIS-
PO, CA 93408
Estimated amount of unpaid balance
and other charges: $ 147,756.05
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO
HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CA-
SHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE
OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN
BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT
UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A
STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION, A SAVINGS ASSO-
CIATION OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED
IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL
CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSI-
NESS IN THIS STATE:
All right, title, and interest conveyed
to and now held by the trustee in the
hereinafter described property under
and pursuant to a Deed of Trust de-
scribed as:
More fully described in said Deed of
Trust.
Street Address or other common des-
ignation of real property: 1020 Turtle
Creek Road, Paso Robles, CA 93446
A.P.N.: 009-781-018
The undersigned Trustee disclaims any
liability for any incorrectness of the
street address or other common des-
ignation, if any, shown above.
The sale will be made, but without
covenant or warranty, expressed or
implied, regarding title, possession, or
encumbrances, to pay the remaining
principal sum of the note(s) secured
by the Deed of Trust. The total amount
of the unpaid balance of the obligation
secured by the property to be sold and
reasonable estimated costs, expenses
and advances at the time of the initial
publication of the Notice of Sale is:
$ 147,756.05.
If the Trustee is unable to convey title
for any reason, the successful bidder’s
sole and exclusive remedy shall be the
return of monies paid to the Trustee,
and the successful bidder shall have no
further recourse.
The beneficiary of the Deed of Trust
has executed and delivered to the
undersigned a written request to
commence foreclosure, and the un-
dersigned caused a Notice of Default
and Election to Sell to be recorded in
the county where the real property is
located.
NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If
you are considering bidding on this
property lien, you should understand
that there are risks involved in bidding
at a trustee auction. You will be bidding
on a lien, not on the property itself.
Placing the highest bid at a trustee
auction does not automatically entitle
you to free and clear ownership of the
property. You should also be aware
that the lien being auctioned off may
be a junior lien. If you are the highest
bidder at the auction, you are or may
be responsible for paying off all liens
senior to the lien being auctioned off,
before you can receive clear title to the
property. You are encouraged to inves-
tigate the existence, priority, and size
of outstanding liens that may exist on
this property by contacting the county
recorder’s office or a title insurance
company, either of which may charge
you a fee for this information. If you
consult either of these resources, you
should be aware that the same lender
may hold more than one mortgage or
deed of trust on this property.
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
Note: Because the Beneficiary re-
serves the right to bid less than the to-
tal debt owed, it is possible that at the
time of the sale the opening bid may be
less than the total debt
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The
sale date shown on this notice of
sale may be postponed one or more
times by the mortgagee, beneficiary,
trustee, or a court, pursuant to Sec-
tion 2924g of the California Civil Code.
The law requires that information about
trustee sale postponements be made
available to you and to the public, as
a courtesy to those not present at the
sale. If you wish to learn whether your
sale date has been postponed, and, if
applicable, the rescheduled time and
date for the sale of this property, you
may call (866)-960-8299 or visit this In-
ternet Web site http://www.altisource.
com/MortgageServices/DefaultMan-
agement/TrusteeServices.aspx using
the file number assigned to this case
2016-03451-CA. Information about
postponements that are very short in
duration or that occur close in time to
the scheduled sale may not immediate-
ly be reflected in the telephone informa-
tion or on the Internet Web site. The
best way to verify postponement infor-
mation is to attend the scheduled sale.
Date: April 6, 2017Western Progres-
sive, LLC, as Trustee for beneficiary
C/o 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450
Irvine, CA 92606
Sale Information Line: (866) 960-8299
http://www.altisource.com/Mortgag-
eServices/DefaultManagement/Trust-
eeServices.aspx
Trustee Sale Assistant
WESTERN PROGRESSIVE, LLC MAY
BE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR
ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT.
ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
April 20, 27, & May 4, 2017
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ORDER TO SHOW
CAUSE FOR CHANGE
OF NAME CASE
NUMBER: 17CV-0776
To all interested persons:
Petitioner: Elena Nicole Reynolds for
a decree changing names as follows:
PRESENT NAME: Elena Nicole Reyn-
olds PROPOSED NAME: Elena Nicole
Touryan
THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons
interested in this matter appear before
this court at the hearing indicated be-
low to show cause, if any, why the peti-
tion for change of name should not be
granted. Any person objecting to the
name changes described above must
file a written objection that includes
the reasons for the objection at least
two days before the matter is sched-
uled to be heard and must appear at
the hearing to show cause why the
petition should not be granted. If no
written objection is timely filed, the
court may grant the petition without
a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING: Date:
05/03/2017, Time: 9:00 am, Dept.
9 at the Superior Court of San Luis
Obispo, 1035 Palm Street, Room
385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.
A copy of this Order to Show Cause
shall be published at least once each
week for four successive weeks prior
to the date set for hearing on the
petition in the following newspaper
of general circulation, printed in this
county: New Times
Date: March 22, 2017
/s/: Charles Crandall of the Superior
Court
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
ORDER TO SHOW
CAUSE FOR CHANGE
OF NAME CASE
NUMBER: 17CVP-0095
To all interested persons:
Petitioner: Shannon Thompson for a
decree changing names as follows:
PRESENT NAME: Peyton Leann
Juarez, Justice Rene Juarez PRO-
POSED NAME: Peyton Leann Thomp-
son, Justice Rene Thompson
THE COURT ORDERS: that all per-
sons interested in this matter appear
before this court at the hearing indi-
cated below to show cause, if any,
why the petition for change of name
should not be granted. Any person
objecting to the name changes de-
scribed above must file a written
objection that includes the reasons
for the objection at least two days
before the matter is scheduled to be
heard and must appear at the hearing
to show cause why the petition should
not be granted. If no written objection
is timely filed, the court may grant the
petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING:
05/24/2017, Time: 9:00 am, Dept.
Date:
P2 at the Superior Court of San
Luis Obispo, 901 Park Street, Paso
Robles, CA 93446.
A copy of this Order to Show Cause
shall be published at least once each
week for four successive weeks prior
to the date set for hearing on the
petition in the following newspaper
of general circulation, printed in this
county: New Times
Date: March 22, 2017
/s/: Barry T. Labarbera of the Supe-
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ARIES
(March 21-April 19): After George Washington was elected
as the first president of the United States, he had to move
from his home in Virginia to New York City, which at the time
was the center of the American government. But there was
a problem: He didn’t have enough cash on hand to pay for
his long-distance relocation, so he was forced to scrape up a
loan. Fortunately, he was resourceful and persistent in doing
so. The money arrived in time for him to attend his own
inauguration. I urge you to be like Washington in the coming
weeks, Aries. Do whatever’s necessary to get the funds you
need to finance your life’s next chapter.
TAURUS
(April 20-May 20): Fantasize about sipping pear nectar and
listening to cello music and inhaling the aroma of musky
amber and caressing velvet, cashmere, and silk. Imagine
how it would feel to be healed by inspiring memories and
sweet awakenings and shimmering delights and delicious
epiphanies. I expect experiences like these to be extra
available in the coming weeks. But they won’t necessarily
come to you freely and easily. You will have to expend effort
to ensure they actually occur. So be alert for them. Seek
them out. Track them down.
GEMINI
(May 21-June 20): Contagion may work in your favor, but it
could also undermine you. On the one hand, your enthusiasm
is likely to ripple out and inspire people whose help you
could use. On the other hand, you might be more sensitive
than usual to the obnoxious vibes of manipulators. But now
that I’ve revealed this useful tip, let’s hope you will be able
to maximize the positive kind of contagion and neutralize
the negative. Here’s one suggestion that may help: Visualize
yourself to be surrounded by a golden force field that
projects your good ideas far and wide even as it prevents the
disagreeable stuff from leaking in.
CANCER
(June 21-July 22): A reader named Kris X sent me a
rebuke. “You’re not a guru or a shaman,” he sneered. “Your
horoscopes are too filled with the slippery stench of poetry to
be useful for spiritual seekers.” Here’s my response: “Thank
you, sir! I don’t consider myself a guru or shaman, either. It’s
not my mission to be an all-knowing authority who hands
down foolproof advice. Rather, I’m an apprentice to the Muse
of Curiosity. I like to wrestle with useful, beautiful paradoxes.
My goal is to be a joyful rebel stirring up benevolent trouble,
to be a cheerleader for the creative imagination.” So now
I ask you, my fellow Cancerian: How do you avoid getting
trapped in molds that people pressure you to fit inside?
Are you skilled at being yourself even if that’s different
from what’s expected of you? What are the soulful roles
you choose to embody despite the fact that almost no one
understands them? Now is a good time to meditate on these
matters.
LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming weeks, there will be helpers
whose actions will nudge you—sometimes inadvertently—
toward a higher level of professionalism. You will find it
natural to wield more power and you will be more effective
in offering your unique gifts. Now maybe you imagine you
have already been performing at the peak of your ability, but I
bet you will discover—with a mix of alarm and excitement—
that you can become even more excellent. Be greater, Leo!
Do better! Live stronger! (P.S.: As you ascend to this new
level of competence, I advise you to be humbly aware of your
weaknesses and immaturities. As your clout rises, you can’t
afford to indulge in self-delusions.)
VIRGO
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I love to see you Virgos flirt with the
uncharted and the uncanny and the indescribable. I get thrills
and chills whenever I watch your fine mind trying to make
sense of the fabulous and the foreign and the unfathomable.
What other sign can cozy up to exotic wonders and explore
forbidden zones with as much no-nonsense pragmatism as
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you? If anyone can capture greased lightning in a bottle or
get a hold of magic beans that actually work, you can.
LIBRA
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A friend told me about a trick used by his
grandmother, a farmer. When her brooding hens stopped
laying eggs, she would put them in pillowcases that she then
hung from a clothesline in a stiff breeze. After the hens got
blown around for a while, she returned them to their cozy
digs. The experience didn’t hurt them, and she swore it put
them back on track with their egg-laying. I’m not comfortable
with this strategy. It’s too extreme for an animal-lover like
myself. (And I’m glad I don’t have to deal with recalcitrant
hens.) But maybe it’s an apt metaphor or poetic prod for your
use right now. What could you do to stimulate your own
creative production?
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Now would be an excellent time to add
deft new nuances to the ways you kiss, lick, hug, snuggle,
caress, and fondle. Is there a worthy adventurer who will
help you experiment with these activities? If not, use your
pillow, your own body, a realistic life-size robot, or your
imagination. This exercise will be a good warm-up for your
other assignment, which is to upgrade your intimacy skills.
How might you do that? Hone and refine your abilities to
get close to people. Listen deeper, collaborate stronger,
compromise smarter, and give more. Do you have any other
ideas?
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If I had nine hours to chop down a tree,
I’d spend the first six sharpening my ax,” said Abraham
Lincoln, one of America’s most productive presidents. I
know you Sagittarians are more renowned for your bold,
improvisational actions than your careful planning and
strategic preparation, but I think the coming weeks will be
a time when you can and should adopt Lincoln’s approach.
The readier you are, the freer you’ll be to apply your skills
effectively and wield your power precisely.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Zoologists say that cannibalizing offspring
is common in the animal kingdom, even among species
that care tenderly for their young. So when critters eat their
kids, it’s definitely “natural.” But I trust that in the coming
weeks, you won’t devour your own children. Nor, I hope, will
you engage in any behavior that metaphorically resembles
such an act. I suspect that you may be at a low ebb in your
relationship with some creation or handiwork or influence
that you generated out of love. But please don’t abolish it,
dissolve it, or abandon it. Just the opposite, in fact: Intensify
your efforts to nurture it.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your astrological house of communication
will be the scene of substantial clamor and ruckus in the
coming weeks. A bit of the hubbub will be flashy but empty.
But much of it should be pretty interesting, and some of
it will even be useful. To get the best possible results, be
patient and objective rather than jumpy and reactive. Try
to find the deep codes buried inside the mixed messages.
Discern the hidden meanings lurking within the tall tales and
reckless gossip. If you can deal calmly with the turbulent
flow, you will give your social circle a valuable gift.
PISCES
(Feb. 19-March 20): The best oracular advice you’ll get in the
coming days probably won’t arise from your dreams or an
astrological reading or a session with a psychic, but rather by
way of seemingly random signals, like an overheard conversation
or a sign on the side of a bus or a scrap of paper you find lying
on the ground. And I bet the most useful relationship guidance
you receive won’t be from an expert, but maybe from a blog
you stumble upon or a barista at a café or one of your old
journal entries. Be alert for other ways this theme is operating,
as well. The usual sources may not have useful info about
their specialties. Your assignment is to gather up accidental
inspiration and unlikely teachings. ∆