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The City of Paso Robles Official 125th Anniversary Publication

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Woodland Plaza I, built in 1991 Suite Tenant Lease Commencment 189 Albertson’s 6/1990 187 CVS 6/1990 141 Wendy’s 5/19/1999 191 Taco Bell 4/15/1994 195 ARCO 9/1991 143 Keyla Springe, DDS 9/8/1999 145 He's Spa 8/22/2011 147 Dolly's Donuts 12/12/1992 7/8/1991 153 China Gourmet 155 Fatte's Pizza 3/1/1999 157 Check N GO 1/2/1999 161 GNC 12/10/1998 163 Plaza Cleaners 11/18/1992 165 #1 Nail 12/1/2001 167 Tobacco Mart 12/1/2013 169 State Farm Ins 12/31/2001 179 The UPS Store 9/1/2000 177-183 Rent A Center 11/11/2013 185 Photo Stop 7/3/1995 Suites 149, 159, 171 and 175 are available, contact Keith Gilliss Suite Tenant Lease Commencment 180 Walmart 10/12/1993 120 JC Penney 10/29/1997 124 Video Palace 9/25/2010 128 Golden 1 Credit Union 5/1/2003 148 Lily's Nails 11/1/2006 152 Supercuts 9/15/1997 156 Sally Beauty 8/29/1997 160 Staples 8/30/1997 170 Big 5 7/25/1997 172 Daniel's Jewelers 5/7/2010 176 Payless Shoes 8/4/1997 90 Panda Express 9/15/2005 92 Cingular Wireless 12/19/2005 94 Game Stop 9/2/2005 96 Jamba Juice 9/15/2005 98 Chipotle Jan-14 100 Kohl's 3/3/2005 102 Cost U Less Insurance 4/5/2011 104 Yogurt Creations 7/1/2010 106 Subway 5/30/2006 108 AVON 10/1/2012 114 MG Sports 5/30/2006 Suites 140, 110-112, 116 and 118 are available, contact Keith Gilliss

Woodland Plaza II, built in 1995, expanded in 2005

Richard “Dick” Woodland - family man and entrepreneur Richard "Dick" Woodland has been a Roblan his entire life. His mother, Imogene, arrived here in 1922 at the age of 5. She graduated PRHS in 1935, met Fred Woodland Sr., and they were married in 1938. They ran the Norwalk Service Station at the south-east corner of 9th and Spring. Fred Sr raced locally at the Paso Robles Fairgrounds and throughout central California. Richard, as well as his 4 children, all inherited his love of cars. Dick graduated PRHS in 1960, moved to Fresno to study at Fresno State where he met Patricia Beckman. Dick was going to school, working full time, and racing 3 nights a week. Something had to go - school was dropped to concentrate on racing. In 1964, he was drafted and shipped to Germany. Pat followed and they were married there in 1965. After the military, Dick and Pat moved to SoCal. where he began

running various family businesses and continue his racing. His family grew to include the four children, and everything they did, they did together as a family. Keeping a vow to raise his children in the Paso Robles area, it meant Dick had to commute weekly to his So Cal businesses, which he did for 20 years. Those businesses were sold between 1997 and 2004 and their hilltop home on Paso's east side was completed in 2000. Over the years, Dick has been involved in numerous businesses and development projects in the Paso Robles area which include the Woodland Plaza I and Woodland Plaza II shopping centers, built in 1991 and 1995 (expanded in 2005). His love affair with the automobile is still strong and one of his current projects is the Woodland Auto Display, at the Estrella Warbirds Museum, with a history of over 50 years of his actively racing with his family as well as displays of sports cars, street rods, vintage cars, and more.

FOR LEASING INFORMATION, CONTACT:

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Congratulations Paso Robles on Your 125th! For 22 Years We’ve Memorialized the World War II Estrella Army Airfield

...which is now Paso Robles Municipal Airport, the Estrella Warbirds Museum was chartered as a not-for-profit California corporation in 1992. We are dedicated to the restoration and preservation of military aircraft and memorabilia of those who flew and worked on them. Our approach is not to glorify conflict but rather to make a future generation aware of the fact our way of life does not come without sacrifice. When our men and women come home from military service, most

no longer have access to those wonderfully fast screaming, flying machines. Many found those interests fulfilled through the building, modifying or racing of automobiles. The Woodland Auto Display, one of the best displays of automobiles and racing history, opened to the public in 2009, doubled in size in 2010, featuring a rotating series of automobiles in addition to the initial display concentrated on NASCAR Sprint, Modified, Super Modified and Midget race cars.

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CONTENTS March 2014

volume 13 number 11

A Monthly Look at Life in our Remarkable Communities

Feature S tories

41 A C ity is Born !

76 Business

• What’s Happening on Main Street - The Town That Saved It’s Own Heart • Vintage Paso: Zinfandel and Other Wild Wines • Justin Smith Honored as Wine Industry Person of the Year • Lacing Up for 18th Annual Wine Country Runs • Business Spotlight - a column by Millie Drum • 45 Years - One Milestone Among Many for Community Counseling Center • PADDLE Jack Online Auction Site Makes Debut

Historic Paso Robles 125 th Anniversary section

70 Hoofbeat

Hoofbeat Calendar and Trail Tales - by Dorothy Rogers

Departments 14 Ol’ Oaken Bucket

Filled with Humor, Timely Tidbits, and Mesmorizing Memorabilia..stuff you didn’t realize you need to know

86 Time & Place

16 Education

• Paso High Theatre Company performs ‘Hairspray’ - Broadway Musical • DAR’s ‘Good Citizen’ Contest Winners Honored • The U.S. Mail is Coming to Paso via Stagecoach • PREA Receives $10,000 Donation • 9th Annual Wild Wild West Casino Night is happenin’ April 5 • PRHS welding students lend hand to Bearcat Spirit Wall • Learn and Have Fun This Summer at the Boys & Girls Club!

26 City of Paso Robles

Library and Recreation

- cool stuff to do for the month ahead!

30 Paso People

• Harris Stage Lines Takes Top Honors in Texas! • This N That - A Collection of ‘Stuff’ • Warbirds Wings & Wheels 6 - Special Open House and Car Show May 10 • Quasquicentennial - Happy Anniversary to You, El Paso de Robles! • Paso Robles Lions Club Celebrates 75th! • At the Library

59 Round Town

• Earth Day Food and Wine Weekend • Wine Country Theatre to Perform ‘It Had to Be You; at Via Vega Winery • County Perspective - a column by Bruce Curtis • San Miguel Reflections - 1915 San Miguel Tidings - a Column by Lynne Schmitz • California Mid State Fair Announces Hall of Fame Winners

Where to find just about anything and everything to do in March

90 Last Word

Mardi Gras Carnival Charitable Event to Honor Hispanic Leaders

On the cover: SPECIAL SECTION: A Salute to 125 Years:

Historic moments and images of a new city springing to life...

Photo courtesy of the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance.

EDITORIAL DEADLINE:

7th of each month preceding publication

ADVERTISING DEADLINE:

10 th of each month preceding publication

HOW TO REACH US

Phone: (805) 239-1533 E-mail: bob@pasoroblesmagazine.com Mailing address: P.O. Box 3996, Paso Robles, CA 93447 In town drop off: Dutch Maytag, 1501 Riverside, Paso Robles Web: pasoroblesmagazine.com

Founding Co-Publisher: Karen Chute 1949-2004 Publisher/Editor: Bob Chute Editorial Consultant: Chris Weygandt Alba

Advertising: Millie Drum, Pam Osborn, Jamie Self, Melissa Chavez, and Bob Chute

WE VALUE YOUR INPUT!

Paso Robles Magazine (PRM) © 2014, is owned and published by Bob Chute. No part of this periodical may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior written consent from Paso Robles Magazine. PRM is published monthly and distributed FREE to every residence and business, including rural addresses, in Paso Robles, Templeton, Shandon, Bradley and San Miguel (zip codes 93426, 93446, 93451, 93461 and 93465). Postage paid at Paso Robles, CA 93446. PRM is also available for our visitors through local restaurants, Paso Robles Chamber of Commerce, North County Transportation Center, and other high traffic tourist-oriented locations. Annual subscriptions to PRM, mailed to areas beyond the described distribution areas, are available for $18 per year (for orders outside U.S., add $10 postage). Mailing address: P.O. Box 3996, Paso Robles, CA 93447. Phone: (805) 239-1533, Fax (805) 239-1263, e-mail: prmagazine@charter.net. Find us on the web at www.pasoroblesmagazine.com For advertising inquiries and rates, story ideas and submissions, contact Bob Chute at any of the above numbers. In town drop point for photos, letters, press releases, etc. at Dutch Maytag Home Appliance Center, 1501 Riverside. Graphics and advertising composition by Janice Pluma, Warpaint Graphics, editorial composition, Travis Ruppe, David Butz, art production.

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Congratulations Paso Robles on 125 Wonderful Years! Helping preserve our glorious past...

Partners Brett Van Steenwyk and Debbie Lorenz have “a vision” as Debbie describes it, for enhancing the traditions of several downtown icons they recently purchased, including the Odd Fellows Building (on Park Street), the Clock Tower building (corner Park and 12th), the building at 811 Park Street, and the former Hayward Lumber property. The Odd Fellows features McLintock’s downstairs and offices on the two upper floors plus the Park Ballroom. Extensive upgrades have been completed while being mindful of its historic significance. It now has a new sound system and houses a Steinway Grand Piano. The Ballroom seats 300 theater style or 250 for seated dinners, and has a complete kitchen for events and caterings. The conference room on the second floor has been upgraded with a marble table featuring seating for 12 plus a 80” flat screen television for video conferencing and presentations. The Clock Tower building has tenants in place, and Acorn Event Management has upgraded the former Level 4 space in the basement, renaming it Park Place. It seats 248. They have plans to host events and book music and theater performances. Three 65” screen televisions can be used for slide shows, presentations, and video conferencing. There is a full banquet kitchen which includes a walk-in refrigerator. Debbie has already returned chimes to the clock tower, as well. Brett and Debbie are working on a remodel of the building next door at 811 12th Street, and currently merging it with the Clock Tower building next door, opening the front of the building with more windows facing the park. Hayward Lumber property Down at the corner of 10th and Pine plans are in progress for the former Hayward Lumber building and 2.5 acre lot... including expanding the 118 parking spaces with underground valet parking for a multipurpose development. Additional parking is planned with discount rates for business owners and employees to free up more downtown parking spaces for customers. The Pine Street Promenade will host retail space, office space, a hotel, and a public market. “The development will all be within walking distance from the trains station and downtown,” said Debbie. “This town is very special, and we want to help maintain it and improve on it with community oriented projects.” The Hamilton House Some call it the “Old Stone House,” others the “Sea Captain’s House,” but the historically correct name is the “Hamilton House” at 1301 Chestnut Street at the top of 13th and for 10+ years after the 2003 San Simeon Earthquake, it has been sitting precariously on its hill waiting for someone to rescue it. Brett VanSteenwyk and Debbie Lorenz, have stepped forward to take on the restoration of this beautiful, historic home, built in 1903, for future generations to enjoy.

Buildings all solar equipped Extensive solar systems have been added to the roof of each building to offset their PG&E bills by using the latest photo-voltaic technology. Brett has been involved in solar applications and solar leases for years. “The cost benefits to me make solar a slam dunk with the investment return in just five years.” Debbie agreed and spoke of their great relationship with Cal Paso Solar, “For example, we were pleased with the configuration they came up with to make room for the solar panels in between the heating and air conditioning systems spaced all over the roof of the Clock Tower building. We wanted to be sure you would not be able to see the solar panels from the ground level. This is probably the most photographed building in the city and seeing solar panels would really detract. It was a huge challenge and they were able to accomplish it.”

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Just a Paso’s Official 125th Thought Anniversary Publication! By Bob Chute

Well, here it is...after months of planning, fretting, talking, worrying and planning some more...here is our special City of Paso Robles Official 125th Anniversary issue. I hope you enjoy it...a whoooole lot of love went into it, especially from writer Chris Weygandt Alba and graphics wizard Travis Ruppe in creating the Historic ‘A City is Born’ section, starting on page 42. Thanks a bunch to you both. The City’s full page ad preceding that section welcomes you to the Official Anniversary Celebration in the park downtown on Tuesday, March 11. Check out the details in Chuck Desmond’s latest Quasquicentennial update on page 34. I’ll see you there and bring along extra copies (one for the time capsule), they’re sure to be keepsake collector’s items for you to save for your grandkids! Thanks to Chuck for the stories he’s produced every month for more than a year keeping you posted on all the inner workings of this 125th Party!..now continuing throughout 2014! Chuck shot the

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photo of the commemorative flag flying with old Glory on this page as well...most excellent! And...a whooole lot of love and appreciation goes to our advertisers...188 of them this month...many getting in the celebration spirit! We asked our local businesses if they would get in the 125th mood and congratulate the City, brag on their own accomplishments, and how great it is to do business in Paso. We have some great editorial content in this issue but the response from our businesses blew me away, you’ll have fun reading their ads as much as the stories throughout this 92 page issue - our largest ever - with our first glossy cover! The business owners put some creative thought into them...our Super Bowl Commercial issue, if you will! Personal...many have asked how things went for daughter Kelly and the birth of her 3rd child and our 7th grandchild, Emily Ruth Lear on February 13 (expected photo included).

Both are doing great and her sister, Mallory Kate, celebrates her 5th birthday on March 5... already! And now...I present Chris Weygandt Alba, native Roblan, to share her thoughts on what the City’s anniversary means to her...

OUR TOWN

Everyone mark your calendars: We’re having a party in the park on March 11, celebrating the day we became a city 125 years ago. It’s a venerable age for a city in the state of California (which turns 164 this year). In the history of civilization, we’re in kindergarten here. That too is an admirable age. Everything we really need to know, we learn in kindergarten. This little city has been a great classroom for 125 years. The pages of its history are brimming with the character-building values that nurture a good community, where people work, play, and share well with others. This town is rich with stories of courage, innovation, faith, and dedi-

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cation in the people who have cared for it over the years. We’ve drawn from these to create a town memory book in this and following issues of Paso Robles Magazine. The pioneer spirit that created this city is still robust 125 years later. The town still calls to people who are determined and versatile and who work well with others. Through good years and hard years, Paso Robles is home to good neighbors working together for the good of the community. Here, a kid can learn what she really needs to know about life while playing under an oak tree. I learned that oak trees are like people. Wound them, and they scar, but they stand up to lightning. Look close, and you’ll find a metropolis of interesting stuff whizzing around. Leave them in peace, and they develop into noble old friends. Even terribly wounded trees can heal, if their world holds enough kindness. – Chris Weygandt Alba

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Extra! Extra! Extra! Cheri York Chronicle March 2014

Buyers Moving to Paso Robles in Droves! After 125 years in existence, buyers continue moving West to settle in Paso Robles! Local Realtor, Cheri York, cries out for help in finding these buyers a place to call home. She is asking

that anyone thinking of making a move, or sellers who’s property somewhat fits the descriptions below who are not currently listed in the MLS, call 805.610.7010 asap!

1. I am waiting for a nice home to come up for sale in the senior community of Traditions when my current home sells. I have put my home on the market in anticipation. If anyone hears of a home coming up for sale soon, please call Cheri at 805.610.7010. 2. I am looking for a quaint bungalow with a bright kitchen as I like to bake. I need it to be within walking distance of town. I would love a fireplace but not mandatory. Under $500,000. 3. Looking for a ridge top estate with ultimate privacy, canyon views, guest home, gourmet kitchen and out buildings. Under 3M 4. First time home buyers looking to buy a small home,condo, town home, or mobile in a family park. Atascadero to Paso Robles. Under $250,000. 5. Wanted: Gently rolling acreage with trees on which to build a home. Land priced below $400K 6. Looking for a ranch to accommodate my 4 horses. Must have a nice barn, arena, and fenced pastures. Under $700,000. 7. We are looking for a 4 bedroom home at an affordable price. We would rather be on a quiet street and we love large windows that allow for lots of natural light. Under $650,000.

Who is Cheri York?

Cheri York, a long time resident of the Central Coast, is a native Nebraskan who along with her husband and daughter moved to Paso Robles in 1982. She also brought with her that famous Midwestern work ethic and an intense interest in Real Estate. She first started selling real estate at the age of 21 and her interest in the industry has never waned. She has been a consistent top producer for Home & Ranch Sotheby's International Realty, and has received numerous awards for her achievements in Real Estate. She also holds the HAFA short sale specialist designation, helping people who are struggling with foreclosure issues. She is a community driven individual who has represented the city of Paso Robles as an ambassador for the Chamber of

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Commerce, and offers her time to many different charitable institutions, especially those that focus on senior citizens. She works closely with the National Heifer Organization and donates Water Buffalos in her client’s names for the impoverished people of Southeast Asia. She is a graduate of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, an accomplished pianist, a supporter of the arts and avid gardener. Amazingly enough, with all this activity in her life she still had the time and drive to be co founder of zzstar.com, a local community based website. Cheri is delighted to be a part of the Paso Robles Community on its 125th Anniversary. The Central Coast is a wonderful place to live and work. It is her pleasure to show you how Home & Ranch Sotheby’s International Realty can provide the marketing advantage your home deserves. She brings a wealth of experience and strong negotiating skills to every transaction. Let her demonstrate why she is the right choice to market your home.

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Looking forward... “I have always delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” - J.B. Priestly *** Meanwhile... “No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.” - Grace Slick *** Ministry joins fight against addiction The world-renowned ministry Victory Outreach has opened its doors in Paso Robles. The church, which has been operating in the North County area for about two years, is now located at 3850 Ramada Drive, suite B3. The church’s pastor, Jason Wilson, has been with Victory Outreach International for 16 years. He was a pastor in the Gilroy Victory Outreach before moving his family to the Paso Robles area to start the ministry. The new building, which has been opened for almost two months, offers services every Sunday at 10 a.m. and Wednesday at 7 p.m.

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What is the difference between a International Oratorifalling star and a heavy fog? cal Contest for 2013- One is missed from heaven and the 14 year. The Club will other is mist from earth. judge the local student A farmer has a ton of strange animals, speeches based on content and prebut he has to sell one of them. He sentation to determine winners who has a pig with two tails, a cow with will receive awards, advance to the As well as providing church and two utters, a horse with two right zone level, and possibly the district Christian educational services, the hooves, and a chicken with only level for chances to win college ministry has opened a men’s and three toes on each foot. To keep his scholarships. women’s home to help the communi- livestock as weird as possible, what Students under 18 as of 12/31/13 ty combat the rising statistics of drug animal should he sell? and have not yet graduated high and alcohol addiction. - The horse, all of them have two right school or equivalent are eligible. For more information, contact hooves! Deadline to submit speeches is March Victory Outreach Paso Robles at *** 13, to learn more call Kerry Mayling (805) 703-3753. Oratorical Contest (program chair) at 237-9708. The Optimist Club of Paso The contest takes place March *** Robles is encouraging area students 20, 6:30 p.m. at the Quail Run Club America “They say all nations are sore at us. to speak their minds about the House in Paso Robles. To learn more Unfortunately for us they didn’t get topic, “How My Passions Impact about Optimist International, visit sore at us quick enough. If they had, the World” as part of the Optimist www.optimist.org. we would have saved a lot of money. We are the ones that should be sore Borjon honored with at them for not getting sore at us Beautification Award quicker.” The recent remodeling of Borjon - Will Rogers Auto Center, corner Highway 46 *** East and Golden Hill Road, was Forgiveness recognized during February with “Forgive me my nonsense as I also the Paso Robles Chamber of forgive the nonsense of those who Commerce Beautification Award. think they talk sense.” They opened as Paso Robles GMC Truck in 1991, renaming the dealership - Robert Frost Golden Hills Auto Center in 1996. Five years ago Mark Borjon’s friend and *** partner, Fred Roy, retired and the Borjon family took full control. During Riddles for the Kids 2013 they completed the remodel, changed the name to Borjon Auto What runs around town all day, and Center at the suggestion of Mark’s daughter and General Manager, Jennifer lies under the bed at night with its Borjon-Wescom (pictured with her father), to ensure the community knows tongue hanging out? the Borjon family will be here for years to come. - Your shoe.

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EDUCATION & YOUTH Hairspray – The Broadway Musical

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invites audience to sing along By Meagan Friberg When the Paso High Theatre Company brings Hairspray – The Broadway Musical to the PRHS Performing Arts Center for two weekends in April, there’s going to be a whole lot of singing, dancing and laughing – as well as a few tears – with many cast members taking the stage for the final curtain call of their senior year. “This program has meant so much to us,” said Logan Ferry, who is a must-see as Edna. “For the seniors it’s just real emotional, as we approach our final production, to know that this will be the last thing we do together on this stage.” After spending time with the cast and crew, it is apparent that they share a special bond – they truly seem like a family. PRHS Drama Instructor/Hairspray Director Marcy Goodnow says there’s “something really emotional and powerful” that harbors the connection they have with one another. “When we get to show time, it can be difficult for us,” Goodnow said, “because we feel the love and we know our time together is going to end.” Based on the 1988 John Waters film starring Ricki Lake, the musical-comedy takes place in 1962 Baltimore. Big-haired and boisterous Tracy Turnblad, played by sophomore Casey Galli, dreams of dancing on The Corny Collins Show and catching the eye of Link Larkin, played by senior Ryan Ramos. Tracy

Sophomore Casey Galli, center, plays big-haired and boisterous Tracy Turnblad in the Paso High Theatre Company’s production of Hairspray.

“My role is so much different than anything I have ever done,” Pietz said, “and it’s been a lot of fun.” Fellow senior Lyric Jefferson (Motormouth Mabel) said it has given her insight into the civil rights movement. Elizabeth Kenny, a junior, plays the part of mean girl Amber – her polar opposite in real life, she said. “She is so the opposite,” Goodnow said. “She is really sweet and yet she plays a pretty mean girl.” Ramos turned to YouTube for assistance with his song and dance moves. “My character is supposed to be the most technically proficient dancer on The Corny Collins Show,” Ramos said. “I have no dance background and I also had to learn to sing like Elvis.” With various predominant themes weaved throughout the show such as bullying, prejudice There’s a whole lot of singing and dancing in and jealousy, many cast members the Paso High Theatre Company’s production said the message is still relevant in of Hairspray – a delight for audience today’s world. members of all ages. “I have been bullied for a lot of “I have loved this musical for a the same things in real life that my long time and I have always wanted character is bullied for in the show,” Galli said. “Being part of the Hairto play the part,” Galli said. Senior Hailey Pietz plays Tracy’s spray show has helped me with my antagonist, Velma, in the show and confidence because of the things I is Galli’s sister in real life. Quite the get to do on stage; I think a lot of opposite of the role she is playing on- girls and boys will be able to relate.” stage, however, Pietz says it is mean- Goodnow said she continually ingful to share the stage with her sis- sees growth in the confidence level ter, especially in light of it being her of her actors as they take on challenging roles, saying it’s “inspiring.” final production at PRHS. wins a role on the show, becomes an overnight celebrity, and launches a campaign to integrate the show – a social commentary on injustices in parts of American society during that era. The original Broadway production of the musical won eight Tony Awards in 2003. Galli was a shoe-in for the role of Tracy, said Goodnow, and delivers the goods when it comes to expressing the indomitable, irrepressible, spirit of the lead character.

“I cast the actors not because they look a certain way, not because they are a certain color or ethnicity, but because they can sing, they can act,” she said. “We are going to play with some things that really guide the audience.” According to Goodnow, the show is fast-paced, with moving pieces that she rented from an L.A. production company. “The entire movement of the show is choreographed,” she said, by 2013 PRHS dance program alumnus Courtney Brock. Sydney Throop is the stage manager, while fellow senior David Fitzpatrick is the assistant stage manager. Aimee Ware, in her second year as the PRHS Choir teacher, lends vocal direction while PRHS Migrant Education teacher Ruth Enriquez-Bague returns as the costume designer. Filled with big dreams, big laughs, big hair – and an ensemble of big talent – Hairspray is sure to be a big hit! Order tickets now and bring a friend to sing along to the musical that celebrates the power of hope. See Hairspray at the PRHS Performing Arts Center, 801 Niblick Road, on April 4 and 5 at 7:30 p.m.; April 6 at 2 p.m. and again on April 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. and April 13 at 2 p.m. Tickets are currently available at prhsdrama.com and will also be sold at the door one hour before each show. Adults, $15; students/seniors/ children 3-13, $12; no children under 3 please. Parental discretion advised. All seats are general seating – first come, first served. Handicap seating and assisted listening available on request.

DAR’s ‘Good Citizen’ Contest winners honored The El Paso de Robles Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution recently announced the winners of their Good Citizen Contest. The winners were honored with a special luncheon, a lapel pin, and a certificate, as well as a monetary prize. This year the first place winner was Olivia Nelson who attends Atascadero High School, awarded $250. Runners up were Brooke Lane Barrett (North County Christian School) and Logan Ferry (Paso Robles High School) each awarded $150.

This annual award has been presented to a local high school senior since the chapter was chartered in February 1950. The DAR Good Citizens program and scholarship contest is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship and is open to all senior class students enrolled in accredited schools. Only one candidate from each school in our local area may be honored as a school’s DAR Good Citizen. The El Paso de Robles Chap-

ter of Daughters of the American Revolution has forwarded Miss Nelson’s essay to their District VII for competition, with a possibility of winning the National Championship scholarship. All three students are to be commended for their work and enthusiasm. For further information regarding this contest or local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter contact Donna Cohen, Regent, at (805) 3950630 or dmcpatriotdaughter @gmail.com

DAR winners include, from left, Brooke Barrett, North County Christian School; Olivia Nelson, Atascadero High School; and Logan Ferry, Paso Robles High School.

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EDUCATION & YOUTH From about 1861 to 1901, mail was delivered by stagecoach up and down California on the El Camino Route. It was in about 1857 when Misters Wells and Fargo had joined forces and opened offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. They were also acquiring other smaller stage coach companies. Those smaller companies were squabbling a bit amongst themselves and, adding to the chaos was the fact that other stage lines were opening up the West and delivering freight, mail and passengers from the Midwest. The “Way Stations” along the route were of course the cities we know today along what is Highway 101. Mail coming from the North came through San Miguel before it arrived here. “Here” in 1867 was actually called “Hot Springs” and it wasn’t much of a place but it had a modest hotel where the Paso Robles Inn now stands. Inside was the post office. The east side of town was heavy into sheep ranches and it was estimated there were about 15,000 of those fur balls there. Times change! The name of our town changed to El Paso de Robles and in 1886, the train came and people took the train from San Francisco to buy city lots here. The day of the stagecoach was rapidly coming to an end. Fast forward to March 11, 2014. By now, everyone knows Paso will be 125 that day. Celebrations abound and one of them is the re-enactment of the mail, coming to town “on the stage.”

By Chuck Desmond Tommy and Debby Harris, owners of Harris Stage Lines, have put together a memorabilia event that will be historically and emotionally relevant. They will hitch four of their horses and drive their stagecoach from their ranch on N. River Rd. to the San Miguel Post Office. There, they will connect with the San Miguel’s Postmaster E. Phillip Anguay, Paso’s Postmaster Mike Milby and Fire Chief Ken Johnson. Mail for the day will be a unified letter from the classes of the Paso grade schools and San Miguel. Students are signing the letters at their schools and then they will be taken to the SM office and loaded onto the stage. The Harrises and son, Cactus, the honored guests and Harris’ partner, Stephen Yerger, will leave San Miguel to arrive back at the Harris Way Station for cornbread and beans, the classic stagecoach meal of yesteryear. At 2:30, the stagecoach takes off again and is scheduled to arrive at City Park right at 3:30 just as the festivities are about to begin. If you want to take some photos, the route is SM Post Office going North to River Rd., across the San Miguel bridge and then across the Estrella to Welsona. Continuing down N. River Rd. to Harris Ranch, across the little Estrella Creek to the Union Rd. junction. Then, up 13th St,, across the bridge and turn left at Riverside Ave. to 10th St to Spring and right to 11th

St and end at the park. The mail will be carried to the post office, postmarked and mailed to the schools that day. When they arrive at the schools, every student who signed one will receive a copy for his or her memorabilia collection. Very cool! To the Harrises who donated the stagecoach and horses and those who have helped pull this all together – A great big Thank You. If you would like to have a piece of once-in-a lifetime memorabilia, here is what to do and it is soooo easy! You need two envelopes and 2 stamps and one Post-It-Note. Stamp and send one envelope to Paso Robles Post Office, 800 6th St. Paso 93446 attn. Postmaster Mike Milby. Inside that envelope, put a stamped, self addressed envelope. If you want to put a letter inside with your family history or a congrats note to Paso, that’d be great. On March 11th, Mr. Milby will make sure all the letters are stamped (cancelled) with the March 11th date and mailed to you, the sender...just like the school letters. When you receive it, put the Post-It-Note on the outside about what it is and tuck it aside for your great grandkids to find 50 or 100 years from now. Once in a five generations opportunity!

PREA receives $10,000 donation By Millie Drum The Paso Robles Education Alliance (PREA) received a $10,000 check from Roll Global Corporation, known locally as the parent company of Justin Vineyards and Winery. Roll Global is a successful, entrepreneurial, privately held company with healthy, iconic, authentic brands, and ethical, creative, innovative business practices. The owners and employees are passionate about sustainability, social responsibility, philanthropy and wellness for their employees, communities and consumers around the world.

The Paso Robles Education Alliance (PREA) is a non-profit, community based organization that supports and enhances the educational environment of the Paso Robles Public Schools. PREA has been fortunate to receive generous donations from many local businesses who believe in the classroom and school site enrichment that PREA provides the Paso Robles public schools. Another PREA donor is the Florence MacFarland Martin Foundation, which has provided funds for PREA’s Classroom of Tomorrow project that puts new technology in the classrooms. In addition, PREA

has received donations from the following local companies since its inception in 2009: IQMS, Paso Robles Magazine, Connect Home Loans, Re/Max Parkside, Coldwell Banker, Paso Robles Association of Realtors and Fidelity National Title. PREA is always looking for donations from the community. “The only way we have been able to provide teacher grants, high school scholarships and new classroom technology is from raising the money from the community,” said PREA Board member, Gwen Severson. “We have set our fundraising goals higher in 2014 and we challenge any community member to match Roll Global’s donation.”

E. Phillip Anguay San Miguel Postmaster

Tommy on the Stage Coach

Fire Chief Ken Johnson with the Protect and Serve Statue

Paso Postmaster Mike Milby

Gwen adds, “PREA welcomes new projects and ideas to help enrich the public schools. If you are a firm believer in the arts, music or science, PREA can execute a program with your funds. PREA operates separately from the school district and any funds we are given can be steered exactly where a donor wants them to go without the risk of the money ending up in another pot.” The major fundraising event for 2014 will be held at the Paso Robles Inn Ballroom on New Year’s Eve. The theme will be the “Roaring 20’s” and it should be a sell out! For more information regarding PREA call (866) 6200584 or visit the website www. GoPREA.org.

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EDUCATION & YOUTH 9th Annual Wild Wild West Casino Night

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By Millie Drum The popular, western themed Wild Wild West Casino Night, presented by the Paso Robles Youth Sports Council, will be held Saturday, April 5 at 6 p.m. at Centennial Park, 600 Nickerson in Paso Robles and includes a BBQ tri-tip dinner, entry to the casino and chips for gambling, games, and silent auction and raffle prizes. The Paso Robles Youth Sports Council has raised over $80,000 to maintain and improve our sports fields that are administered by the city and the school district. The term “teamwork” rings loud and clear as families gather with strength in numbers to raise money and provide the manpower to work on restoration and maintenance projects all year long. Field Gibson is currently the Administrative Vice President and founding past President. Steve Serda is the current president. “This is the ninth year for Casino

Night,” said Gibson. “With approximately $7,000 to $14,000 raised per event, the council has played a major role in maintaining and building sports fields; improving just about every city field, including Barney Schwartz Park and most of the school sites as well. Along with Casino Night, we collect funds through voluntary fees from each participant of each member league. The participants/leagues pay in $10 per player to the PRYSC as well. Out of that, we pay the city $10,000 per year in “field use fees” and the balance goes to help pay for the maintenance efforts. We have a great working relationship with the city and schools. “Our 2014 budget reflects roughly $30,000 for the maintenance or construction of facilities. The

money we raise goes even farther due to the generosity of local businesses that support our efforts through donations of material or labor. Both the PRYSC board members and the member youth organizations also donate hundreds of hours of labor. When we rebuilt Liberty Field a few years ago, our hard cost was $17,000. Upon requesting approval for the project to the school district, the cost estimate for the school district to have done it themselves was about $75,000. Because North County Aquatics is also a member of the PRYSC, we also provide ongoing support for the maintenance of municipal pool facility.”

The PR Youth Sports Council also serves as an advocate for publicly supported youth sports organizations to provide a forum through which independent sports groups can advise and petition the City of Paso Robles and area schools on matters regarding youth and adult athletic activities throughout the city and school district. Organizations include A.Y.S.O Region 741, Paso Robles Babe Ruth, Paso Robles Girls Softball, Paso Robles Youth Baseball, Paso Robles Football and Cheer and North County Aquatics. Community involvement is encouraged. Monthly board meetings are held the second Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. at Kennedy Club Fitness, 500 South River Road in Paso Robles. Wild Wild West Casino Night sponsors include Paso Robles Waste & Recycle, 1230 AM KPRL, and MMC Lending. Information on purchasing tickets and sponsorship opportunities is available at www. prysc.org. or call 227-0155. Tickets are also available at the door.

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PRHS welding students lend hand to Bearcat Spirit Wall By Meagan Friberg For those driving through the Paso Robles High School parking lot, it’s hard to miss the mascot that adorns the Bearcat Spirit Wall – a 10-foot tall crimson metal cutout on the southfacing wall of the 500 building. And that’s how it was intended to be; there is no doubt you’re entering Bearcat Country, as the words on either side of the sign so aptly point out. The project was spearheaded and funded by local residents Tony and Kim Gaspar whose children attended the school. Nathan Taylor and Anthony Kerstein, seniors at PRHS, played a critical role in making the Bearcat Spirit Wall a reality. Under the direction of PRHS Welding instructor Justin Pickard, these young men have honed their welding skills over their high school career, the last three in ROP Welding. “We were approached by the Gaspars and asked if we would like to have some input,” Pickard said. “Nathan and Anthony were my teaching

“Everything was cut by Paso Robles Welding due to some size limitations in our high school shop,” Pickard said. “We picked it up, cleaned the metal edges, aligned it correctly, did some welds, put it together and cleaned it up. It was a fast timeframe – we had it returned to them in about three days, even though we were given a week to complete it. I like to show the students that it’s nice to have projects completed earlier than promised.” The school’s maintenance crew placed the massive cut out in its prominent position, thus helping the Gaspar family; the students and their instructor leave a legendary Kerstein, left, and Taylor, right, under the Paso High seniors Nathan Taylor and Anthony mark on PRHS. Pickard said that direction of PRHS Welding instructor Justin Kerstein, pictured inside the PRHS welding most of the welding projects comPickard, played a critical role in making the workshop, prepare the face of the mascot that Bearcat Spirit Wall a reality. pleted around campus by his stuwould later adorn the Bearcat Spirit Wall. dents are not the type that people assistants and I knew they would be ing legacy would “have a big impact” tend to notice. The Bearcat Spirit great for the project. It was a great – and it was a lot of fun, too. Anthony Wall, however, is quite noticeable, also felt honored, saying that “it’s great to say the least. experience all the way around.” Nathan said when he was assigned to be part of something that is going Please see WELDING page 25 the task that being part of the last- to last on the Paso High campus.”

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WELDING from page 22 “We do a lot of repair work,” he said, “but to have something that everyone sees and notices every day is unique. It’s your first impression when you drive onto the campus. It’s kind of like our fingerprint that we are able to leave.” Nancy Taylor, Nathan’s mom, said Pickard has been a positive role model for the two young men throughout their time in the welding program and is a natural leader to all of his students. “I am grateful for his commitment to the students and the programs at PRHS,” Nancy said. “I am happy the boys were able to be a part of this and that they are able to leave a part of their hard work and passion and a positive legacy mark at PRHS.” Nathan and Anthony currently work part time in the welding and construction industry after school and plan to work full time and attend Cuesta College after they graduate from Paso High in June. Both have competed and earned medals in the Skills USA competitions over the past few years. Anthony took his state silver medal-winning project to the California Mid-State Fair last summer where he garnered two judge’s awards and earned prizes for his efforts. Nathan played a role in installing lights and sound equipment for the new PRHS Performing Arts Center where he is the “Sound Bro.” A 3rd generation Bearcat, he recently completed and earned his Eagle Scout advancement. Check out the latest updates on Paso Robles High School Welding Technology on Facebook; contact Justin Pickard for more information on the welding program via email at jpickard@pasoschools.org.

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The El Paso de Robles Area Historical Society joins the community in celebration of the City’s 125th Anniversary To commemorate the anniversary, the Carnegie Library is featuring a yearlong exhibit showcasing the history of Paso Robles from the original Spanish Land Grant, to the development of the mineral hot springs, the arrival of the railroad, the sale of the first town lots, the growth of early businesses, building the Carnegie Library, the arrival of Paderewski, and much more. El Paso de Robles Area Historical Society Located in the Carnegie Library, downtown City Park Open Tuesday and Thursday through Saturday 10am to 4pm, Sunday 11am to 4pm Paso Robles’ Founding Fathers (L to R) Drury James, Daniel & James Blackburn

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Thank you... We are truly grateful to all the individuals, businesses and municipalities in the North County for their ever growing commitment to support our 3 generation family business for the last 29 years! There have been so many changes since our family moved here in 1958 but one thing has stayed consistent and that is community unity. From growing up here to operating our business here we can honestly say there is no place like it! We are wishing a very happy 125th anniversary to Paso Robles! (Hope we look as good when we’re your age!)

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By Chuck Desmond Far, far away in a land called Fort Worth, Texas, there is a Western style of life that’s as important as it is in El Paso de Robles. Like us, they have a huge stock show, rodeo and a grand parade...the Fort Worth Stock Show’s “All Western Parade.” January of this year, for them, was the 118th time the 2 week extravaganza at the famous Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum has been held. They pretty much have the formula down pat! Not only do those Texans know how to put the party together, they also know what to look for – at least in the parade! Advertised as “A Parade So Famous, It Will Stop You In The Streets!” everything except the marching bands has to be pulled by animals; no engines or motors allowed! The end result was that two months ago, moving through the center of Fort Worth were 200 entrants and 2,000 animals watched by 100,000 spectators! When y’all get involved in the horse-wagonbuggy-carriage business, it isn’t too different from most other fields. The cream does rise to the top and right here in our great town of paradise on the Central Coast, we have the créme de la créme. Since they moved here from Carmel Valley in 1994, Tommy and Debby Harris at Harris Stage Lines on North River Road have been making a name for themselves...and the name, Paso Robles, goes right along with it. Son, Cactus, has gained notoriety as well. You probably remember reading a few issues back in your Paso Robles Magazine about how Cactus, a Fresno State Grad, horseman and accomplished musician, rebuilt a fabulous antique organ that is now ready for upcoming concerts at the ranch. Then, not too long ago, the Harrises teamed up with Stephen Yerger to showcase his wonderful collection of horse-drawn carriages. There are 15 of them - all original, restored and driveable! Everything is on 26 acres with 20 horses / mules and farm equipment used to work the land just as God intended! So, picture the four of them sitting around the BBQ with some of Debby’s home-made corn bread and beans...and they receive a phone call inviting them to be in the Fort Worth 2014 festivities. With honey dripping from the warm bread, they hollered, “You betcha! We’ll be there!” People know the Harris quality! Texas wanted to see some of it. The first part of the plan was to get their old buddy, Larry Mahan, 6-time, world champion and all-around cowboy, to join in the fun. Since he lives just outside of Fort Worth, it was a slamdunk to line him up for the event. Loaded up in the semi trailer truck were friend, Quentin Hall, 5 Percheron quarter-horse cross

The Harris ensemble lined up on the parade route with Cactus in the back of the wagon, playing “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You” on that ol’ calliope. Tommy looked out and saw what he says were unbelievably fabulous rigs and precision trained horses. “We don’t have a TriTip’s chance in this brisket-oriented town to do good in this parade,” he thought. But Larry Mahan and the rest of the Harris clan just kept waving! When the parade ended it was time for the awards. Out of the clear blue, Harris and Co. won the plaque award for traveling the furthest distance! Sweet! Then came the award for Best Horse Drawn Vehicle – and, they won again! WOW! Quentin Hall, Tommy Harris, Stephen Yerger, Last of all was the presentation for the Debby Harris, Cactus Harris displaying their Chairman’s Award for Overall Outstanding winnings from Fort Worth, Texas. Parade Entry. Yessir, they won that one too! Top honor of the day! Awesome! January 18th was a very good day for the Harrises and a darn good hunk of publicity for us here at home. Congratulations to the Harris cast of characters. Well done! Want more of what the Harrises are up to? Check out the article on page 18 of this issue in The QuasquiWorld Champion Cowboy Larry Cactus with his calliope centennial Update – Paso’s Birthday Mahon and Tommy Harris along contributed to the fun and Party. It’s exciting!

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North SLO County Concert The North SLO County Concert Association presents Sixth Floor Trio at Trinity Lutheran Church, 940 Creston Road in Paso Robles on Sunday March 9, 3 p.m., doors open at 2:30. Tickets are $20 for adults, $ 15 for students and for more information call 2392770 or visit their web site www.nslocca.org MOPS dates in March Mothers of PreSchoolers meet March 10 and March 24 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Highlands Church 215 Oak Hill Rd. Paso Robles. For kids ages birth to Kindergarten. Childcare provided. For more information contact Mindy Klein (831) 596-2251 or mops@highlandsadventure.org.

Adult Wellness Adult Wellness & Prevention Screening serves the County of San Luis Obispo providing free health screening for adults. Services include monitoring of blood pressure, pulse and weight and finger prick blood test screening for anemia, blood sugar and cholesterol. Nutritional /lifestyle counseling. No appointment needed for basic services. First come first served. The schedule for March is as follows: • Tuesday, March 4, 9 a.m. to 12 Noon - Atascadero Senior Center, 5905 E. Mall Street. Full Lipid Panel available at this site for $20.00 fee. Call: 544-2484 ext. 1 for an appointment. • Wednesday, March 26, 9 a.m. to 12 Noon - Paso Robles Senior Center, 270 Scott Street. For further information contact the Community Action Partnership Adult Wellness and Prevention Screening, 1030 Southwood Drive, San Luis Obispo or phone 544-2484 ext. 1.

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WWW6 – Special Open House planned for Estrella Warbirds Museum and Woodland Auto Display The Warbirds Wings and Wheels 6, sponsored by Firestone Walker Brewing Company, includes an Open House extravaganza, featuring a Classic and Vintage Car Show, set for Saturday, May 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Museum, 4251 Dry Creek Road in Paso Robles. There is no cost to enjoy the day’s line up of activities for the Family Fun Day with 250 cars and specialty vehicles parked among military aircraft and equipment on display vying for 1st Place Class Awards in 22 classes and Best of Show. Special Guest, renowned 3 time Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Unser, and his 1981 Indianapolis 500 race winning Penske PC9B Norton Spirit Indy car will be here. Unser will be available for photos and signing autographs! The car took the pole at 200.545 mph and a racing average speed of 139.084 mph! (Don’t miss the Bobby Unser interview in the April Paso Robles Magazine!) Ever had flying in a vintage warbird on your bucket list? Rides will be available on a T38 two seater trainer for $350 and a T28 two seater trainer for $650. A portion of your ride is tax deductible as a donation to the Estrella Warbirds Museum Free Fun Family Activities Free tours for the day of the Estrella Warbirds Museum and

Woodland Auto Display while Firestone Walker will be pouring their selection of brews for the adults. Wine, sodas and water will also be available along with a variety of palate pleasers in the food court with time appropriate music alongside vendors displaying auto-related items. The Hind Pavilion Grand Entrance with an expanded gift shop and displays will be open to the public. The display includes a F18 training simulator and an early war years Yanks trainer. The North County Cloud Clippers radio control model aircraft club will be displaying their flying skills as well with demonstrations at 11 am and 1 p.m. In 2009 the museum welcomed the addition of the Woodland Auto Display featuring an extensive display of classic cars, vintage era cars, Sprints and Midgets, Indy cars, NASCAR, and motorcycles along with an impressive display of art work, memorabilia and an automotive research library. The Woodland Auto Display provides an impressive 10,000 sq. ft. with something for everyone to enjoy. How to Enter YOUR Car To enter your car in the show go to www.ewarbirds.org and click on the car show link for further information or stop by the museum and pick up an entry form. Entry fee is $40. All entries will receive a goody bag, dash plaque,

tee shirt, poster and a picture of their car with a plane as they enter the museum. Plus car show participants only can enter a cash drawing to win $600 first prize, $400 second, and $200 for third. Participants vehicle parking begins at 7 a.m. and ends at 9:45 a.m. the day of the event. Judging is 10 a.m. to 12 noon. The Awards ceremony begins at 3 p.m. All vehicles are to remain in the display area unUnser’s Indianapolis 500 race winning Indy 500 Winner 1981 Penske PC9B Norton Spirit car will til the Awards 3xBob by Unser will be on display. Ceremony and join us! special participant cash drawing has ended. Questions, call 227-0440. See photos of last years’s show at www.ewar birds.org. museum The Recently restored F86. is located by the Paso Robles Airport at 4251-A them. Their approach is not to Dry Creek Road, normal hours glorify conflict, but rather to make it is open Thursday through future generations aware of the Sunday and Monday Holidays fact our way of life does not come 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For additional without sacrifice. Estrella Warbirds information, call (805) 227-0440 Museum is a non-profit under the or www.ewarbirds.org. provisions of sections 501(c)(3) of Estrella Warbirds Museum is the IRS Code, tax ID number is: dedicated to the restoration and 77-0324714. All proceeds from the preservation of military aircraft, car show go to help preserve, mainvehicles and the memorabilia of tain and expand their displays for those who used and maintained future generations to enjoy.

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PASO P EOPLE By Chuck Desmond On March 11th, in just a few days Paso, we’ll celebrate 125 years of you as an incorporated city! Isn’t that just absolutely fabulous! Our hometown, our city, our time! Yessir, March, as we think about it, is the beginning of Spring and new beginnings for our home town. That makes it the perfect time to look back, celebrate and reflect on this remarkable and historic milestone. As a matter of fact however, we’re celebrating all year long. We started on New Years eve with the grand party at the Inn. 200 folks dressed

to the nines and dining on the best from the land and the sea, drinking Hope Family specially crafted wines, seeing dance performances and then the guests dancing to the music of a great band. While this was going on, The Glow In the Dark event at City Park for families was packed to the hilt. The weather was superb and even though we did, and still need, feet of rain, the dry evening was appreciated by all. Then fireworks downtown in the Park. Who’d have ever thought that! For the next two

Quasquicentennial Update Happy Anniversary to you, El Paso de Robles! weeks, folks about town were still buzzing about how much fun that evening was. And now, here we are just a few days away. After two years of planning by the co-chairs of the committee, Julie Dahlen, Dee Lacey and Frank Mecham and their 50 mignons, it’s time to stand tall and proud and sing an official Happy Birthday salute!

Let’s start the celebration with what you’re holding right in your hands. This is the Paso Robles Magazine’s 155th issue (12 years, 11 months!) and the first time it has ever been done with a glossy cover. It’s also the largest issue ever with 92 pages! As you read through, pay attention to ads placed by companies, organizations plus our friends and neighbors who have taken the time and effort to say Thank You or Happy Days and Best Wishes to Paso. This is a collector’s issue for sure. Historical photos, great stories, and Paso news of today. Set it aside

for the grandkids. They’ll appreciate leafing through to see what our lives in Paso were like in 2014. And now, on to the events of the Anniversary Month. Ms. Freda Berman and seemingly the entire school district has organized another get-together in the heart of Paso,

again at City Park. Get a new roll of film and polish the lens on your camera! Don’t miss this! When classes are finished in the schools, get on over to the park for an exciting and busy two hours. Beginning at 3:30, there will be 1000 cupcakes served up for the after-school snack. Pithy Little Soda Works is unveiling and serving it’s specially prepared beverage too. Remember, the next 125th won’t happen again until the year 2139 so moms, it’s ok today! The High School band will perform and so will the choir and the cheerleaders. Plus, a parade around the park itself.

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One of the floats in the parade was built by the engineering class at the High School. They’ve made an operating roller coaster! A time-capsule will be buried, with a copy of the Paso Robles Magazine’s March issue, right by the Historical Society which is housed in the Carnegie Library building. His Honor, Mr. Mayor Duane Picanco, and other officials will make their speeches for their own memories and future wishes.

Also for the first time, the new city flag commemorating Paso Robles will be hoisted into place. The pole banners will be flying all along Spring Street. and each Paso public school has its own Quasquicentennial flag hung with pride right under the USA flag. Pioneer Museum has its Quasquicentennial flag flying with pride as well. Another exciting event on March 11th will be the stage coach arriving from San Miguel with some very special mail for the day. Check out this separate story on page 18. Please see Anniversary page 38

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By Millie Drum It’s certainly THE year for anniversary celebrations. El Paso de Robles was founded 125 years ago in 1889. Just 50 years later, the Paso Robles Lions Club signed their charter in 1939. To gain perspective at those days long ago in Paso’s history, the famous El Paso de Robles Hotel burned to the ground and Camp Roberts opened, bringing a population boom to Paso. Today, as the Paso Robles Lions Club celebrates its 75th anniversary, the members continue to forge ahead with the same legacy for tradition and dedication to their community service through volunteer work, health programs and empowering the next generation. The years served by the principle members comes to a staggering 465, not counting those with less than 15 years in the club. The honored members are Cliff Tucker with 55 years, Ole Viborg 40, Duane Picanco 45, Ken Colwell 40, Larry Eastwood 40, Tom Moore 40, Paul Lamas 35, Tom Flynn 30, Karen Lamas 30, Ben Holsted 25, Dave Simpson 20, Nick Sherwin 20, Darwin Curry 15 and beloved Wally Ohles with almost 30 years before his passing in 2012. President Dan Mei-

necke reflects, “As a fairly new member, Wally took me under his wing. And I needled him on his ‘crazy’ sense of humor.” In 1917, Chicago business leader Melvin Jones told members of his local business club that they should reach beyond their own business and strive to help their communities and the world. After engaging similar groups throughout the country, a planning meeting was held on June 17, 1917. The new group took the name of one of the invited groups, the “Association of Lions Clubs,” and a national convention was held in Dallas, Texas later that year. With a constitution, by-laws, objectives and a code of ethics in place, Lions became an international organization within three years. Almost 97 years later, Lions is the world’s largest service club organization. The work ethic: Integrity and comradeship between members sends a powerful message to the next generation through the Leo Club - reaching

local youth by giving them volunteer opportunities. Recognition for local youth is on-going through sportsmanship awards, student scholarships and student speaker contests. Events and activities, particularly the upcoming 75th Anniversary Golf Tournament at the Paso Robles Golf Club in June funds the programs and scholarships. President Dan Meinecke adds, “The money raised, regardless of the event or activity stays in the community. The membership dues drive the funding that goes to Lions International. So when we say the money stays local, that’s what we mean. Internationally the Lions are recognized first and foremost for their aid and assistance on vision care that dates back to the time when Helen Keller addressed the Lions with the challenge to be the Knights of the Blind.” Health related programs include vision and hearing screenings, eye banks, and eyeglass recycling.

The 75th Anniversary Lions Club Golf Tournament will be held on June 14 at the Paso Robles Golf Club. Early bird sign ups at $75 are due by May 1, 2014. Cash prizes awards and lunch are provided. Contact Darwin Curry at 2372269 or drcurry@charter.net. Or mail fee to P.O. Box 815, Paso Robles, 93447. Proceeds benefit local vision and hearing screenings and college sponsorships.

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With Paso’s 125th yearlong celebration, the 84th Pioneer Day on October 11 will be “one for the record” with the Lions Club at the famous bean pots with the ‘old hands and a few youngsters’ stirring the beans; particularly Lion and Mayor Duane Picanco and Lion Larry Eastwood who manages the ingredients that go into a ton of beans! Whenever a Lions Club gets together, problems get smaller. And communities get better. Anyone interested in creating a better life for themselves, their families, neighbors and community at large is invited to attend a Lions Club meeting; the 2nd and 4th Tuesday at the Elks Lodge, 1420 Park Street in Paso Robles. Visit www.pasorobleslions.org.

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Sandra MacGillivray March’s Featured Artist The Paso Robles City Library invites the public to experience the still-life and plein air art of Sandra MacGillivray. “I use oil, watercolors, and pastel as my whims take me. I paint for me and hope to share.” Pajama Storytime Bring the whole family to the library for an evening of stories

with a Special Guest Storyteller on Thursday, March 27 at 6:30 p.m. Children may wear pajamas and should bring an adult to snuggle with! BRUSHMARKS 2014 date change to April 2 Aspiring North County artists in grades 6-12 are invited to submit artwork for the Paso Robles City Library’s 8th Annual Brushmarks Juried

Art Competition for Teens. Submissions will be accepted on Wednesday, April 2, in three categories – painting, drawing, and, new this year to commemorate the city’s 125th Anniversary, a special Anniversary Celebration category. A small entry fee is charged to enter the event. Winners in each category will be selected by Juror Jack Johnson and prizes, donated by Johnson, will be awarded at the Gallery

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Hearst, Birma Still, Eleanor Rosevelt, Grandma Moses and a host of others. These wonderful ladies will be presenting what they did and how their work was significant. Added to this line-up is a first-time event held in the original 100 year-old one-room Geneseo Schoolhouse on the museum campus. School will be in session just like it was about 100 years ago! Drawing prizes will also be given out.

Men and children are definitely encouraged to attend on March 29th from 1 to 4 in the afternoon. See and meet the special women of yesteryear and then tour the 6000 artifacts on display. Admission and parking are free but donations are naturally greatly appreciated. Need more information? • Party In The Park – Freda Berman at Fberman @PRCity.com.

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Reception on Friday, May 2. Rules and entry forms are available at the library and at www. prcity.com/library. For more information, contact Suzanne, 237-3870. The Paso Robles City Library is located at 1000 Spring Street and is open Monday – Friday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information on library programs and events, call 2373870 or visit www.prcity.com/ library.

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Paso Robles Celebrates 125 Years

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Map by Myron Angel, 1883

Here we are in the 1860s: Welcome to Hot Springs, California – the best little health spa in the West! In the lower right corner is the bathhouse, on the site of an ancient hot mineral spring (which sprang up again in the city parking lot after the 2003 earthquake). On the west side of Stagecoach Road (later Spring Street) is the new Hot Springs Hotel, with Patsey Dunn’s General Store to the north. A new post office gave the village a new name: El Paso de Robles.

ere’s how a rest stop by a muddy spring near a river became a world-class resort: The hot springs area along the Salinas River is an historic people-magnet. Its waterways offer a natural attraction, long appreciated by native Chumash and Salinan tribes, Spanish Mission explorers, and Mexican landowners, who added orchards, vineyards, and ranchos. The little rest stop on the El Camino Real trail changed forever when the Gold Rush swept California into the United States. The pleasing valley landscape in the new state’s County of San Luis Obispo attracted pioneering settlers seeking land for agriculture and commerce. In 1857, James and Daniel Blackburn purchased the former rancho El Paso de Robles, known for its mineral springs. The Blackburn brothers uncovered a hot-springs pool on the Rancho El Paso de Robles at the corner of what is now 10th and Spring streets. Much happened in the ensuing decade. The brothers split the property in 1860, with Daniel staying in the stagecoach stop and James heading across the The stagecoach was only public transport Salinas to build a ranch. inand out of the village known first as Daniel built a successful Hot Springs and then El Paso de Robles.

14-room Hot Springs Hotel on Stagecoach Road in 1864. As stagecoaches rolled in and health-conscious passengers disembarked in ever-increasing numbers, the rest stop grew into a little resort. Drury James got acquainted with the brothers during his visits to the area during these years. He bought an interest in the up and coming stagecoach resort in 1865, and in 1866 he and Daniel married local sisters Mary Luisa and Cecelia Dunn.

The city was created to enrich mind, body and soul. A post office was established on June 14, 1867. Previously the mail had been delivered to the Hot Springs Hotel. The letters were put on the mantle and anyone anticipating a letter could look through the correspondence. Unclaimed letters were kept for a short time, then returned to San Luis Obispo. Often names of unclaimed letters were published in the local paper, and this helped the outlying ranchers plan the trips to town. Late in 1867, the name of the post office was changed from “Hot Springs” to “El Paso de Robles.” The brothers-in-law envisioned a city rising with a world-class spa at its center, and they began to map out their dream. They unveiled the centerpiece in 1867.

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The Founding Fathers The visionaries themselves dropped by the Carnegie Library in March 2012, for a quick check-in call on the city they founded in 1889. Several interested residents were introduced to (left to right) Daniel Blackburn, docent Jenna Rovenstine, Drury James, and James Blackburn. They stood, middle-aged and somber – Gold Rush miners, carpenters – surveying photographs of the land they once lived in: arching oaks and curved hills, sprawling east and west, a riverbed slicing through. A dirt track and a stagecoach. A wood shanty or two. A spring with steaming mineral water. They saw something they could build upon. They dreamed it and built it. And the people came.

The Paso Robles Sanitarium, located in the Blackburn residence, would accommodate 25 patients, and have an operating room, culinary department, office and a parlor. Dr J. H. Glass was the head physician. Charges were $25 per week and included the Blackburn Sanitarium services of a physician, nurse, attendants, all medicines, board, and a cot in the ward. The idea of a health resort caught on. James Blackburn got interested in town activities again and Daniel sold him an interest in the town’s property in 1873. Within 10 years, the local newspaper reported Paso Robles was averaging 11,000 visitors a year to take the baths and restore body, mind, and soul.

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ere’ a glimpse of the early arrivals, the pioneers who settled the outlying areas: David and Susan Pate, an ambitious gentleman and the daughter of a wealthy Southern plantation owner, sailed here and settled themselves in a log house in the hills west of town. David was soon appointed deputy sheriff. Susan was busy from sunup to sundown and into the evening, caring for home, garden, animals, and five children. David still had an eye out for a good prospect. Hearing reports in the early 1870s of fine land available for homestead in Oregon, he saddled up his horse and pack horse, buckled on his fine pistols, and headed north to investigate. Months passed before Susan finally got word that David probably had been murdered by Indians, as a body had been found and David’s horses and pistols were seen in the Indians’ possession. Susan did what was necessary to keep home and land going. There were cows to be milked, pigs to feed and butcher, butter to churn, food and hay to harvest. There were dry years when cattle had to be fed with moss from the trees. There were wet years when the racing creek was a menace to cattle and children alike. There were sick neighbors and sick animals to nurse. To take cheese, eggs, and hens to market, Susan rose at 4 a.m. to make the eight-mile trip to the hamlet of Templeton. For a Southern belle to do all this, her descendants say, she must have had a very strong will. In the mid-1880s rumors came of a town being built up in Paso Robles and the train coming through. Susan decided to build a hotel in Templeton, but discovered a woman couldn’t own such a property. So she put it in son Joel’s name and they ran the hotel until Susan retired and moved into Paso Robles with her married daughter, Grace Pate Heaton.

- Tales of Eleanor Heaton Sachs, Pioneer Day Queen, 2008

People came from all over to build new lives.

1886 Pioneer merchant W. S. Lewis, 1886, 12th and Park

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he city of El Paso de Robles was incorporated in March 1889. The founders envisioned the city rising around a world-class spa resort, and by 1891, the magnificent 125-room Hotel El Paso de Robles was completed. It drew the “Jet Set” of the period with its plush elegance. It overlooked the newly named Spring Street and the new town square itself, stretching from the four-towered new bathhouse on 10th St. northward to 13th St. Many of the stately new structures were built of brick fashioned locally down by the Salinas River.

ot on the heels of the fantastic Hotel El Paso de Robles up the street, Daniel Blackburn was constructing the city’s icon, the stately clocktower building, at the corner of 12th and Park streets. Completed in 1892, its lofty crown was shaped like an acorn at the request of Daniel’s wife, Cecelia. In Blackburn’s plan, the clocktower building would be the town’s financial center. According to downtown’s official historic-building guide, the Bank of Paso Robles opened on the ground floor in 1893 with a new clock in the tower. The townsfolk used the second floor as a meeting hall. The Ladies Auxiliary met there to make plans for the town’s Carnegie library, which was completed in 1908. Farm wives, too, made use of the room while their husbands took care of

business during supply runs into town. At 11:15 the morning of Dec. 22, 2003, the earth gave a sudden violent heave, and the clocktower collapsed after 110 years of service. Two women were killed, and the destructive shock of the 6.5 San Simeon earthquake went on for years, and the damage ran deep, exceeding $250 million. But with steady work, people built it again, brick by brick, exactly as people of an earlier era built the new town. In two different centuries, residents of Paso Robles share a remarkable similarity in behavior. In 1890 and in 2004, people decided to invest resources, skills, friendship, and labor in a common goal, to build a place where people could become a community.

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A picturesque day in May 2003.

Daniel Blackburn’s iconic Clocktower building when it was completed in 1892.

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aso Robles was born into cityhood by Southern Pacific PRailroad. The founding fathers of El Paso de Robles saw the

railroad tracks coming down the Salinas Valley from the north in 1886, and they knew the stagecoach resort era was over. With railway connections running north and south, land developers appeared on the scene. Thousands of settlers poured into town. The Blackburn brothers and Drury James set to work on incorporating the city of El Paso de Robles in March 1889. With its central location and productive wheat farmers in the Estrella Plains, Paso Robles emerged as a capital in the wheat export business. Southern Pacific Railroad paved the way for local farm crops

he two-block park was given to the town by city founders when they were dreamed of their town. They stipulated it was to be used only for the pleasure of the public. Since 1867 and the personal-enrichment days of the Blackburn Sanitarium, the enlightenment of the minds in Paso Robles was looked after by the Paso Robles Improvement Club and the Ladies Auxiliary. After taking charge of the sanitariumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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December 22, 2003, following the San Simeon earthquake.

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1886 to reach the San Francisco market. It also had a monopoly over grain milling, warehousing, and freight rates. Farmers could ship to a larger marketplace, but the service provider controlled crop prices, land prices, building supplies, transportation costs, bank credit and monetary policies. Farming is full of headaches.

reading room and library, they aspired to a real Library. In 1906 they contacted Andrew Carnegie, who offered a $6,000 grant to build a Carnegie Library in Paso Robles. The stout-hearted committee promptly made a $10,000 counteroffer, which was accepted by the philanthropist. Under his largess, a contract was let for a brick building with cork floors, a broad stone stairway and wide doors guarded by massive columns. The cornerstone was laid in 1907 and completed 1908. A Library to be proud of.

City Park parade 12th St 1890s.

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The Carnagie Library Groundbreaking in 1907.

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ROCKS AND CLOCKS Pan Jewelers Takes the Shocks and Keeps on Ticking

he oldest jewelry store in town is about to hit the Big 4-Oh. the sherwins will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the business they named P.A.n. to honor their joined initials, Pat And nick. it was born on a kitchen table in 1973 in indio, California, when the young couple plunked down their entire life savings--$500—for a parcel of rough Australian opals. the symbol of a 40th anniversary is, appropriately, the ruby—the symbol of passion because of its fiery color. For four decades, nick and Pat have provided for customers who have a certain passion for gems and timepieces, but the passion the sherwins feel for gemstones is far older than that. it’s a family legacy, bestowed by nick’s parents, John and Katie, amateur geologists and lapidarists who raised their children in the West’s wildlands, armed with rock hammers and a steady diet of minerals. the sherwin home is landscaped with slabs and hunks of semi-precious stones and occasional specimens of precious gems in the rough, collected over two lifetimes. A large section of the barn and part of the garage is devoted to aging lapidary equipment, some of it home-designed by nick’s father, and aging clockworks too. Like the minerals that create crystals, the passion leached into the sherwin blood. it has been inherited by nick and Pat’s son, mike, who now sits at the jeweler’s bench, and daughter, June ellart, who has acquired four different certifications in gemology. nick celebrated his 70th birthday in september, and as Paso robles celebrates its heritage with the 82nd annual Pioneer day this month, he pulled out his scrapbooks and spent a recent saturday reflecting on the history of Pan Jewelers. ***

it was 1973, and $500 could put you in a nice new car as a down payment. nick was a 31year-old navy veteran of the vietnam The scene at Pan Jewelers before and after the 6.5 war, working as a San Simeon earthquake, afternoon of Dec. 23, 2003. salesman for the Keebler cookie company and studying horology, the art and sci- nick hit the gem and mineral show circuit in ence of clocks. Pat was a young mother the Western states on long holding down two jobs, with a hotel caterer weekends for the and a 7-eleven store. next three years. nick’s parents had recently Opals were the opened a lapidary trendy stone, and shop in Julian, near sales kept him in san diego, that sold horology school and rocks, minerals, and the study of jewelry jewelry madw wit making. semi-precious stones. When his sister and Forty plus years vanthen his parents moved ish, and it was only yesnorth to the east side of terday that he and Pat Paso robles, the nick were sitting at his parsherwin family of four ents’ kitchen moved into two travel table, looking at trailers on 10 acres opals. “it’s like next door. finding gold in a in 1976, nick paid stream,” nick $200 for first and last says. “it sparks months’ rent on about that ‘i’m going 100 square feet in what to be rich!’ feelwas then called “the ing. When you’re mini-mall” at 1245 Park looking at a piece street, the old Bank of of opal and see America building. the how vivid that town had three bona fide color is, and you jewelry stores when nick see how much of put out his shingle as the stone is usable and how much cut opal you P.A.n. Opals, specializing in “rocks and can get out of each stone, it gets you all fired clocks”: rock specimens, antique clock repair, up! that $500 was everything we a few imported stone gifts, and custom jewowned in the world. it was a huge de- elry made by him and a cousin. cision, but we hoped we could double our money.” “We had to do it,” says Pat. “the cookies weren’t cutting it.” so they invested in a stash of opals the size of a seedless watermelon, bought a business license for P.A.n. Opals, and Pan Jewelers was born in 1973 in the kitchen of Nick’s parents over a parcel of rough Australian opals. Right: Nick on the rock-show circuit before moving the family to Paso Robles and opening P.A.N. Opals in a mini-mall space on Park Street. In the center photos, Nick and Pat Sherwin in the Diamond Offices in Antwerp, Belgium.

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Pat started a long career with the state of California, working weekends at the minimall with the kids. June says she spent her childhood napping next to display cases. “When we were sick or didn’t have school,” she says, “we came to work and slept behind the cases.” the sherwins had enough community support to expand twice in the first three years. By July 1979 they doubled yet again by opening their first store, at the rear section of the town & Country Center on 12th street. A year later, they moved into the prime street-front location and became PAn Opals Jewelers. they tripled their inventory of fine jewelry and beautiful clocks, and soon dropped “Opals” from their business name. “i got tired of carrying rocks,” says Pat. “diamonds are a lot lighter.” “People liked our uniqueness,” nick says. “they liked our custom work and the clock repair. in a town with a population of seven or eight thousand, people liked to know who they’re dealing with. Once they knew we were permanent, they accepted us as roblans and felt comfortable with us.” nick enlarged on his lifetime study of gemology through the acclaimed Gemological institute of America, and he became a master Jeweler with the world’s largest gem consortium, the independent Jewelers Organization. in the 10 years they spent at 561 12th street, both mike and June worked their way through high school at the store. nick began training mike “at the bench,” in the art of working with fine jewelry, and June’s interest in gemology bloomed. in 1990 Pan Jewelers made the huge leap into the downtown centerpiece, the clocktower building at 801 12th street. By then, they had already survived a national and a local recession, and now they filled 2,000 square feet with fine jewelry and clocks of all sizes. June began her studies and certifications in precious gems. As the decades passed, Pan Jewelers solidified a reputation for craftsmanship, designing quality custom jewelry for their clients and

nick’s deft hand with aged, cherished clocks. nick also revealed a blockbuster sense of humor and inner joy that has endeared him to the community. in 1994 nick and Pat started going to Antwerp, Belgium to buy diamonds. Antwerp is the capital of the diamond industry, the majority of the world’s diamonds pass through Antwerp, Belgium on their way to the market place. nick has felt that going to Antwerp gives him “People liked our uniqueness,” says Nick Sherwin, shown above an advantage over in a 1984 news clipping. The store steadily expanded over the buying out of new years, as rocks and clock repair gave way to fine jewelry and exquisite clocks. York or Los Angeles or any of the other major cities in the chants’ bed races down Park street to sponUnited states. it eliminates a soring contests for the oldest class ring and few of the middle men from oldest sales receipt. As a board member on the the picture by doing so. Paso robles main street program since 1988, nick has appeared in public in every costume known to man and devoted years to making downtown a vibrant marketplace. As a member of the Lions Club, he has stirred bushels of beans every Pioneer day. When the earth heaved three days before Christmas in 2003, killing two women and destroying the 1892 clocktower, the sherwins escorted their customers to safety and then they camped there, watching over their life’s work under the rubble. they have been able to buy diamonds at a better After agonizing weeks, they did what they price and pass on the savings to their customers. do: they kept on ticking, reopening at 1224 some of the prices have been fantastic, Pine street and moving on into the next decade. “We’ve also had the ability to find some dithey’ve witnessed leaps in technology that amonds with very unique cuts and colors. has changed the way jewelry is made and sold, this has made our trips very enjoyable to be and they’ve weathered a Great recession by ofable to experience the diamond cutting fering fine jewelry that is still affordable. thouhouses as well as diamond buying houses.” sands of people wear wedding sets and class rings nick and Pat have taken most of their em- purchased at Pan Jewelers, and now their offployees to Antwerp, Belgium so they can spring are coming in to buy their own. have the experience of being able to buy dithese days, nick and Pat have turned over amonds first hand, “these trips have made much of the daily operation of the city’s oldest our staff better informed, better educated in jewelry store to June and her fellow gemolothe world of diamonds. diamonds are our gist, tanya Jones. mike has taken his father’s next love, to opals. Opals are still the queen place at the jeweler’s bench, and he uses a of gems for us.” their next trip will be in the laser instead of a torch. fall of this year. A new generation of children has grown up Over the years, Pan Jewelers has glee- napping beside the display cases, and they’re fully participated in everything from mer- moving out into the world.

Left, (L-R) Maria Cabrera, Amyna Weeks, and Tanya Jones. Above, from left, the Sherwin family, Pat, Mike, June Ellart and Nick Sherwin.

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Now at 1224 Pine Street

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all.” -

Wendell Berry

he Tuley family has called Paso Robles home since 1873, when William Henry Tuley settled with his wife, Nancy, on the Estrella plains, in the area that is now the Paso Robles airport. The earliest settlers on the plains, William and Nancy were Missouri natives who joined the westward migration after William’s service in the Civil War. The young family arrived in San Luis Obispo in 1871 and cast their eyes around the county for a suitable place to set up a farm. They chose the little health spa called Hot Springs on the Salinas River, 30 miles to the north. In the Estrella area, William put the federal Homestead Act to work while he labored on the land, adding to his holdings until he had 640 acres to work. He raised grain to sell, which had to be hauled by wagon over the mountains to San Luis Obispo. William and Nancy were parents to 12 children, nine of whom survived, and William applied himself to the problem of formal education out in the country, a vast distance from a public school. When he wasn’t nurturing a crop, he was nurturing the notion of educating the children of Estrella farm families. He worked with his neighbors to create a school for the district and served as a school trustee for many years. Then he joined a revolution. Paso Robles was born in a boom time of railroads and land developers, and every farmer was a lone man in a roomful of multinational power brokers who controlled crop prices, land prices, building supplies, transportation costs, bank credit and monetary policies.

With Southern Pacific Railroad steaming into Paso Robles, local farmers organized, gathered in town in 1891, and voted to unite. They created a brand new cooperative corporation. William Tuley was the first in line to buy stock in the Farmers’ Alliance Business Association. He paid in the first money for stock certificate No. 1, and served as one of the original directors.

Meet the earliest settlers on the Estrella plains: William and Nancy Tuley brought formal education to pioneer children and helped unite the entire farming community.

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arming and ranching were essential to the economy of Paso Robles from the very beginning of El Paso de Robles. In the outlying areas, agriculture was dependent on erratic rain years and dry-farming methods. Drought years meant a struggle for survival to feed families. Good rains and the railroad brought prosperous years. But the search was on for a more viable crop. They needed deeper roots that would yield even in the stingy rain years – something woody like trees or vines, yielding specialty crops of nuts and fruit. The Pesenti clan took vastly different approaches to that concept after brothers-in-law Pete and Frank immigrated from Italy in 1910. Pete went to work for Ignacy Paderewski, an acclaimed Polish composer and prime minister who had come to Paso Robles for its mineral spa and stayed to farm in the Adelaida area, planting hundreds of almond, walnut and plum trees, as well as wine grapes, primarily Zinfandel. While Frank tended the vines, Pete’s work took him into the woods, picking holly berries to be shipped to Los Angeles for the Christmas season. He also cleared trees to make more farmland, which turned out to be a great opportunity for him.

The Pesenti clan tended the ranch of Ignacy Paderewski (right) to earn their own land and livelihood. Photo courtesy of Ray Pesenti

He found his calling in that sort of wood. In exchange for his labor, Pete turned the oak wood into charcoal and sold it to a San Francisco company. Within four years, Pete had saved up enough money to bring his wife, Maria, and his daughter to join him on the Paderewski ranch. In 1921, they bought 60 acres in the Willow Creek area, and the couple raised seven children while Pete ran the family charcoal business. Everyone helped. Frank Pesenti chose the living fruiting wood. In 1923, barely a dozen years after disembarking at Ellis Island, New York, Frank founded his Pesenti Winery, one of the first wineries in the young Paso Robles community. In the wooded western hills, pioneering families built lives with their hands and the elements that suited them. It was a long haul from the hills to Paso Robles with a horse and wagon. The farmers didn’t get to town much, and they pretty much took care of themselves.

Farm Hands On the brink of the worst farming disaster ever to strike the American heartland, Joseph Dahl stands with his children on a summer day as the wheat ripens in his fields in 1933. It may be the last decent crop he will harvest on his Montana farm, built with a violin, a warm coat, and patient hands.

“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Benjamin Franklin

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After this day, he’ll harvest the land itself, deeding it to the bank to pay his debt for failed seed. The Dahl family will work their way westward. A home will open in Paso Robles and Joe Dahl will build again: workrooms, hardy cottages, and church meeting halls that still serve the community today. He will grow tulips, tomatoes, and descendants who see that his garden crops still thrive and beautify the town he came home to.

See what we cook up for you next month! Wave hello to young Bruce Tuley, 2012 Pioneer Day Marshal

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Honoring Our Paso Robles Pioneers On Whose Shoulders We Stand Happy 125th Anniversary Paso Robles! From the Board of Directors and Volunteers of the Pioneer Day Committee and the El Paso de Robles Area Pioneer Museum

Thank you for Helping Us Preserve Our Precious History! 84th Annual Paso Robles Pioneer Day Saturday Oct. 11, 2014

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The almond orchard built by Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher DeWitt Lyle still dominates the westside vista on the south end of town.

t is hard to imagine Paso Robles with a total population of 1,200 souls. We now have twice that number in teenagers alone, enrolled at Paso Robles High School today. Our city had a growth spurt after the 1900 census count of 1,200 residents. The population shot up 30 percent by the next census count in 1910: More than 400 people had moved into town. We were tiny but mighty. This small community earned world renown, and our innovative farmers put us on the map. A visionary pioneer named William Gerst arrived in the 1860s and planted an orchard in the hills west of Paso Robles that would make the town famous. The almonds he grew there traveled to the 1904 World’s Fair, where judges declared they were “the best almonds in the world.” In 1910, when Paso Robles numbered 1,800 souls, six farmers, with less than 60 acres among them, formed the Paso Robles Almond

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literally grew in trees.

Growers Association. The marketing campaign and orchard-leasing plan they developed made Paso Robles “The Almond Capital of the World.” By 1918 Paso Robles boasted 40,000 acres of almond orchards, the largest concentration of almond trees in the world. Our celebrated almonds were saluted at the 1906 California State Fair, where they shared center stage with award-winning apples grown on the Westside of Paso Robles. Those apples came to the attention of Stark Brothers Nursery in Missouri. Stark Bros. were so impressed with the taste and quality of the apples, they contacted Mr. Guy Heaton and requested that he send them some sample grafting buds from his trees. This led to an order for 20,000 buds for a major grafting project on their new line of apple trees. That year wheat and barley from San Luis Obispo County also made the news by ranking number two in the state for tonnage produced.

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Our famous “Blue Diamond” almonds supported a generation of Roblans and pleased Hershey chocolate lovers everywhere.

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When disaster struck home,

Archive photograph courtesy of the Sacramento History Center

farmers harvested a success story for the town.

aso Robles arose as “The Almond PCapital of the World” because,

essentially, our grain went sour. The new city of Paso Robles had emerged as a regional powerhouse in the global grain-export business, thanks to railroad connections, central location, nourishing rains, and amber waves of grain. The town’s economy thrived on wheat and barley production, and 1891 was a banner year in San Luis Obispo County: Abundant rain raised a record-breaking wheat and barley crop here, as drought and the Great World War descended on the European continent.

Our famous almonds grew out of that worldwide crisis. Over two decades, rain and war marched in and out. Recovery arrived in Europe; drought

Capital of the World,” farming families knew they couldn’t live on grain alone. They needed a reliable specialty crop, or they would lose the farm.

and disaster headed here. The world market price of wheat fell, and so did the rainfall averages in Paso Robles. By 1910, when six farmers formed the Almond Growers Association that would make Paso Robles “The Almond

In the early years of the new century, farmers responded to the grain collapse like agricultural detectives on the hunt for a solution. Many believed the future of farming literally grew in trees – in orchards, yielding specialty crops of nuts and fruit. However, harvesting that promising future required years of fieldwork. Unfortunately, they were planting the roots of destruction in those early orchards. Imperfect grafting, using rootstock that proved shallow and short-lived, ultimately would destroy the viability of the crop years later.

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almond orchards were grafted to roots of destruction: Peach rootstock – which years later proved shallow and short-lived – ultimately destroyed the viability of the crop.

Man Cannot Live on Grain Alone When disaster struck the once-vibrant grainexport business, pioneer farmers faced a hard choice: Sell the farm or grow a new crop. George and Florence Root held on until the 1920s forced them to sell the Estrella farm they had established in 1884. They moved to town and cultivated new lives as well as a legacy, while educating the children of Paso Robles. - Tales of Carol Smeltzer, 2010 Pioneer Day Queen

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1924

he year was 1924, and the town, with its grand Hotel El Paso de Robles, resembled in some ways a European resort. Its reputation as a health spa drew celebrities and wealthy visitors from around the world. In a field over on Sixth and Spring streets, the Pittsburgh Pirates had just rousted the Chicago White Sox from their traditional spring-training ground. It was an annual thrill for the locals, who tested their skills against the pros and brought children to serve as batboys. The Pirates would be World Series champions next year and claim the field every spring for the next decade. On the mound was a 31-year-old pitcher from Minneapolis named DeWitt “Dewey” Lyle. He had made up his mind that Spring of 1924: When the Pittsburgh Pirates hit the road for the season, Dewey was going to retire his glove and stay behind. He was tired of the Minnesota winters. He liked this small California town. Among other amenities, Paso Robles in 1924 boasted a majestic new almond-processing plant. The state was nuts about nuts, and so was the country. The plant on Riverside Avenue, designed by a master architect with cutting-edge technology, could process over 500 tons of almonds each year. Dewey had a keen interest in almonds.

Over the next decade, Dewey Lyle trained for the almond Dream Team. He ensconced his wife and daughters on Vine Street and recruited brother Henry and father John Henry Lyle. To finance the dream, the Lyle brothers opened the Squeeze Inn and the All-American Café on Spring Street. When virgin land on the south end of town became available for the taxes owed, the family bought up more than 100 acres on the west side of Vine Street. The men cleared the scrubland with dynamite, a pick and shovel. The dynamite Dewey purchased at the local Mercantile would ride in a box in the back of his truck and accompany him all over town. A methodical man, Dewey did his research on almond farming. The former big-league pitcher grafted his own trees and planted alternating rows of early-blooming Ne Plus, soft-shelled Nonpareil, and late-blooming Mission almonds. Every tenth row was bitter almonds, good pollinators that could be sold for their oil.

After planting the trees, it took seven years for the orchard to reach full production. After hours at the café, you could always find Dewey out in the orchard, working with some of his 4,000 trees. They had good years, like the year they harvested 6,000 sacks of almonds, and they had bad years, like the year a terrible frost in May destroyed the entire crop. Dewey recorded it all in his ledger, decade after decade, until he was too old to work in his orchard. Dewey Lyle produced nuts in his orchard long after imperfectly grafted orchards died out. His reach extended into a new century since he passed his glove on to daughter Beverly Lyle Tornquist (2007 Pioneer Day Queen). The Lyle legacy endures in plain sight, dominating the vista at the south end of town, and still producing almonds.

Almond Knockers In the new century, local farmers turned calamity into opportunity. The pioneering Pesenti clan cultivated the Westside hills, where wood bore fruit and their descendant Ray Pesenti did his share of almond knocking. As Pioneer Day Marshal in 2009, he pointed out, “All the almond trees — that’s a phase that went out of here. Almond orchards have turned into grapes. I like walnuts better.”

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ROUND TOWN By Chuck Desmond Earth Day festivities in the area have grown in popularity...if you’ve attended in the past, you know it’s great. The dates are April 11-13 and while it’s only early February as I’m typing this on my old SmithCorona, tickets are selling already! Okay, let’s get right into it. What used to be the CCVT (Central Coast Vineyard Team) is now simply VT – Vineyard Team. Representing the wine grape growers in the three counties of SLO, Santa Barbara and Monterey, once a year they throw a huge fun party to celebrate local farmers, grape growers and wine makers. Vineyard Team’s purpose is awareness, education, sustainability and outreach. This year, aptly, their focus is water conservation. Vineyard Team has 300 members representing 80,000 planted acres! Next month, we’ll delve into the organization, its history, future and a more indepth prospectus on the mission. By then, most likely all the tickets for the events will be sold – sort of

Of course! – and plenty of seating as well. Every three years, the venue changes. The first three years of Earth Day parties were at Rancho Santa Margarita; the last three were at Pomar Junction. Saturday is the day to meet over 200 food and grape growers, wine makers and brewers...the best part is that you get to taste all their products. Once in the door, there is no charge for anything! Most likely there will be at least 1500 attendees between 1 and 5 in the afternoon. Each person receives a special wine glass to use for the day – adult beverages and water – and then take the glass home. There is so much to eat that y’all better come hungry. Local produce, grass-fed meats, olives, cheeses and desserts make up the list. The time passes quickly and what’s a great party without great music? Vineyard Team has that covered with the Damon Castillo Band from SLO crankin’ out the tunes!

EARTH DAY: A Triple Fun Weekend like taking the classes after you‘ve already passed the test. So, this month while tickets are still available, let’s talk P-A-R-T-Y!

Friday night, April 11 is about as premier of an event as one could want. A very limited group of 50 (based solely on when tickets are purchased) will be treated royally at JUSTIN Vineyards and Winery for a very intimate and exquisite dinner. It’s called Farm to Fork and it will be a behind-the-scenes

experience to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of Isosceles! In attendance will be Scott Shirley, the winemaker and Paul Kaselionis, the Estate Vineyard Manager. Some of the farmers who grew the

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Wine Country Theatre presents ‘It Had to Be You’

Romantic comedy to perform at Via Vega Winery By Melissa Chavez Much to the delight of live theatre junkies on the Central Coast, Cynthia Anthony has returned to the stage to direct the Broadway hit-turned-film, “It Had to Be You,” in the Double Playhouse at Via Vega Winery in Paso Robles. Performances are slated for March 1, 7, 8, 14 and 15, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Written by the married acting and writing team of Joe Bologna (“Big Daddy”) and Renee Taylor (“The Nanny”), the two-person play tells the story of Theda Blau and Vito Pignoli. Desperate for her big break, the floundering B-movie actress turns an audition at her apartment with a successful TV commercial director into a love struck hostage situation on Christmas Eve. Cynthia Anthony is the founder of Wine Country Theatre, a professional caliber acting company located in Paso Robles. Her creative endeavors include longtime involvement in Pioneer Players, Paso Robles High School Drama productions, REC Foundation and more organizations within the Central Coast. Co-directing the play is Jacob Shearer, whose credits include associate producer of the REC Foundation’s “South Pacific” and as co-director of “Man of La Mancha.” Cast in the production are Kristen Sanders (“Theda”), who has starred on Broadway West in the Bay Area, as well as Shady Shakespeare, Northside Theatre, and others. Her experience EARTH DAY from page 59 Everyone knows where Castoro is on Highway 46 West so you can drive and park yourself but that’ll cost ya $25 and probably a hefty walk. Forget that and take the shuttle. The one in Paso leaves and returns at the train station and costs $10 round trip. Other shuttles are in other towns but this is the Paso Robles Magazine! Premier visitors come through

part in the REC Foundation’s musical production of “South Pacific.” Cynthia found a welcoming presence in Via Vega when they immediately came alongside her to facilitate stage platforms in the winery’s shell-like structure. What resulted is staging with high-quality production values. “It’s the perfect pairing,” says Cynthia. “Live theater in a winery where the audience can sit just fifty feet away from the actors.” Friendly winemaking hosts, a tasting room area adjacent to the stage, plus seating for fifty guests contributes all the more to the congenial feel of the place. For all shows, wine by the bottle or glass, cheese plates and desserts may be purchased and enjoyed during the performances. Prior to establishing Via Vega, Larry Gomez discovered his love affair with wine as a highschooler in the middle of his uncle’s Napa vineyard. After Cal Poly, he worked his way up through frosty winters and hard-earned harvests in Napa Valley. Armed with graduate school degree in Agricultural Chemistry, Larry honed his winemaking skills in the cellars of Lockwood Vineyard, then J. Lohr and Wildhorse Winery.

At Via Vega Winery, Larry is literally enjoying the fruits of his efforts. Eleven varietal blocks and clonal variations of Rhone and Bordeaux-style wines cover his 15-acre parcel, including the inky violet goodness that is Aglianico wine. Via Vega is not only receiving rave reviews for their wines, but for their undying hospitality to their guests. Cynthia hopes to take Wine Country Theatre performances to various venues throughout the area. “The driving force is to be an artist-based company in which actors, designers, builders, painters, producers, promoters and costumers can thrive and create,” says Cynthia. “I’m so excited about these upcoming performances at Via Vega Winery. Audiences are going to love it!” Proceeds from the March 7 show will benefit the Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles Youth Exchange Program and likely to sell out fast. (See www.paderewski fest.com for tickets to this worthy nonprofit organization.) Via Vega Winery is located at 2378 Adobe Road in Paso Robles, just 1.5 miles northwest of Paso Robles Municipal Airport. Take Hwy. 46-East and turn left (north) on Airport Road, then turn left (west) on Adobe Road and proceed for less than a mile. Tickets ($25) are available online at www. viavega.com. Call (805) 423-2190. Wine Country Theatre is a nonprofit organization. To host an event at your venue, contact Cynthia Anthony at (805) 610-0786. Email cynthia@winecountrytheatre.com.

the gates at 1 p.m. Down. Partners of Vine- an hour ahead yard Team are putting of the rest. Those together about 20 various tickets are $115 ”things to do,” mini events pp. General admisif you will, to allow tours sion starts at 2 p.m. and tastes in the farms and and those tickets vineyards. The details of are $75 pp. Premier the these are all online. guests will also re Speaking of “on line,” ceive a “goodie bag” that’s the best way to loaded with earthorder tickets for events friendly products. and shuttles, at EARTH Sunday is the Weekend Wind DAYFOODANDWINE.ORG.

As fast as information is available, it’ll be posted, or phone 466-2288. Want to make sure nothing gets left out? Just drive on down to A-Town and when you get to 5915 El Camino, you’ve arrived. Walk in and tell them that Chuck sent you. Last thought. Leave the dog at home. Everyone will appreciate that – especially the dog who most likely doesn’t like crowds all that much anyway.

is extensive and varied, including vaudeville, film, web series features and even singing and acting in Japan. David Norum (“Vito”) is a Central Coast acting pro. His work in indie films and cable TV, includes tackling the intense role of Rex Krebs in Cloo TV’s “Mind of a Killer.” Among his most memorable local roles are SLO Little Theatre’s “House of Blue Leaves,” (Artie), Felix in “Humble Boy”at The Brickyard, and as Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof.” “We really not only have a hungry, appreciative audience for live performances,” says Cynthia, “but we need to keep theatre alive, especially with the demise of Classic American Theatre (CAT) and Pioneer Players. Many people in North County are willing to travel away from this area to see a show, so I know there is a huge interest. My dream has been to start a theatre company in Paso Robles.” The CAT co-founder has been looking forward for the right moment to launch Wine Country Theatre, but knew she would need a proper venue to kick off the inaugural performance. Winery owners Larry and April Gomez became interested in Cynthia’s creative vision when their daughter, Ella Gomez, took

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Get In Line: I thought I’d avoid the crush before trying out California’s Obamacare website. Covered California, our online buffet for the optimistically-named Affordable Care Act, (ACA) could probably use a chance to sort out the bugs, before I jumped into line. That’s not unusual for me; I’m the last person off the plane, because it seems kind of dumb to stand there for twenty minutes while elderly Aunt Fritzie gingerly teases her Danube-in-Spring needlepoint bag from where it is jammed in the overhead bin. She’ll have to wait anyway for fast food employee Trey as he ponders, zen-like, over how to collect and carry his miscellaneous personal electronics, currently strewn about his tray table. Similarly, at theme parks I run ahead of everyone else to the most popular ride, to preempt the threehour queue because there is nothing park-like about long lines. Before going online, I first check with my doctor. He says he won’t take ACA patients. Good luck with that, I think to myself, there aren’t going to be any other kind. After a eye-straining 45 minutes going over plans and options, all of which seem to cover little and cost the moon and the stars, I try to see if I can maybe qualify for Medi-Cal. Then I remember a news story that said there won’t be enough doctors and clinics to handle the influx of 1.4 million new ACA patients. My choices: give up groceries, give up healthcare or close the website in frustration. I chose the third. Some of us who live in areas served by the state water project may soon find ourselves in a long line, just to get some of the precious commodity. The first thing Governor Jerry Brown did after declaring a state water emergency, was to turn

off the state water project tap. His stance; sorry, can’t be helped. Really? – said minority Republicans. They went over his head to Congress, petitioning federal lawmakers to turn the tap back on. That’s not such a bad strategy; scratch the surface of virtually any state water project and you’ll find federal funding, and so far, Congress seems to be listening. How much clout will cities and other state water project customers benefit from the involvement of federal lawmakers? That episode is still being written.

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The board is also addressing the bottoming of aquifers used by grape growers and residents from Adelaida to Geneseo with a proposed offset program. Think of an offset as a large-scale retrofit program, where if enough of us replace our commodes with low-flow porcelain conveniences, the water saved can be sold to others – in this case, agricultural users, especially wineries caught in the middle of crop expansions.

“Frank Mecham was headed to Sacramento on February 20th to discuss future water projects and the funding to support them, Mecham hoping his voice wouldn’t get drowned-out by Bay Area counties with more pull.” Drought Look: As February arrived, residents, growers and parched aquifers put their hope in newly sodden skies that had managed an inch or two of rain to settle the dust. Still, supervisors had to plan for the worst; they counted options after listening to County Administrator Dan Buckshi identify San Luis Obispo county as one of the 27 hardest-hit by the drought, now officially a USDA-labeled primary natural disaster area. Drought relief measures include possible federal emergency relief for farms, and for the moment a plea to everyone to reduce use by 20%. District 1 Supervisor Frank Mecham was headed to Sacramento on February 20th to discuss future water projects and the funding to support them, Mecham hoping his voice wouldn’t get drowned-out by Bay Area counties with more pull.

Paso Robles water interest groups asked the county for rules that would ban the exporting of water out of the area. They’re concerned that if a water district is formed, it could one day decide to export county water to other areas. Board members assured them by directing staffers to write an ordinance banning exportation of county water. Basin Boost? Can we do something to recharge depleted aquifers? County board authorized almost three quarters of a million dollars to find out. Walnut Creek firm Carollo Engineers will receive the bulk of that funding to study our situation and perhaps help us find a way to recharge the Paso Robles aquifer. Templeton: The community got a leg up on drought action; community services district officials declared a Stage 2 water emergency, asking residents to cut use by 20%,

while imposing restrictions from 8 – 5 on landscape watering. The rules include no driveway washing, mandates shut-off devices on hoses and a 1-gallon/minute flow restricter on violators’ water meters for previous-warned violators. But Templeton had it easy compared to chronically water-challenged Cambria, where stage 3 water restrictions, banning pool and spa use. The community has a number of short term answers, but with only an estimated 116 acre-feet left in the San Simeon Creek aquifer, or about three months’ worth of water, decisive action is needed now, according to coastal supervisor Bruce Gibson. He sent an email to Cambria CSD officials telling them to start making plans to get a new water source, that even with current rainfall, the community couldn’t be prevented from running out of water by summer. Smoke, Smoke, Smoke: Most smokers now know that if they go into their local CVS drugstore looking for a pack of cigarettes, they’ll leave emptyhanded; still, the America Lung Association says San Luis Obispo county falls short in terms of curbing tobacco use. Even though the association’s report card on reducing tobacco use shows cities like San Luis Obispo leading in efforts to discourage tobacco use, there is a long way to go before clearing the air. The report gives Paso Robles a dismal “F” grade in reducing tobacco use, but county health officials tend to take such assessments with a grain of salt. Statewide, California also gets an “F”, the report says almost one in six high school students smoke, more than adults, with the economic cost of tobacco put at over 18 billion dollars a year. And that at least helps me understand why my health insurance is so expensive.

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Sebastapol Parlor No. 143 Sebastapol and Castro Parlor No. 232 San Francisco - representative Dr. G.L. Sobey. In other news, the town was suddenly and rather mysteriously rid of a large number of ‘derelict’ dogs who arrived from places unknown and took up residence in the streets, fighting and barking all hours and generally causing a nuisance. One night someone managed to corral them into some empty boxcars and they were carried away on the trains. No one took credit or blame and the streets were once again safe and quiet. Another small note quoted a visitor from Oakland who had not seen the town for a couple of years. Miss B.S. Foley was happy to see a lot of improvement in the care of properties, a ‘very fine’ park (on Mission Street near the Flouring Mill, with large trees and a gazebo). A front-page note announced the wedding of Fred G. Hoffman and Miss Helen Sinclair at the Methodist Church in San Luis Obispo. The couple was attended by Miss Emma Hoffman and Philip Sinclair. Dinner followed at the Commercial Hotel. The bride’s parents were Mr. and Mrs. William Sinclair of Estrella.

Editor G.C. Boswell entitled his editorial “FAINT HEART NE’ER WON” commenting on a remark made at a meeting of the Improvement Club. A proposal was made at the meeting to ask the state to improve the highway through town, which was answered by one member with, “We’ll try, but it isn’t much use.” The editor took issue with the negative attitude and urged people to approach projects in a positive manner if they expected to succeed. Improving the town, urging residents to help and take pride in it and attracting new residents and businesses was a theme that ran though the old newspapers and is still a theme today for those who care about their surroundings. One very large improvement mentioned was beginnings of the bridge which was dedicated in 1921 and stood strong across the Salinas River until the flood of 1969.

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California Mid-State Fair announces Hall of Fame winners By Melissa Chavez Lest anyone assume that “The Biggest Little Fair Anywhere” is solely about rock concerts, ferris wheels, cows and cotton candy, the Fair Board Dinner at Paso Robles Event Center on February 7 was a golden opportunity to applaud those whose contributions made a profound difference over the past year and kick off the 2014 season with the theme of “Discover More.” From the hands-and-feet army of Friends of the Fair volunteers who relinquish their vacations to hoist equipment across 40 acres in triple-digit heat, volunteer farmworkers and their contributing CEOs, to millionaires whose posthumous insistence move heaven and earth to bless the living, all walks of life were in large attendance. The evening celebrated those whose invaluable support helps shape the leaders of tomorrow

“Blue Ribbon Award” and ten 2014 Hall of Fame inductions. Highlighting the evening were comments by Mark Borjon and an announcement by Fair CEO Vivian Robertson of entertainment additions to the 2014 Mid-State Fair concert season. The following photo by Brittany App is just a partial list of the Heritage Foundation Board accepts honored recipients: award during evening festivities. 2014 Hall of Fame through 4-H and Future Farmers Inductees of America (FFA) projects, other John Hayashi agricultural education, Fair fa- Hardy and Judy Hearn cilities construction and improve- Missie Hobson (posthumously) ments, and charitable donations Sharon Mansker and grants. Included the introduc- Larry Putnam tions were the Board of Directors, Junior Livestock Awards past directors, elected officials and Top Buyer: Wood Claeyssens dignitaries and special acknowl- Foundation, $691,629, whose FFA edgements by Fair Board President auction purchases were donated to SLO Food Bank Coalition. Special John Peschong. The presentation recognized Recognition: IQMS in Paso Robles, Cattlemen and Farmers’ Day $118,342, represented by founders Sponsors, Junior Livestock Auc- Randy and Nancy Flamm. tion Buyers over $10,000 and the Sponsor of the Year “Top Buyer of 2013,” sponsorship Chumash Casino Resort, over recognitions, “Sponsor of the Year,” $20,000, represented by Michael

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Hoofbeat By Dorothy Rogers Can you hear it? The grass is finally growing: relief to a degree. Celebrate the blessings of rain. Honoring Two Who Shared a Better Way The Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering featured a panel honoring the influence of our late friends Bill and Tom Dorrance. Templeton’s Ellen Eckstein (a brilliant teacher and grand prix rider), Mike Beck, Bryan and son Jim Neubert (local trainer), and Thomas Petit were on the panel. Randy Reiman hosted. Members of Bill’s family were in attendance to enjoy hearing of the impact the men have had in the equine community around the world. Perhaps the horse will experience a better deal as a result.

DVDs the Vaquero Tradition World renowned horsewoman, Sheila Varian was casually captured a few years ago on film explaining the steps and gear she uses with her horses ($35). Friend Ernie Morris makes a cameo appearance and adds to the information imparted. Recently, Sheila and Ernie teamed up for a companion DVD. They visit Mission Santa Ynez and share step by step the techniques she uses on her own ranch horses. The pair of DVDs is now available for $50. Call to order your copies (489-5803) or see www. varianarabians.com Seeking Refinement Mike Bridges had returned from Europe to conduct a clinic in Santa Maria on March 25-27. Open to all disciplines registration is limited to 15 riders. Check the Calendar for details and contact Peter Adams for registration. Hackamore, two rein, bridle and many other areas will be touched upon with students.

Cutting Up by Getting Down Some of the most athletic cutting horses in the West will gather at the Events Center March 9-17 for the Holy Cow Performance Horses Pacific Coast Cutting Horse Association Roundup. Gather friends and family for fun and friendly competition pitting bovine and equine in a dance contest. Spectators are admitted free. Food is available on site along with a variety of vendors. This year by popular demand a couple of the National Cutting Horse Association weekend classes are back with $3,000 in added prize money. This event is a Youth Invitational Qualifier. (209) 727-5779, info@pccha.com, www.pccha. com. Local Cowboy Dressage Lyn Ringrose-Moe is excited about the schedule she is booking for her new facility at 805 Horse Tales off of Oak Road east of Paso. Lyn is active in

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H OOFBEAT HOOFBEAT from page 70 The season for the Mule Crew was crowned with Vicki Hovan’s “Heart B A Living Doll” (AKA “Dolly” bringing home the American Mule Association’s All Around Mule Championship. This was followed by “Behold the Desert” owned by Troy and Carol Delfino (AKA “Beasley”) taking the Reserve Champion All Around title. Both mules were trained and shown by our own Lou Moore Jacobson and her husband, Rick. Both mules were champion and reserve in three divisions: western performance, English performance and hunter/jumper and “Dolly” capped that by winning Champion Halter Mule. It’s all in the family as Maggie Moore, Lou’s sister, took top honors with her young mule “OMT Starring Olivia” by winning the division championship in Green English Performance and English Hunter/Jumper completing her green career.

“Dolly” with Lou in the irons take home championship honors for owner Vicki Hovan.

Rick showed Julie Chan’s “Fanny May” to Top Five in all divisions entered with merely half a year in the arena. Julie then rode her to Top Five in the Amateur Division. Four of the top five slots went to One Moore students including Julie, Nicole Batistini, Vickie Powers and Leslie Troncale. One Moore three day event students made their own mark as well. Kari Schmidt, Kandra Silva, Nancy Pittman and Meghan Harris either started their show career. picked up

after a long time off or introduced young horses to their first show experience. Rachel May showed her horse “Already Vintage” to a win at the Coconino Horse Trials in Flagstaff at Training Level then were able to scratch off their “To Do List” a successful long format Three Day Event. “We All Love Aleyna” is an off the track Thoroughbred that is having a new, productive carrier as eventer with Cindy Wilson, his owner, or Lou in the irons. Want to jump in on the fun and excellence? Need an appropriate mount? If you can catch them between equines, visit with Lou or Rick (441-8648). Paso Horse Park News regarding the plans for a 67 acre horse park in Paso began to surface a couple of years ago. Now, grading permits have been granted to begin work. A groundbreaking ceremony was proposed for Feb. 24 off of Dry Creek Road at 3801 Hughes Parkway. The tentative opening date is set for this fall.

Owner Linda Starkman’s vision is for a hunter/jumper venue for local shows and later to host US Equestrian Federation events. The destination equine park will include a cross country course and vendor lane offering tack and related items. The format layout will include local wines and delicious food for spectators, crews and quality competitors while experiencing panoramic views and beautiful horses. The Paso Horse Park should benefit our local economy and expand the range of opportunities for riders and horses. Return from Texas Harris Stage Lines is pleased to bring home the Chairman’s Trophy from the Fort Worth Stock Horse and Rodeo Parade. Talented musician, Cactus Harris played his calliope along the route in a wagon pulled by a “hammer hitch” (3 horses in front and 2 behind) a configuration not commonly seen in the US. See a full feature article in this month’s PRM issue on page 30.

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Santa Ynez, Equestrian Center Mar. 23 Sorting, Loftus Ranch, 10 a.m., 3965 Buena Vista, Paso, John 440-0877 Mar. 25-27 Seeking Refinement Clinic with Mike Bridges, open to all disciplines and levels, ltd. 15, $450, 310-3854, Santa Maria, Peter peter@adambros.com Mar. 25 Sorting, Loftus Ranch, 6 p.m., 3965 Buena Vista, Paso, www. loftusranch.com, John 440-0877 Mar. 27-30 V6 Dude Ranch Getaway, www.V6ranch.com, Parkfield Mar. 28 -30 Reining Horse Show, LA Equestrian Center, Marilyn (951) 205-0245 Mar. 29 Cutting Show, Paso Event Center, free parking & admission, Mar. 29-30 Rainbow Royal, all breed show, Joanne (818) 842-8444 Mar. 30 VPA Penning, SYVEC, Santa Ynez Center April 1 Sorting, Loftus Ranch, 6 p.m., 3965 Buena Vista, Paso, loftusranch. com, John 440-0877 April Cutting Show TBA April 3-6 Sisters on the Fly, www. V6ranch.com, Parkfield April 4-6 24th Cattlemen’s Western Art Show/Sale, Events Center, Barron Postmus featured artist, 11:30-1 p.m. BBQ lunch available, Fri. 5-9 p.m.

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H OOFBEAT HOOFBEAT from page 74 April 12 4H English/ Western Clinic, Wranglerette Arena, Aragon, Atascadero April 13 Sorting, Loftus Ranch, 10 a.m., 3965 Buena Vista, Paso, www. loftusranch.com, John 440-0877 April 14-18 Spring Horse Day Camp, Harris Stage Lines, N. River Road, Paso, half or full day, ride drive horses, all levels accepted, ages 7-18, 237-1860 Tom or Debby, HarrisStageLines.com

April 15 Sorting, Loftus Ranch, 6 p.m., 3965 Buena Vista, Paso, loftusranch.com, John 440-0877 April 16 SLOCQHA meeting, Griff ’s Restaurant, 6:30 p.m. April 19 Ray Berta Cattle Clinic, Carmel Valley Trail & Saddle Club, Garzas Rd., 9-4 p.m., www.rayberta.com April 20 Sorting, Loftus Ranch, 10 a.m., 3965 Buena Vista, Paso, loftusranch.com, John 440-0877 April 21-25 Spring Horse Day Camp, Harris Stage Lines, N. River Road, Paso, half or full day, ride drive horses,

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After a February storm, the new clocktower building at 12th and Park gleams in the sunlight between scudding clouds. It isn’t the lovely Icon herself, immortalized on film for 111 years, who stood for Paso Robles until the earthquake felled her. It’s a stand-in who resembles our Greta Garbo, and she’s a little awkward in her new role. But she’s supported by a splendid cast of veterans. Today the whole troupe is brilliant, styling around the town square as the happy sun beams down on them. On a rain-fresh day in its 125th year, the downtown bones are cheering. Gone the chain-link fences, the flakeboard barricades! Gone the grinding reconstruction! Life is beautiful! Let’s have a parade! After a 6.5 earthquake and then a Great Recession, Downtown Paso Robles is tapping its toes. It has survived worse. What’s a few years in convalescent care when you endured an entire decade as a skeleton on life-support? It’s a walk in the park. For 125 years, the town square has served as the heart of Paso Robles through all kinds of bad blows and visits from grim fate. It has a pioneer nature with a strong constitution, and it’s resilient as all get-out. Takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’, our lovely old heart. :: _______________________________ :: TIME TRAVEL: 1914-2014, PASO ROBLES, CA

If you had last walked here in your grandfather’s shoes, say, back in 1910, you’d wonder if the heart of town had moved to a new frontier, maybe Alaska. First off, where’s the town’s castle, that grand hotel that made the town famous? Up in flames a year before Pearl Harbor. You can’t dash down the block, either, to book into the other (almost) high-rise Hot Springs Hotel at 13th St. Burned too, in 1963, the night before John F. Kennedy’s assassination wiped it from the town’s memory. Nor does breakfast sizzle at the charming Canary Cottage in the stately Adams building on 12th and Spring. Fell to the wrecking ball in the name of progress. You’d be surprised by the abbreviated stature of Pine Street, running low to the ground from the park past 13th. Where are the architectural giants that anchored those blocks? The Alexander Hotel, the Mercantile, and Bell’s Store, where you could outfit a ranch or a fancy Victorian? Reduced by calamities to one utilitarian level.

The axis of all joie de vivre: 12th Street in the early 1890s, and in 2014. POSTED, MARCH 2011, PASO ROBLES, CA

“We’ve had earthquakes, fires, explosions,” comments local historian Norma Moye, looking at the collection of old photographs on one wall inside the Downtown Paso Robles Main Street organization, which she directs. “We’ve lost tops of buildings. We’ve had a building explode on 12th Street.” She taps a framed newspaper clipping from September 1973. It describes a gas explosion that destroyed a 12th St. business called the Smoke Shop. The site is now a narrow parking lot. “Through all these changes, we evolve,” she says. “Towns are always in transition – they’re fluid,” agrees her friend Bob Lata, the city’s long-time community development director, now retired. “In order to survive, a city needs to adapt to change.” He gestures at a photo of the grand old Hotel El Paso de Robles, which once rivaled the world’s finest in its luxurious appointments. “The Paso Robles Inn is an example of adaptation,” Bob explains. “Fire destroyed the hotel in 1940. We lost the grand hotel, but the annex was saved. Now we have a 1950s era motor inn, and thanks to its owner, we have a historic ballroom remaining from the grand hotel.” “We have architecture of different eras,” Norma observes. “It’s like a theater – the sets change.” “Pygmalion becomes My Fair Lady,” says Bob. :: _______________________________ ::

dawned, and Paso Robles exploded into subdivisions. The city’s population doubled. Then it tripled. Within 10 years, Paso Robles had 21,000 residents and suburban shopping centers that tripled the available commercial space. National retailers and local merchants swarmed to fill it. Then those things that shuddered far away, across continents and oceans, dropped a bomb on Paso. A nationwide recession popped the town’s economy. It was catastrophic for the old town square. In 1995, the heart of the city was a skeleton of thrift shops, bars, and 33 vacant storefronts. The old buildings were pigeon-infested hulks, a quarter of them empty, not counting their longabandoned upper floors – but they stood watch, erosion seeping from their brick facades. Life support, stat. :: _______________________________ :: POSTED, MARCH 2011, PASO ROBLES, CA

Let’s talk about bones. The historic buildings themselves did their part to save the town square, Norma says. They stand together like a spontaneous fusion of characters on a street – their diverse, unique personalities create a place people want to explore. All retrofitted and restored, historic buildings themselves are the magic in the streetscape, Norma believes. With their decorative brickwork, streetlevel shops, upper-floor windows, and architectural BOMBS, 1995, details, the historic buildings are the It at the heart PASO ROBLES, CA of Paso Robles. For a century, from 1889 to the 1980s, down- But Bob forms a rectangle with his hands, town Paso Robles was the center of commerce pushes imaginary buildings into position, and says for the town and outlying areas. It was a small Look at that formation! The park at the core, the town – home, in 1970, to some 7,000 souls within arteries of streets, the venerable buildings embracthe city limits. The town square contained the ing them all – that’s charisma. merchants, the utility offices, and the services that kept a family going. Please see MAIN STREET page 78 Then the nation’s economy burped. The 1980s

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Justin Smith honored as Wine Industry Person of the Year Each year Paso Robles Wine Justin Smith is a second generation Country comes together to farmer who began making recognize one of their own wine in 1998. Growing up in who has exemplified the spirit a farming family, respect for of the Paso Robles wine comthe land and passion for farmmunity with outstanding leading was established early in ership and vision in promoting life and carries on in his phithe region. Justin Smith of losophy as a winemaker and Saxum Vineyards was recog- Justin Smith grower. In 2002 Justin and his nized as this year’s 2013 Paso wife Heather established SaxRobles Wine Industry Person of the um Vineyards, whose wines quickly Year award at the Paso Robles Wine gained critical acclaim bringing atCountry Alliance’s annual winter tention to the Paso Robles region. gathering titled Evening with the Justin and Saxum Vineyards gained Stars, themed after the recent Wine his most notable accolades with the Enthusiast Wine Star Award for the 2007 vintage of James Berry Vineyard 2013 Wine Region of the Year. wine, scoring a perfect 100 point score

with The Wine Advocate and subsequent number one wine in 2010 with Wine Spectator Magazine. Both recognitions were milestones for the Paso Robles region as this single wine was the first to be recognized with such honors from both publications. In 2011 Smith was awarded the San Luis Obispo County Agriculturalist of the Year. Board of Directors Installation In addition, the 2014 Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance Board of Directors and Executive Team was announced: Chairman - Austin Hope, Treana and Hope Family Wines; Vice

Chairman - Jason Haas, Tablas Creek Vineyard; Treasurer - Matt Dusi, Ranch 7; Joe Barton, Grey Wolf & Barton Family Wines; Carl Bowker, Caliza Winery; John Crossland, Crossland Vineyard; Joe Plummer, Plummer Vineyard; Bob Tillman, Alta Colina Vineyard & Winery, and Amanda Wittstrom-Higgins, Wittstrom Family Vineyard. The Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance represents wineries, growers and businesses in California’s third largest wine region, encompassing more than 32,000 vineyard acres and 200 wineries. For more information, visit www.pasowine.com.

Lacing up for 18 th Annual Wine Country Runs On Sunday, March 23, Wine Country Runs holds its 18th Annual Half Marathon and 5K races at River Oaks Hot Springs in Paso Robles. This popular 13.1 mile race attracts runners from across the USA. To date, over 17 states and 3 countries are being represented. A lineup of 1,000 runners is expected for the 4 event categories – Half Marathon Run, Half Marathon Walk, 5K, and a Kids “Grape Stomp” fun run. All net proceeds from the Wine

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Country Runs benefit North County youth sports and local charities. Since its inception, over $340,000 has been raised by the Wine Country Runs. The Male and Female winners of the Half Marathon win their weight in wine donated, this year, by Castoro Cellars, in addition to other medals, commemorative wine glasses, trophies to be awarded in several categories. All participants are treated to a breakfast, technical fabric race shirt,

ers enclosed the structural bones with multiple layers of surface area It’s Good Bone Structure, says – merchants at street level, with enBob. Together, the bones create a syn- trances and staircases that lead upergy greater than all the parts, and it’s ward, offices and living quarters on a magnetic environment for people. the upper floors. “It’s how the city core is assem- With multiple levels of activity, bled,” he explains, “that affects how you get people in motion, says Bob. people experience it. The structure “It’s what keeps a town vital, alive, acmakes it interesting.” tive, because it brings people down Bones are just bones until you town and keeps them downtown.” build Greta Garbo with them. :: ________________________ :: Glowing skin and all. Pioneers laid good skin on good NOTED, FEBRUARY 2014, bones when they built the town. PASO ROBLES, CA You can see it in vintage photos of commerce and events in the town Today, the town square is doing square: From the ground up, build- exactly what it did 125 years ago:

Half-Marathon Walkers start early at 7:15 a.m. The main event, the Half-Marathon Run, starts at 8 a.m. while the 5K starts at 8:15 a.m. and the 1⁄2 Mile “Grape Stomp” fun run starts at 9 a.m. On-site registration is open Saturday, March 22, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and on Race Day starting at 6:30 a.m. Enjoy music, food, great prizes...something for everyone. For more information, email winecountryruns@gmail.com or go on line to www.WineCountryRuns.com Race Start at River Oaks Hot Springs or www.Active.com. Wine Country and a chance for prizes in the race Runs is also on Facebook with up-tobib number drawing. date info and promotions.

Help people to sustain themselves; provide a place to assemble and enrich mind, body, and soul. It has evolved from a workhorse stocked with tools and necessities, to an energy station for people to recharge their batteries. The heart of the city is where the drudgery stops, the bell rings, and it’s break-time in the city’s biggest playground. Here, people enrich their lives, enjoy the fruits of their labor, and renew their zest for living. The Main Street program created a way for the whole community to take part in saving the beloved

town square. Working together, people resurrected the downtown, and its good bone structure, to serve a meaningful purpose in the life of the town. The historic town square in 2014 proves that the citizens of Paso Robles have the character of pioneers. The bone structure of old and the streetscape of the present were created by likeminded people. Those who built the structure and those who care for it now share the same qualities. Unity. Vision. Adaptability. Fortitude. Work. And Faith...that we can do something huge.

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B USINESS “The Deli that Delivers!” You’ve seen them all over town. A red and a pink scooter is either parked in front of Red Scooter Deli on Pine Street or motoring around downtown – with a delivery to a very happy customer! For the last 3 years, owner Stephanie Johnston has enjoyed meeting people and helping them “walk away with a good meal. We cater to our customer’s wishes and people are surprised at the size of our menu. The community has really supported us! Our regular customers have just been such a joy.” In addition to a very busy storefront deli business, Red Scooter Deli prepares box lunches for limo and wine tours and private picnics, platters for corporate meetings and morning breakfast trays along regular catering and many winery events. Stephanie adds, “I have a wonderful relationship with many of the wineries since we deliver on-site.” Catering for weddings and special events has expanded to more than just the big occasion. For special occasions, Red Scooter will cater the food “behind the scenes” before and after the event. All soups and deli salads are made in-house to compliment the signature sandwiches made with fresh bread from 3 local bakeries. Stephanie Austin of The soups are Red Scooter Deli gluten-free and additional glutenfree and vegan menu selections will be available soon. Hot dishes, fruit and veggie smoothies and Joebella coffee rounds out the selection of many other items. Stephanie adds, “I’m lucky to have great staff. It’s a small business so we are family. Stephanie’s son Shane works full-time and her daughters Courtney and Marah fill in for weekends and special events. Red Scooter Deli is open every

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day except Thanksgiving, MondaySaturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 1102 Pine Street, next to Park Cinemas. Call 237-1780, or check out their menu at redscooterdeli.com. Le Vigne Announces New Tasting Room! Quite an impressive project has been completed at Le Vigne Winery. The renovated tasting room is ready just in time for the newly titled Vintage Paso: Zinfandel and Other Wild Wines held on March 15 and 16. Weekend festivities include a limited tasting and dinner hosted by owners Walter and Sylvia Filippini. Dinner will be prepared by renowned Chefs Giacomino and Tanino Drago, owners of several fine restaurants including the famous Via Allora and Il Pastaio of Beverly Hills. As you enter Le Vigne’s new tasting room, an expansive open space welcomes you with a tasting bar topped with large planks of cypress wood and trimmed in earthen rocks. A new deli counter offers hot grilled panini sandwiches along with a large selection of their famous meats and cheeses. A spacious, state-of-the-art, climate-controlled cheese storage room contains a complete variety of cheeses along with displaying and aging a larger selection of charcuterie items. A sliding door joins the tasting room and the front of the cellar to accommodate special events. The entrance to the new library room is highlighted by a set of rustic Italian double doors that Walter Filippini personally selected. The Le Vigne Winery grounds include an area for picnics in the large outdoor wine park that also hosts special events and concerts.

The most unique attraction is the 1947 Pullman train cars. Le Vigne Winery is located at 5115 Buena Vista Drive in Paso Robles. 2274000. www.levignewinery.com. Wine Country Cuisine at Its Finest Second Press Wine Bar & Eatery offers not only a beautiful vantage point overlooking the City Park, it is the latest addition to the variety of fine restaurants in downtown Paso Robles. To honor Paso’s rich history, Second Press respectfully links the name of the former tenants and newspapers, The Daily Press and more recent- Second Press Wine ly the Paso Robles Bar & Eatery Press with the influence of the wine industry. Owner John Clarizio and Executive Chef Ryan Swarthout created an eclectic menu by bringing local farm fresh products together with the vast array of Central Coast wines and craft beers composed by Sommelier Eric Connolly. Opening Second Press Wine Bar & Eatery has been a long time goal for Clarizio who teamed with Executive Chef Ryan to develop contemporary wine cuisine for the restaurant. The prime downtown location at 810 11th Street supports the goal of being a strong community partner. “Our vision has created a comfortable relaxing environment with exceptional food, wine and great service,” says Chef Ryan. With impressive credentials behind him, Ryan adds, “It’s like floating on a cloud when it works well. It’s exciting to bring innovative food trends, flavor profiles and seasonally chang-

ing menus to our patrons. A new attraction is the ‘Pop Up’ tasting experience with dinners prepared especially for ‘pour.’” Second Press also features a “Press Pass” to enhance the guest experience by offering food and wine lovers the chance to indulge in the latest pairings and tastings from local wineries and breweries with contemporary cuisine. Press Pass holders will be notified of upcoming events and the Press Pass benefits that are available. Enjoy lunch and dinner every day from 11 a.m. – 10 p.m. and live music on Thursday night beginning at 7:30 p.m. The restaurant is also available for private events and catering. For more information about the “Press Pass” or reservations, visit www.secondpress.biz, call 226-7500 or visit them on Facebook. New Chef at Paso Robles Inn Steakhouse Paso Robles Inn Steakhouse has announced the addition of Executive Chef Paul Arangorin to the culinary team, bringing seven years of culinary experience to his new position. He is a graduate of the California Culinary Academy Le Cordon Bleu. In 2012, Arangorin was the winner of the Sunset’s Savor the Central Coast Battle of the Bay competition. “Chef Arangorin’s passion Executive Chef Paul Arangorin for food and innovative style will bring a new dimension to the Paso Robles Inn Steakhouse,” noted Margaret Johnson, COO of Martin Resorts. In his new role, Arangorin will oversee all culinary functions at the Inn. He plans to showcase the flavors of each season and feature the bounty of the Paso Robles area in his unique dishes. The Paso Robles Inn Steakhouse is located at 1103 Spring St., phone 226-4925.

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By Millie Drum Being the oldest nonprofit mental health provider in San Luis Obispo County is a symbol of distinction. For 45 years, Community Counseling Center has served over 40,000 clients with 3,500 therapists and numerous volunteer counselors. Since 2011, Community Counseling Center has been serving the North County from the office at 811 12th Street in downtown Paso Robles under the guidance of Executive Director James Statler and Clinical Program Manager Sheila Lassegard. A substantial portion of the counseling provided to clients is made possible by CCC’s dedicated group of professional volunteer counselors, trainees and interns who participate in the agency’s clinical training program; the county’s largest training agency for mental health therapists. Currently CCC is staffed by 76 volunteer counselors, half of which are licensed marriage/family therapists, social workers and psychologists, the rest being interns and trainees. After Sandy Hook and other recent violent situations, agencies like CCC are reaching out to all sectors of the community especially the schools. “We ask ourselves – how do we do prevention?” said James. “We know that mental health counseling, whether it’s on campuses or in the community can get to people early. Some of the violence is preventable, not all of it, but its part of the puzzle and part of the answer. We are helping people know there is a safety net and hope they feel comfortable coming to it. We can provide the counseling, but if people are sensing fear, the social

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inhibition, judgment, weakness, and the emotions associated with mental health, sometimes they don’t reach out. CCC is the agency that pushes that aside and makes it easier for people to reach out for help.” James describes his background as being “woven out of local fabric” with early roots in San Luis Obispo County. A job at an afterschool program at the Boys and Girls Club in Oceano prompted his interest in nonprofits and public health. From there he adds, “I found myself to be a leader and a health advocate along with enjoying community relations. It’s satisfying to help others with the issues I struggled with when I was a teen. Now, I’m in my own community, addressing the critical concerns that I experienced in my own life and working with great people who focus on self-improvement and

transformation. It’s a great place to be a leader.” Sheila adds, “James is a wonderful liaison to the other local agencies, which allows me to concentrate on the clinical piece.” Along with her clinical practice, Sheila’s role of educator is critical to CCC. “Being able to impart my experience of 35 years to trainees and interns is very gratifying,” said Sheila. “The agency welcomes therapists who need to acquire professional clinical hours, expand their private practice, assist with education or provide clinical supervision. Continuing education is a great offering for local therapists; allowing them to stay local and get the mandatory education units right here.” With regard to Paso’s sense of community, Shelia adds, “As a mom and someone who works in the mental health field here, I’ve seen that we really grow and support our children and teens. Our work in the school system has been so wonderful. That’s so important if we want them to grow up and be happy, productive adults. James adds, “Our interns love to work in the schools. If there are other districts in need, CCC is here to help. Quick action and response! All the work I’ve done in Paso Robles demonstrates an excitement. When there is a need, people respond – with a plan of action.” To learn more about CCC and its mission to build and support emotionally strong individuals, couples and families through confidential, affordable counseling, education and advocacy, visit www. cccslo.com or Community Counseling Center of SLO County on Facebook or call 543-7969.

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Happy Anniversary Paso!! Thank you to all the residents, businesses and organizations that welcomed us when we moved here on January 2, 2000. Coming from Saratoga in the San Jose area, it felt like home from day one! Heather started with a position at the Chamber of Commerce then branched out and developed her career in Real Estate. Today she’s part of Sotheby’s International Realty. See her ad on page 5. Chuck discovered that he loved to write and has done so since issue #1 of the Paso Robles Magazine. Six years with the Pioneer Museum filled the spaces. El Paso de Robles...you gave us great opportunities to help make a difference! All the best to you for the next 125! Thank You! Chuck and Heather Desmond

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By Melissa Chavez Most anyone who has been to an auction will tell you that they can be both fun and fierce. When a numbered sign, or paddle, is raised to signal one’s intention to bid, very often the whole shebang can be finished as soon as it began. Enter PADDLEjack.com, a new online source specially targeted for farm, ranch and construction equipment supplies. Part eBay and part Craigslist, the website resource incorporates aspects of both sites in a user-friendly, regionally driven format that is free to use. Upgraded features are optional. Founder Lora Eade explained, “It can be hard, trying to stock items for your farm, winery or construction site. It’s easy if you purchase all new, but in our repurpose, reuse, sustainable world today, PADDLEjack.com brings it all together. Businesses that have excess equipment available or those that are expanding both benefit. “If you were trying to buy winery equipment, imagine the transportation fees associated with moving a large item to an auction yard and then again to the end user,” says Lora. “There’s a definite need

for both farming and construction equipment availability, and much of it (like a backhoe) has crossover application. It makes good sense to bring buyers together in a competitive bidding situation to garner solid market value of the item at that time, so here is PADDLEjack.com.” The array of items run the gamut, from a Caterpillar Pad Compactor to a wine bottle corker. “Anything agrelated can be posted,” Lora explains. “Sellers can list anything legal. Commodities, ag overstock, fence supplies, farm equipment, you name it. Listings are in either auction or classified format. The site is packed with features, such as ‘Buy It Now’ option, reserved pricing, storefronts and social media links. You really have to login to see how friendly PADDLEjack is for users. Then again, if computers are not your thing just call Jack to get it done for you.” An especially exciting new feature for users is a Student Project category that allows a broad reach for student supporters 24 hours a day. “Finally,

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A monthly look at events, meetings and special occasions. To submit your listing, email bob@pasoroblesmagazine.com, bring info to our drop box at Dutch Maytag, 1501 Riverside Ave. or mail to PO Box 3996, Paso Robles, 93447 by the 7th of each month. Questions? Call 239-1533. MARCH 1, 7, 8, 14, 15 • Wine Country Theatre presents: ‘It Had to Be You’, March 1, 7, 8, 14, 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Via Vega Winery’ Double Playhouse, 2378 Adobe Road (west of Airport Road), PR. This lively romantic comedy written by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna is directed by Cynthia Anthony. Pro actors of stage/film, Kristen Saunders and David Norum, tangle with love in the most unlikely of circumstances. Tickets: $25. Cheese plates and desserts are available and Via Vega wines available for purchase. Seating limited to 50 guests. Call 4232190. Visit www.viavega.com. 1-29 • Paso Robles Inn Steakhouse & Cattlemen’s Lounge, 1103 Spring St., 226-4925. Steakhouse: Join us for Prime Rib Wednesdays! Cattlemen’s Lounge: Happy Hour, 4-6 pm, includes cocktail and menu specials; Monday Industry Night, 6-9 pm, 20% off for all professionals; Wednesday Locals Appreciation Night Happy Hour 4-CLOSE; Acoustic Thursdays, 7-9pm: 3/6: Pancho and Lefty, 3/13: Adam Rowland, 3/20: Pancho and Lefty, 3/27: TBA; Saturday Night $5 Drink Specials, 8-12 pm; Friday & Saturday Live Entertainment, 9:3011:30pm: 2/28-3/1: Bobby Santa Cruz, 3/7-3/8: Nataly Lola, 3/143/15: Ballistic Cats, 3/21-3/22: Steve Sturgis and Roadhouse, 3/28: Stellar, 3/29: The Belmores. 1-4/5 • Free Tax Prep Assistance at Paso Robles City Library is available to seniors and low- to moderate-income residents through April 5. One-hour appointments with AARP representatives are scheduled between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on each of the ten Saturdays. The Reference Desk at

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the library will also provide assistance for citizens looking for copies of tax forms they may need. Call the library at 237-3870 for more information or to schedule an appointment. 3 • Almond Country Quilters will meet at rinity Lutheran Church, 940 Creston Road, PR. The evening agenda includes members teaching quilting techniques. Social time begins at 6:30 p.m. with the meeting to follow at 7 p.m. Following the general meeting, a yearly sale, “Trash to Treasures,” will begin. Members will be selling items that are no longer needed, including fabric and sewing supplies. Cost: Free. For more information about the Guild, visit www.almondcountryquilters.org. 5 • Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent. 6, 13, 20, 27 • Saint Rose Catholic School Bingo takes place in the Saint Rose Parish Hall at 820 Creston Road, PR, at 4 p.m. For more information, call 238-0304. 7 • Paderewski Festival / Wine Country Theatre: ‘It Had to Be You’ is a special fundraising performance to benefit the Paderewski Festival Youth

Cultural Exchange program. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. at Via Vega Winery’ Double Playhouse, 2378 Adobe Road (west of Airport Road), PR. See March 1, above, for details. Tickets: $40, includes the show, delicious desserts and coffee. Via Vega wines will be available for purchase. Call 423-2190. Seating limited to 50 guests. Visit www.paderewskifest.com. www.viavega.com. 8 • Amateur Dog Fetch Competition, Vineyard Dog Park, 1010 Semillon Lane, Templeton, takes place from 9:30 to 12 noon, Competition begins at 10:30. Cost: $3 registration per dog. Dog owners 16 and under are free. Prizes for all winners, free family photos, microchip clinic, hot dog catch contest, free refreshments. Info: Paula O’Farrell, 239-4437. 8, 22 • ‘Saturday Live’ at Vina Robles Hospitality Center offers complimentary live music from 14 p.m. 3/1: Cinder Jean and Robert Thomas. 3/22: Melody Klemin. Vina Robles wine is available for purchase and tastings. Call 227-4812. Visit www.vinarobles.com. 9 • Daylight Saving Time begins at

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13 • Healthy Cooking for those Touched by Cancer - Portable snacks from 5:30-7:p.m. Free for cancer patients, $20 love donation for friends and caregivers. RSVP required. 17 • Women’s Wellness Workshop – takes place from 6-7:30 p.m. Topics change bi-monthly to inform, inspire and support you through your life’s journey. 20 • Pantry Rehab - a review of salts, non-dairy milks, natural sweeteners, fats and oils from 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $25, RSVP required. 26 • Intro to Wellness - Learn about Clean Eating, the negative effects of processed and refined food, smart shopping and eating peacefully, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. 27 • Soul Kitchen and Relay for Life Kick-off Rally – takes place from 5:30-8 p.m., Soul Kitchen features wine tasting, entertainment and a light dinner prepared by The Wellness Kitchen. The event is combined with American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life Kick-off. Learn about starting a Relay team, join a committee, volunteer or become a sponsor. Relay for Life of Paso Robles is June 21 and 22 at River Oaks Hot Springs in Paso Robles. Visit www.relayforlife.org/pasoroblesca.

2 a.m. Re-set your clocks to “spring forward” one hour. 11 • Happy 125th Birthday, Paso Robles! Don’t miss the festivities in the park starting at 3:30 p.m. (See page 34 for details). 12 • North County Multiflora Garden Club will meet Wednesday at 1 p.m. Nick Wilkinson, owner of Grow Rare and Unusual Succulents, of Cambria, will teach us about growing succulents in the North County. He will have his succulents available for purchase. The meeting will be held at the Paso Robles Community Church, 2706 Spring Street, Paso Robles. For more information call 805-712-7820. 13 • ‘Girls Night Out’ fundraiser hosted by CASA of San Luis Obispo County takes place at the San Luis Obispo Country Club from 6-9 p.m. offers tapas, dancing, raffles and entertainment provided by Meathead Movers. No-host bar is cash-only (please, no credit cards accepted). Tickets available at www. slocasa.org. 14-16 • Vintage Paso: Zinfandel and Other Wild Wines is an opportunity to become immersed in a complete Zinfandel experience and discover what makes Paso Robles Wine Country the 2013 Wine Region of the Year by Wine Enthusiast Magazine. Create your own “zinful” itinerary to smell, sip and savor the heritage of Paso Robles, with events at more than 120 wineries. Enjoy a selection of wine, chocolate pairings, winemaker dinners, vineyard tours, laid-back barbecues, barrel tastings, live music and more. Visit www.pasowine.com to download your guide to all of the wineries and their special events. 15 • 21st annual Women’s Wall of Fame Luncheon in the Garden Room of the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Event to honor women in SLO county for volunteer service in collaboration with the SLO County Commission on the Status of Women. Keynote speakers Kelly-Jenkins-Pulz of US DOL/ Women’s Bureau 9 and Ana Fortes, Program Analyst. For info on vendor tables, contact Jan Harper at 528-7687. Tickets, $35 available at www.slowomen.org. Please see CALENDAR page 88

David and Lisa’ at Templeton Performing Arts Center at Templeton High School, 1200 South Main Street, Templeton, on March 6, 7, 8, 13, 14 and 15 at 7 p.m. Directed by David Landers, the play unfolds a strange and fascinating story of two mentally disturbed adolescents: David, the only son of wealthy parents who is tortured by his mania against being touched, and Lisa, the waif with a split personality. The play follows their exhilarating progress and heartrending defeats during one term at Berkeley School, where they come under the guidance of psychiatrist Alan Swinford and his staff. Fellow students include Carlos, the street urchin, the over-romantic Kate and stout Sandra, among others. Laughter, heartbreak and suspense distinguish this authentic and well told story. For ticket information, email David Landers at dlanders@templetonusd.org. Call 434-5888.

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15 • St. Patrick’s Day Barn Dance at Oak Creek Commons Community Room, 635 Nicklaus St., PR, (across from Pat Butler School), takes place from 7-9 p.m. No partner needed. Dancing children are welcome and free. Adult requested donation $7. Jean Gorrindo will teach and call dances. Phil Curnow’s Calamity House Band will play rollicking old time music and jigs. “Like” Paso Robles Contra Dances on Facebook for photos of past dances and updates on future ones. Information: Arlen Bass 239-9134; Risa Kaiser risakaiser@sbcglobal.net. 16 • Purim Jewish holiday commemorated. 17 • St. Patrick’s Day observation marks the life and deeds of one of Ireland’s most famous patron saints. 22 • 6th Annual Dog Jog at Ken-

nedy Club Fitness, 500 South River Road, Paso Robles. Early bird registration until March 20. To register, visit Kennedy Club or online at www. parks4pups.org and get the mail - in registration form. Check in 8 a.m. with pancake breakfast. Race at 9:00am. Contests at 10:00am. Prizes, raffles and goodie bags. Rain or shine, runners or walkers. The proceeds benefit Sherwood Dog Park of Paso Robles. Info: Paula O’Farrell, 239-4437. 22 • 6th Annual Tour of Paso Founder’s Team Challenge at Castoro Cellars, 1315 North Bethel Rod, Templeton. Launch Party offers food, wine, music and fun from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. RSVP. Proceeds benefit Cancer Support Community 27 • Relay for Life Kick-off, American Cancer Society from 5:30 to 8p.m. Learn how to start a Relay team, join a committee, volunteer or become a

sponsor. Relay for Life of Paso Robles is June 21 and 22 at River Oaks Hot Springs in Paso Robles. www. relayforlife.org/pasoroblesca. 29 • Amanda Carminati Fundraiser in Paso Robles. Amanda is a 4th generation Paso Roblan facing her second battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. After relapse and treatment at Stanford in January, a bone marrow transplant is planned for the future. Amanda is a single mom to 2-year-old Zaley. Event will take place in the Pavilion at the Paso Robles Event Center with nohost cocktails at 6 p.m., BBQ dinner at 7 p.m. and live and silent auction. Dinner tickets are $50 per person; gun raffle tickets $100 each. Weatherby donated two rifles. The raffle rifle, (need not be present to win) is a Vanguard Series 2 Deluxe, caliber of your choice. The auction rifle is an SA_08 20G - Muddy Girl Camo. Tickets

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by Rotary Club of Paso Robles Sunrise. Enjoy an all-you-can-eat dinner for $50 on March 16, beginning at 4 p.m. at the Stallion Barn at Windfall Farms off Creston Road. Silent auction and reverse drawing fundraiser. Biggest event of he year funds scholarships for graduating seniors. Sunrise Rotary meets every Wednesday at 7 a.m.at the Culinary Academy on Golden Hill Road. New members welcome. Contact Dee Hinds at 239-7443 or email dhinds@hindsfinanancial.com.

at 7:30 p.m. in the Via Vega Winery’ Double Playhouse, 2378 Adobe Road (west of Airport Road), PR. This lively romantic comedy written by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna is directed by Cynthia Anthony. Pro actors of stage/film, Kristen Saunders and David Norum, tangle with love in the most unlikely of circumstances. Tickets: $25. Cheese plates and desserts are available and Via Vega wines available for purchase. Seating limited to 50 guests. Call 423-2190.Visit www.viavega.com.

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DIRECTORY of LOCAL those HOUSES of WORSHIP churches/synagogues who have not yet responded to the request

The following listing of area churches/synagogues is provided free of charge as a community service by Adelaide Inn and Paso Robles Magazine.

Our goal is to have this become a complete listing of places of worship located in Paso Robles, Templeton, San Miguel and Shandon. For Apostolic Assembly of the Faith of Christ Jesus 2706 Spring St., Paso Robles Bilingual Services: Wed & Fri, 7 p.m., Sunday 12 Noon Pastor Miguel Alvarado (805) 610-2930 Bethel Lutheran Church 295 Old County Rd., Templeton Service: 9:30 a.m. Pastor Russ Gordon Pastor Amy Beveridge (805) 434-1329 Bridge Christian Curch Currently meeting at Centennial Park Banquet Room 600 Nickerson Dr., Paso Robles Service: 9:30 a.m. Pastor Tim Mensing 805-975-7178 Calvary Chapel Paso Robles 1615 Commerce Way, Paso Robles Service: 9:30 a.m. Pastor Aaron Newman (805) 239-4295 Celebration Worship Center-PCOG 988 Vineyard Drive, Templeton Pastor Roy Spinks Services: 10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m. (805) 434-2424 Central Coast Center for Spiritual Living 689 Crocker St., Templeton Service: 10 a.m. Rev. Dr. Don and Rev. LaVonne Welsh (805) 434-9447 Christian Life Center 1744 Oak St., Paso Robles Service: 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pastor Don Smith (805) 238-3366 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1020 Creston Rd., Paso Robles Service: 8:30 a.m. Bishop Brian Kerr Service: 1:00 p.m. Bishop Mark Goforth (805) 238-4216, 238-4214, 238-4217 Congregation Ohr Tzafon 2605 Traffic Way, Atascadero Service: Fridays, 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Janice Mehring (805) 466-0329 Covenant Presbyterian Church 1450 Golden Hill Rd., Paso Robles Service: 9:30 a.m. Pastor Dan Katches (805) 238-6927 Cowboy Church Ride For the Brand Ministry Templeton Livestock Market Sale Barn Main St., Templeton Service: Thursdays, 7 p.m. Pastor Mike Mosby (805) 463-2455

Dayspring Full Gospel 1101 Riverside, Paso Robles Services: 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pastor Harry Balson (805) 239-3273 Family Praise & Worship 206 5th St., Templeton Service: 10 a.m. Pastor Vern H. Haynes Jr. (805) 975-8594 Family Worship Center 616 Creston Rd., Paso Robles Service: 10 a.m. Pastor Patrick Sheean (805) 239-4809 First Baptist Church 1645 Park St., Paso Robles Pastor Michael R. Garman Services: 9 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. (805) 238-4419 Christian Science Society 17th & Chestnut Streets, Paso Robles Service: 10 a.m. (805) 239-1361 First Mennonite Church 2343 Park St. Paso Robles Service: 11 a.m. Pastor Romero (805) 238-2445 First Missionary Baptist Church of Paso Robles Corner of 3rd & Olive Streets Service: 11 a.m. Pastor Jeff Barger (805) 239-8756 First Presbyterian Church of Templeton 610 S. Main St., Templeton Service: 10 a.m. Reverend Charlie Little (805) 434-1921 Fuente de Agua Viva 1521 Oak St, Paso Robles Service: Thursday: 7 p.m. and Sunday: 3 p.m. Pastor Jorge Alvarez (805) 714-3827 Grace Baptist Church 535 Creston Rd., Paso Robles Service: 10 a.m. Pastor Kelsey Pietsch (805) 238-3549 Heritage Village Church At the Senior Center, Heritage Ranch Service: 11 a.m. Pastor Ed Bedrosian (805) 238-9240 Highlands Church Corner S. River and Niblick, 215 Oak Hill, Paso Robles Services: Sunday: 8:30, 9:45 & 11:00 a.m. Pastor Sean Martin (805) 226-5800

for information and would like to be included in this directory, please email your name, address, phone, service times and pastor’s/rabbi’s name to Paso Robles Magazine at: prmagazine@charter.net All worship service times listed are for Sundays, unless noted otherwise:

Lake Way Country Church/Ministries Meeting at Cappy Culver Elementary School, 11011 Heritage Loop Rd. Service: 10 a.m. Sunday Pastors: Rodger & Julie Coale (805) 423-4095 Life Community Church 3770 Ruth Way, Templeton Service: 9:30 a.m. Pastor Keith Newsome (805) 434-5040 Life Worth Living Church of God 620 – 17th St., Paso Robles Service: 11 a.m. Pastor Jim Wilde (805) 238-0978 Lighthouse Community Church 301 13th St. San Miguel Services: 9:45 a.m. & 10:45 a.m. Pastor John Wheat (805) 467-3636 Live Oak 1521 Oak St., Paso Robles Service: 10 a.m. Pastor John Kaiser (805) 238-0575 Living Waters Christian Fellowship 2085 Gateway Dr., Heritage Ranch Service: 9:30 a.m. Pastor Jedidiah McClure (805) 239-1716 Methodist Ministries Meeting at 1005 Railroad St. at 10th St. Service: 10:30 a.m. For information call 238-2006 Mid State Baptist Church 1749 Ramada Dr., Paso Robles Services: Sundays, 10 a.m. & 6 p.m. Pastor Bruce Fore (805) 238-2281 Mission San Miguel Parish 775 Misssion Street, San Miguel Weekday Mass: 8 a.m. Weekend Mass: Saturday: 9 a.m. & 5 p.m. (Vigil) Sunday: 7 a.m., 11 a.m., 6 p.m. (Spanish) Reverend Pedro Umana (805) 467-2131 New Day Center 530 12th St., Paso Robles English Service: 10 a.m. Pastor Brad Alford Hispanic Service: 2 p.m. Pastor Vincente Salmeron (805) 239-9998 New Life Church of Paso Robles Meeting at Holiday Inn Express 2455 Riverside Ave., Paso Robles Pastor Randy Bunch (805) 769-8120

New Life Tabernacle 3850 So. Ramada Dr. Ste. D, Paso Robles Service: 10 a.m. Pastor Efrain Cordero

Solid Rock Christian Fellowship 925 Bennett Way, Templeton Service: 10:00 a.m. Pastor Jeff Saylor (805) 434-2616

Niblick Road Baptist Church 1145 Niblick Rd., Paso Robles Services: 10:30 a.m. Pastor Christopher Cole (805) 238-4614

St. James Episcopal Church 1335 Oak, Paso Robles Services: 8 a.m. (Rite I), 10:00 a.m. (Rite II) Interim Pastor, Rev. Robert Eaton (805) 238-0819

North County Christian Fellowship 421 9th St. , Paso Robles Service: 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Pastor Steve Calagna (805) 239-3325 Oak Shores Christian Fellowship 2727 Turkey Cove, at the Clubhouse, Oak Shores Service: 8:30 a.m. Pastor Rodger Coale (805) 423-4095 Paso Robles Bible Church 2206 Golden Hill Rd., Paso Robles Service: 10:30 a.m. Pastor Dave Rusco Pastor Mark Wheeler (805) 226-9670 Paso Robles Church of the Nazarene Meeting at the Paso Robles Youth Arts Foundation 3201 Spring St., Paso Robles Service: 10:30 a.m. Pastor Brent Wylie (805) 238-4300 Paso Robles Community Church 2706 Spring St, Paso Robles Service: 9 a.m. Pastor Shawn Penn (805) 239-4771 Plymouth Congregational Church, UCC Thirteenth and Oak Streets, Paso Robles Service: 10 a.m. Pastor Steven Mabry (805) 238-3321 Second Baptist Church 1937 Riverside Ave. Service: 11 a.m. Pastors: Rueben Tate, Gary Jordon (805) 238-2011 Shandon Assembly of God 420 Mesa Grande, Shandon Service: 10:30 a.m. Hispanic Service: 4 p.m. Pastor Ted Hunt (805) 239-3138 Shandon United Methodist Church 105 Second Street, Shandon Service 9:30 a.m. Rev. Fred B. Morris (805) 238-3134

St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church 820 Creston Rd., Paso Robles Weekday Mass: M-S, 7 a.m. Weekend Masses: Saturday - 5 p.m. (Vigil) Sunday - 8 a.m., 10 a.m. (Family Mass) 12:30 p.m. (Spanish) 5 p.m. (Teen) & 7 p.m. (Spanish) Father Roberto Vera (805) 238-2218 Templeton Hills Seventh-day Adventist Church 930 Templeton Hills Rd., Templeton Service: Saturday 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. Pastor Ivor Myers (805) 434-1710 The Revival Center 3850 Ramada Dr., Ste. A-3, Paso Robles Service: 10 a.m. Pastor Gabe Abdelaziz (805) 434-5170 The Rock Church 616 Creston Rd., Paso Robles Service: 7 p.m. Friday Nights Pastors Ed & Char Barger (661) 587-7625 Trinity Lutheran Church 940 Creston Rd., Paso Robles Contemporary Service: 9 a.m. Traditional Service: 10:45 a.m. Sr. Pastor Dan Rowe (805) 238-3702 True Life Christian Fellowship Lockwood/Jolon Road, across from the school in Lockwood Service: 9:30 a.m. Pastor Erick Reinstedt (805) 472-9325 Truth Tabernacle 915 Creston Rd., Paso Robles Services: 9 a.m. & 6 p.m. Pastor David Webb (805) 423-3135 Vineyard Church of Christ 601 So. Main St., Templeton Service: 10 a.m. Evangelist: Steve Orduno (805) 610-4272 Vintage Community Church 692 Peterson Ranch Road, Templeton Services: 9 a.m. & 11 a.m. Coaches: Aaron Porter, Dayn Mansfield (805) 543-0943

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Mardi Gras Carnival at Paso Robles Inn Vision Unida, the Hispanic Business Association and the Cinco de Mayo Scholarship Committee are co-sponsoring a Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday Carnival to recognize three distinguished honorees who have served the Hispanic communities on the Central Coast. This party will also serve to raise funds for youth scholarships. The costume-optional party will be in the ballroom at the Paso Robles Inn on Tuesday, March 4, from 6 to 9 p.m. The three honorees, one from each organization are: Xelina Rojas from the Cinco de Mayo group, Jeanette Duncan from Vision Unida and Frank Mecham from the Hispanic Business Association. Tickets, $30 per person, will be offered at various locations throughout the county. Anyone interested in purchasing tickets and/or contribute to the silent auction may contact Richard Benitez at (805) 238-2735 or Manuel Medina at (805) 226-774. Xelina Rojas Xelina Rojas, counselor at Paso Robles High School, is a native of San Antonio, Texas. She moved to California in 1977, after which she received her Masters degree in Counseling from California State Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo. She has served as a school counselor for the past 23 years of which 17 years were served advising high school students at Paso Robles High School. She also taught English as a Second Language courses within the community and at Cuesta College for 11 years, utilizing her degree she received in Teaching English to Students of Other Languages from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Xelina has served as a club advisor for M.E.Ch.A. student club at Paso Robles for 1890 House 28 81 46 East Storage 805 Horse Tales 72 911 Supply House 65 A Beautiful Face 81 Acorn Event Management 11 Adelaide Floral 68 Adelaide Inn/Black Oak 21 Advanced Concrete 66 Advanced Construction 81 Alliance Board Co. 17 American Oak Furniture 3 Artworks 12, 77 29 AYSO Baker, Faye 79 Baker, Richard 37 Bankston, Kim 19 Beehive Salon 80 Bella V 12 Berry Hill Bistro 12 BlakesTrueValue 67 77 Blakeslee&Blakeslee Blenders 25 Body Basics 24 Borjon Auto Center 32 Boys and Girls Club 21 Bresk, Helena 22 Bridge Sportsmen 72 Butz, David 17 40 Cal Paso Solar 46 California Mid State Fair Casey Printing 82 Casper, EJ, DDS 70

the past 17 years, facilitating over 500 students’ attendance at the annual college-level M.E.Ch.A. conference at Cal Poly, over 200 students attending Cuesta College’s “Si Se Puede” motivational conference and sponsoring 20 students in youth leadership training in Santa Barbara with a grant she secured from the San Luis Obispo Community Foundation. Xelina has served as a conflict mediator and has worked in several capacities to bridge the gap in diverse groups throughout the years. She co-founded the Central Coast Diversity Coalition, MADRE and has served diligently as a member of the Cinco de Mayo Scholarship Committee for the past 17 years working in their fundraising events and programs for scholarships. She has obtained grants for teen programs through the United Way and the San Luis Obispo Community Foundation, also being honored with the Isabel Ruiz Humanitarian Award in 2010. Jeanette Duncan Jeanette Duncan, who is retiring this year, has served as Executive Director of Peoples Self-Help Housing since 1977. She is responsible for the non-profit multi-county affordable housing agency, with its 30 affiliated nonprofit corporations and limited partnerships, which provides a variety of housing and community development programs and residential construction services. She is the President of The Duncan Group, an affiliate property management corporation which oversees a $300 million dollar portfolio of residential and commercial real estate. A prominent leader in the low-income housing industry, Duncan has served on numerous local, state and national hous-

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ing committees, the boards of directors of the California Community Reinvestment Corporation and Home Builders of the Central Coast. She graduated summa cum laude from California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo and holds a Certificate in Human Services from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a certificate of Executive Education in Non-profit Management from Harvard’s School of Business. Jeanette’s numerous awards include the 2012 Isabel P. Ruiz Humanitarian Award from the San Luis Obispo County Community Foundation, the 2007 Pacific Coast Business Times “Top 50 Women in Business,” the 2006 Santa Barbara Association of Realtors Community Service Award, the 2005 Women’s Economic Ventures Trailblazer of the Year Award and the 2003 Local Hero by the Santa Barbara Independent. The Peoples’ Self-Help Housing has grown under Duncan’s visionary leadership to become not only a regional but a national leader in affordable housing development. It is one of the most respected and trusted names in non-profits. Frank Mecham Frank Mecham, First District Supervisor, is a 5th generation resident of San Luis Obispo County and 9th generation resident of California. He is a United States Navy veteran, serving from 1966-70 on active duty and from 1970-72 as a reserve. He and his wife Deb have a combined family of six children and nine grandchildren. The Supervisor is the great-great grandson of Joaquin Tomas Estrada, who was the original land grant holder of the famed Santa Margarita Ranch, and elected to

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serve on the original Board of Supervisors in 1852. His father, Frank H. Mecham was Fire Chief at Fort Hunter Liggett and his mother, Alberta, was a nursing assistant. Frank served the community of Paso Robles as a member of the Parks & Recreation Board, as a Planning Commissioner, two years as a council member and became the first directly-elected Mayor in 2000. After serving four consecutive two year terms, he was elected to serve San Luis Obispo County as the Supervisor for the First District. Frank worked twenty years in the electrical contracting business and for seven years worked for Blakeslee & Blakeslee as a Financial Advisor. In addition to his current elected position as Supervisor, he has served as a Board Member for the Twin Cities Community Hospital, Paso Robles High School Technology Academy, Nacimiento Water Commission, San Luis Obispo County Council of Governments, and spearheaded the establishment of the City of Paso Robles’ First Youth Commission. Frank spearheaded the Economic Strategy Program that is being utilized Countywide in the planning for businesses and established two process improvement committees that resulted in 17 changes to improve the process for planning and permitting. Currently, he is serving on eight boards in addition to those that he sits on with the other four Supervisors. In 2004 he was presented with the “Roblan of the Year” award by the community of Paso Robles. A published author, the Supervisor enjoys spending his spare time reading, writing, working in his yard, trying to keep up with his grandkids extracurricular activities and his dogs Jack and Jill.

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