Atascadero News • November 10, 2022

Fentanyl Crisis Invades San Luis Obispo County

By CAMILLE DEVAUL camille@atascaderonews.com

COUNTY — While San Luis Obispo County has been named the “Happiest Place in America,” we are not immune to the pandemic that is fentanyl.

Atascadero News sat with San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson to discuss what the fentanyl crisis looks like in our county and the danger it presents.

What is Fentanyl?

Originally developed as an intravenous anesthetic in 1959, fentanyl “is a potent synthetic opioid drug approved by the Food and Drug Administra tion for use as an analgesic (pain relief) and anesthetic,” according to the United States Drug Enforcement Adminis tration (DEA).

The synthetic opioid is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.

There is the pharmaceutical fentanyl — legally prescribed by a doctor to treat severe pain and then there is illicitly manufactured fentanyl, which is illegally manufactured and smuggled into the United States.

According to the DEA, fentanyl is primarily sold as a powder or in pill form to look like legitimate opioids, but can also be seen as a nasal spray form. It produces an intense, short-term high that can easily result in seizures and death due to its high potency and ability to be easily disguised.

According to the CDC, over 150 people die every day from overdoses related to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. And the DEA states “two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal depending on a person’s body size, tolerance and past usage. DEA analysis has found counterfeit pills rang ing from .02 to 5.1 milligrams (more than twice the lethal dose) of fentanyl per tablet.”

Some common street names used for fentanyl are Apace, China Girl, China Town, China White, Dance Fever, and Goodfellas.

Preliminary winning candidates announced

General Election was held on Nov. 8.

By CHRISTIANNA MARKS christianna@atascaderonews.com

The San Luis Obispo County Elections Office released its updated Election Summary Report on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 12:28 a.m., stating there have been 58,096 votes counted out of 182,291 register SLO County voters — 51,200 voteby-mail, 6,896 provisional.The

Following Election Day, the SLO County Clerk-Recorders office will count last-minute vote-by-mail ballots — these are ballots that arrive the day before or on Election Day by mail, returned at a polling place, or deposited in a Ballot Drop Box.They will also be counting postmarked vote-bymail ballots — these are ballots postmarked before election day that arrive seven days after the

election. Lastly, the Clerk-Re corder’s office will verify signa tures and remaining ballots.

According to the SLO County Clerk-Recorder Elaina Cano, her office will typically certify the election within 30 days after the election.

With just over 30 percent of ballots counted, it is still too soon to call the races, but here is what we have so far for our North County races.

ATASCADERO

The City of Atascadero had

two open at-large seats on their council and mayor up for election.

As of 12:28 a.m.,Wednes day, Nov. 9, current City of Atascadero Councilmembers

Heather Newsom with 43.37 percent, and Susan Funk with 42.86 percent, look like they will both win their re-election for the two open seats on the council. Bret Heinemann is following behind with 13.49 percent of the vote.

City of Atascadero Mayor

City of Atascadero Treasurer candidate Gere Sibbach, also running unopposed for re-elec tion has 99 percent of the vote.

The Atascadero Unified School District had nine candidates running for four spots on the trustee board. Top results show Tracy EllisWeit with 15.44 percent, Vy Pierce with 14.58 percent,

By CHRISTIANNA MARKS christianna@atascaderonews.com

PASO ROBLES — Fans of the classical composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski (known for stopping in Paso Robles while on tour) headed out last weekend to experience the three-day Paderewski Festi

val dedicated to the famous musician.

The Paderewski Festival, which made its initial come back in 2006 after the Flam son Auditorium was damaged in the 2003 San Simon Earth quake, has not taken a break since. In 2020 the festival was performed online, with audi

ence members buying tickets and streaming the concerts in their homes, and in 2021 it returned with a three-day festival instead of the normal four days from previous years. This year, the festival stuck with the three-day format.

“This year, we still did a three-night festival just

because we’re still trying to get our feet back underneath us,” said Paderewski Festival Pres ident Marjorie Hamon.

The classical music fest kicked off on Friday, Novem ber 4, with an evening of woodwind music performed by the award-winning Cracow

By CHRISTIANNA MARKS christianna@atascaderonews.com

ATASCADERO—The

Atascadero City Council met for their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 8, at 6 p.m. The hybrid meeting was held in the City Council Chambers.

The agenda for the evening passed unanimously.

A proclamation was read

SAN LUIS OBISPO —

candidate Heather Moreno, running unopposed for re-elec tion has 99 percent of the vote.

SAN LUIS OBISPO

The number one drug seized in SLO County is now fentanyl

Election results will be certified by Dec. 8

Saturday Night Gala Concert, Jakub Kuszlik. Paso Robles Inn Ballroom. Photo by Rick Evans

TRACY

REBEKAH KOZNEK

HEATHER

SUSAN FUNK

HEATHER NEWSOM

JANEL ARMETJENNIFER GRINAGER

DENISE

Cancer Support Community’s Lights of Hope to Shine in Paso Robles Downtown City Park

provide free social and emotional support services for local families touched by cancer.”

PASO ROBLES — When Mrs. Claus flips the switch on Friday, Nov. 25, more than 35,000 lights will be turned on at the annual Downtown Tree Lighting Ceremony. This year marks the 11th annual Paso’s Lights of Hope, a special fundraising event benefiting Cancer Support Community — California Central Coast. These lights will turn on and shine nightly through Feb. 19, 2023.

“The downtown tree lighting ceremony is one of our favorite traditions each year, and Cancer Support Community is proud to help light the winter season shining light on our mission, ‘so that no one faces cancer alone,’” said Lights of Hope Committee Chair Elena Clark. “Our hope is that the lights bring joy to the community, while honoring cancer patients, survivors, and those we have lost.”

Seventeen trees will be lit this year, and spon

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PASO ROBLES — With “Elegant Evening Downtown” on Saturday, Nov. 12, the heart of Paso Robles is transformed into a magical feast for the eyes and taste buds. This Paso Robles tradition is a gift of hospi tality from downtown merchants and kicks off the holiday shopping season sponsored by Downtown Merchants.

From 5 to 8 p.m., shoppers are indulged

sorships are available, according to Clark. Last year’s tree sponsors included Clark and Lacey, Niner Wine Estates, Thom Schulz in honor of Laura Coats, Radiology Associates, Humanity Wine Project, Paso Robles Wine Country Alli ance, and a tree sponsored in honor and remem brance of Dr. Berry Foran.

“Lights of Hope is our way of helping to beau tify the City Park for the holidays while also rais ing funds and awareness for our programs in a unique and special way,” said Clark. “We invite businesses and individuals to honor loved ones by sponsoring a bulb, a branch, or an entire tree. Support for this event enables us to continue to

Paso’s Lights of Hope is a joint venture with the City of Paso Robles and the Paso Robles Down town Main Street Association. To sponsor a bulb, a branch, or tree and help shine the light on CSC’s mission: “so that no one faces cancer alone,” go to cscslo.org/Support-Our-Work/Lights-of-Hope, call (805) 238-4411, or email events@cscslo.org.

About Cancer Support Community- CA Central Coast

The mission of Cancer Support Commu nity-California Central Coast is to help those affected by cancer and their loved ones enhance their health and well-being. With a motto of “So that no one faces cancer alone,” CSC provides a professional program of social and emotional support, as well as education in order for partic ipants to learn vital skills that will enable them regain control, reduce isolation, and restore hope, regardless of the stage of disease. Fund raisers, private donations, and sponsors enable CSC-CCC to continue its work with the local community.

17th Annual Holiday Boutique in the Park Coming to the Lake

with fine hors d’oeuvres and refreshments.

Lights twinkle in windows and cascade from awnings and facades. Dancers, Quartets, and Choir, will entertain the guests. Amid the holiday finery, dancers from Class Act Dance Studio serve as live mannequins in shop windows, posing as characters from beloved tales, strolling musicians, and entertainment.

For more information, visit pasorobles downtown.org/downtown-calendar/

ATASCADERO — Mark your calendar for the Pavilion on the Lake’s 17th Annual Holiday Boutique, Saturday, Nov. 12. This event, brought to you by the City of Atascadero, is open from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. and will be held outdoors at the beautiful Atascadero Lake Park at 9100 Morro Road in Atascadero. Expect over 60 vendors on site for this one-day only craft show where all items are handmade by the sellers.

Fun, festive and fabulous crafts plus beauti ful artistic creations. This an opportunity to get your holiday shopping started, plus find unique one-of-a-kind gifts that cannot be found on the internet or anywhere else.

The Holiday Boutique is free to attend, so don’t miss out on this unique holiday

COMMUNITY

shopping experience.

For more information, visit our website at visitatascadero.com/events or call (805) 470-3178.

St. Williams Hobby Fellowship Holding Annual Holiday Boutique

its annual Holiday Boutique on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 8 to 3:30 p.m. The event will take place in the Church hall at 6410 Santa Lucia Rd., near the western end of Traf fic Way.

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ATASCADERO — St. Williams Hobby Fellowship will be holding

The event raises funds for Loaves and Fishes and Restorative Partners. All 100 percent of the

proceeds will be donated to the two charities.

The event is free and offers Thanksgiving and Christ mas-themed gift items, including handmade jewelry, gift baskets of various themes, succulents in plant ers, and much more. Everything is reasonably priced.

Share the Sunshine Volunteer Signup Day event happening Friday, Nov. 18, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

ATASCADERO — Solarponics has partnered with local nonprofits to host the first annual Share the Sunshine Volunteer Signup Day event happening this Friday, Nov. 18, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Solarponics office in Atascadero. Attendees are invited to meet a nonprofit that is a perfect fit for them to volunteer.

Solarponics created Share the Sunshine as a way to introduce their employees to nonprofit organizations in the community that need help. At Solarponics, every employee gets a paid day off to volunteer for a cause of their choice.

When employees started inviting family members and friends, they quickly realized how rewarding and valuable this program was for everyone involved. The idea quickly expanded

to our community-wide launch of Share The Sunshine Volunteer Signup Day.

“We saw how our employees jumped at the chance to volunteer when the opportunity presented itself,” says Kristian Emrich, Solar ponics president. “Share The Sunshine is that opportunity, made easy and approachable for everyone in the community.”

Over a dozen area nonprofit organizations are expected to be on hand to share what they do and what type of volunteer help they need. Organizations attending may include; health services, animal rescue, faith, arts and education, food services, community development, environ ment, and more.

Come by and meet your local nonprof its Friday, Nov. 18, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Solarponics office, 4700 El Camino Real, Atascadero. Find a nonprofit that is a perfect fit for you. Give your time and your heart to those in need in our communities. For more informa tion, visit solarponics.com/share-the-sunshine.

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The Paso Robles community filled the City Park in last year’s Lights of Hope celebration. Photo by Camille DeVaul

Local dancers will continue the tradition of posing in shop windows at the Elegant Evening. Contributed photo

LOCAL NEWS

News Briefs: North San Luis Obispo County

SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

Sheriff’s Investigating Arroyo Grande Shooting

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a report of a shooting on Friday, Nov. 4 on Los Berros Road in rural Arroyo Grande.

A reported road rage inci dent between two vehi cles resulted in a man being shot and then transported to Arroyo Grande Community Hospital where he later died.

The incident occurred at approximately 8 p.m. It is believed to be an isolated incident. The release of details regarding the incident are limited at this time to avoid jeopardizing the investiga tion. Sheriff’s Detectives are continuing to investigate.

If anyone has information on this incident, please contact the Sheriff’s Office at (805) 781-4550. No further infor mation is available at this time.

Volunteers Needed to Ring in the Season

The Salvation Army is look ing for volunteers to ring the bells at numerous Red Kettle locations around San Luis Obispo County this holiday season, Nov. 26 through Dec. 23.

Volunteers are not required to solicit donations — just ring the bell and greet pass ersby with a smile. Shifts are normally two hours.

Volunteering as bell-ring ers can be a great holiday project for service organiza

tions, youth groups or even a group of friends, Salvation Army officials say. A group of volunteers can adopt a site for several hours or an entire day. There is no age limit, but kids and teens must be supervised by an adult.

The annual Kettle Campaign is The Salvation Army’s most important fundraising event of the year. And this year, demand is particularly high. With the cost of food and shelter skyrocketing, the orga nization is being called on to assist even more families in need.

All donations go to help families and individuals in San Luis Obispo County.

To sign up for a time and a location near you, call (323) 316-7097.

PASO ROBLES

Paso Robles and Atascadero Awarded Broadband Grant; Will fund the North County Broadband Strategic Plan

The cities of Paso Robles and Atascadero were recently awarded a $200,000 grant from the California Public Utilities Commission for the North County Broadband Strategic Plan.

The grant is for costs related to the development of broad band network projects to benefit unserved or under served Californians. Paso Robles and Atascadero have partnered to increase internet access for the residents and businesses of Northern San Luis Obispo County.

The two cities signed a part

nership memorandum earlier this year and hired a consult ing company to develop a broadband strategic plan. The CPUC grant will cover the costs of the consultant, and the strategic plan should be completed by March 2023.

“This represents the fruit of our efforts to cooperate in the pursuit of improved broad band services,” stated Paso Robles Mayor Steve Martin. “Paso Robles and Atascadero have stepped up to address this issue and this grant rewards the joint effort to benefit our residents and further our efforts for regional economic development.”

“Increasing broadband connectivity for Atascadero residents means making it more convenient for seniors to access telehealth appoint ments and connect with loved ones, better bandwidth for students studying virtually, and revived investment in remote entrepreneurs who represent a growing and substantial portion of our City’s work force,” said Atascadero Mayor Heather Moreno.

“The North County Broad band Strategic Plan project will position our community as ‘shovel ready’ for future infrastructure funding oppor tunities from both state and federal sources,” said Ty Lewis, Paso Robles City Manager. “Receiving this important grant from the CPUC means we have achieved this at no cost to our local residents.”

Developing a North San Luis Obispo County Broad band Strategic Plan aligns

with Paso Robles City Coun cil’s goals and strategic prior ities by 1) completing a broadband strategic plan and 2) promoting Paso Robles as a destination for the “Remote Economy.

City of Paso Robles Hosting Seeking food trucks and Champagne Booth Partners for New Years Event

The City of Paso Robles is hosting a free New Year’s Eve celebration in the downtown City Park and is seeking three food trucks and a local cham pagne/sparkling wine producer to participate in the event. The celebration runs from 7 to 11 p.m. and expects to host over a thousand attendees.

Food truck applicants will be selected based on their menu and décor; the choice of champagne/sparkling wine vendor will be awarded to the first winery who applies.

The New Year’s Eve event includes a bonfire, live band, DJ and fire dancers. A 9PM ball drop is set to coincide with midnight on the East Coast so attendees can enjoy ringing in the New Year and still be home before midnight. All ages are welcome, there is no charge for admission.

Interested food trucks can download the mobile food vendor application at prcity.com/NewYearsEve, interested wineries can call Shonna Howenstine at (805) 237.3888.

ATASCADERO

Templeton Man Arrested for

Assault with Deadly Weapon

A Templeton man, Gary Wayne Benites (67), was arrested on Monday, Nov. 7, for an assault with a deadly weapon.

The Atascadero Police Department and Atascadero Emergency Services responded to the incident Monday evening at 6:35 p.m. at the intersection of El Camino Real and Morro Road.

Officers and medical personnel arrived on the scene to treat a stabbing victim. Authorities then learned two subjects had been involved in a “road rage” incident.

According to APD, both parties exited their vehicles at the intersection of El Camino Real and Morro Road. During an altercation, a male victim was stabbed once in the upper chest area.

While the suspect had fled the area, the victim was able to take a photo of the suspect vehicle with the license plate. Officers were able to share the information with local law enforecement agencies and San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Deputies were able to locate the vehicle in Paso Robles near the intersection of South River Road and Niblick Road.

The suspect, Benites, was ultimately placed under arrest for assault with a deadly weapon and transported and booked at county jail. The victim was transported to a local hospital where he was treated and in stable condi tion.

COUNTY VETERANS DAY

Missing Woman Found By Law Enforcement

Dockstader was reported missing by her family on Oct. 21

SAN LUIS OBISPO

COUNTY — San Luis Obispo County law enforcement located a missing woman on Tues day, Nov. 8.

The Sheriff’s office received a missing person

report on Oct. 21 for 29-year-old woman Haley Dockstader. Her family last had contact with her on Aug. 4. According to the family, she never arrived at her intended destina tion, but she is known to frequent various locations in San Luis Obispo County.

The Sheriff’s Office would like to thank the community for their assis tance in this case.

DEATHS

MAYA Antonio Maya, 68, of Nipomo, passed away Oct. 30, 2022. Arrangements are under the direction of MarshallSpoo Sunset Funeral Chapel in Grover Beach.

QUARESMA William Quaresma, 91, of Grover Beach, passed away Oct. 28, 2022. Arrangements are under the direction of MarshallSpoo Sunset Funeral Chapel in Grover Beach.

BERNING Albert Berning, 83, of Santa Maria, passed away Oct. 31, 2022. Arrange ments are under the direc tion of Marshall-Spoo Sunset Funeral Chapel in Grover Beach.

MITCHELL Daniel Allen Mitchell, 69, o San Luis Obispo passed away on October 27th 2022. Services are in the care of Marshall-Spoo Sunset Funeral Chapel of Grover Beach.

SCHMIED — Eugene Schmied, 98, of Arroyo Grande passed away on October 29th 2022. Services are in the care of Marshall-Spoo Sunset Funeral Chapel of Grover Beach.

DUCA — Suzanne Grace Duca, 82, of Arroyo Grande passed away on October 26th 2022. Services are in the care of Marshall-Spoo Sunset Funeral Chapel of Grover Beach.

AINSWORTH Velma “Louise” Ainsworth, 88, of Arroyo Grande passed away on October 31st 2022. Services are in the care of MarshallSpoo Sunset Funeral Chapel of Grover Beach.

GODSEY — David Godsey age 77 a resident of Atascadero passed away on 10/27/2022. In the care of Blue Sky cremation Service

HUBBARD Dennis Hubbard age 75 a resident of Morro Bay passed away on 10/31/2022. In the care of Blue Sky Cremation Service

TONNE — Phyllis Lorraine Tonne, 96, of Arroyo Grande passed away on November 2nd 2022. Services are in the care of Marshall-Spoo Sunset Funeral Chapel of Grover Beach.

DOOLITTLE Jack R. Doolittle 78, of Paso Robles, CA passed away October 30th 2022. Chapel of the roses is handling the arrangements

Armed Forces Day at The Charles Paddock Zoo this Friday

All Active Duty Armed

REPORT

ATASCADERO — All mili tary personnel are invited to enjoy The Charles Paddock Zoo on Saturday, Nov. 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for free.

SERVICE MEMBERS

All Active Duty Armed Forces men, women and their immediate families (spouses and children) receive free admis sion to the Zoo. All they need to bring is their Military ID to enjoy a visit to the only Zoo on the Central Coast.

The Zoo is grateful for this opportunity to say “Thank you” to the men and women serving here and abroad.

On Friday, Nov. 11, plan to attend the Annual Veterans Memorial Ceremony at 11

a.m. followed by a Tri-tip BBQ hosted by Kiwanis of Atascadero. Then, plan to come over to the Zoo for a fun afternoon with the family.

The Charles Paddock Zoo is open Daily from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Regular admission is $12 for Adults 13 and over, $8 for children 5-12, $5 for Children 3 to 4, $9 for Seniors 65+ and Children 2 and under are free. For more informa tion, please visit our website at charlespaddockzoo.org.

Colony Market Offering Free Sandwich for All Active and Retired on Veterans Day

The

ATASCADERO —

Colony Market and Deli in

Atascadero will be giving free sandwiches to all military personnel active and retired this Veterans Day, Friday, Nov. 11. They are also hold ing a raffle with prizes to raise funds for K9s for Warriors.

Donations are being accepted. This event was the brain

child of Atascadero resident and Colony employee, Kris tina Knewby.

“Kristina is always doing so much to help Vets. When she came to us with this idea, we thought it would be a wonderful way to show our gratitude for anyone who has

served,” said Joanna Wemple, co-owner of Colony.

Donations are being accepted, and a raffle will be held with proceeds going to K9s for Warriors.

“This community is incred ible”, Wemple continued, “we have already received

CITY OF PASO ROBLES

contributions from Malibu Brew, Bunyon Brothers Tree Service, A Superior Crane, Semmes & Co, Wysong Construction, and The Ravine Water Park.”

Sandwiches will be available on Friday, Nov. 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., while supplies

Paso Robles Community Cannabis Survey Results Released

Over 1,338 residents responded to the survey

PASO ROBLES

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Results from the Paso Robles community survey regard ing cannabis are now avail able on the City’s website.

In July, the City Council directed staff to conduct

community outreach to gauge input on the poten tial for expanding the types of cannabis businesses that are allowed within the City, with a focus on retail store fronts. The City’s cannabis consultant HDL and City staff developed a compre hensive community survey, which went live on Aug. 9. The survey gauged community opinions on cannabis business types, where cannabis business

should be located, pref erences on buffers from sensitive uses, and concerns related to potential impacts of cannabis businesses. The survey remained open until Sep. 5 and was taken by over 1,338 respondents.

Respondents of the survey generally support allow ing adult‐use and medical cannabis retail storefronts within the City, with pref erences on expanding certain sensitive use buffers, where

cannabis storefronts should be located and how any cannabis tax proceeds should be used. Respondents indi cated youth access to canna bis and driving under the influence of cannabis were the most pressing concerns associated with expand ing cannabis business types within the City. Of those that took the survey, approx imately 62 percent indicated they voted in favor of Prop osition 64, which legalized

specified personal use and cultivation of marijuana for adults 21 years of age or older in California. This response is aligned with actual voting results for Proposition 64 within the City.

The results of the survey, along with community input provided at a workshop on Aug. 19 will be included as part of future City Council discussions on this topic. The matter is expected to return to the City Council after the

last. Proof of past or present military service is required. To donate, contact Colony Market and Deli at (805) 460-6252, direct message on Facebook or Instagram @colonymarketanddeli, or email contact@colonymar ketanddeli.com

new calendar year begins. The survey results can be found at prcity.com/981/ Cannabis‐Business‐Tax‐‐‐New.

Please note the survey was designed for respondents to provide free‐form infor mation to some questions. These responses may contain topics or language that some may find offensive. The City has not edited or redacted this information for trans parency purposes.

FOUND: Haley Dockstader

Paso Robles City Library November Calendar

The Paso Robles City Library is a welcoming community hub where excellent informationseeking experiences ignite discovery and learning.

NOV. 16

Create a One-of-a-Kind Macrame Holiday Wreath Registration Deadline: Nov. 9 Materials Pick-Up Party: Nov. 16 6-7 p.m., Library Conference Room December’s craft activity is perfect for beginners and those more skilled in knot tying. Using the larks head, double half hitch, and square knots, create a white macrame wreath with red orna ments, similar to the one shown, suitable for a variety of holidays. Space is limited. Registration with Paso Robles City Library card required for each participant. (Group reservations cannot be processed.) For ages 16+.

NOV. 17

Paso Robles Library Book Group Reads: The People We Keep by Allison Larkin Thursday, 6–7 p.m.

Library Conference Room April Sawicki packs her belonging and sets off on a journey to find a life that’s all hers, ultimately discover ing that where she came from doesn’t dictate who she has to be. Space is limited. Registra tion with Paso Robles City Library card required for each participant.(Group reserva tions cannot be processed.) For ages 16+.

Russ Surber on Display this Month

This month’s Art in the Library showcases local resident Russ Surber. “I think everyone has a creative spark in their souls that will be expressed in one form or another. I have carried a camera with me for seventy years and never tired of trying to capture nature’s remarkable and always changing beauty.” Check out Russ’s beautiful photography this month.

Children’s Story Times: Mondays: Animal Tales with Miss Frances at 2:30 p.m. A story and craft appropriate for children in grades K-5.

Tuesdays: Cuentos y Crafts with Cristal at 4 p.m. Bilingual stories and craft appropriate for children in grades K-5.

Wednesdays: Preschool Story Time with Miss Melissa at 10 a.m. Stories and a craft specially selected for school readiness, ages 4-6.

Fridays: Toddler Story Time with Miss Cappy at 10 a.m. Stories, songs and a craft specially selected for early literacy skills, ages 1-3.

The Paso Robles City Library is located at 1000 Spring Street and is open Monday-Friday, 9-7 and Saturday 9-4. For more infor mation, visit prcity.com.

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2022 Hall of Fame

UPCOMING EVENTS

2022 Hall of Fame dinner on November 12, 2022

CONTACT INFO

P.O. Box 3120, Atascadero, CA 93423 (805)712-6356 atascaderogreyhound foundation.org

Please help us continue our work in recognizing the individuals who have contributed to the Grey hounds' athletic programs over the years by nominating a worthy student-athlete, teacher, coach, or community supporter. www.lighthouseatascadero.org

AWARENESS - PREVENTION - INTERVENTION - EDUCATION

About: The Atascadero Greyhound Foundation has been serving the Atascadero community for more than 20 years, gradually adding more events that serve its mission. We have grown, and continue to give because of the generous donors, sponsors and participants of our events. Our events are a benefit to the community in healthy activity — either athletically, musically, educationally, or in the fight against addiction.

Donations: Our support comes from generous donors and sponsors. To make a difference, visit: atascaderogreyhoundfoundation.org/donate.html

Friends of the Paso Robles Library

EVENTS

UPCOMING

Book Sale and Holiday Extravaganza Thursday, December 8, 2022, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Early Bird Sale — Friends members only, but you can join at the door.

Public Book Sale Thursday, December 8 | 2 to 6 p.m., Friday, December 9 | 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, December 10 | 10 a.m. to 4 p.m

Enjoy hot apple cider, cookies, and holiday music as you find gifts for everyone on your list.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

CONTACT INFO

1000 Spring Street Paso Robles, CA 93446 (805) 237-3870 prcity.com

Support the Library through a Friends of the Library membership, starting as low as $10/year. The Friends of the Library appre ciates donations, which are either added to the Library’s collection or used to generate considerable funds toward the purchase of new books, library materials, programs, services, etc. upport the Library in a 100% volunteer-run retail environment. We are seeking volunteers to assist with Gift Shop sales, book donation sorting, and to provide book sale support. Due to limited storage space and staff, we are only able to accept two boxes or two bags of materials per household per day. Cash donations always welcome!

BOARD MEETINGS: Call 805-237-3870 for info

Cancer

CONTACT INFO

1051 Las Tablas Rd. Templeton, CA 93465 (805) 238-4411 Monday - Thursday 9 am – 4 pm Fridays by Appoint ment cscslo.org

CONTACT INFO

6875 Union Road Paso Robles, CA 93446 (805) 237-3751 redwingshorse sanctuary.org

Support

UPCOMING EVENTS

Community – California Central Coast

‧ "11th Annual Lights of Hope Fundraiser — November 25" We have a number of special events throughout the year that support our ability to provide programs, support and education FREE of charge to our community! Discover more at cscslo.org/Support-Our-Work

DONATION OPPORTUNITIES

All of our direct services are provided free of charge. Your donations make this possible. You can trust that you are making a difference for local families. We know you have many options when it comes to putting your charitable gifts to work! Our funds go towards the invaluable programs and services that help so many in our community facing cancer. Our online donations are processed securely through authorize.net. Your donations are 100% tax-deductible. For more information or to discover how you can help, visit cscslo.org/DonationOptions

Redwings Horse Sanctuary

For information about making donations, adoptions, etc, visit redwingshorsesanctuary.com. For upcoming events, visit facebook.com/pg/redwingshorses/events

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Redwings is always looking for volunteers to help us provide the highest standard of care for our horses and burros. You do not need to have any prior horse experience to volunteer at Redwings. If you would like to work with our horses, the first step is to take a Volunteer Training Class. This class covers sanctuary rules, basic safe horsemanship skills, and an introduction to some of the horses that you will be working with. After completion of the class you are welcome to come volunteer and help with the horses any time during our volunteer hours. Volunteer hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 8am to 3:30pm, and we are closed on Sundays and Mondays. Note: We do not allow volunteers to ride the horses at Redwings. There are other ways to get involved and volunteer at Redwings too. We have opportunities to help in our rose and memorial garden, volunteering in the office, helping with events and fundrais ing, and more. Please submit the form below to schedule a volunteer training or contact our office: info@redwingshorsesanctuary.org or (805) 237-3751.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tack Sale, November 19, 2022 | 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. All proceeds go to the care of our rescue equine.

RONALD GREENSLATE 1933 – 2022

Ronald Kay Greenslate passed away in the small hours of Octo ber 30, 2022, at his home in Vacaville, California; he was 89 years old. Ron was born Janu ary 21, 1933, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to Harry and Mary Greenslate. He married Barbara Ann Haugen, on June 13, 1952, in Yuma, Arizona. They were married for 62 years. He is survived by his children, Larry of Vacaville, Michael of Cobb Mountain, and Kelly of San Mateo; five grandchildren, Megan, Emily, Drew, Gavin, and Victoria. He is also survived by four great-grandchildren, Kaden, Jenner, Adelie, and Magnolia.

Ron was preceded in death by his wife Barbara, father Harry G. Greenslate, mother Mary Greenslate, brother Marvin Lee Greenslate and step-brother Don C. Salmon.

He graduated from Wash ington High School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he was President of the National Honor Society, Quill and Scroll and Tri-State Hi-Y, Y-teens. He was the manag ing editor of the high school newspaper and was a delegate

to Boy’s State. Upon gradu ation, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served in Combat Information Center aboard the attack aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Essex (CVA-9). He received the Navy Commen dation Medal, the Korean War Medal with four combat stars, the Good Conduct Medal, and other awards. Following his honorable discharge, he attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where he graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricul tural Journalism.

He was hired as news direc tor at KPRL Radio Station in Paso Robles, later becoming general manager. While in Paso Robles, he served several terms as President of the Area Campfire Girls Council and was the recipient of the Gullick Award, the highest honor in Campfire. In 1966, the family moved to Napa, where he was a minority owner and general manager of KVON Radio Station.

He ran unsuccessfully for the State Assembly in 1976. He served ten years on the Napa County Board of Educa tion and was building chair man for Wintun School. He served as President of the Napa County School Board Association and as chairman of Young Audiences of Napa Valley. He served 15 years as founding chairman of the Napa-Iwanuma, Japan Sister City Committee. He was vice president of the Napa Cham ber of Commerce and served two terms as chairman of the Napa Downtown Merchants Association. He was a past president of the Napa Kiwanis Club. A member of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a Life Member of the

Salinas while her father was competing in bronc riding at the Salinas Rodeo. Alber ta’s parents were ranching in east San Ardo when she was born, and they moved to the Carrisa Plains shortly after. Alberta attended Carrisa Plains Elementary School, Santa Maria High School, and Santa Barbara Business College. When not at school, Alberta worked alongside her family on the ranch. She often shared that she and her mule would follow the light on the end of her Dad’s cigar to guide them back to the barn in the dark after a day of working cattle.

Alberta married Robert (Bob) in 1949 and returned to

after a relatively short battle with gallbladder cancer; she was 79. She is survived by her husband, Richard (Dick) Hoffmann; her children Kimberly Bright (Robert), Marjorie Kucich (Roger), Gary Hoffmann (Shannon); her sisters, Terry Rossetta and Penny Fulton; and eight grandchildren.

Jean was born in Hemet, California but spent much of her childhood in the San Miguel and Bakersfield areas. She married Dick in January of 1963, and they made their

National Rifle Association. Ron was a dedicated blood donor and was pleased to be able to be a 100-pint donor to the local blood bank.

From 1973 to 1976, he was employed as executive director of the Napa Valley Economic Development Council and was a driving force in getting three major projects funded and built: the Southern Crossing, Lombard Crossing, and Brazos Bridge. He also represented Napa County on the Golden Gate Bridge District’s Board of Directors.

For many years, he worked with the late Herb and Jane Gunn and later their children to create a new vision for develop ment of 471 acres in the Napa Airport area. The land had been in the Jane Greenwood Gunn family since 1860. Greenslate helped design a plan to attract a clean industry and provide good jobs in an employee-friendly environment. To that end, the Gunn family contracted with Pacific Union Company, with Charles Slutzkin as project manager. The Gunns, Slutz kin, and Greenslate worked in harmony to attract such companies as The Doctors Company, Santen Pharma ceuticals, Applied Pressure Technology, Prolab Orthot ics USA, Domaine Napa, the Napa County Sheriffs Depart ment, and Wine Service Co-op. Great attention was given in the planning process to design, infrastructure, land scaping, architecture, setbacks, parking, and the preservation of Sheehy Creek. Greenslate was instrumental in the acti vation of Community Service Area No. 3, which resulted in construction and operation of the Greenwood Ranch Fire Station.

For 21 years, Ron’s office was

the Carrisa Plains, where they enjoyed their hard-working life together on the Navajo Ranch for 55 years. Alberta stayed busy on the Navajo raising four children, work ing cattle, driving the hay truck, and “raising a lot of beef,” as she put it. She was also the ranch parts runner, car cleaner, accountant, and secretary. Alberta was a gifted cook and took pride in feed ing crews, neighbors, friends, and even mattress salesmen if they were lucky enough to be around during meal or break time. “A La Lewis” was what she called some of those favorite delicious meal offerings, meaning she made it up with what she had on

home in Petaluma, where they spent the first 41 years of their marriage. After both Dick and Jean retired, they moved back to San Miguel, where they had lived for the past 18 years.

After graduating from Sonoma State University, Jean started working at McKinley School, where she was a teacher, PTA pres ident, parent, and principal. She continued her love of education by becoming a School Board Member for the San Miguel School

located on the second floor of the historic Greenwood House off Airport Boulevard. He said it gave him great satisfaction to look out the windows and see people going to work at jobs he helped bring to the commu nity.

Above all else, Ron loved his family and cherished friends, all of whom he and Barbara showered with love and affec tion. Their many Fourth of July parties on Delbrook Drive were special events. They trav eled the world together and called both Napa and El Paso de Robles home. For more than 30 years, he enjoyed deer hunting with friends in the most beautiful place on earth, Cedar Canyon, out along the Bitterwater Valley east of Paso. Ron was an ardent and accomplished correspondent and storyteller. He wrote letters to the papers, to strangers, to the children he supported abroad, and to his beloved friends and family. Many of those letters are treasured keepsakes; all of them were full of advice, appreciation, and encouragement. “Live below your means, travel, and enjoy life,” he counseled. He wrote ghost stories for his grandchil dren and led them and their Grandma on wild adventures. He designed elaborate contests and was the braggiest winner and poutiest loser imaginable. He loved laughter, palmistry, birds, reading, marbles, domi nos, cards, and jigsaw puzzles. He enjoyed the morning paper and his view of the Riverpark turning basin and south valley skies.

At the end, Ron carried two notes in his wallet: From The Kasidah, 1880, this couplet of four imperishable lines.

“Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but

hand. Family and friends have wonderful memories of spending time at brandings, team ropings, and rodeos over the years.

Alberta and Bob made a successful life as business partners. Bob would come up with the idea, and Alberta would figure out how to make it profitable. Upon Bob’s passing in 2005, Alberta was the matriarch of the Navajo Ranch for the next 17 years. She served on the County Grand Jury, was very active in the San Luis Obispo County Cattle Women, and was a founding member of the Cowbelle’s Trail Ride.

Alberta enjoyed watching the Cowbelle’s Trail Ride grow

District, where she remained a member until her passing.

Jean was involved with many different organizations, both in Petaluma and San Miguel. She was a member of the San Miguel advisory committee and the Pleas ant Valley School Founda tion. She was also involved in Farm Bureau Woman, San Miguel Seniors, San Miguel Advisory Commit tee, and Pleasant Valley School Foundation. The one organization that kept her the busiest was the Native

self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

All other Life is living Death, a world where none but Phantoms dwell, A breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a tinkling of the camelbell.”

. . . and on a torn scrap of paper, the names of his and Barbara’s children, grandchil dren and great-grandchildren.

Ron will be inurned and reunited with Barbara in the Main Mausoleum at Tulocay Cemetery. There will be no services.

BARBARA GREENSLATE 1931 – 2014

In dappled sunlight on the evening of June 2, 2014, Barbara Ann Greenslate peacefully succumbed after a long and courageous battle against the ravages of Alzhei mer’s. Barbara was born Febru ary 3, 1931, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to Rueben and Bertha Haugen. Her family came to California in 1944 as part of the war effort when her father went to work as a welder building ships for the Navy.

Barbara graduated from Mountain View Adven tist Academy in 1949 and then attended Pacific Union College in Angwin. During one summer’s employment with the Pacific-Connecticut Insurance Company in San Francisco, she met her future husband, Ron, at the old Key System Terminal. Barbara married Ronald K. Greens late on June 13, 1952, in Yuma, Arizona. Following Ron’s discharge from the U.S. Navy in 1955, the family moved to Paso Robles, California; and then in 1966, they moved

over the years and looked forward to many annual festivities with family and friends. Alberta was honored to be named Paso Robles Pioneer Day Queen (with Bob as the Grand Marshall) in 2005 and CattleWomen of the Year in 2008.

Alberta will be remembered as a loving and devoted wife, mother, and grandmother, a skilled and successful rancher and business partner, a good friend, and an honored and respected member of the community. She is survived by her children Georga (Jim) Prossick, Susan (Bill) Cochrane, Robert Lewis, daughter-in-law Judy Lewis and many loving grandchil

Daughters of the Golden West, where she belonged to both Cotati Parlor #299 and San Miguel Parlor #94. During her 40-plus years as a Native Daughter, she held many offices in each Parlor and with the State, includ ing; Grand Secretary, Grand Trustee, Deputy Grand President, District Deputy Grand President, and served as President of both Parlors on several occasions.

One of the most cherished responsibilities that Jean had with the Native Daughters

to Napa, California. After many years as a successful homemaker, Barbara began a second career in the Napa County Election Depart ment, becoming County Elec tion Supervisor and Assistant Registrar of Voters. Upon her retirement, she continued to work as a consultant and supervised elections through out California and from Alaska to Florida.

Barbara was always young at heart. She was happiest when she was with her family and the many treasured friends she made in Paso Robles and Napa. Her beautiful smile and signa ture hugs will never be forgot ten by anyone who received one. Barbara was adventurous, and she and Ron traveled the world together. She enjoyed tennis, hiking, playing cards, and especially a rousing game of marbles or reading mystery novels, which she loved.

Barbara was survived by her beloved husband of 62 years, Ron Greenslate, of Napa; chil dren, Larry, Michael, and Kelly; grandchildren, Megan, Emily, Drew, Gavin, and Victoria and great-grandchildren, Kaden and Jenner, all richly and dearly loved. Her cherished sisters, Bonnie Bradford and Betty Blackwood; lifelong friend and brother-in-law Don Salmon; and numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews that she adored also survived her.

Barbara’s family is very grateful for the loving care given to her by the team at Courtside Cottages of Vacav ille, California, where she lived since November of 2008.

Inurnment was at Tulocay in Napa, California. No services were held.

As their lives were to us, may their memory always be a blessing.

dren and great-grandchil dren. Alberta was preceded in death by her husband Robert (Bob) Lewis, parents Al and Aileen Stone, sister Pat Nimmo and husband Bob Nimmo, son Albert Lewis and granddaughter Savanna Lewis.

A memorial service will be held at 12 pm on Friday, November 18, 2022, at Saint William’s Parish in Atascadero, followed by a Celebration of Life. In lieu of flowers, donations in Alber ta’s memory may be made to the El Paso de Robles Area Historical Society (Paso Robles History Museum) P.O. Box 2875, Paso Robles, CA 93447.

was hosting the Pioneer Woman’s Tea which she did just weeks before her death.

During Jean’s last days, she was surrounded by family and friends and lots of love.

Services will be held in Paso Robles at KuehlNicolay Funeral Home on Saturday, November 19th, at 2 PM. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Native Daughters of the Golden West Children’s Foundation (https:// www.ndgw.org/childrensfoundation/).

ALBERTA LEWIS 1928 – 2022

Alberta Aileen (Stone) Lewis passed peace fully on October 28, 2022, in Paso Robles. Alberta was born to Al and Aileen Stone on July 21, 1928, in

JEAN HOFFMANN

1943 – 2022

Jean Thacker Hoffmann passed away Friday, October 28th, 2022,

FROM THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT

The Normalization of Political Violence

LANCE SIMMENS OPINION COLUMNIST

From the Left

So if you think that increasing talk about a potential civil war in this country is alarmist if not crazy, recent data and testimony before Congress suggests you might want to take more seri ously the notion that we are in the midst of normalization of political violence. The shocking news that a person armed with a hammer broke into the home of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and used said instrument to frac ture the skull of her 82 yearold husband must give pause to casually dismissing the profound acceleration of polit ical violence that is currently gripping our democratic system of governance.

The mid-term elections shockingly featuring Republi can candidates that are certi fied election deniers. Several actually participated in the January 6 coup on the US Capitol which featured calls for hanging or injuring both the Speaker and the Vice-Pres ident. Republican Party lead ers are promising a spate of Congressional investigations and even impeachments. This is dangerous territory for our country. Vindictive revenge is never a positive motivator for thoughtful policymaking.

According to testimony offered by Rachel Kleinfeld, a specialist in civil conflict at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, before the 1/6 Committee the threats to democracy are accelerating with Republican Party back ing. She offers “somewhere between 20% and 40% of Americans would like a strong man leader who doesn’t have to

follow the democratic rules…in 1973, in the midst of some of the worst years of the Troubles, one in five people in Northern Ireland agreed that violence is a legitimate way to achieve one’s goals. Half a century later, a similar proportion of Repub lican voters in the US say that it is ‘justified to use political violence to accomplish politi cal goals.”

Equally as concerning is that organized violence on the right is being committed by estab lished community members and their behavior is a direct result of the Big Lie, namely that the 2020 election was stolen. According to a survey by the American Enterprise Institute Survey Center on American Life, community involvement on the right has been found to correlate with greater belief in conspira cies such as Stop the Steal and Q-Anon, as does church membership among white Evangelicals. This, according to Kleinfeld, tracks closely with the “demographic picture as Nazi extremism mainstreamed among regular Germans in the 1930s.”

These trends pose at least seven significant risks to our democracy:

1.Violence, intimidation, and harassment can be used for political gain.

2. Americans may be intim idated from political service, particularly women, parents, and minorities.

3.Elections risk becoming less free and fair and more prone to mistakes.

4. America risks losing public health workers and other criti cal functions.

5. Violence is likely to increase over time.

6. It is becoming less safe to exercise our freedoms of speech and assembly.

7. Paramilitary groups may become a part of political life.

The statistics speak for them selves: threats against members of Congress are more that ten times as high as just five years ago. From 902 threats investi gated by Capitol Police in 2016, to 3,939 in the first year of the

Trump Administration, to 5,206 by 2018, 6,955 in 2019, 8,613 in 2020, and 9,600 in 2021.

White supremacist propa ganda and organizing, as measured by the Anti-Defa mation League has increased dramatically, openly white supremacist activity rose more than twelve-fold from 421 inci dents in 2017 to 5,125 in 2020.

Casual talk and boisterous calls for a coming civil war must be taken seriously, particularly in light of the mounting stock of statistical data that threat ens our democratic pedigree. The fact that there is little if any pushback from leaders in the Republican Party reflects a desire to support such actions in the name of securing power, a proposition that is profoundly antithetical to the foundational principles of the Constitu tion, it is anti-American and anti-democratic.

So if you think you don’t have a duty and responsibil ity to weigh in on next week’s election, think again. I have my opinions and they are expressed herein, however I would never presuppose that if you did not agree with me then I had the right and duty to declare you my enemy. As a former athlete I cannot even imagine respect for anyone who declares right up front that if they win the elec tion it was fair, if they lose it is illegitimate. Such infantile logic or more appropriately the lack of coherence embodied thereof must be a wake-up call to all Americans that we are in the midst of a dangerous transfor mation to an autocratic state.

We must stop this transfor mation in its tracks for the sake of generations to come as well as the legacy that will mark our commitment to the concept of a peaceful transition of power, the hallmark to democracy.

Lance Simmens is an in dependent columnist for The Malibu Times, he along with Don Schmitz write a bi-weekly column on national topics from the perspective of their political leanings you can forward any comments you have to editorial @malibutimes.com.

DON SCHMITZ OPINION COLUMNIST

From the Right

Political violence in Amer ica is increasing, with extremists both liberal and conservative attacking the “other side.” Palatably political verbal abuse is increasing in our personal lives, when attackers can do so safely from their living rooms on social media. The ad hominem attacks, name calling, and belittling is rampant, from people that usually would never dream of speaking that way in person.

President Obama correctly stated, “the Internet and social media has helped isolate the American people and aided in perpetuating their own views, regardless of whether they’re true”.

The Pew Research Center found in 2014 that “When it comes to getting news about politics and government, liber als and conservatives inhabit different worlds”, concluding “Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines — and partisan antipathy is deeper and more extensive — than at any point in the last two decades.”

We are stridently divided, but more politically violent? Sadly, yes. Surveys over the past five years show the numbers of Republicans and Democrats justifying political violence has risen from less than 10 percent to 20 percent. The good news is that 86 percent of us affirm that violence for political goals is unacceptable, yet 57 percent believe it will increase.

It’s taken time for us to devolve to this, and politi cal violence ebbs and flows in America historically. The politi cal brutality of our Revolutionary

War included grisly torture, rape, murder, and economic depri vations between the loyalists and patriots. Similarly, political conflicts over slavery included burnings of homes, businesses, and hangings. Importantly, in both examples, the country boiled over into open warfare, which we must now avoid.

In the 1700’s free elections were but a dream and Ameri cans, unwilling to genuflect to a monarch anymore after plead ing, took up arms. We celebrate their bravery and our nation’s birth every 4th of July, but make no mistake, it wasn’t neatly confined to soldiers and battle fields. We now have a timetested Constitution, voting, and the rule of law, yet 54 percent of us think we will be less of a democracy in a generation, and 80 percent think civility in poli tics has worsened. What’s going wrong?

Two things: irresponsi ble rhetoric of leaders, and us losing faith in our insti tutions. Both matters must be addressed urgently. Lead ers need to speak responsibly again; recently President Biden called MAGA Republicans fascists, while Trump at a rally called the president an “enemy of the state.” Nancy Pelosi in June railed against the Supreme Court, characterizing it as “the GOP’s dark and extreme” super majority.

California congresswoman Sarah Jacobs openly supported political violence over the Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion. Predictably, a Simi Valley man was arrested outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in June in an assassination attempt. An angry Democrat hating Republicans for oppos ing Bernie Sanders’ policies ambushed congressmen prac ticing for their annual softball fundraiser. He called Republi cans the Taliban of the U.S. and tried to murder them all. Pelosi once threatened to punch out Trump should he ever come to the Capitol. I found the visual of Trump and Pelosi in a slap fight somewhat amusing, until a nut job broke into her home and beat her 82-year-old husband

with a hammer last week. He was going to kill the speaker of the house. With a hammer. In her home, in San Francisco. He fractured the skull of an 82-yearold man. Completely and totally repulsive and unacceptable.

On the macro scale, the BLM riots of 2020, and the Trump supporters attacking our Capi tol on Jan. 6, 2021, expanded the political violence beyond indi vidual acts of madness to social movements to create change and bend the will of opponents.

Arson and murder became justi fied by a minority of the polit ical parties, but a minority of millions, and we need to figure this out.

Reducing the inciteful politi cians’ rhetoric won’t completely fix the problem. Americans on both sides of the aisle feel angst on the election process, and the integrity of our legal system.

Many Democrats believe the 2000 and 2016 presidential elections were stolen from them, while many Republicans believe the same about 2020. In our computer age, it is incompre hensible that we seem stymied to create a fraud-proof election system with hard copy records that everyone can believe in. I still receive ballots at my house for people that haven’t lived in the state for years! Yes, there are historical hot buttons pertaining to voter ID, but consider this: It is either ballots or bullets, and if enough Americans believe that the system is rigged, they will fight. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, rioters burned cities, leaders were assassinated, soldiers shot college students, and the Weather Underground planted bombs. From Nixon to Carter, our divi sions were deep. Yet by 1984, we healed, united, and re-elected President Reagan with 49 states. We can heal again, respect each other, and love our amazing country, as violence only drives us apart.

Don Schmitz is an independent columnist for The Malibu Times, he along with Lance Simmens write a bi-weekly column on national top ics from the perspective of their po litical leanings you can forward any comments you have to editorial@ malibutimes.com.

Natural Law, and Elections

brutality” and “defunding the police” lost.

I

t’s good to have the elec tion behind us. Perhaps what the election results across the nation revealed was a longing for solutions based on common sense and natural law, instead of on theories, ‘experts’ and woke political propaganda.

Common sense is defined as, “sound practical sense in every day matters.” Practical means “of or concerned with prac tice or use rather than theory.”

Common sense shouts to us that we need protection from bad people, consequences for bad actions, and separation from society for the worst offenders. Therefore, we need cops, courts and prisons. Those promoting such common sense solutions were elected on Tuesday. The progressive woke ploy of “police

The very practical daily real ity of ground beef for $8.99/lb. at Vons pivoted conservatives who want to decrease govern ment spending into office. Firsttime candidates won with real common sense solutions rather than timeworn platitudes of incumbents. Those who were willing to take a risk and chal lenge the open border appealed to the basic practical nature of voters who have been asking, “Why is this happening,” for two years.

Natural law was on the ballot, though not in name. Natural law is defined as “unchanging moral principles common to all people by virtue of their nature as human beings.” The radical woke progressives, with the help of the media, are flouting natural law, and we all know it.

Under the principles of Natu ral law, the survival of Homo sapiens – the species to which all modern human beings belong — depends on procre ation. That means a man and a woman having children. That’s been the plan since the begin ning. Because of that metric, it follows that the most advan tageous growing atmosphere for a child is in a family where there is a mother and a father. And that advantage to the child is increased when the mother and the father make a longterm commitment to raise the children together. That is called marriage. Is that so diffi cult? For the woke radicals, the former paragraph is not only difficult, but also not even permitted! And yet, that simple common-sense equation of mother and father in the home has been proven repeatedly in

all studies of child development and behavior. As much as the alternative communities would like us to believe, there’s just no substitute for the original system. After all, it has worked in perpetuating our species for millions of years!

But more insidious and threatening to the continuance of the Homo sapiens species are the woke ideologies and prac tices which betray mankind and natural law. They are presented under the deceptive cloak of “rights’ or ‘compassion.” These treacherous practices include alternative definitions of the word “family,” early sexualization of children, gender grooming to young children, gender change hormones and surgery for teens without parental consent.

Along with this inappropriate gender and sexual confusion of children comes the subsequent

drug abuse, depression and suicide. Common sense would tell us that at the root of this abuse is the underlying message that children are expendable. Natural law whispers to us that there is something very wrong with 63 million abortions in the U.S. since 1973. More and more are hearing that whisper to their own conscience. They voted with that conscience on Tuesday.

The flouting of the Natural Law by the left also cost them in school board races and gover norships across the country. Parents have finally woken up to the reality of progressive univer sity-driven, elite subversion of the curriculum and culture of their public school. The woke agenda to interfere in the family values of students has reached a tipping point for parents. The top issues nationally in school

board races were gender stud ies and critical race theory in the classroom and providing options for school choice. Tues day’s election across the country brought anti-union, parentpower and school choice candi date victories in overwhelming numbers.

Natural Law doesn’t change. Common Sense doesn’t disap pear. Only human departures from it change according to which theorists oversee the current propaganda. The woke’s treacherous departure from both natural law and common sense propelled momentum for victories of first-time candidates and new faces on Tuesday. It’s about time.

Connie Pillsbury is an independent opinion columnist for The Atascadero News and Paso Robles Press; you can email her at conniepillsbury22@gmail.com.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF CAL IFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO.

Petition of ODALIS GUARDA DO CONTRERAS for change of name, case no. 22CVP0278

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL IN TERESTED PERSONS: 1. Pe titioner: ODALIS GUARDADO CONTRERAS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follow: a. Present name: ODALIS GUAR DADO to Proposed name: ODALIS GUARDADO CONTRE RAS 2. 2.

The court orders that all per sons interested in this matter shall appear before the court at the hearing indicated be low to show cause, if any, why the petition for the change of name should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING a.

Date: 11/30/2022 Time: 9:30am Dept: P2 b.

The address of the court is 901 PARK STREET, PASO RO BLES, CA 93446 c.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circu lation, printed in the county: PASO ROBLES PRESS Date: 10/06/2022 /s/ Judge RITA FEDERMAN, Judge of the Superior Court. PUB: 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10/2022 LEGAL CM 633

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No 20222299

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: SIPWELL WINE CO., 6465 VON DOLLEN ROAD, SAN MIGUEL, CA 93451, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: WE CARE MEDICARE, 1143 16TH ST. APT. 3, LOS OSOS, CA 93402, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT ED BY: AN INDIVIDUAL: JULI ANNE DICKEY, 1143 16TH ST. APT. 3, LOS OSOS, CA 93402

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows is false is guilty of a crime.)

/S/ JULIANNE DICKEY

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County on 10/13/2022

TRANSACTING BUSINESS DATE: NOT APPLICABLE CERTIFICATION: I hereby cer tify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

ELAINA CANO, County Clerk By SKING, Deputy New Fictitious Business Name Statement, Expires 10/13/2027 PUB: 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10/2022 LEGAL CM 635

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No 20222383

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: ABCYBER, 417 CROCKER ST APT A, TEMPLETON, CA 93465-5305, SAN LUIS OBIS PO COUNTY

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT ED BY: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: ABCYBER LLC, 417 CROCKER ST APT A, TEM PLETON, CA 93465

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization CA I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows is false is guilty of a crime.) /S/ ABCYBER LLC, ANTHONY BEEBE, OWNER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County on 10/12/2022

TRANSACTING BUSINESS DATE: NOT APPLICABLE CERTIFICATION: I hereby cer tify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

San Luis Obispo County on 10/07/2022

TRANSACTING BUSINESS DATE: 10/08/2010

CERTIFICATION: I hereby cer tify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

ELAINA CANO, County Clerk By SKING, Deputy New Fictitious Business Name Statement, Expires 10/07/2027

PUB: 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10/2022

LEGAL CM 637

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No 20222203

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: IBEX UNLIMITED, 310 EQUESTRIAN WAY, ARROYO GRANDE, CA 93420, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT ED BY: A CORPORATION: IBEX UNLIMITED, 310 EQUESTRI AN WAY, ARROYO GRANDE, CA 93420

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization CA

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows is false is guilty of a crime.)

/S/ IBEX UNLIMITED, MICHAEL BUSBY, PRESIDENT This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County on 09/23/2022

TRANSACTING BUSINESS DATE: 06/01/2022

CERTIFICATION: I hereby cer tify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

ELAINA CANO, County Clerk By AWEBSTER, Deputy New Fictitious Business Name Statement, Expires 09/23/2027

PUB: 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10/2022 LEGAL CM 638

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No 20222341

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: DELLA JEAN EVENTS & MANAGEMENT, 715 BLACK BURN STREET, TEMPLETON, CA 93465, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: THE ADVANCED ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL CENTER, INC., A PROFESSIONAL CORPORA TION OF CARMELO A., THE PLATEROTI CENTER, PLAT EROTI CENTER, PLATEROTI IN TEGRATIVE MEDICINE, 1101 LAS TABLAS RD., SUITE H, TEMPLETON, CA 93465, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT ED BY: A CORPORATION: THE ADVANCED ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL CENTER, INC. A, 1101 LAS TABLAS RD STE H, TEMPLETON, CALIFORNIA 93465

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization CALIFORNIA I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows is false is guilty of a crime.)

/S/ THE ADVANCED ALTER NATIVE MEDICAL CENTER, A PROFESSIONAL CORPORA TION OF CARMELO A. PLAT EROTI, D.O. PRESIDENT This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County on 09/22/2022

TRANSACTING BUSINESS DATE: 05/11/2006

CERTIFICATION: I hereby cer tify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

ELAINA CANO, County Clerk By ABAUTISTA, Deputy New Fictitious Business Name Statement, Expires 09/22/2027

PUB: 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10/2022 LEGAL CM 640

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No 20222195

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: PLATEROTI AESTHETICS, 1101 LAS TABLAS RD., SUITE G,TEM PLETON, CA 93465, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT

ED BY: A CORPORATION: CARMELO A. PLATEROTI, D.O., A PROFESSIONAL CORPORA TION, 1101 LAS TABLAS RD STE G, TEMPLETON, CALIFOR NIA 93465

PUB: 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10/2022 LEGAL CM 641

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No 20222417

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: CENTRAL COAST HEALTHIER VENDING, 7189 OLD ADOBE WAY, TEMPLETON, CA 93465, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT ED BY: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: CENTRAL COAST HEALTHIER VENDING, LLC, 7189 OLD ADOBE WAY, TEM PLETON, CA 93465

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization CA I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows is false is guilty of a crime.)

/S/ CENTRAL COAST HEALTH IER VENDING, LLC, TAMMI MENEZES, MANAGING MEM BER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County on 10/17/2022

TRANSACTING BUSINESS DATE: NOT APPLICABLE CERTIFICATION: I hereby cer tify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

ELAINA CANO, County Clerk By SKING, Deputy New Fictitious Business Name Statement, Expires 10/17/2027 PUB: 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10/2022 LEGAL CM 643

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No 20222198

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: WEST COAST CATTLE CO., 335 DANTE LANE, TEMPLETON, CA 93465, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT ED BY: A MARRIED COUPLE: PAUL G. NUNLEY, 335 DAN TE LANE, TEMPLETON, CA 93465, CAROLYN G. NUNLEY, 335 DANTE LANE, TEMPLE TON, CA 93465

PUB: 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10/2022 LEGAL CM 644

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No 20222403

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: OLLIE’S PIQUETTE, 5995 PEACHY CANYON RD, PASO ROBLES, CA 93446, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT ED BY: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: MIKKELSEN FAM ILY WINES LLC, 5995 PEACHY CANYON RD., PASO ROBLES, CA 93446

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization CA I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows is false is guilty of a crime.)

/S/ MIKKELSEN FAMILY WINES LLC, OLIVER MIK KELSEN, MANAGING MEM BER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County on 10/13/2022

TRANSACTING BUSINESS DATE: NOT APPLICABLE CERTIFICATION: I hereby cer tify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

ELAINA CANO, County Clerk By SKING, Deputy New Fictitious Business Name Statement, Expires 10/13/2027 PUB: 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10/2022 LEGAL CM 645

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No 20222339

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: ENCHANTED ENCOUNTERS, 1052 MAIN ST STE A, MOR RO BAY, CA 93442, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT ED BY: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: JOHN NOTECO, LLC, 1052 MAIN ST STE A, MORRO BAY, CA 93442

with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County on 10/06/2022

TRANSACTING BUSINESS DATE: NOT APPLICABLE CERTIFICATION: I hereby cer tify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

ELAINA CANO, County Clerk By SKING, Deputy New Fictitious Business Name Statement, Expires 10/06/2027

PUB: 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10/2022

LEGAL CM 646

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No 20222433

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: MADDOX MEADERY, 5995 PEACHY CANYON ROAD, PASO ROBLES, CA 93446, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY THIS BUSINESS IS CON DUCTED BY: AN INDIVIDUAL: KENTON M MADDOX, 5995 PEACHY CANYON ROAD, PASO ROBLES, CA 93446

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows is false is guilty of a crime.)

/S/ KENTON M MADDOX This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County on 10/18/2022

TRANSACTING BUSINESS DATE: 10/17/2022

CERTIFICATION: I hereby cer tify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

ELAINA CANO, County Clerk By AWEBSTER, Deputy New Fictitious Business Name Statement, Expires 10/18/2027

PUB: 10/27, 11/03, 11/10, 11/17/2022

LEGAL CM 650

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No 20222311

DONATE

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT ED BY: A CORPORATION: CAS TORO CELLARS, 6465 VON DOLLEN ROAD, SAN MIGUEL, CA 93451 If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization CA I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows is false is guilty of a crime.) /S/ CASTORO CELLARS, NIELS UDSEN, PRESIDENT

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County on 10/03/2022

ELAINA CANO, County Clerk By MSTILETTO, Deputy New Fictitious Business Name Statement, Expires 10/12/2027

PUB: 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10/2022

LEGAL CM 636

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No 20222357

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: ACURA FINANCIAL SERVICES, 1919 TORRANCE BLVD., TORRANCE, CA 90501, LOS ANGELES COUNTY THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT ED BY: AN INDIVIDUAL: TERE SA JEAN DELLAGANNA, 715 BLACKBURN STREET,TEMPLE TON, CA 93465

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows is false is guilty of a crime.)

/S/ TERESA JEAN DELLAGAN NA

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County on 10/06/2022

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization CALIFORNIA I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows is false is guilty of a crime.) /S/ CARMELO A. PLATEROTI, D.O., A PROFESSIONAL COR PORATION, PRESIDENT This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County on 09/22/2022

TRANSACTING BUSINESS DATE: 12/22/2000

CERTIFICATION: I hereby cer tify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization CA I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows is false is guilty of a crime.) /S/ PAUL G. NUNLEY, PRESI DENT This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County on 09/22/2022

TRANSACTING BUSINESS DATE: 12/01/2017

CERTIFICATION: I hereby cer tify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization AZ I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows is false is guilty of a crime.) /S/ NOTECO, LLC, JOHN BEFU MO, MANAGING MEMBER This statement was filed

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS/ARE DOING BUSINESS AS: ASM, ATKINS SPORTS MANAGEMENT, 14193 FROG HOLLOW DR, ATASCADERO, CA 93422, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT ED BY: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: D&H FINANCIAL LLC, 14193 FROG HOLLOW DR, ATASCADERO, CA 93422 If Corporation or LLC- CA State

DONATE

TRANSACTING BUSINESS DATE: 09/19/2022

CERTIFICATION: I hereby cer tify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

ELAINA CANO, County Clerk

By ABAUTISTA, Deputy New Fictitious Business

Name Statement, Expires 10/03/2027

PUB: 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10/2022

LEGAL CM 634

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No 20222400

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S)

ED BY: A CORPORATION: AMERICAN HONDA FINANCE CORPORATION, 1919 TOR RANCE BLVD., TORRANCE, CA 90501

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization CALIFORNIA

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows is false is guilty of a crime.)

/S/ AMERICAN HONDA FI NANCE CORPORATION, PAUL HONDA, VICE PRESIDENT This statement was filed with the County Clerk of

TRANSACTING BUSINESS DATE: 09/01/2022

CERTIFICATION: I hereby cer tify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

ELAINA CANO, County Clerk

By ABAUTISTA, Deputy New Fictitious Business Name Statement, Expires 10/06/2027

PUB: 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10/2022

LEGAL CM 639

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No 20222196

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S)

ELAINA CANO, County Clerk By ABAUTISTA, Deputy New Fictitious Business Name Statement, Expires 09/22/2027

ELAINA CANO, County Clerk By ABAUTISTA, Deputy New Fictitious Business Name Statement, Expires 09/22/2027

PERSPECTIVE

WORSHIP DIRECTORY

ATASCADERO GOSPEL CHAPEL

8205 Curbaril Ave. (corner of Curbaril & Atascadero Ave.): Sunday service at 10:30 a.m. Ted Mort, Pastor. (805) 466-0175. atascaderogospelchapel.org

AWAKENING WAYS SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY

A New Thought Spiritual Community. Living the Consciously Awakened Life. Rev. Elizabeth Rowley Hogue Sunday 10:00am at the Pavilion 9315 Pismo Way, Atascadero (805) 460-0762. awakeningways.org

GRACE CENTRAL COAST

NORTH COUNTY CAMPUS 9325 El Bordo Avenue, Atascadero; Sunday Services at 9:30 and 11 a.m.; (805) 543-2358; gracecentralcoast.org; Helping people find and follow Jesus.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH 238 17th St. Paso Robles; Sunday Worship 10 a.m.; Sunday School 10 a.m.; Our Wednesday Testimony; Meeting is the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m.; Reading room-same location after services & by apportionment.

FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH 9925 Morro Road, Atascadero; "The Church on the Hill"; An independent church committed to the teaching of God's Word.; Praise and Prayer - 10 a.m.; Morning Worship - 11 a.m.; Evening Worship - 6 p.m.; Wednesday Prayer - 6:30 p.m.; Nursery care and children's classes provided.; Pastor Jorge Guerrero; (805) 461-9197.

GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH 535 Creston Road., Paso Robles ; (805) 238-3549 ; Dr. Gary M. Barker, Pastor; Goal of church: To teach Believers to love God and people.; Sundays: 9 a.m. Sunday School; 10 a.m. Fellowship; 10:30 a.m. Service; 6 p.m. Eve Service; Wednesdays: 7 p.m. prayer meeting.

HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH ELCA

A place of hope! Join us for in-person worship on Sundays at 9 A.M. Services are also streamed on our YouTube channel, Hope Lutheran Church Atascadero. We offer Sunday School for all ages after worship. Learn more at ourhopelutheran.net. 8005 San Gabriel Road, Atascadero. 805.461.0430. office@ourhopelutheran.org.

LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER-LCMS 4500 El Camino Real, Atascadero; 466-9350; Morning Bible class at 9 a.m. Sunday; Coffee and Sunday Worship with Holy Communion at 10 a.m. Sunday; Thursday morning Bible class 10 a.m. followed by refreshments and fellowship; Developmentally disabled Bible class 1st and 3rd Saturday mornings; redeemeratascadero.org; redeemeratascadero@gmail.com; Pastor Wayne Riddering.

PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, UCC We honor ancient scriptures, responding to God’s contemporary call to be just and kind.; Join us for Worship Sunday, 10 a.m.; Church School Sunday, 10:15 a.m.; Coffee Fellowship 11 a.m.; Men’s Bible Study, Wednesday, 8 a.m.; Women’s Bible Study, Friday, 10 a.m.; Youth Group; 1301 Oak St., Paso Robles; (805) 238-3321.

ST. ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC CHURCH 820 Creston Road., Paso Robles; (805) 238-2218- Parish Office open Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; website: www.saintrosechurch.org; Mass times;Daily Mass- 12:00 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.; Tues. 7 p.m. Spanish; Saturday 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Spanish Vigil Mass; Sunday 8 a.m. & 10 a.m.; Spanish Mass at 12:30PM. Father Rudolfo Contreras.

TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 940 Creston Road, Paso Robles; has Sunday worship services at 9:30 a.m; For more information, call the church at (805) 238-3702. Ext. 206.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF ATASCADERO 11605 El Camino Real, Atascadero; Sunday Service Time: 10 a.m.; Nurs-ery Care Provided:; 9:45 a.m.- 12:15 p.m.; Mid-week student ministry; PreK-12th grade Sept-April, Weds, 4 p.m.; (805) 466-2566; Pastor Steve Poteete-Marshall; atascaderoumc.org.

ST. LUKE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 513 Palma Ave., Atascadero; Sunday services: Holy Eucharist — 9 a.m., Taize — 8 p.m.; the Rev. W. Merritt Greenwood, interim director; the Rev. James Arnold, Deacon; the Rev. Jacqueline Sebro, Deacon; office (805) 466-0379, fax (805) 466-6399; website stlukesatascadero.org; email office@stlukesatascadero.org

Mark Your Calendars and Baked Brie

and Restorative partners.

barbie butz COLUMNIST

Over the weekend, I baked a Pumpkin Pecan Dump Cake using the recipe I had in my column last week. I left out the pecans because I didn’t have any and I didn’t have time to go to the store. I served it warm with a drizzle of warm cara mel sauce. It was absolutely delicious and so easy to make. It would make a great addition to your Thanksgiving dessert menu and could be prepared the day before.

St. William’s Catholic Church here in Atascadero will present its wonderful annual holiday boutique on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. There’s always something for every one, including gift baskets, birdhouses and feeders, baked goods and candy, jewelry, succu lents and many beautiful hand made items. All proceeds benefit Atascadero Loaves and Fishes

On the same day you can also shop at the Holiday Boutique at The Pavilion On The Lake. The hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. So, kick off your holiday season shopping by visiting both of these popular events.

Mark your calendars for the Atascadero Fall Festival at the Sunken Gardens on Friday, Nov. 18, through Sunday Nov. 20. Hours are Friday from 4–10 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, noon to 10 p.m.

Admission is free. There will be carnival rides, games, over 30 bands on two stages, and over 40 street fair vendors. Food, craft beer, wine, and seltzer will be available for purchase.

Paso Robles will hold their Holiday Lighting Ceremony on Nov. 25 in the downtown from 5:30 to 7 p.m. There will be candlelight caroling, greet ings from City officials, Mrs. Claus and the Elves.

Central Coast Printmak ers have an exciting exhibi tion showcasing work from members, at the Atrium Gallery, at Studios on the Park in Paso Robles. Printmaking is a unique

art form with many different processes that allow the artist to make multiple variations of an image. For this exhibit, each artist was encouraged to create new work with multiple sides to the subject.

I’m pleased to say that our son David Butz has work in the exhibit which will be show ing through Nov. 27. For more information, visit Studios on the Park website at studiosonthep ark.org.

This week’s recipe is an easy one for that last minute appe tizer.

Baked Brie and Strawberries

Ingredients:

1 wheel (8 ounces) Brie cheese 2 cups (about 1 pint) fresh strawberries, hulled and cut in half lengthwise • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

1⁄4 teaspoon kosher salt Crackers and/or crusty bread for serving

Directions: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees with a rack in the

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center position. Line a sheet pan with aluminum foil or parchment paper. Place the Brie in the center of the prepared pan. Place the strawberries in a medium-size bowl, add the olive oil and salt, and toss to combine. Arrange the straw berries around the cheese. Bake until the cheese has softened but not melted through the rind and the strawberries have puckered and released some of their juice, about 20 minutes. Carefully transfer the cheese and fruit to a serving tray, or serve it right on the pan. Enjoy immediately, while everything is warm, with plenty of crackers and bread alongside.

Note: If you serve this in December, garnish the tray with mint leaves. Provide some cute holiday toothpicks for eating the strawberries. You can substitute Camembert for the Brie, grapes or pieces of stone fruit for the strawberries.

Enjoy the weekend. Cheers! Barbie Butz is an independent columnist for The Atascadero News and Paso Robles Press; you can email her at barbiewb@ hotmail.com.

I’ve always enjoyed shipping cattle, even better than brand ing or preg-checking cows, and there are many reasons why. Being the son of a long-haul trucker, I liked the smell of diesel before sunup, and I liked talking to the truckers who were always from exotic locales like Iowa and Nebraska. (The truck ers hauled hogs out to Califor nia and backhauled California calves.) I also enjoyed shipping day because it gave me a chance to use my collegiate livestock judging team skills by sorting off calves in the sorting alley. I’ve also always had a secret desire to be a rodeo clown (I certainly have the clothes for it) and by dodging cows, bulls and calves and diving over fences head first in the sorting alley, I was sharp ening my bullfighting skills.

Because most of my friends are auction yard owners or video sale reps and because they knew

I liked to ship cattle, I was asked numerous times over the years to ship cattle for them. Mostly this happened when my friends had another shipping scheduled that day, because they lived eight hours away while I may have been right next door, or maybe they wanted to watch their kid play soccer or a Little League game. While I’ve seen photos and dreamed of one day being asked to load 18 trucks all in a row, that never happened to me. Mostly I got to ship a lot of mixed-load, one-truck deals where the seller was a cantan kerous old coot.

Because the buyer wasn’t going to spend a fortune in plane tickets, motels or speeding tickets just to have a rep there on weigh-up day that meant I had to represent both buyer and seller. I also got asked to ship a lot of cattle when the cattle I’d be shipping were sold three months prior on the video and the cash market was now a lot lower. In that case, my instructions from the buyer were always the same. “Put a hard sort on them.” This is order-buying speak for, “I want as few of those high-dol lar calves as possible because I

can buy them a lot cheaper now.”

This meant I had to be very creative in coming up with excuses to sort calves off. Of course, I sorted off all the gimps, muddy, off-colored, horned calves, or those still wearing an eye patch, but I also sorted off calves because they may have had an ingrown nose hair, a rat tail, dilated pupils, carpal tunnel syndrome, poor angle of the dewclaw, a “type A” personal ity, two white hairs on the belly, a high tail set, a rash I inter preted to be a precursor to a wheat allergy, hemorrhoids, or just because a calf walked a little funny.

Of course, the opposite was true and if the price of cash cattle was a lot higher on deliv ery day than the price agreed to three months prior, the buyer wanted as many of the cheaper cattle that could fit on the truck even if it meant an overweight ticket for the driver. The buyer’s instructions in this case were always the same: “Put every calf on the truck that can walk up the chute.”

Needless to say, this type of behavior did not endear me to the ranchers whose cattle

You’re AWESOME!

I shipped and I got a nagging feeling the only conflict the buyer really had that day was what ball game to watch on television.

I stopped shipping cattle for my “friends” after I secretly over heard a conversation between an order buyer I’d just shipped a load of cattle for and the very angry seller. Neither knew I was listening in. The order buyer had the call on speaker and after listening to the rancher call me a long list of expletives my order buying “friend” said, “Sorry Joe. It sounds like Lee really screwed up. He considers himself quite the cattle judge which is funny because you ought to see his cattle. If he applied the same set of criteria to them they’d all be sorted off.”

Ha, ha, ha. So the next time I got a call from my “friend” to ship some cattle, I replied, “I’m on to your game. From now on do your own dirty work because I refuse to be your ‘hit man’ anymore.”

Lee Pitts is an independent columnist for The Atascadero News and Paso Robles Press; you can email them at leepitts@ leepittsbooks.com.

I met a friend in downtown San Luis Obispo last week for tea. We found parking next to each other and walked to the pay station. As my friend paid, I was hobbling over to her, still wearing my post-surgery boot. A nice man came around the corner and said with great jubilation and conviction, “You’re AWESOME! You’re AWESOME!” Smiling big, I said, “Thank you! You’re AWESOME, too.”

At Awakening Ways Spiritual Community, we consciously offer the namasté greeting to one another before our service begins. Namasté is a Sanskrit word

that invokes the essence of Oneness. Loosely translated, namasté means I bow to you. The deeper meaning is: My soul honors your soul. I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides. I honor the light, love, Truth, beauty, and peace within you because it is also within me. In sharing these things, we are united; we are the same; we are one.

It occurred to me that when the man said, “You’re awesome,” it was like offer ing the namasté greeting to me: the awesome in me recog nizes and honors the awesome in you.

Joy bubbled up from my toes, and I giggled in recog nition of my awesomeness, his awesomeness, and how we are one. I flashed back to my experience at Vashistha’s Cave in India, where a Yogi grabbed my hands and said, “You are God in form! You are God in form!” The same giddy bliss

bubbled up from my toes, illu minating my mind and body.

As I approached the pay station, the man said, “Your boot is awesome! Happy healing. You’ll get it removed soon.” Then he looked at my friend and said, “You’re AWESOME! Your dog is awesome too!”

I thought, wow, this is a holy man, like Jesus himself, walk ing the streets of downtown San Luis Obispo, reminding people of their awesomeness.

Can you accept our own awesomeness? How quick are you to judge and criticize yourself negatively? The Truth is that you are pretty darned awesome.

Try saying it aloud now: You’re AWESOME! Walk over to a mirror and declare it to yourself. Feel the joy bubble up in recognition and agree ment with this Truth! Are you not feeling it yet? Keep saying it with great jubilation and conviction until you do!

What if you met every one you encountered today with this joyful affirmation: “You’re awesome!”? Either spoken aloud or whispered silently in your mind. It feels good to recognize the awesome in all.

The Sufi poet Hafiz wrote, “Be the One that changes everyone’s luck when you walk in the room.” How you move through the world affects you, your partner/significant other, your children, your friends, the communities you belong to, their communities, and the world. You are like a pebble tossed in the ocean of the Infinite. The waves of your being ripple out to all. So be bright, be brilliant, be who you came here to be. It’s AWESOME!

You’re AWESOME!

Rev. Elizabeth Rowley is an independent columnist for The Atascadero News and Paso Robles Press; you can email them at alphabeth@tcsn.net

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PLAYOFFS

North County Athletes Take CIF

to Hanford in their first CIF game on Tuesday, Oct. 25, by a 3-1 score.

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By CAMILLE DEVAUL

NORTH COUNTY — Fall sports athletes across the county have been wrapping up their seasons the past week, and several North County High School student-athletes have made their way to the CIF playoffs.

The 2022 fall sports season is the first backto-normal one athletes have seen since 2019.

Football

Friday, Nov. 4, was the first CIF playoff foot ball game for high school players. Paso Robles, Templeton, and Atascadero high schools all made it to the playoffs within their divisions.

On Friday, Division II team PRHS Bear cats played in an away game against Sanger High School. Unfortunately, the Bearcats were defeated by Sanger 21-0, ending the season with a league record of 7-3.

The same night, the Division V THS Eagles played at home against Roosevelt High School. The Eagles came out victorious by a 27-14 score. They move forward in the bracket to play against Corcoran on Thursday, Nov. 10. The Eagles ended their league season with a 6-4 record.

Also in Division V, the Atascadero Grey hounds had a bye game last Friday. They will be playing on their home field against Madera South on Thursday, Nov. 10. Their league record is 6-4.

Water Polo

Both the boys and girls water polo teams for the Greyhounds and Bearcats made it to the first or second round of playoffs.

The Division II Greyhounds girls team saw defeat at the second round of CIF playoffs against Garces (20-8) on Thursday, Nov. 3.

On Tuesday, Nov. 1, the Lady Bearcats played their first and only CIF game against Edison (8-6). The next day, the boys team played their only CIF game against Edison, where they lost 10-8.

Also, on Wednesday, Nov. 2, the Atascadero boys team lost to El Diamante 12-15 in the first playoff bracket.

Volleyball

All three girls volleyball teams made it to the first or second round of playoffs. Both playing in Division II, the Bearcats lost their first game (3-1) against Central, but the Eagles made it to the second bracket on Oct. 27 where they lost to Sanger, 3-0.

Playing in Division IV, the Greyhounds lost

The Division II Eagles tennis team made it to the third CIF round. On Nov. 1, their time in CIF was over when they lost against Clovis East.

Playing in Division III, the Bearcats made it to the first round, where they lost against Lompoc on Tuesday, Oct. 25.

Golf

Playing for the Greyhounds, Julianna Lock aton Honea placed third in her division at the recent CIF finals match in Visalia. She will be playing again in Pasadena on Thursday, Nov. 10.

ATASCADERO —

On Saturday, Oct. 15, the Atascadero Elks Lodge hosted their Soccer Shoot competi tion at Paloma Creek Park in Atascadero. There were 83 kids who came out to the park to show their skills. The Five

Goal Contest was for children seven and under (U8), and 30 kids participated.

Soccer Shoot Chairman Kris Pimentel said of the event, “It’s so fun watching them trying to kick that soccer ball into the goal. The kids were focused and determined to line up the ball and kick it straight.”

The Grid Goal Contest had 53 kids participating, which were under 10 (U-10) to under 14 (U-14) years of age. The

day was complete with great weather, donuts in the morn ing, and pizza for lunch.

“They [kids] all enjoyed trying to get the most points which were higher up the goal post,” said Pimentel.

The Elks Lodge was grate ful to bring back their popular event to the community after pausing for a few years due to the pandemic. They thank the early morning setup crew, check-in crew, scorekeepers,

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Additionally, they thank Zack Self and the San Luis Obispo Lodge #322 for letting them borrow their soccer goal for the grid contest. They issue one more thanks to Luke Knight with the Atascadero Soccer Association for work ing with the Elks to ensure the word got out about our event to the coaches and parents.

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volunteers who came out to support the event.

Greyhounds and Eagles move forward to second round of football playoffs

Bearcats varsity women’s tennis at the CCAA league finals where the doubles team moved onto the quarter finals. Contributed Photo

Bearcat Senior Leo Kemp (26) carrying the ball in their final game against Sanger. Photo by Debbie Pendleton

The 2022 THS Cross Country team after the annual SLO County Championships Cross Country Race held at Laguna Lake Golf Course in San Luis Obispo. Contributed Photo

Lady Eagles Volleyball team following their first playoff win in October. Contributed Photo

The 2022 AHS womens water polo team after their final game of the season against Garces. Contributed Photo

The 2022 AHS mens water polo team after their final game of the season against El Diamante. Contributed Photo

AHS golf player Julianna Lockaton Honea placed third in her division at the CIF finals. Contributed Photo

Student fans in the Eagles Nest are cheering on the football who will be playing in their second playoff game this Thursday.

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Rebekah Koznek with 11.97 percent, and Denise McGrew Kane with 11.80 percent of the vote.

Other trustee candidate results are Tami Gunther (running for re-election) with 11.27 percent, Dan Hathaway with 10.52 percent, George Shoemaker (running for re-election) has 9.77 percent, Scott Staton with 9.03 percent, and Chris Collins with 5.55 percent of the vote.

PASO ROBLES

The Paso Robles Joint Unified School District had 10 people vying for three trustee area seats and one at-large seat. In Trustee Area 2, Joel Peterson ran unopposed and was not on

the ballot.

As of Election night, in Trustee Area 1, results are Jim Cogan with 48.26 percent, Chris Arend with 27.28 percent, and Peter Byrne with 24.45 percent.

In Trustee Area 4, results are Sondra Williams leading with 42.74 percent, Frank Triggs with 35.07 percent, and Cather ine Reimer with 21.98 percent.

Finally, the at-large seat shows Adelita Hiteshew lead ing with 38.33 percent. Close behind is Laurene D. McCoy with 36.13 percent and Jim Irving with 25.48 percent.

As of 12:28 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 9, current District 1 Paso Robles City Councilmember John Hamon came in with 98 percent of the votes, running unopposed. District 2 Paso

Where Does Fentanyl Come From?

With the ingredients used to make fentanyl illegal in the United States, China sits as one of the primary sources of the drug. In recent years, Bejing and the Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region (SAR) have placed more restrictions on the chem icals used to make the opioid, leading to Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) becoming a source of manufacturing for it. It is then through Mexico that fentanyl is smuggled into the United States.

But there is recent evidence to show India as an emerging source for finished fentanyl powder and fentanyl precursor chemicals.

Fentanyl Crisis in SLO County

Parkinson measures the severity of the fentanyl crisis in two ways — one by the number of fentanyl seized and two through overdose deaths.

“Nearly all of our overdose deaths are related to fentanyl,” said Parkinson.

Golden Quintet. The ensemble is made up of talented young soloists who have performed and recorded all over Europe. The Cracow Golden Quin tet started their performance at 7:30 p.m. and played two of Paderewski’s well-known pieces with additional music by Polish neoclassical composers Grażyna Bacewicz, Wojciech Kilar and Tadeusz Szeligowski

Robles City Councilmember Chris Bausch, also running unopposed, came in with 99 percent of the vote.

Paso Robles City Mayor candidates Michael Rivera currently has 43.12 percent of the vote, and current City Mayor Steve Martin is look ing to win his re-election with 56.78 percent.

As for Measure E-22, Appointive City Treasurer, failed with 58.55 percent. And Measure F-22, Paso Robles Quality of Life/Community Safety Measure, passed with 60.24 percent.

TEMPLETON

Templeton Unified School District had two open seats on its board. As of 12:28 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 8, taking the seats

“We are getting them in mass bunches where we have two, three people dead at once.”

Parkinson explains the SLO County narcotics unit seizes various amounts of fentanyl weekly — it is now the primary drug seized in our county. The presence of fentanyl first appeared in SLO County in 2018 with three over doses. It then progressed to 12 cases in 2019, 34 cases in 2020, and 120 cases in 2021.

The attraction to fentanyl comes from its price point being lower than heroin or meth, with 50 to 100 times the potency. Within our county, overdoses come from victims taking opioids off the street that are unknow ingly laced with fentanyl. Or they can happen when a victim comes out of rehab and consumes the same dosage of the drug prior to their treatment. Having now a lower tolerance to the drug, they end up overdosing.

According to Parkinson, his office sees fentanyl primarily in pill form. The cost ranges from approximately $80 to $120 per gram in the county and varies between $600 to $900 an ounce. However, the price of it all

in the restored Park Ballroom on Park Street. A wine recep tion started the evening at 7 p.m.

“We always like to have, as often as we can, Polish performers for Friday night,” added Hamon of Cracow Golden Quintet.

Saturday, November 5, at 4 p.m. in the Paso Robles Inn’s historic ballroom (which is where Paderewski always stayed when he came to Paso), the winners of The Paderewski

by Councilmember Charles Bour beau regarding National Adoption Month.

“The City of Atascadero is acknowledging National Adoption Month to raise awareness about the need for adoptive homes for local children and join other organizations to celebrate adoptive families in our community,” stated Bourbeau in the proclamation.

Kambey Arellano from the Coun ty’s Social Services was in the council

are Janel Armet with 27.93 percent and Jennifer Grinager with 25.19 percent. Following behind them are Matt Allison with 23.97 percent and Jason Tesarz with 10.34 percent.

OTHER NOTABLE NORTH COUNTY RACES

District 2 SLO County Supervisor — Currant District 2 Supervisor Bruce Gibson leads the race with 52.97 percent. His compet itor Bruce Jones follows behind with 47.20 percent.

• State Governor — Current State Governor Gavin Newsom leads the race with 53.79 percent against Republican Brian Dahle with 46.21 percent.

• State Senator — Demo crat Alex Padilla leads with

depends on purity, smuggling expo sure, etc. Fentanyl is typically sold in bulk and not by pill.

Fentanyl has become so prevalent in the county that now all deputies are carrying Narcan — a nasal spray used to treat a narcotic overdose in an emergency situation. Parkinson’s deputies have been issuing Narcan doses on a bi-weekly basis, but he notices it being used more and more. Soon, Narcan will be available in all public places within the county.

With the drug being so easy to hide and it taking so little of it to create a high, fentanyl has even become a prominent problem in the SLO County Jail. However, the deadly tentacles of fentanyl have reached farther than just the jails and streets of our county.

In March 2020, a fentanyl-laced Percacet resulted in the death of 19-year-old Atascadero resident Emilio Velci. In July of this year, the United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles indicted Timothy Clark Wolfe, 24, of Paso Robles on the charge of selling the fentanyl to Velci. The case will be tried in federal court.

Festival’s 2022 Youth Piano Competition performed a free concert for the commu nity. The students competed earlier in October under two categories, Junior (ages 10 to 14) and Senior (ages 15 to 18).

The young pianists who won and performed were Anya Albright (14), Selma Yarbrough (12), Holly Hadsall (17), Alexander Chen (15), Ellen Butler (14), Suzi Kim (14), and Andy Shen (16).

“Watching the kids is one

chambers to receive the proclama tion.

“We sincerely appreciate the support of Mayor Heather Moreno and the entire City Council for help ing us honor the tireless and noble work that our adoptive and resource families do for our youth,” stated Arellano. “We are very happy to announce that this year our county will have finalized 33 adoptions, and three of those families are from this community.”

Before the Consent Agenda passed, Councilmember Mark Dariz pulled item 3, Ordinances Adopting

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a 55.47 percent against Republican Mark Meuser with 44.53 percent.

State Representative, 19th District — Republican Jeff Gorman leads with 52.17 percent against Democrat Jimmy Panetta with 47.83 percent.

State Representative, 24th District — Democrat Salud Carbajal leads with 60.95 percent against Republi can Brad Allen with 39.05 percent.

• State Assembly, 30th District — Democrat Dawn Addis leads with 54.18 percent against Vicki Nohrden with 45.82 percent.

State Assembly, 37th District — Republican Mike Stoker leads with 51.11 percent, followed by Democrat Gregg

In February 2021, a 7-monthold female infant died as a result of exposure to fentanyl and meth amphetamine. Parents of the child, 38-year-old Shawn Luhm, and his wife, 31-year-old Kayla Luhm, were arrested for cruelty to a child with possible injury or death. Melissa Currie, 36, of Atascadero was also arrested as an accessory for willful cruelty to a child with possible injury or death for her involvement in the crime.

In April 2022, Julian Ackerman, 31, of Coalinga was arrested for bringing a kilo (approximately 2.2 pounds) of fentanyl into SLO County. Deputies reported that “according to the DEA, a lethal dose of fentanyl is two milli grams. So one kilo of pure fentanyl contains approximately 500,000 lethal doses.”

In June 2022, deputies arrested Brynn Leanne Maddox, 28, of San Luis Obispo for child endangerment after fentanyl was found in her home and her 5-year-old daughter tested positive for the drug in her system. Recently, fentanyl has claimed the life of a 13-year-old female from

of my favorite parts because they’re just amazing,” added Hamon.

Saturday, November 5, ended with the 2022 Paderewski Festival Gala Concert, which also took place at the Paso Robles Inn Ball room. The star of the night was virtuoso pianist Jakub Kuszlik, who won not only the Paderewski but also the Chopin International Piano Competition. Maestro Kusz lik performed an extensive

Standards for Accessory Dwelling Units and Junior Accessory Dwell ing Units, and excused himself from the room when it was voted on for conflict of interest. Items 1, 2, and 4 were voted on first with all coun cil members present and passed, and then Item 3 passed as well.

During Updates from the City Manager, City Manager Richelle Rickard asked Deputy Director of Economic & Community Develop ment Lorelei Cappel to join her for a North County Broadband Strat egy Project and Survey Update. They will return with a presentation at the

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Hart with 48.89 percent. To see the full results for local and national, visit pasoroblespress.com and atascaderonews.com or slovote.com.

Remaining Ballots to be counted by District in North County as of Wednesday, Nov. 9:

CITY OF ATASCADERO — 13,940

ATASCADERO SCHOOL DISTRICT — 17,701 CITY OF PASO ROBLES — 13,020

PASO ROBLES SCHOOL DISTRICT — 21,422 TEMPLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT — 5,551 SLO COUNTY DISTRICT 2 SUPERVISOR — 24,493

Arroyo Grande — one of the young est lives claimed by the drug.

So how do residents and the public combat the crisis of fentanyl?

“We start at the border,” said Parkinson. “That’s where it’s coming [from], and we have an open border. They are seizing record numbers.”

Another way to fight the pandemic of fentanyl is to one, never take a pill that does not come from a pharmacy, and two, have an honest conversation with your children. While someone may not intentionally want to be taking fentanyl, there are high chances that opioids off the street contain deadly amounts of it.

“It pretty much boils down to it [fentanyl] has flooded the market and it has caused a huge spike in deaths,” warns Parkinson.

Resources:

• cdc.gov/stopoverdose/fentanyl/ index.html

• dea.gov/factsheets/fentanyl

• dea.gov/sites/default/files/202003/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20 Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20 the%20United%20States_0.pdf

program, including Paderews ki’s Polonaise, Légende, and Cracovienne fantastique. He also performed Bacewicz’s Second Piano Sonata, as well as Chopin’s Scherzo in E major and his monumen tal Piano Sonata in B minor.

Official Gala Concert spon sor Epoch Estate Wines is provided a wine reception at 7 p.m., and Maestro Kuszlik began his concert at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 6, the festival concluded with a

Nov. 22 meeting.

“We’re excited to announce that the CTC has awarded the cities of Atascadero and Paso Robles in a joint application for the Local Area Technical Assistance Grant for Broadband. So that will be covering the cost and reimbursing the cost of our Strategic Plan Project that we just kicked off on Oct. 7,” added Cappel.

Cappel also went on to ask the community to engage in the city’s needs assessment and the current survey that is available. The project in total will take 22 weeks, and data

special invite-only (for Friends of Paderewski and Paderewski Patrons) brunch and concert in an undisclosed location featur ing a concert grand Steinway piano.

“We had a great turnout this year, a successful weekend. We are very pleased with the atten dance,” stated Hamon.

The Paderewski festival will be back next year on November 3, 4, and 5; in the meantime, you can find more information at paderewskifest.com.

collection will play a pivotal role in moving forward. You can find the survey at www.pcbroadband.org/ needsassessment.

Community Development Direc tor Phil Dunsmore then gave some information on upcoming building code changes. Including acknowl edging shipping containers as struc tures and aging in place builds for the community. The code changes will be officially presented to the council at a later date.

The next Atascadero City Coun cil meeting will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 22, at 6 p.m.

COUNCILMEMBER CHARLES BOURBEAU Phone: (805) 703-3809 cbourbeau@atascadero.org

COUNCILMEMBER MARK DARIZ Phone: (805) 470-3400 mdariz@atascadero.org

COUNCILMEMBER SUSAN FUNK Phone: (805) 464-7709 sfunk@atascadero.org