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City Council Greyhound Foundation Athletic Hall of updated Fame adds seven new inductees to its roster on Highway
101 North County plan Council agrees to pen letters in support of ECHO By CHRISTIANNA MARKS christianna@atascaderonews.com
Atascadero Greyhound Hall of Fame inductees (from left) Trent Lunceford, Travis Jones, Reynani Rodrigues-Chappel, Pat Kieselhorst, Carolyn Jones-McGaughey, Nick Kaiser, and Jason McEwen. Photo by Rick Evans
The ceremony returned for its 17th year By CHRISTIANNA MARKS christianna@atascaderonews.com
ATASCADERO — The Pavilion on the Lake was full of Atascadero High School (AHS) sports alums, regular alumni, and past inductees
from the Greyhound Foundation Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, Oct. 21. The reason they were there? To celebrate seven new 2023 inductees being added to the Hall of Fame roster at the 17th year of the celebration. “The foundation was started in 2007, and we’ve inducted 161 Hall of Famers,” said Ron Johansen at the start of the show.
At the top of the night, AHS Athletic Director Sam DeRose welcomed and thanked past inductees who were in attendance. He commented on the legacies left at the school by everyone in the room and reveled in the fact that the ceremony was a time to celebrate them. “It’s that link to the past, like Sam [DeRose] said, it’s
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about tradition and legacy,” said Emcee Christian Cooper in his intro speech. “It’s that link to the past. It’s that thing, the people, places, events, that made us who we are today. It’s that common ground between old teammates that you haven’t seen in years, and it all just starts flooding back. That’s the coolest thing in the world. The stuff that we share, the
things we remember,” Every single one of the seven new inductees in the Hall of Fame was introduced by Cooper, and then went on to give speeches about their time at AHS. There were plenty of laughs shared by the audience, and everyone enjoyed a delicious meal prepared by Andrew Weatherly. CONTINUED ON PAGE A7
ATA S CA D ERO —T h e Atascadero City Council met for their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 10, at 6 p.m. The hybrid meeting was held in the City Council Chambers. The agenda for the evening passed unanimously. Kendall Flint, the task manager for public engagement from DKS Associates, presented the council with an update on the US 101 North San Luis Obispo County Comprehensive Multimodal Corridor Plan. “Many of you know the fun that is the 101 and 46 confines, whether you’re on 46 and going to 101 or you’re trying to get the other way,” Flint said. “It’s a real challenge. And so one of the things that we’re looking at in this study area is really looking at the Cuesta Grade to the CONTINUED ON PAGE A7
RETIREMENT
Sue Hubbard officially retires from insurance business
She has been working in Atascadero for the last nine years, with 21 years of insurance under her belt
By CHRISTIANNA MARKS christianna@atascaderonews.com (From left) Atascadero Chamber President Josh Cross, Aaron Smith, Mayor Pro Tem Susan Funk, Rosey Parks, Mayor Heather Moreno, Dawn Smith, Gina Lutz, Gail Kudlac, Zoo Director Alan Baker, Councilmember Heather Newsom, Councilmember Charles Bourbeau, Anna Pecharich, Daniel Armendariz, and Angela Cisneros are shown at the zoo donation ceremony. Photo by Christianna Marks
Atascadero Chamber, Wine Festival Committee donate $10,000 to Charles Paddock Zoo The check-gifting ceremony was held at the zoo
Commerce and the Atascadero Lakeside Wine Festival Committee held a mini-ceremony in front of the flamingo exhibit at the Charles Paddock By CHRISTIANNA MARKS christianna@atascaderonews.com Zoo to hand over a check for the total of $10,000. ATASCADERO — On “For as long as I know, it is Thursday, Oct. 19, at 5 p.m., our tradition, and a tradition the Atascadero Chamber of that we love doing, to support
the zoo in any way that we can,” stated Chamber President and CEO Josh Cross at the ceremony. “We do this through the wine festival. This year, I will say it was a bit of a challenging year at the wine festival. Our board of directors felt like this is an important
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NORTH COUNTY — Beloved insurance agent Sue Hubbard has officially retired from the insurance business. For the last nine years, Hubbard has been working as a Farmer’s Insurance agent in Atascadero, but in total, she’s been in the insurance game for a total of 21 years. On Friday, Oct. 20, the community and Hubbard’s friends showed up to wish her well on the next chapter in her life. “The insurance market is very difficult right now, and I just wanted to spend more time doing the things that I love with the horses. I’ve been in the horse industry for 55
years, and I wanted to do more with my community outreach activities and just have more time to myself,” said Hubbard of her reason for retiring. “I had originally wanted to retire after about five or six years [in Atascadero], but there were other things that had happened, and I just decided to go on.” Though Hubbard is retired,
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Sue Hubbard is shown at her retirement party held at BridgeWorks. Photo by Hayley Mattson
she will still be helping her equine clients and customers who want to insure their horses and their horse farms. She added that she wants to continue working with those clients because it’s a very niche type of insurance, and her experience working for decades in the horse industry makes it something she still CONTINUED ON PAGE A7
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