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Archway Installed over Norma’s Alley Local artist Dale Evers created and designed the archway By CAMILLE DEVAUL camille@pasoroblespress.com

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PASO ROBLES — After over two years in the making, an archway, created and designed by local artist Dale Evers, was installed over Norma’s Alley on Pine and 12th Street on Tuesday, Feb. 22. Norma’s Alley is home to Norma Moye’s place of work, the Paso Robles Main Street Association. Moye, as Evers describes her, is “the stuff of folklore.” She has made her mark in the Paso Robles community, being the creator behind many annual events, including the Vine Street Christmas Victorian Showcase, and founder of the Paso Robles Area Historical Society. “The business community does owe her a debt of gratitude,” Evers said, “She has done so much downtown to become the kind of success it is. She plays a silent role, but she does it.” Originally, the archway was scheduled to be completed within six months. But due to COVID and other unforeseen issues, the

Barney Schwartz Park softball fields evaluated for safety By CAMILLE DEVAUL camille@pasoroblespress.com

PASO ROBLES — Paso Robles City Council met for a regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Mar. 1. Council heard an evaluation of Barney Schwartz Park softball fields, public hearings on district maps, Community Development Block Grant Program, and the Annual Action Plan. After concerns from residents CONTINUED ON PAGE A12

Dale Evers Studio Team from left to right: Chloe Joy Evers, Dale Evers, Tim Anderson, and Adrian Rubalcava. Photo by Camille DeVaul/PRP

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CALIFORNIA — California, Oregon, and Washington announced the end of mask mandates for students in a joint statement on Monday, Feb. 28. Starting Mar. 12, masks will no longer be required in school and child care facilities. However, they are still strongly recommended. In California, starting Mar.

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1, masks will no longer be required for unvaccinated individuals but will be strongly recommended for all individuals in most indoor settings. California Governor Gavin Newsom gave the following statement: “California continues to adjust our policies based on the latest data and science, applying what we’ve learned over the past two years to guide our response to the pandemic. Masks are an effective tool to minimize spread of the virus and future variants, especially when transmission rates are high. We CONTINUED ON PAGE A12

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State Lifts Mask Mandate in Schools March 12

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archway was completed in just over two years. Evers says he also did not originally plan to add mosaic details to the project, but he says during its creation, the piece begged for mosaic. Being a mixed media artist, Evers gave the archway ornate details with iodized and dichroic glass mosaic pieces. Sitting atop the archway is a rooster, which Evers says he gets so many questions on. Simply put, Evers says roosters are pretty cool, “People say why is it a rooster. Why not? Tell me why not. I am more interested in why not a rooster than I am why a rooster.” An acorn sits below the rooster, acorn being a nod to El Paso de Robles or “The Pass of the Oaks.” The spoon and fork on the arch represent the evolution of food being added to Norma’s Alley. The alley has become home to Jeffry’s Wine Country BBQ and new wine bars in recent years. Evers, a long-time artist and business owner in Paso Robles, proposed the archway project to Paso Robles Director of Community Development Warren Frace. The project was unanimously approved by City Council on Dec. 3, 2020, and was privately funded by

Dora Cary, right, and a friend serving in the military during college. Contributed photo

Dora Cary Behind the Iron Curtain A Journey from the Socialist Republic of Romania to America By CAMILLE DEVAUL camille@pasoroblespress.com

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oday, Dora Cary owns a successful quilting shop in Downtown Paso Robles on Railroad Street. She has a beautiful family and

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lives a happy life. But growing up in Timisoara, Romania, Cary’s life was not always so full of color and freedom. From the 1940s to the early 1990s, Romania was the Socialist Republic of Romania (RSR), run by a communist party—a Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist state. It may have taken decades, but eventually, the new communist regime in Romania

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took everything Cary’s family had worked so hard to get. It didn’t happen overnight, and it wasn’t everything at once. Romanians held their wealth in gold and land. Both were among the first to be taken from the people. Next, they took the people’s guns, animals, and land. Along with farmland being taken from the Romanian people, the new government

took control of all the factories. In an effort to gain control of the entire country of Romania, the communist party began pitting social classes against each other. The party deemed everyone wealthy as evil, and intellects were people who thought for themselves—also not allowed in the new regime. Along with intellects and the CONTINUED ON PAGE A2

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