Morro Bay Life - March 2019

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Front of the Morro Bay Police Department. (Photo by Ruth Ann Angus)

New Developments at Morro Bay PD

BY RUTH ANN ANGUS OF MORRO BAY LIFE

MORRO BAY — Chief of Police Jody Cox has lots of irons in the fire at the Morro Bay Police Department.

Concentrating on relations between the community and the department is uppermost on his mind these days and there are two new developments in the works.

“A great way to learn how your police department works,” Cox said, “is to attend our upcoming Citizens Police Academy.”

Cox is working on the curriculum for a six to 10-week course that would instruct participants in all the different specialties of the Morro Bay Police Department. Instructors will be those officers performing in those areas of specialties and a concentration on policy and procedures will be part of the course.

The classes would meet one evening a week for about two to three hours.

“Yes,” Cox said, “there could be homework.”

Taking home some pages of policy

or other materials to read will figure in as part of the course.

“A course like this will aid in eliminating some misconceptions that the public may have about how and why we do what we do, it helps to create a better perspective” Cox explained.

The course is offered to the public and will be held at the Morro Bay Police Department. Interested people will have to fill out an application to apply for the course and Cox plans to get it going no later than April or May. Chief Cox states that many of the people who have attended the Citizen’s Police Academy later join the Morro Bay Police Volunteer Group and he hopes to continue that process.

Another development Cox is working on is the establishment of a Chief’s Advisory Group. This group would consist of some local business people, some clergy, school personnel from both high school and grammar school as well as active community members.

“I want to include a cross-section of our community in this group,” Cox said.

The Advisory group would share

their individual views of law enforcement with the object of improving community relations with the police force. Cox already has some community relations in place with early morning Coffee with a Cop meetings held at a variety of town eateries.

In November of 2018, Chief Cox joined with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department and other partner agencies in establishing the RAVE Panic Button Smartphone App at local schools. This app has been implemented at all the schools around San Luis Obispo County. It is designed to immediately alert law enforcement of an active shooter or critical incident on a school campus.

“We established a geofence system around the schools, such as the perimeter of the school, around the cafeteria, and other areas,” Cox explained.

The app when pulled up on a smartphone shows several buttons: Active Shooter in red, Fire, Medical Emergency, and more. School faculty and personnel are equipped with the app on their phones and in the event of a critical incident on a school premises,

just the push of the button immediately connects them to 911 Dispatch. Also, every officer receives the call notification on their phone to facilitate a quicker emergency response. With GPS in place, the police can see right away the actual location of the incident or an active shooter. “Along with notifying us of an incident,” Cox said, “the app allows notification to other school faculty and personnel at the same time.”

Using Department of Homeland Security Grants, the Sheriff’s office was able to buy 3,200 licenses to supply every school employee at most county schools.

“We haven’t had an incident at a Morro Bay school as of yet,” Cox said, “and we hope to never have one, but we are now better prepared and equipped to handle it if it does occur.”

Stay tuned! This writer will be following up in this publication soon with a series of articles about the functions of the Morro Bay Police Department because she looks forward to attending the Citizens Police Academy!

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With a Little Help from Their Friends

Above, the group performing at the Wine Seller. Below, folks in the audience who brought their ukes with them to play along. (Photos by Ruth Ann Angus)

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MORRO BAY — A ukulele as a rock and roll instrument? Who ever heard of such a thing? Must be Hawaiian entertainment. No. It’s right here in Morro Bay with the Rock.N.Ukes!

A hard-core group of musicians had a need to play rock songs of the 1960s and 1970s. It didn’t matter if they didn’t have electric guitars and synthesizers. They had their ukuleles. Thus, began the formation of a group that meets once a month thanks to their host Lee Vaughn at the Wine Seller in Morro Bay. “We first started three years ago,” explained Barbara Ignatius, “and each person brought five songs to share on paper copies.”

This soon proved to be a disaster with papers flying all over the place.

So, Barbara’s husband, Howard took it upon himself to create a library of songs that they could choose from and build a set for performing. They publish the set before each event and use a donated projector to display them for everyone to follow along.

The group also realized early that they needed a theme each time they played to help them focus their efforts.

One theme they adopted permanently is their Beatles theme song, “With a Little Help From My Friends.”

Now they have a house band with John Rickenbach on bass guitar, Jay Courtney on guitar, Karen Worcester on flute, piccolo and mandolin, Leslie Thompson on drums and ukulele and Barb and Howard Ignatius, Alan Hopkins, and Karen Kolba on various ukuleles.

Just like with guitars, there are more than one kind of uke. The group trades off leading vocals or invites people from the audience to come up and sing. But singing isn’t the only thing that happens. As the room begins to fill, persons enter carrying all kinds of instruments, mostly ukuleles, and they settle in the two front rows and

beyond. As the main group begins to play the chord configurations and beat accents as well as the lyrics to the song show up on the screen. Suddenly there is music coming from everywhere!

Everyone is strumming and singing.

Ignatius says this is their favorite part of doing this, when group members bring other ukulele players and/ or their significant others to sing or just listen. Everyone’s complete attention is held at the wine bar while they are singing and playing, but they will hush up someone who is not engaged and keeps chattering in the background. This is serious Rock and Roll!

“It is amazing at how much community effort goes into this group,” Ignatius said. The group’s first drummer, Jeff Bacon designed their first logo for a T-shirt and other promotions. They also host out-of-town musicians and have put on several concerts with the Indy group Whitherward and world-renowned performers and instructors Heidi Swedberg, Daniel Ward, Mark Baker and Victoria Vox. “We held our first ukulele workshop last year when Heidi and Daniel headlined the “Beach Therapy Ukulele Retreat,” Ignatius said.

Playing ukulele is relatively easy and in as short as a half hour one can be playing simple tunes. The group practices three times a month learning 18 to 22 songs a month. It seems a lot, but with an online library of approximately 550 songs, they are always playing something new. Obtaining modern rock-style songs is not difficult. Many come from guitar music and are adapted for the fingering of the ukulele.

Technology has made a difference for performers and this group puts it to good use. Howard Ignatius, who is also a well-known photographer, has put together the apps and the links that are sent to anyone signing up with the group.

Wednesday, Feb. 6, saw the group’s three-year anniversary playing at the Wine Seller and the evening was celebrated with songs for a theme on old age. Beginning with Pete Seeger’s “Turn, Turn, Turn,” and Dylan’s “My Back Pages,” the group launched deeply into the theme with Tom Rush’s “The Remember Song,” and then “Little Old Lady From Pasadena,” “Remember the Music,” and “Cat’s in the Cradle.” Howard performed a solo on “I Don’t Need Your Rocking Chair,” and the highlight of the evening, “I Don’t Look Good Naked Anymore.”

Ashley Norton of the group Witherward performed “Time After Time” and helped on tambourine on other songs. She will return to sing on March 6 when the group will do songs to the theme, “Poets of the 60s.”

Rock.N.Ukes plays the first Wednesday of each month from September to May from 6 to 8 p.m. There is no cover charge, but they do ask everyone to purchase a glass of wine or soda or even a great sandwich from Ley. Most of all they want everyone to enjoy the evening.

“Our guiding principle is to have fun,” Ignatius said.

Rock.N.Ukes will also play in the Uke Fest in Arroyo Grande on Saturday, May 18, at Arroyo Grande Centennial Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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New Discussion Group Forming

BY RUTH ANN ANGUS OF MORRO BAY LIFE

MORRO BAY — Are you concerned about the way things are going in the world? Do you wish you could explore solutions and express your concerns in a safe, nonviolent atmosphere? Then you might be interested in the series of “Talk Around the Table” gatherings.

Join with Yes We Can Peacebuilders (YWCP) beginning at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27 at the Wine Seller in the Marina Square for a relaxed and interesting conversation on a variety of social justice topics.

“We will utilize the principles of nonviolence as put forth by Martin Luther King Jr., to guide our conversations,” commented Paula

Hulet, Associate Director of YWCP, “and touch on social justice topics that are prominent in our daily lives.”

The series includes the following topics: “The Situation We Are Facing” — dealing with current real-world problems, a description of violence, how violence comes into play in current affairs, the nature of violence, ways we react to violence, and how we can react differently. An interesting role play is included.

“Pieces of Truth” -— this table talk allows participants to experience the Gandhian philosophy of truth and untruth with a role play on the issue of homelessness. Each participant will get to play a total of six parts. Discussion of the role

play and how Gandhi’s philosophy applies will follow.

“Unleashing Our Power Within” — is primarily for women and includes exploring the elements put forth in the poem “Imagine a Woman” by Patricia Lynn Reilly from “A God Who Looks Like Me: Discovering a Woman’s Affirmative Spirituality.” A guided meditation is included.

“Differences in Opportunities” — investigates the structural violence involved in the inequality for women in the marketplace and daily life. Discussion will center on women’s issues of empowerment or lack thereof in relation to working women and the three forms of power and how they impact the modern woman.

Meditation techniques for peo-

ple to practice at home will be offered by Gabriel Glatstein, Clinical Psychologist, at each talk.

Future Talk Around the Table topics will include “Free SpeechDo We Have It,” “Dealing with Anger in Relation to World Events,” “What is Justice,” and “Negativity/ Positivity.”

“We hope people will join us to enjoy a little wine and explore these interesting and relative topics dealing with today’s issues,” Hulet said. “We must dialogue. It is the only way for us to find the common ground we have.”

You can register for Talk Around the Table at yeswecanpeacebuilders1@gmail.com. Put Table Talk in your subject line.

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US Census Bureau recruiting in SLO Co.

BY CAMAS FRANK OF MORRO BAY LIFE

MORRO BAY — There are a lot of curveballs being thrown at the 2020 U.S. Census and the government agency responsible is handling each, in turn, said a media representative for the Bureau’s Los Angeles Region on Tuesday.

To start with, their branch’s service area includes not only all of California but Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington state. That’s new since the last such count in 2010, but was the longest change coming after the closure of the Seattle, Wash. branch in 2012.

Unknowns which will affect the process include just how likely Americans will be to want a temporary census job next year. Low unemployment makes booking employees to help, “count everyone once, only once and in the right place,” a little more difficult. Which is why they’re putting out the call now, more than a year ahead of the actual census period starting April 2020.

“We’d like to keep people as close to home as possible,” media specialist Kathleen Woodruff

said, noting that the pay in both Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties is the same, $20 per hour for most workers, “You’re more likely to know people in your own neighborhood and people will be more likely to answer if they know each other as well.”

She added that they expect to open local Area Census Offices (ACO) in June of this year, with the closest to Atascadero being in Camarillo.

“Applicants applying now will likely hear back by this Spring, around March,” she said. “However, they will still be eligible to be brought on to the 2020 Census as we continue to ramp up.”

To be eligible applicants must be able to swear a lifelong oath to protect the data they’ll be privy to, which also means passing a criminal background check clear of felonies. Workers must also be U.S. Citizens.

This will be the first time respondents can go online to volunteer to answer questions for the census before they’re contacted, she adds, which is expected to boost turnout.

“This is important stuff, it’s your chance not only to stand up and be counted but the informa-

tion is used to influence funding for everything from the federal level,” she said, listing education, roads, and infrastructure among other public concerns.

While Woodruff said that she and colleagues were excited that 2020 would be a chance to count the most people yet, one remaining factor could seriously change public perception of the survey and possibly skew response rates downward.

With 10 standard questions already determined, an 11th which the Commerce Department leadership opted to place under the Trump Administration, is headed to the Supreme Court.

The question would ask residents to reveal their citizenship status.

The State of New York has spearheaded a lawsuit against the addition with a coalition of states joining. He suit was found to have merit in lower court rulings, but the Supreme Court has agreed to hear oral arguments reviewing that decision in April this year.

The court would usually wait until summer for such procedures but time is of the essence

as the Census Bureau needs to start printing forms by June if they’re going to begin mailings on time.

The not knowing might also influence recruitment efforts if temporary census workers see their role change from knocking on doors to help their neighbors be counted for school and road funding, to being seen to ask if everyone’s here legally.

Whatever the outcome of that drama on the national stage, the Bureau does have some other resources to call on for ongoing population and income estimates regionally. Data is collected year-round with various surveys through the period between national census.

The information they’ve generated about Atascadero since 2010, for example, benchmarks 2017: with a population of 30,418; median household income of $72,240; 94.7 percent of the population with high school diplomas; 1,847 veterans; and 88.2 percent of homes with broadband internet connections.

Information on finding a temporary full or part-time job with next year’s census is available now at 2020census.gov/jobs.

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Cayucos Sea Glass Festival. (Photo by Ruth Ann Angus)

The Cayucos Sea Glass Festival

BY RUTH ANN ANGUS OF MORRO BAY LIFE

CAYUCOS — Did you know that sea glass comes from mermaid’s tears?

It’s true. Those colorful baubles you find strewn along the sandy shores of oceans come from the tears of lovelorn mermaids. You can learn more about it by attending the Cayucos Sea Glass Festival from March 9-10 at the Cayucos Pier.

This popular event is in its ninth year and attracts visitors from all over the country. It is a weekend of local artisan goods, fun in the sun, live music, and an extensive marketplace of some of the finest sea glass art. Whether a sea glass fan or someone looking to learn about this world-wide hobby, the festival has something for everyone.

Vendors are juried and the artwork is first-class.

It all starts with the Mermaid Ball on Friday, March 8, under the tent at the end of the pier. With a DJ spin-

ning songs folks will enjoy dancing the evening away. It’s a Mermaid Ball so guests are expected to attend wearing their finest mermaid costume. A prize for Best Mermaid and Best Mermaid-Merman Couple will take place.

Don’t want to be a mermaid? Dress up like a pirate or any sea creature.

Food and drinks will be on hand for purchase and a tasty chowder cook-off rounds out the fun. Cost for the Ball is $25 per person and this event is for anyone over 21 years of age. Funds from the Mermaid Ball go to the Cayucos Chamber of Commerce for the July 4th fireworks celebration.

Check out the Festival’s outdoor local marketplace from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Come enjoy food, beer and wine outside as you listen to the rhythms of local bands. Entry fee to this area is $7, so come have a good time and get in a little dancing. Entertainers are Catalina Eddy and Zinful on Saturday and the New Horizons

Band & Orchestra and Rising Suns on Sunday. Enjoy delicious fare from local eateries plus beverages from some of the area’s finest wineries and breweries. The event is under a tent, so it takes place rain or shine!

Local Morro Bay business Beads by the Bay and Garden Shop is participating in the Cayucos Sea Glass Festival.

Teacher Millie Chalk will demonstrate wire wrapped sea glass techniques, and owner, Susan Stewart is offering tools and tool kits for sale as well as craft wire for creating these unique art pieces! Be sure to visit their booth on Saturday, March 9 or Sunday, March 10.

“Recommendation for locals: go on Sunday — this popular event has thousands of visitors all weekend, but Saturday gets slammed,” commented Stewart. “This is a great opportunity to encourage sea glass fans to also explore the community of Morro Bay too. And it’s a good time to get a beautiful sea glass creation from one of the

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Jim Henderson, then 95, approached by a well-wisher with his daughter, Maggie Cox, at the FDR Memorial in 2018. (Photo by Tom Meinhold for the Honor Flights program)

Honor Flights Looking for Volunteers, Passengers

BY CAMAS FRANK OF MORRO BAY LIFE

COUNTY — Honor Flight of the Central Coast, an all-volunteer organization dedicated to honoring local veterans, with trips to Washington, D.C. is looking for guardians to fly with elder veterans during upcoming trips Of course, said Bear McGill, president of the organization’s Central Coast hub, World War II and Korean War veterans are being sought to apply for the next round of trips in May and June, but with the next trip already full, what’s really needed are volunteers willing to pay for their own seat on the three-day trip and aid the traveling vets on the journey.

For the veterans themselves, the package is an all-expense paid trip, the next two scheduled for May 6-8 and June 10-12.

Since 2014, the local organization has sent 270 local veterans on the sojourn, around half from the North County and the rest residing near San Luis Obispo. Vets living in other areas are encouraged to go through Honor

Flight hubs closer to home.

Each year volunteers raise approximately $100,000 for three trips over the course of the year, booked on local American Airlines flights out of San Luis Obispo Regional Airport with a water cannon salute from the airport’s Cal Fire station. Volunteers accompanying vets are asked to pay $1,500 to the organization which then covers the flight, accommodations, meals and incidentals.

Often the volunteer guardians for the flights are family McGill notes, but many vets don’t have anyone that can go with them. Those bound to wheelchairs or needing other assistance could use the help of younger companions for the journey.

In a press announcement drafted by AMF Central Coast president Maggie Cox, McGill, explained that he’d been on nine such trips, “and every time I am moved to tears watching once-young soldiers remembering their pasts.

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In the sending out the recruitment plea, Cox also noted that it meant a great deal to accompany her 95-year-old father on the last trip in October 2018, and there was growing concern that it was becoming too late for other families to have shared that moment, “advancing age is a big factor and we need to move now before we lose any more of these vets,” she wrote.

Sadly, her words were prophetic as her father, Jim Henderson, passed away one day after she wrote about those concerns.

“I’m just really glad he got that trip in when he did,” she said in the week after his death. “We talk all the time about this being a last chance for these men and women to see the monuments built in their honor and be with people who’ve shared the same experience, but we didn’t think it would be the case for us.”

For Henderson, Cox explained, the trip was something he talked often

about in his final months and pictures and mementos of the experience are featuring heavily in planning his memorial.

“It was full circle to be honored for what he did as a young man,” Cox said noting that her father had earned a silver star for action in the European theater during his time in the U.S. Army at just 20-years-old.

For the moment McGill said, the emphasis is on sending WWII and Korea-era veterans to the nation’s capital but Vietnam-era soldiers are invited to schedule trips as well.

For some it may be the only fanfare they’ve received, “Honor Flights encourages people to come out to greet the planes as they come home and on arrival,” Cox added, noting that San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson was on hand with a celebration as the vets returned in October, and they were similarly greeted as their plane touched down in Baltimore, Maryland.

Information and applications for both veterans and travel guardians are available at www.honorflight.org.

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Grief and Loss Support Group at Coalesce

BY RUTH ANN ANGUS OF MORRO BAY LIFE

MORRO BAY — There is nothing easy about the end of life and certainly one of the most difficult aspects is grieving. After dealing with the trauma of losing a loved one very often one is expected to contain their grief to a subscribed period of time. That can be a few days to a week off from work for a funeral and then it is back to normal. Or is it?

Grieving can be a much longer process and impacts every part of one’s life. Friends and family may try to help but that support can be lacking or not enough. This is the time to consider grief assistance and/or a support group. Services like these are available from the Wilshire Hospice Center Grief Ed-

ucation and Healing.

The Center offers the hospice patient assistance while progressing through the last stage of life and additionally provides help for the family with anticipatory grief work.

All grief deserves attention and understanding. The Wilshire staff is trained in grief counseling for adults, adolescents and children.

At the Center, a comfortable room is designated for adult bereavement counseling sessions, and a special children’s bereavement room was built expressly for the distinct needs of the children and grandchildren of our patients.

It is filled with tools such as art supplies, books and puppets, that counselors use to aid youngsters in their grief work.

Wilshire Hospice also offers workshops and education at a

variety of sites. An open discussion of grief and loss is hosted at Coalesce Bookstore every third Tuesday of the month from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

This Grief Support Group offers a safe place to share one’s journey through the grieving process.

Wilshire Hospice emphasizes that with grief comes mourning and while mourning brings healing it is important to have support and understanding while experiencing loss.

To register for this group, a brief intake with a grief counselor is necessary to assure that the group would meet one’s needs.

To schedule an intake session call 805-269-0141.

Other support groups include the following: The Anticipatory Grief group

is for anyone who is experiencing the anticipated loss of a loved one nearing death and the complete range of emotions that may emerge. This workshop is an open group and is held once a month on the second Wednesday of the month from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at 277 South St., Suite R, San Luis Obispo.

An open discussion on “How we stay fully engaged in life while exploring our beliefs and stories surrounding death and dying” is the Death Cafe held the first Monday of the Month, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. at the Nautical Bean, 2010 Parker St., San Luis Obispo.

For more information on other support groups and upcoming groups or to register for a group, call 805-269-0141 or email griefsupport@wilshirehcs.org.

‘Consequential Conversations’ at By the Sea Productions

BY JANICE PETERS FOR MORRO BAY LIFE

MORRO BAY — “Consequential Conversations” is the title of By the Sea Productions first Readers Theatre show of the season. The performance will consist of eight short plays, ranging from 5-25 minutes

in length.

“As we considered plays for this year, we found a number of interesting oneacts, several with similar themes, and decided they would make an enjoyable program,” said Janice Peters, BTSP board member.

“We also have new people interested in directing for

us, and this offers them an opportunity, so we have six directors working on the show.”

The plays include the musings of a former child star, now a waitress; divorcees who meet again; several couples whose conversations overlap in a train station; the frus-

trations of 1-800 calls; an older woman and her nephew discussing end of life decisions; a woman and her gay son on his wedding day; an elderly couple reminiscing; and monks interviewing a novice about the meaning of life. The conversations range from funny to seri-

ous to poignant, and all are…consequential.

“Consequential Conversations” plays for two weekends, March 22-24 and 29-31, at 545 Shasta Ave., Morro Bay. Tickets are $10. For ticket reservations, visit bytheseaproductions.org or call 805776-3287.

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Examples of Zentangle. (Photo contributed)

Zentangle Class to Start at the Art Center

BY RUTH ANN ANGUS FOR MORRO BAY LIFE

MORRO BAY — Morro Bay Art Association is proud to present Zentangle with certified instructor Debbie Gedayloo.

The Zentangle Method of mindful creation is a way to relax, focus and expand one’s imagination. Through guided systematic patterns, students learn to trust their creativity, increase awareness, respond confidently to the unexpected and discover the fun and healing in creative expression.

Incorporating a practice of Zentangle allows for increased neuroplasticity and youthfulness in the

brain. Anyone can feel successful and confident with the practice. If you can write the letters: I, C, S, O…you can follow the patterns. The underlying theories and systematic approach in the Zentangle Method allow the participants to quiet the mind and focus, one stroke at a time.

Debbie has practiced the art of Zentangle for four years stating, “Often when sitting in meditation, I simply can’t quiet my mind and I bounce all over the place in my head. But, when I put the pen to the Zentangle tile, the outside stimuli fade away and my entire being becomes quiet.” Debbie believes in the healing potential of this method and is excited to teach others

SAVE THE DATE: ANNUAL GARDEN TOUR

Mark your calendars! AAUW/Morro Bay has selected Sunday April 28, for its 33rd annual garden tour. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased after April 1 at Volumes of Pleasure Bookstore in Los Osos, Coalesce Bookstore in Morro Bay, and Farm Supply in

how to tap into the hidden wisdom in each of us!

Zentangle is non-representational and unplanned so you can focus on each stroke and not worry about the result. Join certified Zentangle instructor Debbie Gedayloo for monthly, celebratory and meditative art.

First-time students are provided Zentangle bag, pen, pencil, tortillon, tiles and instructions and extras.

SCHEDULE: Feb 17, 10 am.-1 p.m.

March 10, 10 am.-1 p.m.

April 16, 5:30-8 p.m.

May 5, 10 am.-1 p.m.

June 1, 10 am.-1 p.m.

July 28, 10 am.-1 p.m.

Aug. 31, 10 am.-1 p.m.

Sept. 15, 10 am.-1 p.m.

Nov. 9, 10 am.-1 p.m.

Dec. 1, 10 am.-1 p.m.

WHERE: Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay WHEN: Ongoing monthly classes COST: FIRST TIME STUDENTS: MBAA Members $35.

Non-Members $37.

ONGOING STUDENTS: MBAA Members $20. Non-Members $22.

CONTACT: www.artcentermorrobay.org or 805-772-2504 PRE-REGISTRATION: https:// artcentermorrobay.org/index.php/ shop/

San Luis Obispo, Arroyo Grande, and Paso Robles or from any AAUW/Morro Bay member. Proceeds from the event fund scholarships, prizes for academic achievement, and send outstanding seventh grade girls to science and technology camp held at UC Santa Barbara each summer. For more Garden Tour information see morrobayaauw.org.

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Community Calendar SATURDAY, MARCH 2 SWAP First Saturday

Join the SWAP Weed Warriors on Saturday, March 2 from 9 a.m. to noon to do weeding, trail trimming and erosion control in the Elfin Forest in Los Osos. The SWAP Weed Warriors perform other tasks as needed. Weed Warriors will be served home-baked cookies after the work party and new Weed Warriors will receive a Weed Warrior badge. It is important to arrive at 9 a.m. to receive equipment and instructions. The work party will be canceled in the event of rain. SWAP First Saturday work parties are held from 9 a.m. to noon on the first Saturday of each month. Please dress for wind, fog, or sun.

Layers work well. Wear sturdy shoes, long pants, and sleeves and bring work gloves.

Meet at the north end of 15th Street at the Elfin Forest entrance. Avoid blocking driveways or mailboxes when you park.

For more information, call 805-528-0392.

MONDAY, MARCH 4 Morro Bay: Geology and the Dynamics of Change

John McCabe discusses how and when the morros and Morro Bay were formed and the geologic processes that have shaped the coast, the sand spit, and the estuary. He will also summarize the area’s tsunami risk and describe the diverse ecosystems that inhabit the bay.

McCabe lectures frequently on the geology and natural history of the Central Coast to organizations throughout the area. He has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Saint Louis University and masters from the University of Arizona.

The Mind Walk Series, which is now in its 25th year, offers a lecture on topics of interest to residents of the Central Coast, including cultural history, natural history, and current issues. All presentations take place at 10:15 a.m. every Monday during the winter months at The Inn at Morro Bay, 60 State Park Rd., Morro Bay. Admission for Central Coast State Parks Association members and California State Parks docents is free; others pay $3 per lecture. http://centralcoastparks.org/events.

TUESDAY, MARCH 5 Estero Bay United Methodist Church Annual Fat Tuesday Dinner The Estero Bay United Methodist

Church will be having our Annual Spaghetti Dinner on from 5 to 7 p.m.

Tell a friend and come on down to the Estero Bay United Methodist Church and join us in the fun. Great food and music.

Homemade spaghetti and meatballs or vegetarian sauce available along with a green salad, garlic bread and homemade desserts. To go boxes available, tickets at the Church office or at the door.

Adults are $12, children 4-13 are $5, and children under four are free. Estero Bay United Methodist Church is located at 3000 Hemlock Ave. in Morro Bay. For more information call the Church Office at 805-772-7644.

MONDAY, MARCH 11 Architect Julia Morgan, Designer of Hearst Castle

During her long career, talented architect Julia Morgan designed an impressive total of more than seven hundred buildings. Author and lecturer Victoria Kastner will provide a behind-the-scenes look at Julia Morgan’s three local buildings: Hearst Castle in San Simeon, the Minerva Club in Santa Maria, and the Monday Club in San Luis Obispo.

Kastner was Hearst Castle’s official historian for more than twenty years. She has a master’s degree in Public History from UC Santa Barbara and a master’s degree in museum management from George Washington University and has written the definitive trilogy on the history of Hearst Castle.

The Mind Walk Series, which is now in its 25th year, offers a lecture on topics of interest to residents of the Central Coast, including cultural history, natural history, and current issues. All presentations take place at 10:15 a.m. every Monday during the winter months at The Inn at Morro Bay, 60 State Park Rd., Morro Bay. Admission for Central Coast State Parks Association members and California State Parks docents is free; others pay $3 per lecture. http://centralcoastparks.org/events.

THURSDAY, MARCH 14 Morry Bay Women’s Connection Monthly Luncheon

You are invited to the March 14 Morro Bay Women’s Connection Luncheon at Rock Harbor.

Jeni Mitchell will tell us about the Senior Nutrition program which delivers meals to Seniors in the area. Our speaker, Pat Van Gorder is a published author and motivational speaker. She

will talk about “The Best of Friends.” Noon-1:30 at 1475 Quintana Rd. $5 first time guests free.

For reservations, call Rita at 805-534-1739.

FRIDAY, MARCH 15 Morro Bay’s Second Annual Leprechaun Crawl!

On Friday, March 15, from 6 to 10 p.m. come join in on the fun where pubs, bars, and restaurants will be sampling out IPAs, wine and small batch whiskeys alongside local nibbles. We will also be having an adult scavenger hunt with your choice of beer, wine, and whiskey!

The cost includes all of your tastings and nibbles. The only requirement is that you dress in your version of an Irish leprechaun or in your favorite green.

The Green Walk of Shame will be the next day at participating restaurants.

A fully filled out Passport could win $1,000 in prizes! Tickets are $25 at the door. Get them before Feb. 2 for $15 and online on Eventbrite for $20. Designated Drivers attend free.

On March 15 from 5 to 7:30 p.m., join us for dinner and much more at the Dixon’s Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser. his dinner is a fundraiser for the Estero Bay Community Foundation’s Youth Scholarship Fund which assists families who could not otherwise afford recreational activities to participate benefitting youth recreation programs. Tickets are available for sale at the Morro Bay Community Center. Beer and wine available. Make your own sundae bar, silent auction, door prizes, Carnival, cakewalk, and wine walk for adults. Questions?

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