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Migratory birds flock back to Morro Bay Winter Bird Fest begins Jan. 16 By RUTH ANN ANGUS For Morro Bay Life
It happens every year. Summer ends, the days become crisp and clear and the birds return to Morro Bay. The National Audubon Society lists Morro Bay as a Globally Important Bird Area. Fall and winter seasons bring thousands of migratory birds that make Morro Bay their winter home. Shorebirds such as marbled godwits, willets, curlews with their long curved bill, and tiny sandpipers find a bountiful feast in the mudflats of the bay. Brant geese migrate from spots on the Alaskan shore to feed on the rich eelgrass beds of the estuary. Fluttering terns, brown pelicans, graceful egrets and herons are also part of the seasonal mix. One of the best ways to see the birds of Morro Bay is from the water. Outfitters located on the
Project includes new boardwalk, bike path By ROBERT FULLER DAVIS Special to Morro Bay Life
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Eighteen contractors showed up on Sept. 25; at a mandatory pre-bid meeting for the harbor walk extension from Coleman Drive across Morro Creek that will connect the Embarcadero to North Morro Bay. Bids were opened Oct. 14 and were still being evaluated at press time. City of Morro Bay Public Services Director Rob Livick hopes that if council awards the contract on Oct. 28, construction could begin in late November. The contractor will have 95 working days or 180 calendar days, whichever is less, to finish. The city’s goal is to complete the project by the end of June 2015. The project is to construct 1,500 linear feet of a 6-foot-wide concrete pedestrian boardwalk and a separate, adjacent 12-foot-wide paved bike path starting near the Morro Bay Power Plant entrance; to procure and install a 13 foot wide by 130 foot span pre-fabricated steel bridge; and to provide fencing, lighting, interpretive overlook areas, bike parking and benches. Funding has come from various sources. Representative Lois Capps helped the city to receive a $220,000 Scenic Byway Grant in 2012 to begin the planning and design process. San Luis Obispo Council of Governments, SLOCOG, programmed an additional $1.18 million and the city will provide 20 percent of construction costs, a portion of which will be in-kind construction management services. Local firm RRM Design Group prepared construction plans, specifications and detailed engineering cost estimates for the project and helped to shepherd it through the Coastal Commission permitting process. In an action that Mike Sherrod, principal with RRM, called “almost unprecedented,” the commission waived the permit, writing, “The project will
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Artist Colleen Gnos will be one of 27 artists displaying her work at the first-ever Morro Bay Surfboard Art Festival, set for Nov. 29.
Surfboard art fest Event to benefit local nonprofit organizations
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iving for the wave and the rush that comes from the lift off when caught is the inspiration for artists that are showing off Morro Bay’s surf culture — at the first-ever Surfboard Art Festival. These amazing boards will be on display the entire month of November culminating in an auction from 2 to 5 p.m., Nov. 29 at Fish Bonanza Restaurant. Colleen Gnos is one of the 27 outstanding artists that will be participating in the Surfboard Art Festival that is being hosted by nonprofit organizations Morro Bay in Bloom and Project Surf Camp as fundraisers. Gnos said that this event came into being when Walter Heath came up with the idea for the Surfboard Art Festival. She was Please turn to Page 10
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this year.” MBAA offers fun opportunities for artists to get there work out in the public eye. Flo Bartell, a member of the Morro Bay Art Association, said that the Creativity Group art show is not the only event for the holiday season to look forward to. “In addition to the Creativity Group exhibit in
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This year the Morro Bay Art Association is making shopping easy for all — with an artistic extravaganza of events for November and December, offering everything from paintings to holiday ornaments and much more. The show at Art Center Morro Bay openning on Nov. 13 will feature the Creativity
Group of Morro Bay Art Association. Creativity member John Goodell will be one of many local artists participating. He said that he has been participating in this event for years. “I have participated lots of times and I have sold quite a few paintings,” said Goodell, explaining that there are many wonderful artists participating this year. “Park Merrill is an outstanding artist that will be showing
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Cattleman of the Year weighs-in on industry Wixom says that passion is the key By RUTH ANN ANGUS Of Morro Bay Life
As Morro Bay celebrates its 50th year as a city, it is sometimes forgotten that it once was primarily an agricultural area. While urbanization seems to be on the increase there still is a vibrant ranching and farming community that makes up a good part of the life in Morro Bay. At this year’s California Mid-State Fair, Dan Wixom was honored as Cattleman of the Year. Wixom has run a successful cowcalf herd in the area for more than 45 years and so well qualified to paint a picture of what it is like running a cattle ranch. MBL: How would a young person with an agricultural degree establish a herd on the Central Coast? Wixom: Probably the best way would be for him to find some old guy who wants to get out of the business and who doesn’t have kids that want it and buy him out. A young person might ask around to find a lease on land and then buy a few cows and build from there. But it’s hard finding a lease. Another way would be to find a partner, work with him and earn a percentage and then buy into it. My great-grandfather sold me his cows when he was in his mid-80s and I was 16. He didn’t charge me any interest so it was just take the cows and keep them on the ranch. Pay him rent and when the calves are sold, pay him for the cows. That’s how I started. MBL: Is there available grazing land
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Dan Wixom was named Cattleman of the Year at the Mid-State Fair earlier this year. Wixom has been a cattle rancher in the area for more than 45 years.
here and what is the condition of the land? Wixom: Well, there is not much around here and you have to lease it and it’s not cheap. Leasing is done in a few different ways. You can pay by the animal unit, which is equivalent to a cow and calf by month or pay cash rent per year, or by acre. Right now the drought is making conditions worse. Typically we wean our calves and then ship them in June. For the previous two years we’ve had to ship early in May and this year we shipped in April. That means they weighed less and were not worth as much. In a good feed year we can get the calves up to 800 pounds, but the last three years have not been good feed years so we were lucky if they weighed up to 600 pounds. Calves are sold at price per pound and the market demands regulate the price. If there is a big glut, then prices are cheaper. When calves are scarce there is Please turn to Page 12
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have no potential for adverse effects on coastal resources.” The creek location requires specific environmental safeguards. Bridge pilings will be drilled, not driven. No equipment will be used within the creek channel, meaning that materials will have to be driven from one side to the other on city streets. Embarcadero Road will be kept open for public access to the beach and bicyclists and pedestrians can continue to walk across the channel. After completion, the bridge will not be used for normal vehicle travel but it will allow access for emergency vehicles. Mayor Bill Yates who thought SLOCOG might have money to get it started, spearheaded the project. He got Police Chief Michael Pond to sign off on it and lined up council support and went to SLOCOG to ask for the money and hit a snag. To get money, the project has to be in a plan, and our bike plan wasn’t finished yet. Geiska Velasquez came to the rescue. She was working for SLOCOG then as a planner and she began researching. She found the bridge listed in the Harbor Plan. That was what we needed and away we went. When Morro Bay citizens ask, “Will the bridge over Morro Creek be completed by July 4, 2015?” Mr. Livick’s answer is…“We cannot predict with certainty everything that could prevent this...but a cautious yes.”
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50 years, 1 million meals Chef Len debuts book in Morro Bay By ALLYSON OKEN Of Morro Bay Life
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Hundreds of people show up at the Morro Bay Merchant Faire each year to find holiday gifts for their loved ones. This year’s event is expected to be bigger and better than ever.
Holiday merchant faire kicks off Nov. 30
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Merchants will be breaking out the best of their wares, products of the harvest and so much more for the Morro Bay Holiday Merchant Faire. All of the fun will begin at 9 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30. With live music, dancing, kiddie entertainment, food and gifts this is a one-stop shop for the holiday season. Admission is absolutely free and the event will take place at Morro Bay Boulevard and Main Street. Merchant Association director Cyndee Edwards said that this is one of the biggest street fairs of the year. After 40 years of Holiday Merchant Faires, the event shows no signs of slowing down. “We are on our 40th year and going strong,” Edwards said. “This event draws locals and tourists into the Old Town area. It’s a great opportunity for everyone to explore another part of Morro Bay. We have a lot of diverse shops, restaurants and specialty stores. Participants this year
will be all the local shops and vendors who come to sell their wares, to enjoy our hometown hospitality and, of course, see Santa Claus. Our theme is North Pole meets Morro Bay. Basically, if Santa comes all the way from the North Pole to shop Morro Bay, so should you.” According to Morro Bay local Bill Peirce, the predecessor to the street faire was a home show at the Veterans Hall that was used to showcase local businesses. A gentleman from Pismo Beach who has since passed away originally organized it. “Later, because of the costs involved, the show morphed into a street faire,” he said. “At the time the home shows were discontinued, the idea of using it for a fundraising vehicle came about and it has remained that way ever since.” The Morro Bay Holiday Merchant Faire welcomes any vendors that would like to participate. This event grows every year so it is important to register early for a vendor slot, organizers said. For more information, visit morro-bay. net/mbma/index.cfm or e-mail Cyndee Edwards at cyndee@theskinstop.com.
Chef Leonard Gentieu lit the fire in his belly 50 years ago but one dream has eluded him until now — publishing a book. Gentieu, owner of the yacht Papagallo II, put together “Chasing the Heat, 50 years and a Million Meals.” He feels the coffee table book is the beginning of a wonderful new facet of his life. The book is a collection of stories from Gentieu’s long career in the kitchen with a few choice recipes thrown in for good measure. He takes the reader on his journey to success, beginning with his stint as a dishwasher, followed by his time as chef to Army generals, the hellish days of owning a restaurant and finally how he made his dream come true and bought the Papagallo II. He has even been in the Guinness Book of World Records for making the longest sandwich in 1975. Gentieu said it is a behind-the-scenes look at what happens in the restaurant industry. It also includes 12 of his alltime favorite recipes, including his clam chowder from Connecticut that until now has never been made public. “It is quasi-memoir of myself as well,” he said. “Really my hope with this book is that I inspire people in the trade to strive for greatness. Thinking that, ‘if this old guy can do it why can’t I?’ This is why I have dedicated my book to all the millions of food service workers across the nations that prepare food and serve us every day.” To reach this point in his life, Gentieu made what he called his own luck — though there were various tipping points that helped to guide him on his way to achieving his dreams. His big discovery, his love for cooking,
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started when he was 13. He realized he had talent for cooking when he was made the chef for two three-star generals in the Army. This success fueled his desire to eventually own a restaurant and someday a yacht. He also had a brief stint as a publisher, something that he finds himself doing again. The idea of a book was sparked during a tour on the yacht three years ago. “This guy had written four books of his own, Kitty, the gentleman’s wife said, ‘Have you ever thought about writing a book,’” Gentieu said. “I said, ‘It’s funny Please turn to Page 5
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Morro Bay Golf Course under new management By ALLYSON OKEN Of Morro Bay Life
Joel Clay, the owner of Golden State Golf Co., is sprucing up Morro Bay Golf Course in a big way after taking over management in August. No longer are they putting from the rough as they say, but swinging for the green with their new game plan for the course. Since Golden State took over management of the Morro bay Golf Course they have brought on new staff — Rudy Duran as the director of instruction, golf pro Michael Samaniego, golf pro Mike Stilson and general manger Tammy Doshier, who worked at Chalk Mountain for 30 years. “The County actually owns the golf course and they do the maintenance on the course and Golden State who also operates Chalk Mountain in Atascadero took over this August,” Doshier said. “We brought in 74 new golf carts, range balls and we are hoping to get a great lesson program going here and get new golfers out golfing and people who haven’t played in while to golf. We have a new food and beverage
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The Morro Bay Golf Course, pictured above is now under the management of new owner Joel Clay.
manager and we have a big banquet room and are hosting events. It is just a beautiful golf course. The view is amazing and the people are great and I am really excited.” An area that Doshier is really trying to
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New Morro Bay dentist takes over for Dr. Trubo
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Putting your best smile forward is made easy with new Morro Bay dentist Sorina Ratchford taking over for retiring colleague Bruce Trubo. Trubo handed over his devoted clients to the capable hands of Ratchford a few weeks ago and she is excited to be providing care to Morro Bay citizens. She said that she and her husband would vacation in Morro Bay all of the time when she was attending school in Los Angeles and fell in love with the area. After a few years of searching, she finally found the perfect practice to take on. “We finally found this opportunity in Morro Bay after doing my residency in Texas,” Ratchford said. “We really liked this practice, the patients seemed to be really nice people and Dr. Trubo is a really good dentist so we decided this was the place for us. The staff is great and they all decided to stay except for Dr. Trubo’s assistant who retired with him. Not much has changed yet but we have some plans to make some upgrades to technology. I am really looking forward to expanding the practice and helping to provide care to the community.” Ratchford went on to say that she was inspired to enter the field of dentistry because her aunt and cousin were dentists. She always thought that she and her cousin would work together but her path took her in a different direction. She was born in Romania and received her degree in dentistry while living there. Then was struck with the love bug after meeting her husband and moved with him to the United States. “I really didn’t even consider coming to the U.S. until I met my husband,” she said. “It’s funny because my husband was in Romania and he is from Tennessee but he was in Romania for two years with the Peace Corps. My parents have a local nonprofit organization and he was the volunteer that they were given and I was his translator. So that is how we got to meet and that is why I came to the states.” Now that she has found this well-developed practice, she is happy to be able to provide a wider variety of services. Ratchford will be offering longer office hours, staying open five days a week from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. to accommodate client schedules. She will be providing care to children and is trained in pediatric dentistry as well as general care and cosmetic dentistry. “With the residency that I did, I was able to get more experience with surgery, bone grafting, surgical extraction and root canals, which Dr. Trubo didn’t offer,” Ratchford said. “So it will be nice to be able to provide that care. We will also be upgrading the office with new computers and new X-ray technology. So I am
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Chef Len was a chef in the army during the Vietnam War and was promoted to the chef for two three-star generals.
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New Morro Bay dentist Sorina Ratchford is settling into her new practice and is excited to be providing these services to Morro Bay citizens.
excited!” To learn more about Morro Bay’s newest dentist, Sorina Ratchford, stop by the office at 747 Bernardo Ave. in Morro Bay or call 772-8585.
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you say that, I started a little satire on a day from hell that I never finished. She asked if she could get a copy of it. She took it home and called that night to tell me that I had to finish it.” Gentieu said she gave him some direction and he started writing and finished it fairly quickly. “Really the most challenging part from there were the edits,” he said. “Then we went in search of a publisher, contacting about 15 to 20 agents. Finally I said I have been in business for decades so I published it myself. I created a publishing company called Sand Cat Publishing and selfpublished and now it is printed.” “Chasing the Heat, 50 Years and a Million Meals” is out on shelves in San Luis Obispo and beyond, as well as on Amizon.com and squareup.com/market/cth.
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The turkey — a truly American bird By RUTH ANN ANGUS Of Morro Bay Life
Wow, it’s not a good time to be a turkey! Of course you know there is a vast difference between the turkey that hits your table on Thanksgiving Day and the wild turkey. What you might not be aware of is that turkeys are not native to the Western states. Back in the days of the pilgrims these birds were abundant in the eastern forests. A truly American bird, they were found only on this continent until the 1600s when the Spanish explorers took a few birds back to Spain where they bred and expanded. In fact this bird was so American that good old Ben Franklin proposed it be chosen as the national bird and symbol of our country instead of the eagle. Time and extensive hunting practically wiped out the species until massive conservation efforts were put in place. Thanks to transplantation, wild turkeys are now in all the states except Alaska. These are the largest game birds in North America. They stand about 4 feet tall and can reach up to 24 pounds. There are gobblers or Toms, hens, Jakes (first year males), and Jennys (first year females). Gobblers are adult males that have bronzy, iridescent body plumage with black tipped breast feathers. Another characteristic of males is the “beard” that protrudes from the breast. They also have an upward curving spur on the lower legs. Gobblers have less head feathers than hens. Hens are smaller birds with light-brown breast feather tips. Hens sometimes develop beards too but they are always smaller and thinner than a gobbler’s.
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There is a clear difference between the domestic turkeys, pictured above, and wild turkeys, pictured below.
Adult males have a distinctive mating call — “gobble, gobble.” The head of the aroused gobbler becomes a combination of red, white and blue — pretty patriotic when you think about it. Male turkeys have other interesting characteristics such as the Snood or Dewbill, a drooping apparatus that hangs down over the beak, and the
wattle, a bright red loose bunch of skin hanging from under the beak to just above the beard. Apparently the only function of these items is to cause hens to swoon. A male turkey can change his head from red to blue in minutes and the climax of his performance is when he fans out his tail and puffs up his body feathers to appear huge and round. This just about clinches it
for the lady turkeys. Lovemaking is bound to ensue! Eight to 12 eggs are laid and begin hatching in 28 days. The young are capable of leaving the nest soon after hatching. Wild turkeys form into flocks based on sex and age. The brood (hen and her poults) forms into hen-brood flocks. Adult males form flocks that rarely associate with hens until breeding season. Young males separate from the brood and form Jake flocks. Domestic turkeys couldn’t be more different from their wild cousins. They are larger (can weigh up to 75 pounds) and gain weight quickly. This is not due to hormones or drugs but is a factor of breeding. Domestics are white in color and cannot change their head color. Their snoods are always red. And poor beasts, they are unable to breed, a consequence of having developed over-sized barrel chests that don’t allow the birds to get close enough to mate. Artificial insemination produces all the domestic turkey flocks. Dumbness is equated with being a turkey but this is only true for the domestic variety. Wild birds are very wily and wary. Ask any hunter. The domestics are so passive they don’t even know enough to come in out of the rain and there are documented cases of turkeys drowning in a downpour. The biggest difference between domestic and wild birds is that only the wild ones can fly. They don’t much like to, but they can, quite well. They can clear a 60-foot tree within 100 feet of takeoff and travel several miles at 50 miles per hour. So on Thanksgiving Day while you are enjoying that turkey leg or breast, remember the great contribution this very American bird brings to us — food for our table and a pleasure to watch in the wild.
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Thar she blows! Whales glide by on journey south
By RUTH ANN ANGUS For Morro Bay Life
Every year beginning in November, gray whales journey from the cold waters of Alaska all the way to Baja California where pregnant females give birth to a single calf and other whales court and breed. We are privileged to see these leviathans of the deep, if even from afar, as they glide by the Central Coast. Often a single plume of spray is the only thing that catches one’s eye and then with binoculars raised, you spot them again surfacing, once, twice, three times before the whale dives. As a rule of thumb, a gray whale will blow once for each minute it has spent in its dive. For the expectant female grays this 6,000mile journey is arduous. Generally they travel alone or in groups of two or three, resting and feeding little. In the following weeks nonpregnant females, mature males and juveniles make the journey. They travel in groups of up to 12 animals. Mating occurs along the way. Females only give birth every other year so there are always more males ready to mate than there are in-season females to accommodate them. Competition is keen and a female is often surrounded by several courting males. Juvenile grays seem to follow the adults but often venture away from the group to feed and explore. Every so often one shows up at the harbor entrance to Morro Bay. Humpbacks are another whale that we can see from our shores. These are baleen whales like the grays, meaning they have no teeth. The baleen in the humpback is almost black and is made up of strips of whalebone hanging down from the roof of the mouth, which they use to filter feed. These large beasts exist on some of the smallest organisms in the sea. Humpbacks have become better known
over the years thanks to scientific research that discovered their unique vocalizations referred to as “singing.” They are so named because of the angle of the back that the animal shows when surfacing to breathe. Whales perform some extraordinary feats such as breaching. No one knows why they do this. Perhaps it is part of courtship, or a way to remove parasites that attach to their bodies, or maybe they just plain enjoy it. Three-quarters of the whale’s body charges out of the water almost straight up. Then the animal pivots onto its side or back and falls into the sea with a great splash. Humpbacks practice a method called “bubble-net” feeding. A group of them form a circle from 10 to 100 feet across and extending 50 feet under the water. Then they blow a wall of bubbles while swimming to the surface in a spiral path. The bubbles trap krill, plankton or small fish near the surface in a mass. The humpbacks come lunging up underneath, mouths wide open, and consume a hearty meal. Spyhopping, where the whale extends its head vertically out of the water to look around, and sounding are two other known behaviors. Sounding involves a deep dive where the tail flukes extend straight up as the animal goes into a steeply angled dive. One of the most amazing whales to sight in the ocean is the blue whale. Often cruising around the Farollon Islands near San Francisco, this is the largest animal ever found on earth. Its length reaches 100 feet and it, too, is a filter feeder. No matter what kind of whale a watcher may encounter, sighting a whale is a special treat. Whale watching tours out of Morro Bay and Avila occur throughout the gray whale and humpback migration season. Take advantage of our unique environment and try a day trip.
A humpback whale lunge feeding.
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A humpback whale breaks the surface of the water. Photo by Ruth Ann Angus
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Just what kind of turkey is this?
The Turkey Vulture: A bird with an identity problem By RUTH ANN ANGUS For Morro Bay Life
The Thanksgiving holiday is nearly upon us and I don’t know about you but my mouth is watering for turkey. There’s a bird that is truly American, but named after a Middle Eastern country. (I wonder if they have turkey bacon in Turkey!) But what about that other bird with turkey in its name? I’m talking about the turkey vulture. Here’s a bird with a real image problem. It isn’t bad enough that it’s a vulture (or buzzard as they refer to it in the southern U.S.) or that it’s kind of homely looking, but it’s a “turkey” vulture as if it was a somewhat dim-witted creature. Actually the name reflects the distinctive red head of the adult birds. Vultures are large birds of prey related to hawks and eagles. The head and neck of vultures are usually bare except for a few thin wisps of down. They have weak feet not made for clutching but for running. Vultures in North America consist of the California condor, the black vulture, and the turkey vulture. A turkey vulture has no real voice because they lack the syrinx, which is like our larynx or voice box. If you could get close enough you might hear some hisses and grunts. Basically turkey vultures are pretty lazy. Groups of them are often seen soaring to very great heights. An interesting behavior is the spreading out of the wings when
perched in a tree or on a high pole or fence. Perhaps they do this to warm up on cold mornings before taking flight to soar on thermals. Vultures are carrion eaters and have a very keen sense of smell and actually locate their prey with it. They are the garbage men of the sky and who knows what the world would be like without them. After all there are millions and millions of animals that die every year from natural or other causes. Their carcasses are left to disintegrate and should be highly visible to man. But they aren’t, and a good part of the reason why is that vultures do a great job in cleaning up the remains. They have the ability to consume, without ill effects, the rotten diseased carcass of an animal that died of infection and illness. Thanks to these birds such carcasses are cleaned up so that the danger of infection cannot spread. Examination of the birds’ droppings has found that they are sanitized. How this happens and how they can eat diseased meat and not be infected is of great interest to medical science. Scientific knowledge of the turkey vulture is somewhat limited. For instance it is not known why when one bird locates a carcass and begins feeding, numerous others suddenly appear on the scene to join in the feast. How they communicate is a mystery. Well it’s not exactly your typical Thanksgiving bird for sure, but I bet the turkey vulture would be quick to clean up any leftovers you might throw out!
Above, an adult Turkey Vulture perches in a tree. Left, a turkey vulture assumes the common ‘spread wing’ pose. Photo by Ruth Ann Angus
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Embarcadero and at the State Park Marina rent kayaks and canoes. For those who don’t want to take to the water there are trails and viewing places surrounding the bay. An easy trail is located beginning at the rear of the Morro Bay State Park Marina parking lot and winding out along the estuary. Morro Coast Audubon Society maintains two special birding locations. The Audubon Overlook is located in Los Osos on the south side of the estuary. From the small roofed deck you can sit comfortably and view the variety of waterfowl foraging in the waters of the back bay. Another excellent area for bird watching is the Sweet Springs Preserve. It is a 24-acre natural site on the southern edge of the bay consisting of one acre of freshwater ponds and marsh, 14 acres of saltwater ponds, marsh and mudflats and nine acres of upland scrub. Wintering Brant geese and scores of ducks take up winter residence along its shores. There are trails, bridges and benches along the way and many locals make this area their daily stroll. Another great viewing spot is at Morro Rock where peregrine falcons nest every year. Ospreys are often seen perching on top Photo by Ruth Ann Angus of boat masts in the harbor area. A great way to see and learn about the Above, Marbled Godwits and Willets swim through an estuary. Pictured below are a Horned Grebe, left, and an Eared Grebe. 200-plus species that visit Morro Bay is to attend the annual Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival held over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend. The festival offers guided field trips throughout the county, workshops on bird identification, photography, how to select binoculars and scopes, and more. Special keynote speakers present entertaining and educational evening programs. Registration for the festival begins Nov. 1 and you can get more information and sign up online at www.morrobaybirdfestival.org.
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Morro Bay Senior Citzens Inc. is looking for a few new volunteers! If you like assisting people, the Morro Bay Senior Center may be the perfect location to volunteer. Volunteers at the Morro Bay Senior Center meet and greet people daily, provide information regarding various senior services within our community, check-out medical equipment, and more. It is a fun and friendly atmosphere, a great place to spend a few hours once a week. Interested volunteers should contact the Senior Center at 7724421.
Free Dance at Chessboard
Morro Bay Bellydance troupe Benat Serat invites you to join them for a free family friendly dance performance at the Giant Chessboard on the Embarcadero. This 45-minute show begins at 2 p.m. It will feature original dances set to current music as well as traditional middle eastern rhythms. Beginning Bellydance classes are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. through the Morro Bay Community Center, and Sundays at Wilwand Tea Co. & Healing Arts upstairs studio in Atascadero.To learn more, visit benatserat.wordpress.com.
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Morro Bay in Bloom presents the 1st Annual Morro Bay Surfboard Art Festival.This month-long event will support Project Surf Camp and Morro Bay in Bloom. Twenty renowned artists and community groups will have their surfboard art creations displayed publicly throughout the City of Morro Bay from November 1st through the 28th. To learn more visit www.morrobayinbloom.org.
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Soup, Wine and Wildlife create and grand ole Soupabration. A benefit for Pacific Wildlife Care in Morro Bay where Central Coast chefs and restaurants compete for the best soups around, plus wine tasting offered by exclusive Central Coast wineries. To learn more and to participate visit, www. pacificwildlifecare.org/soup/#ticket.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Morro Bay Surfboard Art Festival Gala and Auction
Join Morro Bay in Bloom and Project Surf Camp on November 29th at Fish Bonez for the Surfboard Art Festival Gala Auction. Kicking off from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. View the amazing surfboard art for auction and support these two wonderful non-profits. To learn more and to buy tickets to the Gala Auction visit www.morrobayinbloom.org.
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Take the family down Morro Bay Boulevard and Main Street between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. for holiday festivities, kiddie entertainment, food and gifts. This event is the perfect place to find a special gift just in time for the holidays. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.morro-bay. net/mbma/index.cfm.
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connected with Heath by a friend and after hearing about the event’s mission and the use of surfboard art, she jumped at the chance. “This will be the first year this event will take place,” Gnos said. “I believe Walter Heath came up with the idea in the fall and now they have almost 30 artists participating. It is so nice they are hosting an auction and the month-long viewing and will be giving a large portion of the proceeds from the auction to Project Surf Camp and the hosts Morro Bay in Bloom. Actually one of my good friends has an autistic son that is learning to surf with Project Surf Camp and it is just an amazing program that he has really benefited from. I am very happy to be able to support these groups by painting for this event.” Gnos began to paint surfboards over a decade ago when living in Hawaii working with famous 70s surfer Larry Bertelsmann. She said that she loves painting on the surface of a board because of the texture. Over the years she has developed a distinctive style, choosing to depict mermaids and whimsical ocean scenes that remind her of home. So she just started to paint them and found that the idea combined her two passions, the ocean and painting. She had not yet started her surfboard for the show so to illustrate her work she shared a piece that she has been working on for about a year while recovering from cancer. The freedom of the mermaid in this work of art, escaping the darkness of her past was therapeutic to Gnos who was battling cancer when she created it. Her understanding of the human form and her sense of depth and color make her work standout. “I work with models, usually it was my cousin,” she said. “I did a photo shoot with her and she is really tall and thin with
long black hair and I thought ‘you know what? This isn’t her and I don’t really want to paint this’. So it just became more about healing. The gold leaf is about illumination. The shipwreck represents her past lives, it’s just darkness and ugliness and here you can see the light is illuminating her and facing the light having some realizations. I started this before my last chemo so this rock represented the last obstacle and just waiting for the tide to come up and pull her out to sea.” For Colleen it is all about painting light and shadow, saying without light there would not be shadow. The medium of paint has allowed her to tell this story working on this surfboard going from darkness to light. “I painted this very loosely,” she said. “I have been moving away from the smooth style of painting lately. I think of painting more sculpturally rather than linear. So I think of chiseled angles, powerful angles and muscles that protrude or parts of the flesh or bones that stick out. I think of things like that and that is how I paint.” Part of the wonder that Gnos captures through her painting is created by utilizing a style called optical mixing — the idea being that if you paint yellow and blue next to each other, nearly overlapping it will cause the viewer to see the color green (the color that yellow and blue make when mixed) even though it is not present and creates an almost two or three dimensional affect. In the case of Gnos, she utilizes glazing in various shades to create that same dimensional affect. To see the surfboard creations you can attend the Nov. 29 auction. The cost for a ticket to the VIP auction is $75 and for the general auction the cost to attend is $50. Tickets are available online at morrobayinbloom.org/surfboard-art-festival/auction.
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“Of course, I was Tiger Woods’ first coach for six years when he was age 4 until 10,” Duran said. “I brought him up here to San Luis Obispo several times and when he was 6 years old he did and exhibition at Chalk Mountain. Roger Tambellini played on the PGA tour three years and he has been a golf pro since 1998 and he is from the junior golf program at Chalk Mountain. So we have seen some big successes from some of our young people on the Central Coast.” Duran went on to say that they are interested in getting more people out golfing to learn, enjoy the beauty of the course and get some great exercise. They will have programs for players new to the game, people that used to play and want to get back to it and then for the existing golfer. For players new to the game, they will have a program called the walk chip and putt program where people walk and putt around the course. This will help develop a player’s short game. “I have been a golf pro for 34 years,” Duran said. “I was in Long Beach. I came up to chalk Mountain in 1981 and was there until 2007 and then I stopped managing the golf course. I coached a little in Arizona for a while. Then Joe called me and asked if I would do player development as the director of instruction out at Chalk Mountain. I said yes I was happy to be able to come back to San Luis Obispo County.” To join in the fun, learn to stay out of the rough or just have fun putting around visit, www.morrobaygolf.org.
Above, Rudy Duran, Director of Instruction at Morro Bay Golf Course and Chalk Mountain Golf Course in Atascadero sinks a putt at Morro Bay Golf Course recently. Duran was also Tiger Wood’s first coach and brought him to Chalk Mountain to learn to compete from age four to 10. Duran is pictured with the golfer in his younger days at left. Photo by Allyson Oken
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Eileen Bruan’s Christmas ornament creations are one of the many items that will be available at the Little Treasures craft show.
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the Main Gallery, there will be a member show upstairs in the Russell Gallery and an annual craft exhibit,” Bartell said. “The show is titled ‘Winter Faire,’ featuring the Wednesday Creative Group. Also
Watercolor artist John Goodell will be selling his creations at the show, such as this one titled ‘A view from Broad Street’.
including, a juried craft show opening Nov. 13 open daily from 12 to 4 p.m. with a reception Nov. 16 from 2 to 4 p.m. ending Dec. 29.” Two craftswomen that will be featured in the “Little Treasures” craft show are Patti Sullivan and Eileen Braun. Sullivan creates vibrant hand-made paper cards with an
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almost collage-like layering that will be available for purchase. Braun makes cute little ornaments for the holidays with ceramic and glass. These art shows hosted by the MBAA are a forum for entrepreneurial artists to sell their creations and be a part of a thriving community of artists. For those that would
like to create with friends, the Creativity Group meets on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Creativity Room at the Art Center. This is open to all members who want to draw or paint. Art Center Morro Bay is open to the public noon to 4 p.m. daily. For information, call 772-2504.
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more money. MBL: How are cattle sold? Wixom: I sell my calves out of state and use the Internet to accomplish this. A video is made of the cattle for sale and a catalog made up by Superior Livestock (the livestock company he uses). This catalog is sent out and then Superior advertises that they will have say, 1000 head on a certain day and buyers can bid by phone or on the Internet. This year my cattle went to Nebraska and Idaho and they have in the past gone to Colorado and Oklahoma feedlots. MBL: With the drought you must have to supply supplemental feed. Wixom: I grow my own hay and I don’t sell any of it elsewhere. I feed it to my cows and usually don’t have to buy any outside, but last year instead of getting three to four tons to acre like in a normal year, we were lucky to get one ton to the acre. Because of
g c o a Photo by Ruth Ann Angus o A Wixom cow munches hay on a hilltop. e t are paid for and the market is good, you can the lack of rain, the hay didn’t grow. I don’t everything up. t make a living. But it’s better if you have irrigate. But it costs just as much to grow another job to fall back on. I’ve always had MBL: What about predation? in a bad year as it does in a good year. Your N Wixom: The last few years there has a good job other than cattle. If someone seed and fertilizer costs per acre and your a diesel fuel costs are just as much to get four been an increase in mountain lions. There gives you the opportunity and if you show g tons as it does to get a half ton. We need the are a lot less deer and fawns for them. the willingness and the work ethic, you will m When the lions run out of deer, they go get a chance to do it if you want to be in the rain for the hay to grow. G My herd numbers are down about 60 for the calves. Last year we lost some to cattle business. This is America. If you’ve i got the gumption and you want to do it, percent of what I normally run (Wixom coyotes also. b there is always a way. says the total number of cattle he runs is I don’t know what the future holds. The MBL: What is a cow’s life span and how nobody’s business!). There are bigger “ environmentalists are against us and the operators than me such as the Hearst Ranch. long do you keep them? Wixom: A cow can live 10 to 12 years. regulators are against us. I don’t have all T Places that run stocker cattle can put two steers to every cow for the grass season. We cull old ones with no teeth, bad udders, the answers but only know what works o They bring them in during the fall and stay or eye problems. We pregnancy check all for me. No one is more interested in the h until May and then ship them. But we have others. A bull services about 15 to 20 cows. environment than people running cows. If b to keep our cows going year-round. All we Bull calves are cut and made steers and we run everything into the ground, then H t are doing right now is taking the money we we keep the top 20 percent of heifers for there is nothing for the cows to eat. Right now cows are too expensive a got from selling to buy hay to keep the herd replacement. A heifer can breed in a year. going because you have to supplement the For all the years I have been doing this, the and due to the drought supply is down. cows or they won’t produce milk for the past two years are the first time I haven’t Everybody is way down on numbers. I’m trying to keep as many cows as I can. I calves. After the calves are weaned you kept any replacement heifers. can’t afford to start over. You have to be want the cows in good shape for breeding. MBL: Can a person make a living from passionate because there are a lot of easier If they are too thin, they won’t cycle and ways to make money. If I didn’t have my get bred and then they are worthless to you cattle ranching and what is the future? Wixom: If you have enough cattle that cows, I don’t know what I would do. and you have to sell them. Drought screws
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