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March 12 - March 19, 2020 VOLUME 34, NUMBER 34

Editor’s note

This week cover Lawrence Kasdan and King Vidor ...............................14

news Governor offers state land for homeless help ...............................12 SLO County’s coronavirus plan: Don’t panic ....................................13

opinion The grand jury wants you..............18

arts EDUCATION: Arts foundation focuses on growth ....................... 42 GALLERY: Fake News on canvas 44

flavor FOOD: Burger Village ................... 52

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awrence Kasdan has tried it all, from writing Westerns to film noir and, of course, Star Wars—he’s kind of a big deal. Plus, he still holds a certain wonder for films of all kinds, and he wants you to feel it too. That’s no doubt why he’s this year’s King Vidor Award recipient from the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival. And yep, STORY CONFERENCE Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey got to talk to Lawrence him. For this week’s cover story, sit in on their Kasdan (right) discusses ideas conversation and curl up with a bowl of popcorn with co-writer [14]. and director J.J. Abrams (left) on This week, you can also read about why two the set of their North County cities might not take the governor 2018 film Star Wars: Episode up on his offer of state land for homeless VII—The Force Awakens. services [12] ; coronavirus preparations in SLO County [13] ; the Paso Robles Youth Arts Foundation’s quest for more [42] ; Mark Bryan’s latest exhibit, Fake News [44] ; and organic and delicious burgers at Burger Village in SLO [52].

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Paso to cut teachers, staff, and considers elementary school closure PHOTO BY KASEY BUBNASH

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he dreary weather in Paso Robles on March 10 matched the mood inside its school district’s board room that evening, a small space overflowing with impassioned students, staff, faculty, and community members ready to fight another round of budget cuts.

Peppered throughout the packed room, students held up posters begging the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District board of trustees to “think of the students” and “save French” and “save our teacher!” Several of their favorite classes, teachers, and entire programs are on the chopping block, along with 13 classified positions, from maintenance and food service staff to intervention specialists.

Parents and teachers, wearing red in support of the Arts Academy at Bauer Speck, blotted tears from their eyes as administrators discussed the looming possibility of closing the elementary school to save an estimated $850,000 a year.

Paso community members had a lot of questions for the board that night, but one came up over and over again: Why do students, teachers, and staff always have to pay for administrators’ mistakes?

“I’m having a really hard time standing in front of you not being extremely mad,” said Jeannine Manninger, president of the Paso Robles chapter of the California School Employees Association, which represents the district’s classified employees.

Manninger said at the meeting that she meets with administrators on a consistent basis, and while she understands the gravity of the current financial crisis, she said it’s always classified employees and teachers who are asked to make sacrifices.

“Not once has the administration been asked to cut salaries or freeze anything,” she said. “Let’s back off of classified a bit. We can’t take any more.”

Her comments, like so many others, were met with raucous applause, but they didn’t stop the board from approving major cuts. After hours of emotional public comment and presentations, the board approved resolutions allowing district staff to lay off an elementary school music teacher,

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THE CHOPPING BLOCK Paso community members, students, and teachers attended a board meeting on March 10 to protest millions of dollars’ worth of cuts to faculty, staff, and classes in the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District.

a high school multimedia teacher, and four classified staff members, while also voting to axe nine currently unfilled classified positions for the 2020-21 school year.

The district is also considering cutting classes and extracurriculars at all grade levels throughout the district, including physical education, art, drama, and journalism classes.

Some sports at the elementary school level could be cut, and the high school French program could be eliminated entirely. The classes, according to the district, are those with the lowest enrollment.

The Paso Robles school district has been grappling with a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall for nearly two years now, an issue sparked by apparent overspending and compounded by its lack of adequate reserve funds, declining enrollment and average daily attendance, decreases in state funding, and increases in pension and insurance costs.

The district’s most recent financial issues started in June 2018, when a budget report revealed that the district’s reserve funds were rapidly declining due to significant overspending.

After pulling itself out of another financial crisis in 2011, the district’s goal had been to keep its reserves at the equivalent of 10 percent of its overall budget—well above the minimum of 3 percent required by the California Department of Education—in case of any future problems.

At the beginning of 2018, the reserve had dropped from 9 percent to 6 percent, and by June of that year, the district estimated that it would soon drop to 3.1 percent. By September 2018, the district reported that the reserve had dropped to less than 1 percent. The district blamed the issue on its inability to find a permanent chief of business and increased spending on special education, though several community members at the March 10 board meeting insinuated that the district’s last administration grossly misused funds.

In October 2018, the district started working with the SLO County Office of Education in an effort to get its finances back on track, and in December 2018, administrators announced that with the reserve far below the amount required by the state, nearly $3 million worth of cuts would need to be made in order to rebuild.

The district’s reserve currently sits at about 2.8 percent. Despite the board of trustees’ approval of $2.1 million in cuts from the 2019-20 budget in February 2019, and another $1.1 million in December 2019, the district will need to cut an additional $1.3 million from the 2020-21 school year’s budget to avoid deficit spending.

Part of that, according to Chief Business Officer Brad Pawlowski, is because of an unexpected 20 percent increase in the district’s insurance premium. Paso Robles Joint Unified, he said, is also struggling with a statewide enrollment decline, low rates of average daily attendance, and a cost of living adjustment decline.

Everyone can agree, Pawlowski said, that California’s education funding model needs to change.

“We hope that will happen,” Pawlowski said at the March 10 meeting. “But hope is not a strategy.

We have to plan as if it’s not going to change.”

That means cutting ongoing expenditures, he said, like the upkeep of Bauer Speck Elementary School.

Though nothing is official, the board directed staff on March 10 to further investigate the potential closure of Bauer Speck and the dissemination of its teachers and roughly 470 students to other district school sites, despite pleas from Bauer Speck parents and teachers.

Paso Robles resident Kellymarie Otto said the transition would be especially challenging for the school’s high number of special needs students, including her first grader. She suggested the board consider other cost-saving measures, several of which Bauer Speck employees included in a packet that was given to trustees.

“Do you want to be the district that fails,” Otto said, “or the district that overcomes?”

Board members, who largely blamed state politics for Paso’s financial crisis, said they have no choice but to at least consider the closure.

“Unfortunately all of you, virtually all of you, are here because you want to defend something that’s important to you,” Superintendent Curt Dubost said at the meeting. “We can’t do it all. We’re going to have to make some difficult decisions.” Δ —Kasey Bubnash NEWS continued page 6

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Morro Bay secures $62 million and protects frogs

The city of Morro Bay locked down a $62 million federal loan with a .83 percent interest rate for its water reclamation facility on March 10. The funds come after the city received results from the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife’s review of the future facility and its potential impacts on the California red-legged frog.

In order to pay for the $126 million water facility—which includes construction of a new 1-million-gallonper-day advanced treatment facility, two new lift stations, an approximately $3.5 million pipeline alignment, and wells to inject the purified water into the groundwater aquifer—Morro Bay has been working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program to secure a low-interest loan since 2017.

In 2017, the project was chosen for funding out of 12 nationwide applicants.

Morro Bay City Manager Scott Collins told New Times that part of the loan application process included having the EPA and other federal agencies, such as Fish and Wildlife, review the overall water reclamation facility project and environmental impact review (EIR)— that were certified in 2018. The agency’s review started in June 2019 and the city received the results right before the Feb. 25 Morro Bay City Council meeting.

Last year, Fish and Wildlife sent the EPA a letter stating that it didn’t agree with the EPA’s determination that the project “may affect, but not likely to adversely impact,” the California redlegged frog and its critical habitat.

Collins said the agency’s call for additional review and consultation on the potential impact to the species wasn’t due to a frog sighting. According to city officials, there hasn’t been a red-legged frog occurrence documented within a square mile of the South Bay Boulevard site since 1996. “[Fish and Wildlife] said we need to pay closer attention to the sort of migratory patterns of frogs and make sure that there isn’t any prohibitions for them to make their journey along the path,” he said. “It’s not necessarily that all of a sudden the project is a habitat where the frogs are living but it could be a future place of their travel.”

Now that Fish and Wildlife’s review is over, Collins said, its biological opinion states that there are precautions the city can take to minimize potential “take” of the species. “Take,” according to the federal Endangered Species Act, means to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct.

“So we have to have biological monitors out there throughout construction, conduct surveys prior to construction, and then put in exclusion barriers so that it would be hard for frogs to get onto the site and get trapped. That’s the key: [the agencies] don’t want the frogs to get trapped in there and then not be able

to continue their journey to wherever they’re headed,” the city manager said.

Within the next few months, city staff will take a detailed look into the mitigation measures it must take and how much that will cost.

Now that Morro Bay complied with the additional review of the project, the city successfully secured up to $62 million in low-interest funding from the WIFIA program. About 55 percent of the total funds will be allocated to the water system portion of the program, and 45 percent of the funding will go to the wastewater portion of the program. The loan is ultimately expected to save Morro Bay ratepayers $29 million over the life of the project.

“When we did our rate study in 2018, we projected the WIFIA loan would be at 3.25 percent interest, so now it means that on average our annual debt payment to the federal government will be anywhere from $800,000 to $900,000 less per year,” Collins said. “I’m not an expert by any stretch, but I believe the coronavirus and recent oil price drops have roiled the stock market, and in response the federal government’s response is to lower interest rates.”

—Karen Garcia

Hill overtakes Korsgaden—all three incumbent supervisors poised for re-election More than 104,000 San Luis Obispo County ballots have been counted in the

Super Tuesday, March 3, election, and the winners of the local primary races are close to official.

John Peschong, Debbie Arnold, and Adam Hill—the 1st District, 5th District, and 3rd District incumbents on the SLO County Board of Supervisors, respectively—are all poised to win reelection.

In the ballot counting that occurred since the primary election day, Hill surged ahead of challenger Stacy Korsgaden, who had jumped out to an early 304 vote lead. Now, with just 817 ballots left to count in the district as of press time, Hill leads by 528 votes, putting the three-term incumbent on pace for another victory. In order to close the gap, Korsgaden would have to win more than 80 percent of the remaining ballots.

In North County, Peschong and Arnold have secured victories over their respective challengers, Stephanie Shakofsky and Ellen Beraud. Both incumbent candidates are comfortably ahead—with Peschong up 32 percentage points and Arnold up 8 percentage points as of press time.

It’s a disappointing result for Beraud, a former mayor of Atascadero, whose campaign fundraising outpaced all five other county supervisor candidates for much of the election cycle.

Local progressives had pinned their hopes on Beraud to flip SLO County’s conservative-led board into a liberal-led board.

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has been an honor to have your support over the past 11 months,” Beraud told supporters in a Facebook post on March 8. “Thank you ... for putting your trust in our campaign to bring good governance and a brighter future to SLO County.”

Other items on the March 3 ballot are also nearing their official outcomes.

A special tax measure in Oceano that would have funded its share of fire services from the Five Cities Fire Authority fell just short of two-thirds majority support. While post election day support for the measure increased the overall tally from 63 percent to 66 percent “yes,” only 74 ballots remain to be counted. The measure would need nearly every remaining ballot to be in its favor in order to cross the two-thirds threshold.

In state and national races, SLO County backed incumbent Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) over challengers Andy Caldwell and Kenneth Young, with 53 percent of the vote.

Carbajal and Caldwell—the Republican founder of the Coalition of Labor, Agriculture, and Business (COLAB) and a local radio host—will face off in the November election.

SLO County voters supported incumbent 35th District Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham over his Democratic challenger Dawn Addis—a Morro Bay City Council member—57 percent to 43 percent. That race will continue on to the November election.

Vicki Nohrden won the SLO County vote in a crowded primary to replace outgoing 17th District state Sen. Bill Monning. Nohrden, a Republican, earned 45 percent support, with Democrat John Laird finishing second at 35 percent.

Nohrden and Laird will compete for the seat in November.

In the Democratic presidential primary race, SLO County backed Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) with 30 percent of the vote. Close behind him was former Vice President Joe Biden (27 percent), followed by Elizabeth Warren (16 percent), and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (11 percent). The results in SLO County mirrored those in California more broadly.

Local Republicans backed President Trump’s re-election in a 93 percent vote.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld and former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh each received 2 percent support in SLO County.

As of March 11, there were 4,784 ballots still be counted countywide. While breaking a voter registration record, SLO County will about equal its 2016 primary turnout, which was 61 percent.

—Peter Johnson

Atascadero discusses mobile home rent stabilization In an effort to aid mobile home park residents who believe park owners are unfairly raising the rent, the Atascadero City Council will continue its ad hoc committee work with residents and owners.

During public comment on the issue at the March 10 City Council meeting, Kathy Choate, a longtime resident of a mobile home park in Atascadero, said that the park she lives in was owned by a couple for 29 years who “honored the spirit of the family park and who

VIEWER DISCRETION maintained our facilities and our reasonable cost of living.”

But about five years ago, she said, a corporation purchased the park and began increasing the cost of living while reducing the amenities provided to residents.

“Our park faces problems far beyond the issue of rent control; the lack of local regulations on this issue have created an environment ripe for exploitation of people who instead should be shielded from this type of predatory behavior,” Choate said.

According to the staff report, at the Sept. 24, 2019, meeting, City Council received testimony from several members of the public that requested the council consider a mobile home park rent stabilization ordinance. Mobile home park renters often own the mobile home but rent the land their home sits on.

In October 2019, the council elected not to adopt the ordinance but did appoint an ad hoc committee consisting of Mayor Pro Tem Charles Bourbeau and Councilmember Roberta Fonzi to meet with residents and owners.

Since then, the committee learned that almost all of the complaints came from residents of the Rancho Del Bordo mobile home park.

Bourbeau said the residents have long-term leases that include a provision limiting rent increases to changes in the consumer price index (CPI) and, under state law, long-term leases are exempt from rent control provisions.

The complaints from Rancho Del Bordo residents, he said, centered on the fact that when a home gets vacated, the new owner is subject to a new lease at an increased rate set by the park owner.

According to the staff report, park residents stated that monthly space rents for new owners have been raised considerably higher than the CPI in the last few years. Space rent went from $700 to anywhere between $850 and $925, “with the park ownership purportedly planning to raise rents for new owners to $1,000 in 2020.”

“The park owner at Rancho Del Bordo indicated that they did not exercise passthrough provisions that would allow rent increases greater than CPI for major capital expenditures, and they felt it was more beneficial for park residents to raise rents on new owners in the park, rather than on all residents,” the report stated.

The second major complaint from residents was that they felt the owners frequently disapproved of prospective buyers and new tenants.

“Rancho Del Bordo requires a substantially higher standard of income than some of the other parks. Our discussion with the park owners tended to confirm this,” Bourbeau said.

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Other park owners in the area, he said, typically require renters to make at least three times the monthly space rent in income—in some cases, three and a half—but Rancho Del Bordo requires four times the monthly space rent.

“Their premise is that the city should not interfere with what standard is utilized to approve a resident in a park unless the city was willing to guarantee the payment of the rent. In other words, they don’t think we should adopt a standard which forces them to rent to certain individuals, then if they fail to pay that, the park owners are left with an unpaid rent situation,” Bourbeau said.

The City Council unanimously voted to continue with its already formed committee to bring together mobile home park owners and their representatives along with resident representatives to develop a mutually agreeable action plan—whether that be through a dispute resolution process or a model lease. That information will be brought back to the council at the May 12 meeting.

—Karen Garcia

SLO County to explore $80 million in bonds for housing, libraries Facing shortfalls in funding for both affordable housing and public libraries, San Luis Obispo County will engage with the public in the coming months to gauge its support for two potential bond measures.

SLO County supervisors voted unanimously on March 10 to move ahead with “education and outreach” for the measures, which together could generate $80 million toward building affordable housing and maintaining and improving public libraries across the county.

“Both of these proposals need to go to the next stage,” said 2nd District Supervisor Bruce Gibson. “I know housing and libraries are important to our communities.”

A $40 million bond for affordable housing was one of several recommendations made to the board in 2018 by a local housing coalition, which identified a $2 million to $4 million per year gap in funding to meet affordable housing needs. Currently, the county is far short of hitting its affordable housing

targets, and it’s listed as one of the most unaffordable housing markets in the U.S. Speaking in support of the bond and other funding solutions to housing, 3rd District Supervisor Adam Hill said “the future of our economy will be at stake.”

“Every single survey from all of our employers ... the same issue has been identified, and that is the cost of housing,” Hill said.

The library bond—also proposed at $40 million with a 20-year debt period— would create funds for the “numerous non-operational maintenance and facility improvements costs” at the county’s 14 library branches.

A bond could “assist with the expansion of and/or modernization of library buildings, community rooms, installation of HVAC systems, and redesigned outdoor areas,” a SLO County staff report read.

Melinda Reed, president of the Templeton Community Library Association, spoke in favor of the measure.

While Templeton does not have a library branch, the community has worked for years to raise money to build one.

“Our donors are tired of waiting,” she told the supervisors. “They would like to see the county support us. ... We think the county needs to provide measures to sustain library services throughout the county and to help us build a library.”

In preparation for the March 10 meeting, the county conducted a voter survey to gauge public sentiment on the two measures. Among 952 likely voters, 58 percent expressed support for the housing bond, while 50 percent signaled support for the libraries bond.

Both measures, though, need a twothirds majority vote to pass.

While the survey results concerned some supervisors, 1st District Supervisor John Peschong noted that public opinion can change over the course of an election season.

“I’ve worked on a number of ballot initiatives, and they never start at 80 percent and go down, they start at 55 percent and go up,” said Peschong, a career political campaign strategist. “It’s all about the campaigns that are going to be run.”

The board must decide before June 16 whether to put the measures up to a vote on the November ballot. Δ —Peter Johnson

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A state initiative to aid the homeless made two state-owned properties available for use in SLO County

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n his State of the State address on Feb. 19, Gov. Gavin Newsom focused on the statewide homeless issue and his initiatives to help.

In his address, Newsom also stated that 1.6 million fewer Californians are living in poverty today than in 2011—which he said was a full quarter of the nation’s decrease. While there has been progress in the state’s economy and employment opportunities, the governor admitted that there is still a prominent issue surrounding homelessness.

“Every day, the California dream is dimmed by the wrenching reality of families, children, and seniors living unfed on a concrete bed,” Newsom said.

“As Californians, we pride ourselves on our unwavering sense of compassion and justice for mankind—but there’s nothing compassionate about allowing fellow Californians to live on the streets, huddled in cars, or makeshift encampments.”

In an effort to address all factors that lead to homelessness—including mental and physical health, a shortage of homeless shelters, and housing affordability—the governor signed Executive Order N-23-20. As part of the executive order, the Newsom administration made 286 state properties—vacant lots, fairgrounds, armories, and other state buildings— available to be used by local governments for homeless solutions for $1.

Two are in San Luis Obispo County— the Atascadero National Guard Armory and a property in Paso Robles located at 4545 Airport Road—and it’s unlikely that either North County city will take Newsom up on his offer.

There are currently two shelters in Atascadero—El Camino Homeless Organization (ECHO), which is a program-based shelter, and Transitional Food and Shelter, an organization that oversees temporary housing and respective services and a temporary shelter hosted by a partnering facility.

At the tail end of 2018, the city of Atascadero considered a proposal by Transitional Food and Shelter to use the Atascadero National Guard Armory as a temporary overnight warming shelter for four months. If the city entered into an agreement with the nonprofit, the proposal stated that HOMELESS SERVICES The city of Paso Robles is breaking ground Step Homeless Services Center, scheduled to open in June 2021. the city would take care of the costs located within the city. of minor repairs “Both shelters are doing amazing work within the facility, building maintenance, here in the city of Atascadero, providing administrative costs, the cost for national professional-level services for the guardsman (required for the security of homeless while garnering the support of military equipment), a security guard, the community,” she said. janitorial service, and transportation for Banish said the city knows that “the homeless individuals. number of homeless shelters here in The city denied the proposal due to North County is a challenge and the city a lack of funding and information as strongly supports the new 35-bed shelter well as the timeline between learning in Paso Robles.” about the proposal and entering into an North of Atascadero, Paso Robles is agreement being too short. Now that working to provide more than homeless the state has made the armory available services in the area. to the city at an economical cost, The city is slated to open its first Atascadero has the opportunity to again homeless shelter, First Step Homeless consider using the space.

Services Center, in June 2021. The future Terrie Banish, Atascadero’s deputy city facility located at 3100 Sulphur Springs manager, told New Times that the city Road will have 36 beds for individual has no plans to explore adding a third and family sleeping areas, a dining room shelter at the armory. and prep kitchen, restrooms and shower “The armory’s proximity to the Fine facilities, a gathering area, laundry room, Arts Academy, Atascadero Middle and staff offices.

School, the Colony Park Community At the beginning of the year, the Center, Colony Park, and the all-inclusive city entered into an agreement with playground present some challenges that ECHO, handing over the management would have to be examined and thought responsibilities of the facility to the through before considering a no-barrier organization. shelter at the armory location,” she said.

Julie Dahlen, director of the Paso Robles The community, Banish said, strongly supports the two current shelters that are Community Services Department, told

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Through the order, she said, the city could lease the property only as a “shortterm emergency shelter” for people experiencing homelessness. “‘Short-term’ has not been defined, but as indicated in discussions with the state, it would appear to be no longer than two to three years,” Dahlen said. “And even then, only a portion could be usable for a shelter, due to the proximity to the Paso Robles Airport.”

Its being close to the airport wouldn’t allow the city to use any of the existing dormitories on the site. If the city were to use the site, it would have to construct a new shelter or use tents or some other type of shelter.

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s the number of confirmed cases That would also significantly increase of the coronavirus (COVID-19) testing capacity.” climbs to above 150 in California, In recent days, public health officials San Luis Obispo County health officials have been in hourly communication warn that it’s likely only a matter of time with local physicians and hospitals, until SLO County joins the growing list of discussing various cases that could jurisdictions impacted by the novel virus. require coronavirus testing. Because “It’s a near certainty we’ll have labit’s also standard flu season, Borenstein confirmed cases in the near term,” said said that’s been a challenging landscape Penny Borenstein, SLO County’s public to navigate. health officer, on March 9.

The CDC sets specific criteria that a The SLO County Public Health patient must meet before they are tested.

Department has begun testing sick For weeks, the CDC required that a individuals who meet the federal criteria patient must have either recently traveled for COVID-19 testing. Borenstein to a country where the virus exists or declined to share on March 9 how many had known contact with someone who locals have been tested. tested positive for coronavirus. Those “We are doing some testing. We’ve parameters have since loosened up— decided we’re not going to report [to the criteria now also allows testing for the media] how many,” she said. “We’ve someone “with a significant illness for committed to let the public know if and whom other diagnoses have been ruled when we get our first case.”

On March 6, SLO County Public Health received its first COVID-19 testing kit from the —Penny Borenstein, SLO public health officer U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), so county officials are able to test out,” Borenstein said. patients locally and receive results back SLO County is additionally monitoring within 24 hours. people who are re-entering the area after The county has received just one having traveled internationally. Travelers testing kit from the CDC, which can returning to the U.S. from China or Iran accommodate 300 to 350 unique tests. are required to be screened at major ports Each patient requires at least two tests, of entry, including SFO and LAX airports. so that means the county has the capacity If someone is exhibiting coronavirus to test about 150 people. symptoms, they are not allowed to Borenstein said she believes that more proceed to their final destination. If kits will be made available as distribution they aren’t showing symptoms, they ramps up. can return, but their local public health “My understanding is the supply department is notified, and that traveler chain of test kits has completely opened,” is then monitored locally for 14 days.

Borenstein said. “We are told that private Borenstein said that travelers from labs are going to begin testing this week. other high-risk countries, like Italy, are also monitored locally “if we learn of them through other means.”

Stay informed SLO County confirmed to The For local updates and official recommendations Tribune on March 5 that it had at about the coronavirus (COVID-19), visit readySLO.org. least one instance of a negative test for coronavirus. Borenstein told New Times

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that that individual had self-reported to health officials after coming into contact with travelers from an area with widespread transmission of the virus. Out of an abundance of caution, the county tested that individual.

“We went ahead and did testing even though [due to] the timing and nature, we had a low suspicion” of a positive test, she said.

Since its initial outbreak in the Wuhan, Hubei province of China, the coronavirus has spread to 121 countries with more than 121,000 reported cases and 4,000 deaths.

The U.S. has reported more than 1000 cases and 31 deaths as of March 11.

While, as of press time, there were no confirmed COVID-19 cases in SLO, Monterey, or Santa Barbara counties, Borenstein said it’s “not unreasonable” to think that the virus is already on the Central Coast.

People experiencing flulike symptoms— fever, cough, and shortness of breath— should stay home to recover. If symptoms are severe, they should call their health care provider to consult before going into a hospital or clinic. Local hospitals are “experiencing high volumes of patients currently” due to flu season and COVID-19 fears, according to the county, and the “patient surge impedes” hospitals’ capacity to provide urgent care.

Borenstein said average residents should take precautionary measures to prevent germ-spreading—like washing hands frequently, avoiding touching eyes, nose, or mouth, and avoiding contact with people who are sick.

Higher risk individuals—people over age 50 and people with pre-existing health issues—should “take an extra measure of care” in terms of social distancing and reaching out to a doctor early if symptoms develop.

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SOLD OUT Emergency supplies like toilet paper are stripped off many local store shelves, like Target’s in San Luis Obispo, as locals prepare for the novel coronavirus.

The county has yet to recommend any school closures, event cancellations, or other major disruptions to day-to-day life, but Borenstein said employers should be “thinking about plans that, should the situation get dramatically worse, help employees change their work setting.”

With local residents clearing out grocery and bulk-goods store shelves of emergency and cleaning supplies like bottled water, hand sanitizer, sanitizing wipes, rubbing alcohol, and toilet paper, Borenstein asked community members to take a “measured approach” to preparedness.

“We don’t see a need to have people have two weeks of supplies and buy out the whole community supply,” she said.

“Reasonable amounts of that type of preparedness and preventative supply are [advised], but we don’t at this time envision a complete shutdown of society as we know it.” ∆ Assistant Editor Peter Johnson can be reached at pjohnson@newtimesslo.com.

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he have any theories on why the prequels seemed to rankle some viewers?

“I can’t really,” he said. “The feeling of the prequels is so different from IV, V, and VI. People fall on both sides of it. Maybe younger generations were easier with [the prequel trilogy] being all digital, but a lot of people felt like things had been lost.

You know there are no sets, no locations really. That makes a huge difference. I don’t really know what to say about it anymore because I used to have strong feelings and I don’t anymore.

“Life is long, and George [Lucas] created this amazing thing, and it took him into many places, and then he gave it up and other people took it to places,” he continued. “It’s complicated and incredible how central those movies are, all of them, to a certain age of people and a certain number of people. When you make nine of them, some people are going to like some more than others.”

While The Force Awakens did well at the box office, Kasdan’s Solo—A Star Wars Story didn’t gain the sort of box office traction normally associated with the popular franchise. Does he have any idea why?

“Yeah, I know exactly why,” he asserted.

“First of all, there was a lot of controversy about The Last Jedi. It was still in theaters, and [Walt Disney Company CEO] Bob Iger said this in public, he made a big mistake forcing Solo out in May. They thought they were like Marvel movies, but they’re not, so you had a movie that was very controversial still in theaters and then here comes another Star Wars movie, and it opened two weeks after The Avengers: Infinity War and one week after Deadpool 2. It should never have been released then, and Bob Iger said as much.

“If it had come out at Christmas, it would have had an entirely different reception. I’m just as proud of that movie as any of mine and in some ways it’s my favorite, and not just because I wrote it with my son [Jonathan Kasdan], but I love so many things in it,” Kasdan said.

In addition to his brother Mark, both his sons, Jonathan and Jake, have gone into the movie business, and he frequently collaborates with his wife, Meg. Is this something he encouraged or did it just happen?

“I guess I’ve encouraged it in the sense that I’ve always depended on all those people for their opinions, and I like writing with other people, and these are my favorite people,” he said. “I’ve never collaborated [writing] with Jake, though he’s been in a couple of my movies, but I’ve been very supportive of his career, and I

need it, or sometimes the scene didn’t work been so influenced by John Ford and awrence Kasdan is a “call out right, but it’s less that than the other me Larry” kind of guy— Howard Hawks and Anthony Mann—I thing, which is, ‘How can you make the unassuming, down-to-earth, just loved those movies. I would watch movie move as fast as possible or the way and wholly unpretentious.

Westerns over and over. it should move.’ That sometimes means, as It definitely doesn’t feel like “So given carte blanche, I got together they say, ‘killing your babies.’” you’re talking to a titan of Hollywood with my brother and we continued that A couple of scenes written for Raiders when you speak with him, and when he play we started when we were kids, and it of the Lost Ark were cut but ended up in a begins to explain in childlike wonder the was really great fun.” he continued. “We subsequent Indiana Jones film. effect film had on him as a kid, it quickly set out to do everything we would enjoy becomes clear why he’s PHOTO COURTESY OF COLUMBIA PICTURES the talent behind some of Hollywood’s most entertaining films. He wants his films to have the same effect on you that his favorite films had on him.

“I love all kinds of movies,” he said during a recent phone call. “When I fell in love with the movies, it was everything. It was foreign films, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, it was [Japanese director Akira] Kurosawa—who is the greatest director who ever lived—it was Lawrence of Arabia.

I just wanted to try everything. If [I’m writing or directing] a genre picture then, yes, I try to put my kind of story within that vessel.”

He’s certainly tried his hand at a lot of 30-SOMETHINGS A group of former college friends—(left to right) Sam (Tom Berenger), Michael (Jeff genre pictures. From Goldblum), Harold (Kevin Kline), and Nick (William Hurt)—gather after a funeral of another friend in the wonderful the sci-fi of Star Wars ensemble dramedy The Big Chill, screening on March 21, at 1 p.m. in the Downtown Cinemas. to the Westerns of “That’s a less typical situation for me Silverado and Wyatt Earp, from the in a Western, and that’s sort of how it because I wrote the sequences and when action of Raiders of the Lost Ark to the came out. We had a great cast, and people we went to make Raiders, they were too poignancy of Mumford, from the film noir really liked the movie. It just moves expensive for the first Raiders, which was of Body Heat to the drama of The Big along, and it’s really fun.”

Chill and Grand Canyon, from the comedy a relatively cheap movie. Then when it ••• was a big hit, and Steven [Spielberg] and of Continental Divide to the horror of After his two Star Wars movies, George [Lucas] decided they’d take the Dreamcatcher—he’s tried it all.

Kasdan made it pretty clear he was done two sequences from Raiders and put them with the franchise, and indeed, he had Most recently, he wrote Star Wars: in Temple of Doom.”

Episode VII—The Force Awakens and nothing to do with the prequel trilogy, After the success of Star Wars, Raiders, Solo—A Star Wars Story. He’s the perfect episodes I, II, and III, but he did come and the first film he directed—the steamy candidate for the San Luis Obispo back onboard for episode VII and the International Film Festival’s most coveted neo-noir thriller Body Heat—Kasdan stand-alone Han Solo origin story. Did followed up with The Big Chill, prize, The King Vidor Award, which PHOTO COURTESY OF LUCASFILM which was a huge hit and its Kasdan will collect on Saturday, March soundtrack was a phenomenon.

21, in a special ceremony at the historic There were Big Chill dance Fremont Theater. nights at dance clubs ••• nationwide. Did he see it coming Like any writer, he has to deal with some or was he surprised by the film’s of his work falling unceremoniously to the success? cutting room floor. How does he deal with it?

“First of all, you’re always a “That’s the heart of movie making, and little surprised, usually very I didn’t at first know that, but the trick surprised by a film’s success,” is that movies are remade in the editing Kasdan said. room,” he explained. “You fall in love with That success, however, led what you’ve written, then if you’re lucky to another big hit—this one you get to go out and shoot it the way you a Western. In Silverado, he wrote it, and then sometimes when you’re seemed to reinvent the genre, putting the movie together you think, to take it beyond its typical ‘I don’t need that scene. It’s redundant tropes. because the actor just covered all that “After The Big Chill was a material with one look.’ The thing you’re success, I was able to pretty trying to do in a movie, for me, is don’t much make any movie I do anything twice. The audience is so wanted, and I wanted to do smart and so much ahead of you, and if you hit something twice just to, you know, a Western. I had grown up make something clear, you’re telling them playing cowboys with my older brother, Mark, in West something they already know.

HELP YOU, HE WILL Yoda (voiced by Frank Oz) shows Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) the ways of Virginia, and he was already “I’ve probably cut more scenes for that writing screenplays, and I said, The Force to prepare him for his showdown with Darth Vader, in Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire reason than any other,” he continued. “I’ve Strikes Back, screening on March 21, at 9 p.m. in the Fremont Theater. overwritten it or we’ve shot it and we didn’t ‘Let’s do this together.’ We had 14 • New Times • March 12 - March 19, 2020 • www.newtimesslo.com

PHOTO COURTESY OF LAWRENCE KASDAN

TRIPLE THREAT Writer-director-producer Lawrence Kasdan will be presented with the King Vidor Award, the SLO International Film Festival’s 26th annual Career Achievement Award, in a special program beginning at 7 p.m. in the Fremont Theater on March 21.

produced one of his movies, but it’s been a very natural organic kind of thing to work with the people I love and to be able to.

“Not many people get that opportunity.”

••• Kasdan’s directed 11 feature films and worked with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, from Kevin Costner to William Hurt to Geena Davis to Kevin Cline. Does he have any techniques for getting what he needs from them?

“I wanted to be a director starting when I was 14, and the only way I could see to get in was to write my way in,” Kasdan recalled. “I came from a writing family, and I started writing when I was in high school. One of the things that attracted me to movies were actors. At one time I wanted to be an actor, and I tried doing it and I was just god-awful.

Everybody said, ‘Forget it,’ and I did forget it but then I went on to what was probably my true correct work.

“I was attracted to every aspect of directing, much more than I was to writing. Going out there into the world and shooting things, and I loved writing characters that I thought were interesting, and I loved the idea that I could work with actors that I admired, who seemed to me like great athletes— you can meet them and you still don’t understand: How do they do that?” he continued. “When you’re the director, you get to use all that and it’s truly like having enormous power, a very powerful machine or a great car that you get to drive. These actors, they do something that other people can’t do, and it certainly was something I couldn’t do.

“That was a big attraction for me about directing, which I was really focused on from the beginning.”

has been so influenced by these images and these stories that I’ve seen on screen.

“When I was 10 years old, I saw The Magnificent Seven. I didn’t know it was based on one of the greatest films ever made [Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai, 1954], I just knew it was a Western. I loved the heroism of those guys, I loved the camaraderie, I loved that fact that there were all kinds of mixed characters—they weren’t just good guys; they were outlaws who came together to do something unexpectedly good,” he continued. “That kind of thing influences me every day of my life. When I was able to see The Seven Samurai when I got to college, which is the greatest film ever made if it isn’t [David Lean’s] Lawrence of Arabia [1962], you think, ‘Oh my God, what you can do in any form with character, and fun, and excitement, and dynamism.’

“Those things are all in movies and they influence you just like if you have a good meal or you worked out for a year. It changes your life,” he said.

Kasdan took a long break between writing and directing the Stephen King story Dreamcatcher (2003) and his film Darling Companion (2012). Why the long break?

“Well, Dreamcatcher was a terrible flop, and there was a point at which I thought, ‘This is really painful.’ You know you work on these things for two years and they can be over. Nowadays they call you on Friday afternoon and say, ‘Oh, the New York matinees aren’t that good.’ It’s a rough kind of life, and I think I needed a break. It was very hard. You know, I had other failures, but I felt like I shouldn’t have made that movie, and when it flops you think, ‘Why did I do that?’

“I never felt that about another movie.

Even movies that flopped, I always had an incredible time and I knew why I was doing them. With Dreamcatcher, it wasn’t so clear.”

According to IMDb, Kasdan’s next film is November Road.

“I’m about to write the script,” he explained. “It’s based on a wonderful book by Lou Berney, and he’s a very good writer, and it’s two things at once: It takes place around the time of the Kennedy assassination, and it’s really a very good thriller and an enormously romantic story. It’s a love story.”

Kasdan’s also been nominated for four Academy Awards. Considering his accomplishments, it seems impossible he hasn’t won one. Does that bother him?

“No, not at all,” he said. “When you’ve

See Lawrence Kasdan’s films On Saturday, March 21, The Big Chill (1983) screens at Downtown Cinemas at 1:15 p.m. It’s the story of seven college friends who rent a South Carolina house as they gather after a funeral of another friend. It was nominated for three Academy Awards and two Golden Globes.

That evening in the Fremont Theater, Lawrence Kasdan will be presented the King Vidor Award, the SLO International Film Festival’s 26th annual Career Achievement Award, in a special program that begins at 7 p.m. Kasdan’s film Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back (1980), screens at 9 p.m. After the Death Star is destroyed, Darth Vader relentlessly pursues young Luke Skywalker, but with Yoda’s help, Luke will learn the ways of The Force. It won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and a Special Achievement Award for visual effects.

Also at 9 p.m. is an Awards Night After-Party in the SLO Museum of Art, where The Tipsy Gypsies will perform and food and drink will be served.

You can also see Last Week at Ed’s, a 40-minute documentary co-directed by Lawrence and Meg Kasdan during the following times: Thursday, March 19 (5 p.m., with Mentors: Tony & Santi) in the Fremont Theater; Friday, March 20 (10 a.m., with Mentors: Tony & Santi) in the Palm Theatre; and Saturday, March 21 (1 p.m. with Shorts Program 4) in the Palm Theatre. Find ticket information for all events at slofilmfest.org.

wanted to do this your whole life and you wind up going to the Academy Awards repeatedly, you think, ‘This is pretty good,’ you know? You don’t have to win it.”

After the Force Awakens and Solo, Kasdan and his wife managed to fit in making a 40-minute documentary, Last Week at Ed’s, which will screen three times during the film festival.

“Meg and I directed it together,” he explained. “It’s about a little restaurant we used to go to every week.”

It’s a terrific film but also a tragedy.

Ed’s Coffee Shop in West Hollywood was like a family, and the Kasdans’ film chronicles its death. It’s unexpectedly poignant and heartbreaking.

“I’m very delighted to come to this film festival,” Kasdan said. “I had no idea I would be given this award. We just wanted to show our movie, you know?

We’ve taken it to a few festivals. The first one we went to was in Austin, and it won the audience award. We were shocked because this was just a labor of love—a little movie about something we cared about.”

How’s that for a film love affair? ∆

Kasdan is also well known for his amazing dialogue. How does he do it? Is it wholly invented? Does he pick up things from listening to people? How does he find those naturalistic notes?

“It’s a big mix,” he admitted. “I love the way people talk and I love to laugh, and even in my most dramatic movies I try for there to be a strong strain of humor.

That’s one aspect of it that always came pretty easy to me. When I started writing at the University of Michigan, I was writing short stories and theater, and theater is all dialogue, and it just Contact Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey came to me. at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.

“I went to PHOTO COURTESY OF KASDAN FILMS Michigan to study with one particular teacher there who taught Arthur Miller,” he continued.

“Dialogue was part of it that came most fluidly for me. The construction of the story and everything was harder to work with.”

Does Kasdan believe that films have an impact beyond entertainment, not necessarily changing the world, but changing a person?

“Absolutely 100 percent!” he gushed.

“I can only go from my experience, but END OF AN ERA Lawrence and Meg Kasdan’s 40-minute documentary, Last Week at Ed’s, pays tribute to my life—and I don’t the now-shuttered Ed’s Coffee Shop, a West Hollywood landmark that became a family to its customers, which mean having a included the Kasdans. It screens on March 19 at the Fremont Theater; and March 20 and 21 at the Palm Theatre. career—but my life

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News

BY KASEY BUBNASH

PHOTO COURTESY OF KARI PILOLLA

Recharging with research

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omen are often left out of clinical given a powdered strawberry supplement to trials and studies in fields from mix into a drink each day for six weeks, and medicine to city planning. The then they’re given a different supplement result is a world with buildings, cars, and for the next six weeks. One powder contains medical procedures built with men in real strawberry compounds, Pilolla said, mind, making it generally less convienent while the other is a placebo. for women to function in daily life.

Researchers, including both staff and One big reason for this, according to roughly 20 Cal Poly students so far, Kari Pilolla, an assistant professor track participants for nearly 5 months, in Cal Poly’s Food Science and and are involved in planning, budgeting, Nutrition Department, is that women’s marketing, methods, testing—basically menstrual cycles add a somewhat every piece of what it takes to run a unpredictable hormonal variable to research project, Pilolla said. consider when conducting a study, “These women who participate are widening the margin of error and making impacting so many students,” she said. reliable data more difficult to gather.

Once they’ve made it through the “It’s so much easier to work with men,” program, participants are given a Pilolla told New Times. “So that’s why I’m comprehensive analysis of the study’s particularly interested in women. There’s impacts on their health, which Pilolla said not enough research into women.” could be incredibly helpful to their own Little by little, Pilolla is working journey post-menopause. to change that. In partnership with As women transition into and through faculty and staff at Humboldt State menopause, their hormones change University, Pilolla is dramatically, and Pilolla helping to lead a study said that can often Recharge into the effects of regular lead to increased blood your health strawberry consumption pressure and cholesterol.

ReCHARGE with Strawberries on the health of Menopause tends to be a researchers are still looking for several postmenopausal women, confusing and turbulent postmenopausal women willing to primarily in the heart time even without the participate in this study. If you’d like to get and gut. heightened risk of serious involved, contact Kari Pilolla at kpilolla@ During the calpoly.edu or the program at recharge@ health ailments—an calpoly.edu. You can also call (805) 756ReCHARGE with experience that’s marred 1175 or visit secureforms.calpoly.edu/ Strawberries clinical by lacking information, recharge for more information. trial, participants are hot flashes, and

sometimes severe mood swings.

Strawberries contain compounds that Pilolla and her students think could lower cholesterol levels and improve gut health, both of which they think could work together to improve heart and liver health. Strawberries also just so happen to be one of the most commonly eaten berries in the U.S. and one of the most important crops on the Central Coast and in California.

Pilolla said that if she and her students can make even one small part of the transition through menopause easier, possibly through a fruit that most people love to eat, she’d be happy.

“We want to give them a better quality of life,” she said.

Research into the gut and its connections and impacts on the rest of the body is exploding right now, and nutrition in general is a field that’s constantly changing.

That’s partially why Cal Poly senior Karli McCarthy has always been drawn to applied nutrition, her major, and that’s why she wanted to get involved in this study.

She likes the hands-on nature of clinical research and how scientific studies broaden the world’s understanding of everything.

As an undergraduate student, McCarthy has played a key role in conducting the ReCHARGE with Strawberries study, and she plans to continue her work with the program as a grad student next year. She’s learned a lot through this work, she said, and she hopes to

Winning Images

HANDS-ON Cal Poly student Karli McCarthy works with a participant of the ReCHARGE with Strawberries clinical study, which is taking a close look at whether and how strawberries positively impact health in postmenopausal women.

use the study as her thesis project.

“It’s really rewarding,” she told New Times.

Fast fact • A local youth baseball club, the SLO Rangers, is working to raise money for a trip to Cooperstown Dreams Park in New York for one of the nation’s largest baseball tournaments. The Rangers teammates have been playing ball together since they were 7-year-olds, and in October 2019, the team was awarded its official bid to attend the Cooperstown tournament. To help the Rangers meet their $15,000 fundraising goal, visit the team’s GoFundMe page. ∆ Staff Writer Kasey Bubnash wrote this week’s Strokes and Plugs. Send tidbits to strokes@newtimesslo.com.

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BY DOROTHY SCHILTZ AND NANCY WELTS

We want you Serve your county by serving on the grand jury

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ould you be interested in making a valuable contribution to the county of San Luis Obispo?

Would you like to see firsthand the challenges our county faces and be involved in helping to find solutions? If the answer is yes, you should apply to become a member of the San Luis Obispo County civil grand jury.

The grand jury is an arm of the Superior Court, and its 19 members are all volunteers. The grand jury acts as the “watchdog” for all local government entities within the county. Its primary responsibility is to hold local government accountable through its investigations and reports.

As a grand jury member, you learn how your local government works by conducting investigations into various departments and functions of local government and having the opportunity to meet local government officials, while at the same time meeting new people and establishing new friendships.

Grand jurors operate under strict rules of confidentiality to protect their

privacy as well as that of any entity or person involved in an investigation. This confidentiality remains for life.

There are many benefits of serving on the grand jury: • Serve your community in a unique way.

• Learn firsthand how our county government agencies operate and the challenges they face.

• Meet and interact with key public officials, department heads, and staff in our county, cities, and community service districts.

• Inspect and see the inside of our prison (California Men’s Colony) and jail systems where you will gain valuable insight into these facilities and most likely form a different perspective on how they operate.

• Look at issues from both sides.

• Become a better informed resident.

• Meet and interact with people in the county from all walks of life.

• Make new friendships.

Serving on the grand jury is an experience of a lifetime, so if you are drawn to this exciting, rewarding, and

The grand jury acts as the ‘watchdog’ ... . Its primary responsibility is to hold local government accountable through its investigations and reports.

HODIN

Russell Hodin

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challenging opportunity and are 18 years or older, are a U.S. citizen, a resident of San Luis Obispo County for at least a year, can understand the English language, have the time to devote at least 20 hours a week for a year, and are computer literate, don’t wait, apply now.

Applying for the grand jury is easy. Go to: slo.courts.ca.gov/gi/jury-grandjury.htm and download the application. For more detailed information, you can call jury services at (805) 788-7061. The deadline for applications for the 2020-21 grand jury is Friday, April 17. ∆ Dorothy Schlitz served on the grand jury 2004 to 2005, and Nancy Welts served on the grand jury 2012 to 2013. Both are on the board of directors for the California Grand Juror’s Association, San Luis Obispo Chapter. Send comments through the editor at clanham@newtimesslo.com.

Letters Be vigilant, but don’t panic

I rarely agree with President Donald Trump, but what he has said about how the coronavirus compares to the flu has validity.

The statistics on the flu are staggering. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates this season there have been at least 15 million flu illnesses, 140,000 hospitalizations, and 8,200 deaths in the USA. Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 people annually.

By comparison, the incidence of and deaths from the coronavirus is very small.

So far, globally there have been 114,423

cases of the coronavirus resulting in 4,027 deaths. In the USA, as of March 10, there had been 708 cases and 27 deaths (worldometers.info/coronavirus). For now, there have been no confirmed cases in SLO County. Of course, the current low prevalence and death rate doesn’t predict what may happen in coming months.

I wonder if people were skeptical when the worldwide 1918 Spanish flu pandemic started and if that meant many didn’t heed health experts’ warnings. If so, hopefully that won’t happen this time. But based on where things now stand, I don’t understand the need to cancel events, close schools, give up vacations, etc., especially in parts of the country where the outbreak is so small. And I certainly can’t fathom the local run on toilet paper, masks, etc., as if a hurricane or tsunami were immanent.

So, for now, I think intelligent vigilance rather than panic would be the wiser way to handle this new challenge.

Judith Bernstein Arroyo Grande

Changes for a workingclass neighborhood I have lived for 84 years in the 1876 Pollard House, mentioned in your article “Building Up” (March 5). The 1874 Norcross House is across the street, and the 1878 Jack House and Garden down the block, with many more historic buildings.

North Higuera is a historic neighborhood that is mostly one-story houses and businesses, but it is also a neighborhood where ordinary, working-class people have lived and worked together for more than 150 years. We are all friends and take time to chat whenever we pass each other’s buildings. When needed, we help one

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another. We watch out for one another. We were never part of downtown.

Now the City Council and developers want to build 50-foot-high walls of luxury apartments and condominiums to cut our neighborhood into pieces; 545 Higuera-486 Marsh, which is proposed to go in next to me, is almost 300 feet long.

This is not affordable housing designed to be part of our neighborhood, but big hotel suites and vacation homes for wealthy people to look down on us from. All we ask is that the community design guidelines and environmental review—which are supposed to protect people from big boxes destroying a neighborhood—be applied to us as they are to wealthy areas.

Jean Martin San Luis Obispo

SLO needs affordable, smart housing

Peter Johnson did an excellent job of representing all sides in “Building Up” (March 5), but I want to clarify that this is not a case of preservation versus affordable housing. The North Higuera district—bounded by Marsh, Nipomo, Higuera, and Carmel streets—has been a mostly working-class mixeduse neighborhood for 150 years. Thirty years ago, the city fathers and mothers, having turned their own neighborhoods into protected historic districts, decided to line the much more historic North Higuera neighborhood with motels and dump all of the unwanted historic houses of the city in the interior of the block where no one would see them. This was on the assumption that no one of consequence (by their standards) lived or worked there.

Fortunately that didn’t happen, but more recently, the city mothers and fathers decided to dump all of SLO’s luxury high-rises in North Higuera, with 12- and 14-foot ceilings and lots of additional hotel suites creating ecounfriendly tall sprawl. 545 Higuera-486 Marsh, at more 50,000 square feet, is the size of the new SLO air terminal, dropped in among 1,000-square-foot cottages and bungalows. As a 50-foottall nearly 300-foot-long wall, it provides 39 unaffordable studios and one- and two-bedroom housing. But 550 Higuera, the development that replaced the trailer park across the street, ugly though it is, provides 60 more or less

affordable studios and one-bedrooms ($1,350 a month) and two-bedrooms ($1,850 a month) on a smaller lot in only two stories of normal height that doesn’t cut a historic working-class neighborhood in two with a big white wall of rich people.

The city doesn’t need more big housing, it needs more smart housing.

James Papp San Luis Obispo

Vote for Vicki Nohrden in November

In his opinion piece “It’s time to change the world,” (March 5) retiring state Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel) illuminates the need for more women in leadership, offering the perfect prelude for promoting a woman to fill his seat this November. Vicki Nohrden is a mother and grandmother who knows from personal experience the hopes, dreams, and struggles that come with the territory.

She has tremendous compassion for homeless families and children, and will put her sharp mind, tenacious energy, and gracious manner to work creating real solutions to California’s growing homeless crisis, which has eluded the current crop of Sacramento insiders, including Sen. Monning.

While Vicki will bring a fresh perspective to our Legislature as it wrestles with such complicated and intractable problems, she firmly believes that government should steer clear of unnecessary interference in the personal affairs of the family. For Vicki, it’s parents, not politicians, who should be in the driver’s seat when it comes to making decisions for a child’s education and medical care.

As Sen. Monning said, we need change.

Electing Vicki will be one big step toward that change. Learn more about Vicki’s campaign to be your representative at vicki4senate.com Nicole Dorfman Morro Bay

Avila golf course that are appropriately permitted. The developer, however, is attempting to use a temporary commercial outdoor entertainment license intended for one-time use to cover multiple events throughout the year. This is wrong.

Proper permitting entails following county and California Coastal Commission requirements as well as the California Environmental Quality Act. The golf course events application requests: • Unlimited events up to 1,000 attendees.

• Twelve one-day events for 1,000 to

3,000 attendees.

• Five events for an unlimited amount of days, 3,000 to 5,000 attendees.

The county is allowing the use of Code Chapter 6.56—which is for a single onetime event—as an umbrella for all of the events proposed. How does this make sense?

The Coastal Act states: “Development shall not interfere with the public’s access to the sea ... .”

There are more appropriate places for a large event facility.

Heather Nelson Avila Beach

Sound off New Times readers took to Facebook to share their thoughts on our March 5 news story, “State school bond shrouded by confusion unlikely to pass.”

Avila Beach isn’t for large events

The Avila Beach Golf Resort events application for more and larger events is scheduled for a San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors public hearing on March 24.

I agree with the Concerned Citizens for Avila and the Avila Valley Advisory Council who have urged the board for many years to only allow events at the

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Opinion

Rhetoric&Reason

HELP INFORM Oh, those THE FUTURE stoopid conservatives! DECOMMISSIONING OF DIABLO CANYON. H

BY JOHN DONEGAN

ow we see both ourselves and others can be pretty revealing.

The same also holds true for political parties.

In almost any heated political argument these days, at some point you will hear liberals depicting Trump voters, and conservatives generally, as the ignorant, uneducated rabble, or, in the words of Hillary Clinton, the “deplorables.”

Conversely, liberals like to depict themselves as the educated, sophisticated elite. Let’s examine those assumptions.

It is an article of faith among the left that anyone who would vote for Trump must be an ignorant, uneducated, impoverished, trailer-dwelling, toothless, mouth-breathing dimwit. And they supported Trump because they are either racist/misogynistic/xenophobic/ homophobic, etc., troglodytes who found an ideological refuge with Trump, or because they are television-beguiled rubes who are dazzled by his flashy celebrity.

Of course, the other caricature that liberals like is that conservatives are the 1 percent oligarchs who control and exploit society. This rarely gets mentioned at the same time, as it is kind of hard to reconcile the two. Relatively few billionaire oligarchs live in shabby trailers in Appalachia.

When you assign characteristics and traits based upon political affiliation, you have to first look at the political platforms and agendas that draw people to their respective parties. What is the agenda of the Democratic Party that appeals to these supposedly educated, sophisticated, affluent liberals, and what is the agenda of the Republicans that appeals to such deplorables?

Well, first of all, the Democrats promise their voters lots of “free stuff.” Free college, free medical care, free child care, paid family leave, loan forgiveness, a guaranteed income, etc., all of which will be paid for by the detested “rich.” We’ve had most of the Democratic presidential candidates engaged in a sort of frenzied bidding war, trying to see who can seduce their voter base with promises of the most goodies.

Predictably, the high-minded Democrats heatedly reject any sort of suggestion that this is just buying votes. They offer as the moral justification for this generosity the fact that their voters are wretched “victims,” who are too helpless and inept to support themselves and thus need government help in order to survive.

Now, I personally have difficulty reconciling the image of wretched supplicants living in a state of dependency, with that of a sophisticated, educated elite. When I think of “elite,” I tend to think of people who are, at the least, self-supporting and who don’t need to be taken care of.

And when I think of “educated,” I tend to think of someone with the ability to at least do simple math, and to be

aware of how long it will take to pay off the $150,000 they borrowed for a pricey private college and Caribbean spring breaks. And I would assume that an educated person would grasp the principles of cause and effect and linear thinking, and have some awareness that a degree in art history, philosophy, or gender studies is unlikely to provide them with the high-paying career needed to pay off their loans.

What other groups do the Democrats claim as a natural part of their educated, high-functioning constituency? How about felons, a group which Democrats strongly believe should be allowed to vote? Myself, I would be a bit embarrassed to be associated with a party that assumes that felons, the people who murder, assault, rob, and generally prey upon the rest of society, are a natural part of my affinity group, and can be counted upon to vote a reliably Democratic ticket.

Who else do the Democrats claim as part of their constituency? Well, remember the 2000 election, and the famous “butterfly” ballots? Well, Democrats claimed that the voters who were “too confused” to figure out those ballot must have been Democrats, while the brainiacs who did manage to understand them must have been Republicans.

Recall Bill Clinton and his mandate that voter registration materials be made available in welfare offices. Obviously, Clinton figured that few Republicans frequent the welfare offices, while plenty of potential Democrats do. Impressive.

Currently, Democrats are arguing that the voters who can’t be bothered to regularly vote, or to return cards verifying their address, are also obviously Democrats, as are those who are so far “off the grid” that they can’t even produce an ID to vote.

So, if we conservatives disregard the unkind, ignorant, and uneducated “deplorable” caricatures that Democrats assign to us and instead look to the obvious assumptions that they make about us, it is really quite flattering.

While they see their own voters as helplessly dependent, criminally inclined, unengaged, and hopelessly confused, they see conservatives as the self-supporting taxpayers who don’t need to be cared for by government. They see us as lawabiding. And they see us as somehow being intelligent enough to successfully negotiate all the obstacles to voting that their own voters seem to find so insurmountable.

Hey, and they also even occasionally see us as the all-powerful oligarchs from whom they must wrest control of society!

Pretty good for a bunch of deplorable, uneducated, trailer-trash, eh? ∆

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John Donegan is a retired attorney in Pismo Beach, who always gets a little pissy around tax time. Send comments through the editor at clanham@ newtimesslo.com.

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Opinion

Panic epidemic

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ey guys, we’re all going to die because of COVID-19—aka coronavirus. Wait, actually, we’re not all going to die. In fact, most people probably aren’t even going to be affected by it.

People are just losing their minds over the possibility that even one person in San Luis Obispo County might be infected because they literally have nothing better to worry about. Apparently paper towels and toilet paper are key to germ protection and longevity of life, because SLO’s Target was nearly out of both on Tuesday, March 10, according to a random Facebook post I saw.

As the poster so astutely asked his Facebook friends: “Why aren’t you people hoarding anything else? ... Does coronavirus make you shit yourself to death?”

Nope. I’m pretty sure it’s just the flu, and its main symptoms, according to public health officials, are fever, coughing, and shortness of breath. So, sorry, toilet paper pinchers. Unless you plan on freezing your tee-pee, then wrapping yourself in it to chill out those hot body temperatures, not sure it’s going to help.

Plus, there aren’t any cases in the county. Although, I could be wrong. I just get my information from official public health sources such as SLO County Public Health Officer Penny Borenstein, who strangely declined to

tell New Times how many locals have been tested for the virus. But she assured everyone that she will be telling everyone the moment the county gets its first confirmed case.

Phew! That’s when I can panic, right? I need to know when I can safely stock up on all of the essentials without looking like a crazy person: paper towels (they ran out of toilet paper), bedsheets (we’ve got to throw them out after every use), batteries (just in case the whole electrical grid contracts the virus).

Oh, whoops. Is that me contributing to the “emotional pandemic”?

“We don’t see a need to have people have two weeks of supplies and buy out the whole community supply,” Borenstein said.

Oh. My bad. I had FOMO for a second.

But, it is time to get those “social distancing” plans in place, according to county public health. Social distancing, huh? Sounds like a prime-time excuse not to hang out with those people you keep canceling dinner plans on. Skip work, skip school, skip the cruise. Yep. You don’t need to do a thing.

If there’s anyone who’s benefitted from corona-panic, though, it’s the city of Morro Bay, which just received a less than 1 percent interest rate on a $62-million loan to help build its long-awaited wastewater treatment facility. According to Morro Bay City Manager Scott Collins, in addition to saving red-legged frogs, the

city is also going to save ratepayers $29-million over the life of the project!

Woot! Saving frogs and dinero, one $126-million wastewater reclamation facility at a time!

That whole frog issue only set the loan back three years. You know, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had to come to some sort of an understanding over the potential migrating pathway of future hoppers, so they didn’t get trapped within the bounds of a gigantic wastewater facility turning poopie sewage into crystal clear water.

You know, just in case, the endangered species decided it was high time to mosey on down South Bay Boulevard. Maybe the EPA or the Fish and Wildlife Service should warn them that there’s no toilet paper left, just in case they dip their little red frog legs into something they shouldn’t on their journey that may or may not happen around the plant that might never get built.

And people wonder why government is so inefficient. This project is going on seven years, at least, and they have nothing but meetings to show for it.

I bet the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District would take an über low interest rate loan if they could get

The Shredder it. The district is desperate for funds, so desperate they’re thinking about closing down a whole elementary school.

Fiscally frozen, the district’s suffering from a multimillion dollar shortfall that has seemingly multiplied over the last couple of years. School board members voted to potentially ax teachers, classified employees, classes, and sports programs on March 10.

But don’t worry y’all, board member Joel Peterson assured the parents, students, and community members who attended that the district was only looking at cutting classes with enrollment issues.

It had nothing to do with what board members liked or didn’t like.

Then later he voted not to get rid of the Career Technical Education pathway class known as “audio/visual” because “that’s my passion.” Hypocrite! But if you’ve got a passion for French, say “au revoir.”

Board member Chris Bausch blamed the lack of dollars coming into the school on the state and the way it funds schools, even though other school districts seem to be a-OK. For instance, Atascadero Unified School District isn’t working to put out a financial dumpster fire worth millions or close a whole elementary school.

I’m pretty sure Sacramento politics has nothing to do with the way that Paso has completely failed to deal with its budget in a fiscally responsible way. Although, I could be wrong. ∆ The Shredder is almost never wrong. Send comments through shredder@newtimesslo.com.

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The Clark Center for the Performing Arts in Arroyo Grande hosts Whose Live Anyway? on Saturday, March 14, from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Current cast members of Whose Line Is It Anyway? will play improv games on stage during this show presented by Martin Media. Tickets range from $47 to $77. Call (805) 489-9444 or visit clarkcenter.org for more info.

—Caleb Wiseblood

MARCH 12 – MARCH 19 2020

SPECIAL EVENTS NORTH SLO COU NT Y

ZOO TRIVIA NIGHT Come test your knowledge about animals at the Charles Paddock Zoo. Admission includes 3 alcoholic beverage (beer or wine). March 14, 5-8 p.m. $25$100. Charles Paddock Zoo, 9100 Morro Rd., Atascadero.

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BINGO BONANZA 2020 Presented by the Women’s Alliance of SLO, the 27th annual Bingo Bonanza offers 10 rousing games of Bingo each with a handcrafted prize basket (values ranging from $150-$300) for every winner. March 21, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Varies. Veteran’s Memorial Building, 801 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, (510) 285-6221.

BIRDS OF SLO 2019: PART 1 A two-part slide show featuring outstanding images of over 200 species of birds taken last year by seventeen of the finest nature photographers in San Luis Obispo county. Live guitar accompaniment by Bob Clark and Jack Collins. March 16, 6:30-8 p.m. Free to the public. 805-772-1991. San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, 3450 Dairy Creek Rd., San Luis Obispo.

CONSTRUCTION SURETY BONDS AT SLOCBE Come learn about what a surety bond is and isn’t, underwriting requirements, various types of surety bonds, and the correct steps to file a bond. March 12, 9-11 a.m. Members: $20, Non-Members: $45.

805-543-7330. db.onlineplanservice.com/upload/42/ Construction%20Surety%20Bonds%20101%203-12-20. pdf. SLO County Builders Exchange, 153 Cross St #130, San Luis Obispo.

HIGH TEA AND HATS A wonderful Monday Club tradition returns to our newly preserved and renovated clubhouse and gardens. Join us in our historic, Julia Morgan designed building and enjoy a high tea like none other. March 22, 1-3:30 p.m. $35/adults $20/children under 12. 805-541-0594. themondayclubslo.org. The Monday Club, 1815 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

INSPIRED HEALTH AND WELLNESS EXPO Reach your health and fi tness goals. The San Luis Obispo Health and Wellness Expo will provide a wonderful opportunity to the exhibitors to display their business and connect with the SLO County community.

March 21, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. 805-772-4600. inspiredexpos.com. Alex Madonna Expo Center, 100 Madonna Rd, San Luis Obispo.

OPEN HOUSE: HAND IN HAND PRESCHOOL

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Features kids activities, breakfast treats, and more.

March 14, 9 a.m.-noon Free. 805-543-8653. Hand in Hand Preschool, 3172 Johnson Ave., San Luis Obispo.

SENSORY NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN ON THE SPECTRUM A free and fun evening for our young friends on the Autism Spectrum and their families. March 14, 5:15-7 p.m. Free.

805-545-5874. slocm.org. San Luis Obispo Children’s Museum, 1010 Nipomo St., San Luis Obispo.

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A CELEBRATION OF 100 YEARS OF WOMEN’S RIGHT TO VOTE Join the Five Cities-Pismo Beach Branch of AAUW for a lighthearted and informative program.

March 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. 805-594-1249. Women’s Club of Arroyo Grande, 211 Vernon St., Arroyo Grande.

THE WRITE YOUR DEEP AF BOOK HOEDOWN Special guest writing coaches will instruct this day-long seminar on writing books. March 21, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Starts at $797. my805tix.com. Dolphin Bay Resort, 2727 Shell Beach Road, Pismo Beach.

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NATURETRACK FILM FESTIVAL The Third Annual NatureTrack Film Festival (NTFF) returns to Los Olivos.

Entries are thoughtfully curated and selected to “ignite passion for nature through film.” March 20, 5-10 p.m., March 21, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. and March 22, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $10 per ticket. 805-886-2047. naturetrackfilmfestival. org. Lavinia Campbell Park, 2398 Alamo Pintado Ave., Los Olivos.

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CAYUCOS SEA GLASS FESTIVAL Mark your calendars for the 10th annual Cayucos Sea Glass Festival. March 14,

10 a.m.-5 p.m. and March 15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $7. 805704-0290. cayucosseaglass.com. Cayucos Vet’s Hall, 10 Cayucos Dr., Cayucos.

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PETALS FOR SEPSIS Raising awareness about Sepsis through a floral fashion show, silent auction and inspiring stories from Sepsis survivors. All proceeds are going to benefit the Sepsis Alliance. March 22, 3-6 p.m. $40. 805458-0917. The Penny, 664 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo.

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GROVER BEACH COMMUNITY LIBRARY BOOK SALE Bring the family and browse our wide selection of authors and genres. From 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., local nonprofi ts and educators take home books free of charge. Bring a teacher ID, or a business card or brochure from your nonprofi t. March 14, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

805-481-4131. Grover Beach Community Library, 240 N 9th St., Grover Beach.

ARTS CLASSES & WORKSHOPS NORTH COAST SLO COU NT Y

AFRICAN DANCE Enjoy instruction to the beat of live drumming. Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. $10 drop in. 805-4596317. afrodance.net/. Omni Studio, 698 Morro Bay Blvd., Morro Bay.

BEGINNING CHA CHA Learn Cha Cha and enjoy the fun on the dance floor. A very use able dance in many situations. Tuesdays, 6:30-7:15 p.m. through May 12 $100-$185. 805-225-1728. FitnessWorks, 500 Quintana Rd., Morro Bay, debonairedancers.com.

BEGINNING NIGHT CLUB TWO STEP A great dance for weddings and slow music. Tuesdays,

New Times and the Sun now share their community listings for a complete Central Coast calendar running from SLO County through northern Santa Barbara County. Submit events online by logging in with your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account at newtimesslo.com. You may also email calendar@ newtimesslo.com. Deadline is one week before the issue date on Thursdays. Submissions are subject to editing and approval. Contact Calendar Editor Caleb Wiseblood directly at cwiseblood@newtimesslo.com.

INDEX Special Events ..........[25] Arts ............................[25] Culture & Lifestyle.......[28] Food & Drink.............. [31] Music .........................[34]

7:15-8 p.m. through March 24 $100-$185. 805-2251728. FitnessWorks, 500 Quintana Rd., Morro Bay, debonairedancers.com.

BEGINNING SOCIAL BALLROOM DANCE Learn beginning east coast swing, foxtrot and cha cha too.

Tuesdays, 7:15-8 p.m. $100; $185 per couple. 805225-1728. debonairedancers.com. FitnessWorks, 500 Quintana Rd., Morro Bay.

CITRUS PRINTS Citrus prints using ink pads and citrus of all sizes creating miniature works of art and cards.

Great for all ages. March 14, 3-4 p.m. Free. 805-9274336. Cambria Library, 1043 Main St., Cambria.

CREATIVITY Held every Wednesday unless other events/classes conflict. Informal and open to the public.

Bring your art work, in any medium, and join others working in various mediums. Bring your own lunch.

Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

CREATIVITY GROUP Enjoy a creative experience each Wednesday, unless other events/classes conflict.

Bring your art work, in any medium, and join others.

Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay. DANCE FUSION CLASSES: AGES 4-15 An encouraging learning environment for beginnersadvanced dancers ages 4 to 15. Call or email for complete schedule and more information. Mondays, Wednesdays, 3:30-7:30 p.m. $45 per month; $14 per drop-in. 805-203-6318. desertcoastdance.com. Morro Bay Community Center, 1001 Kennedy Way, Morro Bay.

MARCH PAINT AND PINTS AT THE SIREN Classes led by local, North County artist from Inspird Creative with a fun, easy-going, Aloha-spirit style. March 12, 6-8 p.m. $40. 805-468-9073. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, thesirenmorrobay.com/.

MOSAICS FOR BEGINNERS Projects are super simple and perfect for a beginner. March 22, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Various. 805-286-5993. creativemetime.com. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

PAINT PARTY No artistic experience necessary.

All materials and supplies provided. Outside food and drinks welcome. Saturdays, 7-9:30 p.m. $40. 805-7729095. foreverstoked.com/paintparty.html. Forever Stoked, 1164 Quintana Rd., Morro Bay. RESIN WORKSHOP Instructor will bring a huge assortment of shells, colored beach glass and glitter to design your scene. March 21, 10 a.m.-noon $45-$75.

805-286-5993. creativemetime.com. Art Center Morro

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SEA GLASS HAMMERED METAL JEWELRY Learn how to drill holes in sea glass, how to harden, strengthen and texturize metal to create a gorgeous jewelry set. March 21, 1-3 p.m. $45. 805-286-5993. creativemetime.com. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

SEA GLASS WIRE WRAPPED JEWELRY Participants will receive guided, step-by-step instruction to create Sea Glass Jewelry (necklace and pair of earrings). All materials provided including your choice of local sea glass and a glass of wine. Preregistration is required. March 15, 4-5:30 p.m. $50. 805-927-1625. creativemetime.com. Harmony Cellars, 3255 Harmony Valley Rd., P.O. Box 2502, Harmony.

ZEN DOODLE ADULT COLORING BOOK GROUP Relax and unwind with adult coloring books. No experience necessary. Fridays, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. 805772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

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ACCESS FUNDING FOR YOUR BUSINESS Are you in need of business funding? This workshop will provide you with the tools needed to successfully finance your entrepreneurial dreams. Learn about loan qualifications, managing credit and local funding from leading lenders including a representative from the SBA. March 18, 121:30 p.m. Free. 805-595-1357. mcscorp.neoserra.com.

Atascadero Chamber of Commerce, 6907 A El Camino Real, Atascadero.

COLLAGE TRANSFER WORKSHOP Create inspirational art by delving into the many collage transfer techniques. All supplies included. March 14, 1-4 p.m. $75. 310-993-1732. Marie A Ramey, 7460 Pinal Ave, Atascadero.

INSPIRD CREATIVE PAINT AND PINTS AT DUNBAR BREWING Enjoy an afternoon filled with painting led by a local artist from Inspird Creative. Third Sunday of every month, 4:30-6:30 p.m. $40. 805-4689073. eventbrite.com. Dunbar Brewing, 5855 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

PAINTS AND PINTS WITH INSPIRDCREATIVE Join us at Bristol’s Ciderhouse in Atascadero for a fun evening with Inspird Creative painting. All art materials and supplies are included with your purchase along with a glass of Bristol’s cider or Lone Madrone wine. Third Wednesday of every month, 6-8 p.m. $45. 805-4689073. inspirdcreative.com. Bristol’s Cider House, 3220 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

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ACTING CLASSES Film & TV Acting Classes for all ages and skill levels. Optional showcases for major Hollywood talent agents & casting directors. 10:30 am -8:45 pm (Sundays only). Varies per class. 310-910-1228. actorsedge. com. Mission Cinemas, 1025 Monterey St., SLO.

AERIAL HOOP Dance, spin and develop strength and grace on the lyra, an aerial hoop apparatus. All levels welcome. Mondays, 5:30-6:45 p.m. Varies. 805549-6417. levityacademy.com. Levity Academy, 207 Suburban Rd., San Luis Obispo.

AERIAL SILK SKILLS Learn to fly with grace in this mixed level aerial silks class. Geared toward those familiar with climbing, straddle-ups, foot locks, and hip keys on aerial silks. Thursdays, 7-8:15 p.m. Varies.

805-549-6417. levityacademy.com. Levity Academy, 207 Suburban Rd., San Luis Obispo.

AERIAL SILK SKILLS: ALL AGES Learn to fly with grace in this mixed level aerial silks class. Geared toward those familiar with climbing, straddle-ups, foot locks, and hip keys on aerial silks. Saturdays, 10:15-11:45 a.m. Varies. 805-549-6417. levityacademy.com. Levity Academy, 207 Suburban Rd., San Luis Obispo.

AERIAL SILKS FUNDAMENTALS AND BASICS Elevate dance, gymnastics, acrobatics, fitness, and fun to new heights on aerial silks. All levels welcome.

Wednesdays, 7-8:15 p.m. Varies; see site for details.

805-549-6417. levityacademy.com. Levity Academy, 207 Suburban Rd., San Luis Obispo.

AERIAL SILKS SKILLS: 18+ Learn to fly with grace in this mixed level silks class. Geared toward those familiar with climbing, straddle-ups, foot locks, and hip keys on aerial silks. Tuesdays, 5:30-6:45 p.m. Varies.

805-549-6417. levityacademy.com. Levity Academy, 207 Suburban Rd., San Luis Obispo.

BELLYDANCE CLASSES Come learn traditional middle eastern dance to modern fusion styles. The fundamental movements are taught, along with the drum rhythms, veil work, zills, and other props. The classes are taught by Jenna Mitchell. Tuesdays, 6-7 p.m. and Tuesdays, Thursdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $12 drop-in; $45 monthly. 805-550-8192. worldrhythmandmotion.com.

World Rhythm and Motion Studio, 3422 Miguelito Ct., Studio #3, San Luis Obispo.

CABARET SINGING AND PERFORMANCE CLASS Learn the art of singing in a Cabaret style and setting.

Find your key and style with a skilled accompanist. You may start anytime during the semester. Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $185 for 12 week class or $20 per

night as a drop-in student. 805-772-2812. cuesta.edu/ communityprograms. Cuesta College, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo.

LilA Creative Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. suite 101, Arroyo Grande.

CAL POLY ARTS: TAP WORKSHOP New York City’s

Includes drawing, painting, sewing, weaving, mixed media, printmaking, and 3-dimensional building in a safe, non-competitive environment. Fridays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. $20 per hour. 805-668-2125. LilA Creative Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. suite 101, Arroyo Grande, lila. community.

Dorrance Dance is an award-winning tap dance company and one of the hottest ensembles touring today. This body-percussion and tap workshop is taught by members of the company and recommended for intermediate and advanced students. March 16, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Ryan’s American Dance, 202 Tank Farm Road, San Luis Obispo, 805-543-4409, ryansamericandance.com.

DATE NIGHT POTTERY Throw on the potters wheel and make a mug, candlestick, or plate. Fridays, 6-8 p.m. through April 24 $125. 805-896-6197. anamcre.com. Anam Cre Pottery Studio, 1243 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

KREATIVE KIDS EVENT Features paint pouring, Easter eggs, rock painting, frame decorating, and helping us paint a big mural. Supplies included. Ages 5 to 12. March 21, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $8 per child. 805747-4200. artcentralartsupply.com. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

LEARN FRENCH WHILE SPEAKING ENGLISH For beginners or intermediate. Watch assigned YouTube videos at home. Do written homework from textbook.

Every other Sunday, 2:30 p.m. Free. 805-225-1270. meetup.com/Welcoming-all-levels-of-French-speakers/.

Coastal Peaks Coffee, 3566 S. Higuera St. #100, San Luis Obispo.

OIL PAINTING WORKSHOP WITH JASON MAYR AT ART CENTRAL A four part workshop series. Come

OPEN STUDIO FOR HOMESCHOOLED CHILDREN

PLAY EXPLORE CREATE 2 Includes drawing, pastel, watercolor, tempera, collage, printmaking, sewing, and building. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 9-10:30 a.m. & 1:30-3 p.m. $20. 805-668-2125. lila.community. LilA Creative Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. suite 101, Arroyo Grande.

TEEN’S OPEN STUDIO: TEEN COMIC CREATION GROUP Teens will collaborate on developing characters, comic strips, backdrops, or 3D models. Thursdays, 3:15-4:45 p.m. $20. 805-668-2125. lila.community/. LilA Creative Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. suite 101, Arroyo Grande.

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BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP Sponsored by the Friends of the Los Osos Library. For adults. Third Thursday of every month, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. 805-5281862. Los Osos Library, 2075 Palisades Ave., Los Osos.

$7 nonmembers. 805-543-8562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

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AQUARIUS 2020 CALIFORNIA OPEN WATERMEDIA EXHIBITION This juried show features a selection of works by watermedia artists residing in California, including many local artists. Opening reception, awards presentation, and the presentation of new signature members will take place Sunday, Feb. 23. Through March 30, 12-4 p.m. Free. 805-772-2504. ccwsart.com;artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

BIG BOLD ABSTRACT This exhibit features a variety of artistic mediums and styles in thought provoking abstraction. Featured 3D artists will be Suzanne Alward with her ceramic creations and Paula Radke with her glass technicolor abstract creations. Through March 30, 12-4 p.m. Free. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org.

Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay. DAVID KREITZER: FINE ART OPEN STUDIOS Featuring water, landscape, figure, fantasy and floral works. Collectors of Kreitzer’s works include Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, Michael Douglas, Ray Bradbury, Robert Takken, and Jane Hind. Sundays, 12-6 p.m.

Varies. 805-234-2048. kreitzerArt.com. Kreitzer Fine Art and Voice Studios, 1442 12th St., Los Osos.

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develop and “finish” a single oil painting over the 4 week class. All levels welcome. Thursdays, 1-4 p.m. through March 26 $220 for all four sessions. 805-234-6941. artcentralslo.wordpress.com/2020/02/10/come-getcreative-with-us-at-art-central-thru-march-14th/. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

PACIFIC HORIZON CHORUS WELCOMES WOMEN SINGERS Visit site or come by in person to see if these music lessons are right for you. Tuesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.

805-441-1405. pacifichorizon.org. SLO United Methodist Church, 1515 Fredericks St., San Luis Obispo.

POLE FITNESS Learn the basics or master new skills on static or spinning pole at this all-levels pole fitness class. Mondays, 7-8:15 p.m. $25-$30 for a drop-in; check site for more details. 805-549-6417. levityacademy.com. Levity Academy, 207 Suburban Rd., San Luis Obispo.

SATURDAY ART WORKSHOP FOR KIDS: “BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS” Each student will create their own unique canvas to take home. Saturdays $55. 805-6101821. keshetlavoux.com. Keshet Lavoux, 165 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo.

SLO CAMERA CLUB SLO Camera Club meets the second Thursday of each month, at the Guild Hall in SLO. Photo competitions are held on the third Thursday of even numbered months. Second Thursday of every month Free to guest. SLO Guild Hall, 2880 Broad St., San Luis Obispo, 805-543-0639, sloguildhall.com.

TAX PREPARATION HELP: SUNDAYS AT SLO LIBRARY Receive tax preparation assistance from qualified volunteers. No appointment necessary. Be sure to have a valid email address and bring a flash drive and all relevant documents. Sundays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. through April 5 Free. 805-781-5783. San Luis Obispo Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

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AFTER-SCHOOL ART WORKSHOP (AGES 5-6) Each session will cover different mediums and subjects.

Registration is required prior to attendance. Mondays, 3:15-4:45 p.m. $100. 805-668-2125. lila.community. LilA Creative Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. suite 101, Arroyo Grande.

AFTER-SCHOOL ART WORKSHOPS (AGES 7-12) 2-5 week sessions available. Register online, call, or email to reserve. Tuesdays, 3:15-4:45 p.m. $50-$120 per session. 805-668-2125. lila.community/ lilacreativecommunityworkshops/schedules/new-afterschool-workshops. LilA Creative Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. suite 101, Arroyo Grande.

DRUM MAKING Drum making with Julie Johnson.

Second Saturday of every month, 12-4 p.m. $250. 805674-4277. Halcyon Store Post Office, 936 S. Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande.

LET’S GO 3D! MIXED MEDIA SCULPTURE Explore the four sculpture types: molded, cast, carved and assembled. Guests will work with clay, plaster, and found objects. Tuesdays, 3:15-4:45 p.m. through March 17 $100 for all 5 weeks. 805-668-2125. LilA Creative Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. suite 101, Arroyo Grande, lila.community.

LI LI CLEVER JEWELRY Learn from someone with 25 years of experience designing intricate, highly professional, and exceptionally individualized artisan jewelry. All ages welcome. ongoing $50 per person.

805-545-9689. Li Li Clever Jewelry, Location varies, Shell Beach.

MOBILE MADNESS Guests will explore simple, yet satisfying ways to create movement in their sculptures.

For ages 5 to 6. Mondays, 3:15-4:45 p.m. through April 6 $100 for all five sessions. 805-668-2125. lila.community.

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BIRD IS THE WORD

Creative Me Time hosts its Mosaics for Beginners workshop at Art Center Morro Bay on Sunday, March 22, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Participants will work on an easy mosaic project during this introductory class. Students will receive guided, step-by-step instruction. Call (805) 286-5993 or visit creativemetime.com to find out more.

—C.W.

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BUS TRIP TO THE AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST Explore the art, history, and cultures of the American West at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles. Enjoy world-class galleries filled with Native American art and cultural materials, film memorabilia, paintings, interactive areas, an ethnobotanical garden, and more. March 22 $115 SLOMA members, $135 general. 805-543-8562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

JULIA MORGAN HISTORIC BUILDING TOUR Member docents will guide guests through the historic, newly renovated, and preserved Monday Club clubhouse and grounds. Tours may also be arranged by appointment. Mondays, 2-5 p.m. through Oct. 8 Free; donations appreciated. 805-541-0594. themondayclubslo.org. The Monday Club, 1815 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

MUSEUM MOVIE NIGHT: LITTLE STONES Directed

by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Sophia Kruz, this film follows the uplifting stories of four women using rap, graffiti, fashion, and dance to fight for women’s rights around the world and show that the world is full of little stones waiting to be discovered. March 16, 7 p.m. Suggested donation at the door: $5 members,

MORRO BAY FRIDAY ARTWALK A self-guided tour that takes place every second Friday of the month.

Guests can enjoy refreshments, trolley rides, and more.

Second Friday of every month, 5-8 p.m. Free. 805-7722504. artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay. SEA LIFE: A PHOTOGRAPHY AND INK DRAWINGS GROUP SHOW Gallery at Marina Square presents Jack McNeal, Greg Siragusa, Carlo Christian, and Don Doubledee in a Group Show entitled “Sea Life”.

Through March 29, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. 805-772-1068. galleryatmarinasquare.com. Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero suite 10, Morro Bay.

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CELEBRATING WOMEN IN ART AND POETRY Celebrating the centennial of women suffrage, this exhibit honors the many roles of women in art and poetry. A public reception for the local artists and poets represented in this exhibit will be March 5. Light refreshments will be served. Mondays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.5 p.m. through May 29 Free. 805-461-6161. slolibrary.org.

Atascadero Library, 6555 Capistrano, Atascadero.

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Conce for Peace with Yuval Ron SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Congregation Beth David

Comedy Magic FRIDAY, MARCH 13 D’Anbino Tasting Room

Gu ermouth Conce at the Castle SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Tooth & Nail Winery

The Red Velvet Cake War MARCH 13–19 Santa Maria Civic Theatre

To Gillian on Her 37th Bi hday MARCH 13-29 Park Street Ballroom

12 Angry Jurors MARCH 13–APRIL 5

By The Sea Productions

Zoo Trivia Night SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Charles Paddock Zoo

Barrel Room Conce : Damon Castillo Band SUNDAY, MARCH 15 CASS Winery

Ba lyz St. Patricks Day Sunday Celebration SUNDAY, MARCH 15 D’Anbino Tasting Room

Sunset Social FRIDAY, MARCH 20 CASS Winery

Double Bass and Friends SATURDAY, MARCH 21 Trinity United Methodist Church

Morro Bay WILD SATURDAY, MARCH 21 Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

Bingo Bonanza SATURDAY, MARCH 21 SLO Veterans Hall

The Write Your Deep AF Book Hoedown SATURDAY, MARCH 21 The Dolphin Bay Reso

Beer Yoga SATURDAY, MARCH 21 Naughty Oak Brewing Co.

Double Bass and Friends SUNDAY, MARCH 22 Community Church of Atascadero

In Conce : Korby Lenker TUESDAY, MARCH 24 The Savory Pale e

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ZINfully Delicious SATURDAY, MARCH 21 Tooth & Nail Winery

Plants of the Pecho Coast Trail SUNDAY, MARCH 22 Point San Luis Lighthouse

Music of the 1970’s THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Monarch Club at Trilogy

All Sta Basketball Spectacular SATURDAY, MARCH 28 Allan Hancock College

Incendio Summoning the Music SUNDAY, MARCH 29 Cambria Conce s Unplugged

Eat Pray F* You Couples Intensive SUNDAY, MARCH 29 The Dolphin Bay Reso

The Eat Pray F* You Hoedown SUNDAY, MARCH 29 The Dolphin Bay Reso

Backyard Chili Brawl SUNDAY, MARCH 29 Tooth & Nail Winery

The Wild West Hits the Pops MONDAY, MARCH 30 First United Methodist Church

In Conce : Sally & George TUESDAY, MARCH 31 The Savory Pale e

Cambria the Musical FRIDAY, APRIL 3 Cambria Center for the A s Theatre

Central Coast Guitar Show SATURDAY, APRIL 4 SLO Veteran’s Hall

Dave Meder Trio SATURDAY, APRIL 4 Unity Conce Hall

Barrel Room Conce : The Cuesta Ridge Boys SUNDAY, APRIL 5 CASS Winery

Rolling Stones Tribute in Morro Bay TUESDAY, APRIL 14 The Savory Pale e

Wines, Pines and Felines THURSDAY, APRIL 16 Cambria Pines Lodge

Lot’s Wife FRI. & SAT., APRIL 17 & 18 Klein Dance A s Studio

THE EVENT SATURDAY, APRIL 18 Presqu’ile Winery

Soaring Masterpieces: Fate and Destiny SATURDAY, APRIL 18 Grace Baptist Church

Women’s Only Self Defense Workshop SATURDAY, APRIL 18 SleepingTiger Fitness

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JASON MAYR Through March 31 Park Street Gallery, 1320 Park Street, Paso Robles, 805-286-4430, parkstreetgallery.com.

SEVEN UP: NEW WORK BY 7 ARTISTS New work by 7 artists: Michael Messina, Jane Russell, Kabe Russell, Cynthia Kevorkian, Dennis Jackson, Denise Schryver, and Marie Ramey. ongoing Varies. 805-466-3684. ärt/, 5806 Traffic Way, Atascadero.

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AMANDA GENTRY: MURMURATION EXHIBIT The sound of one’s own voice is rarely heard in isolation.

While people talk to themselves from time to time, they are rarely listening with a reverent ear. Murmuration exists as a call to reconnect with the self on a deeper level. Mondays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. through April 3 312-848-7537. Harold J. Miossi Gallery, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo, cuesta.edu/student/campuslife/artgallery/.

ART AFTER DARK: FREE PRESS This exhibit features the Central Coast Printmakers, who are a dedicated group located in California’s San Luis Obispo county. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sundays, 12-4 p.m. and Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. through March 30 Free. 805-747-4200. artcentralartsupply.com. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

EYE CANDY AND MIXED NUTS Marks 50 years of collecting original photographs, drawings, letters, books, ephemera, audio recordings and more. Exhibit themes include California architecture; botany; graphic arts, including contemporary book arts; and San Luis Obispo County history. Through March 20, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free.

805-756-2305. lib.calpoly.edu/events/eyecandy50. Cal Poly Special Collections and Archives, Robert E. Kennedy Library, 1 Grand Ave., Building 35, Room 409, San Luis Obispo.

METAMORPHOSIS: CENTRAL COAST CRAFTMAKERS Explores the concept of change, growth, and rebirth. Artworks in a variety of media are featured, including fused glass, textiles, ceramics, and woodturning. Mondays, Thursdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. through March 29 Free admission. 805-543-8562. sloma.org/exhibition/metamorphosis/. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

SLOMA PRESENTS MARK BRYAN: FAKE NEWS This exhibition features Bryan’s well-known political satire and pop-surrealism paintings. Mondays, Thursdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. through April 26 Free. 805-543-8562. sloma. org/exhibition/mark-bryan-fake-news/. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

THROUGH THE TREES: ORIGINALS BY KEN CHRISTENSEN Ken Christensen is exhibiting an one man show at Frame Works Studio and Art Gallery featuring original oils and watercolors. Through April 28 805-542-9000. Frame Works, 339 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo, sloart.com.

WHEREVER THERE’S A FIGHT EXHIBIT This traveling exhibition, rich with narrative and photographs,

animates the history of civil liberties focusing on the hidden stories of unsung heroes and heroines throughout California who stood up for their rights in the face of adversity. Through March 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. 805781-4187. slolibrary.org. San Luis Obispo Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

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FROM ARTISTS, FOR ARTISTS, BY ARTISTS Featuring fine art oils and pastels from Corynn Wolf, acrylics from Ryan Adams, and works from various mediums by Marc Wolf ongoing Free. 805-773-6563. Puffers of Pismo, 781 Price St., Pismo Beach, puffersofpismo.com/.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS: PERSPECTIVES MBAA’s “Perspectives” will show visitors how various media and styles can have a 3D effect. Submission date is March 31, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Through March 31 Varies. 805-7722504. artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS: HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS Accepting art for Art Central’s open exhibit this May and June. Seeking interpretations of what inspires you about your home, whether that is near or far. This show is open to all mediums. Through April 29, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Cost dependent on artwork size. 805-747-4200. artcentralartsupply.com/Gallery.php. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

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12 ANGRY JURORS Directed by Kelli M Howard.

March 13-April 5 $20. my805tix.com. By The Sea Productions, 545 Shasta Ave., Morro Bay, 805-776-3287.

COAST UNION DRAMA CLUB PRESENTS JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT This annual spring musical tells the story of the title character, his eleven brothers, and his rise to power in ancient Egypt. March 20, 7 p.m., March 21, 7 p.m. and March 22, 3 p.m. $5-$20. 805-395-2656. Coast Union High School, 2950 Santa Rosa Creek Rd., Cambria.

THE REBOOT: STORYTELLING REIMAGINED Curated mix of invited storytellers and open mic for novice storytellers. Spoken word, improv, character sketches and interactive games. Every third Friday of the month. Third Friday of every month, 7-9 p.m. Free. 805772-9225. facebook.com/topdogcoffeebar/. Top Dog Coffee Bar, 857 Main St., Morro Bay.

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TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY The play PHOTO COURTESY OF EAT PRAY F* YOU

deals with letting go of the past so that you can handle the present, and provides a hope-filled glimpse into the strength and support of family moving forward after tragedy. Laughter is the other side of pain, and this has plenty of both. March 13, 7:30-9:30 p.m., March 14, 7:30-9:30 p.m., March 15, 2-4 p.m., March 20, 7:309:30 p.m., March 21, 7:30-9:30 p.m. and March 22, 2-4 p.m. $15 Students; $25 General; $20 Groups of 8+.

805-610-0786. winecountrytheatre.com/. Park Ballroom, 1232 Park St., Paso Robles.

COMEDY MAGIC Headlining Justin Rivera from America’s Got Talent. Featuring Bob Fernandez and Trent Babb. March 13, 8-10 p.m. $15-$20. 805-635-5919.

D’anbino Vineyards and Cellars, 710 Pine St., Paso Robles, danbino.com.

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MARCH COMEDY MADNESS SLO County’s longestrunning comedy showcase brings another stellar lineup to tickle your funny bone. Enjoy the comic stylings of Steve Zorbalas and Shishonia Livingston, the musical comedy of Geoffrey Eggleston, plus LA Headliner Yashar Kafi. Hosted by Sal Espana. March 14, 7-9 p.m. Free.

805-439-2529. Oak and Otter Brewing, 181 Tank Farm Road, suite 110, San Luis Obispo.

MUSICAL IMPROV SHOW Featuring the very talented performers of The Central Coast Comedy Theater with accompaniment by music director, Ryan Lloyd. Grab a cold, craft beer and laugh with this singing, dancing, spontaneously hilarious troupe. March 20, 7-9 p.m.

Free. Oak and Otter Brewing, 181 Tank Farm Road, suite 110, San Luis Obispo, 805-439-2529.

STAGED READING: THE DESIGNATED MOURNER SLO REP’s Ubu’s Other Shoe Staged Reading series presents a staged reading of this play by Wallace Shawn. As their rapidly changing country slips into totalitarianism, three artist-intellectuals try to make sense of their changing lives in this searing and prescient drama. March 13, 7-9 p.m. and March 14, 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. $15. 805-786-2440. slorep.org. San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre, 888 Morro St., San Luis Obispo.

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ALL MY SONS Drama about a family struggling with secrets in post WWII America. Presented by AGHS Theatre Department. Held in the Studio Theatre. March 12, 7-9 p.m., March 14, 7-9 p.m., March 20, 7-9 p.m. and March 22, 2-4 p.m. General Admission $12; Seniors $10, Students $8 (with ID) all schools. 805-489-9444.

Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande, clarkcenter.org.

WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? 90 minutes of hilarious improvised comedy and song all based on audience suggestions. March 14, 8-9:30 p.m. $47-$77. 805489-9444. clarkcenter.org/event/whose-live-anyway/.

Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande.

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E-DEVICE HELP Please sign up in advance. Thursdays, 8:30-10 a.m. Morro Bay Library, 625 Harbor St., Morro Bay.

GREAT BLUE HERONS, EGRETS, AND OTHER ROOKERY WONDERS Enjoy a talk to learn their rituals, nesting habits and in spring, adults caring for their young, followed by a short walk to the rookery near the museum. Meet at the Learning Center, lower right entrance. March 18, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. 805-7722694. Morro Bay Museum of Natural History, 20 State Park Rd., Morro Bay.

LET’S TALK: WHAT REALLY MATTERS AT THE END OF LIFE Registration preferred. Join us for a viewing of the inspiring and moving TED Talk, What Really Matters at the End of Life by BJ Miller, a palliative physician who thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life. Discussion to follow.

March 19, 3-4 p.m. Free. 805-927-4336. Cambria Library, 1043 Main St., Cambria.

MIND WALK: THE HISTORY OF CAL POLY SAN LUIS OBISPO In 1903, California Polytechnic School opened doors to 20 students on a dusty hillside. A century later, that modest school has been transformed into one of the leading CA universities, with an enrollment of 22,000 students. March 16, 10:15-11:30 a.m. $3, CCSPA Otter members and above are free. 805-7722694. Inn at Morro Bay, 60 State Park Rd, Morro Bay.

ALL BOOKED

Eat Pray F* You hosts The Write Your Deep AF Book Hoedown at the Dolphin Bay Resort on Saturday, March 21, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This day-long workshop is intended for aspiring authors seeking instruction on everything that goes into completing a book. Tickets to the event are available in advance at my805tix.com. Visit eatprayfyou.com to find out more.

—C.W.

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CITIZENSHIP CLASS To prepare for the citizenship exam. No registration required. Tuesdays, 5-6 p.m. Free.

805-781-5783. slolibrary.org. San Luis Obispo Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

INTRO INTO BEEKEEPING Come to the SLO Library for this informative introduction to the world of beekeeping. This program is presented in conjunction with the Cuesta Book of the Year program. March 14, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. 805-781-5991. slolibrary. org. San Luis Obispo Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

WELCOMING ALL LEVELS OF FRENCH SPEAKERS Getting together to speak French. Sundays, 1-2:30 p.m. 805-332-3961. Coastal Peaks Coffee, 3566 S. Higuera St. #100, San Luis Obispo.

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OCEANO’S BEAVERS A talk at Guiton Hall to learn their biology, role in westward expansion and why they were hunted, followed by an easy half mile walk to look for evidence of their activity. March 14, 10 a.m.-noon Free. 805-474-2667. Oceano Dunes Visitor Center, 555 Pier Ave., Oceano.

POINT SLO LIGHTHOUSE TOURS Docents lead guests on a one-hour tour of the historic site, the buildings, and up to the Lighthouse tower. Please arrive 15 minutes early. All proceeds go directly toward the site’s restoration. Wednesdays, 12 & 1 p.m. and Saturdays, 12, 1 & 2 p.m. $17-$22. 805-540-5771. pointsanluislighthouse.org. Point San Luis Lighthouse, 1 Lighthouse Rd., Avila Beach.

UNDERSTANDING MEDICARE: PRESENTATION HICAP (Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program) will sponsor a free seminar for people interested in better understanding Medicare benefits.

March 18, 1-3 p.m. Free. Grace Bible Church, 100 Rodeo Dr., Arroyo Grande, 805-489-4200.

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ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP Third Wednesday of every month, 10 a.m.-noon Morro Bay Library, 625 Harbor St., Morro Bay.

SOCRATES: WEEKLY DISCUSSION A weekly discussion group to discuss current and interesting topics. Politics and religion are not discussed.

Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-noon Free. coalescebookstore. com. Coalesce Bookstore, 845 Main St., Morro Bay, 805-772-2880.

SURFSIDE TENNIS CLUB Saturdays, 9 a.m. Free the first month; $30 per year afterwards. surfsidetennisclub. teamopolis.com. Morro Bay High School, 235 Atascadero Rd., Morro Bay, 805-771-1845.

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MID-STATE CRUIZERS OF ATASCADERO Open to all auto enthusiasts. Third Thursday of every month, 5:30 p.m. midstatecruizers.org. Round Table, 6915 El Camino Real, Atascadero, 805-466-7111.

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BOARD GAME NIGHT AT CAPTAIN NEMO Refreshments available on site for purchase. Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m. Free. 805-544-6366. Facebook.com/ CaptainNemoGames. Captain Nemo Games, 563 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo.

BOOK DISCUSSION New book every month. Second Thursday of every month, 10:30 a.m.-noon Free. 805539-9374. slolibrary.org. San Luis Obispo Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

DEBTORS ANONYMOUS MEETING A 12-step program for people having problems with money and debt. Mondays, 5:30-6:30 p.m. First Presbyterian Church of San Luis Obispo, 981 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo, 805-543-5451, fpcslo.org.

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BISHOP PEAK CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERER’S GUILD OF AMERICA Welcoming those who work with all forms of needlework. Bring a sack lunch. Third Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Grover Beach Community Center, 1230 Trouville Ave., Grover Beach, 805-773-4832.

NIPOMO SENIOR CENTER The center is open five days a week; closed on weekends and holidays.

Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 805-929-1615. Nipomo Senior Center, 200 E. Dana St., Nipomo.

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MORRO BAY METAPHYSICIANS Explore the history

MORRO BAY GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP This group

of metaphysics with a different topic each week. Led by Tobey White Heart Crockett. Fridays, 12-1 p.m. $10-$20 suggested donation. 805-772-2880. facebook.com/ groups/MBMetaphysicians. Coalesce Garden Chapel, 845 Main St., Morro Bay.

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is for those who have experienced the death of a loved one. Call for more details. Wednesdays, 10-11 a.m.

Free admission. 805-540-6020. Morro Bay Community

CULTURE & LIFESTYLE from page 28 Center, 1001 Kennedy Way, Morro Bay, morro-bay. ca.us/345/Community-Center.

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CHRONIC PAIN SUPPORT GROUP Everyone with any kind of chronic pain, including CRPS, RDS, and fibromyalgia, is welcome. Third Tuesday of every month, 5-6:30 p.m. 805-704-5970. Rabobank Community Room, 1025 Las Tablas Road, Templeton.

GENERAL GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP (NORTH COUNTY) A support group for those grieving the death of a loved one. This group provides the opportunity to connect with individuals in a similar situation. Drop-ins welcome. Wednesdays, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. 805-5442266. hospiceslo.org/support-groups/general-griefsupport-group-0. Hospice SLO County: North County Office, 517 13th St., Paso Robles.

to paint with watercolors with artist Amy Wicks.

Registration required. Ages 10-17. March 21, 2-3 p.m.

Free. 805-473-7161. Arroyo Grande Library, 800 W. Branch, Arroyo Grande, slolibrary.org.

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CHAIR YOGA Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Morro Bay Library, 625 Harbor St., Morro Bay.

KICKING THE SUGAR HABIT Learn how sugar effects your mind and body and how making simple changes can change your life. The program starts with deep breathing meditation with 2019 Tai Chi Instructor of the Year. Speaker Tami Cruz is a certified Health and Life Coach. March 15, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. 805-235-7978. gratefulbodyhealthcoaching.com. Grateful Body, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay.

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TAIJIQUAN AND QIGONG CLASSES Keep calm through the holidays with the 2019 Tai Chi Instructor of the Year.

Includes deep breathing and moving meditation to improve balance, focus and coordination. Mondays, Wednesdays, 3:45 p.m. and Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 a.m.

Call for details. 805-701-7397. charvetmartialarts.com.

Grateful Body, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay.

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EMPOWER YOUR LIFE WITH LAW OF ATTRACTION Is your life purposeful, healthy, happy and abundant? Learn how to use the law of attraction and selfhypnosis to create a life where you are in control. March 18, 6-8 p.m. $30. 805-242-1649.

Cuesta College, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo.

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BETWEEN THE LIONS

White Lions and Other Cats of Southern Africa, a photography exhibition at The Photo Shop in SLO, will remain on display through Saturday, March 14. This exhibit showcases wildlife photos by Cheryl and Richard Strahl. For more details, call (805) 543-4025 or visit photoshopslo.com.

—C.W.

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CHILD LOSS SUPPORT GROUP Hospice SLO County is offering this support group for those grieving the loss of a child. Drop-ins welcome. Thursdays, 6-7:30 p.m.

Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo.org/support-groups.

Hospice SLO County, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo.

FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP A support group for those who are caring for a loved one, no matter the diagnosis. Drop-ins welcome. Every other Friday, 2:30-4 p.m. Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo.org.

Hospice SLO County, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo.

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AWAKENED PARENTING SITTING GROUP The intention of this group is to provide space for meditation and discussion in a supportive community. Appropriate for parents of children of all ages and anyone interested in exploring awakened parenting. Third Monday of every month, 6:30-7:30 p.m. whiteheronsangha.org. White Heron Sangha Meditation Center, 6615 Bay Laurel Place, Avila Beach.

HOW TO GET YOUR LOVED ONE SOBER A familyfriendly seminar presented by The Haven’s clinical staff. Open to the public. Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. thehaven.com. The Haven Facitilities, 391 Front St., Grover Beach, NA. SCLERODERMA SUPPORT GROUP MEETING A support group for those who have Scleroderma or those who love someone with Scleroderma. Nov. 17, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. 805-878-6261. St. John’s Lutheran Church, 959 Valley Rd., Arroyo Grande.

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BASIC COMPUTER HELP Come to learn basic computer skills. Call to sign up. Thursdays, 8:30-10 a.m. Free. 805772-6394. Morro Bay Library, 625 Harbor St., Morro Bay. DRAWN TO NATURE Watch a demo about drawing and nature journaling. Then, try your own hand at a sketch, no experience required. Bring sketchbook, pencil, and eraser. Ages 12 and up. March 14, 2-4 p.m.

Free. 805–772-2694. Morro Bay Museum of Natural History, 20 State Park Rd., Morro Bay. SOUTH COAST SLO COU NT Y

TEEN WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP Learn how

FEBRUARY BREWASANA #1 A fun vinyasa flow with

Robyn, paired with a beer of your choice. Will be open for lunch immediately following the event for yogis to refuel. Third Sunday of every month, 11 a.m.-noon $15 (includes first drink). 805-868-7133. Oak and Otter Brewing, 181 Tank Farm Road, suite 110, San Luis Obispo.

QI GONG Mind/body exercise which everyone can participate. Mondays, 11 a.m.-noon $10. Academy of Dance San Luis Obispo, 3422 Miguelito Ct., San Luis Obispo, 805-270-5523.

RESTORATIVE FLOW YOGA AT THE MONDAY CLUB Enjoy a restorative/flow yoga class with Kevin Hauber. All proceeds benefit The Monday Clubhouse Conservancy Capital Campaign. Please bring your own yoga mat. Mondays, 5-6:15 p.m. $15 at door. 805-5410594. themondayclubslo.org. The Monday Club, 1815 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

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MINDFUL MOVEMENT AND MEDITATION A practice of breath and body awareness as you move through areas of tension, increase range of motion and strengthen our relationship with the present moment.

Saturdays, 9-10:15 a.m. $10 suggested donation. whiteheronsangha.org. White Heron Sangha Meditation Center, 6615 Bay Laurel Place, Avila Beach.

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BIRDING THE BOARDWALK One mile stroll on the estuary boardwalk from the east end of the Morro Bay State Park Bayside Marina parking lot to view shore and land birds. Bring binoculars and field guide. March 13, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. 805-772-2694. Morro Bay State Park, 60 State Park Rd., Morro Bay.

COON CREEK NATURE TABLE Self-guided drop-in short hike from the Coon Creek parking lot at the end of Pecho Road to discover the radical habitat differences between the creek path and the intertidal zone, less than a mile apart. Find the “flower, butterfly and bird of the day”. March 13, 9 a.m.-noon and March 20, 9 a.m.noon Free. 805-528-0513. Montaña de Oro, 3550 Pecho Valley Rd., Los Osos.

EXPLORE THE TIDE POOLS AT CORALLINA COVE 2 mile active hike from the Bluff Trailhead, 100 yards south of Spooner Ranch House, to learn local history, and look for sea birds, whales, seals and otters.

Explore the Corallina Cove tide pools at low tide. March

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“With each performance of Dorrance Dance, tap expands.”

— THE NEW YORK TIMES

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YOUTH SELF DEFENSE AND AWARENESS Learn

19, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Free. 805-528-0513. Montaña de Oro, 3550 Pecho Valley Rd., Los Osos.

the basics of mixed martial arts. For ages 7 and up.

Mondays, Wednesdays, 5:15-6 p.m. 805-701-7397. Morro Bay Martial Arts, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay.

LOS OSOS OAKS: ANCIENT FOREST WALK Shaded stroll from the Reserve parking lot, 0.7 miles east of South Bay Boulevard, through magnificent ancient oaks to learn colorful history, identify native plants and see evidence of Chumash habitation. March 15, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. 805-772-2694. Los Osos Oaks State Reserve, 1801 Los Osos Valley Rd., Los Osos.

TREASURING TIDE POOLS Walk from the Bluff Trailhead, 100 yards south of Spooner Ranch House, to gaze into a tide pool, learn tide pool etiquette and about the coastal sage community.

Wear closed toe shoes that can get wet. No flip flops.

March 18, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free. 805-528-0513. Montaña de Oro, 3550 Pecho Valley Rd., Los Osos.

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TEENS COOKING CLASS SERIES Join instructor Evan Vossler in this hands-on cooking class for teens ages 13 to 16. Max 9 kids. Second Thursday of every month, 5:30-7 p.m. through Jan. 14 $25. 805-434-1800. facebook.com/pg/thewellnesskitchen/events. The Wellness Kitchen and Resource Center, 1255 Las Tablas Rd. Suite 102, Templeton.

PHOTO COURTESY OF CASS WINERY

WINDY COVE MUD AND TIDE POOLS An easy, but

SOUNDspace T U E S DAY, M A RC H 1 7, 2 02 0 • 7: 3 0 P M PERFORMING ARTS CENTER SAN LUIS OBISPO

Join us for a free 30-minute Pre-Show Lecture at 6:30 p.m. in the PAC Pavilion

by Leah Weaver, tap dance instructor at Studio @-Ryan's American Dance.

TICKETS: CALPOYARTS.ORG OR 805-756-4849 SPONSORED BY ANN ROBINSON & JIM SARGEN

New York City’s Dorrance Dance is an award-winning tap dance company and one of the hottest ensembles touring today. Their work aims to honor tap dance’s uniquely beautiful history in a new dynamic and compelling context — not by stripping the form of its tradition, but by pushing it rhythmically, technically and conceptually. Through myriad sounds and textures of the feet, SOUNDspace explores what is most captivating and exceptional about tap dancing: movement as music.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! SLO County’s Non-profit

PEDIATRIC DENTAL CENTER

TolosaChildrensDental.org

Quality Care for Over 6000+ Local Under-served Children

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muddy walk beginning outside the museum to investigate the mud, rocks, plants and organisms that live in the cove. Wear “mud” shoes or boots, no bare feet. March 19, 2-4 p.m. Free. 805-7722694. Morro Bay Museum of Natural History, 20 State Park Rd., Morro Bay.

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SIERRA CLUB HIKE: AMERICAN CANYON TO BUCKEYE CAMP This is a strenuous 12 mile hike in the Garcia Wilderness.

The elevation gain is 2000 ft. There are some creek crossings. Meet in Santa Margarita at Pacific Beverage.

Bring lunch and water. Rain or extreme heat postpones.

Dogs on leash okay. March 14, 8 a.m. None. 805-5460317. Pacific Beverage Co., 22255 El Camino Real Drive, Santa Margarita.

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HIKE AT BISHOP PEAK’S FELSMAN LOOP WITH ECOSLO Join ECOSLO

MARCH 12 - MARCH 19 2020

THESE SIPS DON’T LIE

Cass Winery in Paso Robles hosts its Sunset Social on Friday, March 20, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Guests of the winery can enjoy sunset views with live music from Acoustic Soundhouse. Wines and café offerings will be available for purchase. Admission to the event is free, but reservations are required at my805tix.com, as space is limited. Call (805) 239-1730 for more info.

—C.W.

docent Adam for a free guided hike on the Felsman Loop trail at Bishop Peak. Rain within 24 hours cancels event.

March 14, 8-11 a.m. 805-544-1777. ecoslo.org/events/.

Felsman Loop, Patricia Dr., San Luis Obispo.

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BEES OF THE CENTRAL COAST John Chesnut, a local bee keeper, shares with us the story of the Central Coast bees, what they do and how we can help them.

March 14, 2-3 p.m. Free. 805-473-7161. Arroyo Grande Library, 800 W. Branch, Arroyo Grande, slolibrary.org.

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DRAMA AND PLAY CLASSES: AGES 2-4 Build language, develop motor skills, and practice cooperation, concentration, and problem solving.

Mondays, 10:15-11 a.m. $120 for 10 weeks. 805-7090761. pyjamadrama.com/us. SLO Movement Arts Center, 2074 Parker St., San Luis Obispo.

FREE MOONLIGHT HOURS Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes for sponsoring this evening. March 19, 5-8 p.m. Free. 805-545-5874. San Luis Obispo Children’s Museum, 1010 Nipomo St., San Luis Obispo, slocm.org.

INTERNET VIDEO GAME DESIGNERS: CLASS FOR KIDS Students will explore the world of internet

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MORRO BAY MARTIAL ARTS: WORLD CHAMPION INSTRUCTION Offering adult and youth classes in kickboxing, boxing, judo, Jiu Jitsu, MMA, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and self defense. ongoing 805-701-7397.

Morro Bay Martial Arts, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay.

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CAL POLY BASEBALL VS OKLAHOMA The Mustangs take on a nationally ranked Oklahoma at Baggett Stadium. March 12, 6 p.m. gopoly.com/. It’s a Blackout game, so wear black and be one of the first 1500 fans at the game to receive a black rally towel.

March 13, 6 p.m. gopoly.com/. Celebrate Pi Day with Cal Poly Baseball at Baggett Stadium. March 14, 4 p.m. gopoly.com/. It’s Youth Day, so all kids 13 and under get in for free, and can run the bases and get autographs after the game. March 15, 1 p.m. gopoly.com/. Baggett Stadium, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, 805-756-7297.

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KIDS COMBO: AGES 6-9 AND 9-AND-UP This is a beginner’s class for boys and girls to learn how to expressively move in their bodies, while focusing on alignment, coordination, and dance technique; combo lyrical, jazz, and hip hop. Through May 28, 5:30-6:30 p.m. and Thursdays, 4:45-5:30 p.m. through May 28 $18 drop in or $60 per month. 805-215-4565. omnistudiomb.com.

Omni Studio, 698 Morro Bay Blvd., Morro Bay.

gaming through designing web-based (HTML5) game apps. No prior coding experience necessary. Studentcreated games can be accessible on online or be played on any mobile device or computer. March 20, 10 a.m.3:30 p.m. $80. 805-237-3991. Cuesta College, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo.

MAKE A WORM FARM What do worms do under the soil? Make a wormery with dirt and sand and find out.

March 14, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 805-545-5874. San Luis Obispo Children’s Museum, 1010 Nipomo St., San Luis Obispo, slocm.org.

MINI TERRARIUMS FOR TEENS Learn how to make a mini terrarium to take home. All materials will be provided. For grades 6-12. Teen Area. March 19, 4-5 p.m. Free. 805-781-5775. San Luis Obispo Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

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I-GEN RELIGION: HOW TODAY’S YOUTH SEES SPIRITUALITY Dr. Stephen Lloyd-Moffett, Professor at Cal Poly, will be presenting “I-Gen Religion: How Today’s Youth Sees Spirituality”. Come join us for this lively talk.

Everyone is welcome. March 15, 10-11 a.m. 805-3954055. Unitarian Universalist Church, 786 Arlington, Cambria.

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LIFE CHANGING INNER HEALING WORKSHOP CULTURE & LIFESTYLE continued page 31

CULTURE & LIFESTYLE from page 30 Train with Robert Burney’s Spiritual Integration Formula for Codependency Recovery and Inner Child Healing.

March 15, 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $25. 805-203-5875. joy2meu2.com/coalesce-workshop. Coalesce Garden Chapel, 845 Main St., Morro Bay.

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ASK SABRINA 30 years of Tarot reading experience.

Open Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in SLO County and Thursday and Sunday in South SLO County. ongoing 805-441-4707. asksabrina.com. Private Location, TBA, San Luis Obispo.

THRIVING WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION Explore various supportive and positive practices. Second Friday of every month, 10:30 a.m.-noon Donations accepted.

805-439-2757. https:RuthCherryPhD.com. Unity Church, 1130 Orcutt, San Luis Obispo.

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ART CENTER MORRO BAY Seeking volunteers to be docents and/or organize art programs. Mondays-Sundays, 12-4 p.m. Free. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org.

Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

MUSEUM-STATE PARK VOLUNTEER DOCENT TRAINING The Museum and CA State Parks will hold a three-session training program, for a variety of volunteer docent positions within San Luis Coast District.

Pre-registration required. ongoing Free. 805-772-2694.

Morro Bay Museum of Natural History, 20 State Park Rd., Morro Bay.

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AGING WELL: NORTH COUNTY SENIOR PEER COUNSELING WORKSHOP Interested in becoming a Senior Peer Counselor? Wilshire Community Services trains volunteers age 55+ to provide free in-home supportive counseling to seniors. March 19, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and March 20, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Free. 805-547-7025. wilshirehcs.org. Wilshire Health and Community Services: North County, 106 Gateway Center Dr., Paso Robles.

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ADOPT A GRANDPARENT: MONTHLY VOLUNTEER TRAINING Help out in your neighborhood by connecting with older adults that need a little extra help. March 21, 10 a.m.-noon 805-5477025. Wilshire Community Services, 285 South St., suite J, San Luis Obispo, wilshirecommunityservices.org.

DRESS A CHILD AROUND THE WORLD Welcoming volunteers to sew simple dresses and shorts for children in developing countries around the world, enabling them to attend school. Please bring a sewing machine in good operating order. Fabric and notions are provided. Third Thursday of every month, 1-4 p.m. Free. 805-441-8031.

United Church of Christ (Congregational) of San Luis Obispo, 11245 Los Osos Valley Rd., San Luis Obispo.

HOSPICE SLO COUNTY VOLUNTEER TRAINING Preregistration required. In-Home Volunteers assist individuals with a life-limiting illness and their families by providing caregiver respite, practical assistance, emotional support, companionship, and comfort. Thursdays, 1-6 p.m.

Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo.org/workshops. Hospice SLO County, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo.

LITERACY FOR LIFE TUTOR TRAINING Work oneon-one with non-literate adults learning to read, write, and speak English. Tutors must attend both trainings.

March 14, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and March 21, 10 a.m.3:30 p.m. Free. 805-541-4219. literacyforlifeslo.org.

Union Bank, 995 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo.

LOAN CLOSET ASSOCIATE The Riso Family Loan Closet offers short-term use of durable medical equipment to people who are in the healing and recovery process. Volunteer Position: Associate accepts donations, sanitizes and checks-out equipment, and answers phone. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 805-547-7025. Wilshire Community Services, 285 South St., suite J, San Luis Obispo, wilshirecommunityservices.org.

QUARTERLY VOLUNTEER OPEN HOUSE WITH WILSHIRE Learn about all the ways you can volunteer with Wilshire Health and Community Services. Become educated on the soulfulness of volunteering. March 20, 10 a.m.-noon 805-547-7025. Wilshire Community Services, 285 South St., suite J, San Luis Obispo, wilshirecommunityservices.org.

SLO REP SEEKING VOLUNTEER BARTENDERS Must be 21 or over. All volunteers receive complimentary tickets. Email volunteer@slorep.org for more info. ongoing slorep.org. San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre, 888 Morro St., San Luis Obispo, 805-786-2440.

FOOD & DRINK FARMERS MARKETS

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BAYWOOD FARMERS MARKET Mondays, 2-4:30 p.m. northcountyfarmersmarkets.com. Baywood Farmers Market, Santa Maria and 2nd Street, Los Osos.

MORRO BAY MAIN STREET FARMER MARKET Every Saturday 2:30-5:30 p.m., year round, rain or shine. Delightful mix of local farm fresh products, baked goods, crafts, and art from more than 30 vendors. Saturdays, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Morro Bay Main Street Farmers Market, Main Street and Morro Bay Boulevard, Morro Bay, 928-350-5960, facebook.com/ MorroBayMainStreetFarmersMarket/.

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ATASCADERO FARMERS MARKET Visit site for info on featured music artists and chefs. Wednesdays, 3-6 p.m. Free. visitatascadero.com. Sunken Gardens, 6505 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

CAMBRIA FARMERS MARKET Fridays, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. 805-395-6659. cambriafarmersmarket. com. Cambria Veterans Memorial Hall, 1000 Main St., Cambria.

PASO ROBLES FARMERS MARKET Tuesdays, 9-11:30 a.m. northcountyfarmersmarkets.com. Paso Robles Farmers Market, Spring and 11th Street, Paso Robles.

TEMPLETON FARMERS MARKET Saturdays, 9 a.m.12:30 p.m. northcountyfarmersmarkets.com. Templeton Park, 550 Crocker St., Templeton.

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FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market in SLO is the largest Farmers Market in California. Thursdays, 6:10-9 p.m. Downtown SLO, Higuera Street, San Luis Obispo.

SLO FARMERS MARKET Hosts over 60 vendors.

Saturdays, 8-10:45 a.m. World Market Parking Lot, 325 Madonna Rd., San Luis Obispo.

SLO TUESDAY FARMERS’ MARKET Tuesdays, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Farm Supply, 224 Tank Farm Rd., San Luis Obispo.

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ARROYO GRANDE FARMERS MARKET Includes produce, artists and musicians. Saturdays, 12-2:25 p.m.

Arroyo Grande Farmers Market, Olohan Alley, Arroyo Grande.

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J. LOHR WINEMAKER DINNER Join us for an elegant evening and delicious meal in the Peacock Room at the Cambria Pines Lodge. Enjoy an expertly-prepared wine pairing dinner. March 15, 6-9 p.m. $75. 805-924-3360. cambriapineslodge.com/onsite. Cambria Pines Lodge, 2905 Burton Dr., Cambria.

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“WINE DOWN” MONDAYS Come and “Wine Down” with us on Monday nights. Mondays, 4-9 p.m. 805-461-5100.

The Nautical Cowboy, 6005 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

3 WAYS WITH... A HEALTHY COOKING CLASS SERIES Each month our Chef will take one seasonal ingredient and show you how to prepare it three different ways. Third Thursday of every month, 5-6:30 p.m. through Jan. 1 20 or free to those who are ill. 805-4341800. The Wellness Kitchen and Resource Center, 1255 Las Tablas Rd. Suite 102, Templeton, TheWKRC.org.

DAILY HAPPY HOUR AT THE NAUTICAL COWBOY Enjoy happy hour specials at this Central Coast steak and seafood house. ongoing, 4-6 p.m. 805-461-5100. the-carlton.com/dining/the-nautical-cowboy. The Nautical Cowboy, 6005 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

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$2 TACO TUESDAY Mix and match your favorite street tacos for $2 each all day long on Tuesdays. Tuesdays, 3-10 p.m. through April 7 Luna Red, 1023 Chorro St., San Luis Obispo, 805-540-5243.

1/2 OFF WINE TUESDAYS Enjoy 50% off all bottles of wine $199 and under all day long on Tuesdays. Dine in only, with the purchase of food. Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. through April 7 Novo Restaurant & Lounge, 726 Higuera Street, San Luis Obispo, (805) 543-3986, novorestaurant.com.

EAST MEETS WEST: 91 HARVESTS AND FULL BOAR Two films spotlighting the Paso Robles wine county are featured in the SLOIFF. March 18, 7:30-9 p.m. $15. 805-439-4647. winehistoryproject.org. The Fremont Theater, 1035 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

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LENTEN FISH FRYS Choose from 1-, 2-, 3-, or 4-piece fish dinners that also include fries and homemade coleslaw. Beer, wine, soda, bottled water and desserts also available for an additional charge. Dine in or take out available. March 20, 4-7 p.m. $8-$20. 805-4892680. St. Patrick’s Church, 501 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande, stpatsag.org. ∆

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Presents

SIX DAYS OF FILM, WINE & FUN ON THE CINEMATIC CENTRAL COAST Enjoy over one hundred movies and many special events throughout SLO County Hotel SLO at 877 Palm St. is home to the Festival Lounge and the Festival Headquarters.

The Festival Lounge is open to Full Access pass holders and Movie Star passes on week day afternoons.

Festival Passes, Special Event Tickets and our Festival Guide are available at the Festival HQ and online at: SLOFILMFEST.ORG AND FESTIVAL HQ — HOTEL SLO (entrance on Morro St.)

Pass holders receive priority entry to all screenings.

Rush tickets may be purchased at each venue before showtime based on availability.

Please check slofilmfest.org for updates and announcements.

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THE GEORGE SIDNEY INDEPENDENT FILM COMPETITION

This is the main fare of the Festival and although some screen on Wednesday, most screen Thursday through Sunday and are eligible for juried awards, presented on Saturday evening, and Audience Choice Awards presented at Closing Night. Screening schedule and descriptions for all films in competition available at slofilmfest.org and in printed Festival Guides.

THE COASTAL AWAKENING: A TRIBUTE TO PHILIP GLASS

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OPENING NIGHT

Nashville Comes to SLO with a screening of IT ALL BEGINS WITH A SONG: THE STORY OF THE NASHVILLE SONGWRITER , followed by Q&A and live performances by Jade Jackson and Jude Johnson. Fremont Theatre. 7pm. Pre-Party at Luna Red at 5pm for Full Access Passholders.

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CENTRAL COAST FILMMAKER SHOWCASE

We are very proud to showcase this eclectic mix of films written, directed and produced by residents of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Monterey Counties. Awards will be presented to winning films on Sunday, March 22 at the Fremont Theatre. Most Central Coast films screen on Wednesday, and filmmakers are celebrated at a Red Carpet mixer at the Festival Lounge.

HOLLYWOOD & VINES EVENT: THE CHEF AND BREAKING BREAD BREAKING BREAD is a visually beautiful film offers a recipe for tolerance and hope.

Combine Arab and Jewish chefs and ask them to collaborate on mouthwatering local dishes. This is what the first Muslim Arab to wine Israel’s MasterChef competition did, on a quest to effect social change. Short film THE CHEF screens first. The Rock. 7pm. Also screens at The Rock on Thursday at 1pm. Both screenings offer complimentary Middle East themed appetizers too! More Hollywood & Vines Events can be found at slofilmfest.org.

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The Coast Awakening celebrates the indigenous counter-culture of the central coast and this year’s focus is on three films featuring the life and art of avant-garde “classicist” composer and pianist Philip Glass. GLASS: A PORTRAIT OF PHILIP IN TWELVE PARTS – 1:15pm followed by KOYAANISQATSI at 4:15pm and KUNDUN at 7:15pm.

All movies screen at the Palm Theatre.

OCTAGON BARN MOVIE NIGHT

Come and see the newly renovated historic dairy barn on the edge of SLO, and enjoy great wines, beer and an Old San Luis BBQ dinner, followed by WALKIN’ CALIFORNIA: PISMO PRESERVE and the highly acclaimed THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM .

Event begins at 5:30pm.

STRAIGHT FROM SUNDANCE…

We grabbed two exciting new films from the recent Sundance Film Festival!

DISCLOSURE: TRANS LIVES ON SCREEN is an unprecedented look at transgender depictions in film and TV, featuring Laverne Cox and many other notable trans personalities.

Downtown Cinemas. 7pm. Also don’t miss DINNER IN AMERICA , a nihilist punk comedy, screening at the Rock on Friday at 9pm and the Fremont on Sunday at 4pm.

MOVIE NIGHT IN PASO

Three new indie movies of varying lengths, all filmed in the Paso Robles area are the focus for this event at the Park Cinemas, starting at 7pm.

After-party hosted by Jeffry’s Wine Country BBQ

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CLASSIC MEXICAN CINEMA — ENAMORADA

This newly remastered classic from the UCLA Archives can be seen on the Big Screen at the Fremont Theatre. Featuring 1930’s Cal Poly grad Pedro Armendariz in the leading role, this is the story of a revolutionary soldier who falls into a difficult love affair in the town of Cholula. After the movie, he will receive a posthumous award presented to LA’s Mexican Consulate by Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong.

FILMMAKER AND KING VIDOR AWARDS NIGHT

Join us for our most festive evening as we celebrate independent filmmakers with awards presented by major festival sponsors, followed by our annual presentation of the 2020 King Vidor Award.

This year’s honoree is writer/director/producer Lawrence Kasdan, and he will sit down to talk about his impressive career with TCM host, Ben Mankiewicz. Kasdan’s STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK will screen after that and the SLO Museum of Art will host the afterparty. Fremont Theatre. 7pm.

FRIDAY NIGHT IN PASO

At the Justin Downtown Tasting Room on the park, a pre-movie reception will include their incredible wines and Mexican-themed appetizers. A short walk from there, the Park Cinemas will screen NOTHING FANCY: DIANA KENNEDY, a wonderful whirlwind tour through the life and work of the 97-year-old cookbook author and environmental activist who has spent her life mastering Mexican cuisine. Pre-party at 5:30pm, movie at 7pm.

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FILMMAKERS OF TOMORROW SHOWCASE

Featuring short films made by young people 18 years and under, both local and global, this special screening is free to all students. Downtown Cinemas. 1pm.

Cash awards will be presented at the Fremont Theatre later at 6pm.

THE BIG PARADE

Directed by the namesake of our annual award, King Vidor’s 1925 classic will remind you why the SLO Film Fest has been celebrating his long career for 26 years!

Palm Theatre. 3pm.

SURF NITE IN SLO

Brent Storm’s award winning WHITE RHINO is the focus of this year’s 15th annual Surf Nite, with North Shore surfer Dave Wassel, surf photographer Brian Bielmann, and the filmmakers in attendance. Opening film, 93: LETTERS FROM MARGE will be introduced by pioneer surfer Linda Benson. Fremont Theater. 7pm.

RED-EYE CINEMA

Our new addition to SLO Film Fest 2020 is a late-night series of genre films that push the envelope a bit. If you’re into edgy cinema, come out to The Rock on Thursday and Friday nights for some great films and special guests. SLO Brew Rock’s restaurant, bar and new distillery will be open for drinks and nibbles. 9pm.

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SURF & SWIM FILMS AT THE BAY THEATRE

Start your day by diving in to two films about water sports in Morro Bay WATERPROOF chronicles highly respected lifeguards who ensure the safety of residents and tourists on Long Island, NY. SPOONS: A SANTA BARBARA STORY focuses on the surfers, filmmakers and surf board shapers in Santa Barbara. Bay Theatre. 11am.

BEHIND-THE-SCENES PANELS AND WORKSHOPS

From cinematography to acting to how to make a movie in SLO County, there are a variety of ways you can learn more about the finer points of making a film, besides what you’ll learn from Q&A’s at almost all festival screenings. Panels begin at 9am at the Odd Fellow’s Hall. Check schedule for full details on weekend offerings.

CLOSING NIGHT

Awards and BANANA SPLIT Awards will be presented to Central Coast and youth filmmakers, and Audience Award winners, followed by the Spotlight Award! Then 26 yr. old Hannah Marks, actress/writer/ producer of BANANA SPLIT, will introduce her newest film BANANA SPLIT. Fremont Theater. 6pm.

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His father’s (and mother’s) son PHOTO COURTESY OF ROBERT EARL KEEN

‘Shooter’ Jennings headlines The Siren in Morro Bay

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PHOTO COURTESY OF SHOOTER JENNINGS ike his famous parents— country music legends Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter— Waylon Albright “Shooter” Jennings is a musical badass, a singersongwriter who adopted his parents’ love of Southern rock and outlaw county.

According to legend, his “Shooter” moniker came from one of two places. His mom said it was his dad’s love of guncentric Western culture and cowboy art; his OUTLAW Shooter Jennings brings his Southern rock and outlaw dad claims the country to The Siren on March 14. moment his son came out version better. And I believe it’s true. He of the womb, didn’t make shit like that up.” he sprayed urine on a nurse before they This Saturday, March 14, Numbskull could get a diaper on him. and Good Medicine present Shooter “I love my mom,” Jennings told the Los Jennings in Morro Bay’s The Siren Angeles Times in 2005, “but I like Dad’s (doors at 8 p.m.; 21-and-older; $30 presale

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ANDY SCOTT LIVE Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m. Free.

Bistro, 1099 Embarcadero, Morro Bay.

LOUIE ORTEGA LIVE Tuesdays, 8-11 p.m. Cambria

Cambria Pines Lodge, 2905 Burton Dr., Cambria, 805927-4200, cambriapineslodge.com.

Pines Lodge, 2905 Burton Dr., Cambria, 805-927-4200, cambriapineslodge.com.

BANJERDAN LIVE Tuesdays, 3 p.m. Cambria Pines

MARCUS DIMAGGIO LIVE Fridays, 3-6 p.m. Free.

Lodge, 2905 Burton Dr., Cambria, 805-927-4200, cambriapineslodge.com.

Cambria Pines Lodge, 2905 Burton Dr., Cambria, 805927-4200, cambriapineslodge.com.

BOBBY MALONE LIVE Saturdays, 3-6 p.m. Free.

Cambria Pines Lodge, 2905 Burton Dr., Cambria, 805927-4200, cambriapineslodge.com.

MUSIC IN THE GARDEN WITH SISTER SPEAK Join Robin’s in the garden for an evening of music, dining, and friends among the pines with Sister Speak. March 15, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $5. 805-927-5007. robinsrestaurant. com. Robin’s Restaurant, 4095 Burton Drive, Cambria.

DOUBLE BASS AND FRIENDS Presented by Symphony of the Vines. Program includes Schubert’s beloved Trout Quintet, Vaughan Williams’ Quintet, and a world premier composition by Mary Bianco. March 21, 1 p.m. Up to $30. my805tix.com. Trinity United Methodist Church, 490 Los Osos Valley Rd., Los Osos, 805-528-1649.

FAMOUS JAZZ ARTISTS SERIES Famous Jazz Artist Series celebrates the film songs of Henry Mancini and Jimmy Van Heusen. March 15, 4-6 & 7-8 p.m. $20, students $10. 805-927-0179. Pewter Plough Playhouse, 828 Main St., Cambria.

JON STEPHENS LIVE Thursdays, 5 p.m. Free. 805927-0175. lascambritas.com. Las Cambritas, 2336 Main St., Cambria.

LIVE MUSIC AT OLD CAYUCOS TAVERN Fridays, Saturdays Free. 805-995-3209. oldcayucostavern.com.

Old Cayucos Tavern & Cardroom, 130 N Ocean Ave., Cayucos.

LIVE MUSIC AT STAX Thursdays, Sundays, 6-8 p.m.

Free. 805-772-5055. staxwine.com. Stax Wine Bar &

at Boo Boo’s and eventbrite. com or $35 at the door).

Jennings has a couple new singles out: “Warrior Man” from the Squidbillies soundtrack; and a cover of “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” with Willie’s son Lukas Nelson, which opens the TV series The Ranch.

‘The road goes on forever ... ’

‘GRINGO HONEYMOON’ Amazing singersongwriter Robert Earl Keen canceled his show at the Fremont Theater on March 14.

“… and the party never ends.” Well, that’s how the song goes, but Robert Earl Keen is singing another tune this week. He was set to play the Fremont on Saturday, March 14, but as of March 11, the show is canceled. In the face of the coronavirus in the state, Keen reportedly decided to cancel some California shows for the safety of his band.

As of press time, no other Fremont shows are canceled, so buy tickets in good faith, but stay informed!

Also this week at the Fremont, see former 2AM Club member Marc E. Bassy on Friday, March 13 (doors at 8 p.m.; all ages; $33.17 presale at Boo Boo’s and fremontslo.com), with Gianni & Kyle opening. Bassy is touring in support of his new album PMD. If you were hoping to see The Growlers at the Fremont on Monday, March 16, that one sold out.

special guests Alex Van Brasch, Craig Louis Dingman, Steve Key, and touring artist, Elwood. March 16, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. 805-204-6821. The Savory Palette (formerly Morro Bay Wine Seller), 601 Embarcadero, Morro Bay.

TED WISE: GUITAR AND VOCALS A subtle acoustic backdrop to complement wining, dining, and coastal lifestyle. Third Thursday of every month, 6-8 p.m. Free. 559-361-5144. reverbnation.com/ tedwiseguitarandvocals. Stax Wine Bar & Bistro, 1099 Embarcadero, Morro Bay.

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ADAM LEVINE AND JUDY PHILBIN Levine and

THE REAL BLUES JAM SOUTH Ted Waterhouse hosts. All levels welcome. Third Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Free. 805-704-5116. tedwaterhouse. com. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay.

Philbin perform live jazz. Thursdays, 7-9 p.m. Free. 805238-2834. labellasera.com. Enoteca Restaurant and Bar, 206 Alexa Ct., Paso Robles.

SAN LUIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA LIVE Features

Damon Castillo Band March 15, 4-6 p.m. Free. Cass Winery And Vineyard, 7350 Linne Rd., Paso Robles, 805.239.1730.

dancers from Ballet San Luis Obispo. Keith Waibel conducting. March 15, 3 p.m. $10 donation. 805-7486087. sanluischamberorchestra.org. Trinity United Methodist Church, 490 Los Osos Valley Rd., Los Osos.

SLOFOLKS PRESENTS THE HONEY DEWDROPS Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish are continuing to raise the bar for folk/Americana duos. Their songwriting brings to mind masters of the genre: Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, John Prine. March 14, 7:30-10 p.m. $20.

805-238-0725. slofolks.org. Castoro Cellars, 1315 N. Bethel Rd., Templeton.

SONGWRITERS AT PLAY FEATURES DORIAN MICHAEL Blues shouter and fingerstyle guitar wizard Dorian Michael headlines our weekly showcase, with

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BARREL ROOM CONCERT Enjoy live music from the

BAY LOVE LIVE: COLONY CONCERT SERIES Kids and pets welcome. A Big Big SLO event. March 14, 5-7 p.m. 805-460-6252. Colony Market and Deli, 6040 El Camino Real, Atascadero, colonymarketanddeli.com.

THE BELMORES LIVE A team of singer-songwriters and storytellers. March 13, 6-9 p.m. 805-461-5100. nauticalcowboy.com. The Nautical Cowboy, 6005 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

BRETT AND JULIA MITCHELL LIVE Jazz, pop,

and R&B masters. March 21, 6-9 p.m. 805-461-5100. nauticalcowboy.com. The Nautical Cowboy, 6005 El

In it for the ‘longhaul’!

Three of SLO’s favorite sons—James Kaye, Wynn, and Kody Balboa—who used to live locally but now make LA home return this Friday, March 13, for a show at SLO Brew Rock courtesy of Longhaul Music Group and Wild 106 radio (doors at 7 p.m.; 18-and-older; $20 presale at slobrew.com). The event also features performances by Howflyy, Nije, D Banks, Cam Jones, Risko, 22 Rell, FG Thrilla, and Lorde Sanctus. This is the same hip-hop crew that packed The Siren last November for a holiday show.

Also at SLO Brew Rock, check out a funk matinee with High Pulp, Silk Ocean, and Golfdad on Saturday, March 14 (2 p.m.; all ages; free). High Pulp is a funk STARKEY continued page 35

Camino Real, Atascadero.

GUTTERMOUTH LIVE Featuring the McNaughstys and Downtown Brown (openers). March 14, 6-9 p.m. $25. Tooth and Nail Winery, 3090 Anderson Rd., Paso Robles, 805-369-6100, rabblewine. com/tasting-room/.

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LIV AND STARLING LIVE Enjoy live music from this rock duo on vocals and guitar during this free outdoor concert. March 14, 2-5 p.m. Complimentary. 805-7790028. Longbranch Saloon Bar and Grill, 6258 Webster Road, Creston.

LIVE JAZZ WITH ROBERT VESNAVER Enjoy the jazz stylings of Robert Vesnaver. From smooth trumpet to sumptuous sax to gorgeous piano. March 20, 6-9 p.m. 805-461-5100. nauticalcowboy.com. The Nautical Cowboy, 6005 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

LIVE MUSIC AT ASUNCION RIDGE Fridays, Saturdays, 5-8 p.m. Free. 805-237-1425. asuncionridge. com. Asuncion Ridge, 725 12th St., Paso Robles.

MISS LEO LIVE: COLONY CONCERT SERIES Miss Leo has taken Central California by storm. She brings to the table what the West Coast’s folk and bluegrass scene needs: a Rootsy Americana female artist with powerhouse vocals. March 14, 5-7 p.m. 805-4606252. Colony Market and Deli, 6040 El Camino Real, MUSIC LISTINGS continued page 37

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Strictly Starkey PHOTO COURTESY OF KANSAS

‘CARRY ON WAYWARD SON’ Seventies powerhouse Kansas comes to the Performing Arts Center on March 18, as part of their Point of Know Return Tour.

STARKEY from page 34

and acid-jazz fusion ensemble from Seattle that also bills themselves as a “punk garage anti-bop big band.”

Finally, get your St. Paddy’s Day on at SLO Brew Rock on Tuesday, March 17 (11:30 a.m.; all ages; free). Expect Chef Tom’s traditional Irish specials and local music from the bagpipe masterminds Central Coast Pipes & Drums.

‘Dust in the Wind’

PHOTO COURTESY OF LONGHAUL MUSIC GROUP

PRODIGAL SONS Longhaul Music Group and Wild 106 presents (left to right) former locals Kody Balboa, Wynn, and James Kaye, who’ll come up from LA for a huge hip-hop party on March 13, in SLO Brew Rock.

deep cuts, and fan favorites.

“It’s exciting how popular the Point of Know Return anniversary shows have been,” Platt said in press materials.

“When we wrap up this fourth and final leg, we will have played nearly 100 of these shows over nearly two years.

We’ve worked hard to give audiences a memorable musical experience with this tour. We’re excited to continue it with the final leg of the tour, then see what we come up with next!”

Seventies arena rockers Kansas play the Performing Arts Center at Cal Poly this Wednesday, March 18 (7:30 p.m.; 5-and-older; $49.50 to $140 at pacslo.org or by calling (805) 756-4849).

The legendary band that—yes—came out of Topeka, Kansas, released its self-titled debut in 1974 and went on to release a string of classic rock albums: Song for America (1975), Masque (1975), Leftoverture (1976), Point of Know Return (1977), and Monolith (1979).

All told, the band has 16 studio albums and five live albums under their collective belts, selling more than 30 million records worldwide.

The band is currently made up of original drummer Phil Ehart, bassist/ vocalist Billy Greer, vocalist/keyboardist Ronnie Platt, violinist/guitarist David Ragsdale, keyboardist Tom Brislin, guitarist Zak Rizvi, and original guitarist Richard Williams.

To mark the 43rd anniversary of their massive hit album Point of Know Return, they’ll play it in its entirety.

The tour showcases other hit songs,

Boulder-based mountain reggae act Policulture plays the Frog and Peach Pub this Friday, March 13, during their reggae night (10 p.m. to 1 a.m.; 21-andolder). Expect heavy drum and bass with roots rhythm, phat horns, and socially conscious lyrics.

SLOfolks presents Americana duo The Honey Dewdrops—Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish—at Coalesce Bookstore on Friday, March 13 (7 p.m.; all ages; $20 at (805) 772-2880); and in Castoro Cellars on Saturday, March 14 (7:30 p.m.; all ages; $20 at (805) 2380725 or castorocellars.com/events).

Cal Poly Choirs presents Traditions, a concert featuring Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble on Sunday, March 15 (3 p.m.; 5-and-older; $12 or $14 general or $9 or $12 for students at (805) 756-4849). Kitka will also perform a special guest set of arrangements of traditional folk music from Bulgaria and the greater Balkan Peninsula, and the Cal Poly groups will perform a variety of

PHOTO COURTESY OF JUDE JOHNSTONE

PHOTO COURTESY OF KITKA

SHE WRITES THE SONGS The Painted Sky Concert Series presents an evening with singer-songwriter Jude Johnstone, who’s written hits for everyone from Johnny Cash and Emmylou Harris to Bette Midler and Stevie Nicks, on March 16, in Cambria’s Painted Sky Studios.

More music …

BULGARIA AND THE BALKANS The Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble performs on March 15, in Miossi Hall of the Performing Arts Center’s Christopher Cohan Center as part of concert feature four of Cal Poly’s choral ensembles.

American traditions.

The SLO County Jazz Federation hosts its annual Young Jazz Artists Scholarship Concert this Sunday, March 15 (4 p.m.; all ages; free), at the Unity Concert Hall, featuring six of the best young jazz performers coming from local high schools, Cuesta College, and Cal Poly. Each will perform with Gary Drysdale (guitar), Travis Harms (bass), and Darrell Voss (drums). The scholarship awards are funded by the Matt Taylor Memorial Trust.

The Painted Sky Concert Series presents an evening with singersongwriter Jude Johnstone on Monday, March 16 (7:30 p.m.; all ages; $20 at Boo Boo’s, Ball and Skein, or by calling (805) 927-8330). Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Bette Midler, Stevie Nicks, Mary Black, Stephen Bishop, Jennifer Warnes, and Trisha Yearwood are a few of the artists who’ve covered Jude’s amazing songs. ∆ Keep up with New Times Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey via Twitter at twitter. com/glenstarkey, friend him at facebook.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HONEY DEWDROPS

AMERICANA SLOfolks presents the terrific folk duo The Honey Dewdrops on March 13 in Coalesce Bookstore and March 14 at Castoro Cellars.

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Thursdays, 6 p.m.-midnight 805-439-0969. sweetspringssaloon.com. Sweet Springs Saloon, 990 Los Osos Valley Rd., Los Osos.

harmonies and rhythmic vitality of the best young composers in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. This concert will connect cultures and art throughout four continents and showcase some of the most recent output from the new generation of composers. March 15, 3 p.m. $10-$15. 805-546-3198. Cuesta College, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo.

THE REAL BLUES JAM NORTH All Blues musicians,

THE GROWLERS NATURAL AFFAIR TOUR 2020

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PINT NIGHT MUSIC AT SWEET SPRINGS SALOON Features local bands and beer specials.

regardless of experience, are welcome to join this jam session. Hosted by Ted Waterhouse with Bruce Willard and Dean Giles. Thursdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $5 donation/musicians exempt. 805-704-5116. danbino. com. D’anbino Vineyards and Cellars, 710 Pine St., Paso Robles.

SATURDAY LIVE Live music every Saturday afternoon.

Wine and lunch offerings available for purchase.

Saturdays, 1-4 p.m. Free. 805-227-4812. vinarobles. com. Vina Robles Winery, 3700 Mill Rd., Paso Robles.

SLOFOLKS PRESENTS THE HONEY DEWDROPS Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish are continuing to raise the bar for folk/Americana duos. Their songwriting brings to mind masters of the genre: Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, John Prine. March 13, 7-9:30 p.m. $20.

805-772-2880. slofolks.org. Coalesce Garden Chapel, 845 Main St., Morro Bay.

SONGWRITERS AT PLAY Presented by Steve Key. Different acts every weekend. Sundays, 1-4 p.m. Free.

805- 226-8881. sculpterra.com. Sculpterra Winery, 5015 Linne Rd., Paso Robles.

SONGWRITERS AT PLAY FEATURES DOUG GILL & LYNN LANGHAM Special guests include Jeff Rymes, Warren Sellers, Steve Key, and Rags Rosenberg.

March 22, 1-4 p.m. Free. 805-204-6821. Sculpterra Winery, 5015 Linne Rd., Paso Robles, sculpterra.com/.

SONGWRITERS AT PLAY FEATURES MISS LEO Miss Leo’s powerful voice has been described as angelic, mesmerizing, and likened to a combination of Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, and June Carter. Special guests include Casey Rodgers and Brad Sanzenbacher.

March 15, 1-4 p.m. Free. 805-204-6821. Sculpterra Winery, 5015 Linne Rd., Paso Robles, sculpterra.com/.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION WITH BARFLYZ Presented by Standing Man Music. Featuring

special guest Julie Beaver on fiddle and vocals. March 15, 4-7 p.m. $13-$23. D’anbino Vineyards and Cellars, 710 Pine St., Paso Robles, 805-227-6800, danbino.com.

VERN SANDERS LIVE This jazz pianist covers songs from the Great American Songbook. Sundays, 5-8 p.m.

805-238-2834. Enoteca Restaurant and Bar, 206 Alexa Ct., Paso Robles, labellasera.com/enoteca-restaurant.

WHITHERWARD LIVE AT THE NAUTICAL COWBOY RESTAURANT Internationally touring indie folk duo with personal stories on life, love, and everything in between. March 14, 6-9 p.m. 805-4615100. nauticalcowboy.com. The Nautical Cowboy, 6005 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

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Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $145 for 8 weeks; $20 to drop-in. 805-400-5335. Cabaret805.com. Cuesta College, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo.

CAL POLY ARAB MUSIC ENSEMBLE WINTER CONCERT Featuring diverse programs of classic and contemporary music and dance, the Arab Music Ensemble will give three main contrasting shows during the concert season. March 14, 7:30 p.m. $14 general; $9 students. 805-756-4849. music.calpoly.edu/ calendar/. Spanos Theatre, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

CAL POLY CHOIRS’ ‘TRADITIONS’ CONCERT: KITKA WOMEN’S VOCAL ENSEMBLE All of Cal Poly’s choral ensembles will perform. Featuring the award-winning Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble from the Bay Area. Kitka’s members have performed, taught and conducted cultural exchange activities in Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine March 15, 3 p.m. $12 and $14 general, $9 and $12 students. 805-756-4849. music.calpoly.edu/ calendar/. Performing Arts Center, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo.

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GYPSY JAZZ NIGHT With the Gypsy All Stars: Laurel Mitchel (vocals), Daniel Cimo (violin), James Gallardo, Ben Arthur, and Toan Chau. Every other Thursday, 9:30-11:30 p.m. Barrelhouse Brewing Co. Speakeasy, 1033 Chorro St., San Luis Obispo, 805-296-1128, barrelhousebrewing.com.

LIVE MUSIC AND FROG AND PEACH Enjoy live music and craft beer seven nights a week. ongoing Complimentary admission. Frog and Peach Pub, 728 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, 805-595-4764, frogandpeachpub.com.

LIVE MUSIC AT MOTHER’S TAVERN Fridays, 7:3010:30 p.m. Free. 805-541-8733. motherstavern.com.

Mother’s Tavern, 725 Higuera St, San Luis Obispo.

LUNA LOUNGE WITH CLOUDSHIP Cloudship is a two-man rock band from Fresno, CA. The duo uses multi-tasking and unique equipment to generate more sound than you would think. March 12, 9-11 p.m. lunaredslo.com. Luna Red, 1023 Chorro St., San Luis Obispo, 805-540-5243.

LUNA LOUNGE WITH HELEN Join Luna Red in the Late Night Llounge as Helen provides a relaxing and eclectic set of originals and classic/alternative rock covers ranging from the 70s to present day. March 14, 9:30-11:30 p.m. lunaredslo.com. Luna Red, 1023 Chorro St., San Luis Obispo, 805-540-5243.

LUNA LOUNGE WITH JASON PEREZ SLO native and co-founder of Soul Dust Productions, Jason Perez.

March 19, 9:30-11:30 p.m. lunaredslo.com. Luna Red, 1023 Chorro St., San Luis Obispo, 805-540-5243.

LUNA LOUNGE WITH MILL ST. COMBO The Mill Street Combo’s performance style ranges from bebop swing to jazz blues, rock and funk fusion. March 19, 9-11 p.m. lunaredslo.com. Luna Red, 1023 Chorro St., San Luis Obispo, 805-540-5243.

MIDDLE EARTH IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM: SLO WINDS ORCHESTRA & CUESTA WIND ENSEMBLE The San Luis Obispo Wind Orchestra and the Cuesta Wind Ensemble present their annual joint concert, featuring the best of the wind band’s repertoire. March 21, 7:30 p.m. Varies. 805-546-3198.

Cuesta College, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo.

MO’ BETTA JAZZ Smooth vocals of the Central Coast’s Deborah Gilmore with backup instrumentals.

March 16, 6-8:30 p.m. $15 donation for concert, $15 for dinner. 805-291-6547. Mama’s Meatball, 570 higuera st. suite 130, San Luis Obispo.

NOACH TANGERAS: BAND ON THE PATIO Join the Pierfront crew for some wine and local music on the patio. March 14, 3-6 p.m. Free. 626-534-7317.

PierFront Wine & Brew, 480 Front Street, Avila Beach, pierfrontwineandbrew.com.

NOCHE CALIENTE Fridays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m. 805-541096. slograd.com. The Graduate, 990 Industrial Way, San Luis Obispo.

ROBERT EARL KEEN Robert Earl Keen will be live

at the Fremont Theater. March 14, 8-11:55 p.m. $30 - $50. 805-329-5725. fremontslo.com. The Fremont Theater, 1035 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

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PierFront Wine & Brew, 480 Front Street, Avila Beach, pierfrontwineandbrew.com.

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ACOUSTIC SUNDAYS Sundays, 3-6 p.m. Seaventure Restaurant, 100 Oceanview Ave., Pismo Beach, 805779-1779, seaventure.com.

A free recital presented by Cal Poly Music Department student instrumentalists. March 12, 11 a.m. Free.

805-756-2406. music.calpoly.edu/calendar/. Cal Poly Davidson Music Center, Room 218, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

BLUES MASTERS JAM Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co, AG, 1462 E. Grand Ave., Arroyo Grande, 805-474-8525, figmtnbrew.com/.

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Gardner on Saxophone will be bringing the good vibes in to PoP. March 14, 7-10 p.m. 805-773-6563. Puffers of Pismo, 781 Price St., Pismo Beach, puffersofpismo. com/.

nominee Yuval Ron bridges racial, religious, and cultural divides through his unique inspirational music. March 14, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $45. my805tix.com. Congregation Beth David, 10180 Los Osos Valley Road, San Luis Obispo, 805-544-0760.

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DEE MILLER AND THE JUMP JAX Minnesota blues singer Dee Miller is frequently referred to as “The Duchess of the Blues” will be sitting in with The Jump Jax for this special show. March 18, 7-10 p.m.

805-773-6563. Puffers of Pismo, 781 Price St., Pismo Beach, puffersofpismo.com/.

DULCIE TAYLOR, GEORGE NAUFUL, AND TRACY MORGAN Dulcie Taylor will be bringing her amazing originals and covers to Puffers of Pismo. Accompanied

by George Nauful, guitar and vocals, and Tracy Morgan on percussion. March 15, 6-9 p.m. 805-7736563. Puffers of Pismo, 781 Price St., Pismo Beach, puffersofpismo.com/.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE MUSIC Enjoy live music and food on the patio. Fridays, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. 805489-9099. branchstreeetdeli.com. Branch Street Deli, 203 E. Branch St., Arroyo Grande.

THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA With timeless hits such as “In the Mood,” “Moonlight Serenade” and many more, few bands have ever had a personality as well-known and well-loved as The Glenn Miller Orchestra.

March 14, 3-5 p.m. $39-$52. 805-489-9444. clarkcenter.org. Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande.

LIDO LIVE Live music at Lido at Dolphin Bay. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 5-8 p.m. Free. 805-773-8900. thedolphinbay.com/lido. Lido Restaurant at Dolphin Bay, 2727 Shell Beach Rd., Pismo Beach.

LIVE MUSIC AT PUFFERS Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Free. 805-773-6563. puffersofpismo.com. Puffers of Pismo, 781 Price St., Pismo Beach.

LIVE MUSIC AT SCOTTY’S Enjoy live music from local artists, cocktails, and food. Fridays, 6-9 p.m.

Scotty’s Bar and Grill, 750 Price St., Pismo Beach, 805773-1922, scottysbarpismo.com.

NATALIE MORRELL LIVE Enjoy a stirring set of songs by Natalie Morrell. Her dulcet voice and plucky ukulele will have you enraptured. March 13, 4:30-6 p.m. 805-773-6563. Puffers of Pismo, 781 Price St.,

Strictly Starkey Pismo Beach, puffersofpismo.com/.

ROBERT HERRERA WITH BRENT WILLIAMS AND ZAC CORNEJO Robert Herrera combines soul musical influences with folk lyricism to create his own unique style. March 13, 7-10 p.m. 805-773-6563. Puffers of Pismo, 781 Price St., Pismo Beach, puffersofpismo. com/.

TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH AND ELVIS PRESLEY Honors the music and the legend of Johnny Cash. Starring Danny Millsap as Johnny Cash and his band, the Hennessee Three. Danny Memphis also truly captures the look, essence, dance moves and natural vocal style in a tasteful and heartfelt celebration of Elvis. March 21, 7-9 p.m. $25-$40. 805-489-9444. clarkcenter.org. Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande.

TRIOKAIT LIVE Kait Dunton brings her piano trio, genre-pushing super group, trioKAIT back to Puffer’s of Pismo. March 12, 7-10 p.m. 805-773-6563. Puffers of Pismo, 781 Price St., Pismo Beach, puffersofpismo. com/.

hits of the 1950s-’80s, featuring two groovy guys and their banjo-carrying gal sidekick. March 13, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. 805-489-9099. branchstreetdeli.com. Branch Street Deli, 203 E. Branch St., Arroyo Grande.

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HAVANA NIGHTS Enjoy live music acts, including Victor Valencia and others. Fridays, 7-9 p.m.

Cubanissimo Cuban Coffee House, 4869 S. Bradley Rd., Orcutt.

LAS CAFETERAS: ROOTS, RHYTHM, AND RHYME FROM EAST LA Using traditional Son Jarocho instruments, Las Cafeteras sing in English, Spanish, and Spanglish while adding a remix of sounds, from rock to hip-hop to rancheras, using music as a vehicle to bridge cultures and communities. Their music tells modern day stories with a positive message.

March 14, 7-8 p.m. Free. 805-343-2455. facebook. com/VivaelArteSB/. Guadalupe City Hall, 918 Obispo St., Guadalupe.

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and complimentary appetizers every week. Thursdays, Fridays, 5-7 p.m. and Saturdays, 3-5 p.m. Free. Costa De Oro Winery, 1331 S. Nicholson Ave., Santa Maria, 805-922-1468, cdowinery.com.

LIVE MUSIC AT NAUGHTY OAK Enjoy a different musical act and food vendor every Friday evening.

Fridays, 5:30 p.m. Free admission. Naughty Oak Brewing Co., 165 S Broadway St. suite 102, Orcutt, 805-287-9663, naughtyoak.com.

LIVE MUSIC AT O’SULLIVAN’S Featuring live entertainment from local and touring alternative, indie, rock, punk, reggae, ska, alt-country, and other left-ofcenter musicians several times throughout each month. ongoing Free. O’Sullivan’s Pub, 633 E. Main St., Santa Maria, 805-925-0658, osullivanspub.net.

LIVE MUSIC AT PRESQU’ILE Different acts every third Friday evening. Third Friday of every month, 4-6 p.m. Free. Presqu’ile Winery, 5391 Presqu’ile Dr., Santa Maria, 805-937-8110, presquilewine.com.

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LOMPOC CONCERT ASSOCIATION: JEANNINE GOECKERITZ Renowned solo flutist Jeannine Goeckeritz graces the stage during this performance.

Presented by the LCA. March 13, 7:30 p.m. $5-$25.

805-588-5971. lompocconcert.org. First United Methodist Church, 925 North F St., Lompoc.

SIP MUSIC CLUB Pairing music and local wine with 4 seasonal releases each calendar year. Price includes 3 VIP access tickets to each SipMusic event, and 1 album and 1 bottle of premium wine every 3 months. ongoing $40. Lompoc Wine Factory, 321 N. D St., Lompoc, 805243-8398, lompocwinefactory.com.

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purchase. No outside food or drinks allowed. March 14, 5-8 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967-0066, coldspringtavern.com/ entertainment.html.

CHANCE MAKERS LIVE Food and drinks available for purchase. No outside food or drinks allowed. March 13, 6-9 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967-0066, coldspringtavern.com/ entertainment.html.

DANNY MILSAP AND THE ONLY CASH TRIBUTE BAND LIVE March 14, 8-11 p.m. Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 805-686-4785, mavericksaloon.org.

THE DYLAN ORTEGA BAND As part of KRAZy Country Honky-Tonk Thursday. Thursdays, 7 p.m.

Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 805686-4785, mavericksaloon.org.

FLANNEL 101 LIVE A tribute to grunge, pop-punk, and alt-rock of the ‘90s, including Nirvana, Green Day, Pearl Jam, Sublime, No Doubt, Oasis, and other acts. March 15, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967-0066, coldspringtavern.com/entertainment.html.

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JOHN LYLE LIVE Food and drinks available for purchase. No outside food or drinks allowed. March 21, 1-4 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967-0066, coldspringtavern.com/ entertainment.html.

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ODDLY STRAIGHT LIVE Food and drinks available

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PATRICK SWEANY LIVE Doors open at 7 p.m. March 13, 7:30 p.m. $20. Standing Sun Wines, 92 2nd St., Unit D, Buellton, 805-691-9413, standingsunwines.com.

RANDY DELUNE LIVE March 15, 1-5 p.m. Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 805-686-4785, mavericksaloon.org.

RML LIVE Food and drinks available for purchase.

No outside food or drinks allowed. March 21, 5-8 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967-0066, coldspringtavern.com/ entertainment.html.

STUDIO C LIVE Food and drinks available for

purchase. No outside food or drinks allowed. March 20, 6-9 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967-0066, coldspringtavern.com/ entertainment.html.

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OPEN MIC WITH MATT SAXKING TUTTLE All ages and skill levels welcome. Saturdays, 5-8 p.m. through April 16 Free. 916-694-9466. San Simeon Lodge Lounge, 9520 Castillo Dr., San Simeon.

UNCORK THE MIC Producer of Uncork the Mic, Michelle Morrow presents a featured singer/ songwriter each Monday evening. The event is an unconventional open mic session with a unique format. Email uncorkthemic@gmail.com to sign up.

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. Free. 805-772-5055. staxwinebar.com/events2/. Stax Wine Bar & Bistro, 1099 Embarcadero, Morro Bay.

UNCORK THE MIC: AN UNCONVENTIONAL OPEN MIC SESSION Hosted by Michelle Morrow.

This session features a singer/songwriter/musician each week. To be featured on Uncork the Mic, email PHOTO COURTESY OF SYMPHONY OF THE VINES

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BALLROOM DANCE LESSONS WITH A-TOWN BALLROOM Dance lessons with Cammie Velci and Brian Reeves. Singles and couples from all levels of experience are welcome. Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. $10-$15. 888395-4965. atownballroom.com.

Atascadero Agricultural Hall, 5035 Palma Ave., Atascadero.

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DANCE LESSON AND DANCE PARTY Come learn a variety of ballroom, swing, and Latin dances.

Followed by a potluck dance party.

Sundays, 5-7:30 p.m. $10. 888395-4965. atownballroom.com/.

Atascadero Agricultural Hall, 5035 Palma Ave., Atascadero.

DANCE LESSONS WITH CAMMIE AND BRIAN Come learn a variety of ballroom, swing, and latin dances. Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. $10. 888395-4965. atownballroom.com/.

Atascadero Agricultural Hall, 5035 Palma Ave., Atascadero.

SUNDAY DANCE PARTIES A weekly dance party that includes free dance lessons. Sundays, 6-8 p.m. Free; $5 on DJ nights. 888395-4965. Atascadero Agricultural Hall, 5035 Palma Ave., Atascadero.

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CONTRA CLINIC AND DANCE: CALLER JEAN GORRINDO AND FIDDLE TUNAS BAND Jean Gorrindo gives free Contra Clinic and calls dances to music of Fiddle Tunas with Michael Mendelson, Amber Mueller, Tom Woverton, Mike Mullins. March 14, 5-10 p.m. Varies. 805-602-2929. cccds.org. Odd Fellows Hall, 520 Dana St., San Luis Obispo.

COUNTRY NIGHT Thursdays, 8 p.m.-2 a.m. 805-541-0969. slograd.com. The Graduate, 990 Industrial Way, San Luis Obispo.

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Symphony of the Vines presents Double Bass and Friends at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Los Osos on Saturday, March 21, at 1 p.m., and at the Community Church of Atascadero on Sunday, March 22, at 4 p.m.

Local double bassist David George (pictured) is the concert’s featured soloist. Admission ranges from $15 to $30. Visit symphonyofthevines.org for more info.

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will be live in downtown SLO at the Fremont Theater. March 13, 8-11:59 p.m. $27-$30. The Fremont Theater, 1035 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-546-8600, fremontslo.com.

ZUMBA AT THE Y Zumba fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a dynamic fitness program. Mondays-Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. sloymca.org/Classes. SLO County YMCA, 1020 Southwood Dr., San Luis Obispo, 805-543-8235.

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DJ CAMOTE Thursdays, 5 p.m. Harry’s Night Club And Beach Bar, 690 Cypress St., Pismo Beach, 805-7731010, harryspismobeach.com.

DJ DRUMZ AT MONGO’S Fridays Free. 805-4893639. mongossaloon.com. Mongo’s Saloon, 359 W. Grand Ave., Grover Beach.

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FAMILY FRIENDLY OPEN MIC An open mic for all ages hosted by Professor Matt Saxking Tuttle.

Fridays, Saturdays, 5-7 p.m. Free. San Simeon Lodge

uncorkthemic@gmail.com. Mondays-Sundays, 6-8 p.m.

Free. 805-772-5055. Staxwine.com. Stax Wine Bar & Bistro, 1099 Embarcadero, Morro Bay.

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OPEN MIC/ KARAOKE NIGHT Open mic performers will include local winemakers and musical acts. Bring your own snacks. Second Friday of every month, 5:30-9 p.m. Free. 805-237-2389. darkstarcellars.com. Dark Star Cellars, 2985 Anderson Rd., Paso Robles.

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KARAOKE NIGHT SUNDAYS AT BUFFALO PUB AND GRILL Sundays, 8 p.m. Free. 805-544-5155.

Buffalo Pub And Grill, 717 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo.

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FRONT ROW KARAOKE Thursdays, 9 p.m. 7731010. Harry’s Night Club And Beach Bar, 690 Cypress St., Pismo Beach, harryspismobeach.com.

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Coast Union Drama Club presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Coast Union High School in Cambria holds performances of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, starting on Friday, March 20, running through Sunday, March 29.

Showings take place every Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and every Sunday at 3 p.m., in the school’s gymnasium.

This show marks the Coast Union Drama Club’s 25th annual production. The club is funded solely through donations, according to a press release from the school, and each production is made possible by community members volunteering their time to help build sets, props, and other necessities.

Costume designer Lisa Graystone-Hergenroeder, a parent of one of the cast members, constructed the iconic “dreamcoat” through recycled and repurposed vintage fabrics. The costumes for Joseph’s 11 brothers were also sustainably made.

Tickets to the show are $20 for reserved seating, while general admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students. To find out more about the show, email artistic director Rachel German at rgerman@coastusd.org.

Pismo Beach seeks mural artist for Pier Plaza

The Pismo Beach Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Commission is seeking an artist for its Pier Plaza Tile Art Mural Project. The mural is to be installed on the end-facing wall of the new Pier Plaza restroom, which has yet to be constructed.

The theme of the new mural is “Quintessential Pismo Beach” (figurative designs only, no abstract works will be accepted).

Interested artists may submit multiple concepts (full color renderings or sketches with samples of colors to be used) to gorenielson@gmail (subject line: Pier Plaza Tile Art Mural).

Applications are due by Friday, March 27, at midnight. A committee of judges will review submissions based on design, artistic merit, and the ability to complete the work by a deadline.

Cayucos Pier hosts 10th annual Sea Glass Festival

The 10th annual Cayucos Sea Glass Festival takes place at the Cayucos Pier on Saturday, March 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, March 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Daily admission to the fair is $7. Attendees can look forward to a variety of handcrafted jewelry and glass art from several artisans. The event also features live music and food and drinks for purchase. Visit cayucosseaglass. com to find out more. ∆ —Caleb Wiseblood

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arly exposure to the arts is no guarantee for every child. That’s a reality that the Paso Robles Youth Arts Foundation (PRYAF) knows well. More than 85 percent of the students enrolled in PRYAF’s free afterschool arts classes are latchkey kids, ages 5-18, from low-income, often single-parent households, according to PRYAF Development Director Emily Jagger.

NEW FACILITY The Paso Robles Youth Art Foundation’s planned expansion (rendered here) would Through fundraising, sponsorships, allow it to increase enrollment and offer new enrichment classes of all kinds. donations, and grants, the foundation is able to provide tuition-free classes and necessary table, quietly drawing. In front of him, open foundation for 10 years and can’t wait for the supplies—including musical instruments, and well stocked, is his personal art kit he expansion to come to fruition. costumes, and props—to ensure that money is brought from home. When asked what he’s “This organization has grown by leaps and never an issue for students and their families. working on, he says he’s drawing a landscape bounds,” she said. “To see the look on the The PRYAF currently serves about 100 scene in charcoal. Cash quickly turns back faces of the students when they are involved is students each day—from Paso Robles, to the work, not sidelined by the momentary heartwarming.” its surrounding area, as well as Nipomo, distraction.

The new property for the state-of-the-art Parkfield, and Bradley. The 7,000-square-foot Working in the back of the studio, Nathaly, expansion lies adjacent to the current campus. building it now occupies cannot handle the 14, and PRYAF Executive Director Mindy The Gabriel Architects design team worked increased demand for classes.

Dierks are painting a wooden surfboardclosely with the foundation to create a modern, “We’ve outgrown our campus,” Jagger shaped sign, a project for The Ravine Water functional, and artistic conceptual design to explained. “Families come to the center daily Park in Paso Robles. The two discuss the appeal to young artists and performers by to enroll their children and teens, project as they paint the sign, creating a “community hub,” Jagger explained. but there is a waiting list. This clearly in a creative mode.

Fundraising for the project began June Support session we have 172 potential We continue onward to the Berg 2019, and nearly half of the money necessary youth art students on the waiting list.”

Auditorium. Named in honor of to start construction has been raised. A Berg For more information on A 10,000-square-foot planned PRYAF founder Donna Berg, who the Paso Robles Youth Arts Family Foundation donation of $250,000 expansion will allow the youth started the nonprofit in 1998, the Foundation, or to make a was presented to the PRYAF in February by center to double its enrollment to donation, visit pryaf.org space is impressively large and Jennifer Lahoda, Donna Berg’s granddaughter. or contact Development 200 students per day, as well as contains a professional stage, Director Emily Jagger at The gift is a match donation, which means increase enrollment in the five complete with balconies to hold (805)-238-5825, Ext. 15. if the PRYAF raises $250,000 by June 30, sessions a year they offer, from lighting and sound equipment. the Berg Family Foundation will match their 350 to 700 students per session.

As we exit the auditorium, we are original donation and give another $250,000 to To understand what the expansion means immediately in a room filled with irons, ironing the project. Jagger hopes to have the remaining to those involved, New Times toured the school boards, and various sewing supplies. As sewing $1.5 million needed to break ground on the with Jagger on a Monday afternoon before class instructor Jaime Umphenour holds a project in two years’ time, she said. classes began. Nine studios comprise the piece of material and addresses the all-girl Upon completion, the new wing will include campus, which feels like a private school or an class about the fabric, they appear mesmerized. a culinary arts kitchen, an art gallery, and arts academy.

Next, we follow the sound of young voices, meeting spaces to display students’ artwork.

Once the students arrive, the center turns practicing guitars, and the instruction of New classes, like ceramics, will apart of the into a rhythmic heartbeat teacher Kunchang Lee. The PHOTO BY REBECCA HOWES curriculum.

It will also have new spaces for as the building comes band room is a beehive of graphic design and STEAM classes to prepare to life. Students beeline activity with 13 students students for careers in technology, and a to their classes ready to seated with guitars in their recording studio for songwriters. begin drawing, painting, laps, going over chords, PRYAF hopes the new center can serve as sewing, or playing guitar. as Lee enthusiastically Unlike a typical school provides instruction. Among a launching pad for the next generation of artists. Jagger became emotional when she campus, these kids are the students is Daniel, a engaged—not dawdling in 10-year-old, who has a huge reminisced about one past graduate of the program, who’s now in college and plans to the hallways—and eager smile on his face. teach music to students with disabilities. to get busy.

The joy that these art “I see the value of my work every day. I see Our first class stop, Art enrichment courses bring the benefits to the students finding their voice,” Studio Advanced, offers to the youth is evident, and she said. “This is a magical place.” ∆ young artists a chance to it rubs off on the PRYAF GETTING CREATIVE Student Nathaly, build their portfolio in a staff and volunteers as well, 14, works with Paso Robles Youth Art Arts Writer Rebecca Howes is searching for shared work space. In the like Paso Robles resident Foundation Executive Director Mindy Dierks on a surfboard-shaped sign for Lauren Belton. Belton said her inner hip-hop vibe. Send arts story tips to studio, I find 11-year-old The Ravine Water Park in Paso Robles. she’s volunteered at the Cash seated at a large rhowes@newtimesslo.com.

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to describe On display grabbing women.

Fake News, an exhibit Another featuring the artwork of of Bryan’s Mark Bryan, will be on attentiondisplay at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art grabbing pieces through April 26. is Foreverland, a 2019 religious commentary piece that’s particularly intriguing. In the painting, Jesus is the featured amusement park ride, with angels circling above his head. Next to Jesus, there is a ticket booth for those who want to buy their way into heaven.

If the Jesus ride isn’t for them, there are other rides: an Islamic rollercoaster or a Buddhist Ferris wheel to take a spin on.

For those who know they have been bad and are ready to feel the heat, the ride to hell is also offered.

“Pick a religion,” IMAGES COURTESY OF MARK BRYAN Bryan said.

Bryan said he comes up with ideas for his paintings by thinking about the “big picture,” not just one idea. Then he figures out how to make a visual story of what’s on his mind. He calls the end result a “slice of time.”

Growing up in LA in the 1950s, Bryan’s mother introduced him to the arts through her own arts and crafts projects and by taking him to museums. He was shy and introverted, and drawing became a vehicle to create his IRREVERENT Mark Bryan’s political satirical oil painting, own reality.

Feeding the Baby, depict former White House Chief In 1968, Bryan Strategist Steve Bannon feeding President Donald Trump a attended Cal Poly to spoonful of sugar-coated KKK Cereal with Klan hood-shaped marshmallows. study architecture, but left two years later to attend Otis College Art has turned Bryan, a self-described of Art and Design, LA’s first independent introvert, into an extrovert through the professional school of art. satirical oil paintings he creates. He After college, Bryan returned to SLO expresses his emotions and opinions on County and started work as a contractor, canvas, whether it be politics, religion, or whatever is lurking in his subconscious mind. designing and building custom homes, Walking into SLOMA, I am immediately while raising his two kids. In 1977, he taken in by Bryan’s 2017 painting, Feeding built a custom home for his family in Corbett Canyon, where he still lives today. the Baby, which depicts Trump with his Three times a week, he surfs, usually in former strategist Steve Bannon. The Pismo Beach or Morro Bay. painting shows a caricature of a smiling Since 2000, Bryan has worked solely Bannon as he spoon-feeds Trump a bite of Bannon’s Special KKK Cereal, with sugar- as a professional artist. In addition to his political and religious art, Bryan also coated KKK hood-shaped marshmallows. enjoys creating pop surrealism pieces The president, also a caricature, is sitting because they come from his subconscious at a baby-sized desk, on top of a larger imagination. Painting the current desk, in the Oval Office of the White president, which he’s done six times in House. On Trump’s little desk, decorated three years, is getting a bit old, he said. with dollar signs and a 1950s Richie Rich “I don’t want to paint Trump all the comic emblem, sits a Hello Kitty drawing time,” Bryan said. ∆ he is working on and an electronic tablet open to Twitter.

Arts Writer Rebecca Howes is waiting in Bryan explained that the cat drawing line for the Jesus ride. Send arts story tips is a reference to the president’s famed to rhowes@newtimesslo.com. recording in which he used vulgar terms orbett Canyon painter Mark Bryan is in therapy. Art therapy, that is.

And he’s been in session ever since the 2016 presidential election.

“I went to bed and Hillary Clinton was ahead,” Bryan remembered of Election Day. “I woke up and Donald Trump was elected president.”

Bryan’s latest exhibit, Fake News, lets viewers into his artistic processing of the Trump era with a biting collection of 28 oil paintings. Fake News is on display at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) through April 26.

“I go after people I don’t like. They get the satirical treatment,” Bryan explained with a laugh. “What is so disturbing to me is how many people are down with Trump. I was completely blown away that Trump won.”

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Looking for the light THE WAY BACK

What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Anna? Matinee What’s it worth, Glen? Full price Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10

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avin O’Connor (Warrior, The Accountant) directs this sports drama written with Brad Ingelsby (Out of the Furnace, Run All Night) about an alcoholic former high school basketball star (Ben Affleck) who’s offered a coaching job at his alma mater. Can he confront his old demons, redeem himself, and lead his squad to victory? (108 min.)

Glen It’s always tough watching someone self-destruct on film, and the early scenes of Jack Cunningham (Affleck) drinking his way through his days as a bridge construction worker and his nights erasing himself in his local dive bar are pretty depressing. We don’t even find out until half way through the film what’s driven him to such despair, and I won’t ruin it for you, but he’s got a pretty good reason to want to numb himself. When he’s asked by Father Edward Devine (John Aylward) to take over coaching his old Catholic high school basketball team, Jack is trying to make a team out of a group of misfit players on a failing squad.

If you’re thinking, “I’ve seen this film before,” you absolutely have. It’s a triedand-true plot and a familiar character arc, but with O’Connor at the helm and a very committed performance by Affleck, the film overcomes its predictability and delivers an engaging cinematic experience. O’Connor has a facility with sports movies having directed Miracle (2004), about the 1980 U.S. Hockey team’s victory over the unbeatable Soviets, and Warrior (2011), the family drama centered on two brothers facing each other in a mixed martial arts contest. He knows how to film compelling sports sequences as well as capture potent emotional moments. The Way Back delivers.

Anna Affleck has had his own personal problems with alcohol, so Jack’s darkness

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AMAZING GRACE What’s it rated? Not rated What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre on Monday, March 18, at 4:15 p.m.

Lynn Montgomery (Don’t Sell My Guitars) directs this inspiring documentary about Grace Fisher, who during her 17th birthday developed severe spinal pain and shortly thereafter paralysis. While her guests continued to arrive to her party, her parents drove her to nearby Cottage Hospital, where she was eventually diagnosed as the 101st patient to be stricken with Acute Flaccid Myelitis—a rare polio-like illness with neither a cure nor an understanding of its source.

If this sounds like a tragedy, it should.

UNDERDOGS An alcoholic former high school basketball star (Ben Affleck) is offered a coaching job at his alma mater, but he must overcome his personal demons in order to succeed.

get a much more complicated, much more real look at what it truly takes to recover.

Glen The film’s less than happy ending does add realism to the tale, which is propelled along by the women in Jack’s life. Their sympathy for him is palpable, as is their helplessness at inspiring him to be better. His sister, Beth (Michaela Watkins), is fed up with his drinking but understands it. She does all she can to keep him involved with her kids’ lives.

Likewise, his ex-wife Angela (Janina Gavankar) tries to keep in touch with him, but she’s moving on with her life— something Jack’s incapable of. Part of his path to redemption is working with his players, in particular Brandon Durrett (Brandon Wilson), whose mother has died and whose father is too busy with his two younger sons to pay much attention to Brandon’s blooming basketball career, which is garnering interest from college scouts. Jack turns out to be an amazing coach who’s able to capitalize on his team’s weaknesses. They’re small but they have hustle, and they’re willing to work.

As they begin winning, it’s impossible not to be excited about their underdog charge.

Of course, this wouldn’t be much of a story if Jack simply UNFIXABLE Angela (Janina Gavankar) does redeemed himself and took what she can for her broken ex-husband Jack (Ben his team to the championship.

Affleck), but she realizes some things can’t be More setbacks are in store, repaired. but when the credits come to

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and struggles are ones the actor has shared to at least some degree. Jack’s life is repetitive and sad; he hides booze in his coffee cup to get through the workday and pounds beers at night just to pass out.

He isn’t exactly a loner, but very much alone. He’s got friends at the bar who shuffle him home every night, a sister who cares but is incredibly frustrated, and an ex-wife who still has love for him despite their separation. When Father Devine offers the coach position to Jack, he proceeds to get drunk and practice all the ways he can say no, but perhaps a bit of divine intervention or residual Catholic guilt makes Jack take on the job in the end. His team is sad, too. In fact, the school hasn’t made it to the playoffs since Jack was a star on the team. The boys are a bit directionless, unfocused, and embarrassed by their terrible record.

It sucks to lose all of the time! Assistant Coach Dan (Al Madrigal) is Jack’s righthand man, but soon he senses something is amiss with Jack, and even though the team is now winning because of him, Dan can’t look away from the fact that the foulmouthed coach often smells like a distillery. When we learn the complicated truths of why Jack blacks the world out night after night, the character turns from just broken to heartbreakingly devastated at what life has handed him.

It’s a sad film as well as triumphant, and instead of presenting some sort of a false tale of how basketball saved his life, we

Grace was a vibrant young woman, a gifted musician who after high school planned to attended Boston’s famed Berklee College of Music. Instead, she ended up paralyzed and wheelchair bound. For many, her situation would be the perfect excuse to give up, but that’s not what kind of person Grace Fisher is. Now, five years after the onset of her illness, Grace composes music using a mouth stick, and she’s created an organization that exposes children of all abilities to the arts.

Montgomery uses home movies as well as recreated scenes to set up the story.

In a particularly thoughtful addition, she weaves in underwater scenes of dark waves crashing to simulate Grace’s descent into her illness and the drowning sensation of losing the ability to breathe. After that initial setup, we see what Grace’s day-today life is like now and how she does all

a close, you’ll know this story of personal loss, alcoholic despair, and an imperfect path to redemption hit all the right notes.

It’s moving without being melodramatic or mawkish, and Affleck digs deep to make Jack a character worth rooting for.

Anna Why Jack walked away from the game after high school also becomes more clear as he digs in deep with Brandon and we learn Jack’s own complicated relationship with his father. Angela tries to be supportive, but like you said—she’s moving on, and Jack doesn’t seem to have any interest in helping himself. Beyond that, he can be downright mean, and his wounds are never more at the surface than in those moments. Coaching has managed to give him some purpose, but the devil inside of him still weighs on him every day and ends up casting a dark shadow over the sparse happy moments he has. While this is a sports movie, its focus is a lot more personal than that. Of course we want the boys to win and for Jack to turn his life and team around, but life is messier than all of that, and this film doesn’t deny it. It isn’t all low lows; there’s some humor and tenderness as well. It’s clear Jack cares about the kids on the team more than he does about the game or even himself. Affleck gives quite a performance here, and this redemption story is worth a watch. ∆ Split Screen is written by Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey and freelancer Anna Starkey. Comment at gstarkey@ newtimesslo.com.

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she can to make the best of it.

Watching Grace FaceTime with another even younger kid with Acute Flaccid Myelitis is incredibly moving, and when the Make A Wish Foundation asks her what her wish is, she tells them it’s to create a foundation that brings the arts to others.

Likewise, when she writes to composer Justin Hurwitz to explain to him how moved she was by his music for La La Land, and we hear her read his reply, it’s clear that Grace has a lot to give, a lot to teach others, and a lot of inspiration that will help others.

Amazing Grace is a terrific story about an incredible young woman. The film is screening as part of the SLO International Film Festival. Visit slofilmfest.org for a complete listing of films and events. (55 min.)

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WONDER WOMAN In Amazing Grace, screening on March 18 as part of the SLO International Film Festival, the incredible story of musician Grace Fisher (right)— who’s stricken by and learns to live with the rare poliolike illness Acute Flaccid Myelitis—is told in this inspiring documentary.

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BAD BOYS FOR LIFE

What’s it rated? R What’s it worth? Matinee Where’s it showing? Park Detectives Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) team up one more time in this third installment of the popular Jerry Bruckheimer-produced action spectacle, this time co-directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilail Fallah (Black, Gangsta). Confronting career changes and midlife crises, the two old partners join Miami PD’s elite AMMO team to take down cartel kingpin Armando Armas (Jacob Scipio). (123 min.)

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BLOODSHOT

What’s it rated? PG-13 Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 Dave Wilson directs this sci-fi action film with Vin Diesel starring as Ray Garrison, a slain soldier brought back to life and outfitted with powers of reanimation, making him indestructible. Unbeknownst to him, he’s part of a secret project to carry out extrajudicial killings, though he believes he’s avenging his murdered wife. (109 min.)

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What’s it rated? PG What’s it worth? Matinee Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Fair Oaks, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10, Sunset Drive-In Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods) directs screenwriter Michael Green’s adaptation of Jack London’s classic novel about Buck, a St. Bernard and Scotch shepherd mix that’s stolen and sent north to Canada’s Klondike during the gold rush, where he’s forced to become a sled dog. After many adventures and terrible masters, Buck eventually teams up with John Thornton (Harrison Ford), to whom he develops a fierce loyalty. (100 min.)

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Jane Austen’s comedic romantic novel, Emma, gets adapted to the big screen for the seventh time with Autumn de Wilde directing Eleanor Catton’s adaptation. It’s 19th century England, and well-meaning but selfish 20-year-old Emma Woodhouse (Anya TaylorJoy), a self-styled matchmaker, goes about her days meddling in the affairs of those around her.

It turns out catching a catch and making the perfect match isn’t as easy as it might seem.

Adorned with satin ribbons, corsets, and jewels, actress Taylor-Joy brings us this generation’s Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen’s humorously clueless 20-year-old who considers herself to be quite the matchmaker. And yes, in this 2020 adaptation of the classic novel, Emma Woodhouse is still just as handsome, clever, and rich as ever.

If you’re old enough to read a book or watch a movie, you probably know how this old story goes. Emma lives with her father in an enormous English manor just a few miles outside London in the early 19th century. She, who tends to think a little too fondly of her own abilities, often finds herself bored by the usual goings on of the tiny town where she lives.

But she, a natural social butterfly, has a knack for manipulation through pure charm, and she entertains herself by pairing off her friends, family members, and acquaintances. When she befriends Harriet (Mia Goth), a young girl living in a nearby school who sits several pegs below Emma on the unforgiving social ladder of the olden days, Emma sees a way to improve Harriet’s societal standing: marrying up.

In brightly colored manors and in equally ornamental dresses, we watch as Emma, between sips of tea, amusingly and repeatedly fail to force Harriet into a romantic relationship, while clumsily stumbling into love herself.

Director de Wilde adds to the comedic and quirky tone of the film with color pallets and symmetry reminiscent of Wes Anderson, and she pokes fun at the upper classes of the era with many of the characters’ strange eccentricities and silently annoyed servants peppered throughout.

Though Emma 2020 is generally engaging throughout, it’s not laugh-out-loud funny for the most part. It’s certainly not as good as Clueless, the 1995 valley girl version of Emma that, as we all know, is a masterpiece that deserves to go down in history as one of the best and most pure comedies of all time. (Don’t @ me!) But I thoroughly enjoyed this generation’s Emma.

It’s cute. It’s fun. It’s entertaining. I felt good and happy once all was said and done and the credits were rolling. When I left the theater, I

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TO THE DEATH A dozen strangers—including Yoga Pants (Emma Roberts)—wake up in the middle of a field and soon realize they’re part of a sick and twisted game, in The Hunt. smiled as I thought of the ending, and I heard other audience members laughing as they talked it over. In this time of democratic decline and political polarization in America, what more could we as a nation really need? (124 min.)

—Kasey Bubnash

GREED What’s it rated? PG What’s it worth? Stream it Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre Michael Winterbottom (Wonderland, 24 Hour Party People, The Trip) helms this film about the world of the super rich, starring Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, Shirley Henderson, and Asa Butterfield.

Is it a comedy? A satire? A sarody? The film itself doesn’t seem to know, but with a few laughs and occasionally sharp social critique, it might be worth a look when it shows up on your streaming service. It’s mostly a limp and vulgar looks at the vapidity of the über rich. (104 min.)

—Glen

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? Galaxy on March 15 Wizard-in-training Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is vexed by nightmares but still must compete in a dangerous tournament between magic schools. (157 min.)

—Glen

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What’s it rated? R Where’s it showing? Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 Craig Zobel (Z is for Zachariah) directs this horror thriller about 12 strangers who awaken in a field. They don’t know where they are or how they got there, but it soon becomes clear they’re part of a sick and twisted game. (89 min.)

—Glen

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I AM PATRICK What’s it rated? Not rated Where’s it showing? Galaxy on March 17, at 6:30 p.m.

Writer-director Jarod Anderson helms this docudrama that examines the legends and myths about Saint Patrick via historical re-enactments, expert interviews, and Patrick’s own writings. (90 min.)

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What’s it rated? PG Where’s it showing? Bay, Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 Andrew and Jon Erwin (I Can Only Imagine) co-direct this true-life romantic drama about Christian music star Jeremy Camp (K.J. Apa) and his romance with Melissa Henning (Britt Robertson), who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. (115 min.)

—Glen

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THE INVISIBLE MAN

What’s it rated? R What’s it worth? Matinee Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 Writer-director Leigh Whannell (Insidious 3, Upgrade ) helms this new iteration of the H.G. Wells 1897 horror novel about a brilliant but disturbed scientist who develops a technique to render himself invisible. In Whannell’s version, the brilliant scientist is Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), abusive partner to Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss).

Cecilia—with the help of her sister, Alice (Harriet Dyer); their childhood friend, James Lanier (Aldis Hodge); and his teenage daughter, Sydney (Storm Reid)—escapes Adrian in the dead of night. Later, Adrian purportedly commits suicide and leaves Cecilia some of his fortune, but she begins to suspect his death was a hoax as strange events happen and lethal accidents befall those she loves most. Is she going insane, or is she being tormented by an invisible entity?

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What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth? Matinee Where’s it showing? Park Jake Kasdan (Orange County, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) directs this next installment in the Jumanji franchise, with returning stars Karen Gillan as Ruby Roundhouse, Dwayne Johnson as Dr. Smolder Bravestone, Jack Black as Professor Sheldon “Shelly” Oberon, and Kevin Hart as Franklin “Mouse” Finbar. This time the gang returns to the world of Jumanji to rescue one of their own and must brave an arid desert and snowy mountain as they attempt to survive the deadly video game. (123 min.)

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KING KONG (1933)

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What’s it rated? Not rated What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre and Galaxy on March 15 This classic monster adventure film stars Fay Wray as starlet Ann Darrow on an adventure with a film crew that travels to mysterious Skull Island and discovers a gargantuan ape that the native people worship as a god. The Ape, called Kong, falls for the blond starlet but is captured and brought to New York City to be put on display.

Instead, he escapes and scales the Empire State Building, where planes attack him. (B&W, 100 min.)

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LOVE AND DEATH I Still Believe traces the true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp (R.J. Apa, left) and his romance with Melissa Hennings (Britt Robertson), who is diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

What’s it rated? R What’s it worth? Matinee Where’s it showing? The Palm Daniel Roher directs this warm and nostalgic take on the creation and music of The Band, told from lead guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson’s perspective.

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NEVER GROW OLD In this take on the Peter Pan story, Peter (Yashua Mack, right) and Wendy (Devin France) lives on an island where time and aging are disrupted, and they swirl in and out of youth as the island’s ecosystem spirals into destruction, in Wendy, screening exclusively at The Palm.

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ONWARD What’s it rated? PG What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10, Sunset Drive-In Dan Scanlon (Monsters University) directs Tom Holland and Chris Pratt as Ian and Barley Lightfoot, respectively, two teenage brothers on a magical quest to completely bring their deceased father back to life for a day.

In true Disney Pixar fashion, the story isn’t just about casting spells and bringing back a loved one; it’s also about appreciating what you have. Sprinkle in a coming-of-age storyline and Onward cohesively ties all of these morals together.

The concept of losing a loved one, in this case a parent, might be new to the younger audience, so I recommend having a conversation with your child before going to the theater. The story heavily focuses on the sensitive subject and could result in some tears. Who am I kidding? You might need to pack some tissues in your pocket just in case.

Onward takes place in a world inhabited by mythical creatures—pixies, centaurs, elves—but the world itself has lost its

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

FLAPPERS GOTTA FLAP Colleen Moore—who passed away in Paso Robles in 1988—stars as Pert Kelly, a dancecrazed flapper who falls for her boss, Winthrop Peabody Jr. (Neil Hamilton), in the silent 1920 film Why Be Good? It screens in the Performing Arts Center, accompanied by the Forbes organ, on March 14, as part of the SLO International Film Festival.

County. Visit slofilmfest.org for a complete listing of events as well as ticket information.

—Glen enchantment. Instead of working hard and practicing a spell that will illuminate a home, the creatures eventually invent electricity. The technology might have made life easier; however, the magic that made these creatures so unique has faded.

Fast-forward to the modern day version of this world and in a suburb of New Mushroomton lives Ian, his brother Barley (dungeons and dragons-esque role-player), and his mom Laurel (Julia Louis-Dreyfus).

Ian is a gawky and shy teenager that’s afraid of merging into the freeway and asking his classmates to his birthday party.

On top of your average teenage anxiety, Ian is also navigating life without a father figure—his dad Wilden (Kyle Bornheimer) died of an illness before he was born. On Ian’s 16th birthday, Laurel gives her sons a gift that was left by their father. The boys uncover a magical staff, a rare gem, and a letter that has a visitation spell. With the gift and spell in hand, the boys could potentially resurrect their father; Ian wants nothing more than to know his dad.

After repeated failed attempts to cast the spell by Barley, Ian picks up the staff and haphazardly casts the spell, but a combination of lack of confidence and the intensity of the magic only allows half of their father to come back, specifically his torso to his feet.

The Lightfoot brothers must embark on a

is thought out and executed with care and precision.

This version, unlike most of the shorter When? 1995 adaptations, allows us to dwell in the What’s it rated? TV-PG narrative and ingest the nuances of Jane Where? Hulu, DVD, Blu-ray Austen’s witty, astute jabs at society and humanity in general. Yes, the characters’ t is a truth universally acknowledged manners are rather stiff to our modern that Pride and Prejudice is an eyes, but there is space to enjoy the unassailable classic. palpable strength and authenticity of While there is no enjoyment like the female leads. There’s ample time to reading, if I can’t be reading the novel, the best way to traipse through Regency feel the conflicts within a society based on inheritance and fortune—we’re England is with Colin Firth. I ardently immersed in the Bennets’ situation, as admire and love the 1995, six-hour BBC they face destitution if their daughters mini-series. It’s all about the details— details in the casting (Firth is the only Mr. don’t marry well.

Even so, Elizabeth (Jennifer Ehle) Darcy for me), the costumes, the sets, the actors’ posture and delivery. Everything has the strength of character to refuse insincere and PHOTO COURTESY OF HULU unrequited marriage proposals—“... I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry”—and Jane (Susannah Harker) doesn’t simper or flirt to solicit FOOLS IN LOVE In the 1995 such proposals, which would have BBC version of Pride and Prejudice, benefited their Colin Firth (left) is Mr. Darcy, a parents. prideful bachelor in possession of a I’ve seen the good fortune. He meets his match 1995 Pride and in Elizabeth Bennet (Jennifer Ehle, Prejudice at least four or five times; center), and wins the approval of Jane when I’m home sick, Bennet (Susannah Harker). this is what I want

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historical quest to bring back the second half of their father before the spell wares off.

The story is light-hearted and funny, with plenty of room for tears, but the aspect of loss and appreciation for those that are still living is something that won’t fly over the heads of most young audiences.

I read several reviews where critics felt the film didn’t break any Pixar boundaries or surpass anything that’s been done already. I think we could all learn something from one of the many morals of the story. Just because we have technology that makes things easier or visually advanced doesn’t mean it’s great overall. Why can’t we appreciate the visual aspect of the story and the meaning behind it? Why are we always searching for more when we have something great right in front of us? (102 min.)

—Karen Garcia

PARASITE

What’s it rated? R What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? The Palm In this four-Oscar winner, South Korean director Bong Joon Ho plays with genre and societal commentary in this dark comedy thriller about a penniless family’s unsavory but satisfying infiltration into a wealthy family’s household. (132 min.)

—Kasey

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BLAST FROM THE to watch all day. So when my 10-year-old daughter recently finished the novel, we simply had to celebrate for six hours with a few fellow Austen fans. One friend brought over her Blu-ray version, and I admit I was skeptical of the difference it would make. I’d been happy watching Elizabeth spar with Mr. Darcy and roll her eyes at her mother (Alison Steadman) in old-school levels of clarity. I was wrong to doubt.

We all commented at various times: “There’s a pattern on his tie!” “I can see the newsprint on the paper he’s reading!”

“I never knew there was a floral design on her dress!”

With new eyes, I watched Jane smile softly at Mr. Bingley (Crispin BonhamCarter) while his snobby sisters (Anna Chancellor and Lucy Robinson) snicker and approve of Mr. Darcy’s effort to break up the innocent lovers. I could see the varying hues of indignant flush on Elizabeth’s cheeks as she turns down Mr. Darcy and later as she stands up to Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Barbara Leigh-Hunt). And the subtle shades of Mr. Darcy’s growing affection for Elizabeth were all the more evident.

Pride and Prejudice is a timeless gem, the 1995 film reveals its many facets, and the Blu-ray adds a 21st century polish. (six one-hour segments) Δ —Andrea Rooks

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PONYO What’s it rated? G What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? Galaxy on March 13 and 16 Writer-director Hayoa Miyazaki helms this beloved 2008 animated adventure about a 5-year-old boy who develops a relationship with a young goldfish princess who wants to be human. (101 min.)

—Glen

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PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE What’s it rated? R What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? The Palm Céline Sciamma (Girlhood, Tomboy) directs Noémie Merlant as Marianne, an artist who is secretly hired to paint a woman’s portrait that will be sent off to her suitor in Milan. With each longing glance meant to keep Héloïse’s (Adèle Haenel) face in her memory to paint on a canvas later, Marianna finds love in a hopeless place. (122 min.)

—Karen

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THE SAN LUIS OBISPO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL What’s it rated? Various Where’s it showing? Various locations on March 17-22 The SLO Film Fest opens this week with a slew of films and special events at various locations through SLO

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WHY BE GOOD? (1929)

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG What’s it rated? PG What’s it worth? Matinee Where’s it showing? Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 Jeff Fowler directs this action adventure based on the Sega video game franchise about a super fast blue hedgehog from outer space. Settling into his life on Earth, our titular character (voiced by Ben Schwartz) must evade an evil genius, Dr. Ivo “Eggman” Robotnik (Jim Carrey), a government-hired baddie who wants to experiment on Sonic and steal his powers. (99 min.)

—Caleb

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THE WAY BACK What’s it rated? R Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 See Split Screen.

WENDY What’s it rated? PG-13 Where’s it showing? The Palm Cowriter-director Benh Zeitlin helms this alternate take on the Peter Pan story, co-written with Eliza Zeitlin, and focused on Wendy (Devin France), who’s kidnapped and taken to a mysterious island where the cycles of aging and time have been disrupted.

Wendy meets Peter (Yashua Mack), a wild child, and together they swirl in and out

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of youth as the island’s ecosystem spirals toward destruction. (112 min.)

—Glen

What’s it rated? TV-G What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? Performing Arts Center on March 14 at 8 p.m.

Join Cal Poly Arts and the SLO International Film Festival for an experience unlike any other!

On Saturday, March 14, at 8 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center, the newly restored 1929 silent film Why Be Good? starring SLO [County] icon Colleen Moore will be shown for the first time in San Luis Obispo!

Come see a film that was lost for decades and only recently recovered in an Italian archive. (Moore stars as a flapper who becomes romantically linked to her boss.)

To create the drama this unique experience deserves, the film will be screened with a live musical score performed on the Forbes Pipe Organ by famed organist and silent film accompanist Christian Elliott. Come and enjoy the rare opportunity to experience a silent film the way it was meant to be seen and heard— with a genuine period-authentic live organ accompaniment!

And be sure to stay after the screening for a look behind the scenes of the PAC with a brief tour of the “Colleen Moore Greenroom,” featuring several remarkable pieces from her extensive Hollywood memorabilia collection. (84 min.) Δ —Cal Poly Arts

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New Times movie reviews are compiled by Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey. Contact him at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.

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ANTIHERO In King Kong (1933), a giant ape taken from his island home and brought to NYC struggles to escape the evils of mankind, screening on March 15, in Downtown Centre Cinemas and Galaxy Theatres.

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as Vegas isn’t high on our list of favorite family vacation spots, but here we are. We’ve come to support my older daughter in her gymnastics competition, and we plan to have a good time.

We came last year for another competition, but our 10-year-old got a nasty stomach bug, so we didn’t do any sightseeing. This year is already different—we’re staying right on the Strip, in Bally’s, which is connected to Paris.

Paris is like an indoor Disneyland. On our way to the crepes cafe, I don’t care that I look like an idiot tourist taking photos every two steps—this place is fun!

We’re walking down a manufactured cobblestone street, complete with ornate lamps, fake trees, and detailed storefronts with curtains in second-story windows.

We meet my daughter’s teammates for the aforementioned dessert, which send us

into a contented food coma. We wake the next morning with ample time before my daughter has to join her team at 10:45 in the Bally’s convention center. By 2 p.m., we’ve seen her BIG SPENDER My daughter’s gymnastics teammates, my family, and I were blown away by the incredible successfully do Bellagio water show as fountains sprayed water almost 500 feet into the air to songs like “Hey, Big Spender” and a round-off back “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” handspring in her her teammates and their families to In-N-Out, a sock store, a virtual reality floor routine and shop—where my younger daughter rides a walk to the Linq Promenade, an outdoor earn a personal best score on bars, but roller coaster—Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy shopping-dining-entertainment space our girl is going home with no medals this Club, and my older daughter’s favorite: I that extends off the middle of the Strip. time. There was some stiff competition Love Sugar, a two-story candy store.

On the far end is the ginormous High from as far away as Pennsylvania, but After dinner, we wander through the Roller Ferris wheel, and on our way to the that’s not getting any of us down.

Bellagio’s indoor gardens and marvel at Yard House for dinner, we pass a huge To celebrate their hard work, we join the ornately and enormously decorated PHOTO BY ANDREA ROOKS PHOTO COURTESY OF BRET ROOKS organic sculptures, all themed for Chinese New Year. Eventually, we make our way outside where we catch the end of the 460-foot-tall fountains dancing to “All That Jazz” and wait for a spot along the rail. The water show is tremendously impressive, eliciting in me the wonder of being made small, innocent in the face of something magnificent.

We sway to the music of “Hey, Big Spender” and “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” and we would have stayed for more, but it’s already almost 11 o’clock.

We have a long drive tomorrow.

As we leave Vegas, my 10-year-old says she wants to come back. I smile and turn to my husband in the passenger seat.

“I’m glad we can make great memories no matter where we are.” ∆

I WANT CANDY My daughter was ecstatic when we discovered I Love Sugar, a giant candy store on the Linq Promenade in Las Vegas.

BEAMING Despite not placing in any of her four events—beam, floor, vault, bars— at the March 6 Las Vegas gymnastics meet, my daughter was proud of her scores and her skills. Here, she begins her balance beam routine.

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BY BETH GIUFFRE

Healthy and hearty Parents are happy. Students are happy. Even the vegans are diggin’ SLO’s new burger joint

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y teens and I arrived at Burger Village on a night like no other, specifically when the Houston Rockets barely beat the Boston Celtics on that five-game winning streak. My oldest and I took the boothside so we could watch the game on three screens, under a Cal Poly banner. With local beers, organic burgers, and a crafty, clean setting, I like this place as a bonding hangout. My kids keep talking about the best burger and milkshake they ever had—“everinfinity”—and I like that their meal out was actually good for their growing bodies.

Lively with music, pumping with students, families, couples, singles, and bros having a tall one, I guess we all like a good burger (even the vegans).

Co-owner Ashish Verma, who goes by “Ash,” estimates that one out of every four burgers that come down the line is vegan.

See, meat-eaters and vegans can all get along. So let there be peace on Earth, brothers and sisters.

My little meat-eater and middleschooler, Tony, ordered the bison burger, but if you’re an adventurous eater like him, you could go for the second most popular meat. That would be the elk burger. The most popular is, of course, a grass-fed, grass-finished organic

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Burger Village promises to serve hormone/antibiotic/ rBGH/GMO/herbicide/preservative-free, sustainable, organic, environment-friendly food. And it’s tasty too.

Hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 11 a.m. to midnight Thursday through Saturday.

Happy hour is Monday through Thursday from 2 to 6 p.m. for $3 beers.

Burger Village is located in the old Natural Cafe building at 698 Higuera St., SLO. Visit Burger Village at burgervillage.com or call (805) 449-1663 for to-go orders.

hamburger on an Edna’s Bakery bun.

Upgrade to the “My Deer” for three more dollars and you’re in business with the addition of pepper jack, lettuce, tomato, sauteed mushrooms, jalapeño, and the mysterious signature sauce. No. 3 on the Parts Unknown list of burgers is the Village Ostrich Burger, according to Verma.

“We didn’t expect elk to be this big of a seller, but I think there are a lot of hunters in this area,” Verma said.

“Ostrich is more about curiosity. ... People want to find out what it tastes like, but it’s the leanest meat that we have. It’s 95 percent protein and only 5 percent fat.”

He said the way Burger Village serves it makes it even healthier.

“We don’t put anything on any of our patties,” he explained. “People should try the natural flavor of that meat.”

No salt. No pepper. No oil. They make the patties when the order comes in and put them on the grill.

“At the same time, we created all these toppings to add more flavor,” Verma said.

And you have to see it on the menu to really explore what he’s saying. The Signature Pairs are designed to match each burger, dog, or sandwich. The Good Dog relish, sauteed onions, and mustard goes with the Village Hot Dog. The Wild Terrific Pacific matches the wild salmon burger because of the tartar sauce and fresh chopped cilantro. But no one’s judging if you want the Gobble Gobble toppings of pepper jack, baby arugula, pico de gallo, bacon, and honey mustard on your wild boar rather than your turkey burger. Be all you can be, and don’t forget to look at the dipping sauce selections.

I’m straight-up boring when it comes to my burgers. I don’t want anything fancy— just good, quality organic hamburger on a bakery bun. The B-Ville had what I

PLAIN JANE Are you wanting your cheeseburger Plain Jane-style? Then you need to try the organic Village Beef Burger/sub onion rings.

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need: classic, organic, grass-fed beef with blue cheese, subbing my fresh cut fries for the onion rings. If you look at the fine print on the menu, you realize there are all kinds of substitutions for dietary needs: sweet potatoes if you are paleo, multi-grain bun if you don’t want the brioche, fried pickles or cole slaw instead of fries.

Co-owners Verma and Alex Shubbie opened the West Coast Burger Village in July 2019, after a visit to Brooklyn, New York’s Burger Village changed their life. They were so into it that they talked the owners (four brothers ONION RING SPECTACLES It’s okay to play with your from Long Island) into food if your mother orders you to illustrate the gigantic size franchising out here in of the Burger Village onion rings. They go really well with the SLO, after the brothers craft cherry coke. flew to SLO to check out our health-nutty town. the plant-based vegan burger called the Verma said he always wanted to be Impossible Burger. You could pair it with an entrepreneur. He moved from India The I-M-Possible Burger Signature Pair: to America when he was 17, grew up vegan mozzarella, sauteed mushrooms, in Ventura, went to college, became an fresh jalapeño and spicy vegenaise sauce investment banker, then bought two for even more flair.

El Pollo Locos in SLO County. He and Verma says organic burgers are the Shubbie met at the gym. But what were trend. He’s always been aware of what those two doing in New York? people want, and he knows he’s not “We were just hanging out in New feeding his own 2-year-old daughter York when we came across this concept,” anything but organic.

Verma said. “We saw all these different When we came in, on a Saturday night, meat options that we’ve never seen before, Verma was working the bar and checking and then on top of it so many vegan and in with the waitstaff. He’s a very hands-on gluten free options, so that got us excited.” owner. He checked on our table twice and I did take a look at the seven vegan even brought me a refill of organic craft and vegetarian options with add-ons he cherry cola. The waitstaff was very attentive was talking about. Looking around at my and upbeat. My kids said our waiter was neighbors’ plates, those secret spy burgers blended in just like my burger, including FLAVOR continued page 54

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the coolest, and they commented on the fine penmanship of the chalkboard art.

Meanwhile, they kept zapping my onion rings. Which I get. They’re really thin and crispy on the outside, tender and salty on the inside. My burger was juicy and fresh, oozing with blue cheese and crunchy with tangly pickles. I can’t believe it, but I left one bite— just one. The burger was so filling. I didn’t want to hurt, and at this point in life, I’m an expert at knowing my carrying capacity.

We left completely charged. My kids made me promise to take them back to Burger Village, and my son, Tony, made the perfect argument: “It’s organic Mom, so it’s the right thing to do.” ∆ Flavor writer Beth Giuffre almost always does the right thing. Send new flavor profiles to bgiuffre@newtimesslo.com.

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NEWS NIBBLES GREEN EATS An Irish Celebration in Harmony will start the St. Patrick’s Day Festivities at Harmony Cellars on March 14 from noon to 4 p.m. Irish-themed fare from The Hurricane Kitchen will be available for purchase as well as wine from Harmony Cellars. Jill Knight will be the musical guest (3255 Harmony Valley Road) … The Madonna Inn is adding a special St. Patrick’s Day menu (from Guiness and onion soup to corned beef sliders) on March 17, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., as well as Irish cocktail specials in the Silver Bar Cocktail Lounge and Copper Cafe (100 Madonna Rd., SLO) … Meanwhile, St. Patrick’s Day at 15c Wine Shop & Bar will be all about Guinness nitro, green beer, and bubbles, plus Chef Nathan’s interpretation of corned beef, all day from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. (624 S Main St., Templeton) … Follow the rainbow to SLO Brew Rock for green beer and traditional Irish plates on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, from 11:30 to 9 p.m. SLO Brew will be serving the finest craft stouts, juicy brews, and Chef Tom’s specialty corned beef. A taproom performance from local Scottish bagpipe masterminds Central Coast Pipes and Drums begins at 7:30 p.m. (855 Aerovista Place, SLO; free; all ages are welcome) …

The Clubhouse Grill at Sea Pines will celebrate March 17 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. with good luck shamrock specials: Jameson shots, green beer, and Guinness, corned beef eggs benedict, corned beef hash and eggs, corned beef and cabbage, and a reuben sandwich (1945 Solano St., Los Osos).

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The Performing Arts Center cares that you do well on your finals. Enjoy a relaxing study experience at the PAC on March 16 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with free coffee, tea, and food from House of Bread Bakery Cafe as you study in a serene setting (1 Grand Ave. on campus at Cal Poly) … In partnership with the SLO International Film Festival, the Wine History Project of SLO County will premier its new documentary film: 91 Harvests. The film will be screened March 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Fremont Theater (1035 Monterey Street, SLO) and March 22 at 4 p.m. at the Park Cinemas (1100 Pine Street, Paso). 91 Harvests takes a loving look at four generations of a

Paso Robles farming family: the Dusi’s.

The March 18 event is a double feature and includes the premier of the film: Full Boar. The event will feature wines from J Dusi and Eberle, along with a panel including Wine History Project Director Libbie Agran and Film Producers Tim Clott and Noel Resnick, members of the Dusi family, and will be moderated by Adam Montiel of the Cork Dorks. Tickets are available on the SLO Film Fest website at slofilmfest.org.

EAT, DRINK, AND RUN The Paso Crab Feed, hosted by the Rotary Club of Paso Robles will take place at the beautiful Windfall Farms Stallion Barn on March 14, from 4 to 7 p.m. Tickets include all-you-can-eat crab, salad, pasta marinara with gourmet meatballs, garlic bread, BarrelHouse beer on tap, and soft drinks. All proceeds benefit the Rotary Club of Paso Robles Sunrise Foundation, which distributes scholarships to Rotary Youth Leadership Camp and Skills USA (4715 Flying Paster Lane, Paso; tickets are $75 at pasocrabfeed.com) … The legendary Spartan Obstacle Race is coming to Ancient Peaks Winery on March 14 and 15. Ancient Peaks is already training and hyping up the 50k Ultra, 21k Beast and 10k Super Obstacle Course races.

Ancient Peaks wines will be available for sampling at the event (22720 El Camino Real, Santa Margarita; visit spartan.com for more info and registration). ∆ Beth Giuffre can’t run and drink at the same time. Send tasty tidbits to bgiuffre@ newtimesslo.com.

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I had the opportunity to sample one of chef Ryan Hernandez’s Clean Machine Meals the other day: The Bahn Mi Glazed Pork Meatballs with Sweet Pickled Vegetables over Rice—from his amazing food prep service that delivers weekly, seasonal gluten, soy, dairy, and refined sugar-free meals to pick up at five different gyms from Atascadero to Santa Maria. Meals are fully cooked, vacuum sealed, and freezer-friendly.

Heat and serve, baby. You can check out the menu online every Wednesday, with three amazing dishes for the week, and order for pick-up on Tuesdays.

I thought about this service and became enlightened at how needed this is for caregivers of the elderly or families dealing with sudden or chronic illness. Or college kids needing a home-cooked meal. Or even for people who just don’t feel like cooking.

The meatballs were flavored with ground pork, honey, cilantro, and fish sauce. I used my microwave (shush), and my meal for one came out incredibly tender and perfect in 90 seconds. We all have days when we need a 90-second meal prepared by a chef, don’t we? It occurred to me that you can store these meals in the freezer in case you get stuck in the house for whatever reason!

Ten Clean Machine meals cost $120. All orders must be placed by noon Friday for a delivery the following Tuesday. Connect at cleanmachinemeals.com. ∆ Flavor Writer Beth Giuffre is an eating machine. Send your fave flaves to bgiuffre@newtimesslo.com.

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LegaL Notices NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MARIllyN VIRgINIA MINER CASE NUMBER: 20PR0061

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Marillyn Virginia Miner, Thelma Virginia Marillyn Miner, or Marillyn Miner.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Thomas Miner in the Superior Court of California, County of: San Luis Obispo.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Thomas Miner be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: March 17, 2020 Time: 9:00 A.M. in Dept.: 9 Address of Court: Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm Street, Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of Letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Edward E. Attala 1502 Higuera St San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Phone: 805-543-1212 February 27, March 5, 12, 2020

NOTICE OF PUBlIC lIEN SAlE MARCh 20, 2020

A&G Self Storage, 1173 El Camino Real, #B Arroyo Grande, CA 93420, 805481-1300 The contents of Unit 17 (10’ x 10’) and Unit 52 (4’ x 6’) will be sold at auction for nonpayment of rent and other fees. Sealed bids will be accepted until 5 p.m.

March 20. They may be dropped in the mail slot at above address.

March 12 & 19, 2020

LegaL Notices NOTICE OF PUBlIC SAlE

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to Section 21700-21715 of the Business and Professions Code, Section 2328 of the UCC, Section 535 of the Penal Code of provisions of the Civil Code.

The undersigned will sell at a public sale by competitive bidding on the 14th of March, 2020 at 12:00 PM on the premises where said property has been stored and which are located at: Atascadero Mini Storage, 9150 El Camino Real, Atascadero, CA 93423 County of San Luis Obispo, State of California, the following: Denise Mcclymonds Household goods Mike Petree Household goods March 5 & 12, 2020

NOTICE OF SAlE OF ABANDONED PERSONAl PROPERTy

Notice is given that undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to sections 21701-21716 of the Business and Professions Code, Section 2328 of the Commercial Code, Section 535 of the Penal Code and provisions of the Civil Code. SuperStorage, 1380 Santa Ynez Avenue, 2000 Mountain View Avenue, Los Osos, CA 93402. Will sell by competitive bidding ending on March 13th, 2020 on or after 10:00 AM. Contents may include chairs, bed frames, mattresses, kitchen utensils, kitchenware, pots and pans, appliances, furnishings, clothing, household items, luggage, stereo equipment, cabinets, sporting equipment, fishing gear, camping gear, tools, construction equipment, computers, monitors, printers, toys, TV’S, bicycles, golf clubs, surf boards, office furniture, personal items, possible collectibles/antiques and boxed items contents unknown, belonging to the following: LOS OSOS Joshua Delacerda (10x10) Lloyd J. Kramer (5x10) Shannon Berryhill (5x7) Purchases must be paid for at time of sale in CASH ONLY. All purchased items sold as is, where is. Items must be removed at the time of sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Advertiser reserves the right to bid.

Dated this day 25th day of February, 2020.

Auction by StorageTreasures.com Phone (480) 397-6503 Main Mini Storage (805) 5287864 Ad to run March 5th and March 12th, 2020.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SAlE APN: 090-383-025 TS NO: CA0700115919-1 TO NO: 8759301

(The above statement is made pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d)(1). The Summary will be provided to Trustor(s) and/or vested owner(s) only, pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d) (2).) YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED July 7, 2008. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On April 7, 2020 at 11:00 AM, In the breezeway adjacent to the County General Services Building, 1087 Santa Rosa Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408, MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps, as the duly Appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust recorded on July 15, 2008 as Instrument No. 2008036038, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of San Luis Obispo County, California, executed by JANE E. MARLETT, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, as Trustor(s), in favor of WORLD ALLIANCE FINANCIAL CORP as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, that certain property situated in said County, California describing the land therein as: THAT PORTION OF LOTS 15, AND 18, BLOCK 7 OF FAIRVIEW TRACT RECORDED

LegaL Notices SEPTEMBER 19, 1887 IN BOOK A, PAGE 88 OF MAPS, BEGINNING AT THE MOST NORTHERLY CORNER OF LOT 18, THENCE SOUTH 48 DEGREES WEST ALONG THE NORTHWESTERLY LINE OF SAID LOTS 18 AND 15, 56 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 42 DEGREES EAST AND PARALLEL WITH THE NORTHEASTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 19 110 FEET; THENCE NORTH 48 DEGREES EAST AND PARALLEL WITH THE NORTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOTS 15 AND 18, 56 FEET TO THE NORTHEASTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 18; THENCE NORTH 42 DEGREES WEST ALONG THE NORTHEASTERLY LINE 110 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 182 EAST TEFFT STREET, NIPOMO, CA 93444 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said Note(s), advances if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligations secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Trustee’s Sale is estimated to be $224,823.77 (Estimated). However, prepayment premiums, accrued interest and advances will increase this figure prior to sale. Beneficiary’s bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the Trustee.

In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee’s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. The property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the property receiver, if applicable. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Notice to Potential Bidders If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a Trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a Trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same Lender may hold more than one mortgage or Deed of Trust on the property. Notice to Property Owner The sale date shown on this Notice of Sale may be postponed one or more times by the Mortgagee, Beneficiary, Trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about Trustee Sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call Nationwide Posting & Publication at 916.939.0772 for information regarding the Trustee’s Sale or visit the Internet Web site address listed below for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, CA07001159-19-1.

Information about postponements

LegaL Notices that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: 02/19/2020 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps TS No. CA07001159-19-1 17100 Gillette Ave Irvine, CA 92614 Phone: 949-252-8300 TDD: 866660-4288 Frances DePalma, Authorized Signatory SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.nationwideposting. com FOR AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: Nationwide Posting & Publication AT 916.939.0772 Trustee Corps may be acting as a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained may be used for that purpose. NPP0368094 To: NEW TIMES 02/27/2020, 03/05/2020, 03/12/2020

ORDER TO ShOW CAUSE FOR ChANgE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 20CV-0134

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Saundra Yvette Ontiveros filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Saundra Yvette Ontiveros to PROPOSED NAME: Saundra Ontiveros Zuniga THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 04/15/2020, Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 9 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm St. Rm. 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: March 3, 2020 /s/: Tana L. Coates, Judge of the Superior Court March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

ORDER TO ShOW CAUSE FOR ChANgE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 20CV-0142

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Ricky Thomas Franklin filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Ricky Thomas Franklin to PROPOSED NAME: Rick Thomas VanValen THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 04/16/2020, Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 2 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm St. Rm. 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: March 4, 2020 /s/: Ginger E. Garrett, Judge of the Superior Court March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

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ORDER TO ShOW CAUSE FOR ChANgE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 20CV-0144

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Monica Lynn DuMong and Tavis Edward DuMong filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Deanna Rae Villanueva to PROPOSED NAME: Deanna Rae DuMong, PRESENT NAME: Julia Renee Villanueva to PROPOSED NAME: Julia Renee DuMong THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 04/23/2020, Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 2 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm St. Rm. 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: March 5, 2020 /s/: Ginger E. Garrett, Judge of the Superior Court March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

ORDER TO ShOW CAUSE FOR ChANgE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 20CVP-0037

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Terry Wayne Thompson filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Terry Wayne Thompson to PROPOSED NAME: Zonk TerryWayne Thompson THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 03/18/2020, Time: 9:30 am, Dept. P2 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 901 Park Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: January 27, 2020 /s/: Linda D. Hurst, Judge of the Superior Court February 20, 27, March 5, & 12, 2020

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

NEW FILE NO. 2020-0406 OLD FILE NO. 2019-2269 Cedar And Cloth Home, 866 W. Grand Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433. San Luis Obispo County.

The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Luis Obispo County on 09/23/2019.

The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: Geadell Giatti, Daniel Osvaldo Giatti (1730 Newport Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business was conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Geadell Giatti. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-132020. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Gong, County Clerk. By G. Ugalde, Deputy Clerk.

February 20, 27, March 5, & 12, 2020

ORDER TO ShOW CAUSE FOR ChANgE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 20CVP-0070

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Clifton Adams filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Clifton Hunter Jr. aka Clifton George Adams to PROPOSED NAME: Clifton Adams THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 04/29/2020, Time: 9:30 am, Dept. P2 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 901 Park Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: February 18, 2020 /s/: Linda D. Hurst, Judge of the Superior Court February 27, March 5,12, & 19, 2020

ORDER TO ShOW CAUSE FOR ChANgE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 20CVP-0086

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Heidi Lisa Spencer filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Heidi Lisa Spencer to PROPOSED NAME: Heidi Lisa Leverette THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 04/29/2020, Time: 9:30 am, Dept. P2 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 901 Park Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: March 2, 2020 /s/: Linda D. Hurst, Judge of the Superior Court March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

PUBlIC NOTICE:

Building Located at 1629 Garden Street possibly available to be moved prior to demolition this fall.

Interested parties please e-mail info to dreidstudio@aol.com.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

NEW FILE NO. 2020-0498 OLD FILE NO. 2017-2159 Wink’s, 845 Embarcadero Suite 1, Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Luis Obispo County on 09/05/2017. The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: William Frederick Farrand, Deborah Sauer Farrand (845 Embarcadero Suite 1, Morro Bay, CA 93442).

This business was conducted

by A Married Couple /s/ William Farrand, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-24-2020.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Gong, County Clerk. By S. Currens, Deputy Clerk.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Tuesday, MARCH 24, 2020, 9:00 a.m.

Public Hearing to Consider Application for Temporary Commercial Outdoor Entertainment License for events to be held at the Avila Beach Resort (ABR).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo (“the Board”) will conduct a public hearing at their regular meeting on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, in the Board Chambers, 1055 Monterey Street, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, California.

The Board will consider by testimony and other evidence to approve, approve with conditions, or deny the following application pursuant to County Ordinance Title 6, Chapter 6.56. The proposed events are located within the coastal zone. The application was filed on October 25th, 2018.

APPLICATION:

Temporary Commercial Outdoor Entertainment License for events to be held at the Avila Beach Resort (ABR). The proposed project is categorically exempt from CEQA.

LOCATION:

Avila Beach Resort, 6464 Ana Bay Drive/2828 Blue Heron/3000 Avila Beach Drive, Avila Beach, CA 93424

APPLICANT:

Avila Beach Resort (ABR)

Interested persons are invited to attend the public hearing. Written comments to be considered as part of the proceedings may be mailed to the following address prior to the hearing: County of San Luis Obispo Clerk of the Board 1055 Monterey St., Suite D-430 San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 A copy of the application is available at the San Luis Obispo County Tax Collector’s Office, 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-290, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, (805) 781-5831. The proposed license is appealable to the Coastal Commission (no fee required).

Wade Horton, County Clerk of the Board By: /s/ T’Ana Christiansen Deputy Clerk Dated: March 12, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0309 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/15/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, KUTIN FAMILY CHILD CARE, 255 Dahlia St., Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Bonnie Kutin (255 Dahlia St., Nipomo, CA 93444). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Bonnie Kutin. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-0420. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

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FILE NO. 2020-0311 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ENDURANCE TOWN USA, 150 Capistrano Ave., Shell Beach, CA 93449.

San Luis Obispo County. Samantha J. Alderton-Pruitt (150 Capistrano Ave., Shell Beach, CA 93449). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Samantha J. Alderton-Pruitt, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-04-20.

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FILE NO. 2020-0342 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, LGCY RETAIL, 5355 San Jacinto Ave., Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County. Rene Israel Vasquez (5355 San Jacinto Ave., Atascadero, CA 93422).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Rene Israel Vasquez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-06-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 0206-25.

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FILE NO. 2020-0347 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/02/1994) New Filing The following person is doing business as, EXOTIC NATURE, 2535 Village Lane, Suite E, Cambria, CA 93428. San Luis Obispo County. Lissa K. Mc Connell (3113 Rogers Drive, Cambria, CA 93428). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Lissa K. Mc Connell, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-0720. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

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FILE NO. 2020-0354 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, GERIATRIC CARE MANAGEMENT AND DEMENTIA CONSULTING, 1375 East Grand Ave. #144, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County.

Alexandra Morris (200 Hollis Ave. #59, Campbell, CA 95008). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Alexandra Morris. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-0720. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 02-07-25.

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FILE NO. 2020-0358 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, C.J.’S CLOSET & MORE, 1660 La Cumbre Lane, Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Jose Sergio Arias, Alidia Arias (1660 La Cumbre Lane, Nipomo, CA 93444). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Alidia Arias. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-07-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk A. Bautista, Deputy. Exp. 0207-25.

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FILE NO. 2020-0367 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (08/23/2005) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CENTRAL VET IMAGING, 555 S. 13th Street, Suite A, Grover Beach, CA 93433. San Luis Obispo County. Peaches For Me, Inc. (170 Surf Street, Pismo Beach, CA 93449). This business is conducted

by A CA Corporation /s/ Peaches For Me, Inc., Andrew Jones, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-10-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 02-10-25.

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FILE NO. 2020-0381 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, 805 WINE, 179 Niblick Road, #247, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County.

Hall Enterprise, LLC (179 Niblick Road, #247, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted

by A CA Corporation /s/ Hall Enterprise, LLC, Anthony Hall, Managing Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-10-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 02-10-25.

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FILE NO. 2020-0382 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (06/01/2019) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SLO COAST WINERY, SLO COAST VINEYARD, SLO COAST VINEYARDS, SAN LUIS OBISPO COAST WINERY, SAN LUIS OBISPO COAST VINEYARD, SAN LUIS OBISPO COAST VINEYARDS, 178 Suburban Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County.

Stephen Dooley Wine Co., Inc. (178 Suburban Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Stephen Dooley Wine Co., Inc., Stephen Ross Dooley, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-1020. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 02-10-25.

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FILE NO. 2020-0385 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BADGER BRANDING, BADGER CREATIVE, 1880 Santa Barbara Ave., Suite 160, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Kathryn McDonough McGrath (439 Mitchell Dr., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Kathryn McGrath.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-11-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 02-11-25.

February 20, 27, March 5, & 12, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0388 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, HYUNDAI SAN LUIS OBISPO, 1407 Auto Park Way, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405.

San Luis Obispo County. San Luis Obispo Hyundai LLC (1407 Auto Park Way, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ San Luis Obispo Hyundai LLC, Robert S. Haupt, Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-11-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 02-11-25.

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FILE NO. 2020-0399 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/2014) New Filing The following person is doing business as, INNOVATIVE IT, 150 South Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Tektegrity Innovative Services Inc. (150 South Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Tektegrity Innovative Services Inc., Russell Levanway, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-1120. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 02-11-25.

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FILE NO. 2020-0401 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/11/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, STUDIO 12, 1773 Pereira, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405. San Luis Obispo County. DEVSLO, LLC (1773 Pereira, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ DEVSLO, LLC, Chad Wilkinson, Managing Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-11-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 02-1125.

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FILE NO. 2020-0402 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/29/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, 361 ENCANTO AVE., A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP, 793 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County.

Regina L Messineo-Lucian (299 El Portal, Pismo Beach, CA 93449), Geihs Enterprise Solo 401K (793 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A General Partnership /s/ Regina Messineo-Lucian, Partner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-11-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 02-11-25.

February 20, 27, March 5, & 12, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0419 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/13/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BRIAN MARSH CREATIONS, 353 Croyden Ln., Cambria, CA 93428. San Luis Obispo County. Brian Marsh (353 Croyden Ln., Cambria, CA 93428). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Brian Marsh. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-13-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy.

Exp. 02-13-25.

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FILE NO. 2020-0421 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, LOVE BIRDS WEDDING VIDEOGRAPHY, LOVE BIRDS WEDDINGS, 833 N 5th St., Grover Beach, CA 93433.

San Luis Obispo County. Omar G. Garza (833 N 5th St., Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Omar G. Garza.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-13-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 0213-25.

February 20, 27, March 5, & 12, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0407 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, GRAND INSPIRATIONS HOME FURNISHINGS AND DECOR, 866 W. Grand Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433. San Luis Obispo County. Geadell Giatti, Daniel Osvaldo Giatti (1730 Newport Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Geadell Giatti. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-13-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy.

Exp. 02-13-25.

February 20, 27, March 5, & 12, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0409 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/13/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, TACOS DURANGO, 1497B Creston Road, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Tacos Durango (1497B Creston Road, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Tacos Durango, Candice Montenegro, CFO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-13-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 02-13-25.

February 20, 27, March 5, & 12, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0412 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/2014) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SEVEN PEAKS REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT, 2159 San Luis Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. SKS Real Estate & Development Inc. (2159 San Luis Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ SKS Real Estate & Development Inc., Katherine Simoulis, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-13-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 02-13-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0418 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/05/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, PIGTAIL MEDIA, 1003 Buchon St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Cierra J. SavatgyKing (1003 Buchon St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Cierra J. Savatgy-King.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-13-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 02-13-25.

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FILE NO. 2020-0427 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/14/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, THE BUOY, 850 Quintana Rd., Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County.

Brian Rozario (1270 Little Morro Creek Road, Morro Bay, CA 93442). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Brian Rozario. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-14-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy.

Exp. 02-14-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0437 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, THE HAUL GUY, 2435 Elm Ave., Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County.

O.H.M. Pizza Inc. (2435 Elm Ave., Morro Bay, CA 93442).

This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ O.H.M. Pizza Inc., Oliver H. Mauch, President.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-18-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 02-18-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0438 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/14/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ALPINE REFRIGERATION HEATING AND COOLING, 1420 Verano Way, Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County.

Kenneth Allen Kirkpatrick (1420 Verano Way, Nipomo, CA 93444).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Kenneth Allen Kirkpatrick. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-18-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 02-18-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0443 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/18/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ENTER THE HEART, KRISHNA WHITE, 1543 Morro, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.

San Luis Obispo County. Kenneth David White (1543 Morro, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Kenneth White.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-18-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 02-18-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0451 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, MOON ENERGY MASSAGE AND BODYWORK, 310 Front Street, Suite B and C, Avila Beach, CA 93424. San Luis Obispo County. Christel Leona O’Rourke (1391 Viva Way, Nipomo, CA 93444). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Christel O’Rourke, Owner/ Sole Proprietor. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-18-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy.

Exp. 02-18-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0452 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/16/2014) New Filing The following person is doing business as, PATRICK AND CARRIE’S PLUMBING AND APPLIANCE, 2010 Vista Street, Oceano, CA 93445. San Luis Obispo County. Carrie S. Bisterfeldt, Patrick O. Osiecki (2010 Vista Street, Oceano, CA 93445).

This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Carrie S. Bisterfeldt. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-19-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy.

Exp. 02-19-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0464 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, MORRISON CUSTOM DESIGNS, 373 Los Osos Valley Rd., Los Osos, CA 93402.

San Luis Obispo County. James Catlin Morrison (373 Los Osos Valley Rd., Los Osos, CA 93402).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ James Catlin Morrison. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-19-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy.

Exp. 02-19-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0467 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/20/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, PISMO BEACH COINS ET CETERA GALLERY, 355 Pomeroy, Pismo Beach, CA 93449. San Luis Obispo County. John M. Zalensny (2409 Hemlock Ave., Morro Bay, CA 93442). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ John M. Zalesny, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-20-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 0220-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0456 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, FYK CREATIVE, 2345 See Canyon Rd., San Luis Obispo, CA 93405. San Luis Obispo County. Faith Ysabel Kenny (2345 See Canyon Rd., San Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Faith Kenny. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-19-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 02-19-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0468 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/20/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, GAIA’S GALLERY, 790 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Christine Branco (3225 See Canyon Rd., San Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Christine Branco, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-20-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 02-20-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0429 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/14/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, TURN-KEY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, 1502 Park St., Paso Robles, CA 93447.

San Luis Obispo County. TurnKey Real Estate, Inc. (1502 Park St., Paso Robles, CA 93447).

This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Turn-Key Real Estate, Inc., Nicole Chatham, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-14-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 02-14-25.

February 20, 27, March 5, & 12, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0446 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/24/2003) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BAY OSOS RESIDENTIAL CARE FOR ELDERLY, 1663 13th Street, Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo County.

Roverpac, Inc. (1663 13th Street, Los Osos, CA 93402).

This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Roverpac, Inc., Rodolfo “Dick” Pacaoan, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-18-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 02-18-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0459 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/19/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, NSI, 567 Camino Mercado, Suite B, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Newport Support, Inc. (567 Camino Mercado, Suite B, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Newport Support, Inc., Andrew M Allen, Pres.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-19-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 02-19-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0473 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/20/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, WILD DIVINITY, 3940 Broad St., Ste. 7444, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.

San Luis Obispo County. Karen Hatmaker (636 Avocet Way, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Karen Hatmaker.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-20-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 0220-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0436 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, DIVINE MICROFARMS, 1616 Costa Brava, Pismo Beach, CA 93449. San Luis Obispo County. John Paul T. D’Acquisto (1616 Costa Brava, Pismo Beach, CA 93449).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ John Paul T. D’Acquisto. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-18-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 02-18-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0448 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (06/01/2005) New Filing The following person is doing business as, THE PIZZA PORT 2, COWAN REAL ESTATE, PIZZA PORT, 787 Main Street, Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County. Timothy C Cowan (998 Carmel Street, Morro Bay, CA 93442). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Timothy C Cowan. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-18-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy.

Exp. 02-18-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0463 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/19/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, NIKKI ENGLE BOOKKEEPING & TEACHING, 9352 Bocina Ln. #D, Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County.

Nikki Engle (9352 Bocina Ln. #D, Atascadero, CA 93422). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Nikki Engle, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-19-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 02-19-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0475 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/20/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, PRANJIC MEDIA, 141 Leeward Avenue, Pismo Beach, CA 93449. San Luis Obispo County. John Pranjic (141 Leeward Avenue, Pismo Beach, CA 93449). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ John Pranjic, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-20-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 02-20-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0477 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/01/1989) New Filing The following person is doing business as, VALLEY INVESTMENT COMPANY, 2460 Gracia Way, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420.

San Luis Obispo County. John Hayashi (2626 Sevada Lane, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420), Howard Hayashi (5156 Corbett Canyon Road, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420), Alan Hayashi (2885 Northview Ave., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420).

This business is conducted by A General Partnership /s/ Alan Hayashi, General Partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-20-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 02-20-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0484 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/05/2019) New Filing The following person is doing business as, REFRESH CLEANING SERVICE, 1410 Galleon Way #4, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405. San Luis Obispo County. Yesenia Gaspar Calixto (1410 Galleon Way #4, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Yesenia Gaspar Calixto.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-21-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 02-21-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0485 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, PUBWRITER, 1900 Hill St., Morro Bay, CA 93442.

San Luis Obispo County. 50 Interviews Inc. (1900 Hill St., Morro Bay, CA 93442). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ 50 Interviews Inc., CEO- Brian D. Schwartz. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-21-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk R. Parashis, Deputy. Exp. 02-21-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0486 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, JUBILEE CONTRUCTION, INC., 866 Brighton Ave., Apt. A, Grover Beach, CA 93433.

San Luis Obispo County. Jubilee Construction, Inc. (866 Brighton Ave., Apt. A, Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Jubilee Construction, Inc., Jonathan Luke Kessler, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-21-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 02-21-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0487 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, RIOS GRAPHIC DESIGN, 6717 Portola Rd., Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County.

Jonathan Rios (6717 Portola Rd., Atascadero, CA 93422). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Jonathan Rios, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-21-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 02-21-25.

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FILE NO. 2020-0489 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, HARD WORKING WINES, 3525 Adelaida Rd., Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Barrel 27 Wine Company, Inc. (3525 Adelaida Rd., Paso Robles, CA 93446).

This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Barrel 27 Wine Company, Inc., Liz Gillingham, Operations Director. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-21-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk A. Bautista, Deputy. Exp. 02-21-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0495 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/24/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CENTRAL COAST MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR, 1490 Via Alta Mesa, Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County.

Juan Carlos Eguiluz (1490 Via Alta Mesa, Nipomo, CA 93444).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Juan Eguiluz, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-24-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 02-24-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0496 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/24/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, HOTEL ALEXA, 211 Alexa Court, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County.

Vinubhai S. Patel, Shantaben V. Patel (175 Kern Street, Salinas, CA 93905). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Vinubhai S. Patel. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-24-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 02-24-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0499 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, WINK’S, 845 Embarcadero, Suite 1, Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County.

Daisy Coffee Company LLC (845 Embarcadero, Suite 1, Morro Bay, CA 93442). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Daisy Coffee Company LLC, Jeremy Tardiff, Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-24-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk A. Bautista, Deputy. Exp. 02-24-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0500 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/09/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, #1 NAILS, 885 Oak Park Blvd., Pismo Beach, CA 93449. San Luis Obispo County.

Phn-Asher Co. (885 Oak Park Blvd., Pismo Beach, CA 93449).

This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Phn-Asher Co., Nguyen Hong Phuong, CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-24-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 02-24-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0505 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/24/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, REACH, REACH CENTRAL COAST, 872 Higuera Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County.

Hourglass Project (872 Higuera Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Hourglass Project, Andrew S. Hackleman, Vice President.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-24-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 02-24-25.

February 27, March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0520 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/21/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, RV WATER USA, 2022 Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo County. Eric Ryan Foronjy, Erika Hope Foronjy (2022 Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Eric Ryan Foronjy. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-25-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 02-25-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0507 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/01/2015) New Filing The following person is doing business as, COMFORT INN, 590 Morro Avenue, Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County. Twin Dolphin Hospitality, LLC (2759 Coral Avenue, Morro Bay, CA 93442). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Twin Dolphin Hospitality, LLC, Nathubhai Patel, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-25-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 02-25-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0508 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (08/01/2015) New Filing The following person is doing business as, PACIFIC SHORES INN, 890 Morro Avenue, Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County. P.S.I. Hospitality, LLC (890 Morro Avenue, Morro Bay, CA 93442). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ P.S.I. Hospitality, LLC, Nathu Patel, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-25-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 02-25-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FILE NO. 2020-0528 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/2012) New Filing The following person is doing business as, PAYMENT POINT SOLUTIONS, 6212 Kestrel Ln., Avila Beach, CA 93424. San Luis Obispo County. Joseph Patrick Shepard (6212 Kestrel Ln., Avila Beach, CA 93424). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Joseph Patrick Shepard, Owner/ Operator. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-26-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 02-26-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0532 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CENTRAL COAST PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES, 895 Aerovista Place, Suite 106, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Ana Kodzic (895 Aerovista Place, Suite 106, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Ana Kodzic.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-27-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 02-27-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0514 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, FRANKLIN CONSTRUCTION, 1483 Royal Way, Apt. C, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405. San Luis Obispo County.

Matthew Liam Breitmaier (1483 Royal Way, Apt. C, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Matthew Breitmaier.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-25-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 02-25-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0518 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, NUNNO WINE STORAGE & SALES, 3461 Dry Creek Rd., Paso Robles, CA 93446.

San Luis Obispo County. Nunno LLC (PO Box 1785, Paso Robles, CA 93447). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Nunno LLC, Cynthia Lewis, Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-25-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 02-25-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0536 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, OLALLIEBERRY INN, 2476 Main Street, Cambria, CA 93428. San Luis Obispo County.

Alanna D. Mah (920 Lenosa Lane, Atascadero, CA 93422).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Alanna D. Mah, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-27-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy.

Exp. 02-27-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0537 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, K. COLE LANDSCAPING, 1246 Mesa Rd., Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Kyle Eugene Cole, Laura Lynn-Vernazza Cole (1246 Mesa Rd., Nipomo, CA 93444). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Cole Laura Lynn-Vernazza. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-27-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 02-27-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0541 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BEACH WALKER INN & SUITES, 490 Dolliver St., Pismo Beach, CA 93442.

San Luis Obispo County. Vivaan Hospitality, Inc. (490 Dolliver St., Pismo Beach, CA 93442). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Vivaan Hospitality, Inc., Amit Patel-President.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-28-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 0228-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0544 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, GOODER THAN GOOD, 655 Pacific Street #1, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Albert Rea (655 Pacific Street #1, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Albert Rea. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 02-28-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 02-28-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0546 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/18/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, MB PRODUCE L.L.C., 1950 11th St., Apt. A, Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo County. MB Produce L.L.C. (1950 11th St., Apt. A, Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ MB Produce L.L.C., Jose Gabriel Martinez-Alvarez, CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-02-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 0302-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0551 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, EDNA VALLEY ESCENTIALS, 6212 Kestrel Ln., Avila Beach, CA 93424. San Luis Obispo County. Joseph Patrick Shepard (6212 Kestrel Ln., Avila Beach, CA 93424).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Mercedes Maria Tolentino-Swem. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-02-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 03-02-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0552 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/04/2010) New Filing The following person is doing business as, KENNETH VOLK VINEYARDS, 11549 Los Osos Valley Road #208, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405. San Luis Obispo County. Aqua Pumpkin Inc. (11549 Los Osos Valley Road #208, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Aqua Pumpkin Inc., Kenneth Volk, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-02-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 03-0225.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0553 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/02/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ASSURANCE PROPERTY MAINTENANCE, 1474 Brighton Avenue #D, Grover Beach, CA 93433. San Luis Obispo County. Diane Paone (1474 Brighton Avenue, Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Diane Paone. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-02-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 03-02-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0554 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/02/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, TUTTA BELLA SALON, 1750 El Camino Real, Suite E, Grover Beach, CA 93433.

San Luis Obispo County. Kathryn Jean Cano (625 Thunder Gulch, Arroyo Grande, CA93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Kathryn Jean Cano, Individual. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-02-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 03-02-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0556 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/02/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, A’S THE OTHER GUYS GARAGE, 1131 Pike Ln. #4, Oceano, CA 93445. San Luis Obispo County. Jano Company LLC (675 Longbranch #3, Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Jano Company LLC, Jose Abraham Navarro Ortega, Member.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-02-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 03-02-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0557 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/02/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ANDERSON INN, 897 Embarcadero St., Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County. Cihan Corporation (365 Tulare Ave., Morro Bay, CA 93442). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Cihan Corporation, John Solu, CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-02-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 03-02-25.

March 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0558 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SLO TRENCHLESS, 1740 San Luis Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Mark Alonzo Construction LLC (1740 San Luis Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Mark Alonzo Construction LLC, Hana Novak, Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-02-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 03-02-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0576 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SPARK COACHING AND CONSULTING, 500 Atascadero Road B10, Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County.

Christopher Phillip Failla, Sarah Lorraine Failla (2961 Hemlock Ave., Morro Bay, CA 93442).

This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Christopher Phillip Failla. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-03-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk A. Bautista, Deputy.

Exp. 03-03-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0583 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/04/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, HOUSE OF BROWS, 325 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Shakina A. Valencia (9337 Dechado Ct., Atascadero, CA 93422). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Shakina A. Valencia. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-04-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 03-04-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0579 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, TRADEWIND CELLARS, CALYPSO CELLARS, WGR CELLARS, 785 Manuela Way, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Charles E. Carlson III (785 Manuela Way, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Charles E. Carlson III. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-04-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 03-04-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0584 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, TURNOVER PROFESSIONALS, 5760 Hermosilla Ave., Atascadero, CA 93422.

San Luis Obispo County. Barrett Hughes Pepe (5760 Hermosilla Ave., Atascadero, CA 93422).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Barrett Hughes Pepe. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-04-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 03-04-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0580 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, THAI BBQ & COMBO, 630 1st St. Ste. B, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Brent Edward Walsworth (630 1st St. Ste. B, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Brent Edward Walsworth. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-04-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 03-04-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0605 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/2013) New Filing The following person is doing business as, GONATURAL, 2030 Hutton St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County.

Michele Miller (2030 Hutton St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Michele Miller.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-05-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 03-05-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0581 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/17/2017) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ALLMERCE, CENCAL LIQUIDATION, 1321 Carmel St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Warren Neal (1302 Peach St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401), Jeremy Politte (2443A Broad St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A General Partnership /s/ Warren Neal, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-04-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk JA. Anderson, Deputy. Exp. 03-04-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0606 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/01/1980) New Filing The following person is doing business as, GULLIVER’S TRAVEL OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, 81 Higuera St. Ste. 150, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Slogull, Inc. (81 Higuera St. Ste. 150, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Slogull, Inc., Ingrid Siegel, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-06-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 03-06-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

FILE NO. 2020-0582 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/01/2014) New Filing The following person is doing business as, OCEAN FRONT PIZZA, 156 ½ Ocean Front Ave., Cayucos, CA 93430. San Luis Obispo County. Erin Christine Zinn, Paul Gromely Weber (1125 Cass Ave., Cayucos, CA 93430).

This business is conducted by A General Partnership /s/ Erin Zinn, General Partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-04-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 03-04-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0607 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/14/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, KP HANDYMAN SERVICES, 870 El Morro Ave., Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo County. Keith P. Santoianni (870 El Morro Ave., Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Keith P. Santoianni. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-06-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy.

Exp. 03-06-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0610 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/06/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CALIBRAITE, 225 Madera St., Los Osos, CA 93402.

San Luis Obispo County. John Allen Timble (225 Madera St., Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ John Allen Timble, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-06-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 03-06-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0612 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/06/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, AQUA PUMPKIN INC., AQUA PUMPKIN, 11549 Los Osos Valley Road, Suite 208, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405.

San Luis Obispo County. Aqua Pumpkin Inc. (11549 Los Osos Valley Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Aqua Pumpkin Inc, Kenneth Q. Volk III, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-06-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk N. Balseiro, Deputy.

Exp. 03-06-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0613 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/15/2008) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SUN-N-BUNS BAKERY, 830 Embarcadero, Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County. Karen Krouse, Adam Krouse (94 Saint Mary Ave., Cayucos, CA 93430). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Adam Krouse. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-06-20.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 03-06-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0618 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, DESIGN REMODEL BUILD, 272 Pacific Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Jeremy Richard O’Kane, Jamie Leanne O’Kane (449 Lilac Drive, Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Jeremy Richard O’Kane, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-06-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 03-06-25.

March 12, 19, 26, & April 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0619 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/06/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, RUBICONX SOILS ENGINEERING, 547 Orchard Street, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420.

San Luis Obispo County. Joel C Cabreros (547 Orchard Street, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Joel C. Cabreros.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-06-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 03-06-25.

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PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING The San Luis Obispo Planning Commission will hold a Regular Meeting, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber of City Hall, 990 Palm Street, on the item(s) listed below: PUBLIC HEARING ITEM: 1. Review of a request to establish a bed and breakfast use in the R-3-H Zone (categorically exempt from environmental review); Project Address: 1716 Osos; Case #: USE-0607-2019; Zone: R-3-H; Suzan Bliss Kyle owner/applicant.

Contact: Walter Oetzell – (805) 781-7593 – woetzell@slocity.org The Planning Commission may also discuss other hearing or business items before or after the item(s) listed above. If you challenge the proposed action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission at, or prior to, the public hearing.

The report(s) will be available for review in the Community Development Office and online in advance of the meeting at http://www.slocity.org/government/ advisory-bodies/agendas-and-minutes/planning-commission. Please call 805-781-7170 for more information, or to request an agenda report. The Planning Commission meeting will be televised live on Charter Cable Channel 20, beginning at 6:00 p.m.

March 12, 2020

ADMINISTRATIVE PERMIT PUBLIC HEARING The City of San Luis Obispo’s Zoning Hearing Officer will hold a public hearing at 2:30 p.m. or later on Monday, March 23, 2020, in the Council Hearing Room, at City Hall, 990 Palm Street, to consider the following: 1. 10 Higuera Street. USE-0035-2020; Request to establish a Bar/Tavern use associated with a new distillery. Project is categorically exempt from environmental review (CEQA); C-T-MU zone; KROBAR Craft Distillery, applicant.

(Kyle Bell) PLEASE NOTE: Any court challenge to the actions taken on this public hearing item may be limited to considering only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City of San Luis Obispo at, or prior to, the public hearing.

March 12, 2020

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE SAN LUIS OBISPO CITY COUNCIL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The San Luis Obispo City Council invites all interested persons to attend a public meeting on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chamber, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, California, to consider the following item: • A Public Hearing to introduce an Ordinance adopting amendments to Chapter 17.94 of Title 17 (Zoning Ordinance) establishing provisions for the continuance of Non-Conforming Uses existing at the time of annexation within the East Airport Area (PL-ANNX-2030-2018, EID0006-2020).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible, the Pismo Beach Planning Commission will hold a regular meeting at City Hall, 760 Mattie Road, Pismo Beach California in the Council Chamber for the following purpose: 1. Public Hearing Agenda: A. Address:

383 Palomar Avenue

Applicant:

Michael & Susan Miner

Project No:

P19-000102

Description: Coastal Development Permit for a 624 square-foot addition and two new second-floor decks on an existing two-story single-family residence located at 383 Palomar Avenue; APN 010-243-025; Project site is located within the Coastal Zone and is appealable to the Coastal Commission.

Environmental Review:

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 9:00 a.m.

Public Hearing to Consider Application for Temporary Commercial Outdoor Entertainment License for events to be held at the Avila Beach Resort (ABR).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo (“the Board”) will conduct a public hearing at their regular meeting on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, in the Board Chambers, 1055 Monterey Street, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, California.

The Board will consider by testimony and other evidence to approve, approve with conditions, or deny the following application pursuant to County Ordinance Title 6, Chapter 6.56. The application was originally filed on November 25, 2018.

APPLICATION: Temporary Commercial Outdoor Entertainment License for events to be held at the Avila Beach Resort (ABR). The proposed project is located within the Coastal Zone and is categorically exempt from CEQA. LOCATION: Avila Beach Resort, 6464 Ana Bay Drive/2828 Blue Heron/3000 Avila Beach Drive, Avila Beach, CA 93424 APPLICANT: Avila Beach Resort (ABR) Interested persons are invited to attend the public hearing. Written comments to be considered as part of the proceedings may be mailed to the following address prior to the hearing: County of San Luis Obispo Clerk of the Board 1055 Monterey St., Suite D-430 San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 A copy of the application is available at the San Luis Obispo County Tax Collector’s Office, 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-290, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, (805) 781-5831. The proposed license is appealable to the Coastal Commission (no fee required).

Wade Horton, County Clerk of the Board By: /s/ T’Ana Christiansen Deputy Clerk Dated: March 12, 2020

In accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), it has been determined that the project is exempt from the requirements of CEQA pursuant to Section 15301 of the CEQA Guidelines regarding existing structures.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

• Review of the proposed annexation of approximately 59-acres of property and associated infrastructure improvements at Farmhouse Lane (East Airport Area), including multiple parcels immediately east of Broad Street between Farmhouse Lane and Kendall Road, including Allene Way, Morabito Place and Prospect Streets; this action includes consideration of an Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration tiered from the Final Program Environmental Impact Report for the Airport Area and Margarita Area Specific Plans and Related Facilities Master Plans (SCH#2000051062).

For more information, contact Teresa McClish of the City’s Community Development Department at (805) 783-7840 or by email, tmcclish@slocity.org.

The City Council may also discuss other hearings or business items before or after the items listed above. If you challenge the proposed project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Council at, or prior to, the public hearing.

Reports for this meeting will be available for review in the City Clerk’s Office and online at www.slocity.org no later than 72 hours prior to the meeting. Please call the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 781-7100 for more information. The City Council meeting will be televised live on Charter Cable Channel 20 and live streaming on www.slocity.org.

Teresa Purrington City Clerk City of San Luis Obispo

March 12, 2020

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

0 Shell Beach Road (McNeal Pocket Neighborhood)

Applicant:

Tom & Fred McNeal

Project No:

P20-000011

Description: Conceptual Review for a twentyone unit residential subdivision, including townhomes, detached bungalow units, and single family residences.

The project is located in the Planned Residential (PR) Zone of the South Palisades Planning Area. APN: 010144-025. The Commission’s comments on the concept review should not be construed as a preliminary project approval. No Commission consensus shall be developed, nor any vote taken on any aspect of the project.

SEALED BIDS will be received at the office of the City Clerk, 760 Mattie Road, Pismo Beach, 2, 2020 as determined by www.time.gov for performing work as follows: BELLO STREET BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT Before submitting Bids, Contractors shall be licensed in accordance with the Laws of the State of California. Accordingly, the successful Bidder shall possess a Class A, General Engineering

Interested persons are invited to appear at the hearing(s) or otherwise express their views and opinions regarding these matters. An opportunity will be presented at the hearing for verbal comments. Written comments are also welcomed at the hearing(s) or prior to the hearing(s).Written comments prepared prior to the hearing(s) may be submitted to the Planning Division by mail or hand-delivery at 760 Mattie Road, Pismo Beach, CA 93449, by fax at (805) 773-4684, or by email at eperez@pismobeach.org

awarded. Individual Subcontractors working under

Staff reports, plans and other information related to this matter are available for public review at the Community Development Department, 760 Mattie Road, Pismo Beach, CA. The meeting agenda and staff report will be available no later than the Friday before the meeting and may be obtained at City Hall or by visiting www.pismobeach.org.

The Planning Commission meeting will be televised live on Charter Cable Channel 20 and streamed on the City’s website.

provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance

If you challenge the action taken on this item in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City of Pismo Beach at, or prior to, the public hearing.

Contractor’s license at the time this contract is

3. 3938, 3942, 3960, 3972, and 3978 Hayfield Loop. DIR-00492020; Request for rear setback exceptions ranging from 14.15 to 19.05 feet, where a 20-foot rear setback is the standard, for Lots 50, 51, 55, 57, and 58 of Tract 3063 (Righetti Ranch Subdivision) within the Orcutt Area Specific Plan. The project is consistent with the previously adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration; R-1-SP zone; Williams Homes, applicant. (Hannah Nguyen) 4. 1775 Oceanaire Court. HOME-0066-2020; Review of a Homestay Rental application to allow short-term rental (such as Airbnb) of an owner-occupied single-family residence at 1775 Oceanaire Court. This project is categorically exempt from environmental review (CEQA); R-1 zone; Reid Cain, applicant.

(Hannah Nguyen) 5. 435 Marsh Street. DIR-0104-2020; Request to perform work at night from March 23, 2020 to April 1, 2020, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., to install tee and valves into existing water main along Marsh and Carmel Street frontages. This project is categorically exempt from environmental review (CEQA); C-R zone; Renton Partners, LLC, applicant. (Cassidy McSurdy) 6. 810 Orcutt Road. ARCH-0847-2019; Development review of a new 23-foot tall, 4,131-square foot warehouse structure to be constructed on the rear portion of an existing lot, with an existing 2,000-square foot structure to remain. The project includes proposed site improvements to the surface parking area. The project is categorically exempt from environmental review (CEQA); C-S zone; Mark and Missy Cameron, applicant (Kyle Van Leeuwen) The Community Development Director will either approve or deny these applications no sooner than March 23, 2020.

The Director’s decision may be appealed, and must be filed with the appropriate appeal fee within 10 days of the Director’s action. For more information, contact the City of San Luis Obispo Community Development Department, 919 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, stop by, or call (805) 781-7170, weekdays, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Commission WHEN: Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

WHAT: Hearing to consider a request by Alyson Rodges for a Development Plan/Coastal Development Permit (DRC2019-00163) for a commercial dog kennel and training facility. The project proposes to convert existing storage structures for this facility. The project is also requesting modification of development standards of Specialized Animal Facilities (CZLUO 23.08.052.g.[4].[ii]) to allow access from a privately maintained road. No site disturbance is proposed. The proposed project is within the Industrial land use category and is located at 776 Calle Bendita Road in the village of Callender-Garrett. The site is in the South County (Coastal) Planning Area.

Also to be considered is the determination that this project is categorically exempt from environmental review under CEQA. County File Number: DRC2019-00163 Supervisorial District: District 4

the Prime Contractor shall possess the appropriate

Assessor Parcel Number(s): 091-351-054

license for the type of work being performed.

Date Accepted: 10/22/2019

The DBE Contract goal is 12 percent. Since federal funds are utilized on this project, the required federal-aid contract language of Exhibit 12-G apply. This project is subject to the “Buy America”

WHERE: The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey Street, Room #D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets.

At the meeting all interested persons may express their views for or against, or to change the proposal.

Act of 1982 as amended by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Project Plans and Specifications are available

A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Young Choi, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

at the Engineering Division office located at 760 Mattie Road, Pismo Beach, CA, 93449. A nonrefundable fee of $365.00 per set will be charged.

Electronic Plans and Specifications are available via email at no charge. Questions will be accepted in writing up to 96 hours before bid closing by emailing Chad Stoehr at cstoehr@pismobeach.org.

Questions regarding bid procedure or other non-

Further information on the above item may be obtained from or viewed at the Planning Division Office at City Hall, or by telephone at (805) 773-4658, or by emailing Elsa Perez, Administrative Secretary at eperez@pismobeach.org.

technical questions can be asked by emailing Erin

Date: March 10, 2020

ERICA INDERLIED

Publishing Date: March 12, 2020

2. 1080 Marsh Street. DIR-0099-2020; Request to perform work at night from April 13, 2020 to June 19, 2020, between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m., to replace a structurally deficient vehicular bridge between Osos and Santa Rosa Streets. This project is categorically exempt from environmental review (CEQA); C-D zone; City of San Luis Obispo – Public Works Department, applicant. (Hannah Nguyen)

California, until 2:00 p.m., on Thursday, April

You have a right to comment on this project and its effect on our community.

PLEASE NOTE:

1. 1302, 1322, 1382, and 1402 Noveno Avenue. FNCE-00652020; Request to establish a fence height exception within the residential development known as West Creek (Noveno), to allow for a four and a half-foot tall fence on top of an existing fivefoot retaining wall within the street yard along Orcutt Road for lots 15 and 16, and within the side yard of lots 10 and 11. Project is categorically exempt from environmental review (CEQA) (1299 Orcutt Road); R-2-SP zone; Robbins Reed, applicant. (Kyle Bell)

March 12, 2020

CITY OF PISMO BEACH

2. Business Item Agenda: A. Address:

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors

Olsen at eolsen@pismobeach.org or by calling (805) 773-4656.

CITY CLERK March 5 & 12, 2020

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

COASTAL APPEALABLE If the County approves this project, that action may be eligible for appeal to the California Coastal Commission. Appeals must be filed in writing as provided by Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section 23.01.043.

Ramona Hedges, Secretary Planning Commission March 12, 2020

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INVITATION TO BID (SUB BIDS ONLY) GENERAL CONTRACTOR:

MAINO CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INCORPORATED

PROJECT NAME:

CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO MUIR HALL 107 FIRE ALARM REPLACEMENT PROJECT

PROJECT LOCATION:

BLDG. 107 - CAL POLY STATE UNIVERSITY, SLO, CA 93407

PROJECT OWNER:

TRUSTEES OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY

ARCHITECT:

GOSS ENGINEERING

BID DATE & TIME:

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2020 @ 12:00 P.M.

PRE-BID SITE REVIEW:

N/A

ESTIMATE/BUDGET:

$500,000

ANTICIPATED SCHEDULE:

2 MONTHS

START DATE:

JUNE 15, 2020

COMPLETION :

AUGUST 31, 2020

(CONTRACTOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERTIME AND WEEKEND WORK ANTICIPATED TO MEET PROJECT SCHEDULE)

SCOPE OF WORK: Asbestos and lead abatement, core drilling of concrete and CMU walls, demolition of existing fire alarm components and raceways, demolition and replacement of corridor acoustical ceilings, installation of new lighting fixtures at acoustical ceilings, complete design and installation of Notifier Fire Alarm System and tie-in with fire sprinkler system, painting, fire stopping at all wall and floor penetrations BIDS SHALL BE EMAILED TO: tomm@mainoslo.com and sonnys@mainoslo.com BID REQUIREMENTS: 1. Subcontractors must be bondable and may be required to provide Payment and Performance Bonds.

2. Bid Bond is not required.

3. Safety Record is of the utmost importance. Subcontractors with aggregate EMR Rate of 1.5 over the past three years may be disqualified.

4. Prevailing Wage TO VIEW PLANS/SPEC: Plans and specs may be downloaded from ASAP Reprographics at www.asapplanroom.com Plans and specs may also be viewed at the following Builders Exchanges: - SLO County Builders Exchange – www.slocbe.com - Santa Maria Valley Contractors Association – www.smvca.org - Central California Builders Exchange – www.cencalbx.com Maino Construction Company, Incorporated is an equal opportunity Contractor. It is the responsibility of each Subcontractor to view all pertinent information and documents prior to submitting a proposal.

March 12, 2020

INVITATION TO BID (SUB BIDS ONLY) GENERAL CONTRACTOR:

MAINO CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INCORPORATED

PROJECT NAME:

CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO MUIR HALL 107 FIRE PROTECTION PROJECT

PROJECT LOCATION:

BLDG. 107 - CAL POLY STATE UNIVERSITY, SLO, CA 93407

PROJECT OWNER:

TRUSTEES OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY

ARCHITECT:

GOSS ENGINEERING

BID DATE & TIME:

WEDNESDAY MARCH 25, 2020 @ 12:00 P.M.

PRE-BID SITE REVIEW:

N/A

ESTIMATE/BUDGET:

$700,000

ANTICIPATED SCHEDULE:

2 MONTHS

START DATE:

JUNE 15, 2020

COMPLETION:

AUGUST 31, 2020 (CONTRACTOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERTIME AND WEEKEND WORK ANTICIPATED TO MEET PROJECT SCHEDULE)

SCOPE OF WORK: Asbestos and lead abatement, core drilling of concrete and CMU walls, underground fire sprinkler main supply line, design and installation of complete automatic fire sprinkler system, associated fire alarm system tie-ins, demolition and replacement of corridor acoustical ceilings, installation of new lighting fixtures at acoustical ceilings, painting, fire stopping at all wall and floor penetrations.

BIDS SHALL BE EMAILED TO: tomm@mainoslo.com and sonnys@mainoslo.com BID REQUIREMENTS: 1. Subcontractors must be bondable and may be required to provide Payment and Performance Bonds.

2. Bid Bond is not required.

3. Safety Record is of the utmost importance. Subcontractors with aggregate EMR Rate of 1.5 over the past three years may be disqualified.

4. Prevailing Wage TO VIEW PLANS/SPEC: Plans and specs may be downloaded from ASAP Reprographics at www.asapplanroom.com Plans and specs may also be viewed at the following Builders Exchanges: - SLO County Builders Exchange – www.slocbe.com - Santa Maria Valley Contractors Association – www.smvca.org - Central California Builders Exchange – www.cencalbx.com Maino Construction Company, Incorporated is an equal opportunity Contractor. It is the responsibility of each Subcontractor to view all pertinent information and documents prior to submitting a proposal.

March 12, 2020

CULTURAL HERITAGE COMMITTEE PUBLIC HEARING

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR’S SUBDIVISION HEARING The City of San Luis Obispo’s Community Development Director will hold a public hearing at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, March 23, 2020, in the Council Hearing Room, at City Hall, 990 Palm Street, to consider the following: 1.

226 Patricia Drive. SBDV-0719-2019; Request to subdivide a 13,018-square foot parcel into two lots.

The two resulting lots will have net areas of 6,008 and 6,095 square feet each. This project is categorically exempt from environmental review (CEQA). Two lot tentative parcel map; R-1 zone; John and Lorrie Stone, applicants. (Kyle Van Leeuwen)

PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS: 1. Review of a proposed two-story residential unit, garage, and workshop on a Contributing Historic property (Categorically exempt from environmental review); Project Address: 1140 Iris; Case #: ARCH-0022-2020; Zone: R-2-S; Dave and Karen Rucker, applicant.

Contact Information: Walter Oetzell – (805) 7817593 – woetzell@slocity.org 2.

Review of a historic significance determination request to remove the property at 1156 Peach Street from the City’s Contributing historic properties list (this action is not subject to environmental review); Project Address: 1156 Peach; Case #: HIST-0036-2020; Zone: R-2-H; Ivan Lapidus, owner and applicant.

Contact Information: Walter Oetzell – (805) 7817593 – woetzell@slocity.org The Cultural Heritage Committee may also discuss other hearing or business items before or after the item(s) listed above. If you challenge the proposed action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Cultural Heritage Committee at, or prior to, the public hearing.

PLEASE NOTE: Any court challenge to the actions taken on this item may be limited to considering only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City of San Luis Obispo at, or prior to, the public hearing.

The report(s) will be available for review in the Community Development Office and online in advance of the meeting at https://www.slocity. org/government/advisory-bodies/agendas-andminutes/cultural-heritage-committee. Please call 805-781-7170 for more information, or to request an agenda report.

March 12, 2020

March 12, 2020

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Commission WHEN: Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

WHAT: Hearing to consider a request by Dr. Harvey and Melanie Billig for a Third Time Extension (EXT2020-00009) of a previously approved Vesting Tentative Parcel Map (CO14-0020) and Conditional Use Permit (SUB2013-00052) to: (1) subdivide an existing 4.9-acre parcel into two parcels of 1.46 acres and 3.44 acres; (2) construct a 36,503-square-foot assisted living facility (60 beds) on the 1.46acre parcel; (3) construct a 70,419-square-foot behavioral health hospital (91 beds) on the 3.44-acre parcel; and (4) implement site improvements on both parcels, including grading, parking, landscaping, and installing a common driveway. The request includes a modification to the height standards for the proposed hospital to allow a height of 44 feet from average natural grade instead of 35 feet, as required by the ordinance. The proposed project will result in the overall disturbance of approximately 3.5 acres, including 22,230 cubic yards of cut and 17,260 cubic yards fill on a 4.9-acre parcel. The project site is within the Office and Professional land use category, and is located on the south side of Las Tablas Road (directly opposite Twin Cities Hospital), approximately ¼ mile west of Bennett Road in the community of Templeton, in the Salinas River Sub Area of the North County Planning Area.

A time extension is not a project under CEQA. County File Number: EXT2020-00009 Supervisorial District: District 1 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 091-351-054 Date Accepted: 02/21/20220 WHERE: The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey Street, Room #D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the meeting all interested persons may express their views for or against, or to change the proposal.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Holly Phipps, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

Ramona Hedges, Secretary Planning Commission March 12, 2020

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The San Luis Obispo Cultural Heritage Committee will hold a Regular Meeting, Monday, March 23, 2020, at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Hearing Room, Room 9 of City Hall, 990 Palm Street, on the item listed below:

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

The San Luis Obispo Council of Governments (SLOCOG) will hold a Public Hearing on April 1, 2020, to receive public testimony on the 2019 Federal Transportation Improvement Program (FTIP) Amendment No. 9. The 2019 FTIP Amendment No. 9 includes the following projects: 1) SHOPP Collision Reduction Program. New Rumble Strip Project. Various locations on State Routes 1, 41 & 227 Install centerline and edge-line rumble strip. FY 19/20 - $3.8M project total.

2) Prado Road Overcrossing. Shift $6M STIP construction phase funding from FY22 to FY23.

3) Bob Jones Pathway. Add $350k Regional Funding.

4) Avila Beach Drive. Modify record $700k County Funds FY19/20 to $700k STIP funds FY20/21, add $250k CMAQ and RSHA funds to FY20/21.

5) Pismo Congestion Relief Project – Add $1.2M CMAQ and RSHA funds to PE phase FY20/21. Increase FY20/21 STIP Funds $1.2M to $6.5M from $5.3M. 6) 227 Los Ranchos Rd. – Add $500k CMAQ and RSHA funds for PE phase FY19/20.

7) SR Roundabout Buckley Rd.- Add $699k Federal HIP funds to PE phase FY 19/20. Unprogram $243k CMAQ FY19/20 and add programming $250k Local County Funds FY20/21 8) Various RSTP projects data clean-up– no FTIP fiscal, scope or narrative modifications 9) Brisco Road – Shift $6.6M STIP FY20/21 CON funds to FY22/23.

Record City Funding commitment $11M across FY20/21~FY22/23.

Additional information about the 2019 FTIP can be found at https:// slocog.org/programs/funding-programming/federal-transportationimprovement-program-ftip The FTIP is the region’s transportation programming document that contains a comprehensive listing of surface transportation projects that receive federal funds, are subject to a federally required action, or are regionally significant. Highway and local road projects, public transit, bicycle and pedestrian projects are included in the FTIP based on programmed and committed federal, state, and local funding over the next four years.

The San Luis Obispo Regional Transit Authority (RTA), the City of San Luis Obispo Transit agency and the South County Transit (SCT) agency rely upon SLOCOG, the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to meet the public participation requirements for the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Program of Projects.

Individuals wishing accessibility accommodations at this meeting, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), may request such accommodations to aid hearing, visual, or mobility impairment (including Limited English Proficiency [LEP]) by contacting SLOCOG offices at 781-4219. Please note that 48 hours advance notice is needed to honor your request.

Please refer to www.slocog.org for the meeting agenda and further information. The hearing will be held during the SLOCOG Board that starts at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in the County Board of Supervisors Chambers, County Government Center, 1055 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, California. For more information, write to SLOCOG, 1114 Marsh Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, or contact John DiNunzio (805) 781-5764, or email at jdinunzio@slocog.org.

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LegaL Notices NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GEORGE GOETHLAS GOULD JR. AkA GEORGE G. GOULD AkA GEORGE GOULD CASE NUMBER: 20PR - 0069

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: GEORGE GOETHLAS GOULD JR. aka GEORGE G. GOULD aka GEORGE GOULD A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by GLORIA A. GOULD in the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo.

The Petition for Probate requests that GLORIA A. GOULD be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: March 24, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept: 9, in Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, located at 1035 Palm Street, Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: J. JOHNSON LAW OFFICE, INC. P.O. Box 93483 Grover Beach, CA 93483 March 5, 12, & 19, 2020

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GUADALUPE G. MEDINA CASE NUMBER: 20PR - 0079

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: GUADALUPE G. MEDINA aka GUADALUPE MEDINA A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by SALVADOR MEDINA in the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo.

LegaL Notices The Petition for Probate requests that SALVADOR MEDINA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: April 7, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept: 9, in Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, located at 1035 Palm Street, Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Matthew M. O’Leary, Esq. P.O. Box 886 San Luis Obispo, CA 93406 March 12, 19, & 26, 2020

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CHARLES MARTIN HAYES CASE NO. 20PR-0078

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of CHARLES MARTIN HAYES. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by DONALD DALE HAYES in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN LUIS OBISPO. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that DONALD DALE HAYES be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act . (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 04/07/20 at 9:00AM in Dept.

9 located at 1035 PALM, ROOM 385, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93408 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or

LegaL Notices by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner MARGARET H. FULTON - SBN 076741 ROBINSON & FULTON LAW ONE CALIFORNIA STREET AUBURN CA 95603 3/12, 3/19, 3/26/20 CNS-3351528# NEW TIMES

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MILENA ALLEN CASE NO. 19PR-0370

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of MILENA ALLEN. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by TRACY GREEN in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN LUIS OBISPO. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that TRACY GREEN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act . (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 04/07/20 at 9:00AM in Dept.

9 located at 1050 MONTEREY STREET, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93401 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner LINDA M VARGA - SBN 149988 and HENRY J. MORAVEC III - SBN 149989 MORAVEC, VARGA & MOONEY 2233 HUNTINGTON DRIVE, SUITE 17 SAN MARINO CA 91108 3/12, 3/19, 3/26/20 CNS-3351506# NEW TIMES

for the week of March 12

LegaL Notices NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CRAIG RABINOwITz CASE NUMBER: 20PR0075

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Craig Rabinowitz A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Sara Birnham in the Superior Court of California, County of: San Luis Obispo.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Sara Birnham be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: April 7, 2020 Time: 9:00 A.M. in Dept.: 9 Address of Court: Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm Street, Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of Letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Edward E. Attala 1502 Higuera St San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Phone: 805-543-1212 March 5, 12, 19, 2020

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Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology Homework: “In purely spiritual matters, God grants all desires. Those who have less have asked for less,” wrote Simone Weil. Is that true for you?

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(March 21-April 19): Giacomo Puccini’s famous opera Tosca premiered in 1900.

It featured a heroine named Tosca. In 1914, Puccini’s favorite Tosca, a soprano singer named Maria Jeritza, was performing in a production at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.

As she got ready to sing an aria entitled “I Live for Art,” she stumbled and fell. Rather than struggle awkwardly to rise, she pretended that this was all quite natural—called for in the script. She sang the entire piece while lying on the floor.

Puccini loved it! Ever since then, most of the singers who have played the role of Tosca have sung “I Live for Art” while prone. I suggest you regard this as an inspirational teaching.

What lucky accidents could you make into permanent additions or enhancements?

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20): Taurus poet Gary Snyder said, “Threefourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.” Personally, I think that many of us, not just philosophers and writers, do the same thing.

Are you one of us? Your first assignment during the next four weeks will be to explore whether you do indeed tend to convince yourself that you like the cage you were tricked into entering. Your second assignment: If you find that you are in a cage, do everything you can to stop liking it. Third assignment: Use all your ingenuity, call on all the favors you’re owed, and conjure up the necessary magic so that you can flee the cage.

(May 21-June 20): “Your body is not a temple,” declared author and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. “It’s an amusement park.

Enjoy the ride.” I half-agree with him. I’m deeply devoted to regarding the body as an amusement park. It should be a source of endless fun and enjoyment. We have the right—indeed, I’d say a duty—to wield our bodies in ways that immerse us in the mysteries and miracles of pleasure. But here’s where I disagree with Bourdain: I believe the body is also a temple that deserves our reverence and respect and protective tenderness.

Your assignment in the coming weeks, Gemini, is to raise your commitment to treating your body as both an amusement park and a holy temple.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Early in his career, Cancerian painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) sold only a few paintings. But eventually his luck improved. Once he was financially successful, he became very generous. He wielded his influence to get jobs for other artists, and mentored many artists, as well. Sometimes he added a few dabs of paint to the finished works of younger, struggling painters, then signed the canvases with his own name so that the works could more easily be sold. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to adopt your own version of Corot’s approach toward those around you who could benefit from your help and support. (P.S. It’s in your selfish interest to do so, although the reasons why may not be clear for a while.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Composer Brian Eno has testified that African music underlies and influences much of his work.

He exults in the freedom and unpredictability it encourages.

Why? Here’s one reason: In African songs, there are often multiple rhythms. And they’re not locked together; they float freely in relationship to each other. Eno says this is different from Western music, whose salient quality is that all the rhythmic elements are contained “in little boxes”—locked into a tyrannically mechanical clockwork pattern. According to my reading of the astrological omens, dear Leo, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to experiment with Eno’s insight. How? Escape mechanical clockwork patterns and activate the “multiple, free-floating rhythm” metaphor in everything you do.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As you come to the climax of your Season of Good Gaffes and Lucky Bloopers, I’ll remind you of folk singer Pete Seeger’s definition of a “productive mistake.”

He said it had these five qualities: “1. made in the service of mission and vision; 2. acknowledged as a mistake; 3. learned from; 4. considered valuable; 5. shared for the benefit of all.”

Let’s hope, Libra, that your recent twists and turns fit at least some of these descriptions!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Would you consider making one more push, Scorpio? Can I coax you to continue your half-confusing, half-rewarding quest? Are you willing to wander even further out into the frontier and take yet another smart risk and try one additional experiment? I hope so. You may not yet be fully convinced of the value of these forays outside of your comfort zone, but I suspect you will ultimately be glad that you have chosen what’s interesting over what’s convenient.

P.S. In the coming weeks, you could permanently expand your reservoir of courage.

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of intimacy? Would you be willing to meditate on how you might bring additional creativity and flair into your close alliances? If you answered yes to those questions, the next six weeks will provide you with ample opportunities to dive in to all that fun work. “Collaboration” and “cooperation” will be words of power for you. “Synergy and symbiosis” should be your tender battle cry.

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A traditional astrologer might say that you Sagittarians typically spend less time at home than any other sign of the zodiac. Some of you folks even rebel against the idea that having a stable home is a health-giving essential.

You may feel that you can’t be totally free unless you always have your next jaunt or journey planned, or unless you always have a home-away-from-home to escape to. I understand and appreciate these quirks about your tribe but am also committed to coaxing you to boost your homebody quotient. Now would be a perfect time to do that. You’re more open than usual to the joy and power of cultivating a nurturing home.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The more crooked the path, the faster you’ll get to where you’re going. Every apparent detour will in fact be at least a semi-valuable shortcut. Any obstacle that seems to block your way will inspire you to get smarter and more resourceful, thereby activating lucky breaks that bring unexpected grace. So don’t waste even a minute cursing outbreaks of inconvenience, my dear, because those outbreaks will ultimately save you time and make life easier.

(P.S.: During the coming weeks, conventional wisdom will be even more irrelevant than it usually is.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I was a young adult, I was unskilled and indigent. Many restaurants exploited my feeble prowess at washing pots and pans and dishes, but the meager wage they paid me barely kept me fed and housed. You will perhaps understand why, now that I’m grown up, I am averse to cleaning pots and pans and dishes, including my own. That’s why I pay a helper to do that job. Is there an equivalent theme in your own life? An onerous task or grueling responsibility that oppressed you or still oppresses you? Now is a good time to find a way to declare your independence from it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I suspect your fantasy life will be especially potent in the coming weeks. Your imagination will have an enhanced power to generate visions that could eventually manifest as actual events and situations. On the one hand, that could be dicey, because you can’t afford to overindulge in fearful speculations and worried agitation.

On the other hand, that could be dramatically empowering, because your good new ideas and budding dreams may start generating practical possibilities rather quickly. ∆

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