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Bob Jones homeless camp cleanup leads to controversy

he city of San Luis Obispo forced dozens of homeless individuals living in an encampment by the Bob Jones biking and walking trail to leave early on May 18, leading to concerns among some local homeless advocates about safety and human rights violations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. City officials and SLO police officers notified residents of the Bob Jones camp on May 12 that they would have to leave the area within the week, according to Deputy City Manager Greg Hermann, who said the decision was in response to “significant health and safety concerns” at the camp. On May 18, the city dismantled the encampment, removed the trash and waste that had accumulated in the area, and told remaining residents to move along. Becky Jorgeson is the founder and president of Hope’s Village of SLO, a nonprofit that advocates for people experiencing homelessness. Jorgeson and her staff deliver food to residents of the longstanding Bob Jones camp daily, some who have lived there for nearly 15 years. Now they’ve all left the area and many can’t be located. “The excuse is that [the city] warned people,” Jorgeson said. “Well there’s nowhere else for them to go.” Although the city brought along social workers and 40 Prado Homeless Services staff to connect Bob Jones residents to services and get them placed in the Prado shelter, Jorgeson said only about 25 of the 50 to 70 regulars at camp were actually contacted by city officials. And Jorgeson said a lot of people with severe mental health and substance abuse issues have difficulties getting into and staying at Prado, which she said has stringent entry rules. There is one place individuals experiencing homelessness could go, Jorgenson said. In late March, the county secured four motels and several trailers where homeless individuals with COVID-19 can quarantine and heal. But

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Jorgeson said there haven’t been many known cases of coronavirus among the local homeless population, and the county confirmed that those beds aren’t being used. Unfortunately, she said, the county won’t house just anyone there. So now Hope’s Village of SLO is housing several individuals in a local motel, including S, a single mother of a 4-month-old who has long struggled with homelessness. S, who New Times is identifying by her first initial, recently ended a relationship with her son’s abusive father, who she said struggles with substance abuse and threatened to kill her and take her son. For weeks now S said she’s been trying to get help from the various shelters and services in SLO without luck. RISE SLO, which offers assistance to survivors of intimate partner violence, couldn’t take her because of her history of homelessness, she said. RISE said that while it does take some women experiencing homelessness, the shelter is often at capacity and there typically has to be a direct link between the homelessness and domestic violence. Then S stayed at Prado for a few nights but was kicked out for a night after a minor violation. S eventually found the Bob Jones camp early last week, but after a day there, she found out that she’d have to leave soon. “I’m just trying to get somewhere stable for us,” S told New Times. City officials say they did their best to warn Bob Jones residents of the coming closure and help them find another place to stay. In an email that was forwarded to New Times, Police Chief Deanna Cantrell said the city offered all residents beds at the 40 Prado homeless shelter and to hold personal belongings for residents for up to 90 days. CAPSLO (Community Action Partnership of SLO) Deputy Director Grace McIntosh said she sent one of her staff members down to the

Paso expands outdoor seating at city park, discusses parklets

As restaurants in SLO County prepare to open their doors for dine-in service, while following the 6-foot guideline and occupancy capacity, Paso Robles is looking to expand outdoor seating in the park for its downtown businesses and, potentially, via parklets. At the virtual May 20 meeting, Paso Robles City Council unanimously approved the City Park Dining Program. Thursdays through Sundays from 5 to 10 p.m., the decomposed granite area west of the museum will be utilized for a reserved dining area managed by the Paso Robles Chamber of Commerce. The chamber will organize delivery and setup of additional tables and chairs for the area, and it will apply for a temporary permit to allow businesses to serve alcoholic beverages during the designated time period. The council also directed staff to determine how to replicate the program at the city’s other parks. Althought there was overwhelming support for the program, public commenters were split on putting parklets downtown, citing concerns about sufficient parking and street closures. A parklet is a leveled platform built over an existing parking space in front of a restaurant.

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Bob Jones camp to connect with residents and offer them space in 40 Prado. Of the roughly 25 people contacted, about 18 were eligible to come to the shelter whenever they wanted. McIntosh said 10 had no interest, and eight said they’d come in, but only a few have. Right now, Prado is only accepting SLO County locals and individuals who have sought CAPSLO services before. Those measures are intended to keep numbers lower in the shelter to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak. There haven’t been any positive cases in the shelter so far, but McIntosh said only three individuals have met the criteria required to get tested. McIntosh plans to open Prado back up as usual on June 1 if all goes to plan. Until then, she said Bob Jones residents who meet Prado’s entry criteria are welcome there. “We all need to understand that none of us has the answer for every single person and the more we can work together in a positive way together the better.” Δ — Kasey Bubnash According to the staff report, the chamber said many restaurants were concerned about the cost of constructing a parklet, so it suggested closing 12th and Park streets four nights a week or Park Street one night a week to allow restaurants to place additional tables in the street for dining. Jeffrey Wiesinger of Jeffry’s Wine Country BBQ told the City Council that he opposed the street closures because his customers utilize Park and Pine Streets for curbside pickup—which is working for his restaurant during this time. “If you were to propose the idea of closing Park Street, that’s going to affect my business, Thai Classic, Yanagi Sushi, Diablo Paso, and Pasolivo. If you close down Park Street, that’s going to dramatically affect our business,” Wiesinger said. A few commenters said the city shouldn’t create any more guidelines for business owners and called for Paso to scrap following state guidelines altogether. Business owner Danny Inger questioned the city’s plans to help local businesses reopen. He said he believes that “the experts” overreacted to the virus, suggested that the city “get out of the way,” and send business owners reopening recommendations but not enforce them. NEWS continued page 5

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“Also send an email to the citizens telling them that we live in a free and risky world and that they should live at their own risk,” Inger said. “Businesses should open up immediately as they do not need the council’s permission or guidelines. They have constitutionally protected freedoms if only they will stand up and take it.” During the May 20 meeting, council directed staff to continue the current complaint-driven educational approach to any businesses that aren’t complying with public health orders and guidelines, with an enhanced approach to public information and community engagement around these issues. The council is slated to revisit parklets and street closure options in June. —Karen Garcia

SLO County can open restaurants and retail

Restaurants and retail stores throughout San Luis Obispo County will be allowed to reopen their brickand-mortar doors to customers in the coming days after the state approved a SLO County attestation of readiness for COVID-19 on May 20. With the approval, SLO County joins a majority of California counties that have earned permission to move deeper into Phase 2 of the state’s Resiliency Roadmap for reopening the economy. SLO County initially fell short of meeting the state’s attestation criteria,

but on May 18 Gov. Gavin Newsom revised the criteria to allow counties with slightly higher case counts per 100,000 residents to move forward. County officials learned of the state’s approval around noon on May 20. More details, logistics, and process-related information will be available in the coming days, said Michelle Shoresmen, a SLO County public information officer. “There are still criteria that have to be met by a business before they can actually open, so those are the logistics we’re figuring out,” Shoresmen told New Times on May 20. The state has issued guidelines that dictate how various business sectors must operate after opening. They cover social distancing, sanitation, and employee training/protections, among other areas. According to the guidelines, bars, breweries, wineries, and distilleries may only open if they also offer sit-down, dine-in meals. All restaurants are asked to encourage takeout and delivery whenever possible. Restaurant and store owners are approaching the reopening in their own ways. For Big Sky Cafe in downtown SLO, takeout and delivery may continue to be diners’ only options for the time being. Owner Greg Holt told New Times that his restaurant has adjusted to the curbside/ delivery model, and that adhering to the state’s dining-in requirements will be challenging and would mean eliminating more than two-thirds of his indoor tables. Nonetheless, he’s preparing for it; it just might take some time. “I wasn’t ready for it to happen so soon,”

Holt said. “If I can reopen June 1, I don’t know if I’ll be ready.” Businesses and activities that remain closed, and are part of future phases, include personal services, like hair salons, gyms, entertainment venues, public pools and playgrounds, religious services, nightclubs, and lodging for leisure and tourism. As of May 20, SLO County had 249 COVID-19 cases, with one death, three active hospitalizations, and two ICU patients. Close to 90 percent of all patients have fully recovered. Between April 13 and May 20, labs processed 7,766 local COVID-19 tests. —Peter Johnson

Teachers discuss teaching students who lack internet

R.A.C.E. Matters SLO hosted a live webinar on May 17 to talk about the challenges children of color are facing while distance-learning during the public health crisis and how teachers are working to aid them. The panelists consisted of K-12 teachers, a Cal Poly professor, and a SLO County school board trustee. Most speakers said student participation is high but a few students don’t regularly attend virtual sessions or turn in assignments. They attribute the lack of interaction to possibly having to go to work with mom and dad if child care is not an option, not having a quiet place to work in at home, and a lack of internet access.

According to recent data by the United States Department of Commerce, approximately 14 percent of U.S. families with children between the ages of 6 and 11 live in homes with no internet service. The report also stated that there are disparities in children’s at-home internet access based on factors like race. Currently 88 percent of white and Asian American school-aged children lived in households with internet service; 81 percent of African American and 83 percent of Hispanic children have online access at home as well. Approximately 86 percent of children living in urban households have the service compared to 82 percent of their rural counterparts. During the webinar, Amber Williams, an assistant professor of psychology and child development at Cal Poly, said she chose her teaching style for “equity reasons,” based on her students’ accessibility to online platforms. Williams went with asynchronous teaching, allowing students to log on to view their assignments and her lectures at their discretion. Synchronous teaching, however, involves students logging in to virtual classrooms live with their peers. “I have been reading up and listening to lectures on how to support students in online learning, and one of the things they were saying is, particularly for lowincome students, internet access might not be consistent and so being able to log on simultaneously with other students may not be possible for everyone,” she said. The inability to be online with the NEWS continued page 6

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rest of the class could result in students falling behind or missing out on graded participation. Williams said some teachers are implementing both teaching styles in their curriculum so she advises that they have a generous policy of grading participation and have multiple sessions. San Luis Coastal Unified School District bilingual counselor Karla Robles said the district provided their students with Chromebooks and a hotspot. “We realized that many of the student didn’t have internet at home, and we’ve also created tutorials for students and their parents in Spanish and English to help them access Zoom or Google Classroom,” she said. Juan Olivarria, a SLO County Board of Education trustee, said the students that are having a tough time distancelearning are English learners. “When we come back, we’re going to have to do things a lot differently to help them get caught up,” he said. —Karen Garcia

Summer concert series organizers hope to operate by July For the past 14 summers in Arroyo Grande, residents of all kinds and ages have spent every other Sunday afternoon between June and September spread out on blankets and relaxing in lawn chairs in Heritage Square Park, eating, drinking, and listening to free live music.

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The Arroyo Grande Village Summer Concert Series typically starts in early June and includes eight shows throughout the summer, but this year is the event’s 15th anniversary, and manager Curtis Reinhardt had hoped to kick it off on Memorial Day Weekend to draw a larger crowd. Then COVID-19 hit. It’s becoming increasingly clear that the summer of 2020 could be one without many of the usual treats, from graduation ceremonies to fireworks on Independence Day. While some SLO County summer concert series have been delayed until September or canceled entirely, Reinhardt is holding out hope that Arroyo Grande’s will be allowed to begin July 4. “I think it’s important to keep our tradition going,” Reinhardt said, “and I think it’s important for the community to have something to rally around. In a letter to the SLO County Board of Supervisors and Public Health Department, Reinhardt asked that outdoor community concerts be considered and treated differently during the county’s phased reopening plan than other large gatherings, which likely won’t be allowed for the foreseeable future. The events, Reinhardt said, should be treated similar to other outdoor areas like the beaches or farmers’ markets that have largely remained open throughout the pandemic. “Surely concert attendees in our park locations can more easily be guided and monitored than in other existing ‘essential’ business facilities like Walmart, Costco, Vons and the local

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hardware store,” Reinhardt wrote in the letter. “How can movie theaters, health clubs, and churches be considered for opening in early phases but outside concerts in city parks not be considered until possibly the last phase?” Atascadero’s summer concert series features nine concerts, the first of which was recently pushed back to July 11. But with the reopening plan as it stands now, Atascadero spokesperson Terrie Banish said the city is planning to host the July 11 concert virtually. The following show on July 25 may have to be virtual as well, but Banish said Atascadero Lake Park, where the concerts are hosted each summer, is a large outdoor space where appropriate social distancing could be easily enforced, so the city is still exploring other live, in person options. “It just feels like with our bandstand in that location there’s so much room to work with,” Banish told New Times. There could be a drive-in concert, or the city might draw out 10-foot-by-10-foot spaces in the park where family and home units could sit together. But not all SLO County cities are confident that they could monitor physical distancing at their summer concerts. San Luis Obispo canceled its 2020 Concerts in the Plaza on May 5. Templeton is prepared to push its concerts back to September, as is Paso Robles. While Atascadero and Arroyo Grande’s concerts typically draw 100 to 300 attendees, Paso Robles organizer Lynda Plescia said an average of 2,500 residents attend the concerts in Paso Robles.

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SLO County reopens some campgrounds Closed since late March, county campgrounds at Lopez Lake, Santa Margarita Lake, and Oceano Memorial Park have reopened to SLO County residents only. A county order issued on May 15 reopened the campsites and also set a 50 percent occupancy cap on all local lodging—hotel, motels, campgrounds, RV NEWS continued page 7

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parks, and vacation rentals. Officials say the order is designed to provide more outdoor recreation opportunities for locals while also discouraging tourism. “We follow the direction of the public health officer [Dr. Penny Borenstein],” said Nick Franco, director of SLO County Parks and Recreation. “As the restrictions have been loosening, she felt comfortable opening [the campgrounds] back up to locals. We still want to keep people from traveling from outside the county.” The open campgrounds are first come, first serve; reservations are not accepted. Rangers will require proof of SLO County residency from campers on arrival. Multiple households cannot book adjacent campsites to hold a group gathering. “It makes it easy for somebody who lives here and it makes it hard for somebody who doesn’t live here,” Franco explained of the rules. “It’s to discourage people from coming from far distances.” Other park amenities—like boat rentals—remain open to all visitors (though tourists are discouraged to come), with capacity restrictions. Campgrounds at El Chorro Regional Park and the Coastal Dunes RV Park remain closed, since both facilities continue to be held for emergency homeless services. The county runs an overnight parking program at Coastal Dunes, and the Five Cities Homeless Coalition is also using the site for services. The El Chorro Regional Park campgrounds are reserved as a space to

put trailers to house homeless individuals recovering from COVID-19. Because the trailers have yet to be utilized, the county has reopened the rest of the park, including the SLO Botanical Garden and the Dairy Creek Golf Course. “We’re keeping the campground closed but opening up the rest of the park. If, tragically, we need to use it, then we could shut down the park again,” Franco said. Many additional SLO County park facilities remain closed as of press time. They include all playgrounds, all pools, camping cabins, group picnic sites, all indoor facilities except restrooms, and the Los Osos Skate Park. The more than 2-month-old park closures have had a dramatic impact on the county department’s budget. At a May 19 county Board of Supervisors meeting, supervisors approved a $1 million internal loan to the parks department to make up for lost revenues. The county has lost about $1 million in camping fees alone between March and May. The golf courses have been popular among locals during the COVID-19 crisis, Franco said, but that hasn’t come close to making up for the revenues generated by golf-playing tourists. “We kind of run in a business model,” Franco said. “The suffering that businesses are having are the same problems that we’re having. We rely on our revenues in order to actually provide our services.” The fiscal crunch is also putting future parks projects in jeopardy. As part of the

budget shakeup, SLO County pulled back funds that had been set aside for the longplanned El Chorro Park expansion, which included mini golf and a go-kart course. Yet Franco is confident the department will rebound. “I think parks will thrive in the long term,” he said. “I think one of things that has been very obvious in this pandemic is people want to be out in the parks. The demand for parks, if anything, has gone up.” —Peter Johnson

Wine Institute and Paso wine alliance push for safe wine tasting reopening

While SLO County wineries are still allowed to operate on the production side, the industry’s hospitality side has seen losses, according to Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance (PRWCA) Executive Director Joel Peterson. Most wineries rely on wine tasters coming through doors, he said. “It’s been a pretty big financial hit, and our region is driven by tourism,” Peterson told New Times. “If it’s not for the wineries, it’s for [Lake] Nacimiento, the coastline, it’s for getting away from the bigger cities and coming to the small charming region of Paso Robles.” The lack of tourism means hundreds of PRWCA members are impacted, in addition to wineries across the state. California’s wine industry generates $60 billion in economic activity, according to Tim Schmelzer, vice president of California

state relations at the Wine Institute, a public policy advocacy group for California’s wineries. Many wineries rely on direct transactions to remain afloat— wine tasting included, Schmelzer said. While SLO County Public Health Officer Dr. Penny Borenstein said on May 4 that wine tasting was part of Phase 1 of the county’s START guide, the county has since demured to the state’s reopening guidelines, which do not include wine tasting until a later phase. Schmelzer told New Times that the Wine Institute is working with the state to draft proposals that would allow wineries to open wine tasting in an earlier phase. The state was impressed with institute’s proposal and its thoroughness, Schmelzer said, but said the biggest significant concern is tourism growing as a result, bringing people from highly impacted areas to less impacted areas, where they can spread the virus. “We think with our protocols— requiring appointment only, taking things outside, and with numerous other safety protocols in place—that we can provide a safe atmosphere,” Schmelzer said. Peterson said the PRWCA has been working with the Wine Institute to adopt measures that ensure wine tasting can be done in a manner compliant with state protocols. “It’s been a pretty big financial hit,” Peterson said, “but I’m sure when we open back up, we can do so in a safe manner and do the distancing and sanitation to make sure we can open in the right way.” Δ —Francisco Martinez

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Women’s March SLO raises awareness of local, state, and nationwide challenges facing reproductive health care during the public health crisis

ver since the Women’s March SLO first hosted a march in January 2017, it has regularly organized events that highlight issues of inequality and focus on achieving meaningful change. Although group gatherings in person are no longer on the agenda, people can still get together virtually. “With COVID-19 and a stay-at-home order, like everyone else we had to adjust and find new ways to continue our mission,” event organizer and organization spokesperson Andrea Chmelik said. To stay connected with the community during the pandemic, Women’s March SLO began hosting virtual forums via Zoom titled Answering the Call. “While this has been an incredibly difficult time for a myriad of reasons, we need to make sure that we take this as an opportunity to address the issues of inequality that have become more exposed than ever,” she said. “We have to stay engaged and continue speaking out, showing up, and leading the efforts in building a positive and just future for all.” COVID-19 has exposed the economic disparities and social inequalities wrapped up in a number of issues, Chmelik said. One issue is access to health care and, specifically for women, access to reproductive health care. Two of Women’s March SLO’s recent forums highlighted the challenges reproductive health care access is facing locally and nationally. “In several states, abortion services were categorized as nonessential. Appointments were canceled and women left scrambling to find clinics outside of their home states. They had to find means to travel for their procedures, which was not only burdensome but also defied the stay-at-home orders,” she said. The Planned Parenthood San Luis Obispo Health Center is open and continues to provide a full range of its essential health services. Julie Mickelberry, vice president of community engagement for Planned Parenthood Central Coast, told New Times the center is a critical part of the health

care system, providing high-quality, affordable health care to hundreds of thousands of patients across California, including those without health insurance. “We know that sexual and reproductive health care can’t wait. That’s why we’re doing everything we can to ensure our patients get timely health care and information they need with respect and compassion,” Mickelberry said. “In a time of such economic uncertainty for many, the ability to access affordable reproductive health care and to control if and when to have children is crucial for financial security, advancement, and—in a post-pandemic world—recovery.” If a patient needs Planned Parenthood’s services during this time, the health center is connecting patients with “trusted providers” through telehealth. Patients can schedule a visit with a Planned Parenthood medical provider over the phone to access emergency contraception, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), UTI consultation, and genderaffirming care without needing to physically visit the center. Patients can also get prescriptions called in to a pharmacy or pick up their supplies at the center. But access to reproductive care in San Luis Obispo County is starkly different than access in other parts of the U.S. On May 6, the Women’s March SLO hosted a forum with Shannon Hovis, the director of NARAL Pro-Choice America—a national pro-choice organization. At the forum, Hovis said there was a loss of Democratic representatives in 2010, which resulted in a lot of antiabortion legislation. “In the world we’re living in now, anti-choice states are trying to bait the Kavanaugh court. It’s why we saw an onslaught of abortion bans in 2019,” she said. When 2020 began, the U.S. had 14 pro-choice state governments, 23 antichoice, and 13 states were mixed. As shelter-at-home orders proliferated across the country, anti-choice states used the coronavirus impacts as a means to prevent access to abortion services by

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RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE On May 21, 2019, local supporters joined a nationwide rally for reproductive rights in front of the San Luis Obispo County Courthouse. Reproductive health care is considered a nonessential service in some states and is facing potential funding cuts in California due to a pandemic-induced budget deficit.

categorizing the procedure as elective, according to an NPR report. Hovis said many states have tried to “weaponize the virus” in order to ban abortion procedures, including the state of Texas. In Texas, according to NPR, Republican state officials and organizations opposed to abortion rights argued that abortion services should be treated as nonessential during the pandemic in order to preserve medical supplies for coronavirus-infected patients. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suspended most abortions in the state during the public health crisis in March, and as a result, Planned Parenthood health centers in Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada reported an influx of patients. Patients seeking services at times defied shelter-at-home orders by traveling to out-of-state health centers. “The effort, I want to be super clear, goes completely against all medical expert advice and science. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has made clear that abortion carries essential time-sensitive care that cannot be delayed,” Hovis said. California isn’t moving to change women’s access to reproductive care, but Mickelberry said it could face funding cuts. On May 14, Gov. Gavin Newsom

announced a projected $54.3 billion deficit through the summer of 2021 and asked state lawmakers to cut spending on public schools and other government services— including health care. “In a time of economic insecurity and rising unemployment, now more than ever, Californians need access to sexual and reproductive health care from trusted providers. Planned Parenthood is very concerned with the proposed shift of funding away from Proposition 56 supplemental rates, and we need the state to step up and protect access to lifesaving care that hundreds of thousands of patients rely on,” Mickelberry said. She said in recent years, allocations of Proposition 56 funds to sexual and reproductive health care have been the primary reason that many of Planned Parenthood’s health centers in California have been able to remain open after years of compounding budgetary challenges and attacks by the federal government. Continued Proposition 56 funding, Mickelberry said, is critical for Planned Parenthood’s doors to remain open and to ensure “all Californians receive the compassionate care they deserve.” Δ Staff Writer Karen Garcia can be reached at kgarcia@newtimesslo.com.

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No contact Services and options change for people with disabilities and mental illnesses amid COVID-19

s a behavioral health navigator, Danielle Friedrich spent much of her time pre-COVID-19 sitting with people in need of support—listening to stories, offering information about local resources, and holding hands whenever needed. That was Friedrich’s favorite part of her job at Transitions-Mental Health Association: relating to people on a personal level, face to face. Showing up, literally, when no one else in a client’s life would. But that, like so many other things, isn’t really possible anymore. “People will walk in and then, if I have time, I’ll be able to see them, and that’s great because sometimes some people come in and they really need support right then,” Friedrich told New Times. “But that has changed.” The coronavirus and resulting stayat-home orders aimed at stopping its spread have created a number of new challenges—and in some cases opportunities—for people with disabilities and mental illnesses and those dedicated to supporting them. From tasks as simple as shopping for groceries to things as complex as emergency planning in community living facilities, the pandemic has touched it all. Jobs like Friedrich’s have become almost entirely remote, making her duty to “be there” for her clients much more figurative in nature. About half of all staff at Transitions-Mental Health—a nonprofit that offers a range of services to people with mental illnesses, including housing and case work—are working from home. Friedrich’s work leans more toward case management, and now she does everything she used to love doing in person over the phone from home, which she said has been a difficult transition for some, great for others, and everything in between. But more than anything, the issues her clients are facing have morphed. Some lost jobs. Others can’t visit friends or family as usual. Many are worried about their financial situations, leading to concerns about maintaining housing, whether in supported living facilities or not. Friedrich said she recently helped a

few of her clients fight eviction attempts. For others, it’s the emotions brought on by isolation and uncertainty that Friedrich said have taken a toll. “Routine is really important, I think, with mental health recovery,” she said. “So having that disrupted has been difficult for a lot of people.” That’s been a big challenge for staff and their clients at PathPoint, a nonprofit that offers employment and housing services to people with disabilities and mental illnesses. April Lewallen, vice president of PathPoint’s North Central Coast Division, said that when the statewide shelter-athome order went into effect in mid-March, PathPoint closed its day programs and went virtual wherever possible. The division’s roughly 100 employees typically help clients secure independent or supported housing, where people with disabilities or mental illnesses can live largely on their own with a little bit of help. Lewallen said that while PathPoint’s employees typically take clients grocery shopping, to appointments, and to work, all those transportation services are on hold. Groceries get delivered, support and health services are offered over the phone or virtually, and clients are encouraged to stay home. It’s been a difficult transition for some of PathPoint’s clients, Lewallen said, particularly those who may not fully understand the situation. “They don’t want to be at home,” Lewallen told New Times. “They want to be out doing their stuff.” On top of it all, some PathPoint clients are losing their jobs at no fault of their own, leading to financial concerns for many and staffing shifts throughout PathPoint’s Central Coast Division. Christina Kirkman oversees PathPoint’s individual supported employment program, which helps clients obtain regular jobs with partnering businesses. Clients are often paired with PathPoint job coaches, who help ensure that clients understand and complete their duties at work. In SLO County, Kirkman said 32 of PathPoint’s clients typically work through the supported employment program.

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financial help is needed now than ever, and with so many typically employed clients out of work, PathPoint is deploying staff to various group homes and supported living facilities where their clients reside. Despite potential funding cuts to services like those PathPoint offers, Kirkman said the organization is working with local businesses on a plan for the future, with hopes that clients will get their jobs back and operations will return to normal when this is all over. That’s what Transitions-Mental Health wants to do, too, according to Joe Madsen, the organization’s safety officer. Transitions has about 40 housing sites on the Central Coast, some of which are community SOCIALLY DISTANT FUN A PathPoint employee surprises a living settings. client at his home with an Easter gift basket. PathPoint is staying It’s not easy to connected with many clients virtually and from a safe distance. prevent an outbreak in such close Twenty-four of those still have jobs at quarters, but Madsen said Transitions essential businesses, like Vons and Home implemented various safety measures Depot, but the rest—who work at local restricting person-to-person contact hotels, Cal Poly, and movie theaters— wherever possible earlier this year. Most were laid off. appointments are done virtually, staff are The situation is similar in Santa working from home, and transportation Barbara County. Of the 27 clients who services and family visits are limited. normally work in Santa Maria and So far, Madsen said it’s working. About Lompoc, Kirkman said 19 are still 30 percent of the organization’s 290 employed. PathPoint also has a student residents have been tested for COVID-19, program and an internship program and there haven’t been any positive cases. that usually employ about seven people But, he said, the current situation isn’t each. Only one remains employed in each ideal, and some clients are struggling program, Kirkman said. with the new quarantine lifestyle. That’s changed some of PathPoint’s “I mean, it’s a human service piece that responsibilities. Kirkman said the clients now has less human contact,” he told New who are still working now have to adhere Times. Δ to new coronavirus safety regulations, and PathPoint’s job coaches are doing a Staff Writer Kasey Bubnash can be reached at kbubnash@newtimesslo.com. lot of extra training in that realm. More

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Saving species

SMALL HABITAT The endangered Nipomo Mesa lupine is only located in a 2-squaremile range in San Luis Obispo County, according to Ashley McConnell of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

On the 15th anniversary of Endangered Species Day, SLO County has 47 federally listed threatened and endangered plants, animals to be mindful of

lowering plants make up a majority of the species listed as threatened or endangered in San Luis Obispo County. One budding belle can only be found across 2 square miles in the county, according to Ashley McConnell, public affairs supervisor at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Ventura field office: The Nipomo Mesa lupine. As of May 15—the 15th anniversary of Endangered Species Day—the county had 17 listed petal pushers out of 47 total threatened or endangered species, according to the FWS online conservation database. Eight different birds, six mammals, four reptiles, three amphibians, three crustaceans, three insects, two fishes, and a lone snail—the Morro shoulderband—are also federally listed as endangered or threatened species by the FWS. While several endangered or threatened species like the California condor or Southern sea otter are scattered across the state, some of these species, like Nipomo’s lupine, can only be found in the county. Habitat degradation, such as oil spills, causes many of the current environmental problems endangered species face, according to California Department of Fish and Wildlife Senior Environmental Scientist Mike Harris. “Alteration of their habitat, the environment which they rely on, has influence on how some of these populations are able to reproduce or thrive,” Harris told New Times. “If we’re destroying habitat, it can have significant influence on how they would be able to thrive.” Harris, whose research focuses on the Southern sea otter, told New Times that other factors—such as pathogens being transferred from land to sea, along with other human-caused events—can damage otters. The Southern sea otter, for instance, is still trying to recover after being overhunted in the 18th and 19th centuries for its pelt, Harris said.

Over the last decade, other environmental factors that have impacted endangered species include changes in wildfire patterns, invasive species growing, water resource availability, and habitat fragmentation, according to McConnell. Humans still play a role in habitat disturbance, said Rachel Pass, communications and outreach coordinator at the Morro Bay National Estuary Program. “Some wildlife, especially the Southern sea otter and Western snowy plover, are especially susceptible to human disturbance,” Pass wrote in an email to New Times, adding that it includes “well-meaning wildlife watchers who unintentionally come too close to these animals and cause them unnecessary stress.” Much of the protection given to endangered species comes from the federal Endangered Species Act and the California Endangered Species Act. Marine mammals, according to McConnell, are primarily protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service administers the federal Endangered Species Act, while the California Department of Fish and Wildlife assists in protecting endangered animals listed under the state’s act. “Under the Endangered Species Act, we administer grant funding, work with partners to implement on-the-ground restoration projects, and develop recovery plans using the best available science to advance the conservation of rare species,” McConnell wrote in an email to New Times. There are some differences between the state and federal acts, Harris said, and how they handle endangered species as a result. These include some animals

listed as federally endangered and not state endangered, and vice versa, along with differences in what is defined as harassing, harming, or taking animals listed as endangered, among other nuances. Locally, McConnell said these conservation efforts include removing non-native, invasive European beach grass to protect the Western snowy plover and working with scientists and stakeholders to draft plans to save the Nipomo Mesa lupine from extinction. In addition, a recent FWS grant program awarded a little more than $408,000 to assist a wetland restoration project in the lower part of the Los Osos Creek in the Morro Bay watershed. This will improve 55 acres of declining coastal wetlands and coastal dune scrub habitat, McConnell said. “Some species you see in San Luis Obispo County, such as California brown pelicans, peregrine falcons, and bald eagles, all once faced the threat of extinction in recent history,” McConnell wrote. “Due to the power of partnership, implementation of environmental regulations, and the Endangered Species Act, all three of these species reached recovery and were removed from the Federal List of Threatened and Endangered Wildlife.” For sea otters, Harris said the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has cooperated with the fishing industry to identify risk factors in their netting and suggest changes for their fishing gear across the state, including in SLO County. In turn, these modifications have reduced sea otter interactions with

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fishing gear and lowered their mortality rate, according to Harris. Conservation efforts also require work on the community’s end, however, and both Harris and McConnell offered ways people can assist in endangered species protection. People can plant native species, save water, reduce their carbon footprint, and contain garbage to deter wildlife interaction, McConnell suggested. “Think about everything you do on land and how everything goes downhill,” Harris said, referencing how products we use can make their way to the ocean. He also suggested using fewer items bound for landfills. But both Harris and McConnell said one of the biggest ways people can help out is by being cognizant of their environment, such as looking out for posted signs, picking up trash, and walking pets with leashes. Harris said those who go on trails can be mindful of their surroundings by not crowding the animals and giving them space, which will let them “observe wildlife from a safe distance so you’re not altering behavior.” “Living on the Central Coast, we’re fortunate to be in an area where we do have a lot of local wildlife,” Harris said. “Some of the species are listed, but we are in a very unique section of the coast and have the ability to get outside and see some of these species in their habitat, and we should just respect their space.” Δ Reach Intern Francisco Martinez through the editor at clanham@newtimesslo.com.

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BUDGET TROUBLE San Luis Obispo and cities throughout the Central Coast are grappling with multi-million-dollar revenue shortfalls as a result of COVID-19.

BY PETER JOHNSON

Seeking aid S an Luis Obispo County cities are hurting from the coronavirus pandemic. Revenues like sales taxes and bed taxes, normally buoyed by Cal Poly students and tourism at this time of year, have vaporized with the current shelter-at-home orders. City officials across the county are now grappling with the budget implications. “The financial impacts have been significant,” said Greg Hermann, deputy city manager for SLO, a city that’s forecasting a $15 million revenue shortfall between the current and the 2020-21 fiscal years. That number could easily grow if the pandemic orders continue longer than expected. For cities and counties, less revenue means fewer dollars to fix roads and infrastructure, fund police and fire departments, and provide all of the other services that local governments are expected to perform. “Without those services, then our quality of life is going to suffer across the board,” said David Mullinax, regional public affairs manager for the League of California Cities, an organization that goes to bat for city interests in the state Capitol. SLO County’s cities are by no means alone in their challenges. According to a recent League of Cities survey measuring the city budget crunches statewide, municipalities are in a $7 billion collective hole thanks to COVID-19. The crisis has sparked the Support Local Recovery initiative, aimed at lobbying the state and federal governments for local disaster relief. “We asked the governor, ‘Hey, we need help,’” Mullinax told New Times about the initiative. “We had almost 300 responses [to the survey] … big cities, small cities … some real data points to avail ourselves of. The number we came up with was $7 billion.” Mullinax said that cities heavily reliant on tourism, like Paso Robles and Pismo Beach in SLO County, have been particularly impacted by the stay-at-home orders and need the relief. “They got clobbered,” he said. The League of Cities campaign is just kicking off, but many of the local cities are jumping on board. As of May 18, SLO, Paso Robles, Atascadero, and Grover Beach confirmed they’d signed on. Local officials said that the initiative— which also calls for $500 billion from

Congress in its next stimulus bill—could go a long way if successful. “There are many ways that aid could help us,” Paso Robles City Manager Tom Frutchey told New Times. “The most basic is to replace some of our lost revenues so we don’t have to cut needed services that the community needs and has come to expect. As a no/low property tax city, we are always a hair’s breadth away from having to make cuts.” While cities are hurting right now, so are most sectors of government and the economy. Mullinax noted that the wide scope of the crisis will complicate the cities’ lobbying efforts, as Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers weigh other interests while also tackling a $54 billion projected state budget deficit. “We’re standing in line with a lot of people,” Mullinax said. “It takes a lot to penetrate that bubble. You have to constantly remind them of what our challenges are.”

Fast facts

• Local tech company Comevo recently pitched in $75,000 to start the SLO County Small Business Relief Fund, a fund providing $5,000 or more in grants to local businesses “disproportionately impacted by COVID-19,” according to the SLO Chamber of Commerce. The application window for the first round of grants closed on May 14, but the chamber is asking other businesses to make contributions to the fund. “We have seen an overwhelming response [to the fund], with hundreds of applications received,” a chamber press release read. “Unfortunately, this round of funding will not be able to provide aid to every business that applied, but if additional funds do become available, we will maintain these applications for subsequent grant opportunities.” • About 400 drive-through orders at Fin’s Seafood Restaurant in Grover Beach raised more than $10,000 for the 5 Cities Homeless Coalition (5CHC) on May 12. The fundraiser took place as 5CHC receives nearly twice as many calls for help during the COVID-19 crisis. Fin’s is currently open for take-out on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, from noon to 7 p.m. Δ Assistant Editor Peter Johnson wrote this week’s Strokes and Plugs. Send tidbits to strokes@newtimesslo.com.

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Opinion

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Commentary

BY KATHY RIEDMANN

Nice try, Andrea Seastrand Setting the record straight

n your opinion piece (“Newsom is destroying our economy,” May 14), you try to blame Gov. Gavin Newsom for our current economic crisis. Come on now! Obviously, you are missing some links in your chain of logic. Yes, the shelter-in-place orders are devastating to our economy. But in case you haven’t heard, the U.S. has more COVID-19 cases and deaths than any other country. We are No. 1! We are on top because of the Trump administration’s unbelievable mishandling of this pandemic. There is definitely not enough space to write every example, but let’s start with the beginning: disbanding the National Security Council’s Pandemic Response Unit, ignoring President Barack Obama’s comprehensive pandemic response plan, and failing to help to coordinate states’ efforts to obtain personal protective equipment. Andrea, if you are going to assign blame to anyone, what you really need to

do is to take your finger, turn it around, and point it right back at yourself for voting for a person who is absolutely unfit to be president, Donald Trump. This current Republican narrative isn’t going to fly. Blaming any Democratic governor for the economic fallout of our COVID-19 crisis is like blaming firefighters for getting your furniture wet while they are attempting to save your house. So, for heaven’s sake, stop fanning the fire with the hot air of misconstrued logic. Also, by now, I would have thought anyone can see through Trump’s game: Take credit for anything that goes well when he is not responsible, and blame others for anything that goes bad, when he is responsible. Please, stop playing it. One would hope that we can all at least comprehend one common truth: COVID-19 is highly contagious and causes a high degree of suffering and a large amount of deaths. Newsom’s rapid and very difficult response saved lives in our state. He was willing to take responsibility when Trump wasn’t. I truly understand that the current

We need to band together, with patience and with cooperation, to find thoughtful and creative solutions to help individuals and our economy, but to also help prevent further spread of this disease and further suffering and deaths. HODIN

Russell Hodin

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shelter-in-place orders are causing severe anxiety and terrible hardships to some people. I feel devastated, right along with everyone else. We need people to continue to participate in our democracy, but do we really need people wrapping themselves in the flag, bullying others with their weapon displays, touting “fake news” and various conspiracies, and screaming for their “freedoms?” Do we really want a president who encourages this behavior? What we do need is true patriotism and true humanity. We need to band together, with patience and with cooperation, to find thoughtful and creative solutions to help individuals and our economy, but to also help prevent further spread of this disease and further suffering and deaths. It’s not a choice between our economy or a continued cautious COVID-19 response, we need solutions for both. We need leaders who are willing to make difficult (and simple) decisions to facilitate this, even at the risk of “looking bad.” We need leaders and citizens who are willing to listen to the scientific community. I understand the need to try to keep partisanship to a minimum in times like these, but sometimes (or should I say frequently) the record needs to be set straight. Δ Kathy Riedmann writes to New Times from Los Osos, where even the bears wear face masks. Send comments through the editor at clanham@newtimesslo.com, or write a letter for publication and email it to letters@newtimesslo.com.

Letters The county’s hemp ordinance breaks from its own municipal code

This letter is to address the Board of Supervisors hearing regarding permitting industrial hemp to be grown in San Luis Obispo County. The actions taken by the board majority is a violation of property rights. The excerpt below came from Chapter 5.16— Agricultural Lands, Operations, and the Right to Farm of the SLO County municipal code: “If your property is near an agricultural operation in the unincorporated area of the county, which satisfies the above requirements, you may at times be subject to one or more inconveniences and/or discomfort arising from that operation. Such inconveniences may include (depending upon the type of agricultural operation protected), but are not necessarily limted to, the following: noise, odors, fumes, dust, legal pesticie use, fertilizers, smoke, insects, farm personnel and truck traffic, visual impacts, nighttime lighting, operation of machinery and the storage, warehousing and processing of agricultural products, or other inconveniences or discomforts associated with the protected agricultural operations. For additional information pertaining to this disclosure and the Right to Farm Ordinace, or concerns with an agricultural operation, please contact the San Luis Obispo County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office.” The Board of Supervisors majority LETTERS continued page 13

Opinion LETTERS from page 12

broke the law by not adhering to the municipal code. The Board of Supervisors majority broke the law to use an “urgency ordinance” illegally. The urgency ordinance is only available for use if there is an imminent threat to public health and safety. The rules that the Board of Supervisors are putting on the permitting of industrial hemp are against the law and are a taking of property rights for famers that have less than 400 acres of growable land or do not meet the giant setbacks from the other ag-zoned property. Other counties have established rules that do not violate the property rights of small farms. Second District Supervisor Bruce Gibson is the only member of the board who understands the needs of small farms and stands to support them. Lastly, the possibility of legal action against the county is real. The Board of Supervisors needs to change county rules to benefit all farmers and not just wineries. Conner Luckey San Luis Obispo County

Masks help prevent the spread of COVID-19

Regarding the letter from the Central Coast Medical Association which supports the “science” behind decisions made by Public Health Director Dr. Penny Borenstein (“Central Coast physicians stand with public health,” May 14), I have to say, “Really?” Although I applaud her efforts to open up businesses, her lack of support for madating mask wearing in businesses because “the evidence is not conclusive” belies the overwheming evidence to the contrary. Experts from around the world strongly support mask wearing as a strong deterent to the spread of COVID-19. Read the science for yourself. Jill A. Stegman Grover Beach

Dear Gov. Newsom

I recently came across a published letter to you from a member of our community demanding that our nearby Diablo Canyon nuclear plant be immediately shut down because that person is afraid of nuclear waste (“Dear Gov. Newsom,” April 23). Apparently that person is unaware or does not care that shutting the plant down early will result in a loss of a couple of hundred million dollars in local property and sales tax revenue, about $5 billion in indirect economic benefits including the loss of some 1,500 high-paying jobs, forcing more than a thousand of our neighbors and their families to leave the community that they have lived and worked in for decades—all because he and other ill-informed citizens have an irrational fear of nuclear power that has long been nurtured by oil and gas interests. What makes this request particularly absurd is the fact that when Diablo Canyon is closed down, we know that the accumulated waste is going nowhere. Thanks to bipartisan political maneuvering at the state and federal level, financed by lobbyists from competing interests that benefit greatly from the damnation of nuclear power, there is no place for it to go. The writer of the letter is apparently

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also unaware that the inability of renewable production in California to ever be expanded enough to meet statemandated levels is finally coming to light. Of the 34 percent renewable contribution to power production currently claimed by your energy commission, a third was from out of state last year. People are becoming aware that wind and solar require an enormous amount of dispatchable energy, mostly natural gas, to be expended as backup to ensure grid reliability, so wind and solar are accountable for those emissions. Furthermore in-state renewable production is maxed out. Last year curtailment (overproduction) of wind and solar was more than double the year before, and this year it is on track to nearly double again, which means that further expansion of in-state wind and solar capacity will be a waste of resources, and also makes it clear that continuing subsidies for renewables will be a complete waste of taxpayer money. Finally, to even think of expediting the closure of Diablo Canyon, at a time when our community is already facing severe social and economic impacts for years to come as a result of the ongoing pandemic, is beyond callous. In fact, considering the looming long-term economic impacts to our community and the state, the decision to allow the closing at all needs to be seriously reconsidered. It is in everyone’s best interest that the current renewable portfolio be re-examined and that valuable non-emitting resources such as large hydro and nuclear power be added to the portfolio, and destructive carbonemitting renewables such as biomass and biofuels be expelled. In conclusion, I would like to add that I think you and others are doing a great job handling this pandemic situation. Thank you for looking out for us. Mark Henry San Luis Obispo

A misinterpretation of the Constitution

Andrea Seastrand (“Newsom is destroying our economy,” May 14) has a very narrow understanding of our Constitution. First, “God” is never mentioned; our founders created a government which received its rights and our freedoms, from “We the People,” of which one purpose, as stated in the preamble, is to “ … promote the general welfare … .” We were founded on the ideal of “freedom” but also on “equality,” enshrining the notion of “public safety” in our Constitution and upheld by the Supreme Court. The privilege of the “writ of habeas corpus” (Article 1, Section 9) was suspended during both the Civil War and WWII in the name of public safety. The only emergency Donald Trump has declared, besides his wall, has been that meat-cutters need to die so you can buy bacon.

The 10th Amendment states “anything that was not given to the federal government and not banned by the Constitution is a power of the states.” In 1970, we passed the California Emergency Services Act, a 197-page detailed document which states: “During a … state of emergency, the governor may suspend any regulatory statute, or statute prescribing the procedure for conduct of state business, or the orders, rules, or regulations of any state agency … where the governor determines and declares that strict compliance with any statute, order, rule, or regulation would in any way prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the emergency.” Newsom is prohibited from confiscating your guns or seizing the press, but nonetheless the stay-at-home order does constitute “due process.” Kurt Montgomery Los Osos

A bed tax with no tourists?

Isn’t it a bit hypocritical that the SLO County Board of Supervisors levied a tourism tax on those of us who offer our homes to others to visit, while at the same time, they are expending funds and promoting the idea that no one should be vacationing in SLO at this time? So how can they justify a tax to promote tourism at this time. Thievery is the only word that comes to my mind! Timothy Murphy Cambria

We are not ready for reopening

I disagree strongly that our county is in a position to reopen, even partially. Unlike many other California counties, San Luis Obispo County draws thousands of tourists every summer. I already see small numbers of people flouting the safety measures. How much will this increase when hundreds of people, all looking to have a good time, land on our beaches, vineyards, and campgrounds? Opening should not be based on existing county numbers, but on the projected effects of thousands of visitors bringing the virus here from their counties. They may stay for just a few days, but the virus they leave behind could infect hundreds of locals and cause a spike in infections, with a concomitant strain on our local health care system. A serious spike in infections will necessitate a return to restrictions, worsening the effect on the economy. Vigilant locals will have to be even more careful than they are already, foregoing the pleasures and necessities that visitors will be enjoying. We are embarking on a very risky experiment. I, for one, as a county resident, do not want to pay the price of my health for the entertainment of people from elsewhere. Johanna Rubba Grover Beach

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he preamble to the U.S. Constitution begins â&#x20AC;&#x153;We the Peopleâ&#x20AC;? not â&#x20AC;&#x153;we the experts.â&#x20AC;? The First Amendment to the Constitution enumerates the most important of our unalienable rights, rights you are born with that no government has the right to deny you without due process. That amendment begins with the statement: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; of the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.â&#x20AC;? A simple but eloquent statement engraved in granite so hard no government or agency has the right to restrict except under the most egregious conditions, such as invasion by a foreign power with citizens under martial law. Otherwise, the power of government is limited and may not unduly burden peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s constitutional rights. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1905 that a state has the right to protect itself from an epidemic using â&#x20AC;&#x153;reasonable regulationsâ&#x20AC;? but that power is not absolute or indefinite. States are required to be neutral in their application of regulations, especially toward religious expression and use the least burdensome methods for a limited time when restricting a constitutionally protected right such as regulations that â&#x20AC;&#x153;prohibit the free exercise thereofâ&#x20AC;? of religion. Shutting down places of worship carte blanche indefinitely or unevenly is unconstitutional and places government entities that engage in such behavior, along with officers enforcing such restrictions in legal jeopardy, both civil and criminal. Since the coronavirus epidemic ensued, Americans have been effectively placed under house arrest, ostensibly to allow medical facilities to ramp up their capability to handle mass casualties stemming from the virus. We needed to â&#x20AC;&#x153;flatten the curve.â&#x20AC;? That we have done, but the house arrest continues, unabated or even more restrictive in states or localities governed by would-be tyrants. Field hospitals built to hold thousands that cost millions of dollars have gone unused, including two military hospital ships capable of treating 1,000 patients each, treating but 181 patients combined, half as many as treated by Samaritanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Purse Christian charity in New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Central Park over a two month period. The flawed Imperial Medical College Modelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s epidemic catastrophe didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t occur except in isolated hot spots like the New York and New Jersey metropolitan areas with half the deaths atributable directly to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incompetence. On March 25, Cuomo ordered nursing homes to admit or readmit COVID-19 positive patients over their objections. The probelm with models is that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only as good as inputted information with â&#x20AC;&#x153;worst-case scenariosâ&#x20AC;? hyped by the mediaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a bad proscription for making public policy. Some in the

Trump administration are concerned that the CDCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s COVID-19 death rates are inflated by as much as 25 percent. Some elected officials canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t handle authority and have no respect for the constitutional rights of citizens, evidenced by the New Jersey governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comment that he hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t given any consideration to the Constitution when imposing his lockdown mandates. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer promulgated ridiculous rules, implementing regulations stating itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OK to use a rowboat but not a motorboat to fish, comparable to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti stating you can walk on the wet sand of a beach but not dry sand. Religious leaders have had enough and many are now filing lawsuits against officials who have overstepped their authority by using one standard for secular activities but imposing harsh penalties on religious institutions. Why for instance may a Walmart adopt socialdistancing measures and remain open as â&#x20AC;&#x153;essentialâ&#x20AC;? but a church is relegated as â&#x20AC;&#x153;non-essentialâ&#x20AC;? and ordered closed even if they are capable of adopting measures equal to a Walmart? Churches provide a plethora of free social services to the forgotten in many communities along with offering hope and boosting of morale. The military employs chaplains for that very reason, recognizing that religious solace strengthens morale in crisis. Many churches are now engaging in open defiance of closure orders and daring authorities to arrest them. We live under rules that permit a person to buy alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, or soft porn from a convenience store, but a church is prohibited from disseminating a bulletin or other church literature, if allowed to open at all. The stubborn refusal to lift restrictions in SLO County with but one tragic death and fewer than 10 hospitalized COVID-19 patients at the epidemicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s peak, with hundreds of open beds, is ridiculous. Restrictions especially stress the elderly; for those living alone, it amounts to psychological torture under United Nations standards. Closing of medical facilities and other care is resulting in thousands of untreated nonvirus-related illnesses and undiagnosed serious conditions that may prove fatal in time, significantly outnumbering virus patients. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re â&#x20AC;&#x153;not in this together.â&#x20AC;? The lockdown imposed the bulk of the financial burden upon the most vulnerable segment of our population and the artificial disruption of the food supply chain may cause 260 million people to face starvation this year, according to the United Nations World Food Program. Economic disruption is cruel and in this case unnecessary. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a question of choosing life or livelihood: both are essential. Î&#x201D; Al Fonzi had a 35-year military career, serving in both the Vietnam and Iraq wars. Respond in a letter to the editor emailed to letters@newtimesslo.com.

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t basically sucks to be homeless at any time, but imagine being homeless right now. Basic sanitation? Ha! Sheltering at home? It’s a lot easier if you’ve got one. In LA, the city’s leased hotel rooms to house its homeless population, and about half have gone unused. Sometimes the homeless don’t want officials’ help, in part because they don’t trust authorities, they’re mentally ill, or they don’t want to abide by whatever rules accompany that help. We’ve got the same problems right here in SLO Town, where the large homeless population living along the Bob Jones Trail by Prado Road and the SLO Wastewater Treatment Plant were forced to vacate the unhygienic, trash-festooned area on May 18 after days earlier receiving a notification to vacate or be removed. Sure enough, the SLO Police Department, Park Rangers, and a hauling company showed up and cleared the encampment out. Anything the homeless folks couldn’t carry was placed in bins, which could be picked up within 90 days, while tents, tarps, and trash were removed and discarded. The removal order led to an epic throwdown by Becky Jorgeson, the founder and president of Hope’s Village of SLO, whose organization is “working to build a sustainable community village for homeless veterans on the Central Coast,” according to its website. On May 15, she wrote a blistering

letter claiming that “SLO has done nothing for people who live in tents or on the ground” and that the SLOPD illegally threatened to arrest those who wouldn’t leave. Jorgeson continued: “Following are formal charges being sent to the California Attorney General and the Southern California District of the ACLU on behalf of 30 homeless neighbors in SLO: Human and civil rights violations; defamation of character; no affordable housing; discrimination; police misconduct; hate crimes; lack of shelter for homeless people in our county as mandated by the state; suspending homeless folks from the only shelter and soup kitchen in town; lack of public showers as are set up in Pismo Beach, Grover Beach, Morro Bay, Cayucos, and Cambria. CDC guidelines for the safety of homeless people are not being followed in this pandemic.” Ay-ay-ay! Sic ’em, Beck-inator! She also claimed, “SLO has made a business out of homelessness; careers depend on it. And it’s high time for a change. For eight years, we’ve been trying to convince the powers that be in SLO that our unhoused folks living outside (who have been suspended or banned from Prado [Homeless Services Center]) need help, not harassment. SLO police officers are back to harassing people trying to eke out a living on the streets by rapping on their doors in the middle of the

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night, threatening arrest, and ticketing.” Guess who didn’t like this characterization? Yeah, it was the SLOPD. SLO Police Chief Deanna Cantrell wrote back, “Becky, Your understanding of the facts and conveyance of the information is not accurate,” and then went on to explain all the options her department had given the homeless population, including shelter, “currently unused despite offers being made.” Cantrell added, “We offered to pay for transportation and food [and] to reconnect them with loved ones.” Cantrell concluded with: “Your communication is incorrect, divisive, and unfortunate at a time when so many are working so hard to ensure the safety of our entire community.” Snap! Can’t we all just get along? Nope! Speaking of the po-po, file this in the slow and incomplete justice file, but on May 6, the dog-shooting SLO police officer Joshua Walsh was quietly put on administrative leave … again … eight months after the shooting on Sept. 6. City Attorney Christine Dietrick said the investigation is complete but we can’t know what’s in it because it’s a confidential personnel investigation, see? Move along. Where’s justice for Bubbs, the pit bull/boxer mix shot in his driveway by trigger-happy Walsh? Why’s Walsh on leave again and not fired? Bubbs’ owners Nick Regalia and Riley Manford filed a claim for

damages, which could lead to a lawsuit. They listed mental distress, posttraumatic stress, loss of wages, property damage, and more. Maybe they could get some of the more than $100K a year Walsh earns as a dog-murdering cowboy since they’re also calling for his termination. Meanwhile the SLOPD and city officials have continued to refuse to release Walsh’s body-camera footage because … I don’t know, but if it exonerates Walsh, why the hell not? Is Walsh still collecting his pay on admin leave? Probably! The FBI reported that Asian Americans are experiencing an increase in hate crimes. Seems like none are safe. A 2-year-old and 6-year-old were stabbed at a Texas Sam’s Club by a man who told police he thought the family was Chinese and spreading the disease. Now COVID-19 racism has unsurpisingly reared its ugly head at Cal Poly. Members of the Chinese Student Association got Zoom-bombed during their video conference meeting by about 20 people who joined uninvited and used racial slurs and symbols to harass the group. I’m 100 percent sure Dear Leader tRump’s use of the term “Chinese virus” and his continual accusation of China’s “incompetence” and holding the country accountable for “mass worldwide killing” had absolutely nothing to do with these overt racist acts. I’m just certain. Δ The Shredder has the sads. Send and suggestions to shredder@newtimesslo.com.

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ARTS NORTH COAST SLO COU NT Y

CALL FOR ARTISTS: THRU THE LENS III Opening date for submissions to this juried photography exhibit is April 1, 2020. Chuck Jennings serves as judge. Please see prospectus on the exhibit schedule online. Through June 15 Varies. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay. ROOTED AND RISING: A BOOK DISCUSSION Rooted and Rising draws together stories from people of a wide range of different faith perspectives about how they keep themselves encouraged and hopeful in a time of climate crisis. This is a Zoom meeting (call for meeting ID). May 21, 2 p.m. and May 28, 2 p.m. Free. stbenslososos.org. St. Benedict’s Church, 2220 Snowy Egret Ln., Los Osos, 805-528-0654.

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FREE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ART CLASSES (ONLINE) Check the foundation’s site for various classes offered, for ages 5 to 18. Through Oct. 31 Paso Robles Youth Arts Foundation, 3201 Spring St., Paso Robles, 805-238-5825, pryaf.org.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS: LIBRARY CARD A call for artists to have an original art piece featured on the 2021 library cards. We are asking that there be a literary connection to the artwork submitted. Recognition of the artist will be on the library card. Check site or call for details. Through June 15 San Luis Obispo Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

CALL FOR ARTISTS: A DIGITAL ART SALON The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) will be hosting A Digital Art Salon from Sept. 4 through Nov. 1 in partnership with the Digital Art Group. This juried exhibition will feature the diverse artwork being created by contemporary California digital artists. Through July 3 805-543-8562. artist. callforentry.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: DIGITAL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) will be hosting the first Digital Shorts Film Festival on Sept. 26 in partnership with the Digital Art Group. This one-night-only event will feature digital shorts by artists from across California. Through July 3 805-543-8562. sloma.org/call_for_artists/digital-shorts/. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

THE INTERMISSION SHOW This brisk 8- to

PCPA: ACTORS TALKBACK Streams live on PCPA’s

10-minute show is set up like a socially distanced talk show with SLO Rep’s Managing Artistic Director Kevin Harris at the helm, clad in a tacky suit and tie with a faux alcoholic drink nearby. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 3 p.m. San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre, 888 Morro St., San Luis Obispo, 805-786-2440, slorep.org/.

Instagram every Thursday and spotlights a different thespian guest each week. Hosted by Erik Stein. Thursdays, 3:30 p.m. Free. pcpa.org. PCPA: The Pacific Conservatory Theatre, 800 S. College, Santa Maria, 805-922-8313.

VIRTUAL ART GALLERY Every Friday, we publish our Virtual Art Gallery to our blog and newsletter. Featuring artworks from customers and the community. Fridays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. 805-7474200. artcentralslo.wordpress.com/category/ gallery-exhibits/virtual-gallery/. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo. VIRTUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION This year, the Cuesta College Harold J Miossi Student Exhibition went online. View student work, including the Salon des Refuses, on the website. Mondays-Sundays hjmgallery2020studentshow.org/. Harold J. Miossi Gallery, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo, 805-546-3202.

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TEACHER AND STUDENT GRANTS Since the program’s start in 2004, the Clark Center has provided more than $150,000 in scholarships and grants to students and teachers. Grant applications are due June 30. Through June 30 Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande, 805-4899444, clarkcenter.org. S A N TA M A R I A VA L L E Y/ L O S A L A M O S

ABK VIRTUAL STUDIO: LOVE LOOKING OUT Online reservations are required. Pick up your Take Home Paint Kit anytime from 1 to 5 p.m. on week days. Kits include canvas, paints, and brushes to follow along with the artist on Facebook. May 29, 11 a.m. Wine and Design, 3420 Orcutt Road, suite 105, Orcutt.

PCPA READS AT HOME A literacy project that uses our students’ learning to serve children and parents who are learning at home. Co-hosted by Allan Hancock College and the Santa Maria-Bonita School District to bring a love of stories and language to people right in their homes. ongoing PCPA: The Pacific Conservatory Theatre, 800 S. College, Santa Maria, 805-922-8313, pcpa.org.

SMPL VALLEY READS BOOK CLUB The Valley Reads Book club meets very month on the fourth Tuesday (now over the phone). Interested community members should email jgaytan@cityofsantamaria.org to join. ongoing 805-925-0994. Santa Maria Public Library, 421 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria.

TECH TALKS: LIVE ON INSTAGRAM Every Tuesday sit down with one of our technical staff and learn about the ins and outs of their craft. Get the exclusive with our host Erik Stein. Tuesdays, 3:30 p.m. PCPA: The Pacific Conservatory Theatre, 800 S. College, Santa Maria, 805-922-8313, pcpa.org. VIRTUAL STUDIO: PRETTY STEER SKULL Online reservations are required. Pick up your Take Home Paint Kit anytime from 1 to 5 p.m. on week days. Kits include canvas, paints, and brushes to follow along with the artist on Facebook. May 27, 6 p.m. Wine and Design, 3420 Orcutt Road, suite 105, Orcutt.

VIRTUAL STUDIO: PRINCESS FLOWER Online reservations are required. Pick up your Take Home Paint Kit any time from 1 to 5 p.m. on week days. Kits include canvas, paints, and brushes to follow along with the artist on Facebook. May 22, 11 a.m. $20. Wine and Design, 3420 Orcut t Road, suite 105, Orcut t.

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.

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INDEX Arts ............................[16] Culture & Lifestyle.......[18] Food & Drink..............[19] Music .........................[19]

VIRTUAL STUDIO: STRONGER TOGETHER Online reservations are required. Pick up your Take Home Paint Kit anytime from 1 to 5 p.m. on week days. Kits include canvas, paints, and brushes to follow along with the artist on Facebook. May 29, 6 p.m. Wine and Design, 3420 Orcutt Road, suite 105, Orcutt. VIRTUAL STUDIO: TULIPS IN MAY Online reservations are required. Pick up your Take Home Paint Kit anytime from 1 to 5 p.m. on week days. Kits include canvas, paints, and brushes to follow along with the artist on Facebook. May 22, 6 p.m. $30. Wine and Design, 3420 Orcutt Road, suite 105, Orcutt. WINE AND DESIGN VIRTUAL CLASSES Check Wine and Design’s Orcutt website for the complete list of virtual classes online, for various ages. ongoing Varies. wineanddesign.com/orcutt. Wine and Design, 3420 Orcutt Road, suite 105, Orcutt.

WORKSHOPS VIA ZOOM Sara Curran Ice, PCPA’s Technical Theatre Program Coordinator/Designer, is conducting Workshops via Zoom for local high school drama students. Check site or call for more info. ongoing PCPA: The Pacific Conservatory Theatre, 800 S. College, Santa Maria, 805-922-8313, pcpa.org. S A N TA Y N E Z VA L L E Y

20/20: A RETROSPECTIVE This spring, the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature will mark its 20th anniversary with a special exhibition celebrating the Museum’s 20year history in the Santa Ynez Valley. View the exhibit online. Mondays, Wednesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. through Sept. 7 805-688-1082. wildlingmuseum.org/ news/2020-retrospective. Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang.

A MIGHTY OAK: PERMANENT EXHIBIT ONLINE Depicts the habitat around a Valley oak–one of the largest and old trees found in our area. View the artwork online. ongoing Free. Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-1082, wildlingmuseum.org.

NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION The theme of this competition’s latest recurrence is Critters of the Tri-County Region, as applicants are encouraged to submit photos of all forms of wildlife—land and sea mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects—so long as they are found within the counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, or Ventura. Through July 6 Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-1082, wildlingmuseum.org.

REMEMBERING BUD BOTTOMS: A LEGACY OF ART AND ACTIVISM This online exhibit features sea life sculpture works by the Santa Barbara artist locally-

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5CHC programs and services benefit children, youth and families who are homeless or facing homelessness in SLO County. More info at 5CHC.org (805) 547-1638 Thanks to volunteers Nancy Allison, Lexi Britton, Mike Byrd, Ken Dalebout, Paul Jarvis, Krista Jeffries, Chief Steve Lieberman, Karie Lucas, Superintendent Kevin Pearce, Robert Robert, and Anita Shower Special Thanks to Fin’s Employees Collin, Denise, Delia, Fernando, Jacob, Miriam, Ricardo, Dannielle, and Bruce California State Parks Linda Austin SLOCO Data & Printing

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ARTS from page 16

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renowned for his iconic Dolphin Family sculpture installed at the base of Stearns Wharf. Through Sept. 22 Free. Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-1082, wildlingmuseum.org.

RESTORATIVE FLOW YOGA ON ZOOM Join us for a

SB COUNTY AND BEYOND Photographic landscapes by George Rose. View online. ongoing Free. Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-1082, wildlingmuseum.org.

MAY 21 – MAY 28 2020

SOLVANG SCHOOL: INSPIRED BY NATURE View the exhibit online. Features photography by 29 Solvang School Yearbook and Media students. The students, grades 7 – 8, were inspired by philosopher Henry David Thoreau’s quote: “All good things are wild and free.” ongoing Free. Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-1082, wildlingmuseum.org.

Static Back position, then progress onto movements, using primarily our body weight. We perform a variety of exercises to maintain function, balance, and mobility. Strength will be enhanced with and without the use of hand weights. Mondays-Thursdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m. through June 11 $72. 415-516-5214. ae.slcusd.org. Online, 1500 Lizzie Street, San Luis Obispo.

and mystery of the night across a range of media, including painting and photography, as well as poetry curated by Dan Gerber. View the exhibit online. Mondays, Wednesdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. through June 15 Free. 805-688-1082. wildlingmuseum.org. Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang.

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: FLOWER ARRANGING WITH DENISE BENDA Create a beautiful flower

BIRD IS THE WORD

CULTURE & LIFESTYLE

The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature in Solvang is currently accepting submissions to its 11th biannual Nature Photography Competition. The theme of the contest is Critters of the Tri-County Region, as applicants are advised to turn in photos of wildlife found within the counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, or Ventura. The deadline to submit is July 6. Visit wildlingmuseum.org for more info. —C.W.

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Spring St., Paso Robles, 237-3870.

POP-UP DRIVE-IN THEATER The businesses at Colony Square would like to invite you down to a popup drive-in event where we can provide you with pizza, donuts, popcorn, and/or brews directly to your car during the film. May 21, 8-9:30 p.m. my805tix.com. Colony Sqaure, 6909 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

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PASO ROBLES: MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH DRIVE THRU Come celebrate May Mental Health Awareness Month social-distancing style. Drive by anytime between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to learn about all the ways you can receive virtual mental health supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. May 22, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Paso Robles City Library, 1000

60-minute Restorative Flow Yoga Class. Pre-registration is required.Payment to be made online only at this time. Zoom meeting info will be included in your registration confirmation email. Mondays, 4-5:15 p.m. through June 1 $15. themondayclubslo.org. The Monday Club, 1815 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-541-0594.

STRENGTH FOR 55+ We begin the session in the

STARRY NIGHTS: VISIONS OF THE NIGHT SKY (VIRTUAL TOUR) Celebrates the awe-inspiring beauty

ONLINE GENTLE YOGA Using traditional yoga moves as well as active and resistant stretching and moves from the foundation training method, we create a healthy back a flexible body and increase our lung capacity to try to chew breathing exercises; all in the privacy of your own home. Mondays-Thursdays, 10:45 a.m.-noon through June 12 $5 per session. 415-516-5214. Online (Location address included), 1297 13th Street, Los Osos.

condition our muscles, and stay flexible. This advanced class also incorporates hand weights and sand bags, if you have them. Mondays-Thursdays, 8:15-9:15 a.m. $72. 415-516-5214. ae.slcusd.org. Online, 1500 Lizzie Street, San Luis Obispo.

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CONTINUING TAI CHI ONLINE Continuing Tai Chi covers the completion of the 40 form, further refining basics. For returning students and anyone with Tai Chi experience and brave beginners. Mondays, Wednesdays, 10:15-11:15 a.m. through June 10 $36. 805-549-1222. ae.slcusd.org. Online, 1500 Lizzie Street, San Luis Obispo.

MEDITATION, BREATHWORK, AND GRATITUDE PRACTICE: LIVE ON ZOOM This class will support you and help you stay vital during these uncertain times. Practices include breathing techniques to calm the nervous system, guided meditation for balanced relaxation, mantra practice to calm the mind, and tips to help you cultivate and maintain a home practice. Wednesdays, 12-12:45 p.m. through Sept. 16 $10 for SLO Botanical Garden members/$15 for non-members. 805-540-1762. eventbrite.com. San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, 3450 Dairy Creek Rd., San Luis Obispo.

METABOLIC CONDITIONING We use primarily our own body weight in this interval training class to run through exercises and drills to raise the heart rate,

arrangement with your mom virtually while enjoying a glass of Center of Effort Wine. Denise will conduct a live session from our beautiful Center of Effort property on the basics of flower arranging. May 22, 2-3:30 p.m. bigbigslo.com. Downtown SLO, Higuera Street, San Luis Obispo.

WILSHIRE HOSPICE ONLINE VOLUNTEER TRAINING The work of Hospice continues during this challenging time and the need for volunteers continues. The first-ever ZOOM-based Hospice Volunteer Training begins May 19. Classes will be held through Zoom, secure links will be sent to each participant for each session. May 21, 10 a.m.-noon, May 26, 10 a.m.-noon, May 27, 10 a.m.-noon and May 28, 10 a.m.-noon Free. 805-547-7025 ext 2021. Wilshire Hospice, 277 South St., suite R, San Luis Obispo.

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FREE WORKOUT WEBINAR: MENTAL HEALTH MONTH Free online workout for Mental Health Month to explore the benefits of mind-body exercise. All ages and abilities. Learn new movements to trigger brain health. May 23, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. 805-295-9505. core. streamfit.io/webinar-registration. Central Core, 1160 Price Street, Pismo Beach.

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One a Day for Morro Bay Challenge We can’t gather together to clean up the beach, but we can still Join us in the #1aDay4MorroBay trash pickup challenge!

Stay safe, keep your distance, and post your daily trash pickup pics to Facebook and Instagram #1aday4MorroBay

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CULTURE & LIFESTYLE from page 18 with the Welcome Home Military Heroes organization. Details are to be announced (check site for updates). May 25 AGVillageConcerts.com. Historic Village of Arroyo Grande, Branch and Short St., Arroyo Grande.

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BIZ MASTERS TOASTMASTERS TUESDAYS: ZOOM Learn more about Toastmasters, prepare for ‘Your Competitive Future’, and improve your communication and leadership skills. Zoom Meeting ID: 317 198 472 (Password: 630). Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. through Dec. 15 Free. 805-570-0620. Santa Maria Airport, 3249 Terminal Dr., Santa Maria.

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GOOD MORNING LOMPOC The show is hosted by Lompoc locals Michelle and Jeremy Ball, who aim to keep the community connected while staying home at the same time. Episodes are also available to watch on YouTube after they’re streamed live. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 8:30 a.m. Facebook, Online, Inquire for Facebook address.

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MORRO BAY FARMERS MARKET A delightful mix of local farm fresh products, baked goods, crafts, and more. Thursdays, 2-4:30 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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DRIVE THRU FRIDAYS IN TIN CITY Join us and all your Tin City favorites every Friday for curbside booths and social distancing fun. We have everything for your quarantine cooking, including the freshest olive oils and more. Fridays, 12-5 p.m. through May 29 Free. 805-2274223. Olivas de Oro in Tin City, 2989 B Limestone Way, Paso Robles, olivasdeoro.com.

SWIRLING WITH STERLING: VIRTUAL WINEMAKER DINNER Enjoy a beautifully paired

This is your chance to pick up a delicious culinary experience at one of our three locations, and then join a talented winemaker for a ZOOM “gathering” around the table. May 22, 6-8 p.m. $175-$220. my805tix.com. Cass Winery And Vineyard, 7350 Linne Rd., Paso Robles, 805-239-1730.

TED ED: A VIRTUAL WINE TASTING WITH ED PLEMONS A virtual tasting experience. These bottles were carefully chosen by Plemons himself. Take this opportunity to ask him all of your burning questions about this delicious selection of wine and more. May 22, 4-5 p.m. and May 29, 4-5 p.m. $275. my805tix.com. Cass Winery And Vineyard, 7350 Linne Rd., Paso Robles, 805-239-1730.

VINA ROBLES WIN-WIN: 20-20 SITEWIDE SALE Patrons get 20% off of 6 and more bottles; Vina Robles gives 20% to SLO Food Bank. Free curbside pickup; $10 flat rate shipping within California; regular rates apply to addresses in other states. Visit site for more info. Through May 31 Varies; 20% of proceeds benefit SLO Food Bank. 805-227-4812. vinarobles.com. Vina Robles Winery, 3700 Mill Rd., Paso Robles.

three-course meal from the comfort of your own home.

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SAN LUIS OBISPO

SLO FARMERS MARKET Hosts more than 60 vendors. Saturdays, 8-10:45 a.m. World Market Parking Lot, 325 Madonna Rd., San Luis Obispo.

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ARROYO GRANDE FARMERS MARKET Saturdays, 12-2:25 p.m. Arroyo Grande Farmers Market, Olohan Alley, Arroyo Grande.

GUITAR CIRCUS: LIVE STREAM Guitar Circus will be streaming live from the patio and will be taking requests. May 24 Schooners, 171 North Ocean Ave, Cayucos, 805-995-3883, schoonerscayucos.com.

Cass Winery in Paso Robles hosts Ted Ed, a virtual wine tasting with Ted Plemons, on May 22 and May 29, from 4 to 5 p.m. both days. The tasting package, which costs $275, includes four bottles of wine, which are available for delivery. Participants are encouraged to purchase their packs one week before their session. Visit my805tix.com for admission and more info. —C.W.

SLO BREW AND ERNIE BALL PRESENT TOGETHER SLO A live stream benefit series

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The Santa Maria Public Library Valley Reads Book Club holds its next over-the-phone meeting on May 26. Club members meet virtually to discuss books on the fourth Tuesday of every month. Individuals interested in joining the group should contact Library Technician Jose Gaytan at jgaytan@cityofsantamaria.org. —C.W.

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MUSIC UNITED WE READ

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VIRTUAL HAPPY HOUR: LIVE MUSIC BY RACHEL SANTA CRUZ Live music streamed every Wednesday from the Schooners Deck. Tune into our virtual happy to hear some great music and watch the sunset. Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. Schooners, 171 North Ocean Ave, Cayucos, 805-995-3883, schoonerscayucos.com.

supporting local creators of SLO. Features live music by Resination, Shawn Clark, Chris Beland, Wordsauce, Bear Market Riot. May 31, 12-7 p.m. slohouseparty.com. SLO Brew, 736 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, 805-543-1843.

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THE BASIN STREET REGULARS: LIVE STREAM The Creole Syncopators will perform during this live stream hosted by the Basin Street Regulars. May 31, 2 p.m. 805-937-8402. pismojazz.com. Pismo Beach Veterans Memorial Hall, 780 Bello St., Pismo Beach. Δ

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Music

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Strictly Starkey

BY GLEN STARKEY

In this together Shadowlands releases a new song inspired by connectivity among the quarantined

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pen up your window now/ The streets are full of song/ Step out on your balcony/ And we will sing along,” Shadowlands sings on their stunning new single “Not Alone,” whose lyrics were inspired by videos of quarantined Italians singing to their neighbors from their balconies. “You are not alone/ The sun will kiss you/ You are not alone/ The earth is with you,” the song begins. “She rises up to meet/ The bottoms of your feet/ She holds you where you stand/ She holds you when you sleep// Though you feel the ache of isolation/ Still there is no real separation/ Our lives are intertwined/ Like honeysuckle vines/ And though we are apart/ You’re vibrant in my mind.” It’s a typically gorgeous song from this ethereal folk quartet, which is made up of two married couples who recorded the song responsibly. The initial harp, guitar, and vocal tracks were recorded at home by Karoline Hausted and Mark Davis. Wendy and Bob Liepman added harmony and cello to the shared tracks from their home. The song is Shadowlands’ response to the lockdown, and as Bob Liepman wrote via email, “It reminds us that, while keeping personal distance, we are still connected.” Find it on YouTube.

Livestreams

Due to an illness last week, local supergroup The FrenZ rescheduled a planned livestream for this Saturday, May 23, at 7 p.m., from their Facebook PHOTO COURTESY OF KENNY LEE LEWIS

MIDNIGHT TOKERS The FrenZ, led by Steve Miller Band bassist Kenny Lee Lewis, will livestream from their Facebook page on May 23 to benefit Sweet Relief.

page, @thefrenzmusic and twitch.tv/ kllewis1982. I call this a supergroup because it’s led by Kenny Lee Lewis, who for the last 38 years has been a touring member of the Steve Miller Band, playing bass and guitar, and writing and producing material with Miller. The FrenZ features musicians who all grew up in San Joaquin Valley during the ’70s, including bassist/vocalist Bobby Santa Cruz, who’s well-known to local audiences, as well as guitarist/vocalist Marty Townsend, and drummer Wyatt Lund (of The Truth About Seafood). Expect original songs and “unique” covers, performed in “a studio format environment with quality stereo audio.” They promise songs by Jimi Hendrix, Paul Simon, Curtis Mayfield, Jimmy Reed, and more. Make donations through PayPal at kllewis@charter.net or Venmo at @KennyLewis-32. Co-partnering with Musicares, Spotify, and Sweet Relief, they’ve been sharing 25 percent of donations collected during their livestreams to help unemployed musicians and their families during this crisis. “Tune in and have your socks blown off while benefiting all musicians across the board who have had their tours canceled and venues closed down,” the band said. James Gallardo—a local bassist, composer, and private instructor—will be doing a livestream of his bass/vocals/ drum show from Caliwala market in Santa Margarita this Saturday, May 23, from noon to 3 p.m. Gallardo is a Cal Poly music department grad who as an 8-year-old developed a love of music that’s never waned. He started with classic rock, pop, and heavy metal and has continued into jazz, classic, electronic, and beyond. In case you’re not familiar— it’s pretty new after all—Caliwala is a community market and deli with an emphasis on fresh, local, and sustainable items. Curbside pickup is offered, and it’s operated by local banjo player and singersongwriter Erin Inglish! Che Miller and Colleen Gnos of the Mother Corn Shuckers will be “sippin’ at the tiki bar” every Sunday, including this Sunday, May 24, at 3 p.m. from their backyard hangout, which you can stream on Miller’s Facebook page, @CheTiki. “Some of the Shuckers show up to jam,” Miller wrote. “We usually try and support a small business, but we are now trying to raise money to finish the new album.” Tip these guys and let’s get a new Shuckers record! Shawn Clark has a new album coming out from a side project called Spirit World with Ryan Delmore and Chris Beland, and they’ll present a livestream on Sunday, May 24, from 7 to 9 p.m., broadcast on the “Here nor There and

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‘NOT ALONE’ Inspired by Italians singing to their neighbors from their balconies, Shadowlands has released a beautiful song of hope, available on YouTube. PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMES GALLARDO

ONE MAN BAND James Gallardo will livestream from Santa Margarita’s Caliwala market on May 23.

Everywhere” Facebook page. I haven’t had a chance to hear what they’re up to, but all three of these players are the real deal.

Quarantunes

If nothing else, the shelter-in-place order has given local musician John Wessel and his band Shameless time to get a couple of CDs out, one a Wessel solo album called Smoke and Mirrors, the other a Shameless CD called Everything Happens for Reason. The fidelity on the discs isn’t always top of the line and can vary between tracks, suggesting a piecemeal approach to recording, but the passion is 100 percent, and Wessel’s reedy tenor, flute and guitar playing, and ’70s sensibility is always welcome. “I’m already writing and recording for 2021,” Wessel wrote via email. “I’m practicing the instruments I don’t play every day, though. Sometimes I’m overwhelmed with all the horrible news on the state of the world—not a good time to think clearly about song lyrics, at least for me. I’ve also been closely watching who is conforming to the situation and doing what they can to help by self-imposing the stayat-home measures. [Early in the pandemic] I was surprised and angry at the way several self-serving people were willing to keep their doors open in the clubs and bars just make a dime.”

Wessel is one of the hardest working musicians in the county, playing three or four gigs a week before COVID-19 hit. “I was also disappointed in many musicians who were willing to keep playing to crowds like nothing was happening,” he continued. “I’m now focused on the future of music and the entertainment field on the Central Coast and what it will look like. For the first time in my lifetime career of performing since the age of 10 years old until now, I’m considering slowing my rate at which I will perform next year. As you know, Shameless has never stopped playing live shows in 35 years and maintained our band name all this time. Not many other local bands can claim that.” Wessel’s new solo album features seven originals, some co-written, as well as two Ian Anderson songs: “Cross-Eyed Mary” and “Aqualung,” both off of Jethro Tull’s classic 1971 album. Wessel can match Anderson’s flute work note for note. The new Shameless CD consists of all originals except a cover of Van Morrison’s “Moondance.” It’s clear why prior to the coronavirus they were one of the most sought-after working bar bands in the county. They deliver danceable, feel-good music. Will Wessel and Shameless be back in full force after restrictions are lifted? That remains to be seen. “I will be very conscious of the venues I play next year,” Wessel said. “I want to play only places that were thinking of the public’s health more than the greed of money. I feel the same about the musicians I will chose to work with. I miss performing live for sure. I’m thinking about how I want to play out less next year but by playing only the places I want to and giving each show 100 percent of my energy and soul.” Cliff “Crawdaddy” Stepp and his band The Cliffnotes sure look like they had a lot of fun recording their new “The House of the Rising Sun” parody “The House of the Rising Pancakes,” available on YouTube. The track is a tribute to the International House of Pancakes with new lyrics layered over the traditional tune made famous by The Animals’ 1964 recording. Check it out! I bet a lot of music lovers can’t wait to see this band live again! Δ Contact Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.

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Arts Artifacts

San Luis Obispo Public Library seeks art for new library card

The SLO Public Library, in collaboration with the SLO County Arts Council, has opened up a call for artists to have their work featured on a 2021 library card. Participants are asked to submit artworks with a literature-based theme or literary connections. Three winning artists will be chosen and will each receive $300. Recognition of each artist will be on their respective cards. To be considered in the competition, artists must submit their pieces, along with a brief artist statement, to the Arts Council online by June 15, no later than 5 p.m. There is a $10 fee to submit (proceeds will go toward supporting arts programming throughout the county). Although the Arts Council is primarily seeking artists from the Central Coast, all artists are eligible to enter the contest. However, during its final selection, the Arts Council reserves the right to give priority to artists based in SLO County. Visit artsobispo.org for more info.

The PAC at Home offers a variety of stay-at-home entertainment

The Performing Arts Center (PAC) in SLO currently offers various forms of stay-at-home content through its website, under the label The PAC at Home. The site includes links to behind-thescenes videos—including one peek backstage when a Broadway tour of West Side Story made its way to the PAC—and several stay-at-home art activities for both children and adults. Check pacslo. wordpress.com to find out more.

Morro Bay Art in the Park cancels 65th annual Memorial Day Art Show

For the first time in 65 years, the Morro Bay Art in the Park Memorial Day Art Show— formerly scheduled to take place on May 23, 24, and 25—has been canceled. Co-presented by the Morro Bay Art Association and Steve Powers, the event was slated to include more than a hundred booths occupied by local artists and craft workers. Organizers of the annual outdoor exhibition and sale are currently awaiting public gathering directives from the state or county concerning other upcoming Morro Bay Art in the Park events, tentatively scheduled to take place in July and September. Decisions on whether or not to cancel these events will be made by June 1 for the former and Aug. 1 for the latter. For further updates, call (805) 440-8318 or visit morrobayartinthepark.com. Δ —Caleb Wiseblood

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Radio

BY GLEN STARKEY

PHOTO COURTESY OF HAL ABRAMS

100 percent original!

Morro Bay’s community radio station The Rock keeps on keeping on

ast month was supposed to be 97.3 and 107.9FM The Rock’s big annual fundraiser. The live music event and silent auction is when the all-volunteer community radio station asks for donations to cover its shoestring $30,000 annual operating budget. This year’s fundraiser got the kibosh for obvious COVID-19 related reasons, and The Rock hopes to reschedule the event for this fall. But as of now, there’s no predicting what will happen. The station—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization—transmits to Morro Bay as well as North County, offering eclectic music programing, talk shows, and updates about community events and news. It’s hoping the community will help keep it afloat by donating through centralcoastradio.org. The Rock is a real throwback. Founder Hal Abrams, who New Times spoke to by phone, started the station in 2011 out of his house. “It was an internet-only station for the first few years as I waited for an FCC license, which we got in 2014,” Abrams explained. The Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce made some office space available in their building at reduced rent in exchange for the station “promoting their agenda” and airing City Council meetings, Abrams explained. Abrams worked in commercial radio for 35 years and wanted the station to be “the antithesis of commercial radio—no commercials or playlists, no music director, and I wanted to lower the bar on who got to do a radio show.” The Rock has a wealth of on-air talent, some like former KOTR DJ Harry Farmer with decades of experience, and others who came to the station with zero experience. “We have some very experienced jocks and also blue-haired ladies who were intimidated

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by the control board,” Abrams said. “They run the gamut, so we’re very diverse and unpredictable—the anticommercial radio.” The DJs pick their own music, and it can range from jazz to rock to triple-A to downright weird. “I have very few rules,” Abrams said. “My rule is to follow the FCC’s rules. I do try to group similar shows, like I might put two jazz shows together, and I have most of the talk programs on Saturday. It’s pretty darn diverse.” The station’s license is an “LPFM,” meaning low power FM, and its Morro Bay station at 97.3FM basically covers the city and a few miles down THE FOUNDER Hal Abrams started Morro Bay’s nonprofit Highway 41. In fact, the FCC community radio station The Rock 97.3FM out of his home. considers its antenna below sea level, Abrams said. The “There’s certainly no lack of passion among North County signal at 107.9FM is considerably the volunteers. Everyone is trying to keep stronger and runs from Paso Robles to Shandon the station alive,” he continued. “But the big to San Miguel, but the station has listeners financial nut comes from the fundraiser, and from around the world. If you have an internet to run a station like this on $30,000 is pretty connection, you can stream The Rock’s cheap.” programming from its website. Much of the costs of the station come Abrams said the station’s online listenership from music licensing. The Rock pays is at an all-time high, but listeners from around SoundExchange, ASCAP, BMI, and others for the world are less likely to donate to the station. the rights to play songs, and with the diverse The pandemic has not only affected the range of DJs picking from a vast assortment station’s fundraising but also how it operates. of material—much of it from their own Many of its DJs are older retirees who are at collection—those fees add up. higher risk for the coronavirus, so Abrams has “We recently paid our first quarter instituted a number of safety protocols, such as sanitizing the equipment and dues to SoundExchange, and we’d played PHOTO COURTESY OF ABE PERLSTEIN changing the microphone sock 29,500 different songs,” Abrams marveled. between shifts. Some DJs have “Everybody’s a volunteer except for our FCC decided to forego their time slots attorney. Then we have rent, which is greatly until the danger passes. reduced, and insurance costs.” The station also strives to offer The station rides such a thin margin that if news updates that the community a transmitter fails or some other major piece needs. of equipment needed to be replaced, it could be “We try to ride a thin line,” out of business without a major donation. Abrams said. “Some use the “Our door’s always open to volunteers,” station as a distraction, but we Abrams said, “but there’s a waiting list to get a still offer twice hourly COVID-19 radio show. What we need right now are dollars. updates. We just don’t want to We don’t want to constantly be on-air begging make it all-COVID all the time.” for money, but COVID-19 changed things in Abrams notes that even ways we couldn’t have imagined. I’m hoping without the annual fundraising those we’ve helped get through isolation without event, some community members feeling so isolated will see value in the station. have donated anyway, but he “We’re trying to bring locals together at a says fundraising is “a little more time when they physically can’t be together.” Δ anemic than usual. Lots of people don’t know where their next dollar Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey is all about is coming from. We’ve put enough ALL VOLUNTEER All The Rock’s DJs are volunteers—in bringing locals together. Send story ideas to money away to get through the fact, the only paid employee is the station’s FCC lawyer. gstarkey@newtimesslo.com. year, so we’ll be OK.

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What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2019-present Where’s it showing? Amazon Prime hilarious antics contrast with the dull repetition she feels her life has slumped to MENTALLY ILL MAGIC REALISM After a near-fatal and her bleak outlook car accident, Alma Winograd-Diaz (Rosa Salazar) awakes in general. We learn from a coma to discover she can see her dead father, Jacob pretty quickly that Winograd (Bob Odenkirk), who’s come to help her control her Alma’s childhood was new power over time and space, in Undone. molded by several big events, including her thinks is true. Season two is teed up father’s death—times she can’t help but nicely. I can’t find a release date for it, but travel back to in her mind and certainly it’s definitely happening! still feel unresolved. Her mother and Anna Alma’s relationship with her sister love her, though many times they father, both before and after his death, can’t stand her. She’s a loose cannon near is complicated. She’s the older sibling, so the shores of their glassy lake; who knows she has more memory and connection to when she’ll blow it all up again. I’m all in him than sister Becca. She’s no stranger on this series! Bring on season two! to abandonment issues and seems to Glen The rotoscoping technique allows have almost a sense of pride over her for an easy transition between reality and unattached life. The walls she’s built up fantasy. Sometimes I thought, “What’s in self-protection can’t help but crumble the point?” Then something dramatic as her reality falls further and further would happen like Alma’s car accident, away. It’s so easy to think of both our a reversion into her past, or a trip into lifetimes and time in general as a linear outer space, and I would realize the story; Undone has a lot of fun messing animation was essential to the story. with that narrative and throwing us for This is a tale of relationships, personal loop after loop. Watching Alma’s story growth, and metaphysics. Alma’s father’s unfold in a series of flashbacks and fastresearch was based on what he believed forwards means that even at the end of was the malleable nature of time and season one we are still learning about our space. When he returns to teach Alma main character. We binged this, which is to master, for instance, telekinesis, it’s a great way to watch, but I wouldn’t mind not through actually moving something going back in time myself and slowing with her mind but by using her newly down my watch: There is a lot to enjoy discovered control over space and time. here. Δ And her powers aren’t even new; she just never manifested them until her father Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey and showed her they were there. It’s pretty freelancer Anna Starkey write Split heady stuff, and the end of season one Screen. Glen compiles streaming listings. calls into question everything Alma Comment at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.

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To be determined A twelve-page list dictates the next step for SLO County’s food and drink establishments … if they can hang on till then

xcuse me if I sound like an Oklahoma farmer from The Grapes of Wrath, but writing about our food industry is really bumming me out. The new guidelines for opening dine-in read like a eulogy. As the industry holds its collective breath, here’s a doomsday statistic: According to a James Beard Foundation poll from mid-April, only 1 in 5 restaurant owners think they can stay in business until operations resume. Meanwhile, some restaurants in other states received the yellow light to open. I got a little excited, but then I had a peek at their version of the new abnormal and thought, how nice to finally be out to dinner in dystopian 1984.

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“Did you hear about the James Beard award-winning restaurant closing in New York?” Bryan Mathers, chef at Ocean Grill Avila Beach asked when I called him to fi nd out how his restaurant has managed with the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan from the CARES Act. My short answer was, yes, I had heard about that closure. Another one bites the dust. Mathers walked me through what his restaurant, which is in a secluded spot, is doing while everyone is isolating. Ocean Grill is currently offering takeout and delivery, with 30 percent off alcohol purchases. At the fi rst news of the shutdown, Mathers said they were looking at how long this would last. “We pretty much did all of the projections and did the math behind how much we’d have to make each day to keep going in order to keep employees on,” he said. “And then there was also the factor of, well, this is how much the employees are going to be getting if they’re not working right now. We were looking at staying open for a while, but then just the amount of money it was going to take to stay open was so much more than our potential was to bring in at that time.” Mathers, who has worked in restaurants since he was 14 years old, said no one was coming to Ocean Grill at first. “Everybody kind of went into complete panic mode, and they were buying beans and rice without knowing how to cook ’em. And staying home and not going out to restaurants. Not getting any pickup or delivery,” he said. “We haven’t seen anybody out in Avila Beach. We are even more isolated than some of the restaurants that did stay open … . One of our drawing factors is the view, and if you can’t enjoy the view … you’re not going to go to it.” Mathers said he and the owner closed

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the restaurant and stayed “glued to the news.” They applied for the PPP loan so that their employees had somewhere to go—mainly back-of-the-house employees. He said the owner is great with numbers, and their main focus has been helping out their employees with unemployment checks, stimulus, and keeping the restaurant alive for years to come. Personally, Mathers said, he grew up poor and spent many years working multiple restaurant jobs for minimum wage. He lives simply and said he’ll be fine with a 50-pound sack of beans for months. “My biggest thing was making sure my staff were doing good, because that affects me the most,” he said. “I know a lot of restaurants that just went out of business because of this,” he added, saying we won’t know what the “restaurant landscape” is going to look like in the future, but that he’s fortunate the owner of Ocean Grill owns the restaurant property. Other places are dealing with high overhead, wage costs, and taxes—no matter how busy or slow they are. On a bad day, if you over-order on certain food items such as meat and fish, “You lose big on that stuff.” He pointed out that even the restaurants that were busy pre-pandemic were not making much. He said the margins were so low, profits are around 1 to 4 percent. In other words, the biz was already struggling, even before COVID-19. “It’s more the sit-down restaurants that are having a hard time,” he explained. The loan, Mathers said, is “kind of a curse and a blessing” because it doesn’t matter how much the restaurant is making. “You have to have a certain amount of employees on the payroll, and be paying out a certain amount of it by this time. Otherwise, you have to pay it back. So we’re way overstaffed for what we need right now, but it is nice, we’re able to make sure some people are getting paid.” He said the approval process went smoothly for them, and their goal was to make it through May and get to summer so they could open up for dine-in in June—fi ngers crossed. The tricky part: trying to project how much they would make with changes coming in every day. “It was kind of a blind process,” Mathers said, “... like playing Monopoly

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OPENED 1971 Stan Van Beurden opened Hofbrau der Albatross in 1971. Pictured is his dad, Cornelius (far left), his brother Joost (back) with two of the Morro Bay restaurant’s first customers.

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but you don’t know what the dice look like. You don’t know if you get to roll them or not. Every day we’re told there’s something else we gotta do … . It’s kind of a frustrating process. We’re lucky that we’ve actually been pretty busy since we opened up for take-out.” His vendors don’t have full access to their inventories and are running out of their frozen stock. Last weekend he ran out of rockfish. “It’s nerve-wracking to say the least.” He noted that there is hope for a better business model for restaurants on the other side of this. He said he favors the European and Australian service models, where the tip is included in the ticket price. Mathews said if there’s one way the community can help right now it’s “try getting some of the to-go service from the smaller restaurants.”

‘Never in 50 years’

I also was fortunate to get Stan Van Beurden on the phone. He has owned Hofbrau der Albatross in Morro Bay since 1971, and his daughter, Alison, and wife, Kathy, help run the place. Van Beurden’s brother, Paul, owns Dutchman’s Seafood House. He’s the most seasoned restaurateur I’ve met, so I figured he could give me the most educated guess on how long our local restaurant business has to live. At Hofbrau, Van Beurden said he wasn’t that bad off. He’s open for takeout now, after being closed for two weeks. He’s making about 40 percent of what his sales would have been pre-COVID-19, and he said he’s feeling fortunate to own his property. He said the PPP loan is also keeping him open, and he has all of his 14 employees back to work. “I don’t have a lot of debt to worry about,” he said, “like new restaurateurs who may have been open one year, two years, five years—trying to pay off that initial mortgage, equipment loan, things like that ... .” “Nothing is as good as being open,” he added. “It’s better than doing 20 percent and being depressed all the time.” When the restaurants closed for COVID-19, the first thing he did was call the small business development staff at Cal Poly for advice, helping him with preparation for the loan and he worked with Founders Community Bank to get it going. “I actually had the money within two weeks. I feel for those who haven’t been

able to do what I’ve done. People have bars, and I don’t have a bar and I don’t have to worry about not being able to reopen.” He said knowing some fellow restaurants will not make it is tough to think about. His brother’s place was able to reopen for take-out, but it took a month longer than his place. “My main commodity is roast beef sandwiches,” he said, noting that it’s easier for places that are not full-service restaurants. “I can sell those all day long. People know what they want. I’ve been here forever. I’ve got that clientele. I’ve got that big advantage.” He has been trying to interpret the set of guidelines that make up the COVID-19 industry guidance for dine-in restaurants, as released on May 12. In my humble opinion, it looks like it was written by the most antisocial OCD germaphobe who ever lived. The short list includes basically doing away with bar seating, pushing togo, and essentially not going near anyone. Had he ever seen so many rules? “Never in 50 years,” he said, adding that even with the 12 pages of new guidelines, the steps were vague and unclear. “We’ve never had to take the kind of action we’re taking now. The kind of rules and regulations. The uncertainty.” “To me, if you’re going to make regulations for signage, for different things like that, you need to be a little more forward on what it is I need to do.” He said if they lift the ban in two weeks, he just wants to have everything in place. “Do my tables need to be 6 feet apart from seat to seat, from table to table?” He’s guessing and hoping he gets it right. Van Beurden, a longtime local, was hoping one of his three daughters, Alison, would one day take over the family restaurant. But now the restaurant has a new set of worries. He has a walk-up model. Can’t do that anymore. He has to reduce his seating up front by 50 percent. He has to install new Plexiglas above his already existing sneeze guards. He had to hire a new employee specifically for meeting sanitation guidelines. And he has no idea how they’re going to enforce these rules. “Things I would never have thought of,” he said. Δ Flavor Writer Beth Giuffre supports her local servers. Send food, wine, spirits, etc., story ideas to bgiuffre@newtimesslo.com.

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To: Alan Algie and anyone claiming to be a parent of: Tesla Branice Montez born on 7/02/2015 at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, San Luis Obispo, California. A hearing will be held on 08/20/2020 at 1:00pm in Dept. 12 located at Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, Courthouse Annex, 1035 Palm St. San Luis Obispo, CA 93408. Branch Name: Juvenile Court At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer. The social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated. You have the right to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford to hire one, the court will appoint an attorney for you. If the court terminates your parental rights, the order may be final. The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not your are present. Date: 4/30/2020 by Paula Smith, Deputy Clerk May 7,14, 21, 28, 2020

To: Pedro Josue Osuna Estrada, aka Josue Estrada and anyone claiming to be a parent of: Jayden Osuna Estrada born on 8/25/2019 at Twin Cities Community Hospital, Templeton, California. A hearing will be held on 7/30/2020 at 1:00pm in Dept. 12 located at Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, Courthouse Annex, 1035 Palm St. San Luis Obispo, CA 93408. Branch Name: Juvenile Court At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer. The social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated. You have the right to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford to hire one, the court will appoint an attorney for you. If the court terminates your parental rights, the order may be final. The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not your are present. Date: 4/15/2020 by Claudia Perez, Deputy Clerk May 7,14, 21, 28, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0784 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/31/2015) New Filing The following person is doing business as, KIMBERLEE’S SALON, 150 N. Thompson Ave., Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Kimberlee Alexander (230 Beckett Pl. #2, Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Kimberlee Alexander. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-14-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk A. Bautista, Deputy. Exp. 04-14-25. April 30, May 7, 14, & 21, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0744 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BEST TEAMS MANAGEMENT, 3057 S. Higuera St. Spc. 6, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Yellow Cross, LLC (3057 S. Higuera St. Spc. 6, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A NV Limited Liability Company /s/ Yellow Cross, LLC, John J. Mudge, Managing Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-03-20. 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. 04-03-25. April 30, May 7, 14, & 21, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0747 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CARROLL CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION, 7505 Sinaloa Ave., Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County. Anthony Carroll (7505 Sinaloa Ave., Atascadero, CA 93422). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Anthony Carroll. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-06-20. 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. 04-06-25. April 30, May 7, 14, & 21, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0762 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/08/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SOLARE FILMS, 1189 Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos, CA 93412. San Luis Obispo County. Matteo A. Troncone (1190 Los Olivos, Los Osos, CA 93412). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Matteo A. Troncone. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-0920. 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. 04-09-25. April 30, May 7, 14, & 21, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0774 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SUPPORTABILITIES: INNOVATIONS AND DESIGN, 430 Mercury Drive, Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Kari Bowron (430 Mercury Drive, Nipomo, CA 93444). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Kari M. Bowron. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-13-20. 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. 04-13-25. May 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0786 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/15/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, DELLA’S, 831 13th St., Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Down The Hatch LLC (835 13th St., Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Down The Hatch LLC, Eric M. Connolly-President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-15-20. 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. 0415-25. May 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0789 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, MOSS CRAFTED, 226 Ginger Lane, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Gretchen Noelle Moss (226 Ginger Lane, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Gretchen Moss. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-16-20. 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. 04-1625. April 30, May 7, 14, & 21, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0790 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ALLYSON’S INSURANCE SERVICES, 703 Avocet Way, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Allyson Robertson (703 Avocet Way, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Allyson Robertson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-16-20. 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. 04-16-25. April 30, May 7, 14, & 21, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0793 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/1982) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CREATIVE CONCEPTS UNLIMITED, 778 Main Street 2nd Floor, Cambria, CA 93428. San Luis Obispo County. CCU Merchandising, Inc. (778 Main Street 2nd Floor, Cambria, CA 93428). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ CCU Merchandising, Inc., Elaine Mermelstein, CFO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-17-20. 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. 04-17-25. April 30, May 7, 14, & 21, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0796 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/26/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BUSY BEE DAYCARE, 2565 Fowler Lane, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Mary E. Apodaca (2565 Fowler Lane, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Mary E. Apodaca, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-20-20. 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. 04-20-25. May 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0819 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, OMEGA CONCRETE, 1279 Branch Mill Road, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Lawrence L. Hall (1279 Branch Mill Road, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Lawrence L. Hall. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-22-20. 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. 04-22-25. April 30, May 7, 14, & 21, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0798 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/01/2008) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CALIBER ACCOUNTING & TAX, LLP, 575 Price St., Ste. 312, Pismo Beach, CA 93449. San Luis Obispo County. Jody Marsh (9262 Albright Ct., Inver Grove Heights, MN 55077), Marina Alvarado (1505 15th St., Los Osos, CA 93402), Alana Maxwell (2388 Callender Rd., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420), Eric Schwefler (175 Irish Way, Pismo Beach, CA 93449). This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Partnership /s/ Alana Maxwell, Partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-20-20. 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. 04-20-25. April 30, May 7, 14, & 21, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0800 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/01/1999) New Filing The following person is doing business as, RIDDLE, 1397 Marsh Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Evaki Inc. (1397 Marsh Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Evaki Inc., Stuart Jacques, Vice President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-21-20. 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. 04-21-25. April 30, May 7, 14, & 21, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0809 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/10/2009) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CHRISTOPHER E. HALLQUIST, HALLQUEST BACKFLOW TESTING AND REPAIR, 4200 Lobos Ave., Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County. Christopher E. Hallquist (4200 Lobos Ave., Atascadero, CA 93422). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Christopher E. Hallquist. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-21-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk JA. Anderson, Deputy. Exp. 04-21-25. May 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0816 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (10/29/2013) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SAN LUIS AUTO GLASS AND TINT, 245 Tank Farm Rd. #F, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Horizon West Auto Glass Inc. (245 Tank Farm Rd. #F, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Horizon West Auto Glass Inc., Joseph A. Zabala, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-22-20. 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. 04-22-25. May 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0820 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/22/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BUONA TAVOLA SLO, INC., 1037 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Buona Tavola SLO, Inc. (1037 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Buona Tavola SLO, Inc., Andrea Fabbretti, CFO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-22-20. 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. 04-22-25. April 30, May 7, 14, & 21, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0826 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/10/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ALSET SOLUTIONS, 937 Corbett Canyon, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Edward M. Mathias, Ann J. Mathias (937 Corbett Canyon, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by A Trust /s/ Edward M. Mathias, Trustee. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-23-20. 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. 04-23-25. May 14, 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0833 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/10/2003) New Filing The following person is doing business as, LESCO AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES, 3535 South Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Stephan C Kennedy (3535 South Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Stephan C Kennedy. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-24-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 04-24-25. May 14, 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0836 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (10/01/2012) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CLASS ACT DANCE, 2508 Spring Street, Unit C, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Class Act Dance and Performing Arts Studio, LLC (2508 Spring Street, Unit C, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Class Act Dance and Performing Arts Studio, LLC, Cheryl E. Armstrong, Managing Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-24-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk JA. Anderson, Deputy. Exp. 04-24-25. May 14, 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0837 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/23/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, DESIGN ELECTRIC COMPANY, 1589 Corbett Canyon Rd., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Gary Jackson (1589 Corbett Canyon Rd., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Gary Jackson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-27-20. 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. 04-27-25. May 14, 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0859 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/01/2016) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CARSEL CONSULTING GROUP, 1443 9th Street, Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo County. Rebecca Jean Carsel (1443 9th Street, Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Rebecca Carsel, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-28-20. 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. 04-28-25. May 14, 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0839 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/19/2005) New Filing The following person is doing business as, TIBER CANYON RANCH, 280 W. Ormonde Rd., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. The CarltonAnderson Family Trust, Willard Gilbert Carlton, Trustee, Christy Anderson, Trustee (280 W. Ormonde Rd., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A Trust /s/ Christy Anderson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-27-20. 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. 04-27-25. May 14, 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0847 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/30/2006) New Filing The following person is doing business as, PISMO BEACH ARCO AM/PM, 890 4th Street, Pismo Beach, CA 93449. San Luis Obispo County. GSM Business Ventures Inc (890 4th Street, Pismo Beach, CA 93449). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ GSM Business Ventures Inc, Gaurav Vasudeva, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-27-20. 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. 04-27-25. May 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0861 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/2005) New Filing The following person is doing business as, INDIGO MOON, 1980 Main St., Cambria, CA 93428. San Luis Obispo County. James B. Somers, Dena A. Walston (300 Highway 1, Cambria, CA 93428). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ James B. Somers, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-28-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 04-28-25. May 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0864 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, PINNACLE REAL ESTATE GROUP – CENTRAL COAST, 618 Harrison Street, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Diana Elizabeth Pellerin (618 Harrison Street, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Diana E. Pellerin. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-28-20. 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. 04-28-25. May 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0877 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/30/1997) New Filing The following person is doing business as, FIVE CITIES WATER SYSTEMS, 1197 #13 Highland Way, Grover Beach, CA 93433. San Luis Obispo County. Five Cities Water, Inc. (1197 #13 Highland Way, Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Five Cities Water, Inc., Rorie O Black, Secretary. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-30-20. 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. 04-30-25. May 14, 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0880 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/18/2003) New Filing The following person is doing business as, STILL WATERS VINEYARDS, 2750 Old Grove Lane, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Paul William Hoover, Patricia Ann Hoover (2750 Old Grove Lane, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Patricia Ann Hoover. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-30-20. 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. 04-30-25. May 21, 28, June 4, & 11, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0881 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ESTERO BAY INSURANCE SOLUTIONS, 615 Main St., Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County. David Radmacher (909 Saint Mary, Cayucos, CA 93430). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ David Radmacher. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-01-20. 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. 05-01-25. May 14, 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0848 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/16/2001) New Filing The following person is doing business as, MUSTANG COMPUTERS, 2280 Sunset Drive, Suite F, Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo County. Colin Slaughter (124 E. Tefft St., Nipomo, CA 93444). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Colin Slaughter. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-27-20. 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. 04-27-25. May 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0869 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/16/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, RIDDLE, 4910 Edna Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Phase 2 Cellars, LLC (4910 Edna Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Phase 2 Cellars, LLC, Kenneth Robin Baggett, Managing Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-29-20. 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. 0429-25. May 14, 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0884 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/28/2017) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CENTRAL COAST WINDOW CLEANING, 2584 Hemlock Ave., Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County. Central Coast Window Cleaning INC (2584 Hemlock Ave., Morro Bay, CA 93442). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Central Coast Window Cleaning INC, Maria Elsea, Secretary. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-01-20. 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. 05-01-25. May 14, 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0853 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (11/06/2019) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BREAD BIKE, 570 Higuera St., Ste. 180, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Sam DeNicola (1703 Santa Barbara Ave., #6, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Sam DeNicola. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-28-20. 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. 04-28-25. May 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0871 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/18/2009) New Filing The following person is doing business as, NEWSHOE CO; COOL FEET SANDALS, 2324 Picachio Rd., Cayucos, CA 93430. San Luis Obispo County. S.C. Martin (2320 Picachio Rd., Cayucos, CA 93430). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ S.C. Martin. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-29-20. 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. 04-29-25. May 21, 28, June 4, & 11, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0898 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CENTRAL COAST TRANSITIONS, 437 Chaparral Lane, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Claryce S Knupper (437 Chaparral Lane, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Claryce Knupper. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-04-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 05-04-25. May 14, 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0911 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/10/1996) New Filing The following person is doing business as, RANCHO NIPOMO BBQ & DELI, RANCHO NIMPOMO BBQ & GOLD RUSH CANTINA, 108 Cuyama Lane, Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Rancho Nipomo Deli Inc. (307 E. Taylor St., Santa Maria, CA 93454). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Rancho Nipomo Deli Inc., Richard Cowell II-President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-05-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 05-05-25. May 14, 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-0927 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, TECH SAVAGERY, 841 Venable Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405. San Luis Obispo County. LaDell A. Erby Jr. (841 Venable Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ LaDell A. Erby Jr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-07-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 05-07-25. May 21, 28, June 4, & 11, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0933 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/06/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BUONA TAVOLA PASO, 943 Spring St., Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Antonio Varia (9404 Huer Huero Rd., Creston, CA 93432). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Antonio Varia. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-08-20. 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. 05-08-25. May 14, 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0943 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/11/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, DR. DENT, 3110 Sand Dove Place, Creston, CA 93432. San Luis Obispo County. Jeff Trent Cazier (3110 Sand Dove Place, Creston, CA 93432). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Jeff Cazier, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-11-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk JA. Anderson, Deputy. Exp. 05-11-25. May 21, 28, June 4, & 11, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0950 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BAYWOOD STATE, 1670 5th St., Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo County. Jimmy Russell Evans (1670 5th St., Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Jimmy “Rusty” Evans, Founder. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-11-20. 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. 05-11-25. May 21, 28, June 4, & 11, 2020

LEGAL NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0952 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (08/04/2011) New Filing The following person is doing business as, COAST PLUMBING, 1410 Seabright Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433. San Luis Obispo County. Paul W. Miller (1410 Seabright Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Paul W. Miller, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-12-20. 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. 05-12-25. May 21, 28, June 4, & 11, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0955 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/08/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, RAYMOND TEAM, 860 Jessica Pl., Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Ruby P Boulton-Raymond, Laurence Patrick Raymond (860 Jessica Pl., Nipomo, CA 93444). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Ruby Boulton-Raymond. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-12-20. 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. 05-12-25. May 21, 28, June 4, & 11, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0959 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SLO ROOTED, 1237 Archer Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. SLO Rooted LLC (1682 Crestview Circle, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ SLO Rooted LLC, Breanne Bielawa, Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-12-20. 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. 05-12-25. May 21, 28, June 4, & 11, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0964 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (08/23/2005) New Filing The following person is doing business as, MFI, LIMITED, 5665 Edna Ranch Circle, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. MFI, limited, A CA limited partnership (5665 Edna Ranch Circle, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A Limited Partnership /s/ MFI, Limited, a CA limited partnership, ALM Holdings, LLC, a CA Limited Liability Company, Its: General Partner, By: Andrew D. Mangano, Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-13-20. 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. 05-13-25. May 21, 28, June 4, & 11, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0965 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, TERROIR TO YOU, 306 12th St., Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Troy Tucker (306 12th St., Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Troy Tucker. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-13-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk JA. Anderson, Deputy. Exp. 05-13-25. May 21, 28, June 4, & 11, 2020

LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BARBARA ANN WILLIAMS CASE NUMBER: 20PR - 0142

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: BARBARA WILLIAMS, BARBARA A. WILLIAMS, BARBARA ANN WILLIAMS A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CHRISTINE RENEE ISON-MAYPA in the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo. The Petition for Probate requests CHRISTINE RENEE ISON-MAYPA 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: June 9, 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. Petitioner: Christine Renee Ison-Maypa 7326 Santa Ysabel Ave., Unit A Atascadero, CA 93422 May 21, 28, & June 4, 2020

LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TITLE ORDER NO. 1432211CAD TRUSTEE SALE NO. 84409 LOAN NO. 399174952 APN: 003-749-037

YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 1/12/2018. 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 6/2/2020 at 11:00 AM, CALIFORNIA TD SPECIALISTS as the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 1/24/2018 as Instrument No. 2018002920 in book N/A, page N/A of official records in the Office of the Recorder of San Luis Obispo County, California, executed by: INTEGRA PRODUCTS, INC., RYAN PERRON , as Trustor SENN DEVELOPMENT. INC. , as Beneficiary WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by 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 Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). At: In the breezeway adjacent to the County General Services Building located at 1087 Santa Rosa Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408, NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE – continued all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County, California described the land therein: As more fully described on said Deed of Trust. 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: 585 BRANCH STREET SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93401. 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, but without covenant or warranty, expressed 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 trusts created by said Deed of Trust, towit $671,259.92 (Estimated). Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election of Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. DATE: 4/28/2020 CALIFORNIA TD SPECIALIST, as Trustee 8190 EAST KAISER BLVD., ANAHEIM HILLS, CA 92808 PHONE: 714-283-2180 FOR TRUSTEE SALE INFORMATION LOG ON TO: www.stoxposting.com CALL: 844-477-7869 PATRICIO S. INCE’, VICE PRESIDENT CALIFORNIA TD SPECIALIST IS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. “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

LEGAL NOTICES 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 or 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 844-477-7869, or visit this internet Web site www.stoxposting.com, using the file number assigned to this case T.S.# 84409. Information about postponements 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.” CALIFORNIA TD SPECIALISTS Attn: Teri Snyder 8190 East Kaiser Blvd. Anaheim Hills, CA 92808 May 7, 14, & 21, 2020

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. TS 41985 LN FETYKO TO 18-205325.

YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 6/18/2013. 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 PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. NOTICE: ALL AMERICAN FORECLOSURE SERVICE, AS TRUSTEE, WILL NOT ACCEPT THIRD PARTY ENDORSED CASHIER’S CHECKS. ALL CASHIER’S CHECKS MUST BE PAYABLE DIRECTLY TO ALL AMERICAN FORECLOSURE SERVICE. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor: D. Andrew Fetyko, a married man as his sole and separate property, Duly Appointed Trustee: All American Foreclosure Service. Recorded 6/27/2013 as Instrument No. 2013-037039 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of San Luis Obispo County, California. Date of Sale: 5/28/2020 at 11:00 AM. Place of Sale: In the breezeway adjacent to the County General Services Bldg. located at 1087 Santa Rosa St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $701,563.61. Street Address or other common designation of real property: 2523 Shoreline Road Bradley, CA 93426. A.P.N.: 012-261-087. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street

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LEGAL NOTICES address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of the monies paid to the trustee and the successful bidder shall have no recourse. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee’s Attorney. 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 (805) 543-7088 or visit this Internet Web site www. eloandata.com , using the file number assigned to this case 41985. Information about postponements 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: 4/30/2020. All American Foreclosure Service, 1363 Marsh Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 (805) 5437088. Sheryle A. Machado, Certified Trustee Sale Officer May 7, 14, & 21, 2020.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

NEW FILE NO. 2020-0831 OLD FILE NO. 2018-1786 Mid Coast Property Management, 317 S. Main Street, Templeton, CA 93465. San Luis Obispo County. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Luis Obispo County on 07/16/2018. The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: Mid Coast Properties, Inc. (317 S. Main Street, Templeton, CA 93465). This business was conducted by A Corporation /s/ JoAnn Wall, President; Mid Coast Properties, Inc. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-24-2020. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. By E. Brookhart, Deputy Clerk. May 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2020

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NOTICE OF INTENT TO ADOPT AN INITIAL STUDY – NEGATIVE DECLARATION Notice is hereby given that a draft Initial Study – Negative Declaration (IS-ND) has been prepared for the below described project in accordance with the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, as set forth in the Public Resources Code, Sections 21000 to 21174, as amended. The project would not result in any significant or potentially significant effects on the environment, and no mitigation is required for the project. Project Title: Conservation and Open Space Element Update Project Proponent/Applicant: City of Grover Beach Project Description: Government Code Section 65302 requires that a city’s general plan include the following elements: land use, circulation, housing, conservation, open space, noise, safety, and environmental justice. Conservation and open space elements are required because the conservation of environmental, agricultural, and open space resources is one of the State of California’s three planning priorities and helps to achieve the State’s climate goals (Governor’s Office of Planning and Research 2017). The Conservation and Open Space Elements were combined into a single element, and the City has completed a draft Conservation and Open Space Element update that sets forth the City’s goals, policies, and implementation programs to conserve and properly manage natural, scenic, and cultural resources. Most of the proposed Conservation and Open Space Element policies are derived from the existing General Plan 2010 Land Use Element, with revisions to some policies and several new policies to address specific topics not previously addressed in the General Plan. Accordingly, the Conservation and Open Space Element update involves revisions to the Land Use Element and elimination of the Scenic Routes Element of the General Plan and includes new policies to address environmental justice pursuant to State planning requirements. These components of the update, reconcile, and provide general consistency and organization for the proposed Conservation and Open Space Element with other chapters of the General Plan. This General Plan update also includes deletions and other minor revisions to several Land Use Element policies. The draft IS-ND ND and all documents referenced in the document may be reviewed on the City’s website at: http://www.grover.org/389/ Conservation-and-Open-Space-Element-Upda Written comments will be accepted until 5 p.m. on June 22, 2020 via mail to: City of Grover Beach, Community Development Department, Subject: Conservation and Open Space Update, 154 South 18th Street, Grover Beach, CA 93433, or via email to: commdev@groverbeach.org On June 24, 2020, the Planning Commission is tentatively scheduled to consider making a recommendation to the City Council to adopt the updated Conservation and Open Space Elements, IS-ND, and other revisions referred to in the project description. If you have any questions regarding this matter, please email commdev@groverbeach.org. May 21, 2020

CITY OF GROVER BEACH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Grover Beach will conduct a Public Hearing on MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2020 at 6:00 p.m., or soon thereafter. Please note that due to COVID-19, the City of Grover Beach will hold all meetings virtually. Meetings can be viewed on Channel 20 and are live streamed on the City’s website and on www.slo-span.org. Members of the public may provide public comment during the meeting by calling (805) 321-6639 to provide public comment via phone (the phone line will open just prior to the start of the meeting at 6:00 PM) or written public comments can be submitted via email to gbadmin@groverbeach.org prior to the Council meeting start time of 6:00 PM. If submitting written comments in advance of the meeting, please note the agenda item. Written comments will be read out loud during the City Council meeting on the appropriate agenda item subject to the customary 3-minute time limit. SUBJECT: 1. Proposed 2020-2021 Budget –The City Council will conduct a public hearing to receive public comments on the proposed budget for the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2020. The budget identifies anticipated City revenues and planned expenditures for the following budget units: General Fund, Special Revenue Funds, and Enterprise Funds, including Water and Sewer and the Capital Improvement Program. Where You Come In: Any member of the public may be heard on the item described in this notice by calling (805) 321-6639 during the meeting or submit written comments to the City Clerk prior to the meeting by mail to: City Clerk’s Office, 154 South Eighth Street, Grover Beach, CA 93433 or by email to gbadmin@groverbeach. org. If you require special accommodations to participate in the public hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s office at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting by calling (805) 473-4567. For More Information: If you have any questions or would like more information regarding the item described in this notice, please contact: Administrative Services Director Deanne Purcell by telephone at (805) 473-4550 or send an e-mail to dpurcell@ groverbeach.org; or to City Manager Matthew Bronson by telephone at (805) 473-4567 or send an email to mbronson@groverbeach.org The City Council may also discuss other hearings or items of business at this meeting. The complete meeting agenda and copy of the staff report on the above item will be posted on the City website at www.groverbeach.org. Live broadcasts of City Council meetings may be seen on cable television Channel 20, as well as over the Internet at www.groverbeach.org (click on the icon “Government Access Local Channel 20” and then “Channel 20”). City Council meetings are rebroadcast throughout the week. If you challenge the nature of the proposed action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the Public Hearing(s) described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the Public Hearing (Govt. Code Sec 65009). /s/ Wendi Sims, City Clerk Dated: Thursday, May 21, 2020

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**AMENDED** NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commission of the City of Grover Beach will conduct a Public Hearing on WEDNESDAY, May 27, 2020 at 6:30 p.m., or soon thereafter. Please note that due to COVID-19, the City of Grover Beach will hold all meetings virtually. There will be no physical location for the Public to attend the meeting. **The meeting may be viewed on www.slo-span.org and, from within the City, on Channel 20.** Members of the public may provide public comment during the meeting by calling (805) 321-6639 to provide public comment via phone (the phone line will open just prior to the start of the meeting at 6:30 PM) or written public comments can be submitted via email to commdev@groverbeach.org prior to the Commission meeting start time of 6:30 PM. If submitting written comments in advance of the meeting, please note the agenda item. Written comments will be read out loud during the meeting on the appropriate agenda item subject to the customary 3-minute time limit. Development Application 19-36 Applicant – Matt Cebulla, Cebulla Associates The Planning Commission will consider an after-the fact Development Permit and Use Permit to approve two additional dwelling units to a property with two legal units to create a four unit multi-family development. The property is located at 1347 Long Branch Avenue in the Central Business Open (CBO) Zone. The project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. Development Application 20-03 Applicant – Floyd Hinesley The Planning Commission will consider a Development Permit and Tentative Parcel Map to construct a four unit Planned Unit Development. The property is located at 238 N 7th Street in the High Density Residential (R3) Zone. The project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. Development Application 20-04 Applicant – Alexander Ghanotakis The Planning Commission will consider a Development Permit to construct a one-story, 1,760 square foot single family residence with a two-car garage with a maximum height of 20 feet. Story poles have been erected to demonstrate the proposed building envelope that would be located above 15 feet. The property is located at 1296 Saratoga Avenue in the Low Density Residential (R1) Zone. The project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. Development Application 20-05 Applicant – Alexander Ghanotakis The Planning Commission will consider a Development Permit to construct a one-story, 1,783 square foot single family residence with a two-car garage with a maximum height of 19 feet. Story poles have been erected to demonstrate the proposed building envelope that would be located above 15 feet. The property is located at 453 North 13th Street in the Low Density Residential (R1) Zone. The project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. Development Application 20-07 Applicant – Central Coast Clear Source, LLC The Planning Commission will consider amending a Use Permit for Development Application 17-47. The amendment would allow the operation of a commercial cannabis manufacturing and distribution facility for adult and medical cannabis products. The property is located at 1091 Highland Way in the Industrial (I) Zone. The project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. Development Application 20-11 Applicant – Todd McKinley The Planning Commission will consider a one-year Time Extension for Development Application 18-02 for a single family residence that exceeds 15 feet in height in the R1 Zone. The property is at 129 Sand Castle Court in the Low Density (R1) Zone. The project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. Development Application 20-12 Applicant – City of Grover Beach The Planning Commission will consider making a recommendation to the City Council to amend Grover Beach Municipal Code Article IX (Development Code) and approve a Local Coastal Program amendment to amending regulations for Accessory Dwelling Units and Accessory Structures and adding new sections to the Development Code for the provisions of regulating accessory dwelling units and tiny homes on residential lots. The proposed ordinance amendment is exempt under California Public Resources Code Section 21080.17 and categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act.

The City of San Luis Obispo Human Relations Commission will hold a Regular Meeting, Wednesday, June 3, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. While the City encourages public participation, growing concern about the COVID-19 pandemic has required that public meetings be held via teleconference. Meetings can be viewed by joining the webinar or visiting the City’s electronic archive the day after the meeting to view the recording. Webinar registration details will be available on the agenda and the archive can be accessed from the City’s website at www.slocity.org. Public comment may be submitted in writing via U.S. Mail to the City Clerk’s Office at 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 or by email to advisorybodies@slocity.org. PUBLIC HEARING ITEM: Consideration of the 2020-2021 Grants-in-Aid (GIA) preliminary funding recommendations. Contact: Cara Vereschagin – (805) 781-7596 – cvereschagin@slocity.org The report(s) will be available for review in the Community Development Office and online at https://www.slocity.org/government/advisorybodies/agendas-and-minutes/human-relations-commission. Please call the Community Development Department at (805) 781-7170 for more information, or to request an agenda packet. May 21, 2020

SAN LUIS OBISPO CITY COUNCIL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The San Luis Obispo City Council invites all interested persons to participate in a public meeting on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. While the Council encourages public participation, growing concern about the COVID-19 pandemic has required that public meetings be held via teleconference. Meetings can be viewed on Government Access Channel 20 or streamed live from the City’s website at www.slocity.org. Public comment, prior to the start of the meeting, may be submitted in writing via U.S. Mail delivered to the City Clerk’s office at 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 or by email to emailcouncil@slocity. org. Public Hearing Items: • The Council will consider adopting a Resolution enabling the continued collection of Multi-Dwelling Property Fire and Life Safety Inspection Fees via the Secured Property Tax Roll administered by the County of San Luis Obispo. For more information, contact Roger Maggio, Fire Marshal, in the City’s Fire Department at (805) 781-7386 or by email, rmaggio@slocity.org. • As recommended by the Cultural Heritage Committee, the City Council will consider adopting a Resolution removing the property at 1156 Peach Street from the City’s Contributing List of Historic Resources. Consideration of eligibility for historic listing is exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under the general rule described in CEQA Guidelines §15061(b)(3), as it is does not have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment (HIST-0036-2020). For more information, contact Walter Oetzell, Associate Planner, in the City’s Community Development Department at (805) 781-7593 or by email, woetzell@slocity.org. • As recommended by the Cultural Heritage Committee, the City Council will consider adopting a Resolution entitled, “A Resolution of the City Council of the City of San Luis Obispo approving a historic property preservation agreement between the City and the owners of the Levering Latimer House at 858 Toro Street” (HIST-0048-2020).

If you require special accommodations to participate in the public hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s office at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting by calling (805) 473-4567.

For more information, contact Shawna Scott, Senior Planner, in the City’s Community Development Department at (805) 7817176 or by email, sscott@slocity.org.

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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 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.

If you have questions or would like more information regarding the items described in this notice, please contact Community Development at (805) 473-4520 or send an e-mail to commdev@ groverbeach.org. The Planning Commission may also discuss other items of business at their meeting. The complete meeting agenda and staff reports will be available on the City’s website at www.groverbeach.org by Friday, May 22, 2020. If you challenge the nature of the proposed actions in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the Public Hearing(s) described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the Public Hearing. (Govt. Code Sec. 65009) /s/ Secretary to Planning Commission Nicole Retana, Deputy City Clerk Original notice published on May 14, 2020

Bids received after said time will not be considered. Bids shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked with the project title, contractor name, address, and specification number. The Contractor must possess a valid Class A Contractor’s License at the time of the bid award. Every bid must be accompanied by a certified check/cashier’s check or bidder’s bond for 10% of the bid amount, payable to the City of San Luis Obispo. Download FREE at the City’s website: www.SloCity.org - Bid packages under Bids & Proposals. Bid packages may be obtained at the Public Works Department for a non-refundable fee of $25.00 if mailed. City Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards may be obtained for a non-refundable fee of $21.00 if mailed. Questions may be addressed to Jennifer Rice, Transportation Planner/Engineer, at 805-781-7058 or JRice@SloCity.org. May 21, 2020

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MORRO BAY, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING THE ENGINEER’S REPORT AND DECLARING THE CITY’S INTENTION TO LEVY THE ANNUAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE NORTH POINT NATURAL AREA LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING MAINTENANCE ASSESSMENT DISTRICT PURSUANT TO THE “LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING ACT OF 1972” (STREETS AND HIGHWAYS SECTIONS 22500 ET SEQ.)

THE CITY COUNCIL City of Morro Bay, California WHEREAS, all property owners of the North Point subdivision requested the City of Morro Bay form a maintenance assessment district to fund the maintenance of the North Point Natural Area; and WHEREAS, the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, commencing with Streets and Highways Code section 22500 (the “Act”) enables the City to form assessment districts for the purpose of maintaining public improvements; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 22623 of the Act, the City Engineer has filed in the Office of the City Clerk, and submitted for review to the City Council, a report entitled “Engineers Report North Point Natural Area Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance Assessment,” dated May 6, 2020, prepared in accordance with Article 4 of the Act, commencing with Section 22565 (the “Engineer’s Report”); and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 22608.2 of the Act, the subdivider was required by City ordinance to install improvements for which an assessment district was required in order to assure continued and uninterrupted maintenance of the North Point Natural Area; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the intent of Article XIII, Section 4, of the California Constitution, the property owners have elected to form the North Point Natural Area Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance Assessment District. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Morro Bay, Section 1.The City Council approves the Engineer’s Report.

For more information, contact Walter Oetzell, Associate Planner, in the City’s Community Development Department at (805) 781-7593 or by email, woetzell@slocity.org.

Any member of the public may provide public comment during the meeting via phone on the items described in this notice by calling (805) 321-6639 (the phone line will open just prior to the start of the meeting at 6:30 PM) or submit written comments to the Community Development Department prior to the meeting by email to: commdev@groverbeach.org.

Teresa Purrington City Clerk City of San Luis Obispo May 21, 2020

May 21, 2020

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CITY OF GROVER BEACH ORDINANCE NO. 20-04

SPEC. NO. 91375

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the City of San Luis Obispo will receive bids for the “RAILROAD SAFETY TRAIL TAFT TO PEPPER PROJECT, Spec. No. 91375” at the Public Works Office, 919 Palm St., San Luis Obispo, CA until TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2020, at 2:00 P.M., when they will be publicly opened via Skype.

RESOLUTION NO. 43-20

• Review of an appeal (filed by San Luis Architectural Protection) of the Planning Commission’s decision to approve a four-story mixed-use project consisting of 5,241 square feet of ground floor retail, eight hotel suites, and 39 residential (apartment) units with a request for a three-level mechanical parking lift serving 48 spaces, a fourth-floor roof deck, and associated tree removals, with a Class 32 (Infill) Exemption from environmental review (APPL-0201-2020, ARCH-00172019, 545 Higuera & 486 Marsh).

Where You Come In:

Railroad Safety Trail Taft to Pepper Project

HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION

Section 2.It is the intent of the Council to order the annual levy and collection of assessments for the North Point Natural Area Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance Assessment District generally located as shown in Exhibit “A” attached hereto at a public hearing to be held at the Regular City Council meeting on June 23, 2020, in the Veteran’s Memorial Building, 209 Surf Street, Morro Bay, CA. Section 3.The improvements to be maintained at the North Point Natural Area are specified in the Engineer’s Report dated May 6, 2020 which is hereby approved. Section 4.The assessment upon assessable lots within the district is proposed to total $5,645 or $564.50 per assessable parcel for fiscal year 2020/21. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Morro Bay at a regular meeting thereof held this 12th of May 2020 by the following vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT:

Headding, Addis, Davis, McPherson, Heller None None /s/ John Headding Mayor, City of Morro Bay

ATTEST: /s/ Dana Swanson City Clerk, City of Morro Bay

Dated: May 14, 2019 Publish One Time – May 21, 2020

ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GROVER BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ARTICLE III, CHAPTER 12, SECTION 3996 OF THE GROVER BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO FIREWORKS PUBLIC DISCHARGE PERIOD WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Grover Beach has received multiple requests in the past to ban or restrict the public discharge period of fireworks in the community; and WHEREAS, City staff has reviewed of the current ordinance, evaluated the calls for service to both Police and Fire and considered the community’s requests in regards to possibly changing the public discharge period for fireworks; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Grover Beach, having received and considered the staff report, public testimony and following a public hearing on this issue finds the fireworks public discharge period shall be changed as reflected in the ordinance amendment. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Grover Beach as follows: PART 1. Article III, Chapter 12, Section 3996. Public Discharge Period shall be amended to read as follows: Section 3996. Public Discharge Period. Discharge of “safe and sane fireworks” shall only occur from noon 10:00 a.m. on the third fourth of July through midnight 10:00 p.m. on the fifth fourth of July and noon on the thirtieth of December through midnight on the first of January. No person under eighteen (18) years of age may possess or discharge “safe and sane fireworks” except when under the direct supervision of a person twenty-one (21) years of age or older. PART 2: If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance or any part thereof is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this Ordinance or any part thereof. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional. PART 3: All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with those sections amended or added herein are hereby repealed. PART 4: Effective Date. This Ordinance shall not become effective and in full force and effect until 12:01 a.m. on the thirty first day after its final passage. However, within fifteen (15) days after adoption by the City Council, the Ordinance shall be published once, together with the names of the Council Members voting thereon, in a newspaper of general circulation within the City INTRODUCED at a regular meeting of the City Council held on May 4, 2020 and PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the City Council on May 18, 2020, on the following roll call vote, to wit: AYES:

Council Members – Lance, Nicolls, Shah, Mayor Pro Tem Bright and Mayor Lee

NOES:

Council Members – None

ABSENT:

Council Members – None

ABSTAIN:

Council Members – None

RECUSED:

Council Members – None

/s/ JEFF LEE, Mayor Attest: /s/ WENDI SIMS, City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: /s/ David P. Hale, City Attorney May 21, 2020

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING The San Luis Obispo Architectural Review Commission will hold a Regular Meeting, Monday, June 1, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. on the items listed below. While the City encourages public participation, growing concern about the COVID-19 pandemic has required that public meetings be held via teleconference. Meetings can be viewed by joining the webinar or visiting the City’s electronic archive the day after the meeting to view the recording. Webinar registration details will be available on the agenda and the archive can be accessed from the City’s website at www.slocity.org. Public comment, prior to the start of the meeting, may be submitted in writing via U.S. Mail to the City Clerk’s Office at 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 or by email to advisorybodies@ slocity.org. PUBLIC HEARING ITEM: 1. Review of a six-story mixed-use building consisting of approximately 30,000 square feet of commercial/ office space and 50 residential dwelling units, within the Downtown Historic District. The project includes a rezone to provide a Planned Development Overlay and a request to allow a maximum building height of 75-feet, where 50-feet is normally allowed in the Downtown Commercial zone, including a Mitigated Negative Declaration of environmental review (CEQA); Project Address: 1144 Chorro; Case #: PR-0060-2018; Zone: C-D-H; Jamestown Premier SLO Retail, LP, owner/applicant. Contact Information: Kyle Bell – (805) 781-7524 – kbell@ slocity.org The Architectural Review 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 distributed to the Architectural Review Commission at, or prior to, the public hearing. The report will be available for review online 72 hours in advance of the meeting at https://www.slocity.org/ government/advisory-bodies/agendas-and-minutes/ architectural-review-commission. Please call the Community Development Department at (805) 781-7170 for more information, or to request an agenda report. May 21, 2020

LEGAL NOTICES

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL)

CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): 19LC-1080 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): BRIANA N NOLING YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación. Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte. ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. The name and address of the

LEGAL NOTICES court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, 1035 Palm St Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Jennifer Myers, Esq. (Bar #326239) 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010; 760/842-5850 (File No. 559884) DATE (Fecha): 11/1/2019 Clerk (Secretario), by Michael Powell, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served as an individual defendant. 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, 5/21/20 CNS-3361039# NEW TIMES

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THE CITY COUNCIL City of Morro Bay, California WHEREAS, all property owners of the Cloisters subdivision requested the City of Morro Bay form a maintenance assessment district to fund the maintenance of the Cloisters Park and Open Space; and WHEREAS, the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972 (Streets and Highways Code sections 22500 et. seq.) (the “Act”) enables the City to form assessment districts for the purpose of maintaining public improvements; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 2262 of the Act, the City Engineer has filed in the Office of the City Clerk, and submitted for review to the City Council, a report entitled “Engineer’s Report Cloisters andscaping and ighting Maintenance Assessment District”, dated May 5, 2020, prepared in accordance with Article 4 of the Act, commencing with Section 22565; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 22608.2 of the Act, the subdivider was required by City Ordinance to install improvements for which an assessment district was required to assure continued and uninterrupted maintenance of the Cloisters Park and Open Space; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the intent of Article XIII, Section 4, of the California Constitution, the property owners have elected to form the Cloisters Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance Assessment District. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Morro Bay, Section 1.The City Council approves the Engineer’s Report. Section 2.It is the intent of the Council to order the annual levy and collection of assessments for the Cloisters Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance Assessment District at a public hearing to be held at the Regular City Council Meeting on June 2 , 2020, at or about 1 0, in the Veteran’s Memorial Building, 209 Surf Street, Morro Bay, CA. Section 3.The improvements to be maintained at the Cloisters Park and Open Space are specified in the Engineer’s Report dated May 5, 2020, which is hereby approved. Section 4. The assessment upon assessable lots within the district is proposed to total $148,944 or $1,241.20 per assessable parcel for Fiscal Year 2020/21. Section 5.Staff is directed to continue the Major Maintenance/ Capital Improvement Program that will address items requiring significant e penditures in 2020/21. Any, pro ects identified with input from the community and shall be approved through the budget process by the City Council prior to implementation. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Morro Bay at a regular meeting held on this 12th day of May 2020 by the following roll call vote:

AYES: NOES: ABSENT:

Headding, Addis, Davis, McPherson, Heller None None /s/ John Headding Mayor, City of Morro Bay

ATTEST: /s/ Dana Swanson City Clerk, City of Morro Bay

/s/ Wendi Sims, City Clerk Dated: Thursday, May 21, 2020

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RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MORRO BAY, CALIFORNIA, DECLARING THE CITY’S INTENTION TO LEVY THE ANNUAL ASSESSMENT FOR CLOISTERS LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING MAINTENANCE ASSESSMENT DISTRICT PURSUANT TO THE “LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING ACT OF 1972” (STREETS AND HIGHWAYS SECTIONS 22500 ET.SEQ.)

Where You Come In: Any member of the public may be heard on the item described in this notice by calling (805) 321-6639 during the meeting or submit written comments to the City Clerk prior to the meeting by mail to: City Clerk’s Office, 154 South Eighth Street, Grover Beach, CA 93433 or by email to gbadmin@groverbeach.org. If you require special accommodations to participate in the public hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s office at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting by calling (805) 4734567.

If you challenge the nature of the proposed action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the Public Hearing(s) described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the Public Hearing (Govt. Code Sec 65009).

Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology Homework: Is there anything about your experience of the global pandemic that you enjoy? Realastrology.com.

RESOLUTION NO. 44-20

In compliance with Government Code Section 66016, data indicating the amount of cost, or estimated cost, required to provide the service(s) for which the fee or service charge is levied and the revenue sources anticipated to provide the service(s) shall be available for public inspection on the City Hall website by Thursday, May 21, 2020, not less than ten (10) days prior to the date of the Public Hearing.

The City Council may also discuss other hearings or items of business at this meeting. The complete meeting agenda and copy of the staff report on the above item will be posted on the City website at www.groverbeach.org. Live broadcasts of City Council meetings may be seen on cable television Channel 20, as well as over the Internet at www.groverbeach.org (click on the icon “Government Access Local Channel 20” and then “Channel 20”). City Council meetings are rebroadcast throughout the week.

for the week of May 21

ARIES

LIBRA

(March 21-April 19): “Excellence does not require perfection,” wrote Aries author Henry James. Now I’m conveying this brilliant counsel to you—just in time for the season when it will make good sense to strive for shining excellence without getting bogged down in a debilitating quest for perfection. Have fun re-committing yourself to doing the best you can, Aries, even as you refuse to be tempted by the unprofitable lure of absolute purity and juvenile forms of idealism.

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.” Playwright Tennessee Williams said that, and now I’m conveying his insight to you—just in time for you to dramatically embody it. According to my astrological analysis, you now have more power than usual to accomplish this magic trick: to create something permanent in the midst of the transitory; to make an indelible mark on a process that has previously been characterized by restless permutations; to initiate a bold move that you will forever remember and be remembered for.

TAURUS

SUBJECT: 1. Annual update of the master fee schedule – The City Council will consider an interim update to the Master Fee Schedule based upon the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, which was 3.065% as of December 2019. The City completed a comprehensive update to the Master Fee Schedule in May 2013. Periodic updates are considered when changes occur in the CPI to assist in ensuring that some or all of the costs for providing municipal services are borne by the specific recipient(s) who benefit from the services through user fees. The index for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim is used as it is the index which most closely resembles the economic trends in the Central Coast.

For More Information: If you have any questions or would like more information regarding the item described in this notice, please contact: Administrative Services Director Deanne Purcell by telephone at (805) 473-4550 or send an e-mail to Dpurcell@groverbeach. org

(April 20-May 20): To generate an ounce of pure cocaine, you must collect 52 pounds of raw coca leaf and work hard to transform it. But please don’t do that. Fate won’t be on your side if you do. However, I will suggest that you consider undertaking a metaphorically comparable process—by gathering a sizable amount of raw material or basic stuff that will be necessary to produce the small treasure or precious resource that you require.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for,” writes author Barbara Kingsolver. “And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, that is exactly the work you should be doing right now, Gemini. Everything good that can and should happen for you in the coming months depends on you defining what you hope for, and then doing whatever’s necessary to live inside that hope.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The periodic arrivals of “natural disruption” in our everyday routines has a divine purpose, writes Yoruba priest Awó Falokun Fatunmbi. It is “to shake consciousness loose from complacency and rigid thinking.” To be vital, he says, our perception of truth must be constantly evolving, and never stagnant. “Truth is a way of looking at self and World,” Fatunmbi declares. “It is a state of being rather than an act of knowing.” Many Westerners find this hard to understand because they regard truth as a “fixed set of rules or dogma,” or as a body of “objective facts.” But here’s the good news: Right now, you Cancerians are especially receptive to Fatunmbi’s alternative understanding of truth—and likely to thrive by adopting it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Novelist and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn departed this life in 1998, but she articulated a message that’s important for you to hear right now. She wrote, “People often say, with pride, ‘I’m not interested in politics.’ They might as well say, ‘I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.’” Gelhorn added, “If we mean to keep control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.” In my opinion, her advice is always applicable to all of us, but it’s especially crucial for you to meditate on right now. You’ll be wise to upgrade your interest and involvement in the big cultural and political developments that are impacting your personal destiny.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): According to author and teacher Marianne Williamson, “Ego says, ‘Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace.’ Spirit says, ‘Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.’” I think the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to take Williamson’s advice seriously, Virgo. How? By giving control of your life to Spirit as you find your peace. In saying this, I’m not implying that Ego is bad or wrong. In fact, I think Ego is a crucial asset for you, and I’m hoping that in recent months you have been lifting your Ego to a higher, finer state of confidence and competence than ever before. But right now I think you should authorize Spirit to run the show for a while. If you do, it will bless you with good surprises.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the course of his 73 years on the planet, Scorpio author Paul Valéry (1871-1945) wrote more than 20 books. But between the ages of 25 and 45, he passed through a phase he called the “great silence.” During that time, he quit writing and published nothing. Afterwards, he returned to his life’s work and was nominated 12 times for a Nobel Prize. Although your own version of a great silence is less extreme than his, I’m happy to announce that you will emerge from it sooner than you imagine.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m sad that my two favorite 19th-century poets were unfamiliar with each other’s poetry. Walt Whitman was 11 years older than Emily Dickinson, but didn’t know her work. Dickinson had heard of Whitman, but didn’t read his stuff. Their styles were indeed very different: hers intimate, elliptical, psychologically acute; his expansive, gregarious, earthy. But they were alike in being the most innovative American poets of their time, and equally transgressive in their disregard for standard poetic forms. If there were such a thing as time travel, I’d send one of you Sagittarians back to set up a meeting between them. Acts of innovative blending and creative unifying will be your specialties in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The fictional character Sherlock Holmes (born Jan. 6, and thus a Capricorn) is a brilliant logician and acute observer who has astonishing crime-solving skills. On the other hand, according to his friend Dr. Watson, he “knows next to nothing” about “contemporary literature, philosophy, and politics.” So he’s not a well-rounded person. He’s smart in some ways, dumb in others. Most of us fit that description. We are both brilliant and ignorant; talented and inept; interesting and boring. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to hone and cultivate the less mature aspects of your own nature. I bet you’ll reap rich rewards by doing so.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “People become like what they love,” observed theologian St. Catherine of Siena. That’ll be an interesting truth for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. I suspect you will attract experiences that are clear reflections of the kind of love you have cultivated and expressed for quite some time. You’ll be blessed in ways similar to the ways you have blessed. You’ll be challenged to face questions about love that you have not been dealing with. And here’s a promise for the future: You’ll have the opportunity to refine and deepen your approach to love so as to transform yourself into more of the person you’d like to become.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Humanity is a mystery,” wrote author Fyodor Dostoevsky. “The mystery needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, you haven’t wasted your time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a complete human being.” I love this tender perspective on the preciousness of the Great Riddle we’re all immersed in. It’s especially useful and apropos for you to adopt right now, Pisces, because you are undergoing an unusually deep and intense communion with the mystery. As you marinate, you shouldn’t measure your success and good fortune by how much new understanding you have attained, but rather by how much reverence and gratitude you feel and how stirring your questions are. Δ

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Dated: May 14, 2020 Publish One Time – May 21, 2020

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