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Your Own Backyard podcaster Chris Lambert has been watching the trials against Paul Flores and his father, Reuben Flores, for murder and accessory to murder charges in the disappearance and death of Kristin Smart in 1996. Orcutt resident Lambert makes the trek up to Monterey County every week to keep an eye on the courtroom drama and report out the results for podcast listeners. Assistant Editor Peter Johnson speaks with Lambert about what he thinks, how he’s doing, and the trials’ progress [8] Also this week, read about what’s going on with Diablo Canyon [5]; how lower student attendance impacts local school districts [9] ; an artist from Arroyo Grande who’s inspired by gardens [22] ; and the upcoming Avocado Margarita Festival in Morro Bay [27] . Camillia Lanhameditor CASE MURDERFORSLO County prosecutor Chris Peuvrelle (top left) is making the case against Paul (center)Floresfor the 1996 homicide of Kristin Smart in a Monterey right).attorneyasRobertcourtroom,CountywithSangerthedefense(bottom from left)

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The last-minute push to keep Diablo Canyon Power Plant running past 2025 just got its biggest shot in the arm yet. Draft state legislation introduced this month would loan PG&E up to $1.4 billion to help it relicense the nuclear plant for another five to 10 years of operation. Gov. Gavin Newsom—who in recent months has signaled his interest in reversing course on Diablo’s planned closure—unveiled the legislation on Aug. 11 in the waning weeks of the state’s legislative session. The proposed law cites the impacts of climate change on the state and the slower than expected rollout of renewable energy supplies as reasons for keeping California’s last nuclear plant around longer. “The impacts of climate change are occurring sooner and with greater intensity and frequency than anticipated, causing unprecedented stress on California’s energy system,” the draft legislation reads. “Continued operations of the Diablo Canyon for an additional five to 10 years beyond 2024-25 is therefore critical to ensure statewide energy system reliability and to minimize the emissions of greenhouse gasses while additional renewable energy resources comeStateonline.”lawmakers will need to quickly deliberate on the bill, which has to be passed this month and signed by Newsom in September.OnAug.12, the California Energy Commission hosted a public workshop about the new legislation, with presentations from Newsom’s office and the California Independent System Operator. The meeting also featured hours of public comment, as well as statements from a variety of local elected officials, including state Sen. John Laird (D-Santa Cruz). In his comments, Laird listed numerous concerns about the legislation and the possible extension of Diablo Canyon’s life, but said he “stands ready” to have the conversation.“Idon’tthink we yet have all the answers as to whether Diablo Canyon’s continued operation is the key to energy reliability in California,” Laird said. “But we do know what the challenges are that would have to be met if there is to be an extension of Diablo Canyon’s life.” Those challenges include plant safety, relicensing costs, spent nuclear fuel storage, seismic safety issues, environmental impacts, permitting, Diablo Canyon lands, and the continued development of offshore wind farms. “I don’t see a pathway to Diablo Canyon’s continued operation unless each of these elements is addressed,” Laird said. State Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham (R-SLO), a longtime advocate for keeping Diablo Canyon open past 2025, acknowledged Laird’s points of concern, but also echoed the problems that underpin Newsom’s legislation. “One thing that has changed in the years since the decision was made in 2016 to decommission the plant in 2025 is that we simply are not where we thought we’d be with renewable energy production, and coupling that with storage,” Cunningham said. “It’s put the state grid in a rather precarious position.”

Among the opponents to the legislation is a coalition of environmental groups that includes the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club California, California Coastal Protection Network, Environment California, Defenders of Wildlife, Friends of the Earth, and the California Coastkeeper Alliance. In an Aug. 12 letter to state lawmakers, the coalition takes issue with the way the bill allows PG&E to bypass environment review for the plant, how it hamstrings other state agencies that provide oversight of it, and how the $1.4 billion loan from the state could become forgivable.“Thistrailer bill is a dangerous and costly distraction to achieving our shared goals,” the coalition’s letter read. Δ —Peter Johnson state to loan PG&E $1.4 billion to relicense Diablo Canyon the county’s DESIGNERS Eva Lipson, Ellen Fukumoto, Ikey Ipekjian, Mary Grace Flaus SALES MANAGER

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—Bulbul Rajagopal New detox center opens in SLO San Luis Obispo County’s first-ever public detoxification clinic opened its doors on Aug. 16 after more than four years of planning, fundraising, building, andThelicensing.16-bed facility, operated by Salinas-based nonprofit Sun Street Centers, is on the property of the 40 Prado Homeless Services Center in SLO and will primarily serve low-income men suffering from opioid or alcohol addictions. One of the only such resources in the county to accept Medi-Cal, the clinic couldn’t arrive at a more critical time, according to Star Graber, a division manager for SLO County Drug and Alcohol Services, as the opioid crisis continues to take its toll on SLO County. “Our opioid death rate surpasses the California rate, it surpasses other counties nearby, which is a concern,” Graber told New Times. “Fentanyl is the drug of choice out there, as well as synthetic meth. A facility like this will be veryWhilehelpful.”construction on the $1.7 million clinic finished last August, SLO County and Sun Street Centers took another year to get through the state licensing process, Graber said. After getting the final green light from the state on Aug. 1, the facility welcomed its first patients on Aug. 16: a few locals who had been receiving residential addiction treatment at out-of-county facilities.Upuntil this past week, SLO residents seeking care for their addictions had to travel to clinics as far away as Hollister and Lancaster. The lone local resource used to be Bryan’s House in Atascadero, which has six beds but only serves women. “Now, we got clients who wanted to come back to the county, and so a couple of them are back, which is great news,” GraberGrabersaid.added that the clinic’s goal

which county voters passed in 2000 and aimed to preserve Diablo Canyon lands long-term.Whilethe future of Diablo is somewhat unlear, Ytt Tribal Chair Tucker said it’s clear that both the residents of San Luis Obispo County and the tribe want to protect Diablo Canyon lands. “We want to be in a position to protect this land. Protect what’s there, not just for our benefit, it’s for the benefit of California. It’s for the benefit of all people. [While] I can’t speak for other tribes, I’d like for communities and governments, organizations [to] maybe reach out to the local tribes in your area and ask them what help can you provide. Because we all need allies. We all need friends. And in order for us to get our land back, we’re asking for help. And that’s what we did when we sent our letter to the governor,” Tucker said. —Shwetha Sundarrajan Oceano upticksubstationSheriff’snotesincrimerate

A murder case marked former Sheriff’s South Station Commander Jay Wells’ final days in the Oceano Community Services District before his reassignment. “We had a homicide in Oceano that occurred this past week. Due to the diligence of the Sheriff’s Office, we were able to wrap that case up pretty quick. There is no outstanding danger to the public; the suspect has been arrested in that case,” he said at the June 8 OCSD board meeting. “There seems to be a lot of loss of lives in our community lately. Our coroner’s cases are going up. Some of our longstanding residents of Oceano have been passing away lately. I know the whole community feels that pain whether they’re savory characters or unsavory characters, I think it’s still a loss to the community because they’re people we’ve been dealing with for many, many years.”

While Wells didn’t elaborate on the homicide case details, Tony Cipolla, the Sheriff’s Office spokeperson, told New Times that a murder took place on June 4. That day, 27-year-old Angel Eduardo Ramos-Ramirez of Santa Maria allegedly repeatedly stabbed Daniel Diaz, 20, in the 2000 block of Ocean Street in Oceano. Ramos-Ramirez fled soon after but witnesses at the scene identified him along with his vehicle. Sheriff’s Detectives arrested him, and Ramos-Ramirez was booked in the San Luis Obispo County Jail on a murder charge. During the meeting, Wells also reported that Oceano saw an uptick in crimes in May. “The Sheriff’s Office had 953 calls for service, which generated 143 police reports and 44 arrests, which is up significantly this last month. We filed an additional 47 cases with the District Attorney’s Office or probation department for prosecution,” he told the board. Wells was reassigned and transferred to the civil division, replaced by Headquarter Commander Keith Scott. New Times obtained crime data from the Sheriff’s Office, which backed up Wells’ statement. According to the latest numbers tabulated for May, Oceano reflected a 2 percent increase in calls for service, a 26 percent increase in crime reports filed, a 40 percent increase in arrests made, and a 28 percent increase in cases filed with the DA’s Office, compared to the same month last year. While crime reports and arrests in Oceano declined in January and February compared to the same time period in 2021, they started climbing in March 2022 and have been increasing. Cipolla, the Sheriff’s Office spokeperson, told New Times that he wouldn’t classify it as a spike in crimes based on the data. “In fact, in a few of those months, crime reports went down from the previous year. And that’s the general nature of crime, in that some months there may be a downward trend and other months it may go up. We are constantly monitoring the crime trends in the county so we can assess our resources and direct them to where they are needed most,” he said.

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Five Cities Fire prepares for future without Oceano San Luis Obispo County’s third-busiest municipal department is about to become even busier as its remaining members grapple with a future devoid of the Oceano Community Services District. The Five Cities Fire Authority (FCFA) officially entered a “wind down period” now that Oceano voters rejected the flat parcel tax that would have supported emergency fire and medical services in the region. The move withdrew the district from the FCFA, leaving the cities of Arroyo Grande and Grover Beach behind to work together and review the desired level of services and funds needed to provide continuous care to its residents. Oceano’s removal will be effective when the wind down period ends on June 30, 2023. At a little more than $5.7 million, the FCFA budget isn’t allocated to specific fire stations. Arroyo Grande City Manager Whitney McDonald said that each party is responsible for maintaining the fire station in their respective jurisdiction. So, the theexitservicescommunitydistrict’swillnotaffectamountoffunding allocated to the stations. However, both Grover Beach and Arroyo Grande city managers told New Times that higher costs are expected in the new iteration of the FCFA. “The parties are evaluating options at this time. It is highly likely that Arroyo Grande will need to pay more for fire service than it is currently paying, and much of this need is related to the fact that the FCFA has been required to operate without any additional contributions from the three member agencies since 2019 based on the terms of the second and third amendments to the joint powers agreement [JPA],” McDonald said. The JPA is a binding agreement that the three jurisdictions entered in 2010. The parties executed the third amendment in July 2020 following the defeat of the flat parcel tax when it initially appeared on ballots. It also continued current funding levels so that Oceano could have another go at passing the special tax this summer. Funding fees for the FCFA have been consistent for each agency for the past three years. Arroyo Grande pays the lion’s share at 45 percent, which totals to more than $2.5 million. Grover Beach and Oceano pay 35.14 percent and 19.85 percent, respectively. “The funding formula distributes costs to each of the three member agencies based on a combination of three criteria, including population, calls for service, and the number of fire stations and personnel located in each jurisdiction,” McDonald said. “The current cost allocations were intended to be transitionary and take into account the limited staffing currently available at station three in Oceano. If the ballot measure were to have passed in Oceano, a different funding formula would have been used going forward that allocated costs to each agency based on the three criteria outlined above in a proportionate manner.” Grover Beach City Manager Matthew Bronson told New Times that ongoing priorities for both cities include determining and distributing the assets owned by or in possession of the FCFA, like fire engines and capital equipment within fire stations. At the July 25 Grover Beach City Council meeting, FCFA Chief Stephen Lieberman told attendees that per capita cost and the percentage of the respective city’s general fund invested into the authority was low when compared to other organizations in the county. But with the FCFA fielding more than 4,000 calls per year—making it the busiest municipal department in SLO County after the cities of SLO and Paso Robles— Lieberman said more funds are welcome. “COVID was a huge uncertainty to all of us and had a huge impact to all of us as emergency responders providing pre-hospital med care. It was rough and we continue to respond to people who are sick today,” he said. “Holding the funding at a constant level for three years while costs are going up, whether it’s field costs, employer-related cost and insurance, workers’ compensation, all of those non-controllable businessrelated expenditures, I’ve done my best to manage with a flat budget. I’ve been able to use some unanticipated revenue when the crews go out to these major fires, but, as you can imagine, as city budgets have increased over the last three years, this one stayed flat.” Rajagopal

the next several weeks is to transition more residents from out-of-county treatment centers to the local facility, and then to start adding in newly referred patients. But she noted that the county plans to keep its contracts with out-the-county providers to offer a good mix of options. “Sometimes, people do need to go out of county. They need to get out of their environment,” Graber said. Sun Street Centers, which operates three residential treatment clinics in Monterey County, described SLO’s center on its website as “a supportive environment for individuals seeking a life free from the devastating effects of drug and alcohol addiction.” In addition to supervising medically assisted withdrawals, the clinic’s services also include recovery based classes, AA meetings, state-certified counselors, meals, and laundry facilities, according to the website. Patients’ residential stays start at 30 days, but can be extended to up to 90 days. “It’s really based upon the progress and stabilization of the person,” Graber said. Locals who could benefit from the new detox clinic, or know someone who could, can visit one of the county’s four drug and alcohol clinics, in SLO, Grover Beach, Paso Robles, or Atascadero. Contact (800) 838-1381 for more information or to schedule an appointment.

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NT: Have you heard an explanation for CL:that? No. But I think it’s a combination of the fact that Monterey County hasn’t dealt with a huge case like this before— the Rex Krebs trial in 2001 was the last— and the other thing is because the defense has insisted that Paul is being wrongfully accused because he’s a victim of publicity, they’re trying to restrict every possible way for the defense to say, “See, the media is making this a circus.” So I think they’re going over the top to try to prevent that.

NT: On that subject, your reporting suggests that the defense’s cross examinations are not going over very well with the judge and jury.

NT: In pre-trial, the judge ruled to allow women from the LA area who said they were raped by Paul more recently to testify in the trial. They had been excluded from the preliminary hearings. How significant is that development?

NT: The defense recently filed another (unsuccessful) subpoena to try to gain access to all of podcast Were you CL:surprised?Somebody told me that just because it was dismissed in the prelim, it doesn’t mean they couldn’t try again. So I wasn’t surprised. I fought it and got it quashed.

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New Times : Are you traveling to and from Salinas or are you staying there full Christime?Lambert: I’m leaving [Salinas] typically on Friday evenings. I get home and my entire Saturday and Sunday is spent writing and then recording and editing the podcast update. And then Sunday evening, I get back on the road to come up here. It’s chaos. I’m totally not sleeping enough. Because they only let five journalists a day into the courtroom, I have to be there early.

NT: What’s your opinion on the [SLO County CL:What’sperformanceprosecutor’s]thusfar?hisstrategybeen? So far they’ve seemed to be going in [chronological] order. I guess the strategy is, because it’s a circumstantial case, to remove any doubt that this is the person responsible. The next steps will be the science, like the cadaver dog stuff, the soil science, to show there’s also no doubt that a human died in Paul’s dorm room and a human was buried under his dad’s deck. So, do you believe these were all coincidences? I think the [SLO County District Attorney’s] Office is doing as good of a job as they can with the case that they’ve got.

NT: What’re your thoughts on the media restrictions that have been put on this trial? CL: Personally, I don’t know enough about stuff like this. This is my first trial experience. It seemed unusual to me but it wasn’t until I started talking to other reporters that they were like, no this is, like, way outside the bounds. And the weirdness I have noticed is that the courthouse staff is super cagey about answering any questions.

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I think the defense is making it kind of easy for them, with the way they’re doing things. They seem like they’re not really organized.

CL: That would be my take on it, and I’m clearly not an impartial source, but I’ve been talking to members of the public who attend, and every time there’s a break in the trial, they’re like, “What’s going on in there? What a mess!” [The defense] tends to question Kristin’s behavior a lot, which I don’t think goes over well with jurors. There’s a lot of victim shaming going on and their main strategy is to suggest well, this girl was so wild, who knows what happened?

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More than 25 years after Kristin Smart’s disappearance, the murder trial for her alleged killer, Paul Flores, and his father, an alleged accessory, finally started in July. In opening arguments, SLO County prosecutor Chris Peuvrelle laid out the case to two Monterey County juries: that Paul raped and killed Smart in his Cal Poly dorm room in 1996, and that Ruben Flores, his dad, helped conceal her body under his Arroyo Grande deck. The trial was moved to Salinas, and the court isn’t allowing any video or audio recordings of it. Chris Lambert— whose Your Own Backyard podcast is credited with renewing interest in the case—is there every day providing hourly updates on social media as well as weekly podcasts. He’s staying in a one bedroom, one bath guesthouse a few miles north of Salinas that a podcast fan offered up during the trial. New Times caught up with the Orcutt native by phone on Aug. 9 during an unexpected day away from court. One of the jurors called out sick, something Lambert said might happen a lot with 40 jurors (two jury pools) involved in the trial.

NT: Can you describe the courtroom itself? Is it pretty small? CL: It is. The entire left side of the courtroom is all the jurors. The audience is all crowded into the right side of the courtroom. There are five to six pews and we’re just the back three rows. The rest of the media is only able to come up on certain days, so sometimes they all come up at once, and some days it’s just me.

NT: How would you describe the emotional ups and downs? How do the two families seem to be doing? CL: It gets super emotional. Last week there were actually a couple of jurors who started crying during the testimony. And other times it’s really tense, and somebody will say something and jurors will laugh. I think the judge is doing a great job so far. She’s lighthearted with the jurors, but she’s also firm when she needs to be. No members of the Flores family have been present. Susan [Paul’s mom] came for the opening statements and then she left once testimony started. For the Smart family, there’s been times that particularly Kristin’s mom just needs to leave the room. There’s stuff that’s just too much.

CL: I think it’s so significant. The analogy I made is if you loaned someone a red jacket, and then they told you they’d lost it and you were like, I kind of feel like this guy still has my red jacket. And then years go by and you’ve never been able to find it, but then you go to his house and you find a closet full of other peoples’ red jackets. You’re like, I still haven’t found mine, but this guy is obsessed with red jackets, so what are the chances he didn’t take mine? That’s what we’ve got here. We haven’t found Kristin but this guy’s pattern is to either drug or follow drunk women, separate them from their friends under the guise of taking them home, and instead take them to his place to rape them.

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From 2020-21 to 2021-22, average daily attendance numbers in districts statewide dropped 5 percent due to COVID-19, said Jim Empey, the assistant superintendent of business for the Lucia Mar Unified School District. According to district spokesperson Amy Jacobs, Lucia Mar’s average daily attendance was at 96.5 percent in 201920, and by 2021-22, that number had dropped to 91.6 percent. “More students were absent last year because of quarantine rules, whether or not they were actually ill,” Empey told New Times via email. “We processed a lot of short-term independent study packets to help students learn when they had to stay home from school.” But students also had a hard time returning to class after a year-plus hiatus from campus. Dana Holt, Paso Robles Joint Unified School District’s safety supervisor/ attendance officer, said that some students lacked the motivation to physically return to school after being able to connect to classes whenever they wanted to during distance learning. “A lot of kids, from my experience, have not wanted to come back to [the] classroom,” she told the Paso school board during a June 28 presentation on attendance. “I think COVID played a large part of that.” With an enrollment of about 6,620 students, roughly 1,500 or 23 percent of the Paso district has chronic or worse attendance issues. Chronically absent students (those who miss 10 percent or more of the school year) in fifth grade, Holt said, miss an average of 120 hours more instructional time than other students. Chronically absent Hispanic students receive 131.5 fewer instructional hours than other Hispanic students in the district, and white students receive 138.9 fewer hours than other white students in the district, Holt said. She added that the district sent out 9,345 parent communications in 2021-22 school year regarding absences. They sent out 3,691 fi rst letters, 2,087 second letters (if the student continues to miss school after the fi rst letter), and 493 third letters. “A very large number realized, ‘Hey, we need to start going to school,’” Holt said. “That is evidence that those letters are working.”Student Services Director Tom Harrington told New Times that the district reaches out to families when it first starts to notice a student with attendance issues. They send letters, make phone calls, and try to provide support— whether that’s within the school system or connecting families with community resources—in order to remove the barriers preventing a child from attending school. “Some of our goals are to have kids reading by the third grade and be doing algebra by the ninth grade,” Harrington told New Times. “And it’s hard when they’re not in school getting instruction.”

NT: How are you managing to take handwritten notes of the entire trial and turn those into weekly podcasts? How are the new episodes different from the original ones?

NT: During the trial, do you ever reﬂect on all that’s led up to this point, and how improbable it seemed in 2019 that this case would get here?

The school district also loses out on funding when students aren’t in school. Paso Chief Business Ofﬁcer Brad Pawlowski said that if, hypothetically, the district is supposed to receive $10,000 per student from the state, but its average daily attendance is 96 percent, Paso will only receive $9,600 per student, he said. Knowing this and COVID-19’s impact on attendance in 2019-20 and 2020-21, the governor made some adjustments to how districts were supposed to calculate attendance numbers and report them to the state. School districts are usually funded based on the previous year’s attendance, but they were able to use their attendance numbers for 2019-20 school year up to February for both this year and last year. Pawlowski described it as a There“buffer.”wasa “huge concern that we were going to have this massive funding drop,” Pawlowski said, if the state reverted districts back to the preCOVID-19 funding formula. Instead, California is planning to allow districts to use a rolling three-year average of attendance for the 2022-23 school year. “They have put things in place to help districts have a somewhat softer landing,” Pawlowski said, adding that the state and federal governments have both offered pots of one-time money to help beef up programs such as those that help kids make up for learning lost during the pandemic and those that focus on social-emotional wellness and well-being. Both Paso and Lucia Mar have taken advantage of some of those funds. “They’ve afforded us the tools that we know kids are going to need when they come back into the classroom,” Pawlowski said. “You’ve got to be on campus to beneﬁt from those programs or services, so that’s why attendance is so important.”

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There’s still the possibility they could try again. I’m not willing to turn that stuff over. They’re trying to poke holes in the witnesses’ credibility and they want to do it through me, and I think that’s improper.

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CL: I’ve had a lot of handwriting practice. I think I go through ﬁve or six legal pads a week. I wanted the podcast episodes to be new, but also the same. I really wanted to emphasize—and it’s funny because some people don’t seem to understand—that these are not documentary episodes. These are just me reading my notes. And I’ve already gotten two or three bad reviews saying, “I hate these trial episodes, they’re just so boring,” and it’s like, OK, it just can’t possibly be documentary quality once a week. That’s just not feasible. I’m trying to do a pretty straight blow-by-blow so you can follow what happened in the courtroom. I’m trying to provide commentary where it feels necessary while not judging too much.

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CL: I guess I feel like I’m mostly in a brain fog, but there are few times when I’m sitting in the courtroom and that lifts for a bit and I’m like, whoa, this is happening. It’s been very surreal for me. This didn’t seem like it was ever going to happen. And the defense attorneys have said a number of times that my podcast was “designed to convict Paul Flores.” And I know that’s just smear, but it couldn’t be further from the truth. Whoever saw Paul Flores being convicted? That was not my goal. I didn’t see it happening. And honestly once it’s done, I think we’re all just going to be relieved that it’s over, regardless of the outcome. Δ Assistant Editor Peter Johnson can be reached at pjohnson@newtimesslo.com.

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Originally a seamstress, James became a member four years ago and found that she isn’t a traditional quilter. “I’m not a person that does the traditional quilts that have a specific pattern that you might follow. I’m more abstract and out there. So there are several really wonderful ways of quilting. I’m hoping we can bring younger quilters in, so that it doesn’t have to be your grandma’s quilt,” she said. James is also hoping the annual fall boutique will be a hit with the community. On Oct. 21 and 22 from 4 to 7 p.m. and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., respectively, the guild will host a boutique fundraiser at the community center called Stitchin’ Sisters to raise more money for materials and equipment. “A lot of the proceeds goes back to the [Quilting] Angels to buy the things that we need, like the batting, storage unit, and fabric. The boutique proceeds also go to educate the community. I really want to further that more if we make enough money. I’m trying to get a little more funds to maybe get sewing machines for Captive Hearts and [other groups],” she said. Quilting Angels is the guild’s philanthropic wing. These volunteers meet separately every week to sew together and make quilts that get distributed throughout the community. “Before COVID, we were giving away about 600 a year. Last year, we gave away 444 quilts. They go to hospitals, other nonprofit groups to use in their fundraising efforts, wherever there is a need like a fire or an emergency, or if someone requests quilts from us,” said Quilting Angels committee member Janie Walker. Community members donate quilting materials, and guild members also shop for fabrics themselves from local stores like the Cotton Ball in Morro Bay, Joanne’s, Hobby Lobby, and Orcutt’s Old Town Quilt Shop. Some of the Angels’ recipients are Meals on Wheels, Transitions-Mental Health Association, South County S.A.F.E. (Services Affirming Family Empowerment), and the county’s foster care service. Last year, the Angels donated the majority of its quilts to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria. “They use our quilts to put over the little incubator units to provide shade for the baby, and then the quilt goes home with the baby when they’re released from the NICU,” WalkerEverysaid.quilt made by the guild gets a name depending on its pattern and fabric. Calling the nonprofit a “friendship group,” Walker added that sewing rookies and experts alike could participate in quilting with the Angels and the guild. One of the friends she made through quilting meetings still contributes to the group, even after leaving SLO County for Ohio.

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“She is 85 years old. She used to sew quilt blocks when she was here and give them to me. I would do the setting and make the quilt top from her blocks,” Walker said. “During COVID, she got depressed. She contacted us to see if she could still make blocks for me to get her out of depression. Believe it or not, every couple of months, she will send me a box of blocks … which would make 12 to 14 quilt “Sometimes,tops.” the camaraderie that we have between each other is a really special thing. It makes me feel good to know that we are helping her, and she’s definitely helping us.”

On the last Tuesday of every month, a group of quilting aficionados from across San Luis Obispo County gathers at the Arroyo Grande Community Center for hours of designing andCalledstitching.theCentral Coast Quilters, the team of 130 guild members makes unique quilts for both sale and philanthropy. According to Co-Chairman of Fundraising Roxy James, the Arroyo Grande chapter is just one of the eight quilting guilds across SLO and Santa Barbara counties, from Paso Robles to Lompoc. “Some of them are smaller but they’re all mighty,” James said. “It’s just a great group of women that get together and have the same feeling of creating something beautiful on fabric. It’s the same thing as painting or any other art outlet.”

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KCBX reported on Jan. 12, 2020, Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, which cost billions of dollars to build five decades ago, is estimated to cost $3.9 billion to close this decade. The decommissioning is well on its Referringway. to nuclear power as “clean energy” is a myth. The front end of the nuclear technology is dirty and dangerous—devastation of lands where uranium is mined and refined. At the back end, we have toxic waste that will be stored on-site for decades. Reversing decommissioning would mean more waste to store. Present and future waste could endanger future uses of the Diablo Canyon property. And PG&E has refused to commit to a national best practices standard for radiation cleanup. It is disingenuous, to say the least, that Gov. Gavin Newsom reversed his stance on closing Diablo Canyon Power Plant. California has set aside up to $75 million to extend operation of older power plants scheduled to close. This is taxpayer money. And how much more will be needed to keep Diablo running? PG&E is bailing. As of now, Diablo is partly decommissioned and in need of a colossal refurbishing to stay open and be safe, which could take years. It is ironic that the nuclear industry may now be seeing climate change as a reason for optimism with millions set aside for nuclear plants in California and in new bills passed federally. I believe it is germane to say, it is unbelievably poor planning at this point in time to keep Diablo open. Close it on schedule.

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PG&E stated that the operating licenses for Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2 would not be renewed when expired on Nov. 2, 2024, and Aug. 26, 2025, respectively. PG&E’s application to close Diablo Canyon, including the joint proposal, was approved and codified by the CPUC in January 2018. PG&E then withdrew its application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a licensing extension.

Speak up! Send us your views and opinion letters@newtimesslo.com.to letters Please include your name and town. Keep letters to 250 words. Send them to New Times Letters, 1010 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, or email to letters@newtimesslo. com. All letters become the property of New Times. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. Published letters appear and are archived on the New Times website as well as in print. Referring to nuclear power as ‘clean energy’ is a myth. The front end of the nuclear technology is dirty and dangerous—devastation of lands where uranium is mined and refined. At the back end, we have toxic waste that will be stored on-site for decades. 12 • New Times • August 18 - August 25, 2022 • www.newtimesslo.com

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Diablo is one of the plants built in the 1960s, innovative when built (except for the waste) but then it seems the federal government did not continue research into disposing of the waste, monitoring the privately owned nuclear power plants or upkeep, maintenance, and conservation. Most of these nuclear plants have closed for safety and/or non-profitability. PG&E opted in 2016 to eventually close Diablo for these reasons and the argument that California’s energy regulations give renewables priority over nuclear.

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During the Jan. 6 hearings, we’ve heard from former members of the Trump administration and Republican state officials about how Trump and his allies worked together to try and overthrow our democracy because the 2020 presidential election didn’t go their way. Now, they’re working to make sure all of our elections go their way in the future, whether we vote for them or Already,not.Trumpers in office have changed state laws to weaken our freedom to vote and threatened Republican election administrators who won’t go along with them. Now, they’re running candidates for key election administration offices, from secretary of state to county clerk. Should they win their elections this fall, these officials won’t hesitate to overturn future elections if they or their MAGA allies lose. This completely undermines the tenets of our democracy. The only way we’re going to protect our elections is to fight back and make our voices heard. We have to cast our ballots in the upcoming midterm elections. It’s up to us to hold election deniers accountable at the polls and elect democracy defenders up and down the ballot on Nov. 8. Vicki Fermendzin Arroyo Grande

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I live in Atascadero, a short distance as the crow flies from the 37-year-old Diablo Canyon Power Plant. I have staunch reservations about the Diablo nuclear plant because of the lack of safe waste disposal on-site over the long term and the unreliable condition of the plant.

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Because of the project’s significant environmental impacts, a permit would require a statement of overriding considerations by the county. In other words, a more accurate Tribune headline would have been: “What matters more, 4,000 oak trees, sensitive species, air quality, and global warming or 75 units of affordable housing?”

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The inclusion of a small percentage of affordable housing in the proposed project does not override its impacts to the environment and the economy. (Agriculture also fares poorly in the environmental analysis.) As proposed, the Dana Reserve illustrates the reason why affordable housing should be an outcome of public policy, not left up to developers, inserted into project proposals for the purpose of persuading elected officials to ignore their project’s significant impacts. As the project alternative would substantially avoid the destruction of coastal oak woodland habitat, reduce air pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions, vehicle miles traveled, and unplanned population growth, the county should require the Burton Mesa chaparral avoidance alternative. ∆ Andrew Christie is the director of the Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club. Reach him through the editor at clanham@newtimesslo.com.

L ast month, The Tribune’s editorial board asked: “Nipomo is a haven for wealthy retirees. How about more housing for local workers?” In the email The Tribune sent out linking to the editorial, the question was distilled down to: “What matters more, oak trees or affordable homes?” The occasion was the proposed Dana Reserve, a mega-development planned for Nipomo. The Tribune, after calling the project “a perfect match” for “a county starved for housing,” went on to acknowledge (one of) the project’s drawbacks: “More than 3,000 mature oak trees would be cut down.” Hence the binary choice: oak trees or affordable housing? The terms “oak trees” and “affordable housing” need to be unpacked. As the draft environmental impact report (EIR) states, the coastal oak woodland on the project site “provides important native habitat for plants and wildlife” and “contributes significantly to … the region’s overall biological diversity.” The project would destroy not just thousands of oaks, but an entire ecosystem. And oaks are among the most efficient carbon absorbing trees. Six mature oaks (but not the saplings the developer proposes to replace them with) can sequester 1 ton of CO2 per year. Per the California Oak Foundation, “If we assume that our current oak woodlands and forests average 100 years of age, then we can expect to sequester almost 3 million tons of additional carbon a year by protecting and conserving these trees throughout the 21st century.” Hence, by removing 3,749 oaks, the project as proposed would contribute significantly to both global warming and the loss of habitat. The project also promises to bring a significant increase in air pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions, unplanned population growth, and an increase in vehicle miles traveled (VMT).

Finally, this is how the draft EIR describes the proposed project’s affordable housing benefit: “An overarching goal and vision of the project is to provide affordableby-design housing geared towards firsttime homebuyers and starter homes.” This will be achieved by dedicating one of the development’s 10 neighborhoods—the one on the smallest amount of acreage, occupying 1.4 percent of the site—to affordable housing. “Would it be preferable if more oak trees could be preserved?” The Tribune asked. “Of course, and if there is a way to do that while staying true to the goal of the project—which is to provide a range of housing types at prices considerably less than the $1 million that is fast becoming the benchmark here— of course that should be pursued.”

The way to do that is known as the Burton Mesa chaparral avoidance alternative, which the project’s alternatives analysis dismisses: “While the Burton Mesa chaparral avoidance alternative would substantially avoid and reduce impacts to biological resources; reduce air pollutant and GHG emissions, VMT, and unplanned population growth; and improve project consistency with applicable plans and policies, this alternative would not reduce significant impacts related to aesthetic resources.”

The claim that this alternative would not provide affordable housing is contradicted by the statement that the Burton Mesa alternative “would also have the potential to facilitate the development of accessory dwelling units (ADUs)”—the ultimate “affordable-by-design” housing.

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The project analysis appears to equate “aesthetic impact” with density and multifamily residential units. It also claims that this alternative does not “meet the basic project objective of providing a range of housing types, including affordable housing.” But, in fact, this alternative provides that range of housing types in a different ratio: “Single-family units would be reduced from 831 to 111 and multifamily units would be increased from 458 units to 704.”

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Opinion The results of SLO County’s 4th District supervisor race are in— again—and guess what? Jimmy Paulding still beat incumbent Lynn Compton by exactly 639 votes. Not even one vote was off in the June 2022 primary counts. Machines counted the same exact number of votes as humans did. And that recount result, which changed nothing, only took 18 business days and cost Darcia Stebbins and whoever she’s got helping her pay for this little wild goat ride a cool $53,000. You know what that paid for, right? Peace of mind. Our county’s vote tabulating machines are on point! Fraudster peddlers can suck it! Eat their words, repent for their sins against sanity. Oh wait, that’s only for people who believe in Becausereality.somepeople (cough, cough: Stebbins and the crazier members of the Republican Party of San Luis Obispo) believe the recount just proves that the machines are fishy, obviously. These machines are so complex that they can fabricate ballots from thin air and mark them, too! We need people inside the machines! Duh! Stebbins’ PAC—the San Luis Obispo County Citizens Action Team—offers up “real solutions for real people” who believe in fake things. The website hasn’t been updated to reflect the recount results, which were done on Aug. 11, but it’s still claiming the need to raise $150,000 to fund the recount efforts and court costs.

Stacy Korsgaden is taking a page out of Paulding’s book and running for a municipal office in her home city of Grover Beach after getting spanked by Dawn Ortiz-Legg in the race for 3rd District supervisor. It worked for Paulding, who lost to Compton in 2018, sat on the Arroyo Grande City Council for a few years, and now gets to sit on the Board of Stupervisors starting in January. Stacy K. wants to be mayor, ya’ll! She just has to beat current Grover Beach City Councilmember Karen Bright to do it. Is the third time a charm for Stacy? We’ve got to wait until November to find out! Over in Pismo Beach, Erik Howell, who lost his City Council bid in 2020 due, in part, to some unsavory allegations about corruption during his tenure on the California Coastal Commission, is giving ’er another try! He only needs to beat out three other candidates for one of the two seats available, but does he deserve to sit on an elected governing body? Hmm. Maybe not. In racist matters on local school boards, our resident big-mouthed righty-tighties have some competition this year. Finally. Women’s March supporter, community activist, and Cal Poly financial aid counselor Adrienne Garcia-Specht is challenging Peter J. Sysak for his seat on the Cuesta College Board of Trustees. In 2020, Sysak got into trouble over his comments on Facebook—which were anti-LGBTQ-plus, racist against Black people, and Islamophobic. The board decided to censure Sysak for his behavior and requested his resignation. He didn’t acquiesce, no surprises there. Good thing someone is running against him! And in North County, everyone’s favorite outspoken over-explainer who’s convinced he’s always right is also being challenged. Two people are running against Paso Robles Joint Unified School District school board member Chris “Replace CRT with ABCs” Arend. Although I’m not sure either of the men running against him are better or worse than he is. Candidate Peter “Dems are Socialists” Byrne, who lists his occupation as “retired,” is an avid public commenter at the school board’s more contentious meetings. During a July meeting, Byrne said that “critical race theory is often masked as diversity, equality, and inclusion along with the full-on intent to redefine gender … and turn our children into activists.”

Recently appointed board member Frank “Gender Identity is Compelled Speech” Triggs, who has questions about when tolerance becomes activism, also has two people running against him. Hopefully school board hopefuls Catherine Reimer and Sondra Williams aren’t as disturbed by “some of the stuff” in an LGBTQ-plus training for high school staff as he was.

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THE PLEIN AIR TEAM Acrylic artist, Nancy Lynn, and husband, watercolorist, Robert Fleming, have an ongoing show of originals and giclee prints of Morro Bay and local birds. ongoing 805-772-9955. Seven Sisters Gallery, 601 Embarcadero Ste. 8, Morro Bay, sevensistersgalleryca.com. THE REBOOT (STORYTELLING REIMAGINED) Enjoy a live show of entertaining, true personal stories around a different theme each month performed in an enchanted garden theater under the stars. The event offers “story gold for folks who delight in all things well told.” Fourth Friday of every month, 7-9:15 p.m. through Oct. 28 Free. 805-7729225. Top Dog Coffee Bar, 857 Main St., Morro Bay.

Join us for Art and About Morro Bay, a self-guided art walk that gives the community an opportunity to experience visual, literary, and performing art in galleries and other venues. Visit site for a map of locations. (Events will not occur on major holidays). Fourth Saturday of every month, 1-4 p.m. Free. 805-544-9251. artsobispo.org/art-and-about. Morro Bay (participating artists), Townwide, Morro Bay.

STUDIOS ON THE PARK: CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS Check site for a variety of classes and workshops offered. ongoing studiosonthepark.org. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles, 805-238-9800. YOUTH ART CAMP A camping-themed art camp. Participants will paint, print, create and explore the wild side of art with camping-themed projects. S’mores and other fun awaits. Ages 7 to 17 welcome. TuesdaysThursdays, 10 a.m.-noon through Aug. 19 $100. 903368-2496. artsocial805.com. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. SAN LUIS OBISPO THE ACADEMY OF DANCE PRESENTS: INFUSION Featuring The San Luis Jazz Dancers. Aug. 21, 5 p.m. $16-$28. Performing Arts Center, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, 756-4849, pacslo.org.

SEA GLASS AND DRIFTWOOD SCENES Create a fun scene of your choice in a 8” x 8” white shadow box frame or 8” x 10” frame, using Joan’s huge collection of local sea glass, driftwood, and baubles. Preregistration required. Aug. 27, 10 a.m.-noon $40. 805-286-5993. CreativeMeTime.com. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay. SLOFUNNY COMEDY SHOW Hosted by Patrick Keane. With Jackie Gold and Alyssa Poteet, Featuring Roberto Rodriguez and headliner Bronston Jones. Aug. 27, 6:30-10:30 p.m. my805tix.com. Morro Bay Veterans Memorial Building, 209 Surf St., Morro Bay. SUCCULENT CREATIONS Learn how easy it is to create with succulents. Choose from wreaths or decorate an 18” x 8” piece of recycled wood with driftwood, then add succulents or create an adorable layered driftwood planter. Care instructions are provided. Preregistration required. Aug. 28, 10 a.m.noon Various. 805-286-5993. CreativeMeTime.com. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

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GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE PRESENTS FINE ART CERAMICS BY THOMAS BROWN Thomas Brown presents his ceramics with crystalline glazes. These marvelous pieces of all shapes have become his life’s passion. He has been a teacher and art instructor for more than 20 years. Through Aug. 29, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. 805-772-1068. galleryatmarinasquare. com. Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero suite 10, Morro Bay.

The classic mystery features an intriguing group of passengers involved in a murder aboard the elegant Orient Express train. The famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, is also a passenger, and sets about to expose the murderer(s). Through Sept. 4 my805tix.com. By The Sea Productions, 545 Shasta Ave., Morro Bay.

ON AND OFF THE WALL Features art by Central Coast Sculptors, The Painters Group, and artists throughout California. This unthemed, juried exhibition includes a variety of painting and sculpting mediums. Mondays-Sundays, 12-4 p.m. through Sept. 19 Free. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay. PLEIN AIR PAINTERS OF THE CENTRAL COAST A self-directed fun group of dynamic artists who enjoy painting and sketching outdoors. Meet at the Art Center Morro Bay and then the group decides on the location to go paint. Wednesdays, 9 a.m.-noon Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay, 805-772-2504, artcentermorrobay.org.

BOOKSIGNING WITH AUTHOR NICK OLIVERI Oliveri’s new book is a political thriller novel of two people at war with each other and themselves. Should fallible humans hold absolute power? Meet the author himself. Aug. 20, 1-3 p.m. Free. Coalesce Bookstore, 845 Main St., Morro Bay, coalescebookstore.com/.

GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE PRESENTS FINE ART PAINTINGS BY VIRGINIA MACK Virginia Mack presents her watercolors and mixed media artworks. “Painting, birding and teaching are passions of mine. I have been immersed in studying birds and painting them for the last decade,” Mack said in a statement. Through Aug. 29, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. 805-772-1068. galleryatmarinasquare.com. Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero suite 10, Morro Bay. METAL ART BY TRUDI GILLIAM Gilliam creates her sculptures using copper, brass, nickel/silver, and found objects. This new series of whales and birds uses copper and sea glass. ongoing 805-772-9955. Seven Sisters Gallery, 601 Embarcadero Ste. 8, Morro Bay, sevensistersgalleryca.com. MOSAIC TRIVET WORKSHOP

During this workshop, you will learn how to design and create a mosaic trivet. You will learn how to select materials, lay out a pleasing pattern, and adhere the tiles to the trivet base. You will learn how to properly grout and seal your project. ongoing, 1-4 p.m. $60. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org/index.php/ workshops/. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay. MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART Cirque Italia presents Paranormal Cirque, which is scheduled to begin at the Santa Maria Fairpark on Thursday, Aug. 25, at 7:30 p.m. Additional performances will take place on Friday, Aug. 26, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 27, at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 28, at 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. The show includes circus and cabaret acts with adult language and material (people age under 17 must be accompanied by an adult 21 or older). Visit paranormalcirque.com for tickets and more—Calebinfo. Wiseblood

PHOTO COURTESY OF LEAH HRYNIEWICKI ARTS continued page 16 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. INDEXArts............................ [15] Culture & Lifestyle....... [16] Food & Drink [19] Music [20] NOTE: Local COVID-19 case numbers and changing health precautions may cause some event cancellations and venue closures. Please check with the venues directly, and most of all, stay safe! AUG. 18 – AUG. 25 2022 www.newtimesslo.com • August 18 - August 25, 2022 • New Times • 15

CAMBRIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS 2022 JURIED SHOW The juror for this show is Franceska Alexander, MFA. She’s the author of “Gallery Ready: A Creative Blueprint for Visual Artists.” Through Aug. 28, 11 a.m. cambriaarts.org/gallery-exhibits/. Cambria Center for the Arts, 1350 Main St., Cambria. DONALD ARCHER’S FIGURATIVE PAINTINGS Archer’s ﬁgurative paintings will be up at Cambria Library through June 30. Tuesdays-Saturdays 805-927-4336. slolibrary.org. Cambria Library, 1043 Main St., Cambria. FOREVER STOKED PAINT PARTY Join us at the gallery, for a few hours to travel on a creative paint journey guided by a member of the fun loving FS crew. You will receive as much or as little instruction as you prefer. No artistic experience is necessary. Saturdays, 7-9 p.m. $45. 805-7729095. Forever Stoked, 1164 Quintana Rd., Morro Bay.

GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE PRESENTS FINE ART OIL PAINTINGS BY PATRICIA NEWTON Patricia Newton presents her oil paintings. “I fell in love with rolling hills that reach the sea. The local landscape has had a profound impact on the artworks I create,” Newton said in a statement. Through Aug. 29, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. 805772-1068. galleryatmarinasquare.com. Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero suite 10, Morro Bay.

NORTH SLO COUNTY CHERISH ALTAR MAKING WORKSHOP Start the morning with a brief grounding meditation, and then go over the three rules of Foraging. Each participant will then wander into the natural world that surrounds Oracle, to gather their altar making objects, and return to create a “Cherish” altar. Aug. 27, 9 a.m.-noon $33. 805-464-2838. oracleatascaderoca.com. Oracle, 6280 Palma Ave., Atascadero. DEPRISE BRESCIA ART GALLERY: OPEN DAILY Features a large selection of encaustic art, sculpted paintings, art installations, acrylic palette knife paintings, digital art, glass, jewelry, stones, fossils, and a butterﬂ y sculpture garden. ongoing DepriseBrescia. com. Deprise Brescia Art Gallery, 829 10th St., Paso Robles, 310-621-7543. FARMSTEAD In this unique exhibition, FARMstead artists show work characterized by our local agriculture. This show features pieces inspired by farm animals, equipment, products, and the people that work in this industry. Through Aug. 28 805-238-9800. studiosonthepark.org/. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. FUSED GLASS PLATE OR BOWL Learn the basics of fusing and slumping in this two-hour introductory class. Create an 8” x 8” plate or bowl. All materials included. Aug. 24, 6-8 p.m. $100. 805-464-2633. glassheadstudio.com. Glasshead Studio, 8793 Plata Lane, Suite H, Atascadero. KNOT AND SIP: MACRAME WORKSHOP WITH TIMSHEL VINEYARDS The class will be taught by Atascadero-based macramé artist Lindsey Altman of Tied + True Goods. Aug. 21, 4 p.m. my805tix.com. Timshel Vineyards, 825 Riverside Ave., suite 1, Paso Robles. PAINT AND SIP CLASS Joining forces with the talents of Art Social, the winery will offer classes twice a month for you to sip and get creative on the vineyard. Friday classes held at 7 p.m. Sunday classes held at noon. Aug. 19 my805tix.com. Cass Winery And Vineyard, 7350 Linne Rd., Paso Robles, 805-239-1730.

ALYSSA MONKS: BE PERFECTLY STILL, A RETROSPECTIVE Alyssa Monks layers spaces and moments in her paintings. She ﬂ ips background and foreground using semi-transparent ﬁ lters of glass, vinyl, steam, water and or foliage over shallow spaces. The tension in her paintings is created by the composition and the surface quality itself. Aug. 27 Nov. 13 Free. 805-543-8562. http:/sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

Mondays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sundays, 12-4 p.m. Free. 805-747-4200. artcentralslo.com/gallery-artists/. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo. ARTISTS AT SLO GALLERY Feast your eyes on amazing works by exceptional California artists. The ever-changing display of fine art includes paintings, photography, and sculpture representing a wide variety of styles from abstract to realism. Thursdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. through Oct. 2 Free. 805-926-5050. slogallery. com. SLO Gallery, 1019 Broad Street, San Luis Obispo. BISQUEWARE PAINTING Paint a mug, platter, or figurine. All materials provided, and many options to choose from. No class fee, just pay for item and firing. For large parties, please call in advance. Mondays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. through Sept. 5 $10-$65. 805-896-6197. Anam Cre Pottery Studio, 1243 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, anamcre.com. CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS AND SCULPTORS SLO Gallery is seeking additional artistic talent to accompany the amazing array of art on display in the gallery. Photography is displayed in its own room and sculpture will be presented in focal points throughout the gallery. Through Aug. 31 818-762-6782. slogallery. com. SLO Gallery, 1019 Broad Street, San Luis Obispo.

&CULTURELIFESTYLENORTHCOASTSLO COUNTY AXE THROWING Enjoy the art of axe throwing in a safe and fun environment. Kids ages 10 and older are welcome with an adult. No personal axes please. Fridays, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and Saturdays, 12-6 p.m. $20. 805-528-4880. baysidemartialarts.com. Bayside Martial Arts, 1200 2nd St., Los Osos. CENTRAL COAST SLIM DOWN Take control of food without suffering. Learn a step-by-step process to take control of overeating, cravings, and feel peace with food. Build the habits, mindset, and your unique path with results that stick. Hosted byTami Cruz (Certified Health/Life Coach) and Dana Charvet (Coach/Fitness Trainer). ongoing Call for pricing info. 805-235-7978. gratefulbodyhealthcoaching. com. Grateful Body, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay. CENTRAL COAST WOOD CARVERS Learn the art of wood carving or wood burning. Join Central Coast Wood Carvers in Morro Bay at St. Timothy’s. Open for beginners, intermediate, or advance. Learn a wide range of techniques and skills. Mask Required. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. St. Timothy’s Catholic Church, 962 Piney Way, Morro Bay, 805-772-2840, sttimothymorrobay.org/index.html. CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS MEETING Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a Twelve Step recovery program for anyone who desires to have healthy and loving relationships with themselves and others. Meeting is hybrid (both in person and on Zoom). For information, call 805-900-5237. Saturdays, 1-2:15 p.m. Free. thecambriaconnection.org/. Cambria Connection, 1069 Main St., Cambria, (805) 927-1654. GOOD GOLLY, WE’RE BACK WITH POLY! SUCCULENT PLANTS AND POTTERY SALE Four local plant vendors and potters, plus Guest Vendor Cal Poly Horticulture, collaborating on a great outdoor event. An amazing lineup of succulent plants, indoor/ tropical plants, and gorgeous handmade pots. Proceeds benefi t Pacifi c Wildlife Care. Aug. 20, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Aug. 21, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. 805-602-7817. Steve Super Gardens, 2016 9th St., Los Osos. MORRO BAY MIXED MARTIAL ARTS Disciplines include advanced athletic performance fi tness training, Thai kickboxing, and more. Beginners to advanced students welcome. Day and evening classes offered. Mondays-Saturdays, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Call for more info. 805-701-7397. charvetmartialarts.com. Morro Bay Martial Arts, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay. SOCRATES: DISCUSSION GROUP Group members present interesting and thought provoking topics of all sorts. Topics are selected in advance and moderated by

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SLO COMEDY UNDERGROUND AT SLO PUBLIC MARKET Held in the Event Center at SLO Public Market. Aug. 19, 7-8:30 p.m. 805-215-3669. slopublicmarket.com/ events. SLO Public Market, Bonetti Ranch, San Luis Obispo. SLO DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO CLASS AND PRACTICA Please come and join us for a Basic Argentine Tango class every Sunday in August, from 6 to 7 p.m., followed by a practica from 7 to 9 p.m. Sundays, 6-9 p.m. through Aug. 28 $10. 805-710-4388. Odd Fellows Hall, 520 Dana St., San Luis Obispo. VIRGINIA MACK: BEGINNING WATERCOLOR This is a watercolor class designed to let you jump in and try out this engaging medium through experimentation. It’s designed for beginners and those with watercolor experience who wish to expand their knowledge of painting in watercolors. To enroll please contact Mack via email: vbmack@charter.net Wednesdays, 1:30-3:30 p.m. $35. 805-747-4200. artcentralslo.com/workshopsevents/. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo. SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY MIXED MEDIA FOR AGES 5-6 AND 7-12 For ages 5-6 (Mondays) and 7-12 (Tuesdays). Mondays, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 p.m. 805-668-2125. lila.community. LilA Creative Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. suite 101, Arroyo Grande. MY NAME IS: HOSTED BY RESILIENT SOULS This Healing Arts Evening, a triumph over trauma, will include survivors’ voices through a gallery of their art and a live play of one survivor’s story, Annie, (from Monterey County). Aug. 26, 6:30 p.m. and Aug. 27, 6:30 p.m. resilientsouls.org. Avila Beach Community Center, 191 San Miguel St., Avila Beach. OPEN STUDIO FOR ADULTS Guests can come in and decide what materials they would like to work with and create freely. Share your creative process with others and see how your work will ﬂ ourish. Tuesdays, 6-9 p.m. and Wednesdays, 12:30-3:30 p.m. $40. 805-668-2125. Lila.community. LilA Creative Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. suite 101, Arroyo Grande. SAND IN OUR SHORTS: A NIGHT OF SKETCH COMEDY AND SONG This two-act vaudeville review is jam packed with enough sketches and songs to split your sides. Drawing on the grand tradition of vaudeville and variety shows, this is a compilation of some of the venue’s favorite comedy “shorts,” new and old. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 7 p.m., Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m. and Sundays, 6 p.m. through Sept. 17 $30$36. 805-489-2499. americanmelodrama.com. Great American Melodrama, 1863 Front St., Oceano.

CAMILLE HOFFMAN: SEE AND MISSED Artist Camille Hoffman uses materials collected from childhood and her everyday life to craft imaginary landscapes that are grounded in accumulation, rehabilitation, personal narrative, and historical critique. Through Aug. 22 sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo, 543-8562. CERAMIC LESSONS AND MORE Now offering private one-on-one and group lessons in the ceramic arts. Both hand building and wheel throwing options. Beginners welcomed. ongoing 805-835-5893. hmcruceceramics. com/. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

LEARN TO WEAVE MONDAYS An opportunity to learn how a four-shaft loom works. You will get acquainted as a new weaver or as a refresher with lots of tips and tricks. This class includes getting to know a loom, how to prepare/dress a loom, and much much more. Mondays, 1-4 p.m. $75 monthly. 805-441-8257.

CERTAIN MATTER: A GROUP EXHIBITION OF MATERIAL ABSTRACTION Featuring artists Linda Sormin, Christopher Pate, Connie Martin, John Trevino, Sarah Mikenis, David McDonald, Amy Vensel, Alexis Arnold, and Garet Zook, all working in a variety of media where the material serves as both object and subject. MondaysFridays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. through Oct. 14 Free. 805-5463202. cuesta.edu/student/campuslife/artgallery/index. html. Harold J. Miossi Gallery, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo. CERTAIN MATTER: A GROUP EXHIBITION OF MATERIAL ABSTRACTION IN CONTEMPORARY ART Investigating themes like organic and inorganic forms, meditation, consumption and digital representation through a variety of diverse media. With artists Linda Sormin, Chris Pate, Connie Martin, John Trevino, Sarah Mikenis, David McDonald, Amy Vensel, Alexis Arnold, and Garet Zook. Opening Aug. 18. Mondays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. through Oct. 14 Free. 805-546-3202. cuesta.edu/ student/campuslife/artgallery/index.html. Harold J. Miossi Gallery, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo. CERTAIN MATTER: OPENING RECEPTION AND ARTIST TALK Food, drink, and music, starting at 4:30 p.m. Artist panel discussion at 6 p.m. with most of the 9 artists in attendance. Aug. 18, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Haroldcuesta.edu/student/campuslife/artgallery/index.html.805-546-3201.J.MiossiGallery,Highway1,SanLuisObispo.

COMEDY NIGHT Professional comedy show featuring local and touring comics. Hosted by Aidan Candelario. Third Thursday of every month, 7-9 p.m. $5. 805-5408300. Bang the Drum Brewery, 1150 Laurel Lane, suite 130, San Luis Obispo, bangthedrumbrewery.com. DATE NIGHT POTTERY Looking for a fun date night? Head to Anam Cre Pottery Studio and play with clay. Couples will learn how to throw a pot on the wheel and make a cheeseboard. Fridays, Saturdays, 6-8 p.m. $140. Anam Cre Pottery Studio, 1243 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-896-6197, anamcre.com.

FREE DOCENT TOURS AT SLOMA Gain a deeper understanding of the artwork on view with SLOMA’s new docent tours. Saturdays, 11 a.m. Free. 805-543-8562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. I NTERMEDIATE OIL PAINTING: ADULT ART CLASS This class is for students who may have tried oil painting in the past but are looking to advance their skill levels. Color theory and proportion study will be a focus in the class. Mondays, 2-5 p.m. $30 per student or $75 for 3 classes. 805-747-4200. 1329com/workshops-events/.artcentralslo.ArtCentral,MontereySt.,SanLuisObispo.

Patricia Martin: Whispering Vista Studios, 224 Squire Canyon Rd, San Luis Obispo, patriciamartinartist.com. MASK MAKING AND HAT MAKING Geared for children and adults. ongoing Spirits of Africa Gallery, 570 Higuera St., San Luis spiritsofafricagallery.com/.Obispo, NEIL MENDOZA In his exhibition, “Pretty Rubbish”, Neil Mendoza gives form to environmental issues. His mixed media work uses absurdity as a reaction to the path of growing consumption that society is following at the expense of a sustainable future. Thursdays, 11 a.m. through Aug. 18 Free. 805-543-8562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. OPEN MIC COMEDY Sign-ups at 6:30 p.m. Hosted by Aidan Candelario. Mondays, 7-9 p.m. Free. Barrelsaintsbarrel.com/event-calendar.805-540-8300.SaintsWineBar,1021HiguerraSt.,SanLuis Obispo.

ACTOR’S EDGE: ACTING CLASSES Actor’s Edge offers ﬁ lm and television acting training in San Luis Obispo, plus exposure to Los Angeles talent agents. All ages and skill levels welcome. Classes available in SLO, LA, and on zoom. ongoing $210 per month. actorsedge. com. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo. ALL LEVELS POTTERY CLASSES Anam Cre is a pottery studio in SLO that offers a variety of classes. This speciﬁc class is open to any level. Teachers are present for questions, but the class feels more like an open studio time for potters. Thursdays, 6-8 p.m. $40. Anam Cre Pottery Studio, 1243 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-896-6197, anamcre.com.

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ARTIST RIKI SCHUMACHER AT ART CENTRAL GALLERY Schumacher’s work is pensive and introspective, inspiring one to take a solitary walk on a cloudy day. Wander in to reﬂect on her “delicious, wistful landscapes.”

PAINTING BIG SUR WITH PASTELS: INTRO TO PASTEL WORKSHOP WITH JIM TYLER In this workshop, we’ll cover all of the basics for applying pastels with the side, edge, and ends of the stick; how to layer and blend; the different kinds of pastel and paper; and how to frame a pastel painting. Contact Jim Tyler: jimtylerﬁ neart@gmail.com. Aug. 27, 1-4 p.m. $50. 805747-4200. artcentralslo.com/workshops-events/. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo. PAINTING CLASSES Easels, brushes, and canvases provided. Limited to 20 students. ongoing Spirits of Africa Gallery, 570 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, spiritsofafricagallery.com/. SCULPTURE CLASS WITH ROD PEREZ This weekly sculpture drop-in class gives an opportunity for potters to take on new projects and learn new techniques relating to sculptural work. Additionally, every ﬁrst Friday of the month, a new project will be taught by Rod Perez for beginners. Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon $40. anamcre.com. Anam Cre Pottery Studio, 1243 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-896-6197.

Art Center Morro Bay hosts Sea Glass and Driftwood Scenes, a workshop with art instructor Joan Martin Fee, on Saturday, Aug. 27, from 10 a.m. to noon. Attendees will create their own driftwood scenes using local sea glass and driftwood from Fee’s own collection. Tickets are $40. Call (805) 772-2504 or visit artcentermorrobay.org more info. Art Center Morro Bay is located at 835 Main St., Morro Bay. —C.W.

PRESENTS Free live music every Friday! 4:30 – 7:30 PM • Mission Plaza, San Luis Obispo Family-friendly • Food and drink available • Free bike valet parking Bring a reusable cup • No glass • No pets • No outside alcohol DowntownSLO.com/Concerts • @concertsintheplaza The Tipsy Gypsies PLUS DEVIN WELSH Sponsored by SLO Credit Union SILVER LEVEL SPONSORS MAJOR LEVEL SPONSORS MEDIA SPONSORS SINGER-SONGWRITERSHOWCASESPONSOR BIKE PROVIDEDVALETBY THANKSSPECIALTOBIKE VALET SPONSOR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BEVERAGE & FOOD SPONSORS AUGUST 19, 2022 www.newtimesslo.com • August 18 - August 25, 2022 • New Times • 17

VITALANT BLOOD DRIVE Blood donations are vital in these times. Please call and register to offer the gift of life: blood. Aug. 20, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. 805-5428500. vitalant.org. King David’s Masonic Lodge, 859 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo. WILSHIRE: SUMMER OF SERVICE Do you want to support seniors in our community? Make a difference this summer through one of our volunteer programs. MondaysFridays. through Aug. 31 wilshirecommunityservices.org/. Wilshire Community Services, 285 South St., suite J, San Luis Obispo, 805-547-7025. WOMEN INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE (WIIRE) A collaboration of minds to help you start investing today. Third Friday of every month, noon my805tix.com. Granada Hotel and Bistro, 1126 Morro St., San Luis Obispo. SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY BEGINNER GROUP SURF LESSONS AND SURF CAMPS Lessons and camp packages available daily. All equipment included. ongoing Starts at $70. 805-8357873. sandbarsurf.com/. Sandbar Surf School Meetup Spot, 110 Park Ave., Pismo Beach. BIG BLOW OUT ANNIVERSARIY SALE A big “buy one, get one free” sale on all items in the store. Aug. 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Aug. 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Aug. 20, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saint Barnabas Thrift Shop, 1328 W Grand Ave., Ste F, Grover Beach, 805-270-4023.

PLATE DATE Glasshead Studio in Atascadero hosts its next Fused Glass Plate or Bowl workshop on Wednesday, Aug. 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. Students of the introductory class will learn the basics of fusing and slumping, and create their own plate or bowl. Admission is $100, which includes all materials needed. Call (805) 464-2633 or visit glassheadstudio.com for more info. The studio is located at 8793 Plata Lane, suite H, Atascadero.

NAR-ANON: FRIDAY MEETINGS A meeting for those who know or have known a feeling of desperation concerning the addiction of a loved one. Fridays, 12-1 p.m. Free. 805-441-2164. North County Connection, 8600 Atascadero Ave., Atascadero.

volunteers. Vaccinations are necessary. Enter through wooden gate to garden area. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. 805528-7111. Coalesce Bookstore, 845 Main St., Morro Bay, coalescebookstore.com/. STAY YOUNG WITH QI GONG Qi gong offers great anti-aging benefits, providing a comprehensive system for improving physical, mental and emotional health. Its roots date back thousands of years in China. Learn with certified instructor Devin Wallace. Call first. Thursdays, 10-11 a.m. $10. 805-709-2227. Hardie Park, Ash Ave. and B St., Cayucos. TAI CHI AND QI GONG: ZEN IN MOTION Small group classes with 2019 Tai Chi Instructor of the Year. Call for time and days. Learn the Shaolin Water Style and 5 Animals Qi Gong. Beginners welcomed. Mondays, 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Call for price details. 805-701-7397. charvetmartialarts. com. Morro Bay Martial Arts, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay. TAI CHI CHUN CERTIFICATION With the 2019 Tai Chi Instructor of the year. Ongoing courses. ongoing Call for price. 805-701-7397. charvetmartialarts.com. Grateful Body, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay. TAI CHI CHUN/ QI GONG BASICS Learn the foundation of Qi Gong, the rooting of breathing, and Shaolin Tai Chi. Tuesdays-Thursdays Call for details. 805701-7397. charvetmartialarts.com. Grateful Body, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay. WEEKLY QIGONG PRACTICE AT FITNESSWORKS MORRO BAY Calm your mind and nourish your joints with a weekly Qigong practice led by Mike Raynor of Tai Chi Rejuvenation. The practice is rooted in Qigong fundamentals, and standing/moving meditations. Forms include: Eight Brocades, Five Elements, Shibashi 18, and Tai chi 24. Saturdays, 10:45-11:45 a.m. Members free; non-members $8-$10. 805-772-7466. fitnessworksmb. com. FitnessWorks, 500 Quintana Rd., Morro Bay. ZEN IN MOTION Learn the Shaolin Water Style and other deep breathing and moving meditation techniques with the 2019 Taijiquan Instructor of the Year. Beginners Welcome. Instructor Certification Courses available. Mondays, Wednesdays Call for details. 805-701-7397. charvetmartialarts. com. Grateful Body, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay. NORTH SLO COUNTY GODDESS GROUP Please join Oracle Owner/Intuitive Medium, Tiffany Klemz, for this twice monthly, Goddess Group. The intention of this group is to curate connection, inspiration, unity, and empowerment. Every other Tuesday, 6:30-8 p.m. $11. 805-464-2838. oracleatascaderoca.com. Oracle, 6280 Palma Ave., Atascadero.

RAMONA GARDEN SUNDAYS3–6PMPARK FOOD TRUCKS · BOUNCE HOUSE • BEER • WINE Laurie Morvan Band High Energy Rockin’ Blues August 21st Presented by the Clark Center August 27th & 28th Friday, August 26, 2022 • 6:30pm Every Day Kindness II: Zongo BenefitAll-Starsconcert Presented by: THE ESTERO BAY KINDNESS COALITION Does your organization sell tickets? Get more exposure and sell more tickets with a local media partner. Call 805-546-8208 for more info. ALL TICKETS. ONE PLACE. SLO Brew Rock, San Luis Obispo ON SALE NOW! TICKETS AVAILABLE AT MY805 TIX. COM

SLO LEZ B FRIENDS (VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM) A good core group of friends who gather to discuss topics we love/ care about from movies, outings, music, or being new to the area. We come from all walks of life and most importantly support each other. Transgender and Nonbinary folks welcome. Third Friday of every month, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. sloqueer.groups.io/g/ lezbfriends. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

TOPS SUPPORT GROUP: WEIGHT LOSS AND MAINTENANCE A self-help support group focusing on weight loss and maintenance. Thursdays, 1:30 p.m. 805-242-2421. tops.org. Santa Margarita Senior Center, 2210 H St., Santa Margarita. SAN LUIS OBISPO BDSM 101 This monthly class from the Central Coast Kink Community provides a basic overview of kink, consent, rules, and information to help practitioners be successful and safe. Attendees must be 18+ years of age. Virtually meets via Zoom. Fourth Friday of every month, 6-8 p.m. No admission. galacc.org/events/. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo. BEYOND MINDFULNESS Realize your potential through individualized meditation instruction with an experienced teacher via Zoom. This class is for those who wish to begin a practice or seek to deepen an existing one. Flexible days and times. Certified with IMTA. Email or text for information. Mondays-Sundays, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Sliding scale. 559-905-9274. theartofsilence.net. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo. BIRDS AND BOTANY MONTHLY WALK AT SLO BOTANICAL GARDEN The Garden is excited to present a monthly bird walk series on the fourth Thursday of every month which explores the intersection of birds and botany. Fourth Thursday of every month, 8-11 a.m. $10 for Garden Members; $40 for general public. 805-5411400. slobg.org. San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, 3450 Dairy Creek Rd., San Luis Obispo. CAL HOPE SLO GROUPS AT TMHA Visit website for full list of weekly Zoom groups available. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays calhopeconnect.org. Transitions Mental Health Warehouse, 784 High Street, San Luis Obispo, 805-270-3346. CAL POLY WOMEN’S SOCCER VS. IOWA It’s Youth Day, so all kids ages 13 and under get in for free and can get autographs from the Mustangs after the game. Aug. 21, 10:30 a.m. Free for kids. 805-756-4849. gopoly.com/. Alex G. Spanos Stadium, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo. CITY FARM SLO’S YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM Check site for more info on programming and summer camps. ongoing cityfarmslo.org. San Luis Obispo, Citywide, SLO. COMPLIMENTARY SHOWERS WITH SHOWER THE PEOPLE After a short hiatus, the San Luis Obispo Library will once again be partnering with local non-profit organization, Shower the People. The shower trailer will be located between the library and parking structure. Toiletries provided. Sundays, 1-3 p.m. Free. San Luis Obispo Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo. FREE GUIDED MEDITATION GROUP A free guided meditation group held every Friday morning. Call for more info. Fridays, 10-10:45 a.m. through Jan. 27 Free. 805439-2757. RuthCherryPhD.com. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo. HEALING DEPRESSION SUPPORT GROUP A safe place for anyone suffering from the pain of depression. We do not criticize but do share our journey, feelings, and what works for us. We can meet in person or use Zoom if needed. Mondays, 6-7 p.m. Free. 805-528-3194. Hope House Wellness Center, 1306 Nipomo St., San Luis Obispo. INTRODUCTION TO MINDFULNESS Engage your senses (sound, sight, touch) by sitting, walking, and exploring in silent contemplation. Discover how the garden provides a naturally supportive setting. Learn how easy and effortless mindfulness can be. Every fourth Tuesday, 8:30-10 a.m. through Sept. 28 Sliding scale from $5 to $30; Suggested donations are $15. 805-5430638. historycenterslo.org/mindful.html. Dallidet Adobe and Gardens, 1185 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo. MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION (ONLINE MEETING) Zoom series hosted by TMHA. Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.-noon Transitions Mental Health Warehouse, 784 High Street, San Luis Obispo, 805-270-3346. OUTDOOR YOGA CLASSES Hotel San Luis Obispo, Piazza Hospitality’s first property on California’s scenic Central Coast, offers outdoor yoga classes on its rooftop terrace. Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays $10$15; complimentary for hotel guests. 805-235-0700. hotel-slo.com. Hotel San Luis Obispo, 877 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo. Q YOUTH GROUP (VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM) This is a social support group for LGBTQ+ and questioning youth between the ages of 11-18. Each week the group explores personal, cultural, and social identity. Thursdays, 6-8 p.m. Free. galacc.org/events/. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo. QI GONG FITNESS ONLINE Qi Gong combines balance, posture, meditation and gentle physical training for optimum health. Registration begins Aug. 8 for online class, Wednesdays, from 9:35 to 10:35 a.m. with experienced instructor Gary West. For ages 18 and over. Wednesdays. through Dec. 7 $67. 805-549-1222. slcusd.asapconnected. com. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

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TRANS* TUESDAY A safe space providing peer-to-peer support for trans, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and questioning people. In-person and Zoom meetings held. Contact tranzcentralcoast@gmail.com for more details. Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. Free. GALA Pride and Diversity Center, 1060 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, 805-541-4252.

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RECONNECT TO NATURE This 90-minute workshop will be an organic exploration of nature-based practices based on being present to the needs of our times. Practices will be partially inspired by ecophilosopher Joanna Macy’s book, The Work that Reconnects. Fourth Thursday of every month, 8:30-10 a.m. through Sept. 30 Sliding scale from $5 to $30; suggested donations are $15. 805-543-0638. historycenterslo.org/mindful.html. Dallidet Adobe and Gardens, 1185 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo. SIERRA CLUB HISTORIC WALK: SLO RAILROAD HISTORIC DISTRICT Guided stroll past 15 sites in the old depot area to discuss the heyday of the Southern Pacific Railroad during the age of steam. Meet at Gus’s Grocery, corner of Osos and Leff Streets. Leader: Joe Morris. Aug. 21, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. 805-549-0355. Gus’s Grocery, Osos & Leff, San Luis Obispo, gussgrocery.com.

QI GONG FOR MIND, BODY, AND SPIRIT Learn and practice qi gong, a Chinese system for physical, mental and spiritual development. This class is conducted outdoors in a beautiful setting, which is the best place to do qi gong, as its inspiration is drawn from nature. Certified instructor: Devin Wallace. Tuesdays, 10-11 a.m. $10. 805-709-2227. Crows End Retreat Center, 6340 Squire Ct., San Luis Obispo. QI GONG ONLINE Qi Gong Online is offered by San Luis Coastal Unified School District. Qi Gong improves balance, posture, tone, and fitness with gentle exercises. Instructor: Gary West. Wednesdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m. through Dec. 7 $67 semester. 805-549-1222. sloadultschool.org. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

TRANS* YOUTH PEER SUPPORT GROUP This group is a safe place for trans* and gender nonconforming people, as well as those questioning, from ages of 11 to 18. A facilitated emotional support group to be heard, share your story, and hear stories that may sound surprisingly like your own. Fourth Tuesday of every month, 6-8 p.m. Free. GALA Pride and Diversity Center, 1060 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, 805-541-4252.

CENTRAL CORE WEEKEND WELLNESS FITNESS RETREAT: WATER WEEKEND After Pilates workouts in the studio, we’ll head to the water. Choose surf or boogie board, and everyone does SUP Pilates. Enjoy wine tasting and mineral springs. The small event is open to everyone and all fitness levels. You don’t need to be studio member. Aug. 20, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Aug. 21, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $325. 805-295-9505. centralcore. fitness. Central Core, 1160 Price Street, Pismo Beach. DOING AND NOT-DOING IN MEDITATION AND DAILY LIFE: A WEEKEND RETREAT WITH DONALD ROTHBERG A central deeper expression both of meditation and daily life can be understood as a kind of

SUNDAY EVENING RAP LGBTQ+ AA GROUP (VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM) Alcoholics Anonymous is a voluntary, worldwide fellowship of folks from all walks of life who together, attain and maintain sobriety. Requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. Email aarapgroup@ gmail.com for password access. Sundays, 7-8 p.m. No fee. galacc.org/events/. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

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SLO NOONTIME TOASTMASTERS CLUB MEETINGS Want to improve speaking and leadership skills in a supportive and positive environment? During COVID, we are meeting virtually. Contact us to get a meeting link for info. Tuesdays, 12-1 p.m. Free. slonoontime.toastmastersclubs. org. Zoom, Online, Inquire for Zoom ID. SLO RAM RETIRED ACTIVE MEN COFFEE CABINET Weekly Coffee Cabinet meeting of the SLO RAM Active Retired Men, a local men’s social club. Click ‘Contact’ on website for invite. Thursdays, 8-9:30 a.m. $10. retiredactivemen.org. Madonna Inn Garden Room, 100 Madonna Road, San Luis Obispo. SLO TABLE TENNIS Open to all ages and abilities. Casual and competitive games played. New players welcome. Sundays, 4-7 p.m. and Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7-10 p.m. Free. 805-540-0470. Ludwick Community Center, 864 Santa Rosa, San Luis Obispo.

MORRO BAY MAIN STREET FARMERS MARKET Get fresh and veggies, fruit, baked goods, sweets, and handmade artisan crafts. Come have some fun with your local farmers and artisans and enjoy delicious eats while enjoying the fresh breeze of Morro Bay. Saturdays, 2:30-5:30 p.m. through May 31 Varies. 805-824-7383. morrobayfarmersmarket.com. Morro Bay Main Street Farmers Market, Main Street and Morro Bay Blvd., Morro Bay. NORTH SLO COUNTY 2022 EVENING UNDER THE ESTRELLA SKY WINEMAKERS’ DINNER

The winemakers and owners of The Pleasant Valley Wine Trail wineries will come together in a beautiful setting at Hartley Farms for a fabulous evening of wine, food and music. All proceeds will be donated to The Pleasant Valley School. Aug. 20, 6-9 p.m. my805tix.com. Hartley Farms, 6770 Estrella Rd., San Miguel, 805-399-0066.

MASTER GARDNER VICTORY WORKSHOP SERIES Come learn the basics of how to grow your own food with your local UC Master Gardeners. Find out how to start your garden quickly and easily in a container, in the backyard, or at a community garden. Discount for OCSD residents. Sundays, 1-4 p.m. through Aug. 28 $55 for the series or $15 per class. 805-781-5939. Oceano Train Depot, 1650 Front St., Oceano.

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TACO TUESDAYS La Parilla Taqueria will be in courtyard serving up their delicious tacos and tostadas every Tuesday. Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m. Ancient Owl Beer Garden, 6090 El Camino Real, suite C, Atascadero, 805-460-6042, ancientowlbeergarden.com.

SAN LUIS OBISPO DOWNTOWN SLO FARMERS MARKET Thursdays, 6-9 p.m. Downtown SLO, Multiple locations, San Luis Obispo. FOOD & San Luis Obispo County Early Warning System

sirens will be tested on Saturday, August 27. Sirens will sound at 12:00 pm and again at 12:30 pm for three minutes. During the tests, no action is required on the part of the public. Local radio and television stations will conduct normal programming during the tests. If you hear the sirens at any other time, tune to a local radio or television station for important emergency information. When at sea, tune to Marine Channel 16. SATURDAY, AUGUST 27 –IT’S ONLY A TEST ANNUAL SIREN TEST SATURDAY, AUGUST 27 12:00 PM & 12:30 PM www.ReadySLO.org 200 S 13th St, Ste 105, Grover Beach (805) 481-4987 Walk-ins welcome! Ask us about access to free baby items and maternity clothes. WE OFFER FREE & CONFIDENTIAL: • Pregnancy Tests • Adoption Referrals • Post-Abortion Support • Pregnancy, Parenting, and Co-parenting Information Think you might be pregnant? We’re here for you! BestStationRadio www.newtimesslo.com • August 18 - August 25, 2022 • New Times • 19

BURGERS AND BRATS LUNCH AT VFW 2814 Enjoy a hot-off-the-grill hamburger, cheeseburger, or handmade bratwurst sandwich at VFW Post 2814 in Atascadero. Starting at only $5, each meal comes with choice of toppings and condiments, a bag of chips, and a bowl of chili. The public is welcome. Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. through Dec. 28 $5. 805-466-3305. vfwpost2814.org/canteen.html. Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) 2814, 9555 Morro Road, Atascadero. OLIVE OIL CLASS Celebrate the rich history of olive oil by learning more about the process, the nuances, and the value of this incredible elixir. A class for foodies who love to learn. Aug. 28, 11 a.m. $60. my805tix.com. Cass Winery And Vineyard, 7350 Linne Rd., Paso Robles, 805-239-1730. SIP AND PAINT Please join ArtSocial805 for the group’s first paint and sip expereince at the lovely Bella Luna Winery in Templeton. Price includes a glass of wine. Enjoy painting the beautiful sunset vineyards while sipping on wine. Aug. 20, 6-8 p.m. $45. 805-434-5477. artsocial805.com. Bella Luna Estate Winery, 1850 Templeton Road, Templeton. Please join ArtSocial 805 at Bovino Vineyard, where attendees will paint a beach scene on round canvases and sip on an estate grown wine. Aug. 28, 12-2 p.m. $60. Bovino Vineyard, 5685 El Pomar Drive, Templeton, 805-238-2007.

POINT SAN LUIS LIGHTHOUSE TOURS Tours will give you a glimpse into the lives of Lighthouse Keepers and their families, while helping keep our jewel of the Central Coast preserved and protected. In-person and virtual tours offered. Check website for more details. Wednesdays, Saturdays pointsanluislighthouse.org/. Point San Luis Lighthouse, 1 Lighthouse Rd., Avila Beach. WEEKLY WATER SAFETY LESSONS Facility advertised as open and safe. Give the office a call to register over the phone. Mondays-Fridays $160-$190. 805-481-6399. 5 Cities Swim School, 425 Traffic Way, Arroyo Grande, 5citiesswimschool.com.

profound “non-doing” that paradoxically can also be a basis for action and doing, a “doing coming out of a deep not-doing.” Aug. 27-28, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $80; $50; free (hardship). whiteheronsangha.org. White Heron Sangha Meditation Center, 6615 Bay Laurel Place, Avila Beach. FREE YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS, EMS, AND COMMUNITY CARETAKERS Join for some well-deserved self-care. Anyone including fire, EMS, police, hospital workers, medical staff, assisted living caretakers, etc. is welcome. All yoga abilities are encouraged to attend. Please email empoweryoga805@gmail.com in advance to enroll. Thursdays, 6-7 p.m. 805-619-0989. Empower Yoga Studio and Community Boutique, 775 W. Grand Ave., Grover Beach, empoweryoga805.com.

FOOD & DRINK NORTH COAST SLO COUNTY GATHERING IN THE GARDEN: A CELEBRATION OF FISCALINI RANCH PRESERVE Features wine tastings by Cayucos Cellars, Cutruzzola Vineyards, Harmony Cellars, Hearst Winery, Moonstone Cellars and Rocky Creek Cellars; plus appetizers and raffle prizes. Aug. 27, 6-8 p.m. fiscaliniranchpreserve.org. Cambria Nursery and Florist, 2801 Eton Rd., Cambria.

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Enjoy live music every Friday this summer. This season’s lineup is an eclectic mix of solo artists, dynamic duos, and bands. Wine for purchase. Food trucks on select Fridays. Fridays, 5-7 p.m. through Sept. 9 Varies by concert. 805-927-1625. harmonycellars.com. Harmony Cellars, 3255 Harmony Valley Rd., P.O. Box 2502, Harmony.

PRESQU’ILE WINERY: WINE CLUB Call or go online to make a reservation to taste at the winery or find more info on the winery’s Wine Club offerings. ongoing Presqu’ilepresquilewine.com/club/.Winery,5391Presqu’ile Dr., Santa Maria, 805-937-8110. TACO TUESDAY Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m. Wine Stone Inn, 255 W. Clark Ave., Orcutt, 805-332-3532, winestoneinn.com/. TEEN CUPCAKE DECORATING

MUSICNORTH COAST SLO COUNTY BUTTERCUP BOOGIE AT THE BAKERY WITH THE CLIFFNOTES The sweet, swampy sound of The Cliffnotes comes to Buttercup Bakery. Featuring former Big Brother and The Holding Co. lead singer (filling in for Janis Joplin), Valerie Johnson. Aug. 20, 4-6 p.m. Free. ‭805-226-6678‭. buttercupbakerymb.com. Buttercup Bakery and Cafe, 430 Morro Bay Blvd., Morro Bay. DOS SANTOS LIVE For the past five years, Dos Santos have been blending a vibrant amalgamation of salsa, jazz, psych rock, and Mexican folk. Aug. 19, 8 p.m. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, 805-225-1312, thesirenmorrobay.com/. FRIDAY TWILIGHT CONCERTS AT HARMONY CELLARS

THE JD PROJECT LIVE Part of the “Saturday in the Park” Summer Concert Series. Aug. 27, 6:30 p.m. Atascadero Lake Park, 9305 Pismo Ave., Atascadero.

“The Ken Hustad Trio” with Ken on bass, Tom Bethke on guitar, and Darrell Voss on drums and vibraphone. Aug. 21, 4-5:30 p.m. Free; donations appreciated. 805-5435451. First Presbyterian Church of San Luis Obispo, 981 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo, fpcslo.org.

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JESSE COOK LIVE Aug. 21, 7 p.m. The Fremont Theater, 1035 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-5468600, fremontslo.com.

PAT BENATAR AND NEIL GIRALDO Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo return to the Vina Robles Amphitheatre stage, as part of their De Novo 2022 Tour. Aug. 28, 6 p.m. $49.50-$79.50. 805-286-3680.

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vinaroblesamphitheatre.com. Vina Robles Amphitheatre, 3800 Mill Rd., Paso Robles. RESINATION: SPECIAL SUNDAY EVENT Reggae band Resination takes the stage for this special Sunday performance. Aug. 21, 1-3 p.m. 805-460-6252. colonymarketanddeli.com. Colony Market and Deli, 6040 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

SAN LUIS OBISPO BIRDIE: MUSIC FOR THE KID IN EVERYONE A children’s music project created by Teresa Gasca-Burk and Gary Burk. This duo has performed on the Central Coast for years at festivals, libraries, schools, and museums. Aug. 20, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. birdietunes. com. San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, 3450 Dairy Creek Rd., San Luis Obispo, 8055411400. DENIM, DIAMONDS, AND DAMON! Features local singer Damon Castillo, for an exclusive, live concert in the garden at The Monday Club. Ticket includes live concert, food and wine, raffle, and silent auction. Benefits The Monday Clubhouse Conservancy Preservation Fund, Raising a Reader and Fine Arts Awards. Aug. 28, 3:30-6:30 p.m. $75. themondayclubslo.org/DDD. The Monday Club, 1815 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-541-0594. DRUM CIRCLE SING-A-LONG Limited to 20 drummers. Learn African music through drumming and song. ongoing Spirits of Africa Gallery, 570 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, spiritsofafricagallery.com/. EASTON EVERETT BAND AT THE MARK BAR AND GRILL Rock, reggae, soul. Aug. 27, 6:30-9:30 p.m. eastoneverett.com. The Mark Bar and Grill, 673 Higuera St., Sal Luis Obispo, 805-439-4400. EASTON EVERETT SOLO Enjoy some indie-acoustic, live music. Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 p.m. eastoneverett.com. Big Sky Cafe, 1121 Broad Street, San Luis Obispo, (805)545-5401. EVERY DAY KINDNESS II: ZONGO ALL-STARS BENEFIT CONCERT The Estero Bay Kindness Coalition presents a family-friendly dance party Featuring Zongo All-Stars. The proceeds will help provide nutrition and healthy meals to the food insecure members of the Estero Bay community. Aug. 26, 6:30-10 p.m. my805tix. com. SLO Brew Rock, 855 Aerovista Pl., San Luis Obispo, 805-543-1843.

The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, 805-225-1312, thesirenmorrobay.com/. SONGWRITERS AT PLAY FEATURES EFFRON WHITE Weekly songwriters showcase features Nashville-based touring artist Effron White, and harmony singer Lauren Blaine. White has won song contests across the U.S., including the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas. Special guests include former Stereo Chicken Cynthia Ford, and Bradly Coats. Aug. 23, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. 805-204-6821. stevekey. com/events. Schooners, 171 North Ocean Ave, Cayucos. TIM SNIDER AND WOLFGANG TIMBER, WITH SURFEZA Aug. 27, 8 p.m. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, 805-225-1312, thesirenmorrobay.com/.

SONGWRITERS AT PLAY FEATURES AIREENE ESPIRITU “Stompin’, swayin’, timeless Americana” is how Aireene Espiritu describes her music. Joining for guest sets: local duo Leslie Rae Thompson and John Rickenbach, and Ventura County’s Kris Simeon. Host Steve Key plays a few too. Aug. 20, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Free. 805-204-6821. stevekey.com/events. Sculpterra Winery, 5015 Linne Rd., Paso Robles.

The band consists of vocalist Hilary Langdon, guitarist Forrestt Williams, saxophone/ clarinetist Laura Foxx, bassist Brian Lanzone, drummer Daryl VanDruff, with additional vocals from the talented Reese Galido. Aug. 21, 3-5:30 p.m. my805tix.com. Camp Ocean Pines, 1473 Randall Dr., Cambria, 805-927-0254. TMHA’S SUNSHINE CELEBRATION

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Want to learn how to decorate delicious cupcakes? Learn a few tips and tricks, then decorate your own cupcakes for a contest. Plenty of cupcakes will be eaten. Aug. 26, 4 p.m. 805-925-0994. engagedpatrons.org. Santa Maria Public Library (Altrusa Theater), 421 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria.

EASTON EVERETT TRIO Neo-folk pop. Aug. 19, 5-7 p.m. eastoneverett.com/. Grand Oaks Ballroom, Cava Robles RV Resort, 3800 Golden Hills Rd., Paso Robles, 805-242-4700. FANCIFUL FLUTE Symphony of the Vines starts off its 13th season with a chamber music concert featuring outstanding flutist Marley Eder. Joined by Susan Davies, piano, and Hilary Clark, cello, the program will feature a variety of works. Aug. 28, 5:30 p.m. my805tix.com. Cass Winery And Vineyard, 7350 Linne Rd., Paso Robles, 805-239-1730.

FLAVOR PACKET WITH EASTON EVERETT Contemporary jazz. Aug. 21, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. eastoneverett.com. Parrish Family Vineyard, 3590 Adelaida Road, Paso Robles, 805-296-3027.

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The Blimp Pilots, founded in the late 90’s by Craig Antista, features Craig’s driving rock guitar sound along with Greg Boswell’s jazz guitar style as well as Greg and Craig’s vocals on lead. Aug. 21, 4 p.m. my805tix.com. Cass Winery And Vineyard, 7350 Linne Rd., Paso Robles, 805-239-1730. COLLECTIVE SOUL X SWITCHFOOT Collective Soul didn’t let the pandemic get in the way of their 26-year tradition of non-stop touring, and now they’re getting ready to head out on the road again. In addition to various headlining shows, the band will join forces with Switchfoot. Aug. 20, 5:30 p.m. $45-$79.50. 805-286-3680. Amphitheatre,concerts/2022/collective-soul-x-switchfoot.vinaroblesamphitheatre.com/VinaRobles3800MillRd.,PasoRobles.

FRUITION WITH GOODNIGHT TEXAS Aug. 23, 7 p.m. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, 805-225-1312, thesirenmorrobay.com/. IDOL X (THE ULTIMATE BILLY IDOL SHOW) Aug. 26, 7:30 p.m. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, 805225-1312, thesirenmorrobay.com/.

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SLO FARMERS MARKET Hosts more than 60 vendors. Saturdays, 8-10:45 a.m. World Market Parking Lot, 325 Madonna Rd., San Luis Obispo. SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY PISMO BEACH FARMERS MARKET Features various vendors selling their goods. Wednesdays, 4-7 p.m. Pismo Beach Farmers Market, Pismo Pier, Pismo Beach, 805. 773.4382.

LIVE MUSIC WITH GUITAR WIZ AT LUNADA GARDEN BISTRO “Guitar Wizard” Billy Foppiano plays a wide range of music, including blues, R&B, classic rock, and more. Fourth Sunday of every month, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 805-900-5444. Lunada Garden Bistro, 78 N. Ocean Ave., Cayucos. OPEN MIC NIGHT Come join us each Wednesday for Open Mic Night in the downstairs dining area. Grab some friends and show off your talents. Food and drink service will be available. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Free. 805-9953883. schoonerscayucos.com. Schooners, 171 North Ocean Ave, Cayucos. RUZZ GUITAR’S BLUES REVUE Aug. 25, 7 p.m. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, 805-225-1312, thesirenmorrobay.com/. THE SIREN SUNDAY JAZZ JAM Aug. 28, 4 p.m.

FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERTS Wednesdays, 12-1 p.m. bigbigslo.com. Atascadero Lake Park, 9305 Pismo Ave., Atascadero. FRIDAY DJ SERIES Features different DJ each Friday. Presented by Traffic Records. Fridays, 6-9 p.m. Ancient Owl Beer Garden, 6090 El Camino Real, suite C, Atascadero, 805-460-6042, ancientowlbeergarden.com.

host Steve Key shares the stage with SoCal folk-rocker Michael Ubaldini, and NorCal’s Jimmy Boy Thompson. Inthe-round, Nashville-style, swapping songs and stories. Joining for guest sets: former Stereo Chicken Cynthia Ford, and newcomer Perry West. Aug. 27, 12-3:30 p.m. Free. 805-204-6821. stevekey.com/events. Sculpterra Winery, 5015 Linne Rd., Paso Robles.

Enjoy an afternoon with the Mother Corn Shuckers at Sea Pines Golf Resort. VIP tickets are available for purchase to support Central Coast Hotline. Festivities include a cornhole tournament, golf ball drop, food for purchase, and a rockin’ concert on the green. Aug. 20, 12-6 p.m. $20-$100. 805-5406564. The Clubhouse Grill at Sea Pines, 250 Howard Ave., Los Osos. NORTH SLO COUNTY BARREL ROOM CONCERT: THE BLIMP PILOTS

LIVE MUSIC AT RAGTAG WINE CO. Enjoy live music by local favorites. Wine available by the flight, glass, or bottle. Thursdays-Saturdays, 6-9 p.m. Ragtag Wine Co., 779 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, 805-439-0774, ragtagwineco.com. LIVE MUSIC FROM GUITAR WIZ BILLY FOPPIANO AND MAD DOG Join “Guitar Wiz” Billy Foppiano and his trusty side kick Mad Dog for a mix of blues, R&B, and more. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. 805-544-2100. Bon Temps Creole Cafe, 1819 Osos Street, San Luis Obispo, bontempscreolecafe.com/index.htm. LIVE MUSIC WITH BAY LOVE Come get a drink and a bite to eat while enjoying acoustic duo Bay Love. Aug. 26, 6-9 p.m. 805-215-3669. slopublicmarket.com/ events. SLO Public Market, Bonetti Ranch, San Luis Obispo. LIVE MUSIC WITH IMUA Come enjoy some R&B and soul with popular central coast band, IMUA. They’ll be performing in the Courtyard. Aug. 27, 1-3 p.m. 805-2153669. slopublicmarket.com/events. SLO Public Market, Bonetti Ranch, San Luis Obispo. MAC DEMARCO LIVE Aug. 24, 7 p.m. The Fremont Theater, 1035 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-5468600, fremontslo.com. SUNDAY MUSIC AT RAGTAG WINE CO. Enjoy live music by local favorites. Wine available by the flight, glass, or bottle. Sundays, 4-7 p.m. Ragtag Wine Co., 779 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, 805-439-0774, ragtagwineco.com. THE TIPSY GYPSIES LIVE AT CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA Concerts in the Plaza, presented by Sunset Honda and hosted by Downtown SLO, is the largest free concert series on the Central Coast. All concerts are free to the public. Aug. 19, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Free. downtownslo.com/events/concerts. Mission Plaza, Downtown, San Luis Obispo. TRUTH ABOUT SEAFOOD LIVE AT CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA Concerts in the Plaza, presented by Sunset Honda and hosted by Downtown SLO, is the largest free concert series on the Central Coast. All concerts are free to the public. Aug. 26, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Free. downtownslo.com/events/concerts. Mission Plaza, Downtown, San Luis Obispo. SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY MOTHER CORN SHUCKERS: LIVE AT THE LIGHTHOUSE Enjoy some of the Central Coast’s very finest musical talent performing on the area’s most spectacular stage, perched high atop the blue Pacific Ocean. Aug. 27 2-5:30 p.m. my805tix.com. Point San Luis Lighthouse, 1 Lighthouse Rd., Avila Beach. SONGWRITERS AT PLAY FEATURE TWO DUOS Nashville-based duo Effron White and Lauren Blaine will share the Puffers stage with Central Coast duo Steve Key and Bob Liepman. Aug. 25, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Free. 805-204-6821. stevekey.com/events. Puffers of Pismo, 781 Price St., Pismo Beach. SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS 805 FUNK’N SOUL FESTIVAL Featuring live bands, including The Bar-Kays, Club Nouveau, Lakeside, and more. Aug. 20 $40-$125. Santa Maria Fairpark, 937 S. Thornburg St., Santa Maria. ∆ 18 – 25

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vinaroblesamphitheatre.com. Vina Robles Amphitheatre, 3800 Mill Rd., Paso Robles. PHOEBE BRIDGERS Phoebe Bridgers has announced more live shows as part of her Reunion Tour, including a stop at Vina Robles Amphitheatre. She received Billboard’s 2022 Women in Music Trailblazer Award and revealed plans for her own monthly radio show, Saddest Factory Radio. Aug. 27, 6 p.m. $54.50. 805-286-3680.

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Seasons change Valley Art Gallery presents The Miracle of Spring and SUNsational Summer, which will remain on display at the Santa Maria Airport through the end of September. Each artwork on display is available for sale, with prices ranging from $65 to $450. The airport is located at 3217 Terminal Drive, SantaFeaturedMaria.artist Lynnae Lane has worked as a children’s art teacher in cities along the Central Coast, including Orcutt and Nipomo. She currently teaches art classes in Arroyo Grande. Email lynne.art.now@gmail.com for more info.

GARDEN SCENES Lynnae Lane based about half of the paintings on display at the Santa Maria Airport on plants found in a garden close to her home in Orcutt. The other half were inspired by Lane’s “beautiful secret garden” in Fresno, where she lived before moving to Orcutt about four years ago.

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PLAYFUL PAINTINGS “I don’t want my paintings to be too serious,” said artist Lynnae Lane, who described her paintings featured in The Miracle of Spring and SUNsational Summer as “whimsical, enchanting, playful, colorful, and joyful.”

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AIRPORT ARTIST Artist and children’s art teacher Lynnae Lane is the featured artist of a new exhibit, titled The Miracle of Spring and SUNsational Summer, at the Santa Maria Airport. The show features a collection of Lane’s acrylic paintings and watercolor prints.

The Great MelodramaAmericanpresents Sand In Our Shorts: A Night of Sketch Comedy and Song Performances of Sand In Our Shorts: A Night of Sketch Comedy and Song, which debuted in mid-August, will be held through Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Great American Melodrama in Oceano. The two-act production is described as a beach-themed vaudeville and variety show, similar to the Melodrama’s previous sketch comedy showcase, Comedy Tonight, held last year, according to press materials. The show will run weekly, every Wednesday through Sunday americanmelodrama.com(check for specific showtimes and tickets) through its end date. Ticket prices start at $30. Discounts are available for seniors, students, and children. Season passes are also available for purchase. The Melodrama’s popular snack bar opens half an hour prior to each performance of the show. For more info on Sand In Our Shorts: A Night of Sketch Comedy and Song and upcoming productions slated for the Great American Melodrama’s current season, call (805) 489-2499. The venue is located at 1863 Front St., Oceano. By the Sea Productions brings Agatha Christie classic, Murder on the Orient Express, to the stage By the Sea Productions presents its production of Murder on the Orient Express, which runs Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. through Sunday, Sept. 4, at St. Peter’s by the Sea Episcopal Church in Morro Bay. This theatrical adaptation of English author Agatha Christie’s classic mystery follows Belgian detective Hercule Poirot—the star of 33 novels, more than 50 short stories, and two original plays written between 1920 and 1975. In Murder on the Orient Express, Poirot finds himself investigating a murder on a train, with “an assortment of intriguing passenger suspects,” according to press materials. The local production is helmed by director Sandy Bosworth, who described the show’s ensemble cast as “stellar“ in a press materials from By The Sea Productions. “The audience will be in for a delightfully entertaining evening, whether they are Agatha Christie devotees or just fans of live theater,” Bosworth said in a statement.Ticketsto Murder on the Orient Express are $25 each and are available at the door or online in advance at my805tix.com. Visit bytheseaproductions.org or call (805) 776-3287 for more info on the production, as well as details on future shows hosted by By The Sea Productions. St. Peter’s by the Sea Episcopal Church is located at 545 Shasta Ave., Morro Bay. ∆ —Caleb Wiseblood

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Between teaching art classes, painting, and gardening, Lane enjoys hiking, paddleboarding, and ballroom dancing during her free time. Lane also creates greeting cards and beaded and glass jewelry. This October, she plans to participate in a craft fair in Cambria. “I like to say I’m living a fruitful life, versus busy. Because busy just means spinning wheels. And I’m not, I have a purpose,” Lane said. “My purpose is to inspire children and to inspire everyone around me to just really enjoy the beauty of nature.” Lane said she hopes her new art exhibit at the airport will encourage viewers to visit the Orcutt garden—located across the street from the Old Town Market—that inspired several of her“Ipaintings.hopeeverybody gets an opportunity to drive by the Enchanted Orcutt Window Garden on Clark Avenue in Old Town Orcutt and just really appreciate the immense colors and everything that’s blooming from it, especially right now this summer,” said Lane, a member of Valley Art Gallery, which hosts rotating artist showcases at the Santa Maria Airport. “I’m so happy to share this exhibit with everyone, especially my art students,” Lane said. “I’m hoping they get a chance to come here and see what their art teacher has been up to.” Lane described her paintings featured in The Miracle of Spring and SUNsational Summer as “whimsical, enchanting, playful, colorful, and joyful.” “I don’t want my paintings to be too serious,” said Lane, who added that the scenic artworks currently on display at the airport don’t fully reveal her wide range as an artist. “I also paint abstracts, but looking at all this, you’d have no idea, right?” ∆ Send gardening tips to Calendar Editor Caleb Wiseblood at cwiseblood@newtimesslo.com.

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R oses, poppies, sunflowers, and cacti are among the subjects found in Lynnae Lane’s paintings on display in a new garden-themed exhibition. Lane based about half of the show’s featured paintings on plants found in a garden close to her home in Orcutt. The other half were inspired by Lane’s “beautiful secret garden” in Fresno, where she lived before moving to Orcutt about four years ago. The garden was located in her former backyard, which she described as “a complete open canvas” before she began planting“Nothingflowers.wasin it except lawn. The only thing green was lawn,” Lane said, during a tour of her new art exhibit at the Santa Maria Airport. “By the time I lived there for nine years, you could not see the fence. The whole place was bursting with color and living, live art.” Lane’s exhibit debuted at the airport at the beginning of August and will remain on display through the end of September. The exhibit is titled The Miracle of Spring and SUNsational Summer, and features a collection of Lane’s acrylic paintings and watercolor prints.Each artwork on display is available for sale, with prices ranging from $65 to $450. “Every piece represents different feelings, emotions, the time of the year, or the time in my life,” Lane said. For example, the artist recalled how her painting, Botanical Beauties, reminds her of the spring of 2020, around the start of the pandemic.“WhenI was in the process of painting Botanical Beauties in my home, that was when COVID hit really hard,” Lane said, who added that it was so quiet during that time in her neighborhood that “you could hear a dime drop outside.” For more than 25 years, Lane has worked as a children’s art teacher. She’s taught classes in cities along the Central Coast, including Orcutt and Nipomo. She currently teaches art classes in Arroyo Grande. “I mostly teach TK through sixth graders,” Lane said. “It is my privilege to teach children and also share the inspiration of creativity and thinking outside the box.”

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HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG (PG-13) Daily except Tues: 4:15 $10 per Morro Bay ONE M O R E WEEK! Starring: Diane Keaton, Taylor Paige, Elizabeth Lail, Loretta Devine, Dustin Milligan Daily @ 4:30pm & 7:00pm • Sunday @ 2:00pm & 4:30pm PG-13 MORRO BAY BLVD · Closed Monday 805-772-2444 · In his feature-length debut, writerdirector John Patton Ford helms this thriller about Emily (Aubrey Plaza), a young woman swimming in debt who’s drawn into crime. (93 min.) Glen Emily works as an independent contractor for a catering company, loading up tin trays of food and driving them to offices, where she sets up lunch for impatient and entitled office workers. It’s menial, dead-end work, and the pay doesn’t even cover the interest on her $70,000 in student loans. She’s trying hard to find a better job, but she’s got a felony on her record that follows her around like a dark cloud. When a coworker gives her a number to call, guaranteeing her $200 for an hour’s work, she agrees and soon takes her first step into crime, using a stolen credit card number and fake ID to “buy” a TV from a big-box store. Youcef (Theo Rossi), who runs the credit card fraud scam, promises her more easy money, and she’s hooked. Emily’s perceived victimhood—being cut out of a better job and mistreated by her catering boss—is all the rationalization she needs to dig deeper into the criminal life. As the dangers increase and her smarts get her out of one situation after another, crime becomes her way to fight life’s unfairness. It’s a tense, gritty story with a protagonist we sympathize with … up to a point. The deeper she goes, the darker she gets. Anna There really are no winners here. Even though Emily finds some “success” with her new criminal enterprise, she also can’t help but let greed muck it up. Youcef gives her some pretty basic instructions, but when Emily starts to bend the rules, she puts herself, Youcef, and his business partner/cousin at risk. Granted, it sucks to throw $400 toward your student debt only to find out that it didn’t even cover the interest you’ve accrued, but I can’t say that Emily’s quick and dirty way of getting more cash actually ends up helping her pay off anything at all. Instead, it leads to mounting tension and strife. I really like Plaza, and I like that she takes roles that portray monumentally flawed people.

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Ingrid Goes West comes to mind, a movie where she plays a different but even more off-the-rails character. Emily is grounded in reality, and the grinding every day of her seemingly dreary life is rough. Unfortunately, it seems that the poor decision-making part of her brain has no intention of going anywhere. Glen Emily’s absolutely a morally flawed character, and operating in the criminal underworld is bound to bring her in contact with other amoral people. The worse these people are to her, the worse she must become to survive. Plaza seems drawn to these roles—people who feel like victims who become the victimizer. She’s great here. Plaza depicts Emily’s aggrieved rage as always bubbling just under the surface, ready to explode out. This is a heck of a debut for writerdirector Ford, and Plaza has a producing credit. They’ve created a tight, intense story that will feel especially relevant to recent college grads crushed by debt and underemployed. The only thing missing in this thriller, for me, is a moral lesson. Maybe that’s the point: Morals are social constructs, and life isn’t fair. Anna It’s pretty clear they weren’t looking to leave the audience with an overall feeling of justice or satisfaction, which is a really bold choice for a filmmaker and one I applaud. Life is messy, and a lot of the time rash decisions made in a pressure cooker lead to some pretty rough results. Plaza’s characters are almost painfully understandable. Desperation breeds poor choices and compromised morals. The fact of the matter is that our survival mode kicks in and takes over—even if that means leaving those we care about in the dust sometimes. Emily is the cat in a bag just clawing and clawing at a way out. I love that this film didn’t attempt to draw itself out for a longer run time—this was a tight and intense 90-minute film, and it stayed attention-grabbing the whole time. ∆

Former Arroyo Grande resident Justice A. Whitaker directs this documentary about Milestone Comics, which in 1993 through DC Comics brought severely underrepresented Black comic characters into the mainstream with the Static Shock series, created by African American writers and artists Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis, and Derek T. Dingle. Through interviews with those involved, interspersed with the amazing artwork and storylines invented by the Milestone creative team, the film chronicles the birth of Milestone and its groundbreaking work. It’s set against the backdrop of a changing culture informed by rap and hip-hop music. Justice’s brother Josh Whitaker, also formerly of Arroyo Grande and known as Bicaso, a rapper with the Oakland group Legends,Livingsupplied the film’s soundtrack in collaboration with musician Michael Louis Aaberg. There’s a short clip in the film of SLO Town taken during the local BLM protests, and the last part of the film is about Milestone Comics, which eventually disappeared, being rebooted by surviving co-founders Denys Cowan and Derek Dingle. If you’re interested in comics and/or Black history (aka— American history), check out this slickly directed documentary by a former local. (99 min.) ∆ —Glen

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EMILY THE CRIMINAL What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Anna? Full price What’s it worth, Glen? Full price Where’s it showing? The Palm Theatre in San Luis Obispo Ron Howard directs this true-life drama about a dozen young Thai soccer players and their coach who become trapped in a cave after a monsoon arrives unseasonably early. It was international news when it occurred in 2018 in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave, a popular attraction that’s considered safe during the dry season. Though I remember the story, I didn’t follow it closely, and if you’re the same, I won’t spoil how it unfolds—but suffice it to say, Howard does a masterful job directing this taut thriller that seemed to fly by despite its nearly 2 1/2 hour run time. I had no idea the lengths required to try to rescue these kids. Some of the first divers to go in expected to find bodies, not live children. Much of the story centers on British cave rescue divers Rick Stanton (Viggo Mortensen) and John Volanthen (Colin Farrell), who were initially dismissed as amateurs by the Thai SEAL Team that initially entered the cave in search of the boys. Between the authorities in charge, the kids’ parents, the surrounding villagers, and the volunteers, there are deep mines of emotion to explore, and Howard spelunks every crevice. (147 min.) —Glen

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“It’s always a thrill to go on tour,” Ed Roland said in press materials, “but this year is going to be so special because we get to be with not only our friends but a great band, Switchfoot! Southern boys meet Southern California boys, which will be a fun time for all!”

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Cook’s hook It’s been more than 25 years since a reluctant Canadian musician decided to reveal his music to the public. “If you had asked me at age 22, I would have said that I would never, never make music for the public,” Jesse Cook said in press materials. “I would have told you that the public is much too fickle; they may love you one minute and forget you the next. Well, it turns out I did the thing I said I’d never do, and somehow it’s worked out.” In 1995, he released his debut album, Tempest, and since then he’s become a global guitar sensation with accolades such as Acoustic Guitar magazine’s Player’s Choice Silver Award, 11 Juno Award nominations—he won in 2001 for Free Fall—a Gemini Award, and 10 platinum and gold studio albums. His new record is Libre “I wrote and recorded Libre during the pandemic when, like most people, I was longing for freedom,” Cook shared. “My music was my escape from the four walls that surrounded me, and the storm that was swirling outside.” Jesse Cook plays the Fremont Theater on Sunday, Aug. 21 (8 p.m.; all ages; $41.50 to $66.50 at evenbtbrite.com). Also this week at the Fremont, see Los Angeles-based alt-rock duo The Score and Manhattan-based alt-rock duo Dreamers on Saturday, Aug. 20 (7:30 p.m.; all ages; $26.50 to $34 at seetickets.us). Come to Fruition Numbskull and Good Medicine present Oregon-based folk-rock and bluegrass act Fruition at The Siren on Tuesday, Aug. 23 (7 p.m.; 21-and-older; $20 presale at eventbrite.com or $25 day of show) with Goodnight, Texas opening. The band’s newest album, Broken at the Break of Day, “shines a light on all five members of the band, whether it’s on the traded lead vocals of ‘Dawn’ or the irresistible rhythms of ‘Where Can I Turn,’” press materials explain. “As it’s been for more than a decade, their sound is hard to define, but the songwriting and the harmonies tie their diverse influences together.” They apparently recorded the new album in record time: “We pushed ourselves like never before, but in the end, it all turned out great,” Jay Cobb Anderson (electric guitar, vocals) said. “It was a bit more of a hectic process to get things done and recorded. I can’t believe it sounds so good when we did it all so fast.”

Aug. 21 INCENDIARY PICKING Oregon-based folk-rock and bluegrass bandits Fruition play a Numbskull and Good Medicine show on Aug. 23 at The Siren.

Also at The Siren Chicago quintet Dos Santos plays The Siren Friday, Aug. 19 (8 p.m.; 21-andolder; $15 at eventbrite.com), bringing their “vibrant amalgamation of cumbia, salsa, jazz, psych rock, and Mexican folk.” Soul Dust spins an all-vinyl after-party. Alt-country, roots rock, and “Ameripolitan cool” Way Out West Band plays The Siren on Saturday, Aug. 20 (2:30 p.m.; free), and later that night Grateful Dead-inspired act Rich Mahan & Mostly Dead (8 p.m.; free) takes the stage.

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VIBRATING Georgia-based post-grunge heroes Collective Soul play Vina Robles Amphitheatre on Aug. 20 , touring in support of Vibrating , their 11th studio album just released last week.

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Collective Soul has a classic “the little engine that could” origin story. They formed in 1992 and released their debut album, Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid, on the small indie label Rising Storm Records in 1993. Then the single “Shine” suddenly started heating up on the radio. Atlantic Records came calling, re-released the band’s debut, and they were on their way. In March of 1995, they released their “true” debut album, the self-titled Collective Soul, which spent the next 76 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, sending tracks such as “December,” “The World I Know,” and “Where the River Flows” to No. 1 on the mainstream rock charts. Like most bands that stick around awhile, they’ve had their ups and downs, some side projects and personnel changes, but core members Ed Roland (lead vocals), Dean Roland (rhythm guitar), and Will Turpin (bass) remain, now accompanied by Johnny Rabb (drummer), and Jesse Triplett (lead guitar). They all sing background vocals, too. Though I haven’t heard the whole album, from what I have heard, Vibrating finds the band in fine form. See Collective Soul and Switchfoot when they co-headline the Vina Robles Amphitheatre with opener Jade Jackson on Saturday, Aug. 20 (7:30 p.m.; $45 to $79.50 at ticketmaster.com).

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More music … It’s a big weekend for Gypsy jazz act The Tipsy Gypsies, who play a free Concerts in the Plaza show on Friday, Aug. 19 (5:30 p.m.; all ages; free), with special opening act Devin Welsh at 4:30 p.m.), in the Mission Plaza, and then head north to play Camp Ocean Pines on Sunday, Aug. 21, for a Cambria Concerts Unplugged (3 to 5:30 p.m.; all ages; $30 general; $10 students 12 to 17; under 12 free at my805tix.com). If you dig the Django Reinhardt sound funneled into well-penned pop and blues originals and presented by a stellar group of musicians, you’ll be in the right place. Bandleader Forrestt Williams is a sparkling guitarist who writes many of the band’s originals. Lead singer Hilary Langdon has a silky and emotive voice. Add in backing vocalist Reese Galido, saxophone/clarinetist Laura Foxx, bassist Brian Lanzone, and drummer Daryl VanDruff and you’ve got a band that’s won New Times Music Awards for Best Album, Best Live Band, and Reader’s Choice.Boogie blues champs The Cliffnotes play Buttercup Bakery & Cafe in Morro Bay (430 Morro Bay Blvd. next to Bay Theater) this Saturday, Aug. 20 (4 to 6 p.m.; all ages; free). Bandleader Cliff “Crawdaddy” Stepp has New Orleans roots and has written songs for 49 Special and Pure Prairie League. Frontwoman Valerie Johnson stepped into Janis Joplin’s shoes as vocalist for Big Brother & the Holding Company. Expect an energetic powerhouse performance. Jazz Vespers returns to the historic First Presbyterian Church of SLO sanctuary on Sunday, Aug. 21 (4 p.m.; all ages; free/donation). The Ken Hustad Trio featuring Hustad on bass, Tom Bethke on guitar, and Darrell Voss on drums and vibraphone—will be cooking up straight-ahead jazz. All three players are master musicians. ∆ Contact Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com. from page 25 Sound out! Send music and club information gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.to The play by the SLO Mission on Aug. 19 Cambria Concerts Unplugged show at Camp Ocean Pines on Aug. 21

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FROM LAND AND SEA San Luis Obispo’s Danior Catering will enter the festival fray, vying for the title of “Best of Festival” avocado-inspired dish, while also curating a multi-course, locally sourced welcome dinner in partnership with Daou Vineyards.

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PASSIONATE PLANNER Hannah Lique Naitove’s Project XO is a date-night planning and concierge service catering to couples, small groups, and corporations throughout the Central Coast and beyond. She helped plan the revamped Avocado Margarita festival.

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As restrictions loosened, she continued, the chamber refocused on assisting area businesses and reenvisioned its flagship festival.“Welearned a lot over the 10-plus years producing the street festival,” Crawford said, “and one thing that stuck in our minds for this year is that closing the Embarcadero street to traffic and fencing the festival perimeter to maintain compliance with ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Control) was a hardship for the businesses along the festival frontage. “Also, the sheer size of the event had grown to a place where we were doubling the population of the city in one day,” she said.“By activating two different venues on either side of the waterfront, we are encouraging festival attendees to circulate through the city on foot, by using the Morro Bay Trolley or using bikes, or paddle vessels to approach via the bay,” Crawford said. At its core, she said the festival will transform a traditionally slow weekend in regard to tourism into a thriving marketplace,Crawfordis particularly excited to engage the services of Lique Naitove, who plans to wow attendees with a slew of elevated dining and entertainment options. “We wanted to make sure that we were really highlighting our amazing local resources, including our avocados that are shipped all over the country, and our local harbor that is a hub for some of the finest fish,” Lique Naitove said. “Therefore, we have asked some of the best chefs in the area, including chef Spencer [Johnston] with Danior Catering, Pair With Chef Rachel [Ponce], chef Kean [McCabe] from Earth and Oven, chef Justin Lewis, and chef Nicholas [Martinez] from The Flavor Fool, to name a few, to highlight their best avocadoMixologistsdishes.”from local spots such as Rod & Hammer’s SLO Stills, Rasta Rita Margarita and Beverage Truck, Nuda Tequila, Yes Cocktail Co., and many more will be crafting fresh margaritas. Chefs, mixologists, retail vendors, and live music will be featured all three days at Tidelands Park, while satellite Saturday-only events will take place atop a stage being built adjacent to Morro“TheRock.morning [at Morro Rock] features a workout class with celebrity fitness entrepreneur Kelly Brabants, traveling all the way from Boston,” Crawford said. Brabants, founder of Booty by Brabants, will be accompanied by nationally known iHeartRadio hip-hop artist DJ Pup Dawg, who will continue performing throughout the“Atafternoon.night,we have booked SLO homegrown and wildly positive and successful nationally known band Próxima Parada to headline,” Crawford said, with support from Australian soul singer EJ AdditionalWorland.highlights include VIP lounges—one dockside aboard the Chablis —with complimentary food at both locales, family movie night at Tidelands, and a welcome dinner at the Morro Bay Boatyard featuring Danior Catering and Daou Vineyards. Danior Catering co-owners chef Jonhston and sommelier Lannon Rust will be creating an extravagant multicourse dinner with “world-class product from our local farmers, ranchers, and fishermen,” Rust said. “Guests are in for a realLiquetreat.”Naitove said she is appreciative of the opportunity to helm the revamped event “and bring something different to theHertable.”ultimate goals for the festival, Project XO, and herself are to generate business—for herself and others—and “to bring joy, love, and happiness into other people’s lives.” ∆ This señorita—Flavor Writer Cherish Whyte—needs a margarita. Reach her at cwhyte@newtimesslo.com.

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After a two-year hiatus, Morro Bay’s annual festival spotlighting avocados and margaritas is getting a makeover from date night-planning guru Hannah Lique Naitove. The proprietor of San Luis Obispobased Project XO turned heads at the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce recently when she partnered with fellow chamber members Toast the Coast and Central Coast Lifts to set up luxury experiences for clients aboard their respectiveImpressedvessels.byProject XO’s private yacht charters and picnics aboard electric boats, chamber President and CEO Erica Crawford enlisted Lique Naitove’s services for future projects, culminating with the chamber-sponsored 2022 Avocado Margarita Food & Drink Festival.LiqueNaitove possessed “a skill set we felt would match a smaller, more upscale event,” Crawford said. “Hannah has been with us every step of the way on this reimagining journey as an independent contractor.”“Iwasextremely honored and really liked the direction … the Morro Bay chamber was going post-pandemic,” particularly in regard to bolstering the local economy, Lique Naitove said. “[Crawford] mentioned we were not going to be able to use the same footprint as previous years,” she continued. “Therefore, my creative brain began spinning, and with the input of the Chamber of Commerce and Visit Morro Bay, we decided we wanted to do a three-day festival this year vs. a one-day festival, and that we were going to create two locations”—Tidelands Park and Morro Rock. The event, slated for Sept. 9 to 11, will also trim crowd size from 10,000 to 3,500, avoid traffic closures along the waterfront, and add unique experiences. Established in 2006, the original festival lined Morro’s Bay’s Embarcadero on the second Saturday of every September through 2019, then went dark for two years due to COVID-19 guidance,”informedduringbusinessesourdown[the]difficultforced“Essentially,restrictions.weweretomakethedecisiontocanceleventanddoubleoneffortstokeepmembersandlocalopenandsafethepandemic,ofpublichealthCrawfordsaid.

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The 2022 Avocado Margarita Food & Drink Festival will stretch across Morro Bay, from its primary location at Tidelands Park to satellite events at Morro Rock. Both locales will feature VIP winemakerexclusivewillBaynearbyfloating—andlounges—onetheMorroBoatyardhostanwelcomedinner. PHOTO BY JILL HEWSTON PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTO COURTESY OF DANIOR CATERING 2022

The Avocado Margarita Food & Drink Festival will be held Sept. 9 to 11 at various locations throughout Morro Bay. Access the full itinerary and purchase individual tickets and passes at avomargfest.com. Follow the festival on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @avomargfest.

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The following person is doing busi ness as, SLO BUDGET CATERING, 3563 Sueldo, Suite H, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Manuel Castillo (522 South Y Place, Lompoc, CA 93436). This busi ness is conducted by An Individual /s/ Manuel Castillo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-19-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 07-19-27. July 28, August 4, 11, & 18, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1700 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/20/2022)NewFiling

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The following person is doing busi ness as, SOCIAL WELLNESS, 2805 Black Oak Drive, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Black Oak Management, LLC (2805 Black Oak Drive, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Black Oak Management, LLC, Sunni Vogel, Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-20-22. hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk A. Webster, Deputy. Exp. 07-20-27. July 28, August 4, 11, & 18, 2022

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The following person is doing busi ness as, ALL 4 ONE STEAMING, 241 Corbett Cyn Rd., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Nicholas A Wells (241 Corbett Cyn Rd., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Nicholas A Wells. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-19-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 07-19-27. July 28, August 4, 11, & 18, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1697 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/17/2022)NewFiling

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The following person is doing busi ness as, FAOUR POWER DETAIL, 350 Mesa Rd., Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Joseph Edmon Faour (350 Mesa Rd., Nipomo, CA 93444). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Joseph Edmon Faour. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-06-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the state ment on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 07-06-27. July 28, August 4, 11, & 18, 2022

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The following person is doing busi ness as, EL GUACAMOLE MEXICAN FOOD INC, 1013 Running Stag Way, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. El Guacamole Mexican Food LLC. (1013 Running Stag Way, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This busi ness is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ El Guacamole Mexican Food LLC, Maria A Gutierrez, Managing Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-01-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk, S. King, Deputy. Exp. 07-01-27. July 28, August 4, 11, & 18, 2022

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The following person is doing busi ness as, STONE RIVER RANCH, 6825 Estrella Rd., San Miguel, CA 93451. San Luis Obispo County. Gina L Stone (6825 Estrella Rd., San Miguel, CA 93451). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Gina L Stone. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-1322. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk A. Webster, Deputy. Exp. 07-13-27. July 28, August 4, 11, & 18, 2022

The following person is doing busi ness as, FIFTY FIFTY RANCH HOUSE, 5050 Caballeros Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Brice Waterman, ji Wei Long (5050 Caballeros Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Ji Wei Long. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-19-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 07-19-27. July 28, August 4, 11, & 18, 2022

The following person is doing busi ness as, MOTIF, 1277 Brighton Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433. San Luis Obispo County. Hilary E. Henderson (1277 Brighton Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business is conduct ed by An Individual /s/ Hilary E Hen derson, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-19-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk A. Bautista, Deputy. Exp. 07-19-27. July 28, August 4, 11, & 18, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1693 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/13/2022)NewFiling

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NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO) Giatou Yang, an individual; Yia Yang, an individual; Thao Dylan, an individual; Nathan Vang Kou Thoa aka Nathan Yang Kou Thoa; Dylan Kongchai Thoa; and Does 3 through 50, inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE):ElviraSilva CASE NUMBER (Número de caso): 22CVP-0141 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 re sponse 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 Califor nia 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 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin es cuchar su version. Lea la informacion a Tienecontinuacion.30DIAS CALENDARIOS despu es de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una repuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respu esta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es po sible que haya un formulario que usted puede usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formuleriors de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de latiffnumberPaso901CourtSan(ElThecaso):22CVP-0141CASEcortegravamendceunavalorrecuperacionponercuotasladeen(www.sucorte.ca.gov)delawhelpcalifornia.org),degruposfinesuntenercumplapagardeabogado,gadorecomendableycorteperderpresentaexenciondedemassuespanol),(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/Californiaenlabibliotecadeleyesdecondadooenlacortequelequedecerca.Sinopuedepagarlacuotapresentacion,pidaalsecretariolacortequeledeunformulariodedepagodecuotas.Sinosurepuestaatiempo,puedeelcasoporincumplimientoylalapodraquitarsusueldo,dinerobienessinmasadvertencia.Hayotrosrequistaslegales.Esquellameaunaboinmediamente.Sinoconoceaunpuedellamaraunservicioremisionaabogados.Sinopuedeaunabogado,esposiblequeconlosrequisitosparaobservicioslegalesgratuitosdeprogramadeservicioslegalessindelucro.PuedeencontrarestossinfinesdelucroenelsitiowebCaliforniaLegalServices,(www.enelCentroAyudadelasCortesdeCalifornia,oponiendosecontactoconlacorteoelcolegioabogadoslocales.AVISO:Porley,cortetienederechoareclamariasyloscostosexentosporimungravamensobrecualquierde$10,000omasderecibidamedianteunacuerdoaoconsesiondeartitrajeenuncasoderechocivll.Tienequepagareldelacorteantesdequelapuedadesecharelcaso.NUMBER:(Númerodenameandaddressofthecourtis:nombreydireccióndelacorteson)LuisObispoCountySuperiorParkStreetRobles,CA93446Thename,address,andtelephoneofplaintiff’sattorney,orplainwithoutanattorney,is:(Elnombre,direcciónynúmerodetelefonodel abogado del demandante, o del de mandante que no tiene abogado, es): Mario A. Jaurez Esq. 205350 Jaurez, Adam & Farley, LLP 625 E. Chapel Street Santa Maria, CA 93454

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The following person is doing busi ness as, DOUBLE HELIX DESIGN LLC, DOUBLE HELIX DESIGN, 569 Diego Rivera Ln., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Double Helix Design LLC (569 Diego Rivera Ln., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This busi ness is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Double Helix Design LLC, Ryan Meffert, CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-19-22. hereby certify that this copy is a cor rect copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 07-19-27. July 28, August 4, 11, & 18, 2022

The following person is doing busi ness as, THE A.M.S MUSIC, 1245 Drake Circle, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405. San Luis Obispo County. Adrian T Libertini (1245 Drake Circle, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405), Mariko Langan (415 18th Ave., Kirkland, WA 98033). This business is conducted by A General Partnership /s/ Adrian T Libertini, General Partner. This state ment was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-11-22. hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 07-11-27. August 4, 11, 18, & 25, 2022

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The following person is doing business as, SWELL THERAPY + WELLNESS, 1411 Marsh Street, Suite 105, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Swell Therapy & Family Wellness, Inc. (1411 Marsh Street, Suite 105, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Swell Therapy & Family Wellness, Inc., Monique Sigler, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-20-22. hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 07-20-27. August 11, 18, 25, & September 1, 2022

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The following person is doing business as, PERENNIAL HEALTH ACUPUNCTURE, 187 Tank Farm Road, Suite 230B, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Emily Rose Sferra (565 Vine St., Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Emily Rose Sferra. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 0721-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 07-21-27. July 28, August 4, 11, & 18, 2022

The following person is doing business as, ZENAIDA CELLARS, ZENAIDA, 1550 CA-46, Paso Ro bles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Wine Opco 1 LC (1550 CA-46, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Wine Opco 1 LLC, Robert Lotier zo, Vice President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-25-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk S. King, Dep uty. Exp. 07-25-27. August 11, 18, 25, & September 1, 2022

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Notice of Requirements of Federal Fair Labor Standards Act All contracts and subcontracts that result from this Notice to Bidders incorporate by reference the provisions of 29 CFR 201, the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), with the same force and effect as if given in full text. The FLSA sets minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards for full and part-time workers. The Contractor has full responsibility to monitor compliance to the referenced statute or regulation. The Contractor must address any claims or disputes that arise from this requirement directly with the U.S. Department of Labor – Wage and Hour Division.

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The Contractor’s compliance with the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR 60-4 shall be based on its implementation of the Equal Opportunity Clause, specific affirmative action obligations required by the specifications set forth in 41 CFR 60-4.3(a), and its efforts to meet the goals. The hours of minority and female employment and training must be substantially uniform throughout the length of the contract, and in each trade, and the contractor shall make a good faith effort to employ minorities and women evenly on each of its projects. The transfer of minority or female employees or trainees from Contractor to Contractor or from project to project for the sole purpose of meeting the Contractor’s goals shall be a violation of the contract, the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR 60-4. Compliance with the goals will be measured against the total work hours performed. The Contractor shall provide written notification to the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within 10 working days of award of any construction subcontract in excess of $10,000 at any tier for construction work under the contract resulting from this solicitation. The notification shall list the name, address and telephone number of the Subcontractor; employer identification number of the Subcontractor; estimated dollar amount of the Subcontract; estimated starting and completion dates of the Subcontract; and the geographical area in which the Subcontract is to be performed. As used in this Notice, and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the “covered area” is San Luis Obispo County, California.

Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Employment Opportunity

The bidder must have either a Class A license or a combination of Class C licenses at the time the Contract is awarded (Public Contract Code section 3300). When the bidder holds a combination of Class C licenses, all work to be performed outside of the bidder’s license specialties, except work that is incidental or supplemental to the licenses of the bidder, shall be performed by licensed Subcontractors in compliance with the Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with section 4100) of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code). The bidder must also perform work equaling at least 30 percent of the value of the original total bid with their employees and with equipment they own or rent, with or without operators. Pursuant to Labor Code section 1771.1: A Contractor or Subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in the Bid Proposal, subject to the requirements of Public Contract Code section 4104, or engage in the performance of this public works project, unless currently registered with the Department of Industrial Relations and qualified to perform work pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Business and Professions Code section 7029.1, Public Contract Code section 10164, or Public Contract Code section 20103.5, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

Executive Order N-6-22-Russia Sanctions On March 4, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-6-22 (the EO) regarding Economic Sanctions against Russia and Russian entities and individuals. “Economic Sanctions” refers to sanctions imposed by the U.S. government in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, as well as any sanctions imposed under state law. By submitting a bid, that it is not a target of Economic Sanctions or is conducting prohibited transactions with sanctioned individuals or entities. Should the State or County determine Contractor is a target of Economic Sanctions or is conducting prohibited transactions with sanctioned individuals or entities, that shall be grounds for termination the Contract. The County shall provide Contractor advance written notice of such termination, allowing Contractor at least 30 calendar days to provide a written response. Termination shall be at the sole discretion of the County. By order of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo in their action on the 14th day of July, 2022.

The following person is doing business as, S&A CLEANING, 1328 20th St., Oceano, CA 93445. San Luis Obispo Coun ty. Armando F Alcantar (1328 20th St., Oceano, CA 93445). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Armando F Alcantar. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-25-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk A. Webster, Deputy. Exp. 07-25-27. August 4, 11, 18, & 25, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1714 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (08/05/2009)NewFiling

The following person is doing busi ness as, CAMBRIA NURSERY DOWN TOWN, 4039 Burton Drive, Cambria, CA 93428. San Luis Obispo County. Cambria Nursery & Florist Corp. (2801 Eton Road, Cambria, CA 93428). This business is conducted by A CA Corpo ration /s/ Cambria Nursery & Florist Corp., Dirk Winter President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-22-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a cor rect copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk A. Bautista, Deputy. Exp. 07-22-27. August 18, 25, September 1, & 8, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1722 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/13/2022)NewFiling

Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by County to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the County to make payment of retention to an escrow agent. The successful bidder will be required to furnish the County with payment and performance bonds, with each issued by a California admitted surety insurer equal to 100% of Pursuant to Labor Code section 1770 et seq., the Contractor and all Subcontractors shall pay not less than the prevailing rate of per diem wages as determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations and comply with all applicable Labor Code provisions, which include, but are not limited to the employment of apprentices, the hours of labor, and the debarment of Contractors and Subcontractors. The Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations determines the general prevailing wage rates. Copies are available at the at the DIR website, http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD Notice of Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Requirements Bidders must take necessary and reasonable steps to ensure that DBEs have opportunity to participate in the Contract (49 CFR 26). It is the policy of the County of San Luis Obispo to practice nondiscrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin in the award or performance of this contract. The County encourages participation by all firms qualifying under this solicitation regardless of business size or ownership. The DBE Contract goal is 9 percent Notice of Davis-Bacon Requirements Federal funds are being used on this project, and therefore, the Davis-Bacon Act (2 CFR 200 Appendix II(D) and 29 CFR 5) apply. The Federal minimum wage rates for this project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the Appendices. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the prevailing wage rates determined to be applicable to this contract by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate.

ORDINANCE NO. 3475 ORDINANCE AMENDING COUNTY FEE SCHEDULE TO UPDATE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE (DUI) FEES

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1706 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/21/2022)NewFiling

Whereas, for the FY 2022-23 fee cycle, the Behavioral Health Department – Drug and Alcohol Services (hereafter “Department”) completed a study of the Department’s DUI fees, including all fee structures and rates; and, Whereas, the Department, in collaboration with the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), and County Staff, reviewed the Department’s financial data, interviewed staff, and gathered volume and time estimates to calculate the full cost of providing the County DUI program services; and, Whereas, the Department prepared a final report based on these costs, with recommendations to recover County costs, as currently calculated; and, Whereas, the DHCS has reviewed the increased fee recommendations by the Department and concurs with the recommended changes.

SECTION

The following person is doing busi ness as, RESTORED BY INK, 5513 Madrono Place, Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County. Monica C Hollenbeck (5513 Madrono Place, Atascadero, CA 93422). This business is conducted by An Indi vidual /s/ Monica C Hollenbeck. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-2122. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. July07-21-27.28,August 4, 11, & 18, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1708 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/01/2022)NewFiling

The following person is doing business as, GOLDEN EAGLE TECHNOLOGIES, 1375 E Grand Ave., Suite 103.306, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Kirk Noe Database & Software, LLC (1375 E Grand Ave., Suite 103.306, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by A WA Limited Liability Company /s/ Kirk Noe Database & Software, LLC, Kirk Noe, President. This state ment was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-22-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk A. Bautista, Deputy. Exp. 07-22-27. August 4, 11, 18, & 25, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1719 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/15/2022)NewFiling

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1710 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE New(N/A)Filing

The Bid package (also referred to herein as the “Contract Documents”) are posted on the County’s Purchasing website: http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/GS/Purchasing/Current_ Formal_Bids_and_Proposals.htm. Any changes, additions, or deletions to these Contract Documents will be in the form of written addenda issued by the County. Any addenda will be posted on the website. Prospective bidders must check the website for addenda or other relevant new information at up to 5:00 p.m. the day before the prescribed date/ time for submittal of bids. The County is not responsible for the failure of any prospective bidder to receive such addenda. Al addenda so issued shall become a part of this Bid. All bidders are required to acknowledge and confirm receipt of every addendum in their bid proposal. All bidder Requests for Information must be submitted no later than 3:00 p.m., 5 business days prior to the bid opening date. Requests submitted after said date may not be considered. All questions pertaining to the content of this invitation to Bid must be made in writing through the Purchasing website. Questions and responses will be posted on the Purchasing website and can be viewed by accessing the Invitation to Bid located at the Purchasing website. The identity of the entity submitting the question will not be posted. The County reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of comments / questions that will be posted on the website.

Notice of Federal Trainee Program As part of the Contractor’s equal employment affirmative action program, the Contractor is to provide on-the-job training to develop full journeyman in types of trades or job classifications involved in the Contract. The number of trainees or apprentices is 3

Bids will be opened and declared by the County Clerk at 3:15 p.m. on the bid opening date at a public meeting at 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-120, San Luis Obispo, California 93408. Any bid received at the office of the County Clerk of the County of San Luis Obispo at or after 3:00 p.m.on the date specified above will not be accepted and will be returned to the bidder unopened. A bid received one second after 3:00 p.m. (i.e. after 3:00:00 p.m.) shall not be considered. Bids are required for the entire work described in the Contract Documents. The lowest bid and the DBE commitment percentage shall be based on the total bid price of the Base Bid and Additive Bid #1. The County reserves the right to deduct from the Contract any additive bid item after the lowest responsible bidder has been determined in which case the Contractor would not be due any compensation for said item. Bridge construction is expected to commence on or about May 2023. The County reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to alter the date bridge construction will commence. In the event commencement of construction is delayed, the selected Contractor shall continue to honor its bid prices.

The following person is doing business as, JAIE HANDY, 1774 Longbranch Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433. San Luis Obispo County. Dominic L Handy, Judith D Handy (1774 Longbranch Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business is conducted by A Mar ried Couple /s/ Dominic L Handy. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-25-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 07-25-27. July 28, August 4, 11, & 18, 2022 LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES

Notice is given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the County Clerk, 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-120, San Luis Obispo, California 93408 before 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 15, 2022 (“Bid Deadline”), for the following public works project: LOPEZ DRIVE BRIDGE SEISMIC RETROFIT LOPEZ DRIVE, ARROYO GRANDE, CA CONTRACT NO. 300452 FEDERAL PROJECT NO. BRLS-5949(135)

The following person is doing busi ness as, PRICKLE POP, 5625 E Hwy 46, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. RBZ Vineyards, LLC (1233 Garden Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ RBZ Vineyards, LLC, Craig Stoller, Managing Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-22-22. hereby certify that this copy is a cor rect copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 07-22-27. August 18, 25, September 1, & 8, 2022

The County of San Luis Obispo, in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 USC §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the Regulations, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full and fair opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1724 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/09/2022)NewFiling

The offeror’s or bidder’s attention is called to the “Equal Opportunity Clause” and the “Standard Federal Equal Employment Specifications” set forth herein. The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the Contractor’s aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows: A Goals for minority participation for each trade: 24.6% B. Goals for female participation in each trade: 6.9% These goals are applicable to all the Contractor’s construction work (whether or not it is Federal or federally assisted) performed in the covered area. If the contractor performs construction work in a geographical area located outside of the covered area, it shall apply the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the contractor also is subject to the goals for both its federally involved and nonfederally involved construction.

Therefore, the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo, State of California, ordains as follows: 1: The Board finds and determines:

The following person is doing busi ness as, THE BIG RED HOUSE, 370 Chelsea Lane, Cambria, CA 93428. San Luis Obispo County. Shelley A Stevens (236 North Polk Ave., Og den, UT 84404). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Shel ley A Stevens. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-22-22. hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 07-22-27. July 28, August 4, 11, & 18, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1713 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/18/2022)NewFiling

The following person is doing busi ness as, TURTLE AND TORTOISE RESCUE OF ARROYO GRANDE, INC., TTR, TURTLE AND TORTOISE RESCUE, 313 East Ormonde Road, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Turtle and Tor toise Rescue of Arroyo Grande, Inc. (313 East Ormonde Road, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Turtle and Tortoise Rescue of Arroyo Grande, Inc., Jeff Dobbs- President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-25-22. hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the state ment on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. August07-25-27.4,11,18, & 25, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1703 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (10/18/2021)NewFiling

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The following person is doing busi ness as, A SOURCE OF PRIDE, 697 Avocet Way, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Joe Hodulik (697 Avocet Way, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Joe Hodulik. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-21-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 07-21-27. July 28, August 4, 11, & 18, 2022

• This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. Bids must be submitted under sealed cover plainly marked as a bid and identified with the project number, the date and time for receipt of sealed bids, and the name of the bidder. Bids must be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashier’s check, or a bidder’s bond in favor of the County in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the submitted total Bid.

TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING This matter is tentatively scheduled to appear on the consent agenda, which means that it and any other items on the consent agenda can be acted upon by the hearing officer with a single motion. An applicant or interested party may request a public hearing on this matter. To do so, send a letter to this office at the address below or send an email to pdh@co.slo.ca.us by Friday, August 26, 2022 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the language “I would like to request a hearing on DRC2021-00020.” If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

County File Number: N-DRC2021-00002 Supervisorial District: District 1 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 039-191-024 Date Accepted: 06/30/2022

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing WHEN: Friday, September 2, 2022 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600. WHAT: A request by Pacific Wildlife Care for a Minor Use Permit to allow for the construction of a new wildlife care facility consisting of an approximately 7,390-square-foot 2-story animal care building, 1,304 square feet of exterior covered storage, and 34,183 square feet of exterior animal enclosures (kennels) on a 10.34acre parcel. The project would be constructed in two phases; Phase 1 includes construction of the first floor of the animal care building (4,640 square feet), an exterior covered storage, and 9,898 square feet of exterior animal enclosures; Phase 2 would complete the second story of the animal care building (2,750 square feet), an additional 24,285 square feet of exterior animal enclosures, and a creance field. Approximately 8.3 acres of the site would remain as open space. The project would result in 7.2 acres of site disturbance including 6,800 cubic yards of cut and 6,500 cubic yards of fill. The proposed project is within the Agricultural land use category and is located at the northwest corner of Buckley Road and Esperanza Lane, on the southern edge of the City of San Luis Obispo and approximately 0.5 miles west of the San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport. The site is in the San Luis Obispo Sub Area North of the San Luis Obispo Planning Area of unincorporated San Luis Obispo County. Also to be considered at the hearing will be adoption of the Environmental Document prepared for the item. The Environmental Coordinator, after completion of the initial study, finds that there is no substantial evidence that the project may have a significant effect on the environment, and the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report is not necessary. Therefore, a Mitigated Neg ative Declaration (pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21000 et seq., and CA Code of Regulations Section 15000 et seq.) has been issued on June 15, 2022 for this project. Mitigation measures are proposed to address air quality, biological resources, and transportation are included as conditions of approval. The Environmental Document is available for public review at the Department of Planning and Building, at the below address. A copy of the Environmental Document is also available on the Planning and Building Department website at www. sloplanning.org Anyone interested in commenting on the proposed Environmental Document should submit a written statement and/or speak at the public hearing. Comments will be accepted up until completion of the public hearing(s).

03. Presentation: Res. 2022-191, proclaiming 8/7 thru 8/13 as “Farmers Market Week”, adopted.

WHERE: The Governor signed AB 361 on September 16, 2021, this legislation requires Brown Act bodies to take a vote and make certain findings before continuing to hold virtual meetings. Although Planning Department Hearings are generally conducted in accordance with the Brown Act, the hearing officer is not a “legislative body” as defined by that Act. As such, Planning Department Hearings are not subject to the Brown Act and are not required to comply with this legislation in order to continue to hold virtual meetings. Due to the current COVID-19 transmission rate in the County, the Department of Planning and Building will continue to hold Planning Department Hearing meetings virtually to prioritize health and safety. The Department’s Notice of Meeting Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at: Agendas,-and-Minutes.aspxca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building/Meetings,-Hearings,-https://www.slocounty.

Ysabel Eighmy, Secretary Planning Department Hearing August 18, 2022

County File Number: C-DRC2022-00010 Supervisorial District: District 2 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 064-223-003 Date Accepted: 04/05/2022 WHERE The Governor signed AB 361 on September 16, 2021, this legislation requires Brown Act bodies to take a vote and make certain findings before continuing to hold virtual meetings. Although Planning Department Hearings are generally conducted in accordance with the Brown Act, the hearing officer is not a “legislative body” as defined by that Act. As such, Planning Department Hearings are not subject to the Brown Act and are not required to comply with this legislation in order to continue to hold virtual meetings. Due to the current COVID-19 transmission rate in the County, the Department of Planning and Building will continue to hold Planning Department Hearing meetings virtually to prioritize health and safety. The Department’s Notice of Meeting Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at: Meetings,-Hearings,-Agendas,-and-Minutes.aspxhttps://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building/

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning. org. You may also contact Lane Sutherland, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781- 5600.

WHO County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing Friday,WHEN September 2, 2022 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

02. Public Comment Period – Items not on the agenda: K. Carpenter; E. Greening; D. Maislen; M. Brown; L. Owen; G. Kirkland; D. Hathaway; C. Smith; S. Adkins; L. Becker; C. Muir: speak.

WHAT: Hearing to consider a request by Rick and Laura Ladendorf for a Lot Line Adjustment (N-SUB2021-00014; COAL 21-0136) to adjust the lines between three (3) lots of 6.11 acres, 5.37 acres, and 0.027 acres resulting in a lot of 5.03 acres, 3.7 acres and 2.6 acres respectively. The project will not result in the creation of any additional parcels. The proposed project is located within the Residential Rural land use category and is located at 284 Rio Road, approximately .6 miles southwest of the City of Arroyo Grande. The site is in the San Luis Bay Inland Sub Area of the South County Planning Area. Also to be considered is the general rule exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act under the provisions of State CEQA Guidelines sec. 15061(b)(3). County File Number: N-SUB2021-00014

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

Supervisorial District: District 4 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 075-321-020 Date Accepted: 07/21/2022

2022COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

County File Number: DRC2021-00020 Supervisorial District: District 3 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 076-362-001 Date Accepted: 07/25/2022 WHERE: The Governor signed AB 361 on September 16, 2021, this legislation requires Brown Act bodies to take a vote and make certain findings before continuing to hold virtual meetings. Although Planning Department Hearings are generally conducted in accordance with the Brown Act, the hearing officer is not a “legislative body” as defined by that Act. As such, Planning Department Hearings are not subject to the Brown Act and are not required to comply with this legislation in order to continue to hold virtual meetings. Due to the current COVID-19 transmission rate in the County, the Department of Planning and Building will continue to hold Planning Department Hearing meetings virtually to prioritize health and safety. The Department’s Notice of Meeting Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at: Meetings,-Hearings,-Agendas,-and-Minutes.aspxhttps://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building/

TUESDAY, August 9, 2022 AT 9:00 AM ALL BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT

Ysabel Eighmy, Secretary Planning Department Hearing August 18,

2022COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

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WHAT: A request by Allyson Magda for a Minor Use Permit (N-DRC2021-00002) to allow an existing 1,240 square foot Single Family Residence to be used as a vacation rental within 1,500 feet of another vacation rental. This application is a request to modify County Land Use Ordinance Section 22.30.510 Residential Vacation Rentals that established a minimum 1,500 foot distance between vacation rentals. The proposed project is within the Agriculture land use category and is located at 5240 Jack Creek Rd. approximately 3.5 miles West of the community of Templeton. The site is in the Adelaida Sub Area of the North County Planning Area. This project is found to be statutorily exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act under the provisions of Public Resources Code section 21080(b)(5), which provides that CEQA does not apply to projects which a public agency rejects or disapproves.

This matter is tentatively scheduled to appear on the consent agenda, which means that it and any other items on the consent agenda can be acted upon by the hearing officer with a single motion. An applicant or interested party may request a public hearing on this matter. To do so, send a letter to this office at the address below or send an email to pdh@co.slo.ca.us by Friday, August 26, 2022 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the language “I would like to request a hearing on C-DRC2022-00010.” If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www. sloplanning.org. You may also contact Elizabeth Moreno, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781- 5600. If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing. Ysabel Eighmy, Secretary Planning Department Hearing August 18,

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

WHERE: The Governor signed AB 361 on September 16, 2021, this legislation requires Brown Act bodies to take a vote and make certain findings before continuing to hold virtual meetings. Although Planning Department Hearings are generally conducted in accordance with the Brown Act, the hearing officer is not a “legislative body” as defined by that Act. As such, Planning Department Hearings are not subject to the Brown Act and are not required to comply with this legislation in order to continue to hold virtual meetings. Due to the current COVID-19 transmission rate in the County, the Department of Planning and Building will continue to hold Planning Department Hearing meetings virtually to prioritize health and safety. The Department’s Notice of Meeting Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at: Planning-Building/Meetings,-Hearings,-Agendas,-and-Minutes.aspxhttps://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Holly Phipps, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600. TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING This matter is tentatively scheduled to appear on the consent agenda, which means that it and any other items on the consent agenda can be acted upon by the hearing officer with a single motion. An applicant or interested party may request a public hearing on this matter. To do so, send a letter to this office at the address below or send an email to pdh@co.slo.ca.us by Friday, August 26, 2022 at 4:30 PM The letter or email must include the language “I would like to request a hearing on DRC2020-00072.” If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing Ysabel Eighmy, Secretary Planning Department Hearing August 18, 2022

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

County File Number: DRC2020-00072 Supervisorial District: District 4 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 085-012-032, -036 Date Accepted: November 4, 2020

WHERE: The Governor signed AB 361 on September 16, 2021, this legislation requires Brown Act bodies to take a vote and make certain findings before continuing to hold virtual meetings. Although Planning Department Hearings are generally conducted in accordance with the Brown Act, the hearing officer is not a “legislative body” as defined by that Act. As such, Planning Department Hearings are not subject to the Brown Act and are not required to comply with this legislation in order to continue to hold virtual meetings. Due to the current COVID-19 transmission rate in the County, the Department of Planning and Building will continue to hold Planning Department Hearing meetings virtually to prioritize health and safety. The Department’s Notice of Meeting Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at: Hearings,-Agendas,-and-Minutes.aspxslocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building/Meetings,-https://www.

WHEN: Friday, September 2, 2022 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

COASTAL APPEALABLE County action may be eligible for appeal to the California Coastal Commission after all possible local appeal efforts are exhausted. Appeals must be filed in writing as provided by Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section 23.01.043. Ysabel Eighmy, Secretary Planning Department Hearing August 18, 2022

WHERE The Governor signed AB 361 on September 16, 2021, this legislation requires Brown Act bodies to take a vote and make certain findings before continuing to hold virtual meetings. Although Planning Department Hearings are generally conducted in accordance with the Brown Act, the hearing officer is not a “legislative body” as defined by that Act. As such, Planning Department Hearings are not subject to the Brown Act and are not required to comply with this legislation in order to continue to hold virtual meetings. Due to the current COVID-19 transmission rate in the County, the Department of Planning and Building will continue to hold Planning Department Hearing meetings virtually to prioritize health and safety. The Department’s Notice of Meeting Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at: Meetings,-Hearings,-Agendas,-and-Minutes.aspxhttps://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building/

TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING

WHAT A request by Terry Lease and Lynn Smith for a Minor Use Permit/ Coastal Development Permit to allow for the demolition of an existing 846 square-foot residence, and the construction of a new 1,376 square-foot two-story residence. The project includes a 6-foot high privacy fence within the street side setback. The project is located at 1301 Pacific Avenue in the Residential Single-Family land use category within the community of Cayucos. The site is located in the Estero Planning Area. Also to be considered is the determination that this project is categorically exempt from environmental review under CEQA.

WHAT A request by Michael Sharpe for a phased Minor Use Permit (DRC2020-00072) to allow 15 events per year with up to 200 attendees with indoor and outdoor amplified music until 10 PM. Events will be held at different outdoor locations within the property and within an existing barn. The proposed project is within the Agriculture Land Use category, at 6730 Huasna Townsite Road approximately 5.8 miles northeast of Nipomo. The project site is in the in the HuasnaLopez Sub Area of the South County Planning Area. Also to be considered, this project is covered by the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. It can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that this project may have a significant effect on the environment; therefore, the activity is not subject to CEQA.

County File Number: DTM2022-00027 Supervisorial District: District 3 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 076-081-021 Date Accepted: N/A WHERE The Governor signed AB 361 on September 16, 2021, this legislation requires Brown Act bodies to take a vote and make certain findings before continuing to hold virtual meetings. Although Planning Department Hearings are generally conducted in accordance with the Brown Act, the hearing officer is not a “legislative body” as defined by that Act. As such, Planning Department Hearings are not subject to the Brown Act and are not required to comply with this legislation in order to continue to hold virtual meetings. Due to the current COVID-19 transmission rate in the County, the Department of Planning and Building will continue to hold Planning Department Hearing meetings virtually to prioritize health and safety. The Department’s Notice of Meeting Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at: Meetings,-Hearings,-Agendas,-and-Minutes.aspxhttps://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building/ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Jessica Macrae, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600. If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

04 Appeal by P. McGibney, of the Planning Dept. Hearing Officer’s approval of a Minor Use Permit (MUP) (DRC2018-00010) for the phased development of up to 3 acres of outdoor cannabis cultivation canopy w/in hoop structures, ancillary processing activities, ancillary transport, & other related site improvements, located at 8770 Carrisa Highway, northwest of California Valley, District 5, cont’d to 9/13/22. 05. Res. 2021-192, upholding appeal by T. & L. Javadi, M. Wasley & M. Powell, reversing the Planning Dept. Hearing Officer’s decision & denying the application of Integrated Agriculture, Inc. for a MUP to establish up to 3 acres of outdoor cannabis cultivation canopy, ancillary processing, ancillary transport, & associated development & uses, located at 3520 Creston Rd, east of Paso Robles, District 1, adopted as amended. 06. Ordinance No. 3475, amending the Co. Fee Schedule for the Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Program, adopted. 07 Closed Session, cancelled. 08 Request to proceed w/ implementation of the SLO Countywide Plan to Address Homelessness 20222027 & associated budgetary actions (res. 2021-193), MEETINGapproved.

2022COUNTY

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING BRIEF

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

01. Consent Agenda – Item Nos. 1 thru 32 & Res. 2022176 thru 2022-190, approved as amended.

OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING

NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

WHAT Hearing to consider a request by Ronald Rinell to rename a portion of an existing named road (Octagon Way) and an existing unnamed road to RHYS RANCHO WAY. The portion of Octagon Way is approximately 1,100 feet in length and currently serves one addressed structure. The unnamed road is approximately 1,200 feet in length currently and serves three (3) vacant parcels. This road segment joins South Higuera Street and the Buckley Road extension and is approximately 1,200 feet east of the city limits of San Luis Obispo. The road is located within the San Luis Obispo Planning Area. If approved, all addressable structures with access along this road will be assigned new permanent situs addresses to RHYS RANCHO WAY. Road naming is not considered a project under CEQA.

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing

ADJOURNED For more details, view the meeting videos at: AugustOffice/Clerk-of-the-Board/Clerk-of-the-Board-Services/www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Administrative-https://Board-of-Supervisors-Meetings-and-Agendas.aspxWadeHorton,ClerkoftheBoardofSupervisorsBy:AnnetteRamirez,DeputyClerk18,2022

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing

A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org You may also contact Schani Siong, Project Manager in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781- 5600.

TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING: This matter is tentatively scheduled to appear on the consent agenda, which means that it and any other items on the consent agenda can be acted upon by the hearing officer with a single motion. An applicant or interested party may request a public h earing on this matter. To do so, send a letter to this office at the address below or send an email to pdh@co.slo.ca.us by Friday, August 26, 2022 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the language "I would like to request a hearing on N-DRC2021-00002." If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing. Ysabel Eighmy, Secretary, Planning Department Hearing August 18,

A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact April Lofgren, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

WHEN: Friday, September 2, 2022, at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Cassidy McSurdy, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

WHAT: Hearing to consider a request by Caltrans to name a new frontage road that will allow access to an undercrossing at the intersection of State Highway 101 and Wellsona Road. The new frontage road proposed named is San Paso Circle The new undercrossing will eliminate left turns onto Highway 101 from Wellsona Road from Northbound 101. The road is located North County Planning Area of the Salina River Sub Area between the City of Paso Robles and the Community of San CountyMiguel.FileNumber: DTM2022-00021 Supervisorial District: District 2 Assessor Parcel Number(s): Caltrans right away between State Highway 101 and Wellsona Road Date Accepted: 7/19/2022

Ysabel Eighmy, Secretary Planning Department Hearing August 18, 2022

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Scorpios are most likely to regard that old pop tune by the Animals as your theme song. “I’m just a soul whose intentions are good,” croons lead singer Eric Burdon, “Oh, Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.” But you may have less motivation to express that sentiment in the coming weeks, dear Scorpio. I suspect you will experience record-breaking levels of being seen and appreciated for who you are. For best results, do this: 1. Inform your deep psyche that you have no attachment to being misunderstood. 2. Tell your deep psyche that you would very much like to be well understood.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky wrote, “All my life, I’ve been going around waiting for something—as if I were waiting in a railway station. And I’ve always felt as if the living I’ve done so far hasn’t actually been real life but a long wait for it—a long wait for something real.” If I could speak with Tarkovsky right now, I would cheerfully tell him that his wait will soon be over. I’d say that in the coming months, Aries people who have been postponing and postponing, who have been standing by and holding on and biding time, will have an excellent chance to begin inhabiting their full, rich destiny. I invite you to imagine what that will feel like.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I’ve swung from ancient vines in the caves of Jamaica,” exults Hoodoo priestess Luisah Teish. “I’ve danced with delight around totem poles and pressed foreheads with Maori warriors. I’ve joked with the pale fox in the crossroads, then wrestled with the jaguar and won. I have embraced great trees between my thighs and spoken words of love to thunder while riding lightning bolts.” I offer Teish’s celebratory brag to inspire you as you formulate plans for the coming weeks and months. What exhilarating adventures will you give yourself? What expansive encounters will you learn from? What travels outside of your comfort zone will you dare? The time is right for upsurges and upturns and upgrades.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In his poem “The Pupil,” Virgo-born Donald Justice speaks of how he spent “a whole week practicing for that moment on the threshold.” I advise you to do the same, Virgo. The goal is to be as prepared as you can be for the upcoming rite of transition—without, of course, being neurotically over-prepared. It’s fine and natural to honor the tension of anticipation, using it as motivation to do your best. One other thing: As you get ready, please have as much fun as possible. Visualize the sense of accomplishment you’ll feel when you’ve reached the other side of the test.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “One is always at home in one’s past,” wrote author Vladimir Nabokov. But I encourage you to rebel against that theory, Libra. For now, find a way to not feel at home in your past. Question it, be curious about it, reevaluate it. My hope is that you will then be motivated to change how your history lives in you. Now is an excellent time to reconfigure your life story, to develop a revised relationship with its plot twists and evolution. Revisit and update some of your memories. Re-evaluate the meanings of key events. Enchanting healings will materialize if you do.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Tips on how to get the most out of the coming weeks: 1. Create a big spacious realization by weaving together several small hunches. 2. Keep a little angel on your right shoulder and a little devil on your left shoulder. Enjoy listening to them argue, and don’t get attached to anything they say. 3. Do the unexpected until it becomes expected. Then abandon it and try a new, unexpected experiment. 4. Meditate expansively on the question, “How many careers can I have in one lifetime?”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Sometimes, you may feel you’re under the influence of a debilitating spell or hindered by a murky curse. Pisceans are prone to such worries. But here’s a secret. More than any other zodiac sign, you have the power to escape from spells. Even if you have never studied the occult or read a witch’s grimoire, you possess a natural facility for the natural magic that disperses curses. From the depths of your psyche, you can summon the spiritual force necessary to cleanse the gunk and free yourself. Now is a perfect time to prove to yourself that what I’ve said here is true. ∆

Rob FreeBrezsny’sWillAstrology for the week of Aug. 18

NOTICE OF PUBLIC

Hearing location: County of San Luis Obispo, Board of Supervisors Chambers 1055 Monterey Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 On September 13, 2022, the Board of Supervisors (Board) will hold a public hearing to consider modifying the boundaries of Zone A of County Service Area No. 10 (CSA 10A) and adopting a resolution effectuating said change. The proposal would add eleven (11) parcels to CSA 10A (commonly known as Assessor’s Parcel Numbers 064-405040, 064-405-038, 064-405-005, 064-405-039, 064-405-041, 064-405-037, 064-405-010, 064405-013, 064-405-014, 064-405-015 and 064405-016, located on the uphill side of Gilbert Avenue and Chaney Avenue) and is being made pursuant to Article 8 of the County Service Area Law (Government Code §§ 25217 et seq.). The proposal is being made in accordance with the intent of the Resolution that the Board adopted in 1994, forming CSA 10A and subsequent revisions to the Urban Services Line, as well as with the historic provision of water service. Water service to the added parcels will be financed and will continue to be financed through the collection of water service charges adopted by the Board in accordance with Article XIII D, Section 6 of the California Constitution, and most recently increased by Ordinance No. 3371 adopted on August 7, 2018. During the public hearing, the Board will hear and consider any written protests to the proposed boundary modification in accordance with Government Code Section 25217.1. Written protests shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Board, 1055 Monterey Street, Room D430, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408. This notice and the Resolution adopted by the Board on August 9, 2022, initiating proceedings to amend the boundary of CSA 10A, which includes a legal description and map of the revised boundary, will be available at the Clerk’s office. The Resolution can also be viewed as part of the August 9, 2022 Agenda available By:BOARDWADEDATED:Agendas-and-Minutes.aspx.Board-of-Supervisors/Board-Meetings,-https://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/at:August18,2022HORTON,EX-OFFICIOCLERKOFTHEOFSUPERVISORSNikiMartinDeputyClerk HEARING, OF RESOLUTION AMENDING THE BOUNDARIES OF ZONE A OF COUNTY SERVICE 2022

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Be extra expressive with the people and animals you care about. Be even more amusing and generous than usual. Dare to be abundantly entertaining and engaging and empathetic. Make it your goal to draw out your allies’ dormant potentials and inspire them to love themselves even more than they already do. I’ll tell you about the endearing terms that author Vladimir Nabokov called his wife. Consider using them with your dear ones: “My sun, my soul, my song, my bird, my pink sky, my sunny rainbow, my little music, my inexpressible delight, my tenderness, my lightness, my dear life, my dear eyes, kittykin, poochums, goosikins, sparrowling, bird of paradise.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus poet Sherko Bekas wrote, “Each joy I wear, its sleeves are either too short or too long, too loose or too tight on me. And each sorrow I wear fits as if it were made for me wherever I am.” With this as our starting point, Taurus, I’m pleased to report some good news. In the next three weeks, you will have zero sorrows to try on and wear like a garment. And there will be at least three joys that fit just right. The sleeves will be the correct length, and the form will be neither too loose nor too tight.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Unless we are creators, we are not fully alive,” wrote Sagittarian author Madeleine L’Engle. She was referring to everyone, not just people in the arts. She believed that to be soulful humans, we must always make new things, generate fresh possibilities, and explore novel approaches.

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Homework: What injustice are you most motivated to correct?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Be fluid and flexible while still being rooted and sturdy. Be soft and sensitive even as you are also firm and resolute. Be mostly modest and adaptable, but become assertive and outspoken as necessary. Be cautious about inviting and seeking out challenges, but be bold and brash when a golden challenge arrives. Be your naturally generous self most of the time, but avoid giving too much. Got all that, Cancerian? Carrying out the multifaceted assignments I just described might be nearly impossible for most of the other signs of the zodiac, but they are in your wheelhouse. You are a specialist in fertile complexity.

5. Enhance your home so it feels even more comfortable.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022 CONSIDERATION

The restless urge to transform what already exists can be expressed in how we do our jobs, our parenting, our intimate relationships, and every other activity. You are now entering a phase, Sagittarius, when this initiatory energy will be especially available, needed, and valuable.

Date & Time of Hearing: September 13, 2022 – 9:00 A.M. Hearing location: County of San Luis Obispo, Board of Supervisors Chambers 1055 Monterey Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93408

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In her poem “Valentine,” Capricorn poet Carol Ann Duffy tells a lover she won’t give her a “red rose or a satin heart.” Instead, her token of affection is an onion, a symbol of multi-layered complexity. “Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips,” Duffy writes, “possessive and faithful as we are, for as long as we are.” She adds that the onion will “blind you with tears like a lover.” OK. I understand the tough attitude expressed by Duffy. Romance isn’t a relentlessly sweet, sentimental romp through paradise. But I don’t recommend that you imitate her approach to your love life in the coming weeks and months. Appreciate the sometimes shadowy and labyrinthine convolutions, yes, but don’t make them more important than beauty and joy and love. How about invoking the symbol of a pomegranate? It represents fertility and rebirth out of the darkness.

On August 9, 2022, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors (“Board”) duly adopted a resolution (“Resolution of Intention”) wherein it declared its intention to form Community Facilities District (CFD) No. 2022-1 (Oak Shores Wastewater) and levy a special tax within the CFD to pay the costs of the maintenance and operation of sewer system facilities and wastewater treatment facilities with an expected useful life of 5 years or longer (“Facilities”) pursuant to the Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982, as amended (the “Act”). The Resolution of Intention: (1) provides the boundaries of the territory proposed for inclusion in the proposed CFD; (2) states that the proposed CFD shall fund the maintenance and operation of sewer system facilities and wastewater treatment facilities and other related costs; (3) proposes the levy of special taxes in the maximum amount of $4,393.36 per single family property to pay for said costs; (4) identifies exempt properties; (5) states the need for these services; (6) calls for a public hearing and requires the Clerk of the Board to provide notice of the time and place of said hearing; (7) requires the filing of a report containing a brief description of the services and an estimate of the cost of providing those services and related costs; (8) describes the voting procedures; (9) establishes a proposed appropriations limit in the amount of $1,500,000; and (10) includes the rate and method of apportionment of the proposed special tax. The foregoing is only a summary of the Resolution of Intention, which is on file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and may also be viewed by

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