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Aged and addicted Senior drug and alcohol abuse on the Central Coast [10]

BY CHRIS MCGUINNESS

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January 3 - January 10, 2019 VOLUME 33, NUMBER 24

Editor’s note

This week cover The lack of addiction treatment for seniors ...................................... 10

news The Central Coast cries out against fracking ................................8 San Luis Coastal aims for equality in the classroom .................8

opinion A look back and Hodin in 2018 ...... 12

arts GALLERY: The art of using light ..... 31 GALLERY: Pretty patterns and prints ......................................32

flavor FOOD: Your next ramen spot.........38

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rug and alcohol dependence doesn’t have an age limit, although most addiction treatment programs are designed for folks of a younger generation. Individuals older than 65 who seek substance abuse counseling through San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties’ drug programs are few and far between, PILLS but 12.5 percent of Americans who have reported PROBLEM dependency issues are older. Staff Writer Chris For seniors facing addiction McGuinness speaks with advocates about the problems, the unique challenges associated with addiction consequences can be serious. disorders in the senior population and what needs to be done to address the shortage of treatment services designed specifically for them [10].

You can also read about the comments SLO County residents submitted on the Bureau of Land Management’s review of fracking on public lands [8] ; how San Luis Coastal plans to bring more equity to the resources it provides for students [8] ; a photographer who sees and shows the world in multiple photos at a time [31] ; the zen of crafting patterned prints [32] ; and Flavor writer Hayley Thomas Cain waxing poetic about ramen broth [38] .

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News ............................. 4 Viewer Discretion............7 Strokes .......................... 9

So Not Starkey ............ 26 Live music listings........ 26

opinion Hodin ............................ 12 This Modern World ....... 12 Letters .......................... 14 Sound off ...................... 14 Rhetoric & Reason ....... 15 Shredder ....................... 16

art Artifacts ........................ 31 Split Screen.................. 34 Reviews and Times ..... 34 Get Out .........................37

the rest Classifieds.................... 42 Real Estate ...................47 Brezsny’s Astrology......47

Events calendar Hot Dates ..................... 17 Special Events .............. 17 Arts ............................... 17 Culture & Lifestyle ........ 19 Food & Drink ............... 24 Music ........................... 26 Felt it!

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he number of students who are vaping is increasing in the San Luis Coastal Unified School District, according to the results from two student surveys.

“Today, we are seeing something far different and much more troubling than anything I’ve seen before: the clever introduction of vaping into the mainstream culture among students,” district Superintendent Eric Prater wrote in a blog post about the surveys.

During a Nov. 15 district board meeting, San Luis Coastal released the results of its California Healthy Kids Survey and Youth Truth Survey—administered to all seventh, ninth, and 11th grade students. The surveys showed that approximately 30 percent of 11th graders report having vaped more than four times and 11 percent have vaped while at school.

“In other words, they are struggling with addiction. I expect this number is actually higher than reported given my conversations with our site leaders,” Prater wrote.

At the November meeting, San Luis Obispo High School Principal Leslie O’Connor provided a handful of vaping products that have been confiscated since the beginning of the school year, including JUULs, Sourins, and vape pens.

“These students say they can’t get through class without using and are addicted to the product,” O’Connor said.

The school implemented new measures for disciplining students who have been caught vaping. The first offense requires Saturday school, a call to parents, and confiscation;

the second requires a one-day suspension, call home, confiscation, and encouragement to visit counseling; and the third results in a three-day suspension and mandated drug and alcohol counseling, along with a parent call and confiscation.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the results of a 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey showed that more than 3.6 million middle and high school students were e-cigarette users in 2018, a dramatic increase of more than 1.5 million students since 2017.

The report goes on to say the survey suggests that the rise in e-cigarette use is likely due to the recent popularity of certain types of e-cigarettes, such as JUUL. JUUL is cartridge-based and can be used discreetly because of its resemblance to a slim USB—a flash drive.

Vapes and e-ciagrettes deliver nicotine to the body through inhalation without the tobacco smell that comes with it—some nicotine cartridges come in flavors camouflaging the tobacco smell. The cartridges can hold nicotine or liquid THC. For now San Luis Coastal is working with site administrators and parent leaders to schedule public forums to begin discussions with parents, staff, and students on how to respond to the issue.

Lucia Mar Unified School District’s results of the California Healthy Kids Survey reported that 16 percent of the district’s 11th graders have vaped or used an e-cigarette four or more times. Δ —Karen Garcia

Former inmate sues SLO jail over partially severed finger

suffered a gruesome injury that caused her to lose part of one of her fingers while in custody.

Lisa Forman was in custody at the jail when an unknown officer allegedly slammed a cell door shut on her hand, causing the amputation of a section of one of her fingers.

“It was horrible,” Forman told New Times. “It was the most horrible experience of my life.”

The lawsuit states that the incident occurred on Jan. 24, 2018, the same day court records show that Forman was booked in the jail after being arrested by Pismo Beach police for suspected public intoxication. The SLO County District Attorney initially filed a single misdemeanor charge against Forman in March of that same year. A SLO County Superior Court judge dismissed the criminal case against Forman on July 27, 2018, at the request of the DA’s office, the records show.

Forman said she was treated for her injury at Sierra Vista Hospital, but only after a lengthy wait at the jail. The incident caused her to lose the top third of her pinky finger on her left hand.

“That’s my dominant hand, and I’m an artist,” she said.

Forman also said she believed that the jail deputy shut the door on her hand on purpose, but declined to give further details about the incident. Records obtained by New Times showed that Forman initially filed an administrative claim against the county in July 2018, asking for $1 million in damages. The county rejected that claim in August of the same year.

Forman’s SLO-based attorney, Trevor Creel, declined to comment on the lawsuit. In an email

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Women’s March SLO gears up for its annual demonstration

Women’s March SLO’s third march slated for Jan. 19 is supposed to be a reflection on 2018.

Local Women’s March organizers chose Truth to Power as the theme for this year’s march.

Andrea Chmelik, communication director for the local chapter, said the concept comes from the understanding that there is nothing more important than knowing our truth and holding those in authority accountable.

Last year’s truths, she said, included the women who spoke against gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar, the journalists who have been under fire for reporting the facts, and all the victims of violence and assault who spoke out during the “why I didn’t report” and “me too” actions.

“The Women’s March movement began in 2016 as a vision of an America that is fair, just, and inclusive. The message still resonates,” Chmelik told New Times.

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nationally and locally, a trend that continued in the 2018 midterm elections.

Heidi Harmon was re-elected as the city of San Luis Obispo’s mayor, incumbent Carlyn Christianson and newcomer Erica Stewart claimed the city’s council seats.

Susan Funk and Heather Newsom were elected onto the Atascadero City Council, and Heather Moreno took the mayor position. Maria Garcia was elected to one of two open seats on the Paso Robles City Council. Caren Ray beat two-term incumbent Jim Hill for the Arroyo Grande mayor position. Women’s March SLO cofounder Dawn Addis was elected to the Morro Bay City Council.

“Women are galvanized and more organized than ever, claiming their seat at the table,” Addis said.

Chmelik said that while the spotlight on the movement is brightest during the annual marches, the real work is done in communities, and every community is facing different issues.

This year, there will be about 30 local organizations signed up to participate in the event’s Call to Action Alley—a section of the march where groups set up informational booths.

“These local nonprofits work on many different issues in our area, from civil rights to LGBTQ rights to environmental justice and human traffic prevention— our goal is for people to connect with the organizations based on the issues they are most passionate about,” Chmelik said.

Approximately 10,000 people attended the first Women’s March SLO in January 2017, about 5,000 people attended the Hear Our Vote rally January 2018, and about 7,000 attended the March for Our Lives in March 2018.

—Karen Garcia

Man who threatened SLO Women’s March faces probation violation Less than 10 days after he was sentenced to probation for making criminal threats against members of Women’s March SLO on Facebook, 46-year-old Daniel Joshua Phares once again found himself behind bars.

Phares was arrested for violating the terms of his probation on Dec. 20.

The SLO County District Attorney’s Office filed a felony charge of unlawful possession of ammunition against Phares on Dec. 31. Under the terms of his formal probation for the criminal threat case, which was a misdemeanor, Phares was prohibited from owning or possessing guns or ammunition.

Phares was sentenced to probation on Dec. 11 by SLO County Superior Court Judge Matthew Guerrero after pleading no contest to the charges against him.

At the sentencing hearing, Phares was verbally combative with both Guerrero and SLO County Prosecutor Chris Peuvrelle. Peuvrelle openly questioned whether Phares was truly committed to serving his sentence, which also required him to take mandatory anger management classes and write letters of apology to his victims. Later that same day, Phares lashed out at Guerrero in the comments on a Facebook post about his sentencing by The Tribune.

“Yeah nothing like handing me over to a latino judge who knows nothing about me and insisting I take anger management classes,” he wrote.

In response to another commenter, Phares blamed Latinos for the murder of Marilyn Pharis, an elderly resident who was killed by an undocumented Mexican national in 2015, and claimed they also “harbored nazi’s” and committed “rape” and “arson.”

Phares has a history of expressing racist sentiments online. New Times found posts and comments dating back to 2013 on what appears to be his personal Facebook page that target Muslims, interracial couples, and liberals. Phares’ initial arrest in August 2017 occurred after he posted a comment on a Facebook page for the Women’s March SLO’s Outshine the Darkness anti-racism rally, reportedly telling the organizers, “I will kill every one of you and make you like it.”

At the time of his 2017 arrest, SLO police said that Phares owned at least three weapons, including an AR-15 rifle.

In an email response to New Times, Peuvrelle declined to discuss the details of Phares’ latest arrest, but said he could face up to three years in state prison.

Phares is currently in custody at SLO County Jail on $35,000 bail.

—Chris McGuinness

South County residents petition closing El Campo intersection

The San Luis Obispo County of Governments’ (SLOCOG) decision to study the potential closure of the El Campo Road intersection on Highway 101 has many South County residents concerned.

The study was initiated at a Dec. 5, 2018, SLOCOG meeting after the death of Cal Poly freshman Jordan Grant in October 2018.

Grant was struck by a BMW that was in the process of making an unsafe left turn at the intersection.

Victor Lund launched an online petition on Dec. 10 via change.org to advocate for a safe long-term solution for the intersection without closing it altogether. Lund is a resident of the Falcon Ridge Estates in Arroyo Grande, a housing development that lies adjacent to Highway 101 and the El Campo intersection.

He said he and other residents worry about emergency evacuations, as the intersection plays a vital role in their emergency egress route. Their preferred solution, he said, is an overpass above the intersection, but that’s a project that would need a consensus from the city of Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo County, and Caltrans.

“We really support the idea of studying it, but closing [the intersection] would have a major impact on our system of roads,” Lund said. “Closing it would put additional pressure on already pressurized roads.”

The petition already has 1,022 signatures.

At the Dec. 5 SLOCOG meeting, collision data from the Statewide Integrated Traffic Records system showed that from September 2012 through Dec. 31, 2017, 16 collisions occurred, none of which were fatal. In 2018, two collisions occurred with one fatality, Grant’s.

Local Caltrans officials said they were prepared to act on a solution but need local consensus about what that is.

—Karen Garcia

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Kept that book you checked out little too long? SLO County libraries will give you a chance to clear your conscience and save some cash this month.

The county announced that it would be offering amnesty on library fines for overdue books for the month of January.

Beginning Jan. 1, all of the county’s libraries will waive overdue fees for individuals who return books or other library materials, regardless of how long they’ve been overdue.

“This is the very fist time we’ve done something like this,” Chase McMunn, SLO County assistant director of libraries, told New Times.

In addition, if the overdue item resulted in the suspension of a library card, returning the book will also allow the card to be reactivated.

“The main goal of the program is to get people to come back in to the libraries,” McMunn said. “A lot of times, library fines can hurt people who can’t afford them, so this is kind of growing national trend for libraries.”

Overdue items can be returned at a library circulation desk or book drop.

The items must be returned at any SLO County library location, and must be undamaged. McMunn said the library can’t offer amnesty for lost materials.

McMunn added that the amnesty program will kick off a year of celebrating the centennial anniversary of SLO County’s public library system.

“The county library was founded 1919, so we timed the program to coincide with that anniversary,” McMunn said. Δ —Chris McGuinness

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Sending a signal Locals register concerns about fracking public lands

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orro Rock. The Santa Lucia Mountains. Irish Hills Natural Reserve. Vandenberg Air Force Base. Tepusquet Canyon. What ties this short list of Central Coast places together?

They all have public lands that are within the control of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and are included the BLM’s 2014 Central California resource management plan, which means they’re technically open for new oil and gas leases.

These local areas—and more than 1 million acres across eight counties— became the focus of public concern in August, when the BLM started work on a court-ordered environmental report to study the effects of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on these properties.

The actual scope of the BLM’s review had been somewhat hazy to the public until nonprofit Los Padres ForestWatch asked the agency for its raw mapping data to show a more precise picture of the proposal. That picture included property near schools, state parks, city open spaces, national monuments, and historic and cultural landmarks.

“It’s really allowing the public to understand more clearly what exactly BLM is proposing,” said Jeff Kuyper,

executive director of Los Padres ForestWatch. “We’re finding that really outlandish parcels are being opened for drilling and mining.”

In response, 8,399 letters and emails poured into the BLM’s Bakersfield office during a public comment period between August and September, despite complaints from U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) and others that the 30-day time frame was too short.

“The 24th Congressional District has an abundance of ecologically sensitive areas and significant agricultural resources interwoven with vital water aquifers and numerous active fault lines,” Carbajal wrote in his comment to the BLM. “The need to understand and properly comment ... requires more analysis from local governments and residents than provided for in 30 days.

Hydraulic fracturing is a controversial practice and one that I and many of my constituents oppose in SLO, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties.”

The BLM declined Carbajal’s request, pointing to Executive Order 3355 issued by the Department of Interior in August 2017 that directs the agency to streamline projects through the environmental review process within one year.

Yet hundreds of SLO and northern Santa Barbara counties’ residents commented on the review, with a majority expressing concern or direct opposition to fracking on public lands, according to a summary report published last month by the BLM.

“I urge you to abandon this misguided proposal,” North SLO County resident Holly Sletteland wrote in her comment.

“Additional oil development will only accelerate the disastrous effects of climate change. ... Our public lands should be used to benefit the public—not private energy companies that are interested in short-term profits.”

Jim Turner, a resident of Lompoc, said any study of fracking must include analyses of its visual, biological, geological, and groundwater impacts.

“The earthquake swarms that now plague Oklahoma should be a very ominous warning about fracking, no matter what kind of an [environmental report] is prepared,” Turner wrote in his email to the BLM. “It had better be bulletproof in earthquake-prone California.”

Out of the commenters in New Times’ coverage area, SLO city residents made up the highest percentage of submissions, followed by residents of Lompoc, Solvang, Los Osos, Santa Ynez, and Arroyo Grande.

The BLM also received feedback from the cities of SLO and Lompoc, and the counties of Santa Barbara and Ventura (but not SLO County). SLO city registered objections to the inclusion of parcels near the Irish Hills Natural Reserve and Reservoir Canyon Natural Reserve—open spaces held “strictly for conservation and passive recreation purposes,” according to SLO Natural Resource Manager Bob Hill’s letter to the BLM. Hill also cited a 2010 memorandum of understanding between the two agencies that stated the BLM would withdraw its Irish Hills property “from mineral entry.”

“The city respectfully requests that

these parcels be removed from further evaluation,” Hill concluded.

The city of Lompoc shared its concerns about property being included in the BLM’s review, including parcels the city owns, the Allan Hancock College campus, and the federal prison in Lompoc. The city also raised concerns about the water, seismic, and biological effects of fracking.

In addition, the BLM received comments from outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown, four state legislators including Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel), seven Native American tribes and organizations, the Army, the EPA, and four oil and gas industry associations, among others.

The agency is expected to release a draft environmental impact statement in February. Federal officials will hold two meetings on the Central Coast to gather in-person public feedback, according to the BLM’s report. BLM officials were not available for comment due to the partial government shutdown.

While the BLM has not issued a new oil and gas lease on public lands in California for several years, many are concerned about a pivot under President Trump.

“The troubling aspect of it is this analysis is now being done under an administration that’s shown time and again outright support for opening more public lands for oil drilling and shirking the public’s ability to provide input during the process,” Los Padres ForestWatch’s Kuyper said. “It remains to be seen whether the BLM’s analysis will be adequate.” ∆

equity, opening doors, and civil dialogue.

Currently, San Luis Coastal is looking at different ways to measure the areas where equity is needed and whether future practices work for students. It will be measured by the percentage of students who finish high school, who are college and career ready, who take AP classes, and school attendance to name a few.

In order to get faculty and staff up to speed on the various types of equity practices, the district brought in equity consultant Trudy Arriaga. She specializes in articulating the language, beliefs, policies, and practices that support all learners.

She promotes a values-based, inside-out approach for embracing cultural differences as well as understanding the tools and strategies needed to embed cultural proficiency into organizational culture.

Arriaga defines culture in this context as all aspects of a person, such as gender and race.

She does all this by looking at the district’s mission statement, its goals, protocols, procedures, and practices.

“It’s not about doing more, it’s about doing everything you already do with a lens of equity,” Arriaga said.

Some questions that a district should be asking itself, she said, are whether walking into a classroom is welcoming for every student, resources are available for every student, and the attitudes and value system of the district ensure that every student—regardless of who they are—belongs there.

Arriaga has been working with school districts all over the country and she said

San Luis Coastal has really dived into implementing equity in its everyday work.

“It’s very clear that they have made this a priority for the district, and it is a district where ‘all’ means all,” she said.

According to a state report card released by the California Department of Education on Dec. 6, 1 in 3 districts statewide have been identified as needing help when it comes to equity. Using its new online tool, the California School Dashboard, the state identified 374 districts out of approximately 1,000 as needing special assistance to deliver that opportunity for students.

The dashboard is a district performance review that displays chronic absenteeism, suspension rate, graduation rate, mathematics, and English language arts, among other things.

School districts that qualified for assistance had low scores in some categories that placed them in the red zone—red and orange are the worst scores, yellow is in the middle, green is good, and blue is proficient. Many of San Luis Coastal’s scores fell in the green, while the district hit blue for its graduation rate.

“I think by us creating a plan and looking deeply at this question of equity that we’re going to see a tremendous turn around, and we are going to see the closing of the achievement gap,” Mayfield said. “Now it’s going to take some time … but we’re going about it the right way.”∆

Assistant Editor Peter Johnson can be reached at pjohnson@newtimesslo.com.

BY KAREN GARCIA

Equity plans San Luis Coastal works to ensure all students have the same opportunity for success

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ick Mayfield has been working in schools for about 33 years. He said for 12 of those years, he had the unique position of being a principal for Pacheco Elementary School, which has a dual emersion program for kindergarten through sixth grade. The school offers a program that merges English and Spanish together in all academic and social aspects of the school day. Students receive instruction half in English and half in Spanish, so students eventually become fluent and literate in both.

Mayfield’s work has always focused on being able to give students of different backgrounds the same resources to attain academic achievement. Ensuring that all students have what they need and have the same opportunities to succeed district-wide is called equity, which Mayfield is now spearheading throughout the San Luis Coastal Unified School District as the district’s director of learning and achievement.

He said that currently every school district is looking at achievement gaps and how to close them. The gap is defined by academic performance among students in different socioeconomic statuses, races,

ethnicities, and genders.

“One of the things that has come to light in the last, and it’s been a while, probably several years, is equity—looking at how to even the playing field and give students what they need to be successful,” Mayfield said.

Equity wasn’t always a top priority in the classroom. It used to be that teachers and schools presented the day’s curriculum and material to students, he said, and the rest was up to the students.

“A shift has occurred in education over the last decade because it had been just the idea that we are responsible for their learning not just the teaching,” he said. “We can’t just say, ‘Hey you had the opportunity to learn: I taught the lesson, and you had the opportunity to learn just like everybody else.’”

The biggest realization for school districts everywhere, Mayfield said, is that not everyone has an equal opportunity.

The district developed an equity leadership team that includes teachers, classified staff, board members, Cal Poly personnel from the Office of Diversity and Inclusivity, an ethnic studies professor, and parents. Mayfield said the team created a three to five year plan of how the district can educate the community on

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BY JOE PAYNE

More tech changes

T

he fast-growing, high-earning Central Coast tech firm Mindbody made a billion-dollar announcement just in time for Christmas.

On Dec. 24, the SLO-based company announced an acquisition agreement with the San Francisco-based investment firm Vista Equity Partners, which plans to buy all of Mindbody’s outstanding shares for $1.9 billion.

The move will return Mindbody, which first went public in 2015, to private ownership. The company that provides cloud-based software for health and beauty industry businesses has seen impressive growth since it went public, opening a Santa Maria office in 2016.

Mindbody’s headquarters are located in San Luis Obispo. The company also has other offices in California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, New York, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

Mindbody CEO Rick Stollmeyer sent an email to the company’s staff on Dec. 24, available in a Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC) report, to announce the proposed acquisition.

“With the acquisition, Mindbody will once again be a private company, with added flexibility to further accelerate the growth of our customer base and global marketplace for fitness, beauty, and wellness,” Stollmeyer wrote. “The entire leadership team and I are truly excited

by the opportunities Vista opens up for us, and we remain deeply committed to our mission, to our customers’ success, and to providing you with a culture-first environment and purpose-driven career opportunities.”

Mindbody staff could not provide comment about the acquisition until it is completed, due to SEC regulations, but according to a list of Mindbody “Employee FAQs” also available in the SEC report, Vista agreed to preserve employee benefits and salaries for at least one year after closing the deal. While there was no information about the Santa Maria office, the FAQs said, “We expect that Mindbody headquarters will remain in SLO.” The SLO headquarters houses PHOTO BY JOE PAYNE

hundreds of Mindbody employees, and the Santa Maria location has more than 80 on staff. The decision to expand in Santa Maria came after the company researched where many of its employees lived on the Central Coast, Stollmeyer explained at a Nov. 8 event hosted by the Economic Alliance of Northern Santa Barbara County in Santa Ynez.

“We had a whole bunch of people living right here,” Stollmeyer said at the event.

“They were coming from Los Olivos, Santa Maria, and Lompoc to commute to the SLO office.”

According to the release from Mindbody, the agreement includes a 30-day “go shop” period that lets the company’s board of directors consider other offers for the company. The company’s current board voted unanimously in favor of the acquisition, the release said, and the deal is expected to be completed in the first PLANNED quarter of 2019.

ACQUISITION Vista is an Mindbody, a tech company with investment firm that headquarters focuses on “software, in San Luis data, and technologyObispo and an enabled organizations office in Santa led by world-class Maria (pictured), management teams,” announced on according to the Dec. 24 that release, and has more Vista Equity Partners planned than $44 billion in to acquire the “cumulative capital company for commitments.” In $1.9 billion. his Dec. 24 email

to Mindbody staff, Stollmeyer expressed optimism about the acquisition, which he wrote had the potential to nurture the company and help it grow.

“Team, thank you. It is through your dedication, passion, hard work, and incredible talent that we have arrived at this pivotal moment,” Stollmeyer wrote. “Together, we have built a company, products, services, and mission that is unrivaled. With Vista, I’m confident we’ll build upon our successes and accelerate on our path toward helping people everywhere lead healthier, happier lives.”

Fast facts

• Old Juan’s Cantina donated $2,615 to support the Boys and Girls Club of South SLO County. On Monday, Dec. 17, the Oceano restaurant donated 50 percent of the day’s sales to the youth organization as part of Old Juan’s annual Community Support Day of Giving.

• Cal Poly’s “Far Out Frequencies” float received the Extraordinaire Award for the most extraordinary float at the 130th Rose Parade held on New Year’s Day in Pasadena. The float, built by students from California Polytechnic Universities in San Luis Obispo and Pomona, featured a pair of astronauts and a handful of animated extraterrestrials on an alien planet. Δ This week’s Strokes & Plugs was written

by Sun Managing Editor Joe Payne from New Times’ sister paper in Santa Maria.

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‘No age limit’ Senior substance abuse presents unique challenges and concerns for those seeking to get them support and treatment

BY CHRIS MCGUINNESS well-being can be greatly exacerbated, and little research has been done on how best to treat that specific population. Still, the issue is unlikely to go away as the aging population grows and becomes increasingly populated by a generation whose attitudes about drug use are much different than the one before them.

A

t around 10:30 a.m. in a small room at the SLO County Veterans Memorial Building, Colin Quennell was telling a story.

The story was a personal one.

Quennell, a licensed therapist and program supervisor for the SLO County Health Agency’s Drug and Alcohol Services Department, was talking about an elderly family member who fell on difficult times. He’d lost his spouse, and soon after, had to put his dog down as well. It wasn’t long, Quennell said, until the family member turned to alcohol to cope.

“At the age of 82, he just decided to drink himself to death,” Quennell said.

The story, which Quennell told in August as part of a presentation to the SLO County Commission on Aging, did have a happy ending. He said the family member eventually decided to get sober. Quennell used the example to illustrate an important aspect about alcohol and drug abuse.

“There’s no age limit for a person starting out getting clean and sober,” he said.

The types of people who suffer from substance abuse span far beyond the preconceived stereotypes of addicts gleaned from movies and television. In reality, it impacts individuals from a wide spectrum of family backgrounds, race, sex, and socioeconomic status. The same applies to age. In SLO and Santa Barbara counties, and even across the United States, seniors are struggling with substance abuse; some are longtime addicts who’ve been battling substance abuse for years, while others didn’t begin their battle with addiction until far later in life, turning to drugs and alcohol to combat loneliness, economic insecurity, or myriad other difficulties that come with aging.

Being a senior with a substance abuse problem comes with its own unique challenges and dangers.

Addiction’s negative impacts on seniors’ health and

The picture appears to be similar in SLO County. In his presentation to the commission, Quennell said that just 43 out of the “several thousand” clients who sought treatment through the county from January through August of 2018 were classified as seniors. According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD), a nonprofit education and advocacy group, there are an estimated 2.5 million older adults living with alcohol or drug problems in the United States. That number is just 12.5 percent of the more than 20.1 million Americans who reported having a substance use disorder according to the most recent available data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

While they may not make up the majority of the country’s addicted population, the negative health effects of substance abuse on the senior population can be particularly devastating. The general physical effects of alcohol and drugs are debilitating for the elderly, and that’s on top of increased risks for harmful interactions with any medications they may be taking for medical conditions.

“You become more sensitive to [alcohol and drugs] as you get older,” Quennell said. “It can make health conditions worse.”

Substance abuse can also increase both the risk and severity of alcohol and drug related injuries according to Nancy Gottlieb, clinical director for the Santa Barbara branch of the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, which serves all of the Central Coast. “[Being intoxicated] already puts you at risk for falling, and add to that the equilibrium or mobility problems, or bone loss that can come with aging, ” she told New Times. “For [seniors] falling and breaking a hip can be fatal.”

According to the NCADD, anywhere from 6 to 11 percent of elderly hospital admissions, and 14 percent of emergency room admissions for elderly patients, were the result of alcohol and drug problems.

At risk A hidden problem

Individuals older than 65 who seek treatment for substance abuse issues through Santa Barbara County’s Alcohol and Drug Program are few and far between, according to Program Manager John Doyel.

One major reason for that, he says, is that many individuals battling long-term addiction die before they reach that age.

“Many of the clients we work with are dealing with moderate to severe drug abuse or alcoholism,” he told New Times. “If they are homeless and have been dealing with an untreated addiction, they usually die in their early to mid-50s. Most of our clients range between their mid-20s to around 40 years old.”

Not only are older individuals likely to experience the negative effects of addiction more severely, but the mental, physical, and lifestyle changes of advanced aging could cause some of them to turn to heavy drug and alcohol use as a solution. According to Gottlieb, those changes can be as innocuous as transitioning from the working world to retirement.

“They’ve been very busy for a long time, then all of a sudden, they are not busy anymore,” she said. “So you might have a situation where someone was a heavy drinker but were functional because they had to go to work every day, then they retire and they don’t have that anymore.”

Recent research has raised concerns about an “epidemic of loneliness” among America’s seniors.

A September 2018 survey released by the AARP

‘The baby boomer generation has completely changed things. [They’re] coming into this senior world with more of a willingness to try drugs and other substances.’

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—Colin Quennell, program supervisor for SLO County Drug and Alcohol Services

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE DEA

County drug and alcohol services contacts SLO County Drug and Alcohol Services Phone number: 1-800-838-1381 Website: slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Health-Agency/Behavioral-Health/ Drug-Alcohol-Services.aspx Santa Barbara County Alcohol and Drug Program Phone Number: 1-888-868-1649 Website: countyofsb.org/behavioral-wellness/aodservices.sbc

ACHES AND PAINS Seniors taking opioid painkillers for medical conditions and chronic pain also run the risk of abusing them.

Substance abuse: Know the signs

Indications that a senior may be struggling with an addiction to drugs or alcohol may include: • Solitary or secretive drinking • Loss of interest in hobbies or pleasurable activities • Drinking in spite of warning labels on prescription drugs • Immediate and frequent use of tranquilizers • Chronic unsupported health complaints • Hostility or depression • Memory loss and confusion INFORMATION COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCE

foundation found that an estimated 35 percent of adults aged 45 and older are lonely. Santa Barbara County Drug Program Manager Doyel said that feelings of loneliness or social isolation might cause some seniors to turn to drugs or alcohol.

“If someone loses their spouse, they are more prone to depression, they could be at a higher risk for developing problems with drinking or substance abuse,” he said.

In addition to psychological factors, the physical impact of aging, particularly chronic pain, also puts older Americans at risk for abusing prescription drugs such as opioids. According to NCADD, while adults older than 65 make up just 13 percent of the population, they account for nearly 30 percent of all medication prescribed in the country.

“What you are looking at is a population that is taking a lot more medications,” Quennell said in his August presentation to the SLO County Commission on Aging.

“As you begin to experience certain medical conditions, these medications may be the only thing you have.”

things,” Quennell said. “[They’re] coming into this senior world with more of a willingness to try drugs and other substances.”

That willingness will likely contribute to an increased use of illicit drugs by the aging population. A 2005 peerreviewed study published in the Annals of Epidemiology predicted that illicit drug use by Americans older than 50 would increase from 1.6 million people in 1999 to 3.5 million people by 2020.

Seeking solutions

Despite the looming boomer wave and current acknowledgement by addiction advocates of the unique challenges surrounding the issue of senior alcohol and drug abuse, attempts to address them appear to be few and far between. Organizations like NCADD are concerned about the situation.

“Alcohol and drug problems, particularly prescription drug abuse, among older adults is one of the fastest growing health problems facing the country,” the organization’s website claims. “Yet, our awareness, understanding, and response to this health care problem is inadequate.”

Locally, neither SLO nor Santa Barbara counties’ drug and alcohol agencies have treatment or programs geared specifically to seniors. The few who do seek treatment through the two counties’ respective programs would receive the same treatment as any other addict of a younger age. During his presentation to the commission in SLO County, Quennell noted that there was no widely accepted senior protocol that was evidence-based. If such a protocol was available to counties like SLO and Santa Barbara, as well as other nongovernmental treatment organizations, it could provide a framework for a program specifically tailored to the needs of seniors.

“There’s no specialized treatment program,” he told the commission. “The kinds of services we would have for them would be the same for everybody.”

Still, Gottlieb from the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse said that there were some changes that could help improve support and treatment for seniors addicted to or recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. One of those is encouraging primary care physicians to implement a special substance abuse screening protocol with their elderly patients. Known as Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment, the protocol provides doctors with a series of questions they can ask and, based on their age, sex, and responses, determine whether patients are suffering from a substance abuse disorder or at risk for developing one.

Gottlieb said the protocol works for patients of all ages, but said it could be particularly beneficial for seniors, who see their primary care doctors often and may not seek out substance abuse treatment on their own out of fear of being stigmatized.

“There’s a big percentage of people who will answer honestly and get help if you just ask,” she said. “So there’s been a real push to get primary care physicians to ask these kinds of questions.”

Gottlieb also said there should be more drug- and alcohol-free housing for sober seniors.

“Many senior communities and assisted living homes have events with alcohol, like wine tasting, or offer alcohol with meals … and I’ve had clients in recovery who don’t want to move to places like that because their worried [about relapsing],” she said.

It’s not just doctors and institutions that can do more to help. Gottlieb said that it was important for recovering seniors to receive support from family, friends, the local community, and other social support systems to help them build and maintain a sober lifestyle.

In the end, while advocates, physicians, treatment specialists, and researchers continue to study the complex issue of senior substance abuse and seek answers, at least part of the battle may simply be bringing the little-discussed issue to the attention of the wider public, broadening and challenging common perceptions about who suffers from addiction and why.

“It is so important to let the public know that substance abuse occurs and touches almost everyone in some way or another,” Gottlieb said. ∆ Staff Writer Chris McGuinness can be reached at cmcguinness@newtimesslo.com.

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Boomers looming

While the number of seniors seeking treatment for drug and alcohol abuse on the Central Coast may be low now, there is a possibility that the number could rapidly increase in the coming years as the more than 63 million members of America’s baby boomer generation continue to age into the senior population.

Born between 1946 and 1964, aging boomers are expected to fuel a predicted swell in the U.S.’s senior population over the next 15 years. According to projections from the U.S. Census Bureau, boomers will be 65 or older by 2030, meaning 1 in 5 Americans will be retirement age. By 2035, the population that’s 65 and older is expected to be an estimated 78 million people. That growth will also necessitate the increase and expansion of a range of support and services across various sectors, including housing, health care, and addiction treatment.

It’s not just the sheer increase in numbers that will have an impact, but the generation’s cultural attitudes toward drug use, according to Quennell. Many boomers were adolescents or teenagers in the 1960s and 1970s when youth culture’s attitudes about drug use and experimentation became more relaxed and liberalized compared to the generations that came before them.

“The baby boomer generation has completely changed

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BY RUSSELL HODIN

Best of 2018 Russell Hodin made fun of local, state, and national issues this year

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ew Times’ cartoonist is good at documenting the hypocrisy of decision-makers. It was hard to narrow it down, but he picked his favorite five from last year to kick off the first Opinion section of 2019.

HODIN

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Opinion No free passes from the rule of law

I taught philosophy of law at Cal Poly for 30 years. One of the important themes of the course was the rule of law. The rule refers to a principle of governance in which all persons, institutions, and entities, public and private, including members of Congress, the judiciary, and the president, are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced, and independently adjudicated.

In his “A special holiday greeting,” on Dec. 27, Gary Wechter used the word “persecution” to characterize the upcoming congressional investigations of President Donald Trump and some of his family. To persecute means to single out a person or group because of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, social, or political status. Persecution, therefore, is always a violation of the rule of law because it fails the equal enforcement test.

Will the House investigative committees be persecuting the president or will their investigations be justified by the rule of law? For example, there will be an investigation into whether Donald Trump allegedly directed his former attorney Michael Cohen to give hush money to two women with whom he allegedly had sexual affairs, thereby violating campaign finance laws. This investigation will not constitute a persecution of Donald Trump. It does not “single out” Trump while ignoring others who are in violation of the same laws.

Another example: It will not be a persecution of Trump when the House Intelligence Committee looks into allegations that the Russians may possess financial leverage over the president, including perhaps the laundering of Russian money through his businesses.

There is a 1924 law that gives heads of the congressional tax-writing committees the right to request any American’s tax returns. Should the House Ways and Means Committee give Trump a pass on this and not request his tax returns as part of an investigation into possible money laundering? Of course not. He is no more immune to a money laundering investigation than a Mafia don is.

There are many other examples. My point is that not only is it not persecution to launch these investigations, but to ignore them is to flout the demand of the rule of law that all laws should be equally enforced. The president of the United States and his family do not get a pass.

Laurence Houlgate San Luis Obispo

This isn’t Trumpderangement syndrome

On behalf of liberals everywhere, let me confirm that yes, we are indeed hell-bent on bringing down Donald Trump and, if possible, his family and business. In this, we are in total agreement. But, like so many others who decry the so-called “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Gary Wechter’s opinion column fails to ask “Why?” (“A special holiday greeting,” Dec. 27).

Simply put: Donald Trump is a contemptible human being. He is a thief, a con man, a bigot, and a pathological liar. His administration is riddled with corruption. His immigration policies are cruel; his environmental policies are killing us; and his foreign policy is to tear

Letters up our treaties, piss off our allies, and high-five our enemies. His very existence is a threat to our security.

On top of all of that, the man is a traitor. Evidence will show that Trump and members of his team had prior knowledge of and communication with Russian agents about the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and their invasion of American social media. His presidency is completely illegitimate. He is only in office because he cheated.

So yeah, we’re trying to bring him down any way we can. Why aren’t you?

Dan Curtis San Luis Obispo

The removal of Oceano beach

Two million visitors a year drive on Oceano beach for a day trip or on their way to Sand City, 1,000 unmarked campsites for $10 a night, and the Sand Highway, the off-roading playground on the Oceano Dunes State Vehicle Recreational Area.

Driving back, they carry tons of sand on their tires. Most of it is deposited on Pier Avenue and in the vicinity. The sand on Pier Avenue is almost totally found just on its south side. Cars leaving the beach drop it from their tires.

State Parks and SLO County regularly sweep and remove the sand at least two days a week. I inquired with parks and the county and learned that the grand total of sand removed from Ocean beach averages 34.7 tons of sand per week mostly via Pier Avenue. Our county spends $600 a month to have the sand removed. The sand is contaminated and cannot be put back on the beach. We are paying to have our own beach thrown into one of our landfills.

Oceano is losing its beach! Our community is at tremendous risk from sea level rise and stormy high tide conditions.

Driving on Oceano’s beach should be banned.

Lucia Casalinuovo Oceano

A wall is not the answer

A few months ago there was a large demonstration against Immigration and Customs Enforcement beginning in SLO and ending at the new ICE facility in Santa Maria, which only processes convicted criminal illegal aliens for deportation upon their release from the Lompoc Federal Penitentiary, state prisons like the SLO Men’s Colony, and county jails. This ICE facility does not plan nor conduct immigration sweeps, like raids, on places reported to be employing illegal aliens. Therefore, those participating in the demonstration didn’t know what they were demonstrating against, only the evil and wicked ICE. The Oxnard facility is the closest one that does conduct sweeps. They are two different departments.

As we, the opposition, walked among

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them asking questions, we determined that they wanted convicted criminal illegal aliens to be able to stay here.

One demonstrator told me that many of these deported undocumented workers, regardless of their criminal backgrounds, have families here and American-born children who need a father as well as a breadwinner. Another told me and the counterdemonstrators that the welfare payments their American-born children were entitled to receive wasn’t enough to adequately raise a child here.

All of this reminds me of the Cesar Chavez birthday demonstration in Santa Maria and elsewhere in favor of another unworkable amnesty about 10 years ago.

This demonstration was conducted by students of two big overcrowded high schools in Santa Maria, as Santa Maria High school was under a lockdown to prevent students from leaving their classrooms. Most of these students, if not all, didn’t know what they were marching for, nor did they know that Chavez was strongly opposed to illegal immigration, because it lowered the wages of farmworkers in our Central Valley. He only agreed to support the 1986 amnesty after it was promised to be the last and final amnesty. Don’t politicians lie?

California Gov. Jerry Brown once said that they all lie. They have to get elected.

Illegal immigration is the most lopsided political issue of modern time, with all legitimate polls showing from 87 to 91 percent of Americans opposed to it. Why can’t Americans get our Congress to do

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something about it? The answer is that the cheap labor lobbies are too strong, especially some of our farm organizations, and the Catholic Church, which likes illegal immigration for another reason.

Nixon once said that in order to learn the truth you need to follow the money, and that applies in this case, because today congressional votes on lobby interests can be bought and sold like a commodity.

Making e-verify mandatory to prevent illegal workers from working here is the only answer, not a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexican border. For farmworkers, there is the H-2A Visa Program to bring our needed farm labor here legally.

Richard Dydell Santa Maria

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BY AL FONZI

Did you vote for this?

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nother new year is upon us, and at the local, state, and federal levels American communities are under siege from a relentless administrative state, escalating costs for essential services, and demands for an even heavier tax burden upon citizens, small businesses, and corporations alike.

The Democrat controlled state Legislature has already floated proposals to tax text messages (withdrawn after being threatened by Silicon Valley), tax meat like alcohol and tobacco, establish a “right to be sheltered” for the homeless/ transient community, and of course, Medicare for all. A mandated shelter requirement will severely impact small communities already overburdened with massive increases in CALPERS contributions, which are eating up most of new city revenues generated by commercial development; some cities and counties are facing bankruptcy as a result. Newsom’s campaign promise of Medicare for all threatens to disrupt the medical insurance system statewide and based upon other states’ and nations’ experience, will not result in superior medical care, just delays, physician shortages, and a massive health care bureaucracy. It also assumes that the feds will fork over billions of dollars currently dispensed to Medicare patients directly to the state bureaucracy.

Starting in January, the cap and trade

program will go into full effect, which will increase gas prices by as much as 72 cents a gallon, according to opponents of the entire cap and trade policy adopted several years ago. While much of the country will be enjoying much reduced gas prices, some even below $2/per gallon, Californians will continue a relentless march to $4, $5, or $6 a gallon at the pump. The war on fossil fuels will continue with even more vigor with progressive Democrat super-majorities in both houses of the state Legislature and Newsom in the governor’s mansion.

Republicans should greatly improve their golf game for the next two years as nobody will be listening to them in Sacramento until the 2020 election.

It puzzles me how every projection for energy requirements is exponentially expanding, with California population increases, ever-increasing use of electronic devices, electric cars, etc., yet we are reducing our in-state energy production across the board. We’re closing our last nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon and continue to dismantle dams producing hydroelectric power, and both energy sources are greenhouse gas emission free.

Instead, we will buy our energy from other states, increasing reliance upon fossil fuel production that’s in somebody else’s backyard. Will a true believer please explain: If we are facing a global climate crisis, how is it that you keep insisting

we shut down Diablo Canyon and other nuclear and hydroelectric plants that would take a deep bite out of greenhouse gas emissions?

California is in a particularly bad way with an increasing exit of wealth producers from the state. According to The Wall Street Journal (“High-Tax State Exodus,” Dec. 29, 2018), at least “1,800 companies have shifted jobs or capital out of California in 2016 and about 13,000 companies have left the state since 2008.”

The statistic is interesting because other statistics from Investors Business Daily state at least 1,687 companies left the state between 2008 and 2015. If the stats are accurate, it means that most of the 13,000 businesses leaving California have done so within the last few years.

The population of the state overall is increasing, a result of foreign immigration, however, according to The Wall Street Journal, “since 2010, a net 710,000 people have left California for other states, losing more people than in-migrating from other states.” The middle class is leaving and not looking back, resulting in a greater divide between the “haves and have nots.” It’s not a prescription for political stability or a sound economy, given that the state relies upon high income earners to sustain its budget.

The biggest insult to voters however will be the full-throated assault upon Proposition 13’s protection against runaway property taxes. The Dems have already got a ballot proposition in the mill for the 2020 election to split the property tax roll into commercial and residential properties for

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purposes of taxation. A split roll will allow reassessment of commercial properties at today’s valuation, not the valuation system established in 1978 under Proposition 13.

The result will be massive property tax increases upon all commercial property, including rental properties such as apartment buildings. It will be catastrophic for small businesses; their rent will skyrocket. I would anticipate many empty storefronts over time, decimating downtown core shopping areas.

Residential renters will see their monthly rent explode when landlords are forced to increase rent to cover increased property taxes. I attended a dinner in early December where state Sen. Shannon Grove warned of the consequences of tampering with Proposition 13. The county assessor was also present, and he stated that there aren’t enough qualified appraisers to conduct the assessments required under a split roll property tax system. It would take at least five years to conduct the assessments, possibly even 10.

Finally, if you are a gun owner and believe in the Second Amendment as a right, why are you still living in California? A Democrat from the Bay Area has already proposed mandatory firearm confiscation. Texas anyone? ∆

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The Shredder

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’ve got to start going to the gym this year. The number of papers I’m shredding daily seems to keep getting higher, and I’m so busy I hardly got moved at all in 2018. My gullet is so full of fibers that it’s starting to push the metal out.

If I’m not careful, New Times is going to replace me with the younger, cheaper plastic version that has a faster grinder.

Don’t give me the slow clap just yet though, I’m too sarcastic and jaded to be replaced. Even I know that. Plus, new year’s resolutions are for fools who buy gym memberships they will use twice and pay for until December 2019.

Here’s one to keep though: Stop being an asshole to people who disagree with you. Oops, I’ve already crossed that line in my thoughts as I think about what’s coming up in 2019. The rhetoric that started in 2017 and increased through 2018 will continue into 2019 unabated.

All the lady-haters will line up on the interwebs over the upcoming third annual SLO Women’s March. Conservatives of the ultra-right ilk will line up in solidarity against symbols of feminine power—dishing it out via keyboard and computer screen because doing it #IRL is too scary. The Daniel Phareses of the world will continue to threaten females who stand for empowerment, sweaty fingers racing down keyboards in the hopes of letting the first zinger fly: “Liberal snowflakes are still upset they lost the election!” Ooh, sick burn!

Prepare your fingers for battle, people! We don’t want to be at the bottom of that comment thread.

No one will reply!

Liberals are already salivating with the knowledge of the Facebook and Twitter battles that will be fought in the name of ideology, dammit: “White, uneducated, misogynist rednecks who are too ignorant to know better!” Yup, never heard that one before.

“Elitist!”

“Idiot!”

The conversation will devolve into ALL CAPS as people slowly start to lose their minds, heaping every last bit of angst about their families, ex-lovers, and house payments into their conversation with some random person they don’t know.

In Morro Bay, residents will continue to square off over the Wastewater Treatment Facility—dragging the debacle ever closer to the Los Osos Sewer disaster. I wonder how long Morro Bay’s new mayor, John Headding, will continue his attempts to placate the disgruntled residents of town. He’s made one so far: a thinly veiled and strangely worded desire to “acknowledge” that there were uncounted protest votes against increasing residents’ water rates in the interest of “transparency.” Headding didn’t want to actually include those votes

as protests, because it would screw up the city’s plans.

We’ll see what happens during the discussion Headding agendized for City Council, when the city won’t actually do anything but talk about how people are pissed—which is basically what the city talks about every time the treatment facility comes up. Well, that, and how many times the damn thing has changed location (about five) and how much it’s going to cost (about $128 million). Oh, and the conspiracy theories. Please, don’t forget about those.

In Cambria, where people who once lived prosperous lives go to get sucked into local politics at an annoying level, residents will still be talking about how shady the Community Services District is. General Manager Jerry Gruber is finally gone—thank God!— but the gadflies live on. Who is the CSD going to replace him with? Ooh, I know.

Somebody no one will be happy with who will quickly become miffed by the sheer number of complaints falling out of a handful of people’s mouths.

That damn “emergency” water facility still isn’t permitted to operate. Residents who are currently paying for a system the community can’t use might be crossing their fingers for another drought, simply so water can flow through the empty bowels of a water recycling plant that’s still dividing the community.

Need an update, or want to feel good about your life? Check out Cambria Currents on Facebook. You’ll be sad you did.

One place that might actually change is

Arroyo Grande. Two-term mayor Jim Hill was unseated from his controversial post running the county’s most agitated city council meetings. Who’s going to whine about everybody ganging up on them now that Hill’s gone? Plus his buddy in arms, Tim Brown, took his final bow as well.

Damn. It’s too bad for me. My bi-weekly soap opera of the Arroyo Grande City Council is postponed until further notice.

What’s it going to be like now that Caren Ray is at the helm and the renegades were tossed overboard? Will Julie Tacker continue to file Public Records Act request on random things in an attempt to make council members she doesn’t like look bad? What will the Fair Political Practices Commission do now that it doesn’t have to look into the ways that Hill tried to make his shady actions look unshady?

At least I still have the dumpster fire of San Luis Obispo County figuring and re-figuring out its pot regulations.

The saga of county Code Enforcement invading California Valley and destroying pot plants, the cannabis abatement hearings that cannabis growers are suffering through because the county couldn’t figure its life out, the Board of Supervisors constantly realizing that it didn’t do things exactly right when it comes to legal cannabis, Code Enforcement Supervisor Art Trinidade’s off-the-cuff remarks about pot growers.

I feel like I’ll always have that. ∆ The Shredder is always an asshole at shredder@newtimesslo.com.

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The Arroyo Grande Library hosts one of its needle felting workshops on Jan. 12 from 2 to 3 p.m. Participants can choose between creating beads for a necklace or a small animal from felted wool. Admission is free, but registration is required at slolibrary.org or by calling (805) 473-7164.

—Caleb Wiseblood

SPECIAL EVENTS SAN LUIS OBISPO

2019 JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL The ninth annual SLO Jewish Film Festival celebrates Jewish culture from around the world. Features a lineup of narrative and documentary fi lms. Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 Varies. 805426-5465. jccslo.com. Palm Theatre, 817 Palm St, San Luis Obispo.

DINOSAURS ROCK Learn all about dinosaurs and participate in a fossil dig. Funding for this program has been provided by the Harold J. Miossi Charitable Trust.

For kids in preschool to grade 7. Jan. 4, 10:30-11:30 a.m. and Jan. 5, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. 805-781-5775.

San Luis Obispo Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

KING DAVID’S MASONIC LODGE BLOOD DRIVE King David’s Masonic Lodge is sponsoring a community Blood Drive for Vitalant. To ensure enough donors, please call at the number provided. Jan. 5, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. 805-543-9291. facebook.com/KDL209. King David’s Masonic Lodge, 859 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo.

OPEN HOUSE AT THE Y Enjoy a free workout, kids activities, tours, classes, and more. Y membership includes group fi tness classes, use of the SLO Swim Center, and child care. Jan. 12, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

805-543-8235. sloymca.org. SLO County YMCA, 1020 Southwood Dr, San Luis Obispo.

PLANT POWER 2019 Featuring yoga (noon), plantbased cheeses and beverages (1 p.m.), and a free wellness fair (1-3 p.m.) with local companies. Jan. 6, 12-3 p.m. Free-$35. 805-868-7133. 7SistersBrewing. com. 7Sisters Brewing Company, 181 Tank Farm Rd. Suite 110, San Luis Obispo.

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BEACH RESIN WORKSHOP Lay out your design on a white frame, choosing from instructor’s huge assortment of shells, colored beach glass, glitter, baubles, and trinkets. Preregistration is required. Jan. 5, 10 a.m.-noon $75. 805-286-5993. creativemetime. com. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

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

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

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

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

Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay. PAINT PARTY No artistic experience necessary.

All materials and supplies provided. Outside food and drinks welcome. Saturdays, 7-9:30 p.m. $40. 805-7729095. foreverstoked.com/paintparty.html. Forever Stoked, 1164 Quintana Rd., Morro Bay.

RESIN NECKLACES Create two necklaces by adding charms, beads, trinkets, glitter, paper and many other treasures into metal tray bezels. Preregistration is required. Jan. 5, 1-3 p.m. $40. 805-286-5993. creativemetime.com. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay. SEA GLASS HEART JEWELRY Learn how to harden wire, which strengthens and flattens it. The instructor will then demonstrate how to drill holes in sea glass. Participants will use these skills to create pierced earrings. Beginners welcome. Preregistration is required. Jan. 6, 1-3 p.m. $55. 805-286-5993. creativemetime.com. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay. NORTH SLO COU NT Y

MOSAIC STEPPING STONE Choose from a huge selection of colorful tiles to create a custom mosaic stepping stone. Includes cutting tiles, gluing, grouting, and cleaning. All supplies are provided. Jan. 10, 6-8 p.m. $70. 805-237-3988. creativemetime. com. Centennial Park, 600 Nickerson Dr., Paso Robles.

ZENTANGLE AND THE ART OF

MINDFUL CREATION Zentangle drawing requires no artistic confidence or experience, simply a willingness to be present and play. Led by certified instructor, Debbie.

Jan. 6, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $37 and $22. 805-4663684. ärt/, 5806 Traffic Way, Atascadero.

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

Find your key and style with a skilled accompanist. You may start anytime during the semester. Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $185 for 12 week class or $20 per night as a drop-in student. 805-772-2812. cuesta. edu/communityprograms. Cuesta College Community Programs, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo.

DATE NIGHT POTTERY Guests can enjoy sharing wine, throwing pots on the wheel, and more. Fridays, Saturdays, 6-8 p.m. $30 per person. 805-896-6197.

Anam Cre Pottery Studio, 1243 Monterey St, San Luis Obispo, anamcre.com.

FILM AND TV ACTING CLASSES Film and TV acting classes for all ages and skill levels. Offers optional showcases for major Hollywood talent agents and casting directors. Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m. $165$175. 310-910-1228. actorsedge.com. Mission Cinemas, 1025 Monterey St., SLO. HAND BUILT FUNCTIONAL POTTERY WORKSHOP WITH JARRED PFEIFFER Students will create functional forms using various hand building techniques and decorate their forms using screen printing, stencil, and other methods. Registration includes protective slip glaze, clay, and firing. Jan. 12, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $100 SLOMA members; $125 general.

805-543-8562. sloma.org/education. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

IMPROV CLASS Learn to work on an improv ensemble and discover the basic fundamentals of improv comedy. Classes are taught by theater owner and director Sabrina Pratt. Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m.

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

INDEX Special Events ..........[17] Arts ............................[17] Culture & Lifestyle.......[19] Food & Drink..............[24] Music .........................[26]

through Feb. 13 $225 (for all 6 weeks). 805-242-3109. centralcoastcomedytheater.com. Tigerlily Salon Studio, 659 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo.

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

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

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

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

SPECIAL ART EVENTS NORTH COAST SLO COU NT Y

ARTISTS GET BETTER WITH AGE, CHALLENGING THE PLATEAUS, UNCOVERING NEW PATHWAYS, AND STAYING MOTIVATED Sherwyn will talk about his own growth as an artist and the methods and practices he has utilized over the years. This presentation will feature demonstrations, visual representations, and activities. Jan. 13, 2-4 p.m.

Free for Allied Arts members; $3 for non-members. 805927-3291 or 805-927-8190. cambriacenterforthearts. org. Cambria Center for the Arts, 1350 Main St., Cambria.

OPENING RECEPTION AND ART WALK: A THOUSAND FEATHERS A Thousand Feathers is a fine art mixed media group show. Meet the artists during this opening reception and art walk. Jan. 11, 5-8 p.m. Free.

805-772-1068. galleryatmarinasquare.com. Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero Ste. 10, Morro Bay.

RECEPTION: FOR THE BIRDS 2019 This annual exhibit is in celebration of the Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival. Meet the artists at the opening reception and enjoy fine art paintings, sculpture, and more. Jan. 13, 2-4 p.m. Free. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org.

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ART AFTER DARK PASO Unites visual, literary, and performing artists with the community and participating venues. Visit site for full list of programs and events.

First Saturday of every month, 6-9 p.m. 805-544-9251. artsobispo.org. Participating locations, Paso Robles, City-wide.

Celebrate the opening of Common Ground 2019 with Alta Colina wines and a live performance by Erin Inglish.

Jan. 5, 6-9 p.m. Free; $8 if wine tasting. 805-2389800. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles, studiosonthepark.org.

SAN LUIS OBISPO a Sunday afternoon ARTalk with photographer Marta Peluso. Ms. Peluso will talk about the work in her current SLOMA exhibition, Light From A Dark Room, which features a diverse mixture of black-and-white film photography as well as digital work. Jan. 13, 2 p.m. Free. 805-543-8562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

celebrates over five decades of works in print. Includes chapbooks, books, broadsides, poetry-infused sculpture, mail art, and altered objects. MondaysFridays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. through March 29 Free. 805-756-2305. lib.calpoly.edu/ events/pilgrimsprocess. Cal Poly Special Collections and Archives, Robert E. Kennedy Library, 1 Grand Ave., Building 35, Room 409, San Luis Obispo.

artifacts on loan from the renowned Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. Jan. 6 $120 SLOMA members; $135 general; includes round trip transportation, entry to the Reagan Library (including Air Force One and Pompeii), self-guided audio tour, and snacks.. 805-543-8562. sloma.org/education. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

S A N TA M A R I A VA L L E Y/ L O S A L A M O S Gallery features 12 artists each year. Enjoy art, wine, and food at these opening receptions. First Friday of every month, 5-7 p.m. Free. 805-937-2278. valleygallery. org. Valley Art Gallery, 125 W. Clark Ave., Orcutt.

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ART WITH ART

Artist Art Sherwyn hosts an art theory presentation on Jan. 13 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Cambria Center for the Arts. Sherwyn will talk about his own growth as an artist and the methods and practices he has utilized over the years. Tickets are $3. Admission is free for Allied Arts members. Visit cambriacenterforthearts.org for more info.

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ANNUAL WINTER FAIRE AND JURIED CRAFT SHOW Morro Bay Art Association presents its annual winter showcase, which features a collection of artworks submitted from all over the Central Coast.

Works include paintings, photography, jewelry, and fine crafts. Through Jan. 7, 12-4 p.m. Free. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

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

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

ED ZIRBEL AND TOM NICKELSON: MASTER WOODCARVERS Master woodcarvings including animals, whimsical houses, and Native American flutes.

Closed Tuesdays. Through Jan. 16, 1-4 p.m. Free.

805-995-2049. cayucosart.org. Cayucos Community Art Gallery, 10 Cayucos Dr., Cayucos.

FOR THE BIRDS 2019 In celebration of the Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival. This exhibit is a collection of fine art paintings and photography depicting our vast array of bird species and all things related to birds. Jan. 10-Feb. 18, 12-4 p.m. Free. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay. org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

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

Guests can enjoy refreshments, trolley rides, and more.

Second Friday of every month, 5-8 p.m. Free. 805-7722504. artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay. A THOUSAND FEATHERS A mixed media fine art group show featuring the birds of the Central Coast. Through Jan. 29 Free. 805-772-1068. galleryatmarinasquare.com. Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero Ste. 10, Morro Bay. NORTH SLO COU NT Y

ARTISTIC JOURNEYS WITH JANICE PLUMA A solo exhibit of acrylic and collage paintings. Through Feb. 1 Free. 805-461-6164. slolibrary.org. Atascadero Library, 6555 Capistrano, Atascadero.

BOTH SIDES OF THE BIG POND: SHARING COMMON GROUND This photographic exhibition showcases the beauty of 2 areas, separated by the ocean, that are in danger due to misuse and potential

Featured artists: Jeanne Miller, Dana Kimberly Hixson, and Martha Sparta. This exhibit showcases the work of three silk artists who paint together, sharing their talents and insights with one another.

Jan. 4, 6-8 p.m., Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sundays, 12-4 p.m. and MondaysFridays, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. through Jan. 29 Free. 805-747-4200. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

SOUTH COAST SLO COU NT Y damage by large corporations. Features photos by Michael Messina and Marty Cullen. Through Jan. 15 805-466-3684. ärt/, 5806 Traffic Way, Atascadero.

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IMPROV COMEDY SHOW Fast-paced improv comedy shows performed by the ensemble of Central Coast Comedy Theater. All shows are based on audience suggestions making every show unique. Saturdays, 8-10 p.m. $5. centralcoastcomedytheater.com. Kreuzberg Coffee Company, 685 Higuera Street, San Luis Obispo, 805-430-0260.

PILGRIM’S PROCESS: THE POETRY OF MICHAEL HANNON The exhibit

DAY TRIP TO POMPEII: THE EXHIBITION IN SIMI VALLEY The exhibit features more than 150 authentic

FIRST FRIDAY ARTIST RECEPTIONS Valley Art

INTERESTING TIMES Featuring the political and whimsical art of Mark Bryan.

Through Jan. 23 805-710-2929.

Frame Works, 339 Marsh St, San Luis Obispo, sloart.com.

Contains black-and-white silver gelatin photographs made using film as well as JAN. 3 – JAN. 10 digital color photography.

2019 This exhibition reflects the evolution of Marta Peluso’s art over time and includes new as well as older images that have been revisited.

Through Jan. 27 Free. 805-543-8562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

ARTALK WITH MARTA PELUSO Join SLOMA for

talk about the work in her current SLOMA exhibition, Light From A Dark Room + Jack Kerouac Alley, that features a diverse mixture of black-and-white film photography and digital work. Jan. 13, 2 p.m. Free. 805543-8562. sloma.org/events. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

p.m. $5 suggested donation. 805-868-7133. 7Sisters Brewing Company, 181 Tank Farm Rd. Suite 110, San Luis Obispo, 7SistersBrewing.com.

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LIGHT FROM A DARK ROOM: ARTALK WITH PHOTOGRAPHER MARTA PELUSO Ms. Peluso will

ongoing, 6-9 p.m. Free. 805-210-8687. secretslo.com. Sauer-Adams Adobe, 964 Chorro St., San Luis Obispo.

see how artists are engaging with the current political landscape and representing their beliefs, anxieties and ideals. Jan. 3-27, noon 805-238-9800. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles, studiosonthepark.org.

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BY ARTISTS Featuring fine art oils and pastels from Corynn Wolf, acrylics from Ryan Adams, and works from various mediums by Marc Wolf ongoing Free. 805-7736563. Puffers of Pismo, 781 Price St., Pismo Beach, puffersofpismo.com/.

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COUNTRY HOMES AND GARDENS Digital artists Deb Hofstetter and Dean Crawford Jr. collaborate with fellow artist Deprise Brescia, an award-winning encaustic, acrylic, and mixed media artist. Through Feb. 1 Free. 805-238-9800. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles, studiosonthepark.org.

DENISE SCHRYVER EXHIBIT Original paintings and pastels by local artist Denise Schryver are on display and for sale. Part of the proceeds benefit the mission of Courtney’s House and Paradise fire victims. Through Feb. 10 $125-$400. 805-434-3895. figgoodfood.org.

Courtney’s House, 311 6th St., Templeton.

PARTNERS Features works by couples who share a home and whose creative passions navigate their relationship and their art in unique ways. Some duos collaborate and create pieces of art together. Jan. 3-Feb. 24 Free. 805-238-9800. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles, studiosonthepark.org.

THANKFUL The Paso Robles Joint Unified School District Gallery’s annual themed show featuring artwork by students from all Paso Robles’s schools, grades K through 12. Through Jan. 20, 12-9 p.m. Free. 805-2389800. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles, studiosonthepark.org.

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ART AFTER DARK SLO Unites visual, literary, and performing artists with the community and participating venues. Visit site for full list of programs and events.

First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. 805-544-9251. artsobispo.org. SLO County, Countywide, San Luis Obispo.

CENTRAL COAST PRINTMAKERS: BANNER A collaborative exhibition featuring contemporary prints made by members of the Central Coast Printmakers Group, a membership group of SLOMA. Through Jan. 27 Free. 805-543-8562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

CLAY X 3 Featuring ceramic artists Ariane Leiter, Maria Teresa Rode and Catherine Schmid-Maybach. Their work reflects the deep roots of ceramic sculpture in modern and contemporary California art. Through Jan. 20 Free.

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

CYNTHIA MEYER: LOCAL COLOR Enjoy landscape, light, and architecture captured on a sunny day in SLO.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS: FOR THE BIRDS 2019 Submit bird themed artwork for MBAA’s “For the Birds” exhibit, in celebration of the Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival. Through Jan. 8, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $5-$10 each submission. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS: BRUSHSTROKES 2019 A non-themed state-wide juried exhibition at SLOMA. Juror: Jerry McLaughlin. Visit site for details. Mondays-Sundays. through May 15 $35 for up to two paintings. 805-5438562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

CALL FOR ARTISTS: AWAKEN SLO COUNTY STUDENTS A year-long program celebrating art and community expressed through the imaginative creations of our county’s students. Three student exhibitions will be displayed at SLOMA throughout the year. Through May 12 Free. 805-543-8562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: SLO PART-TIME PLAYERS 10-MINUTE PLAYS Accepting submissions of 10-minute plays with 5 or fewer characters (1-3 preferred), few or no props, simple staging, and an emphasis on the text. Writers should have theater experience (please include brief description). Email submissions to celestegoyer@gmail.com. ongoing Free.

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COMEDY NIGHT Weekly comedy show featuring touring and local comics all for one dollar. Guests can enjoy beer, food, raffle giveaways, and more. Hosted

by Henry Bruington and Aidan Candelario. Limited spots available for the open mic. Thursdays, 7:30-10 p.m. through Feb. 28 $1. 805-540-8300. Bang The Drum Brewery, 950 Orcutt Road, San Luis Obispo, bangthedrumbrewery.com/.

COMEDY NIGHT AT 7 SISTERS Enjoy live standup comedy from local and touring comics with locally brewed beverages. Second Saturday of every month, 7-9

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RUMORS Orcutt Community Theater presents its production of this Neil Simon farce. Recommended for ages over 12 due to adult language. Jan. 11, 7-9 p.m., Jan. 12, 7-9 p.m. and Jan. 13, 1:30-3:30 p.m. $15.

805-973-7264. santamariacommunitytheater.com. KDA Studios, 3558 Skyway Dr., Santa Maria.

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AUDITIONS: THE SUNSHINE BOYS This comedy

by Neil Simon follows a young theatrical agent who attempts to reunite his elderly uncle with his long time stage partner. Show runs March 15 through April 7. Casting roles for 5 men and 2 women. Auditions include cold reads from the script. Jan. 6, 6:30-8 p.m. and Jan. 7, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. 805-909-2005. cambriacenterforthearts.org. Cambria Center for the Arts Theatre, 1350 Main St., Cambria.

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

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

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2019 EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATE Employment law firm LightGabler and the SLO Chamber of Commerce person this seminar that will discuss the new employment laws taking effect in 2019. Jan. 10, 12-1:30 p.m. $30 for SLO Chamber members; $45 for nonmembers. 805-881-2777. slochamber.org. Mindbody, 659 Tank Farm Rd., San Luis Obispo.

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

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

FREE ADOPTION INFORMATION SESSION Free sessions on adoption information at our San Luis Obispo office located at 1540 Marsh Street, Ste 130. The FCCA has placed over 5,100 waiting children into forever families since 1983. First Thursday of every month, 6-8 p.m. Free. 805-542-9084. fcadoptions.org. Family Connections Christian Adoptions, 1540 Marsh St. #130, San Luis Obispo.

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

TOURS FOR PADDLERS A special tour for visitors who come by ocean. Paddlers will need to clean sand from their feet and dry themselves before the tour so not to damage the antique flooring. Saturdays, 10-10:45 a.m. $6.49. 805-540-5771. Point San Luis Lighthouse, 1 Lighthouse Rd., Avila Beach.

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SURFSIDE TENNIS CLUB Saturdays, 9 a.m. Free the first month; $30 per year afterwards. surfsidetennisclub. teamopolis.com. Los Osos Middle School, 1555 El Moro St., Los Osos, 534-2835.

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

BOOK DISCUSSION New book every month. Second Thursday of every month, 10:30 a.m.-noon Free. 805-539-9374. slolibrary.org. San Luis Obispo Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

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

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

Hosted by NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). A free and confidential group of families helping families who have a loved one living with mental health JAN. 3 – JAN. 10 challenges. First Monday of every month, 2019 6:30-8 p.m. Free. 805-674-8009. Life House, 5850 West Mall Rd., Atascadero.

FRIDAY NIGHT MAGIC AT CAPTAIN NEMO

NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUP MEETING A meeting for those who know or have known a feeling of desperation concerning the addiction of a loved one.

Tuesdays, 6-7 p.m. Free. 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.

805-221-5523. The Redeemer Lutheran Church, 4500 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

Refreshments available on site for purchase. Fridays, 5-8 p.m. 4 Booster Buy In. 805-544-6366. Facebook. com/CaptainNemoGames. Captain Nemo Games, 563 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo.

#METOO: DROP-IN SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN These monthly support groups are for adult

FREE-FOR-ALL MOVIE NIGHTS Each meeting, a movie is selected from a wide variety of GLBT films.

Second Friday of every month, 7-10 p.m. Free. galacc. org. GALA Center Gallery, 1060 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

GALA Q YOUTH GROUP This group serves gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth (ages 13 through 18). Thursdays, 6-8 p.m. 805-541-4252. galacc. org. GALA Center Gallery, 1060 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

HOME SHARE SLO COFFEE CHAT An informal gathering to talk about home sharing. Second Wednesday of every month, 10:30 a.m.-noon Free.

805-215-5474. homeshareslo.org. Panera Bread, 299 Madonna Rd., San Luis Obispo.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Meets at various locations in SLO County: Arroyo Grande, Oceano, San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay, Cambria, Atascadero, and Paso Robles. No dues/fees. Mondays-Sundays, 6-7 p.m. Free. oacentralcoast.org. San Luis Obispo, Citywide, SLO.

RAINBOW CONNECTION GROUP This group serves gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth (ages 18 through 26). Meets every Thursday (except the the third of the month). Thursdays, 6-8 p.m. 805-541-4252. galacc.org. GALA Center Gallery, 1060 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

SLO CHESS CLUB All ages and skill levels welcome.

Plays at the giant chess board in Morro Bay on Saturdays. Boards generally provided. Thursdays, 6:3010 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. 805-2154963. slochess.com. Target, Los Osos Valley Rd., San Luis Obispo.

SLO TABLE TENNIS All ages and skill levels welcome.

Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7-10 p.m. and Sundays, 4-7 p.m.

Free. 805-215-4963. Ludwick Community Center, 864 Santa Rosa, San Luis Obispo.

TOASTMASTERS WEEKLY MEETING A meeting for those who wish to improve their communication skills and lose their fear of public speaking. Thursdays, 6:307:45 a.m. SLO County Government Center, 1055 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-544-6654.

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women who have experienced sexual harassment or sexual abuse. The focus of the group is to create a safe place for participants to share, be connected with local resources, and get support in the healing process. First Tuesday, Friday of every month, 12-1 p.m. RISE, 51 Zaca Ln., Ste. 100, San Luis Obispo, 805-226-5400.

CHILD LOSS SUPPORT GROUP Hospice SLO County is offering this support group for those grieving the loss of a child. This group provides the opportunity to connect with individuals in a similar situation. Drop-ins welcome. Thursdays, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo.org/support-groups. Hospice SLO County, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo.

FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP A support group for those who are caring for a loved one, no matter the diagnosis. This group provides the opportunity to connect with individuals in a similar situation. Drop-ins welcome. Every other Friday, 2:30-4 p.m. Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo.org. Hospice SLO County, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo.

FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP A free support group for those who suffer from Fibromyalgia.

Second Saturday of every month, 11 a.m.-noon Free. slolibrary.org. San Luis Obispo Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

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CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS MEETING Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a 12-step recovery program for anyone who desires to have healthy and loving relationships with themselves and others. Saturdays, 1-2:15 p.m. Free.

805-203-5875. Cambria Connection, 1069 Main St., Cambria.

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NAR-ANON: LET IT BEGIN WITH ME Nar-Anon

MORRO BAY MARTIAL ARTS: WORLD CHAMPION INSTRUCTION Offering adult and youth classes in

is a support group for those who are affected by someone else’s addiction. Tuesdays 805-458-7655. naranoncentralca.org/meetings/meeting-list/. San Luis Obispo, Citywide, SLO.

RESOLVE GENERAL INFERTILITY SUPPORT GROUP Support for those suffering through the trauma of infertility. A peer led group through RESOLVE, the national infertility association. Second Wednesday of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. 619-807-7006.

Downtown SLO, Higuera St., San Luis Obispo.

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GENERAL GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP (SOUTH COUNTY) Hospice SLO County is offering this support group for those grieving the death of a loved one. Held in the Church Care Center. Drop-ins welcome. Tuesdays, 10-11:30 a.m. Free.

805-544-2266. hospiceslo.org. New Life Pismo, 990 James Way, Pismo Beach.

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kickboxing, boxing, judo, Jiu Jitsu, MMA, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and self defense. ongoing 805-701-7397. Grateful Body, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay.

MOVEMENT FLOW Incorporates yoga, active and resistance stretching, and more. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 6:30-7:30 a.m. 805-776-3676. studiofitnessmorrobay.com. Studio Fitness, 349 Quintana, Morro Bay. NIA TECHNIQUE A workout that combines dance, martial arts, and yoga. Mondays, Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. Studio Fitness, 349 Quintana, Morro Bay, 805-776-3676, studiofitnessmorrobay.com.

AIKIDO FOR EVERYONE A Japanese martial art designed to stop violence with minimum harm. This class welcomes JAN. 3 – JAN. 10 beginning and experienced students of 2019 all levels. Tuesdays, 5:45-7 p.m. $65 for 3 SPOUSE AND PARTNER LOSS SUPPORT months. 805-549-1222. aikidosanluisobispo.

GROUP (SOUTH COUNTY) A Hospice SLO com. San Luis Coastal Adult School, 1500 Lizzie St., support group for those grieving the loss of a partner or San Luis Obispo. spouse. This group provides the opportunity to connect AIKIDO SELF DEFENSE FOR ADULTS Taught by with individuals in a similar situation. Held in Room 16. fifth degree black belt instructor Mary Tesoro. Tuesdays, Drop-ins welcome. Thursdays, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. 8055:45-7 p.m. $65 for 3 months. 805-549-1222. ae.slcusd.

544-2266. hospiceslo.org. New Life Pismo, 990 James org. San Luis Coastal Adult School, 1500 Lizzie St., San Way, Pismo Beach.

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BASIC COMPUTER HELP Come to learn basic computer skills. Call to sign up. Thursdays, 8:30-10 a.m.

Free. 805-772-6394. Morro Bay Library, 625 Harbor St., Morro Bay.

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KNITTING FOR BEGINNERS Beginners will learn basic stitches and work on starter projects. All materials provided. Saturdays, 12-2 p.m. through Jan. 26 Free.

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

YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID Learn how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. Registration for this training is required. Jan. 12, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $20.

805-503-0009. t-mha.org. Transitions-Mental Health Association, 784 High St., San Luis Obispo.

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SEWING CAFE CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS Sewing Cafe offers various classes and workshop. Call for full schedule. ongoing Sewing Cafe, 541 Five Cities Dr., Pismo Beach, 805-295-6585.

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BEGINNERS DANCE BUNKAI Appropriate for all skill levels. The foundation of Dance Bunkai uses precise movements to build on. These movements are borrowed from all over the world and include Martial Arts movements. Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $40 monthly; $12 to drop-in. 805-203-6318. Ignite Movement Studio, 698 Morro Bay Blvd., Morro Bay, ignitemovementstudio.com/.

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

ENERGY AND FOCUS Learn an ancient and powerful system for gaining vitality , energy , focus, flexibility and stress relief through the art of Tai Chi and Qi Gong.

Special packages available. Mondays-Sundays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. through Jan. 31 805-235-7978. Grateful Body, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay. ENERGY AND FOCUS DURING THE HOLIDAYS Learn an ancient and powerful system for gaining vitality, energy, and focus. Features zen, tai chi, qi gong, and more. Specials packages available for the holidays. Thursdays, 8:45-9:45 a.m. through Jan. 31 Call for details. 805-701-7397. Grateful Body, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay.

ESSENTIAL OIL WORKSHOP Includes essential oil blends for tired, sore muscles and joints. Jan. 6, 1-2:15 p.m. $5 for each. 805-235-7978. Grateful Body, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay.

HEATED BARRE SERIES A combination of pilates, yoga, and ballet barre technique. Exercise equipment includes mini-balls and small hand weights to sculpt, slim, and stretch your entire body. Sundays. through Jan. 27 $70. 805-215-4565. omniyogastudio.com/ workshops/. Omni Studio, 698 Morro Bay Blvd, Morro Bay.

INTERMEDIATE TRIBAL BUNKAI Incorporates props, rhythm instruments, and a fusion of world dance to upbeat, fast drumming music. Fridays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $40 monthly; $12 to drop in. 805-203-6318. desertcoastdance.com. Ignite Movement Studio, 698

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CONDITIONING EXPRESS Includes weights, exercise balls, and TRX Suspension Training. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6:30-7:15 a.m. $88. 805-549-1222. ae.slcusd.org. San Luis Coastal Adult School, 1500 Lizzie St., San Luis Obispo.

GENTLE YOGA Includes exercises involving the Egoscu Method, foundation training, active isolated stretching, and more. Mondays, Wednesdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m. 805549-1222. ae.slcusd.org. San Luis Coastal Adult School, 1500 Lizzie St., San Luis Obispo.

GENTLE YOGA IN SLO Features traditional yoga poses, resistance and active stretching, trigger point therapy, and nerve flossing techniques. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 10:15-11:30 a.m. $88. 805-549-1222. ae.slcusd.org. San Luis Coastal Adult School, 1500 Lizzie St., San Luis Obispo.

JANUARY WHOLE 30 GROUP A 30-day nutrition reset, designed to help participants end unhealthy cravings and habits, restore a healthy metabolism, and more. Jan. 5, 4-5 p.m. $40; 50% off if combined with Word of the Year Workshop. 805-439-4333. sloyogacenter.com/events. SLO Yoga Center: Marigold, 3840 Broad St. Suite #1, San Luis Obispo.

METABOLIC CONDITIONING Enjoy a workout using your own bodyweight, dumbbells, large exercise balls, and the TRX suspension training system. Designated as intermediate advanced level fitness. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8-9 a.m. $88. 805-549-1222. ae.slcusd.org. San Luis Coastal Adult School, 1500 Lizzie St., San Luis Obispo.

MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION COURSE: FREE ORIENTATION This MBSR course covers practical tools for managing stress and enhanced well being. Classes held every Wednesday from 6 to 8:30 p.m., Jan. 16 through Mar. 6. All day retreat takes place Feb. 24. Jan. 9, 6 p.m. Free to attend orientation; $200 course tuition. 484-459-1066. Crows End Retreat Center, 6340 Squire Ct., San Luis Obispo.

STRENGTH FOR 50+ Each session begins with “static

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Art Center Morro Bay opens its annual For The Birds exhibit on Jan. 10 in celebration of the Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival. Guests are welcome to meet the artists during an opening reception on Jan. 13 from 2 to 4 p.m. The exhibit runs through Feb. 18. Call (805) 772-2504 or visit artcentermorrobay.org for more info.

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SIERRA CLUB HIKE IN THE PINES A look at the biology of an open space overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Rain cancels event. Jan. 6, 9 a.m. Free. 805-459-2103. sierraclub.org/santa-lucia. Fiscalini Ranch Preserve, North Windsor Blvd., Cambria.

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LAGUNA LAKE HIKE WITH ECOSLO The distance is 2 miles round trip. Guests are recommended to bring water, a snack, and sturdy hiking shoes. Participants meet at the dog park area. Jan. 12, 8:30-10 a.m. Free.

805-544-1777. ecoslo.org. Laguna Lake Park, 504 Madonna Rd., San Luis Obispo.

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MORRO BAY MARTIAL ARTS Offering adult and youth classes in kickboxing, boxing, judo, jiu-jitsu, MMA, tai chi, qi gong, and self defense. Programs are customized to fit your needs , goals, age, and abilities.

Mondays-Sundays, 7 a.m.-8 p.m. through April 25 Call for details. 805-701-7397. Morro Bay Martial Arts, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay.

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CAL POLY MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. HOLY NAMES A non-conference game. Jan. 4, 7 p.m. Mott Athletics Center, 1 Grand Ave, San Luis Obispo, 805-7567297.

CAL POLY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. UC IRVINE All kids ages 13 and under get in for free and can get autographs from the Mustangs after the game.

Jan. 5, 2 p.m. Mott Athletics Center, 1 Grand Ave, San Luis Obispo, 805-756-7297.

back” to realign you spine. Features dumbbells and exercise balls. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 9-10 a.m. $88.

805-549-1222. ae.slcusd.org. San Luis Coastal Adult School, 1500 Lizzie St., San Luis Obispo.

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WORD OF THE YEAR: A YOGA AND WRITING EXPERIENCE Movements and journal prompts will

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guide guests to choose the right word. Participants receive a bracelet branded with their word. Jan. 5, 1-3:30 p.m. $45. 805-439-4333. sloyogacenter.com/ events. SLO Yoga Center: Marigold, 3840 Broad St. Suite #1, San Luis Obispo.

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BEGINNER’S CHI GONG AND YOGA For adults and youth ages 11 and up. Includes stand up exercises, breathing techniques, and more. Sundays, 9:45 a.m.

Free. 805-534-1600. Morrocco Method Headquarters, 800 Farroll Rd., Grover Beach, morroccomethod.com.

MINDFUL YOGA: GENTLE, RESTORATIVE, AND SLOW FLOW Mondays, Wednesdays, 9-10:15 a.m. $10 donation. White Heron Sangha Meditation Center, 6615 Bay Laurel Place, Avila Beach, whiteheronsangha.org.

SILVER SNEAKERS ZUMBA Appropriate for all ages and fitness levels. An easy-to-follow dance fitness class. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 9-10 a.m. Free for members; $6 to drop-in. 805-441-7932. Oceano Community Center, 1425 19th St., Oceano, adulted. luciamarschools.org.

WATER EXERCISE FOR ALL AGES These classes help relieve joint pain, enhance your breathing, and increase your range of motion. Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. 805-481-6399. 5 Cities

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NORTH COAST SLO COU NT Y Children and their families are invited to listen to tales in English and Spanish. Wednesdays, 3:30-4 p.m. Free.

805-927-4336. slolibrary.org. Cambria Library, 1043 Main St., Cambria.

FAMILY MOVIE WEDNESDAYS Come enjoy seeing a free, family movie once a month. All ages welcome.

Second Wednesday of every month, 2 p.m. Free. 805995-3312. Cayucos Library, 310 B. St., Cayucos.

KIDS BALLET This is a beginner’s class for boys and girls to learn how to expressively move in their bodies while focusing on alignment, coordination, and basic ballet technique. Mondays, 3:30-4:15 p.m. $60 per month. 805.215.4565. omniyogastudio.com. Omni Studio, 698 Morro Bay Blvd, Morro Bay. KIDS HIP HOP Focus placed on basic rhythm

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AIKIDO FOR KIDS AGE 4-13 AIKI-MITES (age 4-6) class is 3pm on Tuesdays. AIKI-KIDS (age 7-13) classes are Tuesdays/Thursdays at 4pm. Call to observe or pre-register. Tuesdays, Thursdays $50-$75 monthly.

805-544-8866. aikidosanluisobispo.com. Budo Ryu, 3536 South Higuera St., San Luis Obispo.

DRAMA AND IMAGINATIVE PLAY CLASS: AGES 5-8 Sing, dance, play games, and create stories and characters. Saturdays, 11-11:45 a.m. $120 for 10 weeks.

805-709-0761. pyjamadrama.com/us. SLO Movement Arts Center, 2074 Parker St., San Luis Obispo.

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

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

FAMILY NITE AT 7SISTERS BREWING $5 options include kids’ grilled cheese, kids’ pulled pork sliders, craft root beer floats, and more. Features live Irish music and family activities. Wednesdays, 4-9 p.m. Free. 805868-7133. 7Sisters Brewing Company, 181 Tank Farm Rd. Suite 110, San Luis Obispo, 7SistersBrewing.com.

KIDS PARTY PARADISE For kids ages 4 and up (potty trained) to enjoy games, an obstacle course, dinner, dessert, crafts, GymJam time, a movie, and more.

Registration required. Second Saturday of every month, 5:30-10:30 p.m. $34-$44 with family discounts. 805547-1496. performanceathleticsslo.com. Performance Athletics Gymnastics, 4484 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

POTTERY CLASSES AND PAINTING POTS Kids are welcome to come and learn various ways of working with clay, including sculpting, slab building, and throwing onto the pottery wheel. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 3:30-5 p.m. $30. 805-896-6197. anamcre.com. Anam Cre Pottery Studio, 1243 Monterey St, San Luis Obispo.

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WINTER GYMNASTICS CAMP Boys and girls ages 4-13 can enjoy gymnastics, games, activities, crafts, outdoor time, and more. No gymnastics experience required. Jan. 3, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and Jan. 4, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Starts at $25. 805-547-1496. performanceathleticsslo.com. Performance Athletics Gymnastics, 4484 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

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DINOSAUR DIG FOR REAL FOSSILS Come to the library to see authentic dinosaur bones and dig for real fossils. All ages. Jan. 5, 2-3 p.m. Free. 805-473-7161. slolibrary.org. Arroyo Grande Library, 800 W. Branch, Arroyo Grande.

OCEANO DUNES VISITOR CENTER Enjoy exhibits of dune and lagoon plant and animal species. End your visit with a stroll behind the center to the fresh-water lagoon. ongoing, 12-4 p.m. Free. 805-474-2667. Oceano Dunes Visitor Center, 555 Pier Ave, Oceano.

comprehension and beginner hip hop moves including rocks, bounces, grooves, and moving on the floor.

Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m. through Jan. 1 $60 per month. 805-215-4565. omniyogastudio.com. Omni Studio, 698 Morro Bay Blvd, Morro Bay.

PLAY EXPLORE CREATE 1 Enjoy various art

PAWS TO READ Children are welcome to come read to Berkeley the dog. Wednesdays, 3 p.m. Free. 805-5281862. Los Osos Library, 2075 Palisades Ave., Los Osos.

Come read to Karly the Dog. A great way to get kids interested in reading. Second Friday of every month, 4-5 p.m. Free. 805-772-6394. Morro Bay Library, 625 Harbor St., Morro Bay.

WINTER BREAK CAMP Marine science activities include aquarium tours, animal feedings, squid

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Arroyo Grande Farmers Market, Olohan Alley, Arroyo Grande.

NIPOMO FARMERS MARKET Includes a large variety of locally grown produce. Open year round Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. nipomofarmersmarket.com/.

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BURGER SUNDAY WITH LONE MADRONE Guests

COME TOGETHER Features crafts, activities, a shared meal, and more. Second Wednesday of every month, 5-7 p.m.

805-772-7644. Estero Bay UMC, 3000 Hemlock, Morro Bay.

can enjoy elevated lamb, beef, and portobello mushroom burgers grilled by Chef Jeffery Scott. Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Starts at $14. 805-238-0845. Lone Madrone Winery, 5800 Adelaida Rd, Paso Robles, lonemadrone.com.

DAILY HAPPY HOUR AT THE NAUTICAL COWBOY

FREE GUIDED MEDITATION GROUP Fridays, 10:30 a.m.-noon Free. 805-4392757. meditationintro.com. Morro Bay Library, 625 Harbor St., Morro Bay.

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

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GUIDED MEDITATION CLASS Come learn

DOLLAR OYSTER WEDNESDAYS Enjoy fresh dollar oysters. Wednesdays, 4-9 p.m. 805-461-5100. The Nautical Cowboy, 6005 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

to meditate in a relaxed setting. Pay attention to each second and increase your awareness of the inner world. Frequent prompts facilitate the focus. Fridays, 10:30 a.m.-noon Free. 805-439-2757. meditationintro. com. Morro Bay Library, 625 Harbor St., Morro Bay.

TRI TIP TUESDAYS Enjoy Santa Maria style tri tip every Tuesday. Tuesdays, 4-9 p.m. 805-461-5100. thecarlton.com/dining/the-nautical-cowboy. The Nautical Cowboy, 6005 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

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WINE AND OLIVE OIL TASTING Enjoy tasting Rhône varietal wines from SLO and SB counties, as well as local Boccabella Farms’ craft olive oils. ongoing, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $20. 805-237-1245. mcpricemyers.com. McPrice Myers Wine Company, 3525 Adelaida Rd., Paso Robles.

REFUGE RECOVERY Refuge Recovery is a nontheistic, Buddhist-inspired approach to treating and recovering from addictions of all kinds. Open to people of all backgrounds and respectful of all recovery paths.

Saturdays, 7:30-8:45 p.m. Free; donations welcome. SLO County Drug and Alcohol Atascadero, 3500 El Camino Real, Atascadero, 800-838-1381.

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ASK SABRINA 30 years of Tarot reading experience.

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

REFUGE RECOVERY SLO Refuge Recovery is a non-theistic, Buddhist-inspired approach to treating and recovering from addictions of all kinds. Open to people of all backgrounds and respectful of all recovery paths.

Sundays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; donations welcome.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, 2201 Lawton Ave., San Luis Obispo.

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CHANNELING With Mike Smith. Receive channeled messages from spirit guides and love ones. Second Saturday of every month, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $35. 805-489 -2432. Halcyon Store Post Office, 936 S. Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande.

DRUM MEDICINE JOURNEY With Julie Jensen. Every third Monday, 6:30-8 p.m. $30. 805-489-2432. Halcyon Store Post Office, 936 S. Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande.

HOUSE OF GOD CHURCH SERVICES Join Pastor Joseph and Amanda Anderson every Sunday for prayer, healing, and more. Sundays, 9:30-11 a.m. 805-8887714. House of God Church, 946 Rockaway Ave., Grover Beach.

INTUITIVE DEVELOPMENT 1st and 2nd Tuesdays of the month. With Julie Jensen. Come explore your innate gifts that are receiving and giving intuitive information.

Second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-8 p.m. $25. 805489-2423. Halcyon Store Post Office, 936 S. Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande.

INTUITIVE CIRCLE CLASSES Explore your gift of receiving and giving intuitive information during these classes hosted by Julie Jensen. Every other Tuesday, 6:30-8 p.m. $25. 805-489-2432. Halcyon Store Post Office, 936 S. Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande.

MEDIUMSHIP DEVELOPMENT Learn the basics of communicating with spirit in a safe environment with Mike Smith. Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $15. 805-4802432. Halcyon Store Post Office, 936 S. Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande.

REFUGE RECOVERY Refuge Recovery is a nontheistic, Buddhist-inspired approach to treating and recovering from addictions of all kinds. Open to people of all backgrounds and respectful of all recovery paths.

Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m. Free; donations welcome. The Haven (classroom), 621 E Grand Ave, Arroyo Grande, 805-202-3440.

SUNDAY FOR SPIRIT PSYCHIC READINGS Features an assortment of psychic readers. Sundays, 1-5 p.m. Vaires. 805-489-2432. Halcyon Store Post Office, 936 S. Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande.

YOUTH SERVICES The City Church Central Coast holds youth services for junior high school students.

Mondays, 6:30 p.m. Free. 805-929-8990. thecitycc.org.

Faith Life Community Church, 726 W Tefft St, Nipomo.

ECOFLOW

ECOSLO hosts one of its hikes at Laguna Lake Park on Jan. 12 from 8:30 to 10 a.m. The distance is 2 miles round trip. Guests are recommended to bring water, a snack, and sturdy hiking shoes. Admission is free. Participants meet at the dog park area. Call (805) 544-1777 or visit ecoslo.org for more information.

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ART CENTER MORRO BAY Seeking volunteers to be docents and/or organize art programs.

Mondays-Sundays, 12-4 p.m. Free. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

SWAP ELFIN FOREST WORK PARTY Help the SWAP Weed Warriors with weeding, trail trimming, and erosion control. First Saturday of every month, 9 a.m.-noon 805528-0392. El Moro Elfin Forest Natural Area, 1100 15th St., Los Osos.

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ADOPT A GRANDPARENT Connect with older adults that need a little extra help. Tasks include baking, driving, errands, friendly visits, pet walking, reading, games, and more. RSVP required. Please contact to set up an orientation. Fridays, 10-11 a.m. and Mondays, 10-11 a.m. through Jan. 28 Free. 805-547-7025 x 2214.

Wilshire Community Services, 285 South St. Suite J, San Luis Obispo, wilshirecommunityservices.org.

CARDS FOR SENIORS Looking for volunteers who would enjoy creating handmade cards for isolated older adults. All materials and tools provided. Fridays, 1011:30 a.m. through Jan. 25 Free. 805-547-7025 x2214.

Wilshire Community Services, 285 South St. Suite J, San Luis Obispo, wilshirecommunityservices.org.

CASA INFO SESSION Learn about volunteer opportunities at CASA of SLO County. Become an advocate for an abused or neglected infant, toddler, child or teen, or a mentor for a young adult leaving foster care. Training provided. Please RSVP. Jan. 3, 1-2 p.m.

805-541-6542. slocasa.org. CASA of San Luis Obispo County, 75 Higuera St., Suite 180, San Luis Obispo.

Learn about volunteer opportunities at CASA of SLO County. Become an advocate for an abused or neglected infant, toddler, child or teen, or a mentor for a young adult leaving foster care. Training provided. Please RSVP. Jan. 9, 6:30-7:30 p.m. 805-541-6542. slocasa.org.

Starbucks, 1076 Los Osos Valley Rd., San Luis Obispo.

FELINE NETWORK OF THE CENTRAL COAST Seeking volunteers to provide foster homes for foster kittens or cats with special needs. The Feline Network pays for food, litter, and any medications needed.

Volunteers also needed to help with humanely trapping and transporting feral cats for spay/neuter. ongoing 805-549-9228. felinenetwork.org. San Luis Obispo, Citywide, SLO.

HOSPICE SLO COUNTY THRESHOLD SINGERS SEEK NEW VOICES Sing for individuals experiencing

individuals with a life-limiting illness and their families by providing caregiver respite, practical assistance, emotional support, companionship, and comfort.

Thursdays, 1-6 p.m. Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo. org/workshops. Hospice SLO County, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo.

MEALS ON WHEELS Meals on Wheels, San Luis Obispo, needs noon time drivers. Must have own car to deliver prepared meals. Mondays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

805-235-8870. San Luis Obispo, Citywide, SLO.

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

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

MAIN STREET MARKET Saturdays, 2:30-6 p.m. Free.

805-772-4467. Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce, 695 Harbor St., Morro Bay, morrobaychamber.org.

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

CAMBRIA FARMERS MARKET Fridays, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. 805-395-6659. cambriafarmersmarket.com.

Cambria Veterans Memorial Hall, 1000 Main Street, Cambria.

PASO ROBLES FARMERS MARKET Tuesdays, 3-6 p.m. northcountyfarmersmarkets.com. Paso Robles Farmers Market, Spring and 11th St., Paso Robles.

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

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

SLO FARMERS MARKET Hosts over 60 vendors.

life-limiting or end-of life conditions. First Sunday of every month, 2-4 p.m. Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo. org/services/hospice-slo-county-threshold-singers.

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

Saturdays, 8-10:45 a.m. World Market Parking Lot, 2650 Main St., San Luis Obispo.

HOSPICE SLO COUNTY VOLUNTEER TRAINING

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Preregistration required. In-Home Volunteers assist

produce, artists and musicians. Saturdays, 12-2:25 p.m.

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WINE DOWN MONDAYS Enjoy half off all wines every Monday at The Carlton Hotel’s Nautical Cowboy.

Mondays, 4-9 p.m. 805-461-5100. the-carlton.com/ dining/the-nautical-cowboy. The Nautical Cowboy, 6005 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

WINE TASTING AT CASS WINERY Wine by the glass and bottles are also available for purchase. ongoing, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. 805-239-1730. casswines.com/. Cass Winery And Vineyard, 7350 Linne Rd., Paso Robles.

WINE TASTING AT CHANGALA Enjoy local art and meet Changala’s wine dogs while sampling various wines.

Fridays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $10. 805-226-9060. changalawinery.com. Changala Winery, 3770 Willow Creek Rd., Paso Robles.

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THE BLACK GLASS CHALLENGE AT CROMA VERA Test your blind tasting skills. Winners get their names listed on the front board and posted to social media. Fridays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. $12. 805-946-1685. cromavera.com/events/. Croma Vera Wines, 3592 Broad St., Ste. 106, San Luis Obispo.

FRIDAY NIGHT PINT NIGHT Buy logo glass for $8 and bring it in every Friday for $2 off refills. Wine offered at happy hour pricing. Fridays, 4-10 p.m. Free. 805868-7133. 7sistersbrewing.com/events-page. 7Sisters Brewing Company, 181 Tank Farm Rd. Suite 110, San Luis Obispo.

GEEKS WHO DRINK PUB QUIZ 8 rounds of audio, visual, and live hosted trivia with prizes. Thursdays, 6:308:30 p.m. Free. 805-868-7133. 7SistersBrewing.com.

7Sisters Brewing Company, 181 Tank Farm Rd. Suite 110, San Luis Obispo.

TASTE OF SLO: WALKING FOOD TOUR Visit five different destinations in downtown SLO per tour. All food and drinks are included. Mondays, Saturdays, 1-4 p.m. through Sept. 5 $85. 320-420-9853. tasteofslowalkingfoodtour.com. Downtown SLO, Higuera St., San Luis Obispo.

TGIF AT TMC Enjoy drinks, food, music, and more.

Ticket price includes one beer or glass of wine. Proceeds benefit The Monday Clubhouse Conservancy Fine Arts Awards. Jan. 11, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $25 online; $30 at the door. 805-541-0594. themondayclubslo.org. The Monday Club, 1815 Monterey St, San Luis Obispo.

TRIVIA Hosted by Brain Stew Trivia. German food from Beda’s Biergarden available 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. Bang The Drum Brewery, 950 Orcutt Road, San Luis Obispo, 242-8372, bangthedrumbrewery.com/.

WINE TASTING AT CROMA VERA Wines also available by the glass and bottle. Club members enjoy special pricing and exclusive benefits. Mondays, FridaysSundays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. $14. 805-946-1685. cromavera. com/tastingroom/. Croma Vera Wines, 3592 Broad St., Ste. 106, San Luis Obispo.

WOODSTOCK’S SLO PINT NIGHT With the first pint as low as $5, Woodstock’s gives half-off refills in the same glass. Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m. Free. 805-541-4420. woodstocksslo.com. Woodstock’s Pizza, 1000 Higuera St, San Luis Obispo.

WOODSTOCK’S SLO TRIVIA NIGHT For trivia aficionados and fun-lovers in general alike. Tuesdays, 9-11 p.m. Free. 805-541-4420. woodstocksslo.com/ events/. Woodstock’s Pizza, 1000 Higuera St, San Luis Obispo. ∆

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BY CAMILLIA LANHAM

More than comedy PHOTO COURTESY OF CREED BRATTON

Creed Bratton (from The Office) brings his talent to The Fremont

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FUN GUY Creed Bratton is so much more than a sitcom character. He hits the Fremont on Thursday, Jan. 10, as part of a tour for his new singer-songwriter album, While the Young Punks Dance.

LIVE MUSIC NORTH COAST SLO COU NT Y

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

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

DEAD MAN’S PARTY LIVE An Oingo Boingo tribute band. For ages 21 and older. Presented by Good Medicine. Tickets available at Boo Boo Records. Jan. 11, 7:30 p.m. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, 805225-1312, thesirenmorrobay.com/.

AUGUST SUN LIVE Performing blues and rock. Jan.

3, 8:30-10:30 p.m. Free admission. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, 805-225-1312, thesirenmorrobay.com/.

JESS WAYNE LIVE Singer/songwriter Jess Wayne returns to Central California. Genres performed include folk, blues, jazz, and roots. Jan. 3, 6-8 p.m. Free.

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

BANJERDAN LIVE Tuesdays, 3 p.m. Cambria Pines

JON STEPHENS LIVE Thursdays, 5 p.m. Free. 805-

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

BOB BENJAMIN AT CAMBRIA PUB Fridays, 6-9

927-0175. lascambritas.com. Las Cambritas, 2336 Main Street, Cambria.

LIVE JAM AT OTTER ROCK Thursdays, 8 p.m. Free.

p.m. Free. Cambria Pub and Steakhouse, 4090 Burton Dr., Cambria, 805-927-0782.

805-772-1420. otterrockcafe.com. The Otter Rock Cafe, 885 Embarcadero, Morro Bay.

BOB BENJAMIN AT CENTRALLY GROWN Sundays,

LIVE MUSIC AT OLD CAYUCOS TAVERN Fridays,

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. 805-927-3563. centrallygrown. com. Centrally Grown, 7432 Exotic Garden Dr., Cambria.

BOB BENJAMIN AT LAS CAMBRITAS Saturdays, 6 p.m. Free. 805-927-3563. lascambritas.com. Las Cambritas, 2336 Main Street, Cambria.

Saturdays Free. 805-995-3209. oldcayucostavern.com.

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

LIVE MUSIC AT OTTER ROCK Fridays-Sundays, 8 p.m. Free. 805-772-1420. otterrockcafe.com. The Otter Rock Cafe, 885 Embarcadero, Morro Bay.

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

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

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

COCO MONTOYA LIVE For ages 21 and over. Jan. 5, 8 p.m. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, 805-2251312, thesirenmorrobay.com/.

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

DAVE STAMEY LIVE Stamey performs western

music. Jan. 11, 7-9 p.m. $25. 805-772-2880. coalescebookstore.com. Coalesce Bookstore, 845 Main St., Morro Bay.

Free. 805-772-5055. staxwine.com. Stax Wine Bar & Bistro, 1099 Embarcadero, Morro Bay. Pines Lodge, 2905 Burton Dr., Cambria, 805-927-4200, cambriapineslodge.com.

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

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

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ho has a “distinct, old man smell” and had a New Year’s resolution to do a beautiful, perfect cartwheel?

The quality assurance director at the Scranton branch of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, Creed Bratton, a weird, creepy dude who spent time peering at fellow employees from his desk in the back corner of the office. He may or may not have murdered someone on Halloween and has also been involved in a number of cults, “both as a leader and a follower, you have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.”

Creed Bratton played a funny, fictionalized version on himself on The Office for its nine-season run. But this talented guy is also a musician, and he’s bringing that guitar-plucking brilliance (and possibly witty remarks) to the Fremont Theater on Thursday, Jan. 10 (18-and-older; doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m.; tickets starting at $17 on eventbrite. com). According to a November 2018 Rolling Stone article, every night on tour he’s told stories about The Office and sometimes he even sings a song about the show set to its theme song—but that’s all changing after Jan. 12, he told the magazine.

Because Bratton isn’t simply a comedian with a new singing career.

THE RED BARN COMMUNITY MUSIC SERIES PRESENTS BAYOU SECO Ken Keppeler and Jeanine McLerie of Bayou Seco focus on Cajun music of Louisiana. Both play fi ddle, guitar, and sing. Join the potluck and jam band at 5 p.m. and the Bayou Seco concert will start at 6 p.m. Jan. 5, 5-8 p.m. $15.

805-215-3238. facebook.com/redbarnmusicseries.

Red Barn at Los Osos Community Park, 2180 Palisades Ave., Los Osos.

SCOTT COOPER AND THE BARRELMAKERS LIVE A jam band. Jan. 4, 9-11:30 p.m. Free admission.

The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, 805-225-1312, thesirenmorrobay.com/.

SLOFOLKS PRESENTS THE BLACK MARKET TRUST Performing gypsy jazz reminiscent of Django Reinhardt and ballads straight from the Great American Songbook. Jan. 12, 7:30-10 p.m. $20. 805-238-0725. slofolks.org. Castoro Cellars, 1315 N. Bethel Rd., Templeton.

TRIBUTE TO JOHN PRINE Presented by Songwriters At Play. Performers include Nicole Stromsoe, Steve Kindel, Fallow Fields, John Nowel, Ken McMeans, Rusty Hobbs, John Sandoval, and Steve Key. Jan. 8, 6:30-9 p.m. $10; $11.49 to reserve seat. 805-204-6821. Morro Bay Wine Seller, 601 Embarcadero, Morro Bay.

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

THE BANJERDAN SHOW Thursdays, 6 p.m. Free.

Last Stage West, 15050 Morro Rd, Highway 41 at Torro

He’s been a musician for more than 50 years, and his comedy career happened to take off in 2005 with his debut on The Office. The California native was the lead guitarist for folk-rock group The Grass Roots, which had songs that regularly made the charts during the late 1960s and sold millions of records. He left the band in 1970, but continued playing music. Bratton has released several albums over the years, with his seventh solo singer-songwriter album coming out last April, While the Young Punks Dance.

So if you’re planning on going the show to find out who his worm guy is, best of luck to you. But do us all a favor and check out his music before you go, that way you can recite both his lyrics and his one-liners.

The Fremont is warning you to get your tickets ASAP: “Cal Poly’s Winter term beings Jan. 7—so give yourself a treat and make sure to get tickets for this show soon.

You may miss your chance, it’s been selling out at every other stop on this tour!”

That Siren sound

Since the 1970s, Coco Montoya has slayed his guitar and belted out the blues.

He hit the road for his latest album, Hard Truth, and is rolling through Morro Bay on his route. Montoya will shred, croon, and shout at The Siren on Saturday, Jan. 5 (8 p.m.; 21-and-older; $20 presale at Boo Boo’s and ticketfly.com or $25 at the door), thanks to Numbskull and Good Medicine Presents.

Born in Santa Monica in 1951, he grew up listening to big band jazz, salsa, doowop, and rock. He found the drums at age 11 and the guitar at 13. Drums launched his career, playing in area rock bands as NOT STARKEY continued page 28

Creek Road, Atascadero, 805-461-1393, laststagewest.net.

BLUEGRASS JAM SESSION AND BUFFET Second Wednesday of JAN. 18 – JAN. 25 every month $12.502018 $17.50. 805-792-0505. torocreekeventcenter.com/.

Last Stage West, 15050 Morro Rd, Highway 41 at Torro Creek Road, Atascadero.

FIRST SUNDAY JAM SESH First Sunday of every month, 4-6 p.m. 805-400-5293. Bristol’s Cider House, 3220 El Camino Real, Atascadero, bristolscider.com/.

THE KW COMBO: KEN BURTON AND KATE WELLS This duo performs retro eclectic. Families and

pets welcome. Jan. 12, 1-4 p.m. Free admission. 805227-4812. vinarobles.com/. Vina Robles Winery, 3700 Mill Rd., Paso Robles.

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

LIVE MUSIC AT BROKEN EARTH Saturdays, 1-4 p.m. Free. 805-239-2562. brokenearthwinery.com.

Broken Earth Winery, 5625 Highway 46E, Paso Robles.

LIVE MUSIC AT CATTLEMANS LOUNGE Fridays, 6-8 p.m. Paso Robles Inn Cattleman’s Lounge, 103 Spring Street, Paso Robles, 805-238-2660.

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

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GYPSY JAZZ NIGHT With the Gypsy All Stars: Laurel

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

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

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

RUSSIAN CONNECTION This program centers around the composers at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music in Russia. Alexander Glazunov was the teacher of Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev. Featured on this concert is trumpeter Paul Merkelo, solo trumpet of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Jan. 6, 3 p.m. $15-$30; children K-12 free with a paid adult thanks to a sponsorship from Jim and Carolyn Brescia. 805-712-1224. symphonyofthevines. org. Atascadero United Methodist Church, 11605 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

SATURDAY LIVE Live music every Saturday afternoon.

Wine and lunch offerings available for purchase.

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

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

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

UP IN THE AIR LIVE Enjoy upbeat, live music. Jan. 4, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. 805-400-5293. Bristol’s Cider House, 3220 El Camino Real, Atascadero, bristolscider.com/.

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

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

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THE BABYLON ROCKERS LIVE Jan. 3 Complimentary. Frog and Peach Pub, 728 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, 805-595-4764, frogandpeachpub.com.

BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY LIVE Tickets available

at Boo Boo Records. Jan. 11, 8 p.m. $35. The Fremont Theater, 1035 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-5468600, fremontslo.com.

BROWN BAG CONCERT First Friday of every month, 12-1 p.m. Free. 805-543-5451. fpcslo.org. First Presbyterian Church of San Luis Obispo, 981 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo.

CREED BRATTON LIVE Tickets available at Boo Boo Records. Jan. 10, 8 p.m. $17-$67. The Fremont Theater, 1035 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-5468600, fremontslo.com.

FRESH PICKED CONCERT SERIES Enjoy live music from a different act each performance. First Thursday of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. DowntownSLO. com. Harvest Stage, 995 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, 805-541-0286.

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THE JAZZ ALLEY REVIEW DEBUT CONCERT A new local band plays its eclectic mix of jazz, including works from Horace Silver, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Josef Zawinul, Dizzy Gillespie, Tom Kubis, and more.

Jan. 4, 6-8 p.m. 805-904-8149. thejazzalleyreview. com. 7Sisters Brewing Company, 181 Tank Farm Rd. Suite 110, San Luis Obispo.

JAZZ JAM SESSIONS AT LINNAEA’S Hosted by the SLO County Jazz Federation. Second Tuesday of every month, 7-9 p.m. Free. 805-543-1200. Linnaea’s Cafe, 1110 Garden St., San Luis Obispo, linnaeas.com/.

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

*2000 & newer: $26.75 1999 & older: $51.75. Plus $8.25 Cert Fee.

(805) 466-SMOG (7664) 9199 El Camino Real, Atascadero

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

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

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

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PINT NITE AND THE JAZZ ALLEY REVIEW The musical debut of The Jazz Alley Review, a three horn jazz band. Genres include contemporary jazz, rock, and funk. Jan. 4, 6-8 p.m. Free. 805-868-7133.

7SistersBrewing.com. 7Sisters Brewing Company, 181 Tank Farm Rd. Suite 110, San Luis Obispo.

SUNDAY SERENADE Features a different acoustic act each week. Sundays, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Bang The Drum Brewery, 950 Orcutt Road, San Luis Obispo, 242-8372, bangthedrumbrewery.com/.

TRUTH TO POWER: A BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE SLO WOMEN’S MARCH Performers include Talitha Gabrielle, Megan Steinke, Noach Tangeras, Reese Galido, Ynana Rose, Amalia Fleming, Donna Lu & Matt Kim, and Hilary & Kate. All ages welcome.

Food and beverages available. Jan. 13, 1-9 p.m. $15.

805-868-7133. 7SistersBrewing.com. 7Sisters Brewing Company, 181 Tank Farm Rd. Suite 110, San Luis Obispo.

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805-756-4849. music.calpoly.edu/calendar/. Spanos Theatre, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

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YNANA ROSE LIVE Join Ynana Rose and friends to celebrate the release of her new album Tea Leaf Confessions. Genres include folk, honky-tonk country, gypsy jazz, and Americana. Jan. 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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SLOFolks presents The Black Market Trust on Jan. 12 from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Castoro Cellars in Templeton. This group performs gypsy jazz reminiscent of Django Reinhardt.

Tickets are $20. Call (805) 238-0725 or visit slofolks.org to find out more.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF COCO MONTOYA

PHOTO COURTESY OF BABYLON ROCKERS

So Not Starkey REGGAE ROCK Roots, reggae, R&B, with a little bit of rock thrown in there just for fun will hit several stages in SLO County this week.

Pictured, Babylon Rockers.

PHOTO COURTESY OF BAYOU SECO

BLUES MAN One of the greats, Coco Montoya will belt it out at The Siren on Saturday, Jan. 5.

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a teenager, before switching to blues after watching Albert King open a Creedence Clearwater Revival/Iron Butterfly show in Los Angeles.

“After Albert got done playing, my life was changed,” Montoya said in his website biography. “It grabbed me so emotionally that I had tears welling up in my eyes. … He showed me what music and playing the blues were all about. I knew that was what I wanted to do.”

Montoya went on tour as a drummer for Albert Collins; became a guitarist for the Bluesbreakers, touring the world with John Mayall; and eventually started his own band in the 1990s. In 1996, he took home the title of Best New Blues Artist from the Blues Music Awards and has released several hits, including “Can’t Look Back,” “Dirty Deal,” and “Hard Truth” (off his latest album).

The Santa Cruz-based Americana band Scott Cooper and The Barrelmakers jam into The Siren on Friday, Jan. 4 (free, doors at 9 p.m., 21-and-older).

Crafting Grateful Dead style originals and playing Dead covers, this band will get your feet moving and your body shaking. Cooper is best known for playing rhythm guitar with the Dead tribute band the China Cats. The singersongwriter joins lead guitarist Fred

MUSIC LISTINGS from page 27 805-541-0657. ynanarose.com. Boo Boo Records, 978 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

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101 NORTH LIVE Jan. 12, 8 p.m. Complimentary admission. Mr. Rick’s, 404 Front St., Avila Beach, 805595-7425, mrricks.com/events/.

ACOUSTIC SUNDAYS Sundays, 3-6 p.m. Seaventure Restaurant, 100 Oceanview Ave, Pismo Beach, 805-7791779, seaventure.com.

ALISA AND THE BLUZ DOGZ LIVE Jan. 5, 8 p.m.

Complimentary admission. Mr. Rick’s, 404 Front St., Avila Beach, 805-595-7425, mrricks.com/events/.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE MUSIC Enjoy live music and

Rodriguez and bassist Andy Birchett (from a band that should be familiar to SLO music scene stalwarts, Three-Legged Dawg), former Dark Star Orchestra drummer Mark Corsolini, and pianist Lachlan Kane.

LA-based roots/reggae act the Babylon Rockers hit The Siren on Saturday, Jan. 5, as part of its tour up through SLO County and beyond.

“We’ve been performing in the Central Coast for almost a decade now, and we love coming back,” explained singer/ PHOTO BY BARRY GOYETTE

SPILLING TEA Ynana Rose plays a free show at Boo Boo Records on Friday, Jan. 5, in support of her new album, Tea Cup Confessions.

guitarist Matt Gerovac. “We have people in the area that are like family, and it feels like a reunion every time we’re here.”

This show is for “day drinkers and early risers (and early bedtimes),” The Siren points out as Babylon is set to get the bar dancing between 2:30 and 5:30 p.m. (free, 21-and-older) before taking their show on the road. That evening around 8 p.m., they will play the Old Cayucos Tavern.

But wait, there’s more. Their reggae sound with R & B highlights will also be at the Frog and Peach on Thursday, Jan. 3, and Friday, Jan. 4.

The Iron Maidens swing through Morro Bay on Thursday, Jan. 10, to once again rock from atop The Siren stage (21-and-older, doors at 7:30 p.m., $20 in advance at Boo Boo Records, ticketfly. com). As the world’s only female tribute band to Iron Maiden, these mavens bleed heavy metal and are fun to watch.

More music …

As part of the first Art After Dark of the year in downtown San Luis Obispo, local award-winning singer-songwriter

in its entirety. Jan. 10, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Puffers of Pismo, 781 Price St., Pismo Beach, 805-773-6563, puffersofpismo.com/.

TOZZI LIVE Jan. 11 Complimentary admission. Mr.

LBS LIVE Jan. 4, 8 p.m. Mr. Rick’s, 404 Front St., Avila Beach, 805-595-7425, mrricks.com/events/.

WEDNESDAYS: LIVE MUSIC Enjoy live music in the fireplace room. Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m. Seaventure Restaurant, 100 Oceanview Ave, Pismo Beach, 805-7791779, seaventure.com.

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

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

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

MATT CROSS LIVE Jan. 13, 1-5 p.m. Complimentary admission. Mr. Rick’s, 404 Front St., Avila Beach, 805595-7425, mrricks.com/events/.

food on the patio. Fridays, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. 805489-9099. branchstreeetdeli.com. Branch Street Deli, 203 E. Branch St., Arroyo Grande.

OPEN BLUES JAM Wednesdays Mongo’s Saloon, 359

JIM CONROY LIVE Jim Conroy, with Bruce Beck,

puffersofpismo.com. Puffers of Pismo, 781 Price St., Pismo Beach.

presents his album Magical Door, which will be played

CAJUN AND POTLUCK The Red Barn Community Music Series presents Bayou Seco in Los Osos on Saturday, Jan. 6.

W. Grand Ave., Grover Beach, 805-489-3639.

SIDE EFFECTS Tuesdays Free. 805-773-6563.

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Rick’s, 404 Front St., Avila Beach, 805-595-7425, mrricks.com/events/.

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BALLROOM DANCE LESSONS WITH A-TOWN BALLROOM Dance lessons with Cammie Velci and Brian Reeves. Singles and couples from all levels of experience are welcome. Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. $10-$15. 888-395-4965. atownballroom. com. Atascadero Agricultural Hall, 5035 Palma Ave., Atascadero.

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

Ynana Rose will play a free, all-ages show at Boo Boo Records from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 4. Ynana released her new album, Tea Leaf Confessions, in November. The album features classic and contemporary folk, honky-tonk country, gypsy jazz, and Americana. She calls it “a hymn to desire, a blessing of ghosts, an invitation to a cup of tea.”

Ynana’s bringing a full band for this show, with Kenny Blackwell (guitar/ mandolin), Paul Griffith (drums), Ken Hustad (bass), and Holly Ann Lewis (harmony vocals). Won’t you join her?

The Red Barn Community Music Series presents Bayou Seco on Saturday, Jan. 5, at the Red Barn in Los Osos.

Come early for the potluck, which starts at 5 p.m. (6 p.m., $15 at the door). The singing, fiddle, and guitar-playing duo Ken Keppeler and Jeanine McLerie have collected music from traditional American musicians for most of their lives, with a special focus on Cajun music. Since 1980, they have been learning from traditional Hispanic, cowboy, and Tohono O’Odham musicians in New Mexico and Arizona.

Bayou Seco has 10 recordings that include collaborations with other traditional musicians.

Celebrate the eighth anniversary of the Sunday Showcase at Sculpterra winery for the Songwriters at Play on Sunday, Jan. 6. The show features Bob and Wendy, now known as half of the band Shadowlands. Special guests include Tim Pacheco, Steve Kindel, Noah David, Dan Daniel, and Cassi Nicholls. Steve Key kicks the show off at 1 p.m. Greek food will be available for sale. ∆ Editor Camillia Lanham is ready for 2019, and is filling in for Glen Starkey this week. Keep up with New Times Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey via Twitter at twitter.com/glenstarkey, friend him at facebook.com/glenstarkey, or contact him at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.

by a potluck dance party. Sundays, 5-7:30 p.m. $10.

888-395-4965. atownballroom.com/. Atascadero Agricultural Hall, 5035 Palma Ave., Atascadero.

DANCE LESSONS WITH CAMMIE AND BRIAN Come learn a variety of ballroom, swing, and latin dances. Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. $10. 888-3954965. atownballroom.com/. Atascadero Agricultural Hall, 5035 Palma Ave., Atascadero.

SUNDAY DANCE PARTIES A weekly dance party that includes free dance lessons. Sundays, 6-8 p.m. Free; $5 on DJ nights. 888-395-4965. Atascadero Agricultural Hall, 5035 Palma Ave., Atascadero.

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COUNTRY NIGHT Thursdays, 8 p.m.-2 a.m. 805-541096. slograd.com. The Graduate, 990 Industrial Way, San Luis Obispo.

SALSA Dance lesson is 7 to 8 p.m. Social dance is 8 to 10 p.m. Second Sunday of every month, 7-10 p.m. Bang

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Lily Tomlin matinee show added at PAC

With tickets to An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin on Friday, Jan. 18, sold out, Cal Poly Arts has announced an additional opportunity for the community to see Tomlin perform. An Afternoon of Classic Lily Tomlin takes place on Saturday, Jan. 19, at 3 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center in SLO. Tomlin, best known for her stage, stand-up, and film work, most recently starred alongside Jane Fonda in Netflix’s hit comedy series Grace and Frankie. Tomlin’s current touring show highlights more than a dozen of her past characters, including Ernestine, Mrs. Beasley, and Edith Ann. An audience Q-and-A, for ages 13 and over only, follows both performances.

Tickets range from $40 to $110 and are available at the Cal Poly ticket office, online at calpolyarts.org, or by calling (805) 756-4849. Audio and video samples of the show are also available online. Email tickets@ calpoly.edu for more information.

SLO Rep kicks off 2019 with Pride and Prejudice

SLO Rep opens its first production of 2019, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s satire of rural romance in 19th century England, on Jan. 11. The show runs Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m., through Jan. 20.

The cast includes young student actors from SLO Rep’s Academy of Creative Theatre educational program. The show is directed by Kerry DiMaggio and features costumes designed

by Keith Wetzel. Tickets range from $17 to $25 and are available in advance at slorep. org or by calling (805) 786-2440.

SLOQueerdos holds drag fundraiser to benefit SLO Women’s March Gaga Again: A Drag Fundraiser for the SLO Women’s March takes place Friday, Jan. 18, from 9 to 11 p.m. at 7Sisters Brewing Company in SLO. This event includes various Lady Gagainspired segments from SLOQueerdos’ drag performers.

Proceeds will benefit the SLO Women’s March.

All ages are welcome at the event. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.

General admission is $10.

Call (805) 868-7133 or visit 7sistersbrewing.com or the SLOQueerdos’ Facebook page for more information. ∆ —Caleb Wiseblood

PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARTA PELUSO

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it that ties everything together, even if the photos were taken years apart.

“It’s the feeling of the photograph from one to the other,” Peluso said.

“It has to do with movement. I’ve always liked to have a lot going on in my photographs so this just kind of an Luis Obispo photographer compounds it.”

Marta Peluso has always been One of Peluso’s multiples, Parisian interested in the big picture. And Nexus, features three photos shot sometimes, it’s hard to get everything in Paris in black and white: one of a into a single frame. sculpture at the Louvre; one of an art “I’ve been doing these things, for piece in a café done in a similar style lack of a better term, called multiples, to the sculpture; and one of Peluso’s images that are meant to be seen husband staring out the window of the together as one piece, for the last 10 years,” Peluso told New Times. “But I’ve aforementioned cafe.

“Not only do you have to have a never shown them all together.” photograph that works in the forages of The people change, but the places the frame, but then you stay remarkably have to have it working timeless in black and On display with the other images white in Peluso’s current Light From A Dark Room, too,” Peluso said. “It adds exhibit, Light From A featuring photos by Marta Peluso, a level of complexity that Dark Room, showing will be on display at the SLO is interesting to me.” at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art through Jan. 27.

Peluso takes much Museum of Art. There will be an artist talk with of her inspiration from Peluso on Jan. 13 at 2 p.m. that’s After years of free and open to the public. Visit light, an element that’s teaching and promoting sloma.org for more information. further highlighted the arts locally as a by her choice to work professor at Cal Poly mostly with black and and Cuesta College, white images. And as the show’s name the art gallery director at Cuesta, and implies, Peluso still develops some of the executive director at Arts Obispo, her pieces in a darkroom, working often Peluso is now taking the time to really from negatives. Even if viewers of her focus on her own craft. work haven’t been to the places in her The artist has shot photos since photos, Peluso hopes that a connection college. A friend who was in the Army will nevertheless transpire. during the Vietnam War wrote to “I hope they take away beauty, her and said he could get camera enjoyment, entertainment,” Peluso equipment cheaply over there. Peluso said. “Art is like a spiritual fulfillment took him up on the offer. for me, like religion does for some “I took a photography class and fell people. The art, the light, the beauty of in love with it,” she said. “I’ve been doing it ever since.” it, just seeing the world this way, that’s Peluso’s multiples, which are a why I do it and I hope people feel some highlight of Light From A Dark Room, of that.” ∆ don’t simply show multiple angles of one location. Whether Peluso is Arts writer Ryah Cooley is dreaming of shooting in San Francisco or Paris, faraway places. Contact her at rcooley@ each photo in a piece has an element in newtimesslo.com.

SLO photographer captures different takes on the same places

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PARIS, THREE WAYS This multiple, Parisian Nexus, by Marta Peluso, is comprised of three different photos shot in Paris that work together as a single piece.

PHOTO COURTESY OF TONY HERTZ

SLOCAL Photographer Marta Peluso has previously served as Cuesta College’s art gallery director and as the executive director for Arts Obispo.

HERE AGAIN One wall of photographer Marta Peluso’s exhibit, Light From A Dark Room, at the SLO Museum of Art features photos like Glance Back that capture different angles of Jack Kerouac Alley in San Francisco over the years.

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BY RYAH COOLEY

In the details

PHOTO COURTESY OF BETH KILIMNIK

IMAGE COURTESY OF HELEN K DAVIE

On view

Banners: Prints & Patterns exhibit will be on display at the SLO Museum of Art through Jan. 27 and is put on by the Central Coast Printmakers Group. An opening reception will be held Jan. 4 from 6 to 9 p.m. in conjunction with Art After Dark. Visit sloma.org for more information.

Central Coast printmakers create repeating patterns on banners

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INK, PRESS, REPEAT Atascadero artist Beth Kilimnik took inspiration from an insect to create her banner, Fiery Searcher Beetle.

atterns. They’re in everything from flowers in our backyards to the wallpaper on our bathroom walls and the intricate tile work in our kitchens.

Joyce Bauerle, a member of the Central Coast Printmakers Group, decided to capitalize on the group’s shared interest in patterns by hosting a workshop on turning a series of repeating prints into 6-foot-long banners, which served as the inspiration for the group’s show currently on display at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, the Banners: Prints & Patterns exhibit.

Atascadero artist Beth Kilimnik fell in love with printmaking in college after working with clay, as well as sculpture and weaving.

“It was different from all the other types of art I was doing,” Kilimnik said.

“All the new things I learned about etching, engraving, woodcut—it was just an opening to a whole new world.”

Years later, Kilimnik is still learning new things about her craft. Her piece,

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FALL FUN A childhood game led to Templeton artist Helen K. Davie creating the seasonal print, Autumn Frolic.

Fiery Searcher Beetle, was done as a linocut, a technique that Kilimnik recently learned at Bauerle’s workshop.

This process allowed artists to create large, 6-foot-long banners by hand.

“I have an etching press so your prints have to fit inside your press,” Kilimnik said. “[The linocut] was pushing us out of those limitations. Those were all hand pressed. There’s no way that could fit through a press.”

Taking her inspiration from an insect, Kilimnik stamped and pressed her design in black and then hand-colored the beetles in with green and orange.

“I hope people would like it enough that

they would search out that type of work,” Kilimnik said. “I think people will come away with an amazing variety of things that can be printed that way.”

Templeton artist Helen K. Davie also took inspiration from nature when crafting her banner for the Central Coast Printmakers’ show. The children’s book illustrator’s piece, Autumn Frolic, features a fox and rabbit surrounded by oak leaves and acorns with a rust-colored background and aqua accents.

“I just love animals so I wanted to do something with a fox,” Davie said. “The fox isn’t going after the rabbit; they’re just side by side. There isn’t any sort of impending doom.”

Aside from appreciating a bit of whimsy, Davie hopes that the banners will speak to viewers on a deeper level.

“I’ve been thinking about patterns in that human beings have a propensity for finding patterns,” Davie said. “I hope people will not only be delighted, but think about pattern and why we’re so drawn to it.” ∆ Arts writer Ryah Cooley is paying attention to the fine print. Contact her at rcooley@newtimesslo.com.

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MAKING A SPLASH Jason Momoa plays a man with a destiny to rule the water world, with a soft spot for his native human land, in Aquaman.

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ames Wan (Saw, Insidious, The Conjuring) directs this latest entry in the DC Extended Universe. The story centers on land dweller Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa), aka Aquaman, the rightful heir to the throne of the underwater kingdom Atlantis. After his Atlantean half-brother, King Orm (Patrick Wilson), declares war on the surface, Arthur must claim his birthright in order to stop genocide. With help from allies Mera (Amber Heard) and Vulko (Willem Dafoe), Arthur travels the world in search of an ancient weapon: a trident that legend says can only be wielded by the one true king of Atlantis. (142 min.)

Editor’s Note: Staff Writer Karen Garcia and Calendar Editor Caleb Wiseblood took over Split Screen this week while the Starkeys enjoyed a holiday vacation.

Karen So I’m just going to say it: I haven’t seen all of the recent movies in the DC Extended Universe. I refuse to see Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League because not only does the CGI— from what I could see in the trailers—look awful, but Suicide Squad and Man of Steel were terrible. The only film I enjoyed was Wonder Woman. I mean Gal Gadot was just amazing, but it still wasn’t that great. I’m happy to say Aquaman completely changed my mind about the current state of the DC franchise. On a cliff’s edge in 1985 Maine lives lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry (Temuera Morrison). During a storm, Thomas spots an unconscious woman (Nicole Kidman) washed up on the rocks.

Of course he couldn’t leave a catch like

At the

AQUAMAN

What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth, Karen? Full price What’s it worth, Caleb? Full price Where’s it showing? Sunset Drive-In, Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 her out in the rain, so he takes her in. It turns out she’s Atlanna, the princess of the underwater kingdom Atlantis, escaping from her arranged marriage. It’s very Little Mermaid-esque, as she doesn’t know what half the items in his home are but alas the two fall in love and have a son named Arthur (Jason Momoa). But the happilyever-after story doesn’t last as Atlantean soldiers go after the family with an order to take Atlanna back to her husband.

Atlanna willingly goes back to the sea to save Thomas and Arthur, promising to return when it’s safe. The perk of having a mother from the depths of the sea is that not only is she freakishly strong, she also has the ability to speak to marine animals and whatever else lies 12,200 feet below the ocean surface.

Caleb Unlike certain people who will not be named, I watch everything DC puts out no matter how bad they look (and turn out to be most of the time). Wonder Woman is no longer the only exception now that we have Aquaman, one of the most fun and visually creative comic book adaptations I’ve seen all year, and that’s really saying something because there were a lot of them! Under the belief that his mother was executed for treason after being taken back to Atlantis, Arthur grows up vowing complete isolation from his oceanic roots, refusing to ever get involved with Atlantean politics, for example. Although his bloodline

and seniority over his younger half-brother, Orm, secure a claim to the throne, Arthur has never found a reason to take Atlantis for himself. That is until Orm plans on uniting the seven sea kingdoms in order to wage war on the surface world and all who inhabit it. The union would also grant Orm a new, dictatorial title much higher than king—Ocean Master! The name is inherently silly, but I’m glad the film supplied a logical reason for Orm to proceed under his original comic book moniker.

Still, the name Ocean Master doesn’t roll off the tongue nearly as well as Black Manta, arguably Aquaman’s biggest baddie in the comics but portrayed as a ruthless mercenary hired by Orm here. Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is clearly the Boba Fett of this film. He isn’t the primary threat or on screen for very long, but he still kicks a lot of ass and does so in extremely stylish fashion. I loved seeing him putting the Black Manta suit together; it’s a work of art.

It’s easy to predict what the most popular costume at Comic-Con is going to be next year. OK that’s definitely an overstatement, but it would ring true in a perfect world.

Karen Can we dive into how perfect Momoa is as Aquaman? I think the personality he gives the character is pretty spot on. I mean here’s a guy who believed his mother was sacrificed by the very people that need his help, so yes, I like sassy Arthur. My only gripe is the hilariously weird slow-motion scenes where Arthur is about to kick ass and take names, paired with classic rock instrumentals. I appreciate how much Momoa’s character develops throughout the film, from wanting nothing to do with the people of the sea to his determined motivation to help them.

I also appreciate the diversity of the cast: Morrison, Randall Park, Abdul-Mateen ll, and Michael Beach. I will say Wilson’s character, Orm, fell kind of flat for me. I get it. You want to rule the ocean, your mom technically had an affair, you have a half brother who wants the throne, and your girlfriend ran off with him—OK stop yelling about literally everything! There was another character that I hope we see again. Unlike Marvel Cinematic Universe films, there’s only one teaser at the end of Aquaman before the production credits—I repeat: no need to wait around for postcredit spoilers—and it’s left me wanting to learn more about the Dr. Stephen Shin character. He’s peppered throughout the film, but we don’t really get to hear from him. If you do a little research and if the writers of a future sequel stay true to the comics, we might learn more about his role

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What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? Sunset Drive-In, Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 See Split Screen.

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FISH OUT OF WATER Nicole Kidman plays Atlanna, an Atlantean princess who must return to the sea and leave her human husband and child, Arthur, behind in order to save their lives.

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in the story (Google it, I’m not going to tell you everything). Overall I’ll probably see this movie again in theaters, it’s just that good! There are so many bright, popping colors across the screen between the view of the city of Atlantis and Sicily, Italy. It has everything you need to kill about two and a half hours: drama, action, cheesy romance, and so much more.

Caleb Those vibrant colors and the overall lighthearted tone of the film make Aquaman such an intriguing 180 for director James Wan, primarily known for his horror films. I always love seeing filmmakers step out of their comfort zones, whether it ends up working or not. The good news is Aquaman does work. There’s a lot to geek out about. I’d hate to spend too much time gushing about the special effects and design over the performances and story, but boy oh boy does this movie look freakin’ cool! My only real complaint is the scenes on land occasionally pale in comparison to everything happening underwater, and that’s purely due to the visuals. The city of Atlantis itself is especially arresting, but it isn’t the only oceanic kingdom we get to visit. Wan even gets to show off some of his horror chops when Arthur and Mera journey into the Trench, the most barbaric of the seven sea kingdoms. There are plenty of jump scares when the duo is ambushed by a tribe of amphibious demons. But the most beautifully designed creature in the entire film is Karathen, the mythical sea monster that guards the legendary trident Arthur seeks. If a Godzilla-sized leviathan with a devilish sense of humor voiced by Julie Andrews doesn’t get your butt to the theater, nothing will. Δ

What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth? Matinee Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 Director Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings) helms this Transformers prequel that follows Bumblebee on the run from Decepticons in 1987. After a deadly brawl, the damaged Autobot becomes dormant in a junkyard in a California beach town, disguised

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by Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld, The Edge of Seventeen, True Grit), an 18-year-old outsider determined to fix him up and help defend against further attacks.

Meanwhile, two Decepticon assassins are already on their way to Earth to destroy the planet and Bumblebee once and for all.

The best thing about Bumblebee, compared to other entries in the Transformers series, is how small scale the story is. Sure, the fate of the world is at stake as always, but the narrative itself still feels extremely intimate. That’s largely due to Steinfeld’s character, who I wish was the audience’s only perspective.

The film should have been completely from her point of view in my opinion, it would have been much more intriguing to see the events unfold through her eyes rather than jump back and forth from her to the

military. I don’t mind a little expositional dialogue here and there, but must the discussion take place in an indiscriminate military control room like every other alien invasion movie?

John Cena’s character, Agent Burns, is engaging and delivers some of the funniest lines in the movie. But at the end of the day, his side of the story is pretty unnecessary. We already have the Decepticons hunting Bumblebee down, we don’t need to see earthling helicopters and tanks following suit. Were the filmmakers afraid there wouldn’t be enough action scenes without military intervention? Well it certainly isn’t the case here, and I doubt it would have been had the Decepticons been our only antagonists. Call me oldfashioned, but giant robots duking it out MOVIES continued page 35

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It’s really Charlie’s world and the characters she interacts with that give Bumblebee a boost over previous Transformers movies. Steinfeld is just as candid, vulnerable, and likeable as she was in The Edge of Seventeen. Her relationship with Bumblebee, which starts out as a great homage to Stephen King’s Christine with her fixing him up, is reminiscent of Elliott and E.T. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ‘80s callbacks laced throughout the film. The soundtrack, sprawling with Tears For Fears, A-ha, and the Smiths, is especially well integrated, and that’s extremely important when your titular character communicates solely through song lyrics. (114 min.)

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ESCAPE ROOM What’s it rated? PG-13 When’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 Director Adam Robitel (Insidious: The Last Key, The Taking of Deborah Logan) helms this thriller about six strangers who find themselves in circumstances beyond their control after entering a mysterious escape room. The group must use their wits and work together if they’re to survive. (109 min.)

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THE FAVOURITE What’s it rated? R Where’s it showing? Galaxy, The Palm Yorgos Lanthimos directs this early 18th century period piece about two warring women seeking favor from ailing, prickly Queen Anne (Olivia Colman). Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) is the queen’s longtime companion who essentially runs the country during a time of war. Newcomer Abigail (Emma Stone), a new servant to the queen, uses her charms to gain power of her own as she attempts to return to her aristocratic roots. (119 min.)

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GREEN BOOK What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Fair Oaks Co-writer Peter Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary) directs this biopic about African-American pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), who hires working-class Italian-American bouncer Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) as his driver on a music tour of the 1960s American South. Though they’re very different people, they develop a warm and enduring friendship. This is one of those classic feel-good movies only a true cynic could reject.

Both lead characters come out of the other side of the story improved. (130 min.)

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When? 2017 What’s it rated? PG-13 Where’s it available? Amazon Prime, YouTube, Redbox

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’m going to be completely honest: I didn’t even know Pitch Perfect 3 was a thing.

My wife and I saw the original Pitch Perfect (2012) on DVD, which won us over with its comedy-first approach to collegiate a capella through the Barden Bellas, a ragtag group of young ladies more obsessed with a capella performance than those annoying kids from Glee! As musicians, we enjoyed the goof on the show choir/competition movie genre.

Written mostly by Kay Cannon (30 Rock), the tongue-in-cheek playfulness shows that filmmakers aren’t taking things too seriously, but the franchise still managed to launch a few careers along the way.

Anna Kendrick (Twilight, Life After Beth) takes the lead as Beca, the angsty music producer who came out of her shell to join the Bellas. But Kendrick wasn’t alone, as Australian actress Rebel Wilson (Bridesmaids, Struck By Lighting) rose to fame in the U.S. after her performance as Fat Amy, the powerhouse singer and fat-joke slinger extraordinaire.

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HOLMES & WATSON What’s it rated? R Where’s it showing? Park, Galaxy, Stadium 10 Writer-director Etan Cohen (Get Hard) helms this comedic crime adventure about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective character, Sherlock Holmes (Will Ferrell), and his sidekick, Doctor Watson (John C. Reilly). (132 min.)

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MARY POPPINS RETURNS What’s it rated? PG What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? Bay, Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 Rob Marshall (Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pirates of the Caribbean: One Stranger Tides, Into the Woods) directs this sequel to the 1964 classic about a magical nanny who helps two neglected children reconnect with their father. This time around, Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) returns to the Banks family children who are now adults.

Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) lives with his three children—Anabel (Pixie Davies), John (Nathanael Saleh), Georgie (Joel Dawson)—and their housekeeper, Ellen (Julie Walters), in the same house on Cherry Tree Lane. With encouragement from Michael’s sister, Jane (Emily Mortimer), and the help of lamplighter, Jack (Lin-Manuel Miranda), Mary helps the new set of Banks children find the joy in life.

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(PG-13) GRAVE EXPECTATIONS Deborah Ann Woll and Logan Miller play complete strangers who must work together in order to survive, in Escape Room. and magical as the first one. Rob Marshall and company have truly done the original justice. The story, the music, the acting, the cinematography, the special effects, and the direction are all superb!

This film is a nostalgia-fest for parents and an introduction to a new world of wonder for kids. If I had some little ones, I’d take them straight to the theater to see this film and then straight to the record store to buy the soundtrack. Mary Poppins Returns is an instant classic! (130 min.)

—Glen

The rest of the Bellas, unfortunately, Men in uniform, you say? are either cookie cutter bombshells with All along the way they’re followed by Gail predictable problems (daddy issues, boys, etc.) (Elizabeth Banks) and John (John Michael like Aubrey (Anna Camp) and Chloe (Brittany Higgins), the hilarious duo who did the Snow), or they’re basically boiled down to a competition commentary in the previous gimmick. This is definitely true of the women movies, and are now shooting a documentary of color in the Bellas, like Cynthia Rose (Ester about the Bellas. Banks also directed the Dean), whose character is also a lesbian. second and third installments of the films, That’s just about all there is to the character, preserving the identity of the first while which is a bit sad considering Dean is actually goofing on its own tropes at the same time. a singer, songwriter, and record producer in The best thing about Pitch Perfect 3 is that real life. it doesn’t take itself too seriously, whether In Pitch Perfect 3, the Bellas agree to it’s adding Fat Amy’s estranged and nefarious reunite for a USO tour, sharing the stage father (an Aussie-accented John Lithgow) just with three other bands. The Bellas bring so the Bellas can have an explosive action their collegiate competitiveness to the tour, movie moment, or the totally unnecessary DJ challenging the bands to a “riff-off” only to Khaled cameo. And like any good film series, get totally shown up by the groups that can the franchise ends with a fitting sendoff that’s not only sing a capella like them, but can obviously fun for the characters, actors, and overwhelm their voices with their amplified audience alike. Δ instruments. This causes the Bellas as a —Joe Payne whole, and individually, to PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES question everything about themselves and want to give up.

If it sounds like the previous Pitch Perfect plotlines, it’s because it is. Some characters have their old issues rehashed.

For characters like Beca and Chloe, their love interests from previous movies were just written BELLAS OF THE BALL The Barden out, but that’s fine Bellas return in Pitch Perfect 3, which because there are new follows the now-graduated college a capella boy toys for the Bellas to ogle! USO tour, you say? show choir on a USO tour across Europe.

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What’s it rated? R Where’s it showing? The Palm, Galaxy Josie Rourke directs this biopic about Scottish Queen Mary Stuart’s (Saoirse Ronan) attempt to overthrow her cousin, English Queen Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie). (124 min.)

—Glen

THE MULE

What’s it rated? R What’s it worth? Matinee Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino) directs this crime thriller screenplay by Sam Dolnick, based on the New York Times Magazine article “The Sinaloa Cartel’s 90-Year-Old Drug Mule” by Nick Schenk. Eastwood takes on the role of Earl Stone, a horticulturist and World War II vet who’s caught in Michigan running $3 million worth of Mexican cartel cocaine.

After a quick read of the New York Times Magazine article upon which this film is based, it’s pretty clear that instead of focusing—as the article does—on whether or not the Earl Stone was a crafty insider or a doddering old man taken advantage of by the cartel, this film is more interested in inventing Stone’s estrangement from his family. Earl wants to be the center of attention, and he’s seen as a star of the daylily growers association and well liked at the local VFW hall, rather than feeling like a failure as a husband and father at home. He misses anniversaries, birthdays, weddings—you name it—and his ex-wife Mary (Dianne Wiest) and daughter Iris (real life daughter Alison Eastwood) hate him for it.

About the only family member who’s not yet fed up with his selfishness is soon-to-bemarried granddaughter Ginny (Taissa Farmiga).

His horticulture operation, having fallen on hard times thanks to the Internet, is out of business, so when he’s recruited to drive a route for the cartel, he accepts, thinking it’ll be a one-time easy money scheme that will help him pay for his granddaughter’s wedding. It is easy money … too easy, and the one-time trip turns into another and another, with increasingly larger loads and fatter paydays.

Earl’s a charming, selfish prick, and the film explores—maybe a little too easily and conveniently—how he comes to realize what’s

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LONG LIVE THE QUEEN Queen Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie) must stave off treachery from both her male advisors and her cousin, Mary Stuart, in Mary Queen of Scots.

MOVIES from page 35 really important in life. It’s not nearly as good as Gran Torino (2008), a similarly themed film, but it certainly washes the bad taste of his last failure—The 15:17 to Paris (2018)—out of my mouth.

So, yes, Eastwood has pulled it off again, but it’s a little repetitive of his past work. Like Gran Torino’s cranky, racist, veteran Walt Kowalski, Earl Stone is mostly blind to his own shortcomings.

Hispanics are “beaners,” blacks are “negroes,” and women are gleefully objectified. Stone gets away with it all because he’s old, but also because he’s not malignant or malicious about it. He just doesn’t seem to know any better.

His law enforcement counterpart is new Chicago bureau DEA Special Agent Colin Bates (Bradley Cooper), who with his DEA partner (Michael Peña) is zeroing in on the cartel operation because they flipped low-level cartel worker Luis Rocha (Eugene Cordero), who tells them all about this successful new mule, Tata, who’s

now driving a new black pickup truck. Yet, even when Tata—aka Earl Stone—is right under the DEA’s noses, his age and amiable nature rules him out as a suspect.

Overall, this is an ambling film that occasionally delivers moments of emotional resonance. Eastwood is 88 years old, and the former hunky lead is comfortable in his skin, gifted behind and in front of the camera, and still capable of crafting an entertaining story.

The Mule will be remembered as an effective late-career effort from a masterful filmmaker who’s given us classics such as The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, Mystic River, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, and American Sniper. For me, his amazing oeuvre is enough to erase his 2012 RNC speech to an empty chair. (117 min.)

—Glen

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Where’s it showing? Jan. 3, 5 and 6 at the Palm The festival includes feature and short films and the opportunity to meet the filmmakers behind them during discussions held after each screening. Feature-length narratives include On The Basis of Sex, FullCourt Miracle, School Ties, and Budapest Noir. Documentaries include Who Will Write Our History, Life is Rich, Wendy’s Shabbat, and Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel.

—Caleb

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET: WRECKIT RALPH 2 What’s it rated? PG What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? Park, Stadium 10 Co-directors Phil Johnson and Rich Moore (Wreck-It Ralph, Zootopia) helm this animated sequel in which Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) and Vanellope von Schweetz (voiced by Sarah Silverman) follow a Wi-Fi router in their home arcade,

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DYNAMIC DUO Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld) befriends Bumblebee, an Autobot disguised as a VW Beetle in a junkyard, in the Transformers prequel Bumblebee.

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COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Adam McKay (The Big Short) directs Sam Rockwell as President George W. Bush, in the Dick Cheney biopic Vice.

Litwak’s Family Fun Center, to explore a strange new world: the internet.

Six years have passed since the events of Wreck-It Ralph, and Ralph and Vanellope are still best friends—close as “peanut butter and bacon,” Ralph says at one point.

When Vanellope’s game, Sugar Rush, is in danger of being unplugged and scrapped for parts after its steering wheel breaks, the pair seek help in the world of the internet, a realm completely unknown to the duo and the other pixelated inhabitants of Litwak’s arcade. Ralph and Vanellope start at eBay (or “eBoy” as Ralph continuously calls it), where a Sugar Rush steering wheel is up for auction. The wheel would save Vanellope’s candy kingdom home from destruction, but will the pair be able to raise enough money to bid for the item in time? (112 min.)

—Caleb

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What’s it rated? PG-13 Where’s it showing? Park, Stadium 10 Peter Segal (Tommy Boy, Anger Management, 50 First Dates, Get Smart) directs Jennifer Lopez as big box store worker Maya, who keeps getting passed over for promotion. With the help of a computer-smart kid, she reinvents herself online and parlays her new identity into a posh new job on Madison Avenue, proving that street smarts can outsmart book smarts. (103 min.)

—Glen

SHOPLIFTERS

What’s it rated? R When’s it showing? The Palm Hirokazu Kore-eda (Like Father, Like Son, After The Storm) directs this drama about a destitute family relying on shoplifting to cope with a life of poverty.

One very cold night, the family comes across a child left alone, locked outside of her home. They take her into their home for dinner, but decide not to return her after

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noticing symptoms of abuse. (121 min.)

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SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE What’s it rated? PG What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? Sunset Drive-In, Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman co-direct this animated action adventure co-written by Phil Lord and co-produced by Christopher Miller (the duo best known for directing The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street).

Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) becomes the Spider-Man of his version of reality, then crosses into a parallel universe where he teams with other realities’ Spider-Men and a Spider-Woman to stop a an evil that threatens all realities.

Superhero team-ups are most satisfying when the juggling of characters is completely undetectable. The audience shouldn’t be thinking about which character’s turn it is in the spotlight, rather why the characters work so well together.

For example, what is it that makes Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir (a gritty, 1940s private investigator version of Spider-Man) and John Mulaney’s Spider-Ham (an anthropomorphic pig whose secret identity is Peter Porker) such a perfect pair?

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse pulls this off but also picks the right point-of-view to watch the story unfold through: Miles Morales, a teenager who gets spidey powers after being bit by a genetically altered spider while tagging an abandoned subway station. Morales returns to the station later to investigate, only to uncover a plot concocted by crime lord Wilson Fisk—aka Kingpin (voiced by Liev Schreiber)—to collide dimensions in order to access parallel universes, but at a deadly cost.

What a time it is to be alive for superhero fans. Live action comic book

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adaptations have been inarguably dominating the box office for the last decade, so where can we go from there?

Animated adaptations of costumed crime fighters aren’t new, in home video and television at least. But the big screen treatment for these “cartoons” (a term that Peter Porker considers derogatory) was a rarity … until this year, if the trend catches on.

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse does for Marvel what Teen Titans Go! To The Movies did for DC earlier this year: It takes these characters places that live action couldn’t possibly allow (I could be eating these words in a year or so). Despite the comparison to a quite sillier film, SpiderVerse is surprisingly just as earnest as it is humorous. No matter how many one-liners, knee-slappers, and instances of breaking the fourth wall there are, the stakes feel real. Morales is a full-fledged character we root for and sympathize with all the way through. I’m starting to understand why Spider-Ham found the term “cartoon” so demeaning. (117 min.)

—Caleb

VICE What’s it rated? R Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Park, Stadium 10 Writer-director Adam McKay (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Step Brothers) helms this biopic dramedy about Washington, D.C., bureaucratic insider Dick Cheney (Christian Bale), who became George W. Bush’s (Sam Rockwell) vice president, using his power to reshape the U.S. and its foreign policy.

(132 min.) ∆ —Glen New Times movie reviews were compiled

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Flagship Ringing in the new year at Six Flags Magic Mountain

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nyone living south of Valencia should heed this piece of The Californians’ advice at least once in their life: “Go up the 5, go to Magic Mountain, get on Riddler’s Revenge, and never get off!” Really, it’s down the 101 to the 126 for those of us residing in the north.

Although I’m much more of a Disneyland guy, Six Flags Magic Mountain has always held a special place in my heart. Mainly because it’s got one thing Disneyland

HALL OF JUSTICE It took Michelangelo (the Ninja Turtle, not the artist) three years to sculpt these.

doesn’t, and that’s Batman (until Disney inevitably buys DC Comics)!

I much preferred the park when I was a kid, that was when Gotham City was one of the main themed areas, or “lands” (comparable to Fantasy Land, Adventure Land, etc., at Disney). Somewhere between the 2010s and now, the area was unfortunately redesigned and renamed “DC Universe,” becoming inclusive to all DC superheroes, not just the best of them.

It’s still home to Batman: The Ride and Riddler’s Revenge, but shares space with non-batty attractions Green Lantern: First Flight, Wonder Woman: Lasso, and The Flash: Speed Force.

Before going on Dec. 29, the last time I had gone must have been more than a year or two ago, as I was completely unaware of the Justice League: Battle for Metropolis attraction added in 2017. Here I am staring in awe at the Michael Keaton era Batmobile displayed prominently in front of the DC Universe entrance when I overhear some folks talking about a Justice League ride. And sure enough, several feet later I find a very large building I’ve never seen before, smack dab in the middle of Riddler’s Revenge and Gold Rusher. Bold letters across the top read: Hall of Justice.

The line is nearly an hour and a half long, but so is everything else in the park (it’s my fault for going on a Saturday during the middle of most students’ winter break). When the line finally reaches the front door to the building,

WHEELS OF FORTUNE The 1989 Batmobile is on display in front of the DC Universe entrance.

@getoutslo we’re taken into a large waiting room where an animatronic Cyborg awaits us. He warns of us of an ongoing attack and tells us to put on our 3-D glasses, of course. There are also animatronic versions of the Joker and Harley Quinn featured in the ride itself. Other villains and the rest of the Justice League are covered in 3-D cinematics laced throughout the ride.

Indoor, interactive roller coasters are customary at Disney and Universal parks, but Battle For Metropolis is the first of its kind at Magic Mountain. I’m glad they at least have one now. I’ve always thought there was way too big of a gap between the kids’ rides and stuff like Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom and Goliath. We finally have a middle ground, something you can go on if you’re too big for the Tweety Bird cages, but not exactly in the mood for 250foot drop either.

For me, the Log Jammer used to serve that very purpose, which sadly closed

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BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, David and Goliath (I’m David in this situation of course).

in 2011. They’ve still got three other water rides (Jet Stream, Tidal Wave, and Roaring Rapids), but they all lack a certain je ne sais quoi in comparison. Can we please get a log ride throwback eventually?

Or an Aquaman water ride, come on! Δ Calendar Editor Caleb Wiseblood never got off of Riddler’s Revenge. Contact him at cwiseblood@newtimesslo.com.

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RAMEN ON THE BRAIN Choose a rich broth flavor (chicken, miso, pork, veggie, or kimchi) and load on the toppings, including sliced pork, chicken leg, bamboo shoots, green onion, hardboiled egg, wontons, fish cake, mushrooms, and more.

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does his wife, Pinky (Will admits that he agerly slurping down a rich, springs out of bed at the crack of dawn to flavorful 16-hour broth in less than 10 minutes flat may seem tacky to fire up the burners and chop the bamboo some, but not to Chef Will and Pinky Yan. shoots). Pinky takes care of all the In fact, the sound of slurping is always business, and there is much to do. They welcome at their new Foothill Boulevard seem to have one mode: “on.” ramen joint, Menka Ramen. The married After opening Poke Chef on California restaurateurs want to see you shovel gobs Street back in 2016, and finding of hot noodles into your immediate success with gaping mouth, to see their seaweed-wrapped This broth you try to suck down “sushi burritos” and works overtime bowls brimming with the last of that creamy Menka Ramen is located at 799 Foothill tonkotsu broth. It’s fresh veggies and tangy, Blvd. in San Luis Obispo and open from not uncommon to see marinated tuna (among 5 to 10 p.m. daily. For more information, patrons abandon their other fabulous fishy call (805) 332-7014. spoons and chopsticks morsels)—they went on to in an effort to consume open two more locations: the delicious dregs. This requires both Broad Street in SLO and Spring Street in hands on the bowl—bowl to face.

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After all, Will and Pinky are constantly Now they’re charging full speed ahead churning out more broth, more noodles, with this third venture, which is sort of more perfectly jammy hard boiled eggs. the opposite of the cold, raw HawaiianThis stuff is not in short supply, although inspired poke, although just as popular. it is not easy to make. At any given hour, Enter Menka Ramen—a meal guaranteed massive 80-quart pots of veggies, bones, to fog up your glasses. and spices simmer on their state-of-the“We don’t do much advertising at all. art burners, lovingly reducing into a silky, I really do believe if you have good food, magic elixir. people will come,” Will says. He has “We take a little longer to make our earned this confidence, to be sure. broth because I like my ramen a bit Here, noodle bowls come with green richer,” Will says. “We make it completely onion, bamboo shoots, and chashu pork; from scratch, using chicken paitan and however, it’s really all about the beautiful pork bones, our own special herbs and broth. This is what keeps folks coming spices. Lots of onion, ginger, garlic, and back again and again. some secret ingredients.”

Choose between chicken or tonkotsu Chef Will does not mess around—nor pork, kimchi (made with a house spicy

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STEAMY Get ready for a hot steaming bowl of beautiful, 16-hour ramen broth topped with all your favorite fixings. The owners of Poke Chef, Will and Pinky Yan—who already have two locations in SLO and one in Paso Robles—have opened Menka Ramen on Foothill Boulevard in SLO.

kimchi broth), miso broth, or veggie broth (clear broth with mixed veggies and shiitake mushroom).

From there, add as many toppings as your heart desires: corn, nori, soft boiled seasoned egg, wood ear mushroom, braised pork belly, jumbo chicken leg, fish cake, pork wonton, extra chashu pork, extra bamboo shoots, or even extra noodles.

You can also go “extra spicy” or (my favorite) add a touch of powerful black garlic, which makes each sip funkier and somehow more addicting.

Pinky says the ramen is far from the “light” side, as the couple prefers a bolder flavor and a more viscous broth.

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side, so when you slurp, you suck up more flavor,” she says.

Fresh noodles arrive a couple times a week, and they are never soggy. Tender but with just the right chew, these noodles are cooked al dente to maintain their integrity against the thick broth and hefty pork.

“Noodles have always been one of my favorite things to eat, and ramen, especially, is one of my favorite dishes to make,” Will says. “With a heavy background working in Japanese and Asian cuisine, this was something I always wanted to cook. I talked about it forever. It was a dream.”

Of course, all dreams do take time, and the couple knows how to be patient as much as they know how to “go.” Perhaps this is the key to their ongoing success.

You may have noticed that all four of their restaurants feature glass cups with avocado pits in them. The plants— sporting long, thin roots suspended in water—have become a symbol of where Chef Will has been and where he is going.

“When I was working in a Japanese restaurant, we went through a lot of avocados. My sensei would save them,” Will says. “It takes about six months to a year to show any sign of roots. It is more about the commitment to watch them grow than anything else. He taught me to work hard; this philosophy touches everything I do.” ∆ Hayley Thomas Cain is obsessed with black garlic. She can be reached at hthomas@newtimesslo.com.

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H AYLEY’S BITES FRESH IDEA Here’s a culinary resolution: Try some new restaurants! All this month, participating SLO County restaurants will offer special prixfixe menus of three courses at $30 to $40 per person as well as other special offerings (yes, you will get sick of me rambling on about this deal all month long) … Wine Speak, which brings master sommeliers and winemakers to public tasting events, runs in Paso Robles Jan. 7 to 10. Join master sommelier Chuck Furuya and his peers as they steer winemaker seminars, hospitality workshops, dinners, tastings, and exclusive vineyard excursions—all designed to advance collaboration, knowledge, and performance throughout the wine industry (learn more at winespeakpaso.com).

BIG HEART, BIG HUNGER Where’s the beef? Andrew Prater of SLO is a new junior member of the American Angus Association (aka, the largest beef breed association in the world, with more than 25,000 active adult and junior members). Junior members are eligible to register cattle in the American Angus Association, participate in programs, and take part in associationsponsored shows and other national and regional events. Congrats, Andrew! … All last month, Firestone Walker’s taproom in Paso Robles served pints benefiting a very special cause. Helus Lager, a beer named for Ventura County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Helus who was killed in the line of duty during the Borderline Bar & Grill shooting in Thousand Oaks in November, was sold with $1 of every pint going to Helus’ family.

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, you’ll have to walk into at least one of these.” This is how a recent article at venuereport.com starts off its list of best speakeasies. On that list, 46 haunts from around the world are featured, including hot spots in the Philippines, Mexico City, Italy, London, Chicago, Paris, and—little old Paso Robles? Yes, you heard right. At number 42 on the list, Paso Robles hangout Eleven Twenty Two shines in all of its not-so-secret glory. Located behind Pappy McGregor’s Irish Pub in Paso Robles, there are only 30 seats available at this lavish lounge. To snag a chair, you’ll have to find your way through the pub, ring a doorbell that’s attached to a lightbulb and wait for a doorman to open the door. Once inside, classic cocktails like mint juleps and French 75s are served alongside the mixologist’s highlights like chai tea infused Armagnac. Yes, you can use your cellphone, but only to text (keep all ringers on silent mode or you’ll get the boot). Here, it’s all about savoring a stolen moment and taking a much needed break from reality. Tell ’em I sent ya.

Eleven Twenty Two is located at 1122 Pine Street in Paso Robles. For more information, go to eleven-twentytwo.com. ∆

Rockstar chowder: Not only do Fresno residents love the Central Coast, they love the coastal cuisine! In fact, Splash Cafe’s clam chowder (beloved at its Pismo Beach and SLO locations) has become a fave in Fresno, where restaurants already serve it. Now, Splash Cafe is taking the love affair one step further, as Visalia restaurant The Salad Shop has partnered with Splash Cafe to ship in the chowder and sell it in bread bowls every Friday. It was so popular that it sold out within 10 minutes, according to the restaurant’s Facebook post! … More possible rain on the horizon means more ramen for your belly! Kuma Sushi in Los Osos offers half off cozy bowls filled with broth, noodles, egg, veggies, and more when there’s precipitation in the atmosphere … Mimosas at a brewery?

At Morro Bay’s Three Stacks and a Rock, this is the norm. Get your bubbly on tap every Sunday till 7 p.m. P.S., each Wednesday, ask for the “secret menu,” where you can grab pressed sandos while sipping craft beer (learn more by following on Facebook). ∆

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THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

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THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 01/16/2019, Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 9 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm St. Rm. 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: December 5, 2018 /s/: Tana L. Coates, Judge of the Superior Court December 13, 20, 27, 2018 & January 3, 2019

THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 01/16/2019, Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 9 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm St. Rm. 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: December 6, 2018 /s/: Tana L. Coates, Judge of the Superior Court December 13, 20, 27, 2018 & January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2761 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (08/01/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, GOLD COAST DISTRIBUTION, 930 Huber St. #A, Grover Beach, CA 93433. San Luis Obispo County. Gold Coast Enterprises (4007 Layang Layang Circle, Unit H, Carlsbad, CA 92008). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Gold Coast Enterprises, Stephen Barrey, CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 1120-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. D. Chavez, Deputy. Exp. 11-20-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FICTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2772 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (11/26/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SLO CIVIL DESIGN, 262 Via La Paz, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Richard Charles Burde (262 Via La Paz, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Richard Burde, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 11-26-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy. Exp. 11-26-23.

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FILE NO. 2018-2793 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (11/24/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, UNILINK INVESTMENTS, 2320 Del Sol Pl., Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Rita Martin Frahmann, Russell Lee Frahmann (2320 Del Sol Pl., Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Rita Martin Frahmann. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 11-27-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 11-27-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2832 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/12/1998) New Filing The following person is doing business as, LAGUNA LAKE, 1801 Perfumo Canyon Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405. San Luis Obispo County. MHC Laguna Lake Two, L.L.C. (Two North Riverside Plaza, Ste. 800, Chicago, IL 60606). This business is conducted by A DE Limited Partnership /s/ MHC Laguna Lake Two, L.L.C., Jeff Kimes, Vice President of General Partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-03-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. D. Chavez, Deputy. Exp. 12-03-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2800 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (11/01/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, LATE START RECORDS, 3077 Broad St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Phineas Covert Heywood (3077 Broad St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Phineas Covert Heywood, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 11-28-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 11-28-23.

December 13, 20, 27, 2018, & January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2803 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (06/08/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BEYOND WELLNESS, 2095 9th St. #7, Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo County. Emily Nicole Desjardins (2095 9th St. #7, Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Emily Desjardins, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 11-28-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy. Exp. 1128-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2834 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/31/2016) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CHC PHARMACY PASO ROBLES, 416 Spring Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446.

San Luis Obispo County. imgRX SLO, Inc. (1330 Enclave Parkway, Houston, TX 77077). This business is conducted by A DE Corporation /s/ imgRX SLO, Inc., Scott Zimmerman, Assistant Treasurer.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-04-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. D. Chavez, Deputy. Exp. 12-04-23.

December 13, 20, 27, 2018, & January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2835 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, THE FRESH PAINT COMPANY, 2230 Exposition Drive Unit 25, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County.

James William Ringley (2230 Exposition Drive Unit 25, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ James Ringley. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-04-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. D. Chavez, Deputy. Exp. 12-04-23.

December 13, 20, 27, 2018, & January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2818 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (06/01/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ACUGLO WELLNESS, 2015 10th Street, Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo County. Lisa Marie Cemo (1153 17th St. Unit B, Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Lisa Cemo, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 11-30-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 11-30-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2838 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (11/27/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, 7TH GENERATION DESIGN, 3751 Santa Rosa Creek Rd., Cambria, CA 93428. San Luis Obispo County. Resilience Revival LLC (3751 Santa Rosa Creek Rd., Cambria, CA 93428).

This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Resilience Revival LLC, Weston Cooke, Managing Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-04-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk.

J. Goble, Deputy. Exp. 12-04-23.

December 13, 20, 27, 2018, & January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2823 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/03/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, AVILA BEACH MASSAGE, 101 San Miguel St., Avila Beach, CA 93424. San Luis Obispo County. Glenna Cox (101 San Miguel St., Avila Beach, CA 93424). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Glenna Cox. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-03-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. D. Chavez, Deputy. Exp. 12-03-23.

December 13, 20, 27, 2018, & January 3, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2839 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/04/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, THE HANDYMAN, 613 Cerro Vista Cir., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Christopher Paul Layshot (613 Cerro Vista Cir., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Christopher Layshot.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-04-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy. Exp. 12-04-23.

December 13, 20, 27, 2018, & January 3, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2840 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ENTEGRIS, 4175 Santa Fe Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. SAES Pure Gas, Inc. (4175 Santa Fe Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ SAES Pure Gas, Inc., Joseph Colella, Assistant Secretary. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-04-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. D. Chavez, Deputy. Exp. 12-04-23.

December 13, 20, 27, 2018, & January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2844 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/15/2015) New Filing The following person is doing business as, MATTY’S MORRO BAY LAUNDRY, 890 Monterey Ave., Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County. Julie Ann Garcia, Michael Garcia (2098 Circle Drive, Cayucos, CA 93430).

This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Julie Garcia, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-05-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy.

Exp. 12-05-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2845 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ENGRAINED, 4150 N Ryan Road, Creston, CA 93432. San Luis Obispo County.

Engrained (5237 Diane Ave., San Diego, CA 92117). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Engrained, Tyler Mitchell, Managing Member.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-05-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. King, Deputy. Exp. 1205-23.

December 13, 20, 27, 2018, & January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2847 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/01/2012) New Filing The following person is doing business as, REALLY SWEET STUFF, 2701 Rodman Drive, Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo County. Courtney Huckabay (2701 Rodman Drive, Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Courtney Huckabay. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-05-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy. Exp. 12-05-23.

December 13, 20, 27, 2018, & January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2854 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/05/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, VESPERA ON OCEAN, 147 Stimson Ave., Pismo Beach, CA 93449. San Luis Obispo County. Pismo Beach Hotel Investments, LLC (1 MacArthur Pl. Ste. 300, Santa Ana, CA 92707). This business is conducted by A DE Limited Liability Company /s/ Pimso Beach Hotel Investments, LLC, Matthew B. Kaufman, Secretary and Treasurer. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-06-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. D. Chavez, Deputy.

Exp. 12-06-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2857 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/06/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, RARE CANDY VAPE COMPANY, 6145 San Anselmo Rd., Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County. Elia Akhare, Lobna Frij (1060 Monterey Ave. Apt. B, Morro Bay, CA 93442).

This business is conducted by A General Partnership /s/ Elia Akhare, Partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-06-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy. Exp. 12-06-23.

December 13, 20, 27, 2018, & January 3, 2019

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2864 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, THE STEAMING BEAN, 1651 Shell Beach Road, Pismo Beach, CA 93449. San Luis Obispo County. Amanda Marie Birdsong (360 Chorro St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93405).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Amanda Birdsong.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-07-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk.

S. King, Deputy. Exp. 12-07-23.

December 13, 20, 27, 2018, & January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2871 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (11/01/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, KW COMMERCIAL REALTY GROUP, CENTRAL COAST, 350 James Way, Pismo Beach, CA 93449. San Luis Obispo County. Jeffrey King (293 Miller Way, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420), Lucy Silva (1473 Cedar Street, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420), Scott Maples (550 Harloe Ave., Pismo Beach, CA 93449). This business is conducted by A General Partnership /s/ Lucy Silva, Partner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-07-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk.

S. Levy, Deputy. Exp. 12-07-23.

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FILE NO. 2018-2876 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, VALIANT CONSULTING CENTRAL COAST, 220 Garden Street, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County.

Tracy A Lang Wood (220 Garden Street, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Tracy Lang Wood. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-10-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. JF. Brown, Deputy.

Exp. 12-10-23.

December 13, 20, 27, 2018, & January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2878 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BEAR EMBROIDERY, 349 Quintana Rd., Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo County.

Nichols Foods Inc. (PO Box 7089, Los Osos, CA 93412). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Nichols Foods Inc., Mari Nichols - Secretary.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-10-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. C. Luckey, Deputy. Exp. 12-10-23.

December 13, 20, 27, 2018, & January 3, 2019

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

SAN LUIS OBISPO CITY COUNCIL NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING The San Luis Obispo City Council invites all interested persons to attend a public meeting on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chamber, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, California, relative to the following: 1) PUBLIC HEARING concerning 790 Foothill Blvd. - Review of an appeal (Filed by Foothill Blvd. Civil Defense) of the Planning Commission’s decision to approve a use permit approval for a new four-story mixed-use project with 6,800 square feet of ground floor commercial/retail space, 78 residential units, and 155 parking spaces with a request for mechanical parking lifts and expanded hours of operation for the commercial spaces.

Twelve of the units in the project will be affordable for very-low income households, allowing a 35% density bonus and affordable housing incentives are requested including the construction of a 43-foot tall structure where 35 feet is normally allowed and an increase in allowable lot coverage from 75% to 90% (APPL-1971-2018).

For more information, you are invited to contact Rachel Cohen of the City’s Community Development Department at (805) 781-7574 or by email at rcohen@slocity.org 2) Adopt a Resolution entitled, “A Resolution of the City Council of the City of San Luis Obispo approving a historic property preservation agreement between the City and the owner of the Nathaniel Brew Home at 771 Buchon Street (HIST1936-2018)”

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing.

WHEN: Friday, January 18, 2019 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 Lance Jubelt for a Minor Use Permit (DRC2018-00062) to allow for the construction of a 5,200-square-foot two-story commercial building. The first floor is 3,800 square feet of warehouse area, storage and office space. The second floor is a 1,400- square-foot mezzanine with a conference room and office space. The project also includes the demolition of an existing 630square-foot storage garage. The proposed project will result in the disturbance of the entire 10,000-square-foot site area. The proposed project is within the Commercial Service land use category and is located at 2021 Nipomo Street, approximately 170 feet west of 21st Street, in the community of Oceano. The site is located in the San Luis Bay Sub Area of the South County Planning Area. Also to be considered is the environmental determination that the project is exempt under CEQA, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), General Rule Exemption.

The Environmental Coordinator has determined that it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the proposed project may have a significant adverse effect on the environment. A Notice of Exemption has been prepared pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15062.

County File Number: DRC2018-00062 Supervisorial District: District 4 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 062-115-031 Date Accepted: 12/05/2018 WHERE: The meeting will be held in the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey Street, Room #D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the meeting all interested persons may express their views for or against, or to change the proposal.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Cody Scheel, 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, January 11, 2019 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the language “I would like to request a hearing on DRC2018-00062.”

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

County of San Luis Obispo Planning Commission.

WHEN:

Thursday, January 24, 2019 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:

County File Number: DRC2018-00106 Supervisorial District: District 3 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 076-400-005 Date Accepted: 09/19/2018 WHERE: The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey Street, Room #D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the meeting all interested persons may express their views for or against, or to change the proposal.

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

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

Ramona Hedges, Secretary Planning Commission

Nicole Retana, Secretary Planning Department Hearing January 3, 2019

For more information, you are invited to contact Walter Oetzell of the City’s Community Development Department at (805) 781-7593 or by email at woetzell@slocity.org The City Council may also discuss other hearings or business items before or after the items listed above.

If you challenge the proposed project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Council at, or prior to, the public hearing.

Council Agenda Reports for this meeting will be available for review in the City Clerk’s Office and online at www.slocity.org on Wednesday, January 9, 2019. Please call the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 7817100 for more information. The City Council meeting will be televised live on Charter Cable Channel 20 and live streaming on www.slocity.org.

Teresa Purrington City Clerk City of San Luis Obispo January 3, 2019

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS Applications to make minor changes to the properties at the addresses listed below have been received by the City.

1. 11175 Los Osos Valley Road.

ARCH-1967-2018; Architectural Review of modifications to an existing wireless communication pole disguised as a tree, comprised of: installation of an anchor rod and reinforcing bar on the lower portion of one side of the existing monopole; and installation of three reinforcing plates on the upper portion of the monopole, with a categorical exemption from environmental review; PF Zone; TEZ/SBA, applicant. (Walter Oetzell) 2. 1427 Higuera Street. HOME-1982-2018; Review of a Homestay application to allow short-term rental in a single-family residence, with a categorical exemption from environmental review; O zone; Gregory Ross, applicant.

(Kyle Van Leeuwen) The Community Development Director will either approve or deny these applications no sooner than January 14, 2019.

The Director’s decision may be appealed, and must be filed with the appropriate appeal fee within 10 days of the Director’s action. For more information, contact the City of San Luis Obispo Community Development Department, 919 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, stop by, or call (805) 781-7170, weekdays, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.

January 3, 2019

A hearing to consider a request by Papa Bear Farms LLC for a Conditional Use Permit (DRC2018-00106) to establish 155 square feet of non-volatile cannabis manufacturing, 111 square feet of cannabis distribution, and 85 square feet of non-storefront dispensary within an 1,100-squarefoot lease space of an existing 10,000-square-foot building. The project is located within an established business park. Activities would include non-volatile cannabis manufacturing, shipping, receiving, processing, packaging, labeling, and delivery of cannabis products from licensed operators. Hours of operation for the business would be 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday and 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Friday through Saturday. The project is located within the Industrial land use category located at 4149 Santa Fe Road, Suite 5, approximately 413 feet north of the San Luis Obispo Regional Airport immediately west of the city limit of the City of San Luis Obispo. The project site is located in the San Luis Obispo Sub Area North of the San Luis Obispo Planning Area. Also to be considered is the environmental determination that the project is categorically exempt under CEQA, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(2). A Notice of Exemption has been prepared pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15062.

January 3, 2019

COUNTY 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 of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing.

Friday, January 18, 2019 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 Steve and Debbie Arnold for a modification of their previously approved Minor Use Permit to allow the addition of a 2,000-square-foot barrel storage building at the existing winery (DRC2018-00141). No changes are proposed to the winery special event program that previously authorized six events per year with up to 80 guests and continued participation in wine industrywide events. The proposed project would result in approximately 2,500 square feet of site disturbance on an approximately 466-acre parcel. The proposed project is within the Agricultural land use category and is located at 10 Pozo Road on the north side of East Pozo Road, adjacent to and southwest of the village of Pozo, in the Las Pilitas Sub Area of the North County planning area.

Also to be considered is the environmental determination.

The Environmental Coordinator finds that the previously adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration is adequate for the purposes of compliance with CEQA because no substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major revision of the previous Mitigated Negative Declaration, no substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstance under which the project is undertaken which will require major revision of the previous Mitigated Negative Declaration, and no new information of substantial importance has been identified which was not known at the time that the previous Mitigated Negative Declaration was adopted.

County File Number: DRC2018-00141 Supervisorial District: District 5 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 071-221-002 Date Accepted: 09/18/2018 WHERE: The meeting will be held in the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey Street, Room #D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the meeting all interested persons may express their views for or against, or to change the proposal.

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

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, January 11, 2019 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the language “I would like to request a hearing on DRC2018-00141.”

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.

WHO:

County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing.

WHEN:

Friday, January 18, 2019 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 Kelly Byde for a Minor Use Permit / Coastal Development Permit (DRC2018-00070) to allow the demolition of two existing single-family residences on a parcel, 920 square feet and 730 square feet each; and to allow the construction of a new two-story, 2,036-squarefoot single-family residence with an attached 463-squarefoot garage. The project will result in the disturbance of the entire 4,792-square-foot parcel. The proposed project is within the Residential Single-Family land use category and is located at 18 10th Street in the community of Cayucos. The site is in the Estero planning area. Also to be considered is the environmental determination that the project is categorically exempt under CEQA, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(2). A Notice of Exemption has been prepared pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15062.

WHO: WHEN:

Nicole Retana, Secretary Planning Department Hearing January 3, 2019

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County File Number: DRC2018-00070 Supervisorial District: District 2 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 064-154-015 Date Accepted: 10/01/2018 WHERE: The meeting will be held in the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey Street, Room #D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the meeting all interested persons may express their views for or against, or to change the proposal.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Young Choi, 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, January 11, 2019 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the language “I would like to request a hearing on DRC2018-00070.”

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

COASTAL APPEALABLE: If the County approves this project, that action may be eligible for appeal to the California Coastal Commission. Appeals must be filed in writing as provided by Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section 23.01.043.

Nicole Retana, Secretary Planning Department Hearing January 3, 2019

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FILE NO. 2018-2886 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CENTRAL COAST MOTORCYCLE ASSOCIATION, 1102 Laurel Lane, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Central Caost Trail Riders Association, Inc. (1102 Laurel Lane, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Central Coast Trail Riders Association, Inc., Joey Maxvill, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 1211-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 12-11-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2887 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, FERRARI SURFACES INTERNATIONAL, 425 North Frontage Rd., Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Karma Marketing, Inc. (425 North Frontage Rd., Nipomo, CA 93444). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Karma Marketing, Inc., Cara Ferrari - President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-11-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. King, Deputy. Exp. 12-11-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2890 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/11/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, MERAKI, 201 Five Cities Drive, Space 140, Pismo Beach, CA 93449. San Luis Obispo County. Christiane Paulette Perriseau, Jessica Renee Lea Perriseau (201 Five Cities Drive, Space 140, Pismo Beach, CA 93449). This business is conducted by A General Partnership /s/ Jessica Renee Lea Perriseau, Partner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-11-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy.

Exp. 12-11-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2894 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, AVILA TRAFFIC SAFETY, 8305 El Camino Real, Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County. Kellie Avila Construction Services Inc (8305 El Camino Real, Atascadero, CA 93422). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Kellie Avila Construction Services Inc, Kellie Avial - President.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-11-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy.

Exp. 12-11-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

LegaL Notices FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2899 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/12/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SUSHI 805, 460 W. Grand Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433. San Luis Obispo County.

BJP Corporation (460 W. Grand Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433).

This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ BJP Corporation, Sang Hun Jeon - President.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-12-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy. Exp. 12-12-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2906 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (11/01/2017) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CLEANING ROSE SERVICE, 723 Hill Street, Apt. A, Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Brian Alfonso Araujo (723 Hill Street, Apt. A, Nipomo, CA 93444). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Brian Araujo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-13-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. JF. Brown, Deputy.

Exp. 12-13-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2909 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (02/28/1983) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CREEKLANDS, 229 Stanley Ave., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Central Coast Salmon Enhancement (229 Stanley Ave., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Central Coast Salmon Enhancement, Donald Chartrand – Executive Director.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-13-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. C. Luckey, Deputy. Exp. 12-13-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2911 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (09/24/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BAULDRY MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION, 1175 Carpenter Canyon Road, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Michael Bauldry (1175 Carpenter Canyon Road, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Michael Bauldry.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-14-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. C. Luckey, Deputy. Exp. 12-14-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2912 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/14/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ALLISON CLAIRE IMAGERY, 216 S. Rena St. Apt. A-2, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Allison Claire Gooch (216 S. Rena St. Apt. A-2, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Allison Gooch, Individual. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-14-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy.

Exp. 12-14-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

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FILE NO. 2018-2914 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/14/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, MY BLUE HOMESERVICES, 1914 Teak Dr. Apt. A, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Valentina Chavez (1914 Teak Dr. Apt. A, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Valentina Chavez, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-14-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. King, Deputy.

Exp. 12-14-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2930 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/10/2016) New Filing The following person is doing business as, RABBLE WINE COMPANY, 3090 Anderson Road, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Tolliver Ranch Brands, LLC (3090 Anderson Road, Paso Robles, CA 93446).

This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Tolliver Ranch Brands, LLC, Rob Murray, CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-17-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. R. Parashis, Deputy. Exp. 12-17-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

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FILE NO. 2018-2917 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/17/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CENTRAL COAST AVOCADO COMPANY, 725 Sheridan Road, Unit B, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Dominic Lawrence Handy (725 Sheridan Road, Unit B, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Dominic Handy. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-17-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. D. Chavez, Deputy. Exp. 12-17-23.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2945 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/18/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BOOKER VINEYARD, MY FAVORITE NEIGHBOR, 2644 Anderson Road, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County.

Phase 2 Cellars, LLC (4910 Edna Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Phase 2 Cellars, LLC, Kenneth Robin Baggett, Managing Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-18-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy.

Exp. 12-18-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

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FILE NO. 2018-2923 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/17/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ALONSO’S SERVICES, 809 S. 7th Ave., Avenal, CA 93204. San Luis Obispo County.

Alonso Carranza Enriquez (809 S. 7th Ave., Avenal, CA 93204).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Alonso Enriquez, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-17-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy.

Exp. 12-17-23.

January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2925 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/15/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CALI STRONG CANDLES, 911 Patricia Circle, Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County. Liza Spiridon (911 Patricia Circle, Atascadero, CA 93422). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Liza Spiridon. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-17-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. A. Gibson, Deputy. Exp. 12-17-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2929 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (11/20/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, EMPATH, 39407 Broad St. Suite #194, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Louis W Camassa (674 Manhattan Ave., Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Louis Camassa.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-17-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. C. Luckey, Deputy. Exp. 12-17-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2946 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/23/2017) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SOCREATE, 1 Grand Ave. Cal Poly Tech Park Bldg. 83, Ste. 2B, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407. San Luis Obispo County.

Rosa Socorp (PO Box 5442, San Luis Obispo, CA 93403-5442).

This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Socorp, Rosa Couto - CFO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-18-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy.

Exp. 12-18-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2947 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/15/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SOCREATE CONSULTING, 1 Grand Ave. Cal Poly Tech Park Bldg. 83, Ste. 2B, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407. San Luis Obispo County. Couto Corp (PO Box 3026, San Luis Obispo, CA 93403). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Couto Corp, Rosa Couto - Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-18-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy. Exp. 12-18-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2948 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, K & J WHOLESALE, 2923 S. Higuera, Suite B, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Klaus W Hoffmann (PO Box 352, Santa Margarita, CA 93453). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Klaus Hoffmann. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-18-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. C. Luckey, Deputy.

Exp. 12-18-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2951 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/2012) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ANTON REFRIGERATION, 310 Allen St., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Act Enterprises (310 Allen St., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Act Enterprises, Anton Simonich - CFO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-19-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. C. Luckey, Deputy.

Exp. 12-19-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2956 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/31/1969) New Filing The following person is doing business as, EQUITY REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS, 144 18th Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446.

San Luis Obispo County. Sharon P George (144 18th Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Sharon P George. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-19-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. A. McCormick, Deputy. Exp. 12-19-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2961 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/01/2001) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CENTRAL COAST BANK CARD SERVICES, 1323 Scott Lee Dr., Oceano, CA 93445. San Luis Obispo County.

Central Coast Bank Card Services Inc. (1323 Scott Lee Dr., Oceano, CA 93445). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Central Coast Bank Card Services Inc., Michael J Noble, President.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-19-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 12-19-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2962 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/03/2001) New Filing The following person is doing business as, M&S MARINE AND MORE, 1150 Pike Lane, Oceano, CA 93445. San Luis Obispo County. Michael Jeffery Noble (1323 Scott Lee Dr., Oceano, CA 93445). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Michael J Noble, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-19-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. N. Balseiro, Deputy.

Exp. 12-19-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2965 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/1986) New Filing The following person is doing business as, PEACH TREE INN, 2001 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. PT Hospitality (2001 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ PT Hospitality, Sandra Hitchcock, Vice President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-19-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. Levy, Deputy. Exp. 12-19-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

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FILE NO. 2018-2968 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (09/02/1994) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CORPORATION, GREEN ROAD, 788 Arlington Street, Cambria, CA 93428. San Luis Obispo County.

Associated Development Services Corporation (788 Arlington Street, Cambria, CA 93428). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Associated Development Services Corporation, Richard D. Low, Jr. President.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-19-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 12-19-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2983 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/01/2016) New Filing The following person is doing business as, AUTHENTICITY MARKETING, 1414 Morro St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.

San Luis Obispo County. Linda Savana Woods (1414 Morro St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Linda Woods.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-21-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. C. Luckey, Deputy. Exp. 12-21-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2990 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (10/09/2015) New Filing The following person is doing business as, BEYOND CARPET AND TILE CLEANING, 1550 Guadalupe Rd. #5, Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County.

David Javier Madrigal (1550 Guadalupe Rd. #5, Nipomo, CA 93444). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ David Javier Madrigal. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-21-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. J. Goble, Deputy. Exp. 12-21-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2970 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/19/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, 007 REAL ESTATE GROUP, INC., 330 James Way, Suite 150, Pismo Beach, CA 93449. San Luis Obispo County.

007 Real Estate Group, Inc. (330 James Way, Suite 150, Pismo Beach, CA 93449). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ 007 Real Estate Group, Inc., Jacek Bond, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-19-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 12-19-23.

January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2972 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/17/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SUPERIOR FARM WATER, 921 Griffin Street, Suite T, Grover Beach, CA 93445. San Luis Obispo County. Al Siamon (1831 Nathan Way, Nipomo, CA 9344). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Al Siamon, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-20-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. C. Luckey, Deputy.

Exp. 12-20-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-2992 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, COGAN FAMILY CELLARS, 5450 Edna Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Ronald James Cogan, Sheree Karen Cogan (4590 Spanish Oaks Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401).

This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Ronald James Cogan. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-24-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. JF. Brown, Deputy. Exp. 12-24-23.

January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2975 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, THE GIVING BEE REALTY, 799 Story St., Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County.

Brandi Mileen Dodson (799 Story St., Nipomo, CA 93444). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Brandi M Dodson.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-20-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. C. Luckey, Deputy. Exp. 12-20-23.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-2977 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/04/2013) New Filing The following person is doing business as, THE HURRICANE KITCHEN, 2400 El Camino Real, Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County. The Hurricane Kitchen, LLC (1880 L Street, San Miguel, CA 93451). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ The Hurricane Kitchen, LLC, Anthony Richard Verhagen.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-20-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. A. Gibson, Deputy. Exp. 12-20-23.

January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-3006 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (06/01/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, PORT SAN LUIS BOATYARD, 3915 Avila Beach Drive, Avila Beach, CA 93424.

San Luis Obispo County. Brent Lintner (2 Lighthouse Road, Avila Beach, CA 93424). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Brent Lintner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-27-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. J. Goble, Deputy. Exp. 12-27-23.

January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2018-3018 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/31/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ESTERO BAY NEWS, 1879 10th St., Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo County. Dean William Sullivan (1879 10th St., Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Dean William Sullivan. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-31-18.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. S. King, Deputy. Exp. 12-31-23.

January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

FILE NO. 2018-3019 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (12/31/2018) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CENTRAL COAST JOURNAL, 25 Johe Lane, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405. San Luis Obispo County. Thomas Leroy Meinhold, Meinhold Lea Juliette (25 Johe Lane, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Juliette Meinhold, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-31-18. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. L. Orellana, Deputy. Exp. 12-31-23.

January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE

The following unit will be sold to satisfy liens against them at a public auction to be held on Friday, January 4, 2019.

Unit # 555 - Nichole Cunningham. Clothing, bags, plastic bins, skateboard, car seat, stuffed animals.

Sealed bids will be accepted preceding a silent auction at 9 AM to 11 AM, Friday, January 4, 2019, at THEATRE DRIVE SELF STORAGE, 2371 THEATRE DRIVE, PASO ROBLES, County of San Luis Obispo, State of California.

Bond #0727501. Bids will be taken from 9 PM to 11 PM (owner has the right to refuse and all bids. Owner has the right to bid.)

Highest bidder will be notified by telephone by 5 PM the day of the auction. Payment is due and payable immediately. Cash only, this is to include a $100 cash deposit, refundable once the unit is verified clean and goods removed.

December 27, 2018 January 3, 2019

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE APN: 012-243-030 TS NO: CA0700080118-1 TO NO: 180339814-CAVOI

(The above statement is made pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d)(1). The Summary will be provided to Trustor(s) and/or vested owner(s) only, pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d) (2).) YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED August 10, 2016. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On January 22, 2019 at 09:00 AM, Breezeway facing Santa Rosa Street, County of San Luis Obispo General Services Building, 1087 Santa Rosa St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93408, MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps, as the duly Appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded on August 19, 2016 as Instrument No. 2016040607, and re-recorded on September 12, 2016 as Instrument No. 2016045227, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of San Luis Obispo County, California, executed by CHARLES L WATSON, A WIDOWER AND MICHAEL A WATSON, A SINGLE MAN, AS JOINT TENANTS, as Trustor(s), in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. as nominee for FIRST DIRECT LENDING, A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, that certain property situated in said County, California describing the land therein as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 2265 LARIAT LOOP, BRADLEY, CA 93426 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remain-

LegaL Notices ing principal sum of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said Note(s), advances if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligations secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Trustee’s Sale is estimated to be $295,184.32 (Estimated). However, prepayment premiums, accrued interest and advances will increase this figure prior to sale. Beneficiary’s bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the Trustee.

In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee’s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. The property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the property receiver, if applicable. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Notice to Potential Bidders If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a Trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a Trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same Lender may hold more than one mortgage or Deed of Trust on the property. Notice to Property Owner The sale date shown on this Notice of Sale may be postponed one or more times by the Mortgagee, Beneficiary, Trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about Trustee Sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call Auction.com at 800.280.2832 for information regarding the Trustee’s Sale or visit the Internet Web site address www.Auction. com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, CA07000801-18-1. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: December 5, 2018 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps TS No. CA07000801-18-1 17100 Gillette Ave Irvine, CA 92614 Phone:949-252-8300 TDD: 866660-4288 Myron Ravelo, Authorized Signatory SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ONLINE AT www.Auction.com FOR AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: Auction.com at 800.280.2832 Trustee Corps may be acting as a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained may be used for that purpose. NPP0345525 To: NEW TIMES 12/20/2018, 12/27/2018, 01/03/2019

LegaL Notices STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

NEW FILE NO. 2018-2885 OLD FILE NO. 2014-1471 Central Coast Motorcycle Association, 1102 Laurel Lane, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Luis Obispo County on 07-02-2014.

The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: Collette A Hillier (6201 Alta Mira Lane, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401), Bruce Whicher (1670 Pin Oak Lane, Templeton, CA 93455).

This business was conducted

by An Unincorporated Association Other Than A Partnership /s/ Collette A Hillier, Registrant. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-11-2018.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. By N. Balseiro, Deputy Clerk.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

NEW FILE NO. 2018-2915 OLD FILE NO. 2017-2172 Central Coast Avocado Company, 1806 Alma Court, Grover Beach, CA 93433. San Luis Obispo County. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Luis Obispo County on 09-06-2017.

The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: Del Sol Builders, Inc. (1806 Alma Court, Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business was conducted by A Corporation /s/ Del Sol Builders, Inc., Donald K. Edwards, VP/CFO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-172018. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal)Tommy Gong, County Clerk. By L. Orellana, Deputy Clerk.

December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

NEW FILE NO. 2018-2955 OLD FILE NO. 2016-0076 Equity Real Estate Professionals, 144 18th Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Luis Obispo County on 01-11-2016.

The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: Sharon George (144 18th Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446), Greta Peck (10800 San Marcos Rd., Atascadero, CA 93422). This business was conducted by A Copartnership /s/ Sharon George, Copartner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-19-2018. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Gong, County Clerk. By A. McCormick, Deputy Clerk.

December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

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LegaL Notices NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. NO.: 9948-3033 TSG ORdER NO.: dS7300-18001885 A.P.N.: 062-121-025

YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 09/22/2006.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Affinia Default Services, LLC, as the duly appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded 09/29/2006 as Document No.: 2006069144, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of San Luis Obispo County, California, executed by: YVETTE RIOS, A MARRIED WOMAN AS HER SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY , as Trustor, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable in full at time of sale by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state).

All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and state, and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust.

Sale Date & Time: 01/09/2019 at 11:00 AM Sale Location: In the breezeway adjacent to the County General Services Building located at 1087 Santa Rosa St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 2230 BEACH STREET (Unincorporated Area), OCEANO, CA 93445 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $573,286.24 (Estimated).

Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as

LegaL Notices a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call, (800) 758-8052 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site, www.homesearch.com, for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, T.S.# 9948-3033. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet Web site.

The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

Affinia Default Services, LLC 301 E. Ocean Blvd. Suite 1720 Long Beach, CA 90802 833-290-7452 For Trustee Sale Information Log On To: www.homesearch.com or Call: (800) 758-8052.

Affinia Default Services, LLC, Omar Solorzano, Foreclosure Associate This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. However, if you have received a discharge of the debt referenced herein in a bankruptcy proceeding, this is not an attempt to impose personal liability upon you for payment of that debt. In the event you have received a bankruptcy discharge, any action to enforce the debt will be taken against the property only.

NPP0345041 To: NEW TIMES 12/20/2018, 12/27/2018, 01/03/2019

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TSG NO.: 8743474 TS NO.: CA1800284170 FHA/VA/PMI NO.: 1697709364 APN: 074-211-014 PROPERTy AddRESS: 524 MAR VISTA dRIVE LOS OSOS, CA 93402

YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 10/21/2004. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 01/16/2019 at 11:00 A.M., First American Title Insurance Company, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 10/28/2004, as Instrument No. 2004095046, in book , page , , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of SAN LUIS OBISPO County, State of California. Executed by: LORRAINE C. KUBIAK, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (Payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States) In the breezeway adjacent to the County General Services Building, 1087 Santa Rosa Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED DEED OF TRUST APN# 074-211-014 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 524 MAR VISTA DRIVE, LOS OSOS, CA 93402 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the

LegaL Notices property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $448,229.72. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust has deposited all documents evidencing the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust and has declared all sums secured thereby immediately due and payable, and has caused a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be executed. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (916)939-0772 or visit this Internet Web http:// search.nationwideposting.com/ propertySearchTerms.aspx, using the file number assigned to this case CA1800284170 Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Date: First American Title Insurance Company 4795 Regent Blvd, Mail Code 1011-F Irving, TX 75063 First American Title Insurance Company MAY BE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE FOR TRUSTEES SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (916)939-0772NPP0345735 To: NEW TIMES 12/27/2018, 01/03/2019, 01/10/2019

ORdER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 18CV-0739

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Caren Bridget Ray filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Caren Bridget Ray to PROPOSED NAME: Caren Ray Russom THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed,

LegaL Notices the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 01/24/2019, Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 2 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm St. Rm. 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: December 4, 2018 /s/: Barry T. Labarbera, Judge of the Superior Court December 13, 20, 27, 2018 & January 3, 2019

ORdER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 18CV-0749

To all interested persons: Petitioner: David Robert Lee Gaston AKA David Robert Nichols AKA David R. Nichols filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: David Robert Lee Gaston AKA David Robert Nichols AKA David R. Nichols to PROPOSED NAME: David Robert Nichols THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 01/23/2019, Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 9 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm St. Rm. 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: December 11, 2018 /s/: Tana L. Coates, Judge of the Superior Court December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

ORdER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 18CV-0752

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Cecile Rogers Demartini filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Cecile Rogers Demartini to PROPOSED NAME: Cecile Blancarte THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 01/31/2019, Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 2 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm St. Rm. 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: December 13, 2018 /s/: Barry T. Labarbera, Judge of the Superior Court January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

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LegaL Notices ORdER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 18CV-0756

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Carlos Camargo filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Carlos Camargo to PROPOSED NAME: Charlie Carlos Camargo THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 01/30/2019, Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 9 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1050 Monterey St. San Luis Obispo, CA 93408. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: December 14, 2018 /s/: Tana L. Coates, Judge of the Superior Court December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

ORdER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 18CV-0771

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Joan Meyers filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Toby Jonathan Meyers to PROPOSED NAME: Robert A. Meyers THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 01/31/2019, Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 2 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm St. Rm. 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: December 19, 2018 /s/: Barry T. Labarbera, Judge of the Superior Court December 27, 2018, January 3, 10, & 17, 2019

ORdER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 18CVP-0385

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Jamie Ann Adler filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Ryker Warren Adler to PROPOSED NAME: Ryker Warren Stuart THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If

LegaL Notices no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 01/23/2019, Time: 9:30 am, Dept. P2 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 901 Park Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: November 30, 2018 /s/: Linda D. Hurst, Judge of the Superior Court December 20, 27, 2018, January 3, & 10, 2019

ORdER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 18CVP-0389

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Makenzie Marie Kloepper & Pamela Marie Kloepper filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Makenzie Marie Kloepper to PROPOSED NAME: Makenzie Victoria Quinn Kloepper, PRESENT NAME: Pamela Marie Kloepper to PROPOSED NAME: Pamela Victoria Quinn Kloepper THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 01/30/2019, Time: 9:30 am, Dept. P2 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 901 Park Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: December 4, 2018 /s/: Linda D. Hurst, Judge of the Superior Court December 13, 20, 27, 2018 & January 3, 2019

ORdER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 18CVP-0409

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Kyle Wayne Edward Huseby filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Kyle Wayne Edward Huseby to PROPOSED NAME: Kyle Edward Sorrow THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 02/27/2019, Time: 9:30 am, Dept. P2 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 901 Park Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: December 31, 2018 /s/: Linda D. Hurst, Judge of the Superior Court January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

LegaL Notices STATEMENT OF ABANdONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

NEW FILE NO. 2018-3005 OLD FILE NO. 2018-2135 Carlos Leonidas Fernandez Jr, 176 E Dana St., Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Luis Obispo County on 0827-2018. The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: Carlos Leonidas Jr Fernandez, Carlos Leonidas Bey (176 E Dana St., Nipomo, CA 93444). This business was conducted by A Trust /s/ Carlos Leonidas Bey, Trustee. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-27-2018.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. By D, Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

STATEMENT OF ABANdONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

NEW FILE NO. 2018-2995 OLD FILE NO. 2018-0708 Wine History Project of San Luis Obispo County, 1185 Pacific Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Luis Obispo County on 03-08-2018. The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: The History Center of San Luis Obispo County (696 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business was conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ The History Center of San Luis Obispo County, Thomas Kessler, Executive Director. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 12-26-2018.

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. By J. Goble, Deputy Clerk.

January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2019

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE

The following unit will be sold to satisfy liens against them at a public auction to be held on Friday, January 11, 2019 Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that a public lien sale of the following described personal property will be held.

UNIT #184 BETTY JO SPARKS - Loveseat, lawn chairs, table, golf clubs, fishing gear, electric blower, mechanics creeper, steam rug cleaner, bread maker, George Forman grill, ironing board, spittoon, wine rack, metal shelf, bag of tools, electric frying pan, pool ladder, cast iron teapot, boxes, bags & totes contents unknown.

UNIT #192 AMBER HANSEN - Dinette, carpet, computer monitor, large wall mirror, art, sofa, small water jug, clothes, cane, file cabinet, storage rack, afghan, rocking chair, photo albums, books, boxes & totes contents unknown.

UNIT #999 RAUL MENA - Tires, rim, hubcap, oil, clothes, totes contents unknown.

Sealed bids will be accepted preceding a silent auction at 9:00am to 12 noon, Friday, January 11, 2019 , at ABBY’S SELF STORAGE 50 ABBY ROAD, TEMPLETON , County of San Luis Obispo, State of California. Bond #0455718. Bids will be taken from 9 AM to 12 NOON (owner has the right to refuse and all bids. Owner has the right to bid.) Highest bidder will be notified by telephone by 1:00 PM the day of the auction.

Payment is due and payable immediately. Cash only, this is to include a $100 cash deposit, refundable once the unit is verified clean goods removed.

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Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology Homework: I’d love to see your top New Year’s resolutions. Share by going to realastrology.com and clicking on “Email Rob.” ARIES

LIBRA

(March 21-April 19): No one has resisted the force of gravity with more focus than businessman Roger Babson (1875– 1967). He wrote an essay entitled “Gravity - Our Enemy Number One,” and sought to develop anti-gravity technology.

His Gravity Research Foundation gave awards to authentic scientists who advanced the understanding of gravity. If that organization still existed and offered prizes, I’m sure that researchers of the Aries persuasion would win them all in 2019. For your tribe, the coming months should feature lots of escapes from heaviness, including soaring flights and playful levity and lofty epiphanies.

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Many plants that modern Americans regard as weeds were regarded as tasty food by Native Americans. A prime example is the cattail, which grows wild in wetlands. Indigenous people ate the rootstock, stem, leaves, and flower spike. I propose that we use this scenario to serve as a metaphor for some of your potential opportunities in 2019. Things you’ve regarded as useless or irrelevant or inconvenient could be revealed as assets. Be alert for the possibility of such shifts. Here’s advice from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”

TAURUS

SCORPIO

(April 20-May 20): The night parrots of Australia are so elusive that there was a nearly six-decade stretch when no human saw a single member of the species. But in 2013, after searching for 15 years, photographer John Young spotted one and recorded a 17-second video. Since then, more sightings have occurred. According to my astrological vision, your life in 2019 will feature experiences akin to the story of the night parrot’s reappearance. A major riddle will be at least partially solved. Hidden beauty will materialize.

Long-secret phenomena will no longer be secret. A missing link will re-emerge.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Millions of years ago, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and North and South America were smooshed together. Earth had a single land mass, the supercontinent Pangea. Stretching across its breadth was a colossal feature, the Central Pangean Mountains. Eventually, though, Europe and America split apart, making room for the Atlantic Ocean and dividing the Central Pangean range.

Today the Scottish Highlands and the Appalachian Mountains are thousands of miles apart, but once upon a time they were joined. In 2019, Gemini, I propose that you look for metaphorical equivalents in your own life. What disparate parts of your world had the same origin? What elements that are now divided used to be together? Re-establish their connection. Get them back in touch with each other. Be a specialist in cultivating unity.

CANCER

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(June 21-July 22): 2019 will be an excellent time to swim in unpolluted rivers, utter sacred oaths near beautiful fountains, and enjoy leisurely saunas that help purify your mind and body. You are also likely to attract cosmic favor if you cry more than usual, seek experiences that enhance your emotional intelligence, and ensure that your head respectfully consults with your heart before making decisions. Here’s another way to get on life’s good side: cultivate duties that consistently encourage you to act out of love and joy rather than out of guilt and obligation.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are four key questions I hope you’ll meditate on throughout 2019: 1. What is love? 2. What kind of love do you want to receive? 3. What kind of love do you want to give? 4. How could you transform yourself in order to give and receive more of the love you value most? To spur your efforts, I offer you these thoughts from teacher David R. Hawkins: “Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Most living things begin in the absence of light,” writes Virgo author Nancy Holder. “The vine is rooted in the earth; the fawn takes form in the womb of the doe.” I’ll remind you that your original gestation also took place in the dark. And I foresee a metaphorically comparable process unfolding for you in 2019. You’ll undergo an incubation period that may feel cloaked and mysterious.

That’s just as it should be: the best possible circumstances for the vital new part of your life that will be growing. So be patient. You’ll see the tangible results in 2020.

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The slow, gradual, incremental approach will be your magic strategy in 2019. Being persistent and thorough as you take one step at a time will provide you with the power to accomplish wonders. Now and then, you may be tempted to seek dramatic breakthroughs or flashy leaps of faith; and there may indeed be one or two such events mixed in with your steady rhythms. But for the most part, your glory will come through tenacity. Now study this advice from mystic Meister Eckhart: “Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian polymath Piet Hein wrote a poem in which he named the central riddle of his existence. “A bit beyond perception’s reach, / I sometimes believe I see / That life is two locked boxes / Each containing the other’s key.” I propose that we adopt this scenario to symbolize one of the central riddles of your existence. I’ll go further and speculate that in 2019 one of those boxes will open as if through a magical fluke, without a need for the key. This mysterious blessing won’t really be a magical fluke, but rather a stroke of well-deserved and hard-earned luck that is the result of the work you’ve been doing to transform and improve yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What themes and instruments do people least want to hear in a piece of music? Composer Dave Solder determined that the worst song ever made would contain bagpipes, cowboy music, tubas, advertising jingles, operatic rapping, and children crooning about holidays. Then he collaborated with other musicians to record such a song. I suspect that as you head into 2019, it’ll be helpful to imagine a metaphorically comparable monstrosity: a fantastic mess that sums up all the influences you’d like to avoid. With that as a vivid symbol, you’ll hopefully be inspired to avoid allowing any of it to sneak into your life in the coming months.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In Canada, it’s illegal to pretend to practice witchcraft. It’s fine to actually do witchcraft, however. With that as our inspiration, I advise you to be rigorous about embodying your authentic self in 2019. Make sure you never lapse into merely imitating who you are or who you used to be. Don’t fall into the trap of caring more about your image than about your actual output. Focus on standing up for what you really mean rather than what you imagine people expect from you. The coming months will be a time when you can summon pure and authoritative expressions of your kaleidoscopic soul.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father who played a key role in getting the United States up and running. He wasn’t happy that the fledgling nation chose the bald eagle as its animal symbol.

The supposedly majestic raptor is lazy, he wrote. It doesn’t hunt for its own food, but steals grub obtained by smaller birds of prey. Furthermore, bald eagles are cowardly, Franklin believed. Even sparrows may intimidate them. With that as our theme, Pisces, I invite you to select a proper creature to be your symbolic ally in 2019. Since you will be building a new system and establishing a fresh power base, you shouldn’t pick a critter that’s merely glamorous. Choose one that excites your ambition and animates your willpower. ∆

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www.newtimesslo.com • January 3 - January 10, 2019 • New Times • 47

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Russian Connection SUNDAY, JANUARY 6 Atascadero United Methodist Church

SLO Jewish Film Festival SAT & SUN, JANUARY 5–6 The Palm Theater

Tribute to John Prine TUESDAY, JANUARY 8 Morro Bay Wine Seller

Point SLO Lighthouse Tours EVERY WED & SAT Point San Luis Lighthouse

SLO Blues Baseball 2019 SEASON PASSES Sinsheimer Stadium

Tours for Paddlers SATURDAYS, NOV 17–DEC 29 Point San Luis Lighthouse

Calendar Girls SELECT DAYS IN JAN–FEB By the Sea Productions

Central Coast Aquarium inter Break Camp DAYS VARY: JANUARY 2–11 Central Coast Aquarium

Winter Wine Stroll SATURDAY, JANUARY 19 Downtown Paso Robles

Café Musique in Conce SUNDAY, JANUARY 20 Café Musique

Victoria Vox in Conce TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 Morro Bay Wine Seller

Weaving Workshop SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 Zaca Mesa Winery

SLO Blues Society: Tommy Castro SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 SLO Veteran’s Hall

Barre & Brunch SUNDAY, JANUARY 27 Tooth & Nail Winery

Bach Cello Suites SUNDAY, JANUARY 27 Cass Winery

Bill & Ian’s Excellent Abu Dhabi Adventure: Fundraising Pa y for Special Olympics

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9 The Barn at Greengate Ranch

Orchestra Novo Co-Creation Project III with Robe Thies SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10 CPAC at Cuesta College

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Avila Beach Spaghe i Dinner FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Avila Beach Community Center

Hard Day’s Night: A Tribute to the Beatles SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Rava Wines + Events

Tribute to Aretha Franklin & Smokey Robinson TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 Morro Bay Wine Seller

SLO Blues Society: Albe Castiglia SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 SLO Veteran’s Hall

Return of the Je e: A Benefit Conce for Orchestra Novo SATURDAY, MARCH 2 Congregation Beth David

UK Guitarist Clive Carroll FRIDAY, MARCH 7 Morro Bay Wine Seller

Vocal A s on Broadway FRIDAY, MARCH 8 Monarch Club at Trilogy

Rick Springfield: Stripped Down SATURDAY, MARCH 16 Rava Wines + Events

Consequential Conversations MARCH 22–24 By the Sea Productions

Royal Family KIDS Fundraiser SATURDAY, MARCH 23 Fountain Pavilion at the Santa Maria Fairpark

Watercolor & Wine Workshop SUNDAY, MARCH 24 Zaca Mesa Winery

Brynn Albanese pe orms with StringFire SUNDAY, MARCH 31 Old Santa Rosa Chapel

DIY Succulent Wreath Workshop SATURDAY, APRIL 27 Zaca Mesa Winery

The Liar FRIDAY, JULY 5 By the Sea Productions

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