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YOUR COMMUNITY IN YOUR HANDS
Volume 13 • Issue 27 • March 9 - 22, 2017
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Lorena Carroll, Claire Devaney and Sarah Beaudin celebrate 1st place in the fine arts challenge at the Destination Imagination regional tournament. See more photos on page 12. Photos by Joseph Hurtado.
R.I.P. Ryan Page 8
Digital Crime Lab Page 39
PG&E – EVC Talk Diablo
Animal Shelter Plan Passing Hurtles
By Camas Frank
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G&E’s Eric Daniels has been making the rounds since the utility announced last year their planned 2024-2025 closure of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. As their Los Padres Division public relations representative he’s been the guest speaker at several luncheons with local citizen groups, usually paired with another agency to answer questions. In November he appeared at the Arroyo Grande and Grover Beach Chamber of Commerce Luncheon with City of SLO Assistant City Manager Derek Johnson to discuss, “Diablo Canyon’s Closing & Exit Plan.” Johnson was there as representative of the Coalition of Six Cities that banded together to lobby a better financial deal for their residents when the closure plan is approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Grover Beach was the only incorporated city in SLO County that opted not to join the Coalition efforts.
See Diablo, page 10
By Camas Frank
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ll the signatures finally got on the right lines in February to ‘OK’ the design and construction of a new animal shelter to serve San Luis Obispo County and the incorporated cities. All seven cities have long contracted with the county for animal control and shelter services. The cost to each varies quite a bit depending on population and projected “use” in the region, but the facility that supports all of it has been aging out for years. The site was apparently constructed in 1975, although neither the county staff, nor folks writing up reports for any of Memorandum of Agreement documents that required passage at the municipal level seemed to be sure. What is known is that it stands on the former site of a landfill, topped off in the 1940s by the U.S. Army and Camp San Luis Obispo. See Shelter, page 10
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