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CAMBRIAN PHOTO BY KATHE TANNER
Nick Franco, seen here Tuesday at the Cayucos Pier,
has begun his new job with the county. Learn six
things you didn’t know about him on Page 24.
GEHRIG KNIFFEN led the
Coast Union boys basketball team past rival Valley
Christian Academy in a key
league matchup. Page 16.
DAN KRIEGER, professor
emeritus of history at Cal
Poly, will speak at the Cambria Historical Society’s
annual banquet. Page 6.
PHOENIX WILKINSON,
who suffers from “bubble
baby disease,” appears to
be improving after a
relapse. Page 10.
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COURTESY PHOTO
Nancy Hartwick leads a tour along the trail at the Piedras Blancas Light
Station, one of many North Coast groups to use volunteers.
VOLUNTEERVACUUM
By Kathe Tanner
The Cambrian
Much of the Nor th
Coast runs on the work of
hidden heroes, with many
thousands of hours donated each year by volunteers who make the impossible possible, make
good things happen and
help create special memories for others.
Those volunteers have
accomplished an astonishing amount for such a
small community, both
hands-on and by raising
money. Among their
Cambria is known for its willingness to
help, but groups need new hands on deck
many accomplishments
are buying and preserving the 430 acres now
known as Fiscalini Ranch
Preser ve, raising the
town’s share of costs for a
new library building and
creating a museum out of
a ramshackle but historic
building.
Cambria’s volunteers
have built a program to
protect elephant seals and
the people who want to
see them, saved and
maintained a tiny, treasured chapel, helping restore artworks and artifacts at Hearst Castle,
restoring a lighthouse
and maintaining miles of
trails.
But there now may be
a shortage of people willing to give time to others
or to special causes.
See HELP, Page 31
Franco embarks
on parks change
Former district State Parks superintendent
has begun new job with SLO County
By Kathe Tanner
The Cambrian
Nick Franco, 49, was superintendent of State Parks
San Luis Coast District for
more than 11 years. He retired from that post Jan. 23,
and on Feb. 2, he began his
next job: director of the
county’s new and separate
Parks and Recreation Department (it was formerly
a division of the General
Services Agency).
The state district stretches from Limekiln to Pismo
Beach and encompasses
11 separate and distinctly
different units, including
Hearst Castle, often considered the parks jewel of
the Central Coast, if not the
entire state.
Franco is heading up a
new, separate department
of 55 employees with an
annual budget of $10.5 million, and has assumed the
duties of the county’s retiring Interim Parks Director
Curtis Black, along with
some other responsibilities
that go with forming a new
department. Franco’s starting pay is $10,588 a month.
Praise and comments
One of Franco’s new
bosses, Supervisor Bruce
Gibson, has worked closely
See FRANCO, Page 4
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CCSD board votes
Sidewalk signage a stumbling block against rescinding
water restrictions
ORDINANCE: County says proliferation of signs affects public access, safety
By Kathe Tanner
A sidewalk
menu is
seen
outside the
French
Corner on
Main
Street,
with
another
farther in
the
distance at
right.
The Cambrian
Ever y few years, some
people get upset about the
number of advertising signs
on Cambria sidewalks,
streets and street corners
and in other public locations
that technically are county
or state right-of-way areas.
California and San Luis
Obispo County laws and
ordinances regulate those
spots, and spell out what
can and cannot be there.
Road hazards, obstructions, trash and advertising
signs cannot, and the rules
say those have to be removed. Anything else in a
public right-of-way area
needs a permit before it
can be placed there.
Frank Honeycutt, development ser vices division
manager for county Public
Works, spoke to Nor th
Coast Advisor y Council
(NCAC) members on Jan.
21. He plans to meet with
the Cambria Chamber of
Commerce Board of Directors on Tuesday, Feb. 17.
Honeycutt told NCAC
there are three issues: public safety (you can’t block
drivers’ sight distance, for
instance), public access
and quality of life.
The first two “are not negotiable,” he said. People
need to be safe when traversing county right-of-way
areas, such as sidewalks,
and the county must comply with requirements of
the Americans with Disability Act.
Honeycutt said he has
three basic options:
• Do a clean sweep
through town, first sending
out “nastygram” notices,
and then removing every
sign that’s where it’s not
supposed to be. “I don’t
like to have to do that,” he
CAMBRIAN
PHOTO BY
KATHE TANNER
OFFERING FEEDBACK
People can talk to their NCAC
representative or a chamber
board member about the sign
issue, or email suggestions or
comments to Frank Honeycutt
at [email protected].
said. “We started to do that
with campaign signs” during the 2014 election. “Few
people were happy, and we
got a lot of calls.”
• Delay responding,
hoping people remove the
signs on their own. The
consequence of that concept, unfortunately, is that
“the number of signs grows
and grows,” which is what
has been happening lately.
• Develop a consensus
about “quality of life,” and
“whether certain signs help
or hurt the community.”
Honeycutt hopes to take
a slightly different tack on
the latter, working with
such groups as NCAC and
the chamber to determine
whether the community
wants a gray zone for certain kinds of fliers and signs
to temporarily be in the public areas. Some categories
that might be considered in-
clude notices for garage
sales, events sponsored by
nonprofit organizations,
schools or scouts, or benefits to raise money for a
needy family or patient.
He said kiosks that
group commercial signs on
one private-property location can help reduce sandwich-sign clutter. Some
communities allow a certain number of sandwich
boards that meet specific
size and style criteria.
Honeycutt also said
tourist-oriented directional
signs, such as “10 miles to
the next gas” or one that directs people to an area of
wineries “can help reduce
the number of U-turns on
the road.”
He asked NCAC members Jan. 21 whether they
would like to participate in
such a brainstorming affiliation for a pilot program,
perhaps with one encroachment permit each
for the East and West village areas, a permit that
would cover up to a certain
number of signs.
A lengthy discussion followed, with widely varying
opinions from NCAC and
chamber members, representatives of the Beautify
Cambria Committee and
some people who objected
to how political signs were
removed but other signs in
the same areas were left
behind. Barbara Bronson
Gray, for instance, said her
research into that issue
found that removing political signs in a pre-election
period is illegal if other
signs are allowed to remain in place.
As council Chairman
Bruce Fosdike understated, “This is a very complicated subject.”
Council members passed
on a 9-3 vote a recommendation that Public Works
abide by existing codes.
Honeycutt said later
that, in addition to following that recommendation,
“there’s a kinder, gentler
way” than simply yanking
out every sign that’s in the
wrong place.
“Voluntary compliance is
much preferable,” and he
hopes that can be achieved
through the consensusbuilding relationships of
the two groups and Public
Works.
4-1 vote keeps Cambria limits in place for now
By Kathe Tanner
The Cambrian
Keep those buckets
handy: Cambria ratepayers
still cannot use water from
the tap to irrigate plants or
for other outdoor applications.
Restrictions will remain
the same for now on
ratepayers’ use of water provided by the Cambria Community Services District, including a clause that prohibits most outdoor uses,
such as irrigation of landscaping and plants.
CCSD’s Board of Directors debated for about 45
minutes on Jan. 29 whether
to tweak the outdoor restriction to allow ratepayers who
kept their use within their official bimonthly allocation,
and whose bills were paid on
time, to use some of their
water outdoors if they wish.
But directors voted 4-1 to
not approve Director Jim
Bahringer’s motion to allow
ratepayers a bit more freedom in deciding how to use
their own allocated water.
Why? The district is seeking a permanent permit to operate the new $9 million
emergency water-supply project. It’s operating now under
an emergency permit and is
undergoing a three-month
test to make sure ever ything’s working properly, provide data for the permit application and so district staff can
learn how to run, maintain
and fix the equipment.
“It would be a real pity,”
said community member
Elizabeth Bettenhausen, if
“we would start weakening
our conservation program
now. The real challenge is to
live up to our new state image as the place in California that conserves the most
… water.”
Board President Gail
Robinette said any change
to CCSD’s water-use restrictions also might send the
wrong message to the regulator y agencies that will
have to approve the permit.
“I think we should stand by
what we’ve done.”
Director Amanda Rice
said she’d rather not lift the
restriction “and then have to
put it back on again in May”
if there’s not been enough
rainfall to end the drought.
There was decent precipitation in December, and
CCSD’s aquifers and wells
are essentially full for the
moment. But January was a
much drier month. Yes, rain
is predicted, starting perhaps as early as tonight
(Thursday, Feb. 5), which
could be the start of a new,
rainier trend or just a fluke
with more dr y weeks or
months ahead.
Director Muril Clift said
the district’s San Simeon
Creek aquifer “will show full
for the next three months,
whether it rains or not, because we’re running the
(emergency water supply
project) plant” during the test
period. If that were not the
case, well “levels would be
beginning to drop” already.
The board also decided to
not to charge ratepayers extra for operating the new
plant during its three-month
test period.
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From Page 1
with the parks leader from
the get-go, and has high
praise for his new employee.
In fact, soon after the new
hire was announced, Gibson
exulted that it was “a fabulous opportunity, and we
grabbed it.”
In an email interview later, Gibson said, “Nick’s
been a great partner on
many North Coast projects
in recent years. With his energy and enthusiasm for the
county’s mission, I’m sure
we’ll see some great things
happen with County Parks
in the future. He really
knows our communities and
how to get things done.”
Brooke Gutierrez is
Franco’s State Parks successor, at least until the superintendent’s job is filled
permanently. She said in a
TOP STORIES
Jan. 22 email interview that
it’s unique to have the same
district superintendent for
11 years.
“Working at SLO Coast
was Nick’s career goal, so
his passion for the parks,
staff and visitors was apparent and infectious. … He
knows park policy like it’s in
his DNA, yet his creativity
as a manager allowed him
to keep State Parks moving
in positive directions.”
Gutierrez said while she
fills in, her “primary focus
will be to keep the ship
afloat until the position is
permanently filled,” and
that there’s no plan to backfill her current assignment
as sector superintendent, as
the “amazing team of super visors and managers
are chipping in to cover my
duties” while she sits in
Franco’s chair.
“I see my greatest challenge from a more personal
angle … my daughter just
turned 1, and coming home
from work to a toddler
makes my work challenges
seem like a cake walk. She
helps keep it all in perspective.”
Stephen Hearst, great
grandson of media magnate, has also dealt with
Franco for the past 11 1⁄2
years, and said in a Jan. 20
email interview, “Nick has
been nothing but a joy to
work with. He pulled together the team that was
there, he fit right in and
was definitely the leader of
the pack and the quarterback for the castle and his
other parks. He did everything he could for his position, the state and the people of California.”
Hearst said he hopes
State Parks will give selecting Franco’s replacement
“the kind of thought it deserves,” because the choice
Fe bruary 5 - 11, 2015
will be quite important to
Hearst Castle and to the
82,000-acre Hearst Ranch.
“Remember,” Hearst said
with a laugh, “they’ve only
got one neighbor” at the
Castle, and that’s the ranch
that surrounds it.
Leaving State Parks
Depar ting employees
often get an “exit interview”
before they leave — a
chance to say what they
feel has been good and bad
about their tenure.
This, then, is Franco’s
“exit inter view” with the
California public he served
for 31 years. His answers
give insight to a long-term
career tending State Parks,
something he’s said he’s
“very proud” to have done.
What will he miss most
about not having an office
at Hearst Castle?
“The views,” Franco said.
“That is what you see in Mr.
Hearst’s writings about
building the castle, and anyone who visits understands
why. The views all around
the San Simeon area are incredible, and from the hilltop, they are extraordinary.”
What he’ll miss least
about State Parks, he said,
is “dealing with the necessary and unnecessary bureaucratic processes relating to contracting, personnel and budgeting.”
Collaborations
During Franco’s SLO
Coast District tenure, he’s
been a key cog in many collaborations involving communities, agencies and
groups of dedicated parks
employees or volunteers,
and “that is what I am most
proud of over the last 11
years: Continuing and improving the collaboration of
State Parks with many other
people and organizations.”
For other collaborative
accomplishments
that
please Franco most, see the
box on Page 24.
Disappointments?
“I don’t have a lot” of disappointments, Franco said,
“but two that stand out are:
• “Not completing the acquisition of Wild Cherr y
Canyon as part of Montaña
de Oro. This would have
provided amazing public access opportunities into this
truly rare coastal wilderness
were amazing, and would
have been one of the premier features of the California Coastal Trail. So many
people worked so hard to
see that happen, and to have
it fail due to lack of political
will was very frustrating.
• “The ongoing lack of
faith and support of the “public-good aspect” of parks.
When I started my career, 90
percent of the funding for
state parks came from the
General Fund. Today, just a
little over 20 percent does. …
That means parks have become significantly a feebased enterprise,” which potentially “prices out the general public from parks.” He
said he hopes the public understands a “small investment in parks is part of the
‘good of government’ and is
what helps make life here so
worthwhile and fulfilling.”
See FRANCO, Page 24
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approved the name Cambria
on Jan. 10, 1870. A date included in the “Editor’s Notes”
column of the Jan. 29 Cambrian
was incorrect.
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THE CAMBRIAN
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CARES may
Gas prices dip below $3 in Cambria, may have hit bottom get new life
in new year
FUEL COSTS: Resurgent oil prices indicate the glorious, precipitous plunge at the pump may be over
By Steve Provost
The Cambrian
How low will they go?
Nationally,
gasoline
prices headed nowhere but
down for a record 127 consecutive days — a streak
that ended Jan. 27, when
they rose a fraction of a penny. But in Cambria, they remained just below $3, a
milestone reached a few
weeks earlier and one that
left local obser vers both
grateful and surprised.
“Price fluctuation is typically this much,” said Eric
Johnson, co-owner of the
Old Cambria Marketplace
Shell station, holding his
thumb and forefinger about
an inch apart. “I didn’t think
Cambria would ever see
gas below $3 again.”
Christopher Gutierrez,
who owns the Cambria General Store on Main Street
with his father, said he was
“ver y surprised” that gas
prices had fallen this far in
Cambria. But he predicted
they might have further to
fall: “I think it’ll get lower,”
he said at his shop on Jan.
29. “Maybe $2.50.”
The price for a gallon of
gas at the General Store was
$2.97, the cheapest in town
by two pennies (as it customarily is). The Chevron
station on Main in East Village listed regular unleaded
at $2.99, as did the Old Cambria Marketplace up the
road in West Village.
Jim Murren, a cashier at
Chevron, said Thursday
The following students made the
Honor Roll for the first semester
of the 2014-15 school year:
Eighth grade — Diana Aguila,
Zack Azevedo, Victoria Ehler,
Karis Lawson, Crystal Martinez,
Andrew Paiz, Luis Plasencia,
Jasmine Torres, Hayley Zinn.
CAMBRIAN PHOTO BY STEVE PROVOST
Jim Murren, left, staffs the register at Cambria’s Chevron station. At right, prices at Old Cambria Marketplace.
he’d been in town for three
decades and worked at all
three stations. When asked
how low gas prices were
likely to get, he produced
the same figure Gutierrez
did.
“It’s kind of hard to call in
this town,” he admitted.
“It’s a tourist town. I would
say it might get down to
$2.50 maybe. It depends on
the Saudis.”
Or perhaps not.
Recent activity could indicate that prices aren’t going any lower, at least for
now. Oil prices fell below
$44 a barrel in New York on
Jan. 29, their lowest level in
nearly six years, amid rising
U.S. production and mounting oversupplies.
But they rose again from
there, topping $53 a barrel
Tuesday, their high point of
the young year. On top of
that, gasoline prices are typically cheapest during the
winter — especially in California, which mandates a
switch to more expensive
summer blend gasoline during the spring — so Johnson at Old Cambria Marketplace didn’t foresee much
more of a drop at the pump.
“I think it’s done,” he
said. “I think you’re going
to see it start going up. I
don’t think the OPEC nations are going to let it stay
that way.”
Still, he doesn’t envision
prices rising to the levels
they were a year ago, when
a gallon of unleaded averaged $3.71 in San Luis Obispo County and was running
nearly $4.20 in Cambria.
“There’s no reason for it
to get high like it was, unless there’s some kind of
shor tage,” Johnson said.
“Cars have continued to get
more and more economical, and the demand has
continued to decrease year
after year.”
The average price for a
gallon of regular unleaded
gas on Thursday, Jan. 29,
was slightly more than
$2.04, far lower than what
you’ll find in Cambria,
where prices are typically
higher than most places
along the coast.
Gutierrez estimates that
Santa Lucia Middle School Honor Roll
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Seventh grade — David Amodei,
Braiden Beauchene, Dillyn
Barbosa, Rylie Biane, Hannah
Chaffin, Fiona Cloward, Brooke
Ellis, Jacqueline Happel,
Angelina Lomeli Perez, Nathan
Markham, Mira Panchal, Melody
Robertson, Hailey Smith,
Arabella Staufenburg, Gabriel
Tarrasas, Nirvana Tesfayohannes,
Riley Volz, Annika Wharton.
Sixth grade — Michelle Acosta
Chavez, Andre Bedard, Madison
Breen, Crystal Fabela, Samantha
Favila, Fabian Garcia, Phoebe
gasoline accounts for only
about one-quar ter of the
business at the General
Store, with the bulk of the
sales coming from items inside the convenience store.
“We get mostly locals,”
he said. “They’ll spend their
$5 and go up to Morro Bay
or Paso” to buy most of
their gas.
Murren, however, said
he has seen an increase in
local business at the
Chevron station.
“I’ve noticed the locals
have stopped going to Morro Bay to get gas,” he said.
“I’ve got more locals here
who are filling up and (I'm)
giving change back. (In the
past), it’s been really rare
that we give change back.”
Hauser, Jonathan Jewel,
Caden Linn, Aracely Milan
Oyorsabal, Viviana Nunez, Ravi
Panchal, Jasmine Pena Ramirez,
Claudio Ramirez Bastida, Kendel
Spradley, Zachary Stephenson,
Moselle Stieler, Carson Woeste.
— Cambrian staff
For a decade or more, a
coalition of service organizations, churches and individuals who want to help
senior citizens did just that
through the Cambria Adult
Resources Education and
Support group, or CARES.
The CARES coalition disbanded in late 2014. Some
who were involved with
that group want to reinvigorate and revamp the effort
that provided socialization
opportunities for seniors
with dementia and other illnesses, connected the patients and their caregivers
with a variety of services,
and offered brief respite
opportunities and support
for the often-overworked
caregivers.
Priscilla Mikesell and others are hosting a communitywide idea-sharing gettogether at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, at St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church meeting
room, 2700 Eton Road.
“We want to bring together for a discussion group
anybody who has anything
to do with seniors so we
can brainstorm and form a
new board to get this going
again,” Mikesell said.
She said the opportunities CARES provided were
crucial for senior patients
and their caregivers, especially in combination with
other available services,
such as free rides on the
Cambria Community Bus
and from Cambria’s Anonymous Neighbors.
“When seniors are socialized,” Mikesell said,
“they can often stay in their
homes three to five years
longer” before they must
make other arrangements.
— Kathe Tanner
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COMMUNITY NEWS
THE CAMBRIAN
Tale s f rom Town
Fe bruary 5 - 11, 2015
Con s u e lo Mac e do
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Poly Professor Emeritus Dan Krieger to headline Feb. 22 banquet
B
y popular acclamation, the Cambria Historical Society will present
Dr. Dan Krieger
as the keynote speaker
during its annual Recognitions Banquet on Sunday,
Feb. 22, at the Cambria
Pines
Lodge.
The venue will accommodate
all who are
interested in Consuelo
the history
Macedo cooks,
of the Cenwrites and
tral Coast,
stargazes on
so the public
is graciously Happy Hill.
invited to attend the dinner with advance reservations, available at the historical museum or on the group’s website.
Dr. Krieger is professor
emeritus of history at Cal
Poly and past president of
the California Mission
Studies Association. He will
present the most up-to-date
information about Cambria’s relation to mission
trails to San Miguel and
San Antonio de Padua.
In Krieger’s words: “The
Rancho San Simeón en la
playa (“at the beach”) was
the outlet to the sea for the
inland missions. Mission
San Antonio de Padua had
originally relied on the
steep San Carpoforo
Canyon access first followed by the Portola Expedition in 1769. But when
Mission San Miguel’s Father Juan Cabot developed
the San Simeón landing,
both missions used it as
their primary access to
oceangoing vessels.
“By the 1820s, Rancho
San Simeón en la playa had
several large adobe structures and a year-round population. Recently, retired
state of California archaeol-
RECOGNITIONS BANQUET
Dan Krieger’s talk will follow
the 5 p.m. social hour, dinner at
6, and a brief business
meeting. Dinner entrees include
a choice of prime rib, chicken in
basil cream sauce or a vegetarian Portobello mushroom dish.
Cost is $32 per person, prepaid.
Call 927-1442, or go online to
www.cambriahistoricalsociety.com.
ogist Glenn Farris has documented much of the activity surrounding this important landing, including
Native American births at
the site.
“Rancho San Simeón was
also the meeting place of a
seaborne trade with Sitka,
Alaska’s Russian American
Co. as well as English,
Boston and French merchant entrepreneurs. During the period of Mexican
rule, Rancho San Simeón
became a place of interest
for the great powers ranging from France’s King
Louis Philippe to President
James K. Polk’s secretary of
the Navy, George Bancroft.”
If this has piqued your
interest to learn much
more beyond the traditional tales, you will also be intrigued to hear about the
alleged “French spy,” Eugène Duflot de Mofras.
Ahead at the museum
The Historical Society is
committed to preserving
and presenting the area’s
past, and educating the pub-
COURTESY PHOTO
Emcee Consuelo Macedo, left, introduced Dan Krieger and his wife, Elizabeth, at the
2012 Recognitions Banquet.
lic about the fascinating
facts and cast of characters
that comprise our heritage
and legacy. Funding for operations depends on membership and community support, especially at our major
fundraiser, Vine Dining, this
year Sunday, April 26, at
Stolo Family Vineyards, so
please save the date.
In the coming months,
the Board of Directors will
announce an exciting
schedule of small group
presentations to be held in
the parlor of the museum,
2251 Center St. at Burton
Drive. Since members may
attend as a perquisite, the
general public is invited to
join in for a small $10 fee,
which may be applied to a
membership. Attendance is
limited to 40.
The group will provide
training for potential museum docents — call Penny
Church at 927-1442; garden
docent/volunteers, call
Consuelo Macedo at 9273159. The Cambria Histori-
cal Museum is staffed from
1 to 4 p.m. Friday through
Sunday, and from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m. Monday; the Heirloom Gardens are available
all day every day.
Call 927-2891 for information.
OBITUARY POLICY
grammar, spelling and taste and
are posted on the Web at
sanluisobispo.com for 30 days,
where an online guestbook is
available.
The deadline to submit an
obituary is noon Monday for a
complete obituary published
Thursday.
The deadline to submit death
notices is 2:30 p.m. Tuesday for
a death notice to be published
Thursday.
For details on obituaries, call
781-7834 or 781-7816 during
business hours.
Cambrian obituaries are
charged by the line and must
be prepaid. Photos and
emblems may be included for
an additional fee.
All obituaries are edited for
Consuelo Macedo’s column is special to The Cambrian and appears the first
Thursday of each month.
Macedo is the Community
Relations Chairwoman of
the CHS Board of Directors.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Fe bruary 5 - 11, 2015
Pet Topics
THE CAMBRIAN
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Homeless Animal Rescue Team
—————————
Little checks can go a long way toward helping homeless pets
T
hanks to all our
supporters and a
successful yearend drive, the
shelter is still
here. The new year is a time
for reflection and planning.
Our president reminisces:
When she was older, I
would prepare my mom’s
taxes. After living expenses,
what remained would be a
hundred or so checks for
her charitable donations.
Some were big checks to a
few organizations, but the
majority were the “little
checks” to numerous “worthy organizations deserving
of help with the day-to-day
costs of doing what they
do,” she would tell me. I
used to wonder whether
they were even worth processing.
Not anymore. At HART, a
little $10 check is 22 cans of
food. A little $30 check is a
week’s worth of cat litter; a
$50 check is a handful of
flea-free cats for a month. Little checks teach children the
value of charitable giving.
They fill the receiver with appreciation and thankfulness.
Little checks sometimes turn
into big checks. Those fill us
with relief and gratitude.
Ongoing and into February, HART is having a clearance sale of seasonal, holiday and other merchandise
with 20 percent to 50 percent markdowns; much of it
is unique to our Gift Shop
for Cat Lovers. These are
“sweet deals.” With Valentine’s Day coming up, treat
yourself or your Valentine to
the sweetest gift ever, a
zero-calorie bundle of love: a
cat or kitten from the shelter! All kitties adoptions are
for $14 throughout the
month; each critter is
spayed or neutered, has upto-date vaccinations, comes
with a bag of kibble, a carrier and a HART ID tag.
Or consider purchasing a
Guardian Angel Certificate:
Save the life of a specialneeds homeless animal and
receive a handsome certificate with your sweetie’s
name on it. The money
raised by G.A. Certificates
is used solely to save cats
with extraordinary medical
needs. What could be sweeter than saving a life?
Wines, pines and felines
Remember to save SunCOURTESY PHOTOS
day, April 12, for our third
Chloe,
left,
and
Hal
are
two
of
the
cats
to
have
been
made
available
by
the
Homeless
Animal
Rescue
Team.
annual Wines/Pines/
Felines event on at Camp
Ocean Pines. Tickets will be
available to the public
March 1 at the shelter
(927-7377) or in person at
2638 Main St.
Look for updated information on our website
(www.slohart.org) regarding menu options, auction
items, raffle packages, etc.,
from late February on. This
signature event sold out last
year. It features fine wines,
great food, live music and
lots of fun raffle items, along
with unique live auction
packages presented by
Lance Morales. The theme
this year is “Cat Tales” —
very punny!
Goodwill Drive
Closing out April will be
our always anticipated
Spring Goodwill Drive, April
24-26, with one day of home
pickups (date to be announced). Last fall’s drive
was our most successful so
far and gained the shelter a
$2,000 grant. We feel sure
that spring cleaning fever
among Cambrians will inspire us all to clear out even
more stuff and surpass that.
Mike Zarowitz, Susan
Barghini and Marianne
Selindh contributed to this
column. Pet Topics appears
quarterly in The Cambrian.
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K at h e T a n n e r
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Don’t be camera shy
with kin; memories
cannot be remade
A
birthday card I had bought to give my Aunt
Kate shows a bunch of relatives, grinning
into the camera for a family selfie. But one
person is climbing over a distant back fence,
rapidly heading the other way.
The card says, “It’s easy to pick you out in family pictures … you’re the one trying to escape.”
Kate hated to have her picture taken. H-a-t-e-d it with a
passion surpassed only by her love for all of us, football
and baseball, horse races, old movies, “The Godfather,”
court TV, “Law and Order” and books.
Tons of books.
Kate was hard to catch. She’d see the
camera and head for the nearest fence, so
to speak. But we’d get the picture anyway,
whenever she came to visit Cambria,
which was as often as three times a year.
Kathe Tanner
I’m so glad we did.
writes for
Here’s some advice learned the hard
The Cambrian.
way: No matter how much someone doesn’t want to be in the picture you’re taking, insist. Accept
no excuses.
Kate was born 21⁄2 years before I was. She was the closest thing to a blood-relative sister I ever had.
She died suddenly Jan. 29 in North Carolina.
For the past two years, she’d lived with the Ryders: Pat
and my cousin John (Kate’s nephew and the third of our
semi-sibling trilogy growing up) in their Emerald Isle
house overlooking the Atlantic and Bogue Sound.
A few days earlier, Kate hadn’t felt well. She’d spent
Jan. 28 in bed, but had seemed a bit better the next
morning.
That didn’t last.
The Ryders took her to a hospital 20 miles away, but
she had pneumonia in her smoking-damaged lungs.
When her heart stopped, the hospital’s resuscitation
Please see SLICE, Page 9
OPINION
‘A good newspaper is a community talking to itself.’
Let te r s to th e Editor
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Retain emails
recent editorial in the
A
Tribune (“A note to
agencies: Keep emails,”
Jan. 28) calls attention to
the lack of clear policies
on the retention of email
messages dealing with
government business by
local government agencies.
The League of Women
Voters is pleased to see
this issue raised. The
League supports an open
government system that
is representative, accountable and responsive. We
support policies that protect the citizens’ right to
know and facilitate citizen
participation in government decision making.
Government cannot be
held accountable and citizens cannot engage in
informed participation in
government decision
making if information on
that decision making is
not available to the public
and to the media.
We support the call for
all government agencies
in the county to develop
policies to ensure that
email records dealing
with government business, the people’s business, are retained for a
minimum of two years.
Marilee Hyman
President, League of
Women Voters of San
Luis Obispo County
Quadcopter found
To the gentleman in the
ICYMI: In case you missed it, find
archived Letters to the Editor
online at thecambrian.com.
Fe bruary 5 - 11, 2015
Vi ew From Th e Beac h
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white shorts who was flying his quadcopter on the
Fiscalini Ranch Preserve
on Friday late afternoon,
Jan. 23, and lost control of
it: We found it but weren't
able to find you to give it
back, as you had already
left the Ranch. Please contact us to identify and
make arrangements for
pick up.
Jennifer Star
Cambria
Not so simple
The premise that sports,
courts and government
are zero-sum enterprises
ignores many realities. It
would be hard to call
LeBron James a loser despite Cleveland’s record.
Courts are typically forums where difficult issues are mediated to both
parties’ satisfaction and
benefit. When government spends for infrastructure, the military,
schools and many other
things that private industry can’t or won’t tackle,
the societal benefits far
outweigh the costs.
Looking, on the other
hand, at free enterprise,
the financial collapse
made a shambles of Alan
Greenspan’s faith in the
self-healing properties of
deregulated markets. We
live in a country where
important products like
medical care and broadband services lag the
functionality and quality of
similar offerings in far
more heavily regulated,
developed countries — at
significantly higher
prices.
Any or all of these
things are worthy of vig-
BY ART VAN RHYN
In which the water saga rolls on.
LETTERPOLICY
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address and phone number for verification. Submissions should
be no longer than 250 words; letters on local topics by local
authors are published sooner.
Email letters to [email protected] (if attaching
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submissions become the property of The Cambrian.
orous and lengthy debate,
far more than can be incorporated in a 200-word
letter. That’s exactly my
point. The Ayn Rand
crowd would like to make
issues related to the role
of government and private
enterprise seem simple.
They’re not.
Ted Siegler
Cambria
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Kate was hard to catch. She’d see the camera and
head for the nearest fence, so to speak. But we’d
From Page 8
procedures just didn’t
work.
In the blink of an eye, she
was gone, and, as our son
Sean said later, “All our
lives have changed forever.”
It’s the wrenching loss of
yet another person who
had adored each of us for
our entire lives. It’s rather
like losing my mom and
grandmother all over
again.
But I’m dealing with it in
waves, mostly by remembering and sharing memories of times we’d spent together.
Something that’s helped
me do that has been going
through our albums and
computer files, searching
for pictures of Kate to
share with John and Pat,
who have very few of them
— except a 1985 passport
photo that was “amazingly
good,” John said, and her
driver’s license photo
which “made her look like
a Mafia hit man.”
There’s been comfort
amid the pain as I scroll
through the digital files
and prints, remembering
the good times we had —
killer Scrabble games with
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get the picture anyway, whenever she came to
visit Cambria, which was as often as three times a
year. I’m so glad we did.
PHOTO COURTESY OF KATHE TANNER
The columnist, right, and her Aunt Kate share tea at Tea Cozy during one of many
visits to Cambria.
John and Pat, watching
“Casablanca” for the 900th
time with Pat, endless giggle fests, my high school
graduation, sitting in the
first box seat at the New
York Philharmonic to see
the “Bernstein plays
Brubeck plays Bernstein”
concert, Sean’s wedding in
San Diego.
My mind is bouncing
around like a pingpong ball
in a hurricane.
There are memories of
some especially eventful,
earlier shared vacations,
too, including one during
which my mother married a
man she’d known for
10 days, and another trip
that preteen Kate concluded
with her leg in a cast (which
rode home to New York
from Vermont in my lap
and John’s).
On the latter trek, John
and Kate ate hamburgers
and blueberry pie at every
single meal except breakfast, and I’m sure they’d
have eaten them then, too,
if the adults had let them
do so.
We who loved Kate have
been sharing all that by
phone as we wade through
the oddities and legalities
of an unexpected death —
who knew that, if a deceased someone wanted to
be cremated but the relatives can’t find the will that
says so, North Carolina requires written agreement
to the procedure from at
least half the heirs.
We’ll all keep celebrating
Kate’s life in many ways —
including over a burgerand-blueberry-pie dinner
soon.
But I’ll keep coming back
to pictures of her striding
down a San Francisco
street, at sushi with my son
Brian, at a boardwalk San
Diego café, with our grandchildren, standing by a harbor filled with otters. …
And those memory triggers help a lot.
So please, please. Take
lots of photos of the people
you love. Now, and often
thereafter. You never know,
my friends. You just never
know.
Kathe Tanner is a
reporter for The Cambrian
and The Tribune. Her
“Slice of Life” column
appears biweekly. Email her
at ktanner@thetribune
news.com and follow her on
Twitter @cambriareporter.
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THE CAMBRIAN
COMMUNITY NEWS
Fe bruary 5 - 11, 2015
5-month-old who suffers from ‘bubble baby disease’ makes progress
Tickets go on sale for Feb. 21 lasagna-dinner
fundraiser to help offset boy’s medical costs
By Kathe Tanner
The Cambrian
Caring people are again
banding together to help a
Bay Area baby with many
family ties to the Central
Coast and a rare genetic disorder that results in an extreme vulnerability to infectious diseases. The disorder,
Omenn syndrome, is often
called “bubble baby disease.”
A lasagna-dinner fundraiser to help the family of
5-month-old
Phoenix
Wilkin-son will be held
Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Veterans Memorial Building,
1000 Main St. The event, organized and under written
by world-renowned channel
swimmer David Yudovin
and wife Beth, will include a
wine and beer bar and large
silent auction. Other family
members also may contribute.
The menu includes
lasagna, salad, garlic bread
and homemade cookies or
brownies.
Tickets, $25 each, will be
on sale at the Cambria Chamber of Commerce by Feb. 5,
and the Yudovins are urging
people to buy them early,
since a sellout is possible
(and the caterer, Linn’s,
needs to know how much
lasagna to make). Some takeout orders may be available.
Born
prematurely,
Phoenix was diagnosed
about a month later with se-
vere combined immunodeficiency disease. Omenn patients’ highly compromised
immune systems are considered to be almost absent,
putting them at extreme
risk of serious illness and
even early death.
Some “bubble babies”
have had to live in a sterile
environment, like Phoenix
for much of his short but
love-filled life. His parents
— Coast Union High School
grads Pat and Kristen
(Anderson) Wilkinson —
have been at his side around
the clock, alternating shifts
when they can.
Late last year, the enchanting child underwent a
rigorous two-week course of
strong chemotherapy, followed by a bone-marrow
transplant at UC San
Francisco Medical Center
on Dec. 30. According to his
mother, Phoenix appears to
be pulling out of a relapse
he had after the surgery, a
setback that put him into
isolation and intensive care
for a while.
She said in a Feb. 2 phone
inter view that if Phoenix
continues to improve, they
may be able to take him
home sometime this month,
now that the residence has
been “high cleaned” from
floor to ceiling, including all
furniture and rugs. She said
the family has been told to
expect it to take about a year
for her son’s immune system to kick into high gear.
Other family members
have lived on the North
Coast for decades, including
grandparents Mike Ander-
COURTESY PHOTO
Phoenix Wilkinson, 5
months, has shown some
improvement recently.
son (a Cambria contractor),
Kim Anderson of Templeton,
and Kim and Leslie Eady of
Cayucos, who own the
Cambria Shores Motel.
Phoenix’s great grandparents Don and Mary Anderson also live in Cambria.
David Yudovin knows
intimately the emotional value of having vast community support to rely upon during such trying times.
In 1978, he suf fered a
massive heart attack while
swimming the Santa
Barbara channel, and he is
a leukemia survivor.
“Without the emotional
support of so many friends
and strangers,” he said recently, “I don’t know if I
would have survived. I want
Phoenix’s family to know
their town is here for them
and is behind them 100 percent.”
For those who can’t make
it to the dinner, donations to
the fund for the benefit of
Phoenix Wilkinson may be
taken to any Heritage Oaks
Bank branch.
Sheriff’sLog
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From Jan. 26-Feb. 1, there were 39
entries in the sheriff’s log for the
Cambria/San Simeon area. Reports
were written on seven, including:
Monday, Jan. 26
Ardath and Pineridge drives,
4:07 a.m.: Traffic stop.
Tuesday, Jan. 27
Highway 1 and San Carporforo
Creek Road, San Simeon, 4:32
p.m.: Citation after traffic stop.
Wilton Drive and Newton Road,
7:28 p.m.: Citation issued.
Wilton Drive and Newton Road,
8:12 p.m.: Arrest on misdemeanor
charges: being under the influence
of controlled substance, possessing
drug paraphernalia, resisting arrest.
Thursday, Jan. 29
2500 block of Wilcombe Road,
8:32 a.m.: Suspected criminal act.
Sunday, Feb. 1
9500 block of Castillo Drive,
San Simeon, 5:16 p.m.: Incident
report on follow-up interview.
DATES & DATA
Fe bruary 5 - 11, 2015
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Cambria+Events
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THISWEEK
THURSDAY
Story time for preschoolers.
10:15 to 10:45 a.m. Thursdays.
Ages up to 6 welcome. Cambria
Library, 1043 Main St. 927-4336.
FRIDAY
Adventures With Nature. Bad
weather cancels outdoor activities. 772-2694 or www.ccspa.info.
• Birds of Land and Sea at
Morro Rock. 10 a.m. Observe cormorants, pelicans, and various
species and age classes of gulls.
Watch for resident Peregrine falcons over the rock, feeding birds
on the beach and sea birds in the
channel. Meet at the large gravel
Morro Rock parking lot, next to
the fenced area at the base of
Morro Rock. 1.5 miles, 2 hours.
Cambria Farmers Market. 2:30 to
5:30 p.m. Fridays. Sponsored by
Cambria Lions Club. Veterans
Memorial Building parking lot,
1000 Main St. Cambria. 924-1260.
Painted Sky Concert Series.
8 p.m. Featuring folk music by Iain
Matthews. Painted Sky Recording
Studios at the Old Creamery
Building, Harmony $20. 927-8330.
SATURDAY
Friends of the Fiscalini Ranch
Preserve Walk. 10 a.m. Alan
Peters discusses the life cycle of
pine trees and the health of the
forest. Cambria. Reservations and
locations, call 927-2202.
Adventures With Nature. Bad
weather cancels outdoor activities. 772-2694 or www.ccspa.info.
• White’s Point Vistas. 11 a.m. A
short, but steep walk to view the
estuary and learn about the
forces that have created this
watery world that serves as home
to hundreds of marine and terrestrial animals. Meet at Morro Bay
Natural History Museum entrance.
0.5 mile, 45 minutes.
Red Barn Community Music
Series. 6 p.m. Performance by
Celtic trio William Coulter, Aria
DiSalvio and John Weed. Potluck
dinner at 5 p.m. Red Barn at South
PHOTO BY IAIN MACADAM
Members of the cast of ‘Bell, Book and Candle’ gather on the Pewter Plough
Playhouse stage as they prepare for the play’s opening Friday, Feb. 6. From left:
Larry Barnes, Cory Schonauer, Mikayla DuBois, Gryphon Strom and Jean Miller. The
witchcraft-themed play, directed by Chrys Barnes, runs Fridays, Saturdays and
Sundays through March 8. Tickets are $22 for regular admission, $17 for students
with IDs, and $30 for the Gala Champagne Opening on Saturday, Feb. 7. Showtimes
are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, with 3 p.m. matinees on Sundays.
WANT YOUR EVENT
LISTED HERE?
Email dated events to calendar
@thetribunenews.com (with a
copy to cambrian@thetribune
news.com) at least two weeks
before the event date.
Bay Community Center,
2180 Palisades Ave., Los Osos. $15
donations. 215-3238.
SUNDAY
Adventures With Nature. Bad
weather cancels outdoor activities. 772-2694 or www.ccspa.info.
• Los Osos Oaks Reserve.
10 a.m. Shaded stroll through
ancient forest. See native plants
and evidence of Chumash habitation, learn colorful historical background. Meet at reserve entrance,
0.7 mile east of South Bay
Boulevard on Los Osos Valley
Road. 1 mile, 1.5 hours.
MONDAY
Adventures With Nature. Bad
weather cancels outdoor activities. 772-2694 or www.ccspa.info.
• Mind Walk — Southern Sea
Otter Recovery. 10:15 a.m. Feb. 9.
A status update on the southern
sea otter population and ongoing
research and monitoring efforts
and discussion of implications of
increasing otter-shark interactions. Veterans Memorial Building,
209 Surf St., Morro Bay. $3.
1.5 hours.
Cambria’s Rough Writers. 1 to
4 p.m. Mondays. Creative writing
group meetings. Guests with a
serious interest in writing are welcome. Joslyn Recreation Center,
950 Main St., Cambria. Go to
www.RoughWriters.org, then email
[email protected] to
set a date.
Line Dancing. Mondays. Beginner
class at 5:30 p.m., no experience
or partner required. Latin, con-
temporary, country western.
Learn to dance and exercise at
the same time. $2. Ongoing class
at 6:15 p.m., $5, or take both classes for $5. Veterans Memorial
Building, 1000 Main St., Cambria.
903-3241.
TUESDAY
The Cambria Chorale meets for
rehearsals from 9 to 11:15 a.m.
Tuesdays and periodically from
1:30 to 3 p.m. Fridays. All singers
welcome. Joslyn Recreation
Center, 950 Main St., Cambria.
927-2989.
Adventures With Nature. Bad
weather cancels outdoor activities. 772-2694 or www.ccspa.info.
• Birding the Boardwalk. 10
a.m. Identify shorebirds and other
birds seen at the marina while
being on the boardwalk.
Beginning birders welcome. Park
close to the southeast end of the
marina parking lot by the Morro
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Events
From Previous Page
Bay campground restrooms.
1 mile, 1.5 hours.
WEDNESDAY
The Cambria Walking Bunch.
9:30 a.m. Wednesdays. Meet at
Shamel Park, Cambria. Today:
Washburn boardwalk and the lowlands darlenencambria
@gmail.com.
Adventures With Nature. Bad
weather cancels outdoor activities. 772-2694 or www.ccspa.info.
• Birding for Beginners, Part 1.
10:30 a.m. Practice making observations, learn to use binoculars
and spotting scopes, and learn
about resources available for
ongoing skill building. Outdoor
walk will follow a discussion in the
museum’s learning center. Meet at
the Morro Bay Museum of Natural
History. 1 mile, 2 hours.
• Salt Marsh to Mudflats. 1 p.m.
Follow a path from the State Park
Marina through native plants to
the salt marsh and on to the mud
flats. Learn the history of the salt
marsh, and see the plants and
animals living in and on these
specialized environments. Park
close to the southeast end of the
marina parking lot or across the
street by the Morro Bay campground restrooms. 0.5 mile,
2 hours.
Cambria Couples Dance and
Social Club. 6 to 9 p.m. second
and fourth Wednesdays. Live
music and a potluck dinner.
Joslyn Recreation Center,
950 Main St., Cambria.
927-0527.
ART
EVENT
Live Johnson and Robert Lahr.
Reception: 5:30 to 7 p.m. Feb. 6.
“Color & Light.” Feb. 5, through
March 5. Cambria Center for the
Arts, 1350 Main St., Cambria.
927-8190.
“Mermaids.” Reception: 1 to
3 p.m. Feb. 8. 8-by-8-inch works
in all media. Through April 1.
Cayucos Art Gallery, foot of the
pier, Cayucos. 995-2049.
OPENING
Barbara Rosenthal. Reception:
5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 27. “Bridging the
Outdoors Indoors.” Mixed media.
Feb. 9, through May 1. Edward
Jones, 1236 Los Osos Valley Road,
Suite J, Los Osos. 528-4946.
ONGOING
Ronnie Goyette. “Fleeting
Moments — New Works.”
Photography. Through Feb. 12.
Seven Sisters Gallery, 601
Embarcadero, No. 8, Morro Bay,
772-9955.
“For the Birds.” Paintings, photography, drawings and 3D work.
Through Feb. 23. Morry Bay Art
Gallery, 835 Main St. 772-2504.
George Asdel. Reception: 5 to
8 p.m. Feb. 13. “Wildlife Wisdom &
Whimsy.” Brush and pen mixed
media. Through Feb. 27. Gallery
at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero, Suite 10, Morro Bay.
772-1068.
Virginia Mack. Reception: 5 to
8 p.m. Feb. 13. “Splash: Images of
Morro Bay.” Mixed media. Through
Feb. 27. Gallery at Marina Square,
601 Embarcadero, Suite 10, Morro
Bay. 772-1068.
TALENT CALL
Cambria Center for the Arts
auditions for its upcoming performance of “Evita.” 7 to 9 p.m.
Feb. 11; 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 14.
Auditions for lead and supporting
roles. Bring music. Cambria Center
for the Arts, 1350 Main St.,
Cambria.
PLANAHEAD
Adventures With Nature.
Bad weather cancels outdoor
activities. 772-2694 or
www.ccspa.info.
• Hike the Coon Creek Loop.
9:30 a.m. Feb. 12. Hike on the
Rattlesnake Flat and Coon Creek
trails. Meet in the Montaña de Oro
State Park at the end of the Pecho
Road in the Coon Creek parking
lot. 3 miles, 2-3 hours.
• Pacific Wildlife Center Tour. 1
p.m. Feb. 12. Tour the center
where local birds and mammals
are transported for rehabilitation
when sick or injured. For bird
watchers, this may provide an upclose view of some rarely seen
species. Pacific Wildlife Care
Center, Morro Bay, turn onto road
directly west of Lemos’ Feed Store
off Main Street. Age 5 and older.
1.5 hours.
• Quarry Trail to Morro Vistas.
9 a.m. Feb. 14. Hike to the foot of
Cerro Cabrillo to view quarry site.
Learn about formation of the
Morros. Explore seasonal wildflowers and enjoy vistas of the Chorro
Valley. View the web of estuary
waters on the return. Meet at
Quarry Trailhead off South Bay
Fe bruary 5 - 11, 2015
Boulevard. 3 miles, 2.5 hours.
• The Pecho Sewing Society.
Noon. Feb. 14. Learn how to do
redwork stitchery while learning
the history of the Spooners of
Montaña de Oro. No previous
stitching skills are needed. $10
per person for stitchery kit. Meets
at the Spooner Ranch House at
Montaña de Oro.
• Hike the Sand Spit. 1 p.m.
Feb. 14. Walk through the dune
scrub to the beach on the Sand
Spit trail, then walk north along
the shore. Meet at the Sand Spit
parking lot, Montaña de Oro State
Park (turn right on paved road 0.7
mile past the entrance sign).
3 miles, 2 hours.
• Black Hill Trail. 2 p.m. Feb. 14.
Walk the most accessible of the
volcanic sisters, learn their history and enjoy a panoramic view of
the surrounding geography from
atop the hill. Meet at the overlook
parking lot above Morro Bay Golf
Course. 0.5 mile, 1-1.5 hours.
• Plant of the Month — FushiaFlowered Gooseberry. 2 p.m.
Feb. 15. Short walk to see the
first flowers of the new year and
learn about their habits. Meet at
the north end of 15th Street in
Los Osos, cross street Santa
Ysabel. 1 mile, 1.5 hours.
• Mind Walk — The Interaction
of Europeans and Native
Peoples. 10:15 a.m. Feb. 16. A talk
on the interaction between the
early European explorers in
California and the local native
peoples. Veterans Memorial
Building, 209 Surf St., Morro Bay.
$3. 1.5 hours.
• Explore the Tide Pools at
Corallina Cove. 21:30 p.m. Feb.
16. Learn some local history while
walking the bluffs looking for sea
birds, whales, seals and otters.
Explore the tide pools of Corallina
Cove at low tide. Meet at Bluff
trailhead, about 100 yards south
of Spooner Ranch House in
Montaña de Oro. 2 miles, 2 hours.
• Intertidal Life at Hazard
Reef. 2 p.m. Feb. 18. Walk through
coastal scrub and sand dunes to
the beach to see seaweeds and
marine animals and learn a little
about the geology of the area.
Meet in the Hazard Canyon parking lot on the right side of the
road, 1.6 miles south of the
Montaña de Oro State Park
entrance sign. 1 mile, 3 hours.
• Geology of the Oceano
Dunes. 1:30 p.m. Feb. 20. A short
walk in the dunes to talk about
sand, wind, and the coastal region
and how it all came together to
be sand dunes. Meet at the
Oceano campground of Pismo
State Beach, 55 Pier Ave., Oceano.
1 hour 45 minutes.
Fe bruary 5 - 11, 2015
PLACES TO GO
Cambria Historical Museum.
Local and regional history in the
former Guthrie-Bianchini House, a
home dated from 1870. Rotating
exhibits and displays. Bookstore
with gifts and mementos, nursery
with heirloom plants.
Corner of Burton Drive and Center
Street. 1 to 4 p.m. Friday through
Sunday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday.
Free admission, but donations
welcome. Museum and gardens
available for small parties, meetings and other events. 927-2891,
www.cambriahistoricalsociety.com.
Hearst Castle. Daytime tours,
daily, $25 adults, $12 children
(5-12 years old). 800-444-4445,
www.hearst castle.com.
Piedras Blancas Light Station
Tours. Sept. 1 to June 14:
Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays. June 15 to Aug. 31:
Mondays through Saturdays.
Meet at 9:45 a.m. at the former
Piedras Blancas Motel, 1.5 miles
north of the lighthouse. $10 for
adults, $5 for ages 6-17, no fee for
5 and younger. Call 927-7361 to
make arrangements for groups of
10 or more; no tours on federal
holidays. 927-7361. Artist paintout days. Second Wednesdays.
$10. To make arrangements, call
927-8574.
SENIORS
Adult day care. Care and enrich-
ment for clients and respite for
families and caregivers. 9 a.m. to
3 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays,
Cambria Adult Resources,
Education and Support (CARES),
at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,
2700 Eton Road, Cambria.
927-4290.
Senior Nutrition Program lunch,
11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday
through Friday at St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, 2700 Eton Road.
$2.75. 927-1268.
Free transportation around
Cambria for seniors and the disabled on the Cambria Community
Bus on weekdays. Weekly trips to
Morro Bay and San Luis Obispo;
monthly trips to Paso Robles,
Templeton and Atascadero. Call
927-4173 from 9 to 11 a.m. two days
before the day a ride is needed.
Free health screening is offered
monthly by the Community Action
Partnership to anyone 18 years
old and older, including monitoring blood pressure, pulse and
weight and a finger-prick blood
test for anemia, diabetes and high
cholesterol. No appointment is
necessary for the health screenings, which are conducted from.
9:30 a.m. to noon the second
Monday of each month at
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2700
Eton Road, Cambria.
RECREATION
DATES & DATA
BulletinBoard
AND EDUCATION
Belly dancing. A soft aerobics
workout for the abdomen and
spine. Classes are offered two
Fridays a month from 5 to
6:15 p.m. at the Joslyn Center,
950 Main St. Free to members.
785-0476.
Cambria Lawn Bowls Club meets
at 9 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays,
Fridays and Saturdays. Free lessons are offered for all ages.
Joslyn Recreation Center,
950 Main St., Cambria. 924-1696,
559-281-6633, or email
[email protected].
Cambria Walking Bunch meets
every Wednesday at Shamel Park
at 9:30 a.m. The following walks
are scheduled for the coming
month:
• Feb. 11: Washburn boardwalk
and the lowlands.
• Feb. 18: El Chorro Regional
Park, with picnic lunch.
• Feb. 25: The Cloisters/Morro
Bay. Park at the small parking lot
to walk either the beach or the
park path.
• March 4: Lemiert start on
Kathryn
Cambria Writers’ Workshop
meets from 9:30 a.m. to noon
Wednesdays at the Joslyn
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Small smattering of rain, then cloudy, then partly sunny.
Breezy, mostly cloudy.
Sunny and bright.
Cold morning, clear day; was warm in the sun.
Foggy moist early morning, then sunny and warmish.
Chilly morning, fair and sun-drenched, streaky high haze.
Cool and clear; groundhog saw shadow in Pennsylvania.
CCSD Water Quality Control Plant, 5500 Heath Lane, northeast side of Park Hill.
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Whispering Pines, London Lane, east of Top of the World, Lodge Hill
February rainfall: 0.00”1, 0.01”2. 2013-14 rain season to date: 9.54”1, 9.21”2.
Weather Service forecast (as of Tuesday): Thursday: Morning low clouds, fog, then partly cloudy. Highs
in the 60s to around 70. Partly cloudy early evening, then low clouds, fog. Lows in mid-40s to low 50s.
Friday: 50 percent chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs near 60 at beaches; mid- to upper 60s inland.
Friday night and Saturday: 50 percent chance of rain. Lows upper 40s to mid-50s. Highs near 60 at
beaches; to the mid- to upper 60s inland. Saturday night and Sunday: 30 percent chance of rain. Lows in
upper 40s to mid-50s. Highs near 60 at beaches; mid- to upper 60s inland. Monday: Partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in upper 40s to mid-50s. Highs around 60 at beaches; mid to upper 60s inland.
Updated forecast: www.thecambrian.com.
CCSD’s San Simeon Creek wells averaged 20.49’ on Jan. 12, up 0.36’ from 20.12’ on Jan. 5.
CCSD’s Santa Rosa Creek SR4 well measured 51.50’ on Jan. 12, down 1.90’ from 53.40’ on Jan. 5.
CCSD’s WBE monitoring well measured 4.98’ on Jan. 12, up 0.35’ from 4.63’ on Jan. 5.
Recreation Center, 950 Main St.
Anyone serious about writing and
publishing can come and bring
original unpublished works. No
charge. Guests are welcome. Call
Ivon at 927-8172 for details.
Drop-in Tennis. All skill and age
levels welcome. 9 to 11 a.m.
Saturdays and Sundays at Coast
Union High School, 2950 Santa
Rosa Creek Road. Sponsored by
the Cambria Tennis Club.
GymOne, 1266 Tamson Drive, Suite
101. 927-4961. www.gymone
cambria.com.
Activities include:
• Active Aging — older adult
exercise: Senior Sneakers, 11 a.m.
Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays; 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays.
Joslyn Recreation Center, home
to more than a dozen clubs. All
club members must be Joslyn
Recreation Center members
($35 annual membership fee).
927-3364, http://joslyn rec.org,
950 Main St.
Labyrinth and Meditation
Garden. Daylight hours daily.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church; lower
level, 2700 Eton Road, Cambria.
Free. 927-3239, www.stpauls
Mahjong. 1 to 4 p.m. Mondays at
the Joslyn Recreation Center,
950 Main St., Cambria. $1 donation
to the center and a $3 purse buyin. Visitors welcome. Sharon,
927-5155.
Mind-body movement class
using elements of martial, dance
and healing arts. 5 to 6 p.m.
Fridays. All ages. Instructor:
Calico Hauser. $8. Joslyn
Recreation Center, 950 Main St.,
Cambria. 927-5405.
Pickleball. The club welcomes
drop-in play for all. 8 a.m. Sundays,
Tuesdays and Thursdays on the
back two tennis courts at Coast
Union High School, 2950 Santa
Rosa Creek Road. Enter through
side gate by baseball diamond, not
through front courts. 909-9000.
Shorin-ryu karate. Children,
8 to 14 years old, 5:30 to 6:30
p.m.; adults, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Tuesdays and Thursdays. $25 a
month.
927-5856.
Stretch and tone: Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays at
9 a.m. and Tuesdays and
Thursdays at 8 a.m. at the
Veterans Memorial Building, 1000
Main St. Cost: $8 a class or $48
monthly. First class is free.
927-4550.
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6:37 p.m. 1.1
12:17 p.m. 4.0
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10:08 a.m. 1.5
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4:06 p.m. 2.9
11:22 a.m. 1.0
3:43 a.m. 4.8
9:51 p.m. 2.5
5:51 p.m. 3.0
Sunrise: 7:01/6:54 a.m. Sunset: 5:36/5:44 p.m.
Last quarter moon: 7:52 p.m. Feb. 11
Watercolor “Yes You Can”
classes, 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays.
“Art Is Fun” classes, 2 to 5 p.m.
Thursdays, free shuttle to the Morro
Bay bus. Admission: $15 per session. Jacque Brackett, 927-5965.
Yoga with Joanna: Call 927-YOGA
(9642) for schedule.
Yoga with Patti. Yoga Flo at
4:30 p.m. Mondays, Joslyn
Recreation Center, 950 Main St.
927-1661.
Zumba. Latin-based music dance
for fitness. 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays,
5 to 6 p.m. Thursdays, 7:30 a.m.
Fridays. Admission: $3 for class
members, $5 for guests. Gym One,
1266 Tamson Drive, Suite 101.
927-4961.
www.gymonecambria.com.
Recreation and Education listings appear the first Thursday of
each month; Help Is Available
listings on the second Thursday;
undated Club Meeting information on the third Thursday; and
Volunteers Needed listings on
the fourth Thursday. Want your
listing to appear here? Items for
Bulletin Board should be submitted at least a week before the
requested publication date. Email
items (fliers are welcome) to [email protected]; drop
by The Cambrian at 2442 Main St.;
mail to PO Box 67, Cambria CA
93428; or fax to 927-4708.
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8:24 p.m.
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All pocket gophers
do what they can do since they
must do what they do.
— Elizabeth Bettenhausen
Send haikus to
[email protected]
Gas Prices
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Gallon of regular gas (Feb. 2):
Cambria Chevron
$2.99
Diesel $3.39
Cambria General Store $2.97
Cambria Shell
$2.99
Diesel $3.39
Atascadero Circle K
$2.37
MORE LISTINGS AT WWW.SANLUIS
OBISPO.COM/GASPRICES
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THE CAMBRIAN
Unless indicated, all meetings are
open to the public. Some are
available for later viewing on
Charter Cable channel 21. Check
www.slo-span.org
MONDAY, FEB. 2
9 a.m. County Government
Center, 1055 Monterey St., San
Luis Obispo. 781-5450. www.slo
county.ca.gov/bos. On TV: Live
on Charter Channel 21. Replayed
at 6 p.m. Tuesday, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday. On the Web:
http://bit.ly/UFW1Z3.
North Coast Advisory Council
Traffic and Land Use committees meet concurrently. 3 p.m.
Rabobank, 1070 Main St. 927-1442,
traffic. 927-1580, land use. www.
northcoastadvisorycouncil.org.
Parks, Recreation and Open
Space Commission of the
Cambria Community Services
District meeting canceled.
TUESDAY, FEB. 3
THURSDAY, FEB. 5
County Board of Supervisors.
County Planning Commission.
AGENDA
PublicMeetings
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9 a.m. Board of Supervisors
Chambers, County Government
Center, 1055 Monterey St., San
Luis Obispo. 781-5600. www.slo
county.ca.gov/planning.htm.
Agenda includes: Continued
hearing on the county’s
Renewable Energy Streamlining
Program, designed to encourage
development of certain renewable energy projects in suitable,
inland unincorporated areas of
the county. On TV: Cablecast on
Charter Cable Channel 21,
replayed at 6 p.m. Thursday and
Monday.
FRIDAY, FEB. 6
County Planning Department
hearing officer. 9 a.m. Board
of Supervisors Chambers, County
Government Center,
1055 Monterey St., San Luis
Obispo. 781-5600. www.slo
Fe bruary 5 - 11, 2015
county.ca.gov/ planning. htm. As
of Monday, Feb. 2, no Cambria,
San Simeon or Harmony issues
were on the agenda.
TUESDAY, FEB. 10
County Board of Supervisors.
9 a.m. County Government
Center, 1055 Monterey St., San
Luis Obispo. 781-5450. www.slo
county.ca.gov/bos. Consent
agenda includes: Appointing Jim
Bahringer of Fog’s End Bed &
Breakfast to the Cambria Tourism
Board. On TV: Live on Charter
Channel 21. Replayed at 6 p.m.
Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. Sunday. On
the Web: http://bit.ly/UFW1Z3.
Cambria Tourism Board. 1 p.m.
Cambria Pines Lodge, 2905
Burton Drive. www.YourCBID.com.
547-2243. Agenda includes:
Increasing number of overnight
tourist stays in Cambria.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11
San Simeon Community Services
District Board of Directors.
6 p.m. Plaza del Cavalier Banquet
Room, 250 San Simeon Avenue,
San Simeon. 927-4778.
Fe bruary 5 - 11, 2015
ArtsBriefs
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CCAT issues call
for ‘Evita’ auditions
ambria Center for the
C
Arts has issued a call
for auditions in preparation
for staging its production
of Tim Rice and Andrew
Lloyd Webber’s “Evita.”
Auditions are scheduled
for 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday,
Feb. 11, and 2 to 4 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 14, at the
Cambria Center for
the Arts Theatre,
1350 Main St. Participants
should use the rear parking lot and bring their own
music.
Characters in the cast are
the lead roles, Eva Peron
(soprano/mezzo), Che
(tenor) and Juan Peron
(baritone); and supporting
roles of Agustin Magaldi
(tenor) and Peron’s mistress (soprano/mezzo).
Roles are also available in
the chorus for three
tenor/baritone men and
three soprano/mezzo
women of any age.
Randy Schwalbe will direct “Evita” with Nancy
Green serving as assistant
director and Susan Detweiler as choreographer.
The play is scheduled to
run Fridays, Saturdays and
Sundays from July 31 to
Aug. 23.
Artists plan studio
sale Feb. 14-15
Central Coast artists
Donald Archer and Lori
Slater will present their
19th annual studio sale
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Feb. 14 and 15 at their
home studio, 1888 Chester
Lane in Cambria.
Archer’s works include
See BRIEFS, Page 17
ARTS&EVENTS
THE CAMBRIAN
A W o rt h w h i l e L i f e
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L a dy T i e D i
Bowled over in Cambria and beyond
J
ack (an old
boyfriend), backhand draw (something my dad laid on
us if we talked
back), grass (much
ado about nothing)
and touchers (dark movie
theaters?). Not what you
may be thinking — I’m
talking the game of Lawn
Bowls here.
You know that big
green area in the West
Village
where a
bunch of
older folks
hang
around?
Well, not
Dianne Brooke
all of them of Cambria has
can be
served on the
considCoast Unified
ered “older.” In fact, School District
board. Her
I decided
column
to talk to
appears weekly
the
in The
youngest
Cambrian.
member
in the
club, Rob Humphrey, to
find out what might attract people to the game.
Having lived in Cambria since he was around
10 years old, he’d grown
up seeing the artificial
turf but not thought
much about it. Until his
regular recreational activity was not coming together one day and his
curiosity pulled him elsewhere.
“Yeah, the waves were
really lousy,” Humphrey
said. “So I thought, what
the heck — I think I’ll go
check this out … and fell
in love with the game!”
That was in 1998, and
to anybody and everybody,” he answered. “You
Cambria: The Cambria Lawn don’t have to be a jock or
Bowls Club is one of 29 in the
young or old or a certain
body type. Everybody
Southwest Division of Bowls
has a chance to do well
USA. For more about the
and to certainly have fun.
Cambria club, call 927-3364.
“I also love the camaBowls USA: The 2015 U.S.
raderie. It’s a great group
Open of Lawn Bowls will be
— not that it can’t get
Sept. 26 to Oct. 3 in Los
competitive. It can. It’s up
Angeles. The National
to
you as to how far you
PHOTOS BY DIANNE BROOKE
Championships will be Oct. 20want
to go with the sport:
Jim Beckman watches Rob Humphrey’s delivery.
25 in Long Beach. For more
local and casual or seriTop right, Cambria Lawn Bowlers, left to right: Pete information about Bowls USA,
ous and travel. I like the
Debruin, Humphrey, Beckman and Rick Warren.
visit www.bowlsusa.us.
possibilities as well as just
the challenge of the
game. It’s fun!”
Bowls is much more than Santa Maria. The Nationhe’s been playing ever
On that note, the club
just a pastime in a sleepy als Rob has attended are
since.
hosted across the country is always looking for
little coastal village!
Rob still surfs and
more players and offers
in various locations.
“They’ve played Lawn
waits tables at night, but
free lessons. Go anyBy the way, the iconic
Bowls for over 600 years,
at 45 years of age, he is
where near the place
longer than golf,” he said. green patch on Main
the youngest regular
while they’re playing and
Street is reportedly the
“In fact, in France, they
member of the Cambria
they’ll smile and launch
oldest artificial lawn bowl
Lawn Bowls club (by the outlawed the game beinto the invitation: “We’d
cause it was so popular it turf in the world, as most
way, the difference beare real grass. Hmm, good love to have you join us!”
was taking away from
tween a “ball” and a
They’re so sweet.
thing, as it wouldn’t have
archery practice!”
“bowl” is that what they
held up well with this
I don’t think that’s the
use is not completely
Dianne Brooke’s coldrought, eh? Yet, another
round, which gives it the case here, but it does alumn is special to The
Cambria distinction.
low the team (one of the
interesting spin you see
Cambrian. Email her at
I asked Humphrey
smaller teams with 30-40
when they play). He has
[email protected], or visit
what kept a young buck
members) to travel and
also made it to a couple
her website at
like him in the game.
host visitors. They play
of U.S. Open Nationals.
“It’s a game that’s open www.ladytiedi.com.
Fresno, Santa Barbara and
Yes, the world of Lawn
LAWN BOWLS
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THE CAMBRIAN
SPORTS
Fe bruary 5 - 11, 2015
Soccer
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Coast
pummels
Midland
girls team
Remy Corbet scores
four goals in 7-2 win
By John FitzRandolph
Special to The Cambrian
he was in second grade for
that shot, and he was not
afraid. He knew in the
morning that shot was coming. He was scared and
nervous, but not afraid, just
giddy with anticipation.
Destiny is a weird thing.”
Steve Kniffen noted that
Sam MacKinnon also hit a
three-pointer in that fourth
quarter and Jack MacKinnon played some “good defense” to keep the Lions
from scoring.
At halftime Youngs, told
the Broncos they needed to
hustle back on defense.
Senior midfielder Remy
Corbet knocked in four
goals and had two assists to
lead the Lady Broncos to a
7-2 win over Midland High
School on Friday, Jan. 30, at
the Coast Union campus.
Other scorers for the Lady Broncos were junior
Rebecca Tavera, freshman
Kat Sison and sophomore
Lindy Ortiz.
Head Coach Tamara
Corbet said Midland “wasn’t
as strong as other teams we
have played, but we played
really good. Because two of
our key players (Mar tha
Gomez and Paulina Torres)
are still out with injuries, we
worked on offense against
Midland.
“We’re giving a chance to
girls who aren’t used to
shooting to have a mindset
on shooting.”
Coast Union improved its
record to 8-6-2, having
outscored foes 46-28.
On Monday Feb. 2, Coast
tied with Templeton, 1-1.
Gomez scored Coast’s goal
on an assist by Patty Bucio.
Cynthia Cadena had seven
See HOOPS, Next Page
See SOCCER, Next Page
PHOTOS BY MERLE BASSETT
Senior guard Gehrig Kniffen, left, led the Broncos with 23 points in a 45-39 win over Valley Christian. Sophomore forward Sam MacKinnon,
right, helped out on the boards and hit a key three-point shot as Coast Union remained unbeaten in Coast Valley League play Friday.
Bronco boys wrap up league crown
By John FitzRandolph
Special to The Cambrian
The Coast Union boys
basketball team clinched
the Coast Valley League
title Tuesday, Feb. 3, by defeating Maricopa 65-52
Gehrig Kniffen tallied 25
points and had five rebounds; Nahum Hernandez
grabbed eight rebounds,
scored seven points and
blocked two shots for Coast
Union.
The Broncos paved the
way for their run to the title
with a 45-39 win over
second-place Valley Christian on Friday, Jan. 30 —
their second win over the
Lions in January.
The Broncos beat the Lions thanks to a burst of
energy that allowed them to
outscore the visitors 9-3 in
a fourth quarter that began
with the two teams deadlocked 36-36.
Coach Bobby Youngs was
asked what motivational
strategy he used to push his
team in that fourth quarter.
“They kind of did it themselves,” he said. “They
knew they had to play more
team ball. In the first half,
the team was relying on
Gehrig Knif fen and Jez
Lawson. But in the fourth
quarter, they realized the
CVL STANDINGS
CVL Total
Coast Union
7-0 11-3
Valley Christian
6-2 9-6
Shandon
4-3 11-5
Maricopa
2-5 2-5
Cuyama Valley
1-5
3-11
N. County Christian 0-6 3-8
Coastal Christian
0-0 0-0
Source: MaxPreps.com
team will win this, not just
two players.
“So in the fourth quarter,
they played good defense,
had some good rebounds
and made some smart
shots.”
Kniffen led the team with
23 points; Sam MacKinnon
hit three-pointers a total of
three times; Lawson added
eight points; and Nahum
Hernandez grabbed 10 rebounds.
Kniffen’s father, Steve, in
attendance at Friday night’s
game, said his son’s last
three-pointer (with 45 seconds left, which basically
sealed the victory) was made
from “at least seven feet behind the three-point arc.”
“It was truly Gehrig’s
finest high school moment,” the Steve Knif fen
said. “He has been training
every day of his life since
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Coast Union gets baseball storage shed
By John FitzRandolph
Special to The Cambrian
For the past five or so
years, Broncos baseball
coach Brian Machado has
eagerly pushed for a new,
rodent-free, spacious storage facility — a place to securely stow and protect
players’ gear and baseballrelated equipment.
Thanks to a group of volunteers who built a shed this
year, Machado’s dreams
have been realized: His program has been blessed with
a brand new facility.
The Lions Club of
Cambria invested about
$5,000 in the materials for
the building, and club volunteers did most of the construction work.
“This shed we had been
using was once a snack bar,”
Machado explained as he
opened the door to the old
facility, which was filled to
the rafters with helmets,
bats, protective equipment,
lime, the tools to make
chalk lines on the field, and
much more.
Walking around in the
new shed, a smiling, animated Machado said it was
built on the tall side so landscaping equipment, uni-
Hoops
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They had come in prepared. Youngs said he knew
the game was critical, so
during the week he
“stepped up practice, increased the tempo a little
bit, increased defensive
drills and shooting drills,
and it seemed to work.”
The coach’s philosophy
on offense is for his team to
take shots “with confidence:
Don’t just wish that it will go
in, feel confident that it will
go in.”
PHOTO BY JOHN FITZRANDOLPH
Bronco players (who painted the shed) Tommy Moreno,
left, and Nic Robertson with head coach Brian Machado
and assistant coach and Lions President Andy Zinn.
forms, helmets, baseball
bags, bats and other baseball necessities could be
easily stored above. The
garage door opens to 10
feet, allowing the protective
batting practice screens to
be stored easily.
Assistant baseball coach
Andy Zinn, who serves as
Lions Club president, said
Machado came to the Lions
with a request to help with a
new shed.
“We talked about it and
committed to doing it,” Zinn
said. “But none of this would
have happened without the
help of Larry Kelly, a contractor and Lions Club member. His know-how and commitment made this happen.”
The $5,000 came from the
net proceeds the Lions
Youngs gave credit to the
sophomores on the team
who have “stepped up way
more than I ever could
imagine. They’re the ones
that are pretty much carrying our team.”
The Broncos have two
league games left on their
schedule — Maricopa on
the road and Shandon at
home Friday, Feb. 13 —
before the CIF playoffs begin. Youngs has no worries
that the team will sleepwalk
through these last two
games.
He emphasizes “One
game at a time.”
GIRLS
Valley Christian 35,
Coast Union 7
The Lady Broncos basketball team was defeated
by Valley Christian Academy 35-7 on Friday night,
Jan. 30. That defeat should
be taken into context, coach
Emilie Foster said, because
in the two previous games
Coast played against Valley
Christian, the Lions scored
51 and 58 points.
“Our goal against Valley
Christian Academy was to
hold them defensively,” Foster explained. “We did that,
raised at the 2014 Pinedorado festivities, Zinn said.
“We don’t ask people for
donations,” he said. “We just
put on an event like Pinedorado. A lot of labor goes into it, but we raise the money
and try to make good decisions as to how to spend the
money.”
Zinn praised Lions members who contributed time
and talent toward the completion of the new shed:
Sharkey Warrick and Jim
Hollingshead were “out
here a lot,” Walt Thomason
“did the roof by himself,”
Ruben Villalobos “does a lot
of volunteer work,” Dave
Gerber “made a financial donation” and several other
Lions Club members including Greg Bates, Richard
Berry and Bill Rodrigues.
Coast Union baseball
players Tommy Moreno
and Nic Robertson painted
the building, along with assistant baseball coach Steve
Kniffen and Machado.
“This building will be
here for decades,” Zinn emphasized, with Machado
nodding in agreement.
“This is a strong building.
And when people work together it’s nice.”
keeping them to just 35
points and their high scorer
to 10.
“So as far as we are concerned, we accomplished
our goals, and I am proud of
our performance,” she said.
The Lady Broncos are
5-2 in league play.
On Feb. 3, Coast bounced
back to top Maricopa 42-7
thanks to Reagan Kniffen’s 16
points and eight other players
contributing points. The Lady
Broncos held Maricopa
scoreless in the second half.
The last home game of the
season for the team is Feb. 13
against Shandon, at 5 p.m.
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Santa Lucia girls teams split games
The Santa Lucia Middle
School girls B basketball
team defeated Lewis Middle School 13-10 on Tuesday, Feb 3. Mira Panchal
had seven points and seven rebounds.
The Warriors A team
didn’t fare as well , losing
22-6 to Lewis.
Karis Lawson had four
points and five rebounds
for the Warriors.
— John FitzRandolph
Soccer
soccer team bested Templeton High School 3-1
Monday, Feb. 2, at Coast
Union.
Coach Luis Plasencia reported that the three goals
were scored by Jose Abitia,
Fidel Figueroa and Leonardo Mar tinez (on his
birthday).
The Broncos close out
the regular-season schedule Friday, Feb. 6, at Orcutt
Academy.
From Previous Page
saves.
The regular season ends
for the Lady Broncos on
Friday, Feb. 6, when they
play at Orcutt Academy.
BOYS
Coast Union 3,
Templeton 1
The Broncos boys varsity
Briefs
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mixed media on canvas
and watercolor on paper.
His subjects include landscapes and seascapes of
iconic California images,
along with some figures
depicting jazz favorites.
Slater’s watercolors include still life subjects, interiors, gardens, orchards
and the sea.
The artists have lived
in Cambria for 23 years.
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6 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT NICK FRANCO
Six things you may not
know about Nick Franco,
who is now the director
of the county’s new Parks
and Recreation Department:
1. Favorite moment at
Hearst Castle?
Being “with many people
when they visited the Castle for the first time. To hear
their reactions and watch
the amazed looks in their
eyes are the similar moments that were my
favorite.”
2. Scariest moment
working for parks and at
the Castle?
“A transient woman
pointed a loaded, cocked
gun at a sherif f’s deputy
and me and wanted us to
shoot her. After a long
standoff tr ying to defuse
the scene, the deputy and I
were left with no choice.”
They shot her in the thigh,
treated and arrested her.
She went to prison for assault with a deadly weapon
on peace officers.
“At the Castle? Probably
the San Simeon earthquake
and wondering if there
Franco
manage that better within
State Parks.”
Franco was put on involuntary leave for a couple of
weeks following the Gaga
video shoot in Februar y.
State Parks never provided
a reason for the action.
“I was so humbled by the
overwhelming support I received locally and from my
peers during the time off,”
he said. “That was the most
rewarding feeling I can
imagine, and I can’t thank
people enough for that.”
From Page 4
• Plus, he added, “I’d be
remiss if I didn’t mention
Lady Gaga … I am disappointed in how State Parks
treated her efforts to support the castle and its art.”
Her video shoot “was a
great opportunity that provided great benefits to the
Castle and the county.”
(The Neptune Pool statues
are being restored because
of Gaga’s donation).
The enter tainer’s involvement “could have produced more long-term benefits had we been able to
were going to be any injuries to people or damage
to the castle. Thankfully, no
injuries and very little at the
castle (but sadly, death and
injuries elsewhere in the
county).”
3. What’s an automatic
turn-off for you?
“Whining and complaining without trying to find
solutions. We all have days
and times we need to vent
or complain, but those
should be brief and followed by actions to change
the circumstances or
change our attitudes.”
4. Hobbies?
“Gardening, reading,
playing classical guitar,
camping, hiking, traveling.”
5. Favorite exercise?
“Running. I love running.”
6. Favorite comfort
food, preferably a forbidden one?
A: “Chocolate cheesecake. My wife makes the
best one, and that’s what I
ask for as my birthday cake
every year.”
— Kathe Tanner
work on the Cayucos Pier,
he said, “is an important
current project that benefits
so many people in the county and visitors to the area.”
Likewise, “completing
and continuing trail connectivity projects is a critical element of the County Park
responsibility.
“This includes the Bob
Jones Trail, Morro Bay-toCayucos Connector, the
Atascadero-to-Templeton
Connector. I would also love
to see a trail completed that
completely circles Santa
Looking forward
Margarita Lake.”
And getting a quality conWhat’s on Franco’s imcessionaire onsite at Dairy
mediate to-do list?
Completing restoration Creek Golf Course “is very
important and critical to its
success. This first-of-itskind zero-waste golf course
should be a model for golfcourse sustainability.”
Advice
Franco said the best
piece of work-related advice
he ever got, and one he’ll
share with Gutierrez and
his new County Parks compatriots, came from John
Knott, a former State Parks
Northern Division Chief:
“The park family exists, and
you need to cherish and
cultivate that. But it only exists in the park employees
in the field, and it’s important to remember that.”
Receptions planned to discuss auction of old library building
People who may be interested in buying the
county-owned former
Cambria library building
and 9,888-square-foot property can attend an informational reception from 1 to 2
p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, at
the site, 900 Main St.
San Luis Obispo County
property specialists will be
there to provide details
about the building, the
land and the auction
process, to be held during
the Board of Supervisors
meeting on April 21.
The county will hold additional receptions from 1 to 2
p.m. on March 12 and from
10 to 11 a.m. on April 1.
According to an online
listing posted Feb. 2, the
minimum bid is $540,000.
The 2,331-square-foot
building has skylights, private office/storage room
and a standard commercial restroom. The lot in
front of the building has
eight parking spaces.
Another April 21 auction
AUCTION DETAILS
relocated to its new
$2.8 million building at
For details on the auction and
1043 Main St. in 2013.
property, go to http://slo.craigslist.
Under an agreement beorg/off/4874068356.html, email
tween the county and the
Shauna Dragomir at sdragomir@
Friends of the Cambria Lico.slo.ca.us or call her 781-5206.
brary, the old building and
the lots must be sold to
will be held at the supervihelp offset the nonprofit’s
sors’ meeting to sell two lots 50 percent share of the
on Cornwall, also zoned
cost of the new building. If
commercial retail, that the
the properties don’t sell,
county had purchased as a
the Friends group will have
possible library site. Minito raise additional funds to
mum bid is $210,000.
complete its obligation.
Cambria’s library was
— Kathe Tanner
Collaboration helped
fuel Franco’s success
Among Nick Franco’s
favorite collaborative happenings in the 111⁄2 years he
has been superintendent of
State Parks’ San Luis
Coastal District:
• Adding 13 miles of
coastline donated to Hearst
San Simeon State Park as
par t of the Hearst Ranch
Conservation Easement.
• Finally starting Hearst
Castle roof- and pool-repair
projects to protect the
historic site.
• The tour change at
Hearst Castle. Visitors can
stroll the grounds on their
own to enjoy the hilltop like
one of Mr. Hearst’s guests.
•Establishing Cambria
State Marine Park, the first
state marine park under the
Marine Protected Area legislation.
• Ongoing, successful
protection of the Western
Snowy Plover
• Growing elephant seal
population, improved partnership with Friends of the
Elephant Seal, and ongoing
adaptation to managing visitors’ ability to view the activities of these amazing
creatures.
• Adding Irish Hills properties to Montaña de Oro
State Park, creating future
opportunities to complete
the California Coastal Trail.
• Ongoing par tnership
with Cayucos Land Conservancy. Completed restoration of San Geronimo
Creek. Opening Harmony
Headlands State Park to the
public.
• Current conversion of
some campsites in Morro
Strand to full hookups to improve services available to
coastal visitors during the
winter and of f-season
months.
• Completed rehabilitation of Morro Bay State
Park Campground.
• Cultural landscape report that included adding
the campground to the National Register of Historic
Places for its connection to
the CCC/WPA development during the Great Depression.
• The impressive dune
restoration over the past
many years at Morro
Strand.
• Districtwide ADA improvements, most recently
the Bluff Trail at Montaña
de Oro. Also seeing various
disability advocates using
the trail and enjoying a spectacular place that was previously unavailable to that
segment of the population.
• Cooperative spirit of
various trail users (equestrians, hikers and mountain
bikers), in contrast to so
many other places in the
state and in the country.
• Cooperative work with
Caltrans to meet visitor
needs at Estero Bluffs, the
elephant seal viewing area,
and upcoming Highway 1
realignment at Piedras Blancas.
• Cooperative agreements
with Monterey Bay National
Marine Sanctuary and Bureau of Land Management
for the north coast area including Coastal Discovery
Center and Piedras Blancas
Outstanding Natural Area.
• Ongoing fundraising
and support work of Friends
of Hearst Castle and Hearst
Castle Preservation Foundation.
• Completing the Cultural Landscape Report for the
Castle that helps guide how
to approach inevitable
changes in vegetation and
the formal gardens as well
as visitor circulation and
staff activities at the hilltop.
— Kathe Tanner
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Extra
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Bouquet
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Mallet
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Liquid measure
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In good condition
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Yield by treaty
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Give, in a way
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Escape
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Sports event
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Line for a pet
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Domain
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River of forgetfulness
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Docs’ org.
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“— and Cleopatra”
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Agnus —
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Nourished
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Gym pads
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Symbol of peace
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Like a prude
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“A Streetcar Named —”
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Some exams
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Hard-rind fruit
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Goober
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Untamed
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Substance used in
glassmaking
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Work
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Nearly
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Swain
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Until now
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Spiked
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Cut short
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Group of watercraft
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Noted blanket toter
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Likes a lot
101 Fiber plant
102 Allegation
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106 Old card game
108 Delayer’s motto
110 Coat
112 Color
114 Put on the payroll
115 Conducive to peace
117 The knee
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124 Helot
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surveillance (with “out”)
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Yours and mine
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Animal young
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Western Indian
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“Bolero” composer
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Doctrine
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— of Troy
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Variety show
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Old-fashioned
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Nation
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Those range from driving
seniors, training for emergency responses and leading
scout groups to providing
the dying with hospice care,
protecting open spaces and
tending homeless kitties.
Volunteers are needed to
provide the manpower for
such events as the scarecrow festival, Pinedorado
and
major
bicycle
races/rides, or guiding visitors at special sites such as
state parks, trails, elephantseal haul-out areas and museums that range from
Hearst Castle and the Cambria Historical Museum to
the Cambria Bike Kitchen.
Nearly always, there’s
more work to do than there
are hands, strong backs
and quick minds to do it all.
Nonprofits and ser vice
groups alike constantly seek
new members and volunteers, and they’re ratcheting
up their efforts now because
fewer people are applying.
Shortage
The lack of new volunteers seems to be across
the board, from small local
clubs to groups representing state and federal agencies, from the Sunrise Rotary Club and Cambria Historical Society to the Lions
Club and Piedras Blancas
Light Station.
Leaders of the Cambria
Forest Committee say —
only somewhat jokingly —
that anyone who attends
more than one meeting of
the group is not only invited
to join but is also encouraged to become a director.
The committee works to
preserve and protect Cambria’s Monterey pine forest,
one of the last remaining
native stands in the world.
Committee co-chairman
Crosby Schwartz wrote in
an email interview, “Participation on the Forest Committee historically goes up
and down depending on
whether or not there are interesting and controversial
things going on.
“I think the potential increase in grant funding for
forest-related projects in
Cambria is going to stir up
some good discussions
about the resulting project
descriptions.”
He also said, “The controversial discussions about
the water supply project
and development in Cambria may have reduced the
community’s enthusiasm
for volunteering to work
together on anything.”
Membership in the Rotary Club Sunrise Centennial has dwindled to about
eight members from more
than 35 when the group
organized 10 years ago,
according to past president
Linda Finley, and a couple
of those members “are on
long leaves. Others can
only attend every so often.”
The Cambria Historical
Society’s “dedicated few are
doing double or triple duty
about town, and are happy
to do so,” said Consuelo
Macedo, Community Relations Chair woman of the
society’s Board of Directors. “But in our age bracket, many of us are ‘aging
and breaking,’ so we hope
younger, able-bodied folks
can answer our frequent
appeals.
“Our predicament,” she
said, “is that there is the
same amount or more work
to be done inside the museum and outside in the
Heirloom Gardens. We
have expanded our activities, which requires more
time and energy for our
willing corps.
“There have been many
more suggestions about
what people would like us
to do, including being open
more days and/or longer
hours. But, alas, no manpower.”
Lions Club President
Andy Zinn estimated Feb. 2
that the club’s membership
has dropped by about
10 percent, in part because
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VOLUNTEER CONTACTS
• For details on the Piedras
Blancas Light Station, managed
by Bureau of Land Management,
email [email protected] or
call 924-1807.
• Find details on the Cambria
Historical Society at www.
cambriahistoricalsociety.org
some members have moved
away and others have died.
In many groups, no
matter how many members
are on the roster, there’s a
core group that does most
of the work. And as those
core members get older,
there are tasks they can’t
do any more.
Sometimes the age factor
pertains more to the family’s children.
The biggest issue for Cub
and Boy Scout troops is
“some parents will volunteer
to help until their son or
daughter either graduates
(or ages out) of scouting,
and then the parents will not
continue,” according to Bob
Putney, district commissioner of Boy Scouts of
America’s Del Norte District/Los Padres Council. “It
is always difficult to attract
and retain new volunteers,
even in a volunteer-rich
community like Cambria.”
At the U.S. Outstanding
Natural Area and historic
light station, the volunteer
effort began years ago with
Carole Adams’ determination to remove non-native
plant species from the scenic site. Since then, she and
her volunteers have pulled
tons of iceplant and other
weeds.
Piedras volunteers also
lead public tours at the
point, work in the gift shop,
do research and perform
myriad tasks that help restore and protect the historic tower and site.
“Tours are a wonderful
way for volunteers to feel
they are making a positive
dif ference in protecting,
restoring and maintaining
the incredibly beautiful
light station,” Adams wrote
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What motivates North Coast volunteers
Why do people donate
time and work for free?
Some volunteers at the
Piedras Blancas Light Station described why their
time there is so worthwhile.
Georgianne Jackson
looks forward to her shifts
at the lighthouse because
“each time it is so totally different. The ocean may be
wild with huge waves, or
calm and peaceful. We may
see all kinds of wildlife: pelicans, cormorants, peregrine falcons, dolphins,
whales, otters, seals, sea lions. … Each time is different, but the one common
factor is that the experience
quiets my mind (and)
soothes my soul like no
other volunteer activity
does.”
Bob Dees: Volunteering
there “makes me feel like I
am helping to preser ve
something wonder fully
unique for others to enjoy
and learn from … a unique-
ly concrete connection to
the history of California, including the people, cultures, plants and animals”
that make the Central Coast
“the fascinating, amazingly
beautiful area it is.”
Harry Thorpe: “I’ve always been interested in history,” and the light station
“has some fascinating stories in its past. Volunteering
as a lighthouse tour guide
has offered me the opportunity to share those stories
with visitors while I enjoy
the beauty of our coastal
scener y and the everchanging and entertaining
activities of our maritime
wildlife.”
Abel and Toni Martinez
say volunteering at the light
station “provides us many
learning opportunities, a variety of rewarding experiences, the means to work
with other terrific volunteers, an opportune time to
meet visitors from near and
far, a way to meet new
friends, an amazing scenic
environment, a great way to
share a historic navigational aid station and the opportunity to inform the tour
visitors about the need to
protect this special sanctuary of wildlife.”
Peter Romwall was inspired to join by the “passion and dedication” of the
late Jim Boucher, former
park manager.
“His love for the sanctuary of spectacular and dramatic beauty that is Piedras
Blancas moved me.” Every
day Romwall spends there,
“I am humbled and filled
with gratitude.”
Dave Babcock loves “the
beauty of the place, and
passing on information
about it to the guests who
come to visit ... (and) the
other volunteers who enjoy
sharing the light station as
much as I do.”
— Kathe Tanner
in an email inter view.
“Tours stress stewardship
and cover a variety of topics
from light-station history to
natural history” and details
about the land and sea
wildlife.
are considering changing
the 7 a.m. Tuesday meeting
time that was one reason
why the club was launched.
The larger Cambria Rotary
Club meets every Friday at
noon, which also was an inconvenient time for some
members.
Schwartz said the forest
committee has “added several new members recently,” and he’s talking to other potential members.
Zinn said the Lions Club
doesn’t go out and seek
new members, but does encourage those who want to
help at special events, such
as Pinedorado, to join. “We
let people know what good
they can do if they’re
involved,” he said.
Zinn also is cour ting
some younger potential
members but acknowledges that some people
may already be overcommitted, or not want to be-
come official because then
they’re afraid they’ll have to
work too hard.
“Some people don’t want
to commit” to that, he said.
Putney said “there is a
constant need for new parents or family members to
step up to keep scouting
going. Scouting, like many
youth programs, needs
leadership to help the
Scouts advance and learn
new skills. This is an issue
with all forms of youthoriented volunteer organizations, and the need “is
not isolated to the North
Coast or Cambria.”
Macedo said, “I don’t
know the answer.” She is
“dismayed” on behalf of the
historical society and “other community nonprofits
who are also having to cut
back or eliminate services
to our wonderful Cambrians” because fewer of them
are volunteering to help.
Countermeasures
How do nonprofits and
ser vice clubs plan to expand their ranks?
The light station will hold
tour-training sessions for
new docents March 20 and
28, April 3 and 11. Volunteers are asked to put in a
minimum of 10 hours a
month, including drive
time, although “many volunteers put in much more
than that,” Adams said.
The historical society
and other groups also offer
training.
The Rotary Club’s Finley
said the group will hold a
10th anniversary party Friday, Feb. 23, and members
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Response to rain: Honey mushrooms emerge from dead Monterey pine
PHOTOS BY WERNER HOWALD
Mushrooms emerged from a dead Monterey pine tree on
the 3000 block of Wilton Drive in the wake of December
rains. The mushrooms are known as honey mushrooms.
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