The county supervisors are literally trying to make it rain, as they approved the 2013-2014 cloud-seeding program with hopes that Twitchell Reservoir in San Luis Obispo County and Lake Cachuma will collect some muchneeded water. Cloud seeding, which the county has used since 1982, involves injecting raindroppromoting silver iodide into the clouds. This year’s program will cost $307,375 and be carried out from November through June.
Resort & Spa on 10/12 for the county’s first Salute to Teachers event. Tyler Wilkes, Amanda Sweigart, Megan Cotich, Cheryl Lastra, Jessica Zambrano, and Michelle Poquette were honored for their participation in the Teacher Induction Program. The mentor program pairs new teachers with veteran educators and is part of a statewide initiative to ensure classroom newbies are adequately supported, after a recent study found that nearly 22 percent of teachers left the profession after their first four years and cited “lack of support” as the main reason.
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essary fixes and improvements. On 10/15, the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved contracting with AECOM to oversee the design phase of the project, agreeing to pay no more than $150,000 for the work. It’s hoped the design phase will be completed in early 2014; construction will take around six months once a contract is awarded.
The process to enact a single-use plastic-bag ban for the county’s unincorporated areas will continue, after the supervisors voted 3-2 on 10/15. The ban would apply only to grocery stores, pharmacies, and liquor stores, and not to department stores, restaurants, or tasting rooms. The 74 affected stores would have to charge 10 FIGHTER: Tara Haaland-Ford is an outspoken opponent of cents for paper bags and make the city’s proposed gang injunction and is president of the reusable bags available. The Santa Barbara Teen Legal Clinic. issue will next come to the board in April 2014 for the presentation of a final environmental impact report. Diagnosed with stage-4 colon cancer in November, Santa Barbara defense attorney A two-part plan to address the county’s $300 Tara Haaland-Ford has battled through two million deferred maintenance backlog was surgeries and bouts of chemotherapy, and this Saturday she will be the beneficiary of the approved by the supervisors this week. The first annual Friendship Paddle fundraiser. Dozens part will see an outside contractor analyze all of supporters, individually and in relay teams, aspects of county buildings and parks, from will paddle their way from Santa Cruz Island electrical systems to plumbing; the second part to the Santa Barbara Yacht Club, the goal being will use the findings to develop budget planto raise $100,000 to help cover Haaland-Ford’s ning for the next 20 years. The $280,000 analymedical and living expenses while she’s out of sis, due in December, will be paid for out of the work. “When I woke up from surgery,” Haaland$1 million set aside for deferred maintenance. Ford explained, “I knew it was going to be a Fed up with the size of the backlog, Supervisor hard road, but in the end, I’m going to beat it.” Peter Adam has proposed a ballot initiative to To donate, visit tarasaysfuckcancer.com. require the board to better maintain countyowned buildings, parks, and roads. A trio of Santa Barbara County breweries took home medals from Denver at the Great EDUCATION American Beer Festival. With more than 800 breweries from around the United States subUCSB and Dos Pueblos High School students mitting more than 5,000 entries, the annual will advance to the final round of the country’s largest student-centered cyber security hacking affair is considered the nation’s top beer competition. For the fourth time in 10 years, competition at Polytechnic Institute of New York University next month. UCSB sophomore Firestone-Walker Brewing Company and brewmaster Matt “Merlin” Brynildson took Jake Corina, DPHS seniors Andrew Dutcher, home the esteemed prize of “Mid-Size Brewing Alex Meiburg, and Charlie Green, and DPHS sophomore John Grosen will travel to New York Company and Brewer of the Year,” an achievement further exhibited in the gold medals that for an all-expense-paid trip to compete with Firestone won for its Wookey Jack black rye IPA, more than a dozen other teams for cash prizes Pivo Hoppy Pils, and Taproom IPA and the silver and scholarships. A digital murder-mystery it received for the Union Jack IPA. Figueroa game, Department of Homeland Security Quiz, and other games to discover hardware vulnerMountain Brewing Company landed golds for abilities will be part of the three-day event its Davy Brown Ale and Stagecoach Stout and intended “to build an important workforce of silvers for the Surfliner Lager, Oktoberfest, and the future.” Stearn’s Dry Irish Stout. Telegraph Brewing Company took home a bronze for its flagship Hundreds filled a large banquet room at Bacara beer, the California Ale.
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