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ATASCADERO GOSPEL CHAPEL

8205 Curbaril Ave. (corner of Curbaril & Atascadero Ave.): Sunday service at 10:30 a.m. Ted Mort, Pastor. (805) 466-0175. atascaderogospelchapel.org

AWAKENING WAYS SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY

A New Thought Spiritual Community. Living the Consciously Awakened Life. Rev. Elizabeth Rowley Hogue Sunday 10:00am at the Pavilion 9315 Pismo Way, Atascadero (805) 460-0762. awakeningways.org

GRACE CENTRAL COAST NORTH COUNTY CAMPUS

9325 El Bordo Avenue, Atascadero; Sunday Services at 9:30 and 11 a.m.; (805) 543-2358; gracecentralcoast.org; Helping people find and follow Jesus.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH

238 17th St. Paso Robles; Sunday Worship 10 a.m.; Sunday School 10 a.m.; Our Wednesday Testimony; Meeting is the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m.; Reading room-same location after services & by apportionment.

FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH

9925 Morro Road, Atascadero; "The Church on the Hill"; An independent church committed to the teaching of God's Word.; Praise and Prayer - 10 a.m.; Morning Worship - 11 a.m.; Evening Worship - 6 p.m.; Wednesday Prayer - 6:30 p.m.; Nursery care and children's classes provided.; Pastor Jorge Guerrero; (805) 461-9197.

GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH

535 Creston Road., Paso Robles ; (805) 238-3549 ; Dr. Gary M. Barker, Pastor; Goal of church: To teach Believers to love God and people.; Sundays: 9 a.m. Sunday School; 10 a.m. Fellowship; 10:30 a.m. Service; 6 p.m. Eve Service; Wednesdays: 7 p.m. prayer meeting.

HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH ELCA

A place of hope! Join us for in-person worship on Sundays at 9 A.M. Services are also streamed on our YouTube channel, Hope Lutheran Church Atascadero. We offer Sunday School for all ages after worship. Learn more at ourhopelutheran.net. 8005 San Gabriel Road, Atascadero. 805.461.0430. office@ourhopelutheran.org.

LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER-LCMS

4500 El Camino Real, Atascadero; 466-9350; Morning Bible class at 9 a.m. Sunday; Coffee and Sunday Worship with Holy Communion at 10 a.m. Sunday; Thursday morning Bible class 10 a.m. followed by refreshments and fellowship; Developmentally disabled Bible class 1st and 3rd Saturday mornings; redeemeratascadero.org; redeemeratascadero@gmail.com; Pastor Wayne Riddering.

PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, UCC

We honor ancient scriptures, responding to God’s contemporary call to be just and kind.; Join us for Worship Sunday, 10 a.m.; Church School Sunday, 10:15 a.m.; Coffee Fellowship 11 a.m.; Men’s Bible Study, Wednesday, 8 a.m.; Women’s Bible Study, Friday, 10 a.m.; Youth Group; 1301 Oak St., Paso Robles; (805) 238-3321.

ST. ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC CHURCH 820 Creston Road., Paso Robles; (805) 238-2218- Parish Office open Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; website: www.saintrosechurch.org; Mass times;Daily Mass- 12:00 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.; Tues. 7 p.m. Spanish; Saturday 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Spanish Vigil Mass; Sunday 8 a.m. & 10 a.m.; Spanish Mass at 12:30PM. Father Rudolfo Contreras.

TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH

940 Creston Road, Paso Robles; has Sunday worship services at 9:30 a.m; For more information, call the church at (805) 238-3702. Ext. 206.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF ATASCADERO

11605 El Camino Real, Atascadero; Sunday Service Time: 10 a.m.; Nurs-ery Care Provided:; 9:45 a.m.- 12:15 p.m.; Mid-week student ministry; PreK-12th grade Sept-April, Weds, 4 p.m.; (805) 466-2566; Pastor Steve Poteete-Marshall; atascaderoumc.org.

ST. LUKE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

513 Palma Ave., Atascadero; Sunday services: Holy Eucharist — 9 a.m., Taize — 8 p.m.; the Rev. W. Merritt Greenwood, interim director; the Rev. James Arnold, Deacon; the Rev. Jacqueline Sebro, Deacon; office (805) 466-0379, fax (805) 466-6399; website stlukesatascadero.org; email office@stlukesatascadero.org.

3250-D El Camino Real, Atascadero (805)(805) 466-1271 ftdrilling.com Looking Forward to the New Year

barbie butz

COLUMNIST

Ihope you and your family enjoyed a joyful Christmas. Here at our house we certainly did, and now we look forward to the New Year.

But, before we leave 2022, I have a few more thank yous to deliver for the Coats for Kids distribution on Dec. 10. Pete and Terresa Novak, owners of Atascadero Grocery Outlet generously donated snacks for our volunteers and Vons in Atascadero donated large plastic bags for those who registered to receive coats, jackets, sweaters, or sweatshirts. Those donations enabled us to use our funds for the purchase of new coats and jackets for the children.

Thank you, Vons and Grocery Outlet, for your community support. You are the reason North County is such a desirable place to live and work.

I have a potpourri of recipes this week. Hope you can find one or two to use for your New Year’s celebration.

Gorgonzola Walnut Rounds

Ingredients: • 1 narrow French bread baguette, frozen • 1/2 cup olive oil • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil or 2 teaspoons dried basil • 3 garlic cloves, minced • 1/4 pound walnuts • 1/3 pound Gorgonzola cheese, crumbled • Fresh basil leaves, chopped, for garnish Directions:

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Slice the bread in 1/4-inch slices. Combine olive oil, basil, and 2 of the garlic cloves, minced. Reserving 1 tablespoon, brush mixture on one side of each bread round. Bake until golden brown. Increase oven temperature to 350 degrees. In food processor, blend walnuts, 1 garlic clove, minced, and reserved oil until it reaches a pastelike consistency. Spread 2 teaspoons on the untoasted side of each bread round and top with crumbled cheese. Place in oven and bake until cheese bubbles. Sprinkle with chopped basil. Makes2-3 Dozen

Stilton Cheese Puffs

Ingredients: • 1 pound Stilton or other blueveined cheese, crumbles • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives • 1 (17-ounce) package frozen puff pastry, thawed according to package instructions (or 1 pound of your own recipe) Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine cheese and chives. Shape in 1-inch balls and freeze. Roll out puff pastry and cut out 2-inch rounds. Place a frozen cheese ball on half the rounds. Top with a second circle and pinch dough together at edges. Refreeze. Bake frozen pastries on ungreased cookie sheet for 20 minutes. Serve hot.

Roasted Pepper Spread

Ingredients: • 1 (7-ounce) jar roasted red peppers, drained • 1-2 jalapeňo chiles, seeded • 4 large green olives, pitted • 1 tablespoon fresh parsley • 2 teaspoons olive oil • 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice • Salt and pepper • French bread or sesame crackers Directions:

In food processor, finely chop peppers, olives, and parsley. Add olive oil and lemon juice and process just until mixed. Add salt and pepper to taste. Spread on French bread slices or sesame crackers.

Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes

Ingredients: • 1 pint cherry tomatoes • 1 pound bacon cut in 1-inch pieces • 1/4 cup mayonnaise 1/4 cup sour cream • 2 green onions, finely chopped • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley Directions:

Cut a thin slice off tops of tomatoes. With a small spoon, scoop out the centers and invert tomatoes on paper towels to drain. Fry bacon, drain well, and crumble. Combine mayonnaise and sour cream, add onions and parsley and stir well. Stir in bacon. Stuff tomatoes with bacon mixture.

Cheers for a Happy New Year!

Barbie Butz is an independent columnist for The Atascadero News and Paso Robles Press; you can email her at barbiewb@hotmail.com.

lee pitts

COLUMNIST

My idol in the cattle business has been dead now for over a century, but the lessons he taught are timeless. His name was Heinrich Kreiser, but that was before the man used his political influence to get his name changed by an act of the California legislature to Henry Miller. (This was the name of the ship that brought Henry from Germany to the U.S.) You might recognize Henry more by his nickname, “The Cattle King,” or by the ranching operation he built (with a Frenchman named Charles Lux) called Miller and Lux.

Henry was a German butcher who was making a nice living feeding the gold miners and the gold rich boomtown that itself had gone through a name change from Yerba Buena to San Francisco. It didn’t take long for Henry to see there was

My Idol

more money to be made raising cattle than butchering them. So he spent $1.15 per acre buying up old Spanish Land grants and when he died he owned 1.4 million acres, making him the largest landowner in the U.S. (He controlled 14 million acres or 22,00 square miles). Using irrigation, he began transforming California’s San Joaquin Valley into the richest farmland in the world and when he died he was also the largest farmer in the country. He owned nearly 80,000 head of cattle plus all that land and was worth $40 million, or a cool $1 billion in today’s money.

It was said that Henry could start at the Mexican border and ride in his buckboard, (never horseback) to British Columbia and sleep on his land and eat his own beef every night. But I doubt this story because Miller would never eat his own cattle but would dine on his neighbor’s beef instead.

A man after my own heart, Henry Miller got rich by being a penny-pincher. For example, there was a law in California at the time that proclaimed that state land that was subject to flooding and could be crossed by boat was worth less money. So Henry built a boat, mounted it on a wagon and ‘boated’ all over the state buying prime land for pennies on the dollar. I guess you could say Henry Miller was a “Land Pirate.”

When visiting his far flung empire Miller would go through cookhouse garbage to see if cooks were wasting food by being too aggressive in peeling the potatoes. If the peelings were too thick the cook got canned. There is also the well-documented story of how one day while being driven in his wagon across one of his ranches he stopped at a wire gate and in a fit of rage he retrieved his axe from the wagon and proceeded to chop the recently built gate into pieces and when he got back to ranch headquarters he fired the foreman and the cowboy who’d built the gate because he squandered Henry’s money by building the gate out of finished lumber.

Although he was kind to his horses, he didn’t like for them to be too gentle because that made them easier to steal. He called well trained horses, “sheepherder horses.” Henry also assailed another foreman for using two cats to kill mice when one would do the job just as well. It was said that Henry lived to be almost 90 years old because he wanted to put off for as long as possible the costs associated with a funeral.

All of these stories are well-documented but there’s one story that may or may not be true but it sounds like something The Cattle King would do. With two friends, Henry went to pay his last respects to a fellow rancher. As the three men looked at the body in repose in a coffin one rancher said, “Where I came from in Italy it’s a custom to leave a few dollars in the casket so that when the deceased met St. Peter he’d have some bribe money to buy his way into heaven.”

So the man tucked $10 under Henry’s pillow. The second friend did likewise but when it came to Henry’s turn, the tightwad wrote the deceased a check for forty dollars, placed it under the pillow and took back the $20 in change.

Lee Pitts is an independent columnist for The Atascadero News and Paso Robles Press; email leepitts@leepittsbooks.com.

The Greatest News the World Has Ever Heard – Luke 2:10-16

dr. gary m. barker

COLUMNIST

It is indeed an exclusive and unique statement to say that a particular announcement to the world was the greatest ever heard. However, I personally believe that the angelic announcement to the shepherds, as recorded in Luke 2:10-11 was the greatest news ever heard. It was angelic, which means its source was from God. Angels are messengers of God. God desired that the message of “good tidings of great joy” concerning the birth of the savior would cause all the people in the world to greatly rejoice. God was going to provide the solution to man’s greatest need which was deliverance from the condemnation of sin.

The savior of the world would be named Jesus, who would “save His people from their sins” (Luke 2:10, Matthew 1:21, 1 Timothy 1:15). Jesus told His disciples that God sent Him into the world to save sinners from being condemned (John 3:1618, 5:24). Jesus would provide salvation thru His substitutionary death for sin on Calvary’s cross. Jesus’ life on earth began with his birth in Bethlehem and ended with His death for sin in Jerusalem (1 Corinthians 15:15, Luke 23:34-47).

The condemnation of sin would be overcome by the forgiveness of sin that Jesus’ death would provide. After Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, He commanded His disciples to proclaim to all nations that forgiveness of sins could be received (Luke 24:4547). Salvation would provide forgiveness of sin which is man’s greatest need (Acts 13:38-39, Ephesians1:6-7, 4:31-32, 1 John 2:12). God’s wonderful grace that provided salvation (Titus 2:11) teaches us that salvation is a gift to be received and can never be earned by good works (Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 3:2324).

The greatest news ever heard is that Jesus is the only savior who by grace has provided forgiveness of sin which is received by simple faith in His death for sin and His resurrection from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:15, Romans 10:9-13). Christmas is a special time of year to share this good news. This good news will result in receiving many gifts from God that will last forever, if you personally believe it.

Lessons to be Learned

• Jesus was born to become the savior of the world. • Salvation provides forgiveness of sin, which is man’s greatest need. • Salvation is provided by God’s grace and is received as a free gift thru faith: Ephesians 2:8-9, John 3:16-18.

Dr. Gary Baker is an independent columnist for The Atascadero News and Paso Robles Press; you can email him at pastor@gracebaptistpaso.org.