Holds Reality Tours for Two

By CHRISTIANNA MARKS christianna@atascaderonews.com

ATASCADERO — On

Monday, Feb. 27, and Monday, March 6, LIGHTHOUSE presented the community with two nights of Reality Tour. Reality Tour is a nationwide drug prevention program created by the nonprofit CANDLE Inc. Reality Tour used the Pavilion on the Lake to take participants through the stages of drug addiction through dramatization and discussions with professionals who’ve had firsthand experience when it comes to addiction.

“We’ve been putting on this production for roughly 14 years. I believe. It goes all the way back to when City Hall was relo- cated to the old bowling alley, and that was when we had our first two Reality Tours,” stated LIGHTHOUSE founding member, committee member, and Reality Tour Director Joe Allen.

Every year, LIGHTHOUSE puts on one to two free Reality Tours for the youth in

Atascadero, from sixth grade to 12th, aside from the two years they had to skip due to COVID.

NORTH COUNTY —

At the SLO County Board of Supervisors meeting held on Tuesday, Feb. 28, the board considered a Resolution of Necessity to acquire property interests required for the Dover Canyon Road Bridge replacement over Jack Creek Road in Paso Robles. District 3 Supervisor Dawn Ortiz-Legg was not in attendance for the vote.

Valerie Balster from Public Works gave the presentation to the Board of Supervisors.

“Today’s Resolution of Necessity Hearing Process will include receiving staff comments, taking testimony from property owners, and considering all the evidence in determining whether the real property interests are necessary for the project, confirming that the statutory offer has been made to the property owner, and adopting the Resolution of Necessity,” stated Balster.

She went on to explain that Necessity Hearing is the first step in a two-part process of exercising eminent domain and supports or determines the necessity of action in the Superior Court.

Necessity Criteria include: Does the public interest and necessity require the proposed project?

Is the project compatible with the greatest public good and least private injury?

Is the property necessary for the project?

Has an offer (required under Government Code 7267.2) been made to the owners?

“The purpose of this project is to replace an existing 100-year-old single-lane

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