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Ribbons on city-owned trees spark a debate in Grover Beach

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rover Beach and Arroyo Grande residents put blue ribbons on city-owned trees after the active shooter incident in Paso Robles on June 10 and 11 to support the local law enforcement personnel who were injured while responding.

The act sparked a ribbon back-and-forth between those supporting Blue Lives Matter and those in support of Pride Month. The debate ended with Grover Beach city officials intervening and reminding the community that personal property cannot be placed on cityowned property.

In the last several months, Grover Beach City Manager Matt Bronson said, the community has been going through the same things the rest of the nation has: a global pandemic and the related economic impacts, as well as reactions to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis coupled with the pain that many residents feel and are expressing about injustice.

“These are legitimate concerns that people have. We’re very concerned and disappointed by how people have been sharing and expressing these concerns outside of the peaceful free speech that we protect and enshrine in our community,” Bronson said.

Through social media posts on the Protect Five Cities Facebook page, city officials became aware that residents decided to place blue ribbons on trees in the two cities along Branch Street and Grand Avenue starting the weekend of June 13. Bronson said the city then learned that other residents began putting up multicolored ribbons—some were placed around the existing blue ribbons—to create a rainbow supporting Pride Month. Residents who put up the blue ribbons then began to take down the rainbow ribbons.

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removing said ribbons and confronting others who were placing rainbow ribbons on trees,” he said.

Individuals in the Protect Five Cities Facebook group, Bronson said, stated that the rainbows co-opted the blue ribbons and their support of law enforcement.

Shelley Wood told New Times that she and her friend Bonnie Evans decided to put up blue ribbons after one of the administrators for the Protect Five Cities Facebook group called on its members to go out and show their support and respect for local law enforcement involved in the Paso Robles incident. Wood said the Protect Paso, Protect Atascadero, and Protect Santa Maria groups joined the act of support.

“My heart was in the place of supporting people, and I never intended for anyone else to feel hurt or unsupported through our actions. We wanted to say to the law enforcement here, ‘We appreciate you and we honor all that hard work,’” Wood said.

When she found that the blue ribbons COMMUNITY DEBATE The city of Grover Beach were covered, Wood said she felt hurt and called a time-out on community members arguing over placing ribbons on city-owned trees. angry.

“I didn’t understand why anyone would At that point, Bronson stepped in via the try to cover the support we had placed,” city of Grover Beach’s Facebook page to say she said. that individual items are not permitted on cityWood posted an eight-second video on Protect owned property, including trees, and are subject Five Cities of her friend cutting down the multito removal. colored ribbons off the tree, leaving their initial “It was unfortunate that the city had to step blue ribbon intact.

She didn’t post the video to “bash anyone,” she in and do this, but given what was transpiring, we felt that we had to step in as a city and really said, but to show “loyalty to all those who put call time-out and urge people to show their hours and hours in putting them up.” The video support for their causes—be it law enforcement, was shared, and Wood said it was interpreted as a representation of hateful action against the first responders, Black Lives Matter, and other causes—on their own property,” he said.

LGBTQ community—which she said it wasn’t.

The video of Wood and her friend was shared The backlash was immediate, calling for Wood on the SLO County Protest Watch Facebook to be fired from her place of employment. page along with another video of a woman “It looks so terrible without context, but it confronting underage girls putting up the literally had nothing to do with people the ribbons represented, just uncovering the blues ones,” Wood multi-colored ribbons. The mother of the girls asked New Times to keep her name anonymous said. “Through this, people I have never ever for safety concerns. She said she felt the blue met began to make calls, emails, and Facebook ribbons were put up in direct opposition to the messages to my past brokers saying I hated gay Black Lives Matter marches. people, and that I should be fired, also calling me “We kind of just wanted to illustrate what a racist and many other derogatory depictions.” it feels like when people say ‘all lives matter,’ Woods removed her account, she said, for because you know that’s exactly what the safety reasons after receiving threats and one rainbow ribbons did,” she said. death threat.

She said she and her daughters split up to “It has been so challenging; I have cried and tie the ribbons, but a woman approached the cried for days trying to figure out how to resolve girls and asked them if they were putting up this and explain our intentions,” she said. the ribbons in support of the Black Lives Matter The social media ribbon conversation began movement. She said the woman also shamed the to escalate when the Protect Five Cities group girls for the rainbow ribbons. started talking about putting up ribbons that “I’ve lived here for 18 years and this is the were harder to remove—such as using blue duct first time I’ve had a fairly nasty interaction with tape or putting the ribbons higher up on the the public and I feel like that’s, … this is what trees with ladders. our president has done. I mean he’s turned even “We also saw a post from somebody that the happiest place in the country to a divided advocated for putting poison oak on the blue place,” she said. Δ ribbons so that if somebody tried to remove —Karen Garcia them, they would have a nasty surprise,” Grover NEWS continued page 4 Beach City Manager Bronson said.

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Church removes Serra statue from Mission Plaza—for its protection

When images and videos emerged on June 22 of men wheeling away the statue of Junipero Serra from San Luis Obispo Mission Plaza, activists who’ve long called for the sculpture’s removal rejoiced.

Mayor Heidi Harmon applauded the church on Instagram that day, writing, “It appears that they have proactively taken down the sculpture, … so grateful to see this painful reminder removed from our public space.”

But on June 23, the Catholic Church, through its Diocese of Monterey, clarified that local faith leaders actually removed the statue to protect it from vandalism.

In the past week, activists in San Francisco and Los Angeles forcefully toppled statues of Serra in public parks, while city leaders in Ventura called for one’s removal outside of City Hall. A petition to remove the SLO Mission statue launched on June 22; it had 38 signatures at press time.

Monterey Bishop Daniel E. Garcia said in a June 23 statement that “it is unclear exactly what groups are attacking these and other Serra statues throughout the state,” but that the church won’t “support the violent destruction of sacred symbols of any faith community.”

As a precautionary measure, Garcia said several mission pastors have “repositioned some statues of St. Junipero Serra.”

“This was done to protect them from possible desecration by violence,” he said.

Activists and protesters nationwide have called for the removal of various statues of historic figures who are perceived as symbols of racism and white supremacy.

As the founder of the Spanish mission system, Serra brought Roman Catholicism to California in the late 18th century. While he was canonized by the church in 2015, his detractors argue he’s a figurehead of Native American genocide and oppression.

“I feel it is right to remove a statue of someone who led the enslavement, destruction of culture, and genocide of California’s indigenous tribes,” wrote SLO resident Theresa Slobodnik on the SLO County Protest Watch Facebook page.

Garcia’s statement defended Serra’s legacy while also noting that his status as a saint “did not intend to bless all that happened in the missions from their beginning to the end.”

“After exhaustive investigation, it is clear St. Serra made heroic sacrifices to protect the indigenous people of California from their Spanish conquerors and soldiers,” Garcia said.

Erika Yanez, a spokesperson for the Diocese of Monterey, said the missions are currently “reviewing how to best safeguard all their sacred objects, including the statues.”

—Peter Johnson

Amid budget shortfalls, all SLO County cities consider tax hikes

The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on everyone’s wallets, and with most SLO County cities already feeling major revenue losses and forecasting

VIEWER DISCRETION more to come, it’s clear that municipalities aren’t immune.

Now, every city in the county is considering putting some kind of tax increase on the November ballot, a strategy that could help fill in the gaps left by coronavirus-related shortfalls.

“We have seen a significant downturn in estimated revenues,” Grover Beach City Manager Matt Bronson said at a June 22 City Council meeting, “$700,000 in this current fiscal year and $800,000 next fiscal year— all tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic impact.”

At the meeting, Grover Beach City Council members showed broad support for putting a proposed 1 percent sales tax increase on the November ballot, which would increase the city’s current tax from 7.75 percent to 8.75 percent. That, according to a city staff report, would make the city’s sales tax on par with what’s charged in Santa Maria and other regions neighboring SLO County, and would generate an estimated $1.8 million annually.

“I would add that every city is also looking at some kind of tax measure for this upcoming ballot for many of the same reasons,” Bronson said at the meeting.

“Unmet community needs, infrastructure needs, or, in some cases, balancing the budget.”

Most SLO County cities are considering or have already approved ballot measures that propose similar tax hikes. Morro Bay, Paso Robles, and San Luis Obispo are also considering measures that would increase their sales taxes by 1 percent.

On June 2, Pismo Beach City Council approved a ballot measure that would increase the city’s transient occupancy tax—the tax charged to visitors staying in hotels and other lodging facilities— from 10 to 11 percent.

Increasing the transient occupancy tax makes sense for a city like Pismo, Bronson said, where those taxes make up about 45 percent of Pismo’s roughly $24 million general fund. But the revenue generated by those funds is much less significant in Grover Beach and other SLO County cities.

A general sales tax would provide a more consistent funding source in a city like Grover Beach, which Bronson said has a number of needed projects—road and sidewalk repairs, emergency response improvements, assistance for local struggling businesses—that are currently lacking the necessary funding.

Though it’s a hard time for everyone, Bronson said the city estimates that about 40 percent of the sales tax generated in Grover Beach is paid for by tourists, so the burden wouldn’t be entirely on locals.

“We are very sensitive to the financial difficulties that everyone is experiencing,” Bronson told New Times, later adding, “Ultimately it’ll be a decision that the voters make.”

On July 20, the Grover Beach City Council will decide whether to put the tax measure on the ballot. Arroyo Grande is slated to discuss its own 1 percent sales tax increase on July 14.

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It’s been 14 years since Arroyo Grande’s last sales tax increase, according to acting City Manager Bill Robeson, who said about 88 percent of cities in California have higher sales taxes than Arroyo Grande. An increase from 7.75 percent to 8.75 would generate about $4 million each year, he said, money that could be used to fund a number of needed infrastructure and maintenance projects.

But Frank Schiro, owner of Arroyo Grande’s Rooster Creek Tavern, said at the June 23 City Council meeting that local businesses can’t afford to lose customers over an increased sales tax.

Businesses are facing low profit margins because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Schiro said he gets complaints daily about the prices in his bar. When customers see the sales tax on a receipt, Schiro said, they blame the business.

“The city will not get the bad Yelp that says, ‘I will never be back,’” he said at the meeting.”

Still, most council members, including Lan George, said they felt the measure should at least go on the ballot.

“I just don’t see a clear way for us to save our way out of this situation,” George said, “and save our way into a stronger budget.”

—Kasey Bubnash

R.A.C.E. Matters SLO demands get mixed reactions

Following the May 25 death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis and the ensuing protests against systemic racism, local nonprofit R.A.C.E. Matters SLO put forth a series of demands to SLO County and its seven cities that target police reform.

The demands, which have nearly 7,000 signatures in support at press time, call for a ban on chokeholds, diverting funds away from law enforcement, and establishing civilian review boards to oversee police departments, among other actions.

The petition set June 19 as the deadline for cities and the county to respond.

“Really for us, it’s a statement of

values,” R.A.C.E. Matters SLO co-founder Courtney Haile told New Times about the demands. “And it’s a call to action for governing bodies.”

With the deadline passed, Haile said the group has corresponded with a majority of the local municipalities, with each taking varying degrees of action in response.

At recent city council meetings in SLO and Morro Bay, the cities separately declared racism a public health emergency—one of the group’s demands.

In addition, SLO Police Chief Deanna Cantrell announced she’d suspended the use of carotid restraints (when an officer puts pressure on the carotid arteries on the neck). Both cities will also explore starting civilian oversight boards.

“I think we have a new opportunity to make a difference here,” Morro Bay City Councilmember Dawn Addis said during the June 23 discussion on the demands.

While R.A.C.E. Matters SLO is in contact in some capacity with the remaining cities, Haile said the leadership has received no response from SLO County or the Sheriff’s Office.

Officials from both agencies did not respond to requests for comment from New Times before press time.

“All I can say is I haven’t heard anything,” Haile said.

Haile acknowledged that some of the action items in the demands won’t happen overnight. But she said the petition represents the organization’s vision for change, and that “we look forward to collaborating on long-term strategies in this vein.”

“R.A.C.E. Matters felt a responsibility to rise to this occasion and have a clear vision when we are marching in the streets of what justice looks like here,” she said. “We want to inspire local action to get cities thinking about what their role is in supporting an environment where black and brown people can thrive.”

—Peter Johnson

Grover Beach considers easing ADU restrictions

Grover Beach is considering an ordinance that city staff say would make it easier for residents to build accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and tiny homes, an effort that staff say would increase the city’s limited affordable housing supply.

At a meeting on June 22, Grover Beach City Council discussed a number of changes to the city’s municipal code that would ease regulatory barriers and costs for the development of ADUs and streamline the city’s ADU approval process. The changes, according to senior planner Rafael Castillo, would bring Grover Beach into compliance with recently passed state laws that require local municipalities to allow the development of ADUs, a strategy for mitigating the state’s housing shortage.

“These ADUs are really key for us, the city of Grover Beach, to hit our targeted goals for very low- and low-income units,” Castillo said at the June 22 meeting.

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transit to provide parking for the unit, according to a city staff report, and it would eliminate development impact frees for ADUs that are 750 square feet or less, among other changes.

The ordinance would also allow for the development of junior ADUs that are fully contained within an existing residence, and would give the green light to temporary tiny homes on residential lots.

If the changes are approved by City Council at the next regular meeting, Castillo said it’s estimated that about 180 ADUs would be built by 2028, half of which would qualify as low-income units. The rest would likely be used as moderate-income housing.

That would be a big help for the city, which has a goal, from the Regional Housing Needs Allocation, of adding 148 very low- and low-income housing units to Grover’s housing stock by 2028.

At the June 22 meeting, the proposed changes received support from Grover Beach City Council members, including Mariam Shah, who said she was glad to hear that ADUs could propel the city toward its affordable housing goals.

“That’s really good news,” Shah said at the meeting. “That could help us a lot.”

—Kasey Bubnash

Morro Bay plans to temporarily close half of the Embarcadero

At its June 23 meeting, Morro Bay City Council looked into completely and partially closing the Embarcadero, as part of a larger discussion about creative ways to use public space to assist local businesses and promote public health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The council agreed to close the southbound lane to vehicles between Harbor and Marina streets—closing onstreet and dead-end parking. Portions of on-street parking will be made available for deliveries.

The Embarcadero was analyzed for the potential closure, City Manager Scott Collins said, as it’s been closed before and used for events such as the Avocado and Margarita Festival. Collins said the city has heard concerns from business owners on the Embarcadero about parking and deliveries.

Gregory Siragusa, co-owner of the Gallery at Marina Square, submitted a public comment letter in opposition of any closure that would limit access to businesses. Siragusa said his customer demographic includes individuals who have mobility issues or have limitations in how far they can walk and move from the street.

“We all have suffered significant cash-flow issues arising due to reduced customer flows and months of being closed, the reality is that any cutting of customer access to our business may be fatal to us, and many other businesses just like us,” he said.

The project will cost the city about $15,000 to $20,000 for material and equipment, and city staff would be used to set up the barricades and associated traffic control. The closure will leave approximately 20 feet of street width for pedestrian and bicycle traffic and will be implemented ahead of the Fourth of July weekend. ∆ —Karen Garcia

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uring public comment at the Paso Robles City Council meeting on June 16, Alexis Nocerino questioned the council’s funding decisions for the Paso Robles Police Department.

“Why are so many taxpayer dollars pointing toward law enforcement agencies? ... As an institution they clearly lack the proper training and knowledge of how to protect and serve, especially considering most recent events,” Nocerino said. “All of you need to check your privilege and your priorities because they do not align with those of the people.”

She urged the council to divest from law enforcement agencies and reinvest in the Paso Robles community, stating, “There is clearly a disparity of trust between community members and law enforcement.”

Nocerino isn’t alone in the call to “defund the police,” a sentiment that’s swept across the country in the wake of recent protests against police brutality.

Local scrutiny of police funding also came up at the Paso council meeting in light of to the two-day search for Mason James Lira, 26, who police say shot and killed a community member. Several law enforcement officers were injured before the search ended June 11 with Lira’s death.

The phrase “defund” has different meanings for different people, according to Paso Robles Police Chief Ty Lewis. It can mean reallocating funds from law enforcement agencies to other community services, police reform, or disbanding law enforcement altogether. Lewis said he understands it as injecting more money into social programs designed to lift people out of their challenges—to improve their quality of life.

“I’m totally for directing city resources to examine, do we need new social programs that would improve things or how do we deal with our at-risk youth within the community,” Lewis said. “It’s tough because a lot of police departments make up the majority or at least a significant portion of a city budget.”

Currently, about 23 percent of Paso Robles’ budget is allocated to the police department. Lewis said his department is full-service, meaning his officers respond to a number of calls, including partnering with the SLO County Behavioral Health Department to assist community members who suffer from mental health issues.

“I think the frustration that I have as a police chief is so many of these conversations are ‘A or B,’ and you only have one choice. I think that there’s room for coming up with a discussion surrounding a blending of the two. I don’t know that it has to be so binary,” he said.

The current rallies and protests, he said, underscore the work that still needs to be done.

Lewis handles his department with a proactive policing approach—looking

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internally to find ways to improve.

About two years ago, the Paso Robles Police Department reached out to various law enforcement agencies and residents to analyze its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, trends, and threats. Through that assessment, the department created a strategic plan to provide services that align with the needs of the community.

“It’s getting close to the time for us to re-evaluate that, pull it off the shelf, and ask, ‘Were these the right goals, were these the right strategies, were these the right initiatives, and how much did we accomplish or miss?’” he said.

Reallocating funds isn’t simple, SLO County Behavioral Health Director Anne Robin said. For instance, some funding for SLO County’s Department of Mental Health comes from Medi-Cal. The federal Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services contracts with the state of California. The state then contracts with its counties,

partners in law enforcement throughout the county has made somewhat of a difference in the understanding of law enforcement around people with mental health needs,” she said.

On June 12, a day after the search for Lira ended, TMHA posted on its Facebook page about Lira’s mental health issues. TMHA Community Engagement Director Michael Kaplan told New Times that a number of people had reached out to the organization because they were disturbed by the way the media and some people in law enforcement weren’t addressing Lira’s mental health.

Lira’s father, Jose Lira, told the Associated Press that his son was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Asperger’s syndrome, and attention deficit disorder.

During a press briefing on June 10, Sheriff Ian Parkinson called Lira a “coward” for firing at his officers. Kaplan said that was one of the concerns that people brought up.

“My understanding is that Sheriff Parkinson said those things without yet knowing the man’s background.

We have an excellent relationship with the sheriff’s department and the police department. We have worked really hard in the last year on different programs and trainings,” he said.

He said through the Facebook post, TMHA was interested in providing a “counterbalance” to the narratives surrounding the shooting incidents—not calling anyone out.

The phrase ‘defund’ has different meanings for different people … It can mean reallocating funds from law enforcement agencies to other community services, police reform, or disbanding law enforcement altogether. which run mental health services as well as drug and alcohol services for people who are beneficiaries of Medi-Cal. Those funds, Robin said, are matched by state and local dollars.

Another chunk of funding comes from the state’s Mental Health Services Act, a 1 percent tax on millionaires that’s primarily directed toward mental health services. Locally, some Mental Health Services Act funding goes to the Transitions-Mental Health Association (TMHA), which provides adult services and a homeless outreach program.

Wilshire Health and Community Services and the Family Care Network also receive funding through the act.

The Behavioral Health Department partners with local mental health organizations such as TMHA and law enforcement agencies to provide wraparound services in the community.

“As a Behavioral Health staff, we partner closely with the [SLO County Sheriff’s Office], with [the SLO Police Department], probation, and with the [SLO County District Attorney’s Office].

We partner with them on behalf of our clients to ensure that our clients are served well, and we partner for public safety so that we can ensure more of our clients get treatment,” Robin said.

The department also conducts 40-hour crisis intervention team training with all of the law enforcement agencies in the county.

“So I think having that value from our

TMHA assisted in creating and continues to participate in the SLO Police Department’s Community Action Team. The program pairs a uniformed police officer with a non-uniformed social worker, and the duo responds to calls about homeless individuals. The Sheriff’s Office, Kaplan said, replicated the model in North County and is working directly with the county’s Behavioral Health Department.

Pam Zweifel, president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) San Luis Obispo County, said that while the “defund” movement is well-meaning, she doesn’t believe anyone should rush into any type of defunding until they have a chance to see how the community has come together to provide mental health services. NAMI SLO County also works with Behavioral Health and law enforcement.

“I do not think cutting the sheriff’s budget is the way to go about it. There just isn’t that much in his budget that allows for funds to be diverted, and if they are, it’ll be [from] my program,” Zweifel said. “It’ll be the crisis intervention training, sheriff’s officers on school campuses, and community action teams that respond to mental health crises in communities.” ∆ Staff Writer Karen Garcia can be reached at kgarcia@newtimesslo.com.

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‘Your vote is your dollar’ The political beliefs of local business owners are becoming harder to ignore, and it can make or break relationships with customers

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s a few hundred SLO County residents prepared to march through Grover Beach and Arroyo Grande in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in early June, a few business owners were getting ready for what they feared could become violent riots.

Some boarded up the windows of their businesses or closed up shop, and others, including John Hackleman, owner of the The Pit Martial Arts and Fitness, took more drastic measures. Armed with guns and walkie-talkies, at least two of Hackleman’s friends stood on the roof of his downtown Arroyo Grande gym, while other unarmed individuals stood outside the business on ground level.

Although Hackleman claims the guns weren’t loaded and that protesters didn’t even walk past his businesses that day, photos of the gunmen on his rooftop spread quickly on social media, along with emotive and seemingly anti-BLM videos Hackleman posted before and after the June 5 protest.

That led many to call for a boycott of The Pit. The owner of Sally Loo’s Wholesome Café in SLO, Jennifer Fullarton, faced a similar reckoning after she posted antiBLM content to her once public personal Instagram account.

Screenshots of those posts went viral on June 12, leading hundreds of community members to declare online that they’d never set foot in Sally Loo’s again. An apology Fullarton posted to the Sally Loo’s account days later—in which she clarified that while she’s not racist or opposed to the LGBTQ-plus community, she can’t support what she said is BLM’s “goal to nullify the two-parent family”— only seemed to make things worse.

Now lists of other local businesses that supposedly don’t support the BLM movement or that believe the COVID-19 pandemic is a hoax are circulating online.

On the other hand, businesses that too aggressively enforce face covering rules are being marked as places conservatives should avoid.

Such word-of-mouth campaigns are a local trend that San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce President Jim Dantona said has been playing out for years but is now being exacerbated by social media and our increasingly polarized politics.

Technology and social media have made it easier than ever for everyone to make their opinions—and the opinions of others—known, and since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the death of Minneaopolis resident George Floyd, it feels like everyone has something they want to say online. Business owners aren’t immune to having thoughts and feelings, but publicly taking a political stance as the face of a business comes with the risk of losing customers.

“Capitalism is still a democracy in that your vote is your dollar,” Dantona told New Times. “Everybody has the freedom of speech, but that doesn’t come with the freedom of repercussions.”

The idea of putting your money where your values are is one that’s caught on more in recent years, Dantona said, at least partly because social media makes it easy for businesses to share their views and for customers to react. According to a 2017 survey conducted by Sprout Social, a software company dedicated to social media analytics, roughly 66 percent of the 1,000 U.S. consumers surveyed said it’s important for brands to take a public stand on political issues. About 61 percent said it’s important for that stance to be pushed out on social media.

That’s good for consumers who Dantona said should be supporting businesses that champion beliefs and ideals that align with their own. It’s also a good way to hold business owners accountable, he said. Had there been gunmen at The Pit during a protest in the ’80s, Dantona said protesters might have witnessed it but would have had to have a real camera on hand to take a photo, and even then the photo would have been difficult to disseminate.

But there are, of course, downsides to the efficiency and permanency of social media.

Dantona said he wonders how accurate these lists of local businesses that support this and oppose that really are.

Content on the internet is often untrue or taken out of context, and he hopes community members will do their own research before vowing to shun any local businesses for good, especially at a time like this, when small businesses are just trying to recover from coronavirusrelated closures and hits.

And sometimes, he said, businesses face backlash for things they have no control over.

Though there’s now a state mandate requiring Californians to wear face coverings in public, some SLO County residents online say they’ll attempt to go to a number of local businesses without masks, and only support those that allow it.

A lot of local businesses in SLO were also criticized for boarding up their windows during peaceful BLM protests, even though Dantona said that in some cases it was the owner of the building—not the business owner—who decided to board up.

Dantona said it’s important that consumers have their facts straight before taking to the internet.

“Our business owners don’t need anything else thrown at them,” Dantona said.

That’s Hackleman’s biggest issue with the community response to his way of protecting The Pit: He doesn’t feel people interpreted his actions and words correctly.

He wasn’t sure what the June 5 protest would be like, and had heard about protests turning violent or destructive in other cities throughout the nation.

After COVID-19, which Hackleman said resulted in about $50,000 in losses over the course of three months, he couldn’t afford any damage to his building.

Hackleman said he’s not racist—some of the people protecting his business on June 5 were people of color, he said—

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but that’s why many people say they’re boycotting his business.

“If you say it’s racist because John had two Asians and two Mexicans protecting his gym,” Hackleman told New Times, “you have a screw loose.”

Though Hackleman said he did lose a few customers over the whole saga, including Grover Beach City Councilmember Mariam Shah, who said in a now deleted Facebook post that she would no longer take her son to The Pit, Hackleman said he’s actually seen a net gain in customers overall.

“I think the people who are boycotting are the worst kinds of bullies in the world,” Hackleman told New Times.

“Because they’re trying to make someone lose their business.”

But Cheryl Storton, president of the South County Democrats Club, said that’s all just part of free speech.

As a former small-business owner herself, Storton said she gets it. If she still had her business today, she’d be posting signs in support of the BLM movement all over, and she’d expect to lose business over it. No matter what side you’re on, she said, there’s no way everyone will agree with you. And while some businesses can afford to lose customers, others certainly can’t.

“People with a small business are their small business,” Storton said.

“They are. They’re just entwined. And I support them if they want to peacefully and nonthreateningly take a stand. But beware: There are consequences.”

Her advice?

“A friend once told me, ‘Never pass up an opportunity to shut your mouth.’” ∆ Staff Writer Kasey Bubnash can be reached at kbubnash@newtimesslo.com.

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Wednesday Morning, July 1st 9:00 A.M.

Introductions, public comments and communications to the Committee; Committee business session including acceptance of Minutes of the DCISC’s February 12-13, 2020 public meeting, an update on financial matters and activities during 2020, review of the Open Items List, nomination and election of Chair and Vice Chair to serve for the July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 term, reports and scheduling of future activities by Committee Members; receive, approve and authorize transmittal of a fact-finding report to PG&E for the March 2020 fact-finding visit to Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP); and review of administrative, regulatory and legal matters.

Wednesday Afternoon, July 1st 1:30 P.M.

Introductions, public comments and communications to the Committee; informational presentations by PG&E officials on plant safety and operations, including the “State of the Plant” concerning key events, organizational changes, and station activities since February 2020; DCPP’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic; and an update on NRC Performance Indicators, recent Licensee Event Reports, NRC Notices of Violation and issues raised by NRC Resident Inspectors; and receive, approve and authorize transmittal of a fact-finding report to PG&E for the April 2020 fact-finding visit to DCPP.

Wednesday Evening, July 1st 5:30 P.M.

Public comments and communications to the Committee; receive informational presentations requested by the DCISC, including by The B. John Garrick Institute of Risk Sciences-UCLA Engineering and by PG&E concerning the Spent Fuel Risk Study and results, and comments on the plans for procurement of new spent fuel dry storage canisters; and a presentation by Committee Member Dr. Robert J. Budnitz on Dr. Budnitz’ evaluation of the Spent Fuel Risk Study.

Thursday Morning, July 2nd 9:00 A.M.

Introductions, public comments and communications to Committee; informational presentations by PG&E officials on plant safety and operations, including causes and corrective actions for the February 2020 Unit-2 forced outage including issues occurring during shutdown; and plans for the 22nd refueling outage for Unit-1 (1R22); receive, approve and authorize transmittal of a fact-finding report to PG&E for the May 2020 fact-finding visit to DCPP.

Thursday Afternoon, July 2nd 1:00 P.M. Introductions, public comments and communications to Committee; further informational presentations by PG&E officials on plant safety and operations, including recent human performance issues in the Operations Department and the causes and corrective actions; and a report on the Integrated Risk Assessment process; wrap-up discussion by Committee members and confirmation of future site visits, study sessions and public meetings.

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SHINING BRIGHT As they go over the Cuesta Grade, drivers on Highway 101 can see Lyle Nighswonger’s peace sign made from an old satellite dish.

BY PETER JOHNSON

Promoting peace

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hile a pandemic and social divisions are seemingly pushing many Americans to the brink, San Luis Obispo County resident Lyle Nighswonger has an alternative message to convey. It’s one of peace and unity, and the longtime local has a unique platform to reach thousands of people each day.

Atop the Cuesta Grade, drivers on Highway 101 can get a glimpse of Nighswonger’s peace sign. It’s 10 feet in diameter, built with the outer ring of an old satellite dish and 66 feet of stringed lights, and it’s lit up 24/7 by solar panels.

“It’s on my property,” explained Nighswonger, a solar electrician who’s lived on the Cuesta Ridge since 1993.

“I really like it because it can be seen from the freeway. Just after you pass the grade, maybe a couple hundred yards, you can see it for a few seconds.”

Nighswonger got the idea to build the sign about four years ago during Christmas season. He said he doesn’t remember exactly what inspired the project, except that “I thought at the time it was something that was needed.”

“I really am a peaceful person,” he said.

“And even though politically I’m very left, I try to get along with everybody. And I think that’s what we need.”

Nighswonger originally intended to just display the sign during the month of December to commemorate the holidays.

But when his wife, Terri, passed away from cancer in 2017, Nighswonger decided “to just keep it on all the time.” To achieve that, he had to upgrade the sign’s solar panels, which sit atop a shed, and run the power cable through conduit to protect it from rats and other critters.

“It’s now been on for a year and half without any interruption,” Nighswonger said. “I love to hear feedback about it, how different people see it.”

While the sign has received near universal appreciation since it went up, it carries even more weight and meaning during this current moment of COVID-19 and social unrest. Nighswonger said he hopes it reminds people to treat one another with respect and common decency despite our differences.

“I would hope,” he said. “We can’t even have a dialogue without politics [entering into it].”

The peace sign has been embraced by many locals. George Sullivan, a resident of the Santa Margarita area, told New Times that it is an inspiring symbol to him and

others who drive the grade regularly.

“It affords a very subjective positive thought,” Sullivan said. “Everyone’s going to take it a little differently. I just know that a lot of people, when they drive over the grade and they see that, it’s a remembrance that there are people thinking positively.

It’s out of context from what you hear on the news and people’s daily pressures.”

Sullivan said that while he’s on the opposite end of the political spectrum as Nighswonger as a conservative, he appreciates the sign’s nonpartisan, unifying message, as well as the resourcefulness and initiative it took to display it.

“I’ve always admired him for putting it up,” Sullivan said. “Kudos to him for putting that bright light on a hill.”

As for its future, Nighswonger said he has no intention of turning off the sign anytime soon.

“I’m hoping I haven’t broken any sign rules,” he said with a chuckle. “Who’s not for peace?”

Fast facts

• Two Broads Cider Company is raising money through a Kickstarter campaign to complete construction of its first tasting room. The local hard cidery owned by Maggie Przybylski and Morgan Murphy has been brewing and selling wholesale ciders to restaurants for a few years, and the couple says they’re ready to take the next step. “A tasting room has always been our goal,” their Kickstarter reads, “a space to meet our customers, have fun events, and showcase a large variety of small-batch ciders.”

Funds raised in the Kickstarter will go toward the “finishing touches” on the tasting room, “from furniture to locally made artwork.” The fundraiser goes until June 30. Visit kickstarter.com/projects/ twobroadscider/tasting-room-and-patioat-two-broads-ciderworks for details.

• Cass Winery in Paso Robles opened the Geneseo Inn this month.

Featuring seven standard units and one suite, with 145 acres of vines, oaks, and hills surrounding it, the inn “is a nod to industrial modern design in the midst of wine country,” according to a press release. Bookings are available at casswines.com/stay. ∆ Assistant Editor Peter Johnson wrote this week’s Strokes and Plugs. Send tidbits to strokes@newtimesslo.com.

Opinion Plovers were here first

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he Western snowy plovers were on the Central Coast beaches, nesting and rearing young at least 100 years before dune buggies or motorcycles were invented. A recent New Times article describes the plovers leaving their enclosure and State Parks staff trying to shoo them back (“Snowy plovers are nesting in Oceano Dunes riding areas amid COVID-19 closures, leading to concerns about reopening,” June 11). Another way to look at it is that the birds’ nesting territory was taken away by humans and vehicles, and they were pushed into a small fraction of their nesting area.

Trying to make them stay in an ever more crowded fenced enclosure is futile when their instincts are to spread out.

Plovers’ nests are usually 100 feet apart

or more. That way, there is enough space for foraging and wandering without running into another adult male and his brood. Crowding means less food, more stress, and aggression from other birds.

They have been in the same 300 acres for more than 15 years.

The harassment of the plovers demonstrates that California State Parks Off-Highway Vehicle Division ought not be in charge of the Western Snowy Plover Recovery Plan. An independent third party that would actually protect the birds is needed. Perhaps if the state and federal fish and wildlife agencies wake up and leap into action, better management of the threatened and endangered species might occur. It is long overdue.

Rachelle Toti Arroyo Grande

An opportunity for change

these functions and priorities.

One such approach to re-envision community policing is the practice of restorative justice, which places emphasis on accountability, making amends, and repairing the harm caused by crime.

Rather than approaching criminal justice with the eye toward punishment, restorative justice explores ways to make both the victim and the perpetrator whole again. Isn’t that the goal of community?

The city of San Luis Obispo has often stood on the forefront of change. We have just such an opportunity now to create a community that is truly safe and welcoming for everyone.

Elie Axelroth Sari Dworkin Vivian Levy Bend the Arc SLO

We are writing in regard to recent efforts to revise local police policies, including the use of force. The #8CANTWAIT requirements are a start, but they are basic standards that don’t address the need for systemic change.

In fact, many police departments across the country have already revised their policies—only to find that the violence toward people of color continues.

It is time to re-envision policing in our community. We should be asking the question: What are the essential functions of police? Other functions, such as mental health, noise violations, etc., can often be better handled by others in the community. Funding should reflect

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Yes and no, Mr. Fonzi

Yes, Mr. Fonzi, you are right, the killings of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks are national tragedies (“After the anger,” June 18). I was very relieved to read that you were able to reason through the reasons why—phew! And yes, Mr. Fonzi, “social engineering” and the retraining of police may not prevent all of these types of killings from occurring in the future, but it would be reasonable to think that social change, police retraining, and accountability, along with a multitude of other wide-ranging actions, would help.

No, Mr. Fonzi, Black Lives Matter is not just a “slogan.” It is a movement started by three courageous women to help bring awareness to these recurring national tragedies. Part of the reason they started it was because many families have brought similar cases to court, but most of the police officers involved did not get convicted of manslaughter or murder.

Their primary goal is to help prevent these killings in the first place.

No, Mr. Fonzi, systematic racism is not a “false narrative.” Don’t you know about our country’s history? Don’t you remember the way those peaceful protesters, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, were treated by the police? Why do you think they were protesting in the first place? Don’t you think it would be reasonable to conclude that as with any victims of abuse, be it individual or collective, some people would eventually be unable to take it anymore and act out violently?

No, Mr. Fonzi, the majority of the current peaceful protests were not interrupted by antifa violence, as you try to make readers believe (“No sign of antifa so far in Justice Department cases brought over unrest,” June 9, 2020, NPR). Antifa does not “aim to destroy our

republic and every institution within.”

If I am not mistaken, we have President Donald Trump and his feckless, I mean faithful, followers to thank for this. Is it really such a mystery to you as to how this current “cycle of hate and fury that has engulfed America” started?

Yes, Mr. Fonzi, the solution to our country’s troubles would be for everyone to love thy neighbor. Believe you me, this can be tough at times (although my actual neighbors are great). But we got this, right?

Kathy Riedmann Los Osos

True leadership is never quiet

San Luis Obispo city Mayor Heidi Harmon recently used her position to address the centuries-old national shame of racism and is turning the tide toward equity in our community. As a Cal Poly professor of sociology and a researcher of social change, I find Mayor Harmon’s engagement in the current movement for transformation both timely and courageous.

We find ourselves in the most significant social upheaval in the past 60 years. The choking of George Floyd by police was not an accident but rather a symptom of broader racial injustice that permeates every aspect of U.S. society.

The factual evidence of racial inequality is overwhelming, including in San Luis Obispo. Mayor Harmon exemplifies the fortitude and bravery necessary to tackle these painful issues.

She asks the hard questions about her own unconscious bias, she listens and supports marginalized groups, and she investigates discriminatory practices within our community. Her intrepid LETTERS continued page 10

Russell Hodin

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BY ANDREW CHRISTIE

Losing Carrizo B y an accident of geography, one of the most important natural habitat areas in the state is located in San Luis Obispo County. The Carrizo Plain, the last large fragment of California’s grasslands, preserved pretty much as they were circa 1850, is our most significant terrestrial environmental feature and an irreplaceable natural treasure.

As the national monument proclamation put it in January 2001: “The monument offers a refuge for endangered, threatened, and rare animal species such as the San Joaquin kit fox, the California condor, the blunt-nosed leopard lizard, the giant kangaroo rat, the San Joaquin antelope squirrel, the longhorn fairy shrimp, and the vernal pool fairy shrimp. It supports important populations of pronghorn antelope and tule elk. The area is also home to many rare and sensitive plant species, including the California jewelflower, the Hoover’s woolly-star, the San-Joaquin woollythreads, the pale-yellow layia, the forked fiddleneck, the Carrizo peppergrass, the Lost Hills saltbush, the Temblor buckwheat, the recurved larkspur, and the Munz’s tidy-tips. Despite past human use, the size, isolation, and relatively undeveloped nature of the area make it ideal for long-term conservation of the dwindling flora and fauna characteristic

of the San Joaquin Valley region.”

As semi-arid grassland with 8 inches of rainfall (in a good year) supporting the largest concentration of endangered species in California, it is also extremely fragile. Water and the question of what constitutes its sustainable use is becoming an increasingly important subject everywhere with each passing year, but in few places is it more crucial than in the Carrizo Planning Area of California Valley—dry farmed and never developed, its several hundred residents live with the reality of iffy and nonproductive wells, some have to transport water from elsewhere.

It is in this context that the county has been approving applications for cannabis grows in the Carrizo Planning Area, over the Carrizo Plain, Rafael, and Big Spring Valley groundwater basins, with no studies or hard data on available water or its sustainable use, and no analysis of the potential cumulative impacts of all the proposed grows on the groundwater and the region’s wildlife habitat. Rather, each grow and its level of estimated water use has been reviewed one at a time, in an environmental vacuum—a practice known under the California Environmental Quality Act as “piecemealing.”

This is occurring despite the county’s

acknowledgment of the Carrizo Basin’s limited water supply and after county planning urged that the Carrizo Planning Area be declared a no-go zone in the county’s cannabis ordinance due to that limited water supply and what overdrafting it would mean for those endangered species and their habitat— which, much like groundwater, don’t recognize boundaries created by lines on a map.

The permits the county has been approving, all with assurances of no likely environmental impacts, are guesswork.

When it comes to water on the Carrizo, guesswork is all there is, going under the more official sounding title of “estimates.”

Over the last 60 years, official estimates of “safe yield” have ranged from 600 to 59,000 acre-feet of water per year.

That’s quite a range, and it speaks to the aforementioned absence of data.

Estimates are not studies. No one knows if any underground streams aid in the basin’s recharge. We do know that in drought years, when that “8 inches of rain in a good year” doesn’t fall, the basin does not recharge. What absolutely no one knows, and the county is showing little interest in finding out, is what will happen to the water basin, California Valley residents, and the Carrizo’s endangered flora and fauna if the county keeps approving cannabis grows there, all sticking straws into the same milkshake, all without a real study—not an estimate—of the basin’s safe yield.

Do you think the least the county can

do for our greatest natural treasure is require that the approval of cannabis grows be informed by data based on such a study, and that the county should analyze the potential cumulative effects of all current and foreseeable future projects, require that the water use of all such operations in the Carrizo Planning Area be metered and monitored, and should not approve any pending projects until and unless all these things are done?

If so, you’re in luck: There’s someone you can suggest that to. Drop a note to Eric Hughes ehughes@co.slo.ca.us, the designated project manager for all such applications. When you do, cc his colleagues Jennifer Caffee jcaffee@co.slo. ca.us and Steve McMasters smcmasters@ co.slo.ca.us, along with 5th District Supervisor Debbie Arnold darnold@co.slo. ca.us, in whose district this is happening.

Losing the Carrizo is an unthinkable thought. Watching it drain away, one permit at a time, is not a future anyone imagined when the national monument was created 19 years ago and we thought the Carrizo was permanently protected by lines drawn on a map.

It wasn’t. It still needs to be protected.

Pot’s worth a lot; the Carrizo Plain is worth more.

Let the county know. Δ Andrew Christie is the director of the Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Send comments through clanham@ newtimesslo.com.

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guidance is moving SLO toward the right side of history. Finally. We owe it to ourselves and our children to follow Mayor Harmon’s example and “do the work” to make SLO a vanguard of respect and equal opportunity.

Ryan Alaniz Santa Margarita

Tick, tick, tick

There’s a bomb ticking in SLO South County, and if it goes off there could be deadly consequences.

To protect our public health during the COVID-19 pandemic, California’s Department of Parks and Recreation wisely temporarily closed the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area (ODSVRA) to vehicles.

Since then, there has been very little out-of-county tourism to ODSVRA, and as a result SLO County has been able to “flatten the curve,” avoid the worst aspects of the pandemic, and slowly reopen our businesses.

Unsurprisingly, in order to continue flattening the curve and keep our businesses open, public health officials emphatically advise everyone to avoid leisure tourism and stay close to home.

Instead of recognizing and taking good advice, some impatient folks are clamoring to reopen the ODSVRA now, a move that would bring thousands of out-of-county tourists to SLO County, endangering our citizens and our businesses.

Rather than sit on its hands, our county’s Board of Supervisors—as well our Assembly member—should stand

up now, before it’s too late, to urge the California Department of Parks and Recreation to maintain the temporary closure of ODSVRA until and when it’s safe to reopen.

John Alan Connerley Oceano

Police versus liberals

The opinion letter from Cuesta College student Sophie Stebbins is a perfect example of what today’s college students look like (“Right to protest,” June 4): kids brainwashed by liberal college teachers or professors. Like so many, actually too many, young people today, she is antiauthority and anti-law enforcement. She does not understand that blocking roads and especially freeways is not just against the law but, even more, a serious threat to safety. What happens when an ambulance with a person inside, at the brink of death, cannot get through to a hospital.

Do they just die for the greater good?

Maybe in the twisted world of today’s college kids.

As for law enforcement officers showing up in riot gear and with tear gas, she conveniently forgets that more police officers are killed each year than unarmed black—or white—criminals (55 unarmed people were shot and killed by police in 2019, according to data compiled

by The Washington Post), and the police are targeted by idiots with rocks, bricks, and bottles of frozen water, also known as deadly weapons. Police have the right and the need to protect themselves and have no idea how quickly “peaceful” protests will turn into rioting, with burning and looting, until it happens, with little warning. And if and when it does,

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What do you think about the calls to divert funding away from police departments?

43% I agree. We should invest more money in underfunded departments, like social services, and community nonprofits.

35% I believe in police reform, but nothing too extreme.

16% I disagree. We should be giving more money to our police forces.

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I think police are adequately funded right now.

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they had damned well better be ready to address such anarchy, quickly and effectively, as people’s lives and property will be at risk.

Ms. Stebbins does want to accept that there is no such thing as “systemic” racism, as that would not fit her leftwing agenda. To Ms. Stebbins, all black criminals who are killed by police officers are victims of murder, and all white criminals who are killed by police—well, she isn’t even aware of their deaths because their deaths are never covered by the liberal, left-wing, mainstream press, as that too does not fit their agenda.

George Floyd’s death was unnecessary and the result of a poorly trained and possibly racist cop. But his death was the exception to the rule. Probably 99 percent of the police officers in America are good and decent people, doing a very dangerous job, often for very little money, who are now hated by too many liberals, and no

longer defended or supported by most of the liberal Democrat leaders in our country, who are every bit as guilty as the looters and arsonists that they allow to run wild in the streets.

And if Ms. Stebbins ever finds herself with a potential criminal about to break into her house, I am willing to bet that the first people she will reach out to will be the police, and she will be damned grateful and lucky to have them show up in time to save her life.

Mark C. Hanson Morro Bay

Stop and think before you respond

Too many times in response to seeing or hearing “Black Lives Matter,” we hear “All Lives Matter.” If those who so vehemently and critically react with this comeback would just stop for a second and think about the lead-up to all this, maybe they wouldn’t feel so left out in this plea to be noticed. I include myself when I ask white people to accept that their lives have always mattered; we have never had to beg society to notice that we are being treated as if we are less worthy because we are rarely the recipients of this type of injustice. This movement is not about us; it is about people of color. People of color are the ones who are consistently treated as if the color of their skin for some reason makes them less worthy of “liberty and justice for all.” For all, not just for white people, but for all. We need to hear and respond, not with anger, but with compassion and empathy and, above all else, action to make things right.

Cathryn Sells Grover Beach

Opinion

The Shredder

Over it!

W

hat the hell is going on? Everyone is losing their damn minds.

Adults are acting like toddlers, throwing temper tantrums in public.

But because they’re adults, they can also multitask!

They also act like teenagers, talking smack about everyone who thinks differently than them. Welcome to SLO County High School, folks, where you can yell at a store manager for doing their job on any day of the damn week you’d like, have a ribbon fight with your fellow city residents just for giggles, and be an asshole to people who disagree with you, because why the hell not? This is America, dammit, and we have the First Amendment to protect our big mouths when we stick our small feet inside of them.

You won’t find this high school’s cliques on campus. But you can find them on Facebook! Because that’s where the real adults meet to conversate and create their own truths.

Don’t want to wear a face mask? There’s a Facebook group for that! Yes! You can find a link to the “Freedom to Breathe Agency,” which peddles PDFs of fake Americans with Disabilities Act cards for you to wave in everyone’s face!

You can claim to have a disability you don’t actually have to get out of wearing

a face mask in a business and no one can question you. Plus, it’s a great excuse to yell at someone for doing their job!

The cards come complete with spelling mistakes, and you also get access to a form you can fill out and send to the U.S. Department of Justice if someone doesn’t accept the fake card you presented to them for your fake disability! It’s totally awesome.

You can also call out these businesses that gave you a hard time on the Reopen San Luis Obispo County Facebook page. Just make a list and post it! This is the only way to truly show business owners that if they don’t agree with your perspective, they should go out of business! Down with the fake pandemic!

Long live King Donald Trump!

Don’t like protesters and think that they shouldn’t be able to practice their right to free speech in your goddamn town? Great! You can yell and scream about liberals, the media, and Black Lives Matter being members of antifa and trying to turn your country into a burned down socialist dictatorship. And no one will even question it! Yay! Ask to join a Facebook group near you. Protect Paso Robles, Protect Five Cities, Protect Atascadero, and Protect Santa Maria are available and taking new group members. Plus, it’s

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free! And as an added bonus, you can dive even deeper into dehumanizing the people you share a city with. You’ll love it! I can guarantee it.

Think people shouldn’t be speaking out against the Black Lives Matter movement? Do you think they should get in line? Get with the times? Be politically correct in only the way that you see fit?

Do you think that blue lives don’t matter?

That it’s your side or no side?

You bet SLO County Protest Watch has got your back! You can name names, dox the haters, and anti-protest the antiprotesters. Follow them wherever they go so they know you’re watching. You won’t tolerate the intolerance in your neighborhood! You can try to get people fired and close down their businesses.

It’s such a healthy outlet for all of your problems. Get that anger out! Tell those racists to get out the hell out of your town!

And don’t worry, you too can benefit from that added bonus of continuing to dehumanize your fellow residents! It’ll make you feel better about yourself! I promise.

Just to prove how awesome further separating yourself from people who think differently from you really can be, let’s talk ribbons. The drama was intense, so prepare to be incensed!

It all happened in Grover Beach and Arroyo Grande—a showdown between Facebook cliques. Protect Five Cities versus SLO County Protest Watch.

Protectors tied blue ribbons around trees in support of the four police officers

wounded in Paso Robles during the two-day manhunt for and shootout with Mason James Lira.

Blue ribbons out on the town! Oh my heavens.

“Not in our town!” Protest Watchers cried. “It’s anti-Black Lives Matter!”

So, they put up multi-colored ribbons to drown out the blue and support Pride Month. That’ll show them!

“What?” Protectors cried. “They’re coopting our support with their support!”

So Protectors took scissors to those colorful ribbons, and Watchers accused them of being hateful. Each posted videos of the other. Opposing sides confronted each other in the streets! Death threats were lobbed!

Yeah, it’s not like we could share these public spaces or anything! It’s one or the other. You either support police or Pride.

You can’t do both!

Things got so out of hand that Grover Beach City Manager Matt Bronson had to step in and tell everyone to take their ribbons down off of city-owned property.

If you can’t play like nice adults, you can’t play at all!

See, this is why we can’t have nice things: you know, like a civilized democracy where people work through their problems like adults instead of yelling at each other from both sides of a camera. ∆ The Shredder is over your attitude! Send comments to shredder@newtimesslo.com.

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Thomas Jodry

Our precious son, Thomas “Tommy” Jodry died on Saturday, September 14, 2019 in San Luis Obispo. At around 9:15pm emergency services were called reporting that he fell from the third floor of the Marsh Street parking structure across the street from the Eureka Burger. It was a horrifying way to die.

Tommy was only 21 years old. He was just starting life and was hopeful for the future before he fell to his death.

• Did he lose his balance and fall from the parking structure?

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To be best of our knowledge, the last person with Tommy on the night he dies was David A. Knight of Atascadero. It was Saturday evening, Cal Poly WOW weekend, and the streets were crowded. The places he was seen on the night of his death include Kreuzberg Coffee, the Frog & Peach bar on Higuera Street, and the pedestrian walkway between Express and Barnes & Noble.

For more information about Thomas and the events of the night of Saturday Sept. 14th, or if you have any information how Tommy died, please contact William or Mary Jane Jodry at our website. We assure you that anything you tell us will remain confidential - we will not disclose your identity to the police or anyone else without your express permission, in writing.

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JUNE 25 – JULY 2 2020

DREAM WEAVERS

Reweaving Our Social Fabric, a new group show at Studios on the Park in Paso Robles, opened on June 15 and will remain on display through July. This collaborative exhibition showcases four female artists: Corinne Lightweaver, Judy Johnson-Williams, Peg Grady, and Marsha Shaw.

Call (805) 238-9800 or visit studiosonthepark.org for more info. The gallery is located at 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles.

—Caleb Wiseblood

FILE IMAGE COURTESY OF CORINNE LIGHTWEAVER

ARTS

(ONLINE) Check the foundation’s site for various

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BEYOND BOUNDARIES This show hopes to push beyond unbeaten riddled viewpoints to allow viewers an opportunity to identify with artists and discover more about themselves. Un-restrained by limitations of personal, cultural, gender, man-made biases, artists exhibit their sensitivities to today’s viewpoints and paradigm shifts. June 25, 12-4 p.m. and June 25-Aug. 2, 12-4 p.m. Free. 805-772-2504. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay, artcentermorrobay.org.

FEATURED ARTISTS: NORA RIGGS AND ROCHELE GOMEZ A duo show running through the month of July.

July 1-Aug. 1 Left Field Gallery, 1036 Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos, 805-305-9292, leftfieldgallery.com.

GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE PRESENTS FEATURED ARTIST ARDELLA SWANBERG Enjoy art from Ardella “Jo” Swanberg. Jo paints and creates in all mediums. Her inspirations are the many places she has lived and visited around the world.

Through June 29, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. 805-772-1068. galleryatmarinasquare.com. Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero suite 10, Morro Bay.

GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE PRESENTS FEATURED ARTIST SHERIL VIAU Enjoy art from watercolorist Sheril Viau. A lifelong resident of the Central Coast, Sheril’s vibrant detailed and uplifting watercolors are inspired by nature and her many travels. Through June 29, 1-5 p.m. Free. 805-772-1068. galleryatmarinasquare.com. Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero suite 10, Morro Bay.

ROOTED AND RISING: A BOOK DISCUSSION Rooted and Rising draws together stories from people of a wide range of different faith perspectives about how they keep themselves encouraged and hopeful in a time of climate crisis. This is a Zoom meeting (call for meeting ID). June 25, 2 p.m. Free. stbenslososos.org. St. Benedict’s Church, 2220 Snowy Egret Ln., Los Osos, 805-5280654.

SAFETY IN THE SHADE: ART BY SARA J. FRANTZ San Luis Obispobased multimedia artist Sara J. Frantz is the gallery’s next featured artist. Frantz is an Associate Professor at Cal Poly, where she teaches studio art courses. Through July 1 Left Field Gallery, 1036 Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos, 805-305-9292, leftfieldgallery.com.

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FREE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ART CLASSES

artcentralartsupply.com/while-we-sheltered.php. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

classes offered, for ages 5 to 18. Through Oct. 31 Paso Robles Youth Arts Foundation, 3201 Spring St., Paso Robles, 805-238-5825, pryaf.org.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: DIGITAL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA)

INTRODUCING ENCAUSTICS Encaustic workshop that provides an intro to basic techniques. Taught by Vicky Hoffman. All supplies included. To register and prepay, contact vicky@vickyhoffman.com June 27, 1-4 p.m. $75. 310-993-1732. Marie A Ramey, 7460 Pinal Ave, Atascadero.

will be hosting the first Digital Shorts Film Festival on Sept. 26 in partnership with the Digital Art Group. This one-night-only event will feature digital shorts by artists from across California. Through July 3 805-543-8562. sloma.org/call_for_artists/digital-shorts/. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

MOSAIC MIRROR WORKSHOP Create a mosaic

GALA PRIDE AND DIVERSITY CENTER: VIRTUAL PRIDE FILM FESTIVAL A screening of Three of Hearts.

mirror by gluing pieces of glass on to a pre-cut wooden base on the first day; return to the studio to grout your piece the following day. Limited to 6 participants. Masks required. June 27, 10 a.m.-noon and June 28, 12-1 p.m.

Starting at $65. 805-464-2633. glassheadstudio.com.

Glasshead Studio, 8793 Plata Lane, Suite H, Atascadero.

STUDIOS ON THE PARK: ONLINE CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS Check site for a variety of virtual classes and workshops online. ongoing studiosonthepark.org. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles, 805-238-9800.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS: A DIGITAL ART SALON The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) will be hosting A Digital Art Salon from Sept. 4 through Nov. 1 in partnership with the Digital Art Group. This juried exhibition will feature the diverse artwork being created by contemporary California digital artists. Through July 3 805-543-8562. artist.callforentry.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

CALL FOR ARTISTS: WHILE WE SHELTERED Seeking more artists to participate in the show “While We Sheltered”. Requirement is that the artwork must have been created curing the shelter-in-place orders (since March). Limited to 1 piece per artist and must be no larger than 16” x 20”. Through July 31 Free. 805-747-4200.

This 2004 documentary follows a trinogamous relationship in New York City. Visit site for Zoom link and more info.

June 25, 6-8 p.m. Free. 805-541-4252. galacc.org. GALA Center Gallery, 1060 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

THE INTERMISSION SHOW This brisk 8- to 10-minute show is set up like a socially distanced talk show with SLO Rep’s Managing Artistic Director Kevin Harris at the helm, clad in a tacky suit and tie with a faux alcoholic drink nearby. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 3 p.m. San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre, 888 Morro St., San Luis Obispo, 805-786-2440, slorep.org/.

SLOMA: WEEKLY ART PROJECTS Kids can enjoy new activities from home (posted online every Monday).

Mondays sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo, 543-8562.

VIRTUAL ART GALLERY Every Friday, we publish our Virtual Art Gallery to our blog and newsletter. Featuring artworks from customers and the community. Fridays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. 805-747-4200. artcentralslo.wordpress. com/category/gallery-exhibits/virtual-gallery/. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

VIRTUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION This year, the Cuesta College Harold J Miossi Student Exhibition went online. View student work, including the Salon des Refuses, on the website. Mondays-Sundays hjmgallery2020studentshow.org/. Harold J. Miossi Gallery, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo, 805-546-3202.

New Times and the Sun now share their community listings for a complete Central Coast calendar running from SLO County through northern Santa Barbara County. Submit events online by logging in with your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account at newtimesslo.com. You may also email calendar@ newtimesslo.com. Deadline is one week before the issue date on Thursdays. Submissions are subject to editing and approval. Contact Calendar Editor Caleb Wiseblood directly at cwiseblood@newtimesslo.com.

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INDEX Arts ............................[12] Culture & Lifestyle.......[13] Food & Drink.............. [14] Music ......................... [14]

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TEACHER AND STUDENT GRANTS Since the program’s start in 2004, the Clark Center has provided more than $150,000 in scholarships and grants to students and teachers. Grant applications are due June 30. Through June 30 Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande, 805-4899444, clarkcenter.org.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS (GRADES 4-12): NEW CHILDREN’S BOOK This art contest will give students an opportunity create illustrations for a bilingual children’s book that will depict local landmarks. Students are to create their illustration on a paper template entry form.

All illustrations shall be created using colored pencils only. Through Sept. 25 Abel Maldonado Community Youth Center, 600 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria.

PCPA: ACTORS TALKBACK Streams live on PCPA’s Instagram every Thursday and spotlights a different thespian guest each week. Hosted by Erik Stein. Thursdays, 3:30 p.m. Free. pcpa.org. PCPA: The Pacific Conservatory Theatre, 800 S. College, Santa Maria, 805-922-8313.

PCPA READS AT HOME A literacy project that uses our students’ learning to serve children and parents who are learning at home. Co-hosted by Allan Hancock College and the Santa Maria-Bonita School District to bring a love of stories and language to people right in their homes. ongoing PCPA: The Pacific Conservatory Theatre, 800 S. College, Santa Maria, 805-922-8313, pcpa.org.

SMPL VALLEY READS BOOK CLUB The Valley Reads Book club meets very month on the fourth Tuesday (now over the phone). Interested community members should email jgaytan@cityofsantamaria.org to join. ongoing 805-925-0994. Santa Maria Public Library, 421 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria.

TECH TALKS: LIVE ON INSTAGRAM Every Tuesday sit down with one of our technical staff and learn about the ins and outs of their craft. Get the exclusive with our host Erik Stein. Tuesdays, 3:30 p.m. PCPA: The Pacific Conservatory Theatre, 800 S. College, Santa Maria, 805-922-8313, pcpa.org.

WINE AND DESIGN VIRTUAL CLASSES Check Wine and Design’s Orcutt website for the complete list of virtual classes online, for various ages. ongoing Varies. wineanddesign.com/orcutt. Wine and Design, 3420 Orcutt Road, suite 105, Orcutt.

WORKSHOPS VIA ZOOM Sara Curran Ice, PCPA’s Technical Theatre Program Coordinator/Designer, is conducting Workshops via Zoom for local high school ARTS continued page 13

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drama students. Check site or call for more info. ongoing PCPA: The Pacific Conservatory Theatre, 800 S. College, Santa Maria, 805-922-8313, pcpa.org.

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20/20: A RETROSPECTIVE This spring, the Wildling

This online exhibit features sea life sculpture works by the Santa Barbara artist locally-renowned for his iconic Dolphin Family sculpture installed at the base of Stearns Wharf. Through Sept.

22 Free. Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805688-1082, wildlingmuseum. org.

Museum of Art and Nature will mark its 20th anniversary with a special exhibition celebrating the Museum’s 20year history in the Santa Ynez Valley. View the exhibit online. Mondays, Wednesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. through Sept. 7 805-688-1082. wildlingmuseum.org/ news/2020-retrospective. Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang.

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THE ART OF FACE MASKS: VIRTUAL EXHIBIT This group show reunites several artists from the museum’s 2019 exhibit, The Art of Dress, including Georganne Alex, Carole Coduti, Gwen Samuels, and others. ongoing Free. artoffacemasks.com. Elverhoj Museum of History and Art, 1624 Elverhoy Way, Solvang, 805-686-1211.

landscapes by George Rose.

View online. ongoing Free.

Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-1082, wildlingmuseum.org.

A MIGHTY OAK: PERMANENT EXHIBIT ONLINE Depicts the habitat around a Valley oak–one of the largest and old trees found in our area. View the artwork online. ongoing Free. Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-1082, wildlingmuseum.org.

NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION The theme of this competition’s latest recurrence is Critters of the Tri-County Region, as applicants are encouraged to submit photos of all forms of wildlife—land and sea mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects—so long as they are found within the counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, or Ventura. Through July 6 Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-1082, wildlingmuseum.org.

REMEMBERING BUD BOTTOMS: A LEGACY PHOTO COURTESY OF GLASSHEAD STUDIO

QID: QUEER IDENTITIES ARE INTERSECTIONAL AND DIVERSE A live Instagram stream on @ thegalacenter. June 27, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. 805541-4252. galacc.org. GALA Center Gallery, 1060 Palm St., San Luis Obispo.

VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE DALLIDET ADOBE The Dallidet family lived in San Luis Obispo from the 1850s through the 1950s. Hear their stories while visiting the family home. Please register by noon on Thursdays.

Thursdays, 1 p.m. through Aug. 27 $5 suggested.

805-543-0638. historycenterslo.org/virtual-tour.html.

Dallidet Adobe, 1185 Pacific Street, San Luis Obispo.

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View the exhibit online.

Features photography by 29 Solvang School Yearbook and Media students. The students, grades 7 – 8, were inspired by philosopher Henry David Thoreau’s quote: “All good things are wild and free.” ongoing Free. Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-1082, wildlingmuseum. org.

Starry Nights: Visions of the Night Sky, a multimedia exhibition at the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature in Solvang, was originally set to run through June 15 but has been extended to remain on display through Jan. 31, 2021, for guests to enjoy once the museum reopens. The exhibit features a variety of photography and paintings from several different artists. View the show’s digital gallery at wildlingmuseum.org. Call (805) 688-1082 for additional info.

—C.W.

SUSAN OWENS: INSTAGRAM LIVE Q-AND-A Owens will illustrate the indigo dye process and answer questions about her work. July 1, 4 p.m. Elverhoj Museum of History and Art, 1624 Elverhoy Way, Solvang, 805-686-1211, elverhoj.org.

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MORRO BAY MARTIAL ARTS: WORLD CHAMPION INSTRUCTION A variety of adult and youth classes.

Instructor has more than 35 years of experience.

Mondays-Saturdays, 7 a.m.-8 p.m. through Dec. 31 Call for details. 805-701-7397. charvetmartialarts.com. Morro Bay Martial Arts, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay.

SUMMER CELEBRATION: OUTDOOR SUCCULENT PLANTS AND POTTERY SALE Rare chance to shop

Glasshead Studio in Atascadero hosts its two-day mosaic mirror workshop on Saturday, June 27, from 10 a.m. to noon, and Sunday, June 28, from noon to 1 p.m. The class will be limited to six participants, who will be able to create their own mosaic mirrors to take home.

Face masks are required. Admission to the workshop is $65. Call (805) 464-2633 or visit glassheadstudio.com for more details.

The studio is located at 8793 Plata Lane, suite H, Atascadero.

—C.W.

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Take advantage of expert advice on selections, placement, and care of your new plants. Cal Poly’s Mike Bush will be on hand for your questions. Great prices on healthy, interesting plant specimens; plus gorgeous pots. June 26, 12-6 p.m. and June 27, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. 805-602-7817. Steve Super Gardens, 2016 9th St., Los Osos.

TAI CHI AND QI GONG: ZEN IN MOTION Taught by 2019 Tai Chi Instructor of the Year. A deep breathing moving meditation. Focus on breathing and intention of the mind. Mondays, 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Call for price details. 805-701-7397. charvetmartialarts.com. Morro Bay Martial Arts, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay.

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FOURTH OF JULY BARREL ROOM BASH To encourage social distancing, the event will be broken up into three sessions of limited capacity. Guests can look forward to enjoying backyard games, live music, wine, and barbecue. July 4, 2-4, 4-6 & 6-8 p.m. $5 in advance.

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FOURTH OF JULY DRIVE-THROUGH BARBECUE The Atascadero Colony Days Committee will host a drive-through barbecue dinner on the Fourth of July from noon to 4 p.m. at a location yet to be determined. July 4, 12-4 p.m. $40-$50. my805tix.com. Atascadero Printery Building, 6351 Olmeda Ave., Atascadero.

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HELP AND HOPE WEBINAR: EARLY STAGE DEMENTIA AND CARE PARTNERS An educational program for people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia and their primary carepartners. Six 1-hour webinars over 2 weeks covering issues that couples and families face as they travel the Alzheimer’s journey together. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. through June 26 Free. 805547-3830. alz.org/cacentralcoast. Downtown SLO, Higuera Street, San Luis Obispo.

MEDITATION, BREATHWORK, AND GRATITUDE PRACTICE: LIVE ON ZOOM This class will support you and help you stay vital during these uncertain times. Practices include breathing techniques to calm the nervous system, guided meditation for balanced relaxation, mantra practice to calm the mind, and tips to help you cultivate and maintain a home practice.

Wednesdays, 12-12:45 p.m. through Sept. 16 $10 for SLO Botanical Garden members/$15 for non-members.

805-540-1762. eventbrite.com. San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, 3450 Dairy Creek Rd., San Luis Obispo.

METABOLIC CONDITIONING We use primarily our own body weight in this interval training class to run through exercises and drills to raise the heart rate, condition our muscles, and stay flexible. This advanced class also incorporates hand weights and sand bags, if you have them. Mondays-Thursdays, 8:15-9:15 a.m. $72.

415-516-5214. ae.slcusd.org. Online, 1500 Lizzie Street, San Luis Obispo.

THE MONDAY CLUB YOGA ON ZOOM A 60-minute Restorative Flow Yoga Class on ZOOM. Zoom meeting info will be included in your registration confirmation

Hosted by the Central Coast Progressives. Those with violent intentions to break this peaceful protest are not welcomed. June 25, 4:30-7 p.m. Free. Nipomo Regional Park, 255 Pomeroy Road, Nipomo.

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BIZ MASTERS TOASTMASTERS TUESDAYS: ZOOM Learn more about Toastmasters, prepare for ‘Your Competitive Future’, and improve your communication and leadership skills. Zoom Meeting ID: 317 198 472 (Password: 630). Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. through Dec. 15 Free. 805-570-0620. Santa Maria Airport, 3249 Terminal Dr., Santa Maria.

GUIDED MEDITATION WORKSHOP: YOGA 4 MANKIND This session, hosted by Tina Ventrella, is part of a beginner meditation series that guides participants on utilizing the benefits of meditation through various techniques. June 27, 8:30-9:30 a.m.

Yoga for Mankind, 130 N Broadway, suite B, Orcutt, yogaformankind.com.

HOPE MERCHANDISE PICK-UP: SANTA MARIA PRIDE Pride Packages include limited edition HOPE face masks, buttons, stickers, and more. June 27, 4-8 p.m. $10 each. HOPE, House of Pride and Equality, Santa Maria, 805-316-1356, houseofprideandequality.org.

HUMAN BEING SUPPORT AND INSPIRATION ONLINE GROUP An online group to listen and get support from others from the comfort of your own home.

Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. $40 monthly subscription. 805598-1509. divining.weebly.com. Divine Inspiration, 947 E Orange St., Santa Maria.

SANTA MARIA PRIDE: POETRY NIGHT Part of HOPE’s virtual Santa Maria Pride series. Check HOPE’s Facebook, Instagram, or website for more info. June 26, 6:30 p.m. HOPE, House of Pride and Equality, Santa Maria, 805-316-1356, houseofprideandequality.org.

YOGA FOR MANKIND: ZOOM CLASSES Offering a variety of virtual yoga and pilates classes over the summer. Check site for class schedule. ongoing Starts at $10. yoga4mankind.org. Yoga for Mankind, 130 N Broadway, suite B, Orcutt.

YOUTH PRIDE LOUNGE: ONLINE Part of HOPE’s virtual Santa Maria Pride series. Check HOPE’s Facebook, Instagram, or website for more info. June 25, 6 p.m. HOPE, House of Pride and Equality, Santa Maria, 805-316-1356, houseofprideandequality.org.

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email. All proceeds benefit The Monday Clubhouse Conservancy, devoted to the preservation of this historical clubhouse. Mondays, 4-5:15 p.m. through June 29 $15. themondayclubslo.org/events. The Monday Club, 1815 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-541-0594.

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on YouTube after they’re streamed live. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 8:30 a.m. Facebook, Online, Inquire for Facebook address.

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BRUNCH IN THE GARDEN Enjoy the sun with a delicious meal accompanied by live music in the garden gazebo every Sunday this summer. Adult flat rate includes one entree, the choice of a homemade muffin or biscuit with jam, and a non-alcoholic beverage. Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. through Aug. 30 $9-$19. 805-9274200. cambriapineslodge.com/onsite. Cambria Pines Lodge, 2905 Burton Dr., Cambria.

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MORRO BAY FARMERS MARKET A delightful mix of local farm fresh products, baked goods, crafts, and more. Thursdays, 2-4:30 p.m. Morro Bay Main Street Farmers Market, Main Street and Morro Bay Boulevard, Morro Bay, 928-350-5960, facebook.com/ MorroBayMainStreetFarmersMarket/.

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VIRTUAL WINE TASTING PACKAGES AT CASS WINERY Wine by the glass and bottles are also

VIRTUAL HAPPY HOUR: LIVE MUSIC BY RACHEL SANTA CRUZ Live music streamed every Wednesday

available for purchase. Check site for specific virtual tasting packages. ongoing Free. 805-239-1730. casswines.com/. Cass Winery And Vineyard, 7350 Linne Rd., Paso Robles.

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SLO FARMERS MARKET Hosts more than 60 vendors. Saturdays, 8-10:45 a.m. World Market Parking Lot, 325 Madonna Rd., San Luis Obispo.

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Part of the series’ 2020 lineup, which continues through Aug. 13. July 2, 5:30 p.m. bigbigslo.com. Paso Robles City Park Gazebo, Spring and 12th St., Paso Robles, 805-237-3991.

local food trucks and Pizzeria Bello Forno; charcuterie plates will be available to meet County expectations (meals to be served with wine and beer). Saturdays, Sundays, noon and Tuesdays-Fridays, 2-8 p.m. Vino et Amicis, 156 S. Broadway, Orcutt, 805-631-0496, vinoetamicis.com.

KALYRA: PURCHASES AND PICK-UPS Offering varietals from all over the world. Tuesdays-Sundays, 12-5 p.m. 805-693-8864. kalyrawinery.com. Kalyra Winery, 343 N. Refugio Rd., Santa Ynez.

STANDING SUN: PURCHASES AND DELIVERIES Visit site for Cellar Club details and more info.

Mondays-Thursdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 805-691-9413. standingsunwines.com. Standing Sun Wines, 92 2nd St., Unit D, Buellton, 805-691-9413.

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which continues through Aug. 13. June 25, 5:30-8 p.m. bigbigslo.com. Paso Robles City Park Gazebo, Spring and 12th St., Paso Robles, 805-237-3991.

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PASO CONCERTS IN THE PARK: MOLLY RINGWALD PROJECT Part of the series’ 2020 lineup,

12-2:25 p.m. Arroyo Grande Farmers Market, Olohan Alley, Arroyo Grande.

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from the Schooners Deck. Tune into our virtual happy to hear some great music and watch the sunset.

Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. Schooners, 171 North Ocean Ave, Cayucos, 805-995-3883, schoonerscayucos.com.

ARROYO GRANDE FARMERS MARKET Saturdays,

Call or go online to make a reservation (reservations open to the public starting June 6). ongoing Presqu’ile Winery, 5391 Presqu’ile Dr., Santa Maria, 805-937-8110, presquilewine.com.

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Cass Winery hosts its inaugural Fourth of July Party in its Barrel Room Event Center on Saturday, July 4. To encourage social distancing, the event will be broken up into three sessions of limited capacity: 2 to 4 p.m., 4 to 6 p.m., and 6 to 8 p.m.

Admission is $5, and attendees are encouraged to reserve their time slots as soon as possible. Guests can look forward to enjoying backyard games, live music, wine, and barbecue. Tickets are available online in advance at my805tix.com.

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and a turkey croissant sandwich while you view the famous Shadow of Morro Bay’s Rock and Fairbanks Point. Our guests often see sea lions, harbor seals, egrets, white pelicans, and much more! July 4, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 1-2:30 & 3-4:30 p.m. $35. 805-7722128. chabliscruises.com. Chablis Cruises, 1205 Embarcadero, Morro Bay.

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FAMOUS JAZZ ARTIST SERIES This is a spring fundraiser with proceeds going toward Central Coast Jazz Institute scholarships. Cambria’s own Madison Scott on piano, performs with Charlie Shoemake on vibes. Covid restrictions: seating limited to 25 people max; social distancing observed. June 28, 5-7 p.m.

Students $10, all others $20. Food and wine available, $15 minimum.. 805-927-0179. Pewter Plough Playhouse, 828 Main St., Cambria.

LIVE MUSIC AND GOURMET PIZZA FRIDAYS Enjoy an evening outdoors filled with gourmet pizza and live music every Friday. Dig into your own personal woodfired pizza, garden or pasta salad, and a non-alcoholic beverage for a flat rate or just order a personal pizza on the side. Fridays, 5-7:30 p.m. through Nov. 20 $10-$15.

SONGWRITERS AT PLAY Different acts every weekend. Fridays-Sundays, 1 p.m. Free. 805- 226-8881. sculpterra.com. Sculpterra Winery, 5015 Linne Rd., Paso Robles.

WINE DOWN WEDNESDAYS: VIRTUAL MUSIC SERIES Follow the venue’s Facebook page for a virtual series of music, wine tasting, and education.

Wednesdays, 5-6 p.m. Free. facebook.com/ vinaroblesamphitheatre/. Vina Robles Amphitheatre, 3800 Mill Rd., Paso Robles, 805-286-3680.

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1772 RELEASE: THE GARDEN PARTY Celebrate the release of Tolosa’s 1772 white wine line-up while live music from Garden Party fills the air. June 28, 4-7 p.m. $40-$45. Tolosa Winery, 4910 Edna Rd., San Luis Obispo, 782-0500.

ENCORE LIVE PRESENTS GARTH BROOKS June 27, 8:30 & 11:15 p.m. bigbigslo.com. Sunset Drive In Theatre, 255 Elks Lane, San Luis Obispo.

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HOT SWINGIN’ JAZZ: LIVE STREAM The Creole Syncopators will be featured in a live stream performance. The Basin Street Regulars is hosting live stream events at its regularly scheduled concert dates and times until the restrictions on the Pismo Beach Veteran’s Hall are lifted. First Sunday of every month, 2-4 p.m. through July 5 Donation suggested. 805-937-8402. pismojazz.com. Pismo Beach Veterans Memorial Hall, 780 Bello St., Pismo Beach.

HOT SWINGIN’ JAZZ: BELMONT KINGS MarciJean and the Belmont Kings will be featured in a live stream performance in view of current event restrictions.

June 27, 2-4 p.m. Donation suggested. 805-937-8402. pismojazz.com. Pismo Beach Veterans Memorial Hall, 780 Bello St., Pismo Beach.

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Jump and swing!

MarciJean & the Belmont Kings stream for your dancing pleasure

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lassy, sassy, and brassy— MarciJean & the Belmont Kings are a terrific jump blues and swinging R&B act to catch live, but the Basin Street Regulars want you to catch some great music, not the novel coronavirus, which is why they’re holding their Sunday, June 28, concert virtually on their Facebook page at 2 p.m.

“In view of current event restrictions, the Basin Street Regulars is hosting livestream events at its regularly scheduled concert dates and times,” organizers said. “To catch the show, go to Facebook and search for Basin Street Regulars. You’ll need to have or create a Facebook page to view this event live.

Donations will be accepted, and the show will also be uploaded to YouTube after the event. Visit pismojazz.com and go to our YouTube channel.”

MarciJean Fambrini has a terrific voice, and, as their bio claims, listening to her and the band feels like you stepped back in time to a 1940s juke joint. She got her start singing during the 1990s swing revival, when she performed with a number of Bay Area swing bands.

The Belmont Kings includes Mark Garza (upright bass/vocals), Amando Perez (keys/vocals), Emmanuel Martinez (guitar/vocals), and Jonathan Martinez (drums/bass/trombone/vocals). Move your coffee table, turn up the music, and get ready to Lindy Hop and West Coast Swing!

Connecting us all

In this time of isolation, Cambria singer-songwriter Mark Stanton Welch has been working diligently to find ways to connect and enlighten his listeners.

He’s been part of the SLO County music scene since 1972, playing in now forgotten venues such as the Darkroom, the Cigar Factory, 1865, the Wine Street Inn, and the Spindle.

“I also functioned as the music director at Unity Church of San Luis Obispo for almost 20 years,” he noted via email. “Up until stay-in-place, I’ve spent the last 20plus years traveling this country and the world in various ways, sharing my original creations to intentionally empower people through the vibration of music and song. I write to support the listener, inviting them to sing along and use the music to clear old energies and wake up their voice and find that free spirit within all of us.”

While touring in Arizona, the pandemic hit, and Welch wasn’t sure he’d make it home to Cambria, but he did, and he “immediately felt a ‘calling’ to write about my experience, to document through music the personal experiences I was having, often on a moment-by-moment basis. So I did. To date I have completed 24. I was guided to write 33, so I still have work to do.

I’ve been waiting to see what unfolds first.”

Why 33?

“Regarding the number 33, I look at it as a combination of several factors.

It’s considered a master number in numerology, extra potent energetically. I think of it as a precipitator of significant change. That Jesus was crucified and transformed at that age is interesting when put against these times of a world waking up to a new vision of itself. The call to write 33 was strong, so I’m looking at them as vibrational tools to support the worldwide change that’s in progress, in my opinion.

“Music is a powerful vehicle to impact the listener on deep levels,” Welch continued. “These songs are experiential as they are reflections of my movement through the stay-in-place period, which I took as a personal challenge to look at what I might be doing to contribute to the issues in the world. I was not surprised to find places where I was falling short of my own visions. It was poignant and powerful, confrontive and inviting, and certainly catalytic to push me through some strongly entrenched patterns and tendencies. Honestly, I cried a lot through this process and feel all the better as a result. Might say I had a personal resurrection of a ‘me’ that I had misplaced way back. And for that I am grateful.

“And as a songwriter, it is a parallel intention to create something that will impact the listener in a personal way that has meaning.”

You can find videos of his growing collection of songs and subsequent philosophy on both YouTube and Facebook.

You can also catch him live at Rose’s Landing this Friday, June 26 (2:30 to 6 p.m.), July 3 (11 a.m.), July 4 (3 p.m.), and July 11 and 12 (11 a.m.) See him at Tognazzini’s Dockside on July 1 and 7 (3 p.m.), and Aug. 3, 12, 19, and 26 (11 a.m.).

PHOTO COURTESY OF MARK STANTON WELCH

SWINGERS! Jump blues and swinging R&B act MarciJean & the Belmont Kings will stream a live show on June 28, on the Basin Street Regulars Facebook page.

Get ’em while they’re hot!

Local glitter pop punk act Hayley and the Crushers just released a new 7-inch called “Jacaranda” in three fruity vinyl flavors available from Reta Records or Surfin Ki Records.

“The vinyl manufacturer—Clamdown Record Pressing—has gifted us with a surprise variant,” frontwoman Hayley Cain said via email, “periwinkle blue!

There are only 50 in existence! Get yours quick!”

The song is a sugary Go-Go’s-style snack of summer dreaming filled with images of blooming purple jacarandas and the desire to leave small-town life behind.

Collector’s item, people!

More archival jazz releases

MYSTICISM AND MUSIC Amid the pandemic, Cambria singer-songwriter Mark Stanton Welch felt called to write 33 new songs, some of which he’ll perform live at Rose’s Landing on June 26.

PHOTO COURTESY OF HAYLEY CAIN

The SLO Jazz Federation just announced they’ve posted more vintage jazz show recordings on their YouTube channel.

“New to our playlist today is 1996 footage of the outstanding pianist Alan Broadbent in duo with Fred Atwood, with introduction by Andy Harp,” the Jazz Fed board said. “They played as part of the 13th annual Jazz Piano Showcase presented by the SLO County Jazz Federation on April 27, 1996. Broadbent is a noted arranger and composer who worked extensively with Charlie Haden, Woody Herman, Chet Baker, Irene Kral,

PURPLE SUMMER DREAMING Hayley and the Crushers, featuring frontwoman Hayley Cain, continue to dominate the pop punk scene with a newly released 7-inch vinyl single, “Jacaranda.”

Natalie Cole, Diana Krall, Warne Marsh, Bud Shank, Lee Konitz, and many others.

His arrangements for Natalie Cole and Shirley Horn won Grammy awards.”

Search “SLO Jazz Federation” and YouTube and you’ll get there! The Jazz Fed will be posting recordings by Bob Harway, the Jon Faddis Quintet, the Billy Taylor Trio, Inga Swearingen, and many others in the coming weeks. ∆ Contact Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.

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Artifacts COVID-ade!

Gala Pride and Diversity Center concludes Virtual Pride Film Festival and weekly Instagram live series

The Gala Pride and Diversity Center presents the final program of its Virtual Pride Film Festival on Thursday, June 25, with a screening of Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family, from 6 to 8 p.m. Director and producer Susan Kaplan (Small Wonders and Music of the Heart) helmed this 2004 documentary set in New York City that follows a trinogamous relationship between a college student, a mafia hitman’s son, and a struggling actress.

Viewers can register online to join the film screening, which also includes a live Zoom discussion with GALA board member Katherine Soule. Visit galacc.org for details, including the Zoom meeting link.

Gala also presents the final entry in its Instagram live series, QID: Queer Identities are Intersectional and Diverse, on Saturday, June 27, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Follow the Center on Instagram (@ thegalacenter) to join in the live feed. Call (805) 541-4252 for more details.

SLO Botanical Garden now offers small in-person group tours by appointment

While the San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden’s docent-led college and grade school tours remain suspended until further notice, the nonprofit now offers small family group tours, every day of the week except Tuesdays.

Tours must be scheduled several weeks in advance, however, and donations of $2 per group member are encouraged.

Knowledgeable docents take guests on a tour of the 2-acre garden and its sustainable facilities during each appointment, which will usually last about an hour.

To book a small group tour, email joscelyn@slobg.org or visit slobg. org/gardentours. Garden visitors can also enjoy self-guided walks with complimentary maps and information brochures.

The SLO Botanical Garden is located at 3450 Dairy Creek Road, San Luis Obispo. Call (805) 5411400 for additional info.

SLO County History Center hosts weekly virtual tour of the Dallidet Adobe

The History Center of San Luis Obispo County hosts its next virtual tour of the Dallidet Adobe on Thursday, July 2, at 1 p.m. Those who wish to join the event are asked to register online in advance by noon the day of at the latest.

This weekly tour is offered every Thursday afternoon, and donations of $5 are encouraged. Call (805) 543-0638 or visit historycenterslo. org to register or find out more. Δ —Caleb Wiseblood

When life gives you lemons, do Live Oak on the Radio

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his past weekend, my wife and I would normally have been camped out for the Live Oak Music Festival, spending the weekend with friends watching live music, cooking together, and ushering in summer.

Thanks to the global pandemic, however, the long-running three-day festival was canceled … sort of.

In a stroke of genius, local NPR affiliate KCBX 90.1FM—the organizers of the festival, which is the station’s major annual fundraiser—decided to hold a virtual festival that would include archival recordings of past Live Oak performances as well as nine streaming concerts featuring local acts.

As the cherry on top of this virtual festival, Live Oak’s longtime emcee Joe Craven came to join KCBX’s radio personalities during the airing of the archival recordings as well as introduce the live acts, which broadcast on kcbx.org and bigbigslo.com/houseparty, during their livestreaming shows broadcast from Bill Gaines Audio’s warehouse soundstage.

Our little 1960 Castle King canned-ham trailer was already parked in our courtyard, so we pulled out our Blockbuster Bluetooth speaker box, set up our lawn furniture, and commenced pretending we were camped at El Chorro Regional Park for the actual Live Oak Fest. Our feet didn’t get as dirty, and the bathrooms were much more conveniently located, but listening to those past performances, some of which we saw live in previous years, was just as relaxing and almost as engaging as being at the actual festival.

We also had a handful of close friends stop by for some socially distanced festing-in-place, and I’m surprised to admit the experience wasn’t so far removed from the camaraderie of the

GRILLING AND CHILLING Since we couldn’t walk over to the vendors row for chow, we were forced to cook our own, like these veggie and chicken kabobs.

actual festival. Thanks to social media and the hashtag #LiveOakOnTheRadio, we were able to see our friends engaged in similar camping-athome experiences.

Before this experiment in a virtual festival, KCBX had high hopes: “The annual Live Oak Music Festival is a beloved tradition for generations of families,” the station said in a press release. “Feedback from annual festivalgoers over the festival’s cancelation and subsequent virtual fest has been overwhelmingly positive.”

According to KCBX General Manager Frank Lanzone, “It’s too soon to know for sure, but it was definitely successful! It’s hard to compare to a typical festival, where KCBX ends up in the vicinity of $100,000 to support our public radio operation. This will probably be closer to $20,000 of support. We still have more money to raise to be whole for this year—a combination of cutting expenses and finding new income.”

Now that the station has pulled off a virtual festival, any chance of combining the two?

“The issue with virtual PHOTO COURTESY OF CHELSEA KIDWELL has to do with permissions from performers,” Lanzone explained. “As time marched on, fewer artists were allowing permission to record their sets, so we have a dwindling supply of Live Oak performances. I’d like to find a way to incorporate video, not only audio, if we can come to terms with our major artists. As far as going live and streaming, we sold more day tickets last year than ever before.

The cost of streaming the festival would be significant, so there’d have to be a ‘pay to stream’ component.”

One thing is certain: The people who were at home but participating, like my wife and I, felt like AMERICAN GOTHIC My wife and I stand in front of our 1960 this was worth the effort Castle King trailer, where we sheltered in place during the June 20 to to make us feel like part of 21 Live Oak on the Radio virtual music festival. #LiveOakOnTheRadio

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GOOD MORNING Just as we would have done at the actual Live Oak Music Festival, our Saturday morning began with a round of bloody marys.

the KCBX/Live Oak community.

“We sold out of Live Oak on the Radio T-shirts and are placing an additional order!” Lanzone noted. “Live Oakies who called in to contribute all had a story to tell. Nobody wanted to give money and hang up. So many people were invested in this weekend, thankful that Live Oak was there with some of our greatest performances, and KCBX and Live Oak staff and volunteers were all as invested.

“There were groups of people who were planning to get together this weekend to make their own Live Oak celebrations before we announced this,” he continued. “The money is needed, but given the state of our country and our citizens, Live Oak on the Radio was an oasis of coming together, remembering, commiserating, and loving. It’s something we all needed.” Δ Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey is still hanging out at that oasis. Send palm fronds to gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.

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amy Youssef stars as the titular lead of the Muslim-centric dramady Ramy, now in its second season on Hulu. Ramy lives at home with his father, Farouk (Amr Waked); mother, RAMY Maysa (Hiam Abbass); What’s it rated? TV-MA and antagonistic sister, What’s it worth, Anna? Full price FINDING HIS PLACE Hulu TV series Dena (May Calamawy), What’s it worth, Glen? Full price Ramy, starring Ramy Yussef (center), explores and the series explores Where’s it showing? Hulu TV what it means to be Muslim in America.

Ramy’s travails as he attempts to navigate the fine line between his faith and America’s anything-goes first season, he takes a trip to his family’s marginalized communities. culture. (20 30-min. episodes) homeland, Egypt, hoping to connect Anna While Ramy is the lead here, the with his deeper traditions, but instead of writers are smart to shift focus onto Glen Muslims only make up a little more helping him better embrace his faith, his the supporting characters as well.

For than 1 percent of the U.S. population, or instance, one episode focuses on his mom, Egyptian cousin just wants to take him about 3.45 million people, and in general, to parties where people are smoking and Maysa, who feels stuck in the slump of the media seems to portray followers of taking drugs. We haven’t started season 2 both aging and loneliness. When Ramy Islam as zealots or extremists, but this yet, but I’m looking forward to it because blows off being her ride to the store, show seems determined to dispel that Mahershala Ali is joining the cast as Maysa has a pleasant experience with stereotype. Ramy is a 20-something Sheikh Malik. At its core, the series is a Lyft driver, which inspires her to join whose job at a failed startup has ended, interested in how difficult it is to be a good up as a driver. She soon learns that not and he’s grown tired of sleeping with Muslim in America. This one’s a must-see everyone needing a ride also needs a non-Muslim women he meets at clubs. for anyone interested in expanding their new friend, and almost gives up the app He doesn’t drink, and he follows prayer knowledge of Islam in America. until a charming French man makes her traditions, but he’s a bit of a slacker when Anna Ramy’s spirituality and devotion feel a spark. It’s tender and also really it comes to embracing all of Islam. When to Islam is certainly not unshakeable. He sad, with a wonderful performance by he goes to the mosque for prayer, instead wants to be a good Muslim, but he also has Abbass. Another episode in the first of properly washing, as is tradition, he just season focuses on Dena, a 25-year-old a pull to blur the lines on what is right or sort of wets his feet without taking his wrong. Sex is fun, he fakes drinking with student and virgin struggling with her socks off—the equivalent of the little kid culture’s expectations of purity and being his non-Muslim friends, but at some point who wets his toothbrush to prove to his he realizes his life is feeling empty. Maybe a young, modern woman ready to jump mom that he brushed his teeth. When he being more devout in his faith and practice into her life. It’s great to see this largely asks his parents to arrange a date with of it will help him feel more grounded and misunderstood religion and immigrant a Muslim woman, he’s shocked to find fulfilled? It’s not easy, and while he jumps experience played out on screen. Ramy is she’s sexually aggressive. He’s confused in with both feet, the same temptations a wonderful focus for the series to center and searching for his sense of place. and tendencies are still ever-present. The on, but it certainly isn’t just his story; Desperate for a job, he goes to work for his family core adds interesting dynamics, there is a lot to dive into here. racist uncle, Naseem (Laith Nakli), in the from Dena continually frustrated by her Glen Too true. Showing the unfair diamond district. The series is mostly a expectations for male and female behavior parents’ constant attention and rule over comedy, but it also explores racism against in the Muslim culture makes clear that her life to Ramy reluctantly taking a job the Muslim community. The most potent the series isn’t here to whitewash Islam. with his awful uncle doing something he episode is the fourth, “Strawberries,” a No one bats an eye at Ramy’s promiscuity, really has no interest in. I’ll definitely flashback to 9/11, where Ramy learns but if his sister did the same, she’d be be checking out season 2 of this one. It some hard lessons about bigotry, but he disowned. Uncle Naseem’s anti-Semitism started and stayed strong through season also meets one of his lifelong friends, is another example of examining Islam 1, and I have high hopes it will continue to Stevie (Steve Way), confined to a with an unblinking eye. When Ramy falls be funny, thought-provoking, and real. ∆ wheelchair due to muscular dystrophy. for a Jewish girl who tries to get him to Way is, in fact, confined to a wheelchair. take ecstasy, and he won’t, she hooks up Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey and The writing is thought-provoking and with another guy, and his two Muslim freelancer Anna Starkey write Split Screen. often raw, and the series offers insight into friends berate him for being too uptight.

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Find a lifeline Here’s how local food and drink businesses are reaching out for help as the economy starts to open back up

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disaster loan capital has come into SLO County.

Mahan said they’ve been working with the restaurant business on everything from developing to-go menus to just being there to talk. The one-to-one business coaching that the nonprofit offers has been much of the latter, she said. Even business owners and CEOs who are used to taking on the responsibility themselves need a sounding board for these strange times, she said—a sort of business therapy, so to speak.

“Business owners are hustlers,” Mahan said. “They’re always going to figure it out. They work so hard. To be an entrepreneur you need that mindset. But you know what? Sometimes it feels really good to get support. Mentally, emotionally, sometimes we’re here just to listen.”

Now Mahan’s staff is helping the local restaurant business navigate the new and changing financial landscape and streamline their processes.

“The summer season is starting,” she said. “Tourism is coming back, but there is limited use of space within the restaurants, etc., so what we decided to focus on is how to help these businesses reinvent the business model.”

She mentioned some great examples of innovation, such as the marketplaces that have popped up in lieu of dining in.

“They have become our Blue Aprons, if you will, where consumers can walk in, get a meal kit ready-to-go prep dinner, or just to-go meal,” Mahan said. “There’s been a lot of creativity that is starting to bubble up ... but what we want to see is even more innovation at that level.”

To make it easier on clients, SBDC CIE sends regular email blasts and webinars for business coaching. The webinars are open to anyone who needs help and are available on both the SLO city and IMMUNE Chamber of Commerce SYSTEM websites.

SHOTS Due to Currently Mahan and some guidance Program Manager Liz Fisher from the Cal are preparing for a webinar Poly Center for about relaunching your Innovation and Entrepreneurship business, with guest speakers and the Central and clarification on reopening California guidelines by SLO County Small Business Public Health Director Dr. Development Penny Borenstein. To help Center, local food those who need a nudge companies like into thinking outside the BlissRiver Organics could increase its box, Fisher is organizing a supply of elderberry conversation with a renowned syrup and keep futurist economist for ideas SLO County about a brighter future after residents healthy. the pandemic.

f you haven’t been out to eat yet, and you can, I suggest you do so right now.

Because the only variable that experts can’t predict is when customers will be patronizing food and drink businesses again, but it needs to happen for any of SLO County’s fantastic programs to work.

Judy Mahan—who has a dual role as the director of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and the incubator director for Cal Poly Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at the HotHouse—has been helping local businesses get back on their feet. The SBDC CIE is part of a newly developed emergency task force that helps businesses apply for disaster loans.

Mahan said that while we’ve been in quarantine, her staff secured disaster loan funding for about 500 businesses.

The nonprofit has concentrated on three different markets that have been the hardest hit: brick-and-mortar retail (especially those without an e-commerce presence), restaurants, and health and wellness, which include gyms and yoga studios. Tech and innovation is their biggest focus in helping these businesses succeed.

“Last year we had banner year,” Mahan said about 2019. “We worked with 350 companies. We helped raise, give or take, $18 [million] to $20 million. We were super stoked. Most of the funding came from angel or venture funders.”

This year was a little different.

“When COVID hit, in that 12-week period, we worked with 450-plus companies, so we exceeded the number of companies we worked with in 12 weeks as compared to a whole year’s worth.”

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LUNA RAD The new Marketplace at Luna Red in SLO provides picnic food, libations, farmers’ market fresh produce, and a butcher fridge.

Fisher said restaurants are used to the hustle and happen to be quite efficient as a group. Of all the markets the nonprofit works with, she said the restaurant industry has an attitude for action.

“A lot of the restaurants were definitely open-minded to switching to whatever they could to stay afloat,” Fisher said.

“They were our most proactive.”

Among the challenges the food and beverage business is facing, Mahan said, is getting the workforce to come back to work. In a year, she said, they will have a better sense of how the challenges and changes will play out.

“It’s not a crisis situation anymore, but it’s definitely an unknown,” she said.

“Right now, with these disaster loan programs, a large amount of these loans will be forgiven or there are definitely deferral terms that are beneficial to the business owners.”

It may be too soon to know how many businesses will make it and how many we will lose after the lockdown.

SLOW Money SLO founder and Executive Director Jeff Wade is one of the two dozen or so consultants working with SBDC CIE. He explained how he’s been helping farms and the food and drink businesses find nontraditional ways to stay afloat. Wade said he’d like to think people are going out and patronizing more restaurants and buying more food from food purveyors and farmers, but that’s just not the case.

“In fact, if you took a poll, I’m sure there’d be a lot of pessimism about what’s happening,” he said. “I do know that people have been very creative. They’ve put a lot of energy in doing things in a unique way, that is in the restrictions, especially a month ago, when everybody was doing to-go food at restaurants.”

To keep working toward a brighter future, the SLO County chapter of SCORE (a national nonprofit focused on entrepreneurship) has also been offering free mentoring for COVID-19 business

assistance, Small Business Association loans, and the CARES Act, he said.

Here’s just a little taste of the good news in the works: After reaching a fundraising goal, Bang The Drum Brewery in SLO is finishing up construction on a new location with an opening date set for early August.

Novo in SLO managed the lockdown with both a new marketplace counter and a family-style takeout menu with curbside pickup (two words for you: ahi nachos).

Luna Red in SLO also adapted by creating a marketplace equipped with butchery items.

The Buttercup Bakery & Cafe in Morro Bay took the SBA loan and remodeled its outdoor space.

Meanwhile, Erin Primer, director of food services at San Luis Coastal Unified School District, expanded her already impressive farm-to-school food operation by morphing the program into a complete week’s worth of food for students, which makes sense, being that transportation can be an issue.

With some cash flow assistance, BlissRiver Organics purchased a large quantity of elderberries to keep up with the increasing demand for immune-boosting elderberry syrup in the time of coronavirus.

Talk about coming full circle: I had just taken a shot of the elderberry syrup— which I was excited to see at Gather, Atascadero’s new health food store—when Wade told me about AnnaLillian’s success in growing her SLO-based homemade elderberry syrup business. That small loan AnnaLillian received had made its way into my fridge.

“In her case,” Wade said, “It wasn’t a comeback. She was getting a huge spike in need and desire for a product that can really be healthy and good for you. So that was a very positive story in all of the negativity.” ∆ Flavor writer Beth Giuffre will take a shot of elderberry syrup with you anytime. Send positive vibes to bgiuffre@newtimesslo.com.

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COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Notice is given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the County Clerk, 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-120, San Luis Obispo, California 93408 before 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2020 (“Bid Deadline”), for the following public works project:

SANTA ROSA CREEK ROAD MP 0.8, PREFUMO CANYON ROAD MP 3.5 AND TURRI ROAD MP 2.5 SLOPE REPAIR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, CA CONTRACT NOS. 245R12B420 SLCOC19/LOP-1, 245R12B443 SLCOC81/LOP-32, AND 245R12B448 SLCOC86/LOP-36 Bids will be opened and declared by the County Clerk at 3:15 p.m. on the bid opening date at a public meeting at 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-120, San Luis Obispo, California 93408.

Any bid received at the office of the County Clerk of the County of San Luis Obispo at or after 3:00 p.m. on the date specified above will not be accepted, and will be returned to the bidder unopened.

Bids are required for the entire work described in the Contract Documents.

The Bid package (also referred to herein as the “Contract Documents”) are posted on the County’s Purchasing website: http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/GS/Purchasing/Current_Formal_Bids_and_ Proposals.htm Any changes, additions, or deletions to these Contract Documents will be in the form of written addenda issued by the County. Any addenda will be posted on the website. Prospective bidders must check the website for addenda or other relevant new information at up to 5:00 p.m. the day before the prescribed date/time for submittal of bids. The County is not responsible for the failure of any prospective bidder to receive such addenda. All addenda so issued shall become a part of this Bid.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to California Government Code Sections 25845 and 54354-54358 and Health and Safety Code Section 5473 et seq., by which delinquent charges may be collected on the general County tax bill, the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo will hold a public hearing on July 7, 2020, at 9:00 a.m., in the Board of Supervisors Chambers, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, regarding the proposed collection of delinquent charges on the FY 2020-21 tax roll.

All hearing items are scheduled for 9:00 a.m. To determine the placement of this item on the agenda, please contact the County Administrative Office the Thursday afternoon before the scheduled hearing date.

The accepted report describing the delinquent charges proposed to be collected on the FY 2020-21 tax roll is on file in the Office of the County Clerk and is available for public review.

Date: June 16, 2020 WADE HORTON Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors By:/s/ T’Ana Christiansen Deputy Clerk June 18 & 25, 2020

All bidder Requests for Information must be submitted no later than 3:00 p.m., 5 business days prior to the bid opening date. Requests submitted after said date may not be considered. All questions pertaining to the content of this invitation to Bid must be made in writing through the Purchasing website.

Questions and responses will be posted on the Purchasing website and can be viewed by accessing the Invitation to Bid located at the Purchasing website. The identity of the entity submitting the question will not be posted.

The County reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of comments / questions that will be posted on the website.

The bidder must have either a Class A license or a combination of class C licenses that make up a majority of the work at the time the Contract is awarded (Public Contract Code § 3300). When the bidder holds a combination of Class C licenses, all work to be performed outside of the bidder’s license specialties, except work that is incidental or supplemental to the licenses of the bidder, shall be performed by licensed Subcontractors in compliance with the Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code).

Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 1771.1: • A Contractor or Subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in the Bid Proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of this public works project, unless currently registered with the Department of Industrial Relations and qualified to perform work pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

• This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

Bids must be submitted under sealed cover plainly marked as a bid and identified with the project number, the date and time for receipt of sealed bids, and the name of the bidder.

Bids must be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashier’s check, or a bidder’s bond in favor of the County in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the submitted total Bid. Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by County to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the County to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.

The successful bidder will be required to furnish the County with payment and performance bonds, with each issued by a California admitted surety insurer equal to 100% of the Contract Price.

Bidders must take all necessary affirmative steps to assure that minority businesses, women’s business enterprises, and labor surplus area firms are used when possible (2 CFR 200.321).

Federal funds are being used on this project, and therefore, the DavisBacon Act (40 USC 276a to 276a-7) as supplemented in the Department of Labor regulations (29 CFR Part 5) applies (in addition to California State Prevailing Wage laws). Pursuant to section 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code, the Contractor and all Subcontractors shall pay not less than the prevailing wage rate of per diem wages as determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations and comply with all applicable Labor Code provisions, which include, but are not limited to the employment of apprentices, the hours of labor, and the debarment of Contractors and Subcontractors. The Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations determines the general prevailing wage rates.

Copies are available at the DIR website, http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. Bidders are advised that any contractor who is awarded a public works project and intends to use a craft or classification not shown on the general prevailing wage determination may be required to pay the wage rate of that craft or classification most closely related to it as shown in the general determinations effective at the time of the call for bids.

Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action 1. The bidder’s attention is directed to the Equal Opportunity clause in the Agreement and the Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications in section 7-1.11B of the General Conditions set forth herein.

2. The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the Contractor’s aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows: A. Goals for minority participation for each trade: 24.6% B. Goals for female participation in each trade: 6.9% These goals are applicable to all the Contractor’s construction work (whether or not it is Federal or federally assisted) performed in the covered area. If the contractor performs construction work in a geographical area located outside of the covered area, it shall apply the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the contractor also is subject to the goals for both its federally involved and nonfederally involved construction.

The Contractor’s compliance with the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR part 60-4 shall be based on its implementation of the Equal Opportunity clause, specific affirmative action obligations required by the specifications set forth in 41 CFR 60-4.3(a), and its efforts to meet the goals. The hours of minority and female employment and training must be substantially uniform throughout the length of the contract, and in each trade, and the contractor shall make a good faith effort to employ minorities and women evenly on each of its projects. The transfer of minority or female employees or trainees from Contractor to Contractor or from project to project for the sole purpose of meeting the Contractor’s goals shall be a violation of the contract, the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR part 604. Compliance with the goals will be measured against the total work hours performed.

3. The Contractor shall provide written notification to the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within 10 working days of award of any construction subcontract in excess of $10,000 at any tier for construction work under the contract resulting from this solicitation. The notification shall list the name, address and telephone number of the Subcontractor; employer identification number of the Subcontractor; estimated dollar amount of the Subcontract; estimated starting and completion dates of the Subcontract; and the geographical area in which the Subcontract is to be performed.

4. As used in this Notice, and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the “covered area” is San Luis Obispo County, California.

By order of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo in their action on the 21st day of April, 2020.

June 25, 2020

Notice is given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the County Clerk, 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-120, San Luis Obispo, California 93408 before 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2020 (“Bid Deadline”), for the following public works project: PREFUMO CANYON ROAD MILEPOST 4.9(5.16) SLIP OUT REPAIR SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA CONTRACT NO. 245R12B652 Bids will be opened and declared by the County Clerk at 3:15 p.m. on the bid opening date at a public meeting at 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-120, San Luis Obispo, California 93408.

Any bid received at the office of the County Clerk of the County of San Luis Obispo at or after 3:00 p.m. on the date specified above will not be accepted, and will be returned to the bidder unopened.

A bid received one second after 3:00 p.m. (i.e. after 3:00:00 p.m.) shall not be considered.

Bids are required for the entire work described in the Contract Documents.

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

Nagy, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 0521-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a FILE NO. 2020-1017 correct copy of the statement on file in my TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, (N/A) JA. Anderson, Deputy. Exp. 05-21-25.

New Filing The following person is doing business June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020 as, WAND REALTY, 521 Bluerock Dr., San FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Anni Wang (521 Bluerock Dr., San NAME STATEMENT Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is FILE NO. 2020-1025 conducted by An Individual /s/ Anni Wang, TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE Individual. This statement was filed with the (05/01/2020) County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05New Filing 21-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my The following person is doing business office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. as, SLOFLY, 3451 Sequoia Dr., San Luis King, Deputy. Exp. 05-21-25.

Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo June 4, 11, 18, & 25, 2020 County. John Douglas Barden (609 Meyer Lane #17, Redondo Beach, CA 90278), FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Matthew Teel (3451 Sequoia Dr., San Luis NAME STATEMENT Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conFILE NO. 2020-1020 ducted by A General Partnership /s/ John TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE Douglas Barden, Co-Owner. This statement (01/15/2015) was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis New Filing The following person is doing business Obispo on 05-26-20. I hereby certify that as, CUESTA APPRAISAL, 371 Piney Way, this copy is a correct copy of the stateMorro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo ment on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy County. Paul Thomas Nagy (371 Piney Gong, County Clerk, G. Ugalde, Deputy.

Way, Morro Bay, CA 93442). This business Exp. 05-26-25. is conducted by An Individual /s/ Paul T. June 11, 18, 25, & July 2, 2020

The Bid package (also referred to herein as the “Contract Documents”) are posted on the County’s Purchasing website:

All bidders are required to acknowledge and confirm receipt of every addendum in their bid proposal.

Bidders are notified that financing for this project is provided in part by a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance Grant Program and that compliance with applicable federal laws, regulations, executive orders, and FEMA policies, procedures, and directives is required.

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION NOTICE TO BIDDERS

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING The San Luis Obispo Architectural Review Commission will hold a Regular Meeting, Monday, July 6, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. on the items listed below. While the City encourages public participation, growing concern about the COVID-19 pandemic has required that public meetings be held via teleconference. Meetings can be viewed by joining the webinar or visiting the City’s electronic archive the day after the meeting to view the recording. Webinar registration details will be available on the agenda and the archive can be accessed from the City’s website at www.slocity.org. Public comment, prior to the start of the meeting, may be submitted in writing via U.S. Mail to the City Clerk’s Office at 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 or by email to advisorybodies@slocity.org.

PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS: 1. Continued review of a four-story, 200 room dual brand hotel in the San Luis Ranch Specific Plan area; The project is consistent with the previously certified FEIR and SEIR for the San Luis Ranch Specific Plan and no additional environmental review is required per CEQA; Project Address: 1035 Madonna Road; Case #: ARCH0796-2019; Zone: Neighborhood-Commercial Zone (N-C) San Luis Ranch Specific Plan; Arris Studio, Thom Jess, applicant.

Contact Information: John Rickenbach – (805) 610-1109 – JFRickenbach@aol.com 2. Review of a mixed-use project consisting of 15 residential units and 1,714 square feet of commercial space within the Commercial Services (C-S) zone. The project includes a density bonus of 5% including a request for an alternative incentive to relax development standards for the creek setback requirement to allow a two foot setback, where 20 feet is normally required, a request to allow residential uses on the ground floor within the first 50 feet of the structure along the street frontage, and a request for a 10 percent parking reduction.

Project is categorically exempt from environmental review (CEQA); Project Address: 830 Orcutt Road; Case #: ARCH-0764-2019, AFFH-0210-2020, USE-0209-2020; Zone: Commercial Services (C-S) zone; 830 Orcutt, LLC, owner/applicant.

Contact Information: Kyle Bell – (805) 781-7524 – kbell@slocity.org 3. Review of five new two-bedroom, two-story singlefamily residences, each with an attached two-car garage. The project site is within the Mill Street Historic District and includes the retention of five, two-bedroom, single-story residences, which are on the Contributing List of Historic Properties. The project also includes a common-interest subdivision to create ten lots; each will contain one of the ten residences. The applicant has requested exceptions from development standards to allow interior side setbacks to be reduced (five feet where seven is the standard, six feet where eight feet is the standard, seven feet where nine feet is the standard, and eight feet where eleven feet is the standard) and to allow required parking to be provided in tandem. A Mitigated Negative Declaration of environmental review (CEQA) is proposed; Project address: 1137 Peach Street; Case #: ARCH-0568-2019, SBDV-0571-2019, EID-08002019; Zone: R-2-H; Levi Seligman, owner/applicant.

Contact Information: Kyle Van Leeuwen – (805) 781-7091 – kleeuwen@slocity.org The Architectural Review Commission may also discuss other hearing or business items before or after the item(s) listed above. If you challenge the proposed action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence distributed to the Architectural Review Commission at, or prior to, the public hearing.

The report will be available for review online 72 hours in advance of the meeting at https://www.slocity.org/ government/advisory-bodies/agendas-and-minutes/ architectural-review-commission.

Please call the Community Development Department at (805) 781-7170 for more information, or to request an agenda report.

June 25, 2020

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http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/GS/Purchasing/Current_Formal_ Bids_and_Proposals.htm Any changes, additions, or deletions to these Contract Documents will be in the form of written addenda issued by the County. Any addenda will be posted on the website. Prospective bidders must check the website for addenda or other relevant new information at up to 5:00 p.m. the day before the prescribed date/time for submittal of bids. The County is not responsible for the failure of any prospective bidder to receive such addenda. All addenda so issued shall become a part of this Bid. All bidders are required to acknowledge and confirm receipt of every addendum in their bid proposal.

All bidder Requests for Information must be submitted no later than 3:00 p.m., 5 business days prior to the bid opening date.

Requests submitted after said date may not be considered. All questions pertaining to the content of this invitation to Bid must be made in writing through the Purchasing website. Questions and responses will be posted on the Purchasing website and can be viewed by accessing the Invitation to Bid located at the Purchasing website. The identity of the entity submitting the question will not be posted. The County reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of comments / questions that will be posted on the website.

The bidder must have either a Class A license or a combination of class C licenses that make up a majority of the work at the time the Contract is awarded (Public Contract Code § 3300). When the bidder holds a combination of Class C licenses, all work to be performed outside of the bidder’s license specialties, except work that is incidental or supplemental to the licenses of the bidder, shall be performed by licensed Subcontractors in compliance with the Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code) Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 1771.1: • A Contractor or Subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in the Bid Proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of this public works project, unless currently registered with the Department of Industrial Relations and qualified to perform work pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered Contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the Contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

• This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

There is no project-specific DBE goal requirement.

Bids must be submitted under sealed cover plainly marked as a bid and identified with the project number, the date and time for receipt of sealed bids, and the name of the bidder.

Bids must be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashier’s check, or a bidder’s bond in favor of the County in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the submitted total Bid. Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by County to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the County to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.

The successful bidder will be required to furnish the County with payment and performance bonds, with each issued by a California admitted surety insurer equal to 100% of the Contract Price.

Pursuant to section 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code, the Contractor and all Subcontractors shall pay not less than the prevailing rate of per diem wages as determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations and comply with all applicable Labor Code provisions, which include, but are not limited to the employment of apprentices, the hours of labor, and the debarment of Contractors and Subcontractors. The Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations determines the general prevailing wage rates. Copies are available at the DIR website, http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. By order of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo in their action on the 16th day of June 2020.

END OF NOTICE TO BIDDERS June 25, 2020

PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING The San Luis Obispo Planning Commission will hold a Regular Meeting, Wednesday, July 8, 2020, at 6:00 p.m., via teleconference, on the items listed below.

While the City encourages public participation, growing concern about the COVID-19 pandemic has required that public meetings be held via teleconference.

Meetings can be viewed on Government Access Channel 20 or streamed live from the City’s YouTube channel: http://youtube.slo.city. Public comment, prior to the start of the meeting, may be submitted in writing via U.S. Mail delivered to the City Clerk’s Office at 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 or by email to advisorybodies@slocity.org.

PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS: 1. Review of a six-story mixed-use building consisting of approximately 30,000 square feet of commercial/office space and 50 residential dwelling units, within the Downtown Historic District. The project includes a rezone to provide a Planned Development Overlay, demolition of an existing structure, request for a floor area ratio of 4.0 with the permanent preservation of an offsite building located at 868 and 870 Monterey Street, request to establish a new driveway and reconfiguration of street parking along Marsh Street, and a request to allow a maximum building height of 75 feet, where 50 feet is normally allowed in the Downtown Commercial zone. A Mitigated Negative Declaration of environmental review Project Address: (CEQA) is proposed; 1144 Chorro, 868 and 870 Monterey, 876 and 890 Marsh, 895, 898, 973 Higuera Streets,; Case #: ARCH-1687-2018, PDEV-0509-2019, EID0475-2019; Zone: C-D-H; Jamestown Premier SLO Retail, LP, owner/applicant.

Contact Information: Kyle Bell – (805) 781-7524 – kbell@slocity.org 2. Review of the 2020 Climate Action Plan update, titled Climate Action Plan for Community Recovery, for consistency with the General Plan.

In addition, the Planning will review quantitative California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Thresholds for use in evaluating whether a plan or project’s GHG emissions would result in a potentially significant environmental impact under CEQA for plans or projects with pre-2030 buildout or initial operation years. A Draft Initial Study-Negative Declaration (EID 0275-2020) has been prepared to evaluate potential environmental impacts of implementing the Climate Action Plan as well as the City of San Luis Obispo CEQA Emissions Significance Thresholds.

Contact Information: Teresa McClish – (805) 783-7840 – tmcclish@slocity.org The Planning Commission may also discuss other hearing or business items before or after the item(s) listed above. If you challenge the proposed action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission at, or prior to, the public hearing.

The report(s) will be available for review online in advance of the meeting at http://www.slocity.org/ government/advisory-bodies/agendas-and-minutes/ planning-commission. Please call The Community Development Department at 805-781-7170 for more information, or to request an agenda report. The Planning Commission meeting will be televised live on Charter Cable Channel 20, beginning at 6:00 p.m.

June 25, 2020

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING OF TEMPLETON COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT REGARDING COLLECTION OF STREET LIGHT ASSESSMENTS, COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT 2017-1 ASSESSMENTS, DELINQUENT WEED ABATEMENT FEES, AND DELINQUENT WATER AND SEWER CHARGES The Templeton Community Services District will conduct a public hearing on Tuesday, July 07, 2020, beginning at 7:00 p.m. for the purpose of affording any individual who has street light assessments, delinquent weed abatement fees, Community Facilities District (CFD) 2017-1 assessments, or delinquent water and/or sewer charges, together with penalties thereon, as shown on the report filed with the District Board of Directors, to be heard by the Board regarding such assessments, delinquent fees and/or charges, and their collection on the County tax roll.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: DUE TO THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC THE PUBLIC MAY ONLY PARTICIPATE BY TELECONFERENCING. All interested persons are invited to call in to participate in the hearing, provide comments, and be heard: Public Call in Number to Participate is as follows: ZOOM Phone #: 1-669-900-6833 Meeting ID: 896 6489 8351 Password: 656889 At the public hearing on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, the District will consider any and all comments and objections to the authorization of collection of street light assessments, CFD 2017-1 assessments, and delinquent fees and charges, together with penalties thereon, on the tax roll pursuant to Government Code Section 61115(b). Any questions regarding the information in this notice may be directed to Natalie Klock, Finance Officer of the District, at (805) 434-4900. All information and documents regarding the assessments, and delinquent fees and charges are available for inspection at the Templeton Community Services District office located at 420 Crocker Street, Templeton.

OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT OPTIONS: The public may also provide comment via e-mail or letters that will be distributed to the Board of Directors.

E-mails may be sent to the Board Secretary at ion@templetoncsd.org. Letters may be mailed to the District Office at P.O. Box 780, Templeton, CA 93465.

Letters may also be dropped-off at the District’s Drop-Box located outside the District Office at 420 Crocker Street, Templeton. People may also call the District Office at (805) 434-4900 to leave a message concerning items on the agenda. Public input using one of these methods must be received by Tuesday, July 7, 2020 by 3:00 p.m.

June 18 & 25, 2020

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Subdivision Review Board

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Commission

WHEN: Monday, August 3, 2020 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

WHEN: Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

WHAT: Hearing to consider a request by Steve and Julie Souza for a Tentative Parcel Map (SUB2019-00019) to allow for the subdivision of a 469.74-acre parcel into two (2) parcels of 17.67 acres and 452.07 acres for the purpose of sale and/or development. The project will result in the disturbance of approximately 0.35 acres of the 469.74-acre site. There are currently three land use designations for the site; Agricultural, Rural Lands, and Residential Rural. The proposed Parcel 1 would contain 17.67 acres of Residential Rural zoning and the proposed Remainder Parcel would contain approximately 300 acres of Agricultural zoning and approximately 152 acres of Rural Lands zoning. The project proposes a new development “building” envelope of approximately 0.35 acres on Parcel 1. The subdivision is required to make roadway improvements in the right-of way along Tassajara Creek Road, and will be required to construct the private access road to Cal Fire Standards with additional easement width as necessary to contain all elements of the roadway prism. The proposed project is located at 8475 Tassajara Creek Road, approximately 1 mile east of the intersection between Tassajara Creek Road and Highway 101. The site is approximately 2 miles west of the community of Santa Margarita and is within the Salinas River Sub Area of the North County Planning Area.

Also to be considered at the hearing will be adoption of the Environmental Document prepared for the item. The Environmental Coordinator, after completion of the initial study, finds that there is no substantial evidence that the project may have a significant effect on the environment, and the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report is not necessary.

Therefore, a Mitigated Negative Declaration (pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21000 et seq., and CA Code of Regulations Section 15000 et seq.) has been issued on June 22, 2020 for this project. Mitigation measures are proposed to address Biological Resources and are included as conditions of approval.

The Environmental Document is available for public review at the Department of Planning and Building, at the below address. A copy of the Environmental Document is also available on the Planning and Building Department website at www.sloplanning.org. Anyone interested in commenting on the proposed Environmental Document should submit a written statement and/or speak at the public hearing. Comments will be accepted up until completion of the public hearing(s).

County File Number: SUB2019-00019 Supervisorial District: District 5 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 070-093-018 Date Accepted: 01/30/2020 WHERE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE based on the threat of COVID-19 as reflected in the Proclamations of Emergency issued by both the Governor of the State of California and the San Luis Obispo County Emergency Services Director as well as the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 issued on March 17, 2020, relating to the convening of public meetings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, until further notice all public meetings for the Department of Planning and Building for the County of San Luis Obispo will be closed to members of the public and non-essential County staff. The Department’s Notice of Temporary Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/ Planning-Building/Boards-and-Commissions.aspx. Additionally, hearing body members and officers may attend the meeting via teleconference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www. sloplanning.org. You may also contact Kathryn Nall, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

Daniela Chavez, Secretary Subdivision Review Board June 25, 2020

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Commission

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Commission

WHEN: Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

WHEN: Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

WHAT: Hearing to consider a request by Krista Koenig for a Conditional Use Permit (DRC2018-00155) to allow for the phased development of multiple cannabis activities. Phase 1 would include the establishment of three acres of outdoor cannabis cultivation, 4,800 square feet of modular trailers for ancillary cannabis processing, a 960 square-foot modular trailer for a non-storefront dispensary service and additional processing, the relocation of two existing 5,000 gallon water tanks, the installation of one new 5,000 gallon water tank, and site improvements including security equipment, fencing, driveway improvements, parking areas, and installation of a restroom and septic system.

Phase 2 would include 33,600 square feet of greenhouse to support 22,000 square feet of mixed-light/indoor cultivation, one 8,200 square-foot greenhouse for a commercial cannabis nursery, and a 960 square foot modular trailer for non-volatile manufacturing activities. A modification to the parking standards set forth in LUO Section 22.18.050 is requested to reduce the required number of parking spaces from 91 to 14. A modification to the screening and fencing standards set forth in LUO 22.40.050.D.6 is requested to waive the standard for solid fencing materials and allow for the installation of chain link fencing with shade cloth. The project would result in approximately 5.5 acres of site disturbance including less than 50 cubic yards of earthwork (combined cut and fill) on a 56.5-acre parcel. The project site is located within the Agriculture land use category at 3919 Huasna Road, approximately five miles northeast of the city of Arroyo Grande in the San Luis Bay (South) Sub Area of the South County Planning Area.

WHAT:Hearing to consider a request by the Port San Luis Harbor District for a Minor Use Permit / Coastal Development Permit (DRC2019-00161) to allow the outdoor storage of seatrains in a portion of the Avila Beach Parking Lot totaling approximately 20,000 square feet. The project is within the Recreation land use category; and is located at 450 Second Street in the community of Avila Beach.

The site is in the San Luis Bay Coastal Planning Area.

Also to be considered at the hearing will be adoption of the Environmental Document prepared for the item. The Environmental Coordinator, after completion of the initial study, finds that there is no substantial evidence that the project may have a significant effect on the environment, and the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report is not necessary. Therefore, a Mitigated Negative Declaration (pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21000 et seq., and CA Code of Regulations Section 15000 et seq.) has been issued on April 27, 2020, for this project. Mitigation measures are proposed to address Aesthetics, Agricultural and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Transportation, and Mandatory Findings of Significance are included as conditions of approval.

The Environmental Document is available for public review at the Department of Planning and Building, at the below address. A copy of the Environmental Document is also available on the Planning and Building Department website at www.sloplanning. org. Anyone interested in commenting on the proposed Environmental Document should submit a written statement and/or speak at the public hearing. Comments will be accepted up until completion of the public hearing(s).

County File Number: DRC2018-00155 Supervisorial District: District 4 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 047-091-005 Date Accepted: 04/22/2019 WHERE The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey Street, Room #D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the meeting all interested persons may express their views for or against, or to change the proposal.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Eric Hughes, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

Also to be considered is the environmental determination that the project is statutorily exempt from environmental review under CEQA. County File Number: DRC2019-00161 Supervisorial District: District 3 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 076-196-001, -215-012 Date Accepted: 11/21/2019 WHERE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE based on the threat of COVID-19 as reflected in the Proclamations of Emergency issued by both the Governor of the State of California and the San Luis Obispo County Emergency Services Director as well as the Governor’s Executive Order N-2920 issued on March 17, 2020, relating to the convening of public meetings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, until further notice all public meetings for the Department of Planning and Building for the County of San Luis Obispo will be closed to members of the public and non-essential County staff. The Department’s Notice of Temporary Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at www.slocounty.ca.gov/ Departments/Planning-Building/Boards-and-Commissions.aspx.

Additionally, hearing body members and officers may attend the meeting via teleconference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Lacey Minnick, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

WHAT: Hearing to consider a request by Green Gold Organic Collective for a Conditional Use Permit (DRC2019-00091), previously a Minor Use Permit (DRC201800034), to establish 26,136 square feet (0.60 acres) of outdoor cannabis cultivation in hoop houses. The project would result in approximately 35,000 square feet (0.8 acres) of site disturbance on a 58.12-acre parcel, including approximately 25 cubic yards of cut and fill. The project site is within the Agriculture land use category located at 3033 Mt. Lowe Road, approximately 0.35 miles east of U.S. Highway 101 on the East Cuesta Ridge. The site is within Los Padres Sub Area of the North County Planning Area.

Also to be considered at the hearing will be adoption of the Environmental Document prepared for the item. The Environmental Coordinator, after completion of the initial study, finds that there is no substantial evidence that the project may have a significant effect on the environment, and the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report is not necessary. Therefore, a Mitigated Negative Declaration (pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21000 et seq., and CA Code of Regulations Section 15000 et seq.) has been issued on January 30, 2020 for this project. Mitigation measures are proposed to address Biological Resources and Transportation and are included as conditions of approval.

The Environmental Document is available for public review at the Department of Planning and Building, at the below address. A copy of the Environmental Document is also available on the Planning and Building Department website at www.sloplanning. org. Anyone interested in commenting on the proposed Environmental Document should submit a written statement and/or speak at the public hearing. Comments will be accepted up until completion of the public hearing(s).

County File Number: DRC2019-00091 Supervisorial District: District 5 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 070-241-035 (+ 5 more) Date Accepted: 05/08/2019 WHERE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE based on the threat of COVID-19 as reflected in the Proclamations of Emergency issued by both the Governor of the State of California and the San Luis Obispo County Emergency Services Director as well as the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 issued on March 17, 2020, relating to the convening of public meetings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, until further notice all public meetings for the Department of Planning and Building for the County of San Luis Obispo will be closed to members of the public and non-essential County staff. The Department’s Notice of Temporary Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at www. slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building/Boards-and-Commissions. aspx. Additionally, hearing body members and officers may attend the meeting via teleconference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Eric Hughes, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

Ramona Hedges, Secretary Planning Commission

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the County of San Luis Obispo Board of Supervisors adopted a Resolution of Intention, tentatively approved a Preliminary Engineer’s Annual Levy Report from the Assessment Engineer, and authorized a time and place for the public hearing to place an annual assessment for FY 2020-21 upon the parcels within the Tract 1747 Streetlight Assessment District. The Board has scheduled a public hearing to receive testimony either in support or opposition to the proposed assessment.

The public hearing will be held on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, in the Board of Supervisors Chambers, County Government Center, 1055 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo. All hearings are scheduled for 9:00 a.m. To determine the placement of this item on the agenda, please contact the County Administrative office the Thursday afternoon before the scheduled hearing date.

The Assessment Engineer’s Annual Levy Report, consisting of the maps, descriptions, an estimate of the cost of yearly maintenance, and the proposed assessments, has been prepared and preliminarily approved. For all particulars as to these proceedings and any individual assessment, reference is made to the Assessment Engineer’s Annual Levy Report as tentatively approved by the Board of Supervisors and on file in the office of the Clerk of the Board and will be made available for public inspection during normal business hours. The Clerk of the Board’s office is located at 1055 Monterey Street, Suite D430, San Luis Obispo.

Date: June 19, 2020

WADE HORTON Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors By: /s/ T’Ana Christiansen Deputy Clerk June 25, 2020

June 25, 2020

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON AMENDED ASSESSMENTS FOR SPECIFIED PARCELS WITHIN THE SHERWOOD DRIVE UNDERGROUND UTILITY ASSESSMENT DISTRICT Notice is hereby given by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo as follows: 1. That pursuant to a duly adopted Resolution of said Board, the County Surveyor prepared and filed with the County Clerk a report, maps or plats, necessary amended assessments, and costs or fees for making the same and notice, under the procedure set forth in Streets and Highways Code Sections 8730 through 8734 inclusive of the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, for the said Assessment District.

2. That the report and map or plat of said amended assessments is on file in the County Department of Public Works office, San Luis Obispo County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, California, and may be inspected there by any interested party before the hearing referred to hereinafter.

3. That a public hearing on said amended assessments shall be held on July 14, 2020, 9:00 a.m., in the Board of Supervisors Chambers, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo.

(All hearing items are scheduled for 9:00 a.m. To determine the placement of this item on the agenda, please contact the County Administrative Office the Thursday afternoon before the scheduled hearing date.)

4. That at said hearing, all interested persons may appear and object to or protest against such amended assessments.

Date: June 19, 2020

NOTICE FIXING TIME FOR SUBMISSION OF ARGUMENTS FOR OR AGAINST MEASURE C-20 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, by the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County, State of California, that at the Consolidated General Election to be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, the following measure will be submitted to the voters of the Atascadero Unified School District: MEASURE C-20 To expand vocational/career education facilities for programs including engineering, technology, robotics, construction trades and agricultural science; improve school security/student safety; upgrade school emergency preparedness; build additional school facilities as needed; and create local construction jobs; shall Atascadero Unified School District’s measure be adopted authorizing $40 million of bonds with legal interest rates, levies averaging less than five cents per $100 assessed valuation for 14 years ($3.3 million/year for bond repayment), annual audits and independent oversight?

BONDS - YES

BONDS - NO

Arguments FOR or AGAINST this measure should be submitted to the Office of the County Clerk-Recorder, 1055 Monterey Street, D120, San Luis Obispo, not later than 5:00 p.m., Friday, July 17, 2020, which has been determined by the County Clerk-Recorder to be a reasonable date based upon the time necessary to prepare, print and distribute the arguments to the voters as provided by law. Arguments shall not exceed 300 words in length and shall be titled either “Argument in Favor of Measure C-20” or “Argument Against Measure C-20”. Arguments may be submitted by the Governing Board of the district or any member or members of the governing board authorized by the board, any individual voter who is eligible to vote on the measure; any bona fide association of citizens, or any combination of these voters and associations.

No argument will be accepted unless it is signed by the person or persons submitting it, or, if submitted on behalf of an organization, the name of the organization and the name of at least one of its principal officers. No more than five signatures shall appear with any argument. If there are more than five signatures only the first five will be printed. Arguments shall be typed in paragraph form and shall be submitted electronically along with the hard copy. Arguments must be accompanied by the following form statement (on a separate sheet), to be signed by each author or proponent of the argument: “The undersigned (proponents) or (authors) of the (primary) or (rebuttal) argument (in favor of) or (against) ballot Measure C-20 at the Consolidated General Election to be held on November 3, 2020, hereby state that such argument is true and correct to the best of (his) (her) (their) knowledge and belief.”

NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that if more than one argument FOR or more than one argument AGAINST the Measure is submitted, the County Clerk-Recorder will select the argument FOR and the argument AGAINST, according to law. If an argument FOR and an argument AGAINST the Measure is filed, the County Clerk-Recorder will send a copy to the respective opposing authors in order that they may prepare and submit a rebuttal argument. Rebuttal arguments, if applicable, shall be titled “Rebuttal to Argument in Favor of or Against Measure C-20”. Rebuttal arguments shall not exceed 250 words in length and shall be filed no later than 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 28, 2020.

COASTAL APPEALABLE County action may be eligible for appeal to the California Coastal Commission after all possible local appeal efforts are exhausted.

Appeals must be filed in writing as provided by Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section 23.01.043.

WADE HORTON Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors By: /s/ T’Ana Christiansen

The ten-day public examination period for Primary Arguments is July 1827. The Public Examination Period for Rebuttal Arguments (if applicable) is July 29- August 7. Any challenge to the validity of the arguments must be filed within the 10-day public examination period.

Ramona Hedges, Secretary Planning Commission

Deputy Clerk

Dated: June 19, 2020

June 25, 2020

June 25, 2020

Ramona Hedges, Secretary Planning Commission June 25, 2020

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

June 25, 2020

TOMMY GONG, County Clerk-Recorder

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SUMMARY RESOLUTION ADOPTING SPECIFIC amendments to Title 22 (Land Use Ordinance), TITLE 23 (COASTAL ZONE LAND USE ORDINANCE), AND COASTAL FRAMEWORK FOR PLANNING TABLE “O”, FOR THE AGRICULTURAL WORKER HOUSING ORDINANCE

On June 16, 2020, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution No. 2020-154 and Ordinance Nos. 3417 and 3418 wherein it amended the San Luis Obispo Land Use Ordinance - Title 22, Title 23, and Coastal Framework for Planning, for the Agricultural Worker Housing Ordinance by the following roll call to wit: AYES:

Supervisors Debbie Arnold, Chairperson Lynn Compton and John Peschong

NOES:

Supervisor Bruce S. Gibson

ABSENT:

Supervisor Adam Hill

ABSTAINING:

None

The following amendments are proposed in order to streamline and incentivize agricultural worker housing as contained in Resolution No. 2020-154 and Ordinance Nos. 3417 and 3418 are summarized as follows: 1.

Amendments to the Land Use Ordinance, Title 22 of the County Code, the Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance, Title 23 of the County Code, and the Coastal Framework for Planning Table “O” (LRP2017-00002) to amend and replace the Farm Support Quarters Ordinance with a new ordinance on Agricultural Worker Housing.

County File Number:

LRP201700002

Assessor Parcel Number: Countywide Supervisorial District:

All

Date Accepted:

N/A

DATED: June 23, 2020 WADE HORTON, Ex-Officio Clerk of The Board of Supervisors By: /s/ T’Ana Christiansen Deputy Clerk June 25, 2020

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FILE NO. 2020-1030 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/20/2000) New Filing The following person is doing business as, DEL VALLE GARDENING & MAINTENANCE, 2425 Mesa Ranch Rd., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Marco A. Machuca (450 S. 14th St. #D, Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Marco A. Machuca, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-27-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, S. Currens, Deputy. Exp. 05-27-25.

June 11, 18, 25, & July 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1038 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/28/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, WILDERNEST, 1798 Sage Ave., Suite B, Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo County. Denise D. Schmitt (1798 Sage Ave., Suite B, Los Osos, CA 93402), Avery J. Riis (1245 13th St., Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by A General Partnership /s/ Denise D. Schmitt.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-28-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 05-28-25.

June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1043 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, MANZANA CONSULTING, 765 Price Canyon Rd., Unit A, Pismo Beach, CA 93449.

San Luis Obispo County. Jillian Flavin (765 Price Canyon Rd., Unit A, Pismo Beach, CA 93449). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Jillian Flavin. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-29-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, S. King, Deputy. Exp. 05-29-25.

June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1048 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, MORTGAGE PROFESSIONALS GROUP, 1957 San Luis Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Vincent Keith Mohr (1957 San Luis Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Vincent Keith Mohr, Broker/Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 05-29-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, S. King, Deputy. Exp. 05-29-25.

June 11, 18, 25, & July 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1053 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/29/2020)) New Filing The following person is doing business as: SHOCKLEY MOBILE IT SERVICES, 7415 Huasna Rd. Arroyo Grande, CA 93420.

San Luis Obispo County. Daniel Zimmerman (7415 Huasna Rd. Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by an Individual /s/ Daniel Zimmerman. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06-01-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, JA. Anderson, Deputy. Exp. 06-01-2025 June 11, 18, 25, & July 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1070 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, SLO LIFE REALTY GROUP, 5922 Pebble Beach Way, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.

San Luis Obispo County. Siljax Real Estate, Inc. (5922 Pebble Beach Way, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Siljax Real Estate, Inc., Keli Silva-Jackson, President.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06-02-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 06-02-25.

June 25, July 2, 9, & 16, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1079 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (06/09/2015) New Filing The following person is doing business as, GINO’S PIZZA, 1761 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Alberto Garcia Cansino, Consuelo Garcia (4220 La Posada, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Consuelo Garcia. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06-02-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 06-02-25.

June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020

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conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Yuqing Liu. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06FILE NO. 2020-1085 08-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE correct copy of the statement on file in my (N/A) office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, New Filing E. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 06-08-25.

The following person is doing business June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020 as, MISS SPARKLES CLEANING SERVICE, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 130 E. Tefft, Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Francisco J. Aguirre (130 E. NAME STATEMENT Tefft, Nipomo, CA 93444). This business is FILE NO. 2020-1109 conducted by An Individual /s/ Francisco J. TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE Aguirre. This statement was filed with the (06/01/2020) County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06New Filing 02-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my The following person is doing business office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, S. as, THIBIDO WINERY, 175 Easter Street, Morro Bay, CA 93442. San Luis Obispo King, Deputy. Exp. 06-02-25.

County. Beckland, LLC (175 Easter Street, June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020 Morro Bay, CA 93442). This business is FICTITIOUS BUSINESS conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Beckland, LLC, Gibsey Beckett, NAME STATEMENT Manager & Secretary. This statement was FILE NO. 2020-1086 filed with the County Clerk of San Luis TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE Obispo on 06-08-20. I hereby certify that (05/20/2014) this copy is a correct copy of the stateNew Filing The following person is doing business as, ment on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy COMFORT KEEPERS 973, 660 Santa Ysa- Gong, County Clerk, E. Brookhart, Deputy. bel Ave., Los Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Exp. 06-08-25.

Obispo County. MCMP Inc. (660 Santa Ysa- June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020 bel Ave., Los Osos, CA 93402). This busiFICTITIOUS BUSINESS ness is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ MCMP Inc., Paula McMahon, President. This NAME STATEMENT statement was filed with the County Clerk of FILE NO. 2020-1112 San Luis Obispo on 06-03-20. I hereby cerTRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE tify that this copy is a correct copy of the (10/08/2013) statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy New Filing Gong, County Clerk, E. Brookhart, Deputy. The following person is doing business Exp. 06-03-25. as, DECOBOOM, 1981 Nancy Ave., Los June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020 Osos, CA 93402. San Luis Obispo County.

Andrew Samuel Bingham (1981 Nancy FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Ave., Los Osos, CA 93402). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Andrew NAME STATEMENT S. Bingham. This statement was filed with FILE NO. 2020-1092 the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE 08-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a (05/11/2020) correct copy of the statement on file in my New Filing The following person is doing business as, office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, ARROYO GRANDE GLASS COMPANY, 1012 G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 06-08-25.

E. Grand Ave., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020 San Luis Obispo County. Stacy Johnson, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Bertram Johnson III (4061 Loch Lomond Drive, Santa Maria, CA 93455). This busiNAME STATEMENT ness is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ FILE NO. 2020-1116 Stacy Johnson and Bertram Johnson III. TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE This statement was filed with the County (06/01/2020) Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06-03-20. I New Filing hereby certify that this copy is a correct The following person is doing business as, copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, JA. An- TRAIL SENDS MOUNTAIN BIKE COACHING LLC, 1295 Capitola St., Grover Beach, derson, Deputy. Exp. 06-03-25.

CA 93433. San Luis Obispo County. Trail June 11, 18, 25, & July 2, 2020 Sends Mountain Bike Coaching LLC (1295 Capitola St., Grover Beach, CA 93433).

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS This business is conducted by A CA LimitNAME STATEMENT ed Liability Company /s/ Trail Sends MounFILE NO. 2020-1093 tain Bike Coaching LLC, Danilu Ramirez, TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE Member. This statement was filed with the (N/A) County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06New Filing 08-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a The following person is doing business correct copy of the statement on file in my as, PASO COUNSELING, 1111 Riverside office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, Ave., Suite 404, Paso Robles, CA 93446. G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 06-08-25.

San Luis Obispo County. James G. Fields June 25, July 2, 9, & 16, 2020 (914 Running Stag Way, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by An FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Individual /s/ James G. Fields. This stateNAME STATEMENT ment was filed with the County Clerk of San FILE NO. 2020-1130 Luis Obispo on 06-03-20. I hereby certify TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE that this copy is a correct copy of the state(N/A) ment on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy New Filing Gong, County Clerk, JA. Anderson, Deputy.

The following person is doing business Exp. 06-03-25. as, MONA MCKELVY MASSAGE THERAPY, June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020 715 Santa Maria #B, Baywood Park, CA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 93402. San Luis Obispo County. Mona McKelvy (366 Highland Dr., Los Osos, NAME STATEMENT CA 93402). This business is conducted FILE NO. 2020-1097

by An Individual /s/ Mona McKelvy. This TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE statement was filed with the County Clerk (N/A) of San Luis Obispo on 06-09-20. I hereby New Filing The following person is doing business as, certify that this copy is a correct copy of PACIFIC HEALTH SUPPLY, 4349 Old Santa the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Fe Rd., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Tommy Gong, County Clerk, S. King, Luis Obispo County. Goat Farm, Inc. (4349 Deputy. Exp. 06-09-25.

Old Santa Fe Rd., San Luis Obispo, CA June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020 93401). This business is conducted by A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS CA Corporation /s/ Goat Farm, Inc., Kristopher Kyle, CEO. This statement was filed NAME STATEMENT with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on FILE NO. 2020-1131 06-04-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE correct copy of the statement on file in my (N/A) office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, E. New Filing Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 06-04-25.

The following person is doing business as, June 25, July 2, 9, & 16, 2020 HEATHER MOSS, ESTHETICIAN, 715 Santa Maria #B, Baywood Park, CA 93402.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS San Luis Obispo County. Heather J. Moss (1999 12th St. A, Los Osos, CA 93402).

NAME STATEMENT This business is conducted by An Individual FILE NO. 2020-1100 /s/ Heather J. Moss. This statement was TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE filed with the County Clerk of San Luis (08/25/2006) Obispo on 06-09-20. I hereby certify that New Filing The following person is doing business this copy is a correct copy of the stateas: FRENCH QUARTER, 969 Monterey ment on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Gong, County Clerk, S. King, Deputy. Exp. Luis Obispo County. Savannah Star, Inc. 06-09-25.

(969 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020 CA 93401). This business is conducted by FICTITIOUS BUSINESS a CA Corporation /s/ Savannah Star Inc., Deborah Melton- President. This statement NAME STATEMENT was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis FILE NO. 2020-1132 Obispo on 06-04-20. I hereby certify that TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE this copy is a correct copy of the statement (09/01/2005) on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Gong, New Filing County Clerk, JA. Anderson, Deputy. Exp. The following person is doing business as, 06-04-2025 SOUTH PASO CHEVRON, 1849 Ramada June 11, 18, 25, & July 2, 2020 Drive, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. South Paso Robles CoFICTITIOUS BUSINESS Brand, Inc. (1060 Herdsman Way, TempleNAME STATEMENT ton, CA 93465). This business is conductFILE NO. 2020-1103 ed by A CA Corporation /s/ South Paso TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE Robles Co-Brand Inc., Robert Tachovsky, (05/05/2020) Its President . This statement was filed with New Filing the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06The following person is doing business as, 10-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a OGBU & SONS EXTRACTION SOLUTIONS, correct copy of the statement on file in my 640 Stanton Street, Arroyo Grande, CA office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Israel S. King, Deputy. Exp. 06-10-25.

Ogbu (640 Stanton Street, Arroyo Grande, June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020 CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Israel Ogbu. This stateFICTITIOUS BUSINESS ment was filed with the County Clerk of San NAME STATEMENT Luis Obispo on 06-08-20. I hereby certify FILE NO. 2020-1138 that this copy is a correct copy of the stateTRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE ment on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, E. Brookhart, Deputy.

(N/A) Exp. 06-08-25.

New Filing June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020 The following person is doing business as, ADRIANA’S SUITE SALON, 1400 RaFICTITIOUS BUSINESS mona Ave., Suite 1a, Grover Beach, CA 93433.

San Luis Obispo County. Adriana NAME STATEMENT A. Gomez (1150 The Pike, Arroyo Grande, FILE NO. 2020-1104 CA 93420). This business is conducted by TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE An Individual /s/ Adriana A. Gomez. This (06/05/2020) statement was filed with the County Clerk New Filing The following person is doing business of San Luis Obispo on 06-10-20. I hereby as, NANCY’S ACUPRESSURE MASSAGE certify that this copy is a correct copy of STUDIO, 71 S Ocean Ave., Cayucos, CA the statement on file in my office. (Seal) 93430. San Luis Obispo County. Yuqing Tommy Gong, County Clerk, A. Bautista, Liu, William Jeffry Walker (481 Estero Ave., Deputy. Exp. 06-10-25.

Morro Bay, CA 93442). This business is June 25, July 2, 9, & 16, 2020

LEGAL NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1143 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, FINN BROS FISHING, 1681 S. Elm St., Oceano, CA 93445. San Luis Obispo County. Eric Isaacson, Simone Isaacson (1681 S. Elm St., Oceano, CA 93445). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Eric Isaacson, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06-11-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, S. King, Deputy. Exp. 06-11-25.

June 25, July 2, 9, & 16, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1162 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (06/11/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, 805 PURE WATER, 5900 Madera Place, Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County. Jonathan Bowers, Sarah Bowers (5900 Madera Place, Atascadero, CA 93422). This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Jonathan Bowers. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06-12-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 06-12-25.

June 25, July 2, 9, & 16, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1166 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, RANGER’S CRITTER KITCHEN, 14555 Chispa Road, Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County. Colleen Lampman (14555 Chispa Road, Atascadero, CA 93422). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Colleen Lampman. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06-15-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 06-15-25.

June 25, July 2, 9, & 16, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1167 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, DAVE COLLINS FLOORING, 1631 Chilton Street, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Shawn Collins (1631 Chilton Street, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420).

This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Shawn Collins. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06-15-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 06-15-25.

June 25, July 2, 9, & 16, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1170 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, 805 LOGISTIC SERVICES, 858 Southland St., Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Matteo Schettino, Shannon Stamey (858 Southland St., Nipomo, CA 93444).

This business is conducted by A Married Couple /s/ Shannon Stamey. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06-15-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, G. Ugalde, Deputy.

Exp. 06-15-25.

June 25, July 2, 9, & 16, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1177 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (05/05/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, CHIPS IN A BLUE BAG, EVERY GOOD BUY, 201 S. Burton, Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Chips In A Blue Bag, Inc. (201 S. Burton, Nipomo, CA 93444).

This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Chips In A Blue Bag, Inc., CEOJohn Roger Kilpelainen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06-16-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, S. King, Deputy. Exp. 06-16-25.

June 25, July 2, 9, & 16, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1186 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/01/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, PANCHO’S RESTAURANT, 1231 Johnson Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Brianna’s Restaurants, Inc. (1231 Johnson Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Brianna’s Restaurants, Inc., Rafael Hernandez, President & CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06-16-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk, G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 06-16-25.

June 25, July 2, 9, & 16, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-1099 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (06/15/2019) New Filing The following person is doing business as: PIPPA & KY, 770 Higuera Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Savannah Star, Inc. (969 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by a CA Corporation /s/ Savannah Star Inc., Deborah MeltonPresident. This statement was filed with

LEGAL NOTICES the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06-04-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy Gong, County Clerk, JA. Anderson, Deputy. Exp. 06-04-2025 June 11, 18, 25, & July 2, 2020

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ALFRED DE MATTOS, JR. CASE NUMBER: 20PR - 0167

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ALFRED DE MATTOS, JR. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed

by ALFRED DE MATTOS, III in the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo.

The Petition for Probate requests ALFRED DE MATTOS, III be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: June 30, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept: 9, in Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, located at 1035 Palm Street, Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Christian E. Iversen 605-13th Street Paso Robles, CA 93446 June 11, 18, & 25, 2020

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ANNE M. BETTENCOURT CASE NUMBER: 20PR - 0160

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ANNE M. BETTENCOURT A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed

by DIANE L. WETTLAUFER in the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo.

The Petition for Probate requests DIANE L. WETTLAUFER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: July 2, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept: PR2, in Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, located at 901 Park Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate

LEGAL NOTICES Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Scott W. Wall 1102 Laurel Lane San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 June 11, 18, & 25, 2020

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WILLIAM WALLACE THOMSON AMENDED CASE NUMBER: 20PR - 0171

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: WILLIAM WALLACE THOMSON A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed

by KATHLEEN MALONEY BELLOMO in the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo.

The Petition for Probate requests KATHLEEN MALONEY BELLOMO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: July 14, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept: 9, in Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, located at 1035 Palm Street, Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Law Office of Charles G. Kirschner P.O. box 720 Morro Bay, CA 93443 June 25, July 2, & 9, 2020

NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE

The following units will be sold to satisfy liens against them at a public auction to be held on Friday, June 26, 2020.

Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that a public lien sale of the following described personal property will be held.

Unit #172 Mark Mai - Garden tools, ice chest, broom, boxes, clothes, hats, bedding Unit #522 Rachael Williams - Furniture, sports equipment, boxes/totes, tools Unit #975 Charles Nazarian - Fishing equipment, music equipment, furniture, boxes/ totes, animal carrier, camping equipment, kitchen appliances, toys, wheelchair Sealed bids will be accepted preceding a silent auction at 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Friday, June 26, 2020, at ABBY’S SELF STORAGE, 50 ABBY ROAD, TEMPLETON, County of San Luis Obispo, State of California. Bond #0455718. Bids will be taken from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, (Owner has the right to refuse any and all bids. Owner has the right to bid). Highest bidder will be notified by telephone by 12:00 PM the day of the auction. Payment is due and payable immediately. Cash only, this is to include a $100 cash deposit, refundable once the unit is verified clean and goods removed.

June 18, 25, 2020

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to Sections 2170021716 of the Business & Professions Code, Section 2328 of the UCC. Section 535 of the Penal Code and provisions of the Civil Code.

The undersigned is hereby given notice that a public lien sale of the following personal property will be held online at storageauctions.net and will end at the hour of 10 AM on the 9th Day of July, 2020 where said property has been stored and which are located at: Traffic Way Storage, 5395 Traffic Way, Atascadero, CA 93422 County of San Luis Obispo, State of California, the following: Kryssa Banuelos Refrigerator, washer & dryer, clothes, tables, mattress, furniture, misc boxes/bins John Peter Theodosis Tools, luggage, misc boxes/bins June 18, 25, 2020

LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to Sections 21700-21716 of the Business & Professions Code, Section 2328 of the UCC. Section 535 of the Penal Code and provisions of the Civil Code.

The undersigned is hereby given notice that a public lien sale of the following personal property will be held online at storageauctions.net and will end at the hour of 11 AM on the 9th Day of July, 2020 where said property has been stored and which are located at: Downtown Mini Storage, 9200 El Camino Real, Atascadero, CA 93422 County of San Luis Obispo, State of California, the following Jose Carlos Cespedes Refrigerator, tools, table saw, floor butter, ladder, dresser, cooler Kymberli Chamberlain Dresser, doll house, mattress, misc bins / Twyla Cryan Shop vac, scrapbooking itesm, arts & crafts, books, misc boxes/bins Roberto Garcia Bicycle, car detailing equipment, table, chair, misc clothes Kimberly Hazelhurst Piano, stroller, walkers, carpet, misc boxes/bins Yesica Hernandez Children’s toys, stroller, fishing pole, misc boxes/bins/bags, clothing, Christmas tree Mike Martin Tools, welding equipment, compressor, power tools, filing cabinet, luggage Daniel Quick Tool boxes, yard tools, dirt bike parts, golf clubs, mechanics dolly, furniture, cooler, treadmill, misc boxes/bins Nancy Smith Boxes Nola Soto Saddle, turkey fryer, Christmas décor, misc tools, misc boxes Robinette Thomas Car-top cargo carrier, car parts, yard tools, boxes Daniel Vasquez Table saw, golf clubs, chest, misc household, clothes, artwork, boxes Olivia Young Car parts, tires, car seat, 1990 Toyota Corolla, VIN JT2AE96J6L3364834, 5NNN947 CA June 18, 25, 2020

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE APN: 091-441-001 TS NO: CA07001674-19-1 TO NO: 191284479-CA-VOI

(The above statement is made pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d)(1). The Summary will be provided to Trustor(s) and/or vested owner(s) only, pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d)(2).)

YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED June 13, 2016. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On August 11, 2020 at 11:00 AM, In the breezeway adjacent to the County General Services Building, 1087 Santa Rosa Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408, MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps, as the duly Appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust recorded on June 21, 2016 as Instrument No. 2016028909, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of San Luis Obispo County, California, executed by JAMES S. KECK AND DELENE S. RITCHIE KECK, AS JOINT TENANTS, as Trustor(s), in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. (“MERS”), as Beneficiary, as nominee for HIGHTECHLENDING, INC. as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, that certain property situated in said County, California describing the land therein as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 496 COLONIAL PLACE, NIPOMO, CA 93444 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said Note(s), advances if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligations secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Trustee’s Sale is estimated to be $485,041.98 (Estimated). However, prepayment premiums, accrued interest and advances will increase this figure prior to sale. Beneficiary’s bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the Trustee. In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee’s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. The property offered for sale excludes all funds held on

LEGAL NOTICES account by the property receiver, if applicable. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Notice to Potential Bidders If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a Trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a Trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information.

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same Lender may hold more than one mortgage or Deed of Trust on the property. Notice to Property Owner The sale date shown on this Notice of Sale may be postponed one or more times by the Mortgagee, Beneficiary, Trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code.

The law requires that information about Trustee Sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale.

If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call Nationwide Posting & Publication at 916.939.0772 for information regarding the Trustee’s Sale or visit the Internet Web site address listed below for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, CA07001674-19-1.

Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site.

The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

Date: 06/09/2020 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps TS No. CA07001674-191 17100 Gillette Ave Irvine, CA 92614 Phone: 949-252-8300 TDD: 866-6604288 Dalaysia Ramirez, Authorized Signatory SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.nationwideposting.com FOR AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: Nationwide Posting & Publication AT 916.939.0772 Trustee Corps may be acting as a debt collector attempting to collect a debt.

Any information obtained may be used for that purpose. NPP0370495 To: NEW TIMES 06/18/2020, 06/25/2020, 07/02/2020

NOTICE SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO) CHAD J. BECK AND ALL OTHER PERSONS UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN OR INTEREST IN REAL PROPERTY YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): PATRICIA MCQUILLEN CASE NUMBER (NÚMERO DE CASO): 20CV-0202

Notice! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days.

Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.

A letter or phone call will not protect you.

Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version.

Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS CALENDARIOS despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una repuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted puede usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formuleriors de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp/espanol), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no pre-

LEGAL NOTICES senta su repuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte la podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requistas legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar ias cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo ao una consesion de artitraje en un caso dce derecho civll. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

POSED NAME: Catheline Denice Goodman

CASE NUMBER: (Número de caso): 20CV0202 The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte son) SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO 1050 Monterey Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la dirección y número de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Wilson & Wilson 960 Toro Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 805-546-8098 Date: (Fecha) 04/03/2020 By: /s/ Michael Powell, Clerk (Secretario) /s/, Carol L. McGuirk, Deputy Clerk, (adjunto) June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020.

Date: May 26, 2020 /s/: Tana L. Coates, Judge of the Superior Court June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (UCC SEC. 6105)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s) and business address(es) of the seller(s) is/are: Donald Earl Smith and Ruth E. Smith 5585 El Camino Real, Atascadero, CA 93422 Doing Business as: Lava Print Media All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the seller(s) is/are: (if none, so state) None The location in California of the chief executive office of the seller(s) (if same as above, so state): 5585 El Camino Real, Atascadero, CA 93422 The name(s) and address(es) of the buyer(s) is/are: John F. Williams and Lisa R. Falk 9200 Lucinda Lane, Atascadero, CA 93422 The assets being sold are generally described as the furniture, fixtures, equipment, goodwill, trade name, merchandise inventory and stock-in-trade of that certain business known as Lava Print Media, 5585 El Camino Real, Atascadero, CA 93422 The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: Central Coast Business Brokers, 581 Higuera Street, Suite D, San Luis Obispo, California 93401 on or after July 15, 2020 The bulk sale is subject to the California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.

The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: Central Coast Business Brokers, 581 Higuera St., Suite D, San Luis Obispo, California 93401.

And the last day to file claims by any creditor shall be July 14, 2020 last business day prior to sale date above.

Dated: June 8, 2020 Exempt from the fee per GC27388.1(a) (1); Not Related to real property (personal property only) Buyer(s): /s/ John F. Williams /s/ Lisa R. Falk June 25, 2020

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 20CV-0270

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Sally Nora filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Sally Nora to PROPOSED NAME: Sally Nora Rose THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/13/2020, Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 9 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm St. Rm. 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times

THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/13/2020, Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 9 at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm St. Rm. 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

NEW FILE NO. 2020-1128 OLD FILE NO. 2018-0516 Spacemakers Custom Closets, 1310 Lassen Drive, Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Luis Obispo County on 02/16/2018.

The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: John R. Small, Eileen A. Ferrari Small (1796 13th Street, Los Osos, CA 93402). This business was conducted by A Married Couple /s/ John R. Small. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 06-09-2020. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk. By G. Ugalde, Deputy Clerk.

June 18, 25, July 2, & 9, 2020

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: NOAH VINCENT THINGER DOES 1 TO 10 YOU ARE BEING SUED

BY PLAINTIFF: PACIFIC BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY CASE NUMBER: 20LC-0290

Notice! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond in 30 days.

Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.

A letter or phone call will not protect you.

Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

CASE NUMBER: 20LC-0290 The name and address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO 1035 Palm Street, Room 385 San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: J. Sal Muñoz 2813 Mahogany Street NE Lacey, WA 98516 360-866-0298 Date: 03/05/2020 By: /s/ Michael Powell, Clerk /s/ C.M. Kastner, Deputy Clerk June 25, July 2, 9, & 16, 2020

Date: May 26, 2020 /s/: Tana L. Coates, Judge of the Superior Court June 4, 11, 18, & 25, 2020

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 20CV-0277

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Catheline Denise Goodman filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Catheline Denise Goodman to PRO-

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(March 21-April 19): In addition to being a magnificent storyteller, Aries author Barbara Kingsolver raises chickens at her home. “There are days when I am envious of my hens,” she writes, “when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.” Do you ever experience that delightful rush of assurance, Aries? I suspect that you’re likely to do so on multiple occasions in the coming weeks. And if you are indeed visited by visions of a perfect and sure purpose, your next task will be to initiate practical action to manifest it in the real world.

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When Libras become authoritative enough to wield clout in their own sphere of influence, it’s often due to three factors: 1. the attractive force of their empathy; 2. their abilities to listen well and ask good questions, which help enable them to accurately read people’s emotional energy; 3. their knack for knowing specific tricks that promote harmony and a common sense of purpose. If you possess any of these talents, dear Libra, the next eight weeks will be a favorable time to employ them with maximum intensity and ingenuity and integrity. You’re primed to acquire and wield more leverage.

TAURUS

SCORPIO

(April 20-May 20): Nobel Prize-winning Taurus physicist Richard Feynman got his undergraduate degree from prestigious MIT and his Ph.D. from prestigious Princeton University. Later he taught at prestigious Caltech. But his approach to education had a maverick quality. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible,” he advised his students. I think his strategy will work well for you in the coming weeks, which will be a favorable time to gather valuable information and polish your existing aptitudes.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re entering a phase when you’ll have the potential to upgrade and fine-tune your relationship with money. In the hope of encouraging that prospect, I offer you the counsel of author Katharine Butler Hathaway. “To me, money is alive,” she wrote. “It is almost human. If you treat it with real sympathy and kindness and consideration, it will be a good servant and work hard for you, and stay with you and take care of you.” I hope you’ll consider cultivating that approach, dear Gemini: expressing benevolence and love toward money, and pledging to be benevolent and loving as you use the money you acquire.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant?”

Author Diane Ackerman asks her readers that question, and now I pose the same inquiry to you—just in time for your Season of Transformation. “We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors,” Ackerman says. I will add that you Cancerians now have the potential to be exceptional shapeshifters and magical reinventors. What new amazements might you incorporate into your life? What dazzling twists and twinkles would you like to add to your character? What will the Future You be like?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Qabalistic teacher Ann Davies asked, “If you stick your finger in the fire, do you then complain that it is unfair when your finger gets burned? Do you call the fire bad?” I offer you this caution, Leo, because I want to encourage you not to stick your fingers or toes or any other parts of you into the fire during the coming weeks. And I’m happy to inform you that there are better approaches to finding out what’s important to learn about the fire. The preferred way is to watch the fire keenly and patiently from a modest distance. If you do so long enough, you’ll get all you need.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In accordance with upcoming astrological portents, I urge you to engage in a vigorous redefinition of the term “miracle.” That will open you up to the full range of miraculous phenomena that are potentially available in the coming weeks. For inspiration, read this passage by Faith Baldwin: “Miracles are everyday things. Not only sudden great fortune wafting in on a new wind. They are almost routine, yet miracles just the same. Every time something hard becomes easier; every time you adjust to a situation which, last week, you didn’t know existed; every time a kindness falls as softly as the dew; or someone you love who was ill grows better; every time a blessing comes, not with trumpet and fanfare, but silently as night, you have witnessed a miracle.”

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There is only one kind of erotic intimacy between consenting adults that can truly be called “unnatural”: an act that is physically impossible to perform.

Everything else is potentially vitalizing and holy. No one knows this better than you Scorpios. You’re the champions of exotic pleasure; the connoisseurs of blissful marvels; the masters of curious delight and extraordinary exultation.

And from an astrological perspective, the coming weeks will be a time when these aspects of your character could be especially vivid. But wait a minute. What about the pandemic? What about social distancing? What about being cautious in seeking intimate connection? If anyone can work around these constraints so as to have sexual fun, it’s your tribe. Use your imagination!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When he was 22 years old, Sagittarianborn Werner Heisenberg received his doctorate in physics and mathematics from a German university—even though he got a grade of C on his final exams. Nine years later, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics because of his pioneering work on quantum mechanics. What happened in between?

One key development: He was mentored by physicists Niels Bohr and Max Born, both of whom also garnered Nobel Prizes.

Another factor in his success was his association with other brilliant colleagues working in his field. I hope this story inspires you Sagittarians to be on the lookout for catalytic teachers and colleagues who can expedite your evolution. The planetary omens are favorable for such an eventuality.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You Capricorns aren’t renowned for causing controversy. For the most part you’re skillful at managing your reputation and keeping it orderly. But there may soon be a departure from this norm. A bit of a hubbub could arise in regards to the impressions you’re making and the effects you’re generating. I’m reminded of Capricorn author J. D. Salinger, whose book Catcher in the Rye was for a time widely taught in American schools but also widely banned because of its allegedly controversial elements. These days the book is regarded as a beloved classic, and I suspect you will weather your commotion with similar panache.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Novelist Tom Robbins articulated a vision of what it means to be bold and brave. He said, “Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness.”

I’m hoping you will make that formula your keynote in the coming weeks. The time is right for you to summon extra amounts of fortitude, determination, and audacity. What new possibilities are you ready to flesh out in ways that might prod you to revise your beliefs and welcome transformation and expand your awareness?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Joan of Arc performed her heroic and magical feats in 1430 and 1431. But she wasn’t canonized as a saint until 1920—almost five centuries later. It took a while to garner the full appreciation she deserved. I’m sure you won’t have to wait as long to be acknowledged for your good deeds and fine creations, Pisces. In fact, from what I can tell, there’ll be a significant honor, enhancement, or reward coming your way sometime in the next four months. Start visualizing what you’d like it to be, and set your intention to claim it. ∆

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COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING BRIEF TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2020 AT 9:00 AM. 4 BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT SAN LUIS OBISPO CITY COUNCIL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The San Luis Obispo City Council invites all interested persons to participate in a public meeting on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. While the Council encourages public participation, growing concern about the COVID-19 pandemic has required that public meetings be held via teleconference. Meetings can be viewed on Government Access Channel 20 or streamed live from the City’s YouTube Channel at http://youtube. slo.city. Public comment, prior to the start of the meeting, may be submitted in writing via U.S. Mail delivered to the City Clerk’s office at 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 or by email to emailcouncil@slocity.org.

Public Hearing Item: •

As recommended by the Cultural Heritage Committee, adopt a Resolution designating the property at 1789 Santa Barbara Avenue as a Master List Resource in the City’s Inventory of Historic Resources; Consideration of eligibility for historic listing is exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under the general rule described in CEQA Guidelines § 15061 (b) (3), as it is does not have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment.

For more information, contact Walter Oetzell, Assistant Planner, in the City’s Community Development Department at (805) 781-7893 or by email, woetzell@slocity.org.

The City Council may also discuss other hearings or business items before or after the items listed above. If you challenge the proposed project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Council at, or prior to, the public hearing.

Reports for this meeting will be available for review online at www.slocity.org no later than 72 hours prior to the meeting.

Please call the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 781-7100 for more information. The City Council meeting will be televised live on Charter Cable Channel 20 and live streaming on www.slocity. org.

Teresa Purrington City Clerk City of San Luis Obispo June 25, 2020

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

Update on COVID-19, rec’d & filed.

Consent Agenda – Item Nos. 02-36 & 46 & Resolution (Res.) No. 2020-138 thru 2020-151, approved.

03. Public Comment Period - matters not on the agenda: S. Jalbert; J. Vogue; A. Wald; B. DiFatta; Y. Yegge; J. Hollander; K. Foote; L. Foxx; Loren (no last name); M. Scherder; R. Delk; S. Loisch; T. Brock; M. Brown; R. Gelston; S. Leader; G. Grewal; C. Bradshaw; C. Bouquin; L. Mordaunt: speak. No action taken.

04. FY 2020-21 Recommended Budget hearing cont’d & Res. 2020-152, budgets for the County and Board of Supervisors governed Special Districts & Res. 2020153 position allocation list, adopted.

05. Study by MRW & Associates analyzing Monterey Bay Community Power, rec’d & filed.

06. Update on matters associated w/ the Primary Public Defender contract w/ SLO Defenders, a Professional Law Corp., rec’d w/ direction to staff.

07. Closed Session, cancelled.

08. Res. 2020-154 amending Title 22 (Ordinance No. 3417) and Title 23 (Ordinance No. 3418) of the County Code & the Coastal Framework for Planning Table “O” (LRP2017-00002) to amend & replace the Farm Support Quarters Ordinance reducing regulatory barriers & streamlines the permitting of ag worker housing, adopted as amended.

09. Res. 2020-155, amending Coastal Framework for Planning Table “O” to add Accessory Dwelling Units as an allowed use, adopted.

10. Resolutions to approve: a substantial amendment of the 2015-2019 Consolidated Plan & 2019 Action Plan (Res. 2020-156); an amendment of the Community Participation Plan (Res. 2020-157); CA State ESGCV funding (Res. 2020-158); CA Homelessness Coordinating & Finance Council (HCFC COVID-19) funding (Res. 2020-159).

11. Funding Agreement w/ the Central Coast Water Authority to participate in a State Water Project Water Management Tools Study, not to exceed $75,000, approved.

Meeting Adjourned.

Wade Horton, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors By: Annette Ramirez, Deputy Clerk of the Board of Supervisors June 25, 2020 01.

02.

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing

WHEN: Friday, July 17, 2020 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

WHEN: Friday, July 17, 2020 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

Also to be considered is the determination that this project is categorically exempt from environmental review under CEQA. County File Number: DRC2019-00103 Supervisorial District: District 4 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 061-046-068 Date Accepted: 09/19/2019 WHERE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE based on the threat of COVID-19 as reflected in the Proclamations of Emergency issued by both the Governor of the State of California and the San Luis Obispo County Emergency Services Director as well as the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 issued on March 17, 2020, relating to the convening of public meetings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, until further notice all public meetings for the Department of Planning and Building for the County of San Luis Obispo will be closed to members of the public and non-essential County staff. The Department’s Notice of Temporary Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at www. slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building/Boards-and-Commissions. aspx. Additionally, hearing body members and officers may attend the meeting via teleconference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Ian Landreth, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING This matter is tentatively scheduled to appear on the consent agenda, which means that it and any other items on the consent agenda can be acted upon by the hearing officer with a single motion. An applicant or interested party may request a public hearing on this matter. To do so, send a letter to this office at the address below or send an email to pdh@co.slo.ca.us by Friday, July 10, 2020 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the language “I would like to request a hearing on DRC2019-00103.”

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

COASTAL APPEALABLE County action may be eligible for appeal to the California Coastal Commission after all possible local appeal efforts are exhausted. Appeals must be filed in writing as provided by Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section 23.01.043.

Daniela Chavez, Secretary Planning Department Hearing June 25, 2020

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, by the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County, State of California, that at the Consolidated Presidential General Election to be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, the following measure will be submitted to the voters of the Shandon Joint Unified School District:

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing

MEASURE H-20 With no projected increase in current tax rates, shall Shandon Joint Unified School District’s measure to repair deteriorating septic systems, improve student safety, upgrade technology and provide additional classrooms by authorizing $4 million in bonds be adopted with legal rates, levies averaging less than $0.04 per $100 of assessed valuation through 2048 (generating $260,000 per year), annual audits, independent oversight and no funds used for administrators’ salaries or benefits?

YES

NO

Arguments FOR or AGAINST this measure should be submitted to the Office of the County Clerk-Recorder, 1055 Monterey Street, D120, San Luis Obispo, not later than 5:00 p.m., Friday, July 17, 2020, which has been determined by the County Clerk-Recorder to be a reasonable date based upon the time necessary to prepare, print and distribute the arguments to the voters as provided by law. Arguments shall not exceed 300 words in length and shall be titled either “Argument in Favor of Measure H-20” or “Argument Against Measure H-20”.

Arguments may be submitted by the Governing Board of the district or any member or members of the governing board authorized by the board, any individual voter who is eligible to vote on the measure; any bona fide association of citizens, or any combination of these voters and associations.

No argument will be accepted unless it is signed by the person or persons submitting it, or, if submitted on behalf of an organization, the name of the organization and the name of at least one of its principal officers. No more than five signatures shall appear with any argument. If there are more than five signatures only the first five will be printed. Arguments shall be typed in paragraph form and shall be submitted electronically along with the hard copy. Arguments must be accompanied by the following form statement (on a separate sheet), to be signed by each author or proponent of the argument: “The undersigned (proponents) or (authors) of the (primary) or (rebuttal) argument (in favor of) or (against) ballot Measure H-20 at the Consolidated Presidential General Election to be held on November 3, 2020, hereby state that such argument is true and correct to the best of (his) (her) (their) knowledge and belief.”

NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that if more than one argument FOR or more than one argument AGAINST the Measure is submitted, the County Clerk-Recorder will select the argument FOR and the argument AGAINST, according to law. If an argument FOR and an argument AGAINST the Measure is filed, the County Clerk-Recorder will send a copy to the respective opposing authors in order that they may prepare and submit a rebuttal argument. Rebuttal arguments, if applicable, shall be titled “Rebuttal to Argument in Favor of or Against Measure H-20”. Rebuttal arguments shall not exceed 250 words in length and shall be filed no later than 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 28, 2020.

The ten-day public examination period for General Arguments is July 18-27. The Public Examination Period for Rebuttal Arguments (if applicable) is July 29 to August 7. Any challenge to the validity of the arguments must be filed within the 10 day public examination period.

Dated: June 19, 2020 TOMMY GONG, County Clerk-Recorder

WHEN: Friday, July 17, 2020 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

WHAT: A request by Neil Cassidy for a Minor Use Permit (DRC2019-00226) to allow for the expansion of an existing winery facility (D9701130P and DRC201600042) with the construction of a 13,038-square-foot single-story winery facility. The building will include 9,981 square feet of interior conditioned barrel storage area, and 614 square feet of unconditioned equipment storage areas and employee restrooms. The building will also include a 2,443-square-foot covered work area. No increase to case production is proposed. The applicant is requesting a modification of the setback standard to allow 62 feet from the western property line to the building, instead of the required 100 feet. The project will result in approximately of 1.2 acres of site disturbance on a 112-acre parcel, including 2,000 cubic yards of cut, and 1,100 cubic yards of fill. The proposed project is within the Agriculture land use category, located at 2740 Hidden Mountain Road, approximately 4 miles west of the City of Paso Robles.

The project site is in the Adelaida Sub Area of the North County Planning Area.

Also to be considered is the determination that this project is categorically exempt from environmental review under CEQA. County File Number: DRC2019-00226 Supervisorial District: District 1 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 026-293-001 Date Accepted: 10/24/2019 WHERE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE based on the threat of COVID-19 as reflected in the Proclamations of Emergency issued by both the Governor of the State of California and the San Luis Obispo County Emergency Services Director as well as the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 issued on March 17, 2020, relating to the convening of public meetings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, until further notice all public meetings for the Department of Planning and Building for the County of San Luis Obispo will be closed to members of the public and non-essential County staff. The Department’s Notice of Temporary Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at www. slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building/Boards-and-Commissions. aspx. Additionally, hearing body members and officers may attend the meeting via teleconference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Holly Phipps, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING This matter is tentatively scheduled to appear on the consent agenda, which means that it and any other items on the consent agenda can be acted upon by the hearing officer with a single motion. An applicant or interested party may request a public hearing on this matter. To do so, send a letter to this office at the address below or send an email to pdh@co.slo.ca.us by Friday, July 10, 2020 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the language “I would like to request a hearing on DRC2019-00226.”

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

Daniela Chavez, Secretary Planning Department Hearing

June 25, 2020

June 25, 2020

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing

WHAT: A request by MRE Group, LLC for a Minor Use Permit / Coastal Development Permit (DRC2019-00103) to establish a 668-square-foot nonstorefront dispensary for mobile delivery of cannabis products. The project would be located on a ground floor unit of an existing 2,531-square-foot mixeduse building. No changes to the building footprint or architecture are proposed and the project would not result in any new ground disturbance. Hours of operation for the business would be 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., 7 days a week. All cannabis products on-site will be fully sealed and kept within a secure storage area until they are distributed for delivery. The project site is located within the Commercial Service land use category and is located at 1545 Railroad Street in the community of Oceano within the San Luis Bay (Coastal) Planning Area.

NOTICE FIXING TIME FOR SUBMISSION OF ARGUMENTS FOR OR AGAINST MEASURE H-20

WHAT: Hearing to consider a request by John Renner for a Lot Line Adjustment (SUB2019-00110/COAL 19-0107) to adjust the lot lines between three legal parcels ranging in size from approximately 13,831 square feet to approximately 12.5 acres each, resulting in three parcels of 2.0, 2.11 and 9.5 acres each. The project will not result in the creation of any additional parcels. The proposed project is within the Residential Rural land use category and is located at 1212 Camino Caballo, in the community of Nipomo. The site is in the South County Sub Area of the South County Planning Area.

Also to be considered is the determination that this project is categorically exempt from environmental review under CEQA. County File Number: SUB2019-00110 Supervisorial District: 4 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 091-232-041, -027, -025,-026, -024, -028 Date Accepted: 03/30/2020 WHERE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE based on the threat of COVID-19 as reflected in the Proclamations of Emergency issued by both the Governor of the State of California and the San Luis Obispo County Emergency Services Director as well as the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 issued on March 17, 2020, relating to the convening of public meetings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, until further notice all public meetings for the Department of Planning and Building for the County of San Luis Obispo will be closed to members of the public and non-essential County staff. The Department’s Notice of Temporary Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/ Planning-Building/Boards-and-Commissions.aspx. Additionally, hearing body members and officers may attend the meeting via teleconference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Stephanie Fuhs, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

Daniela Chavez, Secretary Planning Department Hearing June 25, 2020

NOTICE FIXING TIME FOR SUBMISSION OF ARGUMENTS FOR OR AGAINST MEASURE I-20 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, by the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County, State of California, that at the Consolidated Presidential General Election to be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, the following measure will be submitted to the voters of the San Miguel Joint Union School District: MEASURE I-20 With no increase in estimated tax rates, shall San Miguel Joint Union School District’s measure to retrofit classrooms for agricultural sciences, student safety and school security; upgrade emergency preparedness; and increase student access to internet/ technology at Lillian Larsen and Cappy Culver Schools be adopted, authorizing $6,200,000 in bonds, extending but not increasing current rates (3¢ per $100 of assessed valuation while bonds are outstanding) and raising $580,000/ year for bond repayment with legal interest rates, annual audits and citizens’ oversight?

YES NO Arguments FOR or AGAINST this measure should be submitted to the Office of the County Clerk-Recorder, 1055 Monterey Street, D120, San Luis Obispo, not later than 5:00 p.m., Friday, July 17, 2020, which has been determined by the County Clerk-Recorder to be a reasonable date based upon the time necessary to prepare, print and distribute the arguments to the voters as provided by law. Arguments shall not exceed 300 words in length and shall be titled either “Argument in Favor of Measure I-20” or “Argument Against Measure I-20”.

Arguments may be submitted by the Governing Board of the district or any member or members of the governing board authorized by the board, any individual voter who is eligible to vote on the measure; any bona fide association of citizens, or any combination of these voters and associations.

No argument will be accepted unless it is signed by the person or persons submitting it, or, if submitted on behalf of an organization, the name of the organization and the name of at least one of its principal officers. No more than five signatures shall appear with any argument. If there are more than five signatures only the first five will be printed. Arguments shall be typed in paragraph form and shall be submitted electronically along with the hard copy. Arguments must be accompanied by the following form statement (on a separate sheet), to be signed by each author or proponent of the argument: “The undersigned (proponents) or (authors) of the (primary) or (rebuttal) argument (in favor of) or (against) ballot Measure I-20 at the Consolidated Presidential General Election to be held on November 3, 2020, hereby state that such argument is true and correct to the best of (his) (her) (their) knowledge and belief.”

NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that if more than one argument FOR or more than one argument AGAINST the Measure is submitted, the County Clerk-Recorder will select the argument FOR and the argument AGAINST, according to law. If an argument FOR and an argument AGAINST the Measure is filed, the County Clerk-Recorder will send a copy to the respective opposing authors in order that they may prepare and submit a rebuttal argument. Rebuttal arguments, if applicable, shall be titled “Rebuttal to Argument in Favor of or Against Measure I-20”. Rebuttal arguments shall not exceed 250 words in length and shall be filed no later than 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 28, 2020.

The ten-day public examination period for Primary Arguments is July 18-27. The Public Examination Period for Rebuttal Arguments (if applicable) is July 29 to August 7. Any challenge to the validity of the arguments must be filed within the 10 day public examination period.

Dated: June 19, 2020 TOMMY GONG, County Clerk-Recorder June 25, 2020

CITY OF GROVER BEACH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Grover Beach will conduct a Public Hearing on MONDAY, JULY 6, 2020 at 6:00 p.m., or soon thereafter.

Please note that due to COVID-19, the City of Grover Beach will hold all meetings virtually. Meetings can be viewed on Channel 20 and are live streamed on the City’s website and on www.slo-span.org. Members of the public may provide public comment during the meeting by calling (805) 3216639 to provide public comment via phone (the phone line will open just prior to the start of the meeting at 6:00 PM) or written public comments can be submitted via email to gbadmin@groverbeach.org prior to the Council meeting start time of 6:00 PM. If submitting written comments in advance of the meeting, please note the agenda item. Written comments will be read out loud during the City Council meeting on the appropriate agenda item subject to the customary 3-minute time limit.

SUBJECT: 1. Conservation and Open Space General Plan Element adoption - The City Council will consider a Planning Commission recommendation to adopt an update to the Conservation and Open Space Elements of the General Plan. The General Plan Amendment also includes minor amendments to the Land Use Element and deletion of the Scenic Routes Element. A Mitigated Negative Declaration has been prepared in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (SCD# 2020050495).

Where You Come In: Any member of the public may be heard on the item described in this notice by calling (805) 321-6639 during the meeting or submit written comments to the City Clerk prior to the meeting by mail to: City Clerk’s Office, 154 South Eighth Street, Grover Beach, CA 93433 or by email to gbadmin@groverbeach.org. If you require special accommodations to participate in the public hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s office at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting by calling (805) 473-4567.

For More Information: If you have any questions or would like more information regarding the item described in this notice, please contact: Community Development Director Bruce Buckingham by telephone at (805) 473-4520 or send an e-mail to commdev@groverbeach.org.

The City Council may also discuss other hearings or items of business at this meeting. The complete meeting agenda and copy of the staff report on the above item will be posted on the City website at www.groverbeach.org.

Live broadcasts of City Council meetings may be seen on cable television Channel 20, as well as over the Internet at www.groverbeach.org (click on the icon “Government Access Local Channel 20” and then “Channel 20”).

City Council meetings are rebroadcast throughout the week.

If you challenge the nature of the proposed action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the Public Hearing(s) described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the Public Hearing (Govt. Code Sec 65009). /s/ Wendi Sims, City Clerk Dated: Thursday, June 25, 2020