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T he 2022-23 school year is upon San Luis Obispo, and with it come crowds of young people clad in Cuesta College and Cal Poly T-shirts ready to tackle studies and the fun that only students can have. Our annual Student Guide issue is here for them (and you yearround residents, too). In this issue, Assistant Editor Peter Johnson writes about tenant rights and how to deal with substandard housing [18] ; Staff Writer Taylor O’Connor from our sister paper, the Sun, meal preps on the cheap [22] ; Staff Writer Bulbul Rajagopal covers an annual furniture building contest at Cal Poly [26] ; Staff Writer Shwetha Sundarrajan writes about Cuesta’s new aviation tech program [28] ; and The Shredder has some tips on how not to be a jerk [32]

Also this week, read what the county’s doing to help homeless residents during the heatwave [4] ; about a local author’s new sci-fi novel [36] ; and boba tea in Morro Bay [42] Camillia

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If the body doesn’t have the ability to cool off and rest then the person has an increased likelihood of experiencing heat illness as the ‘heatwave’ continues,” he said via email.

COOL OFF According to Jeff Al-Mashat, the program manager of the Oklahoma Avenue Safe Parking Site, most homeless participants spend time in their trailers and use the generators to maintain air flow.

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Vince Pierucci, the director of SLO County’s Emergency Medical Services, said that the county makes that decision based on forecasts produced by the NWS, such as issuing an excessive heat watch status that lasts for ﬁve or more days consecutively. Temperatures that don’t drop overnight are also a warning bell, according to Pierucci. “In my experience, that has been a signiﬁcant factor in deciding what next steps should occur.

In an Aug. 30 email to New Times, some county supervisors, and homelessness management leaders, Hope’s Village Founder Becky Jorgeson questioned the ofﬁcial plans to aid the unhoused during the heat. “People are desperate on the streets,” her email read. “Hope’s Village’s concern is for those at Oakie Village [Oklahoma Avenue Safe Parking Site]—it’ll be hotter than the dickens out there and very little shade was ever put up. And no refrigeration to keep food or water cold.” When NWS warned SLO County about the coming heatwave on Aug. 31, some cities opened cooling centers in North County—where temperatures were expected to top 110 degrees.

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“It’s a lot of money to pay for a fence when we could build something [else for bikes and pedestrians],” said Councilmember Michelle Shoresman, echoing sentiments she said she heard from constituents.

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In Paso Robles, homeless people can ﬁ nd shade at the City Hall and Library Building, the Senior Center, and the Veterans Memorial Building.InAtascadero, the community room at the public library operated as a temporary cooling center.

The city of SLO also offers a cooling center at the 40 Prado Homeless Services Center organized by the Community Action Partnership of SLO County (CAPSLO).

CAPSLO also works with the county to provide case management services at the much-debated Oklahoma Avenue Parking Site (previously called Kansas Avenue). Lahey said that they offer daily rideshare services to the homeless participants of that program in case they need to go to the cooling center or to local stores.SLO County’s parking site program manager, Jeff Al-Mashat, said the priority is ensuring that everyone has cold water to drink at the site by delivering hundreds of bottles of water. “I make runs to the store regularly during the heatwave,” Al-Mashat said. “The CAPSLO trailer uses a fridge to keep the water cold.”

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For more than a week running, the county and much of California has been wrapped in a heatwave, with some areas reporting record highs of more than 100 degrees. The National Weather Service [NWS] extended its Excessive Heat Warning to Sep. 9.

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SLO city to build new fencing along Railroad Safety Trail

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Soaring temperatures in San Luis Obispo County sent local ofﬁcials and nonproﬁts scrambling to help the homeless population get out of the heat.

According to California’s extreme temperature response plan, there are no deﬁ nite temperature benchmarks that activate the need for cooling centers.

With some parts mangled or leveled to the ground and others completely missing, the photo captured just one of the breaches in fencing along the mile stretch of multi-modal pathway that connects the Jennifer Street bridge to Orcutt Road, which cyclists and pedestrians are known to slip through to cross the“Itracks.thinkthe picture says it all,” Horn told City Council members. “That’s what we’re trying to address.”Citingsafety and legal concerns, city ofﬁcials asked the council on Sept. 6 to approve $500,500 in spending to complete a fence replacement project. While the council did unanimously vote to greenlight the spending, it did so with some grumbling and discussion.

Laurel Weir, the administrative services manager of the county homeless services unit, told New Times that the county operated library became a cooling center on Sunday and Monday, Sept. 4 and 5, when the library would have normally been closed.

“The library is open for regular hours this week and while it is not an ‘ofﬁcial’ cooling center, people seeking relief from the heat are welcome to come into the library to cool off,” Weir said. “I was told by library staff that the library also has a water station where people can reﬁ ll their water bottles.”

“ECHO provides showers from Monday to Friday in Atascadero, and we have been providing that during this heatwave,” Rodriguez said. “At our Paso location, the showers are available on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.” Δ —Bulbul Rajagopal

The image projected onto the City Hall screen showed a tattered section of chain link fence that separates the city’s popular Railroad Safety Trail from its namesake, the Union Paciﬁc Railroad, as a freight train passes by.

Currently, 65 people live on-site. Al-Mashat said they mainly stay in their trailers and use the generators to keep the air flowing. There are also four round-the-clock showers, with one of them being ADA-friendly. Al-Mashat added that in the coming weeks, Oklahoma Avenue would soon receive a solar-powered vehicle through the local Food Bank. It would provide healthy food to participants with the ability to refrigerate and store it safely in the heat. Other nonprofits are also helping keep homeless residents hydrated and safe in the heat. In Atascadero and Paso Robles, staff and volunteers at the El Camino Homeless Organization (ECHO) continuously provide water bottles, iced water, and cooling towels to homeless people, Chief Operations Officer Mimi Rodriguez said. Community members donated those and can continue to drop off items at ECHO’s Atascadero shelter location.

SLO County, cities, and nonprofits help the homeless during heatwave

San Luis Obispo Public Works Director Matt Horn used a photo instead of words to make his point to the SLO City Council on Sept. 6.

Once unhoused people enter that space, staff provides them with water, to-go meal bags, and opportunities to shower, said Jack Lahey, CAPSLO’s director of homeless services.

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“I was even more surprised when the [Paso Robles Joint Unified School] District chose me as the District Teacher of the Year, given that there’s a good number of schools in the Paso school district,” he said. “And when I was chosen as [SLO] County Teacher of the Year, I am a bit uncomfortable, singling out any teacher in what is really inherently a real collaborative profession. But I guess I will accept the honor, if it means more attention can be given to issues of diversity and equity and representation and equality for students.”Landhas been teaching for more than 25 years and advocated for the return of an ethnic studies course to the high school in early 2021. Some district parents and members of the school board called his proposed curriculum “critical race theory,” and the discussion that followed caused outcry among other parents and students, who labeled the district as racist against students of color.The social studies professor has also supported student events such as A Night for DACA Dreamers (April 2018), the first PRHS Baile (March 2022), and the Coming Out Against Hate Forum (October 2021), which took place in the wake of a pride flag incident at the high school. All of the events, he said, were aimed at giving marginalized students a voice.“Ithink what motivates me is when I see students developing the courage to speak out to people in power, and to advocate for a place at the decision making table,” Land said. “I recognize that if teachers can really celebrate students for who they are and encourage them to express their identities and their views, that this is a better country, better community, better schools, and we’re better for it.” He most recently butted heads with the Paso school board over protections for LGBTQ students. “I don’t think that the school board right now, as it currently exists, is sensitive to issues of bullying against LGBTQ students or racism that exists on campus or the many forms of bullying and bigotry that take place directed at students of color and English language learners and undocumented students,” Land said. “I think the school board right now is much more interested in fighting imaginary culture wars than in actually strengthening the educational programs and resources at the high school and throughout the district. The school board right now needs to listen to students and take the time to educate themselves about the very real legal obligations they have toward all of their students.”Despite previous conflicts, the district awarded Land with the Teacher of the Year award in May. He was among four other teachers nominated to be in the running for the County Teacher of the Year. According to Thomas Alvarez, chief human resources officer for the SLO County Office of Education, a committee composed of the county superintendent, school district superintendents, the previous year’s winner, and Alvarez selected Land. Now, Land is in the running for California Teacher of the Year. “They all had impacts to districts and schools—[Land] did a lot with the community and courses he teaches and

At the Morro Bay City Council’s Aug. 23 meeting, council members and the community discussed the logistics of Bean’s project, including variances requested by Bean, which would allow for better design and function of the tiny home and were similar to varancies granted to other residences facing similar challenges. These included allowing Bean to have an uncovered parking space, a 2-foot side yard setback, adjusted roofing heights, and a screening trellis.Mayor John Headding said the variances weren’t essential to allowing the existence of a home on the site.

“We really want to be smart about moving forward and not miss the lessons of other countries,” he said.

When Paso Robles High School picked longtime social studies teacher Geoffrey Land as Teacher of the Year, he was surprised—a feeling that continued as his name moved up through the award’s ranks.

the impact he has on students. That’s what elevated him, his work with the community,” Alvarez said. —Shwetha Sundarrajan Coastal Commission hears from gridonCommissionEnergychairoffshorewindandchallenges

Andy Pease said that she’s still hopeful the city can work with Union Pacific on a potential at-grade bike and pedestrian crossing—a type of facility the railroad company isn’t usually amenable to. That crossing would be significantly less expensive than an overpass.“Iandsome other municipalities have talked about how unreasonable [Union Pacific’s policy] is, in a time where light rail is going back and forth through cities with very robust, secure, at-grade pedestrian and bike crossings,” Pease said. “You can do a really good [at-grade] system that I think would be safe.”

One constituent, Helene Finger, argued that the city should not pay for a new railroad fence until it had plans in place for a safe and legal bike and pedestrian crossing over the tracks. “The city should not be spending close to a half a million dollars on dividing the community,” Finger wrote in a letter to the city, calling the lack of a safe track crossing on that side of town “a major hurdle” to a “fully connected” transportation network in the city. But city staff countered that maintaining existing bike paths should also hold a high priority. On top of the safety issues inherent in allowing illegal track crossings to take place, SLO officials said that the city has binding agreements with Union Pacific dating back to the 1990s to maintain a barrier between the trail and the tracks. “It does obligate us to maintain and construct a wall,” SLO City Manager Derek Johnson said. “That agreement is very clear. That’s what we agreed to.” Johnson added that the city has not had the funds in past years to tackle the fencing project. But SLO voters’ approval of a sales tax increase in 2018 changed that.“The short answer is Measure G [the tax increase] has afforded us the ability to catch up on a lot of deferred maintenance,” Johnson said. “As we think about future partnerships with Union Pacific, we know we need to be in position to have honored the commitments we already made.”

The council voted 4-1 to grant Bean the permits she had requested, reversing the Planning Commission’s decision. While a majority of the council was in agreement,

The day after a sweltering heatwave nearly knocked out California’s electrical grid, the chair of the California Energy Commission spoke in Pismo Beach about the energy challenges facing the state and the next steps for developing offshore wind farms near Morro “YesterdayBay.was the all-time record for energy demand in the state of California in our history. We came about as close as you can come to having rotating outages on the grid last night,” chair David Hochschild told the California Coastal Commission during its Sept. 7 meeting. “We’re in a moment where we really need to do two things: grapple with the consequences of climate change, but at the same time press forward more aggressively than ever before on climate solutions.” One of those solutions, Hochschild said, sits about 20 miles off the coasts of SLO and Humboldt counties. According to newly adopted state targets, offshore wind farms in California are set to produce between 2 and 5 gigawatts of power by 2030 and 25 gigawatts by 2045—all in service of a 2045 goal to achieve 100 percent renewable energy. Hochschild said that the “very first step” in advancing offshore wind development in Morro Bay is to complete a lease sale for the territory this fall. The 376-square-mile ocean area designated by the federal government has up to 3 gigawatts of generation capacity. “Then it really all becomes implementation,” Hochschild said to the Coastal Commission. “I think we are exiting a period of asking, should we be going bold … and entering what I’d call the Great Implementation. The debate is over—it’s all about execution now.” Much of the responsibility in overseeing the state’s rapid transition to renewable energy is falling on the Energy Commission. Hochschild noted that his agency’s budget has increased more than 10-fold over recent years up to $10.5 billion this year. “I’m overwhelmed with the new resources we have. … We’ve never had this level of focus and investment,” he said. “We’re trying to bring big, new energy solutions to scale.”

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The new fencing along the pathway will look “very similar to what’s installed on the Bob Jones Trail,” Horn said, which is a “three-strand wood fence with some metal kind of chain link.”

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Coastal Commission Chair Donne Brownsey, of Fort Bragg, thanked Hochschild for his presentation and said she believes the partnership between the two agencies will be critical to the offshore wind projects’ success going forward.“Iknow our staffs have formed this collaborative relationship, particularly on offshore wind,” Brownsey said. “I think that what has been established has been a very successful model of really expediting these projects.” —Peter Johnson Tiny house project creates waves in Morro Bay Aesthetic and public access concerns have plagued a triangular plot of land nestled in a crevice between Sandpiper Court and Main Street in recent months.

“We anticipate that it will take two to three months for the bidding process and probably about six months to install the fencing,” Horn added. For locals wondering when or if the city will pursue a new, legal railroad crossing, that’s a long way off. It’s not among the city’s many top priority bike projects—but that could change. “Make your voice heard during the financial planning process,” Shoresman advisedCouncilmemberresidents.

In preparation for the commission’s work to shepherd the development of offshore wind, Hochschild recently traveled to the East Coast and to Europe to tour established offshore wind farms. The Atlantic Ocean has a shallower continental shelf than the Pacific Ocean, he said, which means the East Coast’s turbine technology will differ from California’s.Morecomparable to our waters are the wind farms in Scotland and Portugal, he said, whose floating turbines are also in deeper waters, although they are about 10 miles offshore, versus the 20 miles planned in California.

“What’s really amazing is you can’t actually tell that the floating wind projects are floating. They’re incredibly stable on high seas,” he said. Hochschild said that the technology is rapidly improving for wind farms: robots are starting to be able to do some of the routine maintenance service on the turbines in Europe, which is helping cut down on costs.

In May, the Morro Bay Planning Commission denied Sandy Bean’s application to build a 496-square-foot, two-story tiny home on that lot, which included requests for a conditional use permit, coastal development permit, and several“Threevariances.planning commissioners were concerned with the exterior look of the home, compatibility with the neighborhood, potential detrimental effects on the bluff, and the belief that this site should’ve never been a building site,” a staff report stated. Bean appealed the decision, citing misinformation about the project during the Planning Commission’s May 17 meeting. The appeal also stated that the project was reviewed under “different standards and conditions than would be required of other recently approved homes also on the coastal bluff.”

“I believe the variances required were minor, and although they improved the design and function of the project, they were not unlike any other variances granted to other projects in the city, other than the parking variance,” Headding said.

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the public comment on the item was a mixedPlanningbag. Commission Chair Susan Stewart, who was the sole vote supporting Bean’s tiny home project during that May commission meeting, urged the council to overturn the decision denying her project. “As designed, this project is quirky, charming, functional, and fits in with the landscape with a small footprint that continues the tradition of small beach houses, which some of us would like to see returned to Morro Bay,” Stewart said. “Ms. Bean has designed the house to suit her needs and has been working with staff for nearly four years.” Morro Bay resident Allen Hoshstetler, who owns a house next to Bean’s property, opposed the idea, citing fire hazards to his property because of the house’s proposed shingle siding and roof. He added that the proposed variances weren’t minor, that the house would impact other homes in the area, and that building a house on a bluff above the bay is unsafe.“What’s going to happen in the next 20 years? The house is going to be in the bay,” he told the council. “You already have the city easements and right of way, so that access there, if the house is built, will cut off that access to the public forever. We already have a problem with people walking down the beach and climbing up that bluff and going over the fence and that’s only going to be made worse by this.” Bean disputed claims made by Hoshstetler, citing documents relevant to the property to support her project. She said that stories circulating about the property incorrectly assume that lot wasn’t intended for a residence. “I actually have a copy of the grant deed for this lot from the 1950s. I can tell you that there are no restrictions against construction, and if the lot had been sold for any other purpose, the seller would’ve placed restrictions,” Bean said. “It has been hearsay that has been causing a lot of these discrepancies.” Sundarrajan Corrections:

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“When I was living in Denver in 2015, I had the idea to start a music school online. The biggest complaint from people was if their child was taking a lesson, they’d have to take the time to drive to the lesson … sit there for a whole hour while the child took the lesson, and drive another 20 minutes home, plus the expense of the gas,” Pidgeon said. “I found a solution and came up with the idea for Lessons from Anywhere that solved a lot of these problems that parents and adults wereButhaving.”itwasonly in 2020 that Lessons from Anywhere became a full-fledged business, though Pidgeon ran a previous music school in Boston in the early 2000s. The idea was pushed to the back burner because Pidgeon started concentrating on his music career. Now, he juggles performances with his band, Pete Pidgeon and the Arcoda, along with running Lessons from Anywhere.

The youngest student is 3 years old—a crucial time, according to Pidgeon because that’s when a Japanese musical philosophy named after violinist Shinichi Suzuki kicks in. “Suzuki method is mainly a stringteaching pedagogy. It’s also used in piano, but when young students are learning, that style of teaching allows for very young students to start on the instrument, primarily violin,” he said. “Also, in that age group, a very young child could start drum lessons. It’s physically an easy instrument to play. Ukulele and electronic keyboard, too.” Pidgeon’s oldest student is an 88-year-old who started piano lessons a few years ago. He also has other students in their 60s and 70s. “One common thing that people tell me is they lose track of time when they play an instrument. That takes away a lot of things in daily life—home stress, work stress, money stress,” he said. “They’re able to detach from their problems and are able to enjoy playing their music.” Lessons from Anywhere enrolls students throughout the year. Peak enrollment season is in the fall, when students return to school. Classes, which are mostly one-on-one, usually start at 4 p.m. and go until 10 p.m. To sign up, visit lessonsfromanywhere.com, call (877) 3-LESSON, or text/call (805) 222-6787.

The online music school not only teaches any instrument Pidgeon can find a tutor for, but also offers voice, music theory, and songwriting lessons.“There’s something really therapeutic about playing music. Now that we’re suffering form things like increased food prices, gas prices inflation, stress of war, political unrest, and all of the things going on in daily life, what music offers is respite from that,” he said. “Even if you only have 15 minutes a day, take up your instrument and immerse yourself in music; it does an incredible number in reducing stress and anxiety. For kids, it fosters something in the brain to increase learning capability and confidence.” Fast fact • MUST! Charities’ Fund a Need event on Sept. 2 raised $1 million for Vineyard Team’s Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholarship Fund, which provides academic opportunities for the children of vineyard and winery workers. The scholarship has put children through trade schools, and twoand four-year colleges. Learn more or donate to the scholarship scholarship.vineyardteam.org/at ∆ Reach Staff Writer Bulbul Rajagopal at newtimesslo.com.brajagopal@

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COVID-19 may have compelled Templeton-based musician Pete Pidgeon to open a distance-learning music school, but the concept had been on his mind for years.

The online music school may have San Luis Obispo County roots, but its instructors and students hail from farflung locales, with one tutor tuning in from Brazil. Pidgeon invested time recruiting teachers well-versed in not just playing an instrument but also in taketutorprocessThere’sinterviewsuccessfulqualitiesoften-overlookedthatmakeguides.“Ireallythoroughlyeverybody.reallyquiteatobecomeahere.Wedon’tjustanybody.Oneofthe

most important factors is that with teaching you have to have a background in psychology. You have to be able to talk to people and understand people, be on their level and understand them as a human being,” he said. “The best teachers I’ve ever had always had a human element to them. They were actually concerned about how you were doing.”

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Pragmatism is the ability to, when forced to choose between two bad alternatives, select the “least bad” choice. Most people would pragmatically consider the choice to endure a risk to be preferable to choosing the alternative of certain destruction. As I write this, we are facing a heatwave-induced brownout, and instructions that electric cars not be charged during the power shortage. And, in today’s New Times (Sept. 1) , there are four opinion pieces attacking the option of keeping Diablo Canyon open (although none of them offer any suggestions as to replacing the power). Wouldn’t it be ironic if these folks were unable to attend an anti-nuclear demonstration due to the batteries in their Teslas and Volts being dead?This is not simply a liberal vs. conservative issue and is splitting the environmentalists. Many liberals, after considering the calculus,

The alert has gone out that polio has been detected in a New York water treatment plant. So, we add that to monkeypox and the ongoing COVID-19 variant. Where are we going with this? First off, it’s just the ongoing fearmongering that the federal government is engaged in to exert control over the population. The draconian shutdown of our country was over the top. Polio was a disease that disappeared. A vigorous vaccination program and a requirement for immigrants to be immunized before entry to the United States assured that the paralyzing scourge was no longer to be feared. Now polio seems to be back. Smallpox (disguised as monkeypox) is back. Upticks in COVID-19 are back. On our southern border, estimates of 100,000 people from more than 100 different countries, including Central America and Africa where diseases we’ve long eliminated continue to be a health risk, are allowed to flood into this country unimmunized, untested, and put on buses to be dispersed among the 48 continental states. I come to one conclusion: If this “crying wolf” should be taken seriously, why isn’t the southern border shut?

Liberals are generally very concerned about climate change and greenhouse gases, and have long campaigned for the reduction and elimination of fossil fuels. Climate change is depicted as an existential threat to the planet and humanity. A substantial majority of our current energy production comes from burning fossil fuels, and we are engaged in serious efforts to replace fossil fuels with “green” energy sources like solar and wind power. We have far less “green” energy capacity than we need, and developing more will take time. We also have not yet developed any practical way to store the massive amounts of energy necessary to run society during periods when solar and wind energy are not available, such as nighttime or overcast or calm greenhouseItcommissionedwaselectricalpercentprovidesnuclearTheweather.DiabloCanyonplantcurrentlyaround9to10ofCalifornia’spower,butitscheduledtobede-in2024.doesnotgenerateanygasesorotherwise contribute to climate change, and it is reliably available 24/7. Once offline, the power that Diablo Canyon is currently producing will need to be replaced by fossil fuel generating plants here or out of state. It will not be possible to replace the energy that will be lost with “green” energy by then. Other than nuclear, the only “green” power source that is available 24/7 is hydroelectric, which cannot be expanded due to environmental concerns and limited availability, especially during this drought.Ofcourse, nuclear energy has its own well-known problems, primarily the storage of highly radioactive used fuel rods, and the possibility of a catastrophic accident that might contaminate a large area, such as occurred at Chernobyl and Fukushima. Here, we are considering merely adding a relatively small amount to the existing fuel rods, which will still need to be disposed of in any event. Thus, our choice is between two problematic alternatives: maintain a risky technology for a while longer, or to instead shut it down and greatly increase our use of fossil fuels, substantially worsening a condition that we are told will soon result in catastrophe. I have yet to hear anyone suggest specific other alternatives or offer anything beyond platitudes, vague rhetoric, and magical thinking.

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Democraticreliablyalternative.powerthatpragmaticallyhaveconcludedcontinuingnuclearisthe“leastbad”EventheprogressivePartyendorsed both “existing and advanced nuclear” power in its 2020 platform. With the choice so stark that it generates a bipartisan response even in these bitterly polarized times, what explains the opposition to keeping Diablo Canyon open until “green power” is sufficient?Forsome, it comes down to “emotional conditioning.” Having been conditioned by the 1979 movie The China Syndrome and decades of furious leftist rhetoric, the “official” liberal position has long been to oppose to nuclear power. Having positioned themselves as rigidly antinuclear, these liberals are simply incapable of considering our current circumstances and doing the pragmatic thing. They are paralyzed between their loathing of nuclear power and their conviction that greenhouse gases must be quickly eliminated to save humanity. For others, it is a test that reveals just how serious a problem they truly believe climate change to be. If they are willing to aggravate a condition that they are telling us will soon doom the planet, you really have to question their sincerity. Are the rants of Greta Thunberg predicting the dystopian future facing us, merely the usual hysterics and hyperbole we expect from the left? Are their dire predictions merely political theater to convince society to give them massive amounts of money and power, and to endure job losses and hardships, merely to cure an imaginaryPragmaticproblem?liberal, emotional hostage, or craven opportunist? Which one are you? ∆

Endure a risky technology for a while longer, or aggravate the climate change that is threatening our planet with immediate and certain disaster? I am referring to the dispute over delaying the closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open.

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12 • New Times • September 8 - September 15, 2022 • www.newtimesslo.com Opinion Hot enough for you? In the Laguna Lake area, not only has it been hotter than a stolen tamale, but 2,300 Pacific Gas & Electric customers had to contend with power outages on Sept. 4, 5, and 6 in the afternoon at the heat’s peak. There’s a terrible stillness when fans stop turning and your wee dog looks at you with widening, teary eyes and begins panting uncontrollably. PG&E, the monopoly everyone loves to hate, thoughtfully sends out text messages to affected customers: “PG&E Outage Alert: Address starting 1234 may be experiencing an unplanned outage affecting 2,312 customers.”

Of course, it could be worse than sweating in a hot house. For instance, have you asked yourself how your unhoused neighbors are doing? Where are they supposed to go? How “safe” is the Oklahoma Avenue Safe Parking Village when RVs don’t have water or power hookups and can’t run generators if they can’t afford Homelessgas?advocate Becky Jorgeson has been pleading with officials to do something: “While we are very grateful for a place for homeless people living in their vehicles to legally be, I write because we’re very concerned about the people living out there,” she wrote to SLO County’s Public Health Director Penny Borenstein, Sheriff Ian Parkinson, County Counsel Rita Neal, and Board of Supervisors among others. “There are health and safety concerns along with code violations that have not been addressed in a year. A refrigeration unit was finally delivered a few weeks ago but is still not powered up. No way to keep food cold. So food sits and rots in the sun. After a year.” Handing out “cooling towels” and bottled water is better than nothing, and offering rides to cooling stations like the 40 Prado Homeless Center sounds good, but homeless people are often afraid to leave their possessions behind, and some have been suspended from Prado for bad behavior, according to CAPSLO Director of Homeless Services Jack Lahey Thanks to global climate change, these problems aren’t going away. They require permanent solutions, not moist towels.

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Well no shit, Sherlock. My sweat is sweating. Then 20 minutes later they send a text about a crew on the way, then on-site, and a while later you get a text saying power has been restored just in case you haven’t noticed your fans are turning. Then repeat. PG&E engineers have been flummoxed. A safety system automatically shuts off power if a tree limb or other object touches a powerline. Knowing PG&E’s sparkling history of keeping powerlines free of potential hazards (Yes, that’s sarcasm), is it any wonder why the power goes off?

On another note, anybody know how the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights’ investigation into the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District ’s charges of discrimination against Latinx and Spanish-speaking members of the community is going? (Phew! Somebody call an English teacher! That’s a lot of possessive apostrophes!) I only ask because Geoffrey Land, a Paso Robles High School social studies teacher and advocate for LGBTQ and minority students, was recently awarded District Teacher of the Year and then SLO County Teacher of the Year, and now he’s up for State Teacher of the Year. Land’s the dude behind events such as A Night for DACA Dreamers, the Coming Out Against Hate Forum, and the first Paso Robles High School Baile (That’s “Dance” in Español, amigos)— events designed to give a voice to the marginalized.IfIwasamember of the Paso school board, I’d be doing everything I could to deflect the notion that the district doesn’t treat LGBTQ and Latino people the same as cisgender Caucasian people. Maybe having a guy who advocates for those folks as Teacher of the Year offers someone to point to and say, “See? We’re not homophobic racists. We voted this liberal muckraker Teacher of the Year! Get off our backs, Office of Civil Rights! (Also, yes, he’s a white man so it’s not that radical.)” “I don’t think that the school board right now, as it currently exists, is sensitive to issues of bullying against LGBTQ students or racism that exists on campus or the many forms of bullying and bigotry that take place directed at students of color and English language learners and undocumented students,” Land told New Times. “I think the school board right now is much more interested in fighting imaginary culture wars than in actually strengthening the educational programs and resources at the high school and throughout the district. The school board right now needs to listen to students and take the time to educate themselves about the very real legal obligations they have toward all of their students.” Snap! But it’s true. When you focus all your attention on keeping the nonissue boogeyman critical race theory from being taught, it’s hard for the board to focus on stuff like a stolen Pride flag being shit on and flushed down a toilet by vandals who posted the act on TikTok, or more importantly, coming up with a better response than simply banning all flags bigger than 2-feetsquared. Don’t want to clog that plumbing with a big flag, amirite? Let’s not even bring up the Paso High “Fuck Biden” flag incident. Or Paso’s ill treatment of Spanish-speaking parents at meetings. ∆

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The Davis family is excited to be bringing Vintage Cheese Company Creamery to the City of SLO. "Our SLO Ranch Creamery will allow everyone access to viewing the cheeses that are made on a daily basis,” said Ryan Davis, President of Vintage Cheese Company. “We want our creamery to be a fun place where residents can come and build a charcuterie board or gift baskets with local cheeses, nuts, and candies, or just pick up some fresh warm cheese curds out of the vat,” Davis added.

SLO Ranch Farms and Marketplace will be located in the heart of San Luis Ranch at 865 Froom Ranch Way, opening Summer of 2023. The SLO Ranch Farms will provide an authentic San Luis Obispo Farm to Table experience that will be a #1 family friendly destination for locals and visitors alike. The Marketplace will exude an unmatched vibrant atmosphere with more than 15 vendors from boutique retail spaces to trendy restaurants, to distilleries, creameries, an event venue, and more. SLO Ranch Farms & Marketplace will also feature a neighborhood market style grocery store, you pick gardens, and certainly, the freshest produce on the Central Coast. Construction for the upcoming Marketplace successfully kicked off in the Spring in 2022 and is being built by Coastal Community Builders who has been committed to our local communities for more than 30 years. With more than 70% of The Marketplace already secured with well-known local businesses and vendors, The SLO Ranch Farms & Marketplace will undoubtedly be known as “The Place to Be in Slo” when it opens Summer of 2023. To stay updated with news, events, the community gardens waiting list, and more Marketplace announcements, please visit our website at: www.sloranchfarms.com For information on leasing available commercial space at SLO Ranch Farms, please call Jason Hart with Hart Commercial Real Estate at (805) 481-9010 or by emailing Jason at: jason@hartcre.com. Ranch Farms & Marketplace is excited to announce the first three businesses slated to open at the Marketplace in 2023

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The space offers a place to gather and share, that tells a story and has a soul. This will be their second location. You can find their original location in Long Beach, CA.

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During this workshop, you will learn how to design and create a mosaic trivet. You will learn how to select materials, lay out a pleasing pattern, and adhere the tiles to the trivet base. You will learn how to properly grout and seal your project. ongoing, 1-4 p.m. $60. Centerartcentermorrobay.org/index.php/workshops/.805-772-2504.ArtMorroBay,835MainSt.,MorroBay.

WILD SEACOAST: A GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW Presenting photography by Alice Cahill, Dominic Hartman, Michael Johnston, Karen Peterson, Cathy Russ, and Gregory Siragusa. These wonderful artists will be showcasing their amazing photographs of the wild animals, horses, seals, otters, whales, birds, and the night sky. Through Sept. 29, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. 805-772-1068. galleryatmarinasquare.com. Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero suite 10, Morro Bay.

NORTH SLO COUNTY BUBBLES AND BRUSHES: SEAHORSE Sit on the patio, sip bubbles, and paint together. We will be painting the “Seahorse.” Bring your mask just in case. Painting materials included. Sept. 10, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. $45. artsocial805.com. 15 Degrees C Wine Shop and Bar, 624 S Main St., unit 101, Templeton, 805-434-1554.

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ON AND OFF THE WALL Features art by Central Coast Sculptors, The Painters Group, and artists throughout California. This unthemed, juried exhibition includes a variety of painting and sculpting mediums. Mondays-Sundays, 12-4 p.m. through Sept. 19 Free. 805-772-2504. artcentermorrobay.org. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

SECOND SATURDAY: FEATURED ARTISTS OPENING RECEPTION Come by and see the Featured Artists Shows, ﬁ nd gifts for your loved ones, surprises for yourself, and meet the artists featured in the incredible gallery. Second Saturday of every month, 5-7 p.m. Free. 805-772-1068. galleryatmarinasquare. com. Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero suite 10, Morro Bay.

METAL ART BY TRUDI GILLIAM Gilliam creates her sculptures using copper, brass, nickel/silver, and found objects. This new series of whales and birds uses copper and sea glass. ongoing 805-772-9955. Seven Sisters Gallery, 601 Embarcadero Ste. 8, Morro Bay, sevensistersgalleryca.com.

PAINT AND SIP CLASS Joining forces with the talents of Art Social, the winery will offer classes twice a month for you to sip and get creative on the vineyard. Friday classes held at 7 p.m. Sunday classes held at noon. Sept. 16 my805tix.com. Cass Winery and Vineyard, 7350 Linne Rd., Paso Robles. PRESSED FLOWER STAINED GLASS SUN CATCHER Capture the timeless beauty of pressed ﬂ owers and leaves between two pieces of glass. Learn how to use copper foil and solder to encase your botanical design. Finish off your piece with a beaded hanger. All materials included. Sept. 10, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $125. 805-464-2633. glassheadstudio.com. Glasshead Studio, 8793 Plata Lane, Suite H, Atascadero. REGROUP This exhibit showcases a group of femaleidentifying artists, using a variety of different media and displaying various points of view. Pieces can speak to issues of femininity, sexism, feminism, anger at certain legislation, or start a conversation. Through Oct. 30 Free. 805-238-9800. studiosonthepark.org/. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. STAINED GLASS TERRARIUM Create a geometric glass terrarium using the copper foil technique. Learn how to cut glass to a pattern, copper foil, and solder. Complete your look with stone pebbles and an airplane. All materials included. Sept. 11, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $125. 805-464-2633. glassheadstudio.com. Glasshead Studio, 8793 Plata Lane, Suite H, Atascadero.

YOUTH ART SESSIONS Segment 1: Intro to Art Basics. This session is more than four weeks, held on Tuesdays. 12:30 to 2 p.m. for grades K-4 and 2:30 to 4 p.m. for grades 5-12. When registering, please provide your child’s name and age. Tuesdays, 12:30-4 p.m. through Sept. 27 $100. artsocial805.com. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles, 805-238-9800.

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JOHN SEED: PAINTINGS FROM THEN AND NOW Seed’s exhibition will feature large oil paintings, in addition to showcasing a broad selection of Seed’s watercolors. There will be a display of some books and magazines Seed has written or contributed to in his nearly two decades as an active art writer. Through Oct. 30 cambriaarts. org/gallery-exhibits/. Cambria Center for the Arts, 1350 Main St., Cambria.

ALYSSA MONKS: BE PERFECTLY STILL, A RETROSPECTIVE Alyssa Monks layers spaces and moments in her paintings. She ﬂ ips background and foreground using semi-transparent ﬁ lters of glass, vinyl, steam, water and or foliage over shallow spaces. The tension in her paintings is created by the composition and the surface quality itself. Through Nov. 13 Free. 805-543-8562. http:/sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race. Danger, romance, and comic surprises abound in this whirlwind show from SLO Rep. Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-9 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-4 p.m. through Sept. 25 Starts at $20. 805786-2440. slorep.org/shows/around-the-world-in-80days/. San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre, 888 Morro St., San Luis Obispo.

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CERTAIN MATTER: A GROUP EXHIBITION OF MATERIAL ABSTRACTION Featuring artists Linda Sormin, Christopher Pate, Connie Martin, John Trevino, Sarah Mikenis, David McDonald, Amy Vensel, Alexis Arnold, and Garet Zook, all working in a variety of media where the material serves as both object and subject. Mondays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. through Oct. 14 Free. 805-546-3202.

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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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STUDIOS ON THE PARK: CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS Check site for a variety of classes and workshops offered. ongoing studiosonthepark.org. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles, 805238-9800.

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LEMON DROP THE MIC Fine art paintings by Nancy Jensen will be on display at the Gallery at Marina Square in Morro Bay through Thursday, Sept. 29. Jensen’s exhibit and other newly curated showcases at the venue will be celebrated at a joint reception on Saturday, Sept. 10, from 5 to 7 p.m. Call (805) 772-1068 or visit galleryatmarinasquare. com for more info. The gallery is located at 601 Embarcadero, suite 10, Morro Bay.

ADVANCED ACTING IMPROV CLASS Taught by Peter Kremidas. Learn about your own strengths and weaknesses, how to improve upon both, and how we psychologically approach performance in general and improv in particular. Sept. 11 Oct. 16 $225 for all six weeks. 805-858-8255. centralcoastcomedytheater. com/classes. Central Coast Comedy Theater Training Center, 2078 Parker Street, Suite 200, San Luis Obispo.

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NORTH COAST SLO COUNTY ART AND ABOUT LOS OSOS Join us for Art and About Los Osos, a self-guided art walk that gives the community an opportunity to experience visual, literary, and performing art in galleries and other venues throughout Los Osos. Events will not occur on major holidays. Second Saturday of every month, 1-4 p.m. Free. 805-544-9251. artsobispo.org/art-and-about. Los Osos, Townwide, Los Osos.

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SAND IN OUR SHORTS: A NIGHT OF SKETCH COMEDY AND SONG This two-act vaudeville review is jam packed with enough sketches and songs to split your sides. Drawing on the grand tradition of vaudeville and variety shows, this is a compilation of some of the venue’s favorite comedy “shorts,” new and old. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 7 p.m., Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m. and Sundays, 6 p.m. through Sept. 17 $30$36. 805-489-2499. americanmelodrama.com. Great American Melodrama, 1863 Front St., Oceano.

PICKET PAINTING PARTY Decorative picket purchasing opportunities are available to show your support and help fund maintenance and educational programs in the Children’s Garden. Second Saturday of every month, 1-4 p.m. $75 per picket or 2 for $100. 805541-1400. slobg.org. San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, 3450 Dairy Creek Rd., San Luis Obispo.

PINCH POTS WITH SPENCER COLLINS (CHILDREN’S CLASS) In this class, students will learn the basics of creating a pinch pot using air-dry clay. This clay will not require firing in a kiln so students will be able to take their projects home that same day to air dry. Contact spencerpoulter@yahoo.com for more info. Sept. 11, 1-2 p.m. $25 per student or $40 for two students. 805-747-4200. artcentralslo.com/ workshops-events/. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

SANTA YNEZ VALLEY DUNES: VISIONS OF SAND, LIGHT, AND SHADOW Traverse the sand dunes with Central Coast photographer Bob Canepa in the Wildling Museum’s new Valley Oak Gallery exhibition. Receptions: Sept. 11 and Oct. 9. Sept. 11 March 23, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-1082, wildlingmuseum.org.

MIXED MEDIA FOR AGES 5-6 AND 7-12 For ages 5-6 (Mondays) and 7-12 (Tuesdays). Mondays, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 p.m. 805-668-2125. lila.community. LilA Creative Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. suite 101, Arroyo Grande.

PLAY, EXPLORE, CREATE 1 (AGES 3 AND 4) Enjoy the opportunity to explore drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and mixed media. Each week a new adventure awaits. Thursdays, 2-3 p.m. and Fridays, 9-10 a.m. $25. 805-668-2125. lila.community. LilA Creative Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. suite 101, Arroyo Grande.

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The scene writing class will be led by experienced writer and teacher, Brian Danilo, and is a great foundational class for writing stories, books, screenplays, etc. Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m. through Oct. 18 $225 (for all 6 weeks).

WATERCOLORS AND GOLD WITH SPENCER COLLINS Use cards and watercolor paints to create organic floral designs. The final portion of this class will introduce embellishing by using gold leaf to enhance the overall design. For ages 16 and up. Sept. 8, 12-2 p.m. $30 per student or $50 for two students. 805-747-4200. artcentralslo.com/workshops-events/. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

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INTRO TO PRINTMAKING WITH TRICIA REICHERT AND MARYANNE NUCCI All ages are welcome and no prior experience is necessary to attend these workshops, just a desire to learn, explore and experiment. Please contact Tricia at tricia@triciareichert.com Sept. 13, 1-4:30 p.m. $210 for 6 sessions. 805-747-4200. artcentralslo.com/workshops-events/.

Patricia Martin: Whispering Vista Studios, 224 Squire Canyon Rd, San Luis Obispo, patriciamartinartist.com. MUSICAL IMPROV CLASS A fun, positive way to get performance experience with an upbeat group of encouraging people. No previous experience required. A six-week program. Mondays, 6-8 p.m. through Oct. 17 $225. 805-858-8255. centralcoastcomedytheater.com/ classes. Central Coast Comedy Theater Training Center, 2078 Parker Street, Suite 200, San Luis Obispo.

Central Coast Comedy Theater Training Center, 2078 Parker Street, Suite 200, San Luis Obispo. LEARN TO WEAVE MONDAYS An opportunity to learn how a four-shaft loom works. You will get acquainted as a new weaver or as a refresher with lots of tips and tricks. This class includes getting to know a loom, how to prepare/dress a loom, and much much more. Mondays, 1-4 p.m. $75 monthly. 805-441-8257.

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COUNTY AXE THROWING Enjoy the art of axe throwing in a safe and fun environment. Kids ages 10 and older are welcome with an adult. No personal axes please. Fridays, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and Saturdays, 12-6 p.m. $20. 805528-4880. baysidemartialarts.com. Bayside Martial Arts, 1200 2nd St., Los Osos.

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NEAL MENDOZA: PRETTY RUBBISH In his exhibition, “Pretty Rubbish”, Neil Mendoza gives form to environmental issues. His mixed media work uses absurdity as a reaction to the path of growing consumption that society is following at the expense of a sustainable future. ongoing, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. 805543-8562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. OPEN MIC COMEDY Sign-ups at 6:30 p.m. Hosted by Aidan Candelario. Mondays, 7-9 p.m. Free. 805-5408300. saintsbarrel.com/event-calendar. Saints Barrel Wine Bar, 1021 Higuerra St., San Luis Obispo.

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COMEDY NIGHT Professional comedy show featuring local and touring comics. Hosted by Aidan Candelario. Third Thursday of every month, 7-9 p.m. $5. 805-5408300. Bang the Drum Brewery, 1150 Laurel Lane, suite 130, San Luis Obispo, bangthedrumbrewery.com.

OPEN STUDIO FOR TEENS Are you looking for an art studio to share your creative ideas with other teens? Whether it’s painting, drawing, sewing, weaving, or building with clay, you will find the right supplies to work independently or collaborate with others. Come find support and encouragement in the group. Fridays, 3:45-5 p.m. $25. 805-668-2125. lila.community. LilA Creative Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. suite 101, Arroyo Grande.

IMPROV CLASS FOR TEENS A great way to learn acting skills, develop confidence, and have fun in a positive environment. Tuesdays, 4 p.m. through Oct. 18 $225 for all 6 weeks. centralcoastcomedytheater.com/classes.805-858-8255.Central Coast Comedy Theater Training Center, 2078 Parker Street, Suite 200, San Luis Obispo. INTERMEDIATE OIL PAINTING: ADULT ART CLASS This class is for students who may have tried oil painting in the past but are looking to advance their skill levels. Color theory and proportion study will be a focus in the class. Mondays, 2-5 p.m. $30 per student or $75 for 3 classes. 805-747-4200. artcentralslo.com/ workshops-events/. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

YOUTH ART SESSIONS Segment 1: Intro to Art Basics. During this segment, students will learn the basic principles of art. Students will have an opportunity to experiment with the color wheel, blending and color mixing, working with Play-Doh, weaving, shading and printing. For grades K-4. Mondays, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. through Oct. 3 $100. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-747-4200, artcentralslo.wordpress.com.

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VIRGINIA MACK: BEGINNING WATERCOLOR This is a watercolor class designed to let you jump in and try out this engaging medium through experimentation. It’s designed for beginners and those with watercolor experience who wish to expand their knowledge of painting in watercolors. To enroll please contact Mack via email: vbmack@charter.net Wednesdays, 1:30-3:30 p.m. $35. 805-747-4200. artcentralslo.com/workshopsevents/. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

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INTRO TO COLLAGE WITH SPENCER COLLINS Using acrylic paints and various collage materials, students will layer to construct a balanced colorful painting. For ages 11 to 16. Sept. 8, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $25 per student or $40 for two participants. 805-747-4200. artcentralslo.com/workshops-events/. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

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SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY BIG LIBRARY BOOK SALE Books are sold by the inch. The $2 bag sale begins at 1:30 p.m. Teachers get a discount with ID. For more information, send an email to admin@groverbeachlibrary.org. In case of rain, check website for latest updates. Sept. 10, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Free to attend. 805-481-4131. GroverBeachLibrary.org. Grover Beach Community Library, 240 N 9th St., Grover Beach.

Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

KIDS IMPROV CLASSES For ages 9-12. Thursdays, 4-5:30 p.m. through Oct. 20 225 for all 6 weeks. 805858-8255. centralcoastcomedytheater.com/classes.

WALT WHITMAN GAY MEN’S BOOK CLUB Walt Whitman Gay Men’s Book Club meets virtually via zoom. This club reads, studies and discusses books chosen by the group which relate to their lives as gay men. All are welcome. Second Monday of every month, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. galacc. org/events/. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

SECOND SATURDAYS FREE ART EVENT SLOMA’s Second Saturdays program features art-making activities that complement the Museum’s current exhibitions. It’s completely free and open to the public, on the lawn outside SLOMA’s Mission Plaza double doors. Second Saturday of every month, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. through Dec. 10 Free. 805-543-8562. sloma.org/events/ second-saturdays/. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. SLO NIGHTWRITERS: A COMMUNITY OF WRITERS SLO NightWriters supports local writers with monthly presentations, critique groups, contests, and other events. Second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. 805-703-3132. slonightwriters.org. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

The Grover Beach Community Library hosts its Big Library Book Sale on Saturday, Sept. 10, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Books will be sold by the inch throughout the day, while a special $2 bag sale will be offered between 1:30 and 3 p.m. Discounts on books will be offered to teachers (ID required). Call (805) 481-4131 or visit groverbeachlibrary.org for more info. The library is located at 240 N. 9th St., Grover Beach.—C.W.

SOCRATES: DISCUSSION GROUP Group members present interesting and thought provoking topics of all sorts. Topics are selected in advance and moderated by volunteers. Vaccinations are necessary. Enter through wooden gate to garden area. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. 805528-7111. Coalesce Bookstore, 845 Main St., Morro Bay, coalescebookstore.com/.

Take control of food without suffering. Learn a step-by-step process to take control of overeating, cravings, and feel peace with food. Build the habits, mindset, and your unique path with results that stick. Hosted byTami Cruz (Certified Health/Life Coach) and Dana Charvet (Coach/Fitness Trainer). ongoing Call for pricing info. 805-235-7978. gratefulbodyhealthcoaching.com. Grateful Body, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay.

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YOGA ON THE TERRACE An instructor for 15 years, Cheryl will guide guests through a series of Asana Poses, Breathwork and Full Body Meditation, to get you connected with your love for yourself in a fun and expressive class. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, 8-9 a.m. through Sept. 17 $10; $8 for Members. slobg.org. San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, 3450 Dairy Creek Rd., San Luis Obispo, 8055411400.

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CITY FARM SLO’S YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM Check site for more info on programming and summer camps. ongoing cityfarmslo.org. San Luis Obispo, Citywide, SLO.

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Access a free 30-day trial with MapRight online. Get an overview of San Luis Obispo County’s livestock, farming, and ranching land use regulations. Part of a series of ranch management workshops held at Cuesta. Sept. 9, 7-9 p.m. and Sept. 10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $35. 628-888-4012. cuesta.edu/ communityprograms. Cuesta College, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo.

PILATES IN NATURE IN CAMBRIA Build core strength, flexibility, posture, and balance with Metta Pilates. Enjoy this group Pilates class at Stolo Vineyards in Cambria. All ages and beginners are welcome. Tuesdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. through Nov. 15 $20. 805935-9960. Stolo Family Vineyards, 3776 Santa Rosa Creek Rd., Cambria.

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LEARN TO SQUARE DANCE: A NEW DANCER CLASS Have fun dancing to a wide variety of music. No experience necessary. No dress code. Partners welcome (no partner needed). 12 weeks of instruction begins Sept. 15. Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. through Dec. 15 $50 for the entire class. 805-221-5437. squaredancecentralcoast.com. SLO Guild Hall, 2880 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

NAMI FAMILY TO FAMILY CLASS Learn about mental illness and how to best help loved ones dealing with mental health issues. Wednesdays, 6-8:30 p.m. through Nov. 2 Free. 805-236-1007. namislo.org. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, 2201 Lawton Ave., San Luis Obispo.

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QI GONG FITNESS ONLINE Qi Gong combines balance, posture, meditation and gentle physical training for optimum health. Registration begins Aug. 8 for online class, Wednesdays, from 9:35 to 10:35 a.m. with experienced instructor Gary West. For ages 18 and over. Wednesdays. through Dec. 7 $67. 805-549-1222. slcusd.asapconnected.com. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo. QI GONG FOR MIND, BODY, AND SPIRIT Learn and practice qi gong, a Chinese system for physical, mental and spiritual development. This class is conducted outdoors in a beautiful setting, which is the best place to do qi gong, as its inspiration is drawn from nature. Certified instructor: Devin Wallace. Tuesdays, 10-11 a.m. $10. 805-709-2227. Crows End Retreat Center, 6340 Squire Ct., San Luis Obispo. QI GONG ONLINE Qi Gong Online is offered by San Luis Coastal Unified School District. Qi Gong improves balance, posture, tone, and fitness with gentle exercises. Instructor: Gary West. Wednesdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m. through Dec. 7 $67 semester. 805-549-1222. sloadultschool.org. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

This group is a safe place for trans* and gender nonconforming people, as well as those questioning, from ages of 11 to 18. A facilitated emotional support group to be heard, share your story, and hear stories that may sound surprisingly like your own. Second Tuesday of every month, 6-8 p.m. Free. GALA Pride and Diversity Center, 1060 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, 805-5414252.

NORTH SLO COUNTY AN EVENING IN MARGARITA A benefit for the Friends of the Santa Margarita Library. Stroll main street, visit shops and businesses, and enjoy wine, snacks and music. Sept. 9, 5-8 p.m. Free. 805-438-5955. Downtown Santa Margarita, 22324 El Camino Real, Santa Margarita, santamargaritabeautiful.com.

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The Grief Recovery Method, is the only “evidenced based” grief program in the world. It is a step-by-step process, an “action program” for unlocking and respecting the emotional experience of our grief, for all types of losses and heartbreaks. Email revdiann@yahoo.com for more info. Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m. through Oct. 26 $150 includes book. 714-273-9014. diann-davisson.griefrecoverymethod.com/grms/rev-Online,Seewebsite,SanLuisObispo.

HOW TO DEAL WITH HOUSEHOLD WASTE AND IMPROVE YOUR GARDEN Join the Los Osos Valley Garden Club via Zoom to learn about composting for beginners; what goes in the recycle and green waste bins; what goes to the hazardous waste facility; and how to start a worm farm. Sept. 15, 6:45-7:45 p.m. Free. lovgardenclub.org. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

CENTRAL COAST WOOD CARVERS Learn the art of wood carving or wood burning. Join Central Coast Wood Carvers in Morro Bay at St. Timothy’s. Open for beginners, intermediate, or advance. Learn a wide range of techniques and skills. Mask Required. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. St. Timothy’s Catholic Church, 962 Piney Way, Morro Bay, 805-772-2840, sttimothymorrobay.org/index.html.

WOMEN INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE (WIIRE) A collaboration of minds to help you start investing today. Third Friday of every month, noon my805tix.com. Granada Hotel and Bistro, 1126 Morro St., San Luis Obispo.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR CAREGIVERS OF PERSONS WITH FTD (FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA) A welcoming meeting providing information and support for caregivers of people with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). FTD is a dementia that affects younger people and is very difficult for families. This is an open group. Caregivers can drop in for information, supportive discussion, and caregiving tips. Second Saturday of every month, 2:30-4 p.m. through Jan. 14 805-471-8102. calpoly.zoom.us/j/83141446835. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo. TANGO SUNDAYS A Basics Argentine Tango class, held Sundays in September starting on Sept. 11 (no event on Labor Day weekend), followed by a practica (practice dancing what you’ve learned with others). Sundays, 6-9 p.m. through Sept. 25 $10. 805-710-4388. Odd Fellows Hall, 520 Dana St., San Luis Obispo.

SAN LUIS OBISPO BREATHE WRX (ONLINE) Yoga Breathing is a safe and fast way to relieve stress, boost digestion, balance your energy, and improve sleep. No experience of any kind is needed. Please RSVP. Sept. 13, 6-7 p.m. Free. 805-235-7978. gratefulbodyhealthcoaching.com. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo. CAL HOPE SLO GROUPS AT TMHA Visit website for full list of weekly Zoom groups available. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays calhopeconnect.org. Transitions Mental Health Warehouse, 784 High Street, San Luis Obispo, 805-270-3346.

This program is designed for anyone looking to play an active role in the statewide effort to advance rapid and equitable solutions to the climate crisis in their community. Participants meet weekly on Zoom for nine weeks with some weekend in-person field trips. Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. through Nov. 9 $225. cecsb.org/climate-stewards. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

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FREE YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS, EMS, AND COMMUNITY CARETAKERS Join for some well-deserved self-care. Anyone including fire, EMS, police, hospital workers, medical staff, assisted living caretakers, etc. is welcome. All yoga abilities are encouraged to attend. Please email empoweryoga805@ gmail.com in advance to enroll. Thursdays, 6-7 p.m. 805-619-0989. Empower Yoga Studio and Community Boutique, 775 W. Grand Ave., Grover Beach, empoweryoga805.com.

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Disciplines include advanced athletic performance fitness training, Thai kickboxing, and more. Beginners to advanced students welcome. Day and evening classes offered. Mondays-Saturdays, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Call for more info. 805-701-7397. charvetmartialarts.com. Morro Bay Martial Arts, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay.

NAR-ANON: FRIDAY MEETINGS A meeting for those who know or have known a feeling of desperation concerning the addiction of a loved one. Fridays, 12-1 p.m. Free. 805-441-2164. North County Connection, 8600 Atascadero Ave., Atascadero. WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY GOLF TOURNAMENT Dust off your golf clubs for the second annual Woods Humane Society Golf Tournament. This fundraiser golf tournament helps Woods ace their Summer Fund Drive to save animals’ lives. Sept. 10, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. $50-$240. WoodsHumaneGolf.com. Hunter Ranch Golf Course, 4041 Highway 46 East, Paso Robles, 805-237-7444.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WATCH AND CLOCK COLLECTORS, CHPT. 52 Come join a friendly meeting of watch and clock collectors. Members bring watches and clocks to show, plus there are discussions of all things horological. Second Sunday of every month, 1:30-3 p.m. 805-547-1715. new.nawcc. org/index.php/chapter-52-los-padres. Central Coast Senior Center, 1580 Railroad St., Oceano. POINT SAN LUIS LIGHTHOUSE TOURS Tours will give you a glimpse into the lives of Lighthouse Keepers and their families, while helping keep our jewel of the Central Coast preserved and protected. In-person and virtual tours offered. Check website for more details. Wednesdays, Saturdays pointsanluislighthouse.org/. Point San Luis Lighthouse, 1 Lighthouse Rd., Avila Beach.

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SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY BEGINNER GROUP SURF LESSONS AND SURF CAMPS Lessons and camp packages available daily. All equipment included. ongoing Starts at $70. 805-8357873. sandbarsurf.com/. Sandbar Surf School Meetup Spot, 110 Park Ave., Pismo Beach.

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CULTURE & LIFESTYLE from page 15

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SLO LEZ B FRIENDS (VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM) A good core group of friends who gather to discuss topics we love/ care about from movies, outings, music, or being new to the area. We come from all walks of life and most importantly support each other. Transgender and Nonbinary folks welcome. Third Friday of every month, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. sloqueer.groups.io/g/lezbfriends. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

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On September 14, 2019 at about 9:16pm, our son Thomas fell from the Marsh Street parking structure and died. It has been three years. He had spent the day with a new acquaintance named David A. Knight of Atascadero. They were supposed to look at art but instead, Knight took Tommy to the Frog and Peach bar on Higuera Street. He bought Tommy so many drinks in a hour that Tommy’s blood alcohol level was .38 when he died. We continue to look for witnesses from that night who may have seen or heard something at the bar, the parking structure, or the pedestrian walkway by the movie theaters. Also, if anyone knows anything about Knight, a convicted child molester, that would be helpful, please contact us at 805.538.8753. Please also visit Tommy’s Justiceforthomas.comwebsite Please join us at the Vigil to honor Tommy and support our quest of justice.

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As a tenant, if any of those items are missing or broken in a unit, you should put in a formal request with the landlord in writing. You should also document the condition of the unit beforehand with time-stamped photographs. “The request should be dated, and the tenant should keep a copy for their records,” Barclay said.

HEALTH AND SAFETY

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BY PETER JOHNSON Tenant tips DILAPIDATED Local legalhavetenantshousing.ofoftenstudentscollegearethevictimssubstandardButalsorightsandrecourses. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CITY OF SLO TENANT TIPS continued page 20 Renting can be stressful in San Luis Obispo, but one key to success is to know your rights GUIDESTUDENT’22 SHOW YOUR SCHOOL ID THROUGH RECEIVE 10% OFF YOUR PURCHASE SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 Discount home goods & furniture 2790 Broad St, San Luis Obispo Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm hfhrestoresloco| | Special Edition New Times Ad 9.3.22 FINAL.pdf 5 8/29/2022 11:34:03 AM

F or all of the beauty and romance of living in San Luis Obispo, being a renter in town can sometimes feel like an unpleasant struggle. Whether it’s getting hit with an increase to your already high rent, wondering if you’ll just have to live with that leaky ceiling or broken heater, or not knowing why you never got your security deposit back, many SLO renters— including college students—encounter stressful housing challenges. But remember: Tenants have rights, and California has some of the strongest tenant protections in the country. New Times reached out to Stephanie Barclay, legal director at the SLO Legal Assistance Foundation, to ask about the most common predicaments that student renters face and her advice on how to navigate them. Barclay said that the SLO Legal Assistance Foundation gets “a lot of calls” from Cal Poly and Cuesta College students, and the most frequent complaints she hears are about rent increases and housing habitability. On both of those fronts, there are legal standards and rules that apply.

Barclay said. “This means things like doors and windows that properly close; plumbing, gas, and heating facilities maintained in good working order; hot and cold running water; safe electrical wiring; common areas and areas in control of landlord kept free from garbage and pests; and safely maintained floors, stairways, and railings. Landlords are also required to provide smoke detectors in all residential units.”

If the landlord has not responded or fixed the health and safety issue in 30 days (or fewer days if it’s urgent), the tenant can take initiative to address the problem— like hire a plumber or go to the hardware store—and deduct that cost from their next rent check or, in serious cases, sue the landlord in small claims court. “The ‘repair and deduct’ and rent withholding remedies are risky,” Barclay noted, “and we do not recommend that a tenant do either of those without speaking with an attorney.”

“Landlords are required to keep rental premises in a safe and ‘habitable’ condition,”

It’s important to also understand the difference between unsafe and illegally substandard housing conditions and shabby but still-legal housing conditions, Barclay said. A landlord, for example, legally doesn’t have to replace carpets, repaint a unit, or update home appliances—unless there is a health and safety“Landlordshazard.are not required to keep the unit in an aesthetically pleasing state,” she said. “Problems that are caused by the tenant (or their guests) are also not the landlord’s responsibility to address. For example, if mold is caused by the tenant leaving damp belongings out … the landlord wouldn’t be responsible for addressing the mold. But if the mold is caused by some structural problem with the unit … then the landlord would be responsible for addressing the mold in that case.”

RAISING RENT Landlords are allowed to raise rents, but those rent increases must fit within certain legal parameters, which depend on what kind of unit you live in. A 2019 state law set specific guardrails for rent increases in most apartment buildings, triplexes, duplexes that aren’t owneroccupied, and mobile homes, Barclay said. The law does not apply to single-family houses.“Ifatenant is protected by [the 2019 law], the most their rent can go up over any 12-month period is 5 percent plus the change in cost of living over the past year,

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Reporting housing violations

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During the move-out process, tenants and landlords sometimes clash over the security deposit—the lump sum of money paid to the landlord before move-in to cover any damage caused by renters during their tenancy. As with unsafe housing conditions and rent increases, specific laws regulate how a security deposit can be handled by a landlord.Landlords may deduct from a security deposit to cover costs to repair damage that’s beyond reasonable wear and tear, to clean the unit only to make it as clean as it was when the tenant first moved in, and to recover any unpaid rent. A tenant is entitled to an itemized list of those deductions.

Landlords are required by law to maintain safe and habitable rental units. If a landlord is refusing to fix a health and safety issue in your home or apartment, contact the city of San Luis Obispo for help with enforcement. The city offers free rental inspections for tenants or landlords concerned about the safety of their housing. The city enforcement line is (805) 594-8188 and email is code@slocity.org. The SLO Legal Assistance Foundation, a local nonprofit, can provide legal guidance to renters and can be reached at (805) 543-5140.

Barclay advised tenants to keep good records, including their email and text threads with their landlord. She also encouraged tenants to hold a professional tone and try to work in good faith with their landlord as much as possible.

TENANT TIPS from page 18

SECURITY DEPOSITS

If your landlord is raising the rent, make sure to check the law—called the Tenant Protection Act of 2019—to verify that the increase is within the legal bounds. If it is, you’re likely stuck with the higher rent, as the city of SLO does not have local rental control.

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“A landlord may not make tenants pay for painting, new carpets, or curtains unless they are damaged beyond ordinary and reasonable wear and tear,” Barclay said. “And the landlord cannot use the tenant’s security deposit to repair problems that existed in the unit before the tenant moved in.”

“It is always best to try to work things out cooperatively and amicably. It is also good to have things in writing, in case a tenant needs to show, for example, that they notified their landlord about a problem with the unit that needed to be addressed,” she said. “If a landlord refuses to address serious problems with the unit, an attorney may be able to help advocate for the tenant or educate a landlord about their legal responsibilities, but that should be the last resort.” ∆ Assistant Editor Peter Johnson can be reached at pjohnson@newtimesslo.com.

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Frozen fruit is also nice to have in the freezer because it lasts longer than fresh fruit and it’s cheaper than buying fresh produce.

LUNCH Frozen fried rice with veggies (30 minutes)

M y Sundays are filled with chopping, sizzling, and—of course—loud house music bumping throughout my home. My roommates can attest to the organized chaos that is our kitchen for a few hours during the day.

• Skippy All Natural Super Chunk peanut butter (40 oz): $5.99 (Target)

• Frozen vegetable fried rice (16 oz): $2.49 (Trader Joe’s)

• Eggs (optional)

I choose to meal prep not to try to be a healthier individual but because I hate cooking for myself after long days, and I don’t want to spend money eating out all of the time. Meal prepping makes sure I eat well-balanced meals— instead of snacking my way through my refrigerator.Asacollege student or recent graduate, it can be really challenging to find healthy(-ish) meals that don’t break the budget, or that don’t require too much equipment, time, and effort when it comes to preparing food. In my cooking journey, I’ve found several recipes that require only one pot, and it’s been a game-changer. They’re delicious, budget-friendly, easy to change or ingredient-swap, and require minimal cleanup.

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BREAKFAST Overnight oats (about 10 minutes)

• The Very Cherry Berry Blend (frozen): $2.99 (Trader Joe’s)

• Oat beverage (one quart): $2.29 (Trader Joe’s) I can’t eat right away in the morning, so overnight oats is my savior because I get a filling breakfast to-go. Overnight oats require no cooking utensils, only a storage container like a Mason jar. In the container, pour in a 1/2 cup of rolled oats. Add frozen fruit or berries (any kind you enjoy), and a tablespoon of peanut or almond butter. If you have a nut allergy, Greek yogurt is a good substitute because it still gives that creaminess and added protein. From there, pour in one cup of milk or water, mix it with a spoon, and top it off with a honey drizzle and sliced banana. Rolled oats are usually affordable at any grocery store if you stick to the generic brands.

• Sliced white mushrooms: $2.99 (Trader Joe’s)

• Oil, olive and/or sesame Optional: Sriracha, soy sauce, garlic powder, onion powder, ginger powder, chili oil to taste Fried rice is a great way to use produce before it spoils. This requires one large pan for cooking, a knife and cutting board, and possibly a bowl to hold the dicedStartveggies.byheating up the pan with about 2 tablespoons of olive oil. I like eggs in my fried rice, so I’ll crack two eggs in the pan and scramble them for about five minutes. Once the eggs are done, I’ll remove them from the pan and add more oil—I use sesame oil for this round. If you want to add more protein, use ground turkey or chicken, or tofu, depending on your preference. Ground meat tends to be cheaper than chicken breasts or cut meat, and it takes less effort to prepare. Add the meat to the pan and season it to your liking. For a more Asian flare, I used a few tablespoons of Sriracha and soy sauce, two teaspoons of

• Ground turkey: $2.79 (Trader Joe’s)

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• Good and Gather old fashioned oats: $2.69 (Target)

• Broccoli slaw blend: $1.99 (Trader Joe;s)

• Lime: $0.55 (Trader Joe’s)

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DINNER Creamy pesto pasta with chickpeas and broccoli (25 minutes)

• Garbanzo beans (chickpeas): $0.89 (Trader Joe’s)

Prep Along with Budget Bytes (budgetbytes.com), the Mealime app (mealime.com) is another great resource to find cost-effective recipes. Like anything new, cooking will take experimentation and tweaks to find exactly what you like. Take time,

• Pesto alla Genovese basil pesto: $2.69 (Trader Joe’s)

The full recipe can be found on Budget Bytes—a website I recommend because it’s full of affordable, easy, one-pot meal options. This pasta dish also requires butter, garlic, onion, milk, cream cheese, pasta, chicken, and chicken broth. Start with one large pan and heat 2 tablespoons of butter or olive oil with half a chopped onion and a clove of garlic. The recipe says to add diced raw, chicken, but because I’m lazy I’ll use a can of chickpeas instead. It takes less time and it’s cost-effective; at Trader Joe’s a can of chickpeas costs 89 cents whereas chicken breasts cost $4.49 per pound. Frozen chicken breast is another cheaper option if you want an animal-based protein. Sauté the chickpeas with the onion, oil, and garlic for about two minutes, and then add 1 1/2 cups of uncooked pasta and 1 1/2 cups of chicken broth to the mix and let that come to a boil. Instead of buying chicken broth, get chicken bouillon—dehydrated chicken stock—and use hot water to mix it. Chicken bouillon is much cheaper, tastes similar, and it lasts longer than cans or boxes of broth. After most of the broth has been absorbed, add a cup of any milk, 1/3 cup of pesto, 1/4 cup of grated Parmesan cheese, and 3 to 4 tablespoons of cream cheese. I don’t usually use cream cheese often enough to purchase it, so I use plain Greek yogurt instead. Mix ingredients well and the pasta will get a creamy, Alfredo-like texture. I add broccoli, spinach, and red pepper flakes, but those are optional. These measurements give me five days’ worth of food, but the recipe can be adjusted for fewer servings. ∆

garlic powder, onion powder, and ginger powder, and a little chili oil (red chili flakes also work if you want more spice).

• Knorr chicken bouillon cubes: $1.19 (Target)

• Penne pasta: $0.99 (Trader Joe’s)

Let the ground meat cook until it’s gray (not browned) and add in your frozen fried rice. I use Trader Joe’s frozen vegetable fried rice and let that sizzle in the pan. After mixing for a few minutes, I’ll add my veggies. This week I had mushrooms and a Trader Joe’s broccoli slaw mix. Add the scrambled eggs, squeeze one lime over the top, mix thoroughly, and taste periodically to see if it needs anything.

ONE POT from page 22 GUIDESTUDENT’22

• Oat beverage (one quart): $2.29 (Trader Joe’s)

• White onion: $0.79 (Trader Joe’s)

• Good and Gather plain cream cheese: $1.99 (Target)

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• Grated Parmesan cheese: $4.49 (Trader Joe’s)

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“I don’t really know anything. Don’t let your lack of experience stop you from loving something. I don’t have any sort of intuition,” he said. “I just love the process, and I loved doing this. If you don’t love it anymore, keep changing it. Trust the process.” ∆

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C al Poly Architecture major Adam Harris’ wooden lamp appears unassuming at first—a curious achievement given that it resembles a chic lightsaber that’s 6 feet tall when fully assembled. Harris’ red oak creation beat out more than 200 other woodwork products last year to win Cal Poly’s Vellum 18 annual furniture competition. “It was an incredible atmosphere. I personally haven’t seen anything like it. We were all coming out of COVID, so we were very socially deprived. Just the buzz and the rush that you get looking at everyone standing by their piece,” he said. “No one was overly proud but they were happy and relieved. They were embracing the creative atmosphere that everyone was bathing in.” Hosted every fall by the College of Architecture and Environmental Design and the San Luis Obispo firm Vellum Design Build, the competition has been a Cal Poly crowd-puller since its 2004 debut. While students get to flex their woodworking and design skills, and showcase some of their more outlandish ideas, the winner gets to visit Milan, Italy, for the Salone del Mobile and Design Week—the largest furniture fair in the world. In 2021, Harris got the chance to do so as the winner. Now the school is gearing up to host the 2022 contest in November. Then a third-year student, Harris told New Times that it was unusual for students like him to participate in the furniture competition. Fourth- or fifth-year students were typical participants and went home with the rewards. Harris and some of the other third years were instructed to make lamps for a class assignment, which their professor also encouraged to be Vellum submissions. Harris’ expectations were low when it came to the competition. “Usually when it comes to these design programs, you come up with a design, workshop it, and you bring it to your professor and they’ll say if they like it,” he said with a laugh. “For this, the majority of my peers got the OK from my professor on or about the first or third attempt. For me and one other student, it took about seven attempts.”But his persistence paid off. A project visit to Palm Springs brought Harris up close to an oddly shaped mailbox, and inspiration hit. The result was his futuristic lamp called Wish. The lamp is two tall bands of red oak intercrossed and pinned at the center with knobs that control the light setting. One of the two wooden poles is Y-shaped at the base. Harris said the initial iteration of the design saw the other pole cross into that“Originally,Y-opening.the idea was that they [the legs] were going to cross … more like a chicken foot. So we kept calling it a chicken wishbone. Then it sure didn’t look like a wishbone anymore, but I thought the name was funny, so I kept it,” he said. Over 2 1/2 weeks, Harris constructed Wish using a single piece of wood and molded it using a method called steam bending. The red oak was put under high pressure, heat, and moisture that eventually broke down the lignin polymer that binds wood fibers together. Essentially, the steam melts the wood superficially and allows reforming. Wish is one of a kind and now lives in Harris’ family living room in Los Angeles County’s Sierra Madre. Harris remembers the electrifying atmosphere at last year’s Vellum competition in the Architecture Building. It was packed with competitors, their furniture, and well-wishers, but Harris wasn’t around for the ending. “I actually wasn’t there to accept the award because I didn’t think I’d win anything! The new Marvel movie had just come out and my friends and I were gonna see it,” he said. “In the middle of the movie, my phone was buzzing and I see it’s my friend, and they say I’ve won. I’m on the floor shaking. They actually left the competition, picked me up from the movies, and drove me all the way back.” Friendships like those played a big role in his victory, Harris said. He credited his friends and peers in his program for feedback and guidance at all hours of the day, as the group would spend long hours constructing their ideas for the competition. Like most good friendships, their humor kept Harris humble after his Vellum win. Wish still had to be graded for his final class assignment. The grade doled out by Lecturer Brent Freeby to the winner? An A-minus. “My friends tease me for it. I thought it was kinda cheeky. But he’s an amazing professor, I can’t think of him in better regards. Coming out of COVID, all of us were very shy, nervous, and uncertain about things. He broke down all those barriers and made us all feel comfortable,” he said. For new competitors in this year’s furniture building competition, Harris’ advice is almost Socratic.

The Cal Poly College of Architecture and Environmental Design hasn’t nailed down a date yet for the 2022 Vellum competition. Keep an eye out for more details and catch up on previous years’ installments at exhibitions/vellum.architecture.calpoly.edu/current/

Reach Staff Writer Bulbul Rajagopal at brajagopal@newtimesslo.com.

MASTER CONSTRUCTOR Adam Harris constructs his award-winning lamp called Wish, which he made using steam-bending techniques.

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Cuesta College will prepare students for jobs in airplane maintenance fields starting in 2023

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“San Luis Obispo is a pretty aerospacecentric community with Cal Poly here, and a lot of people don’t realize drone development, all these little mom-andpop aerospace companies, they all need technical people to work on the devices that they build, create, and maintain,” Borgsmiller said. “So we just kind of heard we realized our grumblings weren’t unique to ourselves. And so we started talking to Cuesta about putting a program together.”

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The Cuesta program has been in the works for five years after industry officials like Borgsmiller realized the need was growing for technicians in the aerospace industry. According to Boeing’s 2022 Pilot and Technician Forecast, nearly 610,000 new maintenance technicians will be needed to maintain the global commercial fleet over the next 20 years. Borgsmiller then reached out to Cuesta College Superintendent Jill Stearns about creating a new program to address the shortage issue. “When I brought the request from Mr. Borgsmiller to the team at Cuesta College, the first step was to research the employment opportunity for aviation maintenance technicians locally, statewide, and nationally,” Stearns said via email. “Employment of technicians includes operations related to commercial flight, private aviation, drones, and U.S. government positions. There is a large and growing need for licensed aviation maintenance technicians.”Accordingto the Bureau of Labor Statistics, aircraft mechanics’ and service technicians’ employment is projected to grow by 12 percent, and avionics technicians’ employment is projected to grow by 10 percent—and both roles are expected to outpace employment levels for all other occupations in the U.S. by 8 percent.

D rive south over the Cuesta Grade and you’ll see a billboard advertising a class at Cuesta College like none other. Meet the brand new aviation maintenance technician program. Starting in January 2023, the program is designed for students interested in the aviation industry to get their airframe and powerplant mechanics certifications, commonly known as the A&P certificate. The certification is required for anyone looking to become a licensed aviation maintenance technician. In order to be certified, students must take the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) aircraft mechanic oral, practical, and written tests, which require students to either have 18 months of practical experience or to have graduated from one of the 19 FAA approved Aviation Maintenance Technician schools in California. “The A&P license is one of the few paths [where] you don’t need to go to a four-year school and you don’t need to move away. If this program is here, you can get this license, and once you have that license, you are pretty much employable in a variety of industries, even aerospace and beyond. No matter where you go. You’re just always going to find a job if you have that FAA license,” said Bill Borgsmiller, president and CEO of ACI Jet.

LEARNING THE ROPES Cuesta College is drumming up interest in its new aviation maintenance technician program, where students will get hands-on experience working on a variety of aircraft. Community ed courses began Sept. 6, and the certificate program begins January 2023. CUESTA A&P continued page 30

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But creating a brand new aviation maintenance technician program wasn’t cheap. According to Stearns, it took nearly $2 million to get the program off the“Cuestaground.College received very substantial support from ACI Jet and SLO County Board of Supervisors, each of whom provided $500,000 to launch the program. Additionally, Cuesta College is investing federal Title V grant funds received for this purpose and using career education funding, including Strong Workforce [program] and Perkins [federal grant], to cover the start-up and ongoing costs of the program,” she said. Stearns added that Cuesta has also applied for an FAA grant to help fund the program.Oncethe 18-month program launches in January 2023, it will allow a cohort of 25 students based on a first come, first served basis to work on decommissioned aircrafts at ACI Jet’s hangar in the San Luis Obispo Airport. “Some of the things that they’ll be working on is pulling components apart into the parts, being able to sort of work and troubleshoot the kinds of issues that might be occurring when something isn’t running properly or isn’t working effectively,” said Dr. Oscar Ramos, dean of instruction at Cuesta College. “So we’re basically aligning our curriculum with the FAA [to] ensure that we’re meeting all the objectives so when they go to the test they’re able to be successful.” The program isn’t like your typical college class. Classes will take place Monday through Thursday for around six hours and will be split into two parts— 30-minute classroom sessions followed by lab periods where students will be able to have handson experience working on a variety of aircrafts. For now, ACI Jet and Cuesta College procured several aircrafts for students to work on, including a Cessna Citation jet, a Beechcraft King Air, and a Ryan Navion. Borgsmiller said they were still looking for a Cessna 172 Skyhawk and a helicopter.Whilethe first cohort of the aviation maintenance technician program will only be accepting 25 students, Stearns said that the start date of the next cohort is still being determined. While there are no prerequisites for the program, Cuesta College is currently offering a series of five-week classes this semester to garner interest for the aviation maintenance technician program.Thefirst set of these classes was scheduled to begin on Sept. 6 with more than 80 students registered, Ramon said. In addition to these courses, he said that Cuesta has also been working with other high schools and community groups to generate interest in the program. “So we have put [together] these community ed courses that we’re running twice a week, so that people can sign up and say, ‘Hey, am I interested in being an aviation maintenance tech? Maybe I am, maybe I’m not. What does it entail?’” Ramon said. “So what we’re doing is creating an opportunity for students to see what they would potentially be doing and working on before they actually sign up for the [class].” ∆ Staff Writer Shwetha Sundarrajan can be reached at shwetha@newtimesslo.com.

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Don’t barf on your neighbor’s lawn Just don’t. In fact, if you’re stumbling around drunk trying to figure out where your house is or where your friend’s house is, stop. Sit on the curb. Call someone who cares about you. Have them pick you up. Ask around. Almost every local has a story about some drunk-ass college kid walking in their front door and screaming, “Where’s my friend Joey. Joey! I know you’re in here!” He’s not. You’ve got the wrong house, jackass. If you’re the unlucky sap who gets the “call” to pick up Drunky McDrunkerpants, please be sober. Yes, California has a “ 911 Good Samaritan Law ” (AB 472) that protects from prosecution under-aged drinkers seeking help for someone incapacitated … to a point!Obviously, if your friend is passed out drunk or high and may be in distress but you’re underage and have been drinking too and don’t want to get in trouble, you must call 911 anyway, moron. But the Good Samaritan Law won’t help you if you supplied or sold the drugs, or forcibly administered them (Roofie, anyone?), or if you’re driving (What’s wrong with you? Jesus!), or if you’re on parole or probation (Starting young, eh?). be you BE YOU

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Rick Hampton Teaching Lessons begin Thursday, 15 September 2022 7:30-9:30 p.m. SLO Guild Hall, 2280 Broad Street San Luis Obispo 12 Weeks of instruction, and you’ll be able to dance anywhere in the world the Social Square Dance (SSD) program is offered. For more information, please email CentralCoastSD@currently.com or visit SquareDanceCentralCoast.com/classes

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“American Dream” that’s really a lifetime of servitude made slightly less horrible by your ability to buy a new BMW every few years and a few tropical vacations slathered in expensive cocktails. Oh, and your sweet 80-inch TV. Numb that mind! Since you’re here, and since college will be the last chance for you to be an irresponsible, self-centered tool before you face the music of “real life,” let’s get a few things straight. Nobody who lives in SLO County likes you. We all think you’re entitled, clueless fools living off mommy and daddy’s dime. Oh sure, we’ll smile and appreciate the “energy” and economic boost you bring to the area … until you piss us off. Then we’ll get vindictive on your asses. We’ll have the cops crawling all over your rundown, overpriced, outof-code rental faster than you can say, “noise ordinance.” So, let’s start with some basics.

The Central Coast Square Dance Association and the City of San Luis Obispo Recreation Department Present Want to get out and have fun and dance? No experience necessary. No complicated steps. Just fun and good times. No dress code. Wide variety of music. Something for everyone. Partners are welcome but no partner needed! Can’t dance? Don’t worry, all you need are two left feet. New dancers must be 16 years old or older.

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How about you all just learn your limit, which is super low because you’re a little baby drinker. Don’t worry. You’ll eventually pickle your liver over the course of your long, dreary career. It’s not a race, pre-gamer. Here are a few other basics: Bring your freaking trashcans in after collection day. Don’t let them sit on the curb for days on end. And guess what? Your ratty couch isn’t supposed to be on your front porch (or lawn or roof). There are actual laws against that, and after you’ve pissed off your neighbor by barfing on her lawn, you can bet your ass she’ll be reporting you every time you fart too loud.And hey, newsflash! Locals want to park, too, and in some neighborhoods that’s pretty near impossible, in part because some of you cheap bastards don’t want to pay for a campus parking pass, so you park your super-safe Volvo (“Thanks for nothing, mom and dad! I wanted a Mustang.”) in an already crowded neighborhood by campus and walk in. Jesus H. Christ! Take the freaking bus ! It’s free with your college ID. Are you driving around town? Guess what, Speed Racer, you’re not a demon on wheels, and you don’t know where the hell you’re going. Learn the oneway streets downtown. Look out for pedestrians. If you’re walking, obey the laws. Don’t cross on a red light or jaywalk.

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There might be an idiot college kid driving too fast who will hit and kill you. Also, don’t walk drunk on the railroad tracks near campus. You’ll be killed. Here’s another thing, and it’s important: The police have nothing better to do than to hassle you. Sure, they might have to hassle a homeless person or pull over a soccer mom who failed to use her turn signal once in a while, but they have a lot of time to follow up on that noise complaint, to stop a stumbling kid for a drunk-in-public check, or to pull you over for riding your bike at night without a light (Seriously, get a light. You’re invisible!). Finally, as a collegiate bonus note, it’s time for you to realize that the Kahoot! theme song is the most annoying collection of organized sounds in the universe, and it must die. If you must use Kahoot! in your Comms presentation, turn the sound down … or off. It’s literally horrible, and its “composer” Alf Inge Wang—a professor in the Norwegian University of Science and Tech’s Department of Computer Science— should be forbidden from ever making “music” again. OK, good luck out there, and stay off my damn lawn ! ∆ The Shredder is already fed up. Send your whiny complaints to shredder@ newtimesslo.com.

CONTRA DANCE No partner needed, come solo or with a group of friends. Second Saturday of every month, 6:30-10 p.m. through Oct. 8 $10. cccds.org. Odd Fellows Hall, 520 Dana St., San Luis Obispo.

LIVE MUSIC FROM GUITAR WIZ BILLY FOPPIANO AND MAD DOG Join “Guitar Wiz” Billy Foppiano and his trusty side kick Mad Dog for a mix of blues, R&B, and more. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. 805-544-2100. Bon Temps Creole Cafe, 1819 Osos Street, San Luis Obispo, bontempscreolecafe.com/index.htm.

LISTENING AS RITUAL Group listening sessions with musician/musicologist Ben Gerstein. Explore remarkable recordings of world music, nature field recording, western classical and contemporary, and jazz, sharing and discussing inspiration and perspectives on the expressive power of peoples, cultures, animals and habitats through sonic experience. Every other Monday, 7-8:15 p.m. $10-$15 donation. 805-305-1229. leftcoastartstudio.com/. Left Coast Art Studio, 1188 Los Osos Valley Rd., Los Osos.

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DOWNTOWN SLO FARMERS MARKET Thursdays, 6-9 p.m. Downtown SLO, Multiple locations, San Luis Obispo. SLO FARMERS MARKET Hosts more than 60 vendors. Saturdays, 8-10:45 a.m. World Market Parking Lot, 325 Madonna Rd., San Luis Obispo.

The Santa Maria chapter of the Model A Ford Club hosts its annual car show on Saturday, Sept. 10, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., at the Orcutt Union Plaza. The family-friendly event features various models of cars, as well as craft vendors and raffle opportunities. Visit santamariamodelaclub.com for more info. The Orcutt Union Plaza is located at 201 S. Broadway, Orcutt. —C.W. orevents@newtimesslo.comtosubmitonline.

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SOLVANG DANISH DAYS California’s premier Danish heritage festival, Solvang Danish Days, returns this year with a three-day, in-person event line-up. Celebrate Solvang’s unique heritage with authentic Danish food, music, folk dancing, parades, entertainment, and family-friendly experiences throughout Solvang village. Sept. 16-18, 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Varies. 877-327-2656. solvangdanishdays.org/. Downtown Solvang, Citywide, Solvang.

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TRUTH ABOUT SEAFOOD LIVE Part of the “Saturday in the Park” Summer Concert Series. Sept. 10, 6:30 p.m. Atascadero Lake Park, 9305 Pismo Ave., Atascadero. VERONICA STREET LIVE Rock out to the soulful sound of rock band Veronica Street. Sept. 10, 5-7 p.m. Free. 805-460-6252. colonymarketanddeli.com. Colony Market and Deli, 6040 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

CAT POWER: COVERS TOUR All ages welcome. Sept. 10, 8 p.m. fremontslo.com. The Fremont Theater, 1035 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-546-8600.

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NEXT LIFE LIVE AT RAGGED POINT INN Next Life plays contemporary classic rock that is catchy and groove-oriented. Think Petty meets Floyd, Zeppelin, and My Morning Jacket. Sept. 11, 12-4 p.m. 805-215-9316. Ragged Point Inn, 19019 Highway 1, Ragged Point, raggedpointinn.com.

SONGWRITERS AT PLAY FEATURES JESSE LOREN STRICKMAN AND THE ATELIERS San Francisco Bay Area singer-songwriter Jesse Loren Strickman is known for potent lyrics and powerful, acoustic-based music. Sept. 17, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Free. 805-204-6821. stevekey.com/events. Sculpterra Winery, 5015 Linne Rd., Paso Robles.

INTERPOL AND SPOON SUPPORT: GOON SAX This fall, Interpol and Spoon will join forces for the “Lights, Camera, Factions” tour, a coast-to-coast run of North American co-headline dates that will also feature openers The Goon Sax, making it a Matador Records triple bill. Sept. 14, 6 p.m. $39.50- $55. Rd.,Roblesvinaroblesamphitheatre.com.805-286-3680.VinaAmphitheatre,3800MillPasoRobles.

SONYA HELLER New York’s Sonya Heller cooks up her jazz-inflected vocals and folk roots. Special guests include Bob Benjamin and Steve Key. Sept. 13, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. 805-204-6821. stevekey.com/events. Schooners, 171 North Ocean Ave, Cayucos. TRIBUTE TO BONNIE RAITT AND JACKSON BROWNE Folk, blues, country, rock, and pop. Songwriters at Play celebrates the music of Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne. The performers: Aireene Espiritu, Dillon Vanders, Rob Kimball, Ynana Rose, Blythe Berg, Nick Brittan, Katie Chappell, Kevin Sean, and The Dennis and Laura Show. Sept. 11, 2-4:30 p.m. $25. 805-204-6821. stevekey.com/events. Cambria Center for the Arts Theatre, 1350 Main St., Cambria. NORTH SLO COUNTY BANDA MS DE SERGIO LIZÁRRAGA Part of the Gracias a ti Tour. Enjoy the band’s signature harmonizing brass and percussion, acoustic elements, and authentic norteño music. Sept. 11, 6:30 p.m. $75-$160. 805286-3680. vinaroblesamphitheatre.com. Vina Robles Amphitheatre, 3800 Mill Rd., Paso Robles.

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CHAMBER MUSIC WITH SCOTT YOO Features a handful of musical selections. Visit site for more info. Sept. 11, noon Tickets start at $35. 805-7813009. festivalmozaic.org. Cuesta College Cultural and Performing Arts Center, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo.

SUMMER SUNSET SESSIONS Enjoy live music under the moon and stars at High Camp. More information and music lineup online. Saturdays, 5-8 p.m. Free; $25 tastings available. 805-467-9448. highcampwines.com. High Camp Wines, 3439 Ranchita Canyon Road, San Miguel.

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT Features Scott Yoo, violin, Maurycy Banaszek, viola, Robert deMaine, cello, and Orion Weiss, piano. Sept. 11, 2-4 p.m. Tickets start at $35. 805-781-3009. festivalmozaic.org. Cuesta College Cultural and Performing Arts Center, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo.

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PAINT AND SIP AT CAVA ROBLES Please join ArtSocial 805 for an afternoon of painting while sipping a glass of wine at Cava Robles. Sept. 10, 3-5 p.m. Cava Robles Resort, 3800 Golden Hill Rd., Paso Robles, 805-242-4700.

SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY DAMON CASTILLO BAND: LIVE AT THE LIGHTHOUSE Enjoy some of the Central Coast’s very finest musical talent performing on the area’s most spectacular stage, perched high atop the blue Pacific Ocean. Sept. 10, 2-5:30 p.m. my805tix.com. Point San Luis Lighthouse, 1 Lighthouse Rd., Avila Beach. ∆

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FRIDAY DJ SERIES Features different DJ each Friday. Presented by Traffic Records. Fridays, 6-9 p.m. Ancient Owl Beer Garden, 6090 El Camino Real, suite C, Atascadero, 805-460-6042, ancientowlbeergarden.com.

EASTON EVERETT SOLO Enjoy some indie-acoustic, live music. Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 p.m. eastoneverett. com. Big Sky Cafe, 1121 Broad Street, San Luis Obispo, (805)5455401. LIVE MUSIC AT RAGTAG WINE CO. Enjoy live music by local favorites. Wine available by the flight, glass, or bottle. Thursdays-Saturdays, 6-9 p.m. Ragtag Wine Co., 779 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, ragtagwineco.com.805-439-0774,

Call for more details. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m. 805-904-6615. Oak Park Christian Church, 386 N Oak Park Blvd., Grover Beach. WEEKLY WATER SAFETY LESSONS Facility advertised as open and safe. Give the office a call to register over the phone. Mondays-Fridays $160-$190. 805-481-6399. 5 Cities Swim School, 425 Traffic Way, Arroyo Grande, 5citiesswimschool.com.

SUITE TREATS: RUSSIAN AND FRENCH MASTERWORKS Maestro Magie leads the orchestra in two charming and magical suites. Also featuring cellist Hilary Clark as soloist. Sept. 11, 3 p.m. my805tix.com. Mission San Miguel Arcángel, 775 Mission St., San Miguel.

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FRIDAY TWILIGHT CONCERTS AT HARMONY CELLARS Enjoy live music every Friday this summer. This season’s lineup is an eclectic mix of solo artists, dynamic duos, and bands. Wine for purchase. Food trucks on select Fridays. Fridays, 5-7 p.m. through Sept. 9 Varies by concert. 805-927-1625. harmonycellars.com. Harmony Cellars, 3255 Harmony Valley Rd., P.O. Box 2502, Harmony.

SOIREE SENIOR DANCE (AGES 55 AND OVER) Features The Big Sirs of Swing. Visit site for more tickets and more info. Sept. 15, 4-6 p.m. $16-$20. 805-5411400. my805tix.com. San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, 3450 Dairy Creek Rd., San Luis Obispo. SUNDAY MUSIC AT RAGTAG WINE CO. Enjoy live music by local favorites. Wine available by the flight, glass, or bottle. Sundays, 4-7 p.m. Ragtag Wine Co., 779 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, 805-439-0774, ragtagwineco.com.

NOTABLE DINNER: BRAHMS QUARTET Join Scott Yoo for a musical exploration of Brahms’s Piano Quartet in A major. During the evening you will learn about the composer, hear curated performances, and gain insight into the piece. The evening will conclude with a gourmet threecourse dinner by Knife and Fork. Sept. 10, 5:30-9:30 p.m. $200. 805-781-3009. festivalmozaic.org. Halter Ranch Vineyard, 8910 Adelaida Road, Paso Robles.

Enjoy DAOU wines and exquisite cuisine on an exceptional waterfront property. Sept. 9, 5:30 p.m. my805tix.com. Morro Bay Boatyard, 261 Main St., Morro Bay. MORRO BAY MAIN STREET FARMERS MARKET Get fresh and veggies, fruit, baked goods, sweets, and handmade artisan crafts. Come have some fun with your local farmers and artisans and enjoy delicious eats while enjoying the fresh breeze of Morro Bay. Saturdays, 2:30-5:30 p.m. through May 31 Varies. 805-824-7383. morrobayfarmersmarket.com. Morro Bay Main Street Farmers Market, Main Street and Morro Bay Blvd., Morro Bay. NORTH SLO COUNTY ART, WINE, BREW TOUR FEATURING COLONY MASH BREWING AND NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER MAZ GHANI Specs by Kyla will be pouring locally crafted beer by Colony Mash Brewing and featuring an art show by Maz Ghani, zooming in on his modern black and white floral photography. Sept. 9, 5:30-8 p.m. $20. 805-460-7575. atascaderochamber.org. Specs by Kyla, 5808 Traffic Way, Atascadero. A BEE’S LIFE AT CASS WINERY Experience the ancient magic of beekeeping. From hive science to honey extractions, your group will learn the latest buzz about these important pollinators. Sept. 10, 10 a.m.-noon $110 per person. my805tix.com. Cass Winery and Vineyard, 7350 Linne Rd., Paso Robles. BRUNCH IS BACK Celebrate the second Sunday of the month with brunch. Enjoy a two-hour cruise on the waterfront. Features fresh coffee, pastries, and more. Second Sunday of every month, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $50. 805772-2128. chabliscruises.com. Chablis Cruises, 1205 Embarcadero, Morro Bay. NORTH COUNTY VETERANS’ 9/11 POKER RUN Shine up your motorcycle or car and join us in honoring Sept. 11 for all veterans and supporters. Go on the Poker Run or join us at our Classic Car Show, with a giant raffle and tri-tip barbecue. Sept. 11, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Free for show and shine; $40 ride entrance fee. 805-975-3055. American Legion Post 50, 240 Scott St., Paso Robles. NOTABLE DINNER: BRAHMS QUARTET AT HALTER RANCH Join Scott Yoo for an musical exploration of Brahms’s Piano Quartet. Throughout the evening you will learn about the composer, hear selections, and gain insight into the piece. The evening will conclude with a gourmet three-course dinner, complete with Halter Ranch award-winning wines. Sept. 10, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Tickets start at $200. 805-781-3009. festivalmozaic.org. Halter Ranch Vineyard, 8910 Adelaida Road, Paso Robles. PAINT AND PINTS Please join ArtSocial 805 at Barrell House, where you will have a int of your favorite beer or cider, while painting the “autumn gnome.” All painting materials provided, plus a pint. Sept. 14, 6-8 p.m. $50. Barrelhouse Brewing Co. Brewery and Gardens, 3055 Limestone Way, Paso Robles, 805-296-1128, barrelhousebrewing.com/.

SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY PISMO BEACH FARMERS MARKET Features various vendors selling their goods. Wednesdays, 4-7 p.m. Pismo Beach Farmers Market, Pismo Pier, Pismo Beach, 805. 773.4382.

NOTABLE INSIGHT: POULENC SONATA Join Scott Yoo as he presents a Notable Encounter Insight about Poulenc’s Sonata for cello and piano. In this informal, one-hour event, Scott and the musicians will discuss the history surrounding the pieces, the composers’ lives and musical style, and perform selections from the works. Sept. 9, 5:30-6 p.m. Tickets start at $25. 805-7813009. festivalmozaic.org. Trinity United Methodist Church, 490 Los Osos Valley Rd., Los Osos.

SAN LUIS OBISPO ARGENTINE TANGO AND WINE Not a class; not a practica; no critiques. All levels welcome. Come dance, drink some wine, and have a great time. Cover includes wine voucher. Sept. 10, 2-4 p.m. $20. nexusslo.com/ upcoming-events. Nexus SLO Ballroom D.C. (Inside the SLO Public Market), 3845 S. Higuera St. #B-1, San Luis Obispo, 805-904-7428.

NOTABLE SCHUMANNINSIGHT:ANDDVORAK n this informal, one-hour event, Scott Yoo and the musicians will discuss the history surrounding the featured pieces, and perform selections from the works. Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tickets start at $25. 805-781-3009. festivalmozaic.org. Trinity United Methodist Church, 490 Los Osos Valley Rd., Los Osos. OPEN MIC NIGHT Come join us each Wednesday for Open Mic Night in the downstairs dining area. Grab some friends and show off your talents. Food and drink service will be available. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Free. 805-995-3883. schoonerscayucos.com. Schooners, 171 North Ocean Ave, Cayucos.

CUESTA COLLEGE JAZZ FACULTY FALL CONCERT This annual treat features the renowned Cuesta Jazz Faculty. Known for their ability to put on a great show, you can help them to raise scholarship money just by buying a ticket. Sept. 9, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $25; $10 for students; $20 for seniors (ages 65 and over). tickets.cuesta.edu. Cuesta College Cultural and Performing Arts Center, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo. DRUM CIRCLE SING-A-LONG Limited to 20 drummers. Learn African music through drumming and song. ongoing Spirits of Africa Gallery, 570 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, spiritsofafricagallery.com/. DUELING PIANOS Felix and Fingers are well known dueling pianos bring life to the party. Through the night they will take request of songs and will interact with crowd. Doors open at 5 p.m. for food and drinks. Sept. 10, 7-9:30 p.m. $30. 805-541-1149. thesirenelchorro. com. Felix and Fingers are well known dueling pianos that bring life to the party. Throughout the night, they will take song requests and will interact with crowd. Sept. 10, 7-9:30 p.m. $30. 805-541-1149. thesirenelchorro. com. The Siren at El Chorro, 2990 Dairy Creek Rd., San Luis Obispo.

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COAST SLO COUNTY BRYNN ALBANESE: ONE-WOMAN-SHOW During the pandemic, Brynn created a One-Woman-Show using backing tracks and recordings of her own band in the living room of her Cambria home. Seeing that people were starving for live music, in person, she took to the streets, medians, yards, balconies, and driveways. Sept. 10, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Snowyalbanese-one-woman-show/.stbenslososos.org/events/brynn-St.Benedict’sChurch,2220EgretLn.,LosOsos,805-528-0654.

FESTIVAL Morro Bay Chamber invites the public to enjoy margaritas, avocados, music, and the best views in SLO County. Sept. 9, 3-9 p.m., Sept. 10, 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m. and Sept. 11, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. $25-$175. 805-772-4467. avomargfest.com/. Tidelands Park, 339 Embarcadero, Morro Bay.

FLAVOR PACKET WITH EASTON EVERETT AT PARRISH FAMILY VINEYARD Contemporary jazz. Sept. 11, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. eastoneverett.com. Parrish Family Vineyard, 3590 Adelaida Road, Paso Robles, 805-296-3027. FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERTS Wednesdays, 12-1 p.m. bigbigslo.com. Atascadero Lake Park, 9305 Pismo Ave., Atascadero.

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SONGWRITERS AT PLAY FEATURES DILLON VANDERS AND KATIE CHAPPELL Songwriters at Play hosts Paso’s Katie Chappell, and Dillon Vanders from Long Beach CA. “Chappell’s got a lilting voice and a fair bit of swagger,” wrote Glen Starkey of New Times. Special guests: Jess Goodlett and Taylor C. Lewis. Sept. 10, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Free. 805-204-6821. stevekey.com/ events. Sculpterra Winery, 5015 Linne Rd., Paso Robles.

LIVE MUSIC WITH GUITAR WIZ AT LUNADA GARDEN BISTRO “Guitar Wizard” Billy Foppiano plays a wide range of music, including blues, R&B, classic rock, and more. Second Sunday of every month, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 805-900-5444. Lunada Garden Bistro, 78 N. Ocean Ave., Cayucos.

WEIRD AL LIVE Sept. 15 Vina Robles Amphitheatre, 3800 Mill Rd., Paso Robles, vinaroblesamphitheatre.com.805-286-3680, SAN LUIS OBISPO

New Times: How would you describe a typical day in the life for you while writing Explorer’s End? And about how long did it take you to complete the novel?

Portland: Once I had a detailed outline, it was very simple to write the novel. Every evening at about 10 p.m., I would turn down the lights, put on a candle, brew coffee, and spend two to three hours writing. I found that writing a chapter a night resulted in chapters that were just the right length for a casual reader. After about 30 days, I had a ﬁrst draft, which I sat on for almost a year. I came back and read the draft with fresh eyes and it was something I was happy with.

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INKLINGS IN INK Each chapter of Explorer’s End features a unique illustration by artist Raven Osse. This artwork depicts a creature from the planet of Helios, one of the book’s settings.

The San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre presents its production of Around the World in 80 Days which premieres on Friday, Sept. 9. The show is scheduled to run through Sunday, Sept. 25, with performances every Thursday through Saturday at 7p.m., and Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 2 Thisp.m.theatrical adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic adventure novel follows Phileas Fogg, who gambles his fortune on a wager to circle the globe in 80 days. Tickets to the show range from $20 to $38. For more info, call (805) 786-2440 or visit slorep. org. The San Luis Repertory Theatre is located at 888 Morro St., San Luis Obispo. Dana Adobe celebrates Captain’s Luau with live performances and storytelling

The plot of Explorer’s End follows an unlikely hero on a quest to discover the origin of the galaxy, “and protect it at all costs,” according to the book’s synopsis. The novel was released, in both paperback and ebook editions, during the summer and is currently available to order through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

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NT: Has writing always been a passion of yours? I read on your website that you’ve spent the past 20 years working in recentwritingyourhobbywritingyouI’mtechnology.curiousifenjoyedasathroughoutcareerorifisamoreendeavor?

Portland: [Originally] I was working on a historical fiction and realized I was depleting all my energy on research and getting everything to plausibly mesh with a specific period and place. The narrative was taking back seat to historical accuracy, and I was spending months fi lling a research journal instead of a fi rst draft. Science fiction, on the other hand, gives me much more room to build an interesting premise and narrative. As a writer, I establish the rules with the reader, the limits of the world, and as long as I can stay within those boundaries I myself have defi ned, I can sculpt an interesting story. Δ Calendar Editor Caleb Wiseblood is a sculptor of articles. Send comments to cwiseblood@ newtimesslo.com.

rekkies and wookie worshipers are among the target audience of Orcutt resident H.W. Portland’s debut sci-fi novel, Explorer’s End “I tell people, if you enjoy Indiana Jones, Star Trek, or Star Wars, you will enjoy Explorer’s End,” Portland said, before describing his fi lmfriendly writing style. “I write as if I am a fi lm director using description and dialogue to direct the reader’s attention in the same way a camera is used in fi lm,” the author explained. “I felt a special sense of pride when, without solicitation, my early readers told me the book felt very cinematic and that it reminded them of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.”

During a recent email interview, Portland gave the New Times some behind-the-scenes tidbits about his journey writing the book.

Portland: I have been storieswritingsince ﬁrst grade. In my teens, my creative focus andwritingIinBywritingvideotowardsturnedmakinggamesandsoftware.thetimeIwasmylate20s,hadstoppedcreativelywasputting all my time into my career. As my career moved along, I wrote less software and wrote more documents and presentations. Soon I was studying leaders in our organization and how they used narrative structure to communicate vision. When COVID came along, I made a personal vow that I would emerge from that disaster with something tangible to show. Settling down and getting back to an old passion from my youth, creative writing, felt like a great way to ride through COVID. Now that we have emerged, I am proud that I do, in fact, have something to show for that period of time.

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The Dana Adobe and Cultural Center in Nipomo will hold the Captain’s Luau on Sunday, Sept. 17, starting at 5:30 p.m. The event includes live luau performances and programs that retell stories of Capt. William Goodwin Dana and his historical ties to DuringHawaii.histravels to Hawaii in the 1800s, Dana developed a relationship with King Kamehameha III, while the two often traded various valuables with one another. According to the Dana Adobe’s website, Kamehameha would periodically send barrels of pineapples to Dana’s rancho, even after the captain ceased from trade expeditions.Kamehameha’s gifts would inspire Dana to hold a big party at the rancho. The Dana Adobe continues to celebrate the tradition with the Captain’s Luau fundraiser. Guests of this year’s event can expect to enjoy Hawaiian food, catered by Zoe’s Hawaiian Barbecue and Catering. Dishes at the buffet dinner will include kalua pork, mac salad, and other items. The event will also include a special raffle and live music from local ukulele performers. Admission to the fundraiser starts at $100, which includes dinner for two and one raffle ticket. For large groups, there is a $1,000 package that includes dinner for eight, eight raffle tickets, and one bottle of wine. Call (805) 929-5679 or visit danaadobe.org to find out more about the Captain’s Luau and other programs hosted by the Dana Adobe and Cultural Center, which is open daily between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. and located at 671 S. Oakglen Ave., Nipomo. The venue is a registered historical site and is considered the oldest home in San Luis Obispo County. Δ —Caleb Wiseblood Galaxy-wide web Find out more about H.W. Portland and his debut novel, Explorer’s End, on hwportland.com. The book is available to purchase, as a paperback or ebook, through Amazon and barnesandnoble.com.

Central Coast sci-fi author H.W. Portland explores the final frontier in first novel, Explorer’s End

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NT: Is there a speciﬁc reason you decided to write a sci-ﬁ novel? What attracted you to the genre versus other genres?

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A NEW CHAPTER

Central Coast author H.W. Portland set aside his creative writing during his career in technology, but the COVID-19 shutdowns inspired him to get back in touch with his old passion for storytelling.

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GALAXY QUEST The plot of Explorer’s End , by Central Coast author H.W. Portland, follows an unlikely hero on a quest to discover the origin of the galaxy. The book’s cover art was created by artist Elias Stern.

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www.newtimesslo.com • September 8 - September 15, 2022 • New Times • 37 For more information visit slotransit.org, download the SLO Transit app or call 805-541-2877. tickets $20-$38 (805) 786-2440slorep.org san luis obispo repertory theatre • 888 morro • downtown slo Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! THROUGH SEPT 9 SEPT 25 PACIFIC CONSERVATORY THEATREONTICKETSSALE NOW! AUG 25 - SEP 3 Marian Theatre, Santa Maria SEP 9 - 28 Solvang Festival Theatre GROUPS* 805-928-7731 x.4150 *12MOREOR TICKETS 805-922-8313 | PCPA.ORG

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Bulbul? Matinee What’s it worth, Caleb? Matinee Where’s it showing? Colony, Downtown Centre, Fair Oaks, Park, Stadium 10

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The film could have taken its time to explore an otherwise intriguing idea: What more can a supposedly content person wish for? Caleb I definitely want to rewatch this someday for the visuals alone. There’s so much going on in almost every frame of the film, so I’m sure there are a lot of hidden gems I missed. There were more than a few moments of surreal terror that made me wish this film took more of a horror/fairy tale route. Even before Binnie meets the Djinn, there are hints that she is somehow in tune with an undefined spiritual realm. There’s a really eerie scene where she’s leading a lecture on storytelling and she becomes distracted by a ghostly apparition. The Djinn has a similar moment with a contorting, demonic presence later in the film. I wanted more moments like that, but the film’s overall atmosphere (perfectly paired with a haunting, ethereal score by Tom Holkenborg) felt wonderfully otherworldly enough to keep my spooky cravings at bay for the most part.

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Bulbul The film left me with a lot of unanswered questions, so after the high of the past world narrations wore off, I was dissatisfied with the final third. Maybe, Miller isn’t giving us a neatly packaged conclusion. Most of my questions center on Binnie and the Djinn’s relationship, but my main question is why was she even the chosen one? The movie opens with a stunning shot that marks Binnie apart from a crowd thanks to her flaming red hair and bright pink coat amid a sea of dreary gray and brown coats. But what makes her special? Also, there is a very random shot of her in the train with a face mask on. So, this universe probably acknowledges that COVID-19 is real? Am I thinking too hard? Probably. Will I be rewatching? Definitely, once it streams somewhere. Δ Staff Writer Bulbul Rajagopal and Calendar Editor Caleb Wiseblood wrote Split Screen this week. Send comments to gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.

Editor’s note: Staff Writer Bulbul Rajagopal and Calendar Editor Caleb Wiseblood wrote Split Screen this week while Glen and Anna Starkey were out of town. Director George Miller (Mad Max, The Witches of Eastwick, Happy Feet) helms this film adaptation of A.S. Byatt’s short story collection The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye about Alithea (Tilda Swinton), a lonely scholar who on an Istanbul visit releases a Djinn (Idris Elba) who agrees to grant her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. (108 min.) Caleb Dancing penguins and dystopian drag racers are among the cinematic subjects George Miller has brought to life over the years. He’s no stranger to shifting between R-rated thrillers and G-rated family fare, like Babe: Pig in the City. His latest film, Three Thousand Years of Longing, could have been titled Genie in the City. There’s nothing familyfriendly about it, and it definitely earns its R-rating, but its baseline premise—a modern-day love story between a genie and a human—sounds more like Splash than Mad Max. After being released from a glass bottle that entrapped him centuries ago, an unnamed Djinn (Idris Elba) tries to convince the bottle’s new owner, Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton), to make three wishes, which would secure the genie’s freedom. But Binnie is hesitant, as she fears the potential consequences of even the smallest of wishes. As a professional narratologist, she’s well versed in cautionary tales of “be careful what you wish for.” To assure Binnie that he’s not malicious or setting out to trick her, the Djinn retells stories of his past masters over the centuries, each of whom failed in one way or another to make their third and final wish, condemning the genie back to his bottle over and over again. These visually majestic flashback segments are the film’s strongest scenes. As much as I love both Elba and Swinton, I was far more intrigued with glimpses into the Djinn’s past than the duo’s uneasy romance.

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GENIE BABY A narratologist (Tilda Swinton, right) awkwardly introduces some neighbors to her new romantic partner, a genie (Idris Elba, left) she recently freed from a glass bottle, in filmmaker George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing

Our three favorite podcasting sleuths are back, and the Arconia is the site of yet another murder. This time it’s the building busybody, Bunny Folger (Jayne Houdyshell), who is the unlucky victim, and Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) are in the spotlight once again. There are secret passageways and stolen paintings, a parrot that won’t shut up, and messy pasts that tie the characters together in all sorts of ways. Only Murders in the Building enjoyed a well-loved first season that was a rollicking ride, sealing our three leads as friends forever. It’s always a worry when a series starts off in such high regard because it often can’t live up to itself the next time around. I’m happy to report that Martin, Short, Gomez, and the awesome actors all around them give us another top-tier season, and the list of guest stars is stellar. This show is all about reveals and twists and turns, so I don’t want to give it all away. However, if you haven’t watched, pay up your Hulu account and get on it! (10 30-min. episodes) Anna If you like the kind of action movie where the protagonist shoves a grenade into a bad guy’s chest and deadpans, “Have a blast,” you’re in luck because 76-year-old Sylvester Stallone is out to prove he’s still got what it takes to be an action star in Samaritan , streaming on Amazon Prime. Based on a graphic novel series, the story revolves around 13-yearold latchkey kid Sam Cleary (Javon “Wanna” Walton), who believes his neighbor, Joe Smith (Stallone), is actually a superhero named Samaritan, who was thought to have died 20 years earlier in an epic battle with his evil twin brother, Nemesis. Sam needs a hero. His city is crime-ridden, and gang leader Cyrus (Pilou Asbæk) is determined to do what Nemesis couldn’t 20 years ago— take out the city’s electrical grid. It’s pretty cheesy, with overt lessons like this gem: “Good and bad live in everybody’s heart, and it’s up to you to make the right choice.” Yep, it’s a bit groan inducing, but Stallone looks like he’s having fun, the film has a campy ’80s vibe, and there are some fun, overthe-top action sequences. (102 min.) Δ Glen

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING (SEASON 2) What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2022 Where’s it showing? Hulu SAMARITAN What’s it rated? PG-13 When? 2022 Where’s it showing? Amazon Prime PHOTO COURTESY OF 20TH CENTURY FOX TELEVISION, 20TH TELEVISION, AND 40 SHARE PRODUCTIONS PHOTO COURTESY OF BALBOA PRODUCTIONS AND METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER

Bulbul Three Thousand Years flexes Miller’s zany storytelling prowess. The Djinn’s past is expanded on over three mini stories. The accounts are linked by a thread that weaves the audience, Binnie, and the Djinn through the passage of time—the first starting from as early as the days of the Queen of Sheba. Those accounts are a lesson in narratives that enthrall the narratologist herself. I caught myself absolutely thrown into the striking imagery and writing, and it’s no wonder too because Miller and his cowriter Augusta Gore adapted the film from The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, a short story collection written by English novelist A.S. Byatt that’s heavily inspired by One Thousand and One Nights. The screenplay and imagery draw from Orientalism but we’re rudely snapped back to reality when the plot switches back to present-day Turkey with Binnie. I found her character’s implausibly quick romance with the Djinn shoehorned, and I don’t think Elba and Swinton have onscreen romantic chemistry.

www.newtimesslo.com • September 8 - September 15, 2022 • New Times • 39 POWERED BY: & Interested in selling tickets with My805Tix? Contact us for a demo today! info@My805Tix.com Scan QR code with camera to sign up for the weekly Ticket Wire newsletter and get all the latest events each Tuesday. Tickets on sale now at My805Tix.com SELL YOUR TICKETS WITH US AND SEE YOUR EVENT HERE Santa Maria Civic Theatre: Grease, The Musical FRI, SAT, SUN, SEPT. 9, 10, 11 Santa Maria Civic Theatre DAOU and Danior Dinner at The Boatyard FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Morro Bay Boatyard, Morro Bay Avocado Margarita Food & Drink Festival FRI, SAT, SUN, SEPT 9, 10, 11 Tidelands Park, Morro Bay Baile Latino w/ DJ Benz Jamz THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Flower City Ballroom, Lompoc Eclectic Electric: EDM Night w/ Seanathan & DJ Glen Coco FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Flower City Ballroom, Lompoc Santa Maria Civic Theatre 2022-2023 Season Pass 2022–2023 SEASON Santa Maria Civic Theatre Point San Luis Lighthouse Tours In-Person WED & SAT Virtual ON DEMAND Avila Beach Camp Cass: A Bee’s Life SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Cass Winery, Paso Robles Tiny Porch Concerts: The Coffis Bros. w/ John Surge & Haymakers SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Peter Strauss Ranch, Agoura Hills 80s Night w/ DJ Neon Maniac Costume Contest w/ $100 Prize SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Flower City Ballroom, Lompoc Three Speckled Hens: Antiques & Old Stuff Show FRI, SAT, SUN, SEPT. 23, 24, 25 Paso Robles Event Center Young Songwriters Showcase w/ THE BAND CARTER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Flower City Ballroom, Lompoc Skunk Puppy SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Flower City LompocBallroom, Arroyo Grande Valley Harvest Festival Dinner Dance SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Camp Arroyo Grande SLOFunny Comedy Show SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Veterans Memorial Building, Morro Bay Symphony of the Vines: Suite Treats SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Mission San Miguel Arcangel SOIREE: Big Sirs of SwingSenior Dance at the Garden! THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 SLO Botanical Garden Country Night w/ DJ Frank the Tank THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 Flower City Ballroom, Lompoc Metalachi - The world’s ONLY heavy metal mariachi band FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Flower City Ballroom, Lompoc Camp Cass: Paint & Sip Class with Art Social FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Cass Winery, Paso Robles Redwings Horse Sanctuary Block Party 2022 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Redwings Horse Sanctuary, Paso 2022 Fall Folk-n-Soak Springs/Yoga/CampingMusic/HotFestival FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Franklin Hot Springs, Paso Robles Downtown Paso Main St. Assoc: Taste of Downtown Paso Robles SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 12th & Park, Downtown Paso Robles 5 Cities Homeless Coalition: Empty Bowls Fundraiser SAT., SEPT. 17, SEPT. 24, OCT. 1 Arroyo Grande, Pismo Beach, Nipomo Docent-led Bird & Nature Walk at Oso Flaco Lake SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 Oso Flaco Lake, Arroyo Grande

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Gathering time ROCKERS Spoon plays Vina Robles Amphitheatre on Sept. 14 PHOTO COURTESY OF CAT POWER PHOTO COURTESY OF SPOON MEOW Alt-rock Singer-songwriter Cat Power plays the historic Fremont Theater on Sept. 10

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Vina Robles Amphitheatre has three big shows coming your way, starting with Banda MS De Sergio Lizárraga on Sunday, Sept. 11 (8 p.m.; $75 to $160 at ticketmaster.com). The Mexican group says they’re excited to bring their Gracias a ti Tour to their fans, “showcasing their Banda Sinaloense music complete with their signature harmonizing brass and percussion, acoustic elements, and authentic norteño music.” NYC rock act Interpol and Austin rock act Spoon join forces for a co-headlining show at Vina on Wednesday, Sept. 14 (7:30 p.m.; $39.50 to $55 at ticketmaster. com) with Water From Your Eyes opening. Their Lights, Camera, Factions tour promises to be a potent night for rock ’n’ roll.

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“Weird Al” Yankovich needs no introduction. The five-time Grammy Award winner is the biggest-selling comedy recording artists of all time, and he plays Vina on Thursday, Sept. 15 (8 p.m.; $45 to $69.50 at ticketmaster.com).

The SLO Gathering comes to BarrelHouse Brewing out! Send music and club information gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.to CALIFORNIA Honeydrops play the SLO Gathering on Sept. 10 , at BarrelHouse Brewing.

“Almost four years after his first foray into unfamiliar concert territory with his highly-acclaimed Ridiculously SelfIndulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic is pressing his luck again, this time with The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously SelfIndulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour,” press materials announced. He began his career as a Cal Poly student, recording his first big hit, “My Bologna,” a parody of The Knack’s “My Sharona,” in the men’s bathroom of the Graphic Arts building. Tripleheader at Rock SLO Brew Rock has three shows cooked up this week, starting with an album release party for Timeless, the new album by local rap and R&B group Wordsauce this Thursday, Sept. 8 (7 p.m.; 21-and-older; $12 at ticketweb.com). Green Room and Orcutt Hill open. Rock and Americana act Midnight North plays on Saturday, Sept. 10 (7 p.m.; 18-and-older; free). Rolling Stone magazine hailed the band as the “Best New Act” in its review of 2018’s Peach Music Festival. Hailing from New Zealand, allMāori reggae act Katchafire plays on Wednesday, Sept. 14 (7:30 p.m.; 18-andolder; $25 at ticketweb.com). Built around their foundation of classic roots reggae is a blend of R&B, funk, and dancehall. More reggae coming The Siren in Morro Bay hosts roots reggae act Groundation next Thursday, Sept. 15 (7 p.m.; 21-and-older; $27.50 plus fees at eventbrite.com). The band formed in 1998 from the jazz performance program at Sonoma State University. In May, they released their 10th studio album, One Rock More music … Violinist Brynn Albanese plays a onewoman show this Saturday, Sept. 10, at Los Osos’ St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church (2 p.m.; all ages; suggested $20 donation but kids are free). Expect a mix of European Gypsy, Latin jazz, classical with a twist, opera covers, and a big splash of Celtic. Enjoy Chamber Music with Scott Yoo (violin) on Sunday, Sept. 11 (2 p.m.; at ovationtix.com) in the Harold J. Miossi CPAC at Cuesta College, when he’s joined by Jessica Chang (viola), Robert deMaine (cello), and Orion Weiss (piano) in a program with music by Debussy, Schumann, Dvorak, and Brahms. Symphony of the Vines presents Suite Treats at Mission San Miguel on Sunday, Sept. 11 (3 p.m.; all ages; $15 to $30 at my805tix.com). Hear Maurice Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite,” Igor Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella Suite,” and Shostakovich’s “Cello Concerto no. 1.” Unfinished With The Beatles, a side project for members of Unfinished Business and Back Bay Betty, play the last concert of the Nipomo Concert in The Park series this Wednesday, Sept. 14 (5:30 to 7:30 p.m.; all ages; free) in the Nipomo Community Park. They can play more than 50 Beatles hits! ∆ Contact Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.

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The Nutella-stuffed taiyaki is a popular choice, though Sweet Reef owner Jared Squire initially had to convince some customers that the waffle is not an actual fish.

Sweet Reef in Morro Bay encapsulates one man’s journey from gold mining to boba crafting

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GRANDMA’S LOVE As a young boy, Squire loved making waffles with his grandmother, and his current taiyaki batter is inspired by her longstanding recipe.

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really getting established and trying to keep everything fresh. We’re constantly doing different things with our waffles,” he said. Waffles, specifically taiyaki, are the other Sweet Reef staple. Taiyaki is a Japanese fish-shaped cake made using waffle batter and traditionally stuffed with spreads like red bean paste and sweet potato. Sweet Reef’s version comes with the red bean option, along with Nutella, Oreo, and cookie butter. My favorite is the taro cream cheese taiyaki. Squire dished out the golden brown and perfectly defined treat brimming with the purple goo. It’s a great play on temperature, as the creamy filling cuts through the warm, doughy crust. It tastes like the best digestive biscuit you’ve ever had, and there’s boba tea to wash it down with.“The batter for the waffles is made from my grandma’s recipe. It’s been in my family for a very long time. I adjusted it a little bit for taiyaki because it needs a crispy outside and a fluffy inside,” Squire said. “I’ve never tried it anywhere else.” In fact, the inspiration to incorporate taiyaki came from Squire’s business neighbors upstairs. Sweet Reef shares a building on the Embarcadero with a Japanese restaurant called Umi Sushi & Sake. Its receptionskepticalbuttryrecommendedownerSquiremakingtaiyaki,hisdaughterswereaboutitsinMorroBay.“They’reJapaneseand Korean, and they thought people in SLO wouldn’t understand. They might think it’s an obscure kind of food. People always think it’s an actual fish. That’s some of the struggle we’ve had. We have to tell people it’s not a fish but a waffle in the shape of fish,” he said with a laugh. “But once they try it, they’re always coming back asking for new Communityflavors.”spirit is alive in Sweet Reef, and Squire is happy to show gratitude for his new life. Squire wants to help the local Morro Bay High School through a fundraiser at his store. He told New Times that some of his staff members told him the school athletics team could do with more supplies and equipment if they had the money. Once a high school athlete himself, Squire wants to give back. It’s the reason why he named his shop Sweet Reef. “It comes from my time in Australia and there are a lot of reefs over there,” he said. “The idea is that we have a variety of drinks in different colors, like a reef. It’s rooted in community. If we work as a reef, everyone plays a part in it. We’re here to help each other and work together.” ∆

Chew and sip Grab boba drinks and taiyaki (Japanese fishshaped waffles) from the Sweet Reef shop at 630 Embarcadero, Morro Bay. Place pickup orders through their website or call (805) 627-3044. Sweet Reef also offers delivery through DoorDash. Keep up with their flavors on Instagram and Facebook @ thesweetreef.

BOBA TIME Enjoy Sweet Reef’s bobafilled drinks like Oat Milk Horchata, Traditional Thai Tea, Strawberry Milk Tea, Taro Milk Tea, Brown Sugar Matcha, and Jasmine Milk Tea (top to bottom).

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F ormer geologist Jared Squire described his old office as an underground gold mine in Nevada surrounded by dust and diesel fumes. Working early mornings and late nights, he realized he couldn’t sustain that pace for the rest of his life. Squire’s way out: opening Sweet Reef, a boba shop in Morro Bay. “We opened in April, and well, Morro Bay needed boba. I just started learning about it, especially how to make the recipes, and learning about other boba places that are around,” he said. “My girlfriend likes boba a lot, and I’ve always been drinking it. I found out that the quality isn’t that good in SLO County or in some of the bigger chains.” For 30-year-old Squire, boba featured frequently in his jet-setting childhood. Thanks to his parents’ work, the native Canadian moved to the Santiago, Chile, when he was 12. Then, at 15, they moved to Australia where he first tasted boba from the bubble tea (what Australia and other countries call the drink) store near a bus station in Perth. From there, Squire traveled across Southeast Asia, living in countries including Thailand, Singapore, and Cambodia that gave him a deeper appreciation for boba, chai, and Thai tea. “Some of our customers have described boba in the best way: It’s like drinking and eating at the same time. Boba itself is the balls. But in America, people also call the whole drink boba. So that’s the very confusing part,” Squire said. “In Asia, they call it bubble tea because the tea has the bubbles [or balls] in it.” The true origins of boba are contested. Some recorded accounts debate the source to be either the Chun Shui Tang tearoom or the Hanlin Tea Room, and both are in Taiwan. Inside Sweet Reef, however, a signboard on its wave-printed wall states that boba was discovered when a Taiwanese street vendor accidentally spilled tapioca pudding into tea. While these accounts may differ, they’re all united on one thing: Boba pearls come from tapioca, and at Sweet Reef, Squire and his staff make them using starchy tapioca powder.

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“The boba pearls, which I call similar to rice because you have to use a lot of water to cook it, and it takes a decent amount of time for it to absorb and get the right texture. They’re called tapioca pearls and they’re made out of the cassava root,” SquireThere’ssaid.alchemy to boba making. Squire adds earth-colored and crumbly tapioca pearls from a packet to a pot of boiling water. Over roughly half an hour, the sunken pearls absorb the water and darken. When they’re ready, the pearls bob to the top, squishy and glistening black. Squire then transfers the drained pearls to a rice cooker where they’re steamed for a while longer in a secret flavoring solution. Finally, they’re ready to submerge in Sweet Reef’s plethora of drinks.Squire told New Times that perfecting a solid Thai tea recipe was important before opening the shop. It’s a Sweet Reef mainstay and can be enjoyed on its own, or with splashes of milk (dairy or oat), and definitely with boba. Squire expanded the menu with other drink options like Mango Slush, a Korean-style Banana Milk, or Strawberry Milk tea (all made with freshly puréed fruit). Thirsty patrons can also enjoy the pinkish gold jasmine green tea, strawberry and lychee jelly concoction called the Morro Bay Sunrise. Coffee lovers can rejoice too— Sweet Reef offers a line of boba-filled drinks called bobaccinos. They come in flavors like salted caramel, cookie butter, and chocolate and peanut butter. Squire said they listen to community feedback too, and incorporated matcha drinks on the menu after some customers suggested it. “We’re getting ready for cold weather, so there’ll be more hot teas. We’ll focus on fall flavors like pumpkin spice. Eventually, we’ll go into the Christmas flavors like chocolate and peppermint. We’re

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The following person is doing business as, PARKER CONSTRUC TION, 9180 Maple St, Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County. David Wayne Parker, (9180 Maple St, Atascadero, CA 93422). This business is con ducted by A CA Individual/s/ David Wayne Parker. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 08-08-22. hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk M. Katz, Deputy. Exp. 08September08-27. 1, 8, 15, & 22, 2022

The following person is doing business as, BAKHOS DISTRIBU TION, 959 Hidden Pine Lane, Ar royo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Michael George Bakhos (959 Hidden Pine Lane, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Indi vidual /s/ Michael George Bakhos. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 08-09-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk M. Katz, Deputy. Exp. 08-09-27. August 18, 25, September 1, & 8, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. TRANSACTION2022-1856BUSINESS DATE (05/22/2003)NewFiling

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1791 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (06/23/2017)NewFiling

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat the undersigned intends to sell the personal describedpropertybelowto enforce a lien imposed on said property pursu ant to Sections 2170021716 of the Business & Pro fessions Code. The undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on the 15th day of September 2022, at 6:00 PM, at www.storagetreasures. com . Property is stored at Rock Safe Self Storage, 2155 Willow Road, Arroyo Grande, CA County of San Luis Obispo, State of Cali fornia, the contents of the following tenant’s storage Markspace(s):Zubick, Amber Escobedo, Travis Larson, Carlos Reyna, & Tiffany M. Westfall The contents of these storage spaces include furniture, tools, exercise equip, electronics, clothes, power equip, TVs, camp ing equip, books, appliances, art, bikes, misc. boxes, containers, & other items. Purchases must be paid for at the time of purchase in cash and credit card only. All purchased items sold as is where is and must be removed within 72 hours of the sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Auctioneer: Plastino Interests, Inc., CA Bond#7901004996 Online Auction Platform: www. SeptemberFacilitystoragetreasures.comPhone:(805)356-60661,8,2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. TRANSACTION2022-1848BUSINESS DATE New(N/A)Filing

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. TRANSACTION2022-1854BUSINESS DATE (08/09/2022)NewFiling

The following person is doing business as, BROKEN EARTH, BROKEN EARTH WINES, BROKEN EARTH WINERY, QUADRANT, CV, WAGSHAL’S, SPRING VALLEY, PASO 46, 1650 Ramada Drive, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Continental Vineyards, LLC (1650 Ramada Drive, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by A DE Limited Liability Company /s/ Continental Vineyards, LLC, Justin Tooley, General Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 08-02-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk M. Katz, Deputy. Exp. 08-02-27. August 18, 25, September 1, & 8, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1788 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/2022)NewFiling

The following person is do ing business as, CORIA VOTAW CONSTRUCTION & SOLAR SO LUTIONS, 791 Honey Grove Ln., Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis Obispo County. Nicholas Ray mond Coria (791 Honey Grove Ln., Nipomo, CA 93444), Matthew Vo taw (22111 I St., Santa Margarita, CA 93453). This business is con ducted by A General Partnership /s/ Nicholas R. Coria, General Partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 08-02-22. hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk M. Katz, Deputy. Exp. 08August02-27. 18, 25, September 1, & 8, 2022

The following person is do ing business as, KM CUSTOMS WELDING, 1592 Stormy Way, Paso Robles, CA 93446. San Luis Obispo County. Marcus Anthony Rostro, (1592 Stormy Way, Paso Robles, CA 93446). This business is conducted by A CA Individual/s/ Marcus Anthony Rostro. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 08-02-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk M. Katz, Deputy. Exp. 08-02-27. September 1, 8, 15, & 22, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1816 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (09/07/2012)NewFiling

The following person is doing business as, CAMBRIA GEN ERAL STORE, 850 Main Street, Cambria, CA 93428. San Luis Obispo County. Luis R Gutierrez (1697 Benson Ave., Cambria, CA 93428), Christopher L Gutierrez (1625 Linden Court, Cambria, CA 93428). This business is conduct ed by A General Partnership /s/ Luis R Gutierrez, General Partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 08-04-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk M. Katz, Deputy. Exp. 08-04-27. August 18, 25, September 1, & 8, 2022

The following person is doing business as, GREEN GOLD FLO RAL & DECOR, 134 Corralitos Drive, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Kendra Mariah Bowling (1136 Saint John Circle, Grover Beach, CA 93433). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Kendra Mariah Bowl ing. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obis po on 08-10-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk M. Katz, Deputy. Exp. 08-10-27. August 18, 25, September 1, & 8, 2022

The following person is doing business as, ARROYO GRANDE VALERO, 610 E Grand Ave., Ar royo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County. Horizon Business Ventures, Inc. (3030 Desert Cloud Avenue, Rosamond, CA 93560). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Horizon Busi ness Ventures Inc., Manohar Lal Vasudeva, President. This state ment was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 08-0922. hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk M. Katz, Depu ty. Exp. 08-09-27. August 18, 25, September 1, & 8, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1736 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/30/20112)NewFiling

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1795 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE New(N/A)Filing

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1797 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (08/01/2022)NewFiling

The following person is doing business as, CAMBRIA NURSERY DOWNTOWN, 4039 Burton Drive, Cambria, CA 93428. San Luis Obispo County. Cambria Nurs ery & Florist Corp. (2801 Eton Road, Cambria, CA 93428). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ Cambria Nurs ery & Florist Corp., Dirk Winter - President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 07-22-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk A. Bautista, Deputy. Exp. August07-22-27.18, 25, September 1, & 8, 2022

ADVERTISEMENT OF SALE (Online Auction)

The following person is doing business as, SOMETHING BRIDAL, 530 East Branch Street, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obis po County. Sara Terese Torres (3618 Angeles Road, Santa Maria, CA 93455). This business is con ducted by An Individual /s/ Sara T. Torres, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 08-10-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. August08-10-27.18,25, September 1, & 8, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1719 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (07/15/2022)NewFiling

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2022-1787 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (01/01/2022)NewFiling

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. TRANSACTION2022-1845BUSINESS DATE New(N/A)Filing

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The following person is doing busi ness as, CRUMBL, 503 5 Cities Drive, Pismo Beach, CA 93449. San Luis Obispo County. Buckets of Dough, Arroyo Grande LLC (3966 Glen Abby Circle, Stockton, CA 95219). This business is con ducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Buckets of Dough, Ar royo Grande LLC, Kristi Seligman, Managing Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 08-02-22. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Elaina Cano, County Clerk M. Katz, Deputy. Exp. August08-02-27.18, 25, September 1, & 8, 2022

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. TRANSACTION2022-1858BUSINESS DATE New(N/A)Filing

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 informa tion at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center thepaidcase.ofsettlementwaivedTheoror(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp),Courtscalifornia.org),ServicesgroupsYouprofitfreeattorney,service.wantnotattorneyments.furtherpropertyandyoudoclerkpayhousecountycourtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp),(www.yourlawlibrary,orthecourtnearestyou.Ifyoucannotthefilingfee,askthecourtforafeewaiverform.Ifyounotfileyourresponseontime,maylosethecasebydefault,yourwages,moneyandmaybetakenwithoutwarningfromthecourt.ThereareotherlegalrequireYoumaywanttocallanrightaway.Ifyoudoknowanattorney,youmaytocallanattorneyreferralIfyoucannotaffordanyoumaybeeligibleforlegalservicesfromanonlegalservicesprogram.canlocatethesenonprofitattheCaliforniaLegalWebsite(www.lawhelptheCaliforniaonlineSelf-HelpCenterbycontactingyourlocalcourtcountybarassociation.NOTE:courthasastatutorylienforfeesandcostsonanyorarbitrationaward$10,000ormoreinacivilThecourt’slienmustbebeforethecourtwilldismisscase.

Notice is given that undersigned in tends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursu ant to sections 21701-21716 of the Business and Professions Code, Section 2328 of the Commercial Code, Section 535 of the Penal Code and provisions of the Civil Code. Main Mini Storage, 1380 Santa Ynez Avenue, 2000 Moun tain View Avenue, Los Osos, CA 93402, Will sell by competitive bid ding ending on or after September 16th, 2022 on or after 10:00 A.M., property in storage units. Auction is to be held online at www.storag Propertyetreasures.com.tobesold includes, but is not limited to: Bookshelves, dressers, washers & dryers, desks, beds, tables and chairs, bed frames, mattresses, kitchen utensils, kitchenware, pots and pans, appliances, furnishings, clothing, household items, lug gage, stereo equipment, cabinets, sporting equipment, fishing gear, camping gear, tools, construction equipment, computers, monitors, printers, toys, TV’S, bicycles, golf clubs, surf boards, office furniture, personal items, possible collect ibles/antiques and boxed items contents unknown, belonging to the DanielLOSfollowing:OSOSGallardo (10x10) Richard Stanley (10x20) Eric Malin (5x5) Jaymee Celaya (5x7) Purchases must be paid for at time of sale in CASH ONLY. All purchased items sold as is, where is. Items must be removed at the time of sale. Sale is subject to can cellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Advertiser reserves the right to bid. Dated this day 30th day of August Auction2022. by StorageTreasures.com Phone (480) 397-6503 Main Mini Storage (805) 528-7864 September 8, 15, 2022.

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FOR SALES INFORMATION: (800) 280-2832 CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Drive San Di ego, California 92117 September 8, 15, 22, 2022

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 22CV-0437 To all interested persons: Petitioner: Gregory Herbert Blumberg filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: Oc tober 19, 2022 Time: 9:30 am, Dept. P2, In Person or by Zoom at the Superior Court of Califor nia, County of San Luis Obispo, 901 Park Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446. 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 peti tion in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: August 30, 2022 /s/: Tana L. Coates, Judge of the Superior SeptemberCourt1,8, 15, 22, 2022

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

PRESENT NAME: Gregory Herbert Blumberg to PRO POSED NAME: Gregory Her bert Blume 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 ob jection that includes the rea sons 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 peti tion should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

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 re quires that information about trust ee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not pres ent 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 (800) 280-2832 or visit this Inter net Web site WWW.AUCTION.COM, using the file number assigned to this case 101635-CA. 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 sched uled sale.

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¡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 deman dante. 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 15,August$2,250.00Attorney’sClerksPropertythealtyPlaintiff,STATEMENTDeputy(Secretario)By:Date:714-202-3440SanPOMichaelMegandantedelnúmeroney,ney,phoneSan1050CivilCourtSandecourtThecaso):CASEcortemencivll.artitrajeunoalquierimponercuotastienelocales.corteoCalifornia,trolawhelpcalifornia.org),CaliforniafinesencontrarlegalestosobtenercumplaaallamarconoceabogadoEsadvertencia.sueldo,toperdersupagodeallamasdadobibliotecaca.gov/selfhelp/espanol),(www.courtinfo.enladeleyesdesuconoenlacortequelequedecerca.Sinopuedepagarcuotadepresentacion,pidasecretariodelacortequeleunformulariodeexenciondedecuotas.Sinopresentarepuestaatiempo,puedeelcasoporincumplimienylacortelapodraquitarsudineroybienessinmasHayotrosrequistaslegales.recomendablequellameauninmediamente.Sinoaunabogado,puedeaunservicioderemisionabogados.Sinopuedepagarunabogado,esposiblequeconlosrequisitosparaservicioslegalesgratuideunprogramadeserviciossinfinesdelucro.PuedeestosgrupossindelucroenelsitiowebdeLegalServices,(www.enelCendeAyudadelasCortesde(www.sucorte.ca.gov)poniendoseencontactoconlaoelcolegiodeabogadosAVISO:Porley,lacortederechoareclamariasyloscostosexentosporungravamensobrecurecuperacionde$10,000masdevalorrecibidamedianteacuerdoaounaconsesiondeenuncasodcederechoTienequepagarelgravadelacorteantesdequelapuedadesecharelcaso.NUMBER:(Númerode22LC-0349nameandaddressoftheis:(Elnombreydirecciónlacorteson)LuisObispoCountySuperior&FamilyLawBranchMontereyStreetLuisObispo,CA93408Thename,address,andtelenumberofplaintiff’sattororplaintiffwithoutanattoris:(Elnombre,ladirecciónydetelefonodelabogadodemandante,odeldemanquenotieneabogado,es):B.MavisSullivanandAssociatesBox85059Diego,CA92186(Fecha)08/17/2022/s/MichaelPowell,Clerk/s/,C.M.Kastner,Clerk,(adjunto)OFDAMAGESCommonwealthCasuCompanyseeksdamagesinaboveactionasfollows:Damage:$9,473.74FilingFees:$536.10FeesandCosts:25,September1,8,&2022

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IM PORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 5/15/2003. 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 PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 10/25/2022 at 9:00 AM, CLEAR RECON CORP, as duly appointed trustee under and pur suant to Deed of Trust recorded 6/12/2003 as Instrument No. 2003063413 of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of San Luis Obispo County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: CLIVE B VENNING AND JOANNA NORAH VENNING, HUSBAND AND WIFE AND KERRIGAN MAHAN, AN UN MARRIED MAN WILL SELL AT PUB LIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NA TIONAL 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 AS SOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AU THORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE; IN THE BREEZWAY FACING SANTA ROSA STREET, COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO GENERAL SERVICES BUILDING, 1087 SANTA ROSA ST, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93408 all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real prop erty described above is purported to be: 2261 EMERALD CIRCLE, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 The un dersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other com mon designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be held, but without covenant or warranty, ex press or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encum brances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining prin cipal sums of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the prop erty to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $507,030.88 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. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned or its pre decessor caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located.

NOTICE OFSALETRUSTEE’S T.S. No. 101635-CA APN: 065-388-014

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: October 26, 2022 Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 9, In Person or by Zoom at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1050 Mon terey St. San Luis Obispo, CA 93408. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four succes sive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times Date: September 2, 2022 /s/: Linda D. Hurst, Judge of the Superior Court September 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022

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NOTICE TO TENANT: Effective January 1, 2021, you may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can pur chase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercis ing this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (855) 313-3319, or visit this internet website www. clearreconcorp.com, using the file number assigned to this case 101635-CA to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trust ee. Second, you must send a writ ten notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trust ee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should con sider contacting an attorney or ap propriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: October 6, 2022 Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 2, In Personat the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm Street, Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be pub lished 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 Date: August 15, 2022 /s/: Rita C. Federman, Judge of the Superior Court September 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 22CV-0475 To all interested persons: Petitioner: Hannah Lee Lilly white filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Hannah Lee Lillywhite to PROPOSED NAME: Hannah Lee Lillywhite Mason 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 ob jection that includes the rea sons 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 peti tion should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should under stand 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 prop erty. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the high est bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien be ing 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 ex ist 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 OF SALE OF ABANDONEDPROPERTYPERSONAL

CASE NUMBER: 22CVP-0233 To all interested persons: Petitioner: Susan Denise Vesta Branche filed a petition with this court for a decree chang ing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Susan Denise Vesta Branche to PROPOSED NAME: Susan Branche Poteet 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 objec tion 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: SEIZURE OF PROPERTY AND INITIATION OF NONJUDICIAL FORFEITURE PROCEEDINGS PER HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 11488.4(j)

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMISSIONHEARINGPUBLIC

DATED: September 2, 2022

For more information, you are invited to contact Hannah Hanh of the City’s Community Development Department at (805) 781-7432 or hhanh@slocity.org

must also be served on the District Attorney, Asset Forfeiture Unit, County Courthouse Annex, 1035 Palm Street, 4th Floor, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, within 30 days of filing the claim with the Superior Court’s Civil Division. Both the District Attorney’s Office and the Interested Party filing the claim are entitled to conduct reciprocal requests for discovery in preparation for a hearing. The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure shall apply to the proceedings unless inconsistent with the provisions or procedures set forth in the Health and Safety Code (Section 11488.5(c)(3)). The Interested Party in entitled to legal representation at a hearing, although not one appointed at public expense, and has the right to present evidence and witnesses, and to cross-examine plaintiff’s witnesses, but there is no right to avoid testifying at a civil hearing.Thefailure to timely file and secure a verified claim stating an interest in the property in the Superior Court will result in the property being declared or ordered forfeited to the State of California and distributed pursuant to the provisions of Health and Safety Code section 11489 without further notice or hearing.

DATED: September 2, 2022 DAN DOW, District Attorney Kenneth Jorgensen , Deputy District Attorney September 8, 15, 22, 2022

Project Description: The Michaels Residence Project proposes development of a 1.41 acre parcel with a two-story 4,194 sq. ft. single-family dwelling with a 3-car garage, an 825 square-foot Accessory Dwelling Unit, an access bridge (maximum width 12 feet) over Twin Ridge Creek (to accommodate access to the Accessory Dwelling Unit by small vehicles, e.g., electric cart), and site amenities including an infinity pool, an outdoor kitchen, outdoor decking, a gym/spa, and outdoor shade structures. An exception from the City’s Creek Setback standards is requested for this project, for the placement of the proposed bridge and associated footings and supports within the required Creek Setback, and for any encroachment of associated paving and vehicle parking area into the Creek Setback area

NOTIFICATION OFDETERMINATIONENVIRONMENTAL

NOTICE: SEIZURE OF PROPERTY AND INITIATION OF JUDICIAL FORFEITURE PROCEEDINGS PER HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 11488.4(j) TO: ALL PERSONS CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, OR INTEREST IN PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:$7,697.00IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY California Superior Court Case #21CV-0199

Tentative Date: To Be Determined Hearing Place: To Be Determined Time: To Be Determined For more information on the proposed project, its environmental effects, City environmental procedures and deadlines, please contact: Project Planner: Walter Oetzell, Asst. Planner (woetzell@ slocity.org) | (805) 781-7593. September 8, 2022

• September 8

Project Title: Michaels Residence Project Project Number: EID-0547-0201, ARCH-0040-2021

The San Luis Obispo City Council invites all interested persons to attend a public hearing on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. held in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo. Please note that Zoom participation will not be supported, as this will be an in-person meeting. Meetings can be viewed remotely 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.

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The Director’s determination was based on an environmental initial study prepared by City and Consultant staff in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act. Anyone can review this study at the Community Development Department at 919 Palm Street, and at City Hall, at 990 Palm Street. The document will also be available for review on the City’s website at www.slocity.org. Anyone may review and comment on the Mitigated Negative Declaration within 30 days of this notice (Public Comment Period begins Thursday September 8th, 2022). Written statements may be submitted until 5:00 pm Friday October 7th to the City of San Luis Obispo, Community Development Department, 919 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, Attention: Walter Oetzell, Assistant Planner (or by email to woetzell@slocity.org).

Council Agenda Reports for this meeting will be available for review one week in advance of the meeting date on the City’s website, under the Public Meeting Agendas web page: SeptemberYouTubeliveforand-minutes.www.slocity.org/government/mayor-and-city-council/agendas-https://PleasecalltheCityClerk’sOfficeat(805)781-7100moreinformation.TheCityCouncilmeetingwillbetelevisedonCharterCableChannel20andlivestreamingontheCity’schannelhttp://youtube.slo.city.8,2022

SAN LUIS OBISPO CITY COUNCIL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Hearing Body: Administrative Hearing Officer or Planning Commission

NOTICE: SEIZURE OF PROPERTY AND INITIATION OF NONJUDICIAL FORFEITURE PROCEEDINGS PER HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 11488.4(j) TO: ALL PERSONS CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, OR INTEREST IN PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS $7,030.00FOLLOWS:IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY Notice is hereby given that on July 1, 2022, the abovedescribed property was seized at or near 1327 Hetrick Avenue, Arroyo Grande, California 93420, by the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Office, in connection with controlled substances, to wit, section(s) 11357, 11358, and 11359 of the California Health and Safety Code. The estimated/ appraised value of the property is $7,030.00. Pursuant to section 11488.4(j) of the California Health and Safety Code, you must file a verified claim stating your interest in the property with the Superior Court’s Civil Division, Room 385, County Courthouse Annex, 1035 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, California 93408. Claim forms are available from the Clerk of the above court and also online at https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/ mc200.pdfFurthermore, an endorsed copy of the verified claim must also be served on the District Attorney, Asset Forfeiture Unit, County Courthouse Annex, 1035 Palm Street, 4th Floor, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, within 30 days of filing the claim with the Superior Court’s Civil Division.Both the District Attorney’s Office and the Interested Party filing the claim are entitled to conduct reciprocal requests for discovery in preparation for a hearing. The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure shall apply to the proceedings unless inconsistent with the provisions or procedures set forth in the Health and Safety Code (Section 11488.5(c)(3)). The Interested Party in entitled to legal representation at a hearing, although not one appointed at public expense, and has the right to present evidence and witnesses, and to cross-examine plaintiff’s witnesses, but there is no right to avoid testifying at a civilThehearing.failure to timely file and secure a verified claim stating an interest in the property in the Superior Court will result in the property being declared or ordered forfeited to the State of California and distributed pursuant to the provisions of Health and Safety Code section 11489 without further notice or hearing.

Notice is hereby given that on March 4, 2021, the above-described property was seized at or near 8888 Carrisa Highway, Santa Margarita, California 93430, by the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Office, in connection with controlled substances, to wit, section(s) 11358, 11359, & 11360 of the California Health and Safety Code. The estimated/appraised value of the property is $7,697.00. The case is filed with the San Luis Obispo Superior Court, Case #21CV-0199.Pursuant to section 11488.4(j) of the California Health and Safety Code, you must file a verified claim stating your interest in the property with the Superior Court’s Civil Division, Room 385, County Courthouse Annex, 1035 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, California 93408. Claim forms are available from the Clerk of the above court and also online at Furthermore,https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/mc200.pdf.anendorsedcopyoftheverifiedclaim

TO: ALL PERSONS CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, OR INTEREST IN PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:$9,300.00IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY Notice is hereby given that on August 2, 2020, the above-described property was seized at or near 1635 Pine Street, Paso Robles, California 93446, by the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Office, in connection with controlled substances, to wit, section(s) 11470, 11351, & 11352(a) of the California Health and Safety Code. The estimated/ appraised value of the property is $9,300.00. Pursuant to section 11488.4(j) of the California Health and Safety Code, you must file a verified claim stating your interest in the property with the Superior Court’s Civil Division, Room 385, County Courthouse Annex, 1035 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, California 93408. Claim forms are available from the Clerk of the above court and also online at https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/mc200.pdf.Furthermore,anendorsedcopyoftheverified claim must also be served on the District Attorney, Asset Forfeiture Unit, County Courthouse Annex, 1035 Palm Street, 4th Floor, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, within 30 days of filing the claim with the Superior Court’s Civil Division.Both the District Attorney’s Office and the Interested Party filing the claim are entitled to conduct reciprocal requests for discovery in preparation for a hearing. The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure shall apply to the proceedings unless inconsistent with the provisions or procedures set forth in the Health and Safety Code (Section 11488.5(c)(3)). The Interested Party in entitled to legal representation at a hearing, although not one appointed at public expense, and has the right to present evidence and witnesses, and to cross-examine plaintiff’s witnesses, but there is no right to avoid testifying at a civil hearing.Thefailure to timely file and secure a verified claim stating an interest in the property in the Superior Court will result in the property being declared or ordered forfeited to the State of California and distributed pursuant to the provisions of Health and Safety Code section 11489 without further notice or hearing.

• The City Council will review of an appeal of the Planning Commission’s decision to approve a Minor Use Permit to establish a multi-vendor facility that includes a bar/tavern, restaurant, commercial recreation, general retail, indoor live entertainment, and food trucks. The project includes a parking reduction request and is categorically exempt from environmental review (1701 Monterey Street, APPL-02622022).

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For more information, you are invited to contact Alexander Fuchs of the City’s Community Development Department at (805) 783-7877 or afuchs@slocity.org

Project Location: 841 Patricia Drive (APN 052-520-063)

NOTICE: SEIZURE OF PROPERTY AND INITIATION OF NONJUDICIAL FORFEITURE PROCEEDINGS PER HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 11488.4(j) TO: ALL PERSONS CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, OR INTEREST IN PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS $2,365.00FOLLOWS:IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY Notice is hereby given that on August 8, 2022, the abovedescribed property was seized at or near the intersection of Elks and Prado in the City of San Luis Obispo, California by the San Luis Obispo Police Department, in connection with controlled substances, to wit, section(s) 11351, 11352, 11378, and 11379(a). The estimated/appraised value of the property is Pursuant$2,365.00.tosection 11488.4(j) of the California Health and Safety Code, you must file a verified claim stating your interest in the property with the Superior Court’s Civil Division, Room 385, County Courthouse Annex, 1035 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, California 93408. Claim forms are available from the Clerk of the above court and also online at https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/mc200.pdf.Furthermore,anendorsedcopyoftheverified claim must also be served on the District Attorney, Asset Forfeiture Unit, County Courthouse Annex, 1035 Palm Street, 4th Floor, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, within 30 days of filing the claim with the Superior Court’s Civil Division.Both the District Attorney’s Office and the Interested Party filing the claim are entitled to conduct reciprocal requests for discovery in preparation for a hearing. The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure shall apply to the proceedings unless inconsistent with the provisions or procedures set forth in the Health and Safety Code (Section 11488.5(c)(3)). The Interested Party in entitled to legal representation at a hearing, although not one appointed at public expense, and has the right to present evidence and witnesses, and to cross-examine plaintiff’s witnesses, but there is no right to avoid testifying at a civil hearing.Thefailure to timely file and secure a verified claim stating an interest in the property in the Superior Court will result in the property being declared or ordered forfeited to the State of California and distributed pursuant to the provisions of Health and Safety Code section 11489 without further notice or hearing.

PUBLIC HEARING ITEM: • Architectural Review of the residential building program for Enclave at Righetti, for construction of 26 single-family units, including minor exceptions to building height, setback, and lot coverage limitations (project is consistent with the certified Final EIR for the Orcutt Area Specific Plan and with the adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Righetti Vesting Tentative Tract Map); Project address: 3805 Orcutt Road; Case#: ARCH-0118-2022; Zone: R-1-SP; Righetti Enclave, LLC, applicant Contact Information: Walter Oetzell – (805) 7817593 woetzell@slocity.org

• The City Council will receive the Annual Cannabis Program Update, introduce an Ordinance amending Chapter 9.10 (Cannabis Regulations) of the Municipal Code to clarify requirements for applications and operator permits, and adopt a Resolution updating the Merit Criteria for Retail Storefront Cannabis Business Operator Permits.

Project Applicant: Eric and Julie (Representative:MichaelsOasisAssociates, Inc.)

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.

The San Luis Obispo Architectural Review Commission will hold a Regular Meeting on Monday, September 19, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo. Please note that with the return of in-person meetings, Zoom participation will not be supported. 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:

DATED: September 2, 2022 DAN DOW, District Attorney Kenneth Jorgensen, Deputy District Attorney September 8, 15, 22, 2022

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. Report(s) are typically available six days in advance of the meeting and can be viewed on the City’s website, under the Public Meeting Agendas web page: Septemberinformation,Developmentagendas-and-minutes.www.slocity.org/government/mayor-and-city-council/https://PleasecallTheCommunityDepartmentat(805)781-7170formoreortorequestanagendareport.8,2022

DATED: September 2, 2022 DAN DOW, District Attorney Kenneth Jorgensen, Deputy District Attorney September 8, 15, 22, 2022

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of San Luis Obispo’s Community Development Director has determined that the following project is qualified for adoption of a Mitigated Negative Declaration of Environmental Impact in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act.

DAN DOW, District Attorney Kenneth Jorgensen, Deputy District Attorney September 8, 15, 22, 2022

DATED: September 2, 2022 DAN DOW, District Attorney Kenneth Jorgensen, Deputy District Attorney September 8, 15, 22, 2022

NOTICE: SEIZURE OF PROPERTY AND INITIATION OF NONJUDICIAL FORFEITURE PROCEEDINGS PER HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 11488.4(j) TO: ALL PERSONS CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, OR INTEREST IN PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:$13,980.00IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY Notice is hereby given that on June 15, 2021, the above-described property was seized at or near 1568 Madonna Road, San Luis Obispo, California 93405, by the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Office, in connection with controlled substances, to wit, section(s) 11378 & 11351 of the California Health and Safety Code. The estimated/ appraised value of the property is $13,980.00. Pursuant to section 11488.4(j) of the California Health and Safety Code, you must file a verified claim stating your interest in the property with the Superior Court’s Civil Division, Room 385, County Courthouse Annex, 1035 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, California 93408. Claim forms are available from the Clerk of the above court and also online at https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/mc200.pdf.Furthermore,anendorsedcopyoftheverified claim must also be served on the District Attorney, Asset Forfeiture Unit, County Courthouse Annex, 1035 Palm Street, 4th Floor, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, within 30 days of filing the claim with the Superior Court’s Civil Division.Both the District Attorney’s Office and the Interested Party filing the claim are entitled to conduct reciprocal requests for discovery in preparation for a hearing. The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure shall apply to the proceedings unless inconsistent with the provisions or procedures set forth in the Health and Safety Code (Section 11488.5(c)(3)). The Interested Party in entitled to legal representation at a hearing, although not one appointed at public expense, and has the right to present evidence and witnesses, and to cross-examine plaintiff’s witnesses, but there is no right to avoid testifying at a civil hearing.Thefailure to timely file and secure a verified claim stating an interest in the property in the Superior Court will result in the property being declared or ordered forfeited to the State of California and distributed pursuant to the provisions of Health and Safety Code section 11489 without further notice or hearing.

Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for San Luis Obispo County, California and Incorporated Areas

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

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, to consider amending the Cannabis Program Fee Schedule Ordinance. The hearing will be held at the Board of Supervisors Chambers, County Government Center, 1055 Monterey Street, in San Luis Obispo. Recommended changes include amendments, increases, decreases, new, and deleted Cannabis related fees. Schedule B Fee amendments would become effective October 13, 2022. Any person interested in expressing their views regarding the proposed amendments to the Cannabis Program Fee Schedule may do so at the hearing. To determine specific placement of this item on the Board of Supervisors Agenda and to review the fee schedule amendments, go to the County’s website at www.slocounty.ca.gov on the Wednesday before the scheduled hearing date. The fee schedule amendments may also be reviewed at the: County Government Center Administrative Office, Room D430 1055 Monterey Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 (805) 781-5011

DATED: August 25, 2022

WADE HORTON, Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors

The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued a preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report, reflecting proposed flood hazard determinations within San Luis Obispo County, California and Incorporated Areas. These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway. Technical information or comments are solicited on the proposed flood hazard determinations shown on the preliminary FIRM and/or FIS report for San Luis Obispo County, California and Incorporated Areas. These flood hazard determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to either adopt or show evidence of being already in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. However, before these determinations are effective for floodplain management purposes, you will be provided an opportunity to appeal the proposed information. For information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, as well as a complete listing of the communities affected and the locations where copies of the FIRM are available for review, please visit FEMA’s website at PublishedSeptemberFEMAandStatus/bfe_main.asp,https://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/BFE_orcalltheFEMAMappingInsuranceeXchange(FMIX)tollfreeat1-877-MAP(1-877-336-2627).8,15,2022inNewTimes 084-241-005 $462.35 Shaffer Irene Heirs of 084-311-031 $462.35 Shaffer Irene Heirs of 084-311-032 $462.35 Wright Clifford Sr 084-381-005 $381.20 Canadilla Beatrice Heirs of Etal 084-451-038 $467.31 Garcia Maria Ta 084-461-019 $462.35 Carriage Homes A CA Corp 090-093-019 $255.62 Greathouse Mark A Tre 091-444-036 $2,300.29 Parra Oscar V 096-291-025 $1,283.69 Bridges James W & Debra L 902-001-281 $386.28 Roy William J 902-002-925 $455.80 Perisho Alice Tre 902-009-233 $316.74 I certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ JAMES W. HAMILTON, CPA San Luis Obispo County Auditor-Controller-Treasurer-Tax ExecutedCollector at San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, on September 1, 2022. Published in The New Times on September 1, September 8, and September 15, 2022.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Assessee Assessment Redemption Number Amount Assembly of God San Miguel 021-211-017 $512.61 Adams Nancy C Tre 043-351-007 $86,585.74 Pfeil Barbara J Tre Etal 064-062-021 $507.95 Mueller Stephan 064-063-041 $470.00 Penny Paul O Heirs of Etal 082-051-004 $475.48 Abernathy Everett B Heirs of 082-222-013 $1,043.73 Streng Blake E & Katharina A 083-031-002 $414.63 Streng Blake E & Katharina A 083-381-033 $467.31 Steffen Sandra J 083-391-013 $462.35 Streng Blake E & Katharina A 083-401-048 $462.35 Stamboni Phyllis

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COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING

PUBLISHED DELINQUENT LIST (Revenue and Taxation Code Section 3371)

WHAT: Hearing to consider a request by Joseph E. Lounsbury for a Lot Line Ad justment (COAL 21-0053) to adjust the lot lines of Lots 4 and 5 of an approximately 7,030-square-foot parcel. The proposed project is within the Residential Multi-Fam ily land use category and is located at 2012 Ocean Street within the community of Oceano. The site is in the San Luis Bay Inland Sub Area of the South County Planning Area. CEQA does not apply to projects a public agency rejects or disapproves. County File Number: N-SUB2022-00003 Supervisorial District: District 4 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 062-089-017 Date Accepted: 08/12/2022 WHERE: The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County Board of Super visors 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.

I, James W. Hamilton, CPA, San Luis Obispo County Audi tor-Controller-Treasurer-Tax Collector, State of California, certify that: The real properties listed below were declared to be in tax-default at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2019, by operation of law. The listed real property assessments are only those for which a copy of the latest delinquent reminder letter was returned as undeliverable by the United States Postal Service. The declaration of default was due to non-pay ment of the total amount due for the taxes, assessments and other charges levied in 2018/19 which were a lien on the listed real property. The name of the assessee, the assessment number, which describes the property, and the total that is due on or before September 30, 2022, is Tax-defaultedlisted. real property may be redeemed by payment of all unpaid taxes and assessments, together with addi tional penalties and fees as prescribed by law, or it may be redeemed under an installment plan. On July 1, 2024, if the taxes remain unpaid, or there is not an active Annual Installment Plan of Redemption, the property will become subject to tax sale. All information concerning redemption of tax-defaulted property, including the initiation of an installment plan, will be furnished upon request by the office of James W. Hamilton, CPA, San Luis Obispo County Auditor-Con troller-Treasurer-Tax Collector, at 1055 Monterey St., Rm. D-290, San Luis Obispo, California, 93408. Telephone inquiries may be directed to (805) 781-5836. Information on prior year tax amounts can also be found on the Tax Col lector’s website at: www.slocountytax.org.

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Commission WHEN: Thursday, September 22, 2022 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.

September 1, 8, 2022

WATER TREATMENT PLANT GENERATOR IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AT FACILITY 98 SPEC. NO. 1000126

By: Niki DeputyMartinClerk of the Board

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

ASSESSMENT NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION The assessment number refers to the Assessor’s map book, the map page, the block on the map (if applicable), and to the individual parcel number on the map page or in the Assessmentblock. numbers beginning with “902” indicate a timeshare property. The Assessor’s parcel maps and fur ther explanation of the assessment numbering system are available in the Assessor’s Office, 1055 Monterey St., Rm. D-360, San Luis Obispo, California, 93408.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the City of San Luis Obispo will receive bids by mail for the “WATER TREATMENT PLANT GENERATOR IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AT FACILITY 98, Spec. No. 1000126” at the Public Works Administration Office located at 919 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 until, Thursday, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022, at 2:00 P.M., when they will be publicly opened. Bids received after said time will not be considered. Bids shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked with the project title, contractor name, address, and specification number. The Contractor must possess a valid Class A Contractor’s License at the time of the bid opening. Every bid must be accompanied by a certified check/cashier’s check or bidder’s bond for 10% of the bid amount, payable to the City of San Luis Obispo. There will be a mandatory walkthrough on September 14, 2022. Bidders should meet at 879 Morro Street in San Luis Obispo to review the project requirements at 10:00 am, and be prepared to drive to the Water Treatment Plant for a mandatory tour scheduled for 10:30 am (1900 Stenner Drive). Download FREE at the City’s website: www.SloCity.org - Bid packages under Bids & Proposals. Questions may be addressed to Miguel Barcenas, Project Manager, at 805-781-7507 or email through BidSync (https://www.bidsync.com/bidsync-cas/). September 8, 2022

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 Cassidy McSurdy 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. Hannah Miller, Secretary Planning Commission September 8, 2022

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When you Geminis are at your best, you don’t merely tolerate dualities. You enjoy and embrace them. You work with them eagerly. While many non-Geminis regard oppositions and paradoxes as at best inconvenient and at worst obstructive, you often find how the apparent polarities are woven together and complementary. That’s why so many of you are connoisseurs of love that’s both tough and tender. You can be effective in seemingly contradictory situations that confuse and immobilize others. All these skills of yours should come in handy during the coming weeks. Use them to the hilt.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Jean Frémon says Cancerian naturalist Henry David Thoreau “always had two notebooks—one for facts, and the other for poetry. But Thoreau had a hard time keeping them apart, as he often found facts more poetic than his poems.” Judging from your current astrological omens, Cancerian, I suspect you are entering a time when facts will be even more poetic than usual. If you open yourself to the magic of reality, the mundane details of everyday life will delight you and appeal to your sense of wonder. Routine events will veer toward the marvelous. Can you bear to experience so much lyrical grace? I think so.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There are blessings in every abyss. You, of all the signs in the zodiac, have the greatest capacity to find those blessings and make them yours. Likewise, there is an abyss in each blessing. You, of all the signs, have the most power to make sure your experiences in the abyss don’t detract from but enhance the blessing. In the coming weeks, dear Scorpio, take maximum advantage of these superpowers of yours. Be a master of zeroing in on the opportunities seeded in the dilemmas. Show everyone how to home in on and enjoy the delights in the darkness. Be an inspirational role model as you extract redemption from the messes.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries-born Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was one of the greatest basketball players ever. He excelled at most aspects of the game. Some experts say his rebounding was only average for a player his size—7-foot-2. But he is still the third-best rebounder in National Basketball Association history. And he played for 20 years, until age 40. What tips might Abdul-Jabbar have for you now? Here’s a suggestion from him that aligns with your current astrological omens: “Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.” The implication is that you have a lot of strengths, and now it’s time to raise up the rest of your skill set.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The coming weeks will be a favorable time to dream up creative solutions to problems that haven’t fully materialized yet. Then you can apply your discoveries as you address problems that already exist. In other words, dear Aquarius, I’m telling you that your uncanny facility for glimpsing the future can be useful in enhancing your life in the present. Your almost psychic capacity to foretell the coming trends will be instrumental as you fix glitches in the here and now.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As a Taurus, you are always wise to be reverent toward your five senses. They are your glorious treasures, your marvelous superpowers, your sublime assets. In the coming weeks, they will serve you even better than usual. As you deploy them with all your amazement and appreciation unfurled, they will boost your intelligence. They will heighten your intuition in ways that guide you to good decisions. You will tune into interesting truths that had previously been hidden from you. I suspect your sensory apparatus will be so sharp and clear that it will work almost as extrasensory powers.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “To love oneself is hard work,” declares Virgo author Hanif Abdurraqib. He adds, “But I think it becomes harder when you realize that you’re actually required to love multiple versions of yourself that show up without warning throughout a day, throughout a week, throughout a month, throughout a life.” Let’s make that your inspirational strategy, Virgo. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to refine, deepen, and invigorate your love for all your selves. It may be hard work, but I bet it will also be fun and exhilarating.

Homework: of your past mistakes provided you with valuable lessons?

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3. Practice, practice, practice the art of moderation. Do so with the intention of using it as a flexible skill rather than an unthinking habit. 4. Applying the Goldilocks principle will be essential. Everything must be just right: neither too much nor too little; neither overly grand nor overly modest.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I have always felt you Capricorns are wise to commune with rocks, dirt, mud, sand, and clay. I think you should regularly touch the actual earth with your hands and bare feet. If I’m out hiking with a Capricorn friend, I might urge them to sniff blooming mushrooms and lean down to kiss the exposed roots of trees. Direct encounters with natural wonders are like magic potions and miracle medicine for you. Moreover, you flourish when you nurture close personal relationships with anything that might be described as foundational. This is always true, but will be extra true for you in the coming weeks. Your words of power are kernel, core, gist, marrow, and keystone.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “What good is it if you read Plato but never clean your toilet?” writes author Alice Munro. To which I add, “What good is it if you have brilliant breakthroughs and intriguing insights but never translate them into practical changes in your daily rhythm?” I’m not saying you are guilty of these sins, Leo. But I want to ensure that you won’t be guilty of these sins in the coming weeks. It’s crucial to your long-term future that you devote quality time to being earthy and grounded and pragmatic. Be as effective as you are smart.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One of my favorite Sagittarians is practical mystic Caroline Myss, who was born with sun and Mercury and ascendant in Sagittarius. In accordance with current astrological omens, I’ve gathered six of her quotes to serve your current needs. 1. There isn’t anything in your life that cannot be changed. 2. When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful. 3. Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you. 4. The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. 5. What serves your spirit enhances your body. What diminishes your spirit diminishes your body. 6. What is in you is stronger than what is out there to defeat you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming weeks, logic may be of only partial use to you. Information acquired through your senses might prove less than fully adequate, as well. On the other hand, your talents for feeling deeply and tapping into your intuition can provide you with highly accurate intelligence. Here’s a further tip to help you maximize your ability to understand reality: Visit a river or creek or lake. Converse with the fish and frogs and turtles and beavers. Study the ways of the crabs and crayfish and eels. Sing songs to the dragonflies and whirligig beetles and lacewings.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How to be the best Libra you can be in the next three weeks: 1. Make sure your cool attention to detail never gets chilly. Warm it up now and then. Invite your heart to add its counsel to your head’s observations. Tenderize your objectivity. 2. Always be willing to be puzzled. Always be entertained and educated by your puzzlement. Proceed on the theory that nothing ever changes unless somebody is puzzled.