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Crawling from the wreckage
What if she’d been wearing her seat belt? Would she be alive today? What if he hadn’t been speeding? Would he have lost control? Questions can be tormenting, especially when those questions follow a horrible tragedy. Parents, family members, and friends might find themselves asking any number of things, including, ‘What could I have done…
The art of giving
If the price-slashing deals of the Black Friday super sales left you longing for more from your holiday shopping experience, then maybe it’s time to step outside of the big box and check out the locally made goods at the SLO Art Center’s annual CraftArt Market. It’s a great place to find a huge selection…
Yes, Victoria, there is a Santa
All I want for Christmas is my two bare cheeks. I’m talking about the mannequin that used to be on display in the Victoria’s Secret window on Higuera. Remember her? The one that looked like she was flossing a part of her that four out of five dentists don’t typically check for gingivitis? Looks to…
Paso woman sentenced in deadly wreck
Megan Lee Jewell, 24, of Paso Robles, was sentenced to a year in county jail and 10 years felony probation for her involvement in a car wreck in the summer of 2004. Jewell had a blood-alcohol level of .15 during the crash, which is more than twice the legal limit. On July 31, 2004, Jewell…
Diamond Adult World remains open despite fine
Steve Diamond, owner of the local Diamond Adult World chain, must pay a fine of $10,000 for refusing to remove the bulk of adult items from his Grover Beach location. A city ordinance prohibits businesses from utilizing more than 25 percent of their floor space to display adult merchandise. The Grover Beach store will remain…
Dan De Vaul’s dream as a scale model
Could Sunny Acres become a reality? Dan De Vaul is one step closer to his dream of providing affordable rehabilitation facilities on his Los Osos Valley Road ranch, after Cal Poly architecture students presented their master land use plans to De Vaul and a small group of architecture faculty. Less than a year ago Dan…
Sewer update
The Los Osos Community Services District won’t be fined for delaying the controversial sewer project – at least not in December. The Regional Water Quality Control Board, which is expected to fine the district $11 million, postponed its next hearing on the matter due to legal arguments until Jan. 5. The board will at that…
High-end heist
A gang of what police are calling ‘gypsy-like thieves” pilfered women’s lingerie from Victoria’s Secret on Higuera Street in San Luis Obispo on Dec. 2, making off with a bundle of panties and 240 brassieres. According to police, at least two men and two women, described as Hispanics in their 30s or 40s, apparently overwhelmed…
Santa helps out in SLO
Christmas came early this year for 100 local elementary school children in the form of a Saturday-morning shopping spree. The Rotary Club of San Luis Obispo de Tolosa sponsored the Dec. 3 event to the tune of about $100 per child, and Mervyn’s of SLO offered a discount. For the past eight years, Rotarians have…
Diablo to store more spent fuel rods in pools
PG&E got the go-ahead from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to store additional spent fuel rods in the plant’s storage pools. The plan to store the rods is temporary while aboveground dry-cask storage units are completed. San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, the local watchdog group, opposes the plan because the pools were not originally designed…
Roles changing at the Clark center
Big changes are in store for the Clark Center Performing Arts Association. Board President Frank Jarratt announced his plans to retire at the end of the year, and Executive Director Mychele Dee gave her two-week notice earlier this month. ‘Mychele is leaving us in good hands,” Jarratt said in a press release. ‘The association is…
Popular broadcast journalism teacher dies
Bob Hartwig, longtime language and communications instructor at Cuesta College, died over the weekend of natural causes. He was 58 years old. Hartwig joined Cuesta in 1976 as a broadcast media instructor coming from Cal State Chico with a degree in mass communications and later San Diego State with a degree in radio and television.…
Emergency landing at SLO airport
An airplane heading from L.A. to Monterey was forced to land at San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport after one of its two engines failed on Dec 6. Skywest Flight 6091 landed at 1:09 p.m. without incident. The 25 passengers aboard the Embraer Brasilia were bused to Monterey. The plane is currently grounded and calls…
Disasters spark interest in CERT training
Last May, when former SLO City fire chief Bob Neumann and his countywide compatriates were trying to get local residents into the disaster preparedness training program called CERT, the County Emergency Response Team, most were hearing about it either by word of mouth, through fliers in utility bills, or by reading about it in our…
Letters
Georgi was right Thank you, David Georgi, for your letter to the editor in this week’s New Times (‘Braun was a Bush administration victim,” Nov. 24-Dec. 1). You said it all exactly how it is with this president and his administration and how it led to Marlene Braun’s death as report-ed in the article ‘To…
Monday power outage due to failed circuit
About 5,000 customers in San Luis Obispo lost power Dec. 5 at 5:24 p.m. Sharon Gavin, PG&E spokesperson, said the cause of the problem was an underground circuit that had failed. She called the outage a ‘large power outage for our area.” Power was restored to all but 108 customers in about 3 1/2 hours,…
Christmas – going, going… gone?
Christmas music of the future: ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Holiday,” ‘I’m Dreaming of a White Holiday,” ‘I’ll be Home for Holiday.” Christmas is being purged from our culture at an ever-accelerating pace. Christmas parades have been replaced by Winterfests. Schools frown on Christmas decorations. Cities and towns have rechristened the municipal Christmas tree a…
