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Fighting back against transients
Betsy Kiser, facilitator for San Luis Obispo’s Transient Task Force, recently walked the city’s downtown streets pointing out some of her group’s successes, and spelling out their strategies for battling SLO’s chronic transient problem — namely, she says, that there are simply too many of the young transients. # “It was disgusting,â€? Kiser says, brandishing a…
A new park for Los Osos, really?
Well, it’s not a sewer, but it’s a capital project that Los Ososans might agree on. San Luis Obispo County Parks has expressed interest in purchasing the 11-acre Tri-W site in Los Osos, which could turn the focal point of the sewer debate into a much needed, and desired, county park. “This has nothing to…
Not your mother’s Tupperware party
Back in the mid-1950s, Tupperware parties were all the rage for women in need of an escape from the obligations of work and family. A chance to indulge in a bit of much-needed girl time, these gatherings usually involved good food, tasty cocktails, outrageous gossip — and the purchase of state-of-the-art, airtight plastic food containers…
Let the good times roll with the punches
I may sound like a broken record when it comes to Mardi Gras in this town, but it’s better than sounding like a boring old fuddy-duddy, the sort of person who hands out apple slices or tangerines or rolls of pennies to kids on Halloween. What kind of a schmuck does that? The short answer:…
Be local, buy local, eat local
The Central Coast Ag Network kicks off a new campaign on February 24 at The Range restaurant in Santa Margarita to support local agricultural producers by raising consumer awareness. The group will be unveiling the “Central Coast Grownâ€? label, a way to identify locally grown goods. The effort is designed to help agricultural producers highlight…
Greyhound and driver sued in bus tragedy
 The family of a seven-months-pregnant woman who was killed in a Greyhound bus accident in Santa Maria November 27 is suing the nationwide public transport company for damages, and saying the driver was at fault.  The bus, traveling from Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo, crashed just after 7 Sunday morning on northbound Highway 101…
Correction
In “The Cost of Hoarding Animals� (New Times, February 16), the correct spelling for the defense attorney in the case is Ilan Funke-Bilu.
Higher education
On the outskirts of the SLO airport, amid the hangars full of privately owned “fixed-wingâ€? aircraft, you’ll find what might be one of the area’s most unusual learning institutions. A fading yellow warehouse serves as its main campus, where students hole up in dark quarters six days a week, their noses in books, their heads…
FAST FACTS
Congratulations to Cal Poly’s own Ryan G. Guillou, who recently received a $7,500 scholarship from the San Francisco Orchid Society. The funds will allow the 18-year-old from Venice, CA, to further his interests in horticulture by providing him with faculty-guided, hands-on training in the production, propagation, and sales of these flowering tropical plants. This is…
Animal cruelty takes flight in Nipomo
In a twisted way, the roughly 800 roosters found recently at a cock-breeding facility in Nipomo are lucky birds. They’re lucky because now they’ll most likely be put to death quickly instead of dying in a ring from punctured lungs, broken bones, and pierced eyes, victims of their nature and of the men who bred…
Letters
War and wild mustangsWhen I saw the cover of the February 9 New Times I had to pick it up. I had no idea there were any wild mustangs on the Central Coast. I thought I would have an educational read about these beautiful animals.  When I read Mr. Stone’s quote, “Horses have been so…
Kristin Smart reward getting results
Terry Black, the angry man who is offering $25,000 for the location of Kristin Smart and whose ad appeared in the February 9 issue of New Times, is still ticked off, but his outlook has been tempered somewhat by at least one response he has received.  It didn’t come in the form of a clue,…
