Cover Story
Volunteering with a passion
New Year’s is a time when many people resolve to break bad habits, but in this week’s issue, we feature a group of individuals who seem to have a habit worth keeping. They volunteer, and how. The way some of them do it, you’d think they were addicted. Take Virginia Kasper and Marie Wilson, for…
Why does New Times hate Christians?
I believe Russell Hodin expresses anti-Christian bigotry in his cartoon headed with “Own a piece of Heaven!â€? in the Dec. 23-30 issue of New Times. I am deeply offended and have asked my wife not to pick up your paper again. She agrees. She is too offended, as is my daughter and son. When my…
Los Osos: Who’s responsible?
SLO County must wonder what is going on out in Los Osos. How did the cost of the sewer become $162 million? Why did Los Osos want to build a sewer plant in the middle of town? Who would spend almost $20 million without a building permit in hand? Whatever happened to the “better, faster,…
Fly the friendly skies
My dad always used to tell me that appearances were everything, which is probably why we kept them up so long in my family. “Everything’s fine!â€? we’d tell the neighbors. “All that shouting last night was just a game we were playing. We threw all of my brother’s clothes out on the lawn so they…
Customer service includes hot beverages
Kudos to Nancy Billings (“Coffee is not a crime,â€? Dec. 23-30) for publicizing Downtown Centre Cinema’s nonsensical anti-coffee policy. What an absurdly reactionary and ill-defined response to their legal problem. With this type of backward-looking thinking, they are prone to limitless future suits — such as Ms. Billings’ example of someone choking on a piece…
No choice but a recall
The three Los Osos CSD board members that are being recalled — Stan Gustafson, Gordon Hensley, and Richard La Gros — have had plenty of time and opportunity to provide us with a more affordable sewer system. There are those in Los Osos who have studied investigated this sewer project and presented their findings to…
Conflict of interest
Less than a month before Jerry Lenthall was sworn in as 3rd District Supervisor, he flew to San Francisco on a plane owned by PG&E. Lenthall traveled to San Francisco on Dec. 8 to testify at a California Coastal Commission hearing. On the table was a proposal to store radioactive waste above ground at PG&E’s…
Have you actually been in Diamond Adult World?
Your cover story from a few weeks ago about Steve Diamond called “Sex in your cityâ€? (Dec. 9-16) should have more accurately been given the title “Misogyny in your city.â€? Awhile ago I personally took a lengthy tour of Diamond Adult World in Grover Beach as research for an article I was writing, and I…
Stop arguing and start working
It seems everyone is tired of hearing about the Los Osos Sewer Project. Perhaps because it has been going on for 30 years and the controversy continues. We seem to forget that if the community would have built a wastewater plant 30 years ago, Los Osos residents would be paying a sewer bill between $15…
Ask a Cambrian next time
Regarding the Dec. 30-Jan. 6 letter from P.D. Hill: Mr. Hill’s ignorance regarding Cambria’s potential for growth is astounding. At 1 percent growth cap, with vast quantities of retired lots, minimal groundwater storage, and an extremely aware (and politically active) citizenry, he needs more info about this town from other residents who know. Embarrassingly presumptuous…
Shame on you, ‘parking fairies’
After reading “Miracle on Higuera Streetâ€? by The Shredder (Dec. 23-30), I was highly disappointed. Not only did it have no mention of the option to park in the parking garage, the first hour being free, but it also left out a very important detail about the fairies: These fairies were harassing one very specific…
Ms. Billings, explain yourself
After considering the recent article “Coffee is not a crime,â€? I discovered that in spite of her obvious outrage, Nancy Billings provides no rational evidence to support her claim that the company’s policy is unjust. Her anger was crystal clear, but I had difficulty determining if she realizes the policy is enforced for safety and…
Don’t let them get away with this
At my first meeting as LOCSD director, I made a sincere plea to the other directors to wait only one month to hear an alternative wastewater proposal from the Los Osos Technical Task Force (LOTTF) before traveling to Sacramento to get a loan extension/increase of $139 million. After receiving direction from the board in late…
Put your best face forward
Dr. Roman Bukachevsky has practiced plastic surgery in San Luis Obispo since 1991, and for about a decade he’s been volunteering his time and expertise with Face-to-Face, a national program that started in 1994 in cooperation with the American Academy of Facial and Plastic Reconstructive Surgeons and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Face-to-Face helps…
