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Neighbors Who Disappeared
History tells us that 6 million people died. But that was a long time ago, and very far away. # Do we remember that those 6 million were put to death in a campaign of planned genocide and their deaths often followed intense suffering? But that was such a long time ago and in another…
Fast Facts
The North County Humane Society will present its 11th Annual Dinner Auction on Oct. 14 at the Paso Robles Inn. High Flyin’ Tails will feature a reception, silent auction, three-course dinner, and Central Coast wines. The auction will feature items with a travel and lifestyle theme. Particularly exciting packages include a London holiday and a…
Let us spray
Wouldn’t you know it? It’s like I’m a reverse psychological master or something. Last week, I talked about how crummy vandalism is shocking all of you who always thought I was the tip-top of the bad boys. The rebel without a cause. The Shredder in a black leather jacket, leaning on a convertible, flicking away…
The mad cowboy comes to town
Howard Lyman gained national attention after appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show in April 1996, speaking as a former rancher about food production practices related to Mad Cow Disease, aka Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (B.S.E.). Now, he’s coming to San Luis Obispo. Although Lyman had been speaking publicly about B.S.E. since # 1990, American interest in…
Of coffee and caps
Starbucks isn’t exactly synonymous with grassroots social campaigns, but for a local knitting group that emphasizes sociability in addition to social responsibility, it’s the perfect meeting space. The Tuesday Night Knitsters began gathering two years ago at Starbucks in the Marigold Center, where group organizer Felicia Kalsch worked. When she got transferred to the Starbucks…
Letters
I don’t have time to respond to youI am a Cal Poly student. I’m from San Diego, and I’ve lived in this town for five years and … I want to respond to your commentary (“I want to be a Cal Poly student,” Oct. 5). Unfortunately, I don’t have the time. Between taking classes, completing…
Atascadero staffers claim pressure from leaders
Bob Kelley, an Atascadero planning commissioner and local Realtor, and Robert “Grigger” Jones, a local attorney, are being talked about and not just because they’re both City Council candidates. # Allegations have surfaced recently in the form of a stack of official documents on file with the city. The city staff members making the accusations…
Freedom to march debated in Atascadero
Oppose Wal-Mart supporters and freedom-of-speech activists urged the Atascadero Main Street Association during the Oct. 10 Atascadero City Council meeting to reconsider and allow members of the grassroots organization to march in the association’s annual Colony Day Parade, scheduled for Oct. 21. Councilman George Luna placed the debate on the agenda in an attempt to…
County seeks fire protection protection
San Luis Obispo County administrators filed an adversary complaint on Oct. 6 in the bankruptcy proceedings of the Los Osos Community Services District. The motion requests that Santa Barbara public bankruptcy judge Robin Riblet issue court orders to ensure that emergency fire and medical response will not suffer as a result of the post-bankruptcy penny-pinching…
Felony disenfranchisement
The restoration of voting rights to felons is not an issue that concerns most citizens. And yet, the disenfranchisement of 5.3 million Americans has much bigger implications than hanging chads and butterfly ballots issues that commanded considerable attention after the 2000 presidential election. With the November elections just around the corner and another presidential election…
Cal Poly student assaulted near campus
On Friday, Oct. 6, 18-year-old Cal Poly student Ryan David Alcaraz was found lying on the sidewalk, unconscious, near the intersection of Monte Vista and California. An ambulance took him to Sierra Vista Hospital, where he was brought to the emergency room at 10 p.m. The hospital notified the police at 12:15 a.m., but because…
Vandals strike two local churches
Local investigators continued this week to hunt for the individuals characterizing their actions as hate crimes responsible for two church vandalisms in the early hours of Oct. 4. # Parishioners and staff of Calvary Baptist Church in San Luis Obispo and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Los Osos discovered anti-religious statements scrawled in…
