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Fests, Fairs & Fun
FILLMORE & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY sponsors spooky and fun activities through October, including pumpkin picks, Headless Horseman adventures, Ghost Train trips, Fright Night Murder Mystery Dinner Trains, and school field trips. Info: 524-2546 or www.fwry.com PAPA TOMMY?S RESTAURANT in Paso Robles features the Pat Cormick Group through October. Info: 227-6363. FRIDAY NIGHT SKATE SESSIONS in…
Public gets Diablo tour
Barring an unforeseen orange alert, the Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee (DCISC) will bring a group of San Luis Obispo residents to the nuclear power plant for an informational tour. This is the second time residents will be able to visit the plant since tours were put on hiatus after 9/11. The first planned tour…
I’ll tell you what stinks:
On behalf of the Los Osos Community Services District, I would like to correct errors made in the article titled “Three Blocks Upwind of Downtownâ€? by Ron Crawford printed in the Sept. 23-29 edition of New Times, and object to the vulgar language used by Mr. Crawford. INACCURATE INFORMATION: “Taxpayers have already said that they…
French Hospital welcomes new CEO
Catholic Healthcare West has hired Alan Iftiniuk as the new CEO of French Hospital Medical Center in San Luis Obispo. Iftiniuk has an extensive career spanning more than 25 years as a health care executive. He spent the last three years on the executive management team at Catholic Healthcare West in San Francisco, prior to…
‘Billionaires’ to visit Farmers’ Market
Billionaires for Bush — the famed political protest group that mocks the economic elite that the group says has been benefiting from Bush’s pro-wealth policies — will be at San Luis Obispo’s Farmers’ Market on Oct. 7. Letta M. Eatcake and her friends Iona Yacht and Millie O’Nair will be strutting their uptown stuff, laughing…
Calls to diarrhea hotline decline in regularity
Although it was almost a month ago that an intestinal parasite, cryptosporidium parvum, or Crypto, shut down the Mustang Waterslides at Lopez Lake, officials at the San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department are still receiving calls about potential infections. Their “diarrhea hotline,â€? 788-2903, has handled some 545 calls. 481 of those who called showed…
Federal cleanup funds for local mines?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a plan that would provide federal money to clean up two of the county’s abandoned mercury mines. “I’m glad to see that these sites need to be cleaned up and that the EPA is taking the lead on it,â€? said Curtis Batson, director of environmental health for San…
The sky is falling
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. Well, as fine as anyone can feel with the ground shaking every 60 seconds. It’s hard to write with all thejgjkgokjfg;fgarfgfjafnanlkfj;g;n;;hagoh. Sorry. That one felt to me like, oh I’d say about a 7.0, though when I factor out my own…
County air scores high on 2003 report card
The annual air quality report for 2003, just released by the Air Pollution Control District (APCD) for the County of San Luis Obispo, reaffirms what many already suspect: SLO County continues to enjoy good air quality. Over the course of the year, the APCD monitors the air at a number of locations around the county.…
Series of quakes shakes up county
The San Andreas Fault is restless. Starting with Tuesday’s 10:15 a.m. 6.0 earthquake, the fault has provided Central California with a number of jolts and “Did you feel that?â€? moments. Tuesday’s shaker was followed a few minutes later by a 5.0 and then a number of smaller quakes. Almost exactly 24 hours later, a 5.0…
