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Submerged
New Orleans is gone. I left it behind me on Saturday, with my two kids in the backseat, the soundtrack to “Shrek” on the CD player. My wife, a pediatrician, was on call for the weekend and stayed behind. She joined us in a town just outside Lafayette, La., Sunday evening after a harrowing odyssey…
CHP chases down IDs of high speed fatalities
The driver killed in a high-speed chase in SLO on Labor Day was a 23-year-old man from Ventura, but the CHP isn’t releasing his name until relatives are notified. The passenger, still unknown, was a Hispanic male between the ages of 18-25. CHP officer Joe Vega says both men are transients. They were in a…
Sewer opponents flock together
With just three weeks remaining before the pivotal recall election in Los Osos, the Coalition for Voice, Vision and Choice convened Tuesday night to raise funds and awareness for its three CSD candidates, Chuck Cesena, John Fouche, and Steve Senet. In an ongoing series of public politicking, this most recent installment of “Meet the Candidates”…
Tears for America
The disbelief gave way to horrified reality, then to shame, then to fury. Still to come: boredom. It happened to our party city, and to us. Not just the storm. Even more, its consequences: a rankling, growing outcry that people at the top have played politics with American lives here at home as well. Or…
From the Central Coast to the Gulf Coast
Before suffering the wrath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was home to some of the finest fare in all of the country. Tourists and residents of the Big Easy sat in cafes and ate beignets, crawfish, and jerk chicken, and drank the best wines available, much of which came from the Central Coast. So when…
Letters
Most obvious solution better than no solution I can assure Mr. Quisenberry (“Don’t blame hunters, blame cats,” Letters, Sept. 1-8) that no environmentalist thinks introducing predatory house pets to natural ecosystems and their wildlife is a good thing. Public education is likely to be far more effective than any attempt at a cat-curbing ordinance. Yes,…
Cal Poly to break ground on stadium renovation; California Blvd. to remain closed for one year
The old bleachers have been torn down, California Boulevard is blocked off, and Cal Poly is ready to begin construction on a $21.5 million remodel of its aging stadium. At a ceremony on Sept. 10, university officials will officially launch construction on new seating on the west side of the stadium – the first phase…
Other lures ‘can’t touch this’
A new business in Shell Beach is casting an idea for fishing lures that really “puts the bling on your string.” Teri Conrad and MacDaddy McBurney have recently started a wholesale business that sells fishing lures made from diamonds and gold. McBurney and Conrad both grew up fishing with their fathers and learned the simple…
Hurricane Katrina: Some ways to help
The following are just a few ways you can help Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. The American Red Cross: www.redcross.org, or call the SLO chapter at 543-0696. The Red Cross needs monetary donations; at this time they are not accepting bulk goods, such as food, bedding, and clothing. They are also looking for people willing to…
Same storm, another Dome
Outside the Cajundome, a line of cars snakes down Cajundome Boulevard into the parking lots. On the corner of Souvenir Gate, the Lafayette Police Department Mobile Command Unit stands at the parking lot entrance. The cars are filled with young and old, the healthy and the sick, and they all need one thing: shelter from…
Hop in the handbasket
For about as long as Costco has existed, bitter San Luis Obispo dwellers have grumbled about the possibility of it coming to town. When I say San Luis Obispo dwellers, I’m not talking about these kids who’ve lived here for the 10 or 15 years since they got their Cal Poly degree just because their…
‘Elderly woman’ arrested for forgery, evading police
According to San Luis Obispo Sheriff deputies, a teller at Mid-State Bank in Nipomo last week became suspicious when a man wearing a wig and trying to pass himself off as an elderly woman pulled up to the drive-through and attempted to withdraw $5,000. The Sheriff’s Department was called, and when deputies arrived they attempted…
No need for SLO Police in New Orleans
So far none of the Gulf states have made formal requests for supplemental police officers from California, said SLO Police Chief Deborah Linden. Still, the SLO Police Department has contingency plans in place should the requests be made. “Very rarely would [that request] occur,” said Linden, due to the distance to New Orleans. Linden said…
