Tickets are on sale for the biggest and most important fundraiser of the year for the Allan Hancock College athletics department. The 15th annual Joe White Memorial Dinner and Auction will take place Saturday, Aug. 27, at the Elks Lodge, 1309 N. Bradley Road, in Santa Maria. Guests will be able to bid on hundreds […]
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Senior Joan Wiley gets her diploma 65 years later
Joan Wiley was supposed to be the valedictorian of her graduating class in 1951. She was the editor of her high school paper, she worked in her school’s office, and she was close with her teachers, but she did one thing that kept her from getting her diploma for 65 years—she fell in love and […]
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Minimum standards
You don’t have to have it all together, you just have to look like you tried
There is a saying I have in my house that I repeat, usually before getting ready to go somewhere: “Minimum standards.” It’s the thing I say when I’m freshening up and my husband asks me why I’m getting ready because, “we’re only going to the beach,” or “we’re only going to Home Depot.” It is […]
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High school students compete Summer Science Institute
While most Santa Maria area students were on vacation this summer, eight teens participated in the seventh annual Summer Science Institute founded by Riccardo Magni. These students met for six weeks at Allan Hancock College from June 13 to July 21, Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Students had to apply to […]
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High school students compete Summer Science Institute
While most Santa Maria area students were on vacation this summer, eight teens participated in the seventh annual Summer Science Institute founded by Riccardo Magni. These students met for six weeks at Allan Hancock College from June 13 to July 21, Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Students had to apply to […]
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Neal Taylor Nature Center invites kids to ‘Go Batty’
Cachuma Lake’s Neal Taylor Nature Center invites local families to two events featuring local bats, titled Go Batty, on July 23 and 30 at 8 p.m. The event happens at dusk, when the flying mammals come out to feed, and will include a talk by Santa Barbara Natural History Museum biologist Paul Collins. The Go […]
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Nipomo resident receives continuing education award
The UCI Division of Continuing Education (DCE) announced that Nipomo resident Barbara Maddox was honored at a recent graduation ceremony for the completion of continuing education programs during the 2015-2016 academic year. Maddox earned a certificate in Spa and Hospitality Management, and was honored because she went out of her way to help fellow classmates […]
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Lompoc offers free lunch for kids in city parks
The city of Lompoc’s Recreation Division is collaborating with the Lompoc Unified School District (LUSD) in its Free Lunch for Kids program, available at several city locations during the summer. The Lompoc Recreation Division and the LUSD is working with with other community organizations as well, according to a release from the city of Lompoc, […]
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Golf the Ketrenia Klassic
The Lompoc Family YMCA is accepting registrations, sponsorships, and donations for the seventeenth annual Kid’s for Character Golf Tournament, The Ketrenia Klassic in memory of the late Ketrenia Hall. The event will be held at Village Country Club on Friday, July 22. Dinner, awards, a raffle, and a live and silent auction will promptly follow […]
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Golf to support kids
The 17th annual Ag for Youth Golf Tournament takes place on July 25 in support of the Santa Maria Valley Boys & Girls Clubs. The day starts with a lunch catered by Rooney’s Irish Pub. The tournament starts at 11:30 a.m. at the Santa Maria Country Club and is a shotgun start, four player scramble. […]
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Movie night at the Santa Maria library on July 27
The Santa Maria Public Library offers the movie San Andreas, rated PG-13, at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 27, in the Shepard Hall. In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey with his ex-wife across the state in order to rescue his daughter. The movie stars Dwayne […]
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What next? PG&E plans to decommission Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, but what would that entail?
Since the day plans were announced for Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, controversy has surrounded it. Now, since PG&E announced plans not to seek relicensing of the plant, questions have come to light. Specifically, what will become of the waste generated? What are the long-term impacts of so many years of operating a nuclear power […]