Street Wise

Victoria Martin student, certified nursing assistant (CNA) “Nope. Not a top priority.” Ana Chavez student, CNA “No. I’m not interested. I have other priorities.” Amy Stanzione student, CNA “No. I just don’t think about it. I’m too focused on other stuff.” Darrin Westbrook maintenance worker “Not really. I follow the U.S. political elections.”

Katie Pearson assistant director at Wildling Museum of Art & Nature “I love raccoons. I think they’re really cute looking, but I love how promiscuous and tricky they are. They get into garbage cans, their little hands are so amazing, and they can really pick things apart and do incredible things.” Stacey Otte-Demangate executive director […]

Joseph Maycotte freshman at Allan Hancock College “Not that much.” Kelli Reed sophomore at Allan Hancock College “I’m really careful about how I throw things away. I want to have drinking water.” Megan Roberts freshman at Allan Hancock College “It comes to mind almost all of the time. I try to conserve water. If this […]

Mariah Alvarez student, Santa Maria High School “People who have good attitudes, and the taste of the food.” Donna Alvarado student, Santa Maria High School “It all has to do with customer service and how they attend to people, their attitude toward them.” Aldo De Los Santos student, Tommie Kunst Junior High “Atmosphere. Not a […]

Elizabeth Fields author “I think that personal experience that you can draw from always makes a great story. If you can create fiction with a personal twist and insert some of yourself into it, you can’t go wrong.” Darin Gabler owner of The Bookworm “Something unexpected that you somehow find yourself in, and you read […]

Brielle Casillas student at Pioneer Valley High School “Being that I want to be a police officer, I feel the officers felt their lives were threatened, but they didn’t all have to shoot at once.” Nathan Padilla student at Pioneer Valley High School “I think they did what they had to do. You’d be panicking […]

Marissa Prado teacher “Hiking in San Luis Obispo County.” Christian Nunes cooler worker “I’m going to go with hiking.” Jordy Cardona student “Swimming, anywhere.” Yadire Barajas student “Swimming.”

Esthira Davis house wife “I would buy one to protect myself.” Beatrice Gofigan self-employed “I would, just to protect myself.” Kylie Evans student at Allan Hancock College “No, I feel like I wouldn’t need it. Maybe in this town, I would.” Brian Krow Walmart employee “In these times? Yes, because the way things are and […]

Jeremiah Wiseblood student “Harry Potter. I like the whole magical universe that’s created, and just the idea of Hogwarts is super awesome to me.” Destiny Cuveas student  “Hansel and Gretel because it’s kind of dark but has a happy ending.” Teisha Bustamante key holder  “Probably The Vow. It’s about love, fighting for love, and how […]

Allison Cuevas student “Barbecuing and watching fireworks with my family.” Isac Estrada student “Going shopping to get fireworks and barbecuing with family. And deciding which house to do fireworks at.” Ciera Cortez student “Time with my family, barbecuing.” Jorge Camarena student “Not being inside. Just basically what everyone else does, go out with my family […]

Mike Dugan works at Roundtable Pizza “Not really, because there are organized fireworks shows. Safe and sane is OK as long as you don’t light them off in a dry location. You don’t want to rain on everyone’s parade.” Marlene Montano nursing student at Allan Hancock College “They probably shouldn’t even sell the legal ones. […]

Gloria Dickey retired “Right now it’s the housing of the farmworkers. We really need it and we really need them. We have people without work, but they will not go out there into the fields and do the work these people do. So we should house them.” Julie Miller registered nurse “I think the immigrant […]