Courtesy of PLAY, Inc., the Paul Nelson Aquatic Center will present free swim days from now until Aug. 25. Open to all ages from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Sundays, the Olympic-size pool is available for family, friends, and neighbors to visit. An adult must accompany all children; lifeguards are on duty at all times. […]
Dive on in!
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Enjoy Family Day at Orcutt Hill
The Guadalupe Dunes Center put out the word to save the date for a family day at Orcutt Hill Open Space. Courtesy of Pacific Coast Energy Company and the Dunes Center, families are invited to come out for a day of fun-filled activity and softball fundraising on Aug. 3. Complete with live music, food, and […]
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Get your game on the court
The newest addition to the Allan Hancock College coaching staff, basketball head coach Tyson Aye, will be heading up a basketball camp at the school. Available for girls and boys ages 6 to 18, the camp will run from 9 a.m. to noon at the Joe White gymnasium Aug. 5 through 8. Players will learn […]
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Memorial auction returns
The 12th annual Joe White Memorial Dinner and Auction is quickly approaching. Scheduled for Aug. 17, the event will be held at the Santa Maria Fairpark Pavilion. The doors open at 5:30 with a silent auction and social hour. The evening will also feature a New York strip steak dinner served at 7 p.m. with […]
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New coach and schedule on the way
The Santa Maria Saints cross-country team will start playing host to summer training on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and Wednesdays from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saints athletic director Joe Graack will soon announce the new head coach for girls’ cross-country. “We have the goal to take the Santa Maria […]
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Southside heads south for sectionals
Southside District 65 won its championship game on Tuesday, July 9. At Simas Park, the team finally went a full game in the tournament after run-ruling its opponents in the previous four games. Northside came out in the first inning and knocked a home run off of pitcher Jaden Lyburtus, but its bats were silent […]
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Zumba for the mind
The small-framed Rosalie Fortner is dwarfed by the number of bodies dancing behind her. There are at least 50 students in her morning Zumba class on July 12; a mix of men, women, children, and senior citizens spread from wall to wall in five semi-straight rows that face the mirror inside the Santa Maria Valley […]
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A study in satire
There are those who look at the ills of the world and moan and lament. But others realize that sometimes all we can do is sit back and laugh. Gale McNeeley is a local actor who’s enjoyed a career on and off Broadway, all over the country. His upcoming show at Café Noir in […]
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Blunder after blunder
My fiancée and I owned a business for nearly two years in Santa Maria’s Town Center West. It was a coffee shop a couple of doors down from Big 5 Sporting Goods. Every morning as the coffee brewed, we watched the sun rise over the Santa Maria Town Center and cast light on the monolith […]
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The Canary dishes on Santa Barbara County Jail food complaints
There’s this old saying about variety being the spice of life, but I think maybe salt is. Sure, some people may argue that it’s cumin or saffron, but to me, salt has universal appeal. It makes everything better—in moderation, of course. Salt makes food more foody. There’s also this old saying about how if you […]
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The grocery getter
The great state of California has deemed that my son is capable and responsible enough to pilot a 3,000-pound car at 70 miles an hour pretty much wherever he feels like. You have all been officially warned. I am doing everything I can to ensure nobody’s dog ends up underneath my son’s car and, more […]
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A labor of love
Music has expanded into genres so multitudinous that no single publication can hope to cover them all. Unfortunately, this means many music lovers must scratch deeper to find magazines that feature what they’re interested in. One local by the name of Joseph Timmons took matters into his own hands and created an online publication called […]