• Pinewood Derby Workshops: The Lompoc Police Activities League is holding workshops to gear up for the city’s Pinewood Derby Race on March 17 at Anderson Recreation Center. The workshops are open to all kids ages 5 and older, and will be held on March 1 at 6:30 p.m. at La Honda Elementary School, and […]
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Lompoc Parks and Rec holds fundraising golf tourney
The Lompoc Parks & Recreation will be presenting the ninth annual LP&R Golf Tournament on April 1 at Vandenberg Air Force Base’s Marshallia Golf Course. The four-person scramble tournament includes awards for the top three teams, closest to pins on Par 3 holes, a long drive competition, raffle prizes, and mulligans. Check-in time is 11 […]
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Athlete of the Week: Christina Ozzimo
Christina Ozzimo has played a large role on her soccer team this year, helping the Nipomo Titans end their season with a 13-8-2 record and their first trip to the CIF playoffs since 2005. She’s been kicking soccer balls around since she was 5 years old. By the time she turned 8, her friends were […]
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Staying in the game
The approach of spring signifies the start of something important for avid sports fans, something that takes people back to their childhood days of barbecues and never-ending baseball (or softball) games in the park. It’s the time of year when the smell of fresh-cut grass perfumes the air, Sundays are spent playing catch, and local […]
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House of Lindquist
Visit the Qupé tasting room in Los Olivos and you’ll find a familial feast—a multitude of wines made by three different members of the Lindquist family: venerable vintner Bob Lindquist’s Qupe wines, his wife Louisa Sawyer Lindquist’s Verdad wines, and Bob’s son Ethan Lindquist’s wine label, appropriately named Ethan. Bob’s daughter Paige Lindquist runs the […]
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Avila’s voice was heard
The community of Avila Beach is in the news again; attention is being focused on “Lachen Tara,” the community’s affordable housing apartments. It seems timely to think about the history of how this tiny community was able to secure the affordable housing in the first place. It’s a story that needs to be told before […]
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Hobnobbing With Helen
If you bought a $60 ticket to the 10th annual Mardi Gras dinner, dance, and auction held by St. Mary of the Assumption School, you automatically had a chance to win a 19-inch flatscreen TV. “We always have a door prize,” volunteered über-volunteer Denise Gannt, one of three moms who started St. Mary’s Mardi Gras […]
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Wonderstruck: A Novel in Words and Pictures
Brian Selznick is the author and illustrator of the Caldecott Award-winning book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which was made into the Academy Award-nominated film Hugo. He’s also a recipient of one of the 2012 American Library Association Schneider Family Book Awards for his new book, Wonderstruck: A Novel in Words and Pictures. This award […]
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Give green TV a chance
After encountering many people who have almost a phobia toward anything pro-environment, Jeanne Sparks and her like-minded friends created the North County Green Team to change the negative stereotypes of environmentalists with a television show. “We’d like to highlight the wonderful, positive environmental actions going on in the North County,” Sparks wrote in a statement. […]
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Discover local agriculture
As we know, agriculture and farming are a huge part of the history of the Santa Maria Valley. Here’s a little history on one of the many local farms that grow the food that feeds the world. This farm also happens to grow the food that feeds the many reptiles that live at the Discovery […]
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AHC is offering another financial aid workshop
There will be a free financial aid workshop at Allan Hancock College on Feb. 29 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Academic Resource Center (ARC), building L-South, on the Santa Maria campus. The event is open to anyone interested in attending Allan Hancock College and to current students who have not yet completed […]
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Well-known anti-bullying expert will speak at St. Joe
On Feb. 27, St. Joseph High School officials will welcome Paul Coughlin—an internationally recognized anti-bullying expert and founder of the faith-based organization, the Protectors—to speak at a special assembly for the high school students and seventh- and eighth-graders from Pacific Christian and St. Louis de Montfort schools. Coughlin will discuss his four-part anti-bullying program and […]