The Town Center Gallery will offer “Walk on the Wild Side of Art” Art Camp, July 26 to 30. Children ages 5 to 15 will attend five morning (11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.) or five afternoon (1:30 to 3 p.m.) classes. The morning class theme is Australia, and activities include Tribal Trade Beads and Walk-About […]
The wild side
Posted inMusic, Arts & Culture
Art pays
Two Allan Hancock College graduates just got a little richer as recipients of $250 scholarships from Town Center Gallery. Ana Maldonado is a graphic design major and will continue at Cal State Northridge. Nastacia Perales will be transferring to CSU Monterey Bay to major in visual public art, with an emphasis on art education. Both […]
Posted inMusic, Arts & Culture
Tales of joy and survival
Margaret Cooper was eating spaghetti off a paper plate after Sunday School when the church’s organist came out and announced Pearl Harbor had been bombed. Four months later, the 12-year-old Cooper was living behind barbed wire in a Japanese internment camp after the government ordered the evacuation of all Japanese people living along the West […]
Posted inMusic, Arts & Culture
Sittin’ with Jim
There are few musicians who share as intimate a history with Southern California as local luminary Jim Messina. While working as a recording engineer in Los Angeles, Messina crossed paths with Buffalo Springfield, and it wasn’t long before he was drafted into the line-up. The foundations were thus laid for a career that explored the […]
Posted inMusic, Arts & Culture
La Purisima is host to summer golf clinics
La Purisima Golf Course and the University of Arizona Central Coast Cats Alumni Club are teaming up on summer golf clinics to raise funds for Santa Barbara County students attending the University of Arizona. Clinics will be held on July 25 and Aug. 22 beginning at 11:30 a.m. The clinics cost $60 per person and […]
Posted inMusic, Arts & Culture
Boys’ club soccer team seeks goalie
The CVSC Spartans, one of the newest Boys Club teams in the Santa Maria and Orcutt area, is holding tryouts for the team’s goalkeeper and other positions. The Spartans recently formed as a Boys U9 team and will be competing in the U10 Boys Division in the Central Coast Soccer League. Games are played locally […]
Posted inMusic, Arts & Culture
Megan Allen
Running may not get you away from your problems, but for recently graduated Righetti High School senior Megan Allen, it’s going to take her all the way to the admissions office at Cal State Northridge. Once there, Allen will participate in the 100- and 300-meter hurdles portion of the Division I college’s track team. “I’m […]
Posted inMusic, Arts & Culture
Kings of the sandlot
After coming just a few outs short of tasting victory in the Little League Sectional tournament in previous years, Orcutt National’s All-Stars finally got it right. In their first-round contest on July 18 in Arroyo Grande, the league’s top 11- and 12-year-olds topped perennial powerhouse Moorpark 3-1, avenging last year’s loss to the team. “Our […]
Posted inOpinion
We have to act to protect our health
Property owners in Oceano Beach, especially near Pier Avenue where Oceano’s air quality was monitored, are at risk of losing our quality of life and property values. ODSVRA activities, particularly traffic dragging dust from the beach, are a growing concern in our neighborhood. These activities are an unabated nuisance that creates a health hazard and […]
Posted inOpinion
For those of you keeping track of such things
Facts: 1. Our country has very, very low taxes. It is almost at the bottom of the list of top 30 developed nations, 26th in fact. 2. Millionaires default on home payments at more than twice the rate of us ordinary citizens. 3. The right wing agitators lie, lie, lie. Check it out for yourself […]
Posted inOpinion
Marijuana can’t cure a bad scene
As an old ’60s counter-culturalist, I should rejoice at the prospect of my state finally legalizing marijuana. Certain things bother me, however, such as the 1,198 alcohol-related driving deaths in California in 2008. I have to assume that if we legalize marijuana, the number of DUIs and their attendant deaths will also increase. Legalization should […]
Posted inOpinion
Children born here of illegal immigrants receive social services
With respect to the article “¿Cuánto cuesta?” (June 24), illegal immigrants do indeed benefit from our social service programs: According to a United States General Accounting Office Report to Congressional Committees (see gao.gov/archive/1998/he98030.pdf) in fiscal year 1995, about $1.1 billion in AFDC and Food Stamp benefits were provided to households with an illegal alien parent […]