Since arriving back on the scene as a starting pitcher for Allan Hancock College’s softball team, sophomore Patti Womack has become adept at keeping all her balls in the air. The 29-year-old is in her second go-round with the Lady Bulldogs. A full-time student with a job and single mom of a 4-year-old daughter, Womack […]
Equal opportunities?
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Chris Berryman
The rain may be pouring—and the proverbial old man snoring—but the weather doesn’t put Allan Hancock College’s Chris Berryman out of training. In fact, for this freshman, it may take a baseball covered with a film of kryptonite to stop him from pitching a good game—like his recent six-inning performance against Moorpark, an outing that […]
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Strawberry fields
Tempting morsels of fruity goodness, they gleam like crimson jewels in fields all around town. With the arrival of spring in all its glory, it’s time once again to dive into the sugary wonder of one of Santa Maria’s signature crops: ripe, juicy strawberries. To celebrate the season of pink milkshakes and gooey shortcakes, organizers […]
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They’re gonna put me in the movies
The Internet is a wonderful thing. I can e-mail long-lost friends (if I had any), sell stuff I don’t want anymore on eBay (if there was anything I was willing to part with), and, my favorite thing to do, check and see how big my high school ex-girlfriend’s butt got on Facebook (HUGE—I dodged a […]
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When are the banners leaving?
Has anybody asked the folks that are hanging the “Shame on You” banners around Doc’s in A.G. and around the mall in Santa Maria if they are card-carrying union members? Has anybody asked these folks if they are getting paid union wages? Has anybody asked how long are they staying, and when they are leaving?
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Do you really want to make ghost towns?
So it appears to me that Carol Georgi and Nell Langford are both trying to have an epitaph on their graves about killing the towns of Grover Beach, Oceano, and Pismo almost single-handedly, by making up “facts” about the OHV park system getting millions of dollars from the general fund, when in fact, the general […]
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Shake out some honest investigation
Our fault? Whose fault? It (“Our own fault,” April 8) became PG&E’s fault when their initial substandard geological survey allowed the placement of their facility in an area of bedrock riddled with a chaotic network of interconnected seismic faults. One question today is who should be monetarily responsible for PG&E’s faulted initial assertion of seismic […]
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Don’t let civil servants reward civil servants
The problem with county civil service benefits (“Mind the gap,” April 8) is that they are way beyond what the private sector gets and can afford, yet it is the private sector that pays the taxes for the county benefits. The basic problem is due to two factors: the civil service unions who support and […]
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Political Watch 4.15
On April 25, local political organization Santa Maria Valley Republicans Inc. will host a Republican candidates forum at the Santa Maria Terraces senior living community, 1405 E. Main St., in Santa Maria. According to a press release from Santa Maria Valley Republicans Inc., Republican candidates for the following offices have been invited: Santa Barbara County […]
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Community Notebook 4.15
THURSDAY, APRIL 15 • The Santa Maria Planning Commission has a study session at 10 a.m. in the Community Development Office, 110 S. Pine St., Santa Maria. • The Santa Maria Joint Union High School District Measure C 2004 Bond Oversight Committee has its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the district board room, […]
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New ‘kidz’ website logs local activities available to families
Parents searching for an all-inclusive extracurricular activity guide for their kids, look no further: Kidzmet.com—a new website archiving local activities and events—recently launched in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. Kidzmet.com gives busy parents the ability to search and compare classes by several categories, including driving distance, age, interest, day, time, rating, and price […]
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Help send Nipomo High’s robotics team to Dallas
If you fund it, they will go: The Nipomo High School robotics team is scrambling to raise $10,000 in two weeks to compete in the 2010 VEX World Robotics Clean Sweep Championships, to be held April 22 through 24 in Dallas, Texas. And the donations definitely won’t be wasted, according to team advisor Greg Gracia. […]
