257 words David Ryan gets ready for Empty Bowls David Ryan Gallery’s Oct. 3 Art and Wine Party will feature the kickoff for this year’s Empty Bowls fundraiser for the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County. Stop by to browse bowls made by local ceramists. Most will be available for $20. Buy them at the event, […]
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Welcome Each Passing Day
Each Passing Day—with a sound that resembles Iron and Wine, Damien Rice, and Death Cab for Cutie—explores relationships, both the bliss and the pain. But for lead singer Loren Radis, it was the pain that was the catalyst for motivation. A bad breakup prompted him to seek comfort in his music, and that music helped […]
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Take a local treasure hunt
You don’t need a map to find something special at a thrift store, although having good directions helps. I believe women have a shopping gene. Or, more specifically, a bargain-shopping gene. So when I found myself with a free day and six hours before I had to pick the boys up from school, mine kicked […]
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The farm is here to stay
The people could be a metaphor for the soil. Or the soil could be a metaphor for the people. The farmers are predominantly bipolar, schizophrenic, severely depressed. The land is a dusty four acres of sandy dirt, once home to abandoned machinery. A promise of good things to come isn’t the first thing that comes […]
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Nipomo High students help Mother Nature
A handful of Nipomo High School students worked over a recent weekend to enhance the Nipomo Creekside Preserve. Local volunteers joined members of the high school’s Progressive Club in an effort to help restore the preserve’s natural processes. The club has been helping with workdays at the preserve since 2006. Led by Land Conservancy Stewardship […]
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Million-volt Tesla coil comes to Orcutt
Danger Will Robinson! The Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics will bring a million-volt Tesla Coil to Orcutt Academy High School on Oct. 8. The coil, which looks like a cross between a robot and a giant generator, will be on display beginning at 1 p.m. at the Harold Black Sports Pavilion on the Orcutt […]
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Students learn about the importance of safety
Dozens of Santa Maria-Bonita School District students—kindergarteners through sixth-graders—learned all about being “Masters of Disaster” the week of Sept. 22, as part of a joint program between the American Red Cross, Santa Barbara County Chapter and the district’s After School Education and Safety (ASES) program. Red Cross staffers made several presentations to the district’s elementary […]
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SEE International hosts free vision screenings for World Sight Day
Low-income residents of Santa Barbara County who don’t have vision care insurance can come to a free screening day on Oct. 9, presented by Surgical Eye Expeditions International. The screening goes hand in hand with World Sight Day, an event created by VISION 2020, a global initiative to eliminate blindness by the year 2020. This […]
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KCOY 12 and FOX 11 offer more hours of live local news
Central Coast viewers can now catch four hours of live local news in the morning. KCOY CBS 12 is now airing its Sunrise Morning News starting at 5 a.m. When the CBS Network takes over at 7 a.m., the local team will switch to FOX 11 and continue live until 9 a.m. “We now have […]
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St. Joseph’s Orcuttopoly game board has space available
The Saint Joseph High School Booster Club is busy putting together its first edition of Orcuttopoly, a Monopoly game built around the city of Orcutt. All of the business spots on the board have been taken, but there’s still room for a family or business to put its name in the center of the board […]
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Political Watch
On Sept. 23, in an effort to better protect wildlife habitat and other open spaces, the House of Representatives passed the Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program Act (HR 1907) by a vote of 313-59. Introduced by U.S. Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) and U.S. Rep. Jim Saxton (R-N.J.), the legislation formally authorizes the National Oceanic […]
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Here’s to your health
Need an eye exam? Blood pressure check? Body Mass Index reading? Hey, how’s your bone density? Arroyo Grande Community Hospital and local nonprofit health care organizations will be offering free health screenings and information at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Nipomo on Oct. 5. The event is part of the Bi-National Health Fair, itself part […]