by Deborah Cash | Sep 1, 2018 | Community, People, San Luis Obispo
In his city hall office, San Luis Obispo city manager Derek Johnson, after a short but enthusiastic greeting,excused himself and darted out to grab some papers from the copier. Looking around in his brief absence, one notices the organized, neat but comfortable digs...
by Deborah Cash | Jul 1, 2018 | Community, People, San Luis Obispo
If you were a kid in San Luis Obispo between the late ’60s and early 2000s, you likely had—and fondly remember—Mr. Rosewall as your junior high/middle school shop teacher. Walking around SLO these days, Hal Rosewall says he inevitably runs into his former...
by Deborah Cash | Jun 1, 2018 | Community, Cover story, People, San Luis Obispo
I typically had a plan in life for what I would do next,” Rita Neal said. But in 2012 when she was offered the position of County Counsel to lead the department’s legal team, Rita admits it was a bit of a surprise. “I didn’t have a plan for that!” she laughed. She...
by Deborah Cash | May 1, 2018 | Atascadero, Business, Community, Nonprofit, People
“We’re honoring our history and modernizing our future.” Derek Kirk’s got his hands full—and he couldn’t be happier. Newly appointed to serve at the helm of the Atascadero Chamber of Commerce, not only does Derek bring experience, education...
by Deborah Cash | Apr 5, 2018 | Atascadero, Community, People
At an early age, local artist Julie Dunn had free rein with her love of art. “I was allowed to paint on many things—even the walls of my bedroom,” she said. The Pridham family lived in an Eichler Home in Orange County, where ceiling-to-floor glass and modernistic...
