by Susan Stewart | Sep 1, 2018 | Business, Community, Cover story, Food, People, San Luis Obispo
Coker Ellsworth worked in his father’s corner grocery store from the time he was 7 years old. He had a special wooden crate to stand on emblazoned with the words “Shortest Box Boy.” For many summers and vacations to come Coker would stock shelves, work the cash...
by Susan Stewart | Aug 1, 2018 | Arroyo Grande, Atascadero, Avila Beach, Business, Cambria, Cayucos, Community, Grover Beach, Los Osos, Morro Bay, Nipomo, Nonprofit, Paso Robles, People, Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo, San Miguel, San Simeon, Santa Margarita, Santa Maria, Templeton
The police found 4-year-old Sammy and her baby sister crying hysterically in a blood-spattered motel room; a disheveled stranger lay on the floor. The baby was filthy and hungry, with no food–just a bottle of spoiled, moldy formula. Mom was incoherent. That...
by Susan Stewart | Aug 1, 2018 | Atascadero, Community, Cover story, People, Santa Margarita
She wasn’t expected to live more than 20 minutes. That’s what the doctors told Tara Olson’s frantic parents when they arrived at the hospital shortly after the car crash. But against all the odds, and with a defiance no one expected, this month, Tara and her family...
by Susan Stewart | Jul 1, 2018 | Community, Cover story, Nonprofit, People, San Luis Obispo
He is not your father’s lawyer, says the Mobile Law Center’s Stephen Stern. And just one visit to the tricked- out 1978 Airstream Argosy confirms it. Carefully selected to convey a welcoming message of affordability and utility, the inside of the Argosy has been...
by Susan Stewart | Jun 1, 2018 | Business, Community, People, San Luis Obispo
He’ll upholster anything but furniture, says Mitch Watts, including a custom chicken holster. Yep, you read that right. In the four decades he’s been in the custom auto upholstering business, Watts has done it all. So when customer Craig Vetter asked him to...
