by Deborah Cash | Nov 1, 2018 | Atascadero, Community, Nonprofit, People
“Out of high school, I seriously didn’t know what I wanted to do in life,” Terrie Banish said recently, “but looking back, I realize all the choices I made eventually led me to the job I was meant to have. My heart is in this!” “This” is the position of...
by Susan Stewart | Nov 1, 2018 | Business, Community, San Luis Obispo, Sports
“Pizza is inherently a group food,” says Woodstock’s Pizza co-owner Laura Ambrose. Indeed, groups have been gathering around the irresistible pies—hand-tossed, secret-sauced, and generously topped—at the corner of Higuera and Osos since 1980. Last month,...
by Bruce Badrigian | Nov 1, 2018 | Community, Los Osos, Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life.”—Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us. The above quote reminds me of the first time I read her last book— Silent Spring. She was a...
by Aprll Charlton | Nov 1, 2018 | Community, History, Nipomo, Nonprofit, People
Robin Bogue was destined to become involved with the newly opened Dana Cultural Center, so it only makes sense she now heads the nonprofit Dana Adobe Nipomo Amigos (DANA), which for nearly two decades has been at the helm of restoring the historic adobe and preserving...
by Heather Young | Nov 1, 2018 | Atascadero, Community, Nonprofit, Paso Robles, Santa Margarita, Templeton
Atascadero resident, Wendy Lewis, became the CEO/President of the El Camino Homeless Organization (ECHO) in February after spending 10 years working for the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County. Lewis’ most recent position with the Food Bank Coalition was as...
by Sherry Shahan | Nov 1, 2018 | Business, Community, Creston, Food, Travel
I’d been hankering to drive by Whispering Winds Ranch in Creston, where I lived in the early 1980s. I learned to cook fish in a dishwasher and barbeque Rocky Mountain Oysters (which has nothing to do with bivalve mollusks) in this house. The 160-acre ranch was...
