by Sherry Shahan | Feb 1, 2019 | Community, History, Morro Bay, People, Travel
February 2008. Four years after my first trip to Cuba I enrolled in the same dance program, with the same teachers, and was soon retracing my old routes on backstreets. I’d been in these neighborhoods dozens of times, yet they were never the same. I wanted it to...
by Heather Young | Feb 1, 2019 | Atascadero, Business, Community, Nonprofit, People
Susan Unk is one of the newest members of the Atascadero City Council along with Heather Newsom. The freshman councilwoman is joining Atascadero Mayor Heather Moreno and other community members in this year’s Dancing With Our Stars, which raises money for the Friends...
by Charmaine Coimbra | Feb 1, 2019 | Business, Community, Paso Robles, People
Other than luck, success in life requires a balanced blend of discipline and creativity—not unlike a memorable wine imbued with a balance of total acidity and pH, creativity and luck. Recently, I sat down with Neeta Mittal who owns and operates a different kind of...
by Bruce Badrigian | Feb 1, 2019 | Community, Morro Bay, People
I moved my family from Merced, California to Morro Bay. In doing so, we moved from an area known for its poor air quality (the Lung Association said the Central Valley’s soot pollution remains among the worst in the nation) to an area renown for its clean air...
by Camas Frank | Feb 1, 2019 | Community, Nonprofit, San Luis Obispo
Timing is everything. When San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden education director, Lindsey Morgan, sent out an email announcing a couple of new faces on the Garden’s three-person staff, the Central Coast Journal ended up checking in just in time for volunteer day, on a...
by Aprll Charlton | Feb 1, 2019 | Business, Community, Food, Grover Beach, People
Many chefs tell stories of learning the basics of their trade while spending countless hours in the comfort of a warm kitchen watching their moms or grandmas create everything from Sunday night dinners to chocolate chip cookies. But that’s not the case for The Spoon...
