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...
by Heather Young | Jun 1, 2018 | Community, 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 Ian Parkinson | Jun 1, 2018 | Community, San Luis Obispo
There is a crisis in the country. And it’s here in San Luis Obispo County as well. The opioid crisis. According to the U.S. Surgeon General’s Office, “An estimated 2.1 million people in the U.S. struggle with an opioid use disorder. Rates of opioid overdose...
by Don Morris | May 1, 2018 | Community, People, San Luis Obispo, Sports
Editor’s note: “Who are the Greatest Athletes in the history of the Central Coast?” So far the following athletes have been featured: Ed Brown, Stephanie Brown Trafton, Chuck Liddell, Loren Roberts, Steve Patterson, Gene Rambo, Robin Ventura, Jordan Hasay, Chuck...
by Joe Carotenuti | May 1, 2018 | Community, History, Nonprofit, San Luis Obispo
Progress carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction. The glory of conquest will eventually witness its celebrants gone; its purpose mostly forgotten. The promise of life will wend its way through time-with varying degrees of longevity-to the inevitable...
by Camas Frank | May 1, 2018 | Avila Beach, Community, Nonprofit, People, San Luis Obispo
As Hollywood screenwriters have contemplated the meaning of life and death through the years, the occasional nugget of wisdom has stuck in popular culture. How we face death being as important as how we face life is one. Embracing whatever lies beyond as the next...
