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Welcome to the fourth edition of the Slo Coast Journal. Published online monthly, the Journal is here to bring you information specific to our part of the Central Coast. So jump in! Browse, read, smile. Then come back next month for more. Need a reminder? Check below for information on how to receive an email or tweet letting you know about updates and the newest issue.
Memorial to Joe Giannini
by Jack McCurdy
Without Joe Giannini, there's no telling what Morro Bay might be and look like today.
If there is one figure in Morro Bay's history who has been most instrumental in not only helping residents found the city and achieve the independence they desired, but who showed them by example how to protect the community from destructive change, it was Joe Giannini.
Though few probably know it, Giannini was the father of the city of Morro Bay and the inspirational founder of Morro Bay's rich, nearly-60-year tradition of community activism, which simply means residents organizing and acting to preserve and create the community they want to live in.
To the heartbreak of his family and those who knew and loved him, Giannini, 94, died on Sept. 14 in the home of his daughter, Elaine, after breaking his leg a few weeks earlier and undergoing surgery.
A memorial for him will be held at 11am on Monday, October 5, at St. Timothy's Church in Morro Bay. A reception, open to the public, is scheduled afterward at the Morro Bay Yacht Club.
Born to immigrant parents in Portland, Oregon, Giannini was a long-time fisherman who happened upon the Morro Bay harbor when he helped another fishing boat in trouble find refuge. That was 1946, and he had lived here ever since - to the benefit of all of us. Besides being a fisherman and leader of the fishing community, he also owned a marine supply store here for many years. Read More
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Morro Bay City Council and CAPE In Agreement
by Jack McCurdy
For the first time since Duke Energy proposed building a new and larger power plant in Morro Bay 10 years ago, touching off a explosive controversy in the town that still lingers, the Morro Bay City Council and the Coastal Alliance on Plant Expansion (CAPE) are in agreement that the use of estuary, bay, and ocean water for cooling by power plants, including the existing Morro Bay plant, is required to end.
The Council and CAPE, a non-profit citizens group, both have refused to support a proposed new State Water Resources Control Board policy because it fails to ensure that its stated and legally-required goal of ending the use of marine water for cooling of all power plants along the California coast will be carried out. Read More
Why Sanctuary?by Andrew ChristieThere can't be anyone left who still needs to hear that we face serious and escalating threats to ocean resources which, once lost, are likely to be irretrievable. It was out of recognition of that fact - and the fact that California's coast and marine environment generates more than $10 billion annually to the state's economy - that the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the largest and most geographically diverse National Marine Sanctuary in the United States, was established in 1992, extending from the Marin Headlands to Santa Rosa Creek in San Luis Obispo County. The Sanctuary partners with federal, state, and local agencies and a wide variety of stakeholders in its mission to understand and protect the coastal ecosystem and sustain biodiversity. We believe the coast of San Luis Obispo County, beyond the Sanctuary's arbitrary cut-off point at Cambria, is deserving of the same level of protection, research, and stewardship that the greater Monterey Bay area currently enjoys. Read More |
Statue at State Park Museum of Natural History Defaced;
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