Welcome to the Slo Coast Journal. Published online monthly, the Journal is here to bring you information specific to our part of California's Central Coast.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
John Lennon
Our Relationship With Whales Has Evolved
The Morro Bay Museum of Natural History invites you to visit our temporary exhibit on whaling, whale science, conservation, and how the "Save the Whales" movement has influenced Americans’ relationship with whales over the last two centuries. It will be in the Museum auditorium through the end of December, and possibly until just after New Year.
The Museum is located at 20 State Park Road and is open from 10:00 – 5:00 every day except for Christmas and New Year’s Day. Admission is free for members, $3.00 for adults, and free for youth under 17. Call 805 772-2694 or visit ccnha.org for more information.
Art for Art's Sake Auction Report
The Art for Art's Sake auction was a great success! Read More
Featured Column - A Bird's Eye View
I know. I know. I can hear it now. "An article about the starling?" you ask, the icy contempt dripping from your voice. You mean just because it's an aggressive, invasive, introduced bird, that's out-competing native species for nesting cavities, causes great damages to farm fields, disrupts air travel, and is considered by some to be America's greatest pest? Well, it is all that, but in my (feeble) defense, the starling is here to stay, and it turns out it's quite the intelligent and interesting bird. Read More
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Peregrine Falcon image on banner by Cleve Nash |
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Jane Bailey, One of Morro Bay's Greatest Community Leaders, Dies
Jane Bailey, one of the first community leaders to organize residents in the 1970s to stop the kind of development that would threatened to destroy Morro Bay as we know it and the "driving force" behind the founding and construction of the first community-owned Morro Bay public library, has died at age 95. She died on November 30 in Carmichael, CA, where she had lived near her daughter, Phyllis Lochelt, after her husband, Don, died in 1999. Read More
PG&E Moving to Conduct Seismic Studies Off Diablo Canyon
PG&E, owner of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, is required under state law to conduct ocean floor studies of the potential for earthquakes near the nuclear plant, but fishermen are alarmed that the tests may destroy the marine life from Cambria to Avila Beach and could wipe out their livelihood for an indefinite period. The tests face many unresolved obstacles. Read More
Surprise! Cerrito Peak Hearing Cancelled, Another Date Set
After a previously-scheduled hearing before the Morro Bay City Council on a proposed 5,532-square-foot mansion atop little Cerrito Peak was cancelled with little notice, another hearing has been scheduled for Tuesday, December 13, all of which has left residents around the Peak, nearly all of whom oppose the huge development, wondering whether the city is handling the issue fairly. Read More |
PG&E Holding 'Public' Workshops with No Public Notice
PG&E is conducting what has been reported as "public workshops" on seismic studies involving the safety of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, sessions that started on Tuesday, November 29, and will extend through Thursday, December 1, at the Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo.
But there is one little hitch: there apparently has been no effort to inform the public about the workshops. Read More |
2012 Mind Walk Lecture Series
Mind Walks are lectures held in the auditorium at the Morro Bay Museum of Natural History every Monday morning, January through March. Read More
State Park Champions Program - December 3 Event
Right now California State Parks face unprecedented budget cuts and closures. In response, the California State Parks Foundation continues to expand our Park Champions Program. Read More |
OccupySanLuisObispo
We are the 99%! You are the 99%!
OccupySanLuisObispo, a non-partisan organization, has been in existence for only eight weeks. It was founded by two community members with a vision of creating a network here to voice our concerns about the dire (unequal, unfair, and downright criminal) economic situation in our country and to support the efforts of the Occupywallstreet movement. Since OccupyWallSteet started the movement has circled the globe with offshoots in over 2000 cities worldwide. We also have an occupycalpoly and an occupycuesta as well as emerging groups in our satellite cities. Read More |
Cambria CSD Board ignores obvious voters' choice for filling a board vacancy, opting instead for an "open process." Valerie Benz—the runner-up in last November's election—responds. She makes plans to apply for the board position at the December 20th special meeting.
Montana de Oro State Park in Los Osos
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