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"A popular
government, without popular
information, or the means of
acquiring it, is but a prologue to
a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps,
both. Knowledge will forever
govern ignorance. And a people who
mean to be their own governors
must arm themselves with the power
which knowledge gives." Robert
McChesney
 Mountain Lion
By Richard Hannibal, Retired Police Sergeant
In recent weeks, the media has reported
several mountain lion (cougar) sightings on our Central
Coast. There are dozens of sightings each year,
especially in the summer months. The abundance of water
and deer is what draws mountain lions to our urbanized
areas. The latest sightings were in the hills above
north Morro Bay, around the 2300 block of Nutmeg Avenue.
There have also been sightings in the hills above
Cayucos and the Lodge Hill area of Cambria. The drought
has dried up the normal water sources and neighbors in
the area think the cats are coming down to drink water
from horse and cattle troughs.
These beautiful critters are definitely
around. I recall one day on patrol a couple years ago and
saw a mountain lion trotting parallel to me in the hills
above north Morro Bay.
At one point it ran and I was amazed at
its speed. I later learned they could run 40 mph.
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Primary Elections Going on
Voters Block
by Jack McCurdy
by Jack McCurdy
Morro Bay voters have faced primary
elections for the past eight years, and many are
fed up with having to vote in June for City
Council candidates and then possibly again at the
subsequent November election if no candidates win
a majority of votes cast in the primary. It can
add up to the better part of a year in campaigning
if candidates need to run in the primary and then
in the November election. That's too much and
unnecessary, many residents and some City Council
members have concluded. So the majority of the
Council — Mayor Jamie Irons and Council members
Christine Johnson and Noah Smukler are submitting
a ballot measure in November, giving voters the
option of keeping primaries in Morro Bay or
dropping them. Fact is Morro Bay is the only city
in the county that has primaries and for community
activist John Barta and Council members Nancy
Johnson and George Leage that's fine and voters
don't need to be asked if they want primaries to
continue.
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Cambria CSD Suspends Non-Potable Water Distribution
Service at Rodeo
Grounds Stops As District Gauges Impact of Pumping on
Downstream Monitoring Well
Submitted by Cambria CSD - The Cambria Community Services District Board of
Directors has voted to suspend the distribution of
non-potable water at its Rodeo Grounds property until at
least Aug. 4, 2014, the date of its next meeting. It is
taking this action primarily to test whether the pumping
of water from the SR-1 well along Santa Rosa Creek is
lowering levels at a downstream monitoring well, Windsor
Bridge East (WBE). Read
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