JANUARY
Morro Bay’s lodging businesses will take part in a county-wide bid to form a Tourism Marketing District or TMD, imposing a fee on a night’s stay and pooling the money to do yet more marketing.
The City Council voted unanimously to allow the city’s businesses to take part in the County TMD, that would be run by “Visit San Luis Obispo County,” a private non-profit company that used to be called the County Visitor’s and Conference Bureau. It was the first of several changes to Morro Bay’s tourism marketing efforts that would play out over 2015 and continue into 2016.
The rockets would not glare red over Morro Bay on 4th of July 2015, after all the board members of the group that puts on the family picnic and fireworks show stepped down and the City eventually stepped up.
Morro Bay 4th, Inc., the non-profit all volunteer group that’d been putting on 4th of July at Tidelands Park for more than five years, announced that unless another group of citizens stepped up to take over the event, Morro Bay wouldn’t have a celebration.
“It’s just burnout really,” said Dan Podesto the president of MB4th. “The last few years there’s just been six people on the board and there’s no new blood.”
The City organized a daylong family picnic, bike parade and music show, but there were no fireworks.
Authorities in Nevada had no answers on the fate of a Los Osos woman whose body was found in the desert, however, they were sure she was not the victim of foul play.
The case began Sept. 25, 2015 when two men riding ATVs found human remains while riding out in the desert near Parumph, Nev. The body was badly decomposed but the Nye County Nevada Sheriff’s Office was able to identify the person as Margay Edwards, 27, a Los Osos native daughter.
After investigating the incident surrounding her death, the County Coroner’s Office could not determine an exact cause of death and the circumstances surrounding her demise remain undiscovered.
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