Friends of the Los Osos Library will hold a used book sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27 in the library parking lot, 2075 Palisades Ave. There will be books, CDs and DVDs for sale. From noon-1 it’s a “buck-a-bag” sale. Rain cancels.
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Breakthrough Ministry invites the community to honor and celebrate “Leadership, Legacy, Perseverance, Sacrifice, Paying it Forward and Strong Faith.”
The annual event takes place Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. at Breakthrough Ministry, 4251 S. Higuera ST. Suite 200, San Luis Obispo. Following the event there will be a Soul Food Feast including collard greens, mac ‘n’ cheese, fried chicken and cornbread.  A $5 donation in advance is required or $7 at the door. Tickets are available at 234-1448 or email [email protected].
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The Atascadero High School Jazz Band and Ensemble will hold a fun night of costumes, popcorn, trivia and a viewing of the original “Jurassic Park” to benefit its competition, clinic and festival schedule. The benefit is at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25 at Galaxy Theaters, 6917 El Camino Real, Atascadero. Cost is $20 a person and covers the movie, popcorn, a trivia contest, costume contest and a chance to win a new iPod Nano 16GB (8th edition). Email to: [email protected] to order tickets.
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Coalesce Bookstore in Morro Bay is hosting a book signing by Cathy de Moll at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27. De Moll will speak and sign her book, “Think South: How We Got Six Men and Forty Dogs Across Antarctica,” the fascinating story of what it took to move 40 dogs, 20-tons of food and gear, and six men from all over the world across 4,000 of the coldest miles on earth. De Moll is a multi-talented woman who worked with Garrison Keillor for many years and recently retired from her Minnesota State Government position to travel and write full-time. For more see: www.cathydemoll.com/thinksouth.
And Dr. Harold Segal will sign his, “Medical Mafioso,” from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, March 5. A young neurosurgeon finds himself in over his head in a malpractice suit with a snake of an attorney, naturally motivated by greed and hate leading to a tangled web of deceit and exposure. Dr. Segal practices neurosurgery in San Luis Obispo and plays in a rock ‘n’ roll band with his daughter. Coalesce Book Store is located at 845 Main St., Morro Bay.
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The Morro Bay Rec Department is offering a free, introduction to qi gong, the ancient Chinese healing art, from 2-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27 at the Morro Bay Community Center, 1001 Kennedy Way. The class will be taught by certified qi gong instructor, Devin Wallace, and is a great chance to learn about the traditional Chinese health and wellness practice. Wallace said the easy, gentle routine makes qi gong particularly effective for people with physical limitations caused by age, illness or injury.
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Wanna exercise your funny bone? Improvisation comedy classes will be offered from 4-6 p.m. starting Sunday, Feb. 28 and will run for four consecutive weeks at Ignite Movement Studio, 698 Morro Bay Blvd., Morro Bay. Cost is $120 for the 4-week session. The instructor is Sabrina Pratt, a comedian with 15-years of experience studying, performing and teaching improvisational comedy. Pratt has worked and taught at Second City Chicago and at other internationally-recognized comedy theaters across the country. For more information and to register email Pratt directly at: [email protected]. Class size is limited and this is a limited time offer, so register now. Classes are Feb 28, March 6, 13, and 20.
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Join Arroyo Grande Library for a story time specifically targeted to toddlers. They will share stories and fun activities every Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. March 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29. Also on Saturday March 5 at 2 p.m. students from Righetti High School will present traditional regional dances from Mexico. On Saturday, March 12 at 11 a.m. the Arroyo Grande High School Robotics Team will demonstrate how to build and use various robots. The Arroyo Grande Library is located at 800 W. Branch St. in Arroyo Grande.
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The Grover Beach Community Library has scheduled a giant book sale, Saturday, March 5 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Thousands of new found fiction, non-fiction, classics, research, table top, collectibles and books that have been donated since October. Vacationers, visitors, avid readers, researchers, collectors are invited to attend the sale and stock up on their favorite reads. The library is located at 240 North 9th Street in Grover Beach, one block north of West Grand Avenue.  For further information, call 481-4131 or 489-7510.
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The Paso Robles Youth Arts Foundation will soon be taking registration for its upcoming Spring Quarter and any local student is invited to enroll for a wide variety of free after-school visual and performing arts classes. See: www.pryaf.org/enrollment now for early enrollment information. Registration opens at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 12 and those without a computer can use the Academy’s computer lab from 9-noon March 12. Computers are limited. All students must submit an enrollment form to the Arts Foundation’s Office, 3201 Spring St., before class requests can be approved. Enrollment forms are available online now. Students are limited to two classes per quarter. There are over 820 class seats to be filled this quarter by students 5-18-years old. You do not need to be residents of Paso Robles, as classes are open to all. Classes include guitar, piano, band, voice, hip hop, ballet, break dance, art, drama, and theater, and new classes include creative writing, creative dance conditioning, show choir, music theory, audio recording, group collaborative art, and songwriting.
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Seventeen San Luis Obispo County women have been nominated for the SLO County Women’s Wall of Fame and they will be feted at a gala luncheon set for noon-3 p.m. Saturday, March 12 at the Madonna Inn. Tickets are $36.87 an available online at: slowomen.org. The luncheon is co-sponsored by the SLO County Commission on the Status of Women and South Bay Women’s Network. All nominees in three categories will be recognized at the luncheon and photos of the top three will be placed on the Women’s Wall of Fame hanging in the County Government Center in SLO. Nominated under “Business” are Jane Engle Allen and Jacqueline Fredrick. Under “Service Fields” are Megan Healy, Lori Morgan, June Cockran, Marina Washburn, Cheri Love, Lindsey Collingworth, and Sandra Leber. Under “Volunteers” category are Sue Mckee, Andrea Blanco, Bridget Ready, Angie King, Cheri Michealson, Kathy Roberts, Paulette Staley and Elizabeth Denny. The award honors women who have given in an exemplary way to better the lives of others throughout the year. Keynote speaker is U.C. Davis researcher, Amanda Kimball, who is the author of the School’s annual “UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders.” For more information contact co-chairs Kathy Veder at: [email protected] or Julie Jones at: [email protected].
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Volumes of Pleasure Bookshoppe presents: Timber Hawkeye, the author of Buddhist Boot Camp, introducing his new book Faithfully Religionless. Join them Friday, March 4 at 7 p.m. at St. Benedict’s Church, 220 Snowy Egret Lane, LO, on the corner of LOVR and Clark Valley Road. This quote is a sample of what you find in Faithfully Religionless. “When I tell people that I don’t have a religion, they automatically assume I don’t believe in God, but nothing could be further from the truth.” For more information call 528-5565. The event is free and open to the public.
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Take part in the 2nd Annual Hope for the Homeless Golf Tournament, presented by Pismo Beach Golf Course. This scramble tournament will be Saturday, March 5 at the Pismo Beach Golf Course at Hwy 1 and Grand Ave., next to Fin’s Seafood Restaurant. The tournament features a 5-person team scramble format, with a start at 8 a.m.  Check-in begins at 7 a.m. The event offers prizes for first and second place teams, offers an “in the circle” opportunity, a “longest birdie” opportunity, a “closest to the pin” opportunity on two holes, and challenges players to make a hole-in-one on any hole for a $100 cash prize and a cash prize of $500 for a hole-in-one on No. 9. The fee is $225 per team ($45 per player) and provides green fees, morning coffee and pastries, and a delicious barbeque lunch.  Additionally players can purchase mulligans, rent a golf cart (first come-first serve), and club rentals. Invite your non-golfing friends to join in at the post-event barbeque, for  $10 (advance purchase not required, but encouraged). They’ll enjoy a great meal provided by Fin’s Restaurant, and festive live music. There are also great raffle prizes. For registration or more information, see 5CHC.org and click on news and events.
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SLO Little Theatre presents the Tony Award-winning musical, Cabaret celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Broadway premiere in 1966 through March 13 with shows at 7 p.m. – Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. There will be a Special Gala Performance on Friday, March 11 at 5:30 p.m. Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Isherwood, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. It is based on John Van Druten’s 1951 play I Am a Camera, which was adapted from the short novel Goodbye to Berlin (1939) by Christopher Isherwood. Set in 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power, the darkly comic musical takes place in and around the seedy Kit Kat Klub, and revolves around English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with the young American writer Cliff Bradshaw. Overseeing the action is the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub. The club serves as a metaphor for ominous political developments in pre-WWII Germany. The theater is located at 888 Morro St., San Luis Obispo. Tickets $40-$45 and  $85-$100 for the gala performance. For more information, see slolittletheatre.org or call (805) 786-2440.
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Tickets are on sale now for the Fifth Annual Central Coast Oyster & Music Festival, set for noon-8 p.m. Saturday, July 9 in Avila Beach. There will be more than 25 local food and retail vendors, music all day and of course tons of fresh oysters prepared in a myriad of ways. Admission is $22 a person with food and drink separate. See: www.centralcoastoysterfestival.com for tickets and information.
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Literacy for LIFE in San Luis Obispo County has an ongoing and urgent need for volunteer tutors in all communities of SLO County. The next 2-part, Tutor Training Workshop is set for 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturdays, March 12 and 19 at Literacy for Life’s office, 995 Palm St., in the SLO County Library. A $25 enrollment fee is required at the first session. For more information or to sign up, call 541-4219 or see the website at: www.literacyforlifeslo.org.
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The Morro Bay Skateboard Museum is hosting a fund-raiser Movie Night set for 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27 at the Museum, 699 Embarcadero. Tickets are $10 donation and the movie is the 2005 biographical drama, “Lords of Dogtown,” which tells the tale of a group of young skateboarders in Venice Beach, Calif., during the early 1970s, who were at the forefront of a skating revolution that came with the invention of polyurethane wheels. That innovation birthed the era of trick skating, as riders could now do the same kinds of moves and tricks surfers do on the water. Rated PG-13. Popcorn and prizes.
Cuesta College’s Book of the Year Program is gearing up with a variety of events over the coming weeks. This year’s book is bestselling novel, “The Barbarian Nurseries,” by Héctor Tobar, which explores the experience of being an immigrant in the U.S. The Pulitzer Prize winning L.A. Times journalist and author, Tobar, will discuss the novel from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, March 15 in the Cultural and Performing Arts Center. General admission tickets are $5 and can be purchased at: www.cpactickets.cuesta.edu or by call 546-3198. Tickets for Cuesta College students are free and can be obtained by calling 546-3190. For general information about the Book of the Year Program, email Carina Love at: [email protected]. Events continue through March in various locations Paso Robles Library, the Miossi Art Gallery at Cuesta, at Righetti High School, Arroyo Grande Library and more. For more information see: www.library.cuesta.edu/book.
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Young girls who have suffered severe burns are invited to attend a free healing retreat hosted by the non-profit organization, Angel Faces, and set for June 20-26 in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Deadline to sign up is March 15 and applications are available online at: angelfaces.com. Based in Encinitas, Angel Faces has offered holistic retreats focusing on the psychosocial needs of injured girls since 2003. Angel Faces was the first organization to offer this kind of healing retreat, which differs significantly from burn camps. The weeklong retreat is free to participants, as donors to Angel Faces pay the $4,500 per girl expenses. Angel Faces’ founder, Lesia Cartelli, herself a burn victim as a young girl, said, “We take girls who hurt inside and out, who may be in a spiral of self-pity, anger and depression, and we teach them to get out of the spiral by embracing the pain as a blessing. We show them how tragedy can wake us to life’s richness, how it touches our heart and our soul on many levels.”
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The annual Scottish-Irish Night, with toe tapping music by the Gillie Wheesel Band, is set for 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 10 in the South Bay Community Center, Los Osos. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy a fun filled evening and delicious meat pie dinner served with mashed potatoes, peas, dessert, coffee and punch. The fund-raising event is sponsored by People Helping People of Los Osos. Tickets are $10 a person and available in advance at the PHP Office in the Community Center, 2180 Palisades Ave. Call 528 2626, Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Morro Bay oil painter, Jeff Odell, is the featured artist at a new show in March at the Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero. The show runs March 1-29 and there’s a free reception set for 5-8 p.m. Friday, March 11 at the gallery. Odell is a plein air artist who can be seen with his easel and paints working all over Morro Bay, painting landscapes and urban scenes. He’s also completed two public murals, one on Main Street at Tacos de Mexico and the other hanging in the gym at Del Mar Elementary School, as well as being one of the principle artists that transformed the City Park bus stop. Odell’s paintings cover a span of over 30 years making his paintings of Morro Bay a historical archive of the town and waterfront through the years.
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The Gallery at the Network, 778 Higuera St., Ste. B in SLO presents its fifth “Jewelry Jubilee” featuring the work of 12 local jewelers of handmade, original works of art — earrings, necklaces and bracelets. The show runs March 1-31 with an opening reception set for 6-9 p.m. Friday, March 4 during Art After Dark. Free, with music by Terry Sanville. See: www.galleryatthenetwork.com.
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Cal Poly University Art Gallery is showing the work of internationally acclaimed graphic designer, Tad Carpenter, now through Friday, March 18. The exhibit features the design work of Carpenter Collective in Kansas City. A variety of Carpenter’s work will be on display, including logos, posters, books, sketches, fan flags and more. Admission to the University Art Gallery is free. It is open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. See the Gallery website at:  www.artgallery.calpoly.edu and the Carpenter Collective’s website at: www.tadcarpenter.com. The University Art Gallery is located in the Dexter Building, No. 34 adjacent to the Kennedy Library on campus.
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Art Central in San Luis Obispo will host “Innerscope,” a San Luis Obispo High School art exhibit exploring the theme of “identity,” March 4-28 with an opening free reception set for 6-8 p.m. Friday, March 4 during Art After Dark. Free and open to the public. Art Central gallery is at 1329 Monterey St.
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Spring docent training for the local state parks will be held on three consecutive Saturdays — April 2, 9 and 16, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Trainees will visit each of the park sites, Pismo, Montaña de Oro and Morro Bay to learn about opportunities in each area. A 1-hour interview at the Natural History Museum in Morro Bay State Park required before the training to discuss the program and receive State Park forms. Call the Museum at 772-2694, see the website at: www.ccspa.info/things to  do/become a docent, or email Faylla Chapman at: [email protected] if interested.
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The San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden has several special events in March. Times, dates and costs are as noted. The Botanical Garden is located in El Chorro Regional Park 3450 Dairy Creek Rd., off Hwy 1 across from Cuesta College. There’s a day use fee at the gate too. See: www.slobg.org for more information.
Kids’ Book Crafting and Herbal Exploration is set for 1-3 p.m. Saturday, March 5 with local author and artist Beryl Reichenberg. There’s a donation of $5 for materials.
Succulent Gardens of the Central Coast is 1-2 p.m. Saturday, march 12 with expert gardener, Nick Wilkinson owner of GROW Nursery and Left Field. Cost is $5 for garden members and $10 for non-members.
Spring Plant Sale Fundraiser 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, march 19, get expert advice and great deals on beautiful plants. Free, plant prices vary but are tax free.
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The Morro Bay Friends of the Library is holding its next used book sale from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 5 in the Library at Shasta Avenue and Harbor Street. A members only sale” is from 9-10 a.m. and there will be DVDs, CDs, audio books and paperback and hardback books on a variety of subjects and genres. And new for 2016, an ongoing used book sale will be set up inside the Library and open during regular library hours. For more information and updates see: www.mbfol.org.
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French Hospital is holding a free diabetes education class to provide education and resources to those with the disease, those newly diagnosed, or those who would like a refresher course. The classes are from 5-6:30 p.m. Mondays, March 7, 14 and 21 in French’s Copeland Health Education Pavilion, 1919 Johnson Ave., SLO. The classes are designed to help patients better manage this disease.