Thanks From 4-H
The Morro Bay 4-H Club would like to thank the Morro Bay Garden Club for their generous donation to our garden project. We would also like to recognize PG&E for our continued lease which allows members to continue to learn by raising livestock, caring for the garden, planting hay, and much more. .
Regards,
Tammy Haas, Morro Bay 4-H
Spend Rail Money on Roads
In my humble opinion, the California government needs to cancel all funding of the High Speed Rail Project, and give it to Caltrans for our statewide road and highway system.
I have read there are plenty of lawsuits involving farmers’ land being divided by the rail route in the Central and Southern San Joaquin Valley, and having California State Route 99, in Fresno — known as the Golden State Freeway — moved because of the rails being built.
Another idea suggested by my friend, Richard, is to build the high speed rail on the Amtrak line instead.
Finally. Governor Brown is doing the right thing by looking into our infrastructure, and perhaps more money can be added to the suggested $59 billion total for repairs in this state.
Scott C. Presnal, Morro Bay
Big Thanks From Big Brothers Big Sisters
Dear Editor:
As the new school year approaches, we at Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Luis Obispo County would like to take a moment express our deep appreciation to all those who make our School Based Mentoring Program possible.
The program positively impacts the lives of hundreds of SLO County kids each year, at no cost to local families-in-need, thanks to generous funding from The Harold J. Miossi Charitable Trust, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Woman’s Legacy Fund, Robert H Janssen Foundation and United Way of San Luis Obispo County.
We are able to make the program easily accessible to our local youth by hosting it right on the school campuses, thanks to continuing cooperation and support from the administrators at Del Mar, Sinsheimer and Nipomo Elementary Schools.
Finally, the program would be impossible to provide without our amazing student mentors from Morro Bay, Nipomo and SLO High Schools. These teens demonstrate impressive maturity and wisdom. Study after study shows that their “Littles” are doing better in school and building stronger relationships with their peers, teachers and families, thanks to the weekly one-to-one attention they receive.
On behalf of our staff, our Board of Directors and the families we serve, THANK YOU!
Tatiana Abundis, Program Director
Big Brothers Big Sisters
of San Luis Obispo County
Nuclear Desal a Dodge
Editor:
Many suspect desalination is a scam to keep plankton-killing seawater cooling intakes going at coastal power plants.
The one in Carlsbad is being built piggy back but will only supply 7% of the needs of San Diego. Morro Bay is trying the same thing at their mothballed power plant, and Huntington Beach is being railroaded as we speak, desal piggy-backing on a seawater cooling intake.
But nothing chaps my hide like the nutty idea of a desal unit piggy-backing on the massive seawater cooling intake at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. There’s no way to take tritium out of the water, and no safe minimum for that poison.
There’s also danger in keeping the Diablo plant alive, sitting on 14 earthquake faults. For me, it all comes down to these 4 words: ‘Desalination Means Drinking Diablo Radiation’
Joey Racano, Los Osos
