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National Night Out in Morro Bay

BN MBPD Night Out-01Morro Bay held its 2015 National Night Out celebration Aug. 4 in City Park. The event featured several public safety displays like the Harbor Patrol’s PWCs, which the kids were climbing all over, and the police department’s traffic radar trailer set up to clock people pitching a baseball. There was a hot dog barbecue, raffles for scooters, plus free bicycle helmets and BN MBPD Night Out-02footballs for the kids. Sponsors were the City public safety departments, SLO Target, and Morro Bay Neighborhood Watch. National Night Out is always the first Tuesday in August and preparations for next year are already afoot. Interested in volunteering? See: https://mbneighbors.com.

Photos by Neil Farrell

Miss Karen Says Good-Bye to Pacific Dance

‘Miss Karen’ Garman whoops it up with her Pacific Dance Center kids during the 2014 Founder’s Day Parade in Morro Bay. Photo by Neil Farrell

By Neil Farrell

Local dance students will be losing their muse, as Karen “Miss Karen” Garman, says good-bye to Pacific Dance Studio in Morro Bay.

Garman, 58, is leaving the dance studio she has headed up for more than 15 years, on Aug. 31, turning over the keys to Shawna Marie, a local native daughter whom readers will recognize as lead singer for the local party band, Captain Nasty.

Through a lot of tears, inter-mixed with laughter brought on by fond memories of a lifetime introducing thousands of children to dance and musical theater, Miss Karen explained the life change she is going through that led to the decision to leave the studio. Continue reading Miss Karen Says Good-Bye to Pacific Dance

The Great Morro Bay Cactus Caper

BN MB cactus-02By Neil Farrell

It’s being called “the Great Morro Bay Cactus Caper” and some residents are upset that the City hasn’t done anything about it.
Several months ago, someone planted cactus in empty tree wells along Quintana Road. The cacti are of a variety that don’t have splines.
To some, the cacti are cute but to a growing number of people they are seen as rogue and the person or persons who planted them not much more than hooligans. It’s as if they are graffiti on the city’s urban forest landscape and some folks want them removed immediately. Continue reading The Great Morro Bay Cactus Caper