Volume 28
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Issue 20
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March 24 - April 6, 2016
YOUR COMMUNITY IN YOUR HANDS
LOS OSOS
MORRO BAY
CAYUCOS
CAMBRIA
A sailboat glides across the mirrored finish of Baywood Inlet on a recent early morning in this photo by Baywood Park businessman, Paul Irving. Paul regularly posts inspiring sunset and Baywood Inlet photos and videos on his Facebook Page.
Meetings to Discuss Cayucos FD Future
County Says It’s Time to Hook Up to Sewer
By Neil Farrell
By Neil Farrell
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he Cayucos Fire District is gearing up for a series of community meetings to discuss the fire department’s future and more specifically an upcoming vote on increasing the local fire tax to save it from dissolution. Cayucos Fire Capt. Mark Walton said in a news release that the fire chief has decided to “temporarily staff the department,” using reserve firefighters from other agencies to supplement the volunteer paid-call firefighters they already have, many
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of whom have been with the department 25-30 years. The difference, he explained, is that they will have two people at the station all the time, instead of having everyone respond from home once a call goes out. A contract with Cal Fire to staff its seasonal station in Cayucos year-round provides other crewmembers. But the temporary staffing will only be in place until June 30.
See Cayucos FD, page 39
MBPD Officer Cleared Page 3
Dinner and a Movie Page 36
T
he Los Osos sewer project is set to finish up in just a few days and next week, residents are going to have get serious about hooking up to the system over the next 12 months or so. According to a publication put out by County Engineering, the new treatment plant out behind the cemetery off LOVR will be ready to start taking sewage as of March 28. The County has cut the town into three pieces, called “Phases” and expects people to move forward quickly,
giving 6-month windows to have the work completed in each area. The areas of Cuesta-bythe-Sea, Vista de Oro, and Redfield Woods (WoodlandHighland) neighborhoods, the Downtown shopping district, the neighborhood off Bayview Heights Drive, and the Morro Shores, Sunny Oaks and Daisy Hill MHPs are included in Phase 1. The period for hooking up in those areas is March-September. See Sewer, page 38