Calhoun’s Can(n)ons, The Bay News, Tolosa Press, San Luis Obispo, CA ,
for December 6, 2007
Journey
If the only prayer you say in your life is thank you, that would suffice
Meister Eckhart
The kite fluttered over the marsh like a grey and silver handkerchief shivering in the chilly wind. It hovered over a patch of salt marsh, waiting for some small, furry bit of lunch to make a foolish move out of the protective cover of the dense vegetation. None did and soon the kite flew away, looking for more promising hunting grounds.
I used to know that winter had arrived when I saw dozens of these small raptors perching on the row of scraggly pine trees back behind the Los Osos middle school. Those trees are gone now, some of them knocked flat by a fierce winter storm years ago
The tall and short dogs are mumbling and milling in the back of my Tall Dog Car as I head east to Fresno. I have received a call-back notice requiring a return to do some additional x-rays in the mammogram department at Kaiser. With several friends in various stages of battling and recovering from breast cancer, a call-back notice, even a false alarm, always involves hearing the unwelcome sound of the Eternal Footman making soft throat-clearing noises as he hovers behind my chair. He’s always there, of course, but easily overlooked in the rush of blooming summer and the busyness of life. Except in winter when reminders of his presence are everywhere.
Heading into the thin, cold morning sun, the acres of once-green grape vines covering the hills east of Paso Robles are now gold and red, their dying leaves waiting for the winter winds, the vines drawing back for the hard pruning to come.
Blood Alley, the notorious Highway 41/46, is undergoing major changes as great earth moving machinery is adding lanes to the curves and rises through the hills that lie east of the Bakersfield/Fresno cut off. And outside the now closed Reef City gas station a whole new road is being laid down next to the old one.
Eventually, this all may end up a four lane divided highway, the only way to reduce the carnage on a road that seems to invite lethal hubristic folly or fatal inattention. The various roadside memorials located along its length may be dusty and faded, but for the families and friends that remain behind after such deadly catastrophes, nothing has faded at all.
The dogs are soon glad to be out of the car and into my sister’s back yard for a romp. Unlike my house, her neighborhood is dog heaven since it is filled with squirrels rustling up the huge trees to run along the phone wires in back of the houses, only pausing in the middle of the wire to tauntingly flick a tail at the excited dogs below.
Soon enough, the visit is ended and we are heading west this time, past the miles of harvested cotton fields, the stick-brown plants stripped naked except for wisps of cotton and the few remaining bolls bobbing loosely on the dead twigs. Beside the vast fields are boxcar-sized rectangles of baled cotton, capped and waiting for pick-up. They line the edge of the fields like an endless row of Conestoga wagons heading for distant weaving mills to be returned as jeans and tee shirts and tablecloths.
Then, astonishingly, in a sere landscape waiting for the dark and cold of winter’s sleep, I pass a still-green alfalfa field. In the middle of it is an enormous herd of grazing sheep . . . with lambs by their sides.
At the closing of the year, the dying of the season, it is a reminder yet again that life knows no calendars. The Eternal Footman is always there, but so is Life, renewing itself when and where it can. The elegant kites come with the cold, the fields die only to be reborn, Blood Alley claims its victims, but their families endure and remember, and lambs arrive to gambol their short lives in a green alfalfa field beside a busy highway in the cold winter’s light.
Turning off Highway 1 onto South Bay Boulevard, the dogs scramble to their feet and mill about, their noses pressed to the air vents. They smell the salt marsh, the scent of the chaparral and know, unerringly, that the journey is over and they will soon be . . . Home.
Friday, December 07, 2007
Thursday, December 06, 2007
BLACKOUT!
Ah, yes. Nothing like early morning emails, and this one's a doozie.
So, Poopsie, you say you have to work and can't make Friday's 1:30 pm. Regional Water Quality Control Board's hearing on the CDO status of The Los Osos 45 as well as everyone else in the PZ, a meeting that will cover discussion of the staff report that recommends that the The Los Osos 45 be left hanging in the wind -- no Christmas candy for them, just coal lumps in their shoes AND threatened CAO's for the rest of you homeowners hanging just a No Appeal/No "Trial" envelope-lick away.
And, because you have to work, you also won't be able to hear the County's presentation on the update of the election as well as updates on the progress of the wastewater project, so you think you can come home and watch it all on TV, since this is an important hearing, full of critical information concerning your home, concerning legal issues involving your home, critical county updates on this project, and you know the Tribune often misses or gets stuff wrong so you want to see the hearing for yourself?
ERRRRNNNKKK, sorry, Poopsie. Out of luck. As of this posting, the County refuses to pay AGP video to tape the hearing. The CSD's broke, so now AGP is asking if the citizens can pass the hat to pay them -- something the citizens have had to do in the past.
Yep, BLACKOUT OR PRIVITIZE! If citizens want to know what the RWQCBoard has to say about threats to their homes . . . pay up Poopsie.
But don't worry, instead of being able to hear what the Staff and Board members actually have to say, I'll be happy to take notes and fill you in. Of course, I may focus on one thing of interest to ME, that YOU might not find of interest, hence I might miss the one critical issue of concern to YOU.
Well, tough. As a citizen of the PZ whose home is at risk by actions already taken and being considered now by a regulatory agency, you have no right to know what's going on unless you PAY to find out what's going on.
Or you can take off work and attend the meeting yourself. PEG access TV and AGP's various contracts to keep the public informed of critical public meetings doesn't include YOU.
Bwa-hahahahah. Sucker!
Well, if you think this is unacceptable, you need to call your Superviso right now. After all, wasn't part of the County's outreach program designed to keep citizens in the loop at all times, to make sure meetings as critical as this one be available to people who can watch it unedited, un-filtered, gavel to gavel, so they can see for themselves what has transpired?
Oh, sure. Right.
Ah, yes. Nothing like early morning emails, and this one's a doozie.
So, Poopsie, you say you have to work and can't make Friday's 1:30 pm. Regional Water Quality Control Board's hearing on the CDO status of The Los Osos 45 as well as everyone else in the PZ, a meeting that will cover discussion of the staff report that recommends that the The Los Osos 45 be left hanging in the wind -- no Christmas candy for them, just coal lumps in their shoes AND threatened CAO's for the rest of you homeowners hanging just a No Appeal/No "Trial" envelope-lick away.
And, because you have to work, you also won't be able to hear the County's presentation on the update of the election as well as updates on the progress of the wastewater project, so you think you can come home and watch it all on TV, since this is an important hearing, full of critical information concerning your home, concerning legal issues involving your home, critical county updates on this project, and you know the Tribune often misses or gets stuff wrong so you want to see the hearing for yourself?
ERRRRNNNKKK, sorry, Poopsie. Out of luck. As of this posting, the County refuses to pay AGP video to tape the hearing. The CSD's broke, so now AGP is asking if the citizens can pass the hat to pay them -- something the citizens have had to do in the past.
Yep, BLACKOUT OR PRIVITIZE! If citizens want to know what the RWQCBoard has to say about threats to their homes . . . pay up Poopsie.
But don't worry, instead of being able to hear what the Staff and Board members actually have to say, I'll be happy to take notes and fill you in. Of course, I may focus on one thing of interest to ME, that YOU might not find of interest, hence I might miss the one critical issue of concern to YOU.
Well, tough. As a citizen of the PZ whose home is at risk by actions already taken and being considered now by a regulatory agency, you have no right to know what's going on unless you PAY to find out what's going on.
Or you can take off work and attend the meeting yourself. PEG access TV and AGP's various contracts to keep the public informed of critical public meetings doesn't include YOU.
Bwa-hahahahah. Sucker!
Well, if you think this is unacceptable, you need to call your Superviso right now. After all, wasn't part of the County's outreach program designed to keep citizens in the loop at all times, to make sure meetings as critical as this one be available to people who can watch it unedited, un-filtered, gavel to gavel, so they can see for themselves what has transpired?
Oh, sure. Right.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Put Down That Bucket & Step Away From The Mop
According to the Dec 3 Tribune story, on January 15, the BOS will vote on a plan that would put a county-wide ban on letting any “impure” substances go down gutters, hence into stormwater drains and hence via the various storm drain systems into creeks or out to sea. “Only pure rainwater would be acceptable,” notes the Trib.
The story also notes, “supervisor Bruce Gibson acknowledged that the ordinance would ‘impose significant burdens on the community as a whole,’ but he said the community wants clean water.
“Still, not everyone was sanguine about the ordinance.
“The ordinance could make criminals out of ordinary citizens because ‘it’s impossible for people to comply with,’ said Charlie Whitney, chairman of the Santa Margarita Area Advisory Council.”
I applaud the general point of the Ordinance and any education efforts the County is making. State-wide, we’ve all got to start impounding our “used” water, including storm run-off. But the story prompted me to send a quasi-serious email inquiry to Mr. Gibson & the BOS, since the Devil, as ever, is always in the details. And ordinances often have the weird effect of backfiring if they get too silly. I mean, do the residents of my beloved mostly gutterless and storm-drainless Bangladesh By The Bay want to be required to go get a “discharge” permit from Roger Briggs if they want to toss a mop bucket of vinegar-water out on the coyote bushes? And, besides wasting water (unless it’s running off into dirt to water the coyote bushes or nasturtiums), what’s the difference (pollution-wise) between washing dust off a car with a garden hose and having rain wash the same dust off a car? Detergent down a paved driveway, to a gutter, into a storm drain and then out to sea, I can understand. But if you park your car on your lawn and hose the dust off, will the Stormwater Storm Troops come give you a ticket?
My email inquiry:
Am curious if the proposed Stormwater Pollution Prevention and Discharge Control Ordinance covers folks who live on a dirt road unconnected to any storm drain, with a dirt driveway, also unconnected to any storm drain. When I rinse my car off, for example, the water runs into the sandy soil and waters the native vegetation next to what passes for a driveway. Same thing happens when I toss out my bucket of dirty mop water. It runs into the sandy soil and waters the coyote bush. (Living with dogs, I don't clean with any harsh chemicals, only vinegar or baking soda or other natural ingredients)
Will both actions -- rinsing a car and/or tossing out mop water -- now make me a criminal if the ordinance passes?
I certainly support something for folks who live on organized , paved streets with storm drains, since the idea state-wide is to "impound" water on the land and hence keep it out of the creeks and oceans. Which, come to think of it, is exactly what I'm doing now with my mop bucket.
Since any run-off ordinance has real practical value for developed, organized, paved/storm-drained cities & etc, I hope the ordinance will also consider us folks living in, uh, undeveloped parts of the county as well. (Oh, and Please don't try to tell me my bucket of mop water will be polluting the waters of the State of California if I pour it on the coyote bush in the yard. Even the RWQCB couldn't make up enough phony numbers to make that claim hold water.)
Thank you.
A PostScript to the Insider Exclusive posting
Got the following comment from an Anonymice who was having trouble logging onto the blogsite for comment. (anybody else having trouble, too?) This comment responds to several posters chuffingly demanding that “their side” or “the other side” (whatever that means) should have been presented by Mr. Murphy in his video spot. This commenter raises some interesting points.
I have long held that the PZ and Basin Plan should have been updated YEARS ago, especially with more and better information coming in on the water issues due to more complete testing of the groundwater by Cleath & Assoc, & etc. A better basin plan would have given the County more flexibility in dealing with overall problems instead of being stuck with this appallingly inadequate PZ, which, near as I can see, has caused nothing BUT problems.
I have also maintained and still maintain, that selecting 45 happless people to single out for 18 months or more of hammering and harassing was a wrong-headed, appallingly stupid blunder done in a panic, a knee-jerk reaction that was not thought through, has done nothing but waste time and resources while making the Water Board look like bungling nincompoops, and, worst of all, it has not helped clean up one drop of water, but has, instead, hindered and distracted everyone. (If the Board had, for example, simply helped the CSD enforce 83=12 in a coherent, organized fashion after the recall election was certified, how many septics would already be pumped, inspected and repaired by now? Many people were already voluntarily doing that at the time. How many old, poorly running systems would by now be upgraded? What overall impact would that have had on overall “Water Quality?” Compare that with what we ended up with – Zero upgrades and instead, an eighteen-month Mad Hatter Tea Party triggering a defensive lawsuit to protect due process rights that just eats up even more money and time. Water: 0 Taxpayer paid state Lawyers and Staff time: Anybody want to count it all up?)
Anyway, the comment:
“[ various commentors] . . . want to have a chance to represent the other side of the Lawsuit to Mr Murphy, however the other side of the lawsuit would be THE WATER BOARD.
The basin plan, the PZ and 83-13 were always required to be scientifically sound when the amendment it was first approved, and according to the SWRCB and Cal-EPA this process was never completed. The PZ can be easily adjusted or confirmed concurrent to the project development. The intent is NOT to stop or even slow a project, but is to define a project scope by updating and making compliant the 23 year old resolution, and affirming the basin plan. That is actually the method the SWRCB and Federal EPA advises. The solutions group tried to make adjustments, but had no authority to legally open the basin plan to force this. The individual enforcement provides that legal challenge.
In fact, most new sewer projects are defined with science as part of the engineers project scope. By that I mean a scoping report that verifies all those reported studies etc. in the pre-design effort. That is the phase we are in NOW. That is NOT part of the lawsuit, but it is a win-win for the Water board to back off and get into a cooperative arrangement to verify the areas for improvement. It stops nothing, and in fact strengthens the basis for the vote, the project, and the outcome.
Rather than continue to violate the civil rights of individuals, the trust of the greater regulated community, and waste taxpayers funds on prosecution, the regulators can shift gears and put a enforceable work plan together.
Isn't it time for uniting and constructive efforts?
The lawsuit is defensive and an appeal is the only remedy available to protect individuals, property values, and shield against possible future fines.
Everyone will be held responsible for any obstruction to the project. Isn't it safer to support shielding your property from fines?
The project has a better chance of moving forward if the enforcement pressure is based on a county work plan that corrects issues of contention and corrects past mistakes, and lifts enforcement off the backs of a handful of vocal individual examples, which has proven to be counter productive.”
Speaking of Which
Mark your calendars. The county will be holding “A public scoping meeting for the Los Osos Wastewater project’s Environmental Impact Report” Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 7:00 – 9:00 PM at the South Bay Community Center, located at 2180 Palisades Ave. . . . The open-house format meeting will be open to all interested parties and provide an opportunity for input relating to the scope and content of the Environmental Impact Report. Any questions regarding the meeting. Contact mark Hutchinson, Environmental Programs Manager, at (805) 781-5252.”
According to the Dec 3 Tribune story, on January 15, the BOS will vote on a plan that would put a county-wide ban on letting any “impure” substances go down gutters, hence into stormwater drains and hence via the various storm drain systems into creeks or out to sea. “Only pure rainwater would be acceptable,” notes the Trib.
The story also notes, “supervisor Bruce Gibson acknowledged that the ordinance would ‘impose significant burdens on the community as a whole,’ but he said the community wants clean water.
“Still, not everyone was sanguine about the ordinance.
“The ordinance could make criminals out of ordinary citizens because ‘it’s impossible for people to comply with,’ said Charlie Whitney, chairman of the Santa Margarita Area Advisory Council.”
I applaud the general point of the Ordinance and any education efforts the County is making. State-wide, we’ve all got to start impounding our “used” water, including storm run-off. But the story prompted me to send a quasi-serious email inquiry to Mr. Gibson & the BOS, since the Devil, as ever, is always in the details. And ordinances often have the weird effect of backfiring if they get too silly. I mean, do the residents of my beloved mostly gutterless and storm-drainless Bangladesh By The Bay want to be required to go get a “discharge” permit from Roger Briggs if they want to toss a mop bucket of vinegar-water out on the coyote bushes? And, besides wasting water (unless it’s running off into dirt to water the coyote bushes or nasturtiums), what’s the difference (pollution-wise) between washing dust off a car with a garden hose and having rain wash the same dust off a car? Detergent down a paved driveway, to a gutter, into a storm drain and then out to sea, I can understand. But if you park your car on your lawn and hose the dust off, will the Stormwater Storm Troops come give you a ticket?
My email inquiry:
Am curious if the proposed Stormwater Pollution Prevention and Discharge Control Ordinance covers folks who live on a dirt road unconnected to any storm drain, with a dirt driveway, also unconnected to any storm drain. When I rinse my car off, for example, the water runs into the sandy soil and waters the native vegetation next to what passes for a driveway. Same thing happens when I toss out my bucket of dirty mop water. It runs into the sandy soil and waters the coyote bush. (Living with dogs, I don't clean with any harsh chemicals, only vinegar or baking soda or other natural ingredients)
Will both actions -- rinsing a car and/or tossing out mop water -- now make me a criminal if the ordinance passes?
I certainly support something for folks who live on organized , paved streets with storm drains, since the idea state-wide is to "impound" water on the land and hence keep it out of the creeks and oceans. Which, come to think of it, is exactly what I'm doing now with my mop bucket.
Since any run-off ordinance has real practical value for developed, organized, paved/storm-drained cities & etc, I hope the ordinance will also consider us folks living in, uh, undeveloped parts of the county as well. (Oh, and Please don't try to tell me my bucket of mop water will be polluting the waters of the State of California if I pour it on the coyote bush in the yard. Even the RWQCB couldn't make up enough phony numbers to make that claim hold water.)
Thank you.
A PostScript to the Insider Exclusive posting
Got the following comment from an Anonymice who was having trouble logging onto the blogsite for comment. (anybody else having trouble, too?) This comment responds to several posters chuffingly demanding that “their side” or “the other side” (whatever that means) should have been presented by Mr. Murphy in his video spot. This commenter raises some interesting points.
I have long held that the PZ and Basin Plan should have been updated YEARS ago, especially with more and better information coming in on the water issues due to more complete testing of the groundwater by Cleath & Assoc, & etc. A better basin plan would have given the County more flexibility in dealing with overall problems instead of being stuck with this appallingly inadequate PZ, which, near as I can see, has caused nothing BUT problems.
I have also maintained and still maintain, that selecting 45 happless people to single out for 18 months or more of hammering and harassing was a wrong-headed, appallingly stupid blunder done in a panic, a knee-jerk reaction that was not thought through, has done nothing but waste time and resources while making the Water Board look like bungling nincompoops, and, worst of all, it has not helped clean up one drop of water, but has, instead, hindered and distracted everyone. (If the Board had, for example, simply helped the CSD enforce 83=12 in a coherent, organized fashion after the recall election was certified, how many septics would already be pumped, inspected and repaired by now? Many people were already voluntarily doing that at the time. How many old, poorly running systems would by now be upgraded? What overall impact would that have had on overall “Water Quality?” Compare that with what we ended up with – Zero upgrades and instead, an eighteen-month Mad Hatter Tea Party triggering a defensive lawsuit to protect due process rights that just eats up even more money and time. Water: 0 Taxpayer paid state Lawyers and Staff time: Anybody want to count it all up?)
Anyway, the comment:
“[ various commentors] . . . want to have a chance to represent the other side of the Lawsuit to Mr Murphy, however the other side of the lawsuit would be THE WATER BOARD.
The basin plan, the PZ and 83-13 were always required to be scientifically sound when the amendment it was first approved, and according to the SWRCB and Cal-EPA this process was never completed. The PZ can be easily adjusted or confirmed concurrent to the project development. The intent is NOT to stop or even slow a project, but is to define a project scope by updating and making compliant the 23 year old resolution, and affirming the basin plan. That is actually the method the SWRCB and Federal EPA advises. The solutions group tried to make adjustments, but had no authority to legally open the basin plan to force this. The individual enforcement provides that legal challenge.
In fact, most new sewer projects are defined with science as part of the engineers project scope. By that I mean a scoping report that verifies all those reported studies etc. in the pre-design effort. That is the phase we are in NOW. That is NOT part of the lawsuit, but it is a win-win for the Water board to back off and get into a cooperative arrangement to verify the areas for improvement. It stops nothing, and in fact strengthens the basis for the vote, the project, and the outcome.
Rather than continue to violate the civil rights of individuals, the trust of the greater regulated community, and waste taxpayers funds on prosecution, the regulators can shift gears and put a enforceable work plan together.
Isn't it time for uniting and constructive efforts?
The lawsuit is defensive and an appeal is the only remedy available to protect individuals, property values, and shield against possible future fines.
Everyone will be held responsible for any obstruction to the project. Isn't it safer to support shielding your property from fines?
The project has a better chance of moving forward if the enforcement pressure is based on a county work plan that corrects issues of contention and corrects past mistakes, and lifts enforcement off the backs of a handful of vocal individual examples, which has proven to be counter productive.”
Speaking of Which
Mark your calendars. The county will be holding “A public scoping meeting for the Los Osos Wastewater project’s Environmental Impact Report” Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 7:00 – 9:00 PM at the South Bay Community Center, located at 2180 Palisades Ave. . . . The open-house format meeting will be open to all interested parties and provide an opportunity for input relating to the scope and content of the Environmental Impact Report. Any questions regarding the meeting. Contact mark Hutchinson, Environmental Programs Manager, at (805) 781-5252.”
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Lights, Cameras, Action, Part II
Below is a follow up press release from PZLDF concerning the recent Insider Exclusive presentation of the interview with a few of The Los Osos 45 who have been targeted by the RWQCB’s CDO Mad Hatter Tea Party and Auto De Fe Public Hanging. This press release supplies more info on the program and producer, and I’m posting it since some Anonymice blog posters raised issues about what, who and how the shows were put together, then launched into an amazing Round Robin dance of “signal jamming” and building air castles complete with angels on heads of pins all based on nothing but made up stuff from other Anonymice. Typical. Sigh.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Gail McPherson 805.459.4535
Los Osos Lawsuit Featured in New Civil Rights TV show-
Emmy Award Winning TV Producer Films Los Osos Civil Rights Case.
A high profile Los Osos, Ca lawsuit, filed by Sullivan and Associates against the Central Coast Regional Water Board, is the subject the INSIDER EXCLUSIVE TV show. The Show was looking to highlight a few Civil Rights Cases that represents injustice, unfairness and/or deception...Either for individuals or groups seeking tell their story, and the Los Osos appeal filed in San Luis Obispo Superior Court fit perfectly.
The Los Osos water board sewer debacle is gaining increased public attention based on the recent civil rights lawsuit that appeals the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Boards precedent setting prosecution of ordinary citizens. The complaint claims the regulatory agency violated due process and constitutional protections, including selective enforcement, discrimination and environmental justice, when staff randomly selected individual homeowners to serve as an example for voters, and applied regulations to their homes meant for industry. The water board members stated on several occasions their actions were a desperate attempt to change the will of the electorate, which is illegal and a gross abuse of regulatory power and authority.
That interested the Emmy Award Winning Insider Exclusive producer Steve Murphy whose focus is on cases of great injustice, because they are being litigated right now, or because they involve large numbers of people and very consequential issues, or because of their historical importance funded this production. Each TV Show is a 28:30 minute TV feature segment.
Steve Murphy, who regularly produces the Dateline, 60 Minutes, 20/20, and Prime Time-style TV Shows for Lawyers and broadcasts them on PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Court TV, Fox, Time Warner, Cox, AOL, and Comcast TV.
The filming of the Special 30 minute TV Shows on "Civil Rights Cases in America Today" was completed at Murphy’s studios in Studio City, California. The show can be viewed at “Crisis in Los Osos” link http://www.insiderexclusive.com/los_osos.htm
Steve Murphy is Executive Producer & Host of the Insider Exclusive TV Show www.indiderexclusive.com; the Executive Producer/ Host, ABC's The Law Business Insider www.lbishow.com; Senior Producer, Sky Radio Network, www.skyradionetwork.com; The Insider Exclusive TV Shows have won over 14 prestigious films awards including 7 Emmys for their TV Shows.
For more information or broadcasting schedules, look for postings on the Citizens For Clean Water website www.pzldf.org.
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Other contacts:
Sullivan & Associates, Shaunna Sullivan, Sullivanlaw@charter.net 805- 528-3355
Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger 919-445-2841, 559-445-5328
State Water Resources Control Board, Dorothy Rice, Executive Director 916-341-5615drice@waterboards.ca.gov
Central Coast RWQCB, Michael Thomas 805-788-3571mthomas@waterboards.ca.gov
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Below is a follow up press release from PZLDF concerning the recent Insider Exclusive presentation of the interview with a few of The Los Osos 45 who have been targeted by the RWQCB’s CDO Mad Hatter Tea Party and Auto De Fe Public Hanging. This press release supplies more info on the program and producer, and I’m posting it since some Anonymice blog posters raised issues about what, who and how the shows were put together, then launched into an amazing Round Robin dance of “signal jamming” and building air castles complete with angels on heads of pins all based on nothing but made up stuff from other Anonymice. Typical. Sigh.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Gail McPherson 805.459.4535
Los Osos Lawsuit Featured in New Civil Rights TV show-
Emmy Award Winning TV Producer Films Los Osos Civil Rights Case.
A high profile Los Osos, Ca lawsuit, filed by Sullivan and Associates against the Central Coast Regional Water Board, is the subject the INSIDER EXCLUSIVE TV show. The Show was looking to highlight a few Civil Rights Cases that represents injustice, unfairness and/or deception...Either for individuals or groups seeking tell their story, and the Los Osos appeal filed in San Luis Obispo Superior Court fit perfectly.
The Los Osos water board sewer debacle is gaining increased public attention based on the recent civil rights lawsuit that appeals the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Boards precedent setting prosecution of ordinary citizens. The complaint claims the regulatory agency violated due process and constitutional protections, including selective enforcement, discrimination and environmental justice, when staff randomly selected individual homeowners to serve as an example for voters, and applied regulations to their homes meant for industry. The water board members stated on several occasions their actions were a desperate attempt to change the will of the electorate, which is illegal and a gross abuse of regulatory power and authority.
That interested the Emmy Award Winning Insider Exclusive producer Steve Murphy whose focus is on cases of great injustice, because they are being litigated right now, or because they involve large numbers of people and very consequential issues, or because of their historical importance funded this production. Each TV Show is a 28:30 minute TV feature segment.
Steve Murphy, who regularly produces the Dateline, 60 Minutes, 20/20, and Prime Time-style TV Shows for Lawyers and broadcasts them on PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Court TV, Fox, Time Warner, Cox, AOL, and Comcast TV.
The filming of the Special 30 minute TV Shows on "Civil Rights Cases in America Today" was completed at Murphy’s studios in Studio City, California. The show can be viewed at “Crisis in Los Osos” link http://www.insiderexclusive.com/los_osos.htm
Steve Murphy is Executive Producer & Host of the Insider Exclusive TV Show www.indiderexclusive.com; the Executive Producer/ Host, ABC's The Law Business Insider www.lbishow.com; Senior Producer, Sky Radio Network, www.skyradionetwork.com; The Insider Exclusive TV Shows have won over 14 prestigious films awards including 7 Emmys for their TV Shows.
For more information or broadcasting schedules, look for postings on the Citizens For Clean Water website www.pzldf.org.
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Other contacts:
Sullivan & Associates, Shaunna Sullivan, Sullivanlaw@charter.net 805- 528-3355
Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger 919-445-2841, 559-445-5328
State Water Resources Control Board, Dorothy Rice, Executive Director 916-341-5615drice@waterboards.ca.gov
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2006 International Family Film Festival - Best Documentary
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2001 City of Los Angeles Commendation - PSA Campaign
1999 New York Film Festival - Best Music Video
1999 Nation Telly Winner - Best Music Video
1999 International Aurora Award Winner - Best Music Video
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2. PBS's LAPD Chief Bill Bratton http://www.insiderexclusive.com/Bratton_rikki.htm
3. MSNBC Children of the Night http://www.insiderexclusive.com/vs11.htm
4. CNN's Jane Velez Mitchell http://www.insiderexclusive.com/Jane_Velez_Mitchell.htm
5. USA Network's Monk (Lee Goldberg & Tom Mesereau) http://www.insiderexclusive.com/vs6.htm
6. Fox Network's TV Judge Cristina Perez: http://www.insiderexclusive.com/judge_cristina.htm
7. Fox Business Network's America's Premier Lawyers http://www.insiderexclusive.com/bestshow_bh.html
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Saturday, December 01, 2007
Merry Ho-Ho
Press Release on the homeless shelter fundraiser. Plus, don't forget, the food banks have their bins out in front of the supermarkets. And when you hear the Salvation Army's little bells rining, toss a donation in the kettle and give thanks that you're able to do so.
Second Annual Needs and Wishes Holiday Fundraiser
For EOC’s Maxine Lewis Memorial Homeless Shelter
It is estimated that San Luis Obispo County could have up to 4-5,000 homeless, of which a large percentage is comprised of women and children. There are only two overnight shelters in the whole county. One is in North County with approximately 35 beds and the Maxine Lewis Memorial Shelter in San Luis Obispo which shelters 50-85 people per night.
Just imagine for a moment that you and your children are homeless.
You are standing in line for a bed for the night and the last one is given out before you reach the front of the line. It is cold and rainy. Where would you go?
Operated on a shoestring budget and affected by reductions in Federal funding, the Shelter’s needs are always great. This is why Los Ososans are opening their hearts and wallets in the spirit of Christmas. We are having a fundraiser and invite the whole county to join us!
There are no operating expenses for this event. Every penny you donate will go to the Shelter!
December 8th after the Los Osos Christmas Parade
Open House all day from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
South Bay Community Center
2180 Palisades Avenue, Los Osos
Visit and take pictures with Santa Claus.
Free hot cocoa served by the Los Osos 4-H.
SLO Roast Coffee & tea served by Quota Club of Morro Bay.
Free homemade cookies-bring some to share.
Eat hamburgers, hotdogs or veggie burgers at the Elves’ Kitchen.
Shop at Santa’s Toy & Gift Store for your presents-hundreds of toys, tools, small appliances, works of art, gift baskets, store and restaurant gift certificates from county-wide merchants.
Buy extra toys and donate them to “Toys for Tots” or “Operation Santa Claus” at the Fire Dept. Buy Mrs. Claus’s Baked Goods to take home or surprising finds at Santa’s Second Hand Store.
Bid on hundreds of silent auction items all day, including all five SLO County Supervisors who are donating “Lunch with a Supervisor.” Bid high and “bend the ear of a Supervisor.”
Fun raffle items plus special children’s raffle.
Listen to live piano and organ music all day-Marilyn Miller and Martha Hanson among others. Stage entertainment starts at 3:45 Ann Tiber’s Folk Dancers.
4:30 Colleen Wall’s Morro Bay High School Chamber & Los Osos Middle School Stage Choirs.
5:00 Gordon Snapp’s Baywood Elementary School Choir.
Live Auction starting at 5:30 by Gary Freiberg includes a $1700 white gold & pave sapphire pendant designed and donated by Gold Tree Jewelers of Morro Bay.
Pianist Johnny Cannan will end the evening leading us singing Christmas Carols.
There is no admission, just donate whatever you can!
Collect your change and bring it to help us fill the big water jugs. Last year we filled two.
Come have fun and join your neighbors for holiday cheer!
Tax-deductible checks can be made out to:
“Maxine Lewis Memorial Shelter”
The South Bay Community Center in Los Osos will host this event every year right after the
Los Osos Christmas Parade because there is an ongoing need, so mark your calendars for December ‘08.
For more information, please call 805-528-5800
Press Release on the homeless shelter fundraiser. Plus, don't forget, the food banks have their bins out in front of the supermarkets. And when you hear the Salvation Army's little bells rining, toss a donation in the kettle and give thanks that you're able to do so.
Second Annual Needs and Wishes Holiday Fundraiser
For EOC’s Maxine Lewis Memorial Homeless Shelter
It is estimated that San Luis Obispo County could have up to 4-5,000 homeless, of which a large percentage is comprised of women and children. There are only two overnight shelters in the whole county. One is in North County with approximately 35 beds and the Maxine Lewis Memorial Shelter in San Luis Obispo which shelters 50-85 people per night.
Just imagine for a moment that you and your children are homeless.
You are standing in line for a bed for the night and the last one is given out before you reach the front of the line. It is cold and rainy. Where would you go?
Operated on a shoestring budget and affected by reductions in Federal funding, the Shelter’s needs are always great. This is why Los Ososans are opening their hearts and wallets in the spirit of Christmas. We are having a fundraiser and invite the whole county to join us!
There are no operating expenses for this event. Every penny you donate will go to the Shelter!
December 8th after the Los Osos Christmas Parade
Open House all day from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
South Bay Community Center
2180 Palisades Avenue, Los Osos
Visit and take pictures with Santa Claus.
Free hot cocoa served by the Los Osos 4-H.
SLO Roast Coffee & tea served by Quota Club of Morro Bay.
Free homemade cookies-bring some to share.
Eat hamburgers, hotdogs or veggie burgers at the Elves’ Kitchen.
Shop at Santa’s Toy & Gift Store for your presents-hundreds of toys, tools, small appliances, works of art, gift baskets, store and restaurant gift certificates from county-wide merchants.
Buy extra toys and donate them to “Toys for Tots” or “Operation Santa Claus” at the Fire Dept. Buy Mrs. Claus’s Baked Goods to take home or surprising finds at Santa’s Second Hand Store.
Bid on hundreds of silent auction items all day, including all five SLO County Supervisors who are donating “Lunch with a Supervisor.” Bid high and “bend the ear of a Supervisor.”
Fun raffle items plus special children’s raffle.
Listen to live piano and organ music all day-Marilyn Miller and Martha Hanson among others. Stage entertainment starts at 3:45 Ann Tiber’s Folk Dancers.
4:30 Colleen Wall’s Morro Bay High School Chamber & Los Osos Middle School Stage Choirs.
5:00 Gordon Snapp’s Baywood Elementary School Choir.
Live Auction starting at 5:30 by Gary Freiberg includes a $1700 white gold & pave sapphire pendant designed and donated by Gold Tree Jewelers of Morro Bay.
Pianist Johnny Cannan will end the evening leading us singing Christmas Carols.
There is no admission, just donate whatever you can!
Collect your change and bring it to help us fill the big water jugs. Last year we filled two.
Come have fun and join your neighbors for holiday cheer!
Tax-deductible checks can be made out to:
“Maxine Lewis Memorial Shelter”
The South Bay Community Center in Los Osos will host this event every year right after the
Los Osos Christmas Parade because there is an ongoing need, so mark your calendars for December ‘08.
For more information, please call 805-528-5800
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