Pacific Valley School and Community Garden Project
Category: Big Sur News
Local School Board seeks community input
To The Pacific Valley School Community:
Dear Parents, Students, Staff and Community Members,
The BSUSD board of Trustees are requesting your input on a matter that has been brought to the board and will be voted on in the near future, either at a open public special meeting or the next regularly scheduled open public meeting on May 26 at 6:30 pm.
Luvlab Productions, a private locally owned business whose partners include Mike and Lucas Handy, has asked to use the PV school campus for parking for up to 150 cars for their Big Surreal Event up Willow Creek, scheduled for June 26,27,28 2015. The campus would be used for parking for three days. LuvLabs has offered to compensate Pacifc Valley School. Safety and legal issues are being considered on both sides.
As representatives of the community, the board welcomes your feedback. Please reply to this email address only, bsusdboard@gmail.com. All input and information submitted will be presented at the next meeting for review.
There will be no response to your email. However, the board encourages you to come to the next meeting or call Gordon if you would like more information and/or details.
Thank you for your participation.
Sincerely,
The BSUSD Board of Trustees
Public Comment re Solar Power at PV STation
The USFS has sent out a letter requesting public comment by May 30th regarding the installation of a solar array system to become the primary source of power for the main firefighting station on the South Coast of Big Sur. The existing diesel generating system will be used for back-up power only. It will cover an area of approximately 15,00 sq ft and the total height of the panels will be 7 ft. None of this will be visible from the highway. This is a HUGE step, and I heartily support it, and will let the USFS know that. Of our 5 largest visitor-serving facilities down here (Gorda, Treebones, PV Station, the Hermitage, and Lucia) 2 of them will now be primarily solar powered, Lucia having been the first to take this major step. Both are setting good examples for the rest of us (I have been completely solar for over two years. I run my genie for 2-3 hours maybe 4-5 times a year in the shortest days of the year. BIG savings in gas and emissions.)
I would urge all interested parties to support this endeavor. Email to comments-pacificsouthwest-los-padres-monterey@fs.fed.us in either email, plain text (.txt) rich text (.rtf) or word (.doc). For oral comments or further information, call Jeff Kwasny, Resource Officer, at 831-667-1126. Snail mail comments to Tim Short, District Ranger, at the District Office in King City 406 Mildred, KC 93930
Big Creek Annual Open House
Open House, May 9, 2015
UC Santa Cruz and the UC Natural Reserve System invite you to the Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve
Saturday, May 9, 2015 9am-4pm
Entry is by RSVP only. Space will be limited.
Registration required here
http://bigcreek.ucnrs.org/open_house/index.html
Open House is the only day of the year that the Reserve is open to the general public. You are welcome to visit, learn what we are all about, meet the staff and explore the Reserve. We’ll have folks at the main entrance who can share their experience and knowledge with you about lots of topics. Bring hiking shoes and a sack lunch. Driving tours are not available. Parking is limited to the pullout just south of the reserve gates. Park on the highway pullout and walk down to the gatehouse from there. Watch for signs out on the highway. Please carpool if possible. Click here for driving directions.
http://bigcreek.ucnrs.org/roads/index.html
We look for volunteers to help get the trails ready or even on the day of the open house itself. Read about our Volunteer Stewardship Program for more info.
http://bigcreek.ucnrs.org/volunteers/index.html
For more information, call or email
the reserve director, Mark Readdie.
(831) 667-2543
reddie@ucsc.ed
Vehicle over the Edge JSO of Lucia and Fire at Coast Gallery (separate incidents)
At 7:45 pm, highway one was shut down to facilitate recovery of the vehicle from the cliff.
From CHP: CHP reports this as a fatality, once they were able to reach the driver.
Detail Information4:09 PM12[22] A27-014 THE WITN 1097 W/ 14 AT THE SCENE4:05 PM11[20] [Notification] [CHP]-WHEN H70 COMES UP ON THE AIR, REQ ETA FOR MTRY COM4:01 PM10[18] 2 CUSTOMERS AT GORDA WHALE WATCHERS CAFE WITN THE TC 4:01 PM9[17] [Rotation Request Comment] 1039 CALIF W/HVY DUTY3:59 PM8[15] REQ 1185 EVID HVY DUTY3:59 PM7[14] [Notification] [CHP]-SALCOMM TRANS RP OVER WHO WITN TC, WAS TAKING PICS AND SAW A SMALL RED VEH HEADING NB HEARD SCREETCHING THEN VEH HIT A SIGN AND WENT DOWN, POSS A FORD MUST OR HOND, VEH APPEARED TO HAVE HIT DIRT AND LOST CONTROL RP STATED A VEH FULL OF XRAYS WAS CAME CLOSE TO BEING INV3:58 PM6[12] POSS 1144 ONE SUBJ EJECT / VEH APPX 300 FT DOWN ON THE BEACH3:49 PM5[11] 1039 S13:47 PM4[8] PER MTRY COM, RESCUE TEAM ENRT 3:32 PM3[5] VEH MAY HAVE GONE DOWN APPROX 200 FT3:32 PM2[4] SEV VEHS PULLED OVER ON RS, NOT INV3:31 PM1[2] VEH OVER THE SIDE Unit Information3:33 PM2Unit Assigned3:33 PM1Unit Enroute
Was reported to me as at Coast Gallery, and only 10×10′ spot. Now how did that get started? I’ve been in town south, so a tad slow on this, but windy as heck up here at Peidras Blancas.
| 03/31/2015 13:40 | LPF-788 |
Grimes | Wildfire | MM 1 41.1 M | . | 7EDW1 BC11LPF PAT18LPF Q | Steve Dean Effective 15:48, 03/31/2015 | Pompus grass | .1 | 36.205 x 121.736 |
Earth Day
Big Sur Earth Day Fair
Sunday April 12, 2015 from 1 – 5 at
Henry Miller Memorial Library
48603 Hwy One, Big Sur
*In case of rain, the Fair will be held at the Grange*
Hwy 1 & Juan Higuera Creek
Please carpool, take bus?line 22 stops @ Nepenthe @12:15, lvs 4 pm
Come help us celebrate Earth Day:
Take a tour through the CHEERS Trash Museum (as seen on tv)
Make a smoothie by pedaling a bike
View the environmental displays
See the up-cycled treasures for purchase
Participate in the Earth Games – for adults & children of all ages
Let your small children play in the preschool area
Enjoy fresh, organic, yummy foods and nutritious beverages
Experience our surprise musical masters of ceremony, drums, guitars and singers.
Tour the tables and booths of the Monterey Bay Master Gardeners, Ventana Wilderness Alliance and many other local organizations
Presented by Big Sur Advocates for a Green Environment (B-SAGE)
Big Sur Fashion Show canceled for this year
Dear Fashion Friends and Fans,
We know many of you have been eagerly awaiting our 2015 date and the anticipated
call for designers announcement. Your fearless and dedicated team of BBBIS (Big
Big Big Sur Fashion Show) have been working diligently through the fall and
winter as we’ve been called to face new challenges for the show. Namely, the
challenge of a venue. While Henry Miller Library remains our fiscal sponsor and
most dedicated partner, our show has outgrown their beautiful space and we have
been doing a great deal of research for another Big Sur location where we can
safety and excitedly host the 800+ audience members, volunteers, sponsors and
participants that make up this amazing event.
After months of research without a clear solution emerging, we just made the
difficult committee decision that it is time for us to take a one year hiatus so
we can adequately to secure and plan for our new venue. After six years we are
taking a leap year!
We know this will be a disappointment to many of you, as it is to us. We didn’t
make the decision lightly, and it’s an incredible testament to you that we
simply can’t responsibly host this event anywhere with less than an 800 person
capacity. (After all, our tickets last year sold out in 7 seconds!) But we are
sooooooo pumped to take this amazing event to the next level in 2016, and our
Bohemian Recipes/ Flower Power themes will be waiting for us next spring.
We are prepared to move the show to Carmel or Monterey if the perfect Big Sur
spot is not revealed in 2016, although Big Sur is unquestionably our mission #1!
We very much welcome your ideas and input if you know of a public or private
property in Big Sur that can accommodate those numbers, with alcohol sales and
parking.
In lieu of the full affair this year, we are hosting a short series of catered
dinner theater evenings this spring at Henry Miller with inaugural screenings of
Lynette Tolentino’s full-length documentary about the big Big BIG Sur Fashion
Show, Ashes to Art. We are also still planning to host the Kid’s Fashion Show
costume workshops and runway event. Stay tuned for details!
We love you and are so grateful for your flexibility and patience as we leap to
new heights in 2016!
Ever yours,
The BBBIS
Gaia Cascio, Lisa Goettel, Michelle Magdalena Maddox, Kendra Morgenrath, Katie
Newman, Jaime Oksas, Ashleigh Poland, Elsa Rivera, Rachael Short, Lynette
Tolentino, & Magnus Toren
Big Sur Fashion Show | info@bigsurfashionshow.com | Big Sur Fashion Show | PO
Box 163 | Big Sur, CA 93920
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Soberanes Incident
I have no details, maybe Jon Knight will chime in. I checked CHP, and wild-CAD, and nothing mentioned. Photo by Martha Diehl
Happy Halloween, BSMAAC, and weather
The BSMAAC meeting is this Friday, Halloween. On the Agenda is the introduction of the new USFS Los Padres Supervisor, Cal Trans project updates, Presentation to Big Sur Lodge, and presentation by B-Sage, as well as reports by member agencies.
Also, rain is on tap to start by Halloween morn. Most welcome, of course.
Finally, from my friend Dan Danborn:
And don’t forget Nepenthe’s Bal Masque which benefits our very own Big Sur Volunteer Fire Department. See Nepenthe .com for tickets!
Jade Festival Photos
What a weekend! I was too busy to get any but a couple of shots, but I have collected a few from others I wish to share. There were several world famous musicians who played.
Here is a phtograph of Danny Weis, one of the founding members of Iron Butterfly … photo by bigsurkate
Here is a wonderful close-up of a piece of Jade by Howard Jones. More at
I have a few more I will be adding throughout the day, but I must first add a thank you to the core members of the SCCLT who do the vast majority of the work in setting this up: Syd Carr for the incredible music and volunteers; Kirk Brock who brings the diverse array of vendors to us each year; Steve Finch, who was in charge of almost everything else; and Lisa Gehring who controls all the money. The school and PTO had a number of booths, not the least of which was the BBQ booth, led by Gordon Pfiffero and Josh Wilson. It was the best! And for one of the most important, and least recognized jobs of all – trash and recycling, Gail Dinsmore. To all who contributed in all ways great and small – we keep getting better each year due to the hard work you all contribute to this community event.
More photos later.
The Jade Lady by Gary Gowdy, one of my favorite pieces, photographed by Kalamakuaikalani D.