Julia Scott at the County Times had a longer and more detailed article on this back in January.
]]>But it’s hard to miss the shiny new plant built at the top of the landfill. Starting this spring, the gas it collects will leave the landfill in the form of electricity — enough to power as many as 10,000 homes in Palo Alto and Alameda.
When it goes online in two or three months, the plant, recently completed by Ameresco Inc., will be able to capture and convert more methane than any other Bay Area landfill. Its six engines will operate 24 hours a day and generate up to 11.5 megawatts of electricity, more than twice that of most local landfills, which produce about 5 megawatts.
“It’s probably one of the largest landfill gas-to-energy projects that’s been developed in the past five years — certainly it’s the biggest project in California in the last five years,” said Linda Nugent, senior project developer for Ameresco, which won a contract from Republic Services Inc. in 2004 to develop the plant.
Methane-capture technology has evolved considerably since it first came into use in the early 1980s. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 445 such projects exist in the United States, with the potential for 535 more.
Although the Dream Machines raised money for this cause…funds are down this year and this is a very important event to the Adult Day Health Center. Not getting in the review makes me want to cry the blues but as always the Grass Roots of the Coastside will support us.
Show starts right after the Old Fashioned 4th of July Parade at the Adult Day Health Center on 665 Correas (Off Main). Barbeque and Beer and Blues.
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Yes! We are open on the 4th of July. We will likely close early so everyone can get to the Parade, which starts at noon, but we will be open as usual at 9 AM.
Answer to part 2 of Burning Question Number 70409:
Nope. We can’t change opening hours: we would if we could, but we can’t so we aren’t.*
But if you want to make sure you get your red, white and blue potatoes so you can make a lovely tri-colored pan-full to go with your seriously independent free range chickens, or your blueberries, strawberries and raspberries for your equally gorgeous and commemorative Independence Day desserts, why come on down to Pacifica on Wednesday afternoon, where you can stock up on everything you need for a bang-up wingding.
Pacifica’s own Jay Howlett will provide the entertainment on Wednesday afternoon, and Pacifica’s own Don Rowell Trio will light your fuse on Saturday.
And thanks to our sponsors from the Harbor- the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, Huck Finn Sport Fishing and Sierra West for your support of the Market, but also for your support of the men and women of The American Legion Post 474, to whom we all owe a huge debt of gratitude.
See you at the Market,
Erin Tormey
Coastside Farmers Market
May to December
In Half Moon Bay @ Shoreline Station
Saturdays, 9 am to 1 pm •
In Pacifica @ Rockaway Beach
Wednesdays, 2:30 -6:30pm
Under the proposal, which is still very tentative, two-thirds of voters from Montara to the Santa Cruz County line would have to approve both the annexation and a new parcel tax to fund the clinic or other projects the community would choose. The Coastside would then become eligible for generous program grants from the Sequoia Healthcare District, which is flush with cash from a profit-sharing agreement with Catholic Healthcare West, which operates Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City.
The health care district will make $8.5 million in grants this year to clinics and nonprofit programs on the Bayside and has $22 million in reserves, according to [Sequoia board member Don] Horsley. A parcel tax is a “stable and predictable” source of funding, as opposed to a sales tax increase, he said.
The proposal would take two years before delivering healthcare on the Coastside. And there is the question of control. The district’s board would control its budget.
Meanwhile, the records of the former Coastside Family Medical Clinic continue to be out of the reach of its former patients.
]]>The records are under the care of a court-appointed trustee, who is responsible for keeping the records safe until they can be distributed. The responsibility for distributing them falls to the Coastside Family Medical Center and its former board members, who do not appear to have a plan — or the resources — to do so. ...
“That is an affirmative duty for which the debtor and its principals may be held liable to the extent they have breached that duty,” the motion [by the bankruptcy attorney] says, suggesting that former clinic patients who suffer harm as a result of being denied their medical records could sue. ...
[CFMC board member Charise] McHugh would not comment on whether the former board of the Coastside Family Medical Center has a plan to distribute the remaining records at this time.
“I will just say that there is nothing more important to any of the board members than the clinic and those patients,” she said. “You just have to trust us.”
A San Mateo County Fire spokesman said a five-year-old girl was swept a few hundred yards out in a rip current that runs along the south end of the beach.
The girl’s mother was also overcome by the heavy surf trying to save the child. ...
“We had a total of seven victims on the shore,” said Ari Delay of the Half Moon Bay Fire Department. “Five of them were not transported. Two were taken by helicopter to Stanford Medical Center, both with CPR in progress in route to the hospital.” ...
“The family at some point was swept out on the south end of Montara State Beach. There’s a rip [current] that goes along the south end,” explained Delay. “It’s unknown the exact circumstances. It’s a precarious surf out here. The surf line is very dangerous.”
The daughter was found after a 30 minute search by the Harbormaster’s boat.
]]>I had an opportunity to spend some time talking with Dan Burden, the consultant who is managing the process and saw some of the ideas they’re working on.
It includes a vision of Highway 1 unlike anything you’ve seen, perhaps in the entire state.
Come to the presentation of the concept plan, Tuesday, June 30 in the El Granada Elementary School multiuse room at 7pm.
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With the state’s attention on its own budget deficit, the bill faced an uphill fight — but it was one Hill was willing to wage. However, that fight came abruptly to an end when the council made cuts and elevated its bond rating and voted to move forward with issuing its own bonds to ensure it could meet a Aug. 29 deadline or face interest penalties in case the state legislation failed. The vote to give Dolder his raise was the nail in the legislative coffin as Republicans in the Legislature got hold of the news — giving the bill its highest negative attention. Hill saw the writing on the wall and decided to cut his losses this week while expressing disappointment the city made the decisions it did. ...
Self reliance is a virtue, and the city should make every step necessary and available to solve its own problems. But acting like a political novice is now requiring them to.
What the Journal misses is that the city wasted the entire 2008 legislative session on the cynical and hopeless AB1991.
]]>In a series of exercises audience had opportunity to effectively express viewpoints, vision and values. All participants had the opportunity to vote (see photo) on most valued elements that will shape the final design.
The charrette continues on Saturday with a walking tour that will leave from El Granada school shortly after 9am. The session continues into the afternoon and a BBQ lunch (courtesy of the Half Moon Bay Lions chapter) will be provided.
Starting on Saturday, more information on outcomes from the charrette sessions will be available at the web site: http://mprc.sanmateo.org/charrette.html .
]]>Read the County’s staff report on green building [pdf] for more information on what is being considered.
The county’s Green Building Task Force and the Planning and Building Department are the sponsors.
]]>Thursday, July 2, 2009
At 7:30 P.M.
Half Moon Bay – Ocean Shore Train Depot
(Near Johnston House, Higgins-Purisima Road
Join us for an informative and stimulating presentation by one of the world’s leading experts in the field of sustainability. Ed Quevedo, Senior Counsel. Ed will discuss the meaning of sustainability in today’s world. In this era where just about every product or company now claims to be “Green”, Ed will give us some guidance on how to distinguish Nonsense from the Truth.
Ed Quevedo is Senior Counsel in the Paladin Law Group LLP, and Chair of the firm’s Sustainability Practice Group. He has over 25 years of experience advising clients on domestic and international environmental and health & safety (EHS) law compliance and litigation matters, sustainability planning and program development, and strategic EHS program development and performance counseling, both as an attorney and consulting advisor.
During his legal career, Mr. Quevedo has argued cases before the California Supreme Court, the International Board of Arbitrators in The Hague, and the European Court of Justice. He has led high-impact pro bono litigation teams in important Civil Rights, Clean Water Act, and environmental damages recovery litigation in public interest cases brought in state and federal courts.
He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Silicon Valley Environmental Partnership (http://www.svep.org), serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance (http://www.mswg.org), and is Past President of the Pacific Industrial & Business Association (http://www.piba.org).
]]>Travellers & Magicians (108 minutes) Deep in the Himalayas, in the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, two men seek to escape their mundane lives. Dondup is a university graduate who hopes to dump his job as a government official and emigrate to the USA, the land of his dreams. He plans to support himself in the US by working as a farm laborer. While waiting for the bus out of town he bumps into a monk who responds to Dondup’s comments by spinning the tale of Tashi, a handsome young apprentice magician, who is just as frustrated with his own life as Dondup is with his.
The film deftly cuts back and forth between the tales of these two restless young men, both with girls on their mind, both with a deep longing to discover a world of more fun and action, and both so preoccupied with their own concerns that they can’t appreciate just how lucky they are. Advisory: This film contains scenes of sensuality.
Friday June 26, 2009 at 7:30 pm.
$6.00 adult donation.
Community United Methodist Church Sanctuary.
777 Miramontes at Johnston), Half Moon Bay.
More info at: www.HMBFilm.org
Carla Meyer of the San Francisco Chronicle calls Travellers & Magicians “Visually accomplished and loads of fun ... A warm, embracing film of transcendent beauty and spirituality.”
Director Khyentse Norbu became an international star with the release of his first film “The Cup”, which was shot in India. For his second film Norbu decided to return to his homeland of Bhutan. Bhutan is a remote land, that ranks as the happiest country in all of Asia, and is so beautiful it provided the inspiration for the fictitious Shangrila of James Hilton’s novel “Lost Horizon”. The government of Bhutan has deep reverence for culture and tradition. It discourages outside influences that don’t add to the country’s “Gross National Happiness”. As a result, no film had ever been shot there. But Norbu has connections. Norbu’s full name is His Eminence Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche. This makes him one of the most important incarnate lamas in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and a member of one of Bhutan’s most noble families. Sometimes it is not just who you know, it is who you are the makes the difference.
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