Senior Coastsiders needs your help at their parking lot and the ever-popular Pumpkin Run. Parkers needed for two hour shifts both Saturday, October 16 7:30am-1:30pm and Sunday, October 17 from 7:30am to 3:30pm.

Pumpkin Run volunteers needed Sunday, October 17th from 6:30 - 10:00am. You can help Senior Coastsiders raise money for programs that benefit local seniors, get some exercise and get out in the beautiful autumn weather.

Contact Vicki at 726-9056, [email protected].

Evan Peterson is a dynamic emerging young artist, and friend. I am tickled to be co-sponsoring PANES, his first solo exhibit in California. 

Please join us at Enso for a Reception for the Artist on Friday, September 17 from 6 to 8 pm. 

Peterson’s graphic imagery adorns album covers, surf, skate and snowboards. 
His work is included in collections across the country, Canada and Japan.

Once a house-painter by trade, Peterson developed his talents using the remnants of house-paint on scrap wood, derelict doors, sheetrock and dropcloths when he could not afford canvas. Then he discovered glass and that changed everything. 

The works in this collection are rendered in reverse on windows scavenged from dumps, building sites, crumbling sheds and abandoned shacks that are scattered throughout the changing landscape of the Coastal regions of the Pacific Northwest.

PANES is Peterson’s debut solo exhibit in California.

The Coastside Mothers’ Club will host its fourth annual Sandy Feet Festival, to benefit Coastside Hope, the primary provider of safety net services for our community. Nearly 300 people attended the festival last year and more than $1700 was raised for Coastside Hope.  The family-focused event is open to the public and will include a sand castle-building contest, beach games and a picnic lunch.  Local “celebrity” judges will select their favorite works of sand-art in several categories and many local businesses have donated products and services that will be awarded to the winning families.

Sunday, October 3, 2010
Dunes Beach
Highway 1 & Young Avenue
Half Moon Bay
9:00am – 1:00pm

For more information please visit http://www.coastsidemothersclub.org

Get ready for this year’s Smokehouse Game at Half Moon Bay High School! On Friday, September 17, the High School’s Leadership Students will be hosting a FREE BBQ before the Varsity football game against Leigh High School. The food is going to be provided by none other than Cameron’s Restaurant and Inn. The BBQ and music starts up in the Half Moon Bay High School’s parking lot at 4:00 and ends at 5:45. This event is for the entire community, so bring your friends, family, and kids! We’ll be face-painting, giving out spirit items, and our Mascot, Cougie, will be available for pictures. Don’t miss out on this free event this Friday at the High School!

Wonderful news to announce.  Cub Scout Pack 263 is back and will kick off
the school year with a fun gathering at Hatch Elementary Playground this Saturday September 11 at 2pm. 

You can meet scout leaders and Boy Scouts from Troop 263 and learn more about what scouting is all about.

Activities will include making and using marshmallow guns, shooting marbles and other fun stuff. 

The first pack meeting will at Wednesday the 15th of September at 7pm at the Methodist Church in Half Moon Bay.  All boys grades 1-5th are welcome. 

Please call Paul Pantera if you have any questions 560 9911.

We will be offering food and fun for the whole family this coming Saturday, September 18th from 12 pm to 5 pm.  There will be complimentary face painting, balloons, and a jump house for kids of all ages.  Adults can enter the drawing for an overnight stay in a guest suite at Cypress Meadows.

The Plastic Onion Band will be performing between 1 pm and 3 pm.  Don’t miss this opportunity to listen to this Beatles tribute band as they play songs we all know and love.

Join us at the grill for hamburgers or veggie burgers, chips, drink, and cookies for $4 or get a hot dog, chips, drink and cookies for $3.  If you prefer, bring your own lunch and beverage of choice and picnic with us in the garden.

Cypress Flower Farm - 333 Cypress Ave. Moss Beach.  For questions or additional information phone 650-728-0728 or email [email protected]

Dear CCWD’s Chris, Bob, Jerry, Ken, Jim, David:

My name is Simon Streets.

Please call me Simon.

My family of 6 and I reside on San Clemente Road in El Granada the fourth house up from Isabella Road where the CCWD and AT&T are considering “planting” a cell tower mono-pine tree.

By now you have heard and read various concerns of several El Granada community members regarding the “planting” of this cell tower tree.

I have been active in “spreading the word” about these cell tower plans to our community and expressing our community’s concerns to the MCC Board.

Most concerned parties are in favor of improved cell service in the surrounding communities, but most of these same parties strongly request that any required cell towers be co-located with current cell towers or located in commercial areas and not in R-1 zoned residential areas.

I understand that these cell tower plans are part of “your business” and provide some revenue for the CCWD, however, the concern and disruption that these plans cause many of my El Granada neighbors is part of “my business”, and I truly hope that you will hear, listen, and absorb the concerns of the El Granada community members whom have provided their concerns to you via letters, e-mails, online petition comments, petition signatures, newspaper articles, web-site postings, etc.,.

San Mateo County Health System will hold a free whooping cough vaccine clinic. The number of whooping cough cases in the County has reached nearly eight times the number at this time last year.

The clinic will be held on September 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Health Administration Building, Room 100, located at 225 37th Ave. in San Mateo. All residents ages 7 and older are encouraged to get vaccinated, especially those in close contact with newborns who are too young to be vaccinated. No appointment is necessary, and residents will not be asked to show I.D.

Half Moon Bay resident John Robert Alexander, 56, has been arrested in Bridgeport for a string of California bank robberies, reports the Auburn Journal.

On Aug. 27 Alexander allegedly robbed the Bank of America on High Street in Downtown Auburn. He was then connected to nine other robberies in the Bay Area and Placer County, including Rocklin and Roseville.

The first robbery occurred June 2 in Mountain View.

Alexander had been called the Posse Box Bandit. A Posse Box is a brand and type of clipboard that has a storage compartment connected to the board.

The Review is reporting that Alexander was well-known locally as an actor in the Coastal Reportory Theatre, having appeared in plays that included “Tommy”, “South Pacific”, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, “Over the Tavern”, and “Oklahoma”.

Architecture site Inhabitat features a Montara house that it says is designed to maximize sunlight on the "foggy California coast". There are more pictures on the original site.

The foggy Northern California coastline can sometimes put a damper on your spirit, but given the a chance to inhabit a house like the Montara House, you’d be sure to find a pick-me-up no matter what the weather conditions. Located on the coast just south of San Francisco on a steep sloped site, the concrete home maximizes natural daylight inside the home and provides a comfortable and warm environment to escape the fog. And though designed by San Francisco-based Anderson Anderson Architecture, the resident family were actually the builders of this eco-home, which includes an impressive pv and solar water heating system.