On Thursday, January 27, 2011, the County of San Mateo Human Services Agency will conduct the biennial One Day Homeless Census and Survey. The census is a federal requirement which is also a key component of the HOPE ten-year plan to end homelessness, and will provide us with an increased understanding of both the number of homeless individuals and families in this county and their individual and collective needs.

Why is the PIT Count Important? Collecting good data on the number, characteristics, and service needs of individuals, families, and unaccompanied children experiencing homelessness is a critical component of local homeless planning and program development. Accurate data helps communities to:

• Understand changes in trends among homeless populations;
• Adjust the types of programs and services available according to need and use resources as efficiently as possible;
• Justify requests for additional resources and/or programming modifications;
• Comply with reporting requirements from HUD, other funders, and local stakeholders;
• Raise public awareness about the issue of homelessness; and
• Measure community progress towards preventing and ending homelessness.

Coastside training will be Wednesday, Jan 19, in Half Moon Bay:

Half Moon Village
Community Center
9 Bloom Lane
Half Moon Bay, CA
Wednesday, January 19, 6:30 to 8:30pm

Tonight’s MCC meeting has several items that address Highway 1. A late addition to the meeting will be an appearance by Capt. Mike Maskarich of the California Highway Patrol.  Capt. Maskarich is the commander of the Redwood City CHP area, which includes the San Mateo coast.  He will comment on a recent series of accidents on Highway 1 in El Granada.  The item will be taken up in the “Other Public Officials”

Planned agenda items include an update on Highway 1 planning activities and an update on the Devil’s Slide South Portal Pedestrian and Bicycle Crossing.  The MCC will consider a letter to elected officials addressing concerns about the planned crossing.
section of Item 1 of the agenda.  The full agenda and the draft letter are available on the MCC Home Page.

MCTV Channel 27 – Live Coverage and re-broadcast – 7pm, Tuesday, January 19, 2011.

Meeting Information: January 12, 2011, 7:30pm at: Seton Medical Center Coastside, Marine Boulevard & Etheldore, Moss Beach (Take Highway 1 to Marine Boulevard and follow hospital signs uphill).

On Saturday, January 15, 2011, The Visionary Edge will present a fun and inspirating event to launch the 2011 film season.  The evening will begin with a catered organic raw food dinner at 6:00, a skype interview with Berkeley filmmaker Michelle Esrick at 7:30, followed by a sneak preview screening of Saint Misbehavin: The Wavy Gravy Movie.  All will take place at Community United Methodist Church in Half Moon Bay.

Wavy Gravy is more than just a popular Ben-and-Jerry’s ice cream flavor—it’s the name adopted by Hugh Romney, an iconic hippie prankster who has lived a particularly inspiring brand of idealism for half a century. He began as a poet in Greenwich Village, friend to Bob Dylan, Ken Kesey, and Tiny Tim, among others. From there he adopted a more comic persona, performing a kind of stand-up routine that provoked people to ask questions and care more deeply. A leader in what came to be the hippie movement, he eventually traveled across America with his freewheeling commune known as “The Hog Farm,” and often wore a jester costume, embracing the role of the fool in service of his ideals. He and his remarkable wife of 40 plus years, Jahanara, led a sort of security detail at Woodstock that included a kind of reenactment of the biblical feeding of the 5,000, and eventually took a remarkable trip across Europe and through Asia (including through countries like Afghanistan where a westerner would be unable to travel in the same way now), spreading an ethic of warmth and generosity wherever they went. One can’t help but compare the footage of that trip with how such a trip might look now; as Wavy Gravy puts it, “War is such a complicated way of getting to know people.”

Saturday January 15th, 2011 at Community United Methodist Church, 777 Miramontes Street (at Johnston), Half Moon Bay. Dinner payment must be received no later than Thursday at noon, January 13th. Suggested donation for the film portion of the evening is $12 advance, $16 door. No one turned away for lack of funds. Call 650-207-3440 for information and tickets.

Highway 1 in El Granada was closed at about 4:30pm Monday, and then reduced to one direction at a time at about 5:30pm, due to an accident involving a big rig and a sports car near Sam’s Chowder House. The highway was fully re-opened at about 8pm.

On Wednesday, Jan 19 at 6:45 pm at the Half Moon Bay High School Multipurpose Room, the Talk-Listen-Community (TLC) group will host a “No Bully Workshop” designed for parents, teachers and coaches.

The focus of this workshop is to:

• Get everyone up to speed on the ways students bully
• Learn how to “bully proof” your child to succeed in their friendships and avoid the role of bully or target.
• Develop the skills to “Solution Coach” your child.
• Join with other parents in making our schools bully-free learning communities.

There is a suggested donation of $5.00 for an advance ticket purchased at Bay Books or $10.00 at the door.

Previous workshops hosted by the TLC group include “Dying to be Thin” and “Race to the Top”, both of which were very well attended.

To see the web site of the presenter, go to www.nobully.com

It’s the 19th Annual Coastal Rep Talent Show.  Master of Ceremonies Michael Lederman and his sidekick Ken Crowell and his Chops Big Band lead the fun in this favorite variety show.

Showtimes are 8 pm, Friday, January 7 and Saturday, January 8, and 2 pm on Sunday, January 9.

Come enjoy song, dance, comedy and a lot of fun with the following scheduled performers*:

Bobby Conte-Thornton
Ellie Wyman
Paul Godwin
Kellie Morlock
Courtney Hatcher
Efrain Lazacano Ibarra and Marisol Ubano
Organamitron
Lisa Spector
Capo Bros
and many more!

Put some fun back into January.  Join us at the Talent Show! BUY TICKETS ONLINE AT: www.coastalrep.com or call 650.569.3266

BONUS! Anytime in January, show your Talent Show ticket stub when you dine at Casey’s Cafe, and Casey’s will donate 10% of the pre-tax sale amount back to the Coastal Rep Theatre. Thank you for supporting award-winning live theatre and performing arts education on the Coast!

* Note:  not all acts will perform during every show.

Someone broke into the laundry room of an El Granada apartment building, a burglary via an open garage door in El Granada, a dog bite in El Granada, and a car window smashed in Moss Beach.

At our last MCC meeting on Dec 8 when the GGNRA presented information on Rancho Corral de Tiera (RCdT) there was a large group of residents from Clipper Ridge who were upset by the intrusion of the Coral Reef portal on their neighborhood. Surprisingly, there were none from Montara addressing the Le Conte Portal which will bring visitors right past Farallone View Elementary School.

Most of the local residents voiced concern about the affect on their neighborhood (traffic, parking, safety, etc) and the fact that the National Park Service (NPS) did not even try to include the local residents in the process. I am assuming that the lack of Montara people at the meeting was due to a lack of publicizing our meeting or they do not know about the NPS’s plans. I am now reaching out to the community to hear their opinions.

I would like to ask Montara residents and all coastsiders who actively want to help the MCC and NPS identify alternatives. I am in the process of setting up an ad hoc subcommittee to help organize residents who will be the most affected by the current plans and others concerned with better access for all. The working group can meet with the NPS and other organizations to help in planning the new park’s integration into our coastside community. The goal of the subcommittee is to help research alternative locations, communicate information to their neighbors, and provide feedback to the MCC and NPS.

Please contact me [email protected]

Auto burglaries at Gazos State Beach and Pigeon Point Road, neighbors in dispute in Moss Beach, vandals break a home’s window in El Granada, vandals slash tires one car and dent another in Moss Beach, cars are vandalized in Moonridge, license plates stolen at Butano fire trail in Pescadero, a home is burglarized in Moss Beach, and this:

Deputies were dispatched to a report of a woman being thrown from a moving vehicle. Deputies contacted the female. She told the Deputies that she did not like the way the driver was driving so she jumped out of the vehicle. She was intoxicated and refused to tell the Deputies who the driver was or answer any of their questions. She was unable to care for her self and taken to a local hospital for medical attention and evaluation.