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The Coastside Farmers’ Market is hosting a blood drive this coming Saturday, and I hope you’ll consider donating if you are eligible. If you have never donated blood, I hope you’ll think about it now. It’s easy, and means the world to people you will likely never meet. Plus when you do it at the Market, Santiago will sing to you and give you tangerines and pomegrantes to recover by.

Plus giving blood now means an awful lot to the family of a great little local surferdude I know who calls himself Dusty Dirtbike-Rider.  He’s 3 today, but likes to remind everyone he will be 4 by Thanksgiving. He’s a fan of the color orange, the Giants and the Farmer’s Market, where his Auntie Colleen has worked with me for years and years. And he is fighting a nasty case of leukemia at the moment.

The San Mateo County Planning Commission, which will hold a hearing on the Final Environmental Impact Report for Big Wave on Wednesday, Nov 17, will be visiting the site of the proposed development.

The site visit will be formal meeting of the Planning Commission and the public is invited. The visit will take place at 2pm, Monday, Nov 15 at Airport Street and Stanford Avenue, in Princeton.

A car stolen in Fremont shows up in Princeton, a cell phone is stolen from a store counter in Princeton, 2 DUI’s and drugs in a car, a warrant arrest, and an auto burglary in Princeton.

On Saturday, November 13, 2010, The Visionary Edge will present a nourishing and empowering evening dedicated to taking charge of our health.  The evening will start with a catered raw food dinner at 6:00, an interview with the filmmakers at 7:30, followed by a screening of Food Matters: You Are What You Eat, and will wrap up the evening with a talk and Q&A session by Naturapathic Doctor, Sarah Rothman of Pacifica Naturopathic Medicine.  All will take place at Community United Methodist Church in Half Moon Bay.

Saturday November 13th, 2010 at Community United Methodist Church, 777 Miramontes Street (at Johnston), Half Moon Bay. Dinner reservations and payment must be received no later than Wednesday November 10th. 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. Babysitting will be provided for the film with a 24 hour advance reservation. Call 650-207-3440.

The provocative new documentary called Food Matters aims to jolt the trillion dollar worldwide so-called ‘sickness industry’ by declaring a range of scientifically verifiable solutions for curing disease naturally.

Nutritionists turned filmmakers James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch, have produced a bold film based on a challenging and potentially startling message; that with the right kind of foods, supplements, and detoxification processes, we can prevent, arrest, and even reverse chronic illness.

“This film will shatter the belief fed to us by modern medicine that there is ‘a pill for every ill’,” said Colquhoun. “We’re not suggesting that pharmaceutical drugs don’t have their place, we’re saying that our overburdened health care practitioners perhaps do not have the time to educate people about alternative treatments and healthy living.”

Wednesday evening at 7:30 (at Seton Coastside) the MCC will be discussing:

1.  The Local Coastal Plan with Steve Monowitz from the Planning Department. Starting at 7:40

2.  The Big Wave Office Park’s new traffic plan, to route all traffic through Princeton.  Starting around 8:30

For those of you not familiar with the intersection of Capistrano & Prospect in Princeton, we will have an informal site visit starting at the Half Moon Bay Brewery at 4:00.  Camille Leung from County Planning will bring maps and diagrams.

Note: The Planning Commission will be holding site visit at Big Wave on Monday, Nov 18, at 2pm.

Neil Merrilees

The Coastal Repertory Theatre in Half Moon Bay, California, will feature six-time Tony Award- nominated, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” music by William Finn and directed by Michael Lederman. The play opens November 19, 2010.

This comedy, based on Rachel Sheinkin’s book, follows a quirky and charming cast of six adolescent outsiders for whom a Middle School Spelling Bee is the one place they can stand out and fit in at the same time. Contestants learn winning isn’t everything and losing doesn’t necessarily make one a loser.

Dates and show times for “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” are November 19 through December 18, 2010; Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.

Coastside Adult Day Helath Center will be offering the following community education classes, “Understanding Dementia for the Caregiver”.

The four session class is designed to increase one’s understanding of dementia. Here is an overview of each session:

November 11th 6:30 – 7:30 Dementia and the Brain: Brain structure and the neurological basis for dementia

November 18th The Effects of Dementia: How dementia manifests and presents in an affected person

December 2nd Treating Dementia: The current treatments available, and approaches to the disease both medical and psychological

December 9th Dementia Prevention: How to slow and prevent the onset of dementia

Classes will be held at Coastside Adult Day Health Center, 645 Correas Street in Half Moon Bay. The cost for the four class series is $20.00. There will be free care available for loved ones during the sessions. Please RSVP to Priscilla Ebersole the presenter at 650-5067. Ms. Ebersole received her bachelor’s in Neuroscience from UC Riverside’s Neuroscience Program. She is a published author in the Journal of Brain Research and has presented her research at the Society for Neuroscience Conference.

The Montara Water & Sanitary District is holding a Special Item Recycling Day on Saturday, Nov 13, from 9am - 1pm at Farallone View Elementary.

Materials accepted include e-waste, padding/carpet, scrap metal, furniture, tires, and appliances—only one trip per household, only one appliance per trip. For more information on what’s not accepted, contact Recology of the Coast at 650.344.9000.

Join us this Saturday November 13th at 2:00PM for a celebration of Coastside Stories and Coastside Storytellers.  We will be offering a screening of digital stories told by local residents of all ages who share their memories of events and places that make this the special place it is. 

Half Moon Bay Library and Pacifica Library were recipients of a grant from the California State Library to take part in the California of the Past Digital Storytelling Project. 

These stories are shared on the web at the California of the Past web site. Those wishing to see Coastside and Pacifica stories exclusively can go to http://www.sanmateostories.blip.tv