A series of storms has been forecast for next week by the National Weather Service. The first storm will hit Sunday and bring one to three inches in higher elevations and up to an inch in "urban" areas. The second storm is expected to arrive Tuesday with another. The will be accompanied by strong winds.
Kenny Washington was recently called “the Superman of the Bay Area jazz scene” by the San Francisco Chronicle. Ravi Coltrane declared that Kenny was his favorite male vocalist. Mark Murphy said in a Jazz Times interview that Kenny was the only contemporary male vocalist that was carrying on the tradition and Kenny was recently voted a “Rising Star” in the male vocals category in the 57th Annual Downbeat Critics’ Poll.
Kenny Washington will be performing at the Ritz-Carlton this Thursday, January 14. This is a rare opportunity to see this extraordinary singer at this picturesque venue. This will be Kenny’s last Bay Area performance before leaving for a week long engagement at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola - Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. He will be performing at Lincoln Center with the great vibraphonist, Joe Locke and his stellar band which includes George Mraz on bass, Geoffery Keezer on bass and Clarence Penn on drums.
Joining Kenny at the Ritz will be John R. Burr on piano, Ruth Davies on bass and Michael O’Neill on saxophone. They will be performing new arrangements that they are grooming for a series of upcoming dates including Yoshi’s in Oakland on April 6th.
SF Bay Area jazz guitarist Terrence Brewer’s will be playing from his most recent CD, Groovin’ Wes which debuted in March on the JazzWeek national radio chart at #18 and quickly settled into the Top 10. Terrence Brewer Quartet: Terrence Brewer – Guitar, Wayne De La Cruz - B-3 Organ, Jim Grantham – sax, Micah McClain – Drums
“Brewer has a natural, inviting sound that instantly transports you back to the heyday of classic jazz guitar…” - David Rubien, SF Chronicle.
‘An Inconvenient Truth’ earned tons of awards by taking such a clear stance: Al Gore clearly believes that climate change is a man-made phenomenon. On the other side of the fence, climate change deniers are cackling over every irregularity they have found in a recently hacked climate research email archives.
Tired of all the hyperbole? Come to see our screening of "A Global Warning", a film that strives hard to take a much more impartial stance, presenting evidence both for and against the hypothesis that global warming is a man made phenomenon.
The film starts by presenting the now all too familiar details about Arctic ice melting, sea levels rising, and glaciers shrinking. It then delves deep into the many forces, both natural and man-made that may be causing all this havoc. Yes man-made C02 may certainly be a causative factor, but other forces are at play as well. The film follows scientists as they explore the warming effects of the sun and dig deep into the Earth to study continental movement and the volatile activity at the planet’s core. Experts speculate on how natural events, including volcanic eruptions and massive meteor impacts, have affected temperatures and weather systems over the planet’s 600-million-year history.
Shot on location at some of the most breath-taking locations on the planet, and filled with dynamic special effects, "A Global Warning" is a captivating look at the Earth’s climatic evolution and a study of the longevity of our planet—and man’s future on it."
Friday, Jan. 15 at 7:30 pm
United Methodist Church Sanctuary
777 Miramontes (corner of Johnston); Half Moon Bay
Suggested donation: $6.00 adults, $3.00 children
More info and a trailer at: www.HMBFilm.org
San Mateo County is the only remaining county in California with at-large elections for Supervisors. During the last 40 years only one Coastside resident has been elected to the Board of Supervisors.
The cost to run a county-wide campaign is much higher than a district campaign, and the expense of running such a large campaign drastically limits the candidate pool.
The Charter Review Committee will have public meetings in Redwood City starting this week and possibly running though June 30, 2010.
For more info on the Charter Review Committee please read the following:
Committee Members include:
*Three appointees to be announced: Two from Supervisor Rose Jacobs Gibson and one from the Youth Commission. Source: San Mateo County counsel
WHAT: First meeting of San Mateo County’s charter review committee. The Meeting is Open to the Public
WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 13 6:00pm
WHERE: Room 101, 455 County Center, in Redwood City.
Two redwood forest properties totaling 267 acres have been sold for $2.1 million by Redtree Properties to Sempervirens Fund, a non-profit land trust, based in Mountain View, reports the Mercury News.
The first parcel, at 107 acres, is located at Waterman Gap, seven miles north of Boulder Creek near the intersection of Highway 9 and Highway 236. First logged a century ago, the property sits adjacent to the Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail, a popular 35-mile hiking route that links Castle Rock State Park to the Pacific Ocean.
Last year, Redtree obtained state permits to cut about 35 percent of the redwood and Douglas fir trees on the property larger than 18 inches in diameter.
"The trees are marked with blue x’s. They have the logging permits. They have the landing sites. It was ready to go,’’ said Reed Holderman, executive director of Sempervirens Fund. "There are some pretty sizable trees, second-growth redwoods there, about 100 years old."
Sempervirens will sell the land to the sate for the price that it paid to be added to the surrounding Castle Rock State Park when it is able to pay the $1.4 million.
The other property in the sale, at 160 acres, sold for $760,000 and is located in San Mateo County between Butano State Park and Pescadero Creek County Park in La Honda. Redtree had not proposed logging it. At least 30 acres contain old-growth redwoods suitable for marbeled murrelets, a type of endangered sea bird that nests in ancient trees nearby, Holderman said.
Sempervirens Fund, named for the Latin word for redwood, was founded in 1900 by San Jose photographer Andrew P. Hill and his colleagues. Its efforts saved the first trees at Big Basin and began California’s state park system.
Timber companies have been more eager to sell to conservation groups in the current eocnomic environment. Redtree still owns 7,000 acres of forestland in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The San Mateo County Health System will hold free H1N1 flu vaccination walk-in clinics at multiple locations throughout the County starting on January 12.
Vaccine priority group restrictions have been removed, and H1N1 flu vaccine is now available to all County residents older than six months of age.
To accommodate vaccinating as many residents as possible, more than twelve free H1N1 flu vaccination clinics are scheduled in January. There may be additional clinics scheduled for February and possibly beyond.
Residents who are at high risk of infection and complications from the flu, such as pregnant women, children and young adults under age 24, and people with chronic medical conditions, are strongly encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to receive free H1N1 flu vaccine if they have not already done so.
Upcoming Coastside clinics:
Clinics scheduled this week:
For all vaccine clinic dates and locations, visit www.smhealth.org/flu
The League for Coastside Protection [LCP] has been fined $3,500 for two election code violations in connection with the "Voice of the Coast", a newspaper published by the LCP in the months before the 2005 election, reports Julia Scott in County Times.
The LCP, a political action committee, did not identify the name and address of the organization on the outside of the newspaper. It also misreported the amount of money it received from two contributors, Jim Marsh and Mike Ferreira, who took out ads in the paper and were
later
endorsed by LCP for the Coastside County Water District and Half Moon Bay City Council.
"We support the commission and their purpose," [league Co-Chairman Scott Boyd] said. "We agree with them that when we looked closely at this stuff we did make these mistakes."
Boyd also emphasized that the money his group accepted from candidates went to purchase paid ads in the newsletter and did not influence the content of the publication. [...]
[Executive director of the Fair Political Practices Commission Roman] Porter added that the fines for both violations were well below the $10,000 they could have fetched. Documents show his agency was inclined toward leniency because the League for Coastside Protection had contacted the commission during the 2005 election to seek advice on publishing the Voice of the Coast and because the group did print its name and committee identification number on the inside of the newsletter, if not the outside. The Coastside group also amended its reported contributions after it realized it had miscalculated them.
Disclosure: Voice of the Coast reprinted some articles from Coastsider. All articles on Coastsider are covered by a license that allows free re-use by anyone, with attribution.
The National Weather Service is forecasting large, long-period waves—up to 20 feet with a period of 18 seconds—from 10pm Tuesday to 4am Thursday.
These large powerful waves will produce large breaking waves and strong rip currents within the surf zone. Please use caution and keep an eye out for sneaker waves while visiting the california beaches during this time period. A high surf advisory means that high surf will affect beaches in the advisory area…Producing rip currents and localized beach erosion.
The Sierra Club recently eliminated Mark Massara’s position as Coastal Program Director.
The California Coastal Commissioners gave Massara the praise he has earned as a fierce and consistent advocate for coastal protection at the December 11, 2009, meeting in San Francisco.
Ross Mirkarimi, Coastal Commissioner and San Francisco Supervisor said, "The environmental movement has gone completely soft and slightly haywire."
Massara’s closing comments at the California Coastal Commission meeting in San Francisco, "Your right, you haven’t seen the last of me. I’m going to find a way to continue preaching environmental protection and sustainability because its good for the economy."
Link to Video of Coastal Commissioners comments to Mark Massara:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJCRhgP0j7U&feature=player_embedded
Sabrina Brennan
http://www.thepelicaneye.com/
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