Mastering practically every existing genre of music, including classical, jazz, gospel, funk, and R&B, the flamboyant pianist Ricardo Scales became a SF legend at the Redwood Room at the Clift Hotel. He has played for five US presidents and countless dignitaries, and shared concert bills with such notables as Debbie Reynolds, the Commodores and Nancy Wilson. Scales and his trio will play from new CD, Summertime.
 
Tickets, $35:  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/179466
June 26, 2011, 4:30
Douglas Beach House on Miramar Beach
307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
650 726-4143, www.bachddsoc.org

On Friday, June 24, Supervisor Horsley will be holding office hours from 10 a.m. until noon at the Puente de la Costa Sur office, 620 North Street, in Pescadero. The supervisor encourages you to drop by, but if you would like to make an appointment, please contact his staff at (650) 363-4569.

Photographic evidence that day-to-day governmental operations are essentially the same everywhere.

http://janbanning.photoshelter.com/gallery/Bureaucratics/G0000zdwbhHiQdUI/0/2

Sadly, no additional insight as to why there is so much more money involved here.

On Saturday, June 18, 2011, The Visionary Edge will present a sneak preview screening of Queen of the Sun by film director Taggart Siegel, who also directed the popular The Real Dirt on Farmer John, screened on the coast by the Visionary Edge.  The evening will include a talk by Montara beekeeper Catherine (Cat) Fraley.  Cat will also offer a honey tasting at the event. Bee-based products will be provided by Richard and Janet Baxter of Golden Harvest Beekeeping.  Richard is president of The Beekeepers Guild of San Mateo County. The Visionary Edge will also present this event on June 25, 2011 at The NeXus in Richmond.

Queen of The Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? is an in-depth investigation to discover the causes and solutions behind Colony Collapse Disorder; a phenomenon where honeybees vanish from their hives, never to return. Queen of The Sun follows the voices and visions of beekeepers, philosophers, and scientists from around the world, all struggling for the survival of the bees. While other bee films focus exclusively on commercial beekeepers, Queen of The Sun emphasizes the biodynamic and organic communities who have differing opinions from many of the outspoken migratory commercial beekeepers and are often overlooked by the media despite their deep and profound insights into the long-term issues that have brought about the recent collapse.

Queen of The Sun reveals bees as a barometer of the health of the world. Bees fly millions of miles to keep the earth in bloom and have provided humans with honey, wax and pollination for our food for over 10,000 years. Through animation and illuminated imagery, Queen of The Sun uncovers how bees were highly revered by the Egyptians, Mayans and Greeks, but the bond between humans and bees, once a sacred partnership is now a complicated, profit-driven, industrial enterprise. Queen of The Sun draws from the insights of Rudolf Steiner an Austrian scientist who, in 1923, predicted that in 80 to 100 years, bees would disappear. Steiner said: “The mechanization of beekeeping and industrialization will eventually destroy beekeeping.” Gunther Hauk, a main character in the film and a protégé of Steiner’s, against all odds, begins to build the first bee sanctuary in the world. Surrounded by industrial agriculture, he is creating a 600-acre farm to help support the bees in crisis. Through his insights, we are launched into a journey around the world to uncover the compelling perspectives concerning the complex problems bees are facing such as malnutrition, pesticides, genetically modified crops, migratory beekeeping, parasites, pathogens and lack of genetic diversity from over queen breeding.  Seeking answers through unique and unusual beekeepers and scientists who have heart-felt respect for their bees we confront and address the harsh realities causing the bees to disappear.  Queen of The Sun finds practical solutions and discover the deep link between bees survival and our own.

On Friday, June 17, Supervisor Horsley will be at the Sheriff’s Office substation, 500 California Street, Moss Beach, from 10 a.m. until noon. The supervisor encourages you to drop by, but if you would like to make an appointment, please contact his staff at (650) 363-4569.

The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District announced the winners of its third annual digital photo contest last month. Three winners were chosen from twenty finalists by District staff based on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact and artistic merit. A record 700 images of the natural world, taken by the public on the District’s 24 open space preserves throughout the Peninsula and South Bay, were submitted for consideration. The only contest rule is that entries must be taken on District land.

The winners will have their entries published in the District’s summer newsletter this week and will be awarded prizes including a whale-watching cruise and Flip UltraHD camcorder. The District is also currently holding a Teen Video Challenge, inviting local ninth through twelfth grade students to submit videos they created on District preserves for a chance to win prizes.

The MCC sub-committee for tracking developments of the National Park Service (NPS) Rancho Corral de Tierra (RCdT) will provide an update and information meeting for members of the Midcoast Community. While the actual turnover of the POST property is now scheduled for late summer, there was a meeting held with the NPS on June 7, 2011 to discuss the current status. While the current trail heads at Le Conte (Montara) and Coral Reef (Clipper Ridge)are still problematic, other areas are being looked at and discussed in Montara, Moss Beach and El Granada.

MCC committee on Rancho Corral de Tierra, Wednesday, June 15, at 7:30pm at Seton Coastside in Moss Beach.