Grant offers hope for SLO adobe's wan condition
Camp Roberts in a state of disrepair
Most California Army National Guard members who deploy to the killing fields of Afghanistan first train here, a sprawling landscape of barracks, assault courses and firing ranges straddling San Luis Obispo and Monterey counties. Before those soldiers encounter the depredations of war, they face the deprivations of Camp Roberts.
Only 23 San Luis Obispo buildings still need retrofit
Eighty-two percent of the buildings in San Luis Obispo that require seismic retrofit are done being updated — leaving only 23 buildings of the 126 structures identified 13 years ago by the city as needing safety improvements.
Of those structures that remain, seven are partially retrofitted and three are under construction.
The number of buildings needing retrofitting is expected to drop to 19 by year’s end.
Letters to the Editor 4/27
County looking bad
Let’s see if I have this straight. The April 6 Tribune article entitled “Proposed homeless facility gets big boost from county” states that our Board of Supervisors (three years after the 86-page plan for the “Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness” was written) have declared 1.1 acres off Prado Road as “surplus,” making a site available for their proposed homeless shelter.
If and when this new shelter is built (since the present ones have code violations), homeless children will “get out of cots in churches and into beds.” Who will choose which children get beds — since, by the county’s own estimation, there are approximately 2,000 homeless children and approximately 149 beds in the new shelter, which will be available in “several more years”?
Proposal for downtown San Luis Obispo gets a redesign
The plan for Garden Street Terraces — the hotel, commercial, retail space and residential condos proposed for downtown San Luis Obispo — is back in the hands of city officials after a substantial redesign.
Overall, the changes fall in line with the requirements of the environmental impact report, and recommendations of the council and community to reduce the scale of the project and preserve historic resources, said local architect George Garcia.
In June, the City Council certified the EIR after public testimony on the project, and asked developer WestPac Investments to return at a later date for approval of the project design. Some critics had concerns about the height of the project and retention of historic buildings.
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The La Loma Adobe is surrounded by a fence and has windows and doors boarded up, but the adobe brick is exposed to the elements on three sides of the house.
The group used adobe bricks and mud rather than cement and dug trenches around the foundation, he said. Wiehe said another organization will arrive in the town in two weeks to finish the construction of the school. While the work was rewarding,
We were told we have adobe soil, so what do we do now -- add sand? No, do not combine sand and adobe. The combination makes bricks, and your problems will only worsen. The best way to improve your soil and make it more friable is to add lots and lots
Students make adobe bricks during "Walk Through California History" day at Diamond Point Elementary School. History was more than a dusty textbook for Diamond Point Elementary School's fourth graders Tuesday
Different stations taught children how to roll a tortilla, mold Adobe brick, and to make Russian cloth dolls. It is the first time the event included representatives from Fort Ross State Historic Park. Park employees, clad in historic Russian attire,
adobe bricks: Bolivian Candidate caught on Drunk Drving Sentenced ...
AP reports of a Bolivian candidate punished to make 1,000 adobe bricks, his sentence for dunk driving under the community justice backed by the pro-indigenous government. The punishment was a part of Bolivia's constitution, allowing community justice punishment traditionally by Indian Communities to their fellow Indian offender~~
It was Felix Patzi, running for the governor of La Paz and an Aymara Indian. He has also gave up on his candidacy and says he would just resume if his community says so.
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