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A wide, open hearth offers plenty of comfort and ambience, especially on a chilly winter night. As for heat — it probably offers less than you think.
‘Every occupied kennel at the San Luis Obispo County Animal Shelter holds an untold story on how the animals arrived here. Many, like Gracie, were obviously loved pets. In Gracie’s case, someone trained her so she knows her basic commands and has good house manners. They also developed in her a passionate love of people.
A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.
For the past three years, the Nipomo Wine Group has been selling its Phantom Rivers Wine through its wine club and Web site, local wine retailers and a handful of restaurants stretching from Los Angeles to the Bay Area.
The anticipation is over. “Kate Plus 8” airs tonight and America gets to eavesdrop on its favorite newly single mother as she tries to manage her twins and sextuplets on her own. Hopefully soon-to-be-ex-husband Jon will be available to support and share in every facet of his young brood’s lives. But the lion’s share of the day-to-day burden will inevitably fall to Kate, the primary custodial parent, making her the unwitting poster mom for all women raising youngsters on their own.
As residents of the Railroad Square neighborhood, Jen and Brandon Manuele often “wished there was a place nearby where we could get lattes made with organic milk, or food made from local ingredients, or …”