A Lyon roars in Cayucos, Morro Bay

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• Cayucos man instills sense of community

  Cayucos man instills sense of community

  Just as Al Musso of Cayucos learned retail sales from his family as a child, his daughter, Morro Bay business owner Barbara Musso-Strassel, inherited her artistic father’s need to create.

  “During the Depression, my grandmother made ties. Dad sold them on the street corner,” Barbara said. “In high school, my dad’s friend did lapidary. I’d make jewelry from the polished stones and sold it at work.”

  Before she opened Poppy and Sole Mia on the Embarcadero, she majored in fine art at Cal State Long Beach. For 25 years, she designed and sold jewelry in Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and San Luis Obispo.

• Letters to the Editor 12/28

  Letters to the Editor 12/28

  Slow genocide

  Regarding the desecration of Eagle Rock in Morro Bay, as Fred Collins of the Northern Chumash said, to paraphrase, it would be a continuation of a slow genocide of the indigenous people of the Central Coast. That is true.

  I agree with Kathy Duncan and Kent Nagano when they propose that the developer, Mr. Dan Reddell, should make a “noble decision” and reconsider developing that beautiful landmark that helps define Morro Bay.

• Hello from everywhere: Steve Howell of Morro Bay sends thousands of postcards each year

  Hello from everywhere: Steve Howell of Morro Bay sends thousands of postcards each year

  At a time when most people send notes via email, text or tweet, Steve Howell delivers greetings, well wishes and updates the old fashioned way.

  “I send out about 1,500 to 2,000 postcards a year,” Howell said.

  He sends two or three postcards a week to a buddy with cancer. During a recent trip along Route 66, he sent 130 postcards to his grandkids. And when The Tribune published a fetcher seeking interesting collectors last January, he promptly replied with two postcards, each depicting 1950s Cambria and featuring Howell’s neat, tiny handwriting.

• Carved, coiled and formed at the Gallery at the Network

  Carved, coiled and formed at the Gallery at the Network

  Of the eight featured artists in “Carved, Coiled & Formed” at the Gallery at the Network, Robert Howell offers the only nonclay works. What look like bronze fish are nearly light feathers, but they aren’t papier mache.

  “I was making sculptures for myself for the garden,” said Howell, who also does abstract expressionist paintings. He developed the “faux bronze” technique 10 years ago for his Los Osos home.

  His goal was to fashion pieces that were portable, aesthetic and durable. “I chose materials designed to use in housing construction,” which can withstand snow, cold and freezing, Howell said.

• Letters to the Editor 1/16

  Letters to the Editor 1/16

  Truth about ID laws

  President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have been accused of trying to “scare up some votes” by opposing the voter suppression movement by the Republican right wing across the nation in this election year. Here are the facts to counter the half-truths and outright lies used to justify the new voter ID laws passed in many Republican run states.

  First, The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, never committed “voter fraud” as the right wing suggests. A few of their paid registration form gatherers submitted their material, ACORN checked the forms, “tagged” the ones found fraudulent and submitted them all as required by law. The Republican propaganda machine called this Democrats’ “massive fraud and corrupt practices.”