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• Letters to the Editor 10/3

  Letters to the Editor 10/3

  A pivotal role

  As a high school senior, I’ve had at least 20 different high school teachers during the past four years. Some teachers I’ve grown to love, and some teachers I’ve grown to loathe. However, I am absolutely certain of one thing: High school teachers are underappreciated.

  Someone who believes that teachers only work from seven in the morning to three in the afternoon needs to have his or her mind adjusted. Teachers have lessons to plan, papers to grade and students to baby-sit. Teachers aren’t paid overtime for all of the effort they put into the classroom outside of school.

• PHOTOS: Anniversary of hospital employee's death marked

  PHOTOS: Anniversary of hospital employee's death marked

  Atascadero State Hospital’s five employee union groups gathered with locals and state officials Sunday to remember Donna Gross, a Napa State Hospital psychiatric technician strangled and killed by a patient in October 2010.

  Her death also commemorates efforts to improve safety and treatment of patients at facilities statewide, organizers said.

  The vigils — which featured bagpipes, flowers and a photo of Gross at ASH’s entrance in Atascadero — took place at all of California’s five state hospitals and two development centers Sunday.

• Oceano crash victim identified

  Oceano crash victim identified

  The 53-year-old woman struck and killed by a car in Oceano over the weekend has been identified as Debora Lee Nelson.

  San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s officials made the identification on Monday.

  Nelson was living in the area as a transient. It was unknown how long she’d been in the area, Sheriff’s Department spokesman Rob Bryn said.

• How thirsty will Templeton be?

  How thirsty will Templeton be?

  Templeton’s water resources will be reviewed tonight at a workshop, and one key topic for discussion is whether the community of 7,500 people needs its own drinking water treatment plant.

  Future allocations will also be discussed, including a 1,500-customer waiting list dating back to 1989 for new single-family-unit hookups.

  With the Nacimiento Water Project now online, the community services district hopes to initially sell 50 to 75 water units. But officials want to look toward future sustainability.

• Nipomo revs up pipeline efforts

  Nipomo revs up pipeline efforts

  EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated to include links for information on the water-shortage publicity campaign and opposition to the Santa Maria water pipeline project.

  Every day, when residents on the Nipomo Mesa fill up their coffee pots, irrigate their lawns or take a shower, they’re using water that comes from under their feet.

  Nipomo residents rely on water from an enormous underground aquifer that covers a surface area of about 256 square miles and serves parts of southern San Luis Obispo and northern Santa Barbara counties.