Letters to the Editor 8/16

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• San Luis Coastal to lose 39 teachers

  San Luis Coastal to lose 39 teachers

  Thirty-nine of the longest-tenured teachers in the San Luis Coastal Unified School District will end their careers there at year’s end to take an early retirement incentive.

  The district offered the deal, agreed to by the teachers union, as a way to reduce payroll costs.

  Elementary schools are the most affected, with 16 teachers retiring. Seven high school teachers and four middle school teachers also took the deal.

• San Luis Coastal employees getting pay increases

  San Luis Coastal employees getting pay increases

  Teachers in the San Luis Coastal Unified School District will receive a 6.6 percent raise over the next three years, and nonteaching employees, such as secretaries, bus drivers and custodial staff, will get 7 percent over the next two years.

  The school board has ratified agreements with all of its employee groups and top managers.

  The raises come as the district has increased class sizes, eliminated a longstanding program for adults with disabilities and offered the first early retirement incentive in nearly a decade to help lower costs.

• Letters to the Editor 5/11

  Letters to the Editor 5/11

  Food drive Saturday

  This Saturday, letter carriers nationwide will be picking up your food donations as they deliver your letters and parcels. This will be the 20th anniversary of America’s largest oneday food drive. Last year’s drive collected more than 70 million pounds of food, bringing the 20 year total to more than 1.1 billion pounds.

  The donations collected locally stay local. Although this is a nationally coordinated event, part of that coordination is working at the local level to distribute this food within the communities that donate. This Saturday in San Luis Obispo County will be no different, as volunteers will be working with postal employees to get this food to our local food banks.

• Letters to the Editor 2/3

  Letters to the Editor 2/3

  How to ‘delight’

  PG&E’s new CEO wants to “delight me.” Hah! The Viewpoint on Jan. 29 voicing concerns over PG&E’s safety seminars should make everyone in the disaster zone leery of anything that comes out of their spokespersons’ mouths.

  “The earthquake modeling software cannot link faults,” they say. Seriously? How can PG&E, with any degree of honesty and integrity, come out and say the plant was built to withstand any significant event the surrounding faults can produce, when software models only one single fault at a time? What would delight me is for PG&E to withdraw license extension requests and shut down the plant.

• Letters to the Editor March 15 - 21

  Letters to the Editor March 15 - 21

  Tribute to Cambria

  I n my younger years I was able to work my way around much of the world. I saw some amazing places, which made me want to find my own special place when I returned to the USA.

  In 1985, my girlfriend, now wife of nearly three decades, and I packed our car and headed from Ohio to the Central Coast, an area thru which I had previously hitchhiked a few times.