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• Brevity with meaning in Cayucos

  Brevity with meaning in Cayucos

  On Aug. 4, 1944, Cayucan Karl Haeuser was a staff sergeant based in England with the U.S. Army Air Corps when he was shot down over Normandy, France.

  The crew’s mission was to hit roads and bridges, but the Germans were ready for them. His pilot was killed and he survived as a prisoner of war until the war’s end in May. First jailed in the French village of Pitres, he was eventually sent to Stalag Luft IV, a prison camp in what is now Poland that held more than 8,000 Americans.

  “We were not mistreated, but food was scarce,” Haeuser said. “Fearing the Russians, the Germans marched us around for three months, sometimes 10 or 20 kilometers a day. Finally, … they liberated us. I weighed 90 pounds. The American 103rd Division flew us to France, where they fed us eight small meals a day to build up our weight. After 30 days, they shipped us home.”

• Cambria Chili Cook-Off and Car Show set for Saturday

  Cambria Chili Cook-Off and Car Show set for Saturday

  The 20th annual Cambria Chili Cook-Off and Car Show will be held Saturday at the Pinedorado Grounds and at the Veterans Memorial Building in Cambria at 1000 Main St.

  There are 37 cars registered for the show, which starts at 10 a.m. The public may vote for the People’s Choice trophy through 2 p.m.

  Entries include a 1928 Ford Model A Roadster, 1936 Auburn and 1958 Morris Minor to a 1967 Shelby GT500, 2012 Dodge Challenger SXT and a rare 2005 Holden Monaro.

• Few details emerge about man killed in bus collision near Los Osos

  Few details emerge about man killed in bus collision near Los Osos

  Investigators are still trying to learn more about the man who died when his Mercedes-Benz veered head-on into a bus, knocking the bus into the Morro Bay Estuary on April 25.

  The car, headed north toward Morro Bay on South Bay Boulevard, drifted into the southbound lane. Its driver, the car’s sole occupant, was killed in the collision. The bus driver was taken to the hospital, treated and released. Some of the three bus passengers had minor injuries.

  A CHP investigator said drugs or alcohol are not suspected to have played a role in the crash, but a toxicology test will be done. The Sheriff’s Office has scheduled an autopsy for today.

• Chili contest, car show Saturday in Cambria

  Chili contest, car show Saturday in Cambria

  Expect a hot time around Cambria’s Veterans Memorial Building on Saturday, April 21, with pots of chili on the Pinedorado grounds side and 37 notable vehicles on display in the Veterans Memorial Building parking lot at 1000 Main St.

  The cook-off competition between a baker’s dozen of chili recipes runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with sampling ($5, one taste per booth) and judging from noon to 3 p.m., although cooking begins much earlier. Attendees vote, too, for People’s Choice awards.

  At the free car show, attendees vote for their favorite cars from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

• 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.