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  Underwater treasures on Hearst Castle giant screen

  Hearst Castle Theater’s giant screen will come alive with National Marine Sanctuary underwater treasures at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 5. Holly Lohuis, marine biologist and field producer for Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society, will meet with the public and tell stories from her experiences around the world and deep in the sea.

  “For more than 60 years, Jean-Michel Cousteau, his father and family have been part of the greatest exploration of the ocean in all of history. For the last 17 years I’ve had the privilege of traveling and diving alongside M. Cousteau and the OFS expedition team,” she said. “I am thrilled to share stories of our adventures at San Simeon, one of my favorite places along California’s central coast.”

  “These videos highlight the treasures right off the coast in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary,” Lohuis said. “I hope to instill a sense of wonder and awe at the ocean’s beauty. I want to inspire us all to be part of protecting our water planet.”

• Marine Mammal Center of Morro Bay looking for volunteers

  Marine Mammal Center of Morro Bay looking for volunteers

  Volunteers are needed to help rescue, rehabilitate and release marine mammals back into the wild, on behalf of the Marine Mammal Center Morro Bay triage center.

  The Marine Mammal Center will host a meet-and-greet introduction meeting from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 11 at the Morro Bay Community Center, 1001 Kennedy Way, Morro Bay. For details, call 771-8302 or go to http://www.marinemammalcenter.org .

  Rescues are performed along the San Luis Obispo County coastline, but many of them happen on North Coast shores, especially during pupping and weaning seasons.

• PG&E seismic mapping will have significant impact on environment

  PG&E seismic mapping will have significant impact on environment

  The State Lands Commission environmental analysis of high-energy offshore seismic mapping planned by PG&E concludes that the work will have significant impacts on air quality, land and marine animals, greenhouse gas emissions, land use, recreation and noise.

• Viewpoint: Speak up against harmful testing that won’t solve nuclear problem

  Viewpoint: Speak up against harmful testing that won’t solve nuclear problem

  I urge fellow Cambrians to submit comments to the California State Land Commission in objection to PG&E’s proposed Central Coastal California Seismic Imaging Project. The goal of the project is to attempt to measure the three major earthquake fault-lines which run along our coast. The existence of these fault lines, especially after the continuing disaster at Fukushima, Japan, call into question the advisability of maintaining the Diablo Canyon nuclear power facility, operating near Avila. The proposed testing will do nothing to prevent an earthquake on any of these fault lines. The tests will instead produce a large amount of data about dangers that we cannot avoid when these earthquakes occur.

  We should redirect the millions that will be spent on these seismic tests to help us move towards safe and sustainable sources of energy.

  Here is how the environmental impact report for the project describes it:

• Letters to the Editor 3/31

  Letters to the Editor 3/31

  Where’s the line?

  I have a question for Dave Congalton.

  Dave, if you had a daughter, and she testified before Congress on the right of women to have contraception covered in their health insurance, and a national radio personality took to the airwaves and for three days broadcast to millions his opinion that your daughter is a “slut” and a “prostitute,” and she has so much sex she could barely walk and she should send him a sex tape ...