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Phil Dirkx writes the Over the Hill column for The Tribune. He has lived in Paso Robles for more than four decades. Reach him at 805-238-2372 or phild2008@sbcglobal.net .

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    Confessions of an accidental bully

    I read Emma Holt’s letter to the editor in Wednesday’s Tribune. She’s a sixth-grader at Shell Beach Elementary School. She said, “Everyone needs to play a part in stopping bullies.”

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    PG&E should pay for San Bruno blast

    The 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno killed eight people, injured dozens more and destroyed 38 homes. We mustn’t allow PG&E stockholders to evade paying the fine for it.

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    Camp Roberts set bar high for Korean War-era trainees

    This Memorial Day we’ll again recall members of our Armed Forces who died in our wars. I’ll also remember some Korean War veterans whose fate I don’t know, but often wonder about. They and I were in the same basic training company in 1951 at Ft. Dix, N.J.

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    Signs of warming are growing

    I was watering my tomato plants Wednesday when I noticed blossoms. One plant had two, and the other had two and a bud. It seemed early for tomato blossoms. “Aha’’ I thought, “It must be global warming.”

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    Gun safety is important for boys to learn

    A headline in the May 2 Tribune said, “5-year-old shoots sister to death.” A boy had killed his two-year old baby sister in rural, southern Kentucky. It reminded me of the shooting in 1984 west of Paso Robles where a 14-year-old boy shot and killed a 13-year-old boy.

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    Citizenship should be requirement to serve on juries

    Last week the California Assembly voted 45-25 to allow noncitizen immigrants to serve on juries. That surprised me. I hadn’t seen any marching crowds of noncitizen immigrants demanding to be jurors.

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    We must act now on Paso Robles groundwater basin

    Let’s form a Paso Robles Groundwater Basin Management District now. Let’s do it while the basin still has enough water to manage. Forming the district was recommended unanimously last week by the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin Blue Ribbon Steering Committee.

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    Don't let vandals take over Salinas River Trail

    Last week I became a windbag. I wrote about the monument for the three workers killed during the construction of the Nacimiento Pipeline. I told of looking for their monument in the little park near Paso Robles’ 13th Street Bridge. I wrote, “It still wasn’t there.”

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    On the Nacimiento pipeline construction accident

    Two workers were killed Oct. 2, 2008, in Paso Robles during the Nacimiento Lake water pipeline construction. Last Friday a man was sentenced in this case. His sentence seems overly lenient.

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    A toast to the Toastmasters

    The Toastmasters Club launched my career, and it’s about time I acknowledged that. “What career?” you may ask. That question is justified. I’m just a small-town news guy who made a career out of telling North County people, particularly Paso Roblans, what they’...

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