Fairies and maypoles will flank Burton Drive in Cambria’s East Village Saturday, April 28, as Heart’s Ease Herb Shop and Gardens and the Cambria Historical Museum renew annual celebrations of spring.

The 10th annual “Sculpture By The Sea” show at Camp Ocean Pines is coming up from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 28, at Camp Ocean Pines, 1473 Randall Drive in Cambria.

By Joan Crowder

The Friends of the Elephant Seal webcam, called a LiveCam, is up and running. Located on the south end of the south boardwalk at the Piedras Blancas viewing site, the solar-powered video camera is aimed toward beach areas to the south and west. It can be accessed by logging on to www.elephantseal.org and clicking on the directions to the LiveCam.

The time of year for good food, fun music, colorful outfits and lovely senoritas is upon Cambria again. Creekside Gardens will again host a Cinco de Mayo celebration on Saturday, May 5, at the restaurant. Following the very successful event last year, owners Ramon and Elena De Alba promise an ever better event this year.

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.

California Conservation Corps members began tackling mounds of blackberry brush and poison oak Monday, April 16, the first construction steps toward building the last link of the Moonstone Beach trail and boardwalk from Leffingwell Landing to Windsor Boulevard.

Daniel Akin, the 69-year-old San Simeon man reported missing Wednesday, has been located in Rancho Mirage, nearly 350 miles from home.

The inclusion of Coast Unified School District among the state’s elite — nicknamed by some as the “super seven” of school districts — won’t have much direct effect on North Coast students or teachers. However, the district’s selection — deemed an honor, according to officials —reinforces expectations that the district’s students and schools will continue to flourish, even in these lean economic times when budgets are stripped to the bone. A statewide statistical analysis placed Coast among the state’s top “high performing” districts in providing education to all students, including those who don’t speak English, require special education or come from low-income families.

How much water should each household in Cambria be allowed to use before rates rise or, in a drought, surcharges apply?

Nurse/educator Barbara Bronson Gray is the newest member of the Cambria Community Healthcare District Board of Trustees, appointed by the other members on Tuesday, April 10, on a vote of 3-1. The other vote went to previous trustee Runo Lemming.

Some Cayucos parents want their town to be part of San Luis Coastal Unified School District, rather than Coast Unified School District in Cambria, so their teens can attend Morro Bay High School instead of Coast Union High School.

Tickets for the “California Forever” premiere on the big screen at the Hearst Castle Visitor Center, which chronicles the story of California State Parks and benefits the Central Coast State Parks Association (formerly the Central Coast Natural History Association), are still available.

Editor’s note: This week The Cambrian is happy to introduce a new column from a local organization serving the community: Friends of the Cambria Library. The Friends are currently raising the matching funds needed to make possible the opening of new Cambria Library. A column updating the status of that drive and explaining the many ways in which the library — an information hub — is of use and value to the community for reasons of education, entertainment, socialization and economics, among other things, will appear monthly until completion of the fund drive. For more information, go to www.cambriafol.org.

“New satellite data … show the Pacific Ocean may be undergoing a dramatic climate shift — much longer-lived than any El Niño — that could alter global weather patterns, disrupt fish stocks and perhaps lead Southern California into decades of drier than normal weather. Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which released the data, predict a major impact, although others argue that prediction is premature.”

“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.” — Pema Chodron