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Nonprofit brings solar power to Atascadero Loaves and Fishes

Installation expected to save nonprofit $177,000 over next 25 years –This Sunday, nonprofit solar installer and job training organization, GRID Alternatives, will complete a month Full Article

Ribbon cutting held for Atascadero Lake View Drive improvements

Project completed ahead of schedule –The City of Atascadero held a ribbon cutting event on Thursday for the official unveiling of the newly completed Lake Full Article

Templeton CHP officer injured in collision

William Archibald, of Atascadero, sustained broken clavicle, other injuries –William Archibald, a 46-year-old California Highway Patrol officer based in the Templeton office, was majorly injured Full Article

Update: Printery building pulled from public auction

Postponing auction will give non-profit time to develop a strategy to save the historic building Update posted May 17, 8:15 a.m. –County Auditor Controller Treasurer Full Article

Fig Good Food opens second location at Courtney’s House

Atascadero restaurant partners with Courtney’s House for job training —Fig Good Food owner Chris Dillow and Courtney’s House founder Carrie Sanders met by chance one Full Article

Capital Press: Business is slow at snail farm

Former Atascadero resident starts up only snail farm in the nation –Former Atascadero resident Charity Anais West owns and operates EscarGrow Farms, one of the only Full Article

Atascadero hosts first annual Cider Festival

By DuPree Dial Inaugural festival declared a success –On a beautiful, crisp Saturday, the first annual Atascadero Cider Festival was held at the Atascadero Lake Pavilion Full Article

Local chef realizes dreams with budding catering business

By Michelene Landseadel Steven Rodriguez Sullivan started Shav’ N’ Flav catering, ‘on a shoestring’ –Steven Rodriguez Sullivan, owner of Shav N’ Flav catering, is making a Full Article

Atascadero Aktion Club collects food for Loaves & Fishes

Club seeks locations to put out food drums —The Aktion Club of Atascadero is collecting food donations for Atascadero Loaves & Fishes. Members volunteered at the Full Article

Templeton Cal Poly student part of humanitarian engineering project

Students’ bicycle-powered maize mill won 2016 Premier Project Award from Engineers Without Borders –Templeton resident and environmental engineering student at Cal Poly Chris Apple, who Full Article