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<strong>PASO</strong> PEOPLE<br />

By Chuck Desmond<br />

Last month, in YOUR Paso<br />

Robles <strong>Magazine</strong>, we looked at the<br />

upcoming Quasquicentennial 2014<br />

wall calendar. In June, the Recipe<br />

book was spotlighted. For this issue,<br />

let’s take a peek at what Superintendent<br />

Kathleen McNamara<br />

has urged the Paso Robles School<br />

district to play in their part of Paso’s<br />

125th celebration year – 2014.<br />

Before we start, let’s have another<br />

short review. In March, we<br />

will celebrate 125 years of El Paso<br />

de Robles as an incorporated city.<br />

The Celebration Committee is<br />

headed by Julie Dahlen and the<br />

co-chairs are Dee Lacey and Frank<br />

Mecham. These names of course<br />

are familiar to you, and with their<br />

leadership, 2014 is becoming a year<br />

to remember.<br />

“REMEMBER” is an excellent<br />

word because that’s what it’s all<br />

about – remembering our history,<br />

preserving our history and passing<br />

it on to the generations who will<br />

come after us. Residents and businesses<br />

have banded together to do<br />

all they can to make a 12-month<br />

celebration party. About 50 dedicated<br />

individuals are spreading the<br />

word, working on events, designing<br />

memorabilia, planning the official<br />

March party, raising funds, digging<br />

into archives and publicizing everything<br />

that comes along.<br />

The logo you’ve seen for a few<br />

months in this column is now accompanied<br />

by a copy of the 11x17<br />

calendar’s first month’s page. Soon,<br />

the calendar with its historic photos<br />

will go to print with all the<br />

events that we know about being<br />

highlighted. With a skoosh of luck,<br />

you’ll be able to buy yours in September<br />

or October – just in time<br />

to hang it when 2014 actually begins.<br />

Next month, the front cover<br />

of the Recipe Book should join this<br />

column’s artwork. About 300 recipes<br />

have been received so far. We’ve<br />

Quasquicentennial Update<br />

been able to hold the recipe-submission-deadline<br />

longer because<br />

the printer has assured us he’ll have<br />

them in time for Christmas presents.<br />

So, if you still want to submit,<br />

do it now! Same for events to go on<br />

the calendar!<br />

Okay, on to the schools. Remember,<br />

we want to pass our history to<br />

our children. That makes this aspect<br />

of 2014 the most exciting part<br />

of the whole year. Of course it has to<br />

go through the schools and at this<br />

early stage, our educators are jumping<br />

in with all cylinders pumping.<br />

Teaching our history will assuredly<br />

strengthen Paso’s future! From K<br />

through 12 and in each location,<br />

the principals are committed.<br />

Blending Paso’s specific history<br />

with the required curriculum<br />

is proving not to be too difficult.<br />

It’s exciting! All the schools have<br />

the full cooperation and openness<br />

of both the Pioneer Museum and<br />

the Historical Society. These two<br />

entities are fabulous resources for<br />

our youths’ educations. The Charter<br />

School is even considering<br />

conducting some of their classes at<br />

Dr. Stefanie Mikulics<br />

WOMEN’S HEALTH AND BEAUTY<br />

“The Paso Schools Issue”<br />

these locations! Field<br />

trips with historical<br />

emphasis are becoming<br />

the norm. K<br />

and 1st grade will be<br />

looking at old time<br />

meal preparation and<br />

studying family life,<br />

transportation and<br />

what schoolhouses and classes were<br />

like in those days.<br />

Speaking, Essay Writing and<br />

Reading Skills come for the next<br />

grades. Books about the life and<br />

times of the area followed by verbalizing<br />

those understandings will<br />

be folded into the regular requirements.<br />

How has the community<br />

changed? Paso’s agricultural history<br />

from grains through livestock<br />

and vines and the impact of the<br />

train coming to Paso will occupy<br />

a great deal of these grade’s education.<br />

Parallel to that is government.<br />

How did and does Paso govern itself?<br />

Why does the city have pride<br />

in itself? Why did families choose<br />

to move here? Who are the famous<br />

people who lived here and what did<br />

they do? All these afford an entry<br />

into tourism plus the sights and<br />

sounds of our past to our present.<br />

Bundle the thoughts of this paragraph<br />

into “needed life skills” and<br />

you get essay writing. What a wonderful<br />

way to cement our past onto<br />

young minds!<br />

By Junior High, the arts are<br />

emerging. Drawing, painting and<br />

music are most dominant. In the<br />

minds’ eyes of the students, capturing<br />

the imagination of the<br />

train station, harvesting, the acorn<br />

building, horses and cattle, The<br />

Hotel or the first traffic signal, the<br />

schoolhouses themselves – all just<br />

screaming for open minds to think<br />

about. Music from early days and<br />

even Paderewski will join with the<br />

choruses of the children’s voices.<br />

The Bearcats have a ton they will<br />

participate in. Sports from day one<br />

of Paso’s history, the band‘s performances,<br />

a self-created drama, Paso’s<br />

economics lessons, music from the<br />

choir, a significant float in the parade,<br />

attending city council meetings<br />

and presentations from the<br />

Mayor and the Council as well as<br />

the Police and Fire Chiefs.<br />

It’s reported that the Culinary<br />

Academy will have a food focus<br />

that spans the generations!<br />

There will be school events for<br />

the parents and the community to<br />

see throughout the year. As each<br />

one becomes scheduled, right here<br />

in this magazine column, we’ll tell<br />

ya about them!<br />

Speaking of scheduling, here is<br />

a partial list of future column spotlights:<br />

The New Year’s Eve Party at<br />

the Inn, both fireworks celebrations,<br />

birthday party in March, Women’s<br />

Day, Toby to Barney 12.5 mile run,<br />

merchandise items and outlets, the<br />

New City Flag and flags for us,<br />

Pioneer Day Parade and weekend,<br />

and the list goes on. Whew, I’m going<br />

to be doing a lot of writing!<br />

Need info? Want to get involved?<br />

Here are the contacts:<br />

Chairperson: Julie Dahlen<br />

237-3993 Jdahlen@prcity.com<br />

Co Chair: Frank Mecham<br />

Fmecham@co.slo.ca.us<br />

Co Chair: Dee Lacey<br />

JDLacey1963@gmail.com<br />

Recipe Book: Robbie Anne<br />

PasoCookbook@yahoo.com<br />

Calendar: Melody Mullis<br />

MAMullis@IX.network.com<br />

Calendar: Nancy Tweedie<br />

1Tootsie@Charter.net<br />

Schools: Kathleen McNamara<br />

KMcNamara@pasoschools.org<br />

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28 Paso Robles <strong>Magazine</strong>, <strong>August</strong> <strong>2013</strong>

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