SLO LIFE Magazine Apr/May 2019
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| BRIEFS<br />
$75,649<br />
The average salary for teachers in the San<br />
Luis Coastal Unified School District,<br />
which puts them among the top earners<br />
in San Luis Obispo County and equal to<br />
many in the San Joaquin Valley. However,<br />
with median home prices well over<br />
$600,000 versus approximately $250,000 in<br />
Fresno, for example, the disparity is putting<br />
a strain on the district’s ability to attract<br />
and retain teachers locally.<br />
“There is a<br />
wall of gum.<br />
Just FYI.”<br />
Rainn Wilson, who played the character<br />
Dwight Schrute on the hit show “The<br />
Office,” commenting on Facebook about<br />
Bubblegum Alley during his recent visit to<br />
San Luis Obispo.<br />
#7<br />
A new report issued by the National<br />
Association of Home Builders put the San<br />
Luis Obispo-Arroyo Grande-Paso Robles<br />
area in seventh place on its least affordable<br />
places to buy a home list. Each of the<br />
top ten least affordable places were in<br />
California, and of the 237 areas surveyed,<br />
Elmira, New York was identified as the<br />
most affordable.<br />
“We’re<br />
not<br />
leaving.”<br />
Rick Stollmeyer, CEO of Mindbody,<br />
assured the Tribune in an interview after his<br />
company was acquired by San Franciscobased<br />
venture capital company Vista Equity<br />
Partners for $1.9 billion.<br />
660,253<br />
The number of gallons of rain that has<br />
fallen so far on San Luis Obispo County<br />
during an unexpectedly wet season,<br />
which is enough to fill two million<br />
Olympic-sized swimming pools, as well<br />
as end the eight-year drought.<br />
“THANKFULLY no<br />
one was injured!”<br />
Scout Coffee Co. of San Luis Obispo<br />
wrote on their Instagram page after<br />
posting a photo showing the damage<br />
done at their Foothill Boulevard location<br />
when a truck slammed into their shop<br />
at approximately 8 a.m. on a Saturday<br />
morning, just before opening for the day.<br />
62<br />
The number of years after her death in<br />
1957 that Julia Morgan finally received<br />
an obituary in The New York Times as part<br />
of its “Overlooked” project. Morgan was<br />
the first woman to become licensed as an<br />
architect in California and she went on to<br />
design Hearst Castle in San Simeon, the<br />
Monday Club in San Luis Obispo, and<br />
close to 800 additional projects.<br />
“There’s<br />
a magic<br />
land named<br />
Nipomo…”<br />
The host of CBS’s “Let’s Make a Deal,”<br />
Wayne Brady, sang in a song he made up<br />
off-the-cuff on the air after game show<br />
contestant Shawn Fuggs, a Santa Maria<br />
Police Officer, gushed about the great<br />
weather in his hometown.<br />
$561<br />
65,155<br />
The amount of the fine the City of San Luis<br />
The number of applications Cal Poly<br />
Obispo will begin assessing those who are<br />
received for its <strong>2019</strong> freshman class for the apparently tossing confetti in the air for a<br />
approximately 5,000 spots available, which selfie shot on top of Terrace Hill without<br />
fell just short of last year’s record set at 65,507. cleaning up the mess afterward. <strong>SLO</strong> <strong>LIFE</strong><br />
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