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From the Half Moon Bay Review

Las Cabritas Ranch will exhibit twenty-seven goats in the Pure Bred Live Stock show in San Francisco from November 1 to 8. We expect to see them return with a lot of prizes.

The Wilson cottage, the Amos cottage, the Dr. Thomas cottage, the Wheeler house, the Maier mansion, the Weyl cottage, have all been rented recebtkt for the Winter months, which allows that the people are beginning to appreciat our Winter climate.

Arthur Wagner, wife and daughter Dorothy and Jean Ross of Jean Ross of Salada Beach. They have many friends here who will welcome them back.Mr. and Mrs. Havice own considerable property here and also stock in the Montara Realty Development Company.

Mr. Wilcox has three of the largest potatoes of the season on exhibition at the post office, one of them weighs two and one half pounds. Who can beat it?

The United States Government is at the present time installing a powerful wireless station at Point Montara Lighthouse station.

Mr. and Mrs. Drew of New York (side note: I met Gretchen Drew in San Francisco and she gave me some of the writer Peter Kyne’s work. Kyne lived in Moss Beach as a young man) have leased the house recently occupied by Rev. Osborn and will remain here permanently.

There is so much property around Montara that is improved that can be bought at such bargains that it will only be a short time until there is a more stable real estate market and the bargains are snapped up.

It is to be hoped that the people will remember that there are services at the church every Sunday morning at 11 a.m. Rev. Mr. Osborne, pastor.

Miss Bessie Chase, who is spending a vacation at home, has been busy decorating the interior of their beautiful home. She is quite an artist with the paint brush.

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Story by Barry Parr (Coastsider.com)

AB 650, the bill designed to help the city of Half Moon Bay pay its
Beachwood settlement, has been rewritten to be a loan from the California
Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank instead of a grant from park
bond funds. The bill now also includes a requirement that the city obtain
an independent appraisal of the Beachwood property.

The bill’s sponsor, Assemblyman Jerry Hill, told Coastsider that the
structure of the bailout was still “fluid” and that it could ultimately
include a cash component as part of the $10 million, and that the term or
interest rate of the loan had not been determined. He said that the bill
was restructured as part of the process of getting it out of the Assembly
Local Government committee. However, he declined to characterize the
current version of the bill as a placeholder.

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As you know, I live in El Granada. Not only was my partner-in-life very ill, but a longtime neighbor, Bob Phipps is also very sick. I have always liked Bob and Connie Phipps. They live directly across the street from me.

One Christmas one of the Phipps put a Christmas card on my door telling me that we (me ex, John Morrall) were the best neighbors on the block. We never complained. We were loosey-goosey. 

I do have to mention one thing, though, Connie and Bob: Remember “Ralph” the dog? Who could forget “Ralph?” Well, I won’t get into it, but those were the days when leashes were unnecessary and all the animals ran wild. Maybe “wild” isn’t the right word. They were free to chase and do whatever. I used to look for “Ralph” in the bushes but he was good to me. 

I wish you well, Bob Phipps. I know he gets picked up by the senior center folks–he’s always been such a social guy. Good friends with Duane who once owned El Granada Market.

Because I do not want to invade anyones privacy–Id like to say that a man whose name begins with J and is married to a woman whose name begins with B has also been seriously unwell. I like J a lot—he’s a “sailor” which means he likes to travel.

Closer to my house on my side of the street an old friend is getting old. I don’t know about the state of his health but his wife is so good to him. They like to walk but it’s obvious the walking isn’t easy anymore.

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(The following piece is related to the Reber Plan; he’s the guy who wanted to turn San Francisco Bay into one giant lake after WWII. With military highways and military airports, too. I like the military highways because they are here, today, like Highway 101. I never thought of it as a military road; I thought it was for commuters, but I guess John Reber had other ideas…)

California Farmer (Pacific Rural Press–California Cultivators)

83 Stevenson Street

San Francisco 5, California

96th Year

TO ALL DISTRICT MANAGERS OF THE CALIFORNIA FARMER:

The number one problem of California is water.

That’s why the California Farmer devotes so much time to the Reber Plan (discussed on the blog; I’ll find the link later) , and why I serve as president of the non-profit corporation which boosts the Rober Plan.

We are are wasting more good, fresh Central Valley Water through the Golden Gate each year than would be required to refill the underground and supply all the surface needs in the State.

Briefly the Reber Plan would build two wide earthn dams across San Francisco Bayand create two fresh water lakes in the north and the south, both connected by sa shipping channel.

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