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Monday, July 6, 2015
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European Economy
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WILDFIRE ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM
Greeks say
no to terms
of bailout
About 61 percent of voters reject deal that
would have imposed greater austerity on
the country; future is still uncertain
By Suzanne Daley
ing victory to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, a leftist
who came to power in Januar y vowing to reject new
austerity measures, which
he called an injustice and
economically self-defeating.
Late last month, he walked
away from negotiations in
frustration at the creditors’
demands, called the referendum and urged Greeks to
vote no as a way to give him
more bargaining power.
While Tsipras now appears to have his wish, his
victor y in the referendum
settled little, since the creditors’ offer is no longer on
the table. There remains the
possibility that they could
walk away, leaving Greece
facing default, financial collapse and expulsion from
The New York Times
COURTESY PHOTO
HEET team member Barbara Verlengiere stands by her pickup and horse trailer awaiting instructions
about where to go to evacuate horses and other livestock during a wildfire. The group rescued six
horses and a herd of goats during the recent Park Hill Fire east of Santa Margarita.
SLO IS FEELING THE HEET
By David Sneed
[email protected]
W
hen a wildfire breaks
out in San Luis Obispo County, a dedicated
group of volunteers swings
into action to rescue horses and other livestock imperiled by the flames.
The Horse Emergency
Evacuation Team was
formed in 2003 and has
since grown to more than
30 volunteers, all of them
horse enthusiasts, said
Susan McElhinney, president of HEET.
“We began as an organization because there was
nothing in place for rescuing large animals,” she
said.
Most recently, the
group responded to the
The Horse Emergency Evacuation Team
works to rescue livestock and pets
endangered during wildﬁre season
Park Hill Fire that burned
nearly 1,800 acres east of
Santa Margarita. HEET
rescued six horses and a
herd of goats.
Except when it is raining, members of the team
monitor emergency radio
scanners. As soon as a
fire breaks out, word is
sent out for the rescuers
to stand by.
“Whoever is available
with a trailer will hitch up
and wait,” McElhinney
said.
Working in coordination
with Cal Fire and the county Sheriff’s Office, the vol-
unteers will then head to
the scene of the fire and
load up all livestock in the
path of the flames and take
them to shelter centers located at various ranches
and rodeo grounds around
the county. If needed, they
will also rescue pets.
“People are very generous about opening their
doors for housing animals,” McElhinney said.
Rob Lewin, Cal Fire
chief for San Luis Obispo
County, said HEET is an
impor tant and valuable
resource.
“Overall, people will not
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Learn more about
HEET: www.sloheet.org
or call 446-7457.
evacuate without their
pets,” he said. “They have
a bond with their pets —
particularly dogs, cats and
horses — and we need to
accommodate that feeling.”
Many rural residents
register their horses with
HEET so the group can
use a database and mapping program to pinpoint
the location of many of
the horses in need of
See HEET, Back Page
Selfie requests shift focus for campaigns
By Jereme W. Peters
and Ashley Parker
The New York Times
“Press that white button!
This right here,” the former
secretary of state instructed
a technologically deficient
fan in New Hampshire who
was fumbling to work an
iPhone camera. Her patience thinning, Hillary Rodham Clinton took matters into her own hands and jabbed
the button herself. And with
the sound of an electronic
Candidates adjust campaign stops to make
time for potential voters to grab souvenirs
shutter snap, another selfie
— the must-have political
souvenir of 2016 — went up
into the cloud for campaign
posterity.
Who wants their babies
kissed or their yard signs
autographed anymore?
This is the Selfie Election.
And if you are running for
president, you have no
cause so many people want
pictures.
Jeb Bush has perfected a
technique suited to his
6-foot-3 frame: For his
shorter fans, he will take
the picture with his own
outstretched selfie stick of
an arm. The sons of Gov.
Scott Walker have watched
their father take so many,
they say he has significantly polished his shutterbug
choice but to submit.
Candidates can now
spend an hour — or sometimes two, as Sen. Rand
Paul did last month in New
Hampshire — exhausting a
line of eager selfie seekers.
Others, like Sen. Ted Cruz,
have learned to add an extra 20 minutes at the beginning and end of events be- See SELFIES, Back Page
ATHENS, Greece —
Greeks delivered a shocking rebuff to Europe’s leaders on Sunday, decisively rejecting a deal offered by the
country’s creditors in a historic vote that could redefine Greece’s place in Europe and shake the continent’s financial stability.
As people gathered to celebrate in Athens’ central
Syntagma Square, the Interior Ministry reported that
with more than 90 percent
of the vote tallied, 61 percent of the voters had said
no to a deal that would have
imposed greater austerity
measures on the beleaguered country.
The no votes carried virtually every district in the
country, handing a sweep- See GREECE, Back Page
California
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Advocates push to
unionize child care
Home-based caregivers seek to pass bill that
would help ﬁx state-subsidized programs
By Andrew Holzman
Sacramento Bee
she gets the dignity she deserves.
“We are treated as nothing. Nothing. We are not
looked upon as professionals — we are looked over,”
Sharp said of home-based
child care providers. “It’s
very difficult to be taken seriously doing what I do.”
People like Sharp are the
reason the group Raising
California Together is working with the Ser vice Employees International Union
to unionize providers who
Pamela Sharp’s day starts
at 5:30 a.m., when she gets
up to make breakfast for the
children she watches all day
in her home. She’s open
from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., five
days a week.
Sharp says she provides
children with more than
oversight. She says the kids
read together and talk about
their goals, that teachers
and parents say children
from her program excel
when they go to school.
But she doesn’t feel like See CARE, Back Page
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S.C. TO DECIDE WORRY OVER
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POPE RETURNS TO
SOUTH AMERICA
State Legislature is
set to consider
moving flag from
Statehouse grounds
to a museum.
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In a speech in Ecuador, Pope
Francis talks of the importance
to protect the poor and
environment from further
exploitation.
WEATHER AND
TODAY’S INDEX
Partly cloudy weather won’t
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Mercury has
worked its way into
the food chain of
the lake, EPA tests
have found.
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