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San Luis Obispo County, California
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BLACKLAKE GOLF COURSE
Head-on
collision
kills two;
one hurt
Two pickups crash
near the spot where
James Dean was
killed in 1955
By Matt Fountain
[email protected]
Two men are dead and a
third is in a local hospital with
moderate injuries after a violent head-on crash early
Monday morning where
Highway 41 meets Highway
46 east of Paso Robles —
near the same location where
actor James Dean died.
The CHP said in a news
release Monday that the
agency received a report of
a fatal crash at 6:50 a.m.
According to the CHP, a
Ford F-350 pickup was traveling eastbound on Highway 46 where it meets at a
Y-intersection with Highway
41, which then continues
northeast.
The driver of the pickup
— identified Monday afternoon as Charles Hutchinson, 47, of Paso Robles —
had begun to make a left
turn onto Highway 41 when
he failed to navigate into the
entrance of the highway by
about 80 degrees, instead
traveling directly into the
TRIBUNE PHOTO BY JOE JOHNSTON
Golfers take to the links at Blacklake Golf Course in Nipomo on Monday.
Nipomo plan to get vote
Supervisors to consider
adding a hotel, 100 homes
and cutting back golf course
By Kaytlyn Leslie
S
[email protected]
an Luis Obispo County super visors are set to consider a request
today that would pave the way for a
120-room hotel and up to 100 new
homes at Blacklake Golf Resort, while
removing about 23 acres from the 58acre golf course.
The request would also allow up to 80
retirement units to be added to the Nipomo housing development and relocate
the existing clubhouse to Willow Road.
The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote today on whether it will au-
thorize a specific plan, general plan and
land use ordinance amendment for the
515-acre resort and residential development.
The authorization would allow resort
owner Rob Rossi to begin the environmental review process on his redevelopment plans, before bringing them
before the county Planning Commission on an as-yet-undetermined date.
The redevelopment plans are an effort to attract more visitors to the resort, which has seen a dwindling number of golfers and poor profits in the
15 years since Rossi bought the resort.
At a February meeting of the South
County Advisory Council, which acts
as an advisory body to the Board of
See BLACKLAKE, Back Page
See CRASH, Back Page
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Paso Robles
bookkeeper
suspected of
embezzlement
Denna Carol Serda, who turned herself in,
may have taken at least $700,000 from a
local manufacturing company, police say
By Matt Fountain
[email protected]
who turned herself in to the
Paso Robles Police Department on Friday.
She was booked into
County Jail on Friday on
suspicion of
felony grand
theft exceeding $950 as
well as forger y, and
the county
District Attorney’s Of- Denna
fice is con- Carol
sidering fil- Serda
ing additional criminal enhancements
for taking property exceeding $50,000, aggravated
white collar crime exceeding $100,000 and the denial
of probation for a crime exceeding $100,000.
Rehner would not identify
the nonprofit or the private
A Paso Robles bookkeeper was arrested last week on
suspicion of embezzling at
least $700,000 from a local
manufacturing business
over a period of six years
and possibly embezzling
money from the Nor th
County youth sports nonprofit where she was treasurer for about seven years.
Police say they are still investigating whether the nonprofit suffered any losses.
Denna Carol Serda, 56,
was arrested after an investigation that included a
Feb. 5 search of her Paso
Robles home and a subsequent review of her personal bank accounts, according
to Paso Robles police Sgt.
Tod Rehner.
As a result of their investigation, detectives secured
an arrest warrant for Serda, See MONEY, Back Page
ELECTION2016
‘Gr e e n’ Powe r
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Cruz sets sights on conservatives State’s push for clean
GOP senator, the
ﬁrst to join the race
for president, says
he aims ‘to reclaim
the Constitution’
By Maria Recio
McClatchy Newspapers
LYNCHBURG, Va. —
Ted Cruz launched his
quest for the presidency
Monday with a strong pitch
to evangelical Christians, a
bloc of voters often influential but seldom decisive in
the competition for the Republican presidential nomination.
“Today I am announcing
that I’m running for president of the United States,”
the first-term Republican
senator from Texas told an
enthusiastic audience of
young daughters looking
on.
Cruz, the first to jump into the race, eschewed such
traditional backdrops for a
campaign launch as a
hometown or an early voting state in favor of Liberty.
“God bless Liberty University,” Cruz said in his
opening remarks. “I am
thrilled to be here today at
the largest Christian university in the world.”
Founded by the late Rev.
Jerry Falwell, Liberty is a
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religious institution where
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, his wife Heidi, and their two
daughters, Catherine, 4, left, and Caroline, 6, appear on students must attend thrice
weekly convocation gatherstage after he announced his campaign for president
ings (previously known as
Monday at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.
chapel) to hear speakers
10,000 at Liberty Universi- is the time for liberty. It is such as Cruz, and where rety, in the foothills of Vir- the time to reclaim the Con- ligious pop music plays on
ginia’s Blue Ridge Moun- stitution of the United speakers throughout the
tains.
States,” he added, with his
“It is the time for truth. It wife, Heidi, and their two See CRUZ, Back Page
energy has problem:
nowhere to store it
Until California builds up storage capacity,
renewable energy may be wasted or curtailed
By Chris Megerian
Los Angeles Times
90 minutes, clean energy
production was slashed
1,142 megawatts, enough
electricity for hundreds of
thousands of homes, while
dirtier power from less flexible sources stayed on to
keep the system stable.
It was the largest curtailment of green energy last
year, according to grid operators, and it highlights a
hurdle for Gov. Jerr y
Brown’s plan to increase the
FOLSOM — On a quiet
Sunday morning last April,
power plants were pumping
far more energy into California’s electricity grid than
residents needed for their
refrigerators, microwaves
and television sets.
So officials made an odd
request in a state that prides
itself on leadership in renewable energy: They
asked wind and solar plants
to cut back their output. For See ENERGY, Back Page
THETWO-MINUTETRIB: NETANYAHU SORRY FOR ARAB VOTING COMMENTS
A TYPE OF
WHEAT WITH
NO GLUTEN?
BUSINESS, S4
OCEAN WINE A
RISK OR REWARD?
Researchers begin
looking into what in
wheat makes some
sick and aim to
come up with new
varieties. Page A2
While aging wine in the sea can
change the flavor, a federal
agency is concerned that
submerging wines in sea water
can lead to contamination.
WEATHER AND
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Sunny and mild for now, but
things look to be hotter this
weekend. More on S8
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UTAH ADDS
PHILADELPHIA
DEATH BY
POLICE GET A
FIRING SQUAD HARD LOOK
Governor signs law
to make Utah the
only state to allow
firing squads, when
no lethal drugs are
available. Page A4
Justice Department
report reveals a
shooting per week
in the city, says
officers need more
training. Page A5
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