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April 16th, 2020
THE WEEKLY BUZZ MAIL!
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COASTSIDE BUZZ CALENDAR
FREE and Self-Submit
MANY EVENTS ARE CANCELLED or POSTPONED DUE TO COVID 19 VIRUS
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No One will be allowed into the market area before 9 AM, and/or all required sanitation protocols are in place.
- The first 45 minutes of the market day are reserved for Seniors.
- Help Us! Keep six feet distance between you and fellow shoppers. We need everyone to be observant and respectful of this basic requirement.
- Do not handle anything you do not intend to buy. If you touch it, you must buy it.
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CoastViews Music Weekly Entertainment Guide
ALL LIVE MUSIC IS CANCELLED DUE TO THE COVID 19 VIRUS
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Possible Future Buzz Calendar Events
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Coastside Agency Meetings GOING REMOTE!
Stay Tuned.
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HMB City Council ~ 1st / 3rd Tues. @ 7:00pm
HMB Planning ~ 2nd /4th Tues. @ 7:00pm
HMB Parks and Recs ~ 4th Wed. only @ 6:00pm
Sewer Authority Mid-Coastide (SAM) ~ 2nd / 4th Mon. @ 7:00pm
Granada Community Services District ~ 3rd Thurs. only @ 7:30pm
Montara Water & Sanitary District Meetings ~ 1st / 3rd Thurs. @ 7:30pm (second meeting often cancelled, so call ahead)
Coastside County Water District ~ 2nd Tues. only @ 7:00pm
Midcoast Community Council Meeting ~ 2nd / 4th Wed. @ 7:00pm
Coastside Fire Protection District ~ 4th Wed. only @ 6:00pm
San Mateo County Harbor District ~ 3rd Wed. only @ 6:30pm
Cabrillo Unified School District ~ 2nd Thurs. @ 7:00pm
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LETTER. Dear Half Moon Bay Community
I hope you are all doing well, considering the circumstances. I know that staying home as much as we have all been doing is difficult and comes with a lot of impacts throughout the community. When I find myself getting frustrated at being homebound, I think of the healthcare workers and other essential services personnel who do not have the option to stay home. What the rest of us are being asked to do is really a small sacrifice in comparison to their efforts. But it’s a crucial way we can contribute to the overall health of our community. We can do this. Please, continue in your steadfast commitment to fighting the spread of COVID-19 – stay home, save lives. Try and stay positive, and spread that positivity in your socially-distanced circles, virtually. City Half Moon Bay Mayor, Adam Eisen
>>> READ MORE
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SURVEY. San Mateo County released a draft Midcoast Comprehensive Transportation Management Plan, alias “Connect the Coastside”.
San Mateo County is actively reaching out to the community in various ways to receive comments and raise awareness….
County staff asked for the opportunity to share the key points and findings of the current draft with the full board and is asking for input.
San Mateo County Planner, Katie Faulkner, presents the draft at the Montara Sewer and Water District.
>>> READ MORE
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ARTICLE. In February 2020, I had a conversation with Hassett Hardware’s owner, Eric Hassett. I asked him about N95 mask availability and he told me there is only one U.S. manufacturer and they are in the midwest. The rest are manufactured in China.
>>> READ MORE
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PUBLIC NOTICE. With a commitment to infrastructure investment over the last 14 years, our water and sewer systems are operating well. However, they continue to age and we must stay on top of critical upgrades to keep the systems in good working order. Over the next 20 years, the District will need to spend $2 million per year – a total of $40 million – to keep our systems in good working order. Funds from the 2001 General Obligation Bond are exhausted, and only limited low interest State loans are available. We need increased revenue to maintain our systems.
>>> READ MORE
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MAP and STATS. To the extent the actual data is available, there are a number of sites that show cumulative data over time, and various breakdowns (at the county level for California). The data gets better over time. And there are glitches as the recent jump from 13 to 21 deaths showed, when there was no update due to data problems for over a week. It wasn’t 8 more overnight, it was 8 more over the course of a week. But still, San Mateo and other counties are improving.
>>> READ MORE
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VIDEO. Per last Sewer Authority Mid-Coastide’s Flow Report for February 2020.
>>> READ MORE
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LETTER. You know that data can either lead you to an approximation of the truth, or data can mislead you and cause you to make incorrect conclusions and, therefore, take wrong actions. The data we have is, simply, very limited. This is based on the facts that many characteristics of the virus are unknown and that testing remains very constrained here. This requires us to synthesize estimates from very different sources of data that may be more qualitative in nature. For the data that is put up on our website, except for the hospital level data, which is mostly accurate, I tend to look at it skeptically, specifically the cases and the deaths, not because those aren’t accurate from what we know, but because they don’t reflect what’s actually going on very well.
>>> READ MORE
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LINKS. Two recent articles on statnews, about how long and how intensely we will need to practice protective measures to defeat the virus.
1. First one, 25 Mar, by Sharon Begley:
“When can we let up? Health experts craft strategies to safely relax coronavirus lockdowns.”
2. The second article, by Suzanne Sataline, looks at the recent Resurgence of COVID cases in Hong Kong. They did so well to contain the first onslaught of cases, but now are fighting a 2nd wave:
“Covid-19’s resurgence in Hong Kong holds a lesson: Defeating it demands persistence.” Statnews, 26 Mar 2020.
>>> READ MORE
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Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and commissioner of the New York City Health Department, has been one of the leading public health experts on the coronavirus pandemic, and how to respond. Join STAT’s senior infectious diseases and global health reporter, Helen Branswell, for a live video chat with Frieden, who is now president and CEO of the global public health initiative Resolve to Save Lives, at 11 a.m. ET on Monday. They’ll be talking about the state of the pandemic and how both the country and the world can move beyond it..
>>> READ MORE
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VIDEO and SURVEY. Connect the Coastside Goals"
"Overall vision for transportation on the Midcoast and it lays out the priorities for funding for projects."
While people shelter in place, projects to improve quality of life in San Mateo County are still underway. If you live or work on the Midcoast, your answers to this survey will help shape current and future transportation projects.
>>> READ MORE
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LINK. Have fun. It’s pretty much endless data on Covid-19. Let me know if you find anything reliable.
Quickly understand the scientific progress in the fight against COVID-19. Using the most advanced NLP algorithms, read summaries and discover trends in the latest research papers and the conversations around them. Every 24hrs.
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PLANS. San Mateo County Planning and Building is making them put the planter back in order to make the on-ramp and off-ramp to Highway 1 safer.
In response to a violation notice (VIO 2016-00054) for the unpermitted removal of a landscape planter, the applicant proposes to construct one 136 sq. ft. (34 feet long, 4 feet wide, 6-inch-high) landscape planter within the Caltrans Highway 1 right-of-way, parallel and adjacent to the eastern property line of the existing Chevron gas station eastern property line. No tree removal is proposed, and less than 10 cubic yards of grading is proposed.
The proposed planter will be located in the same area as the previous planter (within the Caltrans right-of-way) but with narrower dimensions (the previous planter was 63 feet long by 13 feet wide).
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ARTICLE. By Mark Palermo, President of Palermo Properties Team. The Bay Area was the first major metro to take the COVID-19 virus seriously as early as late February and eventually became the first to enforce a 7-county Shelter-in-Place order. Looking back over the past several weeks, what have we learned? How will this change the way we work, educate our kids, source our food, travel, entertain, and for the purposes of this paper, buy and sell real estate?
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Meet Larry Anderson.
Are you a business?
Want to get your taxes done early?
Larry can help.
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(In Pacifica and SF. We also speak Japanese!)
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Learn to sail! This is a safe and fun way for youth ages 8-16 to learn how to sail in either an Optimist (Opti) or Laser. Both boats are extremely popular recreational dinghies that also feature prominently in competition. Most certainly STEM! (science, technology, engineering, and math).
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Other Businesses on the Coastside Buzz Directory
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When you sign up for our COASTSIDE BUZZ DIRECTORY we not only offer a one-time free Buzz Facebook Boost,
but we can also feature you here, on the Weekly BuzzMail!
Want to talk about it first?
Contact Michelle Dragony at mdragony@coastsidebuzz.com.
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PODCAST. Here are almost two hours of BTS stories recorded by Michelle Dragony of Coastside Buzz from 2016 to 2019. Stay tuned for new podcasts in the new year.
Don’t you think this would make a great podcast for NPR? Could have lots of amazing, world-class guest readers!
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Teach your Kids to Listen and Imagine with Bedtime Stories
Prepare your child for a relaxing audio podcast experience. Whether in the car, the store, or before bed, let your child immerse their ears in their imagination. School is largely auditory. So, prepare your kid to listen and visualize a story without TV or video. Just listen!
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