Events

Grover Beach- The Grover Beach Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that the 19th Annual Stone Soup Music Faire and Festival will take place Saturday and Sunday, August 28 and 29, 2010 at the Ramona Garden Park in Grover Beach! It’s estimated this year’s Festival will draw thousands of people from all over the Central Coast and state.

People of all ages will enjoy the variety of entertainment the Stone Soup Faire offers this year. Musicians will be performing all day Saturday and Sunday.

Santa Maria – The Central Coast Wine Growers (CCWGA) are holding their annual dinner and dance on Saturday, August 14th at Rancho Arroyo Grande; home of Conway Family Wines.  This year’s event will feature wine tasting, dinner, a silent and live auction and dancing to the sounds of Nataly Lola and her band. 

The event is open to the public and is in its tenth year.

The event starts at 4:30 pm with wine tasting and a review of the auction items.  Dinner will be served at 5:30 pm by the Arroyo Grande FFA members.  Following dinner, the live auction starts at 6:30 pm conducted by Colonel Jim Glines.  Dancing will follow the live auction.

Rancho Arroyo Grande is located at 591 Hi Mountain Road east of Arroyo Grande.  There will be signs directing visitors towards the Rancho Arroyo Grande Event Center.

Tickets for the event are $50 per person; or $450 for a table of ten.  Tickets may be obtained by logging on the CCWGA we

 Arroyo Grande Community Hospital’s (AGCH) Community Benefits program is pleased to offer a free lecture, “Resolving Family Conflicts” on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The free class will be held in the hospital’s Annex Main Conference Room from 6:00 – 7:00 pm. It will be led by Steffanie Medina, MA, Program Director of Creative Mediation.

Steffanie Medina, MA, is passionate about empowering others to move from conflict to resolution by talking about what matters most.

For more than a hundred years people from the inland valleys of California have been escaping the summer heat by visiting Pismo Beach.  A new exhibit -- Early Pismo, Vignettes and Photographs -- explores some of the fascinating people, places and events that have created this small Central Coast haven. Early aviators, restaurateurs, real estate agents, bootleggers, prostitutes, soldiers, farmers, and even Al Capone found work, rest or recreation in the area. The exhibit opens Saturday with a special presentation by local historian Effie McDermott at 2 PM at the South County Historical Society’s IOOF Hall, 128 Bridge Street in Arroyo Grande.

This exhibit is the first of three events that will explore Pismo’s rise, fall and rebirth as a tourist mecca halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles.