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Bill Targeting City Bankruptcies Delayed

BILL TARGETING CITY BANKRUPTCIES DELAYED

Microsoft Vista Upgrade Service Crashes

We are getting reports of a nasty problem with the Microsoft Vista upgrade service pack that is crashing computers. People are dealing with Microsoft and HP, among others, to try to fix the problem. If you are having similar problems or have any advice, please scroll down and click Comments. Or you can do what we do: Get a Mac.

Stephen Johnson Photography July Newsletter

CLICK HERE FOR THE JULY NEWSLETTER

 

Op-Ed: Save Our Hillsides, Don't Widen Highway 1

DON'T WIDEN THE HIGHWAY, SAVE THE HILLSIDES

Bob Pilgrim photo

 

Pacifica Tribune Online by Way of San Jose?

No doubt you've noticed, but I was kinda shocked to see that the PACIFICA TRIBUNE online  has been replaced by some pathetic excuse for a Pacifica "portal" on the San Jose Mercury News Web site. Riptide's looking better and better.

MATT LEVIE

Pacifica Golf Course, Parks to Use Recycled Water

GOLF COURSE & PARKS TO USE RECYCLED WATER

By Julia Scott, San Mateo County Times 

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I would like to congratulate and thank the North Coast County Water District and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission for their program to use recycled water to keep the grass green at Sharp Park Golf Course and at other sites in Pacifica. Using recycled water leaves more water in the "Wild and Scenic" Tuolumne River, which fills the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park. This will help the struggling salmon population, which has plummeted from 18,000 fish in the year 2000 to fewer than 500 last year. This recycled water program is a great example of how we can meet our needs without causing more harm to the environment. I applaud everyone who made it possible. Learn more: TUOLUMNE RIVER

PETER DREKMEIER

Tuolumne River Trust

Shop Locally: Please Patronize Riptide Advertisers

DISPLAY ADS: Click RIPTIDE ADVERTISERS to see display ads for Periwinkle Custom Framing, Luigi's Italian Restaurant, Nona's Kitchen, Pedro Point Creative, Strongside Training Systems, LuceBones Chiropractic, Dan B. Underhill and Co. Plumbing, Restore Sharp Park, and Sue Vaterlaus (Rockaway Properties). These local entrepreneurs and professionals enjoy foot traffic that our Internet presence brings them. We get about 1,000 hits (page views) on weekdays, and our average number of unique visitors continues to grow steadily. That's a lot of eyeballs! Remember, shop locally to save gas, help our environment, and stimulate our economy. Some RIPTIDE ADVERTISERS offer discounts: Just say, "I saw your ad on Riptide." To buy a display ad, please email mayburrito@goofbuster.com. It's cheap at twice the price.

RIPTIDE UNCLASSIFIED: Got something to sell, trade, or buy? Garage sale coming up? Looking for something or someone? Whatever it is, advertise it here for only a dollar a day. Email your ad and optional photo or logo (jpg, gif, or png format) to mayburrito@goofbuster.com. Click our donation box on the top-left sidebar. When we receive confirmation from PayPal, we will post your ad. Or email us for alternative payment information. We reserve the right to edit all ads.

AMAZON-RIPTIDE PARTNERSHIP: "Did you get the payment from my first Amazon order? I'm going to do another through Riptide. Keep up the good work," says a reader who regularly shops Amazon on Riptide. Scroll down our right sidebar to shop Amazon. Your Amazon purchases from this site earn us a nice little commission—a smart way to shop locally.

JOHN MAYBURY
EDITOR & PUBLISHER

Nowhere to Go? Nothing to Do? Click Our Event Calendar and Get a Life

In case you haven't been paying attention, we list local concerts, programs, hikes, field trips, dances, sales, benefits, etc., chronologically on our EVENT CALENDAR. This permanent link is on our top-right sidebar like a big Pavlovian cookie jar: Click it and get a treat. Of course, if you like to search the hard way, use the Google box on our upper-right sidebar or the archives and categories on our left sidebar. But why not search the easy way? Just click EVENT CALENDAR and scroll, baby, scroll, until you find what you're looking for. Don't let life pass you by. Surf Riptide!

The Old Man and His Tomato Garden

An old man lived alone in New Jersey.  He wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was very difficult work because the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote his son a letter describing his predicament:

Dear Vincent,
I am feeling pretty sad, because it looks like I won't be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. I know if you were here, my troubles would be over. I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me, like in the old days.
Love,
Papa

A few days later he received a letter from his son:

Dear Pop,
Don't dig up that garden. That's where the bodies are buried.
Love,
Vinnie

At 4 the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son:

Dear Pop,
Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances.
Love you,
Vinnie

 

Rummage Sale Benefit for Little Brown Church, July 11-18 (Donations and Setup, July 10)

For the past several years, Pacifica Historical Society and its Little Brown Church Restoration Committee have painstakingly attempted to preserve the Little Brown Church, one of Pacifica's historical treasures, for the use and enjoyment of future generations. But all that takes money. PHS has been doing this in stages and its members have held many fundraising events. The building is now weathertight, with new support beams and rafters in the ceiling, a new roof and gutters, and insulated windows in the lower portion. Workers have been successful in replacing the bell tower's foundation and have had the upper siding on the upper portion removed so that a new waterproof barrier could be installed. But now all restoration efforts have come to a standstill and PHS needs your help! Due to an unexpected amount of dry rot, the building fund has been depleted. So PHS is having a Rummage Sale. Please donate goods to sell, volunteer to help set up and/or work the sale (cashier, bagger—no heavy lifting!), and shop at the rummage sale! Clean out your closets and garages: books, toys, games, kitchenware, holiday decorations, clothing, furniture. (Pacifica Riptide donated a nice new Fogzilla hoodie [extra large] so get in there early July 11 and bring lots of cash.)

Last Chance to Drop Off Donations & Setup, Friday, July 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
 
Sale Hours: Saturday, July 11 through Saturday, July 18, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily
 
Location: 1265 Linda Mar Shopping Center, next to Round Table Pizza (a great big thanks to Kimco Realty Corporation for letting PHS use its vacant store). If you have larger items to donate and cannot deliver them, please call Shirlee Gibbs at 650-355-6625 to arrange pickup. All donations go directly to help save the historic landmark Little Brown Church for generations to come!