The Tribune from San Luis Obispo, California • 13

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San Luis Obispo publican Simon supported using state money to help buy the leases that would support them strongly oppose further offshore oil development and additional drilling he told a crowd of roughly 60 supporters at the San Luis Obispo County Airport time to phase out those offshore oil platforms" Currently 79 federal leases allow offshore oil production 36 of which are not yet producing ofl To ensure the undeveloped leases used for oil drilling in the future Simon said the federal government should be encouraged to buy fliem Please see SIMON B2 Assemblyman Abel Maldonado during a fundraiser at the Santa Margarita Ranch on Saturday By Patrick Pemberton TmiTkiiune Gubernatorial hopeful Bill Simon told voters here Saturday that California needs to prevent the development of offshore oil platforms Sounding at times more like a Green Party candidate than a conservative Re a We wonder why Tlie Tribune is so dirty While die dirt seems to be ink possibly the cause is with the parkaging nr handling Jim Messersmitk A As I noted in a column TRIBUNE PHOTO BY JOE JOHNSTON IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH: last month we use whafs considered in the industry a "tow ink but getting the correct color ink density on newsprint is a challenge We continue to explore ways to deal with this In the meantime YOUTHFUL BIUNGUAIj AUTHORS READ THEIR WORKS Sunday Profile For love of books and children -AnnE Lorenzen IS CALLED BY SOME 'toe Potter prof however we took a major step last week toward improving die quality of our newsprint in another way hy eliminating smudge marks in the margins Doing so makes it easier for" you to read the text "The wider margins not only give the press machinery room to operat but also create an airier pure attractive page sad Presentation Editor Joe Tkrica who led the project in y- the newsroom The messy margins appeared in 1996 when we were one of the first newspapers in the nation to shift to a narrower newsprint the goal was to pre-serve as much space for news and advertisements as possible Unfortunately that change resulted in portions of the printed page on both sides run- through the assembly-line process Taricasaid When the San Luis Obispo By Stephanie Finucane The Tribune He required summer reading at least not yet but Harry Potter is nonetheless making imoadsudiiudls of And AnnE Lorenaew 'more about that spelling is helping him get there In what could be a first for a California community college Lorenzen a 55-year-old youth minister will teach summer courses on the subject of the bespectacled icon through the Cuesta College for Kids program She will follow that up with a noncredit class ip the fall for adults Please see PROFILE B2 tracks rim Over wet ink they smudged it and spread it on lacing pages creating margins on both sides To eliminate this problem we slighdy reduced die widdi of our printed material to 1L5 inches from 12 inches The actual physical paper size did not change -Why did we wait so long to remedy die problem? Initially it 1 TRIBUNE PHOTO BY JEFF BALLINGER Arroyo Grande High School sophomore Rachel Alexander reeds her bilingual book to Cruise Del Real a second-grader at Ocaano Elamantary School Rachol wrote her story In both English and Spanish as part of a class assignment an issue because die newspaper used to be smaller and used less color As that ltn ears wide OCEANO changed however the problem 'surfaced We also needed to give the rest of the newspaper industry time to roll out the new width and settle on a standard our image rise is now die same as dw Los Angeles Times San Francisco Chronicle and Wash Open classes Most of die students at the school have a native language other than English In Eve class of second-graders most children asked the high school students to read to them in English "They know English is what the state is testing diem Drew said One high school student said she read her story three times in Spanish and 15 times in English during the morning Sophomore Rachel Alexander read to a wide-eyed Cruise Please ee BOOKS B2 THE BIG KIDS FROM HIGH SCHOOL TAKE THEIR ORIGINAL STORIES TO THE LITTLE KIDS AND READ TO THEM ated colorful books as pad of a class assignment Once Valverde edits the books to check for grammatical mistakes in each language she will give them to the library of die Oceano campus Her assignment helps her sophomores and juniors improve their Spanish skills gives the younger students a thrill and provides books for the elementary school good for everybody" she said students spent the morning Friday at Oceano Elementary reading to several By Jeff Ballinger The Tribune Schoolchildren at Oceano Elementary School got a rare treat last week when die authors of 36 newly published bilingual books read diem aloud The authors are students themselves in Spanish II class at Arroyo Grande High School They wrote die stories in both English and Spanish and then cre TRIBUNE PHOTO BY DAVID MIDOLECAMP AnnE Lorenzen is using Harry Potter books In her teaching ington Post for example By the way this latest change was an enormous task it took staff members in News Production and Advertising about two months Regarding the Editorial Opinion of The Tribune on Sunday May 26: 1 could not believe that it was not signed It was evidently written by someone who really did not believe foe premise heshe was promoting Warren Los Osos A The Tribune Eke most newspapers does not publish signed editorials because doing so could imply that the opinion of the author instead of die newspaper itself Our opinions reflect die beliefs of our entire editorial board composed of Publisher Par ladder Editorial Page Editor Bill Morem contributing member Herb Kamm and me After researching topics we discuss the merits of each issue before reaching consensus As editor Morem is die lead writer Kamm contributes often If any person on die board has a potential conflict of interest he or she is excluded from die discussion A HUG AND A DIPLOMA: GRADUATION DAY NBC Affiliate KSBY-TV purchased by Atlanta group Station owned LOCALLY FOR 6 YEARS FCC MUST APPROVE San Luis Obispo SJL bought the NBC affiliate six years ago for $17 million from media heir Elisabeth Murdoch Jason Elkin chairman of New Vision said he (dans to acquire at least 10 other television stations The group currently owns three stations on the East Coast The sale of KSBY subject to approval of the Federal Communications Commission is expected to close at the end of the summer looking forward to moving the station into digital transmission and other opportunities for Elkin said in announcing the deaL It was not ckar Saturday how a sale would affect the station's approxi- Do yon hart a question about the newspaper or our coverage? Jf so please write to me co The Tribune 3825 Higuera St or email me at Siur RfFOKT KSBY-TV the county's oldest television station will be sold to an Atlanta-based chain if federal regulators give their approval Santa Barbara-based $JL Communications announced plans Friday to sell the station to New Vision Group in Atlanta Terms of the deal were not -s sm p-cc North County Christian School's Kristi Cybu'ski center gets a hug frcm her friend Lacy Gentry after graduation ceremonies on Saturday: City Desk 7SVTT0 WF-WVBOO-456SU9 Flcwc see KSBY B2.