Artists from around the world gathered at Pismo Beach for the first-ever Sand Art Festival, transforming the shoreline into a giant outdoor gallery. Each design only lasts a few hours before the tide comes in and washes it all away but creating them takes an extreme amount of both teamwork and precision to make this […]
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Cal Poly Rodeo hosts 5th Annual Break-a-Wave
Cal Poly Rodeo hosted their 5th annual Break-a-wave event in partnership with Outriders Presents. Break-a-wave is a fundraising event for the Cal Poly Rodeo team where they do a rodeo on the beach. Rodeo athletes participated in bucking and break-a-way events in Pismo Beach.
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Nature’s Hollywood species needs help
When Danielle Bronson was a little girl, Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove was home to about 250,000 monarchs. Now the state park interpreter at Pismo Beach, Bronson’s grove only welcomed 500 butterflies this year. Western monarch butterflies experienced their second-lowest population count in history this season, according to Bronson. The all-time low occurred in 2021. […]
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Pismo Beach celebrates 78th annual clam festival
Community members and tourists flocked to Pismo Beach on Oct. 19 for the 78th Annual Clam Festival, an annual three-day event that fosters community for families and visitors to celebrate the clams.
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Central Coast celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day with historic designation of Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Central Coast community gathered in Pismo Beach to witness the official designation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary.
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Digging up an adventure: A Cal Poly Lab’s Clam Project
Pismo clams were a staple of recreational fisheries for decades, but their population declined by the 1980s. The last clam of legal fishing size of four and a half inches was found in 1993, but since 2015, the Ruttenberg Lab at Cal Poly has been able to witness a rise in the clams’ population. Graduate […]
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Multimedia: Cal Poly hosts their third annual rodeo on Pismo Beach
Cal Poly rodeo hosted its third annual Break-A-Wave rodeo event at Pismo Beach. On Sept. 28, 24 breakaway ropers competed to see who would be crowned the next Break-A-Wave finale champion. Family, friends and members of the community surrounded the arena to watch the live cattle stomp the sand. Sociology freshman Emerson Hill was attending […]
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MNTV 15 Minute Update: Veteran’s Day Celebration
On this MNTV 15-minute update, watch how the people of Pismo Beach celebrated Veteran’s Day plus, we take a look at the new ‘La Casa’ center opening on campus. This episode of MNTV originally aired live on November 15, 2022
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Years after disappearing, the Pismo clam is bouncing back
When Cal Poly alum Carolyn DeRosa was 10 years old, she would spend her summer days digging up clams in Pismo beach. Her grandparents would get her up early in the morning to head to the coast and dig through the sand to find the massive Pismo clams. She remembers sitting on the beach with […]
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Coastal Commission halts production of seawalls in Pismo Beach
The California Coastal Commission appealed the City of Pismo Beach’s approval for private seawalls for two beachfront houses experiencing erosion. This appeal comes a month after the City of Pismo Beach Planning Commission initially approved the plan for a 120-foot-long and 40-foot-high seawall for resident James Gentilcore’s beachfront estate. “We look at it from the […]
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How a Marine Corps vet turned his passion for surfing into a program to get people with disabilities on the water
Surfing requires a lot of patience and endurance in order to learn; now imagine ripping waves while missing a limb. Dana Cummings is a Marine Corps veteran who served two tours in Iraq. He faced gunfire and death, but came out physically unscathed. It just so happened that he was driving down the freeway one […]