– San Miguel resident Abel Gonzalez Vazquez, his wife, and six children were going to sleep when a spark from a firework landed on a pile of trash bags, traveled to hay, and eventually caught their house in fire, according to reports. The family, although able to safely evacuate, is now displaced due to the blaze. The fireworks did not belong to the family.
About 40 to 60 people show up every week and glide across the dance floor. The event started in 1895 and is still going strong, pausing only briefly for COVID-19
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Excerpts from the Thursday, July 13, 1950 Paso Robles Journal:
200 Are Enrolled for First Swim Lessons
–Two hundred answered the call Monday morning at the Paso Robles municipal plunge for the free swimming and life-saving classes when Miss Alice Durham, executive secretary, and her aides, Mrs. Ed Page and Mrs. Harold Bennett, enrolled the applicants.
Ray Bryant, head instructor with Robert Osman and Carolyn Reich as assistants, soon classified the entrants and set the time for classes.
The classifications were Beginners, 119; Intermediates, 33: Swimmers, 24: Sr. Life Savers, 6: and Jr. Life Savers, 18.
These are to be held as follows: 8:30 to 9:30, Life Saving; 9:30 to 10:15, Swimmers; 10:15 to 11:00, Intermediates; 11:00 to 11:35, Beginners; 11:35 to 12:15, Beginners.