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Bit's 'N' Pieces of Nipomo: Lucky Dog Pet Resort hosting its grand opening

By Jacqueline Frederick/Contributor

The Lucky Dog Pet Resort is planning a grand opening celebration from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8.

The staff will serve free hot dogs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and have a bounce house for the kids from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The resort is located at 526 N. Oakglen Ave. You can see it from Highway 101 on the east side of the freeway near C&M Nursery.

This resort offers a brand-new, upscale boarding facility for dogs and cats, as well as other exotic pets. It also offers doggie day care with all-day play, large play yards and great care of your pets.

For more information about the resort, contact Christopher Consolo at luckydognipomo@yahoo.com or 929-LUCK.

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Creative Patches will hold a holiday open house and boutique from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1 and 2.

The store will be filled with many holiday gift items, cards, home decorations, fabric, books, patterns and notions with special sale items.

The shop is located at 136 N. Thompson Road in Olde Towne and can be reached online at

www.creativepatches.com.

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The Windmill Farms open house is also going to be held on Saturday, Nov. 1. The business had quite a weekend last week, with lots of children picking out pumpkins, going on buggy rides drawn by beautiful Percheron horses and visiting the animals in the petting area.

This coming Saturday, the business will also have a special live turtle and tortoise exhibit and an expert on hand to give a demonstration of these animals and answer questions. Food and beverages will be served.

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One of the most significant organizations in town is the Rotary Club of Nipomo, where the motto is “Service Above Self.”

Rotary is an international organization of business and professional leaders, with its main objective of service in the community, in the workplace and throughout the world.

Rotary’s community service projects include helping local families in need, reading to children and teaching safety skills in schools and raising money to support other civic and charitable organizations.

Through International Rotary Clubs, all Rotarians worldwide are united in a campaign for the global eradication of polio, and by 2005 — Rotary’s centenary — the PolioPlus program contributed $500 million to that cause.

In addition, Rotary sends members around the world to assist at national immunization days in polio-endemic countries. Several people from the Nipomo club have gone, including the club’s founder, Judy Henbury.

At Nipomo High School, a youth Rotary Club called Interact is in full swing, with Cindy Bainbridge as its director. The kids help with various barbecues Rotary does for charity, cleanup of Thompson Road and other community projects.

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You may have heard of a celebration in the Mexican culture, called Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. It is held each Nov. 1 and 2 and is a tradition to remember and celebrate people in your life who have passed on.

Shrines are created with the individuals’ pictures and mementos of their favorite foods, and symbolic things are placed at the shrines or small altars, along with candles. The d/cor is usually rather festive and morbid at the same time.

Costumes are worn that usually include a skeleton mask called a calacas, and festive garments are worn. Sugar skulls, made with the names of the dead people on the foreheads, are eaten by relatives or friends, and there is dancing.

Halloween is also this Friday, so be on the lookout for costumed children in your neighborhoods.

Jacqueline Frederick is a lawyer, real estate broker and farmer in Nipomo and can be reached at jvflaw@aol.com or 929-1120.