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�or me, the best part of the summer for the past fi ve years or so has been our family backpacking trips. We started with a two-night excursion into Hoover Wilderness when my son was 4 and my daughter 6. (He fell into the

fi rst lake we encountered and hiked the rest of the way in his long johns — carrying only his blanket.) Since then, we’ve tried to add a night each trip, until we maxxed out last year at six nights on a trip deep into Ansel Adams Wilderness. It is never terribly relaxing, and something always goes “unplanned.” Flat tire, popped sleeping pad on the fi rst night, eyes swollen shut from mosquito bites, boot soles completely falling off (both mine and my wife’s!). But it’s the most fun I’ve ever had. We have a family tradition of howling when we pass the sign marking the wilderness boundary, where nothing matters except the surroundings and the people you are with. Can’t wait to howl again this summer. ¶ In this, our summer activity magazine, we tried to include content outside the standard “things to do this summer.” Certainly fi tting that category is the story of katie Marquis, a Wilkinson School teacher who, in the summer, dons her skates and helmet and becomes a “jammer” in a roller derby. School teacher/derby queen — not a common title, I’m guessing. Go, katie! Also in this issue is a nod to an institution that thousands of Coastside girls have been proud to be a part of — the Girl Scouts. this year the organization marks their 100th year. ¶ I’m also proud to say that we have an exclusive interview with musician Pegi Young. Her husband, Neil, is certainly one of our more well-known Coastsiders, but Pegi is making a name in the music world on her own. We were able to get some great photos from a recent show in Oakland, and Stacy trevenon was able to track her down in San Francisco for a very candid and heartfelt talk. ¶ on the cover this month, we have turned the focus inland after a few oceanscapes. this painting of the South Coast was done by painter Galen Wolf (1889-1976) who lived, painted, and loved the Coastside for many years. Shannon Nottestad, who cares for Wolf ’s art work, graciously let us print this wonderful image. there is something simple and naive about his work, and the paintings seem to capture the time in which he worked. thankfully, scenes like this still exist in Pescadero. to see more of Galen Wolf ’s work, stop by the Coastal Arts league — a retrospective is up all month.

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heAR some vIews, enJoy some BRewsapril 5 the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company’s monthly Brews & Views presents “California’s Economic Future” from 6 to 8 p.m. at 390 Capistrano road in Princeton. Collaborative Eco-nomics Chairman and CEO doug Henton will report from the think long task force. 728-2739.

FAmILIes InvIted to sedeRapril 7 the Coastside Jewish Community hosts its annual, vegetarian potluck and fundrais-ing family Passover Seder from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at the ted Adcock Community/Senior Center at 535 kelly Ave. this celebration (on the eight-day holiday’s second night) retells the story and includes the ceremonial meal. [email protected].

soFtBALL teAm hosts AnnuAL touRneyapril 12 Half Moon Bay High School is set to host its annual tournament from April 12 through 14. In the three-day tournament, the Cougars, along with the other seven teams, are guaranteed to play four games, though the team and times were not announced as of press time. the games are free. 712-7200.

FoR LAughIng out Loud …april 14 Guff aws aplenty are in store at Blue Blanket Improv’s monthly show at the Ocean View Odd Fellows lodge, 526 Main St., Half Moon Bay. It’s built on short improv sketches based on audience suggestions. doors open at 7 p.m.; the fun starts at 7:30 p.m. www.blueblan-ketimprov.com.

suPPoRt FoR FAmILy memBeRsapril 18 A supportive, safe social space for those with dementia or their loved ones awaits at the Alzheimer Café at the Coastside Adult day Health Center at 645 Correas St. in Half Moon Bay. Come for a cup of coff ee or tea, and socialize in a comfortable atmosphere while experts provide appropriate activities, on the second-to-last Wednesday of each month, from 3 to 5 p.m. drop-ins welcome or rSVP to Sunshine at 726-5067.

FResh FRuIt, veggIes And moRe At the hARBoRapril 22 Browse through fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, honey, fl owers and crafts by local artisans when the Harbor Village Merchants’ Association with the Oceano Hotel and Spa launches a year-round Farmers Market from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Sunday. there’s also entertainment from noon to 2 p.m. and booth space for local nonprofi ts. Outdoors if sun, inside if rain. Har-borvillagemarket.com.

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“Coastside Solar Eichler House”As a marketing consultant, Peter Auditore spent the

better part of 20 years living in hotels. On a recent visit to his El Granada home, Auditore said there was nothing worse than waking up disoriented about which city or continent he was in. About three of four years ago, Audi-tore started renting out the basement room of his home and likewise using the service during his travels. Auditore credits himself as the first Coastsider to start hosting visitors through Airbnb.

American 20th-century architect Joseph Eichler designed the El Granada home. It was once the summer home of the former editor of the Sacramento Bee. Now, the remodeled basement suite has a nautical feel.

Auditore charges $100 for the room. He said Airbnb is indeed work for the host. For the guest, it’s an entirely different experience than staying at a hotel. He men-tioned that people generally stay two or three days, and often they come back.

Auditore has struck up friendships with his guests: When a couple from Australia came for a stay, they brought him a hunk of salmon. Someone named Andrew reviewed “Coastside Solar Eichler House” saying he and Auditore were friends even before he got to his door. “And what a great retreat!” the man said. “High on a hill with a view of the Pacific, quiet (except for the pleasant baritone boom of a fog horn) and serene.”

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�omewhere between a four-star hotel and sleeping on a friend’s

couch is a phenomenon called “Airbnb.” the room rental network, launched

in 2008, describes itself as a “community market-

place for unique spaces.” coastside communities are

among more than 19,000 cities with Airbnb list-ings. the local offerings range from a “seahouse”

near Pillar Point harbor to a turquoise home with an organic garden in the

backyard.summer is the time

when demand peaks. As such, beachside bunga-lows, hillside cottages

and downtown homes are preparing for a summer

season of guests.the Review reached

out to a few Airbnb hosts to find out what it’s like

to open one’s home to a complete stranger.

“The Sea Chalet, Guest Room”Barbara lewicki’s home is a

refuge for Freecycle, “saved” house-plants and an extensive collection of 1950s novelty kitchen tools. the A-frame home in Montara has a vintage-eclectic feel with Hawaiian influences.

Guests rent a master suite upstairs for $145 per night or the guest room for $95. the suite has a canopy bed and a wood-burning stove. the guest room is basically a library with a daybed that converts to a bed for two.

lewicki gets couples, single peo-ple, and once she even had a bridal party rent the space to prepare for a wedding celebration nearby.

“People are better behaved in houses rather than hotels,” lewicki said. A photographer and fire cap-tain, she has spent time in Airbnbs around California. She said the best part of renting out parts of her home is getting positive feedback on what she’s done with the place.

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the only time Jane regan said no to a prospective guest was when a group of college students from Finland wanted to come stay at her home while working on their Burning Man project. Most of the time, though, guests are couples or families with children.

“We really enjoy when the little ones come,” regan said. A grandma through and through, regan keeps a stuffed dog near the stairs in the entryway to her Montara home to distract curi-ous young children who might otherwise make a beeline for the dangerous staircase.

She recalled a time when a couple, their two children and a grandmother and grandfather from Singapore came to stay and the kids taught the grandparents to play foosball.

Nestled up in the Montara hills, Jane regan has welcomed 10 or so parties to the home she and her husband built 12 years ago. An Airrbnb reviewer named richard wrote on the website that regan’s was a “spectacular home” and the regans were “ac-commodating hosts in a breath-taking location.”

regan used to travel for work and, rather than booking hotels, she’d try to find apartments to rent for prolonged stays in foreign cities. Now, she works from home and rents out space in her house for $160 a night in the summer and $140 during the winter. Her rate schedule is different because, she says, the number of parties interested has dropped off almost completely since September. In late January, she said, it started to pick up again.

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t was 1941 and the Coast-side was a very diff erent place when Pa-checo became the youngest Brownie in the troop. It was 1941. America was just entering World War II, and the beach farmland was sprinkled with military radar towers and barracks. the war ef-fort dominated everything, and Pacheco remembered her troop using its outings to play pingpong with soldiers and bake them pastries.

Her troop disbanded two years later — for the fi rst and only time on the Coastside — as a result of the war. By the time the troop had reformed years later, Pacheco felt too old to come back, but she soon rejoined as an organizer when her daughter came of age.

today, after 55 years of leading the Coastside Girl Scouts, the 81-year-old Pacheco says she’s worn every hat in the organization, serving as chair-woman, registrar, bookkeeper and, of course, cookie chief. She’s brought up four daughters and four granddaughters through the Girls Scouts, and they’ve all shared similar experiences singing, learning and camping at the same out-posts on the South Coast.

last month, the Girl Scouts of the united States of America celebrated its 100th anniversary. the group has remained active and popular on the Coastside due to the long-standing work of women like Pacheco. Volunteer lead-ers made the Coastside into a sort of hub for the regional Girl Scouts, where every year about 10,000 girls come to

camp and acquaint themselves with nature.

despite how much has changed in the world, Pacheco and other leaders are amazed at how the Girl Scouts’ themes of service, courage and self-reliance have persevered on the Coastside.

“It’s been the thing to join and become a Girl Scout,” she said. “they still enjoy camp-ing and friendship and good experience for girls. Even though the programming has changed, it’s still a top expe-rience for these girls.”

Her daughters and granddaughters say those lessons played a role in their suc-cess. Pacheco’s youngest daughter, Cindy turgeon, 46, became the fi rst on the Coastside to earn the Gold Award, the top achievement for a Scout. She counts the ways the Scouts infl uenced her.

“It taught me how to be a leader, how to be a good person, to be loyal to my friends,” she said. “It was just so fun being able to give those same lessons to my girls.”

turgeon remembers proudly wear-ing her Girl Scout uniform to school for the afternoon meetings. Her old campfi re songs still get stuck in her head. they are tunes specifi cally penned for the Girl Scouts like, “Make New Friends,” “Girl Scouts together,” “Barg-es,” and “rise up, O Flame.” during her day job as a nurse, sometimes she’ll start singing when a patient needs something to lighten the mood.

“Just to make someone cheer up, I’ll sing an old Girl Scout song — I have enough songs to sing one every day of the year,” she said. “they always get a kick out of that.”

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the Girl Scouts were first organized in 1912 by Juliette Gordon low, a Savannah, Ga., youth leader. She envisioned an organization that would encourage young women to step out of the domestic realm and venture out into the community. From its start, the organization sponsored nature hikes, sports and camping along with service projects to improve the com-munity.

the Scouts grew like wildfire, blossoming to more than 70,000 members after only eight years. today its nationwide membership has more than 2.6 million girls.

Many programs have come and gone over the years. For about 20 years, the Peninsula was home to a special aviation branch, the Wing Scouts, which literally taught teenage girls the basics of flying planes. the program was discontinued in the 1970s after united Airlines indicated it could no longer fund it. A similar offshoot from the Scouts to teach girls nautical skills, the Mariner Scouts, has continued to this day.

the staple fundraiser for the Girl Scouts — the cookie sales — first started in 1917 when a troop of Oklahoma Scouts decided to hold a bake sale. Within a few years, other regional Scout groups had borrowed the idea. Most of the groups initially followed the same sugar cookie recipe, which was later turned over to commercial bakeries in the 1930s as a way to boost production. during the World War II years, the Girl Scouts began selling calendars because cookie sales were stymied when the government began rationing sugar and other ingredients.

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On an afternoon last month, about two dozen girls gathered at the Community united Methodist Church in Half Moon Bay to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts. Girls in uniform shared tea with their mothers while playing rounds of Bingo.

kathee tyson, the current leader of the Coastside Girl Scout troops, notes that the Girl Scouts have changed with the times, but the central message remains intact.

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tyson is sure that the close proximity of the trails gives Coastside girls a special affinity with nature.

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members of the local girl scouts look over some of the many patches of a veteran’s vest during a celebration of the organization’s 100th anniversary at the united methodist church’s social hall on saturday, march 17. Right, members of the local girl scouts, from left, Alyssa Fenach, claire Katzenberger, and mailie Bow-ers. Photos by charlie Russo.

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Stacy Trevenon: I attended your concert the other day at santa cruz, moe’s Alley, and enjoyed the heck out of it.

Pegi Young: Well, shoot, I really want the audience to have a good time, of course. I’m not sure how that translates from me having a good time to them, but obviously, I guess, that is the connection.

ST: tell me a little bit about your evolu-tion, from starting writing and doing music in your teens, then as a backup singer and now a band leader — a very dynamic one, I might add — doing your own music.

PY: um, well, shoot … I’ve always been a writer, and then performing, getting to perform with my husband at the Academy Awards (1994) and then starting the Mountainettes (a female singing group Young formed) after that … It’s all kind of an evolution. Oppor-tunities present themselves and you gotta seize the moment. It’s kind of where I think I am right now.

ST: was it an evolution in terms of going through the journey of life and things you wanted to say?

PY: Well, certainly that, yeah, for sure. My songs are always sort of semi-autobiographical and then they’ve got these other things that go on, but yeah!

ST: do you tend toward more dark elements in your writing or is it just an

uncompromised view of life?PY: Well, I do, I do for some rea-

son, tend toward the more darker side of things … yeah. I think that just is something I’m drawn to. So much of my life is not necessarily in that realm,

so I guess my writing it is something I’m just drawn to … I’m an observer, of life. I always have been. I take stuff in and it ends up comin’ out in my writ-ing. Y’know, my music has really come from within. Everything that I’ve lived, everything that I’ve experienced, it just shapes my music. It just informs it, yeah. You know, it’s just life. It just leads you to write and hopefully make a song out of it.

ST: do you do other kinds of writing besides lyrics?

PY: I do some writing, but generally (it) tries to make (itself) into a song. I’ve written forever.

ST: what brought you to finally emerge?

PY: I think it was one of these oddball moments, where Elliot rob-erts said to me at one of the Bridge concerts, “Peg, I think it’s time for you to make your record!” I was like, “Oooooh, Ok, ahhhhhh …” So I did. And Elliot Mazer came in and he worked with us, and he was a great producer and everything was great. But at the beginning there, I was so shy, I wasn’t even planning to break out any of my own stuff or anything, and then I did, eventually. turns out it was good.

ST: how did it feel for you to be on that path?

PY: It was so scary. It was so scary, and it was just wonderful. I had this great band behind me and it was just amazing. It’s a different band now, be-cause of course (multi-instrumentalist) Ben keith has passed and Anthony Crawford, who was in the band origi-

�egi Young, wife of rocker Neil, is emerging as a vibrant creative artist in her own right. Neil wasn’t in sight on March 12, as she took the intimate stage of Moe’s Alley in Santa Cruz, with fluid, yet solid, backing from her band. the Survivors are guitarist kelvin Holly, harmonica player larry Cragg, bassist rick rosas, keyboardist and rock and roll Hall of Famer Spooner Oldham, and legendary drummer Phil Jones. Young’s blond hair sassily framing her face, her voice flowing from weathered to pierc-ingly sweet, she growled out rock and blues, romped through honky-tonk and country or poured her heart into a driving, semi-auto-biographical number. listeners leaped about the tiny dance floor or erupted in thunderous applause.

Pegi Young grew up in San Mateo and was working as a bartender when she met and married Neil Young 33 years ago. She has also been a backup singer for him. When their son Ben was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, the Youngs found a different way to harmonize by founding the innova-tive Bridge School in 1986, which serves children with severe speech and physical disabilities. In recent years, Pegi Young turned to her own songwriting and musical potential, with a 2007 debut album “Pegi Young,” “Foul deeds” (2010) and “Bracing for Impact” (2011) and more original songs and only a few musical touches contributed by Neil.

Pegi Young kindly sat down and shared tea with review writer Stacy trevenon to talk about her music, the Bridge School — and the Coastside.

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nally, left to go do some of his own stuff. So (guitarist) kelvin Holly came in and he’s just amazing, which is wonderful, and (keyboard-ist) Spooner Oldham is back with us. So we have just a killer band.

ST: where’d the name (survivors) come from?PY: Well, it was basically after Ben died

and then Anthony left the band, and I was like, Ok, you guys, I guess we got the name of our band now, we’re the Survivors. We are, you know, we are left.

ST: vapor Records — is that your label?PY: It’s like a sub, it’s my husband and me

and Elliott, that kind of started this thing, Vapor records, gotta be like 10 years ago. I’m very lucky to be on Vapor records, and I think we’re distributed by Warner Bros., but everything’s so wonky in the record business these days. Yeah.

ST: “Bracing for Impact,” mostly originals; interesting title. what’s behind that?

PY: the cover art is behind that. We were down in Southern California doing some recording and I came up here because my daughter (Amber) was doing part of this art thing. they took over the Phoenix Hotel or

something like that, and all these galleries have these different rooms and they were showing their work. I walked into one of these rooms and I was struck by this art. ... (the artist) was a South African artist, her father was killed in this plane crash when she was 12, and she did this body of work as sort of a catharsis, you know. that’s what I’ve been told, anyway. I saw this piece and I just loved it, right away. to me it looked like this flower, it was so beautiful. And when I got to know more about it and the whole piece, I just thought it was perfect for our record.

ST: It’s a very dynamic cover. when you look at it you can see motion, like with the music.

PY: Yes, and I just think it was so beautiful. Actually, Hannah Johnson shot the cover.

ST: one thing that amazes me is the many genres you just went right through on stage. Rock-ing out to country twang to honky-tonk. And your voice, from growled-out rock to this very sweet tone.

PY: We go across a lot of territory. My voice just has to go where it goes. the songs that I write, some of them just have this, y’know, intonation, some of them have that. You know, the band is so great. We just go

into these places, which is so wonderful. I don’t have a lot of reflective commentary on how my vocal fits into any of that. I think it just fits where it fits. I sing the way I’m gonna sing this song. Yeah.

ST: tell me, from your heart, about your music. PY: Well, it’s just a way to express myself, a

way that I can share. Hopefully, maybe people feel the same way I feel about different things, and so, y’know, (it’s) just a way to connect. If not, then that’s Ok too. I think that’s mostly it, it’s just trying to reach out there and share with people what I’m feeling and if they’re feeling the same way we can have a little con-nection there. that’s good.

ST: “connection” would seem to be a big part of the Bridge school as well.

PY: Well, the Bridge School is just a huge part of my life, so yeah, to any extent we can talk about the Bridge School I’m always happy about that. I like to talk up the Bridge School, www.bridgeschool.org. there’s so much going on there, talking about connection. Every-thing that we’ve done from the beginning days, when we didn’t even know what we were doing, to now, it’s just huge. I’m so grateful for

Pegi young performs with her band — the survivors — at the Fox

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everybody’s participation in it. It’s just wonderful. ST: what are the ages of the children?PY: they are basically from preschool to eighth grade. At that

point, if they’re not ready to leave on other sort of criteria, then they leave because it’s just an age-out thing. that’s what happened with our son Ben. He went off to high school in Half Moon Bay!

ST: Bridge school has a lot of innovative aspects, technology, to equip kids for life.

PY: Well, there is a lot of technology. I wouldn’t say anything is ready to equip somebody for their entire life because technology’s changing and so forth. We try to fit the kid with the device that’s going to enable their participation, going forward. that changes them. It does change over time.

ST: changes them how?PY: It changes just because technology changes. Somehow, the way

you’re gonna use this device may not be the most comfortable or the most applicable to this particular situation. that’s where it changes a little bit ... It’s just been huge. Well, I mean, when you think about, like when we were first starting to look for a school for our son, nothing like that existed, and so now having this place where so many people are able to get a leg up … It’s like you get a chance to be recognized for who you are and then get better on top of that.

ST: I hear you’re working to establish the Bridge school into perpetuity. what’s the status with that?

PY: Yeah, gosh, well, we really want to do that, because we can’t keep doing the shows forever, and there’s always gonna be the need. definitely. We need to ensure the Bridge School into perpetuity. So yeah, we’re kind of calling out to our wealthy friends, help us! ’Cause you know, it’d just be a travesty to have the school go away because we go away. We gotta have some security for its future … the need is always gonna be there. definitely.

ST: how are you going about that?PY: Well, the board of directors, we think about it all the time.

We try to reach out, but right now, I wouldn’t say we’re any further along than we were 10 years ago when we were thinking about this. It’s something we really, really, really have to deal with, though. It’s huge. It’s important. For the Bridge School to not be capable of going on, that would just be wrong.

ST: everybody knows about the Bridge school concerts. hopefully they know about the Bridge school.

PY: I think you’re right. I hope you’re right. But it doesn’t get us to the end of the day, of how do we keep this thing running, because it’s a big ticket. I’m totally behind it, oh, my God. I’d just be devastated if it couldn’t continue on.

ST: how do you feel at this point in your life, emerging as a talent to be reckoned with?

PY: I think it’s kind of lovely (laughs) in its odd way, to be a middle-aged artist. It’s kind of fun. Just do it, and be completely different from what everybody else is doing. I’m totally having fun with it. totally having fun with it! You know — get out there and sing my songs. It’s great!

ST: Is there a feeling of, it’s time?PY: Well, you know, it’s funny. I never really thought about this in

terms of it’s time or not, but now it kind of seems to be, it’s time. It is time. I didn’t really plan this out, it just is what it is. kind of fun.

ST: do (you and neil) work together, do you influence, inspire each other, or do you keep a distance?

PY: Oh, we totally keep a distance. We don’t work together. I think that’s just part of being a writer. You just kind of go into your own space and write. I’ll hear stuff he’s doing and he’ll hear stuff I’m do-ing, and we comment on each other’s work, of course, but … no. We definitely don’t collaborate in that way. We just go into our separate spaces and write, and it’s good … You know, writing is so individual. So personal. It’s really hard to kind of go in there in somebody else’s territory and write and comment on it. All I can do is comment on, like, “that’s a beautiful melody,” “that sounds so pretty” and he’ll say something to me like “Oh, I like your changes on that.” We don’t get into the writing, like the words, the lyrics and stuff. It’s just so personal that we just don’t go there.

ST: how about living in the coastal area? how has that shaped you, musically or personally?

PY: It’s funny, you know when I was a little girl growing up in San Mateo County, I always wanted to live out in the hills. When I was a high school kid, I used to hitchhike out there, and go roll around the

territory. I always just wanted to live there. And so … ultimately when I met Neil, and he had the place there, the ranch, it just kind of ended up being sort of fortuitous, because that’s what I’d always wanted in my mind since I was a young girl.

ST: By the ocean?PY: Yeah. Yeah! I love the ocean, I love being in

the woods, I love gardening and plants and … I just love all of that. So I’m very, very fortunate to have ended up where I kind of always dreamed I would want to be, you know! When I would be with my grandmother, she was very clever, kind of crafty and stuff, she had a beautiful little garden in her back-yard in San Mateo and I was like, Oh, man, Grand-ma, I really want to live in a place where I can have a garden! Yeah!

ST: And your dream came true!PY: Yeah! Yeah, it did, and it was really cool.

ST: I’ve enjoyed reading about your influences.PY: Yeah. Bonnie (raitt), Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Janis (Joplin)

…ST: have you ever tried to be like them, or just had their voices in your

head?PY: I can’t try to be like that. Just hearing them in my head, for

sure, that’s good. A good influence.ST: you and your husband recently were honored at the diamond Awards

(the Peninsula Arts council’s recognition of Bay Area arts. the youngs received a special Recognition).

PY: Oh yeah! Yeah! And (Bridge School Executive director dr.) Vicki (Casella) was there to accept for us. that was so nice. that was beautiful. So nice that they honored us with that.

ST: can you comment on the role that music — your music, or just music — has in our culture?

PY: Yeah! It’s huge! I mean, you just cannot underestimate music and the arts and what role that plays in education. It’s just huge. And the more they are cutting — those are always the first thing that gets cut, the arts, music and everything else. So to be honored for that aspect is really great. I feel really honored to be part of that.

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arquis came across her first pair of roller skates in the garage of a friend’s mother. She begged for the 1980s brown leather disco skates and finally got them. Marquis would go to the Embar-cadero along the San Francisco Bay and skate around, but mostly the skates sat in the back of her closet.

that was before she discovered women’s roller derby.

Marquis, or “dirty li’l trick” as she’s known on the rink, is in her second year playing competitive derby. She’s a key player on the team because she’s the “jammer,” or the point scorer.

Her team, Berkeley resistance, which plays in the Bay Area derby (B.A.d.) Girls league, holds practice three times per week and generally has scrimmages or games over the weekends. this summer the league really ramps up. Berkeley resistance, also known as “the hippie team,” will compete in a W estern regional tournament in Oakland in August.

derby is no joke. the game involves opposing teams racing around a rink trying to accrue points by passing members of the opposite team. roller derby probably trumps other intensive sports like rugby in its injury in-tensity (broken ankles, bone spurs and knocked out teeth) and beats out most other “indie” sports in

its fanfare.But its participants are hardly

who you’d expect. “I had a vision of heavily tat-

tooed and pierced (women),” Marquis said on a recent visit to Wilkinson School. “But there were a lot of teachers and thera-pists.” likewise, she was expect-ing a “late-night crowd” of specta-tors, but the reality is it’s mostly families and older couples who show up to watch.

“It was not what I expected,” she said. Marquis’ theory is that women who have to maintain composure during their workday need an outlet.

How did a local schoolteacher get into this emerging sport? Marquis grew up in Venice Beach. She surfed, swam competitively and taught in a Junior lifeguards Program. After college, she fol-lowed friends to Montara because she liked the beach community and enjoyed mountain biking.

From years instructing kids to swim, Marquis learned she loved to teach. In 2003 she came to Wilkinson School to be the aide in a kindergarten and first-grade class. In about nine years, she worked her way up to lead teacher for second and third grades.

A few years ago Marquis was walking around the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco when she saw a posting on the

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It’s no secret that teachers are some of the hardest working professionals. they often open

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Katie marquis, a second- and third-grade teacher from wilkinson school who moonlights

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“I think I can do it. … My friends tell me I’m tough,” she recalled thinking. Marquis trained about three months before attend-ing a daylong tryout that tested not just her endurance but also her hitting and falling abilities.

She made the team and joined the ranks of players with nicknames like Friskie Meow, Mad M Barbrawl and Slamlet.

roller derby has come a long way since a dramatized version was broadcast on tV in the 1950s and ‘60s. In the early 2000s, roller derby resurged in texas as a women’s sport. When it was first brought back, the intent was to make it a showy production, Marquis explained.

there was a raunchy element to the game, and women would wear fishnet stockings and skimpy shorts. At the 20-minute mark, members of the opposing teams were known to break into a preplanned wrestling match on the ground.

But the hokey, sex-kitten act didn’t stick, and contemporary derby teams have infused the sport with a punk, do-it-yourself aesthet-ic more akin to the third wave of feminism.

“It started out like (World Wrestling Fed-eration) with fake fighting, but now it’s a lot of people fighting to win,” Marquis said.

“You show up and see a 3,000-person crowd and you say, ‘How have I never heard about this?’” Marquis said. She described the scene as “controlled chaos” Spectators fill large stadiums where bands are playing. Sometimes the fans even dress up to match the theme of a favorite team.

She added that roller derby is generally not something that people aspire to get their kids interested in as a sport. However, she’s quick to point out roller derby is the fastest growing underground sport.

leagues have sprouted up around the world, concentrating in South America, Can-ada, Australia, France and the united States. there are about 60 women’s roller derby leagues in California, according to a website called roller derby Worldwide that’s been keeping track of leagues since 2006, when there were only about 50 female leagues worldwide.

“It’s not about makeup and high heels,” she said, adding that most of the women have been on competitive sports teams in the past.

Marquis has shown videos to her students of her competitions. However, she explains with a laugh, the game is so fast that the kids can rarely pinpoint her among all the other women skating around the track.

RuLES Of THE GamEtwo teams of five people skate in the same direction around a track while each team’s designated “jammer,” or the scoring player, tries to lap members of the other team. the jammer gets one point for each person she passes from the opposing team. defensively, the teams try to help their team’s jammer while blocking the other team’s jammer. games last an hour, with each round (or jam) taking about two minutes.

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Katie marquis, center in pink helmet, attempts to skate around a defender during the 2011 Bay Area derby championship match against the Richmond wrecking Belles.


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moRe on the coveR ARtIstPublisher’s note: It was very difficult to choose an image of galen wolf ’s to put on the cover. each has its own distinct charm. It’s fascinating to see the coastside from the 1950s from an artist’s perspective. here is a bit more about the man.

�alen Wolf was born in 1889 in San Francisco, then a city of gaslights, sailing ships, and cobbled streets. As a boy, he often visited his grandparents in Half Moon Bay, walking from the

train depot in San Mateo or hitching a ride on the stage and returning to the city on the following day.

In 1900, he began studying art under the tutelage of Gertrude Boyle, already an acclaimed sculptress and secretary to Joaquin Miller. It was at Miller’s enclave in the Oakland hills that Galen met such luminaries as Jack london, George Sterling, John Muir, and William keith, the revered California landscape painter.

Wolf traveled abroad with his brother, grandmother and aunts in 1905. He spent his 15th year making the grand tour of western Europe and the Mediterranean, sketching and painting daily. He was most impressed and influenced by the work of the Impressionists in France and the ancient frescoes and mosaics he saw in Italy.

As a young man, he gave up his pursuit of art to enter the family

business, but continued to paint plein aire in his 20s and 30s on annual vacations to the Sierras. After a series of business and personal set-backs, he left Stockton and environs, where he had lived for 18 years.

In 1932, Galen settled in a cabin on the family’s ranch in Wolf Canyon, a remote tract of land bordered by Frenchmans Creek. there, until his death in 1976, he sketched and painted the landscape he loved in watercolor, oil and occasional prose. His legacy was a body of work covering more than seven decades, which included series of the California missions, Sierra lakes and peaks, and a Works Progress Administration (WPA) commission that documented the vanishing architecture and landscapes of San Mateo County.

Galen Wolf ’s paintings are in numerous public and private collec-tions. He was a founding member of thirty and One Artists and the Society of Western Artists.

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galen wolf, then 86, painting outside his home and studio on Frenchmans creek Road in 1975. Photo by Robert toren


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tIme to get Busyuntil mid-March anyway, it had been a dry winter. I don’t do supplemental

watering much (except for my pots) until around May or June, and it shows out there! My beautifully pruned roses aren’t showing much growth yet, but rain has been forecast, so here’s hoping for some garden happenings!

Here’s some things you can get busy doing to make it look like spring has sprung: ! Weed eradication! It helps to know what type of weed you’re dealing

with to be able to be the most eff ective. (A weed Id book can help you.) Pull or hoe annual weeds before they set seed. Same goes for biennial and peren-nial weeds, but these need the roots removed also, if you don’t want them to come back.

! Plant food. Fruit, veggies and herbs can all go in now. ! Plant four-inch annuals and perennials if you have empty spots in the

garden. ! Before you plant, get familiar with the orientation of your property to

the sun. Planting a sun-loving plant in a north-facing bed will make for an unhappy plant.

! Make sure your irrigation system (even if it’s you and the hose) are in sync with any rainfall. turn it on if more than a week goes by with no precipitation.

! don’t let all those slimy little slugs and snails eat up your lovely flowers and your yummy vegetables! Either hand pick in the early morning, use cop-per collars around tree and shrub trunks and containers, give them a beer bath or use something like Sluggo or diatomaceous earth.

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�lthough it’s offi cially spring, it’s still scarf-and-glove weather on the coast. the wind

is whipping in the evenings, the air is cold and the temperature drops when you least expect it. My plants are defi nitely perking up and fi lling out the garden, but you can tell the cold and rainless winter has had an eff ect on them.

With winter over, spring is a perfect time to introduce new plants to your garden — and to your daily routine. A favorite of mine is ginger root (Zingiber offi cinale), a quick-growing rhizome in the turmeric and cardamom family. Ginger produces an array of diff erent colored and shaped fl owers, ris-ing from a tall stock, and is a great addition in any coastal garden. they can tolerate our salt wind and even foggy summers, although they will need to be planted in the sunniest spot your garden allows. Ginger thrives in pots and can be planted among perennials such as salvias, heliotrope and gunnera. Not only are they lovely in the garden, but you can pick the over grown, clustered roots and use them for medicinal teas. Ginger is widely used for relief from cold and fl u symptoms and for help with upset stomach and other indigestion issues.

Here is a tea recipe I use often when I feel a cold coming on:

! dig up small ginger root and wash off soil;! Grate 1 teaspoon of root into one cup of

water;! Boil water and ginger mix for fi ve minutes

and drink freely throughout the day and evening. For more info on herbal remedies, please check

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