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COMMUNICATION, SHARED INTERESTS KEY THIS VALENTINE’S DAY

— AND EVERY DAYBy Stacy Trevenon[ stacy@hmbreview.com ]

If you are looking for a little Valentine’s Day wisdom, it’s simple things like shar-ing your heart that make marriage last, say four Coastsiders who ought to know.

Take Ted and Lorraine Schapp of El Granada, who celebrated their 60th an-niversary July 10 at the Moss Beach Dis-tillery, where a romance-minded waiter brought them cake by candlelight.

“You have to be committed to it,” said

Ted Schapp. “A promise is a promise is a promise, I guess.”

Having known each other since inter-mediate and high school and college, the Schapps forged their bond while living in Modesto, Encino and Berlin, where Ted Schapp served as a Presbyterian minis-ter. They have three children, fi ve grand-children and an unoffi cial daughter from Berlin. Ted offi ciated at her marriage to a German man, and their family became part of his. He also has been one of sever-al ministers with the Pescadero Commu-nity Church since 1988.

But marriage is hardly a business prop-osition for them. “We cuddle when we go to bed and kiss in the morning,” said Ted, 83.

“We’ve always taken the time to talk

Love, like good wine, mellows with time

Lars Howlett / Review

Don and Virginia Barnaby of El Granada, both in their 90s, have been through thick and thin dur-ing 40 years together. As Valentine’s Day approaches, the couple says they remain deeply in love.

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Midcoast traffi c changes

inch along

By Greg Thomas[ greg@hmbreview.com ]

On a gloomy February eve-ning, Debbe Kennedy stood in her cozy living room, staring through a picture window to a spot on Highway 1 about 20 feet from her Montara home.

Chains of fast-moving cars periodically pierce the tran-quility outside, and to the un-initiated eye the traffi c scene is one of everyday life on the coast. But for Kennedy, each car that zooms past conjures 17 years of memories of twist-ed metal and fatalities.

“There has become what I would characterize as a lethal cocktail of conditions that have created a tragedy waiting to happen at a number of places on the coast,” she said.

That “cocktail” is a mixture of speeding cars, scattered and misplaced road signage and a complete lack of pedestrian pathways across a three-and-a-half-mile stretch of highway through Montara and Moss Beach. The tragedy Kennedy speaks of has come home in the form of a number of life-al-tering and deadly car accidents over the years.

A 12-year-old boy pedaling across the Moss Beach road-

way one night in December was left in critical condition after being hit by a passing car. Last spring, a Half Moon Bay High School student was killed crossing the highway near Dunes Beach.

“We are in the fi ring line,” Kennedy said. “We watch near-misses happen all the time.”

Kennedy and other con-cerned Midcoast residents point to the lack of crosswalks and ineffective deterrents for speeders as contributors to ac-cidents and close calls alike. For two years, Kennedy has been working to improve the situation, and two weeks ago she won a small victory: a new speed sign and a new stop sign where 14th Street intersects with Highway 1 in Montara.

The signs, however, were supposed to be there all along. Caltrans erroneously moved the “Speed Limit 45” sign

Talk about traffi c safetyWhat: Midcoast Community Coun-cil meeting

When: 7:30 tonight

Where: Seton Medical Center Coast-side, 600 Marine Blvd., Moss Beach

CHP TAKES RENEWED INTEREST IN STRETCH

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Leaky roofs leave Elkus Ranch all wet‘ADOPT-A-SHINGLE’

SEEKS MONEY TO REPAIR BARNS

By Greg Thomas[ greg@hmbreview.com ]

Water leaking through the roofs of the barns at Elkus Ranch has been a problem for ranch managers for several years, but now it threatens to put a damper on op-

erations.“Once the

ewes start hav-ing babies it will become a prob-lem for us,” said Leslie Jensen, program coor-dinator on the ranch, situated in quiet hills a few miles south of Half Moon Bay. About 20 newborn lambs are expected late this month, and the stables where they’d

sleep are in the drip zone.January storms stripped shingles from

the tops of the ranch’s two barns and exac-erbated the leakage problem, prompting a call for help from ranch managers late last month. They started the “Adopt-a-Shingle” campaign to raise money.

“We’ve done patchwork before, but we’ve come to the point where this is eat-ing away at our time and money,” Jensen said.

The shingle-and-plywood roofs are more than 20 years old and will take about $65,000 to repair, Jensen says. The ranch has garnered about $30,000 in grants and donations for roof refur-bishments over the past six months — enough for one of the barns. The remain-der is unaccounted for.

“We’ve put this off for as long as we can put it off. … This is our top priority right now.”

— Leslie Jensen, Elkus Ranch p

rogram coordinator

Lars Howlett / Review

Elkus Ranch manager Leslie Jensen holds buckets used for catching rain water that trickles through the barn’s leaky roof. The ranch, south of Half Moon Bay, is seeking do-nations to repair the roofs of two of its barns.

Good reads for V-day

VOLUNTEERS BEGIN NEW MEDICAL RECORD HANDOUTPHOENIX PROJECT TAKES OVER CLINIC

INVENTORYBy Mark Noack

[ mark@hmbreview.com ]

Local volunteers now have custody of thousands of medical records be-longing to former Coastside Family

Medical Center patients and they want to return those records before August, when they could be legally destroyed.

Organizers from the local Phoenix Project nonprofi t received a judicial order last week allowing them to take control of about 34,000 patient medi-cal charts left by the former clinic.

Local volunteers have been seek-ing a way to get medical records back to patients since the Coastside clinic

closed down last March. “Finally, after all these months, we

have guardianship,” said Dr. Grant Weiss, director of the Phoenix Proj-ect. “Absolutely the most important thing now is to get the word out to the community.”

What to do with the inventory of medical records has been the most pressing question in the bankruptcy

Your medical recordsFormer patients of the Coastside Family Medical Center can retrieve their

medical records by contacting the Phoenix Project at ombudsman@hmb-phoenix.org. You can request your records by providing name and birthdate. Once the request is made, volunteers will pull a patient’s record and have it ready for pickup from 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., and 1:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Satur-days and Sundays at Purisima Family Medicine at 575 Kelly Ave.

Patients need to provide some form of legal identifi cation to obtain their records. More information can be found at hmbphoenix.org.

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