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Dave Alley

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) – The building that once housed the iconic F. McLintocks Saloon and Dining House in Shell Beach has new ownership after a foreclosure auction was held Tuesday morning.

The legal proceeding took place in the breezeway at the Katcho Achadjian San Luis Obispo County Government Center where it attracted a couple dozen people in a gathering was said to be much larger in size for a real estate auction.

Shortly after 11 a.m., auctioneer Mike Bixler announced an opening bid amount of $2,430,525.26, which officially opened the process for anyone to make an offer.

However, after just a few moments, no bidder came forward, so Bixler announced the property would be awarded to the holder of the first deed of trust.

“The property was foreclosed upon by the the group that had the first loan on the property,” Pat Palangi, Principal with Pacifica Commercial Realty Principal, who marked the property with McLintocks owner Toney Breault. “They were unpaid and they exercised their rights to foreclose on the property.”

The foreclosure comes about two months after its Breault was found dead in his place of residence in downtown San Luis Obispo.

Following his death, the foreclosure process began on the iconic property that was once the home of was arguably the most famous restaurant in San Luis Obispo County.

For more than 50 years, McLintocks was renowned for its lively atmosphere, extensive collection of cowboy memorabilia, and legendary oak pit barbecue steaks and seafood.

At one time during its heyday, McLintocks ranked as one of the most profitable restaurants in the United States and later helped create a chain of smaller similar restaurants in Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles.

Now, the Shell Beach property is owned by the trust holder, who will now decide on the next steps for the high-profile two-acre site that includes the 14,000 square foot commercial building.

“The new owners will decide how to market the property or likely put it back on the market,” said Palangi. “I expect that the property will be back advertised on the market in the short term.”

Palangi expressed surprise that one no one put in a bid on the property, but speculated several complexities likely raised too many question marks.

“There were indications that some people would (bid),” said Palangi. “But there’s risk in buying something completely as is on the courthouse steps. You don’t have the normal protections of a normal transaction with title insurance and ability to fully investigate the property and look at the condition and do all of your buyer assessments.”

At the time of his death, Breault also owned three other San Luis Obispo businesses, the smaller McLintocks Saloon and Grill and Buffalo Pub and Grills on Higuera Street and Frank’s Famous Hot Dogs on Monterey Street.

Tuesday’s auction was only for the Shell Beach property and does not include the other three San Luis Obispo businesses.

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Jarrod Zinn

SANTA MARIA / ORCUTT, Calif. (KEYT) – A trauma surgeon in Santa Maria says brain injuries resulting from incidents with electric bikes are on the rise.

Wearing a helmet is the primary safety recommendation, but experts say there’s more to it.

Several new laws went into effect this year, but the rise in e-bike popularity is outpacing the adaptation of legislation.

At Marian Regional Medical Center’s Level II Trauma Center, Dr. Claire Collison says the increase of these injuries is tangible here on the central coast.

“Nationally, it’s almost 50 fold increase in the last like five years,” says Dr. Collison.

There was a surge in holiday purchases of e-bikes and electric motorcycles (e-motos) last year, right before the new laws went into effect.

“What started as a small percentage of our business is now a pretty, commanding portion of our business,” says Scott Clark, owner of Main Street Cycles in Santa Maria.

Some are concerned parents may have purchased what they thought were e-bikes when they were in fact e-motos.

“You can get on the CHP website and look at the e-bike sites,” says Joshua Thomas, a motorcycle officer for Santa Maria CHP. “We have tons of information for riders safety wise, as well as the requirements for an electric bike and what’s not an electric bike, and is considered an electric motorcycle or motor vehicle.”

To determine an e-bike’s legal classification, the key differences to be aware of are the presence of pedals, as well as the bike’s speed capabilities and power capacity.

“They aren’t just bikes,” says Dr. Collison. “They are almost like motorcycles. And when I see kids out there, as a trauma surgeon, I just worry for them and I, I don’t want to see them at my hospital.”

E-bikes have pedals and they max out between 25-30 miles per hour, while e-motos have no pedals and can reach highway speeds.

E-motos are strictly banned from sidewalks.

“Anything without operable pedals and a motor more than 750 is an electric motorcycle and requires that the rider be licensed, the vehicle be registered, insured, and all the proper lighting,” says officer Thomas.

Wearing helmets is required by law for kids under 18, but experts recommend wearing them for all ages when operating an e-bike or e-moto.

According to the new California laws, parents can be held liable and fined for their children’s infractions, such as using unlawful models or riding without a helmet.

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John Palminteri

CARPINTERIA, Calif. (KEYT) – An aging oil facility is coming down in Carpinteria and some residents nearby are hearing all about it.

The demolition going on behind city hall has a booming sound when the metal tank is worked on.

The oil tank dates back several decades when it was part of the oil processing taking place on the Carpinteria coastline.The work underway now is to decommission the facilities.

It’s a site once owned by Venoco but taken back by Chevron during Venoco’s bankruptcy. Chevron is removing the entire oil and gas plant.

It is still to be determined how the ocean front land will be used by the city going forward.

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – It was a good day to be a Royal.

San Marcos High School student-athletes Lucy Dessert and Andy Keenan received Athlete of the Week honors at the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table luncheon at Harry’s.

Dessert pitched two complete-games as the junior led the Royals softball team to two Channel League wins over Ventura.

In 14 innings Dessert only allowed 3 earned runs, striking out 13 batters and did not issue any walks.

Keenan led San Marcos boys golf to wins over Buena and Valencia as he fired back-to-back rounds of four-under- par.

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Mike Klan

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) – Cal Poly’s 10-game winning streak featuring a pair of three-game Big West series sweeps, an 8-0 start to conference play, a .352 team batting average, 85 runs and 129 hits (including 51 for extra bases) came to an end Monday in an 8-2 loss to UC Davis at Baggett Stadium.

The loss dropped Coach Larry Lee’s Mustangs to 14-8 for the season and 8-1 in the Big West, still ahead of UC San Diego (5-1) and four teams, including UC Davis, tied for third place at 5-4. Cal Poly still won the series against the Aggies, two games to one.

Nine of Cal Poly’s 14 wins so far this season have been in come-from-behind fashion. On Monday, however, there were no answers as the Mustang bats were held to just two runs and five hits while UC Davis shattered a 2-2 tie with back-to-back three-run rallies in the seventh and eighth frames.

UC Davis, just 3-29 in games against Cal Poly at Baggett Stadium entering Monday’s game, earned its first win over the Mustangs in San Luis Obispo since the 2018 season, snapping an eight-game losing streak. Aggie head coach Tommy Nicholson notched his first win over Cal Poly in nine tries at Baggett Stadium and is 3-12 overall versus the Mustangs.

The Aggie victory featured a 13-hit offensive attack and five pitchers who combined on the five-hitter. Peter Storjohann (2-0) secured two outs, both strikeouts, and was the pitcher of record when UC Davis erupted for three runs in the seventh on a safety squeeze bunt laid down by Zach Story and a two-run triple by Tyler Howard.

The Aggies (10-11) pulled away with three more runs in the eighth on Story’s second safety squeeze bunt and a two-run double by Korey Williams.

Mustang starter Carson Turnquist did not allow a hit in 4 2/3 scoreless innings before giving up the first UC Davis hit and single runs in both the fifth and sixth frames. Lefty Josh Morano (3-1) suffered the loss as he allowed the tiebreaking run in the seventh.

Cal Poly scored first on a bases-loaded sacrifice fly by Ryan Tayman in the opening frame. After UC Davis scored single runs in the fifth and sixth innings, the Mustangs knotted the score at 2-2 in the bottom of the sixth on Dante Vachini’s sacrifice fly, also with the bases loaded.

Both Casey Murray Jr. and Cam Hoiland extended their hitting streaks in the sixth. Murray singled to stretch his streak to 12 games while Hoiland doubled to increase his streak to 10 contests.

For the series, second baseman Alejandro Garza was 8-for-12 at the plate with four RBIs while Hoiland was 6-for-12, Murray 5-for-12 with four RBIs and third baseman Gavin Spiridonoff 5-for-13.

Center fielder and Santa Barbara High School alum Kai Mault led the Aggies at the plate with a single, double and triple. Right fielder Tyler Howard contributed a double and triple for two RBIs while Story and Williams both had two hits and a pair of RBIs as well.

Cal Poly ended a seven-game home stand with the loss and will hit the road for its next five contests. The Mustangs visit Loyola Marymount on Wednesday night and play a three-game Big West series Friday through Sunday at UC Riverside.

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Caleb Nguyen

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Fire crews tackled a house fire just before 7:00 p.m. in Santa Barbara on Monday at the 1600 block of Overlook Lane.

Your News Channel arrived at the home and noticed heavy smoke coming from inside before fire crews arrived.

The Santa Barbara City Fire Department mentioned no injuries from the fire and received help from several ambulances and a utlility truck in the response.

More information on the house fire will be provided as it becomes available to Your News Channel.

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Caleb Nguyen

LOS ALAMOS, Calif. (KEYT) – A man identified by authorities Tuesday as Derrick Silvano Wright died after a car hit him near Alisos Canyon just after 2:00 a.m. Saturday, just outside of Los Alamos on the 101 freeway, according to the Santa Maria CHP.

CHP officers found the 37-year-old man originally from Huey Town, Alabama, and living in Santa Maria as a pedestrian in the crash and pronounced him dead at the scene.

Preliminary investigation indicates that Wright walked in the northbound lanes of the freeway when hit by the car. The circumstances leading up to the crash remain under investigation, according to the CHP.

Anyone who saw the crash who wasn’t already contacted by CHP are asked to call the CHP Santa Maria office with further details at the following number.

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Caleb Nguyen

CARPINTERIA, Calif. (KEYT) – Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office deputies investigated a package explosion at the Carpinteria UPS store just after 2:30 p.m. Monday.

SBCSO deputies evacuated all nearby businesses and advised citizens to avoid the area from Taco Grande to the Goodwill.

The SBCSO later confirmed the explosion as a fire extinguisher inside a package before 5:00 p.m. and reported no injuries from the incident.

“The call came as an explosion inside the UPS store where there was powder emitting from a package, so we approached it with caution, we had our bomb squad come out and they were able to confirm what the package was, said Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Raquel Zick,” It was a fire extinguisher.”

About four employees and seven customers were inside the UPS store when the explosion happened.

Employees returned to work after 5 p.m. but told customers to come back in the morning.

One said they train every six months on how to handle hazardous materials and that training came in handy on Monday.

Your News Channel will have reaction to what happened at Casitas Plaza in Carpinteria tonight on the news

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Dave Alley

LOPEZ LAKE, Calif. (KEYT) – The body of the person who went missing late Sunday afternoon in the water at Lopez Lake was found early Monday afternoon.

Around noon, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office Underwater Search and Recovery (Dive Team) located the victim in the area where the Arroyo Grande Arm of the lake connects with the Wittenburg Arm.

The Sheriff’s Office has identified as the victim as 25-year-old Sergio MendiolaGarcia of Santa Maria.

According to Sheriff’s Office, MendiolaGarcia was swimming in the lake when he became distressed and appeared to be drowning before he went underwater.

Family members tried to locate him in the water, but were unsuccessful and soon called 911.

The San Luis Obispo County Fire Department responded and was joined by other local emergency responders, who mobilized an extensive search of the water and land utilization boats, jet skis, drones, paddle boards and rescue swimmers.

The search resumed earlier today and concluded just before noon when the body of MendiolaGarcia was found by underwater by the Sheriff’s dive team.

While the search was ongoing, San Luis Obispo County Parks, which operates the lake and entire recreational area, closed off the water to boating.

All other activities at the lake, such as camping, onshore fishing and other day uses remained open.

With the search now complete, the lake is once again open to all visitors for full use.

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John Palminteri

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – With a stronghold on Mexico and the Southwest, U.S. agave growers are coming to the Santa Barbara County coast.

At an annual symposium they talked about increasing farm lands that could result in thousands of new plants.

The California Agave Council President Stuart Woolfe said at the all day event, “we have a little bit of everything. We’re trying to create a tent that we can all, operate under.” The symposium was at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort.

Many vendors were on site too.

Already, there’s agricultural land changes taking place on properties in Santa Barbara and Montecito.

At one ranch above San Roque, one farmer Mark Hannah said, “we planted a thousand there. They’ve been doing well. They’re loving the climate.”

Carpinteria is expected to be part of this trend too as it looks at alternatives from the traditional crops there including avocados or the most recent phase with cannabis..

All day seminars will include information about the plants growth in popularity, distilling, marketing and land uses.

“This is a crop that represents something new and different. And it it’s a climate resilient crop in California ,” said Woolfe.

Andrew Caspary is the owner of Ventura Spirits. He said, “quality is going to be very important.

And this isn’t just about pumping out a commodity. Be protective over the reputation of this industry and these products as we grow them. ” He also believes the demand in the U.S is strong and growing. “It’s going to be a dance where we figure out, which products, at which price points and you know, which brands represent. I think the growers and everybody participating is trying to convey that.”

Some of the growers toured local properties Sunday prior to the sessions and enjoyed tequila tastings.

(More details, video and photos will be added here later today.)

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