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LOMPOC RECORD Sunday, March 7, 2004 A3 Central CoastCalifornia DSHD Same-sex marriage battle may end up in high court San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera answers questions about same-sex marriages during a news conference at City Hall in San Francisco Friday. Responding to efforts by the state attorney general and a Christian public interest law firm to invalidate the 3,632 same-sex marriages that have been sanctioned during the last three weeks, Herrera filed briefs arguing that municipal authorities are "independently responsible" to uphold the U.S. Constitution. Elementary lunch menu MiidTiirkfy and cheese soft taco, lettuce and tomato cup, or fruit cup. i Tuesday? Spinach and ricotta calzonei lettuce carrots and cab-lage salad, choice of fresh fruit.

i Wednesday: Beef and cheddar taco salad, chips and salsa, yogurt cup, corn muffin. Thursday: Grilled chicken patty sandwich, coleslaw cup, petite Friday: Bagel sandwich, baby carrot sticks, sliced pink lady apples. i i Student lunches include milk and bread sticks and fruit juice. lunch menu 1 I Monday: Turkey and cheddar soft taco or fish taco or tortilla Jcrisp fish sticks and soft bread stick. I Tuesday: Tuna sandwich or cheese pizza.

Wednesday: Turkey ham and cheese on a French roll or a 'bean and cheese Thursday: Chefs salad, pickle and tomato wedge, cherry choice of dressing. -(, i Friday: tMnch bagel sandwich or a' chicken sandwich. Student lunches include milk, wheat roll, salad cup or vegetable 'sticks, yogurt, fruit juice and choice of fresh fruit or fruit cup. i Senior nutrition menu Monday: Pork ribette with barbecue sauce, stuffing, corn on the cob, coleslaw, pie. Tuesday: Turkey cheeseburger, burger sides, oven fries, blueberries, vanilla pudding.

Wednesday; Chicken posole, pinto beans, shredded cabbage, radishes and lemon, tortillas, melon. Thursday: Chef salad with turkey and Swiss cheese, Romaine lettuce, chicken noodle soup, fresh fruit, crackers. Friday: Fish sticks, brown rice, baked banana squash, berry rmix. Senior nutrition meals are served from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday at the Lompoc Valley Community Center -at 1501 East Ocean Ave. Reservations must be made by 1 p.m. the previous day. I For information and reservations, call 737-9366. Parent orientation set The Lompoc High School 8th Grade Parent Orientation will be held at 7 p.m.

Monday, March 8, in the Lompoc High School cafeteria. Parents of 8th-grade students who will attend Lompoc High I School in the fall are invited to attend and students whose parents attend the orientation will receive priority registration for elec-tives. LCT presents Lompoc Civic Theatre presents "The Town Meeting" at 7 p.m. Fridays, March 12, April 9 and 30, at the Alpha Club. This dinner theater production is a political satire where the audience "elects" our next president.

Reservations are required three days in advance and tickets are $25 per person. LCT will also hold auditions for its next production, "BINGO. Spells Murder," on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 16-17. For more information, call 735-2281. Tip-a-Realtor planned The "Realtors for Life" Relay for Life team holds Tip-a-Realtor night on Wednesday, March 10, at the Jetty Restaurant.

Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society. Nonprofit organization announces new number The state Supreme Court had ordered the city to respond to a pair of petitions asking for a prompt judicial declaration on the legality of the same-sex marriages, but the justices have not indicated when they might rule in the. case. Justices could act on the petitions already filed, schedule a future hearing on the issues, or send the matter to a lower court for trial. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Attorneys for the city of San Francisco are ready to take their fight over gay marriage all the way to the U.S.

Supreme Court. Arguing that municipal authorities are "independently responsible" to uphold the U.S. Constitution, city attorneys increased the chance that the i nation's highest court would be needed to decide the legality of San Francisco's same-sex mar riages. In documents filed with the California Supreme Court, the city's attorneys said that noth-, ing In the state constitution requires local officials to obey laws they believe infringe on the civil rights of their citizens. The filing was a response to efforts by the state attorney generjal and a Christian public interest law firm to invalidate the 3,632 same-sex marriages that have been sanctioned in San Francisco during the last three weeks.

"Their rush to force immediate obeisance to discrimina-' tory marriage laws asks this court to ignore our decentralized, federalist constitutional democracy," City Attorney Dennis Herrera wrote in defense of the city's defiance; "Barring local governments from taking independent actions to conform their conduct to the state and federal constitutions would undermine this system of government." Herrera said later that by invoking the federal constitution, his staff had assured that the case would "potentially, certainly" wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court if the California court rules against the city. Will Harris Services for Willie M. "Will" Harris, U.S.A.F. 82, of Vandenberg Village, will be at 11 a.m.

Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at the First Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Dr. Judith Rarick officiating. Burial follows at Lompoc Cemetery with military honors from Vandenberg Air Harris Force Will was bom in Merryville, on April 11, 1921, to Marvin and Leila Rowell Harris and was raised and educated in Houston, Texas. He served his country for 30 years, including service during World War II, Korean War and the Vietnam War, retiring as a colonel in 1970 from Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.

A command pilot, he had earned two master's degrees during his military career, one in Business Administration and the other in Public Administration. Previously assigned to Vandenberg in 1 968, he returned here soon after his retirement to make Lompoc his permanent home. Obituaries "This is a no-brainer it's an open-and-shut, case," said Randy Thomasson, the executive director of the Campaign for California Families, one of the conservative groups trying to halt the weddings. "The state Supreme Court should have no problem putting a restraining order San Francisco has been breaking the law and turning marriage upside down for more include his wife of 1 3 years, Doris; daughter, Diane E. Harris, of El Centro, sons, Marvin (Karen) Bryant, of Miami, Karl (Jeannie) Harris, of Santa Barbara; David (Kay) Harris, of Fresno, Clifford (Lynn) Lenert, of Kemah, Texas, and Troy (Sharon) Lenert, of Spring, Texas; sisters, Alice Sanders and Barbara Wright, both of Houston, Texas; brothers, Raymond (Billie) Harris, of Brenam, Texas, James (Lou Ann) Harris, of Oklahoma City, and Rev.

Baron (Iris) Harris, of Whitney, Texas; six fST. AP PHOTO than three weeks now. People are tired of this. The system of law is tired of it too." Attorney General Bill Lockyer and the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund, who are trying to stop the weddings, argue that an existing section of the California constitution prohibits "administrative agencies" of the state from declaring laws unconstitutional on their own. grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife, Marjorie, in 1989. Visitations are Monday from 4 to 7 p.m. at Starbuck-Lind Mortuary. Memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church, 1600 Berkeley Drive, Lompoc 93436. This is a paid advertising feature offered by the Lompoc Record.

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No coupon needed. By The Record Staff VTC Enterprises, a nonprof-, it organization serving people with disabilities, has announced a new telephone number for its main office in Santa Maria. The new number 928-5000 was the home phone of a former employee and volunteer who died recently at the age of 82. Carolyn "Carrie" Wilson, a 15-year former employee and volunteer arranged to transfer her number to VTC so its clients many of whom can't read or write would have an A Ft 800.262.4488 www.coasthills.coop He retained his memberships in San Antonio in the Lonnie Irvin Daylight Lodge 1309 A.F. A.M., National Sojourners Andres Chapter 446 and The Philalethes Society.

Locally, he was a member and Elder at the First Presbyterian Church. Through the years he enjoyed golf, bowling and playing guitar, piano and organ, which he learned to play at the age of 52. Will was also an avid reader seeking knowledge of all kinds and sharing that knowledge by helping his neighbors and friends who looked to him as a problem solver. He died suddenly at home on Thursday, March 4, 2004. Survivors (and spouses) 'BIRTHDAYU l' TO US' ffrnm -V -A.

Ill IMMU '1 UIDDV IAIT1 RTHDAY TO US! from 1 I ft.) i fat', I ft i fat March 7, 2004 Waunita Brown Submh March birthyN A Coas-tfHlsr SCOTCH DOUBLES POOL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION ALL INTERESTED POOL PLAYERS 21 YEARS AND OVER SPONSORS BAR MANAGERS OR OWNERS PLEASE ATTEND MEETING SUNDAY, MARCH 14 2PM YOUR PLACE OR MINE 127: SO. ST. IN OLD TOWN LOMPOC 735-1677 9 BALL MIXED SCOTCH DOUBLES LEAGUE BEGINS SUNDAY, MARCH 21 2PM easy number to remember or to call in case of an emergency. Wilson worked with the organization's most severely developmentally disabled clients during her employment at VTC. VTC Enterprises helps teach people with disabilities skills that enable them to live and work in their community as independently as possible.

It serves more than 375 Central Coast residents. The new phone number will be effective March 12. Its cur- rent phone number is 922-7381. I 10 805.733.7600 205 North Suite 101 Lompoc 735-3611 f'' Ml. JXSfcM Rich Macke General Manager Donna Dimock toiness Office Manager Stockton Editor TonlBurkhammerCraafcnr.

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Sundays 7:30 to 10 a.m, 737-9024 or e-mail: tburkhammerpulitzer.net Q. Why shouldn't I just pull out the tooth and save the money? A. You could! It would, however, be bad for your dental health. While pulling a tooth is generally less expensive in the short term, it is more" expensive in the long run to return your mouth to health. Ask yourself this question -What other body part would you remove rather than treat? A finger? A foot? An eye? Would you survive the loss of any of these? Yes, but it would be a significant backward step.

It Is the same with the loss of a tooth. Make the effort save the tooth you'll be glad you did. For more We would like to thank Dr. Rollin C. Bailey, the Lompoc Hospital emergency room and critical care personnel, Pastor Garth Blake of the First Christian Church, and Mr.

Patrick A. Lind pf Starbuck-Lind Mortuary for their compassionate and loving care during and after his final days. We would also like to thank our friends and his golf buddies for all of the love and sympathy they have shown us in our time of loss. Published Monday through Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings at the Santa Maria Times building, 3200 Skyway Drive, Santa Maria, California. Entered as 'Periodicals' In the post office at Lompoc, California, 93438, under act of Congress.

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