Border Patrol no longer attending career fair today

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Carly Heltzel
October 22, 2025

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, and I’m reading about Oregon’s Giant Pumpkin Regatta in which participants paddle downstream in a carved out squash. Onto the five Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and California stories you need to know for today.

1.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection will no longer be recruiting at Cal Poly’s career fair today because of the federal government shutdown. Students and faculty had planned protests outside the event, and it’s unclear if they will still take place. Over 1,500 people signed a petition against CBP’s recruiting. Federal workers will go without pay until Congress passes a spending bill, and the shutdown is on track to become the longest in history. 

2.

SLO County Board of Supervisors approved a regional housing incentive program that uses “points” to incentivize developers to build affordable units and pay into the county’s affordable housing fund. The county expects to make $450,000 per year from the new program, which is only about a third of the money needed to close the housing funding gap. Supervisors said its a first step, not a solution. “It is one of the tools in the toolbox,” one supervisor said.

3.

A 9-year-old girl went missing from Vandenberg Village a week ago, and authorities haven’t been able to make contact with her mother, who is still at the house. Neighbors are filming any time they see her mother leave the house to show to law enforcement. The week-long search, triggered by the girl’s prolonged absence in school, is now extended out to Nebraska. Now, the FBI is involved to perform electronic forensics and gain easier access to cell phone data. 

4.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said sending national guard troops into the city “will do nothing” to make it safer or help with the city’s drug crisis. SF has worked with federal agencies in the past and welcomes assistance from specific law enforcement agencies to target niche operations and support larger scale drug busts, but the military is not welcome in the city for support. 

5.

At Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka, a young, wild black bear broke in to say hi to three bears of the same species held in captivity. Employees said the bear was playing with the toys and interacting with the others through the fence, seeming “polite.” Staff got the wild bear to exit the zoo without any harm, and they still have no clue how it managed to get in in the first place. “We think he was just looking for a friend, though maybe that’s anthropomorphizing, of course,” the zoo’s director said.