Club athletes report minimal post-Fratty's field damage

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Carly Heltzel
April 07, 2026

Good morning. It’s Monday, and I’m reading about the record a Cal Poly grad just set on his journey around the moon. Onto the five Cal Poly, SLO and California stories you need to know for today.

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Club athletes were pleasantly surprise when they returned to practice on the same fields used for Cal Poly’s Morning on the Green festival and found minimal damage. Last year, prior rain made the fields more vulnerable, the university used sand and hay to stabilize the grass and efforts to pick up trash were not enough. Even though it was better this year, the ultimate frisbee and rugby teams would still rather the university use a turf field.

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An immigration task force is recommending the SLO County Board of Supervisors set aside $100,000 to support children of immigrants and presented a few ways the county could limit the reign of ICE through policy. One proposal was limiting access to public buildings for everyone, such as restricting any visitors from going past the lobby of SLO County jail. Another would attempt to limit ICE from setting up operations in public parks. “The counties can only push back to a limited extent,” one law professor said.

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The rumors are true: you can indeed get fined for overfilling your garbage cans in SLO. In fact, if your lid can’t close or you have a trash bag outside of your can, the truck driver won’t empty your trash and you’ll get fined $12.19 for each offense. Don’t even think about leaving cardboard boxes on the side of your recycling bin or it’ll be $14.34 down the drain. And if you mix garbage into your recycling bin, or God forbid an aluminum can gets it your compost, that’ll be $13.36.

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Immigrant truck drivers who lost their commercial drivers licenses from a Trump administration policy are in legal limbo. A judge ruled the state must give the truck drivers the chance to restore their licenses, but the DMV has yet to reinstate a single one of the 13,000 that were revoked. In the meantime, they can’t work, leaving thousands unemployed and potentially driving up shipping costs. Up to 61,000 truck drivers may soon lose their licenses, roughly 5-10% of licenseholders in California. 

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Celebrity bald eagles Jackie and Shadow just had their chicks for the season, as viewed on a popular Youtube livestream of their 6-foot deep nest in Big Bear. The eaglets were aptly named named Chick 1 and Chick 2, but an intensive selection process in Big Bear’s third grade classroom will ultimately give them their names. The chicks can’t see very well yet and are currently “bonking” against each other in the nest.