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Sorority holds vigil after member's death
Good morning. It’s Thursday, and I’m casting my vote for the greatest Golden State Warriors jersey of all time. Onto the five Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and California stories you need to know for today.
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The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority held a vigil on Tuesday night to honor member Christina DeChalk, who died last week. Members of KKG and the Cal Poly community gathered at Avila Beach to watch the sunset together and remember DeChalk’s life. She was a third year computer science major. She was the second member of KKG to die within a year, after its president died from a brain aneurysm last February. Cause of death has not been released.
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You might want to hold off on taking a dip in the ocean for the next couple of days. SLO County officials issued a public health advisory warning swimmers and surfers to avoid the water following the heavy rain and flooding yesterday. Bacteria and viruses tend to saturate the coast after storms, especially in areas near creeks, river mouths or storm drains where runoff collects. Health experts say these can cause a host of problems, from skin irritation to respiratory and intestinal issues. Some 72 hours after the storm the water should be clear.
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Shein, Temu and other fast fashion brands from China just got slapped with a 10% tariff courtesy of President Trump. For decades, an exemption allowed low-cost imports to avoid tariffs altogether, allowing a booming industry of cheap products circulating to American consumers. But under Trump’s new trade initiative, all products and companies will face the music. Those prices may not justify the ultra-fast fashion vortex anymore. “It takes a little bit of their competitive edge away,” one retail analyst said.
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PG&E uses an AI model to predict where power might go out during a storm. Crews are then placed accordingly to have the fastest response time to potential issues. The model combines past data of wind speeds, tree downings and a host of other typical causes of outages to tell if an area is at risk under the current conditions. Residents of SLO County said they are generally supportive of the use of AI in this case. “Hopefully the prediction system is accurate and that's the only thing you can really hope for,” one resident said.
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At 9 a.m. sharp, shoppers at San Francisco’s Costco are set free to descend upon the egg section. Costco was possibly the only store that doesn’t have a limit on the number of cartons shoppers can buy, at least at first. Tuesday was the first time managers were told to cap customers at three containers by midday. Hence the early rush. And hence the woman reporters saw stacking 14 five-dozen cartons into her cart (That’s 840 eggs).