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Must love opera. Pacific Repertory Opera is looking for an executive director; ability to sing not required. The local opera company also has a new sponsor for the 2009-10 season. KCBX joins the chorus with Vina Robles and Blakeslee & Blakeslee. Season starts Oct. 16 with Pirates of Penzance … Need help texting? Companies of all sizes are signing up with eNowIt for mobile alerts, coupons, contests, polling and Web-based software. Developers are based on SLO. Chuck Hill heads up sales out of Paso Robles … New doc in town. SLO native Chris Holland, son of Cal Poly Biology Department Chair V.L. Holland, has returned home from Sacto to join Dr. Trees Ritter in practice. An infectious disease specialist, Dr. Holland earned his M.D. and completed his internship and residency at UC Irvine and completed a fellowship at UC Davis … Pop rocks. For the first time ever, a rock band will join the SLO Symphony for a set at the annual Labor Day Weekend Pops By the Sea concert Sept. 6., in Avila Beach. The Damon Castillo Band will play “All I Know,” “Surrender,” “Encore” and more with full orchestra accompaniment … Aw, shoot. Hee Haw’s Shootin’ Gallery, the Mid-State Fair’s newest game on the Midway, is a big hit. Dreamed up by Ron Daniels, owner of the Daniels Wood Land tree house company in Paso, the laser gun shooting range has pop-up critters and cans, a bathtub of jumping fish, talking truck, crazy crow and other animatronics.
In June,
More than $90,000 was raised July 18-19 at the 




