Children can improve their reading skills by reading to a trained therapy dog. Do you know a reluctant reader? Studies show children who are reluctant to read in front of peers are much less anxious with an animal present. Children don't perceive animals to be judgmental; mere animal presence helps them become more confident readers. Pet Assisted Therapy teams and their handlers are from the Peninsula Humane Society & the SPCA’s Paws for Tales program.
Please note that the Humane Society requires a signed release form for each time a child reads. Please make sure Mom or Dad accompany the child.
Dave Crimmen has being playing music for as long as he can remember. Crimmen plays rockability, surf rock, doo-wop, and classic rock in his repertoire of over 300 songs. You can check out his music on his website at DaveCrimmen.com
He has booked over 250 shows in 2015 and has plenty of more to come in 2016. He's excited to come play at the Bruce Latimer Show.
Along with his stint at the symphony, Mike Foley's performed with scores of players in a multitude of genres from Gene Clark of the Byrds to Rock and Blues luminaries Mark Naftalin, Martin Fierro and Terry Haggerty as well as opening shows for acts as diverse as the Greenbriar Boys, Eddie Money, Johnny Paycheck, George Strait, and Jessie Colin Young. He recently performed as “The Foley Boys”, a folk duo with his brother, former Byrds alum John York, at the West Fest in Golden Gate Park.
The enigmatic Foley is one of those musicians who doesn't fit easily into a box. “I don't have a favorite kind of music. It's all about the songs for me, it doesn't matter where they come from.”
A Foley Boys CD with brother John is in the works and a complete discography including recordings by Life on Earth will soon be available on the internet atMichaelFoleyMusic.com and live performances can be seen on his You Tube Page.
Watch it LIVE May 18 at 9 PM On Ch 26/27 Coastside & Streaming Worldwide on www.PacificCoast.TV
Coast Life is back once again with new hosts Tiayrah Lacy and Andrea Wilson! In this episode, Tiayrah and Andrea explore the coastside and all the things it has to offer. Andrea and Tiayrah went shopping on Main St. in Half Moon Bay and found some of their favorite shops plus learn about Pickleball and what you can do to be an Earth Day hero!
The episode premiere is THIS WEDNESDAY May 18 at 10 PM only on Pacific Coast TV, Comcast Channel 26/27 Half Moon Bay and Coastside. You can watch the episode on our VIDEO ON DEMAND server and YOUTUBE as well.
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Below is the information for all the shops and activities featured in this episode.
ODDYSSEA
Oddyssea is an interactive retail shop and outdoor garden focused on science, nature, and art products and experiences. The best way to understand what that means is to visit the shop. They have hands-on products and projects that are not commonly available in other locales. Take a trip out to the San Mateo Coast and enjoy all that they have to offer!
Luz Luna Imports is a shop with a mission. Born of a desire to help the Guatemalan widows left by Hurricane Stan, it has expanded to support indigenous artisans from all over the world. Luz Luna carries a wide range of women's, men's, and children's clothinf, jewelry, textiles, folk art, and home accessories from Guatemala as well as Mexico, South America, India, Nepal, Southeast Asia, and more.
Half Moon Bay Feed & Fuel has been in continuous operation at its Main Street address since its founding in 1911. In November of 2002, Feed & Fuel acquired San Mateo County Farm Supply to become the largest emporium for feed and farm products and supplies in San Mateo County and on the Coastside.
Store Hours: Mon. -Fri. 8:30-6:00 Sat. 9:00-5:00 Sun. 10:00-4:00
Get up and play Pickle Ball! Join the Half Moon Bay Boys and Girls Club weekly for fun games. Learn the rules for the sweet sport with the sour name! Equipment provided!
Pacifica Eco Fest is run by the Pacifica Beach Coalition. They are dedicated to preserving the ocean, coastal habitat, and wildlife, and ending litter through advocacy, education, community building, and citizen action. The Pacifica Beach Coalitionis a project of Pacifica’s Environmental Family, a registered nonprofit organization that supports and provides fiscal sponsorship to local environmental projects in Pacifica, California.
Every iconic part of the prohibition era has hit the Coast side. From bootlegging and rum-running to moon shining and Speakeasies, the Coast side experienced it all. Carmen Blair is the Deputy Director of the San Mateo County Historical Association will be talking about the prohibition era in the Coast side in a special Half Moon Bay History Association presentation.
With rumrunners landing Canadian whiskey on isolated beaches, moonshiners operating in homes and a multitude of speakeasies, the county earned a reputation as one of the “wettest” in the state during Prohibition. Blair will share Prohibition stories during an illustrated presentation.
The big premiere is Saturday May 14 at 7:30 PM
only on Pacific Coast TV Comcast Channel 26/27
Half Moon Bay and Coastside.
You can also check it out on our YouTube Page and our Video On Demand Server to watch now!
The goals of the Half Moon Bay History Association are to preserve, educate, and celebrate the Coastside Community’s past.
On February 16, 2016 Half Moon Bay had the ground breaking for the new skate park. At the event were many members for the community, city staff and city council. Over 20 years ago Half Moon Bay put in a temporary skate park, but now they are adding in a brand new state of the art park for the community.
Along with the new skate park being added, across the street there will be a new gymnasium. These new facilities are now being worked on currently and we will keep you updated with new info. In case you missed the event you can find clips from the groundbreaking here.
Get out and take advantage of these new facilities!
JOIN PCT APRIL 9th 12-2pm at the Ted Adcock center 525 Kelley Avenue for our OPEN HOUSE!
Pacific Coast TV is officially set up at the Ted Adcock Center in Half Moon Bay four days a week. The council meetings and planning commission meetings in Half Moon Bay will now have multi camera switching, graphics, and remote cameras.
Along with the upgrade in the studio, we also have a JVC GY-HM200 4KCAM compact handheld camcorder, with lights, a tripod, wireless microphone, and an editing station. You can come in and learn how to work with the new state of the art equipment, and maybe even be part of the production side a live broadcast.
Join one of our workshops to learn hands on about camera, lighting, audio, tv studio operations, and editing. As a member you will be able to check out the camera kits and produce your own content that can maybe go up on live broadcast!
You can visit the Boys and Girls club in the Ted Adcock Center Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 2-8 pm, and Saturday 10-2pm, or schedule an appointment/workshop with Zeke at (650) 479-4418.
Every Earth Day, people from all over the Bay Area come to the coast side to help take care of the planet. The Pacifica Eco Fest is the largest volunteer community event in San Mateo County for Earth Day.
In the morning, there are several locations across the coast side to participate in. You can choose to cleaning up trash on beaches and parks or planet new wildlife.
Afterwards, check out Eco Fest at Linda Mar beach! There will be a special Drum Line performance at 11 am to kick off the event as well as booths and activities for the whole family.
It is a free event, fun and highly educational for families and individual of all ages. You will learn about the bees and how Pacifica Beach Coalition as well as other members of the community are trying to protect these endangered insects.
Parking will be limited so please think about using alternative transportation such as bus, shuttle, bikes or carpool.
Come visit the PCT Booth at Eco Fest for more information about PCT and our new studio in Half Moon Bay!
Pacific Coast TV highlights different events and organizations located in the coast side in order to bring awareness to local issues and ideas.
The Coastside Youth Council (CYC), a program through the Youth Leadership Institute, is a group of youth leaders in Half Moon Bay between the ages of 15-20 who organize community activities for other youth.
One of their goals is to prevent underage drinking and to reduce the messages of alcohol in the Coastside area. They've researched local convenience stores in the area as well as the famous HMB Pumpkin Festival to bring awareness to underage drinking as well as alcoholism in their community. They also advocate for smoke free communities, especially in housing for low income families.
They give students opportunities to become leaders in their community and gain experience that will help them apply to college and in all their future endeavors.
For youth interested in joining, they meet
every Friday from 4-6pm at the
Ted Adcock Community Center, 535 Kelly Avenue Half Moon Bay, CA 94019.
They also have paid internship opportunities. Please contact Montzerrat Garcia at mbedolla@yli.org or (714) 579-9070 for more information.
Youth Leadership Institute (YLI) has been an innovative leader in the field of youth development for over 20 years, working in many capacities—from advocating for national policy change, to organizing on a community level. YLI has served San Mateo County in partnership with foundations, community organizations, and schools with a focus in building strong and healthy communities.
Want to watch great local programming on the go? You can check out our live stream wherever you are through your smart phone!
3 Ways to Watch on your Smart Phone:
Just go to www.livestream.com/PCT on your mobile device or tablet and click "LIVE NOW" to begin watching.
You can also download the Live Stream app and search for "Pacific Coast TV" to watch through the app. To download the app for Apple Devices, click here and to download for Android devices click here.
You can also use a QR code scanner on your device to scan our code above to be sent directly to our Live Stream.
Pacific Coast TV streams all public programming 24/7. If there is a problem with the live stream, please feel free to give us a call at (650) 355 8000 and we will get that fixed.
Let us know in the comments where you will be streaming from!
Pacific Coast TV is proud to announce that we have begun teaching workshops in Half Moon Bay at the Ted Adcock Center. We are now teaching camera operation and soon we will be teaching editing, and studio production workshops .
Last semester, Zeke Edwards interned at PCT as a college student from San Francisco State and now he is working in Half Moon Bay as our main production supervisor. He will be teaching the skills he learned in college and at PCT to anyone who is interested in learning about television production.
ALL WORKSHOPS ARE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Our workshops times are:
Camera Operation:
Every Wednesday
Youth: 3-5 PM
All Ages: 6-8 PM
Video Editing:
Every Saturday
All Ages: 11 AM-1 PM
Studio Production:
TO BE ANNOUNCED!
You can visit us in Half Moon Bay at the Ted Adcock center on Kelly Ave. Our hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 2-8 PM and Saturday from 10AM-2PM.
You can also sign up for workshops at our Pacifica location and watch all PCT Programming on Comcast Ch. 26/27 or on our LIVESTREAM.
Bruce Latimer is back at Pacific Coast TV for the Bruce Latimer Show with special guests Roger Glenn and David Gans! Latimer had to take a break from filming due to health, as seen on his Clear Lake special however he is back and better than ever to be able to film at PCT once again.
Second-generation Master multi-instrumentalist and composer Roger Glenn, who is the son of the late Tyree Glenn, is well respected for his contributions in Jazz and Latin Jazz for five decades. Roger Glenn has worked and recorded with giants in Jazz such as Mongo Santamaria, Dizzy Gillespie, Cal Tjader, Pete Escovedo to name a few.
David Gans is an American musician and music journalist. He's written several books all about the Grateful Dead and he also hosts a radio show with Gary Lambert called "Tales from the Golden road" on Sirus XM all about the Grateful Dead.
Glenn and Gans will bring their best for the return of the Bruce Latimer Show!
Watch it on our ON DEMAND PAGE or below on our You Tube Channel.
Bob Chandler is a rare personality. He is a professional historian. For over three decades he lead Wells Fargo in the discovery and preservation of the company’s rich history. In the process, he has uncovered much of the fabric of the Old West. He will share some of the chapters of history within Wells Fargo – their famous stagecoach service, their place in California’s gold rush, and development of its banking business. Dr. Chandler writes and speaks with authority on such diverse historical subjects as early express transport, banking, politics, civil rights, stamp collecting, and more.
Chandler, Wells Fargo Bank’s senior research historian for 32 years, will elucidate why and how Wells Fargo did business. Using displayed historical documents, the speaker will illustrate the ways Wells Fargo performed its Banking, Express, Letter Express, and Stagecoaching activities. He reports that he will be bringing a mini-museum along for the meeting.
As wife Susan says, “He finds a ‘leaf’ and then must determine where it fits on the tree of history.” His San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown (2014) illustrates his deductive method. He has also written a short history of California, the Arcadia series volume on Wells Fargo, and more than 60 articles on Gold Rush, Civil War California, and early western transportation. Exceedingly serious, Bob is an X-Noble Grand Humbug of the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus. His Mother's family is from the Madeira Islands (by way of Hawaii) making Bob half-Portuguese – sharing some of the roots of our Coastside community.
Want to know more? Watch Bob Chandler as he leads discussion all about the history of Wells Fargo.
The big premiere is January 29 at7 PM only on Pacific Coast TV, Comcast Channel 26/27 Half Moon Bay and Coastside.
You can also check it out on our YouTube Page and our Video On Demand Server to watch now!
The goals of the Half Moon Bay History Association are to preserve, educate, and celebrate the Coastside Community’s past.
The Soundwaves Christmas special is finally here! Soundwaves is an annual music-based variety fundraiser that encourages viewers to contribute to local non-profits and charities. This special fundraiser helps the viewer donate to local charities to help benefit the community! The energy of the show is fast and entertaining, but the message is simple: spend less money on needless holiday gifts and give that money to someone who truly needs it.
Here’s how it works: viewers are directed to soundwaveschristmas.com, where they can choose a geographical area and make a contribution. No money is collected by the creators of the show or the administrators of the web site. Every link to a charity connects directly to the volunteer or donation page of that charity’s website.
You can watch the premiere on Comcast Channel 26/27 Coastside
Telethon is a special event that occurs over two days. This year, it will take place on November 21st and 22nd. The program will be televised with more than 80,000 local viewers watching, even more if you count the webstreamers! Why should you partake in this special event? Here are some points about the telethon that will make you go, why not?
This is an opportunity for you to showcase who you are for a very small feat. By simply donating an auction item, you can be seen, on TV, for your product, your business, and the embodiment of your organization’s essence. The more items you donate, the more valuable airtime you will receive, making your business known not only to locals, but also to those watching from all over world, international audiences who are planning to visit the Bay Area!
Our process for this whole auction is so simple that you do not even have to leave your store to successfully make the transaction. Simply tell us what you want to donate, and we will fill out a gift certificate form for you, email the copy back, and give the original certificate to the winner of the auction item to exchange at your location. “No hassle” is an understatement. If you choose to use your own gift cards or certificates, that is perfectly fine with us. The point of this auction is to point the spotlight at you and give back to our community.
Hurry with the donations, time is running short and spots are filling up! Tell us what you want to donate, and we will handle the rest of it for you. You can put your trust in Pacific Coast Television to promote your business and make your name known all the way from Pacifica, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo and down to Pescadero!
Are interested in learning more about our 2015 Red Carpet TV Auction? Watch our promotional show telling you all about the auction. Learn about becoming a sponsor and why you should donate or bid on items this year.
You can watch the premiere on November 4 at 1 PM on Comcast Channel 26/27 Coastside or online on our VIDEO ON DEMAND server or on YOUTUBE.
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Coast Life will be premiering a special episode all about the Titans of Mavericks surf competition. They'll be showing an interview with Brian Overfelt from Pumpkin Fest and showing clips from the Mavericks opening ceremony.
The episode premiere is THIS FRIDAY November 6 at 5 PM only on Pacific Coast TV, Comcast Channel 26/27 Half Moon Bay and Coastside. You can watch the episode on our VIDEO ON DEMAND server and YOUTUBE as well.
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The annual Pacific Coast Television Red Carpet Telethon is around the corner and things are getting under way!
PCT is looking for non profit organizations and entertainers to highlight during the big weekend. Entertainers will be performing during the hourly breaks in the telethon to large viewers watching from around the world. Organizations can help by taking calls from the viewers bidding on auction items and they can also be interviewed during the auction.
The Red Carpet TV Auction is the biggest event of the year at Pacific Coast Television and help us help you by growing your non profit by volunteering with us.
If you would like more information about participating in the telethon, give Martin Anaya a call at
