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		<title>Clean up after your fur babies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are fortunate, on our little piece of paradise, to have a place for our canine companions to socialize and relieve themselves. Our dog park is small but heavily used by both residents and visitors. A question which arises about the understanding of what takes place in the dog park and elsewhere in town. When [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Avalon looks at cruise ship fee</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The City Council discussed cruise ship wharfage at this week’s meeting. The council directed staff to come back with a cruise ship wharfage fee increase. The matter will come back to a future council agenda. Avalon staff recommends increasing the city’s cruise ship wharfage rate to $7 per passenger. According to City Manager David Maistros, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Residents look at ways to approach short term rentals</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Council extends moratorium on transient rentals Part of an ongoing series on housing. The Avalon City Council on Friday morning, Sept. 15, voted 4-zero to extend the moratorium on short term rentals for 10 months and 15 days. That’s the maximum length of the extension allowed by law, according to the city attorney. Mayor Anni [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>City staff to host community meetings on short term rentals</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2023 19:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Moratorium ends on Sept. 15. Staff must report to council 10 days before that date Short term rentals returned to the City Council this week. The council approved a 45-day moratorium on issuing new transient rental licenses on the first day of August. The moratorium expires on Sept. 14, according to the staff report by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Letter to the Editor: published June 30, 2023</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dialysis center not possible at this time On March 8th, 2023, Catalina Island Medical Center held a forum to discuss the desire to have a dialysis clinic in Avalon. The Board of Directors and Administration greatly appreciate the community for reaching out and expressing their needs for additional services in our community. Dialysis is an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>City Council and Love Catalina look at sustainable tourism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 17:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Charles M. Kelly Part two of two: sustainability. The Avalon City Council and Love Catalina Tourism Authority discussed developing a plan for sustainable tourism to the Island. Consultant Myles Rademan facilitated the meeting, which was held on April 20. Rademan said Park City was an accredited member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council. “I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Letters to the Editor: published April 28, 2023</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Catalina Islander Readers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To Avalon residents: Nora and I are working on bringing a dialysis clinic to Avalon at our local hospital. We are developing a dialysis support group to consolidate all patients on hemodialysis or in home dialysis in Avalon and others who have left Avalon but would return if we had our own dialysis clinic. This [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Letter to the Editor: published Friday, June 4, 2021</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2021 17:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Creating a monster Opportunism has never known boundaries and can take advantage of global pandemic adjustments, both good and bad. But our return to normalcy should not mean selling public beaches to private entities, when a sort of eminent-domain confiscation would essentially evict families, kids and locals, who may wish to have a late afternoon [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Letters to the Editor: published Friday, Nov. 22, 2019</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Avalon Theatre It appears that the Casino Theatre is going the way of the SS Catalina, the Steamer Pier, and the MS Phoenix (Mud Scout, Captain Eddie told me). What a shame – who dreams this garbage up? You can bet it isn’t someone who lives here . . . Steven Quinn, Avalon, CA Key [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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