By Camas Frank

Graduation fever hit SLO in June with both San Luis Obispo High School and Cal Poly sending young people out into the world.
In the case of SLO High (page 8), a good percentage of those 380 17 and 18-year-olds will be back. More than 70 are headed to Cal Poly themselves soon and 90 percent of the graduating class overall is going on to higher education.
Over at Cal Poly (page 5), owner of the Madonna Inn, Phyllis Madonna, received an honorary degree from the college of agriculture.
In other news, the drought continues to dominate but there are some creative solutions afoot (pages 4 and 9). learn about the City of SLO’s  effort to save water that would otherwise be spewing into storm drains at the Marsh Street parking complex and the work of a local nonprofit to set up a new community garden watered by “purple pipes.” That treated sewage to you and me, but the SLO treatment plant assures us it’s safe. In fact, communities all over the state are following suit.
All that and a whole lot more in this issue of the SLO City News.