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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Feast Of Lanterns Fate Is Sealed (hint: it’s 90% canceled)
Destiny being fulfilled. Bankrupt the events that are the heart & soul of what’s fun about P.G. then turn it into some preachy politically correct show that no one really wants to go to. Finally bring it back all sanitized. About as genuine as a Victorian retreat house torn down, re-constructed with zero original material and awarded a historical artifact sign.
But hey, without the cost of putting on the week long summer festival, we can pay for a new website, city slogan and a tourist trolley, right?
There will still be a Queen Topaz and her court, but no fireworks. The pageant will take place in the middle school auditorium, not at the Lovers Point Pier. The festival will run two days, rather than a full week.
“Some events are being dropped,” said Feast of Lanterns president Sue Renz, “and others restructured.”
Now That All Problems In P.G. Are Solved, Lets Rewrite All The Laws
Old law about minorities not allowed to own property within the city. What strikes me is in the light of the pot club trying to open in P.G. is what other laws are being changed in the name of cleansing the town and re-writing history?
Such clauses can’t be enforced by law, but Councilwoman Lisa Bennett proposes that she and her colleagues send a letter to the Monterey County recorder asking that fees to delete such clauses entirely from deeds be waived.
Now That All Problems In P.G. Are Solved, Lets Rewrite All The Laws
Weather Turns Nice
Daylight Savings Time
Spring forward today.
Think that might spring some city workers to take down the Xmas lights that still light up well into March?
New Monterey Marijuana Store Ordered To Close
“Hemp! Why do you think they call it rope?” Snick Farkas
A Monterey medical marijuana dispensary has been ordered by the court to close immediately, city officials said Friday.
Superior Court Judge Robert O’Farrell issued a preliminary injunction in favor of the city, requiring MyCaregiver Inc. at 554 Lighthouse Ave. to shut down, said Assistant Monterey City Attorney Christine Davi.
He Said WHAT? Mo Ammar Has Orgasms
Orgasms when he screws the Farmers Market out of it’s downtown Monday location.
“We all had orgasms! It was heavenly,” P.G. Chamber of Commerce Moe Ammar jokes. “Like, ‘I can’t believe that this problem is solved.’”
Everyone’s Harvest director Iris Peppard initiated the March 2 get-together with hopes of heading off controversy at the March 3 City Council meeting. Peppard and an Everyone’s Harvest board member squared off with Ammar and two members of the Downtown Business Improvement District, who’d been complaining the market hurt their Monday night sales. They all agreed on moving the market to a city-owned parking lot south of Lighthouse Avenue on Saturday mornings.
Our Taxes At Work, $$ For House Flipping
Tough to imagine that there are still any unmolested homes in the retreat area that have not been torn down and replaced by re-creations by the likes of Juan The Builder.
Pacific Grove residents living in the town’s aging Victorian and Edwardian treasures who can’t afford to fix leaking plumbing, sparking electric wires and termite damage can get help from City Hall.
Pacific Grove has received federal Community Development Block Grant and state home improvement grant funding that it can draw from to help homeowners who qualify, said Laurel O’Halloran, housing program assistant for the city.
“We have some money to spend,” she said, and it must be used up during the next 18 months.
Juan the Builder’s Victorian House Flipping Before:
After:
Richard Coleman Murder Case Reopens
Cops to use modern forensics – finally.
New technology incorporated in the national forensic database has given renewed hope to Pacific Grove police that they will finally close the murder case.
“We have not forgotten about this,” Police Chief Darius Engles said. “It’s an active and open case.”
He (said investigators collected sufficient evidence, so new forensic techniques for identifying palm prints and DNA will catch up with the killer.
That evidence, he said, was submitted in July to the national DNA database. The process takes months, Engles said, but police expect results.
Olga Ospina Gets $87,000 For Dead Dog
After turning down a settlement of $40,000 she finds that twice that amount is sufficient. But she still does not get what she originally wanted, to kill the other dog. Lighthouseavenue.com post, 11/9/07:
But Olga Ospina wanted a different result. “Please help me, put this dog down” she said at the hearing Aug. 16.
A Superior Court jury awarded $87,000 Tuesday to local television anchorwoman Olga Ospina, whose dog was fatally mauled in a Pacific Grove attack three years ago.
Ospina testified the incident was emotionally draining. In 2007, the city determined the Labrador was not vicious and required the dog to undergo behavioral training.