Save Mart in Salinas.
After picking up a bottle of alcohol at the Save Mart, Diaz went to a self-check cash register. When she scanned the alcohol and her ID, an indicator light blinked on and off, just as required by law.
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Winemaker Jail Birdies
Assault with a golf marker. Whew.
Deputies said Stephan Kidder, 36, of Chateau Sinnet Winery, was found trespassing and interfering with a business about 5:30 p.m. on the 100 block of East Carmel Valley Road. When asked to leave, deputies said, Kidder threatened employees with the marker.
Deputies said that when they arrived, he ran into the Carmel River. Deputies were able to talk Kidder out of the river, and he was booked into the Monterey County Jail on suspicion of exhibiting a deadly weapon, public intoxication and trespassing. Jail officials said Kidder also had a warrant for driving with a suspended license, without vehicle insurance and registration.
Another Greenie Pack Of Lies Meeting
Agenda 21. Take away your cars, restrict travel, pack people in high density housing and reduce population.
The city will host a public workshop on Monday, hoping it will get input from the community about their upcoming green building program.
The goal of the program is to lower greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the city’s carbon footprint.
Score Is Jellyfish 2, Humans 1 In Bay Swimming Attempts
Wanted to raise $$ for a school in Afghanistan. What that has to do with swimming I don’t know. Next up is Bruckner Chase making a second try after also failing last year.
Marathon swimmer Patti Bauernfeind, stung by hundreds of jellyfish, gave up her quest to complete a 23-mile swim of Monterey Bay after about 4½ hours Saturday, just short of the midway point of the quest.
Bauernfeind, 43, left Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz at midnight, hoping to conquer the currents, the cold water and the jellyfish to become the second swimmer ever to swim the bay. Cindy Cleveland did it in 1983, and five other swimmers have failed to equal the feat since then.
Bauernfeind, a Pleasanton resident, swam without a wet suit in accordance with English Channel open-water swimming rules.
Sea Otter Population Shrinks While Shark Population Grows
Hmmm, them scientists might be on to something.
The most recent sea otter census, released by the organization earlier this month, showed a continued downward trend in the number of both adults and pups in California.
August encounters with adult great whites are consistent with findings from a research team led by biologists from Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station. By placing electronic tracking tags on 179 sharks since 2000, they’ve documented that adult great whites congregate near sea lion and elephant seal breeding colonies in Central and Northern California between August and February.
Has Recycling Come To This?
Garbage gestapo. Recycle or face charges.
From cleveland.com
It would be a stretch to say that Big Brother will hang out in Clevelanders’ trash cans, but the city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling — and fine them $100 if they don’t.
The move is part of a high-tech collection system the city will roll out next year with new trash and recycling carts embedded with radio frequency identification chips and bar codes.
The chips will allow city workers to monitor how often residents roll carts to the curb for collection. If a chip show a recyclable cart hasn’t been brought to the curb in weeks, a trash supervisor will sort through the trash for recyclables.
Ferrari Party Scene Of Domestic Quarrel
Southern Californians.
Pine Cone Photo
Lawrence Paul Elliott, 47, and his girlfriend Theresa Barbaro were at the party at the Pebble Beach Lodge when an argument broke out, according to the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office.
“They got into an argument and some threats were made,” Cmdr. Tracy Brown told The Pine Cone. “She started walking away from him and he grabbed a vase that was on a nearby table and threw it at her, and it hit her in the elbow.”
Pacific Grove No Longer A Substainable City
Pacific Grove is no longer mentioned on any ICLEI member lists at the website. There’s hope yet for our city leaders. Time for Monterey to wake up and quit supporting them with money and compliance too.
ICLEI methods include infiltrating local government. Organization representatives seek to be hired into local planning departments or they provide “toolkits” to staff. Too many elected officials such as Cool Mayors allow ICLEI to influence policy changes through the use of funding incentives and rewards. While some of these policies sound good on the surface, they result in consequences such as:
* High-density housing scams
* Traffic congestion
* Open space where access is not allowed
* Government “partnering” with favored private businesses and non-profit agencies, using your tax money
* Undermining Constitutional administration of government
* Managed control over your life
* Mismanagement of public utilities
* Prohibitions on natural resource management leading to increased fire hazards, lack of water, and private property restrictions,
* Increased taxes, fees, regulations and restrictions
Pharmacy Robbery At Safeway
Next time slip them sleeping pills or strong laxatives.
After being given the Oxycontin, the man left the store. He might have left the area in a late 1980s or early 1990s dark gray or black Ford Explorer, police said. The SUV was dirty, police said.
The robber was described as Latino, in his mid-20s, 5 foot 7 inches to 5 foot 9 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds. He was wearing a black baseball cap with a DC shoe logo, a blue hooded sweatshirt with white writing on the back, gray sweatpants and white shoes, police said.
Lovers Point Beach Polluted
Becoming routine around here.
County health officials today briefly lifted a health advisory at Lovers Point Beach in Pacific Grove, but reposted the warning two hours later.
Beachgoers were warned to avoid contact with the water because of high bacteria levels.