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Need For Speed – Rec Trail

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Racers whiz by, tourists block the paved portion. Admin here was nearly run over by two E-Bikes on the sidewalk downtown.

Bicycle Crash

Pacific Grove took a different approach when e-bikes started appearing on the scene, and in 2020 set a unilateral 12mph speed limit on its portion of the Rec Trail. I am not a fast biker, but on flat ground, I can tell you that you don’t even have to break a sweat to exceed 12mph on a regular old human-powered bike. Five minutes of observation in P.G. is all it takes to see this bizarrely low speed limit violated, and the same old premise that predated the speed limit comes into play: Pay attention and be courteous.

Unfortunately, for busy stretches of multi-use resources like the Rec Trail, “pay attention and be courteous” may not be enough clarity. The potential for widening the Rec Trail is low, Garcia tells me, based on right-of-way. Look for more on potential signage and speed limits to come in the coming years as the data gathering process ramps up.

Need For Speed – Rec Trail

DEI Comes Up With A List Of Special Days To Recognize

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The DEI committee is still just an idiotic waste of time even without the bitter, hateful Tina Rau. Disagree with them and you can be called a Nazi.

A draft of the calendar identifies widely recognized
religious holidays observed in the United States such as
Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah and Yom Kippur. It also
includes dates important to Buddhism and Islam, along
with lesser known events and religions, such as Zartosht
No-Diso, which honors the prophet of Zoroastrianism —
a religion estimated to have a mere 120,000 followers
worldwide.
“By no means is this calendar extensive. How can it
be?” Mark said Wednesday, later adding that she didn’t
think there “could ever be too many items on it.”

So I’ve researched a bit and came up with more diverse and equitable holidays to put on the calendar.

A’Phabet Day or No “L” Day
Alien Abduction Day
Barbie-in-a-Blender Day
Blah Blah Blah Day
Call of the Horizon Day
Clashing Clothes Day
Cow Milked While Flying in an Airplane Day
Create a Great Funeral Day
Curmudgeons Day
Do a Grouch a Favor Day
Dumbstruck Day
Everything You Think Is Wrong Day (DEI founded on this day)
Extraterrestrial Culture Day
False Confession Day
Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales
Fill Our Staplers Day
Gorilla Suit Day
Haunted Refrigerator Night
Hawaiian Shirt Day
Hobbit Day
Hurray for Buttons Day
Invite an Alien to Live with You Day
Jump Over Things Day
Keep Off the Grass Day
Kyrgyzstan National Hat Day
Look for Circles Day
Measure Your Feet Day
Middle Name Pride Day
My Way Day (A favorite of DEI members)
National Bad Poetry Day
National Big Forehead Day
National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
National Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day
National Emo Day
National Griper’s Day
National Handcuff Day
National I LOVE My feet Day
National Lumpy Rug Day
National Name Your Car Day
National Paranormal Day
National Reach As High As You Can Day
National Rubber Eraser Day
National Ugly Truck Contest Day
No Socks Day
Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day
Quitters Day
Send an Electronic Greeting Card Day
Sock Monkey Day
Stay Away From Fresno Day
Take it in the Ear Day
Talk Like William Shakespeare Day
Thumb Appreciation Day

DEI Comes Up With A List Of Special Days To Recognize

Boating Accident Leaves Ship On Asilomar Beach

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A three-hour tour they said, it will be fun they said.

Weather started getting rough and the tiny ship was tossed.

Boat on the rocks

Five people had to be helped to shore Saturday morning by lifeguards after they abandoned their boat at Asilomar State Beach in Monterey County.

According to the Monterey Fire Department, they received reports of a group of people attempting to paddle their motorboat back out to sea at around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, but due to winds and high surf they gave up their attempt and exited the boat.

They ended up stuck on a rock outcropping in the Pacific Ocean about 10 feet away from land.

Boating Accident Leaves Ship On Asilomar Beach

Don’t Bring A Bicycle To A Footpath

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Bicycle Crash In the Past

Bike riders always griping about walkers on the recreation trail. Keep your pedals off the foot paths and sidewalks.

A bicyclist in his 40s who was apparently riding on a footpath adjacent to Ocean View Boulevard in Pacific Grove this week fell onto a rocky beach and was taken to the hospital for injuries.

“He suffered traumatic injuries to his leg — possibly other injuries as well,” fire chief Gaudenz Panholzer told The Pine
Cone.

Don’t Bring A Bicycle To A Footpath

Ben Harvey Will Be Spending Even Less Time In P.G.

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Farewell to the work-from-Long Beach kid. Overpaid and uneducated about P.G.

Under mysterious circumstances. Like he stomped on a Monarch or something.
Council appointees and department heads are precluded from making disparaging  statements about Ben Harvey,” Pierik said. “You should not make any statements [verbal or written] about Ben Harvey or his resignation.

Following a 5 p_m. closed session city council meet-
ing Wednesday, PG. city attorney Brian Pierik reported
in open session that the council voted 6-0 to approve the
so-called separation agreement, which allows city man-
ager Ben Harvey to resign from the job he’s held since
2016.
While Pierik didn’t specify why the council wanted
Harvey gone — and those specifics will probably kept
confidential — councilmembers were likely not pleased
with Harvey’s job performance and had lost confidence
in him.

harvey-tshirt

Ben Harvey Will Be Spending Even Less Time In P.G.

Aquarium Says Leave Your Emotional Support Dogs At Home

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One star because your “lil girl” in a stroller was not allowed in.

no esa at aquarium

Says it in the web page:

We welcome trained service dogs that meet the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standard, including service dogs in training. For the safety and welfare of the animals in our care, pets and emotional support or companion animals aren’t allowed inside the Aquarium.

Aquarium Says Leave Your Emotional Support Dogs At Home

Cannery Row Carjacking

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Failed to get the car, but one of the robbers got away. Cannery Row at night, be aware of your surroundings. One robber was caught, you guessed it, on the rec trail. Perp is one Abraham Andrade from Greenfield.

18-year-old in attempted carjacking

Pine Cone Mugshot

At around 10 p.m. June 4, a man was by his car on Foam Street near David Avenue when two people walked up and “demanded his keys at gunpoint,” according to MPD Lt.Gabriel Kaster.
“Both suspects began to punch the victim in the face and head,” Kaster said. “At one point, the victim was hit on the head with something hard, causing a small laceration to the back of his head.”

Cannery Row Carjacking

Are You Ready To Fight Godzilla El Nino?

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El Nino

Since 1951, there have been 26 El Niño events. Of those, 11 have been weak, 7 moderate, 5 strong and 3 very strong. Overall during all of them, rainfall in Southern California averaged 126% of normal. In the Bay Area it was 109% of normal.

During two of the three very strong El Niños, the winters of 1982-83 and 1997-98 were among the wettest in recorded California history, with massive Sierra Nevada snowpacks and major flooding.

The third, in 2015-16, was something of a bust. Hyped as a “Godzilla El Niño,” that event did see big winter storms, but they ended up hitting Oregon and Washington, dashing hopes of breaking a California drought, which didn’t end until big storms finally arrived in 2017.

Are You Ready To Fight El Nino?