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Feast Of Lanterns Officially Ruined

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Fire Dixie Lane. Appears that the kooks have taken over the last great funky thing in P.G.

“The whole festival represents our heritage in Pacific Grove,” said Feast of Lanterns President Dixie Lane. “It’s a fabulous little multi-cultural festival.”

This is Lane’s inaugural year to preside over the event, though she has been on the board for several years.

As a former student of history and a zealot for all things multicultural, Lane has focused on emphasizing multiculturalism and historical traditions for the 2009 Feast of Lanterns.

Feast Of Lanterns Beach Reserve Sign

Feast Of Lanterns Officially Ruined

The Weakly Shames Pacific Grove

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for not respecting cultures. Can’t even carry on traditions without being told we are all bad, bad citizens.

Coast Weakly

On the left side, a gallery celebrates the Feast of Lanterns, a P.G. tradition since 1905. Though the signs feature an Asian-inspired font and a bamboo trim, they don’t address why white P.G. high school students started enacting a “Chinese operetta” (featuring Princess Yum Yum) only a few years after P.G.’s actual Chinese-American residents were forced out of town. It doesn’t address what originally inspired the festival’s trademark Chinese lanterns, dresses and art styles. It doesn’t discuss Stanford Ph.D. student – and excavator of the Chinese village artifacts – Bryn Williams’ theory that the Feast of Lanterns tradition sprang out of a human need to romanticize, and appropriate, pieces of the very cultures we destroy.

There always was culture, and from the P.G. Chinese community – but not what the P.C. weenies at the Weakly would want . .
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P.G. Tribune, 1974

The Weakly Shames Pacific Grove

Eeeek! Jumbo Flying Aggressive Squid Lurking Off Coast!

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Humbolt Squid

Thousands of jumbo flying squid — aggressive 5-foot-long sea monsters with razor-sharp beaks and toothy tentacles — have invaded the shallow waters off San Diego, spooking scuba divers and washing up dead on tourist-packed beaches.

The carnivorous calamari, which can grow up to 100 pounds, came up from the depths last week and swarms of them roughed up unsuspecting divers. Some divers report tentacles enveloping their masks and yanking at their cameras and gear.

Stories of too-close encounters with the alien like cephalopods have chased many veteran divers out of the water and created a whirlwind of excitement among the rest, who are torn between their personal safety and the once-in-a-lifetime chance to swim with the deep-sea giants.

Eeeek! Jumbo Flying Aggressive Squid Lurking Off Coast!

Pollacci Goes To Trial

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Click the credit title below to read the whole sick story over at the Pine Cone.

Tom Pollacci

On April 19, 2008, she came to the Monterey Peninsula to visit a friend and, after driving around, went into Ron’s Liquors to buy a pack of cigarettes, according to testimony by retired Pacific Grove Police Cmdr. Tom Uretsky. Pollacci recognized her, the two chatted for a few minutes, and she asked if he could get her through the gate at Pebble Beach. He told her he could and entered his number in her cell phone under the contact name, “Thomas My Love.” The following day, she tried to reach him but couldn’t. Later, he called and invited her to stop by the store, which she did.

Please – do not spend your money at Pacific Grove businesses that employ sex offenders or domestic abusers.

Pollacci Goes To Trial

P.G. School District – Tax, Spend, Beg, Tax, Spend

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Lather, rinse, repeat. Odd that they spend the money on all things except books & supplies to teach our precious fry. Well at least we can play football on artificial grass.

If there were ever a monument to how local public entities waste taxpayers’ money, it is the Pacific Grove Unified School District’s use of the $42 million in Measure D tax revenues.

This money was designated for classroom and school facility repair and construction. Even though the existing stadium was adequate, $6.5 million of this money, 15 percent of all available Measure D funds, was used to build a state-of-the-art shrine to Jockdom under the euphemism of “stadium reconstruction.”

P.G. School District – Tax, Spend, Beg, Tax, Spend

Lattitudes: It’s Hot Hot Hot

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Check out the ad in the BullS**tin this week:
Lattitudes menu

Police said a Molotov cocktail was found on the roof of the restaurant at 631 Oceanview Blvd., near Lovers Point.

Pacific Grove Police and Monterey Fire personnel discovered the incendiary device after they arrived about 5:50 a.m. to find the building’s roof on fire. Crew extinguished the blaze in 10 minutes. Police officials declined to say if an arrest was imminent.

Lattitudes

Lattitudes: It’s Hot Hot Hot

Congress Extension Parking – Council Speaks Out

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No Barking

Where should we go from here? First, let’s modify the plan to avoid taking out healthy trees. Then, let’s really find out how much the committee’s plan for Rip Van Winkle Open Space might cost, both up front and annually. Finally, let’s see if we can get all the parties to that old agreement to strike the “no-parking” clause. If we can’t, then no parking plan will work.

Other parks and neighborhoods are still available for dog walking. Safe parking is available along Forest Lodge Road; a safe pathway runs along the east side of Congress; and a walkway across Congress with rumble strips already exists.

Lets move to more important matters..

Congress Extension Parking – Council Speaks Out