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Dogs And Their Owners – Crazy?

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Driving to a place to walk the dog. Kind of like taking an escalator to the gym.

Congress Ext

Over the past three years, the public has been illegally parking and driving in the fire lane area at the Congress Avenue entrance to Rip Van Winkle Open Space.

They have also been parking along the road and driving over tree roots. Alternate access to the open space can only be gained by paying a fee ($9.50) to enter the Country Club Gate to Pebble Beach, or parking in the Methodist Church parking lot on Sunset Drive and fording a gulley.
According to the dog walkers, many of whom are older people with constrained walking abilities, these other options are not workable.

Dogs And Their Owners – Crazy?

Where’s Joe Bennett?

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Forest Grove Principal departs. Without fanfare I guess.

Interim principal Beller says he knows nothing about Bennett’s departure and is still assessing whether to apply for the permanent principal position.

P.G. Teachers Association Negotiating President Wendy Milligan, a Forest Grove teacher, says she’s legally bound to a confidentiality agreement regarding Bennett, in contradiction to Lozano’s claim that no one is under a gag order.

“No one can talk about it. It’s extremely confidential,” Milligan says. “It was a very sticky situation. There were some complaints, and finally those complaints turned into action. I want to tell people what’s going on but I can’t, legally.”

Where’s Joe Bennett?

Used Clothing Stores Attract Status Seeking Moms

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Can’t let the little snowflakes run around in lesser clothing. Don’t forget that laws protecting children from clothing that contains lead do not apply to second hand shops.

From The Californian

A law set to take effect Tuesday will for the first time set limits on lead and other hazardous materials found in products manufactured for children ages 12 and younger.

The law stops short of requiring thrift and consignment shop owners to test second-hand clothing and toys. But it does hold them and other sellers liable for civil and criminal penalties if they sell products that have been subject to a recall or that have lead or phthalates content that exceeds the new limits.

More Used Clothes

With so many local businesses fighting for their lives or even closing down there are some who are doing surprisingly well. The Chatterbaux Children Consignment Shop in Pacific Grove is doing very well.

Heather Radcliffe from Pacific Grove says she does 80% of her shopping at the Chatterbaux, ” you can buy a lot more wonderful things, Jamboree, GAP, things that are more expensive, I can buy ten times of them here and pay less than the regular price”.

Used Clothing Stores Attract Status Seeking Moms

Military Pyrotechnics Wash Ashore

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A Pacific Grove Public Works employee found what appeared to be military ordnance that had washed ashore on Monday.

The object was a Mk 58 marine marker used by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard in training exercises. It contains pyrotechnic candles that produce flame and smoke while floating in the ocean.

January 19, 2009
Update! Another one found!

An Mk 58 marine marker was found Sunday afternoon on the beach near Ocean View Boulevard and Esplanade in Pacific Grove

Military Pyrotechnics Wash Ashore

Colossus Of Gold Home Price Drop

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Was $650,000, now offered at $450,000

Cog House

After being put on the market in August, the two-bedroom, one-bath house is still available, although one bid has been placed, according to Sotheby’s Realty.

The previous owner kept Steinbeck’s history alive by outfitting the property with a statue of Steinbeck, several novel-theme stained glass windows and old antique appliances and furniture. Sotheby’s said a lot of maintenance and repairs still need to be done on the home. An obvious conclusion from the cobwebs clinging to the stairs, the peeling paint and the tilting railings.

Colossus Of Gold Home Price Drop

Dropping CalPERS

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A person I admire once told me this fable – Pay someone $100 an hour to do a job, but every week you turn up (or down) the thermostat. After two years the workers would not work for any pay under those conditions. Some people would take jobs in their hometown that offer the same 401ks and pensions they have in the private sector just to not commute. Hey, P.G. may not offer the pay and benefits of Oakland, but at least it aint Oakland.

Dropping out of CalPERS also would make it hard to attract or keep employees, according to a report that will be presented Wednesday to the City Council.

Given current economic conditions, if the city opts out of the state retirement system when employee contracts expire on Jan. 1, 2011, it would have to pay the state $8 million to $25 million or more, said Jim Becklenberg, the city’s director of management and budget.

Those costs, he said, would be in addition to the cost of setting up a replacement defined-contribution retirement plan to supplant the current defined-benefit plan based on years of service and other factors.

Dropping CalPERS

Tidepool Police Will Chase Tourists Away

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Some visitors came, enjoyed the beach and attracted the hate from Lee Willoughby. Yep, it is that minority of people going by the name of the Tidepool Coalition that want to fence off the shore and keep us from ever setting foot on a rock again.

I say enjoy it while you can. Global warming is going to put it under water in a few years anyway, right?
Lee Willoughby

. . . have no problem with this sport. But holding this competition in a sensitive area of special biological and archaeological significance adjacent to an irreplaceable rocky intertidal ecosystem is simply incompatible. Furthermore, Pacific Grove already has ordinances protecting its shoreline including the substrate, i.e., rocks.

Pacific Grove’s council must take leadership with the Coastal Commission to preserve these preeminent coastal treasures for future generations. If they won’t do it, then the people will!

Tidepool Police Will Chase Tourists Away