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What Recession? We Have A Luxury Spa For Dogs

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Dogs have more accessibility than the disabled around here. Watch your step.

Dog High Chair

The promenade, Cannery Row’s first Holiday Pet Parade, was a benefit for the SPCA of Monterey County and the Animal Friends Rescue Project.

For the canine competitors, adorned in their holiday best, it paid big dividends to finish first. The grand prize was a luxury spa appointment at Chateau Le Paws at the American Tin Cannery. Their owners got the human equivalent from the Energia Spa at the new Intercontinental Clement Monterey Hotel.

What Recession? We Have A Luxury Spa For Dogs

Moammar Talks Stupid . . again

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I’ve little issues with the rehab place (except maybe the resulting fewer residential units as a result . .) But “Neighbors”? Moe Ammar needs to be muzzled. Moe lives nowhere near Central & 2nd. My guess is that the residents are performing work for the COC which the COC collects money for.
Baghdad Moe

At the corner of Pacific Grove’s Central Avenue and Second Street sits a lemon-yellow house.

The people in the house all have troubled pasts. Their histories include run-ins with the law, and problems with cocaine, alcohol, painkillers and more.

Moe Ammar, president of Pacific Grove’s Chamber of Commerce, has strong feelings about these people.

“I cannot think of a better neighbor,” he said. “I wish we had more neighbors like them.”

The yellow Victorian is the new site for the Bridge Restoration Ministry, a Christian-oriented residential drug rehabilitation center for men. The center relocated to Pacific Grove from Seaside in May.

The Bridge offers a rigorous, yearlong treatment program that teaches residents the skills to mend lives that have been shattered by drug addiction.

Moammar Talks Stupid . . again

People Come From Far And Wide To See The World’s Ugliest Xmas Tree

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Cannot disappoint the tourists from Fresno, light it up.
Ugly Tree 2006

The Pacific Grove Annual Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony will be Monday, Dec. 1, at 5 p.m. at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, at Forest and Central avenues.

Following the tree lighting, which the chamber says regularly draws people from as far away as Fresno, there will be a reception at Chautauqua Hall

UPDATE – wanted to show the tree in the day time. Do people from Fresno really think this is nice enough to travel to see?
Ugly Tree Daylight

People Come From Far And Wide To See The World’s Ugliest Xmas Tree

Victory For The Chickens

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I’m Pro-chicken. And I Vote!
David Polden Picking
David Polden digging for evidence.

The P.G. City Council voted Nov. 19 to permit two homeowners to continue to keep chickens on their property as pets despite neighbor complaints they attract flies, are noisy and could harbor disease.

After the chicken owners received over-the-counter permits to keep the poultry, Polden filed an Oct. 29 appeal, citing several concerns.

“I’m worried about the loss of value of my property,” Polden wrote to the city council, “as well as that of everyone living in the town.”

Ultimately, council members agreed, finding that the chickens would not create a property-value issue, or be a threat to health and safety. Councilman Scott Miller dissented and councilwoman Lisa Bennett was absent.

Victory For The Chickens

Prison Doctors Fraud – One Was From P.G.

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Part of what causes insurance rates to go up – and services go down.

Dr. Charles Lee, 69, of Salinas, is charged with approving the false claims.

Also named are doctors Randy Sid, 42, of Pacific Grove; Pedro Eva, 43, of Soledad; David Hoban, 65, of Santa Cruz; Wade Exum, 60, of Las Vegas; and Mark Herbst, 48, of Honolulu.

The indictment accuses Hoban of overbilling the state more than $60,000 between April 2007 and June 2007. Exum is charged with similarly taking $13,570; Sid, $16,750; Eva, almost $30,000; and Herbst, nearly $45,000.

Prison Doctors Fraud – One Was From P.G.

Stillwell’s Snow In The Park For The Last Time?

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Businesses that contribute have been shuttered, all we have left are bistros and art galleries. Shows how much they give back to the town. Moe needs to go.

Caledonia Snow In Park

The annual Stillwell’s Snow in the Park event — scheduled from 10a.m. to 4p.m. Dec. 6 — has been a holiday tradition in the city for the past 15 years.

But the cost of putting it on keeps rising, said Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar, and has gone from $4,500 in 1994 to $12,000 this year.

Ammar said the chamber has $7,000 at present. Businesses in the city that normally contribute to Snow in the Park haven’t been as forthcoming this year, he said, because of the economic downturn. If the donations fall short, the event will be canceled next year.

Stillwell’s Snow In The Park – Last Time?

Deputy City Manager To Take The Helm

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Charlene Wiseman
coast weekly photo

Pacific Grove’s deputy city manager, Charlene Wiseman, will take over for top administrator Jim Colangelo on an interim basis when he leaves in mid-December.

“If Charlene wouldn’t have agreed to stay we would have been stuck with no city manager or assistant city manager,” he(Dan Cort) said.

Is that really a bad thing? Let her go.

Deputy City Manager To Take The Helm

Another DUI Arrest – Tourist Hit By Driver

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KSBW is calling it a hit & run.

A Pacific Grove man is in jail after hitting a pedestrian while driving under the influence of alcohol, police said.

Lance Millington, 58, was driving his pickup truck on the 800 block of Ocean View Boulevard when he struck an 82-year-old man.

The Hear-old says he’s 48 and mentions no hit an run. But 6:30 AM? Sheeshe.

Pacific Grove police arrested Lance Millington, 48, and charged him with DUI and causing bodily injury to Texas resident Carlos Broughton in the 800 block of Ocean View Boulevard in Pacific Grove. The accident occurred about 6:30a.m. Friday.

Clownafornian reports:

About 6:30 a.m., police said, Carlos Broughton, 82, of Texas, was struck and left lying in the road at the Sea Palm turnout of Ocean Boulevard. Citizens attended him until emergency crews arrived and he could be taken by ambulance to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.

Is this the same Lance Millington that is the driver for residents of the Park Lane???

From the Park Lane Classic Residence by Hyatt website:

A day in the life of Lance Millington.

9:00 a.m. I begin to take the residents to their doctor and dental appointments in the Lincoln Town Car. We also take them on group shopping trips to various locations on the Peninsula four days a week and on a tour or activity every Friday afternoon. Friday mornings are reserved for cleaning and maintenance of the vehicles.

Lance Millington

 

And is it the same Lance Millington that was a victim of a DUI two years ago?

Another DUI Arrest – Tourist Hit By Driver

Real Estate Signs Vandalized

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During the Halloween weekend, close to five dozen posts in Carmel Valley, Los Laureles Grade and Pebble Beach were yanked from the ground, according to Dwyer, who fielded calls from many agents requesting the signs be re-erected. She said the vandalism has been occurring once a month for the past half year.

The Dwyers charge $18 to reinstall the signs, unless one client has several down in the same area, in which case the fee drops to $8 per sign.

Hmm. Signs get torn down, someone gets paid to replace the signs, signs get torn down, rise, repeat. A somewhat related issue I have is with real estate barons blocking sidewalks every weekend. Keep it off to the side, or I will stop and move the sign so that the path is clear.

Kelller Williams Sign In Way

Real Estate Signs Vandalized

Pebble Beach Lays Off 29 Employees

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Occupancy rates have been slipping since mid-September, and while November through late January are typically slow for tourism, the current slowdown is more pronounced, said Bill Perocchi, chief operating officer

On Friday, the company cut 24 management positions and five hourly jobs from its payroll.

Pink Slip
Can’t be all that bad news. Visitors may be stepping down to 2nd rate locations like Sea Breeze motel or Favaloro’s.

Pebble Beach Lays Off 29 Employees