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Here’s A New Business

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A “Talent Agency” in Country Club Gate. Look at all the minivans and SUVs filling the lot. Read the BBB entry for the nearest one in Oakland:

John Robert Powers

Based on BBB files, this company has an unsatisfactory record

According to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, all San Francisco John Robert Powers locations have been closed and phone numbers have been disconnected.

The John Robert Powers organization operates in various locations under different owner/managers who operate similar to franchisees. They accept responsibility for their own offices independently. The John Robert Powers organization generates complaints which are processed through Better Business Bureaus serving the areas in which individual offices are located. Complaints generally express dissatisfaction with the company’s services and request refunds of up-front fees already paid. Most complainants do not understand the nature of services offered by John Robert Powers.

More stuff on the web. Buyer beware!

P.G. Police Taser Suspect – Suspect Lives

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And suspect was suicidal. Nice work, P.G.P.D. for ending this incident with no shots fired and no one assuming room temperature.

Pacific Grove police tased a reportedly suicidal suspect on Aug. 22. According to a PGPD press release, police responded to a report that Glenn Preston had a gun to his head. Preston left his residence before the cops arrived, and police chased him through the city, eventually forcing him to stop. Police tased him when he allegedly resisted arrest, later charging him with evading an officer, resisting arrest and possessing a firearm.

P.G. Police Taser Suspect – Suspect Lives

Follow Up: Dumpsters Of Commerce

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Posted on 7/21. The County Health Department was called, the city was called. Everyone pledged to crack down on the sloppy restaurants poor housekeeping habits. I ported the story over on the Pacificgrove.com message board and it was picked up by the Weakly.

Well, nothing has improved. Recommendation, avoid downtown at all cost. Anything you touch will be diseased. Restaurants are not keeping wet garbage covered as per health regulations, who knows what other safety rules they overlook. Is the food covered? Is the mayonnaise kept at the correct temp? Are the dishes cleaned within spec? The mind fills with doubt.

Fandango’s 8/10, See the locking bar?? Use it.

Dumpster Fandango 081008

Zocalos 8/21, complete disregard for health regulations.

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Follow Up: Dumpsters Of Commerce

Stamm Thought Being Homosexual Was Bad For The Business

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David Stamm

The link to the KSBW story has links to all of their reports on Stamm.

On the witness stand, Stamm said he had sex with the alleged victim on at least four occasions, but he said it was consensual and only happened after the alleged victim turned 18.

Stamm said that story started going around town and that’s when he offered to pay the alleged victim $5,000 to recant.

Stamm said he’s gay and he hid his homosexuality because if it got out he feared it would ruin a batting cages business he once owned.

Stamm Thought Being Homosexual Was Bad For The Business

(W)Rec Trail For Sale

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Rec Trail Asilomar

Union Pacific Railroad is offering its former rail line in Pacific Grove’s Asilomar area for sale, with an asking price of $1.6 million.

The property includes a .69 acre lot at Crocker and Sinex avenues that may be suitable for building. A railroad station once stood on the corner, according to Union Pacific spokeswoman Zoe Richmond in Sacramento.

The total 9.12 acre property stretches from Sinex Avenue to the Pacific Grove Municipal Golf Course, but most of it is “very thin,” she said, “not something for development.”

Union Pacific put the property up for sale about eight years ago,

Why didn’t P.G. buy it back then when there was money in the bank?

(W)Rec Trail For Sale

Election 2008 – Eight Candidates For Council

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Vote Machine

. . seeking three seats being vacated by incumbents Scott Miller, Dan Davis and Susan Nilmeier:

Former Councilwoman Susan Goldbeck, and newcomers Richard Ahart, Ken Cunio, David Dilworth, Carmelita Garcia, Bill Kampe, Deborah Lindsay and Dan Miller.

Pacific Grove voters will vote on two ballot measures: Measure X, calling for a $35 parcel tax for the next five years for the Pacific Grove Unified School District;

Can’t say that I’d support another school tax. That $6,000,000 stadium at PGHS and $1,700,000 district offices tells me that there is plenty enough money going to the school district.

Election 2008 – Eight Candidates For Council

Rescue At Sea!

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The Coast Guard received a distress call at about 1:10 p.m. from the “Blue Chip”, a boat 17 feet long with two passengers on board that was disabled and adrift 80 nautical miles west of Point Pinos.

The Coast Guard asked any vessels in the area to divert to the skiff’s location if possible.

The “Golden Bear,” returning from a two-month international training cruise, responded to the call at about 4 p.m. and agreed to assist. The training ship brought the two sailors safely onboard at about 9:55 p.m., according to the Coast Guard.

A big salute to the academy.

Golden Bear

Wikipedia photo

The California Maritime Academy (also known as CMA, Cal Maritime, and CSU, Maritime) is one of 23 campuses in the California State University system and is one of only seven degree-granting maritime academies in the United States. It is located in Vallejo, California.

Rescue At Sea!

Union Loses Out, Sues. Nothing New

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Breaker Stadium 6 Million

Carpenters Union – Lost 51% if certification elections in 2006.

In a suit filed Aug. 5, Carpenters Local Union 605 contends DMC Construction — the firm hired by PGUSD for the stadium redo — did not show proof that a portion of its subcontractors for the project are disabled veterans, which is required by the state.

DMC general manager Mark Lord said Thursday there had been a clerical error in DMC’s paperwork for the bid, but that matter had been resolved.

Union Facts

Union Loses Out, Sues. Nothing New

(W)Rec Trail Repairs Approved & Underway

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But need your donations. It’s another chance to get your name on a brick!Rec Trail Collapse Repair

While limited emergency repairs were approved by the California Coastal Commission in early 2004, the process for gaining approval for the entire project involved several federal, state and local agencies.

The city will be seeking donations — an additional $192,000 — to complete the projects.

(W)Rec Trail Repairs Approved & Underway