Pacific Grove police say they pulled a 16-year-old Marina boy out of a burning vehicle that he crashed early this morning while fleeing officers.
The car crashed through a guard-rail along Recreation Trail and continued over a rock edge near Ocean View Boulevard and Fountain Avenue, officers said.
The teen received minor injuries and was booked into Monterey County Juvenile Hall on suspicion of auto theft, evading a peace officer, driving under the influence and driving without a license.
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Where’d They Hide The Body?
Sam The Sham Farr and the case of the missing opponent.
During his three decades in public office, Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel, has experienced election campaigns and political opponents of nearly every stripe. He’s faced serious challenges and less-serious challenges, mainstream-party opponents and alternative-party opponents.
But even the veteran Farr has never faced an opponent quite like Anthony DeMaio.
That’s because after filing late and running unopposed in the Republican primary, DeMaio has all but disappeared. The phantom candidate hasn’t answered repeated phone calls and e-mails seeking comment.
Sounds like the making of a conspiracy – what did they do with DeMaio?
Sam The Sham has been on the radio lately, whining about housing costs and the lack of affordable housing in his area. If he thinks he can do something about it WHY DID HE LET IT GET THIS MESSED UP TO BEGIN WITH?
Taxi Driver Beaten, robbed And Carjacked in PG
Dennis Lee Dumas, 45, of Cathedral City, was booked into Monterey County jail on charges of carjacking, assault with a deadly weapon, felony vandalism and possession of stolen property. Police said Dumas called for the taxi cab from a bar in Monterey. After Dumas was taken to Grove Acres in Pacific Grove about 11:20 p.m., the driver asked for his fare, whereupon police said Dumas took the driver’s flashlight and began beating him in the head.
Parking Meters On The Avenue?
Controversial article – it started when a letter from the editor in the Hear-Old ranted about the police not enforcing parking at businesses on Lighthouse Avenue. Though that writer was incorrect about the police involvement (Nob Hill and Longs Drugs parking lots are private property – enforcement is up to the property owners), it brought to my attention that parking limits were not being enforced or being selectively enforced in PG. It appeared that businesses owners and their employees were taking up a large amount of parking spaces on the Avenue and side streets where time limited parking is posted. It’s not hard to see – many of the cars have the store names on them, they can be seen every day, often in the same parking spaces.
Here’s the Favaloro’s GMC truck right in front of the (now out of business) restaurant.
Later the same truck, now minus it’s door signs is always seen on Grand just below Lighthouse:
And again with the Favaloros Mitsubishi that is always downtown:
In December they hid it over behind the closed down theater. Would they choose to park in any of the 24 hour spots in the lot? No, it’s in a 2 hour spot.
The Favaloros must also have this Suburban.\
This Mitsubishi once sported signs on it’s doors for Cafe Ariana. Since the first posting, the signs have been removed.
In the same block is the Victorian Corner. The streets are full of cars from that business too. This Chevy truck is always parked on Fountain:
Also seen is the Victorian Corner Tahoe:
And the Victorian Corner Jag:
In the next block is the Oh Flowers van:
They have since closed and move to a lower rent area. Still the same? Yep, still the same.
Also we have the Bratty Real Estate office. It’s workers take the 20 minute spots with a pickup truck:
and a Mustang:
Grand Avenue Art Works – did they champion to have the curb in front of their place painted yellow so people might see them? If that’s not enough, they borrow a tactic from Cafe Ariana – magnet signs on the car doors making a parked rolling billboard.
Hazaras Magic Carpets has a van that is sometimes in the diagonals:
Or over on Forest where they go outside and smoke:
Chili Great Chili parks it’s van in the center – outside the defined parking spaces, making it hard for emergency vehicles to navigate the narrow street.
Then the Chili Great Chili pickup is in the 20 minute zone:
Just south of Harzara is St Vinnies. City Councilman Ron Schenk works there. Parks his Jeep in front during campaign time, better advertising.
Also on the campaign trail is Susan Goldbeck. She cannot find the energy to carry her political paraphernalia back to her car, so she double parks. Blocking the handicap spot.
The post office is also a place the cops could rake in the tickets. This BMW driver can afford to park in the red zone:
So can the Cadillac owner that takes up two half-spaces:
The point made is that it appears that parking enforcement is lax. If we don’t want meters to feed all day, get the parking patrol out and write some tickets.
Political Cartoons In P.G. Press Upset A Resident
Saw Dawn Megigi get real upset in the council meeting over these cartoons. Censorship champions come out of the woodwork when the subject matter is not on their side.
from Pacific Grove Press
from Pacific Grove Press
Really. This is nothing but small time barbs. Look at what cartoonists have done to Bush or Clinton. Sheeshe.
What Was That Again?
Then: from Susan Goldbeck’s failed bid for Supervisor web site
Now:
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Election Time Again
So, who is candidate David Dilworth and does he really live in PG? He touts honest government, but it sure looks like something is hiding…
First, he’s always at council meetings with his single topic of open government, hug the trees, etc. In all the meetings I have watched him speak at I’ve never heard him say he is from Pacific Grove. His non-profit lists a 624 (Carmel) prefix and a Carmel PO Box..
David’s sites are pretty minimal, looks like 1996 vintage Geocities. Wonder how much HOPE pays Dilworth for those bad copy/pasted web pages?
His businesses – Sometimes known as Common Sense Software here shown as “Dilworth Software & Web Design”, also uses the same Carmel phone & address:
Another Dilworth for-profit, using the same resources at the non-profit:
Searching the web comes back Carmel, Carmel and more Carmel, check the web domain register for the for profit photo business. Whoaaaa! The makings of a TRUE conspiracy – registered to David bilworth?
The seat-hopeful’s campaign site – oooh – same mistake, same Carmel address and phone number..
OK, OK. Dil comes out and puts a PG address of 166 17 Mile Drive as his home:
Wait!! That’s the raccoon hugger ex-councilman Terrance Zito’s address!! What’s going on here???
Sound like open honest leadership??
Is the man another constant runner/loser kook? Touts free Internet and free cable TV. The city can’t even keep the sewers flowing and he wants taxpayers to support free to all TV and Internet.
No Cost? Who pays for the infrastructure? Who pays for the power to keep the cable system working? Who pays the workers that maintain it? Cable TV and Internet is not a non-profit. It’s a business that expects to make money from it’s investments.
And city dictated franchises are out. It’s statewide now thanks to AT&T.
Affordability is not the issue. It’s that there is nobody in PG’s vacation homes that cares to see city council meetings or subscribe to cable TV. (few people care to watch public access altogether, but that’s another story)
So, lets solve hunger by making Trader Joe’s give free food to everyone. Force ‘Sustainable Pacific Grove’ to generate enough power to give everyone free electricity. Free water. Ban Cars. Replace buses with horse and buggies. Remove all the evil petrochemical asphalt and return to dirt roads. Uh huh, like it’s 1985 again, and the weird candidates are back.
Ron Russell On Crows
To be sure, nothing in Monterey causes sleep deprivation more consistently than crows, except the clamor of the mindless auto and motorcycle races at Laguna Seca. Geniuses like Schopenhauer detested noise and wrote essays about how maddening it was to intellectuals and nappers like he and I.
Why do we have such a great population of these dirty, noisy, scavenger birds? I suspect it’s because they have no natural predators to chew them into pieces. Hawks, owls, vultures and eagles appear about as frequently as pterodactyls. So crows go about their nasty ways with full license, willfully murdering sweet birds such as finches, robins and sparrows whose numbers are declining. How can we stop this occupation and genocide?
Aw, I like the gameful interaction between the crows, jays and squirrels. The noise of animal life is preferable to the power tools, yard blowers and stupid barking dogs.
Truth In Advertising #547
The Monte Cafe says open for dinner, but rarely is.
Fixed it. This is better.
Missourians Fear The ‘Pinos’
According to a report in the Columbia Daily Tribune, the issue arose when city planners in Columbia proposed to change the name of a street from “Point Penos” to “San Mateo.”
According to the Tribune story, a couple of city commissioners figured the reason for erasing Point Penos from the slate was obvious.
“Add a Missouri drawl and the name could be trouble,” the Tribune writer concluded.
I noticed the same thing when John Denver crashed into the bay at Point Pinos – every news anchor across the country referred to the area as “near Lovers Point” or “off the California Coast”. No news reader would dare try and say it.