DEI, still offending the Christian faith I see.
A Pacific Grove diversity panel which earlier this year omitted Christmas and Easter from a “cultural calendar” has included the major holidays on a revised version of the document, but one of the panel’s members this week expressed hesitation in adding more European and American cultural events for fear of making it “bland”.
The Dinosaur Equity and Inclusion committee insists that they were here before the humans. After all, they gave their lives so we could have petroleum.
If the city council OKs Rau’s recommendation, it will follow the Pacific Grove Unified School District, which notes in part at its board meetings that “we are on the traditional land of the Ohlone, Costanoan and Esselen people.’
Aint it odd when it’s called the Lighthouse Avenue Widening Project when all it does to the street is make it narrower?
On Monday, construction crews tore down the wooden dining parklet in front of Wild Fish restaurant following last week’s demolition of adjacent parklets owned by restaurants Victorian Comer and Rudolfo’s Café. On Tuesday morning, a worker in a small John Deere excavator near the parklet used the vehicle’s bucket to fracture concrete, before lifting it up and dropping it into an awaiting dump truck.
The Lighthouse Avenue Widening Project, as it’s called, includes open-air seating separated by fencing in front of the three restaurants.
Tearing them down. Started as sidewalk dining then turned into full blown building additions. 
“The remaining parklet for Wild Fish restaurant will be removed Nov. 25,” Pacific Grove City manager Matt Mogensen told The Pine Cone this week. “The sidewalk widening project is expected to be completed prior to the end of the year, weather permitting.
The project involves building open-air seating areas in front of the three restaurants. Pedestrian traffic will be directed to’ a wider, 8-foot pathway between the outer portion of the fenced dining areas and Lighthouse Avenue. Other work includes removing trees and planting new ones in metal-grated wells, relocating signs and an existing light pole, while adding new pavement striping and markings.
I don’t think that is the right call, Judge Butler.
A man who trespassed onto two Pacific Grove school campuses in 2023 and threatened to kill the former principal of P.G. High was put on probation last week and freed from Monterey County Jail.
On Nov. 13, Monterey County Superior Court Judge Pamela Butler sentenced Riley Elvin, 29, to felony probation. The order means he must abide by a strict set of conditions, including abstaining from drugs and alcohol, seeking and maintaining employment, and staying 100 yards away from Pacific Grove High School.
No name on the apprehended suspect.
“They had video surveillance of the incident,” Rosas said, and from that, investigators were able to identify the two people who had broken into the shop. The damage the duo caused totaled around $3,100, but they didn’t manage to steal anything. One of them, a 26-year-old woman from Pebble Beach, has been arrested and charged with conspiracy, burglary and felony vandalism, according to Rosas.
Happy holidays indeed.
A Southern California woman was arrested Nov. 3 on charges of beating a member of her family at a Pacific Grove inn, the PG. Police Department said. Pasadena resident Huasha Liu, 67, was arrested at 221 Asilomar Ave., the location of the Bide-a-Wee Inn & Cottages
It is unclear which relationship applied in Liu’s case. As of Thursday afternoon, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office had not yet charged her with a crime.
Isn’t that funny. I’d challenge Wild Fish for being a legal tax abiding business.
The operators of Victorian Corner and Rudolfo’s are in favor of the new outdoor dining plan, while Wild Fish owners Kelvin and Liz Jacobs oppose it. The couple said they’re planning on hiring an attorney to “challenge the legitimacy” of the project and are asking the public to help pay their legal bills.
Yesterday an 11-year-old was bitten at a park and had to undergo rabies shots. If you do not know the dog, don’t go near it.
At about 2 p.m. Oct. 31, a 76-year P.G. man was walking in George Washington Park when he came across a German shepherd and, as people who like dogs often do, asked if the animal was friendly so he could pet it. But things didn’t go as planned. “The owners advised their dog was friendly, and the victim began to pet the dog when the dog lunged and bit the victim’s left calf,” Pacific Grove Police Acting Chief Brian Anderson told The Pine Cone Monday.
After the baby killers were kicked out, we have this one that is more open with it’s curriculum.
School District trustees last week approved a new sex education course over worries that refusal by former provider Planned Parenthood to allow public inspection of its curriculum put the district at odds with state law.
The five-member school board voted unanimously at its Nov. 7 meeting to approve a $4,090 contract for Carpinteria-based Positive Prevention Plus to provide sex ed curriculum to students.Pacific Grove Unified administrators decided to drop the Planned Parenthood Mar Monte course after the group informed the district its content was “proprietary” and that
the district was not allowed to let the public, including some parents of students, see it.
First lessons. Should it be health, biology and science of sex? Nope, it’s
Lesson 2: Understanding Gender and Sexual Orientation.
Health? Way down on the list.
Lesson 9: Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Choosing to engage or not? Even lower
Lesson 11: Media and Peer Pressures