Cultural Proficiency Takes Precedence For Teachers

Grading practices? In the 1970s it was pass ’em all regardless of the child’s ability to prove they were educated.

PGhs Speling

Oh, and having the DEI people on board can’t be a good sign.

Included in the ongoing cultural proficiency training for PGUSD staff, he said, are “instructional materials that represent diverse and “culturally proficient instructional strategies and grading practices.

The district invited members of the city’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force to attend the board meeting to listen in on the topic.

PGUSD’s invitation to members of the DEI Task Force this week comes after the task force’s vice chair, Nadja Mark, was accused of comparing a seemingly noncontroversial online comment by a citizen and member of the city’s economic development commission to the work of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.
That comment and other remarks Mark made on social media violated the city’s code of conduct, which prohibits members of city commissions and committees from making negative comments, including on social media, that could offend members of the public, and compels them to “show tolerance and respect other party’s opinions.”

Cultural Proficiency Takes Precedence For Teachers

Hey Mr. Cop, Want To Go To A Gunfight?

Wesley Langkamp joins the dumb criminals club.

A Pacific Grove man got a response he wasn’t expecting when he texted the wrong co-conspirator while trying to set up an armed confrontation with a group of men in Monterey Aug. 17, according to Monterey Police Lt. Ethan Andrews- Instead of his cohort, the police showed up.

The sender, later identified as 38-year-old Wesley Langkamp, “requested assistance in confronting a group of males.” He then texted the officer that he was waiting on North Fremont Street and described the car he was driving so, a few MPD officers headed to the area and found Langkamp in his vehicle,

Hey Mr. Cop, Want To Go To A Gunfight?

What Fire Didn’t Take Out The Demolition Team Will

LaPorte Mansion

On May 26, a fire broke out at what’s known as the LaPorte Mansion at 1030 Lighthouse, severely damaging the five-bedroom, four-bathroom home, built in 1895. It appeared in Hollywood productions in the 1950s and 1970s but was in need of renovation. After the fire, the owner, Bill Turrentine, opted to tear it down.

A worker told The Pine Cone Thursday morning that the process of tearing down the home could begin Monday and that crews would likely be there all week cleaning up the remnants of the demolished home.

What Fire Didn’t Take Out The Demolition Team Will

Newcomer Wants Live Music And Alcohol On Forest Ave

Good location. Are the apartments on the second floor still rented out? Hope they don’t have to share a sewer line with Pavel’s.

Resident Michaela Kuenster has proposed opening a business called Pop & Hiss in a 2,640-square-foot commercial building at 215 Forest Ave., formerly the site of a silk screen shop.

Kuenster — a music teacher who moved to P.G. from Los Angeles five years ago — said she envisions a record shop, food, a live music venue that could accommodate about 80 people, and an enclosed 1,450-square-foot beer garden to the rear of the building on Grand Avenue.

Newcomer Wants Live Music And Alcohol On Forest Ave

DEI Comes Up With A List Of Special Days To Recognize

The DEI committee is still just an idiotic waste of time even without the bitter, hateful Tina Rau. Disagree with them and you can be called a Nazi.

A draft of the calendar identifies widely recognized
religious holidays observed in the United States such as
Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah and Yom Kippur. It also
includes dates important to Buddhism and Islam, along
with lesser known events and religions, such as Zartosht
No-Diso, which honors the prophet of Zoroastrianism —
a religion estimated to have a mere 120,000 followers
worldwide.
“By no means is this calendar extensive. How can it
be?” Mark said Wednesday, later adding that she didn’t
think there “could ever be too many items on it.”

So I’ve researched a bit and came up with more diverse and equitable holidays to put on the calendar.

A’Phabet Day or No “L” Day
Alien Abduction Day
Barbie-in-a-Blender Day
Blah Blah Blah Day
Call of the Horizon Day
Clashing Clothes Day
Cow Milked While Flying in an Airplane Day
Create a Great Funeral Day
Curmudgeons Day
Do a Grouch a Favor Day
Dumbstruck Day
Everything You Think Is Wrong Day (DEI founded on this day)
Extraterrestrial Culture Day
False Confession Day
Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales
Fill Our Staplers Day
Gorilla Suit Day
Haunted Refrigerator Night
Hawaiian Shirt Day
Hobbit Day
Hurray for Buttons Day
Invite an Alien to Live with You Day
Jump Over Things Day
Keep Off the Grass Day
Kyrgyzstan National Hat Day
Look for Circles Day
Measure Your Feet Day
Middle Name Pride Day
My Way Day (A favorite of DEI members)
National Bad Poetry Day
National Big Forehead Day
National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
National Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day
National Emo Day
National Griper’s Day
National Handcuff Day
National I LOVE My feet Day
National Lumpy Rug Day
National Name Your Car Day
National Paranormal Day
National Reach As High As You Can Day
National Rubber Eraser Day
National Ugly Truck Contest Day
No Socks Day
Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day
Quitters Day
Send an Electronic Greeting Card Day
Sock Monkey Day
Stay Away From Fresno Day
Take it in the Ear Day
Talk Like William Shakespeare Day
Thumb Appreciation Day

DEI Comes Up With A List Of Special Days To Recognize

Don’t Bring A Bicycle To A Footpath

Bicycle Crash In the Past

Bike riders always griping about walkers on the recreation trail. Keep your pedals off the foot paths and sidewalks.

A bicyclist in his 40s who was apparently riding on a footpath adjacent to Ocean View Boulevard in Pacific Grove this week fell onto a rocky beach and was taken to the hospital for injuries.

“He suffered traumatic injuries to his leg — possibly other injuries as well,” fire chief Gaudenz Panholzer told The Pine
Cone.

Don’t Bring A Bicycle To A Footpath

Ben Harvey Will Be Spending Even Less Time In P.G.

Farewell to the work-from-Long Beach kid. Overpaid and uneducated about P.G.

Under mysterious circumstances. Like he stomped on a Monarch or something.
Council appointees and department heads are precluded from making disparaging  statements about Ben Harvey,” Pierik said. “You should not make any statements [verbal or written] about Ben Harvey or his resignation.

Following a 5 p_m. closed session city council meet-
ing Wednesday, PG. city attorney Brian Pierik reported
in open session that the council voted 6-0 to approve the
so-called separation agreement, which allows city man-
ager Ben Harvey to resign from the job he’s held since
2016.
While Pierik didn’t specify why the council wanted
Harvey gone — and those specifics will probably kept
confidential — councilmembers were likely not pleased
with Harvey’s job performance and had lost confidence
in him.

harvey-tshirt

Ben Harvey Will Be Spending Even Less Time In P.G.

Cannery Row Carjacking

Failed to get the car, but one of the robbers got away. Cannery Row at night, be aware of your surroundings. One robber was caught, you guessed it, on the rec trail. Perp is one Abraham Andrade from Greenfield.

18-year-old in attempted carjacking

Pine Cone Mugshot

At around 10 p.m. June 4, a man was by his car on Foam Street near David Avenue when two people walked up and “demanded his keys at gunpoint,” according to MPD Lt.Gabriel Kaster.
“Both suspects began to punch the victim in the face and head,” Kaster said. “At one point, the victim was hit on the head with something hard, causing a small laceration to the back of his head.”

Cannery Row Carjacking

Why Is It Always Central Pharmacy?

Put a steel gate up. Central Drugs

On Feb. 14. at about 2:25 a.m., two men broke the front glass door of Central Avenue Pharmacy at 133 15th St. Surveillance video shows them hurling a large rock at the
door several times before breaking it, kicking in the broken glass panel, climbing in and hopping over the sales counter toward the drugs.

With firearms drawn, Pacific Grove Police officers entered the pharmacy and searched  for the thieves, Gordon said, but they had already taken off. The burglars took less than $50 worth of codeine,” Gordon said. “The only thing they took is liquid codeine-type products.”

Why Is It Always Central Pharmacy?