Category Archives: Carmel Pine Cone

What Fire Didn’t Take Out The Demolition Team Will

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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?

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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?

Mayor’s Zoom Meeting Gets Good As Goatse

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This would not have happened if they had trusted the schlock website operators that know better.

And Moe? The same Moe that talks about his orgasms in meetings? He did not say his normal “the best thing to happen to P.G.”

“My wife was watching from home, and she was shocked,” Peake said. He added that former P.G. Chamber of Commerce president “Moe Ammar was there, and he said something to the effect of that it was ‘ugly. ‘ There was no laughing.” Peake, who said his State of the City address will be rescheduled, added that “city staff was aware” of the potential for hacking, “and if they had set up the meeting differently, this would not have happened.”

Mayor’s Zoom Meeting Gets Good As Goatse

Don’t google “goatse”. Trust me.

Overflow Of Otters Occupy The Row

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I used to meet a coworker after work at Casa Maria, me snagging free appetizers while my friend tried meeting starving schoolteachers that would be there for the free appetizers too. While overhearing tourists commenting on otters they would see, we started a tale about the mechanical otters that rolled on an underwater rail, placed there to attract tourists. Sometimes seeing kayakers and divers out on the kelp we would add them to the ruse, saying they were maintaining the mechanical otters. We would hear the tourists telling each other “did you hear that? the otters are not real”

“We began seeing larger than typical rafts in mid-January,” Jess Fujii, manager of the Monterey Bay Aquarium ‘s sea otter program told, The Pine Cone this week. “The numbers have varied. But we estimate 100 to 250 otters have been resting along Cannery Row over the last few weeks. “

Overflow Of Otters Occupy The Row

Human Remains Found At Point Pinos

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No, it was not John Denver.

John Denver Plane

“The Pacific Grove Police Department was notified by Bureau of Land Management employees that human remains had been partially unearthed at a known archaeological site within federal jurisdiction,” the PGPD reported.
Police Chief Cathy Madalone told The Pine Cone they were found on the 1400 block of Ocean View, an area along the coast and across the street from a city recycled-water treatment plant.

Human Remains Found At Point Pinos