Category Archives: Carmel Pine Cone

Would YOU Show Your I.D. To A Registered Sex Offender?

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Think about it ladies – a registered sex offender could be looking at YOUR name & address when you buy alcohol or tobacco at Ron’s Liquors.

Pollacci Parking For Rape Victims

Police tracked down Pollacci after he reportedly left the woman at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula with a head injury. In the following months, they gathered evidence — including having forensics specialists sweep the Lighthouse Avenue liquor store where he works — and interviewed the victim, who is not from the area.

Neither officers, nor the district attorney’s office, would reveal any further details of the case. Pollacci, who police said is a registered sex offender, is set to appear in a Salinas courtroom at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, for his arraignment

Interesting screenshot obtained via email. One does get to wonder what the circumstances are to have this removed from the Megan’s Law pages.

Tom Pollacci Sex Offender

Would YOU Show Your I.D. To A Registered Sex Offender?

Beware Of Thom Ache-Man’s Tree Posse

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P.G. newcomer and former Hear-old reporter is out busting anyone who’s cut down a tree and not replaced it. He has absolutely no authority to do so. Should be removed from committee.

Acheman Book

P.G. Beautification and Natural Resources Committee member Thom Akeman told residents if they didn’t comply the city’s tree ordinance — which includes replanting two trees when one is removed- they faced penalties.

And Mayor Dan Cort said he heard from several people who thought Akeman specifically overstepped his role as a city volunteer.

“There were several letters and emails that I got from some of the people he visited and from their friends who felt it was something he shouldn’t do,” Cort said.

Though Cort said he understands the frustration and desire by some citizens to speed up city work, he said any sort of enforcement effort should be left to city employees.

Beware Of Thom Ache-Man’s Tree Posse

Car Event Stalls Like A V12 In A Sand Trap – Needs Environmental Impact Report

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Red Ferraris On Golf Course

When will Moammar turn to improving commerce for locals? Everything the guy does is to bring more transients to town. It’s time to boot the guy out. First cut I’d make.

Chamber of commerce president Moe Ammar said the main reason the show — which attracts hundreds of participants and thousands of spectators — is in jeopardy is that an environmental impact report might be needed before it can be permitted to move to P.G.

“With all the requirements with getting a permit,” Ammar said, “it’s highly unlikely the event will happen this year.”

In 2008, the city council said it didn’t want the Concorso to move to town because of concerns about golf-course damage from cars, traffic and other issues. But with the city’s economy hurting because of the global downturn, Ammar believes the council would change its mind.

Car Event Stalls Like A V12 In A Sand Trap – Needs Environmental Impact Report

Commercial Filming Shuts Down Lighthouse Avenue

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Said to be an AT$T Commercial, two days of shutdown from Congress Ave to 19th St. Some stores were compensated, others were not.

Baghdad Moe

Ammar said he personally notified every business in the area about the commercial and that streets would be closed.

One store owner, who wanted to remain anonymous, said he lost an estimated $700 in the two days the commercial was being shot because of the street closures. The owner said he was never notified the streets were going to be closed.

Besides closing the main street and tying up traffic, the commercial filmed Monday and Tuesday for AT&T cellular phone service blocked off dozens of parking spaces. But it also brought dozens of technicians and actors to town as the production company, Smuggler, shot scenes at the Red House Cafe, Miss Trawick’s Garden Shop and other P.G. locations.

“It was the best thing that happened to P.G. this year,” said Moe Ammar, president of the chamber of commerce. “It was very exciting for P.G. to see Hollywood here.”

Commercial Filming Shuts Down Lighthouse Avenue

This Month, Deborah King Is Not Competent

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What will it be next month?

Deborah King

KSBW Photo

The murder case against King, who had been in treatment at Natividad Medical Center but is back in custody at the Monterey County Jail, cannot proceed until she is aware of the proceedings. She underwent similar evaluations for competency in the weeks following her arrest, was treated and deemed fit, and had been set for a preliminary hearing last week, when her mental state was again brought into question.

This Month, Deborah King Is Not Competent

Forest Hill Becoming Crime Central – Burglars Hit Club Fit

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Club Fit

On Sunday morning, police responded to a fitness club on Forest Avenue in regards to a window smash and burglary. Sometime between Saturday night at approximately 2015 hours and Sunday morning at 0900 hours, unknown person(s) broke the front glass door with a rock, entered the store and removed the petty cash. The case is under investigation.

Forest Hill Becoming Crime Central – Burglars Hit Club Fit

Don’t Count On Sleeping In – It’s Another Marathon On Sunday Morning

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Hope the tourists at Borgs or the Caribbean get to sleep early!
Marathon

The 24th Annual Together With Love Run/Walk, a fundraiser for the Monterey County Rape Crisis Center, will be held at Lovers Point in Pacific Grove Sunday, Feb. 8. Sponsored by Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, the 5K and 10K races will begin at 9 a.m.,

Don’t Count On Sleeping In – It’s Another Marathon On Sunday Morning

Chamber Of Commerce Trying To Bring Concorso Italiano Again

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How do we define ‘green’? Is it carbon credits and no styrofoam or is it money, money, money from gross polluters?

Remember the Melange – posh is out!
Red Ferraris On Golf Course

There is a renewed drive to bring the Concorso Italiano to Pacific Grove, nearly one year after the city council said it didn’t think the posh car event was appropriate for the town.

In November, Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar approached Concorso owner Jack Wadsworth with the idea to bring a slightly scaled-down version of the car event to the city’s municipal golf course.

“I wrote him a letter and I convinced him to [again] consider Pacific Grove,” Ammar said.

Chamber Of Commerce Trying To Bring Concorso Italiano Again

Gangs Moving In, See P.G. As Easy Target

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Graffiti Trash

“They’re moving into town,” (detective Adam Sepagan) said, citing the area of Arkwright Court, where apartments are abundant and cheap. “Unless they do something wrong and we catch them, we can’t ask them not to live here. We’d like to. It’s mostly Hispanic gangs, according to Sepagan, and while Nortenos were predominant for a while, more Surenos are arriving as of late.
“For the longest time, those people didn’t come to P.G., because they didn’t want to get caught for something like a taillight, and then be found driving a stolen car or having an outstanding warrant” Sepagan said. “But as things are getting worse throughout the county, sometimes they come here because they want to get away from the violence and everything.”

Not news. Same paper reported gangs in P.G. back in April 2005.

Don’t forget the violent robbery at Safeway

Gangs Moving In, See P.G. As Easy Target

I’d Walk A Mile With A Service Camel

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None of these, what say my service camel?

Trotters Not Allowed

Last week the New York Times reported a national trend of disabled people replacing service dogs with more exotic animals — such as monkeys, parrots and small horses.

And you don’t have to go far to find an example. One resident of Pacific Grove uses a miniature horse for stability as she moves around her home. The horse is often seen being walked around a neighborhood not far from the beach.

According to the Guide Horse Foundation, miniature horses make good service animals because “they demonstrate excellent judgment and are not easily distracted by crowds and people.”

But there is a growing debate over whether unconventional service animals such as monkeys and pigs should be allowed to cozy up to people in restaurants, stores, churches and other public places.

“Where will it end?” asked Pacific Grove Mayor Dan Cort. “Because camels could be good service animals, too.”

I’d Walk A Mile With A Service Camel