Category Archives: Carmel Pine Cone

Victory For The Chickens

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I’m Pro-chicken. And I Vote!
David Polden Picking
David Polden digging for evidence.

The P.G. City Council voted Nov. 19 to permit two homeowners to continue to keep chickens on their property as pets despite neighbor complaints they attract flies, are noisy and could harbor disease.

After the chicken owners received over-the-counter permits to keep the poultry, Polden filed an Oct. 29 appeal, citing several concerns.

“I’m worried about the loss of value of my property,” Polden wrote to the city council, “as well as that of everyone living in the town.”

Ultimately, council members agreed, finding that the chickens would not create a property-value issue, or be a threat to health and safety. Councilman Scott Miller dissented and councilwoman Lisa Bennett was absent.

Victory For The Chickens

Real Estate Signs Vandalized

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During the Halloween weekend, close to five dozen posts in Carmel Valley, Los Laureles Grade and Pebble Beach were yanked from the ground, according to Dwyer, who fielded calls from many agents requesting the signs be re-erected. She said the vandalism has been occurring once a month for the past half year.

The Dwyers charge $18 to reinstall the signs, unless one client has several down in the same area, in which case the fee drops to $8 per sign.

Hmm. Signs get torn down, someone gets paid to replace the signs, signs get torn down, rise, repeat. A somewhat related issue I have is with real estate barons blocking sidewalks every weekend. Keep it off to the side, or I will stop and move the sign so that the path is clear.

Kelller Williams Sign In Way

Real Estate Signs Vandalized

Buyers Beware At Holman Antiques

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Holmans Antique Sale

Vinther is suing for $36,000, plus unspecified losses due to his expending “significant time and funds to determine the clock is a reproduction, not a genuine antique,” according to the suit.

Though the clock appeared new, Vinther’s lawsuit claims Agha told him it looked that way because it had been refinished. “Defendant’s clock was not a genuine antique, but was a contemporary reproduction,” according to the suit. “The clock appeared new because it was newly made, and was not an antique.”

Must have been the battery that gave it away..

Buyers Beware At Holman Antiques

Olga Ospina Suing For Emotional Distress Over Dead Dog

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Olga

IN A lawsuit that seeks to set a new precedent for damages, a local news anchorwoman is suing the owner of a Labrador for emotional distress after the dog mauled her Maltese last year in front of the Pacific Grove post office.

. . Ospina is also seeking something California courts haven’t awarded before. She wants money for “severe emotional distress” she claims she suffered as a result of her dog being attacked.

Heretofore, “the law limits emotional distress damages to being in the presence of a close human relative who gets injured,” said Ospina’s Monterey attorney, Chuck Warner. “This is unique.”

Courts in most states, including California, view pets as personal property and limit compensation to the fair market value of the pet — including the pedigree of the animal, the purchase price and other criteria.

Noted a year ago – she want’s the other dog dead AND money, money, money

Olga Ospina Suing For Emotional Distress Over Dead Dog

DIU Driver To Get Second Second Opinion

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Deborah King In Court
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“My client would like an independent evaluator,” she said. “She sees Dr. Fithian and Dr. Finnberg fairly often, and with a split decision, I’m uncomfortable with Dr. Fithian going back again.” (When ordered by the court, the $325 to $500 experts receive for the evaluations is provided by taxpayers.)

She sees both of the these “doctors” often and they do not agree on the woman’s mental health?

Have that third doctor examine the first two doctors while we are at it. Are they fit to prescribe drugs?

DIU Driver To Get Second Second Opinion

Mayor Cort Dismisses Write In Challenger

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Hollister For Mayor

Mayor Dan Cort this week blasted a last-minute write-in campaign by a longtime city resident to run against him in the Nov. 4 election.

Ted Hollister, who has lived in Pacific Grove for 49 years, announced himself last week as a write-in candidate for mayor, which makes him Cort’s only competition.

“I’ve been overwhelmed with the response,” Hollister told The Pine Cone. “Honestly, it’s very humbling to see all the support.”

But Cort accused Hollister, 77, of not attending a city council meeting in years and questioned the former veterinarian’s motivation for seeking the job.

“We have serious problems facing this city, and if you haven’t been at a city council meeting in four or five years, then really you have no business inserting yourself into something as important as serving on the council,” Cort said.

Our passive and kind mayor is getting a bit testy. He seems surprised that anyone would want question him or take a stab at leading the town,

Mayor Cort Dismisses Write In Challenger

Carpenters Union Loses Another One

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Monterey County Superior Court Judge Robert O’Farrell dismissed the suit filed by Local Union 605 Oct. 2. The lawsuit claimed DMC Construction did not show proof a portion of its subcontractors for the stadium project are disabled veterans, which is required by the state.

“Essentially the union didn’t really have the information to back their claims,” said DMC general manager Mark Lord.

Unions can’t fund themselves by providing useful, positive reasons to exist. So they turn to suing people and misleading workers. That’s where the dues are going.

Union Facts

Carpenters Union Loses Another One

Bold Murals Appear On NOAA Building

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The murals, designed by Alaska artist Ray Troll, were installed last week on the otherwise drab NOAA Fisheries Service building next door to the Pacific Grove Lighthouse.

“We went through the coastal commission some time ago,” said Frank Schwing, director of the environmental research division for the fisheries service. “It was determined we didn’t have to do any formal permitting.”

The colorful murals — large panels painted on fabric and installed on the entire upper portion of the research building — depicts marine life such as humpback whales, birds, salmon, sunfish and sardines.

Up close they look ok against the concrete bunker like building.
Noaa Close

But from a distance – it looks like a billboard in the pines.
Noaa

Bold Murals Appear On NOAA Building

Industrial Accident – Construction Worker Falls 20 feet.

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According to assistant fire chief Dave Brown, emergency crews were dispatched to the home on Balboa Avenue shortly before 6 p.m. Sept. 18.

“He was doing some painting or plastering,” Brown said. “He was working on top of a ladder and fell off,” landing on a plywood floor.

20 feet high on a ladder? That’s unsafe, next time use a scaffold.

Industrial Accident – Construction Worker Falls 20 feet.

Deborah King Has At Least 5 Prior DUI Convictions

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At least five convictions? How many have fallen off the record? How many have been reduced to “wet reckless”? Dang, she has had a problem for a long time. There is no excuse as to why this woman should not have been behind bars when this occurred. 50 years for her, one big fat lawsuit against her.

PGMS J Woods Flowers

“In 2nd degree murder, you act with reckless disregard for human life,” explained deputy district attorney Steve Somers, who reported Deborah King has at least five prior DUI convictions. “If you can establish that the person was aware that driving under the influence is dangerous, and that they were under the influence and, knowing the dangers involved, went driving anyway and killed someone, you can establish it was murder.”

The vehicular manslaughter charge stems from her allegedly reckless behavior, and King faces a sentence of 15 years to life for each count if convicted, Somers said.

Deborah King Has At Least 5 Prior DUI Convictions