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Moe Says Things Are Looking Up

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Baghdad Moe

Sure, America’s Last Hometown still struggles with out-of-control CalPERS costs and bickering political camps, but real estate values have held relatively steady. And the downtown commercial vacancy rate has dropped from about 25 percent last year to half of that, according to P.G. Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar.

Rabobank recently filled the former World Savings Bank space on Lighthouse Avenue, he says. And The Alliance on Aging just signed a lease to run a high-end consignment shop in the old Hallmark building, which sat empty for almost five years. Other new retailers include a doll shop, a teen clothing store and two art galleries.

Nothing for locals to see, move along.

Happy Hour In PG – Saturday July 9

Empty street

Moe Says Things Are Looking Up

How’s That Styrofoam Ban Working Out?

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Hints at what a plastic bag ban would accomplish.
Coast Weakly

In P.G., there hasn’t been much enforcement in the three years its polystyrene ban has been in effect. But the city recently sent a warning letter to its 56 restaurants, putting them on notice that the city is now taking a closer look.?

“We’ve not had a code enforcement officer until this year,” explains Environmental Programs Manager Sarah Hardgrave. “Now we have more resources for follow-up.”?

How’s That Styrofoam Ban Working Out?

How To Water The Golf Courses With Wastewater

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Whatever it takes, I’m not for pumping sewage to the old reservoir on David Avenue.

water water water

Sarah Hardgrave, P.G.’s environmental programs manager, says other options include tapping MRWPCA wastewater and routing rainwater from the Forest Lake Reservoir – but extending existing pipelines could be cost-prohibitive. Another possibility: turning a Cal Am corporate yard on David Avenue into a reservoir.?

About 100-150 acre-feet could supply both the links and the cemetery, she adds: “We would want to maximize all the irrigated city properties that we could.”?

How To Water The Golf Courses With Wastewater

Jar News Trifecta – Fetus In A Jar At Mvsevm

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Planned Parenthood must discard fetus’ all the time – why the fuss?

The Mvsevm

Frutchey asked the P.G. Police Department to investigate the fetus’s origins and help determine what to do with it. “It’s not something we can prove we’ve legally acquired,” he says.

But Esther Trosow, a former museum archivist and current member of the city’s Museum Board, suggests the Foundation and the city have been too quick to offload the specimen. In her view, there’s nothing sinister about a natural history museum housing the fetus, which she speculates may have been donated by Ricketts.


Jar News Trifecta – Fetus In A Jar At Mvsevm

Letters From The Editor – Monarch Citizen Movement

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The Weakly has a story about the efforts to import some trees for this coming winter’s butterfly migration.

Heavy pruning of the sanctuary’s eucalyptus trees a year ago may have been responsible for the estimated 96 percent drop in the monarch population there last overwintering season – although, according to butterfly experts, the population simultaneously fell about 90 percent throughout the Central Coast.

Funny is the comment from M. Butterflies:

Monarch Butterflies are known to be very conservative Republicans who believe in the rule of law, individualism, and private property. Most Monarch’s have changed their migration patterns to avoid over-taxed nanny states like California.

This attempt to set up overpriced Government subsidized housing is going to be considered a serious insult to a vast majority of Monarch’s, who are all ready counter-protesting Monterey Counties boycott of Arizona.

Letters From The Editor – Monarch Citizen Movement

Monarchs Don’t Spend Money In P.G., How Do We Attract Them?

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When the butterflies don’t have a trolley or signs guiding them from the beach to 17 Mile drive, someone steps in to help.
Butterfly Tree Stump

To help boost butterfly numbers this year, Pacelli and other P.G. residents and butterfly enthusiasts are buying boxed trees to temporarily fill the gaps and provide wind breaks.

One tree is already placed, but the group aims to add about 20 more by the end of September, in time for the monarchs’ October arrival. They ask supporters to send donations with a note marked “Monarch Habitat Trees” to: P.G. Chamber of Commerce, 584 Central Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950.

Monarchs Don’t Spend Money In P.G.,How Do We Attract Them?

Shopping For Art? Try The Dump

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Is this the ‘victim’ of the Pebble Beach Art Theft shopping for replacement paintings?

One answer may come from an anonymous videographer with the YouTube moniker of Studebaker Falcon. He captures a man who looks a lot like Amadio perusing the bargain paintings at Last Chance Mercantile while appearing to make notes on his iPhone.

Shopping For Art? Try The Dump

Some People Like Cupcakes Better

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I For One Care Less For Them*

$3 cupcakes. Is that crazy or what? At least it fills a vacant storefront in the ghost town 800 block in New Monterey.

Cupcakes

People freak for her Red Velvet and go gaga for her “over the top” Oreo. This summer she’s planning on seasonal s’mores and lime margarita editions and a strawberry-strawberry number built on P.G. Farmers Market fruit. The boutique will sell 15 flavors a day from 11am-10pm – a single is $3, a box of six $15 and a dozen $30 – and though she isn’t zoned to brew coffee, she will have chilled drinks and joe delivered.

Some People Like Cupcakes Better

*RIP Frank Zappa

Pet Store Owners Growling At New Dog In Town

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It this not what’s wrong with P.G. these days? Low volume specialty stores that contribute less in sales tax revenue think that they are entitled to some kind of protection by the city. That kind of thinking drives me out of town to shop.

Six small, locally owned P.G. pet businesses – Stone’s Pet Shop, Best Pets and Posh Pets, plus three grooming services – are leading a protest of the chain store they say could shut them down.

“They’re picking on the little kids on the playground,” says Stone’s co-owner Tom Radcliffe.

Radcliffe is upset Pet Extreme plans to open a store just a short sprint from Stone’s, into the 7,000-plus-square-foot space vacated by Hollywood Video in the Country Club Gate Center.

CC Gate video store

Pet Store Owners Growling At New Dog In Town