Two World War II hand grenades were found inside a Pacific Grove garage on Grove (Acre) Avenue Wednesday morning.
Relatives of the former tenant were cleaning out the house when the found the grenades. They say that the WWII vet that used to live in the house probably got the grenades as “mementos” and then must have forgotten that he even had them.
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Carbone Saves A Customers Life
CPR learned 25 years ago comes back.
While tonight is a great gift to the military community, Sal’s present to one family this Thanksgiving is truly heroic. On Saturday a man at his bar had a heart attack, “It was kind of an unusual situation. The son had just found the dad after 26 years. They stopped in here to shoot a game of pool. He passed out the son was just frozen. I took over picked him up and put him on the bench and resuscitate him he looked up and smiled, a great Thanksgiving,” said Carbone.
P.G. DUI Gets Just Two Years
Driving with a BAC of .37 that’s beyond drunk. And had 3 prior DUIs.
After pleading guilty to driving drunk and nearly plowing down several children, Duke Kelso was sentenced to two years in prison.
Over the summer 29-year-old Kelso was driving drunk down Buena Vista Avenue when he parked his car on someone’s front lawn. Parents called police to report that someone almost hit numerous cars and children playing in the area.
Cal Am Bills P.G. Couple $2000 For One Month’s Water
Smart Meters run amok? Cal Am denies any error, get used to it.
Parise brought in two plumbers, both from different companies to inspect his home for leaks, but they didn’t find anything. Now Parise thinks Cal Am’s new electronic meter, a meter the company recently installed this year, is to blame.
“The only thing that’s changed is this new electronic meters that they put in. I find it even hard to believe that common sense would tell you that our water usage has gone up that much and then magically it’s gone back to normal usage without us doing anything differently,” said Parise.
DUI Victim Becoming A Miracle
Amazing recovery. Positive attitude helps.
This week, with the help of a trainer, this once competitive dancer is getting out of her wheelchair and walking. It’s a feat many thought was impossible.
“That’s the best I’ve walked in a long time,” says Chelsie Hill. “I actually started crying after. It gave me so much hope.”
It’s all thanks to Project Walk, a rehab facility in Carlsbad, where Chelsie has spent the last two weeks. There, she’s learning to retrain her body to use her legs again.
Pacific Grove Triathlon, In The Doo Doo Again.
Damn the parasites, full speed ahead.
“We paid a lot of money for this Triathlon and I’ve trained for almost a year now so I’m just going to go for it,” said Triathlon Swimmer, Christal Alderton.
“Every year we always have something going on with the water. It’s a still time of year. But because of contact with the county we just felt like let’s do it! And everyone’s been swimming and enjoying the ocean and we haven’t had any ill effects,” said Betsy Davis Co-Owner Tri-California
Now the warning signs have the local spin job saying the levels are down next to them.
Safeway Oxycontin Robbers Caught
Dopes.
Police say they have surveillance video of John Reyes Rodriguez, from Seaside, robbing the store.
Officers also said San Jose police arrested Cameron Myles Ferguson, from Marina, last night in connection to the robbery.
Olga Ospina Leaves KION, Leaves The Peninsula
From the message board at www.pacificgrove.com
Olga said goodbye to viewers, on air, at the end of July. Her contract was up and she had been her 5 years and decided she wanted to return to Southern California to pursue TV and entertainment opportunities there. Southern California is home for her.
Thanks for taking the time to write and ask about her.
Have a safe and wonderful holiday.Traciann Zeravica
News Director, KION/KCBA/Telemundo23
Feast Of Lanterns – If Not At The Beach, Never
Well the ticket admission thing in the middle school auditorium does not appear to have worked out well.
July 31 was just another foggy day at the beach this year.
Feast of Lanterns board president Sue Renz said her phone has been ringing off the hook.
“They will call and say, ‘when are you going to be doing the Feast of Lanterns at the beach with the pageant and the fireworks?’ And I have to say to them, ‘we aren’t doing it there this year,'” said Renz.
For decades, the pageant and fireworks took place at Lover’s Point, but this year it’s moving to the middle school. That means no fireworks, a scaled back show and $20 tickets. There’s room for about 700 people at the middle school theater, but only a dozen tickets have been sold.
Ecofreak Building Rules For P.G?
More lead based lights. And just who will enforce this little loss of private property rights?
Monterey adopted a green building ordinance about a year and half ago requiring new construction and renovations in the city to follow some environmentally friendly guidelines, “Over the past year and a half over a 1000 plus buildings are greener because of the program,” said Building Official John Kuehl