Category Archives: Monterey Herald

Denis Wagner, Poet. And Arrested For Child Porn.

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Free poetry from the Internet:

There once was a man from Dundee,
Who molested an ape in a tree,
The result was most horrid,
All arse and no forehead,
Three balls and a purple goatee!

Denis Wagner

Denis Edward Wagner pleaded not guilty to two counts of possessing child porn. Prosecutor Gary Thelander asked Judge Russell Scott to increase Wagner’s bail from $10,000 to $100,000, arguing Wagner was a danger to the community because he might “act upon his impulses.”

Wagner is among the writers who have contributed their works to “The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets.” In October, he participated in “The Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers.”

Denis Wagner, poet. And Arrested For Child Porn.

Writer On The Stakeout For Mountain Lions

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Score one for the lions. Writer never saw one.
Mountain Lion If Attacked

Last month, a Pacific Grove police officer on patrol spotted a lion just after midnight on Sunset Avenue near Congress Avenue, said Animal Control Officer Elizabeth Yeo of the city’s police department.

The animal was crossing Sunset, “stopped and looked and took off,” she said.

Hence my stakeout. It was part of my research to find out if the reports meant more mountain lions were wandering onto the Peninsula. Might the sight of the stealthy carnivores that are at the top of their food chain become more routine near our urban homes?

Writer On The Stakeout For Mountain Lions

Professor Toro – The 1924 Cannery Row Oil Tank Fire

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Good little history lesson about the naming of “Pvt Bolio Road”

According to the Monterey Fire Department’s history of the event, “A freak storm covered the Monterey Bay. It had a series of hail, wind, rain, lightning and thunder. Lightning split a tree on the Presidio. Then, at 10:10 a.m., a bolt of lightning struck the top of one of the Associated Oil storage tanks near the wharf in Monterey. The 55,000 barrel tank, filled with oil and covered only with a layer of oil paper, burst into flame, and huge clouds of black smoke rose into the sky.”

Many pictures of the fire at the Hathaway’s California Views.

Professor Toro – The 1924 Cannery Row Oil Tank Fire

Cost Of Running For Local Office

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According to his campaign finance disclosure form filed Oct. 18, Hollister, a retired veterinarian, has received $3,432 in contributions from 19 supporters and made himself a $500 campaign loan. He has spent $1,861.

Cort, the only mayoral candidate listed on the municipal ballot, reported no expenditures and has financed his campaign through a $14,500 self-loan.

· Richard Ahart, $1,355 in cash donated by seven contributors ranging from $20 to $100 each, and a $5,200 self-loan, with expenditures of $5,204.

· Deborah Lindsey, $3,137 in cash, $1,084 in nonmonetary contributions, and expenditures of $5,963.

· Susan Goldbeck, $3,300, including a loan to herself of $925, and expenditures of $2,537.

· Carmelita Garcia, $4,893, including a $200 loan to herself, and $82 in nonmonetary contributions, and expenditures of $5,237.

· Bill Kampe reported $6,578 in contributions, including a $2,000 loan to himself, and expenditures of $3,940.

· Daniel Miller reported a self-loan of $5,753 and contributions of $730 for a total of $6,582, and expenditures of $2,738.

· Ken Cuneo and David Dilworth reported no contributions. Cuneo stated his campaign is entirely self-funded.

No one contributed to Dilworth. ha ha.

Cost Of Running For Local Office

Seaside Auto Mall Reopens

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Seaside Auto Center

Nearly two years and $20 million after construction began, Seaside marked the end of renovations at its auto center with a grand reopening last week.

Auto center dealerships, however, don’t have a lot more to celebrate as the country struggles through one of its toughest economic slumps since the Great Depression.

But city officials and Seaside auto dealers hope the auto mall’s facelift will help bring back shoppers.

“Anytime you redecorate, clean things up, improve the appearance, the visibility — it can’t hurt,” Linder said.

Nice picture above. Now here’s the real reopening. The same old thing, tents, banners, flags and a giant blue gorilla. Yep, redecorated and cleaned up.Seaside Auto Center Monkey

Not to mention most of the dealers have an identity problem, they are afraid to say “Seaside” and make shoppers think they are in Monterey.
Seaside Auto Center Cadillac

Seaside Auto Mall Reopens

Don’t Sustain The Raccoons

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Of special concern in the Monterey Bay area is humans and domestic animals coming in close contact with raccoons. Besides the fact that raccoons in urban or suburban areas tend to be aggressive and can attack pets and people, they are also carriers of the roundworm parasite called Baylisascaris procyonis.

Raccoons become infected with this roundworm either by ingesting infective eggs from contaminated feces of other raccoons, or by eating infected small animals (rabbits, rodents and birds). Raccoons are asymptomatic carriers, which means that the parasite typically doesn’t cause them any problems, but they shed eggs in their feces which become infective to other animals three to four weeks after they are excreted.

Cover your garbage!

Sea-Breeze Motel
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Don’t Sustain The Raccoons

Deer Season

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The Hear-old reports a competition for amour resulting in a broken window

The two males were clashing with their antlers, an annual rite of the blacktail deer’s rutting season, on the lawn of the apartment complex about 10:30 a.m.

“They locked those big horns,” she said, then one of the bucks’ antlers pierced the window screen and punched through the window glass, scattering shards all around the living room.

Stoned Deer

Reported in the Pine Cone, a buck with a 2×4 wrapped in rope stuck to it’s antlers:

A young buck who stands out like a sore thumb because he has a 3-foot wooden stake caught in his antlers appears to be healthy, though wildlife officials have different opinions on what to do with the animal.

Amazingly, the deer has been able to drink and eat and get around despite the extra appendage, which the animal acquired in July after getting caught up in construction fencing in Pacific Grove’s Asilomar neighborhood.

“We are fielding 10 calls a day about the deer with the board in his horns,” said Elizabeth Conti-Yeo, P.G.’s animal control officer.

That buck with the extra appendage now has a huge advantage and DOESN’T WANT it removed.

Deer Season

California Produce Still Tainted with E. coli

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This time it’s iceberg lettuce.

An E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in tainted iceberg lettuce that sickened 36 people in Michigan last month has been traced back to California growers.

The outbreak, involving bagged, industrial-sized packages of iceberg lettuce sold through wholesale venues to restaurants and institutions, sickened students at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, and inmates at Lenawee County Jail before spreading to metro Detroit.

Bob Perkins, executive director of the Monterey County Farm Bureau, said September is peak season for Salinas Valley lettuce growers.

“That’s when our growers are very busy,” said Perkins. “If it’s California bagged lettuce, there’s a real probability that it will be tied to our area, or to somebody that we know.”

What did our career congressman Sam The Sham Farr do with the millions of tax dollars he got when it was spinach?
Farr Piggy

California Produce Still Tainted with E. coli

Write In Candidate Challenges Dan Cort

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Hollister For Mayor

Retired veterinarian Ted Hollister has thrown his hat into the ring as a write-in candidate for mayor of Pacific Grove.

“The tipping point” for him, said 77-year-old Hollister, was the council’s action to merge Pacific Grove’s fire department with Monterey’s, an issue he felt didn’t raise enough questions among the council members.

“I don’t fault their intentions,” he said. “I just disagree with the way they’re going.”

Or was the tipping point the flap over getting to move into Forest Hill Manor before the construction was complete?

Write In Candidate Challenges Dan Cort