Beginning Monday, every Monday edition of The Herald will come in two sections.
I wish these bone heads would quit calling me to subscribe. Bad enough that I don’t need a fishwrapper every day, they are not even local!
C Muhammed called me from central Mississippi to remind me once.
D Leonard also called me all the way from Dallas, Texas.Calls “from the Hear-old” on phones from contractors residences? That’s real unprofessional.
Pacific Grove police said a boy reported that a man tried to lure him into a car Wednesday by offering him candy.
The incident happened about 4:30 p.m. near Robert Down School when a man in a blue two-door Honda Civic pulled up alongside the child. The boy ran to the school office and police were called.
Officers said they searched the area but were unable to find the car or the man. The man is described as about 40 years old with black spiked hair and a goatee.
In the guise of being “green,” “modern” and “forward-thinking,” Pacific Grove’s government seems to be promulgating some of the same ideas used in the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. Everything old is “bad,” everything new is “good.” Throw out everything that has been done in the past, ignore long-standing committees and organizations, fire knowledgeable city employees, or force them to leave, and then try to totally remake Pacific Grove’s institutions. The Cultural Revolution was a complete disaster. I hope Pacific Grove doesn’t follow in China’s footsteps.
Sharon Kirsch
Pacific Grove
Get out of fish jail free!
A great white shark that didn’t have an appetite in captivity was released back to ocean waters Sunday from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The shark, a 4-foot, 55.5-pound female, fed only one time during its 11-day stay at the aquarium despite an array of food choices and feeding techniques, an aquarium spokesman said.
The shark, which went on display Aug. 27, was still swimming and navigating well, but aquarium animal-care experts didn’t want to risk endangering its health, spokesman Ken Peterson said.
Spazier street residents fight back!
A letter sent to Canterbury Woods Executive Director Norma Brambilla last month from senior city planner Lynn Burgess advised that the residences at 612 and 664 Spazier Ave. and the duplex at 872-874 19th St. violated the retirement home’s use permit.
The letter was triggered by complaints from residents on Spazier, and an investigation by city officials showed the permit violation, Burgess said.
The houses, originally used for employees, have been owned for 30 years by Canterbury Woods, Brambilla said.
The same services provided to residents of the main facility — cooking, laundry, cleaning and landscaping — had been extended to the houses all that time, she said.
The city of Pacific Grove is seeking suggestions for ways to use $309,000 given to the city by the late Jeanette McIndoo for beautification and enhancement of the public facilities and grounds for the city.
Residents and organizations are asked to submit their suggestions in writing by Oct. 8 to the city’s Beautification and Natural Resources Committee, in care of the City Manager’s Office, 300 Forest Ave. Cost estimates should be submitted when possible.
One way plane ticket for Loosin’ Susan?
Pay a cleaning company to wash off the bird poop?
Hire a code enforcement person to keep the off-season xmas lights, blinking LED signs, sidewalk advertising and other tacky commerce tricks in check?
An experienced San Jose scuba diver died Saturday after he was found unconscious in waters off Coral Street Beach in Pacific Grove.
Frank Martinez, 52, was pronounced dead at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula after being discovered by a kayaker, authorities said.
The death appears to have been an accident, said Deputy Dan Robison of the sheriff’s coroner’s division.
Martinez went into the water with a hour’s worth of air in his tank while his brother remained ashore, Robison said. After an hour, the brother became worried when Martinez didn’t surface. He asked for help from others, and a kayaker found the diver about 100 yards offshore.
Hoping the waters are clear and warm for eternity my friend.
Joel Woods, 35, was attempting to enter his parked car on Forest Avenue by Pacific Grove Middle School at about noon when he was struck by a car driven by Deborah King, 51, of Monterey, according to Pacific Grove police.
King was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and is being held on $30,000 bail. Earlier reports that King was suspected of drunken driving were incorrect. The ongoing investigation may lead to more serious charges, said Cmdr. John Nyunt.
The abandoned line — originally owned by Southern Pacific Railroad — has been zoned “O” for open space in the city’s general plan, senior city planner Lynn Burgess said. The general plan describes the line as 12.9acres extending “from the Monarch Pines Mobile Home Park on the east to Sinex Avenue on the south.”
“Due to the unquestioned, open and uninterrupted use of this property for public recreation and trail use,” (city planner Lynn)Burgess wrote, “there has been public acquisition of this public recreation use and trail right-of-way by prescription.”
The operator of a rubber boat that capsized off the Pacific Grove shoreline was rescued by the Coast Guard Sunday morning.
Coast Guardmen said they were called to the waters off Ocean View Boulevard and Coral Street and a rescue boat crew found the man tangled in kelp clinging to his rubber boat that had overturned about 200 yards offshore.