Category Archives: Monterey Herald

P.G. Resident’s Greed Leads To Loss Of Cash

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A caller apparently called the victim and identified himself as a merchant banker for First Caribbean Bank. He told the victim he had won a Publisher Clearinghouse-type sweepstakes, according to police commander Thomas Uretsky.

The solicitor advised the victim to send $2,900 to an address in Texas to pay for the excise taxes on the winnings.

victims are asked to call a phone number with a three-digit area code to collect a prize and the victim assumes they are making a domestic long-distance call. But when making the call, they are connected to a number outside the United States and are charged international call rates.

Uh huh. Send $2900 and call an overseas toll number. Don’t ever believe anyone saying you will win money if you send them yours . . .

P.G. Resident’s Greed Leads To Loss Of Cash

P.G. Motels Robbing The Tourists On MotoGP Weekend

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On Monday, the phones at Monterey Peninsula Reservations were busy with visitors seeking last-minute rooms. The few rooms available were mostly because of cancellations, said owner Donna Ibens.

Two-night minimums are pretty standard, he said, and rates climb as demand increases. So while the county’s average room rate in December and January was $129, the July and August rate average last year reached $180.

“The prices are scaring people a bit,” said Ibens. “I’ve had a lot of calls and they don’t want to pay $300 a night.”

The least expensive rooms were $250 a night in Pacific Grove and Carmel, said Ibens.

These are the hotels opposing a tax hike? $500 to stay in PG for two nights? Ow!

P.G. Motels Robbing The Tourists On MotoGP Weekend

Proud To Be A Union Man?

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Employees at Pebble Beach Lodge voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a five-year labor contract that includes a minimum $4-an-hour raise.

Leonard O’Neill of UNITEHERE! Local 483, the union representing the employees, said 98 percent of the members who voted approved the agreement.

Annual hourly pay increases are $1 in the first year, 50 cents in each of the second and third years, and $1 in each of the last two years.

“In my 30 years with this union, I have never seen a contract as good as this one at the Lodge,” said O’Neill

Comes to .80 per hour per year after six years. $32 a week. After taxes and union dues, maybe $20 a week. And that’s the best the union could get in 30 years. Does not sound like that union is doing much for the workers.
Union Facts

Proud To Be A Union Man?

Letters From The Editor

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Vanessa writes to the Hear-Old:

“Why would I shop at a Pacific Grove farmers market when I can find fresh produce at Grove Market

Why would I shop at a cavernous hardware store when I can walk into P.G. Hardware

Why would I shop at an enormous office supply chain when Alpha Stationery

There are so many reasons to live and shop in Pacific Grove, many of them that feed my soul and reassure me of the decision we made 32 years ago to make this our home forever.”

Well Vanessa, some people have to work and don’t have a lot of time to dodge the tourists or find parking downtown. Biggest factor is that the streets once again roll up at 7:00PM and none of those stores are open when working people come home to PG.

Letters From The Editor

Fourth Name For CC Gate Supermarket

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At midnight today, Albertsons in Pacific Grove, Sand City, Capitola and Salinas on South Main Street will close for conversion. They will reopen at 6 a.m. Wednesday.

Save Mart, which opened its first store in 1952 in Modesto, has 252 stores today, including Food Maxx, Albertsons and S-Mart Foods outlets. So far, it has converted 34 Albertsons to Save Mart stores, most recently in the Sacramento area.

Alpha-Beta, Lucky, Albertsons and now Save Mart.

Was there today – the are getting ready for the rebranding. Lots of SM logos on the walls. The checkers should wear leather aprons.

Since they are closing for 2 days, lots of stuff was on sale – meats in particular. Other stuff was scarce, like breads. Dare I say that the bread aisle looked like Safeway, empty on Sundays.

Hope they don’t lose the Groove in the receipt
Pacific Groove

UPDATE! They lost the Groove. Awww nuts! Not even a ‘Grove’.No Groove Receipt

Fourth Name For CC Gate Supermarket

Hiker Loses Sense Of Direction Trying To Find Self

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Gerald Horne went into the woods June 26 to find himself. He nearly met his maker.

The 38-year-old Berkeley man is recovering at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula after being rescued at Sykes Camp in Los Padres National Forest, where he went to fast and “reflect on who I am and what I have to do to move forward.”

He took a queen-size air bed, a “giant” tent, pillow, other heavy or bulky equipment and his dog.

By June 28, after two days in the back country, he said he ran into other hikers who said he didn’t look good. They told him they would go for help.

Personnel from the Monterey County Urban Search and Rescue, the California Highway Patrol, Sheriff’s Search and Rescue, the Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade, and Westmed were dispatched.

Rescuers were lowered by a CHP helicopter, which airlifted Horne to a waiting ambulance at Post Ranch. He was then transported to Community Hospital.

Who pays for this lost dudes rescue – especially after he quit his job?

Hiker Tries To Find Self Then Loses Sense Of Direction

Friends Of Monarchs May Flutter Away

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The Pacific Grove group that saved one of the monarch butterfly’s favorite West Coast haunts is undergoing a metamorphosis of its own.

Friends of the Monarchs may soon dissolve, because it has become a challenge to attract board members and keep volunteer levels up, group leaders said.

If you can’t collect enough people to be on the board of the symbolic butterfly, how would we ever amass enough people to collect enough compost to be sustainable?

Friends Of Monarchs May Flutter Away

No Bail Reduction For Lynne Nicole Feurer

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A judge refused Wednesday to lower the bail for a Seaside High School teacher accused of murdering her elderly male companion.

Visiting Judge Arjuna Saraydarian rejected a bail-reduction motion by the attorney for Lynne Nicole Feurer, 65, who was arrested by Pacific Grove police late last month.

Feurer is accused of killing Joseph Cupita, 81, at the couple’s home May 29. She has been held in jail on $1 million bail since being charged with Cupita’s death.

Defense attorney Frank Dice argued that her bail be lowered, citing her background in the community. He presented several letters from community members who said she is a good person.

Nicole Fuere Court

No Bail Reduction For Lynne Nicole Feurer

Substainable P.G. Will Not Solve #1 Problem

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Letters From The Editor:

Calling P.G. a green town is admirable, but this will not build up businesses. Most people simply don’t care, and are shopping for a bargain or an exceptional piece of art. Don’t wish for a tourist town. Wish for a town tourists enjoy visiting, a place that reminds them of a place long forgotten.

Say it louder. Cater to and take care of the locals and the tourists will want to be part of it. Take care of just the tourists and you lose the locals that may carry you through off season times.

Substainable PG Will Not Solve #1 Problem

A Beauty College Downtown?

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Lighthouse Cinema

Developer Robert Enea is now considering bringing a Paul Mitchell School to the old Lighthouse Cinema, where projectors were shut off in September.

City Manager Colangelo said he’d prefer to see the spot go to a retailer that will generate sales tax for the city. The only revenue the city would get from a cosmetology school would be from “students spending money here and patrons coming in to get beautified,” he said.

What happened to the discount liquor store idea? What about an Outback Steakhouse? Bring some REAL revenue. Or are there too many mediocre PG merchants that cannot even match the service of a formula chain establishment brown nosing the council these days?

A Beauty College Downtown?