Police said a car occupied by Hector Cervantes, 26, and David Gonzales, 22, was stopped at Madrid and North Main streets at 6:15 p.m. because of loud music coming from their vehicle and for having illegally tinted windows.
Gonzales, police said, is on probation and a probation search of the car yielded a loaded .22 caliber semiautomatic pistol concealed in the center console.
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New Monterey Car Crash Gridlocks Lighthouse Ave
The accident occurred at 12:20 p.m. when a car flipped over on its roof rounding the curve on Lighthouse Avenue southbound between Pvt. Bolio Road and Lighthouse Tunnel, police and firefighters said, noting that five vehicles were involved.
P.G. Public Works Commits Herbicide
Dead brown dirt surrounds Washington Park’s picnic benches and tables in Pacific Grove. Weeks earlier, groundskeepers doused sprouting weeds with such a wash of Roundup that passerby Ximena Waissbluth thought they were watering the ground.
“It’s never really occurred to me why there is no grass there, until I saw the enormous quantity of chemical they use,” she said.
Ximena makes it sound like they are pouring straight DDT on the ground. Roundup is diluted with water.
Would you rather have tall brown weeds amongst the picnic areas that could easily catch fire?
Fire Breaks Out In New Monterey Business
Flames were spotted in Om Oasis yoga studio, on the first floor of the Perez Building on the 400 block of Lighthouse Avenue, shortly after 2:30 p.m. from across the street by passerby Goksal Dilsiz.
Firetrucks arrived within five minutes, and the fire was out five minutes later, said Paul Goodwin, operation division chief for the Monterey Fire Department.
Unlike the recent fire that destroyed a building on Alvrado street, the Perez building had sprinklers.
Council Warming Up To John Denver Memorial
A permanent tribute to musician John Denver may soon be built on the shoreline near where his plane plummeted into Monterey Bay nearly 10 years ago.
The Pacific Grove City Council has been asked by the California Friends of John Denver and Denver’s family to place a memorial rock between Acropolis Street and Asilomar Avenue near Point Pinos.
Moe Ammar, executive director of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce, said at least two people a week call or come by his office searching for the site of the crash. Some want to say prayers.
Lighthouse Cinema Owner Looking To Open OBH
Robert Enea, a Danville developer who owns the old Lighthouse Cinema in Pacific Grove, has proposed to lease the property for 30 years at $60,000 annually, remodel it and bring in a new restaurant.
One option would be to have a restaurant that specializes in one style of food requiring a smaller kitchen, creating more table space. He’s also evaluating whether he could add a deck to the building.
He said his company, Enea Properties Company LLC, is considering specialty restaurants, like a sushi bar or an upscale restaurant that does take-out. He didn’t exclude bringing in a chain restaurant, but said there weren’t many that would consider such a small location.
Hmm – specialty food, chain . . .
More upscale than a McD
Should attract the families
My fave – chili dogs
Kalisa’s Closes. One More Landmark Lost
Nearly 50 years after she crossed the tracks and took over the site of what was once a bordello immortalized in John Steinbeck’s writing, the Queen of Cannery Row’s reign ends this week.
Kalisa Moore, 81, longtime owner of Kalisa’s, will close her doors Tuesday. The La Ida Cafe building where she’s fed and entertained guests since 1958, has been sold to local restaurateur Chris Shake, who plans to open a new cafe this spring.
Over five decades, as Cannery Row changed from an industrial area to a tourist mecca, Moore fed actors and writers, people down on their luck and others high on life at the two-story cafe and cabaret.
Kalisa, thanks for making my world an amazing place. Hi Riga!
P.G. City Council Votes For Layoffs
Also remember that Unions do not make one immune to layoffs.
As part of the reorganization, the city’s public works director, an account clerk and a part-time office assistant will be laid off in early April. The responsibilities and titles of four other employees will change, and three new positions — a principal analyst, a management analyst and a senior accountant — will be added.
Tim McCormick of Laborers International Union Local 270A, the union that represents 41 nonpublic safety city employees, said they had been told during the last budget cuts that they were safe from layoffs. Colangelo’s plan caught them off guard.
“It wasn’t reasonable notice,” said McCormick. Announced on Feb. 14, the reorganization has been dubbed by some employees as the St. Valentines’ Day Massacre.
One member of the union will be laid off as a result of the reorganization, he said. For the remaining employees, the sudden announcement has made them feel vulnerable and question their loyalty to the city, McCormick said.
P.G. City Department Heads On The Block
Makes sense to centralize common tasks and put department leaders to work in their departments.
Departments affected include recreation, community development, public works and the city’s golf course, library and museum.
“I don’t think this is a massacre,” Colangelo said. “This is something necessary to move the organization forward. This is a relatively small step we are taking.”
City department heads spend “too much time doing administrative tasks instead of providing the services we need to be providing,” he said.
Under Colangelo’s plan, tasks burdening department heads would be shifted to city administrators. Department head posts would be eliminated. Senior departmental staff members, who are paid less, would run the departments.
“I have to support my city manager,” said Recreation Director John Miller. “Changes have to be made, and this is his vision.”
Miller, who worked for the city as a teenager and started full time in 1979, said past city managers talked about reorganizing, but he has never seen any action.
“This is actually the first time in my 28 years that a plan has come forward to move in the direction of centralizing everything,” he said.
Susan Goldbeck’s Daughter Arrested
Police said Mary Goldbeck, 18, and two 15-year-old boys were taken into custody in connection with a house burglary in the 900 block of Fountain Avenue.
Investigators found stolen property in Goldbeck’s possession, police said, adding that some of the recovered items were taken from unlocked vehicles in recent weeks.
When will they leave? Please, do us a favor and leave.