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Want More Butterflies? PLANT TREES

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Don’t chop them down.

More Butterfly Trees

It’s the past management mishaps combined with a declining monarch population that has city officials more cognizant about how the sanctuary is currently managed. In 2009, some overly-trimmed trees were thought to cause the demise of some of the monarchs. That sparked debate and instigated a re-do of the monarch sanctuary management plan that was developed in the 1990s. Weiss was later instrumental in the process of planting a second row of eucalyptus trees along the sanctuary’s southern boundary with the theory that redundancy creates a safeguard.

Overall, he said the city is taking a conservative approach when it comes to the sanctuary’s maintenance this year, which will only include the removal of a couple of dead trees, which will be replaced with pine and cypress.

Want More Butterflies? PLANT TREES

Holmans Undergoing Transformation

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From unused department store to multimillion dollar condos for weekenders.

Holmans Bowling

The building, a downtown staple for more than 90 years, was purchased for $5.9 million by the real estate development company for the purpose of converting it into a mixed-use property. It will include 25 luxury condominiums and 18,000 square feet of retail space. While existing businesses Jeninni Kitchen + Wine Bar, Grove Nutrition Center and Monterey County Bank will remain on the ground floor, there will be room for eight to 10 additional retail businesses.

Holmans Undergoing Transformation

Tree Sacrificed For Ugly Art

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Termites do your best.

“We’re about 60 percent into it,” said Jorge Rodriguez, the artist leading the project and working alongside fellow sculptors Javier Campos and Neftali Palomares commissioned to do the work. “We’re now going over the fine details.”

“The transformation of natural resources into chainsaw ‘art’ is an absurd practice within an environment such as Berwick Park,” said Coletti, in a prepared statement. “Many, including myself, want to see a living tree re-established here instead.”

Tree Sacrificed For Ugly Art

Pre School Kitchen Shut Down

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Thanks Michelle Obama

The school’s food preparation teacher needs to get a food handler permit — something that can be done online — but also, the kitchen will have to be remodeled to be approved by the Monterey County Health Department.

Right now “it does not pass inspection,” Miller said. “We’re now looking for a consultant to tell us what we need for passing inspection. The board is going to have to get a contract. It will take time to design and for the county to review, then the board to approve the expenditure. That will take some time.”

Pre School Kitchen Shut Down

Honeymooners Stroke Stroke Stroke For A Record

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Riaan and Vasti Manser, who just spent two months shoulder to shoulder rowing 2,400 miles from Monterey to Hawaii, should find themselves together not only in this life, but the next.

The South African couple, who opted to spend their honeymoon rowing their way to a place where most honeymooners go to lounge on the beach and sip from drinks with little umbrellas, on Tuesday finished they journey in a record 39 days, four hours and 27 minutes. They also severely tested their relationship.

Honeymooners Stroke Stroke Stroke For A Record

Money For Monarchs

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“Past mishaps”
Butterfly Tree Stump

Fish & Wildlife to grant money for restoration and improvements.

“We walk around and talk about the state of the sanctuary and what the activities are that we have decided are good for the grove,” said Weiss. “The idea is that we want to be open and transparent about why we recommend doing certain things to keep every one on the same page about what’s happening in the grove.”

That transparency is so important to Weiss and city officials because of the past mishaps that have occurred with the city’s management of the sanctuary.

Money For Monarchs

Pebble Beach’s Good Deed Moves Forward

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Geeze, PB’s workers told they are in the wrong place. All I ever saw in the forests over the boundary was trash and yard clippings dumped by P.G. residents.

DMP Del Monte Park

In giving the 24-unit project the thumbs-up, the supervisors praised the proposal as an exemplary effort by a private company to provide employee housing and rejected the opponents’ argument that the project was in the wrong place.

Opponents, led by attorney Pearl Kan, who filed an appeal of the county Planning Commission approval of the proposal in June insisted they supported affordable housing, including in the toney forest, but argued the proposed 13.2-acre site off SFB Morse Drive adjacent to the Del Monte Park neighborhood of Pacific Grove was the wrong site because development would mean losing 725 trees in the Monterey pine forest and a prized location often visited by the neighbors.

Pebble Beach’s Good Deed Moves Forward

City Council Candidates Line Up

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Robert Huitt
Jenny McAdams
Nick Smith
Cynthia Garfield
Andrew Kubica
Alan Cohen

Vote Machine

The Pacific Grove City Council race includes a lone incumbent and five new candidates, all of whom are vying for three council seats.

All the city council candidates are expected to join mayoral candidates Bill Kampe and Dan Miller in the candidate forum on Sept. 8 at the Pacific Grove Community Center, 515 Junipero Ave.

City Council Candidates Line Up

NIMBYs In Del Monte Park Say It’s For The Trees

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Please think about the trees says the neighborhood that looks down on Pebble Beach workers who would live across the fence from them. As they continue to cover more ground for driveways and mini mansions.

DMP

Arguing that the Pebble Beach Co. should find an alternate site for its Del Monte Forest affordable housing apartment complex project that doesn’t include removal of 725 trees, the Del Monte Neighbors United group will get a chance to make its case before the Board of Supervisors next week.

“Thus, this appeal is not about blocking inclusionary housing,” he wrote. “This is about the removal of 725 mature trees in the Monterey pine forest, which has been fragmented and harmed by years of incremental development, and there are alternative projects that would still provide much-needed inclusionary housing without the commensurate environmental impacts.”

NIMBYs In Del Monte Park Say It’s For The Trees

Car Show For The Small Sized

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tiny jeep

The 2016 Little Car Show featured around 120 “compact” cars that are at least 25 years or older. American vehicles were this year’s theme though entries from all over the world were accepted. The event and some proceeds go back into the community. The organizer says he started the show not long after he read an article several years ago.

“You feel like you can get close to it. You don’t feel like you need to be standing there with your hands behind you, and at a proper distance. You feel like you can get close to the whole thing,” said Pacific Grove Mayor, Bill Kampe.

Car Show For The Small Sized